ike a snug country bank.

[_Enter a servant._

"_Servant._--I want change for this draft of Sir Harry Hockley's.

"_Smalltrade._--Very well, how much is it for?

"_Servant._--A hundred pounds.

"_Smalltrade._--What?

"_Servant._--A hundred pounds.

"_Smalltrade._--Mercy on me! you've set me all in a tremble. Draw on
a country bank for a hundred pounds!--why, does your master suppose
himself drawing on the bank of Amsterdam?

"_Plainly._--True, sir; and, if you recollect, we had a large run
upon us yesterday.

"_Smalltrade._--So we had--a very large run! Sir Thomas Roundhead
drew in one draft for the enormous sum of twenty-five pounds, and
here's your master draws for a hundred. Talk of a country bank! the
Bank of England couldn't stand this.

"_Servant._--I can't tell, sir; Sir Harry said he had ten times the
money in your hands.

"_Smalltrade._--So he has, and what then? Doesn't he place money in
my hands that it may be safe; and if he is to draw it out in large
sums, that is, if he is to get it out when he wants it, where would
be the use of a banker?"

In a succeeding scene, Miss Dazzle meets her brother Sir Charles, and
says,--

"Welcome from London, brother! I have just left the idol of your
heart, the charming Henrietta. As usual, the banker's nephew was
attending her.

"_Sir Charles._--Ay, ay, it's all pretty plain, but I won't be
scandalous.

"_Miss Dazzle._--Well, if she's his to-day she'll be yours to-morrow.
I have seen Mr Smalltrade; he talks of becoming a partner; and, if
you play your cards well, Lady Henrietta will be completely in your
power.

"_Sir Charles._--Yes, for when I've won all her money I can be
generous enough to become her protector. Well, sister, we shall ruin
them all."

It will be seen from this, O Cho-Ling-Kyang! that sirs and their sisters
unite with country bankers in setting up a gaming-house--and that the
method of treating a lord's daughter, is to ruin her first at cards, and
in character afterwards. The picture of private life which I have quoted,
is from the works of one Frederick Reynolds; the play was acted with the
greatest applause, and has passed through a great many editions. So there
can be no doubt of its presenting a true image of the usual course of
events in this great and wonderful nat