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hopping that I shall soon hear from you:" hoping, I presume you mean; but perhaps you were thinking of a hop, step, and jump; a favourite amusement of mine when a boy; and even now I will hop, step, and jump, with the best fellow in Harrow School.

Should I find Mr. Ravenhill disposed, and in the same humour he was in last year "for a wild-goose chase," we may probably (if we cannot get a wild goose) be content to sit down, with you and his son Edward, to a tame one, at the Harry's Head, sometime in the next month; or if you prefer the dismemberment of Turkey, and are Greek enough to commence an attack, we will be your allies.

Elizabeth and Lucy are much benefited by their excursion to Leamington. Your mother and sisters are very well. Mr. and Mrs. Britton, and Mr. Shaw, drank tea with us last night.

I have commenced another volume of letters. Jane has furnished me with all I wrote to you since last January.

Consider me, dear Richard,

Affectionately yours,

B. O.

To MR. R. R. OAKLEY.

MY DEAR RICHARD,

Royal Exchange, October 30, 1822.

I AM glad to find you got safe down, and

were at your post in time.

The merited disgrace of the two boys will, I hope, convince them of the impropriety of their conduct, and occasion a feeling of gratitude to their superiors, for their tender consideration in not expelling them.

How perfectly ridiculous these freaks appear to men of sense! The inconsiderate indulgence of their parents, in supplying them with too much money, is here manifest. Pride, and the silly boast of having performed (as they think) a great feat, seem to have upset their reason, and probably led them to imagine that it was meritorious to squander away their money in a nocturnal ramble, encountering not only accident, but the risk of destroying health, their reputation, and good name, "by doing those things they ought not to do, and leaving undone those things they ought to do." The school task they had to perform could not be otherwise than imperfectly done, and they richly deserve the disgrace that has befallen them by being thrown back in their form.

In communities of every description, improprieties will arise though evils in themselves, they sometimes tend to do good, inasmuch as the judicious and welldeserving profit by the folly and example set before them, by shunning the pernicious example, and learning to appreciate virtue and shun vice. You have afforded me a text on which I could expatiate to a greater length than the limits of this paper will allow; and as I know you value the observations I make, and are capable of making the application, it is not necessary I should say more, than to warn you against associating with such boys, whose thoughtlessness may effect their own ruin, and "bring down the gray hairs of their parents with sorrow to the grave."

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To MRS. VAUGHAN, BLACKFRIARS.

MY DEAR MADAM,

Tavistock Place, November 5, 1822.

I TAKE leave to present to you a few impressions from a chalk drawing on stone, as a pleasing specimen of my young pupil's talent in the graphic art. You will say, " as they were dedicated to me by my daughter, why did she not present them?" I will tell you why. Her modesty would probably overstep the bounds of truth: she might say, "O dear, it is so indifferently done, I am ashamed to offer it to you." Now some such squeamishness as this might have deprived you of the gratification I am sure you now feel; and therefore I have taken the bold decisive way of placing them in your possession, to be distributed among those of your friends who know how to appreciate genius and good taste.

I hope Mr. Vaughan is better; and that yourself, Miss Vaughan, and her brother, are quite as well, and as good as you ought to be.

Your very obedient Servant,

B. O.

To WILLIAM FARRAN, Esq. DUBLIN.

MY DEAR SIR,

Royal Exchange, November 6, 1822.

YOUR obliging favour of the 2d instant, covering the copy of Sir Joseph Hoare's letter, and your reply to Mr. Terry, reached me yesterday, together with Higgins's book upon "The Theory of Atomics," for whwhich lathank you.

I aham glad to find that Mrs. Farran is better, and that

she is gradually improving in health." I beg you will convey to her our congratulations upon her amendment.

I look upon Sir Joseph's proposition to be all humbug his postponed visit to Dublin all humbug- and his intention of being there in December all humbug. I would have you push the suit on without any relaxation; and let the haughty baronet understand, that I am not to be humbugged by his specious promises any longer.

Your sincere Friend,

B. O.

To MRS. VAUGHAN.

MY DEAR MADAM,

Tavistock Place, November 16, 1822.

WITH all due respect for you and your "amiable family," and for many obligations I owe to you, and acknowledge most heartily, I am, notwithstanding, exceedingly alarmed at an expression in Christiana's letter, which reached me yesterday, in the hurry of business, when I had not time to reply to it.

Speaking of your "amiable family," she has dropped an expression that alarms me much. Now, as this girl has some hold of my affection, I cannot but be alive to any thing that concerns her future welfare, in which my tranquillity is involved, and perhaps my happiness depends. She says, "you make so much of her that she is in imminent danger of being spoiled!" Good God! madam, is not this enough to alarm me? What! after I have taken so much pains to instil into her mind every principle of virtue, religion, and good morals, she should now be exposed to the risk of losing all that is amiable or desirable in life, by being spoiled! Do, madam, I pray and beseech you, send this girl back again to her

alarmed parents ere it be too late, ere the poison has taken too strong hold to be eradicated, and you will confer a lasting obligation on

Your unhappy Friend,

B. O.

At my daughter's request, I send you my manuscript selections from Shakspeare. This I do most readily. You will not find in them any character he has drawn aiming to corrupt the mind of a young girl, who may have taken shelter under the roof of a friend. Madam, "for the love of grace, lay not this flattering unction to your soul." "Confess yourself to Heaven-repent what's past-avoid what is to come." Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' mind by what you see them act." There is a farce called The Spoiled Child, where you may see the pernicious effects of too much indulgence given to a little girl. "I pray you avoid it."

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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE.

GENTLEMEN,

Stock Exchange, November 16, 1822.

I WISH to draw your attention to a most serious and imminent danger.

The existence of this house, and the security of every person's property in it, is in peril; and inevitable destruction will be the consequence, if we are not alive to the evil which threatens us.

A bold and formidable junta have assumed the entire control of the foreign and English stock markets, regulate it at will, and dare tell us what the prices shall be!

It is well known that this junta have daily expresses from the French capital, which puts them into possession

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