and adorned his tomb with flowers, as an offering due to his deified spirit. Septimius Severus likewise visited it two hundred and two years after the death of Christ. Caligula robbed the dead monarch of his breast-plate, and adorned his own unworthy person with the venerable relic. Pious Mahometans paid to the tomb a kind of reverence, bordering on idolatrous worship, and for a long period of time prohibited all Christians from approaching the place. The French invaders, however, robbed the Turks, Mamelukes, and Copts, of this singular relic, and conveyed it on board one of their ships, in the hold of which it was found when Alexandria was surrendered to the English General, Hutchinson, in the year 1801. The tomb itself is of a singular and astonishing beauty, elegantly sculptured over with innumerable hieroglyphics.

CLXIII. A JEW DE MOT.

Somebody asked a wealthy Jew to take venison. "No," said the capitalist, "I never eat wenshen; I don't think it is so coot as mutton." "Oh," said his friend, " I wonder at your saying so; if venison is not better than mutton, why does venison cost so much more? Vy? I tell you vy; in dish varld de people alwash prefersh vat is deer to vat is sheep."

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CLXIV. Fielding.

HENRY FIELDING was in company with the EARL of DENBIGH, with whose family his own was closely connected; his lordship asked the reason why they spelt their names differently, the Earl's family doing it with the e first, Feilding, and MR HENRY with the i first, Fielding. "I cannot tell, my Lord," answered the great Novelist, "except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell."

CLXV. CAPTAIN LENTHALL.

July 12, 1837. C. Montagu told to me the following story of Captain Lenthall, a gentleman, who was formerly owner of Burford Priory in Oxfordshire. He was at the battle of Bunker's Hill, where the English were defeated by the Americans. Seeing that his countrymen were getting the worst, and that his own regiment was disorganized, Captain L. took refuge in a saw-pit. A common soldier, belonging to the same company, followed the example of his commanding officer, and both of them escaped alive.

Some years afterwards, when the Captain was returned to Burford, a poor woman one day gave him a hearty benediction, which led him to ask the reason of her good wishes. "God bless you, Sir," said she "you saved my son's life in Ameriky!" "And how did I save your son's life?" replied the Captain. "Oh Sir, he would never have thought of getting down into the saw-pit, if you hadn't done so first!"

CLXVI. Chambers-Quin, &c.

THE FLEET, July 17, 1837. I had a long talk with MR CHAMBERS, the Banker. He said of QUIN that talking to GARRICK about his (G.'s) amorous propensities, and his own fondness for the fish called JOHN DORY, 'Now,' says he, 'Garrick, with your amorous propensities, I wish you would go to sea, and get a JOHN DORY for me out of a mermaid.'

When he was in Dorsetshire, at his estate, he used to see a young woman employed to carry Letters, whom a disorder in the eyes had made so blind, that she had scarcely any vision, and was obliged to grope her way with a stick; she had in vain consulted the DOCTORS. A man met with her and observed her blindness, and told her that he could give to her something,

which would be of service to her. He took a powder from his pocket, put it on the tip of his tongue, and then licked the eyes very carefully with his tongue, and requested her to accept a box of the powder, and to get a neighbour to pursue the same course; from that time the girl's sight was gradually returning, till at length she could see minute objects. MR CHAMBERS Some time afterwards asked the girl to let him have a little of the powder, as he wished to exhibit it to an eminent medical man. She did so, and it was done. The medical man declared that there was nothing in the powder, of any medicinal virtue. Mr C. advertised for the itinerant quack, but he never came forth: had he done so, he might have made his fortune. He had resided for 6 weeks in the vicinity of the girl's home, but had then removed to some other quarter. Chambers had reflected much on the matter; be considers the powder to have been a mere harmless ruse, the whole virtue of the medicine lying in the tongue itself. The tongue is known with its saliva to be a powerful solvent; it reduced the indurations in the eyes, and gradually effected the cure.

CLXVII. Ellenborough-Berenger, &c.

THE FLEET, July 31, 1837. I had a long conversation with MR CHAMBERS about MR BUTT, LORD COCHRANE, and DE BERANGER, and the Stock-Exchange fraud. One of the parties, I supposed Mr Butt, was tried for libelling the Judge, Lord Ellenborough; he asserted that the £1000 penalty went into the pocket of Lord Ellenborough. It appears that Old Gosling the Banker had admitted that he had carried the £1000 to Lord E.'s account, but he died, and when the Firm were questioned, they said that it was wrongly so carried, and that it had been placed to some other Account. The Jury sent for the Note itself, or it was produced in Court itself. One of the Jurymen was with Chambers either to-day or yesterday, and

said that the name had been cut out from the Note, but the upper part of an E, and of an L, were left, and the Juryman had no doubt of its having been Ellenborough, and Butt himself told C. that he had not the smallest doubt of the fact.

The late JOHN CALCRAFT had a sister Catharine, and three brothers, Richard, Granby, (a MAJOR or COLONEL,) and WILLIAM, (whose intellects were considered to be affected;) they were the children of MISS BRIDE, but GENERAL CALCRAFT was son of MRS BELLAMY. Richard died without a Will, leaving £30,000 behind him; the Government had the power over it. JOHN CALCRAFT petitioned the Government to be allowed to administer; they granted the Petition, but required him to hand over to them £5000 out of the proceeds of sale. He commissioned Mr C. to sell out of the Funds, and he sold out for him, retaining £8000 the amount of a Bond-debt due from Mr Calcraft to Mr C. He considers that Mr Calcraft pocketed the entire sum; £5000 was reserved for the Government, but eventually sold that also through Mr Chambers instead of handing the amount to Government. Calcraft had deviated from Whig politics into semi-toryism, and followed Peel's Administration, and as I think held a place under him. When Lord Grey came into office on the 2nd occasion, or before, Calcraft was much badgered; Mr Chambers considers that the Government, to punish him, called on him to pay the £5000, and that he destroyed himself from vexation or inability.

MR THOS SMYTH says that DE BERENGER was separated from his wife; a lady wished to cross over into one of the Parks, but was too timid; DE BERENGER tendered his assistance, it was accepted, the Lady thanked him for his politeness and kindness, he recognised his wife, bowed and passed on.

CLXVII. SUN AND MOON.

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An Irishman remarked that the sun was of no use, he never shines but in the day, when he is not wanted; "but the moon," said he "always shines in the night, when it is dark."

CLXIX. DR GOULD.

An old gentleman, named Gould, having married a young lady, wrote some verses to a friend, concluding them thus:

So you see, my dear friend, though I'm 80 years old,

A girl of eighteen is in love with old Gould.

His friend replied:

A girl of eighteen may love Gould, it is true;
But believe me, dear Sir, it is gold without U.

In days of polish, mirth, and fun,
Ere yet my love was cold,
A bachelor I lived through fear
That I might wed a scold.
Now being on th' extreme of life,
I've taken to myself a wife,

Whose only love is GOULD.

Doctor, your epigram is true,

'Tis gold she loves, but without U:

CLXX. O. P. RIOTS.

The O. P. [old prices] riots, at Covent Garden, originated in the pit. Canning applied to them the following line: Effodiuntur opes [O. P.s] irritamenta malorum.