The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-26 00:00:00

ANECDOTES, &c.

Tar EARL OF NZWCASTLE, who fought so he-
roically in the cause of Charles I. against the
Parliamentary forces, and was afterwards obliged
with his family to fly to Holland until the re-
storation, was in such distressed circumstances
for years at Antwerp, that, according to the ac-
count of his Duchess, they ►ere both reduced to
the necessity of pawning their wearing apparel
for subsistence, although his estates in England
were worth above 20,000/. a-year.

The celebrated D'AUBIGNE, then upon good
terms with Henry IV. of France, was lying in a
closet adjoining the room of the King. One
night he said to La Force who slept near him,
" La Force, our Master is the most ungrateful
man on the face of the earth." La Force, who
was half asleep, asked him, what he was talking
about. " How deaf thou art," exclaimed the
King, who chanced to be awake, " he has been
telling thee I am the most ungrateful man alive."
" Sleep on, Sire," replied D'Aubigne, " for I
have a great deal more yet to say about you."

GREEN, a dramatic author, who lived in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was said to have
been the first English poet that wrote for his
bread, led a life of profligacy and dissipation,
and died in the year 1592, of a surfeit caused by
eating too great a quantity of pickled herrings,
and drinking Rhenish wine to excess, to wash
them down.

When Joe ITAlrtes, a dramatic author and
comic actor in Cor,Ler CIBBEIL'S time, was asked
what could transport Jeremy Collier into so
blind a zeal for the general suppression of the
stage, when only some particular authors had
abused it, whereas the stage, he could not but
know, was allowed, when rightly conducted, to
be a delightful method of mending our morals :
" For that very reason," replied Haines ; " Col-
lier is by profession a moral-mender himself, and
two of a trade, you know, can never agree."

A TOLERANT SPIRIT.—A person going into an
eating-house in London to dine, desired to have
some pork chops, which were brought to him.—
" Bring the gentleman the mustard, waiter," said
a person who had dined and was reading a news-
paper in the same box. The last corner helped
himself to a chop, and cut a potato. 64 He has
brought the mustard, Sir," observed the first. A
bow was the reply. The adviser looked on until
the hungry man ate a mouthful. " You had bet-
ter take some mustard, Sir, with your pork
chops." "I am much obliged to you, Sir, but I
never take mustard." This was, at last, an an-
swer in words : but the admirer of mustard was
not content. " You had better take a little, Sir;
I'm sure you'll like it." " I beg your pardon,
Sir. I'm much obliged to you," returned the
other ; " but it's a thing I never eat." " I wish
you would try a little, Sir." " Really I had
rather not, Sir." " Let me beg of you, Sir."—
" Upon my word, Sir, I must be excused."—
" Waiter! put a candle in the next box," said
the person who had dined, abruptly quitting his
seat, " I won't sit, even in the same box at a
coffee-house, with a man who don't eat mustard
with his pork chops."

LONGEVITY.—TOURNEFORT, in his voyage to
the Levant, mentions a man in the island of
Samos who was 120 years old, and was able to
cut wood and attend a mill ; he never drank any
thing in the whole course of his life but wine
and brandy ; but M. Lapezuelo, another
Greek, and Consul of Venice at Smyrna, lived
to be 118 years of age, and never drank any
thing hut water. In an Irish topographical work
the style of living of both these is improved upon
by one Daniel M'Carthy, who died in the 112th
year of his age, in February, 1751, in Inveragh,
in Kerry. Ile had buried four wives ; when 84
years old he married a fifth, while a girl of 14, by
whom he left several children. lie was always a
very healthy man, no cold ever affecting him,
and he could not bear the warmth of a shirt at
night, hut put it under his pillow. He drank, for
many of the last years of his life, great quantities
of rum and brandy, which he called the naked
truth ; and if in compliance to others he drank
claret or punch, he always took an equal quantity
of spirits to qualify these liquors : this he called
a wedge.
TITLE OF A POEM.—The following is the title
of a poem, published by " Richard Harper, Hos-
pital-gate, 1638, London :"—The anatomic of a
roman's tongue, divided into five parts : a medi-
cine, a poison, a serpent, fire, and thunder.
MOZART was one day accosted, in the streets
of Vienna, by a petitioner foralms, who appeared
to have seen better days. The musician, who
kept more resources in his brains than in his
pocket, bethought himself a little, and he then
begged the person to wait while he went into a
tavern. He there called for pen, ink, and paper,
and having written an extempore minuet, re-
turned with it to his petitioner and told him to
carry it to such and such a music shop. The poor
fellow did so, and obtained for it some double
ducats. It is a composition remarkabkle for its
union of grace and science, which the writer per-
haps took a natural pride in showing on such an
occasion.

WHISTON, in his Memoirs of Dr. CLARKE, ob-
serves, that " till our Bishops leave off procuring
commendams, and heaping up riches and prefer-
ments on themselves, their relations, and fa-
vourites—nay, till they correct their non-resi-
dence, till they leave the Court, the Parliament,
and their politics, and go down to their several
dioceses, and there labour in the vineyard of
Christ, instead of standing most part of the day
idle, at the metropolis—they may write what
learned vindications and pastoral letters they
please. The observing unbelievers will not be
satisfied they are in earnest; and by consequence
will be little moved, by all their arguments and
exhortations."

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GOOD NEWS FOlt THE BON VITANT.—The fa-
has led to a large in-
crease delicious wine. Above 800,000
bottles, it is said, made of the choicest grape,
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gathered with great care, will be made this year.