That's true, egad, nephew. If the Old Jewry was a ward, I believe Charles would be an alderman: no man more popular there, fore Gad! I hear he pays as many annuities as the Irish tontine; and that, whenever he is sick, they have prayers for the recovery of his health in all the synagogues.

SIR BENJAMIN.

Yet no man lives in greater splendour. They tell me, when he entertains his friends, he will sit down to dinner with a dozen of his own securities; have a score of tradesmen waiting in the antechamber, and an officer behind every guest's chair.

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SIR BENJAMIN.

Mr. Surface, I do not mean to hurt you; but depend on 't, your brother is utterly undone.

CRAB.

O Lud, ay! undone as ever man was—can't raise a guinea.

SIR BENJAMIN.

And every thing sold, I'm told, that was movable.