1838 Evxiracis from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. [Sept. 13 
to near forty. Each chapter is also de- 
corated with a most beautiful head and 
tail piece, and the margins are e.egantly 
ornamented with the pen, in imitation of 
the ancient illuminated manuscripts, At 
the beginning of the book, the arms of 
Essex are neatly delineated, with fifty six 
quarterings, and on the fifth leaf, is her 
own picture, drawn with a pen, in the 
dress of the day. Another manuscript 
of her’s, is deposited in the Library of 
Christ Church. This contains the 
Psalms in French, and was presented by 
the writer of it to Queen Eligabeth. In 
the British Museum also, is preserved 
ss Esther Ingles’s Fifty Emblems,” which 
are beautifully written, and decorated 
with delineations. This bears the daté 
of 1624. 
QUEEN HENRIETTA. 
Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I. 
was, at the death of her father, Henry 
1V. but newly born. Barberini, who 
was afterwards Pope Urban VIII. being at 
tliat time Nuncio in France, came to offer 
his congratulations on her birth, and 
found that the Queen Mother would have 
been better pleased, to have produced a 
son. Madam, said he, I hope before I die, 
to see this your youngest daughter a 
great queen. And I, replied the Queen, 
liope she ‘will live to see you a Pope. 
These prophetical compliments were 
strictly verified, and that too within a 
short time of each-other. 
METEMPSYCHOSIS, ~ 
The very ancient doctrine of the trans- 
migration of the soul still prevails in 
many parts of the East, where itis faceti- 
ously said, that the souls of Poets animate, 
aiter death, the bodies of Grasshoppers, - 
as these insects usually sing .till they 
starve. 
_ ST. PAUL’s. ; 
It is well known that the motto, ( Re- 
surgam) underneath the Pheenix, over 
the south portico of S:. Paul’s, is said ta 
have arisen from the following cireum- 
stance, Sir Christopher Wren, having 
fixed upon the spot for the centre of the 
great dome, desired a flat stone to be 
brought to him from among the rubbish, 
to leave thereasamark. This happened 
to be a grave stone, with only the word, 
Resurgam (I shall rise) inscribed upon 
it, which was considered by the achitect 
as a most favorable omen. Now, Henry 
King, Bishop of Chichester, who died in 
1618, was buried in the choir of St. 
Paul’s, under a plain stone, with only 
the memorable word Resurgam upon it. 
Is it not therefore probable that this was 
the very stone that was brought to Sir - 
Christopher ? 
ANTOINETTE BOURIGNON. 
The annals of superstition, are, alas, 
lamentably voluminous. Minds natu- 
rally ardent, when unoccupied by objects 
suited to their magnitude and ex- 
tent, are the soils in which this baleful 
plant takes the deepest root. Antoinette 
Bourignon was born at Lisle, in Fland- 
ers, in 1616. She appears, from her 
childhood, to have possessed a singular 
and contemplative turn of mind, and the 
affluence of ber parents afforded her an 
Opportunity of making some proficiency 
in literary attaimments. In more ad- 
vanced life, she wore the garb of an her= 
mit, and travelled through many parts 
of Europe, propagating ideas of the 
wildest and most visionary east. Joanna 
Southcott, a fanatical visionist of the pre- 
sent day, seems to be an humble imitator 
of this extraordinary woman. Like her, 
she professes to be exclusively acquainted 
with that knowledge, which is necessary 
to salvation; and_ like her also, she. 
places herself upon an equality with the 
Virgm Mary!!! They boast alike of 
personal communication with the deity, 
and assume in common a_ prophetic 
knowledge of future events. The vul- 
gar and incomprehensible productions 
of Joanna, are not however to be com- 
pared with those of Madame Bourignon, 
for the latter really contained much good 
sense, though almost inseparably blended 
with her peculiar enthusiastic notions. 
Her principal works are, “ The Light of 
the World,’ and the “ Testimony of 
Truth;” and these, with her other 
writings, make 18 vols. 8vo. The pen 
of her successor has, for the short period 
of her pretended inspiration, been equally 
prolific. Madame Bourignon died ia 
1680, at the age of 64. rs 
: -LUDULPHUWS. 
This man in his Vita Christi, pars i. 
cap. 56, says, ** that the body of Christ 
was in the Host, -as great in quantity, as 
he was upon the cross ;” and judiciously 
adds, ‘* It is therefore marvellous how so 
great a man can be hid under so small a 
form.” 
CLEMEN’S, (FORGED WORKS, 1.) © ~ 
In his first Epistle, he informs St. 
James of the order and manner, of the 
death of St. Peter; yet it is certain, that 
Clement undoubtedly knew. it, that 
James was put to death seven years be-= 
fore St. Peter. . . 
ANTHERUS, (FORGED WORKS, li.) 
In his first Epistle, he mentions Eu- 
sebius, 
