1. Of having, on the 26th of last September, committed the crime of private forgery, by counterfeiting, or causing to be counterfeited, a bond for four thousand francs, and by signing it with the forged signatures, Berton, Mehul, Nicolo, and Boyeldieu. 2. Of having, on the 13th of October, 1816, committed a private forgery, by counterfeiting a resolution and receipt of the committee of the shareholders of the theatre Feydeau, and by signing them with the forged signature Rezicourt. 3. Of having, on the 20th of January, 1817, committed a private forgery, by counterfeiting a resolution of the shareholders of the theatre Feydeau, with the same forged signature. 4. Of having, on the 1st of March, 1817, committted a commercial forgery, by fabricating a bill of exchange for 16,500 francs, and signing it with the forged signatures, Despermont, Perregaux, Lafitte and Company, and Berton. 5. Of having, on the 9th of March, 1817, committed a private forgery, by counterfeiting an invoice of musical instruments, and a bond for 14,000 francs, and signing them with the forged signature of Pozzo di Borgo. 6. Of having, on the 11th of March, 1817, committed the crime of private forgery, by fabricating three bonds for different sums, and signing them with the forged signatures, Count Chabrol, and Finquerlin. 7. Of having, on the 11th of March, 1817, committed a private forgery, by fabricating two bonds, one for 10,000 francs, the other for 5,000 francs, upon the funds of the English legation, and by signing them with the forged signatures, Stuart, Amaury, and Wells. 8. Of having knowingly made use of all these forged documents. Besides these forgeries, Bochsa appears to have fabricated many others, particularly bonds bearing the forged signatures of M. le Comte De Cazes, and of Lord Wellington. The Court pronounced him guilty of all these private and commercial forgeries, and condemned him to twelve years of forced labour, to be branded with the letters T. F., to be fined 4,000 francs, &c. NATURALISTS' CALENDAR. Mean Temperature. . . . 41. 10. THE BOY BISHOP. In addition to the particulars respecting the institution of a child to the office and work of a bishop," in the Romish church, on St. Nicholas's day, the following is extracted from the English annals." The Boy bishop, or St. Nicholas, was commonly one of the choristers, and therefore in the old offices was called Episcopus Choristarum, Bishop of the Choristers, and was chosen by the rest to this honour. But afterward there were many St. Nicholases and every parish, almost, had its St. Nicholas. And from this St. Nicolas's day to Innocents' day at night, this boy bore the name of a bishop, and the state and habit too, wearing the mitre and the pastoral staff, and the rest of the pontifical attire; nay, and reading the holy offices. While he went his procession, he was much feasted and treated by the people, as it seems, much valuing his blessing; which made the people so fond of keeping this holyday.' It appears from the register of the capitulary acts of York cathedral, that the Boy Bishop there was to be handsome and elegantly shaped.+ Strype's "Memorials." † Brand.. Henry Jenkins-Older than Old Parr. He lived longer than men who were stronger, On the 6th of December, 1670, died Henry Jenkins, aged one hundred and sixty-nine years. Jenkins was born at Bolton-uponSwale in 1500, and followed the employment of fishing for one hundred and forty years. When about eleven or twelve years old, he was sent to Northallerton, with a horse-load of arrows for the battle of Flodden-field, with which a bigger boy Vol. II.-103. (all the men being employed at harves went forward to the army under the e of Surrey; king Henry VIII. being Tournay. When he was more tore the hundred years old, he used to swim, which, the river with the greatest ease, Jossess of out catching cold. Being summe legends tithe cause at York, in 1667, bpinion, that vicar of Catterick and Williar ctually exerts Mawbank, he deposed, that g. wool, lamb, &c. were the vicar's, and had been paid, to his knowledge, one hundred and twenty years and more. And in ano. ther cause, between Mr. Hawes and Mr. Wastel of Ellerton, he gave evidence to one hundred and twenty years. Being born before parish registers were kept, which did not come into use till the thirtieth of Henry VIII.,one of the judges asked him what memorable battle or event had happened in his memory; to which he answered, "that when the battle of Flodden-field was fought, where the Scots were beat, with the death of their king, he was turned of twelve years of age." Being asked how he lived, he said, " by thatching and salmon fishing;" that when he was served with a subpoena, he was thatching a house, and would dub a hook with any man in Yorkshire; that he had been butler to lord Conyers, of Hornbycastle, and that Marmaduke Brodelay, lord abbot of Fountains, did frequently visit his lord, and drink a hearty glass with him; that his lord often sent him to inquire how the abbot did, who always sent for him to his lodgings, and, after ceremonies, as he called it, passed, ordered him, besides wassel, a quarter of a yard of roast-beef for his dinner, (for that monasteries did deliver their guests meat by measure,) and a great black jack of strong drink. Being further asked, if he remembered the dissolution of religious houses, he said, "Very well; and that he was between thirty and forty years of age when the order came to dissolve those in Yorkshire; that great lamentation was made, and the country all in a tumult, when the monks were turned out." In the same parish with Jenkins, there were four or five persons reputed a century old, who all said he was an elderly man ever since they knew him. Jenkins had sworn in Chancery and other courts to above a hundred and forty years' memory. In the king's remembrancer's office, in the exchequer, is a record of a deposition taken, 1665, at Kettering, in Yorkshire, in a cause “Clark and Smirkon," wherein Henry Jenkins, of EllertonNicon-Swale, labourer, aged 157 years, was arp-duced and sworn as a witness. tha 'ear dal His was coarse and sour; towards the end of his days he begged up and when the Roman catholic religion he lished, Jenkins saw the supre Ge pope overturned; the dissoonasteries, popery re-estab ther has h satiety favour o end "tiì. tures." I lished, and at last the protestant religion securely fixed on a rock of adamant. In his time the invincible armada was destroyed; the republic of Holland was formed; three queens were beheaded, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, and Mary queen of Scots; a king of Spain was. seated upon the throne of England; a king of Scotland was crowned king of England at Westminster, and his son and successor was beheaded before his own palace; lastly, the great fire in London happened in 1666, at the latter end of his wonderfully long life. Jenkins could neither read nor write. He died at Ellerton-upon-Swale, and was buried in Bolton church-yard, near Catterick and Richmond, in Yorkshire, where a small pillar was erected to his memory, and this epitaph, composed by Dr. Thomas Chapman, master of Magdalen-college, Cambridge, from 1746 to 1760, engraven upon a monument in Bolton church. INSCRIPTION. Blush not, MARBLE! He was enriched His low and humble state, With a patriarch's health, and length of days: To teach mistaken man, Were intail'd on temperance, There is a large half sheet portrait of Henry Jenkins, etched by Worlidge, (after an original painting by Walker,) from whence the present engraving is copied, and there is a mezzotinto of him after the same etching. Becember 7. OLD SIGHTS OF LONDON. In December, 1751, the following "Uncommon Natural Curiosities" were exhibited in London. 1. A Dwarf, from Glamorganshire, in his fifteenth year, two feet six inches high, weighing only twelve pounds, yet very proportionable. 2. John Coan, a Norfolk dwarf, aged twenty-three; he weighed, with all his clothes, but thirty-four pounds, and his height, with his hat, shoes, and wig on, was but thirty-eight inclies; his body was perfectly straight, he was of a good complexion, and sprightly temper, sung tolerably, and mimicked a cock's crowing very exactly. A child three years eight months old, of an ordinary size, with his clothes on, weighed thirty-six pounds, and his height, without any thing on his head, was thirty-seven inches seven-tenths, which on comparison gives an idea of the smallness of this dwarf. 3. A Negro, who by a most extraordinary and singular dilatation and contraction of the deltoid and biceps muscles of the arm, those of the back, &c., clasped his hands full together, threw them over his head and back, and brought them in that position under his feet. This he repeated, backwards or forwards, as often as the spectators desired, with the greatest facility. 4. A Female Rhinoceros, or true Unicorn, a beast of upwards of eight thousand pounds weight, in a natural coat of mail or armour, having a large horn on her nose, three hoofs on each foot, and a hide stuck thick with scales pistol proof, and so surprisingly folded as not to hinder its motion. 5. A Crocodile, alive, taken on the banks of the Nile in Egypt, a creature never seen before alive in England.* This is a verbatim account of these • Gentleman's Magazine. sights published at the time; the prices of admission are not mentioned, but they? were deemed worthy of notice as remarkable exhibitions at the period. In the present day the whole of them would scarcely make more than a twopenny show; and, at that low rate, without a captivating showman, they would scarcely attract. London streets are now literally "strewed with rarities," and "uncommon things," at which our forefathers stared with wonder, are most common. A PARTICULAR ARTICLE. "A READER," at p. 1584, should have. had "Lyneham, Wilts," as the place of his residence, attached to his remarks on an account of "Clack Fall Fair," at p. 1371, which was supplied by 66 an old correspondent," with whose name and address the editor is acquainted, and whose subjoined communication claims regard. He writes in explanation, and adds some very pleasant particulars. CLACK FALL FAIR. To the Editor of the Every-Day Book. Dear Sir, I cannot allow your pages, to close without replying to the " Corrections and Illustrations," p. 1584, made by "A Reader" respecting "Clack and its vicinity. First. I observe that Bradenstoke priory is usually called the " Abbey," in the neighbourhood,—not the " Priory." There is a tree growing upon the tower, and a legend respecting it. I was once taken up to see it blossom, having slept in the room under it with my schoolfellow, John Bridges, whose mother, at that time a widow, kept the farm, and a most excellent woman she was. Secondly. I should have considered the stating, "that a carpenter, while digging, struck his spade against an image of gold, and has it in his possession," was suffi cient, without further inquiry or remark I repeat the fact for a truth. I know i' man, and have seen the IMAGE. As antiquary myself, I assure you, sir, I fain dig for similar hidden treasures hope of like reward. The perscore the owns the image is not needy, r which, fore would not part with his possess of gold for more sovereign curren he legends opinion, that Actually exerts g. 1607 Thirdly. When young, I descended several feet into the "subterraneous pas"Reader." sage" referred to by your Though I am willing to admit the possibility of monkish imposition-such a passage has, however, been believed to have existed by the oldest people of Clack. Similarly, it is conjectured, that a passage once ran from Canonbury-tower, IslingYour ton, to the palace Kensington. "Reader" is rather too sceptical to challenge me to a proof, which I take only in a topographical sense. Of whatever effect tradition may be, much historical truth is notwithstanding embodied in it: furthermore, it is well known, that subterraneous passages led from place to place, when castle building was in vogue. Fourthly. The oldest man living in Seagry, at the time I was shown the stone in Malmsbury abbey, whose name was Carey, was the occasion of my going to that place to see the stone: I paid sixpence to the person who gave me a view of it. He represented it to have been done by "Geoffry Miles"-the boy was a choirister: this is his information, not mine. The impression ever after guarded my conduct in school. Fifthly. As to "Joe Ody," your Your "Reader's" hit at Seventhly. The room I have already tha, ear mount is, however, remarkable for he ther scene of delight and festivity. A band of Therefore, Lastly, "The Maypole." It |