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Of SW- Dr.

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SIR was as unfortunate in his attack upon Junius, as Mr. Sharp was upon the Customs and Manners of the Italians: Had there been no Junius, S— Wwould have appeared a good, and able writer had there been no Barretti, fharp would have appear'd an entertaining Traveller.

Of SJ-n F▬▬d.

TWO Country gentlemen in the Reign of Charles the IId. kept each a fool, one fool being loft, the whole village fearched an adjacent Wood for him, fome days, without fuccefs! at length the other fool was sent out alone, for the fame purpose; and as he paffed through the wood, he continually called out " ee-ee I fee you now till he

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came near enough to hear his chum reply, "ney but you don't."-The fool caught the fool.

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Of Sir W- B—y.

WE knew this gentleman when he was a Lt in the N-y, but little did we

think then, we fhould ever know him an A-1 and capable (as no doubt he is) of being trufted with a command.

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Of Governor Es.

HIS gentleman's fuccefs in life, is a proof that merit does not always pafs unrewarded, we remember to have seen him in the drefs and occupation of a common failor in the Mediterranean, in which capacity he earned his paffage to England! yet to our aftonishment we have feen a letter under this ingenious but Irifh gentleman's name, giving fo dreadful an account of the intense heat in an infant Colony of ours in America; that it would have deterred every reader, never to go there! except he had been bred an Anchor Smith, or born under the torrid zone.

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of G-1 C-o-te.

HIS gentleman who has been fo lucky

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on the other fide of the Globe, set out on this, very unfortunately; he was broke at a Court-Martial in Sd while under the command of the D- of Cd! but foon after gained an Opportunity to convince H. R. H. he merited restoration : his brother a Captain of Invalids meanly refused to lend him thirty pounds when, he left England and as meanly when he returned, follicited his favour! the favour was nobly granted.

Of A-e S-g—ton, Esq;

MR. Sn; Gor Sn we should

have faid, commands a paultry Fort fomewhere in Effex, of which he is Deputy Gr.-yet we have frequently feen (it cofts but two Shillings) a paragraph in the news-papers to this effect. "Yesterday set out from his house (alias a snuff shop up two

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pair of ftairs) Governor Sn, for h Government &c. G-1 H-w-y got him COMPANY to get rid of his Company.

Of Col. L-m-t.

Sometimes a man is punished for NOT doing

his duty; Col. Lt has fuffered for doing it! this gentleman (though born in Ireland) cannot conceive, that a man can be in a particular place in company with five hundred other men, and yet be seen there by nobody-not recollecting, that it was at a particular time, when every man thought it beft, to look to himfelf.

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Nobody.

HE Man who fights, and runs away,

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May live to fight another day.

And he, who well maintains his ground,
In these fharp times! be guilty found,
Judges are upright, oft men say,
But Gould can Juftice over-lay.

Of L-d B-l-ke.

THERE is fomething uncommonly fingular, agreeable; and entertaining in this Nobleman; the very Lady whom he married, and with whom he is no longer connected; announced herfelf, for fome time, to be the happiest woman on earth; we must therefore conclude fhe is now the most wretched.

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