village of Rattleguts; the squire's family; and the steward's table at Lord Ghastly's. I feel myself a new man; and will not quit Bath whilst one of his majesty's subjects remains alive in the place. Good morning

to you, my dear sir!

Mixum. [Pounding.] Bravo, my little Heaven grant you all success;

Galen.

and may your commission to burn, sink, and destroy, be crowned with the triumph of a Copenhagen expedition.

"Here I go up, up, up,

Here I go down, down, downy,
Here I go backwards and forwards,
And here I go round, round, roundy."

DIALOGUE THE FOURTH.

SCENE.

A DINING-ROOM.

Parson Bow-wow, and Mr. Resin, sitting at a table, with bottles and glasses.

Bow-wow. Come, Resin, drink your glass; d-n me if ever I was tête-à-tête with such a milksop before.

Resin. Pon my vord, Mr. Bow-wow, I cannot keep up vid you. You ave de hardest head I ever met vid.

Bow-wow. Aye, Resin; and isn't that better than a thick one, like most of my brethren. Have it by inheritance, my boy; by birth, parentage, and education; nor ever omitted an opportunity of improving and strengthening so valuable a possession.

The Jew's-harp public-house in Swansea, has been in our family for 150 years; and descended regularly from father to son, through nine generations. I first saw the light in a small room behind the bar; and was not only early accustomed to the smell of ale, but long before they weaned me had acquired a taste for it also. As servitor of Jesus college, I lost none of my relish for the tap; and improved mightily in my faculty of guzzling. A minor-cannon-ship kept me tightly to the practice of wetting my whistle; though it obliged me to change my beverage, and booze a more gentlemanly liquor than that to which I had hitherto been accustomed. At length I was transplanted to Bath, where, as factotum to the Glee-club, I have ever since enjoyed the best opportunities of making myself a complete proficient in the Ars bibendi.

Resin. Pray, Mr. Bow-wow, vat may factotum be.

Bow-wow. Factotum, Resin; why itsits-its a factotum-d-n the word, I hardly

know how to define it. It is a sort of subsecretary; sub-treasurer; sub-president; sub-every thing. In short, the factotum is to do all things; upon all occasions; in all manners; and at all times; according to the directions of the committee. As factotum to the club, I drive bargains with performers, vocal and instrumental; lay in music; keep the piano-forte in tune; sketch out the bill of fare for the ladies entertainments; and a thousand other little necessary jobs. As factotum, I conducted an action in the King's Bench, on behalf of the society, against a band of refractory singers, who acting in concert, all struck on one night, and would not give us a single stave for our money. The law, however, whose object you know is general harmony, adjudged they should either sing or pay; a verdict which put them so cursedly out of tune, as obliged 'em to settle it by Abraham Newland's notes instead of their own. But now that we're upon the subject of musical discords, do tell me, Resin, how the devil you ventured to play such a trick on

the amateurs the other day, by humbugging them as you did about Madame Catsqualli? I was too much in for it to be at the concert myself, but I am told if it hadn't been for your good friend Signora Rattana, who interfered in your behalf, the women would have served you the same trick that some viragoes of old played off upon your ancestor, master Orpheus, and sent you home shorter by the head.

Resin. Ver afflicting circumstance, I assure you, Mr. Bow-wow, and give me most poignant concern*. Though I must

*This is the pathetic language in which the hand-bill was couched, that announced the second disappointment of Catsqualli's singing to the Bath public. "It is," how"ever, a bad wind, indeed, that blows nobody good;" and what brought shame and sorrow with it to poor Resin (who was really not to blame in the business), wafted success and joy upon its wings to a tragedy hero, whose benefit had been fixed for the same night with Catsqualli's concert. With a quickness that did credit to his invention, he immediately perceived the advantage to which he might convert the circumstance of her non-attendance; and directly issued out another set of hand-bills in the following words. "CATSQUALLI'S INDISPOSITION. In consequence of the disappointment which