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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

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Date_1	1785-09-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	202	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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