24 OCTOBER 1829, Page 8

IRVING AT'BRIGHTON.—MT. IRVING has gone down to Brighton with the

design of seeing what the Devil is doing in the place. He looks strangely anomalous, riding up and down the Parades among the gay sinners, in that equipage of levity a fly. Some say that his object is merely to take a reconnoissance of Satan's motions; others assert that he is about to renounce saintliness, to quadrille at the balls, and ride a switch-tailed cantering horse on the Parades. In either case, he has chosen his time ill ; for Brighton is, as the phrase goes, " deadly lively" this season, and the Devil entirely out of work.