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picker." Since that time, too, others
of the six have fallen victims to the
knife, and persons of unquestionable
authority in these matters, have pro-
nounced most favourably on the new
system. This subject may be consi-
dered of too little import to warrant
so much detail; the approach of
Christmas, however, and my desire
that poultry in general should be in a
fit state to be discussed by the public
palate at that period, must plead my
excuse for having thus attempted to
trespass upon your columns.
I am, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,
E. S.

Nov. 20, 1825.

SCRUB-The following paragraph

occurs in the "London Chronicle,' 4th January, 1759:-"Birmingham, Jan. 1.-Farquhar's characters in the "Beaux Stratagem' were taken from originals then living in and near the City of Lichfield; and last Thursday se'nnight died there Thomas Bond, aged 82, who was the last surviving character, and the original Scrub in that play. He was for the most part of his life a servant in the family of Sir Theophilus Biddulph, Bart."

POMPEY'S PILLAR.-The Society of Scottish Antiquaries heard a paper read in 1814, on the subject of this celebrated Pillar. The diameter of the column is nine feet one inch; the diameter of the square block of stone, on which it is supported, is only five feet. There appears to have been a foundation prepared on a rock, which is not very far below the present surface of the soil: this consisted of a central piece of stone of five feet square, which was surrounded by masonry of sufficient extent for receiving the base of the column. This central block was so well adapted to the rock, and so truly squared-and so accurately levelled-and the columu was placed so precisely on its centre, that it appears to have formed the sole support of the superincumbent mass, for the surrounding ma

sonry is in most part loose, and muck of it has been, from time to time, re moved. The block of stone on which this column rests is covered with hie roglyphics, but they are inverted, a proof that the block was a fragment of a monument older than the pillar itself, and that the pillar was erected in an age when the hieroglyphic characters were no longer considered sacred in that district. It is supposed that this pillar was erected by Ptolemy Philadelphus ; and a passage in an ancient author confirms the supposition, by mentioning a column raised by that sovereign. The Arabians call it the Column of Pillars." It is said that there were once four hundred pillars in its immediate neighbourhood, which all conspired to form a part of some regular design. There is reason to suppose that these pillars once actually existed. We may repeat the measurement of the colimn, which we give on good authority :—

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I do confess thou'rt sweet, but find
Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets,
Thy favours are but like the wind,
That kisseth every thing it meets.
And, since thou canst love more than

one,

Thou'rt worthy to be lov'd by none.

The morning rose, that untouch'd stands,

Arm'd with its briars, how sweet it smells:

But, pluck'd and stain'd by ruder hands,
Its sweet no longer with it dwells,
But, scent and beauty both are gone,
And leaves fall from it, one by one.

Such fate, ere long, will thee betide,
When thou hast handled been awhile;
Like faded flow'rs be thrown aside;
And I shall sigh, when some will smile,
To see, thy love for every one

Hath brought thee to be lov'd by none.

I plunge in ocean, shoot through air,
Parch in the desert, fly the den;
See horrors-wake in struggling pray'r,
And midnight is twice midnight then.
PULCI.

LINES

Sent to Dr. PENNY, Dean of Lichfield, 1734, on occasion of his preaching a Sermon upon the "Being and Attributies of God," at which was present Miss Morgan, a celebrated Lichfield Beauty.

Ir not convinc'd, learn'd Penny by the schools,

The bright example of thyself and rules, Nor all the law in learned Moses' book,→→ On this fair creature let the Atheist look;

Nor longer in his blind opinions nod, Her heavenly charms most clearly prove a God.

To so complete a form could atoms dance?

BLACK EYES AND BLUE EYES. Could such a soul and body meet by

TO THE AUTHOR OF THE LINES
UNDER THIS TITLE, INSERTED
AT PAGE 16.

THE claims of different-beaming eyes
How well have you defined;
In Blue the soul of feeling lies,
In sparkling Black-the mind.

So by your rule, yon Dustman's wife,
Has wit and feeling too;

For see-the fruit of some rude strife, HER eyes are BLACK and BLUE!

PRIZ

THE HYPOCHONDRIAC.

Go to thy rest, thou sullen Sun,
An emblem of my weary mind,
Obscur'd, ere half its course be done;
While night, long night, remains be-
hind.

All that I lov'd, my pencil, pen,

That stole the time on downy wings, When shall I feel your charm again? Farewell! ye past, ye pleasant things. Where is thy balm of care, Q Sleep, That once upon my eyelids lay? Now, if a slumber on me creep

The Night is wilder than the Day.

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because he introduced so many bills dining-room while full of company, into Parliament.

SIR HENRY WOTTON, who had for many years represented James I. at the Court of Venice, being applied to by a friend who was about to be employed as an ambassador, for some rules for his negociations, Sir Henry gave this for an infallible aphorism That to be in safety himself, and serviceable to his country, he should always, and upon all occasions, speak the truth it seems a state paradox, for," said Sir Henry, "you shall never be believed; and by this means your truth will secure yourself if you shall ever be called to a any account; and it will put your adversaries (who will still hunt counter) to a loss in all their disquisitions and undertakings.",

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SIR THOMAS LITTLETON, calling upon. Dr. Johnson, when balloons first appeared and excited so much notice, thought it would be a good opportunity for the Doctor to go up in one upon speculation. "Pshaw! sir,? said the Doctor. Well, but sir," said Sir Thomas, "as you say, in one of your Ramblers; that a fool will be a fool in whatever atmosphere he was born, this would be a good time to take up some weak man with you by way of experiment." But why give me so much trouble," replied the Doctor when you can prove the fact by going up alone?”

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A HOME STROKE-The late Dr. Bushby, when Chaplain to the forces quartered at Dover, was one afternoon delivering a discourse from the eighth Commandment, in which he animadverted on the sad consequences of stealing. It is," said he, "such an ungentlemanly, beggarly thing for a soldier to steal.-Not, my beloved brethren, that I would tax any of you with the commission of so foul à sin; no, God forbid! though I have lost a pair of boots, and several other things, since this regiment was stationed on the Heights."

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MURDER OF JEAN MANAUX.

WE extract the following explanation of the above scene from a periodical publication of the day: a more detestable instance of deliberate ferocious cruelty has rarely disgraced humanity:

On the 25th of April, 1759, were hung near Exeter, five French prisoners, named Charles Darras, Lewis Bourdeca, Fleurant Termineu, Pierre Pitroll, and Pierre Lagnall, who had been condemned at the Devonshire Assizes for the murder of Jean Ma

naux, their countryman and fellow prisoner, on board the Royal Oak, man of war. The provocation the deceased gave them was his discovering to the Agent their forgery of passes, to facilitate their escape; and accordingly, on the 25th of January, when they were ordered down to their quarters, Darras having summonedhis confederates with a boatswain's whistle, they dragged Manaux to a remote part of the ship, where, after gigging and stripping him

they tied him to a ring-bolt, and with persevering brutality, gave him sixty blows with an iron thimble, about the thickness of a man's wrist, tied to a rope. Manaux, by struggling to escape from this torture, got loose, and fell on his back, when Lagnall jumped several times upon him, till he broke his chest, Pitroll keeping him down by pressing his foot on his neck. When they found that he was dead, they cut his body in pieces, and conveyed it limb by limb, through the privy, into the sea, because throwing it overboard whole would have alarmed the sentry. Next day, however, twenty-seven of the French prisoners were sent ashore, one of whom gave information of what had taken place, and the five ruffians being brought to trial, were sentenced to be executed on the 2d of April, but were afterwards respited till the 25th, and in the mean time a Romish priest was allowed to visit them.

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time ago in Bari. A man condemn ed to be hanged for some unpardonable offence, was conducted to the scaffold and underwent his sentence. After the execution the body was stripped and laid on a bier, to be carried to the place of interment; but as it was on the way towards its final home it was observed to move, and on examination it was discovered that the vital spark was not extinct. Surgical assistance was procured, and the criminal was brought back to life, and afterwards re-conducted to priOn his arrival there his graveclothes were carried away, and, as the hangman had taken possession of the others, and refused to give them up, a furious dispute arose between him and the naked fellow about them, the hangman claiming them as his perquisites, upon the plea that he had hanged the fellow; whereas the other demanded them as his property, alleging he had not been properly hanged. Enraged at not succeeding in so just a demand, he caught up a knife that lay near, and stabbed the hangman in the belly. The wound was dangerous, but not mortal. The criminal will probably be hanged again with all convenient speed. At all events, it is most likely he will be the first and the last who will have to boast of having killed his own hangman, and that, too, after having been hanged."-(M. Herald, Sept. 14, 1825.)

The only person I have met with, who appeared inclined to pin any portion of faith' upon this very pretty touch of the marvellous, was my friend Mr. Green, of the City, who some time since favoured you with the fruits of his experience as a pigeon-fancier.-(Vide Vol. II. page

8Į.)

A FROG'S REPAST.-" Mr. William Tyson, of the Strands Inn, in Netherwasdale, has a hive of bees which stands in a cavity of the wall in his garden. A common black toad, which had taken its residence in a hole in the wall, on Tuesday last was

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