facrifice may be worth making under the circumitances defcribed, yet to make it with a view of creating a taite for any purfuit merely amutive, is, I think, to estimate falfely the value of things. If, however, experience fhews that mufical pleafures may be enjoyed in moderation, and fo as to make an agreeable variety, without occupying the place of any thing preferable, my objections are at an end. The fame may be faid of drawing, and various other tastes and ac quifitions, concerning which, accident and inclination, if regulated by prudence, may be fuffered to determine the choice. I have now, I think, pointed out to you fources which will fupply fufficient materials of eafily procurable pleafure, if you bring to them what is abfolutely effential to the fuccefs of any external means of happiness-a mind in harmony with itfelf. This, nothing but confcious worth and virtue can beflow. This, "tibi ipfe parabis." A REMARKABLE SPEECH OF BARON TOMLINSON TO THE SHERIFFS OF LONDON, WHEN SWORN IN, 1659. How do you, Mr Warner?—God fave you, Mr Love. GENTLEMEN citizens; I ob- I have a gown too, but they make me wear the worst of any baron of the Exchequer; it is plain cloth, as you fee, without any lining; yet my comfort is, I am still a baron, and I hope I fhall be fo as long as I live; when I am dead I care not who is baron, or whether there be a baron or no. The next thing I observe is, that ye look plump and ruddy; from whence I give a fhrewd guefs, that ye feed well; and truly if you do so, then you do well, which is my third and last observation concerning ye. But do you know wherefore you come hither? I do not question but you do; however, you must give me leave to tell ye; for in this place I am a better man than either of you both, or indeed both of you put together. Why, then, I will tell ye, ye come hither to take your oaths before me. Gentlemen, I am the puifue baron of the Exchequer : that is to fay, the meanest baron: for, tho’ I am not guilty of interpreting many hard words, yet this hath been fo continually beaten into my head, that I do very well understand it: however, I could brook my meannefs well enough (for fome men teil me that I deferve no better) were it not the caufe of my life's greatest mifery; for 66 or here I am contrained, or elfe I muft lofe my employment, to make fpeeches in my old age, and, when I have one foot in the grave, to stand here with the other talking in public. Truly, gentlemen, it is a fad thing, you fee what a forced put I am put to; even God help me out of this finful world; for when my bones are at reft, my tongue will be at quiet. I remember, gentlemen, when I was a child, if my mother asked, if I would have any victuals that pleafed me not, why then I would grow fullen, and make no answer: then would fhe fay, "firrah, will you have it? fpeak!" fill not a word from me. Nay then (faid fhe) if you won't fpeak you fhall have nothing." This is my condition now, either fpeak, or have nothing; that is, be no baron. I have prayed to God to mend my weak capacity; now I fpeak better to-day than I used to do, you will know he hath heard my prayers; if not, then it is as it was. But, fince it is my misfortune, I fhall talk to ye as well as I can: but, friends, you must not expect that I fhould baul to you, like fellows who cry carrots and turneps in the street; for that would be troublesome to me, and, perhaps, cause the almonds of my ears to fall, with over ftraining my impotent lungs. And now it comes into my mind, I defire you, when you are in your office, not to let thofe fellows yaule fo in a morning; for, befides that,they will not let the people fleep, the cry of wifdom can never be heard in your freets for the perpetual bauling those carters keep; and truly if do not remedy it, I am afraid you you will as foon hear the lamentation of wild nightingales, as the voice of wifdom in your city. Yet though I do not baul, do not think that I will whifper neither; for then it were impoffible you fhould hear me, and I fhould feem to fet upon the bench like a madman talking to myself: befides, the proverb fays, "that where there is whifpering, there is lying." Truly, gentlemen, I am an old man, and have lived long in the world; and I can affure you, I have obferved thefe proverbs, and find them to be wife' fayings. I remember when I was a young youth, it is a great while ago, gentlemen, I warrant ye it is above five and forty years ago, my mother faw me fooling with a knife; "lay down the knife, boy, (faid fhe) it is a dangerous thing to play with edged tools.' Truly, gentlemen, I believe you find the truth of this; for had your city never meddled with edged tools, they and you, I believe, had been in a more thriving condition than now.— At first you played with thefe edged tools in your military and artillery grounds, and made fport with them before your wives; but I think they have made fport with you fince.— Truly, for my part, I cannot tell what to do for thefe edged tools; and I believe you are in a quandary too for my part, I refolve never to meddle with them; and I hope God has given you fo much grace and cowardice, as to do fo too. King James would never meddle with them, you know: now, if you will : not take my foolish advice, take his wife counfel. But to return where I left; I fay I will neither baul, nor fpeak foftly, but talk in an indifferent tone between both, that you may hear me, and I may hear my felf, and fo we may all hear one another; and truly there is great reafon for it: for by hearing we convey our reafon one to another. Now that I have reafon, I will prove; for every man is a rational creature; now I am a man, therefore I am a reasonable creature. Gentlemen, this makes as much for you as for me for by this do I prove you likewife to be rational creatures, and fo fit to be sheriffs.Thus I find ye qualified for your office. And truly, gentlemen, fheriffs are men of great antiquity and authority authority; fome are of opinion that of the air. This is evident from the sheriffs were invented in Tyre and Si- duty of his employment; for as it is don; truly, gentlemen, it stands with your duty to punish offenders and reason, for I am fure they were the finners in this world, fo it is his duty firft inventors of scarlet. But to to punish finners and offenders both leave this opinion, I do find in the in this world and the world to come. Bible, how Jofeph was, by Pharoah, And now 1 fpeak of your employment, king of Egypt, made fheriff of Grand I fhall tell you what it is: first, you Cairo; and Daniel alfo was, by Ne- are the chief jaylors of the nation, buchadnezzar, king of Affyria, made and it is your duty to keep thofe prifheriff of Babylon. In the first foners who are committed to your place, their habit proves this to be charge, as close as your wives lock true, for they wore the fame badges up their best jewels: to this purpose, of their authority as you have; that Mr Warner, are the two counters at is to fay, fcarlet gowns and gold your difpofal; and Newgate, Mr chains. I will not difpute whether Love, is appointed for your portion. their gowns were lined with fur or Secondly, you are the chief execuno, neither was it material, nor in- tioners of fentences. upon melefactors, deed fo requifite; the hotness of whether it be whipping, burning, or their countries not permitting that hanging. Mr Sheriff, I fhall intreat formality. Secondly, we read how a favour of you: I have a kinsman at Jofeph arrefted his brothers for car- your end of the town, a rope-maker; rying away his plate, which he could I know you will have many occafions not have done had he not had bai- before this time twelvemonth, and I liffs and ferjeants under him, officers hope I have fpoken in time; pray peculiar to a fheriff: and to make it make use of him, you will do the more evident, we do not find that he poor man a favour, and your felf no took out his writ out of any other prejudice. Pray, gentlemen, what office but his own; which he could have you for dinner for I profess I not have warranted, had he not been forgot to go to market yesterday, that fheriff himself. But you will fay; I might get my fpeech by-heart. where were the two fheriffs to paral- Truly, gentlemen, I count it no dif lel our two fheriffs? To that I an- honour to go to market my felf; there fwer; where was there a county of is no trufting to fervants: had you Middlefex belonging to any of thofe lived as long in the world as I have cities, for the other perfon to be the- done, you would fay fo. When I riff of? Was it requifite there should was a young man as you are, I fcorned be two fheriffs, in those places, where to go to market then as well as you; there was never a County of Middle- but, fince I went my self, I find that fex, because there are two sheriffs of my fervants cheated me of, I warrant London, where there is a county of you, five pounds in the year. They Middlefex? No; for it is the coun- would recon me two fhillings for a ty that makes the sheriff, not the fhe leg of mutton, which I can buy as riff makes the county. This, gentle- good a one now for five groats and men, is law. Now, gentlemen, I two pence. One, two, three, four, fhall tell ye more than ever you heard five, fix, feven, eight, nine, ten, elebefore, to fhew you that I have not ven, twelve o'clock; well God-buyfpent my time in idleness, which is to ye gentlemen. But ftay! I have this; that as there is an arch-angel, forgot the main thing ye came for: and an arch-bishop, and an arch-dea- I must give you our oath. Loid, con, fo is there an arch-sheriff, which what a crazy memory have I! Put is Saturn, or Beelzebub, the prince you must excufe me, gentlemen, my X x thoughts 66 thoughts are not upiquitary; they cannot be in your kitchen and my head both at one time. Gentlemen, there are several forts of oaths; there is the protector's oath," by the living God;" there is the cavalier's oath, "God damn me;" and there is the chambermaid's oath, as I am honeft" then there is an oath which you are to fwear, and which all men fwear who take upon them employments of truft, "fo help me God." Now fome men fay this is not an oath, but my confcience tells me the contrary. Truly there are fo many opinions, that a man cannot tell which to believe. However, I have fworn this oath twenty times, and would do twenty times more, before I would lose my place: but why do I use persuasion? I fee you are come SOME with a refolution to fwear, and I am come to fwear ye, and fo we are agreed. Well, now you have heard what those things are which you must fwear; lay your hands on the book, and fay," as God help us, Mr Baron, we will perform all these things as well as we can.". Thus Masters Sheriffs, you hear what you have fworn; pray be diligent and careful to obferve every particular; fear God, obey your fuperiors, and rule your city with prudence; that as you are fheriffs, you may become mayors; and being mayors, may be knighted and being knighted, may die full of age and worship, and be buried with efcocheons. Now, Mr Sheriffs, get ye home, kifs your wives, and by that time the cloth is laid I will be with ye; fo good-buy till I fee ye. AN ACCOUNT OF A REMARKABLE MUMMY. FROM MEMOIRS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT PARIS FOR 1756. OME peasants being at work in a field belonging to the village of Martres de'Artieres, near Riom in Auvergne, found a kind of trough, feven feet long, three broad, and eight inches in depth, cut out of a ftone which feemed to be a granite, and covered with another stone of the fame kind. In this trough was a leaden coffin, which contained the body of a lad about twelve or thirteen, fo well embalmed, that the flesh was ftill flexible and fupple. The arms were covered with bands twisted round them from the wrift to the top of the fhoulders, and the legs in the fame manner from the ancles to the top of the thighs: a kind of fhirt covered the breaft and belly, and over all was a windingsheet. All thefe linens were imbibed with a balm of fuch a strong smell, that the ftone trough retained it, and communicated it to thofe who came near it, long after the coffin was taken out of it. This mummy was carried first to the curate's of the parish: it had at that time on its head a wooden cap, lined with an aromatic paste, which had the fame fmell as the balm in which the linen had been dipped. It had alfo in its hands balls of the fame pafte, which were kept on by little bags, which covered the hands and were tied at the wrifts; the arms, thighs, and legs were covered with fome of the fame pafte. But being removed foon after to Riom, by order of the intendant of that place, all the coverings were taken away; and the colour of the fkin, which was at first very clear, changed to a dark brown. The drug employed in embalming had very much diminished the bulk of the fleshy parts; but had preferved their fupplenefs fo well, that a furgeon making an incifion in the ftomach, one of the by-ftanders put in his finger, and could feel the diaphragm, the great lobe of the spleen, and the liver; but these two last had loft much of their bulk. A part of the epiploon, about three inches in length, being extracted at this open ing, was found to be quite found, and as flexible as in its natural state. About twelve inches of the jejunum being likewife extracted, and tied at one end, it was inflated by blowing in it, as readily as if it had been that of an animal juft killed. In fhort, the body feemed to be embalmed in a quite different manner from that of the Egyptians, whose mummies are dry and brittle.- No infcription on the coffin or linen, no medal, nor any fymbol whatever, was found, that might difcover the time when it was depofited in this place and the peafants affirmed, with oaths, that they had not removed or embezzled any thing. ACCOUNT OF A BODY FOUND ENTIRELY CONVERTED INTO HAIR, A LONG TIME AFTER IT WAS BURIED. the FROM THE ACTS OF LEIPSIC. feathers, nails, horns, teeth, &c. are nothing but vegetables. If it be fo, we need not be surprised to see them grow on the bodies of animals, even after their death, as has been frequently obferved. Petrus Borellus, Hift. & Obf. Med. Cent. I. Obf. 10. pretends, that these productions may be tranfplanted as vegetables, and may grow in a different place from that where they firft germinated. He alfo relates, in fomé of his obfervations on this subject, among others, that of a tooth drawn out and tranfplanted, which may appear pretty fingular. ABOUT forty-three years ago a thors, are of opinion, that hair, wool, woman was interred at Nuremberg, in a wooden coffin painted black, according to the custom of the country. The earth, wherein her body was depofited, was dry and yellow, as it is for the most part in the environs of that city. Of three bodies buried in the faine grave, this woman's was laid the deepest in the ground; and, there being an occafion to make room for a fourth body, grave was dug up anew; but, to the great furprife of the digger, when he had removed the two uppermost coffins, he perceived a confiderable quantity of hair that had made its way through the flits and crevices of the coffin. The lid being taken off, there appeared a perfect refemblance of a human figure, the eyes, nofe, mouth, ears, and all other parts, being very diftinct; but from the crown of the head to the foles of the feet, it was covered with very long, thick, and frizzled hair. The grave-dig. ger, after examining it for fome time, happened to touch the upper part of the head; but was more furprised than before, on feeing the entire body fhrink, and nothing at laft remain in his hand, but a bundle of rough hair, which infenfibly affumed a brownith red colour. Though the external furface of bodies is the ufual place for the growth of hair, it has, notwithstanding, been fometimes found on the tongue, in the interior of the heart, and on its furface; in the breaft and kidnies ; and in other glandular and muscular parts; but there is no internal part where it is oftener found than in the ovarium of females. This has been obferved in three different fubjects by Dr Tyson, as related in the philofophical collections of Mr Hock, who alfo tells us, on the teftimony of Mr Arnold, that a man, hanged at Tyburn for theft, was found, in a very fhort time after he was taken away from the gallows, covered over in a very extraordinary manner with hair. Xx 2 The learned Honoratus Fabri, Lib. 3 de Plantis, and feveral other au ANEC |