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LETTER XXIX. 



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Ennis, Sept. 7, 1813* 



JL HE fabrication of news appears to be a thriv- 

 ing trade in this country, if we may judge by 

 the avidity with which it is purchased. Few 

 towns of any size are without their weekly pa- 

 pers, and perhaps two ; for the general state 

 and feeling of parties here are such, that no 

 sophistry could produce a palatable cookery 

 that would be relished by both. T know not 

 whether the remark applied, to attorneys is 

 equally appropriate to editors, " that a single 

 one starves, but that two make fortunes." 



I have heard an anecdote of two farmers, who 

 on having some trifling dispute, by accident re- 

 sorted to the same lawyer. After hearing the 

 whole story from the second client, he lamented 

 it was not in his power to be of use to him, but 

 that he would give him a note to a friend of his 

 hard by, a most able and honorable man, to 

 whom the party might safely trust his cause. 

 As the note could appertain to no one but 



