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employ Iiim par preference. We think him a very clever fellow. But 

 that is not the point. We now know him to be a knight, and we honour 

 the sword blade that honoured the spatula. 



Then we have Sir Henry Halford. Is there a woman of fashion 

 within fifty miles of Grosvenor-square, who would not rather die under 

 his hands than live under anybody's else.? Our old acquaintance 

 Phipps, the oculist — what the deuce was he, till the steel transformation 

 had made his renown ? The hand of majesty metempsychosizedthe jEscu- 

 lapius of eyes into the observed of all observers, at a moment's warning. 

 He knelt down plain Phipps, and he rose Sir Watlien Waller, equal to 

 superintend the ocular economy of the Great IVIogul. 



Physicians eminently love the royal touch, which, instead of curing 

 them of the disease, for which its pious contact was piously invented, now 

 cures them of the much more formidable ill — a vacant purse, and lifts 

 them out of the beaten ways of men into chariots, houses, and services 

 of plate ; Maithceo Tierneif, Equite Aurato, teste. 



But the " more (exquisite joke tlian the other," is the ingenuity of 

 ambition not yet touched by the refining hand of royalty. One of the 

 French papers mentions that Kean has been lately leaving his card 

 about Paris, as " M. Edmond Kean, premier actcur de Londres !" Poor 

 Alderman Wood, and his card of Feu Lord Mayor de Lo?idres, isfresli 

 in the memory of the Parisians, though the idea had not the merit of 

 originality, that heroic and very martial personage. Sir Claudius Stephen 

 Hunter, having set liim the example. One of our artists fig-ured away 

 on the whole road from Calais to Coblentz a few years ago, as M. H., 

 Grand Peintre du grand Jiigement de Midas. 



Our professors of other arts are not behind hand in the assertion of 

 their titular glories. We see the title of " Bug-destroyer to the Prin- 

 cess Augusta" contended for with a fierce consciousness of the value of 

 the royal distinction. " Purveyor of asses milk to Sir Watkin William 

 Wynn, and Charles Wynn, Esq.," meets the public gaze in all the bril- 

 liancy of gilding. Old Sheridan on observing it, remarked that it 

 announced a sinecure ; the parties being already provided. " Old- 

 cloathes-man to his IMajesty and the Royal Dukes," figures on the doOT 

 of a llabbi in JMonniouth-street ; and Sir Masseh JManasseh is already 

 preparing a handsome show-board for his trade, with a scene of the 

 true borough election — one candidate before a counter, and one elector 

 behind it. 



The French grasp at titles with shark-like avidity. Whatever office 

 the husband holds, the wife has her share of the honours ; and M. Le 

 Procurczcr always confers on his spouse the happy title of Madame la 

 Procuresse. Lately in Berlin nothing but the intervention of a corporal's 

 guard prevented an ingenious mechanic from putting up over his 

 workshop, " Wooden-leg-maker to his IMajestj^ the Pi'inces, and Prin- 

 cesses." And an Austrian chevalier d'industrie, who last year figured 

 at Spa, and was said to exceed any man in Europe in ringlets and rouge, 

 a beau altogether so lovely, that he would have made a president of the 

 Board of Controul, took leave with his P. P. C. inscribed, Le Comle 

 Raffzumouski/, premier charlatan du monde. 



The Irish are dangerous in love and in war ; and fully acknowledging 

 the wisdom of the hussar regiment, the ever-famous Tenth, that inflicted 

 a penalty of a thousjuid pounds on any officer who danced twice with 



