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do to look too narrowly into the characters of our public 

 men, in whatever sphere they may be ^^l^ced, or the 

 country would lose the services of many able denizens. 



Notwithstanding this, there were coachmen whose 

 aspirations did not lead them to so lofty a joitch of 

 celebrity, and who were content to live in the approbation 

 of their employers and in the general esteem of their 

 fellows. 



Now, upon the coach that went to Leamington, or 

 rather throuo^h Leamino;ton and Warwick to Birmins^ham, 

 and which had been denominated the " Crown Prince," in 

 honour, I su23pose, of the French heir to the throne of 

 Sweden, there were four men employed — one at each end, 

 and two in the intermediate ground ; and two out of the 

 four were good specimens, though from an opposite view, 

 of the description I have given. 



The man who officiated out of London was one of those 

 flash gentlemen who possessed all the characteristics (and 

 would, from his appearance, at the present day, be pointed 

 out), as one of the members of the swell-mob : indeed, 

 that might have been his principal avocation, and this 

 only a subordinate one, for he assumed to be acquainted 

 with every thief in London. His stature was short, and 

 his head protruded from his rounded shoulders like a wen ; 

 the contour of his countenance was somethins; akin to a 

 hawk ; his eye indicative of a prowling, knavish 

 disposition ; and his whole ex|)ression was not unlike that 

 inimitable representation of Ancient Pistol by little 

 Simmons, as he was called. His manners were coarse, 

 his sj)eech vulgar, and his conversation of the worst and 

 lowest description. His knowledge did not seem to 



