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matic of the treatment within ; and these not 

 corresponding, should be punished with the 

 loss of licence, upon respectable informatioUc 

 As it is, influenced by the power of external 

 purity, we enter the gates of '' an Angel/' 

 and in a few minutes repentantly perceive 

 we have been induced to encounter a Devil. 

 Where we are taught to expect meekness 

 from '^ THE Lamb^" we freq.uently find the 

 ferocity of a Lion. At the '' head of a 

 King,'' vv^e meet accommodations for a 

 CoBLER. At a'' Castle," themannersof a 

 Cottage. Atthe '-Rose," wearesurrounded 

 with Thorns ; and at the '' White Raven*' 

 we discover a Rook. 



Returning, however, from a slight digres- 

 sion to the subject in agitation,! must confess,^ 

 ostlers are a very useful body of men in- 

 dividually considered ; but long experience 

 and attentive observation have rendered it an 

 invariable rule with me, to adopt ^he good 

 old maxim of " never trusting th^m farther 

 than I can see them ;" and this upon the re- 

 collection of ?i false manger having been dis- 

 covered at a principal inn in the town of my 

 nativity, in the days of juvenility ; and the 



