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but the professors of radicalism. We knew perfectly well how safe that 

 luscious sinecure, the governorship of Windsor Castle, was from the cruel 

 knife of retrenchment ; and we augured, with a prescience worthy of 

 IVIoore's Almanack, or the Pope himself, that, " about this time a certain 

 great office, with a certain great salary, would be given to a certain great 

 lord with a certain great wife." The event turned out in due accor- 

 dance with our wisdom, and Lord Grizel was made commander-in-chief 

 of the cooks, butlers, chambermaids, ostlers, and boots of his majesty's 

 fortalice, stronghold, and Castle of Windsor. For what services we stop 

 not to inquire. Doubtless Lord Grizel himself knows; and as the true 

 virtue is in an approving conscience, we may be satisfied with the public 

 conviction, that so many pounds sterling have not been got for nothing. 

 However, Lord Grizel now pulls on his boots a richer Lord Grizel by 

 £3,000 a year, than on his last day of feeding upon goose ; and far be 

 it from us to meddle with the successes of a worthy man and loving 

 husband. 



But a little sinecure has just dropped, to which we hope some trifling 

 attention will be paid, before it drops into the hands, not of another 

 Lord Grizel, for we believe that another is not to be found ; but of some 

 sleek dependent of some of those mighty men, whose burning zeal to 

 promote those sleek dependents is the most exti'aordinary thing imagi- 

 nable to countiy gentlemen and others not gifted with tlie faculty of 

 seeing with their eyes open. The sinecure that we mean is the office of 

 King's Pi'inter — and a most delicious sinecure it is. Not, that like little 

 Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt's, it consists in sitting in a corner of the House of 

 Lords with a stick in one's hand ; nor in that of the self-denying and 

 much applauded IVIarquis of Camden, in signing one's name to the quar- 

 terly receipt of £4,000 per annum. The King's Printer has something 

 to do, for he must employ a man to employ another, to employ half a 

 hundred to set types, and actually print. And for this heavy duty he 

 is under the severe responsibility of putting in his pocket a yearly sum, 

 which would make a first Lord of the Treasury lament that he was not 

 brought up to the press, or ever dipped his fingers in any ink but 

 printing-ink. 



We now announce, for the benefit of ]Mr. Huskisson and other men 

 of public merits, in the hope that justice should be done to them 

 by a handsome establishment for life, the news that the office of " King's 

 Printer" is in the market. 



The patent under which this most lucrative situation is held will 

 shortly expire. The emoluments arising from it exceed a tellership of 

 the exchequer under the- old si/stem. The late John Reeves held a 

 moiety of the office for a few years, and left behind him between two 

 and three hundred thousand pounds. 



One of our reform newspapers is prodigiously pathetic upon the sub- 

 ject, in the following style : — • 



" Surely the Duke of Wellington will not permit the patent to be 

 renewed without effecting an entire renovation in the charges at present 

 made for acts of parliament, and the various and extensive volumes of 

 records and other expensive documents ordered to be printed by the 

 Houses of Lords and Commons, which, in the yearly estimates, constitute 

 a fearful amount of charge, all drawn from the public purse, and conse- 

 quently occasioning additional burthens. In the present improved 

 state of press-work, machinery, and every thing else relating to printing, 

 the old charges ought to be abolished, and a new rate substituted, i 



