Star.
London, England, 1826-12-11 00:00:00

the reign of Queen Anni; gold•heeded canes, need es,
props to( physicians chins, lwn- their skulls carried
more brains, dt, at least, were heaiter than in our time ;,
sqlitairee, negligees, and stomachers; hair-pinto when
Lad;es Wore turrets con their abOolders half sE yard high,
edveloped in powder and pornatum, with a long etcetera
of similar Oddities,—were
•duly and daily futbishe4
up, as if oirr great-great-grand-papas and mammas were
yet living to wear them • 'or (snore miraculous still h
their Weathercock descendants, had never wished for a
change. I was grieved, a short time back, to find no
trace of this memento of antiquity, and that my old
jeweller's boutique was converted into a hatter's " Re-
pository." and the venerable triple-sided fiont transmo-
grified into a daShing, exterior, in the very last taste of
the nineteenth century.
And what has become of the ancient inmate of the
mansion ? Could he have willingly. quintal a spot, an
consecrated as it must have been by all his most *dip,
'cherished reminiscences?—the scene' which, perhaps,
witnessed the fulfilment of his septennial. contract. aid.
his succession, by due course of industry and desert, to
the business of his patron ; where pence-had grows into
shillings, and shillings into pounds;. and where rank
and beauty. had flocked to patronise that bijouterie,
which a renegade taste no longer deigns to glance at ?
Clr has death removed him from a sphere of action, in
which his energies had become useless, and where he
vegetated, a living anomaly among the uncongenial
bustle that surrounded him.
.FAilill)a could no, longer
have been billion to Lim. Lice an arrant jilt, she
turned from the offerings which once had won her, and
yielded, het. favours to lighter and less constant suitors.
Yes, it must have been so. He most have pined away,
in a "green and yellow melancholy." I think I see,
him in his. Sunday suit of brown, snug bob wig, cocked
hat, black velvet breeches, speckled silk hose, stnart.paste
bucklethand gold-headed cane; his eyes bent downwards,,
brooding over ancient recollections; bolding nought in
common with the ..gossamer throng that flitted about
him and mourning the degeneracy of these latter days,
when strings have usurped the place of buckles ; queues,
wigs, and hoops are out of date; and hair-powder itself
become,* thing " more for show than use,' is only vi-
sible it; tbe,.show-glasses of a barber's shop. What could
such a 44, wo4ld.without souls" have bees to this " Last
Mao" in a peopled desert? Yes, the solitude of St.
Pagi's Churchyard has been the death -of him! Del-
to-be sure, might have kept his spirits up a trifle
longer ; for he, like a staunch veteran, still " seeks no
charge.",. Bowles and Carver., too, axe laudibly primi-
live.; . but, ab how. could he survive the apostacy of
bin old co-mates, Rundell and Bridge?
" What a fallow-off was there, my countrymen !"
TO displace the pair.of comely, well grown salmon,
that, for a century or two, hadpersisted, with such an
exemplary unity of purpose. in sustaining the.numericel
tiksigo.ation of the antique establishment. in their perse•
gills--to displace them, I,say, for mere fresh
water trput, a sort of piscatorial dandies,. was indeed a
.scaly.astiun;.but actually to level the venerable front
,with the 4rouricl„tp replace it with.striner, in-the triple
taste of kg.ypt, Greece, and Rome; and, to crown all,
xp. complete the vandalism by plate .glass windows in
xilt.rnmaldings 1--!was this a mailer for flesh and blood
to bear ?-s—was this, par clonabli:offenco? And. could
,4t . have been. expected, anat. their old compeer would
Peet bioult. such. a chant..? • Ah.! no. . .

;. . . . w That was the liersht that.palrd him down !"
There was " the relic= that nifie calamity of so loot life !"
(To hi aptithiacit) * ,

, . The late JoHN NICHOLS dray be reckoned among the
men of literary
,taste. .contracted in. eaely liie, wise en-
juyed the persona) acquaintance., each esteem of the
icktOlara of the last.age. Erg upwards of.fifw leers he,
??,as the aythor pr editor Quomrly,.‘tptitstor. pr..foneut
rel6!?rch 1of ereat,e4kegts, .ao subjects, of a Aiotait
.
cespecia y of limritry histot y,, which .was his.fasonrite
pursuit;, a 44 sticli,v4tAiThßOPPwledged judgment. in
Oection. that abOnst?nce. of inauts:cript letters were
1111reseryedky submitted co lac cbt;ice by., the survivors.
sold Lansijjes of, the,ropst, eminent, scholars. And see
may a 4.4, och were Au Amitible,qualitiei of, his mind,,'
hi&ohliging._ temper, end .Aummunicatioe.disposition,l
that perhaps no non, in,our time, will lecmose deeply
regretted by so extensive a circle of Wends.
„The Earl of Aberdeen, the_Presideot of the Society
of Antiquarians. exhilaite.d
_at their la,t -meeting the
hpusebolfl book 4antes: y Scotland, containing the
accounts, of his, household how- September 14, 1538;
to. September 13, 147139.- , This bank is a falio volume, of
no jeconailferable aisk.and islegilal% written, though in
a contracted,. bend.
_;t is,divided into Sone parts; the
4qt giving. lha general
,co.nslimption, and, expenditure
elf the household; the secood,.rhst, of the spices; the
gliirct„:ole wines; and the.:fourthd the stables.. Each.
Iperitis autiditided into lour sections, presenting respect,
tivlewor Ar 491194 of the. PautrrAhe butters; the cellars,
land the kitchen. The; -rhoie. farnishea„the naeimi:les:
'well.a; the uses and rice' of a great egrietpof article.

'ls use among our ancestors.
1; -Several very erroneous statements having appeared,
birlative to the fatal accident which befel Mr. Cub aces
uttearrt, on Sunday setnnight, we are anthorlsed-tO
F. •
obr Readers the folbwing account, on the arco-
- of Zihich they . may rely., On his return- home,
bipeit after nine, this unfortunate yoting-Gentleinin went ',
as...
itp stairs to load' a blunderbuss. teit ~ .isa4,
?t'Alcii he was iti:th(kwt .of',.§iing....9 .Ai‘,AtigarderN
-AN- eAty eveningillicgryilkig tp ,a, Practice .iilielt `it;
vfrf:geekak 9 Wilt-44 illttAit:Wor . Iry Ograjio wr
senc: .
_Oll tiattoirrpg frteatts:iis. rwriviy4posvd
the;
AA.sulPMß4bl'il9'.7,4l4`iPB-3PreiWeil 11,94.1 aid dow*
-rt ....443,14,--14wa west PO fired eat 414 he cc/0k
tPOi citFc (it iistol4ieitise .whhod kt4payaliased, in
A°Ter, IPLfhaF.thteffect 4 41cPeEe.ofttoli 10ck41.0. tile.
!-yolytgqst Mr. Patti/knit,. a 04., believing . thee. to be.
wilcifteda• .cFlintf4 913 C 19:41# broskt end drew the:,
te,iggert, The exclacoaliOn 103ick tt, latt4Vld on raceivi lig
'tlll,lt.iniltatt frOves khaLeYenat kket.slniaent he KOS Ilot '
=Pr 01 faCal str.cek. vsll4ll:l44iicliPilii.tAd 9i4 444-
st:eke which Po, deptieefil sociaty fif x.y9ong
mu!wlio gave promne of becoming a bright moment:
to ft
nu bad has occasioned an. it repayable. Wes to ,his
an y aid'frienOs. Mt. citani.se Ctlipainri was the
e
i child by ilii first mars iage3cif bis Cubes, echo hoe
now four childieniiiing by, his present wile.
Mr. Justice Gum* Is. a rather.gbalj man, and his
Learned Brother, now on the circuit with bins, Mr. Jus-
tice Bayley, rather alarge one. The other day at din-
ner, one of the Magistrates of Hertfordshise happening
to speak of them collectively, designated them id the
usual phraseology of Judges of .lissiae.. o• Speak not
lithely, my dear Sir,* Said Mr.'Justice Gazelee,mill us
spet Judges of Avize, but Judges.of GsolDelfvery."
. This is the anniversary of Charles 1 the Twelfth of
Sweden being killed ii Prederiekoo.ll, 1718 ilind death
'alf.fohn Gay therm% 1/St..- . •