The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-20 00:00:00

GRIMALDL

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

The veteran Grimaldi takes a long, farewell on Friday-,
the 27th lust., at Drury-lane Theatre. In the reminis-
cences of our happy boyhead, who stands so forward, and
associated with so many cheering recollections, as this once
exalted idol of the laughing little : and we who have
laughed long and loudly at his drollery, are suddenly re-
minded of our approach into the vale of years by his chill-
ing, advertisement for u farewell benefit. Farewell ! Are
we never to see him any more?—never again to hear hint
sing a duet with a love-sick oyster, or cock canary-bird ?
—shall we no more hear his chuckling and supplicating,
" May I?" to a never-to-be-cheated pieman ?—are his
pkirsaeatci
memories?c a lt
acting.
gs a. tire
H,s eve}
loatnte
itlahs eiu) follies l
oor
How
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mt
sbhtetpt
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li
have knocked down a churchwarden and bathed his temple,
for his recovery with rose-water ! How delightfully he
would have illustrated intellect in all its marches ! How-
nobly he would have sold his grotesque body to an ana-
tomist, and how actively he would have twirled somersetA
in the next scene; as if invulnerable to the assaults of
death ! Many a heart is now cold that once bounded with
delight at his whim ; many an eye that sparkled with jay
at his appearance is now clouded and slim with cares and
anxieties of the world ; and many are far far away who
would willingly advance to aid the retiring genius of their
happy days, But, let a mere portion of those who vividly
recollect his excellence, and still rejoice in the retrospect
of his heart-stirring humour, come forward to his support,
and we are certain that he will deliver his address of thanks
to as crowded and as lamenting an audience as ever conbk
grace a theatre. Poor Joe! We will be there : may till*
be echoed by hundreds.

* We heartily concur with our correspondent, hoAl4
in the feeling and topics of his panegyric on our pleasakr
old friend. His departure will, as Dr. Johnson said,
" eclipse the gaiety of nations."—Times.

There is now in the possession of Mr. JAMES
Scow, of Braintree, a bottle, containing part of a lioe•.;_
head of beer brewed in the year 1741, by Eruu-oNn
Sarrxv, Esq. of Market Downham, Norfolk, ihterided to,
be drunk at the christening of his first-born, which was a
son. A part of this beer was bottled and deposited in a
' vault—there to remain until the father's deatlx which
happeped about 12 years since, at the good 014 age of 87,,
—At that time 20 bottles of the liquor we found, and,
' notwithstanding the length of time it hAtl been brewed,
was in high perfection.—Essex Herald..
On Sunday morning se'ntught, a shocking case
of self-destruction was discovered in one of the woods vrtst
of Auchmull. The infatuated individual was R. Ithr.rtir,
a pensioner and carpet-weaver, and the weapon of destruc-
tion was an old musket, which he had borrowed from a
neighbour, whose name he had written with chalk upon
the stock. It appears that in order to etl:ect his purpose,
for which it is supposed be had prepared himself by intoxi-
cation, an empty spirit bottle being found close by him, he
had taken off one of his shoes and stockings, and pat his
great toe into a loop formed upon the end of a string, which
was attached to the trigger, and by this means had literally
blown hits head to atoms. Some swan shot was found in
his pocket. The cause of this awful catastrophe is not
known.—Aberdeen Paper.

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LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.--.N LE
COLLECTION AT A.l.4Ncli ESTE R.—OOT readers will recol-
lect that last year, at the anniversary. of the East Lemm-
sh
a wits proposed by Mc.
HADFIELD that an extra sum of 1,000/. should be raisel
towards making . up the great difference between the re_
ceiatid that, in cense-
,°cielvs'obscribed before the
collectionsiproteu uatnodf Auxiliary
e upwardspaednt
do beent theLiroef
madeoL ji?
2nt od:
leeo
tut
s.
conse-
quence, no less than 1,377/. Was
brute up. A similar extraordinary exertion hays
been made this year. After the regular collections at the
various services last Sunday, a public meeting was held on
Monday evening iii the Rev. Mr. ROBY'S chapel. The
meeting was addressed by several Rev. Gentlemen, and it
seemed about to part without any thing unusual oc-
curring; but Mr. SAMUEL FLETCHER having, in
a very forcible manner, vindicated last year's meeting
from the charge of acting under an irregular excitement,
and asserted that the collection was the result ofa thorough
conviction that the necessities of the Society required such
an exertion, Mr. GEORGE lIADFIELD rose and said, the.
Society was still in want of extraordinary aid ; and thougk
it Was against the wish of sec.eral of his friends to have
tc
similar collection this year, if it permitted peritted he would,
he had done last year, subscribe 1001. Mr. Kuasilaw
said he would give 501., and accordingly the subscription
commenced. Mr. PLETCHER then gave in his name for
100/. Mr. EDWIN POTTER followed with another 100/.
The Rev. Mr. COOMBS desired the Chairman to mark
down 1.50/. for his poor congregation in Salford. Mr.
DENBY gave .52/. 108. Mr. ROBERTS 50/. ; and Air.
smiT, 501. ; and so on the subscription went, till in
about an hour, 1,048/. Os. was subscribed, to the asto-
nishment of Dr. WARLLAW, who said he ardently wished
t.) see such an excitement in his cool country, and to the
(tin unbounded
delightiuipdiedatfona,,,mm
ofp Air.
iEni Payer,Li.rsthe Missionary. who was