The National Register.
London, England, 1823-01-06 00:00:00

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WAD BIIWN IN traLi.
Signor Tbemari De San Clary, lebeated oe the Lefties
stage, bad bees making the tour of Italy to improve his me-
skid tactics. Hr was at ltegrio, in Calabria. and mimeste
proceed to Vienna the shortest tonic. where be was engaged
to sing before the Emperor, he etultatked wiisout passe we
iu so open Most bound to Ancona. a capital town on the Admit,
Gulf, but Will seised near Cape O:raulu by a Venetian galley.
alai thrown into prison, where he inane ,ed to have a letter de.
livered ;into Lord Byron 's hant.a, who very soon had him re- -
leased. Ile sang at the cosoerts. sad beeline a
general favourite. A
lie was also very partial to swimming, end gave :
proof of his eapsituess in that exercise. Al •
meeting oa the shore, he sang to manse many of the Debi It
without receiving any reeoutprase, and was wearied with
eareres when the Doke de filoutcassio insisted epee bliteepeerr
ing • smog. He remonstrated is eat and they predeePliej.
hint till be stood on the la 4 of the Virgin's steps lending 11•110
water. They thonglit sow he was safe ; but. to their atter -
astonishment, he made a few bow. and taking to the water
like a spaniel, swam across, to the square, amidst Weeders of
applause. Except upon the stage, the Sissies was meter trou-
bled with an recurs.
He lodged at s hotel adjoining that of Lord Sven, wise
hammered him with particular nude,.
Sir • Lad for eerie time vainly sheered foe an latrodee.
tics to his Lordship, He was * nerd lens. mad vulgar its his
language nod deportutest ; a:weaver, his wife was a blew
stocking, and had penned • novel, is which Lord Byron ass
introduced as a repentant husband. For lbws, reasons- this
doors of his Lordship was bermetionly sealed naiad 'theie
ingress. Captain F--o, a Sooteb eases. a friend of
Lord's, sod a w ght of " infinite mirth and weeniest fares.
bent epee mischief, promised Stir -- as introduction.
&your Thessaai was a partner in the scheme; he wts
up in the fao shade of his Lordthip's clothes, ad his
Lordehip received the Baronet at his hotel. Added M ,
torn stupidity, Sir was pnrbliad end easily
The company consisted of several bee sloes i the
on the right of the Signior, fel:, eesteineed be was vests
the immortal bard. The Signior gave some of
songs in a strain of burlesene that evened inlinie mirth
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listened with gravity, and marked time with hie
At the close of the evening a bill was preowned et "Mary
weight," the mock Lord having left the War end thanes.:-.
Sir stared ; Ceptain F--n remarked that Ong men it.
s hotel, and every one was glad to pay foe wooing no pied
Byron. The Baronet discharged the bill, end meet Mow
highly pleased with his new acquaintan. e. Neat ilep,,4lv
Promenading. Sir wet his Lordship in a similes, dint
thin wont by Signing Thoonasi ; and after ranges his Zip
--calmed him with " How do ye do, my Lordl
the win.• sit oe your stomach ?" His Lordship did eel •
stomach this suode of enctatioe, and peeeithly e- -
",Slr, I don't know yoe." "Not know me!' this
acre, " for whom yes sang me messy rich seegs last eight
" The toes is mad," uttered kin Lordship, end fleshed unduly
past hiss.
The trick soon mantled the emu of his Lordship, orb wee
ill pleased with his same being made free with ; and the %-
meet, enable to stand the guisaing, sedum! Venice in diarists
His Lordship, fertile at invention. laid a plate to be revenged
upon the forward hailed-singer, who had the weeny toptippose
he bad a person " worthy of any lady's eyc," The Coulees
of --Y. undertook to make him believe she was amines with
the charms of his person, and is a short time seeeeded. The
Signior professed himself her admirer. sod no aseigna.iee wee .1
fixed uponin her apartment, where there was only see deer. .
and no biding-place of any description: His. Lordship, ne.pery,
concerted, thuudered at the door Warily after the Sisekerlet
catered ; and the lady, ander proem. • of saving Wet. theme •
him into We chimney, and fasted the board with • aprimr,
leek.
His Lordship had ordered a veld sonatina, mod a ammtesiet of
music, as nein friends came with hien: Foe the erre* at •
three boors the ealertainniest was kept up merrily, and thi.
SiAnior 'offered penance is lb* chimney le yipareeg
a., July day in Italy, and then shish what the higaior
have endured. One of, the company expressed a wish se; :
change instrumental for vocal musics, when Lord Byrom sir
served, he had a bird in the chimney whit* amid issiNto IND
oaten of Signior Thoinasi to admiration. Goimperrew the chine.
eel, be, in a whisper demanded a snag. Oa psis of farther
confinement, the Signior, humbled is spirit, begs., eon
ed with some humour the air—
" Prey set the mournful captive free." •le • •
His Lordship, then producing sundry heed{ cards, made the
compasy "(most of *born were those that enjoyed the joke at
his expense the preceding night) purchase thorn at • high
price, remarking, that every one was glad tort, for hearing
Signior Thontasi sin?. The son of Apollo was.then released,
soda free pardon granted on his preinimare Sever again to OW
Wyon.l his ;north:Wan sphere.
• Is plain Laglish, Mr. Thome, Sinclair, late of Coyest
Garden 'Theatre.

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LUDICROUS SLtetuna.—A short time since, all
ieformation was laid, that 60 casks of gill were buried hs lbe
park of a great commoner in Norfolk, Epos wb,ob two oil- •
yen of •Excise accompsuird the two itilbnitris le the inure of
the tubs, nod speedily raised their spirits. Rather at a loss for
aru e)artae, the pressed into their service the tumbril of a
neighbouring fanner, which they tooled with their liquid tree-
' sure, and, mounting themselves, maned In lipttoe spirits foe
the adjacent ;receipt of Casten. How frail are all the hopes
of man ! Exulting in postension, it
worthies, that linclopiiis are sometimes taken from wheels.
until convinced of the fact, by finding the cart, the tube. Mid
the cxeisensan, anti the informers, whylmed in one prodigious
rain. Oa collecting the Mock, sum* tabs ware faced I. be
' mach itijnred by the fall, sod the 0011k41111 of several bed seek
irate the barren sand. The remainder being seenred, the party
wished to resume their joentey ; bet on attempting to start,
Ohl Debbi., released, as if by magic, from the ties whirh
bound him to jhe tumbril, walked quietly forward, leaving his
cargo of cares behind ban, and the whole party of gist and
gentlemen were again precipitated into the road. A. have
not learned what other impedinterna presented themselves Is
the broaderroser of these new resorteetio* men; hot it stems
quite certain from the mishaps we have /regaled, that em the
cuter. coast of Norfolk. it is not always safe to meddle with
those who call op spirits front the vast) deep."
By a recent Act of Parliament, the uttering or
offering for payment the notes of country bankers.
or others, knowing them to have been stolen. sub.
jecta the offerid.n to transportation. This informs.
don,' we think, cannos be boo widely circulated.

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