almoft over, yet fufficient ftill remained to attract and amaze a ftranger. Trufty faid, that Googe's Green could never grow one half of the vegetables, were it all laid out into gardenground. It was beautiful to fee how busy, active, and diligent every one was for the benefit of their respective families. But what chiefly pleafed me was, the reflection of seeing trade and pleasure thus apparently go hand in hand, just as they should do, like two friends determined to engage earnestly in each other's intereft. It was plain how mutually London and the country depended on one another, and what a ftrict political as well as focial compact there was betwixt them.

The felicity of a ramble in the metropolis is, that a fpeculative man need never pause for entertainment, nor can he at any time complain that his amusement is too long continued on the fame fcale. New objects are every moment, from the dawn of the day to the close of the night, and even all night long, fhifting a most interefting fucceffion before him; and if he has capacity or penetration, he can never want a proper variety to give the edge to his refearches.

We now propofed regaling ourselves with a Coffee-houfe breakfast; and as Trufty was an old fervant and out of livery, permitted him upon these privileges, at my coufin's earneft

entreaty,

entreaty, to be of our party, rather as a friend; and in this capacity he shall continue in various other of our ambulations.

A great number of people were at breakfast upon our entrance into this place. Without much attending to the hum of various voices that affailed my ears, I entertained my eyes with looking over a news-paper of the morning. What a hodge-podge was there! what a farrago of broken limbs, robberies, lottery-tickets, ladies luxuries, murders, deaths, births and marriages, higgledy-piggledy together! At length hearing several voices distinctly iffuing from the next box to that in which we fat, I began to liften. The lovers of peace, and the lovers of war-the lovers of money, and the lovers of politics, were all at it tooth and nail. With every fip of their tea or coffee they feemed to ftart a new fubject. The Stock-jobber pretended to criticise the blunders of the Prime Minifter; the Citizen fufpended the fubject of cent. per cent. in order to have a blow at the Rebels, while a third forgot his calling, in order to have a blow at his Majefty. The K—, fays one, (familiarly striking his neighbour on the shoulder, and squinting his eye) the K— is an ignoramus. That I deny, faid his neighbour, he is a very accomplished, fenfible man, and I'm for the House of Hanover. Here's a cursed war for you, cries a fecond; commerce, Sir,

is

is at her laft gafp; trade is in the agonies, and if we continue to play the cut-throats much longer, the duce a thing will London be good for. You know but little of the matter, anfwers a third; this American war is the best job that ever happened for this country; and long, very long, may it continue, fay I.

The jargon of this political debate was a little fubfided, when I obferved Trufty in conversation with a thin fhabby-looking man in the next box but one, who afterwards shook Trufty by the hand and disappeared.

Trufty told me he had defired him to lend him a fhilling, promifing to return again in five minutes, upon which promife the credulous Trufty, more kind than wife, put his hand into his pocket, and lent him two fhillings. You will not, I fuppofe, expect that this hero ever made his fecond appearance while we staid at the coffee-house, where nobody either knew him, or ever remember to have seen him before.

The laugh was against poor Trusty, who confoled himself by faying, if he met him, he would certainly have his money, or elfe he would thrafh the villain, unlefs, cried Trufty, he can prove to me that he was very hungry; and in that cafe he would only give him a fillip or two upon the ear for telling a lye, and not afking for charity, like an honeft man.

This

This circumftance and our breakfaft over, we were juft going out, and had proceeded almoft as far as the door, when a tall man, with a beard perfectly grey and sweeping his breast, came into the room, with a little portable box of fealing-wax in one hand, and some cane-strings in the other. As I was not provided with wax, and knew what particular occafions I had for it, I took a couple of fticks from the Ifraelite, and was about to pay for them, when my coufin hinted to me the prudence of trying one of them first, which I had no fooner done, than I difcovered it to be the vileft compofition that ever was vended; and I almost spoiled my feal in making the impreffion. Let this be a caution to my countrymen and to my family, fhould it of their fates at any future opportunity to visit this city.

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any

Things that are fold disproportionably cheap are feldom good for any thing. This Jew offered me his wax at three-pence a stick, when a cartload of them was not worth three farthings.

We now fet forward, refreshed and able to go through the future enterprises of the day. Nothing very material happened till we came into

ST. JAMES'S PARK.

Which my curiofity, and more than all, Trufty's repeated entreaties, induced me to

take

take a view of, the very firft day. It was a moft charming morning, and to speak poetically, "Seem'd as if fent t' invite the world abroad." Great expectations are generally disappointed: fuch was the cafe at prefent, as to the pleasure I expected from a furvey of this celebrated place; and yet I faw it under every poffible advantage; for the trees were in all the dignity of their broadeft expansion of leaf, and the breezes were just enough frolickfome to give them a rural

motion.

I have certainly feen much nobler ranges of trees, and of trees more majestic in their nature. The celebrated walks of this Park are shaded only by the common wych tree; and to a man accustomed to groves of oak, these are not attracting. I was extremely hurt-all, even all that was British about me was hurt, on feeing at the end of this extenfive Mall a fhabby piece of ordinary brick building, which is called, I find,

BUCKINGHAM HOUSE.

When my coufin told me this was the refidence of the British King, I felt myself blush either at his want of taste, or want of loyalty in his people. Trusty burst out into a fit of laughter. That, said I, is that the refidence of the Royal Family? that nutshell of a building, crammed as it is into a corner, crouded into a nook, as if it was afraid of the company that frequent the Park? Where, coufin,