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v^anton, cruel, and wicked in the extreme ; instigated without doubt by 

 the arch-fiend of demoniacal conception, the hell-bound Satan. 



But it is painful to describe this horrible destroyer of the earth's 

 productions — let us therefore bid adioo to the same, and proceed to a 

 recital of our hero's relations with the political system. These are as 

 follows : — To the monarch, he is the genius of a republic ; to the 

 aristocracy, democratic ascendancy ; to the people, the tyrant despot ; 

 to the constitutionalist, the fiend of revolution; to the rehgionist, the 

 wretch of infidelity ; to the champion of orthodoxy, the reckless inno- 

 vator ; to the Tories, a Whig administration, and vice-versa ; to the 

 Bishops, the appropriation clause ; to the interested in the perpetuation 

 of abuses. Radical Reform. In short, each member of the body politic 

 is peculiarly endowed with the connexion of Bogy, in some one or 

 other of his multifarious capacities. 



And with regard to parliamentary afiairs, it must be admitted, that 

 he is equally associated with them in every branch. Indeed, some of 

 his most terrific characters have been identified with legislative enact- 

 ments. Among these may be classed the ever-memorable measure of 

 Catholic Relief. This, in the imagination of political alarmists, was 

 terrible in the extreme ; who is there that did not sympathize with these 

 pitiable martyrs of ultra-opinions who were mentally victimised during 

 the long period of this hoary-headed monster's disguise in the garb of 

 Catholic Emancipation ?— Through this malignant freak, what horrid 

 dreams, and dreadful visions of Popes, Pats, gridirons, and bonfires 

 were endured by the former devoted class ! — It is impossible to describe 

 the trepidation with which they listened to the gloomy intimations of the 

 fiend with regard to reinstating Popery. Day after day did he cruelly 

 predict, to the greedy ear that swallowed up his discourse, that every 

 thing Protestant would, as soon as he obtained " the Royal assent," 

 vanish, and " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck 

 behind." In a word, his threats of annihilation to the Protestant 

 church, conveyed as they were in whispers of fearful sound, were 

 utterly insupportable to their true, loyal, and constitutional hearts. At 

 length, time, the great arbiter of fate, relieved them from their horrid 

 apprehensions, by proving Bogy's predictions, in this instance, to be, 

 like those of other false prophets, untrue. The royal assent, which 

 was to be the key to open the doors of revolution, — was given, and 

 every thing remained quiet ! The anticipated scene of immediate de* 



