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 hurls up his cap with a foolish face of wonder and incredulity at the restoration of the Bourbons, and affects to chuckle with secret satisfaction over the last act of the Revolution, which reduced him to perfect insignificance. We need not wonder at the results, when it comes to the push between parties so differently constituted and unequally matched. We have seen what those results are. I cannot do justice to the picture, but I find it done to my hands in those prophetic lines of Pope, where he describes the last Triumph of Corruption:—

"'But 'tis the fall degrades her to a whore: Let greatness own her, and she's mean no more. Her birth, her beauty, crowds and courts confess; Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless: In golden chains the willing world she draws, And her'shers [sic] the Gospel is, and her'shers [sic] the Laws; Mounts the tribunal, lifts her scarlet head, And sees pale virtue carted in her stead. Lo! at the wheels of her triumphal car, Old England's genius, rough with many a scar, Dragg'd in the dust! his arms hang idly round, His flag inverted trails along the ground; Our youth, all liveried o'er with foreign gold, Before her dance, behind her crawl the old! See thronging millions to the Pagod run, And offer country, parent, wife, or son! Hear her black trumpet thro' the land proclaim, That not to be corrupted is the shame. In soldier, churchman, patriot, man in power, 'Tis avarice all, ambition is no more! See all our nobles begging to be slaves! See all our fools aspiring to be knaves!"