Star. — London, England, 1831-06-28 00:00:00

.•'+1;1 E ltra:).TarT LITERATURE. THI: AGE IWITEPTI LES. i earth was peopled by oviparous quadrupeds of a e.e.• Appalling magnitude. and reptiles were the " Lords of P. Creation. bcfere the existence of' the human race."— Neorta'' s Age of Reptiles. "flicrt once was a tin.e, as Geologists say, Thar teptiles Wore o'er our Planet had sway, And the " Lords of f7reation" were all creeping things, Some c-awling to ear.!l(l),and some soaring with wings! (2) These monster• go greatly polluted the air, That nothing but reptiles inhabited there, Till grand repetition destroyed the whole race, And refined earth and air, and then man took their place. so Cavier bath talteht. and by 31antell more lately 1. seem. (if he do nut exaggerate greatly) That their sic: was appalling, and far surpass'd rill The monsters who've liv'd since the time of the fall ! Nos.• I cannot hut think, and, perhaps, so will yon, Tll z t these Sores 11 shrewd had a moral in view, And that by ti:e reptiles they meant to sketch out Tl:e .1111i.lkfi•rmers row rut to the rout. For:have not those Seaf.ttion• ers, evil betide 'cm, Like reptiles corrupted whete'cr came beside 'em The y were " Loris of Creation," and all hut their order Were slaves—see the fits of the Duke of the Border Their gents and species reed not be made out. Vet some few I will venture to tell you about : The Duke of And the Megafosaurng (3) skews him to a T For no monster so truly voracious is known. Since he claims as his right " to devour all his own." The cold Salamander (4), as sleek as an eel, Will image exactly the fam'el Sir Who fancying he ne'er will be hurt by the fire, Cares not though the glory of Britain expire! By the grand Rerolution NEFOITIU is intended, And the Empire of Reptiles for ever is ended ; For although Toads and Vipers will still much abound, The Chief Monsters no longer encumber the ground Our political atmosphere healthy will be And England once more be the Isle of the Free! Lewes.. June 22. (1) The enormous extinct Crocodiles, &c. (2) Plcsodactyles, an extinct kind of Flying Reptile. (3) The Mctalosaurus is an enormous extinct carnivorous reptile, some (0 feet long, whose remains ate found above the Coal strata. (4) The remains of this creature were supposed by Schein. zcr and others, to be those of a Man, but Cuvier has de cided that the original was a hideous reptile.—Vide Osse men Fossiies. ANECDOTES OF POLAND. (From Flachcr's History of Po'and.) THE SECOND PARTITION. Early in 1793, the Prussian troops entered Great Poland. The confederates, whose commissioners now sat at Gredno, in vain remonstrated with the Russian minister ; their only answer was, that he was ignorant of the designs of Frederick William, hut they must take cam not to incense that prince by imprudent hostilities, without having previously consulted the court of Russia. The confederates, at least all those who were not mere creatures of Catharine, now began to repent their rashness, and they issued a protestation on the 3d of February, against the Prussian invasion, wound up with these words : " We will preserve our republic whole, or none of us will survive our disaster." On the 25th of March, Frederick issued a ma nifesto, stating openly his intention of seizing Great Poland, and assigning as motives for this treachery and disregard of Ida forme' treaties, that the principles of jacobinism were gaining ground fast in that country ; " that the spirit of French democracy, and the principles of that atrocious sect, which seeks to make proselytes on all sides, begin to take deep root in Poland, so that the ma nreuvres of the .jacobin emissaries are powerfully supported there, and that there are already formed there several revolutionary clubs, which make an open profession of their sentiments. He admits that he had previously concerted this invasion with the Courts of Vienna and Petersburg ; that ho in tends to incorporate several districts of Great Po land, and the towns of Thorn and Dantzig with his states, promising, at the same time, to maintain all the inhabitants in their possessions, privileges, and rights, secular and ecclesiastic. The empress ordered her minister, Sievers, to concert with tne envoy of Prussia, Bucholz, the partition of the kingdom, and on the 9th of April, they laid Lefote the commissioners of the confe derates at Grodno, a declaration, involving the destiny of Poland. A fter having formerly stated that they only came as allies of the majority of the na tion, they now complain that " the spirit of faction and discontent has spread to such a great extent, that those who give themselves the trouble of fo menting it, and tendering it general, having failed in their intrigues with foreign courts to attach sus picion to the designs of Russia, have directed all their efforts to fascinate the eyes of the people, al ways easy to seduce. They have succeeded so far that this same people, after being frustrated in their criminai designs, have become the sharers in the hatred and enmity which they have vowed against the empire of Russia. NVithout mention ing here several facts generally known, and which prove the hostile inclinations of the greatest part of the Poles, it will suffice to say that they have abus ed the principles of humanity and moderation which directed the generals and officers of the army of her Majesty, the Empress, in their operations and in their conduct, according to the Empress's orders given them in this particular; so that they had risen against them in every way, ill treating them, turning them into ridicule, and the boldest among them have even dared to speak of the Sicilian Vespers, threatening them with the same fate."— They state that they have the consent of Austria to limit the extent of Poland, and invite the Poles to a diet, to co-operate with them in making this arrangement. Russian despotism, which at home knew no other law but • to say to this man go, and he goeth, and to another come, anti he cometh,' was not mollified by migrating a few miles further to the u est ; and on the 22d of September, Sievers sent another declaration to the diet to insist on the im mediate ratification of the treaty, aid finished this note by announcing his intention, that, to prevent all disorder, he should order tuo battalions of gre nadiers, with four pieces of artillery, to surround the castle where the diet was held. No strangers except the Russian otlicers, who were strictly charged to prevent the deputies even from moving from their seats, were to be admitted. At the same time, said Sievers, he insured the deputies a perform freedom of debate I. Even then the diet would not submit without reservation to the de mands of Russia. Surrounded as they were with the sworn slaves of Catharine, some few members still raised their voices against this prostitution of the forms of liberty. At three in the morning the' general rose to call in a detach/Lent of . stfidiers, when a traitorous deputy in the Russian interest proposed that -^e should be considered as a consent to the and accordingly the marshal of the diet, ;i, who was oithe same party, put the flues he treaty should Le signed without reserve-, tion ? Tbis was three times repeated without an swer, and he declared that it hid received the sanc tion of the diet, and accordingly it was signed on the sth of September. The diet performed their last sad, and unwilling office on the 23d of November. They pulled down the beautiful structure of the constitution they had so proudly erected, and Poland, at least the remains of it. relapsed into the former absurd node of legis lation. The allied powers did not forget " to reduce the republic of Poland into narrower limits ;" Catha rine advanced her frontier into the middle of Li thuania and Volhynia, and Frederick William had the remaining portion of Great Poland, and part of Little Poland, for his share of the spoil. The limits, however, it must be remembered, were not definitively marked out ; military possession was the only tenure, a nd the Poles found that Empresses and Kings set at nought the denunciation, " Cursed is he who removetli his neighbour's landmark." The remaining portion of the kingdom was in sured to Stanislas, to be governed by the old laws, but he was not allowed to reign alone even over this narrow domain. The Russian ambassador was ab solute master at Warsaw, and Russian troops were the garrison. STATE OF FRANCE. From Cabal's Regiskr. The French people are bent upon being neither cajoled nor sold by Louis Philippe. They tell him to his face, that he has not fulfilled their ex pectations, and they complain of his abandonment of the Belgians, the Poles and the Italians. In the midst of this general discontent with him, the veteran Lafayette has written and published a let ter, in which he clearly states that this Bourbon Philippe has deceived him ; that ho has broken the pledges made at the Hotel de Vile, before the office of King was offered him ; and, though the , general does not actually say that he ought to be ankinged, he evidently means it. The French complain that their burdens are not lightened ; they complain, as I said before, of the, base abandonment of the cause of freedom in Bel-, glum, Italy, and Poland; they complain that the creatures of Charles are still kept in power; but they cnmplain, above all things, of the existence of an hereditary peerage. Their elections are com ing on ; and they are preparing to pledge their representatives to the passing of a law for abolish ing this peerage ; this thing, which in France means a band of legislators maintained out of the taxes, with pensions as well as titles descending from father to son ; fellows who, generally speak ing, have no estates of their own, and whose in terest dictates to them to be incessantly robbing the people. It is an oligarchy of the worst pos sible description ; nor is the other house much better. Every thing says that there must be ano ther revolution, sweeping away this peerage, sub stituting an elective senate in its stead, and very greatly indeed, extending the suffrage at elections. It is impossible that the present order of things can remain. Lafayette says that he told Louis- Philippe that an lie;eJitary peerage was a thing unsuited to France; and that the government she wanted was one like that of the United States of America. To be sure : a Govern ment chosen by the people : a Government having the interest of the people at heart: a go vernment just and efficient, and at the same time cheap ; a government that knows nothing, and never did know any thing, of state prosecutions; a government which has existed forty years with out one single state prosecution for speaking, or writing, or publishing; a government that exacts no tax upon paper, and puts no stamp upon print ; a government that asserts its rights against all the nat;ons in the world with the utmost rigour and with the completest effect ; a government that does not cost so much in a whole year as the go vernment of Louis-Philippe costs in one single week ; a government whose chief magistrate does not receive so much in one year as it costs the French people to maintain the gamekeepers of Louis-Philippe. That is what the French people want ; and that is what Lafayette knows they' want ; and that is what Lafayette knows they will have. It is a common opinion in England that Philippe will come and juin his relations in this country. I do nut believe that ; I think America would be his choice ; and it is very curious that some of the French papers have said that he has sent a' great sum of money to be deposited in the United States ! I cannot know, to be sure, that Philippe has sent a large sum of money to America; but this I know, that he had eighty thousand pounds in the English funds last winter; that I stated this fact in the Register ; that it was contradicted in the Morning Herald ; but that no name appeared to the contradiction, and I now again re-assert the fact to hare been true ; and I dare say he has the sum there at this moment. I was told the fact by a banker, and a Man, I am sure, who would not tell me a falsehood. It would be an absurdity quite monstrous to think of an hereditary King when the other two bodies were elective. The President might be elected for life ; for a longer term than four years; but to have him hereditary would be an absurdity to excite laughter throughout the whole world. As to the question whether it would be prudent in the French to abolish the title of King ; and, in short, make a Republican Government, like that of the United States, there can be no doubt of the ad vantages cf it to France. It is one thing to destroy a kingly government and an aristocracy, and another thing to avoid making a kingly government and an aristocracy, when they do not exist. On 30th of July last neither of them existed in France : the legitimate King and his legitimate successors were gone : their otlice and rights were abolished ; their ersons were banished for ever ; and France, as to affairs of government, was a piece of blank pa per whereon to write down that sort of government which the people would choose to have. They were all ready and eager to write down " a Re public, with a President, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, all chosen periodically by the peo ple." But the French people were tricked out of this : they were cheated into a new King and a new dynasty, to neither of whom however did they ever give their assent. Both were made by two assemblies, one of which is now dissolved, and for the other of which they call aloud for the abolition. France is still a sheet of blank paper whereon to write the name and description of its government ; and when all the circumstances are taken into view, where is the man of common justice or common humanity who can wish that nation, at this time, to be any other than a republic ? What are her evils now ? What ate the scourges which she has to endure ? Distress in trade and agriculture ; penury and anxiety in the middle class ; want of employment, and misery amongst the working class ! These arise from the weight of taxation, that arises from the enormousness of the debt and the hidieous pensions and extravagances springing out of the Bourbon Government. She is agitated with apprehensions and alarms ; and why ? Be cause there is a pretender to the throne safely kept in England ; she fears intrigues in the courts of the despots ; and why ? Because even her new dynasty is connected by blood or marriage with those despots ; because there is a natural and strong feeling between it and all them. Then Louis-Phi lippe has the better part of a dozen children,who will become married, first or last, in the families of other kings and emperors ; these will bring crowds of in triguing foreigners to plot against the liberties of France. Every marriage of this sort is a new bat tery of hostility to the freedom of the French, at the same time that it brings upon the French na tion a new expense in an additional burden of taxes. As Paine said, republics do not marry ; and this is a great recommendation to them. If, indeed, the old royal government of France were still in existence; if there were a nobility of ancient standing; if that nobility had 'estates in the country, and the people had been in the settled habit for ages and ages to pay willing respect to them ; then it would be another matter ; then, without some unbearable provocation ; without some open and flagrant act of tyranny and of trea chery, like those which the French people had to avenge in 1789 ; then it would require long deli beration before any sensible and good man would propose to demolish that species of Govern ment, and erect a Republic in its stead ; but having no such sort of Government in France; having gotten rid of all those who had any preten sions of right to the throne, why create another race, and give it such pretensions ? Wretched, indeed, are the reasons which have been offered for' this strange, and foolish, and inconsistent step. The main alleged reason was, that if this step were not taken, all the powers of Europe would be in array in hostility against France. As to England, which, in point of power, is more than one half of all Eu rope excepting Fiance, she would not, and she could not have stirred ; and, indeed, ninety-nine hundredths of the people wish to see France with a cheap exemplary Government; and the powers, as they are called, could they have been more hos tile to France than they are now ? The truth is, they possess not the means of doing her injury : with a republican Government she is more than a match for the whole of them : this they know well, and therefore it is that they are so anxious to keep Louis-Philippe upon the throne. He is the night mare on the breast of this mighty and valiant giant. An influenza prevails at this time to a very con siderable extent in most parts of the metropolis. In some instances it has proved fatal to people of advanced age ; but, generally speaking, it is of short duration, and has been found to yield to very simple remedies. New REPIt ESENTATIV Ef1....011 Friday even ing a Meeting of the inhabitants of the parishes of Mary-la•bonne, Pancras, and Paddington, was held at the Bazaar Coffee-house, Great Castle street, Oxford-market, for the purpose of taking measures to secure the return of two fit and proper Representatives after the Reform Bill shall be passed.—Mr. Craddock was called to the Chair, and briefly explained the object of the Meeting.— Mr. Drake addressed the Meeting, and said, lie thought Colonel Jones was in every way qualified to be their Representative in Parliament, and moved—" That it is the opinion of this meeting that Colonel Jones, by his inflexible integrity and indefatigable exertions in the cause of Reform, both political and parochial, has proved himself to be a fit and proper person to represent this district in Parliament." Colonel Jones said, if he had consulted his own feelings he should wish this resolution to be withdrawn for the present. If, however, he should be returned for the district, he should feel himself bound to receive instructions from his constituents, and would at all times con sult with them on the general good. The resolu tion was passed unanimously. Mr. Wallace pro posed Major H. Revell. 'I he Major addressed the meeting, and pledged himself, should he be elected, to consult the wishes of the great body of his con stituents. Another gentleman proposed Mr. Sa vage, and, on a show of hands, the chairman declared the number of hands for each gentleman equal. A vote of thanks was passed to the chair man, and the meeting adjourned till the reform bill shall have passed. Sw I N DLI N G.—Michael Shillito and George Os borne Tennant were charged at the Thames Police office with having been engaged in an extensive system of swindling, by means of fictitious bills. Mr. Thomas Masterman, proprietor of the Ratcliff Brewery, stated, that about a month back a man named King, the principal of the gang, called at his counting-house, accompanied by Shillito, and said he wanted to ship a quantity of beer for France. They proposed giving him their joint acceptances, but he declined dealing with them unless for cash. After a great deal of unsuccessful stratagem, King introduced the prisoner Tennant as captain of a Yarmouth trader, who, representing himself as a relation of the Duke of Leeds, and au inti mate acquaintance of Sir Robert Peel, suc ceeded in swindling him out of twelve dozen of bottled stout, for which he gave him a bill drawn upon Samuel Knight, of Newhall-street, Birming ham, which turned out to be fictitious, on being presented at Roberts and Co.'s, bankers, where it was made payable. While endeavouring to per petrate a similar fraud on another brewer in Rat cliff, he was taken into custody. The stout was delivered for " the Captain" at Hay's Wharf, Tooley-street, whence he and his companions con veyed it to the house of a publican named Gray, in Blackman -street, Borough, to whom they sold it. Mr. R. Parsons, of Wood-street, Cheapside, whom King defrauded, by means of fictitious bills, of goods to the amount of 301. and several other " victimized " tradesmen appeared against the prisoners ; and the celebrated King, whose real name is George Sheen, it further appeared, had been imprisoned twice for fraud ; and recently swindled Captain Farrier, of Clarence-terrace, out of two t;gers, value 1001. which, at the time were in the Zoological tiardens, giving him a fictitious bill for the amount. The fellow subsequently sold the tigers for 801. He is yet at large. Shillito and Tennant are committed for trial. 4/1 10 • i • b m ite ot ll io e n e , s • lion, if tl LAW REPORT'S. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Juxt 27. ILICHNOND V. wiLis. This was an action foe libel The plaintiff appeared in to advocate his own cause. He commenced hi s ad dress eer.n to the jury by stating, that it was no overweening vanity on his part that induced him to appear in person, and plead in his own behalf; but that being a prominent actor in the scenes which might possibly come under the consideration of ' the Jury, he thought that he was better able to do justice to his feelings on the subject than if he employed a gentleman of the Bar for that purpose. He had a host of legal learn ing opposed to him, but he trusted that his Lordship would interfere where it was necessary, and give him that legal as. sistance, which should any technical point arise, he would stand so much in need of. But he would here observe that it was his wish, that any technical objection should be laid aside, and the real merits of the case be brought fully and fairly before the Jury. The action in question was for 1 alibel published in the Tinges newspaper sometime since, and which he believed he would be enabled to trace to the defendant, who was now a Member of Parliament, but who had formerly been a solicitor in Finshuryaquare, in which libel lie (the plaintiff) was designated as a Glasgow Spy," and the Editor was cautioned against publishing any state ment% which he might make at St. Luke's vestry meetings, as by doing so, he would lay his paper open to actions being brought against it. This was the libel of which lie com plained, and which he did not doubt but he should be able to bring home to the defendant. If the tlefendan, justified the libel, he would go into a history of his life as connected with the circumstances to which the term Glasgow Spy applied ; and he would lay before the Court such evidence as would warrant him in feeling, what he had a long while felt, that the period in question was the ptoudest of hN whole life. The plaintiff, after commenting upon the cruelty which such a libel inflicted upon him, who had brough, up a large family by his honest exertions, proceeded to call the ' following witnesses Mr. Harrison, the assistant Printer of the Times. de posed that he received the letter in question from the Editor, and it was inserted. Henry Drake, formerly a clerk in the defendant' s o ffi ce , but now a clerk in t h e office of the defendant's son (the de fendant having given up his business to his son), deposed, that the letter shown to him, and In which the libel in ques tion was contained, bad tot been written by him. Upon looking at it again, he perceived that the lest line in the letter was in his handwriting. The superscription was alto in his handwriting. lie had not any recollection of having received any instructions from the defendant respecting this letter, nor had he the slightest recollection of having received any instructions on the subject front any person. A person named Scott had been a clerk in the defendant's office. He was discharged. Does not know where Scott is new. Mr. R. Wilke, the defendant's son, was the next witness. He remembered taking lip the Times, which contained the letter charged with being libellous. He had not any recol lection of having communicated with his father respecting that letter. Knew nothing whatever of the letter hiinst If.— His clerks frequently, with his pelmission, would write or copy matters tor his father. Mr. Brown, the plaintiff's attorney, deposed to his having had a communication with the defendant on the subject of the libel, subsequent to the present action being brought, which was in February, 182'J. The defendant had offered to apologise for having published the libel Sir J. SCARLETT with Messrs. GURNEY and PLATT, appeared for the defendant), objected to this eti_ Bence, on the ground that the interview in quesdon was had fur the put pose of die action being settled. Lord TENTARDEN decided that the evidence could not be received. The witness, in reply to the plaintiff, said that he had made every exertion to find out Scott, who had been clerk to the defendant, but was unable to do so. The plaintiff here intimated to the Court that he had no further evidence to offer to the Court respecting the defen dant's being the author of the letter in question. Lord TIINTIRDIIIII You have certainly not made out your case; perhaps you may be able to do so upon a future occasion. The plaintiff was consequently nonsuitetl. Amongst the witnesses subpmned by the plaintiff to give evidence respecting him, in Mt the defendant had gone nn with his plea of justification, were the Lord Advocate, Mr. J. Hume, and Mr. Kirkman Finlay ; the two former sat in the inner bar near to the Attorney General. POLICE REPORTS. Bow-rritexx.--Yesterday, Joseph Moses alias Money, was charged with having assaulted George Ruthven, one of the constables, in the execution of his duty. Ruthven deposed that, having a warrant signed by the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, to execute against a person named Jackson, fur keeping a gaming house, he (wit ness) on the 221 d went to the house, in King -street, St. James's, where he bad reason to believe Jackson was to be found. The door was partly opened, but upon attempt ing to effect an entrance, the defendant and another man cried out, " Ob, 'ds an officer, close the doors !” Accord ingly the door was violently pushed against witness's leg, and the defendant pushed him with his elbow in the ribs. Witness however pulled the defendant into the street, but on getting into the hall, found that the inner d oor h a d b een clotted. Sir R. Burns called on the defendant to put in bail. The defendant's father came forward. He said that he was landlord of the Black Lion public-house, Vinegar-yard, and that he would answer for his eon's appearance. Sir R. Brawn : I will not take the bail of a father who allows his son to be in such a situation. The Magistrate then ordered the defendant to put in bail, and to give 24 hours' notice. The defendant was then locked up. Urtitow-HALL.—Yesterday, Mary Creed, and Michael Casey, a private watchman, were charged with stealing a silver watch and appendages from the person of Henry Crew, mate of a ship. The complainant, on Sunday night, was accosted by Creed, and having conversed with her a short time, she left him rather abruptly, and he afterwards missed his watch. Seeing a policeman approach, he gave her into his custody, and having described the nature of the charge, the po liceman delivered the accused into the care of the prisoner Ca sey, who was a private watchman oil the beat. On the way to the station-house the female prisoner acknowledged that she gave the watch to Casey, the private watchman, directly on being charged by the complainant with robbing him. Casey was questioned on the subject, and after nianirestiog some surprise, he at length said, that if the Inspector accompa nied him a short distance, be would find the watch for him. He then led the Inspector to the back part of a stable, near the new London Blidge, and approaching a corner, he com menced a search for the watch, which he soon found by re moving a quantity of tiles and rubbish, which were placed upon it. The Inspector immediately took him into custody, as well as the female, and they were both lodged in the station-house. Mr. MURRAY aNked Casty, the private watchman, whe. thcr he wished to say anything in reply to the charge; the evidence apitut bite was, that he (Casey) acting in the ca pacity of a guardian of people's property, had concealed watch which had been handed over to him by • prostitute, who had stolen it from a seafaring man. Casey admitted that he had placed the watch under the rubbish, *here it was found, and stated that Mary Creed gave it into his hands to take care of for her ; that be, un. willing to keep in his possession that which he was fearful site had not come by honestly, concealed it underneath the rubbish. The complainant manifested a disposition not to prosecute, upon which the 31agistratc, to secure his attendance at the Sessions, made him enter into his own recognizance to ap. pear and prosecute. Two other women of the town were remanded, charged with robbing a gentleman, named Davies, of a pocket.bouk, containing the sum of 1101. in bank notes, and sundry memorandums. The Melville quarantine cutter, arrived on Satur day in Cromarty-bay, in charge of three vessels, two of which had foul bills of health. At present 12 vessels under quarantine from the Baltic are lying iu the bay, five persons belonging to whom have died. The Melville has returned to the Frith of Forth, and the Royal George has taken its place at Cromarty. The public need be under no appre hension or alarm as to the arrival of the above ves sels, for we can state with confidence that at present there is not one case of disease on board the 12 Teasels under quarantine.—larerneu Courier. SCINT!LL LITTLE JACK. Freely translated from Me German. Of all the Seandal-mongers here, There, none like little Jack— He'll scandal you before your face, But worse behind your back ! Paul Pry himself ne'er pried like him, Nor put his brains to rack One half so much to spread a lie, As noted little JACK ! Yet blame him not—'tis so well know His head doth greatly lack A fair supply of sense, that thou Should'st pity little JACK ! For let the lie be e'er so vile_ However sharp the attack— You need not care—for all will cry • 'Twas made by little JACK !" A new machinery for puffing has lately been . vented. Puffs are now sent out by the whole sheet at time, or as a pastrycook would say, by the entire batch of puffs. A man makes a book of 3or 400 pages, containin 4 as much that is worth ready as would extend to two or thee: columns of a newspaper. These tid bits then he picks out and prints separately on one sheet as extracts, sending i• among the newspapers, and the editors, to save trouble, b ore their readers with them, even to nausea.—Thence it is " puff! puff ! puff!—all puffing !" - THE Bt LL ANTICIPATION.—A correspoutlent vouches for the correctness of the following young woman last week applied to a respectable family in Chip. pcnharn for a situation u servant, then vacant. The lady. having inquired into the girl's character, and finding it U. tisfactory, told her that she would engage her for a twelve. month. " A twelvemonth, ma'am ! (the 'girl ejaculated with great apparent astonishment)—a twelvemonth ! cc,. tainly not. I would not on any account engage even fot ♦is months ! For three months, 1 have no objection ; but before the expiration of that time, I expect the bill will pus ; and when we have reform, I anticipate I shall be a mistress myself." HOME, AUTHOR OF DOUGLAS.--There could I not be a livelier or more agreeable companion than the au. thor of Douglas; and his merits as a dramatic author are well known. By his talents, he was early in life introductd into the best company that Scotland afforded. Claret wa. at that time the favourite liquor ; and, owing to Its ben! : admitted it.to the port of Leith on Spanish instead of Frem: duties, it was cttrap, and was drank in great quantities. A naval officer, who happened to be stationed in the Frith o. Forth, by transmitting information to the Treasury, put stop to this illegal advantage. The price of claret was so much increased, in consequence of this additional duty, than many bons iron: were obliged to renounce it, and betake themselves to port ; and, in despair, at one of their convi• vial inectings, they applied to their friend John Dome, to write some verses expressive of their feeling-. He imn•r diately produced the following 7. Bold and erect tt.e Caledonian stood ; Old was his mutton, and hi, claret good ; " Make him drink port!" an EnAlish stattsman cried ; He drank the poison, and his spirit died. LAUGHABLE CURE FOR FITS.—OR Saturday, a gross impostor, who is in the habit of exciting public sympathy by falling down in tits, pursued his avocation in Holborn, when a wag came out srd exclaimed, " Hang in, the poor devil will ewe!' cold, put him on this straw ." The man was laid upon the straw, when he kicked and distotted his countenance in the most violent manner, until the person who provided the Lea brought a light and set fire to it, tlit beat of which caused the sudden recovery of the nifieted man, who, as if by magic, jumped up and mated oft with .1 rueful countenance, and all possible speed. ROOM FUR AN INFERENCE.--.Whell Curran went to College, he wrote to his mother for eleven shirt.. stating that he found every gentleman in College was ex. recta to bav: a dozen. Young Austin, who some years back was well known to the public in connexion with the inquiry relative to the late Queen, is at this moment quite insane, and under confinement in a madhouse near Milan. Burns has said in one of his beautiful songs. when referring to Dame Nature's manufacture of the ador able sex— " Her 'prentice ban' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, 0!" lip the general returns of the population list, it appears that she was so struck with the beauty of her handy work. that the construction of those semi-divinities has been a po. pular employment ever since. By the returns from Exeter, we find that old &taper Filch. has not been forgotten, for so bountiful is the supply, that the number of the ladies of the creation in that city, surpasses the lords by nearly three thousand. ANECDOTE OF PitOitNlNlo--We have beard an anecdote of this extraordinary man, which speaks vo lumes for the goodness of his heart. One day, while wali• Mg in the streets of Vienna, he saw a poor boy playing upon his violin, and, on entering into conversation with bitr, he found that he maintained his mother and several little brothers and sisters by what he picked up as an itinerant musician. Paganini immediately gave him all the money he had about him, then taking the boy's violin, commenced playing, and when he had collected a vast c,owd, pulled off his hat, made a collection, and gave it to the poor boy amid the acclamations of the multitude.—Athisneum. MISS LAN DON.—Miss Landon, better known as LIS.L. the initial poetess, is a young lady. whose age, at a glance you might estimate as some four or five and twenty; short of stature, a figure light and elegant, with " the twin►ling feet so small and sylph-like." If you du not consider her pretty, why, you have no taste—though, it you analyse the features, it would be difficult to say where the beauty is situated ; but it is the mind that flings i-s charm over all, and the intelligence that beams upon her face is the true secret of its attractions She dresses somewhat singularly ; her hair is tied back so as completely to display the forehead, which, how• ever, is not a high one, though remarkably broad, intimating a great degree of animation combined with inferior reasoning powers. A bright pair of grey eyes occasionally betray the spirit of song that dwells within. notwithstanding her laborious efforts to conceal it. A re• markably small nose, pretty mouth, rather hectic cheeks, and a dimpled chin, complete the inventory of her features. If a stringer were to converse with her, ignorant of her poetical powers, he would scarcely believe that the " provisatriee" and the " Golden Violet" were the productions of the gay being with whom he had been quadrilling. Her poetry breathes disappointed love and broken hearts ; nature is its frequent theme, yet the write never felt the one ncr liked the other. Her volumes art the very excess of the sentimental ; she is herself the very reverse of it. The dance and the crowded assembly are the elements in which she lives, and beyond which she has not a wish or a hope. She prefers the atmosphere of a square or a crescent to the sweet and fresh breezes of spring, and the odours of Eau de Cologne to the delicate fragrance of the May flowers. Pity it is that a mind of so high an order as Miss Landon's should be chilled into very heartlessness by over much con. tact with the world, in which feeling is accounted folly, the heart voted a bore, and the head only valued as the medium of uttering soft nonsense, and ridiculing all that is good and great in human nature.—biserborne Journal. BI RTHS. On the 24th inst. in Gro%venor-square, Lady Porchester, of a son and heir—the 26th inst. at blazing, Ems, the lady of James Frederick Bury, Esq. of a son—the 27th inst. $t his house in Tavistock-square, the lady of Thorn's Coven• tTy, Esq. of a son, still-born. MARRIED. On the 23d inst. at Delganny, county Wicklow, Wrdc Browne, Esq. of Churchill, IVorcestershire, to Anne, tidest daughtrr of Mr. Serjeant Pennefather. DIED. On the 27th inst. after a fewhours' illness, in the tbir.: year of his age, George Edward, the only son of Dr. Bibtr. of Bute-cottage, Regent's-part -26th inst. after a few data illness, at his residence, James -street, Buckingharn.ga!e. Colonel Sir Ralph Hamilton, of °Hecuba!), North Britain. formerly of the 3d regiment of Foot Guards—.24th instant. suddenly, at his residence at Twickenham, Mr. S. 1)e Kos ter-24th Inst. at Pasay, Emma, the wife of Chas. Stardio , . Esq. of Staudish.hall, Lancaster. Lownoar : hinted and Yublisbed by Jonw 31arx E. at the STAIL OFFICE, No. 1, Pickett-place, Tstnple Bar•