Star. — London, England, 1822-12-28 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 11UNTING. ' • The Oramdtm hounds meet on Tuesdly; nt Cdombe Grove; "L':itlav, at Warcraey Turnpike. •. Lund Ansoo's Mounds meet on Monday, at Shuttington Vritlge. • 1 Tile eortesmore ll•nmds meet 'Monday. at Fo;ter's-bridge. Lord Yarborough's Hounds meet on Nand: y, at Swinhop Frans: e Wicsd.ty, at Ilendale Lodge ; Friday, at ltedburn s.itorday, at ilyl.::;by •• lii > r.—fir It Sutton'a Hounds meet on lllonday,at 1„ ):g NV o ,d ; To:..sday, at 13ardney ; Tina-Way, a: _ . Th. par:mold - Sabscription rux-hounds meet on Tuesdly, at I*,:w..r On Oh. Moar ; Thursday, at Eveaby Avenue; Too.o. NVood. Smeis:•tshire Subscription Hounds nweron Tuesday, at ; at (7,..th..-tlistone The t;!:oinil , nl Hounds meet on Saturday, at Bunny Park, .111:4 t 1 following week it: the Ilarborough country. 1 lE1.1) SPOUTS AT CROCMIE. We trnier.ta . !.l that nothing can excetilthe diver4ion or mag tlihe.r...o 01 . the 1..k14 Sports at Crown:, during his Royal t!i: of (ii.orcENreit's stay at that hospitable I li,Amess ha. repeatedly be heard to say that c o:bidered the sporting to be unrivalled in the kingdom. PEDESTRIANISM. 1 1 it - 111 N, rite BEATEN.—Thutsday, the match be twccsi Ilaltun. the Citampion of England, and Harcourt and pow ~ .on, to rt:n two measured miles : . or 100 guineas aside, was •;:ded over the ('ent-se upon Langton Wold, near Mahon, in of the tv. i men. Harcourt started along with I lalton, t.. rho the f.r,t tMI., when the latter made play, but could not off hit opponent, who was beaten only by two yards. As its Harcourt bad finished the hist mile, Howson statted : -; tite second, and immediately passing Halton with great d. !0.1: a decided lead, and won the race easy, by about 70 s mile was roll M four minutes and 59 seconds, tan the %CtOild n four initiates and 54 seconds. t.) and 3tol on I lalton. This novel match ex interest, and an immense concourse of people at tend( t.• Wit1;1 . 55 the contest. LAN., nu relation of the Captain so celebrated for ' tilidertOOk yl:,tertLy to run fifteen miles in cr :ma 40 mintitez:, over a three-mile piece of ground in Park, Ilert•-, and which he accomplished asAllows: nr. s. m . s. 18 CO I 4th ditto - - 25 19 10 sth Ditto - , - 26 40 5 j three miles ~..:.t.J d LLtto Total 106 40 i'lmas-day. Mr. ?Alum Foul), a shoemaker, re • n; Little Charlotte-stteet, Mac kfriar—road, left hum:: v itb his family, to spend the day at a friend's house ; On his return in the evening, they found the ft cot ‘.i.or open, and the shop stt ipped of all the shoes, and how e of all its goods. Cl:lstmas ni&a., the house of Mr. SAUNDERS, of Cu: siior.sttee:, was broken open, in the absence of the family. a:id robbed of plate and other articles to a Toe,dity nit;ht the family of Mr. Isaac Moss, in Bre;sti ' s Gardens, Vauxhall Road, alter they retired i)cj, were alai med by the violent barking of the', .log in tl.e back yard. The maid set Vallt got • cat bed, and having lighted a candle, went into • t;:e kilehen, where she cbserve.l a fellow racking up a large bundle of linen and apparel, the contents of a c:.est of drawc:s which stood in the front parlour. gave a I.•url scream, and the ruffian, fearful of hying tgken, h.stantly ran into the back yard, where the: e were two of his companions, all of whom es caped over the garden wall, and got off. The flintily by this time were all up, and on examination they nassed sevet al articles of plate, a time-piece, and nu merous other portable and valuable at tides taken from the front parlour, kitchen and pantry, by the thic.c,. A pannel had been taken out of the back. :Litt l.en door, where the ruffians gained an entrance. They left a da!k I:tinhorn, a crow bar, and a bunch ul p'cltlotk keys behind in their hurry to escape. ikttdav night, about eleven o'clock, as a gen l'eman of the name of Taylor, was on his way home B;ack::iars-road, nearly opposite Christ h, he was knocked down and robbed by a rut . - L:an i n tt rough g: cat coat. The gentleman re • a sevt: e contusion, as - his head in falling • comact with the stone step of a door-way. 'V i.e:. he airrlit.d to the 17atzhman, who was standing at a small cistance, the honest guardian of the night hici :1 no t:vo .sixpences, handed them to the . owner, and took inin by the arm, saying, " Sir, on.'' If/:: OL:TRACE.—The Frccman's Journal of Thu. jay " that infutmations have at length been taken against several of the persons who were engaged in that 'lel:it-ions transaction, and that war rants have been issued fur their apprehension:' In consequence of a chimney taking fire in Wild street, on 'Monday night, the parish engines were sent for, one of which, in turning the currier out of Great Queen-street, unluckily threw down an old man and a child ; an empty cart went over the latter, but with out doing it any serious injury ; the poor man, we :egret to say, was nut so fortunate; the LoRD CuAN can,Lott's carriage passing at the moment, rat; over him, and broke one of his thighs and an arm. TIIEATRES.—The Pantomimes at Di in y. Lane and Cove;it-Garden went off last night with better edect than the preceding evening, the machinery working better; and there is no douot they will repay the Ma bagels for the very liberal manner in which they jJave been produced. A party or the Thames Cossacks were parading yes ttrJay through the Strand, dressed in their military cloaks, w ith flaring red collars. A Gentleman ss alk ns with a Lady observed, they looked like dismounted Cav;:lryrnen. The Lady said, she did not perceive anything of a military character in their gait or ap -I.t.az ante, for they looked more like a parcel of geese wah their—ll:foots cut Some time ago a French soldier, addressing him to an old Austrian grenadier, said, " 1-low hap it, comrade, that we who ate boys, always beat sf:en hke you:" " Because," replied the grenadier, ate boys commanded by men., andsve are men r. - :!latizrided by boys. affirmed that General Quesada had on Mon• 4,ty an interview of three quarters of an hour with th s: et- r.f Fut eigii A fiat r s.— Condit trammel. A i.rtvate letter from Paris says—•" M. de Villele has had tl.e coinage to suppress an Ultra Journal called the Regribiteur; the very first day of its ap pearance, It was in the interest of M. Jules tie l'u lignac, one of the wai rne,t partizans of the war, and on;: of the Chiefs of the Club of foreign The Editor was- - an apostate Priest, foimerly a Jac°. Lin, named Salques. In this l'Apea they reproached de N'illele with having sent an AMUassadOr to Bolivar. The fact is, liuevor, pue; the name or the Ambassador is Count Zandan: WINTER HOME mecum. •- LEWES, DRICRMBRIt N. • • R. Weston and G. Eastwood were indicted for wil fully setting fire to a barn in the occupation of Mr. - John Flurry. • The prosecutor resides on a small farm of his own near Burwash. On this farm there was a barn con taining nearly all the hay and•corn which he grew in the present year. About midnight on Sunday, the 10th oh. the barn was discovered to be on fire. The prosecutor, his servant, and a great Many persons from the town were soon collected together, and every exei thin was made to save the property ; but only a few sacks of wheat, and about a load of wheat sheave::, with sonic implements, could be saved—the remainder, with the barn, was destroyed. Among those collected upon the . occasion were the prisoners, who assisted in endeavouring to save the propel ty, and at that time no suspicion was enter tained against them, and iNvas only from a concur. rence of suspicious circumstances that they were sub sequently suspected. The prosecutor is one of the Overseers of the Parish cf Rurwash, and was in the habit of attending the Select Vestrie.,; the prisoners are paupers of On Par ish. It having been strongly recommended by the Magistrates that the Overseers should riot grant relief to paupers who have gt own-up daughters at home dressed above their condition, and the prison. ers being so situated, the Select Vestry frequently told them that they should not be relieved until their daughters went into the poor-house. On Saturday, the 2d ult. We lon demanded relief, which was re fused on the grounds above stated ; the prisoner then suspecting Mr. Flurry, the prosecutor, to be the cause of the refusal, became very inveterate against him, and, on aliplication to Mr. Westover, the Assistant Overseer, several times in the course of the ensuing week, used to that gentleman the most abusive lan pute,e towards Mr. Flurry. On Thursday, the 7th, Weston was heard.to say, I wish I knew my friend, (meaning, as it was supposed, the prosecutor) tl-.n . seize my blood, if I would not do a job for hinkand give him the length of my tongue." On Sattirday, the 9th, Weston was at the house of Mr. Gilbert. one of the Select Vestrymen, and then said to Lucy Wood; servant to Mr. Gilbert, that "Mr. Flurry was fibre against him than any one else—that he should not sun ve—and that. he should go about in the 'day time to see what he could hook at night *;" and, on her asking him why he did not do it in the day.. time ? he answered, " Because I shall be observed." In the evening of the same day he said to Mr. West over, " I think Mr. Flurry is the man who has pre vented my being relieved ;" and afterwards, " if there is any sin in these great b--s starving the poor, I thing they will have a great deal to answer for;' and as he was leaving the house, he said, << Mr. Frurty is my enemy, d—n his heart !" In the afLernoon of the 10th (the day the barn was burnt), Weston was again at Mr. Westover's ; and on being refused relief upon the same grounds as before, said, in a very malicious manner, speaking of the prosecutor, " I'll be d—d to hell if I be not a match for him before to-morrow night." Under these circumstances Weston was taken before a Magistrate on the 14th ; it then transpired, that on the night of the fire, Weston, who lives 'be tween fifty and sixty rods from M. Flurry's barn, ent, after supping at home at nine o'clock, to East wood's. lie was remanded until the 18th, for re examination ; when Thomas Clifton stated, that on the sth, after having some convelsation with East wood about parill business, he (the prisoner) said, that if he could get a couple of gond hearty fellows, he would set fire to the barns of Mr. Flurry and Mr. Button. Upon this information Eastwood was also apprehended ; as be was being taken before the Ma gistrate, however, he ran away, but was overtaken, and brrnigl.: back : it was thought rather a suspicious circumstance against Weston, that, although he was alarmed as soon as his neighbours, he was not at the barn until half an hour after them ; upon evidence of this nature, the prisoners were committed for trial, on which occasion, evidence was given of the same facts, and, in addition, . _ _ ciusic the shopman missed the prope r ty, a n d sus p ec ted the prisoner, who was 'apprehended at a-short dir taiice from the shop, when . he said he would give up the watch if they would let him go. No promise was made, but he subsequently gave up the property. The Learned Junoe summed up, and the Jury re turned a verdict—Guiky—Death . . His Lordship then proceeded to pass sentence of death on the fallowing prisoners : David Raglest. aged .86, for passing forged notes ; William Again, 24, William Stiibberfield, 18, and James Miller, 41, for burglaries ; Moses Chandler, 28, and James Crossingham, 24, for horse-stealing ; and Daniel Murray, 14, for felony. If to these be added the 15 .on whom sentence of ' death was passed on Monday and Tuesday, there will appear to have been convicted at these Assizes, for capital offences, not less than half .the prisoners that have been tried ; the Calendar originally con tained 50 pi isoners, but true bills were found by the Grand Jury against 43 only, and the number of those capitally convicted is 22. The Learned JUDGE having thanked the Jury for heir attention, the Court adjourned at two o'clock. A robbery of 20 coombs of wheat was effected last week at Sibton• Mr. White, the proprietor, a few days after received the sacks, with a note containing the following lines:— •' We have got your wheat, And you can't find it ; 'Twas a famous wind ihat help'.l to grind it." Wednesday se'enight, J. Hartland, waggoner of T. IlAtes, Esq. of Coddington, was committed to jail for a month, for beating his master's horses with a pike, whereby he so seriously injured one of that it died in about seven days. BOW-STREET.—A young man was charged by a Gentleman in partnership with Mr. Collier, an. Attorney, with riding away with his horse. The complainant was riding, on Thursday af ternoon, through Kensington, when the horse fell lame, which induced him to alight, when he discovered a gravel stone be tween his hoof and shoe. The prisoner assisted, with the ferrule of his umbrella, to get it out, but could not succeed, and, while he was gone to borrow a hammer, the pristmer mounted the horse and rode off; which he explaiued,ip-his.defence,hy saying he had a box with some feathers, at which the horse took fright, and ran away with him, over ploughed fields, &c. ; he at-length found his way home, on Clapham Common, where he resides with bis mother, and had the horse taken care of. lie also ac counted for his mounting, by saying he was ih a state of intoxi cation. Yesterday morning, when he recolk cteil the circum stances, he sent an advertisement to be insert e d in a Newspaper, for the owngr to apply for his horse, and rode to London for that purpose, when he met the complainant in Piccadilly, who took him into custody. The prisoner produced the manuscript of the advertisement, to prove the correctness of his account. The complainant being induced to believe his defence, did not press the charge. The young man acknowledged tb impropriety of his conduct, and, after a suitable admonition front the Magi strate, was discharged. thamphreys deposed, that on the evening of the 10th of November, he was at Eastwood's house, and a short time before witness' left, Weston came, and said, " he had come to his word, to know if East wood had been to Mr. Davenport, the Magistrate."— East wood said he had, but could get nothing of him; Weston replied, that he would have a living by fair means or foul, and that he bad just given old Jack Ketch Westover a good blowing up, and that he should like to send old Flurry, and all the rest of them, to hell ; Eastwood said, if he'd a gun he would go and shoot twenty of them ; witness then left the house alone, and as he passed the chapel near Well field-style, between nine and ten o'clock, he saw person whom he took to be Weston, but as he did not answer witness when he said good night, he could not swear positively that it was the p: isoner ; as witness passed Eastwood's house, about ten o'clock, he saw his daughter, who told him her father was gilne to bed. Ann Clifton, wife of T. Clifton, remembered the night of the 10. h of November; she went to bed be tween seven and eight o'clock, and was awaked in the night by her little boy, who told her of the fire; she then heard a person run down the lane by her, house, the back door of which opened in the lane he stopped at about eight yards from Weston's back door ; the window of the room in which witness slept was so situated, that if a person had knocked at Weston's door she would not have heard it ; the lane is not a thoroughfare, it ends near Weston's ; about hell an hour before the alarm of tire, witness heard Weton's wife say " get a light," or " put out the light." No defence was attempted, and the Learned Judge recapitulated the evidettce very minutely, and si:mnied up the case, %%ben the Jury returned a ver• diet of—Not Guilty. Os Lordship then addressed the prisoners init feel ing manner, upon the unjustifiable expressions they had used towards those who had contributed to their support in times of great distress. D. Murray was indicted for stealing a gold watch, and chain, value twenty pounds, the property of V. Silvani, of Brighton. The prisoner, who is only LI, went to the prose enures shop, on the murniug of _the sth instant, and pur,;:lased a gold pin. lle caned twice afterwards, the same d.ry, on some trilling pretences; and about ROBERT BURIVS. , . - Everything connected with the life or memory of Ayrshire's departed Bard, whether in the farm di anecdote, unpuljished rhymes, or in the more tangi ble shape of oaken rafters, cups, and punch-bowls, being now sought after with the greatest avidity, we feel a pleasure in giving publicity to the following , anecdote of the Poet, as related in our hearing a few week's ago, by a medical gentleman of the highest respectability, to whom the accompanying versos were addressed. In the summer of 1714 the Gee- tlenian referred to, who then resided at . hfauchline, and enjoyed the personal friendship of the Bard, was. met by him one forenoon, and invited 'Pi attend the anniversary meeting of a Masonic Lodge, about *to be celebrated at Tarbolton. The Doctor could not then give a decisive answer, but tequested Bytom to send him a note previous to the air) , fired for the meeting. He soon afterwards,received the following Metrical invitation, which we copied from the origi nal manuscript : Friday first's the day appointed, By our Right WorAipful anointed, To held our grand procession; To get a blade o' Johnuie's morals, And taste a swatch o' Manson's barrels, I' the way of our profes4itna: Our Master and the brotherhood Wad a' he glad to see you ; For me, I wad be mair than proud, To share the mercies wi' you. If Dcath, then, scaith then, Some mortal heart is heehtin, Inform him, an' storm him, That Saturday yell feght him ! Mosgiel, June 14, A. M. 1793. ROBERT BURNS. A sue n COACIIMAN.—The driver of a hackney-coach appeared to answer the complaint of Lord W. Lennox. Ills Lordship, on Monday night, was at Drury-Lane Theatre, and at five minutes after twelve desired one of the box-keepers to get him a coach. Some time afterwards he went down, got into the coach, and ordered the coachman to drive into Man chester-square, where they arrived before one o'clock, and his Lordship tendered half-a-crown fur the fare—the time being within the hour. Coacher:, however, insisted upon five shillings, alleging that he was engaged soon after eleven o'clock. His Lord ship would not sutler this imposition ; and coachee, not being aware of his quality, gave his Lordship in charge to a watch e-an, who, sans cerensonie, carried, or rather handed the young Lord to Mary-la-bonne watch-house! where he paid the extor tionate tare demanded, and was suffered to depart in peace. Coaches', in his defence, pleaded that he was called at twenty minatee past eleven, and was therefore entitled to the money he demanded; but not being able to prove this, he was fined in the penalty of forty shillings; being unable to pay, he was committed. Maesrow-House.—Yesterday Mr. Pritchard, the Secretary of the Society for the Sisppreuion of Vice, applied to the Loun Maeoa, stating that a great nuisance had existed at the corner of Gilt spar-street, which was occasioned by placards of the worst description that were daily hung out in the front of Carlile's shop, in consequence of which the pavement was from morning to night blocked up by the crowds of idle and ignorant people which they attracted, to the great benefit of the pickpockets.— Ilia Lordship read over Mr. M. A. Taylor's Act, which ap peared to hits to provide for such obstructions as were occa sioned by the things often hung in the fronts of green-grocers shops, for instance; and others where the projection was often very considerable. But it did not clearly appear to him to pro vide for such cases as the present, where the projection, and the obstruction occasioned by the projection alone, appeared to be inconsiderable. His Lordship desired to know what definitive pleasures Mr. Pritchard wished hint to take? Ile thought chat the Commissioners of Pavements were the persons to whom ap plication should be made.—Mr. Pritchard suggested that parti cular instructions should be given to the Police to watch the -- spot, and take down and convey such placards to the Green- The following anecdotes of this Minister, who has yard, as nuisances.—Mr. Hobler laid that had been already 11 st received his dismissal from the French Cabinet, are donee.—The Lotto Maros said that he felt as much as any one the odious nature• of the nuisance, and he would go to the full contained in a letter from Paris :—The Baron. Munt extent of the law ;but at the same time he would not go beyond morency has taken the fate created Duke of the same the law. The party must have notice to abate the nuisance, and name to task, and told him that he acted more like a he (the Lord Mayor) could have no cotitroul over them, until .. that notice was disobeyed, when the matter might be brought parvenu than like one of the ancient family of Mont before him upon the oath of a credible witness, who would swear moienCy, to whom belongs the title of the first Chris that the placards overhung the area. ti an Baron, in taking the title of Duke ; that, at least, if be had so inordinate a desire for a Dukedom, he Rhea Poker, the guard of the Exeter coach, underwent a final examination, and was fully committed. No new evidence should have taken the title from an estate, and not was offered. Hareoe-Geantee—The time of the Magistrates was princi- have given such a scandal to the French Noblesse pally occupied yesterday in adjusting disputes arising from Christ- as that produced by the title of Duke de Mont mas gambols. One poor devil was brought from the watch- trim eirey. The consequence of this reprimand bas Louse, who was found lying, in a state of drunken stupidity, close • ueen that the Duke wrote to the Editors of the to tile railing, in Red Lion-square, without hat, shoes, necker chief, or money, all of which he had been robbed of. The Ma- different Journals, conjuring them to call hits) for gistrate told hint he hoped the less would operate as a warning the future, Duke Mathieu de Montmorency ; in or to him, and ordered his discharge. The other disputes were der that all the world may know and clearly under principally between Irishmen, and were totally uninteresting. stand that it is not the first Christian Baron who has CIer.EN•SQUARE.—Boxing-day was, as usual, its Westminster, demeaned himself by accepting a modern Dukedom.. productive of a host of prisoners an disorderly charges. Some - of them not being sober when brought up, were remanded with- Another curious anecdote of Duke Mathieu is as fob. out examination. A private in th e Guards was committed, in loses:—ln 1802, seeing that Bonaparte was all power default of bail, fur assaulting a publican, who refused to obey his , fid, he thought that the true French Noblesse was calls for liquor, knowing he had no money. annihilated for ever, and lie detet mined that the race Mr. Spark, a fashionable young man, charged his chart antic, of the Montmorency s should cease, as it was no longer whom he said he had raised front poverty to a state of splendour and luxury, with assaulting him. Latterly, on every frivolous , possible for them to be born noble. He was then ; occasion, she would seize a razor to cut his throat, load a pistol married to a Lady of twenty-five:years of age but in to shoot him, saddle his horse and ride out alone, .&c. The consequence of this resolutam, he made a vow of Magistrate would not interfere ; and the lady, who had fre chastity to the Virgin. Madame de Stall, his hlti queenly mooned, was discharged. mate friend, x . vas the confidante of this continent vow, LASIZTII-S2REItt was an information preferred by and, it is entd, was in raptures of admiration at it. Martin, the informer, against Joseph DivigQ and Wawa Ifidkins, drivers of two Stratford Opposition Coaches, wherein they were i But in 1816, when M. Montmorency saw that the each charged with furiously driving their coache'' seasto t. " - Bourbons were pretty solidly established in France, danger the lives of his Majesty's tibj , xts, ard the property of i and that the Noblesse was again likely to flourish, their employe's. The defendants were sever:ire; covvic:eddn the penalty of Al% the same to be paid in fourteen d; ;s, otherwise / more than ever, he repented bitterly of this vow, a Warrant of Distress would•be healed, and in case of no effects which was to deprive the world of little Aloutmo.. being found, they would he committed for three months each to rencys. He applied to the Papal Court for a t he. the House of Correction. Ipensation, but was exhorted to follow example UNION-HALG—Three men, named. anbr. , y, Roberts, and C. of t he Apostles and primitive Bishops, who, shaving Austin, were charged with having burglarrously entered and robbed ' several houses in the :naighboto hood of Walworth, on • made similar vows, never sought to be relieved from Christmas Day. The latter prisoner, who als o exercised the then) ; however, M. M. persisted in his demand, and calling of body snatcher, had only been liberated a few days pre- after a delay of eight months, and the payment of ceding on a charge of attempting to disturb the dead in the twelve thousand francs, the Pope granted him per. church-peel of Newington. The three prisoners were coo- mission to continue the race of tl.e Montniorencys. mined for trial at the next Assizes for the County. Thursday evening, a gentleman of the name of Co r., living in the neighbourhood of Covent-Garden, We are sorry to announce the death of Lady A PREECE, which took place on Thursday last, after while rAasing along Bart-street, fell down and in os- stain'' , expired. A Coroner's inquest was held last. a short illness, at her-residence in South -street, Gr `senor square. night. erdict, Natural Death. SPENCER, THE POET. That highly-imaginative Poet, SPENSER, has most. beautifully personified the seasons, and the months of the year, day and night, in the Kdris Queene, passing under the guidance of Order before the Gods, who are supposed to be assembled upon " Arlo 1E11:—. The following is his description of Winter: Lastly came Winter, cloathed all in Prize, Chattering his myth for cold that did him chill, Whilst on his hoary beard his bread did freeze, And the dull dreps that from his purpled bill As froni a lindwck did adown In his right hand a tipped staffe he Feld, With which his feeble Rico he stayed still; . For he was faint with cold and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed hothes he liable was to weld ! THE CR.4PEN STATESMEN. The late Mrs. CATHERINE CA PPE, in her interesting memoir of herself, gives' the following sketch of the Statesmen of Craven, a very mountainous district of the western division of the county of York :—The i►i habitants who did not earn their living by daily la bour, or by some little trade, were the small proprie tors of land, possessing property from generation to generation, to the amount of perhaps from ten to one hundred pounds per annum. These are denominated Statesmen, and are divided into two classes, great and little Statesmen ; the former of whom consider them selves as amongst the first personages in the world. The etiquette, when a visit is paid to the Lady of a great Statesman, is :—After inviting her guests to • come in " and make free," she dusts the chairs with the corner or her apron, desiring them to be seated ; she next takes a brush to sweep the floor, apologizing all the time that it was not done before their arrival. She next adjusts her own apparel, and not unfre quently goes through the whole ceremony of an entire change of upper garments, standing with her com pany with great unconcern. Her dress being finished, she offers each of her visitors a glass of brandy, as suring them that " they are as welcome as if they were at home;" and this being done, she fetches It chair and seats herself by them. Ido not recollect a single instance in which any part of this ceremony was omitted. TILE DUKE OF MONTMORENCY.