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a blackguard to merit the honor of gentlemanly treat- 

 ment ; but this shall not save you from the punishment you 

 so justly deserve, and therefore you may prepare yourself 

 for the consequences of your conduct. — ROBERT PhiPPS. 



What followed may be understood from Mr. CAMP- 

 BELL'S description :— 



" I shall not ask what the feelings of any of your 

 readers would be in receiving so gross an insult, through 

 ^•he hands too of a man he had known and respefted for 

 many years. Thought passes not the human mind sooner 

 than my decision was made. I saw Mr. MlLLS identi- 

 fying himself with his principal, and becoming a party to 

 one of the most unprecedented outrages which one man 

 can offer to another in society, I asked Mr. M. if he 

 was really serious in lending himself to an insult so 

 infamous, and so far removed from the assumed partici- 

 pation of an honourable mind ? He answered *' yes," 

 and being desired to apologize and carry back the offen- 

 sive paper to him who sent it, he refused — referring me 

 to his address, which however I thought availed little, 

 since seeing Mr. MiLLS a party to the paper, whereby 

 his principal meant to skulk from honourable reparation. 

 The moment was critical ! Self-duty required that the 

 insult should be resented. Had he been a Goliah or a 

 giant — had instant annihilation been the consequences — 



I would have had a blow at his body ! I accordingly— 



he returned it- -an immediate set-to followed— and wc 

 were parted. 



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" In resenting an insult, which the lowest of mankind 

 could scarcely brook, I allow myself to think I did no 

 more than my duty. He who avails himself of a dis- 



