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A Tour Through London,

take the utmost pleasure in cutting each other up , with that keen weapon , the tongue . The gown arid the wi g , like , the painted bodies of the ancient Britons , seemed designed to strike terror into the enemy . But under the enormous wig , now and then appeared a natural head of hair ; so that both the man and his subject ' appeared in a false dress . Each of the counsel retains in viewas the result of victorya sin *

, , gular robe among the Judges , perhaps among the Peers . Before I quit Guild-Hall , I shall take a tri p to the Royal College of Greenwich , and the Cathedral of St . Paul , both which happened the next day . The beautiful palace of Greenwich gives pleasure to the beholder . I attended to the situation , the buildings , the paintings , the dress ,-the , the leand

manners , peop , was pleased with all . I considered its twenty-five hundred inhabitants as an assemblage of men from every part of the British dominions . —That among them were eyes which had surveyed every country on the globe . Seeing one man in a jeh low coat with red sleeves , You seem , says I , by the singularity of your dress , to fill some important office in these splendid regions ? : " No , Sir , " he replied , with the modesty of one whose manners

were softened by long service , " the reason of this dress is , I . gbtdrunk , and beat my comrade . " : And so your dress , then , is -the reward of your victory ? You have not forgot the art of fi ghting . ; You have only changed your weapon , from the sword to the : fist . But if you are in a dress of disgrace , why do you not keep within ' ? " They oblige me , as an additional punishment , to appear in public /' Why then you only fare like eveiy one else they all in pub

; appear - lic , who can dress , like you , in the garment of victory . The same day I attended divine service at St . Paul ' s , where the Bishop of L preached in a black gown and white sleeves . It immediately occurred to my thoughts , whether his Lordship did not acquire that distinguished dress as the result of conquest , gained by another keen weapon , termed a pen . The stranger , too , would be to this black and white

apt _ suppose , dress inferior to that which is all white ; or , that two colours , like those at Greenwich , were a degree below one : for a speaker , in white , addressed the . Deity , but the Bishop only the people . I then entered another court in Guild-Hall , which was crowded . I attempted a passage . The-bar-keeper prevented me with , "Are you an attorney , Sir ? " Something like one . " Come , Sir , I do not know them all . "

. Here Lord Mansfield sat as chief ; on his ri ght was Lord Rodney , as his friend . I could not forbear contemplating , that I had before me two of the principal characters of the age ; one stood at the head of the law , the other of arms ; they had ° both done signal service to their country ; that country had heaped favours upon both , and yet was debtor to both . The practice of the bar is not so much to open , as to complicate a case . He raises his reputation who says the smartest thinsrs , not VOL . vi . I i

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Untitled Article 2
LONDON: Article 2
TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 3
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE: AND CABINET OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE. Article 5
MOON-LIGHT. Article 12
AN ADDRESS TO THE BRETHREN OF ST. JOHN'S LODGE, NO. 534, LAHCASTER. Article 14
EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ. Article 17
SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE NORTH-AMERICAN INDIANS. Article 22
CHARACTERS OF CHILLINGWORTH AND BAYLE. Article 26
SCENE IN THE ALPS. Article 28
A TOUR THROUGH LONDON, Article 29
THE STAGE. Article 35
ON THE RETURN OF SPRING. Article 39
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 41
THE VANITY OF FAME. Article 42
ANECDOTES. Article 44
SINGULAR INSTANCES OF PUSILLANIMITY Article 46
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF GENEROSITY. Article 47
BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 48
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 49
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 54
LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 59
POETRY. Article 60
THE MASON,S PRAYER. Article 61
ELEGY. Article 62
TO THE MOON. Article 63
PROLOGUE TO VORTIGERN. Article 64
EPILOGUE TO THE SAME. Article 65
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 66
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 69
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Article 70
STATE PAPERS. Article 75
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 77
HOME NEWS. Article 78
TRIAL OF VICE-ADMIRAL CORNWALLIS. Article 79
PROMOTIONS. Article 82
Untitled Article 82
OBITUARY. Article 83
LIST OF BANKRUPTS. Article 85
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A Tour Through London,

take the utmost pleasure in cutting each other up , with that keen weapon , the tongue . The gown arid the wi g , like , the painted bodies of the ancient Britons , seemed designed to strike terror into the enemy . But under the enormous wig , now and then appeared a natural head of hair ; so that both the man and his subject ' appeared in a false dress . Each of the counsel retains in viewas the result of victorya sin *

, , gular robe among the Judges , perhaps among the Peers . Before I quit Guild-Hall , I shall take a tri p to the Royal College of Greenwich , and the Cathedral of St . Paul , both which happened the next day . The beautiful palace of Greenwich gives pleasure to the beholder . I attended to the situation , the buildings , the paintings , the dress ,-the , the leand

manners , peop , was pleased with all . I considered its twenty-five hundred inhabitants as an assemblage of men from every part of the British dominions . —That among them were eyes which had surveyed every country on the globe . Seeing one man in a jeh low coat with red sleeves , You seem , says I , by the singularity of your dress , to fill some important office in these splendid regions ? : " No , Sir , " he replied , with the modesty of one whose manners

were softened by long service , " the reason of this dress is , I . gbtdrunk , and beat my comrade . " : And so your dress , then , is -the reward of your victory ? You have not forgot the art of fi ghting . ; You have only changed your weapon , from the sword to the : fist . But if you are in a dress of disgrace , why do you not keep within ' ? " They oblige me , as an additional punishment , to appear in public /' Why then you only fare like eveiy one else they all in pub

; appear - lic , who can dress , like you , in the garment of victory . The same day I attended divine service at St . Paul ' s , where the Bishop of L preached in a black gown and white sleeves . It immediately occurred to my thoughts , whether his Lordship did not acquire that distinguished dress as the result of conquest , gained by another keen weapon , termed a pen . The stranger , too , would be to this black and white

apt _ suppose , dress inferior to that which is all white ; or , that two colours , like those at Greenwich , were a degree below one : for a speaker , in white , addressed the . Deity , but the Bishop only the people . I then entered another court in Guild-Hall , which was crowded . I attempted a passage . The-bar-keeper prevented me with , "Are you an attorney , Sir ? " Something like one . " Come , Sir , I do not know them all . "

. Here Lord Mansfield sat as chief ; on his ri ght was Lord Rodney , as his friend . I could not forbear contemplating , that I had before me two of the principal characters of the age ; one stood at the head of the law , the other of arms ; they had ° both done signal service to their country ; that country had heaped favours upon both , and yet was debtor to both . The practice of the bar is not so much to open , as to complicate a case . He raises his reputation who says the smartest thinsrs , not VOL . vi . I i

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