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events of the day, they can have the use of a " Mogg " while they 

 indulge in one of Lucy's unrivalled cigars; and noblemen, gentle- 

 men, and officers in the household troops, may be accommodated with 

 loans on their personal security to any amount. We see by Mr. 

 Sponge's last advertisements that he has £116,300 to lend at three- 

 and-a-half per cent ! 



" What a farce," we fancy we hear some enterprising youngster 

 exclaim, — " what a farce, to suppose that such a needy scamp as 

 Mr. Sponge, who has been cheating everybody, has any money to 

 lend, or to pay bets with if he loses ! " Eight, young gentleman, 

 right ; but not a bit greater farce than to suppose that any of the 

 plausible money-lenders, or infallible " tips " with whom you, per- 

 haps, have had connection have any either, in case it's called for. 

 Nay, bad as he is, we'll back old Soapey to be better than any of 

 them, — with which encomium we most heartily bid him Adieu. 



the END. 



