AYOURIES. This word (Current Notes, p. 29) illustrates some principles of sound etymology, which philologists do not always keep in mind. It is the old French word avouerie, regularly formed from avouer, which MENAGE derives from advotare as devouer (he says) from devotare. I doubt the accuracy of this derivation at least I find but one instance, in which the letter t is introduced, viz. in advotum, as "retentio Feudi per advotum," which I take to be an incorrect translation of "retenue du Fief par aveu," in a Charter of 1136 (DUCANGE ad vocem). The true origin I believe to be advocare, whence our word Advocate comes, as does the French Avoué. For the derivatives from advocare in old documents are innumerable. An advocatus was literally a person called upon to protect, assist, or vouch for another. Hence the advocati testes were witnesses called in by the party, in contradistinction to the nominati, who were named by the Court or otherwise, as we find in a Capitular ascribed to King Dagobert, A.D. 630. Hence too the Advocatus, in the Roman Law, was properly "in consilium advocatus" called in to give counsel, in contradistinction to the Patronus who was bound to argue for his Cliens; but in process of time the Patronus was superseded by the Advocatus, who became a professional lawyer. Hence also when any one had bought land or goods, which were afterwards claimed by a third person, the holder had a right to call in the seller, to warrant and defend the right of property. This calling in was termed advocare, in old French advouer, avouer and vouerie, whence come our legal terms vouche, voucher and vouchee. In the middle ages, two rights arose, the right to call in a Protector, and the right of the Protector to be called in; and such were the spiritual notions of that time, that both rights were supposed to exist between the heavenly protectors and their earthly clients. In the romance of "Kyng Alisaunder" we find a circumstance (certainly a little different from classical history), namely that "the Kynge of Athenis and his Barouns" desired to put themselves under Alexander's protection, which they thus expressed:

And hendely they byesechith the,
That thou bes heore Avowé.

(Webster's Roms. vol. i. p. 132.) Which humble request, after some difficulty, and a very supplicatory speech of Demosthenes, was graciously allowed by Alexander, who was pleased to accept as a sort of retaining fee, "A Thousand Besans" (gold coins of Constantinople)" and a thousand knyghtis" to serve in his army. Such being the profitable office of an Avowé, it is no wonder that those who held it were anxious to keep it in their own hands; wherefore Margaret Countess of Flanders made it an especial condition of a Grant, in 1250, that the grantees should apply to her or her successors "nec alium Dominum sæcularem poterunt advocare." The spiritual Advocati too were equally jealous of their privileges, and cautious not to interfere with each other's rights; for I find in a volume of "Miracles wrought by God at

the intercession of St. Gaetano," p. 110 (ed. Napoli, 1657) that a female, who ought to have invoked that Saint, called upon St. James; whereupon the latter appeared, and reproving her, directed her to go to a church of Gaetano's, saying, "se vuoi star bene, la n'andrai a riceverla, in altro modo non mai potrai haverla." Now Avouerie is the regular abstract of avouer; but in course of time abstract terms often come to signify individual beings, as our word Fairy is the old abstract Fayerie, from Fay. The Avonries, then, spoken of by Latimer and others, were the Patron Saints, whom individuals had taken as their Avoués or Protectors. J. S. Brompton.

LINES BY POPE, OMITTED IN ALL EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS.-In Charles Butler's Historical Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 308, it is asserted that Pope translated St. Francis Zavier's celebrated hymn,

"O God! I love thee not to gain,

The joys of thy eternal reign." "This was related to the author by the late Mr. Wheble, a member of the Society of Jesus, and a distinguished preacher, who received his information from Mr. Pigott, a member of the same Society, at whose desire the verses were made." Can any of your readers furnish me with a copy of Pope's translation?

Durham.

A. J. E.

Rococo. By this term (" Current Notes," p. 27) is understood that debased style of ornament which succeeded the style of Louis XIV. and XV. Its chief characteristics are the scroll and the shell, and the prevalence of wavy lines; but the details, which are without meaning or individuality, are sacrificed to the general effect. Instead of rococo, the word baroque is sometimes used, and with the same meaning. Both terms are also employed, though improperly, to denote a bad taste in design and crnamentation of a late period, M. P. MERRIFIELD. generally.

"WORTH A JEW'S EYE?"-What is the origin of this expression? T. H. B.

Walsingham.

BOILING TO DEATH.-Blackstone says, vol. iv. p. 196: "This extraordinary punishment seems to have been adopted from the peculiar circumstances of the crime which gave rise to it; for the preamble of the statute (22 Hen. VIII. c. 21) informs us that John Roose, a cook, had been lately convicted of throwing poison into a large pot of broth, prepared for the Bishop of Rochester's family, and for the poor of the parish; and the said John Roose was, by a retrospective clause of the same statute, ordered to be boiled to death. Lord Coke mentions several instances of persons suffering this horrid punishment." This Act, however, did not live long, for it was repealed by the 1st Edw. VI. c. 12. LEGULEIUS.

KING CHARLES AND THE CAVALIERS. "An humble Remonstrance of the sad condition of many of the King's Party who have no relief and but languishing hopes, 1661."

This curious pamphlet exposing the neglect which the impoverished Cavaliers met with after the "happy restoration" has been reprinted in Somers's Tracts. Burnet observes that King Charles "had a softness of temper that charmed all who came near him till they found how little they could depend on good looks, kind words and fair promises, in which he was liberal to excess, because he intended nothing by them but to get rid of importunities and to silence all farther pressing upon him." Many no doubt who had fought and bled and beggared themselves in displaying their zealous loyalty to his person were suffered to remain in the shade of obscurity whilst others of more pretension and less merit held forth their eager hands to receive the recompense, but Charles had a hard task to perform when he became debtor to the gratitude of a nation, had to weigh the merit of each pretender and suitor of the royal bounty in the even scales of justice and allot to each the deserved meed of reward. The lesson was too arduous and the King with listless indifference neglected it altogether. The difficulty of providing for so many claims is explained by Clarendon on whom "much of the obloquy fell that was attached to the neglect of them."

"All men were full of bitter reflections upon the actions and behaviour of others or of excuses and apologies for themselves. The woeful vice of drinking from the uneasiness of their fortunes, or the necessity of frequent meetings together, for which taverns were the most secure places, had exceedingly weakened the parts, and broken the understandings of many who had formerly competent judgments, &c. They who had suffered much in their fortunes, and by frequent imprisonments, and sequestrations, and compositions, expected large recompences and reparations in honours which they could not support, offices which they could not discharge, or lands and money which the King had not to give: as all dispassioned men knew the conditions which the King was obliged to perform, and that the act of indemnity discharged all those forfeitures which could have been applied to their benefit. And, therefore, they who had been the greatest sufferers, and in all respects had merited most, never made any inconvenient suits to the King, but modestly left the memory of all they had done to his Majesty's own gracious reflections. They were observed to be most unfortunate who deserved least, and were least capable to perform any notable service, and none had more esteem of themselves, and believed preferment to be more due to them than a sort of men who had most loudly began the King's health in taverns, especially if for any disorder which had accompanied it, they had suffered imprisonment, without any other pretence of merit, or running any other hazard." HISTORICUS.

BIRTH PLACE OF DEAN SWIFT.-"It has often appeared strange to us," says the author of the Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life,' that the house in which a man of such celebrity was born should never have been represented in any of the editions of his works nor figured in any of the periodicals of this country. Hoey's Court, Dublin, in which the Dean was born, is classic ground, although few of our readers are aware even of its locality.

Adjoining a portion of one of the ancient city walls,-one of the few vestiges of them now remaining,-and running between Castle Street and the junction of Great and Little Ship Street, is a narrow passage now called the Castle Steps, but in former days Cole's-alley. The Eastern side of this is formed by the Castle wall; and about the end of the last century a number of small open shops or stalls, chiefly occupied by buckle makers or "cheap-sellers," formed its western side. There were then no steps as at present but a very steep slippery descent, down which the apprentice boys from Skinner's Row and the adjoining streets occupied by artisans used to run their comrades on first joining the craft as a sort of initiatory 'jibbing.' Towards the lower end of this descent on the western side, another alley led up a few steps into a small square court, in the mouldering grandeur of the houses of which we still recognise the remains of a locality once fashionable and opulent. Here on our right is the house occupied by Surgeon General Ruxton, that beyond it was the residence of Lord Chancellor Bowes, and a little further on upon the right stands the celebrated Eales' Coffee House where the wits and statesmen of the day drank their claret and canary. Upon the opposite side where the court narrows into the lane that leads into St. Werburgh Street, is the house No. 7, where Jonathan Swift was born on the 30th

CHRYSAL, or The Adventures of a Guinea, by an Adept, was written by Charles Johnson, an Irishman, and a barrister too deaf to plead in Court, and who in consequence devoted his talents to literature and chamber practice. This political romance enjoyed considerable popularity on account of the personal characters of the many distinguished statesmen, women of quality, and citizens who are the butts of its masterly and caustic satire. With some truth, however, there is woven so much fiction, "and in a few instances so much of what deserves a worse name," that according to Chalmers "it does not appear entitled to much higher praise than that of the best scandalous chronicle of the day." To the Grenville copy in the British Museum, is affixed a MS. note, stating that the following key to the characters was furnished by the author himself. As a literary curiosity it deserves a place in the Cur

rent Notes. The references are to the sixth edition. 1768. A similar list may be found in Davis's Olio.

Vol. I. p. 52. Commander of English Man of War. Captain Ponlet, afterwards Duke of Bolton.-100. Observe that person. Lord Chesterfield.-101. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.-125. The General had slept. Lord Ligonier.

The

Vol. II. Her Grace's levée. Countess of Yarmouth.50. who sold glyster. Dr. M'Kenzie. – 55. High Priest. Whitfield. Momus. Foote.-58. Mrs. Brimstone. Mother Douglas.-The Person. Foote.-60. my ballads. Minor.-78. all the pamphlets. Critical, on the Minor.— 79. Parson of the parish. Archbishop of Canterbury. Director of the Squire, The King.-80. to her Grace. Lady Huntingdon.-98. new master. Mr. Pitt.-102. august person. George II-104. a person waiting. General Wolfe.-108. a young Lady. Miss Lowther, Duchess of Bolton.-138. Bulgaria. Prussia.-194. Apostate. Archibald Bower.—220. motions of the enemy. Battle of Minden.

Vol. III. 2. Lord H. Powlet against Havannah.-5. -7. Admiral Knowles.-12. Admiral Keppel.-17. the general.' Lord Albemarle.-21. my patron. Duke of Cumberland.-29. a light to one. Charles Townshend -34. Captain.' Campbell. Havannah.-120. the par

son.

Bishop of Derry.-122. an admiral. Mathews. 127. the general. Lord Howe. regular sieges. Lord Loudon.-128. an officer. Lord Ch. Hay-130. his brother. late Lord Howe.-138. that a person. Sir W. Johnson-170. the commander. Admiral Byng.-172. a fortress. Minorca. 173. another fortress. Gibraltar. commanding officer. General Fowke.-178. those in power. Mr. Fox.-179. as flagrant. Admiral Lestock. -180. another set. Mr. Pitt. precipitately. before Declaration of War.-181. officer who commanded. General Blakeney.-184. his captain. Captain Hamilton. 185. one of those. Lord Colvil.-186. little gentleman. Mr. Pratt, Lord Camden.-190. my master. -191. a superficial. Mr. Fitzpatrick. a tradesman. Mr. Bourke.-195. managers. Garrick and Beard220. my master. Lord Orford.-232. Blighty. Sir F. Dashwood.-238. candidate. Mr. Wilkes.-239. the person. Do.-249. built a church. High Wycombe.256. Sir F. Dashwood.-257. relation. Lord Westmorland.-258. power. Chancellorship of the Exchequer.— 262. saint. Abbè Paris.-272. see one. Bubb Dodington.-274. this man. Dr. Thompson.

Dr. Hill.

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Vol. IV. 4. dowager. Mrs. Horner,-5. relation. Lord Ilchester.-9. nobleman. Duke of Richmond.-12. personages. Duke of Cumberland.-18. employment. Commissary of Musters.-19. means. forging a lease.-23. General of the Army for life.-24. profit. Paypast. master of the Army.-25. events. Death of George II.26. of one. Mr. Calcraft.-28. same person. Lord Sandwich. learning. Dr. Sum.-46. a lady. Lady Mansel.-50. debauchees. Sir E. Mansel.-56. admirers. Gen. G. Boscawen.-67. the person. Mr. Burgh.-69. near relation. Captain Wheeler of the Isis.-71. with one. Miss Stephenson.-95. crowned head. Fleur de Lys.— new master. Prestagi, auctioneer.-136. author. Churchhill. - 163. Acquaintance. Wilkes. 166. pamphlet. North Briton.-173. gentleman. Lord Temple -180. magistrate. Lord Halifax.-181. judges. Lords Halifax and Egremont.-186. immunities. privilege of Parlia ment-magistrate. Lord Chief Justice Pratt.-occasions. Shebbeare.-190. minister. Lord Bute.-191. countryCaptain Forbes.-197. a person. Mr. Martin. 200. magistrate. Lord Chief Justice Pratt. — 201. clergyman. Mr. Kedgell-203. guest. Dr. Douglas.204. one of the latter. D. Leach, printer.-205. a patron. Lord Bute.-a bear. Lord Pulteney-impostor. Archibald Boner. 207. the veil. History of the Popes.-208. impos. tures. Lauder and Elizabeth Canning. gentleman. Essay on Woman. Wilkes.-218. one of them. Bishop of Gloucester.-223. Law. Marriage Act.-227. acquaintance. Lord Deloraine.-250. lady. Hon. Mrs. Knight.-256. new master. Sir C. Coote, K.B.-271. a Briton. D. of Cumberland -276. countries. Closter Hoven Convention -277. a German. Prince Ferdinand-commander of their own. Duke of Marlborough.

man.

211. song,

DALLÆUS" de Sacramentali sive Auriculari Latinorum Confessione Disputatio," 4to. Genevæ, 1661. Is there extant any translation of this work? E. Market Bosworth.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Silver Polish Ring, Bribery at Elections, Juliana Berners, in our next.

The autograph in Florio's World of Wordes' is probably that of Francis Osborn, an author whom Dr. Johnson styled " A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, boys would throw stones at him." A list of his works, once popular, but now in little estimation, will be found in Watts' Bib. Brit.

Literary and Scientific Obituary.

BELFAST, The Earl of. Lately.
BLOOMFIELD, Charles, eldest son of the author of the
Farmer's Boy. April. Aged 55.
BODIN, Madame Camille. April. Romance.
DUCKETT, T. Editor of the Public Ledger, and a member

of the Daily Press during the last forty years. April. HAYNES, Richard. Aged 74. Committed suicide. PALMER, George. Inventor of a valuable life boat. May 12. SEWRIN, Charles. The oldest of the Dramatic Writers of France. April.

TIECK, Ludwig. The Poet, and rival of Schiller and Goethe. April 28. Aged nearly 80.

No. XXX.]

DR. TRUSLER.

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THE parish of Marylebone, renowned for politics and vestry squabbles, was known to ancient Cockneys for its bowling-green and tea gardens. They stood," says Cunningham, "behind the manor house, on what is now Beaumont Street, part of Devonshire Street, and part of Devonshire Place, and after experiencing the caprice of public taste as much as Ranelagh and Vauxhall, were finally closed in 1777-8." Here Pepys strolled, and thought it "a pretty place;" here Mohawks bullied, and wild blades of the town came, as Polly Peachum says, to learn valour. Here Sheffield Duke of Buckingham was wont "to bowl time away," and at the end of the season gave a dinner to the chief frequenters of the place, drinking the toast which he thought appropriate, May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet here again!" It was in this delectable tea-drinking place of resort that the noted Dr. Trusler was born, 1735. His father was the proprietor of the gardens, his sister made the plum cakes. At ten years of age he was sent to Westminster School, and at fifteen was removed to a fashionable seminary, and from thence to Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he took a degree. On leaving college he turned author, and translated Italian burlettas for the stage, until he contrived to take orders, and was appointed curate of Enford in Wiltshire. In 1759 he took priest's orders and a wife, and removed to the cure of Ockley in Surrey. Here, by the aid of presents from friends, he managed to keep a couple of saddle horses, and like Goldsmith's curate was "passing rich" on £40 a year. He eventually removed to London, and was appointed curate of St. Clements Danes, and afterwards chaplain to the Poultry Compter, and to the 90th regiment of foot. At one period of his career he gave lessons in elocution, and after attending a course of medical lectures procured a doctor's degree from Leyden. A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine states that he "shewed as much skill in making up sermons as his sister did in making cakes. He found that some of his brethren had so many pleasanter occupations than the dry study of divinity, that they were at a loss when they sat down to compose a sermon; to use a printed one exposed them to be detected by some of the congregation, especially where there was a gallery; but an ingenious idea struck him that a type which printers call Script, and which is a close imitation of a good writing hand, would prevent the inconvenience. He accordingly had several sermons so printed, and then sent a letter to the clergyman of every parish in England, stating the utility of his plan, and assuring them that there was little risk of detection, as, though the discourses which he selected were the most admired, they were the least known. His scheme was so much approved, and his sermons were in such demand, that Dr. Terrick, then

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Bishop of London, alarmed for the consequence, sent for Trusler, representing the inducement it afforded to idleness. lication, that he had no preferment, but if his lordship would Dr. Trusler replied that he gained £150 a year by the pubgive him a living of that value, his Script types should no longer be put in requisition. Whether the bishop thought that giving a living on such terms would be something like simony, I do not know, but Trusler did not obtain one from him."

"This kind attention to the accommodation of the indolent portion of his brethren was followed by the Sublime Reader; or, the emphatic words in the Church service marked to display all the beauty of the language, and render it impossible to be read by the most injudicious reader but with propriety.'

I have been unable to ascertain the exact period when he became a bookseller and publisher. The speculation was successful. After making a fortune, he purchased an estate on Englefield Green in Middlesex, and died at the age of 85 in 1820.

A list of his numerous works will be found in Gent. Mag. XC. 89, 120, and Watts' Bib. Brit. His genius was universal. He wrote a Chronology of Events, and the Pocket Farrier, Hogarth Moralised, and the Honours of the Table. The Adventures of Gabriel Outcast (an English Gil Blas) contain some curious sketches of scenes he had really witnessed. His anecdotes have all the raciness of Joe Miller.

"The churchwardens of a parish once waited on a Quaker, the afternoon lecturer. a tinman, to solicit his contribution towards the support of Thou knowest, friend,' says he, that we give nothing to thy clergy. I admit that'returns one of the churchwardens, but he is a worthy gentleman, and a good preacher, and you would say so if you heard him. I hope, therefore, as our parish is small, and we cannot make up any great sum, that you will add to it for the sake of your neighbours.' The Quaker repeated his words as before, and they were leaving his shop, when he called them back with Hark ye, friend, though I told thee we Quakers never give anything towards the support of thy clergy, yet as mayhap he may want light, I'll gi'e 'un a

lantern."

Trusler looked upon a lawyer with the same feeling that a sailor regards a shark. This was somewhat excusable, since he complains that of seventeen attornies he employed, he lost by sixteen. He gives a characteristic sketch of Lawyer Grind, one of those pettifogging rascals that hang about the purlieus of the court, and live upon the miseries of the unfortunate.

"A man of tolerable good connexions was brought to prison for a highway robbery. This fellow applied to him, and amused him with hopes of escape. As a drowning man will, to save himself, even catch at straws, so this unhappy

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culprit listened to his deceitful adviser. He gave him to understand, that if he could furnish him with ten guineas, he would procure a copy of the indictment, and had no doubt of discovering some error in it that would instantly quash it. The ten guineas were given, but on a second visit he was told that counsel had examined the indictment, and not the shadow of a flaw could be found, but that he was convinced from the account he had received of the prosecutor, that he might be bought off, and of the evidence, that they might be softened for about twenty pounds. He possessed that twenty pounds. It was given, and a third visit told him that the prosecutor had been applied to, and was found incorruptible, and the evidence too respectable to be influenced; that the cash had been expended in bribing those who were supposed to have some weight with the evidence, but they could not succeed. 'However,' says Grind, as I have always people ready to prove an alibi, if | you can raise £30 more there is no doubt of success. The poor wretch applies to his friends, and these thirty pounds were raised, but they turned out as ineffectual as the last. The trial came on, the alibi was overthrown, and the poor devil convicted. Could nothing more be done? Yes, for ten more he would move an arrest of judgment, for the proceedings had been illegal. Here he was foiled again; counsel had exerted themselves, but the attempt was overruled. There was, however, another step in which he flattered himself he should be more successful. This was, by a proper application of thirty guineas, to bring over the Recorder to make a favourable report. This sum was also got, but the means equally unsuccessful. In this hopeless situation, the attorney addresses him again; if he could anyways contrive through his friends to raise £20 more, a

petition should be presented to the throne, and care should be taken to get it well backed at the Council board, and he might rely on a pardon. He usually contrived the matter to end long before it got so far, but your case,' says he, 'is an uncommon one, which has hitherto baffled all my endeavours, but in this final step I never fail. Encouraged by this declaration, every friend as for life was importuned, and this last twenty pounds procured, but all to no purpose. The death warrant was signed, and an order came down for execution. In a distracted state of mind, the poor wretch sends for his lawyer, again reminds him of the many promises he had made, the many great sums he had received, and asked him if there were no hopes after all. Hopes,' says he, to be sure there are. The petition is so strongly worded, and so powerfully backed, that, take my word for it, they cannot hang you-they dare not hang you,' and there was not the least doubt but he would be left out of the death warrant. Aye. Sir,' returns the despairing criminal, 'it was on this account I sent for you. The death warrant is signed, I am in that warrant, and an order is come down for execution on Wednesday morning. This the attorney could not stand. Execution!' exclaimed he, execution! -Well-let 'em hang you-let 'em hang you, and d- me if it shall not be the worst job they ever did in their lives!' At this he turned upon his heel, and left his deluded client to his fate."

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Trusler's Memoirs are excessively rare, as he destroyed all the copies he could meet with. Purchasers of this curious production, by paying half-a-crown, were further entitled to a specific remedy for the most inveterate ulcers. "He relates a bon mot of the facetious Dr. Howard, chaplain to the Princess Dowager of Wales, with whom Miss

Dives, an old maid, then lived. Howard, one cold day, in waiting, was standing with his back to the fire in a room common to all the attendants. Miss Dives came in shivering, and cried, 'Stand away, Doctor, and be more civil, don't keep all the fire to yourself. Are you cold, madam? replied he. Cold? retorts the lady; if you had any penetration you might read it in my face.' 'It is my misfortune, madam,' returned the Doctor, not to be able to read old print.'

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"This man was witty from nature-not ill nature. would be facetious even in the pulpit. It was well known that he lived too fast, and was involved in debt, but he was a pleasant companion, and every one liked him. At a club of the principal tradesmen of his parish the Doctor was one, and it being proposed by a friend that those present to whom he was indebted should give him a discharge, a butcher to whom he owed fifty pounds agreed to the measure provided he would preach a sermon the Sunday following on a text he should point out. It was acceded to, and the text given was from the parable of the unjust steward, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.' The church was crowded on the occasion; the Doctor expatiated largely on the powers of benevolence and the virtue of forbearance, and closed his sermon with 'thus according to my text, Have patience with me, and I will pay you allbut as to the manner how and the time when, this must be left to some future opportunity.'

"I am told that this Dr. Howard once received a considerable sum of money for the loan of his name to a Bible which was published with annotations by him, but which he never wrote; all that he did was to revise the sheets."

Trusler being of "the mushroom tribe," and of a family unknown to those cobblers of gentility, the heralds, had no great reverence for a lord, and has some sarcastic reflections upon the meanest of all pride— purse pride."

"Were we to point out," he remarks, "a person as he passes, and say, There goes a good man, one who has not a vice,' he would scarce be noticed; but exclaim, 'That man is worth £500,000,' and he will be stared at till out of sight. This sordid habit of thinking was finely hit off by a keen fellow of a neighbouring nation, who had carried on business in London, and failed. Sitting in a coffee-house one day, where a few wealthy citizens were discussing some money concerns, and observing him very attentive, one person turned aside and said to him, 'What's your opinion, Sir, of the matter? Sir,' returned he peevishly, what opinion can a man have in this country, who has not a guinea in his pocket?" This makes good what Burke says: 'that a merchant has no faith but in his banker, his ledger is his Bible, the Exchange is his church, the desk his altar, and his money is his God.'

"When Mingotti, the Italian singer, was in this country, she frequently performed the parts of men, and after the opera was over, used to meet many of the musical performers at the Prince of Orange's coffee house in the Haymarket. She then and there instituted what she called 'the Order of the Lyre,' confined it to twelve members of that club, presented each with a gold lyre to hang at the button hole, and quali another, and Storace, the father of the composer, a swore them in always to wear it. Giardini was one; Pasthird. To show its use in one respect, I was in company with the latter at Harrow when the arrow was shot for, and the crowd was so great that I could no way get within the ring; but the instant Storace came forward, who was an