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illiberality of reviving what had been
almost forgotten, and a flaming metaphor about "calumny's envenomed tooth." The fifth article was,—"The young lady that was so shamefully traduced by a false report about a French dancing-master, has so satisfactorily cleared her character, that she is about to give her hand to a young baronet of great and increasing parliamentary eminence.—If he be satisfied, who has a right to be otherwise?" The sixth; "We can assure our readers, that Sir E. H. is not to marry Miss M
; the reasons of this change we do not undertake to explain." Seventh,—"The boarding-school report still continues to haunt poor Miss M r; not that she is under any dread of spectres; her disturbance is from flesh and blood."—Eighth, in another paper, the same morning: "It has been reported that a young
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