scoundrel, now I understand you; so restoration was accomplished. To you have been dressing the sallad all save himself, therefore, from the fury this time with it. But harkee, John, of a court which he had so highly infor God's sake do not mention it.” censed, and the vigilance of which, The truth is, all the company were from the emissaries employed, it was highly pleased with the sallads, and become so difficult to elude, he conhad often spoke in their praise ; and nived with his friends, in effecting the gentleman and his family had the following innocent imposture :never in their life a better summer's The report of his death was indushealth, nor the people that visited triously circulated, and the credulity him.

of the people swallowed the bait pre

pared for them. The coffin, the It is strange that the magistrates mourners, and other apparatus of his of Edinburgh, who are, in general, burial, were exhibited at his house, men of parts and discernment, should with the same formality as if he had appoint any one to the office of town- been really dead. A figure of him, crier that can read neither Scotch nor as large and as heavy as the life, was English. I heard one of them, when actually formed, laid out, and put in a reading an advertisement, blunder lead coffin, and the whole funeral soalmost at every word, and pronounce lemnity acted in all its parts. It is the very first word advertisement, lay- said, when the truth was known, and ing the accent on the third syllable, he was found to be alive, notwithwhen it should have been on the se- standing the most incontestible evicond, and confounding the word dence that he had been thus openly shops, where goods are sold, with the interred, the wits about the court of word chops, meaning the mouth and king Charles II. made themselves jaws. Indeed, at Aberdeen, till late- exceedingly merry with the strataly, they generally pronounced both gem by which the poet had preserved these words the same way. Upon his life. The lively and good natured the eve of a king's fast day there, monarch discovered too, himself, not about a year ago, one of the town- a little satisfaction, on finding, that, criers proclaimed, that, as to morrow by this ingenious expedient, his reign was a fast day, by order of the magis. had not been tarnished with the blood trates, no one within the liberties of of a man already blind, by application, the city, under pain of fining and im- infirmity, and age, and who, under all prisonment, should open their shops, his dreadful misfortunes, had written but he pronounced it chops, from Paradise Lost. morning till night. An Englishman, who happened to be there, imagining A sapient question, put to Miss that the magistrates had ordered that Taylor, on her examination at the bar none should open their mouth to eat of the house of commons, relative to all that time, left the city, swearing, the charges against the duke of York: for his part, he would not obey them; Question.-Might not your father and that, as the magistrates were take the name of Chance, without fools for issuing such an order, so he your knowledge ? thought the people would be fools if Answer.-Then how should I know they obeyed it.

that he did ? -[a laugh.]

ANECDOTE OF MILTON.

In a debate on the same business, [Not generally known.]

in the house of commons, Mr. FulThe freedom and asperity of his ler, a warm advocate for the duke of various attacks on the character and York, said, that he had received a prerogative of Charles I. rendered number of anonymous letters, calling him peculiarly obnoxious when the him a black hearted fellow, and this

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FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney. By Thomas Zonch, D. B. F. L. S. Prebendary of Durham. pp. 398. 4to. London, 1808.

THE period in which sir Philip society deadened every impression of Sidney flourished, considered, as it grandeur in the human character. relates to manners, is reproached Three volatile pages of petulance, with a fondness for the fopperies of however, have provoked the ponderchivalry. But we must not confound ous quarto before us.

Biassed as we the fugitive customs of the age, with are in favour of Sidney, we find this that spirit which fashions the minds a case of criticism somewhat uice to of men, and reaches beyond the date determine ; for though we are wil. of those artificial customs that rather ling to censure his lordship for being disguise than produce it. The pas much too brisk, we do not see that, sion of arms, gallantry, and devotion, therefore, we are to excuse his anin its minutiæ and excess, may make tagonist, for being much too saturmen fight more than they need, love nine. more than they ought, and pray, per- The materials of these meinoirs haps, at unsuitable times; but valour, present scarcely any thing new. They sensibility, and patient suffering, are have already been used by Arthur the noble results.

Collins, in his account of the Sidney The universal favourite of this age family, prefixed to the Sidney papers; was sir Philip Sidney, the most ac- and by Dr. Campbell, in the Biogracomplished character in our history, phia Britannica. The only novelly, till lord Orford startled the world by is a long and uninteresting manuparadoxes, which attacked the fame script in the British Museum; a established by two centuries. Singu. kind of biographical homily, conlarity of opinion, vivacity of ridicule, taining an account of Sidney's death. and polished epigrams in prose, were The life of Sidney, who died at the means by which this nobleman little more than thirty, was chiefly sought distinction. But he had some passed in his travels ; and had no thing in his composition more pre- claims on a volume of this size. Dr. dominant than his wit; a cold, unfeel. Zouch has the merit, however, of ing disposition, which contemned giving a luminous disposition to his literary inen, at the moment that his scanty materials. With these before heart secretly panted to share their us, we shall track him in his work, fame ; while his peculiar habits of and ascertain whether his industry

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