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during the year 1851, when some three or four 

 snobs from Liverpool whose names it would be 

 a right punishment to publish got hold of the 

 boats, and set this rule at defiance. The dese- 

 cration of the day would form no obstacle to 

 men of this class, set at liberty in a remote 

 village, and supposing themselves beyond the 

 reach of public opinion. It may be as well, 

 however, to hint to such men that they are mis- 

 taken in thinking themselves thus secure ; that 

 a note has been made of their names, for the 

 purpose of preventing their again outraging 

 public decency in a similar manner : and that I 

 or any other person making enquiry, could 

 publish their names to the world, if it were 

 deemed expedient, together with their drunken 

 frolics in the evening. Setting aside the sacri- 

 lege of thus profaning that Sabbath, which 

 should be binding in a Christian country, no 

 man of education or gentlemanly habits would 

 outrage the feelings of a people scrupulously 

 religious as are the Welsh, by the commission 

 of an act which they look on with dislike and 

 abhorrence. But some men are most ready to 

 preach, " Do at Koine as they at Rome do," so 

 long as the doing accords with their secret 

 inclinations but are very indignant and exclaim 

 against bigoted interference, if the same rule is 



