Can he have read Mr.Malthus's Thoughts on the Ratio of Food to Population?
Can he think it reasonable that one man should consume the sustenance of many?
The young gentleman has an agreeable air and person, such as are not unlikely to recommend him on the score of matrimony.

But his fortune is not over-large; and what prudent young woman would think of embarking hers with a man who would bring three or four mouths (or what is equivalent to them) into a family?
She might as reasonably choose a widower in the same circumstances, with three or four children.
I cannot think who he takes after.

His father and mother, by all accounts, were very moderate eaters; only I have heard that the latter swallowed her victuals very fast, and the former had a tedious custom of sitting long at his meals.

Perhaps he takes after both.
I wish you would turn this in your thoughts, Mr.Reflector, and give us your ideas on the subject of excessive eating, and, particularly, of animal food.
HOSPITA.
EDAX ON APPETITE.
TO THE EDITOR OF "THE REFLECTOR." MR.

REFLECTOR,--I am going to lay before you a case of the most iniquitous persecution that ever poor devil suffered.
You must know, then, that I have been visited with a calamity ever since my birth.