1821.] 'Slephtnsiana, 



gcanliy, IciKling; more to enrich a 

 ravenous undertaker, in licljiing liim 

 «ff with his old rotten tattered wares, 

 Ihiin 1o do any true or real honour to 

 the deed, I desire that mine may be 

 tlonc in llie plainest manner, %¥ithout 

 any esenlcheons or atcliievements be- 

 ing pot upon tiic house where 1 shall 

 happen to die. And I do hereby far- 

 ther desire, that none m;iy be invited 

 to my bnria), and that no one relation 

 of any kind, or friend whatsoever, do 

 put Ihcmselves into any kind of mourn- 

 ing for me ; for, though it be custo- 

 mary and natural for people througii 

 their weakness and infirmities to grieve 

 and aflliet Ihemselvcs for departed 

 friends, I think it more rational for 

 then), according to the custom of 

 eastern countries, to rejoice at their 

 being delivered from a ridiculous 

 world, full of plagues and continual 

 vexations of one kind or another. — 

 Item, I will and desire, lliat none 

 attend me to my grave, unless a ser- 

 vant or servant*, with one coach ami 

 a hearse, and the parish-officers to put 

 me in ; and I would be buried in the 

 church of Stoke Ncwin^ton, in the 

 county of Middlesex, and be carried 

 at or after twelve o'clock at night, that 

 gazing friols may be in bed ; but, if it 

 bhould be an inconvenient hour for the 

 parson to sit up so late, then 1 would 

 be carried out of London at that time, 

 and lodged at some inn or otlicr house 

 at Ncwington, and buried at eight 

 o'clock the following morniyg." 



M. liOUHOURS. 



Few lovers, even in the days of 

 ancient chivalry, i/evoted themselves 

 either with so much aflection or con- 

 slamy to their mistresses as Uouhours 

 ever did to the I'lencii language. 

 When on his death-bed, he turned 

 round towards those who surrounded 

 liini, and spoke as follows: — "Jevais 

 ou je viis vwiu ir, car I'nn et Vaulre se 

 ttit." The philologist vindicated his 

 love of grammatical j)ropriety with his 

 last breath, and, in the language of 

 onr I'ope — 

 l''iiiUKi Ills ruling passion strong in death. 



SCANUEIti;EG. 



1"he pid>lic has never yet been in 

 possession of a life of Scanderbeg, a 

 Work lliat would doubtless bo very 

 intcreslirig to all such as en(]uire into 

 the manners, military constitutions, 

 and circumstances, of governments 

 and people in i)ast ages. Scanderbeg 

 was bred a 'I'urk, and at tiu! age of 

 (t>tty became a Christian, boon alter, 



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47 



he asserted his hereditary right to the 

 principality of Albania, and recovered 

 it. In various fields of battle, in num- 

 berless encounters with tlic enemies 

 of his country, he performed prodigies 

 of valour, and evinced such a know- 

 ledge of (he military art, in a defensive 

 war, as it is difficult to lind a jiarallel 

 for in history. With a feeble garrison, 

 jie defended his little city Croja against 

 all the Turkish host, under Amuralli 

 II. and dared to contend with a 

 greater foe, Mahomet If. In the 

 conspicuous atcliievements of this 

 hero, valour might seem a principal 

 sul)ject, as the military power of the 

 Turks was then at its height ; but, 

 though brave to conquer, Scanderbeg' 

 was braver still, in restraining thoso 

 sons of violence oftener by stratagera 

 than by force. An history of the cam- 

 jiaigns of this great and noble-minded 

 captain would justly demand the 

 respect, admiration, and esteem, of all 

 who regard war as a necessary evil, 

 employed by God to punish itself. 



DR. SHEKBEAUE. 



The late Dr. Shebbeare was accus- 

 tomed to tell his friends, that the day 

 he stood on, althougli not in, the pillory 

 at Charing Cross, for a libel on the 

 g»-andfather of the very king who pen- 

 sioned him, "was the proudest in his 

 w hole life." It was also, perhaps, one 

 of tiie richest ; for the subscription 

 then procured amounted to more than 

 live hundred guineas. 



REVENGE. 



Tlie following was commtmicated to 

 me, by a friend of John Pliilip Kembic, 

 as a circumstance whicli occurred in 

 Worcestershire. Two lads were -en- 

 gaged in robbing an orchard, and 

 alterwards one of them impeached tlic 

 other; for which his companion swore 

 bitterly tiiat, one day or other, he 

 would be revenged. They arrived at 

 the age of manhood, when the injured 

 retired from business to a countj' far 

 from his native one. 'J'he impeacher 

 had adopted a sea-faring life; and, at 

 length being shipwrecked, was taken, 

 apparently lifeless, to the house of an 

 ag<!d man, who was bcdiidden ; he did 

 not see his guest, who lay in the next 

 room to him. While the sailor was 

 recovering, he recounted to the UKiid- 

 scrvaiit several incidents of his life, 

 which were heard by the bedridden 

 man in the next apartnunt, and, con- 

 vinced he was the object of his 

 ancient pique, in the dead of night ho 

 roused Ijiniself sullicieiitly to crawl on 



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