- three brothe 
283 E riracts from the Port-folto of a Man of Letiers. 
attended the adjacent meeting; and ob- 
serving a rock hard by, she either put up 
with a natural cave in the rock, or had a 
cell made therein, where she lived’ quite 
recluse, spinning for her employment. 
She told Sarah Taylor, that she ‘ enjoyed 
such contentment and peace, that she 
would not leave her cell and spinning- . 
wheel to be Queen of England.” She 
had been at most of the European courts, 
particularly the Hanoverian and Prus. 
sian; and the Pretender being her sup- 
posed brother, she once. travelled by 
chaise into Scotland to see him. 
DR, DARWIN. 
The late Dr. Darwin had an impedi- 
ment in his speech: he was sent for by 
a lady who was ill of a violent cold: she 
was a constant church-goer in ail wea- 
thers. The doctor observed, that. she 
might thank the d 
cold. “The lady was quite shecked, which 
the doctor perceiving, rectified the error 
by saying, ‘ Madam, I said, that you 
might thank the d—d—d damp church 
for your cold.” 
FAMILY PRIDE. 
A notorious culprit, who suffered some 
yéars since at Salisbury, and the last of 
ers who had been executed 
for similar offences, after sentence was 
passer d, said, “ My Lord, Thumbly thank. 
you.”—lhis lordship astonished, asked 
him for what? “ Because, my Lot so Pie 
thought I should have been hung in 
chains, which would haye been a ‘dis- 
grace to the family.” 
iad ss of EDwaRpD I11. the Battles 
of CRESSY, AGINCOURT, HENRY V. Se. 
W hen the war commenced between 
Philip le Bel, and the Earl of Flanders, 
Edward {11. 
rings. 
his wife, F 
sigh deeply. 
reason. 
king, your brother, is 
wished to serve the Fle- 
Being in bed with the queen, 
Philip’s sister, he atfécted’ to’ 
The gueen asked him the 
betrayed, and 
through treachery will soon -be. in ‘the 
hands of his enennes; but it 1s a secret 
which I confiie to you.” The queen got 
up very early in the morning, and wrote 
what she had heard to her brother. The 
affrighted Prince: immediately broke up 
bis camp, leaving behind him all hisients 
and baggage. ‘Chronique de Gilles Le 
Miuisié, “MLS. 14 Cent. 
Jhis chronicler ascribes the defeat of 
the French at Cressy, to the smail resis- 
tance made hy the Genoese Cross-baw- 
men, They had left their armour among 
the baggage, ae so Pit gs not sustain the 
be, So yet wee 
d aakek for her — 
‘lives a 
“Tt is (said he) because the ° 
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discharge of>the English archers. He 
“makes the loss of the French only five 
thousand infantry, and seven hundred 
men at arms, or heavy-armed cavairy. 
The famous story of the six burghers ‘of 
Calais appears by our author, a cONe | 
temporary writer, to be.a fiction. Frois- 
sart is the only writer of the day who 
mentions it, 
event. tar 
Amelgard, a priest of Liege, in his 
Manuscript ‘Chronicle, c. 7x f. 6, ase 
cribes the success of Tenry V. to the 
prevalence of an unnatural crime among 
the French, and divine justice. ; 
He says, that at the battle of Agin- 
court, the French were four times more 
numerous than the English. He adds, 
but-without authority, that. Henry, be= 
fore resolving to try the issue of war, of- 
fered the restitution of Calais, and a 
large sum of money; and says, that at 
the instant the action was.going to com- 
mence, Henry harangued his troops in 
these words : 
hour is come when you must fight, not 
for glory and renown, but for life. The 
presumption and cruelty of the: French. 
are known; it-is certain, that if by fear 
and cowardice you sutier yourselves to. 
be conquered, they will not spare one of 
you, bat devour you like a flock of 
sheep. This bad fortune will not be 
mine, not that of the princes of my fa~ 
mily, because, under the bopes of draw- 
ing from us a heavy ransom, the enemy: - 
will be much more careful to preserve 
than to destroy us. But for you there 
is no resource, but in your courage ; and” 
you cannot flatter. yourselves, that the 
hope of profit will induce to spare your 
nation which bears you the most 
inveterate hatred. If then you prefer 
life to death, recollect, like heroes, the 
race from which yeu spring, the glory 
and the renown which the English have 
acquired in war, and fight bike valiant 
and courageous men, for the preservation. 
of your lives.” 
The writer of this has not the oppors 
tuni ty of comparing Thomas de Elmham 
‘with the above; but the reader will, no, 
‘doubt, be anused by contrasting it with 
the celebrated: speech of Shakspeare, 
Copy of a Letter from SiR PETER PEIT, 
to the Primate of aise, BOYLE, 
Anno. 1678. - 
May it please your Grate, seat 
If I had not the obligatiowen me to 
return your Grace my humble thankes 
. _ oy a +" . for. 
and he wrote long after the 
“ Dear and brave companions, the 
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