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want anything in the latest taste come to London 

 for it by all means ; but your ridicule is quite 

 misplaced on him who does not. London is not 

 all perfection, and its inhabitants far less so. 

 The London artizan is superior to the country 

 one, both in his business and address (when he 

 pleases to be the latter), we give him credit for 

 that ; so is he superior in impudence, extortion, 

 and blackguardism. The London youth look on 

 their country cousins quite as objects of pity, and 

 offer to chaperone them about on the latter 

 coming to London. In what high attribute of 

 mind is the one so superior to the other ? Pro- 

 bably in very many instances his knowledge is 

 chiefly shewn in knowing all the vices of a 

 London life. He may, and would probably, 

 laugh at his country cousin, not knowing his 

 way to the Mansion House ; the other might as 

 well laugh at him for not knowing his way 

 through the new forest. A harmless joke on 

 either side would be quite pardonable, but do not 



