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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + + + + +Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, +Issue 345, December 6, 1828 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: January 14, 2004 [eBook #10719] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, +AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 12, ISSUE 345, DECEMBER 6, 1828*** + + +E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, William Flis, and Project Gutenberg +Distributed Proofreaders + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustration. + See 10719-h.htm or 10719-h.zip: + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/0/7/1/10719/10719-h/10719-h.htm) + or + (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/0/7/1/10719/10719-h.zip) + + + + +THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. + +VOL. 12, No. 349.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1828. [PRICE 2d. + + + + * * * * * + + + + +THE ARCH OF CONSTANTINE, AT ROME. + +[Illustration: The Arch of Constantine, at Rome.] + +"Still harping" on the Fine Arts--_Architecture_ and _Painting_. Of +the former, the above engraving is an illustration; and of the latter, +our readers will find a beautiful subject (from one of _Turner's_ +pictures) in a _Supplement published with the present Number_.[1] + + [1] The Second of "the Spirit of the Annuals," containing a fine + Engraving, after a celebrated picture by Turner, and a string of + POETICAL GEMS from the Anniversary, Keepsake, and Friendship's + Offering, with unique extracts from such of "the Annuals" as were + not noticed in the previous Supplement. + +The Arches of Rome were splendid monuments of triumph, erected in +honour of her illustrious generals. They were at first very simple, +being built of brick or hewn stone, and of a semicircular figure; but +afterwards more magnificent, built of the finest marble, and of a +square figure, with a large, arched gate in the middle, and two small +ones on each side, adorned with columns and statues. In the vault of +the middle gate, hung winged figures of victory, bearing crowns in +their hands, which, when let down, they placed on the victor's head, +when he passed in triumph. + +The _Arch of Constantine_, the most noble of all of these structures, +subsists almost entire. It was erected by the senate and Roman people, +in honour of Constantine, after his victory over Maxentius, and +crosses the Appian Way, at the junction of the Coelian and Palatine +Hills. Here it stands as the last monument of Roman triumph, or like +the December sun of "the world's sole monument." + +This building consists of three arches, of which the centre is the +largest; and has two fronts, each adorned with four columns of giallo +antico marble, of the Corinthian order, and fluted, supporting a +cornice, on which stand eight Dacian captives of Pavonazzetta, or +violet-coloured marble. + +The inscription on both sides of the architrave imports, that it was +dedicated "to the Emperor Caesar Flavius Constantine Augustus, the +greatest, pious, and the happy; because by a divine impulse, the +greatness of his courage, and the aid of his army, he avenged the +republic by his just arms, and, at the same time, rescued it from the +tyrant and his whole faction." On one side of the arch are the words, +"Liberatori urbis," to the deliverer of the city; and on the other, +"Fundatori quietis," to the founder of public tranquillity. + +Although erected to the honour of Constantine, this arch commemorates +the victories of Trajan, some of the basso-relievos, &c. having +been pilfered from one of the arches of Trajan. This accounts for +the Dacian captives, whose heads Lorenzo de Medicis broke off and +conveyed to Florence, but the theft might not have been so notorious +to posterity, had not the artists of Constantine's time added some +figures of inferior merit. Forsyth says, "Constantine's reign was +notorious for architectural robbery;" and the styles of the two +emperors, in the present arch, mar the harmony by their unsightly +contrasts. + +Although the decree for erecting this arch was, without doubt, passed +immediately after the defeat of Maxentius, it appears from the +monument itself, that the building was not finished and dedicated till +the tenth year of Constantine's reign, or the year of Christ 315 or +316. + +The newly-erected arch opposite the entrance to Hyde Park is from the +Roman arch, though, we believe, not from any particular model. In the +View of the New Palace, St. James's Park, (in our No. 278,) the arch, +to be called the Waterloo Monument, and erected in the middle of the +area of the palace, will be nearly a copy of that of Constantine +at Rome. In the court-yard of the Tuilleries at Paris, there is a +similar arch, copied from that of Septimius Severus. This was formerly +surmounted by the celebrated group of the horses of St. Mark, pilfered +from Venice, but restored at the peace of 1815. + + * * * * * + + + +THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BETHNAL GREEN. + +_(For the Mirror.)_ + +The popular ballad of "The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall-Greene" was +written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It is founded, though without +the least appearance of truth, or even probability, on a legend of +the time of Henry III. Henry de Montfort, son of the ambitious Earl +of Leicester, who was slain with his father at the memorable battle +of Evesham, is the hero of the tale. He is supposed (according to +the legend) to have been discovered among the bodies of the slain +by a young lady, in an almost lifeless state, and deprived of sight +by a wound, which he had received during the engagement. Under +the fostering hand of this "faire damosel" he soon recovered, and +afterwards marrying her, she became the mother of "the comelye and +prettye Bessee." Fearing lest his rank and person should be discovered +by his enemies, he disguised himself in the habit of a beggar, and +took up his abode at Bethnal-Green. The beauty of his daughter +attracted many suitors, and she was at length married to a noble +knight, who, regardless of her supposed meanness and poverty, had the +courage to make her his wife, her other lovers having deserted her on +account of her low origin. Before entering, however, upon the ballad, +it may not, perhaps, be thought irrelevant to give a brief sketch of +the family of the De Montforts. + +Simon de Montfort, created Earl of Leicester by Henry III., was the +younger son of Simon de Montfort, the renowned but cruel commander +of the croisade against the Albigenses. This nobleman was greatly +honoured by Henry III., to whose sister, the Countess Dowager of +Pembroke, he paid his addresses, and was married, with the consent +of her brother. For the favour thus shown him by his sovereign, he, +however, proved ungrateful: his inordinate ambition, cloaked by a +pretended zeal for reform, was the cause of those rebellions which, in +the reign of Henry III., kept the kingdom in such a continued turmoil. +The different oppressions and successes of the confederate barons, +who at length got possession of the king's person, and the civil +wars which ensued, are so well known as to render any remark on the +subject superfluous; suffice it to say, that the disputes between +the malcontents and the royal party were at length terminated by the +battle of Evesham, which decided in favour of the latter. In this +field fell the Earl of Leicester and his eldest son, Henry de +Montfort. His death was followed by the total ruin of his family; +his titles and estates were all confiscated; the countess, his wife, +who had been extremely active in her designs against the royalists, +was banished, together with her sons, Simon and Guy, who afterwards +assassinated their cousin, Henry d'Allmane, when he was endeavouring +to effect a reconciliation between them and their uncle, Henry IV. +The head of the earl was sent as a signal of the victory by Roger de +Mortimer to the countess; but his body, together with that of his +son Henry, was interred in the Abbey of Evesham; thus leaving the +improbability of the legend without a shadow of doubt. + +As our limits will not allow us to quote the whole of the ballad,[1] +we must content ourselves with giving the song of the beggar, which, +as well as being the most interesting, contains the whole of the +legend concerning de Montfort:-- + + A poore beggar's daughter did dwell on a greene, + Who for her fairnesse might well be a queene: + A blithe bonny lasse, and a daintye was shee, + And many one called her pretty Bessee. + + Her father hee had noe goods nor noe land, + But begg'd for a penny all day with his hand; + And yett to her marriage he gave thousands three, + And still he hath somewhat for pretty Bessee. + + And if any one here her birth doe disdaine, + Her father is ready, with might and with maine, + To prove shee is come of noble degree-- + Therefore, ever flout att prettye Bessee. + + * * * * * + + Then give me leave, nobles and gentles, each one, + One song more to sing, and then I have done; + And if that itt may not winn good report, + Then doe not give me a GROAT for my sport. + + Sir Simon de Montfort my subject shall bee. + Once chiefe of all the great barons was hee-- + Yet fortune so cruelle this lorde did abase, + Now loste and forgotten are hee and his race. + + When the barons in armes did King Henrye oppose, + Sir Simon de Montfort their leader they chose-- + A leader of courage undaunted was hee, + And oft-times he made their enemyes flee. + + At length in the battle on Eveshame plaine + The barons were routed, and Montfort was slaine; + Moste fatall that battel did prove unto thee, + Thoughe thou wast not borne then, my prettye Bessee! + + Along with the nobles that fell at that tyde, + His eldest son Henrye, who fought by his side, + Was fellde by a blowe he receiv'de in the fighte! + A blowe that depriv'de him for ever of sight. + + Among the dead bodyes all lifelesse he laye, + Till evening drewe on of the following daye, + When by a yong ladye discover'd was hee-- + And this was thy mother, my prettye Bessee! + + A baron's faire daughter stept forth in the nighte, + To search for her father, who fell in the fight, + And seeing yong Montfort, where gasping he laye, + Was moved with pitye, and broughte him awaye. + + In secrette she nurst him, and swaged his paine, + While he throughe the realme was beleev'd to be slaine: + At lengthe his faire bride she consented to bee, + And made him glad father of prettye Bessee. + + And nowe, lest oure foes our lives sholde betraye + We clothed ourselves in beggars' arraye; + Her jewells shee solde, and hither came wee-- + All our comfort and care was our prettye Bessee. + + And here have wee lived in fortunes despite, + Thoughe poore, yet contented with humble delighte; + Full forty winters thus have I beene + A silly blind beggar of Bednall-greene. + + And here, noble lordes, is ended the song + Of one that once to your owne ranke did belong: + And thus have you learned a secrette from mee, + That ne'er had beene knowne but for prettye Bessee. + + [1] Vide Percy's "Reliques," vol. ii. p. 178. + +At Bethnal-Green is an old mansion, which, in the survey of 1703, was +called _Bethnal-Green-House_, and which the inhabitants, with their +usual love of traditionary lore, assign as the "Palace of the Blind +Beggar." This house was erected in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, by +John Kirby, citizen of London, and was, says Stow,[1] "lofty like a +castle." It was afterwards the residence of Sir Hugh Platt, Knight, +the author of many ingenious works; from him it came into the +possession of Sir William Ryder, Knight, who died there in 1669; of +late years it has been used as a private madhouse. The tradition of +the beggar is still preserved on the sign-posts of several of the +public-houses in the neighbourhood. + + [1] Strype's Stowe, vol. ii. p. 47, edit. 1755. + +S.I.B. + + * * * * * + + + +HISTORY AND ANTIQUITY OF WILLS. + +(_For the Mirror._) + +According to Blackstone, wills are of high antiquity. We find them +among the ancient Hebrews; not to mention what Eusebius and others +have related of Noah's testament, made in writing, and witnessed under +his seal, by which he disposed of the whole world. A more authentic +instance of the early use of testaments occurs in the sacred writings, +(Genesis, chap. xlviii.) in which Jacob bequeaths to his son Joseph, a +portion of his inheritance, double to that of his brethren. + +The Grecian practice concerning wills (says Potter) was not the same +in all places; some states permitted men to dispose of their estates, +others wholly deprived them of that privilege. We are told by +Plutarch, that Solon is much commended for his law concerning wills; +for before his time no man was allowed to make any, but all the wealth +of deceased persons belonged to their families; but he permitted them +to bestow it on whom they pleased, esteeming friendship a stronger tie +than kindred, and affection than necessity, and thus put every man's +estate in the disposal of the possessor; yet he allowed not all sorts +of wills, but required the following conditions in all persons that +made them:-- + +1st. That they must be citizens of Athens, not slaves, or foreigners, +for then their estates were confiscated for the public use. + +2nd. That they must be men who have arrived to twenty years of age, +for women and men under that age were not permitted to dispose by will +of more than one _medimn_ of barley. + +3rd. That they must not be adopted; for when adopted persons died +without issue, the estates they received by adoption returned to the +relations of the men who adopted them. + +4th. That they should have no male children of their own, for then +their estate belonged to these. If they had only daughters, the +persons to whom the inheritance was bequeathed were obliged to marry +them. Yet men were allowed to appoint heirs to succeed their children, +in case these happened to die under twenty years of age. + +5th. That they should be in their right minds, because testaments +extorted through the phrenzy of a disease, or dotage of old age, were +not in reality the wills of the persons that made them. + +6th. That they should not be under imprisonment, or other constraint, +their consent being then only forced, nor in justice to be reputed +voluntary. + +7th. That they should not be induced to it by the charms and +insinuations of a wife; for (says Plutarch) the wise lawgiver with +good reason thought that no difference was to be put between deceit +and necessity, flattery and compulsion, since both are equally +powerful to persuade a man from reason. + +Wills were usually signed before several witnesses, who put seals to +them for confirmation, then placed them in the hands of trustees, who +were obliged to see them performed. At Athens, some of the magistrates +were very often present at the making of wills. Sometimes the +_archons_ were also present. Sometimes the testator declared his will +before sufficient witnesses, without committing it to writing. Thus +Callias, fearing to be cut off by a wicked conspiracy, is said to have +made an open declaration of his will before the popular assembly at +Athens. There were several copies of wills in Diogenes Laertius, as +those of Aristotle, Lycon, and Theophrastus; whence it appears they +had a common form, beginning with a wish for life and health. + +The most ancient testaments among the Romans were made _viva voce_, +the testator declaring his will in the presence of seven witnesses; +these they called _nuncupative_ testaments; but the danger of trusting +the will of the dead to the memory of the living soon abolished these; +and all testaments were ordered to be in writing. + +The Romans were wont to set aside testaments, as being _inofficiosa_, +deficient in natural duty, if they disinherited or totally passed by +(without assigning a true and sufficient reason) any of the children +of the testator. But if the child had any legacy, though ever so +small, it was a proof that the testator had not lost his memory nor +his reason, which otherwise the law presumed. Hence probably (says +Blackstone) has arisen that groundless, vulgar error of the necessity +of leaving the heir a shilling, or some other express legacy, in order +to effectually disinherit him; whereas the law of England, though +the heir, or next of kin, be totally omitted, admits no _querela +inofficiosa_, to set aside such testament. + +Alfred the Great made a will, wherein he declared, in express terms, +that it was just the English should be as free as their own thoughts. + +P.T.W. + + * * * * * + + + + +THE COSMOPOLITE. + +DANCING. + +_(For the Mirror.)_ + + +Dancing is defined to be "to move in measure; to move with steps +correspondent to the sound of instruments." But there are other +species of dancing--as + + -----------------for three long months + To _dance attendance_ for a word of audience: + +and to dance with pain, or when, as Lord Bacon says, "in pestilences, +the malignity of the infecting vapour danceth the principal spirits." +The _Chorea S. Viti_, or _St. Vitus's Dance_ is another variation, +said to have once prevailed extensively, and to have been cured by a +prayer to this saint! whose martyrdom is commemorated on June 15. It +may not be generally known that a person afflicted with this species +of dancing can _run_, although he cannot walk or stand still. Another +and a more agreeable species is to _lead the dance_, an unjust +usurpation which is practised in a thousand other places beside the +ball-room. + +According to the mythologists, (authorities always quotable, and +nobody knows why,) the Curetes or Corybantes, a people of Crete, who +were _produced from rain_, first invented the dance to amuse the +infant Jupiter--with what success he danced we know not, for when a +year old he waged war against the Titans, and then his dancing days +must have terminated. + +A history of dancing is, however, not to our purpose; but a few of its +eccentricities. It occurs in the customs of all people, either as a +recreation or as a religious ceremony--held in contempt by some, and +in esteem by others. David danced before the ark; the daughters of +Shiloh danced in a solemn yearly festival; and the Israelites, (good +judges) danced round the golden calf. + +The ancients had a peculiar _penchant_ for dancing, whether in person +or by animals; and the feats of the latter distance all the wretched +efforts of the bears, dogs, and horses of our days. The attempts +of Galba to amuse the Roman people throw into the shade all the +peace-rejoicings and illuminations of St. James's and the Green Parks. +Suetonius, Seneca, and Pliny tell us of _elephants_ in their time that +were taught to walk the rope, backwards and forwards, up and down, +with the agility of an Italian rope-dancer. Such was the confidence +reposed in the docility and dexterity of the animal, that a person +sat upon an elephant's back, while he walked across the theatre +upon a rope, extended from the one side to the other. Lipsius, +who has collected these testimonies, thinks them too strong to be +doubted--perhaps even stronger than the rope. Scaliger corroborates +all of them; Busbequius _saw_ an elephant dance a _pas seul_ at +Constantinople; and Suetonius tells us of twelve elephants, six male +and six female, who were clothed like men and women, and performed a +country dance, in the reign of Tiberius. In later times, horses have +been taught to dance. In the carousals of Louis XIII. there were +dances of horses; and in the 13th century, some rode a horse upon a +rope. All this eclipses the puny modern feats of Astley and Ducrow.[1] + + [1] Miraculous dancing is not, however, confined to animals; for + William of Malmesbury gravely relates an instance of 15 young + women and 18 young men who (by the anathema of a priest) continued + dancing a whole year, and wore the earth so much, that, by + degrees, they sunk midway into the earth! + +The Greeks and Romans were divided upon the propriety of dancing. +Socrates who held death in contempt, when a reverend old gentleman, +learned to dance of Aspasia, the beautiful nurse of Grecian eloquence. +The Romans forgot their loss of the republic and of liberty-- + + ------------------the air we breathe + If we have it not we die. + +in seeing Pylades and Bathyllus dance before them in their +theatres--an indifference of which we were reminded on hearing that +the Parisians sat in the _Cafes_ on the Boulevard du Italiens--sipping +coffee and sucking down ice, during the capitulation of the city, and +while the French, killed and wounded, were conveyed along the road +before them. + +Cato, _Censorius_, danced at the age of fifty-six. Cicero, however, +reproached a consul with having danced. Tiberius, that monster of +indulgences, banished dancers from Rome; and Domitian, the illustrious +fly-catcher, expelled several of his _members of parliament_ for +having danced. We are much more civilized, for such an edict as that +of Domitian would clear our senate-houses as effectually as when +Cromwell turned out the Long Parliament. + +Among the Italians and the French even there have been found enemies +to dancing. Alfieri, the poet, had a great aversion to dancing; and +one Daneau wrote a Traite des Danses, in which he maintains that +"the devil never invented a more effectual way than dancing, to fill +the world with ----." The bishop of Noyon once presided at some +deliberations respecting a minuet; and in 1770, a reverend prelate +presented a document on dancing to the king of France. The Quakers +consider dancing below the dignity of the Christian character; and an +enthusiast, of another creed, thinks all lovers of the stage belong to +the schools of Voltaire and Hume, and that dancing is a link in the +chain of seduction. Stupid, leaden-heeled people, who constantly mope +in melancholy, and neither enjoy nor impart pleasure, will naturally +be enemies to dancing; and such we are induced to think the majority +of these opponents. + +The French are inveterate dancers. They have their _bals pares_ and +their _salons de danse_ in every street; and as long as the weather +will permit, they dance on platforms out of doors, and a heavy shower +of rain will scarcely cool their ardour in the recreation. Some of +their stage _figurantes_ resemble aerial beings rather than bone and +blood, for flesh may almost be left out of the composition. But the +Italians are a nation of dancers as well as the children of song, and +they seem to have followed the noble example of old Cato, in this +respect, with better effect than they have studied his virtue. We are +also told upon good authority, that the American dancers equal any of +the European _figurantes_. + +The English people have always been lovers of dancing; and it forms +an accompaniment of almost all their old sports and pastimes. Witness +the maypoles, wassails, and wakes of rural life, and the grotesque +morris-dance, originating in a kind of Pyrrhic or military dance, and +described by Sir William Temple as composed of "ten men, who danced a +maid marian and a tabor and pipe." In the time of Henry VII. dancers +were remarkably well paid; for in some of his accounts in the +Exchequer, we find + + L. s. d. +Paid to a spye, in reward----------------- 2 0 0 +To Pechie, the fool, in rewarde----------- 0 6 8 +To Richard Beden, for writing of bokes---- 0 10 0 +_To the young dameysell that daunceth_---- 30 0 0 + +In Shakspeare's time, to _dance_ was an elegant accomplishment. Thus +in the "Merry Wives of Windsor," "What say you to young Mr. Fenton? He +capers, he _dances_, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses." Locke +thus alludes to the graceful motions which dancing lends to the human +frame: "the legs of the dancing-master, and the fingers of a musician, +fall, as it were, naturally, without thought or pains, into regular +and admirable motions." + +It must be somewhat surprising to those who over-rate the +matter-of-fact character of the English people, that so great a +majority of them are attached to _dancing_. Among rank and wealth +this amusement admits of a finer display of beauty and artificial +decoration than almost any other recreation; for nothing can be more +splendid than a brilliantly illuminated and well-filled ball-room. +Dancing among the middle classes of society is equally mirthful though +not of so ostentatious a character, and it is a question whether the +latter, being free from the alloy of fashionable follies, are not more +exhilarated by sweet sounds than their wealthy superiors. But the +mushroom aristocracy and pride of purse often operate as checks to the +enjoyment of both these classes; and splendid dancing accommodations +sometimes put an end to the amusement. At Dorking, in Surrey, attached +to one of the inns is a ball-room, which cost the builder L12,000, and +here is one, or at most three balls during the year, while at scores +of places within our recollection, of less consequence, there are +monthly and even weekly balls; and we are inclined to think these +periodical recreations of great importance to the happiness of country +towns. But there is a species of intoxication sometimes arising +from them--that of dancing all night, to suffer from exhaustion and +rheumatism on the following day--an evil easy of remedy, by such +amusements being more frequent and less protracted. The influence +on the character of the people would probably be that of rendering +it more even, from the admixture or reciprocation of pleasure and +business being more proportional. This plan would get rid of much of +the ostentation and expense of a country ball, and would ultimately +prove the best antidote to the sins of scandal. + +As we have spoken of public dancing in the time of Henry VII., we will +show that the enormous sums paid to _artists_ have nourished their +conceit to an alarming height. Pitrot, the Vestris of his day, was a +consummate specimen of this effrontery. At Vienna, he chose to appear +only in the last act of the ballet. The emperor desired him to come +forth at the end of the first; Pitrot refused; the court left the +opera, and then Pitrot told the dancers they would have a hop by +themselves, which they did. However, this was forgiven; and, at his +departure, he was presented with the emperor's picture, set with +brilliants. Pitrot received it with _sang froid_, pressed his thumb +upon the crystal, crushed the picture to pieces, adding, "Thus I treat +men not worthy of my friendship." This fellow behaved equally ill +in France, Prussia, and Russia; but, at length, scouted by all his +patrons, and, after giving his thousands to opera girls, he wandered +about Calais in rags and poverty. Farinelli, after accumulating a +fortune in England, built a superb mansion in Italy, which he called +the _English Folly_.[1] + + [1] Here is a card "extraordinary" of one of our humble English + dancing-masters:--"As Dancing is the poetry of motion, those who + wish to sail through the mazes of harmony, or to 'trip it on the + light fantastic toe,' will find an able guide in John Wilde, who + was formed by nature for a dancing-master.--N.B. Those who have + been taught to dance with _a couple of left legs_, had better + apply in time, as he effectually cures all bad habits of the + kind." + +The oddity of some ideas of dancing is really ludicrous. The +Cambro-Britains, in a very late period, used to be played out of +church by a fiddle, and to form a dance in the church-yard at the +end of the service. But the ideas which the Chinese have of dancing +exceeds all others. When Commodore Anson was at Canton, the officers +of the _Centurion_ had a ball upon some court holiday: while they were +dancing, a Chinese, who very quietly surveyed the operation, said, +softly, to one of the party, "Why don't you let your servants do this +for you?" + + * * * * * + + + +FINE ARTS. + +SCHOOL OF PAINTING AT THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. + +_(To the Editor of the Mirror.)_ + + +I beg to present you with a brief notice of the School of Painting at +the British Institution, Pall Mall; you may rely upon its correctness, +as I have been extremely cautious in making my notes, and in +ascertaining every particular relative to the subject. + +The students at this excellent institution have, for several weeks, +been arduously engaged in copying the fine pictures which were +entrusted to the directors by his majesty, and the nobility, for that +purpose. In general, the students have been very successful, and +deserve much praise; I must, however, in my prescribed limits, only +mention a few. + +Vandyke's _Duchess de St. Croix_ has been cleverly copied by Mr. Boden +and Mr. Faulkner; the latter gentleman has well imitated the color and +the beautiful finish of the original. Messrs. Frisk, Child, Howell +and M'Call have likewise made clever copies of this _chef d'oeuvre_ +of art. Many bold efforts have been made to copy Hobbima's large +_Landscape_; Mr. Laporte's is the most complete, though not quite +spirited enough in the handling. _The Spanish Gentleman_, by +Velasquez, has engaged the pencils of numerous artists, though they +have not all been so successful as could have been wished; Messrs. +Inskipp, Frisk, Morton and Child have produced the best _fac similes_. +The _Lime Kiln_, by the younger Teniers, has been carefully studied +by Mr. Gill, &c.; and Messrs. M'Call and Morton, have executed the +finest studies from _Innocent X._, by Velasquez. _The Embarkation_, +by Claude, is extremely well imitated in Mr. Cartwright's copy; and +the _Virgin and Child_, which is one of Julio Romano's best works, +has met with due attention from Mr. Farrier, and others. Mr. Novice +has executed the only copy from DeHooge's fine picture--_A Dutch +Family preparing for a Walk_; and Messrs. Foster and Earl display +considerable talent in their copies from the _Landscape and Cattle_, +by Cuyp. Other admirable works by Guido, Rubens, Bassan, Ruysdael, +Vanderneer, and Canaletta, have met with a host of imitators, from +whose talents we may anticipate, at no distant period, pictorial +excellency of the first order. I should discover a want of gallantry, +and, indeed, be most unjust, were I not to say that the ladies, in +nearly all their undertakings, have exerted their utmost to excel; +those especially, who have executed copies in water colours deserve +the highest recommendation. + +G.W.N. + + * * * * * + + + +THE ANECDOTE GALLERY. + +THAXTED HIGHWAYMEN. + +_(For the Mirror.)_ + + +The following incident led to the breaking up and dispersion of a gang +of desperate highwaymen, denominated the Thaxted gang, who about sixty +years ago used to infest the roads in the neighbourhood of Dunmow, +Thaxted, and the adjacent towns and villages:-- + +An opulent farmer of Thaxted, being one day at Dunmow market, received +a considerable sum of money, the produce of grain and other marketable +articles, which he had that day disposed of; and going to the inn +where he had left his horse, he ordered it to be saddled directly +for the purpose of returning home. In those times every tradesman, +salesman and a greater part of the publicans and innkeepers knew what +money each other received on a market day. The innkeeper at whose +house the farmer was in the habit of putting up at, said to him, "Why +you are not going home to-night, are you, with all that money about +you? You will stand a chance of getting a knock on the head."--"Let +them knock away," answered the farmer. "I have never yet been robbed, +nor do I think it likely I shall be to-night; so, Robert, get my horse +ready," calling to the hostler. "Well, but have you any weapons of +defence?" inquired the publican.--"No, nor none I want," responded the +farmer. The innkeeper pressed him to take a pair of holster pistols; +saying, "he might find them handy;" and after a great deal of +persuasion, he agreed to take _one_, the publican first loading and +charging it with ball. The farmer put the pistol in his great coat +pocket, and was on the point of departure when he recollected that he +had to get a pound of tea at a grocer's shop in the town, a few doors +from the inn. He instantly ran to the shop for the tea, and while the +grocer was serving him he made the same remark as the innkeeper had +done respecting his going home with so considerable a sum as he knew +the farmer had about him. The farmer made answer, "I am going home +to-night, but our friend the publican, has lent me a pistol; and if +any one interrupts me, I intend to blow his brains out."--"Do you +know," said the grocer, "I do not like that fellow. Will you let me +look at the pistol if you have it with you."--"O yes, look at it if +you like. I never fired a pistol in my life; however, should I be +stopped, I think I could manage it." The grocer took the pistol; drew +the charge; and found, to the great surprise of the farmer, it was +only loaded with horse-dung, and a large bullet at the top. "I thought +he was a rascal, and this confirms it." said the grocer. "Here is +evidently a plot; now leave your money with me; we will load this +pistol properly, and you can, if you like, proceed on your journey: +it may be the means of detecting some one." + +The farmer left his money in the hands of the grocer; went back to the +inn; mounted his horse, and rode off on his journey. About a mile +from Dunmow, he was stopped by a fellow, well mounted, who instantly +demanded his money. "I have not got any," replied the farmer, "but I +have a pistol, with which, if you do not instantly allow me to pass on +my way home, I will blow your brains out." "You have got money--and as +to the pistol, you may blow away--blow away, my fine fellow," said the +chuckling highwayman. The farmer instantly fired, and his assailant +fell off his horse to the ground with a groan. The farmer galloped +back to the inn, and inquired of the hostler where his master was. +"He has been gone out, on horseback, about a quarter of an hour," +the hostler replied. "Well, I will tell you what," said the farmer, +"you may find your master, with his brains blown out, in the road," +describing the place where he had had the encounter with the +innkeeper. + +From this time a number of persons resident in and about Thaxted and +Dunmow, left their places of abode, which circumstance created some +surprise among the remaining inhabitants; but it was afterwards +ascertained they formed the desperate gang that had so long and +successfully robbed, and sometimes murdered, their unsuspecting +neighbours and the different travellers who had occasion to pass the +roads on which these marauders were stationed. + +J.W.B. + + * * * * * + + + +MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS. + +_(For the Mirror.)_ + + +WISE MEN OF GOTHAM. + +The village of Gotham, about seven miles from Nottingham, has been +rendered noted by the common proverb of "The Wise Men of Gotham." +It is observable that a custom has prevailed among many nations of +stigmatizing the inhabitants of some particular spot as remarkable for +stupidity. This opprobrious district among the Asiatics was Phrygia. +Among the Thracians, Abdera; among the Greeks, Boeotia; in England +it is Gotham. Of the Gothamites ironically called _The Wise Men of +Gotham_, many ridiculous stories are traditionally told, particularly, +that often having heard the cuckoo but never seen her, they hedged in +a bush from whence her note seemed to proceed, so that being confined +within so small a compass, they might at length satisfy their +curiosity; and at a place called Court Hill, in this parish, is a bush +called Cuckoo Bush. + +HALBERT H. + + * * * * * + +MALLARD NIGHT. + +At All Souls' College, Oxford, the _Mallard Night_ is celebrated +annually on the 14th of January, in remembrance of a very singular +circumstance, viz. the discovery of a live and excessively large +mallard, or drake, supposed to have long ranged in a drain or sewer +of considerable depth. The only probable conjecture respecting its +extraordinary situation was, that it had fallen when young through the +bars or grating at the entrance of the drain, (which was of sufficient +width to receive it if very young,) but was found at a great distance +from it, on digging for the foundation of the college, (A.D. 1437.) A +very humorous account of this event was published some years ago by +Dr. Buckler, subwarden, from a manuscript of Thomas Walsingham, the +historian, and monk of St. Alban's. It is the cause of much mirth, for +on the day, and in remembrance of the mallard, many an old and merry +song is sung. + +E.T.S. + + * * * * * + +WELSH MARRIAGES. + +It appears to me a matter of no small surprise that so economical +a people as the English should not have adopted such a plan as the +following by the lower classes of the Welsh. When a young couple +intend offering themselves at the Temple of Hymen, if they are very +poor, they generally send a man, called the bidder, round to their +acquaintance and friends, who invites them, sometimes in rhyme, to +the wedding; but if they can afford it, they issue circulars. The +following is a copy of one:-- + +"_June 27, 1827._ + +"As we intend to enter the matrimonial state on Thursday, the 19th day +of July next, we are encouraged by our friends to make a bidding on +the occasion, the same day, at the Butchers' Arms, Carmarthen, when +and where the favour of your good and agreeable company is humbly +solicited; and whatever donation you may be pleased to confer on us +then, will be thankfully received, warmly acknowledged, and cheerfully +repaid whenever called for on a similar occasion. + +"By your most obedient servants, + +"JOHN JONES. + +"MARY EVANS." + +The persons so invited (if they accept the invitation) generally form +part of the procession to church, and are preceded by a harper or +fiddler. After the nuptial knot is tied, they veer their course to +the public-house mentioned in the bills, where they partake, not of a +sumptuous banquet, but of the simple, though not the worst, fare of +bread and cheese and kisses, at the expense of the new married folks. +After this, a large plate is placed on the table in the room, and they +proceed to receive the money which each person may be disposed to +give, whilst one keeps account of the sum and names. They frequently +receive 50_l._, and sometimes, though seldom, 100_l._; and they have +the privilege (by paying the duty) of selling the ale to the persons +assembled. It is to be observed, that the money so deposited cannot be +reclaimed by the persons who gave it until a similar occasion presents +itself in their family. By this means the new married couple are +enabled to procure furniture, and other things requisite for them. + +W.H. + + * * * * * + +CURIOUS FOUNDATION. + +At Spinney, in Cambridgeshire, was an abbey founded in the reign of +Henry III. near which was a church, built by Lady Mary Bassingburne, +and given to the Abbey of Spinney, on condition that the monks should +support seven aged men with the following allowance, viz. one farthing +loaf, one herring, and one pennyworth of ale per day, and two hundred +dry turves, one pair of shoes, one woollen garment, and three ells of +linen every year. Henry Cromwell, second son of Oliver Cromwell, is +buried here. + +HALBERT H. + + * * * * * + + + +THE SELECTOR, + +AND + +LITERARY NOTICES OF + +_NEW WORKS_ + + * * * * * + + +ADVENTURES OF ALLAN-A-SOP. + +_By Sir Walter Scott, Bart._ + +The chief of the clan, MacLean of Duart, in the Isle of Mull, had an +intrigue with a beautiful young woman of his own clan, who bore a son +to him. In consequence of the child's being, by some accident, born in +a barn, he received the name of Allan-a-Sop, or Allan of the Straw, by +which he was distinguished from others of his clan. As his father and +mother were not married, Allan was of course a bastard or natural son, +and had no inheritance to look for, save that which he might win for +himself. + +But the beauty of the boy's mother having captivated a man of rank in +the clan, called MacLean of Torloisk, he married her, and took her +to reside with him at his castle of Torloisk, situated on the shores +of the Sound, or small strait of the sea, which divides the smaller +island of Ulva from that of Mull. Allan-a-Sop paid his mother frequent +visits at her new residence, and she was naturally glad to see the +poor boy, both from affection, and on account of his personal strength +and beauty, which distinguished him above other youths of his age. But +she was obliged to confer marks of her attachment on him as privately +as she could, for Allan's visits were by no means so acceptable to +her husband as to herself. Indeed, Torloisk liked so little to see +the lad, that he determined to put some affront on him, which should +prevent his returning to the castle for some time. An opportunity for +executing his purpose soon occurred. + +The lady one morning, looking from the window, saw her son coming +wandering down the hill, and hastened to put a girdle cake upon +the fire, that he might have hot bread to his breakfast. Something +called her out of the apartment after making this preparation, and +her husband entering at the same time, saw at once what she had been +about, and determined to give the boy such a reception as should +disgust him for the future. He snatched the cake from the girdle, +thrust it into his step-son's hands, which he forcibly closed on the +scalding bread, saying, "Here, Allan--here is a cake which your mother +has got ready for your breakfast." Allan's hands were severely burnt; +and, being a sharp-witted and proud boy, he resented this mark of his +step-father's ill-will, and came not again to Torloisk. + +At this time the western seas were covered with the vessels of +pirates, who, not unlike the sea-kings of Denmark at an early period, +sometimes settled and made conquests on the islands. Allan-a-Sop was +young, strong, and brave to desperation. He entered as a mariner on +board of one of these ships, and in process of time obtained the +command, first of one galley, then of a small flotilla, with which he +sailed round the seas and collected considerable plunder, until his +name became both feared and famous. At length he proposed to himself +to pay a visit to his mother, whom he had not seen for many years; and +setting sail for this purpose, he anchored one morning in the Sound of +Ulva, and in front of the house of Torloisk. His mother was dead, but +his stepfather, to whom he was now an object of fear as he had been +formerly of aversion, hastened to the shore to receive his formidable +son-in-law, with great affectation of kindness and interest in his +prosperity; while Allan-a-Sop, who, though very rough and hasty, does +not appear to have been sullen or vindictive, seemed to take his kind +reception in good part. + +The crafty old man succeeded so well, as he thought, in securing +Allan's friendship, and in obliterating all recollections of the +former affront put on him, that he began to think it possible to +employ him in executing his private revenge upon MacKinnon of Ulva, +with whom, as was usual between such neighbours, he had some feud. +With this purpose, he offered what he called the following good advice +to his son-in-law:--"My dear Allan, you have now wandered over the +seas long enough; it is time you should have some footing upon land, +a castle to protect yourself in winter, a village and cattle for your +men, and a harbour to lay up your galleys. Now, here is the island +of Ulva, near at hand, which lies ready for your occupation, and it +will cost you no trouble, save that of putting to death the present +proprietor, the Laird of MacKinnon, a useless old carle, who has +cumbered the world long enough." + +Allan-a-Sop thanked his stepfather for so happy a suggestion, which +he declared he would put in execution forthwith. Accordingly, setting +sail the next morning, he appeared before MacKinnon's house an hour +before noon. The old chief of Ulva was much alarmed at the menacing +apparition of so many galleys, and his anxiety was not lessened by the +news, that they were commanded by the redoubted Allan-a-Sop. Having +no effectual means of resistance, MacKinnon, who was a man of shrewd +sense, saw no alternative save that of receiving the invaders, +whatever might be their purpose, with all outward demonstrations of +joy and satisfaction. He caused immediate preparations to be made for +a banquet as splendid as circumstances admitted, hastened down to +the shore to meet the rover, and welcomed him to Ulva with such an +appearance of sincerity, that the pirate found it impossible to pick +any quarrel which might afford a pretence for executing the violent +purpose which he had been led to meditate. + +They feasted together the whole day; and in the evening, as +Allan-a-Sop was about to retire to his ships, he thanked the Laird +of MacKinnon for his entertainment, but remarked, with a sigh, that +it had cost him very dear. "How can that be" said MacKinnon, "when I +bestowed this entertainment upon you in free good-will?"--"It is true, +my friend," replied the pirate, "but then it has quite disconcerted +the purpose for which I came hither; which was to put you to death, +my good friend, and seize upon your house and island, and so settle +myself in the world. It would have been very convenient, this island, +but your friendly reception has rendered it impossible for me to +execute my purpose; so that I must be a wanderer on the seas for some +time longer." Whatever MacKinnon felt at hearing that he had been so +near to destruction, he took care to show no emotion save surprise, +and replied to his visiter,--"My dear Allan, who was it that put into +your mind so unkind a purpose towards your old friend; for I am sure +it never arose from your own generous nature? It must have been your +father-in-law, old Torloisk, who made such an indifferent husband to +your mother, and such an unfriendly stepfather to you when you were a +helpless boy; but now, when he sees you a bold and powerful leader, he +desires to make a quarrel betwixt you and those who were the friends +of your youth. If you consider this matter rightly, Allan, you will +see that the estate and harbour of Torloisk lie as conveniently for +you as those of Ulva, and that, if you are to make a settlement by +force, it is much better it should be at the expense of the old churl, +who never showed you kindness or countenance, than at that of a friend +like me, who always loved and honoured you." + +Allan-a-Sop was struck with the justice of this reasoning; and the old +offence of his scalded fingers was suddenly recalled to his mind. "It +is very true what you say, MacKinnon," he replied, "and, besides, I +have not forgotten what a hot breakfast my father-in-law treated me to +one morning. Farewell for the present; you shall soon hear news of me +from the other side of the Sound." Having said thus much, the pirate +got on board, and commanding his men to unmoor the galleys, sailed +back to Torloisk, and prepared to land in arms. His father-in-law +hastened to meet him, in expectation to hear of the death of his +enemy, MacKinnon. But Allan greeted him in a very different manner +from what he expected. "You hoary old traitor," he said, "you +instigated my simple good-nature to murder a better man than yourself. +But have you forgotten how you scorched my fingers twenty years +ago, with a burning cake? The day is come that that breakfast must +be paid for." So saying, he dashed out his father-in-law's brains +with a battle-axe, took possession of his castle and property, +and established there a distinguished branch of the clan of +MacLean.--_Tales of a Grandfather--Second Series._ + + * * * * * + + + +ADVANTAGES OF A GOOD HEART, + +_A Fragment from the "Disowned," by the author of "Pelham."_ + + +"The next day, Sir Christopher Findlater called on Clarence. 'Let us +lounge into the park,' said he. 'With pleasure,' replied Clarence; +and into the park they lounged. By the way they met a crowd, who +were hurrying a man to prison. The good-hearted Sir Christopher +stopped--'Who is that poor fellow?' said he. 'It is the +celebrated'--(in England all criminals are celebrated. Thurtell was +a hero, Thistlewood a patriot, and Fauntleroy was discovered to be +exactly like Bonaparte)--'it is the celebrated robber, John Jefferies, +who broke into Mrs. Wilson's house, and cut the throats of herself and +her husband, wounded the maid-servant, and split the child's skull +with the poker.' * * * 'John Jefferies!' exclaimed the baronet, 'let +us come away.' 'Linden,' continued Sir Christopher, 'that fellow was +my servant once. He robbed me to some considerable extent. I caught +him. He appealed to my heart, and you know, my dear fellow, that was +irresistible, so I let him off. Who could have thought he would have +turned out so?' And the baronet proceeded to eulogize his own good +nature, by which it is just necessary to remark, that one miscreant +had been saved for a few years from transportation in order to rob and +murder _ad libitum_, and having fulfilled the office of a common pest, +to suffer on the gallows at last. What a fine thing it is to have a +good heart! Both our gentlemen now sunk into a reverie, from which +they were awakened, at the entrance of the park, by a young man in +rags, who, with a piteous tone, supplicated charity. Clarence, who to +his honour be it spoken, spent an allotted and considerable part of +his income in judicious and laborious benevolence, had read a little +of political morals, then beginning to be understood, and walked on. +The good-hearted baronet put his hand in his pocket, and gave the +beggar half-a-guinea, by which a young, strong man, who had only just +commenced the trade, was confirmed in his imposition for the rest of +his life; and instead of the useful support, became the pernicious +incumbrance of society. Sir Christopher had now recovered his spirits. +'What's like a good action?' said he to Clarence, with a swelling +breast. The park was crowded to excess; our loungers were joined by +Lord St. George. His lordship was a staunch Tory. He could not endure +Wilkes, liberty, or general education. He launched out against the +enlightenment of domestics. 'What has made you so bitter?' said Sir +Christopher. 'My valet!' cried Lord St. George; 'he has invented a new +toasting-fork; is going to take out a patent, make his fortune, _and +leave me_; that's what I call ingratitude, Sir Christopher; for I +ordered his wages to be raised five pounds but last year.' 'It _was_ +very ungrateful,' said the ironical Clarence. 'Very!' reiterated +the good-hearted Sir Christopher. 'You cannot recommend me a valet, +Findlater,' renewed his lordship; 'a good, honest, sensible fellow, +who can neither read nor write?' 'N--o--o--that is to say, yes! I can; +my old servant, Collard, is out of place, and is as ignorant as--as--' +'I--or you are,' said Lord St. George, with a laugh. 'Precisely,' +replied the baronet. 'Well, then, I take your recommendation: send +him to me to-morrow at twelve.' 'I will,' said Sir Christopher. 'My +dear Findlater,' cried Clarence, when Lord St. George was gone, 'did +you not tell me some time ago, that Collard was a great rascal, and +closely _lie_ with Jefferies? and now you recommend him to Lord St. +George!' 'Hush, hush, hush!' said the baronet; 'he was a great rogue, +to be sure; but poor fellow, he came to me yesterday with tears in his +eyes, and said he should starve if I would not give him a character; +so what could I do?' 'At least, tell Lord St. George the truth,' +observed Clarence. 'But then Lord St. George would not take him!' +rejoined the good-hearted Sir Christopher, with forcible _naivete_. +'No, no, Linden, we must not be so hard-hearted; we must forgive and +forget;' and so saying, the baronet threw out his chest, with the +conscious exultation of a man who has uttered a noble sentiment. The +moral of this little history is, that Lord St. George, having been +pillaged 'through thick and thin,' as the proverb has it, for two +years, at last missed a gold watch, and Monsieur Collard finished his +career, as his exemplary tutor, Mr. John Jefferies, had done before +him. Ah! what a fine thing it is to have a good heart. But, to return, +just as our wanderers had arrived at the further end of the park, Lady +Westborough and her daughter passed them. Clarence excusing himself to +his friend, hastened towards them, and was soon occupied in saying the +prettiest things in the world to the prettiest person, at least in his +eyes; while Sir Christopher, having done as much mischief as a good +heart well can do in a walk of an hour, returned home to write a long +letter to his mother, against 'learning and all such nonsense, which +only served to blunt the affections and harden the heart.' 'Admirable +young man!' cried the mother, with tears in her eyes; 'a good heart is +better than all the heads in the world.' Amen!" + + * * * * * + + + +SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. + +QUADRANGLE OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. + + +In the last _New Monthly Magazine_ is an excellent account of this +splendid structure, in _A Day at Cambridge_,--in which occurs the +following exquisite little descriptive gem:-- + +With the exception of a gravel walk, running near to the buildings on +every side, the whole ground-plot of this quadrangle is covered by an +unbroken turf, kept, by means of constant and almost hourly attention, +in that exquisite order which is only to be observed in spots devoted +to similar purposes, here and at Oxford. The effect of an unbroken +plot of turf of this kind and quality, and in a situation like this, +is perfectly unique, and perhaps indescribable. It is supposed to be, +and in fact is, for all purposes of preservation and beauty, sacred +from the foot of man or beast; and the feeling arising from this +circumstance, added to the exquisite natural adaptation of the object +itself to the purposes of rest and relief from the almost dazzling +architectural splendour of the surrounding objects, is such as cannot +be communicated by any other means whatever, and we might in vain +attempt to describe. It is of such a kind, however, that those who +are capable of experiencing it, would as soon think of treading upon +the object that conveys it to them, as those who honour Nature would +think of rooting up a nest of violets. Speaking for ourselves alone, +there is but one thing that can disturb and deteriorate the absolute +tranquillity of mind, and peace of heart, which fall upon us, like +dew from heaven, on entering a place like that we have attempted to +describe above; it is, to see a capped and gowned Fellow, profaning +with his footsteps the floor of that, in some sort, sacred temple, +merely because he can, by so doing, reach his habitation by a few +footsteps less than if he kept to the path allotted for him. We look +upon the act as a species of impiety; to say nothing of its proving, +to a demonstration, that the person who commits it is either utterly +insensible to the mysterious harmony that subsists between a certain +class of natural objects and the heart of man; or utterly disregards +that harmony, and sets it at naught. He is, in fact, one of whom it +may in one sense be said, that + + "He hath no music in his soul." + +And we are almost tempted to complete the quotation, by adding-- + + "Let no such man be trusted!" + + * * * * * + + + +A RUSTIC PAIR. + +_By Miss Mitford_. + +Few damsels of twelve years old, generally a very pretty age, were +less pretty that Hannah Bint. Short and stunted in her figure, thin +in face, sharp in feature, with a muddled complexion, wild sun-burnt +hair, and eyes, whose very brightness had in them something startling, +over-informed, super-subtle, too clever for her age. At twelve years +old she had quite the air of a little old fairy. Now, at seventeen, +matters are mended. Her complexion has cleared; her countenance, her +figure, has shot up into height and brightness, and a sort of rustic +grace; her bright, acute eye is softened and sweetened by the womanly +wish to please; her hair is trimmed, and curled, and brushed with +exquisite neatness; and her whole dress arranged with that nice +attention to the becoming, the suitable both in form and texture, +which would be called the highest degree of coquetry, if it +did not deserve the better name of propriety. Never was such a +transmogrification beheld. The lass is really pretty, and Ned Miles +has discovered that she is so. There he stands, the rogue, close at +her aide, (for he hath joined her whilst we have been telling her +little story, and the milking is over!)--there he stands--holding her +milk-pail in one hand, and stroking Watch with the other; whilst she +is returning the compliment, by patting Neptune's magnificent head. +There they stand, as much like lovers as may be; he smiling, and she +blushing--he never looking so handsome, nor she so pretty, in all +their lives. There they stand, in blessed forgetfulness of all except +each other--as happy a couple as ever trod the earth. There they +stand, and one would not disturb them for all the milk and butter in +Christendom. I should not wonder if they were fixing the wedding-day. + + * * * * * + + + +RECOLLECTIONS OF A R*T. + +_(Concluded from page 365.)_ + + +Finding a detachment just setting out to join the Grand Allied Army, I +thought, as a true Briton, I could do no less than accompany it, and +prevailed upon all our party to do the same. + +The detachment with which I marched, consisted of 80,000. As we had +little baggage, having crossed the Rhine, we proceeded rapidly through +a dull, uninteresting country. + +The town of Coblentz is situated at the junction of the Rhine +and the Moselle. Here the majestic Rhine gently flows along in +all its grandeur, separating the town from the noble fortress of +Ehrenbreitstein.[1] I crossed over the bridge of boats, and made +a most minute inspection of this very romantic castle, which gave +me great pleasure indeed. In a few days I availed myself of a +passage-boat which was going to Mayence, and was quite enraptured with +the view on all sides. Rhenish wines, and perhaps also the water, +I found did not well agree with my stomach; and no inconsiderable +annoyance, I soon experienced. They seemed, however, to have exactly +the same effect upon every Englishman I saw, so I was not singular. A +little brandy soon, however, put me all to rights; and by the time I +reached Strasbourg, I was perfectly well again, and able to do ample +justice to her Splendid Pies! I attended high mass in the great +Cathedral of Strasbourg, and was surprised and pleased at the sight +of 10,000 soldiers, in review order, drawn up within its walls. It +was tiresome enough work mounting to the top of the spire, (which +I ascertained, by the steps I took, to be exactly 490 feet high, +Strasbourg measure; and this is exactly eight feet higher than St. +Peter's at Rome), but I made it out, notwithstanding the sulky looks +of the jackanapes who lives at the top. Nothing can surpass the beauty +of the view from this cathedral. At your feet you have the ancient +town, with all its regular fortifications and outworks--the majestic +Rhine, with its bridge of boats, and ruined Gothic bridge, sublime in +its decay--and as far as the eye can reach you have an exceedingly +rich country, everywhere speckled with towns, and fertilized by +luxuriant streams. + + [1] Apropos--our _Supplement_ contains a fine Engraving of this + very spot. + +I made a point of visiting my venerable friend, the old Comte de +Strasbourg, who, unchanged in the rolling on of centuries, lies in his +glass coffin, to all appearance in the same freshness of health and +vigour in which, when myself a very young man, I saw him many hundred +years ago;[1] his countess, his son, and his daughter, keep him +company, each in their separate place of repose. Alas, alas! the sight +made me weep. + + [1] The venerable count died about the year 1519. The glass + coffins are still shown. + +A few days afterwards, I was rather unexpectedly stopped in my tour. +For a night I had taken up my residence in the carriage of a young +Englishman, who that day arrived from Rome, the hostler having assured +me that he would remain for some time. I did so, as I found it much +quieter and cooler than the hotel "La ville de Lyon," which was +overcrowded. In the morning, I thought my friends were merely going a +short drive, so I kept my seat. We, however, travelled on till night, +when I heard we were bound for London; but as my companions were very +agreeable, I thought I might as well accompany them the whole way. +They seemed to be annoyed at every posthouse with their passports, +&c.; I was never even asked about the matter. The custom-house gentry, +in their searches, to be sure, occasionally gave me a little trouble, +but I was soon up to their tricks. We had an avant-courier constantly +galloping before us, and we travelled with such expedition that we +reached London in five days; for my fellow-travellers were idle young +men of fortune, who are of course always in the greatest hurry for the +end of a journey, because they don't know what to make of themselves +when it is over. + +I had not then an opportunity of seeing Paris, as we only changed +horses in it. I have since, however, spent many months there, and have +always been very much pleased with every thing I saw, particularly the +Catacombs, which were my favourite lounge. When last in Paris, I made +a narrow escape with my life, as I tumbled headlong into a cask of +brandy. I, however, managed to scramble out, with the assistance of a +bit of cord, which happened to be hanging over its side, and which my +friend pushed in to me. I was little the worse of my ducking; for, as +soon as I got out, I was set a-laughing by his telling me how to spell +_brandy_, in both French and English, in three letters, viz. "B.R. and +Y." and "O.D.V." + +In London I made a point, as a stranger, of going everywhere, and was +certainly much delighted with every thing. I must confess, however, +that I thought all the acting at the Opera and Theatres, and all the +eloquence of the Houses of Parliament, as nothing in comparison of +what I saw and tasted at the East India and London Docks. When I +was in the House of Lords, a companion whispered to me, that he had +heard an act read, offering a reward of 10,000_l._ for a _male_ +tortoise-shell cat. This I believe, indeed, is a very safe offer, for +such a thing was never heard of. And it is certainly as much worth +their while as making an act that I should never have more than six +dishes of meat at my dinner, or that I should not be buried in linen +above twenty shillings Scots value per ell, although I wished it +particularly, and could well afford to pay for it. There was, however, +one restrictive act, which had sense in it; and the husbands of the +present day would, I dare say, give their ears that it were still in +force, whatever the dressmakers might think of it. But many of their +acts of Parliament are silly enough--as they must be; for they don't +like to be thought idle, and imagine that it is necessary to be always +enacting something. + +It is curious, indeed, how fashion should be every thing in the great +city. A lady could not possibly venture to see her dearest friend on +earth, or even her own sister, if she happened to live in rather an +unfashionable part of the town. By so doing, she would expose herself +to her own footmen, who very properly would lose all respect for her, +and I suppose instantly leave her service, as, poor fellows, they have +a rank in life to keep up!! John Bull certainly gives himself many +airs, to say the least of it. After receiving the greatest kindness +and hospitality from you in Scotland, and perhaps staying for months +in your house, he will cut you dead in London. I remember once meeting +with such a return, but took it, of course, very coolly. Next day, +when I was arm in arm with ---- ----, I happened again to meet my +quondam friend, who immediately rushed up to me--I, however, turned +on my tail, and did not know him.--Fashion is an odd thing after all. +It is not rank which will do. I have seen many a spendthrift young +commoner cut his uncle the duke; and being a duchess by no means +will ensure admittance at Almack's.--I thank my stars, I am not +fashionable, and am always happy to see my friends! + +I was persuaded, soon after reaching London, to go down to Essex for +a few days, to pay a visit to an old friend. When I arrived at his +house, which I think they called Waltham Abbey, I was sorry to receive +the melancholy accounts that he had been devoured, and that, if I did +not instantly take myself off, I should be dealt with in the same +manner. The truth was, that a famine had arisen; and it is well known, +on those occasions, as necessity has no law, that the stronger kills +the weaker. Day after day the combat is renewed, till at last all +except one are destroyed, and he is then obliged to decamp, or eat +himself up, as he likes best. It is in this way that castles, houses, +&c. which have been long infested by us, are so suddenly entirely +freed from our presence. + +I amused myself in making an excursion to Epping Forest, till I +thought the civil war at my late friend's habitation might have +proceeded far enough for my presence to be useful. In the forest, +one day, I had the luck to kill one of those troublesome reptiles--a +Tom Cat. I believe, however, it was a house one. After a hard day's +hunting his highness made too free at a Valerian party. I watched my +opportunity, and soon put an effectual end to his caterwauling. When +I returned to the abbey, I found I was in the best possible time--the +garrison being reduced to about a dozen, and they so weakened and +tired out with the constant worrying work they had had, that I was +myself a complete match for any two of them. In a few days the number +was only four, and in other two days I was sole lord and master. + +[He then returns to town.] + +At a friend's house, in Berkeley Square, where I met a distinguished +party, a scene took place, just such as Pope describes-- + + Our courtier walks from dish to dish; + Tastes, for his friend, of fowl and fish: + "That jelly's rich, that malmsey's healing, + Pray dip your whiskers and your tail in." + Was ever such a happy swain? + He stuffs, and swills, and stuffs again. + "I'm quite ashamed--'Tis mighty rude + To eat so much; but all's so good! + I have a thousand thanks to give, + My lord alone knows how to live."-- + No sooner said, but from the hall + Rush chaplain, butler, dogs, and all: + "A r--t, a r--t! clap to the door!"-- + +I, however, made good my exit, and was nothing the worse of a +practical warning to be more cautious in future. + +It would be endless for me to describe all my after voyages and +travels. Suffice it to say, I have been both east and west, north +and south; and there is scarcely a part of the habitable globe which +I have not visited. After all, I have come to this conclusion, that +there is no country like Britain. Oh! how I could wish my human +existence had been in such happy times and under such glorious +sovereigns as a George the Third, and George the Fourth!!! + +For some years I have remained in this country, enjoying (like a +patriarch of old) a quiet, regular life with my family, which now +amounts to above 2,000. I, however, keep very much to my own room, +as I hate bustle, and like to enjoy my own reflections. + +The age to which our species can exist is not ascertained, as never +one of us was known to die in his bed, at least a natural death. A +kind of instinct I have always had, has as yet saved me from arsenic, +stewed corks, traps, stamps, &c.; and my great strength, and a +good deal of science, which is of more consequence, have, as yet, +preserved me in many a deadly combat, both with my own species, and +with the dog, the ferret, the weasel, the hawk, and that green-eyed +monster--the cat. But I am now getting somewhat stiffer, and am not +so sharp as I was. I am not-- + + "--qualis eram, quum primam aciem Praeneste sub ipsa + Stravi, scutorumque incendi victor acervos; + Et regem hac Herilum dextra sub Tartara misi!!" + +And in some evil hour my time must come. + +--I am well aware, indeed, of the fleeting existence even of this +world itself, for I studied astronomy with the celebrated M. Olbers +of Bremen, and assisted him in making many useful observations and +discoveries, particularly regarding comets, in the course of which +we came to this melancholy conclusion, that the comet which was +afterwards visible in 1786 and 1795, will, in 83,000 years, approach +the earth as nearly as the moon; and that in 4,000,000 years it +will come to within a distance of 7,700 geographical miles;--the +consequence of which will be (if its attraction be equal to that of +the earth) the elevation of the waters of the ocean 13,000 feet; that +is to say, above the tops of all the European mountains, except Mount +Blanc. The inhabitants of the Andes and of the Himalaya mountains +alone will escape this second deluge; but they will not benefit by +their good fortune more than 216,000,000 years, for it is probable, +that at the expiration of that time, our globe standing right in the +way of the comet, will receive a shock severe enough to ensure its +utter destruction!!! + +_Note._--After reading over the above MS., I am inclined to come to +this conclusion--that our historian, while in a human form, must have +been a Scottish nobleman--that he probably was born about the year +1501--and that he lived to about the age of 89.--_Ed._ + + * * * * * + + + +THE FANCY BALL. + + + "A visor for a visor! what care I + What curious eye doth quote deformities!" + SHAKSPEARE. + + "You used to talk," said Miss Mac Call, + "Of flowers, and flames, and Cupid; + But now you never talk at all. + You're getting vastly stupid. + You'd better burn your Blackstone, Sir, + You never will get through it; + There's a Fancy Ball at Winchester-- + Do let us take you to it." + + I made that night a solemn vow, + To startle all beholders: + I wore white muslin on my brow, + Green velvet on my shoulders-- + My trousers were supremely wide, + I learn'd to swear "by Allah"-- + I stuck a poniard by my side, + And called myself "Abdallah." + + Oh! a Fancy Ball's a strange affair, + Made up of silks and leathers, + Light heads, light heels, false hearts, false hair, + Pins, paint, and ostrich feathers: + The dullest Duke in all the town, + To-night may shine a droll one-- + And rakes, who have not half-a-crown, + Look royal with a whole one. + + Hail, blest Confusion! here are met + All tongues, and times, and faces, + The Lancers flirt with Juliet, + The Bramin talks of races; + And where's your genius, bright Corinne? + And where your brogue, Sir Lucius? + And Chinca Ti, you have not seen + One chapter of Confucius. + + Lo! dandies from Kamschatka flirt + With beauties from the Wrekin-- + And belles from Berne look very pert + On Mandarins from Pekin; + The Cardinal is here from Rome, + The Commandant from Seville-- + And Hamlet's father from the tomb, + And Faustus from the Devil. + + What mean those laughing Nuns, I pray, + What mean they, Nun or Fairy: + I guess they told no beads to-day, + And sang no Ave Mary. + From Mass and Matins, Priest and Pix, + Barred door, and window grated, + I wish all pretty Catholics + Were thus emancipated. + + Four Seasons come to dance quadrilles, + With four well-seasoned sailors-- + And Raleigh talks of rail-road bills, + With Timon, prince of railers. + I find Sir Charles of Aubyn Park + Equipp'd for a walk to Mecca-- + And I run away from Joan of Arc, + To romp with sad Rebecca. + + Fair Cleopatra's very plain, + Puck halts, and Ariel swaggers-- + And Caesar's murder'd o'er again, + Though not by Roman daggers. + Great Charlemagne is four feet high-- + Sad Stuff has Bacon spoken-- + Queen Mary's waist is all awry, + And Psyche's nose is broken. + + Our happiest bride, how very odd! + Is the mourning Isabella, + And the heaviest foot that ever trod + Is the foot of Cinderella. + Here sad Calista laughs outright, + There Yorick looks most grave, Sir, + And a Templar waves the cross to-night, + Who never cross'd the wave, Sir. + + And what a Babel is the talk! + "The Giraffe"--"plays the fiddle"-- + "Macadam's roads"--"I hate this chalk"-- + "Sweet girl"--"a charming riddle"-- + "I'm nearly drunk with"--"Epsom salts"-- + "Yes, separate beds"--"such cronies!"-- + "Good heaven! who taught that man to valtz?"-- + "A pair of Shetland ponies." + + "Lord D----" "an enchanting shape"-- + "Will move for"--"Maraschino" + "Pray, Julia, how's your mother's ape?"-- + "He died at Navarino!" + "The gout, by Jove, is"--"apple pie"-- + "Don Miguel"--"Tom the tinker"-- + "His Lordship's pedigree's as high + As ----" "Whipcord, dam by Clinker." + + "Love's shafts are weak"--"my chestnut kicks"-- + "Heart broken;"--"broke the traces"-- + "What say you now of politics?"-- + "Change sides and to your places"-- + "A five-barred gate"--"a precious pearl" + "Grave things may all be punn'd on!"-- + "The Whigs, thank God, are"--"out of curl!"-- + "Her age is"--"four by London!" + + Thus run the giddy hours away, + Till morning's light is beaming, + And we must go to dream by day + All we to-night are dreaming; + To smile and sigh, to love and change-- + Oh! in our heart's recesses, + We dress in fancies quite as strange + As these our fancy-dresses. + +_New Monthly Magazine_. + + * * * * * + + + +THE GATHERER. + + A snapper up of unconsidered trifles + SHAKSPEARE. + + Tho' lang an lonely be the road + Between me an my dearie; + Yet I the gate hae aften troad, + When I've been tired and wearie. + + Be't stormin rain, hail, win or snaw-- + A lonely road and drearie-- + There's nought wad e'er keep me awa + Frae gaun to see my dearie!!! + +M. + + * * * * * + + +FRENCH BALL CONVERSATION. + +During the French revolution, parties danced as gaily as ever; the +following is a ball conversation, which took place in the month of +Frimare, year 7.:--Well, the Ottoman Porte has declared war against +us! Oh yes, there is no doubt of it, (_En avant deux_) It is an enemy +the more--(_chassez_) and the Russian fleet they say has passed the +Dardanelles, (_en avant quatre_) yet the papers say that the emperor +sincerely desires peace.--Yes, but Count Metternich wishes for war, +(_balancez_) so we have also a new coalition against us. England, +Portugal, Naples, Turkey, the Emperor, Russia, perhaps the empire +of Prussia, (_Faites face et chassez tous les huit_)--well we have +bayonettes, (_la poussette_) besides it is not so far from Dover to +Calais, (_traversez_)--Do you belong to the conscription?--Yes, and I +too; (_pirouettez_) what makes me uneasy is to know what will become +of our partners when we are gone: (_La chaine des dames_)--what will +be left to amuse them (_La queu du chat_.) 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