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theatre of the world. As an actress, an, author, aud a musician, she has, by turns, equally charmed the eye, enchanted the ear, and led captive the heart. We were in haste to peruse her work, expecting to see our best societies and manners elegantly described; we were, however, deceived; the voyage of Mademoiselle Candeille is merely picturesque and sentimental: she tells us, in the most pathetic language, the adventures of a poor man's dog, and gives an account of the celebration of a feast for orphans.

It is easy to discover that the fair author cannot boast much of English politeness. The greatest part of the work consists of conversations on French literature; and which prove them to be those of a very sensible female, but they cannot have the same attraction in Paris as they might have in London. Those long quotations from the Art of Poetry, by Boileau, and Des Jardins, of Delille, are not very new to the French. Mademoiselle Candeille seems to have wit of her own sufficient to have filled ten volumes, and she need not have quoted that of others to swell out the bulk of one.

The article on the English Theatre is peculiarly well written; but in regard to the whole of the work, it wants both order and connection; it appears like a portefolio that has been thrown down, and the detached pieces put together just as they were taken up again; in which, however, the recollections on London seem most numerous; those on Paris are, certainly the greater part of them, lost: nevertheless, all that is preserved of these scattered morsels proves the porte-folio to have been that of a woman of profound sense and erudion.

WORKS IN THE PRESS.

Preparing for publication, The History and Antiquities of Kensington and its Environs; interspersed with Biographical Anecdotes of royal and distinguished persons. Deduced from ancient records, state papers, manuscripts, parochial documents, and other original and authentic sources. By Thomas Faulkner, author of the Historical account of Chelsea and Fulbam.

A School Astronomy, accompanied with

plates, is now in the press, by Mr. Guy, in a small volume. The work will comprise all that can be interesting to youth, and within their comprehension.

A Short History of France, after the manner of the late Mrs. Trimmer's Histories for Children, by a daughter of that lady.

The Child's Introduction to thorough Bass, in conversations between a Mother and a Daughter of ten years old.

On 1st January, 1819, will be published, a new work, exclusively devoted to music alone, entitled, The English Musical Gazette. To be continued every month.

FUNERALS OF THE CHINESE IN BA-
TAVIA.

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WHEN a Chinese of note dies, his nearest relations announce the melancholy event in form to all the branches of the family. The body is washed, perfumed, and dressed in the best apparel of the deceased. The corpse is then seated in a chair; and his wives, children, and relations, fall down before it and weep. On the third day it is put into a coffin, which is placed in one of the best apartments, hung for the occasion with white linen cloth, the colour, with them, of mourning. In the middle of the apartment an altar is erected, and on it the portrait of the deceased is placed, with incense burning near it. The sons stand on one side of the coffin, dressed in white coarse linen, and making every sign of sorrow; while the mother and female relations are heard lamenting behind a curtain. On the day of burial, the whole family assembles, and the corpse is conveyed to the grave with much solemn pomp. Images of men and women, relations of the family, as amongst the ancient Romans, and even of animals, together with wax tapers and incensories, are carried first in the procession. Then follow the priests with musical instruments, and after them the corpse upon a bier, attended by the sons of the deceased, clothed in white, and leaning on crutches, as if disabled, through grief, from supporting themselves erect. The female relations are carried in chairs, hung with curtains of white silk, concealing them from view, but their lamentations are distinctly heard; and other women are hired who are trained to utter shrieks still louder

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and more piercing; which last is a custom,, of her Highness the Duchess of Orleans is now employed in taking the portrait of this living century.

still retained in some parts of Europe. Previous to the funeral, a table with fruits and other eatables is laid before the corpse, and wax figures of servants placed on each side, as attendants upon it.

Some years ago six old men and six old women were subpœned out of the town of Stockport to appear on a trial in the court of Westminster. The eldest of the men was one hundred and five, and the youngest INDIFFERENCE OF THE ALBANIANS sixty-seven years old; the eldest of the AT THE APPROACH OF DEATH. women was one hundred and three, and THEY are in general brave and ready to the youngest sixty-five years old! Two encounter danger; the fear of death makes coaches were provided to take these twelve no impression on them, as may be judged persons to London; but the old lady aged by the following anecdote. An individual one hundred and three, refused to ride in of the Liapis clan being condemned to the same coach with the old gentleman of a death, was brought out to be conveyed to hundred and five, saying, “ I do not think it the place of execution, which was situated prudent to ride with one of his sex. -I have without the walls of Prevesa. Being ar- supported a good character so far, and I rived about midway, he passed by a large am determined to support it as long as I fig-tree." Why," said he to those who live in this world!"—They all arrived safe conducted him, "do you wish me to travel at a gentleman's house apón Newington half a league farther in the hottest part of Green, near London. The gentleman wishthe day? Cannot you hang me here?"-ed our old men to be shaved twice a-week, This favour being granted him, he himself but they refused, saying, "the London put the rope around his own neck. A few barbers were a set of knaves for charging hours afterwards another Liapis passed by them twopence a-piece, for in Stockport the same place, and seeing that the clothes they never paid more than one halfpenny of the deceased were better than his own, a-head."-It happened that one of the old began, with the greatest indifference, to men, as he was walking in Bishopsgate undress him, and exchanged them for his street, read on a board-Shaving for one own rags. penny; he returned and informed his friends of this lucky discovery, and they all set out next morning to get shaved. The old man who found out the penny barber was alA young lady in France had the fatal lowed the honour of sitting first; when the habit of cleaning her ears with pins; a barber had shorn one side of his face, he trifling humour was the result, which ter- || pulled the cloth away; the old man shoutminated lately in a cancer. The brass and ed," Halloa, measter, you forgetton to quicksilver used in the preparation of pins shave this side," pointing with his finger may easily account for this circumstance, to the side that had not come under the and which render them so very pernicious razor. The barber replied, that if he shaved to the teeth when used as tooth-picks. the other side he must have another penny! The old man got up in a rage, called the barber a cheating scoundrel, and swore he would return to Stockport half shaved, as he was, before he would give him another penny. He took his handkerchief and wiped the lather off his face, put on his hat, and, with his venerable companions, adjourned to the sign of the Fox and Anchor, Charter-house Lane, where they stopped till they got inebriated; and it was the third day after, before the gentleman (on whose suit they attended) could prevail on them te get shaved by the two-penny barber.

IMPORTANT CAUTION TO FEMALES.

LONGEVITY.

THERE is now living in the neighbourhood of Monthuçon (Allier), a woman named Barbė Raco, aged a hundred and twelve years; she is in full possession of all her faculties, and her mental qualifications are not the least impaired. She waits entirely on herself, walks with no other help than a slight stick, and recollects all the days of her youth. She has only left of her family a few great grandchildren. The painter

ADVENTURE OF A PARISIAN.

HUSBAND.

A STORY, more amusing to our national malice than creditable to our morality, is told every where. M. de B, the husband of a very pretty woman, being dissatisfied with some instances of levity and coldness on her part, adopted a strange mode of reanimating the tenderness of their honeymoon-it was no other than assuming an air of the utmost indifference on his part. The lady, however, affected not to notice this, and followed her usual course. The husband now became furious -a storm-succeeded the treacherous calm -Madame was accused, reviled, and her writing-desk broken open; but the contents turned out to be perfectly innocent. Still his jealousy was unallayed; he came home at the most unexpected hours, entered his wife's chamber without knocking—but all to no purpose. He now proposed a separation by private arrangement this the lady instantly rejected, considering her virtue, like that of the wife of Cæsar, aboye being suspected. The husband, in this predicament, resorted to the following means of producing a separation:-He posted several of his friends, late in the night, within view of his wife's chamber, with orders not to stir,, whatever they beheld. They had not long been at their posts, when a man was seen putting a ropeladder to the lady's window, and mounting by means of it. One of the sentinels, unable to controul his indignation at the outrage to his friend's honour, caught the gallant by the foot, and dragged him down. The noise attracted the rest. What was their astonishment, to find, in the supposed gallant, M. de B- himself! The first thing was an expression of surprise—the next, a burst of loud laughter, from all but M. de BThe wife being informed of the whole matter by a kind neighbour, resolved to institute proceedings against her husband, for calumny, and demand a separation.-Paris Paper, ¡

CURIOUS INSCRIPTIONS. THE following lines are copied exactly from the manuscript of the author, Samuel Kerry, of Smalley, near Derby, (the man who built the oven):

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Samuel kerry is my name & I bult this oven in this Lain

The late Bishop Watson, shortly before his retirement, took lodgings in Cambridge, at a house adjoining an alehouse, the sign of which being Bishop Blaise, he was induced to compromise with the tavernkeeper to take it down, as thinking it derogatory to the episcopal dignity; which occasioned the following epigram from Dr. Mansell, now Bishop of Bristol :"Two of a trade can ne'er agree," No proverb e'er was juster ; They've pulled down Bishop Blaise, d'ye see, And put up Bishop Bluster!

BIRTHS.

At Gorhambury, in the county of Herts, the Countess of Verulam, of a son.

The Right Hon. the Countess of Shannon, of

a son.

At his Lordship's house, St. James's-square, Lady George Anson, of a son.

At Hurst-house, Lady Berkeley, of a son. At Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, the Lady of the Earl of Normanton, of a son and heir.

At Paris, the Right Hon. Lady James Hay, of a daughter.

At his Lordship's seat, Bourn-house, near Caxton, Cambridgeshire, the Countess De la Warr, of a daughter.

At Rockville-house, Ireland, Lady Eleanor Balfour, of a son and heir. & los

At Doneraile-house, Ireland, Lady Charlotte St. Leger, of a son and heir, quos ka

At Blithe-house, Brook-green, the lady of the Solicitor-General of a daughter,

At the Palace, in Bangor, the lady of Major Hewett, Assistant Adjutant-General, and youngest daughter of the Lord Bishop of that diocese, of a son and heir.

At Raventhorpe, in Northamptonshire, Mrs. Hart, the wife of a respectable farmer and gra zier, of three fine female infants, all of whom, with the mother, are likely to do well.

At his house, in Lower Berkeley-street, Portman-square, the lady of George Barnett, Esq. of a daughter.

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At Gains-hall, Huntingdonshire, the Lady of Sir James Duberly, of a son.

At Belcamp-house, near Dublin, the lady of the Hon. Graham Toler, of a son.

The lady of Lieut.-Colonel Brownrigg, of a daughter.

At Washington, the lady of Mr. Bagot, Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, of a daughter,

At Southgate, Mrs. A. K. Mackenzie, of a son, being her twentieth child, all living.

Lately, a woman, passenger in the Maria, Peebles, from Liverpool to Glasgow, was safely delivered of a fine female child. The child is named Maria Peebles; but as she was born at an equidistant point from Scotland, England, and Ireland, a difficulty will occur to say to what country she may belong.

MARRIED.

Lately, in Limerick, B. G. Grey, Esq. Captain in the 12th regiment of foot, nephew of Admiral Sir Home Popham, to Mary Anne, daughter of Andrew Sexton, Esq. of Limerick.

H. J. Pearson, Esq. to Matilda, third daughter of the late Theophilus Moore, of Edinburgh, and niece to Sir D. Blair.

J. G. Jones, Esq only son of J. Jones, Esq. of Johnsport (Sligo), to Letitia Elizabeth, daughter of the late C. F. Sheridan, Esq. and niece of the late Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan.

At St. James's church, Mr. Wm. Sams, of Pall-Mall, to Harriet, third daughter of the late J. G. Raymond, Esq. of Chester-street, Grosvenor-place.

At Woodbridge, Suffolk, the Rev. W. Strong, son of the Rev. the Archdeacon of Northampton, to Miss Skeeles, both of the former-place.

* DIED.

In Rutland-square, Dublin, the Earl of Wicklow. His Lordship is succeeded in his titles and estates by his son, Lord Clonmore.

In her 79th year, the Right Hon. Lady Northwick, widow to the late, and mother to the present, Lord Northwick.

Lately, aged 74, at her estate at Prisseux, near Poinloise, the Marchioness De Girardin, the widow of the friend of Rousseau. She has left three sons and two daughters to lament her loss.

At St. Kitt's, the Right Hon. James Edmund, Lord Cranstoun.

In consequence of a severe attack of the gout, at bis estate near Aubagne (Months of the Rhone), aged 63 years, the Count Ganteaume, Peer of France, Vice-Admiral, Grand Officer of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour, and Commander of the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis.

At his house, in New Bridge-street, of a paralytic stroke, Robert Shawe, Esq. aged 60.

and the only remaining one of Pope Clement XIVth's creation.

At the Percy Hotel, London, Sir J. E. Dryden, Bart. eldest son of Lady Dryden, of Cannons Ashby, in the county of Northampton, ma ternally descended from the family of the Poet Dryden, and grandson, by his father, of Sir E. || Turner, who, with Lord Parker, contested the election for Oxfordshire, in the year 1754, with Viscount Wenman and Sir J. Dashwood.

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Lately, at Edinburgh, three weeks after baying given birth to a son and heir, Elizabeth, wife of the Hon. C. N. Noel, of Barham Court, Kent, second daughter of the Hon. Sir G. Grey, Bart. Commissioner of his Majesty's Dock-yard at Portsmouth. This amiable and much-lamented lady has been called from life at the early age of 19 years.

After breakfasting with his family, Mr. A. Purkiss, boot and shoemaker, in Prince's-street, Westminster. He complained of giddiness in his head, and, in an instant, dropped down and expired!

In the Trinity house, at Hull, where he had resided for 24 years, in the 90th year of his age, Mr. J. Wilson, the oldest ship-master belonging to that port. He was at Lisbon at the time of the great earthquake in 1754.

In the prime of life, the Lady of the Chevalier Ruspini, of Pall-Mall; whose amiable and private virtues, as a wife and a friend, endeared her to a numerous circle, who are left, with her disconsolate husband and son, to lament their irreparable loss.

Lately, Augusta Matilda, daughter of Lady Perrott. This lady performed, as an actress, at Bath, Brighton, and other places, under the name of Miss Fitzhenry.

At Upton, near Pontefract, aged 74, Mrs. A. Tookey, relict of Mr. Tookey, an eminent coachspring and tire smith. This eccentric character ordered her coffin to be made some few days be fore her death, and actually made her own shroud, which she kept by her.

At Edinburgh, Mrs. Dundas, widow of the Right Hon. Robert Dundas, of Arniston, Lord President of the Court of Session.

At Pisa, that once greatly celebrated vocal performer, Mrs. Billington. M. Follisent, the husband of Mrs. Billington, will not be enriched by the death of his lady. A large annuity, for life, constituted the principal part of her property.

At Kenton, at the very advanced age of 96, Mr. J. Carnall. He lived 53 years in the service of the present and late Lord Viscount Courtenay, and rode post from Powerdam Castle to Exeter, every day during that period, without experi

Lately, at Rome, at the age of 96, Cardinal Ca-encing an hour's illness. raffa Trajetto, senior of the Cardinal Preacher,

London: Printed by and for JOHN BELL, Proprietor of this MAGAZINE, and of the WEEKLY MESSENGER, No. 104, Drury-lane.

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