Roundabout Papers - Penn State University

Roundabout Papersherited also some of the great qualities which won forthe Prince Consort the love and respect of our country?The papers tell us how, on the night of the marriageof the Prince of Wales, all over England and Scotlandilluminations were made, the poor and children werefeasted, and in village and city thousands of kindlyschemes were devised to mark the national happinessand sympathy. “The bonfire on Coptpoint at Folkestonewas seen in France,” the Telegraph says, “more clearlythan even the French marine lights could be seen atFolkestone.” Long may the fire continue to burn! Thereare European coasts (and inland places) where the libertylight has been extinguished, or is so low that youcan’t see to read by it—there are great Atlantic shoreswhere it flickers and smokes very gloomily. Let us bethankful to the honest guardians of ours, and for thekind sky under which it burns bright and steady.ON A MEDAL OF GEORGE THEFOURTHBefore me lies a coin bearing the image and superscriptionof King George IV., and of the nominal value oftwo-and-sixpence. But an official friend at a neighboringturnpike says the piece is hopelessly bad; and achemist tested it, returning a like unfavorable opinion.A cabman, who had brought me from a Club, left it withthe Club porter, appealing to the gent who gave it apore cabby, at ever so much o’clock of a rainy night,which he hoped he would give him another. I have takenthat cabman at his word. He has been provided with asound coin. The bad piece is on the table before me,and shall have a hole drilled through it, as soon as thisessay is written, by a loyal subject who does not desireto deface the Sovereign’s image, but to protest againstthe rascal who has taken his name in vain. Fid. Def.indeed! Is this what you call defending the faith? You298