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 GuHnAas and ERslzIN F met frequently, and must have locked on each other ! powers with respect. But the egotisln of the English baffister sometimes shook the irislamau philosophy. C:rattan's name was mentioned, and Erskinc casu- ally asked, .sWhat he said of himself29 @Said of hImself,n vas CurraD's aston isled inteueetion, "nothing.n Crattan speak of himself! Why, sir, Henry Grat- tan is q great man. Sir, the torture could not wiring syllable of seifpraise from Grattan--a team of six horses could not drag an opinion of himself out of him. Like all great men, he knows the strength of his reputation, and will never condescend 10 proclaim its march, like the trumpeter to puppet show.-- Sir, he stands on national altar-and 1t is the business of Us inferior men to keep up the fire and incense. You will neversee Grattan stooping to do either the one or the other.''

 CuRRAN objected 10 Lord Byron's talking of himself as q great drawback on his poetry. "Any suhject,a said he, :. but the eternal one of self. ] am weary of knowing once a month the state of any mans hopes or fears, rights or wrongs. should as soon read q re- gister of the weather, the barometer up So many inches to-day, and down so many inches tomorrow. ] feel scepti- cisma all over me at the sight of agonies on paper; things that come as regular and notorious as the full of the moon.- The truth is, his Lordship areeps for the press, and acipes his eyes arith he public"

 Doctor Franklin was once q member of a body in which 1t was contended that ! certain amount of property $50 we tliinls,) should be required to constitute q right to vote. The Doctor was op- posed to it. "To-day," he said, a man may own a iackass, and he is en- titled to vote; but before the next cleo ton comes the jaekass dies. The man, in the mean time, has become more ex- perienced-his knowledge of govern ment and his acquaintance with man. kind are more eAtehsiye-and i.e is therefore, better qualified to make pro- per selection of rulers; but the jaekass is dead, and the man cannot vote. Now. gentlemen. pray inform me in whom is the right of sutfrage--is it in the man or iii the jackass?a