‘the cry is sounded from the London 
~ Monument to Edinburgh Cross. This 
never fails to alarm the rich and pri- 
vileged orders; in fact, all those 
whose opinions have great influence 
in society, and to whom an author 
looks up, not only for reputation, but: 
patronarze, at Jeast so far as to the 
purchase of his book. Few men, how- 
ever great may be their civil courage, 
can resist a combined and successful 
attack upon their purse and character 
atthe same time. It therefore hap- 
pens, in a vast many instances, that, 
unless the Edinburgh Review and its 
followers take up the cudgels on the 
other side, the poor man recants in his 
next publication, accommodates: him- 
self to the views of our ministerial 
€ritic, and sacrifices his principles to 
Save the remnant of his good name, 
and find purchasers for his book. 
’ Others, however, who, like Mr. 
Ss -and Mr. G , are natu- 
rally inclined to become pensioners 
and parasites, have their virgin ‘purity 
assailed and speedily overcome by the 
seductive applications of certain agree- 
able sinecures, that are generally found 
to be quite irresistible. One of these, 
it is well known, caused Mr. S 
to abjure his Joan of Arc and Wat 
Tyler, and fairly converted him from 
Dom Daniels, jacobin epics, and re- 
publican sapphics, into a loving coad- 
jutor of Messrs. G—— and © 
who, erewhile, had set the whole na- 
tion laughing athim and his sapphics 
in the Anti-jacobin. That arch enemy 
of our country, Mr. W G Hi 
is clerk to the honourable band of 
pensioners; an excellent place, with 
a good salary; nothing to do, and 
twelve hundred buttons to his corona- 
tion coat. This is as it should be. 
There is a fitness of things in a pen- 
sioned writer being clerk to a band of 
» 
Rowsioners. 
id 
&? 
Cc » —alack for ge- 
nius !—is also a pensioner of the king, 
and has been placed at the head of 
the New Monthly Magazine, with the 
well known object of putting down, or 
superseding, the Monthly; for, you 
must know, it is common here, not 
only with tavern-kecpers, who let out 
their houses to the public, but also 
with authors, who, let out their con- 
sciences to. the best paymaster, to jug- 
gle each other out of his custom, by 
pulling up a similar sign; that is to 
say, Christening their new bantling by 
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the name of some well known and po- 
pular establishment. There is some- 
thing exceedingly contemptible in this; 
but really the arts. of literature, as 
practised here now, graze very closely 
upon the skirts of the noble art of. 
swindling. ‘This setting-up a spurious 
magazine, with the samo title which is’ 
borne by. one already popular and 
well known, to my mind is very little 
better than getting into society, and 
borrowing money under the name and 
on the credit of some respectable per- 
son. The mere tagging of the epithet 
“ New” toit is nothing, since the gene- 
rality of people will. suppose it no- 
thing more than a new series of the 
same work. 
~ The New Monthly is, in every re- 
spect, a complete contrast to the 
Monthly Magazine,—every way infe- 
rior in talent, in principle, instruction, 
and amusement. The Monthly Ma- 
gazine has for many years past becn’ 
conducted with much ability; and is 
at this moment, in my opinion, the best 
publication in Great Britain of the 
kind. The New Monthly, on.the con- 
trary, is a mere collection of frivolous 
articles, principally composed of no- 
tices of second-hand German fitera- 
ture ; letters from Grimus Short; abor— 
tive attempts at the pathetic, and still 
more abortive attempts at wit and sa- 
tire. ‘The two last numbers are beneath 
all lowliness. 
The Monthly Magazine has aiways 
displayed a most liberal disposition 
towards our country, and dealt with 
us in the spirit of friendly intercourse. 
It has on all occasions been the advo- 
cate of rational freedom, and main- 
tained, with equal zeal and ability, 
those sober doctrines of politieal right, 
which are as free from the license of 
anarchy as they are from the chains of 
despotism. Ithas always spoken with 
a just discrimination of our character, 
manners, and literature; neither cle- 
vating us above the scale of human 
excellence, nor debasing us to the 
level of profligate boors. In short, if 
we are to depend upon foreign perio- 
dical literature, the Monthly Magazino 
is beyond doubt, in every point of 
view, entitled to the first selection ; 
since it neither pampers our vanity, 
nor outrages our just feelings of pride 
and patriotism. 
sesides Messrs. G——, § ; 
C , and others, there are hun- 
dreds of inferior note,—at least that 
3K are 
