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pie, but the glory of its effect is sometimes a little 

 diminished : verily, it is a great consolation to a 

 man to know there is a law for him if he can get at it, 

 which he cannot unless he has a round sum of 

 money in his pocket to enable him to challenge the 

 glories of the constitution to assert his rights ; though 

 should he transgress, he will find the law will 

 quickly enough reach him, and generously do so 

 without pecuniary advance from him. 



I am quite the reverse of him, whoever he may 

 be, who carps at the great ; on the contrary, though 

 too insignificant to mix in politics, I have been 

 accused of possessing tory ideas and principles, a 

 matter of not the slightest consequence to any living 

 being ; but, if so, this does not blind me to the fact 

 that wealth and influence can always immediately 

 carry the point of right, and whispers say sometimes 

 of even a little, a very little wrong, where the want of 

 it prevents even the first progressive step towards 

 attaining positive right. 



It is so with the dumb animal ; there is a humane 

 law in his favour ; yet it is to be feared, that but 



