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To Correspondents.
SARDONICUS writes somewhat illegibly ; wo can only deeypher certain words , as isaak ' s claret , or Isaak and claret ; but what is meant ? WHIM . —We are obliged by the caricature " Can I speak with the Editor . " The ursa major may pass well enough for the growler , but we disclaim ursa minor as the impersonation of our own Editor . PRIVILEGE . —Faugh ! read the leading article , and club wit to form likenesses of the miserable clique . TRUTH . —The case quoted is not in point . You may plaster a dank damp wall with the
most costly materials , yet the noisesomeness will exude ; a good workman would set about correcting the evil rather than smouldering it . Ten years hence , when "the builder is smitten" ( our correspondent ' s words ) that very address will tell a diiWrcnt tale . CHARACTER . —Honest Isaak Walton lias been dead these two centuries . " He was a plain homely unsophisticated creature , abounding in the milk of human kindness—cheerful and considerate in his nature—affable in his demeanour . " We know , and intimately too , some Waltons who approach " honest lsaack" in these qualities , and there may be some , in whom it would be no disgrace to attempt to do so .
BRO . W . ROUEN , M . D . —The interesting paper is given at length . BRO . J . HODGKINSON . —Our warmest thanks are due for powerful support when moat needed . A BROTHER OF ETON . —Thanks for some remarks of the Duke of Wellington , when an Eton boy . A MASON . —Sir A , V . Corbett having resigned the province , it falls under the superintendence of the G . R ., who will act , provided he receives a written authority from the G . M . A QuEniST . —Nothing more easy ; enclose as many "Queen ' s head stamps" as you think
will liberally cover the expense of correspondence . THE Two There is the difference of a letter in the names ; in stature , none—in bulk , great—in age , some ten years . Both wove figurantes in the "Tale of Mystery ; " one however was innocent of an infamy which unbecame the grey head of the other , whose few hairs have since found shelter in a wur . He docs not approve the portrait because ( so
he says ) , that it has been mistaken for his own—credat Judeus ! CONFUCIUS . —Intelligence from Hong Kong makes no mention of the rep . of the G . L . of Ireland . On dit * He is on a visit to the Lewis-King of Sumatra , whose whereabouts however , not being eastward , we doubt the rep . ' s progress is not thereabouts . His name is still in the Calendar as large as life , as representing the G . L * of Ireland in that of England . How drolly his Chinese clients must think of this ! DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD . —Under consideration . Bno . JOSE ARIANO ' S LETTER . —We agree in Dr . Crucefix's reply .
A MASONIC ARTIST complains , that in a Masonic portrait recently published , the square is wanting . How is this ? without the square the moral is defective . AN EYE-WITNESS . —Dotage does not excuse want of good manners ; let the member of the G . S . L » take the hint . Bno . ALLEN AND BRO . MARTIN . —Future correspondence will oblige . BRO . PUCK . —In 1780 , " Harlequin Freemason" was performed successfully at Covent Garden Theatre . The suggestion of a pantomime founded on " Sumatra waggeries" is too late for the present season , or Bro . Bunn would jump for joy . What a capital cast—L .
Harlequin , W . Columbine , B-Fairy , J . Clown , I-I . Pantaloon , M . (—) , K . Scaramouch , Gnomes Fairies and Furies by the tails of each . BORNEO is surely an ourang-outang , to suppose us ignorant of the " naturalhistory of reptiles . " The article " An Alligator's Feast" is a piracy from the Edinburgh Review , and therefore inadmissible . St . Louis will no doubt he canonized in Sumatra , that is , if he shall ever revisit the alligators ancl crocodiles of that ilk , who look as much as to say " dont we wish we may get him . A . O . is wise as well as rude . If we knew him we would convey him in our van to the
Board of G . P . and give them a case of impertinence on which to ' sharpen their wit . The portrait may or may not be a likeness ; but there is a want of good taste in the circular . WIDEAWAKE has an idea that he really saw the two Kilkenny cats eat each other all but the tails . This is something new ; did it occur on the 4 th inst ? THE GHOST OF a G . R . is perturbed at the late " pot and kettle" display . He has " a rod in pickle" for one , and a "line with a hook" for the other , when either shall attempt to
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To Correspondents.
SARDONICUS writes somewhat illegibly ; wo can only deeypher certain words , as isaak ' s claret , or Isaak and claret ; but what is meant ? WHIM . —We are obliged by the caricature " Can I speak with the Editor . " The ursa major may pass well enough for the growler , but we disclaim ursa minor as the impersonation of our own Editor . PRIVILEGE . —Faugh ! read the leading article , and club wit to form likenesses of the miserable clique . TRUTH . —The case quoted is not in point . You may plaster a dank damp wall with the
most costly materials , yet the noisesomeness will exude ; a good workman would set about correcting the evil rather than smouldering it . Ten years hence , when "the builder is smitten" ( our correspondent ' s words ) that very address will tell a diiWrcnt tale . CHARACTER . —Honest Isaak Walton lias been dead these two centuries . " He was a plain homely unsophisticated creature , abounding in the milk of human kindness—cheerful and considerate in his nature—affable in his demeanour . " We know , and intimately too , some Waltons who approach " honest lsaack" in these qualities , and there may be some , in whom it would be no disgrace to attempt to do so .
BRO . W . ROUEN , M . D . —The interesting paper is given at length . BRO . J . HODGKINSON . —Our warmest thanks are due for powerful support when moat needed . A BROTHER OF ETON . —Thanks for some remarks of the Duke of Wellington , when an Eton boy . A MASON . —Sir A , V . Corbett having resigned the province , it falls under the superintendence of the G . R ., who will act , provided he receives a written authority from the G . M . A QuEniST . —Nothing more easy ; enclose as many "Queen ' s head stamps" as you think
will liberally cover the expense of correspondence . THE Two There is the difference of a letter in the names ; in stature , none—in bulk , great—in age , some ten years . Both wove figurantes in the "Tale of Mystery ; " one however was innocent of an infamy which unbecame the grey head of the other , whose few hairs have since found shelter in a wur . He docs not approve the portrait because ( so
he says ) , that it has been mistaken for his own—credat Judeus ! CONFUCIUS . —Intelligence from Hong Kong makes no mention of the rep . of the G . L . of Ireland . On dit * He is on a visit to the Lewis-King of Sumatra , whose whereabouts however , not being eastward , we doubt the rep . ' s progress is not thereabouts . His name is still in the Calendar as large as life , as representing the G . L * of Ireland in that of England . How drolly his Chinese clients must think of this ! DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD . —Under consideration . Bno . JOSE ARIANO ' S LETTER . —We agree in Dr . Crucefix's reply .
A MASONIC ARTIST complains , that in a Masonic portrait recently published , the square is wanting . How is this ? without the square the moral is defective . AN EYE-WITNESS . —Dotage does not excuse want of good manners ; let the member of the G . S . L » take the hint . Bno . ALLEN AND BRO . MARTIN . —Future correspondence will oblige . BRO . PUCK . —In 1780 , " Harlequin Freemason" was performed successfully at Covent Garden Theatre . The suggestion of a pantomime founded on " Sumatra waggeries" is too late for the present season , or Bro . Bunn would jump for joy . What a capital cast—L .
Harlequin , W . Columbine , B-Fairy , J . Clown , I-I . Pantaloon , M . (—) , K . Scaramouch , Gnomes Fairies and Furies by the tails of each . BORNEO is surely an ourang-outang , to suppose us ignorant of the " naturalhistory of reptiles . " The article " An Alligator's Feast" is a piracy from the Edinburgh Review , and therefore inadmissible . St . Louis will no doubt he canonized in Sumatra , that is , if he shall ever revisit the alligators ancl crocodiles of that ilk , who look as much as to say " dont we wish we may get him . A . O . is wise as well as rude . If we knew him we would convey him in our van to the
Board of G . P . and give them a case of impertinence on which to ' sharpen their wit . The portrait may or may not be a likeness ; but there is a want of good taste in the circular . WIDEAWAKE has an idea that he really saw the two Kilkenny cats eat each other all but the tails . This is something new ; did it occur on the 4 th inst ? THE GHOST OF a G . R . is perturbed at the late " pot and kettle" display . He has " a rod in pickle" for one , and a "line with a hook" for the other , when either shall attempt to