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• SIR,—I doubt my friend Sir Robert Grog's premise that

titles are popular in America. But, if this be so, and if it is necessary to pen the American public of our democratic opinions, could we not, inst of abolishing titles, make every free-born Englishman a duke? would be levelling up, instead of levelling down.—I am, Sir, yours fa

fully, OSBERT SITWEII Renishaw Hall, Renishaw, near Sheffield.