The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-15 00:00:00

CURIOUS EPITAPHS.

We select the following curimut Epitaphs from that ex-
cellent and amusing work, the Relics if I.ilcrulti^e, by
Stephen Collett, A.M.
IN ST. MICHAEL'S, CROONED-LANE.
Here lyeih. wraps in clm,
The tuly of iVilliant Wray ;
1 hare no more to uy.

ST. MEN NET'S, PAUL'S WHARF. LOSTML
HMV lies nit More, and to More than he:
Oct More, anti en More ! how can that be ?
Why one Mere, :cid Ho More, may well lie here alone,
But here lies one Mote, and that's Mort titan we.

aT fiEl.ItY, IN TORICSIIIIIC.
!fere lies the hotly of tenor Frarrk /Ass,
Parish clerk and grare.stone cutter,
And this is writ to let you know.
N'hat Frank for others used to do,
la now for Frank dune by another.

IN NORWICH CATHEDRAL.
Here ilea the ho.ii of honest Tom Page,
Who died in the 33d year of his age.

IN SWANSEA 1:1111711C1I-Y•110.
The body underneath this stone is,
Of my late husband Jaeob Jonas,
Who, when alive, was an Adonis,
Ah ! well.a.day !
0 death ! thou spoiler of fair race.,
Wily toolest thou hint from niy tte.braees ?
How cuuliti'st thou our so many graces ?
Say, tyrant, say.

IX TIIE rRURCIt-T/RD OF nTTIIE.
Ilia net old &her George long drew,
liheale upon shoal% he caught.
'Till Death came 'waling for lox du,,

G
Anil made pour eorge his draught.
Death lishes on through various shares;

In vain it is to fret;
Nor fish or fighermitn escapes
'Death's all.enclosing net.

TX THE CHERCW-YARD OT Arrnrotow, TX Oivowintnt,
ON A PARSON or Tot NAME OF STORE, WHO LIVED TO
TUE AWE or ITO YEARS.
Gland Salem's rune shall never light OD thee;
For here a stone upon a Stone 1 ire.

IN THE OED CIICRCII OT ALL SAINTS, IN NEWCASTLE.
here lies poor ‘Vallace.
The prince of good fellows,
Clerk of Allhallows.
And maker of bellow..
Ile bellows did make 'till the day of his truth:
But he that made bellows could never make breath.

IN THY curt Clt-Talln Or WESTNINSTOY, IN CUSSES,
1.
Farewell, poor world ! I must be ;;one;
This is no Owe for rn.::
I'll take my staff, an' travel! on,
Ilopinge a better world to see.
The bitter cup, that Death gave me,
Is passing mend to Come to thee.

One of the most ree nt arts of benevolence of Lis MF.•
jesty is an order that Mr. Sadler, the vetoran aerona t
should be enrolled among the brethren of the Chartet-
beuse, which secures to that enterprising man a c mifert-
able asylum for tie remainder o" his days.
Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, the Duke rill!
Duchess of Clarence, and the Duke of Aleiningen, arrived
in town from Bushy. In the evening the Royal Duke and
lhichess, and his Serene Highness, honoured Covent-gar-
den Theatre with their presence.
The Earl and Countess of Lonsdale, accompanied by
Lord Frederick Boithick and Lady, Miss Thompson,
Miss Griadale, J. H. Lowther, Esq., ALP. (son of Sir
John Lowther, Bart., M.l'., of Swillington). tee., arrived
at 11.1titchaven Castle on Saturday last. We understand
they purpose remaining here about a fortnight.—Whirehavee
Oatetle.
Mr. &alien, M.P., who is sojourning at Brighton, liar
been paying a visit to Lord George Cavendish, at Compton
Place ; he passed through Lewes, and called on several of
the electors.—BrigiAns Paper.
IVe learn from good authority that at the next general
election Sir John Lowther, Bart. will retire from the re-
presentation of this county, and that Lord Frederick
1 Bemire): (son-in-law of the Earl of Lornelale), will
he the new candidate on the yellow interest.—Carlisle
Journal.
A deputation of ttie freemen of Wells, consisting of
Francis Drake and Robert Welsh, &tops., Mr. Jam Ful-
ler, and Mr. Joseph Dix, left Wells on Sunday Cur Lon-
don, to confer with their brother freemen there on thi,
choice of members for that city at the next general elec-
tion. The present members, C. W. Taylor, and J. P.
Tudway, &qrs., hare represented Wells, the former din-
ing twenty-eight years, and the latter and his uncle the
last sixty-four years.—Beti Herald.
The Consecration of the elegant and much-admired new
Church at Ilnrton-upon-Trent took place on Friday week,
by the Lord Bishop of the diocese.
On Monday, the lath inst. being St. Luke's Day, the
new church will he opened at Chelsea, and eons: vested by
the name of St. Luke ; and, on the 311111 e day, a new pal
of ten hdla, cast by Mr. 'f. Mears, in WhiteChape!, will Is
opened by the Loudon Companies of Change Ringers; viz.
the College Youths, and C herland Youths. The tenor
is in the key of E, and weighs r 3 cwt. (not b..11-metal).
Saturday the IVY. Soencer Madan, A.M. canon of
Lichfield, was instituted to the vicarage of Ilatheaston.
on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of ('heist
Church, °shirt', voided by the death of the ILtv. Jobs:
Josias Cooy bean%
'file canvass for the vacant living of St. Peter's, (.7.lrn-
hill, is carrying on with great activity in the city ; and the '
friends of the It'v. Mr. Wood, son of the Alderman, art.,
we understand, very saturnine as to the result of the con-
test. We stated a few slays since, tkat the tithes of this
Rectory were fixed by the Fire Act at *MI. This. how-
t rev, is far from being the total, or even the priticipa.
&force of income to the incumbent, as several houses in
Cariihill (Mr. Angell, the pastry-cook's, among the num-
her,) are built upon the glebe, the mots of which, urgiehr,
with other emoluiniaitA, make the preferment, it is said,
worth a good Soo'. a year. A little glebe in that neigh-
bourhood is a valuable thing.
We recommend to the attention of our readers. an ex-
cellent elementary attack, by D.E. De Lana, entitled, .4
Key to Me Sinn is;l Lan:range—a Imok extremely well cal-
culated to lighten doe lat,oor of histructiou.
We have he al informed by a gentleman whim is jitst re-
turned front the neighbourhood of Banbury, that the ac-
count of a fatal accident f a balloon, as CPrit of from a
letter which appeared in the 0110-tf .beer turf into our s emit
pate, is al together a fabrication.-11Werrialosieta( ?ironic:es
The disferent plate cliesti deposited at the banking-house
in 11 triter's-street, have been delivered up to their owners.
The state of that part of Regent-streot, between Pall-
mall and Piccadilly, which was Macadamized lint year, is
soch as to do no great credit to the new system.