lowing printed notices were stuck upon the
doors and walls of the churches in the City of London, one Sunday
morning:--"The prayers of this congregation are earnestly desired for
the restoration of liberty, depending on the election of Mr. Wilkes."

J.R.S.

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FAZIO.

"They have brought out _Fazio_ with great and deserved success at
Covent Garden: that's a good sign. I tried during the directory, to have
it done at Drury Lane, but was overruled."--_Byron's Letters_.

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THE DEVIL AMONG THE PRINTERS.

In the year 1561, a work was printed, entitled the _Anatomy of the
Mass._ It contained one hundred and seventy pages, accompanied with
errata of fifteen pages! The author, a monk, in an advertisement
prefixed to the errata states, that the devil, to ruin the fruit of
his work, employed two very malicious frauds, by first drenching the
manuscript in the kennel, reducing it to a most pitiable state, and
rendering some parts altogether illegible, and then obliging the
printers to commit such numerous blunders, never before equalled in so
small a work. To combat this double machination of Satan, he was obliged
carefully to reperuse the work, and to form this singular list of the
blunders of printers working under the influence of the devil.

W.A.R.

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CHARTER.

_Translation of "a Charter, originally written in Saxon, and granted
by William the Conqueror to the Inhabitants of London:"_

"William, King, greets William, Bishop, and Godfrey Portgrave" (the
same in office as Lord Mayor) "and all the Borough of London, French and
English friendly. And I now make known to you, that you are worthy to
enjoy all those laws and privileges which you did before the decease of
King Edward. And it is my will that every child be his father's heir
after his father's decease. And I will not suffer any man to do you
wrong. God you keep."

J.H.N.

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A "SPECTATOR" NEWSPAPER.

"P.S. If you thought of a middle plan between a _Spectator_ and a
newspaper, why not?--only not on a _Sunday_. Not that Sunday is not
an excellent day, but it is engaged already. We will call it the 'Tenda
Rossa,' the name Tassoni gave an answer of his in a controversy, in
allusion to the delicate hint of Timour the Lame, to his enemies, by a
'Tenda' of that colour, before he gave battle. Or