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they learned that this most "unintelligible of all , ima-
ginable vagabonds," with a Jewish name, and a character
as unknown to them as was his person, was to be thrust
upon them by DANriC O'CONNELL ! Little, perhaps, did
they dream tskat DANIEL had been told that their intended
representative was a " mean creature" that DANIEL him-
self had been " warned against." Little perhaps did
they imagine that the whole transaction was a matter of
traffic—of sale and delivery; and that they were treated
like brutes, and sold, by private contract, for so much
base money. We will do them the credit to believe that
they knew nothing of all this; but their innocence is no
palliation of O'CoNNELL's guilt. He received the mo-
ney—RAPHAEL was his dupe—they also were victims.
The commons of England in parliament assembled
may rest assured that the eyes of the whole nation are
fixed upon them—some with doubt and suspicion—some
with fear and anxiety—all with deep interest. The great
mass of reformers are fully alive to the acts and profes-
sions of those who represent them. They have been
told that the corruptions of the olden time will never be
allowed to disgrace this new and enlightened era of po-
litical reformation, and they will be justified in testing
theshacerity of their leading patriots by the honesty and
fairness "of their condtict in their decision in the case of
DANIEL O'CONNELL. Talk of bribery in Liverpool!
Poor men, who did not care a straw for either candidate
in 1830, were bribed by those on whom alone the punish,
ment should have fallen k=itli a' heavy hand—by men
who bought .and betrayed then-who' were heartless
enough to debauch and then expose thein—who dragged
them to the commission of a' serious offence, and would
have delivered them over to the executioner. For their
venality some excuse might be offered; but for O'CON-
NELL'S ienality—his sale of u county, in which the pur-
chaser .Was a total strangey—sold to a " mean creature"
that the seller was`" warned against," for £2,000; what
possible excuse can be,Offered for such glaring corruption
Land barefaced cupidity ?
We leave the House of Conimons to answer this ques-
tion ; and answer it they must, at their-peril, to the in-
sulted dignity, the awakened honesty, and the alarmed
suspicions of the people of England. If the facts be
proved, as we trust they will be, they will never be
content until O'CONNELL, by a just and righteous sen-
tence, IS EXPELLED FROM THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS . Less than this, if the facts are substan-
tiated, will never satisfy the electors of this country.
,Less than this they will deem a compromise of justice.
'More than this they do not seek ; but wo be to the mem-
ber who shall endeavour to conceal the fraud, or inter-
pose where guilt makes its sinister appeals to influence
or expediency ! If stile House of Commons shall refuse
to adjudicate in this case with that stern rigour which the
importance of the charges demand, and which is ex-
pected by the people of England, they will, as the com-
moners of England, proclaim their own doom—they will
sink in public estimation—they will write "faction and
dishonesty" on their verdict of acquittal, and they will
prove to the whole world that- the reformed parliament is
a fraud, and that absolutism and despotism, in any shape,
are preferable to the boasted integrity and independence
of the House of Commons. In one word, if the House
of Commons do not do its duty in this respect, its mem-
bers who cover the guilt of O'CONNELL will be handed
down to posterity as infamous—the "death's bead and
cross hones" will be their passport to universal execra-

tion—public scorn will assail them in the market place
—their names will be the jest of the pothouse—from
every hustings in the empire they will be cabbaged into
some rotten asylum as HOBROUSE was, until the very
name of reform and whip shall become synonymous with
cheat, and " something more" as Lord LYNDHURST
would say.

We should most willingly, in this early stage of the
proceedings, when the accused has not yet done more

than intimate the line of his defence, have stopped here,
and covered what our factious antagonists may perhaps
call our. vindictiveness by our silence. But we
.cannot.
A sense of public duty whisper's that a blacker story re-
mains untold, in which the son of the accused figures as
the agent and dupe of his wretched father.

It is a painful subject. It places human nature in so
repulsive -le light thit--z-irek,4eclitr`"solemnly eve" el
affected by the sense of duty which dictates its expo-
sure. We allude to the part which JOHN O'CONNELL,
the son of DANIEL, a very young man, and the member
for Youghal, was permitted or ordered by. his father to
play in this corrupt transaction. We can imagine a case
where a son, implicated in his father's haleness, might

have an excuse for not bearing evidence against the au-
thor of his being. But this is not such a case. Air.
TheJtt JOHN
evidence, us f
O'CONNELL. is not
as
it
calledu,poonniymakestoconvictmr. j
hisfatoiheir,.;
O'Coti-NEhi. the inconsiderate, and, to a certain extent,
the irresponsible go-between-of his guilty father. Mr.
JOHN O'CONNELL is, in his parent's name, the dun of
RAPHAEL. He conveys the money from the dupe to the
receiver. And if this were all, and the member for
Youghal had been a mere lad, eating his father's mut-
ton, and otherwise irresponsible to the public, we should
have held him excused. But this Master JOHN, of im-
mature years, is a member of parliament, and he is the
bearer of RAPIIAEL's purchase money to his father the
seat-seller. This young man, unhappily for his pros-
pects in after life, was the bearer of the second £lOOO
from RAPHAEL to O'CONNELL. He received it some thirty
minutes before he entered the House of Commons, where
as is asserted, with the money in his pocket, he was
sworn in at the table " truly to try" the merits of the
petition which questioned the return, which his father

had received 1:2000 for supporting, maintaining, and vin-
dicating at his own expense, in a case, of course, where

his father, as he knew, was deeply and seriously con-
cerned.

This, we have said before, is a painful subject. We
sincerely pity the young man, in the dawn of life, hav-
ing, as he has, a virtuous, honest, and conservative mo-
ther, whose greatest source of unhappiness has been the
factious politics, and the dishonest practices of her hus-
band—whose son has been dragged into the responsibi-
lity of a vile tranaction by the reckWO'disregard of mo-
ral feeling which characterizes his father. We pity him;
but how can we pardon the hoary sinner who, regardless
of all consequences, could thus immolate on the shrine
'of expediency, and for the sake. of filthy lucre, d' very
helpless youth, whom he professes to regard?
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL was made the carrierand con-
veyancer of the second £lOOO paid to him by the solici-
tor of itA,PTIAEL ; and he entered the House of Commons
With the Money in his pocket, in the suspicious absence
of all the rest of the tail, -and was ballotted fur, without
objection, to try under the sanction of his oath the merits
of the petition which challenged the election of a mem-
ber for whose return he had the corrupt price and the
blood money in his pocket. How this is to be met or
answered we cannot even conjecture. O'CONNELL felt
that it was the most distressing point in the line of his
defence ; for beautiful is the fact, that men, hardened in
crime, often feel for the helpless and unhappy situation
of the innocent or inexperienced persons whom they
have contaminated and misled. Even those friends of
O'CONNELL, who are not generally included in the ranks
of modern philanthropists, must, however they may
support the father's politics, lament his errors, and pity
the situation of his son.
But what a defence ! Did ever an inebriated Irish
washerwoman vent in a riotous fair such a torrent of
twaddle and abuse, of rabid fustian and incoherent rea-
soning, of mawkish sentimentality and unblushing false-
hood, as DANIEL offered to the House of Commons on
Thursday last ? His language was the poetry of a mad-
man—his address to the passions were like the appeals
of a detected and convicted cheat. Never was such a
scene witnessed in the House of Commons, in a police
office, or at the bar of a criminal court. He coaxed and
stormed, begged and bullied, wheedled and menaced, all
to no purpose. In the agonies of conscious guilt he
made himself alike ridiculous and offensive. He was
pitied and despised. No friend had a word to offer in
his behalf. Those that feared him were silentthOSe
who understood_ him and hated him were disgusted.-

But let us waste a Moment in noticing some of the
appeals which the father addressed to the House in fa-
vour of his son.

Ist. " For himself lie scorned to complain; but there

was another person on whose account he appealed to
every man of feeling and to every father in the House
2d. " Was the honourable member who presented the
petition' himself a father ?. If he was, how could he
bring an allegation against the integrity of Mr. JOHN
OCONNtLL ?"

3d. He was harassed " by an imputation of perjury,
not against himself, but against as pure a creature as
ever breathed,"'

4th. "My feelings of love and affection—oh, they
cannot be described ! But I am consoled by my con-
sciousness of my son's integrity, and I bless my God
that mother .never had a more dutiful and respectful
son. (Loud laughter.)
sth. You hav,e endeavoured to plunge a dagger,
through my son's reputation, in my heart; but your ma-
lice has been frustrated, and your dagger has fallen
blunted on the impenetrable shield of the integrity of my
loved, my pure, and except by falsehood, my unimpeach-
able son:'

Was ever such bombast and puerility listened to in
any public assembly? Is this a defence ? The comical
part of it is where the father implores the son, whom he
subsequently describes to be " stainless as the driven
snow," to offer no defence, but to " leave this matter to
6e adjusted entirely between the member for Bradford
and himself."

To this the pure, dutiful, and respectful son replies—
" He (Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL) begged to be allowed to
make his own defence, and required no person to make
a defence for him."

What a dutiful son ! What a beautiful farce !

T4O:-Rev, ROBERT M'GHEE has sent a challenge to
that factious priest Dr. M'HALE, which has foralidable
claims upon the- attention-of the Roman catholic as` Well
as the protestant public. The challenge has reference to
the rules of discipline -inculcated in the execrable work
of PETER DENS, which is held in such high repute by
the Romish church, and of which six thou Sand copies have
beenprinted in Ireland within the last few years. Mr.
1114GREE calls upon Dr. APHALEto adniit or deny that
certain questions: of, an exceedingly delicate nature are
put to married :aid unmarried women in the confessional
—questions 'of a'netnre that no sensitive and innocent
female Can listen to without being overwhelmed with
shame • That suCh inestions are propounded by DENS,
and imposed as o..solonin,'duty upon the priests, we can
certify of olii:Own:‘i/lOW.Hedge, That they are disgusting
and calculated to' vallute:thelemale mind is undeniable.
Mr: ITGHEO deSiCiS:',Of.havinfi these questions trans,
hated from lihn4s VisOiogy :rand 'submitted to six Roman
catholic nobiegren-pd"Oritlemen, and he offers to abide
by their verdict as-tcotheit immoral tendency. He chal-
lenges'pr..WAit to 'meet such a jury, laymen of his
own church, ind translate the, passages himself, or allow
him, Mr. M9uLE, to .tianslatel.them. That the doctor
will ;not aceiipt the challenge we entertain no doubt,
whatever; b4l it is proper that the terms of it should be
made known,,:in order that all good Roman catholics
should be made aware of the ordeal through which their
wives, daughters, and sisters have too often to pass, their
examiners being, many of them young, and all of them
unmarried n4n. The following is an extract of Mr.
ArGHEE'S letter to Dr. M'HALE:—

" Now, Sir, X name six Roman catholic noblemen and gen-
tlemen; I beg to assure them that I take the liberty of naming
them with the greatest respect., as persons whom I believe the
Roman catholieis of Ireland will look up to, and whose award
would give the* entire satisfaction, and set their minds at rest
on the heart re4ding topic on which I appeal to them. I shall
name two nobbjmen, a lawyer, a solicitor, a physician, a mer-
chant—l natne!Lord Kenmare, Lord Killeen, Mr. Ball, K.C.,
Mr. Beasley, of Fitzwilliam-square, Sir James Murray, D.D.,
and Mr. J. M`Donnell, Bank Director. To these noblemen
and gentlemen I have not the honour of being known ; I have
not, to my knowledge, ever seen one of them—but I hesitate
not to commit myself into their hands—l throw myself with
confidence on their truth—l invite them to choose each a friend,
a Roman catholic, the man of whom they have the highest
opinion as to his moral character and his feelings as a man. I
only stipulate that he be a husband and a father. There will
be a jury of tw:eve Roman catholics.
" Now, Sir, I
call upon you, if you dare, to hare your deed
of darkness
:d6gged into
.the light of day. I call upon you,
rbefote-the-Ttine sitebiat dOceiyed-_ and betrayed people—l' call
upon you, before the Roman catholics of Ireland, who know
not, alas, the bondage they are doomed to suffer—l call upon'
you, in the presence of that God, at whose tribunal you shall
stand to reader an account for that system of dark iniquity
which you administer, to meet me in private, where alone such
transaction could be conducted, before these twelve Roman
catholics; and if you arc afraid to do so yourself, find iu all
your chnich, priest, professor, or bishop, with hardihood enough
to undertake the 'task. Let your, or let him, translate or Write
in their presence the passages of your detestable stamlard er.
theology, which I shall point out—let them read the principles
of polleting obscinity with which your minds are to .beltnrnished,
for the examination of their wives and daughteteln*yout 'dark
and secret confessional, where the poor unprotected female,
bound under terror, and constrained of necessity' to eternal
silence, can have no refuge and no escape—nohusband and:lici
fa:tlier near', to hear and to drag from .his den the monster, ..who,
undet the guise of religion, eau put every, feeling of her heart
upon the rack, and in proportion to her 'delidaY, Fier sensibility,
her very reverence for what she unhappily believes to be an
ordinance of God instead 'of an invention of Satanic guilt
and tyranny, can bow her spirit into his power, humble her
into the 'very: dust-beneath his feet, iT she be virtuous; or drag
her, if it be possible,: and. be. be so "inclined, in the paths of
profligate eednOliii." , •

The people who pay local taxes in this town will pro-
bably recollect that in the last year a bill was prepared
for parliament, the object of which was to organize an
efficient police for Liverpool. We believe that the mea-.
sure differed materially from the one now in a state of
formation by the reformed town council, inasmuch that
economy was studied, and p4l,ronage deemed unworthy
of consideration.

The bill was opposed by certain worthy and enlightened
" citizens," as Lord MELBOURNE called them, who then
constituted the ,board of scavengers, lamplighters, street
sweepers, sewer cleaners, &C. &c. They objected
to the bill on the ground of the serious expense which
it would entail upon the inhabitants, and we give them
credit for ail the praise, and the acknowledgements of
their local patriotism, which their opposition obtained
fcr them.
But a change has taken place. Some patriots are in
power-7-others in disgrace. Mr. COGLAN of the bath is in
place—;--Mr. WALES is not in office. All the scavengers have
been swept out. The reformers of 1834 in the scavenging
department, notwithstanding the important services they
had rendered the town, had their merits entirely and
most unpardonably overlooked. The objections of M.
\VALES are now treated with contempt. The opinions
of his liberal collenges are tossed into the dust hole, and
a new police is to be embodied under circumstances
which must alarm him and them, and at an expense
which he and they must, or at least, ought to consider
unwarrantable, if not profligate.
The new police to be formed—independent of the dock
police—is to consist of 1 head constable and his horse,
,1 sitting commissioner, 4 superintendents, 8 constables
4 clerks, 10 Bridewell keepers, '2l inspectors, 4 turnkeys:
and 290 watchmen, making in all upwards of 340 police-
men, at an expense which the reformed town council
calculate, at £24,000, but which we contend cannot be
maintained in an efficient state for much less than
£40,000.

The liberal scavengers who opposed the bill of 1835
now agree that the expensive bill of 1836 is deserving of
all praise, even though they are deemed unfit to ma-
nage it. The old or present police force. --exclusive of
the dock police—consisted of 2 superintendents, 16 cap-
tains, 53 constables, and 130 watchmen—in all 201 men.

Mr. \VALES and his fellow-lamplighters, who opposed
the bill of last year, offer no objections to the present po-
lice bill, which is evidently a patronage bill concocted by
the reformed corporation ; yet it is capable of proof that
the present reform bill is a much more expensive one
than the bill of the old corporation.
ti In the report
which the board of scavengers, of which Mr. WALES was
chairman, drew up in March 1835, they state their ob-
jections to the then contemplated police bill in the fol-
lowing terms:—

" The existing corporation police are supposed to be on duty
during the day, at all events they were appointed for that pur-
pose, and your committee are decidedly of opinion that if that
force were as efficient as either of the other police establish-
ments, there are now nearly enc,,ugh If men to discharge all the

duties contemplated by the supposed bill; and that at all events,
if tliat body be to be maintained, according to its present
numerical force, a very trifling additional number of men will be
necessary. If this view of the subject he correct, that part of
the bill which provides for a superintendant, treasurer, clerkt,
and other expensive machinery, will be totally unnecessary, as
all those offices must now be in existence to regulate the present
day police."

Here we find that the liberal board or 1834 and 1835
are of opinion that to render the old police efficient a
" very trifling additional number of men will be neces-
sary." They also objected to an increased number of
superintendents, treasurers, clerks, and "other expensive
machinery." But what do these gentlemen say now ?
Not one word. They see a much more expensive police
about to he established than they ever contemplated—
they see jobbing going on in all directions—they 'see
every thing sacrificed to, patronage they see the pro-
perty of the town placed in the trust of parties who
should hot be :Intrusted with its protection—and yet they
look on in silence. They see the town police, in clefi-
ance of their report, increased from 201 to 340 ten-the
salaries of whom, in many cases, are doubled—and yet
they do not complain. Does this silence evince much
honesty on their part ? Is it caused by policy or faction ?
We leavethose shopkeepers, who will shortly be called
upon to pay a borough rate, to answer the question.

The editor of The Liverpool
.organ of the papists, the
Journal, discharged, in his last quarto sheet, one of his
little missiles againstthe rector of Sepliton, becausethat
reverend gentleman has ventured to enforce his demand
for four years' arrears of small tithes due to him from a
popish priest of tie name of ABRAM, who happens to be
one of his parishioners.
Our-learned contemporary argues, in the first -place,
that the-demand ought mottei-b'e enforced=—for wliat~r`ea=
son think you, gentle reader ?—because it only at Mints
to eighteen-pence ! and, secondly, although lie does not
dispute the legality of the .claim, because the non-pay,
merit of it may be caused by a SCRUPLE Of CONSCIENCE!
- This novel and ingenious manner of arguing the ques-

tion would almost induce, a belief that the holy friar of
the J:ournat had taken his degree at the college of May-
nooth, where "Thou shalt not steal" is not held to be
an absolute prohibition against thieving, provided, a
given quantity be not purloined.

With respect to the smallness of the demand, it ap-
,pears not to have occurred to the writer of the article in
qUestion that 66 the one halfpenny per annum for smoke
money" and " the one halfpenny for, each cock and hen,"
together with the other items which he has so facetiously
enumerated, may arise from an ancient modus or Conine-,
sition for small tithes, but for the existence of- which the
rector's demand, in consequence of the altered value of
money, would probably be ten times greater in amount..
He has also strangely overlooked, or is altogether igno-•
rant of another pOssible fact, namely, that the rector's
income may depend wholly upon the Collection of small
tithes levied in very trifling sums—and this we knOvilO
be the case in'some places—froni the inhabitants of his
parish. The existence of this state of things may, per-
haps, be good grounds for legislative interference ; but,
until the. law has provided another remedy, the rector
has no othercourse to pursue than the one he hai adopted
in a case where he appears to have met with a contuma-
cious refusal to pay his admitted just and legal claims.
The chief ground of complaint, however, against the
rector is the exaction of his small tithes from priest
ABRAM, who, it is inferred, ought not to be called upon
to pay them. Here again we can supply the Journal
with another scrap of information respecting tithe matters,
of which we suspect he is ignorant. The vicar of Bidstone
receives no tithes whatever, but, strange to say, actually
pays tithes for his glebe, by the rent of which he is sup-
ported, to a catholie lay-impropriater ! Supposing father
ABRAM, of Sepliton, were the son of the catholic lay-iin-
propriator of Bidstone, would he, on succeeding to the
inheritance of that property, forego the right to exact the
tithes due to him from the glebe of that parish ?
suspect that Ile would not, nor indeed can we see any.
good reason why he sbotild de. so.
But,the most curious part of our contemporary's rea-
spuipg is foulided upon. the priest's scruples if ccnsciencL
'We take for granted the holy father eats and drinks—oc-
casionally perchance slakes his thirstwith a more spiritual
beverage than pure-water—and is also clothed like other
men. Now what would his baker, his butcher, his fish-.
monger, hiS tailor, or his wine merchant say, were his
" scruples of conscience" urged against the justice of
their demands ? If his scruples of conscience can be ad-
,mitted in the one case they are good in all those we, have
-assumed.; and WO reverence might refuse upon the same
grounds to pay his whipmaker, because the thongs of
thal instrument with. which he flagellates his hack are
too hard or too soft; or his hair-shirt maker, because that
garment niayl)c too rough or too smooth for his holy
carcase. " Conscience" is a mighty fine thing to talk
about when justice is sought to be evaded.. Father
ABRAM may have a vow "registered in Heaven" not to'
pay tithes, for ought we know to the contrary ; but When,
he talks of " conscience" lie should first consider that
others may feel that inward monitor as powerfully as
himself. He cannot be ignorant that the incumbent or
every ecclesiastical betiefice belonging to the established
church of England is bound by his oath of induction not
to forego any rights or dues appurtenant to his clerical
freehold, nor to make : any waste of any portion of
.the -property of the: church committed to WS. charge
during his incumbency. The demand then of the rector
of Sephton is as much a matter of " conscience" as the
resistance of the popish priest of that place can possibly
be. Were incumbents of livings permitted to give up
their dues one after another, the temporalities, of the
church-would long since lidve been destroyed altogether.
The superscription on .the attorney's letter, ‘4 Mr.
ABRAM PRIEST," is evidently an error of the clerk .whO
wrote it. .. Poor Journal ! canst thou find nothing better
than this to exercise thy stnall•wit upon ?

LONDON LA7'.EST NEWS.

City, Saturday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock.

• An official return has been published to-day, .bearing very
materially upon the amount of the_ circulation of the country,
return of the amount of notes circulated in England and
Vales by private banks, joint stock banks, and their brancheS,
in the quarter ending on the 26th December last. It appears
from this dectiment that the circulation of notes by these estab-
lishments. has been increased in the last quarter to the extent of
4713,791. The ,present circulation or the private banks' is
stated at £8,33-I,B63;inthe previous quarter it was 47.,912,587i
The circulation of the joint stock banks in the quarter ending
onthe 2,4th'..4ple'iiter last was 42X3,°36; but in the qtiarte
ending on the
.26th December it was 12,799,551. Taking
_tle
increase `of The I,eireulation of the Bank of .England, of fhe
private hanlr, and the joint stock banks, it appears that in the:
last quarter there has been altogether an augmentation to thea
circulation of the. country of very near one million. sterling.
The accounts received from Canada to-day to the 19th ult.,
state that a considerable sensation has been produced in the.
lower provinces by the issuing of a proclamation by Lord Gos-'
ford, putting down the rifle corps which had been established by
the constitutional party to maintain the connexion between
England and the colony. The constitutionalists had'passed
several strong resolutions against the votes of the assembly,'
granting sums of money to promote objects which they con)
sidered favoured the French party.
The public securities have been very firm to-day, Consols for
account closing at 911, and for money at 911 /. Exchequer
Bills were quoted at 18s. to 20s. India Bonds 3s. to ss.
In the Foreign Stock• Market business has been dull. Spanish.
Bonds, however, have risen from -17 i to 18, at which they closed.
Portuguese Stock is also a shade higher, leaving off at 831, and,
the 3 per Cents, at 53. French Stock has advanced to-day.!
the 5 per Cent. Rentes having reached 109 f. and the 3 pert
Cents. 80f. 75c., with the Exchange at 25f. 60c. Belgian,i
Dutch, and the Northern Bonds remain very steady. 'l'berel
were no bargains made in Mexican Stock to-day. Colombian!
closed heavily at 32/.
The Share Mark,et has been iwa very animated state to-day.
The London and -Brighton Railway Shares (Rennie's rlan)
have advanced to 21 premium, and the London and Birming-
ham to 66 premium. The Greenwich Shares remain at. 8i pre-
mium, and the London and Southampton at 24 to 3 premium.
The Great Western Shares have risen to 171 premium, The
Waite and Maine Canal Shares have heed' sold at a discount
of £8 per share.

Her majesty's birthday will be kept on the 21th inst. which
will give an impulse to trade, as the fashionable world Lon-
don are beginning to prepare for the event; and the ladies will
appear at the Drawing-room, it is hoped, in British manufac-
ture. The anniversary of the birthday of his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge falls onthe same day, and Will be cele-
brated by his trades-people as tisual.'

PRESENT-TO CAPTAIN iENKINSON, OF THE
JOHN PORTEIL.

CAPTAIN JOSEPH JENKINSON, SHIP JOHN POR4EH,
DEAK SIR,—We beg to present, and request your aCept".
ante of, a snuff box, as a testimony of our esteem for your kind
attention during our passage from Halifax to this port, and as a
memento of your having performed eight passages, or four
nom fete voyages, from port to port, in less than eleveu.moutbs,
Wishing that you may long continue your prosperous career
is the sincere desire of
Your Obediejit servants, -
JAMES LONG,
EDWARD BILLIkGE;
PETER NolitiEcit.,
JOSEPH MVN DELL,
S. MON X.TON,
E. LYDIARD.

GRWi'LE.UEN,-1 thank Yriu most cordially for the harldsmilk
token.of your esteem which you haVe thought innaor servl7,
ces worthy of; it shall always be referred to with feelings
pride, and shall-stimulate to future'exeitiob.
Believe me, with great respect,
• -Gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant, • •
JOSEPH JENItINSOg.