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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 10, No. 268.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1827. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+HOSPITAL OF ST. THOMAS, CANTERBURY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+The subject of the above engraving claims the attention of the
+antiquarian researcher, not as the lofty sculptured mansion of our
+monastic progenitors, or the towering castle of the feudatory baton, for
+never has the voice of boisterous revelry, or the tones of the solemn
+organ, echoed along its vaulted roof; a humbler but not less interesting
+trait marks its history. It was here that the zealous pilgrim, strong in
+bigot faith, rested his weary limbs, when the inspiring name of Becket
+led him from the rustic simplicity of his native home, to view the spot
+where Becket fell, and to murmur his pious supplication at the shrine of
+the murdered Saint; how often has his toil-worn frame been sheltered
+beneath that hospitable roof; imagination can even portray him entering
+the area of yon pointed arch, leaning on his slender staff--perhaps some
+wanderer from a foreign land.
+
+The hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr of Eastbridge, is situated on the
+King's-bridge, in the hundred of Westgate, Canterbury, and was built by
+Becket, but for what purpose is unknown. However, after the
+assassination of its founder, the resort of individuals being constant
+to his shrine, the building was used for the lodgment of the pilgrims.
+For many years no especial statutes were enacted, nor any definite rules
+laid down for the treatment of pilgrims, till the see devolved to the
+jurisdiction of Stratford, who, in 15th Edward III. drew up certain
+ordinances, as also a code of regulations expressly to be acted on; he
+appointed a master in priest's orders, under whose guidance a secular
+chaplain officiated; it was also observed that every pilgrim in health
+should have but one night's lodging to the cost of fourpence; that
+applicants weak and infirm were to be preferred to those of sounder
+constitutions, and that women "upwards of forty" should attend to the
+bedding, and administer medicines to the sick.
+
+This institution survived the general suppression of monasteries and
+buildings of its cast, during the reigns of Henry VIII. and the sixth
+Edward; and after alternately grading from the possession of private
+families to that of brothers belonging to the establishment, it was at
+last finally appropriated to the instruction of the rising generation,
+whose parents are exempt from giving any gratuity to the preceptor of
+their children.
+
+Its present appearance is ancient, but not possessing any of those magic
+features which render the mansions of our majores so grand and
+magnificently solemn; a hall and chapel of imposing neatness and
+simplicity are still in good condition, but several of the
+apartments are dilapidated in part, and during a wet season admit the
+aqueous fluid through the chinks and fissures of their venerable walls.
+
+SAGITTARIUS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE LECTURER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MINOR AFFECTIONS OF THE BRAIN.
+
+
+Pain _in the head_ may arise from very different causes, and is
+variously seated. It has had a number of different appellations bestowed
+upon it, according to its particular character. I need not observe that
+headach is a general attendant of all inflammatory states of the brain,
+whether in the form of _phrenitis, hydrocephalus acutus_, or _idiopathic
+fever;_ though with some exceptions in regard to all of them, as I
+before showed you. It is often also said to be a symptom of other
+diseases, of parts remotely situated; as of the _stomach_, more
+especially; whence the term _sick headach_, the stomach being supposed
+to be the part first or principally affected, and the headach
+symptomatic of this. I am confident, however, that in a majority of
+instances the reverse is the case, the affection of the head being the
+cause of the disorder of the stomach. It is no proof to the contrary,
+that _vomiting_ often relieves the headach, for vomiting is capable of
+relieving a great number of other diseases, as well as those of the
+brain, upon the principle of _counter-irritation_. The stomach may be
+disordered by nauseating medicines, up to the degree of full vomiting,
+without any headach taking place; but the brain hardly ever suffers,
+either from injury or disease, without the stomach having its functions
+impaired, or in a greater or less degree disturbed: thus a blow on the
+head immediately produces vomiting; and, at the outset of various
+inflammatory affections of the brain, as _fever_ and _hydrocephalus_,
+nausea and vomiting are almost never-failing symptoms. It is not denied,
+that _headach_ may be produced through the medium of the stomach; but
+seldom, unless there is previously disease in the head, or at least a
+strong predisposition to it. In persons habitually subject to headach,
+the arteries of the brain become so irritable, that the slightest cause
+of disturbance, either _mental_ or _bodily_, will suffice to bring on a
+paroxysm.
+
+The _occasional_ or _exciting causes of headach_, then, are principally
+these:--
+
+1. _Emotions of mind_, as fear, terror, and agitation of spirits; yet
+these will sometimes take off headach when present at the time.
+
+2. Whatever either increases or disorders the general circulation, and
+especially all causes that increase the action of the cerebral arteries,
+or, as it is usually though improperly expressed, which occasion a
+determination of blood to the head. Of the former kind are violent
+exercise, and external heat applied to the surface generally, as by a
+heated atmosphere or the _hot bath_; of the latter, the direct
+application of heat to the head; falls or blows, occasioning a shock to
+the brain; stooping; intense thinking; intoxicating drinks, and other
+narcotic substances. These last, however, as well as _mental emotions_,
+often relieve a paroxysm of headach, though they favour its return
+afterwards.
+
+3. A disordered state of the stomach, of which a vomiting of _bile_ may
+be one symptom, is also to be ranked among the _occasional causes_ of
+_headach_.
+
+These _occasional causes_ do not in general produce their effect, unless
+where a _predisposition_ to the disease exists. This predisposition is
+often hereditary, or it may be acquired by long-protracted study and
+habits of intoxication.--_Dr. Clutterbuck's Lectures on the Diseases of
+the Nervous System_.
+
+
+HYDROPHOBIA.
+
+
+There is no cure for this disease when once the symptoms show
+themselves. A variety of remedies have from time to time been advertised
+by quacks. The "Ormskirk Medicine," at one time, was much in vogue; it
+had its day, but it did not cure the disease, nor, as far as I know, did
+it mitigate any of its symptoms. With regard to the affection of the
+mind itself in this disease, it does not appear that the patients are
+deprived of reason; some have merely, by the dint of resolution,
+conquered the dread of water, though they never could conquer the
+convulsive motions which the contact of liquids occasioned; while this
+resolution has been of no avail, for the convulsions and other symptoms
+increasing, have almost always destroyed the unhappy sufferers.
+--_Abernethy's Lectures_.
+
+
+EFFECTS OF KINDNESS ON THE SICK.
+
+
+Under all circumstances, man is a poor and pitiable being, when stricken
+down by disease. Sickened and subdued, his very lineaments have a voice
+which calls for commiseration and assistance. Celsus says, that knowing
+two physicians equally intelligent, he should prefer the one who was his
+friend, for the obvious reason that he would feel a deeper interest in
+his welfare. Kindness composes, and harshness disturbs the mind, and
+each produces correspondent effects upon the body. A tone, a look, may
+save or destroy life in extremely delicate cases. Whatever may be the
+prognosis given to friends, in all febrile cases, the most confident and
+consoling language about the ultimate recovery should be used to the
+sick, as prophecies not unfrequently contribute to bring about the event
+foretold, by making people feel, or think, or act, differently from what
+they otherwise would have done. Again, in chronic cases, as time is
+required for their cure, by explaining to the patient this fact, we
+maintain his confidence, we keep his mind easy, and thus gain a fair
+opportunity for the operation of regimen or remedies; in short, the
+judicious physician, like the Roman general, Fabius, conquers through
+delay, by cutting off the supplies, and wearing out the strength of the
+enemy. In large cities, where the mind is so much overwrought in the
+various schemes of private ambition, or of public business, anxiety is
+very frequently the grand opposing circumstance to recovery; so that
+while the causes which produced it are allowed to operate, mere medical
+prescription is of no avail. The effects of this anxiety are visible in
+the pallid face and wasted body. But if the patient be possessed of
+philosophy enough to forego his harassing pursuits; if he have not, from
+the contact and cares of the world, lost his relish for the simple and
+sublime scenes of nature, a removal into the country is of the utmost
+efficacy. The deformity and conflict of the moral world are exchanged
+for the beauty and calm of the physical world; and surrounded by all the
+poetry of earth and heaven, the mind regains its peace, and the health,
+as if by magic, is perfectly restored.--_Dr. Armstrong's Lectures_.
+
+
+DIET.
+
+
+Experience has taught us that the nature of our food is not a matter of
+indifference to the respiratory organs. Diseased lungs are exasperated
+by a certain diet, and pacified by one of an opposite kind. The
+celebrated diver, Mr. Spalding, observed, that whenever he used a diet
+of animal food, or drank spirituous liquors, he consumed in a much
+shorter period the oxygen of the atmospheric air in his diving-bell; and
+he therefore, on such occasions, confined himself to vegetable diet. He
+also found the same effect to arise from the use of fermented liquors,
+and he accordingly restricted himself to the potation of simple water.
+The truth of these results is confirmed by the habits of the Indian
+pearl-divers, who always abstain from every alimentary stimulus previous
+to their descent into the ocean.--_Dr. Paris on Diet._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE MONTHS
+
+
+The season has now advanced to full maturity. The corn is yielding to
+the sickle, the husbandmen,
+
+    "By whose tough labours, and rough hands,"
+
+our barns are stored with grain, are at their toils, and when nature is
+despoiled of her riches and beauty, will, with glad and joyous heart,
+celebrate the annual festival of
+
+
+THE HARVEST HOME.
+
+BY CORNELIUS WEBBE.
+
+
+    Hark! the ripe and hoary rye
+    Waving white and billowy,
+    Gives a husky rustle, as
+    Fitful breezes fluttering pass.
+    See the brown and bending wheat,
+    By its posture seems to meet
+    The harvest's sickle, as it gleams
+    Like the crescent moon in streams,
+    Brown with shade and night that run
+    Under shores and forests dun.
+
+    Lusty Labour, with tired stoop,
+    Levels low, at every swoop,
+    Armfuls of ripe-coloured corn,
+    Yellow as the hair of morn;
+    And his helpers track him close,
+    Laying it in even rows,
+    On the furrow's stubbly ridge;
+    Nearer to the poppied hedge.
+    Some who tend on him that reaps
+    Fastest, pile it into heaps;
+    And the little gleaners follow
+    Them again, with whoop and halloo
+    When they find a hand of ears
+    More than falls to their compeers.
+
+    Ripening in the dog-star's ray,
+    Some, too early mown, doth lay;
+    Some in graceful shocks doth stand
+    Nodding farewell to the land
+    That did give it life and birth;
+    Some is borne, with shout and mirth,
+    Drooping o'er the groaning wain.
+    Through the deep embowered lane;
+    And the happy cottaged poor,
+    Hail it, as it glooms their door,
+    With a glad, unselfish cry,
+    Though they'll buy it bitterly.
+
+    And the old are in the sun,
+    Seeing that the work is done
+    As it was when age was young;
+    And the harvest song is sung;
+    And the quaint and jocund tale
+    Takes the stint-key from the ale,
+    And as free and fast it runs
+    As a June rill from the sun's
+    Dry and ever-drinking mouth:--
+    Mirth doth alway feel a drowth.
+    Butt and barrel ceaseless flow
+    Fast as cans can come and go;
+    One with emptied measures comes
+    Drumming them with tuneful thumbs;
+    One reels field-ward, not quite sober,
+    With two cans of ripe October,
+    Some of last year's brewing, kept
+    Till the corn of this is reaped.
+
+    Now 'tis eve, and done all labour,
+    And to merry pipe and tabor,
+    Or to some cracked viol strummed
+    With vile skill, or table drummed
+    To the tune of some brisk measure,
+    Wont to stir the pulse to pleasure,
+    Men and maidens timely beat
+    The ringing ground with frolic feet;
+    And the laugh and jest go round
+    Till all mirth in noise is drowned.
+
+_Literary Souvenir_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ARMORIAL BEARINGS AT CROYDON PALACE.
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Sir,--In No. 266 of the Mirror, _Sagittarius_ wishes to know the name of
+the person whose armorial bearings are emblazoned at Croydon palace.
+
+From the blazon he has given, it is rather difficult to find out; but I
+should think they are meant for those of king Richard II. Impaled on the
+dexter side with those of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor.
+Bearings that may be seen in divers places at Westminster Hall, rebuilt
+by that monarch.[1]
+
+    [1] Vide MIRROR, p. 98, Vol. iii.
+
+I have subjoined the _proper_ blazon of the arms, which is _azure_, a
+cross patonce between _five_ martlets _or_, impaling France and England
+quarterly, 1st. and 4th. azure three fleurs de lis. 2nd. _or_, 2nd and
+3rd Gules, 3 lions passant guardant in pale, or.
+
+The supporting of the arms with angels, &c. was a favourite device of
+Richard, as may be seen in divers antiquarian and topographical works.
+
+It is probable the hall of Croydon palace was built during the reign of
+Richard, which will account for his arms being placed there.
+
+I am, &c.
+
+C. F.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+DEATH OF MR. CANNING.
+
+
+The lamentable and sudden death of the Right Hon. George Canning has
+produced a general sensation throughout this country. At the opening of
+the present year our nation deplored the loss of a prince endeared to
+the people by his honest worth--but a short interval has elapsed and
+again the country is plunged in sorrow for the loss of one of its most
+zealous supporters--one of its chiefest ornaments--one of its staunchest
+friends--and one of its most eloquent and talented statesmen! The life
+of the late George Canning furnishes much matter for meditation and
+thought. From it much may be learnt. He was a genius, in the most
+unlimited sense of the word; and his intellectual endowments were
+commanding and imperative. Of humble origin he had to contend with
+innumerable difficulties, consequent to his station in life,--and
+although his talents, which were of the first order, befitted him for
+the first rank in society, that rank he did not attain until the scene
+of this world was about to be closed for ever from him. It may be said
+of this eminent man, that he owed nothing to patronage--his _talents_
+directed him to his elevated station, and to his intellectual
+superiority homage was made,--not to the man.
+
+But, in other respects, the loss of Mr. Canning is a national
+bereavement. He was one of the master-spirits of the age. His very name
+was distinguished--for he has added to the literature of his country--by
+his writings and his eloquence he has stimulated the march of mind; he
+has seconded the exertions of liberal friends to the improvements of the
+uneducated, and he has patronized the useful as well as the fine arts,
+philosophy and science, of his country. To expatiate at greater length
+would be superfluous, as we have in another place recorded our humble
+tribute to his general character.[2] We have now, therefore, merely to
+put together the melancholy facts connected with his death, and which
+will convey to another generation a just sense of the value, in our
+time, attached to a noble and exalted genius. The just and elegant
+laconism of Byron, by substituting the _past_ for the _present_ tense,
+may now be adopted as a faithful and brief summary of what _was_ George
+Canning.
+
+    [2] Biographical Memoir of Mr. Canning, with a Portrait, MIRROR,
+        Vol. iv.
+
+"Canning _was_ a genius, almost an universal one:--an orator, a wit, a
+poet, and a statesman."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The king, with his usual quickness, was the first to perceive the
+dangerous state of Mr. Canning. We understand, that almost immediately
+after he had quitted him, on Monday, his majesty observed to sir William
+Knighton, that Mr. Canning appeared very unwell, and that he was in
+great alarm for him. On Tuesday, sir William repaired to town, at the
+express command of his majesty, to see Mr. Canning. At the interview
+with him, at the Treasury, Sir William made particular inquiries into
+the state of his health. Mr. Canning was then troubled with a cough, and
+he observed to Sir William that he almost felt as if he were an old man;
+that he was much weakened; but had no idea of there being anything
+dangerous in his condition, and that he trusted that rest and retirement
+would set him to rights. Sir William sent Dr. Maton to Mr. Canning, and
+on parting with him, he observed that, as he should not leave town until
+Wednesday morning, he would call on him, at Chiswick, on his way home to
+Windsor. Sir William found Mr. Canning in bed, at Chiswick. He asked him
+if he felt any pain in his side? Mr. Canning answered he had felt a pain
+in his side for some days, and on endeavouring to lie on his side, the
+pain was so acute that he was unable to do so. Sir William then inquired
+if he felt any pain in his shoulder? He said he had been for some time
+affected by rheumatic pains in the shoulder. Sir William told him that
+the pain did not arise from rheumatism, but from a diseased liver, and
+he immediately sent for the three physicians, who remained with him, and
+were to the last unremitting in their attentions.
+
+The disease continued to make rapid progress, in spite of all that the
+first medical skill could do to baffle it, watching every turn it took,
+and applying, on the instant, every remedy likely to subdue its
+virulence, and mitigate his sufferings.
+
+On the following Sunday, August 5, bulletins were issued, stating that
+Mr. Canning was in most imminent danger. The most painful interest was
+excited in the public mind by subsequent announcements of his alarming
+state, and on Wednesday morning, the following melancholy intelligence
+reached town:--
+
+_Chiswick, Wednesday, August_, 8, 1827, (A. M.)
+
+Mr. Canning expired this morning, without pain, at ten minutes before
+four o'clock.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MISCELLANIES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BLACK BEARD.
+
+
+There are few persons who reside on the Atlantic ocean and rivers of
+North America who are not familiar with the name of Black Beard, whom
+traditionary history represents as a pirate, who acquired immense wealth
+in his predatory voyages, and was accustomed to bury his treasures in
+the banks of creeks and rivers. For a period as low down as the American
+revolution, it was common for the ignorant and credulous to dig along
+these banks in search of hidden treasures; and impostors found an ample
+basis in these current rumours for schemes of delusion. Black Beard,
+though tradition says a great deal more of him than is true, was yet a
+real person, who acquired no small fame by his maritime exploits during
+the first part of the eighteenth century. Among many authentic and
+recorded particulars concerning him, the following account of his death
+may gratify curiosity:--
+
+From the nature of Black Beard's position in a sloop of little draught
+of water, on a coast abounding with creeks, and remarkable for the
+number and intricacy of its shoals, with which he had made himself
+intimately acquainted, it was deemed impossible to approach him in
+vessels of any force. Two hired sloops were therefore manned from the
+Pearl and Lime frigates, in the Chesapeake, and put under the command of
+Lieutenant Maynard, with instructions to hunt down and destroy this
+pirate wherever he should be found. On the 17th of November, in the year
+1718, this force sailed from James River, and in the evening of the 21st
+came to an inlet in North Carolina, where Black Beard was discovered at
+a distance, lying in wait for his prey. The sudden appearance of an
+enemy, preparing to attack him, occasioned some surprise; but his sloop
+mounting several guns, and being manned with twenty-five of his
+desperate followers, he determined to make a resolute defence; and,
+having prepared his vessel over night for action, sat down to his
+bottle, stimulating his spirits to that pitch of frenzy by which only he
+could rescue himself in a contest for his life. The navigation of the
+inlet was so difficult, that Maynard's sloops were repeatedly grounded
+in their approach, and the pirate, with his experience of the soundings,
+possessed considerable advantage in manoeuvring, which enabled him for
+some time to maintain a running fight. His vessel, however, in her turn,
+having at length grounded, and the close engagement becoming now
+inevitable, he reserved her guns to pour in a destructive fire on the
+sloops as they advanced to board him. This he so successfully executed,
+that twenty-nine men of Maynard's small number were either killed or
+wounded by the first broadside, and one of the sloops for a time
+disabled. But notwithstanding this severe loss, the lieutenant
+persevered in his resolution to grapple with his enemy, or perish in the
+attempt. Observing that his own sloop, which was still fit for action,
+drew more water than the pirate's, he ordered all her ballast to be
+thrown out, and, directing his men to conceal themselves between decks,
+took the helm in person, and steered directly aboard of his antagonist,
+who continued inextricably fixed on the shoal. This desperate wretch,
+previously aware of his danger, and determined never to expiate his
+crimes in the hands of justice, had posted one of his banditti, with a
+lighted match, over his powder-magazine, to blow up his vessel in the
+last extremity. Luckily in this design he was disappointed by his own
+ardour and want of circumspection; for, as Maynard approached, having
+begun the encounter at close quarters, by throwing upon his antagonist a
+number of hand-grenadoes of his own composition, which produced only a
+thick smoke, and conceiving that, from their destructive agency, the
+sloop's deck had, been completely cleared, he leaped over her bows,
+followed by twelve of his men, and advanced upon the lieutenant, who was
+the only person then in view; but the men instantly springing up to the
+relief of their commander, who was now furiously beset, and in imminent
+danger of his life, a violent contest ensued. Black Beard, after seeing
+the greater part of his men destroyed at his side, and receiving himself
+repeated wounds, at length, stepping back to cock, a pistol, fainted
+with the loss of blood, and expired on the spot. Maynard completed his
+victory, by securing the remainder of these desperate wretches, who were
+compelled to sue for mercy, and a short respite from a less honourable
+death at the hands of the executioner.
+
+
+ISLANDS PRODUCED BY INSECTS.
+
+
+The whole group of the _Thousand Islands_, and indeed the greater part
+of all those whose surfaces are flat, in the neighbourhood of the
+equator, owe their origin to the labours of that order of marine worms
+which Linnaeus has arranged under the name of _Zoophyta_. These little
+animals, in a most surprising manner, construct their calcareous
+habitations, under an infinite variety of forms, yet with that order and
+regularity, each after its own manner, which to the minute inquirer, is
+so discernable in every part of the creation. But, although the eye may
+be convinced of the fact, it is difficult for the human mind to conceive
+the possibility of insects so small being endued with the power, much
+less of being furnished in their own bodies with the materials of
+constructing the immense fabrics which, in almost every part of the
+Eastern and Pacific Oceans lying between the tropics, are met with in
+the shape of detached rocks, or reefs of great extent, just even with
+the surface, or islands already clothed with plants, whose bases are
+fixed at the bottom of the sea, several hundred feet in depth, where
+light and heat, so very essential to animal life, if not excluded, are
+sparingly received and feebly felt. Thousands of such rocks, and reefs,
+and islands, are known to exist in the eastern ocean, within, and even
+beyond, the limits of the tropics. The eastern coast of New Holland is
+almost wholly girt with reefs and islands of coral rock, rising
+perpendicularly from the bottom of the abyss. Captain Kent, of the
+Buffalo, speaking of a coral reef of many miles in extent, on the
+south-west coast of New Caledonia, observes, that "it is level with the
+water's edge, and towards the sea, as steep to as a wall of a house;
+that he sounded frequently within twice the ship's length of it with a
+line of one hundred and fifty fathoms, or nine hundred feet, without
+being able to reach the bottom." How wonderful, how inconceivable, that
+such stupendous fabrics should rise into existence from the silent but
+incessant, and almost imperceptible, labours of such insignificant
+worms!
+
+To buy books, as some do who make no use of them, only because they were
+published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes
+that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous
+tailor.--_Pope_.
+
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+
+
+TO MY BROTHER, ON HIS LEAVING ENGLAND.
+
+By The Author of "Ahab."
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+    Wherever your fortune may lead you to roam,
+    Forget not, young exile, the land of your home;
+    Let it ever be present to memory's eye,
+    'Tis the place where the bones of your fore-father's lie.
+    Let the thought of it ever your comforter be,
+    For no spot on this earth like your home can you see.
+
+    The fields where you rove may be more fresh and fair,
+    More splendid the sun, and more fragrant the air,
+    More lovely the flowers, more refreshing the breeze,
+    More tranquil the waters, more fruitful the trees.
+    But home after all things--that dear little spot,
+    Tho' it be but a desert can ne'er be forgot.
+
+    In the thoughts of the day, and the dreams of the night,
+    On your eyes like the kiss of your mother 'twill light,
+    Then the mist will disperse which long absence has spread.
+    And the paths you have trodden again you shall tread.
+    Then farewell, young exile, wherever you roam,
+    Oh! dear as your honour, your life, be your home.
+
+J.H.S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ORDERS FOR HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS IN 1566.
+
+
+    _Orders for Household Servantes; first deuised by John
+    Haryngton, in the yeare 1566, and renewed by John Haryngton,
+    sonne of the saide John, in the yeare 1592: The saide John, the
+    sonne, being then high shrieve of the county of Somerset._
+
+    Imprimis, That no servant bee absent from praier, at morning or
+    euening, without a lawfull excuse, to be alleged within one day
+    after, vppon paine to forfeit for eury tyme 2d.
+
+    II. Item, That none swear any othe, vppon paine for every othe
+    1d.
+
+    III. Item, That no man leaue any doore open that he findeth
+    shut, without theare bee cause, vppon paine for euery time 1d.
+
+    IV. Item, That none of the men be in bed, from our Lady-day to
+    Michaelmas, after 6 of the clock in the morning; nor out of his
+    bed after 10 of the clock at night; nor, from Michaemas till
+    our Lady-day, in bed after 7 in the morning, nor out after 9 at
+    night, without reasonable cause, on paine of 2d.
+
+    V. That no man's bed bee vnmade, nor fire or candle-box
+    vnclean, after 8 of the clock in the morning, on paine of 1d.
+
+    VI. Item, That no one commit any nuisance within either of the
+    courts, vppon paine of 1d.
+
+    VII. Item, That no man teach any of the children any vnhonest
+    speeche, or evil word, or othe, on paine of 4d.
+
+    VIII. Item, That no man waite at the table without a trencher
+    in his hand, except it be vppon some good cause, on paine of
+    Id.
+
+    IX. Item, That no man appointed to waite at my table be absent
+    that meale, without reasonable cause, on paine of 1d.
+
+    X. Item, If any man breake a glasse, hee shall aunswer the
+    price thereof out of his wages; and, if it bee not known who
+    breake it, the buttler shall pay for it on paine of 12d.
+
+    XI. Item, The table must bee couered halfe an houer before 11
+    at dinner, and 6 at supper, or before, on paine of 2d.
+
+    XII. Item, That meate bee readie at 11, or before, at dinner;
+    and 6, or before, at supper, on paine of 6d.
+
+    XIII. Item, That none be absent, without leaue or good cause,
+    the whole day, or any part of it, on paine of 4d.
+
+    XIV. Item, That no man strike his fellow, on paine of loss of
+    seruice; nor reuile or threaten, or prouoke another to strike,
+    on paine of 12d.
+
+    XV. Item, That no man come to the kitchen without reasonable
+    cause, on paine of 1d. and the cook likewyse to forfeit 1d.
+
+    XVI. Item, That none toy with the maids, on paine of 4d.
+
+    XVII. That no man weare foule shirt on Sunday, nor broken hose
+    or shooes, or dublett without buttons, on paine of 1d.
+
+    XVIII. Item, That, when any strainger goeth hence, the chamber
+    be drest vp againe within 4 howrs after, on paine of 1d.
+
+    XIX. Item, That the hall bee made cleane euery day, by eight in
+    the winter, and seauen in the sommer, on paine of him that
+    should do it to forfeit 1d.
+
+    XX. That the cowrt-gate bee shutt each meale, and not opened
+    during dinner and supper, without just cause, on paine the
+    porter to forfet for euery time, 1d.
+
+    XXI. Item, That all stayrs in the house, and other rooms that
+    neede shall require, bee made cleane on Fryday after dinner, on
+    paine of forfeyture of euery on whome it shall belong vnto, 3d.
+
+    All which sommes shall be duly paide each quarter-day out of
+    their wages, and bestowed on the poore, or other godly vse.
+
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+
+
+
+THE NOVELIST.
+
+No. CVII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE WOOD KING.
+
+_By Miss Emma Roberts_.
+
+
+Already the pile of heaped-up fagots reached above the low roof of his
+hut; but Carl Scheffler still continued lopping off branches, and
+binding fresh bundles together, almost unconscious that the sun had set,
+and that the labours of the day being over, the neighbouring peasants
+were hastening to the skittle-ground to pass away an hour in sport. The
+wood-cutter's hut was perched upon an eminence a little out of the
+public path; but he heard the merry songs of his comrades as they
+proceeded gaily to the place of rendezvous, at the Golden Stag in the
+village below. Many of his intimate acquaintance paused as they
+approached the corner of the road nearest to his hut, and the wild wood
+rang with their loud halloes; but the call, which in other times had
+been echoed by the woodman's glad voice, was now unanswered; he busied
+himself with his work; his brow darkened as the joyous sounds came over
+his ear; he threw aside his hatchet, resumed, it again, and again
+casting it from him, exclaimed, "Why, let them go, I will not carry this
+chafed and wounded spirit to their revels; my hand is not steady enough
+for a bowling-match; and since Linda will doubtless choose a richer
+partner, I have no heart for the dance."
+
+It was easy to perceive that Carl Scheffler was smarting under a recent
+disappointment: he had borne up bravely against the misfortunes which,
+from a state of comparative affluence, had reduced him to depend upon
+his own arm for subsistence, fondly trusting that ere long his prospects
+would amend; and that, at the return of the Count of Holberg to his
+ancestorial dominions, he should obtain a forester's place, and be
+enabled to claim the hand of Linda Von Kleist, to whom, in happier
+times, he had been betrothed. But these dreams had vanished; the count's
+bailiff having seen Linda, the flower of the hamlet, became his rival,
+and consequently his enemy: he had bestowed the office promised to Carl
+upon another; and Linda's father ungratefully withdrawing the consent
+given when the lover's affairs were in a more flourishing condition, had
+forbidden him the house. Buoyed up with the hope that Linda would remain
+faithful, and by her unabated attachment console him under the pressure
+of his calamities, Carl did not at first give way to despair; but Linda
+was too obedient, or perchance too indifferent, to disobey her father's
+commands. He sought her at the accustomed spot--she came not, sent not:
+he hovered round her residence, and if chance favoured him with a
+glimpse of his beloved, it was only to add to his misery, for she
+withdrew hastily from his sight. A rumour of the intended marriage of
+his perjured mistress reached his ears, and, struck to the soul, he
+endeavoured, by manual labour, to exhaust his strength and banish the
+recollection of his misery. He toiled all day in feverish desperation;
+and now that there was no more to be done, sat down to ponder over his
+altered prospects. The bailiff possessed the ear of his master, and it
+was useless to hope that the count would repair the injustice committed
+by so trusted a servant. The situation which above all others he had
+coveted, which would have given him the free range of the forest, the
+jovial hunter's life which suited his daring spirit, delighting in the
+perils of the chase, and, above all, a home for Linda, was lost, and for
+ever; henceforward he must relinquish all expectation of regaining the
+station which the misfortunes that had brought his parents to the grave
+had deprived him of, and be content to earn a sordid meal by bending his
+back to burthens befitting the brute creation alone; to hew wood, and to
+bear it to the neighbouring towns; to delve the ground at the bidding of
+a master, and to perform the offices of a menial hireling. "At least not
+here," cried the wretched young man, "not in the face of all my former
+friends; there is a refuge left where I may hide my sorrows and my
+wrongs. Fair earth, and thou fair sky, I gaze upon you for the last
+time; buried from the face of day in the centre of the deepest mine,
+I'll spend the remnant of my life unpitied and unknown." Determined to
+execute this resolution on the instant, Carl hastily collected such
+parts of his slender property as were portable; and having completed his
+arrangements, prepared to cross the Brocken, and shaped his course
+towards the Rammelsburg. The last rich gleam of crimson had faded from
+the sky; but there was light enough in the summer night to guide him on
+his way. A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of
+heaven; the air was soft and balmy, scarcely agitating the leaves of the
+forest trees; the fragrance-weeping limes gave out their richest scent,
+and the gentle gush of fountains, and the tricklings of the mountain
+springs, came in music on the ear; and had the traveller been more at
+ease, the calm and tranquil scene must have diffused its soothing
+influence over his heart. Carl, disregarding every thing save his own
+melancholy destiny, strode along almost choked by bitter thought, and so
+little heedful of the road, that he soon became involved in thickets
+whose paths were unknown to him; he looked up to the heavens, and
+shaping his course by one of the stars, was somewhat surprised to find
+himself still involved in the impenetrable mazes of the wood. Compelled
+to give more attention than heretofore to his route, he once or twice
+thought that he distinguished a human figure moving through the darkness
+of the forest. At first, not disposed to fall in with a companion, he
+remained silent, lest the person, whoever he might be, should choose to
+enter into conversation with him; then not quite certain whether he was
+right in his conjecture--for upon casting a second glance upon the
+object which attracted him, he more than once discovered it to be some
+stunted trunk or fantastic tree--he became anxious to ascertain whether
+he was in reality, alone, or if some other midnight wanderer trod the
+waste, and he looked narrowly around; all was still, silent, and
+solitary; and fancying that he had been deceived by the flitting shadows
+of the night, he was again relapsing into his former reverie, when he
+became aware of the presence of a man dressed in the garb of a forester,
+and having his cap wreathed with a garland of green leaves, who stood
+close at his side. Carl's tongue moved to utter a salutation, but the
+words stuck in his throat, an indescribable sensation of horror thrilled
+through his frame; tales of the demons of the Hartz rushed upon his
+memory--but he recovered instantly from the sudden shock. The desperate
+state of his fortune gave him courage, and, looking up, he was surprised
+at the consternation which the stranger had occasioned: he was a person
+of ordinary appearance, who, accosting him frankly, exclaimed, "Ho,
+comrade, thou art, I see, bent on the same errand as myself; but
+wherefore dost thou seek the treasures of the Nibelungen without the
+protecting wreath?"--"The treasures of the Nibelungen?" returned Carl;
+"I have indeed heard of such a thing, and that it was hidden in the
+bosom of the Hartz by a princess of the olden time; but I never was mad
+enough to think of so wild a chase as a search after riches, which has
+baffled the wisest of our ancestors, must surely prove."--"Belike then,"
+replied the forester, "thou art well to do in the world, and therefore
+needest not to replenish thy wallets with gold,--travelling perchance to
+take possession of some rich inheritance."--"No, by St. Roelas," cried
+the woodcutter, "thou hast guessed wide of the mark. I am going to hide
+my poverty in the mine of Rammelsburg."--"The mine of Rammelsburg!"
+echoed the stranger, and laughed scornfully, so that the deep woods rang
+with the sound; and Carl feeling his old sensations return as the
+fiendish merriment resounded through the wilderness, again gazed
+stedfastly in his companion's face, but he read nothing there to justify
+his suspicions: the fiery eye lost its lustre; the lip its curl; and,
+gazing benignantly upon the forlorn wood-cutter, he continued his
+speech, saying, "Then prithee take the advice of one who knows these
+forests, and all that they contain. Here are materials in abundance for
+our garland; advance forward, and fear not the issue;"--and, gathering
+leaves from the boughs of trees of a species unknown to his new
+acquaintance, he twined them into a wreath, and placed the sylvan diadem
+on Carl's head. The instant that he felt the light pressure on his
+temples, all his fears vanished; and he followed his guide, conversing
+pleasantly through wide avenues and over broad glades of fresh turf,
+which seemed to be laid out like a royal chase, till they came to a wall
+of rock resembling the Hahnen Klippers, and entering through an arch, a
+grey moss-covered tower arose in the distance. The ponderous doors were
+wide open; and Carl advancing, found himself in a large hall well
+lighted, and showing abundance of treasure scattered abroad in all
+directions. He was conscious that he had lost his companion, but he
+seemed no longer to require his instruction; and casting down his own
+worthless burthen, he laded himself with the riches that courted his
+touch. The adventurer was soon supplied with a sufficient quantity of
+gold and jewels to satisfy his most unbounded wishes; and turning from
+the spot with a light heart, he sped merrily along. The country round
+about seemed strange to him; but on repassing the rocky ledge, a brisk
+wind suddenly springing up blew off his cap. The morning air was cold,
+and Carl, hastening to regain his head-gear, discovered that the wreath
+had disappeared; and, as if awakening from a dream, he found himself
+surrounded by familiar objects; he felt, however, the weight of the load
+upon his back, and though panting with the fatigue it occasioned, made
+the best of his way home. On approaching the hut, a low murmur struck on
+his ear. He paused; listened attentively; and distinguishing a female
+voice, he rushed forward, and in the next moment clasped Linda in his
+arms. She had fled from the persecutions of the bailiff to seek shelter
+in Carl's straw-roofed hut; and the now happy lovers, as they surveyed
+the treasures which had been snatched from the Nibelungen, agreed that
+they owed their good fortune to Riebezhahl the Wood King, who sometimes
+taking pity upon the frail and feeble denizens of earth, pointed out to
+their wondering eyes the inexhaustible riches of which he was the
+acknowledged guardian.
+
+_London Weekly Review_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DRAFTS ON LA FITTE.
+
+COOKE.
+
+
+Only upon one occasion did Cooke deviate from his resolution of not
+apologizing to a provincial assembly, and that was at Liverpool. A
+previous breach of decorum was visited one night by the fury of an
+offended audience; confusion was at its height; the people were the
+actors, and Cooke the audience: yet the sturdy tragedian remained
+callous to the bursts of indignation which were heard around him, until
+destruction became the order of the day; lamps _lighted_ on the stage;
+benches betokened _mobility_; _pedal_ applications were made _forté_ to
+the _piano_; _basely violated_ was the repository of the _base viol_;
+and the property of poor Knight the manager gave every sign of that
+being its last appearance. What popular rage had failed to produce,
+consideration for the fortunes of his friend effected. At his
+entreaties, the Caledonian was induced to advance to the front of the
+stage (never was there a more _moving_ scene than that before it);
+silence was obtained, and he condescended to express his sorrow for the
+state in which some nights previously he had presented himself: adding,
+"that _he_ never _before_ felt so keenly the _degradation_ of _his_
+situation." Equivocal as was the mode of extenuation, the audience
+allied to _Mersey_ accorded the _mercy_ it possessed, and was or
+appeared to be, satisfied; but not so the actor, and he as fully as
+instantly avenged what he deemed his misplaced submission. As he
+concluded his address, he turned to the gratified but yet trembling
+manager, and (in allusion to the large share in the slave-trade then
+imputed to Liverpool) with that peculiarity of undertone he possessed,
+which could be distinctly heard throughout the largest theatre although
+pronounced as a whisper, exclaimed, "There's not a stone in the walls of
+Liverpool which has not been cemented by the _bluid_ of Africans." Then,
+casting one of his Shylock glances of hatred and contempt on the mute
+and astounded audience, majestically left the stage.
+
+On the first night of his performance at the Boston theatre, Richard was
+the part he had adopted; and so strongly had he fortified himself for
+the kingly task, that he deemed himself the very monarch he was destined
+to enact. The theatre was crowded in every part: expectation was on
+tiptoe: anticipation as to his person, voice, and manner, was announced
+by the sibilating "I guess" heard around, and "pretty considerable"
+agitation prevailed. The orchestra had begun and ceased, unheeded or
+unheard; nor could one of Sir Thomas Lethbridge's best cut and dried
+have produced less effect amongst the "irreclaimables." The curtain
+rose, and amidst thundering plaudits the welcome stranger advanced, in
+angles, to the front of the stage, and, as Sir Pertinax has it, "booed
+and booed and booed;" but greeting could not endure for ever: well
+justified curiosity assumed its station, and at length silence, almost
+breathless silence, reigned around, such as attended Irving in his
+Zoar, or Canning when he lately produced his budget. The hospitable
+clamour was over; but instead of "Now is the winter of our discontent
+made glorious summer by this sun of York" being given, Cooke, in a
+respectful but decided tone, requested that "God save the King" might be
+played by the orchestra prior to the commencement of the play. The
+proposal at first but excited mockery and laughter, which, however, gave
+way to far different feelings, on Cooke firmly and composedly declaring,
+that, until his request was complied with, he was determined not to
+proceed; and, should it be absolutely refused, he was resolved to
+retire. The fury of the Bostonians was at its height: menace,
+accompanied by every vituperative epithet rage could suggest, was
+lavished on the actor; but he kept his station, calm and secure as his
+own native island set in the stormy seas, until anger gradually subsided
+through very weariness; and every effort having been ineffectually used
+to wean "_the tyrant_" from his purpose, the political antipathies of
+the audience began to yield to their theatrical taste; and, after much
+argument and delay, the unpalatable demand was reluctantly assented to.
+Cooke, however, whose nature it was, when opposed, only to become more
+exigent, was not himself appeased; for, as the notes "unpleasing to a
+_Yankee_ ear" were sounded, with a majestic wave of his hand he silenced
+the unwilling music, and, "Standing, if you please," was as
+dictatorially as fearlessly pronounced, to the consternation of the
+audience. So much had, however, already been accorded, that it was not
+deemed matter of much moment to concede the rest: and however
+ungracefully the attitude of respect was assumed, the national hymn was
+performed amidst grimace and muttering; Cooke beating time with his
+foot,--nodding significantly and satisfactorily at "Confound their
+politics;" and occasionally taking a pinch of snuff, as, in his royal
+robes, he triumphantly contemplated the astonished and indignant
+audience. It ended:--"Richard was himself again," and "_Now_ is the
+winter of our _discontent_ made glorious summer" was given with equal
+emphasis, feeling, and effect.
+
+At the time that _greater_ performer, the elephant, made his appearance
+on the boards, his own _board_ became a subject of no trifling
+consideration with the managers, particularly as the African had taken a
+predilection for _rum_, which the new actor used to quaff with
+extraordinary zest. On one occasion Cooke was missing from a morning
+rehearsal, and all had been some time in waiting for the tragedian,
+when the messenger whom Kerable despatched in search of him, returned
+grinning to the green-room. "Where is Mr. Cooke, sir?" demanded Kemble.
+"He is below _breakfasting_ with the _elephant_, sir!" was the reply.
+
+It was too much for Cooke, after having so frequently disappointed full
+houses, to be obliged to play to an empty theatre. It was like playing
+whist with _dummy_. However, towards the close of the O. P. war, (which,
+by the way, excited more the attention of the Parisians than the
+national contest in which we were engaged,) the public had adopted the
+plan of never commencing operations until half-price, to the injury of
+the manager's purse. It was during the earlier acts of "The Man of the
+World," that Cooke, in performing to "a beggarly account of empty
+boxes," was addressed by one of the actors, in accordance with the
+scene, in a whisper; when the _elevated_ comedian, casting a glance
+around, bitterly observed, "Speak out: there need be no secret. _No one
+hears us._" Poor Cooke could not plead in excuse what an actor did on
+being hissed for too _sober_ a representation of a _drunken_ part,
+"Ladies and gentlemen, I beg your pardon: but it is really the _first
+time_ I ever was _intoxicated_."
+
+His death was in singular accordance with his _taste_ through life. He
+sought the banks of the _Brandywine_, and whether it were that the
+composition of its stream so little responded to its title as to prey
+upon his _spirits_, or from some other cause, there he "_drank_ his
+last."
+
+
+DICKEY SUETT.
+
+
+I met with him once in a house situated on the very confines of _Beef
+and Law_; on the line of demarcation between the theatres and Lincoln's
+Inn; a sort of _debateable_ ground between the spouters and ranters of
+the stage, and the eaters of commons, by either of which party it was
+frequented. Around a large table in the parlour sat a motley group.
+There were ragged wits, well-dressed students, new-fledged actors, a
+hackney writer or so, an Irish barrister named Shuter, a Scotch
+reporter, and a hodge-podge of most discordant materials congregated
+under the amalgamating power of Suett, who seemed, by the incongruity of
+his dress and diversified manner, to have studied the various tastes of
+those he swayed, and to be the comprehensive representative of each of
+the strange beings he looked upon, with all of whom he would
+occasionally identify himself with so much ease, that it were hard to
+say whether it was the result of labour or of tact, of calculation, or
+the mere impulse of mother-wit. The _ropes of his face_, when drawn
+_taught_, peculiarly commanded the attention of the Caledonian, while
+the sly and humorous glance of his half-shut eye was acknowledged by the
+Hibernian to whom it was addressed; the _snow drift_ of powder which lay
+in patches on his long, straight hair, agreed with the taste of his
+dramatic nursling; the far-extended cambric of white frill imposed upon
+the students, while the unseemly rents in his coat at once compensated
+to the wits for what there might be of gaudy or gay in his outward man.
+We were received with equal courtesy and ceremony by the president; and
+were just seated, when a ballet-dancer of Drury-lane entered. As he was
+a Frenchman, it became a question of _national_ politeness: and Dicky
+_chestered_ him to his dexter! and, as was befitting, condescended to
+address him. "I am proud, sir," said Suett, with the formality of _Black
+Rod_ himself, "to do the honours of my _country_ to the _representative_
+of a nation which held my _master_ Garrick in peculiar respect. He was a
+great actor, sir; a wonderful man! Your Lekain, or any other _Cain_,
+could not come up to him, for he was _Able_, Pardon the pun. Oh,
+la!--but he was vain, sir; vain as a peacock; it could not be of his
+person. Had he been, as Richard has it, _'a marvellous proper man'_ like
+myself, one might have said something. He used to say, I was too _lean_
+for _Suett_. Oh, dear. _A votre santé, Monsieur,_ happy to see you on
+this side the Channel. Never been to France yet, although in the
+_Straits_ great part of my life, and not unfrequently _half seas
+over_.--Well, sir, to return to Garrick. There was that man 'frae the
+north,' who wrote the History of England and Roderick Random,--the
+latter a true story, they say;--he who challenged Campbell the
+barrister, for calling him _names_, _To bias_ the cause. Well, sir, Davy
+refused one of his farces; but the wily Caledonian _pocketed_ the
+affront, in coolly observing, 'that he had nearly completed another
+volume of his history, and hoped he might be permitted to name _the
+British Roscius_, the pride of his country, and all that sort of thing.'
+It was a palpable hit, sir--the thing was settled--the _manager
+managed_; and _Smelfungus_ retired, _without_ his manuscript, half sorry
+he had not added _another_ scene to his farce. Well, sir, the story got
+wind, and some days after Davy dined with a lawyer who had interested
+himself vainly for a friend's comedy with him, when, in the course of
+conversation, the barrister observed to Davy, before a large company,
+that he had nearly compiled another volume of The Statutes _at large_
+(would they were all _at large_), and hoped he might be permitted to
+name _the British Roscius, the pride of his country._ There was a roar
+at the expense of Garrick. 'The galled jade' winced terribly:--he was
+touchy as tinder, sir:--never was _Digest_ so ill-_digested_.'"
+
+It was when the meteor-like popularity of little Betty was at its height
+that poor Suett fell ill, at what he termed his _town_ residence (a
+second-floor in a low street), and the pigmy Roscius, having eaten too
+much fruit, kept all London in intense agony for his fate at the same
+moment. Bulletins were exhibited in Southampton-row several times
+a-day, signed by numerous physicians. Had he died, how posterity would
+have been befooled! Suett was then _actually_ dying, yet would he have
+his joke, and his last moments were cheered by the horse-laugh of the
+rabble assembled to _spell_ the bulletin suspended to "the second-floor
+bell," attested by the _mark_ of the old woman who attended him. "You
+shall be buried in Saint Paul's," said a friend. "Oh, la!" was the dying
+ejaculation of the comedian.
+
+_New Monthly Magazine._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+AMERICAN TRAVELLING.
+
+
+June 7th, at three in the morning, the steam-boat (which was of immense
+size, and on the high pressure system) arrived at Albany, having come
+one hundred and sixty miles in seventeen hours, including stoppages. I
+found that, unluckily, the mail-coach had left the place just before our
+arrival, so I booked myself in an accommodation-stage, which was to
+reach Boston (a distance of one hundred and sixty miles) in three days,
+and entered the wretched-looking vehicle, with a heavy heart, at eight
+o'clock.... The machine in which I travelled was slow and crowded. The
+proprietor had undertaken to let us rest at night on the road; but we
+found that his notions of rest were very imperfect, and that his night
+was one of the polar regions.--Having partaken of a wretched dinner at
+Sand Lake, we arrived about one in the morning at Cheshire, where we
+were to sleep.
+
+By dint of most active exertion, I secured a bed to myself, the narrow
+dimensions of which precluded the possibility of participation, and
+plunged into it with all possible haste, as there was not a moment to
+be lost. Secure in "single blessedness," I was incredibly amused at the
+compliments of nocturnal arrangement which passed around me among my
+Yankee companions. They were nine in number, and occupied by triplets
+the three other beds which the room contained. Whether it was with a
+view of preserving their linen unrumpled, or of enjoying greater space,
+I cannot tell; but certain it is, that they divested themselves of
+clothing to a degree not generally practised in Europe. A spirit of
+accommodation appeared to prevail; and it seemed to be a matter of
+indifference whether to occupy the lateral portions of the bed, or the
+warmer central position, except in one instance, where a gentleman
+protested against being placed next to the wall, as he was in the habit
+of chewing tobacco in his sleep!
+
+At four o'clock in the morning we again set off, and, as much rain had
+fell in the night, the roads were in a dreadful state. The coach company
+now consisted of nine passengers inside, one on the top, (which, from
+its convex form, is a very precarious situation,) and three on the box,
+besides the coachman, who sat on the knees of the unfortunate middle
+man,--an uneasy burden, considering the intense heat of the weather.
+
+It matters little to the American driver where he sits; he is indeed, in
+all respects, a far different personage from his great-coated prototype
+in England. He is in general extremely dexterous in the art of driving,
+though his costume is of a most grotesque description. Figure to
+yourself a slipshod sloven, dressed in a striped calico jacket and an
+old straw hat, alternately arranging the fragile harness of his horses,
+and springing again upon his box with surprising agility; careless of
+the bones of his passengers, and confident in his skill and resources,
+he scruples not frequently to gallop his coach over corderoy roads, (so
+called from being formed of the trunks of trees laid transversely,) or
+dash it round corners, and through holes that would appal the heart of
+the stoutest English coachman, however elated by gin, or irritated by
+opposition. I was once whirled along one of these roads, when the
+leathers, (barbarous substitutes for springs,) which supported the
+carriage gave way with a sudden shock. The undaunted driver instantly
+sprang from his box, tore a stake from a rail fence by the road-side,
+laid it across under the body of the coach, and was off again before I
+properly recovered the use of my senses, which were completely
+bewildered by the jolting I had undergone. I can compare it to nothing
+but the butt of Regulus, without the nails. When the lash and butt-end
+of the whip fail him, he does not scruple to use his foot, as the
+situation of his seat allows the application of it to his wheelers.
+
+We dined at New Salem at six, and arrived at Petersham, where we were to
+sleep, at twelve o'clock at night, having been twenty hours coming sixty
+miles.
+
+Though tired and disgusted with my journey, the prospect of a short
+respite from this state of purgatory was embittered during the last few
+miles by alarm at the idea of passing the night with one, if not two, of
+my fellow-travellers; and I internally resolved rather to sleep upon the
+floor.
+
+After a desperate struggle, I succeeded, to my great joy, in securing a
+bed for myself, not, however, without undergoing a severe objurgation
+from the landlady, who could not understand such unaccommodating
+selfishness. Short were our slumbers. By the rigid order of the
+proprietor, we were turned out the next morning at three, and pursued
+our journey.--_De Roos's Personal Narrative._
+
+
+KANGAROO WAGGERY.
+
+
+One of the largest tame kangaroos I have seen in the country is
+domiciled here, and a mischievous wag he is, creeping and snuffing
+cautiously toward a stranger, with such an innocently expressive
+countenance, that roguery could never be surmised to exist under
+it--when, having obtained as he thinks a sufficient introduction, he
+claps his forepaws on your shoulders, (as if to caress you,) and raising
+himself suddenly upon his tail, administers such a well-put push with
+his hind-legs, that it is two to one but he drives you heels over head!
+This is all done in what he considers facetious play, with a view to
+giving you a hint to examine your pockets, and see what _bon-bons_ you
+have got for him, as he munches cakes and comfits with epicurean _gout_;
+and if the door be ajar, he will gravely take his station behind your
+chair at meal-time, like a lackey, giving you an admonitory kick every
+now and then, if you fail to help him as well as yourself.--_Two Years
+in New South Wales._
+
+
+A MAGNIFICENT WATERFALL.
+
+
+My swarthy guides, although this was unquestionably the first time that
+they had ever led a traveller to view the remarkable scenery of their
+country, evinced a degree of tact, as _ciceroni_, as well as natural
+feeling of the picturesque, that equally pleased and surprised me.
+Having forewarned me that this was not yet the waterfall, they now
+pioneered the way for about a mile farther along the rocks, some of them
+keeping near, and continually cautioning me to look to my feet, as a
+single false step might precipitate me into the raging abyss of waters,
+the tumult of which seemed to shake even the solid rocks around us.
+
+At length we halted, as before, and the next moment I was led to a
+projecting rock, where a scene burst upon me, far surpassing my most
+sanguine expectations. The whole water of the river (except what escapes
+by the subsidiary channel we had crossed, and by a similar one on the
+north side) being previously confined to a bed of scarcely one hundred
+feet in breadth, descends at once in a magnificent cascade of full four
+hundred feet in height. I stood upon a cliff nearly level with the top
+of the fall, and directly in front of it. The beams of the evening sun
+fell upon the cascade, and occasioned a most splendid rainbow; while the
+vapoury mists arising from the broken waters, the bright green woods
+that hung from the surrounding cliffs, the astounding roar of the
+waterfall, and the tumultuous boiling and whirling of the stream below,
+striving to escape along its deep, dark, and narrow, path, formed
+altogether a combination of beauty and grandeur, such as I never before
+witnessed. As I gazed on this stupendous stream, I felt as if in a
+dream. The sublimity of nature drowned all apprehensions of danger; and,
+after a short pause, I hastily left the spot where I stood to gain a
+nearer view from a cliff that impended over the foaming gulf. I had just
+reached this station, when I felt myself grasped all at once by four
+Korannas, who simultaneously seized hold of me by the arms and legs. My
+first impression was, that they were going to hurl me over the
+precipice; but it was a momentary thought, and it wronged the friendly
+savages. They are themselves a timid race, and they were alarmed, lest
+my temerity should lead me into danger. They hurried me back from the
+brink, and then explained their motive, and asked my forgiveness. I was
+not ungrateful for their care, though somewhat annoyed by their
+officiousness.--_Thompson's Travels in Southern Africa._
+
+
+SETTING IN OF AN INDIAN MONSOON.
+
+
+The shades of evening approached as we reached the ground, and just as
+the encampment was completed the atmosphere grew suddenly dark, the heat
+became oppressive, and an unusual stillness presaged the immediate
+setting in of the monsoon. The whole appearance of nature resembled
+those solemn preludes to earthquakes and hurricanes in the West Indies,
+from which the east in general is providentially free. We were allowed
+very little time for conjecture; in a few minutes the heavy clouds burst
+over us.... I witnessed seventeen monsoons in India, but this exceeded
+them all in its awful appearance and dreadful effects.
+
+Encamped in a low situation, on the borders of a lake formed to collect
+the surrounding water, we found ourselves in a few hours in a liquid
+plain. The tent-pins giving way, in a loose soil, the tents fell down,
+and left the whole army exposed to the contending elements.
+
+It requires a lively imagination to conceive the situation of a hundred
+thousand human beings of every description, with more than two hundred
+thousand elephants, camels, horses, and oxen, suddenly overwhelmed by
+this dreadful storm, in a strange country, without any knowledge of high
+or low ground; the whole being covered by an immense lake, and
+surrounded by thick darkness, which prevented our distinguishing a
+single object, except such as the vivid glare of lightning displayed in
+horrible forms. No language can describe the wreck of a large encampment
+thus instantaneously destroyed and covered with water, amid the cries of
+old men and helpless women, terrified by the piercing shrieks of their
+expiring children, unable to afford them relief. During this dreadful
+night more than two hundred persons and three thousand cattle perished,
+and the morning dawn exhibited a shocking spectacle.--_Forbes's Oriental
+Memoirs._
+
+
+GRACE OF CARRIAGE.
+
+
+This requires not only a perfect freedom of motion, but also a firmness
+of step, or constant steady bearing of the centre of gravity over the
+base. It is usually possessed by those who live in the country, and
+according to nature, as it is called, and who take much and varied
+exercise. What a contrast is there between the gait of the active
+mountaineer, rejoicing in the consciousness of perfect nature, and of
+the mechanic or shopkeeper, whose life is spent in the cell of his
+trade, and whose body soon receives a shape and air that correspond to
+this!--and in the softer sex, what a contrast is there, between her who
+recalls to us the fabled Diana of old, and that other, who has scarcely
+trodden but on smooth pavements or carpets, and who, under any new
+circumstances, carries her person as awkwardly as something to the
+management of which she is not accustomed.
+
+_Arnott's Elements of Physics._
+
+
+THE CAVALRY SCHOOL OF ST. GERMAINS.
+
+
+Bonaparte frequently visited the school of infantry at St. Cyr, reviewed
+the cadets, and gave them cold collations in the park. But he had never
+visited the school of cavalry since its establishment, of which we were
+very jealous, and did all in our power to attract him. Whenever he
+hunted, the cadets were in grand parade on the parterre, crying, _"Vive
+l'Empereur!"_ with all their young energies; he held his hat raised as
+he passed them; but that was all we could gain. Wise people whispered
+that he never would go whilst they were so evidently expecting him; that
+he liked to keep them always on the alert; it was good for discipline.
+The general took another plan, and once allowed no sign of life about
+the castle when the emperor passed--it was like a deserted place. But it
+did not take neither; he passed, as if there were no castle there. It
+was _desesperant._ When, lo! the next day but one after I had spoken to
+him, he suddenly galloped into the court of the castle, and the cry of
+the sentinel, _"L'Empereur!"_ was the first notice they had of it. He
+examined into every thing. All were in undress, all at work, and this
+was what he wanted. In the military-schools the cadets got
+ammunition-bread, and lived like well-fed soldiers; but there was great
+outcry in the circles of Paris against the bread of the school of St.
+Germain's. Ladies complained that their sons were poisoned by it; the
+emperor thought it was all nicety, and said no man was fit to be an
+officer who could not eat ammunition-bread. However, being there, he
+asked for a loaf, which was brought, and he saw it was villanous trash,
+composed of pease, beans, rye, potatoes, and every thing that would make
+flour or meal, instead of good brown wheaten flour. He tore the loaf in
+two in a rage, and dashed it against the wall, and there it stuck like a
+piece of mortar, to the great annoyance of those whose duty it was to
+have attended to this. He ordered the baker to be called, and made him
+look at it _sticking_. The man was in great terror first at the
+emperor's anger, but, taking heart, he begged his majesty not to take
+his contract from him, and he would give good bread in future; at which
+the emperor broke into a royal and imperial passion, and threatened to
+send him to the galleys; but, suddenly turning round, he said, "Yes, he
+would allow him to keep his contract, on condition that, as long as it
+lasted, he should furnish the school with good white household bread,
+_(pain de ménage,)_ such as was sold in the bakers' shops in Paris; that
+he might choose that, or lose his contract;" and the baker thankfully
+promised to furnish good white bread in future, at the same
+price.--_Appendix to the 9th volume of Scott's Life of Napoleon._
+
+
+CENTRE OF GRAVITY, IN REFERENCE TO SEA-SICKNESS.
+
+
+Man requiring so strictly to maintain his perpendicularity, that is, to
+keep the centre of gravity always over the support of his body,
+ascertains the required position in various ways, but chiefly by the
+perpendicularity or known position of things about him. Vertigo, and
+sickness commonly called sea-sickness, because it most frequently occurs
+at sea, are the consequences of depriving him of his standards of
+comparison, or of disturbing them.
+
+Hence on shipboard, where the lines of the masts, windows, furniture,
+&c. are constantly changing, sickness, vertigo, and other affections of
+the same class are common to persons unaccustomed to ships. Many
+experience similar effects in carriages, and in swings, or on looking
+from a lofty precipice, where known objects being distant, and viewed
+under a new aspect, are not so readily recognised: also in walking on a
+wall or roof, in looking directly up to a roof, or to the stars in the
+zenith, because, then, all standards disappear: on walking into a round
+room, where there are no perpendicular lines of light and shade, as when
+the walls and roof are covered with a spotted paper without regular
+arrangement of spot:--on turning round, as in waltzing, or on a wheel;
+because the eye is not then allowed to rest on the standards, &c.
+
+At night, or by blind people, standards belonging to the sense of touch
+are used; and it is because on board ship, the standards both of sight
+and of touch are lost, that the effect is so very remarkable.
+
+But sea-sickness also partly depends on the irregular pressure of the
+bowels against the diaphragm, as their inertia or weight varies with the
+rising and falling of the ship.
+
+From the nature of sea-sickness, as discovered in all these facts, it is
+seen why persons unaccustomed to the motion of a ship, often find relief
+in keeping their eyes directed to the fixed shore, where it is visible;
+or in lying down on their backs and shutting their eyes; or in taking
+such a dose of exhilarating drink as shall diminish their sensibility to
+all objects of external sense.
+
+_Arnott's Elements of Physics._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+FINE ARTS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE BRITISH INSTITUTION.
+
+
+The following gratifying report of the directors has just been
+made:--"The funds of the institution consist at the present time of
+12,500l. 3 per cent, consols. It is hoped that these funds may be
+considerably increased by the exhibition of the beautiful collection of
+pictures now on view at the gallery, which last year attracted such
+general notice, and which his majesty, ever anxious to forward the
+purposes of the institution, has again allowed the directors to offer
+for the inspection of the public. The directors, finding that the two
+institutions which have been established for the relief of decayed
+artists, were not only founded upon the most humane principles, but
+conducted in the most beneficial manner, have applied in the course of
+the present year, 400l, to the purposes of those institutions; viz.
+200l. to the Artists' Benevolent Fund, and 200l to the Artists'
+General Benevolent Institution." The report next mentions two pictures
+to be painted on the subjects of Lord Howe's and Lord St. Vincent's
+victories, by Mr. Briggs and Mr. Jones, to be placed, "as well as those
+which were exhibited this year in the gallery in commemoration of other
+naval victories, in the hall of Greenwich hospital." It also confirms
+the gift of Mr. Hilton's and Mr. Northcote's pictures to the new church
+at Pimlico, built by Mr. Hakewill, and to the chapel built by Mr.
+Cockerell, in the upper part of Regent-street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ARTS AND SCIENCES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MUSICAL COMPOSITION.
+
+
+A very valuable musical manuscript, by Guillaume de Machault, who was
+_valet de chambre_ to Phillippe-le-Bel, in 1307, has been discovered in
+the royal library at Paris. It contains several French and Latin
+anthems, ballads, &c.; and concludes with a mass, which is supposed to
+have been sung at the coronation of Charles V., in 1364; and which
+proves, at that time they were acquainted with the art of composition in
+four parts.
+
+
+NOISY FISH.
+
+
+M. Cuvier lately read a short paper to the French academy on the species
+of fish called _pogonias_, in which he particularly adverted to the
+noise by which they make themselves heard, even under water. However
+difficult the explanation of this phenomenon, there can be no doubt of
+its existence; the evidence of it adduced by M. Cuvier being perfectly
+satisfactory. The silurus, a large and ravenous fish, which abounds in
+the Danube, gives daily proof of it.
+
+
+GEOLOGY.
+
+
+A treatise on the great geological question, whether the continents now
+inhabited, have or have not been repeatedly submerged in the sea, has
+lately been read to the Académie des Sciences, by M. Constant Prevost.
+M. Prevost maintains, contrary to the generally received opinion, that
+there has been but one great inundation of the earth; and that the
+various remains of plants, animals, &c., which have given rise to the
+supposition of successive inundations, have been floated to the places
+in which they are occasionally found.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+    "I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's
+    stuff."--Wotton.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A PUZZLE FOR THE CURIOUS.
+
+
+At a town in Gloucestershire the relatives as below, recently surrounded
+one dinner-table:--One great-grandfather, two grandfathers, one
+grandmother, three fathers, two mothers, four children, three
+grand-children, ore great-grandchild, three sisters, one brother, two
+husbands, two wives, one mother-in-law, one father-in-law, two
+brothers-in-law, three sisters-in-law, one son-in-law, two
+daughters-in-law, two uncles, three aunts, one nephew, two nieces, and
+two cousins. The whole party consisted of seven persons only.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE ROMANCE OF WAR.
+
+
+A French soldier, who accompanied the armies of Russia, concealed a
+small treasure at the entrance of a village near Wilna, with a view of
+taking it with him on his return. After the defeat of Moscow he was made
+prisoner, and sent to Siberia, and only recovered his liberty at the end
+of last year. On reaching Wilna he remembered his hidden treasure, and
+after tracing out the spot where he had hid it, he went to take it away.
+What was his astonishment to find, in the place of his money, a small
+tin box, containing a letter addressed to him, in which a commercial
+house was mentioned at Nancy, where he might receive the sum buried,
+with interest, since the year 1812. The soldier supposed this was all a
+hoax; he went, however, to the house pointed out, where he received his
+capital, with twelve years' interest. With this sum he established a
+small business at Nancy, which enables him to live comfortably; but he
+has never been able, though he has taken some pains, to ascertain how
+his money was taken away and restored to him.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    Two lovely ladies dwell at ----,
+      And each a-churching goes;
+    Emma goes there _to close her eyes_,
+      And Jane to _eye her clothes_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The death of Stanislaus, king of Poland, was occasioned in a singular
+manner. Being much addicted to smoking, he generally every day finished
+many pipes. In knocking out the ashes he set fire to his dressing-gown.
+As no one was near him, the flames had surrounded him, when the officer
+on guard, hearing his cries, ran to his assistance, and extinguished the
+fire. He might have survived, but a singular circumstance accompanied
+the accident. He had been devout during the last years of his life, and,
+as a penance for his sins, had worn a girdle with points on the inside;
+these became heated, and being pressed into his body while the flames
+were extinguishing, caused a number of wounds, the discharge from which,
+at his period of life, proved too much for his debilitated constitution.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Professor Porson was often in pecuniary difficulties. On one occasion he
+came with a dejected air to a friend, and said he had been walking
+through the streets of London all the morning, thinking how strange it
+was that not one of all the crowds he met should know as much about
+Greek tragic verse as himself, and yet that he could not turn his
+knowledge into a hundred pounds. In these moments he often talked of
+retiring forever to the wilds of America, where he formed a plan of
+living in solitary happiness, without a book or a friend.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+One evening, at the Literary Fund Club, Mr. Incledon having sung with
+great effect Mr. T. Dibdin's ballad of "May we ne'er want a friend, or a
+bottle to give him," an elderly gentleman whispered in Mr. T. Dibdin's
+ear, "Ah! my dear sir, these are the true things of the old school; what
+a pity it is no one living is found to write such ditties now!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_Printed and published by J LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,)
+and sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers._
+
+
+
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+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
+Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 268, August 11, 1827, by  Various</h1>
+<pre>
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,
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+AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 10, ISSUE 268, AUGUST 11, 1827***
+
+
+
+</pre>
+<h3>E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram<br />
+    and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders</h3>
+<br />
+<br />
+<hr class="full" />
+  <span class="pagenum"><a id="page97" name="page97"></a>[pg 97]</span>
+
+  <h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+  OF<br />
+  LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <table width="100%">
+    <tr>
+      <td align="left"><b>Vol. 10, No. 268.]</b></td>
+
+      <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1827.</b></td>
+
+      <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+    </tr>
+  </table>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>HOSPITAL OF ST. THOMAS, CANTERBURY.</h2>
+
+  <p class="figure"><a href="images/268-1.png"><img width="100%" src=
+  "images/268-1.png" alt="" /></a></p>
+
+  <p>The subject of the above engraving claims the attention of the
+  antiquarian researcher, not as the lofty sculptured mansion of our monastic
+  progenitors, or the towering castle of the feudatory baton, for never has
+  the voice of boisterous revelry, or the tones of the solemn organ, echoed
+  along its vaulted roof; a humbler but not less interesting trait marks its
+  history. It was here that the zealous pilgrim, strong in bigot faith, rested
+  his weary limbs, when the inspiring name of Becket led him from the rustic
+  simplicity of his native home, to view the spot where Becket fell, and to
+  murmur his pious supplication at the shrine of the murdered Saint; how often
+  has his toil-worn frame been sheltered beneath that hospitable roof;
+  imagination can even portray him entering the area of yon pointed arch,
+  leaning on his slender staff&mdash;perhaps some wanderer from a foreign
+  land.</p>
+
+  <p>The hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr of Eastbridge, is situated on the
+  King's-bridge, in the hundred of Westgate, Canterbury, and was built by
+  Becket, but for what purpose is unknown. However, after the assassination of
+  its founder, the resort of individuals being constant to his shrine, the
+  building was used for the lodgment of the pilgrims. For many years no
+  especial statutes were enacted, nor any definite rules laid down for the
+  treatment of pilgrims, till the see devolved to the jurisdiction of
+  Stratford, who, in 15th Edward III. drew up certain ordinances, as also a
+  code of regulations expressly to be acted on; he appointed a master in
+  priest's orders, under whose guidance a secular chaplain officiated; it was
+  also observed that every pilgrim in health should have but one night's
+  lodging to the cost of fourpence; that applicants weak and infirm were to be
+  preferred to those of sounder constitutions, and that women "upwards of
+  forty" should attend to the bedding, and administer medicines to the
+  sick.</p>
+
+  <p>This institution survived the general suppression of monasteries and
+  buildings of its cast, during the reigns of Henry VIII. and the sixth
+  Edward; and after alternately grading from the possession of private
+  families to that of brothers belonging to the establishment, it was at last
+  finally appropriated to the instruction of the rising generation, whose
+  parents <span class="pagenum"><a id="page98" name="page98"></a>[pg
+  98]</span> are exempt from giving any gratuity to the preceptor of their
+  children.</p>
+
+  <p>Its present appearance is ancient, but not possessing any of those magic
+  features which render the mansions of our majores so grand and magnificently
+  solemn; a hall and chapel of imposing neatness and simplicity are still in
+  good condition, but several of the apartments are dilapidated in part,
+  and during a wet season admit the aqueous fluid through the chinks and
+  fissures of their venerable walls.</p>
+
+  <p>SAGITTARIUS.</p>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>THE LECTURER.</h2>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>MINOR AFFECTIONS OF THE BRAIN.</h3>
+
+  <p>Pain <i>in the head</i> may arise from very different causes, and is
+  variously seated. It has had a number of different appellations bestowed
+  upon it, according to its particular character. I need not observe that
+  headach is a general attendant of all inflammatory states of the brain,
+  whether in the form of <i>phrenitis, hydrocephalus acutus</i>, or
+  <i>idiopathic fever;</i> though with some exceptions in regard to all of
+  them, as I before showed you. It is often also said to be a symptom of other
+  diseases, of parts remotely situated; as of the <i>stomach</i>, more
+  especially; whence the term <i>sick headach</i>, the stomach being supposed
+  to be the part first or principally affected, and the headach symptomatic of
+  this. I am confident, however, that in a majority of instances the reverse
+  is the case, the affection of the head being the cause of the disorder of
+  the stomach. It is no proof to the contrary, that <i>vomiting</i> often
+  relieves the headach, for vomiting is capable of relieving a great number of
+  other diseases, as well as those of the brain, upon the principle of
+  <i>counter-irritation</i>. The stomach may be disordered by nauseating
+  medicines, up to the degree of full vomiting, without any headach taking
+  place; but the brain hardly ever suffers, either from injury or disease,
+  without the stomach having its functions impaired, or in a greater or less
+  degree disturbed: thus a blow on the head immediately produces vomiting;
+  and, at the outset of various inflammatory affections of the brain, as
+  <i>fever</i> and <i>hydrocephalus</i>, nausea and vomiting are almost
+  never-failing symptoms. It is not denied, that <i>headach</i> may be
+  produced through the medium of the stomach; but seldom, unless there is
+  previously disease in the head, or at least a strong predisposition to it.
+  In persons habitually subject to headach, the arteries of the brain become
+  so irritable, that the slightest cause of disturbance, either <i>mental</i>
+  or <i>bodily</i>, will suffice to bring on a paroxysm.</p>
+
+  <p>The <i>occasional</i> or <i>exciting causes of headach</i>, then, are
+  principally these:&mdash;</p>
+
+  <ol>
+    <li><i>Emotions of mind</i>, as fear, terror, and agitation of spirits;
+    yet these will sometimes take off headach when present at the time.</li>
+
+    <li>Whatever either increases or disorders the general circulation, and
+    especially all causes that increase the action of the cerebral arteries,
+    or, as it is usually though improperly expressed, which occasion a
+    determination of blood to the head. Of the former kind are violent
+    exercise, and external heat applied to the surface generally, as by a
+    heated atmosphere or the <i>hot bath</i>; of the latter, the direct
+    application of heat to the head; falls or blows, occasioning a shock to
+    the brain; stooping; intense thinking; intoxicating drinks, and other
+    narcotic substances. These last, however, as well as <i>mental
+    emotions</i>, often relieve a paroxysm of headach, though they favour its
+    return afterwards.</li>
+
+    <li>A disordered state of the stomach, of which a vomiting of <i>bile</i>
+    may be one symptom, is also to be ranked among the <i>occasional
+    causes</i> of <i>headach</i>.</li>
+  </ol>
+
+  <p>These <i>occasional causes</i> do not in general produce their effect,
+  unless where a <i>predisposition</i> to the disease exists. This
+  predisposition is often hereditary, or it may be acquired by long-protracted
+  study and habits of intoxication.&mdash;<i>Dr. Clutterbuck's Lectures on the
+  Diseases of the Nervous System</i>.</p>
+
+  <h3>HYDROPHOBIA.</h3>
+
+  <p>There is no cure for this disease when once the symptoms show themselves.
+  A variety of remedies have from time to time been advertised by quacks. The
+  "Ormskirk Medicine," at one time, was much in vogue; it had its day, but it
+  did not cure the disease, nor, as far as I know, did it mitigate any of its
+  symptoms. With regard to the affection of the mind itself in this disease,
+  it does not appear that the patients are deprived of reason; some have
+  merely, by the dint of resolution, conquered the dread of water, though they
+  never could conquer the convulsive motions which the contact of liquids
+  occasioned; while this resolution has been of no avail, for the convulsions
+  and other symptoms increasing, have almost always destroyed the unhappy
+  sufferers. &mdash;<i>Abernethy's Lectures</i>.</p>
+
+  <h3>EFFECTS OF KINDNESS ON THE SICK.</h3>
+
+  <p>Under all circumstances, man is a poor and pitiable being, when stricken
+  down by disease. Sickened and subdued, his <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+  "page99" name="page99"></a>[pg 99]</span> very lineaments have a voice which
+  calls for commiseration and assistance. Celsus says, that knowing two
+  physicians equally intelligent, he should prefer the one who was his friend,
+  for the obvious reason that he would feel a deeper interest in his welfare.
+  Kindness composes, and harshness disturbs the mind, and each produces
+  correspondent effects upon the body. A tone, a look, may save or destroy
+  life in extremely delicate cases. Whatever may be the prognosis given to
+  friends, in all febrile cases, the most confident and consoling language
+  about the ultimate recovery should be used to the sick, as prophecies not
+  unfrequently contribute to bring about the event foretold, by making people
+  feel, or think, or act, differently from what they otherwise would have
+  done. Again, in chronic cases, as time is required for their cure, by
+  explaining to the patient this fact, we maintain his confidence, we keep his
+  mind easy, and thus gain a fair opportunity for the operation of regimen or
+  remedies; in short, the judicious physician, like the Roman general, Fabius,
+  conquers through delay, by cutting off the supplies, and wearing out the
+  strength of the enemy. In large cities, where the mind is so much
+  overwrought in the various schemes of private ambition, or of public
+  business, anxiety is very frequently the grand opposing circumstance to
+  recovery; so that while the causes which produced it are allowed to operate,
+  mere medical prescription is of no avail. The effects of this anxiety are
+  visible in the pallid face and wasted body. But if the patient be possessed
+  of philosophy enough to forego his harassing pursuits; if he have not, from
+  the contact and cares of the world, lost his relish for the simple and
+  sublime scenes of nature, a removal into the country is of the utmost
+  efficacy. The deformity and conflict of the moral world are exchanged for
+  the beauty and calm of the physical world; and surrounded by all the poetry
+  of earth and heaven, the mind regains its peace, and the health, as if by
+  magic, is perfectly restored.&mdash;<i>Dr. Armstrong's Lectures</i>.</p>
+
+  <h3>DIET.</h3>
+
+  <p>Experience has taught us that the nature of our food is not a matter of
+  indifference to the respiratory organs. Diseased lungs are exasperated by a
+  certain diet, and pacified by one of an opposite kind. The celebrated diver,
+  Mr. Spalding, observed, that whenever he used a diet of animal food, or
+  drank spirituous liquors, he consumed in a much shorter period the oxygen of
+  the atmospheric air in his diving-bell; and he therefore, on such occasions,
+  confined himself to vegetable diet. He also found the same effect to arise
+  from the use of fermented liquors, and he accordingly restricted himself to
+  the potation of simple water. The truth of these results is confirmed by the
+  habits of the Indian pearl-divers, who always abstain from every alimentary
+  stimulus previous to their descent into the ocean.&mdash;<i>Dr. Paris on
+  Diet.</i></p>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>THE MONTHS</h2>
+
+  <p>The season has now advanced to full maturity. The corn is yielding to the
+  sickle, the husbandmen,</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>"By whose tough labours, and rough hands,"</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>our barns are stored with grain, are at their toils, and when nature is
+  despoiled of her riches and beauty, will, with glad and joyous heart,
+  celebrate the annual festival of</p>
+
+  <h3>THE HARVEST HOME.</h3>
+
+  <h4>BY CORNELIUS WEBBE.</h4>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Hark! the ripe and hoary rye</p>
+
+      <p>Waving white and billowy,</p>
+
+      <p>Gives a husky rustle, as</p>
+
+      <p>Fitful breezes fluttering pass.</p>
+
+      <p>See the brown and bending wheat,</p>
+
+      <p>By its posture seems to meet</p>
+
+      <p>The harvest's sickle, as it gleams</p>
+
+      <p>Like the crescent moon in streams,</p>
+
+      <p>Brown with shade and night that run</p>
+
+      <p>Under shores and forests dun.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Lusty Labour, with tired stoop,</p>
+
+      <p>Levels low, at every swoop,</p>
+
+      <p>Armfuls of ripe-coloured corn,</p>
+
+      <p>Yellow as the hair of morn;</p>
+
+      <p>And his helpers track him close,</p>
+
+      <p>Laying it in even rows,</p>
+
+      <p>On the furrow's stubbly ridge;</p>
+
+      <p>Nearer to the poppied hedge.</p>
+
+      <p>Some who tend on him that reaps</p>
+
+      <p>Fastest, pile it into heaps;</p>
+
+      <p>And the little gleaners follow</p>
+
+      <p>Them again, with whoop and halloo</p>
+
+      <p>When they find a hand of ears</p>
+
+      <p>More than falls to their compeers.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Ripening in the dog-star's ray,</p>
+
+      <p>Some, too early mown, doth lay;</p>
+
+      <p>Some in graceful shocks doth stand</p>
+
+      <p>Nodding farewell to the land</p>
+
+      <p>That did give it life and birth;</p>
+
+      <p>Some is borne, with shout and mirth,</p>
+
+      <p>Drooping o'er the groaning wain.</p>
+
+      <p>Through the deep embowered lane;</p>
+
+      <p>And the happy cottaged poor,</p>
+
+      <p>Hail it, as it glooms their door,</p>
+
+      <p>With a glad, unselfish cry,</p>
+
+      <p>Though they'll buy it bitterly.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>And the old are in the sun,</p>
+
+      <p>Seeing that the work is done</p>
+
+      <p>As it was when age was young;</p>
+
+      <p>And the harvest song is sung;</p>
+
+      <p>And the quaint and jocund tale</p>
+
+      <p>Takes the stint-key from the ale,</p><span class="pagenum"><a id=
+      "page100" name="page100"></a>[pg 100]</span>
+
+      <p>And as free and fast it runs</p>
+
+      <p>As a June rill from the sun's</p>
+
+      <p>Dry and ever-drinking mouth:&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>Mirth doth alway feel a drowth.</p>
+
+      <p>Butt and barrel ceaseless flow</p>
+
+      <p>Fast as cans can come and go;</p>
+
+      <p>One with emptied measures comes</p>
+
+      <p>Drumming them with tuneful thumbs;</p>
+
+      <p>One reels field-ward, not quite sober,</p>
+
+      <p>With two cans of ripe October,</p>
+
+      <p>Some of last year's brewing, kept</p>
+
+      <p>Till the corn of this is reaped.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Now 'tis eve, and done all labour,</p>
+
+      <p>And to merry pipe and tabor,</p>
+
+      <p>Or to some cracked viol strummed</p>
+
+      <p>With vile skill, or table drummed</p>
+
+      <p>To the tune of some brisk measure,</p>
+
+      <p>Wont to stir the pulse to pleasure,</p>
+
+      <p>Men and maidens timely beat</p>
+
+      <p>The ringing ground with frolic feet;</p>
+
+      <p>And the laugh and jest go round</p>
+
+      <p>Till all mirth in noise is drowned.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p><i>Literary Souvenir</i>.</p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>ARMORIAL BEARINGS AT CROYDON PALACE.</h3>
+
+  <h4>(<i>To the Editor of the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+
+  <p>Sir,&mdash;In No. 266 of the Mirror, <i>Sagittarius</i> wishes to know
+  the name of the person whose armorial bearings are emblazoned at Croydon
+  palace.</p>
+
+  <p>From the blazon he has given, it is rather difficult to find out; but I
+  should think they are meant for those of king Richard II. Impaled on the
+  dexter side with those of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor. Bearings
+  that may be seen in divers places at Westminster Hall, rebuilt by that
+  monarch.<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href=
+  "#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a></p>
+
+  <p>I have subjoined the <i>proper</i> blazon of the arms, which is
+  <i>azure</i>, a cross patonce between <i>five</i> martlets <i>or</i>,
+  impaling France and England quarterly, 1st. and 4th. azure three fleurs de
+  lis. 2nd. <i>or</i>, 2nd and 3rd Gules, 3 lions passant guardant in pale,
+  or.</p>
+
+  <p>The supporting of the arms with angels, &amp;c. was a favourite device of
+  Richard, as may be seen in divers antiquarian and topographical works.</p>
+
+  <p>It is probable the hall of Croydon palace was built during the reign of
+  Richard, which will account for his arms being placed there.</p>
+
+  <p>I am, &amp;c.</p>
+
+  <p>C. F.</p>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>DEATH OF MR. CANNING.</h2>
+
+  <p>The lamentable and sudden death of the Right Hon. George Canning has
+  produced a general sensation throughout this country. At the opening of the
+  present year our nation deplored the loss of a prince endeared to the people
+  by his honest worth&mdash;but a short interval has elapsed and again the
+  country is plunged in sorrow for the loss of one of its most zealous
+  supporters&mdash;one of its chiefest ornaments&mdash;one of its staunchest
+  friends&mdash;and one of its most eloquent and talented statesmen! The life
+  of the late George Canning furnishes much matter for meditation and thought.
+  From it much may be learnt. He was a genius, in the most unlimited sense of
+  the word; and his intellectual endowments were commanding and imperative. Of
+  humble origin he had to contend with innumerable difficulties, consequent to
+  his station in life,&mdash;and although his talents, which were of the first
+  order, befitted him for the first rank in society, that rank he did not
+  attain until the scene of this world was about to be closed for ever from
+  him. It may be said of this eminent man, that he owed nothing to
+  patronage&mdash;his <i>talents</i> directed him to his elevated station, and
+  to his intellectual superiority homage was made,&mdash;not to the man.</p>
+
+  <p>But, in other respects, the loss of Mr. Canning is a national
+  bereavement. He was one of the master-spirits of the age. His very name was
+  distinguished&mdash;for he has added to the literature of his
+  country&mdash;by his writings and his eloquence he has stimulated the march
+  of mind; he has seconded the exertions of liberal friends to the
+  improvements of the uneducated, and he has patronized the useful as well as
+  the fine arts, philosophy and science, of his country. To expatiate at
+  greater length would be superfluous, as we have in another place recorded
+  our humble tribute to his general character.<a id="footnotetag2" name=
+  "footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> We have now,
+  therefore, merely to put together the melancholy facts connected with his
+  death, and which will convey to another generation a just sense of the
+  value, in our time, attached to a noble and exalted genius. The just and
+  elegant laconism of Byron, by substituting the <i>past</i> for the
+  <i>present</i> tense, may now be adopted as a faithful and brief summary of
+  what <i>was</i> George Canning.</p>
+
+  <p>"Canning <i>was</i> a genius, almost an universal one:&mdash;an orator, a
+  wit, a poet, and a statesman."</p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <p>The king, with his usual quickness, was the first to perceive the
+  dangerous state of Mr. Canning. We understand, that almost immediately after
+  he had quitted him, on Monday, his majesty observed to sir William Knighton,
+  that Mr. Canning appeared very unwell, and that he was in great alarm for
+  him. On Tuesday, sir William repaired to town, at the express command of his
+  <span class="pagenum"><a id="page101" name="page101"></a>[pg 101]</span>
+  majesty, to see Mr. Canning. At the interview with him, at the Treasury, Sir
+  William made particular inquiries into the state of his health. Mr. Canning
+  was then troubled with a cough, and he observed to Sir William that he
+  almost felt as if he were an old man; that he was much weakened; but had no
+  idea of there being anything dangerous in his condition, and that he trusted
+  that rest and retirement would set him to rights. Sir William sent Dr. Maton
+  to Mr. Canning, and on parting with him, he observed that, as he should not
+  leave town until Wednesday morning, he would call on him, at Chiswick, on
+  his way home to Windsor. Sir William found Mr. Canning in bed, at Chiswick.
+  He asked him if he felt any pain in his side? Mr. Canning answered he had
+  felt a pain in his side for some days, and on endeavouring to lie on his
+  side, the pain was so acute that he was unable to do so. Sir William then
+  inquired if he felt any pain in his shoulder? He said he had been for some
+  time affected by rheumatic pains in the shoulder. Sir William told him that
+  the pain did not arise from rheumatism, but from a diseased liver, and he
+  immediately sent for the three physicians, who remained with him, and were
+  to the last unremitting in their attentions.</p>
+
+  <p>The disease continued to make rapid progress, in spite of all that the
+  first medical skill could do to baffle it, watching every turn it took, and
+  applying, on the instant, every remedy likely to subdue its virulence, and
+  mitigate his sufferings.</p>
+
+  <p>On the following Sunday, August 5, bulletins were issued, stating that
+  Mr. Canning was in most imminent danger. The most painful interest was
+  excited in the public mind by subsequent announcements of his alarming
+  state, and on Wednesday morning, the following melancholy intelligence
+  reached town:&mdash;</p>
+
+  <blockquote>
+    <p><i>Chiswick, Wednesday, August</i>, 8, 1827, (A. M.)</p>
+
+    <p>Mr. Canning expired this morning, without pain, at ten minutes before
+    four o'clock.</p>
+  </blockquote>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>MISCELLANIES.</h2>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>BLACK BEARD.</h3>
+
+  <p>There are few persons who reside on the Atlantic ocean and rivers of
+  North America who are not familiar with the name of Black Beard, whom
+  traditionary history represents as a pirate, who acquired immense wealth in
+  his predatory voyages, and was accustomed to bury his treasures in the banks
+  of creeks and rivers. For a period as low down as the American revolution,
+  it was common for the ignorant and credulous to dig along these banks in
+  search of hidden treasures; and impostors found an ample basis in these
+  current rumours for schemes of delusion. Black Beard, though tradition says
+  a great deal more of him than is true, was yet a real person, who acquired
+  no small fame by his maritime exploits during the first part of the
+  eighteenth century. Among many authentic and recorded particulars concerning
+  him, the following account of his death may gratify curiosity:&mdash;</p>
+
+  <p>From the nature of Black Beard's position in a sloop of little draught of
+  water, on a coast abounding with creeks, and remarkable for the number and
+  intricacy of its shoals, with which he had made himself intimately
+  acquainted, it was deemed impossible to approach him in vessels of any
+  force. Two hired sloops were therefore manned from the Pearl and Lime
+  frigates, in the Chesapeake, and put under the command of Lieutenant
+  Maynard, with instructions to hunt down and destroy this pirate wherever he
+  should be found. On the 17th of November, in the year 1718, this force
+  sailed from James River, and in the evening of the 21st came to an inlet in
+  North Carolina, where Black Beard was discovered at a distance, lying in
+  wait for his prey. The sudden appearance of an enemy, preparing to attack
+  him, occasioned some surprise; but his sloop mounting several guns, and
+  being manned with twenty-five of his desperate followers, he determined to
+  make a resolute defence; and, having prepared his vessel over night for
+  action, sat down to his bottle, stimulating his spirits to that pitch of
+  frenzy by which only he could rescue himself in a contest for his life. The
+  navigation of the inlet was so difficult, that Maynard's sloops were
+  repeatedly grounded in their approach, and the pirate, with his experience
+  of the soundings, possessed considerable advantage in manoeuvring, which
+  enabled him for some time to maintain a running fight. His vessel, however,
+  in her turn, having at length grounded, and the close engagement becoming
+  now inevitable, he reserved her guns to pour in a destructive fire on the
+  sloops as they advanced to board him. This he so successfully executed, that
+  twenty-nine men of Maynard's small number were either killed or wounded by
+  the first broadside, and one of the sloops for a time disabled. But
+  notwithstanding this severe loss, the lieutenant persevered in his
+  resolution to grapple with his enemy, or perish in the <span class=
+  "pagenum"><a id="page102" name="page102"></a>[pg 102]</span> attempt.
+  Observing that his own sloop, which was still fit for action, drew more
+  water than the pirate's, he ordered all her ballast to be thrown out, and,
+  directing his men to conceal themselves between decks, took the helm in
+  person, and steered directly aboard of his antagonist, who continued
+  inextricably fixed on the shoal. This desperate wretch, previously aware of
+  his danger, and determined never to expiate his crimes in the hands of
+  justice, had posted one of his banditti, with a lighted match, over his
+  powder-magazine, to blow up his vessel in the last extremity. Luckily in
+  this design he was disappointed by his own ardour and want of
+  circumspection; for, as Maynard approached, having begun the encounter at
+  close quarters, by throwing upon his antagonist a number of hand-grenadoes
+  of his own composition, which produced only a thick smoke, and conceiving
+  that, from their destructive agency, the sloop's deck had, been completely
+  cleared, he leaped over her bows, followed by twelve of his men, and
+  advanced upon the lieutenant, who was the only person then in view; but the
+  men instantly springing up to the relief of their commander, who was now
+  furiously beset, and in imminent danger of his life, a violent contest
+  ensued. Black Beard, after seeing the greater part of his men destroyed at
+  his side, and receiving himself repeated wounds, at length, stepping back to
+  cock, a pistol, fainted with the loss of blood, and expired on the spot.
+  Maynard completed his victory, by securing the remainder of these desperate
+  wretches, who were compelled to sue for mercy, and a short respite from a
+  less honourable death at the hands of the executioner.</p>
+
+  <h3>ISLANDS PRODUCED BY INSECTS.</h3>
+
+  <p>The whole group of the <i>Thousand Islands</i>, and indeed the greater
+  part of all those whose surfaces are flat, in the neighbourhood of the
+  equator, owe their origin to the labours of that order of marine worms which
+  Linnaeus has arranged under the name of <i>Zoophyta</i>. These little
+  animals, in a most surprising manner, construct their calcareous
+  habitations, under an infinite variety of forms, yet with that order and
+  regularity, each after its own manner, which to the minute inquirer, is so
+  discernable in every part of the creation. But, although the eye may be
+  convinced of the fact, it is difficult for the human mind to conceive the
+  possibility of insects so small being endued with the power, much less of
+  being furnished in their own bodies with the materials of constructing the
+  immense fabrics which, in almost every part of the Eastern and Pacific
+  Oceans lying between the tropics, are met with in the shape of detached
+  rocks, or reefs of great extent, just even with the surface, or islands
+  already clothed with plants, whose bases are fixed at the bottom of the sea,
+  several hundred feet in depth, where light and heat, so very essential to
+  animal life, if not excluded, are sparingly received and feebly felt.
+  Thousands of such rocks, and reefs, and islands, are known to exist in the
+  eastern ocean, within, and even beyond, the limits of the tropics. The
+  eastern coast of New Holland is almost wholly girt with reefs and islands of
+  coral rock, rising perpendicularly from the bottom of the abyss. Captain
+  Kent, of the Buffalo, speaking of a coral reef of many miles in extent, on
+  the south-west coast of New Caledonia, observes, that "it is level with the
+  water's edge, and towards the sea, as steep to as a wall of a house; that he
+  sounded frequently within twice the ship's length of it with a line of one
+  hundred and fifty fathoms, or nine hundred feet, without being able to reach
+  the bottom." How wonderful, how inconceivable, that such stupendous fabrics
+  should rise into existence from the silent but incessant, and almost
+  imperceptible, labours of such insignificant worms!</p>
+
+  <p>To buy books, as some do who make no use of them, only because they were
+  published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that
+  did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous
+  tailor.&mdash;<i>Pope</i>.</p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>TO MY BROTHER, ON HIS LEAVING ENGLAND.</h3>
+
+  <h4>By The Author of "Ahab."</h4>
+
+  <h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Wherever your fortune may lead you to roam,</p>
+
+      <p>Forget not, young exile, the land of your home;</p>
+
+      <p>Let it ever be present to memory's eye,</p>
+
+      <p>'Tis the place where the bones of your fore-father's lie.</p>
+
+      <p>Let the thought of it ever your comforter be,</p>
+
+      <p>For no spot on this earth like your home can you see.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>The fields where you rove may be more fresh and fair,</p>
+
+      <p>More splendid the sun, and more fragrant the air,</p>
+
+      <p>More lovely the flowers, more refreshing the breeze,</p>
+
+      <p>More tranquil the waters, more fruitful the trees.</p>
+
+      <p>But home after all things&mdash;that dear little spot,</p>
+
+      <p>Tho' it be but a desert can ne'er be forgot.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>In the thoughts of the day, and the dreams of the night,</p>
+
+      <p>On your eyes like the kiss of your mother 'twill
+      light,</p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page103" name="page103"></a>[pg
+      103]</span>
+
+      <p>Then the mist will disperse which long absence has spread.</p>
+
+      <p>And the paths you have trodden again you shall tread.</p>
+
+      <p>Then farewell, young exile, wherever you roam,</p>
+
+      <p>Oh! dear as your honour, your life, be your home.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>J.H.S.</p>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.</h2>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>ORDERS FOR HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS IN 1566.</h3>
+
+  <blockquote>
+    <p><i>Orders for Household Servantes; first deuised by John Haryngton, in
+    the yeare 1566, and renewed by John Haryngton, sonne of the saide John, in
+    the yeare 1592: The saide John, the sonne, being then high shrieve of the
+    county of Somerset.</i></p>
+
+    <p>Imprimis, That no servant bee absent from praier, at morning or
+    euening, without a lawfull excuse, to be alleged within one day after,
+    vppon paine to forfeit for eury tyme 2d.</p>
+
+    <p>II. Item, That none swear any othe, vppon paine for every othe 1d.</p>
+
+    <p>III. Item, That no man leaue any doore open that he findeth shut,
+    without theare bee cause, vppon paine for euery time 1d.</p>
+
+    <p>IV. Item, That none of the men be in bed, from our Lady-day to
+    Michaelmas, after 6 of the clock in the morning; nor out of his bed after
+    10 of the clock at night; nor, from Michaemas till our Lady-day, in bed
+    after 7 in the morning, nor out after 9 at night, without reasonable
+    cause, on paine of 2d.</p>
+
+    <p>V. That no man's bed bee vnmade, nor fire or candle-box vnclean, after
+    8 of the clock in the morning, on paine of 1<i>d</i>.</p>
+
+    <p>VI. Item, That no one commit any nuisance within either of the courts,
+    vppon paine of 1<i>d</i>.</p>
+
+    <p>VII. Item, That no man teach any of the children any vnhonest speeche,
+    or evil word, or othe, on paine of 4d.</p>
+
+    <p>VIII. Item, That no man waite at the table without a trencher in his
+    hand, except it be vppon some good cause, on paine of Id.</p>
+
+    <p>IX. Item, That no man appointed to waite at my table be absent that
+    meale, without reasonable cause, on paine of 1d.</p>
+
+    <p>X. Item, If any man breake a glasse, hee shall aunswer the price
+    thereof out of his wages; and, if it bee not known who breake it, the
+    buttler shall pay for it on paine of 12d.</p>
+
+    <p>XI. Item, The table must bee couered halfe an houer before 11 at
+    dinner, and 6 at supper, or before, on paine of 2d.</p>
+
+    <p>XII. Item, That meate bee readie at 11, or before, at dinner; and 6, or
+    before, at supper, on paine of 6d.</p>
+
+    <p>XIII. Item, That none be absent, without leaue or good cause, the whole
+    day, or any part of it, on paine of 4d.</p>
+
+    <p>XIV. Item, That no man strike his fellow, on paine of loss of seruice;
+    nor reuile or threaten, or prouoke another to strike, on paine of 12d.</p>
+
+    <p>XV. Item, That no man come to the kitchen without reasonable cause, on
+    paine of 1d. and the cook likewyse to forfeit 1d.</p>
+
+    <p>XVI. Item, That none toy with the maids, on paine of 4d.</p>
+
+    <p>XVII. That no man weare foule shirt on Sunday, nor broken hose or
+    shooes, or dublett without buttons, on paine of 1d.</p>
+
+    <p>XVIII. Item, That, when any strainger goeth hence, the chamber be drest
+    vp againe within 4 howrs after, on paine of 1d.</p>
+
+    <p>XIX. Item, That the hall bee made cleane euery day, by eight in the
+    winter, and seauen in the sommer, on paine of him that should do it to
+    forfeit 1d.</p>
+
+    <p>XX. That the cowrt-gate bee shutt each meale, and not opened during
+    dinner and supper, without just cause, on paine the porter to forfet for
+    euery time, 1d.</p>
+
+    <p>XXI. Item, That all stayrs in the house, and other rooms that neede
+    shall require, bee made cleane on Fryday after dinner, on paine of
+    forfeyture of euery on whome it shall belong vnto, 3d.</p>
+
+    <p>All which sommes shall be duly paide each quarter-day out of their
+    wages, and bestowed on the poore, or other godly vse.</p>
+  </blockquote>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>THE NOVELIST.</h2>
+
+  <h4>No. CVII.</h4>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>THE WOOD KING.</h3>
+
+  <h4><i>By Miss Emma Roberts</i>.</h4>
+
+  <p>Already the pile of heaped-up fagots reached above the low roof of his
+  hut; but Carl Scheffler still continued lopping off branches, and binding
+  fresh bundles together, almost unconscious that the sun had set, and that
+  the labours of the day being over, the neighbouring peasants were hastening
+  to the skittle-ground to pass away an hour in sport. The wood-cutter's hut
+  was perched upon an eminence a little out of the public path; but he heard
+  the merry songs of his comrades as they proceeded gaily to the place of
+  rendezvous, at the Golden Stag in the village below. Many of his intimate
+  acquaintance paused as they approached the corner of the road nearest to his
+  hut, and the wild wood rang with their loud halloes; but the call, which in
+  other times had been echoed by the woodman's glad <span class=
+  "pagenum"><a id="page104" name="page104"></a>[pg 104]</span> voice, was now
+  unanswered; he busied himself with his work; his brow darkened as the joyous
+  sounds came over his ear; he threw aside his hatchet, resumed, it again, and
+  again casting it from him, exclaimed, "Why, let them go, I will not carry
+  this chafed and wounded spirit to their revels; my hand is not steady enough
+  for a bowling-match; and since Linda will doubtless choose a richer partner,
+  I have no heart for the dance."</p>
+
+  <p>It was easy to perceive that Carl Scheffler was smarting under a recent
+  disappointment: he had borne up bravely against the misfortunes which, from
+  a state of comparative affluence, had reduced him to depend upon his own arm
+  for subsistence, fondly trusting that ere long his prospects would amend;
+  and that, at the return of the Count of Holberg to his ancestorial
+  dominions, he should obtain a forester's place, and be enabled to claim the
+  hand of Linda Von Kleist, to whom, in happier times, he had been betrothed.
+  But these dreams had vanished; the count's bailiff having seen Linda, the
+  flower of the hamlet, became his rival, and consequently his enemy: he had
+  bestowed the office promised to Carl upon another; and Linda's father
+  ungratefully withdrawing the consent given when the lover's affairs were in
+  a more flourishing condition, had forbidden him the house. Buoyed up with
+  the hope that Linda would remain faithful, and by her unabated attachment
+  console him under the pressure of his calamities, Carl did not at first give
+  way to despair; but Linda was too obedient, or perchance too indifferent, to
+  disobey her father's commands. He sought her at the accustomed
+  spot&mdash;she came not, sent not: he hovered round her residence, and if
+  chance favoured him with a glimpse of his beloved, it was only to add to his
+  misery, for she withdrew hastily from his sight. A rumour of the intended
+  marriage of his perjured mistress reached his ears, and, struck to the soul,
+  he endeavoured, by manual labour, to exhaust his strength and banish the
+  recollection of his misery. He toiled all day in feverish desperation; and
+  now that there was no more to be done, sat down to ponder over his altered
+  prospects. The bailiff possessed the ear of his master, and it was useless
+  to hope that the count would repair the injustice committed by so trusted a
+  servant. The situation which above all others he had coveted, which would
+  have given him the free range of the forest, the jovial hunter's life which
+  suited his daring spirit, delighting in the perils of the chase, and, above
+  all, a home for Linda, was lost, and for ever; henceforward he must
+  relinquish all expectation of regaining the station which the misfortunes
+  that had brought his parents to the grave had deprived him of, and be
+  content to earn a sordid meal by bending his back to burthens befitting the
+  brute creation alone; to hew wood, and to bear it to the neighbouring towns;
+  to delve the ground at the bidding of a master, and to perform the offices
+  of a menial hireling. "At least not here," cried the wretched young man,
+  "not in the face of all my former friends; there is a refuge left where I
+  may hide my sorrows and my wrongs. Fair earth, and thou fair sky, I gaze
+  upon you for the last time; buried from the face of day in the centre of the
+  deepest mine, I'll spend the remnant of my life unpitied and unknown."
+  Determined to execute this resolution on the instant, Carl hastily collected
+  such parts of his slender property as were portable; and having completed
+  his arrangements, prepared to cross the Brocken, and shaped his course
+  towards the Rammelsburg. The last rich gleam of crimson had faded from the
+  sky; but there was light enough in the summer night to guide him on his way.
+  A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of heaven; the air
+  was soft and balmy, scarcely agitating the leaves of the forest trees; the
+  fragrance-weeping limes gave out their richest scent, and the gentle gush of
+  fountains, and the tricklings of the mountain springs, came in music on the
+  ear; and had the traveller been more at ease, the calm and tranquil scene
+  must have diffused its soothing influence over his heart. Carl, disregarding
+  every thing save his own melancholy destiny, strode along almost choked by
+  bitter thought, and so little heedful of the road, that he soon became
+  involved in thickets whose paths were unknown to him; he looked up to the
+  heavens, and shaping his course by one of the stars, was somewhat surprised
+  to find himself still involved in the impenetrable mazes of the wood.
+  Compelled to give more attention than heretofore to his route, he once or
+  twice thought that he distinguished a human figure moving through the
+  darkness of the forest. At first, not disposed to fall in with a companion,
+  he remained silent, lest the person, whoever he might be, should choose to
+  enter into conversation with him; then not quite certain whether he was
+  right in his conjecture&mdash;for upon casting a second glance upon the
+  object which attracted him, he more than once discovered it to be some
+  stunted trunk or fantastic tree&mdash;he became anxious to ascertain whether
+  he was in reality, alone, or if some other midnight wanderer trod the waste,
+  and he <span class="pagenum"><a id="page105" name="page105"></a>[pg
+  105]</span> looked narrowly around; all was still, silent, and solitary; and
+  fancying that he had been deceived by the flitting shadows of the night, he
+  was again relapsing into his former reverie, when he became aware of the
+  presence of a man dressed in the garb of a forester, and having his cap
+  wreathed with a garland of green leaves, who stood close at his side. Carl's
+  tongue moved to utter a salutation, but the words stuck in his throat, an
+  indescribable sensation of horror thrilled through his frame; tales of the
+  demons of the Hartz rushed upon his memory&mdash;but he recovered instantly
+  from the sudden shock. The desperate state of his fortune gave him courage,
+  and, looking up, he was surprised at the consternation which the stranger
+  had occasioned: he was a person of ordinary appearance, who, accosting him
+  frankly, exclaimed, "Ho, comrade, thou art, I see, bent on the same errand
+  as myself; but wherefore dost thou seek the treasures of the Nibelungen
+  without the protecting wreath?"&mdash;"The treasures of the Nibelungen?"
+  returned Carl; "I have indeed heard of such a thing, and that it was hidden
+  in the bosom of the Hartz by a princess of the olden time; but I never was
+  mad enough to think of so wild a chase as a search after riches, which has
+  baffled the wisest of our ancestors, must surely prove."&mdash;"Belike
+  then," replied the forester, "thou art well to do in the world, and
+  therefore needest not to replenish thy wallets with gold,&mdash;travelling
+  perchance to take possession of some rich inheritance."&mdash;"No, by St.
+  Roelas," cried the woodcutter, "thou hast guessed wide of the mark. I am
+  going to hide my poverty in the mine of Rammelsburg."&mdash;"The mine of
+  Rammelsburg!" echoed the stranger, and laughed scornfully, so that the deep
+  woods rang with the sound; and Carl feeling his old sensations return as the
+  fiendish merriment resounded through the wilderness, again gazed stedfastly
+  in his companion's face, but he read nothing there to justify his
+  suspicions: the fiery eye lost its lustre; the lip its curl; and, gazing
+  benignantly upon the forlorn wood-cutter, he continued his speech, saying,
+  "Then prithee take the advice of one who knows these forests, and all that
+  they contain. Here are materials in abundance for our garland; advance
+  forward, and fear not the issue;"&mdash;and, gathering leaves from the
+  boughs of trees of a species unknown to his new acquaintance, he twined them
+  into a wreath, and placed the sylvan diadem on Carl's head. The instant that
+  he felt the light pressure on his temples, all his fears vanished; and he
+  followed his guide, conversing pleasantly through wide avenues and over
+  broad glades of fresh turf, which seemed to be laid out like a royal chase,
+  till they came to a wall of rock resembling the Hahnen Klippers, and
+  entering through an arch, a grey moss-covered tower arose in the distance.
+  The ponderous doors were wide open; and Carl advancing, found himself in a
+  large hall well lighted, and showing abundance of treasure scattered abroad
+  in all directions. He was conscious that he had lost his companion, but he
+  seemed no longer to require his instruction; and casting down his own
+  worthless burthen, he laded himself with the riches that courted his touch.
+  The adventurer was soon supplied with a sufficient quantity of gold and
+  jewels to satisfy his most unbounded wishes; and turning from the spot with
+  a light heart, he sped merrily along. The country round about seemed strange
+  to him; but on repassing the rocky ledge, a brisk wind suddenly springing up
+  blew off his cap. The morning air was cold, and Carl, hastening to regain
+  his head-gear, discovered that the wreath had disappeared; and, as if
+  awakening from a dream, he found himself surrounded by familiar objects; he
+  felt, however, the weight of the load upon his back, and though panting with
+  the fatigue it occasioned, made the best of his way home. On approaching the
+  hut, a low murmur struck on his ear. He paused; listened attentively; and
+  distinguishing a female voice, he rushed forward, and in the next moment
+  clasped Linda in his arms. She had fled from the persecutions of the bailiff
+  to seek shelter in Carl's straw-roofed hut; and the now happy lovers, as
+  they surveyed the treasures which had been snatched from the Nibelungen,
+  agreed that they owed their good fortune to Riebezhahl the Wood King, who
+  sometimes taking pity upon the frail and feeble denizens of earth, pointed
+  out to their wondering eyes the inexhaustible riches of which he was the
+  acknowledged guardian.</p>
+
+  <p><i>London Weekly Review</i>.</p>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.</h2>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>DRAFTS ON LA FITTE.</h3>
+
+  <h3>COOKE.</h3>
+
+  <p>Only upon one occasion did Cooke deviate from his resolution of not
+  apologizing to a provincial assembly, and that was at Liverpool. A previous
+  breach of decorum was visited one night by the fury of an offended audience;
+  confusion was at its height; the people were the actors, and Cooke the
+  audience: yet the <span class="pagenum"><a id="page106" name=
+  "page106"></a>[pg 106]</span> sturdy tragedian remained callous to the
+  bursts of indignation which were heard around him, until destruction became
+  the order of the day; lamps <i>lighted</i> on the stage; benches betokened
+  <i>mobility</i>; <i>pedal</i> applications were made <i>forté</i> to the
+  <i>piano</i>; <i>basely violated</i> was the repository of the <i>base
+  viol</i>; and the property of poor Knight the manager gave every sign of
+  that being its last appearance. What popular rage had failed to produce,
+  consideration for the fortunes of his friend effected. At his entreaties,
+  the Caledonian was induced to advance to the front of the stage (never was
+  there a more <i>moving</i> scene than that before it); silence was obtained,
+  and he condescended to express his sorrow for the state in which some nights
+  previously he had presented himself: adding, "that <i>he</i> never
+  <i>before</i> felt so keenly the <i>degradation</i> of <i>his</i>
+  situation." Equivocal as was the mode of extenuation, the audience allied to
+  <i>Mersey</i> accorded the <i>mercy</i> it possessed, and was or appeared to
+  be, satisfied; but not so the actor, and he as fully as instantly avenged
+  what he deemed his misplaced submission. As he concluded his address, he
+  turned to the gratified but yet trembling manager, and (in allusion to the
+  large share in the slave-trade then imputed to Liverpool) with that
+  peculiarity of undertone he possessed, which could be distinctly heard
+  throughout the largest theatre although pronounced as a whisper, exclaimed,
+  "There's not a stone in the walls of Liverpool which has not been cemented
+  by the <i>bluid</i> of Africans." Then, casting one of his Shylock glances
+  of hatred and contempt on the mute and astounded audience, majestically left
+  the stage.</p>
+
+  <p>On the first night of his performance at the Boston theatre, Richard was
+  the part he had adopted; and so strongly had he fortified himself for the
+  kingly task, that he deemed himself the very monarch he was destined to
+  enact. The theatre was crowded in every part: expectation was on tiptoe:
+  anticipation as to his person, voice, and manner, was announced by the
+  sibilating "I guess" heard around, and "pretty considerable" agitation
+  prevailed. The orchestra had begun and ceased, unheeded or unheard; nor
+  could one of Sir Thomas Lethbridge's best cut and dried have produced less
+  effect amongst the "irreclaimables." The curtain rose, and amidst thundering
+  plaudits the welcome stranger advanced, in angles, to the front of the
+  stage, and, as Sir Pertinax has it, "booed and booed and booed;" but
+  greeting could not endure for ever: well justified curiosity assumed its
+  station, and at length silence, almost breathless silence, reigned around,
+  such as attended Irving in his Zoar, or Canning when he lately produced his
+  budget. The hospitable clamour was over; but instead of "Now is the winter
+  of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York" being given,
+  Cooke, in a respectful but decided tone, requested that "God save the King"
+  might be played by the orchestra prior to the commencement of the play. The
+  proposal at first but excited mockery and laughter, which, however, gave way
+  to far different feelings, on Cooke firmly and composedly declaring, that,
+  until his request was complied with, he was determined not to proceed; and,
+  should it be absolutely refused, he was resolved to retire. The fury of the
+  Bostonians was at its height: menace, accompanied by every vituperative
+  epithet rage could suggest, was lavished on the actor; but he kept his
+  station, calm and secure as his own native island set in the stormy seas,
+  until anger gradually subsided through very weariness; and every effort
+  having been ineffectually used to wean "<i>the tyrant</i>" from his purpose,
+  the political antipathies of the audience began to yield to their theatrical
+  taste; and, after much argument and delay, the unpalatable demand was
+  reluctantly assented to. Cooke, however, whose nature it was, when opposed,
+  only to become more exigent, was not himself appeased; for, as the notes
+  "unpleasing to a <i>Yankee</i> ear" were sounded, with a majestic wave of
+  his hand he silenced the unwilling music, and, "Standing, if you please,"
+  was as dictatorially as fearlessly pronounced, to the consternation of the
+  audience. So much had, however, already been accorded, that it was not
+  deemed matter of much moment to concede the rest: and however ungracefully
+  the attitude of respect was assumed, the national hymn was performed amidst
+  grimace and muttering; Cooke beating time with his foot,&mdash;nodding
+  significantly and satisfactorily at "Confound their politics;" and
+  occasionally taking a pinch of snuff, as, in his royal robes, he
+  triumphantly contemplated the astonished and indignant audience. It
+  ended:&mdash;"Richard was himself again," and "<i>Now</i> is the winter of
+  our <i>discontent</i> made glorious summer" was given with equal emphasis,
+  feeling, and effect.</p>
+
+  <p>At the time that <i>greater</i> performer, the elephant, made his
+  appearance on the boards, his own <i>board</i> became a subject of no
+  trifling consideration with the managers, particularly as the African had
+  taken a predilection for <i>rum</i>, which the new actor used to quaff with
+  extraordinary zest. On one occasion Cooke was missing from a morning
+  rehearsal, and all had been some time in waiting for the <span class=
+  "pagenum"><a id="page107" name="page107"></a>[pg 107]</span> tragedian, when
+  the messenger whom Kerable despatched in search of him, returned grinning to
+  the green-room. "Where is Mr. Cooke, sir?" demanded Kemble. "He is below
+  <i>breakfasting</i> with the <i>elephant</i>, sir!" was the reply.</p>
+
+  <p>It was too much for Cooke, after having so frequently disappointed full
+  houses, to be obliged to play to an empty theatre. It was like playing whist
+  with <i>dummy</i>. However, towards the close of the O. P. war, (which, by
+  the way, excited more the attention of the Parisians than the national
+  contest in which we were engaged,) the public had adopted the plan of never
+  commencing operations until half-price, to the injury of the manager's
+  purse. It was during the earlier acts of "The Man of the World," that Cooke,
+  in performing to "a beggarly account of empty boxes," was addressed by one
+  of the actors, in accordance with the scene, in a whisper; when the
+  <i>elevated</i> comedian, casting a glance around, bitterly observed, "Speak
+  out: there need be no secret. <i>No one hears us.</i>" Poor Cooke could not
+  plead in excuse what an actor did on being hissed for too <i>sober</i> a
+  representation of a <i>drunken</i> part, "Ladies and gentlemen, I beg your
+  pardon: but it is really the <i>first time</i> I ever was
+  <i>intoxicated</i>."</p>
+
+  <p>His death was in singular accordance with his <i>taste</i> through life.
+  He sought the banks of the <i>Brandywine</i>, and whether it were that the
+  composition of its stream so little responded to its title as to prey upon
+  his <i>spirits</i>, or from some other cause, there he "<i>drank</i> his
+  last."</p>
+
+  <h3>DICKEY SUETT.</h3>
+
+  <p>I met with him once in a house situated on the very confines of <i>Beef
+  and Law</i>; on the line of demarcation between the theatres and Lincoln's
+  Inn; a sort of <i>debateable</i> ground between the spouters and ranters of
+  the stage, and the eaters of commons, by either of which party it was
+  frequented. Around a large table in the parlour sat a motley group. There
+  were ragged wits, well-dressed students, new-fledged actors, a hackney
+  writer or so, an Irish barrister named Shuter, a Scotch reporter, and a
+  hodge-podge of most discordant materials congregated under the amalgamating
+  power of Suett, who seemed, by the incongruity of his dress and diversified
+  manner, to have studied the various tastes of those he swayed, and to be the
+  comprehensive representative of each of the strange beings he looked upon,
+  with all of whom he would occasionally identify himself with so much ease,
+  that it were hard to say whether it was the result of labour or of tact, of
+  calculation, or the mere impulse of mother-wit. The <i>ropes of his
+  face</i>, when drawn <i>taught</i>, peculiarly commanded the attention of
+  the Caledonian, while the sly and humorous glance of his half-shut eye was
+  acknowledged by the Hibernian to whom it was addressed; the <i>snow
+  drift</i> of powder which lay in patches on his long, straight hair, agreed
+  with the taste of his dramatic nursling; the far-extended cambric of white
+  frill imposed upon the students, while the unseemly rents in his coat at
+  once compensated to the wits for what there might be of gaudy or gay in his
+  outward man. We were received with equal courtesy and ceremony by the
+  president; and were just seated, when a ballet-dancer of Drury-lane entered.
+  As he was a Frenchman, it became a question of <i>national</i> politeness:
+  and Dicky <i>chestered</i> him to his dexter! and, as was befitting,
+  condescended to address him. "I am proud, sir," said Suett, with the
+  formality of <i>Black Rod</i> himself, "to do the honours of my
+  <i>country</i> to the <i>representative</i> of a nation which held my
+  <i>master</i> Garrick in peculiar respect. He was a great actor, sir; a
+  wonderful man! Your Lekain, or any other <i>Cain</i>, could not come up to
+  him, for he was <i>Able</i>, Pardon the pun. Oh, la!&mdash;but he was vain,
+  sir; vain as a peacock; it could not be of his person. Had he been, as
+  Richard has it, <i>'a marvellous proper man'</i> like myself, one might have
+  said something. He used to say, I was too <i>lean</i> for <i>Suett</i>. Oh,
+  dear. <i>A votre santé, Monsieur,</i> happy to see you on this side the
+  Channel. Never been to France yet, although in the <i>Straits</i> great part
+  of my life, and not unfrequently <i>half seas over</i>.&mdash;Well, sir, to
+  return to Garrick. There was that man 'frae the north,' who wrote the
+  History of England and Roderick Random,&mdash;the latter a true story, they
+  say;&mdash;he who challenged Campbell the barrister, for calling him
+  <i>names</i>, <i>To bias</i> the cause. Well, sir, Davy refused one of his
+  farces; but the wily Caledonian <i>pocketed</i> the affront, in coolly
+  observing, 'that he had nearly completed another volume of his history, and
+  hoped he might be permitted to name <i>the British Roscius</i>, the pride of
+  his country, and all that sort of thing.' It was a palpable hit,
+  sir&mdash;the thing was settled&mdash;the <i>manager managed</i>; and
+  <i>Smelfungus</i> retired, <i>without</i> his manuscript, half sorry he had
+  not added <i>another</i> scene to his farce. Well, sir, the story got wind,
+  and some days after Davy dined with a lawyer who had interested himself
+  vainly for a friend's comedy with him, when, in the course of conversation,
+  the barrister observed to Davy, before a large company, <span class=
+  "pagenum"><a id="page108" name="page108"></a>[pg 108]</span> that he had
+  nearly compiled another volume of The Statutes <i>at large</i> (would they
+  were all <i>at large</i>), and hoped he might be permitted to name <i>the
+  British Roscius, the pride of his country.</i> There was a roar at the
+  expense of Garrick. 'The galled jade' winced terribly:&mdash;he was touchy
+  as tinder, sir:&mdash;never was <i>Digest</i> so ill-<i>digested</i>.'"</p>
+
+  <p>It was when the meteor-like popularity of little Betty was at its height
+  that poor Suett fell ill, at what he termed his <i>town</i> residence (a
+  second-floor in a low street), and the pigmy Roscius, having eaten too much
+  fruit, kept all London in intense agony for his fate at the same moment.
+  Bulletins were exhibited in Southampton-row several times a-day, signed by
+  numerous physicians. Had he died, how posterity would have been befooled!
+  Suett was then <i>actually</i> dying, yet would he have his joke, and his
+  last moments were cheered by the horse-laugh of the rabble assembled to
+  <i>spell</i> the bulletin suspended to "the second-floor bell," attested by
+  the <i>mark</i> of the old woman who attended him. "You shall be buried in
+  Saint Paul's," said a friend. "Oh, la!" was the dying ejaculation of the
+  comedian.</p>
+
+  <p><i>New Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.</h2>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>AMERICAN TRAVELLING.</h3>
+
+  <p>June 7th, at three in the morning, the steam-boat (which was of immense
+  size, and on the high pressure system) arrived at Albany, having come one
+  hundred and sixty miles in seventeen hours, including stoppages. I found
+  that, unluckily, the mail-coach had left the place just before our arrival,
+  so I booked myself in an accommodation-stage, which was to reach Boston (a
+  distance of one hundred and sixty miles) in three days, and entered the
+  wretched-looking vehicle, with a heavy heart, at eight o'clock.... The
+  machine in which I travelled was slow and crowded. The proprietor had
+  undertaken to let us rest at night on the road; but we found that his
+  notions of rest were very imperfect, and that his night was one of the polar
+  regions.&mdash;Having partaken of a wretched dinner at Sand Lake, we arrived
+  about one in the morning at Cheshire, where we were to sleep.</p>
+
+  <p>By dint of most active exertion, I secured a bed to myself, the narrow
+  dimensions of which precluded the possibility of participation, and plunged
+  into it with all possible haste, as there was not a moment to be lost.
+  Secure in "single blessedness," I was incredibly amused at the compliments
+  of nocturnal arrangement which passed around me among my Yankee companions.
+  They were nine in number, and occupied by triplets the three other beds
+  which the room contained. Whether it was with a view of preserving their
+  linen unrumpled, or of enjoying greater space, I cannot tell; but certain it
+  is, that they divested themselves of clothing to a degree not generally
+  practised in Europe. A spirit of accommodation appeared to prevail; and it
+  seemed to be a matter of indifference whether to occupy the lateral portions
+  of the bed, or the warmer central position, except in one instance, where a
+  gentleman protested against being placed next to the wall, as he was in the
+  habit of chewing tobacco in his sleep!</p>
+
+  <p>At four o'clock in the morning we again set off, and, as much rain had
+  fell in the night, the roads were in a dreadful state. The coach company now
+  consisted of nine passengers inside, one on the top, (which, from its convex
+  form, is a very precarious situation,) and three on the box, besides the
+  coachman, who sat on the knees of the unfortunate middle man,&mdash;an
+  uneasy burden, considering the intense heat of the weather.</p>
+
+  <p>It matters little to the American driver where he sits; he is indeed, in
+  all respects, a far different personage from his great-coated prototype in
+  England. He is in general extremely dexterous in the art of driving, though
+  his costume is of a most grotesque description. Figure to yourself a
+  slipshod sloven, dressed in a striped calico jacket and an old straw hat,
+  alternately arranging the fragile harness of his horses, and springing again
+  upon his box with surprising agility; careless of the bones of his
+  passengers, and confident in his skill and resources, he scruples not
+  frequently to gallop his coach over corderoy roads, (so called from being
+  formed of the trunks of trees laid transversely,) or dash it round corners,
+  and through holes that would appal the heart of the stoutest English
+  coachman, however elated by gin, or irritated by opposition. I was once
+  whirled along one of these roads, when the leathers, (barbarous substitutes
+  for springs,) which supported the carriage gave way with a sudden shock. The
+  undaunted driver instantly sprang from his box, tore a stake from a rail
+  fence by the road-side, laid it across under the body of the coach, and was
+  off again before I properly recovered the use of my senses, which were
+  completely bewildered by the jolting I had undergone. I can <span class=
+  "pagenum"><a id="page109" name="page109"></a>[pg 109]</span> compare it to
+  nothing but the butt of Regulus, without the nails. When the lash and
+  butt-end of the whip fail him, he does not scruple to use his foot, as the
+  situation of his seat allows the application of it to his wheelers.</p>
+
+  <p>We dined at New Salem at six, and arrived at Petersham, where we were to
+  sleep, at twelve o'clock at night, having been twenty hours coming sixty
+  miles.</p>
+
+  <p>Though tired and disgusted with my journey, the prospect of a short
+  respite from this state of purgatory was embittered during the last few
+  miles by alarm at the idea of passing the night with one, if not two, of my
+  fellow-travellers; and I internally resolved rather to sleep upon the
+  floor.</p>
+
+  <p>After a desperate struggle, I succeeded, to my great joy, in securing a
+  bed for myself, not, however, without undergoing a severe objurgation from
+  the landlady, who could not understand such unaccommodating selfishness.
+  Short were our slumbers. By the rigid order of the proprietor, we were
+  turned out the next morning at three, and pursued our journey.&mdash;<i>De
+  Roos's Personal Narrative.</i></p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>KANGAROO WAGGERY.</h3>
+
+  <p>One of the largest tame kangaroos I have seen in the country is domiciled
+  here, and a mischievous wag he is, creeping and snuffing cautiously toward a
+  stranger, with such an innocently expressive countenance, that roguery could
+  never be surmised to exist under it&mdash;when, having obtained as he thinks
+  a sufficient introduction, he claps his forepaws on your shoulders, (as if
+  to caress you,) and raising himself suddenly upon his tail, administers such
+  a well-put push with his hind-legs, that it is two to one but he drives you
+  heels over head! This is all done in what he considers facetious play, with
+  a view to giving you a hint to examine your pockets, and see what
+  <i>bon-bons</i> you have got for him, as he munches cakes and comfits with
+  epicurean <i>gout</i>; and if the door be ajar, he will gravely take his
+  station behind your chair at meal-time, like a lackey, giving you an
+  admonitory kick every now and then, if you fail to help him as well as
+  yourself.&mdash;<i>Two Years in New South Wales.</i></p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>A MAGNIFICENT WATERFALL.</h3>
+
+  <p>My swarthy guides, although this was unquestionably the first time that
+  they had ever led a traveller to view the remarkable scenery of their
+  country, evinced a degree of tact, as <i>ciceroni</i>, as well as natural
+  feeling of the picturesque, that equally pleased and surprised me. Having
+  forewarned me that this was not yet the waterfall, they now pioneered the
+  way for about a mile farther along the rocks, some of them keeping near, and
+  continually cautioning me to look to my feet, as a single false step might
+  precipitate me into the raging abyss of waters, the tumult of which seemed
+  to shake even the solid rocks around us.</p>
+
+  <p>At length we halted, as before, and the next moment I was led to a
+  projecting rock, where a scene burst upon me, far surpassing my most
+  sanguine expectations. The whole water of the river (except what escapes by
+  the subsidiary channel we had crossed, and by a similar one on the north
+  side) being previously confined to a bed of scarcely one hundred feet in
+  breadth, descends at once in a magnificent cascade of full four hundred feet
+  in height. I stood upon a cliff nearly level with the top of the fall, and
+  directly in front of it. The beams of the evening sun fell upon the cascade,
+  and occasioned a most splendid rainbow; while the vapoury mists arising from
+  the broken waters, the bright green woods that hung from the surrounding
+  cliffs, the astounding roar of the waterfall, and the tumultuous boiling and
+  whirling of the stream below, striving to escape along its deep, dark, and
+  narrow, path, formed altogether a combination of beauty and grandeur, such
+  as I never before witnessed. As I gazed on this stupendous stream, I felt as
+  if in a dream. The sublimity of nature drowned all apprehensions of danger;
+  and, after a short pause, I hastily left the spot where I stood to gain a
+  nearer view from a cliff that impended over the foaming gulf. I had just
+  reached this station, when I felt myself grasped all at once by four
+  Korannas, who simultaneously seized hold of me by the arms and legs. My
+  first impression was, that they were going to hurl me over the precipice;
+  but it was a momentary thought, and it wronged the friendly savages. They
+  are themselves a timid race, and they were alarmed, lest my temerity should
+  lead me into danger. They hurried me back from the brink, and then explained
+  their motive, and asked my forgiveness. I was not ungrateful for their care,
+  though somewhat annoyed by their officiousness.&mdash;<i>Thompson's Travels
+  in Southern Africa.</i></p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>SETTING IN OF AN INDIAN MONSOON.</h3>
+
+  <p>The shades of evening approached as we reached the ground, and just as
+  the encampment was completed the atmosphere grew suddenly dark, the heat
+  became oppressive, and an unusual stillness <span class="pagenum"><a id=
+  "page110" name="page110"></a>[pg 110]</span> presaged the immediate setting
+  in of the monsoon. The whole appearance of nature resembled those solemn
+  preludes to earthquakes and hurricanes in the West Indies, from which the
+  east in general is providentially free. We were allowed very little time for
+  conjecture; in a few minutes the heavy clouds burst over us.... I witnessed
+  seventeen monsoons in India, but this exceeded them all in its awful
+  appearance and dreadful effects.</p>
+
+  <p>Encamped in a low situation, on the borders of a lake formed to collect
+  the surrounding water, we found ourselves in a few hours in a liquid plain.
+  The tent-pins giving way, in a loose soil, the tents fell down, and left the
+  whole army exposed to the contending elements.</p>
+
+  <p>It requires a lively imagination to conceive the situation of a hundred
+  thousand human beings of every description, with more than two hundred
+  thousand elephants, camels, horses, and oxen, suddenly overwhelmed by this
+  dreadful storm, in a strange country, without any knowledge of high or low
+  ground; the whole being covered by an immense lake, and surrounded by thick
+  darkness, which prevented our distinguishing a single object, except such as
+  the vivid glare of lightning displayed in horrible forms. No language can
+  describe the wreck of a large encampment thus instantaneously destroyed and
+  covered with water, amid the cries of old men and helpless women, terrified
+  by the piercing shrieks of their expiring children, unable to afford them
+  relief. During this dreadful night more than two hundred persons and three
+  thousand cattle perished, and the morning dawn exhibited a shocking
+  spectacle.&mdash;<i>Forbes's Oriental Memoirs.</i></p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>GRACE OF CARRIAGE.</h3>
+
+  <p>This requires not only a perfect freedom of motion, but also a firmness
+  of step, or constant steady bearing of the centre of gravity over the base.
+  It is usually possessed by those who live in the country, and according to
+  nature, as it is called, and who take much and varied exercise. What a
+  contrast is there between the gait of the active mountaineer, rejoicing in
+  the consciousness of perfect nature, and of the mechanic or shopkeeper,
+  whose life is spent in the cell of his trade, and whose body soon receives a
+  shape and air that correspond to this!&mdash;and in the softer sex, what a
+  contrast is there, between her who recalls to us the fabled Diana of old,
+  and that other, who has scarcely trodden but on smooth pavements or carpets,
+  and who, under any new circumstances, carries her person as awkwardly as
+  something to the management of which she is not accustomed.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Arnott's Elements of Physics.</i></p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>THE CAVALRY SCHOOL OF ST. GERMAINS.</h3>
+
+  <p>Bonaparte frequently visited the school of infantry at St. Cyr, reviewed
+  the cadets, and gave them cold collations in the park. But he had never
+  visited the school of cavalry since its establishment, of which we were very
+  jealous, and did all in our power to attract him. Whenever he hunted, the
+  cadets were in grand parade on the parterre, crying, <i>"Vive
+  l'Empereur!"</i> with all their young energies; he held his hat raised as he
+  passed them; but that was all we could gain. Wise people whispered that he
+  never would go whilst they were so evidently expecting him; that he liked to
+  keep them always on the alert; it was good for discipline. The general took
+  another plan, and once allowed no sign of life about the castle when the
+  emperor passed&mdash;it was like a deserted place. But it did not take
+  neither; he passed, as if there were no castle there. It was
+  <i>desesperant.</i> When, lo! the next day but one after I had spoken to
+  him, he suddenly galloped into the court of the castle, and the cry of the
+  sentinel, <i>"L'Empereur!"</i> was the first notice they had of it. He
+  examined into every thing. All were in undress, all at work, and this was
+  what he wanted. In the military-schools the cadets got ammunition-bread, and
+  lived like well-fed soldiers; but there was great outcry in the circles of
+  Paris against the bread of the school of St. Germain's. Ladies complained
+  that their sons were poisoned by it; the emperor thought it was all nicety,
+  and said no man was fit to be an officer who could not eat ammunition-bread.
+  However, being there, he asked for a loaf, which was brought, and he saw it
+  was villanous trash, composed of pease, beans, rye, potatoes, and every
+  thing that would make flour or meal, instead of good brown wheaten flour. He
+  tore the loaf in two in a rage, and dashed it against the wall, and there it
+  stuck like a piece of mortar, to the great annoyance of those whose duty it
+  was to have attended to this. He ordered the baker to be called, and made
+  him look at it <i>sticking</i>. The man was in great terror first at the
+  emperor's anger, but, taking heart, he begged his majesty not to take his
+  contract from him, and he would give good bread in future; at which the
+  emperor broke into a royal and imperial passion, and threatened to send
+  <span class="pagenum"><a id="page111" name="page111"></a>[pg 111]</span> him
+  to the galleys; but, suddenly turning round, he said, "Yes, he would allow
+  him to keep his contract, on condition that, as long as it lasted, he should
+  furnish the school with good white household bread, <i>(pain de ménage,)</i>
+  such as was sold in the bakers' shops in Paris; that he might choose that,
+  or lose his contract;" and the baker thankfully promised to furnish good
+  white bread in future, at the same price.&mdash;<i>Appendix to the 9th
+  volume of Scott's Life of Napoleon.</i></p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>CENTRE OF GRAVITY, IN REFERENCE TO SEA-SICKNESS.</h3>
+
+  <p>Man requiring so strictly to maintain his perpendicularity, that is, to
+  keep the centre of gravity always over the support of his body, ascertains
+  the required position in various ways, but chiefly by the perpendicularity
+  or known position of things about him. Vertigo, and sickness commonly called
+  sea-sickness, because it most frequently occurs at sea, are the consequences
+  of depriving him of his standards of comparison, or of disturbing them.</p>
+
+  <p>Hence on shipboard, where the lines of the masts, windows, furniture,
+  &amp;c. are constantly changing, sickness, vertigo, and other affections of
+  the same class are common to persons unaccustomed to ships. Many experience
+  similar effects in carriages, and in swings, or on looking from a lofty
+  precipice, where known objects being distant, and viewed under a new aspect,
+  are not so readily recognised: also in walking on a wall or roof, in looking
+  directly up to a roof, or to the stars in the zenith, because, then, all
+  standards disappear: on walking into a round room, where there are no
+  perpendicular lines of light and shade, as when the walls and roof are
+  covered with a spotted paper without regular arrangement of spot:&mdash;on
+  turning round, as in waltzing, or on a wheel; because the eye is not then
+  allowed to rest on the standards, &amp;c.</p>
+
+  <p>At night, or by blind people, standards belonging to the sense of touch
+  are used; and it is because on board ship, the standards both of sight and
+  of touch are lost, that the effect is so very remarkable.</p>
+
+  <p>But sea-sickness also partly depends on the irregular pressure of the
+  bowels against the diaphragm, as their inertia or weight varies with the
+  rising and falling of the ship.</p>
+
+  <p>From the nature of sea-sickness, as discovered in all these facts, it is
+  seen why persons unaccustomed to the motion of a ship, often find relief in
+  keeping their eyes directed to the fixed shore, where it is visible; or in
+  lying down on their backs and shutting their eyes; or in taking such a dose
+  of exhilarating drink as shall diminish their sensibility to all objects of
+  external sense.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Arnott's Elements of Physics.</i></p>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>FINE ARTS.</h2>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>THE BRITISH INSTITUTION.</h3>
+
+  <p>The following gratifying report of the directors has just been
+  made:&mdash;"The funds of the institution consist at the present time of
+  12,500l. 3 per cent, consols. It is hoped that these funds may be
+  considerably increased by the exhibition of the beautiful collection of
+  pictures now on view at the gallery, which last year attracted such general
+  notice, and which his majesty, ever anxious to forward the purposes of the
+  institution, has again allowed the directors to offer for the inspection of
+  the public. The directors, finding that the two institutions which have been
+  established for the relief of decayed artists, were not only founded upon
+  the most humane principles, but conducted in the most beneficial manner,
+  have applied in the course of the present year, 400l, to the purposes of
+  those institutions; viz. 200l. to the Artists' Benevolent Fund, and 200l to
+  the Artists' General Benevolent Institution." The report next mentions two
+  pictures to be painted on the subjects of Lord Howe's and Lord St. Vincent's
+  victories, by Mr. Briggs and Mr. Jones, to be placed, "as well as those
+  which were exhibited this year in the gallery in commemoration of other
+  naval victories, in the hall of Greenwich hospital." It also confirms the
+  gift of Mr. Hilton's and Mr. Northcote's pictures to the new church at
+  Pimlico, built by Mr. Hakewill, and to the chapel built by Mr. Cockerell, in
+  the upper part of Regent-street.</p>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>ARTS AND SCIENCES.</h2>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>MUSICAL COMPOSITION.</h3>
+
+  <p>A very valuable musical manuscript, by Guillaume de Machault, who was
+  <i>valet de chambre</i> to Phillippe-le-Bel, in 1307, has been discovered in
+  the royal library at Paris. It contains several French and Latin anthems,
+  ballads, &amp;c.; and concludes with a mass, which is supposed to have been
+  sung at the coronation of Charles V., in 1364; and which proves, at that
+  time they were acquainted with the art of composition in four parts.</p>
+
+  <h3>NOISY FISH.</h3>
+
+  <p>M. Cuvier lately read a short paper to the French academy on the species
+  of fish <span class="pagenum"><a id="page112" name="page112"></a>[pg
+  112]</span> called <i>pogonias</i>, in which he particularly adverted to the
+  noise by which they make themselves heard, even under water. However
+  difficult the explanation of this phenomenon, there can be no doubt of its
+  existence; the evidence of it adduced by M. Cuvier being perfectly
+  satisfactory. The silurus, a large and ravenous fish, which abounds in the
+  Danube, gives daily proof of it.</p>
+
+  <h3>GEOLOGY.</h3>
+
+  <p>A treatise on the great geological question, whether the continents now
+  inhabited, have or have not been repeatedly submerged in the sea, has lately
+  been read to the Académie des Sciences, by M. Constant Prevost. M. Prevost
+  maintains, contrary to the generally received opinion, that there has been
+  but one great inundation of the earth; and that the various remains of
+  plants, animals, &amp;c., which have given rise to the supposition of
+  successive inundations, have been floated to the places in which they are
+  occasionally found.</p>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <h2>THE GATHERER.</h2>
+
+  <blockquote>
+    "I am but a <i>Gatherer</i> and disposer of other men's
+    stuff."&mdash;Wotton.
+  </blockquote>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>A PUZZLE FOR THE CURIOUS.</h3>
+
+  <p>At a town in Gloucestershire the relatives as below, recently surrounded
+  one dinner-table:&mdash;One great-grandfather, two grandfathers, one
+  grandmother, three fathers, two mothers, four children, three
+  grand-children, ore great-grandchild, three sisters, one brother, two
+  husbands, two wives, one mother-in-law, one father-in-law, two
+  brothers-in-law, three sisters-in-law, one son-in-law, two daughters-in-law,
+  two uncles, three aunts, one nephew, two nieces, and two cousins. The whole
+  party consisted of seven persons only.</p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <h3>THE ROMANCE OF WAR.</h3>
+
+  <p>A French soldier, who accompanied the armies of Russia, concealed a small
+  treasure at the entrance of a village near Wilna, with a view of taking it
+  with him on his return. After the defeat of Moscow he was made prisoner, and
+  sent to Siberia, and only recovered his liberty at the end of last year. On
+  reaching Wilna he remembered his hidden treasure, and after tracing out the
+  spot where he had hid it, he went to take it away. What was his astonishment
+  to find, in the place of his money, a small tin box, containing a letter
+  addressed to him, in which a commercial house was mentioned at Nancy, where
+  he might receive the sum buried, with interest, since the year 1812. The
+  soldier supposed this was all a hoax; he went, however, to the house pointed
+  out, where he received his capital, with twelve years' interest. With this
+  sum he established a small business at Nancy, which enables him to live
+  comfortably; but he has never been able, though he has taken some pains, to
+  ascertain how his money was taken away and restored to him.</p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Two lovely ladies dwell at &mdash;&mdash;,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And each a-churching goes;</p>
+
+      <p>Emma goes there <i>to close her eyes</i>,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And Jane to <i>eye her clothes</i>.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+  <hr />
+
+  <p>The death of Stanislaus, king of Poland, was occasioned in a singular
+  manner. Being much addicted to smoking, he generally every day finished many
+  pipes. In knocking out the ashes he set fire to his dressing-gown. As no one
+  was near him, the flames had surrounded him, when the officer on guard,
+  hearing his cries, ran to his assistance, and extinguished the fire. He
+  might have survived, but a singular circumstance accompanied the accident.
+  He had been devout during the last years of his life, and, as a penance for
+  his sins, had worn a girdle with points on the inside; these became heated,
+  and being pressed into his body while the flames were extinguishing, caused
+  a number of wounds, the discharge from which, at his period of life, proved
+  too much for his debilitated constitution.</p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <p>Professor Porson was often in pecuniary difficulties. On one occasion he
+  came with a dejected air to a friend, and said he had been walking through
+  the streets of London all the morning, thinking how strange it was that not
+  one of all the crowds he met should know as much about Greek tragic verse as
+  himself, and yet that he could not turn his knowledge into a hundred pounds.
+  In these moments he often talked of retiring forever to the wilds of
+  America, where he formed a plan of living in solitary happiness, without a
+  book or a friend.</p>
+  <hr />
+
+  <p>One evening, at the Literary Fund Club, Mr. Incledon having sung with
+  great effect Mr. T. Dibdin's ballad of "May we ne'er want a friend, or a
+  bottle to give him," an elderly gentleman whispered in Mr. T. Dibdin's ear,
+  "Ah! my dear sir, these are the true things of the old school; what a pity
+  it is no one living is found to write such ditties now!"</p>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <blockquote class="footnote">
+    <a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a> <b>Footnote 1</b>: <a href=
+    "#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+
+    <p>Vide MIRROR, p. 98, Vol. iii.</p>
+  </blockquote>
+
+  <blockquote class="footnote">
+    <a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a> <b>Footnote 2</b>: <a href=
+    "#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+
+    <p>Biographical Memoir of Mr. Canning, with a Portrait, MIRROR, Vol.
+    iv.</p>
+  </blockquote>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <p><i>Printed and published by J LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset
+  House,) and sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers.</i></p>
+  <hr class="full" />
+<pre>
+
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 10, No. 268.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1827. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+HOSPITAL OF ST. THOMAS, CANTERBURY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+The subject of the above engraving claims the attention of the
+antiquarian researcher, not as the lofty sculptured mansion of our
+monastic progenitors, or the towering castle of the feudatory baton, for
+never has the voice of boisterous revelry, or the tones of the solemn
+organ, echoed along its vaulted roof; a humbler but not less interesting
+trait marks its history. It was here that the zealous pilgrim, strong in
+bigot faith, rested his weary limbs, when the inspiring name of Becket
+led him from the rustic simplicity of his native home, to view the spot
+where Becket fell, and to murmur his pious supplication at the shrine of
+the murdered Saint; how often has his toil-worn frame been sheltered
+beneath that hospitable roof; imagination can even portray him entering
+the area of yon pointed arch, leaning on his slender staff--perhaps some
+wanderer from a foreign land.
+
+The hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr of Eastbridge, is situated on the
+King's-bridge, in the hundred of Westgate, Canterbury, and was built by
+Becket, but for what purpose is unknown. However, after the
+assassination of its founder, the resort of individuals being constant
+to his shrine, the building was used for the lodgment of the pilgrims.
+For many years no especial statutes were enacted, nor any definite rules
+laid down for the treatment of pilgrims, till the see devolved to the
+jurisdiction of Stratford, who, in 15th Edward III. drew up certain
+ordinances, as also a code of regulations expressly to be acted on; he
+appointed a master in priest's orders, under whose guidance a secular
+chaplain officiated; it was also observed that every pilgrim in health
+should have but one night's lodging to the cost of fourpence; that
+applicants weak and infirm were to be preferred to those of sounder
+constitutions, and that women "upwards of forty" should attend to the
+bedding, and administer medicines to the sick.
+
+This institution survived the general suppression of monasteries and
+buildings of its cast, during the reigns of Henry VIII. and the sixth
+Edward; and after alternately grading from the possession of private
+families to that of brothers belonging to the establishment, it was at
+last finally appropriated to the instruction of the rising generation,
+whose parents are exempt from giving any gratuity to the preceptor of
+their children.
+
+Its present appearance is ancient, but not possessing any of those magic
+features which render the mansions of our majores so grand and
+magnificently solemn; a hall and chapel of imposing neatness and
+simplicity are still in good condition, but several of the
+apartments are dilapidated in part, and during a wet season admit the
+aqueous fluid through the chinks and fissures of their venerable walls.
+
+SAGITTARIUS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE LECTURER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MINOR AFFECTIONS OF THE BRAIN.
+
+
+Pain _in the head_ may arise from very different causes, and is
+variously seated. It has had a number of different appellations bestowed
+upon it, according to its particular character. I need not observe that
+headach is a general attendant of all inflammatory states of the brain,
+whether in the form of _phrenitis, hydrocephalus acutus_, or _idiopathic
+fever;_ though with some exceptions in regard to all of them, as I
+before showed you. It is often also said to be a symptom of other
+diseases, of parts remotely situated; as of the _stomach_, more
+especially; whence the term _sick headach_, the stomach being supposed
+to be the part first or principally affected, and the headach
+symptomatic of this. I am confident, however, that in a majority of
+instances the reverse is the case, the affection of the head being the
+cause of the disorder of the stomach. It is no proof to the contrary,
+that _vomiting_ often relieves the headach, for vomiting is capable of
+relieving a great number of other diseases, as well as those of the
+brain, upon the principle of _counter-irritation_. The stomach may be
+disordered by nauseating medicines, up to the degree of full vomiting,
+without any headach taking place; but the brain hardly ever suffers,
+either from injury or disease, without the stomach having its functions
+impaired, or in a greater or less degree disturbed: thus a blow on the
+head immediately produces vomiting; and, at the outset of various
+inflammatory affections of the brain, as _fever_ and _hydrocephalus_,
+nausea and vomiting are almost never-failing symptoms. It is not denied,
+that _headach_ may be produced through the medium of the stomach; but
+seldom, unless there is previously disease in the head, or at least a
+strong predisposition to it. In persons habitually subject to headach,
+the arteries of the brain become so irritable, that the slightest cause
+of disturbance, either _mental_ or _bodily_, will suffice to bring on a
+paroxysm.
+
+The _occasional_ or _exciting causes of headach_, then, are principally
+these:--
+
+1. _Emotions of mind_, as fear, terror, and agitation of spirits; yet
+these will sometimes take off headach when present at the time.
+
+2. Whatever either increases or disorders the general circulation, and
+especially all causes that increase the action of the cerebral arteries,
+or, as it is usually though improperly expressed, which occasion a
+determination of blood to the head. Of the former kind are violent
+exercise, and external heat applied to the surface generally, as by a
+heated atmosphere or the _hot bath_; of the latter, the direct
+application of heat to the head; falls or blows, occasioning a shock to
+the brain; stooping; intense thinking; intoxicating drinks, and other
+narcotic substances. These last, however, as well as _mental emotions_,
+often relieve a paroxysm of headach, though they favour its return
+afterwards.
+
+3. A disordered state of the stomach, of which a vomiting of _bile_ may
+be one symptom, is also to be ranked among the _occasional causes_ of
+_headach_.
+
+These _occasional causes_ do not in general produce their effect, unless
+where a _predisposition_ to the disease exists. This predisposition is
+often hereditary, or it may be acquired by long-protracted study and
+habits of intoxication.--_Dr. Clutterbuck's Lectures on the Diseases of
+the Nervous System_.
+
+
+HYDROPHOBIA.
+
+
+There is no cure for this disease when once the symptoms show
+themselves. A variety of remedies have from time to time been advertised
+by quacks. The "Ormskirk Medicine," at one time, was much in vogue; it
+had its day, but it did not cure the disease, nor, as far as I know, did
+it mitigate any of its symptoms. With regard to the affection of the
+mind itself in this disease, it does not appear that the patients are
+deprived of reason; some have merely, by the dint of resolution,
+conquered the dread of water, though they never could conquer the
+convulsive motions which the contact of liquids occasioned; while this
+resolution has been of no avail, for the convulsions and other symptoms
+increasing, have almost always destroyed the unhappy sufferers.
+--_Abernethy's Lectures_.
+
+
+EFFECTS OF KINDNESS ON THE SICK.
+
+
+Under all circumstances, man is a poor and pitiable being, when stricken
+down by disease. Sickened and subdued, his very lineaments have a voice
+which calls for commiseration and assistance. Celsus says, that knowing
+two physicians equally intelligent, he should prefer the one who was his
+friend, for the obvious reason that he would feel a deeper interest in
+his welfare. Kindness composes, and harshness disturbs the mind, and
+each produces correspondent effects upon the body. A tone, a look, may
+save or destroy life in extremely delicate cases. Whatever may be the
+prognosis given to friends, in all febrile cases, the most confident and
+consoling language about the ultimate recovery should be used to the
+sick, as prophecies not unfrequently contribute to bring about the event
+foretold, by making people feel, or think, or act, differently from what
+they otherwise would have done. Again, in chronic cases, as time is
+required for their cure, by explaining to the patient this fact, we
+maintain his confidence, we keep his mind easy, and thus gain a fair
+opportunity for the operation of regimen or remedies; in short, the
+judicious physician, like the Roman general, Fabius, conquers through
+delay, by cutting off the supplies, and wearing out the strength of the
+enemy. In large cities, where the mind is so much overwrought in the
+various schemes of private ambition, or of public business, anxiety is
+very frequently the grand opposing circumstance to recovery; so that
+while the causes which produced it are allowed to operate, mere medical
+prescription is of no avail. The effects of this anxiety are visible in
+the pallid face and wasted body. But if the patient be possessed of
+philosophy enough to forego his harassing pursuits; if he have not, from
+the contact and cares of the world, lost his relish for the simple and
+sublime scenes of nature, a removal into the country is of the utmost
+efficacy. The deformity and conflict of the moral world are exchanged
+for the beauty and calm of the physical world; and surrounded by all the
+poetry of earth and heaven, the mind regains its peace, and the health,
+as if by magic, is perfectly restored.--_Dr. Armstrong's Lectures_.
+
+
+DIET.
+
+
+Experience has taught us that the nature of our food is not a matter of
+indifference to the respiratory organs. Diseased lungs are exasperated
+by a certain diet, and pacified by one of an opposite kind. The
+celebrated diver, Mr. Spalding, observed, that whenever he used a diet
+of animal food, or drank spirituous liquors, he consumed in a much
+shorter period the oxygen of the atmospheric air in his diving-bell; and
+he therefore, on such occasions, confined himself to vegetable diet. He
+also found the same effect to arise from the use of fermented liquors,
+and he accordingly restricted himself to the potation of simple water.
+The truth of these results is confirmed by the habits of the Indian
+pearl-divers, who always abstain from every alimentary stimulus previous
+to their descent into the ocean.--_Dr. Paris on Diet._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE MONTHS
+
+
+The season has now advanced to full maturity. The corn is yielding to
+the sickle, the husbandmen,
+
+    "By whose tough labours, and rough hands,"
+
+our barns are stored with grain, are at their toils, and when nature is
+despoiled of her riches and beauty, will, with glad and joyous heart,
+celebrate the annual festival of
+
+
+THE HARVEST HOME.
+
+BY CORNELIUS WEBBE.
+
+
+    Hark! the ripe and hoary rye
+    Waving white and billowy,
+    Gives a husky rustle, as
+    Fitful breezes fluttering pass.
+    See the brown and bending wheat,
+    By its posture seems to meet
+    The harvest's sickle, as it gleams
+    Like the crescent moon in streams,
+    Brown with shade and night that run
+    Under shores and forests dun.
+
+    Lusty Labour, with tired stoop,
+    Levels low, at every swoop,
+    Armfuls of ripe-coloured corn,
+    Yellow as the hair of morn;
+    And his helpers track him close,
+    Laying it in even rows,
+    On the furrow's stubbly ridge;
+    Nearer to the poppied hedge.
+    Some who tend on him that reaps
+    Fastest, pile it into heaps;
+    And the little gleaners follow
+    Them again, with whoop and halloo
+    When they find a hand of ears
+    More than falls to their compeers.
+
+    Ripening in the dog-star's ray,
+    Some, too early mown, doth lay;
+    Some in graceful shocks doth stand
+    Nodding farewell to the land
+    That did give it life and birth;
+    Some is borne, with shout and mirth,
+    Drooping o'er the groaning wain.
+    Through the deep embowered lane;
+    And the happy cottaged poor,
+    Hail it, as it glooms their door,
+    With a glad, unselfish cry,
+    Though they'll buy it bitterly.
+
+    And the old are in the sun,
+    Seeing that the work is done
+    As it was when age was young;
+    And the harvest song is sung;
+    And the quaint and jocund tale
+    Takes the stint-key from the ale,
+    And as free and fast it runs
+    As a June rill from the sun's
+    Dry and ever-drinking mouth:--
+    Mirth doth alway feel a drowth.
+    Butt and barrel ceaseless flow
+    Fast as cans can come and go;
+    One with emptied measures comes
+    Drumming them with tuneful thumbs;
+    One reels field-ward, not quite sober,
+    With two cans of ripe October,
+    Some of last year's brewing, kept
+    Till the corn of this is reaped.
+
+    Now 'tis eve, and done all labour,
+    And to merry pipe and tabor,
+    Or to some cracked viol strummed
+    With vile skill, or table drummed
+    To the tune of some brisk measure,
+    Wont to stir the pulse to pleasure,
+    Men and maidens timely beat
+    The ringing ground with frolic feet;
+    And the laugh and jest go round
+    Till all mirth in noise is drowned.
+
+_Literary Souvenir_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ARMORIAL BEARINGS AT CROYDON PALACE.
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Sir,--In No. 266 of the Mirror, _Sagittarius_ wishes to know the name of
+the person whose armorial bearings are emblazoned at Croydon palace.
+
+From the blazon he has given, it is rather difficult to find out; but I
+should think they are meant for those of king Richard II. Impaled on the
+dexter side with those of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor.
+Bearings that may be seen in divers places at Westminster Hall, rebuilt
+by that monarch.[1]
+
+    [1] Vide MIRROR, p. 98, Vol. iii.
+
+I have subjoined the _proper_ blazon of the arms, which is _azure_, a
+cross patonce between _five_ martlets _or_, impaling France and England
+quarterly, 1st. and 4th. azure three fleurs de lis. 2nd. _or_, 2nd and
+3rd Gules, 3 lions passant guardant in pale, or.
+
+The supporting of the arms with angels, &c. was a favourite device of
+Richard, as may be seen in divers antiquarian and topographical works.
+
+It is probable the hall of Croydon palace was built during the reign of
+Richard, which will account for his arms being placed there.
+
+I am, &c.
+
+C. F.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+DEATH OF MR. CANNING.
+
+
+The lamentable and sudden death of the Right Hon. George Canning has
+produced a general sensation throughout this country. At the opening of
+the present year our nation deplored the loss of a prince endeared to
+the people by his honest worth--but a short interval has elapsed and
+again the country is plunged in sorrow for the loss of one of its most
+zealous supporters--one of its chiefest ornaments--one of its staunchest
+friends--and one of its most eloquent and talented statesmen! The life
+of the late George Canning furnishes much matter for meditation and
+thought. From it much may be learnt. He was a genius, in the most
+unlimited sense of the word; and his intellectual endowments were
+commanding and imperative. Of humble origin he had to contend with
+innumerable difficulties, consequent to his station in life,--and
+although his talents, which were of the first order, befitted him for
+the first rank in society, that rank he did not attain until the scene
+of this world was about to be closed for ever from him. It may be said
+of this eminent man, that he owed nothing to patronage--his _talents_
+directed him to his elevated station, and to his intellectual
+superiority homage was made,--not to the man.
+
+But, in other respects, the loss of Mr. Canning is a national
+bereavement. He was one of the master-spirits of the age. His very name
+was distinguished--for he has added to the literature of his country--by
+his writings and his eloquence he has stimulated the march of mind; he
+has seconded the exertions of liberal friends to the improvements of the
+uneducated, and he has patronized the useful as well as the fine arts,
+philosophy and science, of his country. To expatiate at greater length
+would be superfluous, as we have in another place recorded our humble
+tribute to his general character.[2] We have now, therefore, merely to
+put together the melancholy facts connected with his death, and which
+will convey to another generation a just sense of the value, in our
+time, attached to a noble and exalted genius. The just and elegant
+laconism of Byron, by substituting the _past_ for the _present_ tense,
+may now be adopted as a faithful and brief summary of what _was_ George
+Canning.
+
+    [2] Biographical Memoir of Mr. Canning, with a Portrait, MIRROR,
+        Vol. iv.
+
+"Canning _was_ a genius, almost an universal one:--an orator, a wit, a
+poet, and a statesman."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The king, with his usual quickness, was the first to perceive the
+dangerous state of Mr. Canning. We understand, that almost immediately
+after he had quitted him, on Monday, his majesty observed to sir William
+Knighton, that Mr. Canning appeared very unwell, and that he was in
+great alarm for him. On Tuesday, sir William repaired to town, at the
+express command of his majesty, to see Mr. Canning. At the interview
+with him, at the Treasury, Sir William made particular inquiries into
+the state of his health. Mr. Canning was then troubled with a cough, and
+he observed to Sir William that he almost felt as if he were an old man;
+that he was much weakened; but had no idea of there being anything
+dangerous in his condition, and that he trusted that rest and retirement
+would set him to rights. Sir William sent Dr. Maton to Mr. Canning, and
+on parting with him, he observed that, as he should not leave town until
+Wednesday morning, he would call on him, at Chiswick, on his way home to
+Windsor. Sir William found Mr. Canning in bed, at Chiswick. He asked him
+if he felt any pain in his side? Mr. Canning answered he had felt a pain
+in his side for some days, and on endeavouring to lie on his side, the
+pain was so acute that he was unable to do so. Sir William then inquired
+if he felt any pain in his shoulder? He said he had been for some time
+affected by rheumatic pains in the shoulder. Sir William told him that
+the pain did not arise from rheumatism, but from a diseased liver, and
+he immediately sent for the three physicians, who remained with him, and
+were to the last unremitting in their attentions.
+
+The disease continued to make rapid progress, in spite of all that the
+first medical skill could do to baffle it, watching every turn it took,
+and applying, on the instant, every remedy likely to subdue its
+virulence, and mitigate his sufferings.
+
+On the following Sunday, August 5, bulletins were issued, stating that
+Mr. Canning was in most imminent danger. The most painful interest was
+excited in the public mind by subsequent announcements of his alarming
+state, and on Wednesday morning, the following melancholy intelligence
+reached town:--
+
+_Chiswick, Wednesday, August_, 8, 1827, (A. M.)
+
+Mr. Canning expired this morning, without pain, at ten minutes before
+four o'clock.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+MISCELLANIES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BLACK BEARD.
+
+
+There are few persons who reside on the Atlantic ocean and rivers of
+North America who are not familiar with the name of Black Beard, whom
+traditionary history represents as a pirate, who acquired immense wealth
+in his predatory voyages, and was accustomed to bury his treasures in
+the banks of creeks and rivers. For a period as low down as the American
+revolution, it was common for the ignorant and credulous to dig along
+these banks in search of hidden treasures; and impostors found an ample
+basis in these current rumours for schemes of delusion. Black Beard,
+though tradition says a great deal more of him than is true, was yet a
+real person, who acquired no small fame by his maritime exploits during
+the first part of the eighteenth century. Among many authentic and
+recorded particulars concerning him, the following account of his death
+may gratify curiosity:--
+
+From the nature of Black Beard's position in a sloop of little draught
+of water, on a coast abounding with creeks, and remarkable for the
+number and intricacy of its shoals, with which he had made himself
+intimately acquainted, it was deemed impossible to approach him in
+vessels of any force. Two hired sloops were therefore manned from the
+Pearl and Lime frigates, in the Chesapeake, and put under the command of
+Lieutenant Maynard, with instructions to hunt down and destroy this
+pirate wherever he should be found. On the 17th of November, in the year
+1718, this force sailed from James River, and in the evening of the 21st
+came to an inlet in North Carolina, where Black Beard was discovered at
+a distance, lying in wait for his prey. The sudden appearance of an
+enemy, preparing to attack him, occasioned some surprise; but his sloop
+mounting several guns, and being manned with twenty-five of his
+desperate followers, he determined to make a resolute defence; and,
+having prepared his vessel over night for action, sat down to his
+bottle, stimulating his spirits to that pitch of frenzy by which only he
+could rescue himself in a contest for his life. The navigation of the
+inlet was so difficult, that Maynard's sloops were repeatedly grounded
+in their approach, and the pirate, with his experience of the soundings,
+possessed considerable advantage in manoeuvring, which enabled him for
+some time to maintain a running fight. His vessel, however, in her turn,
+having at length grounded, and the close engagement becoming now
+inevitable, he reserved her guns to pour in a destructive fire on the
+sloops as they advanced to board him. This he so successfully executed,
+that twenty-nine men of Maynard's small number were either killed or
+wounded by the first broadside, and one of the sloops for a time
+disabled. But notwithstanding this severe loss, the lieutenant
+persevered in his resolution to grapple with his enemy, or perish in the
+attempt. Observing that his own sloop, which was still fit for action,
+drew more water than the pirate's, he ordered all her ballast to be
+thrown out, and, directing his men to conceal themselves between decks,
+took the helm in person, and steered directly aboard of his antagonist,
+who continued inextricably fixed on the shoal. This desperate wretch,
+previously aware of his danger, and determined never to expiate his
+crimes in the hands of justice, had posted one of his banditti, with a
+lighted match, over his powder-magazine, to blow up his vessel in the
+last extremity. Luckily in this design he was disappointed by his own
+ardour and want of circumspection; for, as Maynard approached, having
+begun the encounter at close quarters, by throwing upon his antagonist a
+number of hand-grenadoes of his own composition, which produced only a
+thick smoke, and conceiving that, from their destructive agency, the
+sloop's deck had, been completely cleared, he leaped over her bows,
+followed by twelve of his men, and advanced upon the lieutenant, who was
+the only person then in view; but the men instantly springing up to the
+relief of their commander, who was now furiously beset, and in imminent
+danger of his life, a violent contest ensued. Black Beard, after seeing
+the greater part of his men destroyed at his side, and receiving himself
+repeated wounds, at length, stepping back to cock, a pistol, fainted
+with the loss of blood, and expired on the spot. Maynard completed his
+victory, by securing the remainder of these desperate wretches, who were
+compelled to sue for mercy, and a short respite from a less honourable
+death at the hands of the executioner.
+
+
+ISLANDS PRODUCED BY INSECTS.
+
+
+The whole group of the _Thousand Islands_, and indeed the greater part
+of all those whose surfaces are flat, in the neighbourhood of the
+equator, owe their origin to the labours of that order of marine worms
+which Linnaeus has arranged under the name of _Zoophyta_. These little
+animals, in a most surprising manner, construct their calcareous
+habitations, under an infinite variety of forms, yet with that order and
+regularity, each after its own manner, which to the minute inquirer, is
+so discernable in every part of the creation. But, although the eye may
+be convinced of the fact, it is difficult for the human mind to conceive
+the possibility of insects so small being endued with the power, much
+less of being furnished in their own bodies with the materials of
+constructing the immense fabrics which, in almost every part of the
+Eastern and Pacific Oceans lying between the tropics, are met with in
+the shape of detached rocks, or reefs of great extent, just even with
+the surface, or islands already clothed with plants, whose bases are
+fixed at the bottom of the sea, several hundred feet in depth, where
+light and heat, so very essential to animal life, if not excluded, are
+sparingly received and feebly felt. Thousands of such rocks, and reefs,
+and islands, are known to exist in the eastern ocean, within, and even
+beyond, the limits of the tropics. The eastern coast of New Holland is
+almost wholly girt with reefs and islands of coral rock, rising
+perpendicularly from the bottom of the abyss. Captain Kent, of the
+Buffalo, speaking of a coral reef of many miles in extent, on the
+south-west coast of New Caledonia, observes, that "it is level with the
+water's edge, and towards the sea, as steep to as a wall of a house;
+that he sounded frequently within twice the ship's length of it with a
+line of one hundred and fifty fathoms, or nine hundred feet, without
+being able to reach the bottom." How wonderful, how inconceivable, that
+such stupendous fabrics should rise into existence from the silent but
+incessant, and almost imperceptible, labours of such insignificant
+worms!
+
+To buy books, as some do who make no use of them, only because they were
+published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes
+that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous
+tailor.--_Pope_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TO MY BROTHER, ON HIS LEAVING ENGLAND.
+
+By The Author of "Ahab."
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+    Wherever your fortune may lead you to roam,
+    Forget not, young exile, the land of your home;
+    Let it ever be present to memory's eye,
+    'Tis the place where the bones of your fore-father's lie.
+    Let the thought of it ever your comforter be,
+    For no spot on this earth like your home can you see.
+
+    The fields where you rove may be more fresh and fair,
+    More splendid the sun, and more fragrant the air,
+    More lovely the flowers, more refreshing the breeze,
+    More tranquil the waters, more fruitful the trees.
+    But home after all things--that dear little spot,
+    Tho' it be but a desert can ne'er be forgot.
+
+    In the thoughts of the day, and the dreams of the night,
+    On your eyes like the kiss of your mother 'twill light,
+    Then the mist will disperse which long absence has spread.
+    And the paths you have trodden again you shall tread.
+    Then farewell, young exile, wherever you roam,
+    Oh! dear as your honour, your life, be your home.
+
+J.H.S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ORDERS FOR HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS IN 1566.
+
+
+    _Orders for Household Servantes; first deuised by John
+    Haryngton, in the yeare 1566, and renewed by John Haryngton,
+    sonne of the saide John, in the yeare 1592: The saide John, the
+    sonne, being then high shrieve of the county of Somerset._
+
+    Imprimis, That no servant bee absent from praier, at morning or
+    euening, without a lawfull excuse, to be alleged within one day
+    after, vppon paine to forfeit for eury tyme 2d.
+
+    II. Item, That none swear any othe, vppon paine for every othe
+    1d.
+
+    III. Item, That no man leaue any doore open that he findeth
+    shut, without theare bee cause, vppon paine for euery time 1d.
+
+    IV. Item, That none of the men be in bed, from our Lady-day to
+    Michaelmas, after 6 of the clock in the morning; nor out of his
+    bed after 10 of the clock at night; nor, from Michaemas till
+    our Lady-day, in bed after 7 in the morning, nor out after 9 at
+    night, without reasonable cause, on paine of 2d.
+
+    V. That no man's bed bee vnmade, nor fire or candle-box
+    vnclean, after 8 of the clock in the morning, on paine of 1d.
+
+    VI. Item, That no one commit any nuisance within either of the
+    courts, vppon paine of 1d.
+
+    VII. Item, That no man teach any of the children any vnhonest
+    speeche, or evil word, or othe, on paine of 4d.
+
+    VIII. Item, That no man waite at the table without a trencher
+    in his hand, except it be vppon some good cause, on paine of
+    Id.
+
+    IX. Item, That no man appointed to waite at my table be absent
+    that meale, without reasonable cause, on paine of 1d.
+
+    X. Item, If any man breake a glasse, hee shall aunswer the
+    price thereof out of his wages; and, if it bee not known who
+    breake it, the buttler shall pay for it on paine of 12d.
+
+    XI. Item, The table must bee couered halfe an houer before 11
+    at dinner, and 6 at supper, or before, on paine of 2d.
+
+    XII. Item, That meate bee readie at 11, or before, at dinner;
+    and 6, or before, at supper, on paine of 6d.
+
+    XIII. Item, That none be absent, without leaue or good cause,
+    the whole day, or any part of it, on paine of 4d.
+
+    XIV. Item, That no man strike his fellow, on paine of loss of
+    seruice; nor reuile or threaten, or prouoke another to strike,
+    on paine of 12d.
+
+    XV. Item, That no man come to the kitchen without reasonable
+    cause, on paine of 1d. and the cook likewyse to forfeit 1d.
+
+    XVI. Item, That none toy with the maids, on paine of 4d.
+
+    XVII. That no man weare foule shirt on Sunday, nor broken hose
+    or shooes, or dublett without buttons, on paine of 1d.
+
+    XVIII. Item, That, when any strainger goeth hence, the chamber
+    be drest vp againe within 4 howrs after, on paine of 1d.
+
+    XIX. Item, That the hall bee made cleane euery day, by eight in
+    the winter, and seauen in the sommer, on paine of him that
+    should do it to forfeit 1d.
+
+    XX. That the cowrt-gate bee shutt each meale, and not opened
+    during dinner and supper, without just cause, on paine the
+    porter to forfet for euery time, 1d.
+
+    XXI. Item, That all stayrs in the house, and other rooms that
+    neede shall require, bee made cleane on Fryday after dinner, on
+    paine of forfeyture of euery on whome it shall belong vnto, 3d.
+
+    All which sommes shall be duly paide each quarter-day out of
+    their wages, and bestowed on the poore, or other godly vse.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE NOVELIST.
+
+No. CVII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE WOOD KING.
+
+_By Miss Emma Roberts_.
+
+
+Already the pile of heaped-up fagots reached above the low roof of his
+hut; but Carl Scheffler still continued lopping off branches, and
+binding fresh bundles together, almost unconscious that the sun had set,
+and that the labours of the day being over, the neighbouring peasants
+were hastening to the skittle-ground to pass away an hour in sport. The
+wood-cutter's hut was perched upon an eminence a little out of the
+public path; but he heard the merry songs of his comrades as they
+proceeded gaily to the place of rendezvous, at the Golden Stag in the
+village below. Many of his intimate acquaintance paused as they
+approached the corner of the road nearest to his hut, and the wild wood
+rang with their loud halloes; but the call, which in other times had
+been echoed by the woodman's glad voice, was now unanswered; he busied
+himself with his work; his brow darkened as the joyous sounds came over
+his ear; he threw aside his hatchet, resumed, it again, and again
+casting it from him, exclaimed, "Why, let them go, I will not carry this
+chafed and wounded spirit to their revels; my hand is not steady enough
+for a bowling-match; and since Linda will doubtless choose a richer
+partner, I have no heart for the dance."
+
+It was easy to perceive that Carl Scheffler was smarting under a recent
+disappointment: he had borne up bravely against the misfortunes which,
+from a state of comparative affluence, had reduced him to depend upon
+his own arm for subsistence, fondly trusting that ere long his prospects
+would amend; and that, at the return of the Count of Holberg to his
+ancestorial dominions, he should obtain a forester's place, and be
+enabled to claim the hand of Linda Von Kleist, to whom, in happier
+times, he had been betrothed. But these dreams had vanished; the count's
+bailiff having seen Linda, the flower of the hamlet, became his rival,
+and consequently his enemy: he had bestowed the office promised to Carl
+upon another; and Linda's father ungratefully withdrawing the consent
+given when the lover's affairs were in a more flourishing condition, had
+forbidden him the house. Buoyed up with the hope that Linda would remain
+faithful, and by her unabated attachment console him under the pressure
+of his calamities, Carl did not at first give way to despair; but Linda
+was too obedient, or perchance too indifferent, to disobey her father's
+commands. He sought her at the accustomed spot--she came not, sent not:
+he hovered round her residence, and if chance favoured him with a
+glimpse of his beloved, it was only to add to his misery, for she
+withdrew hastily from his sight. A rumour of the intended marriage of
+his perjured mistress reached his ears, and, struck to the soul, he
+endeavoured, by manual labour, to exhaust his strength and banish the
+recollection of his misery. He toiled all day in feverish desperation;
+and now that there was no more to be done, sat down to ponder over his
+altered prospects. The bailiff possessed the ear of his master, and it
+was useless to hope that the count would repair the injustice committed
+by so trusted a servant. The situation which above all others he had
+coveted, which would have given him the free range of the forest, the
+jovial hunter's life which suited his daring spirit, delighting in the
+perils of the chase, and, above all, a home for Linda, was lost, and for
+ever; henceforward he must relinquish all expectation of regaining the
+station which the misfortunes that had brought his parents to the grave
+had deprived him of, and be content to earn a sordid meal by bending his
+back to burthens befitting the brute creation alone; to hew wood, and to
+bear it to the neighbouring towns; to delve the ground at the bidding of
+a master, and to perform the offices of a menial hireling. "At least not
+here," cried the wretched young man, "not in the face of all my former
+friends; there is a refuge left where I may hide my sorrows and my
+wrongs. Fair earth, and thou fair sky, I gaze upon you for the last
+time; buried from the face of day in the centre of the deepest mine,
+I'll spend the remnant of my life unpitied and unknown." Determined to
+execute this resolution on the instant, Carl hastily collected such
+parts of his slender property as were portable; and having completed his
+arrangements, prepared to cross the Brocken, and shaped his course
+towards the Rammelsburg. The last rich gleam of crimson had faded from
+the sky; but there was light enough in the summer night to guide him on
+his way. A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of
+heaven; the air was soft and balmy, scarcely agitating the leaves of the
+forest trees; the fragrance-weeping limes gave out their richest scent,
+and the gentle gush of fountains, and the tricklings of the mountain
+springs, came in music on the ear; and had the traveller been more at
+ease, the calm and tranquil scene must have diffused its soothing
+influence over his heart. Carl, disregarding every thing save his own
+melancholy destiny, strode along almost choked by bitter thought, and so
+little heedful of the road, that he soon became involved in thickets
+whose paths were unknown to him; he looked up to the heavens, and
+shaping his course by one of the stars, was somewhat surprised to find
+himself still involved in the impenetrable mazes of the wood. Compelled
+to give more attention than heretofore to his route, he once or twice
+thought that he distinguished a human figure moving through the darkness
+of the forest. At first, not disposed to fall in with a companion, he
+remained silent, lest the person, whoever he might be, should choose to
+enter into conversation with him; then not quite certain whether he was
+right in his conjecture--for upon casting a second glance upon the
+object which attracted him, he more than once discovered it to be some
+stunted trunk or fantastic tree--he became anxious to ascertain whether
+he was in reality, alone, or if some other midnight wanderer trod the
+waste, and he looked narrowly around; all was still, silent, and
+solitary; and fancying that he had been deceived by the flitting shadows
+of the night, he was again relapsing into his former reverie, when he
+became aware of the presence of a man dressed in the garb of a forester,
+and having his cap wreathed with a garland of green leaves, who stood
+close at his side. Carl's tongue moved to utter a salutation, but the
+words stuck in his throat, an indescribable sensation of horror thrilled
+through his frame; tales of the demons of the Hartz rushed upon his
+memory--but he recovered instantly from the sudden shock. The desperate
+state of his fortune gave him courage, and, looking up, he was surprised
+at the consternation which the stranger had occasioned: he was a person
+of ordinary appearance, who, accosting him frankly, exclaimed, "Ho,
+comrade, thou art, I see, bent on the same errand as myself; but
+wherefore dost thou seek the treasures of the Nibelungen without the
+protecting wreath?"--"The treasures of the Nibelungen?" returned Carl;
+"I have indeed heard of such a thing, and that it was hidden in the
+bosom of the Hartz by a princess of the olden time; but I never was mad
+enough to think of so wild a chase as a search after riches, which has
+baffled the wisest of our ancestors, must surely prove."--"Belike then,"
+replied the forester, "thou art well to do in the world, and therefore
+needest not to replenish thy wallets with gold,--travelling perchance to
+take possession of some rich inheritance."--"No, by St. Roelas," cried
+the woodcutter, "thou hast guessed wide of the mark. I am going to hide
+my poverty in the mine of Rammelsburg."--"The mine of Rammelsburg!"
+echoed the stranger, and laughed scornfully, so that the deep woods rang
+with the sound; and Carl feeling his old sensations return as the
+fiendish merriment resounded through the wilderness, again gazed
+stedfastly in his companion's face, but he read nothing there to justify
+his suspicions: the fiery eye lost its lustre; the lip its curl; and,
+gazing benignantly upon the forlorn wood-cutter, he continued his
+speech, saying, "Then prithee take the advice of one who knows these
+forests, and all that they contain. Here are materials in abundance for
+our garland; advance forward, and fear not the issue;"--and, gathering
+leaves from the boughs of trees of a species unknown to his new
+acquaintance, he twined them into a wreath, and placed the sylvan diadem
+on Carl's head. The instant that he felt the light pressure on his
+temples, all his fears vanished; and he followed his guide, conversing
+pleasantly through wide avenues and over broad glades of fresh turf,
+which seemed to be laid out like a royal chase, till they came to a wall
+of rock resembling the Hahnen Klippers, and entering through an arch, a
+grey moss-covered tower arose in the distance. The ponderous doors were
+wide open; and Carl advancing, found himself in a large hall well
+lighted, and showing abundance of treasure scattered abroad in all
+directions. He was conscious that he had lost his companion, but he
+seemed no longer to require his instruction; and casting down his own
+worthless burthen, he laded himself with the riches that courted his
+touch. The adventurer was soon supplied with a sufficient quantity of
+gold and jewels to satisfy his most unbounded wishes; and turning from
+the spot with a light heart, he sped merrily along. The country round
+about seemed strange to him; but on repassing the rocky ledge, a brisk
+wind suddenly springing up blew off his cap. The morning air was cold,
+and Carl, hastening to regain his head-gear, discovered that the wreath
+had disappeared; and, as if awakening from a dream, he found himself
+surrounded by familiar objects; he felt, however, the weight of the load
+upon his back, and though panting with the fatigue it occasioned, made
+the best of his way home. On approaching the hut, a low murmur struck on
+his ear. He paused; listened attentively; and distinguishing a female
+voice, he rushed forward, and in the next moment clasped Linda in his
+arms. She had fled from the persecutions of the bailiff to seek shelter
+in Carl's straw-roofed hut; and the now happy lovers, as they surveyed
+the treasures which had been snatched from the Nibelungen, agreed that
+they owed their good fortune to Riebezhahl the Wood King, who sometimes
+taking pity upon the frail and feeble denizens of earth, pointed out to
+their wondering eyes the inexhaustible riches of which he was the
+acknowledged guardian.
+
+_London Weekly Review_.
+
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+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
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+
+
+DRAFTS ON LA FITTE.
+
+COOKE.
+
+
+Only upon one occasion did Cooke deviate from his resolution of not
+apologizing to a provincial assembly, and that was at Liverpool. A
+previous breach of decorum was visited one night by the fury of an
+offended audience; confusion was at its height; the people were the
+actors, and Cooke the audience: yet the sturdy tragedian remained
+callous to the bursts of indignation which were heard around him, until
+destruction became the order of the day; lamps _lighted_ on the stage;
+benches betokened _mobility_; _pedal_ applications were made _forte_ to
+the _piano_; _basely violated_ was the repository of the _base viol_;
+and the property of poor Knight the manager gave every sign of that
+being its last appearance. What popular rage had failed to produce,
+consideration for the fortunes of his friend effected. At his
+entreaties, the Caledonian was induced to advance to the front of the
+stage (never was there a more _moving_ scene than that before it);
+silence was obtained, and he condescended to express his sorrow for the
+state in which some nights previously he had presented himself: adding,
+"that _he_ never _before_ felt so keenly the _degradation_ of _his_
+situation." Equivocal as was the mode of extenuation, the audience
+allied to _Mersey_ accorded the _mercy_ it possessed, and was or
+appeared to be, satisfied; but not so the actor, and he as fully as
+instantly avenged what he deemed his misplaced submission. As he
+concluded his address, he turned to the gratified but yet trembling
+manager, and (in allusion to the large share in the slave-trade then
+imputed to Liverpool) with that peculiarity of undertone he possessed,
+which could be distinctly heard throughout the largest theatre although
+pronounced as a whisper, exclaimed, "There's not a stone in the walls of
+Liverpool which has not been cemented by the _bluid_ of Africans." Then,
+casting one of his Shylock glances of hatred and contempt on the mute
+and astounded audience, majestically left the stage.
+
+On the first night of his performance at the Boston theatre, Richard was
+the part he had adopted; and so strongly had he fortified himself for
+the kingly task, that he deemed himself the very monarch he was destined
+to enact. The theatre was crowded in every part: expectation was on
+tiptoe: anticipation as to his person, voice, and manner, was announced
+by the sibilating "I guess" heard around, and "pretty considerable"
+agitation prevailed. The orchestra had begun and ceased, unheeded or
+unheard; nor could one of Sir Thomas Lethbridge's best cut and dried
+have produced less effect amongst the "irreclaimables." The curtain
+rose, and amidst thundering plaudits the welcome stranger advanced, in
+angles, to the front of the stage, and, as Sir Pertinax has it, "booed
+and booed and booed;" but greeting could not endure for ever: well
+justified curiosity assumed its station, and at length silence, almost
+breathless silence, reigned around, such as attended Irving in his
+Zoar, or Canning when he lately produced his budget. The hospitable
+clamour was over; but instead of "Now is the winter of our discontent
+made glorious summer by this sun of York" being given, Cooke, in a
+respectful but decided tone, requested that "God save the King" might be
+played by the orchestra prior to the commencement of the play. The
+proposal at first but excited mockery and laughter, which, however, gave
+way to far different feelings, on Cooke firmly and composedly declaring,
+that, until his request was complied with, he was determined not to
+proceed; and, should it be absolutely refused, he was resolved to
+retire. The fury of the Bostonians was at its height: menace,
+accompanied by every vituperative epithet rage could suggest, was
+lavished on the actor; but he kept his station, calm and secure as his
+own native island set in the stormy seas, until anger gradually subsided
+through very weariness; and every effort having been ineffectually used
+to wean "_the tyrant_" from his purpose, the political antipathies of
+the audience began to yield to their theatrical taste; and, after much
+argument and delay, the unpalatable demand was reluctantly assented to.
+Cooke, however, whose nature it was, when opposed, only to become more
+exigent, was not himself appeased; for, as the notes "unpleasing to a
+_Yankee_ ear" were sounded, with a majestic wave of his hand he silenced
+the unwilling music, and, "Standing, if you please," was as
+dictatorially as fearlessly pronounced, to the consternation of the
+audience. So much had, however, already been accorded, that it was not
+deemed matter of much moment to concede the rest: and however
+ungracefully the attitude of respect was assumed, the national hymn was
+performed amidst grimace and muttering; Cooke beating time with his
+foot,--nodding significantly and satisfactorily at "Confound their
+politics;" and occasionally taking a pinch of snuff, as, in his royal
+robes, he triumphantly contemplated the astonished and indignant
+audience. It ended:--"Richard was himself again," and "_Now_ is the
+winter of our _discontent_ made glorious summer" was given with equal
+emphasis, feeling, and effect.
+
+At the time that _greater_ performer, the elephant, made his appearance
+on the boards, his own _board_ became a subject of no trifling
+consideration with the managers, particularly as the African had taken a
+predilection for _rum_, which the new actor used to quaff with
+extraordinary zest. On one occasion Cooke was missing from a morning
+rehearsal, and all had been some time in waiting for the tragedian,
+when the messenger whom Kerable despatched in search of him, returned
+grinning to the green-room. "Where is Mr. Cooke, sir?" demanded Kemble.
+"He is below _breakfasting_ with the _elephant_, sir!" was the reply.
+
+It was too much for Cooke, after having so frequently disappointed full
+houses, to be obliged to play to an empty theatre. It was like playing
+whist with _dummy_. However, towards the close of the O. P. war, (which,
+by the way, excited more the attention of the Parisians than the
+national contest in which we were engaged,) the public had adopted the
+plan of never commencing operations until half-price, to the injury of
+the manager's purse. It was during the earlier acts of "The Man of the
+World," that Cooke, in performing to "a beggarly account of empty
+boxes," was addressed by one of the actors, in accordance with the
+scene, in a whisper; when the _elevated_ comedian, casting a glance
+around, bitterly observed, "Speak out: there need be no secret. _No one
+hears us._" Poor Cooke could not plead in excuse what an actor did on
+being hissed for too _sober_ a representation of a _drunken_ part,
+"Ladies and gentlemen, I beg your pardon: but it is really the _first
+time_ I ever was _intoxicated_."
+
+His death was in singular accordance with his _taste_ through life. He
+sought the banks of the _Brandywine_, and whether it were that the
+composition of its stream so little responded to its title as to prey
+upon his _spirits_, or from some other cause, there he "_drank_ his
+last."
+
+
+DICKEY SUETT.
+
+
+I met with him once in a house situated on the very confines of _Beef
+and Law_; on the line of demarcation between the theatres and Lincoln's
+Inn; a sort of _debateable_ ground between the spouters and ranters of
+the stage, and the eaters of commons, by either of which party it was
+frequented. Around a large table in the parlour sat a motley group.
+There were ragged wits, well-dressed students, new-fledged actors, a
+hackney writer or so, an Irish barrister named Shuter, a Scotch
+reporter, and a hodge-podge of most discordant materials congregated
+under the amalgamating power of Suett, who seemed, by the incongruity of
+his dress and diversified manner, to have studied the various tastes of
+those he swayed, and to be the comprehensive representative of each of
+the strange beings he looked upon, with all of whom he would
+occasionally identify himself with so much ease, that it were hard to
+say whether it was the result of labour or of tact, of calculation, or
+the mere impulse of mother-wit. The _ropes of his face_, when drawn
+_taught_, peculiarly commanded the attention of the Caledonian, while
+the sly and humorous glance of his half-shut eye was acknowledged by the
+Hibernian to whom it was addressed; the _snow drift_ of powder which lay
+in patches on his long, straight hair, agreed with the taste of his
+dramatic nursling; the far-extended cambric of white frill imposed upon
+the students, while the unseemly rents in his coat at once compensated
+to the wits for what there might be of gaudy or gay in his outward man.
+We were received with equal courtesy and ceremony by the president; and
+were just seated, when a ballet-dancer of Drury-lane entered. As he was
+a Frenchman, it became a question of _national_ politeness: and Dicky
+_chestered_ him to his dexter! and, as was befitting, condescended to
+address him. "I am proud, sir," said Suett, with the formality of _Black
+Rod_ himself, "to do the honours of my _country_ to the _representative_
+of a nation which held my _master_ Garrick in peculiar respect. He was a
+great actor, sir; a wonderful man! Your Lekain, or any other _Cain_,
+could not come up to him, for he was _Able_, Pardon the pun. Oh,
+la!--but he was vain, sir; vain as a peacock; it could not be of his
+person. Had he been, as Richard has it, _'a marvellous proper man'_ like
+myself, one might have said something. He used to say, I was too _lean_
+for _Suett_. Oh, dear. _A votre sante, Monsieur,_ happy to see you on
+this side the Channel. Never been to France yet, although in the
+_Straits_ great part of my life, and not unfrequently _half seas
+over_.--Well, sir, to return to Garrick. There was that man 'frae the
+north,' who wrote the History of England and Roderick Random,--the
+latter a true story, they say;--he who challenged Campbell the
+barrister, for calling him _names_, _To bias_ the cause. Well, sir, Davy
+refused one of his farces; but the wily Caledonian _pocketed_ the
+affront, in coolly observing, 'that he had nearly completed another
+volume of his history, and hoped he might be permitted to name _the
+British Roscius_, the pride of his country, and all that sort of thing.'
+It was a palpable hit, sir--the thing was settled--the _manager
+managed_; and _Smelfungus_ retired, _without_ his manuscript, half sorry
+he had not added _another_ scene to his farce. Well, sir, the story got
+wind, and some days after Davy dined with a lawyer who had interested
+himself vainly for a friend's comedy with him, when, in the course of
+conversation, the barrister observed to Davy, before a large company,
+that he had nearly compiled another volume of The Statutes _at large_
+(would they were all _at large_), and hoped he might be permitted to
+name _the British Roscius, the pride of his country._ There was a roar
+at the expense of Garrick. 'The galled jade' winced terribly:--he was
+touchy as tinder, sir:--never was _Digest_ so ill-_digested_.'"
+
+It was when the meteor-like popularity of little Betty was at its height
+that poor Suett fell ill, at what he termed his _town_ residence (a
+second-floor in a low street), and the pigmy Roscius, having eaten too
+much fruit, kept all London in intense agony for his fate at the same
+moment. Bulletins were exhibited in Southampton-row several times
+a-day, signed by numerous physicians. Had he died, how posterity would
+have been befooled! Suett was then _actually_ dying, yet would he have
+his joke, and his last moments were cheered by the horse-laugh of the
+rabble assembled to _spell_ the bulletin suspended to "the second-floor
+bell," attested by the _mark_ of the old woman who attended him. "You
+shall be buried in Saint Paul's," said a friend. "Oh, la!" was the dying
+ejaculation of the comedian.
+
+_New Monthly Magazine._
+
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+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.
+
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+
+
+AMERICAN TRAVELLING.
+
+
+June 7th, at three in the morning, the steam-boat (which was of immense
+size, and on the high pressure system) arrived at Albany, having come
+one hundred and sixty miles in seventeen hours, including stoppages. I
+found that, unluckily, the mail-coach had left the place just before our
+arrival, so I booked myself in an accommodation-stage, which was to
+reach Boston (a distance of one hundred and sixty miles) in three days,
+and entered the wretched-looking vehicle, with a heavy heart, at eight
+o'clock.... The machine in which I travelled was slow and crowded. The
+proprietor had undertaken to let us rest at night on the road; but we
+found that his notions of rest were very imperfect, and that his night
+was one of the polar regions.--Having partaken of a wretched dinner at
+Sand Lake, we arrived about one in the morning at Cheshire, where we
+were to sleep.
+
+By dint of most active exertion, I secured a bed to myself, the narrow
+dimensions of which precluded the possibility of participation, and
+plunged into it with all possible haste, as there was not a moment to
+be lost. Secure in "single blessedness," I was incredibly amused at the
+compliments of nocturnal arrangement which passed around me among my
+Yankee companions. They were nine in number, and occupied by triplets
+the three other beds which the room contained. Whether it was with a
+view of preserving their linen unrumpled, or of enjoying greater space,
+I cannot tell; but certain it is, that they divested themselves of
+clothing to a degree not generally practised in Europe. A spirit of
+accommodation appeared to prevail; and it seemed to be a matter of
+indifference whether to occupy the lateral portions of the bed, or the
+warmer central position, except in one instance, where a gentleman
+protested against being placed next to the wall, as he was in the habit
+of chewing tobacco in his sleep!
+
+At four o'clock in the morning we again set off, and, as much rain had
+fell in the night, the roads were in a dreadful state. The coach company
+now consisted of nine passengers inside, one on the top, (which, from
+its convex form, is a very precarious situation,) and three on the box,
+besides the coachman, who sat on the knees of the unfortunate middle
+man,--an uneasy burden, considering the intense heat of the weather.
+
+It matters little to the American driver where he sits; he is indeed, in
+all respects, a far different personage from his great-coated prototype
+in England. He is in general extremely dexterous in the art of driving,
+though his costume is of a most grotesque description. Figure to
+yourself a slipshod sloven, dressed in a striped calico jacket and an
+old straw hat, alternately arranging the fragile harness of his horses,
+and springing again upon his box with surprising agility; careless of
+the bones of his passengers, and confident in his skill and resources,
+he scruples not frequently to gallop his coach over corderoy roads, (so
+called from being formed of the trunks of trees laid transversely,) or
+dash it round corners, and through holes that would appal the heart of
+the stoutest English coachman, however elated by gin, or irritated by
+opposition. I was once whirled along one of these roads, when the
+leathers, (barbarous substitutes for springs,) which supported the
+carriage gave way with a sudden shock. The undaunted driver instantly
+sprang from his box, tore a stake from a rail fence by the road-side,
+laid it across under the body of the coach, and was off again before I
+properly recovered the use of my senses, which were completely
+bewildered by the jolting I had undergone. I can compare it to nothing
+but the butt of Regulus, without the nails. When the lash and butt-end
+of the whip fail him, he does not scruple to use his foot, as the
+situation of his seat allows the application of it to his wheelers.
+
+We dined at New Salem at six, and arrived at Petersham, where we were to
+sleep, at twelve o'clock at night, having been twenty hours coming sixty
+miles.
+
+Though tired and disgusted with my journey, the prospect of a short
+respite from this state of purgatory was embittered during the last few
+miles by alarm at the idea of passing the night with one, if not two, of
+my fellow-travellers; and I internally resolved rather to sleep upon the
+floor.
+
+After a desperate struggle, I succeeded, to my great joy, in securing a
+bed for myself, not, however, without undergoing a severe objurgation
+from the landlady, who could not understand such unaccommodating
+selfishness. Short were our slumbers. By the rigid order of the
+proprietor, we were turned out the next morning at three, and pursued
+our journey.--_De Roos's Personal Narrative._
+
+
+KANGAROO WAGGERY.
+
+
+One of the largest tame kangaroos I have seen in the country is
+domiciled here, and a mischievous wag he is, creeping and snuffing
+cautiously toward a stranger, with such an innocently expressive
+countenance, that roguery could never be surmised to exist under
+it--when, having obtained as he thinks a sufficient introduction, he
+claps his forepaws on your shoulders, (as if to caress you,) and raising
+himself suddenly upon his tail, administers such a well-put push with
+his hind-legs, that it is two to one but he drives you heels over head!
+This is all done in what he considers facetious play, with a view to
+giving you a hint to examine your pockets, and see what _bon-bons_ you
+have got for him, as he munches cakes and comfits with epicurean _gout_;
+and if the door be ajar, he will gravely take his station behind your
+chair at meal-time, like a lackey, giving you an admonitory kick every
+now and then, if you fail to help him as well as yourself.--_Two Years
+in New South Wales._
+
+
+A MAGNIFICENT WATERFALL.
+
+
+My swarthy guides, although this was unquestionably the first time that
+they had ever led a traveller to view the remarkable scenery of their
+country, evinced a degree of tact, as _ciceroni_, as well as natural
+feeling of the picturesque, that equally pleased and surprised me.
+Having forewarned me that this was not yet the waterfall, they now
+pioneered the way for about a mile farther along the rocks, some of them
+keeping near, and continually cautioning me to look to my feet, as a
+single false step might precipitate me into the raging abyss of waters,
+the tumult of which seemed to shake even the solid rocks around us.
+
+At length we halted, as before, and the next moment I was led to a
+projecting rock, where a scene burst upon me, far surpassing my most
+sanguine expectations. The whole water of the river (except what escapes
+by the subsidiary channel we had crossed, and by a similar one on the
+north side) being previously confined to a bed of scarcely one hundred
+feet in breadth, descends at once in a magnificent cascade of full four
+hundred feet in height. I stood upon a cliff nearly level with the top
+of the fall, and directly in front of it. The beams of the evening sun
+fell upon the cascade, and occasioned a most splendid rainbow; while the
+vapoury mists arising from the broken waters, the bright green woods
+that hung from the surrounding cliffs, the astounding roar of the
+waterfall, and the tumultuous boiling and whirling of the stream below,
+striving to escape along its deep, dark, and narrow, path, formed
+altogether a combination of beauty and grandeur, such as I never before
+witnessed. As I gazed on this stupendous stream, I felt as if in a
+dream. The sublimity of nature drowned all apprehensions of danger; and,
+after a short pause, I hastily left the spot where I stood to gain a
+nearer view from a cliff that impended over the foaming gulf. I had just
+reached this station, when I felt myself grasped all at once by four
+Korannas, who simultaneously seized hold of me by the arms and legs. My
+first impression was, that they were going to hurl me over the
+precipice; but it was a momentary thought, and it wronged the friendly
+savages. They are themselves a timid race, and they were alarmed, lest
+my temerity should lead me into danger. They hurried me back from the
+brink, and then explained their motive, and asked my forgiveness. I was
+not ungrateful for their care, though somewhat annoyed by their
+officiousness.--_Thompson's Travels in Southern Africa._
+
+
+SETTING IN OF AN INDIAN MONSOON.
+
+
+The shades of evening approached as we reached the ground, and just as
+the encampment was completed the atmosphere grew suddenly dark, the heat
+became oppressive, and an unusual stillness presaged the immediate
+setting in of the monsoon. The whole appearance of nature resembled
+those solemn preludes to earthquakes and hurricanes in the West Indies,
+from which the east in general is providentially free. We were allowed
+very little time for conjecture; in a few minutes the heavy clouds burst
+over us.... I witnessed seventeen monsoons in India, but this exceeded
+them all in its awful appearance and dreadful effects.
+
+Encamped in a low situation, on the borders of a lake formed to collect
+the surrounding water, we found ourselves in a few hours in a liquid
+plain. The tent-pins giving way, in a loose soil, the tents fell down,
+and left the whole army exposed to the contending elements.
+
+It requires a lively imagination to conceive the situation of a hundred
+thousand human beings of every description, with more than two hundred
+thousand elephants, camels, horses, and oxen, suddenly overwhelmed by
+this dreadful storm, in a strange country, without any knowledge of high
+or low ground; the whole being covered by an immense lake, and
+surrounded by thick darkness, which prevented our distinguishing a
+single object, except such as the vivid glare of lightning displayed in
+horrible forms. No language can describe the wreck of a large encampment
+thus instantaneously destroyed and covered with water, amid the cries of
+old men and helpless women, terrified by the piercing shrieks of their
+expiring children, unable to afford them relief. During this dreadful
+night more than two hundred persons and three thousand cattle perished,
+and the morning dawn exhibited a shocking spectacle.--_Forbes's Oriental
+Memoirs._
+
+
+GRACE OF CARRIAGE.
+
+
+This requires not only a perfect freedom of motion, but also a firmness
+of step, or constant steady bearing of the centre of gravity over the
+base. It is usually possessed by those who live in the country, and
+according to nature, as it is called, and who take much and varied
+exercise. What a contrast is there between the gait of the active
+mountaineer, rejoicing in the consciousness of perfect nature, and of
+the mechanic or shopkeeper, whose life is spent in the cell of his
+trade, and whose body soon receives a shape and air that correspond to
+this!--and in the softer sex, what a contrast is there, between her who
+recalls to us the fabled Diana of old, and that other, who has scarcely
+trodden but on smooth pavements or carpets, and who, under any new
+circumstances, carries her person as awkwardly as something to the
+management of which she is not accustomed.
+
+_Arnott's Elements of Physics._
+
+
+THE CAVALRY SCHOOL OF ST. GERMAINS.
+
+
+Bonaparte frequently visited the school of infantry at St. Cyr, reviewed
+the cadets, and gave them cold collations in the park. But he had never
+visited the school of cavalry since its establishment, of which we were
+very jealous, and did all in our power to attract him. Whenever he
+hunted, the cadets were in grand parade on the parterre, crying, _"Vive
+l'Empereur!"_ with all their young energies; he held his hat raised as
+he passed them; but that was all we could gain. Wise people whispered
+that he never would go whilst they were so evidently expecting him; that
+he liked to keep them always on the alert; it was good for discipline.
+The general took another plan, and once allowed no sign of life about
+the castle when the emperor passed--it was like a deserted place. But it
+did not take neither; he passed, as if there were no castle there. It
+was _desesperant._ When, lo! the next day but one after I had spoken to
+him, he suddenly galloped into the court of the castle, and the cry of
+the sentinel, _"L'Empereur!"_ was the first notice they had of it. He
+examined into every thing. All were in undress, all at work, and this
+was what he wanted. In the military-schools the cadets got
+ammunition-bread, and lived like well-fed soldiers; but there was great
+outcry in the circles of Paris against the bread of the school of St.
+Germain's. Ladies complained that their sons were poisoned by it; the
+emperor thought it was all nicety, and said no man was fit to be an
+officer who could not eat ammunition-bread. However, being there, he
+asked for a loaf, which was brought, and he saw it was villanous trash,
+composed of pease, beans, rye, potatoes, and every thing that would make
+flour or meal, instead of good brown wheaten flour. He tore the loaf in
+two in a rage, and dashed it against the wall, and there it stuck like a
+piece of mortar, to the great annoyance of those whose duty it was to
+have attended to this. He ordered the baker to be called, and made him
+look at it _sticking_. The man was in great terror first at the
+emperor's anger, but, taking heart, he begged his majesty not to take
+his contract from him, and he would give good bread in future; at which
+the emperor broke into a royal and imperial passion, and threatened to
+send him to the galleys; but, suddenly turning round, he said, "Yes, he
+would allow him to keep his contract, on condition that, as long as it
+lasted, he should furnish the school with good white household bread,
+_(pain de menage,)_ such as was sold in the bakers' shops in Paris; that
+he might choose that, or lose his contract;" and the baker thankfully
+promised to furnish good white bread in future, at the same
+price.--_Appendix to the 9th volume of Scott's Life of Napoleon._
+
+
+CENTRE OF GRAVITY, IN REFERENCE TO SEA-SICKNESS.
+
+
+Man requiring so strictly to maintain his perpendicularity, that is, to
+keep the centre of gravity always over the support of his body,
+ascertains the required position in various ways, but chiefly by the
+perpendicularity or known position of things about him. Vertigo, and
+sickness commonly called sea-sickness, because it most frequently occurs
+at sea, are the consequences of depriving him of his standards of
+comparison, or of disturbing them.
+
+Hence on shipboard, where the lines of the masts, windows, furniture,
+&c. are constantly changing, sickness, vertigo, and other affections of
+the same class are common to persons unaccustomed to ships. Many
+experience similar effects in carriages, and in swings, or on looking
+from a lofty precipice, where known objects being distant, and viewed
+under a new aspect, are not so readily recognised: also in walking on a
+wall or roof, in looking directly up to a roof, or to the stars in the
+zenith, because, then, all standards disappear: on walking into a round
+room, where there are no perpendicular lines of light and shade, as when
+the walls and roof are covered with a spotted paper without regular
+arrangement of spot:--on turning round, as in waltzing, or on a wheel;
+because the eye is not then allowed to rest on the standards, &c.
+
+At night, or by blind people, standards belonging to the sense of touch
+are used; and it is because on board ship, the standards both of sight
+and of touch are lost, that the effect is so very remarkable.
+
+But sea-sickness also partly depends on the irregular pressure of the
+bowels against the diaphragm, as their inertia or weight varies with the
+rising and falling of the ship.
+
+From the nature of sea-sickness, as discovered in all these facts, it is
+seen why persons unaccustomed to the motion of a ship, often find relief
+in keeping their eyes directed to the fixed shore, where it is visible;
+or in lying down on their backs and shutting their eyes; or in taking
+such a dose of exhilarating drink as shall diminish their sensibility to
+all objects of external sense.
+
+_Arnott's Elements of Physics._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+FINE ARTS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE BRITISH INSTITUTION.
+
+
+The following gratifying report of the directors has just been
+made:--"The funds of the institution consist at the present time of
+12,500l. 3 per cent, consols. It is hoped that these funds may be
+considerably increased by the exhibition of the beautiful collection of
+pictures now on view at the gallery, which last year attracted such
+general notice, and which his majesty, ever anxious to forward the
+purposes of the institution, has again allowed the directors to offer
+for the inspection of the public. The directors, finding that the two
+institutions which have been established for the relief of decayed
+artists, were not only founded upon the most humane principles, but
+conducted in the most beneficial manner, have applied in the course of
+the present year, 400l, to the purposes of those institutions; viz.
+200l. to the Artists' Benevolent Fund, and 200l to the Artists'
+General Benevolent Institution." The report next mentions two pictures
+to be painted on the subjects of Lord Howe's and Lord St. Vincent's
+victories, by Mr. Briggs and Mr. Jones, to be placed, "as well as those
+which were exhibited this year in the gallery in commemoration of other
+naval victories, in the hall of Greenwich hospital." It also confirms
+the gift of Mr. Hilton's and Mr. Northcote's pictures to the new church
+at Pimlico, built by Mr. Hakewill, and to the chapel built by Mr.
+Cockerell, in the upper part of Regent-street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ARTS AND SCIENCES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MUSICAL COMPOSITION.
+
+
+A very valuable musical manuscript, by Guillaume de Machault, who was
+_valet de chambre_ to Phillippe-le-Bel, in 1307, has been discovered in
+the royal library at Paris. It contains several French and Latin
+anthems, ballads, &c.; and concludes with a mass, which is supposed to
+have been sung at the coronation of Charles V., in 1364; and which
+proves, at that time they were acquainted with the art of composition in
+four parts.
+
+
+NOISY FISH.
+
+
+M. Cuvier lately read a short paper to the French academy on the species
+of fish called _pogonias_, in which he particularly adverted to the
+noise by which they make themselves heard, even under water. However
+difficult the explanation of this phenomenon, there can be no doubt of
+its existence; the evidence of it adduced by M. Cuvier being perfectly
+satisfactory. The silurus, a large and ravenous fish, which abounds in
+the Danube, gives daily proof of it.
+
+
+GEOLOGY.
+
+
+A treatise on the great geological question, whether the continents now
+inhabited, have or have not been repeatedly submerged in the sea, has
+lately been read to the Academie des Sciences, by M. Constant Prevost.
+M. Prevost maintains, contrary to the generally received opinion, that
+there has been but one great inundation of the earth; and that the
+various remains of plants, animals, &c., which have given rise to the
+supposition of successive inundations, have been floated to the places
+in which they are occasionally found.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+    "I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's
+    stuff."--Wotton.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A PUZZLE FOR THE CURIOUS.
+
+
+At a town in Gloucestershire the relatives as below, recently surrounded
+one dinner-table:--One great-grandfather, two grandfathers, one
+grandmother, three fathers, two mothers, four children, three
+grand-children, ore great-grandchild, three sisters, one brother, two
+husbands, two wives, one mother-in-law, one father-in-law, two
+brothers-in-law, three sisters-in-law, one son-in-law, two
+daughters-in-law, two uncles, three aunts, one nephew, two nieces, and
+two cousins. The whole party consisted of seven persons only.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE ROMANCE OF WAR.
+
+
+A French soldier, who accompanied the armies of Russia, concealed a
+small treasure at the entrance of a village near Wilna, with a view of
+taking it with him on his return. After the defeat of Moscow he was made
+prisoner, and sent to Siberia, and only recovered his liberty at the end
+of last year. On reaching Wilna he remembered his hidden treasure, and
+after tracing out the spot where he had hid it, he went to take it away.
+What was his astonishment to find, in the place of his money, a small
+tin box, containing a letter addressed to him, in which a commercial
+house was mentioned at Nancy, where he might receive the sum buried,
+with interest, since the year 1812. The soldier supposed this was all a
+hoax; he went, however, to the house pointed out, where he received his
+capital, with twelve years' interest. With this sum he established a
+small business at Nancy, which enables him to live comfortably; but he
+has never been able, though he has taken some pains, to ascertain how
+his money was taken away and restored to him.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    Two lovely ladies dwell at ----,
+      And each a-churching goes;
+    Emma goes there _to close her eyes_,
+      And Jane to _eye her clothes_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The death of Stanislaus, king of Poland, was occasioned in a singular
+manner. Being much addicted to smoking, he generally every day finished
+many pipes. In knocking out the ashes he set fire to his dressing-gown.
+As no one was near him, the flames had surrounded him, when the officer
+on guard, hearing his cries, ran to his assistance, and extinguished the
+fire. He might have survived, but a singular circumstance accompanied
+the accident. He had been devout during the last years of his life, and,
+as a penance for his sins, had worn a girdle with points on the inside;
+these became heated, and being pressed into his body while the flames
+were extinguishing, caused a number of wounds, the discharge from which,
+at his period of life, proved too much for his debilitated constitution.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Professor Porson was often in pecuniary difficulties. On one occasion he
+came with a dejected air to a friend, and said he had been walking
+through the streets of London all the morning, thinking how strange it
+was that not one of all the crowds he met should know as much about
+Greek tragic verse as himself, and yet that he could not turn his
+knowledge into a hundred pounds. In these moments he often talked of
+retiring forever to the wilds of America, where he formed a plan of
+living in solitary happiness, without a book or a friend.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+One evening, at the Literary Fund Club, Mr. Incledon having sung with
+great effect Mr. T. Dibdin's ballad of "May we ne'er want a friend, or a
+bottle to give him," an elderly gentleman whispered in Mr. T. Dibdin's
+ear, "Ah! my dear sir, these are the true things of the old school; what
+a pity it is no one living is found to write such ditties now!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_Printed and published by J LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,)
+and sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers._
+
+
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