[90:A] The gentleman who reviews this work in the European Magazine,
mentions 'the Royal Oak Lottery,' on the authority of Congreve's "Love
for Love," as particularly ruinous.
[92:A] Mark the regularity of the gradations.
[92:B] Gazette.
[96:A] Original proposals.
[97:A] The artist against whom this advertisement was levelled, "was
Bat Pigeon, whose sign of a Bat and a Pigeon once attracted much
attention, and of whom honourable mention has been made both by Steele
and Addison. Honest Bat had a very handsome house and shop on the
North side of the Strand, a few doors from St. Clement's Church Yard."
European Magazine.
[104:A] Newspapers.
[118:A] A writer in the European Magazine says, he could add _sixty
other schemes_ to my list; I should however imagine my readers are
already satisfied.
[141:A] This amount seems impossible; but the authority from which it
was taken is correctly copied.
[170:A] Poems for Children six feet high, 1757.
[185:A] In other words a Ventriloquist.
[191:A] The worthy Magistrate was right in his conjecture, for highway
robbery is very uncommon at present in the neighbourhood of London.