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market . TMtjr are desperate hands at cards and billiards all over Italy : and because master would Hot sit down and have his pocket picked , they chose to set him down , and lower
than I approved of . My own honour was touched through master ' s , and if he lost a step , I lost one . Therefore I made him lift up his head among them . I told them he
did not require to be called milord ; and that he was grand esquire . They asked me whether he really was born in London , or only at some castle in the provinces . I caught at
the castle , but stuck fast to it , and put it in Cranbourn alley . No Englishman I find is esteemed in Italy , unless he was born in the metropolis . This
is much to my taste , for I was whelped in the thickest of it . They are as curious about birth as they ever were , but in another and more reasonable
way . Knowing that they all &rfc doubtful in regard to fatherhood > they transfer the inquiry frdm the person to the place , while in regard to the date of any one ' s birth they do ihuch as the ancient Romans did in
their computation . These , I heard a learned man say , reckoned by the consulship ; the modern by the cavalier ship . There is , however , one slight difference : they say *< he wad born the year after this or that young gentleman was his mother ' s cavaliere . " ¦ I was thought a knight in disguise because I was born in
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St Giles ' s . Had I been born in the best room of Windsor Castle , with the Black Prince ' s banner waving above my cradle , I should have excited no emotion , but in raising up the shoulder . Being London-born
—veramente di Londra , cittd capitate—I was so very high , that every one would make me higher . Sanf Egidio ! scusa , signore . Sanf . Egidio b uii altro . Lei vuol dire San Gia ~ como . La corte sta li : non h
vero ? I am come to the end of my Italian , but you have it neat and genuine . I remain , &c . &c . &c . [ " Why , Pitt made better /" To be sure he did , Mr Stivers .
He ennobled those gentlemen who had the greatest stake in the country , and some few ( too few indeed ) of those honourable men , whose houses rose from commerce . These
were the great supports of the nation in all her difficulties . Without them in vain would the immortal minister have attempted to carry on a war of
twenty years ; and never would the people of England have displayed their strength and forti * tude , in supporting a heavier weight of debt than all the nations of the world united could
fendure . ] Among the English here in Italy , whom I could wish to see at my table in Cranbourn alley , is Lieutenant Arthur Cockles , third Lieutenant of his Majesty ' s ship Leopard in Lord Howe ' s grand engage-
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98 High end Xow Life wittily *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/26/
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