Chapter XXII · SCENE FROM A NEW AFTER-PIECE, CALLED “Politics and Poetry;” or, “The Decline of Science.”
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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.
The Scene is laid in London; principally at the West-end of the Town.
The time is near the end of May, 1835. {277}
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