Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, CompleteVarious
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
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English wit and humor -- Periodicals
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Our foreign expresses have reached us via
Billingsgate, and are full of interesting matter. Captain Fitz-Flammer
is in prison at Boulogne, for some trifling misunderstanding with a
native butcher, about the settlement of an account; but we trust no time
will be lost by our government in demanding his release at the hands of
the authorities. The attempt to make it a private question is absurd;
and every Englishmans blood will simmer, if it does not actually boil,
at the intelligence. Fitz-Flammer was only engaged in doing that which
many of our countrymen visit Boulogne expressly to do, and it is hard
that he should have been intercepted in his retreat, after accomplishing
his object. To live at the expense of a natural enemy is certainly a
bold and patriotic act, which ought to excite sympathy at home, and
protection abroad. The English packet, the City of Boulogne, has turned
one of its imitation guns directly towards the town, which, we trust,
will have the effect of bringing the French authorities to reason.
It is expected that the treaty will shortly be signed, by which Belgium
cedes to France a milestone on the north frontier; while the latter
country returns to the former the whole of the territory lying behind a
pig-stye, taken possession of in the celebrated 6th vendemiaire, by the
allied armies. This will put an end to the heart-burnings that have long
existed on either side of the Rhine, and will serve to apply the sponge
at once to a long score of national animosities.
Our letters from the East are far from encouraging. The Pasha has had a
severe sore-throat, and the disaffected have taken advantage of the
circumstance. Ibrahim had spent the two last nights in the mountains,
and was unfurling his standard, when our express left, in the very bosom
of the desert. Mehemet Ali was still obstinate, and had dismissed his
visier for impertinence. The whole of Servia is in a state of revolt,
and the authorities have planted troops along the entire line, the whole
of whom have gone over to the enemy. It is said there must be further
concessions, and a new constitution is being drawn up; but it is not
expected that any one will abide by it. Mehemet attempted to throw
himself upon the rock of Nungab, with a tremendous force, but those
about him wisely prevented him from doing so.
We have received China (tea) papers to the 16th. There is nothing in
them.
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