italic> December 31st (o.s.), 1742.] [under poor Walpole, whom you
could not enough condemn]! The Dutch? exclaims another: 'If WE were
a Free People [F-- P-- he puts it, joining caution with his rage],
QUOERE, Whether Holland would not, at this juncture, come cap in
hand, to sue for our protection and alliance; instead of making us
dance attendance at the Hague?' Yes, indeed;--and then the CASE OF
THE HANOVER FORCES (fear not, reader; I understand your terror of
locked-jaw, and will never mention said CASE again); but it is
singular to the Gazetteer mind, That these Hanover Forces are to be
paid by England, as appears; Hanover, as if without interest in the
matter, paying nothing! Upon which, in covert form of symbolic
adumbration, of witty parable, what stinging commentaries, not the
first, nor by many thousands the last (very sad reading in our day)
on this paltry Hanover Connection altogether: What immensities it
has cost poor England, and is like to cost, 'the Lord of the Manor'
(great George our King) being the gentleman he is; and how England,
or, as it is adumbratively called, 'the Manor of St. James's,' is
become a mere 'fee-farm to Mumland.' Unendurable to think of.
'Bob Monopoly, the late Tallyman [adumbrative for Walpole, late
Prime Minister], was much blamed on this account; and John the
Carter [John Lord Carteret], Clerk of the Vestry and present
favorite of his Lordship, is not behind Robin in his care for the
Manor of MUMLAND' [In Westminster Journal
(Feb. 12th, n.s., 1743), a long Apologue in this strain.] (that
contemptible Country, where their very beer is called MUM),--and no
remedy within view?"


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