and pewter-pots; driving their carriages on the foot-pavement. It is also a favourite achievement with them to hire a carriage, if it so happen they have not one of their own, and drive through the streets of the metropolis at such speed that it is dangerous. to attempt to stop them, throwing soda-water bottles against the windows of shopkeepers as they pass, or sometimes firing pellets through them with air-guns. A detachment of them, composed of silly youths, who have been spoiled for want of the horsewhip, and who are known by the names of the dousers and blinkers, take the gas-lights under their especial care, and sometimes succeed in throwing a whole parish into darkness, and putting the gas-companies to an expense of a hundred pounds for broken glass. This is a feat which the lowest order of Mohocks can accomplish; it may be indulged in by a man who has not a penny to call his own; but the really aristocratic Mohocks have more expensive amusements. They delight to go into low public-houses, with cudgels in their fists, with which they break all the bottles and glasses, to the great delight of mine host, who knows he can make them pay double or treble the damage. They also take pleasure in having rum and gin served up in buckets to prostitutes and cab-drivers; and one Mohock was known to sit astride on a barrel,-naked as Bacchus, and in the position he generally occupies on public-house signs, and in this trim serve out full goblets to about a score of delighted street-walkers and scamps of every degree, hob-nobbing with each until he became as drunk as the drunkest, when he rolled off his barrel, and was carried home to her lodgings by a sympathizing fair one.

But we have done. By such freaks as the latter the Mohocks do themselves more injury than they do others; and rid society of their presence by a process which is agreeable to themselves, and cannot be unpleasing to their heirs. They generally die off between the ages of thirty and forty, worn out, when other people are in their prime. If we could but persuade them of this, there might be some hope that the tribe of the Mohecks, like the tribes of the Mohicans, the Pawnees, and the Delawares, would gradually disappear in the light of civilisation; but we fear that their thoughts do not extend into the future; that present enjoyment is all their care; that they are of the number of those of whom Shakspeare sings in "The Rape of Lucrece," "Who buy a minute's mirth to wail a week, Who sell eternity to get a toy,

And for one grape would all the vine destroy."

There is but one course, perhaps, which can bring them to reason. The true Mohock has an inordinate idea of his own gentility, and his superiority to the vulgar; and, while he can commit any offence, from slaying a man with excess of drink, to running away with a door. knocker, and meet with no worse punishment than a fine, it will be exceedingly difficult to keep him within bounds. But, show him that while his actions are such as have been described, no fine however great can buy him off, until he has passed a few weeks at the treadmill, and all the glory of his vocation will disappear. Ladies who now smile on the man of spirit, who has bullied a magistrate, and paid five pounds, will turn coldly from him who has had his hair cropped, and worn the livery of the house of correction. "A fine, harumscarum fellow,”—“ a youth of mettle,”—“ a delightful, high-spirited

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young man," will be terms no more applied to such as he, but he will be designated even by the fair, who now affect to admire him, as nothing better than a blackguard after all.