Of Dr. B-tt-y.

WE remember this famous Phyfician, mending his black filk ftockings, because he could not afford to buy a new pair, and for what good he has done fince the times have mended with him (except fending his Wife to Bath for cure of a dropfy, when she was with child) we care not if he had been mending ftockings ftill.

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Of Dr. H-b-n.

E believe Dr. H-n to be one of the moft able Phyficians of the age; and we can from our own knowledge say, that he pronounced certainly the diforder, a Friend of ours laboured under, in a few minutes, which a Phyfician of as great a name, had not found out in a week's attendance, and it is to Dr. H-n our friend is indebted for the health he now enjoys, the cafe was fingular.

OF

Of the Hon. Mrs. C— -h.

THIS he-fhe thing (we know not what else to call it) is never feen without a beautiful

young girl of fmall fortune in her fuite! whom fhe loads with prefents, k-ffes; and other favours! the Mother of one of these female favourites, wrefted her daughter, fome time. fince, from the careffes of this THING; as from the hands of a ravifher! we would recommend L-y Te to its future Notice, as birds of a feather, &c.

Of the E-1 of C-ft-h-n.

H IS L-p took his feat on purpose to vote with the Mino-y, and being fond of a country life; would not vifit London again, ■pon any OTHER confideration whatever, he is much esteemed by the few, with whom he is intimately acquainted.

Of

Of a late Lord Mayor of
London;

Whose name we conceal, for the honour of that high ftation.

H IS Lordship being seated at the Old Baily in all the form and state of Chief Judge; but forgetting where he was, and the character he ought to sustain, called out to one of the attendants, in waiting, whom he perfonally knew, and in a familiar tone of voice, Loades! Loades !-my Lord-" put that candle out; "it makes fuch a dam-d ftink in court, "there's no bearing on't! and soon after, perceiving a man with his hat on, he called again upon Loades to turn that feller out a court who had his hat on, but upon the Man, refufing to comply, he was called by my Lord to the Bar! Sirra, faid his Lordship, what is the reafon you wear your hat on in court, and would not go out when I ordered you "why my Lord no more I won't, replied the "fellow for this here chap has got my backer " box" my Lord made the man return it; when

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the

ftink being out, the man's hat in his hand, and the box in his pocket, the court proceeded to other bufinefs, being on this fubject we cannot help tranfcribing part of a humourous letter published in the St. James's Chronicle addreffed to Marsh Dickenfon, on Saturday the 22d of May, 1762.

To the printer of the St. James's Chronicle.
SIR,

If the following ftory will produce a laugh
to your readers, though it be at my ex-
pence, it is at your service.

"WHEN his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland went last to Germany, my duty as well as inclination, required my being near Harwich, from which Town I returned to London in his Highnefs's chariot, attended by fuch of the fervants as did not embark. An equipage thus characterised, and in that unfafhionable time, when the fignal fervices his R. H. had done this Country were recent, and the subjects yet grateful, would have

have commanded respect from the multitude even empty, and caused much attention to be fhewn to me at the Inns where we stopped; and at the Towns I paffed through. This attention made me foon over rate my own importanance and lay more ftrefs than I ought (like many of my neighbours) on the ingenuity of a Coach-maker, or the address of a Taylor; for certainly no real merit belonged to me, for being by accident placed in the Duke's chariot, and through neceffity, without one of my own. I however received the civilities on the road

in appearance as my due, but not without being conscious to whom they really belonged. As my perfon is far from being thin, I had now and then, the inexpreffible pleasure of feeing it difputed, whether it was me, or fome body else; and thus in pride and profperity I travelled, till I came within twelve miles of London; when a fmall circumstance hap"pen'd to mortify me a little, but prepared me. for a greater. Having here perceived two men in the habits of Seamen, who betrayed (by their endeavouring to get to windward of me) fome fear of being examined, I pointed them

out