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 the code of laws which it eems I have unfortunately trangreed. It is urely due to your nice ene of jutice to grant me a fair trial before you condem me.’

This anwer, and the hrewd ubterfuge which the prioner aimed at by his quibbling objection, and the elf-poeion with which he tated it, prognoticated no common character. In this expectation the rigorous judge abated omewhat of his reentment, and replied, ‘My laws are no other than thoe which nature has already incribed on thy heart—but, that thou mayet not complain of being condemned unheard, proceed, and freely confes who thou art, and what induced thee to come hither to range and riot as a pectre on my mountain. So hall I judge thee as I find thee.’ This the culprit was right glad to hear, in hopes, by a faithful relation of his adventures, to talk away the threatened vengeance of the prite, or at leat to mitigate the punihment. ‘Once,’