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Loa" y,L-• - . — vs. . . 7- ! , ;i ; ? , • . v 1 1 1 • I ( .4 rt . 3- '1 A ."* ..S ~.- 5 3i i..7,.. ':—... t's'.• . • ~.., .. . . \cf• . : ?,, • - • Si it— All persons who know the drudgery and anxiety, • • which an'. of his MAJEsTT's Ministers undergo, in fulfilling the respective duties of their situations, would be inclined not to wonder that Ministers resign ; but wonder that Noblemen and Gentlemen are found so readily, to take upon them selves such arduous duties. It appears that a certain degree 54 excitement and labour, is absolutely essential to human comfort; and the fact is, notwithstanding appearances, that it is the retirers from ollice that are absolutely to be pitied, and not those who are coming into all the toils, and troubles, which acceptance of such arduous occupations, renders in evitable. Having taken these and similar circumstances into consideration, I have had made, for sale, a new article, which I cannot but think would be very essential to the comfort, both mental and corporeal, of many in this overgrown metropolis. The article I allude to, is a species of small tread-mill, to be termed " The Domestic Tread- Mill," to distinguish it from the larger kinds for penal purposes ; and, if you will allow me, I will point out tho great advantages of such an invention. In the first place—not to leave the "privileged orders," of whom I have been discoursing—how very useful a domes tic tread-mill would be to our retiring Ministers ? The late LORD CHANCELLOR, for instance, who has had the inex pressible felicity of not having had one hour to himself— or to use the common expression, that he could call his own —ever since his elevation to the woolsack, instead of feel ing all the horrors at nothing to do, by keeping a domestic t. sad-mill and mounting it, at the usual Court hour, might really quite forget that he was out of place ; and get him self, one would suppose, more comfortably fatigued, than if he had been perplexing his poor head, with the concerns of his unruly Wards, or driving himself half into lunacy by agreeably inquiring into the lunacy of others. I should think, too, that his labours in re tread-mill, would prove quite as refreshing to his animal spirits, as his labours in plodding through the eternal asseverations of your " ora tor " in a Bill in Chancery ; or in sifting through all the heterogenous hotch-potch of Scottish and English laws, in that interesting melange called a Scottish Appeal. I am very confident, that many' suitors to the Court of Chancery might likewise be much benefitted, both in health, spirits, and purse, by treading their hour on a domestic tread-mill, instead of wearing their shoes out, by pacing over the floor of the earthly purgatory in Lincoln's Inn. To think of his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, being condemned to the tread-mill, I have no doubt will shock many of his admirers, among whom I am proud to reckon myself ; and yet, poor man ! they have seen him, ever since he took upon him his late official duties, subjected to labour, much more incessant, and more ex hausting, both to the inward and outward man, than if he had taken his spell, for as many hours each day, on a domes tic tread-mill. Lest, therefore, he should feel the horrific approach of the demon, Ennui, during his retirement, I pro pose that he be presented by the public, in gratitude for his services, with one of my domestic tread-mills ; by which he may be just as busily employed at Strathfieldsay, es he has been for the last two or three years, at Downing-street. There are several of our senators who " strut their little hour" on the stage of St. Stephen's Chapel, who might, I am sure, with equal advantage to their worthy constituents, be allowed to tread their little hour away, upon one of my do mestic tread-mills. They might then make motions without any opposition, and probably those made on the Domestic Tread-mill, would be quite as important to society as any they could make in the aforesaid dignified assembly. Innumerable evils might be prevented by the general in troduction of my intended new invention. Thus, he that is driven to the gaming table, just to fill up the weariness of a nothing-doing existence, if he were to keep a Domestic Tread-mill, might accomplish his object without impoverish ing his purse. Even it might be beneficially used to in crease the comforts, and obviate some of the inconveniences, of matrimonial life.—Thus, a wife wbo is apt to be too fre quent, or too long, in her visits to Howell and James's, might perhaps be induced by her husband to fill up her time, much more innocently, and safely, on the domestic tread mill ; and even, sometimes, a fair daughter might not be the worse for taking a spell on the same machine. I do not know, Sir, whether you have ever seen a public tread-mill—but if you have not, you probably may have seen a squirrel in a cage, or a dog in an old fashioned jack—the beauty of these inventions is, that the person who is doomed to them, is in constant activity : he has quite enough to do—he never has to complain of the tedium vitae, or ennui. The tread-mill is so contrived, that Le who has mounted it, and neglects to tread down his spoke or step, gets a severe rap on the legs, which re minds him that he is off duty. My domestic one will be a copy of the larger ones, in every respect. After all, Sir, what are we all about in this life, but treading on such a mill ?—What is human life ? An inces sac round of occupation ; till, worn out, wo drop from the mill, to let another get up in our place.—Some Poet says— Oh ! what a tiresome round we mortals keep ; We walk and talk—we eat and drink, and sleep. And such only, is life—if we cannot occupy it in adding to the comforts of those around us—in soothing their afflic tion—and leaving behind some proof that we have not existed solely, in our own selfish enjoyments. Vale.— Ga. zette of Variety. THE LATE MINISTRY. The following paragraph is from a threepentry tract, pub lished by CA RuLE, entitled "The Prompter." We do not know how highly the Duke of Wellington may appreciate judgment from such a quarter, even when eulogistic; but we give the paragraph as a curiosity, and containing much truth :-- " The late Ministers were precisely such men u the Aristocracy of the country had need to keep in office, and their overthrow in the House of Commons is an evidence that the Aristocracy is losing its power, amidst the distresses and consequent desperation of the people, the dif ficulties of the Government, and the growing force of public opinion, excited by the late examples] of France and Brussels. The acts of the late Ministers are now a part of the history of the Aristocracy; and, considering all things, they were not more obnoxious than any Admi nistration that had preceded them. The last did not copy all the faults of former Administrations, nor did it increase the number. Ex cepting the very natural, aristocratically natural, declaration of the Duke of Wellington against all reform of the House of Commons, his opponents may be challenged to state a fault in his political character as a minister of the Aristocracy. The clamour that has been raised : , gainst him has been an unfair clamour, and should have been directed against the system which the Duke had inherited, and had been pledged ir preserve, and not against the minister and the man. The end of tlisinheriting him, and of shaking the system, would have been equally obtained, and by more honourable means. In office, the Duke has been a most industrious, and a most kind and polite man, dying what no minister ever did before him, in answering kindly, with his own hand, all the civilly written, though often silly letters, which are heaped upon a man in such an office. No jack-in-office, of any de. glee, has laboured in office as the Duke has laboured, and honestly laboured, in a consistent and open support of that which he had under. taken to support, Enemies as well as friends have found from him the same attention. The difference of pledge excepted, it is very doubtful whether we shall find a better-hearted man filling the office. The next Minister must take office under.other pledges; sod if the Duke would have yielded to the necessities of the people, instead of supporting the' wanton resistance of the Aristocracy to those necessities, his states manship at home would have eclipsed his generalship abroad. With some apology fur Lord Goderich, the Duke is the best-hearted and bonestest man that has filled that office in England. There is nothing to be gained but honour, nothing evinced but fair play, in a defence of a defeated administration, which we should not have defended had it remained in office. We see too clearly the difficulties that any fu ture administration has to contend with. in its efforts to prop the pre sent system, and none that shall be formed will exist three months together with lee unpopularity than that which fell to the lot of the last. The Duke has beer. a brave man in office, as well uin the field; his error has been a falling into the circumstance of not sufficiently knowing the badness of the system he had to defend, and the strength of the necessity for change that had been formed in the public mind. The successful soldier has been defeated in the Cabinet. Had the Duke thrown himself among the people, and could he have found the King's consent so to do, he would have been the greatest man of the day or of history." LdW REPORTS. COURT OF ICING'SBENCH, Nov. 23. IN ERROR. WZLLESLET T. NZ W. DZ CIZSPIOSY. This man action to recover damages against Mr. Wellesley for the publication of a libel of and concerning Sir W. de Crespigny, Bath The declaration contained many counts, and several pleas of justified., were alleged. fhe judgment of the Court below was against the de. fendant on those pleas of justification. The cause then went for der. mages. A general verdict was found for the plaintiff, Sir W. de Cres. pigny, and the damages assessed at one thousand pounds. A writ of error was then brought, and the plaintiff in error alleged there were two defective counts in the declaration. Mr. PLATT now contended that the libel which contained a chop that the father of W. de Cresp4ny bad been guilty of an illicit inter. course with Miss .—.—. had not pointed out the person of the lady in a way to constitutes libel. It was, he said, a charge of illicit inter. course with a Miss Nobody. (A laugh.) The dash after the word Miss left the reader in the dark as to the person, and consequently it was not a libel. The Coons were unanimously of opinion that the charge had been distinctly made in the declaration, and gave judgment for Sir W. De Crespigny. They were clearly of opinion there was no ground to reverse thejudgment of the Common Pleas. DOWESTIC TREAD.MILL Novsminit U. Mr. CLARKE rose to show eitiseagainbla rule obtained by the At. tovney-GeneraL Lord Tatman's (smiling)—Then you must defer your argument, for the Attorney-General is not in Court. Sir J. SCARLETT, who was in his usual place in the inner bar at this moment, good-humouredly bowed to the Bench, upon this obser vation of his Lordship. Mr. CLARKE, in the same spirit, explained that the rule in questisn was obtained by Sir James Scarlett, and proceeded to argue against it. The question under discussion was one of no importance. EXOPARTE KING. Sir J. SCASLETT applied fora rule to show cause why a writ of I Habeas Corpus should not be issued, for the purpose of bringing up Henry Joseph King, who was at present confined in a mad-house, near Bristol, as a lunatic, for the purpose of his being discharged. The ap plication was made upon the affidavit of a physician, who deposed that the appearance of insanity exhibited by Mr. King, at the moment he was consigned to the mad-house in question, arose out of the circum stance of his having indulged too freely in the use of spirituous liquors, but that new all appearance of aberration of mind had completely dis appeared. Under these circumstances, he (Sir J. Barlett) trusted that the Court would accede to his application. Rule to show cause granted. INSOLVENT DERTORti . COURT, Nov. 24. Richard Rooke. described as a general merchant, was opposed on his application to be discharged by Mr. Nicuota.a, on behalf of William Bree, a Hamburgh merchant. Mr. BARRY opposed for Mr. Henn, and Messrs. COOKE and WOOD itorrs supported the insolvent. From the circumstances it appeared that the insolvent commenced trading as a merchant in 1808. In 1817 he became bankrupt, and his debts at that time amounted to 1,0001 Under this commission no dividend had been paid. In 1834 be again became a bankrupt, owing the sum of 18,8001 and the snood cosmaisolon likewise realised no dividend, owing to the saineamipment at his assignees. In 1820 he became insolvent, and peddeasi this Cowl Bs relief, his debts amounting at that time to 1,0011. awl his estate yislidied no pro perty to his creditors. His present debts Rom which be sought to WI disdiarged, were about 3,0001 and now, es en his foe c ra h eephcation, he had no available assets. The insolve n t isailenrent a examina tion as to the nature of his present debts, Aida were y bill trans.' actions. He stated that in course of bamboo ha had been introduced to the firm of Messrs. Ridges, hardwaro.manthstureee, trading at Rh. mingham, and having assured himself of their solving, it was asd between them that they should transmit their acceptances to him. This they did to a large amount; the insolvent got them dhcountsd, and, forwarded in return both cash and goods, but not to an extent suffi cient to cover the amount of their acceptances. Soon afterwards the Messrs. Ridges became bankrupt, and the bills the insolvent had re ceived had been paid away in his mercantile transactions. t John Belt examined—Winiess resides in America-square. Was the agent of Mr. Bite, of Hamburgh, and sued the insolvent on two bills of exchange, to which he pleaded the general issue. Thomas Clark, clerk to Mr. Lewis, of Crutched.frius, put in the pleading to the action " Bra y. Rooke," and said the costs had been double by not permitting judgment to go by default. Mr. Nimrod.* contended that the insolvent could have no loess :Medi in this Court, without the consent of three-fourths of his cre. ditors. Mr. LURAY, on behalf of Mr. Henn, contended, with his learned friend, Mr. Nicholls, that the Insolvent should have come prepared with the consent of the majority of his creditors. Mr. Cooza said that his client had been unfortunate In his mercan tile speculations. If his estate had been properly managed under the second bankruptcy, 10s. in the pound would have been realized. It was, he said, greatlyi n his favour that a creditor, named Witham who had proved under the second commission for nearly 10,000 L h ad, subse quently, conceived so good an opinion of the insolvent, that he had given him credit for 8001. The learned gentleman said that he saw nothing like vexatious defence to the action, and concluded by stating that the insolvent stood fairly before the Court for the obtainment of his discharge. Mr. Commissioner Bowzx said, although no case had been made out against the insolvent under any pena l clause of the act of Parlia ment, yet he could not allow that he hada locus stanclibr this Court, in which it was invariably setdown as a rule, thatan eases where persons had been found to deal in accommodation bills within five years subse quent to insolvency or bankruptcy, the Court could afford no relief ; and, consequently, the onus probandi remained with the insolvent, who, upon obtaining the consent of three-fourths of his creditors, might again appear before this Court for his discharge. Mayor Hardman, a Turkish Jew, was opposed by Mr. Cuoxr, on behalf of two creditors named Hayward and Brown. Mr. Nictiorzs supported the insolvent. The insolvent had been up on a former day, and from the evidence it appeared that he was the proprietor of a receipt for the manuficture of eau de Cologne. On being asked if he had not got it in his possession. he replied in the affirmative ; but said it was written in the Turkish language. He was directed to produce it, and after some hesitation he drew it from his pocket, apparently with the greatest reluc tance, and passed it over to the learned gentleman, observing at the same time, that he thought it would be too hard to require him to give a translation. Mr. CooLE having inspected it, returned it to the insolvent, which seemed to give him the utmost satisfaction. The insolvent afterwards underwent a long examination relative to the disposal of a harp. Some witnesses were examined, and the ease ultimately was again adjourned for the production of further evi dence. Monday last, Colonel Brander of Pitgaveny's. hounds threw off at inverugie, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, found a fine fox, which ran through the bounds of the wood two or three times, and then broke cover, and went away in gallant style by Hopentan's.lodge, pro. ceeded in the direction of the rocks above the Cove, and being hard pur sued, leaped over a precipice 40 feet in height into the sea. The hounds went down after reynard by a gentle declivity, and found hi m sw i m . ming in the sea, where he was killed in excellesle, after a run al • together of two hours. On the following W ednesday, the Colonel's hounds threw off at Brainy, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and found a fox, which. As:running through the woods foe a considerable time, broke cover, and went to Ardivat , where, after an hour' s run , h e was killed in gallant style.--Bigin Courier. One of the most horrible murders that we ever recollect was committed on the morning of Sunday week last, at Lynbury, the' residence of Richard Bourne, Esq. A man, named Wyre, gardener to Mr. Bourne with his servant, went to chapel, leaving his wife, aged about 70 or 00 years, in the house. Between nine and ten o'clock a body of men, supposed to be three in number, went into the house and demanded a gun : this they immediately obtained, and their subsequent conduct can only he surmised, as their wretched victim never spoke. On the return of the servant she found the windows open, and, having looked in, saw the body of her mistress lying weltering in her gore, and horribly disfigured. As far as can be guessed ham the signs made by the pool woman, it is supposed the assassins, on being recognised by her, committed the barbarous act by beating het in a most savage man.. net with the butt-end of the gun. Her skull was fractured, and her body bruised in a horrible manner. An inquest was held next day, when a verdict of Wilful Murder was returned against some parson or persons unknown.— Westmeath 'hems/. POLICE REPORTS. Mawstow-Ho uss.--Mr. Saunders, fishmonger, in the City, and Mr. Gamper's, Secretary to the Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals, waited upon the Lord Mayor, to mention to his Lordship a singular species of inhumanity, in which persons connected with the fisheries are In the habit of indulging. The following was the sub stance of the complaint. • • • • - - It has been the practice, when lobsters are caught, to tie up the claws with cords, in ceder to prevent them from doing each other injury,as it is known that shell-fish of the kind will, if this precaution be not taken drag each other to pieces. The fish arc fretted by being thus prevented Bn horn grasping whatever they approach, but they sustain no in quality as food. To save trouble, however, the humane per sons who deal in shell-fish substitute anther mode of preventing the lobsters from biting, and stick a plug in tne spot where the claw is di vided. This practice, it is calculated, is the cause of great agony to the poor fish, for the moment the shell is removed, the substance appears to have lost its firmness, and the place where the plug is stuck is com pletely reduced and mortified. The complainant stated that the lobsters were very often to be found in fishmongers' shops in the condition above represented, with the bo dies injured materially, and the claws, which were considered the most delicate parts of the fish, absolutely rotten. They had ascertained be. yond a doubt, that the mortified condition of the fish was attributable to the cruel method of plugging, and they hoped that, for the sake of hu manity, as well as for the security of the health of the public, the Lord Mayor would issue a prohibition, or give such cautions or directions as would put a stop to the practice. The LORD MAYOR said that he had beard before of the practice, and intended to have made some observations upoc the cruel and injurious nature of it from the Chair. He could not seize a more fitting oppor tunity than the present, and was glad that the representation had been made. Mr. Mohler said that the ladies would at all events feel an interest in discountenancing the practice of plugging lobsters, when they heard that if children ate of any in that state, they were sure to incur the most dan gerous internal complaints. The LORD MAYOR stated that he beard from a medical authority that shell-fish tortured into mortification by plugging, was actually poisonous. The public had often been put upon their guard against unwholesome salmon. Unwholesome lobsters were, he was given to understand, infinitely more dangerous. The complainants hoped that the apprehension of danger would operate on those upon whom the certainty of Inflicting unnecessary pain had no effect in discouraging the practice. The Loki) blaYon then said he should issue the necessary directions; but indeed he had every reason to suppose that, after this public repre hension of the practice, the public would take care of themselves. The lobsters of which sauce was made, ought to be very particularly looked after, as the other ingredients were calculated to hide the mortified and rotten condition of the fish. Mr. Hobler mentioned that many an acquaintance of his who com plained in the morning of cholera morbus, or other internal complaints, could trace the disorder to nothing but a supper of lobsters on the pre ceding night. He was convinced, from what he had lately heard, that the plugged lobsters, whose substance underwent a total change by the system of torture, had a dreadful effect upon the stomach. John Griffin, a journeyman baker, was charged with having stolen 41bs. of flour, the property of his muter, Mr. Francis Aslen, of London.wall. _ _ - It appeared that, about eight days ago, the prisoner entered the employment of the complainant, and that he was just a week at work, when a hatful of flour was taken from him. He had been allowed a guinea a-week, as much bread as he could eat, and a certain quantity to take home each night. The prisoner said be expected to be out of work in a week, and he had thought it no harm to lay up a little flour for the time he should be unemployed. He was committed for trial. His unfortunate wife, when she beard that he was to go to Newgate, screamed aloud, and continued to scream and to beat at the bars of the cage in which her husband was locked, until she was quite exhausted. OUILDEALL.TAONIOS StIO/t, • chandler's shopkeeper in West street, Smithfield, appeared before Mr. Alderman Lucas, to answer to an information filed against him by John True, a neighbour, for retail ing beer without having a descriptive board in front of his premises with the words " Licensed to sell beer by retail." Mr. Harmer, who attended for the defendant, objected that the law required only such persons as were licensed to put up a board, and his client not being licensed, the penalty did not attach to him. Mr. Alderman Lucu held this to be good, and quashed the In formation. _ _ _ _ _ If the complaint had been that the party sold beer without being li. ceased, the result must have been Merest. The punishment of whipping seems to be growing more into disre pute every dsy. Mr. Teague, the Governor of the Cempter, having dropped in acci dentally, Mr. Alderman Faxesiovati Inquired about the health of the three culprits who were severely flagged a few days ago, for conspiring to rob the premises of Mr. Claimed, on Ludgate-Mil. Mr. Teague replied that two of them were sufficiently recovered to be again set to work at the hand corn-mill, but the third, Wilson, (who received the smallest number of stripes,) was in the infirmary, holes having made their appearance in that part of his back which was Wasted. Mr. Alderman FARIBROTRER, shuddering at this statement, fee. trendy expressed a wish that be should live to see this barbarous punish. ment abo li s he d . It degraded the sufferer too much to leave room to hope that he would reform or be admitted into society. It did not prevent the repetition of crime, for when pain ceases, it is usually soon forgotten ; the degree of terror of another flogging was little indeed, because no man committed a crime till he had assured himself he could accomplish it so cunningly as to certainly escape detection. Then, it might be observed, these was the example to others made by the punishment ; but, he would ask, bow many, and who s teingm th e persons that ordinarily assembled to benefit by such ex. :Teague concurred in these remarks, and added, that the punish. meat had been delayed some days, in consequence of $ dispute between the Under-Sheriffs and the Secondaries, as to which of them were bound to superintend the infliction. The irksome duty ultimately fell to the lot of Mr. Potter, the Acting Secondary. Bow.STRZZT.—JohIt Montan, a young man, was brought before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE and Mr. HALLI, on a warrant obtained against him by the parish officers of St. Clement Danes, as the father of an il legitimate child, of which one Eliza Buck had been delivered in the workhouse of that parish. The mother of the child, who described herself as a servant, pointed the defendant out as the father of the infant which she carried in her arms. Mr R. Buena asked Kiernan if he meant to deny the infant. Defendant—No, your Worship, Ido not. I suppose it is all right. Sir IL Brants asked Kiernan what he was. Defendant—l am nothing now, your Worship. 1 was a police-con. stable, but got discharged in consequence of this business. Sir R. Buses ordered the defendant to pay 2s. 6d. a week for the support of his child, and recommended the parish to intercede with the Commissioners for him. Tuesday, John Fellows, a man of extremely respectable appearance, of the advanced age of 84 years, was brought up for re.examination upon a charge of obtaining money ander false pretences, from a man named Perkins, for whom he undertook to procure a situation in the Customs. Neither the prosecutor, nor any person on his behalf, appeared to sub. stantiote the charge ; and as part of the money advanced to the prisoner had been recovered, the magistrate observed that in all probability the affair had been fully compromised. LuDovAw GHOST REVIVED.—It will be recollected by our readers, that a few months since a girl named Temperance Wil liams excited a considerable feeling of eh= in the parish of Ludgvan, near Penzance, by playing a variety of tricks in th e h ouse o f an aged couple with whom she lived as servant, with the purpose of inducing them to believe that these gambols were produced by supernatural agency, and that after a full and patient bearing before a bench of ma. gistrates of Penzance, the girl was committed to the County Beidewetl, for having destroyed the property of her master. A shalt lime since she was released from durance and returned to her native place, where she was taken into the service of a person to whom sh e i s relate d. She had not been long in this situation when she commenced operations in the old mode, though with some variations. On the former oc casion she operated on jugs„ teapots, glasses, fire-irons, a beer barrel, 4tc. now she amazed the wondering inmates and the as. tonished visitants by operating on articles of food : a duck pre. pared for the spit, to the terror of the beholders, appeared to resume its vitality by bounding from the table to the floor and from one apartment to another; but in all cases, the girl was in the room where it commenced its movements. Pieces of salted pork and rolls of butter were also flung about, as If by magic, and stones were tossed in the air so as to fall amongst some persons who were at work in a field adjoining the house where the girl lived. Setting fire to articles of clothing was one of the mischievous pranks played in the former instance, in the present case only one piece of cloth We, burned. The late muter and mistress of the girl had been subjected to a good deal of obloquy, in consequence of having prosecuted her, as their ignorant neighbours could not be manamed the " evil one" was not the immediate actor in these go:Ma* and consequently they were and are firmly convinced that the girl had nothing to do with the mat. ter, except as a sufferer by the freaks of the mischievously merry demon. Varned by the censures so unsparingly beeped as the former - to of this damsel, tier employers, who, as we stated, are related t to her, bare been satisfied with sending her about bee business- On her depar nue the disturbances ceased. The above particulars have been trans mitted to us by a respectable carrsepoodeot...-Wea Brit.& SCINTILLA!. him, or whom m y APPARITIONS.—" visitor.P P A R T o l E o v N e a n . — so : s ' r Y . You er That e t v as e uc t then belief e th n i nipn whichas should ble a priori ; and I cannot refuse assent to the strong evidence t h at such things are, nor to the common consent which has prevailed among sit people, every where, in all ages; in the widest acceptation of the word."--SouTszv's Colloqaks Mc Progress and Prospects of Society, voL L 6. The object of a good and wise man in this transitory state of existence should be to fit himself for a better, by tx,n taa ii in , the unworthy propensities of his nature, and improving all i t , betk g i aspirations ;to do his duty fi rst to his family, then to his neighb o „ lastly to his country and his kind ; to promote the welfare and has the means of assisting, and never wantonly to injure the m eanam pines, of those who are In any degree dependent upon ldrtniitbei:::'" said I K thing that lives; to encourage, as far .s be may have the power, what. ever is useful and ornamental in society, whatever tends to refine st d elevate humanity ; to store his mind with such knowledge as it in trawl to receive, and he is able to attain ; and so to employ th e ta l ents co m . mitted to his charge, that when the account is required, he may hop e te have his stewardship approved.—Did, i. 165. The geometry of Euclid, Apollonius, Archimedes, l i t „ noblest and sublimest effort of the human intellect, has long been ,. , , perseded by the modem analyticks, which, how pleasing weer to an f r , dolent mind, and however useful in some abstruse speculatiou s ate wholly inconsistent with the elegant simplicity of the ancient method ; a beautiful specimen of which will soon be brought to light in thin a m t. versity. where the collections if Pappus will appear for the first time it their original language, and be studied with the true spirit of the p y , thagorean and Alexandrian Schools. —An Oration intended i 9 ha re been spoken in the theatre at arford, on the 914 of July, 177:1; by 4 wankr of the University, p. 12.—This member was Sir ‘Villia t i l Jones, yet strane re to m say the above eloquent oration, worthy the pal my days of ancient not inserted in the collected edition o f h is works published by Lord Teignmouth. FEMALE JEIIUITS.—It is not, I believe, very generally known that there was formerly an order of hitlitCabell. &vt.tal wom en in various parts of Italy, formed a society under the above title, but without the approbation of the Holy See. They toJk a particular habit, , erected colleges and probation-houses, and appointed one of their nun.. her to be their superior, with the title of Provost. They made the O A , vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience. Urban the VIII. supprelsol the order in 102. See the 21st chapter, the first volume of Sisioa', Bibholheque Critique. 12wo. 1708. LORD BYRON'S OPINION OF POPE.—With regard to poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think o f i t, that he (Moore) and all others—Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Campbell, I, ar e ' all in the wrong, one as much as another; that we are upon a scat revolutionary, poetical system (or systems), not worth a in itselt and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free, and that the pre. sent and next generation will finally be of this opinion. I ant tt tiam confirmed in this, by having lately gone over some of our class.cs, pr. titularly Pope, whom I tried in this way took Moore'sp.cnn , arc my own, and some others, and went over them side by side with Pope's. and I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortitie, at the ineffable distance, in point of sense, learning, effect, and even Imagination, passion, and Invention , between the little Queen Anne'. man, and us of the lower empire. Depend upon it, it is all Horace then, and Claudia!) now, among us; and if I had to begin ag a in, I wou li mould myself ace!ordingly."—Byron's Correspondence, quoted in thc Quarterly Review', vol. 37, p. 420. THE Purr DESSEIN —At the hotel in Calais, we were shown the chamber said to have liven occupied by that lively sent!. mentalist, Lawrence Sterne. The recollections combined with th:, circumstance are of the most pleasing description. One thing, how. ever, is likely to disturb the perfect illusion of the whole, and is much to be regretted—the said apartment having been built since the drat:: of that very favourite ! prima fides! F. E. In our peregrinations of last Sunday, we observed tltz following epitaph In Harbiedown Churchyard : Stop, traveller, and cast an eye:— As you are now, so once was I As I am now, so you must be; Therefore, prepare to follow me. Under which some wag has written— To follow you I'm not content, Unless T knew which way you went.—lrentish Chronicle. ONLY ROOM rou ONE.—A lanky Irish peasant, on 7. little ragged pony, was floundering through one of the bogs no commot in his country, when the animal, in its efforts to push through, got or: of his feet into the stirrup. "Al. ! now," said the rider; "if you art going to get up, it's time for me to get down." GRACES OF STYLE.—He that will write with precisiou. energy, and vigour only, may line only with men • but he who winhe, for suppleness in his style, for amenity, and for that something which charms and enchants, will, I believe, do very right to live with women. When I read that Pericles, sacrificed every morning to the Graces, what I understand by it is, that every day Pericles breakfasted with Aspasia. —Marissorstef. A JOLLY FELLOW.—From the memoirs of Jehangir. translated by Major Price, we learn that this Prince carried his love ot wine to such excess, that his daily allowance was 90 tops, each contain. ing half a seer, equal in the aggro to something s ho rt of a gallon. His Highnea was therefore what g we should now calla "five bottle man," no milk-sop work in a hot climate. BAD IN DEED.—A worse Prince than King John scarcely ever disgraced the English throne; and the historian may save himself the odious task (it has been observed) of drawing up his character, by referring to the annals of his lite, as son, uncle, and king, by a cnn. temporary writer, who says, " Hell felt herself defiled by his ad mission." GA mucK.—Our tragedian was once on a visit at Hag ley, when news came that a company of players were going to perform at Birmingham. Lord Lyttleton said to Garrick, " They will hest you are in the neighbourhood, and will ask you to write an address to the audience." " Suppose, then," said Garrick, " I begin thus : You sous a iron, copper, brass and steel, Who have not heads to think, nor hearts to feel—" " Oh," cried his Lordship, " if you begin thus, they will hiss the players off the stage, and pull the howe down." "My Lord." sme. Garrick, " what is the use of an address, if it does not conic to the business." NEW NUTRITIOUS PLANT.—M.IIenri presented to the Paris Society a specimen of fecula obtained tfrotn the root of a pLut called amoeba, of the family of Umbellifers, indigenous in the pro vinces of Santa Fe of Bogota, and of Curacms in Southern Alllaing where this root is employed as food. This substance has all the physi• cal and chemical characters of the true feculre, and poseesses all their alimentary properties.— Literary Gazette. FORTUNATE REPLY.DeII Adrets (ft Protestant leader in the religious wars of Charles IX.) treated the garrison of Month. noon, which had surrendered at discretion, very cruelly. They re. presented to him in vain the laws of humanity ; be would divert him self with seeing those miserable soldiers precipitated. They were brought to the top of the platform above the tower. Those silo had not the courage to precipitate themselves were cast down headlong, and not so much as their chief was pardoned. Only one soldier was saved twice he took a run from one end of the platform to the other, as if he designed to leap further, but stopped short o n t h e b r i n k o f the pre cipice. Des Adrets ld to hint with a sharp tone, it was enough to have twice sounded the ford. • The soldier replied boldly, that lie would give him four times to dolt. These words softened the Baron's ill-humortr in such a manner, that he gave the brisk fellow quarter who durst snake use of his jests in such a pressiag extremity. SUICIDE PREVENTED BY SUDDEN TERROR.--A man of letters, accustomed to free living, and who had lately been cured of an intermittent fever, was seised in the autumn with all the horror* of propensity to suicide, and he often estimated the different ways of de stroying himself. A journey which he took to London seemed to in crease his melancholy and bis determination to shorten his life. He fixed upon a late hour of one night, and wect upon one of the bridges. in order to throw himself into the Thames ; but at the moment int gut there he was attacked by some pickpockets. He became very angry. and made violent efforts to escape, which he effected, after being con siderably agitated and greatly alarmed. His melancholy immediately was changed ; he forgot the object of his walk ; and, though lie was reduced to as great distress as before, he never afterwards felt any emo tions of suieide.—Dr. Panel ow Insanity. MARRIED. On the 18th inst. at St. James's, Ckrkcnwell, Mr. James Funo, widower, to Mrs. Peggy Rogers, widow, both of Lewisham, Kent. DI ED. Suddenly, on Saturday last, at Wellingore•house, Col. Noel Neville. son of the late Christopher Noel, Esq. of Bath and Wellingore. Thi Colonel was hunting on the Saturday In apparently good health. On Friday evening, the 12th instant, aged 23, Jernims Potter, third daughter of Peter Potter, Esq. of tionray.house, Walsall, s ta gbyd s hire. —The 22d inst. at Windsor-terrace. 3laida-hill. Maria Cochrane. &fed 28, years, daughter of the late lion. Basil Cochrane, Portman.square.--, The 22d, inst. at Ash, near Farnham, Surrey, Charles, the infant solve the Rev A. L. Lambert.—The 23c1 inst. at Kennington, Surrey, Enid! Jervis, fourth daughter of the late W. Webb, Esq in the 21st ytaref her age.—The 23d inst M rs . Eli za b et h Vi nes, wire of S. Vines. of Lin coln's-inn, and of Upper Elower.atreet. Fig.—The 24th inst. in the 53 , 1 year of her age. Ann, the beloved wife of Mr. I'. Jenks, of Fleet-boat. The 23d inst, J. O.Alurray, surgeon, at hi s father's house, Church street, Allnorks, his IVA year. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. I. u. s. u. Month% 10 it Afternoon Lennox s hinted p o nd I•ublitbcd by Joao MAYNZ, io.dbe STAt• Ortins, No. 1, Pickon-place, Temple Ben