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policy drop together. It is clear therefore thatthis unamiable reservation is likely to produce alittle deviation from the otherwise uniformly warmtone of friendship to which I have been adverting.In fact, it must create an anomaly of feeling ra-ther curious. " My dear sir, I have the highestregard for you, and put up daily prayers for yourhealth and prosperity; I am delighted at the rud-diness of your complexion, and the firmness ofyour step;—but it would give me infinite plea-sure to hear of your making an exhibition, abouteight o'clock one of these fine mornings, beforethe Debtors' Door, Newgate."—Such is not ex-actly the address one would wish from one'sfriends.

It has puzzled me for the last half-hour, and ifyou, my gentle reader, are not clearer-headedthan I am, it will puzzle you for the next, to de-termine whether this awkward proviso be or benot advantageous to the interests of morality.They say, " and I believe the tale," that the loveof money is a great temptation to crime. Buthere the love of money is a great temptation to

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