ery singular drama opens with Bonaparte, who
soliloquizes about Spain. Allegorical demons stand watching around, and
when he has confessed the whole atrocity of his purposes, they seize and
carry him off in a fiery car to the place of torment. Next appears
Ferdinand VII. a ballet of angels listen to his promises of virtuous
sway, and crown him during the dance with wreaths of victory. Finally
appears king George the third, who declares his horror for the tyrant,
his affection to the virtuous and native monarch; and who is entertained
by St. Iago and the virgin Mary, or by figures representing the genius
of Spain, and that of Christianity, with a performance in full chorus of
"God save the king."

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_Longevity._

An extraordinary instance of longevity lately occurred in the island of
Jamaica in the person of Joseph Ram, a black man, belonging to Maurice
Hall estate, and who died at the advanced age of 140 years. He perfectly
remembered the earl of Albemarle who succeeded to the government of the
island in 1687. His daughter Grace Martin, an inhabitant of Spanish-town
and upwards of 85 years of age, says he had a complete set of new teeth
about twenty years ago, which remained sound to the day of his death.
His hair had turned quite gray. He retained his sight and memory well,
and had all his senses perfect, except that of smelling. He was stout
and inclined to corpulence, was never sick but once, and all the physic
he ever took in his life was one dose of nut oil. He had twenty-six
children by different women. His appetite was always good, and a few
days previous to his death, he walked a distance of four miles. His
dissolution was gradual, and unattended by pain or sickness: It seemed
indeed, to be the mere decay of nature.

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"The first step is the only difficulty," is an old proverb. Ce n'est que
le premier pas qui coute, said the old facetious duchesse de
Rambouillet, when touching on certain extravagancies of a young female.
It was oddly enough applied lately by a lady, who hearing a clergyman
declare, "That St. Piat, after his head was cut off, walked two entire
miles with it under his arm _en chapeau bras_, yes madam, two miles
positively." "I do not doubt it" the lady quietly replied: "On such
occasions, the first step is the only difficulty."

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_A specimen of the antiquity of Irish Bul