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pleasing Voice, she used to go from ta- of her life never let the wretched ask 

 vern to tavern, to amuse different com- in vain '." 

 panics with songs after dinner; this diamonds, 



procured her an engagement at Drury- The cost of diamonds are only- 

 lane, where King Charles first saw her. known to the Asiatics; a despot em - 

 She had her influence over him, till ploys a whole territory, ten or twenty 

 not many hours before he dietl, for he thousand sonls, for a term of years to 

 begged the Duke of York " to be mind- wash the alluvial soil, and allows 

 ful of poor Nell!" » them a woe trifle per month or 



She resided at a splendid house in year. If the labour of ten thousand 

 St. James's-square, the back room of souls employed ten years is worth a 

 which, on the ground floor, was (with- great sum, how vast must be the worth 

 in memory) covered with looking- of the diamonds found by them ? 

 glasses; over the chimney was a beau- The Brazillian mines have a great 

 tiful picture of herself; in another advantage over those in the East Indies. 

 ' ■' ■ First, the diamonds are more nume- 

 rous, and there are fewer inferior in 

 proportion ; and secondly, a quantity of 

 gold is commonly found with them. 

 The wages (o the owners of negroes 

 who let them in this pursuit, is 6d. to 

 8d, per day: and with every advantage 

 these mines do not clear to the treasury 

 40,0001. per annum. 



A company of English gentlemen 



room was that of her sister. In this 

 house she died, in the year 1C9I, and 

 was pompously interred in the parish 

 church of St. Martin's in the Fields ; 

 Dr. Teunison, the then vicar, and 

 finally Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 preaciiing her funeial sermon. 



The sermon was afterwards brought 

 forward at court by Lord Jersey, to 

 impede the doctor's preferment ; but 

 Queen Mary havinghcard the objection, made a fund of 10,000 some years ago 



answered, " Well ! and what then ? 

 This I have heard before, and it is a 

 proof that the unfortunate woman died 

 a true penitent, who through the course 



in India, to work a diamond country 

 for ten years ; but at the expiration of 

 six years they gave it up with very con- 

 siderable loss. 



NOVELTIES OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. 



NOTICES relative to the state o/ pub- 

 lic INSTRUCTION and the pine 

 ARTS in SPAIN By M. G. A. Lo- 



RENTE. 



MIE literature of Spain, which has 

 I, been so long subject to the greatest 

 abuses, is likely to revive from its fatal 

 torpor, and to acquire (hat respect 

 which is paid to real learning, when 

 fixed on a firm foundation. The de- 

 crees of the Cortes, for a general plan 

 of studies, are excellent ; they merit 

 praise also, for their recommendations 

 of books, which are well selected, with 

 regard to their general tendency to pi'o- 

 mote science, art, and literature. 



The study of theology is to be pur- 

 sued on the ingenious and useful plan 

 of Lyou, in his " Institutions," a work 

 calculated to allure the mind from the 

 rigid employments of the old school 

 divinity, which was so mischievous, 

 considered in all its various eifects. 

 Spanish theologians will learn that a 

 new road is opened to the labours of 

 erudition, and that a reasonable respect 

 may be due to the successors of St. 

 Peter: b<it sincerity must make the 

 avowal that the abuses of that court 



and government have long interfered 

 with the rights of men, and that all 

 their zeal, application, and activity 

 have ever tended to augment the pon- 

 tifical power over the churches in their 

 communion. They will find, agreeably 

 to the testimony of the Apostle Paul, 

 that a bishop possesses all the great re- 

 quisites of spiritual authority within 

 his diocese; that the extent of his par- 

 ticular authority may be exactly ascer- 

 tained, witiiout a reference to the Holy 

 See ; that there is no want of adequate 

 knowledge to regulate matters of exte- 

 rior discipline, and that there is no real 

 occasion to appeal to Rome, unless for 

 a serious enquiry into some dogma that 

 may call for long and repeated consi- 

 deration. They will proceed to learn, 

 (what the philanthropy of Christianity 

 suggests) tliat there is an impropriety, 

 an inconsistency with every principle 

 of religious duty, in sending away the 

 money of Spain to swell the treasures 

 of Rome; that bulls and briefs were 

 not expedited during the first eight ages 

 of the church, and have only be^n 

 known in Spain since the 12th century. 

 And lastly, they will learn the funda- 

 mental 



