Fl FT V THRKK MERCH A NTS. 



" There is no slauder in an allowed fool, t!iough lie Jo 

 nothing but rail.*' So we may leatc Pengarcn Miles 

 Labutin to his SpolUng-book, and Lis adinirera to the 

 consideration of some sensible remarks by Mr. Drummondi 

 which aro very applicable to Iiis case. 



" There wiia, ho knew, a mock patriotism wMcb thought 

 that it was always doing the public a service by finding 

 £iult witli people in office, and particularly with those in 

 tliistaut settlements ; whereria it was to oflicial men in 

 distant settlements that they ought to be more than 

 ordinarily ready to extend their protection. The House 

 should remember t!ic many worthless adventurers wlto 

 went out from tliis country to those settlements, for the 

 ])urpose of repairing their broken fortunes and character, 

 and with whom olficial men were necessarily thrown into 

 contact ; and how any mark of just severity wliich might 

 be measured out to those eltaractei's wajs sure to fui-nish 

 abundant opportunity for slander," 



Let us hasten on. 



5, " He " Mr. Hume, " would nuxt c^dl the attention of 

 tlw House to a document signed by fifty-threb itEft- 

 CUANTS of Sincapore " 



This document occupies a column of Hamnrd. It may 

 be read in the Appendix. Fifty-thi-ee merekmih ought 

 to settle any question of doubt that ever arose within ii 

 merehant*s province, Twdm merchants of London or 

 Liverpool constitute such a jury as often deah* with 

 princely in teres Ls. If these fifty-tkree have failed to bear 



