objectioaableness (if there be such a word), for they were
successively moderated by the author. The first (and it is a curious circumstance not noticed in the Lives of Foote or Macklin) was sent by Foote from the Haymarket in 1771 ; and his original letter indicates that he was ready to perform it if it was licensed. It was refused ; and the experiment was again tried from Covent Garden Theatre in 1779, but still the of- fensive passages were not sufficiently erased or softened. A third and a successful attempt was made in 1781; and a letter in the handwriting of Macklin to Lord Hertford, preserved by.Larpent with the copy of the comedy, procured its allowance on the stage, and precisely in that form it is now acted.—illorning Chronicle.
Emirs TO THE SEDENTARY.—Speaking, reading aloud, and singing, are useful kinds of exercise, and it is supposed that this is at least a cause of the great longevity of clergymen, public speakers, teachers in universities, and schoolmasters ; and Dr. Andrew pleasantly observes, that one reason why women require less bodily exercise than men, is, that they are in general more loquacious.—Henderson on Health.
Trurrn.—Truth, considered in itself and in the effects natural to it, may be conceived as a gentle spring or water source, warm from the genial earth, and breathing up into the snow-drift that is piled over and around its outlet. It turns the obstacle into its own form and character, and as it makes its way increases its stream. And should it be arrested in its course by a chilling season, it suffers delay, not loss, and waits only for a change in the wind to awaken, and again roll onward.—Coleridge.
CHOLERA AMONG THE Frsn.—It is remarkable that a great mortality has prevailed among the fish in the lakes belonging to the Prussian Go- vernment at Marienverder, in the neighbourhood of which the cholera foraging. The police have gathered up and buried upwards of 40 tons from the lake of Zempelburg- alone.
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