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are troubled with wharling1 in their utterance."-FULLER, Pisgah Sight, p. 183. Camden referred to.

COALS carried coastwise by sea are liable to a duty of 5s. 4d. per ton. Coals shipped in a river, and proceeding up that river, pay none. Hence a curious distinction. To the east of the Holms is the river Severn, to the west is the Severn sea; the Newport colleries therefore can send coal to Bristol duty free, but the Cardiff colleries must pay it. The western ports therefore petitioned to be relieved from their onus, and were stiffly opposed by their luckier neighbours. A still nicer line of demarcation affects Bridgewater. It is so very nearly due south of Newport, that vessels can make the passage to it at certain times of the tide by keeping east of the Holms, and these, by sailing in the river, avoid the charge of the sea duty. But the westward passage is much the best, and therefore it is not to be supposed "that every captain bound from Newport to Bridgewater should, in all winds and weather, respect with extreme accuracy the distinction between the Severn river and the Severn sea."

Culm is small pieces of coal, understood not to exceed two inches in diameter; and this pays but 1s. 9d. sea duty per ton; men are therefore employed to break the coal to this size. Here is an easy means of evasion afforded. Larger pieces are shipped as culm, but sorted out before sale.

1811. TWELFTH-DAY. A cake in a shopwindow as big as a large cart wheel, and weighing ten hundred weight.

JOANNA SOUTHCOTT's cradle cost £500. It has this inscription, "The free offering of faith to the promised seed." Knox saw it at Seddons's. Tozer, her high priest, was

"All that are born therein, have an harsh and wratling kind of speech, uttering their words with much difficulty and wharling in the throat, and cannot well pronounce the letter R."-See Worthies, Leicestershire, p. 126.-J. W. W.

showing it off, and said that information of the expected birth had been sent to the prince and to the archbishops, &c. that they might send persons to be present, and set a watch upon Joanna. It is the Branch in Isaiah, Shiloh I suppose, the Son of the Messiah. He spoke of the uncertainty of religious belief in these times, and said there were 108 sects; upon which Knox observed, that it was then 107 to 1 against him. "It was very true," he replied, "but what was that when the Lord was on their side." The baby linen with its laces, &c., has cost £500 more, for all which a cheesemonger is responsible.

ENORMOUS prices exacted by those who take in cattle on their way to the London market, at Carlisle for instance. As soon as the cattle are turned into these meadows, the drover begins upon the bagpipes, and immediately at the signal they fall to grazing. These prices, which have no limit but the conscience of those who set them, one cause of the high price of meat. The graziers are more at their mercy since so many commons have been inclosed.

CHARITY children at St. Paul's. Haydn said the most powerful effect he ever felt from music, was from their singing.

THE first paper mill is about half a mile south of Dartford, Kent, erected by John Spelman, of German extraction, and Queen Elizabeth's jeweller, who had a license for the sole gathering of all rags, &c. necessary for making writing paper, for ten years. James knighted him. He is said to have brought over in his portmanteau the two first lime trees, which he planted either here, or at Bexley.2

2 I suppose HASTED'S Kent is the authority for this. The name originally was Speilman. LOUDON says in his Arboretum, &c., "The lime, however, is represented by Turner as growing to a large size in 1562; so that the trees introduced by Speilman could not have been the first brought into the country." Vol. 1, p. 24.

J. W. W.

A CANNON foundry in the midst of London.

1807. THE Bavarian government commands all parents to vaccinate their children before they are three years of age, unless they prefer to pay a fine which increases an

"We know that several lives in the vicinity of such an establishment have fallen victims to its deleterious fumes. We know that many families have been forced to aban-nually with the age of the child. 1811, the don their dwellings, and seek a living elsewhere. This greatly injures the property round-about."

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edict was removed. It had almost banished the small-pox, which used to be very destructive.2

STORM of May 28, 1811. Ar Worcester, more windows broken than could be mended, and the inconvenience very great from the long and heavy rains which succeeded the hail, or rather ice-storm, for pieces of ice fell five or six inches long. One hundred and fifty rooks killed by this hail in one rookery. The Severn rose six feet in one hour, twenty in less than twenty-four. The glass broken at Worcester alone estimated at £5000. About Shrewsbury, the thunder compared to the report of many cannon immediately over head. Near the White Grit, hailstones two inches in circumference lay almost a foot deep. A cloud burst upon a ridge of hills called the Stiperstones, which swept every thing before it. "The water has made, perhaps, a dozen holes in these hills, at a considerable distance from each other, and the soil with pieces of the rock are worn away, from one to four yards deep. At or near the spot from whence several of these channels are cut, small springs formerly issued. In one instance, several yards of marshy ground, which it was unsafe to pass across, are now perfectly sound and dry. If a stranger enquired from whence the waters came, the inhabitants generally stated that it gushed out of the slips in the mountain. The generally attributed cause, however, of the phenomenon, was the sudden condensation at these different points of the skirts of one immense cloud, or of several clouds combined."3

2 Unless my memory very much misgives me, a certificate of vaccination is required in Denmark previous to Confirmation.-J. W. W.

In the part of Shropshire adjoining the Stiperstones the burst is called THE INUNDA TION to this day. I lived in the neighbourhood,

(Why then were the springs dried up, and the bog rendered firm? Is it not rather some reservoir burst, as in the Solway moss ?)

The quantity of water so great, that the Severn rose four feet perpendicular in ten minutes. Many lives lost.-Pan. vol. x., p. 139.

AFTER the fall of the cliff at Dover, which buried a whole family, a hog was found alive five months and nine days after it had thus been buried! It weighed about seven score when the accident happened, and had wasted to about thirty pounds, but was likely to do well.

From JACKSON's Oxford Journal.
"Next presentation.

"To be sold by auction, by Hoggart and Phillips, at the Auction Mart, opposite the Bank of England, on Thursday next the 11th day of April, 1811, at twelve o'clock, the next presentation to a most valuable living, in one of the first sporting counties: the vicinity affords the best coursing in England, also excellent fishing, an extensive cover for game, and numerous packs of fox hounds, harriers, &c.: it is half an hour's ride from one of the first cities, and not far distant from several most fashionable watering places: the surrounding country is beautiful and healthy, and the society elegant and fashionable. The incumbent is about fifty years of age. Particulars may be had fifteen days preceding the sale, of Mr. Annesley, Solicitor, Temple; at the Mart, and of Hoggart and Phillips, 62, Old Broad Street, Royal Exchange, London."

LAW. Is the office of chancellor properly compatible with that of speaker of the House of Lords? "It has at least this inconvenience; that appeals from the Court of Chancery are considered by the profession too much as mere removals from the chancellor

and though quite a child, can well remember the

blackness of the darkness, and the awful thun.

dering, and the rush of the waters. They flowed through my father's house.-J. W. W.

in the court to the chancellor in the house. With what grace can a man revise, or reverse, his own decrees? If he was satisfied in his conscience before, what shall induce him now to change his opinion?" In 1810, the balances of money and securities of the suitors in the Court of Chancery, amounted to £25,162,430 13s. 2d.

It was affirmed before the committee, that many appeals were entered for the mere purpose of delay.

THE three vicars of Bampton, Oxfordshire, give beef and beer on the morning of St. Stephen's day, to those who choose to partake of it. This is called St. Stephen's breakfast.

1811. A CLOTH for pantaloons made from aloes at Paris, the colour of a lady's finger nails, between rose tint and delicate blue. Time was when the ca-ca du Dauphin was the fashionable colour!

1810. IN Permisch, Russia, winter set in so suddenly, that the oats were covered with snow before they could be gathered. Next spring when the snow melted, they were found uninjured, and were cut and gathered as in common seasons.

MR. JOHN COXETTER, of Greenham Mills, Newbury, had two South down sheep shorn at his factory exactly at five o'clock in the morning, from the wool of which, after passing its various processes, a complete damson coloured coat was made, and worn by Sir John Throckmorton, at a quarter past six in the evening, being two and three-quarter hours within the time allotted, for a wager of 1000 guineas. The sheep were roasted whole, and a sumptuous dinner given by Mr. Coxetter.

THE Ophion, in opposition to Dr. Clarke's monkey. Mr. Bellamy contends that it was a crocodile! The Nachash, however, it is called by the disputants, to agree upon an undisputed term, whatever the meaning may be.

NEARLY 6000 tons of lead are produced | appeared. A number of persons got into yearly by the Greenwich Hospital mines; about 34,000 in the British dominions; not more than 50,000 in the world, and of this not less than 5000 is manufactured here into small shot! 10,000 used in pigments and in glazing. Greenwich Report of Mines and Roads, 1823.

1811. A FLIGHT of birds, supposed to be flamingos, seen at Banberg at midsummer. Some flamingos had lately been seen near Strasburgh.

boats and barges on the Thames, thinking the water the safest place. South Sea and India stock fell. A captain of a Dutch ship threw all his powder into the river, that the ship might not be endangered. At noon after the comet had appeared, it is said that more than one hundred clergymen were ferried over to Lambeth, to request that proper prayers might be prepared, there being none in the church service. People believed that the day of judg ment was at hand, and acted some on this belief, more as if some temporary evil was to be expected. On the Thursday, more than 7000 kept mistresses were publicly and legally married. There was a prodigious run on the bank, and Sir Gilbert Heathcote, at that time the head director, issued orders to all the fire offices in London, requiring them to keep a good look out, and have a

BEFORE the marriage act, husbands as well as clergymen were always in waiting at the frequented chapels, for such ladies as wished to become femmes couvertes. They regularly changed their names at each marriage, and so were married fifty or one hundred times over. The lady received a certificate of marriage, which was her object, and the parties never saw each other after-particular eye upon the Bank of England.

wards. Yet the removal of these abomina

tions was inveighed against as a violent infringement of liberty!

A BEGGAR in Moorfields used daily to have a penny given him by a merchant on his way to the Exchange. The penny was withheld, and the appearance of the merchant manifested his embarrassment and distress. The beggar at length spoke to him, offered him a loan of £500, and another of the same sum if it were required. It re-established his affairs.

A shoeblack who employed six or eight pair of hands in his cellar, had £2000 stock. A milkman from a cellar in Holborn pur

chased a landed estate, on which he retired to live like a squire. And a Billingsgate fishwoman gave her daughter £10,000.Panorama, vol. x. p. 881.

A. D. 1712. WHISTON predicted that the comet would appear on Wednesday 14th October, at five minutes after five in the morning, and that the world would be destroyed by fire on the Friday following.

rontation was high, and the comet

-Panorama, vol. x. p. 1095.

The comet of 1680 passed, according to Hadley's calculation, within sixty semi-diameters of the earth's orbit, November 11th; and if at that time the earth had been at that part of her orbit, what the consequences might have been none can tell.

It is now supposed that comets are of subtile substance, their nucleus being nothing more than a conglomeration of vapours of very little density, so little, perhaps, as to be transparent. The first comet of 1770 passed and repassed through the very middle of the satellites of Jupiter, without occasioning among them the slightest disorder (i.e. apparent disorder). Such a body might very possibly be an incipient world, just passed its gaseous state, and which is to derive solidity from the precipitation and condensation of the matter surrounding it.

That of 1811 was 32 millions of geographical miles from the earth in its nearest approach. Its nucleus in diameter 860 miles, its tail 800,000 in length.—Ibid.

THE resident members at Oxford, May 27th, 1811, were 1015.

SINCE the year 1782, no person hanged | (called St. Catharine's wheel) in their mouths from Appleby assizes; a good proof of the from their nativity, do cure divers diseases general morals of the country, but also of with their breath or spittle, without any its scanty population. And also to be re- medicine or charm, and their practice is al ́membered that it has become a point of lowed by the inquisition as void of witchhonour to keep up this character; and when craft or superstition, and approved also by a man was beyond all shadow of doubt guilty Navarre and other Spanish canonists as a of having fired at his neighbour, with intent supernatural gift of God."-FITZHERBERT, to kill him, an Appleby jury returned a ver- Concerning Policy and Religion, p. 180. dict of not guilty; because they said in private, as the murder had not been committed, it was a pity to hang the man.

MEUX has one porter tun which holds 4,500 barrels, 4 hogsheads, 24 tuns, containing in all 35,000 barrels.

THE old Joe Millar of the nobleman and his tailor "Made your breeches, Sir,Major Brydges"-may be instanced to shew the difficulty and looseness of the English pronunciation.

DAVID SANDS, the Quaker preacher, was exercising his functions in a family at Newcastle, as the spirit moved, when at the close of his discourse he turned to the lady of the house, and said, "The mistress of this family will do well to set her affairs in order, for before twelve months are past, the eldest daughter will be called upon to perform the part of a mother to her sisters." The lady was in perfect health, and though this greatly distressed and disquieted her through the year, is living still after seven or eight have elapsed, and the daughter retains so strong and just an abhorrence of this presumptuous and mischievous fanatic, that she has turned back from the meeting house when she saw that David Sands was there.

The Quakers hate priests, and exclaim against a priesthood; yet never were any people more completely priest-ridden.

"I AM assured that in Spain there are a kind of men called Saludadores,' who having for the most part a mark or sign of a wheel, 1 Saludador is the Spanish name for a quack. J. W. W.

GREIG or Gleig, one of the agriculturists, was describing Holkham to me at Woburn. "The person who built it had been in Italy, and planned it so that there should be in that house every thing that was necessary, and voluptuous, and right." I wrote down the happy sentence immediately in my tables.

THE art of Megalantropogenesié- the French have a treatise upon it.

HOWELL DAVIES, who was Whitefield's ing to preach, was accosted by a clergyman Welsh coadjutor, walking one Sunday mornon horseback, who was on the same errand, and who complained of the unprofitable drudgery of his profession, saying he could never get more than half-a-guinea for preaching. The Welshman replied that he for his part was content to preach for a crown. This so offended the mounted priest that he upbraided him for disgracing his cloth. Perhaps, said Davies, you will hold me still cheaper when I inform you that I am going nine miles to preach, and have only seven pence in my pocket to bear my expenses out and in. But the crown for which I preach is a crown of glory.

A PERSON in Cheshire gave to the Missionary collections £1. 3s. 6d. the produce of two cherry trees; and promised their annual profit from that time forth.

WHAT Hobbes says of invocations in poetry applicable to Quaker preaching. "I can imagine no cause, but a reasonless imitation of custom,-of a foolish custom, by

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