alty, who get their bread by the sweat of their brow, are scarcely able to endure the fatigue of walking, or rather lounging; cannot dine after the manner of les bourgeois, pronounce the wine that is not to be traced to the ample cellars of Carbonel or Challier, most intolerable, and vile compound; must be regular in their visits to Tattersall's, and enjoy no self satisfaction or gratification, but consider that they have lost a day, if they omit lounging at places of amusement, where all the world go. In short, in the course of the revolving year they have shewed themselves in particular parties; scen particular races; conversed with particular people; danced with particular women; played particular games of billiards; made particular matches at crickets; been at particular whist parties, plays and operas; encored particular actors and actresses; and eat of particular dishes; besides having discharged their duties as members of parliament at a few particular debates. CHAPTER IV. O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! SHAKSPERE-Romeo and Juliet. A MASQUERADE.-A LOVE ELEGY 1 TO A COOK-MAID, AND SERIOUS REFLECTIONS DRAWN FROM PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. -A SINGULAR CHARACTER.-A GREAT PERSONAGE. DUKE OF M-CH R. DUKE OF NORTH-ND.-A BALLAD SIN- EMMA had habited herself in the character of a nun; her auburn and long tresses of hair were artfully concealed under a neat cap, her garment sat close around her lovely form, while a string of beads hung from her neck of purest alabaster, and fhading the fine cambric, formed an elegant contrast, and On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Lovely Enma, in whatever dress art supplied, thou wert sure of pleasing. Immortal shalt thou be, if my humble panegyric can make thee so. At the settled hour of appointment the parties drove to Berkeley Square, where they were politely received by the hostess. Mrs. Maitland was in a plain domino, conceiving, as she wisely observed, a strict neutrality in the present times was most expedient and salutary, and in this plan she but followed the policy of the imperial court of Vienna. The rooms were crowded, and the number of visitants exceeded five hundred. There were to be met Dianas without chastity; Falstaffs resembling Shakspere's humorous knight in nothin g save thebulk of their persons; sailors scented with essences, city swains, right honorable milkmaids covered with rouge, ballad singers. opulent in acres of dirty land, noble Jewbrokers, and dukes metamorphosed into chimney-sweepers and watermen. Among the characters was a Telemachus, who had taken lessons in dancing from Did**ot, and whereas the wise son of Ulysses was distinguished by his solid wisdom and admirable judgment, the excellent qualitics of his representative seemed solely to lie in his heels. His Mentor was an Israclitish stockbroker, to whom it was reported he was greatly in debt. Emma, who made houses speak, and bears most amorously growl, did not escape sundry impertinent addresses from this motley groupe, who came to see and be seen. A Quaker accosted her with distorted grimace, and protested with more than simple asseveration, "that he felt inwardly moved with strange qualms, that the spirit had wrested with the flesh to lit tle purpose, and that he felt a very urgent inclination, yea a strong impulse of the inward man to be affianced to the lovely person of his goodly sister; yea he longed to make her one of the faithful, and to put her in the right way." "I wonder," rejoined our heroine, "that thou venturest into the tabernacles of the ungodly; verily thou art entrapped by Beelzebub, and the machinations of the evil one have vanquished thy devout af fections, and altered thy demeanor. Thou art content no longer to confine thy language to the discourse of the faithful, but must swear, forsooth! Oh fie on it! I abhor such sinful ways, and reprobate thy manners, friend, as having some regard for thy soul. I therefore do advise thee in future to let thy light shine clearly, and to shew that delicacy and modesty peculiarly grace thy religious profession, friend." The Quaker departed, abashed and confounded, but no sooner was honest Ami |