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black cattle to Smithfield. Poor
dumb beafts! why should they not
walk up themfelves, and bellow as
they may incline ?

I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country,
And mouth at Cæsar till I shake the Senate.

Then came Mr. Henry Dundas,
who has made a diftinguifhed figure
at more markets than one—whether
at *Oxford* market with Lord *North*,
or *Leadenhall* market with Mr. Pitt.

There was a time when we were
flattered there was to be no monopoly
—when that Titus, that Deliciæ bu-
mani generis, the Duke of Portland
(I give his Grace as Mr. Burke gave
him me, not having the good fortune
to be of his acquaintance, though I
can boast of being defcended of the
noble

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noble Dutch family of Sommelfdyck,
and though my father, when a judge
on the circuit, made a ball for his
Grace at Perth)—when He prefided.
O, then! all was to go well with
Scotland!—There was to be no go-
between—nobody to keep back the
individuals of that diffant part of the
island from fairly afferting their pre-
tentions, whether from birth, wealth,
or merit. But, alas! we soon found
there was only a change of Dundafes.
Instead of Mr. Henry Dundas, we
got Sir Thomas Dundas. What he
did, and what he was doing, we all
remember. And now we have Mr.
Henry Dundas again.

Do any of you want to be in-
formed of Mr. Henry Dundas's
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been told that your uncle James, the
brightest genius of you all, had actu-
ally an admonition from the venerable
dead ? I have it from good autho-
ry ! “ Be not too bold,” I intreat
you ! There are some things which
we will bear, and some things which
we will not bear. Think, O think of

“ Vaulting Ambition, which o’erleaps itself !”

Besides, Sir, you are the Dean of the
Faculty of Advocates. We have placed
you in the chair where LOCKHART
fat : we expect you will not betray
us.

But, that I may now speak to my
countrymen in plain, and, I flatter
myself, convincing argument, let us
consider the peculiar form and con-
stitution of the Court of Session. It

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