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prove my having been upon the Rhine at that 

 timcj and for fome months after. Mr. Bond, 

 who I believe was well acquainted with this 

 circumftance, never thelefs ordered the people 

 of the houfe where it was faid I had lodged, and 

 where the goods had been fent, to attend ; they 

 did fo, together with a hair-drefTer; and all of 

 them declared that I did not in any refped re- 

 fembk the gcnileman who had done the bulinefs. 

 The hatter retired with difgracc. As 1 was pretty 

 warm with him, a fellow who had come for the 

 purpofe of exhibiting a charge againft me, very 

 boldly exclaimed, " Don't be fo impudent, Sir, 

 *' you know you robbed me the fame day I" but 

 no fooner did it appear, that it was impolTible I 

 could have robbed either of them, than he alfo, 

 hiding his head, fncaked off. 



Such tranfadtions ought to make magillrates 

 very cautious how they receive informations 

 from perfons pretending to be injured ; thepof- 

 fibility of miilakes is very great, and too many 

 from an obflinate and foolifli pride, will fooner 

 deprive their fellow-creature of life than acknow- 

 ledge an error. I fay nothing of the vindidivc, 

 and cruel, nor of thofe whofe trade is blood, and 

 who for a little money, are but too ready to fwear 

 what (though it may be very true,) they do not 

 know to be fo; I fpeak of the good, and them I 

 wifh to remember, that a momentary view can 



give 



