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he says are the French in Barcelona, that a Frenchman can hardly
shew his face in the streets there without being insulted. The Revenue-laws
there seem to be still worse executed in that absolute Monarchy than under
our mixt and limited government: the very Master of the Custom-house had
been, (he said) on board of him to smuggle.
I happen'd to dine today in company with a Mr John King as he calls
himself, and the Countess of Lanesborough in Ireland, who pass for man and
Wife. The account that I heard of him from good authority at Florence
where he has also been, is, that he or is a Jew money-lender or rather was
while he had money to lend, for now he is more disposed to borrow — that
he repudiated a Jewess he had to his wife, according to the Jewish Law,
which however good it may be in the Synagogue is I doubt of no great
force in such a point in Westminster Hall; that since then he has been
actually married to Lady Lanesborough, and ex majori cautela more
than once. They are now upon their shifts, attempting to borrow of every
body they meet: amongst other persons her Ladyship applied to Lord P.
on whom, it is said, she had claims better imagined than explained: his
answer was, that his purse was at her service, provided always that she
would first turn away hir Jew. The account he gave of himself to Sir H.
was that he had an action brought against him by C. Fox for a libel signed
Neptune I think it was, in one of the London Newspapers; that he had a
verdict against him for a thousand pounds, to free himself from which he
got himself made Bankrupt, but paid 20s in the pound. He has for some time
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