hose to whom in Bath he is particularly
endeared. The smart little fellow driving by in his cabriolet is beau
Burgess, a single star, and one of no mean attraction among the fair
spinsters, who can estimate the merits and admire the refulgence of ten
thousand sovereign attendant satellites.

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Bath is, perhaps, now the only place in the kingdom where there is
yet to be found a four-in-hand club; a society of gentlemen Jehus,
who formerly in London cut no inconsiderable figure in the annals of
fashion, and who, according to our mode of estimating the amusements
of the gay world, were very unfairly satirized, seeing, that with the
pursuit of pleasure was combined the additional employment of a large
number of mechanics, and a stimulus given, not only to the improvement
of a noble breed of horses, but to the acquirement of a knowledge, the
perfection of which in the metropolis is particularly necessary to the
existence of the peripatetic pleasures of his majesty's subjects. Here
we have Colonel Allen, who puts along a good team in very prime style,
and having lately been spliced to a good fortune, is a perfect master in
the _manage_-ment of the bit.

"Squire Richards is, also, by no means a contemptible knight of the
ribbons, only he sometimes measures ~328~~his distance a little too
closely; a practice, which if he does not improve upon, may some day,
in turning a corner, not bring him off right. 'A follower of the Buxton
school and a true knight of the throng,' says old Tom Whipcord in the
Annals of Sporting, 'must not expect to drive four high-bred horses well
with an opera-glass stuck in his right ogle.' A bit of good advice that
will not only benefit the squire if he attends to it, but perhaps save
the lives of one or two of the Bath pedestrians. The leader of the club,
who, by way of distinction from his namesake the colonel, is designated
Scotch Allen, is really a noble whip, putting along four horses in
first-rate style, all brought well up to their work, and running
together as close and as regular as the wheels of his carriage. The
comical little character upon the strawberry pony is the Bath Adonis;
a fine specimen of the Irish antique, illustrated with a beautiful
brogue,and emblazoned with a gold coat of arms. The amours of old
B-----------in Bath would very well fill a volume of themselves; but
the anecdote I gave you in the Pump-room of little Lacy and her paramour
will be sufficien