In other words, from ten in the morning till eight at night.*

Last, and not least-Your Economy?

The support of a House of Call for Summer Flies and Perennial Sponges, who imbibe your wine, and suck up all your substance. Trencher-men, who are taken with the flavour of other men's kitchens, and who prefer their friend's mahogany to their own board, and in the vagrant season of the year, give a decided preference to suburban fare, referring the whole account to Nature," lovely Nature," who is made responsible for their reckless violations of social propriety, while they thrust their obtrusive persons into the space prepared for the less presuming, and which you would desire to see filled with your better-bred friends, who are utterly "pushed

* One of the countless annoyances of a house so situated is, that an early morning-call is not only thought justifiable but is a warrant for an act of ill-breeding, not tolerated or thought of in a city; namely, the introduction of a nursery of young children, from "Baby" up to young Missy and Master, who are at once ushered into your drawing room with their several female attendants, who, with all their vested authority in their own house, prove incompetent, when in another person's, to protect the owner of it from the measureless vigilance which is necessary, in following, with both eyes, the eel-like motions of the little tribe, in order to rescue your favourite baubles, your touch me nots' from the destruction of their rude and mischievous handlings.

from their stools" by these marauders. In short, a large sea-chest would be insufficient to contain the multifarious evils of a 66 Country Box," when opened so near to town, to which Pandora's was a receptacle of blessings.

To sum up the moral of my theme. To be the owner of a "Place out of town," un champêtre réduit, is to become the keeper of a polite inn for thankless travellers, by whom the constant attendance of the landlord can never be dispensed with; having this essential difference-his customers do not pay for their entertainment. To be the keeper of a "Country House" of the aforesaid calibre (i. e. to be the Cake of a "Cake-house"), is to be one who is simple enough to grow, at great care and cost, the best fruits and flowers for the gratuitous enjoyment of his friends and acquaintance, and to buy them at a somewhat less expence for his own. In fine, the ostensible master of such a place is never his own master, although he may be termed the most exalted of philanthropists, for he lives for othersnever to himself.

Oh, gentle Jupiter! give me a strong, well-built tenement, of Belgrave Square, or rus in urbe of the Regent's Park, (a Mignionette-Box) with a porter in my hall cognizant of Bores, and all the lounging tribe of eating, drinking monopolizers of one's time, and controllers of one's liberty;-a man who can

steadily and effectively pronounce the three emphatic and essential words which compose the exclusive, and excluding term of

"NOT AT HOME."

TO THE MESSIEURS OF THE DIURNAL

PRESS.

AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER, FOUND IN THE DESK OF A DECEASED EDITOR.

"I see by my paper."-Vide MATHEWS's Quid Nunc.

LEARNED SIRS !-I am one of those persons who look upon a newspaper as one of the daily necessaries of life; and I cannot relish my morning's tea and toast unless mixed up and digested with the news of the previous day in short, I am what is called A Constant Reader. I am not, however, a politician, neither am I a pryer into Domestic Affairs that are no concern of my own. And it is with pride I add, that I never suffer my eyes to look into Private Correspondence [which I must ever think, when laid open in your columns to general inspection, a most flagrant and unjustifiable breach

of confidence; but this, you will say, is your affair, not mine suffice it, that I never have perused the articles so headed, and never will]. I detest scandal in all its varieties, and therefore skip all paragraphs ; and never read advertisements, unless I find myself in want of a servant or a horse. I take no interest in police transactions, because I consider them low; and as for the space devoted to theatres, I have long since ceased to place any reliance on the conflicting statements of contemporary criticism, which only serve to involve my mind in perplexity and doubt.

Being now a retired London tradesman, and eke a country gentleman residing in the salubrious village of Camberwell, I find myself with so much leisure, that I think it cannot be better employed than in superintending the education of my children (still young, from the circumstance of my not finding time to marry until late in life); and I take a pride in instructing my two boys in all that appertains to the every-day concerns of life, considering such of more value to them than Greek or Latin, --the sons of a Tailor having no further occasion for such learning than to know the meaning of the Roman initials £. s. d., more than which they would unquestionably forget in a much shorter space of time than that employed in the acquire

ment.

In order to qualify myself for the pleasing, though arduous, undertaking I have entered upon, I am careful to inform my own mind upon every matter