_CHRISTMAS CHAT:_ OR, OBSERVATIONS On the Late CHANGE at COURT, On the different Characters of the INS and OUTS; And on the Present STATE of PUBLICK AFFAIRS. A _DIALOGUE_ Spoke at the Country Seat of one of the _New Ministry_, in the late Holy Days, the Day before his Re-election; _BETWEEN_ Mr. BROADBOTTOM, Mr. OVERALL, Mr. ROSEBAND, Sir JOHN PROBEUM, Mr. SMOOTHWELL, & Mr. BLUNT. --------------------------------------------------------- __LONDON__: Printed for M. COOPER, at the Globe in _Paternoster Row_; 1745. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration] _CHRISTMAS CHAT:_ OR, OBSERVATIONS On the Late CHANGE at COURT, A _DIALOGUE_ ------------------------------------------- _Broadbottom_, Sir _John Probeum_, _Overall_, _Roseband_, _Blunt_, and _Smoothwell_, sitting round a Table at _Broadbottom’s_ House. _Overall_. TRUCE with Politics, I beseech you, Gentlemen.——I gad! ’tis unconscionable to lecture a Man thus at his own House. _Broadbottom_. By no means, Mr. _Overall_; I look upon the Freedom with which my worthy Neighbours here treat me, as an Instance of their Friendship and Regard. _Roseband_. There spoke the Christian and Man of sound Understanding—— _Over_. Pshaw! P—x! What have we Fox-hunters to do with sound Understandings?——Give me a sound Bottom, Parson, and you are welcome to keep your Christianity and sound Understanding for your next _Christmas_ Conversation. Ha, ha! _Blunt_. Right, Mr. _Overall_; I say a sound Bottom too. _Over_. Come, Gentlemen, let the Toast go round.——To all sound Bottoms—No Affront, I hope, to any one here.——What say’st thou, honest _Blunt_? _Blunt_. I say, the Vicar need not make those d——d wry Faces at Toasting the best Thing in Nature.——You have been paying Homage for twenty Years to a _Broadbottom_, and now winch at the naming a _Sound_ one.——Ah! Mr. _Roseband_; the _Jesuit_ sticks to the Cloth in _England_ as at _Rome_. _Smoothwell_. Why so, Mr. _Blunt_? The Words _Sound Bottom_ convey an Idea which Mr. _Roseband_ might wish not to conceive.