CHAPTER XXII.

SCENE FROM A NEW AFTER-PIECE,

CALLED

“_Politics and Poetry_;” _or_, “_The Decline of Science_.”

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

_PEOPLE OF FASHION_:—

TURNSTILE, _a retired Philosopher, M.P. for Shoreditch_. LORD FLUMM, _a Tory nobleman of ancient family_. COUNTESS OF FLUMM, _his wife_. LADY SELINA, _their daughter_. HON. MRS. FUBSEY, _sister of the Countess_.

_WHIGS_:—

LORD A., _Prime Minister_. CLOSEWIND, _First Lord of the Admiralty_. SHIFT, _Secretary at War_. SMOOTH, _Secretary for the Colonies; also M.P. for Shoreditch_.

_TORIES_ (_Members of the Conservative Club_):—

LORD GEORGE, LORD CHARLES, MARQUIS OF FLAMBOROUGH, DICK TRIM, _a former Whipper-in_,

_SHOREDITCH ELECTORS_:—

HIGHWAY, _a Radical_. GRISKIN, _Colonel of the Lumber Troop_. TRIPES, _his Lieutenant_.

_PHILOSOPHERS_:—

SIR ORLANDO WINDFALL, Knt. R. Han. Guelph. Order, _an Astronomical Observer_. SIR SIMON SMUGG, Knt. R. Han. Guelph. Order, _Professor of Botanism_. ATALL, _an Episcopizing Mathematician, Dean of Canterbury_. BYEWAYS, _a Calculating Officer_.

_Other Lords—Conservative and Whig._

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The Scene is laid in London; principally at the West-end of the Town.

The time is near the end of May, 1835. {277}

SCENES, &c., EXTRACTED.