The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-19 00:00:00

1' 0 E T it T.

The following poetical advice was lately sent by Lord NOR-
MANDY to Lord GLXNGALL, returning him a Comedy which
has been for some time lying on the Covent Garden shelf ; and
although the effusion does not possess much more originality
than some other of his Lordship's late writings, it is amusing
enough :

" Your comedy I've read, my friend,
And like the half you pilfer'd best ;
And if your play you wish to mend,
Take courage, Dick, and steal the rut."
(Mc Age.)

ANECDOTES, &e.

•
PRINCELY FORBEARANCE.-King HENRY the
SECOND never imposed any tax or tribute on his subjects
throughout the whole of his reign, and yet when he died he
left nine hundred thousand pounds in his Treasury.__( Graf-
ton': Chronicle.)_

BRITISH PATRIOTISM.—The small island of
Anguilla, in the West Indies, was in the month of May, 1745,
bravely defended by a handful of men against 600 French ;
on whose approach Governor IlonuE made the following
speech :—" Gentlemen, I am an utter stranger to all manner
of military discipline, so have nothing to recommend to you,
but load and fire as fast as you can, and stand by one another
in the defence of your country. So God bless you : fire away."
JOINTURES.—King CANUTE issued an ordi-
nance that any Woman marrying attain within a year after her
Husband's death, should for;feit her jointure.—(Speed's Hist.)
44 NOTHING LIKE: BXERCISE."—The Princess
CuAaLovrx, accompanied by Lady de Clifford, would mount
her car, drawn by her beautiful grey ponies, and full of youth.
ful mischief, she would drive into a field belonging to Sir Tho-
mas Troubridge, which happened tok be very uneven, and full
of knolls and ruts, over which she would drive with uncommon
speed, to the great annoyance of her companion, who made
many a wry face at the sudden jolts she received, and uttered
many a shriek at the danger to which she was exposed; to all
of which, and to her ardent expostulations, her Royal High-
ness exclaimed, " Nothing like exercise, my Lady, nothing
like exercise !"—(Huish's Life of the Princess Charlotte.)
FATAL RECOGNITION.---ID 1599 two Spaniards,
brothers, who, although they had for a long series of years
always sought each other, were never able to meet, at last acci-
dentally came in contact at the siege of Bromniel, then the seat
of war, where they served in two different companies. They
were unknown to each other at first, but some little explanation
made their relationship known, when they fell on each other's
neck. N'irhile they were thus locked in an affectionate embrace,
a cannon-ball took off both their heads without separating their
bodies, which fell clasped together into the arms of death.
MESSRS. CONSTABLE AND J3LACKWOOO.—Mr•
Constable is a skilful man of business, but simple in his man-
ners, comprising all lie has learnt in a few phrases, and con..
tent with being tne richest bookseller in Scotland. Mr. Black-
wood aspires to the character of being the wittiest. There is
an air of bon-honztnie in the figure and deportment of Constable ;
Blackwood has at once a hard and crafty look : his smile is
habitually sardonic : he reads the manuscript which he pur-
chases, and dictates his opinion to the Editors—so he at least
himself gave me to understand, on my politely asking him
whether he did not write himself, and on his replying in the
negative.—( Tour in England and Scotland, by Dr. Pichot.)
RELIGIOUS CONSISTENCY.—An Hebrew having
fallen into a privy at Tewkesbury on a Saturday, for reverence
of the day, which is their Sabbath, would not be taken out of
it. The Earl of Gloucester hearing of it, commanded that he
should not be taken out on the Lord's Day, ?or reverence of the
Christian Sabbath, and on Monday morning he was unfortu-
nately found dead !—(Graftori's Chronicle.)
ITALICS.—The characters termed Italic, used
in printing, were the inventon of Aldus Munitius : they are an
imitation of manuscript, and as some say, of the writing of
Petrarch in particular.

HENRY TIIE EIGHTII.—V4heII this novereign
had, upon the intercession of several of his Nobles, pardoned a
murderer, it appears he soon after committed the same offence,
and another attempt was made to save him; but the King
being extremely troubled by the application, said, " This vil-
" lain killed the first man, but I have killed the second :" and
commanded him to be immediately executed, as he well de-
served !—(0ilio .111clander, joca seria, p. 184.)

Lord CocugANE is expected here in the course
of next week. It is now said that his Lordship
will certainly return to the Brazils in the Pi-
ranga. The ship is lying at Spitheatl ready for
sea.—(Portsmouth Paper.)