When lo! an Irish Papist darted Across my path, gaunt, grim, and big (6) O, place me 'midst O'Rourkes, O'Tooles, (7) Of Church and State I'll sing my fill, Though e'en B-b M-rt-n's self should grumble ; Sweet Church and State! that stand (8) Like Jack and Jill, upon a hill, up still But ne'er, like Jack and Jill, to tumble! posing "ultra terminum" to mean vacation-time; and then the modest consciousness with which the Noble and Learned Translator has avoided touching upon the words "curis expeditis" (or, as it has been otherwise read, “ causis expeditis"), and the felicitous idea of his being "inermis," when "without his wig," are altogether the most delectable specimens of paraphrase in our language. (5) Quale portentum neque militaris Nec Jubæ tellus generat, leonum (6) Pone me pigris ubi nulla campis Quod latus mundi nebulæ, malusque I must here remark, that the said B-b M-rt-n being a very good fellow, it was not at all fair to make a "malus Jupiter" of him. (7) Dulcè ridentem Lalagen amabo, Dulcè loquentem. (8) There cannot be imagined a more happy illustration of the inseparability of Church and State, and their (what is called) "standing and falling together," than this ancient apologue of Jack and Jill Jack, of course, represents the State in this ingenious little Allegory. Jack fell down, And broke his Crown, And Jill came tumbling after !. P 4 EXTRA THE EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. [From the British Press, Sept. 18.] HE following unhappy case of Suicide is said to have taken place on the day when it was determined to distract the attention and divert the strength and resources of Great Britain to an attempt for the recovery of Hanover, in conjunction with Monsieur Bernadotte, one of Buonaparte's old Captains : Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was held at the Britannia Arms, in Downing Street, on the body of an elderly female, of an athletic make, but emaciated appearance, who was found dead in Hanover Square. As the circumstances of this case are very peculiar, we shall give them, together with the evidence before the Coroner, at full length. The deceased, it seems, had been observed to wander about that spot in a melancholy and dejected state, for some time past. Dr. Hawkesbury, on being sent for, attended immediately. He ordered the body to be stripped and laid on its back, and proceeded to apply singed feathers and paper to the nostrils, and caused a great quantity of air to be injected, by means of Dr. Vansittart's pipe, to set the lungs again into play, and tried various other methods of artificial breathing. At the same time, one of his assistants was employed in removing, with a sponge, the frothy matter which had collected in great quantities about the mouth; another applied Thieves vinegar to the nostrils of the deceased; and a third endeavoured, by a partial pressure on the chest, to assist the circulation. Dr. Vansittart, who had been called in on the occasion, opened a vein in the foot of the deceased, but no blood would come. He then attempted to bleed her in various other places, but without success; and after after persevering, for upwards of six hours, in all the methods prescribed by the Humane Society, they were unable to restore the circulation, which it seems had been too long suspended. From the evidence of Dr. Castlereagh, who had attended the deceased for some time as the family apothecary, it appeared, that although she had ori ginally a very fine constitution, yet it had been much impaired, and that latterly she had laboured under a great depression of spirits, and difficulty of breathing, owing to a complaint in her chest. He said, he had tried all manner of medicines, and among others, the Jesuit Drops, the Union Cordial, and the American Spruce, which latter drink seemed at one time to do her good; but, at a consultation, at which the late Dr. Perceval, and other eminent physicians, assisted, Orders had been given to discontinue this, and to put her upon an alterative diet, since which she grew rapidly worse; in consequence of which, with the advice of Doctor Brougham, a celebrated Manchester physician, who had been sent for express on the appearance of some alarming symptoms, he had countermanded these Orders, but unfortunately too late. The deceased evinced evident signs of derangement, so much so, that it had been thought advisable to gag her at times, and put on the strait waistcoat. From the examination of some of the relatives of the deceased, they seemed to be of opinion, that her melancholy and lowness of spirits, and fits of insanity, arose chiefly from distress and embarrassed circumstances. They said, she had formerly a very good estate, which at the time of her death was mortgaged for its utmost value: that being unable to pay the interest, she had recourse to loans and annuities, by which her affairs became gradually worse; and that some persons whom she had intrusted with the collecting of her rents, had lately gone off without accounting, P 5 accounting, considerably in her debt. But the chief thing to which they attributed her distress of mind was the condition of a House in Westminster, which belonged to her, and on which she principally depended for support. This she had let to some dishonest tenants upon a seven years' lease, who would neither repair it, though it was in a very sad state, nor pay her any rent: that they refused to perform any of the covenants in the lease, and defied all her attempts to turn them out. This, they observed, fretted her more than any thing; and to it, and the great quantity of quack medicines which she was constantly in the habit of taking, they attributed that despair and unhappy state of mind which had led her to commit this rash act. The Coroner, under all these circumstances, left it to the Jury to determine whether the deceased was in possession of her senses at the time, or whether there was not sufficient evidence before them of distress to warrant them in supposing it had affected her intellects. The Jury, after consulting a few minutes, returned a verdict of Lunacy in the deceased, occasioned partly by distress of mind, and partly by the unskilful treatment of those who attended her. On searching the pockets of the deceased, nothing was found in them but an old worn out cap, full of holes, two or three bad halfpence, a wild incoherent scheme for paying off the national debt, and a letter from an old lady in Threadneedle Street, informing her, that she could no longer render her any assist ance. TOTAL TOTAL ECLIPSE OF ALL CONJURORS!!! [From the Morning Chronicle, Oct. 2.] THEATRE, WHITEHALL. BY Permission of a besotted Nation-Every Evening till the opening of the Theatre Royal, St. Stephen's, where he is engaged to perform a principal character, THE SIEUR CASTLERE' will have the honour to bring forward his wonderful Deceptions and Magical Illusions, through dexterity of hand and the surprising science of management. He will also perform his most surprising anti-peristaltic art of resuscitation-he will fall on the floor of the House, kick for several minutes in a strong fit of incapacity, and suffer a complete political dissolution, when, by a slight injection of secret influence, he will start up in the full possession of all his powers, to the great wonder and admiration of the Treasury Bench. Two gentlemen shall stand eight yards asunder, on different sides of the House, each putting a card under his foot, No written on one card, and Ay on the other; yet by virtue of a magic promise he will command the two cards to change places, although the Members stand with their whole weight upon them. He will also command a majority to rise, stand and jump one by one, so as to excite the laughter of the whole audience. Any young Member shall choose a card from any part of the pack, and write on it a string of patriotic and constitutional principles, and shuffle it in again, afterwards lay them on the floor with his hat over them; when, by the real art of place-making, he will blow every record off the aforesaid card, and command the name of the appointment the Member is to fill to be written upon it. The Sieur Castleré will also, on one of his nights, |