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In some parts of Germany that fellow’s office is by law declared infamous, and his posterity incapable of being ennobled. They have hereditary hangmen, or had at least, in the same manner as they had other hereditary great officers of state, and the hangman’s families of two adjoining parishes intermarried with each other, to keep the breed entire. I wish something of the same kind were established in England.
But it is time to quit a subject which teems with disagreeable images, lest we should suffer by contamination.
Permit me to subscribe myself, Mr. Editor, your unfortunate friend,—Pensilis.
[CHARLES LAMB.]
