It is quicker and more safe than private carriages can, in general, be.

It gives you the benefit and honour of early rising.

It shakes one into habits of subordination and obedience, by subjecting you, for the journey, to the command, in fact, of the mail-coach driver and his horses.

It teaches temperance, by allowing you but a few minutes in which to swallow a few mouthfuls of ill-dressed dinner, a cup or two of milk and water, with a slice of dirty bread and butter for a breakfast, and perhaps, at a different hour, a few glasses of log-wood water, instead of port-wine.

It instructs us, not to be squeamishly over delicate in favour of sweet odours. Crammed up in a mail-coach, with males and females of every diversity of years, health, and condition, we necessarily learn fortitude, in the exercise of all our senses, but especially the sense of smell.

It affords one occasion to learn to sit backward in a coach.

It brings us into an acquaintance with

manners and characters, interesting by their comic humour and dramatic effect, which it would be difficult for most persons to gain a knowledge of, in any other cir

cumstances.

It yields such opportunity of recovering damages for the fracture of a leg, or the dislocation of a shoulder, as it would be impossible to obtain, if one met with a similar accident from his own carriage.

If the weather be fair-and you dare venture yourself among the plebeians on the top of the coach-you may enjoy the prospects of the circumjacent scenery. with higher satisfaction, than it is easy to obtain from any other advantage for the survey of rural landscapes.

And when, at last, you alight at HATCHETT'S in Piccadilly-how agreeable to be warned by the crowd and bustle at the doors, by the ready civility of the waiters, by the elegant fitting up of the coffeerooms, by the excellence of the entertainment, and by the enormous dearness of every thing, that you are, now in London!

Sen. In truth, my dear old friends, I cannot but like your excursion to the country, much more than those, of which the results are exhibited in one of the Dialogues between Mr. Testy and myself. But, there was, perhaps, a good deal of Comfort in our Miseries: And I am ininclined to suspect, that there may be Misery in your Comforts. Yet, what with laughing at what are to others, calamities,what with discovering grounds of Comfort, which tempers like mine and Testy's are not forward to discern,-you certainly contrive to make human life appear much less unhappy in the Country, than I had, hitherto, conceived it to be.

Tes. Enough of all this, for the present. It is, now, late in the morning.→ Let us separate.-To-morrow, I shall be glad to hear what you have to say of London.

Chear. I will, with all my heart, give you the meeting. You, Mr. Testy, whatever you may sometimes endeavour to persuade yourself, are already, as appears from your habits of life, and your dislike of

the country, not a little partial to London. You shall find that, in favour of its Comforts, we have at least not less to say, than we have already represented in commendation of the beauties and pleasures of the Country. Shall we meet here, at the same hour, to-morrow morning?

Sen. No;-rather do me the favour to make my library, at my house in St. James's Square, the scene of our meeting and conversation.

Chear-Merry. Willingly.

Tes. I have no objection. There was something congenial between this scene and the subject of our conversation of to-day, which rendered it peculiarly proper for us to meet, on this occasion, in this charming Park. Speaking of the Comforts of London, we may just as well remain within doors.

DIALOGUE THE THIRD.

COMFORTS OF LONDON.

Testy, Sensitive, Chearful, and Merryfellow.

SCENE-Sensitive's House in St. James's

Square.

Sensitive.

WELCOME, gentlemen! I am glad to find you, all, punctual to your appointment. I was, myself, impatient to see you. I have not slept sounder these twenty years, nor had more pleasant dreams, than last night. When I went to bed, I fell, almost instantly, into a deep, refreshing sleep. Towards the dawn, I awoke, in a pleasing state of the spirits. After reflecting on what passed in our conversation of yesterday, I turned my thoughts, for some mi