hands at parting, like old friends, and having promised to renew my acquaintance before I left Portsmouth, I bade adieu to jolly Jem Buntline and what remained of his noble messmate, the lion-hearted Tom Tackle.

EVENING, AND IN HIGH SPIRITS.

A SCENE AT LONG'S HOTEL.

Sketches of Character

Fashionable Notorieties
Modern Philosophy-The Man of Genius and the
Buck-" A short Life and a merry one"-A Short
Essay on--John Longs-Long Corks-Long Bills
-Long Credits - Long-winded Customers-The
Ancients and the Moderns, a Contrast by Old Crony.

Ye bucks who in manners, dress, fashion, and slang,
So often have hail'd me as lord of your gang-
"O lend me your ears!" whilst I deign to relate
The cause of my splendour, the way to be great;
My own chequered life condescend to unfold,
And give a receipt of more value than gold;
Reveal t' ye the spot where the graces all dwell,
And point out the path like myself to excel.

PURSUITS OF FASHION.

ONLY contrive to obtain the character of an eccentric, and you may ride the free horse round the circle of your acquaintance for the remainder of your life. If my readers are not by this time fully satisfied of my peculiar claims to the appellation of an oddity, I have no hopes of obtaining pardon for the past whims and fancies of a volatile muse, or anticipating patronage for the future wanderings of a restless and inquisitive humorist. But my bookseller, a steady, persevering, inflexible sort of personage, whose habits of business are as rigid as a citizen of the last century, or a puritan of the Cromwell commonwealth, has lately suffered the marble muscles of his frigid countenance to unbend with a sort of mechanical