CHANCELIER DE L'HOPITAL. WHO could have imagined that this rugged and inflexible magiftrate would have amused his leifure with writing Latin verfes to fatirize the ladies of his time who did not fuckle their own children? His poem on this fingular fubject is addreffed to the celebrated Jean Morel. Some of the lines may be thus tranflated: Can Nature, like a ftep mother, deny The poem is a long one, and contains many as fine and as ftrong fentiments as thofe juft quoted. The late excellent Dr. Gregory of Edinburgh has, in his very ingenious and entertaining tertaining "Comparative View of the State and "Faculties of Man with thofe of the Animal "World," fhewn it to be no lefs the intereft than the duty of the mother (unless her state of health prevent it) to fuckle her own child. She procures greater health and fpirits, as well as greater beauty, by the operation; and, adds he, another great inconveniency attending the "neglect is, the depriving women of that inter"val of refpite and of ease which nature in"tended for them between child-bearings. A "woman who does not nurfe, has naturally a "child every year: this greatly exhaufts the "constitution, and brings on the infirmities of "old age before their time. A woman who "nurfes her child, has an interval of a year and "a half or two years betwixt her children, in * which the conftitution has time to recover its The Chancellor de l'Hôpital's Latin Poems are in one vol, folio, 1585, and in one vol. octavo, 1732. Of this great magiftrate's fimple manner of living Brantôme gives this account": "Il me depêcha bientôt & nous fit dîner tres bien du bouilli feulement (car c'étoit fon ufage). Devant le diner ce n'étoit que beaux difcours " & belles " & belles fentences & quelquefois auffi de gentils "mots pour rire." L'Hôpital used to fay of thofe perfons who piqued themfelves upon never refufing anything, "that they had one quality at least in common "with a young prodigal, and with a woman of "loofe conduct." He was at fome diftance from Paris when the maffacre of St. Bartholomew took place. On hearing of it he faid, "The King has taken very "bad advice. I do not know who he was that gave "him fuch advice, but I am very apprehenfive "that himself and all France will fuffer from << it." MARQUIS SPINOLA. "PRAY of what did your brother die ?" faid this celebrated General one day to Sir Horace Vere. "He died, Sir," replied he, "of having "nothing to do." "Alas, Sir," faid Spinola, "that is enough to kill any General of us all." Montefquieu fays, "We in general place idlenefs amongst the beatitudes of Heaven; it "fhould rather, I think, be put amidst the torments of Hell." QUEEN QUEEN ELIZABETH. Of the extent of Queen Elizabeth's abilities, the following teftimony was given by her Treafurer Lord Burleigh. "No one of her Councillors could tell her "what the knew not; and when her Council "bad faid all they could, fhe could find out a "wife counsel beyond theirs; and that there never was anie great confultation about her "country at which he was not present to her great profitte and prayfe." .. Scot, in his " Philomathologia," fays, "that "a Courtier, who had great place about her Majeftie, made fuite for an office belonging to "the law. Shee told him he was unfitt for the place. He confeffed as much, but promised "to find out a fufficient deputy. Do fo, faith fhe, and then I may beflow it upon one of my ladies, for they, by deputation, may execute "the office of Chancellor, Chief Justice, and "others, as well as you. This (faid the author) "answered him and (adds he) I would that it * would anfwer all others, that fit men might be "placed "placed in every office, and none, how great "foever, fuffered to keep two." Puttenham tells us, that when fome English Knight, who had behaved himself very infolently toward this Queen when she was Princess Elizabeth, fell upon his knees before her, foon after fhe became the Sovereign of thefe kingdoms, and befought her to pardon him, fufpecting (as there was good caufe) that he fhould have been fent to the Tower; fhe faid to him, very mildly, "Do you not know that we are defcended of the "lion, whofe nature is not to prey upon the "moufe, or other finall vermin?" Ofborne, in his Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth, tells this ftory of her:-That one of her purveyors having behaved with fome injustice in the county of Kent, one of the farmers of that county went to the Queen's palace at Greenwich, and watching the time when the Queen went to take her ufual walk in the morning, cried out loud enough for her Majefty to hear, "Pray which is "the Queen?" She replied very graciously,“ I am "your Queen; what would you have with me?" "You (replied the farmer) are one of the rarest << women I ever faw, and can eat no more than my daughter Madge, who is thought the pro"pereft lafs in the parish, though far short of you: "but that Queen Elizabeth I look for devours fo (6 many |