Aaron Purgatus, a book by Monceau, | In America, where they are sometimes or Moncæus, to justify Aaron for making the golden calf!-BAYLE. "KNOWEST thou not that fish caught with medicines, and women gotten with witchcraft are never wholesome."-Euphues. The first assertion may be true, and probably is; the beasts killed by the Indian poisoned arrow are not rendered unfit for food. The effect is altogether different. INDIANS." Their connection with the frozen as hard as stones, they rot if thawed in open day; but if thawed in darkness they do not rot, and lose very little of their natural odour and properties." — Recueil Indust. xiv. p. 81, as quoted in Jameson's Edinburgh New Phil. Journal. CHORISTERS pressed formerly.-Tusser, p. 316. "FOR Some centuries there was scarcely lowest orders in the United States has in-milies, who could write his name; wherea Knight of Malta, though all of noble faduced a shocking demoralization; the greater fore the Vice-Chancellor who committed all las number of them in the United States are the acts of their chapters to writing, was always a clergyman."-CARTE's Life of Ormond, vol. 1, p. xxxviii. now entirely dependent on them; they are rapidly decreasing, or in some instances retiring further west. The manner in which they live among the Americans, without actually amalgamating, is curious; they have no vote, no privilege as citizens; but this indifference towards them is got over by saying, that they are considered as and treated with as independent nations.' I should however suppose, if they became farmers, out of the lands appropriated to them and gained property, they would be entitled to the rights of citizens. Except in one part of this Continent, they have never yet shewed themselves patient of regular labour; this exception is at Nantucket, where they have long assisted in navigating the whaleships, and prove active, good seamen. They are now becoming extinct most rapidly; the habits of a seaman in such long voyages, and the irregularities attached to it, are sufficient causes. The few who remain at home marry into the lowest orders of whites or of negroes; the latter is the most common." IN the Independent Whig are some remarks by Gordon on Sir R. L'Estrange's style. Frozen Potatoes.-" IN the time of frosts, the only precaution necessary is, to retain the potatoes in a perfectly dark place for some days after the thaw has commenced. "E CRUDELE il rimorso a i solitari, MAGGI, tom. 2, p. 72. "Ir appears," says PERCY, "from the Earl of Northumberland's Household Book, that horses were not so usually fed with corn loose in the manger, in the present manner, as with their provender made into loaves."-N. BEN JONSON, vol. 2, p. 118. Horse loaves and horse bread are frequently mentioned, and probably the poor ate the same bread, at least bread called by the same name, certainly. "A SERPENT ere he comes to be a dragon, Does eat a bat." BEN JONSON, Cataline, vol. 4, p. 269. A serpent, the Greek proverb says.' "THE Roman soldiers bore other devices for their standards as commonly as the eagle, minotaurs, boars, wolves, dragons, &c. till Marius having won many battles under the eagle, introduced that more generally. Cataline had his (M.'s) silver eagle, and put 1 See GIFFORD's Note in loc.-J. W. W. some faith in it."— GIFFORD'S Ben Jonson, | Cæsar."-MALCOLM's Londinium, vol. 3, p. vol. 4, p. 272. 513. ARIOSTO saying that when Rodomonti set fire to Paris the houses were all of wood, adds “Ch' in Parigi ora "THE Rhizomorpha-a fungus. This genus, which vegetates in dark mines, far from the light of day, is remarkable for its phosphorescent properties. In the coal mines near Dresden it gives those places De le dieci le sei son cosi ancora.' the air of an enchanted castle. The roofs, walls, and pillars are entirely covered with them; their beautiful light almost dazzling the eye."-ED. PHIL. Journ. vol. 14, p. 178. TURNER'S Sacred History, p. 92. SCURVY-wainscotted rooms instead of walled ones thought to mitigate or prevent the disease.-OLAUS MAGNUS, p. 653.1 "MR. BURTON, afterwards Lord Conyngham, was with Lord Charlemont on his passage from Greece to Malta, when a tempest came on, and the Captain at length advised them to prepare for the worst. Burton broke the dead silence which ensued by exclaiming "Well," and I fear with an oath, "this is fine indeed. Here have I been pampering this great body of mine for more than twenty years; and all to be a prey to some cursed shark, and be damned to him!" -HARDY. Life of Lord Charlemont, vol. 1, p. 38. Such a feeling many a man entertains towards his heir. C. 16, St. 26, tom. 2, p. 153. THE slaughter of the pagan put a stop to by night. "Dal Creatore accelerata forse, Che de la sua fattura ebbe pietade." And then "Villani e lupi rescir' poi de la grotte A dispogharli, e a divorar la notte." Ibid. c. 18, st. 162, tom. 2, p. 275. ASTOLFO, in ARIOSTO'S abominable story is by his courtiers "Lodato Or del bel viso, or de la bella mano." ARIOSTO speaks of "L'audaci galee dè Catalani.” Orl. Fur. c. 42, st. 38, tom. 5, p. 14. "LA ferocità de' montoni, ferendo loro il corno presso l'orecchia, si possa mitigere." SANAZZARO. Parn. Itul. vol. 16, p. 229. "EL onzeno mandamiento i.e. not interfere in a quarrel. CALDERON. El Maestro de Danzas. SOLDIERS could not be quartered upon an hidalgo. The high-minded labrador in Calderon's play, (El Garrotte mas bien dado) is advised to buy an executoria for the sake of this exemption. THE Venetians. DU BELLAY, in the Recueil, vol. 1, p. 214. A very good sonnet of its kind. Ibid. p. 161.-SONNET of St. Gelais upon the whims in his mistress's head. A. D. 1459. JOHNES's Monstrelet, vol. 10, pp. 44-7, a horrid persecution at Arras for witchcraft. Vaudoisie it was called, meaning a nightly meeting of sorcerers, for to this calumny the poor Vaudois were exposed! It was known "that these charges had been raked up by a set of wicked persons against some of the principal inhabitants of Arras, whom they hated, and whose wealth they coveted.” Ibid. p. 69.-MILITARY patrols established in France, which made travelling safe. The Escorcheurs were thus employed. This was in the latter years of Charles VII. MONSTRELET, vol. 10, p. 74. — “It has been commonly said that the sons of the kings of France are made knights at the font when baptized." Des gens de Guerre. "Je ne connois qui que ce soit De ceux qui maintenant suivent Mars et Bellone, Qui-s'il ne violoit, voloit, tuoit, bruloit,Ne fust assez bonne personne." Le Chevalier de Cayney. RECUEIL, tom. 4, p. 211. DE CHARLEVAL, ibid. p. 301. Au Roy. "Tout l'Univers s'ément quand ta fondre s'aprest, Où la crainte, où l'amour, partagent tous les Rois; Et le Batave ingrat, et si fier autrefois, N'observe qu'en tremblant où fondrà la tempeste. De son frivole orgueil, de sa temerité, Tu dois un grand exemple à la posterité, Et son abaissement importe pour ta gloire. Tu le veux; il suffit; son sort est dans ta main; | So silly all their lives of their own estates, That when they are sick, and come to make their will, They know not precisely what to give away From their wives, because they know not what they're worth." WEBSTER, Vol. 2, p. 57. Devil Law Case. "THE Empress Eudocia wrote a history of Cyprian and Justina the martyrs, which is lost. It was probably in verse, and the legend was believed in her time."-CLARKE, vol. 2, p. 154. "SOME (in Edward III.'s reign) had a project that men's clothes might be their signs to show their birth, degree, or estate, so that the quality of an unknown person might at the first sight be expounded by his apparel. But this was once let fall as impossible. Statesmen, in all ages, (notwithstanding their several laws to the contrary) being fain to connive at men's riot in this kind, which maintaineth more poor people than their charity."-FULLER. Church History, p. 117. HERODOTUS, lib. 2, § 137.-Criminals in Egypt condemned to the public works. AN advocate of Poictiers, Le Breton by name, took up the cause of a widow and her child. He lost it both there and at Paris. But, being strongly persuaded that though law was against him, all justice was on his side, he sought to reform the law, presented himself before Henry III. and addressed him upon the subject. The King treated him with contempt, (probably as a madman), so did the Dukes of Guise and Mayenne, and the King of Navarre would not hear him. He returned to Paris and printed a book containing the case, and his efforts afterwards, and interspersed it with " a thousand injuries and calumnies against the King and the Parliament." M. Seguier, the Lieutenant-Civil, seized the book and the author, brought him to trial, and he was hanged in the Court of the Palace, about twenty paces from the grands degrez, and his book burnt before his face. This execution "fut un des plus specieux prétextes qui prirent les Seize, de parler contre le Roy et la justice.”—PAlma Cayet. Col. Gen. vol. 55, pp. 76-7. fices were suffered to be raised.-HOOKE, vol. 1, p. 43. Livy, lib. 1, c. 44, referred to. A politic provision. MONCK MASON derives Bachelor from Bas Chevalier,-the title Sir being still appropriated to Bachelors of Arts in the University of Dublin.-SHAKESPEARE, vol. xix. p. 203, N. Monthly Review, October 1764.-A Harmony of the Gospels, in Welsh, by John Evans, A. M. Bristol. All the reviewer says is, "We cannot conceive how any subject can be harmonized by being treated in Welch. However as the poor Welchmen have souls to be saved as well as other people, we have no objection to their receiving the assistance of good books, in whatever language they can read.” Ibid. vol. 32. May 1765. P. 395. THE Freemasons' Quadrille, with the Solitary, printed by order of the Prince of Conti, Grand Master of the Lodges in France; and revised by M. de Bergeron, Advocate in Parliament, and Perpetual Secretary of the Royal Lodge at Versailles; in French and English; with the Free Masons' Minuet and Country Dance. 12mo. 18. The free masons of some of the principal lodges in France, in order to take off a scandalous imputation, were politic enough to admit their wives into their assemblies and societies; and this quadrille is indebted to the female masons for its establishment. The rules are nearly the same as those of the other quadrilles played in France; but there is a variation in the names of the cards, which have been changed, in order to conform to the terms of masonry. MATHEMATICS and absence of mind running in a family. Sir Isaac Newton had an uncle, Ayscough by name, a clergyman, who when he had any mathematical problems or solutions in his mind, would never |