[160] To mark the midnight hour, each of the watches is a quarter after twelve.
[161] This reverend gentleman is said to be intended for Mr. Platell, once curate of Barnet.
[162] A copy of this figure on a larger scale is engraved by Mr. Bartolozzi.
[163] The following whimsical notice, written by a believer in transmigration, was a few years ago sent to several country gentlemen, accompanied with a request that the contents might, if possible, be communicated to all the fish and fowl, birds and beasts, in their respective manors:—
"A WARNING TO BIRDS, BEASTS, AND FISHES.
"Bustards, pheasants, woodcocks, widgeons,
Wild-ducks, plovers, snipes, and pigeons;
Every fowl of every sort,
To your native haunts resort.
Turbot, salmon, herring, soles,