And conqu❜rors, whom he loves so dearly, 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 Tom," said he, "would look 66 Right well, hung up beside the Duke 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 excellent subjects!"—Boxiana, vol. i. p. 431. *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!" + 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,- VOL. III. II "Tom's noddle being if its frame “Had but the gilding, much the same 66 And, as a partner for Old Blu, “BILL GIBBONS or myself would do.” Loud cheering at this speech of JOEY'S— Down as a hammer to the Arts! Old BILL, the Black, †—you know him, NɛDDY— (With mug, § whose hue the ebon shames, Reflected in a pint of Deady, Like a large Collier in the Thames) Though somewhat cut, ** just begg'd to say He hoped that Swell, Lord C―st—r—GH, Would show the Lily-Whites †† fair play; * 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. + RICHMOND. § Face. ** Cut, tipsy; another remarkable instance of the similarity that exists between the language of the Classics and that of St. Giles's. In Martial we find "Incaluit quoties saucia vena mero." Ennius, too, has "sauciavit se flore Liberi ;" and Justin, "hesterno mero saucii." ++ Lily-whites (or Snow-balls), Negroes. "And not-as once he did"-says BILL, "Among those Kings, so high and squirish, "Leave us, poor Blacks, to fare as ill "As if we were but pigs, or Irish !" BILL GIBBONS, rising, wish'd to know Says BILL," there's nothing like a Bull: * "And blow me tight,”—(BILL GIBBONS ne'er In all his days was known to swear, Except light oaths, to grace his speeches, Like "dash my wig," or "burn my breeches!") "Blow me -Just then, the Chair, † already Grown rather lively with the Deady, * Bill Gibbons has, I believe, been lately rivalled in this peculiar Walk of the Fancy, by the superior merits of Tom Oliver's Game Bull. From the respect which I bear to all sorts of dignitaries, and my unwillingness to meddle with the "imputed weaknesses of the great," I have been induced to suppress the remainder of this detail. No. II. Vacu, Æneid. Lib. v. 426. CONSTITIT in digitos extemplò arrectus uterque, sed tarda trementi Genua labant, vastos quatit æger anhelitus artus. No. II. Account of the Milling-match between Entellus and Dares, translated from the Fifth Book of the AEneid, BY ONE OF THE FANCY. WITH daddles high upraised, and nob held back, Express, by Nature for the hammering trade; But aged, § slow, with stiff limbs, tottering much, And lungs, that lack'd the bellows-mender's touch. * Hands. Fellows, usually young fellows. § Macrobius, in his explanation of the various properties of the number Seven, says, that the fifth Hebdomas of man's life (the age of 35) is the completion of his strength; that therefore pugilists, if not successful, usually give over their profession at that time.-"Inter pugiles denique hæc consuetudo |