from a leathern pocket in his waistcoat; his manner of doing this was remarkable, almost peculiar to himself, not quite.

His Ghost appeared to his nephew, Frederick William II., who was marching towards Paris, in aid of the unfortunate Louis XVI. and his Queen. The revenant warned his kinsman against losing his life, and ruining his own country, by interfering with the destinies of those predoomed to speedy dethronement and death. There stood the Monarch, "in his habit as he lived," with his own face, voice, gestures, modes of speech, box, way of taking snuff. Could he be disobeyed? Could his etheriality be doubted, when, after his vanishment, not a grain was to be found upon the floor?

Fleury, the comedian, famed for his personation of " Old Fritz," and mysteriously absent from home at the time of this apparition, was too clever to confuse the material with the incorporeal, and might go through the pantomime of pinch-taking, without the use of snuff. Sir Walter Scott might make an airy spirit carry in its no hand a substantial bodkin; he was a creative genius, the player only a copyist of truth-a getter-by-heart of probabilities.

It is possible, however, that the great Frederick's royal nephew only pretended to have had this superhuman visitation, as a pretext for withdrawing his forces from their intended assistance to the French king. No one confessed to having seen the spectre, except its own flesh and blood relation. We do hope that Fleury was not to be hired, not to be scared into thus preying on the superstition of one man, and the life of another. If there was no ghost, it is no wonder there was no snuff; or if the phantom was a real one (that is a bull), it might do without what no body, once loving it, can, while alive, dispense with.

It used to be cited, as a proof of Mrs. Siddons's insensibility, that, on coming off the stage, after agonising her audience, she could composedly ask for a pinch of snuff. We think such a demand proves the very reverse of apathy; if her nerves had not been racked, and her spirits exhausted, she would not have been in such haste for this refresher; but if her injudicious critics expected that she would call for it in the same tone, and with the same look that had just thrilled the public, they knew little of the great lady's good sense and self commanding presence of mind; albeit she did once astonish a shopman by the

manner in which-about some printed calico-she

John Kemble one night, in the Edinburgh Theatre, was exchanging pinches with Mr. James Russell, then a very young man.

"My good lad," sepulchrally panted the tragedian, "Why do ye take scented snuff? Renounce it, I beg! or it will injure your voice. Now, I have used plain Rappee for more than twenty years, and, as you must perceive, it has had no effect upon my voice."

Great creature! that was true enough-his voice having no physical charm to lose; but, if to his Rappee he owed the pleasure which we hope he did, what a debt of gratitude owe we to snuff!

There was a time when the dictum of Beau Brummel was regarded as law, in the world of fashion. Fribourg and Treyer had received an anxiously expected supply of the veritable Martinique-the list of applicants for this highly prized article had long been filled up. The hogshead was opened in the presence of the Arbiter, who, after taking a few pinches, gravely pronounced it

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a detestable compound, and not at all the style

of thing that any man, with the slightest pretension to correct taste, could possibly patronise."

This astounding announcement, which must soon spread among the candidates, horrified the purveyors; they had procured the snuff at a heavy outlay, and it was now likely to remain on their hands. The companions of the Dictator left him to discuss the matter with the proprietors; no sooner were they gone than Brummel said,

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By some oversight, I did not put my name down on your Martinique list, and I must have allowed the thing to be dispensed to others, who know not its value as I do. Since the hogshead has been condemned, you will not object to my having three jars full of it: that fact once known, there is little doubt that the remainder will find a speedy demand."

The Messrs. Fribourg gladly yielded to the ruse of the exquisite, and in a few days, it having become known that he had absolutely bought, and positively paid for, the quantity above named, not a grain was left. Some of the gentlemen whose signatures were at the end of the list were sadly disappointed; however, as their names were placed at the head of the candidates for the next arrival of the coveted Martinique, they were not long without obtaining the object of their desires.