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The INDIGNANTLY vIRTuous CLUBS OF LONDON.


The resolution of certain fashionable clubs ia
London, to blackball every American proposed for
membership, is one of the most amusing examples
Of pseudo-moraliiy in a paroxysm, which has
ever been presented to our notice. per-
SON unacquainted with the character of the
elements of which those clubs are chiefly
composed, would naturally and Innocent


y enough imagine, that they consisted Of the most
honorable, honest, pure, and virtuous men in the
British meropolis-perlect paragons of morality
and rectitude. But when il is considered that the
majority of the members are genteel swindlers,
who prey upon poor tradesmen, and "!lve by their
Wits" as the saying goes, more correct judgment
will be formed OF their pretensions to honesty. II
is notorious fact, that the majority OF the patrons
Of these club.houses never pay even the bills Of
their poor washerwomen, and are constantly driven
to all sorts of shifts and contrivances to escape
those evil genii Of London fashionable life-the
duns. Yet these are the men-the Huntingtowers,
and Stewarts, and D'Orsays and Beresfords-the
gentlemanIy swinders of London, who affect to
.alk of the honor and honesty Of States!