* That the caricaturist has been out-caricatured by Nature no one will deny. Wilkes was so abominably ugly that he said it always took him half an hour to talk away his face; and Mirabeau, speaking of his own countenance, said, “Fancy a tiger marked with the small-pox!” We have seen an Adonis contemplate one of Cruikshank's whimsical figures, of which his particular shanks were the bow-ideal, and rail at the artist for libelling Dame Nature! How ill-favoured were Lord Lovat, Magliabeeehi, Searron, and the wall-eyed, botde-nosed Buekhorse the Bruiser! how deformed and frightful Sir Harry Dimsdale and Sir Jeffrey Dunstan! What would have been said of the painter of imaginary Siamese twins? Yet we have “The true Description of two Monstrous Children, born in the parish of Swanburne in Buekinghamshyre, the 4th of Aprill, Anno Domini 1566; the two Children having both their belies fast joyned together, and imbracing one another with their armes: which Children were both alyve by the space of half an hower, and wer baptised, and named the one John, and the other Joan.”--A similar wonder was exhibited in Queen Anne's reign, viz. “Two monstrous girls born in the Kingdom of Hungary,” which were to be seen “from 8 o'clock in the morning till 8 at night, up one pair of stairs, at Mr. William Sutteliffe's, a Drugster's Shop, at the sign of the Golden Anchor, in the Strand, near Charing-Cross.” The Siamese twins of our own time are fresh in every one's memory. Shakspere throws out a pleasant sarcasm at the characteristic curiosity of the English nation. Trinculo, upon first beholding Caliban, exclaims,--“A strange fish! were I in England now (as I once was), and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian” This great wonder never was shown in England before this, the 13th day of March, 1741. “Vivat Rex.” Peckham * and Blackheath Fairs are abolished;---- * Peckham Fair, August 1787.--Of the four-footed race were bears, monkeys, dancing-dogs, a learned pig, &c. Mr. Flockton in his theatrical booth opposite the Kentish Drovers, exhibited the Italian fantocini; the farce of the Conjuror; and his “inimitable musical-clock.” Mr. Lane, “first performer to the King,” played off his “snip-snap, rip-rap, crick-crack, and thunder tricks, that the grown babies stared like worried cats.” This extraordinary genius “will drive about forty twelve-penny nails into any gentleman's breech, place him in a loadstone chair, and draw them out without the least pain! He is, in short, the most wonderful of all wonderful creatures the world ever wondered at.”