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who may frown — all the Polignacs that ever wore beards would not 

 disturb a hair of his, while he retained the pleasant security of his 

 pay, his place, and his patronage. But Polignac has brought half 

 the evil on himself, by the associates whom he has chosen. Could he 

 find no man in France fit for a minister of war> but Bourmont ? a per- 

 sonage never to be forgiven by the French military. " Before the Re- 

 volution he was in the Royalist army ; after it, we find him among the 

 generals of Buonaparte. On the return of the Bourbons, he offered his 

 services to Louis the Eighteenth. Subsequently, when Buonaparte 

 appeared in France, he obtained the command of a division of the corps 

 d'armce of General Giraud ; but just before the battle of Waterloo, 

 abandoned his post, and again took his station on the side of royalty. 

 He has thus, bej'ond dispute, proved himself a most accomplished 

 giroueife — friendly, it would seem to the royal cause, but always faithful 

 to his own interest." So say the Frenchmen. 



Next comes La Bourdomiaye, son of the furious declaimer of the 

 Chamber of Deputies, against whom the jom-nals are quoting a speech 

 of a few years since, calling on the throne for a sweeping measure of 

 execration against the genei als, the functionaries, &c., of- France, in the 

 hundred days ; a speech which implied, either the most excessive rash- 

 ness, or the most excessive thirst of vengeance ; neither of them very 

 eminent qualifications for the highest rank of office, and both giving a 

 most powerful occasion of obloquy to the opponents of the ministry. 



The word Af/wfiwg was once vulgar J but, like the Dundasses, it has 

 risen into repute by its being ready for all kinds of work ; and we must 

 make use of the drudge till we can find a better. Three-fourths of 

 human transactions are naturally ranged under the title. Some time or 

 other we shall write an essay on it in forty folio volumes, with an appen- 

 dix, a supplement, and a " postliminious preface." What an infinity of 

 heads would be furnished by modern authorship, modern patriotism, 

 modern benevolence, (slave trade aijd otherwise,) tavern charity, and 

 high-life morals, national architecture, cabinet councils, king's friends, 

 National Galleries, pati'onage of the ai'ts, plays, players, and patent play- 

 houses, commmissioners of woods and forests, patriotic prelates. Popish 

 Protestantism, and presidents of the Royal Society. We give a few 

 miscellaneous notes. 



Sir something Sugden, the new rat, and solicitor-general, has been 

 lately in a degree of bodily peril which has greatly moved the compas- 

 sion of the bar. — " A gentleman named Johnson having called upon 

 him to retract an assertion which he had made professionally, in a case 

 in which he was engaged some months ago, he had forgotten all the 

 circumstances, but h>.* proved that he only spoke from his instructions. 

 Under these circumstances he refused to apologise, and in consequence 

 ]\Ir. Johnson addi-essed a letter to him, which contained these ex- 

 pressions : — ' YoiU" conduct throughout sufficiently shows that you are 

 destitute of the feelings of a gentleman and a man of honour ; and I ain 

 now only withheld, by the respect which is due to myself, from inflict- 

 ing upon you that personal chastisement which you so richly deserve.' 

 He has since published the whole of the correspondence in the Morning 

 Post." 



That Sir something Sugden should have totally forgotten a transaction 

 in which, however, he brought the margin of his brief to prove that he 



