A  certain  pair,  whose  passage  the  king  paid,  from  the  old  world  to  the
new — fortune  smiling  on  them  in  Alexandria — the  term  being  expired,  in
contempt  he  quit  the  country,  exclaiming,  i(  the  best  flour  in  America  is
not  equal  to  the  mud  of  London."  There  he  put  his  barrel  of  dollars  in
a  private  bank  ;  which  broke  in  a  few  days  after,  and  he  then  had  to  turn
porter,  and  stand  in  the  mud,  to  get  wherewith  to  support  nature  !

On  this  voyage,  Cosmopolite  frequently  felt  a  foreboding  of  approaching


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trials ;  and  a  secret  conviction  that  all  was  not  well  at  the  Mississippi,
which  he  expressed  more  than  once  or  twice.
