CONDOLO-GRATULATORY LETTERS, BY AN EMINENT POLITICAL PHYSICIAN.
No. I.
I cannot, my dear Lord W , for one moment delay offering you my most sincere congratulations on the Reform Sill having been thrown out last night by your noble House. It is to you that the Country is indebted for warding off a measure fraught with every sort of mischief, and at once subversive of our glorious Constitution—a measure contrived by a set of wicked and unprincipled men, for no other than the base and selhsh purpose of keeping themselves in place. The Country, at least the good part of it, will now look up to your Lordship's House, and the Wise Administration of which you formed so essential an ingredient, for its wellbeing and for its existence. I am happy to give you a most favourable bulletin of my interesting Patient. The Prescriptions have acted like a charm—and this has been the more gratify- ing to me, as in my extensive Practice of thirty-six years, I have met with only three examples of a similar disease. Believe me, my dear Lord W—, Your Lordship's most truly devoted, — Street, Maytdr, Saturday Morning.
No. II.
Mv DEAR MARQUIS, It delights inc to receive so good an account of my interesting Patient. There never was a Case on which I have bestowed inure of my calm and serious deli- beration. Should the medicine furnished not fulfil my anxious hopes, there are still other means we have in store !
Before concluding, let me offer you and your worthy Father my heartfelt .svmpathy and condolence on the unfortunate rejection of the Reform Bill in the House ot Lords, through the most factious and selfish Opposition ever witnessed. Tell his Grace, that it is to such liberal and independent Noblemen that the Country is indebted for removing a stain on our blessed Constitution, which .even the most corrupt Boroughmonger never could defend. I pray that no fatal calamity come upon us through the unwise rejection of a measure so admirably calculated to save and invigorate the Country ; above all, I trust it will not in the least degree shake the stability of that patriotic and excellent Administration, which alone can guide the helm of State in the present critical times. With great sincerity, believe me, my dear Marquis, your Lordship's most faithful and devoted Servant, Street, Mayfair, Saturday Morning.
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