Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 19: January-June, 1826 Such being the conduct of the decentest and most powerful of the Whig periodicals, it would be a gratuitous dabbling in the dirt to inquire into the behaviour of the lower orders. Yet it actually muses as now-a-days, to take up a volume of the Examiner, before we blighted its scribblers for ever, and to revel, as it were, in the flowers of Billingsga'te which that impertinent paper produced 'at the time. There is nothing equal to it in f urious personality on all classes, from the King to the poor player. Stories picked up at third hand from the servants with whom its writers associated - or the candle-snufl'ers of the theatres - or the second-rate reporters or the unfortunate wom eh of the oyster-shops - were made matter of grave and insolent accusation against the most illustrious, as well as the most obscure characters. Allusions the most indecent, in the most prurient language, (always the besetting sin of the Cock ney school, ) nauseate you in every number. But peace be to its ashes! We should not have disturbed them, were it not necessary for as to give a slight sketch of the composition of the cleverest Whig paper of the day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.