Star.
London, England, 1826-10-13 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

The lad and Coontets of Hardwieke arrived yesterday ar their
house in St. James's-square, from Titteohanger Hall,. Hens, on
their way to Wimple, Cambridgeshire.
Lord and Lady Arden yesterday left their seat, Nix* House,
Surrey, for Hursiey Park, Winchester.
Lord Charles Fitzroy has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square,
for his seat in Suffolk.

Mr. and Mrs. West and family yesterday left Gould's Hotel,
feamyn,street, for Norwich.

Mr. and Mrs. Gowen and family arrived yesterday at their house
hi Park Crescent, Regent's Park, from India.
Lord and Lady Montagu have left their seat, Dittos Park, Bucks,
for Scotland.

General Ord has left Gordon's Hotel,
seat in Hants.
The Earl of Plymouth has artived at his seat, Hewet, Worces-
tershire, from a tour.

for his

Sir George Pocock, Bart. has kft tosiro for his seat, Twicken-
ham House.

Arrivals at the British Hotel, iermyn.street :—Major Disney
and Thomas Disney, Esq. from a tour; Foley Wilmot, Esq. from
Russia; &rangway, Esq. from a tour.
Departures from the Bath Hotel, Arlington-street and
Mrs. Marsden, fur Brighton; Captain Graham, for Brawls; J.
Hughes, Esq. on a tour.
Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street:—Major and
Mrs. Williams, from Brighton ; the Hon. Twisleton Rennes, from
Belvidere, Kent; Mrs. and Min Dealtry, nom Chatham;
Bolland, Esq. from Par b\ Mr. and Mrs. Gott, from Leeds; Cap-
tain Burton, R.N. from PLris. Departures from ditto:—A. French,
Esq. M.P. for Calais ; Mrs. and Miss Dealtty, for Linenlnshire.
A first D7vidend of s. in the pound has been declared
on the estate of the late Kingsbrklge Bank.
MICHAEL. K eu.v was the last survifing uncle of that
deservedly popular actress, Miss 'CULLY, who of course, withdraws
from the exercise of b.r professional avocations at Drury-Lane
Theatre, until after the funeral of her uncle.
O'Kuntlre, notwithstanding his advanced age, and his
perfect blindness, is in the full possession of all his mental and
' bodily faculties, and the peculiar vivacity which has distinguished
Idm through life. His recollections abound with original anecdotes
and entertaining stories, relating both to Polities and the Drama.
Some doubts having arisen on the qualification of
Jurors under the late Act, application has been made to Mr. Pan.
on that subject, and the following answer has been received by the
Magistrate who addressed him : Whitehall, Sept. 28, 1826.
" SIR—I am directed by Mr. Secretary Peel to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 26th inst. The clause of the Jury Act
to which you refer was not introduced by Mr. Peel, but by another
Member, whose intention in introducing it was expressed in the
circular letter of the 10th of August last, to which you adverted ;
and though the words are certainly equivocal, I apprehend that the
meaning may be sufficiently collected from the context—for if a
Juror were to be qualified by being rated to the poor's.rate at 20/.6
year, on any property whatever, it would be absurd to require an
assessment to the house duty, which applies to the house only on
the same value. Mr. Peel is aware that this construction has not
been universally acquiesced in, and he intends In the next Session
to introduce a Bill for amending the defect in the Act, and any other
which may in the mean time be discovered.
(Signed) " G. R. DAWSON."
THE TARTIIFIIE.—MoIice, it is said, while undeter-
mined what name to give this admirable Comedy,
happened to dine at the house of the Nuncio, where be
met two Ecclesiastics, whose hypocritical air of self-
mortification well answered to the character he had
been endeavouring to paint. It happened truffles were
presented to, them; the Ecclesiastics were delighted,
and one of them, selecting some of the finest, exclaimed
at the same time, Tartofoli, signor Nuncio, Tartofoli.
It was from this occurrence that Moliere bit on the name
of the Turtle for his play.
Coxcoms.—This word, of which the application is
too frequent to requite any explanation, originally
meant the top of the cap worn by licensed fools, which
was often a cock's head and comb, With some of the
feathers. The nse of the word seems to be approach.
ing nearer to its historic analogy, for dandy has super-
..ceded the application of it to those who are merely con-
ceited of their persons and dress, while coxcomb is
more generally applied to those literary fops who
deserve the fool's cap.
The following anecdote, omitted by Robertson, is rr
lated of Charles the Fifth, by a French writer, in an enu-
meration of other deficiencies, in the Scotch historian :

In the year 1547, when Charles the Fifth entered Wit-
Lemberg in triumph, and visited the public monuments,
Ferdinand, the famous Doke of Aleut, and the Bishop of
Arras, Granville, who attended him, proposed to him
to destroy the tomb of Luther, which had been erected
the year before, and to disinter the body of that heresi-
arch, in order to have it burnt. This prelatical zeal
was not without the sanction of great examples drawn
from the appropriate source of ecclesiastic history, which
prove the legality of this procedure against a shade and
a corpse. In 1128, Pope Baniface VIII. caused Wick-
liffe to be taken up forty years after his decease, and
commanded that his remains should be publicly burnt.
Two other Pontiffs also, Stephen and Sergius, did they
not disinter Pope Formosa, from whose right hand they
cot off three fingers, and threw him into the Tiber, eight
months after his death ? Charles the Fifth was not

moved by the pressing exhortations of the Duke and
Bishop, although they were both his intimate Counsel-
lors. He listened to their remonstrances with much se-
riousness. At last he replied, 4, I have no longer any
thing to do with Luther; Luther has now a Judge,
whose jurisdiction I must not invade; besides, consider,
Gentlemen, 1 do not wage war against the dead, but
against the living, who bear arms against me." The
Emperor kept to his word; and prohibited the demoli-
tion of Luther's tomb, under pain of death.
• LONDON Cates.—ln the time of HILNRIt VI. an anti-
quarian writes, that London cries consisted of " fine felt hats and
spectacles; pease, strawberries, cherries, pepper, saffron, hot
sheep's feet, mackerel, green-pease, ribs of beef, pye. &c. In
the Pepysian Library, are two very ancient sets of cries, cut in
wood, with inscripdons; among others are, " buy my rope of
onions; white Sir Tuomas's oolong ; rosemary and bays ; bread and
meat for poor prisoners; ends of gold or silver; marking-stones;
a mat for a bed; maids hang out your lights; glasses, fine glasses;
a tanker-bearer; maribenes, maids, maribones; ells or yards; band.
strings or hand-kercher buttons ; a brush or a table-hook ; small
coal a penny a peek; I have screens at your desire, to keep your
butey from the ire; buy a cocke or a gelding (capon)." Formerly,
it was a practice to set the London cries to mink, retaining their
peculiar and musical notes.
TRAP /OR A PUN.—Dr. PARR being on a IliOt at a
friend's house, in Grosvenor-square, and a warm bath having, at his
request, been prepared for him, his attention was directed to two
bells in the room, one of which, he was told, was for hot, and the
other for cold water. Mr. had, however, given orders that,
upon the ringing of either bell, a fresh supply of hot water should
be poured in. PASS when in the bath, thinking it too warm, im-
mediately rang what lie had been told was the cold water bell, and
waited for a minute or two, expecting the heat to diminish. Finding,
to his great surprise, the water hotter than before, and thinking
that he had pulled the wrong bell, he rang the other as hard as pos-
sible. But this only increased the evil, by producing a reinforce-
ment of bet water; until at length, the heat became so intolerable,
that he jumped out of the bath, in a passion' exclaiming, ". Good
Goo, do they mean to boil me?"—" No, Doctor," said Mr.
who was listening on the side of the door, I only intended that
you should be poe-boiled."—Nea Ilonthlylllsiarine.
NOTHING SEW.
Nothing is new—we walk where others went ;
There's no vice now but has his president.
aysatT Cr THINGS NOT 111 ova POWER.
By time and counseU doe the best we can,
Tb' event is never in the power of man.
soma bus.
Still to our gains our chief respect is had—
Reward it is that makes us good or bad.
wisest's.
Though hourely comforts from the gods we see,
No life IS yet life-proofe from mimic.