to be on the table till full three minutes after twelve, to prevent the cenfure of the fuperftitious and serupulous for breaking the Sabbath *, and no swearing will be permitted till the tenth bumper.

PROPOSALS will be laid before the Meeting for having a fupper or dinner with the Wig-the Feroboam-the Borachio-the Cape-the Hum-drum-the Antemanum--the Pandemonium-the Skink--the Spunge -the Free and Eafy-the Gin-and the &c. Clubs,in order to preserve a friendly intercourse.

SEVERAL Vacancies having lately happened by the premature death of decayed members at twenty years of age, it is refolved, that no new member can be propofed under ten, and no gin permitted till twelve.

SEVERAL letters of complaint from parents and guardians will be laid before the meeting; but it ought to be remembered, that the fault lies at home, and not with this Club. Volunteers cannot be refused; and if parents do not like the manners of the JEZEBEL CLUB, they fhould be careful to inculcate other manners, by example and precept, to their children and domeftics.

THE prefent increafing freedom of manners among all ranks gives the most flattering profpect of

A ball had been given fome time before on a Saturday night.

numerous applications for admiffion; and as the Club are refolved to be fcrupulous, when fo many candidates are offering, one white ball will pofitively exclude.

A PROPOSAL for a fubfcription for the encouragement of Circulating Libraries will be read from the Chair, as, from long experience, they have been found the most fuccessful promoters of the intereft of this Society. It will be recommended to all parents to give their children an unrestricted licence to draw knowledge from these pure fountains of information.

SCHEMES for defeating the abfurd plan of a new Bridewell, fo shocking to female delicacy, will be thankfully received. Many of the Club having been in intimate habits with Members of the auguft Houfes of Parliament, it is to be hoped they will use their influence to ftrengthen Oppofition upon this occafion.

A VOTE of thanks will be proposed to the Magistrates, Ministers, and Captains of the Guard of this city, for their great lenity and indulgence to the Society, and their healths will be given in a bumper.

IT is propofed, that one fide of the upper boxes at the Theatre should be taken by the year, for the ufe of the Society, by way of fhow-box; and, for

this purpose a fubfcription will be opened.-As the Manager has hitherto been very obliging, his health will also be given in a bumper.

THE evening walk recommended by the Club is from the Luckenbooths to the further end of the New North Bridge, and along Prince's Street. The Day-light Members may alfo ufe this walk, if their drapery is tolerable. The mendicant members are requested to keep the low grounds, as the Cowgate, Grafs-market, Blackfriars Wynd, &c. &c. feveral refpectable inhabitants having complained loudly, that they cannot vifit with their wives and daughters of an evening, without being blasted with gin and obscenity.

SEVERAL difcarded footmen have applied to the Club for its patronage in their new profeffion of Dancing-Masters. That this elegant accomplishment may not interfere with the vulgar hours of bufinefs, these schools will not be opened till nine o'clock at night. The prefent fashionable fuppers will thus permit fervants to have an hour's practising before they are wanted at home. Apprentices of every kind will be taught in a few leffons to get rid of vulgar prejudices, and, instead of sheepish modefty, to affume the air degagé fo becoming, or the fierce ftare and impudent ftrut fo manly!

HAIR-DRESSERS will be taught how to enter a house with addrefs, and alfo how to lead a conver

fation with a lady or gentleman according to character and circumstances.

As thefe dancing-fchools for fervants and apprentices of both fexes have been found very useful nurferies for the Club, it is hoped the present petitioners will meet with countenance and protection at the meeting.

AFTER fupper the following Duet will be rehearfed by NED HOPEFUL and BET BOUNCER.→

By TWO BLACK EYES my heart was won,
Sure never wretch was more undone.

TO CELIA with my fuit I came ;

But fhe, regardless of her prize,
Thought proper to reward my flame
With two black eyes!

LYDIA HARRIDAN

in the Chair.

N. B. The Secret Committee will meet on Monday evening at ten o'clock, at St Cecilia's Oyfter Cellar -Mrs SLAMAKIN in the Chair,

E. C.

* However ludicrous this may appear, there is fuch a house and fign in the Cowgate, adjoining to the Concert Hall.

[THE

[THE Summer and Autumn of 1782 having been very unfavourable, there was a great scarcity of grain in Scotland, and particularly in the north. Refolutions of a meeting held at Aberdeen were published at Edinburgh January 13, 1782, by which it appears, that it was the opinion of the meeting, that the dogs should be inftantly killed, and that no person should drink home-brewed fpirits, or malt liquor, &c. Two days afterwards the following was published.]

MEETING OF CITIZENS.

SIR,

EDIN. JAN. 15, 1783.

I AM defired, by a Meeting of refpectable Citizens,

held here for taking into confideration proper plans of relief for this city, in the present alarming scarcity of grain, to exprefs their high fatisfaction with the judicious refolutions of the county of Aberdeen, published in your paper of the 13th.

THE Meeting unanimously approved of the following refolutions of that county, viz.