Custom House - Dover

CUSTOM HOUSE.

THE travellers are passing their baggage,—which has been conveyed direct from the Packets, and deposited within the railed enclosure,—each being separately admitted to select his own,—for the purpose of examination on the right;—where the innocent and unsuspecting *Spital*—who, doting parent! had not failed to provide certain decorations for his daughter *Polly*, and

“ Thought it best, to place as good

“A face upon it as he cou’d,”

by depositing the valuables *openly*,—is suffering the mortification of a *Seizure*! and thinking himself—“more sinn’d against than sinning.”—

*Débüt* is railling against some imaginary imposition, or other grievance;—

The rest don’t fail, ev’ry nerve to strain,

“To help themse’ves to their goods again,”

While brawny porters are waiting by

For—wafting away each property.