Belgium, with the important intelligence that Sprats are remarkably plentiful this season. He was immediately purchased by the Duchess of St. Albans for her villa at Highgate, where the Lord Chancellor, having refused the first leap, the match was of course won by the meritorious exertions of the firemen, by means of three large engines, which played "Rule Britannia" and "Britons strike Homc," until the theatre overflowed at an early hour, the evening's entertainments concluding with a Pas de deux, between Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Mrs. Glover of the Haymarket Theatre.

ANACREON:

IN THE

VULGAR TONGUE.

NOT BY THOMAS MOORE.

No. 1.

WITH the wind and the rain my frail lattice was groaning,

When Cupid I heard at my cabin-door moaning,

And plaintive, and sweet were his speeches:

"Oh pray let me in, hear the winds how they blow, My wings are benumb'd, wet my arrow and bow,

And I have not got any breeches."