cannot be removed, for if removed, it soon ceases to be permanent. What stationary absurdity can vie with that ligneous barricado, which decorated with frappant and tintinabulant appendages, now serves as the entrance of the lowly cottage, and now as the exit of a lady's bed-chamber ; at one time insinuating plastic Harlequin into a butcher's shop, and at another, yawning as a flood-gate to precipitate the Cyprians of St. Giles' into the embraces of Macheath. To elude this glaring absurdity; to give to each respective mansion the door which the carpenter would doubtless have given; we vary our portal with the varying scene, passing from deal to mahogany, and from mahogany to oak, as the opposite claims of cottage, palace, or castle, may appear to require.'

In submitting the address of Crabbe, we must ask the attention of his familiar reader to the ‘syllabus' or 'argument' which precedes the text. Certainly, it is not less admirable in its 'keeping,' than the main article itself, which is the perfection of imitation. It runs as follows: Interior of a Theatre described ; Pit gradually fills. The Check-taker. Pit full. The orchestra tuned. One fiddler rather dilatory. Is reproved - and repents. Evolutions of a play-bill; its final settlement on the spikes. The gods taken to task — and why.

Holywell-street, St. Pancras. Emanuel Jennings binds his son Apprentice. Not in London - and why. Episode of the Hat.' But to the poetry :

Now all seems hush'd - but no, one fiddle will
Give, half-ashamed, a tiny flourish still;
Foil'd in his crash, the leader of the clan
Reproves with frowns the dilatory man;
Then on his candlestick thrice taps his bow,
Nods a new signal, and away they go.
'Perchance, while pit and gallery cry, 'Hats off,"
And awed Consumption checks his chided cough,
Some giggling daughter of the Queen of Love
Drops, reft of pin, her play-bill from above;
Like Icarus, while laughing galleries clap,
Soars, ducks, and dives in air the printed scrap;
But, wiser far than he, combustion fears,
And, as it flies, eludes the chandeliers ;
Till sinking gradual, with repeated twirl,
It settles, curling, on a fiddler's curl :
Who from his powder'd pate the intruder strikes,
And, for mere malice, sticks it on the spikes.

"Say, why these Babel strains from Babel tongues?
Who's that calls 'Silence!' with such leathern lungs!
He, who, in quest of quiet, 'silence!' hoois,
Is apt to make the hubbub he imputes.'

After describing a motley group of play-goers, among whom are :

"The lottery cormorant, the auction-shark,
The full-priced master, and the half-price clerk ;
Boys who long linger at the gallery door,
With pence twice five, they wanı but twopence more,
Till some Samaritan the twopence spares,
And sends them jumping up ihe gallery stairs;'

He passes to the 'episode of the hat :'

"John Richard William Alexander Dwyer
Was footman to Justinian Stubbs Esquire;
But when John Dwyer listed in the Blues,
Emanuel Jennings polish'd Stubbs' shoes.
Emanuel Jennings brought his youngest boy
Up as a corn-cutter, a safe employ;
In Holywell Street St. Pancras he was bred,
(At number twenty-seven, it is said,)
Facing the pump, and near the Granby's Head :
He would have bound him to some shop in town,
But with a premium he could not come down;
Pat was the urchin's name, a red-hair'd youth,
Fonder of purl and skittle-grounds than truth.

"Silence, ye gods ! to keep your tongues in awe,
The muse shall tell an accident she saw.

'Pat Jennings in the upper gallery sat,
But, leaning forward, Jennings lost his hat;
Down from the gallery the beaver flew,
And spurn'd the one to settle in the two.
How shall he act ? Pay at the gallery door
Two shillings for what cost, when new, but four ?
Or till half-price, to save his shilling, wait,
And gain his hat again at half-past eight?
Now, while his fears anticipate a thief,
John Mullins whispers, "Take my handkerchief :'

Thank you, cries Pat, but one won't make a line;'
"Take mine, cried Wilson, and cried Stokes, 'take mine.'
A motley cable soon Pai Jennings ties,
Where Spitalfields with real India vies.

Like Iris' bow, down darts the painted hue,
Starr'd, striped, and spotted, yellow, red, and blue,
Old calico, iorn silk, and muslin new.
George Green below, with palpitating hand,
Loops the last 'kerchief to the beaver's band,
Upsoars the prize; the youth, with joy unfeigned,
Regain'd the felt, and felt what he regained,
While to the applauding galleries grateful Pat
Made a low bow, and touch'd the ransom'd hat.'

It would be doing injustice to Mr. CRABBE, to omit the preface of apologies' which accompanied his communication. He says:

"A few words of explanation may be deemed necessary on my part, to avert invidious misrepresentation. The animadversion I have thought it right to make on the noise created by tuning the orchestra, will, I hope, give no lasting remorse to any of the gentlemen employed in the band. It is to be desired that they would keep their instruments ready tuned, and strike off at once.

This would be an accommodation to many well-meaning persons who frequent the theatre, who not being blest with the ear of St. Cecilia, mistake the tuning for the overture, and think the latter concluded before it is begun.

One fiddle will
Give, half-ashamed, a tiny flourish still,'

was originally written 'one hautboy will;' but having providentially been informed, when this poem was upon the point of being sent off, that there is but one hautboy in the band, I averted the storm of popular and managerial indignation from the head of its blower ; as it now stands one fiddle' among many, the faulty individual will, I hope, escape detection. The story of the flying play-bill is calculated to expose a practice much too common, of pinning play-bills to the cushions, insecurely, and frequently, I fear, not pinning them at all. If these lines save one play-bill only from the fate I have recorded, I shall not deem my labor ill employed. The concluding episode of Patrick Jennings, glances at the boorish fashion of wearing the hat in the one shilling gallery. Had Jennings thrust his between his feet at the commencement of the play, he might have leaned forward with impunity, and the catastrophe I relate would not have occurred. The line of handkerchiefs formed to enable him to recover his loss, is purposely so crossed in texture and materials, as to mislead the reader in respect to the real owner of any one of them. For, in the satirical view of life and manners which I occasionally present, my clerical profession has taught me how extremely improper it would be, by any allusion, however slight, to give any uneasiness, however trivial, to any individual, however foolish or wicked.'

With the subjoined choice bit of COLERIDGE, we close our quotations for Part One. It may be necessary to remind the reader, that the original bard once made overtures of intimacy to a jackass ; but the 'babbling, jingling simplicity,' and the speculative philosophy,

upon trivial matters, need no explanation. The 'likeness' cannot fail of being recognised :

'My pensive Public, wherefore look you sad?
I had a grandmother, she kept a donkey
To carry to the mart her crockery ware ;
And when that donkey look'd me in the face,
His face was sad ! and you are sad, my Public !
'Joy should be yours: this tenth day of October
Again assembles us in Drury Lane.
Long wept my eye to see the timber planks
Thai hid our ruins : many a day I cried,
"Ah me! I fear they never will rebuild it!'
Till on one eve, one joyful Monday eve,
As along Charles-street I prepared to walk,
Just at the corner, by the pastry-cook's,
I heard a trowel tick against a brick!
I look'd me up, and strait a parapet
Uprose at least seven inches o'er the planks.

From that hour,
As leisure offer'd, close to Mr Spring's
Box-office door, I've stood and eyed the builders.
They had a plan to render less their labors;
Workmen in elder times would mount a ladder
With hodded heads, but these stretch'd forth a pole
From the wall's pinnacle; they placed a pulley
Athwart the pole, a rope athwari the pulley;
To this a basket dangled; mortar and bricks
Thus freighted, swung securely to the top,
And in the empiy basket workmen twain
Precipitate, unhurt, accosted earth.

Oh! 't was a goodly sound to hear the people
Who watch'd the work, express their various thoughts!
While some believed it never would be finished,
Some, on the contrary, believed it would.

"Oh Mr. Whitbread! fie upon you, Sir!
I ihink you should have buili a colonnade;
When tender Beauty, looking for her coach,
Protrudes her gloveless hand, perceives the shower,
And draws the tippet closer round her throat,
Perchance her coach stands half a dozen off,
And, ere she mounts the step, the oozing mud
Soaks through her pale kid slipper. On the morrow,
She coughs at breakfast, and her gruff papa,
Cries, 'There you go!- this comes of play-houses !!
To build no portico is penny wise:

Heaven grant it prove not in the end pound foolish !
'Amid the freaks that modern fashion sanctions,
It grieves me much to see live animals
Brought on the stage.

'Nought born on earth should die. On hackney stands
I reverence the coachman who cries 'Gee!'
And spares the lash. When I behold a spider
Prey on a fly, a magpie on a worm,
Or view a butcher, with horn-handled knife,
Slaughter a tender lamb as dead as mutton,

Indeed, indeed, I'm very, very sick!' The ‘Baby's Début,' of WORDSWORTH, Drury's Dirge,' by • Laura Matilda,' MOORE's 'Living Lustres,' • The Rebuilding,' by Souther,' and 'Fire and Ale,' by `the horrid Monk Lewis,' will form the subjects of another and concluding number.

SILENCE, and night! it is the time for thought; And the lone dreamer turns his wearied eye, Out from the casement, up to the dim stars, And deems that from those rolling worlds comes to him A cheering voice. How beautiful they are Those sparkling lamps in that eternal void ! They seem like gems upon the crown of HimThe Lord! the crucified! They still hang there, Bright, as when bursting on this lower world Then heaving into beauty - the fair lands, Valleys and hills; the streams, the lakes, the seas With their blue depths; the ocean with its waves Restless forever - as when these burst forth, And over them God spread this canopy Of grandeur and of glory! There they hang, Emblems of his great hand who placed them there, And bade them roll to one eternal hymn Of heavenly harmony! Away — away Farther and farther on --- thought flies; and yet Reaches them not. Beyond the wild blue track of this our world, it sweeps; beyond the track Of that ring'd orb, the heathen deified, Old Saturn named ; beyond the path of that They called the Thunderer; ay, and beyond The track sublime, of our great burning orb, Hanging alone in heaven -- beyond all these, Thought, seraph-wing’d, sweeps daringly - and yet Reaches not the first trace of those far fires, Glowing yet never fading; myriads burning In the blue concave, where no thought may pierce, Save the Eternal's. And yet those bright orbs Created were, and in harmonious march Traverse the air together. Not one of all Those sparkling points of scarce distinguishable flame, But hath its part and place in that grand scheme Fixed by the God of Heaven. Laws, times, place, motions, All these each hath; and there they roll for ever, Changing and yet unchanged. The wilder'd mind Turns from the scene amazed, and asks itself If this can be !

And yet, how fancy dreams Of those bright worlds! Tell us, ye unseen influences, Ye that do gather round us in these hours When the impassion'd world lies locked in sleep, And the day's whirl is over tell us here, What are those rolling worlds! Are there bright scenes, Such as we dream of here? Are there fair realms, Robed in such hues as this? Do wild hills, there, Heave their high tops to such a bright blue heaven As this which spans our world? Have they rocks there, Ragged and thunder-rent, through whose wild chasms Leap the white cataracts, and wreathe the woods With rainbow coronets?' Spread such bright vales There in the sunlight, cots and villages, Turrets, and towers, and temples - dwell these there, Glowing with beauty? Wilderness and wild, Heaving and rolling their green tops, and ringing With the glad notes of myriad-colored birds, Singing of happiness - have they these there? Spread such bright plains there to th' admiring eye, Veined by glad brooks, that, to the loose white stones, Tell their complaint all day? Waves, spreading sheets, That mirror the white clouds, and moon, and stars, Making a mimic heaven ? Streams, mighty streams Waters, resistless floods, that, rolling on, Gather like seas, and heave their waves about,