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and Philofophy gave a figh, when Prudence, who had all this while ftood concealed, ftept forth, and ordered the officers of the court, Fear and Distrust, to seize the two witneffes, BEAUTY and Love, for the had an indictment against them for perjury: therefore objected against their teftimony, and infifted on Pleafure's making a defence without their help.

Pleafure immediately began.

Would mankind ufe me as I deferve, I fhould be never tried as a criminal, but rewarded as a friend.

They call out upon me to help them, yet, I no fooner come to their affiftance, but they bind me captive to their tempers, and never are for giving me rest.

The youth who appeared againft me I never was acquainted with, had he ftuck to his studies, he might have found me. He mistook another for me, whom he followed, fhe is dreft like me, but her name is Folly; it was to her, and not to me, that he owes all his misfortunes.

As to the lady that fays I attended her from her infancy, it is falle, the

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had a waiting-maid that attended her, and took my name, but her true title was Sef-Love.

The laft and heaviest charge against me, is the old man's, but he is a bypocrite, I would have attended him always as his wife, but he would use mé like a kept miftiefs, proud of fhewing the world he poletfed me; I defpifed him for his oftentation; I left him, to be more fincerely dealt with, and I

But why (raifing her voice) fhould I plead among fuch cold, fuch fpiritlefs judges, come to my refcue, my friends, aflift me, my allies.

Immediately the Paffions came turbu lently into court, drove Melancholy away, gagged Repentance, Philofophy hid himself under the table, they trampled upon Refletion, releated Pleasure, and made Prudence prifoner, to be tried in her place.

Beauty and Love were to fit as judges; but her trial and what the messenger found, who went to look for Fashion', must be referred to another opportu. nity.

CHANGE ALLEY Carricatur'd: Or, a DREAM about JONATHAN'S COFFEE-HOUSE.

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T is a matter of furprife to me, that among the many pieces of copper fcratched impreffions, which darken the fashes of the feveral Print-fhops in the city and fuburbs, Jonathan's Coffee-house never afforded one theme, or subject for a fingle needle.

Those fort of Etchers, Scrapers and Scribblers, cannot be fuppofed to have any tranfactions with the Funds, or Interefts, because it never could be proved, that they had any Principle.

But as Scandal is the groffeft, and most favage appetite, and the oppofite to true taste, we may eafily imagine, what Connoiffeurs the public is compofed of, that they can fo greedily devour the very offals of obfcenity, and fragments of illiberal rancour.

That they may have a fubject against the parliament meets to bring them in perhaps a little more than their usual pittance, and to prevent them from having the tables turned upon them; for, as they pretend to fay, they have brought the government under their lafh, what would become of them if they were under the government's? Therefore, without fear of punishment, or infamy, if they choofe to etch the following defigns, they are at their fervice.

The Title of the Print might be.
CHANGE ALLEY REVIEWED:

Or,

A SECTION OF JONATHAN's..
With a Set of Faces from the Life.

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A tall thin figure, with a very little face, and a large bushy bob wig, like a baby in the Mock Doctor's full bottom; he is to be standing upon the fore ground, talking to a very fhort, and very fquab fellow, thick-lipped, hook-nofed, and goggle-eyed, in his own hair, and with fuch a protuberance of belly, that he may feem like a pigmy, big with child of Sir John Falstaff.

The next group might reprefent firft, a figure with a bloated face, and a bag wig, not half covering his ears, a very short neck, and fo large a double chin, that he may look as if in those gills he had nap-facked the plunder from yester. day's city feast, to chew the cud with to-day, and bilk his ordinary. Next to him may be drawn a fwarthy faced large eyebrow appearance in embroidery, swearing by Mofes; and clofe to those two a Quaker, as plain-dressed as a shepherd, and as ftiff as a ftroling Player in tragedy.

A diminutive hump-backed perfon might be drawn fitting under the clock, talking to a well-looking man, in regimentals. And labels might be properly placed, on which might be wrote, Agency 35 l. per cent.-Hard times-Turtle eatings-Lame ducks, &c. &c.

For emblematical or hieroglyphical defigns, by way of ornament to the Print. Britannia might be fitting in one corner, with a parcel of Leeches fucking at her Heart.

Or the might be etched, tied between four wild horses, and their names might be wrote, viz. Confol. first horfe, Scrip fecond, Omniums third, Lottery Tickets the fourth.

A boxing match might be drawn in one part of the plate, between FRENCH POLITICKS and the GENIUS of ENGLAND, Corruption and Integrity for their Se

conds.

From a back ground British LIBERTY might be running down to help her fifter, when she thould be met by a group of STOCK JOBBERS, who should gag, hood, wink, and put her a pair of Fetters on.

I would have a new pediment erected at the entrance into the ALLEY, and in Baffo Relievo on the front might be the BRITISH CONSTITUTION, reprefented by an English SOLDIER and SAILOR, hand in hand, ftung to death by HORNETS; the two columns or fupports to this pediment should be two terms, one reprefenting Ideotifm, the other Lunacy; and to fhew that madness is not an improper emblem for Jonathan's, I beg leave to tell the following Story.

A Ruffia merchant who I met with fome years ago at Copenhagen, arrived last week in London; and in return for the civilities I received from him abroad, I charged myfelf with being his guide to all the remarkable places in and about London. He expreffed a great defire to fee Bedlam; accordingly we agreed to go there the day before yesterday.

As it was fine weather, I chose to walk through the city with him, and when we came over against the Change, I recollected I had a meflage to leave at the bar of Jonathan's Coffee-houfe; I took my friend in with me; and when we were returned into Cornhill, the Ruffia merchant, who never had been in England before, lifting up his hands and eyes, cries out in French, My God, I have heard of Englith Bedlam before, but never could believe there could be fo many people all together quite fo mad. But why were they not chained? he asked.—I smiled at his mistake, and with much difficulty convinced him at laft it was not a Madhoufe. But I could not perfuade him afterwards to go to Bedlam.--His answer is always, when I ask him, no; I have feen mad people enough at that Jonathan's if you have any worfe Lunatics than thofe, they must be fuch a degradation upon human nature, I fhould be fhocked to fee them.

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litics, with a history of the Havan- forts of rifraff, even a great man's scullion's fecond coufin, that never faw any fervice, but juft owling to pick up a wench at home for his matter, why fuch as they thall receive the benefit, and let the failor or foldier (I mean in foreign parts) be begging about the streets.

Shall for the present back aftern my own journal, because a messmate of mine has fent me a whole account how and about our taking the Havannah; fo for this month that will be put upon the stocks for the reader.

But I beg leave (no offence, I hope) just to heave in a word or two here about what we write, and what we read. People now-a-days don't care to ftand upon any other tack than politics, our heads all seem to be flowed with the good of the nation, and we can make no way now in company, in respect of discourse, except we can hold a dialogue about who is unfhipped from the helm here at home, and what our ftate commodores are at.

There's all our folks at St. Catherines as much concerned about my Lord Bute and Mr. Pitt, and this great man, and t'other great man, as if neighbours had something to do with them; when, as I tell the folks in our court, that it does not fignify an ounce of old oakham to us, what those great folks are doing of. As I fay, let them alone to mind their business, and let us mind ours.

But fome of our poor faint-hearted grumblers fay, we are to give all up to the French, and that poor rates will en⚫ crease; because when a peace comes, and we have given up the places we have conquered, why we fhall bring home our foldiers and failors only to break them, and those that are ill will lay upon the parish, and thofe that are well, why fome of them, mayhap, may go a maroding.

I told them that was all falfe; as to our brave disabled foldiers and failors, they never would be neglected in peaceable times; for there was CHELSEA and GREENWICH for them; and to the honour, as one may fay, of our noble folks, never nobody but foldiers and

Some of my old messmates, that know nothing but reef, fteer, hand and fplice, will have it that—but it is not worth minding them. Now the reafon the folks in our court are so unea fy about the nation's navigation, is on the account of what old Goody Grant fays to them.

This dame is a good fort of an old woman for taking care of the main chance, to be fure, but she is all for a Peace, because the hopes then to pay lefs taxes; fo the would not care if Old England was to fail to the devil, if the got money by the voyage,

Now there's Jack Norrard, as honeft a fellow as ever broke biscuit, who has fome credit in our parish, for we all love him ever fince he was OVERSEER among us; and he says, we must not go up to the Monfieurs, or the Dons, neither nor we must not make a bad Peace, and he'll fay fo in the vestry ; not that Jack can get any thing by the War, because he won't go to sea any more, and he's out of business at home, because his friends have got him an annuty.

But there's Thomas the waterman, he's a devilish clever fellow, but we don't know where to have him-he fpeaks as he rows, looks one way and pulls another, and fays one thing and means another; one night at our club he'll be all for the Peace, and as his mouth is better rigged with words than our parfon's, he'll have all the af fairs upon what latitude he pleases.

So then fome of the members of our fociety, for we have all the best tradefmen down to the Hermitage in it, be

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cause they want a hand in our parish affairs, either to recommend fome of their cousins, or themfelves, to ferve the church with glaziery work, or bread and wine, or become mafon or bricklayer, or any other thing, whereby as well as others they might get money by the church; fo they make Tom a prefent of one thing or another, one gave him fome medals, and one a new fearlet coat and badge, and one an armchair, and another fent him a prefent of a penknife, or a tobacco pouch, or a dried tongue, and then he comes over to their fide; and I fancy he will go from one fide to t'other traverfing, till he has got prefents enough to furnish his houfe at Poplar for nothing, and then he'll hard a weather his helm, ftand off, hum us all, live fnug, and fneer at every body.

English folks are no more fit for politicians, than we failors are to make French dancing masters, the leaft gale of report overiets our understandings. Here we shall have a LYE launched from Change-ally dock in the morning, and before noon Whitechapel bars, and Tothill-fields, Westminster, are all in a tempeft. The French are all coming, er the Scotch are all come, or that we are all unfhipped in Germany, or all aground at home, and fuch like jabbers, that Jonathan's crew heave out, on purpose to make hazy weather in other peoples heads, that we may run foul of one another.

. If we feamen were to do as the landmen do, only keep a look out about what's done and faid in the ftate-room, and not keep our reckonings, what would become of the fhip, we fhould have nobody to heave up an anchor, hand a stay fail, catt the lead, or try the pump; but when we're at fea we mind our own bufinefs, and let our great folks mind theirs; but, as far as I can make an observation, every body would be great folks.

If I was minifter of state, says one, things fhould be fo and fo ; jays another, but if I was, things thould not be so. I only with I was jays a 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th,

and fo fays as many thousands. And what's the end of all their difcourfe? why, they could have no end in it, fo it ends in nothing.

The great people at court will fet the watch just as they pleafe, and for us little folks to pretend to make them alter their course, it's of no more fignification, than a pop-gun to a twenty four pounder, or our boatswain's whiftle against thunder.

When I was a cabbin boy I remember we had a difpute in Wapping about chufing churchwardens; one man that was put up our parfon was very fond of ; and Lord, what work fome other people made about him; his name happened to be BATT, and they made fongs about batts and owls, and playing at cricket, and drew things out with chalk and charcoal upon the fhutters about the ball and stumps, and going through the wicket, and the batts handle, and fuch nonienfe.

Now fome others of the parishioners wanted to have a perfon in, and his. brother too, mighty good fort of 'men, and their names happened to be POTT; fo the other fide made songs about them, and fcored pot-hooks in chalk and charcoal, and wrote verses about the parish going to pot, and por luck, and what the kettle called the pot; and these things fo turned my neighbours heads, that nothing was minded through the whole parish but Puns and Politics.

Thank God I went to fea, and got out on't; but now I am come home again, it's just the fame thing, as 'twas twenty years ago; we are as unfettled as ever, and we're now in midships between WAR and PEACE, as it were.

I'm for PEACE and good neighbourhood; A good PEACE, to be fure, and if we do get a good one, why let us welcome it as we would a new fafhion'; or, to fpeak more like an Englishman, let us receive it as we should a ftranger'; we were bound by gratitude to Honour for his making a first appearance among us.

Hereafter, mayhap, I may heave in my opinion concerning our affairs, at prefent

prefent let's bear away after what my mefimate fays about the HAVANNAH. I hope GOD ALMIGHTY will lighten our darkness, fo far to let us ALL fee the great confequence which it must be to us, if we do but grapple it like Gibraltar to Old England.

The first letter I received was directed for me on board St. Catherine's court, at the larboard fide of London, in Oid England.

ft Letter from a Sailor at the Havan

nah, to his Friend at London.

Honour'd Friend and Memate,

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HIS comes to let you know as how we dun't. Howfomdever I'll tell you all how it happened, from our going through the Straits of Bahama, the Old Straits I mean; which we did as clean, as ever boat went through bridge. Then we made two fmall forts to the eastward of the Havannah and brought to. Then with twelve fhips of the line and fome frigates, our admiral bore away to block up their harbour.

As Will Trip and I were in the long boat, with our captain, to overhawl what the Dons were doing with their fhips, a fix-pounder took our boat a broad fide, and ftove her to pieces, and made us fall to fwimming like to many puppies in a horfe pond.-Nobody was hurt tho', for all the Spaniards pelted us, while we were in the water, with fmall and great shot, just as you and I ufed to fhoot at fishes, except that I loft my pouch, as our boat went over.

board and larboard all along the coafts and the Dons that were to defend the births they were stationed at, scampered off, making all the way they could from our folks, juft as we have feen the black guards in Moorfields run away from the conftables.

I fhould have told you before, that going to lie on the Cayo Sal Bank, the alarm and echo made a fignal for feeing five fail on the N. W. quarter. We came up with the Spaniards, engaged and took the THETIS, a Spanish trigate of 22 guns, 180 men, and the

Phoenix armed ftoreship, 18 guns, 75 men; a brig and two fchooners were with them. One of the fchooners we fancy was manned with Frenchmen, becaufe the run away after the first gun firing.A burned child dreads the fire you know, and faith Monfeers have been well peppered by us, for that matter, and I fancy Jack Spaniard will grow foon as fick of faying any thing, to us, in the broadfide way, as the French folks are.

There were 14 or 15 large Spanish men of war in the harbour, them we had blocked up with fome of our fleet fo fnug, that they were as fafe as a fellow with his feet in the biibows.

There was a blunder made about the Sterling Castle, but mum, we failors, do you fee, have fomething elle to mind than find fault, we leave that for the landmen, who have nothing else to do than ftay at home and run foul of one another with hard words, because they pretend t'other fide don't know how to keep a good reckoning.

But I know nought of politics, howThe Mercury and another frigate fomdever hot work we had on't, when went against one of the forts that had the Cambridge, the Dragon, and the fired at us, and foon gave them their Marlborough went against the Moro. belly full, and the Dragon came up To be fure fome folks can't bear the against t'other, and with three or four head-ach, and if a ball is put into their broadfides, unfhipped all the Dons guns, heads, how fhall they get it out again, and away the Negers and Spaniards they think; fo they chufe to keep out run, making their legs make all the of harms way, or so. fail they cou'd, to get out of the reach of our upper tier.

Well, we got our landmen on shore, and the foldiers did fcower about, ftar

The devil of a drubbing the Dons did give us that day, the caftle was fo high that they brought every gun they pleafed to bear upon us, and all our

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