With refpect to the difadvantages which it had been fuppofed our manufacturers would have to encounter from the comparative small price of labour in Ireland, it was faid fuch a fuppofition arofe from a misconception of facts-that the wages of artizans and manufacturers, although not of common labourers, were higher there than in this country, and therefore there was little likeli hood of their being able to underfell u on that ground-nor could our commerce be in any danger from the reasons which had been alledged, fince the provifions and restrictions contained in the propofitions were fufficient as well to prevent any clandeftine importation of foreign goods into Ireland, as to inture the duties payable on all fuch as might be legally imported. The propofitions, after having been agitated upwards of three months, and after having received a variety of amendments and alterations, finally paled the house of commons by a large May 30th. majority, and on the 30th of May were carried up to the house of lords. They here again encountered a confiderable de gree of oppofition, and received several amendments, although not of a material nature. The propofitions having thus paffed both houfes, a bill founded on them was brought into the houle of commons by Mr. Pitt, which was read the first time before the end of the July 28th. feffion, and was followed by an ad. drefs to his majesty, voted by both houses, where in they acquainted him with what they had done, and that it remained for the parliament of Ireland to judge and to decide thereupon. 46 five and convincing. On this fide of the quefti. on, Mr. Grattan and Mr. Flood were the mot confpicuous Ipeakers. The firft of these gentle men, after ftating the prefent fituation of Ireland, with the condition it would be left in by the fyttem now propofed. See," faid he, "what you obtained without compenfationcolony trade, a free trade, the independency of your judges, the government of your army, the extenfion of the conftitutional powers of your council, the reftoration of the judicature of your lords, and the independency of your leg ture! That the kingdom had attended the progrefs of the propofitions through the British parliament with much anxiety and impatience. On their arrival they met with the moft difcouraging reception; they were petitioned against by leveral of the public bodies, and many of the members of the Infh houte of Commons ftrongly marked their dilapprobation of the additions and alterations which the original system had undergone. On the 12th of Auguft, the lecre. Aug. 12th, tary to the lord lieutenant moved the house for leave to bring in a bill correfpondent to that moved by the English minifter.-The debates on this occafion, and more efpecially on the fide of oppofition, were long and animated. Whatever had the least appearance of infringing on the legidative independency of Ireland, was marked and ftigmatized in terms of the utmoft indignation and contempt. The perpetual difpofition of her hereditary revenue by the laft propofition the furrender of her commercial legiflation by the fourth-the restraint imposed on her from trading beyond the Cape of Good Hope and the Streight of Magellan by the ninthwere put in every point of view in which rea-, foning and elequence could render them impref "See now what you obtain by compenfation a covenant not to trade beyond the Gape of Good Hope and the Streights of Magelian-a covenant not to take foreign plantation produce, but as the parliament of Great Britain fhall permit-a covenant not to take British plantation produce, but as Great Britain fhall prefcribea covenant not to take certain produce of the United States of North America, but as Great Britain fhall prefcribe-a covenant never to profect your own manufactures, never to`guard the primum of thofe manufactures!" In favour of the bill it was urged by Mr. Fitzgibbon (a), Mr, Hutchinfun (b), and Mr. Fof ter (e), that the fourth propofition, which had excited fo much jealoufy and alarm, could not on any fair conftruction be laid to take from Ireland her right of commercial leg nation, any more than the acts paded in 1779 and 1782 had done before; wherein Ireland had ftipulated to trade with the Britifh colonies and fettlements in fuch manner a Great Britain herself traded, to im pole the like duties, and to adopt the fame reftrictions and regulations. That in the bill before them, it was propofed to trade with Great Britain on the lame principle; the liberty of either complying with the conditions, or renouncing the agreement in toto, whenever the conditions fhould become obnoxious and d:ffatisfactory, would be left by the prefent bill full as much in the power of the Irish parliament, as it was by either of the foregoing act-The difference only was, that by the former acts, Ireland had fubfcribed to the commercial laws which had been adopted by Great Britain for 290 years back; by the prefent, to fuch as that country fhould bind itfelf to in future; but that it would be still in the power of the Irish parliament to renounce thefe laws, and the whole agreement together, whenever the thought proper.-On the other hand, the commercial advantages offered to Ireland by the bill were ftated to be very important; the linen trade was there fecured to her tor ever, the colony trade through. Leland to Great Britain was given her-he British markets were throwa open to Irish manufactures—and agan, as these manufactures were allowed to be re-exported from Great Britain, with a drawback of a daties, the Irish would, in effect, export on tie foundation of Britil capital, at the fame time that they were left to employ their own capital in the extenfion of their home manufactures. The houfe at length divided upon the 'quefN T E S. (a) The Attorney General, itfelf to do fomething defined and fpecific, when the other adopted fome other defined and fpecific measure. To make the cafes fimilar, an inftance should be produced, which Mr. Fox affirmed could not be found in the hiftory of mankind, where one independent state bound itself folemnly to do any thing undefined, unfpecific, . and uncertain, at the arbitrary demand of another. tion; when there appeared for leave to bring in the bill, 127, against it, 108. So finall a majority in favour of fo important a measure, was looked upon as a defeat; and accordingly, although Mr. Orde afterwards moved to have the bill read a first time, and to be printed, yet he declared he should not proceed any further in that business during the prefent feffion, nor at all, unless the kingdom in general should grow to a better liking of a meafure, which he was confident, upon a further and more temperate re confideration of its principles, would obtain their approbation. Thus terminated the intended commercial arrangement betwixt Great Britain and Ireland, after having exercised the attention of both kingdom for upwards of feven months. We hall take this opportunity, before we difmile our review of Irish affairs, to mention the intended fettlement of the Genevefe emigrants in Ireland. The difputes and diffentions which had fo long fabfifted betwixt the aristocratic and democratic powers in the republic of Geneva being finally terminated in favour of the former, through the interference of the kings of France and Sardinia, and the cantons of Zuric and Berne, a number of the citizens of the popular party refolved to quit a country, in the government of which their weight and authority was totally at an end. On this occafion they turned their eyes upon Ireland, and commiffioners were accordingly fent by them to Dublin, to confult and treat with government there relative to their reception into that kingdom. The commiffioners, on their arrival, received the greatest perfonal attention from the people in general, but more especially from the different corps of volunteers in the province of Leinster, into feveral of which, as a mark of refpect paid to the caufe they came to folicit, they were chofen as members. Their request, with refpect to the admiffion of their countrymen into Ireland, was complied with, and a particular tract of land in the county of Waterford was afterwards fet apart for the new settlers. Notwithstanding these preparations, the whole scheme in the end proved abortive. The terms infifted upon by the Genevele, previous to their becoming fubjects of a new flate were, 1. That they should be reprefented in parliament. 2dly, That they fhould be formed into a diftinct corporation. And 3dly, That they thould be govern ed by their own laws. The first of thefe conditions might have been a matter of opinion, and fubject to dilcuffion; but the two laft were held to be incompatible with the laws and the conftitution of Ireland, and as fuch were totally rejected. This difagreement between the parties on leading points (topped all further procedure in the bufinefs. Some of the Genevefe, however, tranfported themselves into Ireland; but they foon found by experience, that nothing was gained by changing their fituation, and most of them, after a fhort itay, quitted the kingdom. The reciprocal advantages which might have accrued in Ireland and the Genevefe emigrants from the propoled fettlement, even had it taken place to the fullest extent, could never, it is pre fumed, have equalled, or been in any degree proportionable to the fanguine expectations fome men had been led to form on this fobject. It fhould be confidered, firft, that the Geneveie are for the moll part mechanics, and that therefore they must have been but ill faired, from their for mer habits of life, to the toils of agriculture; next, that they were to be fettled in a pat of Ireland where their fupport mult have arisen from their daily labours on the foil, and from their having but few wants of their own to gratify, more than from their ingenuity in forming and constructing a variety of ornamental articles, which the luxury and riches of populous and trading towns can only create a market for. CHA P. II. Retrospective view of continental matters, which, through the multiplicity and importance of other domestic affairs, were, of necessity, paffed over in our late volumes. France. Dealb of the Count de Maurepas, and seme account of that celebrated minifter. Convention with Saweden, by which the French are admitted to the rights of denizenship, of establishing warehouses and fac tories, and of carrying on a free trade in Got tenburgh; in return for which, France celes the Weft India Island of St. Bartholomew to Save den. Obfervations on that ceffion. Spirit of civil liberty, of enquiry, of reform and improve ment, with a difpofition to the cultivation of jeful arts, characteristic of the present times. Caufes.-Great improvements in Spain with reSpect to arts, manufactures, and agriculture; measures pursued for the diffemination of useful knowledge, for improving the morals, and enlightening the minds of the people. Inquifition defarmed of its dangerous powers; numerous patriotic facieties formed, and public schools inftituted, under the patronage of the first mobi lity; canals and roads forming; subscriptions for conveying water to large diftrict's defolate through its want. King fuccessfully refumes the project of peopling and cultivating the Sierra Morena; abolishes bull feafts; refiri is the number of borfes and mules to be used in the car, riages of the nobility; procures an accurate Survey and charts of the coafts of the kingdoms, as well as of the Streights of Magellan. Attention to naval force and to commerce, Eaft India company formed. Improvements in the adminiftration of colonial government. Intermarriages with the royal line of Portugal ley the foundation for an alliance between the latter and France Patriarchal age, eminent quali ties, and death of the celebrated Cardinal de Sa lis, Archbishop of Seville. Important reforms in the police of Portugal Queen forms the excellent refolution of newer granting a pardon in any cafe of affination or deliberate murder; which has already produced the happiest effects. Excellent regulation of taking up the idle and diffolute throughout the kingdom, and of apply ing them, at the expence, or under the care of government, to proper labour. Improvements in agriculture attempted, climate and foil unfavourable to corn. Political ob ervations on the intermarriages with Spain, and on the new alliance with the house of Bourbon Italy. No ble at of Fins the VIih, in his generous endea Newy wours to drain the Pontine marfbes. Naples. Difpofition of the king to naval affairs, and to the forming of a marino force. Grand Duke of Tufcany Regulation in Florence for the dipofal of the dead in a common cemetery, caufes great djcontent. T HE fruitfulness of the queen of France, which had for several years been a matter of much doubt and great anxiety to the king and the people, though at length eftablished by the birth of a princess in 1778, yet the failure of a fon ftill continued to excite impatience and apprehenfion, until all uneasiness upon the fabject was at length determined by the birth of a dauph on the 22d of October 1781, to the inexpreffible joy of a nation, who, through a long feries of ages, have been more peculiarly attached to their monarchs than perhaps any other on the face of the earth. It was a new and unexpected spectacle to mankind upon this occafion, and one among the many grievous mortifications which Great Britain was about that period doomed to endure, that the birth of a dauphin of France should have occafioned the greateft public rejoicings that had ever been known in the English American colonies. The queen, in the year 1785, produced another pledge of fecurity to the reigning line in France, by the birth of a fecond fon, in whole favour the old Norman and English title of duke of Normandy was, for the first time, revived in a French prince. The celebrated count de Maurepas died at the caftle of Versailles in the month of November 1781, and in the Sift year of his age; holding, at that very advanced period of life, in a feafon of great national exertion, and of a very perilous and hard-fought foreign war, which extended its action to every quarter of the world, the great and arduous office of prime minifter of France. This great man was not more admired for his abilities as a minifter, and talents as a fatelman, than he was revered and beloved for his humanity, benevolence, and other excellent qualities of the heart. When under the auspices of cardinal Fleury, and in his own happier days, his great and numerous offices feemed to render him at least the third, if not the fecond in administration, he was one of the few minitters who introduced fcience and philofophy into the conduct of public affairs; but was at the fame time fo regulated in their indulgence, as entirely to reject their utelefs or frivolous parts, however tplendid or pleafing, as if he difdained to apply the public money to any other purposes than thofe folid ones of public utiJity. Though confiderably cramped in many of his public defigns and exertions under the pacific and economical fyftem of the cardinal, yet he not only in a great meature recovered the French marine from that proftrate ftate to which it had long feemed irretrievably condemned, but he laid the foundations for all that greatnels to which it has fince arrived, or which it is ftill capable of attain ing. To him France is particularly indebted for that fuperiority, which the is faid (and it is to be leared too evidently) to poffefs in hip-building; efpecially in the construction of fhip. of war: tor he it was who firft refcued naval architecture from mere mechanical bands, from the habitual and unexamined prejudices of vulgar error; and placing it in the rank which it deferved to hold, it foon rose, under his influence and protection, to be confidered as a diftinet and profound science; and was accordingly ftudied and reduced to practice upon thole principles by men of the fift paris and learning. Such eminent and permanent national fervices, which in time diffute themselves in common benefits to mankind, are frequently little thought of at the moment, and the ingerous author or inventor is foon forgotten; while he who applies his genius or invention, with a vain-glorious iplendour, to the destruction of bi fellow-creatures, although not even the partial benefits of his fuccef may furvive the year in which it takes place, fhall have his name handed down with applause and admiration to futurity. Is there then a pervetienes iuberent in mankind which difpofes them, as it were, to worship the evii principles, to defpile their real benetactors, and adore thole who, by becoming the confpicuous inftruments of tranfitory refentments, do in fact make war upon the permanent interests of the race itself? May it not then be the office of history, going hand in hand with philofophy, to draw away the eyes of mankind from the glaring objects which dazzle and confound them, and to teach them to relt on more lober and beneficial fights; to calculate and correct the error of popuiar opinion, and, by rating actions according to their intrinfic value, as it were, to graduate anew the fcale of admiration? Although cardinal Fleury poffeffed at the time the offenfible praife, it was to Maurepas only that science is indebted for that grand defign and arduous undertaking of afcertaining the real figure of the earth, by fending the French academicians and aftronomers to measure degrees of the meridian under the equator, and in the nor thern polar circle. The unexpected difficulties which they experienced, and the extraordinary hardfhips and difficulties they encountered, are too well known to be repeated. When the cabals of the court had, in the year 1748, banished Maurepas far from its vortex (an evil of all others the most intolerable to a Frenchman) he exhibited an inftance, aloft fingular in that country, of bearing his fall from a fituation of greatnels, in which he had been nurtured from his earlieft youth, with the dignity of a man, and the temper of a philofopher. He adorned his long exile, as he had done ais poffethion of power, by continued acts of beneficence, and the practice of every private virtue. When at length, in the 74th year of his age, the long-forgotten ftatelman was most honourably recalled to court, in order to become the Mentor and guide of his young fovereign in the yet un trodden paths of government, neither this fudden and unexpected exaltation, nor his long abfence from the world, produced any change in the temper and character of Maurepas. In the chan ges which neceffarily took place at court, and in the adminiftration, none of the difmiffed ministers were (according to the established etiquette) lent into exile, nor did they fuffer any other degradation or inconvenience, than what proceeded merely from the lofs of their places; no mean jealousy appeared, no act of feverity or relentment took place, no ancient animofity was re vived, vived, nor present hatred gratified, to fully the luftre of his triumph on returning to power. A fimilar magnanimity feemed to be the principle of the enfuing administration. He had the courage to burst at once through thofe narrow political fetters, which, originating partly in pride, and partly in bigotry, were now fo riveted by time, as to be confidered and received as fundamental maxims of government. The pride of the nobility confined the great offices of Atate to their own families; and the profeffion of the law, whofe credit in France is great, and perhaps exceffive, had in a manner appropriated to itself the financial department; while both leaned hard upon the commercial intereft, national and religious prejudices, co-operated in the exclusion of foreigners, and all thofe of a different perfuafion in religious matters, however eminent in their abilities, from rendering any fervi, to the ftate. Maurepas induced his young fovereign, in a fingie inflance, to fet at nought thefe maxims, and to violate all these prejudices, by calling in to be his aftant, as director-general of the finances, M. Necker, a merchant, a foreigner, and a protellant. Such wa Maurepas! In the year 1784, a new convention was entered into between France and Sweden, tending to freighten fit more clofely the bands of union which have fo long fubfitted between the two nations, and which have been maintained with so much advantage and at to fmall an expence, by the former, In virtue of this new convention, the French are admitted to the rights and privi. leges of natives in the city and port of Gottenburg, (which, from the goodness of the harbour, its fituation without the Sound, and other advantage, may be justly confidered as the emporium for the foreign trade of Sweden) being permitted to build and cftablin warehouses for the ftoring of all manner of goods importede ther from France or America, in the bottoms of either nation, without their be ng lubject to any duties or im. pofitious whatever, with the farther liberty to the merchants or proprietors to export all fuch goods at pleasure, either in French or Swedish bottom, and upon the fame free terms. In re turn for the advantages expected from thele favourable ftipulations, France has ceded to Sweden, in perpetuity, the full propriety and fovereignty of the inland of St. Bartholomew in the Welt Indies. The king of Sweden, in order to convert this ifland to the best account, of which it is capable, has fince declared it a free port. Nothing ief than the pretent enthusiasm in favour of commerce, which is fo ftrong in every part of Europe, could render to trifling and fo remote a pfeflion in any degree acceptable. The inland in queftion is estimated only at about five leagues in circumference, the quantity of its cultivable foil bears a very finall proportion even to that extent; in water it is fo deficient, a to have none but what falls from the clouds, and is preferved through the year in cifterns; and though it has a good harbour, the adjoining coafts are to dangerous, and the approaches to it fo difficult, as to forbid its ever becoming of commercial importance. With fuch defects, the of policy, for any of the three powers who are poffeffed of the principal Weft India Islands to draw in new flates to interfere in that commerce of which they are fo extremely jealous, and it feems fill more unaccountable to make donations of fmall unproductive islands or rocks, which are debarred by nature from anfwering any better purpote under a ditant government, deftitute of any neighbouring poffeffion, than that of becoming a nursery of fmugglers, as they would in earlier days of pirates. It is undoubtedly become confonant with the views of France, upon other accounts than those of trade, or even the fupply of naval ftores, to hold Sweden at all times by the hand. The common interefts in the affairs of Germany, which had formed the original band or union between the two nations have long fince been done away by a new state of affairs, and new arrangements of power and alliance: but the jealoufy and apprehenfion which both, though with different degrees of force, entertain of the overgrown and ftill rapidly increafing power of Ruffia, neceffarily throws them into each others arms. Under this impreffion, France thinks it behoves her to maintain an intereft in the north with a power, which in cafe of neceffity might ftill be rendered capable of great exertions, and which, from the immediate neceffity and danger of its own fituation, muft ever prove a watchful centinel with refpect to the movements and defigns of the power in queftion. But admitting to its utmost extent the propriety of this line of political conduct, it will not appear entirely to juftity the ceflion of this ifland; France knewby experience the means of gratifying Sweden, with little difficulty, in another manner. Whatever the leading faults or vices of the prefent times may be, it is their great and peculiar characteristic, and it may be hoped will become their future glory, that a ftrong fpirit of civil li berty, and of enquiry into the function, obligations, and duties of government, are breaking forth in various places, where they were before fuppofed fcarcely to hold even the feeds of exiftence. Another no lefs laudable characteriflic is, that fpirit of reform and improvement, under the feveral heads of legislation, of the administration of justice, the mitigation of penal laws, the affording fome greater attention to the ease and fecurity of the lower orders of the people, with the cultivation of thofe arts moft generally useful to mankind, and particularly the public encouragement given to agriculture as an art, which is becoming prevalent in every part of Europe. This important revolution in the difpofitions of fo great a part of mankind, may in a great meature be attributed to the peculiar kind of philofophy cultivated in the prefent age, by men, without doubt, confiderable, and who have gi- ven the tafle, and, as we may fay, directed the fashion in literature; though their views have certainly not been favourable to the highest and maft permanent interests of our nature. principles they had adopted, or the path they As the chofe to fame and eminence, made it neceffary for them to attack what have been generally confidered as the great fanctions of morality On the other hand, it feems to be an odd fort and duty, they were obliged to counteract the intrinfic value of the inland of St. Bartholomew cannot be very highly rated. impatation which their tenets might be liable to, by not only profeffing but inculcating the moft general and enlarged philanthropy, and by lét ting loofe all the powers of fatire and invective opon all infringements of natural rights, but more particularly upon thofe which feemed or were fuppofed to derive their origin from religi ons etablishments. Thus wit has been often enlisted on the fide, of juftice, and led to a more minute and accurate investigation into the prin ciples and boundaries of authority. If in many respects the force of received opi nions has in the prefent times been too much im paired, and perhaps too wide and indifcriminate a fcope given to fpeculation on the domains of antiquity and practice, it is, however, a jut Caule of triumph, that prejudice and bigotry were the earliest victims. Happy will it be, if the blows which were aimed at the foundations and buttreffe», shall only shake off the ulelels in cumbrances of the edifice. And this we are to hope will be the cafe. We may confidently alfer, that the utmott treedom of enquiry and decifion, however fubject to partial inconvenience and abuses, muft in the end contribute to the benefit of fociety; for whatever finifter ambition may warp the defign of those who en deavour by their writings to direct the opinion of the world, as they addref mankind through the channel of their realon, and work with the powers of the understanding, they are obliged to apply themselves to the cultivation and improvement of the fubjea, and of the inftrumeats of their labours. So that at laft the particular views of individuals, philofophers, and lects, being various and fluctuating, will be found to be comparat vely but little advanced; while fomemes one, and fometimes another, of thole ge. nera! principles on which the happiness of mankind depend (for thele are uniform and permanent) will receive itrength and vigour from the alternate prevalence of dilciplines and opinions. Even in thole countries where defpottm, bigotry, and evil government, had moft benumbed the faculties, and deprefled or perverted the geniu of the people, they feem now to roufe, and to be shaking off the lethargy in which they had to long lain. Of these, none have declined more, whether in a moral or political view, from the rank which they once held among the nations of the world, than the neighbouring kingdoms of Spain and Portugal have done within the two lalt centuries; which, derived as they are from the fame origin, feemed to have fonk under the lame common malady. Indeed a new day feems to be opening in Spain; and it is to be hoped (for it is allowed to hope and with it, as none but ungenerous mines could lock with pleasure at degraded humanity, even in a rival or enemy, and every thing that really tends to honour and elevate the ipcele mult fooner or later redound to the benefits of all nations) that the brilliant genius of that people, which has been fo long muffled and reAr. -d, will foon have proper room for its exertion, and opportunity for its difplay. The Inqfition, which had to long been the terror and carle of the nation, though not entirely abolished, i, however reduced to a fituation like that of an old lubdued lion, whofe atpect may Rul infpire terror, but whole fangs being drawn and claws pared, is no longer capable of mischief— The powers of that tribunal are now confined t thofe glaring and public acts of impiety, pro phanenels, or immorality, which are punishable in all well regulated flates; and in the executie of this fmall remaining part of their authority, all their proceedings are to be publicly conduc ed, and their evidence to be openly taken; pub licity of proceedings being the most efficacion corrective of vicious, and prefervative of whole fome inftitutions. This reform, even if carried no father, muft foon put an end to the odious mi infamous race of familiars and secret informers, It is peculiarly fortunate to Spain, that the court, the nobility, and higher claffes of the ma tion, should all be feized at the fame time wit the fame common spirit of promoting a genea reform through the country, of erafing ancient prejudices, and of ufing all means to enlightes the minils of the people. Learning, and an enquiry into the hiftory and antiquities of the coustry, are liberally encouraged, and fumptues editions of the most valuable claffics publifhed, under the auspices of the court; patriotic focie ties, under the fanction of the firit nobility, are forming in every part of the kingdom, for tår ellablishment of arts, sciences, and manufacture; for improvements in the cultivation of the earth, and in every part of rural economy; for opening the minds, and mending the morals of the people. For this purpote numerous public school have already been inflituted, and are daily iDcreafing, while the ftudies of youth are to be directed to ufeful and neceffary object. Nor is encouragement wanting to the fine arts, altho the ufetul, with great propriety in the prefent ftate of things, meet with a more marked attention. The fame patriotic fpirit, which leemed to require nothing more than to be awakened in order to its due exertion, is already extending itfelf to public works and defigns of the greatell permanency and national utility. Plans have been formed, fubfcriptions filled, and the works are actually in execution, for the conveyance of water to large diftricts which had hitherto been defolate through its want, and for opening the way to commerce and induftry, by eftablishing good roads and navigable canals, for facilitating the intercourse between the different provinces of that extenfive country; the want of which could not have been any where more felt. We have heretofore feen the measures adopted by Spain for peopling and cultivating the wide and defolate waftes of the mountainous region of the Sierra Morena, by stocking them with German colonie; which was done at a great expence, to the amount of about 6000. A court intrigue, by which the duke d'Aranda, the patriotic and benevolent father of this project, was thrown out of this adminiftration, was among the principal cautes, if not the fole one, of its failure. About nine-tenths of the colonists either perfhed in the place, or in their attempts to re(un home encountered fuch hardships, that many were reduced to the neceffity of becoming beg gars or vagabonds, or, what may be confidered as a calamity little lefs confiderable, being oblig ed to inliit in foreign fervice in the countries through which they paffed, (To be continued.) |