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Dedicated to His Majesty WILLIAM TUE FOURTH. Published by John Brooks, 421, Oa ford.street, and Sold by all Booksellers. ••• This Volume investigates the Doctrines of the Old and New Testaments, on principles of sound end conclusive logic, and its very important discoveries challenge the attention of the whole Christian vorld, and especially of all those " who are spotted through philo ophy" NEW SCHOOL BOORS BY THE RIM. DAVID BLAIR. Just published, the Second Edition, pike Is. each, by the Author of Blair's Pint Catechism, the Universal Preceptor, Goldsmith's Grammar of Geography, ike. &c. WHY and BECAUSE applied to all Subjects of com mon experience, youthful curiosity, and inquiry ; designed to he committed to memory in the progress of education A POPULAR VOCABULARY of Terms and Technical Words which occur In the Studies of Youth and in the various Lessons, in which, besides intelligible definitions, the Words are divided and accented. 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Previous, however, to entering into the hallowed obligation of marriage, it becomes an impressive duty, not only to regulate the pfilolls, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those impurities which the freedom of unrestricted pleasure may have entailed upon it. To the neglect of such attention,are attributable many of those hapless instances which, while they excite the commiseration of the beholder, should also impress him with the fear of self-reproach- Luxurious habits will effeminise the body—a residence in the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but mote especially does the pre mature infatuation of youth, too frequently compromise the natural dignity into a state of inanition, from whence the agonised suffered more than doubts the chance of relief. To all such then, we address , ourselves, offering bope--energy—muscular strength—felicity; nor will our advances appear questionable, sanctioned as they are by the multiplied proofs of twenty years' successful experience. 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As it is proposed to introduce the notice of new and in teresting works to the public through the medium of the STAR, the conductors of this paper invite booksellers and authors to favour them with early copies of their publica tions; and they may always depend on prompt and liberal attention. --------- LETTER TO LORD ALTHORP ON MR. ATTWOOD'S MOTION FOR ENQUIRY. TOUCHING THE STATE OF THE CURRENCY. RT THE RIM R. CRIITTWELL, RECTOR OF SFZXPRIALL, surrocc. le: 6d. _ _ -- --- This is a judicious and well timed publication, which it is a duty to recommend and circulate. In his preface the au thor very properly remarks on the peculiar logic of Mr. Bating, the late money-commission egad. • " As a banker, I hold Mr. Bar Mg's judgment doubtful by reason that, from the law of currency' which now aunts, the interest of the community and the safety even of our best regulated benking.establish. menu are set in open and constant hostility towards each other. This may be called" emerging from the difficulties" in which the subject was involved ! As a merchant, trading (as many do) upon the sure ground of a' commission-agent,' it might be that his own profit shall increase by the very circumstance working rapid destruction of menu facturing.capital at home, to the non-employment and consequent starvation of no inconsiderable portion of our operative classes. Mr. Baring, therefore, upon the mere score of personal interest stands op.. posed to all the industrious classes, in the same ratio that industry and general property are ruinously depressed comparing money with cqui. tridents now and before the peace. 1 merely judge of Mr. Baring, by the same rule that 1 judge of other men. In all common transactions of life, I should blush to be thought capable of impugning the high integrity of Mr. Baring's most honourable mind, in the remotest de gree.' In dealing with the judgment of Mr. Baring on subjects like the present, I should perhaps find it allowable without much want of charity, to use the carton/duns ad *moisten in preference to the argumentune ad rem! Without the slightest personality of feeling, object to Mr. Baring—as a banker--a merchant—and likewise, an overgrown mooey.capitalist ; and therefore, as opposed in apparent in. tercet (on this great question) to the whole body of land proprietors, in cluding owners, occupiers, and labourers of every description." The fallacy comprised in Lord Althorpe's reply to Mr. Attwood (Dec. 13) proposing a committee of enquiry touching the currency question, he exposes as follows At a moment like the present—when, from this self-same over sight (now of more than fourteen years' duration) the people are in that dreadful state of suffering, and conseqsendy high excitement, to be nearly bordering upon open and declared rebellion. I read with deep regret, that It was the determination of Ministers not to go into that quesden, from the great importance to a commercial rummy to have a fixed standard of value : meaning, I presume, a mandsed so far fixed as to be liable to no sudden, capricious, or uncalled-for change ; in short, to no change of any sort unwarranted by circumstances of the purest equity. "In this respect, then, I entirely agree with your Lordship ; though reluctantly compelled is differ with you on another puha equally essential : inasmuch as our present standard (calling it by that name. In reference to the Bank Cash Resumption Billet 1519) was by no means settled upon just principles, to begin with. On the con trary, it went to the palpable violation of the equitable spirit of every pre-existing contract--difadog its mischkf through all our agricultu ral, commercial, and financial regulations ; embracing a mass little , abort of three or four thousand mUlions of pecuniary obligadotm—great ' part of which were positively contracted. and all legally' and 'justly' recognised as previously payable, in currency depreciated 30 per cent. to the violation, I repeat, of every contract, ehbee subsisting at the return of poem in 11114, or any hew likely to be acted spots or affect. ed, directly or indirectly. by taxes growing out of tomer wars, or others which might accidentally be called for at any future time. " What I would. therefore, bwit respectfully some to your Lord ' ship's most earnest sad hnmedlete attention. is this—tbat even with our present nominal gold currency, liable (as it mist be) to be so conatande acted upon by sir rusting war taxes and bartbens. and constituting (in your Lordship's reply to Mr. Attwood) the sole ground of objection. oat the part of Ministers, to submit the question to the fair test of cool and d to investigation; we neither have, nor can have, notwithst , any thing deserving the name of I a fixed' standard of value. . _ " The Corn all of 1113..ti1l in partial operation, and most ruin ously so in respect to certain classes-.-sints to create (but how 1) an artificial tax-price of eighty shillings the quarter of wheat to English consumers; the average gold or sliver price of other eaustries,at moss,. not needing 40s. or half the said amount. Again, the cost price of so much tea being 100 L an ad valorem to of 1001. more, doubles at aloe the price of tea to oar own consumers, depredating, however, at the same time, money, in respect of tea, just fifty per cent. Al! other taud l and taxable commodities go (of necessity, and justly so), to affect the i principle of money precisely after the same manner. The duty ee l some articles (tobacco, for instance) being as high as tea, twelve, sad fifteen hundred per cent. And this, leaving the almost incalculable amount of indirect taxes wholly out of view. " Now surely, in such a ease, it may be fair to ask (and no where. I humbly suggest, with so much propriety as in a committee of either House of Parliament)— Which is the " standard" that we speak of, when the question refers to our present money, as the &apposed " fixed" standard, so highly beneficial to us as a great commercial nation? Is the price Of wheat, tea; tobacco, Bcc. untaxed to be understood as meaning precisely one and the same thing (called a standard). with. the price of those articles taxed from one to ten, twelve, and fifteen hundred per cent?" The following argument ought to close this contro versy, and is a specimen of Mr. Crutwell's clear' mode of reasoning:— " But the great and most crying mischief of all to which I here wish more especially toesil your Lordship's attention, iethat after a course of inevitable war.taxation, justly depreciating the standard of our paper debts and obligations 50 per cent. we have now for fifteen years together been endeavouring to enforce a new standard of double value, upon all the "debtor" transaction' of the empire. And this, with the grossest of all possible perversions of language, we still call " a preservation of national faith ' in defiance, moreover, of our existing corn laws—the principles of which, as affecting .the currency, were again to produce a similar depreciation ; thus again acting, in direct contravention of your lordship's avowed intention to waive the pro- 1 posed enquiry, under the notion that our present standard is one eel "fixed" and undeviatiag value! That is, we have really two stew dards at one and the same moment, without perceiving ft ; the stow dard of the corn-laws, and the standard of Mr. Peel's bill. The former alms to produce an extension In the current arrant of our dr- 1 culation 50 per cent. beyond its intrinsic value, in respect of wheat estimated in foreign gold ; and which, If extended to manufactured articles as well, would prndoce the general relief required. The latter, even as regards farm produce, has a constantly counteracting tendency. to diminish the amount of circulation; driving us back again, with all the hopelessness of utter ruin before our eyes, to a state of currency necessarily "contracted" to so enormous an extent, as with our still existing burthens, to diminish the means of finding labour for neatly half the working classes; nen in farming districts, without causing to the legitimate employers most overwhelming loss : while lo sonic of oar manufacturing districts, the evil now operates in a degree of ten-fold augmented mischief. " It Is by such-means that we have brought upon ourselves and upon posterity a revolution of property—a regular's stem, ft may be termed, of legal and voluntary confiscation—so dreadfully extensive and com plete us millions of innocent sufferers, in ha pass--pmeent—and future consequences ;* that, if much longer persisted in, it will assuredly bring down upon the entire nation some sort of moral retribution, for. the injustice and unnecessary suferibglitteby inflicted on the labour; tog classes. This will probably happen .in the diestganisadon of the "Aide framework of society as now subsisting amongst us; , involving. In its final and no very remote issue, all . daises (innocent as well as sailty) In one common nett *? total and ineatingibitable Poe ,myself. I feel padectly • asstred-.-and this fromil chain of elbse-eon eats(' tenoning long since laid down, that (nor riatbmt) lye are sink ing by. i'most rapid course of moral is well Is civil revolution. Arad, p er aspaarnongUll the faiturtalrf national &erecter that have more.rer eently developed themselves, in our present highly diseased'polltiesi • condition. there Is Wane wage than Vert made arwileeastabl } et *tree apathy (or rather, AMMO pssgrly 5P0P11404. 1 )' regarding thegreat puuliag question of 'eastee and Awl, ,all, likewise of remedy best adapted to AC state before us, Ulrich murk runs throtill" MAL of our metiffalheittfal claissei.. Hat feeds; tuba; operating as it now has dose for so many years, the evil never could MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1831. Lave arrived at its present alarming height. And upon the same prin ciple, I suppose, we may account in most instances of great national convulsion, for the usual kind of indiscriminate retaliatory infliction, by vrhicb any long continuance of unredressed wrongs, bearing upon numerous portions of a heretofore thriving and industrious population, at length spreads ruin and destruction over the whole of its in• habitants." Mr. Crutwell concludes with his usual good sense and sincerity, by too briefly noticiug two nostrum palliatives, in value like a dose of physic to cure a broken leg : " I here venture to notice two other plans of relief, before the House of Commoss—Lord Nugent's. on the compulsory employment of agricultural labourers ; and Mr. Wilmot Horton's, on the promoting of emigration. Far the Bret, however, it appears to me a little to ex. teed the province of judicious legislation, to think of enforcing em ployment upuo farmers, when there is little beyond certain' loss' to be earcted from employing labourers in the ordinary way : and welt I eli nit must condone to be the case while the preterit metallic standard shiliNie indbeed to ssdtt, paralleng industry in every shape. to reihrence to the second pies, bt that evil (of the standard) be once es:reeled. and the supposed ' tedundaney' of population will be bend only as In the mere relation of cause and effect ; and hence, by remov ing the cause the effect will cease." If Lord Nugent's plan enforced a reduction of rents, and obliged the farmers to pay over the reduction to labourers, his plan would be rational; and if Mr. Horton had first re divided the large farms, and promoted small ones, he might then, if the evils continued, without offending public reason, talk of his panacea of transporting the producing population and leaving the country in the occupation of the Drones! A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ANTI-ASTHMATIC PROPERTIES OF THE BLADDER-PODDED LOBELIA. _ (LOULIA DMA/A, LIMO TO WECH If AUDIO, AN ACCOUNT OT THE CHIRATITA HERB. IT RCHAID WC; W.D. PILLOW AT TNT ROYAL COLLZOIt OT 60116101111, ITC. ITC. The applications which the Author has received for explicit direc tions for the exhibition of the different preparations of the Bladder. g:ifhLobelia (Lobelia Maw). which have been lately recommended e e l Physiclans of the United States as specifics for Asthma • in consequence of their having been noticed by him, In the Mo nthly Gaulle of Health. have induced him in this work to publish such in structions as to constitutional and topical treatment, which be considers necesary to insure their specific effects. He asserts that in all the cases in which the Oxy.syrup or the Ethereal Tincture has been exhibited, neither of them failed to afford the most eswadal relief; in some, re moving every symptom of the malady in a few minutes, and in order to ensure Its full or specific effects eo the malady, the awe of either preparation should be gradually increased till it slightly nauseates the stomach. Doctor Reece has added a concise account of the Chirayita Herb, the Indian remedy for indigestion arising from morbid sensibility or nervousness of the stomach, attended with disorder of the liver, a pre disposition to gout, & e. which has lately been administere d this country with sums in nervous or irritative affections of the digestive organs, after ether stomachic, and the blue pill have failed. " The genus of plants, of which the bladder-podded lobelia is a species, was termed lobelia in compliment to a celebrated botanist, Mathias de Lobel. This species, to which Linnaeus gave the name of Matt, grows in a wild state, In greet abundance, in several parts of North America. The leaves and capsules are a crid; the powdered leaves, in the dose of ten grains, produce nausea. and in the dose of fifteen grab's often excite vomiting, which is sometimes followed by profuse perspiration. It also often operates slightly as an aperient. Dr. Bridault de Villiers recommends the plant to be collected In the month of August. It appears by the American physicians, that its peculiar anti-spasmodic, or rather its anti-asthmatic virtues, reside in all the parts of the plant, but that the root and capsules are the most potent. This species has lately been found by some eminent physicians of the United States so very be side's' in reducing the morbid sensi bility of the eighth pair of nerves, end the excessive irritability of the respiratory muscles, on which every variety of asthma is more or less dependant, as to be considered by them as a specific for the disease." Although the Chirayita Herb (by some termed Cherrat tah) has been always held in great estimation, as a stoma chic, deobetruent, and anti-scrofulous medicine, by the na tives of Bengal, and for the last fifty years by the European medical officers settled in different parts of the East Indies, it has only been lately introduced into the practice of this country. It is not alleged to be only a valuable stomachic or tonic medicine, but it evidently deterges the abdominal viscera, and on this account its beneficial effects are gene rally permanent. It corrects the secretion of bile, as is evi dent by the healthy bilious appearance of the floc* and prevents that accumulation of fasces in the colon, which so frequently gives rise to a variety of distressing affections, particularly headache, giddiness, indigestion, flatulence, piles, glandular obstruction, &c. In fact, it possesses the very important advantage over all other stomachic medicines, of purging or cleansing the liver and other viscera, and at the same time strengthening the stomach ; and, by 're ducing healthy chyle, corrects the whole mass of bi. The Chirayita Herb Dr. Reece therefore considers as a most valuable addition to the materia medica of this country, he says it will soon supersede all other stomachic and deobstru ent medicines, and render the use of mercury, in cases of indigestion accompanied with, or dependant on, an over loaded or sluggish state of the liver, and in scrofula, un necessary. A PRACTICAL TREATISE on GENERAL or PARTIAL DEBILITY, AMISS ORIO1Y•L 011 HRRRDIT•RT, OR /ROM •OR, essai•Tiol, DMZ IN • TROPICAL maser, RTC. IT S. ■. 31101131111011, Y.D. •IR 011111111.54. In this work no treatment, either dietetic or medicinal, is urged capable of disordering the digestive organs or of in-. terrupting the sympathetic harmony, the existence of which between the viscera of the abdomen, &c. is necessary for the maintenance of health. The ROUND-LEAP CORN EL iA recommended only when the stomach does not perform its office, or when the whole system is evidently relaxed, and the adjuncts are only necessary when the intestines are sluggish, or when the nervous system is in a state of excite ment or debility. The Round leaf Cornel and the adjuncts are said to he incapable of doing the smallest mischief, being more innocent than wine, and at the same time much more ' efficacious as a tonic. • The climacteric disease, or breaking up of the system, occurs as frequently in premature old age, from dissipation Ind bad habits, as in a far advanced life. When, therefore, a local complaint or chronic disease takes place in a subject, 'whose constitution has been debilitated by abuses or by old age, it should be considered as symptomatic of the climac teric malady, and no time should be lost in placing the re cruiting orgaus in a state to protect the fabric from the 'threatening storms. " The honest practitioner, who has given all the class of Tonics a fair , trial, will acknowledge that' be has often bad reason to lament a want of such a peculiarly mild and yet efficacious tonic, remedy, which the Round-leaf Cnitold '(cforlitis circioata) is represented tahe, by Dr. Robinson, et zSt. ,Croix, Professors Ives and Norma, and-other eminent physicians of North America, and *hick the null e;n4tii f deb that Inve been made with it in tifis unitary, hove most 'Utiftittkp l Oyccarmed. .Its speedy. beneficial °Sects in hi ' vigorating the stomach, and in strengthening theerhole constitution, after the Peruvian bark in all its forms, had, by oppressing or nauseating the stomach, increased the complaint, have been so uniform, that Professor Ives and others have pronounced it to be the " natural tonic of the human stomach," and the results of ample experience itLthitt country are assuredly in favour of this opinion. " In noticing the cases of debility to which the Round . leaf Cornel is applicable, the auxiliaries which in some cases may be necessary to expedite its general tonic effects by in vigorating the nervous system, or to remove a local mai idy ; in describing the particular cases of debility, and in :riving directions as to an appropriate regimen, with a view of pro moting the efficacy of the Hound-leaf Coruel, and ren.ler inf..; it permanent, the anthers say they have been glinhtil ~olely by the results of their own experience. The genus Cornus is distinguished by the following characters : Flowers, sometime. aggregated in a four-leaved involuctum. four-toothed. Petals, four, small, broader at the base. Drupe , inferior. not crowned by the cilia. Nut. two-celled, two-.eedt.l. —Nuttall. The following are the species : 1 canaden,is-2. floella-5. cireinsta —4. sericea-5 uperifolia-6. striata-7. sanguinea-8. alba-9, pa neculata--10. alternifol a. Ot this gotta there are also two other WO des in Europe and Asia, and two which are common to the old conti nent mad America. _ The round-kat Cornet (circirats) is deaignated in many parts of America by the familiar appell otans of morNain willow and white. rind Cornel. It ne doubt derived its name from the shape of its leaves, (circinatus, rounded) as they are more round than these belongb.g w the other species. It is a shrub of eight or ten feet in height, and its foliage is not particularly thick. Its leaves are nearly round and broad, white and doway beneath. and waving at the edges. Its branches are rough and warty. About the middle of the year, it produces a small white flower. and berries of a blew colour. The branches and stalks, when prepared for grinding or powdering, have rather a quilled appearance. With. white Interior and a dark exterior. After the bark has beets powdered, it assumes a reddish colour, has a fine delicate aroma, and a peculiarly EARLDOM OF DEVON. William Viscount Courtenay has presented a petition to his Majesty, claiming the title and dignity of the " Earl of Devon ;" which, after having been considered by the At torney-General, has been referred to a Committee of Privi leges of the House of Lords, where, the case having been submitted to the Lord Chancellor, it will be brought forward on an early day. The presumptive heir to the title, after the demise of Viscount Courtenay, who has no family, is W. Courtenay, Esq. late member for Exeter, and now the chief clerk at the table of the House of Lords, and who has to pro nounce (in the old Norman French) the Royal Assent to such Bills as may havepassed both Houses. The case is of great length, and curious, inasmuch as it claims on a novel ground. To state the particulars, interesting as they are, would occupy too much space here ; but it may be briefly remarked— That in the Ist Mary, Sir Edward Courtenay Knight, son and heir of Hail Marquis of Exeter and Earl of Devon, who was executed and attained in the Slat Henry VIII. was created ad of Devon, to hold "to 'him and his belts male for ever." by patent. Upon this patent the claimant's pretensions to the Earldom of Devon, as heir male of the grantee, are founded ; and the claimant states, at considerable length, the history of the l'arldom of Devon in the Courtney family, previous to the grant of it by Queen .Mary In the 9th Edward 111. the King authorised Hugh Baron Courtenay to assume the title of Earl of De von in consequence of inheriting the lands and being the heir of the family of Redners, Earls of Devon. The title was enjoyed by the heirs male for six generations, and was forfeited by the attainder of Thomas, the sixth Earl of Devon, Ist Edward IV. 1461, for lon. log adhered to the King de facto as well as de ,are, Henry VI. By that Act (which was declared by Ist Henry VII. to have been " against all righteusness, honour, and nature," and " inanimate, Sr. ditious, and alandereus"l, Henry VI, the Queen, the Prince of Wato., and fourteen Peers, were *minted ; but the heir of each of those Peers, who would have succeeded to the tide, were it not .for the furfei, tore, was ranged to it, excepting the heir of the Earl of Devon. which originated in jealousies, &e. in consequence of the Earl hey. ins intermarried with. branches of the Royal Family One of the fa. wily bad married Margaret, the grand-daughter of Edward I. &c. Henry Courting, who succeeded to the Earldom, created by Charter rd 3d Henry VIII. was afterwards crested Marquis of Easter, 17th Hen. V 111.; but the Marquis,:from his near connection with the blood Royal, became an objectlof Henry VIII.'s jealousy, was attainted of high treason, and beheaded, which attainder has never been nveravd ; but as his son and heir, Sir Edward Counenay, was fully restored in blood, a pedigree is traced through the Marquis for leinours which ware *4 forfeited by his attainder—namely, the Earldom of Devea. This Sir Edward Courteney's fate was curious : it is fitnn him that the title is claimed. He continued an object of suspicion during the whole of Edward the Sixth's reign, and was confined in the Tow: r ; but, immediately on the accession of Mary, a patent oared st Emit ' mond, Ist Mary, 1563, was issued, creating him " Earl of Devon." This is the patent mentioned at the commencement of the present very brief outline. Some of the wads of the patent are so unusual, though adapted to the peculiar circumstances of the ease, as to merit se eetion from the crowds of quotations, &e. adduced on behalf of the present claimant In consideration : " it is said, " of the nobility of his birth, and his proximity in blood to the Queen, she was ppleased to create him Earl of Devon, with all pre.eminences, hdhours, thereunto belonging;" adding, "and further, of our abundent,greee we will, and by these presenn do grant to the aforesaid now Earl, that he and his heirs male may have, hold, and inlay; and possess in all Parliaments and other plan, the same pre-eminence as soy of the anemias of the said Earl, being heretofore Earls of Deton, had held or enjoyed." It is contended that the only point which the claimant has to estab lish is that the words " heirs male,'.' in patents of Peerages, have a dia. diet operation . from the words "belts male of his body.', Hence, the estion in this am is, whether, supposing that the Queen in. waded, in' the event of the Earl dying without issue male, that the Random of Devon should devolve upon the next heir male ?" This envious quietism is to be iavestipted immediately after the ye. assembling of Parliament The Atterney.Oeneral, in his notice to. the King, on this claim, says " that the question, as far as he Is infOrtilid, has not, hitherto, received any precise determination." It is computed that the halms profited twelve millions of pounds sterling by the embarrassment of the sixty thousand insolvents discharged by the Insolvent Debtors' Court, Mile • the creditors have received but four millions of farthings ! What a fact to record of the unreformed Parliament, which refers its legal improvements to committees of lawyers ! a li itogether the law by arrests, actions, bankruptcy, and in vency, gets at least twelve millions per annum, ten of, . ich might be saved to creditors, if a majority had the power of accepting the best terms of the debtcr. The case of Mr. SE DOW IC K, late Read Commissioner of Stamps, whose dismissal excited much interest, has lately been revived.—" The case of Mr. SEM:3 WIEX, the chairman , of the late Stamp Board, whose letters to Lord WALLACE appeared in our paper," says the Morning Chronicle, in speaking of the last Administration, "is a case in point. To (set uprightly, was to act against all the received notions of officio' subordination. Individuals, whose integrity and talents • would be duly valued by an administration like the present, would, under its predecessors, have ensured annoyance of every kind, and ultimate dismissal. Government is happily composed at present of men who give an example of integrity in their own persons, instead of visiting it on ' others with odium and resentment; and no better pledge than thii can or need be given of their determination to act up* to the principles they have so nobly proclaimed."—On whiCh Cobhett's Register observes, that " Mr. Sedgwick was diimissed frees his office, and the Board' was broken up to get rid of him; while a large sum in retired allowances was thrown as a charge upon the people, only bec.anse• Mr. Seigwick did' his duty towards that people. He was a moat clever, a most industrious and a most intelligent public • offieer.;, he was civil a nd conciliating,' outmode t * W were harf to transact business *with hid). No charge could be hrought•agaiast.him; Mahe Was known • t o' be ,a men 1 0 1 . 0 ,51/todaid .ohollaw; ant he ands strenuous • efforti toifketop to theos ThostAbliFt crimel; and fot/tWeee *Crimea every effOri Wile make to infikt on him •tiegradaden and' pecuniary Vainistrywir9ld deserve overthrovi for nothing sloe than tolerating 'tllb 'abominti ble procOsffiitpagniinsitiai gentleman. 11110. Selgivick it • now in thiligetkpf I ,44ROPTIowI JAW MON,: end if.s Ithey . 'll6 bot'llb' him justice, it will, to me, be surpribiug , indeed." , 1.: ~ i