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respect, and gave him a guinea at his departure. There were several gentlemen at dinner with Sir William at the time, none of whom had any knowledge of him except the Rev. Mr Richard’s who did not discover him till he was gone upon which a servant was dispatched to desire him to come back, which he did; and when he entered the room they were very merry with him and desired him to give an account how he got his fine clothes, and of his stratagems, with the success of them. He asked Sir William if he had not given half a crown in the morning to a beggar, and about noon relieved a poor unfortunate shoemaker? I did, said Sir William; Behold him before you, said Carew, in this fine embroidered coat, as a broken merchant. The company would not believe him;--so, to convince them, he re-assumed those characters again, to their no small mirth and satisfaction.
Carew made King of the Beggars.
ON the death of the King of gypsies named Couse Patch, our hero was a candidate to succeed him and exhibited to the electors a long list of bold and ingenious stratagems which he had
