make them point out where the best gin and purl are to be sold.

In lieu, therefore, of such incongruous marks of public respect, I perceive that a far better mode has been adopted for some years past-I mean that of giv ing the names of eminent characters to new streets, squares, or places, as they are politely called. In this way, the memory of departed worth is likely to be perpetuated to the latest posterity; as the name, thus honoured, must not only appear at the corners of such. streets, but be inserted in deeds and leases (things, I am sorry to say, that are likely to last longer than some of our new houses); and thus posterity, if possessed of any curiosity, may learn the history of the distin guished characters, who, by this contrivance, are made to give themselves "a local habitation and a name."

On looking over the topography of London, I perceive that already a very considerable part of the new t buildings have been dedicated to the memory of our gallant heroes. I discover three Nelson Streets, seven Nelson Places, one Nelson Square, and sundry Nelson Courts and Passages; and, as the latter are generally the habitations of the lower classes, their sons are. early reminded that that gallant and exalted hero was once an unprovided youth, sent to sea with as little interest as themselves, and became the founder of a name that will never perish. But that his memory may be yet more dear, and the glorious circumstances, of his death more frequently revived, I find, among our new buildings, no less than four Trafalgar Places, three Trafalgar Streets, a Trafalgar Buildings, a 1 Trafalgar Row, a Trafalgar Terrace, and a Trafalgar Square.

Nor has the gallant Lord Duncan been unnoticed in these habitable monuments. We have two Duncan Places, a Duncan Street, and a Duncan Terrace. Lord Howe I find unnoticed in this way; not surely

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from want of respect to his merit, but, I presume, because this mode of commemoration was not fashionable when he atchieved his glorious victory of the 1st of June. Lord St. Vincent, however, has not been overlooked, and has all the honours of Vincent Row and Vincent Street. Our more recent and much-lamented hero, Lord Collingwood, already gives a name to two places and three streets.

In the case of Lord Howe, I have endeavoured to account for the neglect of his name. The truth is, that the rage for building, which commenced during the peace, was interrupted by the war; and, after some years, again revived by the influx of foreigners to the kingdom and metropolis. I can trace the practice of naming streets from heroes as far back as the peace of 1783, which gave us two Rodney Streets, a Rodney's Buildings, a Rodney's Court, and a Rodney's Row

Statesmen have not in general been so fortunate; owing, perhaps, to that difference of opinion which prevails with respect to their merit, and which must make a builder hesitate before he gives a name to a street which may not happen to suit the principles of his tenants. We have, however, a few Pitt Streets and Pitt-Places, inhabited, no doubt, by persons who thought well of his measures. Of living characters I shall not speak Further time will; no doubt, be necessaryɔto confirm their fame, before they arrive at the honour of being perpetuated in the topography of Londoned Yet I cannot suppress that Lord Sidmouth has a street and a place, and Mr. Perceval has a street in the vicinity of Clerkenwell.oots/PuPC 4

To so I am, Sir, yours, bas qow th.

A STREET WALKER.".

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[From the Morning Herald, Feb. 1.]

THE people have heard, with delight and surprise,
That his Minister's conduct has op'd the K-'s eyes;
That with just indignation his royal breast burn'd,
When he thought he sGod!
Per- -I's back on him turn'd;
Exclaiming Thank God! I've recover'd my sight,,
For I now see you, Sir, in your own proper light!"

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A WEEPING ORATOR.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.

SIR,

[Feb. 2.]

CONGRATULATE the country on a late exhi-.

bition of eloquence in a certain august Assembly, which was by many thought incompatible with the British temperament, and which is certainly, in a great measure, new to these islands. ad Di

Dr. Adam Smith, in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, mentioning the different nature of Ancient and British Eloquence, states, that it is evident from Cicero's speeches, that he must have frequently wept while he delivered them. The inhabitants of this country are not yet ripe, he continues, for such a spe cies of eloquence; but when they shall have attained a state of refinement, something like that of their continental neighbours, it niay then be successfully introduced. As an illustration of the difference of character between the British and the people of the continent, he says, that an Italian will weep and cry terly for the loss of a few shillings, while an Englishman will frequently hear his sentence of death pronounced, without altering a single feature.

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It seems, however, that we have now attained that anticipated period of refinement, and that the nation is quite ripe for the reception of weeping orators; otherwise I cannot conceive that a certain elevated character, whose judgment would not surely lead him rashly to disgrace his wig, would have thought of in-. troducing the fashion.

We have had an orator, whose manly logic and rapid energy procured to him universally, the appellation of the British Demosthenes-we have had another orator, whose peculiar wildness of imagination was like nothing either ancient or modern-and we may yet occasionally hear from the few surviving companions of these great men, flashes, which preserve to us the memory of their departed excellence. All that reasoning and fancy could do, has been already done, and it remained only to try what weeping could do. The ef fect has been, to be sure, most beautiful; but if that style of cloquence should take, what would become of the poor reporters? The eloquence of words may be easily enough reported, but who can hope to report the eloquence of tears? In its present state, reporting is evidently, inadequate-but I should think, with the improvement which I am about to propose, some idea might be given to the numerous British subjects who are prevented from personal attendance, of this im proved style of oratory. I would propose then, that every reporter should in future be able to paint; and that in those places of the speech where tears and sobbings supply the place of words, he should draw the appearance of the orator. A newspaper establishment might easily afford the additional expense of a wooden cut maker; and I am sure that John Bull would be so tickled with this useful novelty, that an increased sale would inevitably ensue.:

A word or two about the appellation of this new eloquence. A newspaper, professedly for the fashionable

world,

world, thought proper to call it manly-I should suggest, that the term womanly would be most proper.When Jenny wants to move her keeper, she prefers crying to reasoning:-Les raisons d'une femme, says J.J. Rousseau, sont ses cris; et sa plus forte eloquence est des larmes,

A LOVER OF ELOQUENCE,

CHANCELLOR'S TEARS.

[From the County Chronicle.]

WHEN Mr. Burke saw Lord Chancellor Thurlow weep in the course of one of the debates on the Regency Bill, in 1789, he applied the celebrated line,

"Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek."

Mr. Burke attributed Lord Thurlow's tears more to an apprehension of the loss of power, than any other cause. The author of the following lines, however, attaches no such uncharitable motive to the tears of the present LC, upon a recent similar occasion, but piously and classically thus expresses himself:

Mark how his tears so copious flow,
Oh, righteous Judge! how loyal this!
Yet do the drops not useless go,
For-Themor Ucri Theles Upis.

THE WORLD.

[From the British Press, Feb. 2.]

J'ai bien peur, que notre petit globe terraque ne soit precisement les petites maisons de l'univers.

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