was the reflection, that the days of our dignity

There were at

and delight never might return. Brighton no less than three men who called me Jack, and that out of flies or in libraries; and one of these chose occasionally, by way of making himself particularly agreeable, to address me by the familiar appellation of Jackey. At length, and that only three weeks after my fall, an overgrown tallow-chandler met us on the Steyne, and stopped our party to observe, as how he thought he owed me for two barrels of coal tar, for doing over his pigstyes." This settled it-we departed from Brighton, and made a tour of the coast; but we never rallied; and business, which must be minded, drove us before Christmas to Budge Row, where we are again settled down.

Maria has grown thin-Sarah has turned methodist-and Jenny, who danced with his Excellency the Portuguese Ambassador, who was called angelic by the Right Honourable the

refused a

Lord Privy Seal, and who, moreover, man of fortune because he had an ugly name, is going to be married to Lieutenant Stodge, on the half pay of the Royal Marines-and what then?

-I am sure if it were not for the females of my family, I should be perfectly at my ease in my proper sphere, out of which the course of our civic constitution raised me. It was unpleasant at first:-but I have toiled long and laboured hard; I have done my duty, and Providence has blessed my works. If we were discomposed at the sudden change in our station, I it is who was to blame for having aspired to honours which I knew were not to last. However, the ambition was not dishonourable, nor did I disgrace the station while I held it; and when I see, as in the present year, that station filled by a man of education and talent, of high character and ample fortune, I discover no cause to repent of having been one of his predecessors. Indeed, I ought to apologise for

making public the weakness by which we were all affected; especially as I have myself already learned to laugh at what we all severely felt at first-the miseries of a SPLENDID ANNUAL.

THE FIFESHIRE APOTHECARY.

WHETHER, in consequence of an epidemic prevailing, or of the season, which was Christmas and the consequent repletion attendant on it, had caused such an unusual influx of customers to the shop of Andrew, chemist and druggist in the town of Fife, or no, certain it is he and his boy had been more than usually employed in compounding aperients and emetics for the inhabitants of the good city; never before had such a demand on his gallipots and bottles been madenever before had blue pill and jalap been used in such profusion, and never before had Andrew

felt more sincere pleasure than he derived that evening from the market-house clock striking eleven, his signal for closing; with alacrity his boy obeyed, and in a few minutes departed, leaving him to enjoy solitude for the first time during the day, and to calculate the quantity of drugs made use of during it; this was not small, -14 oz. computation, had he prepared for the good townfolk of Fife; innumerable had been the cases of cholera morbus, and plum-pudding surfeits, he had relieved that day, and the recollection of the proportion of evil he had been the means of alleviating, gave him the most pleasing sensations; the profit also accruing from his day's labour, contributed no small share of pleasing thoughts, and one half hour more had passed, ere it entered his mind the time for closing had more than arrived; he had, however, just arisen for the purpose, when a stranger entered. Now, Andrew, though an industrious man, would wil