APOSTLES.
In the diplomatic language of Charles I.'s time, were marginal notes, generally in the king's hand, written on the margin of state papers. The word, in somewhat a similar sense, had its origin in the canon law. There are many instances of apostles by Charles I. in Archbishop Laud's Diary
JAMES SILVESTER.
When Voltaire was at Berlin, he wrote this epigram on his patron and host the king of Prussia:—
"King, author, philosopher, hero, musician,
Freemason, economist, bard, politician,
How had Europe rejoiced if a Christian he'd been,
If a man, how he then had enraptured his queen."
For this effort of wit, Voltaire was paid with thirty lashes on his bare back, administered by the king's sergeant-at-arms, and was compelled to sign the following curious receipt for the same:—
"Received from the righthand of Conrad
Backoffner, thirty lashes on my bare
back, being in full for an epigram on
Frederick the Third, King of Prussia."
I say received by me, VOLTAIRE.
Vive le Roi!
The church at Gondhurst, in Kent, is a fine old building, and remarkable for several reasons; one of which is, that thirty-nine different parishes may be distinctly seen from it, and in clear weather the sea, off Hastings, a distance of twenty-seven miles and a half.