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verzazione the governour generally passes an hour in it. He retains his faculties fully, which are of a superiour grade. He is an elegant classick scholar, and his language in common conversation is a perfect model for an accomplished man. He has a great turn for poetry, which he repeats with astonishing memory whenever requested He did me the favour to lend me a satire on manners, which he has just finished. He lived in the house with a Russian princess, whom I shall soon notice. She was no youth, having nearly reached her ninetieth year. The gallant old gentleman wrote a few couplets in compliment to his youthful neighbour, at which she, however, took offence, observing that she did not choose to be the subject of publick notice, even in complimentary canzonets. I heard the old gentleman complain of this failure of return for his gallantry.

This princess was as extraordinary a character as the governour. She like him had retired to milder skies to reinvigorate her decaying fabrick. She was the most hospitable foreigner at Naples. Her house was one of the pleasantest resorts for all strangers of character who visited the city. Her ruling passion was gay society, and never did a woman exhibit the truth of Pope's sentiment more truly. Hers was never stronger than in death. For many weeks before her death, it was known to herself and every one around her, that she would soon die; but she expressed a strong wish that she might survive the first day of the new year, because she was resolved to give a brilliant fête on that day. She died, I believe, before; but as she was in the habit of receiving her friends on certain days, who amused themselves with cards, &c.

she insisted that it should be continued during her illness; and in fact after she was speechless, the night of her death, she had a party who took leave of her, and she died before morning!!! To finish the scene, as it commenced, according to the fa shion of great people in this country, her body was exposed in state, as it is termed, for three days, and was there visited by those friends whom her living hospitality had contributed

to amuse.

I met several times in Naples a young German officer, whose history was very interesting to me, not only as it was wonderful in itself, but as it proves that the Austrians did not yield the palm to the French in point of bravery. I have always believed, that numbers, rather than courage or conduct, achieved the victories of France. This young officer was of the first family in Germany. He is one of the princes of the Lichtenstein family. He commanded a regiment of cavalry in the Austrian service, and as he was of high rank, his regiment was a large one. It consisted of eighteen hundred men. As it suffered in engagements, it was constantly recruited; so that in the course of that short war he lost out of that regiment, whose complement was only eighteen hundred men, nine thousand seven hundred; I repeat it, nine thousand seven hundred; and he and another officer are the only ones surviving in the regiment, who first engaged in it this last war. The prince has received many severe. wounds, and is now in Italy for his health. He is not, I think, more than thirty years of age. I think these three characters well worthy of no tice. They certainly do not occur at every corner.

ANECDOTES.

The following anecdotes respecting Scot tish manners are extracted from Hall's Travels in Scotland, a late work.

IT was, and still is a custom in many places in the Highlands, that whoever comes into a house after a person dies, and before such person is interred, as also after a child is born till it is baptized, must eat and drink in the house before they leave it. This being the custom, to save expenses, and because they think it disrespectful to God to have an unbaptized child in the house, poor people generally have their children as soon baptized as possible. But it happened once to a poor man in this part of the country, that a river, as is often the case, ran between his house and the clergyman's, so that neither the poor man could get to the clergyman, nor the clergyman to the poor man's, in order to have the child baptized. The river was swoln by the gradual melting of the snow, and there was no bridge within twenty miles. The poor man's cheese, his bread, &c. was nearly expended. He, therefore, on the one side of the river, and the clergyman on the other, consulting what was to be done, agreed that the child should be brought to the river side; that the father, presenting the child, should take on the vows, as they term it, and the minister with a scoop, or Dutch ladle, should throw over the water: which was done, though with difficulty, owing to the breadth of the river; after which, the clergyman pronounced the name; prayed aloud, so as to be heard by the parent and his attendants on the other side; after which each went to their respective places perfectly satisfied with this new mode of baptism, and that, if the child died in infancy, it would go to heaven.

Being invited to dine with a gentleman near Auldern, when I was praising the sallad, which I found extremely good, he said, smiling: "You

need not be afraid, it is not dressed with castor oil." Upon inquiring what he alluded to, he told me that a gentleman and his lady, in the neigh bourhood, who sometimes, as is the case in inland places, where there are no resident doctors, when any of their tenants are sick, recommend an eme tick, or the like, to them, and at their own expense afford the medicine. This gentleman, having an appeal to the house of peers, about a large es tate, was at London; and, as he gained the process, and was about to return to Scotland, he bought some gallons of castor oil, to lie at his house, and be served out as occasion should require. Upon his arrival in Scotland, as it is natural, all the nobility and gentry, who were acquaint ed with him, came to dine with him, and congratulate him and the family on so many thousand pounds yearly being added to their fortune. When mostly all the genteel families for twenty miles round, had paid their compliments to him in this manner, and he and his lady found leisure to hear the complaints of those sick people that applied to them, he found that some castor oil might be useful to a person that had come to consul them. Upon this, he rang the bell for John, the servant, who appearing, and being desired to bring some cas tor oil, replied: "It is all done." "Done!" replied the gentleman, "do not you know there is a keg of it lately come from London?" "Yes, but if it please you honour, that one is done too." "How can that be?" re plied the gentleman, in a passion. "Why, sir, you have had such a round of company almost every day since it came, and always sallad at table, that it is all gone." "Don't you know, it is castor oil I want, and that the name is written in large letters on the cask?" "So it is," replied the servant, "but as your honour knows, it was for the CASTORS, and dressing the sallad: it is all gone." "O you

scoundrel, now I understand you; so you have been dressing the sallad all this time with it. But harkee, John, for God's sake do not mention it." The truth is, all the company were highly pleased with the sallads, and had often spoke in their praise; and the gentleman and his family had never in their life a better summer's health, nor the people that visited him.

It is strange that the magistrates of Edinburgh, who are, in general, men of parts and discernment, should appoint any one to the office of towncrier that can read neither Scotch nor English. I heard one of them, when reading an advertisement, blunder almost at every word, and pronounce the very first word advertisement, laying the accent on the third syllable, when it should have been on the second, and confounding the word shops, where goods are sold, with the word chops, meaning the mouth and jaws. Indeed, at Aberdeen, till lately, they generally pronounced both these words the same way. Upon the eve of a king's fast day there, about a year ago, one of the towncriers proclaimed, that, as to morrow was a fast day, by order of the magistrates, no one within the liberties of the city, under pain of fining and imprisonment, should open their shops, but he pronounced it chops, from morning till night. An Englishman, who happened to be there, imagining that the magistrates had ordered that none should open their mouth to eat all that time, left the city, swearing, for his part, he would not obey them; and that, as the magistrates were fools for issuing such an order, so he thought the people would be fools if they obeyed it.

ANECDOTE OF MILTON.

[Not generally known.] The freedom and asperity of his various attacks on the character and prerogative of Charles I. rendered him peculiarly obnoxious when the

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restoration was accomplished. save himself, therefore, from the fury of a court which he had so highly incensed, and the vigilance of which, from the emissaries employed, it was become so difficult to elude, he connived with his friends, in effecting the following innocent imposture:The report of his death was industriously circulated, and the credulity of the people swallowed the bait prepared for them. The coffin, the mourners, and other apparatus of his burial, were exhibited at his house, with the same formality as if he had been really dead. A figure of him, as large and as heavy as the life, was actually formed, laid out, and put in a lead coffin, and the whole funeral solemnity acted in all its parts. It is said, when the truth was known, and he was found to be alive, notwithstanding the most incontestible evidence that he had been thus openly interred, the wits about the court of king Charles II. made themselves exceedingly merry with the stratagem by which the poet had preserved his life. The lively and good natured monarch discovered too, himself, not a little satisfaction, on finding, that, by this ingenious expedient, his reign had not been tarnished with the blood of a man already blind, by application, infirmity, and age, and who, under all his dreadful misfortunes, had written Paradise Lost.

A sapient question, put to Miss Taylor, on her examination at the bar of the house of commons, relative co the charges against the duke of York:

Question. Might not your father take the name of Chance, without your knowledge?

Answer. Then how should I know that he did?- -[a laugh.]

In a debate on the same business, in the house of commons, Mr. Fuller, a warm advocate for the duke of York, said, that he had received a number of anonymous letters, calling him a black-hearted fellow, and this

thing, that thing, and t'other thing. [Loud Laughing.] He did not like to have the duke of York sent away like a whale, with a harpoon stuck in his side. Many complaints, he said, were made against this country; but, in his opinion, the country was better than any country upon earth; and he that don't like England, d-n him, let him leave it." [A roar of laughter and groans.] He apologised for the last expression; said he had heard it as a toast in a publick company!

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POETRY.

The following is the form in which Burns's Translation by Cowper of a Latin Sonnet

song of Bonie Doon was originally written.

YE flowery banks o' bonie Doon,

How can ye blume sae fair;

How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae fu' o' care!

Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird,
That sings upon the bough;
Thou minds me o' the happy days
When my fause love was true.
Thou'll break my heart, thou bonic bird,
That sings beside thy mate;
For sae I sat, and sae I sang,
And wist na o' my fate.
Aft hae I roved by bonie Doon,
To see the woodbine twine,
And ilka bird sang o' its love,
And sae did I o' mine.
Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose
Frae aff its thorny tree,

And my fause luver staw the rose,
But left the thorn wi' me.

by Milton.

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