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 illiberality of ripping up such matters at such a time." He entered into particulars, which he explained to the satisfaction of his right honourable employer. Accordingly the next day there appeared the following paragraph: "In a certain boarding school not a hundred miles from one of the great northern roads, a French dancing-master has been teaching one of the scholars a new step."—Two days after, another journal had it as follows: "The young lady that has been taking French lessons, has retired towards Yorkshire to meditate upon her instructions." Next came paragraph third: "What a dearth of intelligence and entertainment there is to be found among our brother scribes! The story of the boarding-school is more than two years old." In another part of the same journal the affection of obsoleteness was repeated with a moral reflection on the