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ATTRACTIONS without means, very generously offered him two guineas per week, for a time, that he might devote himself exclusively to his studies. Being informed that there vere many malicious paragraphs in the papers against Horne Tooke, and that they were mostly written by this same genius; he would not belicve it, till almost forced to the printers of the paper, and shown the hand-writing of the scripts, he was convinced. Some time afterwards, he called on the ingrate, asked him if he had profited by the trifling assistance, and if he had arrived at a state of information to enable him to act for himself. The young man's reply was, "Yes, I thank you for it." What was Mr. Tooke's reply, think you? Oh! bitter enough, no doubt. Only "Good morning, Sir," and no more. If this is not beneficence, what is ? STRANGE NoTICES. At York, "Lodgings for genteel young men, who are taken In a shoemaker's shop window, in Cavendish-street, in, and done for." Brighton, appeared this ludicrous bill, " Wanted here, a respectable woman's man." ATTRACTIONS. DoN SALTERO's CoFFEE HoUSE Of my summer rambles, three places the same day, were often my favourite resorts, some forty years ago. The firsit was Don Saltero's Coffee House, situated in Cheyne Row, at 64