On that day there was an uncommonly high spring tide, which overflowed the cellars on the borders of the River, and raised the ice full fourteen feet without interrupting the people from their pursuits. The Protestant Packet of this period observes, that the Theatres were almost deserted. The News-letter of February 15 announces the dissolution of the ice, and with it the "baseless fabrick" on which Momus had held his temporary reign. The above paper enables me to conclude this article, as I began it, with a scrap of doggrel: "Thou beauteous river Thames, whose standing tide Equals the glory of thy flowing pride, The City, nay the World's transferr'd to thee, Fix'd as the land, and richer than the sea. The various metals Nature can produce, Or Art improve for ornament or use, From the Earth's deepest bowels brought are made To shine on thee, and carry on the trade. Here Guilleaum, fam'd for making silver pass Through various forms---- And Sparks as fam'd for brass. There's T----, 'tween God and gold who ne'er stood neuter, And trusty Nicholson, who lives by pewter; Wrote o'er their doors having affix'd their names, We under-writ removed to the Thames, Who on the slippery substance seek their food, Some miles together for the common good. Here healing Port-wine, and there Rhenish flows, Here Bohea-tea, and there Tobacco _grows_. In one place you may meet good Cheshire cheese, And in another whitest Brentford peas; Here is King George's picture, there Queen Anne's, Now nut-brown ale in cups and then in canns; One sells an Oxford dram as good as can be, Another offers General Peper's brandy. See! there's the Mall, and in that little hut The best Geneva's sold, and love to boot. See there a sleek Venetian envoy walks; See here an Alderman more proudly stalks. Behold the French Ambassador, that's he; And this is the honest Sire and Captain Leigh. Here is St. James's street, yonder the Strand: In this place Bowyer plies; that's Lintot's stand." The Societies of the two Temples gave grand entertainments at their Halls to the Lord Chancellor and many of the Nobility in February; but the most remarkable accompaniment to these convivial meetings was the representation of the comedy of _The Chances_, performed within the greater Hall by the Comedians of Drury-lane Theatre.