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PRTTER’ UPON AFFAIRS IN’ GENERAL, FROM A GENTLEMAN IN 
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LONDON TO A GENTLEMAN IN THE COUNTRY. 
Tuts is the first month of Autumn, when} by common consent, the 
being seen in town is a waver of all/pretentions to gentility; and even 
the swindlers who starve and comb their whiskers in the King’s Bench, 
bless 'their stars that' they. are not in the Fleet—they shall not be khown 
to pass their September in‘London! General news now is rather scarce; 
and \consists chiefly of rural notices from the country papers; extraordi- 
hary quantities of “game” bagged ; «« cucumbers” brought to uncommon 
perfection ; old women caught (where they have no business) in man 
traps,” and plough+boys sent to the Treadmill for bastardy. The Post 
managed a little variety three mornings a week,—till Vauxhall closed, 
about “ the warring elements,” and “bright Luna,” and so forth, onthe 
over night ; but they are brought down now regularly to the forlorn hope, 
the “ Haut ton patronage,” and— fantastic toe,” &c.—in “ Letters” 
from Reporters, on leave, at Margate, Brighton, or Cheltenham. 
Home politics may be summed up into a pretty considerable conti- 
nuance of distress in the manufacturing districts; and a most absurd 
pamphlet about Corn and Currency, published by Sir James Graham, 
and gloriously cut up by Cobbett. In foreign affairs, the production of 
the account-current between the “ Struggling Greeks” and the London 
«“ Committee” for their “ Independence,” makes the most entertaining 
feature. The general result of the disclosure (as far as it goes) seems 
to: be—that the people in'Greece must by this time have found out what 
it is to borrow money:in England: and I dare say that, in due time, 
the people of) England will: have! their turn; and) find out: what it is:to 
getat back-agam. + Meantime Greek bonds: continue at 134—and I wish 
much satisfaction to the holders of them. role 
of Letters from Smyma,” to the 14th of July, state that Mahomet! 
the Id. continues his Reform;” and that “the same compulsory mea- 
sures enforced in Constantinople for the sale of provisions had» been: 
adopted im the city of Smyrna. Meat was thus reduced from: thirty-six. 
paras the pound to twenty-eight ; bread from twenty-eight to eighteen; 
and oil from sixty-five to forty. The rapacious dealers are the only 
murmeérers: Ze inhabitants bless the paternal care of the Sultan, and 
the attention shewn to public tranquillity.” Notwithstanding this “pater= 
nal attention,” it seems to me that Mahomet’s tenure of life and thtone 
is problematical. It is easier to cut off the head of one man than to 
change the habits of twenty millions. y Bin 
I see that a Jew, according to the Paris papers, has just beén burned 
at) Valentia,):‘\for the salvation of his soul.” Or perhaps—as the French 
Editor observes“ because the people in Valentia wanted the spectacle 
ofan ‘auto da fé.”» 1 am ‘sure it would’ be the saving of a thousand 
souls (Christian) if cursing be a sin—every year, if we might burn a 
Jew in this country—by way of example to the rest—I mean one ‘of 
those villains:who sell “ old clothes” in Russell-court, or Holywell-street 
inxthe Strands»:There is literally no getting through any of ‘the streets 
that these people infest, without either consenting ‘to purchase anew 
wardrobeyor leaving part of one’s own—torh off one’s back—behind one? 
And Lam sure itis quite time that they were persecuted again: for their’ 
numbers are frightful—they run in and out of the courts about: Lyon’s-! 
Inn like rabbits in a warren. N. B. Incase we should have to hang 
