"Mrs. Clive visited my father and mother, but on my mother's running out of the house one evening, when she had called accidentally, to prevent her alighting from her carriage, as the small pox had made its appearance among us, and she knew Mrs. Clive not to have had it, utterly insensible to the politeness of her attention, at a moment of such anxiety, she roughly replied,' it was not you I wanted to see, it was your husband; send him out.' And I remember a reply of the same hue, which she made to two very decent respectful men, then in office, as surveyors, in the roads of the parish, on my father's sending them to her, as being the acting magistrate of that place, to demand some payment, which she had refused:-it was in the laconic terms, ' By the living G-d, I will not pay it.' I suppose, this might destroy entirely all intercourse with our house, for she was, of course, compelled to break her oath. A strange expression in one of my own sex, but I have no choice.—I suppose it was to shew what some actresses can do,what some actresses will do,-that she worked, for the Holbein chamber, at Strawberry-hill, the carpet with blue tulips, and yellow foliage."

VOL. I.

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INTERMENT OF PHILIPPE, THE FRENCH COME

DIAN.

TOWARDS the close of October, 1824, Philippe, a favourite Actor at the Theatre Porte St. Martin, died, and, in due course, his corpse was taken to his parish church, (St. Laurent,) that the accustomed ceremonies might be performed. The Curate, on learning this, went to the Archbishop of Paris, and procured from his Grace a formal order, positively forbidding him to allow the body of the Comedian to enter the church. Notwithstanding this prohibition, the Actors of almost all the Theatres in Paris, who attended at the house of the deceased, conducted the body of their comrade to the church, where, on their arrival, they found the doors shut against them; and the persons employed to conduct the funeral wished to proceed with the body to the cemetery of Père la Chaise. This measure the Actors opposed, and threatened to conduct the body to the Thuileries, and demand justice of the King: The undertakers, on their part, declared they would not carry the body to any other place than to the cemetery. The Comedians, upon this, took the body of their departed friend from the hearse,

upon their shoulders, and directed their procession towards the Boulevards.

During this scene of resistance and discussion the crowd gradually increased, and when the Comedians bent their steps towards the Thuileries, they were followed by five or six thousand persons, who all kept their heads uncovered, in token of respect to the dead, and loudly expressed their disgust at this bigoted and disgraceful interference of the Priests. This multitude passed in front of the Barracks of the Gens d'armes, who were instantly under arms, but the crowd was so compressed, that the Gens d'armes could not make an opening, and were obliged to follow in its rear. They, at length, arrived before the Theatre des Variétés, but orders had been despatched for the military, and a strong column of Gens d'armes intercepted the way, and they were obliged to halt. The coffin was placed on the ground, and all advised that a deputation, should be sent to the Thuileries. This measure was adopted, and a deputation composed of Actors and Managers of the Theatre, proceeded to the Palace. There was an interval of an hour before their return, during which delay, the most violent imprecations were uttered against the Priests.

The women appeared the most enraged, and called out to the Gens d'armes, reproaching them with being l'appui des calotins, des corbeaux,

&c. &c.

In the mean time, the deputation was received at the Thuileries, by the Premier Gentilhomme de la Chambre, who had been apprised of their arrival, and of the answer preconcerted, which was to be given to them. He replied to their application, that it was an affair which lay with the Minister of the Interior (Corbière,) and that it was to him that they ought to address themselves. The deputation returned with this unsatisfactory reply, while a report was industriously circulated, that they had received an order to conduct the body to the Church, upon which the air rang with shouts of "Vive le Roi, Vive Charles X." These gratulations soon proved to be premature; the police ordered the coffin to be placed in the hearse, which had been brought up, and the Gens d'armes began to gallop in furiously among the crowd, brandishing their sabres; and several men and women were thrown down, and trampled upon by the horses. At length, the hearse was driven on to the cemetery of Père la Chaise, preceded by a hundred horse soldiers with drawn

swords, and followed by the same number of infantry; thus the burial of the Comedian had all the appearance of a general insurrection. The imprecations against the Priests were loud and incessant, till the procession reached the cemetery, where the Gens d'armes dispersed the crowd, and permitted only a few friends of the deceased to enter the burial ground.

FIGUERAS, THE SPANISH ACTRESS.

THE decease of this celebrated actress, who formerly belonged to the Madrid Theatre, was announced to the public of Spain, in their leading Journals, by the following "flight of imagination."

"What a calamity! She no longer exists. Figueras, that famous actress and comedienne, is now no more; she, who was admired for her bright eyes, vermilion cheeks, ruby lips, alabaster neck, and smooth and languishing voice; she, whom the smiles and the graces accompanied during all her most flourishing campaigns in the Capital, is gone! Weep, ye nymphs of the Manzanares! But you do not weep, perhaps, because you think she is only acting death. This actress,