The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-14 00:00:00

Mme clue may be obtained as to the owner of the treasu

foliowing facts, which have since transpires
years ago a person named Frost, who carrie

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as a brass-founder at Islington
wjed symptoms of mental aberration. Among a numbe
- he had a notion that banks in gencr,
Deere unsafe, and 'he declared his intention of withdrawin
memoney which he had saved from the bank, and hidin;
• - 't. His friends treated the matter as an absuri
and took no further notice of it. They ascertainec
after that Frost had actually drawn £5OO from 6(
ithout any ostensible motive. Upon questioning
aid that he had buried the money near Islington,
adfastly persisted in refusing to point out the place
. The man has since become perfectly insane,
.oat he has himself forgotten the place of conceal-
It seeks very probable that the money lately disco-
,ed was buried by Frost, and it is understood that his
friends intend to make some inquiry into the matter.

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AtturAL,STEAm,sittp.--•--The dupes in this concern are,
we understand, really building their wings at Montpellier
Gardens, Walworth.—Railway Magazine.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—During the sailing of a yacht down
the Thames on Saturday last, the tiller struck a sailor of the
name of Freeman and chucked him overboard, and he was
drowned.

On Thursday last, a gentleman named Robert Turner, of
Shuttleworth Hall, near Preston, was drowned in the Ribble.
It is supposed he was attempting to cross a ford of the river,
ind either missed it or was overborne by the quantity of
water in the river.

REPRESENTATION OF EAST SUFFOLK,—Lord Rendle-
:ham has issued an address as conservative candidate for
East Suffolk, i❑ consequence of the death of Sir C. Broke
Were ; and IVIr. Shafto. Adair, a whig, who contested the
eastern division of Suffolk in 1841, is also in the field.
THE TEA TRADE, April 10.--The news by the overland
mail has had no particular effect on the market, although in
consequence of the delay likely to arise in fixing the duties,
,hippers were expected to buy and despatch their cargoes
without further delay. The deliveries last week were
494,810.

CURIOSITY FROM CHINA.—The museum of the United
Service Institution, London, has been enriched by the addi.
don of the identical cage in which Mrs. Noble was for six
weeks confined. It is roughly made of thick bars of wood,
and is so small that the unfortunate captive must have re-
mained during the whole time in a crouching position.

The appointment of Captain Fitzroy to the governorship
of New Zealand has left a vacancy for his post in the Trinity
House. Forty-eight candidates have, we are told, already
declared themselves, of whom some four or five only are
naval officers. Among the naval candidates are Captains
Jenkin Jones, De Roos, Beechey, and Popplewell.—United
Service Gazette.

SIR ROBERT SALE.—The government have just given Sir
Robert Sale a very handsome sabre, with a gold-ernbroidereu
belt studded with pearls and emeralds; the blade valued al
£lOO, the handle of ivory, a small delicate tassel with a
string of pearls at the end. The civilians have clubbed £1
each for the purpose of presenting Sale with another sword,
which is intended to be very handsome.

A few days ago, one of the gamekeepers at Hardwick,
having discovered that the farm buildings belonging to the
hall was infested with rats, laid a trap, called a box trap.
On examining the trap the following morning, he, to hit,
amazement, found that it contained no less than six largt
rats, who had actually worried each other to death ; not one
remained alive.

BILLS OF LADING.—The following notice has been issued
by order of the Commissioners of Stamps, to shippers ano
masters of vessels :—" Take notice, that by the act of par-
liament of the sth and 6th Victoria, cap. 79, a stamp duty of
sixpence is imposed upon every bill of lading of goods to be
exported or conveyed coastwise; and by the same statute, a
penalty of £5O is imposed upo❑ any person who shall make
or sign any bill of lading which shall be written or printed
upon paper not duly stamped with the duty aforesaid. Ea, li
bill of a set is liable to the duty mentioned. N.B.—No bill
of lading can be stamped after it is signed.
HORRORS OF TRANSPORTATION.—The Geelong Adver-
tiser (Port Philip,) of Oct. 24th contains a report of the trial
of John Maloney, for the murder of his master, John Francis,
of Woodlands, in the district of Geelong. The crime wa,
clearly proved against the prisoner ; who, when asked why
sentence of death should not be passed upon him, said, "
do not wish to lice in this country at all. I don't care.
had as soon die as live here. The dogs were upon me when
I struck him ; and I thank God that I am sentenced to
death." The awful sentence of the law was then passed
upon the prisoner, who was removed from the bar apparently
quite indifferent to his situation.

DURHAM ELECTION.—After the return of Lord Dungan-
non for this city, Mr. Bright, his opponent, delivered from
the balcony of Thwaite's Inn a most inflammatory speech,
the effect of which was immediately exemplified in an attach
upon Lord Dungannon. As the noble lord was passing up
Elvet Bridge, in company with two friends, on their way to
his lordship's Ic dgings, he was hooted and pelted with mud
and stones, by a number of young miscreants, encouraged by
others of riper years. One of the stones struck his lordship
on the back part of the head, and severely stunned him : the
individual who threw it, a lad of about 16 years of age, was
discovered and apprehended, and it is hoped will be made
an example of.—Durham Advertiser.

SCOTCH CHURCH.-Dr. Candlish has in a letter disclosed
the terms on which his party are disposed to treat for a
settlement of the Scotch Church question. He says that
with reference to the settlement of ministers, the following
principles must be fully and unequivocally admitted. " Ist.—
That the mere opposition of the congregation (upon their
simple averment that the settlement of the person proposed
would not be for the edification of themselves, their families,
or the congregation) may be held by the church as in itself a
sufficient reason for rejecting a minister. 2nd.—That in
carrying out that principle, by whatever form of procedure,
there shall be full and effective security to the church courts
against the interference of the civil courts."

OUTLAWRY AT BRIGHTON.—A novel occurrence took
place on aunday morning in the parish churchyard, just as
the congregation were leaving the church. Previously to the
service, the sheriffs' officer had posted on the door a procla-
mation of outlawry against a Mr. Knight, formerly a sur-
geon and apothecary, residing in Sillwood-place, and now
non est ; and at the close of the sermon, the officer, elevated
on a tomb close to the principal door, read, three several
times, a proclamation, warning the said Mr. Knight, that
unless he appeared on the following day before the Barons of
her Majesty's Exchequer, he would be " outlawed." The
congregation speedily formed a circle around the officer, and
at the repetition of the appalling word exchanged looks of
surprise with each other ; but as their astonishment was
reaching its height, the officer, having finished his duty, left
them to their wonderment. The copy posted on the church-
door notified that the proceedings are taken by a considerable
number of Brighton tradesmen, to whom the outlaw was, we
hear, indebted to a large amount.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—AIthough the greater pro-
portion of the returns to the next General Assembly have
been announced, the prbtable numbers of the various parties
cannot as yet be stated with exactness ; but so far as these
returns have been made known, it would appear that the
Convocationists are destined to find themielves in a minority
of 30 or 35. In this calculatiOn we do not include the
chances of seceders from the schismatics, of whom every day
furnishes examples. About one-sixth of the returns from
Presbyteries are still unpublished, and among them are se-
veral in the Highlands, which have nrabablv.rauspedflon.
jority against the schismatical party ; but the representatives
from burghs, not yet declared, may be expected to counter-
balance these votes. The constitutional party will therefore
be placed in a position, even admitting the presence of quoad
sacra members, to command a majority. The number of
double returns is 10; and the number of votes covered by
these is, as the returns have been made by the moderate
party, 31 ; and as made by the Convocationists, 43.—Edin-
burgh Advertiser.

AFFECTION IN A DOG.—On Tuesday week an accident,
which proved immediately fatal, occurred to a waggoner,
named James Giles. Deceased had been for a load of lime
to Stow, and on his return, when near the half-way-house,
he desired his son to get a 'bundle of hay for the horses.
this the boy being unable to effect, called his father to assist
him. The unfortunate man endeavoured to get on the shafts,
but missed his footing, and fell on the off-side, the fore-
wheel, slightly injuring one of his feet, and the hind wheel
passing over his bead, which it crushed in so dreadful a
manner that the poor fellow died instantly, without uttering
a groan. Deceased was perfectly sober. An inquest was
held the following day. Mr. Oakley stated, that on hearing
of the accident he went into one of his fields to send a man
down for the team, and he observed the deceased's dog en-
deavouring to induce the men at work there to follow him.
It seems the faithful animal, who was with his master at the
time of the melancholy occurrence, at first tried to prevent
any one approaching the body ; but, on being driven away,
it swam across the river, and made directly for Lydart,
where he was using almost human means to prevail upon the
fellow-workmen of deceased to go with him to render assis-
tance.—Herpford Journal.

INTERESTING RELICS.---About -three weeks ago, some
woodcutters in pursuit of rabbits on the hill of Knockie, in
Glentanuer, accidentally discovered, under a cairn, an
ancient burial-place, covered by a large flat stone. On re-
moving this, they found the following articles Two
bronze vessels capable of holding about two-thirds of a pint
(Scotch measure), of neat workmanship, cast in rather an
elegant shape, and with a handle on one side. 2. Seventeen
spear of axe heads, of bronze, known among antiquaries by
the name of cells. 3. From thirty to forty bronze bracelets,
of various sizes, but mostly, it would seem, designed for the
for the wrist. 4. Four bronze pieces, two of them richly
gilt, consisting of three rings, each about an inch in diame-
ter, joined together in a line. slightly curved, as if to be
worn on the shoulder or body. 5. Six bronze rings, of good
workmanship, of different sizes. 6. A circular piece of
bronze, probably part of the mountings of a weapon. In
one of the cups there was a small quantity of resinous mat-
ter ; and in the other, what the workmen described as
,` something like a piece of parchment," but which crum-
bled to pieces on being handled. The whole of the interes-
ing relics are in admirable preservation, and are evidently of
Roman manufacture, and so belong, at the latest, to the
middle of the fourth century.—Edinbtergh Witnees

THE NEW BANKRUPTCY ACT.—An application for a fiat
in bankruptcy against a Sussex tradesman, made on Thurs-
day last, developed circumstances which showed in a striking
degree some of the advantages and disadvantages of the new
act (sth and 6th Victoria, c. 122). The bankrupt had been
engaged in business at a village in the neighbourhood of
Brighton, and, after contracting a great number of small
debts, announced a sale, with the proceeds of which it was
supposed that he intended to decamp. Under the old act no
proceedings could have been taken against the trader; but
the new act enabling any " three or more" creditors whose
debts together amount to
.£lOO to strike a docket, nine cre-
ditors in this case so combined in order to make the required
amount. This is an advantage derived from the new act.
Now for the disadvantage. Including a witness to prove the
act of bankruptcy, the nine petitioning creditors and their
solicitor, eleven persons had to travel to London, uwards of
forty miles, and will have to do so perhaps many times more
in the prosecution of the fiat ; whereas, under the old system,
the distance to be travelled, by transacting the business be-
fore the Brighton local commissioners, would have been
about eight or nine miles, and the difference in the expenses
arising from distance only will probably amount to nearly or
quite the total amount of debts.

d Loss OF Two SHIPS BY FlRE.—Accounts have within
_ the last two or three days been received by the different in-
s surance companies in the city of the total loss of two vessels
f with their cargoes,—the schooner Agnes, belonging to Lon-
t don, and the brig Jemima, of Glasgow. The loss of the first-
D named vessel, which was a fast-sailing schooner, about 150
tons burden, occurred on the night of Friday, the 24th ult.,
ilat. 54deg. 9m., long. 3, east, while on her passage from
Havre to Hamburgh, having a valuable general cargo on
r hoard. She had been but a few days on her passage, when,
at about half-past nine o'clock at night, the watch on deck
t was startled by the appearance of smoke issuing through the
i main hatchway, which was instantly torn off, and, to the
dismay of all on hoard, they found the cargo to he on fire;
but it was evidently at the very bottom of the vessel. For
1 three or four hours water was poured down in torrents
amongst the cargo, without producing the slightest effect
upon the fire; in fact, it was rapidly gaining head, and, as a
last resource, the hatches were closed, battened down, and
every means adopted to stifle flames. In the meanwhile, the
master brought the ship round into a different course, in
hopes of meeting with some vessels, and lights were hoisted
at the mast-head as a signal of distress. At about half-
past two o'clock the destruction of the vessel became inevi-
table, for the decks were very nearly burnt through ;
the crew, who had previously jumped into the longboat, re-
maining within a short distance of the burning ship until she
went down, which did not take place until between 6 and 7
o'clock. Everything in her was by that time consumed ; the
mast had fallen overboard, and nothing remained but the
mere shell. Two hours after the vessel had sunk the crew
were picked up by the Norwegian bark SOstre, Captain Hoist,
from Holmstrand for Harlingen, the fire having been seen by
them at a distance, and were bearing down to afford assist-
ance. The destruction of the other ship, the Jemima, of
Glasgow, by fire, happened on the morning of Wednesday,
the 22d of February, in lot., 35, long. 18, under similar cir-
cumstances. Soon after the outbreak of the flames, a vessel
called the Gartsherrie came alongside and took the crew on
board, and afterwards lauded them safely at Madeira. The I
ship is fully insured at Glasgow. 1

VARIETIES

ORIOII4 liEwatoNs.—The first pension ever g*anted
waz by Henry Vlll. in 1512, when the sum of twenty pounds
a-year was given to a lady of his court for services done! A
gentlewoman also had the second. We are in the dark as to
the extent of her merits; but it was from the same Sove-
reign, in 1536, and amounted to £6 13s. 4d. a-year.

To ALL FAIR LOVERS OF WORSTED WORK.—Take half-
a-pound of soft soap, half-a-pound of honey, and one pint of
English gin ; mix all well together, and with a sponge clean
the work with it ; then apply cold water in the same manner,
and dry with linen cloths : the brightest colours will be un-
injured.

A QUESTION.—A party, twelve in number, consisting of
a schoolmaster, his ushers, the ushers' friends, and some of
his pupils, went to a tavern, and incurred a bill of one shil-
ling, which was paid by a contribution from each person.
The master put down fourpence, the ushers were to pay two-
pence each, the friends a halfpenny each, and the pupils a
farthing each. How did they arrange it?
ISLE OF SKYE.—The Isle of Skye has, within the last 40
years, furnished for the public service-21 lieutenant-generals
and major-generals ; 45 lieutenant-colonels ; 600 majors,
captains, lieutenants, and subalterns ; 10,000 foot soldiers ;
120 pipers ; 4 governors .of British colonies ; 1 governor-
general ; 1 adjutant-general • 1 Chief Baron of England ;
and 1 judge of the Supreme dourt of Scotland. The generals
may be classed thus :-8 Macdonalds, 6 Macleods, 2 Ma-
rallisters, 2 M`Cashills, 1 M`Kinnon, 1 Macqueen' and 1
Elder. The Isle of Skye is 60 miles long and 20 broad.
Cruly the inhabitants are a wondrous people. It may be
mentioned, that this island is the birth-place of Cuthullin,
the celebrated hero mentioned in Ossian's poems.—Edin-
burgh paper.
THE LEGAL INQUIRER.—A sergeant in the Grenadier
Guards was ordered to be reduced to the ranks for a year.
At the expiration of that period the commanding officer re-
'used to restore him. Is the colonel of the regiment liable
o be indicted for keeping him as a private still?—When a
-risoner has been sentenced to be whipped, is it necessary
hat there should be a presentation for acceptance previously
to the endorsement ?—ln case of a refusal to accept (in the
above-mentioned case) can the holder of the instrument ad-
minister?—Is it compulsory on a juror to receive a challenge,
hough he may have ' registered a vow" not to go out ' • and
would it be contempt of court for a juror to measure the fore-
nan for a pair of gaiters, on retiring to consider the verdict?
—An innkeeper, having but a small leg of lamb in his house,
se's it before three hungry guests, at Is. 6d. a-head. Has he
a contingent reversion, or a conditional remainder in the
limb ; or does his right amount to more than a bare possibi-
lity ?—Where a person is told by his bootmaker's apprentice.
in reply to an order for a pair of Clarence-Bluchers, that
they cannot be delivered without the money, should the an-
s ver be referred to the master for,impertinence, or could it
be excepted to as scandalous ?—A and B are joint tenants at
s ,fferenee of the crossing at Cockspur-treet. A (being an
ilfant without guardians assigned) is collared by the beadle,
whilst Bis suing in formdpauperis. Now—which is seized ?
—P tench.

GARRICK AND GENTLEMEN-ACTING.—" As it cannot but
be gratifying to you to hear to hear the opinion of a good
jud4e of acting, and who is himself an excellent comedian,
respecting Mr. Elliston's performance of Charles, I will not
(Lily myself the pleasure of transcribing a paragraph from a
le ter I received this morning. The approbation of a few
such judges is of far higher value than the plaudits of an
unr fiectii g multitude, for such, I fear, must all multitudes
be considered. ' Charles was better performed by Elliston
trian by Smith—at least, in my opinion. Smith I never really
liked in the part. It was a relief to me not to see the chair
leaned upon, &c. Elliston looked the character admirably.
Lord St. Helens was as much pleased as myself, who, never
having seen O'Brien, thinks Elliston the first gentleman on
the stage—he has an easy vivacity and a spiritual quality
which no other performer possesses—a charming voice, and
his side acting is admirable.' If your affection, Madam, has
some gratification from reading this ulogy, my own vanity
is gratified while I write it, as I take !o myself the credit of
baying discovered Mr. Elliston's peculiar talent in much
earlier days the present. The annals of the stage record
two gentlemen actors only,—viz., Wilkes, in the time of
Cibber and Mrs. Oldfield, and O'Brie❑ in that of Garrick,
which last-named, with all his astonishing powers both in
tragedy and comedy, could be anything—everything—except
a gentleman."—Ainstcorth's Magazine,
THE SUICIDE OF CHATTERTON THE POET.—The case of
poor Chatterton,

" The marvellous boy,
The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride,"

has been adduced as an illustration of the fact that it is pos-
sible for a person perfectly sane to commit suicide; but no
one acquainted with his history will doubt his insanity.
Chatterton possessed natural acute sensibilities; he was un-
questionably a man of genius. When the forgery of Rowley's
poems was detected his mind received a severe shock.
Friend after friend forsook him ; all his bright and cheering
hopes were levelled to the earth ; his character for integrity
was gone ' • the world, which had been so eager to count his
society and friendship, turned its back upon him ; misfor-
tune followed misfortune in rapid succession, until his mind
was frenzied by mental agony and physical suffering. At
the time of his death he was in want of the common necessa-
ries of life, realising the affecting picture of the poet—
" Homeless, near a thousand homes he stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food."

A few days before Chatterton'sdeath, he wrote to his mo-
ther hi these terms :—" I am about to quit for ever my un-
grateful country. I shall exchange it for the deserts of
Africa, where tigers area thousand times more merciful than
man."—Winslow's Anatomy of Suicide.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DUTCH.—I like Holland—it
is the antipodes of France. No one is ever in a hurry here.
Life moves on in a slow majestic stream. a little muddy and
stagnant perhaps, like one of their own canals; but you see
no waves, no breakers—not an eddy, nor even a froth bubble,
breaks the surface. Even a Dutch child, as he steals along
to school, smoking his short pipe, has a mock air of thought
about him, the great fat horses that wag along, trailing be-
hind thorn some insignificant truck, loaded with a little cask,
not bigger than a Life Guardsman's helmet, look as though
Erasmus was performing duty as a quadruped, and walking
about his own native city in harness. It must be a glorious
country to be born in. No one is ever in a passion ; as to
honesty, who has energy enough to turn a robber? The
eloquence which in other lands might win a man from his
allegiance would be tried in vain here. Ten minutes' walk
would set any audience asleep, from Zetland to Antwerp.
Smoking, beer drinking, stupifying, and domino playing, go
on in summer before, in winter within the cafes, end every
broad flat face you look upon, with its watery eyes and muddy
complexion, seems like a coloured chart of the country`o that
gave it birth. How all the industry that has enriched them
Ifttr:MlTsliicu'ous, is ever effected, no one can tell.
Who ever saw a Dutchman labour? Everything in Holland
seems typified by one of their own drawbridges, which rises as
a boat approaches, by invisible agency, and then remains
patiently aloft till a sufficiency of passengers arrives to re-
store it to its place, and Dutch gravity seems the grand centre
of all prosperity.—Dublin University Magazine.
After the battles of Bautzen and Wurchen it was suggested
to Napoleon that the number of the wounded had been in-
creased by voluntary mutilation ; and that all who had lost a
finger, or whose hand had been pierced by a ball, were
traitors who wished to escape from the service. Napoleon
ordered that the wounded of this class (1200) should be se-
parated from the rest ; and that a number of com-
missioners, consisting of several principal surgeons should ex-
amine each individual of these soldiers. A council of war,
moreover, was appointed to try the guilty, and cause them
to be executed on the spot. Larrey.had been named presi-
dent of the surgical board. The day before it met, a certain
personage, who believing the accusation, desired its success,
ordered him to find four culprits in each division, who should
be taken before a council of war, and shot instantly. Larrey,
filled with terror and indignation at such an order, was
about to send in his resignation, and quit the army, when a
friend made him give up the project by observing that he
might be useful to these unfortunate men. Larrey did not
hesitate one moment. The examination was extremely ri-
gorous, and lasted four whole days. Laney showed, by
reasoning on the character of the wounds, that all the accused
were innocent. He then addressed a report to Napoleon;
and, believing that he had displeased the Emperor in this
affair, composedly awaited the disfavour which was to follow.
But Napoleon was not insensible to the claims of truth and
justice when clearly demonstrated and resolutely maintained.
The conduct of Larrey was not lost upOn him. In the mid-
dle of the ensuing night Baron Fain brought Larrey a most
flattering letter from the Emperor, in which he was congra-
tulated on his firm, honourable, and humane conduct. This
letter was accompanied by a present of 6,000 f. and the war-
rant of a pension of 3,000 f. to be paid from Napoleon's privy
nurse.—Arnoit's Hunterzan Oration.

LICENTIOUSADEPRAVITY TN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.
—The triumph of the gospel in Polynesia has been more
conspicuous in regard to that leading virtue which is the
pledge and safeguard of domestic comfort, the foundation
of all regular society, and the source of all the endearing
relationships of life. No one can read the descriptions of
the early voyagers without a mixture of compassion and
disgust at the licentious scenes introduced into their narra-
tives; and, though the writers in general may not have dis-
posed to darken beyond necessity the shades of the picture,
some of them were constrained to declare that" the excesses
were incredible." To the first missionaries, accordingly
no bar appeared so insuperable as the loose notions which
prevailed in regard to the requisitions of the 7th command-
ment. The effect was the same on the minds of the early
converts themselves, and clouded their anticipations as to
the success of the new religion. " You may," said one of
the most int-lligent among them, " induce the people to dis-
continue murdering their infants, offering human sacrifices,
and practising demon worship. You may induce them to
burn their idols, embrace your faith, attend your prayers,
learn your biaoks, and possibly even refrain from drunken-
ness and theft; but the preservation of female virtue, union
in marriage according to Christian :precepts, and congugal
fidelity will never be obtained." On this important point,
however, where reformation was the must hopeless, success
has been the most complete. No sooner was the authority
"a the Rsdeemer recognised, even through the somewhat
obscure medium in which his character and offices were con-
veyed, than the more offensive of
.the abominations disap-
peared ' • the virtue of chastity was inculcated and maintai-
ned; Christian marriage was instituted, and the invoilable
obligations of the bond piously acknowledged. This change
it is added, has been, under the divine blessing, effected
entirely by the exertions of Christian Missionaries, not only
without any external assistance, but in the face of the deter-
mined opposition of many from whom they might have ex-
pected both countenance an aid.—Edinburgh Cabinet Li-
bvary, No. XXXIII. Polynesia.
AN ELECTION OF A SPEAKER, TEMP. ELlz.—The fol-
lowing scene, some years later, most graphic in its description
of the homely members and their modest bead, is painted to
the life. Meeting, to go through the form of choosing a
speaker with all proper solemnity, " the comptroller of the
household, 39 Elizabeth, Sir William Knolls, said, I will
deliver my opinion unto you who is most fit for this place,
being a member of this house, and those good abilities, which
I know to be in him ; ' (here he made a little pause, and the
house hawked and spat; and, after silence made, he pro-
ceeded) : Unto this place of dignity and calling, in my
opinion ' (here he stayed a little), ' Mr. Sergeant Yelverton,
(looking upon him) ' is the fittest man to be preferred, (after
which words Mr. Yelverton blushed, and put off his hat, and
after sat bareheaded), for 1 know him to be a man wise and
learned, secret and circumspect, religious and faithful, no
way disable, but every way able to supply this place.' He
then sat down, hoping for a general consent. The whole
house cried, 'Ay, ay, ay ! let him he! ' and the master
comptroller made a low reverence, and sat down ; and after
a little pause and silence, Mr. Sergeant Yelverton rose, arid,
after very humble reverence, said—' Whence your unex-
pected choice of me to be your mouth or speaker should pro-
ceed, lam utterly ignorant. If from my merits, strange it
were that so few deserts should purchase suddenly so great
an honour. Nor from my ability doth this your choice pro-
ceed ; for well known it is to a great number in this place
now assembled, that my estate is nothing correspondent for
the 'maintenance of this dignity. For my father dying, left
me a younger brother, and nothing to me but my bare an-
nuity. Then growing to mans estate, and some small
practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many
children ; the keeping of us all being a great impoverishment
to my estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my
daily industry. Neither from my person nor nature cloth
this choice arise. For he that supplieth this place ought to
be a man big and comely, stately and well-spoken, his voice
great, his courage majestical, his nature haughty, and his
purse plentiful arid heavy ; but, contrarily, the stature of my
body is small, myself not so well-spoken, my voice low, my
carriage lawyer-like and of the common 'fashion, my nature
soft and bashful, my purse thin, light, and never yet plenti-
ful.' "—Townsend 's History of the House of
,Cornmon,v.