PERSECUTION OF BRITISH FOOTMEN. By Mr. Jeames.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 344, 18 November 1848, Page 4

PERSECUTION OF BRITISH FOOTMEN. By Mr. Jeames.

[From Punch."] N Sins .last weak the Deaming of Revalution hat been waiving his flamming sword over France, has drove many more of our unfortnit feller suvnts to hemigrat to the land of their Buth. The aggrywation of the Boddy of Gentlemen at Livvry agenst the Forriner I am sorry to say is inteDce. Meatings of my bruthring have took place at many of their Houses of Call in this town. Some gence who use our back parlor had an Eccembly there the other night called the Haggrygit British Plush Protection Society, which, in my capasty of Lanlord and Xmember of the Boddy, I was called upon to attend. Every think was conducted on ordly, redymoney prinsaples, and the liquor paid for as soon as called for, and drunk as soon as paid. But the feelings of irr station against Foring sevvants as igsibbited by our Domestic projuice was, I grieve to say, very bitter. Sevral of our Matters came amongst us, poor Egsiles wrankling under iha smarts of their ill treatment. The stories of their Rongs caused a furmentation amongst the bruthring. It was all I could do to check the harder of some Howtragus Sperrits, and awhirt peraps a Mas'sykry of French curriers and lackys employed by our nobillaty and gentry. I am

thankful to tlrink that peraps I prevented a dellidge of foring blood. The tails told by our Marters igsited no small and unnatral sympithy : when Chawls Garters late Etendant in the famly of the Duke of Calywanco in the Fobug St. Honory, came amongst and igsplained how — if he had been aloud to remane a few weeks longer in Parris — Madamasell de Calymanco, the Dukes only daughter and hairis, would probbly have owned the soft pashm which she felt for our por Chawls, and have procured the consent of her Par to her marridge with the galliant young and andsum Henglishman, the meeting thrilled with Amotion, and tears of pitty for our comrid bedimed each hi. His hart's afections have been crusht. ' Madamasell was sent to a Convent ; and Chawls dismist with a poltry 3 months wages in adwance, and returns toHalbion's shores and to servitude once more. Frederic Legs also moved us deeply ; we call him leggs, from the bewty of those limbs of his, which from being his pride and hornymint, had nearly projuised his letting. When the town was in kemotion, and the furious French Peuple pursewing every Henglish livary, Frederic (in suvvice with a noble family who shall be naraeliss) put on a palto and trowseys, of which his master made him a presnt, and indeavoured to fly. He mounted a large tricolore cockade in his At, from which he tor the lace, and tried as much as.possable to look like a siwillian. But it wouldn't do. The clo's given him by his X-master, who was a little man, were too small for Frederick — the bewty of his legs epeared through his trowsies. The Republikins jeered and laft at him in the streats ; and it is a mussy that he ever reached Balone alive. I tried to cumsole Chawls by pinting out that the Art which has truly loved never forgits, but as trewly loves on to the clothes ; and that if Madaraasell reely did love him as he said, he had a better chans of winning her And now than under a monarchickle and arastacrattic Guvment ; and as for Frederic, I pinted out to him that a man of his appearants was safe of implyment and promooshon in any country. I did every think, in a word, to soothe my frends. In a nobls speach I showed, that if r others do wrong, that is no reason why we should'nt do right — " On the contry now is the time," I said, "for Hengland to show she is reely the Home of the World ; and that all men from a Black to a Frenchman, ought to be safe under the Banner of Britannier. " The pholly of these consperracies and jellowsies, I think may be pinted out to my feller-suvants, and igsemplafied in the instants of the families of the Prince of Bovo, at Parris, and of Lord Ycount Guttlebury, in this country. "At Parris, as is well ascertained, the nobill Prins, who kep a large studd of osses, with English groombs to take care of em (as by natur Britns are formed to do that and everythink better than everybody) — the noble Prins, I say, was called upon by the Puple to dishmiss his Hinglish osskeepers. 'Serviture,' says the Prince, ' Veeve la liberty ! let the Hosskeepers be turned oat, as the Sovring Puple is inimicbael to their stoppin in France.' The Puple left the Sitzen Prins with a chear for fratunnity, & the por groombs packed up, and have come back to their native hilind. " But what inshood ? The nex day, the Prins sent away the hosses after the bosskeepers ; sold up the stud ; locked up the carridges, broombs, cabs, bogeys (as those hignorant French call buggiz), landores & all, and goes about now with an umbreller. And how I should lick to know, is the puple any better for meJdling ? " Lord Ycount Guttlebury's is a case, dear friend?, which still mor comes hoam to our busms and our bisniss, and has made no small sensatiun in the Plush and in the fashionable wuld. The splender of his Lodsbips entytainments is well-known. That good and uprike nobleman only lived for wittles. And be ard on him ? why should we ? — Nayter has implanted in our busum tastis of a thousand deferent kinds. Some men have a pashn for fox-untin, some like listening to dybatts in Parlymink and settn on railrode committies; some like Politticle Aconomy. I've waited behind a chair and heard foax talk about Jollagy, Straty, and red san stone, until I've nearly dropt asleap myself while standing a Santynel on jewty. What then ? Give every mann his taste, I say, and my Lord Guttlebury's was his dinner. " He had a French Hartist at the head of his Quizeen of coarse — that sellabrated mann Munseer Supreme. Munseer Sooflay persided hover the cumfeckshnary ; and under Sujjraym were three young aidycongs : a Frenchman, a Bulgian, and a young feller from the city, who manidged the tertle and wenson department. "He was a clever young mann. He 1 has hofn been to take a glas at the W of F ; and

whenever he came with a cassyrowl of clear turtle, or an ash wenison dish for my Mary Harm, he^was I'm sure always welcome. But John Baster was henvious and hambishes. Hejined the owtcry which has been rose against foring suvnts by some of onr bruthring, and he thought to ged ridd of Supraym and the other contynentials, and espired to be Chief Guvnor of my lords kitching. " Forgitting every sentament but haytred of the forryner, this envius raskle ingaged the kitching boys and female elpers (who, bein a hansum young mann, looked on him with a kindly i) in a fowl conspiracy against the Frenchmen. He introjuiced kyang pepper into the pattys, garlick into the Blemongys, and sent up the souffly flavored with ingyans. He pysoned my lord's chocolate with shalott, he put Tarrygin vinegar into the Hices. There never was such a conwulsion, or so horrid an igspreshn of hagny in a man's, has (I'm told by my exlent friend, the Majordomy) my lord's fase ashumed, when he tasted black pepper in the clear soup. " The axdence occurred day after day. It was one day when a R 1 P — ss — n — dge was dining with his Loddship ; another when I 6 egsiled sovrings took their mutton (when he didn't so much mind) ; a 3d when he i wished to dine more igspecially better than on any other, because the doctor had told him to be careful, and he was dining by himself : this last day drove him madd. He sent for Suprame, addrast that gentilman in languidge which he couldn't brook (for he was a Major of the Nashnal Guard of his Betallian, and Commander of the Legend of Honour), and Suprame rasined on the spott — which the French and the Bulgian did it too. " Soofflay and the cumfectioners hemigrated the nex day v And the house steward, who has a heasy master, for Lord G. is old, fibble, and 70 years of hage, and whose lady has an uncommon good apinnion of Master Caster, recommended him to the place, or at least to have the Purvisional Guvment of my lord's Quizeen. "It wasn't badd. Baster has tallints of no mien order. You couldn't find folt with his souperintendiauce. But a mere good dinner is fur from enough to your true amature. A dellixy, a something, a jennysquaw, constatutes the diffrants between talint and Genus — and my lord soughered under it. He grew melumcolly and silent ; he dined, its trew, taysling all the outrays as usual, but he never made any remarx about'em, for good or for bad. Young Baster at the Igth of his Hambishn, tor his Air with rage as his dinners came down 1 by 1, and nothing was said about'em — nothing. "Lord Guttlebury was breaking his Art. He didn't know how fond he was of Supraym, till he lost him — how necessary that man was to his igsistence. He sett his confidenshle Valet to find out where Supraym had retreated; and finding he was gone to Gascony, of which he is a naytif, last weak without saying a word to his frends with only Sangsew his valet, and the flying ketching fourgong, without which he never travels — my lord went to France and put himself again under Supraym. The scan between 'em, I'm told, was very affecting. My lord has taken a Shatto near Supraym's house, who comes to dress the dinner of which the noble Ycount partakes aloan. " The town-house is shet up, and everybody has ad orders to guit — all the footmen — all the quizeen, in coarse including Baster — and this is all he has gained by his insidgus baytrid of forraners, and by his foolish hambishn. " No, my friends," I concluded ; ', if gentlemen choose to have foreign suvnts, it is not for us to intafear, and there must be a free trayd in flunkies as in every other kimodaty of the world." I trust that my little remarks pazyfied some of the disconted sperrits presnt —and cau at least wouch for the fact that every man shook Ands ; every man paid his Skoar.