From that time the writer heard not a word about the injustice done
to the country in not presenting him with the appointment to -; the
Radical, however, was busy enough to obtain the appointment, not
for the writer, but for himself, and eventually succeeded, partly
through Radical influence, and partly through that of a certain
Whig lord, for whom the Radical had done, on a particular occasion,
work of a particular kind. So, though the place was given to a
quack, and the whole affair a very pretty job, it was one in which
the Tories had certainly no hand.
In the meanwhile, however, the friendly Radical did not drop the
writer. Oh, no! On various occasions he obtained from the writer
all the information about the country in question, and was
particularly anxious to obtain from the writer, and eventually did
obtain, a copy of a work written in the court language of that
country, edited by the writer, a language exceedingly difficult,
which the writer, at the expense of a considerable portion of his
eyesight, had acquired, at least as far as by the eyesight it could
be acquired. What use the writer's friend made of the knowledge he
had gained from him, and what use he made of the book, the writer
can only guess; but he has little doubt that when the question of
sending a person to--was mooted in a Parliamentary Committee--which
it was at the instigation of the writer's friend--the Radical on
being examined about the country, gave the information which he had
obtained from the writer as his own, and flashed the book and its
singular characters in the eyes of the Committee; and then of
course his Radical friends would instantly say, "This is the man!
there is no one like him.
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