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X, NO. 287.]</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1827.</b></td> + <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + +<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;"> +<a href="images/287-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/287-1.png" +alt="New Steam Carriage." /></a> +<center>NEW STEAM CARRIAGE.</center> +</div> + +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page394" name="page394"></a>[pg 394]</span> +</p> + + +<center> +<i>Explanation of the References.</i> +</center> + +<p style="font-size: 80%; margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%;"> +1. The Guide and Engineer, to whom the whole management of the machinery +and conduct of the carriage is intrusted. Besides this man, a guard will +be employed. +<br /> +2. The handle which guides the Pole and Pilot Wheels. +<br /> +3. The Pilot Wheels. +<br /> +4. The Pole. +<br /> +5. The Fore Boot, for luggage. +<br /> +6. The "Throttle Valve" of the main steam-pipe, which, by means of the +handle, is opened or closed at pleasure, the power of the steam and the +progress of the carriage being thereby regulated from 1 to 10 or 20 +miles per hour. +<br /> +7. The Tank for Water, running from end to end, and the full breadth of +the carriage; it will contain 60 gallons of water. +<br /> +8. The Carriage, capable of holding six inside-passengers. +<br /> +9. Outside Passengers, of which the present carriage will carry 15. +<br /> +10. The Hind Boot, containing the Boiler and Furnace. The Boiler is +incased with sheet-iron, and between the pipes the coke and charcoal are +put, the front being closed in the ordinary way with an iron door. The +pipes extend from the cylindrical reservoir of water at the bottom to +the cylindrical chamber for steam at the top, forming a succession of +lines something like a horse-shoe, turned edgeways. The steam enters the +"separators" through large pipes, which are observable on the Plan, and +is thence conducted to its proper destination. +<br /> +11. "Separators," in which the steam is separated from the water, the +water descending and returning to the boiler, while the steam ascends, +and is forced into the steam-pipes or main arteries of the machine. +<br /> +12. The Pump, by which the water is pumped from the tank, by means of +a flexible hose, to the reservoir, communicating with the boiler. +<br /> +13. The Main Steam Pipe, descending from the "separators," and +proceeding in a direct line under the body of the coach to the "throttle +valve" (No. 6,) and thence, under the tank, to the cylinders from which +the pistons work. +<br /> +14. Flues of the Furnace, from which there is no smoke, coke and +charcoal being used. +<br /> +15. The Perches, of which there are three, conjoined, to support the +machinery. +<br /> +16. The Cylinders. There is one between each perch. +<br /> +17. Valve Motion, admitting steam alternately to each side of the +pistons. +<br /> +18. Cranks, operating on the axle: at the ends of the axle are crotches +(No. 21,) which, as the axle turns round, catch projecting pieces of +iron on the boxes of the wheels, and give them the rotatory motion. The +hind wheels only are thus operated upon. +<br /> +19. Propellers, which, as the carriage ascends a hill, are set in +motion, and move like the hind legs of a horse, catching the ground, and +then forcing the machine forward, increasing the rapidity of its motion, +and assisting the steam power. +<br /> +20. The Drag, which is applied to increase the friction on the wheel in +going down a hill. This is also assisted by diminishing the pressure of +the steam—or, if necessary, inverting the motion of the wheels. +<br /> +21. The Clutch, by which the wheel is sent round. +<br /> +22. The Safety Valve, which regulates the proper pressure of the steam +in the pipe. +<br /> +23. The Orifice for filling the Tank. This is done by means of a +flexible hose and a funnel, and occupies but a few seconds. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<p> +Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney, whose name is already familiar to most of our +readers, after a variety of experiments, during the last two years, has +completed a STEAM CARRIAGE on a new principle; or, as a wag said the +other day, he has at length <i>brought his plan to bear</i>. We have, +accordingly, procured a drawing of this extraordinary invention, which +we shall proceed to describe generally, since the letters, introduced +in the annexed Engraving, with the accompanying references, will enable +our readers to enter into the details of the machinery:—First, as to +its <i>safety</i>, upon which point the public are most sceptical. +In the present invention, it is stated, that, even from the bursting +of the boiler, there is not the most distant chance of mischief to the +passengers. This boiler is tubular, constructed upon philosophical +principles, and upon a plan totally distinct from any thing previously +in use. Instead of being, as in ordinary cases, a large vessel closed on +all sides, with the exception of the valves and steam conductors, which +a high pressure or accidental defect may burst, it is composed of a +succession of welded iron pipes, perhaps forty in number, screwed +together in the manner of the common gas-pipes, at given distances, +extending in a direct line, and in a row, at equal distances from a +small reservoir of water, to the distance of about a yard and a half, +and then curving over in a semi-circle of about half a yard in diameter, +returning in parallel lines to the pipes beneath, to a reservoir above, +thus forming a sort of inverted horse-shoe. This horse-shoe of pipes, +in fact, forms the boiler, and the space between is the furnace; the +whole being enclosed with sheet-iron. The advantage of this arrangement +is obvious; for, while more than a sufficient quantity of steam is +generated for the purposes requited, the only possible accident that +could happen would be, the bursting of one of these barrels, and a +temporary diminution of the steam-power of one-fortieth part. The +effects of the accident could, of course, only be felt within its own +enclosure; and the Engineer could, in ten minutes, repair the injury, by +extracting the wounded barrel, and plugging up the holes at each end; +but the fact is, that such are the proofs to which these barrels are +subjected, before they are used, by the application of a steam-pressure +five hundred times more than can ever be required, that the accident, +trifling as it is, is scarcely possible. +</p> + +<p> +A contemporary journal illustrates Mr. Gurney's invention by the +following analogy:—"It will appear not a little singular that +Mr. Gurney, who was educated a medical man, has actually made the +construction of the human body, and +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page395" name="page395"></a>[pg 395]</span> + of animals in general, the model +of his invention. His reservoirs of steam and water, or rather +'<i>separators</i>,' as they are called, and which are seen at the end +of our plate, are, as it were, the heart of his steam apparatus, the +lower pipes of the boiler are the arteries, and the upper pipes the +veins. The water, which is the substitute for blood, is first sent from +the reservoirs into the pipes—the operation of fire soon produces +steam, which ascends through the pipes to the upper part of the +reservoir, carrying with it a portion of water into the separators, +which of course descends to the lower part, and returns to fill the +pipes which have been exhausted by the evaporation of the steam—the +steam above pressing it down with an elastic force, so as to keep the +arteries or pipes constantly full, and preserve a regular circulation. +In the centre of the <i>separators</i> are perforated steam pipes, which +ascend nearly to the tops, these tops being of course closed, so as to +prevent the escape of the steam. Through these pipes the steam descends +with its customary force, and is conducted by one main pipe all along +under the carriage to the end of the platform, which is, in point of +fact, the <i>water tank</i>, where it turns under till it reaches two +large branch pipes which communicate with the cylinders, from which the +pistons move and give motion to the machinery. The cranks of the axle +are thus set in action, and the rotatory movement is given to the +wheels. By the power thus engendered also a pump is worked, and which, +by means of a flexible hose, pumps the water into the boiler, keeping +the supply complete. The tank and furnace, it is calculated will hold +sufficient water and fuel for one hour's consumption, the former being +sixty gallons." +</p> + +<p> +The vehicle resembles the ordinary stage-coaches, but is rather larger +and higher. Coke or charcoal are to form the fuel, by which means smoke +will be avoided; the flues will be above the level of the seated +passenger, and it is calculated that the motion of the carriage will +always disperse the heated rarefied air from the flues. +</p> + +<p> +The present carriage would carry six inside and fifteen outside +passengers, independent of the guide, who is also the engineer. In front +of the coach is a very capacious boot; while behind, that which assumes +the appearance of a boot is the case for the boiler and the furnace. +The length of the vehicle, from end to end, is fifteen feet, and, with +the pole and pilot-wheels, twenty feet. The diameter of the hind wheels +is five feet; of the front wheels three feet nine inches; and of the +pilot-wheels three feet. There is a treble perch, by which the machinery +is supported, and beneath which two propellers, in going up a hill, may +be set in motion, somewhat similar to the action of a horse's legs under +similar circumstances. In descending a hill, there is a break fixed on +the hind wheel to increase the friction; but independent of this, the +guide has the power of lessening the force of the steam to any extent, +by means of the lever to his right hand, which operates upon, what is +called the <i>throttle valve</i>, and by which he may stop the action +of the steam altogether, and effect a counter vacuum in the cylinders. +By this means also he regulates the rate of progress on the road, going +at a pace of two miles or ten miles per hour, or even quicker if +necessary. There is another lever also by which he can stop the vehicle +<i>instanter</i>, and, in fact, in a moment reverse the motion of the +wheels, so as to prevent accident, as is the practice with the paddles +of steam-vessels. The guide, who sits in front, keeps the vehicle in its +proper course, by means of the pilot-wheels acting upon the pole, like +the handle of a garden-chair. +</p> + +<p> +The weight of the carriage and its apparatus is estimated at 1-1/2 tons, +and its wear and tear of the road, as compared with a carriage drawn by +four horses, is as one to six. When the carriage is in progress the +machinery is not heard, nor is there so much vibration as in an ordinary +vehicle, from the superior solidity of the structure. The engine has a +twelve-horse power, but may be increased to sixteen; while the actual +power in use, except in ascending a hill, is but eight-horse. +</p> + +<p> +The success of the present improved invention is stated to be decided; +but the public will shortly have an opportunity of judging for +themselves, as several experimental journeys are projected. If it should +attain its anticipated perfection, the contrivance will indeed be a +proud triumph of human ingenuity, which, aided by its economy, will +doubtless recommend it to universal patronage. Mr. Gurney has already +secured a patent for his invention; and he has our best wishes for his +permanent success. +</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3> + HISTORICAL FACTS RELATIVE TO THE EARLY CONDITION OF THE ENGLISH. +</h3> + +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror.</i>) +</center> + + +<p> +London, in early times (King Ethelred's reign) consisted only of +scattered buildings from Ludgate to Westminster, + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page396" name="page396"></a>[pg 396]</span> + and none where the +heart of the city now is; it was afterwards extended more westward and +continued increasing—-eastward being neglected until a more later +period. Who can view its present well constructed houses, its numerous +elegant squares and terraces, and its general superior appearance, +without almost doubting that the inhabitants of Britain once dwelt in +the most miserable habitations, regardless in every respect of comfort +and cleanliness. Indeed, at an early period we seem to have been in a +very wretched condition. Without carrying ourselves too far back, we +will look at the state of the English about the year 1520, (Henry the +Eighth's reign.) The houses were built entirely regardless of all that +health and comfort could suggest. The situation of the doors and windows +was never thought of, and the former only opened. The floors were made +either of clay, or sand, covered with rushes, which were very seldom +removed.<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> Some few houses were built of stone, but generally they were +composed of wood, coated over with <i>mud</i>, or cement, with straw or +reed roofs. Things seem to have been in no very enviable condition +during this reign. The laws were little obeyed; thefts and robbery were +frequent, for "22,000 criminals are said to have been executed by the +rigid justice of Henry VIII." +</p> + +<p> +It is not surprising that crime should have been great in this reign, +for Henry himself was not only guilty of many crimes, but patronised +vice in the regular system of bull and bear-baiting, particularly on +<i>Sundays</i>, about four in the afternoon, which exhibitions were +attended by great crowds of persons of all classes. The accommodations +of a royal establishment at this period are thus described:—"The +apartments at Hampton Court had been furnished on a particular occasion, +each with a candlestick, a basin, goblet and ewer of silver; yet the +furniture of Henry's chamber, independent of the bed and cupboard, +consisted only of a joint-stool, a pair of andirons, and a small mirror. +The halls and chambers of the wealthy were replenished with a cupboard, +long tables, or rather loose boards placed upon tressels, forms, a +chair, and a few joint-stools. Carpets were only employed to garnish +cupboards." The food in this reign appears to be in character with +everything else. From a household book of the Earl of Northumberland, +it appears that his family, during the winter, fed mostly on salt meat +and salt fish, with "an appointment of 160 gallons of mustard." On flesh +days through the year, <i>breakfast</i> for my lord and <i>lady</i> was +a loaf of bread, two manchets, a quart of beer, a quart of wine, half a +chine of mutton, or a chine of beef, boiled. The earl had only two cooks +to dress victuals for more than two hundred people. Hens, chickens, and +partridges, were reckoned delicacies, and were forbidden except at my +lord's table. +</p> + +<p> +This excessive love for eating was not, however, confined to Henry's +time, for about two centuries previous to this, (Edward III.) feasting +was endeavoured to be restrained by a law, though Edward himself did not +follow his own law, for when his "son, Lionel, of Clarence, married +Violentes, of Milant there were thirty courses, and the fragments fed +1,500 persons." +</p> + +<p> +The formation of London was but tardy and very irregular until the reign +of Henry VIII. at which time, some extensive buildings and improvements +were made. On the other hand, building seems at length to have gone on +too rapidly, and caused such alarm, that about a century after Henry's +reign, a proclamation was issued by James I. after mature deliberation, +forbidding all new buildings within ten miles of London; and commanding +if any were built after this they should be pulled down, though no +notice was taken of them for seven years. +</p> + +<p> +It is somewhat singular, that though the population in these early +days were but a handful in comparison to the present number, the +<i>redundancy</i> of population was as bitterly complained of as it ever +has been in modern days. About thirty years after Henry's reign +(Elizabeth) we learn from one Harrison, who wrote in 1577, that "a great +number complain of the increase of povertie, laying the cause upon God, +as though he were in fault for sending such increase of people, or want +of wars that should consume them, affirming that the land was never +so full. Some affirming that youth by marrying too soon do nothing to +profit the countrie; but fill it full of beggars, to the hurte and utter +undooing, they say, of the common wealth. The better minded doo forsake +the realme for altogether, complaining of <i>no room to be left for them +at home</i>." If there was no room in Elizabeth's time, what must be our +present situation? Indeed the present crowded state of the metropolis, +and the general closeness of the buildings, has frequently been a +subject for regret, as tending to render it unhealthy and impure; but +on referring to its state, when in comparison it was but a village, the +old writers state that in the city, and all + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page397" name="page397"></a>[pg 397]</span> + + round it were a great number +of pits and ditches, and sloughs, which were made the receptacle of all +kind of filth, dead and putrid horses, and cattle, &c. In the time of +Henry VIII. many parts are described as "exceedingly foul and full of +pits and sloughs, and very noisome," and some years after (1625) in a +tract, the author says, "Let not carkasses of horses, dogs, cats, &c. +lye rotting and poisoning the aire, as they have done in <i>More</i> and +<i>Finsbury</i> Fields, and elsewhere round about the cittie. Let the +ditches towards Islington, Olde-street, and towards Shoreditch and +Whitechapel, be well cleansed." In another tract published in 1665, it +states, that "there are all sorts of unsavoury stenches, proceeding +either from carrion, ditches, rotten dung-hills, vaults, sinks, nasty +kennels, and streets, (strewed with all manner of filth) seldom +cleansed." From these statements it is evident that notwithstanding all +the present inconveniences that the inhabitants of London live in more +healthy situations now that they are surrounded by houses, than when +they were exposed to extensive open fields. +</p> + +<h4> +A.B.C. +</h4> + +<hr /> + + +<h3> + A PORTRAIT. +</h3> + +<center> +<i>Sketched in the year of the world,</i> 5831; <i>and, of my bachelorship</i>, 24. +</center> +<br /> +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror.</i>) +</center> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p class="i8"> Chaste, as the icicle,</p> + <p> That's curded by the frost from purer snow,</p> + <p> And hangs on Dian's temple; Dear—<i>old maid</i>.</p> +<p style="text-align: right;"> +SHAKSPEARE'S <i>Coriolanus</i>. +</p> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> Sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat,</p> + <p> Vel Pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras,</p> + <p> Pallentes umbras Erebi, noctemque profundum,</p> + <p> Ante, pudor, quam te violem, aut tua jure resolvam.</p> +<p style="text-align: right;"> +VIRGIL. +</p> +</div></div> + + + + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> I have years on my back <i>forty-eight</i>,</p> +<p style="text-align: right;"> +SHAKSPEARE'S <i>King Lear</i>. +</p> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> Four-and-twenty lap-dogs, all of a row,</p> + <p> Four-and-twenty monkeys, kits, and cats, dit-to;</p> + <p> Four-and-twenty colours in her tawdry dress,</p> + <p> (A rainbow she in all—but its loveliness!)</p> + <p> Four-and-twenty tempers, in the four-and-twenty hours;</p> + <p> Four-and-twenty dreams of <i>suppos'd</i> vanquished pow'rs,</p> + <p> To wit of four-and-twenty swains—more or less;</p> + <p> Who have four-and-twenty times, curs'd her ugliness!</p> + <p> Four-and-twenty trials, ere as many hours are o'er,</p> + <p> Of four-and-twenty genera of rival Kalydor;</p> + <p> Four-and-twenty scentings with her dear bergamot,</p> + <p> Four-and-twenty daubs of her dear paint-pot;</p> + <p> Four-and-twenty visitings to four-and-twenty friends,</p> + <p> And four-and-twenty tales of 'em, before the day ends;</p> + <p> Of these said four-and-twenty tales just four-and-twenty versions,</p> + <p> And all of them of all the facts most farcica perversions.</p> + <p> Four-and-twenty false curls, * *</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> +<hr /> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Four-and-twenty false teeth, and quite as false a tongue,</p> + <p> Which tells how virtuous was the world when—<i>she and it were young</i>.</p> + <p> Or rather for these thirty years has moralizing told,</p> + <p> How this good deed and that she'll do, <i>before</i> she grows old:</p> + <p> Four-and-twenty sighs a-day, that our rude English sky</p> + <p> Is not <i>precise</i> as <i>she</i>—and may wash off the dye</p> + <p> Meretricious of her cheeks, which are then like gold,</p> + <p> (Though <i>less tempting</i>;) <i>sweet</i> and yellow as a marigold!<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a></p> + <p> Four-and-twenty wailings o'er the wedded state,</p> + <p> Yet twice as many every day 'tis not <i>her</i> fate;</p> + <p> Pretending to the world 'tis mere <i>choice</i> that has led</p> + <p> To singleness—yet choosing all the while to be wed,</p> + <p> If any doting fool could be doting fool enough</p> + <p> To bid for such a breaking down piece of stuff;</p> + <p> For any such a winter, that has shed the flowers of spring,</p> + <p> Whose autumn too is flown; nor left its fruit or any thing!</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Yes, <i>such</i> are the marks deep branded on a class</p> + <p> Of busy blanks, non-entities, creation's very farce;</p> + <p> In <i>these</i> scales then be every piece of Eve's flesh weighed,</p> + <p> Find <i>these</i> criteria, and be sure you've found an—Ancient Maid!</p> +</div></div> + + +<h4> +W. P——N. +</h4> + + +<hr /> + + +<h3> + ANECDOTES, ROYAL AND NOBLE. +</h3> + +<center> +(<i>For the Mirror.</i>) +</center> + +<br /> + +<center> +<i>James the First.</i> +</center> + +<p> +Robert Cecil, great grandson to the first Earl of Salisbury, told Lord +Dartmouth that his ancestor, inquiring into the character of king James, +Bruce (his majesty's own ambassador) answered, "Ken ye a John Ape? en +I's have him, he'll bite <i>you</i>; en you's have him, he'll bite <i>me</i>." +</p> + + +<center> +<i>Sir Edward Seymour.</i> +</center> + +<p> +Speaker of the House of Commons, was one day coming to his duty, when +his coach happening to break down, he ordered the beadle to stop the +first gentleman's coach they met, and bring it to him. The owner felt +much surprised to + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page398" name="page398"></a>[pg 398]</span> + + be turned out of his own coach; but Sir Edward told +him it was much more proper for him to walk in the streets than the +speaker of the House of Commons; and accordingly left him to do so +without farther apology.—This arbitrary exercise of authority is +perhaps without a parallel. +</p> + +<center> +<i>Henry the Fourth.</i> +</center> + +<p> +Of France used to say that a king should have the heart of a child +towards God, but the heart of a father towards his subjects. +</p> + + +<center> +<i>George the Third.</i> +</center> + +<p> +His late majesty was very partial to Mr. Carbonel, the wine-merchant, +and frequently admitted him to the royal hunts. Returning from the chase +one day, the king entered affably into conversation with his +wine-merchant, and rode with him side by side a considerable distance. +Lord Walsingham was in attendance, and watching an opportunity, called +Mr. C. aside, and whispered something to him. "What's that? what has +Walsingham been saying to you?" inquired the good-humoured monarch. +"I find, sire, I have been unintentionally guilty of disrespect by not +taking off my hat when I address your majesty; but you will please to +observe, that whenever I hunt my hat is fastened to my wig, and my wig +to my head; and as I am mounted on a very spirited horse, if any thing +goes off, we must all go off together." The king laughed heartily at +the whimsical apology. +</p> + + +<center> +<i>The Duke of Wellington.</i> +</center> + +<p> +A certain noble lord, who was the duke's aide-de-camp, visited his +grace early on the morning of the battle of Salamanca, and perceiving +him lying on a very small camp bedstead, observed, "that his grace had +not room to turn himself;" who immediately, in his usual characteristic +manner, rejoined, "When you have lived as long and seen so much as +I have, you will know, that when a general thinks of turning <i>in</i> his +bed, it is full time to turn <i>out</i>." +</p> + + +<center> +<i>Rubens.</i> +</center> + +<p> +An artist named Brendel, possessed with the folly of the "philosopher's +stone," proposed to Rubens to join him in the discovery of that +mystery. He replied, "Your application is too late; for these twenty +years past my pencils and pallet have revealed to me the secret about +which you are so anxious." +</p> + + +<center> +<i>Queen Elizabeth.</i> +</center> + +<p> +When the ambassador of Henry IV. of France was in England, the queen +asked him one birth-night, which was attended by a splendid assembly of +the court, how he liked her ladies. Knowing her majesty was not averse +to flattery, he made the following elegant reply: "It is hard, madam, +to judge of <i>stars</i> in the presence of the <i>sun</i>." +</p> + + +<center> +<i>Louis XIII.</i> +</center> + +<p> +Was remarkable in his youth for piety; entering a little village, +the better sort of inhabitants wished to attend him with a canopy. +He answered, "I hear you have no church here. I cannot suffer a canopy +of state to be borne over my head in a place where God hath not a +consecrated roof to dwell under." +</p> + + +<center> +<i>Sigismund.</i> +</center> + +<p> +Emperor of Germany, being once asked what was the surest method of +living happy in the world, replied, "By doing in health those good works +you promised to do on the bed of sickness." +</p> + +<h4> +JACOBUS. +</h4> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + + +<h2> + ARCANA OF SCIENCE. +</h2> + + + +<hr /> + + +<center> +<i>Thunder and Lightning.</i> +</center> + +<p> +Conductors affixed to houses should always be pointed, and the point +should be kept in a state of cleanliness, and the conductors should +terminate in a moist stratum of earth, or in London it might safely be +conveyed into the common sewer. It has been objected to the use of +pointed conductors, that we invite the lightning to the point; and that +is true to a certain extent, and in gunpowder mills the conductor should +be placed at some distance from the building. The conducting rod should +be of copper or iron, and from half to three-fourths of an inch in +diameter, so as not to be readily forced. Its upper end should be +elevated about three or four feet above the highest part of the +building, and all the metallic parts of the roof should be connected +with the rod, which should be continuous throughout. As regards the +question of what is the safest situation in a thunder-storm, we should +be pretty safe in the middle of a large room in bed; we should be pretty +safe among the feathers, which are bad conductors; but as the bell-wires +will conduct the electricity into the room, the bed should be removed +from them. It would be well to stand at a distance from the chimney on +a woollen rug, which is a non-conductor. When out of doors, I scarcely +need to say, that you should never stand under a tree; the tree being +moist, the electric fluid generally passes down between the bark and the +substance of the tree, splitting it in all directions, and the lightning +will pass + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page399" name="page399"></a>[pg 399]</span> + + to the best conductor near it; if any unfortunate animal +should happen to be under the tree, it will be killed. The safest plan +is to go toward the middle of the field, at a distance from any tree, +and to stretch yourself out upon the ground, although this is not a very +pleasant situation, especially in hard rain. During a thunder-storm, the +earth is in a state of electricity as well as the clouds, and the light +and heat which are produced at the explosion indicate the annihilation +of the two electricities. Sometimes the discharge is only from cloud to +cloud, sometimes from the earth to the clouds, and sometimes from the +clouds to the earth, as one or other may be in the positive or negative +state. The clouds are usually more or less electrical when the vapour, +floating about in the atmosphere, is condensed, and the earth being +brought into an opposite state of electricity by induction, a discharge +takes place, when the clouds approach within a certain distance, and +sometimes the electric cloud perches upon a hill, and then discharges +itself. The electricity passes through the clouds in a zig-zag +direction, and the undulation of the air which it produces is the cause +of the noise which we hear, called thunder, which is more or less +intense, and of longer or shorter duration, according to the quantity of +air acted upon, and the distance of the place where the report is heard +from the point of discharge. If the danger be great, we have seldom any +opportunity to count the time which elapses between the appearance of +the lightning and the report: electrical effects take place at no +sensible time; it has been found, that a discharge through a circuit of +four miles is instantaneous, whilst sound moves at the rate of about +twelve miles in a minute. So that, supposing the lightning to pass +through a space of some miles, the explosion will be first heard from +the point of the air agitated nearest to the spectator; it will +gradually come from the more remote parts of the course of the +electricity, and, last of all, will be heard from the very extremity; +and the different degrees of the agitation of the air, and the +difference of the distance, will account for the different intensities +of the sound, and its apparent reverberations and changes. If you can +count from two to three seconds between the appearance of the lightning +and the sound, there is seldom much danger; and when the interval is a +quarter of a minute, you are secure.—<i>Brande's Lectures.—Lancet.</i> +</p> + + + + +<center> +<i>New Crane.</i> +</center> + +<p> +A crane for raising weights, on an entirely new principle—that of the +application of the lever, assisted by wedges, instead of the usual +plan of wheel and pinion, for multiplying power—has recently been +constructed at the West India Docks. The power of two men, with the +patent crane, is stated to be capable of lifting from 2-1/2 to 3 times +the weight lifted through the same space in a given time, by the best +constructed cranes on the old principle of wheel machinery. +</p> + + +<center> +<i>Etching on Ivory</i>. +</center> + +<p> +The usual mode of ornamenting ivory in black, is to engrave the pattern +or design, and to fill up the cavities thus produced with hard black +varnish. Mr. Cathery has much improved and simplified the process, by +covering the ivory with engraver's varnish, and drawing the design with +an etching needle; he then pours on a menstruum, composed of 120 grains +of fine silver, dissolved in an ounce measure of nitric acid, and +diluted with one quart of pure distilled water. After half an hour, more +or less, according to the required depth of tint, the liquor is to be +poured off, and the surface is to be washed with distilled water, and +dried with blotting paper. It is then to be exposed to the light for +an hour, after, which the varnish may be removed by oil of turpentine. +The design will now appear permanently impressed on the ivory, and of +a black or blackish brown colour, which will come to its full tint after +exposure for a day or two to the light. Varieties of colour may be given +by substituting the salt of gold, platina, copper, &c. for the solution +of silver.—<i>Trans. of the Society of Arts.</i> +</p> + + +<center> +<i>Geology.</i> +</center> + +<p> +Among the fossil bones lately dug from under the lava of the mountain +of Boulade, in the neighbourhood of Issoire, in France, none have been +discovered belonging to the human body. The same is the case in the +other mountains of the vicinity. But, although there are no human bones, +in several places, and especially in the mountain of Boutaresa, (which +is not far from the mountain of Boulade,) pieces of wood have been +discovered, buried under the ancient lava, which observers worthy of +credit declare seem to have been fashioned by the hand of man, and to +have been cut with a hatchet, although rudely, and as might be expected +in the infancy of the arts. Did man exist then, at that remote period +when elephants, lions, and tapirs, lived in Europe, with rein-deer and +bears? This is an exceedingly difficult question, and one which hitherto +does not, by any means, appear to have been satisfactorily +resolved.—<i>New Monthly Magazine</i>. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page400" name="page400"></a>[pg 400]</span> +</p> + +<h2> +THE MONTHS. +</h2> + +<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;"> +<a href="images/287-2.png"><img width="100%" src="images/287-2.png" +alt="The Months. December." /></a> +<center> +DECEMBER. +</center> +</div> + + + +<p> +The characteristics of November, for the most part, extend through the +present month. Wind, rain, and gloom are its attributes; the sun +</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> Scarce spreads through ether the dejected day,</p> + <p> Faint are his gleams, and ineffectual shoot</p> + <p> His struggling rays, in horizontal lines,</p> + <p> Through the thick air; as clothed in cloudy storm,</p> + <p> Weak, wan, and broad, he skirts the southern sky;</p> + <p> And soon descending, to the long dark night.</p> + <p> Wide-shading all, the prostrate world resigns.</p> +</div></div> + + + +<p> +Such is the gloomy picture of December, as drawn by the <i>poet of the +year</i>. +</p> + +<p> +To the contemplatist, and the man who has +</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> —————No enemy,</p> + <p> But winter and rough weather,</p> +</div></div> + + +<p> +the rural walk at this season is equally inviting with any of its +predecessors; whilst he who can "suck melancholy from a song," will find +melody in its storms and music in its wind. What are more beautiful than +the fretwork frostings of rime and hoar spread on the hedges, glistening +in the broad sun-beam, and in brilliancy and variety of colours vying +with the richest display of oriental splendour—with here and there +berries clustering on evergreens, or pendent in solitary beauty, like +the "rich jewel in the Aethiop's ear." The winter stillness of animal +life is a sublime subject for our meditation. Insects which floated on +the gay sunshine of summer and autumn have now retired to their winter +quarters, there to remain dormant till regenerated in the enlivening +warmth of spring; and even the labours of husbandry are in a state of +torpidity. +</p> + +<p> +Within the circuit of gardens and shrubberies Nature, however, reserves +the evergreen pride of firs and pines; and even flowers are left to +gladden the eye of the winter observer; and the rose, that sweet emblem +of our fragile and transitory state, will live and prosper during this +month. In the forest, the oak, beech, and hornbeam in part retain their +leaves; there, too, is the endless variety of mosses, and lichens, and +ivy, spreading and clinging round aged trunks, as if to protect them +with their fond warmth, or mantling over the neglected labours of human +art, and mocking their proud import. +</p> + +<p> +At this season, too, the social economy of man is wont to ripen into +mirth; and in olden time, winter was the summer of hospitality, when the +sunshine of Christmas shed its holy light on the hearts and faces of +young and old. What the present generation have gained in head, they +have lost in heart, and Christmas is almost the only surviving holiday +of the calendar. But now, alas! "we live too late in time." +</p> + +<p> +If knowledge be valuable only in the proportion in which it conduces +to our happiness, then we have cause to deplore the loss of the +wassail-bowl, the sports and wrestlings of the town green, the evening +tales, and the elegant pastimes of + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page401" name="page401"></a>[pg 401]</span> + + masque, song, and dance, of our +ancestors, which the taste of our times has narrowed into a commercial +channel, or pared down to a few formal visits and their insipid returns; +and friends, families, and fortunes are often sacrificed in this +exchange. +</p> + +<p> +But there are minds so attuned as not to be shut out from +</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> "The gayest, happiest attitudes of things,"</p> +</div></div> + + +<p> +nor to allow their social blaze to be darkened by such narrow conceits; +and for a picture of this portion of mankind, we quote Mr. Bucke's +<i>Harmonies</i>:— +</p> + +<p> +"Awed by the progress of time, winter, ushered into existence by +the howling of storms, and the rushing of impetuous torrents, and +contemplating, with the satisfaction of a giant, the ruins of the year, +still affords ample food for enjoyments, which the vulgar never dream +of, if sympathy and association diffuse their attractive spells around +us! In the bosom of retirement, how delightful is it to feel exempt from +the mean intrigues, the endless difficulties and tumults, which active +life ensures, and which retirement enables us so well to contemplate +through the telescope of recollection. When seated by the cheerful +fire among friends, loving and beloved, our hopes, our wishes, and our +pleasures are concentrated; the soul seems imparadised in an enchanted +circle; and the world, vain, idle, and offensive as it is, presents +nothing to the judgment, and little to the imagination, that can induce +the enlightened or the good to regret, that the knowledge they possess +of it is chiefly from the report of others, or from the tumultuous +murmur, which from a distance invades the tranquillity of their retreat, +and operates as a discord in a soft sonata. These are the moments which +affect us more than all the harmony of Italy, or all the melody of +Scotland—moments, in which we appear almost to emulate the gods +in happiness." +</p> + +<p> +"Change," in the quaint language of Feltham, "is the great lord of +the universe, and Time is the agent which brings all things under his +dominion." This has been demonstrated through our past calendar of +monthly characteristics; to which are subjoined, from a still more +quaint authority than Feltham, said to be printed in the reign of +Henry VII., in a Sarum black-letter missal: +</p> + +<hr /> + +<h3> + THE MONTHS MORALIZED. +</h3> + +<center> +(<i>From our Correspondent, M.L.B.</i>) +</center> + + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>Januarius.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> The fyrst six yeres of mannesbyrth and aege</p> +<p class="i2"> May well be compared to Janyere,</p> + <p> For in this moneth, is no strengeth nor courage</p> +<p class="i2"> More than in a chylde of the aege of six yere.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>Februarius.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> The other six yeres is like February,</p> +<p class="i2"> In the end thereof beguyneth (1) the Sprynge,</p> + <p> That tyme chyldren is moost asst and redy</p> +<p class="i2"> To receyve chastysement, nurture and lernynge.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>Martinus.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> March betokeneth the six yeres followynge,</p> +<p class="i2"> Arayeng the erthe with pleasaunt verdure;</p> + <p> That season youth thought for nothynge,</p> +<p class="i2"> And wothout thought dooth his sporte and pleasure.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>Aprilis.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> The next six yere maketh four-and-twenty,</p> +<p class="i2"> And figured is to jolly Aprill</p> + <p> That tyme of pleasures man hath most plenty</p> +<p class="i2"> Fresh, and louying (2) his lustes tofulfyll.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>Maius.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> As in the moneth of Maye all thing in mygth (3)</p> +<p class="i2"> So at thirty yeres man is in chief lyking,</p> + <p> Pleasaunt and lustie to every mannes sygth, (4)</p> +<p class="i2"> In beauti and strengthe to women pleasynge.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>Junius.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> In June, all thyns falleth to rypenesse,</p> + <p> And so dooth man at Ihirty-six yere old,</p> + <p> And studyetli for to acquyre rychesse.</p> + <p> And taketh a wyfe, to keepe his householde.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>Julius.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> At forty yere of aege, or elles never</p> +<p class="i2"> Is ony man endewed with wysdome</p> + <p> For than forgth (5) his mygth fayleth ever</p> +<p class="i2"> As in July doth every blossome.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>Augustus.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> The goodes of the erthe is gadered evermore</p> +<p class="i2"> In August, so at forty-eight yere</p> + <p> Man ought to gather some goodes in store</p> +<p class="i2"> To susteyne aege that then draweth nere.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>September.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> Let no man thynke, for to gather plenty</p> +<p class="i2"> Yf, at fifty-four yere he have none</p> + <p> No more than yf his barne were empty</p> +<p class="i2"> In September when all the come is gone.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>October.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> By Octobre betokenyth sixty yere</p> +<p class="i2"> That aege hastely dooth man assayle,</p> + <p> Yf he have outgh (6) than (7) it dooth appere</p> +<p class="i2"> To lyve quyetly after his travayle.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>November.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> When man is at sixty-six yere olde</p> +<p class="i2"> Which lykened is to bareyne Novembre</p> + <p> He waxeth unweldy, (8) sekely (9) and cold</p> +<p class="i2"> Than (7) his soule helth is time to remember.</p> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <center> <i>December.</i></center> +</div><div class="stanza"> + <p> The yere by Decembre takelh his ende,</p> +<p class="i2"> And so dooth man at three-score and twelve,</p> + <p> Nature with aege wyll hym on message sende</p> +<p class="i2"> Tho tyme is come that he must go hymselve.</p> +</div></div> + +<br /> + +<center> +<i>Glossary.</i> +</center> + +<p> +1. Beginneth. 3. Loving. 3. Might 4. Sight. 5. Waste or barren, applied +to mind. 6. Aught, anything. 7. Then. 8. Unwieldy. 9. Sickly. +</p> + + +<p> +A few words at parting, or rather in closing our calendar. Whilst we +have endeavoured to attract by the little emblematic display of art +at the head of each month, we have not neglected to direct + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page402" name="page402"></a>[pg 402]</span> + + the attention +of our readers to "the good in every thing" which is scattered through +each season of the year, by constantly recurring to the beneficence of +the OMNIPOTENT BEING—thus enabling them to look +</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> "Through Nature up to Nature's God."</p> +</div></div> +<p> +Her study will moderate our joys and griefs, and enable us to carry the +principle of "good in every thing" into every relation of social life. +Let us learn to cherish in our remembrance that (in the language of the +sublime Sterne) "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb;" and that the +storms of the world, like those of nature, will at length clear off, and +open to us a prospect unclouded and eternal. +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + + +<h2> + THE SKETCH-BOOK. +</h2> +<h3> +No. LII. +</h3> + +<hr /> + +<center> +THE UNKNOWN REGION. +</center> + +<p> +[For the following <i>Gulliverian</i> sketch we are indebted to a lively +volume of whim, humour, and pleasant sentiment, entitled <i>Snatches +from Oblivion</i>: the work likewise contains some springy +versification.—Ed.] +</p> + + +<p> +An honourable member of a certain enlightened assembly, who had greatly +distinguished himself by his topographical ingenuity and taste for good +society, had, in the course of some statistical researches, discovered +a part of the globe hitherto unknown, called by the natives Russell +Square, and which was considered would be an important acquisition to +the English dominions. A council of state was called upon this occasion, +who, after six successive meetings, determined upon sending out an +expedition, at the head of which was the original discoverer, to +reconnoitre, and, if eligible, to take possession of the <i>terra +incognita</i> in the name and behalf of the British crown. Unfortunately +I was myself at that time engaged in oddity-hunting in another part of +the world, and was consequently unable to join the adventurous party, +but have learned the whole particulars from the mouth of an intimate +friend, who formed a portion of it, and who obliged me with the tie of a +cravat of one of the extraordinary inhabitants of the soil. His relation +is to the following effect:— +</p> + +<p> +"The conditions of our enterprise having been finally arranged, and +our instructions delivered, sealed by the Lords of the Admiralty, after +a few months' preparation we were enabled to commence our adventurous +career. Prayers having been put up for our safe return, our, wills +having been made, and, in case of our never returning from +</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> "'That undiscovered country (Russell Square),</p> + <p> From whence (it was dreaded) no traveller returns,'</p> +</div></div> + + + +<p> +"our property secured, as well as handsome annuities to our wives and +children, we embarked on board the Admiralty yacht from Whitehall +Stairs. Here a scene that would have melted the heart of a stoic took +place. The difficulties and horrors of our campaign, the melancholy +fates of Mungo Park, and Captains Cook and Bowditch, the agonizing +consequences of starvation, cannibalism, and vulgarity, which we were +likely to encounter in these unknown regions, were depicted in their +most vivid and powerful colours. But each of us was a Roman, a Columbus, +prepared to stand or fall in the service of his country. +</p> + +<p> +"The vessel left the shores amidst the tears, groans, and perfumed +handkerchiefs of the surrounding multitude; so heart-rending were +our <i>adieux</i>, that three officers of the guards, overcome by the +afflicting crisis, went into strong hysterics, and were obliged to have +their stay-laces cut. Standing on the poop of the vessel with a white +handkerchief in one glove, and a bottle of <i>Eau de Cologne</i> in the +other, we waved farewell to our friends, and, as the last vestige of +their whiskers disappeared from our sight, a sad presentiment filled +our minds that it was for ever. Groups of beings, wearing the form and +countenances of men, though most barbarously disguised, occasionally +passed us in what we supposed to be canoes, saluting us in an unknown +and discordant tone. Our voyage concluded at a point which, we have +since been informed, was discovered by a noble lord in a sailing +expedition, where he was driven by adverse winds and tides, and baptized +by him 'Waterloo Bridge,' after a certain victory supposed to have been +obtained by the ancient Britons some time previous to the flood. Having +landed, we were immediately surrounded by a native tribe of a warlike +and barbarous aspect, being in almost a primitive dress, having only the +lower part of their persons covered. The appearance of their skin was +most remarkable; it was intersected by blue seams, as if nature had +supplied them with a shirt of her own formation—for not the slightest +appearance of muslin or cambric was visible. The name of this horde of +barbarism is, as we were afterwards informed, in their native +<i>patois</i>, Scullers, and from the circumstance of + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page403" name="page403"></a>[pg 403]</span> + + their appearing +peculiar to the river and its banks, the Professor of Natural History, +whom we carried with us, after an elaborate investigation, declared them +to be, peculiar to the soil, members of the animal kingdom, of a species +between the alligator and crocodile. +</p> + +<p> +"After reference to our geographical charts, we took our seats in +our stanhopes, being preceded by our travelling chariots, a detachment +of the Lancers, by way of security, two interpreters, a guide, and a +surgeon, in case of casualties. By the instructions of the guide we +steered in a direction N.E.E., and as we proceeded farther into the +country, the barbarity and uncivilization became more apparent. Crossing +a swamp called the <i>Strand</i>, we arrived at a native settlement called +Drury Lane, inhabited by a horde infinitely more barbarous and rude than +the tribe by which we were accosted on landing. The <i>indigites</i> of +this soil, in ferocity of appearance, exceeded all our previous idea of +savage life. They are generally <i>tattooed</i>, but the crevices in +their skin, instead of variegated colours as the savages of the South +Seas, seemed to be filled up by a composition much resembling dirt. They +had, however, no tomahawks, nor implements of a warlike description, nor +were any of them dressed in skins; although some of them had the hide of +a beast hanging from their waist downwards, which appeared their only +covering, and we understand is called by them—<i>leathern apron</i>. +</p> + +<p> +"Passing by a native wigwam, which we found in our maps defined as +<i>Vinegar Yard</i>, we were surrounded by a motley and terrific group +of the inhabitants, both male and female. Of their sex we were in great +doubt, especially of those who carried on their heads a kind of wicker +basket, in which were a quantity of fish, of whose <i>genus</i> our +naturalist declared himself perfectly ignorant. As we had often heard of +the simplicity of man when undefiled by a knowledge of the world, of his +hospitality, and his overflowing milk of human kindness, and feeling +besides exhausted from the length and difficulties of our journey, we +determined upon putting these fabled attributes to the proof. Holding +up his stick, as an emblem of peaceable intentions, and backed by the +Lancers, our interpreter advanced, and inquired for the hut of their +chief, and requested, as we were much exhausted, they would oblige us +with a small quantity of their ava, and a few of their native yams. As +they seemed unable to detect his meaning, which we endeavoured to make +more palpable, by all of us at the same time advancing, simultaneously +putting our fingers down our mouths, and rubbing our stomachs, in order +to have our urgent necessities immediately gratified. +</p> + +<p> +"Instead of our wants having been anticipated, as we had naturally +supposed, the whole tribe immediately set up a discordant yell. +Believing that we were still misunderstood, we resolved on asking for +food, and assuring them of our peaceable intentions in all the languages +we were masters of. One of the Lancers who had, during foreign service, +picked up a few expressions of the Cherokee Indians, and also a +knowledge of their habits, proposed addressing them. A consultation +being held, and the result being favourable, he advanced; and, in the +Cherokian language, asked for food, invoked at the same time the great +spirit, which he did by spitting on his hands (an Indian custom), and +holding up his right foot for the purpose of his auditor kissing it, as +a token of conciliation. The person whom he addressed, in an uncouth, +but certainly melodious language, answered in these words: +</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> "'Dom hew-er hies, gie us none o' hew-er-jaw.'</p> +</div></div> + + + +<p> +"Another, whom I had willingly entreated in my native tongue for a place +of shelter, answered in the following couplet, which convinced me of the +truth of the supposition of Mr. Thomas Campbell, the intended lecturer +of poetry to the London University, that mankind in an aboriginal state +is essentially poetical, and express their ideas either in rhythmical or +figurative language— +</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> + <p> "'Hax hay-bout,</p> + <p> An find it hout.'</p> +</div></div> + + +<p> +"Others shouted with a peculiar strength of lungs, <i>Bedlam! Bedlam! +ha! ha!</i> These words appeared to be instantly caught up by the +surrounding groups, and communicated like wild-fire, amongst the +different tribes, which by this time had increased to an alarming +magnitude. * * * +</p> + +<p> +"Arriving at a settlement, marked out in the maps as Great Russell +Street, the marks of civilization became more apparent, particularly +when we saw a native approaching in shoes, stockings, and a <i>bona +fide</i> pair of breeches; but our surprise was increased on reaching +the place of our destination, 'Russell Square,' to find very few traces +of savage life, and a wigwam of considerable extent erected in close +imitation of our beloved and long-lost homes! +</p> + +<p> +"Having stopped at a house which had the appearance of being inhabited +by a civilized being, our interpreter, in the <i>patois</i> of the country, +requested we might + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page404" name="page404"></a>[pg 404]</span> + + be admitted inside, for tire sole purpose of judging +of the manners and customs of foreign nations. The creature who received +our request was habited much after the same fashion as our footmen, +only the wretch, as if to put his uncivilization beyond a doubt, +actually wore white cotton stockings, and his hair without powder. +Being shown up stairs, we entered a room of considerable dimensions, +and our astonishment may be more easily conceived than expressed, on our +finding, instead of naked beings, squatted cross-legged on mats on the +floor, we found them decently attired, and sitting upright in most +Christian-like and indubitable chairs. The master of the house, a short, +fat, and, for a savage, an apparently inoffensive man, having by no +means a blood-thirsty appearance, made us welcome according to the +fashion of the country, which he did by the following ceremony:—Placing +himself about half a yard before us, with both sets of his toes so +drawn in as to nearly meet, one of his his hands being stuck where his +breeches pocket should be placed, he ducked his head and shoulders (as +if he would make a bow), at the same time drawing one of his feet from +the other, and scraping it on the floor; this accomplished, he resumed +his former position, muttered some unintelligible words, which sounded +like 'perdigiously happy,' tucked up the collar of his shirt (for the +wretch actually wore one), and stalked away. +</p> + + + +<p> +"It is needless to say that we were regarded with symptoms of infinite +astonishment by the natives, with whom the room was filled, and who +appeared to be mimicking the manners of civilized life, and often +calling out words, which we have since understood to be names of liquids +peculiar to the country, viz—'port,' 'sherry,' and 'lemonade.' Our +curiosity being amply gratified, the short fat native, who had first +addressed us, marched up to me, and to my indescribable alarm offered to +introduce me to his daughter, a young savage of about seventeen, who he +pointed out sitting in a nearly civilized attitude on a legitimate sofa. +Perceiving me shudder at the proposal, for I had heard that the New +Zealanders, and other barbarous tribes, sometimes eat their friends, as +well as their enemies, he inquired of me the cause, and fearful of the +consequence of exciting the anger of these savages while in their power, +I expressed my total willingness to the introduction, and declared that +my only objection was, lest she should scratch; upon his assuring me she +was perfectly tame. I consented to be led (though like a lamb to the +slaughter) to the couch, praying most fervently, though silently, she +would not make a meal of me. What was my horror when the short fat +gentleman addressed her with a horrid wink of the eye—'Poppett, as +I know you to be partial to these smart young fellows (Heavens! she was +then addicted to cannibalism), I have brought you one.' I heard no more, +but making up my mind I was to be served up for supper, flew with the +utmost' rapidity my stays would permit me, when my ears were electrified +at the sounds of Stultz and Nugee. I knew not how it was, but the hearing +of these words, surrounded as I was by doubt and danger, calmed at once +my agitated spirits, like some well-remembered air which we have heard +in our infancy, stealing over the waste of years and distance, I felt +completely overcome by my feelings. Home, and my native land, with a +thousand sweet associations of relatives, and all the charms of +friendship and love, seemed to accompany the sounds, and I gazed with +unqualified mildness on the innocent source of my happiness, who stood +gazing in simple wonder at my ill-suppressed surprise. I was nearly +fainting, and should have fallen, had it not been for a kind-hearted +squaw in a satin slip, and blond trimmings, bathing my temples with +a grateful distillation of otto of roses. The natural reserve of my +disposition having been overcome by the force of nature, I proposed to +our entertainer, if he would part with his daughter to take her back +with us, and make her a member of the civilized world. He shook his +head, and declared his inability to relinquish her; so great do we +find the force of parental affection even in savage life; but upon the +approach of his son, an eligible and ductile youth, with a promising +pair of whiskers, and irreproachable pantaloons, he consented to part +with him, declaring that next to his daughter he was the only solace of +his life. As the youth bore the name of his tribe, the semi-barbarous +cognomen of Simpson, he agreed to accept that of <i>Lee boo</i>, not +only as being more civilized, but expressive of his situation. As he +was of an ambitious nature, he had made, unknown to his parent, many +excursions towards the west; we therefore agreed to accept of him as our +guide; and we left our simple and promising friends with the assurance +of a speedy return: as a pledge, we exchanged one of our cravats, well +stiffened, and with the Petersham tie, for one of the collars worn by +the male, and a flounce of the she-savage's petticoats; promising also +to send them, on our arrival, a pattern of Lord H———h's beard, which + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page405" name="page405"></a>[pg 405]</span> + +approached nearer to savage life than any other object we could think +of in the civilized world. +</p> + +<p> +"We reached Connaught Place without any accident, with the young +savage as a trophy, and received the most affectionate welcome on our +unexpected and safe return. Prayers were put up the following day at +most of the fashionable churches, and a solemn <i>te deum</i> was +composed expressly for the occasion. The young savage has already +realized the expectation we formed of his docility and capacity; +already he speaks our language equal to a native—has run through the +whole of his property—keeps race-horses —and has an opera singer under +his protection—never pays a bill, and is admitted without a voucher +at every hell in the metropolis; has forgot his father's name, and +never hears the unknown region of 'Russell Square' mentioned, but he +inquires—'if that is not the place where the people drink porter, +and don't wear shoes and stockings?'" +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + + +<h2> + SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. +</h2> + + + +<hr /> + + +<h3> + THE DUST CART. +</h3> + +<p> +Dust, than which nothing can, upon a superficial view, be considered +more insignificant, was, a few years back, of very considerable value, +far surpassing the value of many things acquired by difficulty and +danger, and for which the breadth of oceans are traversed, through +storms and tempests. Perhaps a cruise to the Gold Coast, with all its +drawbacks and contingencies, is scarcely so profitable as the returns on +the quantity of dust collected in the City of London, during the time +necessary for the voyage, and its accomplished return. About the period +I allude to, the parish of St. Luke received no less a sum than between +one and two thousand pounds a-year for dust collected, which, being +placed to the parish account, tended in a <i>great measure</i> to keep +down the poor'-rates. In addition to its value, no kind of property is +better secured; as will be evinced, when the reader is informed that his +present Majesty, George IV., when he was Prince Regent, lost an action +for the recovery of the value of dust, carried away from the palace, by +his servants, to be used as manure. In order to a further illustration +of the subject, it is necessary to inform the reader, that what has +hitherto been considered is but a part of that incongruous combination, +the contents of a dust-cart—the very last residuum—the matter called +"brize;" previous to which, by the result of much labour, of picking, +raking, sorting, and sifting, a very pretty property is collected by the +various shareholders of this joint, stock company, as a recent case that +was brought forward at the Bow-street office will suffice to convince +us.<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> +</p> + +<p> +Perhaps the reader may have never witnessed the ejection of a +dust-cart: presuming he has not, I will endeavour to give him a general +outline of the ceremony; together with all the circumstances attending +it, and a sketch of the group and foreground. Suppose an eminence of +about five or six feet already collected, in a circular form; on the +heap is a man raking about, and a little child playing with a small +brown shaggy mongrel of a dog, with a community of pigs battening on +the acclivity; a youth below, with spade and axe, is supplying three +women with stuff—if women they may be called, who, of all the progeny +of old Mother Nox, seemed most the resemblances of age, misery, and +want; I say <i>seemed</i>, for when one was called—one of three—I +beheld, as she raised her dilapidated Dunstable, a face, where beams of +pensive beauty struggled through dusty darkness, and which mantled to a +smile at the sound of notes whistled to the tune of—"In Bunhill-row +there liv'd a Maid"—indicating the approach of Joe—for it was <i>his +cart:</i>—the dying cadence now gave way to the gee-up! uttered in deep +bass, accompanied with a smart smack of the whip, to urge the horse up +the ascent. Joe was a decent sort of boy enough for his avocation, not +to be ranked among those who "troop under the sooty flag of Acheron;" +but a clean, square-built fellow, with a broadish face and forehead, +blue eyes, nose rather short, expanded, and inclined upwards, and tinted +with that imperial hue that indicated his knowledge was not confined +to dry measure; this, with a mouth a little elongated, formed a +countenance, upon the whole, full of mirth and good-humour. This piece +of device was surmounted by a hat of the usual professional form—a +domed piece of felt, with a most prodigious margin: he wore a good stout +flannel jacket, and waistcoat; his shirt collar fastened by a leaden +brooch, in the + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page406" name="page406"></a>[pg 406]</span> + + shape of a heart, deviating from the general costume. +His continuations were of white drill; but, mark the vanity! short +enough to display a pair of hoppers, otherwise gaiters, of the same +material; these, with a stout pair of ancle-Johns, completed his +outward man of an order "simply Doric." +</p> + +<p> +At Joe's approach, all was stir and bustle; the pigs, to the third and +fourth generation, moved "in perfect phalanx," not "to the Dorian mood +of flutes and soft recorders," but to their own equally inspiring grunt; +varying from the shrill treble to the deep-toned bass. Jewler, too, ran +barking; but with less interested feelings; and his little patron ran +to take the whip. +</p> + +<p> +A few interrogatories on each side, a joke, and its accompanying laugh, +occupy brief space; when, suddenly, a general rush proclaims the load is +strewed upon the ground! a chaotic mass—"old hats, old wigs, old boots, +old shoes, and all the tribe of leather," remnants of all things, the +ends and the beginnings, horticultural fragments and broken crockery, +the hunter's bone and the beggar's rags, pilfered lace suspected, and +the stolen jewel, the lost gold, and the mislaid spoon: and, for a +climax, rejoice! gentle reader—for when the designs of the crafty are +defeated by inadvertence, or otherwise, with the weird sisters, "we +should rejoice! we should rejoice!"—a bill for fifteen pounds, drawn +by a lawyer for expenses, and which was taken to the acceptor by the +dustman, for which he received a considerate remuneration. Complicated +as this mass appears, it is all reduced to the most perfect order, and +each portion arranged according to the purposes intended for. Thus, the +vegetable matter, so eagerly seized upon by the pigs, contributes to +keep up a supply of <i>dairy-fed</i> pork and <i>Epping sausages:</i> +the bones are laid aside for the purposes of making hartshorn and +phosphorus, dominoes, and apple-scoops, &c. The old boots and shoes, +with the tribe of leather, after a slight examination of their utter +inefficiency, find their way, through divers passages to the glue-pot. +How fractured bottles, and broken glass of every description, is +disposed of, is easily <i>seen through</i>—to the furnace; and how the +old iron is appropriated, is not hard to guess. The old woollen, if +perchance any should exist in the shape of a pair of innominables, +after exploring the pockets, and a sigh for their insolvency, are +unceremoniously cast aside along with the worthless remains of rags of +every description, string, paper, &c. &c., to pass through the operation +necessary for making brown paper. What still remains, of coals, and +cinders unconsumed, the dustman's perquisite, are measured first, +"thence hurried back to fire:" the wood, the sifters take. Broken tiles, +bricks, delf, crockery, with a variety of substances and etceteras, go +towards the formation of roads. I had almost forgotten the crowning +item, viz. old wigs! Towards the close of the last century, so much were +they in request, that the supply was scarcely equal to the demand. Yes, +in the days of Beau Tibbs, every street had its corner and every corner +its shoe-black, and to every shoe-black might be traced an old wig, +sometimes <i>two</i>. In those days of ruffles and etiquette, when +a well-formed leg was advantageously displayed in <i>whole</i> silk +stockings, shoes, and buckles, it was the custom with pedestrians, when +making a call, to have their shoes wiped and touched up at the corner +of the street nearest the place they were going to visit: and what so +efficient for the purpose as an old wig? nothing. But, alas! those days +are gone! and Beau Tibbs is gone! and, if we question where? only Echo +answers. But what becomes of the old wigs? is the question at issue. +Alas! again, such is the degeneracy of modern days, that, instead of +being used as an appendage to the toilet, though humble, I fear they +will be traced to the vulgar bricklayer and plasterer, to be mingled +with mortar, and "patch a wall, to expel the winter's flaw." Now, I +believe, every particle is accounted for; and any little article, in the +shape of a bijou, is the perquisite of those pickers-up of unconsidered +trifles, the sifters. +</p> + +<p style="text-align: right;"> +<i>Monthly Magazine.</i> +</p> + + +<hr class="full" /> + + + + +<h2> +THE SELECTOR,<br /> AND<br /> LITERARY NOTICES<br /> OF<br /> <i>NEW WORKS.</i> +</h2> + +<hr /> + + +<h3> + NAPOLEON'S DIVORCE. +</h3> + +<center> +<i>Communication of his Intention to Josephine.</i> +</center> + +<p> +I was on duty at the Tuilleries from Monday, November 27; on that day, +the Tuesday and Wednesday following, it was easy for me to observe a +great alteration in the features of the empress, and a silent constraint +in Napoleon. If in the course of dinner he broke the silence, it was +to ask me some brief questions, to which he did not hear the reply. +On those days the dinner did not last for more than ten minutes. +The storm burst on Thursday the 30th. +</p> + +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page497" name="page497"></a>[pg 497]</span> +Their majesties went to table. Josephine wore a large white hat, tied +under her chin, and which concealed part of her face. I thought, +however, that I perceived she had been weeping, and that she then +restrained her tears with difficulty. She appeared to me the image of +grief and of despair. The most profound silence reigned throughout the +dinner; and they only touched the dishes which were presented to them +out of mere form. The only words uttered were those addressed to me by +Napoleon: "What o'clock is it?" In pronouncing them, he rose from table. +Josephine followed slowly. Coffee was served, and Napoleon took himself +the cup which was held by the page on duty, and gave the sign that he +wished to be alone. I immediately retired, but restless, and a prey to +my sad thoughts, I sat down in the attendance-room, which was commonly +used for their majesties to dine in, in an armchair, on the side of +which was the door to the emperor's room. I was mechanically watching +the servants who were clearing the table, when on a sudden I heard +violent cries from the empress Josephine issue from the emperor's +chamber. The usher of the chamber, thinking she was taken ill, was on +the point of opening the door, when I prevented him, observing, that +the emperor would call for assistance if he thought it necessary. I was +standing close to the door, when the emperor himself opened it, and +perceiving me, said quickly "Come in, Bausset, and shut the door." +I entered the chamber, and saw the empress Josephine stretched on the +carpet, uttering piercing cries and complaints. "No, I will never +survive it," said she. Napoleon said to me, "Are you sufficiently strong +to raise Josephine, and to carry her to her apartments by the private +staircase, in order that she may receive the care and assistance which +she requires?" I obeyed, and raised the princess, who, I thought, was +seized with a nervous affection. With the aid of Napoleon, I raised her +into my arms, and he himself taking a light from the table, opened the +door, which, by an obscure passage, led to the little staircase of +which he had spoken. When we reached the first step of the staircase, +I observed to Napoleon, that it was too narrow for it to be possible +for me to descend without the danger of falling. He forthwith called the +keeper of the portfolio, who day and night was in attendance at one of +the doors of his closet, the entrance to which was on the landing-place +of this little staircase. Napoleon gave him the light, of which we had +little need, for the passages had become light. He commanded the keeper +to go on before, and took himself the legs of Josephine in order to +assist me in descending with less difficulty. At one moment, however, +I was embarrassed by my sword, and I thought we must have fallen, but +fortunately we descended without any accident, and deposited the +precious burden on an ottoman in the sleeping-chamber. Napoleon +immediately pulled the little bell, and summoned the empress's women. +When I raised the empress in the chamber she ceased to moan, and I +thought that she had fainted; but at the time I was embarrassed by my +sword in the middle of the little staircase, of which I have already +spoken, I was obliged to hold her firmly to prevent a fall which would +have been dreadful to the actors in this melancholy scene. I held the +empress in my arms, which encircled her waist, her back rested against +my chest, and her hand leaned upon my right shoulder. When she felt the +efforts which I made to prevent falling, she said to me in a very low +tone, "You press me too hard." I then saw that I had nothing to fear for +her health, and that she had not for an instant lost her senses. During +the whole of this scene I was wholly occupied with Josephine, whose +situation afflicted me; I had not power to observe Napoleon; but when +the empress's women had come, he retired into a little room which +preceded the sleeping-chamber, and I followed him. His agitation, his +inquietude were extreme. In the distress which he felt he made me +acquainted with the cause of every thing that had happened, and said to +me these words:—"The interest of France and of my dynasty does violence +to my heart—the divorce has become a rigorous duty to me—I am the more +afflicted by what has happened to Josephine, because three days ago she +must have learned it from Hortensia—the unhappy obligation which +condemns me to separate myself from her—I deplore it with all my heart, +but I thought she possessed more strength of character, and I was not +prepared for the bursts of her grief." In fact, the emotion which +oppressed him, compelled him to make a long pause between each phrase he +uttered, in order to breathe. His words came from him with labour and +without connexion; his voice was tremulous and oppressed, and tears +moistened his eyes. It really seemed as if he were beside himself to +give so many details to me, who was so far removed from his councils and +his confidence. The whole of this transaction did not occupy more than +seven or eight minutes. Napoleon immediately went to seek for Corvisart, + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page498" name="page498"></a>[pg 498]</span> + +queen Hortensia, Cambaceres, and Fouché; and before he returned to his +apartment, he assured himself of the condition of Josephine, whom he +found more calm and more resigned. I followed him, and after having +recovered my hat, which I had thrown on the carpet that my motions might +be more free, I retired to the attendance-chamber. To avoid all kinds of +commentaries, I said before the pages and the ushers that the empress +had been seized with a violent affection of the nerves. +</p> + +<h4> +<i>Private Anecdotes of Foreign Courts.</i> +</h4> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + + +<h2> + THE GATHERER. +</h2> + + + + +<p> +"I am but a <i>Gatherer</i> and disposer of other men's +stuff."—<i>Wotton</i>. +</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3> + STORY OF CINDERELLA. +</h3> + +<p> +The origin of this nursery tale is sufficiently curious. About the year +1730, a French actor of equal talent and wealth, named Thevenard, in +passing through the streets of Paris, observed upon a cobbler's stall, +the shoe of a female, which struck him by the remarkable smallness of +its size. After admiring it for some time, he returned to his house; +but his thoughts reverted to the shoe with such intensity, that he +reappeared at the stall the next day; but the cobbler could give him no +other clue to the owner, than that it had been left in his absence, for +the purpose of being repaired. Day after day did Thevenard return to his +post to watch the re-integration of the slipper, which proceeded slowly; +nor did the proprietor appear to claim it. Although he had completed +the sixtieth year of his age, so extravagant became his passion for the +unknown fair one, that he became (were it possible for a Frenchman of +that day to be so) melancholy and miserable. His pain was, however, +somewhat appeased by the avatar of the little foot itself, appertaining +to a pretty and youthful girl in the very humblest class of life. All +distinctions were levelled at once by love: the actor sought the parents +of the female, procured their consent to the match, and actually made +her his wife. +</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3> + DIVINE WORSHIP. +</h3> + +<p> +When Archbishop Fenelon was Almoner to Louis XIV. his majesty +was astonished one Sunday to find, instead of the usual crowded +congregation, only himself and his attendants, the priest, and the +other officers of the chapel. "What is the meaning of this?" said the +king; the prelate answered, "I caused it to be given out, that your +majesty did not attend chapel to-day, in order that you might see, who +came here to worship God, and who to flatter the king." +</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3> + RUSTIC WIT. +</h3> + +<p> +A poor man, having disposed of the letters of his name, according to +his own fancy, upon his tax-cart, was summoned for the offence, and for +turning the act of parliament into ridicule, by having the following +letters on his tax-cart:— +</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2"> A MOST</p> + <p> ODD ACT</p> + <p> ON A TAX</p> +<p class="i2"> CART.</p> +</div></div> + + + +<p> +The poor fellow observed he was no scholar, but his name was Amos Todd, +he lived at Acton, and he understood he was obliged to paint the +letters, "A Tax-Cart." +</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3> + PROMISES. +</h3> + +<p> +A young fellow of the <i>Surface</i> school was one day heard to boast +that from his continually breaking his promises made to his creditors, +they must imagine him to have been brought up in a court:—"Yes," +replied a byestander, "the Insolvent's Court." +</p> + +<h4> +PHILO. +</h4> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<center> +<i>LIMBIRD'S EDITIONS.</i> +</center> + +<p> +Now publishing in numbers, price 3d. each, Embellished with Engravings +on Steel. 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Price 1s. 8d. +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a> +<b>Footnote 1</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a> +<p> +It was reckoned an extraordinary luxury for Thomas à Becket to +have his parlour strewed every day with clean rushes. +</p> +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a> +<b>Footnote 2</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a> +<p> +So much for the "heinous crime of <i>self-painting</i>;" as Lord +Chesterfield says; in speaking of which, "It is even whispered +about the town, (he observes) of that excellent artist, +Mr. Liobard, that he lately refused a fine woman to draw her +picture, alleging that he never copied any body's works but his +own and God Almighty's!" +</p> +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"></a> +<b>Footnote 3</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a> +<p> +It was a dispute between a dustman and a sifter, as to which had +the most rightful claim to a five-pound note, found in the ashes; +and certainly nothing could be more impartially decided; for +as their claims, or rather their non-claims, turned out to be +equal—that is, in point of law—it was retained by the presiding +magistrate in trust. In the course of the inquiry, it appeared +that the sifter had realized sufficient property to enable her to +be proprietress of three houses. +</p> +</blockquote> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p> +<i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near +Somerset-House,) and sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers.</i> +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 12496 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/12496-h/images/287-1.png b/12496-h/images/287-1.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c98cef --- /dev/null +++ b/12496-h/images/287-1.png diff --git a/12496-h/images/287-2.png b/12496-h/images/287-2.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d1b25a --- /dev/null +++ b/12496-h/images/287-2.png |
