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The Duke of Dorset, a young and amiable noble- 

 man, who only came of age on the 15th of No- 

 vember, 1814, most unhappily lost his life from an 

 accident he met with while hunting in Ireland, in 

 the February of this year. Carried by Lord Pow- 

 erscourt and his attendants to the nearest dwell- 

 ing, and placed on a hard mattress, he requested 

 to be raised, in order that he might breathe more 

 freely ; and while this was being done, fancying 

 himself slipping off the couch, he exclaimed : "I 

 am off!" and shortly after expired. 



We quote this circumstance merely that we 

 may refer to the immoral and unworthy feeling 

 w^hich must influence those who could parrot this 

 simple exclamation into the defiance of the atheist 

 and infidel, and then quote it as an instance of the 

 " gross irreligion of sportsmen." 



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