h ten
thousand years of chivalwous ancestwy; but that is neither here
nor there: my political principles--the equal wights which I have
advocated--the gweat cause of fweedom that I have celebwated, are known
to all. But this, I confess, has nothing to do with the question. No,
the question is this--on the thwone of litewature I stand unwivalled,
pwe-eminent; and the Bwitish government, honowing genius in me,
compliments the Bwitish nation by lifting into the bosom of the
heweditawy nobility, the most gifted member of the democwacy." (The
honrabble genlm here sunk down amidst repeated cheers.)

"Sir John," says I, "and my lord duke, the words of my rivrint frend
Ignatius, and the remarks of the honrabble genlmn who has just sate
down, have made me change the detummination which I had the honor of
igspressing just now.

"I igsept the eighty pound a year; knowing that I shall ave plenty of
time for pursuing my littery career, and hoping some day to set on that
same bentch of barranites, which is deckarated by the presnts of my
honrabble friend.

"Why shooden I? It's trew I ain't done anythink as YET to deserve
such an honor; and it's very probable that I never shall. But
what then?--quaw dong, as our friends say? I'd much rayther have a
coat-of-arms than a coat of livry. I'd much rayther have my blud-red
hand spralink in the middle of a shield, than underneath a tea-tray. A
barranit I will be; and, in consiquints, must cease to be a footmin.

"As to my politticle princepills, these, I confess, ain't settled:
they are, I know, necessary; but they ain't necessary UNTIL ASKT FOR;
besides, I reglar read the Sattarist newspaper, and so ignirince on this
pint would be inigscusable.

"But if one man can git to be a doctor, and another a barranit, and
another a capting in the navy, and another a countess, and another the
wife of a governor of the Cape of Good Hope, I begin to perseave that
the littery trade ain't such a very bad un; igspecially if you're up to
snough, and know what's o'clock. I'll learn to make myself usefle, in
the fust place; then I'll larn to spell; and, I trust, by reading the
novvles of the honrabble member, and the scientafick treatiseses of the
reverend doctor, I may find the secrit of suxess, and git a litell for
my own share. I've sevral frends in the press, having paid for many of
those chaps' drink, and given them other treets; and so I think I've got
all the emilents of suxess; therefore, I am de