been its hackneyed appellation. Pro- sanguine, still always sanguinary. If, tean it is. Yet, in one respect, the most especially, there be some poor anonymous monster differs essentially creature whose only hopes are placed in from the fabulous:

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neque est te fallere cuiquam"

the expectation of a fair trial, and whom its cunning looks upon as likely to die; then there is an alacrity about the Times, must be said with exceptions. Deep as a freedom of action, a disposition to disit is in the study to deceive, the old patch, a gladness and a going to work Times is not quite proof against decep- in good earnest, which do not commonly tion. So it knows. With that caution belong to it. It then anticipates, by its which grows out of the experience of own conduct, the worst that others can harm arising from rashness, this know- possibly have in design; takes the lead, ing one takes the double care not to with impatient delight, towards that to venture too far a-head, not to be left in which human nature proceeds with the lurch. Hence you find it for ever slowness and a shudder; not satisfied to treading on your heels with its toes, or, leave the law to take its course, it forces on your toes with its heels; if it is some-its way into the dismal cell, fixes its times sidelong, that only happens while claws on the defenceless accused, lugs it is wriggling its way round, backwards him forth, and, cursing and kicking, and or forwards. All at once the Times spitting venom at all who would interslipped in front as a "Radical;" but pose, sticks him up on its own frightful back it soon dropped again to its posi-gibbet (the unwarranted Jack Ketch!), tion a-heel, inventing, in the course of before even speedy justice has had time transit, Ultra-Radical," a term by to consider whether he be guilty or inwhich to save its right of making ano-nocent. It would be too long to say ther shift! Faith, Hope, and Charity, all the Times is like. Thus much, howseem to be the cardinal objects of its ever is like the Times; and what a averson. It joins all that are rising picture, O sweet Mercy, however iminto power; betrays all that are declin- perfect, it is! ing. Like the false credit whence it has obtained its importance, it is "strength "in the beginning, and weakness in the We sincerely hope that this honest "end." There is hardly an atrocity that paper will not be suffered to become it has not applauded, nor one of those one of the "brave, alas! in vain." If with whom it has been accomplice in it had done no other good, it would crime whose tortures it would not ag- have done enough in showing, as it gravate at the day of punishment. It is has, by its struggles with death, what a swaggering bully, the proudest to be a truly deadly tax is that of the stamp. in your train till misfortune meets you, To think, that the paper, above all but the surest to decamp when it sees you others, which every reformer would arrested; and lucky are you, though delike to read, should, in these times serted, if the movement of the backslider of reform, be nearly obliged to relinbe not announced by a back-handed blow. quish a hold which it ought, for our Professing to deprecate what it loves to own sakes to have on us! But, as it do, it is the first to call "Murder!" is with the able and industrious poor, though the first to commit it. Though so it is with those friends of theirs, having nothing of that ardour of pur- whose efforts are made through the suit which sometimes leads the consci- press. Friends and befriended, howentious astray in the cause of right, it ever, will both soon find a relief; a has no sort of hesitation to do wrong, ministry of "reformers" never can disproviding that be certainly acceptable: cover reasons for the continuing of the most cool to propound an argument, a law which has, more than any one the quickest to countenance a measure, other, promoted the abuses which have the most anxious to urge the necessity, required this reform. The True Sun is for a spilling of blood. Though never ably written. We seldom read any

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thing in it that we can object to. If ride;" and when the rider gets off, objection ever be, motive in the writer not a tie" of any kind is needed, with is, at all events, never questioned by the this nag, who is so well broken in to reader. There is no affectation to be his business as to be safely let loose till seen in it, nor any half-hidden false- the next cavalier is astride. hoods giving rise to suspicion.

THE STANDARD.

THE GLOBE.

"

Good or bad, you have nothing origiThis is the high-Tory paper. We are, nal here. Observe the sexflua flumina nevertheless, not without a liking for of the Times for one week through, look the Standard, because its readers find in in the waters of each murky stream, it what everybody likes, a great deal of take notice of the objects borne along in cleverness. The editor has too much the morning's flood, turgid with what sense to employ it as he does, and be, the elements of mischief have contriat the same time, sincere: it is appabuted to it during the preceding night; rent, that his real convictions are, upon turn to the Globe of each evening folmost points of importance, pretty nearly lowing, and you will see that this is, at the very reverse of what he says. The best, but a branch of the great overStandard's writing is not, as some think, swollen river. But "satius est fontes of a merely superficial order, and he is, petere quam sectari rivulos is a good certainly, the most generally engaging, maxim; if you must watch any such the most straight to the mark, spright-dirty waters at all, you may as well conly, and humorous, of them all. In the fine your inspection altogether to those race he undertakes to run, he is, now of the one they first come from. The and then, necessarily driven to make Globe, then, is the same, only in a smaldesperate bolts from the course which ler way, as the Times. The contents true logic marks out. We have often of its cup are derived from the dregs of laughed to see him when he is obliged the other one's urn; its bowl-dish is to take notice of a sound argument with filled by a shake-up of his bucket. which he would fain have nothing to do. Pinched between the strict parallels of a syllogism, like a dog with a cleft stick, he does not, however, run off as common curs do in such cases, but manages to claim some honour from the disgrace by the sportive mode in which GARLAND, GEORGE, Petworth, Sussex, he deals with his difficulty. Standard, moreover, is endowed with one negative blessing, which, now-adays, is a great one. He never wears out your patience before he has disposed of the subject to which he draws your attention; never has a dull article.

THE COURIER.

The

If you would know what ability and

From the LONDON GAZETTE,`
FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 1833.
INSOLVENT.

innkeeper.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. MYERS, MYER, Birmingham, factor. WRIGHT, JOHN, Liverpool, silk mercer.

BANKRUPTS.

CLARK, W. A., Bishopsgate-street, wine-
merchant.

EVANS, J., Haverfordwest, baker.
JAMES, T., otherwise ROLLAND, Walcot,

Somersetshire, letter of horses and gigs.
MAY, G., Evesham, Worcestershire, book-

seller.

NEWBOLD, W., Birmingham, leather-seller.
PIERCY, E., Titchborne-street, Golden-sq.,

what views are to be found in the Courier, you have but to consider what are those of the existing government itself. If you are acquainted with the latter, you need not look into the Courier to see what that paper is. This is the hack, which each succeeding administration bridles and saddles at its own convenience, and with which each has " a SIMSON, J. M., Frating, Essex, cattle-jobber.

carver.

RICH, G., Curzon-street, May-fair, tailor.
RUTLAND, T., Nottingham, coach-maker.
SANDERS, S., Totuess, Devonshire, coach-
builder.

Peas heavy sale; boilers at a decline of Is. and Maple at Is. to 2s. per quarter.

In Flour no alteration. The principal country markets, by the advices received this morning, appeared to have assumed a firmer tone, and although an immediate improveMan-ment was not auticipated, yet in many instances the prevailing opinion seemed to be, that the quotations have attained their mi

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Beasts, 2,522; sheep, 13,880; calves, 96; pigs, 110.

MARK-LANE.-Friday, March 1.

The arrivals this week are moderate. The prices remain the same as on Monday, with but little business doing.

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THE FUNDS.

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neque est te fallere cuiquam"

been its hackneyed appellation. Pro- sanguine, still always sanguinary. If, tean it is. Yet, in one respect, the most especially, there be some poor anonymous monster differs essentially creature whose only hopes are placed in from the fabulous: the expectation of a fair trial, and whom its cunning looks upon as likely to die; then there is an alacrity about the Times, must be said with exceptions. Deep as a freedom of action, a disposition to disit is in the study to deceive, the old patch, a gladness and a going to work Times is not quite proof against decep- in good earnest, which do not commonly tion. So it knows. With that caution belong to it. It then anticipates, by its which grows out of the experience of own conduct, the worst that others can harm arising from rashness, this know- possibly have in design; takes the lead, ing one takes the double care not to with impatient delight, towards that to venture too far a-head, not to be left in which human nature proceeds with the lurch. Hence you find it for ever slowness and a shudder; not satisfied to treading on your heels with its toes, or, leave the law to take its course, it forces on your toes with its heels; if it is some- its way into the dismal cell, fixes its times sidelong, that only happens while claws on the defenceless accused, lugs it is wriggling its way round, backwards him forth, and, cursing and kicking, and or forwards. All at once the Times spitting venom at all who would interslipped in front as a "Radical;" but pose, sticks him up on its own frightful back it soon dropped again to its posi-gibbet (the unwarranted Jack Ketch!), tion a-heel, inventing, in the course of before even speedy justice has had time transit, " Ultra-Radical," a term by to consider whether he be guilty or inwhich to save its right of making ano-nocent. It would be too long to say ther shift! Faith, Hope, and Charity, all the Times is like. Thus much, howseem to be the cardinal objects of its ever is like the Times; and what a averson. It joins all that are rising picture, O sweet Mercy, however iminto power; betrays all that are declin- perfect, it is! ing. Like the false credit whence it has obtained its importance, it is "strength "in the beginning, and weakness in the We sincerely hope that this honest "end." There is hardly an atrocity that paper will not be suffered to become it has not applauded, nor one of those one of the "brave, alas! in vain." If with whom it has been accomplice in it had done no other good, it would crime whose tortures it would not ag- have done enough in showing, as it gravate at the day of punishment. It is has, by its struggles with death, what a swaggering bully, the proudest to be a truly deadly tax is that of the stamp. in your train till misfortune meets you, To think, that the paper, above all but the surest to decamp when it sees you others, which every reformer would arrested; and lucky are you, though de-like to read, should, in these times serted, if the movement of the backslider of reform, be nearly obliged to relinbe not announced by a back-handed blow. quish a hold which it ought, for Professing to deprecate what it loves to own sakes to have on us! But, as it do, it is the first to call "Murder!" is with the able and industrious poor, though the first to commit it. Though so it is with those friends of theirs, having nothing of that ardour of pur- whose efforts are made through the suit which sometimes leads the consci- press. Friends and befriended, howentious astray in the cause of right, it ever, will both soon find a relief; a has no sort of hesitation to do wrong, ministry of " reformers" never can disproviding that be certainly acceptable: cover reasons for the continuing of the most cool to propound an argument, a law which has, more than any one the quickest to countenance a measure, other, promoted the abuses which have the most anxious to urge the necessity, required this reform. The True Sun is for a spilling of blood. Though never ably written. We seldom read any

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our