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��ration of the conduct of this People. Uninfluenced by party or any other atachment, I presume I shall not be suspected of misrepresentation. The East India Company must console themselves with this reflection, that if they have suffered, the prejudice they sustaine does not arise from enmity to them. A fatal necessity has rendered this catstrophe inevitable — the landing the tea would have been fatal, as it would have saddled the colonies with a duty imposed without their consent, and which no power on earth can effect. Their strength and numbers, spirit and illumination, render the experiment dangerous, the defeat certain : The Consignees must attribute to themselves the loss of the property of the East

��India Company : had they seasonably quieted the minds of the people by a resignation, all had been well ; the customhouse, and the man who dis- graces Majesty by representing him, acting in confederacy with the inveter- ate enemies of America, stupidly opposed every measure concerted to return the Teas. — That Americans may defeat every attempt to enslave them, is the warmest wish of my heart. I shall return home doubly fortified in my resolution to prevent that depre- crated calamity, the landing the teas in Rhode Island, and console myself with the happiest assurance that my brethren have not less virtue, less resolution, than their neighbours.

An Impartial Observer.

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��We give with this number of the Bay State a fac-simile reproduction, from a rare copy in our possession, of " An Oration, pronounced at Hanover, New Hampshire, the Fourth Day of July, 1800," by Daniel Webster. This ora- tion was delivered when the future statesman was in his eighteenth year. It cannot fail to interest every reader of the Magazine, and will be a treat to every collector of Americana.

Our Lowell article in the March number of The Bay State Monthly has been severely criticized — especially the cuts. To the older residents of that city each picture was of interest from association. We should have given credit to the excellent History of Lowell, written by Charles Cowley, LL.D., and to the Year Book, published by the Mail.

��A System of Rhetoric is the title of a book by C. W. Bardeen, published in 1884 by A. S. Barnes and Company, of New York.

The subject is divided into sentence- making, conversation, letter-writing, the essay, oratory, and poetry. The book under consideration is an able and exhaustive treatise and must become highly prized as a textbook.

A Brief History of Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Peoples, with some account of their monuments, institutions, arts, manners, and customs, is the title of a book of six hundred pages, with two hundred and forty illustrations, issued by the same publishers.

There is a large amount of informa- tion crowded within its covers, made available by a thorough index.

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