Formerly many of your Whigs and Radicals had scarcely a decent coat on their backs; but now the plunder of the country was at their disposal, and they had as good a chance of being genteel as any people.

So they were willing to worship Wellington because he was very genteel, and could not keep the plunder of the country out of their hands.

And Wellington has been worshipped, and prettily so, during the last fifteen or twenty years.

He is now a noble, fine-hearted creature; the greatest general the world ever produced; the bravest of men; and--and--mercy upon us! the greatest of military writers! Now the present writer will not join in such sycophancy.

As he was not afraid to take the part of Wellington when he was scurvily used by all parties, and when it was dangerous to take his part, so he is not afraid to speak the naked truth about Wellington in these days, when it is dangerous to say anything about him but what is sycophantically laudatory.