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a broad ttep Udder. Qn one ! de was a table, 

 with medical chest, and surgical apparatus, dis- 

 played on a table with drawers. In the centre of 

 the stage was an arm chair, in which the patient 

 was seated ; and before the doctor commenced hi 

 operations, he advanced, taking off his gold laced 

 cocked hat, and bowing right and left, began ad- 

 dressing the populace which crowded before his 

 booth. The following dialogue, ad literatum, 

 will afford the reader a characteristic specimen of 

 one of the customs of the last age. It -should be 

 observed that the doctor was a humourist. An 

 aged woman was helped up the ladder, and seated 

 in the chair ; she had been deaf, nearly blind, and 

 lame to boot ; indeed she might be said to have 

 been visited with Mrs. Thrale's three warnings, 

 and death would have walked in at her door, only 

 that Dr. Bossy blocked up the passage. The doc- 

 tor asked questions with an audible voice, and 

 the patient responded he usually repeating the 

 response in his Anglo-German dialect. 



Doctor. Dis poora voman vot is how old 

 vosh you ? 



Old JVom. I be almost eighty, Sir; seventy- 

 nine last Lady-day, old style. 



Doctor. Oh I tat is an incurable disease. 

 Old Worn. dear! dear! say not so in- 

 curable! Why you have restored my sight I 

 can hear again and I can walk without my 

 crutches. 



Doctor (smiling), No, no, good vomans old 

 age is vot is incurable ; but by the blessing of 

 Gote, I vill cure you of rot is elshe. DJs pooia 

 voman vos lame, and deaf, and almost blind. How 

 many hosipetals have you be.enin? 



Old Worn. Three, Sir ; St Thomas's, St. Bar- 

 tholomew's, and St. George's. 



Doctor. Vot, and you found no reliefs ? Vot 

 none not at alls ? 

 Old Worn. No, none at all, Sir. 

 Doctor. And how many medical professioners 

 Lave attended you ? 



Old from. Some twenty or thirty, Sir. 

 Doctor. O mine Gote! Three sick hosipetals, 

 and dirty (thirty) doctors I I should vender vot if 

 you have not enough to kill you twenty time. 

 Dis poora vomans has become mine patient. Dr 

 Bossy gain all patients bronounced ingurables ; 

 pote, mid de blessing of Brovidence, I shall make 

 short work of it, and set you upon your legs again. 

 Coode peoples, dis poora vomans vas teaf as a 

 toor nails (holding up his watch to her ear, and 

 striking the repeater). Gan you hear dat pell ? 

 Old Worn. Yes, Sir. 



Doct'.r.O den be tankful to Gote. Gan you 

 alk round dis chair? (offering his arm). 

 Old Worn. -Yes, Sir. 



Doctor. Sit you down, again, good vomans. 

 <Inn you cee? 



Old Ffom. Pretty so BO, doctor. 

 Doctor. Vot gan you see, good vomans? 

 Old fym. I can see the baker there (pointing 

 to a mutton pyeman, with the pye-board on his 

 head. All eyes were turned towards him). 



Doctor. And vat else gan you see, good vo- 

 mans? 



Old Worn. The poll-parrot, thre (pointing to 

 Richardson's hotel). 



"Lying old bitch,' 1 screamed Richardson's poll 

 parrot. All the crowd shouted with laughter. 

 X>r, Bossy waited until the laugh had subsided, 



and looking across t!io way, significantly shook 

 his head at the parrot, and gravely exclaimed, 

 laying his hand on his bosom " 'Tis no lie, you 

 silly pird, 'tis all true as is de Gosbel." 



Travels in Buenos Ayres and the adja- 

 cent Provinces, <e., by T. A. Beaumont, 

 Esq. ; 1828 The details of this volume- 

 marked as they are with the characters of 

 truth will go far, we should think, to put an 

 effectual stop to all further attempts at money- 

 making by emigration-schemes at least 

 in countries not under our own control. 

 No auspices could have appeared more fa- 

 vourable than those under which the Asso- 

 ciation for Colonizing the Provinces of Buenos 

 Ayres commenced. Mr. Barber Beaumont, 

 the father of the author of the volume be- 

 fore us, and the originator, we suppose, of 

 the association itself, was especially invited 

 to collect colonists, and superintend the 

 emigration ; advantages of an extraordinary 

 kind were held out, and every temptation 

 employed to bring him there. In March 

 1826, accordingly, his son embarked with 

 two hundred emigrants men of the la- 

 bouring classes, with their wives and chil- 

 dren to settle them on the lands pur- 

 chased by the Rio de la Plata Agricultural 

 Association, in the province of Entre Rios. 

 Before their actual embarkation, intelli- 

 gence had been received of the blockading 

 of the River by a Brazilian squadron, but 

 assurances were at the same time conveyed 

 to the parties, that no impediment would 

 be thrown in their way that before their 

 arrival the blockade itself would be broken 

 up, and if not, that an understanding 

 existed, and even licenses were actually ob- 

 tained the Buenos Ayreans stuck at noth- 

 ing for the English emigrants to pass un- 

 impeded. The facts, however, proved very 

 different ; for, on their arrival at Monte 

 Video, permission to pass up the river was 

 peremptorily refused and no body knew 

 any thing about these licenses. 



But though Buenos Ayres was not to be 

 got at, the Brazilians were ready to snap at 

 the colonists ; and to alleviate Mr. Beau- 

 mont's disappointment, they assured him 

 that at Rio Janeiro there was a ready mar- 

 ket for English industry that the Emperor 

 himself was most anxious to encourage Eng- 

 lish settlers in his dominions, and had ac- 

 tually issued a decree offering free grants of 

 land, and even assistance till the cultivators 

 got returns from their labour. Not know- 

 ing what better to do, Mr. Beaumont pro- 

 posed the alternative to some of the men, 

 who readily acceded ; but before the neces- 

 sary arrangements were finally completed, 

 their comrades were seized with a panic- 

 they had been alarmed by reports that they 

 were to be sold to the Brazilians, and abso- 

 lutely refused to embark in the ship that 

 had been prepared for them, or to quit that 

 in which they had come from England ; 

 and the captain of that ship would not take 

 it to Rio, being determined to return forth- 



