THE METROPOLIS.

Lane, Darling, and Co. Leadenhall-Street.

T

THE

METROPOLIS;

OR,

A CURE FOR GAMING.

Interspersed with

ANECDOTES OF LIVING CHARACTERS IN HIGH LIFE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

BY

CERVANTES HOGG, ESQ.

AUTHOR OF

THE RISING SUN, THE SETTING SUN, &c. &c.

How now, my hearts! did you never see the picture of we three?
Now, Mercury, endue thee with pleasing, for thou speak'st well of fools.

Clown, Twelfth Night.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED AT THE

Minerba-Prefs,

FOR A. K. NEWMAN AND CO.

(Successors to Lane, Newman, and Co.)

LEADENHALL-STREET.
1811.

249.5.450.

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THE METROPOLIS.

CHAP. I.

Sage Advice of a Father to a Son, on leaving the Country for London-A Love Affair, and an Affair of Honour with a Box-lobby Lounger.

"My dear child," said the Reverend Mr. Bonnycastle to his son Brian, on the eve of his setting out from a remote part of Devonshire, on a journey to London,

you are now going to visit either the best or the worst city in the universe, according to the use which you may make of your time, or of the, acquaintance

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