fact, it would appear that the honest and friendly patriot put
his threat into execution. "I have spoken," said he, "more than once to
this and that individual in Parliament, and everybody seems to think that
the appointment should be given to you. Nay, that you should be forced
to accept it. I intend next to speak to Lord A . . ." And so he did, at
least it would appear so. On the writer calling upon him one evening,
about a week afterwards, in order to take leave of him, as the writer was
about to take a long journey for the sake of his health, his friend no
sooner saw him than he started up in a violent fit of agitation, and
glancing about the room, in which there were several people, amongst
others two Whig members of Parliament, said, "I am glad you are come; I
was just speaking about you. This," said he, addressing the two members,
"is so and so, the author of so and so, the well-known philologist; as I
was telling you, I spoke to Lord A . . . this day about him, and said
that he ought forthwith to have the head appointment in . . .; and what
did the fellow say? Why, that there was no necessity for such an
appointment at all, and if there were, why . . . and then he hummed and
ha'd. Yes," said he, looking at the writer, "he did indeed. What a
scandal! what an infamy! But I see how it will be, it will be a job. The
place will be given to some son of a steward or to some quack, as I said
before. Oh, these Tories! Well, if this does not make one . . ." Here
he stopped short, crunched his teeth, and looked the image of
desperation.

Seeing the poor man in this distressed condition, the writer begged him
to be comforted, and not to take the matter so much to heart; but the
indignant Radical took the matter very much to heart, and refused all
comfort whatever, bouncing about the room, and, whilst his spectacles
flashed in the light of four spermaceti candles, exclaiming, "It will be
a job--a Tory job! I see it all, I see it all, I see it all!"

And a job it proved, and a very pretty job, but no Tory job; shortly
afterwards the Tories were out, and the Whigs were in. From that time
the writer heard not a word about the injustice done to the country in
not presenting him with the appointment to . . .; the Radical, however,
was busy enough to obtain the appointment, not for the writer, but for
himself, and eventually succeeded, partly through Radical influence, and
partly through that of a certain Whig lord