“Luckily I came to England, and that _steadied_ my head pretty quickly. To my utter astonishment and confusion, I found all my ’SQUIRES and REVERENDS, and my BARONET too--all, in one way or other, dependents on the Government, and, _out of the public purse, profiting from their pamphlets_. John Reeves, ESQUIRE, who was a barrister, but never practised, I found _joint patentee of the office of King’s Printer_--a sinecure worth, to him, about 4000_l._ a year, which he had got for thirty years, just then begun. John Bowles, ESQUIRE, (also a briefless barrister) I found a _Commissioner of Dutch Property_; and the public recollect the emoluments of that office, as exposed in 1809. John Gifford, ESQUIRE, I found a _Police Magistrate_, with a pension of 300_l._ a year besides. William Gifford, ESQUIRE, I found sharing the profits of Canning’s anti-Jacobin newspaper (set up and paid for by the Treasury), and with a sinecure of 329_l._ a year besides. My BARONET I found with rent-free apartments in Hampton Court Palace, and with what else I have forgotten. My REVEREND John Brand I found with the living of St. George, Southwark, given him by Lord Loughborough (then Chancellor), he already having a living in Suffolk. My REVEREND Ireland I found with the living of Croydon, or the expectancy of it, and also found that he was _looking steadily at old Lord Liverpool_. The REVEREND Herbert Marsh I found a pension-hunter, and he soon succeeded to the tune of 514_l._ a year. Mallet Du Pan I found _dead_, but I found that he had been a _pensioner_, and I found his widow a pensioner, and his son in one of the public offices. And Nicholas Vansittart, ESQUIRE, who had written a pamphlet to prove that the war had enriched the nation, I found, O God! a _Commissioner of Scotch Herrings_! Hey, dear! as the Lancashire men say; I thought it would have broken my heart!