great difficulty in rounding; howevet, 19th day we arrived safe at Saltzburg, got our passports for Trieste. One of my panions was entirely knocked up; we him all the money we could spare to follow in the diligence; and we set out that night foot and arrived at Trieste the seventh day, distance of 260 English miles; and whi the natives told us had never been done befo in so short a time. We got a passage in Austrian brig to Malta, then obtained at sage in His Majesty's bomb Lucifer, land in Plymouth, and arrived in Liverpoolthree months and seventeen days. SEACOME ELLISO MR. LAMBERT. a barn, and lay very snug till four o'clock, when a pair of lovers coming in to enjoy themselves, discovered us, and gave the alarm: we got clear of them; but they roused the whole country; and at ten that night we were surrounded by fifty or sixty peasants: two of us escaped their clutches by going different ways; but were both taken a few hours afterwards. I was just stepping into a boat on the Rhine, when two custom-house officers got hold of me, and dragged me to my unfortunate companions; we were five of us in our party; the rest went different ways, and four of them got safe home. We were conducted back to the place we had left, and a little time after, we were sent to Metz handcuffed, two and two, and then chained all in a string, so short that we had scarcely room to walk. We were sent there as evidence for the gend'arme who was upon guard the night we started: we acquit This very extraordinary man, whose wei ted him; and were twenty days travelling in exceeded that of any other person ever that uncomfortable manner. In coming back,membered, died at Stamford on Wednesday we passed through the depôt of Sarre-Libre, where I got a friend to buy me a gimblet, being determined either to escape or break my neck. The day we arrived at Bitche we were all clapped into a cachot about forty feet under ground. We had a guard bed to lay upon, as the bottom was covered with water about six inches deep. After staying there three days, we got it made known to the Commandant that it was impossible for men to exist in that damp place. He ordered us into a room upstairs in the same building; we had three doors locked upon us, a double row of iron bars before the window, and a centinel placed over us: however, we resolved to make an attempt by cutting through the cieling. We cut up our sheets, blankets, shirts, and towels, of which we made a rope 130 feet long; and on the 11th of February, at six o'clock began, and at three in the morning accomplished the business. The floor we cut through was 2 inch oak. When we got there we found two windows without bars, that looked two different ways; it rained very hard, and we saw the centinel in his box at the opposite side from that we intended to descend, and all got safe out of the building, over two ramparts, when, to our great astonishment we found a third, which we understood had not gone round that side of the fort: it was about 25 feet, and we had no rope for it; we all dropped safe except the last, who broke his leg; the rest of us separated but met again at Saltzburg. There were two with me. We slept in the woods by day, and travelled by night through a woody mountainous country. We took provisions along with us; and on the seventh day crossed the Rhine,which cost us thirteen guineas; we then had only nine left. We crossed Baden, Wirtemberg and Bavaria without passports, slept in the small villages at night, and went round all the towns, some of which we found June 21. He went from Huntingdon Mr. Lambert was a native of Leiceste the coffin was built upon two asles four clog wheels; and, the window and of the wall of the room he died in, lodgings, on the ground-floor, being down, he was drawn out, to the place interment, by eight men with ropes. coffin was 6 feet 4 inches long, 4 feet wide, and 2 feet 4 inches deep: the immense thickness of his legs made it necessarily almost a square case. It contained 126 superficial feet of elm.-The grave was made by digging a gradual descent for twelve yards,-down which the immense remains of mortality were wheeled. As he was buried on the morning of the market-day, hundreds of persons visited the grave. Mr. Lambert was an intelligent and pleasant companion; and notwithstanding his extreme corpulence, his body and limbs are said to have borne a very exact proportion to each other. In his youth he was an excellent swimmer; and he has for many years been celebrated in the sporting world as a great _breeder and feeder of cocks. He was also famous for his dogs; some of which were sold at Tattersall's a short time ago, at prices which proved the estimation in which Lambert was held by sportsmen of the first eminence.-Extraordinary as it may appear, it is true, that he had his greyhounds with him at Stamford when he died, and intended to have taken the diversion of coursing in the season! -that is, he meant to have been taken in his carriage to an open country, where he might have seen his dogs pursue the game.It is said that Stamford was the last place at which he meant to exhibit himself for a price. He has a sister living at Leicester, who attended his funeral. besides chalk and good brick earth. The appearance of the towns in this department, and of the Netherlands in general, is truly pleasing to the eye. The houses are high, and covered chiefly with slate; the rooms are lofty, and the cielings are finished with a peculiar degree of elegance. As many nations have some amusement, into which inhumanity has entered, the Walloons have one that is not exempt from the charge: a cock, a hen, or a duck, is hung up by the legs, so high that by leaping they can reach it. The lads, and the lasses too, of the lowest orders, we may well presume, (and to the shame of the tender sex be it spoken), are blindfolded, and starting from a fixed distance with a sabre in their hand, aim at the poor animal, and endeavour to cut off its head. The person who succeeds becomes possessor of the bird, and bears it off in triumph to furnish a supper for his friends. The land of Jemmappes is in as high a state of cultivation as the nature of the country will allow. Their farmers, though not equal to the Flemish farmers in wealth and consequence, are not behind them in agricultural science and industry. Their ground is covered with fine crops of corn, and they grow a large quantity of flax and hemp and other seeds, for the extracting of oil. The climate resembles that of England, and sometimes the four seasons seem to visit them within the space of twenty-four hours. The coal trade has of late years furnished SKETCH OF THE WALLOONS. them immense resources, as the greater part The descendants of the ancient Walloons, of the low countries of Holland, and some the inhabitants of Hainault (now the depart- parts of France, are supplied by their ment of Jemmappes and its vicinity), par- merchants. They have the convenience of a take of the character and dispositions of the canal which runs from Jemmappes through French and the Flemish people. Not so Condé and Valenciennes into Flanders, and light and fickle as the one, though equally it there branches out to the principal towns attached to dancing, and other amusements; on the coast; and they have also a commu nor so cold and formal as the other, yet pur-nication with the Rhine, by which they suing, in many of their manners and diver- convey their coals into Holland. sions, the same habits of life. They are the offspring of one of the detachments of the Saxon people, who quitting their country at an early period in search of adventures, established themselves in many different parts of Europe. Some of the country people still retain a mixture of their ancient dialect, and talk a language that is not intelligible to every Frenchman; besides which, they have a Iwang in their manner of speaking, by which they are known to belong to the neighbourhood of Mons. At all periods of their history they have been a discontented and rebellions race. Here are coal-mines in abundance; and, as is usually the case, iron ore in their vicinity; stone quarries of different kinds, but all of them useful; and marble of an inferior quality. They have also excellent lime-stone, HYDROPHOBIA PREVENTED. SIR,-As a friend in Scotland, whose only son was bitten, lately, by a mad dog, is extremely anxious to procure the best recipe for preventing the Hydrophobia, and the Dog-days are approaching, in which some of your readers may be interested in the matter, permit me to send you the following recipe, which I found hung up in the parish church of Layton, Essex; and which, with some others, I have transcribed and sent, by this day's post, to my friend. For the Bite of a Mud Dog.-Take leaves of rue, picked from the stalks, and bruised, six ounces: garlic, picked from the stalks, and bruised, Venice treacle, or Mithridate, and scrapings of pewter, of each four ounces. Boil all these over a slow fire in two quarts of strong ale, till one pint is consumed; then keep it in bottles, close stopped, and give of it, nine spoonfuls to man, or woman, warm, every seven mornings together, fasting. This, if given within nine days after the biting of the dog, will prevent the hydrophobia. Apply some of the ingredients from which the liquor was strained to the bitten place. This recipe was, some years ago, taken out of Calthrop Church, Lincolnshire, the whole town being bitten by a mad dog, and all that took this medicine did well, while all the rest died mad. In a P.S. it is added: Many years experience have proved that this is an effectual cure. Your giving this a place in your widely spreading miscellany, will oblige him, who is, with good wishes, -Sir, yours truly, JAMES HALL. St. Martin's Lane, June 29th, 1809. ANECDOTES OF TALLEYRAND. "What is become of Talleyrand amidst all this bustle? What is he about?" is the inquiry of many, since Buonaparte has been seriously involved in Spain and Germany. It passes for certain, that Buonaparte has acted contrary to the advice of one whom he might with propriety address as My other self, my counsel's consistory, My oracle, my prophet!-My dear cousin!— I as a child, will go by thy direction. Of one, of whom he might also affirm, The deep-revolving witty Talleyrand No more shall be the neighbour to my counsels: Hath he so long held out with me untir'd, And stops he now for breath ?And of one, whose turn it may be, and speedily, too, to ruminate as did the adviser and assistant of King Richard: Is it even so? Repays he my deep service Made I him Emperor and King for this?Oh! let me think on D'Enghien, and be gone From Europe, while my fearful head is on. It is clearly understood, that Talleyrand dissuaded from the war with England that ho predicted extensive mishaps as consequences of the dastardly invasion of Spain; that he foresaw the opposition of Austria to the downfall of the Papacy, the insurrection of Germany as following the resistance of Spain; and the change in fortune of the French ascendancy. Has he taken care of himself? We believe he has; together with Messrs. X.Y.Z. but whether to the extent stated in the following paper we do not know. Conjecturing, however, at what may happen, we desire to direct the attention of the publie to the motions of this crafty ex-priest:-hun Talleyrand quits France, all is over with Buonaparte. He has made ample preparations for hi fight; if the author of the following report may be believed. The immense sains which this minister has plundered, or extorted, have certainly made him one of the richest, if not the richest man in Europe. His expences are great, even extravagant; but much beneath half the interest arising from an enormous capital, daily increasing, deposited under several names in the French, as well as in all foreign funds. By the different negotiations, intrigues, indemnities, loans, jobbings, treaties, armistices, conventions, &c. up to midsummer 1802, Talleyrand is said, since his appointment as a minister, to have indemnified himself with the following sums: * in 1797, 16,350,000; in 1798, 11,150,000; in 1799, 8,800,000; in 1800, 20 050,000; in 1801, 33,300,000; in 1802, 13,900,000 livres Thus did he extort, during a period of five years, nearly four millions sterling, from princes and subjects; by taking advantage of that information his official station procured him, to lay all people and all classes under a contribution, either directly by forced loans, or indirectly by speculation in public funds. This is a new system of plunder, not yet mentioned in history; not even in the annals which record the corruption of Eastern satraps, or of Turkish viziers and pachas. During the year xii, or from the 22d of September 1803, to the 22d of September 1804, he is said to have laid out in the purchase of estates in various parts of Europe, 20,665,000 livres; for his seraglios, establish ments in town and country, &c. 4,293,300 livres. Of former French ministers, he possesses the financial abilities of a Sully, the political capacity and duplicity of a Richelieu, the cunning and cupidity of a Mazarin, the commercial knowledge of a Colbert, the insensibility and cruelty of Louvois, the profligacy and depravity of Dubois, the method and perspicuity of Fleury, the penetration of Choiseul, the suppleness of Maurepas, and the activity of Vergennes. Though, from haughtiness, he affects to depend upon his secretaries and inferiors for transacting the chief business of his office, nothing escapes his attention. With great facility, he decides in a few hours what has puzzled the comprehension of others for a week. * See Les Nouvelles à la Main, Nivost, An. XIII. No. 4, THE GATHERER. sesse, and to remain to the use of the church by consent of the parishioners, 7s. 10d. In their disbursements of the same reign, I am but a Gatherer and Disposer of other Men's there is a yearly charge for wax from 2lbs. to Stuff.-WOTTON. No. XII. 44lbs.and for strekying the same for the paschal or font's taper, as it is once said; sometimes only for the pascall, or the paschal light, or Tempora mulantur :-Other Times, other for the rood light, never exceeding 3s. 9d. Manners. It is pleasant enough to notice the changes that took place in parishes and towns according to the fluctuations in religion, as by law established, during the struggle between Popery and Protestantism in our nation. In one year we find charges for the paraphernalia of the rood-loft and the altar; in the succeeding year, charges for taking these sacred implements down, and burning them. As remarkable an entry as any, possibly, will be thought the fine paid for lack of a Bible, i. e. the absence of a Bible from the church, in which people might read during the intervals of worship, &c. With the same intention was Bp. Jewel's Works bought. [There is still extant, chained to the desk, a copy of Fox's Martyrs, at the church at Bicester in Oxfordshire; placed there for perusal by the parishioners]. As to the accusation of hunting on the Sabbath day, we hope it was ill founded but if any such feats were customary in those times, then we adduce the abolition of such, profaneness as one instance of the superior correctness of present manners. We might suggest a query, whether the quantity of sculptures, which ecclesiastical ornament required, were not favourable to the cultivation of the Arts in England? It is always understood that this was the case in Italy; and our artists are perpetually crying out for patronage by the admission of their works into churches, &c. Why, then, did not our sculptors, and other professors, distinguish themselves, more than we know they did, by the merit of their performances, at the period referred to ? Extracted from an old Parish-book, belonging to the Parish of Crundal in Kent. In the reign of Philip and Mary, the churchwardens charge themselves yearly with money received at God's board toward the paschal light; varying in the sum, but never exceeding 3s. 7d. And once with money received from the gatherers of the fifteenths, Anno 5o aud 6o Philip and Mary, being an overplus of the Item, paid a joiner in Canterbury for making the Rood, Mary and John, and paynting the same, 40s. For setting up the Rood, Mary and John, and for paper and thread to trusse the same 1s. 6d. For a book of Articles of Injunctions at the visitation at Canterbury, 2d. For certain church goods bought in King Edward 6th's time, 3s. the Making a coffin for the sepulchre, 9d. Making a desk and a little cup-board for chrismatory, 10d. For a lock and key to the font, 5d. albs, revesses, vestments, and crosse cloths, Making 2 childres rochets, mending of the and for new cloth put in, 2s. Paid for washing the church gere for years, 1s. For a paper book for burying, marrying, and christening, 3d. Supplication to my lord cardinal for the church house, 2s. Paid at the lord cardinal's visitation at Easter, 1s. 3d. Paid the somner and register when the archdeacon was at Crundale, 10d. A reward given to Milord Suffragan's ser vants, when the chalice and corpus cloth were hallowed, 4d. For making a bill at the visitation, 3d. Anno 1o Elizabeth, the church-wardens God's board toward the paschal light of old charge themselves with money received at time accustomed, 3s. Item, from the gatherers of the xvth's, being an overplus of their collections, 2s. 11d. In their disbursements. Do. they charge for 26 lbs.of wax for the paschal taper, and for strekying it, 2s. 3d. But no mention is made of either of these articles in the following years. Anno. 1585. Canterbury, 1s. 3d. Paid for lack of a Bible at 1592. Called before the commissary about hunting on the Sabbath day before morning prayer-Paid 2s. 6d. 1593. Called before the high commissioners about the state of the church, 1s. 6d. Called divers times before them about recusants, whether there were any in Crundale, 4s. 8d. Paid at the court at Canterbury, Nov. 26. for not going the perambulation, 3s. Ed. 1597. Paid the somner for a new prayer book to be used in the church, 4d, 1603. Two new prayer-books in time of the plague, 15. 1605. Nov. 30. 2 prayer-books (gun-powder treason) 1s. 4d. 1610. Paid for bishop Jewel's works, 26s. 1633. Book of lawful recreation, 6d. 1636. A childwife pew, 26s. 8d. 1638. Paid at Canterbury upon a citation about the communion table, 3s. 8d. Paid for posts and rails and boards do. 25s. For framing and setting up do. 18s. 1639. Paid at Canterbury on a citation to certify whether the communion table was, according to order, railed in, 1s. 6d. Paid our minister towards a hood, 10s. 1645. For the Directory, 2s. Contrast betwixt the Customs of the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 1stly. No meat to be admitted to the king's household but such as was meet, and of convenient price. 2dly. A caution that ashen pots and lea thern cups are not stolen from the king's household. 3dly. In the earl of Northumberland's house it is noted that pewter vessels were too costly to be used in common. 4thly. No lads or rascals are to be kept at court to do the business of the servants. 5thly. The cooks are not to employ scullions who go about naked, nor such who lie all night on the ground, or before the kitchen fire.-IN.B. This is constantly the practice in Spain at this day.] 6thly. That unthrifty and common women be banished the court. 7thly. That no dogs are kept at court, but only a few spaniels for the ladies. 8thly. It appears by Lord Fairfax's book of his household establishment, that eleven o'clock was the hour for dinner; and in the year 1500, dinner was at ten and supper at four. 9thly. Mr. Norris, William Brereton, and young Western, were the only three persons allowed to enter the king's bed-chamber.(N.B. They were all three executed afterwards to justify the king's divorce.] 10thly. Between six and seven the proper officers were to make a fire every morning, and straw his highness's privy chamber. 11thly. The officers of his highness's privy chamber are to be loving, keeping secret every thing said or done, neither hearkening or enquiring where the king is or goes, be it early or late; neither grudging or mumbling, or talking of the king's pastime. 12thly. Coals only allowed to the king's, queen's, and lady Mary's chambers. 13thly. The queen's maids of honour to have a chet loaf, manchet, a gallon of ale, and a chine of beef for their breakfasts. Lastly. A gift to each officer of the kingh kitchen, who marries, and a gift to whoever brings his highness a present. Order of Queen Elizabeth for the Gift of her old Cloathes to her Maids of Honour, "Elizabeth, by the grace of God quene of Englande, France and Irelande, defendo of the faith, &c. To all and singular to whome theise shall come, greating. Know ye, that our trustie and wel beloved servants, John Roynor and Ralph Hoope, yeomen of our guard-robe of roobes, hath delyverid by our commandemt oute of their custodye and charge, att divers and sundry tymes, all suche p'cell of stuff by us gevon to sundry p'sous whose names ensue as more playnelyne here after doth appere, that is to saye, first-gevon to the lady Katheryn Grey, oone open gownelases, with a frenge; lyned throughoute of black velvet layed on with three passamayne with black sarceonett. loose gowne of black sattin rased allong, and Item, gevon to the lady Cobham, oone with a garde of blak vellat, styched, byt cutt, and ravelidd, and edgid, with a frenge, and lyned with sarceonett, and also oone petycoate of crimson vellat with a styched garde, lyned with cotton and fustian. Item, gevon to the lady Carew, oone Frenche kyrtle of purple wrought vellat, with sattin grounde, lyned with tapheta. a Ralfe Hoope oone night gowne past our wearItem, taken by the said John Royner and ing of blak vellat, weltid with a midhank welt of blak vellat, styched with silk, furred with callabar, and edgid with luzerne. of russet sattin, weltid downe right with Item, gevon to Katheryn Cary, oone gowne blak vellat, with ruffe of russet taphata, round, all about. Item, gevon to Dorothy Brodebelte, cone open gowne of russett wrought vellat, the grounde sattin, with brode welts whiped over with a sattin wrethe, edgid with a frenge, pynked taphata, and oone petycoate of vellat and lyned with a sarceonett, and faced with stryped with gold, the skyrts lyned with purple sarceonett. gowne of pretend sattin, garded with vellat, Item, gevon to Elizabeth Sands, oone open and lyned with taphata, sett oone Spanish ta, sett with buttons and lowpes, lyned with gowne of unshorne vellat, ruffed with taphataphata. Item, gevon to Elizabeth Sloe, oone gowne of blak pinked vellat, borderid aboute with thre swelling welts, cutt and raved, lyned with taphata, and edgid with a frenge. Item, gevon to a Tartarian woman, cone loose gowne of blak taphata, welted byas with blak vellat on either side of the welta purpled lase of silk, lyned with taphata pone Frenche kyrtle of russett sattin, lyned |