[7] Maza, the president of the Sala of Representatives, and a high officer in one of the courts of justice, was murdered in (or close to) the senate house; his son was murdered the same evening; and no judicial inquiries ever took place in consequence. Why?—Because, of course, it was done by authority.
[8] Dollars in Buenos Ayres mean small notes manufactured in London!! they used to be made payable at a national bank, in metallic dollars, and then they represented a silver dollar. This bank has been abolished, thanks to the “Great Restorer of Laws,” and these paper dollars now vary from 1½d. to 4d. The arrival or departure of a vessel of war, with important despatches, will, in one day, cause a doubloon (about £3, 8s.) to be worth, say three hundred dollars, and next day worth four hundred, much to the embarrassment of trade—metallic dollars not being current money.
[9] “Let the Federals live—let the savage, dirty, ruthless Unitarians die!”—or, Up with the Federals—down with the——Unitarians!
[10] Ladies in South America are more passive to parental authority, than in England, in respect to the momentous question of selecting a husband.
[11] A History of the Royal Navy from the Earliest Times to the French Revolution. By Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G.
[12] Maritime and Inland Discovery, Vol. i. p. 230.
[13] If Sir H. Nicolas has no other authority for this fact of its being extinguished by vinegar than the extract which he afterwards gives from Vinesauf,—it does not stand on a very secure basis. “This fire, with a deadly stench and livid flames, consumes flint and iron! and unquenchable by water, can only be extinguished by sand or vinegar.” The story about the vinegar comes, we see, in very suspicious company.
[14] Hallam’s Middle Ages, vol. iii. p. 397.
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Obvious printer errors corrected silently.