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pours forth in oral eloquence the 
feelings which have been concealed 
for so long a period. 
“ Have I not made the dumb to 
speak ? 
“ But, this is not all, gentle reader. 
1 indulge a faint hope that this, 
my invention, will be patronized by 
the government at the instigation 
of delicate and dilletanti officials, who 
have a decided distaste to the call for 
any papers excepting the Court Jour¬ 
nal, or those little French squares that 
nightly imprison and form the morn¬ 
ing’s curls: as if it was reasonable that 
the people should know what might 
be going on between them and Prince 
Talleyrand, Metternich, and others. 
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