THE BACHELOR OF THE ALBANY.
The sense to value riches, with the art
T' enjoy them, and the virtue to impart,
Not meanly, nor ambitiously pursued,
Not sunk by sloth, nor raised by servitude;
To balance fortune by a just expense,
Join with economy, magnificence;
With splendor charity, with plenty health:
O, teach us, Bathurst! yet unspoil'd by wealth!
That secret rare, between th' extremes to move,
Of mad good-nature, and of mean self-love.
Spread, Narrowsmith and Co.-Picture of a fine Family-The Reverend Mr. Owlet-Character of Mr. Spread─The Model House in Abercromby Square-The Spreadlings-The celebrated Mrs. Martin-Revolutions of Mrs. Spread's Nursery-Miss Stanley, the Churchwoman-Miss Pickering, the Jobber.
Not very many years back, there existed, at Liverpool, the opulent mercantile firm of Spread, Narrowsmith, and Company. No account of their transactions or enterprises is necessary, as with their commercial history, the sailings and returns of their argosies, we have nothing to do.
It is not in the estate of poverty alone that men become acquainted with "strange bed-fellows." There never sat two men, on opposite sides of the same desk, of characters so utterly at variance