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of the crime, than in the other ; but the 

 severer punishment, in the one case, does 

 not do away the turpitude in the other : 

 yet such persons call themselves gentle- 

 men. I am ignorant in what school of li- 

 berality, and honour, such principles and 

 actions are inculcated. For myself, I 

 frankly avow, that I abhor such monsters 

 of oppression and injustice, who dare to 

 infringe on the social orders of society. 



I am informed, and will make myself 

 better acquainted wdth this practice, that, 

 by the law of the land, no person whatever 

 can lay poison on any ground whatever 

 which is not walled in, aye, and that wall 

 must be of a certain height also. When I 

 have made myself acquainted with the 

 statutes on that subject, the public may 

 rest assured that I will make them publicly 

 known in the newspapers ; and will also 

 cause printed bills, inserting the very words 

 in the statutes, against such practice, with 

 the penalties inflicted by the law, on such 

 offenders ; and will cause such printed bills 

 to be pasted up in the public markets of 

 the great towns in Norfo^ and Suffolk. 



