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WOODLANDS, LONGOVICUM, and other Poems, written by the Rev. JoHN HODGSON, P. C. of Jarrow and Heworth, in the County of Durham,-in fine Foolscap 8vo. 4s.

**For a Character of these Poems, see the Anti-Jacobin and Monthly Reviews, and the British Critic.

DONA IGNEZ DE CASTRO, a Tragedy from the Portugueze of Nicola Luiz, with Remarks on the History of that unfortunate Lady; by JOHN ADAMSON,-in fine Foolscap 8vo. 4s.

ANCIENT HISTORIC BALLADS, containing among others The Battle of Floddon Field, accompanied by Notes illustrative of that memorable Event; by ROBERT LAMBE, Vicar of Norham upon Tweed,-in fine Foolscap 8vo.

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THE PICTURE OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, containing a Guide to the Town and Neighbourhood, a History of the Roman Wall, and an Account of the Coal Mines.-Illustrated by a New and correct Plan of the Coal

District, including the Rivers Tyne and Wear, the Collieries, Staiths, Roads, Towns, Villages, and Gentlemen's Seats thereon, a Plan of Newcastle, and a Descriptive Vignette, by Bewick.-Price 5s.

THE NEWCASTLE COUNTING-HOUSE COMPANION, containing a complete List of the Carriers and Days they are in Town, and of the Coaches that run from Newcastle; together with a List of the Magistrates, Members of Parliament, Bankers in Northumberland and Durham, Officers of the County of Northumberland, Fitters and Coals they deal in, Ship and Insurance Brokers, Wharfingers, &c.-to which are added, a Table of Interest and Discount, a List of Commercial Stamps, and a Tide Table for every Day in 1809, &c. On a large Sheet, Price 1s.

LORD Herbert of Cherbury was a nobleman of a great and generous disposition, a fine gentleman, full of the spirit of chivalry, but remarkably vain. After prince Charles of Wales had passed through Paris, in disguise, in his way to Madrid, his lordship says: "I acquainted his highness in Spain how much it grieved me that I had not seen his highness when he was in Paris," where his lordship was then ambassador, "which occasioned him afterwards to write a letter to me, wholly with his own hand, and subscribe his name your friend Charles, in which he did abundantly satisfie all the unkindness I might conceive on the occasion."

Lord Herbert's Life of Himself.

TOMMY Hull, who is well known to have been the apologist-general at Covent Garden Theatre for about five and twenty years, took it into his head, at the time of the dispute between Keppel and Palliser, to distinguish himself as a lad of liberty. On the night when all London was illuminated on Keppel's acquittal, he undertook, not only to light up his tenement in Martlet-court, Bowstreet, but treat the populace with small beer.

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They had drank all but one barrel, which, out of wantonness--because it was rather stale-they left running. The door was now shut, lest some of the liberty boys should take a fancy to the silver spoons. At this they grew clamorous, and bawled out very outrageously for more beer. Tommyas was his custom-thinking it high time he should now make his appearance-popped his red nightcapped-head out of the window, and there was immediately a cry of "hear him-hear him." When he thus begun:Ladies and gentlemen, I have the misfortune to tell you--that the spiggot is out of the faucet, and the small beer is run about the cellar-and we humbly hope for-your usual indulgence.' Dibdin's Musical Tour, p. 43.

THE following is transcribed from one of bishop Latimer's sermons, preached before Edward VI. It relates to his personal history, and is a just picture of the antient yeomanry.

"My father was a yoman, and had landes of his owne; onlye he had a farm of three or four pound by yere at the uttermost; and hereupon he tilled so much as kepte halfe a dozen men. He had walke for a hundred shepe, and my mother mylked thirty kyne. He was able and did find the king a harnesse, with hym self, and his horsse, while he came to the place that he should receyve the kynges wages. I can remembre that I buckled hys harnes, when he went into Black Heath felde. kept me to schole, or elles I had not been able to have preached before the kinges majestie nowe. He marryed my sisters with 5 pounde, or 20

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