1822i}. 
When shuts serene: this Shrove-tide: day sul 
hither,repair, and; welcom’d,'stay'i9 ©! 
te hear in vale} wheré herinit: dwells. » ik 
»melody,of Petherton, bellss yw 91) inh: 
Hermit’s-hut, Seeth diathertew. | boseildua 
geen NICK’s PRC PROMENADE, 
(The te celebrated but unfortunate Pro- 
nd Porson’ being once solicited in, 
ate i give some jocular ‘proof of 
eae. ies, complied by producing the 
fon owing ' Tines,] 
Fi i ne brimstone hed, areas day, 
king the Deyil i is gone, 
Be his smug little farm of ‘the earth, 
“And see how his stock ‘goes on. : 
And over the hill and 6ver the dale ~ 
_ “He walked, and over ‘the plain; 
And backwards and’ forwards he. ewitel’d 
4 ohis long tail; 
As ai gentleniaii) switches his cane. 
And pray how was the’ Devil drest, 
Oh" he wasin his Sunday best. 
artic was ired and his breeches were 
«blue 
Withis ohaie phind rebave his fail came 
. through. 
He saw a lawyer killing a viper, 
On a dunghill beside. his own stable, 
And the Devil smil’d, for it put hinrinmind 
Of Cain and his brother Abel. | 
An apothecary, on a white horse, 
ode by, on. his avocations: 
& hfe Re devyil,) there is my old 
Peat hi in the Revelations.” 
He ena A, cottage with a double coach- 
op alias gentility ! ! 
And hg pe was pleas’d, for his darling 
Is tlie p ae that: apes humility. 
He stepp ra into a rich bookseller’s shop, 
Says he, ‘“ We i both of one college, 
Forl myself sat, like a cormorant, once, 
pornatich on the tree of knowledge. i? 
eens No; EX: 
etl fi 
ys) _Hesawa tunis 
§25 
Av'he pass'd ‘thio’ Coldbath-fields he saw” 
(A’solitarysééllto cis! 
Anil the Deval was charm'd, for it igave im 
is Dai hints: a od'h 19 
“Fori impreying the, prisons of. hella» 
,in-a trice iseqob aso! 
esome. jade; 
quoth, he,) do, the fingers 
stake 
Fetter a.tro 
“Ah! nimble, ae 
i ~move 
Whenever they: dre.uis’d to ‘théir trade,” 
He ‘saw ‘the same lait untetter the 
same; |” 
But with little expabitsoaiil Bil 
And the Devil thought of the long’ debater 
Ow the slave-trade abolition, ; 
Dowm the river did, glide, with wind a 
with, tide, , 
A pig with vast celerity! 
And the Devil grinu’d, for he saw all the 
while 
How it cut its own throat, and he. thought, 
: with a smile, 
Of England’s commercial prosperity. 
He saw a certain minister 
¢A minister to his mind,) © 
Go up into.a certain house, 
With'a majority: behind; 
The Devil quoted Genesis, _ 
Like a very learned clerk, 
How ‘“‘ Noah and his creeping things 
Went up into the ark.” 
General Gascoigne’s* burning face 
He saw with consternation, —~ 
And back to hell his way did: take ; 
For the Devil thought, by a slight mistake, 
’Twas the general conilagration. 
—_— : 
ON ONE WHO, DIED. THE DAY AFTER HIs 
WIFE. 
Sur first departed; he for.one day try’d 
To live without lier ; lik’d it not; and ‘yd. 
* This gentleman had been very face- 
tious whilst soliciting some proof af tire 
Professor’s ectioal talents. 3 
STEPHEN SIANA. | 
No. IX. ai 10d 
ah 
ia tyveod 
The late ALEXANDER STEPHENS, Esq. of Park House, Chelsea, devoted an active wi 
well-spent life.in the collection of Anecdotes of his contemporaries, and, generally entered i in @ 
book the collections of the passing day ;—these collections we have purchased, und propose to 
present 4 selection from them to our readers.)\ As Editor of the: Annual Obituary, and many © 
other biographical works, the Author may probably have incorporated many vf. these. scraps ; 
but the greater part are unpublished, and :all-stand alone as enlanet cacnoste wh men and 
manners, wort hy of ayplace 1 </ @ oes miscellany, 
mohishiott. ix 
(CHARLES \CALLAS WESTERN: 
HIS gentlemati is descended from 
a family of Massachusetts gover- | 
nors, and ‘the’ following vaneedote' is 
recorded of his infaney.’ His father 
and mother were taking’ a jourhoy in a 
pheton, himself, an infant; being: in 
Ais mother’s lap ; they stopped to 
1 
—— 
_ bait the horses at the ‘Aout ue an vat: 
when the hostler imprudently:took. off 
the bridles, and the-horses, feeling their 
heads at liberty; set off ‘full gallop. 
_ The danger to; all-was imminent ; but 
Mrs. ‘W.) with a happy presence of 
mind, threw the child into a thick 
hedge which they passed close, by 
which 
