AWFUL VISITATION.
PEOPLE are wondering what could have possessed LADY Emma- LINE STUART WORTLEY so that she should effuse Moonshine. The aristocracy are all possessed—Moon-stricken; and the only pecu- liarity of the noble authoress is, that she is so saturated with the bewitching splendour that she evolves it like a natural lumi- nousness. Her satire has turned to lunar caustic. The Court Circular exposes the cause : it will tell you that the fountain of all lunacy is wandering about in high places—Mr. MOON is all-pervading. He has crept into the Royal presence—the "no- bility and gentry" cannot close their doors and windows against him—he has bitten the City, and is Sheriff-elect—the "Countess of WESTMINSTER," says a daily paper, itself Moon-stricken, introduced him, yesterday, to the King of HANOVER. A message of polite inquiry as to the health of any distinguished person, now, is nothing. but a commission de lunatic° inquirendo.
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