The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-20 00:00:00

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Sts—Lord Chesterfield timid that the man who
wonld make a rry would pleb a pocket, I wish he bad
also said that be who would ■irbsmc anothe► would
cut a throat.
To call ridicule the test of truth. in nnquestionahly
one of the t gross alemnlities that ever was urer=•d
in the slope of a wise saying. So far from ridicule
being the touchstone of troth, show me wt tatted so
brilliant that ridicule rumple tarnish? what chirseter
to valuable it cannot depreciate? what prison so noble
it cannot hlsmish or disfigure ? It is decidedly the
worst of all slander.

liow many a mortal injury has arisen from that
species of ridicnle called " waGor RT !" No wonder
your " KERR" are rienonneed, and are the terror
of society. " Oh, it. was only a joke."
" They only rotsos in jest."--111Antrr.
Four young sawn of rendition on a pedestrian
ex-
cursion through North Wale*, *too for a few der,
attracted by the exquisite beauties of the neighbour-
hood, at an inn at Carnarvon, called " the Sportsman."
One day, at dinner, amongst other things was a
none, which, alas, not one of those young fellows
could carve. The pour bird was nevertheless cut-here
and there, wherever a piece of flesh could be fantod,
that is, without disjointing, and exhibited towards the
conclusion of the feast a dismal spectacle of menstrlimg.
After much laughing at their ineffectual efforts, and
at the figure their earring would cut, to the people
of the inn, a consultation was held as to the best mode
of concealing their ignorance and of caring their
Undoes. During the consideration of this most se-
rious question, a volatile young Irishman, who was one
of the party, whips up the skeleton by the leg, and
threw it out of a back window to a hntre mastiff, who
soon exhibited His skill in anatomy. The mangled
goose was soon devoured, bode anal bones. This
piece of Irish ingenni.'y increased the mirth of the
company to convulsions. This was getting shot of
the bone of contention in good earnest. 'they were
in a precious pickle Now!

In the midst of the bustle the waiter arrived to re-
move the fragment.. Seeing the dish that had contain-
ed the Uooss entirely empty, he looked at the company,
who all screwed up their faces; then at the plates, then
at the empty dish, intl so from person to thing alternate-
ly with the most rustic amaaement. A vestige of the
goose was not to he arm
During this perform:gore not a muscle was moved by
the travellers. although they were ready to burst their
sides, not only at the whimsicality of the scene, but at
their own must ludicrous al/nation.
One of those hocks who was determined to be even
with. Master " Eats; no BRACIII," knowing the conster-
nation that was sure to benched down stairs, stole slily
to the Bar, and with a fire of the most admirable gra-
vity, asked the landlady if she knew that " Intsu Urn-
tleman," (describing Lis friend who threw the fOO5O to
the dog, and effecting to know him only " a chensin.")
Iler Ladyship answered '• No!" she only knew him so
one of His party.
After some bridling and simpering, Mrs. Taffy begged
leave to inquire why his honour had asked her this ques-
tion?" Ile tind," reeled the guest, with affected disguat.
" Ile is the very greatest beast I ever suet in my life."
" We had a Goose," said be, " Madam, for dinner, and
the rascal ate it every morsel, DO NE% AND A 1.I.!!!" Mrs.
Taffy was electrified. anti after " Cot pleasing" herself
a thousand times, collected the whole family to hear this
amazing discovery, who, all in their turns, " Cut pleas-
ed" themselves a million limes over, with plenty of
" Cot tams" for the braxtip Iriddinon.

Frigning the ntmost terror of hum rereage, the
wag enjoined the most solemn secrecy, whirls was so-
lemnly promised him, after which lie returned to his
►ompanions, but nut one word of the goose, pr of Mrs.
Taffy.

The following day the party, in their rambles about
the town, were not only stared at and followed every
where they went, by the l'authrian girls and boys, hut
had their ears perpetually assail►sl by some outlandish
expressions (x Lich, of course, they did not nnalerstand)
manifestly uttered as reproach and mockery against our
Irish companion, and at whom they barked anti set, like
so many hounds at a stag.
In this moaner they were so worried and hunted, that
they were at last obliged to retreat to their Inn, to
the very doors of which they were audaciously chased
by an accumulating mob, who now surrounded the
house,and c. hocontinued amid groans,hisses, and laugh-
ter, to repeat those insulting expressions with n hich
they had attacked the young Irishman un his walks.
Within doors the matter was equally serious—it was
all altercation and uproar, threc of the gentlemen were
outrageous, the rock ru was trembling in his skin.—
To desperse the crowd was impossible.
The Insight of the Shamrock, who was (and very
nsturally) highly indignant at such usage, insisted
upon an interpretation ut those expression., which he
knew were addressed to him, and were meant to built
him.
.To uts great arktrzernett, and to the great
anittsonest of his friends, the translation was—" Ale

WMO Alt Tim cousr.."

P. S. Simple ill w2b this joke, the party was in con•
:Sequence of it, obliged to quit Carnarrim early on the
following morning. n.tr was it till years after the wag
who raised thi• report ectold venture to give the (deb-
cissanent to his comp:anions.
Ceell-strert.

• 'There are very few persons can carve a gorse—it is
really a nice pier. of Anatomy. I will undertake that even
in High Life not one young person in twenty could disjoint
one.

We understand that Sir Frauds Burdett, Mr. Hob-
honse, the Hon. C. H. Hutchinson, and other 31eu.bers
of Parliament, dine with the electors of Southwark on
Friday next.
A private letter from Paris, dated June 1.1, says—
," There is no day passes without violent gusts of weed
and heavy showers of rain and hall. There are !eel-
ous fears entertained for the result of the harvest, par-
ticularly of the vines and olives. The weather has
heen so invariably bail, that to speak of it is rather
treading upon daniterouS ground and a Frenchtuan
becomes as cloudy and touchy upon the subject, as he
wao upon that of tie battle of Waterloo—he considers
it.a kind of national refleetion. There is much talk
here of an immediate war behove the Russians and the
furs: it is thought now to he imeritable."
Another letter dated the 16111 sacs. the Duchess
Dowager of Orleans died tonight. after a long anti
*info' illness. She leaves to the Doh: of Orleans two
and a half francs of income.