The Examinee, last Sunday, let out that his soreness against
this
hisis of a shopheeping kind ; and also that in his own " turning" his eye has been to profit. "'They laugh who win." Being a winner, however, and withal strong, he should have been merciful. If the " hornets " had stung himself instead of Lord Durham, he could hardly have been more severe against us with his metaphors,-" a fellow in the pillory," " hooted and pelted," " the thief dragged to justice," " the culprit in the dock," " the fool," " the criminal," " Greenacre,"-oh dear, oh dear !
To make some amends, indeed, our witty contemporary proposes to compliment us by changing the name of our journal to " Spectatus ;" because of its being so much seen,-quasi, intelligible, i. e. straightfor- ward, honest. Not to be outdone in generosity or in grammar, we sug- gest that the Toryfied- Whig Examiner may change his name to " Exa- mMed ;" quasi, trial, because of his having been suspected; and imply- ing a meaning beyond the eulogistic sense of " tried," quasi, tried- and found wanting.
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