ney, and flatter my ſelf that I have laid it out to your Satisfaction." Such a Circumſtance as this raiſes a juſt Pride in an Engliſh Merchant, and makes him preſume (not without ſome Reaſon) to compare himſelf to a Roman Citizen; and indeed a Peer's Brother does not think Traffic beneath him. When the Lord Townſhend was Miniſter of State, a Brother of his was content to be a City Merchant; and at the Time that the Earl of Oxford govern'd Great-Britain, his younger Brother was no more than a Factor in Aleppo, where he chose to live, and where he died. This Cuſtom, which begins however to be laid aſfide, appears monſtruous to Germans, vainly puff'd up with their Extraction. Theſe think it morally impoſſible that the Son of an Engliſh Peer ſhould be no more than a rich and powerful Citizens, for all are Princes in Germany. There have been thirty Highneſſes of the ſame Name, all whoſe Patrimony conſiſted only in their Eſcutcheons and their Pride.
In France the Title of Marquis is given gratis to any one who will accept
