"of kings, for I am going to Paradise, whither I

am called by the great God, the Creator and "Redeemer of mankind."

Signor Brundisi died at Rome, April 5, 1760. "He was a long suspected writer of our most in"veterate pasquinades,' says an Italian, "not "only against the government, but in opposition "to many tenets of our most holy catholic faith." The church, as they did not allow him to be one of their communion, would not grant him Christian burial, but deposited his remains in an unhallowed ground, without the gate which leads to the Appian way. Over the grave is a stone with the following inscription :

Here rots,

His soul irrecoverably lost,

The residuum of Signor Brundisi,

Late the tenant of depravity, sedition and schism.

He was a native of Milan, but being a lover of antiquities, had retired to Rome with an independent annuity, which he took care to distribute. His little effects, which consisted of fifty Roman crowns, and a scanty wardrobe, are left, agreeably to his whimsical character, to the Jesuits of Paraguay, and the exiled brotherhood, now in the campagnæ, for supporting, as he expresses it, the drama of their order, and the honour of the pontiff.

HENRY THE EIGHTH TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.

[Ms. Cotton. vesp. f. xiii. fol. 71. Orig.]

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"Myne awne good Cardinall, I recommande me unto you with all my hart, and thank yow "for the greete payne and labour that yow

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dayly take in my bysynes and maters, desyryng yow (that wen yow have well establyshyd "them) to take summe pastyme and comforte, "to the intent yow may the longer endure to "serve us; for allways payne can nott be in

duryd. Surly yow have so substancyally or"deryd oure maters bothe off thys syde the See "and beyonde that in myne oppynyon lityll or

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nothyng can be addyd; nevertheles, accord"yng to your desyre, I do send yow myne oppynyon by thys berar, the reformacioon where"off I do remytte to yow and the reinnante off our trusty consellers, whyche I am sure wyll substantyally loke on hyt. As tochyng the "mater that Syr Wyllyam Say broght answar "off, I am well contentyd with what order so "ever yow do take in itt. The Quene my wyff "hath desyryd me to make har most harty re"commendations to yow, as to hym that she "lovethe very well, and both she and I wolde

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more to yow att thys tyme bot that with God's helpe I trust we shall dyssyoynte oure enymys "off theyre intendyd 'purpose. Wryttyn with "the hand of your lovyng master

HENRY, R.

ENGLISH BENEFICES.

Regarding the actual state of fat and lean livings, or leavings, as some call them, in England at this time, hear Simpson in his Plea for Religion. He says, "I have spoken of the pa"tronage of church livings. Some of my readers "may be in a great degree strangers to the state "of it. I have taken some pains to inform my"self upon the subject, and I find that it stands nearly in the following proportions. I speak

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generally, but yet accurately enough for the purposes of common information. It is well "known then, that the church-livings of Eng"land and Wales, make together, speaking in “round numbers, about ten thousand. Of these,

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near a thousand are in the gift of the king. It "is customary, however, for the lord chancellor "to present to all livings under the value of

twenty pounds, in the king's book, and for the "ministers of state to present to all the rest. "Those under twenty pounds, are about seven "hundred and eighty, and those above, near one

"hundred and eighty. Upwards of sixteen hun"dred pieces of church preferment, of different "sizes and descriptions, are in the gift of the "twenty-six bishops; more than six hundred in "the presentation of the two Universities; about one thousand in the gift of the several cathe"drals, and other clerical institutions; about three "thousand seven hundred livings are in the no"mination of the nobility and gentry of the land, "men, women, and children; and fifty or sixty "there may be of a description different from "any of the above, and nearer to the propriety of "things." And we find Sir William Scott further elucidating the above, in a speech made about the year 1802. He states, that out of eleven thousand seven hundred livings, there are six thousand under eighty pounds per ann.; many of those twenty pounds, thirty pounds, and some so low as two or three pounds per

annum.

BISHOP'S STALL.

Eusebius, in his Evangelical Preparation, draws a long parallel between the ox and the christian priesthood. Hence the dignified clergy, out of more humility,have ever since called their thrones by the name of stalls; to which a great prelate of Winchester, one W. Edinton, modestly al

luding, has rendered his name immortal by this ecclesiastical aphorism, who would otherwise have been forgotten; "Canterbury is the higher "rack, but Winchester is the best manger."

SEASONABLE PRAYERS.

Mr. Warner has been pleased to inform the' world, "that the late right honourable C. J. Fox, "never omitted saying the Lord's Prayer whenever he went to bed, whether early or late, whe"ther under the influence of wine or in his sober "senses." Birmingham Hutton, has, like Mr. Warner, been as careful to record a similar thing. "Looking into my father's pocket book, I found this resolution written a month before;' O "Lord, by thy assistance, I will not enter a pub"lic house on this side Easter." The old gentleman, according to his son's account, was amazingly fond of a cup of ale.

MONUMENT IN ST. PAUL'S.

Is it not a libel on national taste to observe in the cathedral of the metropolis, the statue of Captain Burgess, exposed at full length as a naked figure? Surely this is not the costume of the navy? Did the hero tread the quarter deck in this state, during the engagement, when he fell? We should suppose not; therefore the