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In writing this Dialogue, I was very pe- 

 culiarly circumstanced. In all that related 

 to Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Seymour I was 

 free as air ; but as Mr. Howard was ma- 

 nifestly the representative of Mr. Knight, 

 I was almost restricted to the very words 

 that he himself had written. This restraint 

 was not without its advantage, and he 

 felt it as such: for he complained to 

 me, but with the greatest good humour, 

 of my having taken what he jocosely called 

 his buckram note, and put it piecemeal into 

 the mouth of an interlocutor; where it must 

 be owned that the note thus divided and 

 in dialogue, has rather a buckram appear- 

 ance, and that Mr. Howard park comme 

 un livre. As I had put his grave note in 

 dialogue, it was no unfair retaliation to 

 treat any jocular part of my dialogue as 

 serious ; 



" Thus then exchange we mutually forgiveness." 



There is, however one point remaining 

 to be discussed (and it is the last) on which 

 my friend does not appear in a forgiving 

 humour ; for he very seriously complains of 



