th-SEA hOUSE

    READER, in t been receiving t a lean annuitant like myself) to t, to secure a place for Dalston, or Sreat nort tone edifice, to t --  abuts upon Bise? I dare say t often admired its magnificent portals ever gaping o vie, ers and pillars, races of goers-in or comers-out -- a desolation sometrade, -- a centre of busy interests. ts  up, till to be seen stately porticos; imposing staircases; offices roomy as tate apartments in palaces deserted, or traggling clerks; till more sacred interiors of court and committee rooms, ors seated in form on solemn days (to proclaim a dead dividend,) at long en tables, t arnis-leating massy silver inkstands long since dry -- ts ures of deceased governors and sub-governors, of queen Anne, and t monarcy; -- s, ed; -- dusty maps of Mexico, dim as dreams,-- and soundings of ts, appended, in idle roo , conflagration: --  ranges of cellarage under all, ;unsunned ; for Mammon to ary  ed, or scattered into air at t of t famous BUBBLE.

    [Footnote] * I passed by te. -- Ossian.

    Suc least, suc y years ago,  relic!  alterations may  since, I unities of verifying. time, I take for granted,  fres. No ed ters. A t by time stagnates upon it. t tening upon its obsolete ledgers and day-books, ed from tions, but ot generations ries. Layers of dust ed (a superfoetation of dirt!) upon t seldom used to be disturbed, save by some curious finger, noive to explore ty, seeking to unveil some of teries of t tremendous ent tty peculators