1829.] Aflain- in General. 667 



tion of that county on the first occasion that may arise. Sir. Townley 

 has abeady qualified as a magistrate. 



" The Right Hon. Lord Clifford, one of the oldest and most violent 

 of the English Catholic Peers, quciUJied as a magistrate for Devonshire 

 at the Castle of Exeter, a few days since." 



In addition" to those names, which are only the first fruits of that fine 

 crop which the premier has sowed for the benefit of the Constitution, 

 no less than 7iine Roman Catholics are among the High Sheriffs for the 

 ensuing year. We are to recollect that there is no immediate prospect 

 of a dissolution of Parliament, and that those names are not one in ten of 

 the number that will start ; that the " atrocious bill" is not yet a year 

 old, and that the nine Sheriffs are but the first victories of the infant 

 faction : and, more than this, we are to recollect how much more devo- 

 tion those men will be ready to shew to the minister who gave them this 

 power, than to the Constitution which repelled them, and which, so far 

 as it still exists, repels them still. 



Wolfe, the converted Jew, if he ever was a Jew, or is now a convert, 

 has always redeemed his character with us, by the palpable appearance of 

 the greatest possible deficiency of brains. That Wolfe was actually mad, 

 we would not say, but if any one else had thought proper to say it, we 

 should have by no means considered that any thing admitting of dispute 

 was asserted. But the poor fellow had better have remained at home to 

 feed on the fat of the land, of reality and abjure the barren delights of the 

 tents of Beni Israel. Those Pachas are monstrously awkward personages 

 to deal with ; and if the Rabbi be still in the land of the living, he had 

 better bring himself and Lady Georgina back again by the first balloon 

 or steam boat from Beyroot to the Thames. 



" A letter recently received in Bristol, states that the Rev. Mr. 

 Wolfe, the converted Jew, who married Lady Georgiana Walpole ; 

 on his arrival in Palestine, having commenced preaching the Gospel, 

 some of the Jews represented to the Pacha that they had received letters 

 from their brethren at Amsterdam, that the pious missionary was 

 come amongst them for the purpose of converting the Jews and 

 Musselmans to Christianity. Upon which, it is added, his Highness 

 caused him to be arrested, and the bastinado to be inflicted after the 

 eastern fashion." 



The wits are prodigiously alive on the occasion of tliis application to 

 the unlucky rabbi's feelings. Some have said that it was merely a 

 Turkisk way of making him pay his footing, — others that it was a 

 peculiar attention to his sole, — others reprobate it, as an underhand mode 

 of argument, — others think it the very best, as it left the rabbi not a 

 leg to stand on, — others that it was advantageous, as allowing him to put 

 his best foot foremost. 



Still it is clear that the Pachas are clumsy fellows to manage, and 

 that Wolfe, if he be wise, will forswear the " argumentum baculinum," 

 or bamboo logic, and hasten back to the pleasant confabulations of 

 Harry Drummond, who is notorious tlirough all Guildford for giving 

 the best dinners and disputations, the largest quantity of Sack and 

 Solomon, of any saint that thrives by money-changing in Merry 

 England. 



Lord Lowther is a man, who, we verily believe, would not hurt a 

 mouse, in his own proper person. No man who sees his lordship's 



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