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CAUSE OF DEATH a bottle for a mixture that cost me little more than one. Yes, Sir, three pipes of port were a little fortune to me; but long bills and low bous were the great secret." CAUSE OF DEATH On the explosion of the Columbian Loan Bubble, in 1827, Mr. Zea, the Columbian minister in this country, who was said, together with certain jobbers in our good city of London, to have devised the scheme, and enriched themselves with the spoil of the credulous dupes, the minister, was so sadly beset by the disappointed bond-holders, and certain accounts were required, which he was unable or unwilling to furnish, when lo, he was suddenly called to render his last account, where finesse would be unavailing His unexpected decease, at such a crisis, naturally gave rise to reports that he had destroyed himself; the only difference in these accounts being as to the means used. At a meeting of the directors of the Provident Life Office, the gentlemen were busy in discussing these contradictory rumours, when Dr. M_ made his appearance, who, it was known, had been attending Mr. Zea's family. All eyes were immediately turned to him; and several voices exclaimed, together, "You, Dr. M , can settle the question, no doubt-What was really the cause of Mr. Zea's death?"-- "Most certainly," replied the doctor, “I attended him!"- A short pause was succeeded by a general laugh, and the doctor was not a little disconcerted, when he found that his answer had been taken, before he knew that he had delivered it B. B_T. 61