()()0 Notes of Ilia Monlh on [Dec. 



Those who are cautious are skinny and fretful. 

 Hunger, alas ! nought but ill-humour brings — 



I'd be an alderman, rich with a net full. 



Rolling in Guildhall, whilst old Bow bells rhig. 



What though you tell me that prompt apoplexy 



Grins o'er the glories of Lord Mayor's Day, 

 'Tis better, my boy, than blue devils to vex ye. 



Or ling' ring consumption to gnaw y<\u away. 

 Some in their folly take black-draught and blue-pill. 



And ask Abernetuy their fate to delay; 

 I'd be an Alderman, Waithman's apt pupil. 



Failing when dinner things are clearing away. 



Old Sheridan, who knew the world even better than the world 

 knew him — a bold word — declares in the " Critic^" that the PufF pros- 

 pective is one of the most ingenious of all the classes of puffing. Sir 

 Edward Codrington and old red-nosed Brinsley are very different per- 

 sonages, in point of brain ; yet it is curious, how circumstances have 

 driven the contrivance into the one, that ingenuity taught the other. 



The following paragraph appears in the Plt/inotdk Journal: — " Re- 

 port from a high quarter in this neighbourhood says, that the Emperor 

 of Russia has been graciously pleased to offer the command-in-Chief of 

 all the Russian Navy to our gallant countryman. Vice admiral Sir 

 Edward Codrington." 



We think, that Admir.J Codrington could make out a better case 

 than any man living to the gratitude of Nicholas, if Kings or Czars had 

 any gratitude. His battle of Navarino certainly saved the autocrat an 

 infinity of trouble. We cordially wish to see Sir Edward exerting his 

 diplomatic and naval propensities in any other service than our own. 



We never doubted that if the papists once got leave to walk into par- 

 liament, they would walk in abundantly. The duke and his men denipd 

 this stoutly. The whole rabble of retainers, including those who wished 

 to be retained, as well as those who were retained — the Grants, Huskis- 

 sons, Palmerstons, Broughams, et hoc genus omne, " swore in imison 

 with the potential voice" of the dictator. But Protestant England 

 declared with one voice, that popery was no more dead in its ambition 

 than in its idolatry ; and predicted, that the earliest opportunity of 

 crowding Parliament with papists, would be seized on by that evil and 

 unconstitutional faction; and what is the fact? The whole of England, 

 in every corner where a papist worth a dozen acres can raise his head, 

 will be thrown into a tumult of popular opposition, excited and em- 

 bittered by the united virulence of partizanship and superstition. 



" The Hon. Edward Petre, a Roman Catholic of the highest rank, 

 who lately qualified as a magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, 

 and has just married one of the daughters of Lord Stafford of Jerning- 

 ham, intends to offer hm\?.e\i for the representation of Pontefract, in the 

 event of a dissolution of Parliament, or a vacancy arising from any other 

 cause. 



" It is expected that Townley Townley, of Townley, Esq., the head 

 of one of the most ancient Roman Catholic families in England, will fill 

 the office of High Sheriff of Lancashire for the ensuing year ; and it is 

 fully understood that Mr. Townley will offer himself for the representa- 



