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A PARODY ON CATO'S SOLILOQUY,*

OCCASION= IT IKIIII SICK WITH DRINKING I.I7NCH OVEN-NICHT, AT •
CLUB DI NIFORD; AID DIMMING A GLASS or WATER, AND RZADING
DZ. CHIITNE'S ESSAY, TUN SNIT MORNING.

It must be so ; Cheyne+, thou reason'st well,
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This earnest longing for a draught of water?
Or whence this secret dread and inward horror
Of drinking punch again? Why shrinks my stomach
Bock on itself, recoiling at the thought?
'Tis faithful instinct that informs within me,
'Ti, Nature's self that points the wholesome liquid,
And intimates that water's made for man.
0, water, water ! soothing, thrilling draught !
Through what variety of mazy windings,
Through what small nerves and fibres wilt thou pass!
Thy vast, thy unbounded virtues lie before me;
But, when I strive to count 'em, strait I'm lost :
Here then I hold.—lf there's a man of ninety,
(And that there is all Scotland cries aloud
Throughout her Highlands) he must delight in water,
And that which such delights in must be wholesome.
But why? or how ?—This world seems made for tipplers.
Begone, ye vain conjectures, straight send you.
See then the double choice I ; my death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me :
This in a month must bring me to an end,
By this supported, I may live till ninety.
Thus of long life and health secure, I smile
At the full bumper, and defy its lyre.
Our club shall all drop off, Taylor himself
Grow dint with punch, and Evans sink with ale ;
But tho., shalt flourish to a green old age,
Unhurt amidst a thousand midnight brawls,

The wreck of bottles and the crush of bowls.

• " I am doubtful," says Malcolm, "whether this Soliloquy doth
not belong to Mr. Iluddesford • still it is in Mr. Granger's (author
of the Biographical History of ingland) writing."
f Cheyne says much in his Essay on the wholesomeness of water,
and the unwholesomeness of punch.
$ A glass of punch and a glass of water, supposed to be on the table.

LAW INTELLIGEA CE.

COURT OF OF KING'S BENCIT, OCTOBER 29.
lIARTER V. LLOYD.

This was an action by the assignees of Messrs. Greato-
rex, of Manchester, bankrupts, against Mr. Lloyd, a
commission-agent in London, to recover sums of money
for which he had not duly accounted to the bankrupts,
and damages arising from the improper mode of deal-
ing which he was alleged to have adopted.
Before the case was opened, it was suggested that the
cause, involving a minute examination of most volumi-
nous accounts, would occupy no le:: than forty-eight
],ours. The Counsel for the defendant expressed their
readiness to consent to a reference, and this course was
strongly recommended by theLonDCHIEFJUSTICH, who
expressed his opinion, that thus only justice could be
satiSfactorily attained. The Counsel fur the plaintiffs,
ated that their clients would agree to no
investigation except in open Court.
SCARLETT then opened the various items of
charge and complaint against the defendant, arising
twin a long course of dealing, in which he had sold
go.9ds on commission for the bankrupts.
The proceedings under the commission were then put
in, for the purpose of establishing the tide of the plain-
tiffs to sue. OtS the face of the proceedings, however,
these. was no sufficient allegation of an act of bank-
ruptcy, and it became necessary to :hew that such act
had been comiuitted. For this purpose, it was proved
that the bankrupts executed a deed, conveying all their)
real and personal estate to trustees ; but it appeared
that on the very day this deed was executed, the corn-
mission was sent for: it therefore became a question for
the Jury, whether the bankruptcy was not concerted;
and, consequently, whether the plaintiff; had proved
the first step in the cause?
The Swerron•GENEftAr., for the defendants re-
newed his offer of referring the whole matter, and stated
that if his offer were accepted, he would waive all ob-
jections to the bankruptcy.
This offer, after considerable hesitation, was accepted,
and the Jury found a verdict f0r,£.5,0(X), the damages
in the declaration, subject to kreference.
The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that no imputa-
tion.ought to rest on the defendant in consequence of
writhing. which, had been opened, especially after the
manner an which he had waived all objection to the
baultruptcy ; for if the Jury had found against the
plaintiffs MS the question of bankruptcy,-he did not see
hdwthey could ever have renewed their claim.