time had been playing his antics below, burst into an extravagant fit of joy; at one moment clapping his hands most violently, at the next stretching himself out as if dead. Finally, he ran up to the feet of the old man, and hid himself under his legs, so as to shew only his head. The people called him _Grimaldi_, an appellation that appears to have belonged to him by usage, and it is a singular coincidence that the surname of the noblest family of Genoa the Proud, thus assigned by the rude rabble of a sea-port to their buffoon, should belong of right to the sire and son, whose _mops_ and _mowes_ afford pastime to the upper gallery at Covent-Garden. Thus did the pageant proceed in all its grotesque glory, and, while-- "These labor'd nothings in so strange a style Amazed the unlearned, and made the learned smile," the children shouted aloud for their favorite Grimaldi; the priests, accompanied with bells, trumpets, and organs, thundered out the mass; the pious were loud in their exclamations of rapture at the devotion of the Virgin; and the whole church was filled with "un non so che di rauco ed indistinto".--But I have told you enough of this foolish story, of which it were well if the folly had been the worst. The sequel was in the same taste and style, and ended with the euthanasia of all similar representations, a hearty dinner. Footnotes: [4] _Description de la Haute Normandie_, I. p. 130. [5] _Histoire de Dieppe_, II. p. 86. [6] _Essals sur le Département de la Seine Inférieure_, I. p. 119. [7] _Histoire de Dieppe_, I. p. 1. [8] Another author, mentioned by the Abbé Fontenu, in the _Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions_, X. p. 413, carries the antiquity of the place still eight centuries higher, representing it as the _Portus Ictius_, whence Julius Cæsar sailed for Britain. [9] _Description de la Haute Normandie_, I. p. 125. [10] Vol. XI. p. 55.