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Of the P-D— of W

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the obliging P―

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her husband, hel

her up at the windows of the Palace at S James's, to fhew her to the then rejoicin multitude!

Of the late D— of C

WHEN he new modelled the army, and afterwards employed it so effectually, to

curb the rebellious spirit of the Scotch nation; he little thought, that, that nation, would, fo foon, become the chofen People.

Of the prefent D—.

THE Reader is referred to the Middlefex Journals, for a proof of the fufceptibility of his heart.

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Of the D- of G-r.

P whild, humane, generous difpofition; has gained him more efteem than his rank alone, could have procured him:

Of the P- A——.

HER good fenfe, and length of days, have taught her to prefer private fociety, to the parade and tiresome form, her high birth, and rank, might have entailed upon her during life.

Of the P of B——

F Tom H-y is to be credited; H— R—H— is not

Of the D of N--k.

IT

T has been remarked, that the few men of rank left in this kingdom of the Roman Catholic

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Catholic perfuafion, are weak honest men.

The D

of N- is certainly an honeft, and a good man, and if he be deficient in any respect, it is more than we have had an opportunity of knowing.

Of the D-s of

UICK parts are often mistaken for good fense: But it cannot ; is not to be met with, where vanity, arrogance, and self-sufficiency, prevail in a fuperlative degree.

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Of the D- of S

HE late D― pretended to have an averfion to afcend the Stairs at St. J— P———! the fon is more prudent, if not more wife.

Of the D- of C——.

HIS G- is comptroller of the Green Wax

Office.

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Of the D- of Rd.

H IS G is a peer of France, as well as of England, he poffeffes the politeness of the former nation; and the spirit of the latter: He is an encourager of arts, and a friend to his country.

Of the D- of G-n.

HAD he been born ten years fooner, or have become P-M- ten years later, it is more than probable, he would have escaped much of the party abuse he sustained, with a fortitude, which greatly refembled M

innocence.

Of the D- of B—t.

HIS G-is mafter of the h― to the Q-, and an enfign in the militia; and bids fair

to merit higher rank.

Of the D- of St. A.

WHATEVER be the private characte of this very unfortunate nobleman; i is a national reproach, and an high reflection in particular on the nobility of this nation to fuffer a man of his birth and rank, to live within the walls of a goal, and ever there, to want the common neceffaries of life! under the eyes too, of a nation, who ought not to fee, with what indifference we behold the calamities and fufferings of one of the firft peers of our realm. It is to be lamented, that those English people of rank and fortune, who contributed fo largely to affift the maimed, and wounded at Paris, in the place du Roy, did not confider, how much more laudable it would have been; to have left the French nobility and gentry, to affift their own countrymen; and ours, to have turned their eyes, and hearts, towards Bruffels.-Many people give charity, who would blufh, to have their motives for fo doing known!

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