Part 77

And the sparkling stars began to shine, Like scatter’d gems in the diamond mine.

The diamond is chiefly found in the provinces of Golconda and Visiapour, and also in that of Bengal. Raolconda, in Visiapour, and Gandicotta, are famed for their mines, as is Coulour in Golconda. The diamond is generally found in the narrow crevices of the rocks, loose, and never adherent to the fixed stratum. The miners, with long iron rods, which have hooks at the ends, pick out the contents of the fissures, and wash them in tubs, in order to extricate the diamonds. In Coulour they dig on a large plain, to the depth of ten or fourteen feet; forty thousand persons are employed; the men to dig, and the women and children to carry the earth to the places where it is deposited till the search is made.[241]

[241] A note to the “Ocean Cavern.”

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STOICAL WIT.

Zeno detected his slave in a theft, and ordered him to be _flogged_. The slave having in mind the dogmas of his master, and thinking to compliment him, in order to save himself from punishment, exclaimed--“It was _fated_ that I should commit this theft.”--“And _also_ that you should be _flogged_ for it,” replied Zeno.

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CAMBRIDGE WIT.

When Dr. Jeggon, afterwards bishop of Norwich, was master of Bennet College, Cambridge, he punished all the under graduates for some general offence; and because he disdained to convert the penalty-money into private use, it was expended on new whitening the hall of the college. A scholar hung the following verses on the screen:--

“Dr. Jeggon, Bennet College master, Broke the _scholars’ heads_, and gave the _walls_ a _plaster_.”

The doctor, perusing the paper, wrote underneath, extempore:--

“Knew I but the wag that writ these verses in bravery, I’d _commend_ him for his _wit_, but _whip_ him for his _knavery_.”

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SENTENCES

WORTHY TO BE GOT BY HEART.

As you cannot overtake time, the best way is to be always a few minutes before him.

Whatever your situation in life may be, lay down your plan of conduct for the day. The half hours will glide smoothly on, without crossing or jostling each other.

When you set about a good work, do not rest till you have completed it.

In the morning, think on what you are to do in the day, and at night, think on what you have done.

Religion is the best armour, but the worst cloak.

If you make an intentional concealment of any thing in a court of judicature, it will lie like lead upon your conscience all the days of your life.

Do as you wish to be done by. Follow this rule, and you will need no force to keep you honest.

Vol. I.--27.

INDEXES.

I. GENERAL INDEX.

II. CORRESPONDENTS’ INDEX.

III. INDEX TO THE POETRY.

IV. INDEX TO THE ENGRAVINGS.

I. THE GENERAL INDEX.

Abingdon, old parish accompts of, 481. Abridgement of a library by Pilpay, 247. Accommodation extraordinary, 562. Acquaintance table, 377. Admiral, lord high; office and seal of, 573. Adoption of children, in France, 220. “Adrasta,” old play, 321. Advertisement; at Ghent, 59; letter in consequence of one, 60. Advice, danger of giving, 330. Affectation, less prevalent among women than formerly, 358. African young woman’s compliment to her lover, 187. Agriculture, British, derived from the Romans, 393. “Ahab,” by S. R. Jackson, 498. Air and exercise for ladies, 209. Airay, Thomas, Grassington manager, notice of, 69. Albany and York, duke of, 93; the dukedom of Albany, 409. Albemarle, duke of, creditable patronage by, 763. Alcock, Rev. Mr., the waggish clergyman, 634. Alderson, Hut., of Durham, 365. Ale, Prynne “put into the road of writing” by, 726. “All Fools,” old play, 192. Allan-a-Maut, engraving, 116. Allen, Rev. Mr., fatal duel fought by, 722. Alleyn, the actor, “master of the bears and dogs,” 497. Alliteration, clever specimen of, 155. Ally, a good one, 632. Almanacs; Liege, 274; curious notices in French almanacs, 540. Alms-houses, [workhouses;] none before the Reformation, 392. Ambassadors, former custom of, 663. Amurath, sultan, effect of music on, 229. Ancient Britons. See Wales. Andalusia, deadly irritation of winds in, 273. Angel help, 751. Angling, notices concerning, 659. Angoulême, duchess of; anecdote of, 9. Animals; a common effect of attempting to domesticate wild ones, 617; connection between muscular power and speed, 618; experiment of music upon, 691. “Antipodes, (The)” old play, 704. Antiquarian Hall, engraving and memoir of, 139. Antique bronze found in the Thames, 267. Aphorisms; by Lavater, 279; by other persons, 828. Apparitions, curious narrative of, 710. Apprentices, former maxims for, 562, 564. Architecture, brought in by the Normans, 393. “Arden of Feversham,” old play, 221. Aremburg, duke of, his love of the arts, 10. Arithmetical notices, 759. Armorial bearings; of ambassadors, 663; having emblems of the devil, 699. Armories, formerly possessed by private lords and gentlemen, 391. Arms [of the human body,] one stated to be broken by the throbbings of rheumatism, 142. “Arraignment of Paris,” old play, 511. Arran, earl of, his letter on duke of Buckingham’s death, 526. Arrens, near Marseilles, interring the carnival at, 271. Artist’s (Young) letter from Switzerland, 427. Arts, benevolent application of profits from, 510. Ash, (mountain) an antidote to witchcraft, 674. Astrologers, account of Hart, 135. Aubrey, John, curious collection by, 389. Auld Robin Gray, ballad of; history of, 200, 201. Authors; Mrs. Charke reading her manuscript to a bookseller, engraving of, 125; suggestions to authors, 248; their two wishes, 279; peculiarities of in composing, 681; prolific authors, 726. Autograph of Charles Lord Howard of Effingham, 573.

Bacchus, bronze head of, found in the Thames, 267. Bacon, gammon of, at Easter, 39. ----, lord; his judgment on books, 218; his method of condensing thought, 682. ---- (Friar) and his servant, 633. Badajos, (the dean of) 323. Bag, duel with, 20. Bagdad, effect of music after capture of, 229. Baker, Miss Polly, fiction of, 89. Baldwin, Samuel, singular burial of, 412. Ballads, licenses for printing, 586. Bank, (country) capital for, 59. ----side bear garden, 489. Banquet given by Whitelock to queen of Sweden, 552. “---- of the dead,” 515. Barbers; description of a barber, 241; Dudley, barber, at Portsmouth, 405. Barley-break, an old pastime, 37. Barnard, lady Ann, poetess, 200. Barre, (Du) madame, and the Liege almanac, 274. Bate, Rev. Mr., three duels fought by, 722. Bath chairman, mock funeral of, 41. Bathing, utility of, 819. Battalia, Francis, a stone-eater, 355. Battle; prize-fighting formerly sometimes with swords, 495; “Battle of the Poets,” 407; “Battle of Alcazar,” old play, 486; field of battle, 661. Battle-bridge, remains of an elephant found near, 80. Bayswater, projected improvement at, 215. Bazaar, (Soho) 153. Bear garden, (old) Southwark, 489; of elector of Saxony, 490. Beauty, compliment to, 344. Beaux not always mere coxcombs, 666. Beckenham, Kent, 765; bridge in road to, 701. Bees; “Parliament of Bees,” old play, 133; a boy bee-eater, curious account of, 746. Beeston, clerk of, 420. “Begin again,” 421. Behnes, Mr., his bust of duke of York, 93. Belfast, Easter custom at, 506. Belgrave, siege of, 155. Bell, (diving) origin and notices of, 763. ----, (Tommy) engraving of, 651. Berne, description of, 427. Berners, dame Julia, treatise on field sports by, 392. Best of a bad matter, 762. Bibliomaniac ridiculed, 218. Bibo’s (General) tale, 515. Bibury, rector of, 501. Bielfeld, baron, his account of the dance of torches, 107. Bigotry punished, 558. “Billet, (Crooked)” on Penge Common, 669. Billingsgate, old satire on, 168. Billy Boots, notice and engraving of, 302. Bilsington Priory, tenure of, 616. Bird-catcher, engraving of, 589. ---- seller, engraving of, 509. Birds; a play in which all the characters are birds, 133; particulars respecting birds, 588, 591. See Parrots, Starlings. Birmingham old conjurors, 234. Bishops; one misled by a saint, 415; “bishop of Butterby,” 365. Black jacks and warming pans, 15. ---- -letter books, curious criticism on, 425. Blacksmiths; their endurance of fire, 315; Gretna-green blacksmith, 431. Bleeding; for one’s country, 90; practised by a woman, 141; former frequency of, 479; in silence and psalmody, _ib._ Blind Hannah, engraving of, 221. ---- Willie, of Newcastle, 461. Bloody hand, (the) 258. “Blythe Cockpen,” and the merry monarch, 411. Boar’s head, custom concerning, 85, 390. Bodmin, royal joke on, 348. Bogs, remarks on timber in, 185. Bonaparte; his grand procession to Notre Dame, 503; his system of over-governing, 734. Bones, curious account of breaking of one, 142; embalming of, 576. _Bon_-fire, singular one, 762. Books; pleasures and consolation of, 16, 217; old, with new titles, 68; one dedicated to the author, 125; proper standard of, 248; (black letter) naif criticism on, 425; when first made of paper, 507. See Doomsday book. Booksellers, an author reading a manuscript to one; engraving, 125. Boots, Billy, engraving of, 302. Bowring, Mr., his “Popular Servian Poetry,” 529. Boys; at school, 149; on errands, 150; account of a boy bee-eater, 746. Bradenstoke Priory, 232. “Brazen Age, (The)” old play, 447. Bread seals, used by ladies, 90. Breach of promise, curious case of, 180. Breakfast, singular dishes at, 618. Breaking of an arm bone by rheumatism, 142. Brecon, minstrelsy society at, 338. Breeds, (mixed) curious complaint of, 626. Brentford Hannah, [Blind Hannah,] engraving of, 221. Brewer’s drayman, character of, 374. Brewing, private, 772. “Bridal of Caölchairn,” 784. Bride, description of one, 295. Bridesman, 294, 296. Bridlington, irregular stream near, 230. Bristol, Lent custom at, 625. Britannia’s sup-porter, 412. British Museum, pleasures and facilities of, 111. ---- poetesses, by Mr. Dyce, 195. ---- portraits, sale catalogue of, 236. Britons, (ancient.) See Wales. Bromholm, former pilgrimage to, 392. Bronze, antique, found in the Thames, 267. Brookes, Mr. J., dissection of king’s ostrich by, 617. “Brose and Butter,” a favourite royal air, 411. Brothers, younger not allowed formerly to pursue trades, 393. Brough, in Westmoreland; twelfth-night customs at, 26; March fair at, 317; church, 817. Brougham, Mr., his speech on the founding of the London university, 596. Brouwer, a painter, notice of, 10. Brummelliana, 666. Bryan, Daniel, a brave old seaman, 631.

Cabbage and tailors, 471. Cairo, characteristic salutation at, 197. Camberwell Grove, 809. Campbell, Mr. T., speech of at Glasgow, 758. Campbells, the, 778. Canons, near Edgeware, former celebrity of, 621. Capital for banking, 59. ---- punishments, 455, 460. Caps and hats, fashionable days for new ones, 478. Captain and lieutenant, mortal duel between, 724. Cards, fortune-telling, 74. Carew, lady Elizabeth, 196. Carnival, ceremony of interring, 271, 273. Carthago, Nova, its present to Scipio, 265. Carts, dignity of, 169. Castle-building, 464. ---- Coombe, tickling trout at, 662. Catherine de Medicis, vow of, 475. Catherinot, a French pamphleteer, 727. Catholic German universities, 124. Cawston church, poor’s-box in, 747. Ceremonies, a true paper currency, 219. Chafin, Rev. Mr., his anecdotes about Cranbourne Chase, 32. Chairman, (Bath) mock funeral of, 41. Chairs, (arm,) 786. Challenges, a poetical solicitor’s answer to one, 724. See Duels. Chambers, James, the poor poet, 436. Chancellor, (lord) office of, 729. Chancery, 540; despatch in, 730. Chandler, Mary, a poetess, 199. “Changes, (The)” old play, 417. Characters; of servants at hirings, 177; national, in compliment, 186, &c.; tendency of former lessons to meanness of character, 564; character of the old gentleman, 118; of Kimberley, a Birmingham conjuror, 235; of the barber, 241; of Mrs. Aurelia Sparr, 340; of Agrestilla, 358; of the drayman, 371; a literary character, 410; of “the good clerk,” 562; of the Durham pitmen, 651. Charke, Mrs., her autobiography, 125; farther notices, 258. Charlemagne, privilege granted by, 554. Charles I., curious anecdote concerning, 701. ---- II., character of, 547; anecdotes of, 701, 732. Charlestown, ugly club at, 468; duelling society at, 720. Charybdis and Scylla, conflicting descriptions of, 642, 705. “Chaste Maid in Cheapside,” old play, 255. Chastity of Scipio, 265. Chatham, earl of, 812. Chaworth, Mr., duel with lord Byron, 722. Cheapside Turk, inquiry for, 194. Cheese and stones, comparative digestibility of, 355. “Cherry woman” of long since, engraving of, 685. Chest, a wonderfully capacious one, 706. Chester, mysteries of, treated by Mr. Sharp, 14. Chesterfield, lord, bleeding for his country, 90. Children, lost, proper means for recovering, 18; adoption of, in France, 220; former austere treatment of, 394. Chiltern Hundreds, account of, 649. Chimneys, rare before the Reformation, 389; smoky, how cured, 572. Chinese ceremonies of salutation, 197; idol, 627. Christina queen of Sweden, curious collation given to, 552. Christmas customs, 390, 391. Christ’s sepulchre and resurrection, 484. Churches; church processions, 392; church-houses before the Reformation described, 392; few built in the correct line, 393; throughout Europe, pope’s grant to Italian architects for building, 393; organs first used in, 473; (see Organs;) visiting the churches, 478; curious old church accompts, 481. See Fonts. Cibber, (Colley) life of his daughter, 125. “City nightcap,” old play, 559. Clare, Elizabeth, her intense attachment, 458. Clarence, duke of, lord high admiral, 577; dukedom of Clarence, 409. Classes of mankind, how many, 455. Clemency, policy of, 401. Clergyman, a waggish clergyman, 633; duels fought by, 722; office of lord chancellor formerly held by, 729. “Clerk, (the good)” 562. Clerkenwell, ancient river Fleet at, 75. Clerks and parsons, anecdotes about, 662. Clothes, economical allowance for, 668. Clubs, the ugly, 264, 468; parliament, 280; the silent, 467; the duellists’ in Charlestown, 721. Coaches, in 1684, 169; coach and steam travelling compared, 262. Coin, (old silver) how to read inscriptions of, 452. Coke, sir Edward, immense fan used by, 394. Colas, a celebrated diver, 647. Cole, Mr. J., his “Antiquarian Trio,” 525, 530. Colliers of Durham, account of, 651. Colours, the Isabella colour, 558. Columns, engraving of a curious British one, 349. Companies, certain uses of, 229. Compliments, 196; a natural compliment, 344. Condemnation, criminal, stupefaction attending, 457. Conjurors, (Birmingham) 234. Conscience, force of, 138, 401. Constable’s “Miscellany,” 114. Convents, ambition of the nuns in, 478. Cooke, Rev. T., inquiry about, 136; notice of, 406. Cookesley, Mr., patron of Mr. W. Gifford, 52. Cooks for the royal table, 377. Copper mines, valuable, in Cornwall, 658. Cordeliers, their lists of candidates how arranged, 698. Cornwall, valuable mines in, 658; suffered little in recent pressure, 659; parsons and clerks in, 662. Corporations, anatomy of, 524. Cortusius Lodovick, a lawyer, funeral of, 699. Coulour, in Golconda, celebrated for diamonds, 827. Counter, tradesman’s duty behind, 565. Country, bleeding for, 90; parties and pleasures, 358; little known, 708; former manners of country gentlemen, 391. Court banquet, innocent gaiety at, 551. Courtier, shrewd, 405. Courts of justice, contrast of feelings in, 457. Covent Garden, gambling-houses formerly in, 86. Coventry, pageant vehicle and play at, 11. Cowper, the poet, two letters of, 752. Crabbe, poet, criticism on, 683. Cranbourne Chase, notice and engraving of emigration of deer from, 29; town and parish of Cranbourne, _ib._; bloody affray in the chase, 32; origin and history of the chase, 36. Craven, (Skipton in) theatrical company in, 69; legend of, 515. Creditors, unblushing impudence of one, 667. Cresses, green-grocers’ devices with, 607. Cries, London; engraving of the “young lambs” seller, 395; of the bird-seller, 509; of the cherry-woman, 685; of the old water-carrier, 733. Criminals, capital, feelings of before and after hanging, 455. Cromwell, Oliver, anecdote of, 14. Crown lands, under Elizabeth, 580, 581. Cruelty relenting at music, 229. Crusades, effects of, 392. Cumberland weddings, 794. Cups, gold and maple, exchange of at coronations, 616. Cushion dance described, 161. Customers, how to be considered, 566; a spruce mercer and a lady customer, 567; invitation of customers, 627.

Dabshelim, king of India, library of, 247. Damages for breach of promise by a negro, 180. Dancing; goose-dancing described, 81; the dance of torches, 107; cushion dance, 161; May-day dance of milk-maids, 557; particular wedding dances, 793. Davenant, Sir W., his description of London, 167. “David and Bethsabe,” old play, 609. “David’s Sow, (As drunk as)” explained, 379. Death; “Death’s Doings,” 240; horror at mention of, 423; description of a death-bed, 425; banquet of the dead, 515; custom of laying salt on the dead, 523; singular disposal of a royal corpse, 576; singular phantasms or figures of the dead, 710. Decimals, 741. Decker, the dramatist, excellence of, 358. Dedication, curious, 125. Deer, emigration of from Cranbourne Chase, notice and engraving of, 29; driven from the Highlands, 754; their abhorrence of sheep, _ib._, 755. Defoeana, 564, 626. Delaval (Sir) and the monk, 599. Denton castle, seat of Fairfax, 687. “Devil,” often assumed as a surname, with corresponding arms, 698. Devonshire, butterfly hunting in, 678. ----, duchess of, compliment to, 344. Diamond cut diamond, 649. Diamonds, where and how found, 827. Diligence and delight, 730. Dinner, mysterious privacy of, 424. Directions; pious direction posts, 539; a particular direction, 675. Discount for cash, 283. Disease, philosophical observation under, 711. Dishes for the royal table marked, 377. Ditton, (Thames) great resort of anglers, 659. Diver of Charybdis, account of, 705. Diving-bell, origin and notices of, 763. Doctors, dilemma against, 81. Doge of Venice, marriage of, 452. Dolcoath, valuable mine in Cornwall, 658. Doomsday-book, dissertations on, 610. Dormer, judge, 406. Dover Cliffs, humane warning against, 450. “Downfall of May-games,” 545. “---- of Robert, earl of Huntingdon,” old play, 799. Draining the fens, effect of, 143. Drama. See Plays. Drayman, brewer’s, description of, 374. Drayton, his sarcasm on trade, 564. Dresden, elector’s bear-garden at, 490. “Drunk as David’s sow,” 379. Drunkards, the place they go to, 540; warning to, 824. “Duchess of Suffolk,” old play, 583. Dudley [a barber] of Portsmouth, 405. Duels; singular mode of duelling with a bag, 20; interesting account of duels, 720; poetical answer to a challenge, 724. Dulwich college, and the founder, 495, 497, 670. Dumplings, Norfolk, by whom to be eaten, 355. Dungeons for prisoners formerly in castles and monasteries, 391. Durham, engraving of Tommy Sly of, 331; Hut. Alderson bellman of, engraving, 365; Elvet bridge in, engraving, 413; ecclesiastical survey of see of, 415; account of the pitmen in county of Durham, 651; visit of James I. to the city, 679. Dustman, happy compliment by, 344. Dutch compliments of salutation, 197. Dyce, Alexander, his specimens of British poetesses, 198.

Early rising, 796. East Grinstead old play-bill, 137. Easter, antipathy to the Jews at, 390; Easter ceremonies, 477, &c. 502, 554. Eating, advice against excess of, 81; fire-eaters, 314; stone-eaters, 353. Eclipse, [race-horse] engraving and account of, 617, &c. Economy equally necessary with industry, 346. Education, how conducted before the Reformation, 389; lamented by a mulatto, _ib._ Effingham, lord Howard of, his autograph, 573. Egyptians in France, description of, 478. El Dorado of literature, 741. Elephant, remains of, found near Battle-bridge, 80. Elizabeth, queen, simile used by, 220; washing poor’s feet by, 479. Elvet bridge, Durham, 413. Emblems and mottos, 90; emblems used by servants at hirings, 174, 203. Epitaphs; by Dr. Lowth on his daughter, 138; extempore one on a French general, 633. Errors, clerical, 634. Ethiopians, mode of salutation by, 196. Etiquette, cut down by civilization, 219; nearly fatal excess of, 737. Etymology; of various English words, 473; of words of necessity from the German, and of those of luxury from the French, _ib._ “Every Man in his Humour,” original scene of changed, 302. Ewart’s old port, 343. Excuse, a good one, 796. Execution, case of revival after apparent execution, 455. Excursions of tradesmen, limits of, 567. Exercise and air recommended to ladies, 209.