for his guide, and gained the summit. He was
the painter of Nature; for he gave, not merely the ground-plan of the
countenance, but marked the features with every impulse of the mind. He
may be denominated the biographical dramatist of domestic life. Leaving
those heroic monarchs who have blazed through their day, with the
destructive brilliancy of a comet, to their adulatory historians, he,
like Lillo, has taken his scenes from humble life, and rendered them a
source of entertainment, instruction, and morality.

This series of prints gives the history of a Prostitute. The story
commences with her arrival in London, where, initiated in the school of
profligacy, she experiences the miseries consequent to her situation,
and dies in the morning of life. Her variety of wretchedness, forms such
a picture of the way in which vice rewards her votaries, as ought to
warn the young and inexperienced from entering this path of infamy.

The first scene of this domestic tragedy is laid at the Bell Inn, in
Wood-street, and the heroine may possibly be daughter to the poor old
clergyman who is reading the direction of a letter close to the York
waggon, from which vehicle she has just alighted. In attire--neat,
plain, unadorned; in demeanor--artless, modest, diffident: in the bloom
of youth, and more distinguished by native innocence than elegant
symmetry; her conscious blush, and downcast eyes, attract the attention
of a female fiend, who panders to the vices of the opulent and
libidinous. Coming out of the door of the inn, we discover two men, one
of whom is eagerly gloating on the devoted victim. This is a portrait,
and said to be a strong resemblance of Colonel Francis Chartres.

The old procuress, immediately after the girl's alighting from the
waggon, addresses her with the familiarity of a friend, rather than the
reserve of one who is to be her mistress.

Had her father been versed in even the first rudiments of physiognomy,
he would have prevented her engaging with one of so decided an aspect:
for this also is the portrait of a woman infamous in her day: but he,
good, easy man, unsuspicious as Fielding's parson Adams, is wholly
engrossed in the contemplation of a superscription to a letter,
addressed to the bishop of the diocese. So important an object prevents
his attending to his daughter, or regarding the devastation occasioned
by his gaunt and hungry Rozinante having snatched at the straw that
packs up some earthenware, a