a regulation would be founded in the

purest piety and virtue. I am daily in hopes of seeing an act of parliament passed, which, I have been informed, was in contemplation to be proposed to the legislature; and I trust it only lies dormant for a short time from the pressure of public affairs: I mean an act to prohibit any one on a Sunday to walk the streets during the time of divine service, except physicians, apothecaries, and surgeons. This regulation, I am informed, was first suggested by one of our pious prelates. He deserves the praise of every moral, religious, and reflecting person in the land. I pray Heaven it may be immediately enacted! The community must derive considerable benefit-vice and immorality will hide their heads-godliness will supersede impiety—the wicked will be scat

tered like chaff before the wind, and our clergy will be praised and blessed by the applauding multitude, for thus advancing the vital excellence of the people *: On this occasion the affridoulanthropic sensibility of that sublime Christian, Mr. W, cannot be too much commended; for I am informed that his humanity extended even to the brute creation. He judged very properly on a petition from Mr. M, the celebrated veterinary gentleman, and horse and cow surgeon, who proved to him how much the race of those useful animals might suffer, if their medical attendants were not permitted to visit their patients: besides, after the

*The man that hung his cat on Monday for killing of a mouse on Sunday, is on record: and we may, with great propriety, add the Methodist, who threw all his beer into the street, because it worked on the Sabbath-day.

labour of the whole week, it would be unjust if so useful a set of men might not be enabled to finish their business by one or two o'clock, so as to enable them to take an innocent lounge on horseback in Hyde Park on Sunday. From the respect which is so justly paid to this truly pious and zealous Christian, the veteri nary surgeons were to have been admitted to the same privileges and immunities as the regular physicians, sur geons, and apothecaries.

The petition of these gentlemen was considerably strengthened by the claims Mr. M, the veterinary surgeon had on the for having very condescendingly stepped so much out of his sphere as to prevent a favourite tom-cat belonging to his Lordship from continuing the exercise of those impurities, which had

been such a scandal to that chaste and pious family.

The petition of Doctor Norman, her Majesty's dog physician, was particularly attended to; (he was to have been privileged equally with the above gentlemen), on account of his having paid the most particular attention to the pregnant state of a she-monkey belonging to Madame Swelenbergen.

Pig doctors, however, were totally excluded a proof that Government pays but very little attention to the swinish multitude. As for myself, I am of opinion that the swine are most useful creatures, and must confess that I do not think a pennyworth of pig's meat a bad thing now and then*.

* Morhal says, that the pig is the only animal which can be eaten from the snout to the tail.

I cannot help lamenting that the pri vilege shewn to the veterinary surgeons did not arise so much from their professional abilities, as from interest and favour for their condescending qualities. But it is in this as in most other occupations. Even in that most honourable profession, the army, though there are many men of merit who rise by the sword, yet there are some of very little merit who rise by the scabbard.

In these times of impiety and lewdness it would be but proper to forbid all women, under a very weighty penalty, (but most particularly those who have handsome legs,) from walking out on a windy day, without sewing their petticoats

down to their shoes, lest a sudden gust of wind, on meeting a prelate, might attract his eyes and derange his thoughts,