text:  It seems to us no very severe punishment to be forced to receive the allowance of seven years instead of one the only explanation we can think of is that it contains some delicate allusion to the dietary of gentlemen who are supposed to be visiting one of the colonies in New Holland but in reality employ themselves in aquatic amusements in Portsmouth and Plymouth harbour "for the space of seven long years"--and are not supposed to fare in so sumptuous a manner as the aldermen of the city of London