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Rh, with whom he had become acquainted at a dining house in Newgate Street;—my Teddy accordingly undertakes the journey as regularly as ever tradesman went upon his business. Some months elapsed before he could lay his informations; for, getting into the King's Bench, his real creditors kept him there and in Horsemonger Lane, four or five months. However, slow and sure, is a good maxim. Some few at Stoney Stratford were taught a lesson they will not shortly forget to the tune of 200l. or 300l. each.

N.B. These instances show respectable persons how very careful they ought to be in taking recommendations from their most valuable friends, to pursue a course so likely—more than likely—to turn out as these did. This is called a genteel do.

British goods are the highest hoax upon the knowing ones. Shawls, scarfs, elastics, &c. are now mane equal to the French, in some instances superior; and will puzzle the learned to find out the difference. In December, 1817, the court of Exchequer was filled with witnesses, the best judges of silk goods in the kingdom, who gave their opinion, like men, that our manufactures beat Monsieur's hollow. The defendants, Harding & Co. were therefore fined only in about a