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to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage, Aristotle and Longinus are much better underftood by him than Littleton or Coke. The father fends up every poft queftions relating to marriage-articles, leafes, and tenures, in the neighbourhood; all which queftions he agrees with an attorney to answer and take care of in the lump. He is studying the paffions themfelves when he fhould be enquiring into the debates among men which arise from them. He knows the argument of each of the orations of Demofthenes and Tully, but not one cafe in the reports of our own courts. No one ever took him for a fool, but none except his intimate friends, know he has a great deal of wit. This turn makes him at once both difinterested and agreeable. As few of his thoughts are drawn from business, they are most of them fit for converfation. His tafte of books is a little too juft for the age he lives in; he has read all, but approves of very few. His familiarity with the customs, manners, actions, and writings of the ancients, makes him a very delicate obferver of what occurs to him in the prefent world. He is an excellent critic, and the time of the play is his hour of business; exactly at five he paffes through New-Inn, croffes through Ruffel-Court, and takes a turn at Will's till the play begins; he has his shoes rubbed and his periwig powdered at the barber's as you go into the Rofe *. It is for the

See No 1. Note.

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good of the audience when he is at a play, for the actors have an ambition to please him.

The perfon of next confideration is Sir ANDREW FREEPORT, a merchant of great eminence in the city of London. A person of indefatigable induftry, ftrong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually fome fly way of jefting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the fea the BRITISH COMMON. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a ftupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms; for true power is to be got by arts and induftry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we fhould gain from one nation; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lafting acquifitions than valour, and that floth has ruined more nations than the fword. He abounds in feveral frugal maxims, amongst which the greatest favourite is, A penny faved is a penny got.' A general trader of good sense is pleafanter company than a general scholar; and Sir ANDREW having a natural unaffected eloquence, the perfpicuity of his difcourfe gives the fame pleasure that wit would in anoHe has made his fortunes himself; and fays that England may be richer than other kingdoms, by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men; though at the fame time I can fay this of him, that there is not a

ther man.

point in the compafs, but blows home a fhip in which he is an owner.

Next to Sir ANDREW in the club-room fits Captain SENTRY*, a gentleman of great courage, good understanding, but invincible modefty. He is one of those that deserve very well, but are very aukward at putting their talents within

the observation of fuch as fhould take notice of them. He was fome years a captain, and behaved himself with great gallantry in feveral engagements and at feveral fieges; but having a small estate of his own, and being next heir to Sir ROGER, he has quitted a way of life in which no man can rife fuitably to his merit, who is not something of a courtier, as well as a foldier. I have heard him often lament, that in a profeffion where merit is placed in fo confpicuous a view, impudence fhould get the better of modefty. When he has talked to this purpose, I never heard him make a four expreffion, but frankly confefs that he left the world, because he was not fit for it. A strict honefty and an even regular behaviour, are in themselves obftacles to him that must press through crowds, who endeavour at the fame end with himself, the favour of a commander. He will however in his way of talk excufe generals, for not dif

It has been faid, that the real perfon alluded to under this name was C. Kempenfelt, father of the admiral Kempenfelt who deplorably loft his life, when the Royal George of 100 guns funk at Spithead, Aug. 29, 1782. But the fcale of the present edition, admits not of ftating objections here, or questioning the probability of this opinion.

good of the audience when he is at a play, for the actors have an ambition to please him.

The perfon of next confideration is Sir ANDREW FREEPORT, a merchant of great eminence in the city of London. A person of indefatigable induftry, ftrong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually fome fly way of jefting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the fea the BRITISH COMMON. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms; for true power is to be got by arts and induftry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we fhould gain from one nation; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lafting acquifitions than valour, and that floth has ruined more nations than the fword. He abounds in feveral frugal maxims, amongst which the greatest favourite is, 'A penny faved is a penny got.' A general trader of good sense is pleasanter company than a general scholar; and Sir ANDREW having a natural unaffected eloquence, the perfpicuity of his difcourfe gives the fame pleasure that wit would in another man. He has made his fortunes himself; and fays that England may be richer than other kingdoms, by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men; though at the fame time I can fay this of him, that there is not a

point in the compass, but blows home a ship in which he is an owner.

Next to Sir ANDREW in the club-room fits Captain SENTRY*, a gentleman of great courage, good understanding, but invincible modesty. He is one of those that deserve very well, but are very aukward at putting their talents within the observation of fuch as fhould take notice of them. He was fome years a captain, and behaved himself with great gallantry in feveral engagements and at feveral fieges; but having a small eftate of his own, and being next heir to Sir ROGER, he has quitted a way of life in which no man can rise suitably to his merit, who is not something of a courtier, as well as a foldier. I have heard him often lament, that in a profeffion where merit is placed in so confpicuous a view, impudence fhould get the better of modefty. When he has talked to this purpose, I never heard him make a four expreffion, but frankly confefs that he left the world, because he was not fit for it. A ftrict honesty and an even regular behaviour, are in themselves obftacles to him that must prefs through crowds, who endeavour at the fame end with himself, the favour of a commander. He will however in his way of talk excufe generals, for not dif

It has been faid, that the real perfon alluded to under this name was C. Kempenfelt, father of the admiral Kempenfelt who deplorably loft his life, when the Royal George of 100 guns funk at Spithead, Aug. 29, 1782. But the fcale of the prefent edition, admits not of ftating objections here, or questioning the probability of this opinion.

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