Now seeing the said Jonathan by base rebellion stirred, And battling with pro-slavery, it might be thence inferred That British sympathy, at last, would spur him on to strife; But, strange to say, this sympathy--is labelled "NEUTRALITY," and consigned to any rebel port not too closely blockaded to permit English vessels, loaded with munitions, to slip in. And when you ask Mr. Bull what he means by this inconsistent conduct, he becomes virtuously indignant, rolls up his eyes, and says: "I carn't endure to see brothers murdering each other and keeping me out of my cotton--I carn't, upon my life!" This Neutral British Gentleman, one of the modern time. Supposing Mr. Bull should die, the question might arise: Will he be wanted down below, or wafted to the skies? Allowing that he had his choice, it really seems to me The moral British Gentleman--would choose a front seat with his Infernal Majesty; since Milton, in his blank verse correspondence with old _Times_, more than once hinted the possibility of Nick's rebellion against Heaven succeeding; and as the Lower Secessia has cottoned to England through numerous Hanoverian reigns, such a choice on the part of the philanthropical Britisher would be simply another specimen--of his NEUTRAL-I-TY! This Neutral British Gentleman, one of the modern time. When Smith-Brown had heard that, my boy, he sniffed grievously, and says he: "England never _was_ happreciated in this blarsted country." I believe him, my boy. It being Bonbon's turn to read a story, he unrolled his papers and gave us THE CONFESSION.