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tion. One family in particular, whose 

 name was familiar to the traveller in the 

 South and South- West of England, still re- 

 tained their hold on the estimation of the 

 neighbouring gentry ; and when the rail 

 put an end to the lingering career of 

 Francis Faulkner and the " Portsmouth 

 Rocket " (the same drag on which the author 

 first exhibited) to their honour be it re- 

 corded they bought for him a handsome 

 annuity, which descends to the next gene- 

 ration. 



This is a solitary instance of voluntary 

 compensation, one worthy of more general 

 adoption ; and it is also what justice and 

 equity require from the hands of those 

 who, by sanctioning and encouraging, if 

 not forming the rail, cut the ground from 

 under the feet of a part of the community, 

 to say the least, not altogether unworthy 

 of notice, and precipitated them to de- 

 struction ; for no employment being 

 offered them by those who had taken 



