Rotation of Comic Songs to be introduced on this particular occasion. “IN PART I. Vocal Medley. Captain Wattle and Miss Roe (by particular desire). Tom Tuck’s Ghost. Song in Praise of Ugliness! The Debating Society. “IN PART II. The Deserter; or, Death or Matrimony. Miss Wrinkle and Mr. Grizzle, and The Tortoiseshell Tom Cat. “IN PART III. THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO; OR, FINE FLEECY HOSIERY. The Marrow-fat Family. Jollity Burlesqued, and Beggars and Ballad-singers. The doors to be opened at six o’clock, and to begin precisely at seven. Boxes, Upper Circle, 4s.; Lower Circle, 3s.; Pit, 2s., Gallery, 1s. N.B. Care has been taken to have the Theatre well aired.” 1810. My reader will find by the following copy of a paper written by the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D.,[340] and read at the Society of Antiquaries’ meeting, 25th January 1810, that the term Swan-_hopping_ is to be considered a popular error. “It appears in the Swan-rolls, exhibited by the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, that the King’s were doubly marked, and had what was called two nicks, or notches. The term, in process of time, not being understood, a double animal was invented, unknown to the Egyptians and Greeks, with the name of the Swan with Two Necks. But this is not the only ludicrous mistake that has arisen out of the subject, since Swan-upping, or the taking up of Swans, performed annually by the Swan companies, with the Lord Mayor of London at their head, for the purpose of marking them, has been changed by an unlucky aspirate into Swan-hopping, which is not to the purpose, and perfectly unintelligible.”[341] 1811. In the summer of this year, the Earl of Pembroke allowed me to copy a picture at Wilton, painted by the celebrated architect, Inigo Jones. It is a view of Covent Garden in its original state, when there was a tree in the middle. The skill with which he has treated the effect is admirable. There is also, in that superb mansion, a companion picture of Lincoln’s Inn Fields by the same artist. 1812. The political career of John Horne Tooke, Esq., is well known, and the fame of his celebrated work, entitled the _Diversions of Purley_, will be spoken of as long as paper lasts. In the year 1811 a most flagrant depredation was committed in his house at Wimbledon by a collector of taxes, who daringly carried away a silver tea and sugar caddy, the value of which amounted, in weight of silver, to at least twenty times more than the sum demanded, for a tax which Mr. Tooke declared he never would pay. This gave rise to the following letter:-- “TO MESSRS. CROFT AND DILKE. “GENTLEMEN,--I beg it as a favour of you, that you will go in my name to Mr. Judkin, attorney, in Clifford’s Inn, and desire him to go with you both to the Under Sheriff’s Office, in New Inn, Wych Street.