The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-01 00:00:00

ANECDOTES, &c.

REMARKABLE DAY.—'Phis day is the anniver-
sary of the death of Henry the First and acces-
sion of Stephen, 1135. Au ancient work, called
" The Faithful Analist," states of Henry that
" his bowels, brains, and eyes dovere buried at
Roan, the rest of his body being powdered with
salt, and wrapped in bulls' hides, was buried at
Reading." The same work also relates, that on
this day of the month, 1580, during the reign of
Elizabeth, cc Edmonde Campion, Jesuite, Ralph
Sherwin, and Alexander Briden, Seminary
Priests, having been arraigned and condemned
for High Treason, were drawn from the Tower
of London, and there hanged and quartered:"—
This day is also the anniversary of the death of
Susanna Centlivre, the celebrated female drama-
tist, in 1723, and the Marine Hospital at Brest
being burnt, with many sick persons, and up-
wards of fifty galley slaves, 1777.

PUN.—The late Mr. SHERIDAN being asked
which of SHAMPEA RE'S characters he liked best ?
he answered " the Lear." "No wonder (said a
friend) you like a Leer, since you married an
Ogle."

MeNov.—Mt:Non, to insinuate himself into the
graces of the Arabs, took the name of Abdallah
Jacques Menou ; and he issued his Proclamations
in Arabic and French, and sent them to all the
towns to be made known to the children of the
Prophet, by being pnt up in the most conspicu-
ous places. They were received with the greatest
humility and respect by the Constituted Autho-
rities, who promised due obedience to the
" Finnan." Sir Sidney Smith, walking one day
into the Bazaar or Market of one of the towns,
perceived several papers folded and dangling
from the roof, and asked what they were.—
" They are the Firmans of Abdallah Menou,
which we are ordered to hang up in the most
public places." They had literally obeyed their
orders in doing so ; and that those sacred Fir-
mans might not be injured, they had folded them
up in the smallest compass possible, tied them
%vith a green riband, and hung them up where
" merchants most do congregate."

DECREASE OF RELIGION.—In 1815, after NA-
POLEON'S return, a violent Royalist exclaimed to
his Confessor, who happened to dine with him
at Ghent--" What !" exclaimed he, " Henry 111.
and IV. were assassinated, and nobody can be
found to rid us of the Usurper Buonaparte 1"
The Priest fetched a deep sigh :—" Ah, my
dear Sir," said he, " there is no longer any re-
ligion in the world as in those days ! "—Boo-
naparte is said to have been much amused with
this anecdote.

AMUSING ANECDOTE.-The night Mr. M‘NAL-
LY'S Opera of Robin Hood was brought out at
Coven-Garden Theatre, a young Irish friend of
his, on his first visit to London, was seated on
the second seat of the front boxes ; on the front
row were two gentlemen, who, at the close of
the first act, were saying how much they liked
the Opera, and that it did much credit to Mrs.
Cowley, who wrote it. On hearing this the
Irishman got up, and tapping one of them on the
shoulder, said to him, " Sir, you say that this
Opera was written by Mrs. Cowley ; now I say
it was not. This Opera was written by L.
M'Nally, Esq., barrister at law, of No. 5,
Pump-court, Temple. Do you take my word
for it ? Most certainly, Sir," replied tl►e
gentleman, " and I feel very much obliged for
the information you have so politely given me."
" Umph, very well, Sir," said he, and sat down.
At the end of the second act he got up, and
again accosted the same gentleman, saying, " Sir.
upon your honour as a gentleman,are you in your
mind satisfied that Leonard M'Nally, Esq., bar-
rister at law, of No. 5, Pump-court, Temple, has
actually written this Opera, and not Mrs. Cow-
ley Most perfectly persuaded of it, Sir,"
said the gentleman, bowing.—" Then, Sir," said
the young Irishman, " I wish you good night ;"
but just as he was leaving the box; he turned to
tl►e gentleman whom he had been addressing, and
said, " Pray, Sir, permit me to ask, is your
frie►►d there convinced that this Opera was
written by Mr. M'Nally, barrister at law, of
No. 5, Pump-court, in the Temple?"—" De-
cidedly, Sir," was the rep►y, " we are both fully
convinced of the correctness of your statement."
" Oh, then, if that is the case, I have nothing
more to say," said the Hibernian, " except that,
if you had not both assured me that you were so,
neither of you should be sitting quite so easy iu
your seats as you do now."

General FOY (MAXIMILIAN SEBASTIAN) died
on Tuesday last, of an aneuris►n of the heart, at
the age of fifty years, at his house in the Chassee
d'Antin. Tl►e disease of which he died, and from
which he has suffered much, did not prevent him
from following his usual occupations ; hut, for the
last eight days the heart had so much enlarged,
that it was only whilst lying on his back that he
could breathe.