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Show Famous Eccentric Toasts. Pitt, at Kidderminster, gave a toast in compliment of the carpet manufacturers. "May the trade of Kidderminster," said Pitt," be trampled under foot by all the world!" A more audacious toast, freighted with double meaning, has been variously vari-ously attributed to Smeaton, Erskine and to some others. This after-dinner trade sentiment was delivered in this form : "Dam the canals, sink the coal pits, blast the minerals, consume the manufactures, manu-factures, disperse the commerce of Great Britain and Ireland!" Cornhill Magazine. |