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had not reaped the leat advantage from 
her in point -of politics, till an accident 
happened that brought alsout in an inftant 
what he had long laboured at in vain. 
Being engaged as her partner in play, the 
run of luck turned againft them, and the 
Duchefs in the end was obliged to borrow of 
the Earl a thoufand piftoles. His Excellency 
told her, he had yet twice that fum at her 
Highnefs’s fervice, and prefled her to con- 
tinue play, which fhe abfolutely refufed. 
Next morning early, fhe fent a meflage 
to the Earl, defiring inftantly to fpeak 
with him. It is no unufual thing in France 
for ladies to receive morning vifits from 
gentlemen in bed ; neither was the Am- 
baffador at all furprized when he found 
himfelf alone in the chamber of one of the 
Princeffes of the blood-royal ;, fhe {poke of 
the money fhe had borrowed with fome 
concern, as a matter fhe was very unwil- 
ling fhould take air; but his Lordthip in- 
terrupted her, by faying, it was impofidle 
it Joould, for he bad already forgot it him- 
felf, and foould never have recollected it 
again, had not ber Highnefs put bis memory 
to ihe rack by refrefhing it. 
Her Highnels made no reply, but en- 
tered into a difcourfe on politics, in which 
fhe difcovered to him the project that the 
Court of Sweden was then meditating, in 
concert with France, for a defcent upon 
England and Scotland, in favour of the 
Houfe of Stuart, by which timely difco- 
very the whole fcheme was defeated, and 
his Excellency acquired the reputation of 
an able and a¢tive Minitter. 
VENERABLE BEDE. 
There is a paflage in Bede, highly com- 
mending the piety and learning of the 
Irifh in that age; but he overthrows all 
his praife in his termination of their cha- 
raster, in which he feems to imply, that 
all this piety and learning will be of no 
avail, becaufe they keep Eajter at a wrong 
time of the year. 
Memnirs of Eminent Perfous. 
145 
The late MR..MUILMAN:-and-CONSTAN- 
Tia PHILLIPS. 
In the early part of Mr. Muilman’s Tife.. 
he became enamoured with Conftantia 
Phillips, and, finding he could not procure 
her as a miftrefs, refolyed to venture upon 
her as a wife. They..were accordingly 
married ; but as their difpofitions were not 
exaly fimilar, they were not fuperlatively 
happy. ‘Mr. Muilman,”” faid Conftan- 
tia, after they had been married about 
three months, *¢ Mr. Muilman, I believe 
you are heartily tired of me, and [ am 
heartily tired of you; fo if you will fettle 
five hundred pounds a year upon me for 
life, Iwill put you in a way of diffolv- 
ing our marriage.’” He eagerly embraced 
this propofal, and gave her his bond for 
performance of the contraét, and fhe pro- 
duced a certificate of her previous mar- 
riage with a paltry cook, who lived in 
Maiden-lane, Covent-garden. This point 
being afcertained, Mr. Muilman refufed 
to pay her the promifed annuity, and to 
her forrow fhe found that there was a flaw 
in the drawing up the bond, which put 
it out of her power to compel him to ‘pay 
it. She therefore told him that unlefs he 
‘entered into a new and legal engagement 
to pay it, fhe would take a ftep that would 
render her marriage with him perfectly 
legal. He laughed at her, but fhe per- . 
formed her promife, by bringing a certi- 
ficate, and producing a regifter, by which 
it appeared, that the Maiden-lane’ paftry- 
cook, previous to his marriage with her, 
had married another woman, who was ftill 
alive. 
This difconcerted the merchant, who, 
however, got quit of her importunities, 
by giving her a confiderable fum, on con- - 
dition of her going to Jamaica, where the 
fettled as keeper of a coffee-houfe, and died 
foon after. : 
MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. | 
—— Eee 
ANECDOTES of GERMAN AUTHORS aad 
AUTHORESSES reéfiding at WEIMAR iz 
SAXONY. he 
(Continued from p. 43:) 
HERDER 
§ General fuperintendant, Vice-prefi- 
dent of the Confiftory, and Infpector 
of all the Schools and Inftitutes in the 
Duchy of Weimar. This celebrated and 
excellent man, as well as his amiable fa-- 
Montury Mac: No. 70 
mily enjoy in high degree the favour 
of the Duchefs Amalia, who is very | 
fond of having him in her company. Ia 
his pulpit difcourfes, which feem deftined 
to glorify the principal feftivals. of the 
Chriftian year, he fometimes takes too 
high a poetical flight, whereby they are 
rather too much above the comprehenfion 
of common hearers. The cultivated part 
“of the, congregation are greatly delighted 
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