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this moment treating, with the most extravagant profusion, the nobility of France; mean, Sir, those of the bourbon school, the heads of which school you may, Sir, recollect were the declared enemies, formerly, to England? The manufacturers talk loudly of these visitors, and thousands of them are daily viewing the sports going forward in the Marquis's lawns. But bread and work they cannot get — hunger and inactivity they are compelled to cherish!

I understand that His Royal Highness the Prince Re- gent regularly reads the Scourge — the reason, therefore, that I troubled you with this letter is, that it may meet his eye — that he may take such steps as shall secure the country against the total deprivation of its trade. Commerce and the revenue link closely together, and though I shall very soon bid an eternal adieu to England, I cannot avoid feeling an anxious pang for the welfare of my country.

Anne;

SUICIDE.

So^ie time ago, in one of our conquered colonies, in which its original laws — the Dutch 9 have been permitted to remain in force, and to be administered by native magistrates, a British artist, driven to desperation by the refusal, or delay of justice from this foreign tribunal, for a grievous wrong, which he had sustained from a Dutchman, shot -himself J The unfortunate man left a written declaration that he had been goaded to the rash act by the injuries he had received, and by the evident partiality of the fiscal, who refused him redress!

This magistrate, incensed at so pointed an accusation, would not allow Christian burial to the unfortunate artist; but ordered his remains to be interred in the sea sand, at low-water mark, with every possible indignity, and a stake to be driven through his body as a suicide! An account has recently reached this country of the death of this cruel and unjust magistrate; — in whose fate