The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1827-05-25


qnlet until the sayapcs had retired, when
they descended The Tree aud retu1ned t.
The camp IN safety Mid. Gdz.
'Ssfeet'oas from Foreign Journals.
a valuable discovery was made the o.
Their day III Westminster abbey. lthad
become necessary 10 make repairs near
the tomb Of Edward the Confessor.
when, by removing u portion ofthe pave.
menf, an cSqulsllely beautiful piece o..
carved work, which had originally form
ed the shrine Of Edwards tomb wag
discovered. Tbs fine relic. the work
OF the eleventh OF twelfth century, ap-
pears to have been studded with preei-
ous stones aud the presumption Is, TINT
during the civil wars, II @as taken down
Tor The purpose of pIuudor and, after
the gems were taken out, buried unlnr
The ground (vcly near the surface If the
c'rli,) 10 proycDtdetocton. Tie Dean,
jealous Of his rights, and deeply era
incurred OF diamonds and precious stones.
dId not lose sight Of dis interesting rel
&c until II was safely ipdged under his
own hoVHd6d roof We hupcthisrate
specimen Of art Will not shafe the fate Of
some cent spolllions of The same
place, which were sent To the curiosity
shops for sale. fJjweg
The Lodifs Of TdHdd0ld--- The Ll-
DIES were 50 agreeable, thai | saw much
less OF tho city and its building than
otherwise should have done. In tho
evening / accompanied them 10 tertnl-
la, which was attended by all the fash-
ion OF the place. really think there
IS less OF art IN the composition of SPAN
'sh women than OF any other people
whatsoever. They neither paint nor
patch, nor have those pefiolcal moull-
ings OF feathers, which i,shlon elsewhere
preseflbcs but they all dress nearly n
like, aud IN the same way all seasons
SO thai Sonora Maria Is oniy 10 be dis
tlngulshed from Senota Marina nv u
counlonancc more melancholy, by black
eyes swimming in IA more maiden whitel
ness, or by figure (Which Is ever prace-
lul) OF somewhat hrpei OF smaller
mould. The iasqninJ, or1lack silk pet.
tlcoai, is generally bordered NJ the bot.
tom with black beads, aud so diqposed
INTO an opened kind Of nel- work, as No
afford the curiou, eye a casual felicity
ol admirlng the most beamlful aneIes in
the world. Theu stock .ngs arr. Of white
SIX, y they are ncyri W hout a mameh.
III ample vel Of Nhl,c lae.) Which IS
gracefully hung over their boad and
Shoulders when they 20 abroad, and nj
other times adopted as a shawl Small
pieces oi loddare attached understand,
to The bottom Of tie iasqulnag, which ac-
counis ior The Ionian elegance of its
foldIngs aud In Am.dgt the n, nv
change, that Span has undergone. the
womeh alone seem un1h0ged. Laul-
ccs, IN jealouslte and duennas, and in-
deed all that Used 10 give lo4e-inaking
such a romahlic air IN thus beyond tbat
OF any other country, have lopp since
disappeared bu the passion itself still
constitutes the existence oi Spanish wo-
mon. IL IS not, however, that intriguing
Kind OF love, which we hearofin France.
whore lady changes her love as easily
and rs often as her lover b0I rather d.
! votion 10 one object winch renders
them the greatest tyraDts in tho world.
and makes them expect more alteration
than was ever Offered up At any IDOLS
shrine. AdpehtUres in Ms pcninsalo.
The SWgh Spftched Fa5rot-TAerh
IS aneastein story Of apefson v ho taught
his paIfol TO repeat only these words,
What doubt Is there OF that 2 lie
carried il to the market for s.Ie, Gxinp
,hc price at 100 rupees. 4 mogul ask.
cd the pafrot, Arc you worth 100 ru-
pees 7 The parrot answered, What
doubt Is there Of tia, 2 The niopal
was delighted, aud bought the bird. lie
soon found Out that tins was al IL could
say: ashamed now Of his bargain, he said
TO himself, | was a fool to buy tbs
bud. The pa1ot exclaimed as usual,
WHAT doubt IS here Of hiatt
Chocolate.--Hhc hen chocolate was first
introduced IN trancc---whch, accord.
Jug to some writers, was IN 1918, at the
marriage Of Anne Of Austria, the daueh-
ter OF Philip III. with Louis XIII. and,
according to others, in 1861, at tile
marriage Of Maria There's Of Austria.
with Louis AIf--it was considered as
medicine. In the year l64s, phys
lcian, at Paris, oil the name of Bachot,
maintained before the faculty a thesis, in
which he declared, that well made
chocolate was SO noble an invention.
that the gods ought TO prefer i. to nectar
an! ambrosla.'
| Mr.. Peter Moore has minated lbs
friends that he intends to employ ms lei
sure, during his contemplated residence
in the Kings Bench, by writing HE
oil Sheridan. lie was the daily COM
panion Of Sheridan for more than TWEEN.
y five years. He was constantly enga-
ged with hun both in his theatrical and