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world as a discovery of his own. Unable to 

 screw himself up to commit a murder, he con 

 tented himself with a robbery ; an instance, he 

 may, indeed, say, of singular moderation and 

 self-denial; especially when we consider of 

 what an assembly he has> with little intermis 

 sion, been an " Honourable Member" for the 

 last thirty years of his life. 



WM. COBBETT. 



North Hempstead, Long Island, 

 15th November, 1818, 



