Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-09-16
From he ". Y. NIorning Herald.

GLEASTNGs FROM LATE ESGLrsu PAPERS.
e'The Duke of BUCcLEUGH has at length Gained
1.-The troubled Of fashionable life the handkerchief
IS thrown, the dowagers out of their suspense
he aspiring beauties dream more-lhe golden prize
8 won His Grace has selected one of the beau,i-
full daughters of the Marquis of BATH for his Ouch
ess. Mr. ROGERS, an eminent Banker, whose con-
vivialty is proverbiu calls Il thick and Tnynne at
tachment-but he is wag; no match could be
suitable, nor did any ever offer greater promise of
future happiness to thepartes most deeply Interested
"Lord CAST EREIGH has been returned for Down
shire, without pposton-during the ceremony of
Chairng, the Noble Viscount threw handfuls of sill
yer among the populace, the scramblinp for which.
made picturesque effect-he is wonderfully popular
IN Ireland and expeditions in his movements as he
is successful in his for after all his bustes
and tatigues, and returns he snugly sitting at
the Opera Oh Tuesday night as if nothing had hap
peued."
"Mr Madden's recently published Travels in Tur-
Key Egypt, and Palestine considered as the most
curious volumes apperaining to those parts of the
East, which have appeared since the Letters of the
celebrated Lady NJ. w. Montague. The profession
Of the writer, that Of a medical man. and the great
estimation IN which ms advice held, ensured to
linn the rare privilege of adnittance into the interior
OF the harems of men of the highest rank in Turkey
and Egypt, of which places, and OF the state Of fe-
male society In general in the East, MIR. Madden has
given most authentic and remark able details"
"The Life and Correspondence Of Locke, which
have Just been published from the Family Papers by
hrs relative Lord King, exciting might be ex-
pected. an intense interest That valuable col
Of the most celebrated philosophers that the world
ever produced should have been suffered so lono TO
lie buried in their original escrutoire seems extrsor-
dinary however not the less OBLIGED IN the
Noble Editor for their appearance Of The present
day."
CURIosITY. Curiosity after the affairs nf others
cannot be without envy and evil mind. What is Il
70 me IT my neighbours grandfather were a Syrian,
or DIS grandmother llcgmHte? that another is in
debted $4,000. or whether his wife be Cxpensiye2
But commonly curious persons, Or(as the Apostles
phrase - busy bodies, not sOlctOus or nuus-
tive into the beauty and order Of a well poyerned
family or after the virtues oil an excellent peTson but
II there be any thing for which rnen keep locks and
bars and pOrters, things that blush To- see the oLt
and either are shameful in manners or private i'm ma
lure thefe things are their and their business
II ~ an evil spirit. Envy and Ideness married 10
getirer, and begot Curiosity. Therefore pITs,c,
well compares curious and inqustve ears TO the ev
ecrable gates out Of which only tors and hnn
men and tragedies pass. But these nouisitions arc
seldom without danger without baseness; tbev
ore nelthot Just, nor honest, delightful and yery
often us"icss 10 the curious inquirer. For men stand
upon their guard against them as they secure their
meat against harpics and cats, laying al their coun
sells and secrets ont Of their way;1 or az men clan
their garments close about Thorn when the earchiu
and saucy winds would discover their nakedness; ;
knowing hat what mon willingly hear they do will
llngy speak of. - Jeremy Taylor
When Captain Bathurst Of the Genoa who ,yss
mortally wounded at the battle Of Nayarno felt his
en- approach he sent for his steward and positively
barganed for the price Of butt o. rum 10 nreservc
ms own body IN. 81 should like said tho veteran.
20 have nv old bones carried 10 nv native land bot
Steward Lam b"t poor mar, and lc1ge family be-