"In consideration of a costly present which MR. JOSEPH PEASE, of
South-end, Darlington, has made to the Spanish nation, the young
King of that country has conferred upon him the Grand Cross of a
Spanish order, and MR. PEASE, who is a Quaker, has agreed to
accept the distinction."--_Echo._
A QUAKER a Grand Cross! We should as soon have expected to be introduced
to a Quaker Field Marshal. Henceforth the sensation of surprise must be
numbered amongst the lost feelings. Nothing now can move us more. Not
the sun rising in the west, not the spectacle of an Irish Roman Catholic
Bishop teaching in a Protestant Sunday school, not a Teetotal Lord
Mayor, not the appointment of MR. TOMLINE as Master of the Mint, or SIR
CHARLES DILKE as Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex, not the total abolition
of the Income Tax, not the conversion of MR. WHALLEY and MR. NEWDEGATE
to Popery, not the purification of the streets,--no, not even the
bestowal of the Grand Cross of our own Order of the Bath on some
Englishman eminent in Art, Literature, or Science!
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