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patronised by many of the nobility, gentry, and even 

 royalty, of this land. 



Many of my readers will no doubt say, whatever 

 they may think, that my humble opinion of this 

 matter is far-fetched, unreasonable, absurd, unjusti- 

 fiable, and entirely obsolete, and altogether the mis- 

 guided notion of a superannuated old fogey. There 

 will, however, I feel sure, be many a soft and kind 

 heart who will feel, as I do, compassion for the once 

 noble and proud " an tiered monarch of the waste." 



