Annus Mirabilis; or, A Parthian Glance at 1823. Showing, Among Other Memorable Minutiæ, the Progressive Popularity of Warren’s Blacking.

January. – Intense frosts, and the Serpentine unusually thronged with skaiters. ¹ Mr. Horner ² published a series of engravings taken from the summit of Saint Paul’s; built an attic above the cross, and made divers domestic discoveries with his telescope. A Major Paull, of the Bombay establishment, was caned by his black servant; a wag observed on the occasion, that the negro appeared to have followed Virgil’s advice of “Paullo majora canamus;” ³ the trial came on at Calcutta. A lady in Dyott Street stirred up her husband with a poker. Four pair of old bachelors committed matrimony at Saint George’s, Hanover Square. – / Verdict, Lunacy. ⁴ Warren’s Blacking increased in circulation, by means of 50 additional Agents.