DOCTOR BACON. THE late Dr. Bacon, sometime fellow of Oxford, chanced one morning to ride by a methodist chapel, and on seeing these words, "Let your moderation be known to all men," painted in large capitals on the door, he alighted, took out his pencil, and wrote the following lines immediately under: What! talk of moderation, sons of w-res, STANISLAUS *. THIS amiable and accomplished monarch, on being driven from the throne of Poland in 1734, addressed * Stanislaus Lesczynski was descended of one of the most illustrious houses in Poland. He was one of the Polish pala. tinates, that declared in favour of Charles XII. King of Swe den. Charles raised him to the throne against his will. And it must be confessed, that the Poles found themselves as happy under his government as the perturbed state of the times would admit. This prince was father-in-law to Louis XV. When he was banished from the throne of Foland, he fled to France, where Lonis allowed him a pension, which enabled him to maintain the splendour of his birth, and hereditary fortune. addressed the following letter, on the eve of his. flight, to the primate and magnates of Po land. "From the cruel pangs I feel in the thoughts of leaving you, my dear and trusty friends, you may frame a just idea of the afflicted state of my soul, in these bitter moments. Nor is this painful resolution taken, but from the prevalence of your sage persuasion, and an assurance, that the sacrifice of my person could be of no advantage to you. I send you this parting embrace; I clasp you all in my throbbing heart. Alas! the tears which obliterate my writing, compel me to stop. 'T were more casy to read the tender expressions graved on my heart, could you but see it. I once more embrace you, and am yours more than words can express.' "To my good City of Dantzick. "After having been held here a long time, by the attraction of your unparalleled fidelity, I am preparing to depart in the moment I can no longer fortune. He wrote and spoke the French language with classical purity. He left some philosophical writings behind him, one or two of which were printed. As he was one morning standing before the fire, a spark caught hold of his morning gown, which instantly enveloped him in a blaze; and before any assistance arrived, he was burned in so shocking a manner, that he died in great torments in the course of a few hours. possess you: I carry with me the poignant an guish of your sufferings, and such a sense of my, obligations to you. I wish you all the happiness you deserve, which will in some measure assuage my concern in being torn from your arms. I am, at all times, and in every pláce, "Your affectionate "STANISLAUS, King." BEAUJON, THE FARMER GENERAL. Lines, by PIRON, on BEAUJON, the rich Farmér UN Fermier Général, fier de ses injustices, Boit dans des coupes d'or les pleurs des malheureux. A Farmer General, to all virtue lost, Of his unjust extortions dares to boast: FATHER FATHER ARANAZ. SOME years ago, Father de Aranaz, a Carmelite, published a book at Pampeluna, in favour of Philip V. The title ran thus, word for word: "The Lord Philip V. is true King of Spain, of God's own Making. The Tower of the second David, persecuted and victorious, fortified with three Bulwarks, viz: Justice, Religion, and Politics, to which a thousand Shields are fastened to defend his Crown: dedicated and consecrated to the King our Lord, whom God preserve for the Glory of Spain, and the Good of Christendom. By Father Hyacinthus d'Aranaz, a Native of the most faithful City of Sanguessa, Doctor of Divinity, Synodal Examiner of the Archbishopric of Toledo, Chaplain to his Majesty, &c." "El Senor Phelipe V. es el Rey de las Espanas, verdadero dado por la Mano de Dios. Torre incontrastable del sequendo David perseguido y victorioso, guarnecida de tres Propugnaculos, Justicia, Religion, y Politica; de que penden mil Escudosque defienden su Corona: que dedica y consagra al Rey nuestro Sennor, que Dios guarde para Gloria de Espana, y aumento de la Christiandad, Fr. Jacinte d'Aranaz, Natural de Ja fidelissima Ciudad de Sanguessa, M. en Sagreda Theologia, Examinador synodal del Arcobispado PB 4 spado de Toledo, Predicador de su Mag. Ex procurador y Commissario general del Orden de Nuestra Senora del Carmin, y Provincial titular. Pampeluna, 1711, in 4to. pagg. 584." The author compares his work to a tower or fortress, with three bulwarks. Fifteen shields are fastened to the first bulwark, eight to the second, and four to the third. To get into that fortress, one must go through a portico, where, says the author, one may be informed, that the Devil, in quality of the Prince of Discord, inspires the malecontents with a desire of changing their king; and has intrusted the heretics with the execution of such an enterprise. 1 SIR W. PETTY. WHEN but twenty-four years of age, Mr. Hartlib, in a letter to the Hon. Robert Boyle, describes him "as a perfect Frenchman, and good linguist in other vulgar languages, besides Latin and Greek, a most rare and exact anatomist, and excelling in all mathematical and mechanical learning, of a sweet natural disposition and moral comportment." He declined the practice of physic many years before his death, as I find intimated in a Pharmacopoeia printed |