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CHAPTER XXXIV.

Nous serons par NOS LOIX les juges des ouvrages!
Par NOS LOIX, prose et vers, tout nous sera soumis;
Nul n'aura de l'esprit hors NOUS et NOS AMIS !
Nous chercherons par tout a trouver a redire;

Et ne verrons que NOUS, qui SCACHENT BIEN ECRIRE!

MOLIERE.

A SCENE IN LOW LIFE, OR THE REVIEWERS! BE-
ING A NARRATIVE OF AN ARCH CONSTABLE
JOINING A CREW OF JOVIAL BEGGARS!

UNFORTUNATE CONSTELLATION!

My

Uncle's over-anxiety to give a permanent brilliancy to your stars, with his great charity, as will appear in his hospitable recep

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tion of a CONSTABLE with his vagrants, put us all out, one by one!

CACO-NOUS, when in town, would often take me to Bow-street, there to shew what is "a political justice," and to study the science of "political justice" itself. In his melancholy manner he persuaded me that the CONSTABLE ought to be put to the bar, as well as the criminals he brought; for often the CONSTABLE had gone snacks with the rogues!

This discovery in "political justice" did we all in the CONSTELLATION live to verify!

Not long ago, an ARCH CONSTABLE found under a hedge, in the vicinity of Edinburgh, a crew of mumpers, tatterdemallions, roy

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