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Messrs. Editors,

all the Waverly Novels "Old Mortality" produced perhaps the greatest sensation in Scotland. It pleased the light readers. It was very acceptable to the Tory party. It the attention of the Whigs-I mean  the Radicals, but the descendants and  of the true "Whigs of the Covenant." excited a burst of admiration, and a burst indignation, deep and severe.—The one  the Tories, and the mere admirers of  historical romance—the other from the  and devout body of the nation.

It was a novel affair, and it excited the pub-