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blooming in humble obscurity * alike unknowing and 

 unknown/ has faded before the mercenary passions of a 

 pander, and now presents to view a loathsome mass of 

 disease, vice, and infamy : Like an accommodating 

 woman of the town, it is at the service of every swag- 

 gerer who can look high and talk high. It seems quite 

 resolved to outrage every feeling of decorum. Its pro- 

 faneness, blasphemy, poor vituperation, and mean abuse 

 are beginning to surpass even its dull ignorance and 

 general stupidity." 



The following is a curious produ6lion from the Gazette 

 of Sept. loth, 1822, which explains itself : — 



*' Sir — Having perused with equal pity and regret a 

 certain deistical article in the Guiana Chronicle relative 

 to Swedenborg and the Fanatics^ from the Quarterly 

 Review^ I therefore as a person a6ling under Sovereign 

 Protediony require that you immediately publish the 

 following counter Review of the writings of the illustrious 

 teacher of wisdom. — I am, &c. — Henry Wm. Wells, 

 Teacher and Le6lurer of the Do6lrines of the New 

 Jerusalem Church, a faithful and loyal subje6l of His 

 Britannic Majesty and Servant of the Lord in South 

 America." 



No wonder that the editor told him that his notes in 

 future must be less imperious if he wished them to meet 

 with attention. 



In the Gazette of September 19th following, a corres- 

 pondent calls attention to an advertisement in the rival 

 paper charging a person with cruelty to Slaves, and the 

 refusal of the paper to publish the reply and denial, 

 asking if this was a free press, under no sinister influence 

 or control ? The writer of the reply said he had sent it 



