found it an honoured passport. He had heard the name of the author of Waverley pronounced with admiration in Russia and on the banks of the sacred Jordan-and by the pretty lips of the very fairest of the Georgian fair, on the confines of the Black Sea. He had been asked in these distant regions, "Have you seen Redgauntlet,' the last production of the Great Unknown?" Craigdarroch, at the conclusion of his speech, proposed the health of Sir Adam Fergusson; when Sir Adam rose to return thanks; but feeling himself unable to reply as eloquently as he wished to the fervid eulogium with which the toast had been prefaced, he was about to resume his seat in silence, when Sir Walter, who had also risen, said he would say to him as the farmer said to his servant, who stammered in his speech, "If ye canna' speak, ye can sing, ye rascal."-(Great Applause.)— Sir Adam immediately struck up "The Laird of Cockpen." Hogan er das 1

ISRAELITISH GALLANTRY. It is not, we apprehend, generally believed, though it is not on that account a whit the less true, that in the morning service of the Synagogue there is a formula of prayer, Bin which every good Jew thanks God for not having made him a woman. We are ignorant enough not to know whence the Sanhedrim derived the chivalric doctrine, the existence of which this thanksgiving would seem to imply.

SAFE SEAL.-A letter closed with the white of an egg cannot be hopened by the steam of boiling water, like a common wafer, as the heat only adds to its firmness.

SADMIRAL HARDY-In the reign of Queen Anne, Captain Hardy, wwhose ship was stationed at Lagos Bay, happened to receive upAdoubted intelligences of the arrival of the Spanish galleons, under the

convoy of seventeen men-of-war, in the harbour of Vigo; and with. out any warrant for so doing, set sail and came up with Sir George Rooke, who was then admiral and commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, and gave him such intelligence as induced him to make the best of his way to Vigo, where all the before-mentioned galleons and men-of-war were either taken or destroyed. Sir George Rooke was sensible of the importance of the advice, and the successful expedition of the captain: but after the fight was over, the victory obtained, and the proper advantage made of it, the admiral had Captain Hardy on board, and with a stern countenance said," You have done, sir, a very important piece of service to the throne; you have added to the honours and riches of your country by your indefatigable diligence; but don't you know that you are liable at this instant to be shot for quitting your station?" "He is unworthy of bearing a commission under her Majesty,” replied the captain, “who holds his life as aught, when the glory and interest of his Queen and country require him to hazard it." On this heroic answer he was dispatched home with the first news of the victory, and letters of recommenda tion to the Queen, who instantly knighted him, and afterwards made! him a rear-admiral.

BLACK-EYED SUSAN.-Gay wrote this well-known ballad upon Mrs. Montford, a celebrated actress, contemporary with Cibber. After her retirement from the stage, love and the ingratitude of a bosom friend deprived her of her senses, and she was placed in a receptacle for lunatics. One day, during a lucid interval, she asked her attendant what play was to be performed that evening, and was told it was Hamlet. In this tragedy, whilst on the stage, she had ever been received with rapture in Ophelia. The recollection struck her, and with that cunning which is so often allied to insanity, she eluded the

care of her keepers, and got to the theatre, where she concealed herself until the scene in which Ophelia enters in her insane state; she then pushed on the stage before the lady who had performed the previous part of the character could come on, and exhibited a more perfect representation of madness than the utmost exertions of mimic art could effect. She was in truth Ophelia herself, to the amazement of the performers and the astonishment of the audience. Nature having made this last effort, her vital powers failed her. On going off she exclaimed, "It is all over!" She was immediately conveyed back to her late place of security, and a few days after,

"Like a lily drooping,

Bowed her head, and died."

ADMIRAL HADDOCK.-When Admiral Sir Richard Haddock was dying he called his son, and said to him, " Considering my rank in life and public services for so many years, I shall leave you but a small fortune; but, my dear lad, it was honestly got, and will wear well: there are no seamen's wages or provisions; not one single penny of dirty money in it."

QUAKER AND COMMISSIONERS. A Quaker was lately examined before the Board of Excise respecting certain duties. The Commissioners thinking themselves disrespectfully treated by his theeing and thouing, one of them with a stern countenance asked him-" Pray, sir, do you know what we sit here for ??? Yea," replied Nathan, "I do some of you for a thousand, and others for seventeen hundred and fifty pounds a-year."

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was constantly teazing him with questions, and asking him how he did."How are you now, sir?" said the impertinent. George, in order to get rid of his importunity, replied, "Very well; and Ijintend to continue so all the rest of the journey."

JAMES I.-James I. being one day at play with a fellow pupil, his tutor, Buchanan, who was reading, desired them to make less noise, Finding they disregarded his admonition, he told his majesty, if he did not hold his tongue he would certainly whip him. The king, alluding to the fable, replied, he would be glad to see who would bell the cat. Buchanan in a passion threw the book from him, and inflicted on his majesty a sound flogging. The old countess of Mar rushed into the room, and taking the king in her arms, asked how he dared to lay his hands on the Lord's anointed. "Madam," replied the elegant and immortal historian, "I have whipped his bottom: you may kiss it, if you please." When Buchanan was asked how he came to make a pedant of his royal pupil, he answered-" He thought he did a great deal to make any thing of him."

THE GREAT LORD CHATHAM.-His eloquence was of every kind, tranquil, vehement, argumentative, or moralizing, as best suited the occasion. In 1764 he maintained the illegality of general warrants with great energy in the House of Commons. By the British constitution," said he, "every man's house is his castle; not that it is surrounded with walls and battlements, for it may be a strawbuilt shed : every wind of heaven may blow around it all the elements of nature may enter in; but the king cannot-the king dares not.

Dr. Jonnson AND ANDREw MILLARDr. Johnson, about the end of the year 1754, completed the copy of his Dictionary, not more

to his own satisfaction than that of Mr. Millar, his bookseller, who on receiving the concluding sheet, sent him the following note: "Andrew Millar sends his compliments to Mr. Samuel Johnson, with the money for the last sheet of the copy of the Dictionary, and thanks God he has done with him."-To which the lexicographer returned the following answer:-"Samuel Johnson returns his compliments to Mr. Andrew Millar, and is very glad to find, as he does by his note, that Andrew Millar has the grace to thank God for any thing.”

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MEDICAL AND MERCANTILE SMALL-TALK.-There is something particularly piquant in the small-talk of gentlemen of the medical profession. I well recollect the conversation of two young surgeons, who were sitting in the next box to me in a coffee-house, near Great Marlborough street. Oh, by-the-bye, Jenkins, I got the finest subject yesterday you ever saw."-"6 Ay! where did you get it?"-" From France, to be sure, and never saw a fellow so neatly packed; by Jove, he was as round as a ball."-" What was the damage?"—"Oh, the fellow who sent him me said, if I would send him back the hamper full of beef, he should be satisfied; so I sent him a trifle."-" Have you any part to spare? (Waiter, another chop.)"-"Why, you may have a limb reasonable."- "Well then, next week; but just at present I have got a very pretty small subject."- "What did you give?"" Two shillings an inch, but the cursed fellow had pulled the child's neck almost out of joint, to make it an inch longer. But didn't I tell you of the fun we had at B's? You know we had that fellow who was hanged on Wednesday for murdering his grandmother. Well, he was devilish ill-hanged, and so we thought we'd galvanize him. We got the battery ready (you know it's a pretty strong one), and as soon as it was applied, the fellow-but won't you have some more porter? (Wailer, another pint of porter,) the fellow