And there is another consideration by no means to be overlooked, which is, that by this arrangement the government would be certain to have in the commission a man who would prove himself one of the precise class which they stand in need of--that is, a useful man, devoted to their wishes.
"Now, my dear M'Slime, I mention this to you with all the confidence of unshaken friendship.

From you these representations will go to his lordship with a much better grace than they would from me.

Tell him in your own peculiar way, that he shall have the two thousand for the magistracy.

That is my first object as his friend--this once obtained, I have no doubt of seeing myself, ere long, a member of the grand panel, and capable of serving him still more extensively.
"Believe me to be, "My dear M'Slime, &c, "Valentine M'Clutchy.
"P.S .-- I heard you once express a wish about a certain farm--but mum's the word--only this, I have something in my eye for you." Solomon M'Slime to the Right Hon.

Lord Cumber:-- "My Gracious Lord: "I, of course, cannot look upon the condition you annex to the appointment of the agent as unreasonable, although my friend M'Clutchy insists, he says, for the honor of the aristocracy, that it was a mistake on your lordship's part, and that a loan only was meant.