ten and bouillote, which are the scenes of real pleasure. Now you are sensible, ladies, how often we are troubled to make up a party. Then the mistress of the house is obliged to play, and she ought to know every game, not to gain other people's money, but to take care not to lose her own."

"You are perfectly in the right,Madam,” said a little man, the nap of whose velvet coat was a little worn off from the sleeve. "It is absolutely requisite that a young lady should know how to shuffle, deal, and play at cards, and not merely to play them, but to be a proficient, as I may say, in the different games now in fashion; and, for a very good reason; according to the system laid down by some philosophers, we often escape being the slaves of one passion, by adopting another. Therefore play preserves us from love; at play the mind is attentive, the heart unoccupied, and avarice throws tenderness on one side."

"Only let us reflect a little too," said one who was a kind of reasoner," that the education of a young lady ought to influence her future life, and she should be formed at fifteen for the part she will have to play at fifty. We are not always in our spring; we cannot always command the loves, the smiles, and the graces. There will come a time, when there will be no more roses in the gardens; then what is to be the lot of her who must give over playing with hearts ?

Chance has lately thrown in our way a number of the daily papers and original proclamations of that period, from which a correct idea of this awful accident may be obtained.

The first notice of the event will be probably found in The London Gazettee, (the first tweuty-four numbers of which appeared under the title of The Oxford Gazette, at which place they were first printed, and afterwards reprinted for the London readers in the metropolis) No. 84-" Printed by Tho. Newcombe, over against Baynard's Castle in Thames-street, 1666.” "LONDON, SEPT. 2.-About two o'clock this morning, a sudden and lamentable fire broke out in this city, beginning not far from Thamesstreet, near London Bridge, which continues still with great violence, and hath already burnt down to the ground many houses thereabouts; which said accident affected his Majesty with that tenderness and compassion, that he was pleased to go himself in person, with his Royal Highness, to give order that all possible means should be used for quenching the fire or stopping its farther spreading. In which case the Right Hon. the Earl of Craven was sent by his Majesty, to be more particularly assisting to the Lord Mayor and Magistrates, and several companies of his guards sent into the city, to be helpful by what ways they could, in so great a calamity.'

In the mean time, the publication of the paper was suspended for seven days, and in the inter"Must she adopt the airs of a prude, and weary val, the following Proclamation, printed in the every circle wherein she appears, with her moral black letter," by John Bill and Christopher discourses, or her scandal, to set old people Barker, printers to the King's most excellent asleep, and make the young ones fly her society? || Majesty," was circulated, and stuck up in divers "Must she court the acquaintance of those parts of London :who give tea and suppers, and strive to drown her tormenting recollections in punch or cham-compassion and very tender care, taking into paign?

"Would you have her open a literary society, and draw together the learned from every quarter of the town; expose herself daily to the eternal quarrels of those vainglorious gentlemen, or to the pointed epigrams of those whom she has not invited, and finish by purchasing with expensive dinners, a reputation without glory.

"No doubt but she would rather join the society of gamesters."

"CHARLES R." His majesty in his princely

consideration the distressed condition of many of his good subjects, whom the late dreadful and dismal fire hath made destitute of habitations, and exposed to many exigencies and necessities; for present remedy and redress whereof, his majesty, intending to give further testimony and evidence of his grace and favour towards them as occasion shall arise, hath thought fit to declare and publish his royal plasure, That as great proportions of bread and all other provisions as can possibly be furnished, shall be daily and constantly brought, not onely to the markets formerly in use, but also to such markets as by his majesty's late order and declaration to the lord mayor and sherifs of London and Middlesex have been appointed and ordained, viz. Clerkenwell, Islington, Finsbury-fields, Mile-end-green, and Ratelif: his majesty being sensible that this will be for the THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. benefit also of the towns and places adjoining; as being the best expedient to prevent the resort It will not be an incurious or uninteresting of such persons thereunto as may pilfer or distask to trace this terrible calamity from the mo- turb them. And whereas also divers of the said ment of its first breaking forth, and to judge of distressed persons have saved and preserved their the sensation it occasioned in the metropolis, goods, which nevertheless they know not how to from the accounts of contemporary public writers. || dispose of: It is his majestie's pleasure, That

"And certainly," cried a young lady, the great niece of Madame du Deffand, "when a woman is in her second childhood, and wishes to fly from solitude and spleen, those two great enemies of age, she has no other resource than to take up a pack of cards, as a baby would a coral."

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all churches, chappels, schools, and other like
public places, shall be free and open to receive
the said goods when they shall be brought to be
there laid. And all justices of the peace within
the several counties of Middlesex, Essex, and ||
Surrey, are to see the same to be done according-
ly. And likewise that all cities and towns what-
soever shall without any contradiction receive
the said distressed persons, and permit them the
free exercise of their manual trades; his majesty
resolving and promising, that when the present
exigent shall be passed over, he will take such
care and order, that the said persons shall be no
burthen to their towns or parishes. And it is
his majestie's pleasure, That this his declaration
be forthwith published, not onely by the sherifs
of London and Middlesex, but also by all other
sherifs, mayors, and other chief officers in their
respective precincts and limits, and by the con-
stables in every parish. And of this bis majes-
tie's pleasure all persons concerned are to take
notice, and thereunto give due obedience to the
utmost of their power, as they will answer the
contrary at their perill. Givin at our court at
Whitehall, this fifth day of September, in the
eighteenth year of our reign, one thousand six
hundred sixty six.

GOD SAVE THE KING."

Dull as this Proclamation may appear, there will be some readers who regard the progress and essation of such a national calamity with great interest; and it will be easily allowed, that the measures adopted were as prompt and as wellconceived as the nature of the case would allow.

BIRTHS.

At Uffington House, Lincolnshire, the Countess of Lindsey, of a son and heir.

Lady Thurlow of a son.

At Islington, the lady of William Shirely, Esq. of the East India Company's ship Surry, of a daughter.

At Owen's Place, Northampton-square, the lady of J. H. Soares, Esq. of a daughter.

Of a daughter, the lady of William Abbott, Esq. at Tamworth House, near Mitcham, Surry.

MARRIED.

At Langton, Lieut. William Holmes, of the Royal Navy, to Elizabeth, Daughter of Mr. Gould, of Blandford, Dorset.

At St. Sepulchre's Church, Farringdon Without, Mr. Thomas Farley, of Snow-hill, to Miss Lydia Nix, of Walworth, Surry.

At St. Mary, Newington, William Thomas Esq. of Dean-street, Southwark, to Miss Prosser, of Walworth, Surry.

At Douglas, Isle of Man, Mr. T. Long, of the Liverpool Coffee-house (eight weeks a widower), to Miss Hastings, Mantua-maker.

At Chester, Mr. Macann, Apothecary, of Parliament-street, London, aged 64, to Miss Eliza Bailey, of Chester, aged 56. The happy pair had known each other but a fortnight.

DIED.

At Cambridge, Sir Busick Harwood, Knt. M. D. Professor of Anatomy, and one of the senior Fellows of Downing College.

At the age of eighty, the noted Martin Van Butchell, who has for many years attracted public notice by the peculiarities of his long beard and dress, his singular hand-bills, advertisements, &c. Among his other oddities, he kept the body of his first wife embalmed in a glass-case. Though his surgery was more specious than scientific, he is said to have been originally an excellent surgeons' instrument-maker. He was a great frequenter of Hyde-park on Sunday, on his little

horse.

At Gloucester, universally regretted, Mr. Thomson, of Kentish Town, aged 62.

In St. Paul's Church-yard, London, after a short illness, aged twenty-four, Mr. J. Coopland, son of William Coopland, Esq. of Birdforth, near Thirsk, Yorkshire.

At Paris, Mr. Astley, senior. The public will be sorry to hear, that this gentleman, who has so much contributed to their entertainment, and who commenced his career nearly fifty years ago, paid the great debt to nature on the 27th of October last. His disorder was the gout in the stomach. He was, in early life, a private in the Dragoons, and was distinguished for gallantry and knowledge in his profession. Soon after a Mr. Price came forward with the novel entertainment of Horsemanship, which he exhibited at Islington, and from which he was able to retire with a moderate fortune, Mr. Astley attracted public notice by the same entertainments, which he performed in St. George's Fields. He was one of the handsomest men in figure and countenance that has ever been seen. By talent, enterprise, and prudence, he gradually acquired considerable property, erected several Theatres in this country, Ireland, and France, as well as many houses in Lambeth; and a few years ago resigned all his public concerns to his son, to whom, and to his family, he has no doubt left a valuable inheritance.

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