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In truth the “Morning Chronicle” was at this bitter opposition time very unscrupulous about its statements; and particularly so under the head of “Foreign Correspondence,” which provoked from me the following squib:—
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Most newspapers, now,
Find it hard, anyhow,
Their columns to fill with good stuff,
When no Foreign mails come,
But the “Chronicle’s” hum,
And that is aye foreign enough—
Quite Foreign.
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No matter, beside,
Or for wind, or for tide,
For disasters by sea or by land.
Its correct foreign mail
Never happens to fail,
Of finding its way to the Strand—
Full of Foreign.
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Nor mistakes on the road
(So uncertain abroad),
Its arrivals retard or advance,
Than if Ghent were in Kent,
Milan news Mile-end sent,
And Paris adorned Petty-France!
All Foreign.
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“Anton Di Ravenna,”
“Giusippe Di Sienna,”
With “Drechster of Nurnberg” have
shone*
And “Gottlieb Treumun”
Is by no one out-done,
In fibbing away for the Chron-
icle Foreign.
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Paris lies, without name;
And Milan lies the same;
And Vienna lies signed by no hand—
“An Italian”—“A Pole;’
All fill up the roll,
And “Cracovius”* crowns the bright band—
So Foreign.
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The public to tickle,
These cram the Chron-icle
With wonders so wondrously true,
That our Ministers must
Very soon bite the dust,
And the Talents their courses renew—
Though Foreign.
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To which happy end
These epistles ail tend;
Nor is’t strange they concur in this tone;
For all Foreigners say,
Had these worthies the sway,
Every country would thrive but their own
Home—Foreign.
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