If Peeping Tom of Coventry were to put on the Bloomer Costume, and be
carried in a sedan chair, by two black men, from the Marble Arch to the
Menai Bridge, why would he resemble Mr. Macaulay, on a snowy day, and
with an achromatic telescope in his left hand, taking shelter about
eleven o'clock in a pastrycook's shop anywhere in the City?