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 favourable light I could, with any regard to truth; and professing sorrow at seeing a gentleman reduced slipt two guineas into his hand; at the sight of which he threw away his pistols, and hugging me in his arms cried, “Arrhh, by J—s—s, now you are the best friend I have met with these seven long years.” and wished the devil might burn him if ever he should give me any further trouble about woman kind. The quarrel being this amicably composed. I begged leave to look at his pistols which I found so rusty and so foul, that I believe it was happy for him neither of them was discharged; but what gave me a lively idea of the man's character was to find upon examination. one of them being loaded without being primed, and the other being primed without a charge.

I expressed a desire of knowing my new friend's history; and he informed me of his having served in the German army as a volunteer against the Turks, that for his behaviour at the siege of Belgrade he had been honoured with an ensign's commission in which station. it was his misfortune to affront his captain, who challenged him to the field and was killed in the duel, upon which he was obliged to retreat; that he had been in England some years soliciting his friends for provision in the British army but being hitherto unsuccessful. he was desired by Mr. Gahagan to turn his thoughts to matrimony; in quence