LONGEVITY.
[To THE EDITOR or TR. .11PECTATOD•*1 SIE,—As a pretty constant reader of the Spectator, I have noticed at times (notably in your issue of March 2nd) an interesting correspondence on " Longevity and Links with the Past." I think my own family could contribute an instance of it somewhat unusual, and beg to send it you. To put it shortly, my grandfather, Samuel Dumbleton (whose funeral I attended about 1850), was born in 1758 and his father in 1699. A further interesting matter is that Samuel Dumbleton married Sarah Arne, a niece of the celebrated musical composer, and being, like her aunt, Mrs. Cibber, of a comely presence and having a very good voice, was much pressed by the Doctor to take to the profession; but she did not do so, but lived and died here about 1833, her last surviving daughter, Mrs. Page, dying here some years ago at
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