And truly, of all bowers that ever bowed, including Lord Chesterfield, the Royal inventor of the Prince's bow," the booing Sir Archy Macsycophant, Tom Moore, and his Bowers of Bendermeer, all the admirals of blue, white, and red, with their larboard bows, and starboard bows, all the bow-loving schoolmasters with their "Where's your bow ?" and finally, Macduff and his whole army, who boughed out Macbeth-of all these, no man ever scraped his foot without a scraper, or bent so agreeably to his own bent, as your very humble obedient servant. To be candid I am in the humour to bow-age commands respect to an old post. 'Tis better than bowing to a post obit.

"Oh! my masters !" as the labourer said to the bricklayers after falling through the roof and rafters of an unfinished house, "I have gone through a great deal since you saw me last."

First, there was my narrow escape in the Hoff

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nung off Cuxhaven, so narrow indeed, that I felt upon what is called "the edge of doom," newly ground. I only wonder, that terrible storm, instead of letting me bow to you smilingly like Sir Robert Smirke, did not shake, terrify, and bully, me into a serious writer; solemnly bending as we might suppose Blair to have done with a presentation copy of his "Grave." Secondly, there was my dangerous consultation of complaints, in the Spring, with its complication of High German physicians; namely, two Animal-Magnetisers : three Homœopathics, four "Bad" advisers, and the famous Doctor Farbe. The practice, which does not make perfect, of the first set of sinecure-ists is well known,-The unit doses of the Hahnnemannites have been tried as well as all the orts you have to eat after them; and the "bad" recommendations, have been well tested by thousands of Accums. I need not describe how combining exercise with mineral waters, I walked