Malta.
_A Significant Hint._--The following lines were communicated to me by a
friend some years ago, as having been written by a blacksmith of the
village of Tideswell in Derbyshire; who, having often been reproved by the
parson, or ridiculed by his neighbours, for drunkenness, placed them on the
church door the day after the event they commemorate:
"Ye Tideswellites, can this be true,
Which Fame's loud trumpet brings;
That ye, to view the Cambrian Prince,
Forsook the King of Kings?
That when his rattling chariot wheels,
Proclaim'd his Highness near,
Ye trod upon each others' heels,
To leave the house of prayer.
Be wise next time, adopt this plan,
Lest ye be left i' th' lurch;
And place at th' end of th' town a man
To ask him into Church."
It is said that, on the occasion of the late Prince of Wales passing
through Tideswell on a Sunday, a man was placed to give notice of his
coming, and the parson and his flock rushed out to see him pass at full
gallop.