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7'o THE EDIII9R or roz .STATIESMAitr.

To rim EDITOR or Tux STATESMAN.

Sin,— 1 read some short time past in your pa-
triotic Paper a most escellent letter respecting the
bad system of education in general use throughout
this country, and especially that on which all our
great public schools of Westminster, Eton, Harrow,
the Charter-house, and Winchester, mostly pride
themselves. A. I was spot at an early age to
one of these seminaries, I am the better qualified to
I of their defects ; and when I tell you that the

SIR,—I inclose yoti a copy of a letter I
received'
some days ago from the Rev. Dr. ICLAntL, which I
would not send to you for insertion, until I had
that Gentleman's special pet-Mission, which I hare
now received, and transmit to you for that purpose.
am, very respectfully, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
A. AM•KLiNttor.
97, Gower-street, Bedfoni-square, Ott. 97, thls.

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t eat TO THE BRITISH, NATION.
lino adopted by all of them is a perversion of educe.
The right of Government is power. The origin
Lion. I tell you no mote than what every Gentleman
of every now, existing Government was usurpation.
who has happily escaped the contagion which is to he
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found in all our public schools can confirm. Your he, patriarchal and elective Monarchical Govern-
ments yielded at length to conquest and usurpation.
Correspondent very properly observes, that if boys
, Throughout the world usurpers were the ancestor:
rill triply, they nay become what is technically
of legitimate Kings and Emperors. What was
sated rholars—that is, they rnu.a construe off hand, n,„
ILLIAN THE CONQUEROR of ENGLAND ? and what
as h says, !lowan or Juvirs.st, but as to.morair ,was not WILLIAM 111. ?
and manners, these are of very inferior consideration ,
ALEXANDER of Macedon was there legitimate, bat
to lhcedassics ; Iknow not why, unless from its unfor.
from Macedon to the Indus and Ganges he was, sc.
g s .ate proximity to Windsor, which, like all Ow rts,
cording to some modern opinions, both a conqueror
held, out very bad example to old and young, has for
and an usurper. His right of conquest was not disputed;
many years placed itself the first in rank, and sent
his conquest was fairly achieved, single-handed and
forth its Grammar to supersede all others throughout
without any Allies ; and if auy alliance was formed
the kingdom. My eldest brother, from an aversion
to repel him from his conquests, none interfered
to Westminster, founded on his own experience,
with him in his own dominions, much less menaced
proposed sanding his son to Eton, where he was .
his person.
given to understand that " it was not wished to re-
The ancient Conqueror in the East has, in modern
eeire any b•ys who were not masters of the Greek
times, been emulated by a Conqueror in the West,
Testament at ten years of age." This proves the im-
whom an alliance has at length overwhelmed, and
portaece attached by the Reverend Teachers to
reduced to personal submission. By right of con-
words, and (if I may be allowed a solecism) that
quest, each Conqueror might, as has frequently been
children should know what they do. not under.
done in all ages and countries, have put the con-
stand.—memory seems to be the only thing in de.
quered Kings and people to death. But, in the
wand; and if a boy can rapidly repeat what his me-
West, since its conversion to Christianity, more hu-
mory has sufficiently retained, his taste and his under-
mane laws and customs have prevailed. Death is, .
standing are neither consulted nor attended to not the lot of the vanquished, whether
Education so conducted is nothing more than mere
people or Prince ; nor yet is banishment, or even
mechanism and routine. The bell tolls at day' the smallest restraint. The vanquished people are
break in winter for prayers; the boys, suddenly
merely the subjects of the country in which they
awakened, dress themselves in a hurry—run from
may reside ; and the vanquished Prince, if not re-is-
their warm beds, and perhaps, in a •perspiration, to -
stated, becomes a private subject.
a cold, damp building, like monks to early matins,
Such seems the general law and custom of Chris.
and if a second beyond their time, are instantly, by
tendons, with respect to the vanquished ; •but the
the headmaster, marked for corporal punishment.—
power which the peculiar laws of any Christian
If this rigid obv.rvance of religious rites belonged to
nation may permit over the vanquished, must be left
our reformed Church, some apology might he made
to each nation to explain. The pre-eminent indi•
for exacting from children the same daily appearance
vidual, however, who, when vanquished as an Em.
in chapel as is required from adults; or, if this ad•
peror, preferred the laws of the British nation to
heretic, to monastic rules, persisted in the mono- .
those of any other for the security of his person and
steries, have been long since destroyed and repro.
property, cannot with propriety be consigned to the
bated, tended to enlighten the infant mind, and
power of any other laws, Prince, or nation. And,
give it a virtuous as well as a pious direction,
whatever the disposition of his person or property
the benefit resultiog from .it would more than
may prove to be, according to the direction of the
stone for the slovenly habit it occasions to the
British law, is thus a province of a British Court of
boys, who have not time to wash or dress them- Judicature, or of the voice of the nation at large,
Kim, sod alto, whether they au stashed or not,
publicly and solemnly to declare.
—whether they are clean or dirty, is not of the GI ORM; sOMMERS CLARKE, D.D.
least moment to their Reverend Preceptors, Ci.t.:in,f..rd, Oct. 18, ISM
slaves to forms, and solely intent to preserve what To at. M•hanitoT, El. Gower-
street, Bedford-square, London.
common sense has long since consecrated to ridicule ;
but Ito good whatever is derived from harrying the
boys, filthy and half dressed, pell-mell into chapel at
day-light, but, on the contrary, s contempt for that
religion which it is pretended this Monkish custom
will occasion them to respect! I say pretended, for
it is mere pretence; and I appeal for the truth of the
assertion to every Gentleman who has been educated
at a public school, and even to the head master, whe-
ther it is Hot (E•go..t that is generally excited, and not
veneration flint k inspired?

Leiter of Prince Ikuctian to Gen. MUFFLIS, in

This is not the Kay to make religion respected. Its
stamina i. tiriue, not forms—she rejects force, but
her priests, from the errors of their education, or
from an impatience or authority, appear to consider
as fraud and force her best supporters ; and to do
them justice, they are already ready enough to hare
recourse to both in preference to the more angelic
course of mild persuasion, and of a conduct expla-
natory, and strictly in unison with the holy precepts
they deliver from the pulpit. With your permission,
I may possibly resume this subject, and go farther
Into the pernicious cons•,quences resulting from the
present very defective mode of educating our youth.
Iry the interim, I recommend to the serious perusal
of your numerous Readers three Letters on this
very important sohject in the Spectator. Nos. 307
and 313, in Vol. IV.. and No. 337, in Vol. V.
The re-publishing of them in your Paper might pos-
sibly awaken bis Grace the Archbishop of CANTER-
suIIy to a recollection of that part of his duty, which
seems to have long since been totally relinquished by
those alio fill the Metropolitan See. I a ish some of y our
Correspondents would take op the subject of Ladies'
Boarding Schools, some of which are kept by women
who can scarcely read or write, and in all of which
girls are taught to be line Ladies, and every thing
but notable good Housewives. Poor Pew STARCH,
a very industrious washerwon►an, and her neigh-
bour FRANK FROTH, who kept the tap of the
best' inn in the county of Oxford, were both
ruined by sending their daughters to a fashion.
able boarding school, all they learnt was to make
silk purses, and being taken into keeping by a but-
ler out of place, stool a horse jockey, who attempted
to fill these purees by levies on the King's highway,
were, wills their damsels, dispatched for life to
Botany Beyr—l am, Sir, &c.
New Culleo, Oxford, Ort.'z& IRIS. B.

way to Lord CRAVEN.S. The unsuspecting host
readily fell into the snare. Messengers were imme-
diately dispatched up the road to detain all families
coming up. An eleont banquet was provided; the
Royal standard hoisted, and the h.'use illuminated;
wreaths of !ousel. and other ay mhols of loyalty,
were displayed from various pasts of the village.—
The evening and night, however, parsed away with-
out the arrival of the especred guests, and it was
morning ere the cheat was detected.
EXTRAORDINARY DONKRY RACE.—On Friday
last, a man of the name of ifsmmotill, a town.
carter, of Troy-town, Rochester, undertook for a
wager of five pounds to ride his Neddy twenty miles
on the Canterbury-road, and to return again, in
twelve hours. He started at six o'clock en the above

morning, and returned again at five o'clock in the
evening, completing his task in eleven hours. The
diiiikey took nothing but a little beer on the read
anti a biscuit, and although he• won the race, was very
sulky during his journey. •
Elyelice is profit in a Theatre when money is well
laid out. 'the dresses and decorations of Tamerlane,
as revived at Drury-lane, are such as do honour to
the nietnory of the celebrated author. The dress of
adazet alone, independent of the rich professional
tropni,s, cox,s mere than would have !Moiled a whole
play in the nays of Rows.
Nineteen ships are advertised to be sold not of the
Navy. lifsidra which, the Albacore, Kangaroo,
Sylcia, Qaail, 'Bramble, and Mackerel
(1•11.,• I'l' mouth), lase ordered to be paid ; and the
fisr.", 74, to be broken sp.

The hills in the vicinity of Gm I giving, in the county
of Lancaster, are new crispted with Allow ; in
Cumberland and Westasoteland the fall has been
still greater.

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rBAKER, THE ROCHESTER PEDESTRIAN.
F 1 Mt DAY.
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baker started at half.past three on Saturday morn.
big, and including stoppiges, completed 1 If miles at
a quarter before eight o'clock, it Which time he
.went to breakfast r he pursued his, journey, at a
quarter after eight, and at one o'clotk accompilshad
31 miles; it this time he Went to the Cossack; to
dinner: in three quarters of an hour he pursued his
journey,. arid at Ms made np 434 miles ; this we*
his time for tea : at httlf.past five he continued his
task, and at terenly minutes after sei.eut accomplish.
ed 50 'miles and 144 roiltl, ih eicellent health and
spirits; and was sccomParrirrl to the CoSiack by the
'loud cheers of the spectators;

justification of his conduct in removing the pictemos . . M EIiTINO, 1815.
and statues belonging to Prusain : SATURDAY, Nov. 4.
" Pole, Art. 19, UHL Mr. Stonehewer'. Slender Hilly. ist 711,. beat Mr. Chariton'/
(4 FAIR,—As my conduct his been publicly
'Pried upon, for not having allowed the property
animal. Plrret '941: :771.11drTANY.9•CI:Irt °llhent 3liihr'.l ;s"l'artrie'sndgelli4iv 1111:.
le bib. r4irnrt Mail Au. M. bed. 21.' lion Nottrid...
plundered
from Prussia, by a banditti, to remain in Mi. Charts Ws e. Porapr., by Wmille. 7.t. 1311 s. Ise-it Mr.
the Museum of the Louvre, I have only to remark, I:.:t.lrettrverre, Dailey, Y/•. bib. T. Y. C. blip. V to 1 so
that ably supported by the illustrious WII:LLINGTOs.,
Tite.4;:iley End bake/ of $OO each, for horses of all airs
I pursued thieves who had despoiled many of the Cs, r old. oset-pt A). To start of the Staitiug Post of the
nations of Europe of their inestimable. monuments T. Y. C and I" ash I. the end of B. C
of the Fine Arts. I attacked and dispersed them, ill% %it %edam'''. Wanderer. 4-s rs ant, 11. t. 41h. . 1
f • I ' D d sold, - 41
q.c ... Lon toe 1 t.ettr . 3,,,1 i,f. o. . 2
and restored to my country the plunder they had en. m
___r. tir. -44~4•011141K.4 'lender Bid,. Irril, 94 th. • 3
justly taken, spurning the idea of negociating with Lord Rom'. Shnipncll, 9-yrs old, i.i. DO. 3 1 ' _ 4
to 44419 t Wanderer. 2to 1 14.1 Discord. to sot Slender
the French Commissioners on that subject. They Bill.
may now thank Providence for our not following lard role%'s St.heherrode. 130.51 h. heat Mr. Cumin's Me-
their base example.—l am, &c. &c. dora, 7,1. 194. I'. V. C. lush;/. it. It. 210 I Schencrerade.
" BLUCHER. Hatidiciip Siteriattia.s of As each. A. F.
44 To Den. Count Mattio, Ile &r." Mr Vanslttare'syquattor. $ ‘rs obi, 7 t 41h. - 1
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On Wednesday last, one of those senseless pranks, 1,::11;ts:f clist.7.:str:'Blrmslid,;„7"lyal.llli. - S
called a hoax, was played off upon the landlord of • 4
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the George Inn, at Brick.hill„ Bucks. By the mail Mr. Udas's Eiotli. 5-rs Hint 7:t. 1311;.
7to 1 test Equator. 5t04 on Mu,,url. 7to 4 apt Emily.
in the morning a quantity of game, fish, and patties Mr. Nestlir's Str Jo.htit!, Sat. 21h. brat Duke of Atafton's
V nit.ker. 710. 1218. A. F. Vets. 6t04 0a Str Jo Irma.
had arrived, accompanied with a letter, purporting Doke of Rsos,„,,•„. ~! seta's, 84. 6th. bent gr. Wit.oo.
to be from one of the Gentlemen of the PRINCE RE- ca 'rico'''. B-1. 21b. 'l'. Y. C. 15itc 6t04 ws Lhake .1 Rat-
GENT'S Household, desiring the whole of the house
iditti eSistalriesmiplier;eo Q kipjark . tist. 101 h. brat Mr. Daries's
to be reset red for his Royal Highness and attendants, iski...,, 7.1.3;b: T. Y. C. Mk-. sto I sm. thipjark.
who intended to dine and sleep there that evening, on

A Naval School is establishing at Greenock, is
Scotland, for which purpose Goverstraent has assigned
the Arrows sloop of war to be fitted up for the worn-
aaidatiost of 70 boys, who are to be educated on board
for the sea service under the direction of the Clyde
Mariue• Society. An appropriate library is to be
purchased for the Use of the boys in their leisure
hours, consisting of works ormorality ; ropips of the
History of England, Scotland, and Ireland; the Lives
of Naval Heroes ; and a collection of Cite Voyages
of Circumnavigators, &c.
A new Farce, and a new Comedy, shortly to be
brought out et Drury-lane, it is said, are highly
spoken of.

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fette.Excw Sac& Nov 6. —The Mattel was `at thinly
saiiptied with Warns. nt I. hde,owe ~f 2s.—Ratity Is. higher.
0 t.. la. in 2 . inereir.—Other articles imi emission.
hew iliaglish) 4 88 • Beans
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Ditto (Featly) .4 i 2 74 OId ditto
Rye 2B 52 , mil do. -19. 111
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&wit y .... ...... 46 90 New • 4 ••,. ..... '
Slew ditto
*tit . 60 61 Fine ditto ....—
White Pew
flew ditto .. • • • .*.• ... Feed dip, 46
14010 Hollers SS 42 Fine !leer... . . ... 14 69
Grey Pear .•. • .. 54 96 Seconds .... ..... 50 55
9WITHFIIitI•D MARKET.—Nov. 6.
To Ora the t'At.ii, per SWIM of Pi:..
gee
f •A. 01. k. 65 41. 1 Head nt Cottle this dna t
dation • 4.. O. tr 6. 4: . 14.r4O.
ve/0 ... tIo 61. to 7. ot. I Sheep . - .• • • 1.2,76,0
P brit •• . 54. 04. to 6. 0 Cavms • 114
Lethal) . AM. OJ. to 0.. 0. . Pero
KAY-11AfthST._
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. NAVAL INTE L LIG ENCk.
DEAL, °tr.-b.—Cßroe ilio
terdity; the GnorMeii 4- Loudon, liamesoni for tho
Fait Indies sod Mercurio, for
Came down from the River to-day the Anti,
Itamii-
ton; for Jamaica; Jane, Mick, Air [tibia Roil, the
flarmang, Gocitihill, for Demernra.—Sailed the
Hail*Mori!)of war, foiSheerriessi to be paid
Poivrsoptriti, Oirr. d 7— —Arrived his Misfeiti!S
ships Pauline, fiaus the Sirdityi-i-Nneato Chul-
ten frisiii the Dow ris hobdia,
tier; (root Ostesid.—Sailed the Catalina, Brook.
holding, for Lotidori.

SIXTH IiAT. I Eli evicts, Nov s.—Sailed jr.iterday the pi 1,,...
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Arrangements bad beets merle fdt Some dap, that of Orange packet, for linllaud ; Betirrfog packet,
Sunday intervening should hive little effect on ilit for Cdthareti ; and the Acave ()idol, for Goirev.
ker's accomplishing his accustomed journey: fbr burgh; with Mails. Also seined the Daniel, oith a
this purpose he commenced on Sunday morning anon ta
inersi cargo, for Stralsund ; ind the Circe, in
after two o'clock; at seven he took refreshment, and i„., ,_, „,..,l_i___.
at a quarter past eight had walked 20 miles ;he then 1 """""""76`11. , ,
retired to breakfast. In half an hour he again isp.'l PLtstdeett, Nev. 4.—Arrived to-day about eight
peered on the ground, and accomplished 25 miles by sail of coeitets and colliers. . .
a quarter past ten; he then retired (during Church ser- I Era.stossert;' HO,. 5.7-Arrived yesteiday the
vice) till 12, at which time he commenced again, and Friends, o.ey, froth Cork,' rind to.tlsy the Rover 4
completed 344 miles at about two o'clock, and Kent
Edwards, from dittoed-,Sailed yesterday his Mis'iesiy's
to dinner. Baker now stopped during the afternoon
ship Achaleretii ...—.1.; lliberniii; th+is, for Lisbon • s
Church service, till four o'clock, at which time be
continued his journey. At half.past five he had ac- Friendship; for St: Miehiel's ;• John, Nicholas,
complished 42 miles and went to tee : 'Mei resting and Wiftiore and 1111iry, Iffeli)l,, tot Cork ; La.
till sit o'clock, he finally pursued his journey liii data, Storkmin ; .fickritrioi-, ,Llnytl ; Litelk, Wil-
hrilf.past eight, e'.d completed his daily task.— Hams; Ailirq. Jades; Resolutiess,, Lewis; briiidi
Baker walked on this day, including stoppages and _
titieen
loss of time, 50 miles end 120 rods, in equal spirit, 1 Williams ; Saiiiiison, HarriA; Albion,
to his first day's journey. Davis ; and Asir, Phillips, . for London ; Ai go,
Since our last, Baker appears wholly recovered Taylor; for Shields ; and Broffteei; ..-----, for
from his indisposition, and plods the ground with Sheerness. . . ..
his accustomed jocularity and good humour. The
YARWOoTti, Nolf. 4.—tlie Swedish 43141 Friehd.
weather, which continues extremely line, gives fresh
ship. Tjadesi, Master, horn Atso for Liman's, with
pleasures to the acetic every day, nrid greatly alters the
timbre and deals, got on the Leman arid Ore Sand
general opinion entertained at Baker's starling, of his
•ts
ultimate success ; as betting, which was ten to three, en Wednesday last, where her lin tisi and stern
is now only five and sit; to four against him.— were knocked out ; the cren hoping afterwards
swified her she Boated offsilind was left Whig by thti
Mawr appeared at' the ground after breakfast
on Sunday, in a change of dress, and had thrown Sandi with all her masts gone. She adateasuret
off his half boots for a pair of shoes, on the
1100 tons.
whole ,he appeared in the true country style.— 1 •
Baker's wife and children dined with him on Sunday,j r 1
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and after dinner he was accompanied by one of his' ' LONDON INS7ITUTIOK • ,
sons, a fine little boy, about four years of a age, 1 _........
several dates op and down the ground. A great '
On Saturday last, the foundation-stone of the ?nisi,
concourse of spectators appeared on the Cossack field
building for the London Institution, was laid in the
on Sunday, but did not offer the least interruption
Amphitheatre, %wields. The Lord Mayor, Lord
or obstruction to Baker. A subscription is now set
Carrington, the President of the Institution, and a
on foot by the Gentlemen of the Committee, and
great !body of the Members attended. When the be-
Mr. New son, the Surgeon, whn have undertaken to
scription was read, which recorded the date of the
provide every necessary article of clothing, food, and
edifice, the Lord Mayor addressed the Meeting. on
other requisite comforts, and to protect him from in-
the greet purposes which it was intended to serve, and
truants strangers. They have also appointed a re.
the magnificent prospects which it held out. He
putable scorer, who makes a daily return of Baker's
then made some observations on the glory such a work
performance, and have pledged themselves that no
would reflect on the City of London, and en the in-
collusion shall be connived at, nor any unfair pro-
flaw. connexion which subsisted between-the cold-
ceedings, of compromise, shall take place. A daily•
ration of science and the prosperity' of cnennerce,
return of each day's performance Is exhibited on the
concluding with a prayer that the Metropolis of the
ground, and at the Cossack. The sbuseriptions are ~
empire might continee as celebrated for the extent
opened at tho principal inns in Gravesend,kiald.
of the one as for the success of the other. The cora-
-1 stone, Stroud, Rochester, end Chatham; to which
pony met at the City of Landon Tavern at half-past
the public are invited to add their mita to reward
INTELLIGENCE.
...........- two o'clock in the afternoon, and went in procession
this heroic Kentish Pedestrian.
Ito the ground in Moorfields. Thence they returned
SPORTING
[to the Tavern, where an inaugural oration was do-
; livered' by Charles Butler, Esq. on the connection
of literature, science, and the arts with commerce,
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add on the mutual assistance which they mutually
lend to each other. It emits-Iced all the topics
which the subject suggested, illustrated them from
history with much happiness of allusion, and was
throughout appropriate, perspicuous, and elegant.—
The Meeting properly appreciated its value, and
the Lord Mayor, in conveying to Mr. Butlet the
Thanks of the Proprietors, adder!, at their undid.
mous sudgestion, a request that he would allow it to
be printed. To this he consented, with expressions
of satisfaction at the manner in which it had been
received. At six o'clock a numerous assemblage of
the Proprietors, and strangers invited on the Ores.
sion, sat down to dinner, the LAW Mayor in the
chair. In the course of the evening, after the usual
loyal and patriotic toasts were given, the health* of
the Lord Mayor, of Lord Carrington, of the origi-
nal founders of the Institution, of the Aheriffs' of
London, of Mr. Butler, and of the Vice-Presidents,
were drank with applause, and they severally re.
turned their thanks in suitable speeches. In these
speeches, little of course occurred beyond mere corn.
pliment or general profession. The only facts which
we could collect from theM worth repeating were,
that the City of London hid liberally given the
ground to the Institution, without purchase, as meet.
tinned by Sheriff Bell ; and that the Trustees Of

Thomas had had some conferences with the Managers
of the London institution, concerning s pri•jectett
union of the two establishments, for invigutatin4
their joint efforts in promoting the objects commits
to both.
Mr. Mason Good, who stated this circumstance,
left an impression upon nor minds at the conclusion
of his speech, that though this desirable measure bait
for the present failed, neither the wish nor the hope
of accomplishing ft were finally relinquished.
A music, band attended, and several songs werrt
sung by Mr. Digital') and others. Among the res.,
I there was one made fur the occasion, neither better
nor worse than such occasional songs generally are
The Lord Mayor left the Chair before 10 o'clock,
which was then filled by the President of the fustittis
tion, Lord Carrington.
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Wldal

.The Bellerophon, 74, at Sheerness, is Ordislet .
be fitted for a convict ship. The Assistants hag Iwo it
broken up at Portsmouth; the Pegasus end Cro::-.*
are coming into Dock to be broken up. The Pitte
ea* is taken nut of Dock, and the Alceste
A Publication a eitraordinary interest Is t.r•hd.
&mind from the pen of Captain Aiwa, aethdr f t
The Spirit of the 11.0 k. Lt will detail, we unit-t.
0,18,41, various powical transscrinits hi which iv^
has been ettgaxotl, and will else throw nisch
tinnal light on his former publication, by attriillob a
of several of the nun characters in this end.oity
whom he was prcretly enttoected, i 0 en nett of too
greaten importance to the nation, at tarp.

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