“I must not forget Poll P----n, whose select friends have such cause to be proud of lier election. This Diana is not descended from a member of the Rump Parliament, nor from a bum bailiff; but was the daughter of a bumboat woman at Plymouth. She has, however, since that period, commenced business for herself; and that in such a respectable and extensive line, that she counts exactly seven thousand customers! all regularly booked. What a delectable amusement to keep such a register! _Neanmoins_, or _nean plus_, if you like. It is reported that the noble Y---- was so delighted with her at the Venetian fête given by Messrs. W--ll--ms and D--h--r--ty, that he gave the Virgin Unmasked several very valuable presents, item, a shawl value one hundred guineas, &c. and was honoured by being put on this Prime Minister of the Court of Love's list--number Seven thousand and one! What a fortunate man! “Mrs. H----d is lineally descended, not from William the Conqueror, but from W----s the coachman. She lived, for a considerable time, in a mews, and it was thought that it was his love for the _Muses_ which attached C---- L---- so closely to her. She was seduced at a most indelicately juvenile age by a Major M----l, who protected her but a short time, and then deserted her. Then ~217~~she became what the Cyprians term Lady Townly, till Mr. H----d, a youth with considerable West India property in expectation, married her. “On this happy occasion, her hymeneal flame burned with so much warmth and purity, that she shared it with a linen-draper, and the circumstance became almost immediately known to the husband! This was a happy presage of future connubial felicity! The very day before this domestic exposure, and the happy vigil of Mr. H----d's happier “_jour des noces_,” the darling of the Muses or Mewses, Mr. L---- procured Lady H----d's private box for her at one of the theatres, whither she and Mrs. CI----y, the mistress of an officer of that name, repaired in the carriage of the Mews lover, which has become completely “the Demirep or Cyprian's Diligence,” and these patterns for the fair sex had poured out such plentiful libations to Bacchus, that her ladyship's box exhibited the effects of their devotions! What a regale for the Princess of Madagascar! “The guardians, or trustees, of Mr. H----d now withheld his property, and Madame assisted him into the King's Bench, during which time she kept terms with Mr. L---- at Oxford. On her return, she got acquainted with a Capt. Cr----ks, whom she contrived soon afterwards to lodge, in the next room to her husband, in the Bench; but to whom she kindly gave the preference in her visits.