each other, face to face, yesterday. My mistress, Sir, sends you her compliments and thanks, together with this bride-cake to distribute among your young friends."

The following morceaux of ana are too piquant to be omitted:

At the marriage of Louis the Sixteenth with Antoinette, in 1770, a dreadful accident occurred, by which a thousand people lost their lives. Among them was one Legros, a ladies' hair-dresser, of much fame. The wife of Legros went to the field of the slain about three o'clock in the morning, when some one began telling her the fate of her husband in as tender a manner as possible. " "Tis very well," said she;" but I must feel in his pockets for the keys of the house, or else I cannot get in ;" and so saying, this disconsolate widow went quietly home to her bed.

Madame Geoffrin had a husband, who was permitted to sit down at his own table to dinner, at the end of the table, upon condition that he never attempted to join in the conversation. A foreigner, who was very assiduous in his visits to Madame Geoffrin, one day, not seeing him as usual at table, enquired after him :-" What have you done with the poor man whom I always used to see here, and who never spoke a word ?" "Oh, that was my husband; he is dead!"

7th-1785.

On this auspicious morn, a remarkable wedding was solemnized at St. James's, Clerkenwell.

A woman, about forty, who had been blind many years, heard a young man (whose apprenticeship to a shoemaker had lately expired,) at work in her neighbourhood from early in the morning till late every evening; conceiving a favourable opinion of him from these proofs of an industricus disposition, she made him a present of a silver watch and a suit of clothes; and lent him ten pounds, the better to enable him to carry on his business. Shortly after, he called on his benefactress, informing her, that having received offers of great encouragement, he was preparing to set out for Leicestershire, to settle there among his friends; adding, that he would exert his utmost endeavours speedily to discharge the unsolicited favours she had heaped upon him. She commended his resolution; but next day sued out a writ, which being served upon him, he was taken to a lock-up house. She visited him in his confinement, and informed him that he must immediately pay the money, go to prison, or-marry her! He agreed to the latter offer, and a licence was procured; but he was detained in custody till the parties proceeded from the lock-up house to church, where the officer who had executed the writ upon the bridegroom

acted as father to the bride, who was possessed of about a thousand pounds.

8th-1802.

FATHER O'LEARY died, aged 72.

"I had the pleasure (said that amusing veteran, Michael Kelly, in his Reminiscences) to be introduced to my worthy countryman, the Rev. Father O'Leary, the well-known Roman Catholic Priest; he was a man of infinite wit, of instructive and amusing conversation. I felt highly honoured by the notice of this pillar of the Roman Church; our tastes were congenial, for his reverence was mighty fond of whisky punch, and so was I; and many a jug of St. Patrick's eye-water, night after night, did his reverence and niyself enjoy, chatting over that exhilirating and national beverage. He sometimes favoured me with his company at dinner; when he did, I had always a corned shoulder of mutton for him; for he, like some others of his countrymen, who shall be nameless, was ravenously fond of the dish.

"One day the facetious John Philpot Curran, who was also very partial to the said corned mutton, did me the honour to meet him. To enjoy the society of such men was an intellectual treat. They were great friends, and seemed to have a mutual respect for each other's talents; and, as it may easily

be imagined, O'Leary versus Curran, was no bad match.

"One day, after dimmer, Curran said to him, 'Reverend Father, I wish you were Saint Peter.? "And why, Counsellor, would you wish that I were Saint Peter?' asked O'Leary.

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"Because, Reverend Father, in that case,' said Curran, you would have the keys of heaven, and you could let me in.'

"By my honour and conscience, Counsellor,' replied the divine, it would be better for you that I had the keys of the other place, for then I could let you out.'

"Curran enjoyed the joke, which he admitted had a great deal of justice in it.

"O'Leary told us of the whimsical triumph which he once enjoyed over Dr. Johnson. O'Leary was very anxious to be introduced to that learned man, and Arthur Murphy took him one morning to the Doctor's lodgings. On his entering the room, the Doctor viewed him from top to toe, without at first speaking to him; at length, darting one of his sourest looks at him, he spoke to him in the Hebrew language, to which O'Leary made no reply. Upon which, the Doctor said to him, Why do you not answer me, Sir ??

“Faith, Sir,' said O'Leary, 'I cannot reply to you, because I do not understand the language in which you are addressing me.'

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કેંદ Upon this the Doctor, with a contemptuous sneer, said to Murphy, Why, Sir, this is a pretty fellow you have brought hither:-Sir, he does not comprehend the primitive language.'

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O'Leary immediately bowed very low, and complimented the Doctor with a long speech in Irish, to which the Doctor, not understanding a word, made no reply, but looked at Murphy. O'Leary, seeing that the Doctor was puzzled at hearing a language of which he was ignorant, said to Murphy, pointing to the Doctor, This is a pretty fellow to whom you have brought me;-Sir, he does not understand the language of the sister kingdom.' The Reverend Padre then made the Doctor a low bow, and quitted the room."

O'Leary, though with great talents for a controversialist, always sedulously avoided the angry theme of religious disputation. Once, however, he was led into a controversy. While he was at Cork, he received a letter through the Post Office, the writer of which, in terms expressive of the utmost anxiety, stated that he was a clergyman of the Established Church, on whose mind impressions favourable to the Catholic creed had been made by some of O'Leary's sermons. The writer then professing his enmity to angry controversy, wished to seek further information on some articles of the Catholic creed. His name he forbore to reveal.