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loan and the deputies from the Greek government, proved to be only 

 patriots, comptrollers, and lovers of liberty, in partibus infidelium ? It 

 would be as difficult to point out the particular spot whence they derive 

 their titular rank, as to find the diocese of the bishop of Jericho ; but, 

 judging of their fondness for talking, we should place it somewhere near 

 the ancient BABEL, in a district which the moderns have designated by 

 the name of Humbug. Hence too, the honesty of lawyers the piety of 

 troopers the modesty of peers the public spirit of placemen the in- 

 tegrity of jockies the disinterestedness of jobbers the liberality of 

 methodists the humanity of slave-drivers the chastity of players - 

 the charity of churchmen and the veracity of quacks. All these cele- 

 brated qualities, having only " a name," like the poet's " airy nothings," 

 but not having yet found " a local habitation," may very properly be 

 called, like the late 'promotions of the Roman Consistory, virtues in, 

 partibus. 



LTFE IN THE WEST: 

 BY A FLAT, ENLIGHTENED.* 



" Without sharps, as well as flats, we should have no music!" ANON. 



THIS is a useful book because it shews people the ruts that He in a 

 particular road. But then it is enough to shew them that there are the 

 ruts in the road : it is their own affair afterwards, if they choose to go it. 

 Persecution like popularity always comes in a pack. Tie a bottle to 

 any dog's tail no matter what and every cur that passes joins the 

 cry. The gaming-house keepers that is to say, the " sharps" generally 

 have been a very long time run down. Let us see if we could not 

 manage to undertake their defence a little. 



The sum of the whole story told, by the people who give hard names 

 to No. 10, St. James's-street, or No. 9, in Bennett- street, is that a 

 great many people in the world who have got money are inoculated with 

 a violent desire of losing it. Now if there is such a thing as candour 

 extant, we appeal to it what mischief can there be in this ? The man 

 who ruins himself be he who he may whatever his private claims may 

 be, is a public benefactor. Is it not written, that " if any ask the vir- 

 tuous man for his cloak, he shall give him his coat likewise ?" And 

 here is a Christian soul willing to add even his shirt ; and we make an 

 outcry, and say we won't let him ! 



He who helps the poor in this world here is chapter and verse again ! 



lays up a store in heaven. Where shall we find a set of people more 



in want of help, than in the lobbies, and creeping about the tables as it 

 were to pick up the crumbs that fall from them of gaming-houses ? 



The appetites of the rogues ! our author here says But let Mr. 



Abernethy speak ! when was he called to a Greek that was suffering from 

 repletion ? The fit of their coats people fancy that it is ' < stays ;" 

 but it is the dinner that stays that makes the set of the " waist :" and, 

 or the other parts of the garment by the time friends have been a 



* Life in the West ; or, the Curtain drawn : a Novel. Chappie, London. 2 vols. 12mo. 



