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 name from the firm, as it must prove a losing concern. Having good hope you will avail yourself of this early information, to do what is needful for your own security, I rest your humble servant,

For, of Mareschal-Wells —These, with care and speed.

Sir Frederick's jaw dropped, and his countenance blackened as the letter was read, and Ellieslaw exclaimed,—" Why, this affects the very main-spring of our enterprize. If the French fleet, with the king on board, has been chased off by the English, as this d—d scrawl seems to intimate, where are we?"

"Just where we were this morning, I think," said Mareschal, still laughing.

"Pardon me, and a truce to your ill-timed mirth, Mr Mareschal; this morning we were not committed publicly, as we now stand committed, by your own mad act, when you had a letter in your pocket