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its " earthy tenement," that such venerable fears were entirely re- 

 moved. Thus it may be said,, to parodize the words of Shakspeare,— 

 " This was the noblest Bogy of them all !" 



Though the demise of this celebrated Corsican deprived our hero of 

 his most considerable representative, it was not probable, from his 

 ubiquity, that he would be any great length of time in selecting another 

 lieutenant to carry on the interminable siege of mental terrorism. In 

 saying this, we mean another animated agent, whose actious should 

 supply the public mind with a liberal quantity of uneasiness. As it has 

 just been intimated, so it turned out : in the space of a few years, the 

 nervous multitude were furnished with a successor, possessing the 

 necessary awe-inspiring tendency of character ; and though the palm of 

 terrifying superiority has been awarded to the Emperor, it is perhaps 

 questionable, whether, from the vast popularity his successor has now 

 attained, the decision for the present should not be withdrawn. At 

 any rate, the latter may fairly challenge competition with his illustrious 

 predecessor. 



Gentle reader, startle not — the living organ of terrorism shall not be 

 introduced abruptly ; but, if thou be a Tory, " and something more," 

 screw thy courage to the " sticking place," for thou art about to endure 

 the infliction of an introduction that will doubtless give thee much 

 mental purgatory. After this considerate preliminary announcement, 

 we take the liberty of ushering in, with all due humility, " the 

 Liberator of Ireland — the redresser of Ireland's wrongs — the field- 

 marshal of repeal — the receiver-general of rint — the vulgarly termed 

 big beggarman — the chief of hereditary bondsmen — the head of the 

 tail," &c. &c. in the person of that remarkably disinterested unit, 

 Daniel O'Connell, Esq. M. P. On the mere mention of the name, 

 what an innumerable quantity of " death's-heads and " cross-bones," 

 cathohc threats and anti-protestant addresses, patriots' curses and dirty 

 pence, are conjured up by the morbid fancy of Conservative prejudice 

 and Orange bigotry ! Indeed, the name O'Connell is no sooner uttered 

 than it is associated, by the imaginary faculties of hundreds, with the 

 appalling figure of a political vampire. Such being the case, one would 

 reasonably suppose that Nature had bestowed on the great agitator a 

 visage indicative of the loathsome character attributed to him. But, 

 on the contrary, she has endeavoured, in this instance, to upset the old 

 maxim, that " the face is the index of the mind;" for, on viewing the 



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