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our Leeds' arbitrator meet me in the street, am I not entitled to 

 exclaim with old Cromwell " Sir Harry Vane ! The Lord deliver 

 me from Sir Harry Vane " ? 



I cannot describe the heartfelt satisfaction I feel in learning, from 

 your last most valued favour, that your Government has at last done 

 something for poor Titian Peale ; as real and worthy a naturalist as 

 either your own country or ours can boast of. What is all the closet 

 stuff of our Swainsons and Jamesons, and many others, in compari- 

 son with what Titian has gained in fields and woods and swamps ? 

 When I was with him in the environs of the Delaware, I soon saw 

 that he had a perfect knowledge of the haunts of the birds found'in 

 those places. Having read Wilson very attentively in England, 

 Peale finished me off in three weeks amongst the birds of the United 

 States. Poor fellow ! how I should have grieved to hear that he 

 had gone to the wilds of California to gain his bread, at a time of 

 life when his youthful exertions in the cause of science entitled him 

 most fully to an honourable repose at home through the munificence 

 of a just and discerning Government. When you write to him, tell 

 him how I rejoice at the turn of fortune in his favour ; and should you 

 by chance fall in with any of those gentlemen who have befriended a 

 most deserving naturalist in his hour of need, pray thank them from 

 me (although I have not the honour of their acquaintance), for the 

 benefit they have conferred on meritorious science in the person of 

 our mutual and much-valued friend, Titian. 



Should our late cause appear in print, I will not fail to send you 

 a copy. But I rather think that the enormous expenses already in- 

 curred by both parties will make either of them shy in spending 

 more by printing details which, for perjury and depravity, have no 

 parallel in modern times. 



About a month ago, a Malay hen hatched eleven chickens ; and 

 as the weather was very cold and rainy, they were brought up to the 

 house, and placed with their mother in the back kitchen. She took 

 a spite against one of them, and persisted in driving it from her. 

 In its abandonment, my huge black Tom cat (whose name is Tom) 

 took compassion on it, and kindly coaxed it to come and take 

 shelter under him. He now takes great interest in it, allows it to 

 take meat out of his mouth, and when he lies down by the fire, 



