If any one be tempted, in this age, to repeat the stupid question, "What's in a name?" let him be answered,Everything: place, power, pelf, perhaps we may add peculation.

I regret however exceedingly that any of the British officers should have imbibed the low prejudices and vulgar hatred against the French, which certain people preach up in England to cover their own peculations and interested views.

In these famous philippics, he fearlessly exposed the peculations, the misrule, the oppression, and the inhuman heartlessness of the Company's servants,speeches which extorted admiration, while they humiliated and chastised.

It was this honest and astute servant of royalty who ferreted out the peculations of Fouquet, whom Louis did not hesitate to disgrace and punish.

Right near them are the homes of smaller Indians, who have reduced peculation to a fine art, and who steal on general principles.

Most of them will take a kitchen spoon or fork, if they have a chanceand they think it fair thus to return the peculations of the whites.

The extreme dishonesty that prevailed among the Greek officials explains the selection of monks as treasurers for military objects; and it must lessen our surprise at finding men of their religious professions sharing in the general avarice, or tolerating the habitual peculations of others.