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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 + Volume 13, No. 363, Saturday, March 28, 1829 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 27, 2004 [EBook #11331] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 363 *** + + + + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Elaine Walker and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<hr class="full" /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page209" id="page209"></a>[pg 209]</span> +<h1>THE MIRROR<br /> + OF<br /> + LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1> +<table width="100%" summary="VOL. 13 No. 363, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1829. PRICE 2d."> + <tr> + <td align="left" width="30%"><b>VOL 13. No. 363.]</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1829.</b></td> + <td align="right" width="30%"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> +</table> +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>GUY'S CLIFF.</h2> + +<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"> + <a href="images/363-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/363-1.png" alt= + "A line drawing of Guy's Cliff, by I. Dodd." /></a> + </div> + +<p class="quote">"A home of pleasure, a place meet for the Muses."—<span class="scaps">Leland</span>.</p> + +<p>Warwick—what olden glories and tales of other times are associated with + this county. How many of its sites are connected with high-minded men and great + and glorious actions. To the antiquary, the poet, and the philosopher, every + foot is hallowed ground; and even the cold calculations of the commercial speculator + treat with regard a county whose manufactures add to the stock of national wealth + and importance. How many stories of love, war, and chivalry are told of its + halls, castles, and monasteries, their lords and ladies and maidens of high + birth. Kenilworth and <span class="scaps">Stratford</span>—Leicester, + <span class="scaps">Shakspeare</span> and Warwick—like long trails of + light, all flit before us in this retrospective dream of the days of "merry + England."</p> + +<p><span class="scaps">Guy's Cliff</span> is situated about one mile and a half + north-east of Warwick. Here the river Avon winds through fertile meadows; and + on its western bank, a combination of rock and wood, singularly picturesque, + invited at an early period the reveries of superstitious seclusion and poetical + fancy. It is supposed that here was an oratory, and a cell for the hermit, in + Saxon times; and it is certain that a hermit dwelt in this lovely recess in + the reigns of Edward III. and Henry IV. This is the spot to which the renowned + <i>Guy</i>, Earl of Warwick, is said to have retired after his duel with the + Danish Colbrond;<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> + and here his neglected countess, the fair Felicia, is reported to have interred + his remains. It appears that Henry V. visited Guy's Cliff, and was so charmed + with its natural beauties, and, probably, so much interested by the wild legend + connected with the place, that he determined to found a chantry for two priests + here. But war and an early death prevented the performance of this, among many + other pious and benevolent intentions ascribed to the heroic Henry. Such a chantry + was, however, founded in the first year of Henry VI. by Richard Beauchamp, Earl + of Warwick; but the chapel and some contiguous buildings were not completed + till after the earl's decease. In this delightful retreat lived John Rous, the + antiquary, as a chantry priest.</p> + +<p>About the middle of the eighteenth century, this estate passed to a private + <span class="pagenum"><a name="page210" id="page210"></a>[pg 210]</span>gentleman, + who built a handsome mansion here. But the chief attractions are the natural + beauties of the grounds—as the rock, on which the house and chapel are + built. Here is shown a cave, devoutly believed by neighbouring peasants to be + that which Guy "hewed with his own hands," and in which he lived</p> + +<p class="quote">Like a Palmer poore.</p> + +<p>The chapel founded by Richard Beauchamp was a plain, substantial edifice. +The founder caused to be carved from the solid rock on which this chapel +abuts, a rude statue of the famous Earl Guy, about eight feet in height. It +would appear, from a print in Dugdale's Warwickshire, that this figure was +well preserved in the seventeenth century.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>ANCIENT CROSSES IN ENGLAND.</h3> + +<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4> +<div class="quote"> +<p class="ind">"She doth stray about<br /> +By holy <i>crosses</i>, where she kneels and prays<br /> +For happy wedlock hours."</p> + <p> <span class="scaps">Shakspeare</span>.</p> +</div> +<p>In former times, an idea of peculiar sanctity was annexed to crosses. They +not only marked civil and ecclesiastical limits, but probably served for +stations, when the bounds were visited in processions. It was a common +practice for mendicants to place themselves near some of these crosses, and +ask alms; whence the ancient proverb, "He begs like a cripple at a cross." +Cornwall abounds with stone crosses. In churchyards, by the side of roads, +and on the open downs, they remain solitary and neglected. In almost every +town that had an abbey, or any other religious foundation, there was one of +these structures. The monks frequently harangued the populace from these +crosses. Many of them still remain, exhibiting beautiful specimens of +architecture and sculpture. The most memorable and interesting objects of +this kind were those which King Edward I. erected at the different stages +where the corpse of Queen Eleanor rested, in its progress from +Nottinghamshire to London. Mr. Gough tells us, that there were originally +fifteen of these elegant structures; but only three are now remaining, +which, by their peculiar beauty, as specimens of architecture and +productions of art, serve to excite regret at the destruction of the +others. The first of the three above-mentioned, is the cross at Geddington, +about three miles from Kettering, in Northamptonshire. The second is the +Queen's Cross, near Northampton. The third is the cross at Waltham, in +Hertfordshire. For a further account of these crosses, see Mr. Britton's +"Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain."</p> + +<p class="source">P. T. W.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>TO R.H., ON HER DEPARTURE FOR LONDON.</h3> + +<h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4> + +<p class="quote">"Alas for me! false hearts I've found, where I had deem'd them true,<br /> +And stricken hopes lie all around where'er I turn my view;<br /> +Yet it may be, when far remov'd, the voice of memory<br /> +May yet remind thee how we lov'd, with its reproving sigh."</p> +<p class="quote"><span class="scaps">Anonymous</span>.</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Farewell! farewell! a sad farewell!</p> +<p class="i2">'Tis fate's decree that we should part;</p> +<p>Forebodings strange my bosom tell,</p> +<p class="i2">That others now will pain thy heart:</p> +<p>If so, calm as the waveless deep,</p> +<p class="i2">Whereby the passing gust has blown,</p> +<p>Unmark'd, the eye will turn to weep</p> +<p class="i2">O'er days that have so swiftly flown,</p> +<p>Remember me—remember me,</p> +<p>My latest thought will be for thee.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>The tale which to <i>thee</i> I've confest</p> +<p class="i2">Another ne'er shall hear again;</p> +<p>Nor love, that link'd me with the blest,</p> +<p class="i2">Be darken'd with an earthly chain.</p> +<p>No, as the scroll above the dead,</p> +<p class="i2">The dreams of parted joys will last;</p> +<p>There is a bliss now love has fled,</p> +<p class="i2">To trace this record of the past.</p> +<p>Then, oh! mid all remember me—</p> +<p>My latest thought will be for thee.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Life hath been as a cloudy day,</p> +<p class="i2">Yet still it hath not <i>all</i> been gloom,</p> +<p>For many a wild and broken ray</p> +<p class="i2">Hath cheer'd awhile my spirit's doom;</p> +<p>As flow'rets on a river's rim,</p> +<p class="i2">Whose shadows deck each passing wave,</p> +<p>Thought lingers on, perturb'd and dim,</p> +<p class="i2">Or sunbeam resting on a grave.</p> +<p>Remember me—remember me—</p> +<p>My latest thought will be for thee.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Where'er my feet may wander now,</p> +<p class="i2">No more awakes the slightest care;</p> +<p>It matters not—for still wilt thou</p> +<p class="i2">Be present 'mid my heart's despair.</p> +<p>So springs and blooms, in lonely state,</p> +<p class="i2">Some flow'ret on a roofless cot,</p> +<p>And decks with smiles, though desolate,</p> +<p class="i2">The gloomy stillness of the spot.</p> +<p>Remember me—remember me—</p> +<p>My latest thought will be for thee.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Though calm the eye, and still the tongue,</p> +<p class="i2">It needs not that the cheek be pale</p> +<p>To prove the heart by feelings wrung,</p> +<p class="i2">And brooding o'er a hopeless tale;</p> +<p>For calm is oft the ocean's breast,</p> +<p class="i2">Though 'neath its deep blue waters lie</p> +<p>A thousand wrecks—so sorrows rest</p> +<p class="i2">In still and silent misery.</p> +<p>Remember me—remember me—</p> +<p>My latest thought will be for thee.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="source">H. P.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE COURSE OF LOVE.</h3> + +<h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Go, trace the forest maze,</p> +<p class="i2">Or Cretan lab'rinth solve,</p> +<p>On Nature's myst'ries gaze,</p> +<p class="i2">Or Gordian knot resolve.</p> +</div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page211" id="page211"></a>[pg 211]</span>Tell + whence the magnet's force,</p> +<p class="i2">The central motive scan,</p> +<p>Lay bare Nile's hidden source,</p> +<p class="i2">Earth's vast circumference span.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Results from such detail</p> +<p class="i2">Skill superhuman prove:</p> +<p>Yet powers like these would fail</p> +<p class="i2">To tell the course of love.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Direct the impulse fierce</p> +<p class="i2">Of ocean's watery sway;</p> +<p>When wint'ry tempests pierce,</p> +<p class="i2">Bind Boreas to obey.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Go, mould the fleeting cloud,</p> +<p class="i2">The lucid dew-drop mix,</p> +<p>The solar radiance shroud,</p> +<p class="i2">The trembling moonbeam fix.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Then bid the wand'ring star</p> +<p class="i2">Within the zodiac move;</p> +<p>'Twere task more hard by far</p> +<p class="i2">To guide the course of love.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Stop the meridian flight</p> +<p class="i2">Of Jove's proud plumy race;</p> +<p>Arrest the fiercest fight</p> +<p class="i2">When foe-men battle face.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Forbid the earth to turn.</p> +<p class="i2">Forbid the tides to flow,</p> +<p>Forbid the sun to burn,</p> +<p class="i2">Forbid the winds to blow.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Bid the fix'd orb of day.</p> +<p class="i2">Beyond his sphere to move,</p> +<p>Or cease th' attempt, I pray,</p> +<p class="i2">To stop the course of love.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="source">T. F.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>I'LL BE AT YOUR BALL</h3> + +<h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4> + +<p class="quote">Ah! ce n'est pas moi qui romprait la première l'union + sacrée de nos coeurs; vous le savez bien que ce n'est pas moi, et je + rougirais presque, d'assurer ce qui n'est que trop certain.—<i>Corinne, + par</i> <span class="scaps">Madame De Stael</span>.</p> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>I'll be at your ball—dear Eliza,</p> +<p class="i2">Could you doubt of my wish to be there,</p> +<p>When ask'd by the maiden I prize a-</p> +<p class="i2">Bove all maidens, though e'er so fair?</p> +<p>Busy fancy brings back in my dreams</p> +<p class="i2">The walks, still enchanting, we took,</p> +<p>When the zephyrs scarce ruffled the streams,</p> +<p class="i2">No sound heard, save the murm'ring brook;</p> +<p>The stars we together have watched—</p> +<p class="i2">What pleasure these thoughts do recall!</p> +<p>Believe that your truly attached,</p> +<p class="i2">Dear Eliza, will be at your ball.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Can study those feelings estrange,</p> +<p class="i2">Of affection so ardent and true?</p> +<p>Or absence or time ever change</p> +<p class="i2">A heart so devoted to you?</p> +<p>My voice may have altered its tone,</p> +<p class="i2">My brow may be furrow'd by care,</p> +<p>But, oh, dearest girl, there are none</p> +<p class="i2">Possess of my heart the least share.</p> +<p>You say that my hair is neglected,</p> +<p class="i2">That my dress don't become me at all;</p> +<p>Can you feel surprised I'm dejected,</p> +<p class="i2">Since I parted from you at your ball?</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>I listlessly turn o'er the pages.</p> +<p class="i2">So fraught with amusement before</p> +<p>Tasso, Dante, and even the sages,</p> +<p class="i2">Once pleasing, are pleasing no more.</p> +<p>When I walk on the banks of the Mole,</p> +<p class="i2">Or recline 'neath our favourite tree,</p> +<p>As the needle is true to the pole,</p> +<p class="i2">So my thoughts still concentre in thee.</p> +<p>Old Time moves so slow, he appears,</p> +<p class="i2">"With age quite decrepit," to crawl;</p> +<p>And days seem now lengthen'd to years,</p> +<p class="i2">Before we shall meet—at your ball.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="source"><span class="scaps">Daft Jamie</span>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h4>(<i>To the Editor of the Mirror.</i>)</h4> + +<p class="quote">Having occasionally (during my lucubrations) marked out sundry +choice excerpts, quips, and quiddities, from a variety of authors, I shall, with +your permission, submit to the reader an occasional chapter, with a few original +remarks, &c., which I hope will prove +agreeable.</p> + +<p class="quote"><span class="scaps">Jacobus</span>.</p> + +<h3>POSTURE MASTERS.</h3> + +<p>It is now a-days extremely common to style the tumble-down-dick exploits or +posture masters, balancers, conjurers, &c. an art. To ridicule such an +abuse of the term by applying it to mere adroitness, skill in trifles, and +labour-in-vain performances, Quinctilian gives us this merry +instance—"Qualis illius fuit, qui grana ciceris ex spatio distante missa, +in acum continue, et sine frustratione inserebat; quem cum spectasset +Alexander, donasse eum dicitur leguminis modio—quod quidem praemium fuit +illo opere dignissimum." Translation—Of this kind of art, was his, who, +standing at a certain distance, could continually, without missing, stick a +small pea upon the point of a needle; which when Alexander had witnessed, +he ordered him a bushel of that grain for his trouble, a reward quite +adequate to such an exploit. We have a similar story related, I think, of +Charles II.: a posture master climbed up Grantham steeple, and then stood +on his head upon the weathercock. The facetious monarch, after witnessing +his ascent, told him he might forthwith have a patent that none should do +the like but himself.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>TO MAKE BUBBLE AND SQUEAK.</h3> + +<h4><i>Published by request of the gentlemen of both Universities</i>.</h4> +<p>First—Take of beef, or mutton, or lamb, or veal, or any other meat, two + pounds and a half, or any other quantity; be sure to keep it in salt till the + saline <span class="pagenum"><a name="page212" id="page212"></a>[pg 212]</span>particles + have locked up all the animal juices, and rendered the fibres hard of digestion; + then boil it over a turf or peat fire, in a brass kettle, covered with a copper + lid, until it is over much done.</p> + +<p>Second—Take a large turned cabbage, and boil it in a bell metal pot until +it is done enough, or (if you think proper) too much.</p> + +<p>Thirdly—Slice the meat, and souse that and the cabbage both in a frying +pan together, and let them bubble and squeak over a charcoal fire for half +an hour, three minutes, and two seconds.</p> + +<p>Lastly—Devour the whole, which will not weigh more than <i>four</i> pounds, for +a quantum sufficit; drink six pints of good, fat ale; sit, smoke, sleep, +snore, and forget your book.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>ADVERTISEMENT.</h3> + +<h4><i>In defence of the two Universities.</i></h4> + +<p>We can assure the public that the malicious report of the Greek language +being expelled from the abovenamed seats of Minerva, is entirely without +foundation; there being, at this moment, many thousand volumes written in +that tongue, actually extant, and quite unmolested in the several +libraries.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>HONEST PREJUDICES,</h3> + +<h4><i>Or bona fide extracts from celebrated authors.</i></h4> + +<p>Before the conquest of this country by the Normans, the land in Norfolk was +so light and fine, that the farmers usually plowed with two rabbits and a +case knife!—<cite>Jones's Wonderful Changes</cite>, p. 86.—Weep at this ye who are +now racking your inventive powers for improvements in agricultural +implements. See what your forefathers could accomplish by means the +simplest.—<cite>Risum teneatis?</cite></p> + +<hr /> + +<p>There are many stories told of the craft of the fox to compass his prey, of +which Ol. Magnus hath many: such as feigning the bark of a dog to catch +prey near the houses; feigning himself dead to catch such animals as come +to feed upon him; laying his tail upon a wasp's nest and then rubbing it +hard against a tree, thus catching the wasps so killed; ridding himself of +fleas by gradually going into the water with a lock of wool in his mouth, +and so driving the fleas up into it and then leaving it in the water; by +catching crab fish with his tail, which he saith he himself was a witness +of.—<cite>Derham's Physico-Theology</cite>, book iv. chap. 11., and <cite>Ol. Mag. Hist.</cite> +lib. xviii. cap. 39, 40.—Peruse this ye incredulous lectors of Baron +Munch-Hausen, and Colonel Nimrod. Talk no more of the fertile genius of our +Yankee brethren, but candidly admit ye are blameworthy for withholding +credence to matters which rather border on the marvellous.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>Had man been a dwarf he could not have been a rational creature; for he +must then have had a jolt head, so there would not have been body and blood +enough to supply his brain with spirits, or he must have had a small head +answerable to his body, and so there would not have been brain enough for +his business.—<cite>Grew's Cosmol. Sacr.</cite> book i. chap. v.</p> + +<p>Had the calf of the leg been providentially and prominently placed +<i>before</i>, instead of being preposterously and prejudicially placed +<i>behind</i>, it had been evidently better; forasmuch as the human shin-bone +could not then have been so easily broken,—<cite>Dr. Moreton's Beauty of the +Human Structure</cite>, page 62.—What a pity it is that these two learned and +self-sufficient authors, were not consulted in the formation of their own +persons: doubtless they could have suggested many improvements, and would +have felt all the advantages with due effect—probably they might have +liked their heads to screw on and off like Saint Denis, of France, who +frequently carried his under his arm.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>The City of London is the largest city in the world, and the people of +London the wisest—<cite>Wilson's Candid Traveller</cite>, page 42.—Mark this, ye who +are levelling your <i>leaden</i> wit at the worthy aldermen and cits of this +"large" and "wise" metropolis.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>At the famous battle of Crescy, gained by Edward III., notwithstanding a +vast carnage of the French, and an infinite number of prisoners, the +English lost only one 'squire, three knights, and a few of inferior +rank.—<cite>History of England, by Goldsmith</cite>.</p> + +<p>At the battle of Agincourt, gained by Henry V. the French lost ten thousand + men, and fourteen thousand prisoners; the English (although enfeebled by disease, + destitute of provisions, and harassed by fatigue) lost only forty men in all—Ibid.—Hear + these facts of ancient prowess, ye heroes of modern times; who among ye ever + gained such signal advantages with losses so insignificant?—In good truth, + I must admit, that even I was once inclined to cry out with Mr. Burchell, "fudge;" + but the follow<span class="pagenum"><a name="page213" id="page213"></a>[pg 213]</span>ing + morceaux have explained to me the (otherwise) mysterious relation:—</p> + +<p><i>One</i> Englishman can beat <i>five</i> Frenchmen.—<cite>Williamson's Serious +Propositions</cite>, page 78.—One English man-of-war, will beat a Dutch +fleet—<cite>Nebolt's Naval Expeditions</cite>, chap. iv. section 9.—Indeed! what a +scandalous shame it is then to call Admiral Blake a naval hero; surely he +could have been but a mere botch to make such a tough job of cutting up Van +Tromp, the Dutch commander.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>Though I have examined what all other authors have written on this affair +with great impartiality, yet I cannot conceive that any of them have the +least merit; nor do I find one man that has treated this subject sensibly, +besides myself.—<cite>Smithson's Amiableness of Candour and Diffidence</cite>, page +8.—What modesty! what candour! amiable critic! doubtless your ingenuous +style has obtained you a place on the shelves of the literati; and like +Ovid and Horace you have secured as well as assigned yourself an +immortality.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>SELECT BIOGRAPHY.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>MEMOIR OF BOLIVAR.</h3> + +<p>The conspicuous part which Bolivar has acted throughout the revolution in +Colombia, and at the close of that in Peru, renders it imperative on us to +give some account of a character, identified with so many great and +extraordinary events.</p> + +<p>Simon Bolivar was born at Caracas on the 25th of July, 1783. He lost his +parents at an early age; and, in his sixteenth year, was sent to Europe to +finish his education. He made the tour of France and Italy. Having married +at Madrid, he embarked for Venezuela, where his wife died a few months +after her arrival. Bolivar went a second time to Europe, and was present at +the coronation of Napoleon. He returned to Caracas in company with Emparan, +appointed captain-general of Venezuela by the central junta at Seville. +Soon after the raising of the standard of independence (19th April, 1810) +in that country, he was sent to solicit the protection of Great Britain. He +was well received by the Marquess Wellesley, then secretary for Foreign +Affairs. The British government offered its mediation between Spain and her +colonies, but the offer was rejected by the court of Madrid. Bolivar +returned to his own country, accompanied by General Miranda, who was placed +in command of the Venezuelan troops. But the revolutionary government was +too feebly organized to give efficiency to the military force. Divisions +arose, and the cause of independence was on the retrograde, when the +dreadful earthquake of 1812, and the subsequent invasion by the Spanish +force under General Monteverde, for the time, precluded all possibility of +success.</p> + +<p>Bolivar, alleging that Miranda had betrayed his country by capitulating to + Monteverde, arrested him at La Guayra. Bolivar then demanded his passport, and + when taken before Monteverde, the Spanish general said that Colonel Bolivar's + request should be complied with, as a reward for his having served the king + of Spain by delivering up Miranda. Bolivar answered that he arrested him to + punish a traitor<a name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> to his country, and not + to serve the king. This answer had nearly included him in the general proscription; + but the good offices of Don Francisco Iturbe, secretary to Monteverde, procured + the passport, and Bolivar was allowed to sail for Curaçoa. From that + island he went to Carthagena, where he obtained the command of a small force, + with which he proceeded up the Magdalena, and having beaten parties of the royalist + troops at various points on that river, he continued his march from Ocana to + Cucutá, and solicited assistance from the government of Cundinamarca. + Five hundred men were placed at his disposal, and with these, added to his own + small party, Bolivar undertook to effect the liberation of his country. Four + thousand Spaniards, under General Correa, were then on that part of the Venezuelan + frontier. A division of these was beaten by Bolivar, who pursued his march to + Truxillo, defeating on the way several royalist detachments.</p> + +<p>The Spaniards from the commencement of the war, had put to death all persons + whom they found with arms in their hands. The South Americans, on the contrary, + gave quarter to those royalists who fell into their power. The natives consequently + preferred entering the royalist ranks, feeling secure that, in case of being + made prisoners, their lives would be spared. Bolivar, perceiving the great disadvantage + under which he laboured, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page214" id="page214"></a>[pg + 214]</span>and as a retaliation for the horrid butcheries committed by the Spaniards, + issued a proclamation at Truxillo, declaring, that from that time forward he + should wage a war of extermination. This declaration of <i>guerra à muerte</i> + on the part of the independents made the danger, in that respect, equal on both + sides.</p> + +<p>Bolivar, having separated his small corps into two divisions, entrusted the + command of the second to the active General Rivas. Bolivar himself penetrated + the Llanos, after having beaten the Spaniards at Niquitao, Carache, Varinas, + Tahuana, and Torcones. He then advanced to Vitoria, within twenty leagues of + Caracas, where he was met by Spanish commissioners, who sued for, and obtained, + a capitulation. The conqueror entered his native city in triumph. But this did + not put an end to the war. The Spaniards were faithless in the observance of + the capitulation, and Monteverde, from within the walls of Puerto Cabello, fomented + the discord which prevailed in the interior provinces. About this time a strong + reinforcement arrived from Spain. Bolivar was obliged to evacuate Caracas; but + the royalists were beaten at Viguirima, Barbula, and Las Trincheras. However, + the Spanish general Cevallos had time to raise four thousand recruits in the + province of Coro, which had always shown itself inimical to the cause of independence. + Bolivar next gained the important battle of Araure, and repossessed himself + of Caracas. On the 2nd of January, 1814, he assembled the public authorities + of the city, and resigned to them the supreme authority he had exercised, and + with which his triumphs had invested him. They, however, refused to admit his + resignation; conferred upon him the title of <span class="scaps">Liberator of + Venezuela</span>; and named him dictator.</p> + +<p>About this period a Spaniard, Don José Tomas Boves, succeeded in bringing +about a counter-revolution in the Llanos, an immense tract of level +country, which traverses the centre of Venezuela, and extends to the +confines of New Granada. Boves organized a force, which consisted of men +mostly chosen for their desperate character, whom he led on by promises of +indiscriminate plunder, and by lavishing the greatest rewards upon the +perpetrators of the most revolting atrocities. The track of these ruffians, +to Calabozo, was every where marked with the blood of the aged and the +defenceless. Bolivar, who had detached a part of his force in pursuit of +Cevallos, had not above two thousand men left to make head against Boves, +who, with nearly five times that number, had possessed himself of the +fertile valleys of Aragua, and destroyed some patriot divisions sent to +check his progress. Bolivar took up a position at San Mateo, in order to +cover Caracas. A series of attacks, in the space of forty days, reduced the +number of Bolivar's force to four hundred. Cevallos had repaired the +effects of his defeat at Araure, and, reinforced by General Cagigal, had +penetrated to Valencia. The patriot division of the east having defeated +Boves at Bocachica, and compelled him to retire to the Llanos, and having +subsequently united with the remains of Bolivar's force, marched against +Cagigal and Cevallos, whose well-organized troops amounted to six thousand. +These were attacked and defeated by Bolivar, who then detached the greater +part of his force to reduce the province of Coro to submission, and himself +marched against Boves. Bolivar was overwhelmed by numbers at La Puerta. His +division dispersed, and fled to Cundinamarca. He was then obliged to +abandon Caracas. The same day witnessed the affecting spectacle of several +thousand inhabitants leaving their homes and property at the mercy of the +ruthless spoiler, while they themselves set out to face want, disease, and +death, in distant provinces.</p> + +<p>On the 17th of August, Bolivar lost the battle of Aragua. The subsequent +affairs of Maturin, Cumaná, Carupano, Guiria, Urica, and El Caris, were +fought, with varying success. All being lost in the east, Bolivar next +proceeded to Carthagena, and offered his services to New Granada, then +agitated by discordant parties of provincialists, centralists, +metropolists, federalists, royalists, and independents. A congress +assembled at Tunja conferred upon Bolivar the command of the forces of New +Granada. Santa Fé de Bogotá submitted, the provinces acknowledged the +congress, and an effort was made to establish a constitutional form of +government.</p> + +<p>Bolivar having proposed to take the town of Santa Marta, still held by the + Spaniards, he was authorized by the government of Santa Fé to procure + guns, &c., from the arsenals of Carthagena. The governor of that fortress + refused to furnish the necessary supplies. In order to enforce compliance, Bolivar + invested Carthagena, before which he remained a considerable time, when he heard + of the arrival at Margarita of General Morillo, with ten thousand Spanish troops. + Upon this, Bolivar placed his own investing force at the disposal of his rival, + the governor of Carthagena; and, unwilling that the cause of his country should + continue to suffer from the dissention which <span class="pagenum"><a name="page215" id="page215"></a>[pg + 215]</span>had arisen between himself and the governor, withdrew to Jamaica. + Morillo, soon afterwards, laid siege to Carthagena, which, unfortunately, in + consequence of the long investment it had already sustained, was nearly destitute + of provisions, Bolivar sent from Jamaica some supplies for the besieged garrison; + but before they could arrive, that important fortress was in possession of the + Spaniards. This enabled them to reconquer New Granada, and the blood of its + citizens was made to stream from the scaffold.</p> + +<p>At Kingston, Bolivar narrowly escaped assassination. The casual +circumstance of exchanging apartments with another person, caused the +murderer's dagger to be planted in the heart of a faithful follower, +instead of in that of Bolivar. The author of these memoirs happened to +live, for a few days, in the same boarding-house. Some officers of a +British line-of-battle ship, not speaking Spanish, requested him to invite +Bolivar, in their name, to dine with them. This was only a few weeks +previous to the intended assassination of Bolivar.</p> + +<p>From Jamaica, Bolivar went to Hayti, and was received at Port-au-Prince by +Petion with kind hospitality, and was assisted by him as far as his means +would allow.</p> + +<p>In April, 1816, he sailed with three hundred men to Margarita, which island + had lately again shaken off the Spanish yoke. He arrived at Juan Griego, where + he was proclaimed supreme chief of the republic. On the 1st of June he sailed, + and on the 3rd landed at Campano, where he beat nine hundred Spaniards. He then + opened a communication with patriot chieftains, who had maintained themselves + in isolated parties dispersed over the <i>llanos</i> of Cumaná, Barcelona, + and the Apure. It is a curious fact, that the isolation of several of these + parties was so complete, that, for many months, they did not know of any other + than themselves being in arms for the delivery of their country. It was only + by their coming into accidental contact that they discovered that there was + more than one patriot guerilla in existence.<a name="footnotetag3" id="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> + Bolivar supplied some of them with arms, and at the same time augmented his + own force to a thousand men. The Spaniards assembled in superior numbers to + destroy them; but Bolivar embarked, and relanded at Ocumare, with an intention + of taking Caracas: great part, however, of the Spanish army having by this time + returned from New Granada to Venezuela, Bolivar was obliged to re-embark for + Margarita.</p> + +<p>In 1817, he landed near Barcelona, where he collected seven hundred +recruits, and marched towards Caracas; but, being worsted in an affair at +Clarines, he fell back again upon Barcelona, where he shut himself up with +four hundred men, and made a successful resistance against a superior +force.</p> + +<p>Bolivar received some reinforcements from the interior of the province of +Cumaná, upon which he decided upon making the banks of the Orinoco the +theatre of his future efforts. Having further augmented his force, and +taken the necessary steps to keep alive the war in the districts on the +coast, he marched to the interior, beating several small royalist parties +which he encountered on his route.</p> + +<p>Of the Spanish army which had returned from New Granada, a division, under +the brave General La Torre, was destined to act against the patriots in +Guayana. A division of the latter, under General Piar, having obtained a +decisive victory, Bolivar was enabled to invest Angostura, and the town of +old Guyana, which were successively taken on the 3rd and 18th of July.</p> + +<p>In Angostura, Piar was found guilty, by a court-martial, of an attempt to +excite a war of colour. Piar (a man of colour himself) was the bravest of +the brave, and adored by his followers; but his execution stifled anarchy +in the bud.</p> + +<p>The rest of the year 1817 was actively spent in organizing a force to act +against Morillo, who had lately been reinforced by two thousand fresh +troops from the Peninsula, under General Canterac, then on his way from +Spain to Peru. An abundant supply of arms, received from England, was sent +to the patriot corps on the banks of the Apure.</p> + +<h4>(<i>To be continued.</i>)</h4> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>LEDYARD TO HIS MISTRESS.</h3> + +<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Dost wish to roam in foreign climes</p> +<p>Forget thy home and long past times?</p> +<p>Dost wish to be a wand'rer's bride,</p> +<p>And all thy thoughts in him confide?</p> +<p>Thou canst not traverse mountain seas,</p> +<p>Nor bear cold Lapland's freezing breeze;</p> +<p>Thou canst not bear the torrid heats,</p> +<p>Nor brave the toils a wand'rer meets;</p> +<p>Thou wouldst faint, dearest, with fatigue</p> +<p>Trav'ling the desert's sandy league.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Pale hunger with her sickly pains</p> +<p>Will silence thy heroic strains;</p> +<p>Thy heart—now warmly beats—will chill</p> +<p>And stop thy lover's wonted skill.</p> +<p>He could not see thee pine and weep</p> +<p>Nor could he ease thy troubled sleep—</p> +<p>'Twould quite unman his firm resolve,</p> +<p>And with grief thy love involve.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="source"><span class="scaps">Terrenus</span>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page216" id="page216"></a>[pg 216]</span> +<h2>ROMAN ALTAR.</h2> + +<div class="figure" style="width:50%;"> + <a href="images/363-2.png"><img width="100%" src="images/363-2.png" alt= + "Drawing of Roman Altar" /></a> + </div> + +<h4>(<i>To the Editor of the Mirror.</i>)</h4> + +<p>Enclosed I send you a drawing of a Roman votive altar, which was found in digging + a cellar about six feet deep, in St. Sepulchre's Gate, Doncaster, in the year + 1781. It is the oldest relic of antiquity which Doncaster has yet produced, + and is of exquisite engraving and workmanship. Upon the capital, or top of the + stone, a small space above the sculpture of the altar itself, is a crater or + flowing bowl,<a name="footnotetag4" id="footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a> + sacred to Bacchus, the god of wine; on the dexter, or right side of the altar, + is a flower-pot, or cornucopiæ, with five branches in it, loaded with + leaves and fruit, sacred to Ceres, or Terra-Mater, the goddess of plants; and + on the sinister, or left side thereof, is a large jug or pitcher with a large + handle, also sacred to Bacchus. It is about 2 feet 6-1/2 inches in height, and + 1 foot in breadth at the base. The corporation employed a Mr. Richard John Tetlow, + of Ferrybridge, a celebrated antiquary, to interpret the inscription, and give + them his opinion on its age. They also sent it to the Antiquarian Society in + London for inspection.</p> + +<h4><i>Interpretation of the Society.</i></h4> + +<p>Matribus magnis,<a name="footnotetag5" id="footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a> + Nantonius<a name="footnotetag6" id="footnotetag6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a> + Orberthol, vota solvit lubens merito.</p> + +<h4><i>Translation.</i></h4> + +<p>To the great mothers, (goddesses,) Anthony Orberthol willingly and +meritoriously has performed his vows or promises.</p> + +<h4><i>Interpretation of Mr. Tetlow.</i></h4> + +<p>Lunæ, Latonæ, Lucinæ, Matribus magnis Antonius Orbis Romani Imperator Bonis +Oeis Altare. vota. solvit. lubens merito.</p> + +<h4><i>Translation.</i></h4> + +<p>To Luna, Latona, Lucina, the great good mothers, goddesses, Anthony, the +emperor of the Roman empire, hath erected, or dedicated, this altar. Freely +and fully he has discharged his vows and promises.</p> + +<p>It is, reasonably enough, conjectured from several corroborative +circumstances, that the altar above described is no less than 1,645 years +old. One of these circumstances is its being similar in some respects to +two other Roman altars which were found in England some years back, one of +which is related to have been made in the year of Christ 161.</p> + +<p class="source"><i>Near Sheffield.</i> J. M. <span class="scaps">C——d</span>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>NOTES OF A READER.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>SUNSET.</h3> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Day sets in glory, and the glowing air</p> + <p class="i2">Seems dreaming in delight; peace reigns around,</p> +<p>Save where some beetle starteth here and there</p> +<p class="i2">From the shut flowers that kiss the dewy ground—</p> + <p>A burning ocean, stretching vast and far</p> +<p class="i2">The parting banners of the king of light,</p> +<p>Gleam round the temples of each living star</p> +<p class="i2">That comes forth in beauty with the night:</p> +<p>The west seems now like some illumined hall,</p> +<p class="i2">Where beam a thousand torches in their pride,</p> +<p>As if to light the joyous carnival</p> +<p class="i2">Held by the bright sun and his dark-robed bride,</p> +<p>Whose cloudy arms are round his bosom press'd,</p> +<p>As with her thousand eyes she woos him to his rest.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="source"><i>The African, a Tale.</i></p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>BEES.</h3> + +<p>Alternations of torpor and animation cause greater exhaustion and loss of +physical powers, than would be occasioned by a continuance of uniform +torpor. This we infer from the fact, that in Russia, where the winters are +uniformly cold, bees do not perish; and in the West Indies where there is +perpetual verdure, they are never exhausted.</p> + +<hr /> +<p>Major Rennell—<i>clarum et venerabile nomen</i>—now in his 87th + year, possesses in full vigour, for the happiness of himself and friends, all + those intellectual faculties which have so eminently distinguished his long + and useful life; who, suffering little short of martyrdom, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page217" id="page217"></a>[pg + 217]</span>from the frequent attacks of gout, still devotes hours and days to + his favourite pursuit; uniting with his studies all the playfulness and vivacity + of youth.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Quarterly Review.</cite></p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>WAR.</h3> + +<p>War! what miseries are heaped together in the sound!--What an accumulation +of curses is breathed in that one word. To us, happy in our insular +position, we have, within existing memory, known chiefly of war, its pomp +and circumstance alone; the gay parade, the glancing arms, the bright +colours, the inspiring music—these are what we see of war in its +outset;—glory, and praise, and badges of honour, these are what appear to +us as its result. The favourite son, the beloved brother, he who, perhaps, +is dearer still, returns to the home of his youth or of his heart, having +sown danger and reaped renown. Thus do we look on war. But ask the +inhabitant of a country <i>which has been the seat of war</i>, what is <i>his</i> +opinion of it. He will tell you that he has seen his country ravaged, his +home violated, his family —— But no! the tongue recoils from speaking the +horrors and atrocities of war thus brought into the bosom of a peaceful +home. All the amenities and charities of domestic life are outraged, are +annihilated. All that is dearest to man; all that tends to refine, to +soften him—to make him a noble and a better being—all these are trampled +under foot by a brutal soldiery—all these are torn from his heart for +ever! He will tell you that he detests war so much that he almost despises +its glories; and that he detests it because he has known its evils, and +felt how poorly and miserably they are compensated by the fame which is +given to the slaughterer and the destroyer, because he is such!</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Tales of Passion.</cite></p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE NEWSPAPERS.</h3> + +<p>These square pieces of paper are the Agoras of modern life. The same +skilful division of labour which brings the fowl ready trussed to our doors +from the market, brings also an abstract of the</p> +<div class="quote"> +<p class="ind">Votum, timor, ira, voluptas,<br /> +Gaudia, discursus,</p> +</div> +<p>which agitate the great metropolis, and even opinions, ready prepared, to +the breakfast tables of our remotest farms, ere the controversial warmth +has had time to cool. In the centre of this square, where you observe the +larger character, a public orator, "vias et verba locans," takes his daily +stand. One makes his speech in the morning, and another reserves his for +the evening; a third class, either disposed to take less trouble, or, +finding it convenient to construct their speeches from fragments of the +daily orations, harangue once in two or three days; while a fourth waylay +the people in their road to visit the temples on our hebdomadal festivals. +But cast your eyes to another part of these our artificial forums, and +observe the number of small divisions which fill up the space. There are +stalls of merchandize. The ancient venders must have been noisy, and a +frequent cause of annoyance to political speakers; but here the hawkers of +wet and dry goods, the hawkers of medicine, the hawkers of personal +services, the hawkers of husbands and wives, (for among us these articles +are often cried up for sale,) and lastly, the hawkers of religions, moral, +and political wisdom, all cry out at once, without tumult or confusion, yet +so as to be heard in these days through the remotest corners of these +islands.... If a peculiarly bloody murder has been tried, or if some +domestic intrigue has produced a complicated love story, however offensive +in its details, you will find our reading crowd stationary in that quarter, +to enjoy the tragic stimulants of terror and pity. We have also a modest +corner of the square appropriated to the use of our posts; but like +Polydorus's ghost, they generally utter doleful soliloquies, which no one +will stop to hear.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>London Review</cite>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>BEAUTY.</h3> + +<p>It is vain to dispute about the matter; moralists may moralize, preachers +may sermonize about it as much as they please; still beauty is a most +delightful thing,—and a really lovely woman a most enchanting object to +gaze on. I am aware of all that can be said about roses fading, and cheeks +withering, and lips growing thin and pale. No one, indeed, need be ignorant +of every change which can be rung upon this peal of bells, for every one +must have heard them in every possible, and impossible, variety of +combination. Give time, and complexion will decay, and lips and cheeks will +shrink and grow wrinkled, sure enough. But it is needless to anticipate the +work of years, or to give credit to old Time for his conquests before he +has won them. The edge of his scythe does more execution than that of the +conqueror's sword: we need not add the work of fancy to <i>his</i>,—it is more +than sufficiently sure and rapid already.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Tales of Passion.</cite></p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>PRE-AUX-CLERCS.</h3> + +<p>In 1559, the most frequented promenade in Paris was the <i>Pré-aux-Clercs</i>, + situated <span class="pagenum"><a name="page218" id="page218"></a>[pg 218]</span>where + a part of the Faubourg St. Germain is at present. The students of the university + were generally in favour of the reformed religion, and not only made a profession + of it, but publicly defended its principles. They had been in the habit of meeting + at this place for several years, and the monks of the Abbey St. Victor having + refused to let them assemble in the Pré-aux-Clercs, a serious affair + sprung out of the refusal, and several rencounters took place, in which blood + was shed; the students, being the most numerous, carried their point, the monks + resigned the field to them, and the Pré-aux-Clercs was more than ever + frequented. It became the grand rendezvous of all the Protestants, who would + sing Marot's psalms during the summer evenings; and such numbers giving confidence, + many persons declared themselves Protestants, whose rank had hitherto deterred + them from such a step. Among such, the most eminent was Anthony of Bourbon, + first prince of the blood, and, in right of his wife, king of Navarre.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Browning's History of the Hugonots</cite>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>LOVE.</h3> + +<p>When she learned the vocabulary, she did not find that admiration meant +love; she did not find that gratitude meant love; she did not find that +habit meant love; she did not find that approbation meant love; but in +process of time she began to suspect that all these put together produced a +feeling very much like love.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Rank and Talent</cite>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>HUGONOTS.</h3> + +<p>Various definitions of this epithet exist. Pasquier says it arose from +their assembling at Hugon's Tower, at Tours; he also mentions, that in 1540 +he heard them called <i>Tourangeaux</i>. Some have attributed the term to the +commencement of their petitions, "<i>Huc nos venimus</i>." A more probable +reason is to be found in the name of a party at Geneva, called <i>Eignots</i>, a +term derived from the German, and signifying a sworn confederate. Voltaire +and the Jesuit Maimbourg are both of this opinion.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Browning's History of the Hugonots</cite>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>A ROUT.</h3> + +<p>A great, large, noisy, tumultuous, promiscuous, crowding, crushing, +perfumed, feathered, flowered, painted, gabbling, sneering, idle, +gossiping, rest-breaking, horse-killing, panel-breaking, supper-scrambling +evening-party is much better imagined than described, for the description +is not worth the time of writing or reading it.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Rank and Talent</cite>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>PLEASURE.</h3> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>We are mad gamesters in this world below,</p> +<p>All hopes on one uncertain die to throw;</p> +<p>How vain is man's pursuit, with passion blind,</p> +<p>To follow that which leaves us still behind!</p> +<p>Go! clasp the shadow, make it all thine own,</p> +<p>Place on the flying breeze thine airy throne;</p> + <p>Weave the thin sunbeams of the morning sky;</p> +<p>Catch the light April clouds before they fly;</p> +<p>Chase the bright sun unto the fading west,</p> +<p>And wake him early from his golden rest;</p> +<p>Seeking th' impossible, let life be past,</p> +<p>But never dream of pleasure that shall last.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="source"><cite>The Ruined City.</cite></p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>GERMAN LIFE.</h3> + +<p>One day (says a late adventurer,) that I was quartered in a farm-house, +along with some of our German dragoons, the owner came to complain to me +that the soldiers had been killing his fowls, and pointed out one man in +particular as the principal offender. The fact being brought home to the +dragoon, he excused himself by saying, "One shiken come frighten my horse, +and I give him one kick, and he die." "Oh, but," said I, "the <i>patron</i> +contends that you killed more than one fowl." "Oh yes; that shiken moder +see me kick that shiken, so she come fly in my face, and I give her one +kick, and she die." Of course I reported the culprit to his officer, by +whom he was punished as a notorious offender.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Twelve Years' Military Adventures.</cite></p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE HEIR.</h3> + +<p>Persons who are very rich, and have no legal heirs, may entertain +themselves very much at the expense of hungry expectants and lean +legacy-hunters. Who has not seen a poor dog standing on his hind legs, and +bobbing up and down after a bone scarcely worth picking, with which some +mischief-loving varlet has tantalized the poor animal till all its limbs +have ached? That poor dog shadows out the legacy-hunter or possible heir.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Rank and Talent</cite>.</p> + +<hr /> +<p>The author of "<cite>The Journal of a Naturalist</cite>," just published, + relates the following incident that occurred a few years past at a lime-kiln, + (on the old Bristol Road) because it manifests how perfectly insensible the + human frame may be to pains and afflictions in peculiar circumstances; and that + which would be torture if endured in general, may be experienced at other times + without any sense of suffering. A travelling man one winter's evening laid himself + down upon the platform of a lime-kiln, placing his feet, probably numbed with + cold, upon the heap of stones newly put on to burn through the night. Sleep + overcame him in this situation; the fire gradually rising and increasing until + it ignited the stones upon <span class="pagenum"><a name="page219" id="page219"></a>[pg + 219]</span>which his feet were placed. Lulled by the warmth, he still slept; + and though the fire increased until it burned one foot (which probably was extended + over a vent hole) and part of the leg, above the ankle, entirely off, consuming + that part so effectually, that no fragment of it was ever discovered; the wretched + being slept on! and in this state was found by the kiln-man in the morning. + Insensible to any pain, and ignorant of his misfortune, he attempted to rise + and pursue his journey, but missing his shoe, requested to have it found; and + when he was raised, putting his burnt limb to the ground to support his body, + the extremity of his leg-bone, the tibia, crumbled into fragments, having been + calcined into lime. Still he expressed no sense of pain, and probably experienced + none, from the gradual operation of the fire and his own torpidity during the + hours his foot was consuming. This poor drover survived his misfortunes in the + hospital about a fortnight; but the fire having extended to other parts of his + body, recovery was hopeless.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>GAMING.</h3> + +<p>Gambling, the besetting sin of the indolent in many countries, is ruinously +general throughout South America. In England, and other European states, it +is pretty much limited to the unemployed of the upper classes, who furnish +a never-ending supply of dupes to knavery. In South America the passion +taints all ages, both sexes, and every rank. The dregs of society yield to +the fascination as blindly as the high-born and wealthy of the old or of +the new world. It speaks much in favour of the revolution, that this vice +is sensibly diminishing in Peru, and to the unfortunate Monteagudo belongs +the honour of having been the first to attempt its eradication. A noted +gambler was once as much an object of admiration in South America as a +six-bottle man was in England fifty years ago. The houses of the great were +converted into nightly hells, where the priesthood were amongst the most +regular and adventurous attendants. Those places are now more innocently +enlivened by music and dancing. Buena Vista, a seat of the late Marquess of +Montemira, six leagues from Lima, was the Sunday rendezvous of every +fashionable of the capital who had a few doubloons to risk on the turn of a +card. On one occasion, a fortunate player, the celebrated Baquijano, was +under the necessity of sending for a bullock car to convey his winnings, +amounting to above thirty thousand dollars: a mule thus laden with specie +was a common occurrence. Chorillos, a fishing town, three leagues south of +Lima, is a fashionable watering place for a limited season. Here immense +sums are won and lost; but political and literary coteries, formerly +unknown, daily lessen the numbers of the votaries of fortune.</p> + +<p>So strong was this ruling passion, that when the patriot army has been +closely pursued by the royalists, and pay has been issued to lighten the +military chest, the officers, upon halting, would spread their ponchos on +the ground, and play until it was time to resume the march; and this was +frequently done even on the eve of a battle. Soldiers on piquet often +gambled within sight of an enemy's advanced post.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Memoirs of Gen. Miller</cite>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>THE NATURALIST.</h2> +<hr /> + +<h3>VOLCANIC ISLAND OF ST. CHRISTOPHER.</h3> + +<p>This island is entirely composed of volcanic matter, in some places alternating + with submarine productions. The principal mountain is situated at the western + end of the island; it is an exhausted volcano, called in books of navigation, + charts, &c., Mount Misery. The summit of this mountain is 3,711 feet above + the sea; it appears to consist of large masses of volcanic rocks, roasted stones, + cinders, pumice, and iron-clay. The whole extent of land, to the sea-shore on + either side, may be considered as the base of this mountain, as it rises with + a pretty steep ascent towards it; but from the part which is generally considered + the foot of the mountain, it takes a sudden rise of an average angle of about + 50 degrees. To the east, another chain of mountains runs, of a similar formation, + though of inferior height. On the summits of these there are no remains that + indicate their having ever possessed a crater: so that whether any of them have + originally been volcanoes, or whether they have been formed by an accumulation + of matter thrown out of Mount Misery, it is difficult to decide. That the low + lands have been thrown from the mouth of the volcano is evident, from the regular + strata of volcanic substances of which they consist; these too are interspersed + with masses of volcanic rock, and other stones, some of the lesser ones entirely + roasted through, and some of the larger ones to certain depths from their surfaces. + Masses, also, of iron-clay, enclosing various pebbles, which have been burnt + into a kind of red brick, are abundantly found in many places. There is scarcely + any thing that can be called a path, or even a track, to the mouth of the crater + of Mount Misery; indeed, there <span class="pagenum"><a name="page220" id="page220"></a>[pg + 220]</span>are but few whose curiosity is sufficiently strong to induce them + to undertake this expedition. The common course for those who do, is to take + a negro man as a guide, with a cutlass, or large knife, to clear away the underwood, + and form a kind of path as he goes on. The ascent is very irregular, in some + places being gentle, in others almost perpendicular; in which case the hands + are obliged to assist the operations of the feet. In wet weather, the ascent + of this mountain is extremely laborious, as a great part of it consists of clay, + which then becomes so slippery as to render the getting up almost impracticable. + About half-way up on the south side, and in a very pretty, romantic situation, + there is a natural spring of remarkably cool water. On the north side, at about + the same height, there is a waterfall, which, though small and insignificant + in itself, has a pleasing appearance, as it rushes over the rocks, and through + the trees and shrubs. This mountain is thickly clothed with wood, which in many + places not only excludes the rays of the sun, but produces a sombre, gloomy + appearance; this, with the occasional plaintive coo of the mountain dove, (the + only sound heard at this height,) creates in the mind sensations of pleasing + melancholy. In some parts an open space suddenly appears, from whence the whole + country below bursts unexpectedly upon the view, which has, as may be supposed, + an extremely fine effect. The thermometer, on the top of the mountain when the + writer visited it, stood at 65, being a difference of 15 degrees from the low + lands, where it stood at 80 degrees. The descent into the crater on the north + and east sides is perfectly perpendicular; on the south and west sides, it slopes + at an average angle of not more than 18 or 20 degrees from the perpendicular; + consequently, persons descending are often obliged to let themselves down by + clinging to projecting corners of rocks, or the branches and roots of shrubs, + which grow all the way down; nor is this mode of travelling particularly safe, + for should any of these give way, the consequence would probably be highly dangerous. + The bottom of the crater, which, as nearly as could be estimated, is about 2,500 + feet below the summit of the mountain, and contains about forty-five or fifty + acres, may be said to be divided into three parts: the lowest side (to the south) + consists of a large pond or lake, formed entirely by the rain-water collected + from the sides of the crater—accordingly its extent is greater or less, + as the season is wet or dry; the centre part is covered with small ferns, palms, + and shrubs, and some curious species of moss; the upper part, to the north, + is that which is called the Soufriere. The ground here consists of large beds + of pipe-clay, in some places perfectly white, in others of a bluish or black + colour, from the presence of iron pyrites. These are intermixed with masses + and irregular beds of gray cinders and score, pumice, various kinds of lava, + lithomarge, and fuller's earth. Amidst these beds of clay there are several + hot springs, small, but boiling with much violence, and emitting large quantities + of steam. A rumbling noise is heard under the whole of this part of the crater. + The hot springs are not stationary, but suddenly disappear, and burst up in + another place. The ground in many parts is too hot to be walked upon: a great + quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen gas is likewise emitted, which is exceedingly + disagreeable to the smell; and occasionally such a volume of it arises, as is + almost suffocating, and resembles much the smell of rotten eggs. The watches + of the writer and his companion during his visit, and every article of gold + or silver about their persons, were in a few moments turned perfectly black, + from the effect of this gas.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Brande's Journal</cite>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>ROYAL LIFE IN PERSIA.</h3> + +<p>The religious duties of the king of Persia require him to rise early. As he + sleeps in the interior apartments, which no male is allowed to approach, his + attendants are either females or eunuchs. After he is dressed with their aid, + he sits for an hour or two in the hall of the haram, where his levees are conducted + with the same ceremony as in his outer apartments. Female officers arrange the + crowd of his wives and slaves with the strictest attention to the order of precedency. + After hearing the reports of the persons intrusted with the internal government + of the haram, and consulting with his principal wives, who are generally seated, + the monarch leaves the interior apartments. The moment he comes out, he is met + by officers in waiting, and proceeds to one of his private halls, where he is + immediately joined by some of his principal favourites, and enters into familiar + conversation with them: all the young princes of the blood attend this morning + levee, to pay their respects. After this is over, he calls for breakfast. The + preparing his meals is superintended by the nauzir, or chief steward of the + household. The viands are put into dishes of fine china, with silver covers, + and placed in a close tray, which is locked and sealed by the steward. This + tray <span class="pagenum"><a name="page221" id="page221"></a>[pg 221]</span>is + covered with a rich shawl, and carried to the king, when the steward breaks + the seal, and places the dishes before him. Some of the infant princes are generally + present, and partake in this repast. The chief physician is invariably in attendance + at every meal. His presence is deemed necessary, the courtiers say, that he + may prescribe an instant remedy, if any thing should disagree with the monarch; + but this precaution, no doubt, owes its origin to that suspicion which is continually + haunting the minds of such as exercise despotic power. When his public duties + are performed, he usually retires to the haram, where he sometimes indulges + in a short repose. Some time before sunset he always makes his appearance in + the outer apartments, and either again attends to public business or takes a + ride. His dinner is brought between eight and nine, with the same precautions + and ceremonies as at breakfast. He eats, like his subjects, seated upon a carpet, + and the dishes are placed on a rich embroidered cloth, spread for the occasion. + Some of the former kings used to indulge openly in drinking wine; but none of + the reigning family have yet outraged the religious feelings of their subjects + by so flagrant a violation of the laws of Mahomed. Bowls filled with sherbet, + made of every species of fruit, furnish the beverage of the royal meals; and + there are few countries where more pains are bestowed to gratify the palate + with the most delicate viands. After dinner, the king retires to the interior + apartments, where it is said that he is often amused till a late hour by the + singers and dancers of his haram. It is impossible, however, to speak of his + occupations after he passes the threshold of his inner palace. He is there surrounded + by a scene calculated, beyond all others, to debase and degrade the human character.</p> + +<p>The harams are governed by the strictest discipline; and this must be necessary + to preserve the peace of a community, where the arrogance of power, the pride + of birth, the ties of kindred, the intrigues of art, and the pretensions of + beauty, are in constant collision. The usual routine of the king's life is often + interrupted by urgent public affairs, and sometimes by amusement. The reigning + family has hitherto disdained those enervating and luxurious habits which led + the last Seffavean monarchs to confine themselves to their harams. They not + only attend personally to public business, but are continually practising manly + exercises, and engage in field sports with all the ardour of a race who cherish + the habits of their Tartar ancestors. The present king is an expert marksman + and an excellent horseman; few weeks pass without his partaking in the pleasures + of the chase. The king has always a historiographer and a chief poet. The one + writes the annals of his reign; the other, who has a high rank at court, composes + odes in his praise, and, with grateful ardour, celebrates the munificence of + his patron. A giant and a dwarf were at one period of the present reign part + of the royal establishment; and it is never without a jester, who enjoys an + extraordinary latitude of speech, and, both in his dress and manner, assumes + the habit and appearance of folly. It is usual to laugh at the witticisms of + these jesters, even when they are the most severe; and the sovereign himself + respects their privilege. The tribe to which Kerreem Khan belonged, speak a + language which, from its rudeness, is denominated "the barbarous dialect." + As this prince was one day sitting in public, he commanded his jester to go + and bring him word what a dog, that was barking very loud, wanted. The courtiers + smiled at this sally of their monarch. The jester went, and, after appearing + to listen for some time with profound attention, returned, and said, with a + grave air, "Your majesty must send one of the chief officers of your own + family to report what that gentleman says: he speaks no language except "the + barbarous dialect," with which they are familiar, but of which I do not + understand one word." The good-humoured monarch laughed heartily at this + jest, and gave the wit a present. This anecdote, to which many similar might + be added, shows that there is little difference between the office of jester + at the modern court of Persia, and that which some centuries ago existed at + every court in Europe. A resemblance even in trifling forms merits attention, + as it may lead to conclusions on the progress of knowledge and the condition + of society; and from the character of their amusements, we may perhaps judge + as correctly as from their more serious occupations, of the degree of civilization + which a people has attained. In the court there is always a person who bears + the name of "story-teller to his majesty;" and the duties of his office + require a man of no mean acquirements. Though passionately fond of public exhibitions, + the Persians have none that deserve the name of theatrical entertainments; but + though strangers to the regular drama, their stories are often dramatic; and + those whose occupation is to tell them, sometimes display so extraordinary a + skill, and such varied powers, that we can hardly believe, while we look on + their <span class="pagenum"><a name="page222" id="page222"></a>[pg 222]</span>altered + countenances and listen to their changed tones, that it is the same person, + who at one moment tells a plain narrative in his natural voice, then speaks + in the hoarse and angry tone of offended authority, and next subdues the passions + he has excited by the softest sounds of feminine tenderness. The art of relating + stories is attended both with profit and reputation. Great numbers attempt it, + but few succeed.</p> + +<p>The person whose office it is to amuse his majesty with these stories is +always in attendance. It is equally his duty to beguile the fatigue of a +long march, and to soothe the mind when disturbed by the toils of public +affairs; and his tales are artfully made to suit the disposition and +momentary humour of the monarch. Sometimes he recites a story of the genii; +at others he speaks of the warlike deeds of former sovereigns, or of the +love of some wandering prince. Often the story is of coarser materials, and +the king is entertained with low and obscene adventures. In no court is +more rigid attention paid to ceremony. Looks, words, the motions of the +body, are all regulated by the strictest forms. When the king is seated in +public, his sons, ministers, and courtiers, stand erect, with their hands +crossed, and in the exact place belonging to their rank. They watch his +looks, and a glance is a command. If he speaks to them, you hear a voice +reply, and see the lips move, but not a motion or gesture betrays that +there is animation in any other part of the frame. The monarch often speaks +in the third person: "The king is pleased," "The king commands." His +ministers usually style him "The object of the world's regard." They are as +particular in forms of speech as in other ceremonies; and superiority and +inferiority of rank, in all their gradations, are implied by the terms used +in the commonest conversations.</p> + +<p class="source"><cite>Sir J. Malcolm's History of Persia</cite>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>THE COSMOPOLITE.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<p>We love an occasional stroll into the environs of London—<i>on foot</i>—and +<i>alone</i>. On foot, because we hate the machinery of a coach—and alone, +because we have only our own leisure to consult, and there is no time lost +in "making up minds." On such occasions we have no set object in view, but +we determine to make "good in every thing." A book, great or small, is then +to us a great evil; and putting a map into one's pocket is about as absurd +as Peter Fin's taking Cook's Voyages on his journey to Brighton. We read +the other day of a reviewer who started from Charing Cross with a blue bag +filled with books for his criticship: he read at Camberwell, and he read at +Dulwich—he wrote in the sanded and smoke-dried parlour of the Lion, the +Lamb, or the Fox—and he wrote whilst his steak was grilling at the +<i>auberge</i> at Dulwich—and he went home in a hackney-coach: "Lord how he +went out—Lord how he came in." Another brother talks of rambling in a +secluded village field with Gilbert White's "Natural History of Selborne," +or the "Journal of a Naturalist," in his hand. All this is very pleasant +and mighty pretty; but it is not true; and we stake our critical character +that neither Gilbert White nor our "Naturalist" did such things, or if they +did, that they were not essential to their writings. Making notes and +comparing them with others, after a long walk, is another matter; but to +walk out into the country to read a book on natural philosophy is not +indicative of a susceptible mind. For our own part, we want no book but the +broad volume of Nature—but to derive profit as well as pleasure, we must +go out with some of the philosophy of Nature in our hearts—for walking is +like travelling, (which is only a long walk,)—"a man must carry knowledge +with him, if he would bring home knowledge." We think Mr. Hazlitt talks of +lying a whole day on Salisbury Plain as one of his greatest enjoyments, and +he is doubtless sincere. When we set out on such a walk as we are about to +take, with the reader's consent, we quote Thomson for our exordium:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>To me be Nature's volume broad display'd;</p> +<p>And to peruse its all instructive page,</p> +</div> +<hr class="poem" /> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>My sole delight; as through the falling glooms</p> +<p>Pensive I stray, or with the rising dawn</p> +<p>On Fancy's eagle wing excursive soar;</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>—and starting from our metropolis, we love to watch the ebbing of population, + the dwindling from groves of chimneys and worlds of bricks and mortar to tricksy + cottages marshalled with the plumb-line, or sprinkled over "farmy fields" + facing Macadamized roads, and collecting more dust in one month than would have + ransomed all the captive kings of history, sacred or profane. There we love + to trace the ramifications of art from the steam and gas chimneys of the metropolis + to the quiet dell, in whose seclusion you might imagine yourself a hundred miles + from town, were it not for the hum of the great tun that is fretting and working + at a distance. On the road you enjoy scenes that are to be found in no printed + book. Nay, every sign-board is a study. Those near <span class="pagenum"><a name="page223" id="page223"></a>[pg + 223]</span>the town would do honour to the President's pencil; as you advance, + they retrograde—and as Art declines, Nature smiles still sweeter and softer + in never-ending successions of woods and groves, hills and dales, glassy lakes + and pebbly streams, with all the variegated charms of rustic life.</p> + +<p>But we are getting too <i>rural</i>; for our "Suburban Stroll" extended + but to Dulwich and back, about four miles south of London. Twenty years since, + we remember, the parish of Camberwell (which includes Peckham and Dulwich) was + a pleasant village, with several mansions inhabited by citizens of property, + who retired hither for air and recreation; now the whole district is crowded + with lath and plaster cottages, and sugar-bakers' boxes, which appear well adapted + for twelfth-cake kings and queens.<a name="footnotetag7" id="footnotetag7"></a><a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a> + Twenty years ago, we enjoyed the embowered walk of Camberwell Grove, and above + all, <i>Grove Hill</i>, the retreat of Dr. John Coakley Lettsom, till his benevolence + overmuch obliged him to part with this delightful residence. Well do we remember + the picturesque effect of Grove Hill, the unostentatious, casino-like villa, + ornamented with classic figures of Liberality, Plenty, and Flora—and the + sheet of water whose surface was broken by a stream from a dank and moss-crusted + fountain in its centre. Then, the high, overarching grove, and its summit, traditionally + said to be the spot where George Barnwell murdered his uncle, the incident that + gave rise to Lillo's pathetic tragedy. But the march of improvement has extended + hither—the walk can scarcely be traced: still there is abundance of timber, + for the grove has disappeared, and scores of new houses have sprung up with + almost magical effect—and the whole scene reminds us of one of the change-scenes + of a pantomime. The builder's <i>share</i> has turned over nearly every inch + of the ground, and fresh gravel and loose loam remind the philosophical pedestrian + that all is change beneath as well as on the surface. Of the mock villas that + have been "put up" in this quarter, we must speak with forbearance. + Their little bits of Gothic plastered here and there; their puny machicolations, + square and pointed arches, and stained glass "cut out into little stars"—are + but sorry specimens of taste, and but poor indications of comfort. They seem + to totter like card-houses, and all their spick-and-span finery vanishes beside + a wing of the picturesque—a cottage in true rustic taste, with rudely-arched + virandahs, formed of limbs and trunks of trees, intermixed with evergreens, + and reminding us of the "gnarled oaks and soft myrtles" of the poet's + fancy; and with trimmed arches of thatch over little casements, with flowers</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Blinding the lower panes."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Now is the little hatch-gate slammed with the wind, contrasting its rude sound + with the rusty creak of the "invisible" iron fence just set up, but + already</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>So loose that it but wants another push</p> +<p>To leap from off its hinges;</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>—the milk-white window-sill, or painted flower-pots ranged on bars of + cast-iron, like so many toys of Nature. Such was the contrast when we last visited + the "Grove;" the picturesque cottage was then as we have described + it, and its new-born neighbours were rising fast on every side, and we would + not insure its existence for a week longer; for the slicing, cutting, and carving + of this once beautiful spot, exceeds all credibility. With all these changes, + however, the fine panoramic view of two hundred miles may still be enjoyed from + this spot, and overlooking the meaner glories of the <span class="scaps">Great + City</span> at your feet, the eye rests on the "sister hills," Harrow + spire, and where</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow;</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Shooter's Hill and Greenwich, with tower, dome, and turret; Sydenham and +Norwood on the south; and Chelsea and the <i>unbridged</i> winding Thames on the +west. Art has not yet thrown up her screens, so as to fence in this world +of beauties from our enjoyment. Here we sit down and rest our recreant +limbs, leaving the reader to enjoy the innumerable reflections which our +poor mention has called up. Another fine day, and we may proceed in our +stroll.</p> + +<p class="source"><span class="scaps">Philo</span>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2> + +<p class="source">A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.</p> + +<p class="source"><span class="scaps">Shakspeare</span>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>EPIGRAM.</h3> + +<h4><i>The Division of Justice</i>.</h4> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>John Hobbs, partridge-snaring, was dragged to the 'Squire,</p> +<p>The Magistrate flamed, but the statute hung fire.</p> +<p>"Burns states," says the Clerk, "that tread-mill will do,</p> +<p>For two months, if the culprit's convicted by two."</p> +<p>"Two months and two magistrates: I sit alone.</p> +<p>Well, Clerk, we must <i>halve</i> it—commit him for <i>one</i>."</p> +</div> +</div> +<hr /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page224" id="page224"></a>[pg 224]</span> +<h3>HUDSON AND HIS PIGS.</h3> + +<p>The following is extracted from a recent American (private) letter:—</p> + +<p>Hudson, who is a general dealer, purchased a cottage, to which pertained +amongst other <i>furniture</i> a sty. As this was of course uninhabited, his +first care was to supply it with inmates, and, having purchased a couple of +fine pigs, he set off homewards with his bargains comfortably lodged in his +cart. Upon arriving at Buenos Ayres, a part of the harness broke, down went +the cart, and out shot Hudson and his bristly companions backwards; but +unfortunately falling upon one of the poor animals, he crushed him to +death. This was bad, Hudson looked blank, as who does not upon perceiving +Dame Fortune playing him foul? and woeful was it indeed to witness death +amongst his live stock; in this dilemma however, his wits did not utterly +forsake him, and concluding that if he could make the animal bleed, it +would probably be marketable and not prove a <i>dead</i> loss, he proceeded to +act on this prudent supposition, and immediately cut its throat; which +sanguinary act so alarmed the companion pig, that taking to his heels, he +instantly made off (like his swinish brethren of old) towards the sea. Poor +Hudson, between the dead and the living pig, was dreadfully distressed, +being apprehensive of losing both; however being fortunate enough to engage +a man to pursue the absconded delinquent, he proceeded home with the +defunct, and by dint of ablutions, and scrapings, &c. really made of it "a +very pretty pig." This done, it was hung up in the dairy or beer-cellar, I +know not which, ready for market, and if Hudson plumed himself upon +cheating fortune at least in one instance, he was not to blame; but, lo! in +the morning, poor pig, presented a hideous and horrible spectacle, and poor +Hudson stood aghast to behold it! The cats had made during the night so +plentiful a repast upon his new purchase, so that instead of a handsome +corpse there remained only a mangled assemblage of bloody bones, and +fragments of flesh! Poor Hudson! but after all, these misfortunes were +mainly attributable to his own carelessness, and as to whether he ever +recovered his truant pig, I cannot say; perhaps the man may be in pursuit +of him still.</p> + +<p class="source">S. L.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>ON A PERSON SAYING HE SPENT TOO MUCH TIME ON MUSIC.</h3> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>On music that you spend your time,</p> +<p class="i2">You surely can't mean what you say,</p> +<p>For all who know you must allow</p> +<p class="i2">You keep time whilst you sing or play.</p> +</div> +</div> +<hr /> + +<h3>OLD PARR.</h3> + +<p>Thomas Parr lived to the extraordinary age of 152 years. He was of the +county of Salop, born anno 1483. He lived in the reigns of ten princes, +viz. Edward IV., King Edward V., King Richard III., King Henry VII., King +Henry VIII., King Edward VI., Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, and +King Charles, was buried at Westminster Abbey, November 15, 1635.</p> + +<p class="source">C. K. W.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>THE MARCH OF INTELLECT.</h3> + +<p>Colonel Despreaux, in a late pamphlet on the Police of Paris, remarks, that +there seem to be different periods for different crimes. He had always +observed the summer months to be comparatively months of low riot. November +began the burglaries, January and February the stealing of +pocket-handkerchiefs and snuff-boxes, probably from the conflux to the +theatres at that time. But, that swindling transactions, and all other +frauds that require peculiar dexterity, were prevalent about <i>March</i>.</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3>LONDON LEVELS.</h3> + +<p>The most lofty site in the immediate vicinity of London is the tavern +called Jack Straw's Castle, on the brow of Hampstead Heath, which is 443 +feet above the Thames. The top of the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral is 407 +feet, whilst its base, or ground-line, is 52 feet. The base of the lowest +building is that of the Bricklayer's Arms, Kent Road, the sill of the south +door of which is only six inches above the high-water mark. The sill of the +north entrance-door of Westminster Hall is only 11 inches.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>Lately published, with a Frontispiece, and thirty other Engravings, price +5s.</p> + +<h4>THE ARCANA OF SCIENCE, AND ANNUAL REGISTER OF THE USEFUL ARTS, FOR 1829.</h4> + +<p>"This is a valuable register of the progress of science and arts during the +past year. Engravings and a low price qualify it for extensive +utility"—<cite>Literary Gazette. March 21.</cite></p> + +<p>"An agreeable and useful little volume."—<cite>Athenæum, Feb.</cite> 18.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>PURCHASERS of the MIRROR, who may wish to complete their sets are informed, + that every volume is complete in itself, and may be purchased separately. The + whole of the numbers are now in print, and can be procured by giving an order + to any Bookseller or Newsvender.</p> + +<p>Complete sets Vol I. to XII. in boards, price £3. 5s. half bound, £4. 2s. +6d.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> +<div class="quote"> + <div class="footnote"> + <p><a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1</b>: <a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a></p> + <p>See MIRROR, vol xiii. p. 114. </p> + <p><a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2</b>: <a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a> + </p> + <p>Bolivar seems to have been hurried into a dreadful error by the warmth + of his feelings. Not only is the <i>expediency</i> of the capitulation admitted + by eye witnesses of the first respectability, but also that Miranda had + no other alternative. The rich and influential inhabitants withheld their + support, not that their political sentiments had undergone a change but + because they saw the useless of sacrificing property and life in a wild + attempt to stem the stream of public opinion; the bulk of the people having + become decidedly royalist in principle ever since that earthquake, which + had been represented by the priesthood as a judgement of Heaven upon the + insurgent cause.</p> + <p><a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3</b>: <a href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a> + </p> + <p>For the honour of the <i>llaneros</i>, this circumstance ought to be more + distinctly detailed.</p> + <p><a name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4</b>: <a href="#footnotetag4">(return)</a> + </p> + <p> If not a flowing bowl, then it is the shield of Diana.</p> + <p><a name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5</b>: <a href="#footnotetag5">(return)</a></p> + <p>Juno and Diana. </p> + + <p><a name="footnote6"></a><b>Footnote 6</b>: <a href="#footnotetag6">(return)</a></p> + <p>For Antoninus, in the year of Christ 161. Antoninus Philosophus was the + Roman emperor, and succeeded Antoninus Pius, according to Dr. Littleton.</p> + <p><a name="footnote7"></a><b>Footnote 7</b>: <a href="#footnotetag7">(return)</a> + </p> + <p>In the neighbourhood of Dulwich, we remember the mansion of a retired confectioner, + which wags styled <i>Lollipop Hall</i>.</p> + </div> +</div> +<hr class="full" /> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, +and Instruction, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 363 *** + +***** This file should be named 11331-h.htm or 11331-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/3/3/11331/ + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Elaine Walker and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team. + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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