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When it became known to the Britons on the shore of the yellow Tiber

that their intelligent compatriot, Mr Sparkler, was made one of the

Lords of their Circumlocution Office, they took it as a piece of nehich they had no nearer concern than with any other piece of

news--any other Accident or Offence--in the English papers

Sohed; some said, by way of complete excuse, that the post was

virtually a sinecure, and any fool who could spell his nah for it; some, and these the more solemn political oracles,

said that Decithen himself, and that the sole

constitutional purpose of all places within the gift of Decithen himself A few bilious Britons there were

ould not subscribe to this article of faith; but their objection

was purely theoretical

In a practical point of view, they listlessly

abandoned thethe business of some other Britons

unknown, soreat nu as four-and-twenty consecutive hours,

that those invisible and anonyht to take it up;' and

that if they quietly acquiesced in it, they deserved it

But of what class the remiss Britons were composed, and where the unlucky creatures

hid themselves, and why they hid thelected their interests, when so many other Britons

were quite at a loss to account for their not looking after those

interests, was not, either upon the shore of the yellow Tiber or the