taking a survey of the world, as it is.' In one

POETICAL FRANKING.

When the Clerk of the Rules draws a Frank up
in Court,

Though the distance be great, the direction is short;
If a member he spies, whose pen is but scrawlish,
He trasts will be legible somehow at Dawlish;
So he works the poor member, his pen, and his
inkhorú,

THE DEVIL AND DR. FAUSTUS.
There is a strong propensity in man's nature, to

of these perambulations be happened to alight close About the time of the trial of Lord Melville, Mr. to a church during divine service. Anxious to see S. the clerk of the rules, having occasion for a how all the good people passed their time, he en-frank, to be addressed to "Mr. William Linkhorn, tered, and taking his station outside the rails of of Dawlish, Devonshire," applied to Mr. Erskine, the altar, not being permitted to go within-side, then in the Court, who immediately wrote the looked around. Some, he observed, were most frank, and handed it back to Mr. S. with the folatent upon gazing about them; others in notic-lowing linesing who came in, or criticising their dress or appearance, than minding what the parson was raying; but what particularly took his attenton, was two antiquated dowagers, who, instead of paying attention to the minister, amused ach other with the scandal of the town, and suchike edifying conversation; not sparing the reputations of even their own intimate friends. Sir To Melvilize postage for one Billy Linkhorn. Nick, highly entertained with their innocent rearks, pulled a roll of parchment out of his pocket, and began to write down in short-hand the substance of their conversation. Before, how-resolve every strange thing, or, whether really ever, they had half done, his parchment was full strange or not, if it be but strange to us, into the suwa beth sides. Unwilling to lose a word of what pernatural, or into devilism or magic, and to say poed, he stretched it with his teeth-still it was every thing is the devil, that we can give no actoo little ; and in a short time he was as bad off as count of. Thus, the famous doctors of the faculty str. Vexed to be foiled by two old women, he at Paris, when John Faustus brought the first polled and pulled, but all to no purpose; at printed books that had been then seen into the length, by repeated pulling, the parchment snap-city, and sold them for manuscripts, were surprised Je, and bouncing his devilship's head against the at the performance, and questioned Faustus about Juling, broke it in several places. St. Martin, it; but he affirming they were manuscripts, and Rao was saying mass at the altar, burst out a that he kept a great many clerks employed to ching, to see Sir Nick in such a passion, and to write them, they were satisfied for a while. But, and the devil fool enough to suppose that a roll, or looking farther into the work, they observed the rona skin of parchment, would hold two wo- exact agreement of every book, one with another ; mea's gossip, even in church. that every line stood in the same place, every page a like number of lines, every line a like number of words; if a word was mispelt in one it was mispelt also in all; nay, if there was a blot in one, it was alike in all; they began to muse how this should be: in a word, the learned divines, not being able to comprehend the thing, concluded it must be the devil; that it was done by magic and witchcraft; and that, in short, poor Faustus dealt with the devil. John Faustus, however, was a compositor, to Koster, of Haaerlem, the first in

TO A SEAMSTRESS.

O! what bosom but must yield,
When, like Pallas, you advance,
With a thimble for your shield,

And a needle for your lance?
Fairest of the stitching train,

Ease my passion by your art; And, in pity to my pain,

Mend the hole that's in my heart.

ventor of printing; and having printed the psal- | And after some few words of mystic import,

ters, sold them at Paris, as manuscripts; because, as such, they yielded a better price. The learned doctors, not being able to understand how the work was performed, concluded it was all the devil, and that the man was a wizard; accordingly they took him up for a magician and a conjuror, and one that worked by the black art; that is to say, by the help of the devil; they threatened to hang him for a wizard, and commenced a process against him in their criminal courts, which made such a noise in the world, as raised the fame of poor John Faustus to a frightful height, till at last he was obliged, for fear of the gallows, to discover the whole secret to them.

THE HERALD.

I do remember a strange man-a Herald,
And hereabouts he dwells, whom late I noted,
In party-coloured coat, like a fool's jacket,
Or morris-dancer's dress. Musty his looks,
Like to a skin of ancient shrivelled parchment,
Or an old pair of leather-brogues twice turned.
And round the dusky room he did inhabit,
Whose wainscoat seem'd as old as Noah's ark,
Were divers shapes of ugly ill-form'd monsters,
Hung up in scutcheons, like an old church aisle;
A blue-boar rampant, and a griffin gules,
A gaping tiger, and a cat-a-mountain,

What nature never form'd, nor madman thought;
"Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire,"
-And right before him lay a dusty pile
Of ancient legers, books of evidence,
Torn parish-registers, probates, and testaments,
From whence, with cunning art and sly contriv-
ance,

He fairly culled divers pedigrees,

(Which make, full oft, the son beget the father,
And give to maiden ladies fruitful issues);
And next, by dint of transmutation strange,
Did coin his musty vellum into gold.-
Anon, comes in a gaudy city youth,
Whose father, for oppression and vile cunning,
Mes roaring now in limbo-lake the while;

Most gravely uttered by the smoke-dried sage,
He takes in lieu of gold the vellum roll,
With arms emblazon'd and Lord Lyon's siguet,
And struts away a well-born gentleman.
Observing this, I to myself did say,
An' if a man did need a coat of arms,
Here lives a caitiff that would sell him one.
A NEW WORLD.

The following scientific intelligence appeared in an American newspaper :

"Light developes light," ad infinitum. St. Louis, (Missouri Territory,) North-America April 10, A. D. 1818.

"To ALL THE WORLD.-I declare the earth # be hollow, and habitable within; containing = number of concentric spheres, one within the or and that their poles are open twelve or sixter degrees. I pledge my life in support of this tre and am ready to explore the concave, if the wo will support and aid me in the undertaking. JOHN CLEVES SYMMES,

Of Ohio, late Captain of Infantry.

I ask one hundred brave companions, equipped, to start from Siberia, in autumn, rein-deer and sledges, on the ice of the frozen I engage we find a warm country and rich an stocked with thrifty vegetables and animals, if = men, on reaching about sixty-nine miles norths of latitude 82. We will return in the succee spring.-J. C. 8.

THE MELANCHOLY OF TAILORS. The characteristic pensiveness in tailors beirs notorious, it is to be wondered that none of th writers, who have expressly treated of melanes should have mentioned it.

They may be reduced to two, omitting subordinate ones, viz.

The sedentary habits of the tailor-Somet peculiar in his diet.

First, his sedentary habits.-In Doctor Nor famous narrative of the frenzy of Mr. John De

THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER.

the patient, being questioned as to the occasion of the swelling in his legs, replies that it was "by criticism;" to which the learned doctor seeming to demur, as to a distemper which he had never heard of, Dennis (who appears not to have been mad upon all subjects) rejoins with some warmth, that it was no distemper, but a noble art! that he had sat fourteen hours a day at it; and that the other was a pretty doctor, not to know that there was a communication between the brain and the Jegs.

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When we consider that this sitting for fourteen hours continuously, which the critic probably practised only while he was writing his " marks," is no more than what the tailor, in the ordinary pursuance of his art, submits to daily (Sundays excepted) throughout the year, shall we wonder to find the brain affected, and in a manner over-clonded, from that indissoluble sympathy between the noble and less noble parts of the body, which Dennis hints at? The unnnatural and ainful manner of his sitting must also greatly iggravate the evil, insomuch that I have someimes ventured to liken tailors at their boards to

many envious Junos, sitting cross-legged to Ander the birth of their own felicity. The legs ransversed thus cross-wise, or decussated, was ag the ancients the posture of malediction. Turks, who practise it at this day, are noted be a melancholy people.

Secondly, his diet.-To which purpose is a remarkable passage in Burton, in his chapter taled Bad diet a cause of melancholy."Amangst herbs to be eaten (he says) I find de, cucumbers, melons, disallowed; but esBally CABBAGE. It causeth troublesome dreams, ends up black vapours to the brain. Galen, feet. lib. 3, cap. 6, of all herbs condemns GE And Isaack, lib. 2, cap. 1, anime fitatem facit, it brings heaviness to the soul." weld not omit so flattering a testimony from an thor who, having no theory of his own to e, has so unconsciously contributed to the 4 årmation of mine. It is well known, that this

last-named vegetable has, from the earliest period
which we can discover, constituted almost the
sole food of this extraordinary race of people.
HOT AND COLD.

To his poor cell a satyr led
A traveller, with cold half dead,

And with great kindness treated:
A fire-nose high he made him straight,
Show'd him his elbow-chair of state,

And near the chimney seated.
His tingling hands the stranger blows,
At which the satyr wond'ring rose,

And bluntly asked the reason.
Sir, quoth the man, I mean no harm,
I only do't my hands to warm,

In this cold frosty season.
The satyr gave him from the pot
A mess of porridge piping hot;

The man blow'd o'er his gruel.
What's that for, friend? The satyr cry'd,
To cool my broth, his guest reply'd,
And truth, sir, is a jewel,

How, quoth the host, then is it so,
And can you contradictions blow?

Turn out, and leave my cottage.
This honest mansion ne'er shall hold
Such rascals as blow hot and cold,
The de'l must find you pottage.

THE EXCISEMAN IN HL.
An exciseman, born and bred in London, whose
name was John Grant, chanced to fall in love with
a young lady from Newcastle, whom he shortly
married. The only condition was, that the newly-
married couple should pass the honey-moon in
Newcastle, at the house of the bride's father,
which was readily acceded to. Accordingly, the
couple set out on their journey, and were well re-
ceived by their friends; who, in the true spirit of
hospitality, contrived to intoxicate the bridegroom,
Overpowered by the fumes of the wine, Johnny
fell into a profound sleep, in this state his new

A QUERY, ADDRESSED TO A LADY. Why is a Gardener the most extraordinary man

the world?

friends, to complete the jest, let him down into a coal-pit. In a few hours Johnny awoke, and was immediately surrounded by the miners; one of a peculiarly rough appearance stepped forward to Because no man has more business upon earth, the trembling bridegroom, and asked him, in a and he always chooses good grounds for what he gruff voice," Who, and what are you? and how does. He commands his thyme, he is master of did you come hither?" Johnny, astonished at the mint, and fingers penny royal; he raises cel infernal crew, concluded immediately that he was every year, and it is a bad year indeed that does in hell, and very submissively taking of his hat not bring him a plum. He meets with re replied, "how I came here I know not, but I boughs than a minister of state, he makes mos suppose I died."-" Who, and what are you," beds than the French king, and has in them noiz repeated the miner. "When on earth," replied painted ladies and genuine roses and lilies than are the bridegroom, "I was Johnny Grant, the excise-to be found at a country-wake; he makes raks man, a righteous man, and a psalm-singer; but now his business more than his diversion, as many otac I am in hell, I am any thing your devilship pleases."

TO A PERSON VERY FOND OF SINGING. O! prithee cease thy ear-annoying strain,

And rid, at least, thy friends of persecution: Such notes were stolen from hell 'tis very plain: Repent, and make the devil restitution.

HOW V. MUCH.

In 1824 an action was brought to recover a debt of 141. 5s. The counsel, Mr. Sergeant Pell, first took the names of the parties How and Much in their individual form, and after driving unfortunate "How" through all the changes and vicissitudes which it ever experienced, had "yet," as he himself observed, "a difficult task to perform," for "Much" remained behind. He assured the Jury, that slight as the case was, and brief as should be the proof, yet if they gave their verdict for the plaintiff, they would be for ever remembered as on that day having done "much" at all events. He then went on to speak of the names "how collectively, and rang the changes upon much," to no end. Mrs. How proved that she had gone to Mr. Much for the amount of the bill; that he told her to go to Mr. Parry, with whom he said he left the money, and when she refused to do so, he told her either to go to Parry or to go to hell. Counsel-I suppose you declined to go to either-Indeed I did.

gentlemen do; but makes it an advantage
health and fortune, which few others do; he ta
boast of more rapes than any rake in the kingdes
His wife, notwithstanding, has enough of
love, and heart's ease, and never wishes for «
Distempers fatal to others never hurt him:
walks the better for the gravel, and thrives o
in a consumption. He can boast of more ble
hearts than your ladyship, and more laurel L
the duke of Marlborough; but his greatest pi
and the world's greatest envy, is, that he can b
yew when he pleases.

INTENDED FOR DRYDEN.
This SHEFFIELD raised: the sacred dust below
Was DRYDEN once. The rest, who does not k
DR. GOODENOUGH.

On being told that the Bishop of Carlisle,
Goodenough) was appointed to preach betove
House of Peers-

""Tis well enough that Goodenough

Before the Lords should preach ; For sure enough they're bad enougÀ He undertakes to teach."

When the above prelate was made Bishcertain dignitary, whom the public had esp to get the appointment, being asked by i how he came not to be the new Bishop, rel because I was not Good-enough!

THE PIC-NIC PARTY.

At last there was a general cry for passengers. The captain mounted the dicky of the best equiAt length the day, "the great, the important page, and was soon accommodated with five of the day, big with the fate" of three hack steeds, and lightest insides. His friend, the cornet, made eighteen goodly personages, burst through my ready with equal alacrity; and, to my dismay, I window's curtains. I had coaxed myself to sleep was informed that I, even I, was to be the chariotthe preceding night, with the Possibility that it was teer of the third, At the same time (I confess it not impossible that it might rain, seeing that all was with gratitude), I received a confidential combinary things are subject to change-that the munication that it would not be incumbent ou me earth had now been based for upwards of six to show any uncommon degree of Olympic spirit, Weeks; but I was disappointed. Phoebus was in as I had been appointed conducicur to the married. üser feather than ever, and the little girls were ladies and the crockery-ware. And what to draw lancing over my head with the most heart-rending them? O ye Gods! my blood curdied at the sight! ety. Nevertheless, I was a philosopher, and I could have picked a better horse out of the solved to stand by my promise with magnani-maws of the ravens. Such a ewe-necked, rawuly. I broke my fast with a glass of camomile boned, rat-tailed, broken-kneed, mallendered, sulea, which gave me vigour to dispose of a bowl of lendered, spavined, and string-halted skeleton, rawberries and cream, and to tilt at the most ac-never entered the precincts of a dog kennel. The plished jokes of the party. owner, however, assured me, upon the honour of The breakfast was scarcely over, when we were a gentleman, that it could see very tolerably with Tracted to the window by a strange outlandish one eye, and had the best wind of any horse in the be, resembling the gambols of sweeps on May-country. yur the more musical clink of marrow-bones I had applied four or five thwacks with the whip, cleavers. I had scarcely time to exclaim and had begun to expect that my quadruped would What the deuce is that?" when I beheld three shortly agree to follow his companions, who were Mcles approaching the house, at the instigation now almost out of sight, when the operation was tertain animals which I should, without doubt, suspended by a shout in the distance, and the taken for crocodiles, had I not been assured appearance of a corpulent gentleman in leather the Captain that they were very excellent breeches and boots, with a bundle at his back.All our souls and bodies were in instant" Oh, here's Mr. D. !” cried the ladies all at once. otion. The ladies donned their bonnets" I knew he would come," said one. "How seized their parasols; while the gentlemen | kind!” cried another. "How he runs!" exclaimed out to the stowing of the cargo. "Ham-ed a third-and I must in justice declare, that, for and baskets, and bundles," passed to and fro a gentleman whose legs diverged like a pair of La rapidity that was truly fearful, and threat-compasses, and who lacked some of the wind for to Batten some of the handsomest noses of which my horse was so celebrated, he wagged along party. I am well assured that I was consider- with very praiseworthy rapidity-"How d'ye do, very helpiess sort of a person; for, in truth, Mr. D." cried all at once-Mr. D. wiped his red more occupied in getting out of the way face and powdered head, and panted sorelyla contributing my exertions for the general Servant, Ladies-pooff-oh dear! pooff-how I suspect, likewise, that my skill in the hot it is-only just got your note-pooff-came sariat was but lightly esteemed; for when off at a moment's warning-pooff-ran like a lampded at taking a shower-bath with us, the pro-lighter-Dear me, dear me--brought my share of was absolutely considered as a joke. the pic-nic though-round of beef-fat as I am→→