In the above glorious cause (i. e. Anti-Smokers and Snuff-Takers v. Lovers of the Herb) the Author himself holds a brief in the defence as counsel, and flattering himself he has made himself fully master of the case, he begs to impart it as a proper, if not an absolutely requisite accompaniment to all lovers of the 'soothing leaf.' The prejudices against smoking are numerous. Smoking that is called _unsocial_, the author affirms to be the common source of harmony and comfort,--the badge of good fellowship in almost every state, kingdom, and empire. Aye, from the English settlers in the wildernesses of America, where the _Calumet_ or Pipe of Peace is smoked by the natives, to the turbaned infidel of the East--from the burning zone of Africa to the icy regions of the North. In fact, in almost every clime and condition of society it is known as a common sign, or freemasonry of friendly feeling and social intercourse. In the East, the first act of hospitality is proffering the pipe with its invariable accompaniment coffee, which is more or less observed under various modifications over nearly the rest of the habitable world. Smoking that is termed _low_ and _vulgar_ was, and is, an occasional recreation with most of the crowned heads of Europe, among which may be named his late Majesty, and their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and Cumberland--Ferdinand of Spain, and the Emperor Nicholas of Germany--besides very many of the nobility of either empires and kingdoms. Smoking that is termed _idle_, is singularly popular with mechanics, the most industrious classes of England. Smoking that is said to be _dirty_ and _filthy_, is in the greatest esteem, among the most moral and cleanly sect in Christianity--the Society of Friends or Quakers. Smoking that is affirmed to be _revolting_ and _disgusting_, is indulged in by the most rigidly kept women in the world--those of Turkey, who elevated in the dignity of the Haram, are taught to consider a whiff of their lord's _chibouque_ a distinction. Then the ladies of both Old and New Spain, who twining in the mazes of the giddy waltz, take the _cigarros_ from their own pretty lips to transfer to those of their favoured partners. If indeed, royalty be wanted in the female line, since the good old times of Elizabeth, who can be so lamentably ignorant in the annals of smoking, as not to know, that the late _Tumehemalee_, Queen Consort of _Tirahee_, king of the Sandwich Islands, was dotingly fond of a pipe--sensible woman and above all petty prejudices as she was, at our own honoured court.