This worthy needs a passing notice. His birth, and education, were but humble, for he was found, wrapped in a cloth, on the door step of a Church warden, of St. Dunstan's in the East--hence his name of Dunstan. He grew up deformed, and rickety, and, at the age of 12, was apprenticed to a greengrocer, for 9 years--but the servitude galled him, and he ran away, finding employment at Birmingham. He returned to London in 1776 and soon afterwards married--and had two daughters, who were really fine young women. He was squalid, and filthy, in his dress, and got his living by buying, and selling, old wigs. His humour, however, gained him his election for Garrett. The accompanying illustrations shew him in his ordinary dress, as "Old Wigs," and in the superb court suit which he sported at election times. The Election, at last, led to such disgraceful scenes, that even the publicans, who were its chief mainstay, would no longer support it: and Sir Harry Dimsdale, holds the proud pre-eminence of being the last elected Member. [Illustration: Sir Jeffrey Dunstan,--Court Dress.] ROYALTY. Lives of the Georges, and their families, have been written _ad nauseam_, and I did not intend making any notes upon the Royal personages, then living--but I found some few paragraphs, which lie outside regular history, and may interest my readers. "It was rather unfortunate for the Prince of Wales's proxy at the Court of Brunswick, that he should be attacked with the Gout, on the night of the marriage ceremony! Lord Malmesbury continued to be confined to his room when the last accounts came from Brunswick."--(_Times, Dec. 15, 1794._) * * * * * "TO LORD MALMESBURY, "On his being attacked by the Gout, the day he represented the Prince of Wales, in marriage with the Princess of Brunswick:-- "At such a time, the Gout to have, Is much to be lamented, What must the Royal Bride conceive Of him you represented? CUPID." --(_Times, Dec. 16, 1794._) * * * * * "LORD MALMESBURY'S GOUT. "His Lordship's sent to _Brunswick's_ Court By Proxy, there to wed A Royal Princess: as Consort To George, our Prince's, bed. But charms like hers, in bloom of life, Too strong for age to meet: As he approached th' intended wife: _Deprived him of his feet._" --(_Times, Dec. 17, 1794._) * * * * * "THE LAME LOVER, or BRITISH AND FRENCH SYNONIMY. "With coach and six, with servants eight, With liveries spic and span; Too sure, alas! a wretched fate Befel the splendid, _happy_ man. At such a time, as this, the Gout! 'Twas pity, Sirs, and yet 'tis true: The _Proxy's_ good, if Fame's not out-- His Royal Highness has a _Gout_."