injurious to the state.' Judge Hall knows full
well, how easy it is for one, with the influence and patronage
of General Jackson, to procure certificates and affidavits. He
knows that men, usurping authority, have their delators and
spies: and that, in the sunshine of imperial or dictatorial
power, swarms of miserable creatures are easily generated, from
the surrounding corruption, and rapidly changed into the shape
of buzzing informers. Notwithstanding which, Judge Hall
declares, that on his route to Bayou Sarah, he uttered no
sentiment disgraceful to himself, or injurious to the state. He
calls upon General Jackson, to furnish that full and
satisfactory evidence of his assertion, which he says he is
enabled to do.' The pledge was never redeemed."

Judge Martin's book is here brought to a conclusion, with some
appropriate and forcible reflections upon the duties and uses of
History, in affording lessons to men, high in authority, to bridle their
passions; to select capable and honest advisers; with other wise and
wholesome admonitions.

We heartily unite with the Judge in his just and patriotic aspirations
in behalf of the Judiciary.

* * * * *

NOTE.--In quoting from our history the anecdote respecting the
residence and imprisonment of _Fenelon_ in Canada, we do not
intend to express a belief in its authenticity. It is the first
time we have heard that the celebrated author of Telemachus had
ever been in this country; and, as Judge Martin does not inform
us of the authority on which the story is related, we know not
what credit it is entitled to.

ART. IX.--_A Full and Accurate Method of Curing Dyspepsia, Discovered
and Practised_ by O. HALSTED. New-York: 1830.

Every era has possessed its false prophet in religion, from the days of
Mahomet to those of Joanna Southcot and Fanny Wright; not that the race
commenced with the former, or has terminated with the latter; the
records of history supply us with examples of "lying augurs," in every
period previously to the career of the Impostor of Mecca, and our daily
experience furnishes us with proofs that the tribe is by no means
extinct. As in religion, so has it been, and still continues, in
philosophy, and the whole circle of science: pretenders to excellence
have started up in every age, and although their efforts in the cause of
i