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have lately been, not pilfering from me, not 

 robbing me, but actually phuidering me by 

 wholesale, in an article on the motives which 

 led to, and the consequence of, the " Protes- 

 tant Reformation ;" now for these feeloso- 

 ■phers ; nov/ for the London University; now 

 for the schoolmaster, who, Mr. Brougham tells 

 us, is actually abroad; and, by- the- bye, Mr. 

 Brougham himself seems to have been abroad 

 for now more than half a year ; for, instead of 

 speeches, such as that memorable one, which 

 enabled a reporter to go, after he had heard the 

 exordium, to Windsor, to see his sweetheart, and 

 come back in time to hear the peroration -, in- 

 stead of speeches like this, we have heard only, 

 now and then, a few short, detached, and inco- 

 licrent sentences. Like the principal character 

 in a duck-hunt, he is more out of sight than in 

 sight. The chief interest in this sport consists 

 in the curiosity which is excited, at every dive of 

 the duck, to know at what point he will come up 

 again; and, as this learned person is now in 

 what may be called a dive, curiosity of the like 

 nature exists with regard to him. But, in tlie 

 meanwhile, and to console him during his dive, 

 I give it as my opinion, that the husks of Corn 

 v/\\\ rndke paper to print his speeches on. 



141. Such are the uses of the husks; and, if 

 you want them neither for the purpose of rest- 



