NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



THE WILL TO BE GREAT. Earl Dudley is dead, and has occa- 

 sioned by his last will, greater employment for scandal than he ever 

 did during his life, and that was needless. The deceased nobleman 

 was determined that the public should be made acquainted with the 

 extent of their loss ; and has therefore commemorated his talens de 

 societe, in annuities of thousands and of hundreds. Like most gentle- 

 men of eastern habits, he was capricious, and partial in the extreme ; 

 for there were several other ladies of respectability who had an equal 

 claim to the Earl's golden regards, as that highly-gifted and fortunate 

 pair, who seem so especially to have merited his worship's esteem. 

 Earl Dudley possessed in a remarkable degree, an unpleasant pecu- 

 liarity that of speaking his thoughts aloud. On one occasion, he 

 was driving his cabriolet across Grosvenor-square, in his way to 

 Park-lane, when he overtook an acquaintance, Mr. Luttrell, we be- 

 lieve. It was raining rather sharply, and his lordship goodnaturedly 

 invited the pedestrian to ride. They drove along until they had 

 nearly arrived at Lord Dudley's mansion, where Mr. L. having given 

 no hint of wishing to alight, the Earl unconsciously exclaimed aloud, 

 what many would only have thought under similar circumstances 

 to the extreme horror of his fashionable companion, ' Damn this fel- 

 low, I suppose I must ask him to dine with me ! " 



HIEROGLYPHICAL EMBLEMS. The public are informed by the 

 daily prints, that a hatchment is placed on the front of the late Earl 

 Dudley's mansion, in Park-lane. We hope to see the day when 

 griffins and hobgoblins will be at a discount, when the worthand nobi- 

 lity of a family will be transmitted to posterity by some more pleasant 

 symbol than a puppy dog's head, or a bear's paw. The ignorance of 

 our Yankee friends in this particular branch of aristocratical study, 

 is quite refreshing. A sprig of nobility, who resides at New York, 

 wished to enlighten Jonathan, and therefore ordered from England 

 the die of his own paternal crest, the emblem of a noble house a 

 mitre. From this die many mitres were cast, intended for the adorn- 

 ment of his harness, which was studded with the glittering insignia, 

 and exposed by the proud tradesman to the delighted gaze of the 

 New York beau monde. When the harness was sent home, the die 

 was demanded by the owner ; but the sadler begged the loan {of it 

 a few days, as he had received above thirty orders for sets of harness, 

 with the same ornaments ! At this profanation, of course, the sprig 

 was horror-struck, and much to the surprise of the tradesman, gave 

 an indignant refusal. It was rather singular for New York, that the 

 reputation of its citizens should have been preserved, by aristocratic 

 prejudice; for some future Mrs. Trollope would not have scrupled to 

 have written them down as citizen-bishops, galloping about, heed- 

 less of their sacred duties. 



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