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which would bring him within the jurisdiction of the Old Bailey, speaks 

 of himself as a hardly-used person by confinement, and talks of the 

 " casualties from which no man is exempt !" The truth is, both parties 

 have committed a robbery ; but the last, by his position in society, has 

 been able to do it CL mcitleur marche. 



Prisoners, although faulty, should recieve all such means of air and 

 exercise as their confinement will admit ; and in all those advantages 

 our King's Bench prison to say the least of it is liberal. But gaols 

 are not places for revels or masquerades ; or at least not places in which 

 any claim can be set up as a matter of right to the enjoyment of 

 them ; and the immunities afforded by the King's Bench prison, in par- 

 ticular, are stretched very far already ; it will not be for the advantage 

 of those who occupy it to provoke their discussion. For the necessity, 

 in the late dispute, of calling in the military that is a point, perhaps, 

 as far as it goes, which may admit of doubt. But for the instant visita- 

 tion of force, which the marshal applied to the persons of those who resisted 

 his commands it is necessary, that, in places to which men certainly are 

 not sent for their merits, some ready and decisive means should be at 

 hand of controlling the refractory. 



Of all the qualities with which a traveller in foreign countries requires 

 to be gifted, a temperament of extreme caution is unquestionably the most 

 valuable. It saves a man's leading his readers into error very often, and 

 sometimes it keeps him out of error himself. For example of the import- 

 ance of the endowment, by the want of it all our late readers of books 

 about South America, will be familiar with the Mscacho ; an animal about 

 as large as a badger, which burrows in the vast plains of the Pampas, for 

 the particular purpose, it should seem, of rendering the riding on horses 

 back there, very especially difficult and unsafe. One recent voyager, how- 

 ever, Captain Andrews, seeing these creatures in such abundance, and never 

 conceiving that they could exist for no end but to make holes for horses 

 to get their feet into, was amazed at the stupidity of the natives, that they 

 did not catch them to roast and eat. Being desirous, therefore, of some 

 little variety at his table, in a country which afforded scarcely an^ flesh 

 meat beyond lean beef, the captain determined to secure a bon louche out 

 of the neglected biscachos, and, with a good deal of trouble, obtained his 

 wish. 



"With some difficulty (he says) after many trials in vain, by stealing behind 

 trees and banks, I succeeded in killing one of these animals, which in size and 

 weight was at least equivalent to a couple of our largest rabbits. The flesh was 

 delicious eatiny ! and would be highly esteemed in England, though here they 

 turned up their noses disdainfully at it" 



Now the captain's surprise at the disgust of South American noses to 

 any dish that he found so delicate, may not, perhaps, be astonishing ; but 

 still the'natives had a reason (of their own) it would appear, for the dis- 

 like ; -or may have had judging from a notice touching and concerning 

 the murder of a courier, contained in the pages of Captain Andrews's 

 cotemporary voyager among the Pampas, Captain Head. This last travel- 

 ler came, in a remote locality, upon the bodies of two men who had been 

 murdered by the " salteadores" or robbers a courier and a postilion and 

 left, with their horses, which were also killed, and a dog that was with 

 them, on the spot where they were destroyed. And he says, in the course 

 f)f a rather impresssve description of the ecene 



