custody, without any victuals or drink, for the space of forty days, which she miraculously, and even contrary to the course of human nature, went through, as we are well and fully assured from persons of undoubted credit: We do, therefore, for that reason, and from a principle of piety to the glory of God, and of the blessed Virgin his mother, by whom it is thought this miracle was wrought, out of our special grace and favour, pardon the said Cecely from the further execution of the sentence upon her, and our will and pleasure is, that she be freed from the said prison, and no further trouble given her upon the account of the said sentence, &c. In witness whereof, &c." DREAM OF CHARLES THE FROM DOCTOR LIGHTFOOT'S MSS. Prince Charles (afterwards Charles the Second,) when he was young, awoke one night in a very great disorder and frightful passion out of his sleep. Doctor Duppa, who was his tutor, and slept in the chamber with him, got up to quiet him, asking what the matter was? He said, his grandfather had appeared to him. After a considerable time he was got to sleep again; but long after, he cried more fearfully than before, and told the Doctor, and others that came about him, "My grandfather appeared a second time to me, and told me he had left my father three kingdoms, but my father would leave me none;" which proved true enough in twelve years, and might have been longer; but as a great prince (Duke of Brandenburgh) said of the English, that he had hitherto been a great admirer of them and their prudence, "But," said he, "I am of another mind, since they cut off their king's head, and afterwards send for his son to revenge it on themselves. TO A FRIEND ABOUT TO MARRY A SECOND TIME. Non profectura precando.-Ovid. Thy lips, on which her last, last kiss SATURDAY NIGHT, FROM DIBDIN. "Tis said we vent'rous die-hards, when Our friends should mourn, To bless their sight no more: But this is all a notion Bold Jack can't understand, And some die on the land: Howe'er we steer, No man's life's under his command; Of these in spite there are some joys For Saturday-night still comes, my To drink to Poll and Bess. MISCELLANEOUS, 1 Bagford, speaking of the antiquities of London, has the following notice as to a custom once prevailing at Billingsgate:"This brings to my mind another ancient custom, that has been omitted of late years. It seems that, in former times, the porters that ply'd at Belingsgate, used civilly to intreat and desire every man that passed that way to salute a post that stood there in a vacant place. If he refused do this, they forthwith laid hold of him, and by main force bouped his **** against the post; but if he quietly submitted to kiss the same, and paid down sixpence, they then gave him a name, and chose some one of the gang for his godfather. I believe this was done in the memory of some old image that formerly stood there,-perhaps of Belus or Belin." He adds,-"somewhat of the like post, or rather stump, was near St. Paul's, and as at One seaman hands the sail, another this day called St. Paul's Stump." heaves the log, The purser swops The landlord sells us grog; Then each man to his station, The rest is all a whim: Boldly resolv❜d to sink or swim; The mighty surge May ruin urge, And danger press: Of these in spite, &c. Yet guiltless, when he laboured; poor, For all the world's just like the ropes Errors and follies, thick as ungrown on board a ship, Each man's rigg'd out To take for life a trip; The shrouds, the stays, and braces, As on the sea of life he steers: Then let the storm Heav'n's face deform, And danger press: Of these in spite there are some joys For Saturday night still comes, my To drink to Poll and Bess. grass, [away. Hurried his soul from Virtue's path Onward he went, 'spite of his parent's sighs, [lies! Beyond the hope of cure-and there he EPITAPH UPON A YOUNG GENTLEMAN All flesh is grass, the mournful and the ESQUIRE AND GENTLEMAN. The title of Esquire is now merely a name of worship or respect, not of dignity. According to Camden, there are four sorts of persons to whom it may be applied,-1. The eldest sons of knights, and their eldest sons in succession. 2. The eldest sons of youngest sons of peers, and their eldest sons in like succession. 3. Persons created esquires by the king's letters-patent, a creation that has long been disused. 4. Certain persons, by virtue of their offices, as justices of the peace, and all on whom in the commission of appointment the title is bestowed. "All foreign, nay Irish peers," says Blackstone; " for not only those, but the eldest sons of peers of Great Britain, though frequently titular lords, are only esquires in the law." Another class might be formed of barristers, or advocates and counsellors, and various other persons to whom, by established courtesy, if not right, the title is given. The name of Gentleman, is another title of worship, to which the term Master, or, for contraction sake, Mr. is of still greater extent of application. According to the Herald's "brief authority," a Gentleman is one who bears a coat of arms. THE GOLDEN TRUNK. As some curiosity may have been excited by the discovery of a number of guineas in an old trunk, at a neighbouring gentleman's house, we beg leave to state the following particulars: The trunk, which is supposed to have belonged to Mrs. C. Medley, was full of books belonging to her, as long as it remained in Sir George Shuckburgh's town-house. Being afterwards removed (twenty years ago) to Buxted, it was used for some time to hold garden seeds in a shed situate at the bottom of the garden; but upon the shed being repaired, and proper places for the seeds being made, it was brought back to the house. When the maids were getting the house ready for the reception of the family this spring (1823), it occurred to them that the trunk might be useful to contain some of the servants' clothes; and upon turning it bottom upwards to clean it out, some paper detached itself from the rabbit of each end of the trunk, on which rabbit the lid of the trunk fits down, and two secret drawers, fitting into the thickness of the ends of the trunk, appeared, containing three hundred and sixty-eight guineas! During its continuance in the shed, when it contained garden-seeds, the back of the trunk was gnawed through by the rats. The guineas are of the reigns of Charles II., James II., William and Mary, and William III. There are guineas coined in each year from 1663 to 1698 inclusive, except in the year 1693. Many of the guineas, particularly those of Charles II. and James II. are new (or nearly so) from the Mint. There are, of-Charles II., 202; James II., 114; William and Mary, 14; William III., 38.-Sussex Advertiser. COPPER INDIANS. Journey to the Polar Sea, gives an inCaptain Franklin, in his interesting Indians. The old chief had a daughstance of the simplicity of the Copper ter, who was considered the greatest beauty in the whole tribe, and so much the object of contest among her countrymen, that, although under sixteen years of age, she had successively belonged to two husbands. Mr. Hood drew her portrait, much to the annoyance of her aged mother, who was exceedingly afraid, she said, that her daughter's beauty would induce the great chief, who resided in England, to send for the original, after seeing the likeness! QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAIRS. The celebrated ebony chairs and sofa, once the boasted gems of Queen Elizabeth, and which are so particularly alluded to by Horace Walpole in one of his letters, for their singular beauty and antique character, after experiencing various transfers and vicissitudes of fortune, came into the possession of the late Lord Tilney. They were next purchased at the sale at Wanstead House, by Graham, of Waterloo-place, by whom they have recently been sold to Lord Macdonald. His lordship, it is supposed, intends to deposit them in his ancient and venerable mansion in Scotland, and to secure their preservation by his successors as a family heirloom. "We ought not, like the spider, to spin a flimsy web wholly from our own magazine; but, like the bee, visit every store, and cull the most useful and the best."-GREGORY. BOTH armies prepared for battle; but the English, who had wasted the whole night without sleep, in songs and revelry, were still inebriated when in the morning they advanced with precipitation against the enemy, all on foot, armed with battle-axes, drawn up in an impenetrable wedge, and covered by a tortoise of shields. This close array would have ensured their safety, had not the Normans, according to their custom, broken it by a pretended flight. The king stood close by his standard, together with his brothers; so that, where the danger was common and equal to all, no body might entertain the thought of flight. On the other side, the Normans spent the night in confessing their sins; and in the morning, fortified by participation of the VOL. I. body and blood of Christ, awaited the attack of the enemy with courage. Their first line, which was on foot, the Duke armed with bows and arrows; his cavalry was placed in the rear, and divided the two wings. The Duke, with a serene countenance, and with a clear voice, declared aloud, that God would be with him because his cause was just: he then called for his armour, and his servants having in their hurry put on his breast-plate with the inside upwards, he laughed at the blunder, and said, "Now will the strength of my duchy be converted into a kingdom." Then beginning the song of Roland to excite the spirit of the warriors, and calling aloud on God for assistance, they rushed to battle. It was strenuously fought on both sides, F without either giving way, till a late hour of the day, when the Duke gave the signal to his men for their pretended retreat. The English army, falling into the snare, broke their ranks in the pursuit, and ran headlong to their own destruction; for the Normans, as soon as they saw the success of their strata gem, turned back, and falling on them with fury, put them to real flight. They now took possession of a rising ground, and, as the Normans advanced too furiously, hoping to drive them from the eminence, received them with showers of arrows and stones, slew great numbers of them. In another place, the English forcibly made themselves masters of a broken ditch, and crushed so many Normans to death within it, that the heaps of the slain levelled it with the ground above. Such were the changes of fortune; now this side conquerors, and now that, as long as the soul of Harold remained in his body, who, not contented with exhorting others, performed all the duty of a valiant soldier; often coming to blows with the enemies who assailed him, and fighting so desperately, that none came near him, whether on horse-, back or on foot, but he despatched him at a single blow. On the other side, William rode up and down in the foremost rank, loudly exclaiming to his men, and restraining them from advancing to assault the enemy while they remained unbroken. While he thus rode up, exclaiming in his fury, he had three of his most chosen horses killed under him; the guards who were around his person, reproved him for exposing himself; but notwithstanding their reproofs, he persisted with unwearied vigour, until Harold, pierced through the brain by an arrow, fell, and yielded by his death the victory to the Normans. While the king lay on the ground, a soldier with his sword gashed his thigh, for which he was noted with infamy by the Duke, and expelled from the army for committing so disgraceful an action. The flight of the English continued till night, which coming on, left the Normans in possession of an entire triumph. With out doubt the hand of God protected Duke William throughout this day,who, though often struck by the missile weapons of the enemy, lost not a drop of blood in the action. After it was over, he gave honourable burial to all his own soldiers who had fallen, and permitted the enemy to do the same by their dead without molestation. He sent the body of Harold to his mother, at her petition, unransomed, although she offered a great price for it by her messengers. She received it at Waltham, and buried it in the church there, which he had built at his own expense, in honour of the holy cross, and given to the secular canons. This subversion of the kingdom and effusion of blood was foreshown by a comet of great size, red and hairy, which made its appearance at the beginning of that year, as one has said, Anno milleno sexageno, quoque seno Anglorum metæ flammas sensere cometæ. The battle was fought as Hastings, in the days of Pope Calistus, on the eve of the ides of October, (14th of October, 1066). LITERARY NOTICES. MEMOIRS OF THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT CAPTAINS. "Alexander conducted eight campaigns-in Asia and India. Hannibal, seventeen--one in Spain, fifteen in Italy, and one in Africa. Cæsar thirteen-eight against the Gauls, and five against Pompey's legions. Gustavus Adolphus, three-one in Livonia, against the Russians, and two in Germany, against the House of Austria. Turenne, eighteen-nine in France, and nine in Germany. Prince Eugene, thirteen-two against the Turks, five in Italy against France, and six on the Rhine, or in Flanders. Frederic, eleven, in Silesia, Bohemia, and on the Elbe." ACHIEVEMENTS OF GREAT WARRIORS, "Alexander crossed the Dardanelles in the year 334 before the Christian era, with an army of 40,000 men. He forced the passage of the Granicus, which was defended by Memnon, a Greek, who commanded on the coast of Asia for Darius; after which he employed the whole of the year 333 in establishing his power in Asia Minor. He was supported by the Greek colonies on the shores of the Black Sea and Mediterranean-Sardis, Ephesus, Tarsus, Miletus, &c. In the year 332, he encountered Darius, who, at the |