ood and Ings say to twenty ragged individuals, Liverpool
and Castlereagh are two satellites of despotism; it would be highly
desirable to put them out of the way. And a certain number of ragged
individuals are surprised in a stable in Cato Street, making preparations
to put Castlereagh and Liverpool out of the way, and are fired upon with
muskets by Grenadiers, and are hacked at with cutlasses by Bow Street
runners; but the twain who encouraged those ragged individuals to meet in
Cato Street are not far off, they are not on the other side of the river,
in the Borough, for example, in some garret or obscure cellar. The very
first to confront the Guards and runners are Thistlewood and Ings;
Thistlewood whips his long thin rapier through Smithers' lungs, and Ings
makes a dash at Fitzclarence with his butcher's knife. Oh, there was
something in those fellows! honesty and courage--but can as much be said
for the inciters of the troubles of '32? No; they egged on poor ignorant
mechanics and rustics, and got them hanged for pulling down and burning,
whilst the highest pitch to which their own daring ever mounted was to
mob Wellington as he passed in the streets.

Now, these people were humbugs, which Thistlewood and Ings were not. They
raved and foamed against kings, queens, Wellington, the aristocracy, and
what not, till they had got the Whigs into power, with whom they were in
secret alliance, and with whom they afterwards openly joined in a system
of robbery and corruption, more flagitious than the old Tory one, because
there was more cant about it; for themselves they got consulships,
commissionerships, and in some instances governments; for their sons
clerkships in public offices; and there you may see those sons with the
never-failing badge of the low scoundrel-puppy, the gilt chain at the
waistcoat pocket; and there you may hear and see them using the
languishing tones, and employing the airs and graces which wenches use
and employ, who, without being in the family way, wish to make their
keepers believe that they are in the family way. Assuredly great is the
cleverness of your Radicals of '32, in providing for themselves and their
families. Yet, clever as they are, there is one thing they cannot
do--they get governments for themselves, commissionerships for their
brothers, clerkships for their sons, but there is one thing beyond their
craft--they cannot get husbands for their daughters, who, too ugly for
marriage