Of SW- Dr. R W SIR was as unfortunate in his attack upon Junius, as Mr. Sharp was upon the Customs and Manners of the Italians: Had there been no Junius, S— Wwould have appeared a good, and able writer had there been no Barretti, fharp would have appear'd an entertaining Traveller. Of SJ-n F▬▬d. TWO Country gentlemen in the Reign of Charles the IId. kept each a fool, one fool being loft, the whole village fearched an adjacent Wood for him, fome days, without fuccefs! at length the other fool was sent out alone, for the fame purpose; and as he paffed through the wood, he continually called out " ee-ee I fee you now till he came near enough to hear his chum reply, "ney but you don't."-The fool caught the fool. Of Of Sir W- B—y. WE knew this gentleman when he was a Lt in the N-y, but little did we think then, we fhould ever know him an A-1 and capable (as no doubt he is) of being trufted with a command. TH Of Governor Es. HIS gentleman's fuccefs in life, is a proof that merit does not always pafs unrewarded, we remember to have seen him in the drefs and occupation of a common failor in the Mediterranean, in which capacity he earned his paffage to England! yet to our aftonishment we have feen a letter under this ingenious but Irifh gentleman's name, giving fo dreadful an account of the intense heat in an infant Colony of ours in America; that it would have deterred every reader, never to go there! except he had been bred an Anchor Smith, or born under the torrid zone. Of of G-1 C-o-te. HIS gentleman who has been fo lucky THIS on the other fide of the Globe, set out on this, very unfortunately; he was broke at a Court-Martial in Sd while under the command of the D- of Cd! but foon after gained an Opportunity to convince H. R. H. he merited restoration : his brother a Captain of Invalids meanly refused to lend him thirty pounds when, he left England and as meanly when he returned, follicited his favour! the favour was nobly granted. Of A-e S-g—ton, Esq; MR. Sn; Gor Sn we should have faid, commands a paultry Fort fomewhere in Effex, of which he is Deputy Gr.-yet we have frequently feen (it cofts but two Shillings) a paragraph in the news-papers to this effect. "Yesterday set out from his house (alias a snuff shop up two pair pair of ftairs) Governor Sn, for h Government &c. G-1 H-w-y got him COMPANY to get rid of his Company. Of Col. L-m-t. Sometimes a man is punished for NOT doing his duty; Col. Lt has fuffered for doing it! this gentleman (though born in Ireland) cannot conceive, that a man can be in a particular place in company with five hundred other men, and yet be seen there by nobody-not recollecting, that it was at a particular time, when every man thought it beft, to look to himfelf. Of Of G Nobody. HE Man who fights, and runs away, "TH May live to fight another day. And he, who well maintains his ground, Of L-d B-l-ke. THERE is fomething uncommonly fingular, agreeable; and entertaining in this Nobleman; the very Lady whom he married, and with whom he is no longer connected; announced herfelf, for fome time, to be the happiest woman on earth; we must therefore conclude fhe is now the most wretched. |