From the Journal ot Commercs. DUELLING.
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MEssRs. EDITORS :-The most formid- able moral medium in this country is-pu6- Hc sentiment. As long as this medium is discolored or contaminated, the vision of the community cannot be clear or it's res- piration healthy. Truth alone can make it translucid to the eye and salubriouS to the lungs. Truth alone can correct public sentiment; publick sentiment alone can correct the evils of society enlightened publick sentiment alone, we suppose can exterminate the barbarous and nurderoms folly of duelving. What is it that makes some men superior and utterly impervious to the shafts of that raillery which men of honour and of ton are unable to withstand ? Are they not the brave ones, and the oth- CTS the pusillanimous What is it, to have one's principles nominGlly and none prac- tically? What to have one's principles, oue's peace, one's independence, in the keeping of every dandy, and every profli- gate, who can ape the air and arrogate the consequence, and unhappily the name of gentlemen-who can fire pistol and drink a quart in Broadway? What things of b. ped form, ourangoutangs included, can compare with such on the scores of degra- ded, empty, eontemptible !? Were it not for their souls, of the existence of which they seem wholly uniformed it would be a charity to community to gidbet them from society as fast asthey should identify them- selves by duelling, either as principal or proxy! But they arc not biped brutes but immortal and accountable creatures On that account we must bear with them, instruct them from their courses; and a. bove all, endeavor to prevent in many, what we can cure-I had almost said-in none!

 If mistake not there is discoverable, among some of the leaders of public senti- ment in the two countries, a morbid com passion to the mortal vices of the fashiona- b:e:-dueHing and suicide. AIf man {. plays the Roman fool'' and kills himself, especially if he were nominally conspicu- ous as a gentleman and officer of State. Oh good soul, he was undoubtedly in- sane. No man in his right senses could do such thing howwe feel for the widow and relations! how cruel to insinuate that he was not deprived of the use of his reason! we can now all reccollect certain instances of his eDerration! He was not himself. Cares and vexations overwhelmed him and what is e poor devtItO do? The cor Oner ought to be instructed; and he will inform ,he jury of inquest. So they did when my Lord CastiereGgk opened the carotid artery with his penknife, and expi- red in lunacy; the good jury saw through it, when the Coroner appealed to their hu- manity. The heat of their feeling became the light of their underssandings, and they