The English Spy: An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. C. M. Westmacott

R-A-YS OF GENIUS REFLECTING ON THE TRUE

       LINE OF BEAUTY AT THE LIFE ACADEMY,

       SOMERSET HOUSE. (BY T. ROWLANDSON.) 365

       Bob Transit's first appearance as a student. Sketching

       from the Life. Outlines of character. How to grow rich but

       not great. Secrets worth knowing, and Portraits of all the

       Well-known.

      XXXIII.

       BERNARD BLACKMANTLE READING HIS PLAY IN

       THE GREEN-ROOM OF COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. 366

       Portraits of Messrs. C. Kemble, Fawcett, Farley, Jones,

       Farren, Grimaldi, Macready, Young, T. P. Cooke, Chapman,

       Blanchard, Abbott, Cooper, Yates, and the English Spy;

       Mrs. Davenport, Miss Chester, Miss M. Tree, Miss Love, and

       Mrs. Davison.

      XXXIV.

       BERNARD BLACKMANTLE READING HIS FARCE IN

       THE GREEN ROOM OF THE THEATRE ROYAL,

       DRURY LANE. (by T. Wageman.) 367

       Portraits of Elliston, Dowton, Harley, Munden, Knight,

       Liston, Oxberry, Sherwin, Gattie, Wallack, Terry, G. Smith,

       and Barnard, Miss Stephens, Mrs. Orger, Madame Vestris,

       Mrs. Harlowe, and the English Spy. The Likenesses are all

       studies from the life.

      XXXV.

       THE CITY BALL AT THE MANSION HOUSE. 368

       Portraits of the Duke of Sussex, the Lord Mayor (Waith-

       man) and Lady Mayoress, the Sheriffs Laurie and Whittaker,

       Aldermen Wood and Curtis, Sir Richard Phillips, Messrs.

       Hone, Patten, with other well-known Characters.

      XXXVI.

       JEMMY GORDON'S FROLIC. 369

       A Cambridge tale. Vide Peter House.

      ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD

       FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS BY CRUIKSHANK, ROWLANDSON,

       GILRAY, AND FINLAY, ENGRAVED BY BONNER AND HUGHES.

      VIGNETTE ON TITLE PAGE.

       Old Father Time borne away on the shoulders of the Genii,

       Frolic, Mirth, and Fancy.

      1. The Author's Chamber—Index, the bookseller, and Ber-

       nard Blackmantle, projecting a new work

       2. Horatio Heartly reading the "English Spy" to Lady

       Mary Oldstyle 17

       3. A correct view of Eton College from the playing-fields 32

       4. The five principal orders of Eton—Doctor, Dame,

       Colleger, Oppidan, and Cad. A Sketch taken opposite the

       Long Walk 42

       5. The Cloisters, Eton College 58

       6. Herbert Stockhore, the Montem Poet Laureate, a Sketch

       from the Life as he appeared in the Montem Procession of

       May, 1823 59

       7. Accurate View of the Interior of Eton College Hall 96

       8. Interior of Eton School Room 105

       9. The Oxonian reclining, an emblematical design 111

       10. Five characteristic orders of Oxford 113

       11. Portrait of Mr. B—the classical Alma Mater Coachman

       of Oxford 128

       12. View of Christchurch College 129

       13. A Bachelor of Arts drinking of the Pierian Spring 136

       14. View of Bagley Wood with the Gipsy party. An

       extraordinary fine specimen of art, by Bonner. 157

       15. Mother Goose, a portrait 162

       16. Kensington Gardons, Sunday Evening. Portraits of

       well-known fashionable eccentricities 164

       17. Vignette.—he Subject and the Resurrection Jarvey,

       or "Kill him when you want him" 220

       18. Albanians starting for a spree, or Tom Tick on the road

       to Jericho 233

       19. Waiting for bail 240

       20. The Don and the fair of St. Clement's. An Oxford

       scene 243

       21. The University Rake's Progress 273

       22. The newly invented Steam Coach 274

       23. View of the Pavilion, Brighton, from the London Road 286

       24. A Night Scene, or, a rum start near B—— H——l 304

       25. The Widow's ultimatum. A cutting joke, with a most

       affecting catastrophe 313

       26. College Frolics, or catching Urals at Ch. Ch. 325

       27. Roues rusticating in Surrey, or, the first glimpse of

       Banco Regis 363

       28. Term, ends—Adieu to fagging—The High-street, Oxford

      —The Togati in a bustle—The merry good bye 370

THE ENGLISH SPY.

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      Nor rank, nor order, nor condition,

       Imperial, lowly, or patrician,

       Shall, when they see this volume, cry,

       "The satirist has pass'd us by:"

       But, with good humour, view our page

       Depict the manners of the age.

INTRODUCTION.

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      "The proper study of mankind is man."

      A RHAPSODY.

      Life's busy scene I sing! Its countenance, and form, and varied hue, drawn within the compass of the eye. No tedious voyage, or weary pilgrimage o'er burning deserts, or tempestuous seas, my progress marks, to trace great nature's sources to the fount, and bare her secrets to the common view.

      In search of wonders, let the learn'd embark,

       From lordly Elgin, to lamented Park,

       To find out what I perhaps some river's course,

       Or antique fragments of a marble horse;

       While I, more humble, local scenes portray,

       And paint the men and manners of the day.

      Life's a theatre, man the chief actor, and the source from which the dramatist must cull his choicest beauties, painting up to nature the varied scenes which mark the changeful courses of her motley groups. Here she opes her volume to the view of contemplative minds, and spreads her treasures forth, decked in all the variegated tints that Flora, goddess of the flowery mead and silvery dell, with many coloured hue, besprinkles the luxuriant land.

      Here, reader, will we travel forth, and in our journey make survey of all that's interesting and instructive. Man's but the creature