rest, you'll find out more_--seems also to imply a consciousness of such personal satire as it was not prudent to explain. I may add, that the print before us exhibits more than one figure copied from _Callot_. Among the people going along the gallery to raffle for husbands, the curious observer will recognize the _Old Maid_ with lappets flying, &c. afterwards introduced into the scene of _Morning_. Dr. _Johnson_, however, bears witness to the propriety of our great poet's introduction into a satire on the 'disastrous year of national infatuation, when more riches than _Peru_ can boast were expected from the _South Sea_; when the contagion of avarice tainted every mind; and _Pope_, being seized with the universal passion, ventured some of his money. The stock rose in its price; and he for a while thought himself _The Lord of Thousands_. But this dream of happiness did not last long: and he seems to have waked soon enough to get clear with the loss only of what he once thought himself to have won, and perhaps not wholly that.'" It appears from _Pope's_ correspondence with _Atterbury_, that the stock he had was at one time valued at between twenty and thirty thousand pounds; and that he was one of the lucky few who had "the good fortune to remain with half of what they imagined they had."--"Had you got all you have lost beyond what you ventured," said the good Bishop in reply, "consider that your superfluous gains would have sprung from the ruin of several families that now want necessaries."[1] [1] Letters to and from Bishop _Atterbury_, 1782, vol. I. p. 71. * * * * * 1733. 1. The Laughing Audience. "1733. Recd. _Decbr._ 18 _of the Right Honnble. Lord Biron_ Half a Guinea being the first Payment for nine Prints 8 of which Represent a Rakes Progress and the 9th a Fair, Which I promise to Deliver at Michaelmass Next on Receiving one Guinea more. Note the Fair will be Deliver'd next Christmass at Sight of this receipt the Prints of the Rakes. Progress alone will be 2 Guineas each set after the Subscription is over." The words printed in _Italicks_ are in the hand-writing of _Hogarth_. 2. The _Fair_[1] [at _Southwark_]. _Invented, painted, and engraved by W. Hogarth._. The show-cloth, representing the Stage Mutiny, is taken from a large etching by _John Laguerre_ (son of _Louis Laguerre_, the historical painter), who sung at _Lincoln's-Inn Fields_ and _Covent-Garden_ Theatres, painted some of their scenes, and died in 1748. _The Stage-Mutineers_, or _A Playhouse to be let_, a tragi-comi farcical-ballad-opera, which was published in 1733, will throw some light on the figures here represented by _Hogarth_. See also the _Supplement_ to _Dodsley's_ Preface to his Collection of Old Plays, and the "Biographia Dramatica, 1782."