get your plan put in execution? At the age when young people of fashion do the physical world and the beau monde the honour to beget and produce sons and daughters, they, the illustrious parents, are too busy with the duties of a court, of the ridotto, the opera, the card table, and the pleasures of social intercourse, to have any leisure for su perintending the education of children; so that they wisely make use of the noble privilege of peerage to decide the merits of the question by proxy, without hearing or attending to the arguments.

Aparty always comes in the way to prevent them from attending to the nursery.

Vive la jeunefse! Vive la joye! Vive le beaumonde!

A squib from the American Gazette.

AN APPEAL FROM THE LEGS TO THE HEAD. FOR A MORE EQUAL PARTICIPATION OF RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES. Sheweth,

THAT the legs coming into the world at the same time, and often before the head, the latter cannot, in point of birth, claim any greater privilege than the former.

That the legs have been always of the utmost importance and utility to the bead, conducting it to and from all places of businefs, profit, and pleasure, and were the first who raised it to its present exalted station.

That in armies, the legs have been occasionally found a grand specific against gunshot wounds, bruises, dislocations, and even death itself, by running away with the head to a place of safety; witnefs a late great example, where the legs, by the wonderful and almost unprecedented powers of their swiftness, saved little fhort of four thousand magnanimous, freeborn Frenchmen.

That in many particular clafses of life, the legs actually, and bona fide, support the head altogether, as in couriers,

chairmen, running footmen, dancing-masters, corn-cutters, penny postmen, and rope dancers.

That in consequence of these, and many other similar benefits, of which they are to the head. They conceive they ought no longer to submit to those base offices which are afsigned them.

That it is an hardship, an injustice, and a degree of slavery, incompatible with the rights and privileges of free-horn legs, daily to be obliged to wade through muck and dirt, supporting the whore weight of the head, who often sits up in lazy state, curled, bedizened, and bepowdered.

That the legs are entitled to some nobler capacity, some more elevated situation.

That having nerves as well as the head (the pretended seat of intelligence,) their opinions ought not only to be taken, and their will consulted, but all the arrears due to their birth and long services, fully and completely allowed them.,

That for this purpose, and availing themselves of the pres n topsy turvy disposition of the world: they demand, claim, and insist, that the present position of mankind (which they have arrogantly enjoyed now near six thousand yea s) be instantly shifted, and that all men in future be obliged to stand upon their heads, instead of their legs, an elevation which the legs conceive they have been long since fully entitled to by the laws of rotation, and which they likewise conceive to be most likely to produce that equality of representation, which fhould always be preserved by members of the same body.

Signed by, and in behalf of himself, and the associate legs of Great Britain and Ireland,

April the first,

World turned up-side down.

Bandy leg walk.

LEG BAIL.

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With a figure.

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HE plate that accompanies this number, exhibits a representation of one of the most singular vegetable productions that has been discovered in our late settlement in New South Wales. The stump-is perennial, but the leaves and seed stalk are annual. perennial stump rises to the height of six feet or thereby, is of a conical fhape, and hard consistence; but whether it be internally of a fibrous texture like wood, my information does not enable me to say. On the surface it is covered all over with blind wart like tubercles or excrescences, somewhat resembling the protuberances of pollards, that swell out below the place where the tree has been cut over; but from these no stems ever shoot forth. There oozes out from the whole of its surface a great abundance of a viscid juice, of a yellowish colour, which accumulating in the hollows, becomes a semifluid concretion VOL. Xvii.

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