To state what party he supported.

When thus his answer promptly ran,

(Now give the wit his meed of glory:)

“I’m of no party as a man,

But as a poet am-a-tory.”

TOP AND BOTTOM.

The following playful colloquy in verse took place at a dinner-table, between Sir George Rose and James Smith, in allusion to Craven street, Strand, where the latter resided:—

J. S.—At the top of my street the attorneys abound,

And down at the bottom the barges are found:

Fly, honesty, fly to some safer retreat,