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Replies to Minor Queries.
_Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger_ (Vol. vii., p. 573.).--If
your correspondent H. B. C. really wishes to be released from his hard work
in hunting up the truth of my and other narratives of the _mitigation of
capital punishment to forgers_, I shall be happy to receive a note from him
with his name and address, when I will give him the name and address of my
informant in return. By this means I may be able to relieve his shoulder
from a portion of its burden, and myself from any farther imputations of
"mythic accompaniments," &c., which are unpalatable phrases even when
coming from a gentleman who only discloses his initials.