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London, England, 1820-12-30 00:00:00

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'the late Serjeant Htt.t„ of eccentric and facetious
memory, was once.invited to the country resideiscc
of a friend, whefe the Strictest and most punctilioos
forinaliif was oliserved. . The Serjeant, as is well
know" was never remarkable for the cleanliness tai
his *son, or the polish of his manners ; and as his
legal character was very high in public estimation,
his absence of mind, owing to the dnties of his prc.6
fission, was proverbially eccentric. His wife, who
was well, acquainted with his occasional mental abet.,
rations, advised hiin, previous to his departure, to
pack up his wardrobe with care, and be SUM among
other indispensables, to take down at least his shirts;
which.he might put on clean every morning-for the
week he expected.to remain on his visit. The Ber.:
leant, whose mind . was busy during this curtain
lecture with Coke, and Lyttleton, and Blackstone,
Ilheard merely the close of the exhortation touching
the clean shirt for every morning, and cheerfully
.answered 'in the affirmative. The week was soon
spent, and the Serjeant, contrary to his ordinary prac-
tice, was observed to be particularly smart and
cleanly. On reaching home, his si ife unpacked 11;s
wardrobe, when, behold, not a shirt wa,, to be seen !
—nothing even that imagination might torture into
the appearance of one. The lawyer was examined,
cross-examined, questioned, and croes-questioned,
and still persisted in his original declaration, that he
had faithfully discharged his promise to.his rib, by
putting on a clean shirt every morning. With wire
difficulty the phenomenon was at last explain!,
when it was discovered that the Serjeant, in defiance
of all legal and habitkal preceden••t lad certainly put
on a shirt every day, but had Its otters to take off
the dirty one, and at the moment of his departure,
was apparelled in the singular accumulation of a
week's linen. The circumstance made a great laugh
at the time. ' . -
The famous GEORGE SELWYN, who, at the peried
rof his existence, was perhaps one of 'the rummest
oth fellows that were ever known, was celebrated, among
er eccentricities, for an inordinate rage for seeing
`executions. The intended murder of the King and
Queen of France, by command of the Revolutionary
tribunal, afforded him a fine opportunity for grati-
fying his favourite propensity. fle hurried wiih the
'utmost rapidity to Paris, and, luckily anived at the
precise moment of their execution : 6, Make way,
,igentlemen," exclaimed the guards, at the e'rnest
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request of Selwyn, " here is an English amateur,
and a good judge of executions, come all the way
,from London to see one." A laugh was the conse-
quence of this satirical observation, at the English
connoisseur, after the decapitation, was heard to say.,
with great triumph, that the sight was well worth
five guineas; and was as interesting as the learned
pig that he had seen echibited in London but a few
days previous. Selwyn was not a hard-hearted man I
How then shall we account for his barbarous and
revolting propensities? Alas: by the well-knowa
inconsistency and weakness of human nature.
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BIRTH. •
Monday, the Lady of Lieut. P. Prynn,. off Dulee cedar,
West Looe, of a son, being her feurteemb

DIED.
Dec. 26, in her 14th year, Augusta Marla, daughter of ?us.
Terry Hone, Esq. Barrister at Law, of the Middle Temple, and
of Gloucester.

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