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to themselves and satisfaction to their employers, 

 are of low plebeian origin, although occupying the 

 position of servants. Their pedigrees may not, 

 perchance, be found in " Burke's Landed Gentry/' 

 yet, as we have ever expressed the opinion that 

 " blood will tell," we entertain no doubt that many 

 of these men have better blood flowing in their 

 veins than some of the families Mr. Burke has 

 been pleased to honour with a place in his pages. 



The story is told of Tom Moore, the poet, when 

 dining with the Prince Regent, afterwards George 

 IV., and the name of Dr. Moore, the author of 

 " Zeluco/' being mentioned, the Prince asked if he 

 was of the same family. Moore, thinking his 

 humble origin was well known, and that the 

 question was intended as an insult, answered, " No, 

 please your Royal Highness ; I am the son of 

 Tom Moore, the grocer in Dublin/' an answer 

 which offended the Prince, and he was never asked 

 to Carleton House again. That the author of 

 " Lalla Rookh " was a man of low vulgar ex- 

 traction, every line of that poem disproves, although 

 his father might have been a grocer. In the 

 annals of the poor we should find many now 

 occupying a very humble position, whose ancestors 

 have held high places in society, and vice versa. 

 Millionaires spring from the lowest ranks, whose 

 god has been Mammon, and whose motto through 

 life in making money may be borrowed from old 

 Horace, " Si possis recte si non quocunque modo 

 possis." 



Having said thus much, as in justice bound, in 



