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 these unhappy matters with much temperance and generosity, for which I have to request his acceptance of my thanks."

Here Morton observed Datzell shake his head indignantly, and whisper something into Clavethouse's eat, who smiled in return, and elevated his eyebrows, but in a degree so slight as scarce to be perceptible. The Duke, taking the petition from his pocket, proceeded, obviously struggling between the native gentleness of his own disposition, and his conviction that the petitioners demanded no more then, their rights, and the desire, on the other hand, of enforcing the king's authority and complying with the sterner opinions of the colleagues in office, who had been assigned for the purpose of controlling as well as advising him.

"There are, Mr Morton, in this paper, proposals, as to the abstract propriety of which I must now waive delivering any opinion. Some of them appear to me rea-