The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-04 00:00:00

" 121. -A- Tobacconist.
" All daintie meats I do defie,
Which feed men fat as swine :
He is a frugal man indeed
That on a lef'can dine.
He needs no napkin for his hands,
His'fingers' ends to wipe.
Then keeps his kitchen in a box,
And roast meat in a pipe."
Lilly, In his History of his Lives and Times,
mentions one William Breadon, Parson or
Vi-
car of Thornton, in Bucks, who was so given
over to tobacco and drink, that when he had no
tobacco (and probably too much drink), that
.he would cut the bell ropes and smoke them.
The strain of the subsequent parody in the
style of Ambrose Phillips, differs widely from
the invective of Burton and other old writers:—
" Little tube of mighty pow'r,
Charmer of an idle hour,
Object of my warm desire,
Lip of wax, and eye of fire:
And thy snowy taper waist,
With my finger gently brac'd;
And thy pretty swelling crest,
With my little stopper prest."—&c.
BEGGARS.—The beggars, it is observable, two
or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their
want by - wooden dish with a moveable cover,
which they clacked, to show that their vessel was
empty. This appears, from a passage quoted
on another occasion by Dr. Grey. Dr. Grey's
assertion may be supported by the following pas-
sage in an old comedy called the Family of Love
—1608:

Can you think 1 get my living by a bell and a clack-dish ?
By a bell and a clack-dish Rows that ?
Vl'hy by begging, Sir, &c.

And by a stage direction in the second part of
King Edwards I V., 1619, " Enters Mrs. Blagzte,
very poorly, begging with her basket and a tiap.
dish."—see Reid's ed. of Shakspeare, 1803, vol.
vi. p. 325.

RING DROPPING.--There is a popular custom
of crying out " halves," on seeing another pick
up any thing which he has found, and to which
this exclamation entitles the person who makes
it to one-half of the value. This is alluded to as
follows, in Dr. Jolla Savage's Horace to Seaver
imitated,Svo. London, 1730.
" Anti he who sees you stoop to the Found,
Cries halves! to ev'ry thing you've found:"
The well known trick of dropping the ring, is
founded on this custom.

IPLAGIARISM.--A young author. was ono. day
asuwedahndirn ttlheen toreaignh.ing ~ hlis cannot hat 'reading his tragedy to Monsieur Prnoti, who 'soon discovered
that he was a great- plagiarist. The poet perceivingPiron
no
wk danoolf
da
ac pai.ussaaing et:
ance," said the critic, " without that'civility." ' • -
Some days ago a hackney-coachman was em-
ployed by a middle-aged respectable looking 'man .to 'drive
him .to Newington, from thence to a number of other 'places,
and latterly to Leith. In short, the coachman, was engagqd
all day in driving him about ; and What excited-his' astonish-
ment very much was, his customer made ,DO 'sails, except-
ing occasionally at a public-house. About the,. dusk of the
.evening he drove him to the High-street, where he niikititt;
and upon the coachman soliciting his fare, he saluted him with
a blow on the face, and made a sudden bolt -down a clog..
The coachman pursued him, when the fugitive_mshgd ovt
of a house armed with a large poker, with which he belaboured.
the shoulders of poor John. The noise attracted 'the watch-
man who conveyed the offender to the Police:office, ,where
he commenced a new series of outrages by assaulting the, offi-
cers, breaking lanterns, windows, &c. He sent for a gentle-
man to bail him out, which gentleman declared he knew nothing
led to a suspicion that his mind was disordered. Next day
about him, and committed many, other extravagancies, which
he was fined in a guinea, payable to the coachman,' and half
a guinea to the public, which he declared he would readily pay ;
but it appears that he is wholly without funds,.and is at present
confined in the lock-up-house, in default of_ payment. It is
now understood that he is a. fanner from Northumberland,
whose inttllects has been impaired by misfornmes and other
eauses.--(Scotnnan.) . .7

COAL.MARKET, SSP?. 3.
Ships at Market. Ships sold
541 Newcastle - . 401
154 Sunderland - - 124

313 Od to 43i Od
35i 6d to 43t 941

MA ARTED.
On Tuesday last, at WEleot Church. Joseph Martineau,
Esq., to Caroline, youngest daughter'of the late Dr. Parry,
of bath.

On the 2d inst., at flornsey, Mr. tn. R. Dunnett, of the
firm of Holman, Dunnott, and Lloyd, •Wnod4tseet, to Ann
Sophia, daughter of J. It Jackson, isq., Highgate.

DIED

On the 13th of July last, at' ShaW4ark, in the Island of
Jammes
Jaaica, aged 27, Capt. Geor,ge. King, of the merchant ship
Laing.
On Thursday,. the 28th ult., at Wm, Armstrong's,
31ourit Queen's Count,- Rufus Titylbr,
EsA.:, formerly of Halifax; in•Nova.Scotia. •
•On Monday, the Ist et flom 71erton, Elizabeth,
Berger, aged 71; Widow of Lewis 'Berger; Est.t.,' late of t ea
said place. •
On Tuesday, at Brampton, Mr. 0,1, Monk., .many years A
clerk in the medical department oe the Victualling-office.
.Early on Wednesday 'morning, the 3d inst., at his house in,
Guildford-street, John Cowley, E.sq., in his 77thiyear. •
,°nv. r,,r1L.‘4_1441 4114 2d inst., at Brighton, in his 751h.year, the
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He is reported to have told some Indians of his
acquaintance, that be had found a way to be're-
venged upon the, Christians for beating up his
quarters,- for he would teach them to take to-
bacco, to which, when they had once tasted it,
they should become perpetual slaves."
Ale-houses, &c. are at present licensed to deal
in tobacco, but it was not so in the beginning ;
for so great an incentive was it thought to drunk-
ness, that it was strictly forbidden to be takes
in any ale-house in the time of James the First.
There is a curious Collection of Proclama-
tions, Prints, &cl in the archives of the Anti-
quarian Society, among which is an ale-house
license, granted, in the reign of that monarch, by
six Kentish Justices of the Peace, at the bottom
of which the following item occurs, among other
directions to the innholder :
"Item. You shall not utter, nor willingly surer to be ut.
tered, drunke, or taken, any tobacco within your house, cellar,
or other place belonging thereunto."
The following ironical encomium on, and seri-
ous invective against Tobacco, occurs in Burton's
Anatomy of Melancholy (4t0., Oxford, 1621) :
" Tobacco, divine, rare, super-excellent tobacco,
which goes farre beyond all their panaceas, pot.-
able gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign
remedy to all diseases. A good vomit I cone
fesse, a vertuous herbe, if it be well quali-
fied, opportunely taken, and medicinally used,
but as it is commonly used by most menr which
take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mis•
chiefe, a violent purger of goads, lands, health,
hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco, the ruine
and overthrowe of body and soul."
The following quaint thought is found in an
old collection of epigrams