The life of Chloe affords an admirable instance of the effect with which this species of the art may be exercised by coquettes. At twenty-four, Chloe was a fashionable beauty; at twenty-six she began to paint; at twenty-eight she was--not what she had been; and at thirty she was voted a maiden lady! Or, to use the slang of the loungers of the day: at twenty-four she was bang-up; at twenty-six she was a made-up thing; at twenty-eight was done up; and at thirty it was--all up with her. The Bathos Precipitate is adapted to the capacities of great generals, substantial merchants, dashing bloods, and young ladies who are in haste to be married.[2] For examples of it in the first we must refer you to Juvenal’s Tenth Satire, as this part of our subject is hackneyed, and we despair of saying anything new upon it. For examples of the Bathos Precipitate in trade, you must make inquiries among the Dulls and Bears on the Stock Exchange; they can instruct you much better than ourselves by what method you may be a _good_ man at twelve o’clock, and a bankrupt at one. Upon referring to our memoranda, we find some inimitable examples of this species of the Bathos among the two latter classes of its practitioners. Some of these we will extract for the amusement of our readers:-- Sir Edmund Gulley.--Became possessed of a handsome property by the death of his uncle, February 7, 1818. Sat down 10 Rouge et Noir, February 14, 1818, 12 o’clock P.Μ. Shot himself through the head, February 15, 1818, 2 o’clock A.M. Lord F. Maple.--Acquired great _éclat_ in an affair of honour, March 2, 1818. Horsewhipped for a scoundrel at the Second Newmarket Meeting, 1818. Mr. G. Bungay.--September 1819--Four-in-hand, blood horses, shag coat, pearl buttons. October 1819--Plain chaise and pair. Miss Lydia Dormer.--May 1820--Great beauty, manifold accomplishments, £4000 a-year. June 1820--_Chère amie_ of Sir J. Falkland. The Hon. Miss Amelia Tempest.--(From a daily paper of July 1820.)--“Marriage in High Life.--The beautiful Miss Amelia Tempest will shortly be led to the hymeneal altar by the Marquis of Looney.” (From the same paper of August 1820.)--“Elopement in High Life.--Last week the Hon. Miss Am-l-a T-mp-st eloped with her father’s footman.” Reader,--When we inform you that we ourselves had long entertained a sneaking kindness for the amiable Amelia, you will image to yourself the emotion with which we read the above paragraph. We jumped from the table in a paroxysm of indignation, and committed to the flames the obnoxious chronicler of our disappointment; but the next moment composed our feelings with a truly stoic firmness, and, with a steady hand, we wrote down the name of the Hon. Miss Amelia Tempest as an admirable proficient in the Bathos Precipitate. NICKNAMES. “Lusco qui possit dicere ‘lusce.’”