4 PROPHETIC ALMANACK. 



AUG. 26. Twilight ends, 2, 12. Dissolution of Parliament sub- 

 scriptions opened for carrying on the Government Messrs.Wak- 

 ley and Wakefield appointed Lords of the Treasury. 



SEPTEMBER. 



Behold ! the Cockney, with resistless will, 

 Leaps from his desk, and throws aside his quill ; 

 With dangerous gun goes forth, and toilsome pain, 

 And " sends his circulars" to birds in vain. 



SEPT. 1. Shooting season commences. A petition will be pre- 

 sented by Mr. Vigors, from the growing constituencies of the 

 Zoological boroughs, praying to be represented in the new Par- 

 liament. 



7. Mr. Henry Hunt will be discovered to be the Mr. Urban 

 of the " Gentleman's Magazine." 



18. IHmfccx 2ecit. Sir Charles Wetherell will do penance in 

 Barking Church, in " sackcloth and ashes." 



29. Jtd)aelmas Bag. Some members, both of church and 

 state, will be roasted and cut up by mistake. Mr. Sadler and 

 Bishop Philpotts escape by a miracle. 



OCTOBER. 



As without hops our beer is made, and malt, 



Old birds are caught with chaff, and young with salt ; 



As men on tea get drunk, on wine keep sober, 



So shall " the debt" be paid in this October. 



OCT. 10. The Bishops will prepare a Bill to amend the Calendar, by 

 shortening the year one-tenth the clergy claiming that portion 

 for tithe. A general gloom will pervade these Right Reverends, 

 to find their ft sees" shrunk into rivers. 



21. The emigrant Poles will be in great demand for the Kent- 

 ish hop-growers Mr. Wellesley Pole having entered into a 

 permanent engagement with the frozen-out gardeners. 



NOVEMBER 



November ! fairest month of all the year, 



To sentiment and suicides most dear 



Swift through my brain thy varied pleasure jumps ; 



Werter, llousseau, arsenic and stomach-pumps. 



Nov. 1. &11 jEatntS. All London will be converted, in consequence 

 of Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Fowell Buxton preaching from 

 the top of the Monument. 



2. Michaelmas Term begins. The Devil will supersede Lord 

 Brougham in Chancery. 



5. Gunpofoticr ^lot. Sir Charles Wetherall will be elected 

 perpetual representative of the Guys of Great Britain. 



9. Lord Mayor s Day. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen being 

 members of the Temperance Society, the libations at the feast 

 will be limited to toast and water. 



25. Michaelmas Term ends. Seventeen lawyers hanged for 

 cheating the Chancellor. 



