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Age (London) 29 May 21/2: As the act of horse-whipping had, been lately practised with such effect, he was of opinion that ass-whipping might be as effectually adopted—and that as he had lately had occasion to leather a rascal or two. Age (London) 22 May 14/3: It was distinctly avowed by the defendants that [a proposed victim] ‘was a rich man, and could bleed well!’. Age (London) 29 May 21/2: [The journal] might overcome the rogues, who seemed to take every means to ‘come over’ us. Age (London) 15 May 7/3: A notorious duffer, named Joseph Wren, was charged with defrauding a young countryman of 5l. Age (London) 29 May 21/2: He was of opinion that ass-whipping might be as effectually adopted [...] he had lately had occasion to leather a rascal or two. Age (London) 12 June 37/2: And Elgin (‘you’ll nose in the lobby’) / The marbles he managed to bag. Age (London) 10 July 6/1: Lord Valletort’s been rather puzzled / To know ‘how many beans make up five’. Age (London) 15 May 5/2: And bung’s* gone in brewing, with calvert a stew in [...] *whitbread has invariably gone by the name of bung, since the last Middlesex Election. Age (London) 26 June 53/1: And Hume ne’er makes you sick, / In casting up accounts. Age (London) 31 July 93/1: Glengall replied [...] ‘Wine—pooh—its cherry brandy.’ ‘I should rather think,’ said Raikes, ‘its cherry bounce’ . Age (London) 31 July 94/3: Ned Stockman is [...] on a charge of having assisted in cleaning out his friend Mr Richard Crouch, to the tune of £352 flimsey. Age (London) 15 May 5/2: Young Lambton, from Durham, determin’d to stir ’em, / Posts on, as he would were he ‘posting the coal’ . Age (London) 24 July 85/1: John Walpole, that selfish self lover, / No longer ‘au palais’ mounts guard, / For he’s scarce time to fire and recover, / Little ***********’s duty’s so hard. Age (London) 15 May 5/3: There's Arthur the queer, erst who horn'd my Lord Deerhurst, / And Lord Arthur Bum too, who gets up a play. Age (London) 31 July 94/3: [T]heir old ‘pal,’ young Ned Stockman, once the cock of the walk among the light-weights,-and always the friend and patron of the light-fingers. Age (London) 17 July 76/2: [T]he reader has [...] been horrified by a recitation of the ‘cruel murder’ of one person—of another taking in arsenic for physic, and being consequently taken off. Age (London) 26 June 53/2: Of the persons who have instigated the whole transaction, we know quite enough to satisfy us that they deserved the ‘turn out’ with which the stewards visited them. Age (London) 24 July 88/1: [H]e was [...] open mouthed, his pompey heaving. Age (London) 15 May 5/2: Notorious Scarlett, that shuffling varlet, Who ratted from Cambridge when no chance he saw. Age (London) 12 June 37/2: But Deerhurst, though known to be scaly, Had not even sole to propose. Age (London) 26 June 55/3: Curiosity led me to [...] take a smack of ‘genuine Port,’ which it appears, the proprietors can command through their connections in Portugal. Age (London) 31 July 94/3: Ned was nibbled on this queer charge as he was toddling from his roost [...] by that staunch spoil-prig, Bond, sen., who brought him forthwith to this office. Age (London) 7 Aug. 100/3: He vins all he can, and then touches, d’ye see. Age (London) 31 July 90/3: There was a certain nightly and morning ceremony [...] and accordingly bottom of that recipient which was indispensable in the ceremony [...] was decorated with an image of [Twiss] and the following rhyme was painted beneath:— ‘On thee I — / Poor Dicky Twiss’. Age (London) 3 July 61/1: [W]hat with a little wet outside, and then stopping now and then on the road to take a little inside. Age (London) 8 Jan. 6/1: Miss Martha Smith, one of the frail sisterhood, dressed in the very height of fashion, and covered with a magnificent Leghorn bonnet, trimmed profusely with sky-blue Sarsenet; a rich purple silk pelisse, &c. was brought from the watch-house. Age (London) 8 Jan. 6/1: [T]he defendant [...] came up to her, exclaiming ‘I’ll smack your ugly chops,’ at the same time [...] she gave the complainant so violent a blow on the mouth, as caused the claret to flow profusely:. Age (London) 19 June 5: The Turk , and his Ladies, all held a divan, / To settle the fate of the vile English Man, / When Pacha determined to have him bowstrung, / And the ladies all begged that he might be well hung. Age (London) 4 Sept. 296: By the way, how will our friend Tom [Duncombe, a well-known womaniser] like being styled ‘Superintendant of French Letters Department? Age (London) 5 June 178: ‘Good wine needs no bush,’ said Finsbury Tom to the Boston Bibo. ‘No!’ answered swipey, ‘but it does need a bird in the bush’.