A coiner or a smuggler shall get off tolerably well.

His beauty, if he has any, is not much underrated, his deformities are not much magnified.

A runaway apprentice, who excites perhaps the next least degree of spleen in his prosecutor, generally escapes with a pair of bandy legs; if he has taken anything with him in his flight, a hitch in his gait is generally superadded.

A bankrupt, who has been guilty of withdrawing his effects, if his case be not very atrocious, commonly meets with mild usage.

But a debtor, who has left his bail in jeopardy, is sure to be described in characters of unmingled deformity.