This man's portrait, when in his 73d year, was drawn on the 9th of October 1815, in the parlour of a public-house, the sign of the Twelve Bells, opposite to the famous well of St Brigit, which gave name to the ancient palace of our kings, Bridewell; but which has, ever since the grant of Edward VI., been a house of correction for vagabonds, &c. It is a truly curious circumstance, that this establishment gave name to other prisons of a similar kind; for instance, Clerkenwell Bridewell, and Tothill-fields' Bridewell. Over the entrance of the latter, the following inscription has been placed:-- HERE ARE SEVERAL SORTS OF WORK FOR THE POOR OF THIS PARISH OF ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER; AS ALSO THE COUNTY, ACCORDING TO LAW, AND FOR SUCH AS WILL BEG, AND LIVE IDLE IN THIS CITY AND LIBERTY OF WESTMINSTER, ANNO 1655. Black people, as well as those destitute of sight, seldom fail to excite compassion. Few persons, however humble their situation, can withhold charity from the infant smiling upon features necessarily dead to its supplications, and deeply shrouded from the prying eyes of the vulgar by the bonnet, placarded with PRAY PITY THE BLIND AND FATHERLESS! A lady, on seeing this woodcut, composed the following lines:-- Lo! yonder Widow, reft of sight, A Mother, who ne'er knew The joys which Parents' eyes delight When first their Babes they view. Close to her breast, with cherub smile, The cherish'd Infant lies; And t'wards those darkened orbs the while Lifts its unconscious eyes. Then, Stranger, pause, and yield a gift To Misery's Children due; Lo! e'en yon grasping Miser's thrift Now drops like hallowed dew. M. P. Doctor Johnson, who generally gave to importunate beggars, never failed to relieve the silent blind. Black men are extremely cunning, and often witty; they have mostly short names, such as Jumbo, Toby, &c., but the last seems of late to be the most fashionable, for it has not only been used by the master of Mr Punch, the street-strolling puppet, as a name for that merry little fellow's dog, but by the proprietor of the Sapient Pig. The last negro beggar called Toby, was a character well known in this Metropolis. He was destitute of toes, had his head bound with a white handkerchief, and bent himself almost double to walk upon two hand-crutches, with which he nearly occupied the width of the pavement. Master Toby generally affected to be tired and exhausted whenever he approached a house where the best gin was to be procured; and was perhaps of all the inhabitants of Church Lane, St Giles's, the man who expended the most money in that national cordial. But this man was nothing when compared with a Lascar, who lately sold halfpenny ballads, and whose gains enabled him to spit his goose, or broil a duck; for it is well known, that upon an average he made not less than fifteen shillings per day.