ACCOUNT OF CANALS, DOCKS, BRIDGES, WATER-WORKS, INSURANCE AND GAS-LIGHT By Messrs. WOLFE and EDMONDS, No. 9, 'Change-Alley, Cornhill. (July 21st, 1821.) 54,000 23 10 58 10 18 10 33 847 11 11 103 THE LION'S HEAD. WE have received the subjoined Letter from Mr. Herbert-the explanation is best given in his own words. SIR-I know not how a copy of my letter to a friend, descriptive of the late Coronation, fell into your hands; but as you have thought fit to print it, I trust you will correct an error which has crept into the account. You make me state, that the Marquis of Anglesea had considerable difficulty in managing his horse during the retreat: this was not the fact. My Lord Howard of Effingham (tenderly be it spoken) was troubled in his departure, and did not make, what the old nurses call, a good end; but the Marquis rode gracefully and nobly. And I must beg that you will do him justice with your readers, by correcting the passage. I cannot conclude without expressing my deep sense of the honour you have done me, by placing my post-office prose in so intelligent and pleasant a work as the LONDON MAGAZINE. May I try my hand again ? * Albany, Aug. 1821. I am, Sir, yours respectfully, EDWARD HERBERT. The Theban, who requests us to address D. D. soars far beyond the limits of the LONDON MAGAZINE: witness The meditation fix'd, the silentness Of yon lone figure on the dark shore sitting, So weltering in abstraction. This is our condition, after reading our Correspondent's verses. T. T. T.'s lines to " my Mary," are not amiss for a lover rising fifteen. We shall be glad to hear from him again upon his coming of age. Colin has sent us a Summer Pastoral, and says that he can supply us with one every month.-Has he always got sheep in his pen? Beta's proposal of Scripture Sonnets, " two a month or so,”—is kind, but we have no desire to see the Scriptures cut up into sonnets. His Poem on Fame will bring neither him nor us any. Fenicia is put under cover as desired. J. W. has not "the Honour of addressing -." The lines addressed to a Catalpa are ingenious, but they want more than we can give them to become good poetry. We abjure the "Ghosts' of L. " A Constant Reader having read in our "last Work, No. II. entitled the Drama, or Theatrical Magazine," that the Champion at Covent Garden "has backed himself into our good graces;" urgently requests that the public should know (after the manner of Bottom's interpretation of himself) that the Champion is not the Champion, but Mr. Collett, formerly Riding Master of Mr. Astley's Amphitheatre, the old original Blood Red Knight. We have not received the "Trifles forwarded by ." There are three of our Correspondents all using this signature. The Packet from B received. is * Yes. LION'S HEAD. |