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tion. Involved in one dilemma, he common- 

 ly efcapes from it by ruining headlong into a 

 greater, and often by entailing future troubles, 

 blunders on to his objed — overcoming every 

 impediment by forcing circumftances through 

 all hazards to the end propofed ; then, forget- 

 ful of the new difficulties he has created, 

 piques himfelf upon the merit - - - - of having 

 accomplifhed his defign ! His woes, you will 

 believe, are frequent, but they are, alfo, tranfi- 

 tory. He requires not the patient endurance 

 of philofophy to fupport them — they pafs 

 quickly away in all the hurry of thoughtlefs 

 indifference. 



From this fketch of his charader you 

 will learn, without furprize, that pecuniary 

 difficulties have led to his prefent humble ap- 

 pointment. He had fettled himfelf in bufy 

 London, in a fituation of refpe&ability, and 

 which pro mi fed early independence ; but from 

 thoughtlefs habits, and a difpofition ever re- 

 gardlefs of the morrow, became involved be- 

 yond the power of extricating himfelf, and, at 

 length, brought on ills, which he now feeks to 

 fly from, rather than hopes to remedy. 



