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    Regulations of the *< Piscatory Party * in commemoration of Iza&k Walton . " The first provides " That each male member of the party shall forthwith subscribe the sum of five pounds five shillings towards the general expenses , and that such subscriber do really pay the same into the hands of the treasurer . "

    Tins is very characteristic of Sheridan . There are others equally so : — " Any member willing to send in any stores for the general benefit at his own expense , shall be permitted so to do , and is entitled to be laughed at according ! v . "

    " Any gentleman falsely , shabbily , and treacherously concealing" tte number of fish he had caught , and slily sending off any of the same as a present to ladies or others , shall forfeit , on detection , one gninea for each fish so purloined from the common stock , and be publicly reprimanded at supper for the same . Mrs Sheridan is not to draw up the form of this reprimand . "

    " Any person , restless and fidgetty , presuming to insinuate that seafishing is preferable to the tame and tranquil occupation of this party , and detected in endeavouring to inveigle elsewhere any of the liege and dutiful subjects of Izaak Walton , shall , on conviction , be sentenced to fourteen minutes abstinence from ale , beer , porter , wine , brandy , rum , gin , hollands , grog , shrub , punch , toddy , jwiperus , caulkers , pipe , segar , quid , shag pig-tail , short-cut , varinas , canaster , pic hater ; and if such culprit shall appeal against the severity of the above sentence as a punishment disproportioned to the utmost excess of human delinquency , he shall be entitled to have a rehearing , and Nat . Ogle assigned to him as counsel . " " Any member describing" the strength , size , weight of any immense fish which he had skilfully hooked , dexterously played with , and successfully brought to the bank , when by the clumsiness of the man with the landing net—only conceive how provoking—the said fish got off—shall forfeit half-a-guinea ; and so to ties quoties ^ for every such narrative . To prevent unnecessary trouble , the said forfeits are to be collected by the Rev . J— O— . "—p . 154 .

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    Death of Madame Malibran . 651

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    Death of Malibran . —The London Journals of Monday , the 26 th of September , did not make their appearance with broad borderings of black , as they would have done had some thick Royal head been the day before rendered permanently incapable of any practical exhibition of stupidity ; nor on that day , perhaps , was any one of the " enlightened " multitude of the metropolis so excited to sorrow as he ( she , or it ) would have been by the premature decease of a favorite horse , dog , or kitten ; yet on that day it was made heavily known by the newspapers , that on the night of Friday , the 23 d of September , at the Mosley Anas Hotel * in Manchester , after an illness of little more than a week , died MaJLibran , the exquisite Cantatrice and Actress ! At the Festival Concert of the previous Wednesday she was taken suddenly ill : she was bled immediately , and conveyed to her hotel , where she was attended by Drs . Hull and J . A . Bardsley , and by Mr Worthington , whose certificate of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 651, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/63/