ciety whatever. Besides, the visible effects which our club has had on the manners of the metropolis entitle it to some attention. If you will be pleased to make us better known, by inserting the few following lines in your paper, I shall make a motion to have it taken in for the benefit of the reading members.

I am yours, &c.

L. H.

Jezebel Club.

A gala meeting of The Jezebel is to be held at the rendezvous on Sunday next, after evening service, on business of importance.-Supper not to be on the table till full three minutes after twelve, to prevent the censure of the superstitious and scrupulous for breaking the Sabbath, and no swearing will be permitted till the tenth bumper.

Proposals will be laid before the meeting for having a supper or dinner with the Wig-the Jeroboam-the Borachio-the Cape-the Hum→ drum-the Antemanum-the Pandemoniumthe Skink-the Spunge-the Free and Easythe Gin-and the &c. Clubs,-in order to preserve a friendly intercourse.

A ball had been given some time before on a Saturday night.

Several vacancies having lately happened by the premature death of decayed members at twenty years of age, it is resolved, that no new member can be proposed under ten, and no gin permitted till twelve.

Several letters of complaint from parents and guardians will be laid before the meeting; but it ought to be remembered, that the fault lies at home, and not with this club. Volunteers cannot be refused; and if parents do not like the manners of the Jezebel Club, they should be careful to inculcate other manners, by example and precept, to their children and domestics.

The present increasing freedom of manners among all ranks, gives the most flattering prospect of numerous applications for admission; and as the club are resolved to be scrupulous, when so many candidates are offering, one white ball will positively exclude.

A proposal for a subscription for the encouragement of circulating libraries, will be read from the chair, as from long experience, they have been found the most successful promoters of the interest of this Society. It will be recommended to all parents to give their children an unrestricted licence to draw knowledge from these pure fountains of information.

Schemes for defeating the absurd plan of a

new Bridewell, so shocking to female delicacy, will be thankfully received. Many of the club having been in intimate habits with members of the august houses of Parliament, it is to be hoped they will use their influence to strengthen opposition upon this occasion.

A vote of thanks will be proposed to the magistrates, ministers, and captains of the guard of this city, for their great lenity and indulgence to the Society, and their healths will be given in a bumper.

It is proposed that one side of the upper boxes at the theatre should be taken by the year, for the use of the society, by way of show-box; and, for this purpose, a subscription will be opened, -As the manager has hitherto been very obliging, his health will also be given in a bumper.

The evening walk recommended by the club. is from the Luckenbooths to the further end of the New North Bridge, and along Prince's Street. The day-light members may also use this walk, if their drapery is tolerable. The mendicant members are requested to keep the low grounds, as the Cowgate, Grass-market, Blackfriars Wynd, &c. &c. several respectable inhabitants having complained loudly, that they cannot visit with their wives and daughters of

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an evening, without being blasted with gin and obscenity.

Several discarded footmen have applied to the club for its patronage in their new profession of dancing-masters. That this elegant accomplishment may not interfere with the vulgar hours of business, these schools will not be opened till nine o'clock at night. The present fashionable suppers will thus permit servants to have an hour's practising before they are wanted at home. Apprentices of every kind will be taught in a few lessons to get rid of vulgar prejudices, and, instead of sheepish modesty, to assume the air degagé so becoming, or the fierce stare and impudent strut so manly!

Hair-dressers will be taught how to enter a house with address, and also how to lead a conversation with a lady or gentleman according to character and circumstances.

As these dancing-schools for servants and apprentices of both sexes have been found very useful nurseries for the club, it is hoped the present petitioners will meet with countenance and protection at the meeting.

After supper the following duet will be rehearsed by Ned Hopeful and Bet Bouncer.

By TWO BLACK EYES my heart was won,

Sure never wretch was more undone,

TO CELIA with my suit I came;

But she, regardless of her prize,

Thought proper to reward my flame
With two black eyes!

LYDIA HARRIDAN

in the Chair.

N. B. The secret committee will meet on Monday evening at ten o'clock, at St Cecilia's Oyster Cellar*—Mrs Slamakin in the chair. E. C.

[THE Summer and Autumn of 1782 having been very unfavourable, there was a great scarcity of grain in Scotland, and particularly in the north. Resolutions of a meeting held at Aberdeen were published at Edinburgh, January 13, 1783, by which it appears, that it was the opinion of the meeting, that the dogs should be instantly killed, and that no person should drink home-brewed spirits, or malt liquor, &c. Two days afterwards the following was published.]

* However ludicrous this may appear, there is such a house and sign in the Cowgate, adjoining to the Concert Hall.