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them." Now, of the company then present, 

 there will not be one out of ten who is not 

 either Esquire. General, Colonel, Captain, or 

 Doctor. Now this young hero has so spent 

 his time, that it is more than ten to one if 

 he knows the name of the play-house, 

 whether Covent- garden or Drury-lane ; 

 yet when he gets a glass of Madeira into 

 him, he will know the laws, the soil, and 

 produce, better than any Englishman pre- 

 eent I was at General Ridgely's one day, 

 and an American, one of the assembly 

 men, in company : some debate arose be- 

 twixt him and me respecting the punish- 

 ments for felony in England. He said the 

 laws were cruel ; and contended that he 

 knew England better then I did. I 

 then told him, I would ask him a question 

 of a very public nature : I was of an opi- 

 nion he would not be able to answer it. I 

 asked him what was the produce of York- 

 shire ? He answered wool. I told him it 

 was coals ; the wool was grown in other 



