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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCL. DECEMBER, 1844. VOL. LVI.

CONTENTS.

The Scottish Banking System, 671

The Milkman of Walworth, 687

Injured Ireland, 701

Singular Passages in the Life of a Russian Officer, 713

Traditions and Tales of Upper Lusatia. No IV. The Moor Maiden, 726

"That's What We Are," 741

Edmund Burke, 745

My College Friends. No. II. John Brown, 763

Nelson's Despatches and Letters, 775

Guizot, 786

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BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCL. DECEMBER, 1844. Vol. LVI.

THE SCOTTISH BANKING SYSTEM.

When any important branch of national polity has been impeached,
arraigned, and brought to stand its trial before the bar of public
opinion, it is satisfactory to know that the subject has been
thoroughly investigated, since a searching investigation alone can
excuse a verdict, be it of acquittal or of condemnation. That no man
can be twice tried upon the