The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-07-04 00:00:00

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PETER-PINDA RMS.
THE .4VCTIONEER AND THE LAWYER.

[From the New Motility Maga:ins.]

A City Auctioneer, one Samuel &obits,
Did Kreiger elevation with his hammer,
Assisted by his piano( clamour,
Thin Got aril Magog with their claims d.
ar that gte it Fee-fa-Cent of war,
The Scandiliavian Thor,
Did with his mallet, which (ere Btyant's
Mythology) ftli'd stoutest pasts:—
Fur Smuuel knotted down houses, churches,
Auld woods or osk and elms sod birches,
‘Vith•greater rase than mad Orlando
Tore the first tree be laid his bard to.

He might, in reason, to bare raised his owl
Lot by knocking others' down;
Awl had he berm content with shaking
His bummer sad his hand, sod taking
Advantage of what brought him grist, he
Might have been as rich as Christie;—
Bat somehow when iby midnight hell, Bow,
Sounded along Chespaide its knell,
Oar spark was buy iu Pall-mall
Shaking his elbow,—
Marking, with paw upon his mazzard,
The turns of hazard;
Or rattling in a box the dice,
Which seem'd as if a grudge they bore
To Stubbs: for oftem in a trice,

Down on the nail be was compelPd to pay
All that his hammer brought him in the day,
Aii4 sometimes more.
Thus, like a male Penelope, our wigbt,
What he bad clout by day undid by night,
No wonder, therefore, if, like her,
He was beset by clamorous brutes,
Who crowded round him to prefer
Their several suits.

One Ur. Soipps, the tailor, had the longest
Bill for assay suits—of follow,
Lad astarally thought he had the strongest
Claim for payment.
But debts of honour must be paid,
Whate'er becomes of debts of trade;
Asa so our stylish auctioneer,
From mouth to mouth tbruagboat the pier.
Elevate, falsehoods, pleas alleges,
Oe flatteries, compliments, and p'edges.
Whets is the litter mood use day,
Me squeezed his hand, sad swore to pay.—
" Bet whesi?"—"Plext mouth. You may depend mit
My dearest Salmis, before the end wet—
Yalu face proclaims i■ every feature,
You wouldn't bars a fellow creature—
You're a kind soul, I know you are, Seipp."
" Ay, so you said ale months ago,
But such fine words, I'd have you know,
Butters no parsnips."

ibis said, be ►ade ►is lawyer draw
d 'petal writ,
Serve it es &ebbe, sad follow it
Up with tie utmost rigour of 'be law.

This lawyer was a friend of Stubbs,
That is to say,
to a civic way,
Where bunions interposes not its rubs;
Fur where the main chasm is is question,
Damon leaves Pythias to the stake,
Pylades sad Orestes break,
♦od Akziuder cuts Sephsesthse ;
Mat when ear man of law must sue his friends,
Tenfold politeness made amends.

So when he met our Auctioneer,
lobo his mitstreich'd hand he thnrst his
Writ, and said with friendly leer,
" My dear, dear Stubbs, pray do me josliee;—
in Ibis affair 1 hope you are •
No ectlsure eau attach to me—
nus% entertain a wrong impression i
Vns doing sow what must be done
in ay profession "
" And so am 1," Stubbs answered with a frown,
So crying "Guing—going—going—graue!"
He kuocrd him down'—

Yestevdsy the Duke of Yottc visited hi.
bI AjCITT.

Yertrdsy the Marquis of LONDONDERRY. Via.
rasa M►LVtt.t.E, and the Marquis of HERTFORD,
Lad audiences of the Kum, when the latter deli•
vered to his MAJESTY the ()Mersa St. George and
the Garter, %sum by the late Marquis of HERTFORD,
his father.

Madame CAThLAUI will leave London this day
for Paris, with her son and his tutor, who have ar-
rived iu this country fur the purpose of accompany-
ing her. She will remain in that city fo► two
months, and then proceed to Italy, which she pro-
poses making her future abode.
The Hon. Mrs. Eamon, and some other ladies
of our late Queen en alaorra'S Household, Mlle-
{sting apartments in St. James's Palace, opposite
St. James's-firer', have received notice to quit
immediately, that part of the Palace being des.
tined to be taken down shortly, for the pur-
pow of milling a grand entrance into the Palace.
We feel infinite gratification in apprising our
readers that Ina Grace the Dike of BEDFORD is
mach recovered from his late illness.—(,![fled,
Exeter Paper.)
From the quantity of business before the House
of Carninoits, Parliament is not expected to rise
before the that week in August.
M. DURA ND, Manager of the Repository of
luventintis at Paris, has invented an instrument of
novel and elegant description. which lie calls
tattiffe.insis, and with which, roses and fruit may
be gathered from thorny trees, without sustaiwing
any injury—it is shaped like a pistol.

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