The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-17 00:00:00

A GOOD JOKE.—Yesterday afternoon, Mr.
Carmichael, the celebrated ventriloquist, ,occasioned a very
amusing scer.e in a tavern in the New Town. Mr. Car-
michael, accompanied by a friend, ordered a bottle of ale,
and just as the landlord was about to draw the cork, the
company were astounded by a plaintive voice exclainiing.
" Oh, gentlemen, help me out of the lum." Such a myste-
rious awl unexpected-supplication from such a place, rawel •
the landlord to start and stand against. " How the d--1
_ _

did you come there ?" bawled the choleric and enraged 80".
vereign of cork-drawing subjects ; to which the prisoner
as promptly replied, " I cam down the wrang lum this
morning—l canna gang up, and, oh dear, I canna get ":
down." " Thank God fur that," rejoined the landlord,
"if you had, you would have plundered the house, but you •
shall not escape now." So saying, he bolted out, locked
the door on the friends, and immediately returned with a
brace of police officers, to capture the corpus of the sweep
the moment he merged into day. As he still kept com-
plaining, something in the style of Sterne's starling, " I '
can't get out," two sootymen were sent to explore the
chimney. This strange affair having got abroad, a
number of people collected, and a very general. opinion
prevailed that masons, with their hawks and hewing irons,
would be ultimately requisite to achieve the liberation of
the captive. While the crowd were occupied in cogitation,
discussion, and wonderment, the sooty-man descended, and
with a lugubrious whine, declared that the man was gene,
and bad broken the can on the chimney-head when-making
his escape. It was immediately concluded, the whole was •
the work of an " auld sneck-drawing dog," that has been
lately playing all manner of pranks ,in these kingdoms;.
but it was soon made known that the whole was produced r
by the power of ventriloquism, and the people departed '
laughing heartily at the proceedings Occasioned by thig
strange power of delusion.—Scotsman.

BIRTHS.
On the 14th inst. at Brighton, Lady Harriet Gurney, of
a daughter.

On the 15th inst. in Judd-street, Brunswick-street,
Mrs. Robert Graham Dobinson, of a son.
•
On the 13th inst. Mrs. George Banks, of Bridge-street,
Westminster, of a son.

On the 13th inst. at Kelsale-•house, Suffolk, the lady of
Lieutenant- Colonel Sir George Haste, of, the Royal En-
gineers, of a son.

MARRIED.

On the 16th inst. at West Ham, by the Nenerabls the
Archdeacon of the diocese, Mr. George Eccles, of. Fan-
church-street, to Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Richard
Adams, of Plaistow.

DIED.
In the beginning of February, at the Palace of
in Milan, after an illness of three days, Louis von Eacl►-
This distinguished and elegant Composer was of an ancient
and Noble German Family, and came over to England
with many other persons of consideration, at the cons-
mencement of the French Revolution ; here he laudably
availed himself of a very peculiar native talent as a com-
poser and teacher of music, in which profession he so emi-
nently excelled. At the genera! Peace of 1814, he left this
country to prosecute his claims for the recovery of the
family property. His works (which are quite original)
have long been considered the standard of fine expression,
united with good taste.
On the 15th inst. Sophia, widow of the late J.
of Leadenhall-street, aged 68.

On the thth inst. Thornag Postlethwaite, Esq. I,anker,
Lonibard-street, in his 80th year.

On the 14th inst. Miss Sophia Durehett, of Kentish-
town.

On the 14th inst. Charles Morris, En. at his residence,
in the Polygon, Southampton.

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