THIS celebrated actor was, perhaps, in no part so excellent as that of _Romeo_, for which he was particularly fitted by an uncommonly handsome and commanding person, and a silver-toned voice. At the time that he attracted the town to Covent Garden by his excellent performance of his part, Garrick found it absolutely necessary to divide the attention of the public by performing _Romeo_ himself at Drury Lane. He wanted the natural advantages of Barry, and, great as he was, would, perhaps, have willingly avoided such a contention. This, at least, seems to have been a prevailing opinion; for in the garden scene, when _Juliet_ in soliloquy exclaims, "_O Romeo, Romeo_, wherefore art thou _Romeo_?" an auditor archly replied, aloud, "_Because Barry has gone to the other house_." DCLXIX.--BAD SPORT. MR. HARE, formerly the envoy to Poland, had apartments in the same house with Mr. Fox, and like his friend Charles, had frequent visits from bailiffs. One morning, as he was looking out of his window, he observed two of them at the door. "Pray, gentlemen," says he, "are you _Fox_ hunting, or _Hare_ hunting this morning?" DCLXX.--MEASURE FOR MEASURE. THE amiable Mrs. W---- always insists that her friends who take grog shall mix _equal_ quantities of spirits and water, though she never observes the rule for herself. A writer of plays having once made a glass under her directions, was asked by the lady, "Pray, sir, is it _As you like it_?"--"No, madam," replied the dramatist; "it is _Measure for Measure_." DCLXXI.--A PROBABILITY. JONATHAN and his friend Paddy were enjoying a delightful ride, when they came in sight of what is very unusual in any civilized state now-a-days--an old gallows or gibbet. This suggested to the American the idea of being witty at the expense of his Irish companion. "You see _that_, I calculate," said he nasally, pointing to the object just mentioned; "and now where would _you_ be if the gallows had its due?"--"Riding _alone_," coolly replied Paddy. DCLXXII.--LEGAL ADULTERATION. SEVERAL publicans being assembled at Malton, in Yorkshire, in order to renew their licenses to retail beer, the worthy magistrate addressed one of them (an old woman), and said he trusted she did not put any pernicious ingredients into the liquor; to which she immediately replied: "I'll assure your worship there's naught pernicious put into our barrels that I know of, but the _exciseman's stick_." DCLXXIII.--VOX ET PRAETEREA NIHIL. "I WONDER if Brougham thinks as much as he talks," Said a punster perusing a trial; "I vow, since his lordship was made Baron Vaux, He's been _Vaux et praeterea nihil_." DCLXXIV.--SALISBURY CATHEDRAL SPIRE. A SEXTON in Salisbury Cathedral was telling Charles Lamb that eight people had dined at the pointed top of the spire; upon which Lamb remarked that they must have been very _sharp set_. DCLXXV.--AN ACT OF JUSTICE.