so, once more, I am off by day-break tomorrow morning:

"This deed I'll do, before this purpose cool ;— But no more Sights." Macb.

Sen. Well, Sir, since you are so inflexible, I must fill up the deficiency of your evidence as well as I am able, by making the round of revels by myself. By the time that I have gone through my duty, it is to be hoped that you will have cooled a little, and that you will then consent to return hither for a single day, at least, and allow me half an hour's conversation, in order that I may not wholly lose the few ideas you have given yourself an opportunity of forming upon the subject of London Diversions.

Tes. In the suburbs, Sir-in the suburbs, perhaps I may; or rather, at one of the villages a little farther off: but no more imprisonment within the Liberties of London and Westminster for me!-and so, thanking you for having strung yourself up to reluxation for the good of the cause,—success to your pleasures! I will come this way when

you call for me that's enough; and as to the place of rendezvous- nothing upon a lower level than Hampstead or Highgate, I beg.

Sen. Where you please, so that we do but meet, to club our lamentations.

DIALOGUE THE FIFTH.

MISERIES OF PUBLIC PLACES OF ENTER

TAINMENT.

Testy Senior and Junior.-Sensitive. (Testy's house at High-gate, to which he had removed after his late sudden departure from London.)

I

Testy.

GIVE you joy, friend Sensitive, of having come out alive from all the holes of happiness in which you have been stiving for the last two or three months.- One comfort, however, attending our pursuits, is that they must pay, either in plague or profit,

Sen. Ah, Sir! you would not have allowed much weight to plague in the scale of advantage, had you gone through the complaint in

the manner I have done :-in plain truth, I can now almost forgive you for having taken flight so suddenly. In short, Mr. Testy, I have paid down half my income, for the pri vilege of being able to assert, that the only period of ease which is to be felt in theatres, concert-rooms, &c. is that in which you are returning to the door-and even this is subject to the draw-back of being obliged to labour through a mass of human flesh in your way to it-unless you prefer perishing with cold, by remaining to the last.-Yes, Sir, I I accept your congratulations on having escaped with life from this perilous course of evening experiments, and am now willing to instruct you in their horrible results and so rouse your courage, while I proceed to open Pandora's box upon you-and this, without even an outline of Hope traced at the bottom.

GROAN 1. (S.)

:

On going to the play to see a favourite performer, being told, at the drawing up of the curtain, (as you had augured from the rueful bow of the speaker,) that he, or she, is suddenly

taken ill or dead, and that Mr.

or Miss

(the hacks of the house) has kindly undertaken to try to read the part at five minutes

notice.

2. (S.)

In the pit, at the opera having a broadshouldered fellow, seven feet high, seated immediately before you, during the whole of the ballet.

3. (S.)

While sitting in a front row of the front boxes, during the deepest part of the tragedy-yourself and friends suddenly required to stand up, and crowd back upon each other, while you hold up the seat for a large party in procession, who take up twenty minutes in getting down to their places, in one of which you had seated yourself by mistake, and consequently are now turned out, and have to tread back your way into the lobby, over the laps of ladies, without a chance for another seat.

4. (S.)

At a concert

as you are preparing to listen to one of Bartleman's best songs, being suddenly