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but we think he must have been bordering upon seventy. LOYOLA, (IGNATIUS) the founder of the Jesuits, was born at the castle of Loyola, in the province of Guipuscoa in Spain, in 1491. He was descended from a considerable family, and brought up to the military profession He was first page to Ferdinand V. king of Spain, and afterwards an officer in his army; in which he signalized himself by his valour: but having his leg broken at the siege of Pampeluna, he made a vow to the virgin, that if he recovered, he would go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and devote himself to a religious course of life. To this circumstance the Jesuits owed their origin; for while he was under cure, a book entitled The Lives of the Saints was put into his hands to amuse him; af ter the perusal of which, he resolved to forsake the military, for the ecclesiastical profession. After studying the Latin tongue a short time at Barcelona, Loyola commenced preacher, and began to gather disciples, for which he was twice imprisoned. After this time he went to Paris, and laid the foundation of his new order, viz. of the Society of Jesus in France; the institutes of which he presented to pope Paul III. who made many objections to them; but Ignatius, adding to the three vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, a fourth of implicit submission to the holy see, the institution was confirmed by the pope in 1540: Ignatius had the satisfaction of seeing his institution spread throughout the earth, and afterwards died at Rome in 1556. The Jesuits continued to pos

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sess the greatest power, and the most extensive connections of any body of men till the begin ning of the 18th century, when they began to decline; and they were totally suppressed by Clement XIV. in 1773.

LUCRETIA, the famous Roman matron, was the daughter of Lucretius, and the wife of Collatinus, and the cause of the revolution of Rome from a monarchy to a republic. Her husband being at the siege of Ardes, a conversation took place between him and the three sons of Tarquin, respecting the prudence and fidelity of their wives. At length they all agreed to take a ride to Rome to see how their respective ladies were employed. The daughters-in-law of Tarquin were indulging themselves with all manner of luxuries; but Lucretia, surrounded by her maids, was busily employed in needle-work. It was therefore admitted that her conduct was the most commendable, and they returned to the camp. Sixtus, the eldest, came again to Rome a few days after, and calling on Lucretia, was treated with all the civility due to his rank. After supper he was conducted to the chamber where he was to repose. At a time that he supposed all the family were asleep, he took a sword in his hand, went to Lucretia's apartment, and practised every art to subdue her virtue. Finding all his artifices useless, he threatened, that after having killed her, he would kill a slave and lay the body by hers, and then spread a report, that, having found them in the act of adultery, he had slain them both. Terrified by this horrid menace, the lady yielded, and the monster re

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turned to the camp. Lucretia, the next day, sent for her father and her husband, to whom she related the horrid circumstances that had occurred. In vain they endeavoured to console her, for, instantly drawing forth a dagger, she plunged it into her breast. Lucretia's death occasioned the liberty of the Romans, who, excited by Brutus, expelled the Tarquins from their city. This happened 509, B. C. LYON, (WILLIAM) an itinerant player, who performed at Edinburgh, and was particularly excellent in the part of Gibby the Highlander, possessed a most astonishing memory. One evening, over a bottle, he wagered a crown bowl of punch (a liquor of which he was very fond) that he, next morning at the rehearsal, would repeat the whole contents of a Daily Advertiser, from the beginning to the end. At the rehearsal his opponent reminded him of the wager, imagining, as he was intoxicated the preceding night, that he must certainly have forgot it, and rallied him severely on his boasting of his memory. Lyon pulled the paper from his pocket, and desired the other to decide whether he did or did not win the wager. Notwithstanding the want of connection of the paragraphs, the number and variety of advertisements, and the general chaos which appears in the composition of any newspaper, he repeated it from the beginning to the end, without making a mistake. Lyon died at Edinburgh about the year 1748. LÝTTLETON. (THOMAS LORD) a young nobleman of great parliamentary talents, but of dissi

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manners, was cut off from a race of luxury and sensuality under circumstances peculiarly impressive. His death is said to have been preceded by a very extraordinary circumstance: he saw in a dream, or otherwise, a young woman clad in white, who warned him of his dissolution in three days from that time. His lordship, however, was not so far intimidated by this summons as to be induced to banish conviviality. On the third day, he had a party of friends to spend the evening with him; and, about the time predicted, said, " he believed he should jocky the ghost;" but a few minutes afterwards he was taken faint, and carried to bed, from whence he rose no more. His lordship was born January 30, 1744, and died November 27, 1779, aged upwards of 35 years. MACKLIN. (CHARLES). This stage veteran was born in 1699, in the barony of Innisheven, the northernmost district of Ireland. His name was M'Laulin; the change to Macklin was ludicrously related in a farce first acted in 1763, in Dublin. Macklin's origin was of the humblest description; it is believed that he had been what is called a skull, synonimous to the Oxford term scout; or a common servant in the university of Dublin. Self-taught, he had acquired a competent portion of polite literature, when he early engaged with a company of strollers at Chester, and appeared first in 1725, on the London theatre. Before his celebrated performance of the Jew, in 1731, he was limited to subaltern representations. In 1733, a fatal accident had nearly crushed his rising hopes; from a foolish quarrel

quarrel behind the scenes of Drury Lane Theatre, about a large wig, and its temporary use in a performance. A stroke from Macklin's cane entered the right eye of Mr. Hallam, his opponent, penetrated to the brains, and occasioned his death. For this offence Macklin was tried at the Old Bailey, on a charge of murder; and, though it was a chance blow, in the heat of passion, it appears from the Sessions Paper that he barely escaped condemnation. Though of the humblest description by birth, he had not the least of the Irish patois, but a tone was observable like the Scotch accent; as similarities of dialect occur in Scotland and the north of Ireland. Conceiving that he had a pure and correct delivery, with the accent of genuine Anglicism, he gave lectures in a great room, now the Piazza Coffee-house, in Covent Garden, in 1754: his audience was numerous, and Mr. Potter, then an eminent senator, and son of the learned archbishop of that name, was his oratorical pupil. In 1749, he produced the comedy of Love A-la-mode, which he read to the late king, at his Majesty's desire. Having, in August 1785, attempted to perform the True-born Scotchman, as well as an interlude, and a farce of his own composition, in Dublin, he was in the last piece suddenly seized with a loss of memory, which he never entirely recovered, though he acted occasionally in London, till 1790. He constantly frequented the pit, where he was, for the last time, in May, when the Guardian was performed by royal command. In private life, Macklin was humane, courteous, cheerful, and

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