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ervation. Tyrconnel at the news of this was said _to have burnt his wig, as an indication of his displeasure with the townsmen's proceedings_."--_Life of James II._, p. 290. E. H. A. _The Maids and the Widows._--The following petition, signed by sixteen maids of Charleston, South Carolina, was presented to the governor of that province on March 1, 1733-4, "the day of the feast:" "To His Excellency Governor Johnson. "The humble Petition of all the Maids whose names are underwritten: "Whereas we the humble petitioners are at present in a very melancholy disposition of mind, considering how all the bachelors are blindly captivated by widows, and our more youthful charms thereby neglected: the consequence of this our request is, that your Excellency will for the future order that no widow shall presume to marry any young man till the maids are provided for; or else to pay each of them a fine for satisfaction, for invading our liberties; and likewise a fine to be laid on all such bachelors as shall be married to widows. The great disadvantage it is to us maids, is, that the widows, by their forward carriages, do snap up the young men; and have the vanity to think their merits beyond ours, which is a great imposition upon us who ought to have the preference. "This is humbly recommended to your Excellency's consideration, and hope you will prevent any farther insults. "And we poor Maids as in duty bound will ever pray. "P.S.--I, being the oldest Maid, and therefore most concerned, do think it proper to be the messenger to your Excellency in behalf of my fellow subscribers." UNEDA. _Alison's "Europe."_--In a note to Sir A. Alison's _Europe_, vol. ix. p. 397., 12mo., enforcing the opinion that the prime movers in all revolutions are not men of high moral or intellectual qualities, he quotes, as from "Sallust _de Bello Cat._," "In _turbis atque seditionibus_ pessimo cuique plurima vis; pax et quies bonis artibus _aluntur_." No such words, however, are to be found in Sallust: but the correct expression is in Tacitus (_Hist._, iv. 1.): "Quippe in _turbas et discordias_ pessimo cuique plurima vis; pax et quies bonis artibus _indigent_." Sir A. Alison quotes, in the same note, as from Thucydides (l. iii. c. 39.), the following: "In the contests of the Greek commonwealth, those who were esteemed
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