text:  Before next he adventures into conflict again--better had he so bethought him before his colonial debut in the House last June--would it not be the part of wisdom to take counsel with his dear friend and neighbour Mr Samuel Brookes the well-known opulent calico-printer manufacturer and exporting merchant of Manchester who proved some three or four years ago as clearly as figures--made up like the restaurateur's _pain_ at discretion--can prove any thing that the larger the foreign trade he carried on the greater were his losses in various instances cited of hundreds per cent; from whence seeing how rotund and robust grows the worthy alderman deplorable balance-sheets notwithstanding which would prostrate the Bank of England like the Bank of Manchester it should result that he like another Themistocles might exclaim to his family clad in purple and fine linen "My children had we not been ruined we should have been undone!" But _revenons a nos moutons_