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Rh together with the Failure of three foreign Merchants whom he had truted, compleated his Ruin. He was then obliged to call his Creditors together, who took his Effects, and being angry with him for the imprudent Step of not inuring his Ships, left him detitute of all Subitence. Nor did the Flatterers of his Fortune, thoe who had lived by his Bounty when in his Properity, pay the leat Regard either to him or his Family. So true is another Copy, that you will find in your Writing Book, which ays, Misfortune tries our Friends. All thee Slights of his pretended Friends, and the ill Uage of his Creditors, both he and his Family bore with Chritian Fortitude; but other Calamities fell upon him, which he felt more enibly. in this Ditres, one of his Rh