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London, England, 1818-01-06 00:00:00

, but the wounds
immediatly conveyed
woman td M. Pm-

, tiocument,
Day, a. John
n hi eitactly
nature, perfectly rural, and
there is every' reason to suppose, observed to a cer-
tain extent in the halls of the country gentry. and
anbstantiil yeomanry, a short record here, of those
that fall under this description, cannot be deemed
iaappoeite.
•The breakfast on Twekh Day is directecl•to bit
-brawn, autstard, and malmsey ; the dinner of two
poutses to be setred in the hall, and after the fi
tourse conseth in the master of the garnet. ape*
led in green velvet and the Rangy!' of the revele:
also, in a green suit of iptten ; bearing in his hand a
pm.how:and divers arrows, with either of them a
hunting horn about their necks: blowing
three blasts of venery, they pace round aboAtt:
three times. Then the Master of the Game st,Ated;
three curtesies,' kneels down, and petitiohs to be a&
mined into the service of the Lord-of the Feast.
" This ceremony performed, a huntsman cometh
into the hall, .with a for and a purse-net, with a cat,
both bound at the end of a staff; and with tltem nine
or ten couple of hounds, with the blowing of lamb
horns. And the fox and cat are by the hotfnds
upon, and killed beneath the fire. This sport finished,'
the Marshal, an officer so called, who, with many
other different appellations, welt created for the
purpose of conducting the revels, placeth them),
their.severel appointed places.
IkAfter the second course, the encientest of the
Masters of the Revels singeth a song, with the assis-
tance of others there present and after some repose
did revels, supper, consisting of two courses, is then
Terved in the hell, and bang ended, the Marshal
presented; himself with drums afore hips, mounted
upon a scaffold, born by four men ; and gees three
times round about the harthe, crying alma, a Lord,
a Lord,' &c. then he descendeth, and goeth to danoe.
" This done, the j.nrd of Misrule addresseth him-
selfrtotheEanquet ; which endeth with some min-
stealsYel mirth and dancing, every man departetb
to rest.
" genie, who wip. jilt contemporary of Saks-
pearefor the first tweaff-fire years of his We. that is
from 1591 to 1616, has given us the following curi-
ous aad pleasing account tithe ceremonies of Twelfth
Night, as we may suppose •thrs to have been ob-
served in almost every private family :
TWELFTH NlCritT, es, KING AND QUEEN.
Now, now the mirth cames,
With the cake full et plums,
'Wbere Design's the king of the sport here ;
Deride we Nowt know,
The Pea also .
Must revel], as Queens, in the court here. -
Begin then to chase,
This night as ye use,
Who shall for the present delight here,
Be the King by the lot,
And who shall not
Bs Twelfe-dsy Queene for the sight hem
Which kffowne, let us make
Joy-sops with the cake ;
And let not a man thus be seen here,
Who unwig'd will not drinke
To the base from the brink
- A health to the King and the Queene here.
Next crowne the bowk full
With gentle lamb's-wooll ;
Add sugar, nutmeg, and ginger,
With store of ale too;
And thus we must doe
To make the Wasiak a swinger.
Give then to the King
•
And Queen tensioning ;
And though with all ye be whet here,
Yet part ye from hence,
And free from offence,
As when ye innocent met here!
ttaansca's untrtatoss.
" Since this period, (observes the Historian), the
custom has prevailed in Britain of using these words
whilst drinking : the person who drank to another
saying Washei4 and he who received the cup an-
swering Drinc-Heil.
" It soon afterwards became a custom in villages
on Christmas-Eve, New-Year's-Eve, and Twelfth.
Night, for itinerant 'minstrels to carry to the houses
of the Gentry and others, where they were general'
very hospitably received, a bowl of spiced wine, whi
being presented, with the Saxon words just men-
tioned, was therefbre called a Wassail-bowl. A bowl
or cup of this description was also to be found in
almost every Nobleman's or Gentleman's house, (and
frequently of massy silver), until the middle of the
seventeenth century, and which was in perpetual re-
quisition during the revelit of Christmas."
Hence we have the, word WASSEIn synonymous for
carousing and jovialty.

On Christmas-day, 1817, there we growing in the
garden at Little Onn Hall, the seat of Henry Crockett,
Esq. in full blow, the following annuals :—Pc.4 me*,
carnations ten weeks stock, mignionette, ranunculus,
marigolds, red and yellow crysanthinsms, double
wall l3ower, or bleeding heart, ipatica, violets, polyan-
thus, yellow lupine, yellow braximuni, dapbne, and
roses.
Wednesday and Thursday last, there was an em
sively thick fog at Dumfries—very uncommon cit..;
cumstanees attended it ; whilst the Barometer waa.
Lgres!ivelt rising, die Thermonsater stood, daring
penod, at. 27.

CASE.

years in the
IA 'at Him-

discharged on
qiiiht of the
Prevost: house to
sed himself in
liberty, come
roastin for M.
- villain threw

eaten, might

conceived some
s wee being cowered.with
a
powder ; arid on examination they werelound
to be sprinkled with arsenic. These facts were proved
on Taillegra's trial ; and a question arose in the
minds of the Court and the Jury, whether his hav
ing sent word to destroy the apples was not a sus-
pension of his intent to poison ?—rts majority.of the
Jury decided that it was not; in which opinion she
Bench concurred, and Taillegra was sentenced to die.

Yesterday being Plor Monday, acing to
annual custom, the Genten who have been else-
ted to serve as Common Lbuneihnen for the eirreral
Waids of the City of London for the ensuing year
were sworn in before the LORD MAYOR, the R woe-
nee, and a Bench of Aldermen, at the adjourned Ses-
sions. at Guildhall.
• The &scions for Mid dieser will commence at the
fiession House, Clerkenwell-green, on Monday next.
Thursday next the prisoners who stand committed
on charges of felony, will be removed from the seve-
ral jails m London and Middlesex, to Newgate, preiwai
y . to their taking their trials at the ensiling
'ions at the Old Bailey, which will commence
Wednesday, the 14th in-
During the late fog, a fellow was observed lurking
about a watchmaker's shop, in Pall-mall, and pre-
sently afterwards he broke one of the squares of glass,
and snatched a valuable witch, with which he ran
,g2o:c
away.; notwithstanding he was immediately punned,

be contrived to escape:
Saturday night the Camberwell errand cart w
robbed on its way to town, 4tif two large bundles
linen belonging to two respectable families in-ix
doe. Those were two dozen fine shirts, and other
linen of different kinds, of .more than forty pounds
value.—On the same night the cart of John Priestly,
of Crosby-row, King--street, I3orough, was robbed of
a bundle of linen, on the way from Clapham to Lon-
don, supposed near the Elephant and Castle. Solne
Aillidas contrived to take it out while Priestly -was
driving. The property is valued at ten pounds and
upwards.
Coutioa to persons who are in the habit of selling
Igsiejooteder to cliddren.--Tuesdaf last, a son of Mr.
Ruin, of Romsey, about eight years of age, with
sonic other children, purchased some gunpowder, at
a shop in the town, and having procured a light, re-
tired to the back part of the premises to amu sc them-
selves, when by some means the whole of the gun-
Ipswder exploded in the face of the above child
now lies a shocking spectacle--bopes, however, are
indulged that he will not entirely lose his eye-sight,
which is some consolation to his distressed parents.
HATTON GA RDEl4.—Yesterday alpiorge Fenaide, a
lad about 14 years of age, wal charged by Mr.
John Read, one of the Manners of the Tunbridge
(dissenting) Chapel, New-road, with being concerned
with several other boys in making a noise and dis-
turbing the congregation assembled in the. Chapel
the preceding evening at Divine Worship. The
charge being proved, likewise that the Chapel was
licensed according to Act of Parliament, die prisoner
was ordered to find bail. The prosecutor stated to
the Magistinte the insults some of the congregation
met with from some of the boys, and that on one oc-
casion when the door-Peeper went out to disperse
theta, he was pelted with mud and stones and knocked
down. It was not their wish, however, to proceed
with rigour against the prisoner ; and he hoped, that
the Magistrate giving him a severe reprimand, might
have the desired effect, and deter others from com-
mitting the like offence. tit was reprimanded ac-
oordingly and discharged.
LA MlETHAlTRerr.—Yesterday an old man, 70
years of age, was charged by his servant, a girl 13
years old, with an assault, intending to violate her
person. The girl said, the prisoner took the oppor-
tunity, while his wife and son were out on Christmas
Day, to effect his purpose. On the other hand, a
lodger in the house and his wife proved that they
'heard no noise on the day in question, and that the
girl was in excellent spirits. The prisoner was dis-
charged.
QUEICN4QUARL—CASI OP Cauxtry.—Mr. Lock-
yer, an Overseer of the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea,
applied to the Sitting Magistrate for his advice and
Aiuthority how to act under the following circuit).
iimuees :—Witness stated, that about five o'clock on
Saturday evening, he had received information as to
the ill usage of the child which he had caused to be
brought into Court. On going to the father's house,
On Sankside, to inquire after it, he found that the
nurse, who was attending the mother in her present
lying-in, had carried the child to the work-house.
When he went thither, he found it in the state it now'
ippeered in, or rather worse, because he had sent for
surgical aid, which had somewhat assuaged the
appearance of its wound, and the child had also been
washed, and rendered more cleanly, since its admis-
sion into the work-house. lie had been extremely
shocked at seeing such a poor human creature re-
duced to so miserable a state, at the tender age of
only five years, and had given orders to have
case taken of it until it should be perfec*
But the father, who was then in Court, had nose to
the work-house, and demanded to have the child
and it was to know whether the Magistrate would
allow the father to take it away, or would .authorize-
him to keep it in the house until it should.be cured,.
that he made the present application.--The NI • ,
true commended Mr. Lockyer very hty for .
humanrand priader.t conduct, and orde
.
to bedelircred to kis, cafe till .pctiectly. ceneti
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TWELFTH NIGHT. A RE3fARtABLE CRIMINAL C
(veore THE ItITERAPY GA7ETTE.) . ROIII SKI FRENCH PAPERS.)
~ Zeik foa has been moved is this king- ' AdeteilVeillegra hid beery for twenty y
dom ever sine. e reigp of Annum, orta..wboee se-trioe. of the Sieur Prevost, a Notary-roy:
days," says Cot 14 " a Law was- maile‘brith vela- Ilya, aser Toulouse, but had been disd
don to holidays, by virtue of which. the *eke lays aqesuntof want of probity. On the q 4
.191 the liativity of our Snvtotnic were ' suede lath of last May he got into Mr. Prevost
.vaLs.. , Ili a servant-maid of his, and concealed
•-if During the reigns of Elizabeth and Jame L the the kitchen until the girl should be at liber
celebration of the Twelfth Night was, equally with to him. I4e there found two apples roast
tit:innate Day, a festival through the land, and was Prevost, whowas unwell, over which the vii
observed with great ostentation and ceremony in arsenic. He then )eft his hiding-place,' th
both the Univeruuts, at Guru at the Temple, and girl was at leisurelAut was met in the i
at Lincoln's and Gray's Inn. Many of the masques M. Prevost, •
who seized him by the collar.
of Ben Jonson were written for the amusement of lain, however, -made his escape, but was
. the RoYal Family on this night ; and Dngdale in his taken on the banks of the Arrieineant the i
Origines Judicaks, has given us a long and particu- was about to cross the ferry. takes
lax account of the revelry at the Temple on each of a knife into his throat in two laces; but
were rot mortal, and he wasmediatal
the twelve days of Cchriarnas, in the year 1562. It
appears from this document, that the hospitable rites to prison. From thence he sent a woman
of St. Stephen's Day, SI. John's Day, and Twelfth Yost's, to advise that the apples, if not ea
Day, were orcitred to b% sieactly alike ; and as many be thrown sway. M. Prevost had cones
af them are in sir nature, perfectly rural, and where sullen of the apples, from their being cc
. _ _. __ ~,,..,A,-,- • and An examination they