There is in the neighborhood a case at present of great distress, in the person of a widow and her three young children, who have been left destitute by the guilt and consequent deportation of her unhappy husband to Australia, for the crime of feloniously abstracting live mutton.

I defended him professionally, or, I should say--although I do not boast of it--with an eye to the relief of his interesting wife, but without success; and what rendered his crime more unpardonable, he had the unparalleled wickedness to say, that he was instigated to it by the ill-advice and intemperate habits of this amiable woman.

Will your lordship, then, allow me to put your honored name in the list of her Christian friends?
Allow me, my Lord, to subscribe myself, "Your lordship's frail, unworthy, "But faithful and honored servant, "Solomon M'Slime." "P.S .-- With respect to your jocose and ironical postscript, may I again take the liberty of throwing in a word in season.

If your lordship could so far assume a proper Christian seriousness of character, as to render the act of kindness and protection on your part such as might confer a competent independence upon a female of religious dispositions, I doubt not, should your lordship's charity continue unabated on your arrival here, that some such desirable opportunity might offer, as that of rescuing a comely but desolate maiden from distress.
"There is, indeed, a man here living on your lordship's property, who has a daughter endowed with a large portion of that vain gift called beauty.

Her father and family are people of bad principle, without conscience or honesty, and, withal, utterly destitute of religion--not but that they carry themselves very plausibly to the world.