The Americans / By an American in London.

  • Calvin Colton
Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Americans / By an American in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TRIAL OF THE WITNESSES. sailed, which was on a Sunday morning. The Corporation of New York prosecuted the tailor, and he was convicted, and sentenced to a fine greatly beyond his means to pay. Mr. F. a lawyer of New York, defended him with much eloquence, but in vain* His powerful speech, however, was not without effect—for it raised him such a host of Presbyterian enemies, as sufficed to destroy his practice. Nor was this all: his nephew was at the time preparing for the bar, and soon after the above circumstances occurred, his certificates were presented, and re- fused, with this declaration—that no man of the name of the family of F. should be admitted.” I have met this young man in society; he is a person of very considerable talent, and beino- thus o cruelly robbed of his profession, has become the editor of a Newspaper.” As to the hear-say part of this testimony, the reporters of it to Mrs. Trollope are not within our reach; nor uncjer our hand. And even, if wre could catch them, we think it would be quite unnecessary to notice their story. But, there is one part of this account, which Mrs. Trollope affirms on her own credit:—(f I have met this young man in societyand she had been in his
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