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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 12063 ***
+
+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 14, No. 388.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1829. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ST. DUNSTAN'S, FLEET STREET.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+No church in London is perhaps better known than the above, which is
+distinctively called Saint Dunstan's in the West. External elegance has
+little to do with this celebrity, which has been acquired by the two wooden
+figures placed on a pediment in front, representing savages, who indicate
+the hours and quarters by striking a bell with their clubs: this has caused
+a wag to describe them as the most striking wonders of the metropolis.
+Another, who is equally disposed to sport with their notoriety, says, "as
+they are visible in the street, they are more admired by many of the
+populace on Sundays, than the most elegant preacher from the pulpit
+within." We are, however, induced to hope better; especially as Dr. Donne,
+the celebrated Richard Baxter, and the pious Romaine were preachers at St.
+Dunstan's.
+
+There is no evidence when this church was erected; but Stow records burials
+in it so early as the year 1421. The date of the above view is 1739, and
+from a foot-note to the Engraving, we learn that the church was dedicated
+to St. Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, who died A.D. 990. "It was
+anciently a Rectory, in the patronage of the Convent of Westminster.
+Richard de Barking, the abbot, in 1237, granted the advowson to King Henry
+III., which continued in the crown till 1362; it was afterwards in the gift
+of the bishop of London, till 1386; when Robert de Braybrooke, the bishop,
+granted it to the abbot and Convent of Premonastratenses of Alnwick in
+Northumberland, where the patronage remained till their suppression. King
+Edward VI. granted it to the Lord Dudley, but both the Rectory and Advowson
+of the Vicarage were afterwards granted to Sir Richard Sackville, till
+alienated to George Rivers, in 1625; it is now in the gift of Joseph
+Taylor, Esq." (to whom the Plate is dedicated).
+
+St. Dunstan's luckily escaped the fire of London in 1666, which stopped
+within three houses of it, as did also another fire, in 1730. The clock and
+figures were put up in 1761, and an accurate description of them (quoted
+from Smith's _London_ by our esteemed correspondent, P. T. W.) will be
+found at page 148, vol. xi. of the MIRROR. The church was thoroughly
+repaired, and the roof considerably raised in 1701. The last repairs, which
+were considerable, were executed in the year 1820; but it is expected that
+the whole building will be shortly taken down, and a new church erected, so
+as to widen the public thoroughfare.
+
+Our Engraving is an interesting view of the church nearly a century since,
+when a range of shops (since removed) extended beneath the whole of this
+side of the structure; and the respective signs must have been unholy
+appendages to what appeared like part and parcel of a house of prayer. The
+clock is accurately represented, the bracket being a carved figure of Time
+with expanded wings, as mention by Smith. The clockmaker proposed to the
+parish "to do one thing, which London shall not show the like," and we hope
+our Engraving may be the means of rescuing his eccentric ingenuity from
+oblivion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A DESULTORY CHAPTER ON LOCALITIES.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+    Rotterdam and Erasmus.--Holyrood and Mary Queen of
+    Scots.--Scotland.--Switzerland and Rousseau.--Pope's
+    Grotto.--Chiswick, &c.
+
+
+There is perhaps no sentiment more generally felt, or more delightful, than
+that indescribable interest with which we are led to contemplate places and
+scenes, immortalized in historical renown, or hallowed by genius.
+
+The propensity for moving from place to place, so observable in mankind,
+derives, no doubt, its chief zest from the anxiety we feel to visit
+countries of which in the course of our historical researches, we have
+heard and read so much to awaken our interest, and excite our admiration.
+
+Without the early reverence which we as boys imbibe for the departed
+splendour of Greece and Rome, we should not as men be found wandering among
+the ruins of the Pyræus, or the deserted streets of Pompeii. We find it
+impossible to behold unmoved the sad, the astonishing changes which time,
+the arch-destroyer has effected with his giant arm. Our exuberant fancies
+carry us back to those remote periods when all was glory and magnificence,
+where now ruin and desolation have established their melancholy empire.
+Abandoning ourselves to the potent influence of classical contemplations of
+the past, we revel in the full indulgence of antiquarian enthusiasm.
+Imagination, however, needs not in general so wide a field for the exercise
+of her magic powers. We desire perhaps more of pleasurable excitement from
+the recollections attached to spots identified in our minds with events of
+individual or ideal interest, than from the loftier train of thoughts
+produced by a pilgrimage to countries which have become famous in ancient
+or modern story. Thus we experience more delight in visiting places,
+remarkable as having once been the resort or habitations of distinguished
+men, than in viewing the ruins of an ancient citadel, or the site of a
+celebrated battle. The events achieved on the latter may indeed, in their
+time, have turned the scale of empires; but the association of ideas in the
+former instances, speak a thousand times more feeling to our individual
+sympathies. I remember when passing a couple of days in the opulent city of
+Rotterdam, that after walking all the morning along its crowded streets,
+and paying the accustomed stranger's tribute of admiration to its quays,
+its port, and its commercial magnificence, I at length halted before the
+statue of Erasmus. It stands on a pedestal in the middle of a large market,
+and represents the celebrated scholar, clothed in his professor's gown, and
+seemingly gazing with dignified unconcern at the busy multitude around. I
+remained looking at the effigy before me, with a reverential feeling akin
+to that of the devotee at the shrine of a patron saint. Imagination
+transported me back to the eventful times in which Erasmus flourished,
+opening to my mind's eye a long vista of historical recollections, till my
+absorbed demeanour attracted observation. I found myself exposed to that
+vacant stare with which people are so apt to disconcert your composure, if
+they observe you contemplating with curiosity and interest, objects which
+they have seen every day of their lives, and for that very reason always
+pass unnoticed. Leaving then my position, yet anxious to follow up the
+train of ideas it had inspired, I sought, and by dint of inquiry,
+discovered the habitation of Erasmus. It is in a dirty street, and consists
+of one moderately sized, low roofed apartment, on the first floor of an old
+fashioned, ill-built house, which the vicissitudes of time have converted
+into an _Estaminet_.[1] I was conducted up a dark, narrow staircase into
+the close, dingy room, by an ugly, ignorant frau, who seemed to wonder what
+earthly inducement I had to visit her dwelling-house. Lumber and
+moth-eaten furniture were carelessly scattered around. A solitary window,
+partly blocked up by an old mattress, barely admitted light sufficient to
+make objects visible. All was neglect and desolation. It seemed almost
+impossible that so obscure and dismal a lodging could have been occupied by
+so illustrious a tenant. I fancied I beheld the most learned man of his
+age, the counsellor and companion of princes, and the contemporary and
+rival of Sir Thomas More, indulging his classical reveries in this
+comfortless chamber, regardless of its forlorn and squalid aspect. The
+charm was omnipotent. Seated in an ancient leathern-bottomed chair, my
+hostess, and the dust and darkness of the place were overlooked or
+forgotten. The spirit of the mighty dead seemed to hover around, as a sort
+of _genius loci_, rescuing the wretched tenement from otherwise deserved
+oblivion, and making its very dinginess venerable!
+
+    [1] A low resort, something between a French café, and an English
+        pot-house.
+
+On another occasion I recollect experiencing very strikingly, the force of
+local impressions. It was when visiting the apartments of Mary Queen of
+Scots, in the palace of Holyrood. Recalling to mind, with the enthusiasm of
+one of her warmest admirers, every circumstance connected with the eventful
+history of that unfortunate princess, it was impossible for me not to feel
+penetrated with the deepest interest. I traversed the very rooms in which
+she had sat, and conversed, and passed her hours of peaceful privacy. My
+fancy pictured that privacy rudely and brutally invaded by Darnley and his
+ruffian associates, when bent on the murder of the ill-fated Rizzio. I
+mentally compared the circumstances of that deed of blood, as related by
+historians, with the facilities for committing it, afforded by the
+distribution of apartments. They tallied exactly. There was the little room
+in which sat the queen with her ladies and the devoted secretary. Close to
+the door appeared the dark, narrow, turret staircase, which Darnley
+ascended before he rushed into Mary's presence. The struggle must have been
+desperate, for the murder was not effected in that chamber, Rizzio being
+either dragged, or escaped into an adjoining and very obscure anteroom in
+which the crime was perpetrated. They pretend to show you marks of his
+blood yet visible on the floor. Although all such horrible vestiges have
+been most probably long since obliterated, it is yet just possible that
+some may remain. To believe so, at the moment, was a lawful indulgence of
+my previous illusion. I could have followed the train of associations thus
+created much further, had not the person appointed to act as Cicerone
+hurried me through the apartments. Their doors closed against me, and the
+spell was broken.
+
+Edinburgh is full of interesting localities; particularly the old town. In
+its ancient "wynds and closes," now tenanted by the veriest of the plebeian
+race, in former days resided men of the most distinguished rank and
+celebrity. Before the stupendous improvements of later times had justly
+entitled the Scottish metropolis to the appellation of the modern Athens,
+the princes and nobles of the land, its judges and senators, were obliged
+to dwell in those dirty streets and alleys, from which "Auld Reekie"
+derived its then appropriate appellation. When in progress of time they
+removed to more splendid and suitable abodes, their abandoned tenements
+became habitations of wretchedness. Much however remained in them to remind
+posterity of their former proprietors; and whoever is not afraid of
+encountering the spectacle of a swarming population in a state of abject
+and squalid poverty, will find an abundant field for his antiquarian
+researches in the old town of Edinburgh. Like Switzerland, and other
+mountainous countries, Scotland is by nature formed to be a land of
+romantic associations; but how wonderfully have her historians, poets, and
+novelists contributed to create and preserve them! The author of Waverley
+has thrown a classic halo around the wild beauties of his native land, and
+communicated to stranger minds a national enthusiasm which _his_ soul alone
+could have felt, _his_ pen alone inspired! In Scotland, almost every step
+we take is on hallowed ground, and the lover of historical recollections
+may enjoy to its full extent the delight of visiting places immortalized by
+the achievements of her heroes, or the pen of her poets.
+
+To a man fond of localities, travelling either on the continent or in
+England, will furnish numerous opportunities of indulging the reveries to
+which they give birth. It would be hardly possible to name a town, or a
+village, utterly destitute of local interest. In almost every instance,
+some memento would be discovered to hallow its site, and to engage the
+observation of an intelligent traveller. With a mind predisposed to enjoy
+mental associations, they will crowd on us wherever we go, and be suggested
+by the veriest trifles. Rousseau could not contain his ecstacy at
+beholding a little flower (_la parvenche_) in bloom, which thirty years
+before, Madame de Warens had first pointed out to his notice. That simple
+incident summoned up a train of exquisite reminiscences. No one, indeed,
+ever yielded so entirely to the influence of local enthusiasm as the author
+of the _Nouvelle Heloise_. No one has so successfully attempted to invest
+scenes, in themselves beautiful, with the additional and powerful interest
+of ideal recollections. Picturesque as are the shores of Leman, Meillerie,
+and Vevai, yet to Rousseau's sublime conceptions and eloquent descriptions,
+they are chiefly indebted for the celebrity which they enjoy. Nature made
+Switzerland a land of rugged magnificence. To complete the charm, nothing
+was wanted, but that its mountains should be peopled by the creations of
+Rousseau.
+
+It were needless, however, to travel to foreign countries in search of
+interesting localities. Our own island teems with them. In the metropolis
+and its environs, a diligent inquirer will find them at every step. How
+many coffeehouses and taverns are there in London which at one time or
+another have been frequented by celebrated characters, and how many houses
+in which others equally celebrated have resided; such as that of Milton, in
+Westminster; and of Johnson, in Bolt Court. How many old gable-ended
+tenements do we see in the eastern parts of the town that were standing
+before the fire, and which, if explored, might be found to contain the most
+interesting relics of antiquity. What a number of streets, courts, and
+alleys, bearing names at once indicative of their ancient origin, and of
+scenes, and persons, and local circumstances long since forgotten!
+
+Then, if we extend our perambulations to the vicinity of London, how many
+hallowed places shall we meet with? Where can we find a palace like Windsor
+Castle, to which attach the historical recollections of many centuries,
+adding, if possible, yet more solemnity to Gothic grandeur? Again, can
+there be conceived a spot more entirely consecrated to classical
+associations than the grotto, at Twickenham; that retreat in which gazing
+on "Thames translucent stream," Pope passed so many hours of undisturbed
+privacy--that spot
+
+  "Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole,
+  And the bright flame was shot thro' Marchmont's soul."
+
+I have visited it in summer, when the warmth of a mid-day sun has rendered
+the "_frigus amabile_" of the interior doubly inviting, and on such
+occasions, have quite revelled in local enthusiasm.
+
+I remember, some years since, visiting the Duke of Devonshire's beautiful
+villa, at Chiswick, in company with a friend, whose sentiments on the
+subject of local impressions are similar to my own. While I was admiring
+books and paintings in the library, my companion was contemplating in mute
+emotion, the bed upon which Charles Fox breathed his last. That one object
+engrossed all the powers of his soul; every other was forgotten!
+
+C. J.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE HUMBLE SPARROW'S ADDRESS TO T. S. A.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+  My dearest Sir, how great a change
+  Has pass'd upon the groves I range,
+        Nay, all the face of nature!
+  A few weeks back, each pendent bough,
+  The fields, the groves, the mountain's brow,
+  Were bare and leafless all, but now
+        How verdant ev'ry feature!
+
+  Each little songster strives to raise
+  Its highest warbling notes of praise,
+        For all these blessings given:--
+  Ere Sol emerges from behind
+  The eastern hills, the lark we find
+  Soars, as it were on wings of wind,
+        With grateful notes to heaven.
+
+  A thousand others catch the strains,
+  Each bush and tree a tongue contains,
+        That offers up its praises.
+  From morn till the meridian day,
+  From noon till Sol has sunk away,
+  One ceaseless song, one grateful lay,
+        Each feather'd songster raises.
+
+  And when Night's grim and sable band,
+  Spreads her dim curtains o'er the land,
+        And all our prospect closes;
+  Then Philomela, queen of song,
+  The sweetest of the feather'd throng,
+  Takes up the theme the whole night long,
+        While nature all reposes.
+
+  Then surely I, the humblest bird,
+  That e'er among the groves was heard,
+        Should aid the thankful chorus;
+  With _chirping note_ I'll join the sound,
+  For not _a Sparrow_, 'twill be found,
+  Without HIS will falls to the ground,
+        Who high above reigns o'er us.
+
+  But what avail my feeble powers,
+  When softer notes descend in showers,
+        Mine are not worth regarding;
+  No honour'd title gilds my name,
+  No dulcet notes I e'er could claim;
+  So worthless I, you may obtain
+        _Two Sparrows_ for a farthing.
+
+  Besides, I ne'er was form'd to _sing_,
+  And so must soar on humbler wing,
+        Since nature saw it fitter;
+  But yet my feeble powers I'll try,
+  And sound my _chatt'ring_ notes on high,
+  For I am sure you'll not deny
+        To hear my simple _twitter_.
+
+  My gratitude is doubly due,
+  For all the hedges[2] in my view,
+        Afford a verdant cover;
+  I now can build my nest once more,
+  From childhood's prying glance secure,
+  And from the hawk's keen eye, tho' o'er
+        The sacred bush he hover.
+
+  Oh! had I Philomela's tongue,
+  The thrush's note, or warbling song
+        Of blackbird, lark, or linnet;
+  I'd then more gratitude display,
+  Striving to raise a sweeter lay,
+  I'd sing the fleeting hours away,
+        Nor silent be a minute.
+
+  But I must quit the trembling spray,
+  And to my duty fly away,
+        To pick a straw or feather;
+  My mate is somewhere on the wing,
+  I think she's gone some moss to bring,
+  For we must work while it is spring,
+        And build our nest together.
+
+  So now adieu--I've chirp'd too long,
+  Must leave the finish of my song
+        To some more learned bird's son;
+  Whose mellow notes can charm the ear
+  With no discordant chatter near;
+  So now, dear Sir, I'm your sincere
+        And humble Sparrow.
+
+HERDSON.
+
+    [2] You will perceive the writer is a _hedge-sparrow_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TO A DESTRUCTIVE INSECT ON A ROSEBUD.
+
+IN MANNER OF BURNS.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+  Ye imp o' death, how durst ye dwell
+  Within this pure and hallow'd cell,
+  Thy purposes I ken fu' well
+                Are to destroy,
+  And wi' a mortal breathing spell,
+                To blast each joy!
+
+  Yet why upo' so sma' a flower,
+  Dost thou exert thy deadly pow'r,
+  And nip fair beauty's natal hour,
+                Wi' thy vile breath,
+  It is when wint'ry storms do low'r,
+                We look for death.
+
+  But thou, thou evil one, hast come,
+  To bring this wee rose to its doom,
+  Not i' time of woe and gloom,
+                But i' the spring,
+  When flowerets just begin to bloom.
+                And birds to sing.
+
+  O fie, begone fra out my sight,
+  Nor dare attempt such joy to blight,
+  Thou evil wicked-doing doit,
+                Then hie away,
+  Seek not the _morning_, but the _night_
+                To crush thy prey!
+
+J. F. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE CONTEMPORARY TRAVELLER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE RED INDIANS OF NEWFOUNDLAND.
+
+(_Concluded from page 136._)
+
+
+"We spent several melancholy days wandering on the borders of the east end
+of the lake, surveying the various remains of what we now contemplated to
+have been an unoffending and cruelly extirpated people. At several places,
+by the margin of the lake, are small clusters of winter and summer wigwams
+in ruins. One difference, among others, between the Boeothick wigwams and
+those of the other Indians, is, that in most of the former there are small
+hollows, like nests, dug in the earth around the fireplace, one for each
+person to sit in. These hollows are generally so close together, and also
+so close to the fireplace, and to the sides of the wigwam, that I think it
+probable these people have been accustomed to sleep in a sitting position.
+There was one wooden building constructed for drying and smoking venison
+in, still perfect; also a small log-house, in a dilapidated condition,
+which we took to have been once a storehouse. The wreck of a large,
+handsome, birch-rind canoe, about twenty-two feet in length, comparatively
+new, and certainly very little used, lay thrown up among the bushes at the
+beach. We supposed that the violence of a storm had rent it in the way it
+was found, and that the people who were in it had perished; for the iron
+nails, of which there was no want, all remained in it. Had there been any
+survivors, nails being much prized by these people, they never having held
+intercourse with Europeans, such an article would most likely have been
+taken out for use again. All the birch trees in the vicinity of the lake
+had been rinded, and many of them, and of the spruce fir, or var, had the
+bark taken off, to use the inner part of it for food, as noticed before."
+
+"Their wooden repositories for the dead are what are in the most perfect
+state of preservation. These are of different constructions, it would
+appear, according to the character or rank of the persons entombed. In one
+of them, which resembled a hut ten feet by eight or nine, and four or five
+feet high in the centre, floored with squared poles, the roof covered with
+rinds of trees, and in every way well secured against the weather inside,
+and the intrusion of wild beasts, there were two grown persons laid out at
+full length, on the floor, the bodies wrapped round with deerskins. One of
+these bodies appeared to have been placed here not longer ago than five or
+six years. We thought there were children laid in here also. On first
+opening this building, by removing the posts which formed the ends, our
+curiosity was raised to the highest pitch; but what added to our surprise,
+was the discovery of a white deal coffin, containing a skeleton neatly
+shrouded in white muslin. After a long pause of conjecture how such a thing
+existed here, the idea of _Mary March_ occurred to one of the party, and
+the whole mystery was at once explained.[3]"
+
+    [3] It should be remarked here, that Mary March, so called from the
+        name of the month in which she was taken, was the Red Indian
+        female who was captured and carried away by force from this
+        place by an armed party of English people, nine or ten in
+        number, who came up here in the month of March, 1809. The local
+        government authorities at that time did not foresee the result
+        of offering a reward to _bring a Red Indian to them_. Her
+        husband was cruelly shot, after nobly making several attempts,
+        single-handed, to rescue her from the captors, in defiance of
+        their fire-arms, and fixed bayonets. His tribe built this
+        cemetery for him, on the foundation of his own wigwam, and his
+        body is one of those now in it. The following winter, Captain
+        Buchan was sent to the River Exploits, by order of the local
+        government of Newfoundland, to take back this woman to the lake,
+        where she was captured, and if possible at the same time, to
+        open a friendly intercourse with her tribe. But she died on
+        board Captain B.'s vessel, at the mouth of the river. Captain B.
+        however, took up her body to the lake; and not meeting with any
+        of her people, left it where they were afterwards likely to meet
+        with it. It appears the Indians were this winter encamped on the
+        banks of the River Exploits, and observed Captain B.'s party
+        passing up the river on the ice. They retired from their
+        encampments in consequence; and, some weeks afterwards, went by
+        a circuitous route to the lake, to ascertain what the party had
+        been doing there. They found _Mary March's_ body, and removed it
+        from where Captain B. had left it to where it now lies, by the
+        side of her husband.
+
+        With the exception of Captain Buchan's first expedition, by
+        order of the local government of Newfoundland, in the winter of
+        1810, to endeavour to open a friendly intercourse with the Red
+        Indians, the two parties just mentioned are the only two we know
+        of that had ever before been up to the Red Indian Lake. Captain
+        B. at that time succeeded in forcing an interview with the
+        principal encampment of these people. All of the tribe that
+        remained at that period were then at the Great Lake, divided
+        into parties, and in their winter encampments, at different
+        places in the woods on the margin of the lake. Hostages were
+        exchanged; but Captain B. had not been absent from the Indians
+        two hours, in his return to a depôt left by him at a short
+        distance down the river, to take up additional presents for
+        them, when the want of confidence of these people in the whites
+        evinced itself. A suspicion spread among them that he had gone
+        down to bring up a reinforcement of men, to take them all
+        prisoners to the sea-coast; and they resolved immediately to
+        break up their encampment and retire farther into the country,
+        and alarm and join the rest of their tribe, who were all at the
+        western parts of the lake. To prevent their proceedings being
+        known, they killed and then cut off the heads of the two English
+        hostages; and, on the same afternoon on which Captain B. had
+        left them, they were in full retreat across the lake, with
+        baggage, children, &c. The whole of them afterwards spent the
+        remainder of the winter together, at a place twenty to thirty
+        miles to the south-west, on the south-east side of the lake. On
+        Captain B.'s return to the lake next day or the day after, the
+        cause of the scene there was inexplicable; and it remained a
+        mystery until now, when we can gather some facts relating to
+        these people from the Red Indian woman, _Shawnawdithit_.
+
+"In this cemetery were deposited a variety of articles, in some instances
+the property, in others the representations of the property and utensils,
+and of the achievements, of the deceased. There were two small wooden
+images of a man and woman, no doubt meant to represent husband and wife and
+a small doll which we supposed to represent a child (for _Mary March_ had
+to leave her only child here, which died two days after she was taken);
+several small models of their canoes; two small models of boats; an iron
+axe; a bow and quiver of arrows were placed by the side of _Mary March's_
+husband; and two fire-stones (radiated iron pyrites, from which they
+produce fire, by striking them together) lay at his head; there were also
+various kinds of culinary utensils, neatly made, of birch rind and
+ornamented; and many other things, of some of which we did not know the use
+or meaning."
+
+"Another mode of sepulture which we saw here was, where the body of the
+deceased had been wrapped in birch rind, and with his property, placed on a
+sort of scaffold about four feet and a half from the ground. The scaffold
+was formed of four posts, about seven feet high, fixed perpendicularly in
+the ground, to sustain a kind of crib, five feet and a half in length, by
+four in breadth, with a floor made of small squared beams, laid close
+together horizontally, and on which the body and property rested."
+
+"A third mode was, when the body, bent together, and wrapped in birch rind,
+was enclosed in a kind of box, on the ground. The box was made of small
+squared posts, laid on each other horizontally, and notched at the corners,
+to make them meet close; it was about four feet by three, and two and a
+half feet deep, and well lined with birch rind, to exclude the weather from
+the inside. The body lay on its right side."
+
+"A fourth and the most common mode of burying among these people, has been,
+to wrap the body in birch rind, and cover it over with a heap of stones, on
+the surface of the earth, in some retired spot; sometimes the body, thus
+wrapped up, is put a foot or two under the surface, and the spot covered
+with stones; in one place, where the ground was sandy and soft, they
+appeared to have been buried deeper, and no stones placed over the graves."
+
+"These people appear to have always shewn great respect for their dead; and
+the most remarkable remains of them commonly observed by Europeans at the
+sea-coast, are their burying-places. These are at particular chosen spots;
+and it is well known that they have been in the habit of bringing their
+dead from a distance to them. With their women they bury only their
+clothes."
+
+"On the north-side of the lake, opposite the River Exploits, are the
+extremities of two deer fences, about half a mile apart, where they lead to
+the water. It is understood that they diverge many miles in north-westerly
+directions. The Red Indian makes these fences to lead and scare the deer to
+the lake, during the periodical migration of these animals; the Indians
+being stationed looking out, when the deer get into the water to swim
+across, the lake being narrow at this end, they attack and kill the animals
+with spears out of their canoes. In this way they secure their winter
+provisions before the severity of that season sets in."
+
+"There were other old remains of different kinds peculiar to these people
+met with about the lake."
+
+"One night we encamped on the foundation of an old Red Indian wigwam, on
+the extremity of a point of land which juts out into the lake, and exposed
+to the view of the whole country around. A large fire at night is the life
+and soul of such a party as ours, and when it blazed up at times, I could
+not help observing that two of my Indians evinced uneasiness and want of
+confidence in things around, as if they thought themselves usurpers on the
+Red Indian territory. From time immemorial none of the Indians of the other
+tribes had ever encamped near this lake fearlessly, and, as we had now
+done, in the very centre of such a country; the lake and territory adjacent
+having been always considered to belong exclusively to the Red Indians, and
+to have been occupied by them. It had been our invariable practice
+hitherto, to encamp near the hills, and be on their summits by the dawn of
+day, to try to discover the morning smoke ascending from the Red Indians'
+camps; and to prevent the discovery of ourselves, we extinguished our own
+fire always some length of time before daylight."
+
+"Our only and frail hope now left of seeing the Red Indians, lay on the
+banks of the River Exploits, on our return to the sea-coast."
+
+"The Red Indians' Lake discharges itself about three or four miles from its
+north-east end, and its waters form the River Exploits. From the lake to
+the sea-coast is considered about seventy miles; and down this noble river
+the steady perseverance and intrepidity of my Indians carried me on rafts
+in four days, to accomplish which otherwise, would have required, probably,
+two weeks. We landed at various places on both banks of the river on our
+way down, but found no traces of the Red Indians so recent as those seen at
+the portage at Badger Bay-Great Lake, towards the beginning of our
+excursion. During our descent, we had to construct new rafts at the
+different waterfalls. Sometimes we were carried down the rapids at the rate
+of ten miles an hour, or more, with considerable risk of destruction to the
+whole party, for we were always together on one raft."
+
+"What arrests the attention most, while gliding down the stream, is the
+extent of the Indian fences to entrap the deer. They extend from the lake
+downwards, continuous, on the banks of the river, at least thirty miles.
+There are openings left here and there in them, for the animals to go
+through and swim across the river, and at these places the Indians are
+stationed, and kill them in the water with spears, out of their canoes, as
+at the lake. Here, then, connecting these fences with those on the
+north-west side of the lake, is at least forty miles of country, easterly
+and westerly, prepared to intercept all the deer that pass that way in
+their periodical migrations. It was melancholy to contemplate the gigantic,
+yet feeble, efforts of a whole primitive nation, in their anxiety to
+provide subsistence, forsaken and going to decay."
+
+"There must have been hundreds of the Red Indians, and that not many years
+ago, to have kept up these fences and pounds. As their numbers were
+lessened so was their ability to keep them up for the purposes intended;
+and now the deer pass the whole line unmolested."
+
+"We infer, that the few of these people who yet survive have taken refuge
+in some sequestered spot, still in the northern part of the island, and
+where they can procure deer to subsist on."
+
+"On the 29th of November we had again returned to the mouth of the River
+Exploits, in thirty days after our departure from thence, after having made
+a complete circuit of about 200 miles in the Red Indian territory."
+
+"In conclusion, I congratulate the institution on the acquisition of
+several ingenious articles, the manufacture of the _Boeothicks_, or Red
+Indians, some of which we had the good fortune to discover on our recent
+excursion;--models of their canoes, bows and arrows, spears of different
+kinds, &c.; and also a complete dress worn by that people. Their mode of
+kindling fire is not only original, but, as far as we at present know, is
+peculiar to the tribe. These articles, together with a short vocabulary of
+their language, consisting of 200 or 300 words, which I have been enabled
+to collect, prove the Boeothicks to be a distinct tribe from any hitherto
+discovered in North America. One remarkable characteristic of their
+language, and in which it resembles those of Europe more than any other
+Indian languages do, with which we have had an opportunity of comparing
+it,--is its abounding in diphthongs."
+
+Mr. Cormack thinks that after the unfortunate circumstances attending past
+encounters between the Europeans and the Red Indians, it is best now to
+employ Indians belonging to the other tribes to be the medium of the
+intercourse in view; and he has chosen three intelligent men from
+Newfoundland to follow up the search.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+NOTES OF A READER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DERWENTWATER.
+
+
+The following touching episodal extract is from Dr. Southey's _Colloquies
+on the Progress and Prospects of Society:_--The best general view of
+Derwentwater is from the terrace, between Applethwaite and Milbeck, a
+little beyond the former hamlet. The old roofs and chimneys of that hamlet
+come finely in the foreground, and the trees upon the Ornathwaite estate
+give there a richness to the middle ground, which is wanting in other parts
+of the vale. From that spot I once saw three artists sketching it at the
+same time--William Westall (who has engraved it among his admirable views
+of Keswick,) Glover, and Edward Nash, my dear, kind-hearted friend and
+fellow-traveller, whose death has darkened some of the blithest
+recollections of my latter life. I know not from which of the surrounding
+heights it is seen to most advantage; any one will amply repay the labour
+of the ascent; and often as I have ascended them all, it has never been
+without a fresh delight. The best near view is from a field adjoining
+Friar's Craig. There it is that, if I had Aladdin's lamp, or Fortunatus's
+purse (with leave of Greenwich Hospital be it spoken,) I would build myself
+a house.
+
+Thither I had strolled, on one of those first genial days of spring which
+seem to affect the animal not less than the vegetable creation. At such
+times even I, sedentary as I am, feel a craving for the open air and
+sunshine, and creep out as instinctively as snails after a shower. Such
+seasons, which have an exhilarating effect upon youth, produce a soothing
+one when we are advanced in life. The root of an ash tree, on the bank
+which bends round the little bay, had been half bared by the waters during
+one of the winter floods, and afforded a commodious resting-place, whereon
+I took my seat, at once basking in the sun and bathing, as it were, in the
+vernal breeze. But delightful as all about me was to eye, and ear, and
+feeling, it brought with it a natural reflection, that the scene which I
+now beheld was the same which it had been and would continue to be, while
+so many of those with whom I had formerly enjoyed it, were past away. Our
+day-dreams become retrospective as we advance in years; and the heart feeds
+as naturally upon remembrance in age as upon hope in youth.
+
+    "Where are they gone, the old familiar faces?"
+
+I thought of her, whom I had so often seen plying her little skiff upon
+that glassy water, the lady of the lake. It was like a poet's dream, or a
+vision of romance, to behold her--and like a vision or a dream she had
+departed!
+
+  "O gentle Emma, o'er a lovelier form
+  Than thine, earth never closed; nor e'er did heaven
+  Receive a purer spirit from the world!"
+
+I thought of D., the most familiar of my friends during those years when we
+lived near enough to each other for familiar intercourse--my friend, and
+the friend of all who were dearest to me; a man, of whom all who knew him
+will concur with me in saying, that they never knew, nor could conceive of
+one more strictly dutiful, more actively benevolent, more truly kind, more
+thoroughly good; the pleasantest companion, the sincerest counsellor, the
+most considerate friend, the kindest host, the welcomest guest. After our
+separation, he had visited me here three summers; with him it was that I
+had first explored this land of lakes in all directions; and again and
+again should we have retraced our steps in the wildest recesses of these
+vales and mountains, and lived over the past again, if he had not, too
+early for all who loved him,
+
+    "Began the travel of eternity."
+
+I called to mind my hopeful H----, too, so often the sweet companion of my
+morning walks to this very spot; in whom I had fondly thought my better
+part should have survived me, and
+
+  "With whom it seemed my very life
+                Went half away!
+  But we shall meet--but we shall meet
+  Where parting tears shall never flow;
+  And when I think thereon, almost
+                I long to go!"
+
+"Thy dead shall live, O Lord; together with my dead body shall they arise.
+Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust! for Thy dew is as the dew of herbs;
+and the earth shall cast out her dead!"
+
+Surely, to the sincere believer death would be an object of desire instead
+of dread, were it not for those ties--those heartstrings--by which we are
+attached to life. Nor, indeed, do I believe that it is natural to fear
+death, however generally it may be thought so. From my own feelings I have
+little right to judge; for, although habitually mindful that the hour
+cometh, and even now may be, it has never appeared actually near enough to
+make me duly apprehend its effect upon myself. But from what I have
+observed, and what I have heard those persons say whose professions lead
+them to the dying, I am induced to infer that the fear of death is not
+common, and that where it exists it proceeds rather from a diseased and
+enfeebled mind, than from any principle in our nature. Certain it is, that
+among the poor the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet
+and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is
+as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious
+raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith; and they are
+willing to lay down the burden of a weary life, in the sure and certain
+hope of a blessed immortality. Who, indeed, is there, that would not gladly
+make the exchange, if he lived only for himself, and were to leave none who
+stood in need of him--no eyes to weep at his departure, no hearts to ache
+for his loss? The day of death, says the preacher, is better than the day
+of one's birth; a sentence to which whoever has lived long, and may humbly
+hope that he has not lived ill, must heartily assent.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MASANIELLO.
+
+
+The last No. (8,) of the _Foreign Quarley Review_, just published, contains
+an attractive article on the Revolutions of Naples, in 1647 and 1648, in
+which Masaniello played so conspicuous a part. The paper is in the easy
+historical style of Sir Walter Scott; but as little could be selected for
+our pages, except the Adventures of the Rebel Fisherman, and as we have
+given the leading events of his life in an early volume of the MIRROR, we
+content ourselves with the following passage. After a tolerably fair
+estimate of the character of Masaniello, in which Sir Walter considers his
+extraordinary rise as a work of fortune and contingency rather than of his
+own device in the conception, or his own exertions in the execution--the
+writer says--
+
+"It would be doing Masaniello injustice, however, if we did not add, that
+having no distinct prospect of rendering essential service to his country,
+he was at the same time totally free from any sinister views of personal
+aggrandizement. He appears to have been sincere in his wishes, that when he
+had set Naples free,--by which he understood the abolition of imposts,--the
+government of it should be committed to a popular management. The Memoirs
+of 1828 record a singular circumstance with regard to this point, on the
+authority of De Santis. While, on Friday, July 12th, the sixth day of the
+insurrection, he was sitting in his judgment-seat, a female masked, or man
+in woman's habit, approached and whispered, 'Masaniello, we have reached
+the goal, a crown is prepared, and it is for thy brows.'--'For mine?' he
+replied, 'I desire none but the green wreath with which we honour Our
+Lady's festival in September. When I have delivered my country I shall
+resume my nets.'--'You find them no more. Rebellion should not be
+undertaken, or it should be carried on to the end.'--'I will resume my
+nets,' said Masaniello steadily. 'You will not find them,' said the
+intrusive monitor. 'What, then, shall I find?'--'Death!' answered the
+masked figure, and withdrew into the crowd. An evidence of the purity of
+his intentions, though combined with gross ignorance, was afforded by the
+rigour with which he insisted on the destruction of the treasure and rich
+movables found in the houses which were destroyed during the first days of
+the tumult. Latterly, indeed, he yielded to the suggestions of Genuino and
+d'Arpaya, that these things should be preserved for the good of the state,
+and for the purpose of presenting them as a donative to Philip IV. in
+place of the abolished gabelles. But whatever was the case with regard to
+less scrupulous insurgents, he participated in no plunder, until vanity
+produced madness, or madness vanity. On the whole we may conclude, that he
+was a man whose principal characteristic was the boldness with which he
+pursued an object ardently desired, but who was alike incapable, from want
+of knowledge and talents, to avail himself of the success which so
+wonderfully crowned his enterprise. How far his cruelty was the effect of
+natural disposition, or a consequence of his malady, is a question that
+must be left to HIM to whom alone it can be known."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LONDON.
+
+_Literally translated from a Chinese Poem, by a Chinese who visited England
+in 1813._
+
+
+  The towering edifices rise story above story,
+  In all the stateliness of splendid mansions:
+  Railings of iron thickly stud the sides of every entrance;
+  And streams from the river circulate through the walls;
+  The sides of each apartment are variegated with devices;
+  Through the windows of glass appear the scarlet hangings.
+  And in the street itself is presented a beautiful scene;
+  The congregated buildings have all the aspect of a picture.
+
+  In London, about the period of the ninth moon,
+  The inhabitants delight in travelling to a distance;
+  They change their abodes and betake themselves to the country,
+  Visiting their friends in their rural retreats.
+  The prolonged sound of carriages and steeds is heard through the day;
+  Then in autumn the prices of provisions fall,
+  And the greater number of dwellings being untenanted,
+  Such as require it are repaired and adorned.
+
+  The spacious streets are exceedingly smooth and level,
+  Each being crossed by others at intervals;
+  On either side perambulate men and females,
+  In the centre, career along the carriages and horses;
+  The mingled sound of voices is heard in the shops at evening.
+  During midwinter the accumulated snows adhere to the pathway,
+  Lamps are displayed at night along the street sides,
+  Their radiance twinkling like the stars of the sky.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Mozart was _rather vain_ of the proportion of his hands and feet--but not
+of having written the Requiem or the Don Juan.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BURMESE DIGNITY.
+
+
+Mr. Crawfurd, in his account of the _Embassy to Ava_, relates the following
+specimen of the dignity of a Burmese minister. While sitting under an
+awning on the poop of the steam vessel, a heavy squall, with rain, came
+on.--"I suggested to his excellency the convenience of going below, which
+he long resisted, under the apprehension of committing his dignity by
+placing himself in a situation where persons might tread over his head, for
+this singular antipathy is common both to the Burmese and Siamese. The
+prejudice is more especially directed against the fair sex; a pretty
+conclusive proof of the estimation in which they are held. His excellency
+seriously demanded to know whether any woman had ever trod upon the poop;
+and being assured in the negative, he consented at length to enter the
+cabin."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STEAM.
+
+
+A quotation from Agathias clearly establishes a knowledge of the
+applicability of steam to mechanical purposes so early as the reign of the
+emperor Justinian, when the philosopher Anthemius most unphilosophically
+employed its powerful agency at Constantinople to shake the house of a
+litigious neighbour. It is also recorded, that Pope Sylvester II.
+constructed an organ, that was worked by steam. As compared with recent
+ingenuity, however, these applications may fairly bring to mind the
+Frenchman's boast of his countryman's invention of the frill and the
+ruffle; while his English opponent claimed for his native land the honour
+of suggesting the addition of the shirt.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MEDICAL MUSIC.
+
+
+Sharp, the surgeon, Sir Charles Blicke's master, was a great amateur of
+music, but he never used it as a means of curing patients, only in
+attracting them. It was said that he "fiddled himself into practice, and
+fiddled Mr. Pott out of it;" certain it is Mr. Pott, not being a _flat_,
+did not choose to act in _concert_ with _Sharp_, and made a quick movement
+to the westward.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Boerhaave tells us, that one of the greatest orators of antiquity, Tiberius
+Gracchus, when animated, used to cry out like an old woman; to avoid which,
+he had a servant, who, at these periods, sounded a pipe, by way of hint, as
+well as to pitch the tone, so sensible was he of the importance of a
+well-regulated voice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LINES ON THE DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES.
+
+BY T. CAMPBELL.
+
+
+  On England's shore I saw a pensive hand,
+  With sails unfurl'd for earth's remotest strand,
+  Like children parting from a mother, shed
+  Tears for the home that could not yield them bread;
+  Grief mark'd each face receding from the view,
+  'Twas grief to nature honourably true.
+  And long, poor wand'rers o'er th' ecliptic deep,
+  The song that names but home shall bid you weep;
+  Oft shall ye fold your flocks by stars above
+  In that far world, and miss the stars ye love;
+  Oft, when its tuneless birds scream round forlorn,
+  Regret the lark that gladdens England's morn.
+  And, giving England's names to distant scenes,
+  Lament that earth's extension intervenes.
+
+  But cloud not yet too long, industrious train,
+  Your solid good with sorrow nursed in vain:
+  For has the heart no interest yet as bland
+  As that which binds us to our native land?
+  The deep-drawn wish, when children crown our hearth,
+  To hear the cherub-chorus of their mirth.
+  Undamp'd by dread that want may e'er unhouse,
+  Or servile misery knit those smiling brows:
+  The pride to rear an independent shed,
+  And give the lips we love unborrow'd bread;
+  To see a world, from shadowy forests won,
+  In youthful beauty wedded to the sun;
+  To skirt our home with harvests widely sown,
+  And call the blooming landscape all our own,
+  Our children's heritage, in prospect long.
+  These are the hopes, high-minded hopes and strong.
+  That beckon England's wanderers o'er the brine,
+  To realms where foreign constellations shine;
+  Where streams from undiscovered fountains roll,
+  And winds shall fan them from th' Antarctic pole.
+  And what though doom'd to shores so far apart
+  From England's home, that ev'n the home-sick heart
+  Quails, thinking, ere that gulf can be recross'd,
+  How large a space of fleeting life is lost:
+  Yet there, by time, their bosoms shall be changed,
+  And strangers once shall cease to sigh estranged,
+  But jocund in the year's long sunshine roam,
+  That yields their sickle twice its harvest home.
+
+  There, marking o'er his farm's expanding ring
+  New fleeces whiten and new fruits upspring.
+  The grey-haired swain, his grandchild sporting round,
+  Shall walk at eve his little empire's bound,
+  Emblazed with ruby vintage, ripening corn,
+  And verdant rampart of Acacian thorn,
+  While, mingling with the scent his pipe exhales,
+  The orange-grove's and fig-tree's breath prevails;
+  Survey with pride beyond a monarch's spoil,
+  His honest arm's own subjugated soil;
+  And summing all the blessings God has given,
+  Put up his patriarchal prayer to Heaven,
+  That when his bones shall here repose in peace,
+  The scions of his love may still increase,
+  And o'er a land where life has ample room,
+  In health and plenty innocently bloom.
+
+  Delightful land, in wildness ev'n benign,
+  The glorious past is ours, the future thine!
+  As in a cradled Hercules, we trace
+  The lines of empire in thine infant face.
+  What nations in thy wide horizon's span
+  Shall teem on tracts untrodden yet by man!
+  What spacious cities with their spires shall gleam.
+  Where now the panther laps a lonely stream.
+  And all but brute or reptile life is dumb!
+  Land of the free! thy kingdom is to come,
+  Of states, with laws from Gothic bondage burst,
+  And creeds by charter'd priesthood's unaccurst;
+  Of navies, hoisting their emblazon'd flags,
+  Where shipless seas now wash unbeacon'd crags;
+  Of hosts review'd in dazzling files and squares,
+  Their pennon'd trumpets breathing native airs,
+  For minstrels thou shalt have of native fire.
+  And maids to sing the songs themselves inspire;
+  Our very speech, methinks, in after time.
+  Shall catch th' Ionian blandness of thy clime;
+  And whilst the light and luxury of thy skies
+  Give brighter smiles to beauteous woman's eyes,                }
+  The Arts, whose soul is love, shall all spontaneous rise.      }
+
+  Untrack'd in deserts lies the marble mine,
+  Undug the ore that midst thy roofs shall shine;
+  Unborn the hands--but born they are to be--
+  Fair Australasia, that shall give to thee
+  Proud temple domes, with galleries winding high,               }
+  So vast in space, so just in symmetry,                         }
+  They widen to the contemplating eye,                           }
+  With colonnaded aisles in lone array,
+  And windows that enrich the flood of day
+  O'er tesselated pavements, pictures fair,
+  And niched statues breathing golden air,
+  Nor there, whilst all that's seen bids Fancy swell,
+  Shall Music's voice refuse to seal the spell;
+  But choral hymns shall wake enchantment round,
+  And organs blow their tempests of sweet sound.
+
+  Meanwhile, ere Arts triumphant reach their goal,
+  How blest the years of pastoral life shall roll
+  Ev'n should some wayward hour the settler's mind
+  Brood sad on scenes for ever left behind,
+  Yet not a pang that England's name imparts,
+  Shall touch a fibre of his children's hearts;
+  Bound to that native world by nature's bond,
+  Full little shall their wishes rove beyond
+  Its mountains blue, and melon-skirted streams.
+  Since childhood loved and dreamt of in their dreams.
+  How many a name, to us uncouthly wild,
+  Shall thrill that region's patriotic child,
+  And bring as sweet thoughts o'er his bosom's chords,
+  As aught that's named in song to us affords!
+  Dear shall that river's margin be to him,
+  Where sportive first he bathed his boyish limb.
+  Or petted birds, still brighter than their bowers,
+  Or twin'd his tame young kangaroo with flowers.
+  But mere magnetic yet to memory
+  Shall be the sacred spot, still blooming nigh,
+  The bower of love, where first his bosom burn'd,
+  And smiling passion saw its smile return'd.
+
+  Go forth and prosper then, emprizing band;
+  May He, who in the hollow of his hand
+  The ocean holds, and rules the whirlwind's sweep,
+  Assuage its wrath, and guide you on the deep!
+
+_New Monthly Magazine._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SMALL TALK AND SMALL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OR HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF AGREEABLE.
+
+
+Conversation, like a shuttlecock, should not be suffered to remain with one
+person, but ought to pass in turn to all. But as few people think for
+themselves, so few people talk for themselves, and a colloquial monopoly is
+as common and as disagreeable as any other. Yet when we observe how much
+these rattles are caressed, 'tis wonderful there are so few. Talent is by
+no means indispensable, and is the more valuable in proportion as it is
+flimsy or superficial. The great art lies in the choice of a subject. Let
+it be some _liaison_ in the _beau monde_--the appearance of a new singer or
+actress--the detail of a recent duel, with particulars and embellishments,
+and your fortune is made at once. Do not affect any thing like a literary
+character, for scholars are reckoned _bores_. The only matters of this sort
+with which you can safely meddle are the fashionable novels--satirical
+poems--the magazines, and newspapers (eschewing the political articles as
+vulgar). It is absolutely necessary to be familiar with the names of all
+the editors in town, and these can easily be picked up from any of the
+tatterdemalions who prowl about police offices for the purpose of reporting
+the trials at a penny per line, which is, in most cases, exactly a penny
+per line too much. You must drop the complimentary _Mr._, and say, "A. of
+the Chronicle and I--the last time I saw B. of the Globe--C. of the
+Spectator told me t'other day," and so on. Of course it is not of the
+slightest consequence whether you ever saw one of the parties. You must
+also affect to be intimate with the theatrical _lions_, and be aware of the
+true state of all managerial squabbles for the season. Swear you have dined
+a dozen times with Sontag. _En passant_, the idea of a singer's patronizing
+a nation _wholesale_, as she has done in the case of the Silesians, is
+rather too good. Be indignant with Price for forfeiting Ellen Tree three
+several times in the sum of thirty pounds, and suppress the fact of his
+having remitted the penalty in the two first instances. Assume a mysterious
+air of "I could if I would," when Miss Love's elopement is mentioned, and
+state with heroic confidence that the Vesuvius scene in "Masaniello" at
+Astley's beat Drury by thirteen bricks and two ounces of Greek fire. You
+must pretend to know the salaries of all the _employés_ in every
+establishment, and be able to describe the plot of every new piece the
+moment it is underlined. You can obtain sufficient information to enable
+you to pass muster on this subject any evening at the Garrick's Head. It
+would be of great service if you could contrive to be seen in conversation
+with a respectable actor now and then. You must have seen every sight and
+exhibited at every exhibition in town, and be able to discuss their several
+merits or demerits with a "learned spirit." A knowledge of the principal
+nobility--by person at least--is a _sine qua non_, for how else should you
+be able to recount the names of those you saw in the Park on Sunday last?
+Keep a list of the ages and portions of as many young ladies as possible,
+and be cautious how you dispose of your information on this score. These, I
+think, are the principal topics; and the best advice I can give is, "Never
+be quiet: speak on _ad infinitum_."
+
+The man who inwardly digests these rules will be a treasure at any dinner
+party. The awful silence which prevails on the removal of the
+tablecloth--and an awful silence it surely is--will be dispelled. No
+ordinary man thinks of speaking, except in monosyllables, till he gets a
+little "elevated," and then he speaks nonsense as a matter of course. _You_
+must keep sober--for people will occasionally get "mellow," even in good
+society--and this you will easily manage to do by thinking of the immense
+superiority you will thus secure on joining the ladies in the drawing-room.
+You will be able to hand some blushing fair her coffee without pitching cup
+and contents into her lap, and stoop to pick up her fan or handkerchief
+without incurring the risk of breaking your nose. Should quadrilles be
+proposed, you will also be able to avoid those little _dos-à-dos_ accidents
+which are by no means agreeable, and be qualified to pronounce, with
+tolerable certainty, which is your own partner.
+
+_Sharpe's Magazine._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+VIDOCQ.
+
+
+Some very pleasant blunderer is said to have declared Moore's Life of
+Sheridan to be the best piece of _Autobiography_ he had ever read; and with
+little more propriety can the concluding volume of _Vidocq's Memoirs_ be
+said to belong to that species of literature styled Autobiography. The
+early volumes, however, possessed this feature, but the present is little
+more than a criminal supplement to the Memoirs. Of this defect, the
+translator seems to be aware; for in his "Sequel," he says, instead of the
+important disclosures promised by the Police Agent, in vol. ii., "he has
+given us a nomenclature of the assassins, thieves, and swindlers of France,
+and no more." He has merely brought down his Memoirs to the year 1816, and
+eked out his fourth volume with anecdotes and counsels, which have in most
+cases, more interest than novelty to recommend them. Still they are worth
+reading, although of a different character to the scenes, or as a wag would
+say, the "concerted pieces" which we have quoted from the three previous
+volumes. Our present quotations will not therefore possess the interest of
+complicated schemes.
+
+At page 34, Vidocq awards to our metropolis, no very desirable
+distinction--
+
+
+_Town and Country Thieves._
+
+
+"No capital in the world, London excepted, has within it so many thieves as
+Paris. The pavement of the modern Lutetia is incessantly trodden by rogues.
+It is not surprising; for the facility of hiding them in the crowd makes
+all that are badly disposed resort thither, whether French or foreign. The
+greater number are fixed constantly in this vast city; some only come like
+birds of passage, at the approach of great occasions, or during the summer
+season. Besides these exotics, there are indigenous plants, which make a
+fraction in the population, of which the denominator is tolerably high. I
+leave to the great calculator, M. Charles Dupin, the task of enumerating
+them in decimals, and telling us if the sum that it amounts to should not
+be taken into consideration in the application of the black list."
+
+
+_False Keys._
+
+
+"Cambrioleurs are plunderers of rooms, either by force or with false keys.
+There are of this class thieves of incredible effrontery; that of one
+Beaumont almost surpasses belief. Escaped from the Bagne at Rochefort,
+where he was sentenced to pass twelve years of his life, he came to Paris,
+and scarcely had he arrived there, where he had already practised, when, by
+way of getting his hand in, he committed several trifling robberies, and
+when by these preliminary steps he had proceeded to exploits more worthy of
+his ancient renown, he conceived the project of stealing a treasure. No one
+will imagine that this treasure was that of the _Bureau Central_ (Central
+Office), now the Prefecture of Police! It was already pretty difficult to
+procure impressions of the keys, but he achieved this first difficulty, and
+soon had in his possession all the means of effecting an opening; but to
+open was nothing, it was necessary to open without being perceived, to
+introduce himself without fear of being disturbed, to work without
+witnesses, and go out again freely. Beaumont, who had calculated all the
+difficulties that opposed him, was not dismayed. He had remarked that the
+private room of the chief officer, M. Henri, was nigh to the spot where he
+proposed to effect his entrance; he espied the propitious moment, and
+wished sincerely that some circumstance would call away so dangerous a
+neighbour for some time, and chance was subservient to his wishes."
+
+"One morning, M. Henri was obliged to go out. Beaumont, sure that he would
+not return that day, ran to his house, put on a black coat, and in that
+costume, which, in those days, always announced a magistrate, or public
+functionary, presents himself at the entrance of the _Bureau Central_. The
+officer to whom he addressed himself supposed, of course, that he was at
+least a commissary. On the invitation of Beaumont, he gave him a soldier,
+whom he placed as sentinel at the entrance to the narrow passage which
+leads to the depôt, and commanded not to allow any person to pass. No
+better expedient could be found for preventing surprise. Thus Beaumont, in
+the midst of a crowd of valuable objects, could, at his leisure, and in
+perfect security, choose what best pleased him; watches, jewels, diamonds,
+precious stones, &c. He chose those which he deemed most valuable, most
+portable, and as soon as he had made his selection, he dismissed the
+sentinel, and disappeared."
+
+"This robbery could not be long concealed, and the following day was
+discovered. Had thunder fallen on the police, they would have been less
+astonished than at this event. To penetrate to the very sanctuary!--the
+holy of holies! The fact appeared so very extraordinary, that it was
+doubted. Yet it was evident that a robbery had taken place, and to whom was
+it to be attributed? All the suspicions fell on the clerks; sometimes on
+one, sometimes on another; when Beaumont, betrayed by a friend, was
+apprehended, and sentenced a second time."
+
+"The robbery he had committed might be estimated at some hundred thousand
+francs, the greater part of which were found on him."
+
+"'There was wherewithal,' he said, 'to become an honest man; I should have
+become so; it is so easy when rich! yet how many rich men are only
+scoundrels!'"
+
+"These words were the only ones he uttered, when he was apprehended. This
+surprising thief was conducted to Brest; where, after half a dozen escapes,
+which only served to make his subsequent confinement more rigorous, he died
+in a frightful state of exhaustion."
+
+"Beaumont enjoyed amongst his confraternity a colossal reputation; and even
+now, when a rogue boasts of his lofty exploits--'Hold your tongue,' they
+say, 'you are not worthy to untie the shoe-strings of Beaumont!'"
+
+"In effect, to have robbed the police was the height of address. Is not a
+robbery of this nature the _chef-d'oeuvre_ of its kind, and can it do
+otherwise than, make its perpetrator a hero in the eyes of his admirers?
+Who should dare to compare with him? Beaumont had robbed the police! Hang
+yourself, brave Crillon! hang yourself, Coignard! hang yourself,
+Pertruisard! hang yourself, Callet!--to him, you are but of Saint-Jean.
+What is it to have robbed states of service? To have carried off the
+treasure of the army of the Rhine? To have carried off the military
+chest?--Beaumont had robbed the police! Hang yourselves!--or go to England,
+they will hang you there."
+
+
+_The Misanthropic Swindler._
+
+
+At page 71, Vidocq tells us a strange story of a fellow named Capdeville,
+who affecting misanthropy and disgust of the world, hired an apartment at a
+lone house near Paris, and employed his solitude in obtaining false keys of
+all the other rooms. Not quite settled here, "Capdeville published his
+intention of going out to discover an hermitage where he could pass his
+latter days in peace. He inquired of all the country proprietors who had
+places for sale within a circuit of six leagues, and it was soon known
+through the country that he was on the look-out for a place of the kind.
+Every body knew, of course, something that would suit him, but he would
+have only a patrimonial estate. 'Well, well,' said they, 'since he is so
+scrupulous, let him look out for himself.' This, in fact, he did."
+
+"Determined to make a tour, to examine what was most likely to suit him, he
+employed himself ostensibly in preparations for his departure; he was only
+to be absent three or four days, but before he departed, he was anxious to
+know if there was no danger in leaving a secretary, in which were ten
+thousand francs, which he did not wish to take with him. Being assured on
+this point, and full of security, he did not hesitate to set out on his
+proposed journey."
+
+"Capdeville did not go to a very great distance. During his sojourn in the
+house he had just left, he had had time to take impressions of all the keys
+which were requisite for his entrance into the dwelling of the landlord,
+who he knew was in the habit of dining in Paris, and did not return very
+early in the evening. By being there at dusk, Capdeville was certain of
+having before him all the time necessary for carrying on his operations.
+The sun had set, and, favoured by the darkness, he passed unperceived
+through Belleville, and having entered the house by the help of false keys,
+he entered the abode of the landlord, which he cleared out even to the
+linen."
+
+"Towards the end of the fifth day they began to be uneasy at the
+non-appearance of the misanthrope; the next day a suspicion arose.
+Twenty-four hours later, and there was but one opinion respecting him; he
+was the thief. After such a trick mistrust all misanthropes. To whom then
+shall we trust, in whom place confidence? In philanthropists? By no means."
+
+The misanthropy in this case must have been infectious, and the disgust of
+the lodger transferred to the landlord.
+
+Other novelties oblige us to break off here for the present, so that
+another spice or two of the frauds of Paris stand over for our next.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE ANECDOTE GALLERY
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+RECOLLECTIONS OF PALEY.
+
+_From Best's Personal Memorials._
+
+
+Some one came up to Paley and made an excuse for a friend, who was obliged
+to defer an intended visit to the subdeanery, because a man who had
+promised to pay him some money in April, could not pay it till May. "A
+common case," said Paley. We all laughed. Paley, by way of rewarding us for
+our complaisance in being pleased with what was recommended chiefly by the
+quaintness of his manner, went on:--"A man should never _paay mooney_ till
+he can't help it; _soomething maay_ happen."
+
+At another time he said, "I always desire my wife and daughters to pay
+ready money. It is of no use to desire them to buy only what they want;
+they will always imagine they want what they wish to buy; but that paying
+ready _mooney_ is such a check upon their imagin_aa_tion."
+
+Paley's education had been sufficiently hardy. "My father rode to
+Peterborough, and I rode after him, on a horse that I could not manage. I
+tumbled off. My father, without looking back, cried out, 'Get up again,
+Will.' When I set up a carriage, it was thought right that my armorial
+bearings should appear on the panels. Now, we had none of us ever heard of
+the Paley arms; none of us had ever dreamed that such things existed, or
+had ever been. All the old folks of the family were consulted; they knew
+nothing about it. Great search was made, however, and at last we found a
+silver tankard, on which was engraved a coat of arms. It was carried by
+common consent that these _must_ be the Paley arms; they were painted on
+the carriage, and looked very handsome. The carriage went on very well with
+them; and it was not till six months afterwards that we found out that the
+tankard had been _bought at a sale_!"
+
+He told me, "when I wanted to write any thing particularly well,--to do
+better than ordinary,--I used to order a post-chaise and go to Longtown; it
+is the first stage from Carlisle towards the north; there is a comfortable,
+quiet inn there. I asked for a room to myself; there then I was, safe from
+the bustle and trouble of a family; and there I remained as long as I
+liked, or till I had finished what I was about." I said, "That is a very
+curious anecdote;" and I said it in a tone which, from a certain change in
+his countenance, I believe to have set him on musing how this anecdote
+would appear in the history of his life. Paley took his rides on horseback
+occasionally, but always alone, without the attendance even of a servant.
+"I am so bad a horseman, that if any man on horseback was to come near me
+when I am riding, I should certainly have a fall; company would take off my
+attention, and I have need of all I can command to manage my horse and keep
+my seat; I have got a horse, the quietest creature that ever lived, one
+that at Carlisle used to be covered with children from the ears to the
+tail." Understanding all this, and seeing him gambadoing on the
+race-course, I turned my horse's head another way. "I saw what you meant
+this morning; it was very considerate of you; I am much obliged to you."
+Paley was too careful of petty expenses, as is frequently the case with
+those who have had but narrow incomes in early life. He kept a sufficiently
+handsome establishment as subdean, but he was stingy. A plentiful fall of
+snow took place during an evening party at the precentors's; two of Mr.
+Subdean's daughters were there; he showed great anxiety on account of the
+necessity that seemed to have arisen of sending them home in a sedan-chair;
+taking the advice of several of the company, whether such necessity really
+and inevitably existed, he said to me, "It is only next door." "The houses
+touch," said I, "but it is a long round to your door; the length of both
+houses and then through the garden in front of your house." He consulted
+the precentor, who, to put the matter in a right point of view, cried out,
+"Let the girls have a chair; it is only three-pence a piece."
+
+He preached a sermon at Lincoln for the benefit of a charity school. In the
+course of this sermon he related, in familiar but sufficiently dignified
+language, a story of a man who, giving evidence on a trial respecting some
+prescriptive right claimed by the trustees of the charity, was browbeaten
+by the questioning counsel:--"I suppose the fact to which you swear
+happened when you were a charity boy, and used to go to school there?" The
+witness calmly replied, "I _was_ a charity boy; and all the good that has
+befallen me in life has arisen from the education I received at that
+school." Paley drew hence an argument in favour of the institution for
+which he pleaded. The whole discourse pleased his auditors, and a
+deputation waited on him to request he would print it. "Gentlemen, I thank
+you for the compliment; but I must give the same answer that I have given
+on other like occasions; and that answer is--The tap is out." "The
+Archbishop of York," said he, speaking of a late primate, "preached one day
+at Carlisle; I was present, and felt muzzy and half asleep; when on a
+sudden I was roused, and began to prick up my ears; and what should I hear
+but a whole page of one of my own books quoted word for word; and this
+without the least acknowledgment, though it was a _white bear_; a passage
+that is often quoted and well known." "Now," said Dr. Milner, Dean of
+Carlisle, who related the anecdote, "guess what inference Paley drew from
+this plagiarism. No; if that court were full of people, not one of them
+would be able to guess: it was this--I suppose the archbishop's wife makes
+his grace's sermons for him."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The city has always been the province for satire; and the wits of King
+Charles's time jested upon nothing else during his whole reign.--_Addison_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+    A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
+    SHAKSPEARE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ERRORS OF THE PRESS.
+
+_By a Reporter._
+
+
+I once had occasion to report, that a certain "noble lord was confined to
+his house with a _violent cold_"--next morning, I found his lordship
+represented to be "confined with a _violent scold_!" In the same way, on
+the occasion of a recent entertainment, I had said "that the first point of
+attraction and admiration were her _ladyship's looks_;" this compliment was
+transferred by the printer to her "_ladyship's cooks_!" My praises of the
+"_Infant Lyra_" were converted to a panegyric on the "_infant lyar_." In an
+account of General Saldanha's conduct at Oporto, I observed that he
+"_behaved like a hero_," while the printer made it appear that he "_behaved
+like a hare_."--"We," says the _John Bull_, "often suffer in this
+way--about two years since, we represented Mr. Peel as having joined a
+party of _fiends_ in Hampshire for the purpose of shooting _peasants_; and
+only last week, in a Scotch paper, we saw it gravely stated that a
+_surgeon_ was taken alive in the river and sold to the inhabitants at 6d.
+and 10d. per pound."
+
+_Atlas._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TESTAMENT OF A USURER.
+
+
+"I order that my body be returned to the earth from whence it came, and I
+give my soul to the devil. I give likewise to the devil the souls of my
+wife and children, who encouraged me in usury for the sake of good cheer
+and fine clothes. _Item_. I give to the devil the soul of my confessor, who
+connived at my crimes by his silence."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+On the day when the news of the decease of Napoleon reached the Tuileries,
+Louis XVIII. was surrounded by a brilliant court, all of whom, with the
+exception of one man, received the intelligence with the most unequivocal
+signs of delight. This man was General Rapp, who burst into tears. The king
+perceived and noticed it. "Yes, Sire," answered the general, "I do weep for
+Napoleon; and you will excuse it, for to him I owe every thing in the
+world, even the honour of now serving your majesty, since it was he that
+made me what I am!" The king, in an elevated tone of voice, replied,
+"General, I do but esteem you the more. Fidelity which thus survives
+misfortune, proves to me how securely I may depend on you myself."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE HINT TAKEN.
+
+
+Voltaire after being on terms of friendship with the King of Prussia, owing
+to his wit, gave some offence; when the King said to some of his
+courtiers--"When we squeeze the orange and have sucked the juice, we throw
+the rest away." Then said Voltaire _I must take care of the peel_--and
+quitted his Prussian majesty's dominions.
+
+L. P. S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror._)
+
+
+Sir,--In the distich you have quoted from my Lectures at page 143 of your
+last MIRROR, it should have been stated that the statue was a Cupid. The
+original lines (Voltaire's) are--
+
+  Qui que tu sois, voici ton maître,
+  Il l'est, le fut, ou le doit être.
+
+B. H. SMART.
+
+_Connaught Terrace, Aug. 31._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
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+"_quarante-cinq_," so as to produce a sound, in a measure harmonizing with
+the accident. It is to them a capital joke, because _quarante-cinq_, (45)
+is written with the two figures that make "_neuf_" (that is, in French,
+either _nine_ or _new_.) The pun is ingenious.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former
+honesty.--_Lavater_.
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+
+
+<h2>ST. DUNSTAN'S, FLEET STREET.</h2>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;">
+    <a href="images/388-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/388-1.png" alt=
+    "A line drawing of St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street." /></a>
+</div>
+<p>No church in London is perhaps better known than the above, which is
+distinctively called Saint Dunstan's in the West. External elegance has
+little to do with this celebrity, which has been acquired by the two wooden
+figures placed on a pediment in front, representing savages, who indicate
+the hours and quarters by striking a bell with their clubs: this has caused
+a wag to describe them as the most striking wonders of the metropolis.
+Another, who is equally disposed to sport with their notoriety, says, &quot;as
+they are visible in the street, they are more admired by many of the
+populace on Sundays, than the most elegant preacher from the pulpit
+within.&quot; We are, however, induced to hope better; especially as Dr. Donne,
+the celebrated Richard Baxter, and the pious Romaine were preachers at St.
+Dunstan's.</p>
+
+<p>There is no evidence when this church was erected; but Stow records burials
+in it so early as the year 1421. The date of the above view is 1739, and
+from a foot-note to the Engraving, we learn that the church was dedicated
+to St. Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, who died A.D. 990. &quot;It was
+anciently a Rectory, in the patronage of the Convent of Westminster.
+Richard de Barking, the abbot, in 1237, granted the advowson to King Henry
+III., which continued in the crown till 1362; it was afterwards in the gift
+of the bishop of London, till 1386; when Robert de Braybrooke, the bishop,
+granted it to the abbot and Convent of Premonastratenses of Alnwick in
+Northumberland, where the patronage remained till their suppression. King
+Edward VI. granted it to the Lord Dudley, but both the Rectory and Advowson
+of the Vicarage were afterwards granted to Sir Richard Sackville, till
+alienated to George Rivers, in 1625; it is now in the gift of Joseph
+Taylor, Esq.&quot; (to whom the Plate is dedicated).</p>
+
+<p>St. Dunstan's luckily escaped the fire of London in 1666, which stopped within
+  three houses of it, as did also another fire, in 1730. The clock and figures
+  were put up in 1761, and an accurate description of them (quoted from Smith's
+  <i>London</i> by our esteemed correspondent, P. T. W.) will be found at page
+  148, vol. xi. of the <span class="scaps">Mirror</span>. The church was thoroughly repaired, and the roof
+  <span class="pagenum"><a name="page146" id="page146"></a>[pg 146]</span>considerably
+  raised in 1701. The last repairs, which were considerable, were executed in
+  the year 1820; but it is expected that the whole building will be shortly taken
+  down, and a new church erected, so as to widen the public thoroughfare.</p>
+
+<p>Our Engraving is an interesting view of the church nearly a century since,
+when a range of shops (since removed) extended beneath the whole of this
+side of the structure; and the respective signs must have been unholy
+appendages to what appeared like part and parcel of a house of prayer. The
+clock is accurately represented, the bracket being a carved figure of Time
+with expanded wings, as mention by Smith. The clockmaker proposed to the
+parish &quot;to do one thing, which London shall not show the like,&quot; and we hope
+our Engraving may be the means of rescuing his eccentric ingenuity from
+oblivion.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>A DESULTORY CHAPTER ON LOCALITIES.</h3>
+
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+
+<p class="quote">Rotterdam and Erasmus.&mdash;Holyrood and Mary Queen of Scots.&mdash;Scotland.&mdash;Switzerland
+  and Rousseau.&mdash;Pope's Grotto.&mdash;Chiswick, &amp;c.</p>
+<p>There is perhaps no sentiment more generally felt, or more delightful, than
+that indescribable interest with which we are led to contemplate places and
+scenes, immortalized in historical renown, or hallowed by genius.</p>
+
+<p>The propensity for moving from place to place, so observable in mankind,
+derives, no doubt, its chief zest from the anxiety we feel to visit
+countries of which in the course of our historical researches, we have
+heard and read so much to awaken our interest, and excite our admiration.</p>
+
+<p>Without the early reverence which we as boys imbibe for the departed splendour
+  of Greece and Rome, we should not as men be found wandering among the ruins
+  of the Pyr&aelig;us, or the deserted streets of Pompeii. We find it impossible
+  to behold unmoved the sad, the astonishing changes which time, the arch-destroyer
+  has effected with his giant arm. Our exuberant fancies carry us back to those
+  remote periods when all was glory and magnificence, where now ruin and desolation
+  have established their melancholy empire. Abandoning ourselves to the potent
+  influence of classical contemplations of the past, we revel in the full indulgence
+  of antiquarian enthusiasm. Imagination, however, needs not in general so wide
+  a field for the exercise of her magic powers. We desire perhaps more of pleasurable
+  excitement from the recollections attached to spots identified in our minds
+  with events of individual or ideal interest, than from the loftier train of
+  thoughts produced by a pilgrimage to countries which have become famous in ancient
+  or modern story. Thus we experience more delight in visiting places, remarkable
+  as having once been the resort or habitations of distinguished men, than in
+  viewing the ruins of an ancient citadel, or the site of a celebrated battle.
+  The events achieved on the latter may indeed, in their time, have turned the
+  scale of empires; but the association of ideas in the former instances, speak
+  a thousand times more feeling to our individual sympathies. I remember when
+  passing a couple of days in the opulent city of Rotterdam, that after walking
+  all the morning along its crowded streets, and paying the accustomed stranger's
+  tribute of admiration to its quays, its port, and its commercial magnificence,
+  I at length halted before the statue of Erasmus. It stands on a pedestal in
+  the middle of a large market, and represents the celebrated scholar, clothed
+  in his professor's gown, and seemingly gazing with dignified unconcern at the
+  busy multitude around. I remained looking at the effigy before me, with a reverential
+  feeling akin to that of the devotee at the shrine of a patron saint. Imagination
+  transported me back to the eventful times in which Erasmus flourished, opening
+  to my mind's eye a long vista of historical recollections, till my absorbed
+  demeanour attracted observation. I found myself exposed to that vacant stare
+  with which people are so apt to disconcert your composure, if they observe you
+  contemplating with curiosity and interest, objects which they have seen every
+  day of their lives, and for that very reason always pass unnoticed. Leaving
+  then my position, yet anxious to follow up the train of ideas it had inspired,
+  I sought, and by dint of inquiry, discovered the habitation of Erasmus. It is
+  in a dirty street, and consists of one moderately sized, low roofed apartment,
+  on the first floor of an old fashioned, ill-built house, which the vicissitudes
+  of time have converted into an <i>Estaminet</i>.<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a>
+  I was conducted up a dark, narrow staircase into the close, dingy room, by an
+  ugly, ignorant frau, who seemed to wonder what earthly inducement I had to visit
+  her dwelling-<span class="pagenum"><a name="page147" id="page147"></a>[pg 147]</span>house.
+  Lumber and moth-eaten furniture were carelessly scattered around. A solitary
+  window, partly blocked up by an old mattress, barely admitted light sufficient
+  to make objects visible. All was neglect and desolation. It seemed almost impossible
+  that so obscure and dismal a lodging could have been occupied by so illustrious
+  a tenant. I fancied I beheld the most learned man of his age, the counsellor
+  and companion of princes, and the contemporary and rival of Sir Thomas More,
+  indulging his classical reveries in this comfortless chamber, regardless of
+  its forlorn and squalid aspect. The charm was omnipotent. Seated in an ancient
+  leathern-bottomed chair, my hostess, and the dust and darkness of the place
+  were overlooked or forgotten. The spirit of the mighty dead seemed to hover
+  around, as a sort of <i>genius loci</i>, rescuing the wretched tenement from
+  otherwise deserved oblivion, and making its very dinginess venerable!</p>
+
+
+  <p>On another occasion I recollect experiencing very strikingly, the force of
+    local impressions. It was when visiting the apartments of Mary Queen of Scots,
+    in the palace of Holyrood. Recalling to mind, with the enthusiasm of one of
+    her warmest admirers, every circumstance connected with the eventful history
+    of that unfortunate princess, it was impossible for me not to feel penetrated
+    with the deepest interest. I traversed the very rooms in which she had sat,
+    and conversed, and passed her hours of peaceful privacy. My fancy pictured
+    that privacy rudely and brutally invaded by Darnley and his ruffian associates,
+    when bent on the murder of the ill-fated Rizzio. I mentally compared the circumstances
+    of that deed of blood, as related by historians, with the facilities for committing
+    it, afforded by the distribution of apartments. They tallied exactly. There
+    was the little room in which sat the queen with her ladies and the devoted
+    secretary. Close to the door appeared the dark, narrow, turret staircase,
+    which Darnley ascended before he rushed into Mary's presence. The struggle
+    must have been desperate, for the murder was not effected in that chamber,
+    Rizzio being either dragged, or escaped into an adjoining and very obscure
+    anteroom in which the crime was perpetrated. They pretend to show you marks
+    of his blood yet visible on the floor. Although all such horrible vestiges
+    have been most probably long since obliterated, it is yet just possible that
+    some may remain. To believe so, at the moment, was a lawful indulgence of
+    my previous illusion. I could have followed the train of associations thus
+    created much further, had not the person appointed to act as Cicerone hurried
+    me through the apartments. Their doors closed against me, and the spell was
+    broken.</p>
+
+
+<p>Edinburgh is full of interesting localities; particularly the old town. In
+its ancient &quot;wynds and closes,&quot; now tenanted by the veriest of the plebeian
+race, in former days resided men of the most distinguished rank and
+celebrity. Before the stupendous improvements of later times had justly
+entitled the Scottish metropolis to the appellation of the modern Athens,
+the princes and nobles of the land, its judges and senators, were obliged
+to dwell in those dirty streets and alleys, from which &quot;Auld Reekie&quot;
+derived its then appropriate appellation. When in progress of time they
+removed to more splendid and suitable abodes, their abandoned tenements
+became habitations of wretchedness. Much however remained in them to remind
+posterity of their former proprietors; and whoever is not afraid of
+encountering the spectacle of a swarming population in a state of abject
+and squalid poverty, will find an abundant field for his antiquarian
+researches in the old town of Edinburgh. Like Switzerland, and other
+mountainous countries, Scotland is by nature formed to be a land of
+romantic associations; but how wonderfully have her historians, poets, and
+novelists contributed to create and preserve them! The author of Waverley
+has thrown a classic halo around the wild beauties of his native land, and
+communicated to stranger minds a national enthusiasm which <i>his</i> soul alone
+could have felt, <i>his</i> pen alone inspired! In Scotland, almost every step
+we take is on hallowed ground, and the lover of historical recollections
+may enjoy to its full extent the delight of visiting places immortalized by
+the achievements of her heroes, or the pen of her poets.</p>
+
+<p>To a man fond of localities, travelling either on the continent or in England,
+  will furnish numerous opportunities of indulging the reveries to which they
+  give birth. It would be hardly possible to name a town, or a village, utterly
+  destitute of local interest. In almost every instance, some memento would be
+  discovered to hallow its site, and to engage the observation of an intelligent
+  traveller. With a mind predisposed to enjoy mental associations, they will crowd
+  on us wherever we go, and be suggested by the veriest trifles. <span class="pagenum"><a name="page148" id="page148"></a>[pg
+  148]</span>Rousseau could not contain his ecstacy at beholding a little flower
+  (<i>la parvenche</i>) in bloom, which thirty years before, Madame de Warens
+  had first pointed out to his notice. That simple incident summoned up a train
+  of exquisite reminiscences. No one, indeed, ever yielded so entirely to the
+  influence of local enthusiasm as the author of the <i>Nouvelle Heloise</i>.
+  No one has so successfully attempted to invest scenes, in themselves beautiful,
+  with the additional and powerful interest of ideal recollections. Picturesque
+  as are the shores of Leman, Meillerie, and Vevai, yet to Rousseau's sublime
+  conceptions and eloquent descriptions, they are chiefly indebted for the celebrity
+  which they enjoy. Nature made Switzerland a land of rugged magnificence. To
+  complete the charm, nothing was wanted, but that its mountains should be peopled
+  by the creations of Rousseau.</p>
+
+<p>It were needless, however, to travel to foreign countries in search of
+interesting localities. Our own island teems with them. In the metropolis
+and its environs, a diligent inquirer will find them at every step. How
+many coffeehouses and taverns are there in London which at one time or
+another have been frequented by celebrated characters, and how many houses
+in which others equally celebrated have resided; such as that of Milton, in
+Westminster; and of Johnson, in Bolt Court. How many old gable-ended
+tenements do we see in the eastern parts of the town that were standing
+before the fire, and which, if explored, might be found to contain the most
+interesting relics of antiquity. What a number of streets, courts, and
+alleys, bearing names at once indicative of their ancient origin, and of
+scenes, and persons, and local circumstances long since forgotten!</p>
+
+<p>Then, if we extend our perambulations to the vicinity of London, how many
+hallowed places shall we meet with? Where can we find a palace like Windsor
+Castle, to which attach the historical recollections of many centuries,
+adding, if possible, yet more solemnity to Gothic grandeur? Again, can
+there be conceived a spot more entirely consecrated to classical
+associations than the grotto, at Twickenham; that retreat in which gazing
+on &quot;Thames translucent stream,&quot; Pope passed so many hours of undisturbed
+privacy&mdash;that spot</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>&quot;Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole,</p>
+<p>And the bright flame was shot thro' Marchmont's soul.&quot;</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>I have visited it in summer, when the warmth of a mid-day sun has rendered
+the &quot;<i>frigus amabile</i>&quot; of the interior doubly inviting, and on such
+occasions, have quite revelled in local enthusiasm.</p>
+
+<p>I remember, some years since, visiting the Duke of Devonshire's beautiful
+villa, at Chiswick, in company with a friend, whose sentiments on the
+subject of local impressions are similar to my own. While I was admiring
+books and paintings in the library, my companion was contemplating in mute
+emotion, the bed upon which Charles Fox breathed his last. That one object
+engrossed all the powers of his soul; every other was forgotten!</p>
+
+<p class="source">C. J.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>THE HUMBLE SPARROW'S ADDRESS TO T. S. A.</h3>
+
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>My dearest Sir, how great a change</p>
+<p>Has pass'd upon the groves I range,</p>
+<p class="i6">Nay, all the face of nature!</p>
+<p>A few weeks back, each pendent bough,</p>
+<p>The fields, the groves, the mountain's brow,</p>
+<p>Were bare and leafless all, but now</p>
+<p class="i6">How verdant ev'ry feature!</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Each little songster strives to raise</p>
+<p>Its highest warbling notes of praise,</p>
+<p class="i6">For all these blessings given:&mdash;</p>
+<p>Ere Sol emerges from behind</p>
+<p>The eastern hills, the lark we find</p>
+<p>Soars, as it were on wings of wind,</p>
+<p class="i6">With grateful notes to heaven.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>A thousand others catch the strains,</p>
+<p>Each bush and tree a tongue contains,</p>
+<p class="i6">That offers up its praises.</p>
+<p>From morn till the meridian day,</p>
+<p>From noon till Sol has sunk away,</p>
+<p>One ceaseless song, one grateful lay,</p>
+<p class="i6">Each feather'd songster raises.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>And when Night's grim and sable band,</p>
+<p>Spreads her dim curtains o'er the land,</p>
+<p class="i6">And all our prospect closes;</p>
+<p>Then Philomela, queen of song,</p>
+<p>The sweetest of the feather'd throng,</p>
+<p>Takes up the theme the whole night long,</p>
+<p class="i6">While nature all reposes.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Then surely I, the humblest bird,</p>
+<p>That e'er among the groves was heard,</p>
+<p class="i6">Should aid the thankful chorus;</p>
+<p>With <i>chirping note</i> I'll join the sound,</p>
+<p>For not <i>a Sparrow</i>, 'twill be found,</p>
+<p>Without <span class="scaps">his</span> will falls to the ground,</p>
+<p class="i6">Who high above reigns o'er us.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>But what avail my feeble powers,</p>
+<p>When softer notes descend in showers,</p>
+<p class="i6">Mine are not worth regarding;</p>
+<p>No honour'd title gilds my name,</p>
+<p>No dulcet notes I e'er could claim;</p>
+<p>So worthless I, you may obtain</p>
+<p class="i6"><i>Two Sparrows</i> for a farthing.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Besides, I ne'er was form'd to <i>sing</i>,</p>
+<p>And so must soar on humbler wing,</p>
+<p class="i6">Since nature saw it fitter;</p>
+    <span class="pagenum"><a name="page149" id="page149"></a>[pg 149]</span>
+	<p>But yet my feeble powers I'll try,</p>
+<p>And sound my <i>chatt'ring</i> notes on high,</p>
+<p>For I am sure you'll not deny</p>
+<p class="i6">To hear my simple <i>twitter</i>.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>My gratitude is doubly due,</p>
+    <p>For all the hedges<a name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>
+      in my view,</p>
+<p class="i6">Afford a verdant cover;</p>
+<p>I now can build my nest once more,</p>
+<p>From childhood's prying glance secure,</p>
+<p>And from the hawk's keen eye, tho' o'er</p>
+<p class="i6">The sacred bush he hover.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Oh! had I Philomela's tongue,</p>
+<p>The thrush's note, or warbling song</p>
+<p class="i6">Of blackbird, lark, or linnet;</p>
+<p>I'd then more gratitude display,</p>
+<p>Striving to raise a sweeter lay,</p>
+<p>I'd sing the fleeting hours away,</p>
+<p class="i6">Nor silent be a minute.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>But I must quit the trembling spray,</p>
+<p>And to my duty fly away,</p>
+<p class="i6">To pick a straw or feather;</p>
+<p>My mate is somewhere on the wing,</p>
+<p>I think she's gone some moss to bring,</p>
+<p>For we must work while it is spring,</p>
+<p class="i6">And build our nest together.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>So now adieu&mdash;I've chirp'd too long,</p>
+<p>Must leave the finish of my song</p>
+<p class="i6">To some more learned bird's son;</p>
+<p>Whose mellow notes can charm the ear</p>
+<p>With no discordant chatter near;</p>
+<p>So now, dear Sir, I'm your sincere</p>
+    <p class="i6">And humble Sparrow.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="source"><span class="scaps">Herdson</span>.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+
+<h3>TO A DESTRUCTIVE INSECT ON A ROSEBUD.</h3>
+
+<h4>IN MANNER OF BURNS.</h4>
+
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>Ye imp o' death, how durst ye dwell</p>
+<p>Within this pure and hallow'd cell,</p>
+<p>Thy purposes I ken fu' well</p>
+<p class="i14">Are to destroy,</p>
+<p>And wi' a mortal breathing spell,</p>
+<p class="i14">To blast each joy!</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Yet why upo' so sma' a flower,</p>
+<p>Dost thou exert thy deadly pow'r,</p>
+<p>And nip fair beauty's natal hour,</p>
+<p class="i14">Wi' thy vile breath,</p>
+<p>It is when wint'ry storms do low'r,</p>
+<p class="i14">We look for death.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>But thou, thou evil one, hast come,</p>
+<p>To bring this wee rose to its doom,</p>
+<p>Not i' time of woe and gloom,</p>
+<p class="i14">But i' the spring,</p>
+<p>When flowerets just begin to bloom.</p>
+<p class="i14">And birds to sing.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>O fie, begone fra out my sight,</p>
+<p>Nor dare attempt such joy to blight,</p>
+<p>Thou evil wicked-doing doit,</p>
+<p class="i14">Then hie away,</p>
+<p>Seek not the <i>morning</i>, but the <i>night</i></p>
+<p class="i14">To crush thy prey!</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="source">J. F. C.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
+
+<h2>THE CONTEMPORARY TRAVELLER.</h2>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE RED INDIANS OF NEWFOUNDLAND.</h3>
+
+<h4>(<i>Concluded from page</i> <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/5/1/11518/11518-h/11518-h.htm#page136">136</a>.)</h4>
+
+<p>&quot;We spent several melancholy days wandering on the borders of the east end
+of the lake, surveying the various remains of what we now contemplated to
+have been an unoffending and cruelly extirpated people. At several places,
+by the margin of the lake, are small clusters of winter and summer wigwams
+in ruins. One difference, among others, between the Boeothick wigwams and
+those of the other Indians, is, that in most of the former there are small
+hollows, like nests, dug in the earth around the fireplace, one for each
+person to sit in. These hollows are generally so close together, and also
+so close to the fireplace, and to the sides of the wigwam, that I think it
+probable these people have been accustomed to sleep in a sitting position.
+There was one wooden building constructed for drying and smoking venison
+in, still perfect; also a small log-house, in a dilapidated condition,
+which we took to have been once a storehouse. The wreck of a large,
+handsome, birch-rind canoe, about twenty-two feet in length, comparatively
+new, and certainly very little used, lay thrown up among the bushes at the
+beach. We supposed that the violence of a storm had rent it in the way it
+was found, and that the people who were in it had perished; for the iron
+nails, of which there was no want, all remained in it. Had there been any
+survivors, nails being much prized by these people, they never having held
+intercourse with Europeans, such an article would most likely have been
+taken out for use again. All the birch trees in the vicinity of the lake
+had been rinded, and many of them, and of the spruce fir, or var, had the
+bark taken off, to use the inner part of it for food, as noticed before.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Their wooden repositories for the dead are what are in the most perfect
+  state of preservation. These are of different constructions, it would appear,
+  according to the character or rank of the persons entombed. In one of them,
+  which resembled a hut ten feet by eight or nine, and four or five feet high
+  in the centre, floored with squared poles, the roof covered with rinds of trees,
+  and in every way well secured against the weather inside, and the intrusion
+  of wild beasts, there were two grown persons laid out at full length, on the
+  floor, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page150" id="page150"></a>[pg 150]</span>the
+  bodies wrapped round with deerskins. One of these bodies appeared to have been
+  placed here not longer ago than five or six years. We thought there were children
+  laid in here also. On first opening this building, by removing the posts which
+  formed the ends, our curiosity was raised to the highest pitch; but what added
+  to our surprise, was the discovery of a white deal coffin, containing a skeleton
+  neatly shrouded in white muslin. After a long pause of conjecture how such a
+  thing existed here, the idea of <i>Mary March</i> occurred to one of the party,
+  and the whole mystery was at once explained.<a name="footnotetag3" id="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;In this cemetery were deposited a variety of articles, in some instances
+the property, in others the representations of the property and utensils,
+and of the achievements, of the deceased. There were two small wooden
+images of a man and woman, no doubt meant to represent husband and wife and
+a small doll which we supposed to represent a child (for <i>Mary March</i> had
+to leave her only child here, which died two days after she was taken);
+several small models of their canoes; two small models of boats; an iron
+axe; a bow and quiver of arrows were placed by the side of <i>Mary March's</i>
+husband; and two fire-stones (radiated iron pyrites, from which they
+produce fire, by striking them together) lay at his head; there were also
+various kinds of culinary utensils, neatly made, of birch rind and
+ornamented; and many other things, of some of which we did not know the use
+or meaning.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Another mode of sepulture which we saw here was, where the body of the
+deceased had been wrapped in birch rind, and with his property, placed on a
+sort of scaffold about four feet and a half from the ground. The scaffold
+was formed of four posts, about seven feet high, fixed perpendicularly in
+the ground, to sustain a kind of crib, five feet and a half in length, by
+four in breadth, with a floor made of small squared beams, laid close
+together horizontally, and on which the body and property rested.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;A third mode was, when the body, bent together, and wrapped in birch rind,
+was enclosed in a kind of box, on the ground. The box was made of small
+squared posts, laid on each other horizontally, and notched at the corners,
+to make them meet close; it was about four feet by three, and two and a
+half feet deep, and well lined with birch rind, to exclude the weather from
+the inside. The body lay on its right side.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;A fourth and the most common mode of burying among these people, has
+  been, to wrap the body in birch rind, and cover it over with a heap of stones,
+  on the surface of the earth, in some retired spot; sometimes the body, thus
+  wrapped up, is put a foot or two under <span class="pagenum"><a name="page151" id="page151"></a>[pg
+  151]</span>the surface, and the spot covered with stones; in one place, where
+  the ground was sandy and soft, they appeared to have been buried deeper, and
+  no stones placed over the graves.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;These people appear to have always shewn great respect for their dead; and
+the most remarkable remains of them commonly observed by Europeans at the
+sea-coast, are their burying-places. These are at particular chosen spots;
+and it is well known that they have been in the habit of bringing their
+dead from a distance to them. With their women they bury only their
+clothes.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;On the north-side of the lake, opposite the River Exploits, are the
+extremities of two deer fences, about half a mile apart, where they lead to
+the water. It is understood that they diverge many miles in north-westerly
+directions. The Red Indian makes these fences to lead and scare the deer to
+the lake, during the periodical migration of these animals; the Indians
+being stationed looking out, when the deer get into the water to swim
+across, the lake being narrow at this end, they attack and kill the animals
+with spears out of their canoes. In this way they secure their winter
+provisions before the severity of that season sets in.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;There were other old remains of different kinds peculiar to these people
+met with about the lake.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;One night we encamped on the foundation of an old Red Indian wigwam, on
+the extremity of a point of land which juts out into the lake, and exposed
+to the view of the whole country around. A large fire at night is the life
+and soul of such a party as ours, and when it blazed up at times, I could
+not help observing that two of my Indians evinced uneasiness and want of
+confidence in things around, as if they thought themselves usurpers on the
+Red Indian territory. From time immemorial none of the Indians of the other
+tribes had ever encamped near this lake fearlessly, and, as we had now
+done, in the very centre of such a country; the lake and territory adjacent
+having been always considered to belong exclusively to the Red Indians, and
+to have been occupied by them. It had been our invariable practice
+hitherto, to encamp near the hills, and be on their summits by the dawn of
+day, to try to discover the morning smoke ascending from the Red Indians'
+camps; and to prevent the discovery of ourselves, we extinguished our own
+fire always some length of time before daylight.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Our only and frail hope now left of seeing the Red Indians, lay on the
+banks of the River Exploits, on our return to the sea-coast.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;The Red Indians' Lake discharges itself about three or four miles from its
+north-east end, and its waters form the River Exploits. From the lake to
+the sea-coast is considered about seventy miles; and down this noble river
+the steady perseverance and intrepidity of my Indians carried me on rafts
+in four days, to accomplish which otherwise, would have required, probably,
+two weeks. We landed at various places on both banks of the river on our
+way down, but found no traces of the Red Indians so recent as those seen at
+the portage at Badger Bay-Great Lake, towards the beginning of our
+excursion. During our descent, we had to construct new rafts at the
+different waterfalls. Sometimes we were carried down the rapids at the rate
+of ten miles an hour, or more, with considerable risk of destruction to the
+whole party, for we were always together on one raft.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;What arrests the attention most, while gliding down the stream, is the
+extent of the Indian fences to entrap the deer. They extend from the lake
+downwards, continuous, on the banks of the river, at least thirty miles.
+There are openings left here and there in them, for the animals to go
+through and swim across the river, and at these places the Indians are
+stationed, and kill them in the water with spears, out of their canoes, as
+at the lake. Here, then, connecting these fences with those on the
+north-west side of the lake, is at least forty miles of country, easterly
+and westerly, prepared to intercept all the deer that pass that way in
+their periodical migrations. It was melancholy to contemplate the gigantic,
+yet feeble, efforts of a whole primitive nation, in their anxiety to
+provide subsistence, forsaken and going to decay.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;There must have been hundreds of the Red Indians, and that not many years
+ago, to have kept up these fences and pounds. As their numbers were
+lessened so was their ability to keep them up for the purposes intended;
+and now the deer pass the whole line unmolested.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;We infer, that the few of these people who yet survive have taken refuge
+in some sequestered spot, still in the northern part of the island, and
+where they can procure deer to subsist on.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;On the 29th of November we had again returned to the mouth of the River
+  Exploits, in thirty days after our departure from thence, after having made
+  a <span class="pagenum"><a name="page152" id="page152"></a>[pg 152]</span>complete
+  circuit of about 200 miles in the Red Indian territory.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;In conclusion, I congratulate the institution on the acquisition of
+several ingenious articles, the manufacture of the <i>Boeothicks</i>, or Red
+Indians, some of which we had the good fortune to discover on our recent
+excursion;&mdash;models of their canoes, bows and arrows, spears of different
+kinds, &amp;c.; and also a complete dress worn by that people. Their mode of
+kindling fire is not only original, but, as far as we at present know, is
+peculiar to the tribe. These articles, together with a short vocabulary of
+their language, consisting of 200 or 300 words, which I have been enabled
+to collect, prove the Boeothicks to be a distinct tribe from any hitherto
+discovered in North America. One remarkable characteristic of their
+language, and in which it resembles those of Europe more than any other
+Indian languages do, with which we have had an opportunity of comparing
+it,&mdash;is its abounding in diphthongs.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Cormack thinks that after the unfortunate circumstances attending past
+encounters between the Europeans and the Red Indians, it is best now to
+employ Indians belonging to the other tribes to be the medium of the
+intercourse in view; and he has chosen three intelligent men from
+Newfoundland to follow up the search.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>NOTES OF A READER.</h2>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>DERWENTWATER.</h3>
+
+<p>The following touching episodal extract is from Dr. Southey's <i>Colloquies
+on the Progress and Prospects of Society:</i>&mdash;The best general view of
+Derwentwater is from the terrace, between Applethwaite and Milbeck, a
+little beyond the former hamlet. The old roofs and chimneys of that hamlet
+come finely in the foreground, and the trees upon the Ornathwaite estate
+give there a richness to the middle ground, which is wanting in other parts
+of the vale. From that spot I once saw three artists sketching it at the
+same time&mdash;William Westall (who has engraved it among his admirable views
+of Keswick,) Glover, and Edward Nash, my dear, kind-hearted friend and
+fellow-traveller, whose death has darkened some of the blithest
+recollections of my latter life. I know not from which of the surrounding
+heights it is seen to most advantage; any one will amply repay the labour
+of the ascent; and often as I have ascended them all, it has never been
+without a fresh delight. The best near view is from a field adjoining
+Friar's Craig. There it is that, if I had Aladdin's lamp, or Fortunatus's
+purse (with leave of Greenwich Hospital be it spoken,) I would build myself
+a house.</p>
+
+<p>Thither I had strolled, on one of those first genial days of spring which
+seem to affect the animal not less than the vegetable creation. At such
+times even I, sedentary as I am, feel a craving for the open air and
+sunshine, and creep out as instinctively as snails after a shower. Such
+seasons, which have an exhilarating effect upon youth, produce a soothing
+one when we are advanced in life. The root of an ash tree, on the bank
+which bends round the little bay, had been half bared by the waters during
+one of the winter floods, and afforded a commodious resting-place, whereon
+I took my seat, at once basking in the sun and bathing, as it were, in the
+vernal breeze. But delightful as all about me was to eye, and ear, and
+feeling, it brought with it a natural reflection, that the scene which I
+now beheld was the same which it had been and would continue to be, while
+so many of those with whom I had formerly enjoyed it, were past away. Our
+day-dreams become retrospective as we advance in years; and the heart
+feeds as naturally upon remembrance in age as upon hope in youth.</p>
+
+<p class="quote">&quot;Where are they gone, the old familiar faces?&quot;</p>
+<p>I thought of her, whom I had so often seen plying her little skiff upon
+that glassy water, the lady of the lake. It was like a poet's dream, or a
+vision of romance, to behold her&mdash;and like a vision or a dream she had
+departed!</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>&quot;O gentle Emma, o'er a lovelier form</p>
+<p>Than thine, earth never closed; nor e'er did heaven</p>
+<p>Receive a purer spirit from the world!&quot;</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>I thought of D., the most familiar of my friends during those years when we
+  lived near enough to each other for familiar intercourse&mdash;my friend, and
+  the friend of all who were dearest to me; a man, of whom all who knew him will
+  concur with me in saying, that they never knew, nor could conceive of one more
+  strictly dutiful, more actively benevolent, more truly kind, more thoroughly
+  good; the pleasantest companion, the sincerest counsellor, the most considerate
+  friend, the kindest host, the welcomest guest. After our separation, he had
+  visited me here three summers; with him it was that I had first explored this
+  land of lakes in all directions; and again and again should we have retraced
+  our steps in the wildest recesses of these vales and mountains, and lived over
+  the <span class="pagenum"><a name="page153" id="page153"></a>[pg 153]</span>past
+  again, if he had not, too early for all who loved him,</p>
+
+<p class="quote">&quot;Began the travel of eternity.&quot;</p>
+<p>I called to mind my hopeful H&mdash;&mdash;, too, so often the sweet companion of my
+morning walks to this very spot; in whom I had fondly thought my better
+part should have survived me, and</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>&quot;With whom it seemed my very life</p>
+<p class="i14">Went half away!</p>
+<p>But we shall meet&mdash;but we shall meet</p>
+<p>Where parting tears shall never flow;</p>
+<p>And when I think thereon, almost</p>
+<p class="i14">I long to go!&quot;</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>&quot;Thy dead shall live, O Lord; together with my dead body shall they arise.
+Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust! for Thy dew is as the dew of herbs;
+and the earth shall cast out her dead!&quot;</p>
+
+<p>Surely, to the sincere believer death would be an object of desire instead
+of dread, were it not for those ties&mdash;those heartstrings&mdash;by which we are
+attached to life. Nor, indeed, do I believe that it is natural to fear
+death, however generally it may be thought so. From my own feelings I have
+little right to judge; for, although habitually mindful that the hour
+cometh, and even now may be, it has never appeared actually near enough to
+make me duly apprehend its effect upon myself. But from what I have
+observed, and what I have heard those persons say whose professions lead
+them to the dying, I am induced to infer that the fear of death is not
+common, and that where it exists it proceeds rather from a diseased and
+enfeebled mind, than from any principle in our nature. Certain it is, that
+among the poor the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet
+and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is
+as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious
+raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith; and they are
+willing to lay down the burden of a weary life, in the sure and certain
+hope of a blessed immortality. Who, indeed, is there, that would not gladly
+make the exchange, if he lived only for himself, and were to leave none who
+stood in need of him&mdash;no eyes to weep at his departure, no hearts to ache
+for his loss? The day of death, says the preacher, is better than the day
+of one's birth; a sentence to which whoever has lived long, and may humbly
+hope that he has not lived ill, must heartily assent.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>MASANIELLO.</h3>
+<p>The last No. (8,) of the <i>Foreign Quarley Review</i>, just published, contains
+an attractive article on the Revolutions of Naples, in 1647 and 1648, in
+which Masaniello played so conspicuous a part. The paper is in the easy
+historical style of Sir Walter Scott; but as little could be selected for
+our pages, except the Adventures of the Rebel Fisherman, and as we have
+given the leading events of his life in an early volume of the <span class="scaps">Mirror</span>, we
+content ourselves with the following passage. After a tolerably fair
+estimate of the character of Masaniello, in which Sir Walter considers his
+extraordinary rise as a work of fortune and contingency rather than of his
+own device in the conception, or his own exertions in the execution&mdash;the
+writer says&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;It would be doing Masaniello injustice, however, if we did not add, that
+  having no distinct prospect of rendering essential service to his country, he
+  was at the same time totally free from any sinister views of personal aggrandizement.
+  He appears to have been sincere in his wishes, that when he had set Naples free,&mdash;by
+  which he understood the abolition of imposts,&mdash;the government of it should
+  be committed to a popular management. The Memoirs of 1828 record a singular
+  circumstance with regard to this point, on the authority of De Santis. While,
+  on Friday, July 12th, the sixth day of the insurrection, he was sitting in his
+  judgment-seat, a female masked, or man in woman's habit, approached and whispered,
+  'Masaniello, we have reached the goal, a crown is prepared, and it is for thy
+  brows.'&mdash;'For mine?' he replied, 'I desire none but the green wreath with
+  which we honour Our Lady's festival in September. When I have delivered my country
+  I shall resume my nets.'&mdash;'You find them no more. Rebellion should not
+  be undertaken, or it should be carried on to the end.'&mdash;'I will resume
+  my nets,' said Masaniello steadily. 'You will not find them,' said the intrusive
+  monitor. 'What, then, shall I find?'&mdash;'Death!' answered the masked figure,
+  and withdrew into the crowd. An evidence of the purity of his intentions, though
+  combined with gross ignorance, was afforded by the rigour with which he insisted
+  on the destruction of the treasure and rich movables found in the houses which
+  were destroyed during the first days of the tumult. Latterly, indeed, he yielded
+  to the suggestions of Genuino and d'Arpaya, that these things should be preserved
+  for the good of the state, and for the purpose of presenting them as a donative
+  to Philip <span class="pagenum"><a name="page154" id="page154"></a>[pg 154]</span>IV.
+  in place of the abolished gabelles. But whatever was the case with regard to
+  less scrupulous insurgents, he participated in no plunder, until vanity produced
+  madness, or madness vanity. On the whole we may conclude, that he was a man
+  whose principal characteristic was the boldness with which he pursued an object
+  ardently desired, but who was alike incapable, from want of knowledge and talents,
+  to avail himself of the success which so wonderfully crowned his enterprise.
+  How far his cruelty was the effect of natural disposition, or a consequence
+  of his malady, is a question that must be left to <span class="scaps">Him</span> to whom alone it can be
+  known.&quot;</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>LONDON.</h3>
+
+<h4><i>Literally translated from a Chinese Poem, by a Chinese who visited England
+  in 1813</i>.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>The towering edifices rise story above story,</p>
+<p>In all the stateliness of splendid mansions:</p>
+<p>Railings of iron thickly stud the sides of every entrance;</p>
+<p>And streams from the river circulate through the walls;</p>
+<p>The sides of each apartment are variegated with devices;</p>
+<p>Through the windows of glass appear the scarlet hangings.</p>
+<p>And in the street itself is presented a beautiful scene;</p>
+<p>The congregated buildings have all the aspect of a picture.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>In London, about the period of the ninth moon,</p>
+<p>The inhabitants delight in travelling to a distance;</p>
+<p>They change their abodes and betake themselves to the country,</p>
+<p>Visiting their friends in their rural retreats.</p>
+<p>The prolonged sound of carriages and steeds is heard through the day;</p>
+<p>Then in autumn the prices of provisions fall,</p>
+<p>And the greater number of dwellings being untenanted,</p>
+<p>Such as require it are repaired and adorned.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>The spacious streets are exceedingly smooth and level,</p>
+<p>Each being crossed by others at intervals;</p>
+<p>On either side perambulate men and females,</p>
+<p>In the centre, career along the carriages and horses;</p>
+<p>The mingled sound of voices is heard in the shops at evening.</p>
+<p>During midwinter the accumulated snows adhere to the pathway,</p>
+<p>Lamps are displayed at night along the street sides,</p>
+<p>Their radiance twinkling like the stars of the sky.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>Mozart was <i>rather vain</i> of the proportion of his hands and feet&mdash;but not
+of having written the Requiem or the Don Juan.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>BURMESE DIGNITY.</h3>
+<p>Mr. Crawfurd, in his account of the <i>Embassy to Ava</i>, relates the
+following specimen of the dignity of a Burmese minister. While sitting
+under an awning on the poop of the steam vessel, a heavy squall, with rain,
+came on.&mdash;&quot;I suggested to his excellency the convenience of going below,
+which he long resisted, under the apprehension of committing his dignity by
+placing himself in a situation where persons might tread over his head, for
+this singular antipathy is common both to the Burmese and Siamese. The
+prejudice is more especially directed against the fair sex; a pretty
+conclusive proof of the estimation in which they are held. His excellency
+seriously demanded to know whether any woman had ever trod upon the poop;
+and being assured in the negative, he consented at length to enter the
+cabin.&quot;</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>STEAM.</h3>
+<p>A quotation from Agathias clearly establishes a knowledge of the
+applicability of steam to mechanical purposes so early as the reign of the
+emperor Justinian, when the philosopher Anthemius most unphilosophically
+employed its powerful agency at Constantinople to shake the house of a
+litigious neighbour. It is also recorded, that Pope Sylvester II.
+constructed an organ, that was worked by steam. As compared with recent
+ingenuity, however, these applications may fairly bring to mind the
+Frenchman's boast of his countryman's invention of the frill and the
+ruffle; while his English opponent claimed for his native land the honour
+of suggesting the addition of the shirt.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>MEDICAL MUSIC.</h3>
+<p>Sharp, the surgeon, Sir Charles Blicke's master, was a great amateur of
+music, but he never used it as a means of curing patients, only in
+attracting them. It was said that he &quot;fiddled himself into practice, and
+fiddled Mr. Pott out of it;&quot; certain it is Mr. Pott, not being a <i>flat</i>,
+did not choose to act in <i>concert</i> with <i>Sharp</i>, and made a quick movement
+to the westward.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p>Boerhaave tells us, that one of the greatest orators of antiquity, Tiberius
+Gracchus, when animated, used to cry out like an old woman; to avoid which,
+he had a servant, who, at these periods, sounded a pipe, by way of hint, as
+well as to pitch the tone, so sensible was he of the importance of a
+well-regulated voice.</p>
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="page155" id="page155"></a>[pg 155]</span>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>LINES ON THE DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES.</h3>
+
+<h4>BY T. CAMPBELL.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>On England's shore I saw a pensive hand,</p>
+<p>With sails unfurl'd for earth's remotest strand,</p>
+<p>Like children parting from a mother, shed</p>
+<p>Tears for the home that could not yield them bread;</p>
+<p>Grief mark'd each face receding from the view,</p>
+<p>'Twas grief to nature honourably true.</p>
+<p>And long, poor wand'rers o'er th' ecliptic deep,</p>
+<p>The song that names but home shall bid you weep;</p>
+<p>Oft shall ye fold your flocks by stars above</p>
+<p>In that far world, and miss the stars ye love;</p>
+<p>Oft, when its tuneless birds scream round forlorn,</p>
+<p>Regret the lark that gladdens England's morn.</p>
+<p>And, giving England's names to distant scenes,</p>
+<p>Lament that earth's extension intervenes.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>But cloud not yet too long, industrious train,</p>
+<p>Your solid good with sorrow nursed in vain:</p>
+<p>For has the heart no interest yet as bland</p>
+<p>As that which binds us to our native land?</p>
+<p>The deep-drawn wish, when children crown our hearth,</p>
+<p>To hear the cherub-chorus of their mirth.</p>
+<p>Undamp'd by dread that want may e'er unhouse,</p>
+<p>Or servile misery knit those smiling brows:</p>
+<p>The pride to rear an independent shed,</p>
+<p>And give the lips we love unborrow'd bread;</p>
+<p>To see a world, from shadowy forests won,</p>
+<p>In youthful beauty wedded to the sun;</p>
+<p>To skirt our home with harvests widely sown,</p>
+<p>And call the blooming landscape all our own,</p>
+<p>Our children's heritage, in prospect long.</p>
+<p>These are the hopes, high-minded hopes and strong.</p>
+<p>That beckon England's wanderers o'er the brine,</p>
+<p>To realms where foreign constellations shine;</p>
+<p>Where streams from undiscovered fountains roll,</p>
+<p>And winds shall fan them from th' Antarctic pole.</p>
+<p>And what though doom'd to shores so far apart</p>
+<p>From England's home, that ev'n the home-sick heart</p>
+<p>Quails, thinking, ere that gulf can be recross'd,</p>
+<p>How large a space of fleeting life is lost:</p>
+<p>Yet there, by time, their bosoms shall be changed,</p>
+<p>And strangers once shall cease to sigh estranged,</p>
+<p>But jocund in the year's long sunshine roam,</p>
+<p>That yields their sickle twice its harvest home.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>There, marking o'er his farm's expanding ring</p>
+<p>New fleeces whiten and new fruits upspring.</p>
+<p>The grey-haired swain, his grandchild sporting round,</p>
+<p>Shall walk at eve his little empire's bound,</p>
+<p>Emblazed with ruby vintage, ripening corn,</p>
+<p>And verdant rampart of Acacian thorn,</p>
+<p>While, mingling with the scent his pipe exhales,</p>
+<p>The orange-grove's and fig-tree's breath prevails;</p>
+<p>Survey with pride beyond a monarch's spoil,</p>
+<p>His honest arm's own subjugated soil;</p>
+<p>And summing all the blessings God has given,</p>
+<p>Put up his patriarchal prayer to Heaven,</p>
+<p>That when his bones shall here repose in peace,</p>
+<p>The scions of his love may still increase,</p>
+<p>And o'er a land where life has ample room,</p>
+<p>In health and plenty innocently bloom.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Delightful land, in wildness ev'n benign,</p>
+<p>The glorious past is ours, the future thine!</p>
+<p>As in a cradled Hercules, we trace</p>
+<p>The lines of empire in thine infant face.</p>
+<p>What nations in thy wide horizon's span</p>
+<p>Shall teem on tracts untrodden yet by man!</p>
+<p>What spacious cities with their spires shall gleam.</p>
+<p>Where now the panther laps a lonely stream.</p>
+<p>And all but brute or reptile life is dumb!</p>
+<p>Land of the free! thy kingdom is to come,</p>
+<p>Of states, with laws from Gothic bondage burst,</p>
+<p>And creeds by charter'd priesthood's unaccurst;</p>
+<p>Of navies, hoisting their emblazon'd flags,</p>
+<p>Where shipless seas now wash unbeacon'd crags;</p>
+<p>Of hosts review'd in dazzling files and squares,</p>
+<p>Their pennon'd trumpets breathing native airs,</p>
+<p>For minstrels thou shalt have of native fire.</p>
+<p>And maids to sing the songs themselves inspire;</p>
+<p>Our very speech, methinks, in after time.</p>
+<p>Shall catch th' Ionian blandness of thy clime;</p>
+<p>And whilst the light and luxury of thy skies</p>
+<span class="sidenote" style="font-size: 200%;">}</span>
+<p>Give brighter smiles to beauteous woman's eyes, </p>
+    <p>The Arts, whose soul is love, shall all spontaneous rise. </p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Untrack'd in deserts lies the marble mine,</p>
+<p>Undug the ore that midst thy roofs shall shine;</p>
+<p>Unborn the hands&mdash;but born they are to be&mdash;</p>
+<p>Fair Australasia, that shall give to thee</p>
+<span class="sidenote" style="font-size: 300%;">}</span>
+    <p>Proud temple domes, with galleries winding high, </p>
+    <p>So vast in space, so just in symmetry, </p>
+    <p>They widen to the contemplating eye, </p>
+<p>With colonnaded aisles in lone array,</p>
+<p>And windows that enrich the flood of day</p>
+<p>O'er tesselated pavements, pictures fair,</p>
+<p>And niched statues breathing golden air,</p>
+<p>Nor there, whilst all that's seen bids Fancy swell,</p>
+<p>Shall Music's voice refuse to seal the spell;</p>
+<p>But choral hymns shall wake enchantment round,</p>
+<p>And organs blow their tempests of sweet sound.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Meanwhile, ere Arts triumphant reach their goal,</p>
+<p>How blest the years of pastoral life shall roll</p>
+<p>Ev'n should some wayward hour the settler's mind</p>
+<p>Brood sad on scenes for ever left behind,</p>
+<p>Yet not a pang that England's name imparts,</p>
+<p>Shall touch a fibre of his children's hearts;</p>
+<p>Bound to that native world by nature's bond,</p>
+<p>Full little shall their wishes rove beyond</p>
+<p>Its mountains blue, and melon-skirted streams.</p>
+<p>Since childhood loved and dreamt of in their dreams.</p>
+<p>How many a name, to us uncouthly wild,</p>
+<p>Shall thrill that region's patriotic child,</p>
+<p>And bring as sweet thoughts o'er his bosom's chords,</p>
+<p>As aught that's named in song to us affords!</p>
+<p>Dear shall that river's margin be to him,</p>
+<p>Where sportive first he bathed his boyish limb.</p>
+<p>Or petted birds, still brighter than their bowers,</p>
+<p>Or twin'd his tame young kangaroo with flowers.</p>
+<p>But mere magnetic yet to memory</p>
+<p>Shall be the sacred spot, still blooming nigh,</p>
+<p>The bower of love, where first his bosom burn'd,</p>
+<p>And smiling passion saw its smile return'd.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Go forth and prosper then, emprizing band;</p>
+<p>May He, who in the hollow of his hand</p>
+<p>The ocean holds, and rules the whirlwind's sweep,</p>
+<p>Assuage its wrath, and guide you on the deep!</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="source"><i>New Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>SMALL TALK AND SMALL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OR HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF AGREEABLE.</h3>
+<p>Conversation, like a shuttlecock, should not be suffered to remain with one
+  person, but ought to pass in turn to all. But as few people think for themselves,
+  so few people talk for themselves, and a colloquial monopoly is as common and
+  as disagreeable as any other. Yet when we observe how much these rattles are
+  caressed, 'tis wonderful there are so few. Talent is by no means <span class="pagenum"><a name="page156" id="page156"></a>[pg
+  156]</span>indispensable, and is the more valuable in proportion as it is flimsy
+  or superficial. The great art lies in the choice of a subject. Let it be some
+  <i>liaison</i> in the <i>beau monde</i>&mdash;the appearance of a new singer
+  or actress&mdash;the detail of a recent duel, with particulars and embellishments,
+  and your fortune is made at once. Do not affect any thing like a literary character,
+  for scholars are reckoned <i>bores</i>. The only matters of this sort with which
+  you can safely meddle are the fashionable novels&mdash;satirical poems&mdash;the
+  magazines, and newspapers (eschewing the political articles as vulgar). It is
+  absolutely necessary to be familiar with the names of all the editors in town,
+  and these can easily be picked up from any of the tatterdemalions who prowl
+  about police offices for the purpose of reporting the trials at a penny per
+  line, which is, in most cases, exactly a penny per line too much. You must drop
+  the complimentary <i>Mr.</i>, and say, &quot;A. of the Chronicle and I&mdash;the
+  last time I saw B. of the Globe&mdash;C. of the Spectator told me t'other day,&quot;
+  and so on. Of course it is not of the slightest consequence whether you ever
+  saw one of the parties. You must also affect to be intimate with the theatrical
+  <i>lions</i>, and be aware of the true state of all managerial squabbles for
+  the season. Swear you have dined a dozen times with Sontag. <i>En passant</i>,
+  the idea of a singer's patronizing a nation <i>wholesale</i>, as she has done
+  in the case of the Silesians, is rather too good. Be indignant with Price for
+  forfeiting Ellen Tree three several times in the sum of thirty pounds, and suppress
+  the fact of his having remitted the penalty in the two first instances. Assume
+  a mysterious air of &quot;I could if I would,&quot; when Miss Love's elopement
+  is mentioned, and state with heroic confidence that the Vesuvius scene in &quot;Masaniello&quot;
+  at Astley's beat Drury by thirteen bricks and two ounces of Greek fire. You
+  must pretend to know the salaries of all the <i>employ&eacute;s</i> in every
+  establishment, and be able to describe the plot of every new piece the moment
+  it is underlined. You can obtain sufficient information to enable you to pass
+  muster on this subject any evening at the Garrick's Head. It would be of great
+  service if you could contrive to be seen in conversation with a respectable
+  actor now and then. You must have seen every sight and exhibited at every exhibition
+  in town, and be able to discuss their several merits or demerits with a &quot;learned
+  spirit.&quot; A knowledge of the principal nobility&mdash;by person at least&mdash;is
+  a <i>sine qua non</i>, for how else should you be able to recount the names
+  of those you saw in the Park on Sunday last? Keep a list of the ages and portions
+  of as many young ladies as possible, and be cautious how you dispose of your
+  information on this score. These, I think, are the principal topics; and the
+  best advice I can give is, &quot;Never be quiet: speak on <i>ad infinitum</i>.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>The man who inwardly digests these rules will be a treasure at any dinner
+party. The awful silence which prevails on the removal of the
+tablecloth&mdash;and an awful silence it surely is&mdash;will be dispelled. No
+ordinary man thinks of speaking, except in monosyllables, till he gets a
+little &quot;elevated,&quot; and then he speaks nonsense as a matter of course. <i>You</i>
+must keep sober&mdash;for people will occasionally get &quot;mellow,&quot; even in good
+society&mdash;and this you will easily manage to do by thinking of the immense
+superiority you will thus secure on joining the ladies in the drawing-room.
+You will be able to hand some blushing fair her coffee without pitching cup
+and contents into her lap, and stoop to pick up her fan or handkerchief
+without incurring the risk of breaking your nose. Should quadrilles be
+proposed, you will also be able to avoid those little <i>dos-&agrave;-dos</i> accidents
+which are by no means agreeable, and be qualified to pronounce, with
+tolerable certainty, which is your own partner.</p>
+
+<p class="source"><i>Sharpe's Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE SELECTOR;<br />
+ AND <br />
+ LITERARY NOTICES OF <br />
+ <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>VIDOCQ.</h3>
+<p>Some very pleasant blunderer is said to have declared Moore's Life of Sheridan
+  to be the best piece of <i>Autobiography</i> he had ever read; and with little
+  more propriety can the concluding volume of <i>Vidocq's Memoirs</i> be said
+  to belong to that species of literature styled Autobiography. The early volumes,
+  however, possessed this feature, but the present is little more than a criminal
+  supplement to the Memoirs. Of this defect, the translator seems to be aware;
+  for in his &quot;Sequel,&quot; he says, instead of the important disclosures
+  promised by the Police Agent, in vol. ii., &quot;he has given us a nomenclature
+  of the assassins, thieves, and swindlers of France, and no more.&quot; He has
+  merely brought down his Memoirs to the year 1816, and <span class="pagenum"><a name="page157" id="page157"></a>[pg
+  157]</span>eked out his fourth volume with anecdotes and counsels, which have
+  in most cases, more interest than novelty to recommend them. Still they are
+  worth reading, although of a different character to the scenes, or as a wag
+  would say, the &quot;concerted pieces&quot; which we have quoted from the three
+  previous volumes. Our present quotations will not therefore possess the interest
+  of complicated schemes.</p>
+
+<p>At page 34, Vidocq awards to our metropolis, no very desirable
+distinction&mdash;</p>
+<h4><i>Town and Country Thieves.</i></h4>
+<p>&quot;No capital in the world, London excepted, has within it so many thieves
+  as Paris. The pavement of the modern Lutetia is incessantly trodden by rogues.
+  It is not surprising; for the facility of hiding them in the crowd makes all
+  that are badly disposed resort thither, whether French or foreign. The greater
+  number are fixed constantly in this vast city; some only come like birds of
+  passage, at the approach of great occasions, or during the summer season. Besides
+  these exotics, there are indigenous plants, which make a fraction in the population,
+  of which the denominator is tolerably high. I leave to the great calculator,
+  M. Charles Dupin, the task of enumerating them in decimals, and telling us if
+  the sum that it amounts to should not be taken into consideration in the application
+  of the black list.&quot;</p>
+<h4><i>False Keys.</i></h4>
+<p>&quot;Cambrioleurs are plunderers of rooms, either by force or with false keys.
+There are of this class thieves of incredible effrontery; that of one
+Beaumont almost surpasses belief. Escaped from the Bagne at Rochefort,
+where he was sentenced to pass twelve years of his life, he came to Paris,
+and scarcely had he arrived there, where he had already practised, when, by
+way of getting his hand in, he committed several trifling robberies, and
+when by these preliminary steps he had proceeded to exploits more worthy of
+his ancient renown, he conceived the project of stealing a treasure. No one
+will imagine that this treasure was that of the <i>Bureau Central</i> (Central
+Office), now the Prefecture of Police! It was already pretty difficult to
+procure impressions of the keys, but he achieved this first difficulty, and
+soon had in his possession all the means of effecting an opening; but to
+open was nothing, it was necessary to open without being perceived, to
+introduce himself without fear of being disturbed, to work without
+witnesses, and go out again freely. Beaumont, who had calculated all the
+difficulties that opposed him, was not dismayed. He had remarked that the
+private room of the chief officer, M. Henri, was nigh to the spot where he
+proposed to effect his entrance; he espied the propitious moment, and
+wished sincerely that some circumstance would call away so dangerous a
+neighbour for some time, and chance was subservient to his wishes.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;One morning, M. Henri was obliged to go out. Beaumont, sure that he would
+not return that day, ran to his house, put on a black coat, and in that
+costume, which, in those days, always announced a magistrate, or public
+functionary, presents himself at the entrance of the <i>Bureau Central</i>. The
+officer to whom he addressed himself supposed, of course, that he was at
+least a commissary. On the invitation of Beaumont, he gave him a soldier,
+whom he placed as sentinel at the entrance to the narrow passage which
+leads to the dep&ocirc;t, and commanded not to allow any person to pass. No
+better expedient could be found for preventing surprise. Thus Beaumont, in
+the midst of a crowd of valuable objects, could, at his leisure, and in
+perfect security, choose what best pleased him; watches, jewels, diamonds,
+precious stones, &amp;c. He chose those which he deemed most valuable, most
+portable, and as soon as he had made his selection, he dismissed the
+sentinel, and disappeared.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;This robbery could not be long concealed, and the following day was
+discovered. Had thunder fallen on the police, they would have been less
+astonished than at this event. To penetrate to the very sanctuary!&mdash;the
+holy of holies! The fact appeared so very extraordinary, that it was
+doubted. Yet it was evident that a robbery had taken place, and to whom was
+it to be attributed? All the suspicions fell on the clerks; sometimes on
+one, sometimes on another; when Beaumont, betrayed by a friend, was
+apprehended, and sentenced a second time.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;The robbery he had committed might be estimated at some hundred thousand
+francs, the greater part of which were found on him.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;'There was wherewithal,' he said, 'to become an honest man; I should have
+become so; it is so easy when rich! yet how many rich men are only
+scoundrels!'&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;These words were the only ones he uttered, when he was apprehended. <span class="pagenum"><a name="page158" id="page158"></a>[pg
+  158]</span>This surprising thief was conducted to Brest; where, after half a
+  dozen escapes, which only served to make his subsequent confinement more rigorous,
+  he died in a frightful state of exhaustion.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Beaumont enjoyed amongst his confraternity a colossal reputation; and even
+now, when a rogue boasts of his lofty exploits&mdash;'Hold your tongue,' they
+say, 'you are not worthy to untie the shoe-strings of Beaumont!'&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;In effect, to have robbed the police was the height of address. Is not a
+robbery of this nature the <i>chef-d'oeuvre</i> of its kind, and can it do
+otherwise than, make its perpetrator a hero in the eyes of his admirers?
+Who should dare to compare with him? Beaumont had robbed the police! Hang
+yourself, brave Crillon! hang yourself, Coignard! hang yourself,
+Pertruisard! hang yourself, Callet!&mdash;to him, you are but of Saint-Jean.
+What is it to have robbed states of service? To have carried off the
+treasure of the army of the Rhine? To have carried off the military
+chest?&mdash;Beaumont had robbed the police! Hang yourselves!&mdash;or go to England,
+they will hang you there.&quot;</p>
+<h4><i>The Misanthropic Swindler</i>.</h4>
+<p>At page 71, Vidocq tells us a strange story of a fellow named Capdeville,
+who affecting misanthropy and disgust of the world, hired an apartment at a
+lone house near Paris, and employed his solitude in obtaining false keys of
+all the other rooms. Not quite settled here, &quot;Capdeville published his
+intention of going out to discover an hermitage where he could pass his
+latter days in peace. He inquired of all the country proprietors who had
+places for sale within a circuit of six leagues, and it was soon known
+through the country that he was on the look-out for a place of the kind.
+Every body knew, of course, something that would suit him, but he would
+have only a patrimonial estate. 'Well, well,' said they, 'since he is so
+scrupulous, let him look out for himself.' This, in fact, he did.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Determined to make a tour, to examine what was most likely to suit him, he
+employed himself ostensibly in preparations for his departure; he was only
+to be absent three or four days, but before he departed, he was anxious to
+know if there was no danger in leaving a secretary, in which were ten
+thousand francs, which he did not wish to take with him. Being assured on
+this point, and full of security, he did not hesitate to set out on his
+proposed journey.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Capdeville did not go to a very great distance. During his sojourn in the
+house he had just left, he had had time to take impressions of all the keys
+which were requisite for his entrance into the dwelling of the landlord,
+who he knew was in the habit of dining in Paris, and did not return very
+early in the evening. By being there at dusk, Capdeville was certain of
+having before him all the time necessary for carrying on his operations.
+The sun had set, and, favoured by the darkness, he passed unperceived
+through Belleville, and having entered the house by the help of false keys,
+he entered the abode of the landlord, which he cleared out even to the
+linen.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Towards the end of the fifth day they began to be uneasy at the
+non-appearance of the misanthrope; the next day a suspicion arose.
+Twenty-four hours later, and there was but one opinion respecting him; he
+was the thief. After such a trick mistrust all misanthropes. To whom then
+shall we trust, in whom place confidence? In philanthropists? By no means.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>The misanthropy in this case must have been infectious, and the disgust of
+the lodger transferred to the landlord.</p>
+
+<p>Other novelties oblige us to break off here for the present, so that
+another spice or two of the frauds of Paris stand over for our next.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>THE ANECDOTE GALLERY</h2>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>RECOLLECTIONS OF PALEY.</h3>
+
+<h4><i>From Best's Personal Memorials</i>.</h4>
+<p>Some one came up to Paley and made an excuse for a friend, who was obliged
+  to defer an intended visit to the subdeanery, because a man who had promised
+  to pay him some money in April, could not pay it till May. &quot;A common case,&quot;
+  said Paley. We all laughed. Paley, by way of rewarding us for our complaisance
+  in being pleased with what was recommended chiefly by the quaintness of his
+  manner, went on:&mdash;&quot;A man should never <i>paay mooney</i> till he can't
+  help it; <i>soomething maay</i> happen.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>At another time he said, &quot;I always desire my wife and daughters to pay
+ready money. It is of no use to desire them to buy only what they want;
+they will always imagine they want what they wish to buy; but that paying
+ready <i>mooney</i> is such a check upon their imagin<i>aa</i>tion.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>Paley's education had been sufficiently hardy. &quot;My father rode to Peterborough,
+  and I rode after him, on a horse that I could not manage. I tumbled <span class="pagenum"><a name="page159" id="page159"></a>[pg
+  159]</span>off. My father, without looking back, cried out, 'Get up again, Will.'
+  When I set up a carriage, it was thought right that my armorial bearings should
+  appear on the panels. Now, we had none of us ever heard of the Paley arms; none
+  of us had ever dreamed that such things existed, or had ever been. All the old
+  folks of the family were consulted; they knew nothing about it. Great search
+  was made, however, and at last we found a silver tankard, on which was engraved
+  a coat of arms. It was carried by common consent that these <i>must</i> be the
+  Paley arms; they were painted on the carriage, and looked very handsome. The
+  carriage went on very well with them; and it was not till six months afterwards
+  that we found out that the tankard had been <i>bought at a sale</i>!&quot;</p>
+
+<p>He told me, &quot;when I wanted to write any thing particularly well,&mdash;to do
+better than ordinary,&mdash;I used to order a post-chaise and go to Longtown; it
+is the first stage from Carlisle towards the north; there is a comfortable,
+quiet inn there. I asked for a room to myself; there then I was, safe from
+the bustle and trouble of a family; and there I remained as long as I
+liked, or till I had finished what I was about.&quot; I said, &quot;That is a very
+curious anecdote;&quot; and I said it in a tone which, from a certain change in
+his countenance, I believe to have set him on musing how this anecdote
+would appear in the history of his life. Paley took his rides on horseback
+occasionally, but always alone, without the attendance even of a servant.
+&quot;I am so bad a horseman, that if any man on horseback was to come near me
+when I am riding, I should certainly have a fall; company would take off my
+attention, and I have need of all I can command to manage my horse and keep
+my seat; I have got a horse, the quietest creature that ever lived, one
+that at Carlisle used to be covered with children from the ears to the
+tail.&quot; Understanding all this, and seeing him gambadoing on the
+race-course, I turned my horse's head another way. &quot;I saw what you meant
+this morning; it was very considerate of you; I am much obliged to you.&quot;
+Paley was too careful of petty expenses, as is frequently the case with
+those who have had but narrow incomes in early life. He kept a sufficiently
+handsome establishment as subdean, but he was stingy. A plentiful fall of
+snow took place during an evening party at the precentors's; two of Mr.
+Subdean's daughters were there; he showed great anxiety on account of the
+necessity that seemed to have arisen of sending them home in a sedan-chair;
+taking the advice of several of the company, whether such necessity really
+and inevitably existed, he said to me, &quot;It is only next door.&quot; &quot;The houses
+touch,&quot; said I, &quot;but it is a long round to your door; the length of both
+houses and then through the garden in front of your house.&quot; He consulted
+the precentor, who, to put the matter in a right point of view, cried out,
+&quot;Let the girls have a chair; it is only three-pence a piece.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>He preached a sermon at Lincoln for the benefit of a charity school. In the
+course of this sermon he related, in familiar but sufficiently dignified
+language, a story of a man who, giving evidence on a trial respecting some
+prescriptive right claimed by the trustees of the charity, was browbeaten
+by the questioning counsel:&mdash;&quot;I suppose the fact to which you swear
+happened when you were a charity boy, and used to go to school there?&quot; The
+witness calmly replied, &quot;I <i>was</i> a charity boy; and all the good that has
+befallen me in life has arisen from the education I received at that
+school.&quot; Paley drew hence an argument in favour of the institution for
+which he pleaded. The whole discourse pleased his auditors, and a
+deputation waited on him to request he would print it. &quot;Gentlemen, I thank
+you for the compliment; but I must give the same answer that I have given
+on other like occasions; and that answer is&mdash;The tap is out.&quot; &quot;The
+Archbishop of York,&quot; said he, speaking of a late primate, &quot;preached one day
+at Carlisle; I was present, and felt muzzy and half asleep; when on a
+sudden I was roused, and began to prick up my ears; and what should I hear
+but a whole page of one of my own books quoted word for word; and this
+without the least acknowledgment, though it was a <i>white bear</i>; a passage
+that is often quoted and well known.&quot; &quot;Now,&quot; said Dr. Milner, Dean of
+Carlisle, who related the anecdote, &quot;guess what inference Paley drew from
+this plagiarism. No; if that court were full of people, not one of them
+would be able to guess: it was this&mdash;I suppose the archbishop's wife makes
+his grace's sermons for him.&quot;</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p>The city has always been the province for satire; and the wits of King Charles's
+  time jested upon nothing else during his whole reign.&mdash;<cite>Addison</cite>.</p>
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="page160" id="page160"></a>[pg 160]</span>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2>
+
+<div class="quote">
+  <p class="indinv">A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.<br />
+    <span class="scaps">Shakspeare</span>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>ERRORS OF THE PRESS.</h3>
+
+<h4><i>By a Reporter</i>.</h4>
+<p>I once had occasion to report, that a certain &quot;noble lord was confined
+  to his house with a <i>violent cold</i>&quot;&mdash;next morning, I found his
+  lordship represented to be &quot;confined with a <i>violent scold</i>!&quot;
+  In the same way, on the occasion of a recent entertainment, I had said &quot;that
+  the first point of attraction and admiration were her <i>ladyship's looks</i>;&quot;
+  this compliment was transferred by the printer to her &quot;<i>ladyship's cooks</i>!&quot;
+  My praises of the &quot;<i>Infant Lyra</i>&quot; were converted to a panegyric
+  on the &quot;<i>infant lyar</i>.&quot; In an account of General Saldanha's conduct
+  at Oporto, I observed that he &quot;<i>behaved like a hero</i>,&quot; while
+  the printer made it appear that he &quot;<i>behaved like a hare</i>.&quot;&mdash;&quot;We,&quot;
+  says the <i>John Bull</i>, &quot;often suffer in this way&mdash;about two years
+  since, we represented Mr. Peel as having joined a party of <i>fiends</i> in
+  Hampshire for the purpose of shooting <i>peasants</i>; and only last week, in
+  a Scotch paper, we saw it gravely stated that a <i>surgeon</i> was taken alive
+  in the river and sold to the inhabitants at 6d. and 10d. per pound.&quot;</p>
+
+<p class="source"><i>Atlas</i>.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>TESTAMENT OF A USURER.</h3>
+<p>&quot;I order that my body be returned to the earth from whence it came, and I
+give my soul to the devil. I give likewise to the devil the souls of my
+wife and children, who encouraged me in usury for the sake of good cheer
+and fine clothes. <i>Item</i>. I give to the devil the soul of my confessor, who
+connived at my crimes by his silence.&quot;</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p>On the day when the news of the decease of Napoleon reached the Tuileries,
+Louis XVIII. was surrounded by a brilliant court, all of whom, with the
+exception of one man, received the intelligence with the most unequivocal
+signs of delight. This man was General Rapp, who burst into tears. The king
+perceived and noticed it. &quot;Yes, Sire,&quot; answered the general, &quot;I do weep for
+Napoleon; and you will excuse it, for to him I owe every thing in the
+world, even the honour of now serving your majesty, since it was he that
+made me what I am!&quot; The king, in an elevated tone of voice, replied,
+&quot;General, I do but esteem you the more. Fidelity which thus survives
+misfortune, proves to me how securely I may depend on you myself.&quot;</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>THE HINT TAKEN.</h3>
+<p>Voltaire after being on terms of friendship with the King of Prussia, owing
+to his wit, gave some offence; when the King said to some of his
+courtiers&mdash;&quot;When we squeeze the orange and have sucked the juice, we throw
+the rest away.&quot; Then said Voltaire <i>I must take care of the peel</i>&mdash;and
+quitted his Prussian majesty's dominions.</p>
+
+<p class="source">L. P. S.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h4><i>(To the Editor of the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+<p>Sir,&mdash;In the distich you have quoted from my Lectures at page 143 of your
+last <span class="scaps">Mirror</span>, it should have been stated that the statue was a Cupid. The
+original lines (Voltaire's) are&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>Qui que tu sois, voici ton ma&icirc;tre,</p>
+<p>Il l'est, le fut, ou le doit &ecirc;tre.</p>
+</div></div>
+<p class="source"><span class="scaps">B. H. Smart.</span><br />
+  <i>Connaught Terrace, Aug. 31</i>.</p>
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+is written with the two figures that make &quot;<i>neuf</i>&quot; (that is, in French,
+either <i>nine</i> or <i>new</i>.) The pun is ingenious.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p>The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.&mdash;<cite>Lavater</cite>.</p>
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+    <p><a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1</b>: <a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a></p>
+    <p> A low resort, something between a French caf&eacute;, and an English pot-house.</p>
+    <p><a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2</b>: <a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+    </p>
+    <p>You will perceive the writer is a <i>hedge-sparrow</i>.</p>
+    <p><a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3</b>: <a href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+    </p>
+    <p>It should be remarked here, that Mary March, so called from the name of
+      the month in which she was taken, was the Red Indian female who was captured
+      and carried away by force from this place by an armed party of English people,
+      nine or ten in number, who came up here in the month of March, 1809. The
+      local government authorities at that time did not foresee the result of
+      offering a reward to <i>bring a Red Indian to them</i>. Her husband was
+      cruelly shot, after nobly making several attempts, single-handed, to rescue
+      her from the captors, in defiance of their fire-arms, and fixed bayonets.
+      His tribe built this cemetery for him, on the foundation of his own wigwam,
+      and his body is one of those now in it. The following winter, Captain Buchan
+      was sent to the River Exploits, by order of the local government of Newfoundland,
+      to take back this woman to the lake, where she was captured, and if possible
+      at the same time, to open a friendly intercourse with her tribe. But she
+      died on board Captain B.'s vessel, at the mouth of the river. Captain B.
+      however, took up her body to the lake; and not meeting with any of her people,
+      left it where they were afterwards likely to meet with it. It appears the
+      Indians were this winter encamped on the banks of the River Exploits, and
+      observed Captain B.'s party passing up the river on the ice. They retired
+      from their encampments in consequence; and, some weeks afterwards, went
+      by a circuitous route to the lake, to ascertain what the party had been
+      doing there. They found <i>Mary March's</i> body, and removed it from where
+      Captain B. had left it to where it now lies, by the side of her husband.
+    </p>
+    <p> With the exception of Captain Buchan's first expedition, by order of the
+      local government of Newfoundland, in the winter of 1810, to endeavour to
+      open a friendly intercourse with the Red Indians, the two parties just mentioned
+      are the only two we know of that had ever before been up to the Red Indian
+      Lake. Captain B. at that time succeeded in forcing an interview with the
+      principal encampment of these people. All of the tribe that remained at
+      that period were then at the Great Lake, divided into parties, and in their
+      winter encampments, at different places in the woods on the margin of the
+      lake. Hostages were exchanged; but Captain B. had not been absent from the
+      Indians two hours, in his return to a dep&ocirc;t left by him at a short
+      distance down the river, to take up additional presents for them, when the
+      want of confidence of these people in the whites evinced itself. A suspicion
+      spread among them that he had gone down to bring up a reinforcement of men,
+      to take them all prisoners to the sea-coast; and they resolved immediately
+      to break up their encampment and retire farther into the country, and alarm
+      and join the rest of their tribe, who were all at the western parts of the
+      lake. To prevent their proceedings being known, they killed and then cut
+      off the heads of the two English hostages; and, on the same afternoon on
+      which Captain B. had left them, they were in full retreat across the lake,
+      with baggage, children, &amp;c. The whole of them afterwards spent the remainder
+      of the winter together, at a place twenty to thirty miles to the south-west,
+      on the south-east side of the lake. On Captain B.'s return to the lake next
+      day or the day after, the cause of the scene there was inexplicable; and
+      it remained a mystery until now, when we can gather some facts relating
+      to these people from the Red Indian woman, <i>Shawnawdithit</i>.</p>
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 388
+       Vol. 14, No. 388, Saturday, September 5, 1829.
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 14, No. 388.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1829. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ST. DUNSTAN'S, FLEET STREET.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+No church in London is perhaps better known than the above, which is
+distinctively called Saint Dunstan's in the West. External elegance has
+little to do with this celebrity, which has been acquired by the two wooden
+figures placed on a pediment in front, representing savages, who indicate
+the hours and quarters by striking a bell with their clubs: this has caused
+a wag to describe them as the most striking wonders of the metropolis.
+Another, who is equally disposed to sport with their notoriety, says, "as
+they are visible in the street, they are more admired by many of the
+populace on Sundays, than the most elegant preacher from the pulpit
+within." We are, however, induced to hope better; especially as Dr. Donne,
+the celebrated Richard Baxter, and the pious Romaine were preachers at St.
+Dunstan's.
+
+There is no evidence when this church was erected; but Stow records burials
+in it so early as the year 1421. The date of the above view is 1739, and
+from a foot-note to the Engraving, we learn that the church was dedicated
+to St. Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, who died A.D. 990. "It was
+anciently a Rectory, in the patronage of the Convent of Westminster.
+Richard de Barking, the abbot, in 1237, granted the advowson to King Henry
+III., which continued in the crown till 1362; it was afterwards in the gift
+of the bishop of London, till 1386; when Robert de Braybrooke, the bishop,
+granted it to the abbot and Convent of Premonastratenses of Alnwick in
+Northumberland, where the patronage remained till their suppression. King
+Edward VI. granted it to the Lord Dudley, but both the Rectory and Advowson
+of the Vicarage were afterwards granted to Sir Richard Sackville, till
+alienated to George Rivers, in 1625; it is now in the gift of Joseph
+Taylor, Esq." (to whom the Plate is dedicated).
+
+St. Dunstan's luckily escaped the fire of London in 1666, which stopped
+within three houses of it, as did also another fire, in 1730. The clock and
+figures were put up in 1761, and an accurate description of them (quoted
+from Smith's _London_ by our esteemed correspondent, P. T. W.) will be
+found at page 148, vol. xi. of the MIRROR. The church was thoroughly
+repaired, and the roof considerably raised in 1701. The last repairs, which
+were considerable, were executed in the year 1820; but it is expected that
+the whole building will be shortly taken down, and a new church erected, so
+as to widen the public thoroughfare.
+
+Our Engraving is an interesting view of the church nearly a century since,
+when a range of shops (since removed) extended beneath the whole of this
+side of the structure; and the respective signs must have been unholy
+appendages to what appeared like part and parcel of a house of prayer. The
+clock is accurately represented, the bracket being a carved figure of Time
+with expanded wings, as mention by Smith. The clockmaker proposed to the
+parish "to do one thing, which London shall not show the like," and we hope
+our Engraving may be the means of rescuing his eccentric ingenuity from
+oblivion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A DESULTORY CHAPTER ON LOCALITIES.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+    Rotterdam and Erasmus.--Holyrood and Mary Queen of
+    Scots.--Scotland.--Switzerland and Rousseau.--Pope's
+    Grotto.--Chiswick, &c.
+
+
+There is perhaps no sentiment more generally felt, or more delightful, than
+that indescribable interest with which we are led to contemplate places and
+scenes, immortalized in historical renown, or hallowed by genius.
+
+The propensity for moving from place to place, so observable in mankind,
+derives, no doubt, its chief zest from the anxiety we feel to visit
+countries of which in the course of our historical researches, we have
+heard and read so much to awaken our interest, and excite our admiration.
+
+Without the early reverence which we as boys imbibe for the departed
+splendour of Greece and Rome, we should not as men be found wandering among
+the ruins of the Pyræus, or the deserted streets of Pompeii. We find it
+impossible to behold unmoved the sad, the astonishing changes which time,
+the arch-destroyer has effected with his giant arm. Our exuberant fancies
+carry us back to those remote periods when all was glory and magnificence,
+where now ruin and desolation have established their melancholy empire.
+Abandoning ourselves to the potent influence of classical contemplations of
+the past, we revel in the full indulgence of antiquarian enthusiasm.
+Imagination, however, needs not in general so wide a field for the exercise
+of her magic powers. We desire perhaps more of pleasurable excitement from
+the recollections attached to spots identified in our minds with events of
+individual or ideal interest, than from the loftier train of thoughts
+produced by a pilgrimage to countries which have become famous in ancient
+or modern story. Thus we experience more delight in visiting places,
+remarkable as having once been the resort or habitations of distinguished
+men, than in viewing the ruins of an ancient citadel, or the site of a
+celebrated battle. The events achieved on the latter may indeed, in their
+time, have turned the scale of empires; but the association of ideas in the
+former instances, speak a thousand times more feeling to our individual
+sympathies. I remember when passing a couple of days in the opulent city of
+Rotterdam, that after walking all the morning along its crowded streets,
+and paying the accustomed stranger's tribute of admiration to its quays,
+its port, and its commercial magnificence, I at length halted before the
+statue of Erasmus. It stands on a pedestal in the middle of a large market,
+and represents the celebrated scholar, clothed in his professor's gown, and
+seemingly gazing with dignified unconcern at the busy multitude around. I
+remained looking at the effigy before me, with a reverential feeling akin
+to that of the devotee at the shrine of a patron saint. Imagination
+transported me back to the eventful times in which Erasmus flourished,
+opening to my mind's eye a long vista of historical recollections, till my
+absorbed demeanour attracted observation. I found myself exposed to that
+vacant stare with which people are so apt to disconcert your composure, if
+they observe you contemplating with curiosity and interest, objects which
+they have seen every day of their lives, and for that very reason always
+pass unnoticed. Leaving then my position, yet anxious to follow up the
+train of ideas it had inspired, I sought, and by dint of inquiry,
+discovered the habitation of Erasmus. It is in a dirty street, and consists
+of one moderately sized, low roofed apartment, on the first floor of an old
+fashioned, ill-built house, which the vicissitudes of time have converted
+into an _Estaminet_.[1] I was conducted up a dark, narrow staircase into
+the close, dingy room, by an ugly, ignorant frau, who seemed to wonder what
+earthly inducement I had to visit her dwelling-house. Lumber and
+moth-eaten furniture were carelessly scattered around. A solitary window,
+partly blocked up by an old mattress, barely admitted light sufficient to
+make objects visible. All was neglect and desolation. It seemed almost
+impossible that so obscure and dismal a lodging could have been occupied by
+so illustrious a tenant. I fancied I beheld the most learned man of his
+age, the counsellor and companion of princes, and the contemporary and
+rival of Sir Thomas More, indulging his classical reveries in this
+comfortless chamber, regardless of its forlorn and squalid aspect. The
+charm was omnipotent. Seated in an ancient leathern-bottomed chair, my
+hostess, and the dust and darkness of the place were overlooked or
+forgotten. The spirit of the mighty dead seemed to hover around, as a sort
+of _genius loci_, rescuing the wretched tenement from otherwise deserved
+oblivion, and making its very dinginess venerable!
+
+    [1] A low resort, something between a French café, and an English
+        pot-house.
+
+On another occasion I recollect experiencing very strikingly, the force of
+local impressions. It was when visiting the apartments of Mary Queen of
+Scots, in the palace of Holyrood. Recalling to mind, with the enthusiasm of
+one of her warmest admirers, every circumstance connected with the eventful
+history of that unfortunate princess, it was impossible for me not to feel
+penetrated with the deepest interest. I traversed the very rooms in which
+she had sat, and conversed, and passed her hours of peaceful privacy. My
+fancy pictured that privacy rudely and brutally invaded by Darnley and his
+ruffian associates, when bent on the murder of the ill-fated Rizzio. I
+mentally compared the circumstances of that deed of blood, as related by
+historians, with the facilities for committing it, afforded by the
+distribution of apartments. They tallied exactly. There was the little room
+in which sat the queen with her ladies and the devoted secretary. Close to
+the door appeared the dark, narrow, turret staircase, which Darnley
+ascended before he rushed into Mary's presence. The struggle must have been
+desperate, for the murder was not effected in that chamber, Rizzio being
+either dragged, or escaped into an adjoining and very obscure anteroom in
+which the crime was perpetrated. They pretend to show you marks of his
+blood yet visible on the floor. Although all such horrible vestiges have
+been most probably long since obliterated, it is yet just possible that
+some may remain. To believe so, at the moment, was a lawful indulgence of
+my previous illusion. I could have followed the train of associations thus
+created much further, had not the person appointed to act as Cicerone
+hurried me through the apartments. Their doors closed against me, and the
+spell was broken.
+
+Edinburgh is full of interesting localities; particularly the old town. In
+its ancient "wynds and closes," now tenanted by the veriest of the plebeian
+race, in former days resided men of the most distinguished rank and
+celebrity. Before the stupendous improvements of later times had justly
+entitled the Scottish metropolis to the appellation of the modern Athens,
+the princes and nobles of the land, its judges and senators, were obliged
+to dwell in those dirty streets and alleys, from which "Auld Reekie"
+derived its then appropriate appellation. When in progress of time they
+removed to more splendid and suitable abodes, their abandoned tenements
+became habitations of wretchedness. Much however remained in them to remind
+posterity of their former proprietors; and whoever is not afraid of
+encountering the spectacle of a swarming population in a state of abject
+and squalid poverty, will find an abundant field for his antiquarian
+researches in the old town of Edinburgh. Like Switzerland, and other
+mountainous countries, Scotland is by nature formed to be a land of
+romantic associations; but how wonderfully have her historians, poets, and
+novelists contributed to create and preserve them! The author of Waverley
+has thrown a classic halo around the wild beauties of his native land, and
+communicated to stranger minds a national enthusiasm which _his_ soul alone
+could have felt, _his_ pen alone inspired! In Scotland, almost every step
+we take is on hallowed ground, and the lover of historical recollections
+may enjoy to its full extent the delight of visiting places immortalized by
+the achievements of her heroes, or the pen of her poets.
+
+To a man fond of localities, travelling either on the continent or in
+England, will furnish numerous opportunities of indulging the reveries to
+which they give birth. It would be hardly possible to name a town, or a
+village, utterly destitute of local interest. In almost every instance,
+some memento would be discovered to hallow its site, and to engage the
+observation of an intelligent traveller. With a mind predisposed to enjoy
+mental associations, they will crowd on us wherever we go, and be suggested
+by the veriest trifles. Rousseau could not contain his ecstacy at
+beholding a little flower (_la parvenche_) in bloom, which thirty years
+before, Madame de Warens had first pointed out to his notice. That simple
+incident summoned up a train of exquisite reminiscences. No one, indeed,
+ever yielded so entirely to the influence of local enthusiasm as the author
+of the _Nouvelle Heloise_. No one has so successfully attempted to invest
+scenes, in themselves beautiful, with the additional and powerful interest
+of ideal recollections. Picturesque as are the shores of Leman, Meillerie,
+and Vevai, yet to Rousseau's sublime conceptions and eloquent descriptions,
+they are chiefly indebted for the celebrity which they enjoy. Nature made
+Switzerland a land of rugged magnificence. To complete the charm, nothing
+was wanted, but that its mountains should be peopled by the creations of
+Rousseau.
+
+It were needless, however, to travel to foreign countries in search of
+interesting localities. Our own island teems with them. In the metropolis
+and its environs, a diligent inquirer will find them at every step. How
+many coffeehouses and taverns are there in London which at one time or
+another have been frequented by celebrated characters, and how many houses
+in which others equally celebrated have resided; such as that of Milton, in
+Westminster; and of Johnson, in Bolt Court. How many old gable-ended
+tenements do we see in the eastern parts of the town that were standing
+before the fire, and which, if explored, might be found to contain the most
+interesting relics of antiquity. What a number of streets, courts, and
+alleys, bearing names at once indicative of their ancient origin, and of
+scenes, and persons, and local circumstances long since forgotten!
+
+Then, if we extend our perambulations to the vicinity of London, how many
+hallowed places shall we meet with? Where can we find a palace like Windsor
+Castle, to which attach the historical recollections of many centuries,
+adding, if possible, yet more solemnity to Gothic grandeur? Again, can
+there be conceived a spot more entirely consecrated to classical
+associations than the grotto, at Twickenham; that retreat in which gazing
+on "Thames translucent stream," Pope passed so many hours of undisturbed
+privacy--that spot
+
+  "Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole,
+  And the bright flame was shot thro' Marchmont's soul."
+
+I have visited it in summer, when the warmth of a mid-day sun has rendered
+the "_frigus amabile_" of the interior doubly inviting, and on such
+occasions, have quite revelled in local enthusiasm.
+
+I remember, some years since, visiting the Duke of Devonshire's beautiful
+villa, at Chiswick, in company with a friend, whose sentiments on the
+subject of local impressions are similar to my own. While I was admiring
+books and paintings in the library, my companion was contemplating in mute
+emotion, the bed upon which Charles Fox breathed his last. That one object
+engrossed all the powers of his soul; every other was forgotten!
+
+C. J.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE HUMBLE SPARROW'S ADDRESS TO T. S. A.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+  My dearest Sir, how great a change
+  Has pass'd upon the groves I range,
+        Nay, all the face of nature!
+  A few weeks back, each pendent bough,
+  The fields, the groves, the mountain's brow,
+  Were bare and leafless all, but now
+        How verdant ev'ry feature!
+
+  Each little songster strives to raise
+  Its highest warbling notes of praise,
+        For all these blessings given:--
+  Ere Sol emerges from behind
+  The eastern hills, the lark we find
+  Soars, as it were on wings of wind,
+        With grateful notes to heaven.
+
+  A thousand others catch the strains,
+  Each bush and tree a tongue contains,
+        That offers up its praises.
+  From morn till the meridian day,
+  From noon till Sol has sunk away,
+  One ceaseless song, one grateful lay,
+        Each feather'd songster raises.
+
+  And when Night's grim and sable band,
+  Spreads her dim curtains o'er the land,
+        And all our prospect closes;
+  Then Philomela, queen of song,
+  The sweetest of the feather'd throng,
+  Takes up the theme the whole night long,
+        While nature all reposes.
+
+  Then surely I, the humblest bird,
+  That e'er among the groves was heard,
+        Should aid the thankful chorus;
+  With _chirping note_ I'll join the sound,
+  For not _a Sparrow_, 'twill be found,
+  Without HIS will falls to the ground,
+        Who high above reigns o'er us.
+
+  But what avail my feeble powers,
+  When softer notes descend in showers,
+        Mine are not worth regarding;
+  No honour'd title gilds my name,
+  No dulcet notes I e'er could claim;
+  So worthless I, you may obtain
+        _Two Sparrows_ for a farthing.
+
+  Besides, I ne'er was form'd to _sing_,
+  And so must soar on humbler wing,
+        Since nature saw it fitter;
+  But yet my feeble powers I'll try,
+  And sound my _chatt'ring_ notes on high,
+  For I am sure you'll not deny
+        To hear my simple _twitter_.
+
+  My gratitude is doubly due,
+  For all the hedges[2] in my view,
+        Afford a verdant cover;
+  I now can build my nest once more,
+  From childhood's prying glance secure,
+  And from the hawk's keen eye, tho' o'er
+        The sacred bush he hover.
+
+  Oh! had I Philomela's tongue,
+  The thrush's note, or warbling song
+        Of blackbird, lark, or linnet;
+  I'd then more gratitude display,
+  Striving to raise a sweeter lay,
+  I'd sing the fleeting hours away,
+        Nor silent be a minute.
+
+  But I must quit the trembling spray,
+  And to my duty fly away,
+        To pick a straw or feather;
+  My mate is somewhere on the wing,
+  I think she's gone some moss to bring,
+  For we must work while it is spring,
+        And build our nest together.
+
+  So now adieu--I've chirp'd too long,
+  Must leave the finish of my song
+        To some more learned bird's son;
+  Whose mellow notes can charm the ear
+  With no discordant chatter near;
+  So now, dear Sir, I'm your sincere
+        And humble Sparrow.
+
+HERDSON.
+
+    [2] You will perceive the writer is a _hedge-sparrow_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TO A DESTRUCTIVE INSECT ON A ROSEBUD.
+
+IN MANNER OF BURNS.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+  Ye imp o' death, how durst ye dwell
+  Within this pure and hallow'd cell,
+  Thy purposes I ken fu' well
+                Are to destroy,
+  And wi' a mortal breathing spell,
+                To blast each joy!
+
+  Yet why upo' so sma' a flower,
+  Dost thou exert thy deadly pow'r,
+  And nip fair beauty's natal hour,
+                Wi' thy vile breath,
+  It is when wint'ry storms do low'r,
+                We look for death.
+
+  But thou, thou evil one, hast come,
+  To bring this wee rose to its doom,
+  Not i' time of woe and gloom,
+                But i' the spring,
+  When flowerets just begin to bloom.
+                And birds to sing.
+
+  O fie, begone fra out my sight,
+  Nor dare attempt such joy to blight,
+  Thou evil wicked-doing doit,
+                Then hie away,
+  Seek not the _morning_, but the _night_
+                To crush thy prey!
+
+J. F. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE CONTEMPORARY TRAVELLER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE RED INDIANS OF NEWFOUNDLAND.
+
+(_Concluded from page 136._)
+
+
+"We spent several melancholy days wandering on the borders of the east end
+of the lake, surveying the various remains of what we now contemplated to
+have been an unoffending and cruelly extirpated people. At several places,
+by the margin of the lake, are small clusters of winter and summer wigwams
+in ruins. One difference, among others, between the Boeothick wigwams and
+those of the other Indians, is, that in most of the former there are small
+hollows, like nests, dug in the earth around the fireplace, one for each
+person to sit in. These hollows are generally so close together, and also
+so close to the fireplace, and to the sides of the wigwam, that I think it
+probable these people have been accustomed to sleep in a sitting position.
+There was one wooden building constructed for drying and smoking venison
+in, still perfect; also a small log-house, in a dilapidated condition,
+which we took to have been once a storehouse. The wreck of a large,
+handsome, birch-rind canoe, about twenty-two feet in length, comparatively
+new, and certainly very little used, lay thrown up among the bushes at the
+beach. We supposed that the violence of a storm had rent it in the way it
+was found, and that the people who were in it had perished; for the iron
+nails, of which there was no want, all remained in it. Had there been any
+survivors, nails being much prized by these people, they never having held
+intercourse with Europeans, such an article would most likely have been
+taken out for use again. All the birch trees in the vicinity of the lake
+had been rinded, and many of them, and of the spruce fir, or var, had the
+bark taken off, to use the inner part of it for food, as noticed before."
+
+"Their wooden repositories for the dead are what are in the most perfect
+state of preservation. These are of different constructions, it would
+appear, according to the character or rank of the persons entombed. In one
+of them, which resembled a hut ten feet by eight or nine, and four or five
+feet high in the centre, floored with squared poles, the roof covered with
+rinds of trees, and in every way well secured against the weather inside,
+and the intrusion of wild beasts, there were two grown persons laid out at
+full length, on the floor, the bodies wrapped round with deerskins. One of
+these bodies appeared to have been placed here not longer ago than five or
+six years. We thought there were children laid in here also. On first
+opening this building, by removing the posts which formed the ends, our
+curiosity was raised to the highest pitch; but what added to our surprise,
+was the discovery of a white deal coffin, containing a skeleton neatly
+shrouded in white muslin. After a long pause of conjecture how such a thing
+existed here, the idea of _Mary March_ occurred to one of the party, and
+the whole mystery was at once explained.[3]"
+
+    [3] It should be remarked here, that Mary March, so called from the
+        name of the month in which she was taken, was the Red Indian
+        female who was captured and carried away by force from this
+        place by an armed party of English people, nine or ten in
+        number, who came up here in the month of March, 1809. The local
+        government authorities at that time did not foresee the result
+        of offering a reward to _bring a Red Indian to them_. Her
+        husband was cruelly shot, after nobly making several attempts,
+        single-handed, to rescue her from the captors, in defiance of
+        their fire-arms, and fixed bayonets. His tribe built this
+        cemetery for him, on the foundation of his own wigwam, and his
+        body is one of those now in it. The following winter, Captain
+        Buchan was sent to the River Exploits, by order of the local
+        government of Newfoundland, to take back this woman to the lake,
+        where she was captured, and if possible at the same time, to
+        open a friendly intercourse with her tribe. But she died on
+        board Captain B.'s vessel, at the mouth of the river. Captain B.
+        however, took up her body to the lake; and not meeting with any
+        of her people, left it where they were afterwards likely to meet
+        with it. It appears the Indians were this winter encamped on the
+        banks of the River Exploits, and observed Captain B.'s party
+        passing up the river on the ice. They retired from their
+        encampments in consequence; and, some weeks afterwards, went by
+        a circuitous route to the lake, to ascertain what the party had
+        been doing there. They found _Mary March's_ body, and removed it
+        from where Captain B. had left it to where it now lies, by the
+        side of her husband.
+
+        With the exception of Captain Buchan's first expedition, by
+        order of the local government of Newfoundland, in the winter of
+        1810, to endeavour to open a friendly intercourse with the Red
+        Indians, the two parties just mentioned are the only two we know
+        of that had ever before been up to the Red Indian Lake. Captain
+        B. at that time succeeded in forcing an interview with the
+        principal encampment of these people. All of the tribe that
+        remained at that period were then at the Great Lake, divided
+        into parties, and in their winter encampments, at different
+        places in the woods on the margin of the lake. Hostages were
+        exchanged; but Captain B. had not been absent from the Indians
+        two hours, in his return to a depôt left by him at a short
+        distance down the river, to take up additional presents for
+        them, when the want of confidence of these people in the whites
+        evinced itself. A suspicion spread among them that he had gone
+        down to bring up a reinforcement of men, to take them all
+        prisoners to the sea-coast; and they resolved immediately to
+        break up their encampment and retire farther into the country,
+        and alarm and join the rest of their tribe, who were all at the
+        western parts of the lake. To prevent their proceedings being
+        known, they killed and then cut off the heads of the two English
+        hostages; and, on the same afternoon on which Captain B. had
+        left them, they were in full retreat across the lake, with
+        baggage, children, &c. The whole of them afterwards spent the
+        remainder of the winter together, at a place twenty to thirty
+        miles to the south-west, on the south-east side of the lake. On
+        Captain B.'s return to the lake next day or the day after, the
+        cause of the scene there was inexplicable; and it remained a
+        mystery until now, when we can gather some facts relating to
+        these people from the Red Indian woman, _Shawnawdithit_.
+
+"In this cemetery were deposited a variety of articles, in some instances
+the property, in others the representations of the property and utensils,
+and of the achievements, of the deceased. There were two small wooden
+images of a man and woman, no doubt meant to represent husband and wife and
+a small doll which we supposed to represent a child (for _Mary March_ had
+to leave her only child here, which died two days after she was taken);
+several small models of their canoes; two small models of boats; an iron
+axe; a bow and quiver of arrows were placed by the side of _Mary March's_
+husband; and two fire-stones (radiated iron pyrites, from which they
+produce fire, by striking them together) lay at his head; there were also
+various kinds of culinary utensils, neatly made, of birch rind and
+ornamented; and many other things, of some of which we did not know the use
+or meaning."
+
+"Another mode of sepulture which we saw here was, where the body of the
+deceased had been wrapped in birch rind, and with his property, placed on a
+sort of scaffold about four feet and a half from the ground. The scaffold
+was formed of four posts, about seven feet high, fixed perpendicularly in
+the ground, to sustain a kind of crib, five feet and a half in length, by
+four in breadth, with a floor made of small squared beams, laid close
+together horizontally, and on which the body and property rested."
+
+"A third mode was, when the body, bent together, and wrapped in birch rind,
+was enclosed in a kind of box, on the ground. The box was made of small
+squared posts, laid on each other horizontally, and notched at the corners,
+to make them meet close; it was about four feet by three, and two and a
+half feet deep, and well lined with birch rind, to exclude the weather from
+the inside. The body lay on its right side."
+
+"A fourth and the most common mode of burying among these people, has been,
+to wrap the body in birch rind, and cover it over with a heap of stones, on
+the surface of the earth, in some retired spot; sometimes the body, thus
+wrapped up, is put a foot or two under the surface, and the spot covered
+with stones; in one place, where the ground was sandy and soft, they
+appeared to have been buried deeper, and no stones placed over the graves."
+
+"These people appear to have always shewn great respect for their dead; and
+the most remarkable remains of them commonly observed by Europeans at the
+sea-coast, are their burying-places. These are at particular chosen spots;
+and it is well known that they have been in the habit of bringing their
+dead from a distance to them. With their women they bury only their
+clothes."
+
+"On the north-side of the lake, opposite the River Exploits, are the
+extremities of two deer fences, about half a mile apart, where they lead to
+the water. It is understood that they diverge many miles in north-westerly
+directions. The Red Indian makes these fences to lead and scare the deer to
+the lake, during the periodical migration of these animals; the Indians
+being stationed looking out, when the deer get into the water to swim
+across, the lake being narrow at this end, they attack and kill the animals
+with spears out of their canoes. In this way they secure their winter
+provisions before the severity of that season sets in."
+
+"There were other old remains of different kinds peculiar to these people
+met with about the lake."
+
+"One night we encamped on the foundation of an old Red Indian wigwam, on
+the extremity of a point of land which juts out into the lake, and exposed
+to the view of the whole country around. A large fire at night is the life
+and soul of such a party as ours, and when it blazed up at times, I could
+not help observing that two of my Indians evinced uneasiness and want of
+confidence in things around, as if they thought themselves usurpers on the
+Red Indian territory. From time immemorial none of the Indians of the other
+tribes had ever encamped near this lake fearlessly, and, as we had now
+done, in the very centre of such a country; the lake and territory adjacent
+having been always considered to belong exclusively to the Red Indians, and
+to have been occupied by them. It had been our invariable practice
+hitherto, to encamp near the hills, and be on their summits by the dawn of
+day, to try to discover the morning smoke ascending from the Red Indians'
+camps; and to prevent the discovery of ourselves, we extinguished our own
+fire always some length of time before daylight."
+
+"Our only and frail hope now left of seeing the Red Indians, lay on the
+banks of the River Exploits, on our return to the sea-coast."
+
+"The Red Indians' Lake discharges itself about three or four miles from its
+north-east end, and its waters form the River Exploits. From the lake to
+the sea-coast is considered about seventy miles; and down this noble river
+the steady perseverance and intrepidity of my Indians carried me on rafts
+in four days, to accomplish which otherwise, would have required, probably,
+two weeks. We landed at various places on both banks of the river on our
+way down, but found no traces of the Red Indians so recent as those seen at
+the portage at Badger Bay-Great Lake, towards the beginning of our
+excursion. During our descent, we had to construct new rafts at the
+different waterfalls. Sometimes we were carried down the rapids at the rate
+of ten miles an hour, or more, with considerable risk of destruction to the
+whole party, for we were always together on one raft."
+
+"What arrests the attention most, while gliding down the stream, is the
+extent of the Indian fences to entrap the deer. They extend from the lake
+downwards, continuous, on the banks of the river, at least thirty miles.
+There are openings left here and there in them, for the animals to go
+through and swim across the river, and at these places the Indians are
+stationed, and kill them in the water with spears, out of their canoes, as
+at the lake. Here, then, connecting these fences with those on the
+north-west side of the lake, is at least forty miles of country, easterly
+and westerly, prepared to intercept all the deer that pass that way in
+their periodical migrations. It was melancholy to contemplate the gigantic,
+yet feeble, efforts of a whole primitive nation, in their anxiety to
+provide subsistence, forsaken and going to decay."
+
+"There must have been hundreds of the Red Indians, and that not many years
+ago, to have kept up these fences and pounds. As their numbers were
+lessened so was their ability to keep them up for the purposes intended;
+and now the deer pass the whole line unmolested."
+
+"We infer, that the few of these people who yet survive have taken refuge
+in some sequestered spot, still in the northern part of the island, and
+where they can procure deer to subsist on."
+
+"On the 29th of November we had again returned to the mouth of the River
+Exploits, in thirty days after our departure from thence, after having made
+a complete circuit of about 200 miles in the Red Indian territory."
+
+"In conclusion, I congratulate the institution on the acquisition of
+several ingenious articles, the manufacture of the _Boeothicks_, or Red
+Indians, some of which we had the good fortune to discover on our recent
+excursion;--models of their canoes, bows and arrows, spears of different
+kinds, &c.; and also a complete dress worn by that people. Their mode of
+kindling fire is not only original, but, as far as we at present know, is
+peculiar to the tribe. These articles, together with a short vocabulary of
+their language, consisting of 200 or 300 words, which I have been enabled
+to collect, prove the Boeothicks to be a distinct tribe from any hitherto
+discovered in North America. One remarkable characteristic of their
+language, and in which it resembles those of Europe more than any other
+Indian languages do, with which we have had an opportunity of comparing
+it,--is its abounding in diphthongs."
+
+Mr. Cormack thinks that after the unfortunate circumstances attending past
+encounters between the Europeans and the Red Indians, it is best now to
+employ Indians belonging to the other tribes to be the medium of the
+intercourse in view; and he has chosen three intelligent men from
+Newfoundland to follow up the search.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+NOTES OF A READER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DERWENTWATER.
+
+
+The following touching episodal extract is from Dr. Southey's _Colloquies
+on the Progress and Prospects of Society:_--The best general view of
+Derwentwater is from the terrace, between Applethwaite and Milbeck, a
+little beyond the former hamlet. The old roofs and chimneys of that hamlet
+come finely in the foreground, and the trees upon the Ornathwaite estate
+give there a richness to the middle ground, which is wanting in other parts
+of the vale. From that spot I once saw three artists sketching it at the
+same time--William Westall (who has engraved it among his admirable views
+of Keswick,) Glover, and Edward Nash, my dear, kind-hearted friend and
+fellow-traveller, whose death has darkened some of the blithest
+recollections of my latter life. I know not from which of the surrounding
+heights it is seen to most advantage; any one will amply repay the labour
+of the ascent; and often as I have ascended them all, it has never been
+without a fresh delight. The best near view is from a field adjoining
+Friar's Craig. There it is that, if I had Aladdin's lamp, or Fortunatus's
+purse (with leave of Greenwich Hospital be it spoken,) I would build myself
+a house.
+
+Thither I had strolled, on one of those first genial days of spring which
+seem to affect the animal not less than the vegetable creation. At such
+times even I, sedentary as I am, feel a craving for the open air and
+sunshine, and creep out as instinctively as snails after a shower. Such
+seasons, which have an exhilarating effect upon youth, produce a soothing
+one when we are advanced in life. The root of an ash tree, on the bank
+which bends round the little bay, had been half bared by the waters during
+one of the winter floods, and afforded a commodious resting-place, whereon
+I took my seat, at once basking in the sun and bathing, as it were, in the
+vernal breeze. But delightful as all about me was to eye, and ear, and
+feeling, it brought with it a natural reflection, that the scene which I
+now beheld was the same which it had been and would continue to be, while
+so many of those with whom I had formerly enjoyed it, were past away. Our
+day-dreams become retrospective as we advance in years; and the heart feeds
+as naturally upon remembrance in age as upon hope in youth.
+
+    "Where are they gone, the old familiar faces?"
+
+I thought of her, whom I had so often seen plying her little skiff upon
+that glassy water, the lady of the lake. It was like a poet's dream, or a
+vision of romance, to behold her--and like a vision or a dream she had
+departed!
+
+  "O gentle Emma, o'er a lovelier form
+  Than thine, earth never closed; nor e'er did heaven
+  Receive a purer spirit from the world!"
+
+I thought of D., the most familiar of my friends during those years when we
+lived near enough to each other for familiar intercourse--my friend, and
+the friend of all who were dearest to me; a man, of whom all who knew him
+will concur with me in saying, that they never knew, nor could conceive of
+one more strictly dutiful, more actively benevolent, more truly kind, more
+thoroughly good; the pleasantest companion, the sincerest counsellor, the
+most considerate friend, the kindest host, the welcomest guest. After our
+separation, he had visited me here three summers; with him it was that I
+had first explored this land of lakes in all directions; and again and
+again should we have retraced our steps in the wildest recesses of these
+vales and mountains, and lived over the past again, if he had not, too
+early for all who loved him,
+
+    "Began the travel of eternity."
+
+I called to mind my hopeful H----, too, so often the sweet companion of my
+morning walks to this very spot; in whom I had fondly thought my better
+part should have survived me, and
+
+  "With whom it seemed my very life
+                Went half away!
+  But we shall meet--but we shall meet
+  Where parting tears shall never flow;
+  And when I think thereon, almost
+                I long to go!"
+
+"Thy dead shall live, O Lord; together with my dead body shall they arise.
+Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust! for Thy dew is as the dew of herbs;
+and the earth shall cast out her dead!"
+
+Surely, to the sincere believer death would be an object of desire instead
+of dread, were it not for those ties--those heartstrings--by which we are
+attached to life. Nor, indeed, do I believe that it is natural to fear
+death, however generally it may be thought so. From my own feelings I have
+little right to judge; for, although habitually mindful that the hour
+cometh, and even now may be, it has never appeared actually near enough to
+make me duly apprehend its effect upon myself. But from what I have
+observed, and what I have heard those persons say whose professions lead
+them to the dying, I am induced to infer that the fear of death is not
+common, and that where it exists it proceeds rather from a diseased and
+enfeebled mind, than from any principle in our nature. Certain it is, that
+among the poor the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet
+and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is
+as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious
+raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith; and they are
+willing to lay down the burden of a weary life, in the sure and certain
+hope of a blessed immortality. Who, indeed, is there, that would not gladly
+make the exchange, if he lived only for himself, and were to leave none who
+stood in need of him--no eyes to weep at his departure, no hearts to ache
+for his loss? The day of death, says the preacher, is better than the day
+of one's birth; a sentence to which whoever has lived long, and may humbly
+hope that he has not lived ill, must heartily assent.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MASANIELLO.
+
+
+The last No. (8,) of the _Foreign Quarley Review_, just published, contains
+an attractive article on the Revolutions of Naples, in 1647 and 1648, in
+which Masaniello played so conspicuous a part. The paper is in the easy
+historical style of Sir Walter Scott; but as little could be selected for
+our pages, except the Adventures of the Rebel Fisherman, and as we have
+given the leading events of his life in an early volume of the MIRROR, we
+content ourselves with the following passage. After a tolerably fair
+estimate of the character of Masaniello, in which Sir Walter considers his
+extraordinary rise as a work of fortune and contingency rather than of his
+own device in the conception, or his own exertions in the execution--the
+writer says--
+
+"It would be doing Masaniello injustice, however, if we did not add, that
+having no distinct prospect of rendering essential service to his country,
+he was at the same time totally free from any sinister views of personal
+aggrandizement. He appears to have been sincere in his wishes, that when he
+had set Naples free,--by which he understood the abolition of imposts,--the
+government of it should be committed to a popular management. The Memoirs
+of 1828 record a singular circumstance with regard to this point, on the
+authority of De Santis. While, on Friday, July 12th, the sixth day of the
+insurrection, he was sitting in his judgment-seat, a female masked, or man
+in woman's habit, approached and whispered, 'Masaniello, we have reached
+the goal, a crown is prepared, and it is for thy brows.'--'For mine?' he
+replied, 'I desire none but the green wreath with which we honour Our
+Lady's festival in September. When I have delivered my country I shall
+resume my nets.'--'You find them no more. Rebellion should not be
+undertaken, or it should be carried on to the end.'--'I will resume my
+nets,' said Masaniello steadily. 'You will not find them,' said the
+intrusive monitor. 'What, then, shall I find?'--'Death!' answered the
+masked figure, and withdrew into the crowd. An evidence of the purity of
+his intentions, though combined with gross ignorance, was afforded by the
+rigour with which he insisted on the destruction of the treasure and rich
+movables found in the houses which were destroyed during the first days of
+the tumult. Latterly, indeed, he yielded to the suggestions of Genuino and
+d'Arpaya, that these things should be preserved for the good of the state,
+and for the purpose of presenting them as a donative to Philip IV. in
+place of the abolished gabelles. But whatever was the case with regard to
+less scrupulous insurgents, he participated in no plunder, until vanity
+produced madness, or madness vanity. On the whole we may conclude, that he
+was a man whose principal characteristic was the boldness with which he
+pursued an object ardently desired, but who was alike incapable, from want
+of knowledge and talents, to avail himself of the success which so
+wonderfully crowned his enterprise. How far his cruelty was the effect of
+natural disposition, or a consequence of his malady, is a question that
+must be left to HIM to whom alone it can be known."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LONDON.
+
+_Literally translated from a Chinese Poem, by a Chinese who visited England
+in 1813._
+
+
+  The towering edifices rise story above story,
+  In all the stateliness of splendid mansions:
+  Railings of iron thickly stud the sides of every entrance;
+  And streams from the river circulate through the walls;
+  The sides of each apartment are variegated with devices;
+  Through the windows of glass appear the scarlet hangings.
+  And in the street itself is presented a beautiful scene;
+  The congregated buildings have all the aspect of a picture.
+
+  In London, about the period of the ninth moon,
+  The inhabitants delight in travelling to a distance;
+  They change their abodes and betake themselves to the country,
+  Visiting their friends in their rural retreats.
+  The prolonged sound of carriages and steeds is heard through the day;
+  Then in autumn the prices of provisions fall,
+  And the greater number of dwellings being untenanted,
+  Such as require it are repaired and adorned.
+
+  The spacious streets are exceedingly smooth and level,
+  Each being crossed by others at intervals;
+  On either side perambulate men and females,
+  In the centre, career along the carriages and horses;
+  The mingled sound of voices is heard in the shops at evening.
+  During midwinter the accumulated snows adhere to the pathway,
+  Lamps are displayed at night along the street sides,
+  Their radiance twinkling like the stars of the sky.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Mozart was _rather vain_ of the proportion of his hands and feet--but not
+of having written the Requiem or the Don Juan.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BURMESE DIGNITY.
+
+
+Mr. Crawfurd, in his account of the _Embassy to Ava_, relates the following
+specimen of the dignity of a Burmese minister. While sitting under an
+awning on the poop of the steam vessel, a heavy squall, with rain, came
+on.--"I suggested to his excellency the convenience of going below, which
+he long resisted, under the apprehension of committing his dignity by
+placing himself in a situation where persons might tread over his head, for
+this singular antipathy is common both to the Burmese and Siamese. The
+prejudice is more especially directed against the fair sex; a pretty
+conclusive proof of the estimation in which they are held. His excellency
+seriously demanded to know whether any woman had ever trod upon the poop;
+and being assured in the negative, he consented at length to enter the
+cabin."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STEAM.
+
+
+A quotation from Agathias clearly establishes a knowledge of the
+applicability of steam to mechanical purposes so early as the reign of the
+emperor Justinian, when the philosopher Anthemius most unphilosophically
+employed its powerful agency at Constantinople to shake the house of a
+litigious neighbour. It is also recorded, that Pope Sylvester II.
+constructed an organ, that was worked by steam. As compared with recent
+ingenuity, however, these applications may fairly bring to mind the
+Frenchman's boast of his countryman's invention of the frill and the
+ruffle; while his English opponent claimed for his native land the honour
+of suggesting the addition of the shirt.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MEDICAL MUSIC.
+
+
+Sharp, the surgeon, Sir Charles Blicke's master, was a great amateur of
+music, but he never used it as a means of curing patients, only in
+attracting them. It was said that he "fiddled himself into practice, and
+fiddled Mr. Pott out of it;" certain it is Mr. Pott, not being a _flat_,
+did not choose to act in _concert_ with _Sharp_, and made a quick movement
+to the westward.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Boerhaave tells us, that one of the greatest orators of antiquity, Tiberius
+Gracchus, when animated, used to cry out like an old woman; to avoid which,
+he had a servant, who, at these periods, sounded a pipe, by way of hint, as
+well as to pitch the tone, so sensible was he of the importance of a
+well-regulated voice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LINES ON THE DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES.
+
+BY T. CAMPBELL.
+
+
+  On England's shore I saw a pensive hand,
+  With sails unfurl'd for earth's remotest strand,
+  Like children parting from a mother, shed
+  Tears for the home that could not yield them bread;
+  Grief mark'd each face receding from the view,
+  'Twas grief to nature honourably true.
+  And long, poor wand'rers o'er th' ecliptic deep,
+  The song that names but home shall bid you weep;
+  Oft shall ye fold your flocks by stars above
+  In that far world, and miss the stars ye love;
+  Oft, when its tuneless birds scream round forlorn,
+  Regret the lark that gladdens England's morn.
+  And, giving England's names to distant scenes,
+  Lament that earth's extension intervenes.
+
+  But cloud not yet too long, industrious train,
+  Your solid good with sorrow nursed in vain:
+  For has the heart no interest yet as bland
+  As that which binds us to our native land?
+  The deep-drawn wish, when children crown our hearth,
+  To hear the cherub-chorus of their mirth.
+  Undamp'd by dread that want may e'er unhouse,
+  Or servile misery knit those smiling brows:
+  The pride to rear an independent shed,
+  And give the lips we love unborrow'd bread;
+  To see a world, from shadowy forests won,
+  In youthful beauty wedded to the sun;
+  To skirt our home with harvests widely sown,
+  And call the blooming landscape all our own,
+  Our children's heritage, in prospect long.
+  These are the hopes, high-minded hopes and strong.
+  That beckon England's wanderers o'er the brine,
+  To realms where foreign constellations shine;
+  Where streams from undiscovered fountains roll,
+  And winds shall fan them from th' Antarctic pole.
+  And what though doom'd to shores so far apart
+  From England's home, that ev'n the home-sick heart
+  Quails, thinking, ere that gulf can be recross'd,
+  How large a space of fleeting life is lost:
+  Yet there, by time, their bosoms shall be changed,
+  And strangers once shall cease to sigh estranged,
+  But jocund in the year's long sunshine roam,
+  That yields their sickle twice its harvest home.
+
+  There, marking o'er his farm's expanding ring
+  New fleeces whiten and new fruits upspring.
+  The grey-haired swain, his grandchild sporting round,
+  Shall walk at eve his little empire's bound,
+  Emblazed with ruby vintage, ripening corn,
+  And verdant rampart of Acacian thorn,
+  While, mingling with the scent his pipe exhales,
+  The orange-grove's and fig-tree's breath prevails;
+  Survey with pride beyond a monarch's spoil,
+  His honest arm's own subjugated soil;
+  And summing all the blessings God has given,
+  Put up his patriarchal prayer to Heaven,
+  That when his bones shall here repose in peace,
+  The scions of his love may still increase,
+  And o'er a land where life has ample room,
+  In health and plenty innocently bloom.
+
+  Delightful land, in wildness ev'n benign,
+  The glorious past is ours, the future thine!
+  As in a cradled Hercules, we trace
+  The lines of empire in thine infant face.
+  What nations in thy wide horizon's span
+  Shall teem on tracts untrodden yet by man!
+  What spacious cities with their spires shall gleam.
+  Where now the panther laps a lonely stream.
+  And all but brute or reptile life is dumb!
+  Land of the free! thy kingdom is to come,
+  Of states, with laws from Gothic bondage burst,
+  And creeds by charter'd priesthood's unaccurst;
+  Of navies, hoisting their emblazon'd flags,
+  Where shipless seas now wash unbeacon'd crags;
+  Of hosts review'd in dazzling files and squares,
+  Their pennon'd trumpets breathing native airs,
+  For minstrels thou shalt have of native fire.
+  And maids to sing the songs themselves inspire;
+  Our very speech, methinks, in after time.
+  Shall catch th' Ionian blandness of thy clime;
+  And whilst the light and luxury of thy skies
+  Give brighter smiles to beauteous woman's eyes,                }
+  The Arts, whose soul is love, shall all spontaneous rise.      }
+
+  Untrack'd in deserts lies the marble mine,
+  Undug the ore that midst thy roofs shall shine;
+  Unborn the hands--but born they are to be--
+  Fair Australasia, that shall give to thee
+  Proud temple domes, with galleries winding high,               }
+  So vast in space, so just in symmetry,                         }
+  They widen to the contemplating eye,                           }
+  With colonnaded aisles in lone array,
+  And windows that enrich the flood of day
+  O'er tesselated pavements, pictures fair,
+  And niched statues breathing golden air,
+  Nor there, whilst all that's seen bids Fancy swell,
+  Shall Music's voice refuse to seal the spell;
+  But choral hymns shall wake enchantment round,
+  And organs blow their tempests of sweet sound.
+
+  Meanwhile, ere Arts triumphant reach their goal,
+  How blest the years of pastoral life shall roll
+  Ev'n should some wayward hour the settler's mind
+  Brood sad on scenes for ever left behind,
+  Yet not a pang that England's name imparts,
+  Shall touch a fibre of his children's hearts;
+  Bound to that native world by nature's bond,
+  Full little shall their wishes rove beyond
+  Its mountains blue, and melon-skirted streams.
+  Since childhood loved and dreamt of in their dreams.
+  How many a name, to us uncouthly wild,
+  Shall thrill that region's patriotic child,
+  And bring as sweet thoughts o'er his bosom's chords,
+  As aught that's named in song to us affords!
+  Dear shall that river's margin be to him,
+  Where sportive first he bathed his boyish limb.
+  Or petted birds, still brighter than their bowers,
+  Or twin'd his tame young kangaroo with flowers.
+  But mere magnetic yet to memory
+  Shall be the sacred spot, still blooming nigh,
+  The bower of love, where first his bosom burn'd,
+  And smiling passion saw its smile return'd.
+
+  Go forth and prosper then, emprizing band;
+  May He, who in the hollow of his hand
+  The ocean holds, and rules the whirlwind's sweep,
+  Assuage its wrath, and guide you on the deep!
+
+_New Monthly Magazine._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SMALL TALK AND SMALL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OR HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF AGREEABLE.
+
+
+Conversation, like a shuttlecock, should not be suffered to remain with one
+person, but ought to pass in turn to all. But as few people think for
+themselves, so few people talk for themselves, and a colloquial monopoly is
+as common and as disagreeable as any other. Yet when we observe how much
+these rattles are caressed, 'tis wonderful there are so few. Talent is by
+no means indispensable, and is the more valuable in proportion as it is
+flimsy or superficial. The great art lies in the choice of a subject. Let
+it be some _liaison_ in the _beau monde_--the appearance of a new singer or
+actress--the detail of a recent duel, with particulars and embellishments,
+and your fortune is made at once. Do not affect any thing like a literary
+character, for scholars are reckoned _bores_. The only matters of this sort
+with which you can safely meddle are the fashionable novels--satirical
+poems--the magazines, and newspapers (eschewing the political articles as
+vulgar). It is absolutely necessary to be familiar with the names of all
+the editors in town, and these can easily be picked up from any of the
+tatterdemalions who prowl about police offices for the purpose of reporting
+the trials at a penny per line, which is, in most cases, exactly a penny
+per line too much. You must drop the complimentary _Mr._, and say, "A. of
+the Chronicle and I--the last time I saw B. of the Globe--C. of the
+Spectator told me t'other day," and so on. Of course it is not of the
+slightest consequence whether you ever saw one of the parties. You must
+also affect to be intimate with the theatrical _lions_, and be aware of the
+true state of all managerial squabbles for the season. Swear you have dined
+a dozen times with Sontag. _En passant_, the idea of a singer's patronizing
+a nation _wholesale_, as she has done in the case of the Silesians, is
+rather too good. Be indignant with Price for forfeiting Ellen Tree three
+several times in the sum of thirty pounds, and suppress the fact of his
+having remitted the penalty in the two first instances. Assume a mysterious
+air of "I could if I would," when Miss Love's elopement is mentioned, and
+state with heroic confidence that the Vesuvius scene in "Masaniello" at
+Astley's beat Drury by thirteen bricks and two ounces of Greek fire. You
+must pretend to know the salaries of all the _employés_ in every
+establishment, and be able to describe the plot of every new piece the
+moment it is underlined. You can obtain sufficient information to enable
+you to pass muster on this subject any evening at the Garrick's Head. It
+would be of great service if you could contrive to be seen in conversation
+with a respectable actor now and then. You must have seen every sight and
+exhibited at every exhibition in town, and be able to discuss their several
+merits or demerits with a "learned spirit." A knowledge of the principal
+nobility--by person at least--is a _sine qua non_, for how else should you
+be able to recount the names of those you saw in the Park on Sunday last?
+Keep a list of the ages and portions of as many young ladies as possible,
+and be cautious how you dispose of your information on this score. These, I
+think, are the principal topics; and the best advice I can give is, "Never
+be quiet: speak on _ad infinitum_."
+
+The man who inwardly digests these rules will be a treasure at any dinner
+party. The awful silence which prevails on the removal of the
+tablecloth--and an awful silence it surely is--will be dispelled. No
+ordinary man thinks of speaking, except in monosyllables, till he gets a
+little "elevated," and then he speaks nonsense as a matter of course. _You_
+must keep sober--for people will occasionally get "mellow," even in good
+society--and this you will easily manage to do by thinking of the immense
+superiority you will thus secure on joining the ladies in the drawing-room.
+You will be able to hand some blushing fair her coffee without pitching cup
+and contents into her lap, and stoop to pick up her fan or handkerchief
+without incurring the risk of breaking your nose. Should quadrilles be
+proposed, you will also be able to avoid those little _dos-à-dos_ accidents
+which are by no means agreeable, and be qualified to pronounce, with
+tolerable certainty, which is your own partner.
+
+_Sharpe's Magazine._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+VIDOCQ.
+
+
+Some very pleasant blunderer is said to have declared Moore's Life of
+Sheridan to be the best piece of _Autobiography_ he had ever read; and with
+little more propriety can the concluding volume of _Vidocq's Memoirs_ be
+said to belong to that species of literature styled Autobiography. The
+early volumes, however, possessed this feature, but the present is little
+more than a criminal supplement to the Memoirs. Of this defect, the
+translator seems to be aware; for in his "Sequel," he says, instead of the
+important disclosures promised by the Police Agent, in vol. ii., "he has
+given us a nomenclature of the assassins, thieves, and swindlers of France,
+and no more." He has merely brought down his Memoirs to the year 1816, and
+eked out his fourth volume with anecdotes and counsels, which have in most
+cases, more interest than novelty to recommend them. Still they are worth
+reading, although of a different character to the scenes, or as a wag would
+say, the "concerted pieces" which we have quoted from the three previous
+volumes. Our present quotations will not therefore possess the interest of
+complicated schemes.
+
+At page 34, Vidocq awards to our metropolis, no very desirable
+distinction--
+
+
+_Town and Country Thieves._
+
+
+"No capital in the world, London excepted, has within it so many thieves as
+Paris. The pavement of the modern Lutetia is incessantly trodden by rogues.
+It is not surprising; for the facility of hiding them in the crowd makes
+all that are badly disposed resort thither, whether French or foreign. The
+greater number are fixed constantly in this vast city; some only come like
+birds of passage, at the approach of great occasions, or during the summer
+season. Besides these exotics, there are indigenous plants, which make a
+fraction in the population, of which the denominator is tolerably high. I
+leave to the great calculator, M. Charles Dupin, the task of enumerating
+them in decimals, and telling us if the sum that it amounts to should not
+be taken into consideration in the application of the black list."
+
+
+_False Keys._
+
+
+"Cambrioleurs are plunderers of rooms, either by force or with false keys.
+There are of this class thieves of incredible effrontery; that of one
+Beaumont almost surpasses belief. Escaped from the Bagne at Rochefort,
+where he was sentenced to pass twelve years of his life, he came to Paris,
+and scarcely had he arrived there, where he had already practised, when, by
+way of getting his hand in, he committed several trifling robberies, and
+when by these preliminary steps he had proceeded to exploits more worthy of
+his ancient renown, he conceived the project of stealing a treasure. No one
+will imagine that this treasure was that of the _Bureau Central_ (Central
+Office), now the Prefecture of Police! It was already pretty difficult to
+procure impressions of the keys, but he achieved this first difficulty, and
+soon had in his possession all the means of effecting an opening; but to
+open was nothing, it was necessary to open without being perceived, to
+introduce himself without fear of being disturbed, to work without
+witnesses, and go out again freely. Beaumont, who had calculated all the
+difficulties that opposed him, was not dismayed. He had remarked that the
+private room of the chief officer, M. Henri, was nigh to the spot where he
+proposed to effect his entrance; he espied the propitious moment, and
+wished sincerely that some circumstance would call away so dangerous a
+neighbour for some time, and chance was subservient to his wishes."
+
+"One morning, M. Henri was obliged to go out. Beaumont, sure that he would
+not return that day, ran to his house, put on a black coat, and in that
+costume, which, in those days, always announced a magistrate, or public
+functionary, presents himself at the entrance of the _Bureau Central_. The
+officer to whom he addressed himself supposed, of course, that he was at
+least a commissary. On the invitation of Beaumont, he gave him a soldier,
+whom he placed as sentinel at the entrance to the narrow passage which
+leads to the depôt, and commanded not to allow any person to pass. No
+better expedient could be found for preventing surprise. Thus Beaumont, in
+the midst of a crowd of valuable objects, could, at his leisure, and in
+perfect security, choose what best pleased him; watches, jewels, diamonds,
+precious stones, &c. He chose those which he deemed most valuable, most
+portable, and as soon as he had made his selection, he dismissed the
+sentinel, and disappeared."
+
+"This robbery could not be long concealed, and the following day was
+discovered. Had thunder fallen on the police, they would have been less
+astonished than at this event. To penetrate to the very sanctuary!--the
+holy of holies! The fact appeared so very extraordinary, that it was
+doubted. Yet it was evident that a robbery had taken place, and to whom was
+it to be attributed? All the suspicions fell on the clerks; sometimes on
+one, sometimes on another; when Beaumont, betrayed by a friend, was
+apprehended, and sentenced a second time."
+
+"The robbery he had committed might be estimated at some hundred thousand
+francs, the greater part of which were found on him."
+
+"'There was wherewithal,' he said, 'to become an honest man; I should have
+become so; it is so easy when rich! yet how many rich men are only
+scoundrels!'"
+
+"These words were the only ones he uttered, when he was apprehended. This
+surprising thief was conducted to Brest; where, after half a dozen escapes,
+which only served to make his subsequent confinement more rigorous, he died
+in a frightful state of exhaustion."
+
+"Beaumont enjoyed amongst his confraternity a colossal reputation; and even
+now, when a rogue boasts of his lofty exploits--'Hold your tongue,' they
+say, 'you are not worthy to untie the shoe-strings of Beaumont!'"
+
+"In effect, to have robbed the police was the height of address. Is not a
+robbery of this nature the _chef-d'oeuvre_ of its kind, and can it do
+otherwise than, make its perpetrator a hero in the eyes of his admirers?
+Who should dare to compare with him? Beaumont had robbed the police! Hang
+yourself, brave Crillon! hang yourself, Coignard! hang yourself,
+Pertruisard! hang yourself, Callet!--to him, you are but of Saint-Jean.
+What is it to have robbed states of service? To have carried off the
+treasure of the army of the Rhine? To have carried off the military
+chest?--Beaumont had robbed the police! Hang yourselves!--or go to England,
+they will hang you there."
+
+
+_The Misanthropic Swindler._
+
+
+At page 71, Vidocq tells us a strange story of a fellow named Capdeville,
+who affecting misanthropy and disgust of the world, hired an apartment at a
+lone house near Paris, and employed his solitude in obtaining false keys of
+all the other rooms. Not quite settled here, "Capdeville published his
+intention of going out to discover an hermitage where he could pass his
+latter days in peace. He inquired of all the country proprietors who had
+places for sale within a circuit of six leagues, and it was soon known
+through the country that he was on the look-out for a place of the kind.
+Every body knew, of course, something that would suit him, but he would
+have only a patrimonial estate. 'Well, well,' said they, 'since he is so
+scrupulous, let him look out for himself.' This, in fact, he did."
+
+"Determined to make a tour, to examine what was most likely to suit him, he
+employed himself ostensibly in preparations for his departure; he was only
+to be absent three or four days, but before he departed, he was anxious to
+know if there was no danger in leaving a secretary, in which were ten
+thousand francs, which he did not wish to take with him. Being assured on
+this point, and full of security, he did not hesitate to set out on his
+proposed journey."
+
+"Capdeville did not go to a very great distance. During his sojourn in the
+house he had just left, he had had time to take impressions of all the keys
+which were requisite for his entrance into the dwelling of the landlord,
+who he knew was in the habit of dining in Paris, and did not return very
+early in the evening. By being there at dusk, Capdeville was certain of
+having before him all the time necessary for carrying on his operations.
+The sun had set, and, favoured by the darkness, he passed unperceived
+through Belleville, and having entered the house by the help of false keys,
+he entered the abode of the landlord, which he cleared out even to the
+linen."
+
+"Towards the end of the fifth day they began to be uneasy at the
+non-appearance of the misanthrope; the next day a suspicion arose.
+Twenty-four hours later, and there was but one opinion respecting him; he
+was the thief. After such a trick mistrust all misanthropes. To whom then
+shall we trust, in whom place confidence? In philanthropists? By no means."
+
+The misanthropy in this case must have been infectious, and the disgust of
+the lodger transferred to the landlord.
+
+Other novelties oblige us to break off here for the present, so that
+another spice or two of the frauds of Paris stand over for our next.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE ANECDOTE GALLERY
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+RECOLLECTIONS OF PALEY.
+
+_From Best's Personal Memorials._
+
+
+Some one came up to Paley and made an excuse for a friend, who was obliged
+to defer an intended visit to the subdeanery, because a man who had
+promised to pay him some money in April, could not pay it till May. "A
+common case," said Paley. We all laughed. Paley, by way of rewarding us for
+our complaisance in being pleased with what was recommended chiefly by the
+quaintness of his manner, went on:--"A man should never _paay mooney_ till
+he can't help it; _soomething maay_ happen."
+
+At another time he said, "I always desire my wife and daughters to pay
+ready money. It is of no use to desire them to buy only what they want;
+they will always imagine they want what they wish to buy; but that paying
+ready _mooney_ is such a check upon their imagin_aa_tion."
+
+Paley's education had been sufficiently hardy. "My father rode to
+Peterborough, and I rode after him, on a horse that I could not manage. I
+tumbled off. My father, without looking back, cried out, 'Get up again,
+Will.' When I set up a carriage, it was thought right that my armorial
+bearings should appear on the panels. Now, we had none of us ever heard of
+the Paley arms; none of us had ever dreamed that such things existed, or
+had ever been. All the old folks of the family were consulted; they knew
+nothing about it. Great search was made, however, and at last we found a
+silver tankard, on which was engraved a coat of arms. It was carried by
+common consent that these _must_ be the Paley arms; they were painted on
+the carriage, and looked very handsome. The carriage went on very well with
+them; and it was not till six months afterwards that we found out that the
+tankard had been _bought at a sale_!"
+
+He told me, "when I wanted to write any thing particularly well,--to do
+better than ordinary,--I used to order a post-chaise and go to Longtown; it
+is the first stage from Carlisle towards the north; there is a comfortable,
+quiet inn there. I asked for a room to myself; there then I was, safe from
+the bustle and trouble of a family; and there I remained as long as I
+liked, or till I had finished what I was about." I said, "That is a very
+curious anecdote;" and I said it in a tone which, from a certain change in
+his countenance, I believe to have set him on musing how this anecdote
+would appear in the history of his life. Paley took his rides on horseback
+occasionally, but always alone, without the attendance even of a servant.
+"I am so bad a horseman, that if any man on horseback was to come near me
+when I am riding, I should certainly have a fall; company would take off my
+attention, and I have need of all I can command to manage my horse and keep
+my seat; I have got a horse, the quietest creature that ever lived, one
+that at Carlisle used to be covered with children from the ears to the
+tail." Understanding all this, and seeing him gambadoing on the
+race-course, I turned my horse's head another way. "I saw what you meant
+this morning; it was very considerate of you; I am much obliged to you."
+Paley was too careful of petty expenses, as is frequently the case with
+those who have had but narrow incomes in early life. He kept a sufficiently
+handsome establishment as subdean, but he was stingy. A plentiful fall of
+snow took place during an evening party at the precentors's; two of Mr.
+Subdean's daughters were there; he showed great anxiety on account of the
+necessity that seemed to have arisen of sending them home in a sedan-chair;
+taking the advice of several of the company, whether such necessity really
+and inevitably existed, he said to me, "It is only next door." "The houses
+touch," said I, "but it is a long round to your door; the length of both
+houses and then through the garden in front of your house." He consulted
+the precentor, who, to put the matter in a right point of view, cried out,
+"Let the girls have a chair; it is only three-pence a piece."
+
+He preached a sermon at Lincoln for the benefit of a charity school. In the
+course of this sermon he related, in familiar but sufficiently dignified
+language, a story of a man who, giving evidence on a trial respecting some
+prescriptive right claimed by the trustees of the charity, was browbeaten
+by the questioning counsel:--"I suppose the fact to which you swear
+happened when you were a charity boy, and used to go to school there?" The
+witness calmly replied, "I _was_ a charity boy; and all the good that has
+befallen me in life has arisen from the education I received at that
+school." Paley drew hence an argument in favour of the institution for
+which he pleaded. The whole discourse pleased his auditors, and a
+deputation waited on him to request he would print it. "Gentlemen, I thank
+you for the compliment; but I must give the same answer that I have given
+on other like occasions; and that answer is--The tap is out." "The
+Archbishop of York," said he, speaking of a late primate, "preached one day
+at Carlisle; I was present, and felt muzzy and half asleep; when on a
+sudden I was roused, and began to prick up my ears; and what should I hear
+but a whole page of one of my own books quoted word for word; and this
+without the least acknowledgment, though it was a _white bear_; a passage
+that is often quoted and well known." "Now," said Dr. Milner, Dean of
+Carlisle, who related the anecdote, "guess what inference Paley drew from
+this plagiarism. No; if that court were full of people, not one of them
+would be able to guess: it was this--I suppose the archbishop's wife makes
+his grace's sermons for him."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The city has always been the province for satire; and the wits of King
+Charles's time jested upon nothing else during his whole reign.--_Addison_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+    A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
+    SHAKSPEARE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ERRORS OF THE PRESS.
+
+_By a Reporter._
+
+
+I once had occasion to report, that a certain "noble lord was confined to
+his house with a _violent cold_"--next morning, I found his lordship
+represented to be "confined with a _violent scold_!" In the same way, on
+the occasion of a recent entertainment, I had said "that the first point of
+attraction and admiration were her _ladyship's looks_;" this compliment was
+transferred by the printer to her "_ladyship's cooks_!" My praises of the
+"_Infant Lyra_" were converted to a panegyric on the "_infant lyar_." In an
+account of General Saldanha's conduct at Oporto, I observed that he
+"_behaved like a hero_," while the printer made it appear that he "_behaved
+like a hare_."--"We," says the _John Bull_, "often suffer in this
+way--about two years since, we represented Mr. Peel as having joined a
+party of _fiends_ in Hampshire for the purpose of shooting _peasants_; and
+only last week, in a Scotch paper, we saw it gravely stated that a
+_surgeon_ was taken alive in the river and sold to the inhabitants at 6d.
+and 10d. per pound."
+
+_Atlas._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TESTAMENT OF A USURER.
+
+
+"I order that my body be returned to the earth from whence it came, and I
+give my soul to the devil. I give likewise to the devil the souls of my
+wife and children, who encouraged me in usury for the sake of good cheer
+and fine clothes. _Item_. I give to the devil the soul of my confessor, who
+connived at my crimes by his silence."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+On the day when the news of the decease of Napoleon reached the Tuileries,
+Louis XVIII. was surrounded by a brilliant court, all of whom, with the
+exception of one man, received the intelligence with the most unequivocal
+signs of delight. This man was General Rapp, who burst into tears. The king
+perceived and noticed it. "Yes, Sire," answered the general, "I do weep for
+Napoleon; and you will excuse it, for to him I owe every thing in the
+world, even the honour of now serving your majesty, since it was he that
+made me what I am!" The king, in an elevated tone of voice, replied,
+"General, I do but esteem you the more. Fidelity which thus survives
+misfortune, proves to me how securely I may depend on you myself."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE HINT TAKEN.
+
+
+Voltaire after being on terms of friendship with the King of Prussia, owing
+to his wit, gave some offence; when the King said to some of his
+courtiers--"When we squeeze the orange and have sucked the juice, we throw
+the rest away." Then said Voltaire _I must take care of the peel_--and
+quitted his Prussian majesty's dominions.
+
+L. P. S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror._)
+
+
+Sir,--In the distich you have quoted from my Lectures at page 143 of your
+last MIRROR, it should have been stated that the statue was a Cupid. The
+original lines (Voltaire's) are--
+
+  Qui que tu sois, voici ton maître,
+  Il l'est, le fut, ou le doit être.
+
+B. H. SMART.
+
+_Connaught Terrace, Aug. 31._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+In Paris, when they break a window, the common people cry out,
+"_quarante-cinq_," so as to produce a sound, in a measure harmonizing with
+the accident. It is to them a capital joke, because _quarante-cinq_, (45)
+is written with the two figures that make "_neuf_" (that is, in French,
+either _nine_ or _new_.) The pun is ingenious.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former
+honesty.--_Lavater_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
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+
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+
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+
+The CABINET of CURIOSITIES: or WONDERS of the WORLD DISPLAYED. 27 Nos. 2d.
+each.
+
+BEAUTIES of SCOTT, 2 vols. price 7s. boards.
+
+The ARCANA of SCIENCE for 1828. Price 4s. 6d.
+
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+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,)
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+<span class="pagenum"><a name="page145" id="page145"></a>[pg 145]</span>
+<h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+ OF <br />
+ LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+<table width="100%" summary="VOL. 14 No. 388, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1829. PRICE 2d.">
+  <tr>
+    <td align="left" width="28%"><b>VOL 14. No. 388.]</b></td>
+    <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1829.</b></td>
+    <td align="right" width="28%"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
+
+<h2>ST. DUNSTAN'S, FLEET STREET.</h2>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width:100%;">
+    <a href="images/388-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/388-1.png" alt=
+    "A line drawing of St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street." /></a>
+</div>
+<p>No church in London is perhaps better known than the above, which is
+distinctively called Saint Dunstan's in the West. External elegance has
+little to do with this celebrity, which has been acquired by the two wooden
+figures placed on a pediment in front, representing savages, who indicate
+the hours and quarters by striking a bell with their clubs: this has caused
+a wag to describe them as the most striking wonders of the metropolis.
+Another, who is equally disposed to sport with their notoriety, says, &quot;as
+they are visible in the street, they are more admired by many of the
+populace on Sundays, than the most elegant preacher from the pulpit
+within.&quot; We are, however, induced to hope better; especially as Dr. Donne,
+the celebrated Richard Baxter, and the pious Romaine were preachers at St.
+Dunstan's.</p>
+
+<p>There is no evidence when this church was erected; but Stow records burials
+in it so early as the year 1421. The date of the above view is 1739, and
+from a foot-note to the Engraving, we learn that the church was dedicated
+to St. Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, who died A.D. 990. &quot;It was
+anciently a Rectory, in the patronage of the Convent of Westminster.
+Richard de Barking, the abbot, in 1237, granted the advowson to King Henry
+III., which continued in the crown till 1362; it was afterwards in the gift
+of the bishop of London, till 1386; when Robert de Braybrooke, the bishop,
+granted it to the abbot and Convent of Premonastratenses of Alnwick in
+Northumberland, where the patronage remained till their suppression. King
+Edward VI. granted it to the Lord Dudley, but both the Rectory and Advowson
+of the Vicarage were afterwards granted to Sir Richard Sackville, till
+alienated to George Rivers, in 1625; it is now in the gift of Joseph
+Taylor, Esq.&quot; (to whom the Plate is dedicated).</p>
+
+<p>St. Dunstan's luckily escaped the fire of London in 1666, which stopped within
+  three houses of it, as did also another fire, in 1730. The clock and figures
+  were put up in 1761, and an accurate description of them (quoted from Smith's
+  <i>London</i> by our esteemed correspondent, P. T. W.) will be found at page
+  148, vol. xi. of the <span class="scaps">Mirror</span>. The church was thoroughly repaired, and the roof
+  <span class="pagenum"><a name="page146" id="page146"></a>[pg 146]</span>considerably
+  raised in 1701. The last repairs, which were considerable, were executed in
+  the year 1820; but it is expected that the whole building will be shortly taken
+  down, and a new church erected, so as to widen the public thoroughfare.</p>
+
+<p>Our Engraving is an interesting view of the church nearly a century since,
+when a range of shops (since removed) extended beneath the whole of this
+side of the structure; and the respective signs must have been unholy
+appendages to what appeared like part and parcel of a house of prayer. The
+clock is accurately represented, the bracket being a carved figure of Time
+with expanded wings, as mention by Smith. The clockmaker proposed to the
+parish &quot;to do one thing, which London shall not show the like,&quot; and we hope
+our Engraving may be the means of rescuing his eccentric ingenuity from
+oblivion.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>A DESULTORY CHAPTER ON LOCALITIES.</h3>
+
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+
+<p class="quote">Rotterdam and Erasmus.&mdash;Holyrood and Mary Queen of Scots.&mdash;Scotland.&mdash;Switzerland
+  and Rousseau.&mdash;Pope's Grotto.&mdash;Chiswick, &amp;c.</p>
+<p>There is perhaps no sentiment more generally felt, or more delightful, than
+that indescribable interest with which we are led to contemplate places and
+scenes, immortalized in historical renown, or hallowed by genius.</p>
+
+<p>The propensity for moving from place to place, so observable in mankind,
+derives, no doubt, its chief zest from the anxiety we feel to visit
+countries of which in the course of our historical researches, we have
+heard and read so much to awaken our interest, and excite our admiration.</p>
+
+<p>Without the early reverence which we as boys imbibe for the departed splendour
+  of Greece and Rome, we should not as men be found wandering among the ruins
+  of the Pyr&aelig;us, or the deserted streets of Pompeii. We find it impossible
+  to behold unmoved the sad, the astonishing changes which time, the arch-destroyer
+  has effected with his giant arm. Our exuberant fancies carry us back to those
+  remote periods when all was glory and magnificence, where now ruin and desolation
+  have established their melancholy empire. Abandoning ourselves to the potent
+  influence of classical contemplations of the past, we revel in the full indulgence
+  of antiquarian enthusiasm. Imagination, however, needs not in general so wide
+  a field for the exercise of her magic powers. We desire perhaps more of pleasurable
+  excitement from the recollections attached to spots identified in our minds
+  with events of individual or ideal interest, than from the loftier train of
+  thoughts produced by a pilgrimage to countries which have become famous in ancient
+  or modern story. Thus we experience more delight in visiting places, remarkable
+  as having once been the resort or habitations of distinguished men, than in
+  viewing the ruins of an ancient citadel, or the site of a celebrated battle.
+  The events achieved on the latter may indeed, in their time, have turned the
+  scale of empires; but the association of ideas in the former instances, speak
+  a thousand times more feeling to our individual sympathies. I remember when
+  passing a couple of days in the opulent city of Rotterdam, that after walking
+  all the morning along its crowded streets, and paying the accustomed stranger's
+  tribute of admiration to its quays, its port, and its commercial magnificence,
+  I at length halted before the statue of Erasmus. It stands on a pedestal in
+  the middle of a large market, and represents the celebrated scholar, clothed
+  in his professor's gown, and seemingly gazing with dignified unconcern at the
+  busy multitude around. I remained looking at the effigy before me, with a reverential
+  feeling akin to that of the devotee at the shrine of a patron saint. Imagination
+  transported me back to the eventful times in which Erasmus flourished, opening
+  to my mind's eye a long vista of historical recollections, till my absorbed
+  demeanour attracted observation. I found myself exposed to that vacant stare
+  with which people are so apt to disconcert your composure, if they observe you
+  contemplating with curiosity and interest, objects which they have seen every
+  day of their lives, and for that very reason always pass unnoticed. Leaving
+  then my position, yet anxious to follow up the train of ideas it had inspired,
+  I sought, and by dint of inquiry, discovered the habitation of Erasmus. It is
+  in a dirty street, and consists of one moderately sized, low roofed apartment,
+  on the first floor of an old fashioned, ill-built house, which the vicissitudes
+  of time have converted into an <i>Estaminet</i>.<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a>
+  I was conducted up a dark, narrow staircase into the close, dingy room, by an
+  ugly, ignorant frau, who seemed to wonder what earthly inducement I had to visit
+  her dwelling-<span class="pagenum"><a name="page147" id="page147"></a>[pg 147]</span>house.
+  Lumber and moth-eaten furniture were carelessly scattered around. A solitary
+  window, partly blocked up by an old mattress, barely admitted light sufficient
+  to make objects visible. All was neglect and desolation. It seemed almost impossible
+  that so obscure and dismal a lodging could have been occupied by so illustrious
+  a tenant. I fancied I beheld the most learned man of his age, the counsellor
+  and companion of princes, and the contemporary and rival of Sir Thomas More,
+  indulging his classical reveries in this comfortless chamber, regardless of
+  its forlorn and squalid aspect. The charm was omnipotent. Seated in an ancient
+  leathern-bottomed chair, my hostess, and the dust and darkness of the place
+  were overlooked or forgotten. The spirit of the mighty dead seemed to hover
+  around, as a sort of <i>genius loci</i>, rescuing the wretched tenement from
+  otherwise deserved oblivion, and making its very dinginess venerable!</p>
+
+
+  <p>On another occasion I recollect experiencing very strikingly, the force of
+    local impressions. It was when visiting the apartments of Mary Queen of Scots,
+    in the palace of Holyrood. Recalling to mind, with the enthusiasm of one of
+    her warmest admirers, every circumstance connected with the eventful history
+    of that unfortunate princess, it was impossible for me not to feel penetrated
+    with the deepest interest. I traversed the very rooms in which she had sat,
+    and conversed, and passed her hours of peaceful privacy. My fancy pictured
+    that privacy rudely and brutally invaded by Darnley and his ruffian associates,
+    when bent on the murder of the ill-fated Rizzio. I mentally compared the circumstances
+    of that deed of blood, as related by historians, with the facilities for committing
+    it, afforded by the distribution of apartments. They tallied exactly. There
+    was the little room in which sat the queen with her ladies and the devoted
+    secretary. Close to the door appeared the dark, narrow, turret staircase,
+    which Darnley ascended before he rushed into Mary's presence. The struggle
+    must have been desperate, for the murder was not effected in that chamber,
+    Rizzio being either dragged, or escaped into an adjoining and very obscure
+    anteroom in which the crime was perpetrated. They pretend to show you marks
+    of his blood yet visible on the floor. Although all such horrible vestiges
+    have been most probably long since obliterated, it is yet just possible that
+    some may remain. To believe so, at the moment, was a lawful indulgence of
+    my previous illusion. I could have followed the train of associations thus
+    created much further, had not the person appointed to act as Cicerone hurried
+    me through the apartments. Their doors closed against me, and the spell was
+    broken.</p>
+
+
+<p>Edinburgh is full of interesting localities; particularly the old town. In
+its ancient &quot;wynds and closes,&quot; now tenanted by the veriest of the plebeian
+race, in former days resided men of the most distinguished rank and
+celebrity. Before the stupendous improvements of later times had justly
+entitled the Scottish metropolis to the appellation of the modern Athens,
+the princes and nobles of the land, its judges and senators, were obliged
+to dwell in those dirty streets and alleys, from which &quot;Auld Reekie&quot;
+derived its then appropriate appellation. When in progress of time they
+removed to more splendid and suitable abodes, their abandoned tenements
+became habitations of wretchedness. Much however remained in them to remind
+posterity of their former proprietors; and whoever is not afraid of
+encountering the spectacle of a swarming population in a state of abject
+and squalid poverty, will find an abundant field for his antiquarian
+researches in the old town of Edinburgh. Like Switzerland, and other
+mountainous countries, Scotland is by nature formed to be a land of
+romantic associations; but how wonderfully have her historians, poets, and
+novelists contributed to create and preserve them! The author of Waverley
+has thrown a classic halo around the wild beauties of his native land, and
+communicated to stranger minds a national enthusiasm which <i>his</i> soul alone
+could have felt, <i>his</i> pen alone inspired! In Scotland, almost every step
+we take is on hallowed ground, and the lover of historical recollections
+may enjoy to its full extent the delight of visiting places immortalized by
+the achievements of her heroes, or the pen of her poets.</p>
+
+<p>To a man fond of localities, travelling either on the continent or in England,
+  will furnish numerous opportunities of indulging the reveries to which they
+  give birth. It would be hardly possible to name a town, or a village, utterly
+  destitute of local interest. In almost every instance, some memento would be
+  discovered to hallow its site, and to engage the observation of an intelligent
+  traveller. With a mind predisposed to enjoy mental associations, they will crowd
+  on us wherever we go, and be suggested by the veriest trifles. <span class="pagenum"><a name="page148" id="page148"></a>[pg
+  148]</span>Rousseau could not contain his ecstacy at beholding a little flower
+  (<i>la parvenche</i>) in bloom, which thirty years before, Madame de Warens
+  had first pointed out to his notice. That simple incident summoned up a train
+  of exquisite reminiscences. No one, indeed, ever yielded so entirely to the
+  influence of local enthusiasm as the author of the <i>Nouvelle Heloise</i>.
+  No one has so successfully attempted to invest scenes, in themselves beautiful,
+  with the additional and powerful interest of ideal recollections. Picturesque
+  as are the shores of Leman, Meillerie, and Vevai, yet to Rousseau's sublime
+  conceptions and eloquent descriptions, they are chiefly indebted for the celebrity
+  which they enjoy. Nature made Switzerland a land of rugged magnificence. To
+  complete the charm, nothing was wanted, but that its mountains should be peopled
+  by the creations of Rousseau.</p>
+
+<p>It were needless, however, to travel to foreign countries in search of
+interesting localities. Our own island teems with them. In the metropolis
+and its environs, a diligent inquirer will find them at every step. How
+many coffeehouses and taverns are there in London which at one time or
+another have been frequented by celebrated characters, and how many houses
+in which others equally celebrated have resided; such as that of Milton, in
+Westminster; and of Johnson, in Bolt Court. How many old gable-ended
+tenements do we see in the eastern parts of the town that were standing
+before the fire, and which, if explored, might be found to contain the most
+interesting relics of antiquity. What a number of streets, courts, and
+alleys, bearing names at once indicative of their ancient origin, and of
+scenes, and persons, and local circumstances long since forgotten!</p>
+
+<p>Then, if we extend our perambulations to the vicinity of London, how many
+hallowed places shall we meet with? Where can we find a palace like Windsor
+Castle, to which attach the historical recollections of many centuries,
+adding, if possible, yet more solemnity to Gothic grandeur? Again, can
+there be conceived a spot more entirely consecrated to classical
+associations than the grotto, at Twickenham; that retreat in which gazing
+on &quot;Thames translucent stream,&quot; Pope passed so many hours of undisturbed
+privacy&mdash;that spot</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>&quot;Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole,</p>
+<p>And the bright flame was shot thro' Marchmont's soul.&quot;</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>I have visited it in summer, when the warmth of a mid-day sun has rendered
+the &quot;<i>frigus amabile</i>&quot; of the interior doubly inviting, and on such
+occasions, have quite revelled in local enthusiasm.</p>
+
+<p>I remember, some years since, visiting the Duke of Devonshire's beautiful
+villa, at Chiswick, in company with a friend, whose sentiments on the
+subject of local impressions are similar to my own. While I was admiring
+books and paintings in the library, my companion was contemplating in mute
+emotion, the bed upon which Charles Fox breathed his last. That one object
+engrossed all the powers of his soul; every other was forgotten!</p>
+
+<p class="source">C. J.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>THE HUMBLE SPARROW'S ADDRESS TO T. S. A.</h3>
+
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>My dearest Sir, how great a change</p>
+<p>Has pass'd upon the groves I range,</p>
+<p class="i6">Nay, all the face of nature!</p>
+<p>A few weeks back, each pendent bough,</p>
+<p>The fields, the groves, the mountain's brow,</p>
+<p>Were bare and leafless all, but now</p>
+<p class="i6">How verdant ev'ry feature!</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Each little songster strives to raise</p>
+<p>Its highest warbling notes of praise,</p>
+<p class="i6">For all these blessings given:&mdash;</p>
+<p>Ere Sol emerges from behind</p>
+<p>The eastern hills, the lark we find</p>
+<p>Soars, as it were on wings of wind,</p>
+<p class="i6">With grateful notes to heaven.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>A thousand others catch the strains,</p>
+<p>Each bush and tree a tongue contains,</p>
+<p class="i6">That offers up its praises.</p>
+<p>From morn till the meridian day,</p>
+<p>From noon till Sol has sunk away,</p>
+<p>One ceaseless song, one grateful lay,</p>
+<p class="i6">Each feather'd songster raises.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>And when Night's grim and sable band,</p>
+<p>Spreads her dim curtains o'er the land,</p>
+<p class="i6">And all our prospect closes;</p>
+<p>Then Philomela, queen of song,</p>
+<p>The sweetest of the feather'd throng,</p>
+<p>Takes up the theme the whole night long,</p>
+<p class="i6">While nature all reposes.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Then surely I, the humblest bird,</p>
+<p>That e'er among the groves was heard,</p>
+<p class="i6">Should aid the thankful chorus;</p>
+<p>With <i>chirping note</i> I'll join the sound,</p>
+<p>For not <i>a Sparrow</i>, 'twill be found,</p>
+<p>Without <span class="scaps">his</span> will falls to the ground,</p>
+<p class="i6">Who high above reigns o'er us.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>But what avail my feeble powers,</p>
+<p>When softer notes descend in showers,</p>
+<p class="i6">Mine are not worth regarding;</p>
+<p>No honour'd title gilds my name,</p>
+<p>No dulcet notes I e'er could claim;</p>
+<p>So worthless I, you may obtain</p>
+<p class="i6"><i>Two Sparrows</i> for a farthing.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Besides, I ne'er was form'd to <i>sing</i>,</p>
+<p>And so must soar on humbler wing,</p>
+<p class="i6">Since nature saw it fitter;</p>
+    <span class="pagenum"><a name="page149" id="page149"></a>[pg 149]</span>
+	<p>But yet my feeble powers I'll try,</p>
+<p>And sound my <i>chatt'ring</i> notes on high,</p>
+<p>For I am sure you'll not deny</p>
+<p class="i6">To hear my simple <i>twitter</i>.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>My gratitude is doubly due,</p>
+    <p>For all the hedges<a name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>
+      in my view,</p>
+<p class="i6">Afford a verdant cover;</p>
+<p>I now can build my nest once more,</p>
+<p>From childhood's prying glance secure,</p>
+<p>And from the hawk's keen eye, tho' o'er</p>
+<p class="i6">The sacred bush he hover.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Oh! had I Philomela's tongue,</p>
+<p>The thrush's note, or warbling song</p>
+<p class="i6">Of blackbird, lark, or linnet;</p>
+<p>I'd then more gratitude display,</p>
+<p>Striving to raise a sweeter lay,</p>
+<p>I'd sing the fleeting hours away,</p>
+<p class="i6">Nor silent be a minute.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>But I must quit the trembling spray,</p>
+<p>And to my duty fly away,</p>
+<p class="i6">To pick a straw or feather;</p>
+<p>My mate is somewhere on the wing,</p>
+<p>I think she's gone some moss to bring,</p>
+<p>For we must work while it is spring,</p>
+<p class="i6">And build our nest together.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>So now adieu&mdash;I've chirp'd too long,</p>
+<p>Must leave the finish of my song</p>
+<p class="i6">To some more learned bird's son;</p>
+<p>Whose mellow notes can charm the ear</p>
+<p>With no discordant chatter near;</p>
+<p>So now, dear Sir, I'm your sincere</p>
+    <p class="i6">And humble Sparrow.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="source"><span class="scaps">Herdson</span>.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+
+<h3>TO A DESTRUCTIVE INSECT ON A ROSEBUD.</h3>
+
+<h4>IN MANNER OF BURNS.</h4>
+
+<h4>(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)</h4>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>Ye imp o' death, how durst ye dwell</p>
+<p>Within this pure and hallow'd cell,</p>
+<p>Thy purposes I ken fu' well</p>
+<p class="i14">Are to destroy,</p>
+<p>And wi' a mortal breathing spell,</p>
+<p class="i14">To blast each joy!</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Yet why upo' so sma' a flower,</p>
+<p>Dost thou exert thy deadly pow'r,</p>
+<p>And nip fair beauty's natal hour,</p>
+<p class="i14">Wi' thy vile breath,</p>
+<p>It is when wint'ry storms do low'r,</p>
+<p class="i14">We look for death.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>But thou, thou evil one, hast come,</p>
+<p>To bring this wee rose to its doom,</p>
+<p>Not i' time of woe and gloom,</p>
+<p class="i14">But i' the spring,</p>
+<p>When flowerets just begin to bloom.</p>
+<p class="i14">And birds to sing.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>O fie, begone fra out my sight,</p>
+<p>Nor dare attempt such joy to blight,</p>
+<p>Thou evil wicked-doing doit,</p>
+<p class="i14">Then hie away,</p>
+<p>Seek not the <i>morning</i>, but the <i>night</i></p>
+<p class="i14">To crush thy prey!</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="source">J. F. C.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
+
+<h2>THE CONTEMPORARY TRAVELLER.</h2>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE RED INDIANS OF NEWFOUNDLAND.</h3>
+
+<h4>(<i>Concluded from page</i> <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/5/1/11518/11518-h/11518-h.htm#page136">136</a>.)</h4>
+
+<p>&quot;We spent several melancholy days wandering on the borders of the east end
+of the lake, surveying the various remains of what we now contemplated to
+have been an unoffending and cruelly extirpated people. At several places,
+by the margin of the lake, are small clusters of winter and summer wigwams
+in ruins. One difference, among others, between the Boeothick wigwams and
+those of the other Indians, is, that in most of the former there are small
+hollows, like nests, dug in the earth around the fireplace, one for each
+person to sit in. These hollows are generally so close together, and also
+so close to the fireplace, and to the sides of the wigwam, that I think it
+probable these people have been accustomed to sleep in a sitting position.
+There was one wooden building constructed for drying and smoking venison
+in, still perfect; also a small log-house, in a dilapidated condition,
+which we took to have been once a storehouse. The wreck of a large,
+handsome, birch-rind canoe, about twenty-two feet in length, comparatively
+new, and certainly very little used, lay thrown up among the bushes at the
+beach. We supposed that the violence of a storm had rent it in the way it
+was found, and that the people who were in it had perished; for the iron
+nails, of which there was no want, all remained in it. Had there been any
+survivors, nails being much prized by these people, they never having held
+intercourse with Europeans, such an article would most likely have been
+taken out for use again. All the birch trees in the vicinity of the lake
+had been rinded, and many of them, and of the spruce fir, or var, had the
+bark taken off, to use the inner part of it for food, as noticed before.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Their wooden repositories for the dead are what are in the most perfect
+  state of preservation. These are of different constructions, it would appear,
+  according to the character or rank of the persons entombed. In one of them,
+  which resembled a hut ten feet by eight or nine, and four or five feet high
+  in the centre, floored with squared poles, the roof covered with rinds of trees,
+  and in every way well secured against the weather inside, and the intrusion
+  of wild beasts, there were two grown persons laid out at full length, on the
+  floor, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page150" id="page150"></a>[pg 150]</span>the
+  bodies wrapped round with deerskins. One of these bodies appeared to have been
+  placed here not longer ago than five or six years. We thought there were children
+  laid in here also. On first opening this building, by removing the posts which
+  formed the ends, our curiosity was raised to the highest pitch; but what added
+  to our surprise, was the discovery of a white deal coffin, containing a skeleton
+  neatly shrouded in white muslin. After a long pause of conjecture how such a
+  thing existed here, the idea of <i>Mary March</i> occurred to one of the party,
+  and the whole mystery was at once explained.<a name="footnotetag3" id="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;In this cemetery were deposited a variety of articles, in some instances
+the property, in others the representations of the property and utensils,
+and of the achievements, of the deceased. There were two small wooden
+images of a man and woman, no doubt meant to represent husband and wife and
+a small doll which we supposed to represent a child (for <i>Mary March</i> had
+to leave her only child here, which died two days after she was taken);
+several small models of their canoes; two small models of boats; an iron
+axe; a bow and quiver of arrows were placed by the side of <i>Mary March's</i>
+husband; and two fire-stones (radiated iron pyrites, from which they
+produce fire, by striking them together) lay at his head; there were also
+various kinds of culinary utensils, neatly made, of birch rind and
+ornamented; and many other things, of some of which we did not know the use
+or meaning.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Another mode of sepulture which we saw here was, where the body of the
+deceased had been wrapped in birch rind, and with his property, placed on a
+sort of scaffold about four feet and a half from the ground. The scaffold
+was formed of four posts, about seven feet high, fixed perpendicularly in
+the ground, to sustain a kind of crib, five feet and a half in length, by
+four in breadth, with a floor made of small squared beams, laid close
+together horizontally, and on which the body and property rested.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;A third mode was, when the body, bent together, and wrapped in birch rind,
+was enclosed in a kind of box, on the ground. The box was made of small
+squared posts, laid on each other horizontally, and notched at the corners,
+to make them meet close; it was about four feet by three, and two and a
+half feet deep, and well lined with birch rind, to exclude the weather from
+the inside. The body lay on its right side.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;A fourth and the most common mode of burying among these people, has
+  been, to wrap the body in birch rind, and cover it over with a heap of stones,
+  on the surface of the earth, in some retired spot; sometimes the body, thus
+  wrapped up, is put a foot or two under <span class="pagenum"><a name="page151" id="page151"></a>[pg
+  151]</span>the surface, and the spot covered with stones; in one place, where
+  the ground was sandy and soft, they appeared to have been buried deeper, and
+  no stones placed over the graves.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;These people appear to have always shewn great respect for their dead; and
+the most remarkable remains of them commonly observed by Europeans at the
+sea-coast, are their burying-places. These are at particular chosen spots;
+and it is well known that they have been in the habit of bringing their
+dead from a distance to them. With their women they bury only their
+clothes.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;On the north-side of the lake, opposite the River Exploits, are the
+extremities of two deer fences, about half a mile apart, where they lead to
+the water. It is understood that they diverge many miles in north-westerly
+directions. The Red Indian makes these fences to lead and scare the deer to
+the lake, during the periodical migration of these animals; the Indians
+being stationed looking out, when the deer get into the water to swim
+across, the lake being narrow at this end, they attack and kill the animals
+with spears out of their canoes. In this way they secure their winter
+provisions before the severity of that season sets in.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;There were other old remains of different kinds peculiar to these people
+met with about the lake.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;One night we encamped on the foundation of an old Red Indian wigwam, on
+the extremity of a point of land which juts out into the lake, and exposed
+to the view of the whole country around. A large fire at night is the life
+and soul of such a party as ours, and when it blazed up at times, I could
+not help observing that two of my Indians evinced uneasiness and want of
+confidence in things around, as if they thought themselves usurpers on the
+Red Indian territory. From time immemorial none of the Indians of the other
+tribes had ever encamped near this lake fearlessly, and, as we had now
+done, in the very centre of such a country; the lake and territory adjacent
+having been always considered to belong exclusively to the Red Indians, and
+to have been occupied by them. It had been our invariable practice
+hitherto, to encamp near the hills, and be on their summits by the dawn of
+day, to try to discover the morning smoke ascending from the Red Indians'
+camps; and to prevent the discovery of ourselves, we extinguished our own
+fire always some length of time before daylight.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Our only and frail hope now left of seeing the Red Indians, lay on the
+banks of the River Exploits, on our return to the sea-coast.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;The Red Indians' Lake discharges itself about three or four miles from its
+north-east end, and its waters form the River Exploits. From the lake to
+the sea-coast is considered about seventy miles; and down this noble river
+the steady perseverance and intrepidity of my Indians carried me on rafts
+in four days, to accomplish which otherwise, would have required, probably,
+two weeks. We landed at various places on both banks of the river on our
+way down, but found no traces of the Red Indians so recent as those seen at
+the portage at Badger Bay-Great Lake, towards the beginning of our
+excursion. During our descent, we had to construct new rafts at the
+different waterfalls. Sometimes we were carried down the rapids at the rate
+of ten miles an hour, or more, with considerable risk of destruction to the
+whole party, for we were always together on one raft.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;What arrests the attention most, while gliding down the stream, is the
+extent of the Indian fences to entrap the deer. They extend from the lake
+downwards, continuous, on the banks of the river, at least thirty miles.
+There are openings left here and there in them, for the animals to go
+through and swim across the river, and at these places the Indians are
+stationed, and kill them in the water with spears, out of their canoes, as
+at the lake. Here, then, connecting these fences with those on the
+north-west side of the lake, is at least forty miles of country, easterly
+and westerly, prepared to intercept all the deer that pass that way in
+their periodical migrations. It was melancholy to contemplate the gigantic,
+yet feeble, efforts of a whole primitive nation, in their anxiety to
+provide subsistence, forsaken and going to decay.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;There must have been hundreds of the Red Indians, and that not many years
+ago, to have kept up these fences and pounds. As their numbers were
+lessened so was their ability to keep them up for the purposes intended;
+and now the deer pass the whole line unmolested.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;We infer, that the few of these people who yet survive have taken refuge
+in some sequestered spot, still in the northern part of the island, and
+where they can procure deer to subsist on.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;On the 29th of November we had again returned to the mouth of the River
+  Exploits, in thirty days after our departure from thence, after having made
+  a <span class="pagenum"><a name="page152" id="page152"></a>[pg 152]</span>complete
+  circuit of about 200 miles in the Red Indian territory.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;In conclusion, I congratulate the institution on the acquisition of
+several ingenious articles, the manufacture of the <i>Boeothicks</i>, or Red
+Indians, some of which we had the good fortune to discover on our recent
+excursion;&mdash;models of their canoes, bows and arrows, spears of different
+kinds, &amp;c.; and also a complete dress worn by that people. Their mode of
+kindling fire is not only original, but, as far as we at present know, is
+peculiar to the tribe. These articles, together with a short vocabulary of
+their language, consisting of 200 or 300 words, which I have been enabled
+to collect, prove the Boeothicks to be a distinct tribe from any hitherto
+discovered in North America. One remarkable characteristic of their
+language, and in which it resembles those of Europe more than any other
+Indian languages do, with which we have had an opportunity of comparing
+it,&mdash;is its abounding in diphthongs.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Cormack thinks that after the unfortunate circumstances attending past
+encounters between the Europeans and the Red Indians, it is best now to
+employ Indians belonging to the other tribes to be the medium of the
+intercourse in view; and he has chosen three intelligent men from
+Newfoundland to follow up the search.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>NOTES OF A READER.</h2>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>DERWENTWATER.</h3>
+
+<p>The following touching episodal extract is from Dr. Southey's <i>Colloquies
+on the Progress and Prospects of Society:</i>&mdash;The best general view of
+Derwentwater is from the terrace, between Applethwaite and Milbeck, a
+little beyond the former hamlet. The old roofs and chimneys of that hamlet
+come finely in the foreground, and the trees upon the Ornathwaite estate
+give there a richness to the middle ground, which is wanting in other parts
+of the vale. From that spot I once saw three artists sketching it at the
+same time&mdash;William Westall (who has engraved it among his admirable views
+of Keswick,) Glover, and Edward Nash, my dear, kind-hearted friend and
+fellow-traveller, whose death has darkened some of the blithest
+recollections of my latter life. I know not from which of the surrounding
+heights it is seen to most advantage; any one will amply repay the labour
+of the ascent; and often as I have ascended them all, it has never been
+without a fresh delight. The best near view is from a field adjoining
+Friar's Craig. There it is that, if I had Aladdin's lamp, or Fortunatus's
+purse (with leave of Greenwich Hospital be it spoken,) I would build myself
+a house.</p>
+
+<p>Thither I had strolled, on one of those first genial days of spring which
+seem to affect the animal not less than the vegetable creation. At such
+times even I, sedentary as I am, feel a craving for the open air and
+sunshine, and creep out as instinctively as snails after a shower. Such
+seasons, which have an exhilarating effect upon youth, produce a soothing
+one when we are advanced in life. The root of an ash tree, on the bank
+which bends round the little bay, had been half bared by the waters during
+one of the winter floods, and afforded a commodious resting-place, whereon
+I took my seat, at once basking in the sun and bathing, as it were, in the
+vernal breeze. But delightful as all about me was to eye, and ear, and
+feeling, it brought with it a natural reflection, that the scene which I
+now beheld was the same which it had been and would continue to be, while
+so many of those with whom I had formerly enjoyed it, were past away. Our
+day-dreams become retrospective as we advance in years; and the heart
+feeds as naturally upon remembrance in age as upon hope in youth.</p>
+
+<p class="quote">&quot;Where are they gone, the old familiar faces?&quot;</p>
+<p>I thought of her, whom I had so often seen plying her little skiff upon
+that glassy water, the lady of the lake. It was like a poet's dream, or a
+vision of romance, to behold her&mdash;and like a vision or a dream she had
+departed!</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>&quot;O gentle Emma, o'er a lovelier form</p>
+<p>Than thine, earth never closed; nor e'er did heaven</p>
+<p>Receive a purer spirit from the world!&quot;</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>I thought of D., the most familiar of my friends during those years when we
+  lived near enough to each other for familiar intercourse&mdash;my friend, and
+  the friend of all who were dearest to me; a man, of whom all who knew him will
+  concur with me in saying, that they never knew, nor could conceive of one more
+  strictly dutiful, more actively benevolent, more truly kind, more thoroughly
+  good; the pleasantest companion, the sincerest counsellor, the most considerate
+  friend, the kindest host, the welcomest guest. After our separation, he had
+  visited me here three summers; with him it was that I had first explored this
+  land of lakes in all directions; and again and again should we have retraced
+  our steps in the wildest recesses of these vales and mountains, and lived over
+  the <span class="pagenum"><a name="page153" id="page153"></a>[pg 153]</span>past
+  again, if he had not, too early for all who loved him,</p>
+
+<p class="quote">&quot;Began the travel of eternity.&quot;</p>
+<p>I called to mind my hopeful H&mdash;&mdash;, too, so often the sweet companion of my
+morning walks to this very spot; in whom I had fondly thought my better
+part should have survived me, and</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>&quot;With whom it seemed my very life</p>
+<p class="i14">Went half away!</p>
+<p>But we shall meet&mdash;but we shall meet</p>
+<p>Where parting tears shall never flow;</p>
+<p>And when I think thereon, almost</p>
+<p class="i14">I long to go!&quot;</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>&quot;Thy dead shall live, O Lord; together with my dead body shall they arise.
+Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust! for Thy dew is as the dew of herbs;
+and the earth shall cast out her dead!&quot;</p>
+
+<p>Surely, to the sincere believer death would be an object of desire instead
+of dread, were it not for those ties&mdash;those heartstrings&mdash;by which we are
+attached to life. Nor, indeed, do I believe that it is natural to fear
+death, however generally it may be thought so. From my own feelings I have
+little right to judge; for, although habitually mindful that the hour
+cometh, and even now may be, it has never appeared actually near enough to
+make me duly apprehend its effect upon myself. But from what I have
+observed, and what I have heard those persons say whose professions lead
+them to the dying, I am induced to infer that the fear of death is not
+common, and that where it exists it proceeds rather from a diseased and
+enfeebled mind, than from any principle in our nature. Certain it is, that
+among the poor the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet
+and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is
+as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious
+raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith; and they are
+willing to lay down the burden of a weary life, in the sure and certain
+hope of a blessed immortality. Who, indeed, is there, that would not gladly
+make the exchange, if he lived only for himself, and were to leave none who
+stood in need of him&mdash;no eyes to weep at his departure, no hearts to ache
+for his loss? The day of death, says the preacher, is better than the day
+of one's birth; a sentence to which whoever has lived long, and may humbly
+hope that he has not lived ill, must heartily assent.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>MASANIELLO.</h3>
+<p>The last No. (8,) of the <i>Foreign Quarley Review</i>, just published, contains
+an attractive article on the Revolutions of Naples, in 1647 and 1648, in
+which Masaniello played so conspicuous a part. The paper is in the easy
+historical style of Sir Walter Scott; but as little could be selected for
+our pages, except the Adventures of the Rebel Fisherman, and as we have
+given the leading events of his life in an early volume of the <span class="scaps">Mirror</span>, we
+content ourselves with the following passage. After a tolerably fair
+estimate of the character of Masaniello, in which Sir Walter considers his
+extraordinary rise as a work of fortune and contingency rather than of his
+own device in the conception, or his own exertions in the execution&mdash;the
+writer says&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;It would be doing Masaniello injustice, however, if we did not add, that
+  having no distinct prospect of rendering essential service to his country, he
+  was at the same time totally free from any sinister views of personal aggrandizement.
+  He appears to have been sincere in his wishes, that when he had set Naples free,&mdash;by
+  which he understood the abolition of imposts,&mdash;the government of it should
+  be committed to a popular management. The Memoirs of 1828 record a singular
+  circumstance with regard to this point, on the authority of De Santis. While,
+  on Friday, July 12th, the sixth day of the insurrection, he was sitting in his
+  judgment-seat, a female masked, or man in woman's habit, approached and whispered,
+  'Masaniello, we have reached the goal, a crown is prepared, and it is for thy
+  brows.'&mdash;'For mine?' he replied, 'I desire none but the green wreath with
+  which we honour Our Lady's festival in September. When I have delivered my country
+  I shall resume my nets.'&mdash;'You find them no more. Rebellion should not
+  be undertaken, or it should be carried on to the end.'&mdash;'I will resume
+  my nets,' said Masaniello steadily. 'You will not find them,' said the intrusive
+  monitor. 'What, then, shall I find?'&mdash;'Death!' answered the masked figure,
+  and withdrew into the crowd. An evidence of the purity of his intentions, though
+  combined with gross ignorance, was afforded by the rigour with which he insisted
+  on the destruction of the treasure and rich movables found in the houses which
+  were destroyed during the first days of the tumult. Latterly, indeed, he yielded
+  to the suggestions of Genuino and d'Arpaya, that these things should be preserved
+  for the good of the state, and for the purpose of presenting them as a donative
+  to Philip <span class="pagenum"><a name="page154" id="page154"></a>[pg 154]</span>IV.
+  in place of the abolished gabelles. But whatever was the case with regard to
+  less scrupulous insurgents, he participated in no plunder, until vanity produced
+  madness, or madness vanity. On the whole we may conclude, that he was a man
+  whose principal characteristic was the boldness with which he pursued an object
+  ardently desired, but who was alike incapable, from want of knowledge and talents,
+  to avail himself of the success which so wonderfully crowned his enterprise.
+  How far his cruelty was the effect of natural disposition, or a consequence
+  of his malady, is a question that must be left to <span class="scaps">Him</span> to whom alone it can be
+  known.&quot;</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>LONDON.</h3>
+
+<h4><i>Literally translated from a Chinese Poem, by a Chinese who visited England
+  in 1813</i>.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>The towering edifices rise story above story,</p>
+<p>In all the stateliness of splendid mansions:</p>
+<p>Railings of iron thickly stud the sides of every entrance;</p>
+<p>And streams from the river circulate through the walls;</p>
+<p>The sides of each apartment are variegated with devices;</p>
+<p>Through the windows of glass appear the scarlet hangings.</p>
+<p>And in the street itself is presented a beautiful scene;</p>
+<p>The congregated buildings have all the aspect of a picture.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>In London, about the period of the ninth moon,</p>
+<p>The inhabitants delight in travelling to a distance;</p>
+<p>They change their abodes and betake themselves to the country,</p>
+<p>Visiting their friends in their rural retreats.</p>
+<p>The prolonged sound of carriages and steeds is heard through the day;</p>
+<p>Then in autumn the prices of provisions fall,</p>
+<p>And the greater number of dwellings being untenanted,</p>
+<p>Such as require it are repaired and adorned.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>The spacious streets are exceedingly smooth and level,</p>
+<p>Each being crossed by others at intervals;</p>
+<p>On either side perambulate men and females,</p>
+<p>In the centre, career along the carriages and horses;</p>
+<p>The mingled sound of voices is heard in the shops at evening.</p>
+<p>During midwinter the accumulated snows adhere to the pathway,</p>
+<p>Lamps are displayed at night along the street sides,</p>
+<p>Their radiance twinkling like the stars of the sky.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>Mozart was <i>rather vain</i> of the proportion of his hands and feet&mdash;but not
+of having written the Requiem or the Don Juan.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>BURMESE DIGNITY.</h3>
+<p>Mr. Crawfurd, in his account of the <i>Embassy to Ava</i>, relates the
+following specimen of the dignity of a Burmese minister. While sitting
+under an awning on the poop of the steam vessel, a heavy squall, with rain,
+came on.&mdash;&quot;I suggested to his excellency the convenience of going below,
+which he long resisted, under the apprehension of committing his dignity by
+placing himself in a situation where persons might tread over his head, for
+this singular antipathy is common both to the Burmese and Siamese. The
+prejudice is more especially directed against the fair sex; a pretty
+conclusive proof of the estimation in which they are held. His excellency
+seriously demanded to know whether any woman had ever trod upon the poop;
+and being assured in the negative, he consented at length to enter the
+cabin.&quot;</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>STEAM.</h3>
+<p>A quotation from Agathias clearly establishes a knowledge of the
+applicability of steam to mechanical purposes so early as the reign of the
+emperor Justinian, when the philosopher Anthemius most unphilosophically
+employed its powerful agency at Constantinople to shake the house of a
+litigious neighbour. It is also recorded, that Pope Sylvester II.
+constructed an organ, that was worked by steam. As compared with recent
+ingenuity, however, these applications may fairly bring to mind the
+Frenchman's boast of his countryman's invention of the frill and the
+ruffle; while his English opponent claimed for his native land the honour
+of suggesting the addition of the shirt.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>MEDICAL MUSIC.</h3>
+<p>Sharp, the surgeon, Sir Charles Blicke's master, was a great amateur of
+music, but he never used it as a means of curing patients, only in
+attracting them. It was said that he &quot;fiddled himself into practice, and
+fiddled Mr. Pott out of it;&quot; certain it is Mr. Pott, not being a <i>flat</i>,
+did not choose to act in <i>concert</i> with <i>Sharp</i>, and made a quick movement
+to the westward.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p>Boerhaave tells us, that one of the greatest orators of antiquity, Tiberius
+Gracchus, when animated, used to cry out like an old woman; to avoid which,
+he had a servant, who, at these periods, sounded a pipe, by way of hint, as
+well as to pitch the tone, so sensible was he of the importance of a
+well-regulated voice.</p>
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="page155" id="page155"></a>[pg 155]</span>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>LINES ON THE DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES.</h3>
+
+<h4>BY T. CAMPBELL.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>On England's shore I saw a pensive hand,</p>
+<p>With sails unfurl'd for earth's remotest strand,</p>
+<p>Like children parting from a mother, shed</p>
+<p>Tears for the home that could not yield them bread;</p>
+<p>Grief mark'd each face receding from the view,</p>
+<p>'Twas grief to nature honourably true.</p>
+<p>And long, poor wand'rers o'er th' ecliptic deep,</p>
+<p>The song that names but home shall bid you weep;</p>
+<p>Oft shall ye fold your flocks by stars above</p>
+<p>In that far world, and miss the stars ye love;</p>
+<p>Oft, when its tuneless birds scream round forlorn,</p>
+<p>Regret the lark that gladdens England's morn.</p>
+<p>And, giving England's names to distant scenes,</p>
+<p>Lament that earth's extension intervenes.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>But cloud not yet too long, industrious train,</p>
+<p>Your solid good with sorrow nursed in vain:</p>
+<p>For has the heart no interest yet as bland</p>
+<p>As that which binds us to our native land?</p>
+<p>The deep-drawn wish, when children crown our hearth,</p>
+<p>To hear the cherub-chorus of their mirth.</p>
+<p>Undamp'd by dread that want may e'er unhouse,</p>
+<p>Or servile misery knit those smiling brows:</p>
+<p>The pride to rear an independent shed,</p>
+<p>And give the lips we love unborrow'd bread;</p>
+<p>To see a world, from shadowy forests won,</p>
+<p>In youthful beauty wedded to the sun;</p>
+<p>To skirt our home with harvests widely sown,</p>
+<p>And call the blooming landscape all our own,</p>
+<p>Our children's heritage, in prospect long.</p>
+<p>These are the hopes, high-minded hopes and strong.</p>
+<p>That beckon England's wanderers o'er the brine,</p>
+<p>To realms where foreign constellations shine;</p>
+<p>Where streams from undiscovered fountains roll,</p>
+<p>And winds shall fan them from th' Antarctic pole.</p>
+<p>And what though doom'd to shores so far apart</p>
+<p>From England's home, that ev'n the home-sick heart</p>
+<p>Quails, thinking, ere that gulf can be recross'd,</p>
+<p>How large a space of fleeting life is lost:</p>
+<p>Yet there, by time, their bosoms shall be changed,</p>
+<p>And strangers once shall cease to sigh estranged,</p>
+<p>But jocund in the year's long sunshine roam,</p>
+<p>That yields their sickle twice its harvest home.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>There, marking o'er his farm's expanding ring</p>
+<p>New fleeces whiten and new fruits upspring.</p>
+<p>The grey-haired swain, his grandchild sporting round,</p>
+<p>Shall walk at eve his little empire's bound,</p>
+<p>Emblazed with ruby vintage, ripening corn,</p>
+<p>And verdant rampart of Acacian thorn,</p>
+<p>While, mingling with the scent his pipe exhales,</p>
+<p>The orange-grove's and fig-tree's breath prevails;</p>
+<p>Survey with pride beyond a monarch's spoil,</p>
+<p>His honest arm's own subjugated soil;</p>
+<p>And summing all the blessings God has given,</p>
+<p>Put up his patriarchal prayer to Heaven,</p>
+<p>That when his bones shall here repose in peace,</p>
+<p>The scions of his love may still increase,</p>
+<p>And o'er a land where life has ample room,</p>
+<p>In health and plenty innocently bloom.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Delightful land, in wildness ev'n benign,</p>
+<p>The glorious past is ours, the future thine!</p>
+<p>As in a cradled Hercules, we trace</p>
+<p>The lines of empire in thine infant face.</p>
+<p>What nations in thy wide horizon's span</p>
+<p>Shall teem on tracts untrodden yet by man!</p>
+<p>What spacious cities with their spires shall gleam.</p>
+<p>Where now the panther laps a lonely stream.</p>
+<p>And all but brute or reptile life is dumb!</p>
+<p>Land of the free! thy kingdom is to come,</p>
+<p>Of states, with laws from Gothic bondage burst,</p>
+<p>And creeds by charter'd priesthood's unaccurst;</p>
+<p>Of navies, hoisting their emblazon'd flags,</p>
+<p>Where shipless seas now wash unbeacon'd crags;</p>
+<p>Of hosts review'd in dazzling files and squares,</p>
+<p>Their pennon'd trumpets breathing native airs,</p>
+<p>For minstrels thou shalt have of native fire.</p>
+<p>And maids to sing the songs themselves inspire;</p>
+<p>Our very speech, methinks, in after time.</p>
+<p>Shall catch th' Ionian blandness of thy clime;</p>
+<p>And whilst the light and luxury of thy skies</p>
+<span class="sidenote" style="font-size: 200%;">}</span>
+<p>Give brighter smiles to beauteous woman's eyes, </p>
+    <p>The Arts, whose soul is love, shall all spontaneous rise. </p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Untrack'd in deserts lies the marble mine,</p>
+<p>Undug the ore that midst thy roofs shall shine;</p>
+<p>Unborn the hands&mdash;but born they are to be&mdash;</p>
+<p>Fair Australasia, that shall give to thee</p>
+<span class="sidenote" style="font-size: 300%;">}</span>
+    <p>Proud temple domes, with galleries winding high, </p>
+    <p>So vast in space, so just in symmetry, </p>
+    <p>They widen to the contemplating eye, </p>
+<p>With colonnaded aisles in lone array,</p>
+<p>And windows that enrich the flood of day</p>
+<p>O'er tesselated pavements, pictures fair,</p>
+<p>And niched statues breathing golden air,</p>
+<p>Nor there, whilst all that's seen bids Fancy swell,</p>
+<p>Shall Music's voice refuse to seal the spell;</p>
+<p>But choral hymns shall wake enchantment round,</p>
+<p>And organs blow their tempests of sweet sound.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Meanwhile, ere Arts triumphant reach their goal,</p>
+<p>How blest the years of pastoral life shall roll</p>
+<p>Ev'n should some wayward hour the settler's mind</p>
+<p>Brood sad on scenes for ever left behind,</p>
+<p>Yet not a pang that England's name imparts,</p>
+<p>Shall touch a fibre of his children's hearts;</p>
+<p>Bound to that native world by nature's bond,</p>
+<p>Full little shall their wishes rove beyond</p>
+<p>Its mountains blue, and melon-skirted streams.</p>
+<p>Since childhood loved and dreamt of in their dreams.</p>
+<p>How many a name, to us uncouthly wild,</p>
+<p>Shall thrill that region's patriotic child,</p>
+<p>And bring as sweet thoughts o'er his bosom's chords,</p>
+<p>As aught that's named in song to us affords!</p>
+<p>Dear shall that river's margin be to him,</p>
+<p>Where sportive first he bathed his boyish limb.</p>
+<p>Or petted birds, still brighter than their bowers,</p>
+<p>Or twin'd his tame young kangaroo with flowers.</p>
+<p>But mere magnetic yet to memory</p>
+<p>Shall be the sacred spot, still blooming nigh,</p>
+<p>The bower of love, where first his bosom burn'd,</p>
+<p>And smiling passion saw its smile return'd.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<p>Go forth and prosper then, emprizing band;</p>
+<p>May He, who in the hollow of his hand</p>
+<p>The ocean holds, and rules the whirlwind's sweep,</p>
+<p>Assuage its wrath, and guide you on the deep!</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="source"><i>New Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>SMALL TALK AND SMALL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OR HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF AGREEABLE.</h3>
+<p>Conversation, like a shuttlecock, should not be suffered to remain with one
+  person, but ought to pass in turn to all. But as few people think for themselves,
+  so few people talk for themselves, and a colloquial monopoly is as common and
+  as disagreeable as any other. Yet when we observe how much these rattles are
+  caressed, 'tis wonderful there are so few. Talent is by no means <span class="pagenum"><a name="page156" id="page156"></a>[pg
+  156]</span>indispensable, and is the more valuable in proportion as it is flimsy
+  or superficial. The great art lies in the choice of a subject. Let it be some
+  <i>liaison</i> in the <i>beau monde</i>&mdash;the appearance of a new singer
+  or actress&mdash;the detail of a recent duel, with particulars and embellishments,
+  and your fortune is made at once. Do not affect any thing like a literary character,
+  for scholars are reckoned <i>bores</i>. The only matters of this sort with which
+  you can safely meddle are the fashionable novels&mdash;satirical poems&mdash;the
+  magazines, and newspapers (eschewing the political articles as vulgar). It is
+  absolutely necessary to be familiar with the names of all the editors in town,
+  and these can easily be picked up from any of the tatterdemalions who prowl
+  about police offices for the purpose of reporting the trials at a penny per
+  line, which is, in most cases, exactly a penny per line too much. You must drop
+  the complimentary <i>Mr.</i>, and say, &quot;A. of the Chronicle and I&mdash;the
+  last time I saw B. of the Globe&mdash;C. of the Spectator told me t'other day,&quot;
+  and so on. Of course it is not of the slightest consequence whether you ever
+  saw one of the parties. You must also affect to be intimate with the theatrical
+  <i>lions</i>, and be aware of the true state of all managerial squabbles for
+  the season. Swear you have dined a dozen times with Sontag. <i>En passant</i>,
+  the idea of a singer's patronizing a nation <i>wholesale</i>, as she has done
+  in the case of the Silesians, is rather too good. Be indignant with Price for
+  forfeiting Ellen Tree three several times in the sum of thirty pounds, and suppress
+  the fact of his having remitted the penalty in the two first instances. Assume
+  a mysterious air of &quot;I could if I would,&quot; when Miss Love's elopement
+  is mentioned, and state with heroic confidence that the Vesuvius scene in &quot;Masaniello&quot;
+  at Astley's beat Drury by thirteen bricks and two ounces of Greek fire. You
+  must pretend to know the salaries of all the <i>employ&eacute;s</i> in every
+  establishment, and be able to describe the plot of every new piece the moment
+  it is underlined. You can obtain sufficient information to enable you to pass
+  muster on this subject any evening at the Garrick's Head. It would be of great
+  service if you could contrive to be seen in conversation with a respectable
+  actor now and then. You must have seen every sight and exhibited at every exhibition
+  in town, and be able to discuss their several merits or demerits with a &quot;learned
+  spirit.&quot; A knowledge of the principal nobility&mdash;by person at least&mdash;is
+  a <i>sine qua non</i>, for how else should you be able to recount the names
+  of those you saw in the Park on Sunday last? Keep a list of the ages and portions
+  of as many young ladies as possible, and be cautious how you dispose of your
+  information on this score. These, I think, are the principal topics; and the
+  best advice I can give is, &quot;Never be quiet: speak on <i>ad infinitum</i>.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>The man who inwardly digests these rules will be a treasure at any dinner
+party. The awful silence which prevails on the removal of the
+tablecloth&mdash;and an awful silence it surely is&mdash;will be dispelled. No
+ordinary man thinks of speaking, except in monosyllables, till he gets a
+little &quot;elevated,&quot; and then he speaks nonsense as a matter of course. <i>You</i>
+must keep sober&mdash;for people will occasionally get &quot;mellow,&quot; even in good
+society&mdash;and this you will easily manage to do by thinking of the immense
+superiority you will thus secure on joining the ladies in the drawing-room.
+You will be able to hand some blushing fair her coffee without pitching cup
+and contents into her lap, and stoop to pick up her fan or handkerchief
+without incurring the risk of breaking your nose. Should quadrilles be
+proposed, you will also be able to avoid those little <i>dos-&agrave;-dos</i> accidents
+which are by no means agreeable, and be qualified to pronounce, with
+tolerable certainty, which is your own partner.</p>
+
+<p class="source"><i>Sharpe's Magazine.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE SELECTOR;<br />
+ AND <br />
+ LITERARY NOTICES OF <br />
+ <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>VIDOCQ.</h3>
+<p>Some very pleasant blunderer is said to have declared Moore's Life of Sheridan
+  to be the best piece of <i>Autobiography</i> he had ever read; and with little
+  more propriety can the concluding volume of <i>Vidocq's Memoirs</i> be said
+  to belong to that species of literature styled Autobiography. The early volumes,
+  however, possessed this feature, but the present is little more than a criminal
+  supplement to the Memoirs. Of this defect, the translator seems to be aware;
+  for in his &quot;Sequel,&quot; he says, instead of the important disclosures
+  promised by the Police Agent, in vol. ii., &quot;he has given us a nomenclature
+  of the assassins, thieves, and swindlers of France, and no more.&quot; He has
+  merely brought down his Memoirs to the year 1816, and <span class="pagenum"><a name="page157" id="page157"></a>[pg
+  157]</span>eked out his fourth volume with anecdotes and counsels, which have
+  in most cases, more interest than novelty to recommend them. Still they are
+  worth reading, although of a different character to the scenes, or as a wag
+  would say, the &quot;concerted pieces&quot; which we have quoted from the three
+  previous volumes. Our present quotations will not therefore possess the interest
+  of complicated schemes.</p>
+
+<p>At page 34, Vidocq awards to our metropolis, no very desirable
+distinction&mdash;</p>
+<h4><i>Town and Country Thieves.</i></h4>
+<p>&quot;No capital in the world, London excepted, has within it so many thieves
+  as Paris. The pavement of the modern Lutetia is incessantly trodden by rogues.
+  It is not surprising; for the facility of hiding them in the crowd makes all
+  that are badly disposed resort thither, whether French or foreign. The greater
+  number are fixed constantly in this vast city; some only come like birds of
+  passage, at the approach of great occasions, or during the summer season. Besides
+  these exotics, there are indigenous plants, which make a fraction in the population,
+  of which the denominator is tolerably high. I leave to the great calculator,
+  M. Charles Dupin, the task of enumerating them in decimals, and telling us if
+  the sum that it amounts to should not be taken into consideration in the application
+  of the black list.&quot;</p>
+<h4><i>False Keys.</i></h4>
+<p>&quot;Cambrioleurs are plunderers of rooms, either by force or with false keys.
+There are of this class thieves of incredible effrontery; that of one
+Beaumont almost surpasses belief. Escaped from the Bagne at Rochefort,
+where he was sentenced to pass twelve years of his life, he came to Paris,
+and scarcely had he arrived there, where he had already practised, when, by
+way of getting his hand in, he committed several trifling robberies, and
+when by these preliminary steps he had proceeded to exploits more worthy of
+his ancient renown, he conceived the project of stealing a treasure. No one
+will imagine that this treasure was that of the <i>Bureau Central</i> (Central
+Office), now the Prefecture of Police! It was already pretty difficult to
+procure impressions of the keys, but he achieved this first difficulty, and
+soon had in his possession all the means of effecting an opening; but to
+open was nothing, it was necessary to open without being perceived, to
+introduce himself without fear of being disturbed, to work without
+witnesses, and go out again freely. Beaumont, who had calculated all the
+difficulties that opposed him, was not dismayed. He had remarked that the
+private room of the chief officer, M. Henri, was nigh to the spot where he
+proposed to effect his entrance; he espied the propitious moment, and
+wished sincerely that some circumstance would call away so dangerous a
+neighbour for some time, and chance was subservient to his wishes.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;One morning, M. Henri was obliged to go out. Beaumont, sure that he would
+not return that day, ran to his house, put on a black coat, and in that
+costume, which, in those days, always announced a magistrate, or public
+functionary, presents himself at the entrance of the <i>Bureau Central</i>. The
+officer to whom he addressed himself supposed, of course, that he was at
+least a commissary. On the invitation of Beaumont, he gave him a soldier,
+whom he placed as sentinel at the entrance to the narrow passage which
+leads to the dep&ocirc;t, and commanded not to allow any person to pass. No
+better expedient could be found for preventing surprise. Thus Beaumont, in
+the midst of a crowd of valuable objects, could, at his leisure, and in
+perfect security, choose what best pleased him; watches, jewels, diamonds,
+precious stones, &amp;c. He chose those which he deemed most valuable, most
+portable, and as soon as he had made his selection, he dismissed the
+sentinel, and disappeared.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;This robbery could not be long concealed, and the following day was
+discovered. Had thunder fallen on the police, they would have been less
+astonished than at this event. To penetrate to the very sanctuary!&mdash;the
+holy of holies! The fact appeared so very extraordinary, that it was
+doubted. Yet it was evident that a robbery had taken place, and to whom was
+it to be attributed? All the suspicions fell on the clerks; sometimes on
+one, sometimes on another; when Beaumont, betrayed by a friend, was
+apprehended, and sentenced a second time.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;The robbery he had committed might be estimated at some hundred thousand
+francs, the greater part of which were found on him.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;'There was wherewithal,' he said, 'to become an honest man; I should have
+become so; it is so easy when rich! yet how many rich men are only
+scoundrels!'&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;These words were the only ones he uttered, when he was apprehended. <span class="pagenum"><a name="page158" id="page158"></a>[pg
+  158]</span>This surprising thief was conducted to Brest; where, after half a
+  dozen escapes, which only served to make his subsequent confinement more rigorous,
+  he died in a frightful state of exhaustion.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Beaumont enjoyed amongst his confraternity a colossal reputation; and even
+now, when a rogue boasts of his lofty exploits&mdash;'Hold your tongue,' they
+say, 'you are not worthy to untie the shoe-strings of Beaumont!'&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;In effect, to have robbed the police was the height of address. Is not a
+robbery of this nature the <i>chef-d'oeuvre</i> of its kind, and can it do
+otherwise than, make its perpetrator a hero in the eyes of his admirers?
+Who should dare to compare with him? Beaumont had robbed the police! Hang
+yourself, brave Crillon! hang yourself, Coignard! hang yourself,
+Pertruisard! hang yourself, Callet!&mdash;to him, you are but of Saint-Jean.
+What is it to have robbed states of service? To have carried off the
+treasure of the army of the Rhine? To have carried off the military
+chest?&mdash;Beaumont had robbed the police! Hang yourselves!&mdash;or go to England,
+they will hang you there.&quot;</p>
+<h4><i>The Misanthropic Swindler</i>.</h4>
+<p>At page 71, Vidocq tells us a strange story of a fellow named Capdeville,
+who affecting misanthropy and disgust of the world, hired an apartment at a
+lone house near Paris, and employed his solitude in obtaining false keys of
+all the other rooms. Not quite settled here, &quot;Capdeville published his
+intention of going out to discover an hermitage where he could pass his
+latter days in peace. He inquired of all the country proprietors who had
+places for sale within a circuit of six leagues, and it was soon known
+through the country that he was on the look-out for a place of the kind.
+Every body knew, of course, something that would suit him, but he would
+have only a patrimonial estate. 'Well, well,' said they, 'since he is so
+scrupulous, let him look out for himself.' This, in fact, he did.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Determined to make a tour, to examine what was most likely to suit him, he
+employed himself ostensibly in preparations for his departure; he was only
+to be absent three or four days, but before he departed, he was anxious to
+know if there was no danger in leaving a secretary, in which were ten
+thousand francs, which he did not wish to take with him. Being assured on
+this point, and full of security, he did not hesitate to set out on his
+proposed journey.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Capdeville did not go to a very great distance. During his sojourn in the
+house he had just left, he had had time to take impressions of all the keys
+which were requisite for his entrance into the dwelling of the landlord,
+who he knew was in the habit of dining in Paris, and did not return very
+early in the evening. By being there at dusk, Capdeville was certain of
+having before him all the time necessary for carrying on his operations.
+The sun had set, and, favoured by the darkness, he passed unperceived
+through Belleville, and having entered the house by the help of false keys,
+he entered the abode of the landlord, which he cleared out even to the
+linen.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>&quot;Towards the end of the fifth day they began to be uneasy at the
+non-appearance of the misanthrope; the next day a suspicion arose.
+Twenty-four hours later, and there was but one opinion respecting him; he
+was the thief. After such a trick mistrust all misanthropes. To whom then
+shall we trust, in whom place confidence? In philanthropists? By no means.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>The misanthropy in this case must have been infectious, and the disgust of
+the lodger transferred to the landlord.</p>
+
+<p>Other novelties oblige us to break off here for the present, so that
+another spice or two of the frauds of Paris stand over for our next.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>THE ANECDOTE GALLERY</h2>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>RECOLLECTIONS OF PALEY.</h3>
+
+<h4><i>From Best's Personal Memorials</i>.</h4>
+<p>Some one came up to Paley and made an excuse for a friend, who was obliged
+  to defer an intended visit to the subdeanery, because a man who had promised
+  to pay him some money in April, could not pay it till May. &quot;A common case,&quot;
+  said Paley. We all laughed. Paley, by way of rewarding us for our complaisance
+  in being pleased with what was recommended chiefly by the quaintness of his
+  manner, went on:&mdash;&quot;A man should never <i>paay mooney</i> till he can't
+  help it; <i>soomething maay</i> happen.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>At another time he said, &quot;I always desire my wife and daughters to pay
+ready money. It is of no use to desire them to buy only what they want;
+they will always imagine they want what they wish to buy; but that paying
+ready <i>mooney</i> is such a check upon their imagin<i>aa</i>tion.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>Paley's education had been sufficiently hardy. &quot;My father rode to Peterborough,
+  and I rode after him, on a horse that I could not manage. I tumbled <span class="pagenum"><a name="page159" id="page159"></a>[pg
+  159]</span>off. My father, without looking back, cried out, 'Get up again, Will.'
+  When I set up a carriage, it was thought right that my armorial bearings should
+  appear on the panels. Now, we had none of us ever heard of the Paley arms; none
+  of us had ever dreamed that such things existed, or had ever been. All the old
+  folks of the family were consulted; they knew nothing about it. Great search
+  was made, however, and at last we found a silver tankard, on which was engraved
+  a coat of arms. It was carried by common consent that these <i>must</i> be the
+  Paley arms; they were painted on the carriage, and looked very handsome. The
+  carriage went on very well with them; and it was not till six months afterwards
+  that we found out that the tankard had been <i>bought at a sale</i>!&quot;</p>
+
+<p>He told me, &quot;when I wanted to write any thing particularly well,&mdash;to do
+better than ordinary,&mdash;I used to order a post-chaise and go to Longtown; it
+is the first stage from Carlisle towards the north; there is a comfortable,
+quiet inn there. I asked for a room to myself; there then I was, safe from
+the bustle and trouble of a family; and there I remained as long as I
+liked, or till I had finished what I was about.&quot; I said, &quot;That is a very
+curious anecdote;&quot; and I said it in a tone which, from a certain change in
+his countenance, I believe to have set him on musing how this anecdote
+would appear in the history of his life. Paley took his rides on horseback
+occasionally, but always alone, without the attendance even of a servant.
+&quot;I am so bad a horseman, that if any man on horseback was to come near me
+when I am riding, I should certainly have a fall; company would take off my
+attention, and I have need of all I can command to manage my horse and keep
+my seat; I have got a horse, the quietest creature that ever lived, one
+that at Carlisle used to be covered with children from the ears to the
+tail.&quot; Understanding all this, and seeing him gambadoing on the
+race-course, I turned my horse's head another way. &quot;I saw what you meant
+this morning; it was very considerate of you; I am much obliged to you.&quot;
+Paley was too careful of petty expenses, as is frequently the case with
+those who have had but narrow incomes in early life. He kept a sufficiently
+handsome establishment as subdean, but he was stingy. A plentiful fall of
+snow took place during an evening party at the precentors's; two of Mr.
+Subdean's daughters were there; he showed great anxiety on account of the
+necessity that seemed to have arisen of sending them home in a sedan-chair;
+taking the advice of several of the company, whether such necessity really
+and inevitably existed, he said to me, &quot;It is only next door.&quot; &quot;The houses
+touch,&quot; said I, &quot;but it is a long round to your door; the length of both
+houses and then through the garden in front of your house.&quot; He consulted
+the precentor, who, to put the matter in a right point of view, cried out,
+&quot;Let the girls have a chair; it is only three-pence a piece.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>He preached a sermon at Lincoln for the benefit of a charity school. In the
+course of this sermon he related, in familiar but sufficiently dignified
+language, a story of a man who, giving evidence on a trial respecting some
+prescriptive right claimed by the trustees of the charity, was browbeaten
+by the questioning counsel:&mdash;&quot;I suppose the fact to which you swear
+happened when you were a charity boy, and used to go to school there?&quot; The
+witness calmly replied, &quot;I <i>was</i> a charity boy; and all the good that has
+befallen me in life has arisen from the education I received at that
+school.&quot; Paley drew hence an argument in favour of the institution for
+which he pleaded. The whole discourse pleased his auditors, and a
+deputation waited on him to request he would print it. &quot;Gentlemen, I thank
+you for the compliment; but I must give the same answer that I have given
+on other like occasions; and that answer is&mdash;The tap is out.&quot; &quot;The
+Archbishop of York,&quot; said he, speaking of a late primate, &quot;preached one day
+at Carlisle; I was present, and felt muzzy and half asleep; when on a
+sudden I was roused, and began to prick up my ears; and what should I hear
+but a whole page of one of my own books quoted word for word; and this
+without the least acknowledgment, though it was a <i>white bear</i>; a passage
+that is often quoted and well known.&quot; &quot;Now,&quot; said Dr. Milner, Dean of
+Carlisle, who related the anecdote, &quot;guess what inference Paley drew from
+this plagiarism. No; if that court were full of people, not one of them
+would be able to guess: it was this&mdash;I suppose the archbishop's wife makes
+his grace's sermons for him.&quot;</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p>The city has always been the province for satire; and the wits of King Charles's
+  time jested upon nothing else during his whole reign.&mdash;<cite>Addison</cite>.</p>
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="page160" id="page160"></a>[pg 160]</span>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE GATHERER.</h2>
+
+<div class="quote">
+  <p class="indinv">A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.<br />
+    <span class="scaps">Shakspeare</span>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>ERRORS OF THE PRESS.</h3>
+
+<h4><i>By a Reporter</i>.</h4>
+<p>I once had occasion to report, that a certain &quot;noble lord was confined
+  to his house with a <i>violent cold</i>&quot;&mdash;next morning, I found his
+  lordship represented to be &quot;confined with a <i>violent scold</i>!&quot;
+  In the same way, on the occasion of a recent entertainment, I had said &quot;that
+  the first point of attraction and admiration were her <i>ladyship's looks</i>;&quot;
+  this compliment was transferred by the printer to her &quot;<i>ladyship's cooks</i>!&quot;
+  My praises of the &quot;<i>Infant Lyra</i>&quot; were converted to a panegyric
+  on the &quot;<i>infant lyar</i>.&quot; In an account of General Saldanha's conduct
+  at Oporto, I observed that he &quot;<i>behaved like a hero</i>,&quot; while
+  the printer made it appear that he &quot;<i>behaved like a hare</i>.&quot;&mdash;&quot;We,&quot;
+  says the <i>John Bull</i>, &quot;often suffer in this way&mdash;about two years
+  since, we represented Mr. Peel as having joined a party of <i>fiends</i> in
+  Hampshire for the purpose of shooting <i>peasants</i>; and only last week, in
+  a Scotch paper, we saw it gravely stated that a <i>surgeon</i> was taken alive
+  in the river and sold to the inhabitants at 6d. and 10d. per pound.&quot;</p>
+
+<p class="source"><i>Atlas</i>.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>TESTAMENT OF A USURER.</h3>
+<p>&quot;I order that my body be returned to the earth from whence it came, and I
+give my soul to the devil. I give likewise to the devil the souls of my
+wife and children, who encouraged me in usury for the sake of good cheer
+and fine clothes. <i>Item</i>. I give to the devil the soul of my confessor, who
+connived at my crimes by his silence.&quot;</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p>On the day when the news of the decease of Napoleon reached the Tuileries,
+Louis XVIII. was surrounded by a brilliant court, all of whom, with the
+exception of one man, received the intelligence with the most unequivocal
+signs of delight. This man was General Rapp, who burst into tears. The king
+perceived and noticed it. &quot;Yes, Sire,&quot; answered the general, &quot;I do weep for
+Napoleon; and you will excuse it, for to him I owe every thing in the
+world, even the honour of now serving your majesty, since it was he that
+made me what I am!&quot; The king, in an elevated tone of voice, replied,
+&quot;General, I do but esteem you the more. Fidelity which thus survives
+misfortune, proves to me how securely I may depend on you myself.&quot;</p>
+
+<hr />
+<h3>THE HINT TAKEN.</h3>
+<p>Voltaire after being on terms of friendship with the King of Prussia, owing
+to his wit, gave some offence; when the King said to some of his
+courtiers&mdash;&quot;When we squeeze the orange and have sucked the juice, we throw
+the rest away.&quot; Then said Voltaire <i>I must take care of the peel</i>&mdash;and
+quitted his Prussian majesty's dominions.</p>
+
+<p class="source">L. P. S.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h4><i>(To the Editor of the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+<p>Sir,&mdash;In the distich you have quoted from my Lectures at page 143 of your
+last <span class="scaps">Mirror</span>, it should have been stated that the statue was a Cupid. The
+original lines (Voltaire's) are&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p>Qui que tu sois, voici ton ma&icirc;tre,</p>
+<p>Il l'est, le fut, ou le doit &ecirc;tre.</p>
+</div></div>
+<p class="source"><span class="scaps">B. H. Smart.</span><br />
+  <i>Connaught Terrace, Aug. 31</i>.</p>
+<hr />
+<p>In Paris, when they break a window, the common people cry out,
+&quot;<i>quarante-cinq</i>,&quot; so as to produce a sound, in a measure harmonizing with
+the accident. It is to them a capital joke, because <i>quarante-cinq</i>, (45)
+is written with the two figures that make &quot;<i>neuf</i>&quot; (that is, in French,
+either <i>nine</i> or <i>new</i>.) The pun is ingenious.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p>The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.&mdash;<cite>Lavater</cite>.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<h3><i>LIMBIRD'S EDITIONS.</i></h3>
+
+<p>CHEAP and POPULAR WORKS published at the <span class="scaps">Mirror Office</span> in the Strand, near
+Somerset House.</p>
+
+<p>The ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS. Embellished with nearly 150 Engravings.
+In 6 Parts, 1s. each.</p>
+
+<p>The TALES of the GENII. Price 2s.</p>
+
+<p>The MICROCOSM. By the Right Hon. G. <span class="scaps">Canning</span>. &amp;c. 4 Parts, 6d. each.</p>
+
+<p>PLUTARCH'S LIVES, with Fifty Portraits, 12 Parts, 1s. each.</p>
+
+<p>COWPER'S POEMS, with 12 Engravings, 12 Numbers, 3d. each.</p>
+
+<p>COOK'S VOYAGES, 28 Numbers, 3d. each.</p>
+
+<p>The CABINET of CURIOSITIES: or <span class="scaps">Wonders</span> of the <span class="scaps">World Displayed</span>. 27 Nos. 2d.
+each.</p>
+
+<p>BEAUTIES of SCOTT, 2 vols. price 7s. boards.</p>
+
+<p>The ARCANA of SCIENCE for 1828. Price 4s. 6d.</p>
+
+<p>*<sub>*</sub>* Any of the above Works can be purchased in Parts.</p>
+
+<p>GOLDSMITH'S ESSAYS. Price 8d.</p>
+
+<p>DR. FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS. Price 1s. 2d.</p>
+
+<p>BACON'S ESSAYS Price 8d.</p>
+
+<p>SALMAGUNDI. Price 1s. 8d.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<div class="quote">
+  <div class="footnote">
+    <p><a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1</b>: <a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a></p>
+    <p> A low resort, something between a French caf&eacute;, and an English pot-house.</p>
+    <p><a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2</b>: <a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+    </p>
+    <p>You will perceive the writer is a <i>hedge-sparrow</i>.</p>
+    <p><a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3</b>: <a href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+    </p>
+    <p>It should be remarked here, that Mary March, so called from the name of
+      the month in which she was taken, was the Red Indian female who was captured
+      and carried away by force from this place by an armed party of English people,
+      nine or ten in number, who came up here in the month of March, 1809. The
+      local government authorities at that time did not foresee the result of
+      offering a reward to <i>bring a Red Indian to them</i>. Her husband was
+      cruelly shot, after nobly making several attempts, single-handed, to rescue
+      her from the captors, in defiance of their fire-arms, and fixed bayonets.
+      His tribe built this cemetery for him, on the foundation of his own wigwam,
+      and his body is one of those now in it. The following winter, Captain Buchan
+      was sent to the River Exploits, by order of the local government of Newfoundland,
+      to take back this woman to the lake, where she was captured, and if possible
+      at the same time, to open a friendly intercourse with her tribe. But she
+      died on board Captain B.'s vessel, at the mouth of the river. Captain B.
+      however, took up her body to the lake; and not meeting with any of her people,
+      left it where they were afterwards likely to meet with it. It appears the
+      Indians were this winter encamped on the banks of the River Exploits, and
+      observed Captain B.'s party passing up the river on the ice. They retired
+      from their encampments in consequence; and, some weeks afterwards, went
+      by a circuitous route to the lake, to ascertain what the party had been
+      doing there. They found <i>Mary March's</i> body, and removed it from where
+      Captain B. had left it to where it now lies, by the side of her husband.
+    </p>
+    <p> With the exception of Captain Buchan's first expedition, by order of the
+      local government of Newfoundland, in the winter of 1810, to endeavour to
+      open a friendly intercourse with the Red Indians, the two parties just mentioned
+      are the only two we know of that had ever before been up to the Red Indian
+      Lake. Captain B. at that time succeeded in forcing an interview with the
+      principal encampment of these people. All of the tribe that remained at
+      that period were then at the Great Lake, divided into parties, and in their
+      winter encampments, at different places in the woods on the margin of the
+      lake. Hostages were exchanged; but Captain B. had not been absent from the
+      Indians two hours, in his return to a dep&ocirc;t left by him at a short
+      distance down the river, to take up additional presents for them, when the
+      want of confidence of these people in the whites evinced itself. A suspicion
+      spread among them that he had gone down to bring up a reinforcement of men,
+      to take them all prisoners to the sea-coast; and they resolved immediately
+      to break up their encampment and retire farther into the country, and alarm
+      and join the rest of their tribe, who were all at the western parts of the
+      lake. To prevent their proceedings being known, they killed and then cut
+      off the heads of the two English hostages; and, on the same afternoon on
+      which Captain B. had left them, they were in full retreat across the lake,
+      with baggage, children, &amp;c. The whole of them afterwards spent the remainder
+      of the winter together, at a place twenty to thirty miles to the south-west,
+      on the south-east side of the lake. On Captain B.'s return to the lake next
+      day or the day after, the cause of the scene there was inexplicable; and
+      it remained a mystery until now, when we can gather some facts relating
+      to these people from the Red Indian woman, <i>Shawnawdithit</i>.</p>
+  </div>
+</div>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p><i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,)
+  London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; and by all Newsmen
+  and Booksellers</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
+Instruction, No. 388, by Various
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 388
+       Vol. 14, No. 388, Saturday, September 5, 1829.
+
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 14, No. 388.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1829. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ST. DUNSTAN'S, FLEET STREET.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+No church in London is perhaps better known than the above, which is
+distinctively called Saint Dunstan's in the West. External elegance has
+little to do with this celebrity, which has been acquired by the two wooden
+figures placed on a pediment in front, representing savages, who indicate
+the hours and quarters by striking a bell with their clubs: this has caused
+a wag to describe them as the most striking wonders of the metropolis.
+Another, who is equally disposed to sport with their notoriety, says, "as
+they are visible in the street, they are more admired by many of the
+populace on Sundays, than the most elegant preacher from the pulpit
+within." We are, however, induced to hope better; especially as Dr. Donne,
+the celebrated Richard Baxter, and the pious Romaine were preachers at St.
+Dunstan's.
+
+There is no evidence when this church was erected; but Stow records burials
+in it so early as the year 1421. The date of the above view is 1739, and
+from a foot-note to the Engraving, we learn that the church was dedicated
+to St. Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, who died A.D. 990. "It was
+anciently a Rectory, in the patronage of the Convent of Westminster.
+Richard de Barking, the abbot, in 1237, granted the advowson to King Henry
+III., which continued in the crown till 1362; it was afterwards in the gift
+of the bishop of London, till 1386; when Robert de Braybrooke, the bishop,
+granted it to the abbot and Convent of Premonastratenses of Alnwick in
+Northumberland, where the patronage remained till their suppression. King
+Edward VI. granted it to the Lord Dudley, but both the Rectory and Advowson
+of the Vicarage were afterwards granted to Sir Richard Sackville, till
+alienated to George Rivers, in 1625; it is now in the gift of Joseph
+Taylor, Esq." (to whom the Plate is dedicated).
+
+St. Dunstan's luckily escaped the fire of London in 1666, which stopped
+within three houses of it, as did also another fire, in 1730. The clock and
+figures were put up in 1761, and an accurate description of them (quoted
+from Smith's _London_ by our esteemed correspondent, P. T. W.) will be
+found at page 148, vol. xi. of the MIRROR. The church was thoroughly
+repaired, and the roof considerably raised in 1701. The last repairs, which
+were considerable, were executed in the year 1820; but it is expected that
+the whole building will be shortly taken down, and a new church erected, so
+as to widen the public thoroughfare.
+
+Our Engraving is an interesting view of the church nearly a century since,
+when a range of shops (since removed) extended beneath the whole of this
+side of the structure; and the respective signs must have been unholy
+appendages to what appeared like part and parcel of a house of prayer. The
+clock is accurately represented, the bracket being a carved figure of Time
+with expanded wings, as mention by Smith. The clockmaker proposed to the
+parish "to do one thing, which London shall not show the like," and we hope
+our Engraving may be the means of rescuing his eccentric ingenuity from
+oblivion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A DESULTORY CHAPTER ON LOCALITIES.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+    Rotterdam and Erasmus.--Holyrood and Mary Queen of
+    Scots.--Scotland.--Switzerland and Rousseau.--Pope's
+    Grotto.--Chiswick, &c.
+
+
+There is perhaps no sentiment more generally felt, or more delightful, than
+that indescribable interest with which we are led to contemplate places and
+scenes, immortalized in historical renown, or hallowed by genius.
+
+The propensity for moving from place to place, so observable in mankind,
+derives, no doubt, its chief zest from the anxiety we feel to visit
+countries of which in the course of our historical researches, we have
+heard and read so much to awaken our interest, and excite our admiration.
+
+Without the early reverence which we as boys imbibe for the departed
+splendour of Greece and Rome, we should not as men be found wandering among
+the ruins of the Pyraeus, or the deserted streets of Pompeii. We find it
+impossible to behold unmoved the sad, the astonishing changes which time,
+the arch-destroyer has effected with his giant arm. Our exuberant fancies
+carry us back to those remote periods when all was glory and magnificence,
+where now ruin and desolation have established their melancholy empire.
+Abandoning ourselves to the potent influence of classical contemplations of
+the past, we revel in the full indulgence of antiquarian enthusiasm.
+Imagination, however, needs not in general so wide a field for the exercise
+of her magic powers. We desire perhaps more of pleasurable excitement from
+the recollections attached to spots identified in our minds with events of
+individual or ideal interest, than from the loftier train of thoughts
+produced by a pilgrimage to countries which have become famous in ancient
+or modern story. Thus we experience more delight in visiting places,
+remarkable as having once been the resort or habitations of distinguished
+men, than in viewing the ruins of an ancient citadel, or the site of a
+celebrated battle. The events achieved on the latter may indeed, in their
+time, have turned the scale of empires; but the association of ideas in the
+former instances, speak a thousand times more feeling to our individual
+sympathies. I remember when passing a couple of days in the opulent city of
+Rotterdam, that after walking all the morning along its crowded streets,
+and paying the accustomed stranger's tribute of admiration to its quays,
+its port, and its commercial magnificence, I at length halted before the
+statue of Erasmus. It stands on a pedestal in the middle of a large market,
+and represents the celebrated scholar, clothed in his professor's gown, and
+seemingly gazing with dignified unconcern at the busy multitude around. I
+remained looking at the effigy before me, with a reverential feeling akin
+to that of the devotee at the shrine of a patron saint. Imagination
+transported me back to the eventful times in which Erasmus flourished,
+opening to my mind's eye a long vista of historical recollections, till my
+absorbed demeanour attracted observation. I found myself exposed to that
+vacant stare with which people are so apt to disconcert your composure, if
+they observe you contemplating with curiosity and interest, objects which
+they have seen every day of their lives, and for that very reason always
+pass unnoticed. Leaving then my position, yet anxious to follow up the
+train of ideas it had inspired, I sought, and by dint of inquiry,
+discovered the habitation of Erasmus. It is in a dirty street, and consists
+of one moderately sized, low roofed apartment, on the first floor of an old
+fashioned, ill-built house, which the vicissitudes of time have converted
+into an _Estaminet_.[1] I was conducted up a dark, narrow staircase into
+the close, dingy room, by an ugly, ignorant frau, who seemed to wonder what
+earthly inducement I had to visit her dwelling-house. Lumber and
+moth-eaten furniture were carelessly scattered around. A solitary window,
+partly blocked up by an old mattress, barely admitted light sufficient to
+make objects visible. All was neglect and desolation. It seemed almost
+impossible that so obscure and dismal a lodging could have been occupied by
+so illustrious a tenant. I fancied I beheld the most learned man of his
+age, the counsellor and companion of princes, and the contemporary and
+rival of Sir Thomas More, indulging his classical reveries in this
+comfortless chamber, regardless of its forlorn and squalid aspect. The
+charm was omnipotent. Seated in an ancient leathern-bottomed chair, my
+hostess, and the dust and darkness of the place were overlooked or
+forgotten. The spirit of the mighty dead seemed to hover around, as a sort
+of _genius loci_, rescuing the wretched tenement from otherwise deserved
+oblivion, and making its very dinginess venerable!
+
+    [1] A low resort, something between a French cafe, and an English
+        pot-house.
+
+On another occasion I recollect experiencing very strikingly, the force of
+local impressions. It was when visiting the apartments of Mary Queen of
+Scots, in the palace of Holyrood. Recalling to mind, with the enthusiasm of
+one of her warmest admirers, every circumstance connected with the eventful
+history of that unfortunate princess, it was impossible for me not to feel
+penetrated with the deepest interest. I traversed the very rooms in which
+she had sat, and conversed, and passed her hours of peaceful privacy. My
+fancy pictured that privacy rudely and brutally invaded by Darnley and his
+ruffian associates, when bent on the murder of the ill-fated Rizzio. I
+mentally compared the circumstances of that deed of blood, as related by
+historians, with the facilities for committing it, afforded by the
+distribution of apartments. They tallied exactly. There was the little room
+in which sat the queen with her ladies and the devoted secretary. Close to
+the door appeared the dark, narrow, turret staircase, which Darnley
+ascended before he rushed into Mary's presence. The struggle must have been
+desperate, for the murder was not effected in that chamber, Rizzio being
+either dragged, or escaped into an adjoining and very obscure anteroom in
+which the crime was perpetrated. They pretend to show you marks of his
+blood yet visible on the floor. Although all such horrible vestiges have
+been most probably long since obliterated, it is yet just possible that
+some may remain. To believe so, at the moment, was a lawful indulgence of
+my previous illusion. I could have followed the train of associations thus
+created much further, had not the person appointed to act as Cicerone
+hurried me through the apartments. Their doors closed against me, and the
+spell was broken.
+
+Edinburgh is full of interesting localities; particularly the old town. In
+its ancient "wynds and closes," now tenanted by the veriest of the plebeian
+race, in former days resided men of the most distinguished rank and
+celebrity. Before the stupendous improvements of later times had justly
+entitled the Scottish metropolis to the appellation of the modern Athens,
+the princes and nobles of the land, its judges and senators, were obliged
+to dwell in those dirty streets and alleys, from which "Auld Reekie"
+derived its then appropriate appellation. When in progress of time they
+removed to more splendid and suitable abodes, their abandoned tenements
+became habitations of wretchedness. Much however remained in them to remind
+posterity of their former proprietors; and whoever is not afraid of
+encountering the spectacle of a swarming population in a state of abject
+and squalid poverty, will find an abundant field for his antiquarian
+researches in the old town of Edinburgh. Like Switzerland, and other
+mountainous countries, Scotland is by nature formed to be a land of
+romantic associations; but how wonderfully have her historians, poets, and
+novelists contributed to create and preserve them! The author of Waverley
+has thrown a classic halo around the wild beauties of his native land, and
+communicated to stranger minds a national enthusiasm which _his_ soul alone
+could have felt, _his_ pen alone inspired! In Scotland, almost every step
+we take is on hallowed ground, and the lover of historical recollections
+may enjoy to its full extent the delight of visiting places immortalized by
+the achievements of her heroes, or the pen of her poets.
+
+To a man fond of localities, travelling either on the continent or in
+England, will furnish numerous opportunities of indulging the reveries to
+which they give birth. It would be hardly possible to name a town, or a
+village, utterly destitute of local interest. In almost every instance,
+some memento would be discovered to hallow its site, and to engage the
+observation of an intelligent traveller. With a mind predisposed to enjoy
+mental associations, they will crowd on us wherever we go, and be suggested
+by the veriest trifles. Rousseau could not contain his ecstacy at
+beholding a little flower (_la parvenche_) in bloom, which thirty years
+before, Madame de Warens had first pointed out to his notice. That simple
+incident summoned up a train of exquisite reminiscences. No one, indeed,
+ever yielded so entirely to the influence of local enthusiasm as the author
+of the _Nouvelle Heloise_. No one has so successfully attempted to invest
+scenes, in themselves beautiful, with the additional and powerful interest
+of ideal recollections. Picturesque as are the shores of Leman, Meillerie,
+and Vevai, yet to Rousseau's sublime conceptions and eloquent descriptions,
+they are chiefly indebted for the celebrity which they enjoy. Nature made
+Switzerland a land of rugged magnificence. To complete the charm, nothing
+was wanted, but that its mountains should be peopled by the creations of
+Rousseau.
+
+It were needless, however, to travel to foreign countries in search of
+interesting localities. Our own island teems with them. In the metropolis
+and its environs, a diligent inquirer will find them at every step. How
+many coffeehouses and taverns are there in London which at one time or
+another have been frequented by celebrated characters, and how many houses
+in which others equally celebrated have resided; such as that of Milton, in
+Westminster; and of Johnson, in Bolt Court. How many old gable-ended
+tenements do we see in the eastern parts of the town that were standing
+before the fire, and which, if explored, might be found to contain the most
+interesting relics of antiquity. What a number of streets, courts, and
+alleys, bearing names at once indicative of their ancient origin, and of
+scenes, and persons, and local circumstances long since forgotten!
+
+Then, if we extend our perambulations to the vicinity of London, how many
+hallowed places shall we meet with? Where can we find a palace like Windsor
+Castle, to which attach the historical recollections of many centuries,
+adding, if possible, yet more solemnity to Gothic grandeur? Again, can
+there be conceived a spot more entirely consecrated to classical
+associations than the grotto, at Twickenham; that retreat in which gazing
+on "Thames translucent stream," Pope passed so many hours of undisturbed
+privacy--that spot
+
+  "Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole,
+  And the bright flame was shot thro' Marchmont's soul."
+
+I have visited it in summer, when the warmth of a mid-day sun has rendered
+the "_frigus amabile_" of the interior doubly inviting, and on such
+occasions, have quite revelled in local enthusiasm.
+
+I remember, some years since, visiting the Duke of Devonshire's beautiful
+villa, at Chiswick, in company with a friend, whose sentiments on the
+subject of local impressions are similar to my own. While I was admiring
+books and paintings in the library, my companion was contemplating in mute
+emotion, the bed upon which Charles Fox breathed his last. That one object
+engrossed all the powers of his soul; every other was forgotten!
+
+C. J.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE HUMBLE SPARROW'S ADDRESS TO T. S. A.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+  My dearest Sir, how great a change
+  Has pass'd upon the groves I range,
+        Nay, all the face of nature!
+  A few weeks back, each pendent bough,
+  The fields, the groves, the mountain's brow,
+  Were bare and leafless all, but now
+        How verdant ev'ry feature!
+
+  Each little songster strives to raise
+  Its highest warbling notes of praise,
+        For all these blessings given:--
+  Ere Sol emerges from behind
+  The eastern hills, the lark we find
+  Soars, as it were on wings of wind,
+        With grateful notes to heaven.
+
+  A thousand others catch the strains,
+  Each bush and tree a tongue contains,
+        That offers up its praises.
+  From morn till the meridian day,
+  From noon till Sol has sunk away,
+  One ceaseless song, one grateful lay,
+        Each feather'd songster raises.
+
+  And when Night's grim and sable band,
+  Spreads her dim curtains o'er the land,
+        And all our prospect closes;
+  Then Philomela, queen of song,
+  The sweetest of the feather'd throng,
+  Takes up the theme the whole night long,
+        While nature all reposes.
+
+  Then surely I, the humblest bird,
+  That e'er among the groves was heard,
+        Should aid the thankful chorus;
+  With _chirping note_ I'll join the sound,
+  For not _a Sparrow_, 'twill be found,
+  Without HIS will falls to the ground,
+        Who high above reigns o'er us.
+
+  But what avail my feeble powers,
+  When softer notes descend in showers,
+        Mine are not worth regarding;
+  No honour'd title gilds my name,
+  No dulcet notes I e'er could claim;
+  So worthless I, you may obtain
+        _Two Sparrows_ for a farthing.
+
+  Besides, I ne'er was form'd to _sing_,
+  And so must soar on humbler wing,
+        Since nature saw it fitter;
+  But yet my feeble powers I'll try,
+  And sound my _chatt'ring_ notes on high,
+  For I am sure you'll not deny
+        To hear my simple _twitter_.
+
+  My gratitude is doubly due,
+  For all the hedges[2] in my view,
+        Afford a verdant cover;
+  I now can build my nest once more,
+  From childhood's prying glance secure,
+  And from the hawk's keen eye, tho' o'er
+        The sacred bush he hover.
+
+  Oh! had I Philomela's tongue,
+  The thrush's note, or warbling song
+        Of blackbird, lark, or linnet;
+  I'd then more gratitude display,
+  Striving to raise a sweeter lay,
+  I'd sing the fleeting hours away,
+        Nor silent be a minute.
+
+  But I must quit the trembling spray,
+  And to my duty fly away,
+        To pick a straw or feather;
+  My mate is somewhere on the wing,
+  I think she's gone some moss to bring,
+  For we must work while it is spring,
+        And build our nest together.
+
+  So now adieu--I've chirp'd too long,
+  Must leave the finish of my song
+        To some more learned bird's son;
+  Whose mellow notes can charm the ear
+  With no discordant chatter near;
+  So now, dear Sir, I'm your sincere
+        And humble Sparrow.
+
+HERDSON.
+
+    [2] You will perceive the writer is a _hedge-sparrow_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TO A DESTRUCTIVE INSECT ON A ROSEBUD.
+
+IN MANNER OF BURNS.
+
+(_For the Mirror._)
+
+
+  Ye imp o' death, how durst ye dwell
+  Within this pure and hallow'd cell,
+  Thy purposes I ken fu' well
+                Are to destroy,
+  And wi' a mortal breathing spell,
+                To blast each joy!
+
+  Yet why upo' so sma' a flower,
+  Dost thou exert thy deadly pow'r,
+  And nip fair beauty's natal hour,
+                Wi' thy vile breath,
+  It is when wint'ry storms do low'r,
+                We look for death.
+
+  But thou, thou evil one, hast come,
+  To bring this wee rose to its doom,
+  Not i' time of woe and gloom,
+                But i' the spring,
+  When flowerets just begin to bloom.
+                And birds to sing.
+
+  O fie, begone fra out my sight,
+  Nor dare attempt such joy to blight,
+  Thou evil wicked-doing doit,
+                Then hie away,
+  Seek not the _morning_, but the _night_
+                To crush thy prey!
+
+J. F. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE CONTEMPORARY TRAVELLER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE RED INDIANS OF NEWFOUNDLAND.
+
+(_Concluded from page 136._)
+
+
+"We spent several melancholy days wandering on the borders of the east end
+of the lake, surveying the various remains of what we now contemplated to
+have been an unoffending and cruelly extirpated people. At several places,
+by the margin of the lake, are small clusters of winter and summer wigwams
+in ruins. One difference, among others, between the Boeothick wigwams and
+those of the other Indians, is, that in most of the former there are small
+hollows, like nests, dug in the earth around the fireplace, one for each
+person to sit in. These hollows are generally so close together, and also
+so close to the fireplace, and to the sides of the wigwam, that I think it
+probable these people have been accustomed to sleep in a sitting position.
+There was one wooden building constructed for drying and smoking venison
+in, still perfect; also a small log-house, in a dilapidated condition,
+which we took to have been once a storehouse. The wreck of a large,
+handsome, birch-rind canoe, about twenty-two feet in length, comparatively
+new, and certainly very little used, lay thrown up among the bushes at the
+beach. We supposed that the violence of a storm had rent it in the way it
+was found, and that the people who were in it had perished; for the iron
+nails, of which there was no want, all remained in it. Had there been any
+survivors, nails being much prized by these people, they never having held
+intercourse with Europeans, such an article would most likely have been
+taken out for use again. All the birch trees in the vicinity of the lake
+had been rinded, and many of them, and of the spruce fir, or var, had the
+bark taken off, to use the inner part of it for food, as noticed before."
+
+"Their wooden repositories for the dead are what are in the most perfect
+state of preservation. These are of different constructions, it would
+appear, according to the character or rank of the persons entombed. In one
+of them, which resembled a hut ten feet by eight or nine, and four or five
+feet high in the centre, floored with squared poles, the roof covered with
+rinds of trees, and in every way well secured against the weather inside,
+and the intrusion of wild beasts, there were two grown persons laid out at
+full length, on the floor, the bodies wrapped round with deerskins. One of
+these bodies appeared to have been placed here not longer ago than five or
+six years. We thought there were children laid in here also. On first
+opening this building, by removing the posts which formed the ends, our
+curiosity was raised to the highest pitch; but what added to our surprise,
+was the discovery of a white deal coffin, containing a skeleton neatly
+shrouded in white muslin. After a long pause of conjecture how such a thing
+existed here, the idea of _Mary March_ occurred to one of the party, and
+the whole mystery was at once explained.[3]"
+
+    [3] It should be remarked here, that Mary March, so called from the
+        name of the month in which she was taken, was the Red Indian
+        female who was captured and carried away by force from this
+        place by an armed party of English people, nine or ten in
+        number, who came up here in the month of March, 1809. The local
+        government authorities at that time did not foresee the result
+        of offering a reward to _bring a Red Indian to them_. Her
+        husband was cruelly shot, after nobly making several attempts,
+        single-handed, to rescue her from the captors, in defiance of
+        their fire-arms, and fixed bayonets. His tribe built this
+        cemetery for him, on the foundation of his own wigwam, and his
+        body is one of those now in it. The following winter, Captain
+        Buchan was sent to the River Exploits, by order of the local
+        government of Newfoundland, to take back this woman to the lake,
+        where she was captured, and if possible at the same time, to
+        open a friendly intercourse with her tribe. But she died on
+        board Captain B.'s vessel, at the mouth of the river. Captain B.
+        however, took up her body to the lake; and not meeting with any
+        of her people, left it where they were afterwards likely to meet
+        with it. It appears the Indians were this winter encamped on the
+        banks of the River Exploits, and observed Captain B.'s party
+        passing up the river on the ice. They retired from their
+        encampments in consequence; and, some weeks afterwards, went by
+        a circuitous route to the lake, to ascertain what the party had
+        been doing there. They found _Mary March's_ body, and removed it
+        from where Captain B. had left it to where it now lies, by the
+        side of her husband.
+
+        With the exception of Captain Buchan's first expedition, by
+        order of the local government of Newfoundland, in the winter of
+        1810, to endeavour to open a friendly intercourse with the Red
+        Indians, the two parties just mentioned are the only two we know
+        of that had ever before been up to the Red Indian Lake. Captain
+        B. at that time succeeded in forcing an interview with the
+        principal encampment of these people. All of the tribe that
+        remained at that period were then at the Great Lake, divided
+        into parties, and in their winter encampments, at different
+        places in the woods on the margin of the lake. Hostages were
+        exchanged; but Captain B. had not been absent from the Indians
+        two hours, in his return to a depot left by him at a short
+        distance down the river, to take up additional presents for
+        them, when the want of confidence of these people in the whites
+        evinced itself. A suspicion spread among them that he had gone
+        down to bring up a reinforcement of men, to take them all
+        prisoners to the sea-coast; and they resolved immediately to
+        break up their encampment and retire farther into the country,
+        and alarm and join the rest of their tribe, who were all at the
+        western parts of the lake. To prevent their proceedings being
+        known, they killed and then cut off the heads of the two English
+        hostages; and, on the same afternoon on which Captain B. had
+        left them, they were in full retreat across the lake, with
+        baggage, children, &c. The whole of them afterwards spent the
+        remainder of the winter together, at a place twenty to thirty
+        miles to the south-west, on the south-east side of the lake. On
+        Captain B.'s return to the lake next day or the day after, the
+        cause of the scene there was inexplicable; and it remained a
+        mystery until now, when we can gather some facts relating to
+        these people from the Red Indian woman, _Shawnawdithit_.
+
+"In this cemetery were deposited a variety of articles, in some instances
+the property, in others the representations of the property and utensils,
+and of the achievements, of the deceased. There were two small wooden
+images of a man and woman, no doubt meant to represent husband and wife and
+a small doll which we supposed to represent a child (for _Mary March_ had
+to leave her only child here, which died two days after she was taken);
+several small models of their canoes; two small models of boats; an iron
+axe; a bow and quiver of arrows were placed by the side of _Mary March's_
+husband; and two fire-stones (radiated iron pyrites, from which they
+produce fire, by striking them together) lay at his head; there were also
+various kinds of culinary utensils, neatly made, of birch rind and
+ornamented; and many other things, of some of which we did not know the use
+or meaning."
+
+"Another mode of sepulture which we saw here was, where the body of the
+deceased had been wrapped in birch rind, and with his property, placed on a
+sort of scaffold about four feet and a half from the ground. The scaffold
+was formed of four posts, about seven feet high, fixed perpendicularly in
+the ground, to sustain a kind of crib, five feet and a half in length, by
+four in breadth, with a floor made of small squared beams, laid close
+together horizontally, and on which the body and property rested."
+
+"A third mode was, when the body, bent together, and wrapped in birch rind,
+was enclosed in a kind of box, on the ground. The box was made of small
+squared posts, laid on each other horizontally, and notched at the corners,
+to make them meet close; it was about four feet by three, and two and a
+half feet deep, and well lined with birch rind, to exclude the weather from
+the inside. The body lay on its right side."
+
+"A fourth and the most common mode of burying among these people, has been,
+to wrap the body in birch rind, and cover it over with a heap of stones, on
+the surface of the earth, in some retired spot; sometimes the body, thus
+wrapped up, is put a foot or two under the surface, and the spot covered
+with stones; in one place, where the ground was sandy and soft, they
+appeared to have been buried deeper, and no stones placed over the graves."
+
+"These people appear to have always shewn great respect for their dead; and
+the most remarkable remains of them commonly observed by Europeans at the
+sea-coast, are their burying-places. These are at particular chosen spots;
+and it is well known that they have been in the habit of bringing their
+dead from a distance to them. With their women they bury only their
+clothes."
+
+"On the north-side of the lake, opposite the River Exploits, are the
+extremities of two deer fences, about half a mile apart, where they lead to
+the water. It is understood that they diverge many miles in north-westerly
+directions. The Red Indian makes these fences to lead and scare the deer to
+the lake, during the periodical migration of these animals; the Indians
+being stationed looking out, when the deer get into the water to swim
+across, the lake being narrow at this end, they attack and kill the animals
+with spears out of their canoes. In this way they secure their winter
+provisions before the severity of that season sets in."
+
+"There were other old remains of different kinds peculiar to these people
+met with about the lake."
+
+"One night we encamped on the foundation of an old Red Indian wigwam, on
+the extremity of a point of land which juts out into the lake, and exposed
+to the view of the whole country around. A large fire at night is the life
+and soul of such a party as ours, and when it blazed up at times, I could
+not help observing that two of my Indians evinced uneasiness and want of
+confidence in things around, as if they thought themselves usurpers on the
+Red Indian territory. From time immemorial none of the Indians of the other
+tribes had ever encamped near this lake fearlessly, and, as we had now
+done, in the very centre of such a country; the lake and territory adjacent
+having been always considered to belong exclusively to the Red Indians, and
+to have been occupied by them. It had been our invariable practice
+hitherto, to encamp near the hills, and be on their summits by the dawn of
+day, to try to discover the morning smoke ascending from the Red Indians'
+camps; and to prevent the discovery of ourselves, we extinguished our own
+fire always some length of time before daylight."
+
+"Our only and frail hope now left of seeing the Red Indians, lay on the
+banks of the River Exploits, on our return to the sea-coast."
+
+"The Red Indians' Lake discharges itself about three or four miles from its
+north-east end, and its waters form the River Exploits. From the lake to
+the sea-coast is considered about seventy miles; and down this noble river
+the steady perseverance and intrepidity of my Indians carried me on rafts
+in four days, to accomplish which otherwise, would have required, probably,
+two weeks. We landed at various places on both banks of the river on our
+way down, but found no traces of the Red Indians so recent as those seen at
+the portage at Badger Bay-Great Lake, towards the beginning of our
+excursion. During our descent, we had to construct new rafts at the
+different waterfalls. Sometimes we were carried down the rapids at the rate
+of ten miles an hour, or more, with considerable risk of destruction to the
+whole party, for we were always together on one raft."
+
+"What arrests the attention most, while gliding down the stream, is the
+extent of the Indian fences to entrap the deer. They extend from the lake
+downwards, continuous, on the banks of the river, at least thirty miles.
+There are openings left here and there in them, for the animals to go
+through and swim across the river, and at these places the Indians are
+stationed, and kill them in the water with spears, out of their canoes, as
+at the lake. Here, then, connecting these fences with those on the
+north-west side of the lake, is at least forty miles of country, easterly
+and westerly, prepared to intercept all the deer that pass that way in
+their periodical migrations. It was melancholy to contemplate the gigantic,
+yet feeble, efforts of a whole primitive nation, in their anxiety to
+provide subsistence, forsaken and going to decay."
+
+"There must have been hundreds of the Red Indians, and that not many years
+ago, to have kept up these fences and pounds. As their numbers were
+lessened so was their ability to keep them up for the purposes intended;
+and now the deer pass the whole line unmolested."
+
+"We infer, that the few of these people who yet survive have taken refuge
+in some sequestered spot, still in the northern part of the island, and
+where they can procure deer to subsist on."
+
+"On the 29th of November we had again returned to the mouth of the River
+Exploits, in thirty days after our departure from thence, after having made
+a complete circuit of about 200 miles in the Red Indian territory."
+
+"In conclusion, I congratulate the institution on the acquisition of
+several ingenious articles, the manufacture of the _Boeothicks_, or Red
+Indians, some of which we had the good fortune to discover on our recent
+excursion;--models of their canoes, bows and arrows, spears of different
+kinds, &c.; and also a complete dress worn by that people. Their mode of
+kindling fire is not only original, but, as far as we at present know, is
+peculiar to the tribe. These articles, together with a short vocabulary of
+their language, consisting of 200 or 300 words, which I have been enabled
+to collect, prove the Boeothicks to be a distinct tribe from any hitherto
+discovered in North America. One remarkable characteristic of their
+language, and in which it resembles those of Europe more than any other
+Indian languages do, with which we have had an opportunity of comparing
+it,--is its abounding in diphthongs."
+
+Mr. Cormack thinks that after the unfortunate circumstances attending past
+encounters between the Europeans and the Red Indians, it is best now to
+employ Indians belonging to the other tribes to be the medium of the
+intercourse in view; and he has chosen three intelligent men from
+Newfoundland to follow up the search.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+NOTES OF A READER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DERWENTWATER.
+
+
+The following touching episodal extract is from Dr. Southey's _Colloquies
+on the Progress and Prospects of Society:_--The best general view of
+Derwentwater is from the terrace, between Applethwaite and Milbeck, a
+little beyond the former hamlet. The old roofs and chimneys of that hamlet
+come finely in the foreground, and the trees upon the Ornathwaite estate
+give there a richness to the middle ground, which is wanting in other parts
+of the vale. From that spot I once saw three artists sketching it at the
+same time--William Westall (who has engraved it among his admirable views
+of Keswick,) Glover, and Edward Nash, my dear, kind-hearted friend and
+fellow-traveller, whose death has darkened some of the blithest
+recollections of my latter life. I know not from which of the surrounding
+heights it is seen to most advantage; any one will amply repay the labour
+of the ascent; and often as I have ascended them all, it has never been
+without a fresh delight. The best near view is from a field adjoining
+Friar's Craig. There it is that, if I had Aladdin's lamp, or Fortunatus's
+purse (with leave of Greenwich Hospital be it spoken,) I would build myself
+a house.
+
+Thither I had strolled, on one of those first genial days of spring which
+seem to affect the animal not less than the vegetable creation. At such
+times even I, sedentary as I am, feel a craving for the open air and
+sunshine, and creep out as instinctively as snails after a shower. Such
+seasons, which have an exhilarating effect upon youth, produce a soothing
+one when we are advanced in life. The root of an ash tree, on the bank
+which bends round the little bay, had been half bared by the waters during
+one of the winter floods, and afforded a commodious resting-place, whereon
+I took my seat, at once basking in the sun and bathing, as it were, in the
+vernal breeze. But delightful as all about me was to eye, and ear, and
+feeling, it brought with it a natural reflection, that the scene which I
+now beheld was the same which it had been and would continue to be, while
+so many of those with whom I had formerly enjoyed it, were past away. Our
+day-dreams become retrospective as we advance in years; and the heart feeds
+as naturally upon remembrance in age as upon hope in youth.
+
+    "Where are they gone, the old familiar faces?"
+
+I thought of her, whom I had so often seen plying her little skiff upon
+that glassy water, the lady of the lake. It was like a poet's dream, or a
+vision of romance, to behold her--and like a vision or a dream she had
+departed!
+
+  "O gentle Emma, o'er a lovelier form
+  Than thine, earth never closed; nor e'er did heaven
+  Receive a purer spirit from the world!"
+
+I thought of D., the most familiar of my friends during those years when we
+lived near enough to each other for familiar intercourse--my friend, and
+the friend of all who were dearest to me; a man, of whom all who knew him
+will concur with me in saying, that they never knew, nor could conceive of
+one more strictly dutiful, more actively benevolent, more truly kind, more
+thoroughly good; the pleasantest companion, the sincerest counsellor, the
+most considerate friend, the kindest host, the welcomest guest. After our
+separation, he had visited me here three summers; with him it was that I
+had first explored this land of lakes in all directions; and again and
+again should we have retraced our steps in the wildest recesses of these
+vales and mountains, and lived over the past again, if he had not, too
+early for all who loved him,
+
+    "Began the travel of eternity."
+
+I called to mind my hopeful H----, too, so often the sweet companion of my
+morning walks to this very spot; in whom I had fondly thought my better
+part should have survived me, and
+
+  "With whom it seemed my very life
+                Went half away!
+  But we shall meet--but we shall meet
+  Where parting tears shall never flow;
+  And when I think thereon, almost
+                I long to go!"
+
+"Thy dead shall live, O Lord; together with my dead body shall they arise.
+Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust! for Thy dew is as the dew of herbs;
+and the earth shall cast out her dead!"
+
+Surely, to the sincere believer death would be an object of desire instead
+of dread, were it not for those ties--those heartstrings--by which we are
+attached to life. Nor, indeed, do I believe that it is natural to fear
+death, however generally it may be thought so. From my own feelings I have
+little right to judge; for, although habitually mindful that the hour
+cometh, and even now may be, it has never appeared actually near enough to
+make me duly apprehend its effect upon myself. But from what I have
+observed, and what I have heard those persons say whose professions lead
+them to the dying, I am induced to infer that the fear of death is not
+common, and that where it exists it proceeds rather from a diseased and
+enfeebled mind, than from any principle in our nature. Certain it is, that
+among the poor the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet
+and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is
+as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious
+raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith; and they are
+willing to lay down the burden of a weary life, in the sure and certain
+hope of a blessed immortality. Who, indeed, is there, that would not gladly
+make the exchange, if he lived only for himself, and were to leave none who
+stood in need of him--no eyes to weep at his departure, no hearts to ache
+for his loss? The day of death, says the preacher, is better than the day
+of one's birth; a sentence to which whoever has lived long, and may humbly
+hope that he has not lived ill, must heartily assent.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MASANIELLO.
+
+
+The last No. (8,) of the _Foreign Quarley Review_, just published, contains
+an attractive article on the Revolutions of Naples, in 1647 and 1648, in
+which Masaniello played so conspicuous a part. The paper is in the easy
+historical style of Sir Walter Scott; but as little could be selected for
+our pages, except the Adventures of the Rebel Fisherman, and as we have
+given the leading events of his life in an early volume of the MIRROR, we
+content ourselves with the following passage. After a tolerably fair
+estimate of the character of Masaniello, in which Sir Walter considers his
+extraordinary rise as a work of fortune and contingency rather than of his
+own device in the conception, or his own exertions in the execution--the
+writer says--
+
+"It would be doing Masaniello injustice, however, if we did not add, that
+having no distinct prospect of rendering essential service to his country,
+he was at the same time totally free from any sinister views of personal
+aggrandizement. He appears to have been sincere in his wishes, that when he
+had set Naples free,--by which he understood the abolition of imposts,--the
+government of it should be committed to a popular management. The Memoirs
+of 1828 record a singular circumstance with regard to this point, on the
+authority of De Santis. While, on Friday, July 12th, the sixth day of the
+insurrection, he was sitting in his judgment-seat, a female masked, or man
+in woman's habit, approached and whispered, 'Masaniello, we have reached
+the goal, a crown is prepared, and it is for thy brows.'--'For mine?' he
+replied, 'I desire none but the green wreath with which we honour Our
+Lady's festival in September. When I have delivered my country I shall
+resume my nets.'--'You find them no more. Rebellion should not be
+undertaken, or it should be carried on to the end.'--'I will resume my
+nets,' said Masaniello steadily. 'You will not find them,' said the
+intrusive monitor. 'What, then, shall I find?'--'Death!' answered the
+masked figure, and withdrew into the crowd. An evidence of the purity of
+his intentions, though combined with gross ignorance, was afforded by the
+rigour with which he insisted on the destruction of the treasure and rich
+movables found in the houses which were destroyed during the first days of
+the tumult. Latterly, indeed, he yielded to the suggestions of Genuino and
+d'Arpaya, that these things should be preserved for the good of the state,
+and for the purpose of presenting them as a donative to Philip IV. in
+place of the abolished gabelles. But whatever was the case with regard to
+less scrupulous insurgents, he participated in no plunder, until vanity
+produced madness, or madness vanity. On the whole we may conclude, that he
+was a man whose principal characteristic was the boldness with which he
+pursued an object ardently desired, but who was alike incapable, from want
+of knowledge and talents, to avail himself of the success which so
+wonderfully crowned his enterprise. How far his cruelty was the effect of
+natural disposition, or a consequence of his malady, is a question that
+must be left to HIM to whom alone it can be known."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LONDON.
+
+_Literally translated from a Chinese Poem, by a Chinese who visited England
+in 1813._
+
+
+  The towering edifices rise story above story,
+  In all the stateliness of splendid mansions:
+  Railings of iron thickly stud the sides of every entrance;
+  And streams from the river circulate through the walls;
+  The sides of each apartment are variegated with devices;
+  Through the windows of glass appear the scarlet hangings.
+  And in the street itself is presented a beautiful scene;
+  The congregated buildings have all the aspect of a picture.
+
+  In London, about the period of the ninth moon,
+  The inhabitants delight in travelling to a distance;
+  They change their abodes and betake themselves to the country,
+  Visiting their friends in their rural retreats.
+  The prolonged sound of carriages and steeds is heard through the day;
+  Then in autumn the prices of provisions fall,
+  And the greater number of dwellings being untenanted,
+  Such as require it are repaired and adorned.
+
+  The spacious streets are exceedingly smooth and level,
+  Each being crossed by others at intervals;
+  On either side perambulate men and females,
+  In the centre, career along the carriages and horses;
+  The mingled sound of voices is heard in the shops at evening.
+  During midwinter the accumulated snows adhere to the pathway,
+  Lamps are displayed at night along the street sides,
+  Their radiance twinkling like the stars of the sky.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Mozart was _rather vain_ of the proportion of his hands and feet--but not
+of having written the Requiem or the Don Juan.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BURMESE DIGNITY.
+
+
+Mr. Crawfurd, in his account of the _Embassy to Ava_, relates the following
+specimen of the dignity of a Burmese minister. While sitting under an
+awning on the poop of the steam vessel, a heavy squall, with rain, came
+on.--"I suggested to his excellency the convenience of going below, which
+he long resisted, under the apprehension of committing his dignity by
+placing himself in a situation where persons might tread over his head, for
+this singular antipathy is common both to the Burmese and Siamese. The
+prejudice is more especially directed against the fair sex; a pretty
+conclusive proof of the estimation in which they are held. His excellency
+seriously demanded to know whether any woman had ever trod upon the poop;
+and being assured in the negative, he consented at length to enter the
+cabin."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STEAM.
+
+
+A quotation from Agathias clearly establishes a knowledge of the
+applicability of steam to mechanical purposes so early as the reign of the
+emperor Justinian, when the philosopher Anthemius most unphilosophically
+employed its powerful agency at Constantinople to shake the house of a
+litigious neighbour. It is also recorded, that Pope Sylvester II.
+constructed an organ, that was worked by steam. As compared with recent
+ingenuity, however, these applications may fairly bring to mind the
+Frenchman's boast of his countryman's invention of the frill and the
+ruffle; while his English opponent claimed for his native land the honour
+of suggesting the addition of the shirt.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MEDICAL MUSIC.
+
+
+Sharp, the surgeon, Sir Charles Blicke's master, was a great amateur of
+music, but he never used it as a means of curing patients, only in
+attracting them. It was said that he "fiddled himself into practice, and
+fiddled Mr. Pott out of it;" certain it is Mr. Pott, not being a _flat_,
+did not choose to act in _concert_ with _Sharp_, and made a quick movement
+to the westward.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Boerhaave tells us, that one of the greatest orators of antiquity, Tiberius
+Gracchus, when animated, used to cry out like an old woman; to avoid which,
+he had a servant, who, at these periods, sounded a pipe, by way of hint, as
+well as to pitch the tone, so sensible was he of the importance of a
+well-regulated voice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LINES ON THE DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES.
+
+BY T. CAMPBELL.
+
+
+  On England's shore I saw a pensive hand,
+  With sails unfurl'd for earth's remotest strand,
+  Like children parting from a mother, shed
+  Tears for the home that could not yield them bread;
+  Grief mark'd each face receding from the view,
+  'Twas grief to nature honourably true.
+  And long, poor wand'rers o'er th' ecliptic deep,
+  The song that names but home shall bid you weep;
+  Oft shall ye fold your flocks by stars above
+  In that far world, and miss the stars ye love;
+  Oft, when its tuneless birds scream round forlorn,
+  Regret the lark that gladdens England's morn.
+  And, giving England's names to distant scenes,
+  Lament that earth's extension intervenes.
+
+  But cloud not yet too long, industrious train,
+  Your solid good with sorrow nursed in vain:
+  For has the heart no interest yet as bland
+  As that which binds us to our native land?
+  The deep-drawn wish, when children crown our hearth,
+  To hear the cherub-chorus of their mirth.
+  Undamp'd by dread that want may e'er unhouse,
+  Or servile misery knit those smiling brows:
+  The pride to rear an independent shed,
+  And give the lips we love unborrow'd bread;
+  To see a world, from shadowy forests won,
+  In youthful beauty wedded to the sun;
+  To skirt our home with harvests widely sown,
+  And call the blooming landscape all our own,
+  Our children's heritage, in prospect long.
+  These are the hopes, high-minded hopes and strong.
+  That beckon England's wanderers o'er the brine,
+  To realms where foreign constellations shine;
+  Where streams from undiscovered fountains roll,
+  And winds shall fan them from th' Antarctic pole.
+  And what though doom'd to shores so far apart
+  From England's home, that ev'n the home-sick heart
+  Quails, thinking, ere that gulf can be recross'd,
+  How large a space of fleeting life is lost:
+  Yet there, by time, their bosoms shall be changed,
+  And strangers once shall cease to sigh estranged,
+  But jocund in the year's long sunshine roam,
+  That yields their sickle twice its harvest home.
+
+  There, marking o'er his farm's expanding ring
+  New fleeces whiten and new fruits upspring.
+  The grey-haired swain, his grandchild sporting round,
+  Shall walk at eve his little empire's bound,
+  Emblazed with ruby vintage, ripening corn,
+  And verdant rampart of Acacian thorn,
+  While, mingling with the scent his pipe exhales,
+  The orange-grove's and fig-tree's breath prevails;
+  Survey with pride beyond a monarch's spoil,
+  His honest arm's own subjugated soil;
+  And summing all the blessings God has given,
+  Put up his patriarchal prayer to Heaven,
+  That when his bones shall here repose in peace,
+  The scions of his love may still increase,
+  And o'er a land where life has ample room,
+  In health and plenty innocently bloom.
+
+  Delightful land, in wildness ev'n benign,
+  The glorious past is ours, the future thine!
+  As in a cradled Hercules, we trace
+  The lines of empire in thine infant face.
+  What nations in thy wide horizon's span
+  Shall teem on tracts untrodden yet by man!
+  What spacious cities with their spires shall gleam.
+  Where now the panther laps a lonely stream.
+  And all but brute or reptile life is dumb!
+  Land of the free! thy kingdom is to come,
+  Of states, with laws from Gothic bondage burst,
+  And creeds by charter'd priesthood's unaccurst;
+  Of navies, hoisting their emblazon'd flags,
+  Where shipless seas now wash unbeacon'd crags;
+  Of hosts review'd in dazzling files and squares,
+  Their pennon'd trumpets breathing native airs,
+  For minstrels thou shalt have of native fire.
+  And maids to sing the songs themselves inspire;
+  Our very speech, methinks, in after time.
+  Shall catch th' Ionian blandness of thy clime;
+  And whilst the light and luxury of thy skies
+  Give brighter smiles to beauteous woman's eyes,                }
+  The Arts, whose soul is love, shall all spontaneous rise.      }
+
+  Untrack'd in deserts lies the marble mine,
+  Undug the ore that midst thy roofs shall shine;
+  Unborn the hands--but born they are to be--
+  Fair Australasia, that shall give to thee
+  Proud temple domes, with galleries winding high,               }
+  So vast in space, so just in symmetry,                         }
+  They widen to the contemplating eye,                           }
+  With colonnaded aisles in lone array,
+  And windows that enrich the flood of day
+  O'er tesselated pavements, pictures fair,
+  And niched statues breathing golden air,
+  Nor there, whilst all that's seen bids Fancy swell,
+  Shall Music's voice refuse to seal the spell;
+  But choral hymns shall wake enchantment round,
+  And organs blow their tempests of sweet sound.
+
+  Meanwhile, ere Arts triumphant reach their goal,
+  How blest the years of pastoral life shall roll
+  Ev'n should some wayward hour the settler's mind
+  Brood sad on scenes for ever left behind,
+  Yet not a pang that England's name imparts,
+  Shall touch a fibre of his children's hearts;
+  Bound to that native world by nature's bond,
+  Full little shall their wishes rove beyond
+  Its mountains blue, and melon-skirted streams.
+  Since childhood loved and dreamt of in their dreams.
+  How many a name, to us uncouthly wild,
+  Shall thrill that region's patriotic child,
+  And bring as sweet thoughts o'er his bosom's chords,
+  As aught that's named in song to us affords!
+  Dear shall that river's margin be to him,
+  Where sportive first he bathed his boyish limb.
+  Or petted birds, still brighter than their bowers,
+  Or twin'd his tame young kangaroo with flowers.
+  But mere magnetic yet to memory
+  Shall be the sacred spot, still blooming nigh,
+  The bower of love, where first his bosom burn'd,
+  And smiling passion saw its smile return'd.
+
+  Go forth and prosper then, emprizing band;
+  May He, who in the hollow of his hand
+  The ocean holds, and rules the whirlwind's sweep,
+  Assuage its wrath, and guide you on the deep!
+
+_New Monthly Magazine._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SMALL TALK AND SMALL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OR HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF AGREEABLE.
+
+
+Conversation, like a shuttlecock, should not be suffered to remain with one
+person, but ought to pass in turn to all. But as few people think for
+themselves, so few people talk for themselves, and a colloquial monopoly is
+as common and as disagreeable as any other. Yet when we observe how much
+these rattles are caressed, 'tis wonderful there are so few. Talent is by
+no means indispensable, and is the more valuable in proportion as it is
+flimsy or superficial. The great art lies in the choice of a subject. Let
+it be some _liaison_ in the _beau monde_--the appearance of a new singer or
+actress--the detail of a recent duel, with particulars and embellishments,
+and your fortune is made at once. Do not affect any thing like a literary
+character, for scholars are reckoned _bores_. The only matters of this sort
+with which you can safely meddle are the fashionable novels--satirical
+poems--the magazines, and newspapers (eschewing the political articles as
+vulgar). It is absolutely necessary to be familiar with the names of all
+the editors in town, and these can easily be picked up from any of the
+tatterdemalions who prowl about police offices for the purpose of reporting
+the trials at a penny per line, which is, in most cases, exactly a penny
+per line too much. You must drop the complimentary _Mr._, and say, "A. of
+the Chronicle and I--the last time I saw B. of the Globe--C. of the
+Spectator told me t'other day," and so on. Of course it is not of the
+slightest consequence whether you ever saw one of the parties. You must
+also affect to be intimate with the theatrical _lions_, and be aware of the
+true state of all managerial squabbles for the season. Swear you have dined
+a dozen times with Sontag. _En passant_, the idea of a singer's patronizing
+a nation _wholesale_, as she has done in the case of the Silesians, is
+rather too good. Be indignant with Price for forfeiting Ellen Tree three
+several times in the sum of thirty pounds, and suppress the fact of his
+having remitted the penalty in the two first instances. Assume a mysterious
+air of "I could if I would," when Miss Love's elopement is mentioned, and
+state with heroic confidence that the Vesuvius scene in "Masaniello" at
+Astley's beat Drury by thirteen bricks and two ounces of Greek fire. You
+must pretend to know the salaries of all the _employes_ in every
+establishment, and be able to describe the plot of every new piece the
+moment it is underlined. You can obtain sufficient information to enable
+you to pass muster on this subject any evening at the Garrick's Head. It
+would be of great service if you could contrive to be seen in conversation
+with a respectable actor now and then. You must have seen every sight and
+exhibited at every exhibition in town, and be able to discuss their several
+merits or demerits with a "learned spirit." A knowledge of the principal
+nobility--by person at least--is a _sine qua non_, for how else should you
+be able to recount the names of those you saw in the Park on Sunday last?
+Keep a list of the ages and portions of as many young ladies as possible,
+and be cautious how you dispose of your information on this score. These, I
+think, are the principal topics; and the best advice I can give is, "Never
+be quiet: speak on _ad infinitum_."
+
+The man who inwardly digests these rules will be a treasure at any dinner
+party. The awful silence which prevails on the removal of the
+tablecloth--and an awful silence it surely is--will be dispelled. No
+ordinary man thinks of speaking, except in monosyllables, till he gets a
+little "elevated," and then he speaks nonsense as a matter of course. _You_
+must keep sober--for people will occasionally get "mellow," even in good
+society--and this you will easily manage to do by thinking of the immense
+superiority you will thus secure on joining the ladies in the drawing-room.
+You will be able to hand some blushing fair her coffee without pitching cup
+and contents into her lap, and stoop to pick up her fan or handkerchief
+without incurring the risk of breaking your nose. Should quadrilles be
+proposed, you will also be able to avoid those little _dos-a-dos_ accidents
+which are by no means agreeable, and be qualified to pronounce, with
+tolerable certainty, which is your own partner.
+
+_Sharpe's Magazine._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+VIDOCQ.
+
+
+Some very pleasant blunderer is said to have declared Moore's Life of
+Sheridan to be the best piece of _Autobiography_ he had ever read; and with
+little more propriety can the concluding volume of _Vidocq's Memoirs_ be
+said to belong to that species of literature styled Autobiography. The
+early volumes, however, possessed this feature, but the present is little
+more than a criminal supplement to the Memoirs. Of this defect, the
+translator seems to be aware; for in his "Sequel," he says, instead of the
+important disclosures promised by the Police Agent, in vol. ii., "he has
+given us a nomenclature of the assassins, thieves, and swindlers of France,
+and no more." He has merely brought down his Memoirs to the year 1816, and
+eked out his fourth volume with anecdotes and counsels, which have in most
+cases, more interest than novelty to recommend them. Still they are worth
+reading, although of a different character to the scenes, or as a wag would
+say, the "concerted pieces" which we have quoted from the three previous
+volumes. Our present quotations will not therefore possess the interest of
+complicated schemes.
+
+At page 34, Vidocq awards to our metropolis, no very desirable
+distinction--
+
+
+_Town and Country Thieves._
+
+
+"No capital in the world, London excepted, has within it so many thieves as
+Paris. The pavement of the modern Lutetia is incessantly trodden by rogues.
+It is not surprising; for the facility of hiding them in the crowd makes
+all that are badly disposed resort thither, whether French or foreign. The
+greater number are fixed constantly in this vast city; some only come like
+birds of passage, at the approach of great occasions, or during the summer
+season. Besides these exotics, there are indigenous plants, which make a
+fraction in the population, of which the denominator is tolerably high. I
+leave to the great calculator, M. Charles Dupin, the task of enumerating
+them in decimals, and telling us if the sum that it amounts to should not
+be taken into consideration in the application of the black list."
+
+
+_False Keys._
+
+
+"Cambrioleurs are plunderers of rooms, either by force or with false keys.
+There are of this class thieves of incredible effrontery; that of one
+Beaumont almost surpasses belief. Escaped from the Bagne at Rochefort,
+where he was sentenced to pass twelve years of his life, he came to Paris,
+and scarcely had he arrived there, where he had already practised, when, by
+way of getting his hand in, he committed several trifling robberies, and
+when by these preliminary steps he had proceeded to exploits more worthy of
+his ancient renown, he conceived the project of stealing a treasure. No one
+will imagine that this treasure was that of the _Bureau Central_ (Central
+Office), now the Prefecture of Police! It was already pretty difficult to
+procure impressions of the keys, but he achieved this first difficulty, and
+soon had in his possession all the means of effecting an opening; but to
+open was nothing, it was necessary to open without being perceived, to
+introduce himself without fear of being disturbed, to work without
+witnesses, and go out again freely. Beaumont, who had calculated all the
+difficulties that opposed him, was not dismayed. He had remarked that the
+private room of the chief officer, M. Henri, was nigh to the spot where he
+proposed to effect his entrance; he espied the propitious moment, and
+wished sincerely that some circumstance would call away so dangerous a
+neighbour for some time, and chance was subservient to his wishes."
+
+"One morning, M. Henri was obliged to go out. Beaumont, sure that he would
+not return that day, ran to his house, put on a black coat, and in that
+costume, which, in those days, always announced a magistrate, or public
+functionary, presents himself at the entrance of the _Bureau Central_. The
+officer to whom he addressed himself supposed, of course, that he was at
+least a commissary. On the invitation of Beaumont, he gave him a soldier,
+whom he placed as sentinel at the entrance to the narrow passage which
+leads to the depot, and commanded not to allow any person to pass. No
+better expedient could be found for preventing surprise. Thus Beaumont, in
+the midst of a crowd of valuable objects, could, at his leisure, and in
+perfect security, choose what best pleased him; watches, jewels, diamonds,
+precious stones, &c. He chose those which he deemed most valuable, most
+portable, and as soon as he had made his selection, he dismissed the
+sentinel, and disappeared."
+
+"This robbery could not be long concealed, and the following day was
+discovered. Had thunder fallen on the police, they would have been less
+astonished than at this event. To penetrate to the very sanctuary!--the
+holy of holies! The fact appeared so very extraordinary, that it was
+doubted. Yet it was evident that a robbery had taken place, and to whom was
+it to be attributed? All the suspicions fell on the clerks; sometimes on
+one, sometimes on another; when Beaumont, betrayed by a friend, was
+apprehended, and sentenced a second time."
+
+"The robbery he had committed might be estimated at some hundred thousand
+francs, the greater part of which were found on him."
+
+"'There was wherewithal,' he said, 'to become an honest man; I should have
+become so; it is so easy when rich! yet how many rich men are only
+scoundrels!'"
+
+"These words were the only ones he uttered, when he was apprehended. This
+surprising thief was conducted to Brest; where, after half a dozen escapes,
+which only served to make his subsequent confinement more rigorous, he died
+in a frightful state of exhaustion."
+
+"Beaumont enjoyed amongst his confraternity a colossal reputation; and even
+now, when a rogue boasts of his lofty exploits--'Hold your tongue,' they
+say, 'you are not worthy to untie the shoe-strings of Beaumont!'"
+
+"In effect, to have robbed the police was the height of address. Is not a
+robbery of this nature the _chef-d'oeuvre_ of its kind, and can it do
+otherwise than, make its perpetrator a hero in the eyes of his admirers?
+Who should dare to compare with him? Beaumont had robbed the police! Hang
+yourself, brave Crillon! hang yourself, Coignard! hang yourself,
+Pertruisard! hang yourself, Callet!--to him, you are but of Saint-Jean.
+What is it to have robbed states of service? To have carried off the
+treasure of the army of the Rhine? To have carried off the military
+chest?--Beaumont had robbed the police! Hang yourselves!--or go to England,
+they will hang you there."
+
+
+_The Misanthropic Swindler._
+
+
+At page 71, Vidocq tells us a strange story of a fellow named Capdeville,
+who affecting misanthropy and disgust of the world, hired an apartment at a
+lone house near Paris, and employed his solitude in obtaining false keys of
+all the other rooms. Not quite settled here, "Capdeville published his
+intention of going out to discover an hermitage where he could pass his
+latter days in peace. He inquired of all the country proprietors who had
+places for sale within a circuit of six leagues, and it was soon known
+through the country that he was on the look-out for a place of the kind.
+Every body knew, of course, something that would suit him, but he would
+have only a patrimonial estate. 'Well, well,' said they, 'since he is so
+scrupulous, let him look out for himself.' This, in fact, he did."
+
+"Determined to make a tour, to examine what was most likely to suit him, he
+employed himself ostensibly in preparations for his departure; he was only
+to be absent three or four days, but before he departed, he was anxious to
+know if there was no danger in leaving a secretary, in which were ten
+thousand francs, which he did not wish to take with him. Being assured on
+this point, and full of security, he did not hesitate to set out on his
+proposed journey."
+
+"Capdeville did not go to a very great distance. During his sojourn in the
+house he had just left, he had had time to take impressions of all the keys
+which were requisite for his entrance into the dwelling of the landlord,
+who he knew was in the habit of dining in Paris, and did not return very
+early in the evening. By being there at dusk, Capdeville was certain of
+having before him all the time necessary for carrying on his operations.
+The sun had set, and, favoured by the darkness, he passed unperceived
+through Belleville, and having entered the house by the help of false keys,
+he entered the abode of the landlord, which he cleared out even to the
+linen."
+
+"Towards the end of the fifth day they began to be uneasy at the
+non-appearance of the misanthrope; the next day a suspicion arose.
+Twenty-four hours later, and there was but one opinion respecting him; he
+was the thief. After such a trick mistrust all misanthropes. To whom then
+shall we trust, in whom place confidence? In philanthropists? By no means."
+
+The misanthropy in this case must have been infectious, and the disgust of
+the lodger transferred to the landlord.
+
+Other novelties oblige us to break off here for the present, so that
+another spice or two of the frauds of Paris stand over for our next.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE ANECDOTE GALLERY
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+RECOLLECTIONS OF PALEY.
+
+_From Best's Personal Memorials._
+
+
+Some one came up to Paley and made an excuse for a friend, who was obliged
+to defer an intended visit to the subdeanery, because a man who had
+promised to pay him some money in April, could not pay it till May. "A
+common case," said Paley. We all laughed. Paley, by way of rewarding us for
+our complaisance in being pleased with what was recommended chiefly by the
+quaintness of his manner, went on:--"A man should never _paay mooney_ till
+he can't help it; _soomething maay_ happen."
+
+At another time he said, "I always desire my wife and daughters to pay
+ready money. It is of no use to desire them to buy only what they want;
+they will always imagine they want what they wish to buy; but that paying
+ready _mooney_ is such a check upon their imagin_aa_tion."
+
+Paley's education had been sufficiently hardy. "My father rode to
+Peterborough, and I rode after him, on a horse that I could not manage. I
+tumbled off. My father, without looking back, cried out, 'Get up again,
+Will.' When I set up a carriage, it was thought right that my armorial
+bearings should appear on the panels. Now, we had none of us ever heard of
+the Paley arms; none of us had ever dreamed that such things existed, or
+had ever been. All the old folks of the family were consulted; they knew
+nothing about it. Great search was made, however, and at last we found a
+silver tankard, on which was engraved a coat of arms. It was carried by
+common consent that these _must_ be the Paley arms; they were painted on
+the carriage, and looked very handsome. The carriage went on very well with
+them; and it was not till six months afterwards that we found out that the
+tankard had been _bought at a sale_!"
+
+He told me, "when I wanted to write any thing particularly well,--to do
+better than ordinary,--I used to order a post-chaise and go to Longtown; it
+is the first stage from Carlisle towards the north; there is a comfortable,
+quiet inn there. I asked for a room to myself; there then I was, safe from
+the bustle and trouble of a family; and there I remained as long as I
+liked, or till I had finished what I was about." I said, "That is a very
+curious anecdote;" and I said it in a tone which, from a certain change in
+his countenance, I believe to have set him on musing how this anecdote
+would appear in the history of his life. Paley took his rides on horseback
+occasionally, but always alone, without the attendance even of a servant.
+"I am so bad a horseman, that if any man on horseback was to come near me
+when I am riding, I should certainly have a fall; company would take off my
+attention, and I have need of all I can command to manage my horse and keep
+my seat; I have got a horse, the quietest creature that ever lived, one
+that at Carlisle used to be covered with children from the ears to the
+tail." Understanding all this, and seeing him gambadoing on the
+race-course, I turned my horse's head another way. "I saw what you meant
+this morning; it was very considerate of you; I am much obliged to you."
+Paley was too careful of petty expenses, as is frequently the case with
+those who have had but narrow incomes in early life. He kept a sufficiently
+handsome establishment as subdean, but he was stingy. A plentiful fall of
+snow took place during an evening party at the precentors's; two of Mr.
+Subdean's daughters were there; he showed great anxiety on account of the
+necessity that seemed to have arisen of sending them home in a sedan-chair;
+taking the advice of several of the company, whether such necessity really
+and inevitably existed, he said to me, "It is only next door." "The houses
+touch," said I, "but it is a long round to your door; the length of both
+houses and then through the garden in front of your house." He consulted
+the precentor, who, to put the matter in a right point of view, cried out,
+"Let the girls have a chair; it is only three-pence a piece."
+
+He preached a sermon at Lincoln for the benefit of a charity school. In the
+course of this sermon he related, in familiar but sufficiently dignified
+language, a story of a man who, giving evidence on a trial respecting some
+prescriptive right claimed by the trustees of the charity, was browbeaten
+by the questioning counsel:--"I suppose the fact to which you swear
+happened when you were a charity boy, and used to go to school there?" The
+witness calmly replied, "I _was_ a charity boy; and all the good that has
+befallen me in life has arisen from the education I received at that
+school." Paley drew hence an argument in favour of the institution for
+which he pleaded. The whole discourse pleased his auditors, and a
+deputation waited on him to request he would print it. "Gentlemen, I thank
+you for the compliment; but I must give the same answer that I have given
+on other like occasions; and that answer is--The tap is out." "The
+Archbishop of York," said he, speaking of a late primate, "preached one day
+at Carlisle; I was present, and felt muzzy and half asleep; when on a
+sudden I was roused, and began to prick up my ears; and what should I hear
+but a whole page of one of my own books quoted word for word; and this
+without the least acknowledgment, though it was a _white bear_; a passage
+that is often quoted and well known." "Now," said Dr. Milner, Dean of
+Carlisle, who related the anecdote, "guess what inference Paley drew from
+this plagiarism. No; if that court were full of people, not one of them
+would be able to guess: it was this--I suppose the archbishop's wife makes
+his grace's sermons for him."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The city has always been the province for satire; and the wits of King
+Charles's time jested upon nothing else during his whole reign.--_Addison_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+    A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
+    SHAKSPEARE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ERRORS OF THE PRESS.
+
+_By a Reporter._
+
+
+I once had occasion to report, that a certain "noble lord was confined to
+his house with a _violent cold_"--next morning, I found his lordship
+represented to be "confined with a _violent scold_!" In the same way, on
+the occasion of a recent entertainment, I had said "that the first point of
+attraction and admiration were her _ladyship's looks_;" this compliment was
+transferred by the printer to her "_ladyship's cooks_!" My praises of the
+"_Infant Lyra_" were converted to a panegyric on the "_infant lyar_." In an
+account of General Saldanha's conduct at Oporto, I observed that he
+"_behaved like a hero_," while the printer made it appear that he "_behaved
+like a hare_."--"We," says the _John Bull_, "often suffer in this
+way--about two years since, we represented Mr. Peel as having joined a
+party of _fiends_ in Hampshire for the purpose of shooting _peasants_; and
+only last week, in a Scotch paper, we saw it gravely stated that a
+_surgeon_ was taken alive in the river and sold to the inhabitants at 6d.
+and 10d. per pound."
+
+_Atlas._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TESTAMENT OF A USURER.
+
+
+"I order that my body be returned to the earth from whence it came, and I
+give my soul to the devil. I give likewise to the devil the souls of my
+wife and children, who encouraged me in usury for the sake of good cheer
+and fine clothes. _Item_. I give to the devil the soul of my confessor, who
+connived at my crimes by his silence."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+On the day when the news of the decease of Napoleon reached the Tuileries,
+Louis XVIII. was surrounded by a brilliant court, all of whom, with the
+exception of one man, received the intelligence with the most unequivocal
+signs of delight. This man was General Rapp, who burst into tears. The king
+perceived and noticed it. "Yes, Sire," answered the general, "I do weep for
+Napoleon; and you will excuse it, for to him I owe every thing in the
+world, even the honour of now serving your majesty, since it was he that
+made me what I am!" The king, in an elevated tone of voice, replied,
+"General, I do but esteem you the more. Fidelity which thus survives
+misfortune, proves to me how securely I may depend on you myself."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE HINT TAKEN.
+
+
+Voltaire after being on terms of friendship with the King of Prussia, owing
+to his wit, gave some offence; when the King said to some of his
+courtiers--"When we squeeze the orange and have sucked the juice, we throw
+the rest away." Then said Voltaire _I must take care of the peel_--and
+quitted his Prussian majesty's dominions.
+
+L. P. S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror._)
+
+
+Sir,--In the distich you have quoted from my Lectures at page 143 of your
+last MIRROR, it should have been stated that the statue was a Cupid. The
+original lines (Voltaire's) are--
+
+  Qui que tu sois, voici ton maitre,
+  Il l'est, le fut, ou le doit etre.
+
+B. H. SMART.
+
+_Connaught Terrace, Aug. 31._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+In Paris, when they break a window, the common people cry out,
+"_quarante-cinq_," so as to produce a sound, in a measure harmonizing with
+the accident. It is to them a capital joke, because _quarante-cinq_, (45)
+is written with the two figures that make "_neuf_" (that is, in French,
+either _nine_ or _new_.) The pun is ingenious.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former
+honesty.--_Lavater_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
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