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say, thou of the centre, inclining towards the crone left; NW
presence in the Council, therefore, will be muse of division, anp
consequently a principle of weakt;eol'ritielifibugh he was wrong
II accepting a place there, he has work for us, and he will
create in the new Cabinet more thus one difficulty which it does
not even foresee.
His accession, on the contrary, in spite of his dissent upon some
points, is looked upon for the moment by some of his colleagues as
an important victory. In the first place, it will as touch weaken that
violent portion of the Adminhtration, as NI. Polignac fears to em-
ploy it. Besides tido, it reckons upon M. Courvoisier to regain a
part of the cent, e-ieft, u it does upon M. Cbabrel to captivate the
centre-right, and upon M. de la Bourdonnaye to enchain the extreme
right. Such is, in fact, the pretension of the principal Minister. He
aspires to nothing less than to unite three great fourths of the Cham-
ber. And why should he not succeed ? Has he not for guarantee his
own powerful talents and the calculation of M. Raves? It will be
asked, how is it that the latter does not form a party of the Coun-
cil? This would, in fact, appear surprising, but nothing is more
simple ; M. Raves is not a man of a serious turn of mind, and be
likes neither business nor responsibility.' A great friend to profits
without trouble—what be wants is a Government which pleases
him, chooses him, and satisfies him, but not one which employs
him; and this is why, it is said, that far from being ambitious to
retain the stormy honours of the Presidency of the Chamber, he
seems anxious for retirement by going to the Chamber of Peers.
Such is the history which is given of the-formation of the Council.
and it will be seen from it that its position le more violent than its
intentions; and that with the exception of M. la Bordonnaye, per-
haps, noon has consentedto form a part of it with a view to
violate the laws. Thus, when 'we feared irregular measures and
state trials, it was because we foresaw them as probable, as the
natural consequences of the radical incompatibility which exists
between the ministry and the nation, We care little for Its declare-
tions of wisdom and its promises of moderation. If they were
sincere, they would not be the less vain, for necessity is more
powerful than human desires ; and * the public hatred does not
soon succeed in delivering the throne from the advisers with which
it is infested, ft will serve to make them tyrants.
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Letters from Lisbon, of the 15th ultimo, received in
Paris, state that the Spaniards were going to take
possession—if they had not already done so—of the
fortress of Almeida, and the district of Cimacoa ;
the cession of which places—made by MIGUEL to FEE-.
DINAND—is one of the conditions of the Secret Treaty
of the Ist of July !

In another part of our Paper, will be found a letter
addressed to the Editor of the Times by a Reader of that
Journal, for which we bespeak the most attentive per:petal.
It will be borne in mind what we remarked a few days
ago, concerning the expostulatory communications, with
which—just after the Duke of WELLINGTON joined
the Ministry—the letter-box of that print was inundated.
Nothing can demonstrate more forcibly than these ex-
probrations on the part of his correspondents, the inde-
fensible abandonment of his old popular attitude, with
which we have felt it our duty to charge the Times. At the
period to which we are now referring, the Times was no
stranger to our own pen;and we could prove—if we thought
it necessary to make the quotations—how much purer
than his then swerving inclination sanctioned, we com-
pelled him for a space of about six weeks, ipso repug-
nante, to appear! But nature, with her recurrent pre-
dilections, was too strong, and came back in" spite of the
pitch-fork." Does ho remember the letters of LAMBDA?
If he does not, we can assure him that the public does.
Once more, then, behold him upon his own defence be-
fore the people, and hear the argument of his vindica-

tion.
" A correspondent, signing himself " a Mutant or The Mies"
has thought proper to arraign this journal for not being sufficiently
in the front of the opposition to Ministers; and the instance by
which the gentleman would illustrate his accusation of our support-
ing the views of the present (Bakiab) Government, is our alleged
4' attempt to uphold the appointment of the traitor Houma= to a
high station in the French Ministry." Now, in the first place,
we made no such attempt to " uphold" the traitor Boussconr.
We remember having cailed him a man of ability—and se for a
useful colleague to Prince Poilorac. But if it be meant that we
had any wish upon the subject of BOURNONT, or of Prince Po.
actiac himself, as to their accession to office, or their tenure of
it; we cared one straw about the success of either of these
forlign,politicians as Ministers further than might be connected
with, the chance of their measures ot foreign, policy being favour.
able to the peace of Forope, and to the duration of cordiality be-
tween their country and our own,—the civil person who insinuates
his animadversions upon us, is very sadly mistaken."

This is but a lame repulse of so heavy an imputation.
The civil person is very sadly mistaken! But why
does he not show where the mistake lies ? Why does he
not refer hint fearlessly to the articles which he put forth
• in such quick succession ittt the elevation of the Prince
BE POLIO N AC to power ?•••••Why does he not quote from
himself some burst of indignant patriotism, and cover
his correspondent with confutation ? The fact is, that
the articles which he wrote on the formation of the Po-
LION AC Ministry, do not bear to be referred to at all;
and that the language of indignant patriotism has long
since been banished from his columns. He knows this,
and, like a prudent General, abstains from an exposure
a his own weakness. But it is in every body's recol-
lection, that if he did not launch into the direct eulogy
of this very BOURMONT, there was a studied avoidance
—in all that he wrote—of that condemnation with which
a pure-spirited publicist would have fastened on such a
profligate appointment: and in this forbearance to con-
demn he betrayed grossly his public duty. But when he
asserts that he had no wish with regard to M• DE POLIO-
N 4c himself, or his continuance in office, he flies in the face
of his own elaborate and daily advocacies of that Minis-
ter, .t.no palpably to require contradiction : nor would it
be worth while to argue with the Times about so despi-

-cable a set of itien as compose the new French Govern-
ment, if the spirit of their confederation—as detestable as
it is to be dreaded—had not its connecting links iu this
country... But the Times knows, even better than we do,
what ramifications of dark and villainous diplomacy are at
work in Europe to keep down the fermentation of intelli-
gence, and re-animate expiring feodalities. The Portu-
guese marriage, at which we hinted yesterday—and
which the Noble Earl has so much at heart—
was a conception for the furtherance of this system :
and the nomination of M. DE POLIO NAC, and
his band of Ultras, was to have heralded in mea-
sures and recognitions, which the storm of popular disap-
probation has alone retarded hitherto, and will either avert
—or not—as Polignacism, or happier principles prevail.
But the Times feels himself arraigned—and very natu-
rally—for not being sufficiently in the front of
the opposition to Ministers ; and he endeavours to
justify this relaxation from his purer attitude, by
pleading the Noble Duke's claim to popular support,
because of the single measure of Emancipation. But it
is a plea that is worn out: it served a long while, but it
is gone by. We, also, bore with the Noble Premier—
and even with. Mr. PseL—because of the removal of
those disabilitiss.• It was a grand measure, and we meted
out to those who carried it no sparing praise; but we
were not to bear with them for ever. While we could,

we suspended—in gratitude for that measure—our active
opposition to the principle of the Noble Duke'a eleva-
tion ; we intermitted our—till then incessant—protesta-
tions, against the unconstitutional union of the civil and
military power of the kingdom in one person : we made
a truce with him, even against our consciences. Est nso.
dus in rebus. After giving him and his colleague the most
patient teal that we could,we were obliged to fall back upon
those unerring principles on which alone the public press
is justified in supporting the public ministry. The Times
ought to have done so too. When he saw that the Noble
Duke and the Noble Earl treated Portugal with dupli-
city, and abandoned Grege to decimation; that the
voice orMETT tax icu was influential in the council-
chamber of England, and that the intrigues
of the miserable despot FERDINAND were suffered to
triumph over a more righteous policy—he should
have turned round, and denounced them to the people.
It is a miserable shuffle to say that he bears with an
incapable and a bad Minister, because a more efficient one
cannot be found. The truth is, that the Times is cor-
rupt himself; and he will stand or fall with the corrup-
tions which by his advocacy he has made his own.

From his Head-quarters at Aidos, General DIESITSCH
issued the followlng Proclamation on the 31st of-July :

PROCLAMATION.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army, which victory
has brought into the plains of Rumelia, cannot but regret drat the
Ottoman Government rejects whit blind obstinacy the proposals
made to it in the name of his Majesty the Emperor of ail the'Rus•
slam, the acceptance of which would put an end to the evils of war,
and restore repose and tranquillity to the peaceable inhabitants of
these countries : he Is thus placed under the absolute necessity of
following up his victories, occupying the country, and advanciig as
far as raoviozoca shall please, in order by this means to compel
the Sultan to listen to the voice of reason and humanity.

In fulfilling tide painful duty. the Commander-in-Chief feels the
most ardent dope to spare the peaceable inhabitants, filabsuneuns
as well as Christians, the burdens of a military occupation, lir
order to prevent their ruin, which would be inevitable, if terrified
by the approach of the army. they should take the unhappy re-
solution to abandon their dwellings, their villages, and their towns.
The Commander-is-Chief has therefore thought fit to issue the
following Dodo :
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1. AU Musatimen, inhabitants of the towns and villages, are
called upon to remain quietly wit► their wives and children fa
their habitations and possessions, and not to fear being molested
by any person whatever. They are only bound to give up all their
arms, which will be preserved in a safe place. An accurate list of
them will be kept, and they will be punctually restored after the
conclusion of peace.
std. The inhabitants shall enjoy entire liberty In the exercise of
the Mabornetan religion; they shall retain their Mosques and their
Imans, perform the five prayers at the appointed hours. and conti-
nue to say as usual the Friday's prayer, the Ilubbk in the name of
the Sultan Mahmoud, then Sovereign and Caliph ; for it is a mat-
ter of course, that the Mabometan inhabitants, who do not abandon
the districts recopied by the Russian troops, are not obliged to
become in consequence Russian subjects, but remain, as before,
subjects of the Sultan.
Sd. All the local authorities of cities, such as Adrian-
ople and others, the Ayans, Cadis, Notables, &c. were
also called upon not to leave their abodes, but to
continue to direct the Administration, that the peace and pros.
perity of the Mussulmen inhabitants may be protected and main-
tained. No Russian authority will interfere in the concerns of the
Mussulmen with each other, which will be examined and regulated
by the competent Mossultnen Authorities of the place.
" 4. The Inhabitants win get in their harvest, and put the
corn into the barns for their own use, the overplus net roe
quired by the :foe their own use may be sold by them to the
Russian army, wilds will pay for every thing according 16 the
real value of it. '

S. In all the coshes, the Musselmen authorities will give up to
the Russian army 'ail articles belonging to the Turkish Govern.
ment, such as cannon, arms, ammunition, and provisions. When
once this is done, no person whatever will be permitted to meddle
with private property, and every inhabitant shall keep and dispose
of, at his pleasure, all that be possesses.
6. In the cities, towns, and villages, the soldiers will not occupy
any ot the houses inhabited by the Muuelmen, and the strictest
measures will be taken that the Itlnuelmen inhabitants, their
wives and children, may not be exposed to any insult or oppres-
sion from the troops. _ _

All the points herein specibed shall be particularly observed, and
the '3lusselown authorities will take care that the Commander-in.
Chief shall be informed of every thing relative to the strict ob-
servatsce of them.

An Extraordinary Supplement to the Journal de St.
Petersburg 4 of the 18th August, contains various details
of the proceedings of different detachments of the Rus-
sian army,•extracted from the journals of the operations
from the 25th July to the sth August. Although most
di these details relate to facts already known, yet they
are highly interesting and important, and to the follow-
ing effect :

Lieut.-General Krassowsky, who on the 26tb had set out with
bla camp to Sunda to reconnoitre, met, en the 27th, two of the
detachments of the enemy, who bad left the fortress with 10,000
men, and taken a position oa the right bank of the Straschl. The
attack made by these detachments on our flank was repulsed, and

as the enemy made no further attempt, Gen. Zrassowshy's troops
returned to Joui Bazar the same day.
Ave. S.—Major-General Scherematier, who left Kamobat
the 30th with the od brigade of the 4th division of Halms, tour
cannon, and a company of Cossacks, to make a reconsoissaoce to-
wards Jambol, encountered on the 30th, under the walls of
that place. 15,000 of the enemy's cavalry and infantry. The impe-
tuous attacks of the cavalry commanded by Halil Pasha, were
constantly repulsed with great loss to the enemy. Two squadrons
of the Regiment of Courland, which had found their way into the
town, burnt the camp. On the Ist of August, Major-General
Seherematieff returned to Karnabat. having left too Cossacks to
observe the enemy and the town of Jambol. After these decisive
actions with Major-General Scherematiers division, which the
enemy probably took for the van of the main army, the Turks
hastily retreated, in the night of the Slat July, towards Adriano-
ple and Saki Suer ; and the Cossacks left to observe Jambol, after•
wards took possession of. General Roth's corps was encamped
before Aldo, General Rudiger's in Karnabat, and General Count
Pahien's in Karabamar. Head-quarters still at Aida.

'• August 4, Lieutenant-General Rudiger reports, that up to
the 34 there had been found at Jambol, after the retreat of the
enemy, 350,000 cartridges, a million and a half pounds of gun-
powder; biscuits, a great gustier of wheat, flour, and cattle.
General Rugowsky, with the third brigade of the 19th dhisioa
'of infantry and a company of artillery, arrived on the sth at Rat-
nabat, and left it the Drat day. On the Id he entered the village
of Dobrol, which the armed Turks who wen in it abandoned on
the appearance of our troops. The battalion went to the village of
Abrader, live waste from Dobrol, in pursuit of the enemy, over-
took and dispersed them. abd released the Bulgarian Inhabitants,
who returned to their. habitations, soliciting the protection of the
Rusilans."

WARSAW, Ava. 40.

According to accounts from the main army of 6th Anpst, the
head-quarters were still at Aldo* on that day. One corps was at
Karnabat, another at Karaberna. They were on the point of
going forwards. •

. The news from Buenos Ayres received this day is of a
pacific character. Here we have a proclamation of I.et
VALLE, stating that the civil war had terminated,—he
swears to forget the past,—harmony has been established,
—and no one must dare to interrupt it. On the subject
of this affair, the following letter has been this day re-
ceived at the North and South American Coffee House :

" The civil war, which has desolated the country for
these last seven months, is, I trust, concluded ; and peace
between the contending parties was formally signed and
sealed on the 4th June—the Monteneros having
h arrassed the city night and day, and cut off its sup -
plies, and in a manner besieged it, fighting almost in
the streets with LAVALIA'S regular troops, whose horses
were reduced to the last extremity for want of provender,
and dared not venture out of the town; and men were
killed and wounded every day. Exchange on England
101 per Dollar ; all business has been suspended in the
shipping line. Some of them have been lying here for
eight months."

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BUENOS AIRES, Jon W.
The following has been published :-.7 _

" Banos Area, Jars 10.

" When by the glorious revolution of the 115th of May, ism,
these provinces separated themselves from the mother country,
Spain held the important possession of the Islands of the Mal.
vines (Falkland Islands), and of the others which approximate to
Cape Horn, including that known under the denomination of
Tierra del Fuego. This possession was justified by the right of
being the first occupant, by the consent of the principal Maritime
Powers of Europe, and by the proximity of these Islands to the
continent which formed the Vice-Royalty of Buenos Ayres, unto
which government it depended.
" For this reason the Government of the Republic. representing
every right which the umber country previously exercised over
these provinces, and which its Viceroys possessed. it has continued
to exercise acts of dominion in the said Islands, its ports, and
coasts, notwithstanding circumstances have hitherto prevented this
Republic from paying the attention to that part of the territory
which, from its importance, it demands. Nevertheless, the neces-
sity of no longer delaying suck precautionary measures as shall be
neeessait to secure the rights of the Republic, and at the same
time to possess the advantages which the productions of the
said Islands may yield, and granting to the inhabitants that
protection of which they stand in need, and to which they are en-
titled, the Government has ordered and decreed :
Art. 1. The islands of the Malvinas and those adjacent to Cape
Horn, in the Atlantis Ocean, shall be under the command of a
political and military Governor, to be named immediately by the
Government of the Repoblic.

2. The political and military Governor shall reside in the island
of de la Solidad, on which a battery shall be erected, under the
flag of the Republic.
3. The political and military Governor shall cause the laws of
the Republic to be observed by the inhabitants of the said islands,
sod provide for the due performance of the regulations respecting
Seal Fishery on the coasts.
4. Let this be made public. (Signed) RODRIGUEZ
Salvador Maria del Card].
BUENOS AYRES, Ism 27.

General Juan Lavelle, pnivisimal Governor and Captain-General
of the province of Buenos Ayres, and the Consmandaat-Gateral of
the Country districts,• Juan Manuel Roses, in order to put an end
to the disturbances which have Alined the province, and re.esta-
Nish in it the order and tranquillity which have been unfortunately
interrupted, have agreed epos the following articles
1. Hostilities shall cease, and from the date of the present coo•
venthmesbe emonsunioatios between the town and the country
shall he 1111111biald on the eaniedooting as formerly.

2. in the shortest possible time the action of the representa-
tives of the province shaft take place according to the laws.
The Commandant-General of the Country dhulcts, Juan Ma-
nual Roses, being particularly charged with maintaining and
preserving the tranquillity and security of the country,
he will take these measures which he may judge most
convenient, and will appoint persons, with the knowledge of the
Government, to those cites, established by the laws and forms,
which, attending to eztraerdinerf circumstances, be may think
necessary for the regulation of the police of it until the installation
of the permanent Government, the previsional Government taking
care to provide him with every thing necessary for this service.
4. The election of the permanent Government having taken
place, the provisional Governor, Juan Lavelle, and the Comman-
dant General of the country districts, Jean Manuel Rosas, will
then place the forces at its disposal.
_ _ _ _ _

S. The Government of the Province will recognise and pay the
obligations contracted by the Commandant, General Rosa% for the
maintenance of the troops under his command.
6. The °Seen of the line and of the militia who have been under
the orders of the Commandant General Rosas will be entitled to
the pay corresponding to their respective classes.
7. No individual, of whatever class or condition, shall be
molested or persecuted for ids conduct or political opinions, anterior
to this Convection. The Authorities will merely punish those who,
by word or wilting, act against the stipulations in this article.

In testimony of which, and to prove oar menial agreement, we
hereby dga and ratify the present Convention, whkh consists a
wen Articles. in two copies oldie seine tenor.
Done in Canada% in the &tends of Miller, on the Sttb day of
June, in the year of our Lord, ttitL
JUAN LAVALLE,
JUAN MANUEL ROSAS.

• PROCLAMATION.
Gen. Juan LavaUr, Provisional Governor and Capt.-General of the
Province of Buenos Ayres, to its inhabitants.

Ctossmis—The civil war which afflicted us has terminated by a
peace, which satisfies she reasonable pretensions *, the contending
parties, and which is about to re-establish the authority of our
institutions, and the enjoyment of unalterable tranquillity. The
party which would obstinately endeavour to complete its triumph,
would have consummated the ruin of the country. I have dis-
dained a victory which would have cost so dear. I have resolved
to coosent to every thing which was asked of me, when it was not
too far removed from the object for which I contended, my only
wish being to secure to my country its dignity.
Cidzens—To obtain this object. Hive departed from the ex-
onerated pretensions of all parties. I have sworn to forget the
past. because in those who were opposed to me I have found only
Portents,. disposed to consecrate co the hooter of their country
those arms which were raised against their brothers.
atizens—Harmony has been established; let no one attempt to
interrupt it. Woe to him who dares insult the territory of our
country. JUAN LAVALLE.

Buenos Ayres, June 25, 1829.
—Buenos Ayres rapers So Asses SW

Although we have ever deprecated the highly improper
practice of anticipating judgments in cases under con-
sideration of competent tribunals, speculating on the
merits and. demerits of parties undergoing trial, merely
to satisfy the gossip appetite of a curious public, yet the
letter signed H. in this sheet, comes from SO respectable
ii quartet, that we cannot permit ourselves to decline its

insertion. The hesitating—we may say equivocating—
character of the evidence of Sir EDWARD CODRING-
TON has, we must confess, created a most unfavourable
impression to the prejudice of that distinguished
Officer, in the minds of the candid. But let
it be remembered that the hero of that brilliant
action—styled by the Turks in office, "an untoward
afair"—is also the friend of an exalted personage, whose
liberal sentiments are viewed with jealous apprehension
by our present temporary Ministry and its authorities;—
that the laurels he wears are as deadly night-shade in the
eyes of a party who rejected the fair opportunity
gained with them of erecting the Greek power on
a firm basis—of compelling Turkey to the necessity
of professing a more rational policy,—and of Check-
ing the Russian invader while on the banks of
the Pruth. The frequent allusions which are made
by Sir EDWARD CODRINOTON to certain papers

connected with Mr. ChoKER, or the Admiralty,
involving some mystery which cannot, it seems,
be yet prudently revealed, may account in a great
measure for that indecision so apparent in his testimony.
Yet how these can relate to Captain DICKENSON in any
way, we are fairly at a loss to conceive.—We must now
only wait the issue of the trial to form just opinions,—
sincerely hoping, in the meantime, that they may end to
the honour of all the parties implicated.

CITY. TwzLys o'CLocz.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 69 to i for the Account,
opened at the same price this morning. and at present may be
quoted MI to *, with little business doing as yet.
In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing for the present;
pekes nwninal.
CITY. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols have remained steady, doting the whole of the morning,
at 9111 to i for the Account, and 1114 buyers for Money. No spe-
culations of consequence have taken place, and the Forsivsmarket
condoms without a feature worth observation.
The private letters, by the Express from Paris. being the
French Three per Cent. Roues. after 'Change boors, at lU tSe.
for the end of the month. and tali for Money, which is an im-
provement on the last prices by the Express.

The Britannia, of 120 guns, the flag-ship of Admiral
the Earl of Northesk at Plymouth, is ordered fo be fitted
for foreign service with the utmost expedition, supposed
to be for the purpose of reinforcing the fleet under Sir
PULTEN EV MA LCOLM'S orders in the Mediterranean.
The Melville, 74, at Portsmouth, Captain SCHONBERG,
is also to sail without delay, for the Mediterranean.
Accounts from Odessa state, that General WITT, who
commands the Russian reserve of 80,000 men, has ar-
rived in the above town, where he has established his
head-quarters.
From St. Petersburgh, of 19th August, we learn that
on the 17th their Majesties left Peterhof, for their pa-
lace in the island of Yelaguine.
From Brussels, on the 30th August, we learn that two
Russian Cabinet Messengers passed the previous evening
through that city, both from St. Petersburgh, with dis-
patches for London
A Cabinet Messenger passed through Brussels on the
30th nit. on his way from London to St. Petersburgh,
a ith dispatches.
A Russian Cabinet messenger arrived at Brussels on
the 31st ult. from London, with dispatches for St.
Petersburgh.
Front Bucharest, of 7th August, it is stated : "We
learn from the army that the Grand Vizier was preparing
to, quit the camp at Shumla, to harrass the army of
General Diebitsch, but that he had renounced his plan
on hearing of the occupation of Karnabat by the Russians
on the 27th July. This place seems to have been occu-
pied by General Kraseowsky to keep open the communi-
cations with the army beyond the Balkan."
Prince Chosrew Mirza arrived on the 13th at Zarsko-
jiselo from Peterhof, and on the 16th, in the afternoon,
made his entry with much pomp into the capital.
The following is an extract of a letter received by a
resident in this city (Hereford) from a gentleman of
Gloucester, who ha% lately visited Oporto, and who hu-
manelysaved the life of a respectable merchant of that
devoted town :—" You have probably heard that while
Ave lay at Oporto, my vessel afforded shelter to an unfor-
tunate gentleman, who had nearly fallen in the power of
the agents of that blood-hound Miguel. For three days
I concealed the fugitive between two pipes of wine in the
hold ; in this situation we were unable to convey any
food to him, and were obliged to watch for the moment
in which we could safely give him a little wine, by pla-
cing the spout of a tea-pot in the aperture of the boards.
You may imagine our anxiety for our prisoner, especially
while the police were visiting us ; they searched the cabin
and every other part of the vessel, except the right one.,
and thank God we effected our escape. During our stay
at Oporto there were ten most respectable men decapi-
tated, because they were suspected. The manner in
which they were executed exhibits a picture of refined
barbarity. They were dragged together to the place of
execution, where they suffered consecutively ; thus forced
to witness the savage exultation which would again be
exercised when they should be immolated by the officers
of justice to this modern Nero. Among the ten who were
beheaded were the partner and book-keeper of the friend
whom I saved ; judge then of his chance of escape, bad
not my vessel presented to him the means of concealment.
—Hereford Journal.

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