As to the want of a precedent, that is easily supplied. Pardons for all sorts and sizes of crimes were commonly bought and sold in the reign of James I.; nay, pardon granted in anticipation of crimes to be at a future time committed.
After all, you see, Mr. Dyers idea was not altogether original.
Your affectionate friend, CHRISTOPHER SLY. Pump Court.
P.S.Permit me to congratulate you on the determination you have come to, of entering the literary world. Your modesty may be alarmed, but I must tell you that several of our popular and talented authors are commonly thought to be greatly indebted to you. They are said to derive valuable hints from you, particularly in their management of the pathetic.
Keep a strict eye upon your wife, Judith. You say she will superintend your notices of the fashions, &c.; but I fear she has been already too long and exclusively employed on certain newspapers and other periodicals. Her style is not easily mistaken.
WHIG-WAGGERIES. The Whigs must go: to reign instead
The Whigs! they passd that Poor Law Bill;
Those niggers, for their sufferings here,
COURT CIRCULAR. Deaf Burke took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open cart. He was accompanied by Jerry Donovan. They afterwards stood up out of the rain under the piazzas in Covent Garden. In the evening they walked through the slops.
The dinner at the Harp, yesterday, was composed of many delicacies of the season, including bread-and-cheese and onions. The hilarity of the evening was highly increased by the admirable style in which Signor Jonesi sang Nix my dolly pals.
Despatches yesterday arrived at the house of Reuben Martin, enclosing a post order for three-and six-pence.
The Signor and Deaf Burke walked out at five oclock. They after wards tossed for a pint of half-and-half.
Jerry Donovan and Bill Paul were seen in close conversation yesterday. It is rumoured that the former is in treaty with the latter for a pair of left-off six-and-eightpenny Clarences.
Paddy Green intends shortly to remove to a three-pair back-room in Little Wild-street, Drury-lane, which he has taken for the summer. His loss will be much felt in the neighbourhood.
AN AN-TEA ANACREONTIC.No. 2. Rundell! pride of Ludgate Hill!