Testimony of the great Parts of CONSTANTINE, LORD MULGRAVE, and his Brethren.
MR. BOSWELL.
“Among those who will vote for continuing the old established number of our Session Justices, may I not count on the tribe of Phipps.—they love good places; and I know Mulgrave is a bit of a poet as well as myself; for I dined in company once, where he dined that very day twelvemonth. My excellent wife, who is a true Montgomery, and whom I like now as well as I did twenty years ago, adores the man who felt for the maternal pangs of a whelpless bear. For my own part, however, there is no action I more constantly ridicule, than his Lordship’s preposterous pity for those very sufferings which he himself occasioned, by ordering his sailors to shoot the young bears.——But though I laugh at him, how handsome will it be if he votes against Dundas to oblige me. My disliking him and his family is no reason for his disliking me—on the contrary, if he opposes us, is it not probable that that great young man, whom I sincerely adore, may say, in his own lofty language, “Mulgrave, Mulgrave, don’t vex the Scotch!—don’t provoke ’em! God damn your ugly head!—if we don’t crouch to Bute, we shall all be turned out; God eternally damn you for a stupid boar! I know we shall! Pardon me, great Sir, for presuming to forge the omnipotent bolts of your Incomparable thunder.”
Appendix to Mr. Baswell’s Pamphlet on the Scotch Judges.
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Testimony of NATHANIEL WILLIAM WRAXALL, Esq. his great Merit.
LORD MONBODDO.
“Since I put forth my last volume, I have read the excellent Ode of Mr. Wraxall, and was pleased to find that bold apostrophe in his delicious lyric,
“Hail, Ouran Outangs! Hail, Anthropophagi!”
“My principles are now pretty universally known; but on this occasion I will repeat them succinctly. I believe, from the bottom of my soul, that all mankind are absolute Ouran Outangs. That the feudal tenures are the great cause of our not retaining the perfect appearance of Ourans—That human beings originally moved on all fours—That we had better move in the same way again—That there has been giants ninety feet high—That such giants ought to have moved on all fours—That we all continue to be Ouran Outangs still—some more so, some less—but that Nathaniel William WRAXALL, Esq. is the truest Ouran Outang in Great Britain, and therefore ought immediately to take to all fours, and especially to make all his motions in Parliament in that way.”