REVIEW— THE ELYSIUM OF ANIMALS. 
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countrymen. I carefully marked his countenance during the re- 
cital of human guilt, and I saw there unequivocally depicted 
mixed emotions of shame and indignation, which greatly prepos- 
sessed me in his favour, before the redeeming evidence of the dog 
and the horse were adduced in confirmation of the protestations 
of his innocence, which he made previous to the commencement 
of the examinations. I am so well aware of the justice of your 
nature, that I am fully persuaded that you will not visit the sins 
of the guilty upon the head of the innocent; and I confidently 
anticipate that the acquittal of the stranger will accompany a 
verdict of guilty against his countrymen in general. Should he, 
by any means, ever revisit England, his native home, and report 
to his brethren what he has seen and heard during his unex- 
pected visit to this our Elysium, the narrative may tend to acce- 
lerate that reform in the laws relative to wanton cruelty to ani- 
mals which has long been advocated by those benevolent indivi- 
duals to whom the stranger has alluded in the course of his 
address.” 
On account of the intercession of some of the animals in be- 
half of the stranger, between whom and himself a mutual attach- 
ment had previously existed, a verdict of acquittal is awarded 
him. 
“ On the announcement of this just and merciful sentence, 
there arose from the countless assemblage to whom it was ad- 
dressed an universal acclamation of so extraordinary and inde- 
scribable a nature, that I awoke from my strange and protracted 
dream, and, to my great astonishment, found myself in bed, while 
‘ Fancy, like the finger of the clock. 
Ran the wide circuit, yet was still at horae. , 
So vivid were the impressions which the singular vision had left 
upon my mind, that I was enabled to commit the whole to 
writing ; and I have been induced to publish it, in the hope that 
it may have a tendency to promote the good cause so feelingly 
and so effectually advocated by the benevolent practical Chris- 
tians to whom the public is indebted for that excellent work, 
< The Voice of Humanity ” 
We would observe, that, independently of the beauties and 
merits of this work, which of themselves will insure it, we hope, 
an extensive circulation, on account of its humane object, which 
the author has very successfully advocated, the work has 
very strong and peculiar claims on the patronage and support 
of the public ; and we are most happy to see that the 
Duchess of Kent has condescended to give her patronage to this 
humane and laudable publication. 
