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Mrs. purpofely fends a difh of tea to a lady, without fugar, of which the complains.

Mr. (Handing the fugar bafin.)-Well, ma'am, if you don't like it, you may lunip it.

[Mifs Lucy plays on the piano forte, but is to fail in her fit attempt.] Mrs. comes of playing at fight. Mr.- Ar-fight! Why what the deuce would come if the was to fhut her eyes?

(As planned.)-That

If any thing like ferious or fenfible converfation fhould be introduced, and there's no knowing what fome dull fellow may not do, put an end to it at once, with a pun. If he talks of war, fuppofe he means the Pun-ic war, and fay that in your battles you are with Livy Puntim magis quam cæfim peto hoftem.' If he ipeaks of the army, look archly at your wife, and fay you expect foon to have a fon in arms, &c. Now fomething about going into Bedford shire and the land of Nid will wind up what is commonly called a very

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Here I have run my pencil through feveral puns on the ladies' retiring. Though he fays it is unneceffary. Swift could not help indulging the natural bent of his genius, which is a ftrong proof of the au thenticity of the MS. An additional evidence appears in a query in a memorandum made on the margin of this MS. for the puns for a farmer. Some one, who has rye fields, is to write to him-pray fend me men to mow rye; and he is to return a fkull. Memento mori-Don't you fee? but query--will mowing rye do for any but our Irijh farmers ?

O'Nick.

pleafant day, full of wit, humour, and repartee. I must not forget to obferve, that, if you can add any practical jokes, which lead to puns, and fall at all short of murder, the treat will be infinitely improved.

Viz. Pinch a piece out of a man's arm, to fay you did not know there was any harm. Break his fhinthat's leg-al. Pull away his chair when he is fitting down-you've good ground for it. Run your he against his-two heads are better than one. Overturn the milk jug on him-then he's in the milky way: So with the urn-then he's in hot water. When he hops about, fay he's in a lame-ntable way. Let the boys knock the candle into fome lady's lap-this you may call a wicked thing, &c. &c. Interfperfe thefe, and other fuch amiable pleasantries as thefe, 'and all the fools, (a commanding majority in every affembly, in the country), will thout for joy, extor your wit, and applaud your ingenui ty.

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* Memorandum. This joke is recommended, by the furgeons, for all seasons, but, in my fyftem, better arranged, it will be proper to diftinguish. In the winter, when the carpet's down, you are glad to bring that affair on the tapis. In the spring, the earth begins to bear every thing. In the fummer, it's fummum jus,' because its fumma injuria,' and the carpet being up, you give him board with a deal of pleature, that's plain: and in the autumn, you allude to the fall. Befides what does he de in a chair-all flesh is grass-hay!

Nobody.

Nobody. And you're fure to meet his head; they have fed him with with Somebody in all places of pub- the foft pap of flattery, they have inlic refort, the opera, play, pic-nic, flated him with the gas of vanity to card-parties, &c.. the fize of an air-balloon, and yet, withal they cannot manufacture a genealogy fo as to please him: his father was Nobody.

Somebody. Yes and you will often meet with Nobody in thofe places, that would wish to país for Somebody.

Nobody. 'Tis true, the Somebody family of late have affected a great deal of confequence, when it is well known, that the Nobody family are the more ancient of the two. The Nobodies, I affure you, fir, are the true pre-adamites. The name is on record long before Adam.

Somebody. So is the family of Blank.

Nobody. A very old race. Somebody. If we may credit the Spectator, they once filled all places of public trust in this kingdom.

Nobody. In truft for others, particularly the family of the Blocks. Somebody. The Blocks one day or other will be the ruin of this nati

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Nobody. For myfelf, I have more diftruft of the Talents.

Somebody. But what does genea logy, in thefe degenerate days? Get your nativity calt in the mint a thoufand guineas in your purfe is worth all the Aps, Macs, and O's in the united kingdom. If there's a ftain in your character, a little goldduft will take it out-the beft fuller's earth in the nation. What does it avail, that your ancestors bled in the front of battle, piled up thunder for the infulting foe, or diffufed the ftream of fcience through a thousand channels! don't you fee the upftart hung round with titles, and the obfcurity of his birth loft in the glare of his fideboard.

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Nobody. And happy would it be for the repofe of mankind, if he had been content to tread in the steps of his father.

Somebody. Happy indeed. Now, my good friend, I wish you well, but am often furprised that you fwallow things without the leaft examination-things that would stick in the wide throat of credulity. For instance, when the editor of a newspa per tells you that his print exclufively contains the earliest and most authentic articles of information, Nobody believes him, When Bonaparte fays, that he'll invade this country, Nobody believes him. When a penfioner or placeman declares that he has nothing fo much at heart as the good of his country, Nobody believes him. When a quack doctor tells

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that his noftrum cures all difeafes, Nobody believes him. When a boarding-fchool mifs, in the bud of beauty, declares that he would not for the world take a flight to GretnaGreen, Nobody believes her. know there are many faults laid to your account: thus when a favourite article of furniture is fpoiled or broken, Nobody did it. Thus alfo when a lady affects indifpofition, the fees Nobody, fpeaks to Nobody, writes to Nobody, dreams of Nobody.

Nobody. But her waiting-woman knows that the fees Somebody, fpeaks to Somebody, writes to Somebody, and dreams of Somebody.When a fine lady fhines forth in all the glory of the Perfian loom, thowered with diamonds, and perfumed with all the fweets of Arabia, if the fpoufe thould have courage enough to afk who paid for all thefe fine things, the aufwer is, Nobody; but when

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the account comes to be fettled at finger fix inches. Shewn in. LonDoctors' Commons, then it is found don, 1733. Of him there is, I believe, an engraved portrait.

that Somebody paid for them, or is to pay for them, with a vengeance too. One thing I remark, that, previous to the nuptial tie, the dear youth is always confidered as Somebody, but while the honey moon is vet in its wane he is looked upon as Nobody.

Daniel Cajanus, the Swedish giant, feven feet eight inches high. Shewn 1742, &c. See Daily Advertifer, Jan. 12.

Mrs. Gordon, the late Effex woman, died at her lodgings in Fleetfireet, A. D. 1737. See the Craftsman, March 19, 1737.

Mr. Henry Blacher, born near Cuckfield, in Suffex, 1724, meafured feven feet five inches. Shewn, 1751. See General Advertiser, Feb. 10. 1751.

A boy of fifteen, born at Hurtfield, Suffex, feven feet high, nameShewn 1745. Daily Adverti

fer, Feb. 23, 1745.

Somebody. Very true. After all I have faid, I must acknowledge, in the words of Goldfaith, that even your failings lean to virtue's fide.' For inftance: if a play fhould be got up, puffed, and ld, it is applauded by Nobody. If a book printed on wire-wove paper, hot-preffed, bound in morocco, elegantly gilt, is found lefs. to be wretched tuff, it is read by Nobody. If a book thould be writ ten in favour of religion and morality, though neglected by all, it is read by Nobody. If a wretch fhould be configned to the gallows for robbing a man of fixpence on the highway, he is pitied by Nobody, he is owned by Nobody, he is comforted by Nobody; whilft on the other hand, if a villain in high life thould rob an unfufpecting virgin of her heart, or triumph over her innocence

Nobody. He is noticed by Somehody, careffed by Somebody, applauded by Somebody, invited to dine by Somebody, and held out by Some. body as the honefleft and worthieft fellow in the universe. Somebody. Too true.

Colors Gigantum.-HOB. ALLOW me, mr. Editor, to fend you a lift of giants from fome flight memoranda in my note book, which I may, perhaps, foliow up with an account of other prodigics, fuch as dwarts, men without arms, &c. &c. And fift for

Maximilian Chriftophe Miller, born at Leipfic, A. D. 1674, near eight feet high; his hand a foot, his

A tail woman from the county of Surry, fix feet feven inches and a half, not twenty. Shewn 1752 and 1753. Daily Advertiser, Jan. 10, 1753.

Cornelius M'Grath measured 7 feet eight inches, born in the county of Tipperary, Ireland. See an account of him in Annual Regifter, 1760. Daily Advertiser, Feb. 17, 1753.

A youth of feventeen from the mountains of Moran, Ireland, fix feet fix inches and a half. Shewn An. Dom. 1754. Daily Advertiser, Sept. 18.

Italian giant, height 8 feet.Shewn An. Dom. 1756, October 24, 1755, &c &c.

Staffordshire giant fung at Sadler's Wells, &c. A. D. 1757. Neither name nor height mentioned. Qu. if not Bamford.

Italian Coloffus, twenty-one years of age, near eight feet high.Shewn An. Dom. 1768. Gazetteer, Dec. 12.

An. Dom. 1777, died in Spitalfields market, the famous Coloffus, who was fhewn for many years. at Bartholomew fair, and other places. He measured feven feet four inches, without his fhoes, and feven feet fix

in his coffin. Morning Poft, June 13, 1777.

Edward Longmere, the famous Herefordshire giant, feven feet fix inches without his fhoes, died 1777. See an account of his being ftolen by anatomifts, Morning Poft, May

23, 1777.

Byrne, the Irish giant, died June, 1783. Dr. Hunter purchafed his body. The fkeleton is in the mufeum. His death was occafioned by drinking to confole himself for the lofs of a fum of money. Height eight feet two inches. Age faid to be about 22. See Public Ledger, June 4, 1783..

ing vocabulary to exprefs the character of a husband, from her own experience, and which proves how copious our language is on that arti cle:-He is, faid the, an abhorred, abominable, acrimonious, angry, arrogant, auftere, awkward, barba rous, bitter, bluftering, boisterous, boorifh,, brawling, brutal, bullying, capricious, captious, careless, choleric, churlifh, clamorous, contumelious, crabbed, cross, currish, derefte able, difagreeable, difcontented, difgufting, difmal, dreadful, drowsy, dry, dull, envious, execrable, faftidious, fierce, fre:ful, froward, frumpith, furious, grating, grofs, growl ing, gruff, grumbling, hard-hearted, hafty, hateful, hectoring, horrid, huffiih, humourfome, illiberal, illnatured, implacable, inattentive, in corrigible, inflexible, injurious, infolent, intractable, irafcible, ireful, Twin brothers; height eight feet; jealous, keen, loathfome, maggotty, 24 years of age. Shewn 1785. malevolent, malicious, malignant, See Morning Herald, May 5, 1785. maundering, mifchivious, morofe, Shewn at Orleans, 1786, a man murmuring, naufeous, nefarious, faid to measure nine feet. Morning Herald, Oct. 5, 1786.

Patrick O'Brien, height eight feet, age 18. Shewn A. D. 1785. See Morning Herald, and Morning Poft, March and April, 1785. He is faid by the hand bills to be eight feet four. N. B. A portrait of him.

An. Dom. 1746. A tall Saxon woman, feven feet high. See Daily Advertiser, April 26, 1746.

A Lancashire man, feven feet fix inches. Shewn March 1776, aged only eighteen. His fifter a dwarf. See Morning Poft, March 13, 1776.

negligent, noify, obftinate, obftreperous, odious, offenfive, opinionated, oppreffive, outrageous, overbearing, paffionate, peevith, pervicacious, perverfe, perplexing, pettith, petulant, plaguy, quarrelfome, queafy, queer, raging, reftlefs, rigid, rigorous, roar. ing, rough, rude, rugged, faucy, favage, fevere, harp, thocking, fluggish, fnappifh, fnarling, fneaking, four, fpiteful, fplenetic, fqueamith, ftern, flubborn, ftupid, fulky, fullen, furly, fufpicious, tantalizing, tart, teafing, terrible, tefly, tirefome, tormenting, touchy, treacherous, troublefome, turbulent, tyrannical, uncomfortable, ungovernable, unpleafant, unfuitable, uppith, vexatious, violent, virulent, wafpish, G. worrying, wrangling, wrathful, yarring, yelping dog in a manger, who

Fenton, a giant from the County of Tyrone.. A tall aged man fhewn in Holborn, An. Dom. 1790. Hand bill.

Bamfield, the Staffordshire giant, and Coan the dwarf. A print, Cambridgeshire youth, near eight feet high, 19 years of age. Hand bill, 1787.

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Account

Account of the Public Funded Debt of Ireland, and of the Provifion for its Reduction.

THE government of Ireland oceafionally incurred debts of fmall amount, not exceeding from one to four hundred thousand pounds, at different periods, from the year 1700, to the year 1749, about which time, it was not only entirely out of debt, but faved a confiderable furplus, amounting to above half a million.

From about the year 1760, Ireland has conftantly had a public debt, although no part of the prefent debt is of an older date than 1773. The total of the debt was for many years very small, in comparison with the amount to which it has fince increaled, as will appear from the following Rtatement:

In 1761 £223,438

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raised as one fum, the intereft of the
dated fund of Great Britain.
whole being charged on the confoli

manner the following fums have been
raifed in Great Britain for the fervice
of Ireland, the government of the
latter country remitting annually the
intereft, charge of management, and
appropriation of 1 per cent. thereon,
in order to reimburse the payments
made from the confolidated fund or
this account.

1794 • 2,464,590 The loans rendered peceffary hy the war which began in 1793, were in the first year raifed wholly in IreJand on 5 per cent. ftock. In 1794, an additional inducement was offered to perfons refident in England, to fubfcribe to the loans in Ireland, by making the dividends on part of the ftock payable at the bark of England; and the fame plan was followed in 1795 and 1796: the loans of each of thefe years being raised on 5 per cent. ftock with the addition of terminable annuities. In 1797, the alarm of invafion, and the disturbed itate of the country, rendered it impracticable for the government of Ireland, to raise the loan neceffary for the fervice of the year, except on the most exorbitant terms; it was therefore deemed preferable that it should be chiefly railed and funded in Great Britain, as part of the fum borrowed by the government of that country. The joint loans for Great Britain and Ireland, were therefore

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Thefe fums being much great than the previous loans of Ireland ha ufually been, have caused a rapid a cumulation of debt, the appare magnitude of which is alfo much i creafed from the above fums havin been chiefly raised on three per cer stock. The progrefs of the to amount has been as follows:

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