The National Register. — London, England, 1819-05-17 00:00:00

NI AY 17• A QUALIFY SCHOLAR AND 011.1T011. I cr.l4 upon my friend, the prang Member, one morning, for a frank. I tinind him en robe de elumbre, surrounded with charts, globes, papers, and books, amongst whiA were proceedings of both houses of parliament, law books, history, and clas sics. Something mitten in short-hunk lay befi're him, and a runner to one of the Editors of a news paper was receiving his orders and a parcel. Many franks were arona7l him, nod he seemed exhausted with study. All this struck me as rather new. At Oxford he was thought am. diAipatell young , man; yet on one occasion he wrote a splendid thesis, and was second best at the prize Latin oration. " You are over hurried, Charles," said I, " and 'an have no franks to spare ; so I will call another time " Not at all, may deur friend,' said Ile ; I'll date the frank for to-morrow ; and if you will sit down, I will be with you immediately. lam indeed ilitigned to detth. Letters from my con stituents pour in like hail-stones ; and I have been planning something very beneficial to the state. fly the by, come down to the house to-day, and you will hear what will please you.' Ile now left inc far a•whole hour to my medita tions, during which time a servant fetched a number of books of reference, and I overheard my beardless senatorial friend declaiming in the next mn. My first reflection was, that, elate with his green parlia wentaty honours, he heal given more than his num b.si of franks tir a week to come, and that mine Nvoaid not go free. It fell out exactly so; mine. with a dozes others, paid postage._ . I now turned to the book +. a list I—Ci cero, Da.mostlients, Plato, Horace, Juvenal, Burke ava dia. Sublime and Beautiful, Shakspeare and Ju nius i ba.siles Montesquicu and llai Cartes, Bacon, sir lsaae Newton, and .a jest book ! what a coa ti:lst ! That any frieul was no Greek scholar, I knew of old ; bat in tic Greek authors, slips of paper ron!a . ,i::ita;.; an Engli:di translation were inserted. fha other a,uthors had their leaves dog's-eareal, as xve calk. it at school, and had lines made with rad it undee ditieroat staikiag "No had 0,013 1 ;ht I, " t,, :assist ancillary." 0.1 the in:Ts whis.h hay °pall on the table, pins were placed in rows, in order to pa.iut out the tract of country ailthleat ao. After Licking my heels during this long hour, my hieini appeared, with it very elute and confident nir. Ile apologized f r his &day, talked of the pressure of !witness, lodkill title - A-taut, cast a t t erin: 4 . glance at his looking-glass as we left the and we proceeded to the house together. As i:c went along he read over some notes, conversed in parliamentary language, such e.s, Disposing of t h e pr (A M oi qw :s th;:t. — The siteultueewts ninve mmt of continental ho :era, The oriler cf the (l a y, Existing circlinistames, Imperious necessity, Fun damental flaittires, etcet•aru, until we at last iirrivvii. lie smiled content when he wits accosted as one of the I louse. lie took his scat with as lunch a ase vs it he had had a septennial lease of it, nodded to his frienils, cact en eye up to tile gallery, looked alit at last roso to s i leak. I now perceived a si,, ,, iiiticant lank given and r:titrtied by a gentleman in bLick mar me. The hououra Member spoke at some ledgth, but thul tint excite genei al interest. A few friends, I,,wever, shouted a supporting " Hear, hear," not undisturbed b) coughing. The gentleman in black !oohed anxious ; he drew near nun;—" He makes a good appearance, tbr so young a man." YcS, in deed,' replied 1. " A good deal of classic know ledge," reji,ined he. Truly, indeed,' said I. " Muc/t general reading," added he agnin. And a very laboured siceeli.' replied 1. " Humph !" quoth the clergyman; for I now found him such. " A young man who has read a great deal," observed he. My friend now made a quotation whielt I re- Liembercil in his 'I hesis. I mentioned it to. the clergyman, who scid in answer, '• He was a man of earl promise." lie now quoted Juvenal. " Bravo," exultingly said the friend, his face all beaming with hope. ! thought that I had seen the counter ance some where, and I asked if he was a relation ; to which I.e answered in the negative, adding, " but I am none, I um a very early and sincere friend of his.' The speaker now made a geographical blunder. " Pish !" cried his friend. But none of the house aserved ic. The attention of the majotity was not engaged,-1 teem the 'majority, not in poiitic, , , but in nianbers; the other learned'tnembers did not per ceive it; the Clergyman locked consoird. Ile made a blunder in a quotation ; his friend blushed, and bit his lip. However, the speech now came W a close ; and our black coat withdrew. Doctor Polylogue I your most obadicnt, said brother blrck• cunt :Is he passed him. I now recol. I THE . NATIONAL REGISTER. lected my man. 11e had been pt.:vote tutor to my I erica . ' at eullep, and had travelled with which he has an annuity. He also got a living ft tat the young Member's uncle. The whole secret W• 18 now unravelled!-1 recognised the hand writing of the Greek translations and pc ceived that the tutor had just been giving his lesson to his pupil previous o his goitt,; down to Ct., house.— The short-hand writer had been employed to note down the speech, and the Editor's runner called to take the materials tir a puff. The Reverend has greet hopes of his patron's shining, end still greater expectations of getting promotion through the im mense property and extensive interest of the family an‘i its connexions. Whet the seholar male a blunder, it was natural fur the tutor to look con ; just as it was nothing surprising to see him exult in the expertness of his young tyro. Although toe privilege of proxy belong alone to the upper house, yet the practice may thus be indi rectly applied to the lower one. We have many authors and senators behind the curtain, who lend out their abilities !o riches and to power ; and thus, in more instances than the present one, is the chats meter of eloquence acquired, and the author's wreath is worn by h m who never earned it. Our tutored members, however, seldom or ever speak in reply ; and our nominal authors rarely allow themselves to be drawn into oral argument; whilst the secret hand may aspire, at a future period, to lawn sleeve , and to tukiug his seat quietly in the upper house. THE HERMIT IN LONDON. A BIFNCE Or MIND.—The justly celebrated Lea sing was frequer.:ly very absent Having missed money at different times without being able to dis cover who took it, he determined to put tiie honesty of his servant to a trial, and left a handful of gold on his table. "Of course you counted it ?" said one of his friends. Counted it ?' said Leasing, ra ther embarrassed, no; 1 forgot that.'—The fol lowing is a similar trait. In a public sale there was a book which Leasing was very desirous of possess ing. He gave three of his fri,:nds, at different times, a commission to buy it at any price. They accord ingly bid against each other till they had got as tar as 90 crowns ; there having been no other bidder after ten crowns. Happily one of them thought it best to speak. to the others, when it appeared that they Icel all been bidding for Lessing, whose forget fulness in this instance Cost hint 80 crowns. An old German Knight, in the Cost half of the 15th century, when enormous goblets were among the chief ornaments of the rooms and tables of the nobles, sat once at table next to his young wif:: in a utm:rous company, where the brittle %vent t tuition ally round, and a large goblet was to be emptied each time, on pain of being contemned as a false brother by the guests, who were used to be very strict in this point. The wife, who had received a more polished education, whispered to her husintrul, when it again came to his turn to empty an enor mous glass, to pour the wine secretly under the ta ble. " Ihe others will see it," said he. I lis therefore, jut as he was raring the glass to ks mouth, stout:Al out the candle, and repeated her re • quest. Instead of complying, he said with a kind of solenmity, " God sees it," and emptied his goblet. I)KEADPUI. FIRS AND RATENSIVE RoNDeNIES.--03 Friday lour olog.about two o'clock, t most alarming tire broke out in tile house of Mr. surgeon, No. 13, Dover -street, Piccadilly, which thri:w the tleighbourboud into ;peat confusion. The watchman OD going his !minds disco% eted smoke issuing trout the 'OWL r wiiitlowit, and un looking throu g h di:c.xeri.ll the place all in a blaze_ He made au alarm, and the family arose, but their pas s.ige wad iireventeti by the immense body or coati log up toe stilly:lse ; they rewriter! to the steeping roam on the second Hoor, and Mr. Short got out of use is in dow and slid down the water-spout by the side of the house, and so made his escape with trithog it.jury. in the wean time tile other persons at tile upper part of the house got oit the tiles, and Wade their way through Mr. Stevens's house in their night dresses; one of the servants leaped from the liist-fli;or window, (having no other mean, of escape) and was very minim bruised. In a short hate seter:ll engines oil tie s i sit, but finite wit a great Sc.:fell of water for Axon :iu hour, iieviu:l the house was burnhig with errol soil did iJeat ilatmiae to the house or Mr. Kitelting, gold smith stud jet, eller, sod likewise to th.tt of Mr. Stevens, who lost maid' property. Mr. Soon, &c. look refuge at a frtenti's house in the neighootationd. lly six Weirs:A the house of fir Short was burned to the ground, wiin the property wines is considerable. Mr. Short is insu During the eutifi.i4ration, a forin Wahl e gang of notorious cillauts con:witted serious depredation; with They slurounded the house of sl r. Ferguson, No. 11, iu I)(4er-street, shortly alter the fire commenced, and wider pretence 4:li:inning the family, :Ind to assist it, tetilov, ing their goods, they forced open the parlour will:low slutotert, swathed tile is unlows, and entered the loise. The Tuohy sot up mid Earl out, thinking their house was on fire. 'the thieves availeci themselves of the coutosion arid broke ep-is a large chest of dra wtts, and stole 10E. Ih9 iii bank notes, SU goitre's in gold, sovereiisot, Ste silk dre,s, an f ot.i4tr vain ilk: pri.:).:rly, with %%Melt they got el. ai off. It ieral miter hriot,ts were sobbed by per liill4 WWI rut: Aided to assist in saving the properi, and oral sons had their pockets imk..d. Co it ofs e lit 0u tST.—Au 1 itcpitstt lon was taken on Friday night at Otiose Tii s Shelton, Esq. Cormier, at tit., Mare Tat erti. re.coor., street,'on the bolt of Mr. Thomas Uolt Gregson, a gym. tleinan of COlisiJeraltle Iltetaty actporeinent,, wilt) pot an end to his exisiettre sday I , at, by cutting his 111,1.11.— ' !.1r. John Cole, Segeoti, litisselt street,Cove,tt-e waled that he visited the deceased s.'ae :n' Mitre Tat ern, lie w as of great hie, he told him th it he had hero .triitking for sevoral days to great excess, and his struitacti was so had that food would riot stay upon it; his oral was burning ; ne r ire him some medicine, hitt his de-corder was so great, that his efforts were meffectuat. 'I he de ceased was ve , y delirious, and he tecvntimended mitire to remain with him all night, tinder the iJca that he might du himself wine injury; he called to see him on the Thursday looming, anti Vas told lie ...as dead. 4,1 'Mills, of Lamb-, mat, Fleet-street, stated that ,i.e was engaged 10 sit tip wltil deceased, on Wettoesday night; lie insiited upon her beat tog the romii ; 'OM ill ionued the landlady, who told her to go home, and come in the morning. The deceased did tint appeal rips iii his head on Wednesday inght.—John waiter at the Mitre, stated, that tile deceased cattle to lodge at that house on Tuesday; lie had laved there three weeks, about six weeks ago, and his letters it err directed there from his triends iti the country. lie assisted the deceased into bid, on Wednesday night ; he talked in coherently, anti fancied persons were in the room to do illlll s iOletlee, Ai a little after 12, he (wittiest) went 10 his apitilltellt. to give Min hit medicine, and fonttd hint 011 the Lae, with his legs under min, his throat cut with a small desert knife, which AV4II in his right hand, bloody —tie was quite dead ; Dr. Anderson was called in.— Mr. Henry Gregson, the deceased's brother, was ex amined, lie said the deceased had been melancholy for two years, and some time ago was CMlfilled in a strait waistcoat ; he was-thirty years of age --Verdict—r' Cut his throat in a state of insanity." Thursday, 'an in t(MeV was taken at Acle, in'Norfolk, before John Pilgrim, Gent. Coroner, on the body of Francis .wets, who was killed the preceding day in consequence of his falling from the shafts of a waggon on which he was riding, arid the wheels passing mer his head. It appeared in eiidenee that this poor man, wi.o was servant to Mr. :Miles, of Burlingham, bt.t a short time since paid the penalty for riding on the shafts of his master's waggon, and has twice fallen front it, each taste ila wheels passing over hint, but the waggon being empty, he di I not receive much injury.—Verdict, Accidental Death. On Tuesday mornitH, about one o'clock, an alarm of foe v. throuAlt Bury, and it was disco% ered mat the w crksii.)ps at the back cl Mrs. Faster'. Louie, situate in St. Andrew's -street, wire in flomns. No time was lost in rullittifiniiq the firemen, and fl‘e engines were speedily on the spot. At this time the contionation was terrible, and had extended to the ward - souse of Mr. Fenton, broker, and to a stable belongine to Mr. Bird. Little hopes were entertained ni 541ing tke long range of adjoining premises,. but fortunately tie night was calm, an I by the most meri tortis exertions a coffaitesvos pidleti down, to bre ik uFi Ille COMlllunication on one side. and a i:.ond supply of water to the engines clu eked tie progress at the mho'. The tire was by this meads confined to the three build ings, which, however, weir burnt to the ground before four o'clock, when the ravages of the frichtfol element ceased. A number of gentlemen assisted in the !shows of the scene, and many females of respectability exerted their utmost dilieence m obtaining water. Most of the propertyileitroved - - - - . - On Wednesday morning, at half oast seven o'clock an accident occurred at Craven Place, Bayswater, which proved fatal to a young man about 1.0 years of age, named West, who was thrown from a chaise cart. The deceased, accompanied by another man, the proprietor of the cart, a Mr. Mims, were pro ceeding to town, but on their arrival near the above mentioned place the horse became restive and ungo vernable, add ran away, but becoming cntaiiLled in the nias, the cart was overturnA, and ch.: micurtii- • nate young man was precipitalcd opal a hank by thsr road side, and his head curaing in cunttict iiith a stone, lie received a I ontuaion, trhich terniinated hii existence in a few minutes. Ilia companEon was dangerously hurt. DONNELLY AND Otter.a.--Tuciday bc!ng th day appointed for a &posit for Donnell: stud Oli!er, the &line was ol.scrved over a ; 4 •euti or, in other words, a dinner, at o:ieer's. The much was made for '2OO ;ilium, and to tight on the ITtlt July, a stand-up in n f,:et roiyll square. Carter, the ptigi!ist, teems ti• Imre a !it range t,mcy to have himself well heat. lc cit rest to fight Spring again, wilo.w lateiy pmashed aim. Spring very properly ilk:cline:l, because victory could be nu honour. . On Friday morning a fine about 10 years of age, was run over 1w a W,N;gcvn at the corner of Duke -street, M;:oe!,istcr-Nt.-1:c. It ;Ippk:lrs s!ie ‘v.is enacavourini; to Loch :t .1. Itiqg i.i the to.mako what :ho children cali-spieakets, %slant her foot slipping, slbc cL;I under the %died, which vin i i over neck, can3o her hut:: " 1 ‘..'.!: I 1 1