The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-15 00:00:00

HEDERIC'S LEXICON, BY LARCHER.

This day was published, in 4to. price 11. 14s. boards,
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plurimisque novis significatibus verborum locupletatum,
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nova, cui accedit magnus verborum et exemplorum numerus
ex schedis P. H. LARCHEM.
m.,* This edition is enriched with some thousands of
additional Words and Examples, collected by M. Luckier,
the celebrated Translator of Herodotus, in the course of
a long and laborious life, and contained in his inter-
leaved copy of Hederic's Lexicon, LHiught at the Sale of
his Library for this purpose. In this edition the words
are accentuated.

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et Foss; J. Nunn ; Longman, Rees, Orme, et Soc. ; W.
Ginger ; T. Cadell ; J. Richardson ; R. &holey ;. S.
Bagster ; Baldwin et Cradock ; J. Booker; E. Williams;
Hamilton, Adams, et Soc. ; G. B. Whittaker et soc. ;
T. Tegg ; J. Duncan ; Simpkin et Marshall ; Harding
et Soc. ; J. collingwood ; E. Hodgson; W. Mason ; J.
Parker, Oxonii ; J. et J. J. Deighton, Cantabrigim ; A.
Black, et J. Fairbairn, EJinburgi; et Wilson et Filiorum,
Eboraci.

We understand that all his Majsty's brigs
employed as packets are to have their main-masts reduced
four feet, and their main-yards three, and of course their
sails in proportion. The solid tops are also to be re-
moved, and battened ones substitutpl i 4, their place. The
Lyra has already been fitted at Plymouth on the new
plan, and the proposed alterations are now going forward
on board the Sphynx at this port,. Falmouth Packet.

The Officer stated, that he found Madame La.n-
bert sitting on the steps of a hall-door in Finsbury-
square. A crowd of persons were gazing at her,
but she was quite indifferent to their curiosity, and
sat absorbed in the deepest abstraction. Although
the rain began to pour down there she remained re-
gardless of the pelting storm.
His LORDSHIP was surprised at hearing her state
that her occupation was that of rat-killing and bug-
destroying. She had, she said, just come over from
Paris, upon the advice of some English ladies, who
told her that rats and bugs and other vermin abounded
in London, and that any one who knew how to
banish them would obtain a respectable livelihood.
She accordingly knocked at several doors, but they
did not understand her language at any one house at
which she called ; and, being possessed of no more
than one shilling and threepence, she sat down to
think how she could get back again.
The Lord MAYOR said he lamented to hear that any
English women would be guilty of so cruel a joke a'
that ofsendinga poor old woman on such an embassy.
Madame Lambert said that, perhaps, his Lordship
might have some business of the kind ; she be read)
to kill all sorts of vermin.—(Laughter.)
. .

The LORD MAYOR said that the vermin alluded
:o no doubt abounded in London, but he appre-
lended that even that trade was overstocked.

The poor old woman shed tears at finding that
her professional labours would not be likely to be
demanded in this city. Bugs, it appears, have dis-
appeared from the Mansion-house ever since Alder-
man Garratt ordered the old state bedstead to be
pulled down; and as for the rats they were
frightened away in the memorable mayoralty of
Alderman Christopher Smith, when their wretched
condition was accurately described by a paragraph
writer of the day, who 4 said that the last rat was
found sitting in the kitchen-grate with tears in its
eyes.

Mr. Hobler said, that, perhaps, the latter vermin
might have fixed their quarters in Westminster.—
(Laughter.)
The old woman said that if she got encourage-
ment she would write.
The LORD MAYOR—Write what ? Madame
Lambert could write either prose or verse.
Mr. nobler said, that he believed the other trade
was better than that ; for all sorts of vermin were
engaged in that sort of work.
His Lordship gave the poor rat-killer some silver,
and sent her to the Compter, until an opportunity
should offer of sending her to her old quarters.