Singular instances of the duration of Human Life . [Aug. 1/ 
just bestowed upon his poor house and 
household, in deigning for a short time 
to sojourn with him on your route. 
44 4 As a slight mark of his sense of so 
much courtesy, and the delight he felt 
in your society, he trusts you will not 
refuse some little token of his friend* 
ship, receiving it with the same gentle¬ 
ness and affection that you partook of 
his mansion’s hospitality and the com¬ 
pany of his dearest friends. He further 
assured me that he had never before 
had the happiness of meeting with one 
of equal taste, knowledge, and accom¬ 
plishment. Indeed, after the nicest and 
most accurate observation of your man¬ 
ners and deportment, he declares he 
has been unable to detect the least flaw 
in your character as a gentleman, and 
a man of honourable discourse and 
breeding, 
“ Of high thoughts seated in a heart of 
courtesy.” 
Nevertheless, in regard to little habits 
of behaviour, he hasobserved one thing, 
of which he thinks it is his duty to re¬ 
mind you, in order that not a blemish 
may be seen in a character he esteems 
so highly. This is nothing but an un¬ 
becoming trick you have at table of 
mumbling your jaws and teeth in such 
a manner as rather to resemble a mill 
grinding in a high wind, than a person 
quietly eating his dinner. My master 
entreats of you, to receive in good part, 
this little present , of his reprehension 
of such an ungentlemanly habit, in one 
of otherwise most unblemished man¬ 
ners. lie is sensible that there is not 
perhaps another person living, who dare 
offer such a remark to your face, and 
that nothing but a high degree of esteem 
and affection could have led him to 
adopt this method of correcting so un- 
amiable a fault.’ 
44 The Count, who had never dreamed 
of being subject to this defect, blushed 
deeply at hearing these words, but im¬ 
mediately recovering himself, with the 
air of a true gentleman, replied, 4 Tell 
my good friend, the Bishop, that I 
heartily thank him for his trouble, and 
that if such tokens of friendship were 
of more common occurrence among 
men, there would be much more real 
politeness and liberality of feeling 
among us, much more ease and free¬ 
dom in our social intercourse, and less 
acrimony and offence taken in differ¬ 
ence of opinion, and often on the 
slightest occasions. Once more assure 
him from me, that I shall certainly 
profit by his advice, and prove my gra¬ 
titude to him by diligently attending, 
as far as in my power, to remove the 
disagreeable cause of our conversation. 
And now farewell, Signor Galateo, you 
have conducted yourself like an able 
ambassador on this occasion, so a plea¬ 
sant ride back to Verona, and God bless 
you 
In a similar way, we believe, we 
must for the present repeat the Count’s 
words to our readers, and content 
ourselves with referring them to our 
future pages for the sequel of the po¬ 
lite treatise of Galateo. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine , 
SIR, 
I TAKE leave to communicate to 
your extensively circulated Maga¬ 
zine the following curious and singular 
instance of the duration of human life 
in a village near the metropolis, and in 
our own times. 
On Sunday the 27tli of May, being on 
a visit at the beautiful little village of 
Broxbourne, in Hertfordshire, I learnt 
that within the last seven months, 
thirteen persons had died, whose 
united ages amounted to one thousand 
and seventy-seven years. The young¬ 
est was seventy years, and the oldest 
eighty-nine. 
The first was on the 19th October, 
1820, and the last on the 24th May, 
1821, and they stand in the register as 
follows: 
Susannah Cheshire . . 88 
Mary Stanford (the youngest) 70 
Henry Pearse ... 80 
Richard Reynolds ... 85 
Ann Baker .... 83 
William White ... 83 
Daniel Wood .... 77 
Sarah Clark .... 76 
William Marshall ... 88 
George Hale (the eldest) . 89 
William Levias ... 88 
Peter White .... 86 
Mary Lewin .... 84 
London , June 11, 1821. J. E. 
STATISTICAL ERRORS in the ENCY 
CLOP^EDIA BRITANNICA. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine . 
SIR, 
T HE utility of that useful class of 
book Compilations , is so obvious 
as to require little comment. To the 
excellence of those with which you have 
favoured the world, every one who has 
seen them will bear testimony. It is 
not, however, my present purpose to 
praise either them or you ; but to find 
fault with another of much greater 
pretensions, 
