named Baker, whose soft and gentle manners have been in the theatrical oven so long, that she becomes crusty whenever you ask her a civil ques tion. The late Countess of Huntingdon built a Methodist chapel near Mount Misery, a place so named, overlooking the town, and many a miserable creature of that deplorable place is seen upon his knees in it, imbibing the enthusiam and frantic doctrines of the chosen few, who roar and stare the ignorant into a belief of whatever they may please to say. Let it not be thought, from my introducing the many ludicrous tropes and figures in the subsequent lines, that that I mean to throw the least shadow over the white-robed vestment of true religion; no, but to expose those that from ignorance and impudence, by way of subterfuge, have obtruded them upon the ears of an illiterate congregation; for it was from that description of preacher that I gleaned them, and was tempted to put them into the following shape. A METHODIST SERMON VERSIFIED. My sisters and brothers, who hither come crying, And And if you would live, if you never would die, Mark this!--you'll be damn'd, ev'ry cock of you all! You're You're all strangers to faith, for you have not a jot ; He little now thinketh, because he lives well, You don't like to hear of your old friend the Devil; I've touch'd you then, have I?-I've touch'd to the quick! You'd forgot then that cunning old soul-catcher, Nick? How he spreads out his nets, and what trouble he takes ; Just like to that sorc'ress, that wicked offender, All his nets and his brimstone I dare to defy. There There are two other mounts in the same direction, one called Mount Epraim, the other Mount Sion; but were you to ask why they are called so, it would be a difficult matter to learn. The houses upon these mounts are handsomely built and pleasantly situated; some of them the summerresidence of eminent families, others boarding or lodging-houses, for the same description of people. East of the town, on the side of a rising hill, are very elegant villas, embowered with stately groves, forming a sufficient residence for people of the first fashion, something similar to the houses and groves in the upper part of Hampstead, near London. There are few accommodations |