THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIV, No. 383] SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1829. [PRICE 2d. TUNBRIDGE WELLS. [Illustration: TUNBRIDGE WELLS IN 1748. With sketches of Dr. Johnson, Cibber, Garrick, Lyttleton, Richardson, &c. &c. _For Explanation, see the annexed page._] _References to the Characters in the Engraving._ 1. Dr. Johnson.--2. Bishop of Salisbury (Dr. Gilbert.)--3. Lord Harcourt.--4. Cotley Cibber.--5. Mr. Garrick.--6. Mrs. Frasi, the singer.--7. Mr. Nash.--8. Miss Chudleigh (Duchess of Kingston.)--9. Mr. Pitt (Earl of Chatham.)--10. A. Onslow, Esq. (the Speaker.)--11. Lord Powis.--12. Duchess of Norfolk.--13. Miss Peggy Banks--14. Lady Lincoln--15. Mr. (afterwards Lord) Lyttleton.--16. The Baron (a German gamester.)--17. Samuel Richardson.--18. Mrs. Onslow.--20. Mrs. Johnson (the Doctor's wife.)--21. Mr. Whiston--22. Loggan, the artist.--23. Woman of the Wells. Tunbridge, or as old folks still call it, "the Wells," was a gay, anecdotical resort of the last century, and about as different from the fashionable haunts of the present, as St. James's is to Russel Square, or an old English mansion to the egg-shell architecture of yesterday. In its best days, it was second only to Bath, and little did its belles and beaux dream of the fishified village of Brighthelmstone, in the adjoining county, spreading to a city, and being docked of its syllabic proportions to the _Brighton_ of ears polite. The annexed Engraving represents Tunbridge Wells about 80 years ago, or in the year 1748. It is copied from a drawing which belonged to Samuel Richardson, the novelist, and was found among his papers at his death in 1761. The original is in the possession of Sir Richard Phillips, who published Richardson's _Correspondence_, in 1804; it contains portrait figures of all the celebrated characters who were at Tunbridge Wells, in August, 1748, at which time Richardson was likewise there, and beneath the drawing is the above key, or the names of the characters, in the hand-writing of the novelist.