Possible source: Burke’s Annual Register 1788 with full subtitle “...extracted from Tales, Romances, Apologues, &c. from the French, in two vols.”
Notes: “the figure 1 before the number 100 ... 1100”
The Annual Register has the same words and numbers. Both seem like an error for “1000” (a cipher after 100).
For the New-York Weekly Magazine.
THE BEGGAR;
A FRAGMENT IN IMITATION OF STERNE.
**** “We are poor ourselves!” exclaimed the lady of the house, “and have therefore nothing to give.” Wretched being! methinks you receive none other alms from many people of fashion!