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viction that it was the product of effete senility. 

 Still the striking fact to which the historian can 

 appeal would have fronted him at once ; for, when 

 we call to mind what was achieved hy the men of 

 England, at that time general smokers, by the 

 king's testimony, so soon after the latter went to 

 his long account, we may reasonably suppose that 

 the men of England were not deficient in " energy 

 and solidity." Again, the habit has been ever 

 since constantly increasing, especially in the 

 Navy, amongst the regular defenders of Eng- 

 land ; and whatever was grandly done in the last 

 war was not prevented by the practice of smoking 

 and chewing ; and our latest defenders abroad 

 may be safely pronounced to have, if possible, 

 surpassed their predecessors in " energy and so- 

 lidity." Alma, Inkermann, Balaklava, the Re- 

 dan, and the endurance of that never-to-be-for- 

 gotten Crimean winter and the infernal trenches, 

 should shame any man out of the very thought 

 that the solidity and energy of England are de- 

 parting. 



At all events, according to the homely saying, 

 " what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the 



