His first exploit after his expulsion from _The Times_ was, an attempt to delude the public by engrafting himself upon a _quacking_ newspaper, now known, like himself, by a two-fold name, it being indiscriminately called 'The Muck Times,' and 'The Slop Pail.' The imposition succeeded only with a few. His writing gave the lie direct to his puffing pretensions, and his falsehoods were exposed in the paper from which he had been discharged. * He knows full well,' says _The Times_ ( in February, 18]7) that 'his articles were rejected {201}from our columns on account of the virulence and indiscretion with which they were written; and that, for more than twelve months preceding, whatever articles attracted notice by their merit, were exclusively the productions of other gentlemen.--_There are in the office, sacks full of his rejected writings_; which, if they were published, would exhibit an accurate criterion of his puffed-off abilities; _the sale of our Journal increased the more, the less he wrote; and since he has ceased from writing altogether, has extended with a rapidity of which we have known no example, since we have had the management of it_. This and other statements were stunning blows to him, and remained unnoticed, because they were unanswerable. * This squib is reprinted entire in a pamphlet, intituled 'The Origin of Dr. Slops Name.' His overweening pride received another shock through his new friends the _legitimates_. He went to Paris, and applied to be introduced at court; but 'The Bourbon' refused to receive him! Yes! refused to receive him--Slop; that Slop who, to gain the favour of his Most Christian Majesty, when he was in England, had 'tainted himself with the plague-spot of Legitimacy, till he was leprous all over; in whose inmost soul it had fixed its mortal sting, and, like an ugly spider, entangled him in its slimy folds, brooding on him as on its own poison.' ** He--who had abandoned principle, was abandoned by friends, had incurred the world's contempt, and had sold himself to the devil in the service of legitimacy--_he_ to be refused permission to bow over the hand of Louis XVIII!--_he_ to be despised and rejected by that same Louis who had received Mr. Street, the late Editor of the _Courier_, with open arms, and conferred on him the order of the _Lys!_--this was the unkindest cut of all! He returned to England in the last stage of mortification--a bye-word--a reproach--a laughing stock! * See also 'The Origin of Dr. Slop's Name.'--Preface ** Hazlitt's Political Essays.--Preface.