fall; and as people are always willing to give a full and particular account of what ails them, and all how and about it, the doctor was seldom at a loss to guess at their disorder, and never at any to administer the remedy.

Many of his patients made long journeys; and no doubt but exercise, change of air, and the confident assurances of a perfect cure, often had good effects; but as we all are mortal (as the old woman said when a parcel of rogues were passing by her to the gallows), the doctor himself, in the prime of life and height of practice, was taken ill, and died in a few days; and though the writer of this had never taken any of his physic, he had often admired the neatness of his shop; all the drawers (for it was a bottleless shop) were nicely painted, and the medicinal contents announced in alphabetical order. After his death, he had the curiosity to visit this magazine of animal magnetism, where, to his great surprise, and much to the honour of the departed Esculapius, he found only two drawers that were openable—one of which contained a large quantity of cream of tartar, the other, then empty, was his money drawer; and it appeared that all his patients were furnished from the same single drawer, and that all his fortune had passed through the other. This man was, however, too good to do any harm. Cream of tartar could hurt none.

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THE

HE celebrated Dr Saunderson, the blind mathematical professor of Cambridge, being in a very large company, observed, without any hesitation or inquiry, that a lady, who had just left the room, and whom he did not know, had very fine teeth. As this was really the case, he was questioned as to the means he employed in making such a discovery. "I have no reason to think the

lady a fool," said the doctor; "and I have given the only reason she could have for keeping herself in a continual laugh for an hour together."

O man

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Νο ever went through such fatigue of

body and mind as he (Brougham) did for three weeks in 1830. The assizes at York were about to begin, and he chanced to have a good many retainers. Instead of giving these up, he appeared in court, and exerted himself as an advocate with more than wonted spirit. Having finished an address to the jury, he would throw off his wig and gown, and make a speech to the electors in the Castle Yard on "the three glorious days of Paris," and the way in which the people of England might peaceably obtain still greater advantages. would then return to court, and reply in a cause respecting right of common of turbary, having, in the twinkling of an eye, picked up from his junior a notion of all that had passed in his absence. But,

He

what is much more extraordinary, before the nomination day arrived, he had held public meetings and delivered stirring speeches in every town and large village within the county; still day by day addressing juries, and winning or losing verdicts.

.. County elections, at that time lasting fifteen days, excited prodigious interest. All England looked with eagerness on this contest; and, when Brougham's return was actually proclaimed, the triumph was said to form a grand epoch in the history of parliamentary representation.-Campbell.

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115.

N the death of Cardinal Fleury, the Royal Academicians wished that Voltaire might succeed him as a member of that society. The ancient Bishop of Mirepoix opposed Voltaire, under a pretence that it would be an offence to God, should a profane person like him succeed a cardinal.

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116.

N the course of the debate on the appointment of the Prince of Wales as Regent (January 22, 1789), Lord Camden got into a scrape, in obviating the objection to the suspension of the power of making peers, by saying that " on any urgent call for a peerage it might be conferred by Act of Parliament "-a proceeding which appeared to their Lordships so unconstitutional and republican, that he was obliged to explain and retract.

117.

THEN Harris, the author of "Hermes," made his first speech in the House of Commons, Charles Townshend asked, with an affected surprise, who he was?—he had never seen him before. 66 "Ah! you must at least have heard of him. That's the celebrated Mr Harris of Salisbury, who has written a very ingenious book on grammar, and another on virtue." "What the devil then brings him here? I am sure he will neither find the one nor the other in the House of Commons!"

118.

N elector of Honiton, in Devonshire, once told the late Lord Dundonald, who was at that time (before the first Reform Bill) canvassing the borough, that he need not ask him who he voted for; he always voted for Mr Most!

119.

MIREPOIX was a dull bigot, and Voltaire

took all opportunities to laugh at his absurdities. The Bishop usually signed his letters Anc. Eveque, &c. Voltaire always read ane, or ass, for anciene, or ancient, and this joke passed from Paris to his correspondents in the courts abroad. Mirepoix soon heard of his nickname, and complained bitterly to the King that he was laughed at for a fool in foreign courts. "Oh!" said Louis, "that is a matter quite settled, and you must let it pass, my Lord."

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LUTHER used to tell this story of a beggarly

monk. A monk, who had introduced himself to the bedside of a dying nobleman, who was at that time in a state of insensibility, continued crying out, "My Lord, will you make the grant of such and such a thing to our monastery?" The sick man, unable to speak, nodded his head. The monk turned round to the son, who was in the room, “You see, sir, that my Lord your father gives his consent to my request." The son immediately exclaimed, "Father, is it your will that I should kick this monk down-stairs ?" The usual nod was given. The young man instantly rewarded the assiduities of the monk by sending him, with great precipitation, out of the house.

121.

THE late Duke of Devonshire used to call Chiswick his watch-box, because Horace Walpole said it was too small for a house, and yet too large to hang at one's watch-chain.

I22.

THE late Thomas Warton's compositions, of

every kind, are infinitely dear to me. No man ever was, or probably ever will again be, so deeply learned in English poetry; and I have long been convinced that there is no poetry, of any age or country, so well worth investigation. His preface and notes to "Milton's Juvenile Works," con