said to have come originally from Cerasus, a city of Pontus, from whence Lucullus brought them into Italy, and they were introduced into Britain about the year 53. The quince was cultivated in this country in Gerard's time The red queen-apple was so called in compliment to Queen Elizabeth. The cultivation of the pear is of great antiquity, for Pliny mentions twenty different kinds. Most of our apples originally came from France. Sir Walter Raleigh is well known to have introduced the use of tobacco into England; he is the per language than some of his attempts in Hervey, would you know the passion In my silence see the lover; TIFUL BOY. I saw thee, sweet boy, in the pride of thy youth, Like a flow'r in its loveliness blowing, All bright in the beaming and beauty of truth, And thine eye in its innocence glowing. I saw thee; nor thought, 'mid the hue of that wreath Which the rose and the pale lily wove On thy fair-budding cheek, the foul mil dew of death Lurk'd to blight the fair promise of love. son king James I. hints at, when he ON THE DEATH OF A BEAUspeaks of the first author and introduction of it being then well remembered, and is said to have been so partial to it, that he took, says a nearly contemporary writer, a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffold, which some formal persons were scandalized at; but I think," he adds, 'twas well and properly done to settle his spirits." The same author adds the following curious anecdotes on this subject:-" In my part of North Wilts (Malmsbury hundred) it was brought into fashion by Sir Walter Long. They had, at first, silver pipes, but the ordinary sort used a walnut shell and a straw. I have heard my grandfather Lyte say, that one pipe was handed from man to man round the table. Sir Walter Raleigh being on a stand in Sir R. Poyntz's park, at Acton, took a pipe of tobacco, which made the ladies quit it, till he had done. Within these 35 years," he adds (about 1630), "it was sold for its weight in silver. I have heard some of our old yeomen neighbours say, that when they went to Malms bury or Chippenham market, they culled out their biggest shillings to lay in the scales against the tobacco. Now: the customers of it are the greatest his majesty (Charles II.) hath." Enteresting Varieties. VOLTAIRE. C. S. THE following stanzas, which display a greater command, of the English I lov'd thee, sweet boy; for, in thee were enshrin'd What my youth and my fancy had known, Ere ingratitude rose, like the dark desert wind, 1 Ere despondency made me her own. Then, peace to thy spirit, as spotless and sweet As this tear of sincerity given ! Then, peace to thy spirit! again we shall meet, Sweet boy, in yon beautiful heaven. SUNDAY. A MOTHER. WE often hear it asserted that this is a Sabbath-breaking age, Perhaps there may be great truth in the remark, but it seems hardly fair to brand this age exclusively with such an appellation as if at no preceding period, people had been guilty of a like crime. If partaking in certain amusements constitutes Sabbath-breaking, : our forefathers appear to have been ten times more depraved than their posterity. Prynne, in his "Histriomastix," p. 242, draws a pretty pieture of their pranks on Sundays-let us hope that it is a little exaggerated. After some severe animadversions upon the custom which then commonly prevailed of dancing on the Lord's Day, he says 66 ALL-PERVADING LOVE. IMITATED FROM THE FRENCH. The summer-breezes kiss the skies, ANGLING. TYRO. [THE following lines are by the late 'Alas! it is lamentable to see the wicked boldness of those that will be counted God's people, who think nothing at all of keeping and hallowing the Sunday. And these people are of two sorts. The one sort, if there be business to doe, though there be no extreme need, they must not spare the Sunday; they must ride and iourney on the Sunday, &c.; they must keepe markets and faires on the Sunday; finally, they use all dayes alike; working-dayes, and holy-dayes are all one. The other sort is worse: for although they will not travell nor labour on the Sunday, as they do on the weeke day, yet they will not rest in holinesse, as God commandeth; but they rest in ungodlinesse and filthinesse; prancing in their pride; pranking and pricking; pointing and painting themselves, to be gorgeous and gay; they rest in excesse and superfluity, in gluttony and drunkennesse; like rats and swine, they rest in brawling and rayling, in quarrelling and fighting; they rest in wantonnesse, in toyish talking, in filthy fleshlinesse; so that it doth too. I evidently appeare that God is more dishonoured, and the Devil better served, on the Sunday, than all upon the daies in the weeke besides." BALLADE TO A FISH OF THE BROOKE, Why flyest thou away with fear? Trust me, there's nought of danger near; And dragge thee from the brooke. O harmless tenant of the flood, For Nature unto thee Perchance has given a tender wife, Enjoy thy streame, O harmless fish, MATRIMONY. I will not have a man that's tall; A man of sense they say is proud; A man that's rich I'm sure won't have me; -And one that's poor, I fear, would starve me. A sailor always smells of tar: A gambler soon my heart would break. INKLE AND YARICO-Bryan Edwards, in his History of the West Indies, observes, "Such of my readers as have sympathized with the unfortunate Yarico, may not be sorry to hear that she bore her misfortunes with greater philosophy than they have hitherto fancied. The story was first related by Ligon, who after praising poor Yarico's excellent complexion, which he says, was a bright bay,' and stating that she had small breasts, with nipples of porphyrie,' observes, that she chanct afterwards to be with child by a christian servant, and being very great, walked down to a woode, in which was a pond of water, and there, by the side of the pond, brought herself a-bed, and in three hours came home with the child in her arms, a lusty boy, frolicke and lively.”” GARRICK Had once occasion to file a bill in Chancery against an Attorney at Hampton, to set aside an agreement STEPHEN KEMBLE, In 1819, wrote the following acknow ledgment of a present: 66 TO MY DEAR FRIEND KEAN, ON HIS PRESENTING ME WITH A GOLD SNUFF-BOX. surreptitiously obtained for the pur-Thy gift, my friend, I value; not the chase of a house there; and whilst Edmund Hoskins, Esq. was preparing the draft of the bill, Garrick wrote him the following lines:— "TO HIS COUNSELLOR AND FRIEND, EDMUND HOSKINS, ESQ. TOM FOOL SENDS GREETING. "On your care must depend the success of my suit, The contest I mean 'bout the house in dispute; Remember, my friend, an attorney's my foe, And the worst of his tribe, though the best are so so. Che Wit's Nunchion. A QUERY ANSWERED.-During the 2 communicate the object of the interview. At length Lady C.'s patience became exhausted, and she eagerly exclaimed, “Come, Mr. K., OUT WITH IT! What's the use of SHILLY SHALLYING in this way?" The man of music was astonished, but having a very fine pedal harp to dispose of, he imagined the Countess wished to become a purchaser, and therefore observed, "That he presumed her ladyship, before matters were finally settled, would like to see his instru"Your instrument, sir!" ment?". cried her ladyship: "what INSTRU MENT?" Mr. K. begged pardon if he had mistaken the object of her ladyship's wishes, and politely enquired what he could do for her and for what purpose she had honoured him with the interview? The lady now became outrageous, and had not Mr. K. produced an ECLAIRCISSEprobably have fallen a victim to the MENT by exhibiting the note, he would indignation of the Dowager. ADVERTISEMENT. "Inhuman man! curse on thy barbarous heart, and blasted be thy murder aiming eye." TEN DOLLARS REWARD.-I will give the above reward, to any person that will inform me of the base poltroon, who, on the night of the 2nd instant, stabbed my DOG througli the fore shoulder. The poor inoffensive brute would not molest any person. Such is his character in the neighbourhood, and none but a base born scroundel would be guilty of such a cruel act. ROBERT HARBISON. SOME time since, a wicked wag wrote a letter in the name of Mr. Michael K-(the well-known singer and music-seller) to the Dowager Countess C requesting permission for him (Mr. K) to wait on her ladyship the following day at one o'clock," on very particular private business;" and at the same time dispatched another in the lady's name to Mr. K. requesting to see him at the same hour. Mr. SPORTING PUN.-On the Duke of K.accordinglyattended at the appoint- York's Moses winning a match at ed time, and found the Countess Ascot, his Royal Highness was obanxiously waiting his arrival. After served to look very thoughtful. A the usual salutations, her ladyship re-spectator asked his companion what quested her visiter to seat himself be- he imagined the Royal Sportsman side her on the sofa, where, for the could be pondering on? Why, you' space of five minutes, they sat in a know," replied he, "that the duke state more easily imagined than de- is a bishop, and he is doubtless thinkscribed, each expecting the other to ing of Moses and the Profits.” 66 Printed and Published by T. WALLIS, Canulen Town; and Sold by Chappell & Son, Royal Exchange Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate ; Harris, Bow Street, Covent Garden; J. Duncombe, Little Queen tree i Halborn; Edmonds, Little Bell Alley, Coleman Street; Jamieson, Drke's Court, King, Chancery Lane, ands may be had of all Booksellers and Newsmen in Town and Country,--J'rice One Penny. ASSASSINATION OF RIZZIO. THE life and unfortunate death of Rizzio, the favourite of Queen Mary, with the preceding and succeeding particulars of the event, are, no doubt, known to most of our readers: but, considering the following brief sketch to contain some additional interesting features of the transaction, we fell it encumbent on us to lay it before our weekly guests-The castle of Edinburgh is well situated, and in those days, when fire-arms were not used, was probably impregnable. The furniture and hangings of the rooms are preserved in which the unhappy Mary lived, and, in particular, of that in which her favourite Rizzio was murdered. The room itself, where he received the first wound, and where he clung round his royal mistress for protection, is small: the dark stair-case, on which the conspirators planted themselves, leads into it. Hence he was dragged, and, with innumerable stabs, expired in an adjoining chamber. The blood to this hour remains on the floor; nay, so deeply has it penetrated, that the boards, although repeatedly plained, are still the recorders of that bloody deed. Dr. Robertson's account of it, in his History of Scotland," is as follows: 66 "On the 9th of March, 1566, Morton entered the court of the palace, with a hundred and sixty men, and, without noise, or meeting with any resistance, seized all the gates. While the queen was at supper, with the Countess of Argyle, Rizzio, and a few domestics, the king suddenly entered the apartment by a private passage. At his back was Ruthven, with that ghastly and horrid look which long sickness had given him: three or four of his trusty accomplices followed. Such an unusual appearance alarmed those who were present. Rizzio instantly apprehended that he was the victim at whom the blow was aimed, and, in the utmost |