Dot punted for sale Occasional LECTURE. "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear that hears it, never in LEEDS. PRINTED FOR JOHN CROSS: MDCCCXL. 592. ADVERTISEMENT. ABOUT the year 1814, the Lady Morley paid a passing visit to her particular friend, Mrs. Frere, at DowningLodge, Cambridge. Being Being a woman of fine talents, and with all the curiosity belonging to them, she made it her business to see every thing in and about the University as completely as she could; and being pleased with every thing, she intimated to Mrs. Frere that she would come again in a fortnight, see and hear more fully what she had seen and heard so imperfectly; that she was pressed for time (as these fashionables always are) and that the Professors of the University were, on her return, all of them to appear at the Lodge, and exhibit, each, a specimen of his art before her. The following Lecture was found among the papers of the late Professor Smyth, and must have been intended for this occasion. It is written on the backs of letters, and is probably as it first came from his pen. Some of the allusions cannot now be understood. He was accustomed, as we have heard, to make passing references in ballads and light compositions like the present, to the whims and peculiarities of the people |