egarded, under all the peculiarities of as a being of extraordinary enterprise, energy. In almost every town of his eestablished a school on the system of caster; and one of his favourite objects the English Language that of his sub tophe having heard that a secret coneven of his chiefs was formed, and that ps were ready to lay down their arms, elf, in his Palace of Sans Souci on the leaving behind him immense treasures, dollars, which became the plunder of His widow and child have sought an ngland.

CTD 9. SAINT DENYS.olwedoth ys, or Dionysius, the Areopagite, was Christianity by St. Paul. See Acts xvii. first, one of the judges of the celebrated e Areopagus, but was afterwards made Athens, where he suffered martyrdom for the gospel.hitown on tume

g to an antient tradition, St. Denys, the France, was beheaded on Mont-Martre, and he carried his head under his arm as city of St. Denys. This story induced Cornuel, a woman of considerable wit, do not see any miracle in his going so h a case, the first step is every thing (il e premier pas qui coute). The monks of felt an interest in inducing people to put legend, and they showed the head of the l who wished to see it; but it was also Paris, and at four other places in France, 7 at Ratisbon in Germany. Thus there ss than seven heads of St. Denys. But, ely for the believers of miracles, it is posiwn that St. Denys was put to death and Greece, and that he never visited France. mes were formerly written on this important

subject, and the monks of St. Denys stoutly defended their thesis up to the moment when all convents were suppressed throughout the kingdom. As the festival of St. Denys is celebrated in the vintage month, and as his name, in Latin Dyonisius, is one of the names of Bacchus, it has been presumed, with some reason, that when christianity was introduced in Paris, endeavours were made to give a christian colouring to a pagan festival, which the people were in the habit of celebrating. In a little church in Paris, which stood in the centre of a vineyard, a festival was formerly held called St. Bacchus, a name for which it would be vain to search legends and books of martyrs. These substitutions are not more astonishing than those which took place in Paris during the reign of terror, when christian worship was abolished. The altars were suffered to remain, but upon them was placed a wheatsheaf, or an image of the Goddess of Reason. Only a few years back, there was seen above the door of the Church de l'Oratoire, a picture, which, before the revolution, represented a groupe of angels worshipping the Holy Sacrament; during the reign of terror, however, the Host was effaced, and the republican fasces and the axe substituted in its stead, so that the angels were made to worship: the fasces of the Jacobins.

For an account of the immense treasures contained in the Abbey Church of St. Denys, near Paris, see T. T. for 1819, p. 247; and reflections on its past and present state in our volume for 1818, p. 250.

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20.-JOHN HATSELL DIED, ET. 87, rk of the House of Commons. He was cant at the close of the reign of George II, led to the office of chief clerk in 1768. He n active service July 11, 1797; when the solved, nemine contre That Mr. e requested to acquaint Mr. Hatsell, that entertains a just and high sense of the ed and exemplary manner in which he has discharged the duties of his situation during ttendance in the service of the House of

Mr. Hatsell was educated at Queen's ambridge, and did not forget, in old age, d enjoyment of the classical acquirements outh: in manners he was mild and conciliperfect gentleman of the old school, and ecdotes of public men and public events st half of the 18th century. He enjoyed es and a comfortable state of health to the ied at his house at Morden, in Surrey, and, nior Bencher of the Middle Temple, was the Temple Church with all the honours due k and standing in this society, the funeral ended by the Speaker of the House of Comprincipal clerks, &c.

atsell's volumes of Precedents of the Proin the House of Commons' are well known, vork will long survive him as the text book to in all cases of difficulty. This work he d to Mr. Dyson, his predecessor in office;

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In the year 1818, a new edition was published of his Precedents,' in the preface to which this pleasing passage occurs, which is highly illustrative of the author's character. It is a source' (he observes) of great comfort to the editor of these volumes, to think that, though at a very advanced age, he has been blessed with health and spirits sufficient to permit him to attend to this republication. And he has the satisfaction to reflect, and to express his hopes, that, when he shall be removed from this world, he shall be thought not to have lived in vain; but to have employed his studies and leisure hours in putting together a work, which he trusts may be of public utility; and which may, in however inferior a degree, contribute to the support and preservation of our justly admired and most excellent Constitution."

The second part of the ingenious Fables from La Fontaine, attributed to a celebrated political writer of the day, is dedicated to Mr. HATSELL, in the following lines, which exhibit a vivid but accurate delineation of this truly estimable and happy old man.

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ELL! who full of honours as of years,
Nestor of this modern time appears;
through one half an age with studions care,
moothed the labours of St. Stephen's chair;
e future Speakers, like those gone before,
own his worth, and profit by his lore.
m long years no baneful influence shed,
ght Time's wings have fluttered round his head:
udgment, fully ripened, not decayed,
ibutes treasures industry has made;
visdom, from a mind so richly stored,
lends with playful humour at his board:
st pure Religion's warm but gentle ray
mely gilds the evening of his day.

y that evening long protracted shine!
his what numbers add their vows to mine!
friends, who round his social table meet,
sy town, or Marden's calm retreat,
those who now his secret bounty share,

is life, health, and blessings, breathe their pray'r.
d be these pray'rs! Let British records tell
HATSELL equalled Gallic Fontenelle,

, in this vale of mingled mirth and tears,
lled in lettered ease his hundred years!
nd why, my Friend, should not indulgent Fate
end your thread of life to such a date?
e, fresh and hale thro' winters eighty-seven,
relish still the lib'ral gifts of heaven;
ke Barzillai, to whose torpid taste,
time-worn sense, life seemed a dreary waste.
g be these gifts enjoyed with spirits light,
tired of earth, to heav'n you take your flight!

17.-SAINT ETHELDREDA.

a princess of distinguished piety, daughter King of the East-Angles, and Hereswitha and was born about the year 630, at Ixmall village in Suffolk. In the year 673, ed the conventual church of Ely, with the convent. Of this monastery she was con