ting, no doubt, a very handsome recompense would be awarded him by
the court. Expostulation was in vain: Transit, Lionise, and myself were
successively called in and examined very minutely, and although we all
agreed to a letter in our story, and made a very clever ~273~~defence of
the culprit, we yet had the mortification to hear from little Dodd,
who kept the door, and who is always best pleased when he can convey
unpleasant tidings to the Gown, that Echo had received sentence of
rustication for the remainder of the term; and that Eglantine, in
consideration of the imprisonment he had already undergone, and some
favourable circumstances in his case, was let off with a fine and
imposition.

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Thus ended the row of the _Town and Gown_, as far as our party was
personally concerned; but many of the members of the different colleges
were equally unfortunate in meeting the heavy censures and judgments of
authority. I have just taken possession of my _hospitium_, and set down
with a determination _to fagg_; do, therefore, keep your promise, and
enliven the dull routine of college studies with some account of the
world at Brighton.

Bernard Blackmantle.

On what dread perils doth the youth adventure,
Who dares within the Fellows' Bog to enter.

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THE STAGE COACH,

OR THE TRIP TO BRIGHTON.

_Improvements in Travelling--Contrast of ancient and modern
Conveyances and Coachmen--Project for a new Land Steam
Carriage--The Inn-yard at the Golden Cross, Charing Cross--
Mistakes of Pas-sengers--Variety of Characters--Advantages
of the Box-seat--Obstructions on the Road--A Pull-up at the
Elephant and Castle--Move on to Kensington Common--Hew
Churches--Civic Villas at Brixton--Modern Taste in
Architecture described-Arrival at Croydon; why not now the
King's Road?--The Joliffe Hounds--A Hunting Leader--
Anecdotes of the Horse, by Coachee--The new Tunnel at
Reigate--The Baron's Chamber--The Golden Ball--the Silver
Ball--and the Golden Calf--Entrance into Brighton._

~275~~ That every age is an improved edition of the former I am not
(recollecting the splendid relics of antiquity) prepared to admit;
but that the present is particularly distinguished for discoveries
in science, and vast improvements in mechanical arts, every accurate
observer must allow: the _prodigious_