Star.
London, England, 1830-08-07 00:00:00

SCINTILLIE.

TO CHARLES LAMB,
OX TUE IIIEVIENAL OF HIS " ALOUD( VERSES" IN TIM

LITERARY GAZETTE.
Charles Lamb, to those who know thee justly dear
For rarest genius, and for sterling worth,
Unchanging friendship, warmth of heart sincere,
And wit that never gave an ill thought birth,
Nor ever in its sport infiz'd a sting ;
To us who have admired and loved thee long,
It is a proud as well as pleasant thing
To hear thy good report, now borne along
Upon the honest breath of public praise:
We know that with the elder sons of song,
In honouring whom thou ham delighted still,
Thy name shall keep its course to after days.
The empty pertness, and the vulgar wrong,
The flippant folly, the malicious will,
Which have assailed thee, now, or heretofore,
Find, soon or late, their proper owed of shame ;
The more thy triumph, and our pride the more,
When witling critics to the world proclaim,
In lead, their own dolt incapacity.
Matter it is of mitthful memory
To think, when thou wert early in the field,
How doughtily small Jeffrey ran at thee
A-tilt, and broke a bulrush on thy shield.
And now, a veteran in the lists of fame,
I ween, old Friend ! thou art not worse bested
When with a maudlin eye and drunken aim,
Dulness bath thrown a jerdaa at thy head.
SOUTHEY.
A LITTLE MONICEY.—The late Dr. Hamilton WAS

sent for once in great haste by Lady P. to see, absolutely, a little
favourite monkey, almost suffocated with its merging food. When
the Doctor entered the room he saw only her Ladyship, her young
son (a lad of ten years old, who was most absurdly dressed) and his
patient. Looking at each of the two latter, he said, coolly, to Lady
P. "My Lady, which is the monkey ?"—Blackwood's Magazine.
TILE DUKE OF ORLEANS.—During the absence of
the late Duke of Kent at Brussels, in the year 1816, his Royal
Highness's birth-day, November 2, was celebrated by a splendid
public festival, for which the stewards obtained the use of Fish-
mongers' Hall, where Alderman Wood, then just about commencing
his second mayoralty, presided u chief magistrate, and the Duke of
Orleans, u a personal and warmly-attached friend of the Duks of
Kent, wu one of the numerous guests. On giving the health of
the Royal visitor, the Lord Mayor particularly congratulated hint
on the circumstance of England being the birth-place of the heir to
his title; when his Serene Highness rose and returned thanks in a
brief but elegant address, delivered with peculiar fluency of force.
He bad been engaged, he said, as was flatteringly observed by the
Lord Mayor, in rearing his infant family in this country, and the
best acknowledgment he could make in return for the many kind.
nesses he had received here, wastthe assurance that, in his parental
instructions, he should ever inculcate in the minds of his children
the purest principles of the British Constitution, and an endearing
attachment to its institutions and liberties.

DISEASE OF 'CBE SKIN COMMUNICATED BY
Camett..—(From the Lancet.)—The following curious fact was
related by 31. Biett in one of his lectures on diseases of the skin :
Several years ago some camels were brought to the Jardin des Plantes,
affected with an eruption which was speedily communicated to the
persons under whose care they were placed. The disease was found
to be of a psoric nature, but of great severity, and accompanied with
a derangement of the digestive functions. The news of this affee.
don made a great noise in the faubourg St. Alarceau • nobody tiered
to approach the garden, which was, in the eyes of the people, a la-
zaretto with the plague. The rumour reached the ear of the sutho.
rules, and the minister requested the professors to report on this
new scourge. The answer was, that the disease was the itch, but of
a more malignant character than usual, and the insect of which was
also different from that of the common itch. M. Biett, who was ex-
tremely anxious to have a sight of this insect, applied to the profes-
sors, but could not get any satisfactory answer, and his impressions
are, that none of them had seen it, but had only concluded that the
supposed insect of the camel's itch must be different from that of
common scabies, and that the inference had actually been given as
the bet. However this may be, some of the animals died, and the
=mot them were sent to the Veterinary School at Alfort, where 3J.
Batt renewed his researches, but with as little success as before.—
The person albesed with the camel's itch suffered for a long time
Mm it, modem after their recovery remained subject to itching, so
as to make them believe themselves to be affected with an incurable
ler* ; and No of them being two years afterwards affected with
prurigo, adonlly from despair committed suicide. Another patient,
who was one of the keepers of the camels, and was admitted at St.
Louis with prurigo, which he considers as a sequels of the camel's
itch, is extremely low spirited, and seems also to have a great ten-
antry to suicide, a sort of monomania, which indeed is not at all
unfrequent during the repeated relapses of the disease in question.
RECOLLECTIONS.—Among the crowd of courtiers
who followed in the train of their Majesties to Lord Combermere's
splendid dejeuni in Kensington gardens, on Tuesday, the Duke of
Wellington was the only one who seemed to have nothing at all to
do there. His Grace graced the gay scene with his presence, it is
true—" and pity it is 'cis true ;" for it was with a grace so exceed-
ingly melancholy that, had not the rest of the courtiers been too
busy to note it, it would have gone near to damp their delights
pretty considerably ; that is, if they built their delights upon his
Grace s countenance, and deemed it necessary to their interest " to
be glad, or sorry, as they saw him inclined." He alone, of all the
courtiers there congregated, withdrew from the Royal presence as
soon as the King had taken his seat in the Pavilion. Lord Com-
bemuse, " the observed of all observers"—helm'd, belted, and mag-
nificently jack-booted—had handed the Queen over the green sward
with true knightly courtesy and most picturesque effect ; and
having seated her in the Pavilion, he completed his devoir by
taking his station behind her chair. His Royal Highness of
Sussex smilingly paid his respects to Majesty and the marma-
lades at one and the same time. Prince Frederick of Prussia,
in his tight buff jacket, stood dangling his helmet in his hand,
and gazing around him—too much absorbed by the beauty
of the ladles, or too tightly belted to participate in the good
things, with which the table abounded. Prince George of Cumber-
land, a la hussar, sedulously occupied himself among the pines.
sponge-cakes, and jellies. Lord Burghersh divided his attendees
between royalty and the amateurs of the Italian opera, Lord Hill,
Lord Cathcart, and a dozen other military lords, were busily occu-
pied in presenting " bevies of dainty dames" to the Queen, and
•• shoals of rising young men" to the King; and every body else
either eating or drinking, or laughing or chatting, mighty sociably.
But the Duke of Wellington--he who was wont to take the lead
in every thing—withdrew himself from all these delights, and wan-
dered about in melancholy mood, wherever he could find a bit of
unoccupied turf to wander upon within the cordon limited by the
public. Howbeit he did not wander entirely alone " for by his
side a female form was seen"—a lady, short of stature, plainly at-
tired, and quite as melancholy as himself. She did not hang upon
his arm, for his Grace made no arm for her to hang upon • but
having his hands hooked listlessly together below his waistband by
the extremities of their superior digits, she was constrained either
to walk detached, or to let her hand find a resting-place somewhere
between his forearm and his hip ; and this latter course she adopted;
in despair, as it seemed, of any more comfortable arrangement.
" Care is a canker," saith the old song ; and truly his Grace's de.
penman and appearance gave mournful demonstration of the truth
thereof. His Field Marshal's uniform illfittiog and somewhat
superannuated ; his napless chapeau and stunted plume hie
stooping shoulders; his sunken cheeks; and his eyes being con-
tinually bent intensely upon the ground ; all bespoke him not
at all on fait to the gay and bustling scene around him. Ever and
anon groupes of younger and ten times more beplumed soldiers
passed him by and never stayed to greet him. Shouts reverberated
through the air, but those shouts were for King William—not Duke
Arthur. The Royal trumpets and trombones loudly proclaimed
that " Britons never shall be slaves,"—but his Grace heard them
not,—or if he heard he did not seem to hear. He seemed only
to be entirely " wrappl in dismal thinking:" and if, perchance.
some passing friend stop to inquire after his health, he
seemed to sae, as King Job once said to his friend and Chemise?.
lain, Hubert de Burgh :
"I had a thing to fay. But let it go;
The sun is in the Heaven, and the proud day,
Attended with the pleasures of the world,
IS all too wanton and too full of gawks
To give me audience."
Whether his Grace was poodsring upon Prince Polignac's pre-
dicament, or upon his own wont et due consideration in the new
ceder of things at the Kneads Cain, it is impossible to say ; but
area upon this blithe sondes be was evidently out of his element:
and marvellously mambas •i• That the Duke of Wellington
exclaimed a
" That the Duke Woltioplos 9 (ion bless me ! I took him for
portly gendenten loaning against one of the trees:
fish oat qf sealer, or sows superannuated Colonel upon brand!
-ay, and quite out of faces: !"

•
BIRTHS.
At Queroeto, near Florence, 'on the 24th ult. the Lady of H. B•
Warts Esq. of a daughter.—On the Sd inst. In Upper Berkeley-
street, Portinan.aqsate, die Lady' of It Janie*, Esq. Of a dkyt;hirr.

• MARRIED.
At Akl negalteb /awes.•Pordiesta. eldeet .of the
Earl of Ca• Molltlotta Ansi, Whit • daughter of tne .
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Lord IL M. Howard, sad slope to the Duke orNorfolk.

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