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Eckrich, David Garcia,<br /> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team</b></center> +<br /> +<br /> + <hr class="full" /> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page433" name="page433"></a>[pg + 433]</span> + <h1> + THE MIRROR<br /> + OF<br /> + LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. + </h1> + <hr class="full" /> + <table width="100%" summary="Banner"> + <tr> + <td align="left"> + <b>VOL. XII, NO. 348.]</b> + </td> + <td align="center"> + <b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1828.</b> + </td> + <td align="right"> + <b>[PRICE 2d.</b> + </td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + <h2> + Barber's Barn, Hackney. + </h2> + <div class="figure" style="width: 100%;"> + <a href="images/348-1.png"><img width="100%" + src="images/348-1.png" alt="Barber's Barn, Hackney." /></a> + </div> + <p> + The engraving represents a place of historical + interest—an ancient mansion in Mare-street, Hackney, + built about the year 1591, upon a spot of ground called + Barbour Berns, by which name, or rather <i>Barber's Barn</i>, + the house has been described in old writings. + </p> + <p> + In this house resided the noted Colonel John Okey, one of the + regicides "charged with compassing and imagining the death of + the late King Charles I." in October, 1660. Nineteen of these + "bold traitors," (among whom was Okey,) fled from justice, + and were attainted, and Barber's Barn was in his tenure at + the time of his attainder. His interest in the premises being + forfeited to the crown, was granted to the Duke of York, who, + by his indenture, dated 1663, gave up his right therein to + Okey's widow. The colonel was apprehended in Holland, with + Sir John Berkestead and Miles Corbett, in 1662, whence they + were sent over to England; and having been outlawed for high + treason, a rule was made by the Court of King's Bench for + their execution at Tyburn. These were the last of the + regicides that were punished capitally. + </p> + <p> + Barber's Barn and its adjoining grounds have, however, since + become appropriated to more pacific pursuits than hatching + treason, compassing, &c. About the middle of the last + century, one John Busch cultivated the premises as a nursery. + Catharine II. Empress of Russia, says a correspondent of Mr. + Loudon's <i>Gardener's Magazine</i>, "finding she could have + nothing done to her mind, she determined to have a person + from England to lay out her garden." Busch was the person + engaged to go out to Russia for this purpose; and in the year + 1771 he gave up his concerns at Hackney, with the nursery and + foreign correspondence, to Messrs. Loddidges. These + gentlemen, who rank as the most eminent florists and + nurserymen of their time, have here extensive green and hot + houses which are heated by steam; the ingenious apparatus + belonging to which has been principally devised by + themselves. Their gardens boast of the finest display of + exotics ever assembled in this country, and a walk through + them is one of the most delightful spectacles of Nature. + </p> + <p> + Hackney was once distinguished by princely mansions; but, + alas! many of these abodes of wealth have been turned + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page434" name="page434"></a>[pg + 434]</span> into receptacles for lunatics! Brooke House, + formerly the seat of a nobleman of that name, and Balmes' + House, within memory surrounded by a moat, and approached + only by a drawbridge, have shared this humiliating fate. Sir + Robert Viner,<a id="footnotetag1" + name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> + who made Charles II. "stay and take t'other bottle," resided + here; and John Ward, Esq. M.P. whom Pope has "damned to + everlasting fame," had a house at Hackney. + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + CURIOUS STONE PULPIT. + </h3> + <p> + (<i>For the Mirror</i>.) + </p> + <p> + The pulpit in the church of St. Peter, at Wolverhampton, is + formed wholly of stone. It consists of one entire piece, with + the pedestal which supports it, the flight of steps leading + to it, with the balustrade, &c., without any division, + the whole having been cut out of a solid block of stone. The + church was erected in the year 996, at which time it is said + this remarkable pulpit was put up; and notwithstanding its + great age, which appears to be 832 years, it is still in good + condition. At the foot of the steps is a large figure, + intended to represent a lion couchant, but carved after so + grotesque a fashion, as to puzzle the naturalist in his + attempts to determine its proper classification. In other + respects the ornamental sculpture about the pulpit is neat + and appropriate, and presents a curious specimen of the taste + of our ancestors at that early period. + </p> + <p> + This is a collegiate church, with a fine embattled tower, of + rich Gothic architecture, and was originally dedicated to the + Virgin, but altered in the time of Henry III. to St. Peter. + It is pleasantly situated on a gravelly hill, and commands a + fine prospect towards Shropshire and Wales. + </p> + <p> + A CORRESPONDENT. + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + LAST DAYS OF, AND ROUGH NOTES ON, 1828. + </h3> + <p> + (<i>For the Mirror</i>.) + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + It was but yesterday the snow + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Of thy dead sire was on the hill— + </p> + <p> + It was but yesterday the flow + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Of thy spring showers increased the rill, + </p> + <p> + And made a thousand blossoms swell + </p> + <p class="i2"> + To welcome summer's festival..... + </p> + <p> + And now all these are of the past, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + For this lone hour must be thy last! + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Thou must depart! where none may know— + </p> + <p class="i2"> + The sun for thee hath ever set, + </p> + <p> + The star of morn, the silver bow, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + No more shall gem thy coronet + </p> + <p> + And give thee glory; but the sky + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Shall shine on thy posterity!... + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + So there's an end of 1828; "all its great and glorious + transactions are now nothing more than mere matter of + history!" What wars of arms and words! what lots of changes + and secessions! what debates on "guarantee," "stipulations," + and "untoward" events! what "piles of legislation!" what a + fund of speculation for the denizens of the stock-exchange, + and newspaper press!—all may now be embodied in that + little word—the <i>past</i>; and only serve to fill up + and figure in the pages of the next "Annual + Register!"—sic transit gloria—"but the proverb is + somewhat musty." One, two, three.... ten, eleven, twelve, and + now "methinks my soul hath elbow room." + </p> + <p> + Those versed in the lore of Francis Moore, physician, which + must doubtless include most of our readers, are aware that + our veteran friend, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, has + been for some time in what is called a "galloping" + consumption, and it is certain cannot possibly survive after + the bells "chime twelve" on Wednesday night, the thirty-first + of December,— + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + "—as if an angel spoke, + </p> + <p> + I hear the solemn sound," + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + when he will depart this life, and be gathered to his + ancestors, who have successively been entombed in the vault + of Time. + </p> + <p> + Well, taking all things into consideration, we predict he + will not have many mourners in his train. "Rumours of wars" + have gone through the land, and the ominous hieroglyphics of + "Raphael" in his "Prophetic Messenger," unfold to the lover + of futurity, that "war with all its bloody train," will visit + this quarter of the globe with unusual severity the coming + year—and we have had comets and "rumours" of comets for + many months past, while the red and glaring appearance of the + planet, Mars, is as we have elsewhere observed, considered by + the many a forerunner, and sign of long wars and much + bloodshed. To dwell further on the political horizon, or the + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page435" name="page435"></a>[pg + 435]</span> "events and fortunes" of the past year would be + out of place in the fair pages of the MIRROR; and should it + be our fate to present its readers with future "notings" on + another year, we will then dwell upon the good or ill-fortune + of Turk or Russian to the <i>quantum suff</i>. of the most + inveterate politician. + </p> + <p> + "Enough of this:" 1828 has nearly got the "go-by" and we have + outlived its pains and perils, its varied scenes of good or + evil, and its pleasures too, for there is a bright side to + human reverse and suffering, and we are ready at our posts to + enact and stand another campaign in this "strange eventful + history." We often find that the public discover virtues and + good qualities in a man after his death, which they had + previously given him no credit for; let this be as it may, + 1828 may be deemed a very "passable" year. To use a simile, a + sick man when recovering from a fever, makes slow progress at + first; and we should fairly hope that the gallant ship is at + last weathering the hurricane of the "commercial crisis," and + that the trade-winds of prosperity will again visit us and + extend their balmy influence over our shores; and to borrow a + commercial phrase, we trust to be able to quote an + improvement on this head next year. + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + I stood between the meeting years + </p> + <p class="i2"> + The coming and the past, + </p> + <p> + And I ask'd of the future one + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Wilt thou be like the last? + </p> + <p> + The same in many a sleepless night, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + In many an anxious day? + </p> + <p> + Thank heaven! I have no prophet's eye, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + To look upon thy way! + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + L.E.L. + </p> + <p> + The march of mind is progressing, and the once boasted + "wisdom of our ancestors" and the "golden days of good Queen + Bess," are hurled with derision to the tomb of all the + Capulets. We regret that we cannot chronicle a "Narrative of + a first attempt to reach the cities of Bath and Bristol, in + the year 1828, in an extra patent steam-coach, by Messrs. + Burstall, or Gurney." The newspapers, however, still continue + to inform us that such vehicles are <i>about</i> to start, so + we may reasonably expect that Time will accomplish the long + talked of event. Nay, we even hear it rumoured that the + public are shortly to crest the billows in a steamer at the + rate of fifty or a hundred miles an hour! and this is + mentioned as a mere first essay, an immature sample of what + the improved steam-paddles are to effect—also in Time; + who after this can doubt the approaching perfectibility of + Mars? Oh, steam! steam! but this is well ploughed ground. + </p> + <p> + Art, science, and literature, also progress, and we almost + begin to fear we shall soon be puzzled where to stow the + books, and anticipate a dearth in rags, an extinction of + Rag-Fair! (which will keep the others in countenance,) the + booksellers' maws seem so capacious. Christmas with its rare + recollections of feasting (and their <i>pendant</i> of bile + and sick headache) has again come round. New Year's Day, and + of all the days most "rich and rare," Twelfth Day is coming! + But it is in Scotland that the advent of the new year, or + <i>Hogmanay</i> is kept with the most hilarity; the Scotch by + their extra rejoicings at this time, seem to wish to make up + for their utter neglect of Christmas. We may be induced to + offer a few reminiscences of a sojourn in the north, at this + period, on a future occasion. The extreme beauty of the + following lines on the year that is past, will, we think, + prove a sufficient apology for their introduction + here:— + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + In darkness, in eternal space, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Sightless as a sin-quenched star, + </p> + <p> + Thou shalt pursue thy wandering race, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Receding into regions far— + </p> + <p> + On thee the eyes of mortal men + </p> + <p> + Shall never, never light again; + </p> + <p> + Memory alone may steal a glance + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Like some wild glimpse in sleep we're taking. + </p> + <p> + Of a long perish'd countenance + </p> + <p class="i2"> + We have forgotten when awaking— + </p> + <p> + Sad, evanescent, colour'd weak, + </p> + <p> + As beauty on a dying cheek. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Farewell! that cold regretful word + </p> + <p class="i2"> + To one whom we have called a friend— + </p> + <p> + Yet still "farewell" I must record + </p> + <p class="i2"> + The sign that marks our friendship's end. + </p> + <p> + Thou'rt on thy couch of wither'd leaves, + </p> + <p> + The surly blast thy breath receives, + </p> + <p> + In the stript woods I hear thy dirge, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Thy passing bell the hinds are tolling + </p> + <p> + Thy death-song sounds in ocean's surge, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Oblivion's clouds are round thee rolling, + </p> + <p> + Thou'lst buried be where buried lie + </p> + <p> + Years of the dead eternity! + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + It is needless to add that our old friend will be succeeded + in his title and estates by his next heir, eighteen hundred + and twenty-nine, whose advent will no doubt be generally + welcomed. We cannot help picturing to ourselves the anxiety, + the singularly deep and thrilling interest, which universally + prevails as his last hour approaches:— + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + "Hark the deep-toned chime of that bell + </p> + <p class="i2"> + As it breaks on the midnight ear— + </p> + <p> + Seems it not tolling a funeral knell? + </p> + <p class="i2"> + 'Tis the knell of the parting year! + </p> + <p> + Before that bell shall have ceas'd its chime + </p> + <p> + The year shall have sunk on the ocean of Time!" + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + And shall we go on after this lone hour? no, we will even + follow its course, draw this article to a close by wishing + our readers, in the good old phrase, "a happy New Year and + many of them;" and conclude with them, that + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Our pilgrimage here + </p> + <p> + By so much is shorten'd—then fare thee well Year! + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + VYVYAN. + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page436" name="page436"></a>[pg + 436]</span> + </p> + <h3> + ODE TO MORPHEUS. + </h3> + <p> + (<i>For the Mirror</i>.) + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Tell me, thou god of slumbers! why + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Thus from my pillow dost thou fly? + </p> + <p> + And wherefore, stranger to thy balmy power, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Whilst death-like silence reigns around, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + And wraps the world in sleep profound, + </p> + <p> + Must I alone count every passing hour? + </p> + <p> + And, whilst each happier mind is hush'd in sleep, + </p> + <p> + Must I alone a painful vigil keep, + </p> + <p> + And to the midnight shades my lonely sorrows pour? + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i2"> + Once more be thou the friend of woe, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + And grant my heavy eyes to know + </p> + <p> + The welcome pressure of thy healing hand; + </p> + <p class="i2"> + So shall the gnawing tooth of care + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Its rude attacks awhile forbear, + </p> + <p> + Still'd by the touch of thy benumbing wand— + </p> + <p> + And my tir'd spirit, with thy influence blest, + </p> + <p> + Shall calmly yield it to the arms of rest, + </p> + <p> + But which, or comes or flies, only at thy command! + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i2"> + Yet if when sleep the body chains + </p> + <p class="i2"> + In sweet oblivion of its pains, + </p> + <p> + Thou bid'st imagination active wake, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Oh, Morpheus! banish from my bed + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Each form of grief, each form of dread, + </p> + <p> + And all that can the soul with horror shake: + </p> + <p> + Let not the ghastly fiends admission find, + </p> + <p> + Which conscience forms to haunt the guilty mind— + </p> + <p> + Oh! let not <i>forms</i> like these my peaceful slumbers + break! + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i2"> + But bring before my raptured sight + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Each pleasing image of delight, + </p> + <p> + Of love, of friendship, and of social joy; + </p> + <p class="i2"> + And chiefly, on thy magic wing + </p> + <p class="i2"> + My ever blooming Mary bring, + </p> + <p> + (Whose beauties all my waking thoughts employ,) + </p> + <p> + Glowing with rosy health and every charm + </p> + <p> + That knows to fill my breast with soft alarm, + </p> + <p> + Oh, bring the gentle maiden to my fancy's eye! + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i2"> + Not such, as oft my jealous fear + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Hath bid the lovely girl appear, + </p> + <p> + Deaf to my vows, by my complaints unmov'd, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Whilst to my happier rival's prayer, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Smiling, she turns a willing ear, + </p> + <p> + And gives the bliss supreme to be belov'd: + </p> + <p> + Oh, sleep dispensing power! such thoughts restrain, + </p> + <p> + Nor e'en in dreams inflict the bitter pain, + </p> + <p> + To know my vows are scorn'd—my rivals are approv'd! + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i2"> + Ah, no! let fancy's hand supply + </p> + <p class="i2"> + The blushing cheek, the melting eye, + </p> + <p> + The heaving breast which glows with genial fire; + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Then let me clasp her in my arms, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + And, basking in her sweetest charms, + </p> + <p> + Lose every grief in that triumphant hour. + </p> + <p> + If Morpheus, thus thou'lt cheat the gloomy night, + </p> + <p> + For thy embrace I'll fly day's garish light, + </p> + <p> + Nor ever wish to wake while dreams like this inspire! + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + HUGH DELMORE. + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + ON IDLENESS. + </h3> + <p> + (<i>For the Mirror</i>.) + </p> + <p> + It has been somewhere asserted, that "no one is idle who can + do any thing. It is conscious inability, or the sense of + repeated failures, that prevents us from undertaking, or + deters us from the prosecution of any work." In answer to + this it may be said, that men of very great natural genius + are in general exempt from a love of idleness, because, being + pushed forward, as it were, and excited to action by that + <i>vis vivida</i>, which is continually stirring within them, + the first effort, the original impetus, proceeds not + altogether from their own voluntary exertion, and because the + pleasure which they, above all others, experience in the + exercise of their faculties, is an ample compensation for the + labour which that exercise requires. Accordingly, we find + that the best writers of every age have generally, though not + always, been the most voluminous. Not to mention a host of + ancients, I might instance many of our own country as + illustrious examples of this assertion, and no example more + illustrious than that of the immortal Shakspeare. In our + times the author of "Waverley," whose productions, in + different branches of literature, would almost of themselves + fill a library, continues to pour forth volume after volume + from his inexhaustible stores. Mr. Southey, too, the poet, + the historian, the biographer, and I know not what besides, + is remarkable for his literary industry; and last, not least, + the noble bard, the glory and the regret of every one who has + a soul to feel those "thoughts that breathe and words that + burn," the mighty poet himself, notwithstanding the shortness + of his life, is distinguished by the number, as well as by + the beauty and sublimity of his works. Besides these and + other male writers, the best of our female authors, the boast + and delight of the present age, and who have been compared to + "so many modern Muses"—Miss Landon, Mrs. Hemans, Miss + Edgeworth, Miss Mitford, &c.—have they not already + supplied us largely with the means of entertainment and + instruction, and have we not reason to expect still greater + supplies from the same sources? + </p> + <p> + But although it may be easily allowed that men of very great + natural genius are for the most part exempt from a love of + idleness, it ought also to be acknowledged that there are + others to whom, indeed, nature has not been equally + bountiful, but who possess a certain degree of talent which + perseverance and study (if to study they would apply + themselves) might gradually advance, and at last carry to + excellence. + </p> + <p> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page437" name="page437"></a>[pg + 437]</span> With the exception of a few master spirits of + every age and nation, genius is more equally distributed + among mankind than many suppose. Hear what Quintilian says on + the subject; his observations are these:—"It is a + groundless complaint, that very few are endowed with quick + apprehension, and that most persons lose the fruits of all + their application and study through a natural slowness of + understanding. The case is the very reverse, because we find + mankind in general to be quick in apprehension, and + susceptible of instruction, this being the characteristic of + the human race; and as birds have from nature a propensity to + fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to be savage, so is + activity and vigour of mind peculiar to man; and hence his + mind is supposed to be of divine original. But men are no + more born with minds naturally dull and indocile, than with + bodies of monstrous shapes, and these are very rare." + </p> + <p> + From what has been premised, this conclusion may be + drawn—that it is not "conscious inability" alone, but + often a love of leisure, which prevents us from undertaking + any work. Many, to whom nature had given a certain degree of + genius, have lived without sufficiently exercising that + genius, and have, therefore, bequeathed no fruits of it to + posterity at their death. + </p> + <p> + A CORRESPONDENT. + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + BLACKHEATH, KENT. + </h3> + <p> + (<i>For the Mirror</i>.) + </p> + <p> + It was here the Danish army lay a considerable time encamped + in 1011; and here that Wat Tyler, the Kentish rebel, mustered + 100,000 men. Jack Cade, also, who styled himself John + Mortimer, and laid claim to the crown, pretending that he was + kinsman to the Duke of York, encamped on this heath for a + month together, with a large body of rebels, which he had + gathered in this and the neighbouring counties, in 1451; and + the following year Henry VI. pitched his royal pavilion here, + having assembled troops to withstand the force of his cousin, + Edward, Duke of York, afterwards Edward IV.; and here, + against that king, the bastard Falconbridge encamped. In + 1497, the Lord Audley; Flemmock, an attorney; and Joseph, the + blacksmith, encamped on this place in the rebellion they + raised against Henry VII.; and here they were routed, with a + loss of upwards of 2,000 on the spot, and 14,000 prisoners. + </p> + <p> + In 1415, the lord mayor and aldermen of London, with 400 + citizens in scarlet, and with white and red hoods, came to + Blackheath, where they met the victorious Henry V. on his + return from France, after the famous battle of Agincourt: + from Blackheath they conducted his majesty to London. In + 1474, the lord mayor and aldermen, attended by 500 citizens, + also met Edward IV. here, on his return from France. It + appears also to have been usual formerly to meet foreign + princes, and other persons of high rank, on Blackheath, on + their arrival in England. On the 2lst of December, 1411, + Maurice, Emperor of Constantinople, who came to solicit + assistance against the Turks, was met here with great + magnificence by Henry IV.; and in 1416 the Emperor Sigismund + was met here, and from thence conducted in great pomp to + London. In 1518, the lord admiral of France and the + archbishop of Paris, both ambassadors from the French king, + with above 1,200 attendants, were met here by the admiral of + England and above 500 gentlemen; and the following year + Cardinal Campejus, the pope's legate, being attended hither + by the gentlemen of Kent, was met by the Duke of Norfolk, and + many noblemen and prelates of England; and in a tent of cloth + of gold he put on his cardinal's robes, richly ermined, and + from hence rode to London, Here also Henry VIII. met the + Princess Anne of Cleves in great state and pomp. + </p> + <p> + HALBERT H. + </p> + <hr class="full" /> + <h2> + THE NOVELIST + </h2> +<hr /> + <h3> + THE WOES OF WEALTH. + </h3> + <center> + <i>By the Rev. G. Croly</i>. + </center> + <p> + A retired barrister, living happily with his wife and + children on a very moderate patrimony, has suddenly the + misery to have a large fortune left him.—Time pressed. + I set off at day break for London; plunged into the tiresome + details of legateeship; and after a fortnight's toil, + infinite weariness, and longings to breathe in any atmosphere + unchoked by a million of chimneys, to sleep where no eternal + rolling of equipages should disturb my rest, and to enjoy + society without being trampled on by dowagers fifty deep, I + saw my cottage roof once more. + </p> + <p> + But where was the cheerfulness that once made it more than a + palace to me? The remittances that I had made from London + were already conspiring against my quiet. I could scarcely + get a kiss from either of my girls, they were in such + merciless haste to make their dinner "toilet." My kind and + comely wife was actually not to be seen; and her apology, + delivered by a coxcomb in silver lace to the full as deep as + any in (my rival) <span class="pagenum"><a id="page438" + name="page438"></a>[pg 438]</span> the sugar-baker's service, + was, that "his lady would have the honour of waiting on me as + soon as she was dressed." This was of course the puppy's own + version of the message; but its meaning was clear, and it was + ominous. + </p> + <p> + Dinner came at last: the table was loaded with awkward + profusion; but it was as close an imitation as we could yet + contrive of our opulent neighbour's display. No less than + four footmen, discharged as splendid superfluities from the + household of a duke, waited behind our four chairs, to make + their remarks on our style of eating in contrast with the + polished performances at their late master's. But Mrs. + Molasses had exactly four. The argument was unanswerable. + Silence and sullenness reigned through the banquet; but on + the retreat of the four gentlemen who did us the honour of + attending, the whole tale of evil burst forth. What is the + popularity of man? The whole family had already dropped from + the highest favouritism into the most angry disrepute. A kind + of little rebellion raged against us in the village: we were + hated, scorned, and libelled on all sides. My unlucky + remittances had done the deed. + </p> + <p> + The village milliner, a cankered old carle, who had made caps + and bonnets for the vicinage during the last forty years, led + the battle. The wife and daughters of a man of East Indian + wealth were not to be clothed like meaner souls; and the + sight of three London bonnets in my pew had set the old + sempstress in a blaze. The flame was easily propagated. The + builder of my chaise-cart was irritated at the handsome + barouche in which my family now moved above the heads of + mankind. The rumour that champagne had appeared at the + cottage roused the indignation of the honest vintner who had + so long supplied me with port: and professional insinuations + of the modified nature of this London luxury were employed to + set the sneerers of the village against me and mine. Our four + footmen had been instantly discovered by the eye of an + opulent neighbour; and the competition was at once laughed at + as folly, and resented as an insult. Every hour saw some of + my old friends falling away from me. An unlucky cold, which + seized one of my daughters a week before my return, had cut + away my twenty years' acquaintance, the village-doctor, from + my cause; for the illness of an "heiress" was not to be cured + by less than the first medical authority of the province. The + supreme Aesculapius was accordingly called in; and his + humbler brother swore, in the bitterness of his soul, that he + would never forget the affront on this side of death's door. + The inevitable increase of dignity which communicated itself + to the manners of my whole household did the rest; and if my + wife held her head high, never was pride more peevishly + retorted. Like the performers in a pillory, we seemed to have + been elevated only for the benefit of a general pelting. + </p> + <p> + These were the women's share of the mischief; but I was not + long without administering in person to our unpopularity. The + report of my fortune had, as usual, been enormously + exaggerated; and every man who had a debt to pay, or a + purchase to make, conceived himself "bound to apply first to + his old and excellent friend, to whom the accommodation for a + month or two must be such a trifle." If I had listened to a + tenth of those compliments, "their old and excellent friend" + would have only preceded them to a jail. In some instances I + complied, and so far only showed my folly; for who loves his + creditor? My refusal of course increased the host of my + enemies; and I was pronounced purse-proud, beggarly, and + unworthy of the notice of the "true gentlemen, who knew how + to spend their money." + </p> + <p> + Yet, though I was to be thus abandoned by my fox-hunting + friends, I was by no means to feel myself the inhabitant of a + solitary world. If the sudden discovery of kindred could + cheer me under my calamities, no man might have passed a + gayer life. For a long succession of years I had not seen a + single relative. Not that they altogether disdained even the + humble hospitalities of my cottage, or the humble help of my + purse; on the contrary, they liked both exceedingly, and + would have exhibited their affection in enjoying them as + often as I pleased. + </p> + <p> + But I had early adopted a resolution, which I recommend to + all men. I made use of no disguise on the subject of our + mutual tendencies. I knew them to be selfish, beggarly in the + midst of wealth, and artificial in the fulness of + protestation. I disdained to play the farce of civility with + them. I neither kissed nor quarrelled with them; but I + quietly shut my door, and at last allowed no foot of their + generation inside it. They hated me mortally in consequence, + and I knew it. I despised them, and I conclude they knew that + too. But I was resolved that they should not despise me; and + I secured that point by not suffering them to feel that they + had made me their dupe. The nabob's will had not soothed + their tempers; and I was honoured with their most smiling + animosity. + </p> + <p> + But now, as if they were hidden in the + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page439" name="page439"></a>[pg + 439]</span> ground like weeds only waiting for the shower, a + new and boundless crop of relationship sprang up. Within the + first fortnight after my return, I was overwhelmed with + congratulations from east, west, north, and south; and every + postscript pointed with a request for my interest with boards + and public offices of all kinds; with India presidents, + treasury secretaries, and colonial patrons, for the provision + of sons, nephews, and cousins, to the third and fourth + generation. + </p> + <p> + My positive declarations that I had no influence with + ministers were received with resolute scepticism. I was + charged with old obligations conferred on my grandfathers and + grandmothers; and, finally, had the certain knowledge that my + gentlest denials were looked upon as a compound of + selfishness and hypocrisy. Before a month was out, I had + extended my sources of hostility to three-fourths of the + kingdom, and contrived to plant in every corner some + individual who looked on himself as bound to say the worst he + could of his heartless, purse-proud, and abjured kinsman. + </p> + <p> + I should have sturdily borne up against all this while I + could keep the warfare out of my own county. But what man can + abide a daily skirmish round his house? I began to think of + retreating while I was yet able to show my head; for, in + truth, I was sick of this perpetual belligerency. I loved to + see happy human faces. I loved the meeting of those old and + humble friends to whose faces, rugged as they were, I was + accustomed. I liked to stop and hear the odd news of the + village, and the still odder versions of London news that + transpired through the lips of our established politicians. I + liked an occasional visit to our little club, where the + exciseman, of fifty years standing was our oracle in + politics; the attorney, of about the same duration, gave us + opinions on the drama, philosophy, and poetry, all equally + unindebted to Aristotle; and my mild and excellent + father-in-law, the curate, shook his silver locks in gentle + laughter at the discussion. I loved a supper in my snug + parlour with the choice half dozen; a song from my girls, and + a bottle after they were gone to dream of bow-knots and + bargains for the next day. + </p> + <p> + But my delights were now all crushed. Another Midas, all I + touched had turned to gold; and I believe in my soul that, + with his gold, I got credit for his asses' ears. + </p> + <p> + However, I had long felt that contempt for popular opinion + which every man feels who knows of what miserable materials + it is made—how much of it is mere absurdity—how + much malice—how much more the frothy foolery and + maudlin gossip of the empty of this empty generation. "What + was it to me if the grown children of our idle community, the + male babblers, and the female cutters-up of character, voted + me, in their commonplace souls, the blackest of black sheep? + I was still strong in the solid respect of a few worth them + all." + </p> + <p> + Let no man smile when I say that, on reckoning up this Theban + band of sound judgment and inestimable fidelity, I found my + muster reduced to three, and those three of so unromantic a + class as the grey-headed exciseman, the equally grey-headed + solicitor, and the curate. + </p> + <p> + But let it be remembered that a man must take his friends as + fortune wills; that he who can even imagine that he has three + is under rare circumstances; and that, as to the romance, + time, which mellows and mollifies so many things, may so far + extract the professional <i>virus</i> out of excisemen and + solicitor, as to leave them both not incapable of entering + into the ranks of humanity. + </p> + <hr class="full" /> + <h2> + SPIRIT of DISCOVERY. + </h2> + <hr /> + <h3> + SPECIFIC GRAVITIES. + </h3> + <center> + <i>Table</i> + </center> + <p> + Showing the proportion per cent, of alcohol contained in + different fermented liquors. + </p> + <pre> + per cent. + Port wine 25.83 + Ordinary port 23.71 + Madeira 24.42 + Sherry 19.81 + Lisbon 18.94 + Bucellas 18.49 + Cape Madeira 22.94 + Vidonia 19.25 + Hermitage 17.43 + Claret 17.11 + Burgundy 16.60 + Sauterne 14.22 + Hock 14.37 + Champagne 13.80 + Champagne (sparkling) 12.80 + Vin de Grave 13.94 + Cider from 5.50 to 9.87 + Perry (average) 7.26 + Burton ale 8.88 + Edinburgh 6.20 + Dorchester 5.56 + Brown stout 6.80 + London porter (average) 4.20 + Brandy 53.39 + Rum 53.68 + Gin 51.60 +</pre> + <p> + The figures set down opposite each liquor, exhibit the + quantity of alcohol <span class="pagenum"><a id="page440" + name="page440"></a>[pg 440]</span> per cent. by measure in + each at the temperature of 60°. Port, Sherry and Madeira, + contain a large quantity of alcohol; that Claret, Burgundy, + and Sauterne, contain less; and that Brandy contains as much + as 53 per cent. of alcohol. In a general way, we may say, + that the strong wines in common use, contain as much as a + fourth per cent. of alcohol. + </p> + <center> + <i>Extraordinary Effect of Heat</i>. + </center> + <p> + During Captain Franklin's recent voyage, the winter was so + severe, near the Coppermine River, that the fish froze as + they were taken out of the nets; in a short time they became + a solid mass of ice, and were easily split open by a blow + from a hatchet. If, in the completely frozen state, they were + thawed before the fire, they revived. This is a very + remarkable instance of how completely animation can be + suspended in cold-blooded animals. + </p> + <p> + J.G.L. + </p> + <center> + <i>Method of Softening Cast-Iron</i>. + </center> + <p> + The following method of rendering cast-iron soft and + malleable may be new to some of your readers:—It + consists in placing it in a pot surrounded by a soft red ore, + found in Cumberland and other parts of England, which pot is + placed in a common oven, the doors of which being closed, and + but a slight draught of air permitted under the grate; a + regular heat is kept up for one or two weeks, according to + the thickness and weight of the castings. The pots are then + withdrawn, and suffered to cool; and by this operation the + hardest cast metal is rendered so soft and malleable, that it + may be welded together, or, when in a cool state, bent into + almost any shape by a hammer or vice. + </p> + <p> + W.G.C. + </p> + <center> + <i>Washing Salads, Cresses, &c.</i>. + </center> + <p> + A countryman was seized with the most excruciating pain in + his stomach, and which continued for so long a period, that + his case became desperate, and his life was even despaired + of. In this predicament, the medical gentleman to whom he + applied administered to him a most violent emetic, and the + result was the ejection of the larva, and which remained + alive for a quarter of an hour after its expulsion. Upon + questioning the man as to how it was likely that the insect + got into his stomach, he stated that he was exceedingly fond + of watercresses, and often gathered and eat them, and, + possibly, without taking due care, in freeing them from any + aquatic insects they might hold. He was also in the frequent + habit of lying down and drinking the water of any clear + rivulet when he was thirsty; and thus, in any of these ways, + the insect, in its smaller state, might have been swallowed, + and remained gradually increasing in size until it was ready + for the change into the beetle state; at times, probably, + preying upon the inner coat of the stomach, and thus + producing the severe pains complained of by the sufferer. + </p> + <p> + We are surprised we do not hear more of the effects of + swallowing the eggs or larva of insects, along with raw + salads of different kinds. We would strongly recommend all + families who can afford it, to keep in their sculleries a + cistern of salt water, or, if they will take the trouble of + renewing it frequently, of lime and water; and to have all + vegetables to be used raw, first plunged in this cistern for + a minute, and then washed in pure fresh + water.—<i>Gardener's Magazine</i>. + </p> + <center> + <i>Insects on Trees</i>. + </center> + <p> + Mr. Johnson, of Great Totham, is of opinion that smearing + trees with oil, to destroy insects on them, injures the + vegetation, and is not a certain remedy. He recommends + scrubbing the trunks and branches of the trees every second + year, with a hard brush dipped in strong brine of common + salt. This effectually destroys insects of all kinds, and + moss; and the stimulating influence of the application and + friction is very beneficial. + </p> + <center> + <i>Manna</i>. + </center> + <p> + The manna of the larch is thus procured:—About the + month of June, when the sap of the tree is most luxuriant, it + produces small white drops, of a sweet glutinous matter, like + Calabrian manna, which are collected by the peasants early in + the morning before the sun dissipates them.—<i>Med. + Bot</i>. + </p> + <center> + <i>Electricity on Plants</i>. + </center> + <p> + It is very easy to kill plants by means of electricity. A + very small shock, according to Cavallo, sent through the stem + of a balsam, is sufficient to destroy it. A few minutes after + the passage of the shock, the plant droops, the leaves and + branches become flaccid, and its life ceases. A small Leyden + phial, containing six or eight square inches of coated + surface, is generally sufficient for this purpose, which may + even be effected by means of strong sparks from the prime + conductor of a large electrical machine. The charge by which + these destructive effects are produced, is probably too + inconsiderable to burst the vessels of the plant, or to + occasion any material derangement of its organization; and, + accordingly, it is not found, on minute examination of a + plant thus killed by electricity, that either the internal + vessels or any other parts have sustained perceptible injury. + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page441" name="page441"></a>[pg + 441]</span> + </p> + <h3> + STANGING. + </h3> + <div class="figure" style="width: 100%;"> + <a href="images/348-2.png"><img width="100%" + src="images/348-2.png" alt="Stanging." /></a> + </div> + <p> + Two correspondents have favoured us with the following + illustrations of this curious custom: one of them (W.H.H.) + has appended to his communication a pen and ink sketch, from + which the above engraving is copied:— + </p> + <p> + (<i>To the Editor of the Mirror</i>.) + </p> + <p> + In Westmoreland this custom is thus commenced:—When it + is known that a man has "fallen out" with his wife, or beaten + or ill-used her, the townspeople procure a long pole, and + instantly repair to his house; and after creating as much + riot and confusion before the house as possible, one of them + is hoisted upon this pole, borne by the multitude. He then + makes a long speech opposite the said house, condemning, in + strong terms, the offender's conduct—the crowd also + showing their disapprobation. After this he is borne to the + market-place, where he again proclaims his displeasure as + before; and removes to different parts of the town, until he + thinks all the town are informed of the man's behaviour; and + after endeavouring to extort a fine from the party, which he + sometimes does, all repair to a public-house, to regale + themselves at his expense. Unless the delinquent can ill + afford it, they take his "goods and chattels," if he will not + surrender his money. The origin of this usage I am ignorant + of, and shall be greatly obliged by any kind correspondent of + the MIRROR who will explain it. + </p> + <p> + W.H.H. + </p> + <p> + (<i>To the Editor of the Mirror</i>.) + </p> + <p> + At Biggar, in Lanarkshire, as well as in several other places + in Scotland, a very singular ancient practice is at times, + though but rarely, revived. It is called riding the stang. + When any husband is known to treat his wife extremely ill by + beating her, and when the offence is long and unreasonably + continued, while the wife's character is unexceptionable, the + indignation of the neighbourhood, becoming gradually + vehement, at last breaks out into action in the following + manner:—All the women enter into conspiracy to execute + vengeance upon the culprit. Having fixed upon the time when + their design is to be put into effect, they suddenly assemble + in a great crowd, and seize the offending party. They take + care, at the same time, to provide a stout beam of wood, upon + which they set him astride, and, hoisting him aloft, tie his + legs beneath. He is thus carried in derision round the + village, attended by the hootings, scoffs, and hisses of his + numerous attendants, who pull down his legs, so as to render + his seat in other respects abundantly uneasy. The grown-up + men, in the meanwhile, remain at a distance, and avoid + interfering in the ceremony. And it is well if the culprit, + at the conclusion of the business, has not a ducking added to + the rest of the punishment. Of the origin of this custom we + know nothing. It is well known, however, over the country; + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page442" name="page442"></a>[pg + 442]</span> and within these six years, it was with great + ceremony performed upon a weaver in the Canongate of + Edinburgh. + </p> + <p> + This custom can scarcely fail to recall to the recollection + of the intelligent reader, the analogous practice among the + Negroes of Africa, mentioned by Mungo Park, under the + denomination of the mysteries of Mumbo Jumbo. The two + customs, however, mark, in a striking manner, the different + situations of the female sex in the northern and middle + regions of the globe. From Tacitus and the earliest + historians we learn, that the most ancient inhabitants of + Europe, however barbarous their condition in other respects + might be, lived on terms of equal society with their women, + and avoided the practice of polygamy; but in Africa, where + the laws of domestic society are different, the husbands, as + the masters of a number of enslaved women, find it necessary + to have recourse to frauds and disgraceful severities to + maintain their authority; whereas in Europe we find, among + the common people, a sanction for the women to protect each + other, by severities, against the casual injustice committed + by the ruling sex. + </p> + <p> + CHARLES STUART. + </p> + <hr class="full" /> + <h2> + NOTES OF A READER. + </h2> + <hr /> + <h3> + CHRISTMAS SCRAPS. + </h3> + <p> + We have <i>spiced</i> our former volumes, as well as our + present number, with two or three articles suitable to this + jocund season; but we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of + adding "more last words." People talk of Old and New + Christmas with woeful faces; and a few, more learned than + their friends, cry <i>stat nominis umbra</i>,—all which + may be very true, for aught we know or care. Swift proved + that mortal MAN is a <i>broomstick</i>; and Dr. Johnson wrote + a sublime meditation on a <i>pudding</i>; and we could write + a whole number about the midnight mass and festivities of + Christmas, pull out old Herrick and his Ceremonies for + Christmasse—his yule log—and Strutt's Auntient + Customs in Games used by Boys and Girls, merrily sett out in + verse; but we leave such relics for the present, and seek + consolation in the thousand wagon-loads of poultry and game, + and the many million turkeys that make all the + coach—offices of the metropolis like so many + charnel-houses. We would rather illustrate our joy like the + Hindoos do their geography, with rivers and seas of liquid + amber, clarified butter, milk, curds, and intoxicating + liquors. No arch in antiquity, not even that of Constantine, + delights us like the arch of a baron of beef, with its + soft-flowing sea of gravy, whose silence is only broken by + the silver oar announcing that another guest is made happy. + Then the pudding, with all its Johnsonian associations of + "the golden grain drinking the dews of the morning—milk + pressed by the gentle hand of the beauteous + milk-maid—egg, that miracle of nature, which Burnett + has compared to creation—and salt, the image of + intellectual excellence, which contributes to the foundation + of a pudding." As long as the times spare us these luxuries, + we leave Hortensius to his peacocks; Heliogabalus to his + dishes of cocks-combs; and Domitian to his deliberations in + what vase he may boil his huge turbot. We have epicures as + well as had our ancestors; and the wonted fires of Apicius + and Sardanapalus may still live in St. James's-street and + Waterloo-place; but commend us to the board, where each + guest, like a true feeler, brings half the entertainment + along with him. This brings us to notice <i>Christmas</i>, a + Poem, by Edward Moxon, full of ingenuousness and good + feeling, in <i>Crabbe-like</i> measure; but, captious reader, + suspect not a pun on the poet of England's hearth—for a + more unfortunate name than Crabbe we do not recollect. + </p> + <p> + Mr. Moxon's is a modest little octavo, of 76 pages, which may + be read between the first and last arrival of a Christmas + party. As a specimen, we subjoin the following:— + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Hail, Christmas! holy, joyous time, + </p> + <p> + The boast of many an age gone by, + </p> + <p> + And yet methinks unsung in rhyme, + </p> + <p> + Though dear to bards of chivalry; + </p> + <p> + Nor less of old to Church and State, + </p> + <p> + As authors erudite relate. + </p> + <p> + If so, my harp, thou friend to me, + </p> + <p> + Thy chords I'll touch right merrily— + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + Then a fire-side picture of Christmas in the country:— + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + The doughty host has gather'd round + </p> + <p> + Those most for wit and mirth renown'd, + </p> + <p> + And soon each neighbouring Squire will be + </p> + <p> + With all the world in charity— + </p> + <p> + Its cares and troubles all forgetting, + </p> + <p> + Good-humour'd joke alone abetting. + </p> + <p> + 'Tis good and cheering to the soul + </p> + <p> + To see the ancient wassail bowl + </p> + <p> + No longer lying on its face, + </p> + <p> + Or dusty in its hiding place. + </p> + <p> + It brings to mind a day gone by, + </p> + <p> + Our fathers and their chivalry— + </p> + <p> + It speaks of courtly Knight and Squire, + </p> + <p> + Of Lady's love, and Dame, and Friar, + </p> + <p> + Of times, (perchance not better now,) + </p> + <p> + When care had less of wrinkled brow— + </p> + <p> + When she with hydra-troubled mien, + </p> + <p> + Our greatest enemy, the Spleen, + </p> + <p> + Was seldom, or was never seen. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Now pledge they round each other's name, + </p> + <p> + And drink to Squire and drink to Dame, + </p> + <p> + While here, more precious far than gold, + </p> + <p> + Sits womanhood, with modest eye— + </p> + <p> + Glances to her the truth unfold, + </p> + <p> + She shall not pass unheeded by. + </p> + <p> + T'was <i>woman</i> that with health did greet, + </p> + <p> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page443" + name="page443"></a>[pg 443]</span> + </p> + <p> + When Vortigern did Hengist meet— + </p> + <p> + 'Twas fair Rowena, Saxon maid, + </p> + <p> + In blue-ey'd majesty array'd, + </p> + <p> + Presented 'neath their witching roll + </p> + <p> + To British Chief the wassail bowl. + </p> + <p> + She touch'd to him, nor then in vain, + </p> + <p> + He back return'd the health again. + </p> + <p> + Thus 'tis with feelings kind as true + </p> + <p> + They drink the tribute ever due, + </p> + <p> + Nor would they less, tho' truth denied it, + </p> + <p> + Their love for woman would decide it. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Right merry now the hours they pass, + </p> + <p> + Fleeting thru jocund pleasure's glass, + </p> + <p> + The yule-clog too burns bright and clear, + </p> + <p> + Auspicious of a happy year: + </p> + <p> + While some with joke, and some with tale + </p> + <p> + But all with sweeter mulled ale, + </p> + <p> + Pass gaily time's swift stream along, + </p> + <p> + With interlude of ancient song— + </p> + <p> + And as each rosy cup they drain, + </p> + <p> + Bounty replenishes again. + </p> + <p> + An happy time! hours like to these, + </p> + <p> + Tho' fleeting, never fail to please. + </p> + <p> + Who reigns, who riots, or who sings, + </p> + <p> + Or who enjoys the smiles of kings. + </p> + <p> + What preacher follows half the town; + </p> + <p> + Who pleads, with or without a gown; + </p> + <p> + Who rules his wife, or who the state; + </p> + <p> + Who little, or who truly great; + </p> + <p> + What matters light the world amuse, + </p> + <p> + Where half the other half abuse; + </p> + <p> + Whether it shall be peace or war, + </p> + <p> + Or we remain just as we are— + </p> + <p> + Is all as one to those we see + </p> + <p> + Around the cup of jollity. + </p> + <p> + Old age, with joke will still crack on, + </p> + <p> + And story will be dwelt upon— + </p> + <p> + Till Christmas shows his ruddy nose, + </p> + <p> + They will not seek for night's repose, + </p> + <p> + Nor this their jovial meeting close. + </p> + </div> + </div> + <hr /> + <h3> + A FRIEND. + </h3> + <p> + In utter prostration, and sacred privacy of soul, I almost + think now, and have often felt heretofore, man may make a + confessional of the breast of his brother man. Once I had + such a friend—and to me he was a priest. He has been so + long dead, that it seems to me now, that I have almost + forgotten him—and that I remember only that he once + lived, and that I once loved him with all my affections. One + such friend alone can ever, from the very nature of things, + belong to any one human being, however endowed by nature and + beloved of heaven. He is felt to stand between us and our + upbraiding conscience. In his life lies the + strength—the power—the virtue of ours—in + his death the better half of our whole being seems to expire. + Such communion of spirit, perhaps, can only be in existences + rising towards their meridian; as the hills of life cast + longer shadows in the westering hours, we grow—I should + not say more suspicious, for that may be too strong a + word—but more silent, more self-wrapt, more + circumspect—less sympathetic even with kindred and + congenial natures, who will sometimes, in our almost sullen + moods or theirs, seem as if they were kindred and congenial + no more—less devoted to Spirituals, that is, to Ideas, + so tender, true, beautiful, and sublime, that they seem to be + inhabitants of heaven though born of earth, and to float + between the two regions, angelical and divine—yet felt + to be mortal, human still—the Ideas of passions, and + desires, and affections, and "impulses that come to us in + solitude," to whom we breathe out our souls in silence, or in + almost silent speech, in utterly mute adoration, or in broken + hymns of feeling, believing that the holy enthusiasm will go + with us through life to the grave, or rather knowing not, or + feeling not, that the grave is any thing more for us than a + mere word with a somewhat mournful sound, and that life is + changeless, cloudless, unfading as the heaven of heavens, + that lies to the uplifted fancy in blue immortal calm, round + the throne of the eternal + Jehovah.—<i>Noctes</i>—<i>Blackwood's + Magazine</i>. + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + ENGLISH LANDSCAPE PAINTING. + </h3> + <p> + The English school of landscape painting has come to be of + the first rank, and the contemporaries of Turner, Constable, + Calcott, Thomson, Williams, Copley Fielding, and others whom + we might name even with these masters, have no reason to + reproach themselves with any neglect of their merits. The + <i>truth</i> with which these artists have delineated the + features of British landscape is, according to general + admission, unmatched by even the most splendid exertions of + foreign schools in the same department.—<i>Quarterly + Rev.</i>. + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + PANORAMA OF THE RHINE. + </h3> + <p> + Mr. Leigh, who is well known as the publisher of the best + English guides all over the continent, has just added to + their number a <i>Panorama of the Rhine</i> and the adjacent + country, from Cologne to Mayence, with maps of the routes + from London to Cologne, and from thence to the sources of the + Rhine. The <i>Panorama</i> is designed from nature by F.W. + Delkeskamp, and engraved by John Clark. It consists of a + beautiful aqua-tint engraving, upwards of seven feet in + length, and six inches in width, representing the course of + the Rhine, and its picturesque banks, studded with towns and + villages; whilst steam-boats, bridges, and islets are + distinctly shown in the river. It would be difficult to + convey to our readers an idea of the extreme delicacy with + which the plate is engraved; and, to speak dramatically, the + entire success of the representation. A more interesting or + useful companion for the tourist could scarcely be conceived; + for the <i>picture</i> is not interrupted by the names of the + places, but these are judiciously introduced in the margins + of the plate. In short, every + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page444" name="page444"></a>[pg + 444]</span> town, village, fortress, convent, mansion, + mountain, dale, field, and forest, are here represented. By + way of Supplement to the Plate, a Steam-boat Companion is + appended, describing the principal places on the Rhine, with + the population, curiosities, <i>inns</i>, &c. We passed + an hour over the engraving very agreeably, coasting along + till we actually fancied ourselves in one of the apartments + of the Hotel of Darmstadt at Mayence, when missing our high + conic bumper of Rudesheim—we found our thanks were due + to the artist for the luxury of the illusion. The + <i>Panorama</i> folds up in a neat portfolio, and occupies + little more room than a quire of letter paper. + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + EDINBURGH IN SUMMER. + </h3> + <p> + A' The lumms smokeless! No ae jack turnin' a piece o' + roastin' beef afore ae fire in ony ae kitchen in a' the New + Toon! Streets and squares a' grass-grown, sae that they micht + be mawn! Shops like bee-hives that hae de'd in wunter! + Coaches settin' aff for Stirlin', and Perth, and Glasgow, and + no ae passenger either inside or out—only the driver + keepin' up his heart wi' flourishin' his whup, and the guard, + sittin' in perfect solitude, playin' an eerie spring on his + bugle-horn! The shut-up play-house a' covered ower wi' bills + that seem to speak o' plays acted in an antediluvian world! + Here, perhaps, a leevin' creter, like ane emage, staunin' at + the mouth o' a close, or hirplin' alang, like the last relic + o' the plague. And oh! but the stane-statue o' the late Lord + Melville, staunin' a' by himsell up in the silent air, a + hunder-and-fifty feet high, has then a ghastly seeming in the + sky, like some giant condemned to perpetual imprisonment on + his pedestal, and mournin' ower the desolation of the city + that in life he loved so + well.—<i>Noctes—Blackwood's Magazine</i>. + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + NAVARINO. + </h3> + <p> + A Correspondent has sent us a copy of some "Stanzas written + in Commemoration of the Battle of Navarin," written by A. + Grassie, <i>piper</i> on board H.M.S. Glasgow, R.N.—or + "by a sailor in the engagement." One of the twelve stanzas is + as follows:— + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + To save the sacrifice of life, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Was valiant Codrington's design; + </p> + <p> + And for those Turks it had been good. + </p> + <p class="i2"> + If to his terms they would incline: + </p> + <p> + They fired upon the Dartmouth's boat, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + And killed some of its gallant men; + </p> + <p> + But that distinguished frigate had + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Complete revenge at Navarin. + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + This specimen of nautical numbers reminds us of Addison's + suggestion for setting the Chelsea and Greenwich pensioners + to write accounts of the battles in which they had served; + and we hope others will follow Mr. Grassie's example in these + <i>piping</i> times of peace. + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + CARVING AND GILDING. + </h3> + <p> + A point of some importance in the internal decoration of + palatial houses, viz. the introduction of "ornaments of the + age of Louis XIV." is now canvassing among connoisseurs, or + rather among those who direct the public taste. Some of our + readers are probably aware that the mansion built for the + late Duke of York, and Crockford's Club-house, are + embellished in this style, which, to say the best, is + gorgeous and expensive, without displaying good taste. We + ought to leave such matters to the classical Mr. T. Hope, who + has written a folio volume on "Household Furniture and + Internal Decorations;" or the Carvers, Gilders, and + Cabinet-Makers' Societies might sit in council on the + subject. The question is interesting to all lovers of the + fine arts, and to men of taste generally. + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + Is there any thing in this? + </p> + <p> + "It were no preposterous conceit to affirm, that nature + typifies in each individual man the several offices and + orders which our commonwealth distributes to the several + ranks and functionaries of the state. There are the Operative + Energies, Talents, Passions, Appetites, good servants all, + but bad masters, useful citizens, always to be controlled, + but never oppressed, and most effective when they are neither + pampered nor starved. There, too, is the Executive Will; + Prudence, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Self-love, minister + for the Home Department; Observation, Secretary of Foreign + Affairs; Poetry, over the Woods and Forests; Lord Keeper + Conscience, a sage, scrupulous, hesitating, head-shaking, + hair-splitting personage, whose decisions are most just, but + too slow to be useful, and who is the readier to weep for + what is done, than to direct what should be done; Wit, + Manager of the House of Commons, a flashy, either-sided + gentleman, who piques himself on never being out; and + Self-Denial, always eager to vacate his seat and accept the + Chiltern Hundreds."—<i>Blackwood's Mag.</i> + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + MAN. + </h3> + <p> + Man is so pugnacious an animal, that even the quakers, who in + all other things seem effectually to have subdued this part + of their animal nature, carry on controversy, whenever they + engage in it, tooth and nail.—<i>Quarterly Rev.</i> + </p> + <hr class="full" /> + <p> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page445" name="page445"></a>[pg + 445]</span> + </p> + <h2> + RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS, + </h2> + <hr /> + <h3> + GLEANINGS ON GLUTTONY. + </h3> + <center> + <i>Against Voracitie and immoderate drinking, instanced by + sundry histories</i>. + </center> + <p> + Vitellius, an Emperour of Rome, was among divers other his + notorious vices so luxuriously given, that at one supper he + was served with two thousand fishes of divers kindes, and + seven thousand flying foules; he was afterward drawne through + the streets with a halter about his neck, and shamefully put + to death. + </p> + <p> + But what shall we wonder at emperours prodigalities, when of + later yeares a simple Franciscan frier, Peter de Ruere, after + hee had attained to the dignitie of cardinall by the favour + of the pope, his kinsman, hee spent in two yeares, in which + he lived at Rome, in feasts and banquets, two hundred + thousand crownes, besides his debts, which were as much more. + </p> + <p> + In our time Muleasses, King of Tunis, was so drowned in + pleasures, that being expelled from his kingdome for his + vices, after his returne from Germanie, being denyed of ayd + hee sought of the Emperour Charles the Fifth, he spent an + hundred crownes upon the dressing of a peacocke for his owne + mouth. And that hee might with more pleasure heare musicke, + he used to cover his eyes.—But the judgment of God fell + upon him; for his sone or brother dispossessed him of his + kingdome, and provided him a remedie that his sight should be + no longer annoyance to his hearing, causing his eyes to be + put out with a burning hot iron. He that is given to please + his senses, and delighteth in the excesse of eating and + drinking, may, as Sallust saith, bee called animal, for hee + is unworthy the name of a man. For wherin can a man more + resemble brute beasts, and degenerate from his angelicall + nature, than to serve his belly and his senses? But if our + predecessors exceeded us in superfluitie of meats, wee can + compare and goe beyond them in drinking and quaffing. + </p> + <p> + King Edgar so much detested this vice of drunkennesse, that + hee set an order that no man should drinke beyond a certaine + ring, made round about the glasses and cups, of purpose for a + marke. + </p> + <p> + Anacharsis saith, that the first draught is to quench the + thirst, the second for nourishment, the third for pleasure, + the fourth for madnesse. + </p> + <p> + Augustine Lercheimer reporteth a strange historie of three + quaffers in Germany, in the yeare one thousand five hundred + and fortie nine; these three companions were in such a + jollity after they had taken in their cups, according to the + brutish manner of that countrey, that with a coale they + painted the divell on the wall, and dranke freely to him, and + talked to him as though hee had been present. The next + morning they were found strangled, and dead, and were buried + under the gallowes. + </p> + <p> + Surfeits maketh worke many times for the physician, who + turning R into D giveth his patient sometime a Decipe for a + Recipe; and so payeth deerely for his travell that hastneth + him to his end. Horace calleth such men that give themselves + to their belly, a beast of Arcadia that devoureth the grasse + of the earth. + </p> + <p> + Cornelius Celsus giveth this counsell when men come to meat: + <i>Nunquam utilis nimia satietatis, saepe inutilis nimia + abstinentia</i>; over-much satiety is never good, over-much + abstinence is often hurtfull. + </p> + <p> + Mahomet desirous to draw men to the liking of him and his + doctrine, and perceiving the pronenesse of men to + luxuriousness and fleshly pleasures, yet dealt more craftily + in his <i>Alcoran</i>, than to persuade them that felicitie + consisted in the voluptuousenesse and pleasures of this life, + which he knew would not be believed nor followed but of a + few, and those the more brutish sort, but threatened them + with a kind of hell, and gave them precepts tending somewhat + more to civilitie and humanitie, and promised his followers a + paradise in the life to come, wherin they should enjoy all + maner of pleasures which men desire in this world; as faire + gardens environed with pleasant rivers, sweet flowers, all + kinde of odoriferous savours, most delicate fruits, tables + furnished with most daintie meats, and pleasant wines served + in vessels of gold, &c. &c. + </p> + <p> + The Egyptians had a custome not unmeet to bee used at the + carousing banquets; their manner was, in the middest of their + feasts to have brought before them anatomie of a dead body + dried, that the sight and horror thereof putting them in + minde to what passe themselves should one day come, might + containe them in modesty. But peradventure things are fallen + so far from their right course, that that device will not so + well serve the turne, as if the carousers of these later + daies were persuaded, as Mahomet persuaded his followers when + hee forbad them the drinking of wine, that in every grape + there dwelt a divell. But whun they have taken in their cups, + it seemeth that many of them doe feare neither the divell nor + any thing else. + </p> + <p> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page446" name="page446"></a>[pg + 446]</span> Lavater reporteth a historie of a parish priest + in Germanie, that disguised himselfe with a white sheete + about him, and at midnight came into the chamber of a rich + woman that was in bed, and fashioning himself like a spirit, + hee thought to put her in such feare, that shee would procure + a conjuror or exorcist to talke with him, or else speake to + him herselfe. The woman desired one of her kinsmen to stay + with her in her chamber the next night. This man making no + question whether it were a spirit or not, instead of + conjuration or exorcisme, brought a good cudgell with him, + and after hee had well drunke to encrease his courage, + knowing his hardinesse at those times to bee such, that all + the divels in hell could not make him affraide, hee lay downe + upon a pallat, and fell asleepe. The spirit came into the + chamber againe at his accustomed houre, and made such a + rumbling noyse, that the exorcist (the wine not being yet + gone out of his head) awaked, and leapt out of his bed, and + toward the spirit hee goeth, who with counterfeit words and + gesture, thought to make him afraid. But this drunken fellow + making no account of his threatnings, Art thou the divel? + quoth he, then I am his damme; and so layeth upon him with + his cudgell, that if the poore priest had not changed his + divel's voyce, and confessed himselfe to be Hauns, and + rescued by the woman that then knew him, he had bin like not + to have gone out of the place alive. + </p> + <p> + This vice of drunkennesse, wherein many take over-great + pleasure, was a great blemish to Alexander's virtues. For + having won a great part of Asia, he laid aside that sobrietie + hee brought forth of Macedon, and gave himselfe to the + luxuriousenesse of those people whom he had conquered. + </p> + <p> + That King, Cambyses, tooke over-great plaasure in drinking of + wine; and when he asked Prexaspes, his secretary, what the + Persians said of him, he answered, that they commended him + highly, notwithstanding they thought him over-much given to + wine, the king being therewith very angry, caused Prexaspes' + sonne to stand before him, and taking his bow in his hand, + Now (quoth he) if I strike thy son's heart, it will then + appeare that I am not drunk, but that the Persians doe lye; + but if I misse his heart, they may be believed. And when he + had shot at his son, and found his arrow had pierced his + heart, he was very glad; and told him that he had proved the + Persians to be lyars. + </p> + <p> + Fliolmus, king of the Gothes, was so addicted to drinking, + that hee would sit a great part of the night quaffing and + carousing with his servants. And as on a time he sate after + his accustomed and beastly manner carousing with them, his + servants being as drunke as he, threw the king, in sport, + into a great vessell full of drinke, that was set in the + middist of the hall for their quaffing, where he ridiculously + and miserably ended his life. + </p> + <p> + Cineas being ambassador to Pyrrhus, as he arrived in Egypt, + and saw the exceeding height of the vines of that country, + considering with himselfe how much evill that fruit brought + forth to men, sayd, that such a mother deserved justly to be + hanged so high, seeing she did beare so dangerous a child as + wine was. Plato considering the hurt that wine did to men, + sayd, that the gods sent wine downe hither, partly for a + punishment of their sinnes, that when they are drunke, one + might kill another. + </p> + <p> + Paulus Diacrius reporteth a monstrous kinde of quaffing, + between foure old men at a banquet, which they made of + purpose. Their challenge was, two to two, and he that dranke + to his companion must drinke so many times as hee had yeares; + the youngest of the foure was eight and fiftie yeares old; + the second three-score and three; the third four-score and + seven; the fourth four-score and twelve; so that he which + dranke least, dranke eight-and-fifty bowles full of wine, and + so consequently, according to their yeares, whereof one + dranke four-score and twelve bowles. + </p> + <p> + The old Romanes, when they were disposed to quaff lustily, + would drinke so many carouses as there were letters in the + names of their mistresses, or lovers; so easily were they + overcome with this vice, who by their virtue some other time, + became masters of the world; but these devices are + peradventure stale now; there be finer devices to provoke + drunkennesse. + </p> + <p> + In the time of Antonius Pius, the people of Rome being given + to drinke without measure, he commanded that none should + presume to sell wine but in apothecaries' shops, for the + sicke or diseased. + </p> + <p> + Cyrus, of a contrary disposition to the gluttons and + carousers, in his youth gave notable signes and afterward + like examples of sobrietie and frugalitie, when he was + monarch of the Persians. For, being demanded when he was but + a boy, of his grandfather, Astyages, why he would drink no + wine, because, said hee, I observed yesterday when you + celebrated the feast of your nativitie, so strange a thing, + that it could not be but that som man had put poison into all + the wine that ye drank; for at the taking up of the table, + there was not one man in his right minde. By this it + appeareth, how rare a matter it was then to drinke wine, and + a thing to be wondered at to see men drunke. For when the use + of wine was first found out, it was taken for a thing + medicinable, and not used for a common drinke, and was to be + found rather in apothecaries' shops than in tavernes. What a + great difference there was betweene the frugalitie of the + former ages and the luxuriousnesse of these latter dayes, + these few examples will shew. This Cyrus, as hee marched with + his army, one asking him what he would have provided for his + supper, hee answered, bread; for I hope, sayth hee, wee shall + find a fountain to serve us of drinke. When Plato had beene + in Sicilia, being asked what new or strange thing hee had + seene; I have seene, sayth hee, a monster of nature, that + eateth twice a day. For Dionysius whom he meant, first + brought the custome into that country. For it was the use + among the Hebrewes, the Grecians, the Romanes, and other + nations, to eat but once a day. But now many would thinke + they should in a short time be halfe famished, if they should + eat but twice a day; nay, rather whole dayes and nights bee + scant sufficient for many to continue eating and quaffing. + Wee may say with the poet— + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis. + </p> + <p> + The times are changed and we are changed in them. + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + By the historie of the swine (which by the permission of God, + were vexed by the divell) we be secretly admonished that they + which spend their lives in pleasures and deliciousnesse, such + belly-gods as the world hath many in these daies, that live + like swine, shall one day be made a prey for the divell; for + seeing they will not be the temple of God, and the house of + the Holy Ghost, they must of necessitie be the habitation of + the divell. Such swine, sayth one, be they that make their + paradise in this world, and that dissemble their vices, lest + they should bee deprived of their worldly goods. + </p> + <hr class="full" /> + <h2> + OLD POETS + </h2> + <hr /> + <p> + [The author of the following stanzas is JOHN BYROM, an + ingenious poet, famous also as the inventor of a System of + Stenography. He was born in 1691, and died in 1763. Byrom + wrote poetry, or rather verse, with extraordinary facility. + His pastoral, entitled "Colin and Phoebe," first published in + the "Spectator," when the author was quite young, has been + much admired. As literary curiosities, his poems are too + interesting to be neglected; and their oddity well entitles + them to the room they fill. The following poem is perfectly + in the manner of Elizabeth's age; and we have selected it as + a seasonable dish for the present number—trusting that + its rich vein of humour may find a kindred flow in the hearts + of our readers.] + </p> + <h3> + CARELESS CONTENT. + </h3> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + I am content, I do not care, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Wag as it will the world for me; + </p> + <p> + When fuss and fret was all my fare, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + I got no ground as I could see: + </p> + <p> + So when away my caring went, + </p> + <p> + I counted cost, and was content. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + With more of thanks and less of thought, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + I strive to make my matters meet; + </p> + <p> + To seek what ancient sages sought, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Physic and food in sour and sweet: + </p> + <p> + To take what passes in good part, + </p> + <p> + And keep the hiccups from the heart. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + With good and gentle humour'd hearts, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + I choose to chat where'er I come, + </p> + <p> + Whate'er the subject be that starts: + </p> + <p class="i2"> + But if I get among the glum, + </p> + <p> + I hold my tongue to tell the truth, + </p> + <p> + And keep my breath to cool my broth. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + For chance or change of peace or pain; + </p> + <p class="i2"> + For Fortune's favour or her frown; + </p> + <p> + For lack or glut, for loss or gain, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + I never dodge, nor up nor down: + </p> + <p> + But swing what way the ship shall swim, + </p> + <p> + Or tack about with equal trim. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + I suit not where I shall not speed, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Nor trace the turn of ev'ry tide; + </p> + <p> + If simple sense will not succeed + </p> + <p class="i2"> + I make no bustling, but abide: + </p> + <p> + For shining wealth, or scaring woe, + </p> + <p> + I force no friend, I fear no foe. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Of ups and downs, of ins and outs, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Of the're i'th' wrong, and we're i'th' right, + </p> + <p> + I shun the rancours and the routs, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + And wishing well to every wight, + </p> + <p> + Whatever turn the matter takes, + </p> + <p> + I deem it all but ducks and drakes. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + With whom I feast I do not fawn, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Nor if the folks should flout me, faint; + </p> + <p> + If wonted welcome he withdrawn, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + I cook no kind of a complaint: + </p> + <p> + With none dispos'd to disagree, + </p> + <p> + But like them best who best like me. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Not that I rate myself the rule + </p> + <p class="i2"> + How all my betters should behave; + </p> + <p> + But fame shall find me no man's fool, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Nor to a set of men a slave. + </p> + <p> + I love a friendship free and frank, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + And hate to hang upon a hank. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Fond of a true and trusty tie, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + I never loose where'er I link; + </p> + <p> + Tho' if a bus'ness budges by, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + I talk thereon just as I think; + </p> + <p> + My word, my work, my heart, my hand, + </p> + <p> + Still on a side together stand. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + If names or notions make a noise, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Whatever hap the question hath, + </p> + <p> + The point impartially I poise, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + And read or write, but without wrath; + </p> + <p> + For should I burn, or break my brains, + </p> + <p> + Pray, who will pay me for my pains? + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + I love my neighbour as myself, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Myself like him too, by his leave— + </p> + <p> + Nor to his pleasure, pow'r, or pelf, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Came I to crouch, as I conceive: + </p> + <p> + Dame Nature doubtless has design'd + </p> + <p> + A man the monarch of his mind. + </p> + <p> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page448" + name="page448"></a>[pg 448]</span> + </p> + <p> + Now taste and try tills temper, sirs, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Mood it and brood it in your breast— + </p> + <p> + Or if ye ween, for worldly stirs. + </p> + <p class="i2"> + That man does right to mar his rest, + </p> + <p> + Let me be deft and debonair, + </p> + <p> + I am content, I do not care. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"></div> + </div> + <hr class="full" /> + <h2> + The Gatherer + </h2> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + "A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles." + </p> + <p> + SHAKSPEARE. + </p> + </div> + </div> + <hr /> + <h3> + FRENCH TRAGEDY. + </h3> + <p> + The following <i>recipe</i> for a French tragedy is not + unworthy of Swift. "Take two good characters, and one wicked, + either a tyrant, a traitor, or a rogue. Let the latter set + the two former by the ears and make them very unhappy for + four acts, during which he must promulgate all manner of + shocking maxims, interlarded with poisons, daggers, oracles, + &c.; while the good characters repeat their catechism of + moralities. In the fifth act, let the power of the tyrant be + overthrown by an insurrection, or the treason of the villain + be discovered by some episodical personage, and the worthy + folks be preserved. Above all, don't forget, if there is any + difference subsisting between France and England, or between + the parliament and the clergy, to allude to it, and you will + have fabricated such a piece as shall be applauded three + times a week for three weeks together at the Comédie + Française." + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + OLD AND NEW CHRISTMAS. + </h3> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Some time, far back, my Christmas fare + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Was turkey and a chine, + </p> + <p> + With puddings made of things most rare, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + And plenty of good wine. + </p> + <p> + When times grew worse, I then could dine + </p> + <p> + On goose or roasted pig; + </p> + <p> + Instead of wine, a glass of grog, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + And dance the merry jig. + </p> + <p> + When still grown worse, I then could dine + </p> + <p class="i2"> + On beef and pudding plain; + </p> + <p> + Instead of grog, some good strong beer— + </p> + <p class="i2"> + Nor did I then complain. + </p> + <p> + But now my joy is turn'd to grief, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + For Christmas day is here; + </p> + <p> + No turkey, chine, or goose, or beef, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + No wine, no grog, no beer. + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + <i>Dec. 25, 1828</i>. + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + THE IRISH SCHOOLBOY. + </h3> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + —When I'm late for school, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + The excuse 'twill be my mother, Sir; + </p> + <p> + And when that one won't do, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + I'll try and make another, Sir. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p> + Fer my mother is a good man, + </p> + <p class="i2"> + And so, Sir, is my daddy O— + </p> + <p> + And 'twill not be my fault + </p> + <p class="i2"> + If I'm not their own Paddy O. + </p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"></div> + </div> + <hr /> + <h3> + A "RALE" SHOEMAKER'S BILL. + </h3> + <p> + "His Honur Mr. Trant, Esquire, Dr. to James Barret, + Shoemaker." + </p> + <pre> + £. s. d. + + To clicking and sowling Miss Clara 0 2 6 + To strapping and welting Miss Biddy 0 1 0 + To binding and closing Miss Mary 0 1 6 + ________ + Paid, July 14, 1828. £0 5 0 +</pre> + <p> + JAMES BARRET.<br /> + <i>Croker's Legends of the Lakes</i>. + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + PATHETIC REJOINDER. + </h3> + <p> + A celebrated literary character, in a northern metropolis, + had a black servant, whom he occasionally employed in beating + covers for woodcocks and other game. On one occasion of + intense frost, the native of Afric's sultry shores was nearly + frozen to death by the cold and wet of the bushes, which + sparkled, (but not with fire-flies,) and on which, + pathetically blowing his fingers, he was heard to exclaim, in + reply to an observation of his master, that "the woodcocks + were very, scarce," "Ah, massa, me wish woodcock never been!" + </p> + <hr /> + <h3> + WHO TOLD YOU? + </h3> + <p> + "Lady Racher is put to bed," said Sir Boyle Roche to a + friend. "What has she got?"—"Guess."—"A + boy?"—"No, guess again."—"A girl?"—"Who + told you?" + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + The supplement to VOL. XII., containing Titles, Preface, + Index, &c., with a fine Steel Plate PORTRAIT of T. MOORE, + Esq. and an Original Memoir, is published with the present + Number. + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE<br /> + <i>Following Novels are already Published:</i> + </p> + <pre> + s. d. + + Mackenzie's Man of Feeling 0 6 + Paul and Virginia 0 6 + The Castle of Otranto 0 6 + Almoran and Hamet 0 6 + Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia 0 6 + The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 0 6 + Rasselas 0 8 + The Old English Baron 0 8 + Nature and Art 0 8 + Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield 0 10 + Sicilian Romance 1 0 + The Man of the World 1 0 + A Simple Story 1 4 + Joseph Andrews 1 6 + Humphry Clinker 1 8 + The Romance of the Forest 1 8 + The Italian 2 0 + Zeluco, by Dr. Moore 2 6 + Edward, by Dr. Moore 2 6 + Roderick Random 2 6 + The Mysteries of Udolpho 3 6 +</pre> + <hr class="full" /> + <blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a> + <p> + The following anecdote is related of him:—Charles II. + more than once dined with his good citizens of London on + their Lord Mayor's Day, and did so the year that Sir Robert + Viner was mayor. Sir Robert was a very loyal man, and, very + fond of his sovereign; but, what with the joy he felt at + heart for the honour done him by his prince, and through + the warmth he was in with continual toasting healths to the + royal family, his lordship grew a little fond of his + majesty, and entered into a familiarity not altogether so + graceful in so public a place. The king understood very + well how to extricate himself in all kinds of difficulties, + and, with a hint to the company to avoid ceremony, stole + off and made towards his coach, which stood ready for him + in Guildhall yard. But the mayor liked his company so well, + and was grown so intimate, that he pursued him hastily, + and, catching him fast by the hand, cried out with a + vehement oath and accent, "Sir, you shall stay and take + t'other bottle." The airy monarch looked kindly at him over + his shoulder, and with a smile and graceful air, repeated + this line of the old song— + </p> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="i4"> + "He that's drunk is as great as a king," + </p> + </div> + </div> + <p> + and immediately returned back, and complied with his + landlord.—<i>Spectator</i>, 462. + </p> + </blockquote> + <hr class="full" /> + <p> + <i>Printed and Published by J. 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