A Sequel to Don Juan — page 42: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. 33 LXXXII. Graham and Stanley, turncoats from your faith— Knatchbull, who bilk each turn-pike in your way *— Goulburn, on Peel dependent for the breath Of Tory praise which gives you life to-day— Peel, by expedients saved from public death+— And, Wellington, the murderer of Ney— How should you like to hear the dreaded cail Of ** A la lanterne’’ echo down Whitehall ? LXXXILf. A pretty sample, too, of aristocracy We’ve lately had—enough to make us think That it were better if of pure democracy England were really standing on the brink : Lust, persecution, swindling, fraud, hypocrisy, And every crime from which the honest shrink, Have celebrated on the rolls of sin Huntingtower, Hertford, Paget, Frankfort, Thynne. ¢ * During the elections in 1841, Sir Edward Knatchbull refused to pay turn-pike tolls on his way to the hustings. Actions were brought against him, which he of course lost; and he then had impudence and obstinacy enough to appeal. The result was similar to the judgment originally pronounced. This is not the only instance of meanness and self-willed pertinacity on the part of this most arrogant but empty- headed baronet. + To avoid any misapprehension relative to this line, the author wishes it to be particularly understood that he does not allude to ‘t physical death,’”’ but to annihila- tion as a Minister. _{ Lord Huntingtower’s examinations at the Bankruptcy Court; the disclosures made relative to the conduct of the Marquis of Hertford, upon the occasion of the trial of Suisse, his lordship’s valet; the connivance of Lord William Paget in the fellow Cassidy’s abominable scheme with regard to the heiress Miss Bellew; Lord Frankfort’s affair with Alice Lowe; and the two insolvencies for immense sums of Lord Edward Th7nne, besides his amours with Madame Vestris, are here al- luded to. . C COMmichoooks. conn