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THOMASGARRAWAY,in Exchange-alley, Cornhill, tobacconist and coffeeman, was the first who retailed and sold tea, recommending it for the cure of all disorders. He states in his hand-bill that it was first sold in England about 1657; at which date, from its extreme scarceness, it had been sold at as high a rate as from 61. to 107. sterling the pound weight. Garraway too first publicly sold tea in leaf or 234 drink, made according to the direction of 228 the most experienced merchants in the east, at the price of from 16s. to 50s. a pound, about the year 1660.

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The celebrated Thevenot introduced 214 coffee into France in 1658: he gave it af213 ter dinner, and it was considered at that time as the mere whim of a philosophical traveller; but ten years afterwards a Turkish ambassador at Paris, made the beverage highly fashionable. We were, however, acquainted with its use before the time of Thevenot; for an English Turkish merchant brought a Greek servant in 1652, who, knowing how to roast and make it, opened a house to sell it publicly. The following is a copy from his original hand-bill: "The virtue of the coffee drink, first publicly made and sold in England, by Pasque Rosee, in St. Michael alley, Cornhill, at the sign of his own head."

188 Penmanship. Mr. Cream, schoolmaster at Cambridge, has written the ten commandments, the creed, the Lord's prayer, the 117th psalm, and his own name, comprising altogether 2150 letters, in the small space of a sixpence. They were written in half an hour, without the aid of a glass, and most of the writing may be read by the naked eye.

A course of lectures on Political Economy is announced to be delivered in the City. The lecturer is Mr. Macculloch.

A Joint Stock Company is forming for the encouragement of literature; the capital to be 100,000l., in shares of 25%. The plan is to purchase the manuscript and copy-right of works of merit, on such terms as may be advantageous to the author, and leave a profit to the capitalists.

In reading a Catalogue of Books, the following curious coincidences, and mistakes in punctuation, appeared:

Essay on stupidity.—Bound in calf.
Hints on the original state of man.-Very

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The first introduction of the Chinese

leaf was violently opposed by many of the learned; a German philosopher went so far as to denounce tea-dealers, as immoral persons, lying in wait for men's purses and lives. At a more recent period, those absurd prejudices had a warm advocate in the philanthropist Jonas Hanway, who was accustomed to anathematize the fragrant herb as a slow poison. This made Dr. Johnson remark, who was an inveterate tea-drinker, that its operation must indeed be slow in its operation, since he had drank it with impunity the last forty years!

Diary of Occurrences.

Feb. 28.-THE BUDGET.-The revenue has been so productive in the past year, that it admits of a reduction in the taxes to the amount of a million and a half. The

Hints to carpenters.-In boards.
Dyer's history of Cambridge.-Bound in statement of the Minister affords general

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satisfaction; some, however, think that the

whole of the window taxes ought to have been repealed, instead of the repeal being limited to houses with less than eight windows. Petitions for this purpose are in active preparation; it is not improbable that they may be attended with success, especially as the Chancellor of the Exchequer showed last year, by the remission of the law duties after bringing forward the annual budget, that he is a man who may be occasionally advised.

The inhabitants of Salisbury are advertising for persons of capital to establish manufactories there, they having a very numerous population unemployed."-The Easter ball at the Mansion-house is postponed, in consequence of the necessity of putting the Egyptian-hall in repair. The fall of lambs is so great, as to mitigate in some degree the loss occasioned by the rot. March 1.-Called at the Chapter coffeehouse. Poor Mrs.Hoddinott, it seems, died more than a fortnight since at Hornsey. The waiter, Thomas, always puts me in mind of Dominie Sampson, and he looks as demure and full of the "milk of human kindness" as ever.

SIR FRANCIS BURDETT IN FASHION. These are certainly strange times: a few years past, sir Francis rarely brought forward a question in which he was supported by more than one or two members; to-day he made a motion for a parliamentary inquiry into catholic grievances, when he was seconded by a principal member of administration, supported by Messrs. Canning, Plunkett, Wortley, and a majority of 247 members!

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2. The project commenced for forming a tunnel under the Thames from Rother. hithe. Mr. Smith, M. P., previously to laying the first stone, made a long discourse on the utility of the arts and sciences, and exemplified it by reference to this gigantic undertaking. A prayer was offered up by Mr. White for the success of it; when the first stone was laid amid the cheers of the spectators. An association is said to be forming for producing silk in this country and Ireland. This branch of manufacture is so flourishing, that from 4 to 5,000 hands are advertised for at Macclesfield.-Last year, the gold imported into the mint, amounted to the sum of 4,690,000.

Intelligence has arrived of the complete discomfiture of the royalist party in Peru; the battle was fought on the ninth of December on the plains of Guamanguilla, and terminated in the capture of La Serena, Canterac, Valdez, their army, baggage, and accoutrements.

4.-Heard Dr. Roget, at the London Institution, deliver an interesting lecture on the nutritive powers, and instruments and mode of progression in insects. The

study of the diminutive order in creation, like the fluxional calculus in mathematics, forms the higher department in natural history. Proficients in the science are anxious to investigate the laws and organization of the animalculæ of nature's works; while the vulgar mind is most struck by, and most curious to learn, the structure and conformations of her greater productions, as the horse, the elephant, and rhinoceros.

WHIMS OF LAWYERS.-The benchers of the Middle Temple, for lack of something to do, quarrelled with the lime-trees in their garden, because, as they said, they could not see the water after dinner, by reason of those trees, though it is notorious that they see after dinner exactly twice as much as any moderate men would desire to see; the students, however, who, like poor Ophelia, have "too much water" already, and who have also some natural taste for the woodie, begged the lives of the trees, and after a hard struggle, the trees are likely to be spared, though the old gentlemen accuse them roundly of being sapless old twigs that do no manner of good, and only stand in the way!

Weekly Calendar. March XII-Saturday.

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CHRONOLOGY. 1712. Queen Anne announced in the Royal Gazette her intention to touch publicly for the evil. She was the last of our sovereigns who exercised this miraculous gift. It is rather mortifying to national vanity, that our wise ancestors for seven hundred years believed in the efficacy of the royal touch in scrofulous affections. But while we pity their credulity, let us not forget that we have still believers in the astrological nonsense of the almanac; and that the Stamford ghost, Richard Brothers, the fasting woman of Tutbury, and Joanna Southcott, have had their disciples.

1713. The first number of the Guardian, a celebrated periodical, published under the direction, of Steele.

March XIII-Sunday.

High Water, Morn. VIII. 55 m-Even. IX:

28 m. Sunday Lessons, Morn. Gen 43. Luke 24. Even. Gen. 45. I. Thess. 4.,

CHRONOLOGY.-365. Belisarius, a celebrated general of the Roman empire, dies, after experiencing the severest trials of royal ingratitude.

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March XIV.-Monday.

High Water, Morn. X. 2 m.-Even. X. 31 m. CHRONOLOGY.-1757. The brave admiral Byng shot at Portsmouth; a victim to political persecution.-1799. Expired at Bath, in his 89th year, William Melmoth, an elegant scholar and polite writer. 1803, In his 80th year, Frederick Klopstock, whom the German literati place by the side of Homer and Milton.

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March XV.-Tuesday.

High Water, Morn. XI. 0 m.-Even. XI. 28 m. CHRONOLOGY.-41 B. C. Julius Cæsar was assassinated in the senate-house at Rome,

1784. Expired Dr. Thomas Franklin, whose translation of Phalaris, Sophocles, and Lucian, equally evince his learning and his genius.

March XVI-Wednesday. High Water, Morn. XI, 57 m.-Even 0. 0 m. On this day, 1792, Gustavus III., of Sweden, was assassinated at Stockholm, by Ankerstrom, a discontented officer; but the king did not expire till the 29th.

ANGLING.-Jack and pike will easily take a live bait in this month; but as they are now full of spawn, or spawning, the fair sportsman will refrain from killing them indeed from February to Michaelmas they are hardly worth cooking; the flesh is then tough and tasteless; yet we find this fish in abundance at the fishmongers' shops in the metropolis during March and April, at which season they are easily taken, by snaring, haltering, and other unsportsman-like ways, pursued by poachers.-Carp, chub, roach, dace, flounders, and eels, will now bite freely in mild weather; so that the angler may enjoy much sport in his favourite diversion, without destroying either jack, perch, pike, or trout; which are all at present unfit for the table.

Roach fishing is particularly good all this month: they are now emerging from the shallows, and an expert angler may, in many places, take from twenty to thirty pounds weight of them daily.

March XVII-ST. PATRICK.Thursday.

High Water, Morn.'0. 20 m.-Even. 0.44 m.

St. Patrick, the tutelar saint of Ireland,

Down, in that kingdom, in the one hundred and twenty-third year of his age. He was interred at Down, according to most accounts: but, respecting his burialplace, there have been warm disputes; and it has been as warm a subject of debate as Homer's birth-place was formerly among the cities of Greece.

1800.-The Queen Charlotte, a British

ship of war of 110 guns, blew up off the harbour of Leghorn; when captain Todd, and above eight hundred of the crew, perished by the explosion.

March XVIII.-Friday,

High Water, Morn. I. 6 m.-Even. I. 27 m.

CHRONOLOGY.-Edward, king of the West Saxons, was stabbed in the back, by order of his mother-in-law, Elfrida, at Corfe-castle, in Dorsetshire.

FLORA. The early daffodil, in ordinary seasons, is by this time in blow; and though in warm situations, and early seasons, it often appears sooner, yet it is not generally found. The double garden daffodil is sometimes in blow a few days before the single sort, of which it is only a variety. Shakspeare speaks of "the daffodil which comes before the swallow dares."

NATURAL HISTORY.-The gannets, or Soland geese, resort in March to the Hebrides, and other rocky isles of North Britain, to make their nests and lay their eggs. In the months of May and June,. their nests are described as so closely placed together, that it is difficult to walk without treading upon some of them; and it is said, that the swarms of the old birds are so prodigious, that when they rise into the air they stun the ear with their noise, and overshadow the ground like the clouds. The Boss Isle, in the Frith of Forth, is farmed out for the eggs of the various kind of water-fowl with which it swarms; and the produce of the Soland geese forms a large portion of the rent-for great numbers of their young ones are taken every season, and sold for about twentypence each, in Edinburgh; where they are esteemed a favourite dish, being generally roasted and eaten before dinner.

LES JEUX ET LE RIS.

APPOSITE QUOTATION.-Some of lord North's applications of passages from the Latin classics were extremely apposite and comical. To a young friend of his who told him he was about to part with his favourite mare on account of the embar

rassment of his circumstances, he said, "Before you make up your mind to this, consider what your old friend Horace

says;

'Equam memento rebus in arduis
Servare."

LITERARY INGENUITY.-The following is from an old book, where it is said to have "cost the maker much foolish labour," for it is a perfect verse, and every word is the very same hoth backward and forward:

"Odo tenet mulum, madidam mappam tenet anna."

From the Greek :

"Blest he who sees; who hears thee truly blest;

Thy kiss is paradise; and heaven the rest."

HISTORICAL FACTS.

THE reign of Edward I. was marked with a singular occurrence, which serves to illustrate the general character of this monarch. In the year 1285, Edward took away the charter of London, and turned out the mayor, in consequence of his suffering himself to be bribed by the bakers, and invested one of his own appoint ing with the civic authority. The city, however, by making various presents to the king, and rendering him other signal services, found means to have their charter restored.

Sir Giles Allingham, A. D. 1631, was convicted for marrying his own niece, and fined 12,000l. to the king, and compelled to give a 20,000l. bond never to cohabit, or come in private with her again; and both of them to do penance at St. Paul's cross, or St. Mary's, in Cambridge, which they accordingly did.

Mr. Pinkerton, in his "Essay on Medals," relates, that in the cellar of a house in Norfolk-street in the Strand, is a fine antique bath, formerly belonging to Thomas earl of Arundel, who first brought the Arundelian marbles into England, and whose house and extensive gardens were adjacent. It is a pity this valuable antique is not more known, and better taken care of.

The funeral of Hugh, bishop of Lincoln, (Henry II.) was attended by two kings, many earls, three archbishops, fourteen bishops, and one hundred abbots. Miracles

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innumerable were wrought at his tomb. His virtues were not confined to this country; for his statue being placed near the walls of Paris, it nearly ruined all the physicians there, by curing the sick persons who passed by it.-Vide Herne Dom. Carth. p. 27,

LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED.

Cooke's Cookery and Confectionary, 12mo. 15 plates, 6s.-Historical Illustrations of the Passions, 2 vols. 8vo. 17. 4s.--Scudamore on Colchicum, 8vo. 5s. - Westminster Hall, 3 vols. 12mo. 17. 1s.-Real Grievance of the Irish, 12mo. 3s. 6d. Conway's Tales of Ardennes, crown 8vo. 8s.-Vision of Hades, fc. 8vo. 6s.-Jardine's Outlines, 8vo. 10s. 6d. St. Hubert, 3 vols. 12mo. 18s.-Wesley's Sermons, 2 vols. 8vo. 17s. fine, 12. Is.Moore's Life of Wesley, vol. 2, 8vo. 10s. 6d. -Humble's Monitor, 8vo. 8s.-Remmant's Recollections and Poems, cr. 8vo. 3s.-Segur's Campaign in Russia, 2 vols. 8vo. 17.5s. -Geneveve Sermons, by Rev. M. Pons, 8vo. 10s.-Telemachus, in Italian, by Petroni, 2 vols. 6s.-Salvo's Lord Byron in Italy, 8vo. French, 15s.-Bennett's Lectures on the History of Jesus Christ, 3 vols. 8vo. 11. 16s.-Jones's Continuation of Hume and Smollet, 3 vols. 8vo. 1. 4s.-Scheller's Latin Grammar, 2 vols. 8vo. 1. 10s.- Memoires de Comtesse de Genlis, 2 vols. 8vo. 16s. English, 18s.-Bishop Hall's Satires, cr. 8vo. 95,The Abduction, 3 vols. cr. 8vo. 11. 1s.- Diary of Henry Teonge, 8vo. 12s.-Col. Berkeley and his Friends, 3 vols. 12mo. 18s.-C. S. Cochrane's Columbia, 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 10s.-¡ Sylvan Sketches, 8vo. 12s.-Latham on Diseases of the Penitentiary, 8vo. 8s. 6d.Brande's Manual of Pharmacy, 8vo. 14s. — Present Laws relating to Savings' Banks, 12mo. 3s.- Practical Instructions for passing. Private Bills. 8vo. 10s. 6d. - Miller on Fines and Recoveries, 12mo. Second Edition, 6s.

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THE figure of a ball being better adapted to the hand and for projection than any other shape, has formed the foundation of a great many pastimes. First is the game of HAND-BALL, called by the French palm-play, because the exercise consisted in receiving the ball, and driving it back again with the palm of the hand. Formerly they played with the naked hand, then with a glove, which, in some nstances, was lined; afterwards they bound cords and tendons round the hands to make the ball rebound more forcibly: hence the racket derived its origin. In the reign of Charles I. palm-play was very fashionable in France, being played by the nobility for large sums of money; when they had lost all they had about them, they would sometimes pledge a part

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of their dress rather than give up the game. In England it was a favourite pastime among the youth of both sexes, and in many parts of the kingdom they played during the Easter holidays for tansy cakes. It is still played, though under a different name, and probably under a different modification of the game: it is now called FIVES.

The game at PALL-MALL is a ball diversion. This game consisted in striking a round box ball with a mallet through two high circles of iron, one at each end of the alley, which he that could do it at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins. It was a fashionable amusement in the reign of Charles II. and a well-known street, then a walk in St. James's-park, derives its name from

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