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Lancaster Gaz. 23 Jan. 3/4: His words came forth like drops from an alembic, he might be deemed a kind of theatrical distiller. ‘If so,’ added a brother of the buskin, ’it is to be hoped that he will rectify his acting’. Lancaster Gaz. 20 Feb. 3/4: He irrefutably proved [...] that his supernaculum was entire composed of rough cyder and British spirits, coloured with the wood called red saunders. Lancaster Gaz. 23 June 4/3: A Knight of the Order of Industry, assuming the liovery of an Irish valetudinarian [...] received the ususal douceur [...] the author of the trick merely intended to raise the wind. Lancaster Gaz. 16 Feb. 3/1: Two men, for a small wager, ran from Skerton to Bolton [...] one of them in his birth-day suit. Lancaster Gaz. 6 July n.p.: Rot thee! thou soft toad! Lancaster Gaz. 24 Oct. 4/4: Boxing or Blackguardism. The match between the infamously celebrated Galley, now the blackguard champion of England, and the big blackguard Gregson, took place on Wednesday. Lancaster Gaz. 19 Dec. 4/1: With a big bottle nose and an acre of chin, / His whole physiognomy ugly as sin. Lancaster Gaz. 20 July 4/1: His galligaskins were of corduroy. Lancaster Gaz. 22 Oct. 4/3: A hawker, or flying stationer, [...] was shouting with all his might and main, ‘Here is the whole trial and sentence of the Crown and Prisoners’. Lancaster Gaz. 4 Mar. 1/5: Grimaldi then applied to another knight of the rattle but who declined to set it going ; the enraged clown then snatched it from him, and sprung it himself, and the thief [...] was soon taken [...] and placed in the neighbouring watch-house. Lancaster Gaz. 14 Jan. 4/3: I have stolen a Rose, it is true / The owner may now wear the willow. Lancaster Gaz. 13 Apr. 4/1: Frank Hayman, once a brother of the brush, Had talent much distinguished. Lancaster Gaz. 30 Nov. 4/1: Al abuses Dol. Dol calls Ala skulker. Lancaster Gaz. 27 Sept. 4/1: ’Tis no new thing for lovers to wear horns. Lancaster Gaz. 27 Sept. 4/1: I could not enter your house in the dead of the night, and take the chance of your shooting me [...] unless i was to get well primed first. Lancaster Gaz. 17 Apr. 3/5: To dine with Duke Humphrey is to go without one’s dinner. Duke Humphrey was ordered to be executed before he had his dinner. Lancaster Gaz. 29 Dec. 4/4: You are a snitcher — you peached — and I scorned you. Lancaster Gaz. 10 Oct. 3/2: There were lots of cracksmen, family men and priggers, but we have not yet heard that they reaped any very great harvest. Lancaster Gaz. 5 Feb. 2/4: A numerous and fashionable assembly met at [...] Royal Oak Inn. [...] The company separated well pleased with ‘Bachelors Fare’. Lancaster Gaz. 16 July 4/5: Dinner was served to the Frenchman’s taste [...] he called for the bill [...] Frenchy swore that the waiter was von great cheat, to charge [etc.]. Lancaster Gaz. 14 Dec. 4/2: Ye want to ken mine [i.e. a name]?, but ye’ll look two ways for Sunday before I’m explicit. Lancaster Gaz. 12 Nov. 4/2: ‘I hardly thought they would have chalk’d the matter o’ that again me’. Lancaster Gaz. 12 Nov. 4/2: ‘A few days before that you were hauled up [...] for abusive conduct and violent conduct’. Lancaster Gaz. 12 Nov. 4/2: Boney [...] his sky-scraper crossed aloft, and [...] Wellington’s head along side of him. Lancaster Gaz. 12 Nov. 4/2: ‘No you honour,’ replied he to the officer, at the same time dowsing the remnants of a three-cornered scraper that had [...] been in the affray. Lancaster Gaz. 12 Nov. 4/2: ‘The truth on it is, I was a little bit slued’. Lancaster Gaz. 14 Aug. 4/2: The landlord — a red, platter-faced man. Lancaster Gaz. 19 June 3/5: Certain scabby sheep, in the shape of semi-papists, renegade-dissenters, and time-saving, self-serving persons. Lancaster Gaz. 2 Apr. 4/3: I am pigeon-livered and lack gall — I think a drop of porter wouldn’t hurt me! Lancaster Gaz. 6 Apr. 4/3: I often feel a palpitation of the heart and a headache, without having been a bit lumpy.