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their pursuit of thought. It also may be quite in-correct to suppose that the break-neck speed withwhich the carriages of our nobles and gentlesdrive over our pavements, is prompted by anyother motive than their owners having the most im-portant matters in hand; which induces them thusto risk their own lives, and the lives of his ma-jesty's subjects. It cannot be believed that allthis haste is to purchase a riband or to leave acard. No, it must be to obtain thoughts—a factindeed which may be fairly inferred by the produc-tions of titled authors and authoresses that haverecently appeared in the gallop of verse, or themore modest pace of prose; many of which mayjustly serve to show that they have not run theircourse in vain.

Had this motive for driving and motion beensuggested to the caricaturist, Gilray, it would havespared him the trouble of satirizing, in a whimsi-cal print, an Honourable, who, he thought, soughtonly distinction by driving his phaeton in the full-town season through Bond Street, Pall Mall, andSt. James's Street: for, while the graphic sati-