IN A PARTY OF LADIES, on it being reported that a Captain Se had arrived in town, they exclaimed, with one exception, "What a

name for a soldier!" "The fittest name in the
world," rejoined a witty female,
never can be worsted!"

Correspondence.

AN ODIOUS FELLOW.

There is, Sir, a friend of mine, a very odious fellow, whom I have lately introduced to my youngest sister as a deserving husband for her, and a person I would be proud of for silk calling a brother; but though I really believe the young baggage has no little regard for Mr. Dormer, yet she is too much of a stamp with the generality of the young women now a-days, to declare an esteem for any thing less than a coxcomb. A man of a sensible turn of mind, in this refined age, is but little calculated to succeed with the ladies; and if he unfortunately happens to be an odious fellow, any supposition of encouragement is a piece of unpardonable presumption: a modern lover must sacrifice, like the master of a tavern, every opinion of his own; and the first must be as studious to consult every depravity of taste in his mistress, as the latter is solicitous to gratify the vitiated palate of his customers.

To the Editor of the Tickler Magazine.
SIR,

AS in your last Magazine you have given a
definition of what is generally understood by
the appellation, and what are the general in-
gredients in the composition, of a sweet
creature, I take the liberty of sending you, by
way of supplement, an account of an odious
fellow; which I am pretty well acquainted
with, from the conversation of a couple of
sisters, tolerably handsome, who are very liberal
in bestowing this epithet upon the principal
part of their masculine acquaintance. In the
first place,

Any person who is an enemy to dancing, is, by all manner of means, an odious fellow. To be serious in company, to speak against the vanities of the giddy part of the ladies, or the impertinence of the foolish part of the men, are the certain characteristics of an odious fellow.

An aversion to cards, a propensity to reading, a hatred to scandal, and a favourable opinion of our friends, are strong symptoms of an odious fellow.

A negligence of dress, an inattention to the fashions, a hair out of order, or a speck upon a white silk stocking, are indisputable marks of an odious fellow.

A want of curiosity, an indifference to a red coat, a regard for a pair of doe skin breeches, and a pipe of tobacco, the indubitable signs of an odious fellow.

An unacquaintance with flattery, a veneration for truth, an aversion to be ridiculous, and an esteem for common sense, very strong indications of an odious fellow.

A refusal to laugh at important subjects, an attention to the rules of decency, an observance of respect for people in years, and the least notice of an acquaintance with a dirty shirt, are constitutional ingredients in an odious fellow.

A disinclination to think every woman the finest creature in the world, an abhorrence of insulting merit in distress, a compassionate sense of the sufferings of the world, and a readiness to relieve the misfortunes of all man

kind, complete that despicable character which the ladies distinguish by the name of an odious fellow.

This puts me in mind of a very sensible reply which my landlord at the Bull, in Meriden, in Warwickshire, once made to an Irish LordLieutenant, who stopped at that house on his journey to Parkgate. His Excellency, after some conversation about indifferent matters, at last enquired, whether the keeper of the house was a hig or a Tory; to which he was answered, with a very low bow, I am a landlord, Sir.

But to return, Sir-Some advice from you upon this unaccountable behaviour of the beautiful triflers, might possibly convince them, that, to a handsome face, it is very necessary to add a little understanding; and that, while a woman is foolishly sporting with the happiness of one man, she is, in reality, sacrificing her own. I shall conclude this Letter with a few lines, if I am not much mistaken, to be found in the great Dr. Young's Universal Passion:

UPON A TOMB-STONE IN A CHURCH- with a sincere desire of being serviceable to

Whenever an-observation is to be made with this Barometer, it must be suspended exactly perpendicular, and at a convenient height, so as to be able to place the eye exactly level with the surface of the fluid, when the following particulars will be observable.

If the Barometer be thus placed in the dwellings of malicious persons, it immediately sinks down to Hatred; portending a more dreadful storm, than the ordinary mercurial Barometer, when it falls to Tempest; the latter, 'tis true, oftentimes destroys the estates and lives of mankind, but the hurricane of revenge blasts our reputation, which is dearer than life itself. And till this rage of cruelty has exhausted all its fury, the Barometer retains its situation, after which I have ob served it to rise slowly to Insensibility, where it has remained stationary a long time; but I do not remember it ever attained in such places a higher degree than Variation;-and, indeed, the same may be said with regard to the generality of those houses where I have had the opportunity of making the above experiment.

In such places where my Barometer has mounted to Esteem, I have bserved, that a cloud of false report passing over the instrument, has caused it to descend to Variation, and sometimes down to Sympathy; however, I commonly had the pleasure to see it rise again in the space of five or six days at farthest, and oftentimes attain the height of Intimacy, without stopping by the way; at which height it has generally remained stationary a considerable time, and, in truth, it but very rarely ascends higher; whilst, on the contrary, I have known a storm of disgust to drive it suddenly down to Hatred, where it has remained, without the least alteration, time without mind.

Always before such a surprizing change takes place, the fluid in the Barometer appears concave, or lowest in the middle; the reverse of which is the case when it is about to rise.

Notwithstanding I have made some thou sands of experiments in my time, yet I never knew it to rise oftener than thrice to the point Friendship, which is the greatest as well as the most stationary altitude belonging to the whole scale; and although in those very places I have repeated my experiment a hundred times over, yet I do not once remember its deserting that point, except the infectious breath of mortality unfortunately passed over it, and then only it has been observed to descend with great reluctance down to Intimacy, with regard to another object,

Fashion.

A DANDY STUDENT.
(FROM GLENFERGUS.)

GEORGE CYMBAL had spent four years in
the Scottish Metropolis, from whence he hazi
but newly returned; and where he was as fon‹ă
of walking along Prince's Street as of attending
lectures. His figure had been praised first a
little by his aunt Rachael and her handmaids;
and then a little more, either in jest or earnest,
by the spinsters of Edina; and he resolved to
His costume, on the
make the most of it.
present occasion, was as follows:-A hat, the
inverted frustum of a cone, with a brim about
an inch in breadth; beyond which his hair,
behind and at the sides, was combed and friz-
zled to the size of half-a-dozen hedgehogs.
His coat was a sort of frock, or surtout, lined
with satin, having a collar of velvet half an
inch in breadth, and reaching no higher than
the shoulders; half a foot below which, ter-
minated the waist of the coat at two broad
buttons of japanned iron. The neck of his
shirt rose to the middle of his ears, and was
curiously embroidered; his neckcloth was
black, of great breadth, and as stiff and tight
as an iron hoop. From the neckcloth his vest
of "scanty longitude" kept all due distance,
and opened wide to exhibit a fine cambric
ruffle, stiff and flat, with a small sparkling
brilliant breast-pin of the finest water-below
this it was buttoned tight, to show off the
slenderness of his fine waist-from this de-
scended his trowsers, en militaire, white as
snow, loose, wide, and floating as a Dutch
mariner's of the old school, reaching about
midway between the knee and ancle, their
discal extremities or terminations, as Dr. Wild

used to affirm, filled with small shot, carefully
stitched in the hem, to keep them down. His
buskins were partly of Spanish leather, and
partly of black velvet; and between them and
his trowsers flesh-coloured stockings appeared.
From his neck was suspended, by a sky-blue
ribbon, a quizzing-glass, in a chased mounting
of gold; a ring of the same material and
workmanship, twice as thick as an ordinary
whip-cord, encircled his little finger: and,
lest it should chafe, or the air tarnish the
supposed delicacy of the skin, the hand was
cased in a kid glove of the brightest orange.—
His other hand, equally defended from the
weather, dangled a stick as crooked as a
serpent. A bandana kerchief, of the newest
make, hung from a pocket in the left breast
of his surtout, as low as his knee; and, to
preserve the equipoise, three seals, of moderu
antique workmanship, were suspended on his
right flank by a tri-coloured ribband, ample
both in length and in breadth. As he walked
along, he rolled, as the doctor used to say,
"his humeral and femoral parts" in a very
singular manner; but his trunk and neck were
stiff as though they had been of cast iron,