... as pretexts for the display of a hostile spirit already in existence, and that then is a secret wish in certain quarters to pick a quarre; with us. We trust such parties, however, may be disappointed At the meeting held yesterday on the subject of the ...

... a thief. The pauper in the workhouse who is incessantly grumbling at the parish allowance, is invariably a person who would pick a pocket or rob a henroost. A discontented cook is always the greatest pilferer. The most patriotic shopkeeper is the greatest ...

... dust, &c., which she had swept from the market place, was rewarded for his trouble by discovering five sovereigns among the garbage. The schooner Caroline, from Newport for London, struck on some rocks near Scilly, on the 28th ultimo, and wen t down instanter ...

... only such as billing pastures and building stone walls—to that most essential required by the planters, of cleaning and picking their coffee. They are unwilling to engage in either, until the former is so heavy as to endanger the productiveness of the ...