A Hundred Years Ago
"Tun SPECTATOR," MAY 11.rn, 1833.
IN PARLIAMENT: NEWSPAPER_ ADVERTISEMENTS.—Lord ALTHORP,
On Monday, when the House went into a Committee on the Stamp' duties Act, moved that' a duty of Is. 6d. be imposed upon every newspaper advertisement,' instead of the graduated duty proposed on bringing forward. the Budget..
• TIPTOE PORTRAITS.
' • TO M. LE REHM/TECH OF. THE SPECTATQR.
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SIGNOR—Viil you grant leave to a poor StudenM7 gstht., taof at Rome, to ask to the great Sara MARTIN- 8zrzt, iry -he always Luke's, paint the Marquis of 1!-F.a.zsr.Ey on his tipe-toe I and vy the Portrait Painters, Inglish, always (except. Yu:Km) prefer the, tipe-toe to the flat-foot 7- • • " _ I am very desirous to take all the knowledge I can to my countrie, and I would be much, obliged, if the President of. the English Academy, 'would instrilet Inc. in "the face 'of 'the'wad: — ; Piwiab SAith,-Siiideñt ét 'Rome.
RS. Perhaps he vomit say-brier-void, tin-he tiVeTthe medal and the lecture ; and then I vi,ll come again. from: Rome, because all the students, Russian, Spsulish,, French, Swedish, Portuguese, fq14 German; a7fe' Very atrkiciits- tbsknovi
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