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 Such are, Magnificent and mot Honoured Lords, the Citizens, and even the imple Natives, of the Country you govern; uch are thee knowing and enible Men, of which, under the Name of Trademen and the People, it is uual in other Nations to entertain the meanet and falet Ideas. My Father, it is with Pleaure I own it, was no way ditinguihed among his Fellow-Citizens; he was no more than what they all are; yet, uch as he was, there is no Country where his Converation would not have been coveted; where an Acquaintance with him would not have been cultivated, and cultivated to their great Advantage, by Men of the bet Rank