Sir,--From a note which I have just seen at the foot of the interesting account of the escape of Charles the Second, in vol. v. of the MIRROR, the reader is led to conclude, that the pension granted to Richard Pendril, expired at his death. No such thing. Old Dr. Pendril lived, practised, and died at Alfriston, a little town in the east of Sussex, some forty or fifty years since. His son, John Pendril, died at Eastbourn, four or five years ago. His son, Mr. John Pendril, kept a public house at Lewes, a few years since, to which he added the appropriate sign of the "Royal Oak." All these in succession enjoyed the pension of ---- marks, granted by Charles the Second, together with something of a sporting character called "free warren." The last Mr. John Pendril was lately living at or near Brighton. W.W. * * * * * EATING "MUTTON COLD." (_For the Mirror_.) Be good enough to insert the solution of _Hen. B_.'s difficulty in your last MIRROR, which I send at foot, and thereby oblige a constant SUBSCRIBER AND FRIEND. The solution, or attempt at solution, of _Hen. B_.'s difficulty as to what Goldsmith means in his poem "Retaliation" when he concludes his ironical eulogium on Edmund Burke, thus:-- "In short 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor." By being "unemployed" it is presumed that he was not engaged in the ordinary avocations of life, or in other words was not engaged in those legitimate avocations which have for their object the procuring the means of subsistence for the masticator; but if it is meant to have a name of extensive meaning, the solution is unanswerable. Assuming the former to be Goldsmith's meaning, the answer to be given to the solution might be that eating mutton cold, is eating cold mutton in its cold state, cooked or uncooked; but if the more general meaning is insisted upon, I cannot see how the masticator is unemployed, as his jaws which form a most material part of himself--are set in full motion by the operation of eating--hence full employment is given them--and as much to the "he" who is the owner of such jaws. * * * * * FINE ARTS. * * * * * EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (_Continued from page 338_.) 91. _Portrait of the late Earl of Kellie, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Fife._--D. Wilkie.--A noble portrait, painted for the County Hall, Cupar. 92. _Night_.--H. Howard--An exquisite scene from Milton:-- "------------now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." 102. _Portrait of the Duchess of Richmond_.--Sir T. Lawrence.