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1811.] Extracts from the Portfolio of a Mem of Letters. 
in the Old Bayley, where they demanded 
the person of Major-General Brown; but 
the lord iimior engaGed for his fortii-com- 
tiiing, and yave a saiisfactoiy answer to 
the officers who came to seize liis persoru 
From thence they marched to Guildinill, 
and other places in the city, deponing 
themselves with great civility, and, in 
obedience to the commandN of the lord 
general, quartered at Paul’s, Blackfnars, 
and oth.er places adjacent. His excel¬ 
lency likewise sent a declaratory message 
to the lord inaior, in older to tiie proceed¬ 
ings of the soldiery, a copy whereof fui- 
lowetii: 
My Lord, 
Having sent so often to you for the arreares 
due from the city, and desired sums of money 
to be advanced by you, far short of the sums 
due from you, yet I have been delayed and 
denied, to the hazard of the army and the 
prejudice of others in the suburbs on v/hom 
they are quartered ; whereof I thought fit to 
seize the said tre^surles. and to se^d some 
forces into the city to quarter there, untill I 
may be sadshed the arrears due unto the 
army ; and if this seem strange to you, ’tiS no 
less then that our forces have been ordered to 
do by parliament in the several counties of the 
kingoom where assessments have not been 
paid; and there to continue until! they have 
been paid j and, here give me leave to tell you, 
the counties of the kingdom have borne free 
quarter, and that in great measure for want of 
your paying your arrears tqiially with them. 
V/herefore these ways, if they dis’ike you, 
yet they are meerly long of yourselves, and 
are of as great regret to me and the army as 
yourselves, we wishing not only the good ?nd 
prosperity of your city, hut that things may 
be so carried towards you as may give no 
cause of jealousy. I thought fit to let you 
know, that if you shall take speedy course to 
supply U3 with 40,OU01. forthwith, according 
to my former desire, and provide speedily 
what also is in arrears, I shall not only cause 
the monies in the treasuries to be not made 
use of, but Icove them to be disposed as right 
they might, and also cause my forces to be 
withdrawn from being in any sort trouble¬ 
some or chargeable to the ci'y, and let the 
world judge wether this be not just and equal 
Mealing with you. 
I rest, my lord. 
Your affectionate servant, 
J. Fairfax. 
Anotlier extract follows; 
His excellency hath sent a message to the 
aldermen of London, requiring them to pro¬ 
vide and make provision tor the soldiery, in 
order to their accommodation for bedding, See. 
to be equally apportioned upon the several di¬ 
visions within their wards, and upon the seve¬ 
ral householders that are of f>bil>ty to furnish 
the same. 
PAPER ?rfONF.Y. 
The origin of Uiis spieciest-if circulating 
medium is perhaps of higher anticpiity 
than has been hitherto suspected. I'ht; 
Chinese, who appear to liave anticipated! 
so many of our most curious and useful 
invenijons, seem also to have a claim to 
this, for, in a curious compilation, enti¬ 
tled, “ The Manvern, Lttzos, and C/ualoinSy 
of all Nalionsd* firinted in 1611, it is 
said “ they (the Cliinese) have paper mo¬ 
ney four square, and stamped witii th« 
king’s im.nge, whicli, when it waxeth old, 
they change with tiie king fur cubic that 
is new stamped.” 
ABYSSIJtlA. 
In tlie above-mentioned wmrk the sa« 
vage Abyssinian custom of devouring 
raw flesh is explicitly asserted. “ The 
second courses in rheir greatest banquets 
consist of razo Jlesh, which, being finely 
minced into small pieces and strewed 
over with sweet spices, they feed upou 
most hungerly.”. 
SIR WAITER RAWLEIGII. 
It is reported,” (says VVinstanley) 
“of Sir Walter Rawdeigh, that, being a 
prisoner in the Tower, and expecting 
e^ery hour to be sacrificed to the S}>anish 
cruelty, some few days before be suffered 
he sent for Mr. Walter Burre, who had 
fo rmerly puhlislied iiis fir.st volume of ihe 
history of the world, whom, taking by 
the hand, after some other discourse, lie 
asked him how' that vvork of his had sold. 
Air. Bune returned this answer, that it 
sold so slowly time it had undone him. 
At which words Sir Walter, stepping to 
his desk, reaches the other part of his 
history to Mr, Burre, which he had 
brought down to the times he lived in; 
and, clapping his hand on liis breast, lie 
took tiie Ollier unpiinted part into his 
hand, with a sigh, saying, ‘ Ah, my friend, 
hath tiie first part undone thee? Tlie .se¬ 
cond volume shall undo no riiore, this- 
ungrateful world is tinwoi thy of itwhen, 
immediately going to the fire-side, he 
threw it ill and set his foot on it till it 
was consumed.” 
Sir,Walter resided at Lslington, and 
tlie house he once occupied is still .stand¬ 
ing, and is now a pubhc-iiouse knoivn by 
the name of “ 'Jhe Old Pied A 
parlour on the ground floor is still orna¬ 
mented with some curious devices in 
stucco, and the arms of the once i insiii- 
ous owner of the mansion yet remain on 
a pane of glass in the window. A tradi¬ 
tion is preserved here tfiat this was the 
first house in which tobacco was smoaked 
in Fnglaud, 
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