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reduced to the income of an enfign in the Society troops. 

 This gentleman having formerly poffeffed connderable 

 property in this very colony, his prefent fitiiation could 

 not but be alTaredly the more galling on that account. — 

 Alas ! unhappy young fellow : well might you exclaim— 



" Prive de tout mes biens, 

 - " Dans un climat funefte, 

 " Je t'adore & te perds, 

 " Le poignard feul me refte, 

 « Mais, Oh ! je fuis P— -t— r, , 

 " Referve pour fouffriri 

 Je f^aurois vivre encore, 

 Et faire plus que mourir." ' 



Thefe are the words which he fpouted with a fighj 

 throwing the la ft lilver he had left among the Haves; 

 and indeed nothing could be more applicable to himfelf 

 than the lines he quoted, or more lamentable than this 

 poor devil's forlorn condition; which, however, created 

 in me, during my prefent humour, no other efFedt—- 

 than. a. loud and immoderate fit of laughter.. 



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