* “At the New Red Lion Cockpit, near the Old London Spaw, Clerkenwell, this present Monday, being the 12th July 1731, will be seen the Royal Sport of Cock-fighting, for two guineas a-battle. To-morrow begins the match for four guineas a-battle, and twenty guineas the old battle, and continues all the week, beginning at four o'clock.” ** “Mulberry Gardens, Clerkenwell.--The gloomy clouds that obscured the season, it is to be hoped, are vanished, and nature once more shines with a benign and cheerful influence. Come, then, ye honest sons of trade and industry, after the fatigues of a well-spent day, and taste of our rural pleasures! Ye sons of care, here throw aside your burden! Ye jolly Bacchanalians, here regale, and toast your rosy god beneath the verdant branches! Ye gentle lovers, here, to soft sounds of harmony, breathe out your sighs, till the cruel fair one listens to the voice of love! Ye who delight in feats of war, and are anxious for our heroes abroad, in mimic fires here see their ardour displayed! “Note.--The proprietor being informed that it is a general complaint against others who offer the like entertainments, that if the gentle zephyrs blow ever so little, the company are in danger of having their viands fanned away, through the thinness of their consistence, promises that his shall be of such a solidity as to resist, the air!”--Daily Advertiser, July 8, 1745. The latter part of this picturesque and poetical advertisement is a sly hit at what, par excellence, are called, “Vauxhall slices.” the Shakspeare's Head Tavern and Jubilee Gardens; * the New Tunbridge Wells, ** * In 1742, the public were entertained at the “Shakspeare's Head, near the New Wells, Clerkenwell,', with refreshments of all sorts, and music; “the harpsichord being placed in so judicious a situation, that the whole company cannot fail of equally receiving the benefit.” In 1770, Mr. Tonas exhibited “a great and pleasing variety of performances, in a commodious apartment,” up one pair. ** These once beautiful tea-gardens (we remember them as such) were formerly in high repute. In 1733, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Caroline frequented them in the summer time, for the purpose of drinking the waters. They have furnished a subject for pamphlets, poems, plays, songs, and medical treatises, by Ned Ward, George Col-man the elder, Bickham, Dr. Hugh Smith, &c. Nothing now remains of them but the original chalybeate spring, which is still preserved in an obscure nook, amidst a poverty- stricken and squalid rookery of misery and vice.