portraits of tankards, would esteem most capitally adorned: but it
must be confessed, that, amongst these uninteresting performances,
are dispersed a few striking Berghems and agreeable Polemburgs. In
the gallery adjoining, two or three Rosa de Tivolis merit
observation; and a large Teniers, representing a St. Anthony
surrounded by a malicious fry of imps and leering devilesses, is well
calculated to display the whimsical buffoonery of a Dutch
imagination.

I was observing this strange medley, when the Canon made his
appearance; and a most prepossessing figure he has, according to
Flemish ideas. In my humble opinion his Reverence looked a little
muddled or so; and, to be sure, the description I afterwards heard of
his style of living, favours not a little my surmises. This worthy
dignitary, what with his private fortune and the good things of the
church, enjoys a revenue of about five thousand pounds sterling,
which he contrives to get rid of in the joys of the table and the
encouragement of the pencil.

His servants, perhaps, assist not a little in the expenditure of so
comfortable an income; the Canon being upon a very social footing
with them all. At four o'clock in the afternoon, a select party
attend him in his coach to an alehouse about a league from the city;
where a table, well spread with jugs of beer and handsome cheeses,
waits their arrival. After enjoying this rural fare, the same
equipage conducts them back again, by all accounts, much faster than
they came; which may well be conceived, as the coachman is one of the
brightest wits of the entertainment.

My compliments, alas! were not much relished, you may suppose, by