And twenty more such Pidcock frights-
BOB's worth a hundred of these dabs:
For a short turn up at a sonnet,

A round of odes, or Pastoral bout,
All Lombard-street to nine-pence on it,2
BOBBY's the boy would clean them out!)
"Gemmen," says he-(BoB's eloquence

Lies much in C-NN-G's line, 't is said;
For, when Boв can't afford us sense,

He tips us poetry, instead)— "Gemmen, before I touch the matter, On which I'm here had up for patter,3 A few short words I first must spare, To him, THE HERO, that sits there, Swigging Blue Ruin,4 in that chair. (Hear-hear)-His fame I need not tell,

For that, my friends, all England's loud with; But this I'll say, a civiler Swell

I'd never wish to blow a clouds with !"

At these brave words, we, every one,
Sung out "hear-hear"-and clapp'd like fun.
For, knowing how, on Moulsey's plain,

The CHAMPION fibb'd the POET's nob,
This buttering-up, against the grain,

We thought was cursed genteel in BOB. And here again, we may remark

BOB's likeness to the Lisbon jobber3—
For, though all know that flashy spark

From C-ST-R-GH received a nobber,
That made him look like sneaking Jerry,
And laid him up in ordinary,
Yet now, such loving pals1o are they,
That Georgy, wiser as he 's older,
Instead of facing C-ST-R-GH,
Is proud to be his bottle-holder

But to return to BoB's harangue,
'Twas deuced fine-no slum or slang-
But such as you could smoke the bard in,—
All full of flowers, like Common Garden,
With lots of figures, neat and bright,
Like Mother Salmon's-wax-work quite!

The next was TURNER-nobbing NED-
Who put his right leg forth," and said,
"TOм, I admire your notion much;
And please the pigs, if well and hearty,
I somehow thinks I'll have a touch,
Myself, at this said Congress party.

Though no great shakes at learned chat,
If settling Europe be the sport,
They'll find I'm just the boy for that,

As tipping settlers' is my forte!"

Then up rose WARD, the veteran JOE,
And, 'twixt his whiffs,2 suggested briefly
That but a few, at first, should go,

And those, the light-weight Gemmen chiefly;
As if too many "Big ones went,

They might alarm the Continent!!"

JOE added, then, that as 't was known

| The R-G-T, bless his wig! had shown

A taste for Art (like JOEY's own3)
And meant, 'mong other sporting things,
To have the heads of all those Kings,
And conqu'rors, whom he loves so dearly,
Taken off-
-on canvas, merely;

God forbid the other mode!-
He (JOE) would from his own abode
(The dragon-famed for Fancy works,
Drawings of Heroes, and of-corks)
Furnish such Gemmen of the Fist,"
As would complete the R-G--T's list.
"Thus, Champion Toм," said he, "would look
Right well, hung up beside the Duke-
TOм's noddle being (if its frame
Had but the gilding) much the same-
And, as a partner for Old Blu,
BILL GIBBONS or myself would do."

Loud cheering at this speech of JOEY's-
Who, as the Dilettanti know, is
(With all his other learned parts)
Down as a hammer to the Arts!

Old BILL, the Black,”—you know him, NEDDY—
(With mug, whose hue the ebon shames,

1 A kind of blow, whose sedative nature is sufficiently explained by the name it bears.

2 Joe being particularly fond of "that costly and gentlemanlike smoke," as Dekker calls it. The talent which Joe possesses of uttering Flash while he smokes-" ex fumo dare lucem"-is very remarkable.

3 Joe's taste for pictures has been thus commemorated by the great Historian of Pugilism-"If Joe Ward cannot boast of a splendid gallery of pictures formed of selections from the great foreign masters, he can sport such a collection of native subjects as, in many instances, must be considered unique. Portraits of nearly all the pugilists (many of them in whole lengths and attitudes) are to be found, from the days of Figg and Broughton down to the present period, with likenesses of many distinguished amateurs, among whom are Captain Barclay, the classic Dr. Johnson, the Duke of Cumberland, etc. His parlour is decorated in a similar manner; and his partiality for pictures has gone so far, that even the tap-room contains many ex

1 A turn-up is properly a casual and hasty set-to. 2 More usually "Lombard-street to a China orange." There are several of these fanciful forms of betting-cellent subjects!"-Boxiana, vol. i. p. 431. "Chelsea College to a centry-box," "Pompey's Pillar to a stick of sealing-wax," etc. etc.

3 Talk.

4 Gin.

5 To smoke a pipe. This phrase is highly poetical, and explains what Homer meant by the epithet, vsλNG EPERNS. 6 In the year 1808, when CRIB defeated GREGSON. 7 Praising or flattering.

8 These parallels between great men are truly edifying. 9 Sea cant-a good deal of which has been introduced into the regular Flash, by such classic heroes as Scroggins, Crockey, etc.

10 Friends.

11 Ned's favourite Prolegomena in battle as well as in debate. As this position is said to render him "very hard to be got at," I would recommend poor Mr. V-ns-t-t to try it as a last resource, in his next set-to with Mr. T-rn-y.

4 The Green Dragon, King-street, near Swallow-street, "where (says the same author) any person may have an opportunity of verifying what has been asserted, in viewing Ward's Cabinet of the Fancy!"

5 Among the portraits is one of BILL GIBBONS, by a pupil of the great Fuseli, which gave occasion to the following impromptu :

Though you are one of Fuseli's scholars,

This question I'll dare to propose,-
How the devil could you use water-colours,
In painting BILL GIBBONS's nose?

6 To be down to any thing is pretty much the same as being up to it, and "down as a hammer is," of course, the intensivum of the phrase.

7 RICHMOND.

8 Face

1 Cut, tipsy; another remarkable instance of the simiJarity that exists between the language of the Classics and that of St. Giles's.-In Martial we find "Incaluit quoties 2 From the respect which I bear to all sorts of dignitasaucia vena mero." Ennius, too, has "sauciavit se floreries, and my unwillingness to meddle with the "imputed Liberi ;" and Justin, "hesterno mero saucii." weaknesses of the great," I have been induced to suppress 2 Lily-Whites (or Snow-balls,) Negroes. the remainder of this detail.

While from his gob the guggling claret gush'd,
And lots of grinders, from their sockets crush'd,
Forth with the crimson tide in rattling fragments
rush'd!

No. III.

As illustrative of the Noble Lord's visit to Congress, I take the liberty of giving the two following pieces of poetry, which appeared some time since in the Morning Chronicle, and which are from the pen, I suspect, of that facetious Historian of the Fudges, Mr. Thomas Brown, the Younger.

LINES

Thou, too, t' other brother, thou Tully of Tories,
Thou Malaprop Cicero, over whose lips

Such a smooth rigmarole about "monarchs," and
"glories,"

And "nullidge," and "features," like syllabub slips.

ON THE DEPARTURE OF LORDS C-ST-R-GH AND Go, haste, at the Congress pursue thy vocation

ST-W-RT FOR THE CONTINENT.

Go, Hero of Chancery, blest with the smile

Of the Misses that love and the monarchs that prize thee;

Forget Mrs. ANG-LO T-YL-R awhile,

And all tailors but him who so well dandifies thee.

Never mind how thy juniors in gallantry scoff,
Never heed how perverse affidavits may thwart
thee,

But show the young Misses thou 'rt scholar enough
To translate "Amor Fortis," a love about forty!

And sure 'tis no wonder, when, fresh as young Mars,
From the battle you came, with the Orders you'd
earn'd in 't,

That sweet Lady FANNY should cry out "my stars!"
And forget that the Moon, too, was some way con-
cern'd in 't.

logy, ridiculing the state of mutilation and disfigurement to
which the pugilists were reduced by their combats. The
following four lines are from an Epigram by Lucillius, lib. 2.
Κοσκινον η κεφαλη σου, Απολλοφάνες, γεγενηται,
Η των σητοκοπων βυβλαρίων τα κάτω.
Όντως μυρμήκων τρυπηματα λοξα και ορθά,
Γραμματα των λυρικών Λυδία και Φρυγία.
Literally, as follows:-"Thy head, O Apollophanes, is per-
forated like a sieve, or like the leaves of an old worm-eaten
book; and the numerous scars, both straight and cross-
ways, which have been left upon thy pate by the cestus,
very much resemble the score of a Lydian or Phrygian piece
of music." Periphrastically, thus:

Your noddle, dear Jack, full of holes like a sieve,

Is so figured, and dotted, and scratch'd, I declare, By your customers' fists, one would almost believe

Of adding fresh sums to this National Debt of ours,
Leaguing with Kings, who for mere recreation,
Break promises, fast as your Lordship breaks me-
taphors.

Fare ye well, fare ye well, bright Pair of Peers!
And may Cupid and Fame fan you both with their
pinions!

The One, the best lover we have-of his years,
And the Other, Prime Statesman of Britain's do-
minions.

TO THE SHIP IN WHICH LORD C-ST-R-
-GH SAILED FOR THE CONTINENT.
Imitated from Horace, Lib. 1. Ode 3

So may my Lady's prayers prevail,3
And C-NN-G's too, and lucid BR-GGE's,
And ELD-N beg a favouring gale

From Eolus, that older Bags,4
To speed thee on thy destined way,
Oh ship, that bear'st our C-ST—R—GH,"
Our gracious R-G-T's better half,

And, therefore, quarter of a King—
(AS VAN, or any other calf,

May find without much figuring.)
Waft him, oh ye kindly breezes,

Waft this Lord of place and pelf,
Any where his Lordship pleases,

Though 't were to the D-1 himself!
Oh, what a face of brass was his,"
Who first at Congress show'd his phiz-

1 "When weak women go astray,
The stars are more in fault than they."

2 It is thus the Noble Lord pronounces the word "know-
as far as his own share is concerned,
ledge"-deriving
from the Latin nullus."

3 Sic te diva potens Cypri,

Sic fratres Helena, lucida sidera,

Ventorumque regat pater.

4 See a description of the axos, or Bags of Eolus, in

They had punch'd a whole verse of "The Woodpecker" the Odyssey, lib. 10.

there!

It ought to be mentioned, that the word "punching" is

used both in boxing and music-engraving.

5 Navis, quæ tibi creditum

6

Debes Virgilium.

Animæ dimidium meum.