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 ¬a single stroke, his weak frame to atoms, whilst they form, under his directing skill, the smallest and most delicate things for the uses and orna- ments of the world. ¬" You must heat down those insane outrages by the whole strength and vigour of your laws. Select the guiltiest for condign punishment; but let no such guilt be spared'* ¬Morven here expressed his highest satisfac- tion. Taking me by the hand, he assured me that the very existence of Armata depended upon the most unremitting execution of the laws in this respect; and I was glad to find that her government had acted with the greatest promp- titude and firmness in stigmatizing and punish- ing this opprobrium of a civilized world. ¬As I was preparing to finish the little I had to say to him, he desired we might pause a moment, that what had been last said might be the better remembered; and opening the door, which led ¬x to ¬