the festival of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th instant. If _I_, however,
cannot allow my name to appear among your list of stewards, ONE at
least of the representatives of Oldborough has no such scruples.
Sir George Gorgon is among you: and though I differ from that
honourable Baronet on more than ONE VITAL POINT, I am glad to think
that he is with you. A gentleman, a soldier, a man of property in
the county, how can he be better employed than in forwarding the
county's amusements, and in forwarding the happiness of all?

"Had I no such scruples as those to which I have just alluded, I
must still have refrained from coming among you. Your great
Oldborough common-drainage and inclosure bill comes on to-morrow,
and I shall be AT MY POST. I am sure, if Sir George Gorgon were
here, he and I should on this occasion vote side by side, and that
party strife would be forgotten in the object of our common
interest--OUR DEAR NATIVE TOWN.

"There is, however, another occasion at hand, in which I shall be
proud to meet him. Your ball is on the night of the 6th. Party
forgotten--brotherly union--innocent mirth--beauty, OUR DEAR TOWN'S
BEAUTY, our daughters in the joy of their expanding loveliness, our
matrons in the exquisite contemplation of their children's bliss--
can you, can I, can Whig or Tory, can any Briton be indifferent to a
scene like this, or refuse to join in this heart-stirring festival?
If there BE such let them pardon me--I, for one, my dear Heeltap,
will be among you on Friday night--ay, and hereby invite all pretty
Tory Misses, who are in want of a partner.

"I am here in the very midst of good things, you know, and we old
folks like A SUPPER after a dance. Please to accept a brace of