Andrings

THE

SPIRIT

OF THE

PUBLIC JOURNALS

FOR

1802.

BEING

AN IMPARTIAL SELECTION

OF THE MOST EXQUISITE

ESSAYS AND JEUX D'ESPRITS,

PRINCIPALLY PROSE,

THAT APPEAR IN THE

NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS.

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND ANECDOTES

OF

MANY OF THE PERSONS ALLUDED TO.

VOL. VI.

To be continued Annually.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, YORK STREET,

ST. JAMES'S SQUARE.

1803.

S. GOSNELL, Printer, Little Queen Street, Holborn.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
APR 13 1945

Ingraham fund

1433

47-184

CONTENTS.

SIMON Shadow's Dream

The Peace, and about it

More about it

More ftill

Remarks on the Illuminations

The Errors of a Country Gentleman

You are welcome to Town

Ode on returning Peace

Another

Epigram

Another Croak

Treaty of Peace between Mr. Job Ribble, Tailor, of

Page

9

11

13

17

20

22

24

ib.

the Parish of St. James, Weftminster, and Xan-

tippe, his Wife

25

Confequences of the Peace.

27

Dilemma of Clubs

29

The Balance of Power, or the New National Scales

Converfation of the new Sect of J'Ignores, at an Op-

pofition Shop in Piccadilly

32

37

On the Firms of Banking-houses
Diary of a Trip to Weymouth
Sketch at Brighton

The Petition of the Coats

An Examination of the Art of fcratching the Head

Page

39

41

42

44

45

46

48

51

53

57

60

63

64

67

Some Account of a dreadful Difeafe, called the Kotze.

bue Mania, which was epidemical in London at the

Clofe of the eighteenth Century

Mufic and Nonfenfe

93

96

Some

Some Account of the Tarantulania, a dreadful Epi-

demic, which now rages in this Metropolis

Parallel between St. Vitus's Dance and a modern

A Buck Parfon's Apology for Non-refidence
The Mock Parfon, a Tale

The Devil outwitted

Page

98

106

102

ib.

ib.

Epigram

Epitaph on Jemmy Armstrong, the Sheriff's Officer

On a late legal Promotion

On a Mufic and Dancing Mafter, who decamped with

the Subfcription-money for a mufical Publication

Virtus tutiffima Cafis

ib.

110

Lines addressed to the large and beautiful Mifs N. on

Lord Mayor's Show; or the Rival Knights

Lord Mayor's Day; or an Ode to Gluttony

Next Morning. An Extempore

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