THE Long Main fought in the RACES APPOINTED IN 1809. T. Vane, Bart. and C. J. Brand of which the following is a state- Greeks, was not accompanied by CAPT. CADOGAN V. LORD PAGET. AFTER some equivocation on the part of the aggressor in this modish affair, a meeting has occurred between Lord Paget and Captain Cadogan, the brother of Lady Wellesley. It will be found, on reference to another part of this Number of our Magazine, that this meeting terininated without bloodshed, and the parties remain unscratched and uninjured. As there is no reason to doubt. the courage of Lord Paget or his antagonist, let us pause to make some enquiry into the causes of this mutual forbearance, in a contest which had for its impulses some of the most urgent calls that were ever made upon personal honour. The rape of Helen, which caused the ten years siege of Troy, and the death of a host of renowned such high points of aggravation : but Menelaus had not been broken in to connubial tractability, by infinite examples of expedient forbearance: nor had the courts of Agamemnon and Ulysses been contaminated with monthly commutations, between the infidelity of the wife, and the policy of the husband. To what causes are we to attribute the present forbearance from duelling, when the seduction of a wife is in question, which is unquestionably a stake of the greatest value; and the common promptitude for that summary and effectual mode of decision, when other points of anger are in consideration, and comparatively of little moment ?— There has been certainly a twist in human affairs during the last twenty years, and the value of a lady's honour has been thrown in, among other articles of aboriginal estimation, into the scale of depreciation; otherwise we assuredly should not see so many husbands, brothers, and relatives, of bemired beauty, treating the disloyalty of a wife, a sister, and a friend, with as much philosophic indifference, as if a china utensil of the family had been accidentally thrown down and destroyed, and that another could be purchased in the market-place : thus putting affection, sympathy, and responsibility, entirely out of view! Moderation is a virtue, and although not one of the first in the catalogue of noble sensations, its utility is universally confessed :— moderation is the harbinger of peace, and, when well managed, may be rendered equally tributary to social as well as moral interests. A French moralist hath affirmed— "Il est souvent plus a propos de ne pas faire semblant de tout voir, que ין . que d'en venir a de grand eclats, qui ont toujours des retours facheux. Peu de gens sont assez maitres de leurs ressentimens, ou de leur depit, pour se moderer quand ils s'apperçoivent qu'on les meprise, ou que l'on tient des discours qui blessent leur gloire." In elder times, the decision of a point of honour rested upon him who remained victor in the con -14 test; and notwithstanding the folly that attached to the supposition, that the more athletic combatant was the most virtuous, yet, as the contest was real, there was no ridicule attendant on the transaction. To feel an adequate resentment for a deep injury, committed against our peace or prosperity, is among the admitted impulses of our nature, although it does not receive countenance from either the Law or the Gospel. But to mingle our resentments with experience, on momentous occasions, is to make resentment a mere phantom, that is cautiously and studiously exhibited, to fulfil the commandments of fashion, but not to wash away the stains of a sullied dignity. These remarks are thrown out without any particular application. Like straws in a stream, they will adhere to the objects that lie in their way-Qui capit, ille facit. What is there in our atmosphere that should make matrimonial in fidelity so common? We have had two brothers (par nobile fratrum) carry off two married women within the last twelve months, with a limited detriment to their characters, but without any serious inconvenience to their persons: yet both the ladies were of noble families, who are in the habit of uttering poble sentiments! Has the frequency of sinning destroyed the elasticity of reproof; or is it in the designs of destiny to make us procreate independent of moral obligations ? W. DEATH OF MR. LAMBERT. IN our Magazine for the months of April and May, 1807, are given, biographical and sporting anecdotes of the famous Mr. Daniel Lambert, the whole consisting of upwards of eight pages. Of his DEATH, the accounts we have selected are as follow: "Stamford Mercury Office, June 24. "We have this day to swell our obituary with an article, which, if its extent might preserve a proportion with the magnitude of the subject upon which it treats, would exceed the limits of a newspaper, as much as the great Mr. DANIEL LAMBERT hath exceeded the common dimensions of mankind. We have to announce the death of that celebrated man, which took place in this town at half past eight o'clock on Wednesday morning last. Mr. Lambert had travelled from Huntingdon hither in the early part of the week, intending to receive the visits of the curious who might attend the ensuing races. On Tuesday evening he sent a message to the office of this Paper, requesting that, as "the mountain could not wait upon Mahomet, Mahomet would go to the mountain"'-or, in other words, that the printer would call upon him and receive an order for executing some hand-bills, announcing Mr. Lambert's arrival and his desire to see company. The orders he gave upon that occasion were delivered without any presentiment that they were to be his last, and with his usual cheerful ness, ness. He was in bed-one of large dimensions-(" Ossa upon Olympus, and Pelion upon Ossa")fatigued with his journey; but anxious that the bills might be quickly printed, in order to his seeing company next morning. Before nine o'clock on that morning, however, he was a corpse! nature had endured all the trespass she could admit the poor man's corpulency had constantly increased, until, at the time we have mentioned, the clogged machinery of life stood still, and this prodigy of mammon was numbered with the dead. "He was in his fortieth year and upon being weighed, within a few days, by the famous Caledonian balance (in the possession of Mr. King, of Ipswich), was found to be 52 stone 11lbs. in weight (14lbs. to the stone), which is 10 stone 11lbs. more than the great Mr. Bright, of Essex, ever weighed. —He had apartments at Mr. Berridge's, the Waggon and Horses, in St. Martin's, on the ground floor, for he had been long incapable of walking up stairs. His coffin, in which there has been great difficulty of placing him, is O feet 4 inches long, 4 feet 4 inches wide, and 2 feet 4 inches deep: the immense substance of his legs makes it necessarily almost a square A regular descent will be made, by cutting away the earth slopingly for some distance.-The window and wall of the room in which he lies must be taken down, to allow bis exit. He is to be buried at eight o'clock this morning." ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Died at Stamford, on Wednesday last, in his 41st year, Mr. Daniel Lambert, of Leicester. Mr. L. arrived there on the preceding evening, and was no otherwise indisposed than by a drowsiness, which he attributed to the fatigue of his journey the day before; it was soon after nine o'clock in the morning that he expired in his chair, whilst the barber was in waiting to shave him. He was unquestionably the largest man in Europe, and on being weighed at Cambridge within the last fortnight, had attained the enormous weight of 52st. 11lb. fourteen pounds to the stone. Mr. Lambert, during the last few years, has been so much before the public, that little more need be said; he possessed a humane and benevolent disposition, a great vivacity, and was an intelligent and pleasant companion; notwithstanding his extreme obesity, his body and limbs are said to have borne a very exact proportion to each other; in his youth he was an excellent swimmer, and has long been celebrated in the sporting world as a great breeder and feeder of cocks. His dogs sold at Tattersall's a short time since, prove the estimation in which he was held by Sportsmen of the first eminence. A THIRD ACCOUNT. On Wednesday morning the 21st of June, at Stamford, Mr. Daniel Lambert, of Leicester, the heaviest man |