tle foup of any man in England, and other 'members of the Common Council, who were equally eminent for eating it, had all agreed that the war was juft and necellary Butteabove all," quoth the Elephant,. "that great and religious man, Mr. Wilberforce, whom you have often heard me fpeak of by the name of my little friend Nicodemus, has pofitively; declared it a juft and neceffary war." The devil he has?" fays Sir Jeffrey. "Humbug for Nicodemus." The Elephant, in amazement, repeated the name of Nicodemus again and again; and each time he repeated it, O indignant reader, did Sir Jeffrey exclaim, Humbug! The Elephant perceiving that he was poffeffed of the deyil, deferted him forthwith. And often has he had, reafon to approve his judgment. For, like all the true. and difinterefted fupporters of this moft glorious and moft fuccefsful war, he has found his income daily increafe, white Sir Jeffrey, with the vile rabble, was speedily reduced to beggary. -Whether Mr. Wilberforce ever heard of this anecdote, I am not certain; but I rather think not, fince he never made any motion about it in the House of Commons. Neither do I know whether Sir Jeffrey perfifted in this injurious expofure of the facred cha-, racter of Nicodemus, which every day developes more clearly to the world; but much do I fear that the ap-, prehenfion of Sir Jeffrey was to the laft too carnal to perceive in their true colours the fpiritual graces of a faintly politician ya 1 After fuch tranfactions, it must appear an inftance: of fingular forbearance in the Elephant and the Secre tary of State, that Sir Jeffrey Dunftan was permitted, to die in his own garret. He never was even men-, tioned in any green bag of treafon, nor was ever taken, to the prifon in Cold Bath Fields. Nay, it is poffible that if hunger had allowed him to live a few years. longer, longer, the fatal breach which I have commemorated might have been repaired. Nicodemus, Sir Jeffrey, and the Elephant, leading their refpective bands of faints, ragamuffins, and Conftitutional Livery coming up at this critical moment, might foon have enabled the hop doctor to fubdue the mania of France, and Mr. Secretary Hawkesbury to plant his triumphant colours on the Confular palace. The laft time I ever faw Sir Jeffrey, I hoped for fome union of this kind. It was at his ufual station in the front of the Bank of England, fome months before that well administered inftitution stopped payment. His faithful jack-afs was with him, and the eyes of both were fixed on the ground. Hunger feemed bufy with each, and threw an air of folemn intereft over their countenances. Sir Jeffrey looked like one infpired. His empty bag was thrown over his fhoulder, the emblem, type, and forerunner of fear-, city. It chanced to fall down; and when he took it up again, he gave it a thake with the mouth downwards, at the fame time looking at the Bank, and then he fhook his head. At this moment the Elephant, who had just been taking his luncheon at the King's Head, came up. He looked, as I imagined, with fome tenderness on Sir Jeffrey, and put his hand in his waiftcoat pocket; but as he pulled it out again, the halfpenny which he had between his finger and thumb, fell back into its place. Unfortunate Sir Jeffrey! had thy proud heart but borne up against the frowns of fortune till the prefent time, and if at this moment thou couldft go to the fhop of the Elephant in Honey-lane market, with money enough in thy pocket to buy a joint of beef, he would give thee feveral potatoes into the bargain. But then, Sir Jeffrey, thou must have acknowledged thyfelf a beggar, and have calmly endured the taunts which clumfy opulence knows fo well to throw out upon the miferable. miferable. For thou furely couldft not hope for charity with thy wild ungartered hofe hanging over thy fhoes; nor couldft thou think it hard if the Elephant refufed thee a potatoe ticket, unless thou firft confentedft to ferub thofe ears, though never before wathed by human hands, and to clean that face, which was never wet but with water from Heaven. But why do I repine? Thou waft not formed, Sir Jeffrey, for thefe times. Thy ftubborn independence was not fitted to receive potatoes of the Elephant, or foup from the alms-fhop. Peace be with thine afhes! A milder generation has arifen, which can bear with equal compofure the curb of arrogance, and the lath of. folly, the paw of the tiger, and the tooth of the rat. April 10. SIR, MANY PHOSPHORUS GLASS: A POEM.. [From the Morning Chronicle.] ANY of your readers, who heard the lecture at the Royal Institution on Thursday night laft, may remember not only the practical joke of fprinkling the ladies with phofphoric æther, but alfo a piece of philo-fophical wit, related of fome ingenious German, whose name I have forgot, concerning Phofphoric Glafs. The conceit was, that as all animals are convertibleinto phosphorus, and, of course, into glafs of phofphorus, it would be paying a much greater tribute of refpect to an ancestor or deceased friend, to convert · him into this fubftance, than to bury his body, and only keep his picture; and that it would produce a much deeper and more lafting impreffion on the memory, to be in poffeffion of the very person of him we loved, than to pursue a dubious resemblance of his features, in an outline which is feldom exact, and in colours which are always fading. As I am more of a moralift 1.3 than than a chemist (if you will forgive fo improper an expreffion, for I am neither), this idea took complete poffeffion of my mind, to the utter exclufion of the new and old methods of compofing the fubftance in question, or its union with others. The lecture clofed, but the German philofopher kept his hold. As I returned home, I fancied I faw in the lamps the phofphorifed bodies of departed watchmen, ftill lighting my fteps, and providing for my fecurity. I trembled as I held my glafs to my mouth at fupper; and furveyed the fideboard with the fame reverence as if it was the infide of Weftminster Abbey. In short, I went to bed in this vitreous humour; and had no fooner clofed my eyes, than my imagination tranfported me at once into an immenfe manufactory of phofphoric glafs. My conductor, who was the proprietor, and, of courfe, the moft obliging and intelligent man in the world, explained to me very much at large, not only the different utenfils, for which different forts of glafs were required, but the different characters from whofe bodies it was neceffary to procure each fort. "All phyfiognomifts," faid he," and fome phyficians, pretend to defcribe the temper of the mind, the former by obferving the lineaments of the face; the latter by the conftitution of the body; but it is to the phofphoric glaffman that the human heart is really laid open; he only can difcover, and that long after it has ceafed to beat, by what paffions it has been governed. Who can doubt, Sir" continued he, fhewing me a convex mirror, in which every limb appeared to be any thing but a member of the human body, "that this is a preparation of a cenforious old maid? But the common figns of that character, a meagre form, and a pale and contracted vifage, may be equally the effect of a colic, to which the most amiable and indulgent of people are no less subject,” This old woman, woman, however, had proved an excellent article for my friend; for, befides the mirror, he had made a piece of coloured glass of her, which an eminent optician had bought of him for a confiderable fum, in order to observe the fpots in the fun. I had feen fo hideous a figure of myself here, that I was glad to recover my fhape by confulting a fine looking-glafs which flood near me, and to find myfelf not fo great a monster as the vitrified old lady had reprefented me. My conductor, who chofe rather to follow than direct my attention, immediately advanced, with, I think, the cleareft piece of what appeared to be plate glafs, I ever faw. He told me they were from the fame fubject; that he had not fuch another piece in his shop, and never had above half a dozen like it fince he had been in business. "Good glafs," fays he, "is as fcarce as good people. Obferve, Sir, how this pure fubftance admits the rays of light, and illuminates the objects on the other fide, without diftorting them: obferve how other rays ftrike on the furface of the mirror, and are reverberated with increafed brightnefsapt emblems of the untainted purity, the manly fenfe, the ftrong judgment, and quick difcernment which were the light and ornament of the world while it converfed among men under the form of Eugenio." It was not till he had finifhed this eulogium that he had obferved, with furprife, that my eyes were bearing teftimony to the truth of it. Eugenio had been my dearest friend; I had loft him two years ago; and now ahmolt fancying I had recovered him, I eagerly inquired the price of the mirror and the plate, both which I determined to purchase at any rate; when my generous conductor, feeing by the meannefs of my appearance that I was going to facrifice my prudence to my affection, faid he could put no price upon Eugenio, and made mesa prefent of both. It would be endless to tell you, Sir, what lively strokes of fatire and |