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Rh the money he may have about him? Hectors and bullies, not a little, and insists upon his coming to see her; or that otherwise she shall come and see him in a different sort of way. At whatever stage of this boisterous meeting he bleeds the least sum of money probable for the occasion, she is always ever after sticking in his skirts: if the silly man takes fright, and is afraid of being discovered, she brings a companion, and they together bully him out of his money at proper intervals,—perhaps, in a state bordering on distraction, they obtain a promise of marriage! I leave the reader to contemplate the eftiects of such an union, on his purse, and peace of mind.

Those of which we have spoken, are accusations without any foundation, there are other and blacker kinds of criminal charges, made against individuals, that have some ground-work to build charges upon; but which becomes, nevertheless, more atrocious as the perpetrators have twice double objects in view, viz. the commission of crime, the detection, the death of ihe culprit, and payment for their villainy. Of these we shall hereafter speak, under their modern and most appropriate title of which the reader is desired to see!

Every false accusution goes to the utter