THE GHOST. BOOK IV. THIS fourth book of the Ghost, is at once the most careless as it is the longest of Churchill's compositions. It is also the most obscure and indistinct in its allusions, the minute elucidation of which would not repay the labour either of the investigation or of perusal when the information should have been obtained. The principal characters are the civic authorities of London, and who ever cared, or now cares beyond the one year of office for the entire staff from my Lord Mayor downwards to Mr. Common Hunt; their dignity is as evanescent as the wit which each successive Mayor facetiously inflicts upon the wretched prisoners in the justice room, eliciting the ready and obedient laughter of the attendant officers and clerks, and duly recorded, par parenthese, in the report of the interesting proceeding of the removal of a pauper, or the conviction of a cab-man. The coronation of George III. forming a prominent feature of the poem, and several of the incidents which really then occurred, being repeatedly adverted to in it, we have, to save the trouble of particular observations, subjoined an account of the ceremonial, as it appeared in the periodicals of the day in the form of a letter, which is so amusingly graphic as at the time to have been considered, as it purports to be, the genuine epistle of a spectator to his country friends, bearing no slight resemblance to De Foe's familiar style, particularly in his account of the Plague. LETTER FROM MR. JAMES HEMING TO A FRIEND IN THE COUNTRY. SIR, As the friendship of Mr. Rolles, who had procured me a pass ticket, enabled me to be present both in the hall and in the abbey; and as I had a fine view of the procession out of |