This is the only exception
which I shall make to the general rule I have prescribed myself, of
attacking multitudes; since every honest man ought to look upon
himself as in a natural state of war with the libeller and
lampooner, and to annoy them wherever they fall in his way. This is
but retaliating upon them, and treating them as they treat others.
SA GA YEAN QUA RASH TOW'S IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON.
Nunquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit.
JUV., Sat. xiv. 321.
Good taste and nature always speak the same.
When the four Indian kings were in this country about a twelvemonth
ago, I often mixed with the rabble, and followed them a whole day
together, being wonderfully struck with the sight of everything that
is new or uncommon. I have, since their departure, employed a
friend to make many inquiries of their landlord the upholsterer
relating to their manners and conversation, as also concerning the
remarks which they made in this country; for next to the forming a
right notion of such strangers, I should be desirous of learning
what ideas they have conceived of us.
The upholsterer finding my friend very inquisitive about these his
lodgers, brought him sometime since a little bundle of papers, which
he assured him were written by King Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow, and, as
he supposes, left behind by some mistake.
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