"Your servant, Sir-but see what I have got! "Isn't it a prodigious charming pot ?

"And a❜n't you vastly glad we make them here? "For Dicky got it out of Staffordshire.

"See how the charming vine twines all about! "Lord! what a handle! Jesus! what a spout! "And that old Pagog, and that charming child! If Lady Townsend* saw them, she'd be wild!"

To this the Gen'ral: "Madam, who would not?

"Lord! where could Mr. Bateman find this pot? "Dear Dicky, cou'dn't you get one for me? "I want some useful china mightily; "Two jars, two beakers, and a pot pourri.”

* Audrey Harrison, only daughter of Edward Harrison, of Balls, in the county of Hertfordshire; she was wife to Charles the third Viscount Townsend, and mother of George the first Marquis of Townsend, and of the celebrated and brilliant Charles Townsend, and other children.

Oh, Mr. Churchill, where d'ye think I've been?

"At Margus's,* and there such fire-works seen, "So very pretty, charming, odd and new ;

"And, I assure you, they're right Indian too! "I've bought them all, there's not one left in town;

"And if you were to see them, you would own "You never saw such fire-works any where."

"Oh, Madam, I must beg your pardon there," The Gen'ral cry'd, "for-'twas in the year ten; "No, let me recollect, it was not then; "'Twas in the year eight, I think, for then we lay

"Encamp'd, with all the army, near Cambray

Margus's was a fashionable India warehouse, much resorted to by ladies of fashion, to purchase tea, fans, fireworks, and other Indian toys, which places were often perverted to places of intrigue. Prior adverts to it, when he

says,

"She first of all the town was told,

"Where newest Indian things were sold."

"Yes, yes, I'm sure I'm right by one event, "We supp'd together in Cadogan's* tent "Palmes,+Meredith,+Lumley,§and poor George

Grove,||

"And merrily the bumpers round we drove; "To Marlbro's health we drank confounded

hard;

"For he'd just beat the French at Oudenarde;

* William, first Earl of Cadogan, took to a military life, and distinguished himself in the war under King William in Ireland, at the Boyne, and in Flanders in 1701; he was made Quarter-master-general of the Army in 1703; he was constituted Colonel of the 5th regiment of Dragoon Guards; he behaved very gallantly at the attack at Schellenberg, and in the battle of Hochstet, likewise in forcing the French lines, near Tirlemont; at Ramillies, he commanded six squadrons of horse; and he succeeded in taking Antwerp, in which was six French and six Spanish regiments; he, on the death of Mr. Stepney, succeeded him as envoy.-Ob. July 1726.

† Palmes (General Francis), was Colonel of the 6th regiment of Dragoon Guards from 1706 to 1712.

Meredith was Colonel of the 20th regiment of the line. § Lumley was Colonel of the 1st Dragoon Guards. Grove was Colonel of the 19th regiment of foot.

"And Lord Cadogan then had got, by chance, "The best champaign that ever came from

France;

"And 'twas no wonder that it was so good,

"For some dragoons had seized it on the road;

"And they had heard from those they took it

from,

"It was design'd a present for Vendôme.

"So we'

99 But see,

another Charles's face

Cuts short the Gen'ral, and relieves her Grace.

So, when one crop-sick parson in a dose, Is reading morning-service through his nose, Another, in the pulpit, straight appears, Claiming the tir'd-out congregation's ears, And with a duller sermon ends their pray❜rs. For this old Charles is full as dull as t'other, Bævius to Mævius was not more a brother; From two defects his talk no joy affords, From want of matter, and from want of

"I hope," says he, "your Grace is well to

day,

"And caught no cold by venturing to the play!" "Oh, Sir, I'm mighty well-won't you sit down?

46

Pray, Mr. Stanhope,* what's the news in

town ?"

"Madam, I know of none; but I'm just come "From seeing a curiosity at home: ""Twas sent to Martin Folkes,† as being rare, "And he and Desaguliers brought it there: "It's call'd a Polypus."-"What's that?"-A

creature,

"The wonderful'st of all the works of nature :

* Charles Stanhope was an elder brother of the first Earl of Harrington; in 1721-2 he was Secretary to the Treasury; he served in every Parliament, from 1714 to 1760, and was much talked of for his concern in the South Sea business.-Ob. 1760, æt. 87, unmarried.

+ President of the Royal Society.

The fresh-water Polypus, an insect which has this surprising property, that being cut into several pieces, each piece lives, and in a short time becomes as perfect an insect as that of which it was originally only a part; it can swallow a worm twice or thrice as long as itself; it