Cagliostro And The Lodge Of Antiquity.

height , without money beauty , courage almost devoid of common seizor any discernible worth , and he sumptuously supnorled liimse'f for a Ioncourse ol years . His chariot rushing through the ivorld , with clouds o ^' uusimul loud reports ol the wonderful creature contained in it prececal ov six beefeaters , ivlio were his abject menials ; its top laden with lu ^ e htt ^ f ^ the character and Lite

tl ^ t 1 ? ™ might Ire Sn a gross , thickset inuividiia , his physiognomy presenting the aspect of a dnl-! f , ; , ; , " £ . f " T '" eSS ' Sera P » na . ^ ' a look „ f doubtful i filiation , . these lacrs must Ire easily to be recalled by newspaper readers ofacertrm age , particularly those which reki . e lo the counts S£ jewellery nocturnal brilliancy , syblllie ministration , and revdatums " as Si ^ ° ( Ciar ? ' n ' hicIfhe of Miss Lord Scott

?> "^: . j |' ' " ' ™»>« Fry , . 1 uddle , Jic ( . ueeirs ilench , Con . tc d'Adlu ' mar , the diamond necklace nnd .. ord George Cordon , were all associated with tlie count and his couutes-: Jor Cagliostro , wventig through unknown space , thrice lighted nnon our London , and did business in the great chaos there "

Mr . Carl yle states he has read , books iu various lan <^ u :-. « es -uid iargons ; feared not to soil Iris lurgerv , hunting through anient mao-aanos , to sicken Ins heart in any labyrinth r , f ini quity and imbecility - ; nriy , ho had not grudged to dive into tiro infectious Memoim , ' de Casanova , lor a hint or two , —could he havo found that work- which howevermost . British librarians make a point of dciiyirithat thei '

, " - possess And all the discoverable printing about Cagliostro ( so much having been nuriifc ) is now in very small proportion to the quantity oi information , given , for , excepting vague newspaper rumours , and surmises , tho oooks written of our hero are little more than tr-mnorary manifestos by himself , by gulled , or gulling , disci ples , and are ' bufc a of lies

mass throughout . The chief of these works now extant are tho following : - ^ of the Count Cagliostro , 8 vo , London , 1787 : Menmres pour le Comte de Cagliostro , SYC , Paris , 17 8 G ; iMln dL Untie de Cagliostro au Peuple Anglais , Svo . , London , 1787 Mernoim AvXlmiUqtmpowr serrir aVlllsloire du-Comte de Ctujliostro , printed both at btrasburghand Paris 1780 and about the onl

, , ; y remaining works on the other side are Cagliostro . Dcmas ^ ue a Varsovie , m 1780 and the Fte de Joseph Balsamo , eomm sous le Jam de Comte Cagliostro , the latter being founded on the proofs in the Holy O & ce of the Inquisition at Rome , where Cagliostro ivas a prisoner , and ended his clays . L '

-in the year lMo at Palermo , in Sicil y , fche subject of our memoir was born . He was the son of Peter Balsamo , aud shortly after his birth was christened Joseph ; and it is more than likel y that with the first exercise ot the powers of speech , the gifts of simulation and dissimulation began to manifest themselves . In his boyhood he lost his father ¦ urc , an uncle on his mother ' sidelaced him in the

s , p seminary of jSfc ¦ Koch , but as he more than once ran away , he returned to playin * about the streets , feeling himself cut out for a gentleman and not having any disposition to Avork . Urged at length , by his mother and uncle , it appears he determined on becoming an ecclesiastic , and afc the age ot thirteen was admitted a novice in the convent of Carto <» irone