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On arriving at our destination, which we did without interruption, .we 

 found the door on the latch, and went up stairs with our burthen as softly 

 as possible. The candle had burnt out, and the fire was just about follow- 

 ing the example ; while R , like a drunken swine as he is, was sitting 



fast asleep in a chair. We laid the sack on the table, in the midst of the 

 fragments of his supper, and endeavoured to get a fresh light. When we 



had succeeded, P , with one of his diabolical leers, pointed to the 



stranger, who was standing by the door, as if afraid altogether to enter the 

 room, and gazing on the sack, till his eyes seemed ready to burst from 



their sockets. At this moment, R awoke, and turning down the 



mouth of the sack, held the candle to examine our prize ; and, still under 

 the gitieal influence, began to rhodomontade like a mad player. " A 



woman, by G !" cried he ; " aye, and a fair one, too beautiful even 



in death ! Her auburn ringlets hanging, in love-like languishment, over 

 her neck of snow her pencilled eyebrows her dimpled chin her modest 

 lips, cold even as chastity!" At every disjointed sentence, the stranger 

 advanced a step nearer : till, at length, when the fair and dead face came 

 completely under his view, his hands met with a sound like the report of a 

 pistol and, in something between a shriek and a convulsive groan, he 

 exclaimed, "It is Susan /"-^-and fell senseless on the floor. L. R 



.FULL-LKNGTHS : 

 No. IV. 



The Jew Slopseller. 



WE know not if, among the several qualities, to the possession of which 

 philosophers have ascribed our superiority over frogs and jackdaws, the 

 spirit of commerce has been duly registered whether the continually 

 working principle of barter, wanting in all other animals, has given a 

 triumphant distinction to humanity, and thus proved the immortal essence 

 of man in his day-book and ledger. We think the fact too evident to have 

 been unknown to ancient wisdom; although we -cannot, at this moment, 

 take upon ourselves to particularize the discoverer. 



Of course, there are none of our readers that have not seen a Jew : the 

 sight amounts to nothing it is a common spectacle, which neither does nor 

 ought to excite an unusual thought. Have they, -however, beheld a 

 Jew Slopseller? The sun scarcely attracts a momentary gaze so gene- 

 ral is its influence : let a rainbow appear, and old gray-headed men and 

 crawling children stay still and gaze at it. So with the common Israelite, 

 and he of the sea-port. The term " Jew," abstractedly like the first of 

 the two 'Words "laurel water," or the half of a severed viper may repre- 

 sent an object useful or harmless ; but Jew Slopseller aye, there is 

 the deadly meaning of the united words there, the full venom of the 

 active snake ! Those who would pass through Rosemary-lane without the 

 least emotion, would start and turn pale at an Israelite inhabitant of Gos- 

 port or Sheerness. -Lest, however, some of our readers should not wholly 

 comprehend the term " Slopseller," we may briefly inform them, that it 

 applies to those individuals who, on our seamen receiving their hard-earned 

 pay, infest the decks of English men-of-war : there they toil, and there 

 they fatten. Let us, however, strive to make out a schedule of the effects, 

 natural and acquired, which compose a Jew Slopseller. 



