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 To return to Richard, apd his "playing the eaves-dropper:" Mr. Whateley says, that his going round the camp just before the battle, to listen if any meant to shrink from him, is proper on that particular occasion. —Very likely, it may be so: But, with what consistency can suspicion be commended, as proper, in Richard, while in Macbeth it is invariably branded for timidity? The Remarks, bent on exalting Richard at the expense of Macbeth, say:—The same determined spirit carries him through the bloody business of murdering his nephews: and,