Among the Inclosures in the foregoing Letter was the following "Unanswerable Argument against the Papists." * We're told the ancient Roman nation Which proves them all, O'FINNS, O'FAGANS, My dear Lady- -! I've been just sending out About five hundred cards for a snug little Rout * Expiat. lustralibus antè salivis Pers. Sat. 2. I have taken the trouble of examining the Doctor's reference here, and find him, for once correct. The following are the words of his indignant referee Galiæus Asserere non veremur sacrum baptismum a Papistis profanari, et sputi usum in peccatorum ex. expiatione a Paganis non a Christianis manasse." (By the bye, you've seen ROKEBY?-this moment got mine The Mail Coach Edition*-prodigiously fine!) But I can't conceive how, in this very cold weather, I'm ever to bring my five hundred together; As, unless the thermometer's near boiling heat, One can never get half of one's hundreds to meet (Apropos—you'd have laugh'd to see TownSEND last night, Escort to their chairs, with his staff so polite, The "three maiden Miseries," all in a fright! Poor TOWNSEND, like MERCURY, filling two posts, Supervisor of thieves, and chief-usher of ghosts! But, my dear Lady· ! can't you hit on some notion, At least for one night to set London in motion? As to having the R-G-NT-that show is gone by Besides, I've remark'd that (between you and I) The MARCHESA and he, inconvenient in more ways, Have taken much lately to whispering in door ways; Which-considering, you know, dear, the size. of the two * See Mr. Murray's Advertisement about the Mail Coach copies of Rokeby. Makes a block that one's company cannot get though, And a house such as mine is, with door-ways so small, Has no room for such cumbersome love-work at all! (Apropos, though of love-work-you've heard I hope, That NAPOLEON's old Mother's to marry the POPE, What a comical pair!) but, to stick to my Rout, 'Twill be hard if some novelty can't be struck out. Is there no ALGERINE, no KAMCHATKAN arriv'd? No Plenipo PACHA, three-tail'd and ten-wiv'd? No RUSSIAN, whose dissonant consonant name Almost rattles to fragments the trumpet of fame ? I remember the time, three or four winters back, When-provided their wigs were but decently black A few Patriot monsters, from SPAIN, were a sight That would people one's house for one, night after night. But-whether the Ministers paw'd them too much (And you know how they spoil whatsoever they touch) Or, whether Lord G-RGE (the young man about town) Has, by dint of bad poetry, written them down One has certainly lost one's peninsular rage, And the only stray Patriot seen for an age Has been at such places (think, how the fit cools) As old Mrs. VN's or Lord L-v-RP—L's! But, in short, my dear, names like WINTZ TSC HITSTOPSCHINZOUDHOFF Are the only things now make an ev'ning go smooth off So, get me a Russian-till death I'm your debtor If he brings the whole Alphabet, so much the better: And-Lord! if he would but, in character sup Off his fish-oil and candles, he'd quite set me up! haste An revoir, my sweet girl-I must leave you in [to taste. Little GUNTER has brought me the Liqueurs POSTSCRIPT. By the bye, have you found any friend that can construe That Latin account, t'other day, of a Monster ?* *Alluding, I suppose, to the Latin Advertisement of a Lusus Nature in the Newspapers lately. If we can't get a Russian, and that thing in Latin Be not too improper, I think I'll bring that in, LETTER VI. FROM ABDALLAH,* IN LONDON, TO MOHASSAN, IN ISPAHAN. WHILST thou, MOHASSAN, (happy thou!) Before our King-our Asia's treasure! This sew'd-up race-this button'd nation, But live, with all their lordly speeches, man, * I have made inquiries about this Persian Gentlebut cannot satisfactorily ascertain who he is. From his notions of Religious Liberty, however, I conclude that he is an importation of Ministers; and he is arrived just in time to assist the P-e and Mr. L-ck-e in their new Oriental Plan of Reform.-See the second of these Letters.-How Abdallah's epistle to Ispahan found its way into the Twopenny Post-Bag is more than I can protend to account for. |