and can feed itfelf. Admittance, one fhilling. Chil dren and fervants, half price.-N. B. Stay will be fhort.

"TO BE SEEN. At the great room, corner of Sweeting's Alley, Threadneedle Street, a large and curious affortment of wild beafts, many of which have come from Germany, Holland, Italy, and other foreign parts. Some remarkable bears, and fome English bulls of an uncommon breed. Also several ducks which have the fingular property to be lame, and waddle in a very peculiar manner.

from ten to three in the afternoon.

To be seen

"HERCULANEUM, BIRMINGHAM.-Meffrs. Humbug and Company, agents for the Herculaneum at Birmingham, have just received a large cargo of real antiques, manufactured at that place, and preferable to thofe which are town-made, confifting of Othos, Galbas, Neros, Cleopatras, and Mark Antony's. At the above place, antiques repaired, and coins defaced agreeable to history. Gentlemen fending their own patterns, may have antiques made accordingly. Several new Queen Anne's farthings, and Roman pen

nies.

"NOTICE.-If A. B. does not remove the child he left at the widow Wifhfort's lodgings, nine months ago, it will be fold to defray expenfes.-N. B. This not to be repeated.

"BIRTHS.-The lady of Mr. Solomon Squirt, apothecary, of a fon and heir.-Mifs Matilda Mop, only maid to Mr. Twigg, of Little Britain, of a daughter.-Lady Dunftan, of a fine boy.

"MARRIAGES.-Mr. Deputy Grizzle, to Mifs Anne Maria Skeggs, of Norton Falgate, an amiable lady, with a handfome fortune.-Mr. Napper Brian, of Duck Lane, to Mifs Sarah Matilda Augufta Jenkins, of the fame place.-Walter Morgan, Efq. of Liquor

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Liquorpond Street, to Mifs Eftifania Amelia Hogs-, fleth, of Melancholy Walk.

"DEATHS. George Grifkin, Efq. of Newgate Market, many years an eminent dealer in pork.Thursday, after eating a hearty dinner, John Bullhead, Efq. common councilman, undertaker, and major of the Train Bands. He was in perfect health but a minute before, and had drunk the firft toaft in a bumper. -This morning, at his country feat near Gofwell Street, Mr. Ephraim Muzzy, a great and eminent horfe-fhoe maker, and many years a member under the Cauliflower. The bufinefs will be carried on as ufual, by his difconfolate widow.-Yesterday evening, univerfally lamented, in the fixty-third year of his age, Mr. William Melt, one of the principal tallow-chandlers of Shoe Lane.-Same day, Mr. John Ketch, chief affiftant at the Court of Seffions, held at the Old Bailey. He was an affectionate father, a faithful husband, and a tønder friend.”

OLIVER QUIDNUNC.

MY ancestors acquir’d a name

That brilliant decks the roll of Fame:

Laurels in war my grandfire won;

My father in the Senate fhoue;

My

Stop, Sir-fay what you have done!" "Done!-all their honours I inherit!"

"True, great Sir: all-except their MERIT!"

Interdum

Interdum vulgus rectum vidit. Hor.

PATRICIUS cried-" While you 've existence,

Keep, fon, 'Plebeians at a distance!"

This fpeech a Butcher overheard,

And quick replied-" I wifh, my Lord,

You'd thus advis'd, before your fon

So deeply in my debt had run !”

ON THE UNPRECEDENTED INCREASE OF PEERAGES UNDER THE PRESENT PREMIER.

SAYS the first WILLIAM PITT, with his wonted emotion,
"The Peers are no more than a drop in the Ocean;"
But fo far from this point his fucceffor now veers,
That himself 's but a drop in an Ocean of Peers.

JOHN BULL'S COURTSHIP OF MISS ERIN. [From the Morning Chronicle.]

MR. EDITOR,

IN your paper I obferve a paragraph informing us,

that "Mr. Bull is about to rebuild his houfe for the reception of his Irish Bride *." The public are, no doubt, obliged to you for this piece of intelligence; but you must give me leave to say that you have been hitherto fomewhat remifs in furnithing the tea-tables with anecdotes and particulars relative to this marriage. As, however, I am convinced that your attention to the fashionable part of the Morning Chronicle is not

*New buildings for the meetings of Parliament began at this time to be talked of. EDIT.

diminished,

diminished, I hall fupply you with fome items from undoubted authority, with which you may gratify the curiofity of your readers during the fhort period of courtship which remains. Marriages ever fo prepofterous afford but "a nine days' wonder." Goffips, therefore, must be defirous to fill up thofe nine days as well as they can.

That the whole affair is one of the most extraordinary of the kind, appears even in the prefent ftage of the bufinefs. What it will be when the parties come together, I thall not guefs. It is not for me to profane the chafte myfteries of Hymen. Truth, however, obliges me to fay, that Mr. Bull's mode of courtShip is fo fingular, that I am perfuaded the whole annals of love exhibit nothing like it. Juftly may we fay with the poet—

"Was ever woman in fuch humour woo'd?

Was ever woman in fuch humour won ?”

Mr. Bull's attachment began to be fufpected many years ago by the Lady, who was nowife inclined to encourage it. About the year 1782, juft after she was recovered from a Scarlet fever, John appears to have paid his addreffes; but he was fo decidedly against the match, that he confented to withdraw his pretenfions, and the confidered this as a final fettlement; and John himself (if we may believe fome people who were fervants in his house at that time) confidered it in the fame light, and, perhaps, thought he had cenquered his attachment. It returned, however, fome time ago, and with increafed violence; which you will not be furprised at, if what he fays be true, that jealoufy was added to his former love, and that the appearance of a French fuitor awakened all his hopes and

fears.

John, therefore, again made a declaration of his paffion; and this conftitutes the most extraordinary

part

part of the bufinefs. It might be fupposed that a lover, whose paffion was heightened by the appearance of a rival, would have urged his fuit with all the trembling and tender respect prescribed by the laws of Cupid; that he would have wept, knelt, adored, fighed, and offered to hang himfelf; that he would have talked of charms, graces, darts, and flames. No fuch thing: flames there were, indeed, and not altogether of the metaphorical kind; and there was a fpecies of demihanging; but John began with calling his fweetheart all the bad names he could think of; and, although but a few minutes before he would have turned any fervant out of doors that dared to wag his tongue against her, he now gave them an unlimited privilege to abuse her in any way they thought proper. One faid that John's attachment to her was like that of a man who had a wolf by the ears, and could neither keep his hold nor let go. Another faid fhe was a drunken, ill-bred, thriftlefs trull. A third-but it would be endless to recount all the abusive things faid of her. I muft, however, mention, as the finishing of all, that he had 'not only carried on a correfpondence with the French rival above mentioned, but that the fellow had actually got accefs to, and flept in her house for several days, notwithstanding John had employed a number of fervants to drive him away. This latter affair is, indeed, I am afraid, no ftory: it is certain that the French Gentleman did land; and why he was not fent about his business fooner, is either a paradox, or we must explain it by fuppofing that she had a fecret preference for him. Another objection raifed against her is, that the was utterly incapable of managing her own affairs, and that, upon the whole, her character was so bad, that it could be mended only by John's making "an honeft woman" of her.

Nor was the Lady's moral character the only defect which John converted into a pretence; even her person

was