90 Noiet of the Month on \JvLY, 



and Good Friday, which completes his twelve-months' adventure ; and 

 dui-ing that time he has to pass from Wales, through the principal towns 

 in Devon and Cornwall, returning up the north coast, through the 

 several counties of Wales, and after taking London in his route, termi- 

 nate his tour at Berwick-upon-Tweed. He has already devoted some 

 considerable sums of money thus gained to charitable purposes, and to 

 such the remainder is to be devoted at the close of liis adventure. His 

 total receipt in Ireland amounted to 128Z. 14*. 2|rf., of which sum he 

 obtained 45/. 6s. 6d. in Dublin ; 15/. 10*. in Cork ; 10/. 17*. Sd. in 

 Limerick ; and his expenditure in Ireland amounted to only 11/. 3*. 8d. 

 In Scotland he obtained only 78/. 11*. ; but on his an-ival at Edinburgh, 

 Avhich terminated his Scotch tour, several noblemen and gentlemen, 

 jealous for the honour of Scotland, and anxious not to be outdone by 

 the Emerald Isle, agreed to make up the deficiency. A meeting of 

 gentlemen at the Albion Club Room, gave hira 25/. 10*. ; a Scotch duke, 

 10/. 10*. ; a Scotch earl, 21. 2s.; a Scotch nobleman, 10/.; a Scotch 

 colonel, 5/. ; and a private party, 10/. 10*. ; total for Scotland, 142/. 9*. 

 His expenditure in Scotland was 61. 17*- 7ld. ; and up to his entrance 

 into WeUs, his receipt in England has only been 31/. 9*. 6d., out of 

 which his expenditure amounts to 20/. 0*. 5d. He says that the public 

 papers have stated, an untruth of his having had sovereigns and half- 

 sovereigns given him at Cheltenham — the whole he received there was 

 only 1/. 17*. 6d. He obtained in Worcester, (his best English town) 

 3/. 10*. 7I</- ; Kidderminster, 21. 'Js. 6d. ; Gloucester, 1/. 17*- 6id. ; and 

 in Bath, only 1/. 1*. T^d. Some of his letters and papers reach him, 

 directed to ' Captain Gordon,' and he also admits, that he has a person 

 following to watch his movements, which rendered his stay in Wells 

 longer than one day impossible. He appears to be very abstemious in 

 drinking, otherwise, he says, people in the different towns through which 

 he passes ' would make him as drunk as a piper.' The bet is stated 

 to be between him and a French count, for 5,000/., as to which realizes 

 the most money, the latter being at present travelling tln-ough France 

 in the disffuise of a fiddler, subsisting on what he obtains from the 



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public, in like manner as this Scotch minstrel. 



The Scotchman's ledger will be quoted hereafter as a statistical docu- 

 ment of the circulating medium of the provinces. The fashionable 

 watering-places certainly make but a bare figure in the charitable list ; 

 and Cheltenham, with its 1/. 17*v has not much to boast, even over 

 Bath, with its 1/. 1*. Such are the consequences of drinking water. If 

 as many drops of solid Port, no matter where manufactured, were 

 swallowed by the Bathites and Cheltenhamites, as they swallow hogs- 

 heads of salts and water, their pounds would have swelled to hundreds, 

 and history would hav^e made honourable mention of the sister citadels 

 of jEsculapius. But water at once distends the stomach and hardens the 

 heart. The liver may pine, nay, to liquefaction, and salts may blanch a 

 nabob to some feeble resemblance of a human being, but we are con- 

 vinced that they narrow the sensibilites to a frightful degree of corruga- 

 tion ; and, therefore, may such regimen be far from us, and from those 

 we love. 



If these opinions should displease any of their aldermen, or masters of 

 the ceremonies, we are ready to meet them in mortal combat. In fact, 

 we are in bodily fear of no individuals, in either town, but the doctors. 



