I've thirty thousand guineas net,
Powder and plush I scorn to vear;
And so, Miss Mary Hann, forget
For hever Jeames, of Buckley Square.'"
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The rest of the MS. is illegible, being literally washed away in a flood
of tears.
A LETTER FROM "JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE."
"ALBANY, LETTER X. August 10, 1845.
"SIR,--Has a reglar suscriber to your emusing paper, I beg leaf to state
that I should never have done so, had I supposed that it was your abbit
to igspose the mistaries of privit life, and to hinjer the delligit
feelings of umble individyouals like myself, who have NO IDEER of being
made the subject of newspaper criticism.
"I elude, sir, to the unjustafiable use which has been made of my name
in your Journal, where both my muccantile speclations and the HINMOST
PASHSN OF MY ART have been brot forrards in a ridicklus way for the
public emusemint.
"What call, sir, has the public to inquire into the suckmstansies of my
engagements with Miss Mary Hann Oggins, or to meddle with their rupsher?
Why am I to be maid the hobjick of your REDICULE IN A DOGGRIL BALLIT
impewted to her? I say IMPEWTED, because, in MY time at least, Mary Hann
could only sign her + mark (has I've hoften witnist it for her when she
paid hin at the Savings Bank), and has for SACRIFICING TO THE MEWSES and
making POATRY, she was as HINCAPIBLE as Mr.
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