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And win you with all kindness, as for those 

 Who cannot for themselves your court address — 

 A counsel he to plead their righteous cause ? 

 And, oh, were he more able ! 



Where is Bowles(^) — 

 The feeling and the tender, he who well, 

 On Cantian cliffs, to Matlock tunes his reed ; 

 Or, of the Captive in the narrow cell 

 ** From life and light shut out," such thought excites 

 As prompts benevolence to active deeds ? 

 Where South ey ! Thou, who erst of freedom sang*st, 

 And with a dash of thy astounding plume, 

 Mad'st quail the proud oppressor ? — Where art Thou, 

 Moore of the Lyre melodious ? — Coleridge ! where? 



(*) Mr. Bowles has been lately most praiseworthily engaged 

 in endeavouring to obtain the mitigation of a very severe sen- 

 fence passed on a female, for stealing from her master, a magis- 

 trate, some china of the value of a few shillings. She was tried 

 at the sessions at Marlborough and sentenced to two year's 

 imprisonment, one half of which she was to be in solitary con- 

 fiuement ! Such sentences as these, so far from being calculated 

 to amend the offender or prevent crime, tend only to excite 

 disgust at tlieir inhumanity, and pity for the sufferer. When 

 will men learn the best mode of correcting our moral aberra- 

 tions? 



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