* This celebrated professor played on his musical broomstick at the Haymarket Theatre, November 1751. “Each buck and jolly fellow has heard of Skegginello The famous Skegginello, that grunts so pretty Upon his broomstieado, such music he has made, O, 'Twill spoil the fiddling trade, O, And that's a pity! But have you heard or seen, O, his phiz so pretty, In picture shops so grin, O, With comic nose and chin, O, Who'd think a man could shine so At Eh, Eh, Eh, Eh?” There is a curious Tobacco Paper of Skaggs playing on his broomstick in full concert with a jovial party! One of the principal performers is a good-humoured looking gentleman beating harmony out of the salt-box. ** Certain utilitarians affect to ridicule this ancient civic festival, on the score of its parade, right-royally ridiculous! and gross gluttony--as if the corporation of London were the only gourmands who had offered sacrifices to Apicius, and died martyrs to good living! We have been at some pains to peep into the dining-parlours of the ancients, and from innumerable examples of gastronomy have selected the following, which prove that the epicures of the olden time yielded not in taste and voracity to their brethren of the new:-- The emperor Septimus Severus died of eating and drinking too much. Valentinianus went off in a surfeit. Lucullus being asked one day by his attendant, what company he had invited to his feast, seeing so many dainties prepared, answered, “Lucullus shall dine with Lucullus?” Vitellius Spinter was so much given to gluttony, that at one supper he was served with two thousand several kinds of fishes, and with seven thousand flying fowl. Maximilian devoured, in one day, forty pounds of solid meat, which he washed down with a hogshead of wine. The emperor Geta continued his festival for three days, and his dainties were introduced in alphabetical order. Philoxenes wished he had a neck like a crane, that the delicious morsels might be long in going down. Lucullus, at a costly feast he gave to certain ambassadors of Asia, among other trifles, took to his own cheek a griph (query Griffin'!) boiled, and a fat goose in paste. Hercules and Lepreas had a friendly contest, which could, in quickest time, eat up a whole ox; Hercules won, and then challenged his adversary to a drinking bout, and again beat him hollow.