with the Bank Directors about the forged notes—after which, attended their Lordships of the Poft-office, about a mail robbery-drank chocolate af both places, put on fome very knowing looks, but know juft as much who forged the notes, or robbed the mail, as the Pope of Rome-muft find out, if can-because why? these profecutions pay a body very well for one's trouble.

Sunday Put on my best mourning—went to Chapel Royal-loft my new caftor, coft 255.-the King and all the royal family (God bless 'em) laughed ready to fplit their fides to think how the knowing one was done.-Went home rather crofs, eat a hearty dinner of roast beef, and drank plenty of punch-read Moll Flanders and Lord Chesterfield's Letters.—At nine o'clock went to St. Giles's as agreed by the officers, and grabbed about fifteen pretty boys, for an exhibition before Sir William the next morning.

MEMORANDUM.-Muft afk fome of my friends, the Judges, whether hat-ftealing in a church is not facrilege; and whether, as the robbery was done between fun-rife and fun-fet, I can't fue the county for the twenty-five fhillings?

Gloffary of fashionable or cant Phrafes.

Slop-Tea.

Spoke to-Robbed.

Titlarks-Spectators at Bow Street.
Traps-Runners.
Wipes-Pocket handkerchiefs.

OR, LORD

ON THE

PANDOLFO ATTONITO!

G-LL-W-Y'S POETICAL LAMENTATION
REMOVAL OF THE ARMED CHAIRS FROM

THE PIT AT THE OPERA HOUSE!!!

A month or two ago, Lord G-LL-W-y came to the Opera, and on the pit door near the orchestra being opened, he perceived, to his confufion and astonishment, that a long bench was substituted in the place of the row of armed chairs at the bottom of the pit, the principal or central of which he had filled fo many nights with discernment and dignity, and to the general fatisfaction of every body prefent. Conceiving, rather haftily, that this meafure was intended as a perfonal flight to himself, he retired difconcerted, without taking his feat; and, as he is a votary of the Mufes, penned this Lamentation, which he fent to Lord S-L-SB-Y the next day, and recovered his wonted good humour.

WHAT!-the proud honours of the CHAIR

Muft I no more with CECIL* fhare?
Still be my foul ferene:

Virtu, or virtue, 's but a name,
BRUTUS and G-LL-W-Y exclaim,
And, fighing, quit the fcene.

*"Our Midas fits Lord Chancellor of Plays."

Dunciad.

Too

Too fure, I heard a warning knell,
Which told, by critic-brother, BELL,
The fall of feats and flocks,
Yet, fondly footh'd by BOLLA's airs,
Thought TAYLOR's bottom, and his chairs,
Secure with keys and locks *.

But ah! how fortune loves to joke!
Expell'd am I, who fung and fpoke,
As loud as at the fair †,

While yearly, with fix thousand pound,
The Commons ADDINGTON have bound
Their servant to the CHAIR,

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My purer taste, my claffic eye,
Unzon'd THALIA could defcry,

Who ftepp'd beyond her place;
How oft I warn'd, in either House,
That charms too plain at last would rouse
The mitre and the mace!

I, with PANDOLFO, watch'd the sphere,
When Mars on Venus fhone fo clear,
That Saturn felt the fhock;
Grave SHUTE and HENRY fhrunk at love,
And at the loose flesh-colour'd glove,
That blufh'd at twelve o'clock.

I faid, fome folks would thunder Greek
At HILLIGSBERG's morale lubrique,
And PARISOT's coftume!
Where fhall Paull-inia, tight and round,
In veft appropriate now be found,
With India's palm and plume'?

Old Q-NSB-Y feels his dotard qualm;
TERPSICHORE can pour no balm
O'er half his visual ray ;

* The bottoms of these lamented chairs were kept under lock and

key.

i. e. as the gypfies themselves on the stage, at the fair. "Quel Saturno briccon ti guarda trino!" Gli Zingari. The fascinating ballet of Paul et Virginie ;-Bacchus et Ariadne, too, now appear in patch-work dieffes.-Jacet femifepulta Venus!

Nor

Nor WILLIAM can confole the fage,
Nor ELISEES his pain affuage,

*

Nor Y-RM-TH fmooth his way.
When MARINARI'S magic hand
Trac'd the bold view in fabled land,
For fauns and wood-nymphs meet;

Ah, foon, I cried, may SL

-SB-RY think 'Tis juft that they who dance should drink, And they who sing should eat.

For this, in arbitrating state,

In prefence of the wife and great,

I fung the fovereign's + air;

Firm was my voice, for TAYLOR fmil'd,
Nor deem'd I (too, too well beguil'd)
How flippery was the chair.

Not G-RD-N's coarse and brawny Grace
The laft new woman in THE PLACE

With more contempt could blast;

Not M-R LB-R--GH's damp on BL-NDF-R D's face,
To me could prove a heavier curse,

Thus down from honour cast.

Fall'n though I am, I ne'er shall mourn,
Like the dark peer on STORER's urn,
Reflecting on my feat;

In vain that mean myfterious fire
In embers would conceal the fire,

While Honour's pulse can beat.

For me fall droop th' Affyrian queen ‡,
With fofteft ftrain, and tragic mien,
The SIDDONS, in her art;
E'en BOLLA fhall forget to pleafe,
With fparkling eye, and playful ease;
And DIDELOT fall start.

SPERE ELISEE. Conofcente e Medico di Camera al Sereniffimo

Duca.

"Corpo dotato di Sanita."

Gli Zingari in Fiera.

The scene-painter at the Opera,

The air of King Midas in the Burletta, "I'm given to under

stand that you 're all in a pother here," &c. &c &c.

BANTI, La Sovrana.

BOLLA, La Vezzofa.

LEO,

LEO, enthron'd, bade QUERNO fit;
And GIANNI's* verfe and regal wit
The CONSUL loves to fhare;

PYE has the laurel and the fack,

And C-MBE the fool's coat on his back,
But G-LL-W-Y NO CHAIR.
Yet though reduc'd by TAYLOR's pranks,
I fit confounded in the ranks,

Good humour's ftill my own;

Still fhall I breathe in rapt'rous trance,
"Eternal be the fong, the dance,

THE OPERA AND THE THRONE!

S. W. o fia Maftro SCEVOLA.

'AN ALMANACK AN EXCELLENT TREATISE OF PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC.

[From the Universal Magazine.]

AS every feafon has its appropriate charms which delight the taste of connoiffeurs in nature's grand and pleafing works, fo each feafon is accompanied with a periodical return of certain circumstances which would fufficiently point it out, although we were even to forget the time of the year according to the calendar. Thus the approach of Christmas is visible in the metropolis by a more than ufual proportion of country coufins, who come up to spend that joyous season with their London relations, and furnish themfelves at the enfuing birth-day with fafhions for the remainder of the winter: this acceffion of inhabitants is also attended by an extraordinary rise in the price of poultry, notwithstanding the arrival of innumerable turkies from the land of Norfolk; and other infallible figns of Christmas are the frequent advertisements, informing

GIANNI, the Italian poet laureat to BONAPARTE, as QUERNO was to Pope LEO X.

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