. Ireland in London. France. In short, it was to com-bat Republicanism, or at least the French idea ofit, with what Canning considered were its naturalconcomitants—irreligion, licentiousness, andother reprehensible things. Of Jacobinism,he said, in all its shapes and in all its degrees,. we are the avowed, determined, irrecon-cilable enemies. John Wilson Croker was a far more unscrupulousTory thanCanning,and used the poisoned daggeroften aud without hesitation. As early as 1801,Croker wrote a series of letters on the FrenchRevolution to the Times. When theQuarterly Review was started in 1809,

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. Ireland in London. France. In short, it was to com-bat Republicanism, or at least the French idea ofit, with what Canning considered were its naturalconcomitants—irreligion, licentiousness, andother reprehensible things. Of Jacobinism,he said, in all its shapes and in all its degrees,. we are the avowed, determined, irrecon-cilable enemies. John Wilson Croker was a far more unscrupulousTory thanCanning,and used the poisoned daggeroften aud without hesitation. As early as 1801,Croker wrote a series of letters on the FrenchRevolution to the Times. When theQuarterly Review was started in 1809, byWilliam Gifford, Croker became the most bitingcritic, and the most unrelenting and envenomed partisan-writer on the staffon Keatss poetry,thoughit did not k<ll the poet,deeply pained his sen-sitive nature; and whenCroker wa3 accused ofthe death of Keats, hereplied that he merelysprinkled a little saltover him, and that it wasGifford that added thepepper. Croker was mostlikely the anonymous The famous critique. W. CROKER, WITHArTOGRAPH.

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