_May 16, 1807._ _I Smell a Rat, or a Rogue in Grain._ Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. An exuberant rustic charmer has been entertaining a fashionable visitor in a granary; a party of rustics, mounting the ladder, have disturbed the interview. A powdered, pig-tailed, and lace-ruffled dandy has sought concealment amidst the sacks of grain; his head appears over the barrier in sheer dismay, for a determined farm help, probably the legitimate swain of the indignant damsel, armed with a formidable pitchfork, is making reckless efforts to impale the trespasser; his fury is slightly restrained by the stalwart exertions of the lady, who has buried her fingers in the village Othello's shock head of hair; at his feet is a scroll with the quotation 'I smell a rat, dead for a ducat.' A bill, pinned on the wall, sets forth 'Rats, pole cats, and all sorts of vermin effectively destroyed.' _May 17, 1807._ _The Old Man of the Sea, sticking to the Shoulders of Sindbad the Sailor._ Vide _The Arabian Nights Entertainments_. Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside.--The dandified Sir Francis Burdett is figured as a discontented Sindbad the Sailor; his preceptor John Horne Tooke, in his clerical garments, is perched on his pupil's shoulders, and he is driving him through _The Mire of Politics_, in which he is wading knee-deep. In the distance is shown the baronet's mansion, _Independence and a comfortable home_. From an upper window a lady is waving back the traveller, who does not relish turning his back on this prospect to encounter the _Ministerial Shoals_ and _Treasury Rocks_ which are opposed to his progress on the other side. Horne Tooke is urging on the career of his _protégé_: 'Persevere! persevere! you are the only man to get through.' Burdett's confidence is wavering: 'This old man will be the end of me at last; what a miry place he has brought me into!' _May 25, 1807._ _A White Sergeant giving the Word of Command: 'Why don't you come to bed, you drunken sot?'_ Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand.--A man, past the meridian of life, is calmly enjoying his pipe before his fire, with an agreeable book in his hand, '_Rule a wife and have a wife_.' The young wife is indignantly rating the easy-going husband on his inclination to prefer the fireside to his conjugal couch. _May 29, 1807._ _Comedy in the Country, Tragedy in London._ Published by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside.--_Comedy in the Country_ is played in a barnlike building to an audience of rustics, whose faces express the most intense appreciation. _Tragedy in London_, as performed in a fashionable theatre, has plunged a very select audience into the depths of grief and misery: tears bedew every cheek, and even the members of the orchestra are weeping profusely.