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confined, hanging down from him. as low as the rails of the area 
in. the street; and a sort of grocer’s boy, seeing this advantage, 
Sneaked cautiously along, under the windows, thinking to lay hold of it, 
‘Bug just as he had drawn quite close, and was stretching out his hand, 
as_ he thought, to make the: capture, the monkey perceived his design, 
and drew the chain up rapidly, with a prodigious chattering; at which 
there was another immense shout,—for the monkey,—from the crowd ; 
and he skipped on, holding up the chain, as well as 1 could, and looking 
back at the groce:’s boy. Here the brute turned round the corner, and I 
thought I certainly had lost him; but very soon I heard. his followers in 
high glée again; and, looking out, saw him on a parapet—just going in 
at a garret window—out of which he presently emerged, with a bunch of 
‘© store” candles, (there seemed to be six or eight of them,) tied alto- 
gether. These he hooked his finger into the loops of one by one; 
and then putting them up to one side of his mouth, drew the cotton 
out-—leaving the tallow behind—at the other. And while thus em- 
ployed—still looking down and chattering at the crowd—his career was 
coneluded by a sudden seizure on the part of the occupant of the 
garret; whose finger, however—with a constancy worthy of a better 
fate,—he immediately bit—I should judge by the roar that followed 
from the sufferer, to the bone. Apropos to this—I perceive that al} 
monkies, and particularly the two “ swinging monkies” that dance the 
tight rope about the streets, look with great curiosity at the mobs of 
children that run after them. I have no doubt that they think that 
they (the children) are monkies of an undescribed species—the parti- 
cular breed of this country. 
_ A writer, I think in the Morning Post, complaining last week, that the 
stage-coaches, with their accompaniments, the pick-pockets and orange- 
boys, produce great crowding and inconvenience about the White Horse 
Cellar, in Piccadilly, is answered by another gentleman who proposes to 
remedy the nuisance, by sending all the offenders to the other stde of the 
sway. I don’t know precisely how material the evil complained of may be! 
but this device for curing it is obviously borrowed from. the Irish stra- 
tagem—the turning a man’s shirt after a week’s wear, because it would 
seem advisable toyput on a clean one. 
The Post, altogether, is prolific this month. A boot-maker of the 
Strand advertises in it:—* As the season approaches,”—his ‘ shooting 
shoes,” warranted to “stand water.” A more useful property about 
“such possessions would seem to be that they should “stand” fire. — 
But October the 11th—apropos to the matter of boots—I see that the 
« Boots” of the Three Tuns Inn at Newcastle has robbed the ostler’s 
box of £125, and made off. There is an unnatural character about this 
theft which shocks me: it is a sort of cannibalism, a ‘¢boots”’ eating an 
“Sostler”—as bad as “sharks pecking out sharks’ een,” (which even the 
_ Scotch proverb deprecates); or jews trying to cheat One another. But 
Man, merciless man | as the French, writer observes, is the only animal 
‘entirely without respect of persons! Wild beasts feel a decided hesitation 
: 
about devouring a brother. 
dpi le! Wadia Sy Voit on les loups brigans, comme nous inhumains, 
Mi Pour detrousser les loups courir le grand chemin? 
BO Non ! 
But competition, it is, that makes men even greater rogues than they 
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