IT is with sincere gratification that I pro claim, for the third time, the banns between this Annual and the Public; for when a work has thus been regularly asked out, there seems a likeli hood that the reader intends to cleave unto it for the future. I am duly sensible of the distinction. The late Dr. Gregory, in his Legacy, has said, that a female ought to be ready to bestow her afi'ection on an admirer, out of mere gratitude for his preference; and on the same principle the Comic feels, and begs to acknowledge, quite a passion for the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public in general.