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MR. 0 W EN,
AND THE PRE:4BI'I'ERN' OF LANARK AND GE-
NERAL ASSEMBLY OF SCOTLAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE' GLASGOW CHRONICLE.
SIR,--I am highly gratified that a fit opportunity at length
presents itself of adverting to the prejudices which, for several
years put, have been accumulating in the mind of the Rev. Mr.
Menzies of Old 'Lanark, respecting the establishment at New
Lanark.; And of disabusing the public of the numerous reports
which, in consequence of those prejudices, he has deemed it his
duty, sirieethe year 1818, to circulate, with great industry, far
and near.
It is known to all reflecting men to be a law of our nature,
that when the mind at an advanced period of life is filled with
prejudices, the judgment becomes obscured, and often worse
than useless. This law of our common nature at once discloses
the origin of the letter, which, fortunately for the cause of
truth, and 'for the improvement of society, Mr. Menzies has
given to the public. lie is not to be blamed for it; he is great-
ty to be pitied on account of his own feelings. At the same
tune he is, however, unknowingly, the instrument by which
much service will be done to the world. Ile has no doubt been
desirous of ;diving the truth, and the whole truth, in the official
statement which he has put forth ; and yet it so happens that,
from the beginning to the end, it contains nothing but error
and misrepresentation, to be accounted for only by the extent
to which hie prejudices have led his feelings and judgment
astray.
It is evident that Mr. Menzies has communicated hie pre-
judices to the Presbytery of Lanark, and that the •Presby.
tery of Lanark have transmitted them to the General As.
penibly of Scotland ; the result is, that a statement has been
concocted, which it must be melancholy to their friends to hear
explained.
1 have, been publicly accused of excluding the Bible from
the schools at the Institution, for the formation of character
at New Lanark,
,where little or no attention is said to be paid
to religious instruction, and of practising delusion and decep-
tion on the public, respecting the moral state of that village,
the females of which are accused of being less chaste than
others.
It so happens that these charges are all directly contrary to
fact.' I have been long conscious of the tyranny to which the
human mind has every where been subjected, and of the evil
thus produced. It is, therefore, a principle of which 1 have al-
ways been extremely tenacious, that all my fellow-creaturce
should enjoy full liberty of conscience; 'and I have been equally
scrupulous to not infringing, in my own practice, upon the
conscience of nay one. The inhabitants of New Lanark being
alit oat all Calvinists, I concluded that they would with their
children to be brimght up in this creed. I therefore, from the
time this establishment came under my direction, 24 years ago,
haVe allowed the. Scriptures, and the catechism of the Church
of Scotland, to, be regularly read and taught in the schools. I
have done so solely in obedince to the general principle I have
just stated ; and I never for one moment had the most distant
intention of withdrawing either. If the inhabitants of the vil-
lage had been Roman Vaitholics, the Scriptures, on the same
principle, ebould have been excluded ; or, if Jews, the New
Testament should not have been introduced or, if they had
been Mahometians, the Koran should have been taught. For
unjust, but downright despotism and
tlylrinonldnyi nt:tfororcileyutotoonne ape
people any thing contrary to their con.
sciences, or to withhold from them what they consciencieusly
believe to be essential to their religious welfare. -
Never forainoment did I' suppose that any Minister, or
body pf te1414311$ Mtn in this country, could isnaginc tho the

had any right to interfere with a private school, which was in
no way whatever under their jurisdiction, and not even sup-
ported by one Calvinist, Nor have they any right. I tell
them now that they have no more authority to interfere with
the New Lanark schools than with the arrangements of my
private house ; nor have they any to meddle with the conscience
of any one, whether. Christian, Jew, Turk or Infidel, as they
may term him. Any of our feilow.subjects in India have as
much right, were they here, to establish schools for the in-
struction of their children in the Hinder mysteries. as the Ge-
neral Assembly of Scotland possess to establish schools to in.
struct children is the msteries of Calvinism ; and, were it
otherwise, I for one would leave a country where such religi.
despotism prevailed.
But Mr. .Meuzies, whatever might be his desire, never ven-
tured to make any such representation to me, as he states in
his letter, respecting the alleged prohibition of the Scriptures
in our schools. Nor did any member of the Presbytery ever
mention the subject to me. These gentlemen well know they
had no right to do it. All that ever passed between Mr.
Menzies and myself, on this subject, happened one day when
he was coining into the village, and I was returning from it.—
On meeting hun, after the usual salutations and inquiries, he
said, " I hear in Lanark, Mr. Owen, that you do not allow
the Scriptures to be used in your schools. Is It true ?" The
question appeared to me so very absurd (for I had not then
heard that such an idea had been entertained by any one,) that
I replied, with some emphasis, ti .I.ll‘. Menzies, I recommend
one general rule to you in these matters, which is, that you
never give any credit to a report in Old Lanark respecting the
proceedings at New Lanark, for not one in twenty of them is
true ;" and we immediately separated. Now this is all that
ever passed between Mr. Menzies, or the Presbytery of Lanark,
and myself, on the subject of withdrawing the Scriptures.
The mistake which was so eagerly seized upon by the ene-
mies of die system which 1 advocate, was a very simple one.
I wished to improve the minds of the children in the
schools, by giving them a general knowledge of Natural His-
tory, Geography, and Ancient and Modern History; and I
had made some preparations for this purpose, and given sonic
general instructions to the masters on these subjects, just be.
tore I set out on a journey, on which I was likely to be ab-
sent some months. On the morning of my departure I look-
ed into the schools, as is my usual practice, to say good bye
to the children, with whom I spend as much time as possible
when I am at home, believing, as I do, that the right
education of the rising generation is the most important duty
that society can perform. Just as I was coming away,
one of the masters, Mr. Mendell, who is very religiously
inclined, said, " if we give these lessons in Geography and
History to the children, there will be little time to read the
Scriptures, and to teach the Catechism." The latter was
then taught on Saturdays. I instantly replied, as I was leav-
ing him, " Then let the Catechism be taught on the Sabbath,
in the Sunday Schools." The Sunday schools are held three
times each Sabbath, when the Scriptures are read, and the
Catechism taught. I beard nothing more on this subject until
I met Mr. Menzies, as I have mentioned, many months after.
wards. It seems the master, with whom alone I had the con.
versation supposed that the Scriptures, as well as the Catechism,
were to lie read on Sundays only, but even this mistake of Mr.
Meudell's was rectified by Mr. Clegg, as soon as he was in-
formed of it, a few. (lays afterwards, and many months before I
heard that such a mistake had ever occurred, if the supporters
of the old errors of the world had not thought that it was pos-
sible they might make something of it, to the disadvantage of
the New Lanark establishment : hut this attempt, like those
which have preceded it, will only tend to render the new system
better known throughout society, and aid in spreading a know.
ledge of its superior principles and practice.
Mr. Menzies does not come into the schools, except upon
these formal visits of the Committee of Presbytery, when,
agreeably to their arrangements,, they only inquire what un.
intelligible mysteries the children are taught, and never ask
what real knowledge they have acquired. Mr. Menzies is new
far more ignorant of the real state of these schools, which are
within a mile of his house, than a great portion of the intelli-
gent portion of the population of Europe and America. In
consequence of this ignorance, combined with his prejudices, he
is wholly incompetent to give a rational opinion respecting
them.

Now, as to the delusion and deception which these Rev;
Gentlemen allege that I have practised upon the public,
respecting: the moral state of the Inhabitants of New
Lanark DI very poseihle I may be prepossessed in
favour of these people, although I do whatever is in
my power to overcome, in my own mind, prejudices
,of
every description, and in all eases endeavour to draw any con-
clusions from facts alone. Thus striving against a strong
natural bias of our nature, I do aver however that I have not
seen, in any part of the world in which 1 have been, an equal
population of working people so uniformly industrious, sober,
honest, steady and well conducted in all respects as the in.
habitants of New Lanark have been for many years past; and
I speak not lightly upon these points. The population of New
Lanark is now double what it was 24 years ago ; and before
that period the Justice of Peace Court was regularly occupied
during a great part of every sitting, in taking cognizance' of
the petty squabbles and mai-practices of the villagers; and
this lowliness continued to increase up to the day when my
partners and myself first purchased the Establishment. Now,
subjecthemtof fromuririseNteow itle,an 3alrakg,istrates if a single case
it is a
comes before
while, from the rest of
the neighbourhood, they have
us much business as ever. There
is also a regular daily register kept of the conduct of every one
who is employed in the mills this account extends to four
degrees of comparison, viz. excellent, good, indifferent or bad,
as applicable both to their moral and working character : and
it gives me pleasure to state that for many yearn past moiethisn
19 out of 20 have deserved the first character, or excellent ;
that more than 19 out of 20 of the remainder have merited the
second character, or good ; that the third character is seldom
given to any one for more than a day, and that the fourth cha-
racter, or bad, is scarcely to be found fur a single day in the
columns of any department. The appearance of this popula-
tion, as they go to and return from their work, ix quite
.stiffi:
cient to convince any intelligent observer that the inhabitants
of New Lanark are very superior, in their condition and ge-
neral conduct, to any other working population to -be found in
any part of the Kingdom. There is no public-house in the
village, nor does any religious animosity exist among them;...-
from the youngest to the oldest they exhibit in their daily
practice a love to God and to their neighbour, such as 1 have
no where else ever witnessed. A quarrel among the children is
a very unusual occurrence; and even the youngest are seldom
heard to cry either in the street or in the schools.

But how should Mr. Memaies know any thing of these
people? He scarcely ever visits diem, except at a funeral, a
baptism, or a wedding, when he is obliged to attend. I am
told he has not regularly visited the villagers, in his official ca-
pacity, for more than eight years, and that he has not examined
his parishioners in New Lanark for more than 20 years. I
know he has not entered the houses of some of the most con-
stantp of his hearers for more than Pl years. I believe the rei-I
truth to be, that he found the inhabitants of New Lanark to
improve so rapidly in general . good conduct, while he could
discover no material Aanga in any other art of the parish,
that he directed the whole of his ministerial
, powers to improve,
the latter, amongst whom, I hope, he has had great success.—
The fact is, he has derived his information respecting New
Lanark, not front personal inspection, but from the reports of
any individuals whom ha could discover to be in any way ills-
affected to the establishment, and who were always sure to ex-
perience his countenance and friendship, more particularly a
pour young woman, who Was for a short time employed in the
schools, with a view to give habits of cleanliness and neatness
to the little girls, but whose usefulness was almost totally ele-
stroyed by an unfortunate propensity to intermeddle with every
thing; a propensity arising, as it soon appeared, from a de-
rangement of her faculties on the subject of religion. This she
has already so often changed,, that her mind bits become en-
tirely unsettled, and bereft of all charity for those who may
differ from her present opinions ; as is evident from the letters
which her friends, or rather her enemies, have induced her to
publish respecting New Lanark.
• But Mr. Menzies and the Committee.of the Presbytery any
" There is one species of vice very prevalent at New Lanark,
—illicit intercourse between the hexcs, as the palish records
abundantly testify, which frequently comes utider the cogni-
zance of the Presbytery, but which is not rceOgnized or eheclail
its such by the principles of 11r. Owen."
There is no single report which Mr. Menzies arid the Com-
mittee of the Presbytery of !Amok hate been. so active in dr-
eubiting as this. k Ortunately, however, the fact is easily lacer-
taintd,—for every illegitimate birth here has been - registered
for many years past. NOen this list collies id be examined,
with reference to the disproportionate number of young females
who are employed in the mills, and when it it co9sidered how,
the population was first collected, it must astonish every un-
Preintbletl' person, that under 1%101 o:n4-y43w:eel any 14444

population of the same extent could.be trained to be so chaste
and circumspect in their conduct as the femalesof New Lana*
have been for many years past.'
The facts are these :—The number of illegitimate children,
born in the village of New Lanark, for the last 12 years Is lid;
or averaging between 5 and t; a-year. The number of un-
married females liable to such a misfortune is 830—consequent-
ly the number of illegitimate children born in New Lanark for
12 years past, does not amount iii the year to 1 in 100 of such
young persons. Of these, the fathers of 28 belong to the
village, of 19 to the town of Old Lanark, and 19 are strangers.
—And this the Committee of the Presbytery calls a prevalent
vice at New Lanark. Truly they seem to have had some dif-
ficulty in finding any prevalent vice among them. For my
own part, I can say that the conduct of the female portion of
our population, as well as that oe the inhabitants generally, has
been such as I never expected to see realized in practice, while
they were surrounded by so many unfavourable circumstances
existas still atNewltrarrik, and to
ark,oneolirt.hiteigerenzaiteises.t of which is—
its ityto Old ha
To Old Lanark—because it is the usual station for the Vo-
lunteer corps of the County when on duty, and all know how
unfavourable a military station is to female chastity ; and be-
cause no rational plan has yet been adopted in practice, for the
proper training and employment of the population there. And
to Mr. Menzies—because the opinions and sentiments which
he holds, and which he conscientiously considers it his (hay to
disseminate, are such as cannot fail to stir up and foment reli-
gious animosities, and to regard the general introduction of
kind, just, and charitable &elute, which otherwise would have
been long since established in this district.
In reply to the misrepresentations of the Committee of the
Presbytery of Lanark, I beg leave to inform them that a more
false report of the state of any school was never before publish-
ed. lam somewhat surprised that men possessing good and
charitable ,principles could have set their names to a statement
which contains the following sentence :—" The Committee
state with regret that little or no attention seems to be paid,
to the religious instruction of the children at this school."—
If the Committee had made themselves acquainted with the
real facts, they must very soon have discovered that the
reverse of this statement was peculiarly true, and that
there is not the same number of children to be found in
any school within the British Empire, whose daily prac•
dee, for many years past, has evinced so thorough a knowledge
of real religion, not the religion of those gentlemen certainly,
for I should regret extremely if one of them should ever exhi-
bit the same spirit of disingenuousness, and all uncharitable-
ness, which pervades the report of the Committee of the Lanark
Presbytery. I shall now proceed to place the whole subject in
its proper light before the world, for it is too important to be
made a petty question between an individual and the Minister
and Presbytery of Lanark, or even the General Assembly of
Scotland. The best interests of society are deeply involved in
the issue of these proceedings.
The Minister of Lanark, the Presbytery of Lanark, and the
General Assembly of Scotland, have led the public to suppose
" that they had been unsuccessful in resisting Mr. Owen's at.
tempts to exclude the scriptures front the schools at New
Lanark."

The whole of this statement is false ; there is not a word of
truth in it, for I neverl for a moment, had the most distant idea
of withdrawing the scripture's from the schools ; not indeed be.
cause I deem them a proper school book, but because the pa-
rents of the children have been educated to be Calvinists, and
to think it right that their children should read the scriptures
in school.

The Minister and Committee of the Presytery of Lanark Sat
that I have deceived the world as to the moral state of the vii
lage of New Lanark.
This is false. 1 have never given to the public such a
representation of the general good conduct of these people u
their constant, daily, superior behaviour, would justify.
They charge the population of New Lanark with being par-
ticularly addicted to the vice of illicit intercourse between the
sexes.
The statement which I have given proves this to be an un-
founded slander on the character of young females, whose con-
duct, under the circumstances in which they are placed, is most
exemplary, and not to be surpassed, if equalled, by any such
population in the world.
They state " that little or no attention seems to be paid to
the religious instruction of the children in the schools."
All the inhabitant* of New Lanark, and all strangers who
have taken the trouble to make themselves acquainted with
these schoole, know that a more direct falsehood was never
penned and lam really surprlied that any men could be
found to put their names to a statement which so many thous
sand persons can any day disprove. , •
The Minister and Prosbytery tif Lanark, and a majority of
the Members of the General Assembly of Scotland, might know
that there is not a population of the same extent, associating
every day as the inhabitants of New Lanark must do to carry
on their occupations, whose moral and religions character, and
good will and kind conduct to each other, can be paralleled in
any part of the British dominions.
And it is this very superiority that has caused the ill-will and
angry animadversions of these Reverend Gentlemen; other-
wise, they would have found fault with all those manufactur-
ing establishments in Scotland, in which no - adequate provi-
sion for the education of the children is matte by the proprietors,
where vice and immorality proceed unchecked—where the Scrip-
tures are never used on a week-day—and where the illicit inter-
course of the sexes is 20 to 80 fold greater.
1 would, however, again express how strongly I feel that
these Rev. Gentlemen are not to be blamed, but greatly to be
pitied. It is a law of human nature that children may be train-
ed to believe any thing ; as witness the Mahomedan, Chinese,
anti Pagan children. Now, these Gentlemen have been taught
from infancy that knowledge and true religion and good con.
duct can proceed only from mysteries, which were thrced at
that period into their tender minds. I have long been
im-
pressed with contrary notions, and have been forced to believe
• that these gentlemen, like the children of the ilindoos and
Pagans, have been taught mysteries and not facts, that in cone
sequence they have been brought up in ignorance, and trained
to force the saute ignorance upon others, and that by reason of
thitegrievous error, ignorance, poverty, vice, anti misery, are
unnecessarily perpetuated among mankind.
My real Aimee, in their eyes, is that I have considered it
my duty to follow an opposite course to that which they recom-
mend ; and that in consequence, the inhabitants of New let-
nark have derived the greatest benefit, even from the very
partial change of system which I have introduced.
I would here distinctly state me conviction that the children
here, and the population generally, are as much inferior to
what they would become under a completely rational system of
training, that should surround them with favourable circum-
stancesunly, as they are at present superior, in habits. disposi-
tions and general information, to the moat neglected individuals
to bc found any *here in society. .
My principlei I' have no wish to disguise. They are true or
false; agreeable to facts or opposed to them t and I am willing
to meet the General A esembly at any time and place they may
appoint, far the purpose of discussing, in an open anti friendly
manner, those points wherein the principles which I advocate,
may differ front those which they have been taught to entertain,
and which. in consequence they deem it their ditty to teach to
others.
Should these gentlemen convict me of holding one principle
which is not in strict accordance with every known fact, or of
which the practicel.epplication is not directly 'calculated to in-
crease the knowledge, the virtue and the happiness of mankind,
• I will at once, before the world, acknowledge My error. Rut
should I be able satisfactorily , to prove that the system which
I recommend will soon place every individual beyond the reach
of poverty, will effectually exclude temptation to evil; will per-
manently establish the virtue, and continually promote the hap-
piness of the world, then shall I expect that the time is arrived
when that reverend body will no longer regard my advocacy. of
such a system as an Alice, but will cordially unite with me in
rendering their fellow-creatures daily and hourly wiser 'and
happier.
If the General Assembly will not adopt this short and
decisive step, to bring before the tribunal of the public
what. they must now consider a dangerous lousy, I must
coin-hide that they are not deeirous of having the prin.
eiplett and practices of the two systems placed on, fair
and open comparison, if fair it can be celled:- when every
poesible advantage is proposed to be given to the old system,
anti when the new shell be advocated against their united
learning, by one unlearned individual.
My extreme anxiety on this subject arises from a desire that
whichtime ereosby ,o many
now prevail in society,
of ourty,antl
fellow themii.serm4ies•;hriecsh
experienced ,
even in the Itritieh empire, should not continua to exist. one
day longer than is absolutely unavoidable. •
' riODXRT OWEN. -
New Leoerk, 30th August, 1810.

irrorn'the Cark'e Moreitig Pegg
Who is there that has not beard of. Mauriice•
Quill ? What Officer that has served in the,Pe.:,
ninsula, and is yet., unable to quote one of Ow
thousand jests and jokes, the jetty de mote, !lei;..
jeux d'esprit, and the quaint conceits of tit,
laughter-loving, fun-producing Maurice ?—These
jests, with which he was wont not only to set tile
table in a roar, but to enliven the gloomy, wards,
of the Military Hospital—to shake with mil*:
the bare walls of the temporary guard-house— t
cheer amid the damp bivouac—and to exhilitate
in the roar of battle.—" Alas, poor illaurioe.',"
" And could not so much wit keep ina little life ?"
Mr. Quill was a native of Traleei, the capital
of "the Kingdom of Kerry," as it> is called. itt
Ireland. He was appointed Assistant-surgeon
of the 31st Regiment of Foot, about the year
1809, and followed that regiment to the Penin,
Subsequent to his landing, he contrived to
remain for many months as Dayton, in Portugal ;
but after much mameuvring to ovoid "joining" ss.
head-quarters, Maurice was "ordered up,",
remptorily, by the Duke of Wellington. His re..
inflation for wit, originality, and consequently_
for " idling," all who came within the sphere of
his influence was such, that the morning after he

had " joined," his Col. (the gallant Duckworth);
waited upon Lord Hill (of whose division of the
army the 31st formed a part), and with unatfect.
ed regret and gravity, reported the arrival of
Maurice, and the consequent termination of disci.
pline in the regiment. The General uttered the
most dreadful denunciations against " Mr. Mau,
rice," (as he called him), should the fears of the
Colonel be raised—but he became ultimately ex-
tremely partial to the droll, eccentric Maurice.
Quill was one of the finest specimens of Irish
character that appeared in our day. He possess-
ed in a extraordinary degree all the wit, humour,
and love of Badinage that distinguish his coun-
trymen. To the originality of his conceptions,
the oddness of his remarks, and the strangeness
of his phraseology, the richness of his brogue,
gave peculiar poignancy. lie loved ease, good-
living, and society ; of the latter he was always
certain, if, indeed, he happened not be in a de.
sert ; for so attractive was he, that his quarters
were the rendezvous of all the Officers who could,
by possibility, repair to them, to beguile the
tedium of the winter's night ;" unless such as
were, unfortunately, from their rank, denied that
pleasure in observance of military etiquette. The
rush•light in his tent or lodging was a beacon to,
the exhausted and dispirited soldier. I have
said that he loved Badinage, and was witty ; but
his was never barbed by the slightest touch of
ill-nature or offensive personality. lie was brave,
but affected cowardice; and gave such► whimsical

expression to his assumed lea rs, as provoked laugh-
ter hi the hottest engagement. Of this, his con-
duct at the dreadful and bloody battle of Ai.
buera will be a sufficient example.
Quill had, unnecessarily, followed the regiment
66 into fire," as it is termed ; creeping on his hands
and knees with boyish tricks, he traversed the
rear of the line, pulling the Officers by their coats

and tendering his brandy bottle ; saying," Here,
take a slug* before you get a bullet. Have a
(feuds and dhurras (a drink at the door) bglure
,you depart." A mass of the enemy's cavalry, in-
cluding a regiment of Polish Lancers, prepared.
to. charge the 31st.--Colonel Duckworth ordered
the regiment to form in square, in the centre of.
which he discovered Maurice shaking from head
to'foot with well dissembled terror. 66 This is
no place for you, Mr.Mauriee,'‘ and the lament.
ed Duckworth, a few minutes before his fall—
" By J--, 1 was just thinking so, "Colonel,'' re-
plied the di-ode-141 wish to the Holy Father
that the greatest rascal in: Ireland was kicking
me this moment up Dame-street, and that (even
though) every friend I have in the world was
looking at him !" Finding it impossible to break
the square, the enemy's cavalry, retired with great
loss, when, ordering the regiment to deploy
" Fall iti,", said the ,Colonel—" Fall aut.," said
Maurice, and scampered off ; but hearing that a,
Captain of the regiment was severely wounded'',
he returned into fire, anti dressed him. lie halt
just finished this operation, when a twelve,poond.
shot struck! the ground 'near Maurice and his
tient, and - covered them with earth*" By' J.
there is snore ;there ihed cisme fruns," said Quill,
and again took to his heels. ;

twi 0
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was hich i
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ss
replies
akstahaesamii
assailed
to than
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by
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his
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si
usagcg:sitot clue s-•
of these better Acquainted with his manner—aoa>
to give a striking specimen of Quill's character.;
I shall add one instunue,t—_cc 1 am desirous
gikhiottoroldW).fioAll.l.esurt.,ll%e!,.._wa tie:isclseve\.'llybseltti
yd.otuhre
appointmenteol 4 ' t
titV hat
Colonel," (with affected..
emburrassment,) "A left the ---, because some
of the spoons belonging to the mess were. found;
in my kit, and you knoW that would .not dwist, gate
of the crak regiments, Colonel-1 joined the
firsts because I. had a brother in the thirty.strand,
and I wonted to he hear him." -
Of hie professional abilities I know noihing—diat
not held in high emihnittien, would appear front the i.ct, his
not having been promoted during the Paolniod T hat war. ,at
of gtlylincoment aka flee ear .1u44 Mu*** miff&
obytous, front his reply to n friend who 4sked witat rank i nyd
-" Why, I have been thirteen years an Assistant-800mi:
and, with the blessing of hits id; if live nod, 4,144 r,
observe, I
thats h all) fottrOen years room: I lqn ple,astA
ahsgelF:QP;rs:iilflnlilripoalnettalireild,:eirititurwilt:aicig--4incirl:lntr'wik daiiiwursaitt:ulat-Ln.tuktlatdaurlni:;l6.l-Wilesatniger:lll,ol,'lbitri;Clen)fnitt44:7tlll:pititti:;4l64ll74,:
gained .no aunty, and he lmit no friend.
The tear of many a veleren will foil, whet..
shall learu that Mauricit Quill is no tHurf.
• blur, elaglior, a draw.