MrPunch's history of modern England . re explained as a cause ofhis always wanting to get back to the woolsack. He iscredited, in virtue of his versatile activities, with the attempt todiscover perpetual motion. Broughams vanity, craving foroffice at all costs, meddlesomeness, and subservience to theDuke of Wellington are held up to contempt, and in RationalReadings for Grown-up People (an early anticipation of theMissing Word Competition) we read : — If people may, without rebuke. Call Wellington the Iron , Why then we safely may presumeThe Brazen Peer to term Lord . The snobbishness of Broug
MrPunch's history of modern England . re explained as a cause ofhis always wanting to get back to the woolsack. He iscredited, in virtue of his versatile activities, with the attempt todiscover perpetual motion. Broughams vanity, craving foroffice at all costs, meddlesomeness, and subservience to theDuke of Wellington are held up to contempt, and in RationalReadings for Grown-up People (an early anticipation of theMissing Word Competition) we read : — If people may, without rebuke. Call Wellington the Iron , Why then we safely may presumeThe Brazen Peer to term Lord . The snobbishness of Broughams arguments on behalf ofroyal princes in his Debtors Bill again infuriates the demo-cratic Punch, who in 1849 was even more disgusted byBroughams fulsome championship of Radetzky and theAustrians when they defeated the Piedmontese. But Punchshostility reaches its height in the verses (accompanying a cartoonwhich represents Brougham standing on his head) describingthe amazing farrago of inconsistencies which composed the mind 308. CO H O (J o l-H > o p< (4 H ::) < wwIDo 309 Mr. PimcJis History of Modern England of one who was at once a charlatan and encyclopaedist, a re-former and a courtier. In the same year Punch suggests aBill should be promoted for the better behaviour of the eroticand learned lord, Whod rather mount the mountebanks stag^e than be laid on the shelf,Who does with ease the difficult task of turning his back on himself. Broughams perversely obstructive attitude towards theExhibition of 1851 excited Punchs wrath, when he himself hadbecome converted to the scheme, but already the tone of thepaper had changed; and the turning point was reached on theoccasion of Broughams visit to America in 1850, when Punchprinted the following unofficial letter of introduction to thePresident of the United States : — To General Taylor, President of the United States, Favoured by Henry Lord Brougham, Member of the FrenchInstitute. Dear Taylor, I have much pleasure
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