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position, as might challenge our approbation andour reverence. In the class of these we desire torescue from oblivion his acknowledged impar-tiality ; his frequent prevention of greater evil thanhe brings; his endurance of perpetual labour; hisjust claim to universality; his courage; snatchingaway the monarch, surrounded by his life guards,just as a Bengal tiger springs into a little company ofmen seated at their social meal upon the turf, and,seizing on his victim, drags him to the jungle.

We must recount, because it evinces an honour-able and lofty sentiment, that, as he stalked awayafter his midnight visit to the prince whom he hadterrified into an instant and shaking submission, avoice was heard through the palace, and by thesentinels, as, invisibly, he moved along:—" Cow-ard and slave, who hast consented to sell thypeople's pleasant health, the term of their life,with all its consolations and enjoyments; theirtitle, it might have been, to longevity;—that thouthyself mightst be suffered to crawl, in infamyand abhorrence, a little longer between heaven andearth!!!—It well nigh grieves me that I permitted