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who could boast of his knowing the 

 price of every man in the House of 

 Commons sufficient evidence that both 

 had made man their study, and by that 

 one talent .only did the latter maintain 

 his supremacy in the councils of two 

 successive sovereigns ; and by the same 

 rule did the former, aided, perhaps, 

 early in life by fortuitous circumstances, 

 work himself up to the ascendancy 

 and distinction he both desired and 

 deserved. 



I have been led into this train of re- 

 flection merely to show that the coach-box 

 is not the worst school for acquiring the 

 knowledge already spoken of though, 

 perhaps, the person occupying that posi- 

 tion may have made it only a place of 

 observation and amusement, and as such 

 may not have turned it to advantage. 



The gentleman above referred to has 

 now paid the debt of nature, and it is 



