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thoii^li hi* \mls nt iht* last fvtmiiity. 'I’ln* tir-.
was i t* old mull, li|,r> n hermit, vkt ariug huimIuIs
amt a Irrnu heanl U« «il«*«i n>li.i\e conn*
from tlit* lluly Jatitul lor lh« joirpoh** * of work
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l>ritpoertl itiucls t x .pt in iho pr< fiifh it th
King. AH his power, In* - aul, fonsistnl hi a
phial containing two drops of blood whi h I d
been brought IVoiii the foot of tin* .v .uo .V.
fioes. Hr would out show to tiny one tin* pre*
eiotiH it lie, Imt eai I hi* woald undte trial • l •»
»t!er the io.pc.sition of hands, lie was -• M to
F: loo w ho had no morn faith in relies than in
inini'drs.
“ (s*rti ir ly. Father.” .■*: i l he i » the anchor
ite *•) on w ill ho pi'irnittril to try your skid:
h i* fust let tin* ascertain tlint your flii.il dm
m t contain poison ”
[F.tgim took the liottle, which was J c.dl l
with tho arms of Hr. Peter, ntni broltf i» f I"
i!o* jtfi'M ilituiiuy of the |ir*iti*titled^ arit.ii ; ad
• nog to his H* t rhe rorinnent that vuataitied no-
th og hut it,,[ Father le Tellier was indignant at
the nupo: 11;r • and sent the man to f ri.«• n.]
Another empiric, stvlm;: h<mt»dfa (ir riuati
Doctor of the faculty of Leipzig, who knew
something of chemistry, ennie. r**r momm nd**il
hy Madame, lie «*. as idVrn d from .M .i. > •
de Maintenon to F .thei h* Teliier, then to i’.»
gon tiirn In Chintin d Roh'i i, a i ' to Mure
ehitl. He reeoiv* d oidv infill; iw ii le:d'. . Mate
•dial, though eotivineed that ih> King could not
live more than another day. asked tho CL r
man what he thought lie could do.
"I possess two i hv rs,* replied hr. “The
first wtlll restore the King’s apjn titc, for y» i
know he l.t s taken no food for tins week past
The seeot'.d will cheek tlio progress of the
gangrene, and perhaps ern e it euttri ly.”
• I hn\e no laitli in what you ea\,” i• plied
Marerhd; ‘ hot theio i-j no liartti in trying
your remedy.”
The King consented to time the first elixir,
w hi« h eertainlv a p'*ar«*d to hav woudmful
efleet. His appetite r< un tied, and ho ate as
heni'ld) as ifhe had hecn in goo I loo hit. ii -
was e\en itlj-poKS* d to he out uf th.uui r, n l
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Maine tended to confirm the report. '* Wait
till m motrow,’* said Mure, lud, douhthdlv.
' Still, fiow v r, the aei ouni|Lf the Jill ;V ini
provetnent was repauted, and tlie pueit of the
IVtirt wrote Home t!ianksgiviog4 in rhyme.
The |)nk<' of Ofleatis, who had h veil besit g ■
1 »d hy premature congratulatory visi’s, vvas now
‘ aimokt desuttt dfor two dnye ’1 !iia iimruli !
him, and he promised to remember it. “ If the
Kmg eats nuoth.-r hourly meal,” jaitl I, “ you
wdl ! c uitrrlv foratik«*n."
j^Tbe.German ofierwirda raturr.td, but mv
re.u««*.l aiimittuiice : the King having passed
1 a very resiles; night, had gent for his family.]
j * ‘ On the lit ofoop
I tunher the gangrene had reached ill * heart of
• the King, arid im experienced tho moat cxcru
1 cinting agony.
1 •* I itnnk said fie,” that u gran: chang*. h v
I taken place.”
] “ S re,” replied Fagan, “this ci .iie may In
, attended hy happy results.”
j “No; I feel my nertea contracting. Is not
this Wednesday, Muruchnl ?”
“ Yes, Sire.”
“ Fathor, ?*•.»•! I.oms XIV, *• a De prafuundin
if von plctirtc.”
The ConfcRHor knelt down sit tlie beneide,
and every one present did th. same. Tlie King
elaspi-d his hands, and joined devoutly in the
prayer. Suddenly loud shouts of laughter
were heard, nml tlie Confessor stopped. " Go
on, I beg,” said the King, icpresMiig his in
• j tuition ; but the tears glistened in I.is eyes.
\\ t ee the D> Profoundis wa.- finished, * e went
M d< Vdlerot to know who find been luughiCR
*»(• heartily. VVfien ,V|. de Ydhroi returned,
the King said. “You should lave requested
Monsieur du Mcine to wait tit) I was dead he
fore he gave way to sucl^ extravagant joy.”—
The entrance of Madame de Ms ntcnon put a
period to thin gentle reprimand. She rnnar
ked the dun eyes of tfio dying King, and On
he fiist tune she f»fit unfeigned regrec ** Mu*
himn,” said the King, “ I thougiii it vvas difli
•tilt to die.” The hursts of laughter were rn
newed. Madame de Mainianofi changed co
rotir. Some one r<<Br with the intention of
l ei k.ng if.is imleceni memo cot, whea Loui>
XIV, making an effort to speak, ordered that
in* notice might he taken of it “ Ii is M. du
Maine.” said he, “ though M. de Villerm dar
ed not say so ; hut 41s 1 am .! \ mg f I pardon him,
I even il i were not dying 1 should still for
give him ” The doiiiesties vented their grief
m sighs and sobs, mid the priest- coutiitund
praying *' Why do you weep ?” sai* the King.
“ Pn! yon think me iuuuortnl ?” These wcr»*
Iiib last words. Mndaine d»* Maintennn wn*
removed from the melancholy scene A con
vulsive movi ment terrninsted the suffering of
the royal patient. Marerhnl placed his hand
on Lous XIV.V h^srf. The prayers stopped
for a moment, ai d 'ho cry, “ The King is dead
resounded through tlie Palace.
I was walking about in the gallery leading
10 the royal apartments, inquiring for new
and study mg t * eountenaiiei h of all whom 1
met. I had wones cd the scandalous gniuty
of the Duke du Maine, who vvas conversiiq
with Amin. Mt^silloiq who no less ititpn
tient than I, kept near the royal (’hamher. He
seemed to he s< « king inspiration for Ins funeral
oration.
“ The King,” said he to me, “ awaits his up
protudiii g end vvtili admirable tintincss and
traiimnllity of mind
“ Death is nothing,”replied I. 41 T»»h King
who dies in pnhlie it is an act of royalty.”
Win n tfie King's death was made known, vv*
hurried to tin* royal chnmlmr. It was tilled
with prayii a priests nml weeping dotinstie.-.
Fagon and Mareefial examined the body. T ••
features vv*'re scarcely rcregnisahh* and appear
ed to me to b
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vvhirli was g
K is irnpo**-d»le otherwist* to aceonnf for ll
terrible change The body is shrunk, at h ast
tin* length ofhalf a head.”
“ Would it not have been better to have nl
•owed tin* diseoe to take its own coi. se ?”sni I
Mnreehal.
There vvas a moment’s silence, during which
M isMillou advanced majestically »o tiie mortal
r-mnino of Louis le Grand. ll« raised his
Hands to heaven, fixed his eves on the deceased
in profound meditation, and in a voice of thun
der I c exclaimed “ My brethern, God alone
is great.” It is miposihle to express the effect
vv Inch these sublime words produced : for my
part, | felt ns though the marrow of my bones
was chilled,and many persons fell w .th thei*
faces on the ground. Mas-ilion thus eommeti
red his funeral oration on Louis XIV,; the
words, 4 * >tod alone tt/rreaf,” were more than
alonucn*
Dlr( OVF.RV OF AMERICA.
A i!i.-'*rg'ii r .i,cil savant of Copenhagen l*a^
aduH -ed a leiier, cmniiiiug very curious li’vajL
T • r 1 • • I information, to a goniletnan in this city!
imp si lion 11* a work of
ill- voyage nf disco very of North America, uni
dertaken hv inhahilauts ct llto North offill
p • tu • qJ Columbus, He has in liiJ
•1. 1 entthe exotnlM
tion nt which, he say-, leads to the most curil
‘•ns ! surprising results, well worthy in thcmJ
selves of fixing th«* e’h ution of the philosopher
and liL'onim. 'they furnidi \.i;e>ui» nud 1111 -f
V< * i" • ah hi evidence, t»r»t only that thy coag
«*f North America vvas discovered soon alter
• he discovery of Greenland, towards tho oloio)
of t u. ’h cHu«tii v, hv northern exjdorert*,
p.a’i f whom remained there, and thn\ it vvrts|
cg^ui*. i •» -;i in tI:o 11 tli, I3tii am! LUh centu*
rie-, imt 11D0 that (’hristinnity was introduced]
among tho aborigines./
in tho 11 nm of tie northern American phi*
cl- traces of tlie Fcandiiin vinn descent of thal
ttlei • font I. I ho documents men* 1
• io ned id ove, supply materials torn Map of thbl
m’rd "in c "ist cd' America, wliic'i will he an-|
" ved to ; di Nt and commentary to be pre*
purcdJiy tie* writer of rfm letter.
The non,,i-ru ::.!v".i!iii'i*r had their print i<
pni •• ■ it ;i. mi nth ol tiie fiver Saint f.mv I
re c;. Ri / isa prominent rendezvous;
hut n .- nfftrim* i to la: clear from the »euords
that *h v v ere :t« pjainii d with tiie coaat much I
fart In l'M» thus-" ;! . even as far down as tho]
G irotitiA*:. It vvri tie* year ‘J^5, that Atneri-
•* first di- nered hy B liskr IIerijtvfsen t ]
hut lie d *1 not I •:;(?. In year JOOR. or pethaps '
earlier, the co-, ; v; - vi.-ittd by I.eif, a son of j
FriY’. the Itid wI o first colonized Greenland. '
G| all north* 1 e navigators who Hucceaded in
•Ins same wmiv. TAotr/irtn Karhefene is tho one
from whom the mo t circumstantial reports
huve been tian8mi ( ttcd. From his son, .**Vtorrc,
who .v>»s horn in America, and left it with his
parents vvh if he was three years onl, dcecui.J-
ed in tl.** • on l and third goucr.uion*. tltrco
ot Iceland's first and most eclehrated bishops,
Th il ic. Pi, and Linnid, and in the gen
era;: » .,ju !;;e //ra/.-, so justly celebrated in tho
literary hi dory nf Iceland, hv whom 11 number
•t Solars were composed, lie lived in the Itlth
«i"l ' i the beginning of the 13th century. Part*
ol ins w orks, in hi< own hand writing, arc now
in the povressioi: of the Danish savant. Wo
hive thus l-o mmiinic li*d lh : suhfllitiice of ibis
•M nth nun’s h-tter, and are inclined to bclicvo
wii!» him, that he will he a Ida to throw fresu
light . uimt i -c.ills tlie antiquities ofNortii 1
America, hy means of his eruilito researches.—
He is anxious to know whether interest will ho
taken mi his mu uprise in the Fluted • States.- -
• ’•rtninly tv subject isfjtted toexcito tho
miuiis « f oi.r Fteruri, !»ut it cannot bo deemed
<tV;c toil ein. W ellington Irving notices tho
legymlri ol the Scandinavian voyages in his
hit* of CohimbuH. and particularly some passa-
"••s of ;h»- appendix. We inurt add, however,
that he w*i not apprised of the exact nature
uhd • .item of ili^ Danish testimony.
[Xational Gazette.
On? man suck-? nn orange and is cho.ikedov
a pip, aimthcr aw allows a penknife and lives ;
one runs a thorn into his hand nml no skill can
•ave hiru, atmtlier hut tho shaft of a gig passed
•mm. ' Isp ly thiot'gli his body urn! recorer^ ; one
•* • f'Ttuiitd on a smooth common nml h*C«k
hm nerk, a(Ti de r b n used out ot a gig over
Rrigliidii cliff and survives ; one walks out a
windy day and meets death in a brickbat, am!
another is blown up in the air, like lord Hatton
m Guren«ay cnrtlc, and comes down uninjured.
Tho escape of th's nobletnanwns indeed u mira-
•le. An explosion of gunpowder, which killed
his mother, wile, some of bis children, many
other persons Sf blew ut> the whole fabric of tho
rustle, lodged him in !ii» bed on a wall overhang
ing a tremendous precipice. 44 Perceiving 11
nnghty disorder, (us well he might,) he was go
ing to step out of his bed To know vvhnt tho
matter was. w hich, if he had done he had been
irrecoYcrahly lost; hut, in ti e instant of Ins
moving, n fV Mi of liglitning cottio find show ed
him tho precipice* where upon he lyy e till till
people estne ami took him down.”
A lelluw 6halt make a fortune by tossing a
straw from hi« mo to fi is noscj; oce Ins found
in eiituig fire the most ready way to live; and
another who jingles several hells fixed to his
c«p, is the only man that I know of who has re
ceived emolument from the labours of his head.
A young a man of good nature and learning,
was complaining to me some nights ago of this
misplaced gei.iroRity of the times. Here, says
he, haw ! spent tho greater part of my youth
mi attempting to instruct and amuse *tv fellow
being**, ami oil my reward has been solitude,
poverty A’ rtpronch ; while a fellow possessed
of even tho smallest chare nf fiddling merit, or
who perhaps learned to whistle double, is re
warded, applauded, ^caressed. Pry thee, young
man, ■a\.i I to hint, arc you ignorant that in so
large a city as this, it is hotter to he an amusing
than an u.-tfiil member of society ? Can you leap
up and touch your f« ot f»ur times before you
come to the ground r No sir. Can you swal
low a penknife ? Xo, Sir; I can do none of
these tricks. Why, then, cried I, there is no
other prudent mentis of subsistence left, hut to
apprise the town that you speedily intend to
eat up your own nose hy subscription.
- [Citizens of the World.
L rd F.hSon and Lord Ftowc.ll are the sons
of a hurge ma-tcr and a small dealer in coals at
Newcastle. Lord Stowell borrowed £10 to
so the Circuit, and both supported themselves
for u time hy their talents ns private tutors.—
Lord Ttnierden is the »*on of a hair drerser, and
obtained un eleemosynary education, on tho
foundation of a charity belonging to the town.
The Lord Chancellor is the son of .Mr. Copley
the painter.
The Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pic vs is the son of an Attorney. Mr. John Wil
liams, one of the Benchers of his Inn, is the son
ofa horse dealer in Yorkshire. Mr. F. Pollock,
another Bencher, is the son bf a saddler id* that
M ime at Chin mg cross. Mr. Bickerstcth, also
a Ifuichcr, was not long since house surgeon
mink. | nud accoucheur in the family of Lord Clifford,
said Fagon, • that the cliv ir j Tl e mm her of Mr. Gurney, the Bencher, kept a
Ins Majesty vvns pn:-on.— -mall book-shop fur the pale of pamphlets in
one of ih«* Court* in the city. Mr. Campbell,
the King'd Counsel, find son in law to Sir James
Scarlett, w as a Reporter to a daily paper, at a
time when surh Inhur vvas much worse paid
than at present. Mr. S**rjentit Spnnkh*. was
one of i.i- colleagues. Mr. Stephens, the Mas
ter in Chancery, was also u Reporter, and about
twelve or fifteen of the present Barristers were
Reportors for tho daily papers. The present
Solicitor General, Mr. Susdr.n, is tho son ofa
bather, and was ch tk to Mr. Grootne, tho oper
ative conveyancer to the hate Marquis ofLoti-
londerry. It is renmrkabtn that tho admission
<»f Mr. Sugdcn was opposed on tho ground that
he had hcot. n clerk—and, hut for the exertion*
nf that most ami aide man, ami ornament to hi*
profession, Mr. Hargrave, who contended for
his admission, on the ground that, whatever he
had been, he was a man of talent, and had writ
ten a ’>#•!; wl* h d spin* ed qualification* of a