According to the last acc...
The Times, 1824-01-02T00:00:00

According to the last accounts from Turin, dated Dec. 20, the health of the King, Victor Emanuel, though stil in a very precarious state, was somewhatimpreved. The Duchess of Angouleme is said to have acquired much popularity, during her late journey in the south of France, in consequence of the imrpartiality of her conduct when she came in contact vwith the opposite parties of Ultras and Constitutionalists.. On the oceasion of an entertainment given to her by a considerable tovr., the Alayor thought to please her Royal Highness bv proposing to exclude from the company Colonel Sebastiani, the brother of the General and Deputy of the same name. A Paris paper (the Joarnae doi Commerce) gives the following as the answer of the Duchess:- ` How could vou suppose tlat I should be offended by having be- side me an officer to vhom the Kinghas intrusted a regiment. I wvill not sit dovn to table unti! the Colonel arrives." CONSTANTINOPLE, NY. 26.-On the 11th and 12th inst. a severe gale of wind did material damage to the shipping in this port. and the Orphceis, Forl, suffered so as to render some im. portant repairs necessary. On the 15th, a brig, supposed to be EngIlsh, entered from the westward and passed upwards, without anchoring. On arrival off the Castles at the entrance of the Black Sea, it is reported that she manceuvred as if waiting to present her firman and receive the accustomed visit from the officer, but that before that could be effected, she had muade sail and got clear out to sea. She w nqot fired at from the Caales, but the circumstance has afforded roundof complaint on tie part ofthe-Turkish Go. vernment. Hitherto nothing has ocrurred to throw any light on the name of the vessel. Lord Hastings, who was Governor of Calais-during the reign of Edward IV., applied to a person of rank to iecommend to him a clerk of the kitcben. and also an inferior servant. The follow- ingwns the reply:-" Iy most doughted (valiant) and singular good Lord-This man is meen of stature (ofmoderate stature),yonng enough, well witted, well mannered; a goodly young man on horse and foot; he ir well spoken in Englisb, meetly well in French, and very perfect in Flemish; he can write asd read; his name is Richard Stratton; his mother is Mistress Grame, ofCalais. At mv coming home to my poor house, I sent for Robert Bernard, and showed unto him that I had moved your Lordship f6ir him, and he in like form is agreeable to be ready. be it at Calais orelsewhere, and from that so-forth for ever, while his life will last."-From "Sir John Fenn's Lett:rs of the Ptzston Family," on the eve of publication. VATERLOO ANECDOTE.-.S'rgeant WVeir, of the Scots Grays, was pay-sergeant of his troop, and, as such, night have been excused serving in action; btt on the day of the battle of Wa- terloo, he requested to be allowedl to charge with the regiment. In one of the charges he fell, mortally wounded, and was left on the tield. Corporal Scott, of the same regiment, who lost a leg asserts, that when the field was searched for the wounded and s;lain, the body of Sergeant WVeir was found with his namne written on his fore- head, by his own hand, dipped in his own blood. This, his comrade said, he was supposed to have done that his bodv might be found, and known, that it might not be imagined he hail disappeared with the monev of the troop. WVheti Popc Clement NrIl. was at Orvieto, in 1523, hav- ing noticed the scarcity of water to whicb tbe city was livble, being built upon a rock at a distance from any spring. he caused a large well to be opened, which was, in fact, a wonderful effort of art. It wsas cut thlroulgh the solid rock, to the depth of 265 feet, and 25 ells wide. It hba two flights of hanging steps, one above the other, to ascend and to deszend, executed in -such it manner that even beasts of burdennmay enter; and by 248 convenient steps arrive at a bridge, placed over a spring where the water is laden; and thus, without re- turning back, they arrive at the other stairs, wliich rise above the first, and bv these return from the well by a passage different froni thie one the; entered. The Pope bad a medal struck on this occa- sion, representing Aloses striking the rock for water. Mr. Temple Stanyan) who had long livedl with Addison in habits of friend.ship, conversing on aU subjects with perfect free- doum, borrnwed of him, tinder some pressing emergency, a sum of money. From tlis time lMr. Stanyan alterca completely bis tone of conversation towards Addison. He agreed implicitly to all that his patron advanced; aind never, as formerly, disauted his positions. This extraordinary change in his behaviour did not long escape the notice of so acute an observer, to whom it was by no means as agtee. able as it was expected it would be. rt happened on onc occasion' that a subject was str.tted on which they had been a short limnelms fore entirely at issue. 'Mr. Stanyan, instead of contending Abe point, yielded silently and with the utmost ,4eference ta the .opiiion of Addison, who was d'ispleased, and vented hiis disspprohiat.'oS4fz his companiotdsinsiacerity by saying, vrithi a good deiiVof.iirjs. tience, " Sir, either contraict ale Or pay me my money..". QUEEN ELIZABETH AND SIR WALTER RALglGH.-~ In a letter written by Baleigh to Cecil, in July, 1592, on the day. when the former was sent to the Tower; are the following passages: _" My heart was never broLen till this day, that I hear the Queen goes away so farr of (on her progresses), whom I have followed so many years with so great love anddesire. d that was wont to.be-. hold her riding like Alexander,. hunting like Diana, walking L;ke Venus, the gentle w7ind blowiing her hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometimes sitting in the shade like a Goddess; some- time singing like an Angel; sometimes playing. like Orpheus: be- hold the sorrow of this world, one amiss bath bereaved me of all * ? All those times past, the loves, the sythes (sighs), the sorrows, the desires, can they not weigh down one frailmisfortune? cannot one dropof gall be hidden in so great heaps of eweetness P" RaSnatsaECTIoNQ-rraN ?N: IN, TJE N T.-The emissaries of the doctors arenow waging war against the moktreimote country parishes. WVithin the last tiw dajs a great sensatiotabas beern ex. cited in Aunandahe, Cariisle, and other parts of CUmbtrlatd4 by the rumoured visits of these pests of so=iry , and jitis now ascer- tained, beyond-all-doubt, that ever in fthis distant-part of the coun- ty, the derestable practice of stealing humsa bodiesi5ad.been carr.ed on toan extent of which thelieees -had no idea.- - the burying ground. of Pendersaughe, inthe pasish -of Hodd.asn -no fewer than sixteen graves have been at diffhaent times robbed;a and is 13ryusde, Annan, and Mtiddiebie, similar outrages haLve been -perpetrated, though not, we believe, to the samre ezteut. As soig,ht. have been. expected, the indignation of the public has risen to a fearful hesiht;- and had the individuals been found to whom suapicon R ates, it would bave required all the energy of the ccil,.p6wer to have streened theni from the. inflictions of summTary punishment. On the EBnlish side of the borders th2o resurrection-men, as they are impiously called, have been neal' ejualybusy.- in St.. Marv's churchlya-rd, Carlisle, the graves or a ittle boy, and a soldier who belonged to the 65th rtgOWedtt are known tobave been.o2ened' = and if report may be credited, -numnbir of parlshes 'aound`- tbat city have been -isade the scene of s'milar violations. Nir are our nmigh. buus, thiCuznbfians, it- less alarm; every wEere thepopulace-are breathinz.vengeance against the depredators, for. whose,apprehensioii a rewaid hasbeen offered,and, in future,- theyseem-determined to watch the most secluded cometeries in tbe county of Ormberland. The forms of iustice aTe,z s alw, that the people, when strongly agi- iated7 are uniformly for`eutttig before the point, and, on one occa sion, a mob 7cll nigh force4 the houie of a respectable surgeon. n. Carlisle, whotu' they erroneously siapposedlto be connected with'tfie body-stealers. Were w.'e: fond of giVing publicity to ruamobrs, w- could rehmiteimjbundred; but as the authors of thessoutrages are all believed tehave-made theireseape,-a.d as muchbexaggeration un- thmabted23 prevails on the subject, we will wait till the publir mind has hd tune to~ coolDua4.7fnrse Cotrkcr,