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    who assume the name of patriot and pretend to some regard for letters , 1 I kiss &c . &c .

    MR STIVERS TO LADY C . WlY master has come back again , and has got into a scrape with the Police for being robbed . Instead of looking after the robber , an old friend

    of theirs , they looked after him , and put him upon his trial ( I mean of patience ) for three whole days . He grew pacified and satisfied when at last he heard of an

    arrangement . He supposed the meaning of the word to imply his acceptance of one part on his acquiescence in losing the other . No such thing . After a threat that if he dared in

    future to make a complaint which he could not substantiate he should be sent out of Tiiiscany , he was informed that he Height come to a compromise . The proposal was to

    sign a written agreement to gay nothing more about the matter : on which signature , the robber will be persuaded by the magistrate to act with reciprocal forbearance and ' _ i _ Tf " i Jnl ' a ' . j __ ¦ Tm fF A , — -- A . 1 ^ M master told

    goddffaith . My tfre kifctornfcy that he thought the , laws of Tuscany did not sufficiently protect the honest ; man . He replied , u Caro Signo ? mio ! what would she bave 7 The wise system of TusiJany is io concdmte those to

    wBo ate abl ^ and likely do us harm . t We all know that ( rour , JExceltehpy would , not ^ P Wto ^ Tinpy ^ rd wd . cut

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    down the vines ofi a judge : can we say that poor and idle men , pinched or irritated , would not do it ? In fine ,

    Signore , it is a Christian ' s duty to love , and protect his simile . " " What ! " cried I , "Signor A vvocato ! do you make it out that a rogue is the simile of a judge ?"

    " It remains for you to make that out , " said he with a laugh , " my case is harder and more intricate . " I can plead for you ,

    Eccellenza ! and will plead for you : I can bring reasons , I can bring laws ; but , if getting back your property is the question , I can bring no precedent . Since the French left

    the country , no foreigner ever gained a cause in Tuscany . But , Excellency ! you must really make allowances for the poor judges . Cospetto ! we

    have come not only to vineyards and bean-fields , but even to bastinadoes ; and who knows where they may fall ? There is no reverence nor

    respect in our days : there is no difference between persons and personages ; but there are fierce fellows and stout bludgeons , cospetto ! and what can , laws do against them , or the judges , or His Excellency the President of the

    Buon-Governo ? They carry no such things : they are considerate and conciliatory , if you do not hur ^ y and urge them , and know < that in pulling out a taj ; e tfcey may : light upon a tl * Qrnf i (

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    248 High and Low Life in Italy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/24/