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a in a cartel, in the depth of winter. Having, in Edinburgh, made the acquaintance of Miss Wilkes, of New York, he crossed the ocean to seek her for his wife, and won her. To Edward T. Channing. Essex St., April, 1812, 11 P. M. dear Ned,—By Jove, you are a rare one! Nature may run over all the old spoons in her mint, and never make two ninepences like you. Two such as you don't come in one generation. Non terra duos soles, neque Asia, duos reges tolerare pbtest; and if two Ned Channings should fall together, the world would not know which end it stood upon. Only an hour ago you went off, convincing me that I was a fool, and did not know my Horace. You shut up my mouth, when I was right, by a sleight of hand peculiar to yourself; and these presents are to let you know that I shall understand you for the future. Touching that passage,—Sat. 1, line 100,—the facts are these. Horace, in conversation with a miser, endeavors to dissuade him from parsimony, by telling hi<