giving up the _Breeches_, look ye, it is almost Word for Word copied from the _French_ King and _Dauphin_’s Renunciation of _Spain_ and the _West-Indies_, which all the World knew (as was the very Case of the _Breeches_) were renounced by them on purpose to be reclaim’d when Time should serve. This Explanation had too much Ingenuity in it to be altogether slighted; and, in Truth, the worst Fault it had, seem’d to be the prodigious Heat of it; which (as an Apothecary, who sat next the Fire, observ’d, in a very low Whisper to his next Neighbour) was so much incorporated into every Particle of it, that it was impossible, under such Fermentation, it should work its defined Effect. This, however, no way intimidated a little valiant Gentleman, though he sat the very next Man, from giving an Opinion as diametrically opposite as _East_ is from _West_. This Gentleman, who was by much the best Geographer in the whole Club, and, moreover, second Cousin to an Engineer, was positive the _Breeches_ meant _Gibraltar;_ for, if you remember, Gentlemen, says he, tho’ possibly you don’t, the Ichnography and Plan of that Town and Fortress, it exactly resembles a Pair of Trunk-Hose, the two Promontories forming the two Slops, &c. &c.—Now we all know, continued he, that King _George_ the First made a Promise of that important Pass to the King of _Spain:_—So that the whole Drift of the _Romance_, according to my Sense of Things, is merely to vindicate the King and the Parliament in that Transaction, which made so much Noise in the World. A Wholesale Taylor, who from the Beginning had resolved not to speak at all in the Debate,—was at last drawn into it, by something very unexpected in the last Person’s Argument. He told the Company, frankly, he did not understand what _Ichnography_ meant:—But as for the Shape of a _Pair of Breeches_, as he had had the Advantage of cutting out so many hundred Pairs in his Life-Time, he hoped he might be allowed to know as much of the Matter as another Man.