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DEATH S DOINGS.

To the welfare of nations,

Or the good of relations.

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For the virtues it breeds,And the numbers it feeds,What must not give placeTo a drive or a race 1"

Far less should the splenetic couplet be reliedon, which insinuates that any individual, either ofOxford or Cambridge, in order completely to imi-tate the coachman's habits, goes such lengths,—

" That, with the vulgar mania bit,He'd lose a tooth to learn to spit."

Such scandalous insinuations can have arisenonly from Stable Talk, the title of an intendedwork, said to be written for the use and amuse-ment of the Fancy, &c.

That difficulty and peril attend the wheels of theambitious charioteer cannot be denied, and that—

" Sometimes the taking oft' a wheelMay stop the driver's maddening reel,And plunge him, with his youthful breath,Into the icy arms of Death.

But what then !—the more danger the more ho-

nour !

Proteus.