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London, England, 1830-01-11 00:00:00

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• HEREDITARY" DRSCEKTi.OF,frIENTAL
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Tram' a number d facts, a few of winch we shall select
fed primes of Musiradok, It will appear remarkably striking.
, that sheb an inheritance is more gusitrally drifted from the mater.
sal then the paternal side: In thr.exantpies iin,hosartsluced, a se-
ise:skin has been made with a view ta.the:different, varieties of
nienial superiority, and. the followini iokapiebends phiforpisers,
poet', historians, and craters • ' • ."
...Isems*Batuisa—pHis mother die deukiiler to Sir Anthony Dania,
themes skilled in many languages so& traollased.and wrote several
woel_is• which displayed kerning, atutepees. and taste.
Siam the historian, mentions his.other, daughter of Sir D.
Fikliner, President of ni
the College of jusike. as a woman of `• sin-
plat merit." and who, although in the prime of life. devoted her-
self entirely to his edocation.
.R. B. SIIIIIIDAaeMIit Prance. Sheridan Was a woman of con•
sideNbie abilities. It was writing a pamphlet in his Mince, that
gift introduced her to Air. Sheridan, afterwards her husband. She
also •,rote a novel highly praised by Japan. •
&taiga. the German Poet.—His mother was an amiable wo-
maii—olte had a strong relish for the beatific, of nature. snit was
passionately fond of music and poetry. Schiller was her favourite.
WILLIAM Pare.—Son of the great Lord Chatham.
enema thus speaks of his parents :—" I inherited from my
Whet a certain sort of eloquence. calculated to enforce my doc-
trines to my auditors : from my mother I derived the faculty of
representing an that the imagination can conceive, with energy
and vivacity."
Lord EallgUlel mother was a woman of superior talent and
dfopernment ; by her advice, her son betook himself to the bar.
I.lsoatsort. the Poet.—lin. Thomson was a woman of some-
nionsatural endowments. possessed of every social and domestic
virtue, with a warmth and vivacity of imagination scarcely inferior
to her son.
BOSZHAVIR'S mother acquired a knowledge of medicine, not
*Bei found in femalv.
Sag Waives Scores:—His mother. Elisabeth, daughter of D.
Rutherford, W.S. was a woman of treat accomplishments and
vino,. She bad a good taste for and wrote poetry. which appeared
in print la 1789.
We might further mention the mother of Nlarmontel. of Roo-
rtaparte, Sir William Jones, and a host of others. But a sulkiest
number has been given, we think, to show, that In a vest majority
of ease*, eminent men have derived their lone from either parent,
and that It is a remarkable circumstance, that such inheritance is
most generally from the maternal side.
FESTIVITIES OF " MERIIIE ENGLAND."

From tie Mirror.

The following account of regal and civic festivities, in
which hospitality and charity were combined, I have co-
pied from Stow, in his " Survay of London," fourth
edition, 1618, and send them for the entertainment of
your numerous readers. Our beloved sovereign "in
these piping times of peace," seems disposed to revive
these heart-cheering customs of his royal ancestors
and predecessors, and by his example stimulate the nobi-
lity; the gentry, and opulent eitizens, to similar acts of
liberality.
In page 884 it is recorded—" That in the yeere 1236,
and the twentieth of Henry the Third, on the 29th Dec.
William de Haverhull, the king's treasurer, was com-
manded, that upon the day of circumcision of our LORD
he should cause six thousand poore people to bee fed at
N'Yestminster, for the state of the king, the queens, and
their children. The weake and aged to bee placed in
the great ball and in the lesser ; those who were more
strong and in reasonable plight in the king's chamber ;
and the children, in the queen's; and when tho king
knew the charge hoe gladly allowed it in the accounts."
Page 885—" In the yeere 1238, the same King Henry
kept his feast of Christmas at Westminster, in the great
hall; so did hee in the yeere 1241, where he placed
the legate in the most honourable place of the table—
to wit, in the middest—which the noblemen tooko in
evM part. The king sate on the right hand, and the
archbishop on the left, 'and then all the prelates and
nobles, according to their estates, for the king himself
didset the guests. In the yeere 1242 he likewise kept
his Christmas in the hall, &c." Page 887—" And in
thp years 1389 King Richard the Second kept a most
royall Christmas there, with dayly justings, and,
runnings at tilt, whereunto' Resorted such a number of
people, that there was every day spent twenty-eight
taore
twenty-six oxen, and three hundred sheepe, •
facie without number. He caused a gowue for him.:
mite to be made of gold, garnished with pearls and
precious stones, to the value of three thousand marker.
fie. was garded by Cheshire men, and bad about him
commonly tbirtets bishops, besides barons, knights,
esquires, and' others more than needed: insomuch, that
to the household came every day to meats ten thousand
people as appeareth by the messes told out from the
kitchen to three hundred servitors. Thus was this great
bell, for the honour of the prince, often times furnished
with gbests, not onely in this king's time (a prodigal
prince,) but in the time of others also, both before and
since, though not so usually noted. For when it is said
the; king- held his feast of Christmas, or such a feast, at
Westminster, it may well bee supposed to bee kept in
thie'greethal, as most sufficient for such a purpose."
Page'BBB—" King Henry the Seventh, in the ninth of
his reign. (holding his royal feast of Christmas at West-
minster) on the twelfth day, feasted Ralph Autry, then
Maier of London, and his brethren the Aklermen, and
other commoners 'in great number ; and after dinner
dubbed the maim knight, caused him, with his brethren,
to stay and behold the disguieings and other disports
in the night following showed in the great hell, which
was richly banged with arras; and staged on both sides :
which disports being ended, in thamorning the king, the
queen, the ambaseadours and other estates, being set at
a table of stone, sixty krlighta and esquires .served sixty
dishes to the king's masse, and ea many to the queene's
(neither flesh nor fieb,) and served the Ruder with twenty-
four dishes to his mom, of the same manner, witbaundry
wineatin.reest pleetome wile. And, nellY• the king and
*seem». being conveyed, with great lights into. the palace,
ihe minor, with the. employ in, barges, returned, and
'came to London by breake of the next days. Thus much'
for building of this'aireat bill, and feasting therein."
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The will of the late Mr. Baron Hullock was precedes:
Tuesday, by Dame Mary Hullock, relict of the deceased.'
The 'property in the province of Canterbury was sworn to
be under 6.0001. :Timdecimied has left all hie property+
' to-his widow except3ool. which he.has left to his clerk,!
Mr. Wm. Cl:lvert, en a mark of his mum of his long and;
faithful service., which auniii to be' paid at the expies..l
tion of 14 months ; and one hundred guineas to his friend;
aid brother-in-law, Mr. Wm. Martin.
All the Duke of 'Devonshire's forty-shilling freehold!
WNW" in the borough of Dungarvan have a house -
*a., and the may thing required in return is a c
- ! ! there shoold be a contest, 'I hey amount to nearly
-.>...k..... • each christen now insist" on getting an acre of i
.' ~ front the Duke, neer the town, for the tillage of pa
4therwhe they will vats fir whim they please,
lemerelftheir houses; bnt they say the Duke
tele seen them, If he gegythan the greased
mate; widget leisei. if% lead they require
worth a thoteand a-year, so Ihat the Duke .
. szazity. Member. after
.... i • X ... , 71117,.
mad assaillimi 4 *brides
rteihs
0 f PvlinneelS Nos** Asps* id the bounty on
which 41,imilid,ta... kil*';. 4.loerenl.
shag it illOreiree ep ' ' ‘is isiiink.
should hey snoliis *pp iresiailiiirio.;taltaisber
turned by 501.901. and 40a, freeholders, sod '
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