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Government; and thinking that both his 

 person and his property, consisting of the 

 money he had thus borrowed of his 

 countrymen, would be safer under British 

 protection, he wisely crossed the channel, 

 knowing that no questions would be 

 asked, as to the means he employed to 

 become the possessor of that which all 

 classes here so devotedly worship. 



But to the praise of this gentleman 

 it must be recorded, that he kept a 

 good house and gave sumptuous enter- 

 tainments, taking occasion to observe to 

 his guests, as his daughters one after 

 the other left the dining-room, "Dare goes 

 dirty dousand pounds dare goes dirty 

 dousand more;" and notwithstanding all 

 these oddities, was most kind and chari- 

 table to the poor of the Parishes of 

 "Westmeon and Warnford, among whom 

 his name will long be remembered. 



It will not be difficult for the reader 



