tle, the basin upon a chair, the punch-bowl and comb upon the table,
and the tobacco-pipes, &c. strewed upon the unswept floor, give an
admirable picture of the style in which this pride of Drury-lane ate her
matin meal. The pictures which ornament the room are, Abraham offering
up Isaac, and a portrait of the Virgin Mary; Dr. Sacheverell and
Macheath the highwayman, are companion prints. There is some
whimsicality in placing the two ladies under a canopy, formed by the
unnailed valance of the bed, and characteristically crowned by the
wig-box of a highwayman.

When Theodore, the unfortunate king of Corsica, was so reduced as to
lodge in a garret in Dean-street, Soho, a number of gentlemen made a
collection for his relief. The chairman of their committee informed him,
by letter, that on the following day, at twelve o'clock, two of the
society would wait upon his majesty with the money. To give his attic
apartment an appearance of royalty, the poor monarch placed an
arm-chair on his half-testered bed, and seating himself under the
scanty canopy, gave what he thought might serve as the representation of
a throne. When his two visitors entered the room, he graciously held out
his right hand, that they might have the honour of--kissing it!

A magistrate, cautiously entering the room, with his attendant
constables, commits her to a house of correction, where our legislators
wisely suppose, that being confined to the improving conversation of her
associates in vice, must have a powerful tendency towards the
reformation of her manners. Sir John Gonson, a justice of peace, very
active in the suppression of brothels, is the person represented. In _a
View of the Town in 1735_, by T. Gilbert, fellow of Peterhouse,
Cambridge, are the following lines:

"Though laws severe to punish crimes were made,
What honest man is of these laws afraid?
All felons against judges will exclaim,
As harlots tremble at a Gonson's name."

Pope has noticed him in his Imitation of Dr. Donne, and Loveling, in a
very elegant Latin ode. Thus, between the poets and the painter, the
name of this harlot-hunting justice, is transmitted to posterity. He
died on the 9th of January, 1765.

[Illustration: THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS.

PLATE 3.

APPREHENDED BY A MAGISTRATE.]

THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS.

PLATE IV.

With pallid cheek and haggard eye,
And loud laments, and heartfelt sigh,
Unpitied, hopeless of relief,
She dri