Note 6 — POLITICAL ESSAYS, WITH SKETCHES OF PUBLIC CHARACTERS
Reading edition
The above criticism first appeared in the Courier newspaper, and was copied the next day in the Chronicle with the following remarks:—‘The treasury journals complain of the harsh treatment shewn to ministers,—let us see how they treat their opponents. If the following does not come from the poetical pen of the Admiralty Croaker, it is a close imitation of his style.’
‘Strange that such difference should be
’Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee!’
Whether it was from the fear of this supposed formidable critic, the noble Marquis ceased from this time nightly to ‘fillip the ears of his auditors with a three-man beetle!‘