secret bye-ways, and contriving it so that he came to the Hague by six in the morning, and alighted at a scrub inn in a remote part of the town, where he was confident none would know him, under the disguise he was then in. He immediately sent Fleming to acquaint his sister where he was, and to leave it to her to contrive the way and manner of having access to her, so as not to be known, Fleming having dispatched his commission in a very short time, (in less than an hour), was no sooner returned to the King (whom he found in the room where he had left him, and where he had been still alone), than an unknown person came and asked of the landlord, if two Freuchmen had not alighted at his house that morning. The landlord replied, that indeed two men had come, but of what country he knew not. The stranger desired him to tell them that he wanted to speak with them; which he having done, the King was much surprised, but withal inclined to see the person. Fleming opposed it; but the King being positive, the person was introduced, being an old reverend like man, with a long grey beard and ordinary grey clothes, who looking and speaking to the King, told him, he was the person he wanted to speak to, and that all alone, on matters of importance. The King, believing it might be, perhaps, a return from his sister, or being curious to know the result of such an adventure, desired Fleming to withdraw, which he refused, till the King, taking him aside, told him there could be no hazard from such an old man, for whom he was too much, and commanded him to retire. They were no sooner alone, than the stranger bolted the door, (which brought the King to think on what might or would happen) and at the same time falling down on his knees, pulled off his very nice and artificial mask, and discovered himself to be Mr. Downing (afterwards well known by the name of Sir George, and Ambassador from the King to the States after his restoration) then Envoy or Ambassador from Cromwell to the States, being the son of one Downing, an independent minister, who attended some of the parliament-men who were once seut to Scotland to treat with the Scots to join against the King, and who was a very active and virulent enemy to the royal family, as appears from Lord Clarendon's history. The King, you may easily ima gine, was not a little surprised at the discovery, but Downing gave him no time for reflection, having immediately spoke to him in the following manner:-That he hoped his Majesty would pardon him for any share he had acted, during the

rebellion against his royal interest; and assured him, that though he was just now in the service of the usurper, he wished his Majesty as well as any of his subjects, and would, when an occasion offered, venture all for his service, and was hopeful what he was about to say, would convince his Majesty of his sincerity. But before he mentioned the cause of his coming to him, he must insist that his Majesty would solemnly promise him not to mention what had happened, either to Fleming or any other person whatsoever, till it pleased God to restore his Majesty to his crown, when he said he should not desire it to be concealed; though even then he must likewise have his Majesty's promise not to ask him or expect he should discover, how or when he came to know of his being there. The King having solemnly protested, and engaged on the terms required, Downing proceeded and told him, that his master, the usurper, being now at peace with the Dutch, and the States so dependent and obsequious to him that they refused nothing he desized, had, with the greatest secrecy, in order to make it more effectual, entered into a treaty, by which, among other trifling matters agreed to hinc inde, the chief and indeed main end of the negociation was, that the States stood engaged to seize and deliver up to the usurper the person of his Majesty, if so be at any time he should happen by chance or design to come within their territories, when required thereto by any in his name; and that this treaty having been signed by the States, was sent to London, from whence it had returned but yesterday morning, and totally finished yesterday night, betwixt him and a secret committee of the States. He represented his master's intelligence to be so goo, that a discovery would be made even to himself (Down ing) of his Majesty's being there; and if he neglected to apply to have him seized, his master would resent it to the highest, which would infallibly cost him his head, and deprive his Majesty of a faithful servant. And being desirous to prevent the miserable consequences of what would follow, if his being here were discovered, he resolved to communicate the danger he was in; and for fear of a discovery he had disguised himself, being resolved to trust no person with the secret. He then proposed that his Majes'y would immediately mount his horse, and make all the dispatch imaginable out of the States territories; that he himself would return home, and under pretence of sickness lie longer a-bed than usual; and that when he thought his Majesty was so far off, as to be out of danger to

be overtaken, he would go to the States, and acquaint them, that he understood his Majesty was in town, and require his being seized on the terms of the late treaty; that he knew they would comply, and send to the place directed; but on finding his Majesty was gone off so far as to be safe, he would propose to make no further noise about it, lest it should discover the treaty, and prevent his Majesty's falling afterwards into their hands. The King immediately followed his advice, and he returning home, every thing was acted and happened as he proposed and foretold. The King having thus escaped this imminent danger, most religiously performed what he had promised, never mentioning any part of this history till after his restoration, and not then desiring to know how Downing's intelligence came, (which he never discovered) though he (the King) often said it was a mystery. For no person knew of his design till he was on horseback, and that he could not think Fleming went and discovered him to Downing; besides, he so soon returned from his sister that he could not have had time; Downing having come much about the time Fleming returned.

Some years after this occurrence, when the restoration had taken place, the King being in company with the Earl of Cromartie, the Duke of Rothes, and several other Scotch Noblemen, enjoying their wine, they all complained of an impertinent speech Downing had made in parliament, reflecting on the Scotch nation; which they thought his Majesty should resent, so as to discard him from court, and withdraw his favours from him. The King replied, he did not approve of what he had said, and would reprove him for it; but to go farther he could not well do, because of an important service he had rendered him during his exile, the circumstances of which he repeated in the terms above narrated; the King's detail made such an impression on all present, that they freely forgave what had passed, and Rothes asked liberty to drink his health in a bumper.

tle of Windsor, by his late Majesty George the Third, is the following, which was productive of great amusement to the whole of the residents, royalty not excepted.

The above artist, knowing that strict injunctions had been given to the people, male and female, appointed to shew the state apartments, to take the utmost care of the two pier glasses which had been presented to his Majesty, and set up in one of the public apartments. These looking-glasses excited the admiration of all the visitors to the castle, from their being the largest that had been cast in any British manufactory in his Majesty's dominions.

Therefore, the painter, knowing how high they were prized, conceived that a glorious frolic might be created by one of his tricks, namely, to make an artificial fracture on each, before the hour prescribed for opening the shew-rooms. To effect this purpose, he got in by stealth, and, with a wax-candle, beginning from the centre, threw out a number of irradiating lines, giving to each glass the appearance of being fractured.

The head showman, whose appointment is immediately under the lady housekeeper, entering, ex officio, to see that all was in order, exclaimed, "Heaven and earth!" and calling the house-maids, who were in the next rooms, busied with their dusters and brooms," Which of you devils did this?" pointing to the glass. The women were dumb.

"Ah! it's of no use to deny it surely the devil is in ye! What in the name of wonder have ye been at? What will Lady say to this?"

"La! how shocking!" ejaculated one. "How unfortunate!" exclaimed another.

66 Yes," said the showman; a pretty commence !"

"Well! you cannot lay it to us!" said both simultaneously.

"That's more than I know," answered the showman. "Nobody did it, I dare say;" when turning round, one of the vestals shrieked, and added, "Why the other is broke as well!"

"Then we shall lose our situations, that's flat," said the other, and weeping, wiped her tears with her duster. They all stood pale as death, and silent as the grave, when-lo! his Majesty, (George the Third,) entered from the Queen's staircase.

The maidens remained speechless, and the showman's tongue clave to the roof of his mouth. He bowed-wrung bis hands, not knowing what he did; and, gasping for breath, with one hand on his

bosom, in the true stage tragedy style, addressed his Majesty's most gracious royal attention, first to the upper, and then to the lower end of the state apartment, to the two never to be forgotten fractured glasses. His Majesty beheld the mischief, said nothing, and departed.

Presently-for no calamity is long a household secret, and in palaces, "even walls have tongues"-the smash reached the ears of the lady housekeeper, who was at her toilette; she left her own glass, and hurried to the wreck of these mighty mirrors. What her ladyship said, I must not tell; other than that, in her soliloquy, something escaped like this: "Alas! alas! unhappy those whose fate it is to dwell in courts! Happier those who live in humble cots!"

The lady housekeeper solemnly retired by the grand escalier to lay the misfortune at the feet of the Queen. The domestics stole down the back staircase to empty their budget of calamity in the laps of their fellow-servants; whilst the coast being clear, the prankish painter crept silently in, and with a damp sponge and a dry doyley, wiped the frightful fractures clean out.

By-and-by come the King and Queen, and all the royal family-the lady houseKeeper, the lords in waiting, the equer ries, and the pages, a solemn silent train; excepting, indeed, that among the latter, one, and he an ancient, declared in a solemn whisper, that from the hour of his birth up even to the present blessed moment, he never heard of such a thing in all his born days!

But who shall describe the astonishment of the group, when, all prepared for exclamations suited to the importance of the convocation, lo! the great magnificent glasses were found whole!

er's Hill for Sportsmen. Fetter Lane and Shacklewell for Criminals. Grub-street for Beggars. Featherbed Alley for Nurses. Bread-street for Bakers. Leather Lane for Cordwainers. Turnham-green and Ham Common for Baconmongers. Putney and Waterloo Bridge for CardPlayers. Ponder's End for Crack-brain Authors. Limehouse for Bird-Catchers. Hammersmith for Trunkmakers, and Brassfounders. Seven Oaks and Woodford for Sawyers. Snaresbrook for Anglers. Billingsgate for Lovers. Chiselhurst for Carpenters. Bagshot Heath for Clothesmen. Leadenhall-street for Plumbers. The Edgeware Road for Cutlers. The Seven Dials for Clock-makers. Mincing-lane for Pastry Cooks. Staining-lane for Paper Makers. Wails End for Billstickers and Chalkers. Battersea for Muffin Makers. Bridewell Walk for Young Ladies. Old Street for Valetudinarians. Milk-street for Cowkeepers. The Strand for Tidewaiters. Swallowstreet for Gluttons. Titterton Terrace for Hoydens. Cannon-street for Gunmakers. Rosemary Lane and Hedge Row for Gardeners. Clipstone-street for Sculptors. Stafford-street for Constables. Bearbinder Lane for Hair Dressers. Turnwheel Alley for Grinders. Slaughter Alley for Butchers. Elbow Lane, and Goose Green for Tailors Bow for Dancing Masters. Tooting for Mnsicians. Staines for Dyers. Threadneedle-street for Milliners. Kingsland for Royalty. Woolwich for BlackwellHall Factors. Stoney Stratford for Masons. Tyburn for Lawyers. Type-street for Printers. Homerton for Greek Contractors. Caen Barking for Brokers. Wood and Birchin Lane for School-masters. Chalk Farm for Milk Purveyors. Cornhill for Mealmen; and others of infinite variety.

Titterton Terrace.

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SUITED TO VARIOUS TRADES AND VOCATIONS.

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THE Commercial Road for the Traveller's Society. The Mitre, Bishopgatestreet, and Parson's Green for Curates and Prebends. Deptford for Insolvents. Sadler's Wells for Lorimers. Oxfordstreet for Cantabs. Pedlar's Acre for Hawkers. Parliament-street for Election Candidates. Charing Cross for old working women. Whitechapel for devout and sickly people. Holywell Mount for Catholics. Hackney for Jarvies. Shoot

KNIGHTS OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE. This order was instituted about the same period of time as the Knights Hospitalars, an account of the rise and progress of which will be found in our last number. The origin of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, is as follows:-When the Saracens, in the plenitude of their power, had possession of Jerusalem, they committed the keeping of the Holy Sepulchre to the regular canons of Sr. Austin, a convent beside the sepulchre, but he city being afterwards taken from them by the Christians under Godfrey of Bulloigne,

who, upon inquiry into the conduct of these canons of St. Austin, was so fully satisfied, that he bestowed great gifts on them, and chose the church of their convent for his burial-place, appointing it also as a place of sepulture for his successors. After the decease of Godfrey, Duke of Jerusalem, which took place in 1099, his brother Baldwin succeeded him, he being the first King of Jerusalem; and no sooner was he established in this kingdom, than he instituted an order of knighthood, under the appellation of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the profession of the order being to protect pilgrims coming to the Sepulchre. Baldwin commenced the institution by dubbing the Canons of St. Austin the first knights thereof. The next step towards fully establishing the order was the appointing of the Patriarch of Jerusalem grand master, with power to confer the order upon gentlemen by birth who had visited the Sepulchre; such knights were to live in community, without possessing ought in property. The habit of the order was a white robe, and on their breast they wore a gold cross potence, cantoned with four crosses of the same, without enamel, pendant to a black ribbon; they also wore the cross of yellow embroidery on the left side of their robe. The newly created order, under these arrangements, prospered, until the Saracens, under Saladin, retook Jerusalem in 1187, when the knights were compelled to retire to Ptolemais, and from thence to Perugia, in Italy. When the above victory took place, the Christians were ordered from the Holy City, which for a series of years had been their abiding place. The terms they were suffered to depart with life and liberty upon, were that every man should pay as ransom ten bezants,*a woman five, and for every child one. The number of persons left behind that could not comply with these hard terms amounted to upwards of twelve thousand, they remaining in bondage for their lives; the only residents in the city that escaped the cruelty of the Saracens, was the members of the Greek church, who were permitted to remain, Fuller, the chronicler of the Holy Wars, states that, "" no sooner was Saladin in possession of Jerusalem, than the churches were turned into stables; the temple of Solomon became the mosque of the Saracens, and the sepulchre only was spared the devastations of the ravaging Pagans for an immense sum of money."

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"Thus fell Jerusalem, after having

Bezants was the current coin in Palestine, and were so called from their being coined at Byzantium, the ancient Constantinople.

been eighty-eight years possessed by the Christians, through the supineness and laxity of morals that the Patriarch and Clergy had fallen into, for we must not wonder at iron becoming rusty where gold doth." In process of time, after the knights had settled in Italy, they were united by Pope Innocent VIII. to the order of St. John of Jerusalem. This junction was short lived, so that they had recourse again to the aid of the Papal power to heal their unhappy differences, which was done, by suffering the power of conferring the order to be transferred to the See of Rome, then under Alexander VI. which power was continued to his successors, who imparted it to the Keepers of the Holy Sepulchre, with power to confer the order after the same manner as was done when the order was first instituted, under the first ordained Knights, the regular Canons of St. Austin.

The order of the Holy Sepulchre was first introduced into England about the year 1109; their first establishments were at Colchester and London; but as the newly introduced order gained ground, the number of their priories increased so much, that they in a short period of time, had houses in most parts of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland; the largest of their establishments in England was the Priory of the Holy Sepulchre in the suburbs of Warwick, erected for them by Henry, Earl of Warwick. They had also a house of considerable magnitude at Thetford, built and endowed for them by the Old Earls of Warren, and were possessors of many liberties at this place. Hamelin, Earl of Warren, among other grants, gave them power to hold three fairs, one to be holden on the Invention of the Holy Cross, in May; a second on the Feast of the Holy Sepulchre; and the last on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. The whole of which grants were confirmed to them by John, Earl of Warren, in the year 1315.

The order flourished in England till the loss of Jerusalem took place, but as soon as the news was corroborated, the order decayed almost to nothing, their profits and privileges being transferred to the Order of the Holy Trinity, an Order instituted for the redemption of those Christian captives who were taken by the Pa gans in Palestine.