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TIE kit STANDARD.

lotte de la Tremouille, countess of Derby, was the daugh-
ter of Claude de la Tremouille, due de Thouars, and of
the Lady Charlotte, daughter of William, the first prince
of Orange, and of Charlotte de Bourbon his wife. Such
was the descent of the justly celebrated countess ; and she
inherited the valour and judgment of her ancestor of the
House of Orange.
At a very early age Charlotte de la Tremouille was
united to the earl, and their union was truly propitious—
mutual affection, congeniality of character, immense
wealth, high reputation, were their blessings. To these
were added, in due time, the felicity of children, both
numerous and promising. " This marvellous picture,"
observes a modern writer, "of almost superhuman
felicity, was doomed to be torn in pieces and scattered to
the winds, by the accursed demon of faction and rebellion."

Beauty, as far as we can judge by the portrait of Van-
dyke, preserved in the family collection, was not the attri-
bute of the illustrious Charlotte. She is represented by
the matchless pencil as fat and clumsy, with ordinary
features, except the eye, which, though at first sight it
may appear sleepy, has a mine of thought buried beneath
those over-hanging lashes. Dressed according to the
custom of the day, her hair in slender ringlets, a rich
pearl in her hair, a single row round her neck, her dress
of white satin, with full-hanging sleeves trimmed with
several rows of large pearls, and fastened by a brooch of
rich gems, one looks in vain for that aristocratic bearing
to which the descendant of a Bourbon seems entitled even
by birth. There is, it must be confessed, more of the
Dutch than of the French genealogy, expressed in the
form and features of Charlotte de la•Tremouille.

Her husband. on the other hand, bore that impress Of
high birth which it is scarcely possible to define, but
which we feel by daily experience to exist. His brow was
indeed low, and his long hair fell over it so as to shroud
it ; but his eyes are full of animation, the nose is fine and
well formed, the mouth surmounted by a slight mous-
tache, is expressive of much sweetness. He is depicted,
also by Vandyke, in a suit of armour, over which his long
locks, scarcely curled, flow freely.
The earl had been little known until he appeared before
the world in his military character. He passed the first
years of his happy marriage in a princely privacy, super-
intending the various establishments of his father in the
Isle of Man, and attending to the morals of a population
who owned the Earls of Derby as their kings, and
honoured them with a filial affection. His leisure from
these momentous pursuits were spent in literature and
philosophy ; and among other productions, his " History
of the Isle of Man," preserved in the Desiderata Curiosq,
is still valued. Not long, however, after his accession to
the title, he was called by his duty to his sovereign into
the field. The motto, " Sans changer," anciently
adopted by the elder branch of the Stanleys, was not
falsified by this valiant man. He was among the first of
the nobility to raise forces for the king, the first to attend
the summons of the monarch—never to desert that cause
whilst life remained.

He was at Lathom when intelligence was brought to
him that a design was formed to take the Isle of Man : he
hastened thither. Throwing into his house at Lathom a
few soldiers, and collecting such arms and ammunition as
he could, he left it for ever.
His countess and her children remained behind ; and
scarcely had Lord Derby reached the Isle of Man, when
she heard that her house would be attacked—she feared,
by a sudden assault. Her soldiers were raw, inexpe-
rienced countrymen, but they were faithful ; and among
her garrison there was a Captain Farmer, a veteran officer,
trained to war in that famous school, the Low Countries.
Lady Derby having discerned his merit, made him
major of the house ; and placed under his command six
captains, chosen from among the gentlemen of her house-
hold. Under these, again, were the common soldiers
listed, trained by them and instructed. These prepara-
tions were skilfully concealed, and such was the fidelity
of her household, that when the enemy approached they
had no idea of any other forces than her own servants
being within the house.
On the 28th of February, 1644, Sir Thomas Fairfax,
willing, perhaps, to spare the countess the horrors of a
siege, desired a conference. She consented. He was re-
ceived in the great hall of Lathom. As he entered the
first court, the wary general was struck by the'aPPearance
of what seemed a considerable force. Not only the main
guard occupied the first court, but men were ranged in
open sight, on the top of the walls, and on the towers,
in such a manner as to appear more numerous than they
really were.

This was done by the advice of Captain Farmer, not
only to prevent a surprise, but to intimidate the enemy
by appearance of strength, for the army which besieged
Lathom amounted to 4,000 men. Sir Thomas, and a
gentleman of quality who accompanied him, were received
with a lofty courtesy. But when he offered terms, the
lady required a month's delay to consider of them.
" Not a day's," was the reply, and Fairfax departed.

He was ;till uncertain whether to commence a regular
siege, or to attempt to take the place by storm ; but he
was deceived by a mean negotiation between one of his
officers and the chaplain of the house, into the belief that
the countess had no store of provisions. He therefore
decided on a siege : for fourteen days hostilities were de-
layed—then, supposing that her supplies were exhausted,
he summoned the countess to surrender. The answer,
sent by a trumpeter, was worthy the heroine who penned
it. It was this :—" That, as she had not lost her regard
for the Church of England, nor her allegiance to her
prince, nor her faith to her lord, she could not, therefore,
as yet, give up the house ; that they must never hope to
gain it till she had either lost all of these, or her life, in
defence of them." And this reply came after a torturing
continuance of suspense of fourteen days.
The seige now began in earnest, and it continued with-
out let or intermission during a space of three months.
Many were the gallant feats of arms which distinguished
the sorties made by the garrison ; and well was the spirit
of the men sustained by the heroic courage of their mis-
tress. She feared neither shot nor shell. More than
once a cannon-ball passed through the chamber, and much
was she annoyed by the fire of a mortar—a new engine of
war in those days—at least to the troops which held
Lathom House. But she made light of every peril which
threatened her own person, and taught her people, by the
example which she set, to prefer death to dishonour.
These things have occurred elsewhere, therefore we need
not dwell upon them. But possibly the following little
anecdote may interest, though that, too, might be
paralleled, had we leisure, at this moment, to look about
for its fac-simile.

It happened, during the progress of the siege, that a dog,
belonging to some gentleman in the house, proved himself
a friend to man in a very remarkable manner. The chap-
lain, who managed all correspondence carried on by the
garrison with their friends without, by means of ciphers,
was in great want of some means of conveying his de-
spatches out of the house, surrounded on every side, as it
was, by enemies ; till, observing that a dog was in the
habit of going to and fro from his master in the house t o
his mistress, who lived a short distance from it, he deter-
mined to make the animal his messenger. Having tied
his despatch, tightly rolled, by a thin string, to the neck
of the animal, he managed to convey intelligence of it to
the gentlewoman, wife of the dog's master, and directed
her to forward all she received, as she best could, to his
majesty. She did po ; and having kept the trusty crea-
ture by her for a day or so without food, she then turned
him out of doors, and he invariably returned to his mas-
ter in Lathom House. By this means the poor besieged
inhabitants sent intelligence of their condition to the king
and his friends, and received in their turn news back from
them. For many months the faithful animal discharged
this important office, bringing encouragement to the gar-
rison, enabling them to know on what they might de-
pend ; so that, having accurate information of the state
of the king's affairs, they were never excited by false
hope, nor too much cast down by the disappointment of
ill-founded expectations. But the fate of the faithful dog
was melancholy. One day, when returning to the house,.
laden with tidings as usual, an idle soldier discharged his
musket at the poor creature. The dog, true to his trust,
managed to drag himself near the gate with his precious
cargo, and then laid himself down and died. His death
deprived the garrison of a most sure and trusty friend,
and of the greatest comfort and solace of which their con-
dition was susceptible—the means of communication with
the outer world.
During three months the contest was protracted, but
Charlotte de la Tremouille prevailed. The parliamentary
general, on the 27th of May, withdrew his forces to Bol-
ton. Four thousand men had been planted before the
walls of Lathom, two thousand alone marched away, such
had been the slaughter; and the Eagle Tower still rose
us in its untouched strength, the banner of the
s waving proudly over it. A short interval of

was there in the halls of Lathom, and a brief
season of repose to the noble Charlotte, before another
host appeared before the gates. No longer were the
cropped locks and demure faces of the parliamentarians
there. No, a gallant band, headed by one of the hand-
somest cavaliers of his time, came riding gaily and tri-

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THE GREED HUNT.
(Prom the Dublin Univerdtp Magazine)
Had I to minister to a mind diseased—to one that ever
stoops so wearily to count the thorns that pierce his feet
upon his earthly path, that he forgets to look upon the
radiance shining overhead—l would lead him forth on a
still, calm summer's night in Greece, and bid him enter
into the spirit of that unutterable rest which pervades its
very atmosphere ; not on a starry night, when the marvel
of the illimitable worlds might allure him to plunge lamp
less into the darknesi of the mystery around us—a mental
torture to which there is no anguish comparable—but
when only the moon, serene in lonely beauty, walks in her
brightness over that vault of pure blue ether, without one
passing cloud between the sunset and the dawning to mo-
lest her silvery path, or obstruct her steady gaze upon the
beautiful world. benign as that of a mother on her slum-

bering child. lam certain there is no pang, save that
of remembered crimes, that would not vanish stingless be-
neath that wonderful repose. But who has not often won-
dered to see how those placid moonbeams fall, alike com-
placently, on all that nature can show forth most lovely,
and all that man has made most foul, glancinz from the
fair face of the sleeping infant, to the guilty head of the
murderer as he skulks out to his deeds of darkr

—from

the lonely valley in its silent loveliness, to the crowded
city where Mammon sits enthroned ; and to-night, these
beams are shed without reserve on the once fair and fallen
Corinth, radiant alike upon the snow-white mournful
ruins of her memory-haunted temples, and on the Mos-.
Lein Bey's great palace of luxury, brilliant with the red
glare of its many lamps—the splendid receptacle for au-
thorised crimes.

Kyamil Bey lay at the foot of a tall palm tree within
his vast and beautiful garden ; his couch was a leopard-
skin, and his head was pillowed on the knees of a young
negro, who sat upright, motionless as a statue of bronze ;
before him danced a group of female slaves, gliding with
graceful, undulating movement amongst the trees, and
singing softly as they flitted by. *

r Fehim,' said the Bey, "I am sick of this insipid life !
—are my soldiers asleep that they bring me no more pri-
soners, no plunder, no slaves !"

" Highness ! only yesterday they were out scouring the
country, and they brought in some fifty or sixty pairs of
ears."

" Bah ! what child's play is this ? Were there no
heads !"

" But few, great master ! I could scarce string them
into a necklace for your humble slave," said the negro,
with a horrible grin.

" Mashallah these idle slaves will do no good till I
ride with them myself ; and this is not a time to let our
hand lie lightly on these Ghiaour dogs. They say the re-
bel Ipsilanti has dared to land not far from hence. Fehim,
I must find means to shew these wily infidels that they shall
not draw their necks from beneath my feet so easily."
" What say you to a Greek hunt, noble master," said
the Nubian, laughing low. "It is long since your High-
ness has been at the chase."

" True ! and by the beard of my father it is good sport;
but I have hunted over these provinces so often, that now
the lazy rebels will not run ; they lie down beneath the
horses' feet at once ; it is wearisome to slaughter them
without a chase."

" But if your Highness would condescend to ride to-
wards the mountains, we might have noble sport. I know
a certain village, where they scarcely know the taste of
Turkish steel."

" Good ! good ! we should find them fresh and full of
fire then : 1 long for some such sport. Fehim, let all be
ready for a distant hunt at the break of day ; you shall
guide us to the spot, and I myself will start the game."
* * * It was the feast of St. Nicholas. * * *
Singing and dancing, tossing their red caps in the air, and
waking up the long-slumbering echoes with their joyous
voices, the peasant troop had already descended from the
cliff, and proceeded in all safety to traverse the flat table-
land on which their village stood. But it suffices of one
single moment, when it springs from the infinite, freighted
by destiny, to change the voice of gladness for the shriek
of terror, the tranquil happiness for deepest misery, and
the dream-haunted slumber for the cold lethargy of death !
Suddenly, from that gay, peaceful band, there rises one
spontaneous cry—
" The Turks ! the Turks !—amaun ! amaun !"

It was no false alarm. Sweeping on towards them,
with their sabres glittering in the sun, appears a warlike
troop of stately Moslems. Side by side with the Bey of
Corinth, rides the terrible negro, Fehim, mounted on one
of the horses of Arnaout, so famed for their size and
strength, and holding in leash a number of those fierce
Macedonian hounds, whose incredible swiftness and cou-
rage, and savage fury when provoked, render them a dan-
gerous and deadly foe to man. It may seem, that thus to
describe a " Greek hunt," or even to give so horrible a title
to the causeless and needless massacre it is intended to
express, can only be an unwarrantable exaggeration, or a
most unnecessary attempt to render still more striking the
miseries endured by the Hellenic people under the Mos-
lem rule. But such is by no means the case ; the name is
not an invention, but was currently in use among the
Turks, as defining most clearly an amusement to which
they were greatly addicted, whether from motives of re-
venge at any symptom of rebellion, as in the present case,
or from the mere craving for excitement and unnatural
thirst for blood. It consisted simply in going up with
their dogs and their horses to some quiet village, and giv-
ing chase to the wretched inhabitants as they fled before
them, till they had fairly run them down, and could mas-
sacre them at their leisure. But at least, we may hurry
over the recital, for it can profit little that we should dwell
on the details of a scene so revolting as to seem indeed
but the production of a diseased imagination, if ever one
single imagination could have-conceived that human beings
could be systematically hunted down by their own fellow-
creatures.

Shrieking and imploring mercy, over the rocks the vic-
tims fled, whilst Kyamil Bey, his eye glaring with excite-
ment, led on the terrible band that followed them, shout-
ing in their unhallowed mirth. The women were for the
most part torn down by the dogs and speedily dispatched ;
the men afforded a more exciting sport, as, striving with
their peculiar swiftness of foot to outstrip the horses that
were thundering after them, they strained every nerve in
one wild effort to escape—an effort perfectly unavailing,
for, when they were not cut to pieces by the sword, the
Moslems, all admirable marksmen, took aim at them with
their long tupheks, and brought them down at once. None
escaped; for although some, favoured by the quickly
deepening twilight, hid themselves amongst the rocks
and bushes, their fate was perhaps still more terrible than
that of the easier victims. who already lay stiff in their
blood, beyond the power of man to make them suffer
more—for, with the first dawn of light, they knew their
enemies would be astir, to track out with the bloodhounds
every lingering victim, and even if by a miracle they
escaped them, they must infallibly perish at last of h Inger
and thirst.

A RAILWAY WITNESS ON RAILWAY COMMITTEES.—
The question which I once lilt to you before, and which
I certainly would put to Mat plucky little fellow Lord
John Russell, if I happened to have the honour of his
acquaintance, is simply this—Would it not be better that
the evidence which is now taken before committees of the
House of Commons on railway and other bills should be
given in Scotland, Ireland, and the provinces, before a
paid commission and on oath ? Certain lam that the
work would be far better done. Results would be more
accurately brought out, the truth would be better sifted,
and there would be an end to that profligate system of
demoralisation which is doing no good to London, and is
rapidly corrupting such of us as are necessarily drawn
within its influence. Honorable members would be re-
lieved from a harassing, tedious, and laborious duty; and
their legislative functions need not be interfered with, ash
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his attention ; for his whole day is occupied with a dreary
detail of curves, gradients and sections and by being
compelled to do too much, he is crippled in the exercise
and discharge of by far his most important functions.
And further, the railway .interest is already too widely
spread in the House of Commons. Almost every member

has an interest, direct or indirect, in some particular—line
or company ; and it is impossible to expect that in every
case there shall not be a particular sway or bias in the
minds of some of the judges. This is not right nor decent.
The leading quality which is required of a judge in every
department is a strict and thorough impartiality, and an
absolute renunciation of every interested motive ;—and no
sacrifice on the part of the public can be too great to at-
tain so desirable an end. It would be well for us if, dur-
ing the last and the preceding. year, country members had
been more occupied with watching the attitude and the
proceedings of the ministry, and less with the conflicting
statements of rival companies and engineers. Had they
been attending to the Currency and the Corn-laws, we
ought ' escaped from a commercial crisis_ Wt•'

to have
even the railway shareholder, as I imagine, has been to-
lerably severely pinched. And really, Ido not think that
we are compensated in the sight of Heaven, by our five
guineas a-day, for the enormous immoralities which w,
contract in this overgrown and seductive city. '
some thousands of us here, all living like plethoric game-
cocks ; and, so far as I can gather, going, in plain lan-
cuage, as fast as possible to the devil. I wish you saw the
-able which takes place in the lobby of the committee
A perfect torrent of engineers, sur-
solicitors, agents, and witnesses—in the middle of
which, every here and there, appears the cauliflower head
—l—pours up the stairs. The refreshment table
up with thirsty demons, all clamorous for
their matutinal tea having failed to quench thr
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SIR DIGBY MACWORTH, AND THE ORIGIN

OF THE NATIONAL CLUB.

(From a Correspondent.)
It affords us extreme pleasure in transferring to our
columns the following extract from the speech of Mr.
Colquhoun, M.P., which was delivered at the opening
dinner of the National Club House, on the 12th May
•last. When referring to the desertion of Sir Robert
Peel and his colleagues, from their true Protestant princi-
ples, the hon. member said :—" We could no longer re-
main members of a party, which had abandoned the
principles upon which it was constructed. A new task
fell upon us. This seems the occasion when I should
offer my tribute to services little known. Years ago—l
think in 1839—an honourable friend, now present, came
to London, and had an interview with a noble friend of

mine and with several others. He urged upon us the
duty, which he thought then plain, of forming a Protest-
ant union, based upon distinct principles, which should
not fluctuate with fluctuating opinions, nor be subject. to
be perverted by political parties, but which should remain
fixed on the solid ground of enduring principle. I am
bound to say,.(l say it to my own shame,) we shrunk
from the proposal then made us. Perhaps the time was
-"

not come,—certainly our courage was no. Ne did not
feel that we could then face the obloquy, the painful
severance from party, the position of isolation, as it
would seem of presumption, which we should assume.
We one and all shrank back. We admitted that we could
not place full trust in Sir Robert Peel, but we had great
hopes. There were bad omens ; there were things said
which we did not like ; there were things left unsaid
which alarmed us. But still, we said, where else can we
look for a Government ? We see, among the ranks of
those who will form it, men of principle ; can we doubt
that when in power, they will do their duty ? My lord,
various events ensued—great changes ; principles avowed
which we disliked, measures which we were forced to
resist; finally, the Maynooth Bill. There was room for
no longer hesitation. The time was come. We gave our
doubts to the winds ; and then we remembered the ad-
vice and the injunctions of Sir Digby Mackworth, and in
the midst of difficulty and discouragement, we cheered
ourselves with the confidence which his assurance gave ;
we remembered the reliance which he placed on the sound
Protestant feeling of England ; we cheered ourselves,
above all, on that highest support to which his words and
his example pointed ' • we felt that if our cause was good,
lie that guides a good cause would not fail us. We did,
therefore, under the pressure of strong circumstances, as
your Grace well remembers (the Duke of Manchester),
with you at our head, form the National Club."
Thus we are chiefly indebted to the keen discrimina-
tion, and timely suggestion of our gallant candidate, Sir
Digby Mackworth, for the existence of that powerful and
influential Association, which will for ever uphold the
preeminence of genuine Protestantism in the constitution
of our country ; in despite of all the opposition and in-
trigues of a dissatisfied and apostatical few. We hope
the Protestant electors of Liverpool will bestir themselves,
and each resolve to do his duty in returning Sir Digby,
and thus show to the country at large, that they are still
true and honest to their principles.

LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING, 1847

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THE CROPS AND THE FOOD MARKETS

Potatoes are looking most promising, not the slightest
of disease being visible.—Kilkenny Journal.
LIMERICK.—The reports hence are most cheering. Po-
tatoes have been dug in several districts, and found to be
of the best quality.
HARVEST PROSPECTS.—AII our provincial contempo-
raries concur in bearing testimony to the luxuriant and
healthy appearance of the crops in their respective dis-
tricts.

WATERFORD.—In the memory of man never was there
such a magnificent appearance of a great harvest. All
crops ara in a glorious state of progress. No blight here!
No prospect of more causes of disease, famine, and death
in this neighbourhood ! Waterford Chronicle.
The bug-bear of the potato blight seems to- have en-
tirely disappeared, and we hear nothing either of Mr.
Smee's vastator or Mr. Cooper's electricity.—Unhappily.
we cannot yet be sure that disease will not attack the po-
tato ; but it is well to know that it has not.—Pilot:

PROSPECTIVE CHEAPNESS OF POTATOES.—SO confi-
dent are the growers of the healthiness of the potato crop
this year, that we were told on Thursday, by a highly
respectable gentleman, of a farmer who had engaged to
deliver five hundred loads in October, at five shillings per
load!—Manchester Times.

We have been favoured by Mr. Robert Jackson, Bally-
saxe, county Meath, with an ordinary specimen of white
wheat the stalk of which measures four feet in length, and
the ear is full and weighty. He assures us that the con-
dition of the oat and potato crops warrants the most san-
guine anticipations of an abundant produce.—Dublin
Evening Herald.

We have been requsted by a subscriber to state the
latest periods at which the different varieties of turnips
should be sown this, season (Swedes not included)—Aber-
deens till the 10th of July; Dales hybrid till the 31st of
July ; but the sooner now that either of the above are
sown the better. Norfolks and Globes at any time in
July ; stone and Dutch turnips to the middle of August ;
but, except on good land, and on well sheltered' stations,
this is a late period at which to sow any kind of turnip.—
Irish Farmers' Gazette,

CHEAPNESS, OF VEGETABLES.—The supply of vegeta-
bles to the London markets is very abundant. At Co-
vent-garden, good new potatoes, not the least diseased,
have been selling as low as Bs. per hundred weight, with a
good supply. Lettuces were selling at 3d. per score ; cab-
bage plants, from 2s. to 2s. 6d. per dozen bunches ; cab-
bages, from 9d. to ls. 6d. per dozen, and other commodi-
ties equally cheap. So great has been the supply of haut-
boys and strawberries, that the hawkers of the metropolis
were selling them about the streets at the low price of 2d.
per pound.

ARRIVALS OF GRAlN.—Upwards of 8,000 quarters of
grain arrived at this port last week at two successive
tides. One beautiful brig, the Warrior, of Montrose, has
2,000 quarters. Tho'se cargoes are all from foreign ports,
and we hear that much more is on the way, From the
pre-occupied state of our numerous granaries no stowage
could be obtained, and in the meantime the vessels in
which freights came had to be detained for want of better
accommodation. This does not bear out the assertion of
famine abroad with which interested parties alarmed us
so much throughout the winter and spring.—Perth Con-
stitutional.

THE. FOOD CROPS IN AMERlCA.—According to the
New York Morning Herald, the prospects of the grain
crop are highly promising in these countries. There are
no blighted spots in the wide fields of the states. Some
of the wheats were injured in the spring by the drought
and the cold winds, but where they partially failed, fine
crops of maize sown in their place had sprung up. The
weather latterly had been very fine and feeding. Where
tobacco, too, was unpromising, it has been superseded by
spring wheat 'ai4 other grain. From the eastern states
the accounts are most cheering, and a greater quantity of
breadstuffs is expected than was ever before produced in
one season. A much greater breadth of potatoes has
also been sown than formerly. In New Jersey alone the
surface sown with corn exceeds that of last year by
100,000 acres, which at a low estimate ought to yield four
millions of bushels ! Pennsylvania ~rill yield more than
an average crop. Michigan can this year spare 500,000
barrels of flour. The blight reached the southern portion
of Racine and Walworth counties, but all through the
northern, middle, and western sections, the standing
grain presents a luxuriant appearance ; and it is confi-
dently expected that the surplus for export will greatly
I - -4 any former year. Last vp--, f-

exceec. at of _ ... —0 year's expos, .rona
the territory was something over half a million of bushels
The Wisconsin Sentinel says " There can be r
doubt that the export of wheat and flour from v'
There are I for the present year will r.

The wheat-

a million bushel
the -other states are equally fortunate.
ds in Canada also look most encouraging

V isconsin
" Many

" IS THE POTATOE BLIGHTED

tion of more

than parliamentary or electioneering Interest
pondent, whose name avouches to us his scien
ledge, gives us a somewhat cheering view of th
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—.table worlds. This will not appear s,
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ation, in a very low d
asure or of pain, as v

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is not the least shadow of a doubt but tl
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