nd;
published translations, of which the public at length became heartily
tired; having, indeed, got an inkling of the manner in which those
translations were got up. He managed, however, to ride out many a storm,
having one trusty sheet-anchor--Radicalism. This he turned to the best
advantage--writing pamphlets and articles in reviews, all in the Radical
interest, and for which he was paid out of the Radical fund; which
articles and pamphlets, when Toryism seemed to reel on its last legs,
exhibited a slight tendency to Whiggism. Nevertheless, his abhorrence of
desertion of principle was so great in the time of the Duke of
Wellington's administration, that when S . . . left the Whigs and went
over, he told the writer, who was about that time engaged with him in a
literary undertaking, that the said S . . . was a fellow with a character
so infamous, that any honest man would rather that you should spit in his
face, than insult his ears with the mention of the name of S . . .

The literary project having come to nothing,--in which, by-the-bye, the
writer was to have all the labour, and his friend all the credit,
provided any credit should accrue from it,--the writer did not see the
latter for some years, during which time considerable political changes
took place; the Tories were driven from, and the Whigs placed in, office,
both events being brought about by the Radicals coalescing with the
Whigs, over whom they possessed great influence for the services which
they had rendered. When the writer next visited his friend, he found him
very much altered; his opinions were by no means so exalted as they had
been--he was not disposed even to be rancorous against the Duke of
Wellington, saying that there were worse men than he, and giving him some
credit as a general; a hankering after gentility seeming to pervade the
whole family, father and sons, wife and daughters, all of whom talked
about genteel diversions--gentility novels, and even seemed to look with
favour on high Churchism, having in former years, to all appearance, been
bigoted Dissenters. In a little time the writer went abroad; as, indeed,
did his friend; not, however, like the writer, at his own expense, but at
that of the country--the Whigs having given him a travelling appointment,
which he held for some years, during which he is said to have received
upwards of twelve thousand pounds of the money of the country, for
services which will, perhaps, be found in