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and perhaps on this;—but lest no one should accept his challenge of defiance to matrimony, I appeal to your impartiality, for the publication of the following pages.

I have also wandered into some analysis of what I think erroneously called his Atheistical tenets. I am aware Bacon says that "Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to Natural piety, to laws, to reputation:"—but I am not inclined to think that these principles leave a man to Atheism. However I am bold to say that Mr. Shelley is not an Atheist:—and were he to persist in an avowal of such a creed, I would say with Shakspeare:—

"I would not hear your enemies say so;
Nor shall you do mine ear that violence,
To make it truster of your own report,
Against yourself."

THE AUTHOR.