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so dirty; to be sure, the place has all the advantages 

 of an English November to assist it in those par- 

 ticulars. Just now, too, a carriage passed my 

 windows, conveying on board a cargo of passengers, 

 who seemed sincerely afflicted at the thoughts of 

 leaving their dear native land! The pigs squeaked, 

 the ducks quacked, and the fowls screamed ; and 

 all so dolefully, as clearly to prove, that theirs was 

 no dissembled sorrow ? And after them (more 

 affecting than all) came a wheelbarrow, with a 

 solitary porker tied in a basket, with his head hang- 

 ing over on one side, and his legs sticking out on 

 the other, who neither grunted nor moved, nor 

 gave any signs of life, but seemed to be of quite 

 the same opinion with Hannah More's heroine, 



" Grief is for little wrongs ; despair for mine !" 



As Miss O'Neil is to play "Elwina" for the 

 first time to-morrow, it is a thousand pities that 

 she had not the previous advantage of seeing the 

 speechless despondency of this poor pig ; it might 

 have furnished her with some valuable hints, and 

 enabled her to convey more perfectly to the audi- 

 ence the " expressive silence 99 of irremediable 

 distress. 



November 10. 



At four o'clock in the afternoon, I embarked 

 on board the " Sir Godfrey Webster," Captain 

 JBoyes. On approaching the vessel, we heard 



