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    in Captain Hey wood V wishing to inherit the family property , provided it fell to him in the order of " succession ? If not , the negative assumes his legal right to it . But the fact of this legal right was that on which the younger Heywobd speculated . He thought —and there was some plausibility in the notion— -that the le ^ al

    right might be in himself . Moral right , in the succession of property , there is none anywhere . The only right . in the case is created by law . It is in the eldest ; the same power might vest it in the youngest . It is in the son the same power might vest it in the daughter . It is in the child ; the same power might vest it in the uncle , the cousin , the nephew , or even in the king or the

    community . If the condemnatory epithets be applied to a younger brother ' s taking advantage of an elder brother ' s misfortune , to possess himself of what otherwise would be the elder brother ' s , legal right , it may be asked whether the elder brother does not always avail himself of the younger brother ' s misfortune ( his birth-misfortune ) to possess himself of what else would have been the younger brother ' s legal right ? There are many who would think a fortnight ' s uncertainty about being hanged ,, by no

    means an equipollent calamity to that of being born a younger brother . A severer condemnation than that on the individual should fall on the legal and social system which makes money the great interest of life ,, and sets up that interest in an antagonist position to filial , fraternal , and benevolent feerings . It would probably be best for the legal and moral right to coincide , and'for no individual to receive money , or money ' s-worth , without having rendered proportionate service for it to society . At any rate , it must be bad to manufacture , by legal machinery , natural death

    or arbitrary incapacitation into the pecuniary advantage of son or brother . Captain Heywood himself was not the first-born , nor the eldest then living , though he- seems to have become so soon after . The heir was about to die , and the question was , which of the two younger brothers was entitled to the legal bonus on his decease . The captain would have been too pure-minded to moot such a question . The midshipman was a young rascal , no doubt . But the iniquity of ancient and hoary law excited , perhaps generated altogether , the evil in his soul . The old rascal led the young rascal into temptation .

    It has been mentioned , that Captain Heywood lived two years at Otaheite , i . e . the interval between the return of the mutineers to that island , and the arrival of the Pandora off the coast , in 1791 . He and many of the natives became mutually attached ; he learned their language ; conformed to many of their customs ,

    even so far as to be tattooed in the most curious manner ; and seems altogether to have made himself very comfortable . , The recollection of that time was not the worse for having been followed by a shipwreck in irons , and atrial for . his life . His memory dwelt on it with tenderness and complacency . Five-and-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 809, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/17/