Your _elevated and most distinguished_ reflections on the _grand_ topic of segar smoaking, affords a charming field for speculation. It appears in the eye of reason to be truly self-partial, and the allusion to _bucks_ alone, leaves an undescribable scope for contemplation, such as must here lay dormant for want of a _palatable_ penetration to its merits or demerits.-----If, friend Tyrunculus, segar smoaking is found such a disagreeable and obnoxious weapon in your presence, does that sanction your divulging its bad effects to exist on the rest of mankind? Has experience, the grand teacher of science, actuated you to a confirmation of its being a _poisonous twist?_ Or is its source derived from your physical knowledge and sound reasoning? If the former, it must be admitted, that your _title_ is good for a public demonstration, if the latter, it must be concluded that you are a professed physician and a man of eminent learning, in which case your annunciation in respect to its bad or good effects might have had some weight, and at the same time would have been considered an act of great charity. There are people, who by nature cannot withstand the powerful effect of smoak, and there are others who, by reason of their faculties being much impaired, are not able to bear it, which of these ought to be attributed to you, is best known to yourself--I say, it is an amusement not altogether so _fashionable_ as beneficial, because it tends to support the constitution, and is a bar against receiving the ill consequences arising from those disagreeable stenches, which reign almost in every part of the city, and therefore, is of immense utility to smoakers at large. “This, the learned doctors and physicians will prove.”---To divert myself any longer on this _very interesting_ subject would only be expending time, too precious for me at present to let glide away, as such I have only to add, that in order to avoid being again _incommoded and insulted_ by _segar smoak_, it will not be amiss if you take a piece of good council from your _friend the subscriber_, that is, to refrain from imposing on any society either public or private, as, probably, the consequence may be attended with a piercing stroke of this woeful dagger. Yours, &c. SEGAR. * * * * * ACCOUNT OF A NEGRO-WOMAN WHO BECAME WHITE.