Trial

,—a pantomimic farce, where there is a show of justice, who is represented full of eyes, like Argus, to express her impartiality, and a spy-glass to each eye to show that she has an eye upon all. In the centre, upon a kind of bench, sit three old ladies, with cardinals on, by way of a cloak. Round a green table are sitting ten or a dozen priests in sable, with bands on, who expound the mysteries of the place to the old ladies, and to twelve lean, hungry, grunting pigs. In the centre of this groupe, and opposite to the old ladies, sits Innocence in a reclining posture, pale and emaciated, sad and melancholy through long confinement, and bound hand and foot. At the close of the pantomime the pigs grunt out something of an articulate sound, for the most part, as they are taught to do by the three old school-mistresses.