All affair of love, but n...
The Times, 1824-12-15T00:00:00

All affair of love, but not of honour, in which the lea(- ing vocalist of our (the Southampton) Theatre has played thi- Fritn- cipal part, at resent occupies the attention of the fashionable t gossips" ofthis town. It appears that thc gentleman commenced hie operations by making love to the Governess, in the hope of' ob- tainiug her advocacy, ant, through ler means, as introductios to the young lady. The Governess believed the gallant aimed at the pos- sessionz of her lovely person; but when die explanation of iliS viCWs pointed out her mistress (more likely her fortune. which w-c under-! stand is about 20,0001.) as the object ef his wishes, she was content, as a marketable commodity, to mialke a regular transfer of her hopes of happiness to the affertionate bosom of herdear friend and mistress. Every argument of persuasive eloquence was employed to " give the thing a character"-Nis litcrary acquiremriets and uinconimon per- sonal appearance were argaed at length, to obtain a favourable opi- nion. The good teaclter proteste(I that " the sin's brieht rays-'l ne'ershone upon a finer youth, and that lier rejection of him would bting down his gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. The young lady at last yielded her slow consent to an elopement, ard the gay LoZhario, in the fulness of his heart, went and "- proclaimnctd it in tie market-place." The consequence wac, that when he attempted to bolt ngl withi her, her father hael put an extra BOLT ON; ainI he was left to mourn over his blighted hopesof s8ecuilative enterprile, with i nothing to console him but the pleasu-e of paying the hire of a po.t- chaise and foar.-Southotmptoae Herald. ife understatid that Mr. David Seaton, who was Mir. Vcstail's second in the late duel fought at Notth Queemiferry, has been apprehendet and lodged ini the Caltonhill gael, upon a w.wrrant,! w.hich directs his detention until he finds bail to a considerable amount, for his appearance in any prosecution that mav be brought against i him. Captain Duguid, the secoid of Captaii Gourlav, though he aid not abscond, had been previously subjected to the same hail. Mr. Seaton was apprehended at Literpool. Mr. +lrestall is still in hiding, but it is said, intends to s,trrender when called upon fer tZial.-Glasgouw Courier. OPENING OF A AMlumy.-On Thu.stlay eveniing last, was unwrapped, at the Bristol Inslitution, the bodIv of an Egyptian Mummy. The evtrge was confined to shareholders, honorary mem- bers, and associntes, and such friends as AIr. Garard (the donor) l chose to admit ly orders; nootber person: having permission to bhing any one. The audience was nevertheless numerous, grcat interest having been excited to witness a spectacle so perfectly novel in this city. The mummv, ve apprehend, was removed by lMr. Salt from I a catacomb in the Thebais, and being sent down the Nile to Alex. andria, from thence fbund its way to Bristol, as a present to our worthy Chamberlain, who, with that liberality which claracterises I him, deposited it in the Bristol Institution. The case, which waj beautifully covered with hieroglyphics, exhibited rather the copper- colotured-countenance of a Nubian than the expanded forehitmd ;ind wide eye-sockets of an Ethiopian. Dr. Piitrhard, Dr. Gapper, Mir. Richard Smith, surgeon, and Mir. illiller, the curator, were aippoint- ei by the committee to be demonstrators upon this interesting oc- easion. The tipper part of the shell being removed, there arose a peculiar, but not unpleasant, odour. The bodty was remark- ably light, and wrapped up in a multitude of folds of cotton cloth, which was stained of a yellowish brown colour. IJpon the removal of the circular bandages, there appeared a long wrapper from the chin to the toes, with a double border of blue stripes in front. The ititmermost layer of cloth was-soaked in nap- tha, asphahtum, or some bituminous sublstance. combined proba- bly with natron. The skin wan blackened, and the neck and one of the hands hal been attacked by a peculiar sort ef coleopterous in- sect, apparently a dermestis. In other respects, this curlious speci- -nen of antiquity was very perfect. indeed, very mnuch more so, we learn, than usually happens. It was the body of a (probably voungl fetnale. The hands were placed straight upon the tlighs, and not, as most frequently happens, across the bosoeo. The hair upons t':e hcad was perfect, of a brownish nuburn colour. short, but not at all wearing the oharacter of a negro's. The contour of the coun- tenance strengthened the opinion that the subject belonged to a province closely bordesing upon the confines of Egypt. The coverings of the chest and stomach being removed, exhibited in high preservation, thc heart and longs, and oil the intestines: in- deed, it didi not appear that any part litui bcen removed. 'VIre. timer the brain bht been extracted, was not ascertaiued ; 4either were the (eeth examined, as It was thoughit advisable to subject the head altogether to a more leisurely and minute observation. Dr. Pritchara, who has (as is well known to all our scientific reader-) published a very ingenious work upon Egyptian Antiquities. isale many pertinent remarks, explanatory of ite subject, vervy much to the satisfacion of the assembly. Mlr. Soith then politted out the difference between bodies preserved by direct artisepties, and those converteI In our cemeteries, bv moisture, into the substance called Adiposerc, which differed, totally &rom muiiniies, althiough iri a igh state of preservatlon. To exemplify tbia, he exhibited fronh his museuit several fine specimens, aLd amongst others our old acquaintance, the heart of Blaster Sheriff'Yeamans, who was execnted in WVine-strect. by Cromiwell's ofricer, Colonel Fiennes, on thte-30thi of Alay, 1(43, and wViY exhumated in 1814, being quite perfect, after having loat the vital spark 171 years ! Towards the finishing, somne gentlemen expressed a wish that the appearoncm should beoplaced upon reeord; when Air. Smith said lie would, witd great pleasure, ultldertake to draw up a memoir, with the .s- sistance of, the gettlemen with whom lie was now associated, in' which they very cheerfully acquiesced ; and Dr. Pritchard promised to read before the Philos6phical and LUtexary Society, a paper upon the subject of niurimies, on the 30th of this month, which, we doubt not, will be highly interesting.. IMnr. Aldenuan Daniel th etn propos. ed that the thanks of tbe rneeting should be given to Dr. Pritchard, Dr. (iapper, Mlr. Srnith, anl mT. MliUer, for the. bigh treat thae had effbrdedtlo diem w,ich\vascereiedbyglgwation.BrisJoe,t0j