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DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS.

It is only justice to Lord Clare‘to record an incident
which proves that he was not insusceptible of humane
feelings, and which often led me to believe that his na-
ture might have been noble, had not every feeling of
moderation been absorbed by that ambition, the final dis-
appointment of which, at length, hastened his dissolu-
tion.

By some unfortunate delay, a letter of Henry Sheares
to me was not delivered till eleven o'clock of the morn-
ing after the trial. I immediately waited on Lord Clare;
he read it with great attention; I saw he was moved;
his heart yielded. I improved on the impression. He
only said, " What a coward he is ! but what can we do ?"
He paused. " John Sheares cannot be spared. Do you
think Henry can say anything, or make any species of
discovery which may authorise the Lord Lieutenant to
make a distinction between them ? If so, Henry may be
reprieved." He read the letter again and was obviously
affected. I had never seen him amiable before.
" Go," said he, " to the prison; the execution will be
deferred for one hour ; see Henry Sheares, ask him this
question, and return to me at Cooke's office." I lost no
time, but I found on my arrival that orders had been
given that nobody should be admitted without a written
permission. I instantly returned to the Castle; they
were all at council ; Cooke was not in his office ; I was
delayed several minutes. At length the Secretary re-
turned, gave me the order to see them, and to the She-
riff to delay the execution for an hour. I hastened to
Newgate, and arrived at the very moment that the ex..
ecutioner was holding up the head of my old college
friend, and saying, " Here is the head of a traitor." I
felt deeply affected.—Sir Jonah Barrington.

CURIOUS RECORD.

Mr. Madden, in his work entitled the " Infirmities of Genius

Illustrated," presents us with a curious record of the average in-
fluence of different studies, on the longevity of those engaged in
them. The record consists of a tabular arrangement, in which
there are several series of the most celebrated authors in the
various departments of intellectual labour. Twenty persons
are included in each list; the names and ages of each are given,
and from the united amount of the latter is taken the average
age to which the member s of each of the classes arrive. The
first table includes natural philosophers, whose names and ages
are as follows :

Roger Bacon, 78; Buffon, 81 ; Copernicus, 70; Cuvier, 64;
Davy, 51; Butler, 76; Franklin 85 ; Galileo 78; Dr. Halley,
86; Herschell, 84; Kepler, 60; Lalande, 75; Laplace, 77;
Lewenhoeck, 91; Leibnitz, 70; Linnfflus, 72; Newton, 84J;
Tycho-Brahe, 55; Whiston, 95; Wollaston, 62.
The second table is that of poets.—Ariosto, 59; Burns, 38;
Byron, 37; Camoens, 55 ; Collins, 56; Cowley, 49; Cowper,
69; Dante, 56; Dryden, 70; Goldsmith, 44; Gray, 57; Me-
tastasio,.B4; Milton, 66; Petrarch, 68; Pope, 56; Shenstone,
50; Spencer, 46; Vasso, 52; Thomson, 48; Young, 84.
The contents of the remaining tables are as follows

Moral Philosophers.—Bacon, 65; Bale, 59; G. Berkeley, 79;
Condorcet, 51; Condillac, 65; Descartes; 54; Diderot, 71; A.
92; J. T. Fichte, 52; D. Hartley, 52; Helvetius,
57; Ferguson,-Hobbes, 91; Hume, 65; Kant, 80; Kaimes, 86; Locke,
72; Malebranche, 77; T. Reid, 86; D. Stewart, 75; St. Lam-
hart, 88.
Dramatists.—Alfieri, 55; Corneille, 78; Goethe, 82; Mas-
singer, 55; Marlow, 32 ; Otway, 34; Racine, 60; Schiller,
46;- Shakspeare, 52; Voltaire, 81; Congreve, 59; G. Colman,
61; Crebillon, 89; Cumberland, 80; Farquhar, 30; Goldoni,
85 ; B. Johnson, 63; Lope de Vega, 75 ; Moliere, 53;
Murphy, 78.
Authors on Law and Jurisprudence.--Bentham, 85 ; Black-
stone, 57 ; C. Butler, 83; Coke, 85; Erskine, 73; Filangieri,
33; Gifford, 48; Grotius, 63; Hale, 68; Holt, 68; Littleton,
75 ; Mansfield, Montesquieu, 66 ; Redesdale, 82 ; Romilly,
61; Rolle, 68; 'Fenderden, 78; Thurlow, 74; Vautel, 53;
Wilmot, 83.
Miscellaneous and Novel IVriters.—Cervantes, 70; Le Sage,
80; Scott, 62; Fielding, 47 ; Smollet, 51 ; Rabelais, 74; De-
foe, 70; Ratcliffe, 60; Richardson, 72; Sterne, 56; Johnson,
75; Addison, 49; Warton, 78; Steele, 59; Tickell, 54; Mon-
taign, 60; B. Bathurst, 84; Thornton, 44; Hawkesworth, 59;
Hazlitt, 58.
Authors on Revealed Religion.—Baxter, 76; Bellarmine, 81;
John Butler, 60; Bossuet, 77; Calvin, 56; Chillingworth, 43;
Doddridge, 54; G. Fox, 67 ; John Knox, 67 ; Lowth, 77; Lu-
ther, 63; Massillon, 79; Melancthon, 46; Paley, 6.3; Porteus,
77; Priestley, 71; Sherlock, 67; Wesley, 88; Whitfield, 56;
Wycliffe, 61.
Authors on Natural Religion.—Annett, 55; Bolingbroke, 79;
Cardan, 75; Chubb, 65 ; Sir W. Drummond, 68; Duppius,
76 ; N. Freret, 61 ; Gibbon, 58; Lord Herbert, 68; Jacobi,
56; Paine, 72; Pomponatius, 63; Rosseau, 66 ; Spinoza, 45 ;
St. Pierre, 77; Shaftsbury, 42 ; Tindal, 75 ; Toland, 53; Va-
nini, 31; Volney, 66.
Medical Authors.—J. Brown, 54; Corvisart, 66; Cullen, 71;
Darwin, 72; Fordyce, 67; Fothergill, 69; Gall, 71; John Gre-
gory, 48; Harvey, 81; Heberden, 92; Hoffman, 83; J. Hun-
ter, 65; W. Hunter, 66; Jenner, 75; Mason Good, 64;
Paracelsus, 43; Pinel, 84; Sydenham, 66; Tissot, 70; T.
Willis, 54.
Philologisis.—Bentley, 81; Burton, 64 ; Casaubon, 55 ; Choke,
44; Hartzheim, 70; J. Harman, 77; Heyne, 84; Lipsius, 60;
Parr, 80; Pauw, 61; Pighius, 84: Porson, 50; Raphelengius,
59; Salmatius, 66; J. J. Scaliger, 69; Sigonius, 60; H. Ste-
phens, 71; Sylburgious, 51; Vossius, 73; -Wolfius, 64.,
Artists.—Biondelh, 72; Bernini, 82; Canova, 65; Donatello,
83; Flaxman, 71; Ghiberti, 64; Giotto, 60; Michael Angelo,
96; San Sovino, 91; Verocchio, 56; A. Caracci, 49; Claude,
82; -D'avid„ 76; Guido, 67; Raphael, 37; Reynolds, 62; Sal-
vator Rosa, 58; Tidally 96; Paul Veronese, 56; West, 82.
Musical Composers.—Arne, 68 ; Bach, 66 ; Beethoven, 57 ;
Burney, 88; Bull, 41; Cimarosa, 41; Corehl, 60; Cluck, 75;
Gretry, 72; Handel!, 75; Haydn, 77; Kalkbrenner, 51; Keiser,
62; Martini, 78; Mozart, 36; Paisello, 75; Piccini, 71; Por-
pore, 78; Scarlatti, 78; Weber, 40.
The result, then, that we derive from these tables, is, that
natural philosophers have the longest lease of existence, the
united ages of the twenty enumerated being 1501 years, which
gives an average of 75 for each. The results in the other cases
with respect to the .united ages, and the average each, are—
moral philosophers, united ages, 1417—average of the life of
each, 70; sculptors and painters,-1112-70; authors on law and
jtirispriidence, 1391 69-- medical authors, 1368-68; authors
on revealed religion, 1350-67; philologists, 1323-66; musical
composers,. 1281-61; novelists and miscellaneous authors, 1257
—622; dramatists, 1219-62; authors on natural religion, 1245
—62; poets, 1114-57. According to the results of this calcu-
lation, it would appear that those mental labours in which the
imagination is most actively employed, are least conducive to
long life. Other conclusions with respect to different occupa-
tions are drawn by Mr. Madden, who seems to be of opinion
that an exact scale may be laid down, by which the particular
occupation of any person being given, the probable length of
his life may be determined.

" TEN YEARS HENCE."

(Imitated from the French of Beranger.)
I'vE had a humour from my birth,

But whence I cannot tell, not I,
Into the oddities on earth,
Of eyery.kind and shape, to pry ;
And now, be't rhyme, or prose, or print,
Or scrawl, I would spend some few pence
On him who could afford a hint
How things tango—some ten years hence.

Vivat ! old William ! Live the King !
Long may he eat and think and reign ;
But yet. like every other thing,
E'en kings return to dust again.
To changes still a mortal foe,
And deeming "patriotism" pretence,
I've yet a curious itch to know
Who will be reigning, ten years hence!

I've always been a churchman staunch ;
The true voracious faith is mine,
At " articles " I never blanch,
But swallow the whole "thirty-nine ;"
But yet the tithes seem somewhat big ;-
Can any fix, by prescience,
The measure of a bishop's wig,
Or bishop's pocket, ten years hence I

" A penny saved's a penny got"—
I learn'd the rule when wont to range,
To hear " the latest," and what not,
Of rumours, on the Stock-Exchange ;
As I have known the pence accrue
From well-laid-in intelligence,
I wish to heaven I only knew
The price of Consols, ten years hence!

Although no party-man, yet still
A man desires to know what's. what ;
And who the Treasury benches fill
Is what one wishes to get at.—
'Tis pleasantest to know the cost,
Though I to skill have no pretence ;
Shall Whig or Tory rule the roast—
If neither, who will, ten years hence 3

BLISTERING WITHOUT PAIN.—An Irishman, whose wife had
been suffering under some pectoral complaint called lately, for
medical advice, on a surgeorl in Girvan, who ordered a blister
to be put upon her chest. The poor Hibernian, like many of
his countrymen, interpreted the direction he got quite lite-
rally, although certainly not in the right way, for on going
home he searched his whole cabin for a chest; but finding, as he
afterwards informed the surgeon, nothing so like one-as " a bit
of a trouk where Kate kaips her mutches," he actually clapped
the blister to the lid of the trunk; and his wife, by good luck,
getting immediately better of her complaint, he declared, in
perfect belief of the efficacy of the application, "that it had
cured leer complaitly."