are nominated by the dean and head-
master.

What a cloud of recollections, studded with bright and variegated
lights, passes before my inward vision! Stars of eminence in every
branch of learning, science, and public duties, who received their
education within those walls; old Westminsters, whose fame will last as
long as old England's records, and who shall doubt ~85~~that will be to
the end of time? Here grew into manhood and renown the Lord Burleigh,
King, Bishop of London, the poet Cowley, the great Dryden, Charles
Montague, Earl of Halifax, Dr. South, Matthew Prior, the tragedian
Rowe, Bishop Hooper, Kennet, Bishop of Peterborough, Dr. Friend, the
physician, King, Archbishop of Dublin, the philosopher Locke, Atterbury,
Bishop of Rochester, Bourne, the Latin poet, Hawkins Browne, Boyle, Earl
of Cork and Orrery, Carteret, Earl of Granville, Charles Churchill, the
English satirist, Frank Nicholls, the anatomist, Gibbon, the historian,
George Colman, Bonnel Thornton, the great Earl of Mansfield, Clayton
Mordaunt Cracherode, Richard Cumberland, the poet Cowper. These are only
a few of the great names which occur to me at this moment; but here is
enough to immortalize the memory of the old Westminsters."

ON FEASTERS AND FEASTING.

On the Attachment of the Moderns to Good Eating and
Drinking--Its Consequences and Operation upon Society--
Different Description of Dinner Parties--Royal--Noble--
Parliamentary--Clerical--Methodistical--Charitable--
Theatrical--Legal--Parochial--Literary--Commercial and
Civil Gourmands--Sketches at a Side-table, by Bernard
Blackmantle.

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"There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
Without one hour of sickness or disgust."
--Armstrong.

In such esteem is good eating held by the moderns, that the only way in
which Englishmen think they can celebrate any important event, or effect
any charitable purpose, is by a good dinner. From the palace to the
pot-house, the same affection for good eating and drinking pervades all
classes of mankind. The sovereign, when he would graciously condescend
to bestow on any individual some mark of his special favour, invites
him to the royal banquet, seats him _tete-a-tete_ with the most polished
prince in Europe; by this act of royal notice exalts him in the
public ey