as other mercliants do. I found out that he 

 did not dash beyond his capital. Another 

 man was highly spoken of, deemed one 

 of the best merchants in the city of Balti- 

 more, and allowed to be a man who knew 

 his business better than any other person. 

 This man broke : I went to his sale ; and, 

 during the little time I was in the place, 

 they were selling some paintings of the 

 most extravagant nature, a silver bread- 

 basket, silver w^aiters, &c. He kept his 

 carriage and pair of horses ; though, from 

 the best enquiry I could make, he and his 

 wife together w^ere not w^orth at their be- 

 ginning five hundred pounds sterling : yet 

 such a character is called the real merchant 

 in America. The former gentleman is 

 termed no merchant, notwithstanding, from 

 General Washington's table to that of th^ 

 lowest person I had an opportunity to call 

 on, I found his family to be the most hospi- 

 table, and his people the most liberal in all 

 small reckonings, of any persons with whom 

 1 have been acquainted : they seem to feel 



