the poor actors, by the charitable and well-disposed, at any of the above houses, that they may be carefully taken in.

The following anecdote may be depended on :A few days since, a lady (Mrs. S.) who is called a woman of spirit, ordered an elegant habit for the masquerade at Mrs. Cornely's, which was brought home last Saturday; she had surveyed it with rapture, and thrown it on a sopha in her dressing-room, and went out to invite some of her intimates to partake of her joy; soon after her departure, an honest tradesman came with his bill he had at different times called, for twelve months past, on the same errand, but to no purpose; he now asked for the lady's husband, who happened to be at home, and who is a man of great humanity, although of a humourous turn. On hearing his tale, the gentleman took him into his wife's dressing room. My friend," says he, "I have no money by me; but take this fool's coat (giving him the masquerade dress); you will, at this time, sell it for more than will discharge your bill." The tradesman walked off highly pleased. The lady has taken to her bed with vexation.

A woman of genteel appearance lately, with one servant of each sex, took an apartment in a lodging-house at the west end of the town; the

mistress of the house being very inquisitive respecting the character of her lodgers, the lady informed her, she need not be under any concern, for she received no male company but her musicmaster. Accordingly the music-master came two or three times a week, and the servants before the time of his coming were always sent out of the way on different pretences; at length, oh woeful mistake! he came very late one night in a chair quite drunk, and insisted on being let in ; the mistress of the house came down, and found this music-master to be metamorphosed into one of the first peers of the realm, with the insignia of his rank on; she obliged him to decamp, and the lady to follow him in the morning, much to their mortification to be thus detected. The peer is married, and the lady a colonel's widow.

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An Indian Hunt.-A gentleman at Lucknow gives the following account of the late hunt of his Excellency the Nawab:

"The object of attack was a wild elephant. We espied him on a large plain, overgrown with grass. The Nawab, eager for such diversions, immediately formed a semi-circle with four hundred elephants, who were directed to advance on and encircle him. When the semi-circle of elephants got within three hundred yards of the wild one, he looked amazed, but not frightened; two large Must (high in the rut) elephants of the Nawab's were ordered to advance against him;

when they approached within twenty yards, he charged them; the shock was dreadful; however, the wild one conquered, and drove the Must elephants before him. As he passed, the Nawab ordered some of the strongest female elephants with thick ropes to go alongside of him, and endeavour to entangle him with nooses and running knots; the attempt was vain, as he snapped every rope, and none of the tame elephants could stop his progress.

"The Nawab, perceiving it impossible to catch him, ordered his death, and immediately a volley of above 100 shots were fired. Many of the balls hit him, but he seemed unconcerned, and moved on towards the mountains. An incessant Some of the

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fire was kept up for near an hour. Kandahar horse gallopped up to him, and made cuts at him with their sabres, but he charged them vigorously. Being now much exhausted with the loss of blood, having received above three hundred shots, and many strokes of the sabre, he slackened his pace, quite calm and serene, as if determined to meet his approaching end with the undaunted firmness of a hero. The horsemen seeing him weak and slow, dismounted, and with their swords began a furious attack on the tendons of his hind legs. They were soon cut; unable to proceed, this noble monarch of the woods staggered, looked with an eye of reproach, mixed with contempt, at his unfeeling foes, and then fell without a groan. The hatchet men now advanced, and commenced an attack on his large

ivory tusks. The sight was very affecting he still breathed, and breathed without a groan: he rolled his eyes with anguish on the surrounding crowd, and making a last effort to rise, expired with a sigh! The Nawab then returned to his tents flushed with exultation."

The following remarkable melancholy accident happened a few days ago at Congleton, in Cheshire; a surgeon and apothecary of that place, dropping in accidentally at tea-time at a gentleman's house in the neighbourhood, was solicited to stay and spend the evening with the company, which he complied with. A lady chancing to drop her fan, the surgeon, who sat cross-legged, resting his elbow upon one knee, with a pen-knife in the same hand, with which he had just been paring his nails, in attempting to take up the fan received a mortal wound in his throat, occasioned by his leg slipping off his knee. He had just time to settle his affairs, and died universally regretted, being a young man of extraordinary abilities in his profession.

The following adventure has made much noise at the Spa in Germany:-A gentleman of high rank gave a grand entertainment to the nobility and gentry there; among whom was Lord L. and his lady; his lordship having some reasons to watch his lady's actions, was a close attendant

on her all day; but unfortunately, in the evening, when the company was engaged, some at cards, some dancing, &c. he was obliged to leave her for an hour or two: the lady took that opportunity to march off unobserved with her lover, who had followed her incog. from Ireland. When his lordship returned to the company and missed his lady, he soon guessed the cause; and by means of a faithful domestic, traced their route, set out with a friend after her, overtook her at an inn where they stopped for refreshment, and brought the lady back. Such a transaction, in so public a place, could not be concealed; the whole town was waiting for the event, when the next week, to their great surprise, the husband, the lover, and the lady, went all airing in one coach, and now continue on the most amicable footing.

Florence, Sept. 2.-All the talk is of the bravery of a woman near Sienna: her husband being in prison here for about fifty crowns, she made up the money, and was coming hither to discharge him. A robber came up to her, cutlass in hand, swearing he would rip her up if she did not instantly deliver her money: at first she pleaded poverty; but, upon his going to strip her, she said, that indeed she had a little money, but that it was sewed up in her stays, and with his cutlass she would unrip it. The robber readily put his weapon into her hands, when, suddenly turning upon him, she plunged it in his body, and laid