THE PERAMEULATO&, NO. I. 5? 



In the mean time our Perambulator will have his eyes 

 open. The present Guildhall; the old Water house 

 and some other buildings, for which the besom of im- 

 provement is ready prepared, will be carefully consigned 

 to his sketch book, but will not appear in our pages, 

 until Mac Adam, or the town paviour shall have taken 

 possession of their present sites. 



In the article of landscape he has also picked up 

 a drawing of the Laira before the construction of the 

 new road ; of Prince's ro@k and the old Flying Bridge ; 

 of Devil's point before the erection of the new Victual- 

 ling office, and of several other subjects with which he 

 hopes our readers will be pleased. 



But he does not confine himself to matters of the 

 graphic kind. In all that is of general or local interest, 

 old inscriptions, new improvements, or capabilities for 

 improvement ; works of art, and even advances in 

 science, he will be a perfect Paul Pry : yet the very 

 opposite of his prototype in another respect, he will 

 shut his eyes and ears to all matters of family concern 

 or private scandal. 



And with this introduction we shall leave him to the 

 public ; hoping that his sincere and unmingled zeal for 

 the general amusement and advantage, will secure for 

 him general favor. But, with a still more earnest 

 desire that our friends, and in this term we mean to 

 include every friend to the progress of knowledge in our 

 neighbourhood, will favor us with the loan of any sub- 

 jects in their possession, which they may think adapted 

 to this desirable purpose. 



His report for the present number is of a peep, which 

 he has several times indulged, into Mr. Ball's painting 

 room in Bedford Street, for the purpose of observing a 

 picture, there in progress, of the visit of the present 

 King, when Lord Hih Admiral, to the Athenaeum. 

 Being well acquainted with the members of the Insti- 

 tution, he recognised, instantly, the likenesses in more 

 than twenty portraits, supposed to have been present 

 on that occasion. The picture is of an original, and 

 very difficult kind; and the striking preservation f 

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