The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-10 00:00:00

ANECDOTES, &c.

TIM GOOD EFFECTS OF LEAIRNIXG.-011 the Coast of
Chaonia, now Albania, at a place named Aornus, is a small
chapel dedicated%to St. Theodore. The walls are covered with
inscriptions, some of them belonging to tombs; hollowed into
the solid rock. Among those the traveller may notice is one
that relates a singular anecdote. A captain of a merchant ves-
sel, belonging to the Greek Islands in the Archipelago, caused
his remains to be brought to one of these tombs, which he had
previously
_prepared. The sepulchral inscription, engraved
under his own eyes in the Greek language, but in Syriac c!-..a.
Meters, in substance contained this notice, " That any one of
his countrymen, sufficiently versed •in languages •to. read the
present inscription, was to remove the stone, when in the tomb
he woul,' find 209 sequins destined for him." The inscription
remained long unnoticed, when about twenty years ago a young
Greek Illorean returning from Vienna, where he bad performed
his studies, touched at- the port of St. Theodore, and having
decyphered the hscription dug out the sum. lie then engraved
the translation of the original notice below it, and affixed his
name, his country, and a declaration of his having fulfilled the
conditions imposed, all which is still extant. . . .

JEwEr., Bishop of Salisbury, in the reign of Queen Eliza-
beth, was the friend and patron of Richard Hooker, 'author of
the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. On one occasion, Hooker
took a journey on foot from Oxford to Exeter, to visit his
mother, And took Salisbury in his was., purposely to see his
patron, with whom he dined; and when they parted, the
Bishop gave him good counsel and his benediction, but forgot
to .give him money; which, when the Bishop had considered,
he sent a servant in all haste to call Richard back to him,. when
the Bishop said, " Richard, I sent for you back' to lend you a
horse which bath carried me limy a mile, and, I thank God,
with much ease, and presently delivered into his hand a walk-
ing-staff, with which he professed he had travelled through
many parts of Germany; and (he said) Richard, I do not give,
but lend you may host ; be sure you he honest, and bring my
horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford ; and I do
now give you. ten groatS to bear your charges to Exeter, and
here is ten groats more, which I charge you to deliver to your
mother, and- tell her I send her a Bishop's benediction with it ;
and if you bring my horse back to me, I will give you ten
gsoats more to carry you on foot to the College,.and so God
bless you, good Richard."
SIR TiIOMAS SauTri, who wrote in the time of Edward the
Sixth on dikility and titles says " As for gentleman they be
made good cheap in this kingdom, for whosoever studieth the
laws of the realm,. who studies in the Universities, who pro.
fess the liberal sciences, and to be short, who -can live idly and
Without manual labour, and will' bear the port, charge, and
countenance of a gentleman, he 8111111 be called master, and
shall be taken for a -gentleman.
A Gascox, who was on ill terms With the Bishop of Bazas,
swore he would never pray to God. in- that diocese. One
day passing a river,_ :sold .heing,in, darxer, -the boatman said
that nothing remained for him but to address himself to
God. " Well," replied the Gaston, " are we out of the dio-
cese of Bazas ?"

WEsTox, before his comic fame was established, appeared
as a substitute for •...,huter, in the part of Sharp, in.the Lying
Valet. Shuter's name-was in the play-bills and when Weston
appeared, the galleries vociferated, " Shuter ! Shuter !"
Mrs. Clive played the part of Kitty Pry, and was no less a
favourite than the other. • Tha uproar continued, and nothing
could be heard but " Shuter Shuter ! " As soon as it was
possible to be heard, Weston, in his own inimitable and hu-
morous manner,- asked aloud in a seemingly stupid amaze,
ment, and pointing. to Mrs. Clive,'" Shoot her ! shoot her !
why should I shoot her?, I am sure she pigs -her part very
well." • Good humour was instantly restored, and he met with
Universal applause.
THE INCONVENIENCE OF USING FINE WORDS.—Ver-
stigan, an old author, condemning the introduction of new words,
says—" It fell out not many yeeres past, that a principal Cour-
tier writing from London to a personage of authority in the
north parts, touching the trayning of men, and providing furni-
ture for warre, willed him among other things to equippe his
horses ; the receiver of the letter, with some labour came at the
last to the understanding of it all except equippe, whereof in no
sort could he conceive the meaning. In the end, he consulted
with divers gentlemen in the country thereabouts, but none
could resolve him. It was• among them remembered that we
use in'our language the word quipping and the word whipping,
the first not proper for horses, but sometimes used 'to men, the
latter not fit for gentlemen'S horses, but for carter's' jades. In
fine, none of them all being ableto finde in all the English they
had,'what equippc-might meane, a messenger was sent off on •
purpose to the Court at London to learne the. meaning thereof of
the writer of the letter."

The new Comedy announced at the Haymarket
Theatre, under the title of Paul Pr.y; comes, we
understand, from the pen of Mr. Poot.E., the
author of 'Simpson and Go. and other dramas of
well-merited popularity. The Comedy•of Roses
and Thorns has, it seeing, been uncommonly sue-
-cessful, yielding abundance of roses to the Pro-
prietor, without any 'thorns of opposition.
A NEW Road is forming across the Bishop
_of
LON‘nor,i's estate at Paddington, which will unite
the Mary-la-Bonne with the Uxbridge-road at
Bayswater, and by which route it is supposed that
the western mails a ill proceed, instead of by Ox-
ford-street and Piccadilly, when the New Post-
office is finished. •

The late flight from Dover Cliff, and the asto-
nishing Vauxhall performances of Madame Saqui,
are greatly inferior to the described feat •of a
rope-dancer, who, on the entrance-of Isabel of
Bavaria, wife of Charles the Sixth, into Paris,
fastened a rope from the top of the tower of No-,
tre Dame to one of the houses within the 'Change
Bridge. He descended, dancing upon the rope,
with a lighted flambeau in each hand; passed be-
t ween blue talfety curtains, ornamented with
golden fleur-de-lis, which covered the bridge ;
fixed a crown upon isaoel's head, and re-ascend-
ing, returned in the same manner. It is stated,
that as this was done at night, lie was seen in all
all parts of Paris and its environs.

There is now in the land of Mr. GEORGE, of
the Three Cherry Trees Farm, on the manor of
Lord VERUGAM, near St. Al!)ans, among a covey
of partridges, a speckled chicken, understood to
have proceeded from an egg, dropped into the
partridge's' nest by a domestic hen. There is
also at present, at Westcott, Bucks, among a
covey of partridges, a pheasant, which has been
hatched with the other birds.