writer, who dates from a well-known town in the north, Gateshead, states positively stood in a neighbouring churchyard within his recollection. The address, he says, was on the footstone. We give the illustration" without prejudice." Do tripe and trotters after all produce a prosaic condition of the human mind suggested by this tombstone, or would the relict of Jeremy have done as she did had her wares been of a different kind? In the interests of the edibles referred to, for which we must confess a weakness, we trust she would. But who shall say? At the time of the marriage of George the Third's eldest daughter to the Duke of Wurtemburg, a curious little handbill was given away about London. It was printed on both sides, and looked like a tract. Its contents were to the following effect: FRAGMENT of a CHAPTER concerning the curious MANGLE of BEETHAM appointed to be read by all the LADIES and LAUNDRESSES of the land of Albion. By His Majesty's special command. CHAP. I. I Beetham's fame and diligence. 3 his marvellous mill. 6 he constructs a mangle which surprises the World. 8 The Princesses visit his museum and praise the curious Machinery. 16 He is mimiced by others. 18 The King grants his royal patent to the Artist. 22 Beetham is recompensed by the nobles and the people. Now OW it came to pass, even towards the close of the eighteenth century, that there lived in the great city which is called London a certain man of the name of Beetham who had many curious in ventions. 2 The same mechanic while the world waged war against Albion cultivated with all diligence the arts of Peace in the ways of wisdom. 3 When therefore he saw that his washing mill pleased the people and was daily employed by all throughout the regions of Britain and her colonies. 4 Behold he also constructed another machine more marvellous than the first which is called a Mangle even to this day. 5 Neither adhered he to the old gothic plan of his predecessors but formed it new and surprising in simplicity so that a little maiden could set it in motion. 6 And it came to pass when a great company of ladies and laundresses beheld the infant turn the wheel with wonderful ease and moreover saw the wheel move backwards as well as the way of the wheel whose revolution was always the same and also saw it move as by self instinct. 7 That they cried aloud with one voice saying, great and marvellous is the Mangle of Beetham. 8 And in process of time, the princesses and the nobles accompanied a certain great prince who came from a far country to carry away a royal beauty, even the eldest daughter of the King. 9 And behold as they passed on their way to view the wonders of the great temple of Paul, one of the damsels lifted up her azure eyes and beheld the Museum of Beetham fronting the temple of Dunstan. 10 At that instant the child was turning the wonderful Mill which laved the fine linen clean and white in the twinkling of an eye; II Also another child by its feeble arm was moving the newly invented Mangle. 12 And lo, one of the nobles cried, wherefore should we pass on further into the city, let us step aside and see this miracle. 13 Now it came to pass that the company alighted from their gilded chariots and went into the Museum, and marvelled much at the curious machines. 14 And when they saw the Mill and the Mangle, the Wringer also, and the machine for the Churning of Milk, which even Solomon with all his wisdom never invented. 15 They all with one accord commanded the master of the Museum to prepare for the Princess one of each of these curious machines; to the end she might spread the fame of the inventor all over the land, in which she was soon to be a sojourner. 16 ¶ Now-the Mimic Machinists of those days by their enchantments strove to surpass Beetham, but failed by falling into the great chaos of complication : 17 So that, like the builders of Babel they were confounded; crying aloud, surely all machination against Beetham must fail, neither can we imitate the simplicity of his Mangle. 18 And word was carried to the King in those days, even concerning the new invention of the artist of London. 19 Which prevailed upon him when he also heard of the utility of the Mangle in tender kindness to all the laundresses of the land to cause his Royal signet to be set on a certain parchment called a patent. 20 So that until twice seven seasons should pass no man should imitate the machine but by the consent of Beetham the Proprietor thereof. 21 And when the King had so done, lo there was prepared many machines of various size, in order that the high and the low, the rich and the poor, might use the same throughout the land, but Beetham was the vender of them all. 22 And for those which the Princess and the Lords and Ladies of the Land did cause to be sent to them which were made of Oak whose duration shall far exceed the years of the generations of the sons of men and which were for smoothing all the linen of the Households of the mighty nobles, Beetham received certain pieces of money which being counted in the coin of Albion amounted to Ten guineas. 23 And for such as were made of the wood called Beech he received nine pieces of gold and for others eight pieces of the like coin, but for less than eight pieces Beetham sent not the Mangle forth among the inhabitants of the land. 24 And behold all the people rejoiced extremely and the fame of the Mangle was spread abroad among all the isles of Britain even to the remotest part thereof; and the ships of the sea were laden with the same machines to the Colonies abroad, and in all those parts of the Earth where Economy is an object, where Convenience is desirable, and where Cleanliness is esteemed next to Godliness. Is Mr. BEETHAM's NEW PATENT PORTABLE WASHING MILL so universally used and Economical, that it deserves the serious attention of the Public in general. I It renders the linen whiter and cleaner than it can be made by any other method. 2 It will wash more in one hour than ten women can in the same time. 3 It is so saving, that for Five Shillings it will wash as much as will cost One Guinea in the common mode. 4 The price of the Mill is very soon cleared by what it saves in soap, coals, manual labour and the preservation of the linen. This invaluable invention may be seen from Eleven until Two every day. A Mill large enough to wash 8 shirts 41. 45. 14, 4l. 14s. 6d. 18, 51. 5s. 24, 61. 6s. One to first and second, 10l. 10s. Wringer, Il. Is. This Beetham was the grandfather, on her mother's side, of Miss Reed, the celebrated old lady of Stamford Street, whose houses were for many years in a notoriously dismantled and dilapidated condition, and who not very long since left a hundred thousand pounds to the Brompton Hospital. Her mother was a pupil of Opie's, and before she married Mr Reed, a solicitor, some of her pictures were exhibited as those of her master. She late in life became eccentric, but not to such an extent as her daughter, whose name was at one time almost a household word. Another tradesman of the City, who was well known for his devotion to the art of advertising, early in the present century put forth this, which is rather magniloquent, considering the subject which forms its basis: MAY THE WINGS OF EXTRAVAGANCE be clipped by the Scissars of Economy-was the constant toast of a person who knew very well the value of a sixpence. To all good economists would Romanis wish to be recommended, though but a bad practitioner himself, (he is a little like the clergy-"Don't do as I do, but as I tell you to do.") When you want real good Stockings at a low price, come to the Sign of the Regent, 33 in Cheapside—there you have them in perfection, and I am certain sixpence in a pair is worth saving; and any one that is possest of the least spark of parsimony will give their assent. Frugality is certainly a good thing-it enables a people to pay taxes-to pay their armies-to thrash the French-to make peace on good terms -to extend commerce-to make people live long and comfortable: FOR STOCKINGS Romanis against the whole World, at his Mart, 33 Cheapside. From small beginnings great events arise-only see what benefit to the nation as well as to private individuals accrued from the purchase of cheap stockings. Romanis has never been mentioned in conjunction with Wellington, yet he seems to have had a good deal to do towards building up the victory of Waterloo, and ought to have been. remembered, say as much as Blucher, who has been immortalised in the way of boots while the stocking-seller has been clean forgotten. Another curious advertiser was William Hall of Lynn, who flourished early in the present century. According to Hone, Hall was a celebrated antiquarian bookseller, and received the alias of Will Will-be-So. He was also an auctioneer, and on the market-day he would knock down his lots in great style, and with many whimsical remarks. He had a craze for verse, and in such as follows all his advertisements were written : LYNN, 19th SEPTEMBER, 1810. First Tuesday in the next October, AN AUCTION, At the stall That's occupied by WILLIAM HALL. To enumerate a task would be- But not to come too vague an errand, We'll give a sketch which we will warrant. Which are too tedious here to mention. N. B. To undeceive, 'fore you come nigher, And, should we find we're not perplext, We have two more specimens of the English peculiar to Continentalists, the first being of about the same period as Hall's verse. It is an exact copy of a card circulated by the landlord of an hotel at Ghent : Mr. Dewitt, in the Golden Apple, out of the Bruges Gate at Ghent, has the honour to prevent the Persons who would come at his house, |