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Rh, and flatter my elf that I have laid it out to your Satisfaction." Such a Circumtance as this raies a jut Pride in an Englih Merchant, and makes him preume (not without ome Reaon) to compare himelf to a Roman Citizen; and indeed a Peer's Brother does not think Traffic beneath him. When the Lord Townhend was Miniter of State, a Brother of his was content to be a City Merchant; and at the Time that the Earl of Oxford govern'd Great-Britain, his younger Brother was no more than a Factor in Aleppo, where he chose to live, and where he died. This Cutom, which begins however to be laid afide, appears montruous to Germans, vainly puff'd up with their Extraction. Thee think it morally impoible that the Son of an Englih Peer hould be no more than a rich and powerful Citizens [sic], for all are Princes in Germany. There have been thirty Highnees of the ame Name, all whoe Patrimony conited only in their Ecutcheons and their Pride.

France the Title of Marquis is given gratis to any one who will accept Rh