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 ¬rence, that a member of this lower assembly had unaccountably connected in his large and comprehensive mind, the brave and manly cha- racter of the Armatan people, with sports and exhibitions of the most barbarous description. Impressed with so mistaken an opinion, this extraordinary and amiable person seemed to con- sider it as a kind of public duty for the encou- ragement of generous courage and popular free- dom, to protect, by his countenance and pre- sence, the too frequent resorts where animals were excited to more than instinctive ferocity, or where his fellow men, without quarrel, were matched almost to murder one another ; and on those principles, if they deserve that name or character, he became the vehement opposer of the measure that had been adopted. ¬" Against an honest feeling of this morbid de- scription, all reasoning was useless ; and remem- bering, as I do, the force of his eloquence, and the influence of that personal friendship which he had acquired with many so justly, and with ¬none ¬ /n