Note 22 — VARIETIES.
Reading edition
"We seriously lament, that this 'congratulation[22] of living vapours' so foul and pestilential to society, should be suffered to exist in the metropolis, and that the Chief Magistrate of the City of London should be annually compelled to degrade his dignity as the principal guardian of the public peace and morals, by going in state, to license a scene, which constantly terminates in the most fatal abuses."—(Times, Sep. 5, 1796.)