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Rh of "Punch and Judy" was well known and much admired, while

"Our gracious Anne was Queen of Britain's Isle;"

if he reached this country a little before that period, and if the refined theatrical entertainment he offered, so well suited to a highly polished and enlightened nation, were then popular, it will, we think, turn the scale at once, and settle the question for ever.

We find frequent mention of him in the "Tatler," and even the "classical Addison" does not scruple, in the "Spectator," to introduce a regular criticism upon one of the performances of Punch. As the "Tatler," was published earlier in point of date, we will begin by referring to