Vacation

.—I. In the Universities, is that interval of leisure, when those Voluptuaries the Heads and Tutors of Colleges indulge themselves in the excess of every sensual and beastly enjoyment.

II. Among lawyers, is that period when, if you take a walk in the Temple, you may see clouds of needy Barristers pacing up and down with a coloured coat and waistcoat, and black rusty breeches and stockings. This is both their Lent, and borrowing time.

III. In the senate, although there is and must be so much important business to transact, yet the vacation with them is eight or nine months in the year. I wonder much that King Pitt does not vote the Parliaments useless at once. And yet these doughty Patriots, these Wise Men of Gotham, have the impudence and effrontery to call themselves Friends fo the People, and men—men who consult the welfare and happiness of the poor and the nation at large!