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in exiſtence, or in a ſituation never to be heard of any more, till rouſed by the awakening trump he ſhall be ſummoned to his tremenduous laſt account. As for the unhappy widower, it was ſully ſignified to him from authority, that his return to Spain, whether upon exchange or parole, would be no longer oppoſed, 110r had he any thing to apprehend on the part of government, when he ſhould there arrive. The ſame was ſignified in fewer words to the exculpated Pedroſa.

Whether Don Manuel de Cafafonda will in time to come avail himſelf of theſe overtures time alone can prove: As for little Nicolas, whoſe prize money has ſet him up in a comfortable little ſhop in Duke's place, where he breathes the veins and cleauſes the bowels of his Iſraelitiſh brethren in a land of freedom and toleration, his merry heart is at reſt, ſave only when with fire in his eyes and vengeance on his tongue, he anathematizes the Inquiſition, and ſtruts into the ſynagogue every ſabbath with as bold a ſtep and as erect a look, as if he was himſelf High Prieſt of the Temple going to perform ſacrifice upon the re-aſſembling of the ſcattered tribes.


F I N I S.


GLASGOW,

Printed by J. & M. ROBERTSON, Saltmarket,

1799.