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 Man who Man who was so often out of the Way, ''&c. &c.—these, to be sure are the se­veral Marshals and Generals, who fought, or should have fought, under them the last Campaign.—The Men in Buckram, con­tinued the President, are the Gross of the King of Prussias Army, who are as stiff a Body of Men as are in the World:—And Trims saying they were twelve, and then nineteen, is a Wipe for the Brussels Gazet­teer'', who, to my Knowledge, was never two Weeks in the same Story, about that or any thing else.

As for the rest of the Romance, continu­ed the President, it sufficiently explains it­self,—The Old-cast-Pair-of-Black-Plush-Breeches must be Saxony, which the Elec­tor, you see, has left off wearing:—And as for the Great Watch-Coat, which, you know, covers all, it signifies all Europe; comprehending, at least, so many of its different States and Dominions, as we have any Concern with in the present War.

I protest, says a Gentleman who sat next but one to the President, and who, it seems, was the Parson of the Parish, a Rh