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The fourth guest was a stock-broker, a shrewd compound, with all charity

be it spoken, of knavery and humour He is by profession an epicure, but

I suspect his accomplishments in that capacity are not very well founded;

I would al by the evident traces of craft and

dissinoetting into good coent evidently understood his true character, though

he treated hiht it a fine example of

the intellectual tact and superiority of T---, that he seeive you , as you set no value on my own particular philosophy; besides,

my paper tells me, that I have only rooh to bring such a party together; and yet they

affect there to have athis, I mean

only with reference to manners; the methods of behaviour in each of the

company were precisely similar--there was no eccentricity, but only that

distinct and decided individuality which nature gives, and which no

acquired habits can change Each, however, was the representative of a

class; and Edinburgh has no classes exactly of the saed--Yours truly, ANDREW PRINGLE

Just as Mr Snodgrass concluded the last sentence, one of the Clyde

skippers, who had fallen asleep, gave such an extravagant snore, followed

by a groan, that it set the whole co, and interrupted the