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he is approached by his wife, and bitterly upbraided for his perfidy in concealing from her his former connexions (with that unhappy girl who is here present with her child, the innocent offspring of her amours, fainting at the sight of his misfortunes, being unable to relieve him farther), and plunging her into those difficulties she never shall be able to surmount. To add to his misery, we see the under-turnkey pressing him for his prison fees, or garnish-money, and the boy refusing to leave the beer he ordered, without being first paid for it. Among those assisting the fainting mother, one of whom we observe clapping her hand, another applying the drops, is a man crusted over, as it were, with the rust of a gaol, supposed to have started from his dream, having been disturbed by the noise at a time when he was settling some affairs of state; to have left his great plan unfinished, and to have hurried to the assistance

flection finds a passage to his heart, and he now revolves in his mind the folly and sinfulness of his past life; - considers within himself how idly he has wasted the substance he is at present in the utmost need of; - looks back with

son. His countenance exhibits a picture of despair; the forlorn state of his mind is displayed in every limb, and his exhausted finances,

haps to comfort him - to alleviate his sorrows, to soothe his sufferings:- but the agonising view is too much for her agitated frame; shocked at the prospect of that misery which she cannot remove, every object swims before h

interest, and realise the scene. Over the group are a large pair of wings, with which some emulator of Dedalus intended to escape from his confinement; but finding them inadequate to the execution of his project, has placed them upon the tester of his bed. They would not exalt him to the regions of air, but they o'ercanopy him on earth. A chemist in the back-ground, happy in his views, watching the moment of projection, is not