13822.) 
has given an heicrogeneous appear- 
anee, a romantic cast, to the whole 
sroundwork of our Constitution, as 
previously exhibited. Hine ille lach- 
Tyme. 
: SUGAR. 
<*Saccharum Arabia fert, sed lauda- 
tius India; est antem mel in harundi- 
nibus collectum gummium modo can- 
didum, dentibus fragile, amplissimum 
nucis avellane magnitudine, ad medi- 
cine tantum usum.’—Plin. Nat. Hist. 
xii. 8. During the Crusades, it ap- 
pears to have becn first used as food, 
during a scarcity, by Baldwin, second 
King of Jerusalem, on his march be- 
iween that city and Laodicca:—‘ At 
vero famem nonnihil levabant, arun- 
dines Meliias continué dentibus te- 
nentes quas Cunnamellas composito ex 
eann& et meile nomive, vocant: sic 
hi, omnind a Tripolitanis et Czesarien- 
sibus immenso wre necessaria nacti 
Jerosolymam venire.”—Malmesb. 81. 
MRS. ARMSTEAD, afterwards MRS. Ox, 
Was originally an orange-girl, and 
lived in or near Bishopsgate-street ; 
slie was seen and taken into keeping 
by Lord Bolingbroke, with whom she 
lived at Brooklands, and has been on 
ihe stage. My informant was a fe- 
male, who had been much in her com- 
pany, and was well acquainted with 
her history. From her I learned that 
Wirs. A. was very humble and becoming 
in her behaviour, in her family, and 
private secictics, as well as in the 
world at large: has been seen to go to 
Chertsey in a post-chaise, and take in 
a sack of flour with her. According 
to my information, she had a culti- 
vated mind; and it was added, “that 
she had got moncy by strange ways, 
but always laid it out with discretion.” 
Mrs. A. was very charitable to the 
poor; to any that. had lost a pig or a 
cow always gave a guinea; gives 
away coals during the winter. She 
lived at one time with Lord John 
Cavendish. 
FAMILY OF MANNERS. 
Old Manners, brother to the late 
Duke of Rutland’s father, amassed a 
large fortume by well and truly per- 
forming the character of a gamester. 
To him the old Duke of Devonshire 
lost the great estate of Leicester Ab- 
bey. He is represented as an usurer 
in the * Rake’s Progress,” 
DEAN SWIFT 
Happening to dine for the first time in 
company with Lady Burlington, and 
bis gown being rather rusty, she sup- 
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posed him to be some olergyman of 
inferior note, and mortifted him greatly 
by taking no notice of him whatsoever. 
After dinner the Dean said, “ Lady 
Burlington, I hear you can sing; 
come, sing me a song.” ‘Tne lady, 
being out of her turn, of course pe- 
remptorily refused; but, after telling 
her ihat he supposed he was taken 
“for some poor paltry English hedge- 
parson,” he actuaily drove her from 
the table in tears. Gn seeing her lady- 
ship next time, he said, ‘‘ Pray, ma- 
dam, are you as proud and ill-natured 
as when I saw you last?” To which 
she replied, with the greatest good- 
humour, ‘‘No, Mr. Dean; T will sing 
for you now, if you please :” and from 
that moment he treated her with the 
utmost respect. 
SIR G. SONDES. 
Sir George Sondes, bart, had two 
sons, arrived almost at the age of 
manhood. Tach had a suit of new 
_clothes, made of the same cloth, and 
trimmed alike in every thing, except 
that, for distinction sake, and by way 
of pre-eminence, the elder had gold 
buttons, and the younger silver; for 
which tbe latter bore his brother such 
a.grudge, that he barbarously murdex 
ed him in bed, by using first a cleaver, 
with which he split his skull, and then 
a stiletto, with which he stabbed him 
seven or cight times to the heart. 
After this blcody tragedy, he repaired 
to his father’s bed-side, and narrated 
all the circumstances. He was imme- 
diately apprehended, committed to 
Maidstone gaol, and executed soon 
after. The unhappy father published 
a narrative of the melancholy trans- 
action. ne 
HOLLAND 
Was originaily an island, known by 
the name of Batavia. The rivers are 
nuch the same now as in the time of 
Tacitus :—‘‘ Rhenus apud principium® © 
agri Batavi, velut in duos amnes divi- 
ditur, ad Gallicam ripam latior et 
placidior ; verso cognomento, Vahalem 
accolze dicunt, Mox id quaeque voca- 
bulum ornetat Mosa flumine ejusque 
immensi ore eunmgem in occanum 
effunditur.”.—How changed by com- 
¢ — KALMUCKS. 
Stewart, the walking traveller, told 
me that the Kalmucks extract from 
the milk of their mares two sorts of 
liquors; the former beidrs the name of 
houmtss, and the other is a kind of 
milk brandy. This Jatter they distil 
from 
