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No. 383.</b></td> +<td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1829.</b></td> +<td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> +</tr> +</table> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>TUNBRIDGE WELLS.</h2> +<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href= +"images/383-001.png"><img width="100%" src="images/383-001.png" +alt="TUNBRIDGE WELLS IN 1748." /></a></div> +<p>With sketches of Dr. Johnson, Cibber, Garrick, Lyttleton, +Richardson, &c. &c. <i>For Explanation, see the annexed +page.</i></p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page66" name="page66"></a>[pg +66]</span> +<p><i>References to the Characters in the Engraving.</i></p> +<p>1. Dr. Johnson.—2. Bishop of Salisbury (Dr. +Gilbert.)—3. Lord Harcourt.—4. Cotley Cibber.—5. +Mr. Garrick.—6. Mrs. Frasi, the singer.—7. Mr. +Nash.—8. Miss Chudleigh (Duchess of Kingston.)—9. Mr. +Pitt (Earl of Chatham.)—10. A. Onslow, Esq. (the +Speaker.)—11. Lord Powis.—12. Duchess of +Norfolk.—13. Miss Peggy Banks—14. Lady +Lincoln—15. Mr. (afterwards Lord) Lyttleton.—16. The +Baron (a German gamester.)—17. Samuel Richardson.—18. +Mrs. Onslow.—20. Mrs. Johnson (the Doctor's wife.)—21. +Mr. Whiston—22. Loggan, the artist.—23. Woman of the +Wells.</p> +<p>Tunbridge, or as old folks still call it, "the Wells," was a +gay, anecdotical resort of the last century, and about as different +from the fashionable haunts of the present, as St. James's is to +Russel Square, or an old English mansion to the egg-shell +architecture of yesterday. In its best days, it was second only to +Bath, and little did its belles and beaux dream of the fishified +village of Brighthelmstone, in the adjoining county, spreading to a +city, and being docked of its syllabic proportions to the +<i>Brighton</i> of ears polite.</p> +<p>The annexed Engraving represents Tunbridge Wells about 80 years +ago, or in the year 1748. It is copied from a drawing which +belonged to Samuel Richardson, the novelist, and was found among +his papers at his death in 1761. The original is in the possession +of Sir Richard Phillips, who published Richardson's +<i>Correspondence</i>, in 1804; it contains portrait figures of all +the celebrated characters who were at Tunbridge Wells, in August, +1748, at which time Richardson was likewise there, and beneath the +drawing is the above key, or the names of the characters, in the +hand-writing of the novelist.</p> +<p>But the pleasantest illustration that we can supply is the +following extract from one of Richardson's Letters to Miss +Westcomb, which represents the gaiety and flirtation of the place +in very attractive colours. At this time Richardson was at +Tunbridge Wells for the benefit of his health; but he says, "I had +rather be in a desert, than in a place so public and so giddy, if I +may call the place so from its frequenters. But these waters were +almost the only thing in medicine that I had not tried; and, as my +disorder seemed to increase, I was willing to try them. Hitherto, I +must own, without effect is the trial. But people here, who slide +in upon me, as I traverse the outermost edges of the walks, that I +may stand in nobody's way, nor have my dizziness increased by the +swimming triflers, tell me I shall not give them fair play under a +month or six weeks; and that I ought neither to read nor write; yet +I have all my town concerns upon me here, sent me every post and +coach, and cannot help it. Here are great numbers of people got +together. A very full season, and more coming every day—Great +comfort to me."</p> +<p>"What if I could inform you, that among scores of belles, +flatterers, triflers, who swim along these walks, self-satisfied +and pleased, and looking defiances to men (and to modesty, I had +like to have said; for bashfulness seems to be considered as want +of breeding in all I see here); a pretty woman is as rare as a +black swan; and when one such starts up, she is nicknamed a Beauty, +and old fellows and young fellows are set a-spinning after +her."</p> +<p>"<i>Miss Banks</i> (Miss Peggy Banks) was the belle when I came +first down—yet she had been so many seasons here, that she +obtained but a faint and languid attention; so that the smarts +began to put her down in their list of had-beens. New faces, my +dear, are more sought after than fine faces. A piece of instruction +lies here—that women should not make even their faces +cheap."</p> +<p>"<i>Miss Chudleigh</i> next was the triumphant toast: a lively, +sweet-tempered, gay, self-admired, and not altogether without +reason, generally-admired lady—she moved not without crowds +after her. She smiled at every one. Every one smiled before they +saw her, when they heard she was on the walk. She played, she lost, +she won—all with equal good-humour. But, alas, she went off, +before she was wished to go off. And then the fellows' hearts were +almost broken for a new beauty."</p> +<p>"Behold! seasonably, the very day that she went away entered +upon the walks Miss L., of Hackney!—Miss Chudleigh was +forgotten (who would wish for so transient a dominion in the land +of fickledom!)—And have you seen the new beauty?—And +have you seen Miss L.? was all the inquiry from smart to smartless. +But she had not traversed the walks two days, before she was found +to want spirit and life. Miss Chudleigh was remembered by those who +wished for the brilliant mistress, and scorned the wifelike quality +of sedateness—and Miss L. is now seen with a very silly +fellow or two, walking backwards and forwards +unmolested—dwindled down from the new beauty to a very quotes +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page67" name="page67"></a>[pg +67]</span> pretty girl; and perhaps glad to come off so. For, upon +my word, my dear, there are very few pretty girls here."</p> +<p>"But here, to change the scene, to see Mr. W——sh at +eighty (Mr. Cibber calls him papa), and Mr. Cibber at +seventy-seven, hunting after new faces; and thinking themselves +happy if they can obtain the notice and familiarity of a fine +woman!—How ridiculous!—If you have not been at +Tunbridge, you may nevertheless have heard that here are a parcel +of fellows, mean traders, whom they call touters, and their +business, touting—riding out miles to meet coaches and +company coming hither, to beg their custom while here."</p> +<p>"Mr. Cibber was over head and ears in love with Miss Chudleigh. +Her admirers (such was his happiness!) were not jealous of him; +but, pleased with that wit in him which they had not, were always +for calling him to her. She said pretty things—for she was +Miss Chudleigh. He said pretty things—for he was Mr. Cibber; +and all the company, men and women, seemed to think they had an +interest in what was said, and were half as well pleased as if they +had said the sprightly things themselves; and mighty well contented +were they to be secondhand repeaters of the pretty things. But once +I faced the laureate squatted upon one of the benches, with a face +more wrinkled than ordinary with disappointment 'I thought,' said +I, 'you were of the party at the tea-treats—Miss Chudleigh +has gone into the tea-room.'—'Pshaw!' said he, 'there is no +coming at her, she is so surrounded by the toupets.'—And I +left him upon the fret—But he was called to soon after; and +in he flew, and his face shone again, and looked smooth."</p> +<hr /> +<p>"Another extraordinary old man we have had here, but of a very +different turn; the noted <i>Mr. Whiston</i>, showing eclipses, and +explaining other phaenomena of the stars, and preaching the +millennium, and anabaptism (for he is now, it seems, of that +persuasion) to gay people, who, if they have white teeth, hear him +with open mouths, though perhaps shut hearts; and after his lecture +is over, not a bit the wiser, run from him, the more eagerly to +C——r and W——sh, and to flutter among the +loud-laughing young fellows upon the walks, like boys and girls at +a breaking-up."</p> +<hr /> +<p>"Your affectionate and paternal friend and servant, S. +RICHARDSON."</p> +<p>Richardson has mentioned only a few of the characters introduced +in the Engraving. Johnson was at that time but in his fortieth +year, and much less portly than afterwards. Cibber is the very +picture of an old beau, with laced hat and flowing wig; +half-a-dozen of his pleasantries were worth all that is heard from +all the playwrights and actors of our day—on or off the +stage: Garrick too, probably did not keep all his fine conceits +within the theatre. Nos. 7, 8, and 9, in the Engraving, are a +pretty group: Miss Chudleigh (afterwards Duchess of Kingston,) +between Beau Nash and Mr. Pitt (Earl of Chatham,) both of whom are +striving for a side-long glance at the sweet tempered, and as +Richardson calls her, "generally-admired" lady. No. 17, Richardson +himself is moping along like an invalid beneath the trees, and +avoiding the triflers. Mrs. Johnson is widely separated from the +Doctor, but is as well dressed as he could wish her; and No. 21, +Mr. Whiston is as unexpected among this gay crowd as snow in +harvest. What a <i>coterie</i> of wits must Tunbridge have +possessed at this time: what assemblies and whistparties among +scores of spinsters, and ogling, dangling old bachelors; with +high-heeled shoes, silken hose, court hoops, embroidery, and point +ruffles—only compare the Tunbridge parade of 1748 with that +of 1829.</p> +<p>We have room but for a brief sketch of Tunbridge Wells. The +Springs, or the place itself, is a short distance from the town of +Tunbridge. The discovery of the waters was in the reign of James I. +Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I. staid here six weeks after the +birth of the prince, afterwards Charles II.; but, as no house was +near, suitable for so great a personage, she and her suite remained +under tents pitched in the neighbourhood. The Wells, hitherto +called Frant, were changed to Queen's Mary's Wells: both have given +place to Tunbridge Wells; though the springs rise in the parish of +Speldhurst.</p> +<p>Waller, in his Lines to Saccharissa, <a id="footnotetag1" name= +"footnotetag1"></a> <a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> +celebrates the Tunbridge Waters; and Dr. Rowzee <a id= +"footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a> <a href= +"#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> wrote a treatise on their virtues. +During the civil wars, the Wells were neglected, but on the +Restoration they became more fashionable than ever. <a id= +"footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a> <a href= +"#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> Hence may be dated assembly +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page68" name="page68"></a>[pg +68]</span> rooms, coffee houses, bowling greens, &c.; about +which time, to suit the caprice of their owners, many of the houses +were wheeled upon sledges: a chapel <a id="footnotetag4" name= +"footnotetag4"></a> <a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a> and a +school were likewise erected. The accommodations have been +progressively augmented; and the population has greatly increased. +The trade of the place consists chiefly in the manufacture of the +articles known as Tunbridge-ware. The Wells have always been +patronized by the royal family; and are still visited by some of +their branches.</p> +<p>Our Engraving represents the Upper, or principal walk, where are +one of the assembly rooms, the post-office, Tunbridge-ware, +milliners, and other shops, with a row of spreading elms on the +opposite side. It is not uninteresting to notice the humble style +of the shops, and the wooden portico and tiled roofs, in the +Engraving, and to contrast them with the ornamental +shop-architecture of our days: yet our forefathers, good old souls, +thought such accommodations worthy of their patronage, and there +was then as much gaiety at Tunbridge Wells as at Brighton in its +best days.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>LOVE.</h3> +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Sing ye love? ye sing it not,</p> +<p>It was never sung, I wot.</p> +<p>None can speak the power of love,</p> +<p>Tho' 'tis felt by all that move.</p> +<p>It is known—but not reveal'd,</p> +<p>'Tis a knowledge ever seal'd!</p> +<p>Dwells it in the tearful eye</p> +<p>Of congenial sympathy?</p> +<p>'Tis a radiance of the mind,</p> +<p>'Tis a feeling undefin'd,</p> +<p>'Tis a wonder-working spell,</p> +<p>'Tis a magic none can tell,</p> +<p>'Tis a charm unutterable.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p><span style="margin-left:3em">LEAR.</span></p> +</div> +</div> +<hr /> +<h3>GRAYSTEIL.<a id="footnotetag5" name="footnotetag5"></a> +<a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a></h3> +<h4>AN HISTORICAL BALLAD.</h4> +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Beneath the Douglas plaid, he wore a grinding shirt of mail;</p> +<p>Yet, spite of pain and weariness, press'd on that gallant +Gael:</p> +<p>On, on, beside his regal foe, with eyes which more express'd</p> +<p>Than <i>words</i>, expecting favour still, from him who +<i>once</i> caress'd!</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"<i>'Tis</i>," quoth the prince, "my poor Graysteil!" and +spurr'd his steed amain,</p> +<p>Striving, ere toiling Kilspindie, the fortalice to gain;</p> +<p>But Douglas, (and his wither'd heart, with hope and dread, beat +high)</p> +<p>Stood at proud Stirling's castle-gate, as soon as royalty!</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Stood, on his ingrate <i>friend</i> to gaze; no answ'ring +love-look came;</p> +<p>Then, mortal grief his spirit shook, and bow'd his war-worn +frame;</p> +<p>Faith, <i>innocence</i>, avail'd not <i>him!</i> he suffer'd for +his line,</p> +<p>And fainting by the gate he sunk, but feebly call'd for +<i>wine!</i></p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>The menials came, "<i>wine?</i> up! begone! <i>we</i> marvel who +thou art!</p> +<p>Our <i>monarch</i> bids to France, Graysteil, his trusty +<i>friend</i> depart!"</p> +<p>Blood to the Douglas' cheek uprush'd: proud blood! away he +hied,</p> +<p>And soon afar, the "poor Graysteil," the <i>broken hearted</i>, +DIED!</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p><span style="margin-left:3em">M.L.B.</span></p> +</div> +</div> +<p><i>Note</i>—Graysteil (so called after the champion of a +romance then popular) had returned from banishment in the hope, as +he was perfectly innocuous, of renewing his ancient friendship with +the Scottish king; and James declared that he would again have +received him into his service, but for his oath, never more to +countenance a Douglas. He blamed his servants for refusing +refreshment to the veteran, but did not escape censure from our own +Henry VIII. for his cruel conduct towards his "poor Graysteil," +upon this occasion.</p> +<hr /> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page69" name="page69"></a>[pg +69]</span> +<h3>TO THE MEMORY OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART.</h3> +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>To this low orb is lost a shining light.</p> +<p>Useful, resplendent, and tho' transient, bright!</p> +<p>For scarce has soaring genius reach'd the blaze</p> +<p class="i2">Of fleeting life's meridian hour,</p> +<p>Than Death around the naming meteor plays,</p> +<p class="i2">And spreads its cypress o'er the short liv'd +flower.</p> +<p>The great projector of that grand design,<a id="footnotetag6" +name="footnotetag6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a></p> +<p>In time's remotest annals, long will shine;</p> +<p>While sons of toil aloud proclaim his name,</p> +<p>And <i>life preserv'd</i> perpetuate his <i>fame</i>.</p> +</div> +</div> +<hr /> +<h3>SODA WATER.</h3> +<h4><i>(To the Editor of the Mirror.)</i></h4> +<p>The following extract from a medical periodical on <i>Soda +Water</i>, will not perhaps be deemed <i>mal-apropos</i> at the +present period of the year, and by being inserted in your widely +circulated work may be of some service to those who are not aware +of the evil effects produced by a <i>too free</i> use of that +beverage.</p> +<p>M.M.M.</p> +<p>On this fashionable article, the editor remarks, Dr. Paris makes +the following observations:—"The modern custom of drinking +this inviting beverage during, or immediately after dinner, has +been a pregnant source of indigestion. By inflating the stomach at +such a period, we inevitably counteract those <i>muscular</i> +contractions of its coats which are essential to chymification, +whilst the quantity of soda thus introduced scarcely deserves +notice; with the exception of the carbonic acid gas, it may be +regarded as water; more mischievous only in consequence of the +<i>exhilarating</i> quality, inducing us to take it at a period at +which we would not require the more simple fluid."</p> +<p>In all the waters we have obtained from fountains in London and +other places, under the names of "Soda Water" and "<i>double</i> +Soda Water," we have not been able to discover any soda. It is +common water mechanically super-saturated with fixed air, which on +being disengaged and rarified in the stomach, may, as Dr. Paris +observes, so over distend the organ as to interrupt digestion, or +diminish the powers of the digestive organs. When acid prevails in +the stomach, which is generally the case the day after too free an +indulgence in wine, true soda water, taken two or three hours +before dinner, or an hour before breakfast, not only neutralizes +the acid, but the fixed air, which is disengaged, allays the +irritation, and even by distending the organ, invigorates the +muscular coat and nerves. As the quantity of soda, in the true soda +water, is much too small to neutralize the acid, it is a good +practice to add fifteen or twenty grains of the carbonate of soda, +finely powdered, to each bottle, which may be done by pouring the +contents of a bottle on it in a large glass.</p> +<p>Of all the soda water we have examined, we have found that made +by Mr. Johnson, to contain the greatest quantity of soda. For the +purpose of cooling the body during warm weather, and quieting the +stomach, which is generally in a state of increased irritation when +the temperature of the air is equal or within a few degrees of that +of the body, it is preferable to any of the vegetable or mineral +acids.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>THE COSMOPOLITE.</h2> +<hr /> +<h3>SISTERS OF CHARITY.<a id="footnotetag7" name= +"footnotetag7"></a><a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a></h3> +<p>All the world, that is, one out of the two millions of people in +this great town, know, that the above is the title of a somewhat +romantic drama, in which Miss Kelly is fast monopolizing the tears +and sympathies of the public by her impersonation of a <i>Sister of +Charity</i>. To witness it will do every heart good; and this is +the highest aim of a dramatic representation. The performance has +had the effect of drawing our attention to the original of the +character, which is intensely interesting, though at the same time +overtinged with romance.</p> +<p>Every six weeks' tourist has seen or heard of the <i>Sisters of +Charity</i> on the Continent. They are nurses in the hospitals +there, but on a system very different from the hireling attendants +in similar institutions in England. Indeed, they may be said to +have quitted the world to devote themselves to the relief of those +unfortunate persons, who people the abodes of misery and distress. +They form, it appears, a numerous body, consisting of several +thousand members, who are said to perform <span class= +"pagenum"><a id="page70" name="page70"></a>[pg 70]</span> or +superintend the administration of 300 hospitals in France. They are +united under several denominations, as nuns of those monastic +communities which escaped the storms of the revolution. Many of +them are in the prime of life, and though not bound by absolute +vows, devote the whole of their time, and even die in the act of +doing good. In spiritual matters, they are under the jurisdiction +of the bishop of the district in which the hospital is situated; in +temporal concerns they are subject to the authority of the heads of +the establishment to which they belong; but they are chiefly under +the guidance of the superior of their order. They are fed and +lodged at the expense of the hospital, and receive in addition, a +certain stipend for the purchase of clothes. In the hospital at +Lyons, (which forty or fifty years ago, was the only hospital in +France which was not in a barbarous state), there are about 150 of +these <i>Sisters</i>, wearing a uniform dress of dark worsted, and +remarkably clean. They receive the trifling sum of forty francs a +year for pocket-money, and sit up one night in each week; the +following is a day of relaxation, and the only one they have. +During the siege of Lyons, when cannon-balls passed through the +windows, and struck the walls every moment, not one abandoned her +post near the sick.</p> +<p>Every one will rejoice at the existence of such offices as +<i>the Sisters of Charity</i>—benign, nay almost divine; and +until this moment, we thought that such had been their real +character. Our belief has, however, been somewhat staggered by an +article in the last number of <i>the London Review</i>; in which +the services of the <i>Sisters</i> are represented in a much less +amiable light than we have been accustomed to view them. This +notice occurs in a paper on a work by Dr. David Johnston, of +Edinburgh, on the Public Charities of France. The Doctor, whose +book abounds with evidence of considerable research, thus speaks of +the <i>Sisters of Charity</i>:—</p> +<p>"The inmate of an hospital is alone qualified to speak with +justice of the blessings which such attendance affords. Possessed +of superior education, and from their religious profession placed +above many of the worldly considerations which affect nurses in +general, the Sisters of Charity act at once as temporal and +spiritual comforters, watch over the sick bed, soothe the prisoner +in his confinement, and penetrate into the worst abodes of misery, +to comfort the distress, and instruct the ignorant."</p> +<p>Such we also thought had been their portraiture, although we +could not so far speak from personal evidence. But the reviewer +gainsays all this, and even does more. After drawing a comparison, +and not altogether a just one, between the "Sisters of Charity in +France," and ladies of fortune who unostentatiously visit the sick +poor in England, he says—</p> +<p>"It is matter of fact, generally observable in the instances of +the <i>soeurs de charité</i>, that in the performance of +their duties towards the sick, during the first three or four +months, they display all that tender solicitude and devotedness, +which romance ascribes to them as constant and habitual. After the +first feelings have subsided, the <i>soeurs</i> are found to +consult, in all their actions, first, their own interests, in ease +and comfort; next, those of their order, and of the servants on the +establishment personally connected with them; and, last of all, +those of the patients. On an unprejudiced examination it will be +found, that a body so constituted as the <i>soeurs</i>, are +extremely unfit for the performance of such functions as are +entrusted to them in these establishments. It is essential to the +good performance of the duties of a nurse, that she should be +responsible to the medical officer for their omission. The +<i>soeurs</i> are entirely independent of any such control, and +their usual answer to any complaint is, '<i>Je reponds a mon +crucifix</i>.'"</p> +<p>"It is a great mistake to suppose that these nuns are +enlightened, or well born, or well educated. In general they are +ignorant women, too poor and too deficient in personal qualities to +find husbands. They are proud, arrogant, and bigoted; and, with a +few interesting exceptions, it may be said of them, that they +become nuns for want of better occupations; that they are +characterized by the ill temper of disappointment, at the world +having neglected or rejected them, rather than by any sublime +elevation of feeling, which could have led them to reject the +world. It is a delusion to suppose that all the more important +duties, on the due performance of which the success of medical +treatment mainly depends, devolve upon the <i>soeurs</i>. The fact +is, that it is one of the most serious defects of the French +hospitals, that proper persons are not procured to perform these +services: such as waiting upon the patients, changing their linen, +moving them, and administering to their little wants, in a proper +manner. In Paris there is a class of men, the refuse of the working +classes, who, when all <span class="pagenum"><a id="page71" name= +"page71"></a>[pg 71]</span> means of support fail, apply to the +hospitals, and become <i>infirmières</i>. It will scarcely +be believed, that to these men are entrusted the important duties +to which we have adverted, and which the Doctor seems to suppose +are chiefly performed by the <i>soeurs</i>. These +<i>infirmières</i> receive for their services only +six-and-eightpence per month, besides their board and lodging in +the house; and, as they can earn more at any other occupation, they +seldom remain long in their situations. The +<i>infirmières</i>, or female servants, are much of the same +description: badly appointed, badly paid, negligent and rapacious, +often pilfering a portion of the allowance of provisions and wine +prescribed to the patient for his recovery. The general +interference of the <i>soeurs</i> is prejudicial. Frequently, on +the strength of their own medical opinions, they will neglect the +prescriptions; frequently they harass a patient about his +confession, when a calm state of mind is indispensable for his +recovery. They also often exercise their united influence against a +medical man, to protect favourite servants. They encumber all +exertions for improvement, so that, whenever any change is +discussed, one of the first subjects for consideration is, whether +the <i>soeurs</i> are likely to interfere. Of late, however, their +power has been somewhat checked. Under good regulations they might, +no doubt, be rendered serviceable; but every alteration of their +condition, with regard to the hospitals, to be an improvement, must +bring them nearer to the superior condition of responsible nurses, +chosen for their aptitude, and remunerated according to their +merits."</p> +<p>"We have been compelled to state thus much of these orders. The +associations connected with persons of their sex and supposed rank, +who have taken the veil; their apparent devotedness to such amiable +and pre-eminently serviceable duties; their solemnity of exterior, +and other incidents—are so calculated to strike the eye and +possess the imagination of the beholder, that we are not surprised +to perceive that they have misled the judgment of the Doctor, since +they constantly impose on others, who have better opportunities for +observation. The <i>soeur de charité</i> is too fine an +object for the effusion of sentiment and romance, not to be made +the most of in these worldly and unpoetic times; and were it not +that the illusions thrown around this object might lead to +practical errors, we should have refrained from disturbing +them."</p> +<p>Feelings similar to those professed by the reviewer, have +induced us to present the reader with his new light, which we hope +is a just one. Of the little system of plunder carried on in some +institutions at home, we can speak of one instance with +certainty:—A relative near and dear to us as life's blood, +had by money and comforts, (which but for this incident would have +been kept secret), for many months relieved an inmate of a London +hospital. The patient was a poor, old female, in the last stage of +decrepitude, and fast sinking beneath the sorrows of life. She had +seen happier days, and the only relic which she possessed of better +fortune, was a pair of silver framed spectacles; which, on her +death-bed, she bequeathed to her benefactress. The poor old woman's +relations were dead, and this guardian-spirit who soothed her path +to the grave, was her only friend. Such an act of gratitude was, +therefore, extremely affecting, and her benefactress was anxious to +possess the legacy—heaven knows, not for its intrinsic +value—but as a testimony of rare and unaffected gratitude; +yet, will it be believed, that the tempting bit of silver had not +escaped the clutches of the nurses of the ward, and the spectacles +were not to be found! Our informant related the circumstance with +tears of indignation; we threatened to investigate the matter, yet +her meek and mild spirit implored us to withhold: she too passed +from us a short time after, and is, we hope, gone where her good +deeds will not be forgotten.</p> +<p>PHILO.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>NOTES OF A READER.</h2> +<hr /> +<h3>MONT BLANC.</h3> +<p>The most interesting night of the late season of the Royal +Institution, was the lecture or narrative, given by Dr. Clarke of +his ascent of Mont Blanc in 1825. Dr. Clarke led his audience from +Geneva to the summit, detailing the enterprise, which, however, he +considers not by any means so dangerous as has been represented. At +9,000 feet above the level of the Mediterranean the air becomes +extremely rarified, and the sky exhibits a blue-black appearance. +He does not consider it at all safe for persons to attempt the +ascent, having a tendency to apoplexy, for at the height of 15,000 +feet above the level of the sea, the extremely rarified state of +the air, as well as the almost unbearable oppression of the sun's +rays, though surrounded with snow, would increase that tendency to +an alarming extent. So oppressive is <span class="pagenum"><a id= +"page72" name="page72"></a> [pg 72]</span> the sun, that on sitting +down in the shade he was asleep instantly. The passage, just above +the Grande Plateau (a surface of ice and snow, many acres in +extent, 10,000 feet above the level of the sea) is a point of great +difficulty. This chink is about seven feet wide and of immeasurable +depth. To get over it the guides first proceed to render the +passage more easy. He cautions travellers to pay implicit attention +to guides, as the accident in 1822, when three persons sunk into +the caverns of snow, was occasioned by this want of caution. It is +appalling, said Dr. Clarke, to be carried over an abyss of unknown +depth, slung upon cords and drawn over. On arriving at the summit +of Mont Blanc the toils are amply repaid. Language cannot depict +the scene before the traveller. The eye wanders over immeasurable +space. The sky appears to recede, and the vision possesses double +power. The Alpine scenery here is awfully grand, and the alternate +thaw and freezing (for when the sun is down it freezes rapidly) +produces the most grotesque figures. The only living creature found +on the summit of Mont Blanc is a small white butterfly (the +<i>ansonia</i>,) which flits over the snow. The chamois is found +10,000 feet above the level of the sea; Mont Blanc is 15,500 feet +above the Mediterranean. Specimens were exhibited of the +compositions of all the mountains round Mont Blanc. Periodically an +immense quantity of snow falls down from the summit of the Mont, +enough, as the guide said, to crush all Europe like flies. "On +throwing stones down the precipices, thousands of feet deep, the +traveller feels an almost irresistible desire to throw himself +after them!"—<i>Monthly Magazine</i>.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>FURIOUS DRIVING.</h3> +<p>In going upon the road, in the United States, it is looked upon +as a sort of slur on one, if another pass him, going in the same +direction; and this folly prevails to as great a degree as amongst +our break-neck coachmen; and you will see an old Quaker, whom, to +look at, as he sits perched in his wagon, you would think had been +cut out of stone a couple of hundred years ago; or hewed out of a +log of wood, with the axe of some of the first settlers—if he +hear a rattle behind him, you will see him gently turn his head; if +he be passing a tavern at the time he pays little attention, and +refrains from laying the whip upon the "creatures," seeing that he +is morally certain that the rattler will stop to take "a grog" at +the tavern; but if no such invitation present itself, and +especially if there be a tavern two or three miles a-head, he +begins immediately to make provision against the consequences of +the impatience of his rival, who, he is aware, will push him hard, +and on they go as fast as they can scamper, the successful driver +talking of the "<i>glorious achievement</i>" for a +week.—<i>Cobbett</i>.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>VILLAGE BELLS.</h3> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>———'To the heart the solemn sweetness +steals,</p> +<p>Like the heart's voice, unfelt by none who feels</p> +<p>That God is love, that man is living dust;</p> +<p>Unfelt by none, whom ties of brotherhood</p> +<p>Link to his kind; by none who puts his trust</p> +<p>In naught of earth that hath surviv'd the flood,</p> +<p>Save those mute charities, by which the good</p> +<p>Strengthen poor worms, and serve their Maker best.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p><span style="margin-left:3em"><i>Village +Patriarch</i>.</span></p> +</div> +</div> +<hr /> +<h3>CURIOUS CONTRIVANCE.</h3> +<p>In the Pampas, when the natives want a granary, they sew the +legs of a whole skin up, and fill it full of corn; it is then tied +up to four stakes, with the legs hanging downwards, so that it has +the appearance of an elephant hanging up; the top is again covered +with hides, which prevent the rats getting in. In stretching a skin +to dry, wood is so scarce in many parts of the Pampas, that the rib +bones are carefully preserved to supply its place, and used as pegs +to fix it in the ground. When a new-born infant is to be cradled, a +square sheepskin is laced to a small rude frame of wood, and +suspended like a scale to a beam or rail.—<i>Brand's +Peru</i>.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>SOUTH AMERICAN DINNER.</h3> +<p>A recent traveller thus describes a dinner party at +Mendoza:—The day of days arrived; the carriage was flying +about the town with a couple of mules, to bring all the ladies to +dinner, in order to meet the foreign gentlemen. We were all seated +higgledy-piggledy at table, dish after dish came in; every one +helped themselves, no carving was required, being all made dishes. +The master of the house was walking round the room with his coat +off, very comfortably smoking his cigar, and between every fresh +dish, of which there were some thirty or forty, the ladies amused +themselves with eating olives soaked in oil, and the colonel, (one +of the military pedlars), to prove that he understood foreign +manners and customs, got the ladies one after another to ask the +foreign gentlemen to drink wine with them, which was no small +ordeal for us <span class="pagenum"><a id="page73" name= +"page73"></a>[pg 73]</span> to run through. After these half +hundred dishes, came the sweets; then the gentlemen's flints and +steels were going, the room soon filled with smoke, and the ladies +retired to dress for the ball.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>EARLY HOURS.</h3> +<p>We learn that Mr. Cobbett dines at twelve o'clock on suppawn and +butcher's meat, that he sups on bread and milk at six, that he goes +to bed at nine, that he rises every morning of his life at four; +that before ten o'clock he has finished his writing for the day, +and, that though no man has written more than he has, that he never +knew any one who enjoyed more leisure than he does, and has done. +"Now is there a man on earth who sits at a table, on an average, so +many hours in the day as I do? I do not believe that there is: and +I say it, not with pride, but with gratitude, that I do not believe +that the whole world contains a man who is more constantly blessed +with health than I am. In winter I go to bed at nine, and I rise, +if I do not oversleep myself, at four, or between four and five. I +have always a clear head; I am ready to take the pen, or begin +dictating, the moment I have lighted the fire, or it has been +lighted for me, and, generally speaking, I am seldom more than five +minutes in bed before I am asleep."</p> +<hr /> +<h3>AN IRISH VILLAGE INN.</h3> +<p>The form and plan in all parts of the country are pretty nearly +the same, though the furniture varies; the hospitable door (inns +are proverbially hospitable) stands always open, but the guests are +sheltered from the thorough air by a screen, composed like the rest +of the mansion, of mud; the partition walls which separate it from +the adjoining rooms reach no higher than the spring of the roof, so +that warmth and air, not to mention the grunting of pigs, and other +domestic sounds, are equally diffused through all parts of the +tenement; from the rafters, well blackened and polished with smoke, +depend sundry flitches of bacon, dried salmon, and so forth, and +above them, if you know the ways of the house "may be you couldn't +find (maybe you <i>couldn't</i> means, maybe you <i>could</i>) a +horn of malt or a <i>cag</i> of poteen, where the gauger couldn't +smell it." If you are very ignorant, you must be told, that poteen +is the far famed liquor which the Irish, on the faith of the +proverb, "stolen bread is sweetest," prefer, in spite of law, +and—no—not of lawgivers, they drink it themselves, to +its unsuccessful rival, parliament whisky. Beneath the ample +chimney, and on each side of the fire-place, run low stone benches, +the fire of turf or bog is made on the ground, and the pot for +boiling the "mate, or potaties" as the chance may be, suspended +over it by an iron chain; so that sitting on the aforesaid stone +benches, you may inhale, like the gods, the savour of your dinner, +while your frostbitten shins are soothed at the same time by the +fire which dresses it.—<i>Monthly Magazine</i>.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>THE TRUE GENTLEMAN.</h3> +<p>By a gentleman, we mean not to draw a line that would be +invidious between high and low, rank and subordination, riches and +poverty. The distinction is in the mind. Whoever is open, loyal, +and true; whoever is of humane and affable demeanour; whoever is +honourable in himself, and in his judgment of others, and requires +no law but his word to make him fulfil an engagement—such a +man is a gentleman: and such a man may be found among the tillers +of the earth. But high birth and distinction, for the most part, +insure the high sentiment which is denied to poverty and the lower +professions. It is hence, and hence only, that the great claim +their superiority; and hence, what has been so beautifully said of +honour, the law of kings, is no more than true:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>It aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her,</p> +<p>And imitates her actions where she is not.</p> +</div> +<div class="stanza"> +<p><span style="margin-left:3em"><i>De Vere</i>.</span></p> +</div> +</div> +<hr /> +<h3>ROYAL PLANTERS.</h3> +<p>Among the earliest and most successful planters was Count +Maurice, of Nassau, who flourished in the seventeenth century. This +prince had the advantage of operating in the genial clime, and with +the fruitful soil of Brazil, of which in the year 1636, he was +governor. He was a man of taste and elegance, and adorned his +palaces and gardens in that country with a magnificence worthy of +the satraps of the east. His residence was upon an island formed by +the confluence of two rivers, a place which before he commenced his +improvements presented no very promising subject, being a dreary, +waste, and uncultivated plain, equally worthless and unattractive. +On this spot, however, he erected a splendid palace, laid out +gardens around it of extraordinary extent and magnificence; +salubrity, seclusion, horticultural ornament were all studiously +and tastefully combined in the arrangement of the buildings; the +choicest fruits of a tropical climate, the orange, <span class= +"pagenum"><a id="page74" name="page74"></a>[pg 74]</span> the +citron, the ananas, with many others unknown to us, solicited at +once the sight, the smell, and the taste; artificial fountains of +water preserved the coolness of the air, and maintained the verdure +of the earth; thirteen bastions and turrets flanked and defended +the gardens; and seven hundred trees of various sizes, of which +some rose to thirty, some to forty, and some to fifty feet high to +the lowermost branches, were removed to the spot, and arranged by +the designer's skill in such a manner as to produce the most +striking and splendid effect. Some of these trees were of seventy +and others of eighty years growth. Being skilfully taken up they +were placed carefully in carriages, conveyed over a space of from +three to four miles in extent, transported on rafts across both the +rivers, and on being replanted in the island, so favourable were +both soil and vegetation in that genial climate, that they +immediately struck root, and even bore fruit during the first year +after their removal.</p> +<p>Louis XIV. who, by the good efforts of the learned Jesuits, had +been taught that the practice of transplanting was well known to +the Greeks and Romans, resolved to rival, and if possible, to +eclipse whatever had been achieved in this art by these +distinguished nations. Accordingly, among the stupendous changes +made on the face of nature at Versailles and other royal +residences, immense trees were taken up by the roots, erected on +carriages, and removed at the royal will and pleasure. Almost the +whole Bois de Boulogne was in this way said to be transported from +Versailles to its present site, a distance of about two leagues and +a half. To order the march of an army was the effort of common men, +and every day commanders; to order the removal of a forest seemed +to suit the magnificent conception of a prince, who, in all his +enterprises, affected to act upon a scale immeasurably greater than +that of his contemporaries. In the Bois de Boulogne, in spite of +military devastation, the curious eye may still distinguish, in the +rectilinear disposition of the trees, the traces of this +extraordinary achievement.</p> +<p>At Potsdam, Frederick II., and at Warsaw, the last king of +Poland transferred some thousands of large trees, in order to +embellish the royal gardens at those places; and at Lazenki, in the +suburbs of Warsaw, the far famed and unfortunate Stanislaus laid +out the palace and grounds in a style of luxuriance and +magnificence which has, perhaps, never been surpassed since the +days of the Roman emperors. To add to the charm of this favourite +spot, he removed some thousands of trees and bushes with which the +gardens and the park were adorned; both were frequently thrown open +to the public, and on these occasions, entertainments of unexampled +splendour and gaiety were given to the court and to the principal +inhabitants of the capital, which are still recollected with +feelings of delight.—<i>Stuart's Planter's +Guide</i>.—<i>Westminster Review</i> .</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>THE SKETCH-BOOK</h2> +<hr /> +<h3>MY FIRST INTERVIEW WITH SIR WALTER SCOTT.</h3> +<h4><i>By the Ettrick Shepherd</i>.</h4> +<p>One fine day in the summer of 1801, as I was busily engaged +working in the field at Ettrick House, Wat Shiel came over to me +and said, that "I boud gang away down to the Ramseycleuch as fast +as my feet could carry me, for there war some gentlemen there wha +wantit to speak to me."</p> +<p>"Wha can be at the Ramseycleuch that wants me, Wat?"</p> +<p>"I couldna say, for it wasna me that they spak to i' the +byganging. But I'm thinking it's the Shirra an' some o' his +gang."</p> +<p>I was rejoiced to hear this, for I had seen the first volumes of +"The Minstrelsy of the Border," and had copied a number of old +things from my mother's recital, and sent them to the editor +preparatory for a third volume. I accordingly went towards home to +put on my Sunday clothes, but before reaching it I met with THE +SHIRRA and Mr. William Laidlaw coming to visit me. They alighted +and remained in our cottage for a space better than an hour, and my +mother chanted the ballad of Old Maitlan' to them, with which Mr. +Scott was highly delighted. I had sent him a copy, (not a very +perfect one, as I found afterwards, from the singing of another +Laidlaw,) but I thought Mr. Scott had some dread of a part being +forged, that had been the cause of his journey into the wilds of +Ettrick. When he heard my mother sing it he was quite satisfied, +and I remember he asked her if she thought it had ever been +printed, and her answer was, "Oo, na, na, sir, it was never printed +i' the world, for my brothers an' me learned it frae auld Andrew +Moor, an' he learned it, an' mony mae, frae are auld Baby Mettlin, +that was housekeeper to the first laird o' Tushilaw."</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page75" name="page75"></a>[pg +75]</span> +<p>"Then that must be a very auld story, indeed, Margaret," said +he.</p> +<p>"Ay, it is that! It is an auld story! But mair nor that, except +George Warton and James Steward, there was never ane o' my sangs +prentit till ye prentit them yoursell, an' ye hae spoilt them +a'thegither. They war made for singing, an' no for reading; and +they're neither right spelled nor right setten down."</p> +<p>"Heh—heh—heh! Take ye that, Mr. Scott," said +Laidlaw.</p> +<p>Mr. Scott answered by a hearty laugh, and the recital of a +verse, but I have forgot what it was, and my mother gave him a rap +on the knee with her open hand, and said, "It was true enough, for +a' that."</p> +<p>We were all to dine at Ramseycleuch with the Messrs. Brydon, but +Mr. Scott and Mr. Laidlaw went away to look at something before +dinner, and I was to follow. On going into the stable-yard at +Ramseycleuch I met with Mr. Scott's liveryman, a far greater +original than his master, whom I asked if the Shirra was come?</p> +<p>"O, ay, lad, the Shirra's come," said he. "Are ye the chiel that +mak the auld ballads and sing them?"</p> +<p>"I said I fancied I was he that he meant, though I had never +made ony very <i>auld</i> ballads."</p> +<p>"Ay, then, lad, gae your ways in an' speir for the Shirra. +They'll let ye see where he is. He'll be very glad to see you."</p> +<p>During the sociality of the evening, the discourse ran very much +on the different breeds of sheep, that curse of the community of +Ettrick Forest. The original black-faced Forest breed being always +called <i>the short sheep</i>, and the Cheviot breed <i>the long +sheep</i>, the disputes at that period ran very high about the +practicable profits of each. Mr. Scott, who had come into that +remote district to preserve what fragments remained of its +legendary lore, was rather bored with the everlasting question of +the long and the short sheep. So at length, putting on his most +serious calculating face, he turned to Mr. Walter Brydon and said, +"I'm rather at a loss regarding the merits of this <i>very</i> +important question. How long must a sheep actually measure to come +under the denomination of <i>a long sheep</i>?"</p> +<p>Mr. Brydon, who, in the simplicity of his heart, neither +perceived the quiz nor the reproof, fell to answer with great +sincerity,—"It's the woo, sir—it's the woo that makes +the difference. The lang sheep hae the short woo, and the short +sheep hae the lang thing; and these are just kind o' names we gie +them like." Mr. Scott could not preserve his grave face of strict +calculation; it went gradually away, and a hearty guffaw followed. +When I saw the very same words repeated near the beginning of the +<i>Black Dwarf</i>, how could I be mistaken of the author? It is +true, Johnnie Ballantyne persuaded me into a nominal belief of the +contrary, for several years following, but I could never get the +better of that and several similar coincidences.</p> +<p>The next day we went off, five in number, to visit the wilds of +Rankleburn, to see if on the farms of Buccleuch there were any +relics of the Castles of Buccleuch or Mount-Comyn, the ancient and +original possession of the Scotts. We found no remains of either +tower or fortalice, save an old chapel and churchyard, and a mill +and mill-lead, where corn never grew, but where, as old Satchells +very appropriately says,</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Had heather-bells been corn of the best,</p> +<p>The Buccleuch mill would have had a noble grist.</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>It must have been used for grinding the chief's blackmails, +which it is known, were all paid to him in kind. Many of these +still continue to be paid in the same way; and if report says true, +he would be the better of a mill and kiln on some part of his land +at this day, as well as a sterling conscientious miller to receive +and render.</p> +<p>Besides having been mentioned by Satchells, there was a +remaining tradition in the country, that there was a font stone of +blue marble, in which the ancient heirs of Buccleuch were baptized, +covered up among the ruins of the old church. Mr. Scott was curious +to see if we could discover it; but on going among the ruins we +found the rubbish at the spot, where the altar was known to have +been, digged out to the foundation,—we knew not by whom, but +no font had been found. As there appeared to have been a kind of +recess in the eastern gable, we fell a turning over some loose +stones, to see if the font was not concealed there, when we came +upon one half of a small pot, encrusted thick with rust. Mr. +Scott's eyes brightened, and he swore it was an ancient consecrated +helmet. Laidlaw, however, scratching it minutely out, found it +covered with a layer of pitch inside, and then said, "Ay, the truth +is, sir, it is neither mair nor less than a piece of a tar pat that +some o' the farmers hae been buisting their sheep out o', i' the +auld kirk langsyne." Sir Walter's <span class="pagenum"><a id= +"page76" name="page76"></a>[pg 76]</span> shaggy eyebrows dipped +deep over his eyes, and suppressing a smile, he turned and strode +away as fast as he could, saying, that "We had just rode all the +way to see that there was nothing to <i>be</i> seen."</p> +<p>I remember his riding upon a terribly high spirited horse, who +had the perilous fancy of leaping every drain, rivulet, and ditch +that came in our way; the consequence was, that he was +everlastingly bogging himself, while sometimes his rider kept his +seat despite of his plunging, and at other times he was obliged to +extricate himself the best way he could. In coming through a place +called the Milsey Bog, I said to him, "Mr. Scott, that's the +maddest deil of a beast I ever saw. Can ye no gar him tak a wee +mair time? He's just out o' ae lair intil another wi' ye."</p> +<p>"Ay," said he, "we have been very oft, these two days past, like +the Pechs; we could stand straight up and tie our shoes." I did not +understand the joke, nor do I yet, but I think these were his +words.</p> +<p>We visited the old castles of Thirlestane and Tushilaw, and +dined and spent the afternoon, and the night, with Mr. Brydon, of +Crosslee. Sir Walter was all the while in the highest good-humour, +and seemed to enjoy the range of mountain solitude, which we +traversed, exceedingly. Indeed I never saw him otherwise. In the +fields—on the rugged mountains—or even toiling in Tweed +to the waist, I have seen his glee not only surpass himself, but +that of all other men. I remember of leaving Altrive Lake once with +him, accompanied by the same Mr. Laidlaw, and Sir Adam Fergusson, +to visit the tremendous solitudes of The Grey Mare's Tail, and Loch +Skene. I conducted them through that wild region by a path, which, +if not rode by Clavers, was, I daresay, never rode by another +gentleman. Sir Adam rode inadvertently into a gulf, and got a sad +fright, but Sir Walter, in the very worst paths, never dismounted, +save at Loch Skene to take some dinner. We went to Moffat that +night, where we met with some of his family, and such a day and +night of glee I never witnessed. Our very perils were matter to him +of infinite merriment; and then there was a short-tempered boot-boy +at the inn, who wanted to pick a quarrel with him, at which he +laughed till the water ran over his cheeks.</p> +<p>I was disappointed in never seeing some incident in his +subsequent works laid in a scene resembling the rugged solitude +around Loch Skene, for I never saw him survey any with so much +attention. A single serious look at a scene generally filled his +mind with it, and he seldom took another; but here he took the +names of all the hills, their altitudes, and relative situations +with regard to one another, and made me repeat them several times. +It may occur in some of his works which I have not seen, and I +think it will, for he has rarely ever been known to interest +himself, either in a scene or a character, which did not appear +afterwards in all its most striking peculiarities.</p> +<p>There are not above five people in the world who, I think, know +Sir Walter better, or understand his character better, than I do; +and if I outlive him, which is likely, as I am five months and ten +days younger, I will draw a mental portrait of him, the likeness of +which to the original shall not be disputed. In the meantime, this +is only a reminiscence, in my own line, of an illustrious friend +among the mountains.</p> +<p>The enthusiasm with which he recited, and spoke of our ancient +ballads, during that first tour of his through the forest, inspired +me with a determination immediately to begin and imitate them, +which I did, and soon grew tolerably good at it. Of course I +dedicated The Mountain Bard to him:</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Blest be his generous heart for aye;</p> +<p>He told me where the relic lay,</p> +<p>Pointed my way with ready will,</p> +<p>Afar on Ettrick's wildest hill,</p> +<p>Watched my first notes with curious eye,</p> +<p>And wonder'd at my minstrelsy:</p> +<p>He little ween'd a parent's tongue</p> +<p>Such strains had o'er my cradle sung.</p> +</div> +</div> +<i>Edinburgh Literary Journal.</i> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.</h2> +<hr /> +<h3>NOTES OF A BOOKWORM.</h3> +<h4>(<i>For the Mirror.</i>)</h4> +<p>Robberies and iniquities of all kinds were so uncommon in the +reign of Alfred, that it is said, he hung up golden bracelets near +the highways, and no man dared to touch them.</p> +<p>Earl Godwin, in order to appease Hardicanute, (whose brother he +had been instrumental in murdering,) made him a magnificent present +of a galley with a gilt stern, rowed by fourscore men, who wore +each of them a golden bracelet on his arm, weighing sixteen ounces, +and were clothed and armed in the most sumptuous manner. +Hardicanute pleased with the splendour of the spectacle, quickly +forgot his brother's murder, and on Godwin's swearing that he was +innocent of the crime, allowed him to be acquitted.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page77" name="page77"></a>[pg +77]</span> +<p>The cities of England appear by <i>Domesday Book</i>, to have +been at the conquest little better than villages; York itself, +though it was always the second, at least the third city in +England, contained only 1,418 families; Norwich contained 738 +houses; Exeter, 315; Ipswich, 538; Northampton, 60; Hertford, 146; +Bath, 64; Canterbury, 262; Southampton, 84; and Warwick, 225.</p> +<p>As the extreme ignorance of the age made deeds or writings very +rare, the county or hundred courts were the places where the most +remarkable civil transactions were finished. Here testaments were +promulgated, slaves manumitted, bargains of sale concluded; and +sometimes for greater security, the most remarkable of these deeds +were inserted in the blank leaves of the parish Bible, which thus +became a register too sacred to be falsified. It was not unusual to +add to the deed an imprecation on all such as should be guilty of +that crime.</p> +<p>The laws of Alfred enjoin, that if any one know that his enemy +or agressor, after doing him an injury, resolves to keep within his +own house and his own lands, he shall not fight him till he require +compensation for the injury. If he be strong enough, he may besiege +him in his house for seven days without attacking him, and if the +agressor be willing, during that time to surrender himself and his +arms, his adversary may detain him thirty days; but is compelled +afterwards to restore him safe to his friends, and <i>be content +with the compensation</i>.</p> +<p>The price of the King's head or his weregild, as it was then +called, was by law, 30,000 thrismas, near £1,300. of our +present money. The price of the prince's head was 15,000 thrismas; +a bishop's or <i>alderman's</i> HEAD (quere, ought not the STOMACH +to have been the part thus valued?) was valued at 8,000; a +sheriff's, 4,000; a thane's, or clergy-man's, 2,000; a ceorles, or +husband-man's, 266. It must be understood that when a person was +unwilling, or unable to pay the fine, he was outlawed, and the +kindred of the deceased might punish him as they thought +proper.</p> +<p>Gervase, of Tilbury, says, that in Henry the First's time, bread +sufficient for 100 men, for a day, was rated at THREE SHILLINGS, or +a shilling of that age.</p> +<p>By the laws of Ethelbert, any one who committed adultery with +his neighbour's wife, was obliged to pay him a fine, AND BUY HIM +ANOTHER WIFE.</p> +<p>The tenants in the King's demesne lands, in the reign of Henry +II., were compelled to supply, GRATIS, the court with provisions +and carriages, when the King went into any of the counties. These +exactions were so grievous, and levied in so licentious a manner, +that at the approach of the court, the farmers often deserted their +houses, and sheltered themselves and families in the woods, from +the insults of the King's retinue.</p> +<p>John Baldwin held the manor of Oterasfree, in Aylesbury, of the +King, in soccage, by this service of finding litter for the King's +bed, viz. in summer, <i>grass or herbs</i>, and two grey geese; and +in winter, <i>straw</i>, and three eels, throughout the year, if +the King should come thrice in the year to Aylesbury.</p> +<p>Prince Henry, son of William I. disgusted at the little +attention his brothers, Robert and William, paid to him in an +accommodation respecting the succession to the throne, retired to +St. Michael's Mount, in Normandy, and infested the neighbourhood +with his forces. Robert and William, with their joint forces, +besieged him in this place, and had nearly reduced him by the +scarcity of water; when the elder hearing of his distress, +permitted him to supply himself, and also sent him some pipes of +wine for his own table. Being reproved by William for his ill-timed +generosity, he replied, "<i>What, shall I suffer my brother to die +of thirst? Where shall we find another when he is gone</i>?"</p> +<p>CLARENCE.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.</h2> +<hr /> +<h3>COBBETT'S CORN.</h3> +<p>The most interesting article in the last Number of the +<i>Westminster Review</i>, is a paper on Cobbett's Corn, headed +with the title of Mr. Cobbett's Treatise on the cultivation of the +plant. The reviewer has there interwoven some choice extracts from +Mr. Cobbett's book, which together with the connecting +observations, we have abridged to suit our columns:—</p> +<p>The value of Indian Corn has never been disputed: it could not, +by men who had ever seen the corn of America, or the maize of the +more southern districts of France. Its introduction into England +has not been speculated upon; for it was supposed there was an +<i>in limine</i> objection, that in our climate it would not ripen. +In the more northern part of France, for the same reason, its +cultivation is not known, and in the map prefixed to Arthur Young's +Travels in <span class="pagenum"><a id="page78" name= +"page78"></a>[pg 78]</span> France and other countries, may be seen +a line drawn across the country, which line he considered was the +limit of the maize country. Neither has this experiment till now +been tried, for Cobbett's corn is a different variety of Indian or +American, from that cultivated either in the new or old world. It +appears that it is a dwarfish species, and one which will not only +ripen in this country, but produce results of fertility beyond that +calculated upon in the United States in the most prosperous +seasons. It was an accident which threw it into Mr. Cobbett's +hands: his son brought some seeds from plants growing in a +gentleman's garden in the French province of Artois, and it was +only at his son's repeated entreaty that he was prevailed upon to +try its effects. And even this entreaty from a son might not have +prevailed, had not the influence of a sleepless night from the heat +of summer, led to a conversation to be followed by results so +important.</p> +<p>"In the month of June, 1827," says Mr. Cobbett, "my son and I +slept one night in the same room in the garden-house at Barn-elm. +The night was very hot, and neither his bed nor mine was cool +enough to permit us to get to sleep, in a case like which, people +generally get to talking; and I, in a mood, half between +restlessness and laziness, asked him, whether Mr. Walker had +planted his corn. He said he had; and that led him off into a train +of arguing, the object of which was, to maintain his former opinion +relative to the great benefits that would attend the cultivation of +this crop. He entered into a calculation of the distances, the +space of ground required by each plant, the number of plants upon +an acre, the number of ears upon a plant, the quantity of seed upon +an ear, ending in a statement of the amount of the crop per acre. +He then dwelt upon the quantity and value of the fodder, upon the +facility of cultivation, upon the small quantity of seed required +for an acre; and, finally, upon the preparation which the growing +of the crop would make for a succeeding crop of wheat.</p> +<p>"I do confess, that I was very hard to be convinced; I became +interested to be sure, and I resolved to give the thing a trial +immediately, if possible, or rather to set about it immediately; +but, I confess, that if the thing had been urged upon me by almost +any other person, I should not have done it. 'Well, then,' said I, +'William, we will give your little corn a trial, for it is not too +late yet.' But now a difficulty that appeared to be insuperable +arose; namely, that the seed was all gone! The seed was all planted +in Sussex. As soon as I reflected on this, I became really eager to +make the experiment; so true it is, that we seldom know the full +value of what we have had, till we have lost it. I recollected, +however, that I had rather recently seen an ear or two of this corn +in some seed-drawers that I had in the garden-house, not being +quite sure, however, that they were of the true sort; and now I, +who had so long turned from the subject rather with indifference, +could not go to sleep for my doubts, my hopes, and fears, about +these two bits of ears of corn. We had no light, or I should have +got up to go and hunt the boxes, which I did as soon as day-light +appeared, and there, to my great joy, I found two bits of ears of +corn, which from the size and shape of the cobb, I knew to be of +the true sort. This was upon the 8th of June in the morning."</p> +<p>Indian corn is a kind of corn tree, so that it would be exempt +from the sneer of the Tartars who despise the men that live on "the +top of a weed." The top of Indian Corn supplies the place of hay or +of straw for fodder: it is the flower of the plant, and bears the +farina like the wheat-ear, but the grains are deposited in the ears +which come out of the stalk lower down. These ears are enveloped in +their leaves which are called the husk. The number of ears varies +in different plants, three is the common number. Seven are a +curiosity. One stalk in Mr. Cobbett's field bore seven ears, and +Mr. Cobbett, jun. sent it as a present to the king's gardener at +Kew, comparing it to that "one stalk mentioned in Pharaoh's dream +of the seven years of plenty." For it must not be forgotten that +Mr. Cobbett maintains that Indian corn is the true corn of +scripture, and defends this opinion by many plausible arguments. We +have no room to discuss them, and shall only observe in +contravention, that Indian corn is not now known in Palestine or +Syria, and that it is dangerous to raise a verbal discussion +founded upon a translation. His argument is, however, well worth +the attention of all our biblical readers. In America the Indian +corn alone monopolizes the name of corn: all other corn is called +grain: so important is the cultivation of it there, that it puzzles +the Yankees exceedingly to know how the old country can get on +without corn; and so identified is the great roll of grain, with +the name of an ear of corn, that when Mr. Cobbett once read an +account to an American farmer, of a young English <span class= +"pagenum"><a id="page79" name="page79"></a>[pg 79]</span> lord +lying dangerously ill from having swallowed an ear of corn; the man +started up and exclaimed, a whole ear of corn! no wonder that poor +John Bull is in such a miserable state, when his lords have got +swallows like that.</p> +<p>The Indian corn being a large plant requires both air and space: +it is consequently raised in hills far apart, after the manner of +our hop plants; and reckons upon a deep ploughing between the hills +after it is partly grown up for a supply of health and vigour. This +great distance between the hills, sometimes placed four feet apart +one way, and five feet apart another way, and the height of the +plant with its lofty top and its lateral ears form a far different +picture than that presented by an English corn field. Cobbett's or +the dwarf corn is, however, only four feet high: he planted his in +rows three feet apart, which distance he is inclined to think is +too small. "Three feet do not give room for good, true, and +tolerably deep ploughing: and that is the main thing in the +cultivation of corn, which indeed will not thrive well, if the +ground be not deeply moved, and very near to the plants to which +they are growing. You will see in America a field of corn late in +June, perhaps, which has not been ploughed, looking to-day sickly +and sallow. Look at it only in four days' time, if ploughed the day +after you saw it, and its colour is totally changed. Five feet are +accordingly recommended as the distance between the rows, and six +inches only between the plants."</p> +<p>A great advantage of Indian or Cobbett's corn is, that it +occupies the ground for little more than half the year: it is +planted in May or June, and ripens in November. Unlike common corn +or grain, where there is generally a superabundance of blades, +every plant of Indian corn is of importance: it cannot be spared; +and as the sweetness of the early growth renders it a tempting prey +to birds, insects, and rabbits, it becomes necessary to guard +against their encroachments with the most lively care.</p> +<p>Weeds are to be instantly put down on their first appearance, or +corn is not to be expected; "the poor corn-plant, if left to +itself, will soon be like Gulliver when bound down by the +Lilliputians." The hoe is the instrument to be used on this +occasion, and then the plough; the latter operation is repeated +twice; two double ploughings are the death of weeds, and the life +of the plants; the first takes place when the corn is from six to +eight inches high, and the second, about the middle of July, or +earlier, when the plants are about a foot and a half high, or from +that to two feet. "Let no one," says Cobbett, "be afraid of their +tearing about the roots of the plants, when they are at this +advanced age and height;" and in encouraging them to pursue the +work resolutely and fearlessly, he tells them of the way in which +the Yankee farmer manages the matter, and digresses, as he loves to +digress, into a picture of manners, or an old recollection.</p> +<p>"Ninety-nine of my readers out of a hundred, and I dare say, +nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand, will shudder at the +thought of tearing about in this manner; thinking that +breaking-off, tearing-off, cutting-off the roots of such large +plants, just as they are coming into bloom, must be a sort of work +of destruction. Let them read the book of Mr. Tull; or let them go +and see my friends the Yankees, who generally drive the thing off +to the last moment, especially if they be young enough to have a +'frolic' stand between them and the ploughing of the corn; or if +the wife want the horses to go ten or twenty miles to have a gossip +with a neighbour over a comfortable cup of tea; but they, to do +them justice, do not forget the beef steaks, or the barbecued +fowls, on these occasions; that is to say, a fowl caught up in the +yard, scalded in a minute, cleaned the next, and splitted down the +back, and clapped upon the <i>gridiron</i> (favourite implement of +mine,) and then upon the table, along with the hot cakes, the +preserved peaches, and the comfortable cup of tea. If a wife want +the horses for this purpose, or for any other, and should continue +too long a time in a visiting or frolicing humour, the poor corn +gives signs of the consequence, by becoming yellow, and +sharp-pointed at the blade. By and by, however, the Yankee comes +with his plough; and it would frighten an English farmer out of his +senses to see how he goes on, swearing at the horses, and tearing +about the ground, and tumbling it up against the plants; but, at +any rate, moving it all pretty deeply, somehow or other. I have +seen them do this when the tassel was nearly at its full height, +and when the silk was appearing from the ears. One rule is +invariable; that is, that if the corn be not ploughed at all there +will be no crop; there will be tassel, and the semblance of ears; +but (upon ordinary land, at least,) there will be no crop at +all."</p> +<p>(<i>To be concluded in our next.</i>)</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page80" name="page80"></a>[pg +80]</span> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i10">"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."</p> +<p class="i14">SHAKSPEARE.</p> +</div> +</div> +<hr /> +<h3>ONE WAY TO DIE FOR LOVE.</h3> +<p>A lady, nearly related to the writer, having a great partiality +(though married) for the feline race, particularly lavished favours +upon a young and beautiful cat, whom she constantly fed, taught to +perform several pleasing tricks, and in short made of the animal +such a companion, that she never liked it to be out of her sight. +She had also in her service a cook, who boasted not of partialities +for any living creature, save a village youth, for whom she +cherished a flame that rivalled the bright and ardent fire of her +own kitchen; to him she generously assigned as a hiding place and +rendezvous, the corner of an out-house, to which she frequently +stole in order to enjoy a <i>téte à téte</i> +with her admirer. Thither also stole puss, either in gratitude for +past savoury benefactions, or in anticipation of future. But the +lady of the house, frequently missing her favourite, and tracing +her one day into the place of rendezvous, thus unluckily effected +the discovery of cook and her swain. The damsel apprehending that +such interruptions to their interviews might, from the +gourmandizing propensities of the favourite, be frequent, +determined to prevent them for ever; the very next time that puss, +as usual, followed her, seizing with savage exultation the harmless +creature, she severed with a huge carving knife, its head from its +body! An exploit truly worthy of the <i>tender</i> passion, and the +<i>gentle</i> sex!</p> +<p>M.L.B.</p> +<hr /> +<p>George I. was remarkably fond of seeing the play of <i>Henry +VIII</i>. which had something in it that seemed to hit the taste of +that monarch. One night being very attentive to that part of the +play where Henry VIII. commands his minister, Wolsey, to write +circular letters of indemnity to every county where the payment of +certain heavy taxes had been disputed, and remarking the manner in +which the minister artfully communicated these commands to his +secretary, Cromwell, whispering thus:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"A word with you:</p> +<p>Let there be letters writ to every shire</p> +<p>Of the King's grace and pardon; the griev'd commons</p> +<p>Hardly conceive of me—Let it be nois'd</p> +<p>That thro' <i>our intercession</i> this revokement</p> +<p>And pardon comes."——</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>—The king could not help smiling at the craft of the +minister, in filching from his master the merit of the action, +though he himself had been the author of the evil complained of; +and turning to the Prince of Wales, said, "You see, George, what +you have one day to expect; an English minister will be an English +minister in every age and in every reign."</p> +<p>W.C.R.R.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>AN "INDWELLING" JOKE.</h3> +<p>A certain would-be bibliopole, desirous of emulating the +Constables, Boyds, and Colburns of this century, lately opened a +couple of windows at Johnston, and exhibited the beautiful +wood-cuts on the title page of the Shorter Catechism to the +wondering amateurs of the fine arts there with so much success, as +to induce him to become printer and publisher. Forthwith he set to +throwing off an impression of a thousand copies—he was fond +of round numbers—of a work "<i>on Indwelling Sin</i>." It +threatened to be an indwelling sore in his shop; and he set off to +Campbelton to sell a few in that pious place. A tobacco-seller and +grocer gave him a cask of whisky for the lot—which, on his +return, he disposed of to a popular publican; and now, when the +wags of the place seek to wet their whistle, they gravely call for +"a gill of indwelling sin!"—<i>Edinburgh Literary +Journal</i>.</p> +<hr /> +<p>Learning is like mercury, one of most powerful and excellent +things in the world in skilful hands; in unskilful, the most +mischievous.—<i>Pope</i>.</p> +<hr /> +LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE<br /> +<i>Following Novels is already Published</i>: +<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 Wakefieid 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 + Peregrine Pickle 4 6 +</pre> +<hr class="full" /> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name= +"footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1</b>: <a href= +"#footnotetag1">(return)</a> Saccharissa, or the Lady Dorothy +Sydney, resided at Penshurst, near Tunbridge.</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name= +"footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2</b>: <a href= +"#footnotetag2">(return)</a> He prescribed eighteen pints of the +water for a morning's dose.</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name= +"footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3</b>: <a href= +"#footnotetag3">(return)</a> Grammont, in his fascinating +"Memoirs," thus describes the Wells at his period, 1664, when +Catherine, Queen of Charles II. was here for two months, with all +the beauties of the court: +<p>"Tunbridge is the same distance from London that Fontainebleau +is from Paris, and is, at the season, the general rendezvous of all +the gay and handsome of both sexes. The company, though always +numerous, is always select; since those who repair thither for +diversion, even exceed the number of those who go thither for +health. Every thing here breathes mirth and pleasure; constraint is +banished; familiarity is established upon the first acquaintance; +and joy and pleasure are the sole sovereigns of the place. The +company are accommodated with lodgings in little clean and +convenient habitations, that lie straggling and separated from each +other, a mile and a half round the Wells, where the company meet in +the morning. The place consists of a long walk, shaded by pleasant +trees, under which they walk while they are drinking the waters. On +one side of this walk is a long row of shops, plentifully stocked +with all manner of toys, lace, gloves, stockings, and where there +is raffling, as at Paris, in the Foire de Saint Germain. On the +other side of the Walk is the Market and as it is the custom here +for every person to buy their own provisions, care is taken that +nothing offensive appears upon the stalls. Here young, fair, +fresh-coloured country girls, with clean linen, small straw hats, +and neat shoes and stockings, sell game, vegetables, flowers, and +fruit. Here one may live as one pleases. Here is likewise deep +play, and no want of amorous intrigues. As soon as the evening +comes, every one quits his little palace to assemble on the +bowling-green, where, in the open air, those who choose, dance upon +a turf more soft and smooth than the finest carpet in the +world."</p> +</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name= +"footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4</b>: <a href= +"#footnotetag4">(return)</a> "This chapel," says Hasted, "stands +remarkably in three parishes—the pulpit in Speldhurst, the +altar in Tunbridge, and the vestry in Frant. The stream also, which +parted the counties of Kent and Sussex, formerly ran underneath it, +but is now turned to a greater distance."—<i>Hist. Kent</i>, +vol. iii.</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote5" name= +"footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5</b>: <a href= +"#footnotetag5">(return)</a> Archibald, of Kilspindie, a noble +Douglas, and until the disgrace of his clan, a personal friend and +favourite of James V. of Scotland. For the incidents of this +ballad, vide <i>Tales of a Grandfather</i>, 1st Series, vol. +3.</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote6" name= +"footnote6"></a><b>Footnote 6</b>: <a href= +"#footnotetag6">(return)</a> The Safety Lamp</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote7" name= +"footnote7"></a><b>Footnote 7</b>: <a href= +"#footnotetag7">(return)</a> We give this paper as an illustration +of the office of the <i>Sisters of Charity</i>. The incidents upon +which the Drama is founded, are those of the Two Sisters of Ancona, +a pretty little tale in the Juvenile Keepsake, by Mrs. Godwin. One +sister in an attempt to carry provisions and intelligence to her +lover, is taken prisoner by the French, and condemned to die; the +other is a nun, who effects her escape by changing dresses, and +remains, and actually perishes in her stead. On the stage, the +sister is made the daughter of the Sister of Charity, and the fruit +of a secret and unhappy connexion with a French officer, who proves +to be the commander of the detachment—hence both their lives +are saved.</blockquote> +<hr class="full" /> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11519 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/11519-h/images/383-001.png b/11519-h/images/383-001.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5597380 --- /dev/null +++ b/11519-h/images/383-001.png |
