IS'24.] Stephensiana, 



warranfs were consequently issued in 

 great number for London and its vici- 

 nity, and very earnest representations 

 were made to induce tiic lord major to 

 back tiieni. Tlic anlipatiiy of the citi- 

 zens to the measure is well known: 

 incompatible witii freedom, it must be 

 subversive of independanee ; and Sains- 

 hury of course refused the signature of 

 Iiis authority. So much, however, were 

 the government in wantoftlie levy, that 

 they sent tlic then lord chancellor, 

 Tiuirlow, to sec if he could reason or 

 force the riglit lion, the chief magistrate 

 into compliance. Sainsbury, however, 

 was obdurate ; the chancellor growled 

 in vain. Two points were relied on : 

 lirst, the proposition would surely dis- 

 tract the city, then very quiet ; and, 

 secondly, the men could be effectively 

 levied elsewhere. For some time they 

 talked on vainly to an issue, when the 

 chancellor rose, and, in his own rough 

 way, exclaimed, "Ah, my lord, you 

 may be a very good tobacconist, but 

 you're no politician." — " And you, ray 

 lord, (retorted the citizen,) may be a 

 very good lawyer and politician, but 

 you're no gentleman." — I do not know 

 that the parties shook hands, when 

 a further intimation from Sainsbury 

 nrgcd therude chancellor rather abruptly 

 to step to the other side of the door. 



SIR ISAAC NEWTON. 



i\Irs. Ixowc, of the Windmill public- 

 house, Darlford, her mother, grand- 

 father, and great grandfather, were born 

 in the same house as the above illustrious 

 character; and she declared, that the at- 

 traction to view the edifice was for many 

 years so great, as to furnish her parent 

 with very consideiable assistance, in her 

 pecuniary means, towards bringing up a 

 numerous young family ; but that the in- 

 tensity of curiosity was greatly abated 

 upon the house undergoing, a tiew years 

 previous to her motlur's death, consider- 

 able repairs and alterations ; viz. the great 

 front door was removed to make way 

 for another, the staircase was turned in 

 a diiferent direction, and (he old railing 

 in front of the house was taken entirely 

 away. Surely it was a sort of sacrilege 

 to rob so interesting a temple of philo- 

 sophy, where this prince of astronomers 

 once dwelt, of any portionof its original 

 features. Mrs. Kowc likewise informed 

 nie, that her mother, Mrs. Joceling, 

 discovered in a kind of recess, which 

 bad once formed the seat of a blocked- 

 up window, a capital printed (piarto- 

 si/.ed liible, nnicli injured through 

 dampness, in the inside of which ap> 



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peared the name of Sir Isaac Newton, 

 written by himself. 



DODD AND BIRCH. 



Dodd the comedian was as eminently 

 epicurean as any brother of the sock .- 

 one object of his particular fancy was a 

 black- pudding, made at that period, 

 with his wonted felicity, by old Birch of 

 Cornhill. To his little shop of many 

 sweets, Dodd often resorted of an eve- 

 ning, just at the time the puddings 

 came in hot from the baker's. 1 hap- 

 pened to be there once, just as Dodd 

 and the baker's boy entered together: 

 a few words of familiar civility were 

 exchanged between him and the girl 

 behind the counter, when old Birch 

 made his appearance on the stairs in his 

 dressing-gown. " What, ho ! vagrant, 

 (cried he,) what honest act art thou here 

 for?" " Good, my master, (returned the 

 other, after his theatrical fashion,) I 

 wait one of thy excellent black-pud- 

 dings." "Nay, dissolute, you whisper 

 ray maid : Sarah, girl, heed him not ; his 

 is no kith for thee. However, to bind 

 his favour, see he pays for one, but takes 

 two." — " Excellent, my master, (echoed 

 the arch player,) my favour is bound; 

 and prilhee see me do thy bidding. 

 Sarah, girl, heed me not : I pay for one, 

 and put it in this pocket; but take two, 

 and put them in the other pocket." 

 " Vagrant and cheat, not so," cried the 

 old confectioner; but the witty Dodd 

 vanished in a moment with the three 

 black-puddings. 



WINnSOR FOREST. 



It appears from the three reports laid 

 before the House of Commons, that 

 this forest was once of a nuich greater 

 extent than at present. The truth [ler- 

 haps is, that it was wrested by former 

 princes, like New Forest, in large por- 

 tions, from tiie subject, and has since 

 been privately apportioned to themselves 

 in small lots by the adjoining proprie- 

 tors. The recent encroachments now 

 claimed by the crown amount to about 

 500 acres. 



According to the inquisition and 

 perambulations in the lime of Charles I. 

 it extends into the five hundreds of 

 Ril)plcsmere, Cockham, Charlton, Mar- 

 grave, and Soninge, comprehending the 

 whole of some of them, and part only of 

 others. The entire parishes within the 

 forest are twelve in number; it extends 

 also into parts of live others ; it also con- 

 tains fifteen principal manors, to which 

 there are several subordinate or mesne 

 ones. 



According to the survey taken, and 



