Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843, byVariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843Author: VariousRelease Date: January 21, 2005 [EBook #14753]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE ***Produced by Jon Ingram, donlei, Internet Library of Early Journals and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamBLACKWOOD'SEDINBURGH MAGAZINE.No. CCCXXXV. SEPTEMBER, 1843. VOL. LIV.* * * * *"WE ARE ALL LOW PEOPLE THERE."A TALE OF THE ASSIZES.IN TWO CHAPTERS.CHAPTER THE FIRST.Some time ago, business of an important character carried me to the beautiful and populous city of ——. I rememberto have visited it when I was a child, in the company of a doating mother, who breathed her last there; and the place,associated with that circumstance, had ever afterwards been the gloomiest spot in the county of my birth. A calamitysuch as that to which I have alluded leaves no half impressions. It stamps itself deep, deep in the human heart; and achange, scarcely less than organic, for good or ill, is wrought there. Agreeably with this fact, the scene itself of theevent becomes at once, to the ...