For the Rural Magazine.
The fogs of England have been at all times the complaint of
foreigners. Gondomar the Spanish ambassador, when some one who was
going to Spain waited on him to ask whether he had any commands,
replied, "Only my compliments to the Sun, whom I have not seen since
I came to England." Caracoli, the Neapolitan minister there, a man
of a good deal of conversational wit, used to say that the only
ripe fruit he had seen in England, were roasted apples; and in a
conversation with George II., he took the liberty of preferring the
Moon of Naples to the Sun of England.