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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC PRESS

... appoint their fiiends to the House of Peors to act as puppets of the Administration, until Peers would be as- plenty as blackberries, and the distinctive cela- racter of an independent gentleman would be a sCommoner. If the House of Poers is a fungus ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1833
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1458 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LONDON POLICE

... inquiry learned they were a native t fruit of the State, found near Lake Erie. The fruit of resembles the' common native blackberry, but is in larger and finer. I introduced a few roots into my C garen,, and find' them constant bearers from June lo until ...

EDINBURGH

... sant with ears that could catch the concert of the ,ane ing stars, or the spheres' mausic. Albeit Ribbon men are plenty as blackberries, you might offer, thousand pounds for the sight of one, and miss th show. We have not beard what pecuniary aid : Ruthven ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1286 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC PRESS

... Any t money for a grievance ! This used to be the t exclamation in days of yore. We have now I grievances as thick as blackberries, without the I payment of any money at all. It is only neces- sary for a proletarian to trot about the country, i to peep ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1838
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2831 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

London

... Burghley. The first fox, fotind in Salt ot Spring Wood, threaded Knipton Plantation, skirt. hi ed Spinney, and was killed at Blackberry Hill. tb where the Ladies had fortunately taken up a posi- tion after the first burst. The Duke of Cambridge a receivetl ...

Published: Monday 14 January 1839
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1402 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

OXFORD CIRCUIT

... Mr Black, onl the 21st of April, wrote the following reply :- Reasons, my dear Sir, as Falstaff says, c are plenty as blackberries-but I will give no man a reason on compulsion.' I refer you to Canon 101-' No license shiall be granted but to such per- ...

LITERATURE

... ever I heerd tell on, inclulin' them as wvas kivered over bh the rohin redbreasts arter thev'rl committed snoicide with blackberries, there never wass say like that 'eme little Tony. He's alvays a plamin' vith it quart pot that boy is ! To see him a settin' ...

UNITED STATES

... doubr from Calh oun also. America is. per ase, the land of tire' anrd steam buat cc dents, accounts of which. plentitul as blackberries. come hland by every arrival from that country.. Newark. in t State of New Jersey. wits tint scene of anl extensive cet ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1844
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1808 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... at large. In a fourth session, then, patriots increase in untold numbers in the House of Commons. They are as thick as blackberries on a hedge. The wishes of the people are taken into consideration. Ministers are snubbed and thwarted by the very drudges ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1844
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7818 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Sept. 24

... is no fence of any de- scription, and on Sept. 4tb, the complainant thought it no harm to enter the plantation to gather blackberries. She had ascended some distance upon the incline, when the defendant made his appearance and ordered her to start from ...

THE ARMY

... pine-Minwosh, boxwood-Mackay, bullrush -McKenzie, deer grass-M.Kinnon, St John's wort-bM'- Lachlan, mountain ash-MILean, blackberry heath-M'Leod, red wortle berries-M'Nah, rose back berries-M'Neil, sea- ware-M'Pherson, variegated boxwood-MacQuarrie, black ...

Published: Thursday 21 January 1847
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1997 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

INVESTMENTS

... FAMILfl.-ARbout the beginning of the present month, a boy about eight years of age, belonging to ?? Swfinlay, keeper of the Blackberry Toll Bar, took ill, and, after a few dayFs' illness, died, supposed by rush fever. Immediately after the funeral of this ...

Published: Monday 25 December 1848
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2162 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce