The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-04 00:00:00

ANECDOTES, &c.

GittGLE-7-It was thought an ingenious use of
this word, when Mr. Sncittomsr, in The Critic, al-
luding to all singers, spoke of their 44 gargling
glib divisions ;" but we find that the same use of
it was made by WALLER, in the folloWing lines,
addressed to HENRY LAwEs, the original Com
poser of. Gornus :
" Let those who only warble long,
" And gargle in their throats a song,
" Content themselves with at, rc,
" Let words of sense be set by thee.",
But Mr. SHERIDAN offers an apology for uncon-
scious plagiarism in another.of his AVorks, where
he says, that " faded ideas float in the imagina-
tion like half-forgotten dreams, and the Poet
sometimes knows not whether he is creating or
adopting,"

POPE SIXTUS V.—SO great was the poverty of
SIXTUS V. when he first arrived at Rome, that having suc-
ceeded in obtaining a small sum, by begging in the streets, he
hastened to a eating-house. But, just as he was about to enter,
he stopped, and began to deliberate within himself whether he
should go in and satisfy the cravings of hunger, or spend .his
scanty pittance in the purchase of a pair of shoes, of which he
was greatly in want. While thus employed, he was noticed by
a tradesman, who, struck with the singularity of his appear-
ance, inquired of him what he was about. Sixtus frankly con-
fessed, that he was at the moment employed in deciding a deli-
cate case between his feet and his stomach. It seems he had a
meal and a pair of shops; forthe latter was given him upon
condition he should pay for them when he was Pope, an event
which, though then extremely improbable, nevertheless came to
pass, when Sixtus failed not rewarding the charitable trades-
man.

KING JAMES 11.—The following was the la-
conicaddress of the Quakers to King Jaines 11. upon his ac-
cession to the throne :—" We come," said they, " to testify
our sorrow for the death of our good friend Charles, and our
joy for thy being made our governor. We are told thou art
not of the persuasion of the Church of England no more than
we; wherefore we hope thou wilt grant us the same liberty
which thou allowest thyself, which doing, we wish thee all man-
ner of happiness."
PARLIAMENTARY SPEECIIES.—At the end of
the reign of GEORGE IL, when a complaint was made by a
hot-brained member of Parliament of a breach of privilege by
the publication in the Magazines of some of the speeches.made
in the House of Commons, though given under feigned names,
Mr. PEIifIAM, the Government leader of that day,
,quashed
the motion with the following observation :—" liet them alone,"
said he, " they make better speeches for us than we can make
for ourselves."

' A STROLLING PLAYER, the Braham of the
company, arriving at a country town with his wife, himself on
foot and the lady on a donkey, the :Manager, on meeting them,
addressing the latter, exclaimed, " So here'i Orpheus on foot,
and You-rid-I-see.—(Eurydice.)

PAPAL BULLS.—The following extract from
the Osnabourg Gazette of the 26th of October, 1773, shows that
Papal Bulls were accepted by a British Sovereign at a much
later date than is generally imagined !—" The King of Eng-
land, as guardian to the Bishop of Osnabourg, his.son (the pre-
sent Duke of York), has ordered the Chapter ,of the Cathedral
to put in execution the Pope's Bull, which suppresses the or-
der of Jesuits, to employ the effects of that order in useful,
foundations, and to send his Majesty an account how they have
disposed of the money." .
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;IT.
lIE DEPUTIES OF ALGTERS, at ,tneir audience
with Louis XIV., -;acquainted him that their Dey had taken
the liberty to send him a small present, which they hoped his
Majesty would not reject ; Solomon having condescended gra-
ciously to accept of a locust's thigh, presented to him by an ant.

Sir lii Nity BRABANT having waited 'upon the
celebrated Lord CLARENDON after his disgrace, his Lordship,
after telling him how kindly he took this visit, expressed him-
self to this effect—that there were grievous things laid against
him, but he could- bear up against all the rest if his Majesty
would forgive him but one thing, which was, that he was the.
person who had advised him to prefer his enemies arid neglect
his friends ; adding, that he took that for the cause of his own
ruin, and wished it might not occasion that of many others, and
at last the King's too.

NAVAL. CHARITABLE SOCIETY.—At the Quar-
terly Meeting, held on Mo►►day the 3d of this
month, at the Thatched House, St.. Jai►►es's-
street, 65 petitions were relieved with 6351. ss.
making 261 petitions to which relief has been ex-
tended since the 3d of January last ; and the, sum
so granted by the Society to the several appli-
cants amounting to 2,7011. 13s.
It appears by the letters received yesterday
from Madrid, that the King of SPAIN has refused
the contract for a loan proposed by M. TASSIN
on behalf of the French bankers. The Minister
ZEA BERMUDEZ, like a true courtier, has echoed
the sentiments expressed by his waste!, and de-
clined to use his influence in support of the. pro-
position. The refusal is the more remarkable,
since the terms offered were such as FERDINAND
has been of late .quite unused to ; and it is there-
fore only to be accounted for on the supposition
that he and his Minister had sagacity enough to
perceive that the execution of the contract was
out of the power of those who proposed it.

HAIL. IN THE WEST INDIES.--A letter dated
from St. Thomas in the West, Jamaica, August
5, has been received by a mercantile house, in
which the following passage occurs :---" We have
had a very wet spring, which kept the crops
back. It commenced with a very singular phe-
nomenon, viz. a shower of ice and hail. I picked
up one piece which measured an inch in diameter,
and half an inch in thickness. The oldest
inhabitant never remembered the like before.
The poor Negroes were terribly alarmed, and
some of them said it was hot like fire, and that
God Almighty had sent it to punish them."