by the droll and numerous adventures A weary traveller, resting on a heap ACCOUNT OF A FIGHT BETWEEN A TIGER AND AN ELEPHANT. In the midst of a grassy plain, about half a mile long, and nearly as much in breadth, about sixty or seventy fine elephants were drawn up in several ranks, each animal being provided with a maha On wat and a hauda, which was empty. The mahawat succeeded in bringing the elephant to the charge again before he had gone far, and this time he rushed on furiously, driving his tusks into the earth under the tiger, and, lifting him up fairly, gave him a clear cast to the distance of about thirty feet. This was an interesting point in the combat. The tiger lay along the ground as if he were dead, yet it appeared that he had sustained no material injury, for on the next attack he threw himself into an attitude of defence, and, as the elephant was again about to take him up, he sprung upon his forehead fixing his hind-feet upon the trunk of the former. The elephant was wounded in this attack, and so much frightened, that nothing could prevent him from breaking through every obstacle, and fairly running off. The mahawat was considered to have failed in his duty, and soon after was brought up to the governor, with his hands bound behind his back, and on the spot received a hundred lashes of the rattan. Another elephant was now brought, but the tiger made less resistance on each successive attack. It was evident that the tosses he received must soon occasion his death. All the elephants were furnished with tusks, and the mode of attack in every instance, for several others were called forward, was that of rushing upon the tiger, thrusting their tusks under him, raising him, and throwing him to a distance. Of their trunks they evidently were very careful, rolling them cautiously up under the chin. When the tiger was dead, an elephant was brought up, who, instead of raising the tiger in his tusks, seized him with his trunk, and in general. cast him to the distance of thirty feet. Brewster's Journal. Elustrations of History. THE PAGEANTRY AT BRISTOL, GIVEN IN HONOUR OF THE VISIT OF HENRY VII. In the year 1690, Henry VII. visited Bristol, on the se'nnight after Whitsuntide, attended by the Lord Chancellor, and many of the nobles, and lodged at St. Augustin's Monastery. Three miles out of Bristol, his majesty was met by the Mayor, the Sheriffs, the Bailiffs, with their brethren, and a great number of other burgesses, including the Recorder, named Freymayle, who, in their names, " right cunningly welcomed him.” On a causeway within Lawford's Gate, the King was received by a procession of friars, and at the end of the causeway, the procession of the parish churches received him; and in the entry of the Tower-gate, (Newgate) there was ordained a pageant, with great melody and singing; after which there was a king, [Brennus] who addressed the king in a speech of thirty-five verses." At the High Cross, there was a pageant full of maiden children, richly beseen, and Piudentia had a speech complimentary. Thence," the King proceeded ad portum sancti Iohannus, where another pageant of many maiden children, richly beseen with girdles, beads, and onches," where Justitia held forth : "Welcome most excellent, high and victo. rious, Welcome, delicate rose of this our Briton, &c. On the way towards the Abbey, a baker's wife cast out of a window, a great quantity of wheat crying" Welcome!" and good luck." Then there were the Shipwrights' pageant with pretty concerts playing in the same, without any speech," another of an Olifaunt, with a castle on his back, curiously wrought. The resurrection of our Lord in the highest tower of the same [castle], with certain imagery smiting of bells, and all events by weights marvellously well done. Within St. Austein's Church, the Abbot and his convent received the King with great pomp as accustomed, and on the morn [morrow] when the King had dined he rode on pilgrimage to St. Anne's in the wood [Brislington.] And on Thursday next following, which was Corpus Christi day, the King went in procession about the great green, there called the Sanctuary, whither came all the processions of the town also, and the Bishop of Worcester preached in the pulpit in the middle of the aforesaid green, in a great audience of the Meyre, and the substance of all the burgesses of the town and their wives, with much other people of the country. After evensong, the King sent for the Meyre and Sheriff, and part of the best burgesses of the town, and demanded of them the cause of their poverty [complained of in the ditty of King Brennus,] and they shewed his grace that it was by reason of the great loss of ships and goods which they had suffered within five years. The king comforted them, that they should set on and make new ships, and exercise their merchandize as they were wont to do, and his grace would so help them by divers means [negatively, perhaps in not asking them for money like as he shewed them; whereupon the Meyre observed that the people of the town had not for a hundred years past heard such words of comfort from any king, therefore they thanked Almighty God that had sent them so good and gracious a sovereign lord. And on the morn [morrow] the King departed to Londonward." It is on record that notwithstanding the promises of assistance the avaricious Henry made to the people of Bristol, that he extorted from them the same year the sum of eighteen hundred pounds by way of a benevolence to himself, and he also forced the commons to pay twenty shillings for every one that was worth twenty pounds, because their wives truly went so sumptuously apparelled. upon cabbages, you would not pay court to kings." "And if you," retorted Aristippus," knew how to live with kings, you would not wash cabbages." HENRY VI. King Henry VI., of England, among other virtues, was celebrated for his Christian patience, insomuch that when a rude fellow struck him after he was taken prisoner, he made no other reply, than, "Friend, you are to blame to insult a prisoner. Thou hast injured thyself more than me in striking the Lord's anointed." TWO HEADS BETTER THAN ONE. Dr. Fuller, in his "Worthies," tells the following amusing anecdote of a wealthy gentleman of the name of Wiemark, who upon hearing the news of the day, part of which was the decollation of the great Sir Walter Raleigh, said "his head would do very well on the shoulders of Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of State." These words were complained of, and Wiemark summoned to the privy council, where he pleaded for himself that he intended no disrespect to Mr. Secretary, whose known worth was above all detraction, only he spake in reference to an old proverb :-"Two heads are better than one." And so for the present he was dismissed. Not long after, when rich men were called on for a contribution to St. Paul's, Wiemark, who was at the council table, subscribed a hundred pounds, but Mr. Secretary told him two hundred were better than one, which between fear and charity Wiemark was fain to subscribe. THE REPLY THOUGHTLESS. "Souvre," said Louis XV. to the commander of that name, "you are getting old, where do you wish to be interred?" Souvre replied with evident unconsciousness of his mal-adroitness, "at the foot of your Majesty." This answer disconcerted Louis so much, that he remained for some time buried in thought. GREAT MEMORIES. Cicero calls memory the treasury of the sciences. Montaigne terms memory the strong box of science. Without memory the judgment must be unemployed; and ignorance must be the consequence of want of memory. Pliny, who calls memory one of the greatest gifts of nature, has recorded some illustrious persons distinguished by this talent. Cyrus knew the names of all his soldiers. Lucius Scipio could call the whole Roman people by name. Cyneus, the counsellor to Pyrrhus, (of whom this prince used to say, that he considered him as a partner in his conquest, as obtained by eloquence) was acquainted with the names of the Roman senate and the army. Mithridates had learned the languages of twenty-two nations, and used to boast that he never wanted an interpreter. Cleopatra, as Plutarch relates, knew the languages of almost all the nations of the East. Seneca could repeat two thousand names in the order they were spoken, and rehearse two hundred verses after the first hearing them read. And it is related of Joseph Scaliger, that he learnt by heart the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer in twenty-one days. Among the moderns, may be instanced, Fuller, who could name the signs on both sides of the way, from Paternoster Row to Stock's Market, and in his study dictate to five several writers at the same time, on as many different subjects. Dr. Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, also possessed such a wonderful retentiveness of memory, that he could remember any thing he had written after once reading it over. Sir Francis Bacon once read to him a portion of Erasmus's Paraphrase in a confused and disordered manner, which he repeated in the same unconnected way, forward and backward, without being at a loss in any particular. The old proverb says, great memory little judgment." Can any one with truth assert, that these illustrious personages were void of judgment, who not only possessed uncommon but prodigious memories. R. J. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE HOLT. Having committed one of the French prophets, a foolish sect that started up in his time, to prison, upon which, a Mr. Lacy, one of them, came to my Lord's house, and desired to speak to him. Upon being told by the servants that their lord saw no company that day.- -"But tell him," said Lacy," that I must see him, for I come to him from the Lord God." Which being told the Chief Justice, he ordered Lacy to come in, and asked him his business. "I come," said he, "from the Lord, who has sent me to thee, and would have thee grant a nolle prosequi for John Atkins, his servant, whom thou hast sent to prison.' "Thou art a false prophet, and a lying knave," answered the judge. Lord had sent thee, it would have been to the Attorney-General, for the Lord knows it is not in my power to grant a nolle prosequi; but I can grant a warrant to commit thee to bear him company which I certainly will." "If the Diary and Chronology. DATE. DAYS. May DIARY. ᎠᎪᎢᎬ CORRESPONDING CHRONOLOGY. 9 Frid. St. Gregory Na- May 9 St. Gregory Nazianzen was bishop of Constanti nople. He resigned the see, and retired to his native country, Cappadocia, where he died, #T. 66, A. D: 889. He was one of the ablest champions of the trinity. 1501. Columbus the navigator embarked on his 4th voyage, with the hope of finding a passage through the isthmus of Darien to the East Indies, but returned unsuccessful. 1811. The first stone of the foundation of Vauxhall Bridge was laid on this day. -10 St Isidore, the patron St. of Madrid, died a. D. 1170. -111796. The battle of Lodi was fought on this day, when Buonaparte performed one of the most, daring exploits of his military career, viz. the effecting the passage of the bridge over the Adda, with the bayonet, although defended by 10,000 Austrians. Rogation Sunday derived its title from the latin term rogare, to ask; because on the three first days immediately following it, supplications were appointed by Mammertus, bishop of Vienne, in the year 469, to be offered to God, to avert some particular calamities that threatened his diocese. St. Mammertus, archbishop of Vienne, in Dauphine, was a very eminent and holy prelate, Mammertus restored the fast to a proper solemnity, and ordered it to be kept in the three days in which the processions were made, termed Rogation. He died A. D. 477. 1782. Died, Richard Wilson, the eminent painter -12 St. Epiphanius was bishop of Salamis, in Cyprus. -13 St. Servatus was bishop of Tongres, and died A. D. 1822. Died James Basire, ET 52, an engraver of -14 St. Pachomius was a disciple of Palæmon the ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE. THE SPECTRE SHIP. AN AYR LEGEND. BRYCE GULLBYLAND was a tall, rawboned, middle-aged man, with two high cheek-bones; his nose thin and somewhat hooked; two small grey eyes that had taken up their residence in the innerchambers of his head, which were thatched with a pair of eye-brows of long grey hairs; his mouth was drawn together not unlike a purse that had long been in the possession of a spendthrift-and was seldom unpuckered but to utter some monosyllable, for he was extremely tenacious of his words on all occasions. This, with a considerable bend in his shoulders, gave him somewhat of an odd appearance, although he had given a little more in to the new order of things that were beginning to make considerable inroads on the wardrobes of our forefathers. But this piece of animal machineryornamented with a large white wig, composed of goat's hair, a huge cocked hat, a coat of brown grogram with large cuffs, and every button (of which there were no VOL. I. U lack) of the size of a silver crown, a pair of petticoat-trowsers, composed of Osnaburgh sail-cloth, and large silver buckles that covered the greatest portion of his instep-made up altogether a sort of amphibious animal, neither landsman nor seaman, but yet something of both.-Such was the hero of the tale that I am about to narrate. It was in the year 1723, that the good ship, the Golden Thistle of Ayr, was chartered by the Virginia Company, to sail for Maryland, in South Carolina, for a cargo of tobacco; and the said Bryce Gullbyland was appointed Captain, (to the no small loss of Johnny Towlines, who had long sailed her with profit to his owners-although Johnny was one of those people that could discover a dozen meridians in the four-and-twenty hours,) through the interest of Bailie M'Ilwhang, whose sister Bryce had married a few weeks previous to this date.-She was a virgin maiden of fifty; and her features might have been fixed on the bow of the fire-ship, the Medusa, or would have formed an appropriate ornament over the gateway of a vinegar-yard. 19-SATURDAY MAY 17, 1828. |