CONNOISSEUR.

N° 4793.

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CONTENTS.

VOL. XXXI.

No.

47.

ON

N Macklin's British Inquisition. Speech

on the Question,-Whether the Stage

might not be made more conducive to

Virtue?

.. COL. & THORN.

48. On Christmas. Celebration of it in Town

and Country. On Christmas Boxes.

This Season disagreeable to Persons of

Fashion.

Parliament.

49. Letter containing a Scheme for a Female

-Usefulness of it, and

Objections against it.-Account of the

Covent Garden Society, consisting of

certain Good-natured Females, divided

into Ladies and Commons.

50. On Suicide. Account of the last Guinea

Club. Assembly at White's, a kind of

Last Guinea Club. Different Ways of

Suicide between vulgar Persons and

Persons of Fashion. Punishments for

Suicides proposed. Frequency of Self

Murders in England falsely imputed to

the Climate. Despair, brought on by

Extravagance and Debauchery, a Cause

of Suicide.-Free-thinking another.-

Specimen of a Bill of Suicide after the

Manner of, but distinct from, the com.

mon Bills of Mortality.

51. On Kept Mistresses and Keepers. Cha-

racter of an Hen-pecked Keeper-of a

Keeper, a Married Man-of a Keeper,

DUNCOMBE.

No.

an Old Man. Shifts of Persons in mid-

dling or low Life, who take Girls into

Keeping.

52. Two Letters, from a Pretty Miss in

-and from a Blood in Pet-

Breeches-

ticoats.

53. On Dram Drinking. Rich Cordials (how-

ever recommended by their specious fo-

reign Names) no less pernicious than

Common 'Gin. Letter from an Hus-

band, complaining of his Wife, who

has taken to Drinking by Way of Me-

dicine

DUNCOMBE.

COL. & THORN.

54. On Frolicks. Instances among the Bucks,

&c. and among the Ladies.

55. On a New Sect among the Ladies, called

Evites.

56. On Superstitions in Love. Letter from a

Country Girl, enumerating the several

Tricks which she had tried, in order to

know who was to be her Husband.

57. On the Import and Extent of the phrase

Good Company.

58. Proposal for Pressing all the useless and

detrimental Members of the Commu-

nity, such as-Country Squires-Town

Squires--Bloods-Duellists--Fortune-

Hunters Gamesters-and Free-think-

ers.

59. Superstitions observed in the Country.

60. Proposal to erect a School for Whist for

the Instruction of Young Ladies.

61. On

Sectaries and Enthusiasts. Sects

founded by the lowest Mechanics.

History of Religion, Superstition, and
Atheism.

62. Debates in the Female Parliament, in the

Committee of Religion. Speech of Miss

Graveairs, setting forth that the Female

Dress inclined to Popery. Resolutions

proposed to prevent it. Debates upon

them

63. On Race Horses. Panegyric on White Nose.

Pedigrees of Race Horses carefully pre-

served. Praises of the Jockey. Pro-

DUNCOMBE.