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 deny that one is a person in esse, and scarcely to admit that one may be a person in posse, is tenfold cruelty; 'it is pressing to death, whipping, and hanging! '—let me entreat all such likewise to remember, that as Shakespeare beautifully expresses himself elsewhere—I give his words as quoted by a very worthy Baronet in a neighbouring county, when protesting a defamatory placard at a general election—



In order utterly to squabash and demolish every gainsayer T had thought, at one time, of asking my old and esteemed