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tleman called Nicharchus to the audience observes, ‘He 
is small, I confess; but there is nothing lost in him: all 
is knave that is not fool.’’?— The Caztons, ce. ii. p. 24. 
One of the stalest jokes %S that of the poet, who 
left the first two lines of a stanza on his desk, — 
“ The sun’s perpendicular height 
Illumined the depth of the sea, — 
and on his return found that a friend, who called 
in his absence, had added, — 
“The fishes, beginning to sweat, 
Cried, ‘ D—— it, how hot we shall be!’” 
Yet Sturzenbecher tells it of our contemporaries 
Fahlkranz and Atterborn : 
“Fahlkranz wollte eines Tages Letzerem einen Besuch 
machen, fand ihn aber nicht zu Hause. Als er das Zimmer 
verlassen wollte, bemerkte er auf dem Pulte des Dichters 
ein Papier mit einem angefangenen Gedichte: es waren 
nur zwei Zeilen, welche in dem wohlbekannten phospho- 
ristischen Style beschrieben, wie die Sonne einen Fluss in 
ein ‘Feuermeer’ verwandelte. Sie hiessen: 
“ Die Sonnenstrahlen brannten und schufen 
Aus dem Fluss einen Feuerpfiihl ”»— 
“ Fahlkranz nahm die Feder und schrieb weiter: 
“(Und die Fische schwitzen und rufen, 
Potztausend, wie wird’s hier so schwiil!” 
Die Neuere Schwedische Literatur, p. 111. 
Horace Twiss is said to have replied to some- 
body who told him a very “old Joe” as the last 
good thing, and asked if he had heard it before : 
“ Never, with those names.” 
The compilers of the “ Varieties ” columns for 
provincial newspapers are bold violators of chro- 
nology in their Millerisms, of which I have a col- 
lection. Some day I will put together a few 
specimens for your amusement. H. B. C. 
Garrick Club. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAY. 
“ The Journal of the Parliament in Ireland,” &c., 
March 25, 1689. — 
(Concluded from p. 428.) 
“A LETTER FROM DUBLIN, 
June the 12th, 1689. 
“J, for some particular reasons, resolved not to write 
to you any more, especially being uncertain whether you 
received my former, or if you did, whether they were of 
any use; but the particular reason of my not writing, 
being partly ceased, I consider it is no great matter if I 
lose my pains. I hope to send you an Abstract of what 
has been done in the House of Lords and Commons, 
having a promise of such an Account from those that 
know them. We have had three Expresses from Eng- 
land; John Browne the Lawyer came over about a Fort- 
night ago from Millford, and landed at Waterford; Sir 
J—— C——’s Son came in a Wherry, aud landed about 
Wickloe, but that which was most material, was from the 
Lord M. by some Quakers that came last Week hither in 
a Wherry; some the like went yesterday back to you, we 
have several l’xpresses sent over to you that way; anda 
strict Imbargo, least any should follow and discover them. 
You must not expect the secret of their Messages from 
me, only ’tis reported, that John Browne brought no 
Letters with him, but come over with a design to save 
his Iron-works from the new Proprietors: I hear that 
upon his Petition to the Parliament, the Possession is 
secured to him by a Proviso, he paying Rent: He reports 
that England is unanimous, and that we must expect an 
invasion by the next Easterly Wind: The Quakers and 
Crossby talk likewise of an Invasion, but represent the 
People of England as dissatisfied. I find there is still an 
expectation and dependance on Scotland, tho’ not so 
strong as at first: we talk very contidently of a Fleet 
and fifteen Thousand Fusileers from France; the French 
Fleet to consist of eighty Men of War: I verily believe 
there is something in it; without some such aid, Ireland 
does appear but an easie Conquest, which is not the 
French Interest. The misery of this Town is very great, 
some being little better than Dragoon’d by the Quarter- 
ing of Souldiers; some have ten, some twelve, some 
twenty or thirty quarter’d on them; and yet I cannot 
find, that besides what came in to day, there were above 
three thousand and odd Men in Town; but the reason is 
plain, each man has many Quarters, and some Captains 
make thirty or forty Shillings a Week by them; they 
come in by twelve, one, or two of the Clock by night, to 
demand Quarters, and turn people out of their Beds, beat, 
wound, and sometimes rob them. There are two or three 
hundred Priests in Town, and they are quarter’d likewise 
as the Souldiers; and so are generally Noblemen and 
Gentlemen, with their Retinue, tho’ not actually in the 
Army. I have sent you the new Establishment of the 
Forces, only I think four Regiments of Horse, and some 
of Dragoons, are not yet raised. I hear all those People 
call’d Rapperees, or Half-Pike-men, are to be muster’d 
and arm’d; Commissions are signing for all that can bear 
arms in the Kingdom. Duke of Tyrconnel disbanded 
2600 a few Weeks ago, which are all entertained again, 
or at least as many as will come in; but we are most 
strangly uncertain in ‘all our Counsels, which is visible 
not only in this, but in every thing else: One day the 
Camp near Dublin is to go on, and they work close at it, 
then it is intermitted and laid aside: one day we are to 
go into England, and send a Declaration before us, and to 
be restored; another day we are frightned with a rumour 
of an Army landing out of England, to drive us out or 
all; yet the King seems very well contented, and plea- 
sant; he sleeps, eats, and is in better health than usual. 
Tuesday the 4th instant, we had an Alarum that Derry 
was burnt with Bombs, that the King’s Army had taken 
it, and put all in it to the Sword; Nugent of Carlands- 
town brought this Me into the House of Commons, 
just when they were "putting to the Vote, whether they 
should prosecute the Impeachment against Judge Dally ; 
some think Nugent, being his Friend, did it designedly ; 
the News was received with loud Huzza’s, and in that 
good and jolly humour they acquitted the Judge: But 
our Friday’s Express brought us another account, which 
was, That the King’s Forces had endeavoured to regain 
the Wind-Mill-hill, out of which they had been beaten 
by the Sally when Ramsey the King’s General was kill’d, 
but that they were beaten off with great loss; this was 
on Tuesday, and by computation about the same time the 
Huzza was made in the House of Commons. Col. Dor- 
rington and Col. Nugent, two of the briskest Officers of 
the King’s Army, are desperately wounded, if not dead. 
Tis reported, that seven Field-Officers were killed or 
taken, and about thirty other Officers, We have no cer- 
tain account of the Souldiers, the best account says, three 
hundred fell: "Tis said they run away, and left their 
Officers in the lurch. I am promised a List of the Officers 
that were killed: It is said that there are not above fiye 
thouggnd in the King’s Camp at Derry, notwithstanding 
