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LIMBIRD, 143, STRAND, (Near Somerset-House.) + +1832. + + + + * * * * * + +PREFACE. + + +Here we are with our Nineteenth Volume complete. We do not carry it to +Court to gain patronage, neither do we preface it with a costly dedication +to a purse-proud patron; but we present it at the levee of the people, as +a production in which the information and amusement of one and all are +equally kept in view. We know that instances have occurred of authors +tiring out their patrons. A pleasant story is told of Spencer, who sent +the manuscript of his Faery Queen to the Earl of Southampton, the Mecaenas +of those days; when the earl reading a few pages, ordered the poet to be +paid twenty pounds; reading further, another twenty pounds; and proceeding +still, twenty pounds more; till losing all patience, his lordship cried, +"Go turn that fellow out of the house, for if I read on I shall be ruined." +We have no fear this will be our fate; especially as we strive to effect +all that can be accomplished in our economical form to follow as well as +direct the public taste. + +Experience has taught us in the conduct of nineteen volumes of +this Miscellany, that the most effectual method of conveying instruction, +or aiding the progress of knowledge, is by combining it with amusement; +or, in other words by at once aiming at the head and heart. +The world is already too full of precept upon precept; and a smattering +of principles is too often found in the place of practice. How can +this order of things be improved but by setting forth duties as innocent +pleasures, sweetening utility with entertainment, and garnishing fact +with fancy. A man need not study Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations +to become rich, nor seek the glories of nature in artificial Systems. +But the contrary notion has probably given rise to the observation, that, +"what the present generation have gained in head, they have lost in +heart." It should not, however, be so, with the abundance of materials +we have for social improvement. + +We hope the reader has recognised the influence of these feelings in the +many illustrations of men, manners, and times, which it has ever been our +object to garner into the pages of THE MIRROR. Hence the traits of +domestic life in all ages, and the tales and traditions of the family +hearth, when pointed with a moral, receive our special attention. In this +department, as well as in the playful fancies of poetry, in embellishing +the softer sympathies of nature,--we have been materially aided by our +Correspondents; to all of whom we proffer our best thanks. + +In the present volume, the Public Journals of the day have not been +disregarded; while sterling literature, of the _utile cum dulce_ character, +has been studied; and new books have been consulted, not so much for the +purpose of exposing their defects, as exhibiting their perfections. Art +has contributed its novelties; and the progress of Natural Science has +developed many new beauties appreciable by every reader. + +The ENGRAVINGS are somewhat more numerous than usual; in all numbering +sixty-three; and they are accompanied by illustrative letter-press of +concise, but we trust, entertaining character. + +In Popular Antiquities we may mention Old Fishmongers' Hall, which has +disappeared since the date of our last volume; the Castles of Pontefract, +Wilton, and Dunheved, with traits of their historic lore; the Lady Chapel, +in Southwark, and its changing history; Brighton about a hundred years +since; the Arbalest, or Cross-bow explained with Cuts; Old Bankside, and +the First Theatres; the venerable Melrose on the Tweed; St. Pancras (Old) +Church; and the castellated palace of the Alhambra, in Spain. + +Among the Architectural novelties are the Law Institution, in Chancery +Lane; the Lowther Arcade, in the Strand; Staines New Bridge; and two +scenes of the picturesque wonders of the Colosseum, in the Regent's Park. + +In Zoology, the most popular study of the day, there are upwards of a +score of novelties. Among them are a dozen Vignettes from the Zoological +Gardens in the Regent's Park, and in Surrey; and illustrations of Rare +Arctic Birds observed during the last overland expedition to the Polar Sea, +by Captain Sir John Franklin. + +In the ensuing volume, we have determined upon enlarging our letter-press +page; whilst a new and handsome type has been cast expressly for this work. +By these improvements, as well as by the renewed vigour of our artists, +and a like zeal on our own part, THE MIRROR will be found still worthy of +its old friends, and attractive to new patrons. Its economy need not be +again enforced, although in this respect, our contemplated alterations +cannot but be received as additional points for the encouragement of a +discerning public. + +_London, June 28, 1832._ + + * * * * * + + + + +MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES GREY, EARL GREY, K.G., + +FIRST LORD OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY, &c. &c. + + * * * * * + +DE BON VOULOIR SERVIR LE ROI.--_Family Motto._ + + * * * * * + +The family of GREY--the Greys of the North, as they are styled +distinctively from the Greys of the South,[1]--is of Saxon origin.[2] They +have held manors in Northumberland from the earliest records to the +present time. The direct founder of the present branch was Baron Grey of +Werke, ennobled by James I. and advanced to the earldom of Tankerville by +William III. which titles became extinct in 1710; and the heiress carried +the estates by marriage to Charles Bennet, Lord Ossulston, who was, in +consequence, created Earl of Tankerville, in 1714. + + [1] Wilton Castle, on the Wye, was for several centuries the + baronial residence of the Greys of the South, who derived + from it their first title, and became its owners in the time + of Edward I.--See _Mirror_, vol. xiv. p. 305. + + [2] The barony of Werke was given to the family of Ros, Barons of + Hemsley, in Yorkshire, by Henry I. for the service of two + knights' fees, and was in their possession till 1399; but in + the next year was found to belong to Sir Thomas Grey, of + Heton. It gave title of baron in 1622, to Sir William Grey, + who died in 1674. The village of Werke, and its ruined castle, + are all that remain of the possessions of the barony; the + former consisting of a miserable cluster of thatched cottages; + the latter of mere fragments of ashlar work, near its + foundations and lines of its moat. The village stands on the + margin of the Tweed: and the castle is celebrated in the + border annals. Heton, of which we have just spoken, in Edward + the First's reign, belonged to William de Heton; and in the + next reign, to Sir Thomas Grey, captain of Norham Castle. Sir + John Grey, of Heton, in 1420, was graced with the order of St. + George, or the Garter; and from him the estate descended to + the Tankervilles. + +The father of Earl Grey was Sir Charles Grey, who entered the army at an +early age, had a command in the American war, and commanded in chief the +military forces in the expeditions against the French West India Islands, +the successful result of which was the annexing of Martinique, St. Lucie, +Guadaloupe, &c. to our empire. He married, in 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of +George Grey, Esq. of Southwick, in Durham, (of a different family,) by +whom he had five sons and two daughters. He was created Lord Grey of +Howick, in 1801; and Viscount Howick, and Earl Grey, in 1806. He died in +the following year, and was succeeded by his son, Charles, second and +present earl. + +Mr. Grey was born March 13, 1764, and educated at Eton, in the same class +with the late Mr. Lambton, (father of the present Lord Durham,) Mr. +Whitbread, and others, with whom he afterwards acted in political life. He +was then sent to King's College, Cambridge, where he displayed first-rate +abilities. On his leaving the University, he set out on the tour of Europe, +though only eighteen years of age. In Italy, he was introduced to the late +Duke of Cumberland, in whose household he obtained an appointment. He +returned to England in 1786, and soon after his arrival, was, by the +interest of his family, returned to parliament for the county of +Northumberland, when he joined the Whigs, it has been stated, to the +surprise of his family, whose principles were those of Toryism. + +At a subsequent general election, as an expensive contest was expected for +Northumberland, Mr. Grey declined nomination, and was returned to +parliament for Appleby, which borough he represented till his succession +to the peerage. In the House of Commons his great talents soon shone forth; +and, in conjunction with Fox, Sheridan, Lambton, Ponsonby, and others, he +maintained an intrepid opposition to the doctrines of that darling of fame, +Mr. Pitt. Immediately after his entrance into Parliament, his discussion +of the minister's important treaty of commerce, may be said to have +established his reputation, by the force of his eloquence, as well as by +the enlarged views which he seemed to have acquired of commercial +relations; which knowledge is more frequently the result of gradual +experience than of early attainment. + +In these stormy times Mr. Grey ranked among the head and front of +contending politics. He was appointed one of the managers of that +magnificent political drama--the impeachment of Warren Hastings, when he +displayed great acumen in that part of the accusation termed the Benares +Charge. + +In 1791, we find Mr. Grey taking the lead in a measure, which, in the +language of a great orator (Burke) "shed a lustre on the character and +humanity of the nation." The subject to which we allude, was the +melancholy situation of those who were unable to satisfy the demands of +importunate creditors, and consequently subjected to the operation of a +rigorous code of laws. His observation in moving for a parliamentary +committee to inquire into the present practice and effect of imprisonment +for debt is worthy of quotation: "it was desirable to distinguish the +unfortunate debtor from the knavish one, to place the creditor in that +situation which afforded the fairest and the speediest means of +compensation, and to regulate the jails of this country in such a manner +as to prevent unnecessary hardship and restraint. Whether they considered +the practice of confining for debt men who had no means of discharging +such debt, or, on the contrary, fraudulent debtors, whose creditors by no +process could compel them to pay; these circumstances were alone +sufficient to constitute an inquiry into the state of the laws relating to +debtor and creditor." This motion being acceded to, a committee consisting +of Mr. Grey, Mr. Pitt, Sir John Sinclair, Mr. Vansittart, Mr. Martin, the +Attorney and Solicitor Generals, and other legal gentlemen, was +immediately appointed. The origin of this inquiry is an indicative of the +liberal policy of the statesman as it is of the humanity of the mover. + +In 1792, Mr. Grey instituted an inquiry into the conduct of ministers with +regard to the recently threatened hostilities with Russia. His +animadversion upon the vacillating and ruinous measures of government were +characterized by that fearless intrepidity, truth, energy, and eloquence, +which have distinguished his political career. The motion for the inquiry +was lost, though the powerful remarks of the mover drew from Mr. Pitt the +following memorable confession: "All unlimited confidence is +unconstitutional; and I hope the inglorious moment will never arrive, when +this house will abandon the privilege of examining, condemning, and +correcting the abuses in the executive government. It is the dearest +privilege you possess, and should never be relinguished." + +During the schisms occasioned in this country by the French revolution, Mr. +Grey enrolled himself in a political society, called the Friends of the +People. He also became a member of the Whig Club, then in the zenith of +its celebrity. His active advocacy of the cause of a reform in parliament +was equal within and without the house of commons. To quote one of his +Lordship's most recent speeches, "In 1786 he had voted for reform. He had +supported Mr. Pitt in his motion for shortening the duration of +parliaments. He had given his best assistance to the measure of reform +introduced by Mr. Flood, before the French revolution; and, on one or two +different occasions, he had originated motions on the subject."[3] One of +these was in 1793, when he presented a petition for reform and a shorter +duration of parliament, from the Society of the Friends of the People: his +motion for a committee was lost by 280 to 41. Another occasion to which +his Lordship alludes, was in 1797, when he proposed, in his plan of +parliamentary reform, to give to the county of York four new members; to +divide each county into two districts, each returning a member. +Copyholders and leaseholders were to have equal rights of voting with +freeholders, as were all householders paying taxes in cities and boroughs; +and parliaments were to be triennial. This motion was, however, negatived +by 149 votes. + + [3] Speech on the second reading of the Reform Bill, in the House + of Lords, Oct. 4, 1831. + +In 1795, Mr. Grey opposed with great firmness, Mr. Pitt's motion for the +adjustment of the Prince of Wales's debts, and moved for the reduction of +the Prince's income. He professed himself ready to support the real +splendour of the royal family "as any slippery sycophant of a court;" but +said he thought there was more true dignity in manifesting a heart alive +to the distresses of millions, than in all those trappings which encumber +royalty without adorning it. He asked whether the legislature should give +an example of encouraging extravagance at a moment when the prevailing +fashion of prodigality among people of fortune was rapidly destroying +their independence, and making them the tools of the court, and the +contempt of the people. He knew the refusal to pay his debts would be a +severe privation to the Prince of Wales; but it would be a just penalty +for the past, a useful lesson for the future, and a proper deference to +the severe pressure and privations endured by the people. Mr. Grey's +amendment was supported by what was then a strong majority--99 to 260; and +the original motion carried: his conduct on this occasion seems never to +have been forgotten by the Prince of Wales, the Regent or the King. It +should here be mentioned, that, with equal justice, Mr. Grey subsequently +defended the rights of His Royal Highness from the shackles proposed to be +laid on him as Regent. + +Mr. Grey's opposition to Mr. Pitt's measures continued unabated for many +years, while he remained equally steady in his attachment to Mr. Fox. His +bitter hostility to the union between Ireland and England may be said to +have produced one of his most celebrated speeches. Neither was he dazzled, +nor misled by the splendid talents of Burke, at this time in highest +repute. When Mr. Fox was deserted by Lords Fitzwilliam, Carlisle, and +other alarmists, Mr. Grey unchangingly adhered to him; and when Mr. Fox +and Lord Grenville formed a Whig ministry, in 1806, Mr. Grey, then, by his +father's elevation to the peerage, become Lord Howick, was appointed First +Lord of the Admiralty, and one of the Cabinet Council. He next succeeded +Mr. Fox as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and leader in the House of +Commons. This ministry was ill-formed, and wanted unity of purpose: their +abolition of the Slave Trade was a redeeming measure, in which Lord Howick +bore a conspicuous part; but his lordship's motion for the emancipation of +the Catholics brought about his dismissal from the ministry. + +Lord Howick, soon after, by the death of his father, succeeded to the +title of Earl Grey; and by the death of his uncle, Sir Henry Grey, to the +family estate. Ill health, for a time, kept his lordship from public life: +he retired with no place but that of a Governor of the Charter House, and +without pension or sinecure. Upon the resignation of the Duke of Portland, +in 1809, his successor, Mr. Perceval, proposed a coalition with Lords +Grenville and Grey, which was at once rejected by the latter. In the +following year, his lordship "felt it his duty to arraign and to expose +the gross mismanagement of the government, and their repeated and +dangerous misconduct," in Parliament. In the same session, he charged the +lord chancellor (Eldon) with a crime little short of treason, in having +set the great seal, in 1801 and 1804, to commissions for giving the royal +assent to several bills, whilst the King was in a state of mental +infirmity, under medical care, and subject to personal control. The motion +was negatived by a majority of 189 to 64; "but Lord Eldon has not +forgotten the accusation, or forgiven the mover."[4] In 1812, another +attempt was made to bring Lord Grey, with Lord Grenville, into the cabinet; +but this was rejected as promptly as before. + + [4] Life and Reign of George IV. by William Wallace, Esq. 3 vols. + 1831. + +Lord Grey again retired to private life. In 1817, his lordship reappeared, +and moved an amendment to the parliamentary address to the throne, urging +rigid economy, retrenchment, and an inquiry into the state of the nation. +In the same year he brought before the House of Lords, the notable +circular of Lord Sidmouth for the prosecution of libels by magistrates. +"It is a singular fact," observes an acute historical writer,[5] "that +Lord Grey, on this occasion, made an able and erudite law argument; which +all the law lords, including Lord Ellenborough, made vain efforts to +refute; and which Lord Ellenborough had the manliness to eulogize;" +notwithstanding which Lord Grey's motion for a copy of the opinion of the +law officers of the crown was negatived. + + [5] Life and Reign of George IV. By W. Wallace, Esq. 3 vols. 1831. + +During the trial of Queen Caroline, the wisdom-tempered zeal of Lord Grey +ranked him amongst the most efficient, as he was the most eloquent, of her +defenders: his lordship, in conjunction with Lord King, also made +successive attempts, by motions, to quash the investigation. + +To the administration of the Earl of Liverpool, it need scarcely be added, +Earl Grey was thoroughly hostile: his aversion to the policy of Mr. +Canning was equally decided; and the same independent spirit urged him to +oppose the measures of the Wellington cabinet, except the memorable +measure of Catholic Emancipation, by the proposal of which he had lost +office in the year 1810. His lordship's eloquent efforts in this cause +must be alive in the recollection of the reader. + +We are now fast approaching the consummation of one of the grand objects +of his lordship's political life. By the dissolution of the Wellington +cabinet, in 1830, Lord Grey became at the head of the present +administration. His first act was the introduction of the grand measure +for parliamentary reform, which, for sixteen months past, has interested +the whole population of this mighty empire. His lordship's emphatic +expressions, on this occasion, are "familiar as household words." "He made +it a condition on accepting office, that Parliamentary Reform should be +introduced as a government measure. That condition having been assented to +by his most gracious sovereign, by this measure he was prepared to stand +or fall." Gratifying as would be the task, we need not detail the +incidents of the last few months of his lordship's career. Our eulogium +would be poor indeed, while nine-tenths of the journals of our country are +perpetuating his good deeds; while his political integrity has become +exemplary to every cabinet in Europe; and millions are about to burst +forth in "the loud festivity of mirth" to celebrate the virtue of their +popular minister. + +Earl Grey married in 1794, Mary Elizabeth Brabazon, daughter of Lord +Ponsonby, by whom his lordship has had a numerous family: the eldest son +and heir apparent being Viscount Howick, born in 1802. In our outline of +Lord Grey's public life, the reader may have observed his Lordship's +fondness for the retirement of the domestic circle. This accords with his +recent declaration in parliament: "he was fond of retirement, and in +domestic life he lived happy in the bosom of his family. Nothing could +have tempted him to embark on these stormy seas-- + + Bankrupt of life, but prodigal of ease-- + +nothing but an overpowering sense of the duty which he owed to his +country." Even apart from political distinction, Earl Grey must be +considered happy indeed; but honoured in public and cherished in private +life, his pre-eminence is proud indeed. Shakspeare tells of the "divinity" +that "doth hedge a king:" yet who would enjoy more than the consciousness +of having been true to his sovereign, his country, and his honour. + + * * * * * + + + +INDEX. + +ANECDOTE GALLERY, 277--291--309--375--404. +CORRESPONDENCE in each Number. +COSMOPOLITE, 170--179--211--237--276. +EMBELLISHED ARTICLES in each Number. +FINE ARTS, 90--139--150--164--198--218--393. +GATHERER in each Number. +MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS, 22--253--259--297--329--361--405. +NATURALIST, 27--38--56--150--183--245--265--297--311--383--425. +NOTES OF A READER, 23--55--73--92--100--140--152--168--180--200--220 + --235--251--270--279----326--372--413--429. +NOVELIST, 44--59. +OLD POETS, 8. +RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS, 7--38--76--86--174--227--334--419. +SELECT BIOGRAPHY, 105. +SELECTOR, 9--40--69--84--107--121--137--157--172--185--216--228--254 + --261--293--307--324--331--331--358--382--397--407--427. +SKETCH BOOK, 3--20--36--116--136--148--268--313. +SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY, 6--46--54--126--190--283--363--411. +SPIRIT OF PUBLIC JOURNALS, 12--28--42--62--77--91--102--118--133--155 + --165--189--203--213--234--248--264--284--299--316--365--378--394 + --413--420. +TOPOGRAPHER, 124--377. +USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS, 15--83. + + * * * * * + + + +Abernethy, Mr., Anecdotes of, 40. +Abbot of Tewkesbury, the, 268 +Abstract Studies, 292. +Academy Delia Crusca, Origin of, 406. +Adrian IV., Anecdotes of, 304. +Advent Customs, 22. +Advertisement Extraordinary, 240. +Affection of Animals, 266. +African Expedition, 7 + Horse Race, 216. +Agricultural Societies, Ancient, 229. +Alhambra, Palace of, described, 337. +Alligator on the Ganges, 347. +Altrive Tales, by the Ettrick Shepherd, 254. +America, + Domestic Life in, 180--235--323 + North, Birds of, 356 + Prosperity of, 239. +American English, 236 + Prejudice, 399 + Women, conversation with, 182. +Anagrams, 16. +Anatomists, Skilful, 183. +Anecdotage, 375. +Angel of Departure, Song of, 168 + Welcome, 168. +Angling, Hints on, 183. +Anglo-Saxon Dress, 407. +Animals, Superstition relative to, 170--178--211--237. +Anne Boleyn, 96. +Apologue, Oriental, 336. +Arabian Beauty, 157. +Arbalest, or Cross-bow explained, 161--210 + of Robin Hood, 322. +Arcadian Child Sleeping, 157. +Archbishop, Dancing, 191. +Arctic Birds, rare, 354. +Ark of Noah and Mount Ararat, 382. +Arrows, Poisoned, 192. +Artillery Company, Origin of, 406. +Asmodeus in London, 29. +Ass, Persecution of the, 171. +Astronomical Toasts, 256. +Athenian Lover to his Mistress, 157. +Audubon, the Naturalist, 298. +Aviary in the Zoological Gardens, 273. + +Babylon, Willows of, 411. +Backwoodsman of America, 201. +Ballad Singing, English, 370. +Bamborough Castle described, 327. +Bankrupt Court, the New, 159. +Bankside, Old, 193. +Barbarous Punishments, 253. +Bardic Chorus, 100. +Barn Owl, economy of, 27--38. +Barton Booth, the actor, 192. +Bathing, Nocturnal, 347. +Bear, + errors respecting, 179 + Polar, habits of, 114. +Bed of Leaves, 207. +Bedford Level, 192 + Missal, 192. +Bell-rock Lighthouse, 182. +Beranger, Song from, 370. +Beulah Spa, near Norwood, 225. +Bills of Mortality, Origin of, 76. +Biography, Splendid, 303. +Birds, Structure of, 311. +Birmingham Railway, 190. +Birth Song, 168. +Black Monday, 208. +Blondel de Nesle, a ballad, 28. +Blunder, Conversational, 292. +Bonington, the artist, 168. +Books, New, noticed and quoted: + Adventures of a Younger Son, 157--172. + Advice to Executors, 270. + Annual Biography and Obituary, for 1832, 40. + Arlington, 407. + Bath Guide, New, 94. + Book of Instruction, 93. + Britain's Historical Drama, 100. + British Relations with the Chinese Empire, 220. + Britton's Tunbridge Wells, 376. + Cabinet Annual Register for 1831, 334. + Chantilly, a Novel, 154. + Characteristic Sketches of Animals, by Landseer, 386. + Contarini Fleming, 429. + Contrast, by Earl Mulgrave, 293. + Domestic Manners of the Americans, 180--201. + Elements of Chemistry familiarly explained, 152. + Eugene Aram, 23--57--95--101--142. + Fair of May Fair, 331. + Francis I., a tragedy, by Miss F. Kemble, 170--185. + Frankland's Visit to Russia and Sweden, 84. + Georgian Era, 122--137--278. + Gleanings in Natural History, 245--265. + Hampden and his times, 140. + Herbert's Country Parson, 93. + History of the Reformation in + England, 9 + Italian Republics, 121 + Spain and Portugal, 398. + Hunchback, by J.S. Knowles, 279. + Indian Tale and other Poems, 373. + Knowledge for the People, 25--200--344. + Landers' Travels in Africa, 126--216--231. + Life of Gregory VII., by Sir Roger Greisley, 372. + Life and Reign of George IV., 280. + Lives of Eminent British Military Commanders, 358 + British Painters, 168. + Maid of Elvar, by Allan Cunningham, 351. + Memoirs of Sir Ralph Esher, 105. + Messiah, by Montgomery, 397. + Outline of English History, 95. + Paris and its Historical Scenes, 69. + Pen and Pencil Sketches of India, by Capt. Mundy, 345. + Songs of the Gipsies, 232. + Summer Fête, by Moore, 12. + Tales of the Alhambra, by Washington Irving, 307--337 to 342--361 + Early Ages, 261. + Time's Telescope for 1832, 71. + Tour of a German Prince, 143. + Transactions of the Society of Arts, 283. + Truth of Revelation demonstrated, 382--409--427. + Watts's New Year's Gift, 85. + Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America, 354. +"Boot, to," the phrase, 31. +Botany, Curiosities of, 25. +Bouts Rimés, Origin of, 191. +Box Wood, uses of, 15. +Brahmin Bull, the, 385. +Brazil, a day in, 150. +Brereton, the late Colonel, 105. +Brighton in 1743, 88--124. +British Artists Society, + Exhibition of, 198 + Institution, Visit to, 164 + Museum, the, 152 + Warriors, 358. +Bull and Bear-baiting Theatres, 193. +Bullock, Mr., in America, 236. +Burial, + Science of, 165 + Place in Tongatabu, 184. +Burke, Writings of, 357. +Burns, Birthday of, 73. +Bushy, owners of, 432. + +Calves-head Roll, 416. +Camoens, fate of, 288. +Cambridge Freshman, 43. +Campagna Felice, 383. +Cape Town, Population of, 348. +Capillary Attraction, 303. +Caps, Laws respecting, 303. +Cardinal Spider, the, 266. +Caroline, Queen, death of, 278. +Catching Tigers, 160. +Catholic Religion, dramatic character of the, 189. +Cats, Superstitions relative to, 170. +Caviare to the Multitude, 271. +Cedar Wood, scent of, 342. +Chalk, none in America, 182. +Chancery Suit, to decide, 252. +Chapel at Hampton Wick, 376. +Char, habits of, 425. +Charles + II. at Epsom, 108 + V., Palace of, in the Alhambra, 337. +Cheating in the Law, 252. +Chelsea + Heroines, 416 + Pensioners, Longevity of, 416. +Chemistry, Familiar Elements of, 152. +Child in Prayer, Lines to a, 423. +Children, + Lines on, 8 + Impromptu on, 189. +Chimney-piece, curious, at Exeter, 417. +China, + Picture of, 221 + Varieties of, 324. +Chinese Proverbs, &c., 16. +Chit Chat of the Day, 394. +Cholera, + Vapour Bath in, 6--54 + Notes on, 80--128. +Christ, Portrait of, 87--140. +Cincinnati, + Health in, 236 + Letter from, 323. +Cincinnatus, Modern, 400. +Civil, + Death explained, 270 + War, Lines on, 351. +Claret, Properties of, 192. +Clavering's Autobiography, 420. +Cleopatra's Needles, 291. +Coasting Scrap, 116. +Cock of the Arctic Plains, 355. +Cockney Horsemen, Hints to, 77. +Coffee, + as made in the East, 173 + Shops in London, 222. +Coffin-maker, the, by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, 203. +Coin of Edward III., 275. +Colchester, Lord, 422. +Colosseum, Swiss Cottage at the, 258. +Colton, the late Mr., 403. +Comets, concussion of, with the Earth, 71. +Confessions of Serventius, 44--59. +Congreve, + at Dove Dale, 432 + Rockets, 239. +Cornwall, Scene on the coast of, 313. +Cornwallis, Lord, Mausoleum of, in India, 423. +Count, a noble, 48. +Courage, Cool, 292. +Coventry Charity, 334. +Counterfeit Kings, 176. +Cowley, the poet, 105. +Cows in America, 236. +Crime, Progress of, 379. +Crocodiles on the Mississippi, 235. +Cromwell, + Lely's Portrait of, 109 + his Fun, 112. +Cross-bow, History of the, 162. +Crowland Abbey, 228. +Crucifixion, + the, 398 + Hilton's Picture of, 90. +Cumberland Titles, 239. +Curfew Bell, custom of, 253--273--307. + +Dancers, Aged, 416. +David and Goliath, 411. +De Lolme, Politics of, 421. +Deer, errors respecting, 179. +Delft or Dutch Ware, 283. +Deluge, the, 382--410. +Demosthenes, Studies of, 291. +Devil's Sonata, the, 42. +Diamonds in Brazil, 234. +Dibdin, Rev. Dr., 423. +Dirge of Death, 168. +Dispute, an odd one, 373. +Dogs, Superstitions relative to, 171. +Doll's Eyes, Trade in, 336. +Drama, decline of, 55. +Druid's Chair, sitting in, 261. +Druids and Mistletoe, 336. +Drunkenness in old London, 176. +Ducks, instinct of, 426. +Duc de Bordeaux, the young, 271. +Dunheved Castle, described, 401. +Dutch Rushes, 426. +Dwarfs, Russian, 84. +Dying Maiden's Pardon to her faithless lover, 291. + +Early Rising, 96. +East India Company, origin of, 221. +Echo Puns, 240. +Eclipse at Boossa, 281. +Economic Hints, 15. +Eels, economy of, 246. +Effrontery, 292. +Eggs, duty on, 336. +Egypt, + court of, a sketch, 413 + researches in, 96. +Elegy, from the German, 291. +Elliston and the Ass' Head, 91. +Emu, + economy of, 267 + house, 273. +Encroachers on Commons, 20. +Entomology, curious fact in, 298. +Epitaphs, in Wiltshire, 48. +Epsom Races, origin of, 329--361. +Ettrick Shepherd, dinner to, 73. +Eugene Aram, scene from, 23--56--95--102. +Evening, + lines to, 147 + lines on, 352. +Every man in his humour, 36. +Expedition, African, 7. + +Facetiae of Hierocles, 24. +Fairies, lines on, 8. +Fame, lines on, 352. +Farmer, Dr. of Cambridge, 421. +Fashion, ennui of, 326. +Feathers, economy of collecting, 83. +Felony, classic, 384. +Fiddling, poetry, 400. +Fights of wild beasts, 346. +Fines and Recoveries, 252. +Fire of London, 109. +Fire Temples in Persia, 297. +First born, a song, 156. +Fish, superstitions respecting, 212. +Fishing in Canada, 210. +Fishmongers' + Arms, 17 + Hall, ancient, 17. +Fitzherbert, Mrs., 143. +Floating Scheme, 76. +Fortune-telling in high life, 144. +Forty-ninth Birthday, 133. +Fowler, Sir Thomas, his Lodge at Islington, 392. +Fox's Book of Martyrs characterized, 10. +Fox-hunting, expenses of, 223. +Fragments on Human Life, 115. +Franking Letters, 160. +Frederick I. of Prussia, 47. +French + Cruelty, 292 + Drama, scene from, 118 + Literature, recent, 349 + Revolution, scenes from, 62--69. +Friendship, lines on, 224. +Fright, effects of, 7. +Fuel, economical, 15. + +Galley Slaves, a tale, 299. +Gardens and promenades, 399. +Garratt Election, 415. +Garrick Club, 144. +George + I. and II. anecdotes of, 277--278 + II., humanity of, 400 + IV., character of, 123--280. +Gipsey Fortune-teller, lines to, 164. +Glass, enamel paintings on, 219. +Gleanings in Natural History, 245--265. +Glee, a legal one, 251. +Gluttony, royal and noble, 35. +Goats, fabulous account of, 170. +God, supremacy of, 9. +Goldsmith, Oliver, 147. +Good Samaritan, parable of, 410. +Gorhambury, fete at, 304. +Governess, qualifications for, 176. +Greek Sailors, 76. +Greenwich Hospital, 400. +Groaning Tree of Baddesley, 419. +Grouse, rocky mountain, 356. +Gurnard and Sprat, habits of, 311. +Gutting the Fish, 64. + +Hail at Lausanne, 342. +Half-hanged Anne Green, 47. +Hainet and Raschid, a tale, 82. +Hamlet, ditty in, 32. +"Happy Jerry," anecdotes of, 273. +Harlow's Triul of Queen Katherine, 219. +Haydon's Pictures, 150--218. +Heating with Hot Water, 411. +Heating Rooms, 152. +Heckington, Holy Sepulchre at, 19. +Hemans, Mrs., sketch of, 358. +Henri III. of France, 154. +Henry I., speech of, 38. +Henry VII., character of England by, 304. +Hindoo Burial Service, 406. +Hip! Hip! Hurra! origin of, 208. +Hogg, James, dinner to, 73. +Hogs in America, 182. +Hoadley and Oldfield's Paintings on Glass, 219. +Hobbes at Chatsworth, 404. +Hobby-horse, the, 228. +Holly Leaves, medicinal use of, 412. +Holy Land, 228. +Hope, lines on, 34. +Horace Walpole, 421. +Horse Racing, origin of in England, 329--361. +Human Life, fragments on, 115. +Humbug, origin of, 159. +Humming-bird, a song, 323. +Hurley in Berkshire, account of, 419. +Hyaena, fables of, 171. +Hyde Park in America, 399. + +Iceland, desolation of, 96. +Inclosure Acts, 252. +Infancy, lines on, 318. +Ink Spots, to remove, 84. +Insects, superstitions respecting, 180--211. +Instinct allied to reason, 246. +Iron Trade, British, 46. +Irish character, traits of, 291. +Isabel of Spain, character of, 415. +Isaiah, lines on, 398. +Italian + Climate, 383 + Inn, 383 + Landscape, 383. +Italian Warfare, character of, 121. +Italy, Horticultural Tour in, 382. + +Jackal, errors respecting, 179. +Jardin de Plantes, described, 85. +Jay, remarkable, 298. +Jests of the Ancients, 24. +Justice, laconic, 76. + +Kemble, Miss, Tragedy by, 170--185. +Kensington Palace, expenses of, 302. +King John at the Cape, 347. +King of Kippen, the, 303. +Knaresborough Castle, 142. +Knight's Return, the, 244. + +Labourers' Friend Society, 148. +Laconics, or Guesses at Truth, 52--67--82--242--196--99. +Lady, lines to, on her age, 370. +Lady Chapel, Southward, 97--131. +Lamp, primitive one, 288. +Lancashire, improvement of, 326. +Landers' Journey to the Niger, 126--216--229--281. +Lark, lines to, 211. +Last Dying Speech and Confession of the Immortal Gods, 264. +Law of Arrest, the, 155. +Law Institution in Chancery Lane, 33--53. +Laws, ancient, 227. +Leather, manufacture of in Canada, 368. +Legal Rhymes, 197. +Lemons, sweet, 383. +Leopards, hunting with, 347. +Letter from London, 15. +Liberty in Rome, 121. +Library, a queer one, 272. +Light on the ears of a horse, 425. +Lions, tame, 32. +Lizard and Crocodile, 180. +London, Philosophy of, 133. +London and the Provinces Compared, 316. +Love, Court and Country, 372. +Love of Country, 352. +Love, French-English, 32. +Love's Kerchief, 35. +Lowther Arcade, the, 210. +Loyalist, a staunch one, 256. +Lulworth, a day at, 102. +Lyall's Geology, extract from, 57. +Lynx, errors respecting, 179. +Lyons, city of, 32. + +Macauley, Mrs., 421. +Madagascar, isle of, 172. +Magdalenes in church, 320. +Magic, state of, in Egypt, 248. +Maid's First Love, 352. +Man, agency of in extinguishing and spreading the species, 57. +Manager, duties of, 287. +Manchester Botanic Garden at, 129. +Manna, fall of, 427. +Manorial Right, curious, 23. +March of Mind, 178. +Marlborough, Life of, 359. +Mariguano, battle of, 122. +Marketing in America, 237. +Marriage Tree, 256. +Martinet, the, 213. +Martin's Picture on Glass, 219. +Martyr Student, the, 120. +Mary of Cambria, a sonnet, 388. +Massena's Tomb in Pere la Chaise, 357. +Mauritius, the, 172. +May Day Games, 259. +Melrose Abbey, history of, 241. +Men compared with Bees, 285. +Milan, Panorama of, 392. +Minstrelsy of Scotland, 352. +Mirabeau, character of, 422. +Modern Building, 134. +Monkey-houses, in the Zoological Gardens, 114. +Monkey Island, 369. +Moorhen, the, 266. +Morning in London, 134. +Morning, lines to, 99. +Morrice Dances of Robin Hood, 260. +Mortality in the Reign of William IV., 208. +"Mother Carey's Chickens," origin of, 306. +Moving Houses in America, 237. +Munden, biography of, 105. +Mungo Park, death of, 229. +Music, + effect of, 223 + old English, 189. +Muswell Hill, origin of, 304. +My Fire, a sketch, 20. + +Napier, Hon. Mrs., a sketch, 3. +Napoleon + at St. Helena, 403 + 's residence at St. Helena, 348 + tomb, 374. +Naples, fruit at, 384. +Nasmyth, the artist, 139. +Naturalists', three enthusiastic, 183. +Navy, ancient British, 7--86. +New South Wales, society in, 318. +New Zealand, islands in, 7. +Newton, + his mode of study, 193 + 's Weather-wisdom, 288. +Newtown Pippin, the, 399. +Nicknames, 175. +Niger, + river, night on, 126 + sailing on the, 231. +Night, lines on, 8. +Nightmare, lines on, 98. +Nobles of Johanna, 207. +Non-proposals, or Doubts resolved, 284. +Northcote and William III., 41. +"Nothing Impossible," 274. + +Odd Story, 111. +Opera, the Italian, 397. +Optics, witty, 112. +Owl, + the barn, 27--38 + the white-horned of the Arctic regions, 354. + +Paganini, a singing, 112. +Painted Window of the Crucifixion, 90. +Palankeen Travelling in India, 345. +Palming in Italy, 383. +Pancras Old Church described, 289--388. +Pantomimes, expenses of, 80. +Parks, the royal, 267. +Parliament, curious, 335. +Pastimes, ancient, 405. +Patriarchal Times, 397. +Pelican House, 273. +Penderell Jewel, 276. +Penitential Habit, origin of, 398. +Pepper, Arden, anecdote of, 420. +Personal Injuries, pecuniary compensation for, 276. +Philosopher's Stone, the, 288. +Phrenology, Illustrations of, 240. +Pictures, new, gossip on, 395. +Piercy Islands, 145. +Pig Scavengers in America, 236. +Pike, habits of the, 266. +Pilgrim's Progress, beauties of, 77. +Pin Money explained, 271. +Plague, great, in the fifteenth century, 430. +Plank, unlucky one, 368. +Plough described, 304. +Poetry of Ancient Days, 276. +Polynesian Islands, 145. +Poisoned Valley in Java, 6. +Pontefract Castle, history of, 50. +Pontine Marshes, 383. +Porcupine and Hedgehog, 179. +Porter, Anna Maria, 422. +Pottery, manufacture of, 283--324--363. +Prairies, origin of, 46. +Premiers of England, 320. +Presbyterian Churches in Cincinnati, 202. +Property, nature of, 252. +Prussic Acid, poisonous to vegetables, 412. +Psalter, illuminated, 178. +Punishments in the reign of Charles II., 87. +Pyramids, the, 224. + +Quadrant, the Regent's, 133. +Quarantine in America, 192. +Queen Anne's Spring, near Eton, 248. +Queen Consorts, rights of, 270. + +Railway, Marine, 412. +Rainbow, phenomenon of, 427. +Raphael China, 283. +Raven and Dove at the Deluge, 410. +Reading at Meals, 176. +Recollections of a Wanderer, 313. +Recreations in the Law, 251. +Reformation in England, 9. +Revenue and Debt of European States, 3. +Rhapsody on Nature, 373. +Rhinoceros, the, 179. +Rhinoceros Bird, history of, 312. +Rich Man, the true, 175. +Robert the Devil, Castle and Cavern of, 66. +Robin in Bushy Park, 267. +Robin Hood and May Games, 261. +Rook-shooting, cruelty of, 266. +Rousseau at Dove Dale, 432. +Rural peace, lines on, 351. +Russel, origin of the house of, 334. + +Sailors, superstition of, 270. +St. Albans, + duchess of, 144 + Bride's, parish registers of, 335 + Helena, Captain Mundy's visit to, 348--403. + +Saline Spa near Norwood, 227. +Saviour, address to the, 398. +Scandal-loving letter, 407. +Scottish, + Economy, 132--244 + Literary Dinner, 73 + Sporting, 136--148. +Scriptural, + Antiquities, 382--409--427 + Heraldry, 404. +Sea Serpent, the, 212. +Seals, the, by J.S. Knowles, 302. +Sermons, plain, 416. +Serpents, superstitions respecting, 212. +Servants, duty of, 271. +Serventius, confessions of, 44. +Shakespeariana, 389. +Shark's Bay, adventure in, 173. +Sharp, the astronomer, 293. +Shaving, origin of, 192. +Shavings, waste of, 83--132. +Shelley, + eccentricities of, 420 + P.B. at Oxford, 12--264. +Sheridan, anecdotes of, 137. +Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, 252. +Ships, names of, 288. +Shrew-mouse, the, 179. +Shrimps, inquiries on, 20. +Signs, origin of, 160. +Silk from Spiders, 412. +Singapore, sketch of, 35. +Sismondi, politics of, 420. +Sisters, four learned, 335. +Sitting in the Druid's Chair, 261. +Skulls, grinning, 101. +Skylark, claws of the, 245. +Skylark, a song, 323. +Slaughter, family, 368. +Slippery Love, 256. +Smuggling, extraordinary, 48. +Snake, habits of the, 342. +Snowdrop, address to, 132. +Social distinctions in America, 237. +Songs of the Gipsies, 232. +Songs found in a Grecian Urn, 156. +Song in imitation of Cowley, 419. +Songs by a Delia Cruscan poet, 323. +Songs, by T. Moore, 12. +Song by J.S. Knowles, 423. +Song of Pitcairn's Island, 232. +Sonnet on Love, 357. +Sorrow, concealed, 399. +Soizthey, recollections of, 254. +Spanish characteristics, 361. +Spanish scenery, charms of, 307. +Spanish superstition, 413. +Squares in London, 133. +Staines New Bridge, described, 321. +Starvation, ancient, 384. +Stones, speaking and moving, 101. +Sugar Cane of Otaheite, 27. +Sugar consumed in England, 222. +Sun-fish, the short, 425. +Surrey Zoological Gardens, 2. +Sutton Wash Embankment, 46. +Swelled Ancles, 160. +Swift at Moore Park, 422. +Swimming, Hints on, 3. +Swine, errors respecting, 171. +Swiss Cottage at the Colosseum, 258. + +Tailors, renowned, 77. +Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 213. +Talleyrand, anecdote of, 256. +Tea, facts relative to, 220--222. +Tea, price of, 245. +Theatres, ancient English, 193. +Theatrical Property in France, 320. +Thief, how to detect, 272. +Three Death's Heads, 431. +Thrush, habits of the, 265. +Tigers, sortie of, 345. +Time's Telescope for 1832, 71. +Tinto, the river, 299. +Toads, + in Jersey, 267 + poison of, 426 + superstition respecting, 180. +Toast of a Scotch Peer, 287. +Tobacco, + in Cholera, 412 + and snuff, virtues of, 96. +Tom and Jerry, ancient, 16. +Tomato Sauce, to make, 15. +Town and village defined, 175. +Trade, ancient, 128. +Travelling Notes in South Wales, 20--147. +Trout tickling in Ireland, 234. +Tucopia, isle of, 145. +Tunbridge Wells, sketches of, 376. +Tunnel in Regent's Park, 114. +Turenne, Marshal, 272. +Turkey, skeleton of, 312. +Twa Burdies, the, 91. + +Under, house of, 69. +Unlucky present, a tale, 309. + +Valentines, ancient, 178. +Valletort, Viscount, lines to, 378. +Vampire Bat, 40. +Vapour Bath in Cholera, 6--55. +Vegetable Wonders, 200. +Vegetation, curious facts in, 344. +Venice described, 429. +Venice, sonnet to, 69. +Ventilation of Rooms, 152. +Victor Hugo, + drama by, 118 + lines by, 318. +Village, + Cemetery, the, 216 + Hampden, 175. +Virginia Water, cascade at, 81--210. +Visit to the Morgue, at Paris, 349. +Voices of the Night, 259. + +Waller, the poet, tomb of, 233. +War Song against the Chinese, 14. +Warton, Thomas, the poet, 421. +Washington Irving, Medwin, and Grattan, 421. +Water from the Rock in Horeb, 428. +Watering-places in the fifteenth century, 431. +Waverley Novels, character of, 284--365. +Waverley Novels, + heroines of, 365 + Plots of, 366 + Scenic description, 366 + Scott and Shakspeare, 367 + Style, 367. +Weather Rhymes, by the Monks, 228. +Wedgewood's Ware, manufacture of, 363. +Weighing in the Balance, 429. +West, sign painted by, 432. +Western Church, corruption of, 372. +Westminster Hall, Old, 251. +Whale Chase in the Hebrides, 297. +Widow, paraphernalia of, 271. +Wife, an American one, 272. +Wilderness described, 397. +William IV. and Queen Adelaide, 143. +William Tell, legend of, 430. +Wills of bachelors, 271 + curious facts respecting, 270 + compulsory, 271 + of criminals, 271. +Wilton Castle, history of, 305. +Windsor Castle from the N.E., 177. +Wine, + bramble, to make, 15 + grape, to make, 15. +Wit, lines on, 9. +Witchcrafts in 1647, 174. +Wolf, + anecdotes of, 171 + Dog in Cumberland, 426. +Woodpecker, arctic, 356. +Wordsworth, recollections of, 255. +Wreck, lines on the, 322. + +Xenophon, picture by Haydon, 218. + +Zebu, or Indian Ox, the, 385. +Zoological Gardens, + Regent's Park, 114--273--385 + picture of, 386. +Zoological Gardens, + Surrey, 1--273 + Society, report of, 275. + + * * * * * + + + +LIST OF SIXTY-THREE ENGRAVINGS + +IN THE PRESENT VOLUME. + + * * * * * + +_STEEL-PLATE PORTRAIT OF THE RT. HON. EARL GREY._ + +Three Views in the Surrey Zoological + Gardens. +Fishmongers' Hall. +-----------------Arms. +Law Institution, Chancery Lane. +Pontefract Castle. +Castle of Robert the Devil. +Cavern of Robert the Devil. +Cascade at Virginia Water. +Brighton in 1743. +Lady Chapel, St. Saviour, Southwark. +Three Views in the Zoological Gardens. +Entrance to the Botanic Garden, Manchester. +Tucopia, in the Southern Pacific Ocean. +Piercy Islands. +Seven Cuts of the Arbalest, or Cross-Bow. +Windsor Castle (N.E. View.) +Burial-place in Tongatabu. +Ancient Bankside. +Two Cuts of Bull and Bear-baiting + Theatres. +Lowther Arcade, West Strand +Beulah Saline Spa, Norwood. +Tomb of the poet, Waller. +Melrose Abbey. + +Queen Anne's Spring, near Eton. +Swiss Cottage at the Colosseum. +Bay-Window at ditto. +Three Cuts of the Zoological Gardens. +"Happy Jerry." +St. Pancras (Old) Church. +Fire Temples in Persia. +Wilton Castle, on the Wye. +Skeleton of the Turkey. +Rhinoceros Bird. +Staines New Bridge. +Bamborough Castle. +The Alhambra, in Spain. +Palace of Charles V. +White-horned Arctic Owl. +Cock of the Plains. +Legs and Feet of Mountain Grouse. +Claw of Woodpecker. +Monkey Island. +Hampton-wick Chapel. +Brahmin Bull. +-----------------Shed. +Sir Thomas Fowler's Lodge, Islington. +Dunheved Castle. +Ancient Chimney Piece at Exeter. +Lord Cornwallis's Monument. + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, +and Instruction, by Various + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 12554 *** diff --git a/12554-h/12554-h.htm b/12554-h/12554-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b8cdaa --- /dev/null +++ b/12554-h/12554-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1553 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> + +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> + + <title>The Mirror of Literature, Issue 555.</title> + + <style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%;} + p {text-align: justify;} + blockquote {text-align: justify;} + h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {text-align: center;} + pre {font-size: 0.7em;} + + hr {text-align: center; width: 50%;} + html>body hr {margin-right: 25%; margin-left: 25%; width: 50%;} + hr.full {width: 100%;} + html>body hr.full {margin-right: 0%; margin-left: 0%; width: 100%;} + hr.short {text-align: center; width: 20%;} + html>body hr.short {margin-right: 40%; margin-left: 40%; width: 20%;} + + .note, .footnote + {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; font-size: 0.9em;} + + span.pagenum + {position: absolute; left: 1%; right: 91%; font-size: 8pt;} + + .poem + {margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: left;} + .poem .stanza {margin: 1em 0em 1em 0em;} + .poem p {margin: 0; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} + .poem p.i2 {margin-left: 1em;} + .poem p.i4 {margin-left: 2em;} + .poem p.i6 {margin-left: 3em;} + .poem p.i8 {margin-left: 4em;} + .poem p.i10 {margin-left: 5em;} + .poem p.i14 {margin-left: 9em;} + + .figure + {padding: 1em; margin: 0; text-align: center; font-size: 0.8em; margin: auto;} + .figure img + {border: none;} + .figure p + + .side { float:right; + font-size: 75%; + width: 25%; + padding-left:10px; + border-left: dashed thin; + margin-left: 10px; + text-align: left; + text-indent: 0; + font-weight: bold; + font-style: italic;} + --> + </style> +</head> +<body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 12554 ***</div> + + <hr class="full" /> + +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pageii" + name="pageii"> + </a>[pg ii] +</span> + + <h1>THE MIRROR<br /> + OF<br /> + LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1> + <hr class="full" /> + <table width="100%" summary="Volume, Number, and Date"> + <tr> + <td align="left"><b>Vol. XIX. No. 555.]</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SUPPLEMENT TO VOL. XIX.</b></td> + <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + + <center>CONTAINING</center> + <h2>ORIGINAL ESSAYS;</h2> + <center>HISTORICAL NARRATIVES; BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS; SKETCHES OF</center> + <center>SOCIETY; TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NOVELS </center> + <center>AND TALES; ANECDOTES;</center> + <center>SELECT EXTRACTS</center> + <h4>FROM</h4> + <center>NEW AND EXPENSIVE WORKS;</center> + <center>POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED;</center> + <h2>THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS;</h2> + <h4>DISCOVERIES IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES;</h4> + <h3>USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS;</h3> + <h4>&c. &c. &c.</h4> + <h2>———<br /> + VOL. XIX.<br /> + ———</h2> + <h2>LONDON:</h2> + <center>PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. LIMBIRD, 143, STRAND<br /> + (Near Somerset House)</center> + <h2>1832.</h2> + +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pageblank" + name="pageblank"> + </a>[pg blank] +</span> + + <hr class="full" /> + + +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pagei" + name="pagei"> + </a>[pg i] +</span> + + <div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href="images/555-001.png"> +<img width = "100%" src="images/555-001.png" alt="EARL GREY, K.G.," /> +</a></div> +<h4>EARL GREY, K.G.,</h4> + +<hr class="full" /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pageiii" + name="pageiii"> + </a>[pg iii] + </span> +<h2>PREFACE.</h2> + +<p> +Here we are with our Nineteenth Volume complete. We do not carry it to +Court to gain patronage, neither do we preface it with a costly dedication +to a purse-proud patron; but we present it at the levee of the people, as +a production in which the information and amusement of one and all are +equally kept in view. We know that instances have occurred of authors +tiring out their patrons. A pleasant story is told of Spencer, who sent +the manuscript of his Faery Queen to the Earl of Southampton, the Mecaenas +of those days; when the earl reading a few pages, ordered the poet to be +paid twenty pounds; reading further, another twenty pounds; and proceeding +still, twenty pounds more; till losing all patience, his lordship cried, +"Go turn that fellow out of the house, for if I read on I shall be ruined." +We have no fear this will be our fate; especially as we strive to effect +all that can be accomplished in our economical form to follow as well as +direct the public taste. +</p> +<p> +Experience has taught us in the conduct of nineteen volumes of +this Miscellany, that the most effectual method of conveying instruction, +or aiding the progress of knowledge, is by combining it with amusement; +or, in other words by at once aiming at the head and heart. +The world is already too full of precept upon precept; and a smattering +of principles is too often found in the place of practice. How can +this order of things be improved but by setting forth duties as innocent +pleasures, sweetening utility with entertainment, and garnishing fact +with fancy. A man need not study Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations +to become rich, nor seek the glories of nature in artificial Systems. +But the contrary notion has probably given rise to the observation, that, +"what the present generation have gained in head, they have lost in +heart." It should not, however, be so, with the abundance of materials +we have for social improvement. +</p> +<p> +We hope the reader has recognised the influence of these feelings in the +many illustrations of men, manners, and times, which it has ever been our +object to garner into the pages of THE MIRROR. Hence the traits of +domestic life in all ages, and the tales and traditions of the family +hearth, when pointed with a moral, receive our special attention. In this +department, as well as in the playful fancies of poetry, in embellishing +the softer sympathies of nature,—we have been materially +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pageiv" + name="pageiv"> + </a>[pg iv] +</span> + + aided by our +Correspondents; to all of whom we proffer our best thanks. +</p> +<p> +In the present volume, the Public Journals of the day have not been +disregarded; while sterling literature, of the <i>utile cum dulce</i> character, +has been studied; and new books have been consulted, not so much for the +purpose of exposing their defects, as exhibiting their perfections. Art +has contributed its novelties; and the progress of Natural Science has +developed many new beauties appreciable by every reader. +</p> +<p> +The ENGRAVINGS are somewhat more numerous than usual; in all numbering +sixty-three; and they are accompanied by illustrative letter-press of +concise, but we trust, entertaining character. +</p> +<p> +In Popular Antiquities we may mention Old Fishmongers' Hall, which has +disappeared since the date of our last volume; the Castles of Pontefract, +Wilton, and Dunheved, with traits of their historic lore; the Lady Chapel, +in Southwark, and its changing history; Brighton about a hundred years +since; the Arbalest, or Cross-bow explained with Cuts; Old Bankside, and +the First Theatres; the venerable Melrose on the Tweed; St. Pancras (Old) +Church; and the castellated palace of the Alhambra, in Spain. +</p> +<p> +Among the Architectural novelties are the Law Institution, in Chancery +Lane; the Lowther Arcade, in the Strand; Staines New Bridge; and two +scenes of the picturesque wonders of the Colosseum, in the Regent's Park. +</p> +<p> +In Zoology, the most popular study of the day, there are upwards of a +score of novelties. Among them are a dozen Vignettes from the Zoological +Gardens in the Regent's Park, and in Surrey; and illustrations of Rare +Arctic Birds observed during the last overland expedition to the Polar Sea, +by Captain Sir John Franklin. +</p> +<p> +In the ensuing volume, we have determined upon enlarging our letter-press +page; whilst a new and handsome type has been cast expressly for this work. +By these improvements, as well as by the renewed vigour of our artists, +and a like zeal on our own part, THE MIRROR will be found still worthy of +its old friends, and attractive to new patrons. Its economy need not be +again enforced, although in this respect, our contemplated alterations +cannot but be received as additional points for the encouragement of a +discerning public. +</p> +<p> +<i>London, June 28, 1832.</i> +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pagev" + name="pagev"> + </a>[pg v] +</span> +<h2>MEMOIR</h2> +<h4>OF</h4> +<h3>THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES GREY,</h3> +<h2>EARL GREY, K.G.,</h2> +<h3>FIRST LORD OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY, &c. &c.</h3> + +<hr /> +<h4>DE BON VOULOIR SERVIR LE ROI.—<i>Family Motto.</i></h4> + +<hr /> +<p> +The family of GREY—the Greys of the North, as they are styled +distinctively from the Greys of the South,<a id="footnotetag1" + name="footnotetag1"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup>—is of Saxon origin. +<a id="footnotetag2" + name="footnotetag2"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote2">2</a></sup> They +have held manors in Northumberland from the earliest records to the +present time. The direct founder of the present branch was Baron Grey of +Werke, ennobled by James I. and advanced to the earldom of Tankerville by +William III. which titles became extinct in 1710; and the heiress carried +the estates by marriage to Charles Bennet, Lord Ossulston, who was, in +consequence, created Earl of Tankerville, in 1714. +</p> +<p> +The father of Earl Grey was Sir Charles Grey, who entered the army at an +early age, had a command in the American war, and commanded in chief the +military forces in the expeditions against the French West India Islands, +the successful result of which was the annexing of Martinique, St. Lucie, +Guadaloupe, &c. to our empire. He married, in 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of +George Grey, Esq. of Southwick, in Durham, (of a different family,) by +whom he had five sons and two daughters. He was created Lord Grey of +Howick, in 1801; and Viscount Howick, and Earl Grey, in 1806. He died in +the following year, and was succeeded by his son, Charles, second and +present earl. +</p> +<p> +Mr. Grey was born March 13, 1764, and educated at Eton, in the same class +with the late Mr. Lambton, (father of the present Lord Durham,) Mr. +Whitbread, and others, with whom he afterwards acted in political life. He +was then sent to King's College, Cambridge, where he displayed first-rate +abilities. On his leaving the University, he set out on the tour of Europe, +though only eighteen years of age. In Italy, he was introduced to the late +Duke of Cumberland, in whose household he obtained an appointment. He +returned to England in 1786, and soon after his arrival, was, by the +interest of his family, returned to parliament for the county of +Northumberland, when he joined the Whigs, it has been stated, to the +surprise of his family, whose principles were those of Toryism. +</p> +<p> +At a subsequent general election, as an expensive contest was expected for +Northumberland, Mr. Grey declined nomination, and was returned to +parliament for Appleby, which borough he represented till his succession +to the peerage. In the House of Commons his great talents soon shone forth; +and, +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pagevi" + name="page4vi"> + </a>[pg vi] +</span> +in conjunction with Fox, Sheridan, Lambton, Ponsonby, and others, he +maintained an intrepid opposition to the doctrines of that darling of fame, +Mr. Pitt. Immediately after his entrance into Parliament, his discussion +of the minister's important treaty of commerce, may be said to have +established his reputation, by the force of his eloquence, as well as by +the enlarged views which he seemed to have acquired of commercial +relations; which knowledge is more frequently the result of gradual +experience than of early attainment. +</p> +<p> +In these stormy times Mr. Grey ranked among the head and front of +contending politics. He was appointed one of the managers of that +magnificent political drama—the impeachment of Warren Hastings, when he +displayed great acumen in that part of the accusation termed the Benares +Charge. +</p> +<p> +In 1791, we find Mr. Grey taking the lead in a measure, which, in the +language of a great orator (Burke) "shed a lustre on the character and +humanity of the nation." The subject to which we allude, was the +melancholy situation of those who were unable to satisfy the demands of +importunate creditors, and consequently subjected to the operation of a +rigorous code of laws. His observation in moving for a parliamentary +committee to inquire into the present practice and effect of imprisonment +for debt is worthy of quotation: "it was desirable to distinguish the +unfortunate debtor from the knavish one, to place the creditor in that +situation which afforded the fairest and the speediest means of +compensation, and to regulate the jails of this country in such a manner +as to prevent unnecessary hardship and restraint. Whether they considered +the practice of confining for debt men who had no means of discharging +such debt, or, on the contrary, fraudulent debtors, whose creditors by no +process could compel them to pay; these circumstances were alone +sufficient to constitute an inquiry into the state of the laws relating to +debtor and creditor." This motion being acceded to, a committee consisting +of Mr. Grey, Mr. Pitt, Sir John Sinclair, Mr. Vansittart, Mr. Martin, the +Attorney and Solicitor Generals, and other legal gentlemen, was +immediately appointed. The origin of this inquiry is an indicative of the +liberal policy of the statesman as it is of the humanity of the mover. +</p> +<p> +In 1792, Mr. Grey instituted an inquiry into the conduct of ministers with +regard to the recently threatened hostilities with Russia. His +animadversion upon the vacillating and ruinous measures of government were +characterized by that fearless intrepidity, truth, energy, and eloquence, +which have distinguished his political career. The motion for the inquiry +was lost, though the powerful remarks of the mover drew from Mr. Pitt the +following memorable confession: "All unlimited confidence is +unconstitutional; and I hope the inglorious moment will never arrive, when +this house will abandon the privilege of examining, condemning, and +correcting the abuses in the executive government. It is the dearest +privilege you possess, and should never be relinguished." +</p> +<p> +During the schisms occasioned in this country by the French revolution, Mr. +Grey enrolled himself in a political society, called the Friends of the +People. He also became a member of the Whig Club, then in the zenith of +its celebrity. His active advocacy of the cause of a reform in parliament +was equal within and without the house of commons. To quote one of his +Lordship's most recent speeches, "In 1786 he had voted for reform. He had +supported Mr. Pitt in his motion for shortening the duration of +parliaments. He had given his best assistance to the measure of reform +introduced by Mr. Flood, before the French revolution; and, on one or two +different occasions, he had originated motions on the subject." +<a id="footnotetag3" + name="footnotetag3"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote3">3</a></sup> One of +these was in 1793, when he presented a petition for reform and a shorter +duration of parliament, from the Society of the Friends of the People: his +motion for a committee was lost by 280 to 41. Another occasion to which +his Lordship alludes, was in 1797, when he proposed, in his plan of +parliamentary reform, to give to the county +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pagevii" + name="pagevii"> + </a>[pg vii] +</span> +of York four new members; to +divide each county into two districts, each returning a member. +Copyholders and leaseholders were to have equal rights of voting with +freeholders, as were all householders paying taxes in cities and boroughs; +and parliaments were to be triennial. This motion was, however, negatived +by 149 votes. +</p> +<p> +In 1795, Mr. Grey opposed with great firmness, Mr. Pitt's motion for the +adjustment of the Prince of Wales's debts, and moved for the reduction of +the Prince's income. He professed himself ready to support the real +splendour of the royal family "as any slippery sycophant of a court;" but +said he thought there was more true dignity in manifesting a heart alive +to the distresses of millions, than in all those trappings which encumber +royalty without adorning it. He asked whether the legislature should give +an example of encouraging extravagance at a moment when the prevailing +fashion of prodigality among people of fortune was rapidly destroying +their independence, and making them the tools of the court, and the +contempt of the people. He knew the refusal to pay his debts would be a +severe privation to the Prince of Wales; but it would be a just penalty +for the past, a useful lesson for the future, and a proper deference to +the severe pressure and privations endured by the people. Mr. Grey's +amendment was supported by what was then a strong majority—99 to 260; and +the original motion carried: his conduct on this occasion seems never to +have been forgotten by the Prince of Wales, the Regent or the King. It +should here be mentioned, that, with equal justice, Mr. Grey subsequently +defended the rights of His Royal Highness from the shackles proposed to be +laid on him as Regent. +</p> +<p> +Mr. Grey's opposition to Mr. Pitt's measures continued unabated for many +years, while he remained equally steady in his attachment to Mr. Fox. His +bitter hostility to the union between Ireland and England may be said to +have produced one of his most celebrated speeches. Neither was he dazzled, +nor misled by the splendid talents of Burke, at this time in highest +repute. When Mr. Fox was deserted by Lords Fitzwilliam, Carlisle, and +other alarmists, Mr. Grey unchangingly adhered to him; and when Mr. Fox +and Lord Grenville formed a Whig ministry, in 1806, Mr. Grey, then, by his +father's elevation to the peerage, become Lord Howick, was appointed First +Lord of the Admiralty, and one of the Cabinet Council. He next succeeded +Mr. Fox as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and leader in the House of +Commons. This ministry was ill-formed, and wanted unity of purpose: their +abolition of the Slave Trade was a redeeming measure, in which Lord Howick +bore a conspicuous part; but his lordship's motion for the emancipation of +the Catholics brought about his dismissal from the ministry. +</p> +<p> +Lord Howick, soon after, by the death of his father, succeeded to the +title of Earl Grey; and by the death of his uncle, Sir Henry Grey, to the +family estate. Ill health, for a time, kept his lordship from public life: +he retired with no place but that of a Governor of the Charter House, and +without pension or sinecure. Upon the resignation of the Duke of Portland, +in 1809, his successor, Mr. Perceval, proposed a coalition with Lords +Grenville and Grey, which was at once rejected by the latter. In the +following year, his lordship "felt it his duty to arraign and to expose +the gross mismanagement of the government, and their repeated and +dangerous misconduct," in Parliament. In the same session, he charged the +lord chancellor (Eldon) with a crime little short of treason, in having +set the great seal, in 1801 and 1804, to commissions for giving the royal +assent to several bills, whilst the King was in a state of mental +infirmity, under medical care, and subject to personal control. The motion +was negatived by a majority of 189 to 64; "but Lord Eldon has not +forgotten the accusation, or forgiven the mover." +<a id="footnotetag4" + name="footnotetag4"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote4">4</a></sup> In 1812, another +attempt was made to bring Lord Grey, with Lord Grenville, into the cabinet; +but this was rejected as promptly as before. +</p> +<p> +Lord Grey again retired to private life. In 1817, his lordship reappeared, +and <span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pageviii" + name="pageviii"> + </a>[pg viii] +</span> +moved an amendment to the parliamentary address to the throne, urging +rigid economy, retrenchment, and an inquiry into the state of the nation. +In the same year he brought before the House of Lords, the notable +circular of Lord Sidmouth for the prosecution of libels by magistrates. +"It is a singular fact," observes an acute historical writer, +<a id="footnotetag5" + name="footnotetag5"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote5">5</a></sup> "that +Lord Grey, on this occasion, made an able and erudite law argument; which +all the law lords, including Lord Ellenborough, made vain efforts to +refute; and which Lord Ellenborough had the manliness to eulogize;" +notwithstanding which Lord Grey's motion for a copy of the opinion of the +law officers of the crown was negatived. +</p> +<p> +During the trial of Queen Caroline, the wisdom-tempered zeal of Lord Grey +ranked him amongst the most efficient, as he was the most eloquent, of her +defenders: his lordship, in conjunction with Lord King, also made +successive attempts, by motions, to quash the investigation. +</p> +<p> +To the administration of the Earl of Liverpool, it need scarcely be added, +Earl Grey was thoroughly hostile: his aversion to the policy of Mr. +Canning was equally decided; and the same independent spirit urged him to +oppose the measures of the Wellington cabinet, except the memorable +measure of Catholic Emancipation, by the proposal of which he had lost +office in the year 1810. His lordship's eloquent efforts in this cause +must be alive in the recollection of the reader. +</p> +<p> +We are now fast approaching the consummation of one of the grand objects +of his lordship's political life. By the dissolution of the Wellington +cabinet, in 1830, Lord Grey became at the head of the present +administration. His first act was the introduction of the grand measure +for parliamentary reform, which, for sixteen months past, has interested +the whole population of this mighty empire. His lordship's emphatic +expressions, on this occasion, are "familiar as household words." "He made +it a condition on accepting office, that Parliamentary Reform should be +introduced as a government measure. That condition having been assented to +by his most gracious sovereign, by this measure he was prepared to stand +or fall." Gratifying as would be the task, we need not detail the +incidents of the last few months of his lordship's career. Our eulogium +would be poor indeed, while nine-tenths of the journals of our country are +perpetuating his good deeds; while his political integrity has become +exemplary to every cabinet in Europe; and millions are about to burst +forth in "the loud festivity of mirth" to celebrate the virtue of their +popular minister. +</p> +<p> +Earl Grey married in 1794, Mary Elizabeth Brabazon, daughter of Lord +Ponsonby, by whom his lordship has had a numerous family: the eldest son +and heir apparent being Viscount Howick, born in 1802. In our outline of +Lord Grey's public life, the reader may have observed his Lordship's +fondness for the retirement of the domestic circle. This accords with his +recent declaration in parliament: "he was fond of retirement, and in +domestic life he lived happy in the bosom of his family. Nothing could +have tempted him to embark on these stormy seas— +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Bankrupt of life, but prodigal of ease—</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +nothing but an overpowering sense of the duty which he owed to his +country." Even apart from political distinction, Earl Grey must be +considered happy indeed; but honoured in public and cherished in private +life, his pre-eminence is proud indeed. Shakspeare tells of the "divinity" +that "doth hedge a king:" yet who would enjoy more than the consciousness +of having been true to his sovereign, his country, and his honour. +</p> + + +<hr class="full" /> + +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page433" + name="page433"> + </a>[pg 433] +</span> +<h2>INDEX.</h2> + +<hr /> +<p> +ANECDOTE GALLERY, 277—291—309—375—404.<br /> +CORRESPONDENCE in each Number.<br /> +COSMOPOLITE, 170—179—211—237—276.<br /> +EMBELLISHED ARTICLES in each Number.<br /> +FINE ARTS, 90—139—150—164—198—218—393.<br /> +GATHERER in each Number.<br /> +MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS, 22—253—259—297—329—361—405.<br /> +NATURALIST, 27—38—56—150—183—245—265—297—311—383—425.<br /> +NOTES OF A READER, 23—55—73—92—100—140—152—168—180—200—220 + —235—251—270—279——326—372—413—429.<br /> +NOVELIST, 44—59.<br /> +OLD POETS, 8.<br /> +RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS, 7—38—76—86—174—227—334—419.<br /> +SELECT BIOGRAPHY, 105.<br /> +SELECTOR, 9—40—69—84—107—121—137—157—172—185—216—228—254 + —261—293—307—324—331—331—358—382—397—407—427.<br /> +SKETCH BOOK, 3—20—36—116—136—148—268—313.<br /> +SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY, 6—46—54—126—190—283—363—411.<br /> +SPIRIT OF PUBLIC JOURNALS, 12—28—42—62—77—91—102—118—133—155 + —165—189—203—213—234—248—264—284—299—316—365—378—394 + —413—420.<br /> +TOPOGRAPHER, 124—377.<br /> +USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS, 15—83.<br /> +</p> + +<hr /> + + +<p> +Abernethy, Mr., Anecdotes of, 40.<br /> +Abbot of Tewkesbury, the, 268<br /> +Abstract Studies, 292.<br /> +Academy Delia Crusca, Origin of, 406.<br /> +Adrian IV., Anecdotes of, 304.<br /> +Advent Customs, 22.<br /> +Advertisement Extraordinary, 240.<br /> +Affection of Animals, 266.<br /> +African Expedition, 7<br /> + Horse Race, 216.<br /> +Agricultural Societies, Ancient, 229.<br /> +Alhambra, Palace of, described, 337.<br /> +Alligator on the Ganges, 347.<br /> +Altrive Tales, by the Ettrick Shepherd, 254.<br /> +America,<br /> + Domestic Life in, 180—235—323<br /> + North, Birds of, 356<br /> + Prosperity of, 239.<br /> +American English, 236<br /> + Prejudice, 399<br /> + Women, conversation with, 182.<br /> +Anagrams, 16.<br /> +Anatomists, Skilful, 183.<br /> +Anecdotage, 375.<br /> +Angel of Departure, Song of, 168<br /> + Welcome, 168.<br /> +Angling, Hints on, 183.<br /> +Anglo-Saxon Dress, 407.<br /> +Animals, Superstition relative to, 170—178—211—237.<br /> +Anne Boleyn, 96.<br /> +Apologue, Oriental, 336.<br /> +Arabian Beauty, 157.<br /> +Arbalest, or Cross-bow explained, 161—210<br /> + of Robin Hood, 322.<br /> +Arcadian Child Sleeping, 157.<br /> +Archbishop, Dancing, 191.<br /> +Arctic Birds, rare, 354.<br /> +Ark of Noah and Mount Ararat, 382.<br /> +Arrows, Poisoned, 192.<br /> +Artillery Company, Origin of, 406.<br /> +Asmodeus in London, 29.<br /> +Ass, Persecution of the, 171.<br /> +Astronomical Toasts, 256.<br /> +Athenian Lover to his Mistress, 157.<br /> +Audubon, the Naturalist, 298.<br /> +Aviary in the Zoological Gardens, 273.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Babylon, Willows of, 411.<br /> +Backwoodsman of America, 201.<br /> +Ballad Singing, English, 370.<br /> +Bamborough Castle described, 327.<br /> +Bankrupt Court, the New, 159.<br /> +Bankside, Old, 193.<br /> +Barbarous Punishments, 253.<br /> +Bardic Chorus, 100.<br /> +Barn Owl, economy of, 27—38.<br /> +Barton Booth, the actor, 192.<br /> +Bathing, Nocturnal, 347.<br /> +Bear,<br /> + errors respecting, 179<br /> + Polar, habits of, 114.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page434" + name="page434"> + </a>[pg 434] +</span> +Bed of Leaves, 207.<br /> +Bedford Level, 192<br /> + Missal, 192.<br /> +Bell-rock Lighthouse, 182.<br /> +Beranger, Song from, 370.<br /> +Beulah Spa, near Norwood, 225.<br /> +Bills of Mortality, Origin of, 76.<br /> +Biography, Splendid, 303.<br /> +Birds, Structure of, 311.<br /> +Birmingham Railway, 190.<br /> +Birth Song, 168.<br /> +Black Monday, 208.<br /> +Blondel de Nesle, a ballad, 28.<br /> +Blunder, Conversational, 292.<br /> +Bonington, the artist, 168.<br /> +Books, New, noticed and quoted:<br /> + Adventures of a Younger Son, 157—172.<br /> + Advice to Executors, 270.<br /> + Annual Biography and Obituary, for 1832, 40.<br /> + Arlington, 407.<br /> + Bath Guide, New, 94.<br /> + Book of Instruction, 93.<br /> + Britain's Historical Drama, 100.<br /> + British Relations with the Chinese Empire, 220.<br /> + Britton's Tunbridge Wells, 376.<br /> + Cabinet Annual Register for 1831, 334.<br /> + Chantilly, a Novel, 154.<br /> + Characteristic Sketches of Animals, by Landseer, 386.<br /> + Contarini Fleming, 429.<br /> + Contrast, by Earl Mulgrave, 293.<br /> + Domestic Manners of the Americans, 180—201.<br /> + Elements of Chemistry familiarly explained, 152.<br /> + Eugene Aram, 23—57—95—101—142.<br /> + Fair of May Fair, 331.<br /> + Francis I., a tragedy, by Miss F. Kemble, 170—185.<br /> + Frankland's Visit to Russia and Sweden, 84.<br /> + Georgian Era, 122—137—278.<br /> + Gleanings in Natural History, 245—265.<br /> + Hampden and his times, 140.<br /> + Herbert's Country Parson, 93.<br /> + History of the Reformation in<br /> + England, 9<br /> + Italian Republics, 121<br /> + Spain and Portugal, 398.<br /> + Hunchback, by J.S. Knowles, 279.<br /> + Indian Tale and other Poems, 373.<br /> + Knowledge for the People, 25—200—344.<br /> + Landers' Travels in Africa, 126—216—231.<br /> + Life of Gregory VII., by Sir Roger Greisley, 372.<br /> + Life and Reign of George IV., 280.<br /> + Lives of Eminent British Military Commanders, 358<br /> + British Painters, 168.<br /> + Maid of Elvar, by Allan Cunningham, 351.<br /> + Memoirs of Sir Ralph Esher, 105.<br /> + Messiah, by Montgomery, 397.<br /> + Outline of English History, 95.<br /> + Paris and its Historical Scenes, 69.<br /> + Pen and Pencil Sketches of India, by Capt. Mundy, 345.<br /> + Songs of the Gipsies, 232.<br /> + Summer Fête, by Moore, 12.<br /> + Tales of the Alhambra, by Washington Irving, 307—337 to 342—361<br /> + Early Ages, 261.<br /> + Time's Telescope for 1832, 71.<br /> + Tour of a German Prince, 143.<br /> + Transactions of the Society of Arts, 283.<br /> + Truth of Revelation demonstrated, 382—409—427.<br /> + Watts's New Year's Gift, 85.<br /> + Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America, 354.<br /> +"Boot, to," the phrase, 31.<br /> +Botany, Curiosities of, 25.<br /> +Bouts Rimés, Origin of, 191.<br /> +Box Wood, uses of, 15.<br /> +Brahmin Bull, the, 385.<br /> +Brazil, a day in, 150.<br /> +Brereton, the late Colonel, 105.<br /> +Brighton in 1743, 88—124.<br /> +British Artists Society,<br /> + Exhibition of, 198<br /> + Institution, Visit to, 164<br /> + Museum, the, 152<br /> + Warriors, 358.<br /> +Bull and Bear-baiting Theatres, 193.<br /> +Bullock, Mr., in America, 236.<br /> +Burial,<br /> + Science of, 165<br /> + Place in Tongatabu, 184.<br /> +Burke, Writings of, 357.<br /> +Burns, Birthday of, 73.<br /> +Bushy, owners of, 432.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Calves-head Roll, 416.<br /> +Camoens, fate of, 288.<br /> +Cambridge Freshman, 43.<br /> +Campagna Felice, 383.<br /> +Cape Town, Population of, 348.<br /> +Capillary Attraction, 303.<br /> +Caps, Laws respecting, 303.<br /> +Cardinal Spider, the, 266.<br /> +Caroline, Queen, death of, 278.<br /> +Catching Tigers, 160.<br /> +Catholic Religion, dramatic character of the, 189.<br /> +Cats, Superstitions relative to, 170.<br /> +Caviare to the Multitude, 271.<br /> +Cedar Wood, scent of, 342.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page435" + name="page435"> + </a>[pg 435] +</span> +Chalk, none in America, 182.<br /> +Chancery Suit, to decide, 252.<br /> +Chapel at Hampton Wick, 376.<br /> +Char, habits of, 425.<br /> +Charles<br /> + II. at Epsom, 108<br /> + V., Palace of, in the Alhambra, 337.<br /> +Cheating in the Law, 252.<br /> +Chelsea<br /> + Heroines, 416<br /> + Pensioners, Longevity of, 416.<br /> +Chemistry, Familiar Elements of, 152.<br /> +Child in Prayer, Lines to a, 423.<br /> +Children,<br /> + Lines on, 8<br /> + Impromptu on, 189.<br /> +Chimney-piece, curious, at Exeter, 417.<br /> +China,<br /> + Picture of, 221<br /> + Varieties of, 324.<br /> +Chinese Proverbs, &c., 16.<br /> +Chit Chat of the Day, 394.<br /> +Cholera,<br /> + Vapour Bath in, 6—54<br /> + Notes on, 80—128.<br /> +Christ, Portrait of, 87—140.<br /> +Cincinnati,<br /> + Health in, 236<br /> + Letter from, 323.<br /> +Cincinnatus, Modern, 400.<br /> +Civil,<br /> + Death explained, 270<br /> + War, Lines on, 351.<br /> +Claret, Properties of, 192.<br /> +Clavering's Autobiography, 420.<br /> +Cleopatra's Needles, 291.<br /> +Coasting Scrap, 116.<br /> +Cock of the Arctic Plains, 355.<br /> +Cockney Horsemen, Hints to, 77.<br /> +Coffee,<br /> + as made in the East, 173<br /> + Shops in London, 222.<br /> +Coffin-maker, the, by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, 203.<br /> +Coin of Edward III., 275.<br /> +Colchester, Lord, 422.<br /> +Colosseum, Swiss Cottage at the, 258.<br /> +Colton, the late Mr., 403.<br /> +Comets, concussion of, with the Earth, 71.<br /> +Confessions of Serventius, 44—59.<br /> +Congreve,<br /> + at Dove Dale, 432<br /> + Rockets, 239.<br /> +Cornwall, Scene on the coast of, 313.<br /> +Cornwallis, Lord, Mausoleum of, in India, 423.<br /> +Count, a noble, 48.<br /> +Courage, Cool, 292.<br /> +Coventry Charity, 334.<br /> +Counterfeit Kings, 176.<br /> +Cowley, the poet, 105.<br /> +Cows in America, 236.<br /> +Crime, Progress of, 379.<br /> +Crocodiles on the Mississippi, 235.<br /> +Cromwell,<br /> + Lely's Portrait of, 109<br /> + his Fun, 112.<br /> +Cross-bow, History of the, 162.<br /> +Crowland Abbey, 228.<br /> +Crucifixion,<br /> + the, 398<br /> + Hilton's Picture of, 90.<br /> +Cumberland Titles, 239.<br /> +Curfew Bell, custom of, 253—273—307.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Dancers, Aged, 416.<br /> +David and Goliath, 411.<br /> +De Lolme, Politics of, 421.<br /> +Deer, errors respecting, 179.<br /> +Delft or Dutch Ware, 283.<br /> +Deluge, the, 382—410.<br /> +Demosthenes, Studies of, 291.<br /> +Devil's Sonata, the, 42.<br /> +Diamonds in Brazil, 234.<br /> +Dibdin, Rev. Dr., 423.<br /> +Dirge of Death, 168.<br /> +Dispute, an odd one, 373.<br /> +Dogs, Superstitions relative to, 171.<br /> +Doll's Eyes, Trade in, 336.<br /> +Drama, decline of, 55.<br /> +Druid's Chair, sitting in, 261.<br /> +Druids and Mistletoe, 336.<br /> +Drunkenness in old London, 176.<br /> +Ducks, instinct of, 426.<br /> +Duc de Bordeaux, the young, 271.<br /> +Dunheved Castle, described, 401.<br /> +Dutch Rushes, 426.<br /> +Dwarfs, Russian, 84.<br /> +Dying Maiden's Pardon to her faithless lover, 291.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Early Rising, 96.<br /> +East India Company, origin of, 221.<br /> +Echo Puns, 240.<br /> +Eclipse at Boossa, 281.<br /> +Economic Hints, 15.<br /> +Eels, economy of, 246.<br /> +Effrontery, 292.<br /> +Eggs, duty on, 336.<br /> +Egypt,<br /> + court of, a sketch, 413<br /> + researches in, 96.<br /> +Elegy, from the German, 291.<br /> +Elliston and the Ass' Head, 91.<br /> +Emu,<br /> + economy of, 267<br /> + house, 273.<br /> +Encroachers on Commons, 20.<br /> +Entomology, curious fact in, 298.<br /> +Epitaphs, in Wiltshire, 48.<br /> +Epsom Races, origin of, 329—361.<br /> +Ettrick Shepherd, dinner to, 73.<br /> +Eugene Aram, scene from, 23—56—95—102.<br /> +Evening,<br /> + lines to, 147<br /> + lines on, 352.<br /> +Every man in his humour, 36.<br /> +Expedition, African, 7.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Facetiae of Hierocles, 24.<br /> +Fairies, lines on, 8.<br /> +Fame, lines on, 352.<br /> +Farmer, Dr. of Cambridge, 421.<br /> +Fashion, ennui of, 326.<br /> +Feathers, economy of collecting, 83.<br /> +Felony, classic, 384.<br /> +Fiddling, poetry, 400.<br /> +Fights of wild beasts, 346.<br /> +Fines and Recoveries, 252.<br /> +Fire of London, 109.<br /> +Fire Temples in Persia, 297.<br /> +First born, a song, 156.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page436" + name="page436"> + </a>[pg 436] +</span> +Fish, superstitions respecting, 212.<br /> +Fishing in Canada, 210.<br /> +Fishmongers'<br /> + Arms, 17<br /> + Hall, ancient, 17.<br /> +Fitzherbert, Mrs., 143.<br /> +Floating Scheme, 76.<br /> +Fortune-telling in high life, 144.<br /> +Forty-ninth Birthday, 133.<br /> +Fowler, Sir Thomas, his Lodge at Islington, 392.<br /> +Fox's Book of Martyrs characterized, 10.<br /> +Fox-hunting, expenses of, 223.<br /> +Fragments on Human Life, 115.<br /> +Franking Letters, 160.<br /> +Frederick I. of Prussia, 47.<br /> +French<br /> + Cruelty, 292<br /> + Drama, scene from, 118<br /> + Literature, recent, 349<br /> + Revolution, scenes from, 62—69.<br /> +Friendship, lines on, 224.<br /> +Fright, effects of, 7.<br /> +Fuel, economical, 15.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Galley Slaves, a tale, 299.<br /> +Gardens and promenades, 399.<br /> +Garratt Election, 415.<br /> +Garrick Club, 144.<br /> +George<br /> + I. and II. anecdotes of, 277—278<br /> + II., humanity of, 400<br /> + IV., character of, 123—280.<br /> +Gipsey Fortune-teller, lines to, 164.<br /> +Glass, enamel paintings on, 219.<br /> +Gleanings in Natural History, 245—265.<br /> +Glee, a legal one, 251.<br /> +Gluttony, royal and noble, 35.<br /> +Goats, fabulous account of, 170.<br /> +God, supremacy of, 9.<br /> +Goldsmith, Oliver, 147.<br /> +Good Samaritan, parable of, 410.<br /> +Gorhambury, fete at, 304.<br /> +Governess, qualifications for, 176.<br /> +Greek Sailors, 76.<br /> +Greenwich Hospital, 400.<br /> +Groaning Tree of Baddesley, 419.<br /> +Grouse, rocky mountain, 356.<br /> +Gurnard and Sprat, habits of, 311.<br /> +Gutting the Fish, 64.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Hail at Lausanne, 342.<br /> +Half-hanged Anne Green, 47.<br /> +Hainet and Raschid, a tale, 82.<br /> +Hamlet, ditty in, 32.<br /> +"Happy Jerry," anecdotes of, 273.<br /> +Harlow's Triul of Queen Katherine, 219.<br /> +Haydon's Pictures, 150—218.<br /> +Heating with Hot Water, 411.<br /> +Heating Rooms, 152.<br /> +Heckington, Holy Sepulchre at, 19.<br /> +Hemans, Mrs., sketch of, 358.<br /> +Henri III. of France, 154.<br /> +Henry I., speech of, 38.<br /> +Henry VII., character of England by, 304.<br /> +Hindoo Burial Service, 406.<br /> +Hip! Hip! Hurra! origin of, 208.<br /> +Hogg, James, dinner to, 73.<br /> +Hogs in America, 182.<br /> +Hoadley and Oldfield's Paintings on Glass, 219.<br /> +Hobbes at Chatsworth, 404.<br /> +Hobby-horse, the, 228.<br /> +Holly Leaves, medicinal use of, 412.<br /> +Holy Land, 228.<br /> +Hope, lines on, 34.<br /> +Horace Walpole, 421.<br /> +Horse Racing, origin of in England, 329—361.<br /> +Human Life, fragments on, 115.<br /> +Humbug, origin of, 159.<br /> +Humming-bird, a song, 323.<br /> +Hurley in Berkshire, account of, 419.<br /> +Hyaena, fables of, 171.<br /> +Hyde Park in America, 399.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Iceland, desolation of, 96.<br /> +Inclosure Acts, 252.<br /> +Infancy, lines on, 318.<br /> +Ink Spots, to remove, 84.<br /> +Insects, superstitions respecting, 180—211.<br /> +Instinct allied to reason, 246.<br /> +Iron Trade, British, 46.<br /> +Irish character, traits of, 291.<br /> +Isabel of Spain, character of, 415.<br /> +Isaiah, lines on, 398.<br /> +Italian<br /> + Climate, 383<br /> + Inn, 383<br /> + Landscape, 383.<br /> +Italian Warfare, character of, 121.<br /> +Italy, Horticultural Tour in, 382.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Jackal, errors respecting, 179.<br /> +Jardin de Plantes, described, 85.<br /> +Jay, remarkable, 298.<br /> +Jests of the Ancients, 24.<br /> +Justice, laconic, 76.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Kemble, Miss, Tragedy by, 170—185.<br /> +Kensington Palace, expenses of, 302.<br /> +King John at the Cape, 347.<br /> +King of Kippen, the, 303.<br /> +Knaresborough Castle, 142.<br /> +Knight's Return, the, 244.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Labourers' Friend Society, 148.<br /> +Laconics, or Guesses at Truth, 52—67—82—242—196—99.<br /> +Lady, lines to, on her age, 370.<br /> +Lady Chapel, Southward, 97—131.<br /> +Lamp, primitive one, 288.<br /> +Lancashire, improvement of, 326.<br /> +Landers' Journey to the Niger, 126—216—229—281.<br /> +Lark, lines to, 211.<br /> +Last Dying Speech and Confession of the Immortal Gods, 264.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page437" + name="page437"> + </a>[pg 437] +</span> +Law of Arrest, the, 155.<br /> +Law Institution in Chancery Lane, 33—53.<br /> +Laws, ancient, 227.<br /> +Leather, manufacture of in Canada, 368.<br /> +Legal Rhymes, 197.<br /> +Lemons, sweet, 383.<br /> +Leopards, hunting with, 347.<br /> +Letter from London, 15.<br /> +Liberty in Rome, 121.<br /> +Library, a queer one, 272.<br /> +Light on the ears of a horse, 425.<br /> +Lions, tame, 32.<br /> +Lizard and Crocodile, 180.<br /> +London, Philosophy of, 133.<br /> +London and the Provinces Compared, 316.<br /> +Love, Court and Country, 372.<br /> +Love of Country, 352.<br /> +Love, French-English, 32.<br /> +Love's Kerchief, 35.<br /> +Lowther Arcade, the, 210.<br /> +Loyalist, a staunch one, 256.<br /> +Lulworth, a day at, 102.<br /> +Lyall's Geology, extract from, 57.<br /> +Lynx, errors respecting, 179.<br /> +Lyons, city of, 32.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Macauley, Mrs., 421.<br /> +Madagascar, isle of, 172.<br /> +Magdalenes in church, 320.<br /> +Magic, state of, in Egypt, 248.<br /> +Maid's First Love, 352.<br /> +Man, agency of in extinguishing and spreading the species, 57.<br /> +Manager, duties of, 287.<br /> +Manchester Botanic Garden at, 129.<br /> +Manna, fall of, 427.<br /> +Manorial Right, curious, 23.<br /> +March of Mind, 178.<br /> +Marlborough, Life of, 359.<br /> +Mariguano, battle of, 122.<br /> +Marketing in America, 237.<br /> +Marriage Tree, 256.<br /> +Martinet, the, 213.<br /> +Martin's Picture on Glass, 219.<br /> +Martyr Student, the, 120.<br /> +Mary of Cambria, a sonnet, 388.<br /> +Massena's Tomb in Pere la Chaise, 357.<br /> +Mauritius, the, 172.<br /> +May Day Games, 259.<br /> +Melrose Abbey, history of, 241.<br /> +Men compared with Bees, 285.<br /> +Milan, Panorama of, 392.<br /> +Minstrelsy of Scotland, 352.<br /> +Mirabeau, character of, 422.<br /> +Modern Building, 134.<br /> +Monkey-houses, in the Zoological Gardens, 114.<br /> +Monkey Island, 369.<br /> +Moorhen, the, 266.<br /> +Morning in London, 134.<br /> +Morning, lines to, 99.<br /> +Morrice Dances of Robin Hood, 260.<br /> +Mortality in the Reign of William IV., 208.<br /> +"Mother Carey's Chickens," origin of, 306.<br /> +Moving Houses in America, 237.<br /> +Munden, biography of, 105.<br /> +Mungo Park, death of, 229.<br /> +Music,<br /> + effect of, 223<br /> + old English, 189.<br /> +Muswell Hill, origin of, 304.<br /> +My Fire, a sketch, 20.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Napier, Hon. Mrs., a sketch, 3.<br /> +Napoleon<br /> + at St. Helena, 403<br /> + 's residence at St. Helena, 348<br /> + tomb, 374.<br /> +Naples, fruit at, 384.<br /> +Nasmyth, the artist, 139.<br /> +Naturalists', three enthusiastic, 183.<br /> +Navy, ancient British, 7—86.<br /> +New South Wales, society in, 318.<br /> +New Zealand, islands in, 7.<br /> +Newton,<br /> + his mode of study, 193<br /> + 's Weather-wisdom, 288.<br /> +Newtown Pippin, the, 399.<br /> +Nicknames, 175.<br /> +Niger,<br /> + river, night on, 126<br /> + sailing on the, 231.<br /> +Night, lines on, 8.<br /> +Nightmare, lines on, 98.<br /> +Nobles of Johanna, 207.<br /> +Non-proposals, or Doubts resolved, 284.<br /> +Northcote and William III., 41.<br /> +"Nothing Impossible," 274.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Odd Story, 111.<br /> +Opera, the Italian, 397.<br /> +Optics, witty, 112.<br /> +Owl,<br /> + the barn, 27—38<br /> + the white-horned of the Arctic regions, 354.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Paganini, a singing, 112.<br /> +Painted Window of the Crucifixion, 90.<br /> +Palankeen Travelling in India, 345.<br /> +Palming in Italy, 383.<br /> +Pancras Old Church described, 289—388.<br /> +Pantomimes, expenses of, 80.<br /> +Parks, the royal, 267.<br /> +Parliament, curious, 335.<br /> +Pastimes, ancient, 405.<br /> +Patriarchal Times, 397.<br /> +Pelican House, 273.<br /> +Penderell Jewel, 276.<br /> +Penitential Habit, origin of, 398.<br /> +Pepper, Arden, anecdote of, 420.<br /> +Personal Injuries, pecuniary compensation for, 276.<br /> +Philosopher's Stone, the, 288.<br /> +Phrenology, Illustrations of, 240.<br /> +Pictures, new, gossip on, 395.<br /> +Piercy Islands, 145.<br /> +Pig Scavengers in America, 236.<br /> +Pike, habits of the, 266.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page438" + name="page438"> + </a>[pg 438] +</span> +Pilgrim's Progress, beauties of, 77.<br /> +Pin Money explained, 271.<br /> +Plague, great, in the fifteenth century, 430.<br /> +Plank, unlucky one, 368.<br /> +Plough described, 304.<br /> +Poetry of Ancient Days, 276.<br /> +Polynesian Islands, 145.<br /> +Poisoned Valley in Java, 6.<br /> +Pontefract Castle, history of, 50.<br /> +Pontine Marshes, 383.<br /> +Porcupine and Hedgehog, 179.<br /> +Porter, Anna Maria, 422.<br /> +Pottery, manufacture of, 283—324—363.<br /> +Prairies, origin of, 46.<br /> +Premiers of England, 320.<br /> +Presbyterian Churches in Cincinnati, 202.<br /> +Property, nature of, 252.<br /> +Prussic Acid, poisonous to vegetables, 412.<br /> +Psalter, illuminated, 178.<br /> +Punishments in the reign of Charles II., 87.<br /> +Pyramids, the, 224.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Quadrant, the Regent's, 133.<br /> +Quarantine in America, 192.<br /> +Queen Anne's Spring, near Eton, 248.<br /> +Queen Consorts, rights of, 270.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Railway, Marine, 412.<br /> +Rainbow, phenomenon of, 427.<br /> +Raphael China, 283.<br /> +Raven and Dove at the Deluge, 410.<br /> +Reading at Meals, 176.<br /> +Recollections of a Wanderer, 313.<br /> +Recreations in the Law, 251.<br /> +Reformation in England, 9.<br /> +Revenue and Debt of European States, 3.<br /> +Rhapsody on Nature, 373.<br /> +Rhinoceros, the, 179.<br /> +Rhinoceros Bird, history of, 312.<br /> +Rich Man, the true, 175.<br /> +Robert the Devil, Castle and Cavern of, 66.<br /> +Robin in Bushy Park, 267.<br /> +Robin Hood and May Games, 261.<br /> +Rook-shooting, cruelty of, 266.<br /> +Rousseau at Dove Dale, 432.<br /> +Rural peace, lines on, 351.<br /> +Russel, origin of the house of, 334.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Sailors, superstition of, 270.<br /> +St. Albans,<br /> + duchess of, 144<br /> + Bride's, parish registers of, 335<br /> + Helena, Captain Mundy's visit to, 348—403.<br /> +Saline Spa near Norwood, 227.<br /> +Saviour, address to the, 398.<br /> +Scandal-loving letter, 407.<br /> +Scottish,<br /> + Economy, 132—244<br /> + Literary Dinner, 73<br /> + Sporting, 136—148.<br /> +Scriptural,<br /> + Antiquities, 382—409—427<br /> + Heraldry, 404.<br /> +Sea Serpent, the, 212.<br /> +Seals, the, by J.S. Knowles, 302.<br /> +Sermons, plain, 416.<br /> +Serpents, superstitions respecting, 212.<br /> +Servants, duty of, 271.<br /> +Serventius, confessions of, 44.<br /> +Shakespeariana, 389.<br /> +Shark's Bay, adventure in, 173.<br /> +Sharp, the astronomer, 293.<br /> +Shaving, origin of, 192.<br /> +Shavings, waste of, 83—132.<br /> +Shelley,<br /> + eccentricities of, 420<br /> + P.B. at Oxford, 12—264.<br /> +Sheridan, anecdotes of, 137.<br /> +Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, 252.<br /> +Ships, names of, 288.<br /> +Shrew-mouse, the, 179.<br /> +Shrimps, inquiries on, 20.<br /> +Signs, origin of, 160.<br /> +Silk from Spiders, 412.<br /> +Singapore, sketch of, 35.<br /> +Sismondi, politics of, 420.<br /> +Sisters, four learned, 335.<br /> +Sitting in the Druid's Chair, 261.<br /> +Skulls, grinning, 101.<br /> +Skylark, claws of the, 245.<br /> +Skylark, a song, 323.<br /> +Slaughter, family, 368.<br /> +Slippery Love, 256.<br /> +Smuggling, extraordinary, 48.<br /> +Snake, habits of the, 342.<br /> +Snowdrop, address to, 132.<br /> +Social distinctions in America, 237.<br /> +Songs of the Gipsies, 232.<br /> +Songs found in a Grecian Urn, 156.<br /> +Song in imitation of Cowley, 419.<br /> +Songs by a Delia Cruscan poet, 323.<br /> +Songs, by T. Moore, 12.<br /> +Song by J.S. Knowles, 423.<br /> +Song of Pitcairn's Island, 232.<br /> +Sonnet on Love, 357.<br /> +Sorrow, concealed, 399.<br /> +Soizthey, recollections of, 254.<br /> +Spanish characteristics, 361.<br /> +Spanish scenery, charms of, 307.<br /> +Spanish superstition, 413.<br /> +Squares in London, 133.<br /> +Staines New Bridge, described, 321.<br /> +Starvation, ancient, 384.<br /> +Stones, speaking and moving, 101.<br /> +Sugar Cane of Otaheite, 27.<br /> +Sugar consumed in England, 222.<br /> +Sun-fish, the short, 425.<br /> +Surrey Zoological Gardens, 2.<br /> +Sutton Wash Embankment, 46.<br /> +Swelled Ancles, 160.<br /> +Swift at Moore Park, 422.<br /> +Swimming, Hints on, 3.<br /> +Swine, errors respecting, 171.<br /> +Swiss Cottage at the Colosseum, 258.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Tailors, renowned, 77.<br /> +Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 213.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page439" + name="page439"> + </a>[pg 439] +</span> +Talleyrand, anecdote of, 256.<br /> +Tea, facts relative to, 220—222.<br /> +Tea, price of, 245.<br /> +Theatres, ancient English, 193.<br /> +Theatrical Property in France, 320.<br /> +Thief, how to detect, 272.<br /> +Three Death's Heads, 431.<br /> +Thrush, habits of the, 265.<br /> +Tigers, sortie of, 345.<br /> +Time's Telescope for 1832, 71.<br /> +Tinto, the river, 299.<br /> +Toads,<br /> + in Jersey, 267<br /> + poison of, 426<br /> + superstition respecting, 180.<br /> +Toast of a Scotch Peer, 287.<br /> +Tobacco,<br /> + in Cholera, 412<br /> + and snuff, virtues of, 96.<br /> +Tom and Jerry, ancient, 16.<br /> +Tomato Sauce, to make, 15.<br /> +Town and village defined, 175.<br /> +Trade, ancient, 128.<br /> +Travelling Notes in South Wales, 20—147.<br /> +Trout tickling in Ireland, 234.<br /> +Tucopia, isle of, 145.<br /> +Tunbridge Wells, sketches of, 376.<br /> +Tunnel in Regent's Park, 114.<br /> +Turenne, Marshal, 272.<br /> +Turkey, skeleton of, 312.<br /> +Twa Burdies, the, 91.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Under, house of, 69.<br /> +Unlucky present, a tale, 309.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Valentines, ancient, 178.<br /> +Valletort, Viscount, lines to, 378.<br /> +Vampire Bat, 40.<br /> +Vapour Bath in Cholera, 6—55.<br /> +Vegetable Wonders, 200.<br /> +Vegetation, curious facts in, 344.<br /> +Venice described, 429.<br /> +Venice, sonnet to, 69.<br /> +Ventilation of Rooms, 152.<br /> +Victor Hugo,<br /> + drama by, 118<br /> + lines by, 318.<br /> +Village,<br /> + Cemetery, the, 216<br /> + Hampden, 175.<br /> +Virginia Water, cascade at, 81—210.<br /> +Visit to the Morgue, at Paris, 349.<br /> +Voices of the Night, 259.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Waller, the poet, tomb of, 233.<br /> +War Song against the Chinese, 14.<br /> +Warton, Thomas, the poet, 421.<br /> +Washington Irving, Medwin, and Grattan, 421.<br /> +Water from the Rock in Horeb, 428.<br /> +Watering-places in the fifteenth century, 431.<br /> +Waverley Novels, character of, 284—365.<br /> +Waverley Novels,<br /> + heroines of, 365<br /> + Plots of, 366<br /> + Scenic description, 366<br /> + Scott and Shakspeare, 367<br /> + Style, 367.<br /> +Weather Rhymes, by the Monks, 228.<br /> +Wedgewood's Ware, manufacture of, 363.<br /> +Weighing in the Balance, 429.<br /> +West, sign painted by, 432.<br /> +Western Church, corruption of, 372.<br /> +Westminster Hall, Old, 251.<br /> +Whale Chase in the Hebrides, 297.<br /> +Widow, paraphernalia of, 271.<br /> +Wife, an American one, 272.<br /> +Wilderness described, 397.<br /> +William IV. and Queen Adelaide, 143.<br /> +William Tell, legend of, 430.<br /> +Wills of bachelors, 271<br /> + curious facts respecting, 270<br /> + compulsory, 271<br /> + of criminals, 271.<br /> +Wilton Castle, history of, 305.<br /> +Windsor Castle from the N.E., 177.<br /> +Wine,<br /> + bramble, to make, 15<br /> + grape, to make, 15.<br /> +Wit, lines on, 9.<br /> +Witchcrafts in 1647, 174.<br /> +Wolf,<br /> + anecdotes of, 171<br /> + Dog in Cumberland, 426.<br /> +Woodpecker, arctic, 356.<br /> +Wordsworth, recollections of, 255.<br /> +Wreck, lines on the, 322.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Xenophon, picture by Haydon, 218.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Zebu, or Indian Ox, the, 385.<br /> +Zoological Gardens,<br /> + Regent's Park, 114—273—385<br /> + picture of, 386.<br /> +Zoological Gardens,<br /> + Surrey, 1—273<br /> + Society, report of, 275.<br /> +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<h2>LIST OF SIXTY-THREE ENGRAVINGS</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>IN THE PRESENT VOLUME.</h3> + +<h3><i>STEEL-PLATE PORTRAIT OF THE RT. HON. EARL GREY.</i></h3> + +<p> +Three Views in the Surrey Zoological Gardens.<br /> +Fishmongers' Hall.<br /> +—————Arms.<br /> +Law Institution, Chancery Lane.<br /> +Pontefract Castle.<br /> +Castle of Robert the Devil.<br /> +Cavern of Robert the Devil.<br /> +Cascade at Virginia Water.<br /> +Brighton in 1743.<br /> +Lady Chapel, St. Saviour, Southwark.<br /> +Three Views in the Zoological Gardens.<br /> +Entrance to the Botanic Garden, Manchester.<br /> +Tucopia, in the Southern Pacific Ocean.<br /> +Piercy Islands.<br /> +Seven Cuts of the Arbalest, or Cross-Bow.<br /> +Windsor Castle (N.E. View.)<br /> +Burial-place in Tongatabu.<br /> +Ancient Bankside.<br /> +Two Cuts of Bull and Bear-baiting Theatres.<br /> +Lowther Arcade, West Strand.<br /> +Beulah Saline Spa, Norwood.<br /> +Tomb of the poet, Waller.<br /> +Melrose Abbey.<br /> +Queen Anne's Spring, near Eton.<br /> +Swiss Cottage at the Colosseum.<br /> +Bay-Window at ditto.<br /> +Three Cuts of the Zoological Gardens.<br /> +"Happy Jerry.<br />" +St. Pancras (Old) Church.<br /> +Fire Temples in Persia.<br /> +Wilton Castle, on the Wye.<br /> +Skeleton of the Turkey.<br /> +Rhinoceros Bird.<br /> +Staines New Bridge.<br /> +Bamborough Castle.<br /> +The Alhambra, in Spain.<br /> +Palace of Charles V.<br /> +White-horned Arctic Owl.<br /> +Cock of the Plains.<br /> +Legs and Feet of Mountain Grouse.<br /> +Claw of Woodpecker.<br /> +Monkey Island.<br /> +Hampton-wick Chapel.<br /> +Brahmin Bull.<br /> +———Shed.<br /> +Sir Thomas Fowler's Lodge, Islington.<br /> +Dunheved Castle.<br /> +Ancient Chimney Piece at Exeter.<br /> +Lord Cornwallis's Monument.<br /> +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"> + </a><b>Footnote 1</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag1"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + Wilton Castle, on the Wye, was for several centuries the + baronial residence of the Greys of the South, who derived + from it their first title, and became its owners in the time + of Edward I.—See <i>Mirror</i>, vol. xiv. p. 305. + </p> +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"> + </a><b>Footnote 2</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag2"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + The barony of Werke was given to the family of Ros, Barons of + Hemsley, in Yorkshire, by Henry I. for the service of two + knights' fees, and was in their possession till 1399; but in + the next year was found to belong to Sir Thomas Grey, of + Heton. It gave title of baron in 1622, to Sir William Grey, + who died in 1674. The village of Werke, and its ruined castle, + are all that remain of the possessions of the barony; the + former consisting of a miserable cluster of thatched cottages; + the latter of mere fragments of ashlar work, near its + foundations and lines of its moat. The village stands on the + margin of the Tweed: and the castle is celebrated in the + border annals. Heton, of which we have just spoken, in Edward + the First's reign, belonged to William de Heton; and in the + next reign, to Sir Thomas Grey, captain of Norham Castle. Sir + John Grey, of Heton, in 1420, was graced with the order of St. + George, or the Garter; and from him the estate descended to + the Tankervilles. + </p> +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"> + </a><b>Footnote 3</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag3"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + Speech on the second reading of the Reform Bill, in the House + of Lords, Oct. 4, 1831. + </p> +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote4" name="footnote4"> + </a><b>Footnote 4</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag4"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + Life and Reign of George IV. by William Wallace, Esq. 3 vols. + 1831. + </p> +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote5" name="footnote5"> + </a><b>Footnote 5</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag5"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + Life and Reign of George IV. By W. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction + No. 555, Supplement to Volume 19 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 8, 2004 [EBook #12554] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, SUPPL. *** + + + + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Allen Siddle and PG Distributed Proofreaders + + + + + +[Illustration: EARL GREY.] + + + + +THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. + + +CONTAINING + +ORIGINAL ESSAYS; HISTORICAL NARRATIVES; BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS; SKETCHES OF +SOCIETY; TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NOVELS AND TALES; ANECDOTES; + +SELECT EXTRACTS FROM NEW AND EXPENSIVE WORKS; POETRY, ORIGINAL AND +SELECTED; + +THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS; DISCOVERIES IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES; +USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS; + +&c. &c. &c. + + +VOL. XIX. + +LONDON: + +PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. LIMBIRD, 143, STRAND, (Near Somerset-House.) + +1832. + + + + * * * * * + +PREFACE. + + +Here we are with our Nineteenth Volume complete. We do not carry it to +Court to gain patronage, neither do we preface it with a costly dedication +to a purse-proud patron; but we present it at the levee of the people, as +a production in which the information and amusement of one and all are +equally kept in view. We know that instances have occurred of authors +tiring out their patrons. A pleasant story is told of Spencer, who sent +the manuscript of his Faery Queen to the Earl of Southampton, the Mecaenas +of those days; when the earl reading a few pages, ordered the poet to be +paid twenty pounds; reading further, another twenty pounds; and proceeding +still, twenty pounds more; till losing all patience, his lordship cried, +"Go turn that fellow out of the house, for if I read on I shall be ruined." +We have no fear this will be our fate; especially as we strive to effect +all that can be accomplished in our economical form to follow as well as +direct the public taste. + +Experience has taught us in the conduct of nineteen volumes of +this Miscellany, that the most effectual method of conveying instruction, +or aiding the progress of knowledge, is by combining it with amusement; +or, in other words by at once aiming at the head and heart. +The world is already too full of precept upon precept; and a smattering +of principles is too often found in the place of practice. How can +this order of things be improved but by setting forth duties as innocent +pleasures, sweetening utility with entertainment, and garnishing fact +with fancy. A man need not study Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations +to become rich, nor seek the glories of nature in artificial Systems. +But the contrary notion has probably given rise to the observation, that, +"what the present generation have gained in head, they have lost in +heart." It should not, however, be so, with the abundance of materials +we have for social improvement. + +We hope the reader has recognised the influence of these feelings in the +many illustrations of men, manners, and times, which it has ever been our +object to garner into the pages of THE MIRROR. Hence the traits of +domestic life in all ages, and the tales and traditions of the family +hearth, when pointed with a moral, receive our special attention. In this +department, as well as in the playful fancies of poetry, in embellishing +the softer sympathies of nature,--we have been materially aided by our +Correspondents; to all of whom we proffer our best thanks. + +In the present volume, the Public Journals of the day have not been +disregarded; while sterling literature, of the _utile cum dulce_ character, +has been studied; and new books have been consulted, not so much for the +purpose of exposing their defects, as exhibiting their perfections. Art +has contributed its novelties; and the progress of Natural Science has +developed many new beauties appreciable by every reader. + +The ENGRAVINGS are somewhat more numerous than usual; in all numbering +sixty-three; and they are accompanied by illustrative letter-press of +concise, but we trust, entertaining character. + +In Popular Antiquities we may mention Old Fishmongers' Hall, which has +disappeared since the date of our last volume; the Castles of Pontefract, +Wilton, and Dunheved, with traits of their historic lore; the Lady Chapel, +in Southwark, and its changing history; Brighton about a hundred years +since; the Arbalest, or Cross-bow explained with Cuts; Old Bankside, and +the First Theatres; the venerable Melrose on the Tweed; St. Pancras (Old) +Church; and the castellated palace of the Alhambra, in Spain. + +Among the Architectural novelties are the Law Institution, in Chancery +Lane; the Lowther Arcade, in the Strand; Staines New Bridge; and two +scenes of the picturesque wonders of the Colosseum, in the Regent's Park. + +In Zoology, the most popular study of the day, there are upwards of a +score of novelties. Among them are a dozen Vignettes from the Zoological +Gardens in the Regent's Park, and in Surrey; and illustrations of Rare +Arctic Birds observed during the last overland expedition to the Polar Sea, +by Captain Sir John Franklin. + +In the ensuing volume, we have determined upon enlarging our letter-press +page; whilst a new and handsome type has been cast expressly for this work. +By these improvements, as well as by the renewed vigour of our artists, +and a like zeal on our own part, THE MIRROR will be found still worthy of +its old friends, and attractive to new patrons. Its economy need not be +again enforced, although in this respect, our contemplated alterations +cannot but be received as additional points for the encouragement of a +discerning public. + +_London, June 28, 1832._ + + * * * * * + + + + +MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES GREY, EARL GREY, K.G., + +FIRST LORD OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY, &c. &c. + + * * * * * + +DE BON VOULOIR SERVIR LE ROI.--_Family Motto._ + + * * * * * + +The family of GREY--the Greys of the North, as they are styled +distinctively from the Greys of the South,[1]--is of Saxon origin.[2] They +have held manors in Northumberland from the earliest records to the +present time. The direct founder of the present branch was Baron Grey of +Werke, ennobled by James I. and advanced to the earldom of Tankerville by +William III. which titles became extinct in 1710; and the heiress carried +the estates by marriage to Charles Bennet, Lord Ossulston, who was, in +consequence, created Earl of Tankerville, in 1714. + + [1] Wilton Castle, on the Wye, was for several centuries the + baronial residence of the Greys of the South, who derived + from it their first title, and became its owners in the time + of Edward I.--See _Mirror_, vol. xiv. p. 305. + + [2] The barony of Werke was given to the family of Ros, Barons of + Hemsley, in Yorkshire, by Henry I. for the service of two + knights' fees, and was in their possession till 1399; but in + the next year was found to belong to Sir Thomas Grey, of + Heton. It gave title of baron in 1622, to Sir William Grey, + who died in 1674. The village of Werke, and its ruined castle, + are all that remain of the possessions of the barony; the + former consisting of a miserable cluster of thatched cottages; + the latter of mere fragments of ashlar work, near its + foundations and lines of its moat. The village stands on the + margin of the Tweed: and the castle is celebrated in the + border annals. Heton, of which we have just spoken, in Edward + the First's reign, belonged to William de Heton; and in the + next reign, to Sir Thomas Grey, captain of Norham Castle. Sir + John Grey, of Heton, in 1420, was graced with the order of St. + George, or the Garter; and from him the estate descended to + the Tankervilles. + +The father of Earl Grey was Sir Charles Grey, who entered the army at an +early age, had a command in the American war, and commanded in chief the +military forces in the expeditions against the French West India Islands, +the successful result of which was the annexing of Martinique, St. Lucie, +Guadaloupe, &c. to our empire. He married, in 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of +George Grey, Esq. of Southwick, in Durham, (of a different family,) by +whom he had five sons and two daughters. He was created Lord Grey of +Howick, in 1801; and Viscount Howick, and Earl Grey, in 1806. He died in +the following year, and was succeeded by his son, Charles, second and +present earl. + +Mr. Grey was born March 13, 1764, and educated at Eton, in the same class +with the late Mr. Lambton, (father of the present Lord Durham,) Mr. +Whitbread, and others, with whom he afterwards acted in political life. He +was then sent to King's College, Cambridge, where he displayed first-rate +abilities. On his leaving the University, he set out on the tour of Europe, +though only eighteen years of age. In Italy, he was introduced to the late +Duke of Cumberland, in whose household he obtained an appointment. He +returned to England in 1786, and soon after his arrival, was, by the +interest of his family, returned to parliament for the county of +Northumberland, when he joined the Whigs, it has been stated, to the +surprise of his family, whose principles were those of Toryism. + +At a subsequent general election, as an expensive contest was expected for +Northumberland, Mr. Grey declined nomination, and was returned to +parliament for Appleby, which borough he represented till his succession +to the peerage. In the House of Commons his great talents soon shone forth; +and, in conjunction with Fox, Sheridan, Lambton, Ponsonby, and others, he +maintained an intrepid opposition to the doctrines of that darling of fame, +Mr. Pitt. Immediately after his entrance into Parliament, his discussion +of the minister's important treaty of commerce, may be said to have +established his reputation, by the force of his eloquence, as well as by +the enlarged views which he seemed to have acquired of commercial +relations; which knowledge is more frequently the result of gradual +experience than of early attainment. + +In these stormy times Mr. Grey ranked among the head and front of +contending politics. He was appointed one of the managers of that +magnificent political drama--the impeachment of Warren Hastings, when he +displayed great acumen in that part of the accusation termed the Benares +Charge. + +In 1791, we find Mr. Grey taking the lead in a measure, which, in the +language of a great orator (Burke) "shed a lustre on the character and +humanity of the nation." The subject to which we allude, was the +melancholy situation of those who were unable to satisfy the demands of +importunate creditors, and consequently subjected to the operation of a +rigorous code of laws. His observation in moving for a parliamentary +committee to inquire into the present practice and effect of imprisonment +for debt is worthy of quotation: "it was desirable to distinguish the +unfortunate debtor from the knavish one, to place the creditor in that +situation which afforded the fairest and the speediest means of +compensation, and to regulate the jails of this country in such a manner +as to prevent unnecessary hardship and restraint. Whether they considered +the practice of confining for debt men who had no means of discharging +such debt, or, on the contrary, fraudulent debtors, whose creditors by no +process could compel them to pay; these circumstances were alone +sufficient to constitute an inquiry into the state of the laws relating to +debtor and creditor." This motion being acceded to, a committee consisting +of Mr. Grey, Mr. Pitt, Sir John Sinclair, Mr. Vansittart, Mr. Martin, the +Attorney and Solicitor Generals, and other legal gentlemen, was +immediately appointed. The origin of this inquiry is an indicative of the +liberal policy of the statesman as it is of the humanity of the mover. + +In 1792, Mr. Grey instituted an inquiry into the conduct of ministers with +regard to the recently threatened hostilities with Russia. His +animadversion upon the vacillating and ruinous measures of government were +characterized by that fearless intrepidity, truth, energy, and eloquence, +which have distinguished his political career. The motion for the inquiry +was lost, though the powerful remarks of the mover drew from Mr. Pitt the +following memorable confession: "All unlimited confidence is +unconstitutional; and I hope the inglorious moment will never arrive, when +this house will abandon the privilege of examining, condemning, and +correcting the abuses in the executive government. It is the dearest +privilege you possess, and should never be relinguished." + +During the schisms occasioned in this country by the French revolution, Mr. +Grey enrolled himself in a political society, called the Friends of the +People. He also became a member of the Whig Club, then in the zenith of +its celebrity. His active advocacy of the cause of a reform in parliament +was equal within and without the house of commons. To quote one of his +Lordship's most recent speeches, "In 1786 he had voted for reform. He had +supported Mr. Pitt in his motion for shortening the duration of +parliaments. He had given his best assistance to the measure of reform +introduced by Mr. Flood, before the French revolution; and, on one or two +different occasions, he had originated motions on the subject."[3] One of +these was in 1793, when he presented a petition for reform and a shorter +duration of parliament, from the Society of the Friends of the People: his +motion for a committee was lost by 280 to 41. Another occasion to which +his Lordship alludes, was in 1797, when he proposed, in his plan of +parliamentary reform, to give to the county of York four new members; to +divide each county into two districts, each returning a member. +Copyholders and leaseholders were to have equal rights of voting with +freeholders, as were all householders paying taxes in cities and boroughs; +and parliaments were to be triennial. This motion was, however, negatived +by 149 votes. + + [3] Speech on the second reading of the Reform Bill, in the House + of Lords, Oct. 4, 1831. + +In 1795, Mr. Grey opposed with great firmness, Mr. Pitt's motion for the +adjustment of the Prince of Wales's debts, and moved for the reduction of +the Prince's income. He professed himself ready to support the real +splendour of the royal family "as any slippery sycophant of a court;" but +said he thought there was more true dignity in manifesting a heart alive +to the distresses of millions, than in all those trappings which encumber +royalty without adorning it. He asked whether the legislature should give +an example of encouraging extravagance at a moment when the prevailing +fashion of prodigality among people of fortune was rapidly destroying +their independence, and making them the tools of the court, and the +contempt of the people. He knew the refusal to pay his debts would be a +severe privation to the Prince of Wales; but it would be a just penalty +for the past, a useful lesson for the future, and a proper deference to +the severe pressure and privations endured by the people. Mr. Grey's +amendment was supported by what was then a strong majority--99 to 260; and +the original motion carried: his conduct on this occasion seems never to +have been forgotten by the Prince of Wales, the Regent or the King. It +should here be mentioned, that, with equal justice, Mr. Grey subsequently +defended the rights of His Royal Highness from the shackles proposed to be +laid on him as Regent. + +Mr. Grey's opposition to Mr. Pitt's measures continued unabated for many +years, while he remained equally steady in his attachment to Mr. Fox. His +bitter hostility to the union between Ireland and England may be said to +have produced one of his most celebrated speeches. Neither was he dazzled, +nor misled by the splendid talents of Burke, at this time in highest +repute. When Mr. Fox was deserted by Lords Fitzwilliam, Carlisle, and +other alarmists, Mr. Grey unchangingly adhered to him; and when Mr. Fox +and Lord Grenville formed a Whig ministry, in 1806, Mr. Grey, then, by his +father's elevation to the peerage, become Lord Howick, was appointed First +Lord of the Admiralty, and one of the Cabinet Council. He next succeeded +Mr. Fox as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and leader in the House of +Commons. This ministry was ill-formed, and wanted unity of purpose: their +abolition of the Slave Trade was a redeeming measure, in which Lord Howick +bore a conspicuous part; but his lordship's motion for the emancipation of +the Catholics brought about his dismissal from the ministry. + +Lord Howick, soon after, by the death of his father, succeeded to the +title of Earl Grey; and by the death of his uncle, Sir Henry Grey, to the +family estate. Ill health, for a time, kept his lordship from public life: +he retired with no place but that of a Governor of the Charter House, and +without pension or sinecure. Upon the resignation of the Duke of Portland, +in 1809, his successor, Mr. Perceval, proposed a coalition with Lords +Grenville and Grey, which was at once rejected by the latter. In the +following year, his lordship "felt it his duty to arraign and to expose +the gross mismanagement of the government, and their repeated and +dangerous misconduct," in Parliament. In the same session, he charged the +lord chancellor (Eldon) with a crime little short of treason, in having +set the great seal, in 1801 and 1804, to commissions for giving the royal +assent to several bills, whilst the King was in a state of mental +infirmity, under medical care, and subject to personal control. The motion +was negatived by a majority of 189 to 64; "but Lord Eldon has not +forgotten the accusation, or forgiven the mover."[4] In 1812, another +attempt was made to bring Lord Grey, with Lord Grenville, into the cabinet; +but this was rejected as promptly as before. + + [4] Life and Reign of George IV. by William Wallace, Esq. 3 vols. + 1831. + +Lord Grey again retired to private life. In 1817, his lordship reappeared, +and moved an amendment to the parliamentary address to the throne, urging +rigid economy, retrenchment, and an inquiry into the state of the nation. +In the same year he brought before the House of Lords, the notable +circular of Lord Sidmouth for the prosecution of libels by magistrates. +"It is a singular fact," observes an acute historical writer,[5] "that +Lord Grey, on this occasion, made an able and erudite law argument; which +all the law lords, including Lord Ellenborough, made vain efforts to +refute; and which Lord Ellenborough had the manliness to eulogize;" +notwithstanding which Lord Grey's motion for a copy of the opinion of the +law officers of the crown was negatived. + + [5] Life and Reign of George IV. By W. Wallace, Esq. 3 vols. 1831. + +During the trial of Queen Caroline, the wisdom-tempered zeal of Lord Grey +ranked him amongst the most efficient, as he was the most eloquent, of her +defenders: his lordship, in conjunction with Lord King, also made +successive attempts, by motions, to quash the investigation. + +To the administration of the Earl of Liverpool, it need scarcely be added, +Earl Grey was thoroughly hostile: his aversion to the policy of Mr. +Canning was equally decided; and the same independent spirit urged him to +oppose the measures of the Wellington cabinet, except the memorable +measure of Catholic Emancipation, by the proposal of which he had lost +office in the year 1810. His lordship's eloquent efforts in this cause +must be alive in the recollection of the reader. + +We are now fast approaching the consummation of one of the grand objects +of his lordship's political life. By the dissolution of the Wellington +cabinet, in 1830, Lord Grey became at the head of the present +administration. His first act was the introduction of the grand measure +for parliamentary reform, which, for sixteen months past, has interested +the whole population of this mighty empire. His lordship's emphatic +expressions, on this occasion, are "familiar as household words." "He made +it a condition on accepting office, that Parliamentary Reform should be +introduced as a government measure. That condition having been assented to +by his most gracious sovereign, by this measure he was prepared to stand +or fall." Gratifying as would be the task, we need not detail the +incidents of the last few months of his lordship's career. Our eulogium +would be poor indeed, while nine-tenths of the journals of our country are +perpetuating his good deeds; while his political integrity has become +exemplary to every cabinet in Europe; and millions are about to burst +forth in "the loud festivity of mirth" to celebrate the virtue of their +popular minister. + +Earl Grey married in 1794, Mary Elizabeth Brabazon, daughter of Lord +Ponsonby, by whom his lordship has had a numerous family: the eldest son +and heir apparent being Viscount Howick, born in 1802. In our outline of +Lord Grey's public life, the reader may have observed his Lordship's +fondness for the retirement of the domestic circle. This accords with his +recent declaration in parliament: "he was fond of retirement, and in +domestic life he lived happy in the bosom of his family. Nothing could +have tempted him to embark on these stormy seas-- + + Bankrupt of life, but prodigal of ease-- + +nothing but an overpowering sense of the duty which he owed to his +country." Even apart from political distinction, Earl Grey must be +considered happy indeed; but honoured in public and cherished in private +life, his pre-eminence is proud indeed. Shakspeare tells of the "divinity" +that "doth hedge a king:" yet who would enjoy more than the consciousness +of having been true to his sovereign, his country, and his honour. + + * * * * * + + + +INDEX. + +ANECDOTE GALLERY, 277--291--309--375--404. +CORRESPONDENCE in each Number. +COSMOPOLITE, 170--179--211--237--276. +EMBELLISHED ARTICLES in each Number. +FINE ARTS, 90--139--150--164--198--218--393. +GATHERER in each Number. +MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS, 22--253--259--297--329--361--405. +NATURALIST, 27--38--56--150--183--245--265--297--311--383--425. +NOTES OF A READER, 23--55--73--92--100--140--152--168--180--200--220 + --235--251--270--279----326--372--413--429. +NOVELIST, 44--59. +OLD POETS, 8. +RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS, 7--38--76--86--174--227--334--419. +SELECT BIOGRAPHY, 105. +SELECTOR, 9--40--69--84--107--121--137--157--172--185--216--228--254 + --261--293--307--324--331--331--358--382--397--407--427. +SKETCH BOOK, 3--20--36--116--136--148--268--313. +SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY, 6--46--54--126--190--283--363--411. +SPIRIT OF PUBLIC JOURNALS, 12--28--42--62--77--91--102--118--133--155 + --165--189--203--213--234--248--264--284--299--316--365--378--394 + --413--420. +TOPOGRAPHER, 124--377. +USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS, 15--83. + + * * * * * + + + +Abernethy, Mr., Anecdotes of, 40. +Abbot of Tewkesbury, the, 268 +Abstract Studies, 292. +Academy Delia Crusca, Origin of, 406. +Adrian IV., Anecdotes of, 304. +Advent Customs, 22. +Advertisement Extraordinary, 240. +Affection of Animals, 266. +African Expedition, 7 + Horse Race, 216. +Agricultural Societies, Ancient, 229. +Alhambra, Palace of, described, 337. +Alligator on the Ganges, 347. +Altrive Tales, by the Ettrick Shepherd, 254. +America, + Domestic Life in, 180--235--323 + North, Birds of, 356 + Prosperity of, 239. +American English, 236 + Prejudice, 399 + Women, conversation with, 182. +Anagrams, 16. +Anatomists, Skilful, 183. +Anecdotage, 375. +Angel of Departure, Song of, 168 + Welcome, 168. +Angling, Hints on, 183. +Anglo-Saxon Dress, 407. +Animals, Superstition relative to, 170--178--211--237. +Anne Boleyn, 96. +Apologue, Oriental, 336. +Arabian Beauty, 157. +Arbalest, or Cross-bow explained, 161--210 + of Robin Hood, 322. +Arcadian Child Sleeping, 157. +Archbishop, Dancing, 191. +Arctic Birds, rare, 354. +Ark of Noah and Mount Ararat, 382. +Arrows, Poisoned, 192. +Artillery Company, Origin of, 406. +Asmodeus in London, 29. +Ass, Persecution of the, 171. +Astronomical Toasts, 256. +Athenian Lover to his Mistress, 157. +Audubon, the Naturalist, 298. +Aviary in the Zoological Gardens, 273. + +Babylon, Willows of, 411. +Backwoodsman of America, 201. +Ballad Singing, English, 370. +Bamborough Castle described, 327. +Bankrupt Court, the New, 159. +Bankside, Old, 193. +Barbarous Punishments, 253. +Bardic Chorus, 100. +Barn Owl, economy of, 27--38. +Barton Booth, the actor, 192. +Bathing, Nocturnal, 347. +Bear, + errors respecting, 179 + Polar, habits of, 114. +Bed of Leaves, 207. +Bedford Level, 192 + Missal, 192. +Bell-rock Lighthouse, 182. +Beranger, Song from, 370. +Beulah Spa, near Norwood, 225. +Bills of Mortality, Origin of, 76. +Biography, Splendid, 303. +Birds, Structure of, 311. +Birmingham Railway, 190. +Birth Song, 168. +Black Monday, 208. +Blondel de Nesle, a ballad, 28. +Blunder, Conversational, 292. +Bonington, the artist, 168. +Books, New, noticed and quoted: + Adventures of a Younger Son, 157--172. + Advice to Executors, 270. + Annual Biography and Obituary, for 1832, 40. + Arlington, 407. + Bath Guide, New, 94. + Book of Instruction, 93. + Britain's Historical Drama, 100. + British Relations with the Chinese Empire, 220. + Britton's Tunbridge Wells, 376. + Cabinet Annual Register for 1831, 334. + Chantilly, a Novel, 154. + Characteristic Sketches of Animals, by Landseer, 386. + Contarini Fleming, 429. + Contrast, by Earl Mulgrave, 293. + Domestic Manners of the Americans, 180--201. + Elements of Chemistry familiarly explained, 152. + Eugene Aram, 23--57--95--101--142. + Fair of May Fair, 331. + Francis I., a tragedy, by Miss F. Kemble, 170--185. + Frankland's Visit to Russia and Sweden, 84. + Georgian Era, 122--137--278. + Gleanings in Natural History, 245--265. + Hampden and his times, 140. + Herbert's Country Parson, 93. + History of the Reformation in + England, 9 + Italian Republics, 121 + Spain and Portugal, 398. + Hunchback, by J.S. Knowles, 279. + Indian Tale and other Poems, 373. + Knowledge for the People, 25--200--344. + Landers' Travels in Africa, 126--216--231. + Life of Gregory VII., by Sir Roger Greisley, 372. + Life and Reign of George IV., 280. + Lives of Eminent British Military Commanders, 358 + British Painters, 168. + Maid of Elvar, by Allan Cunningham, 351. + Memoirs of Sir Ralph Esher, 105. + Messiah, by Montgomery, 397. + Outline of English History, 95. + Paris and its Historical Scenes, 69. + Pen and Pencil Sketches of India, by Capt. Mundy, 345. + Songs of the Gipsies, 232. + Summer Fête, by Moore, 12. + Tales of the Alhambra, by Washington Irving, 307--337 to 342--361 + Early Ages, 261. + Time's Telescope for 1832, 71. + Tour of a German Prince, 143. + Transactions of the Society of Arts, 283. + Truth of Revelation demonstrated, 382--409--427. + Watts's New Year's Gift, 85. + Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America, 354. +"Boot, to," the phrase, 31. +Botany, Curiosities of, 25. +Bouts Rimés, Origin of, 191. +Box Wood, uses of, 15. +Brahmin Bull, the, 385. +Brazil, a day in, 150. +Brereton, the late Colonel, 105. +Brighton in 1743, 88--124. +British Artists Society, + Exhibition of, 198 + Institution, Visit to, 164 + Museum, the, 152 + Warriors, 358. +Bull and Bear-baiting Theatres, 193. +Bullock, Mr., in America, 236. +Burial, + Science of, 165 + Place in Tongatabu, 184. +Burke, Writings of, 357. +Burns, Birthday of, 73. +Bushy, owners of, 432. + +Calves-head Roll, 416. +Camoens, fate of, 288. +Cambridge Freshman, 43. +Campagna Felice, 383. +Cape Town, Population of, 348. +Capillary Attraction, 303. +Caps, Laws respecting, 303. +Cardinal Spider, the, 266. +Caroline, Queen, death of, 278. +Catching Tigers, 160. +Catholic Religion, dramatic character of the, 189. +Cats, Superstitions relative to, 170. +Caviare to the Multitude, 271. +Cedar Wood, scent of, 342. +Chalk, none in America, 182. +Chancery Suit, to decide, 252. +Chapel at Hampton Wick, 376. +Char, habits of, 425. +Charles + II. at Epsom, 108 + V., Palace of, in the Alhambra, 337. +Cheating in the Law, 252. +Chelsea + Heroines, 416 + Pensioners, Longevity of, 416. +Chemistry, Familiar Elements of, 152. +Child in Prayer, Lines to a, 423. +Children, + Lines on, 8 + Impromptu on, 189. +Chimney-piece, curious, at Exeter, 417. +China, + Picture of, 221 + Varieties of, 324. +Chinese Proverbs, &c., 16. +Chit Chat of the Day, 394. +Cholera, + Vapour Bath in, 6--54 + Notes on, 80--128. +Christ, Portrait of, 87--140. +Cincinnati, + Health in, 236 + Letter from, 323. +Cincinnatus, Modern, 400. +Civil, + Death explained, 270 + War, Lines on, 351. +Claret, Properties of, 192. +Clavering's Autobiography, 420. +Cleopatra's Needles, 291. +Coasting Scrap, 116. +Cock of the Arctic Plains, 355. +Cockney Horsemen, Hints to, 77. +Coffee, + as made in the East, 173 + Shops in London, 222. +Coffin-maker, the, by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, 203. +Coin of Edward III., 275. +Colchester, Lord, 422. +Colosseum, Swiss Cottage at the, 258. +Colton, the late Mr., 403. +Comets, concussion of, with the Earth, 71. +Confessions of Serventius, 44--59. +Congreve, + at Dove Dale, 432 + Rockets, 239. +Cornwall, Scene on the coast of, 313. +Cornwallis, Lord, Mausoleum of, in India, 423. +Count, a noble, 48. +Courage, Cool, 292. +Coventry Charity, 334. +Counterfeit Kings, 176. +Cowley, the poet, 105. +Cows in America, 236. +Crime, Progress of, 379. +Crocodiles on the Mississippi, 235. +Cromwell, + Lely's Portrait of, 109 + his Fun, 112. +Cross-bow, History of the, 162. +Crowland Abbey, 228. +Crucifixion, + the, 398 + Hilton's Picture of, 90. +Cumberland Titles, 239. +Curfew Bell, custom of, 253--273--307. + +Dancers, Aged, 416. +David and Goliath, 411. +De Lolme, Politics of, 421. +Deer, errors respecting, 179. +Delft or Dutch Ware, 283. +Deluge, the, 382--410. +Demosthenes, Studies of, 291. +Devil's Sonata, the, 42. +Diamonds in Brazil, 234. +Dibdin, Rev. Dr., 423. +Dirge of Death, 168. +Dispute, an odd one, 373. +Dogs, Superstitions relative to, 171. +Doll's Eyes, Trade in, 336. +Drama, decline of, 55. +Druid's Chair, sitting in, 261. +Druids and Mistletoe, 336. +Drunkenness in old London, 176. +Ducks, instinct of, 426. +Duc de Bordeaux, the young, 271. +Dunheved Castle, described, 401. +Dutch Rushes, 426. +Dwarfs, Russian, 84. +Dying Maiden's Pardon to her faithless lover, 291. + +Early Rising, 96. +East India Company, origin of, 221. +Echo Puns, 240. +Eclipse at Boossa, 281. +Economic Hints, 15. +Eels, economy of, 246. +Effrontery, 292. +Eggs, duty on, 336. +Egypt, + court of, a sketch, 413 + researches in, 96. +Elegy, from the German, 291. +Elliston and the Ass' Head, 91. +Emu, + economy of, 267 + house, 273. +Encroachers on Commons, 20. +Entomology, curious fact in, 298. +Epitaphs, in Wiltshire, 48. +Epsom Races, origin of, 329--361. +Ettrick Shepherd, dinner to, 73. +Eugene Aram, scene from, 23--56--95--102. +Evening, + lines to, 147 + lines on, 352. +Every man in his humour, 36. +Expedition, African, 7. + +Facetiae of Hierocles, 24. +Fairies, lines on, 8. +Fame, lines on, 352. +Farmer, Dr. of Cambridge, 421. +Fashion, ennui of, 326. +Feathers, economy of collecting, 83. +Felony, classic, 384. +Fiddling, poetry, 400. +Fights of wild beasts, 346. +Fines and Recoveries, 252. +Fire of London, 109. +Fire Temples in Persia, 297. +First born, a song, 156. +Fish, superstitions respecting, 212. +Fishing in Canada, 210. +Fishmongers' + Arms, 17 + Hall, ancient, 17. +Fitzherbert, Mrs., 143. +Floating Scheme, 76. +Fortune-telling in high life, 144. +Forty-ninth Birthday, 133. +Fowler, Sir Thomas, his Lodge at Islington, 392. +Fox's Book of Martyrs characterized, 10. +Fox-hunting, expenses of, 223. +Fragments on Human Life, 115. +Franking Letters, 160. +Frederick I. of Prussia, 47. +French + Cruelty, 292 + Drama, scene from, 118 + Literature, recent, 349 + Revolution, scenes from, 62--69. +Friendship, lines on, 224. +Fright, effects of, 7. +Fuel, economical, 15. + +Galley Slaves, a tale, 299. +Gardens and promenades, 399. +Garratt Election, 415. +Garrick Club, 144. +George + I. and II. anecdotes of, 277--278 + II., humanity of, 400 + IV., character of, 123--280. +Gipsey Fortune-teller, lines to, 164. +Glass, enamel paintings on, 219. +Gleanings in Natural History, 245--265. +Glee, a legal one, 251. +Gluttony, royal and noble, 35. +Goats, fabulous account of, 170. +God, supremacy of, 9. +Goldsmith, Oliver, 147. +Good Samaritan, parable of, 410. +Gorhambury, fete at, 304. +Governess, qualifications for, 176. +Greek Sailors, 76. +Greenwich Hospital, 400. +Groaning Tree of Baddesley, 419. +Grouse, rocky mountain, 356. +Gurnard and Sprat, habits of, 311. +Gutting the Fish, 64. + +Hail at Lausanne, 342. +Half-hanged Anne Green, 47. +Hainet and Raschid, a tale, 82. +Hamlet, ditty in, 32. +"Happy Jerry," anecdotes of, 273. +Harlow's Triul of Queen Katherine, 219. +Haydon's Pictures, 150--218. +Heating with Hot Water, 411. +Heating Rooms, 152. +Heckington, Holy Sepulchre at, 19. +Hemans, Mrs., sketch of, 358. +Henri III. of France, 154. +Henry I., speech of, 38. +Henry VII., character of England by, 304. +Hindoo Burial Service, 406. +Hip! Hip! Hurra! origin of, 208. +Hogg, James, dinner to, 73. +Hogs in America, 182. +Hoadley and Oldfield's Paintings on Glass, 219. +Hobbes at Chatsworth, 404. +Hobby-horse, the, 228. +Holly Leaves, medicinal use of, 412. +Holy Land, 228. +Hope, lines on, 34. +Horace Walpole, 421. +Horse Racing, origin of in England, 329--361. +Human Life, fragments on, 115. +Humbug, origin of, 159. +Humming-bird, a song, 323. +Hurley in Berkshire, account of, 419. +Hyaena, fables of, 171. +Hyde Park in America, 399. + +Iceland, desolation of, 96. +Inclosure Acts, 252. +Infancy, lines on, 318. +Ink Spots, to remove, 84. +Insects, superstitions respecting, 180--211. +Instinct allied to reason, 246. +Iron Trade, British, 46. +Irish character, traits of, 291. +Isabel of Spain, character of, 415. +Isaiah, lines on, 398. +Italian + Climate, 383 + Inn, 383 + Landscape, 383. +Italian Warfare, character of, 121. +Italy, Horticultural Tour in, 382. + +Jackal, errors respecting, 179. +Jardin de Plantes, described, 85. +Jay, remarkable, 298. +Jests of the Ancients, 24. +Justice, laconic, 76. + +Kemble, Miss, Tragedy by, 170--185. +Kensington Palace, expenses of, 302. +King John at the Cape, 347. +King of Kippen, the, 303. +Knaresborough Castle, 142. +Knight's Return, the, 244. + +Labourers' Friend Society, 148. +Laconics, or Guesses at Truth, 52--67--82--242--196--99. +Lady, lines to, on her age, 370. +Lady Chapel, Southward, 97--131. +Lamp, primitive one, 288. +Lancashire, improvement of, 326. +Landers' Journey to the Niger, 126--216--229--281. +Lark, lines to, 211. +Last Dying Speech and Confession of the Immortal Gods, 264. +Law of Arrest, the, 155. +Law Institution in Chancery Lane, 33--53. +Laws, ancient, 227. +Leather, manufacture of in Canada, 368. +Legal Rhymes, 197. +Lemons, sweet, 383. +Leopards, hunting with, 347. +Letter from London, 15. +Liberty in Rome, 121. +Library, a queer one, 272. +Light on the ears of a horse, 425. +Lions, tame, 32. +Lizard and Crocodile, 180. +London, Philosophy of, 133. +London and the Provinces Compared, 316. +Love, Court and Country, 372. +Love of Country, 352. +Love, French-English, 32. +Love's Kerchief, 35. +Lowther Arcade, the, 210. +Loyalist, a staunch one, 256. +Lulworth, a day at, 102. +Lyall's Geology, extract from, 57. +Lynx, errors respecting, 179. +Lyons, city of, 32. + +Macauley, Mrs., 421. +Madagascar, isle of, 172. +Magdalenes in church, 320. +Magic, state of, in Egypt, 248. +Maid's First Love, 352. +Man, agency of in extinguishing and spreading the species, 57. +Manager, duties of, 287. +Manchester Botanic Garden at, 129. +Manna, fall of, 427. +Manorial Right, curious, 23. +March of Mind, 178. +Marlborough, Life of, 359. +Mariguano, battle of, 122. +Marketing in America, 237. +Marriage Tree, 256. +Martinet, the, 213. +Martin's Picture on Glass, 219. +Martyr Student, the, 120. +Mary of Cambria, a sonnet, 388. +Massena's Tomb in Pere la Chaise, 357. +Mauritius, the, 172. +May Day Games, 259. +Melrose Abbey, history of, 241. +Men compared with Bees, 285. +Milan, Panorama of, 392. +Minstrelsy of Scotland, 352. +Mirabeau, character of, 422. +Modern Building, 134. +Monkey-houses, in the Zoological Gardens, 114. +Monkey Island, 369. +Moorhen, the, 266. +Morning in London, 134. +Morning, lines to, 99. +Morrice Dances of Robin Hood, 260. +Mortality in the Reign of William IV., 208. +"Mother Carey's Chickens," origin of, 306. +Moving Houses in America, 237. +Munden, biography of, 105. +Mungo Park, death of, 229. +Music, + effect of, 223 + old English, 189. +Muswell Hill, origin of, 304. +My Fire, a sketch, 20. + +Napier, Hon. Mrs., a sketch, 3. +Napoleon + at St. Helena, 403 + 's residence at St. Helena, 348 + tomb, 374. +Naples, fruit at, 384. +Nasmyth, the artist, 139. +Naturalists', three enthusiastic, 183. +Navy, ancient British, 7--86. +New South Wales, society in, 318. +New Zealand, islands in, 7. +Newton, + his mode of study, 193 + 's Weather-wisdom, 288. +Newtown Pippin, the, 399. +Nicknames, 175. +Niger, + river, night on, 126 + sailing on the, 231. +Night, lines on, 8. +Nightmare, lines on, 98. +Nobles of Johanna, 207. +Non-proposals, or Doubts resolved, 284. +Northcote and William III., 41. +"Nothing Impossible," 274. + +Odd Story, 111. +Opera, the Italian, 397. +Optics, witty, 112. +Owl, + the barn, 27--38 + the white-horned of the Arctic regions, 354. + +Paganini, a singing, 112. +Painted Window of the Crucifixion, 90. +Palankeen Travelling in India, 345. +Palming in Italy, 383. +Pancras Old Church described, 289--388. +Pantomimes, expenses of, 80. +Parks, the royal, 267. +Parliament, curious, 335. +Pastimes, ancient, 405. +Patriarchal Times, 397. +Pelican House, 273. +Penderell Jewel, 276. +Penitential Habit, origin of, 398. +Pepper, Arden, anecdote of, 420. +Personal Injuries, pecuniary compensation for, 276. +Philosopher's Stone, the, 288. +Phrenology, Illustrations of, 240. +Pictures, new, gossip on, 395. +Piercy Islands, 145. +Pig Scavengers in America, 236. +Pike, habits of the, 266. +Pilgrim's Progress, beauties of, 77. +Pin Money explained, 271. +Plague, great, in the fifteenth century, 430. +Plank, unlucky one, 368. +Plough described, 304. +Poetry of Ancient Days, 276. +Polynesian Islands, 145. +Poisoned Valley in Java, 6. +Pontefract Castle, history of, 50. +Pontine Marshes, 383. +Porcupine and Hedgehog, 179. +Porter, Anna Maria, 422. +Pottery, manufacture of, 283--324--363. +Prairies, origin of, 46. +Premiers of England, 320. +Presbyterian Churches in Cincinnati, 202. +Property, nature of, 252. +Prussic Acid, poisonous to vegetables, 412. +Psalter, illuminated, 178. +Punishments in the reign of Charles II., 87. +Pyramids, the, 224. + +Quadrant, the Regent's, 133. +Quarantine in America, 192. +Queen Anne's Spring, near Eton, 248. +Queen Consorts, rights of, 270. + +Railway, Marine, 412. +Rainbow, phenomenon of, 427. +Raphael China, 283. +Raven and Dove at the Deluge, 410. +Reading at Meals, 176. +Recollections of a Wanderer, 313. +Recreations in the Law, 251. +Reformation in England, 9. +Revenue and Debt of European States, 3. +Rhapsody on Nature, 373. +Rhinoceros, the, 179. +Rhinoceros Bird, history of, 312. +Rich Man, the true, 175. +Robert the Devil, Castle and Cavern of, 66. +Robin in Bushy Park, 267. +Robin Hood and May Games, 261. +Rook-shooting, cruelty of, 266. +Rousseau at Dove Dale, 432. +Rural peace, lines on, 351. +Russel, origin of the house of, 334. + +Sailors, superstition of, 270. +St. Albans, + duchess of, 144 + Bride's, parish registers of, 335 + Helena, Captain Mundy's visit to, 348--403. + +Saline Spa near Norwood, 227. +Saviour, address to the, 398. +Scandal-loving letter, 407. +Scottish, + Economy, 132--244 + Literary Dinner, 73 + Sporting, 136--148. +Scriptural, + Antiquities, 382--409--427 + Heraldry, 404. +Sea Serpent, the, 212. +Seals, the, by J.S. Knowles, 302. +Sermons, plain, 416. +Serpents, superstitions respecting, 212. +Servants, duty of, 271. +Serventius, confessions of, 44. +Shakespeariana, 389. +Shark's Bay, adventure in, 173. +Sharp, the astronomer, 293. +Shaving, origin of, 192. +Shavings, waste of, 83--132. +Shelley, + eccentricities of, 420 + P.B. at Oxford, 12--264. +Sheridan, anecdotes of, 137. +Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, 252. +Ships, names of, 288. +Shrew-mouse, the, 179. +Shrimps, inquiries on, 20. +Signs, origin of, 160. +Silk from Spiders, 412. +Singapore, sketch of, 35. +Sismondi, politics of, 420. +Sisters, four learned, 335. +Sitting in the Druid's Chair, 261. +Skulls, grinning, 101. +Skylark, claws of the, 245. +Skylark, a song, 323. +Slaughter, family, 368. +Slippery Love, 256. +Smuggling, extraordinary, 48. +Snake, habits of the, 342. +Snowdrop, address to, 132. +Social distinctions in America, 237. +Songs of the Gipsies, 232. +Songs found in a Grecian Urn, 156. +Song in imitation of Cowley, 419. +Songs by a Delia Cruscan poet, 323. +Songs, by T. Moore, 12. +Song by J.S. Knowles, 423. +Song of Pitcairn's Island, 232. +Sonnet on Love, 357. +Sorrow, concealed, 399. +Soizthey, recollections of, 254. +Spanish characteristics, 361. +Spanish scenery, charms of, 307. +Spanish superstition, 413. +Squares in London, 133. +Staines New Bridge, described, 321. +Starvation, ancient, 384. +Stones, speaking and moving, 101. +Sugar Cane of Otaheite, 27. +Sugar consumed in England, 222. +Sun-fish, the short, 425. +Surrey Zoological Gardens, 2. +Sutton Wash Embankment, 46. +Swelled Ancles, 160. +Swift at Moore Park, 422. +Swimming, Hints on, 3. +Swine, errors respecting, 171. +Swiss Cottage at the Colosseum, 258. + +Tailors, renowned, 77. +Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 213. +Talleyrand, anecdote of, 256. +Tea, facts relative to, 220--222. +Tea, price of, 245. +Theatres, ancient English, 193. +Theatrical Property in France, 320. +Thief, how to detect, 272. +Three Death's Heads, 431. +Thrush, habits of the, 265. +Tigers, sortie of, 345. +Time's Telescope for 1832, 71. +Tinto, the river, 299. +Toads, + in Jersey, 267 + poison of, 426 + superstition respecting, 180. +Toast of a Scotch Peer, 287. +Tobacco, + in Cholera, 412 + and snuff, virtues of, 96. +Tom and Jerry, ancient, 16. +Tomato Sauce, to make, 15. +Town and village defined, 175. +Trade, ancient, 128. +Travelling Notes in South Wales, 20--147. +Trout tickling in Ireland, 234. +Tucopia, isle of, 145. +Tunbridge Wells, sketches of, 376. +Tunnel in Regent's Park, 114. +Turenne, Marshal, 272. +Turkey, skeleton of, 312. +Twa Burdies, the, 91. + +Under, house of, 69. +Unlucky present, a tale, 309. + +Valentines, ancient, 178. +Valletort, Viscount, lines to, 378. +Vampire Bat, 40. +Vapour Bath in Cholera, 6--55. +Vegetable Wonders, 200. +Vegetation, curious facts in, 344. +Venice described, 429. +Venice, sonnet to, 69. +Ventilation of Rooms, 152. +Victor Hugo, + drama by, 118 + lines by, 318. +Village, + Cemetery, the, 216 + Hampden, 175. +Virginia Water, cascade at, 81--210. +Visit to the Morgue, at Paris, 349. +Voices of the Night, 259. + +Waller, the poet, tomb of, 233. +War Song against the Chinese, 14. +Warton, Thomas, the poet, 421. +Washington Irving, Medwin, and Grattan, 421. +Water from the Rock in Horeb, 428. +Watering-places in the fifteenth century, 431. +Waverley Novels, character of, 284--365. +Waverley Novels, + heroines of, 365 + Plots of, 366 + Scenic description, 366 + Scott and Shakspeare, 367 + Style, 367. +Weather Rhymes, by the Monks, 228. +Wedgewood's Ware, manufacture of, 363. +Weighing in the Balance, 429. +West, sign painted by, 432. +Western Church, corruption of, 372. +Westminster Hall, Old, 251. +Whale Chase in the Hebrides, 297. +Widow, paraphernalia of, 271. +Wife, an American one, 272. +Wilderness described, 397. +William IV. and Queen Adelaide, 143. +William Tell, legend of, 430. +Wills of bachelors, 271 + curious facts respecting, 270 + compulsory, 271 + of criminals, 271. +Wilton Castle, history of, 305. +Windsor Castle from the N.E., 177. +Wine, + bramble, to make, 15 + grape, to make, 15. +Wit, lines on, 9. +Witchcrafts in 1647, 174. +Wolf, + anecdotes of, 171 + Dog in Cumberland, 426. +Woodpecker, arctic, 356. +Wordsworth, recollections of, 255. +Wreck, lines on the, 322. + +Xenophon, picture by Haydon, 218. + +Zebu, or Indian Ox, the, 385. +Zoological Gardens, + Regent's Park, 114--273--385 + picture of, 386. +Zoological Gardens, + Surrey, 1--273 + Society, report of, 275. + + * * * * * + + + +LIST OF SIXTY-THREE ENGRAVINGS + +IN THE PRESENT VOLUME. + + * * * * * + +_STEEL-PLATE PORTRAIT OF THE RT. HON. EARL GREY._ + +Three Views in the Surrey Zoological + Gardens. +Fishmongers' Hall. +-----------------Arms. +Law Institution, Chancery Lane. +Pontefract Castle. +Castle of Robert the Devil. +Cavern of Robert the Devil. +Cascade at Virginia Water. +Brighton in 1743. +Lady Chapel, St. Saviour, Southwark. +Three Views in the Zoological Gardens. +Entrance to the Botanic Garden, Manchester. +Tucopia, in the Southern Pacific Ocean. +Piercy Islands. +Seven Cuts of the Arbalest, or Cross-Bow. +Windsor Castle (N.E. View.) +Burial-place in Tongatabu. +Ancient Bankside. +Two Cuts of Bull and Bear-baiting + Theatres. +Lowther Arcade, West Strand +Beulah Saline Spa, Norwood. +Tomb of the poet, Waller. +Melrose Abbey. + +Queen Anne's Spring, near Eton. +Swiss Cottage at the Colosseum. +Bay-Window at ditto. +Three Cuts of the Zoological Gardens. +"Happy Jerry." +St. Pancras (Old) Church. +Fire Temples in Persia. +Wilton Castle, on the Wye. +Skeleton of the Turkey. +Rhinoceros Bird. +Staines New Bridge. +Bamborough Castle. +The Alhambra, in Spain. +Palace of Charles V. +White-horned Arctic Owl. +Cock of the Plains. +Legs and Feet of Mountain Grouse. +Claw of Woodpecker. +Monkey Island. +Hampton-wick Chapel. +Brahmin Bull. +-----------------Shed. +Sir Thomas Fowler's Lodge, Islington. +Dunheved Castle. +Ancient Chimney Piece at Exeter. +Lord Cornwallis's Monument. + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, +and Instruction, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, SUPPL. *** + +***** This file should be named 12554-8.txt or 12554-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/5/5/12554/ + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Allen Siddle and PG Distributed Proofreaders + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction + No. 555, Supplement to Volume 19 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 8, 2004 [EBook #12554] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, SUPPL. *** + + + + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Allen Siddle and PG Distributed Proofreaders + + + + + +</pre> + + <hr class="full" /> + +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pageii" + name="pageii"> + </a>[pg ii] +</span> + + <h1>THE MIRROR<br /> + OF<br /> + LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1> + <hr class="full" /> + <table width="100%" summary="Volume, Number, and Date"> + <tr> + <td align="left"><b>Vol. XIX. No. 555.]</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SUPPLEMENT TO VOL. XIX.</b></td> + <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + + <center>CONTAINING</center> + <h2>ORIGINAL ESSAYS;</h2> + <center>HISTORICAL NARRATIVES; BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS; SKETCHES OF</center> + <center>SOCIETY; TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NOVELS </center> + <center>AND TALES; ANECDOTES;</center> + <center>SELECT EXTRACTS</center> + <h4>FROM</h4> + <center>NEW AND EXPENSIVE WORKS;</center> + <center>POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED;</center> + <h2>THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS;</h2> + <h4>DISCOVERIES IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES;</h4> + <h3>USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS;</h3> + <h4>&c. &c. &c.</h4> + <h2>———<br /> + VOL. XIX.<br /> + ———</h2> + <h2>LONDON:</h2> + <center>PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. LIMBIRD, 143, STRAND<br /> + (Near Somerset House)</center> + <h2>1832.</h2> + +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pageblank" + name="pageblank"> + </a>[pg blank] +</span> + + <hr class="full" /> + + +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pagei" + name="pagei"> + </a>[pg i] +</span> + + <div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href="images/555-001.png"> +<img width = "100%" src="images/555-001.png" alt="EARL GREY, K.G.," /> +</a></div> +<h4>EARL GREY, K.G.,</h4> + +<hr class="full" /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pageiii" + name="pageiii"> + </a>[pg iii] + </span> +<h2>PREFACE.</h2> + +<p> +Here we are with our Nineteenth Volume complete. We do not carry it to +Court to gain patronage, neither do we preface it with a costly dedication +to a purse-proud patron; but we present it at the levee of the people, as +a production in which the information and amusement of one and all are +equally kept in view. We know that instances have occurred of authors +tiring out their patrons. A pleasant story is told of Spencer, who sent +the manuscript of his Faery Queen to the Earl of Southampton, the Mecaenas +of those days; when the earl reading a few pages, ordered the poet to be +paid twenty pounds; reading further, another twenty pounds; and proceeding +still, twenty pounds more; till losing all patience, his lordship cried, +"Go turn that fellow out of the house, for if I read on I shall be ruined." +We have no fear this will be our fate; especially as we strive to effect +all that can be accomplished in our economical form to follow as well as +direct the public taste. +</p> +<p> +Experience has taught us in the conduct of nineteen volumes of +this Miscellany, that the most effectual method of conveying instruction, +or aiding the progress of knowledge, is by combining it with amusement; +or, in other words by at once aiming at the head and heart. +The world is already too full of precept upon precept; and a smattering +of principles is too often found in the place of practice. How can +this order of things be improved but by setting forth duties as innocent +pleasures, sweetening utility with entertainment, and garnishing fact +with fancy. A man need not study Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations +to become rich, nor seek the glories of nature in artificial Systems. +But the contrary notion has probably given rise to the observation, that, +"what the present generation have gained in head, they have lost in +heart." It should not, however, be so, with the abundance of materials +we have for social improvement. +</p> +<p> +We hope the reader has recognised the influence of these feelings in the +many illustrations of men, manners, and times, which it has ever been our +object to garner into the pages of THE MIRROR. Hence the traits of +domestic life in all ages, and the tales and traditions of the family +hearth, when pointed with a moral, receive our special attention. In this +department, as well as in the playful fancies of poetry, in embellishing +the softer sympathies of nature,—we have been materially +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pageiv" + name="pageiv"> + </a>[pg iv] +</span> + + aided by our +Correspondents; to all of whom we proffer our best thanks. +</p> +<p> +In the present volume, the Public Journals of the day have not been +disregarded; while sterling literature, of the <i>utile cum dulce</i> character, +has been studied; and new books have been consulted, not so much for the +purpose of exposing their defects, as exhibiting their perfections. Art +has contributed its novelties; and the progress of Natural Science has +developed many new beauties appreciable by every reader. +</p> +<p> +The ENGRAVINGS are somewhat more numerous than usual; in all numbering +sixty-three; and they are accompanied by illustrative letter-press of +concise, but we trust, entertaining character. +</p> +<p> +In Popular Antiquities we may mention Old Fishmongers' Hall, which has +disappeared since the date of our last volume; the Castles of Pontefract, +Wilton, and Dunheved, with traits of their historic lore; the Lady Chapel, +in Southwark, and its changing history; Brighton about a hundred years +since; the Arbalest, or Cross-bow explained with Cuts; Old Bankside, and +the First Theatres; the venerable Melrose on the Tweed; St. Pancras (Old) +Church; and the castellated palace of the Alhambra, in Spain. +</p> +<p> +Among the Architectural novelties are the Law Institution, in Chancery +Lane; the Lowther Arcade, in the Strand; Staines New Bridge; and two +scenes of the picturesque wonders of the Colosseum, in the Regent's Park. +</p> +<p> +In Zoology, the most popular study of the day, there are upwards of a +score of novelties. Among them are a dozen Vignettes from the Zoological +Gardens in the Regent's Park, and in Surrey; and illustrations of Rare +Arctic Birds observed during the last overland expedition to the Polar Sea, +by Captain Sir John Franklin. +</p> +<p> +In the ensuing volume, we have determined upon enlarging our letter-press +page; whilst a new and handsome type has been cast expressly for this work. +By these improvements, as well as by the renewed vigour of our artists, +and a like zeal on our own part, THE MIRROR will be found still worthy of +its old friends, and attractive to new patrons. Its economy need not be +again enforced, although in this respect, our contemplated alterations +cannot but be received as additional points for the encouragement of a +discerning public. +</p> +<p> +<i>London, June 28, 1832.</i> +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pagev" + name="pagev"> + </a>[pg v] +</span> +<h2>MEMOIR</h2> +<h4>OF</h4> +<h3>THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES GREY,</h3> +<h2>EARL GREY, K.G.,</h2> +<h3>FIRST LORD OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY, &c. &c.</h3> + +<hr /> +<h4>DE BON VOULOIR SERVIR LE ROI.—<i>Family Motto.</i></h4> + +<hr /> +<p> +The family of GREY—the Greys of the North, as they are styled +distinctively from the Greys of the South,<a id="footnotetag1" + name="footnotetag1"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup>—is of Saxon origin. +<a id="footnotetag2" + name="footnotetag2"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote2">2</a></sup> They +have held manors in Northumberland from the earliest records to the +present time. The direct founder of the present branch was Baron Grey of +Werke, ennobled by James I. and advanced to the earldom of Tankerville by +William III. which titles became extinct in 1710; and the heiress carried +the estates by marriage to Charles Bennet, Lord Ossulston, who was, in +consequence, created Earl of Tankerville, in 1714. +</p> +<p> +The father of Earl Grey was Sir Charles Grey, who entered the army at an +early age, had a command in the American war, and commanded in chief the +military forces in the expeditions against the French West India Islands, +the successful result of which was the annexing of Martinique, St. Lucie, +Guadaloupe, &c. to our empire. He married, in 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of +George Grey, Esq. of Southwick, in Durham, (of a different family,) by +whom he had five sons and two daughters. He was created Lord Grey of +Howick, in 1801; and Viscount Howick, and Earl Grey, in 1806. He died in +the following year, and was succeeded by his son, Charles, second and +present earl. +</p> +<p> +Mr. Grey was born March 13, 1764, and educated at Eton, in the same class +with the late Mr. Lambton, (father of the present Lord Durham,) Mr. +Whitbread, and others, with whom he afterwards acted in political life. He +was then sent to King's College, Cambridge, where he displayed first-rate +abilities. On his leaving the University, he set out on the tour of Europe, +though only eighteen years of age. In Italy, he was introduced to the late +Duke of Cumberland, in whose household he obtained an appointment. He +returned to England in 1786, and soon after his arrival, was, by the +interest of his family, returned to parliament for the county of +Northumberland, when he joined the Whigs, it has been stated, to the +surprise of his family, whose principles were those of Toryism. +</p> +<p> +At a subsequent general election, as an expensive contest was expected for +Northumberland, Mr. Grey declined nomination, and was returned to +parliament for Appleby, which borough he represented till his succession +to the peerage. In the House of Commons his great talents soon shone forth; +and, +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pagevi" + name="page4vi"> + </a>[pg vi] +</span> +in conjunction with Fox, Sheridan, Lambton, Ponsonby, and others, he +maintained an intrepid opposition to the doctrines of that darling of fame, +Mr. Pitt. Immediately after his entrance into Parliament, his discussion +of the minister's important treaty of commerce, may be said to have +established his reputation, by the force of his eloquence, as well as by +the enlarged views which he seemed to have acquired of commercial +relations; which knowledge is more frequently the result of gradual +experience than of early attainment. +</p> +<p> +In these stormy times Mr. Grey ranked among the head and front of +contending politics. He was appointed one of the managers of that +magnificent political drama—the impeachment of Warren Hastings, when he +displayed great acumen in that part of the accusation termed the Benares +Charge. +</p> +<p> +In 1791, we find Mr. Grey taking the lead in a measure, which, in the +language of a great orator (Burke) "shed a lustre on the character and +humanity of the nation." The subject to which we allude, was the +melancholy situation of those who were unable to satisfy the demands of +importunate creditors, and consequently subjected to the operation of a +rigorous code of laws. His observation in moving for a parliamentary +committee to inquire into the present practice and effect of imprisonment +for debt is worthy of quotation: "it was desirable to distinguish the +unfortunate debtor from the knavish one, to place the creditor in that +situation which afforded the fairest and the speediest means of +compensation, and to regulate the jails of this country in such a manner +as to prevent unnecessary hardship and restraint. Whether they considered +the practice of confining for debt men who had no means of discharging +such debt, or, on the contrary, fraudulent debtors, whose creditors by no +process could compel them to pay; these circumstances were alone +sufficient to constitute an inquiry into the state of the laws relating to +debtor and creditor." This motion being acceded to, a committee consisting +of Mr. Grey, Mr. Pitt, Sir John Sinclair, Mr. Vansittart, Mr. Martin, the +Attorney and Solicitor Generals, and other legal gentlemen, was +immediately appointed. The origin of this inquiry is an indicative of the +liberal policy of the statesman as it is of the humanity of the mover. +</p> +<p> +In 1792, Mr. Grey instituted an inquiry into the conduct of ministers with +regard to the recently threatened hostilities with Russia. His +animadversion upon the vacillating and ruinous measures of government were +characterized by that fearless intrepidity, truth, energy, and eloquence, +which have distinguished his political career. The motion for the inquiry +was lost, though the powerful remarks of the mover drew from Mr. Pitt the +following memorable confession: "All unlimited confidence is +unconstitutional; and I hope the inglorious moment will never arrive, when +this house will abandon the privilege of examining, condemning, and +correcting the abuses in the executive government. It is the dearest +privilege you possess, and should never be relinguished." +</p> +<p> +During the schisms occasioned in this country by the French revolution, Mr. +Grey enrolled himself in a political society, called the Friends of the +People. He also became a member of the Whig Club, then in the zenith of +its celebrity. His active advocacy of the cause of a reform in parliament +was equal within and without the house of commons. To quote one of his +Lordship's most recent speeches, "In 1786 he had voted for reform. He had +supported Mr. Pitt in his motion for shortening the duration of +parliaments. He had given his best assistance to the measure of reform +introduced by Mr. Flood, before the French revolution; and, on one or two +different occasions, he had originated motions on the subject." +<a id="footnotetag3" + name="footnotetag3"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote3">3</a></sup> One of +these was in 1793, when he presented a petition for reform and a shorter +duration of parliament, from the Society of the Friends of the People: his +motion for a committee was lost by 280 to 41. Another occasion to which +his Lordship alludes, was in 1797, when he proposed, in his plan of +parliamentary reform, to give to the county +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pagevii" + name="pagevii"> + </a>[pg vii] +</span> +of York four new members; to +divide each county into two districts, each returning a member. +Copyholders and leaseholders were to have equal rights of voting with +freeholders, as were all householders paying taxes in cities and boroughs; +and parliaments were to be triennial. This motion was, however, negatived +by 149 votes. +</p> +<p> +In 1795, Mr. Grey opposed with great firmness, Mr. Pitt's motion for the +adjustment of the Prince of Wales's debts, and moved for the reduction of +the Prince's income. He professed himself ready to support the real +splendour of the royal family "as any slippery sycophant of a court;" but +said he thought there was more true dignity in manifesting a heart alive +to the distresses of millions, than in all those trappings which encumber +royalty without adorning it. He asked whether the legislature should give +an example of encouraging extravagance at a moment when the prevailing +fashion of prodigality among people of fortune was rapidly destroying +their independence, and making them the tools of the court, and the +contempt of the people. He knew the refusal to pay his debts would be a +severe privation to the Prince of Wales; but it would be a just penalty +for the past, a useful lesson for the future, and a proper deference to +the severe pressure and privations endured by the people. Mr. Grey's +amendment was supported by what was then a strong majority—99 to 260; and +the original motion carried: his conduct on this occasion seems never to +have been forgotten by the Prince of Wales, the Regent or the King. It +should here be mentioned, that, with equal justice, Mr. Grey subsequently +defended the rights of His Royal Highness from the shackles proposed to be +laid on him as Regent. +</p> +<p> +Mr. Grey's opposition to Mr. Pitt's measures continued unabated for many +years, while he remained equally steady in his attachment to Mr. Fox. His +bitter hostility to the union between Ireland and England may be said to +have produced one of his most celebrated speeches. Neither was he dazzled, +nor misled by the splendid talents of Burke, at this time in highest +repute. When Mr. Fox was deserted by Lords Fitzwilliam, Carlisle, and +other alarmists, Mr. Grey unchangingly adhered to him; and when Mr. Fox +and Lord Grenville formed a Whig ministry, in 1806, Mr. Grey, then, by his +father's elevation to the peerage, become Lord Howick, was appointed First +Lord of the Admiralty, and one of the Cabinet Council. He next succeeded +Mr. Fox as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and leader in the House of +Commons. This ministry was ill-formed, and wanted unity of purpose: their +abolition of the Slave Trade was a redeeming measure, in which Lord Howick +bore a conspicuous part; but his lordship's motion for the emancipation of +the Catholics brought about his dismissal from the ministry. +</p> +<p> +Lord Howick, soon after, by the death of his father, succeeded to the +title of Earl Grey; and by the death of his uncle, Sir Henry Grey, to the +family estate. Ill health, for a time, kept his lordship from public life: +he retired with no place but that of a Governor of the Charter House, and +without pension or sinecure. Upon the resignation of the Duke of Portland, +in 1809, his successor, Mr. Perceval, proposed a coalition with Lords +Grenville and Grey, which was at once rejected by the latter. In the +following year, his lordship "felt it his duty to arraign and to expose +the gross mismanagement of the government, and their repeated and +dangerous misconduct," in Parliament. In the same session, he charged the +lord chancellor (Eldon) with a crime little short of treason, in having +set the great seal, in 1801 and 1804, to commissions for giving the royal +assent to several bills, whilst the King was in a state of mental +infirmity, under medical care, and subject to personal control. The motion +was negatived by a majority of 189 to 64; "but Lord Eldon has not +forgotten the accusation, or forgiven the mover." +<a id="footnotetag4" + name="footnotetag4"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote4">4</a></sup> In 1812, another +attempt was made to bring Lord Grey, with Lord Grenville, into the cabinet; +but this was rejected as promptly as before. +</p> +<p> +Lord Grey again retired to private life. In 1817, his lordship reappeared, +and <span class="pagenum"> + <a id="pageviii" + name="pageviii"> + </a>[pg viii] +</span> +moved an amendment to the parliamentary address to the throne, urging +rigid economy, retrenchment, and an inquiry into the state of the nation. +In the same year he brought before the House of Lords, the notable +circular of Lord Sidmouth for the prosecution of libels by magistrates. +"It is a singular fact," observes an acute historical writer, +<a id="footnotetag5" + name="footnotetag5"></a> +<sup><a href="#footnote5">5</a></sup> "that +Lord Grey, on this occasion, made an able and erudite law argument; which +all the law lords, including Lord Ellenborough, made vain efforts to +refute; and which Lord Ellenborough had the manliness to eulogize;" +notwithstanding which Lord Grey's motion for a copy of the opinion of the +law officers of the crown was negatived. +</p> +<p> +During the trial of Queen Caroline, the wisdom-tempered zeal of Lord Grey +ranked him amongst the most efficient, as he was the most eloquent, of her +defenders: his lordship, in conjunction with Lord King, also made +successive attempts, by motions, to quash the investigation. +</p> +<p> +To the administration of the Earl of Liverpool, it need scarcely be added, +Earl Grey was thoroughly hostile: his aversion to the policy of Mr. +Canning was equally decided; and the same independent spirit urged him to +oppose the measures of the Wellington cabinet, except the memorable +measure of Catholic Emancipation, by the proposal of which he had lost +office in the year 1810. His lordship's eloquent efforts in this cause +must be alive in the recollection of the reader. +</p> +<p> +We are now fast approaching the consummation of one of the grand objects +of his lordship's political life. By the dissolution of the Wellington +cabinet, in 1830, Lord Grey became at the head of the present +administration. His first act was the introduction of the grand measure +for parliamentary reform, which, for sixteen months past, has interested +the whole population of this mighty empire. His lordship's emphatic +expressions, on this occasion, are "familiar as household words." "He made +it a condition on accepting office, that Parliamentary Reform should be +introduced as a government measure. That condition having been assented to +by his most gracious sovereign, by this measure he was prepared to stand +or fall." Gratifying as would be the task, we need not detail the +incidents of the last few months of his lordship's career. Our eulogium +would be poor indeed, while nine-tenths of the journals of our country are +perpetuating his good deeds; while his political integrity has become +exemplary to every cabinet in Europe; and millions are about to burst +forth in "the loud festivity of mirth" to celebrate the virtue of their +popular minister. +</p> +<p> +Earl Grey married in 1794, Mary Elizabeth Brabazon, daughter of Lord +Ponsonby, by whom his lordship has had a numerous family: the eldest son +and heir apparent being Viscount Howick, born in 1802. In our outline of +Lord Grey's public life, the reader may have observed his Lordship's +fondness for the retirement of the domestic circle. This accords with his +recent declaration in parliament: "he was fond of retirement, and in +domestic life he lived happy in the bosom of his family. Nothing could +have tempted him to embark on these stormy seas— +</p> +<div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Bankrupt of life, but prodigal of ease—</p> + </div> +</div> +<p> +nothing but an overpowering sense of the duty which he owed to his +country." Even apart from political distinction, Earl Grey must be +considered happy indeed; but honoured in public and cherished in private +life, his pre-eminence is proud indeed. Shakspeare tells of the "divinity" +that "doth hedge a king:" yet who would enjoy more than the consciousness +of having been true to his sovereign, his country, and his honour. +</p> + + +<hr class="full" /> + +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page433" + name="page433"> + </a>[pg 433] +</span> +<h2>INDEX.</h2> + +<hr /> +<p> +ANECDOTE GALLERY, 277—291—309—375—404.<br /> +CORRESPONDENCE in each Number.<br /> +COSMOPOLITE, 170—179—211—237—276.<br /> +EMBELLISHED ARTICLES in each Number.<br /> +FINE ARTS, 90—139—150—164—198—218—393.<br /> +GATHERER in each Number.<br /> +MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS, 22—253—259—297—329—361—405.<br /> +NATURALIST, 27—38—56—150—183—245—265—297—311—383—425.<br /> +NOTES OF A READER, 23—55—73—92—100—140—152—168—180—200—220 + —235—251—270—279——326—372—413—429.<br /> +NOVELIST, 44—59.<br /> +OLD POETS, 8.<br /> +RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS, 7—38—76—86—174—227—334—419.<br /> +SELECT BIOGRAPHY, 105.<br /> +SELECTOR, 9—40—69—84—107—121—137—157—172—185—216—228—254 + —261—293—307—324—331—331—358—382—397—407—427.<br /> +SKETCH BOOK, 3—20—36—116—136—148—268—313.<br /> +SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY, 6—46—54—126—190—283—363—411.<br /> +SPIRIT OF PUBLIC JOURNALS, 12—28—42—62—77—91—102—118—133—155 + —165—189—203—213—234—248—264—284—299—316—365—378—394 + —413—420.<br /> +TOPOGRAPHER, 124—377.<br /> +USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS, 15—83.<br /> +</p> + +<hr /> + + +<p> +Abernethy, Mr., Anecdotes of, 40.<br /> +Abbot of Tewkesbury, the, 268<br /> +Abstract Studies, 292.<br /> +Academy Delia Crusca, Origin of, 406.<br /> +Adrian IV., Anecdotes of, 304.<br /> +Advent Customs, 22.<br /> +Advertisement Extraordinary, 240.<br /> +Affection of Animals, 266.<br /> +African Expedition, 7<br /> + Horse Race, 216.<br /> +Agricultural Societies, Ancient, 229.<br /> +Alhambra, Palace of, described, 337.<br /> +Alligator on the Ganges, 347.<br /> +Altrive Tales, by the Ettrick Shepherd, 254.<br /> +America,<br /> + Domestic Life in, 180—235—323<br /> + North, Birds of, 356<br /> + Prosperity of, 239.<br /> +American English, 236<br /> + Prejudice, 399<br /> + Women, conversation with, 182.<br /> +Anagrams, 16.<br /> +Anatomists, Skilful, 183.<br /> +Anecdotage, 375.<br /> +Angel of Departure, Song of, 168<br /> + Welcome, 168.<br /> +Angling, Hints on, 183.<br /> +Anglo-Saxon Dress, 407.<br /> +Animals, Superstition relative to, 170—178—211—237.<br /> +Anne Boleyn, 96.<br /> +Apologue, Oriental, 336.<br /> +Arabian Beauty, 157.<br /> +Arbalest, or Cross-bow explained, 161—210<br /> + of Robin Hood, 322.<br /> +Arcadian Child Sleeping, 157.<br /> +Archbishop, Dancing, 191.<br /> +Arctic Birds, rare, 354.<br /> +Ark of Noah and Mount Ararat, 382.<br /> +Arrows, Poisoned, 192.<br /> +Artillery Company, Origin of, 406.<br /> +Asmodeus in London, 29.<br /> +Ass, Persecution of the, 171.<br /> +Astronomical Toasts, 256.<br /> +Athenian Lover to his Mistress, 157.<br /> +Audubon, the Naturalist, 298.<br /> +Aviary in the Zoological Gardens, 273.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Babylon, Willows of, 411.<br /> +Backwoodsman of America, 201.<br /> +Ballad Singing, English, 370.<br /> +Bamborough Castle described, 327.<br /> +Bankrupt Court, the New, 159.<br /> +Bankside, Old, 193.<br /> +Barbarous Punishments, 253.<br /> +Bardic Chorus, 100.<br /> +Barn Owl, economy of, 27—38.<br /> +Barton Booth, the actor, 192.<br /> +Bathing, Nocturnal, 347.<br /> +Bear,<br /> + errors respecting, 179<br /> + Polar, habits of, 114.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page434" + name="page434"> + </a>[pg 434] +</span> +Bed of Leaves, 207.<br /> +Bedford Level, 192<br /> + Missal, 192.<br /> +Bell-rock Lighthouse, 182.<br /> +Beranger, Song from, 370.<br /> +Beulah Spa, near Norwood, 225.<br /> +Bills of Mortality, Origin of, 76.<br /> +Biography, Splendid, 303.<br /> +Birds, Structure of, 311.<br /> +Birmingham Railway, 190.<br /> +Birth Song, 168.<br /> +Black Monday, 208.<br /> +Blondel de Nesle, a ballad, 28.<br /> +Blunder, Conversational, 292.<br /> +Bonington, the artist, 168.<br /> +Books, New, noticed and quoted:<br /> + Adventures of a Younger Son, 157—172.<br /> + Advice to Executors, 270.<br /> + Annual Biography and Obituary, for 1832, 40.<br /> + Arlington, 407.<br /> + Bath Guide, New, 94.<br /> + Book of Instruction, 93.<br /> + Britain's Historical Drama, 100.<br /> + British Relations with the Chinese Empire, 220.<br /> + Britton's Tunbridge Wells, 376.<br /> + Cabinet Annual Register for 1831, 334.<br /> + Chantilly, a Novel, 154.<br /> + Characteristic Sketches of Animals, by Landseer, 386.<br /> + Contarini Fleming, 429.<br /> + Contrast, by Earl Mulgrave, 293.<br /> + Domestic Manners of the Americans, 180—201.<br /> + Elements of Chemistry familiarly explained, 152.<br /> + Eugene Aram, 23—57—95—101—142.<br /> + Fair of May Fair, 331.<br /> + Francis I., a tragedy, by Miss F. Kemble, 170—185.<br /> + Frankland's Visit to Russia and Sweden, 84.<br /> + Georgian Era, 122—137—278.<br /> + Gleanings in Natural History, 245—265.<br /> + Hampden and his times, 140.<br /> + Herbert's Country Parson, 93.<br /> + History of the Reformation in<br /> + England, 9<br /> + Italian Republics, 121<br /> + Spain and Portugal, 398.<br /> + Hunchback, by J.S. Knowles, 279.<br /> + Indian Tale and other Poems, 373.<br /> + Knowledge for the People, 25—200—344.<br /> + Landers' Travels in Africa, 126—216—231.<br /> + Life of Gregory VII., by Sir Roger Greisley, 372.<br /> + Life and Reign of George IV., 280.<br /> + Lives of Eminent British Military Commanders, 358<br /> + British Painters, 168.<br /> + Maid of Elvar, by Allan Cunningham, 351.<br /> + Memoirs of Sir Ralph Esher, 105.<br /> + Messiah, by Montgomery, 397.<br /> + Outline of English History, 95.<br /> + Paris and its Historical Scenes, 69.<br /> + Pen and Pencil Sketches of India, by Capt. Mundy, 345.<br /> + Songs of the Gipsies, 232.<br /> + Summer Fête, by Moore, 12.<br /> + Tales of the Alhambra, by Washington Irving, 307—337 to 342—361<br /> + Early Ages, 261.<br /> + Time's Telescope for 1832, 71.<br /> + Tour of a German Prince, 143.<br /> + Transactions of the Society of Arts, 283.<br /> + Truth of Revelation demonstrated, 382—409—427.<br /> + Watts's New Year's Gift, 85.<br /> + Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America, 354.<br /> +"Boot, to," the phrase, 31.<br /> +Botany, Curiosities of, 25.<br /> +Bouts Rimés, Origin of, 191.<br /> +Box Wood, uses of, 15.<br /> +Brahmin Bull, the, 385.<br /> +Brazil, a day in, 150.<br /> +Brereton, the late Colonel, 105.<br /> +Brighton in 1743, 88—124.<br /> +British Artists Society,<br /> + Exhibition of, 198<br /> + Institution, Visit to, 164<br /> + Museum, the, 152<br /> + Warriors, 358.<br /> +Bull and Bear-baiting Theatres, 193.<br /> +Bullock, Mr., in America, 236.<br /> +Burial,<br /> + Science of, 165<br /> + Place in Tongatabu, 184.<br /> +Burke, Writings of, 357.<br /> +Burns, Birthday of, 73.<br /> +Bushy, owners of, 432.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Calves-head Roll, 416.<br /> +Camoens, fate of, 288.<br /> +Cambridge Freshman, 43.<br /> +Campagna Felice, 383.<br /> +Cape Town, Population of, 348.<br /> +Capillary Attraction, 303.<br /> +Caps, Laws respecting, 303.<br /> +Cardinal Spider, the, 266.<br /> +Caroline, Queen, death of, 278.<br /> +Catching Tigers, 160.<br /> +Catholic Religion, dramatic character of the, 189.<br /> +Cats, Superstitions relative to, 170.<br /> +Caviare to the Multitude, 271.<br /> +Cedar Wood, scent of, 342.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page435" + name="page435"> + </a>[pg 435] +</span> +Chalk, none in America, 182.<br /> +Chancery Suit, to decide, 252.<br /> +Chapel at Hampton Wick, 376.<br /> +Char, habits of, 425.<br /> +Charles<br /> + II. at Epsom, 108<br /> + V., Palace of, in the Alhambra, 337.<br /> +Cheating in the Law, 252.<br /> +Chelsea<br /> + Heroines, 416<br /> + Pensioners, Longevity of, 416.<br /> +Chemistry, Familiar Elements of, 152.<br /> +Child in Prayer, Lines to a, 423.<br /> +Children,<br /> + Lines on, 8<br /> + Impromptu on, 189.<br /> +Chimney-piece, curious, at Exeter, 417.<br /> +China,<br /> + Picture of, 221<br /> + Varieties of, 324.<br /> +Chinese Proverbs, &c., 16.<br /> +Chit Chat of the Day, 394.<br /> +Cholera,<br /> + Vapour Bath in, 6—54<br /> + Notes on, 80—128.<br /> +Christ, Portrait of, 87—140.<br /> +Cincinnati,<br /> + Health in, 236<br /> + Letter from, 323.<br /> +Cincinnatus, Modern, 400.<br /> +Civil,<br /> + Death explained, 270<br /> + War, Lines on, 351.<br /> +Claret, Properties of, 192.<br /> +Clavering's Autobiography, 420.<br /> +Cleopatra's Needles, 291.<br /> +Coasting Scrap, 116.<br /> +Cock of the Arctic Plains, 355.<br /> +Cockney Horsemen, Hints to, 77.<br /> +Coffee,<br /> + as made in the East, 173<br /> + Shops in London, 222.<br /> +Coffin-maker, the, by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, 203.<br /> +Coin of Edward III., 275.<br /> +Colchester, Lord, 422.<br /> +Colosseum, Swiss Cottage at the, 258.<br /> +Colton, the late Mr., 403.<br /> +Comets, concussion of, with the Earth, 71.<br /> +Confessions of Serventius, 44—59.<br /> +Congreve,<br /> + at Dove Dale, 432<br /> + Rockets, 239.<br /> +Cornwall, Scene on the coast of, 313.<br /> +Cornwallis, Lord, Mausoleum of, in India, 423.<br /> +Count, a noble, 48.<br /> +Courage, Cool, 292.<br /> +Coventry Charity, 334.<br /> +Counterfeit Kings, 176.<br /> +Cowley, the poet, 105.<br /> +Cows in America, 236.<br /> +Crime, Progress of, 379.<br /> +Crocodiles on the Mississippi, 235.<br /> +Cromwell,<br /> + Lely's Portrait of, 109<br /> + his Fun, 112.<br /> +Cross-bow, History of the, 162.<br /> +Crowland Abbey, 228.<br /> +Crucifixion,<br /> + the, 398<br /> + Hilton's Picture of, 90.<br /> +Cumberland Titles, 239.<br /> +Curfew Bell, custom of, 253—273—307.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Dancers, Aged, 416.<br /> +David and Goliath, 411.<br /> +De Lolme, Politics of, 421.<br /> +Deer, errors respecting, 179.<br /> +Delft or Dutch Ware, 283.<br /> +Deluge, the, 382—410.<br /> +Demosthenes, Studies of, 291.<br /> +Devil's Sonata, the, 42.<br /> +Diamonds in Brazil, 234.<br /> +Dibdin, Rev. Dr., 423.<br /> +Dirge of Death, 168.<br /> +Dispute, an odd one, 373.<br /> +Dogs, Superstitions relative to, 171.<br /> +Doll's Eyes, Trade in, 336.<br /> +Drama, decline of, 55.<br /> +Druid's Chair, sitting in, 261.<br /> +Druids and Mistletoe, 336.<br /> +Drunkenness in old London, 176.<br /> +Ducks, instinct of, 426.<br /> +Duc de Bordeaux, the young, 271.<br /> +Dunheved Castle, described, 401.<br /> +Dutch Rushes, 426.<br /> +Dwarfs, Russian, 84.<br /> +Dying Maiden's Pardon to her faithless lover, 291.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Early Rising, 96.<br /> +East India Company, origin of, 221.<br /> +Echo Puns, 240.<br /> +Eclipse at Boossa, 281.<br /> +Economic Hints, 15.<br /> +Eels, economy of, 246.<br /> +Effrontery, 292.<br /> +Eggs, duty on, 336.<br /> +Egypt,<br /> + court of, a sketch, 413<br /> + researches in, 96.<br /> +Elegy, from the German, 291.<br /> +Elliston and the Ass' Head, 91.<br /> +Emu,<br /> + economy of, 267<br /> + house, 273.<br /> +Encroachers on Commons, 20.<br /> +Entomology, curious fact in, 298.<br /> +Epitaphs, in Wiltshire, 48.<br /> +Epsom Races, origin of, 329—361.<br /> +Ettrick Shepherd, dinner to, 73.<br /> +Eugene Aram, scene from, 23—56—95—102.<br /> +Evening,<br /> + lines to, 147<br /> + lines on, 352.<br /> +Every man in his humour, 36.<br /> +Expedition, African, 7.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Facetiae of Hierocles, 24.<br /> +Fairies, lines on, 8.<br /> +Fame, lines on, 352.<br /> +Farmer, Dr. of Cambridge, 421.<br /> +Fashion, ennui of, 326.<br /> +Feathers, economy of collecting, 83.<br /> +Felony, classic, 384.<br /> +Fiddling, poetry, 400.<br /> +Fights of wild beasts, 346.<br /> +Fines and Recoveries, 252.<br /> +Fire of London, 109.<br /> +Fire Temples in Persia, 297.<br /> +First born, a song, 156.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page436" + name="page436"> + </a>[pg 436] +</span> +Fish, superstitions respecting, 212.<br /> +Fishing in Canada, 210.<br /> +Fishmongers'<br /> + Arms, 17<br /> + Hall, ancient, 17.<br /> +Fitzherbert, Mrs., 143.<br /> +Floating Scheme, 76.<br /> +Fortune-telling in high life, 144.<br /> +Forty-ninth Birthday, 133.<br /> +Fowler, Sir Thomas, his Lodge at Islington, 392.<br /> +Fox's Book of Martyrs characterized, 10.<br /> +Fox-hunting, expenses of, 223.<br /> +Fragments on Human Life, 115.<br /> +Franking Letters, 160.<br /> +Frederick I. of Prussia, 47.<br /> +French<br /> + Cruelty, 292<br /> + Drama, scene from, 118<br /> + Literature, recent, 349<br /> + Revolution, scenes from, 62—69.<br /> +Friendship, lines on, 224.<br /> +Fright, effects of, 7.<br /> +Fuel, economical, 15.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Galley Slaves, a tale, 299.<br /> +Gardens and promenades, 399.<br /> +Garratt Election, 415.<br /> +Garrick Club, 144.<br /> +George<br /> + I. and II. anecdotes of, 277—278<br /> + II., humanity of, 400<br /> + IV., character of, 123—280.<br /> +Gipsey Fortune-teller, lines to, 164.<br /> +Glass, enamel paintings on, 219.<br /> +Gleanings in Natural History, 245—265.<br /> +Glee, a legal one, 251.<br /> +Gluttony, royal and noble, 35.<br /> +Goats, fabulous account of, 170.<br /> +God, supremacy of, 9.<br /> +Goldsmith, Oliver, 147.<br /> +Good Samaritan, parable of, 410.<br /> +Gorhambury, fete at, 304.<br /> +Governess, qualifications for, 176.<br /> +Greek Sailors, 76.<br /> +Greenwich Hospital, 400.<br /> +Groaning Tree of Baddesley, 419.<br /> +Grouse, rocky mountain, 356.<br /> +Gurnard and Sprat, habits of, 311.<br /> +Gutting the Fish, 64.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Hail at Lausanne, 342.<br /> +Half-hanged Anne Green, 47.<br /> +Hainet and Raschid, a tale, 82.<br /> +Hamlet, ditty in, 32.<br /> +"Happy Jerry," anecdotes of, 273.<br /> +Harlow's Triul of Queen Katherine, 219.<br /> +Haydon's Pictures, 150—218.<br /> +Heating with Hot Water, 411.<br /> +Heating Rooms, 152.<br /> +Heckington, Holy Sepulchre at, 19.<br /> +Hemans, Mrs., sketch of, 358.<br /> +Henri III. of France, 154.<br /> +Henry I., speech of, 38.<br /> +Henry VII., character of England by, 304.<br /> +Hindoo Burial Service, 406.<br /> +Hip! Hip! Hurra! origin of, 208.<br /> +Hogg, James, dinner to, 73.<br /> +Hogs in America, 182.<br /> +Hoadley and Oldfield's Paintings on Glass, 219.<br /> +Hobbes at Chatsworth, 404.<br /> +Hobby-horse, the, 228.<br /> +Holly Leaves, medicinal use of, 412.<br /> +Holy Land, 228.<br /> +Hope, lines on, 34.<br /> +Horace Walpole, 421.<br /> +Horse Racing, origin of in England, 329—361.<br /> +Human Life, fragments on, 115.<br /> +Humbug, origin of, 159.<br /> +Humming-bird, a song, 323.<br /> +Hurley in Berkshire, account of, 419.<br /> +Hyaena, fables of, 171.<br /> +Hyde Park in America, 399.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Iceland, desolation of, 96.<br /> +Inclosure Acts, 252.<br /> +Infancy, lines on, 318.<br /> +Ink Spots, to remove, 84.<br /> +Insects, superstitions respecting, 180—211.<br /> +Instinct allied to reason, 246.<br /> +Iron Trade, British, 46.<br /> +Irish character, traits of, 291.<br /> +Isabel of Spain, character of, 415.<br /> +Isaiah, lines on, 398.<br /> +Italian<br /> + Climate, 383<br /> + Inn, 383<br /> + Landscape, 383.<br /> +Italian Warfare, character of, 121.<br /> +Italy, Horticultural Tour in, 382.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Jackal, errors respecting, 179.<br /> +Jardin de Plantes, described, 85.<br /> +Jay, remarkable, 298.<br /> +Jests of the Ancients, 24.<br /> +Justice, laconic, 76.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Kemble, Miss, Tragedy by, 170—185.<br /> +Kensington Palace, expenses of, 302.<br /> +King John at the Cape, 347.<br /> +King of Kippen, the, 303.<br /> +Knaresborough Castle, 142.<br /> +Knight's Return, the, 244.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Labourers' Friend Society, 148.<br /> +Laconics, or Guesses at Truth, 52—67—82—242—196—99.<br /> +Lady, lines to, on her age, 370.<br /> +Lady Chapel, Southward, 97—131.<br /> +Lamp, primitive one, 288.<br /> +Lancashire, improvement of, 326.<br /> +Landers' Journey to the Niger, 126—216—229—281.<br /> +Lark, lines to, 211.<br /> +Last Dying Speech and Confession of the Immortal Gods, 264.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page437" + name="page437"> + </a>[pg 437] +</span> +Law of Arrest, the, 155.<br /> +Law Institution in Chancery Lane, 33—53.<br /> +Laws, ancient, 227.<br /> +Leather, manufacture of in Canada, 368.<br /> +Legal Rhymes, 197.<br /> +Lemons, sweet, 383.<br /> +Leopards, hunting with, 347.<br /> +Letter from London, 15.<br /> +Liberty in Rome, 121.<br /> +Library, a queer one, 272.<br /> +Light on the ears of a horse, 425.<br /> +Lions, tame, 32.<br /> +Lizard and Crocodile, 180.<br /> +London, Philosophy of, 133.<br /> +London and the Provinces Compared, 316.<br /> +Love, Court and Country, 372.<br /> +Love of Country, 352.<br /> +Love, French-English, 32.<br /> +Love's Kerchief, 35.<br /> +Lowther Arcade, the, 210.<br /> +Loyalist, a staunch one, 256.<br /> +Lulworth, a day at, 102.<br /> +Lyall's Geology, extract from, 57.<br /> +Lynx, errors respecting, 179.<br /> +Lyons, city of, 32.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Macauley, Mrs., 421.<br /> +Madagascar, isle of, 172.<br /> +Magdalenes in church, 320.<br /> +Magic, state of, in Egypt, 248.<br /> +Maid's First Love, 352.<br /> +Man, agency of in extinguishing and spreading the species, 57.<br /> +Manager, duties of, 287.<br /> +Manchester Botanic Garden at, 129.<br /> +Manna, fall of, 427.<br /> +Manorial Right, curious, 23.<br /> +March of Mind, 178.<br /> +Marlborough, Life of, 359.<br /> +Mariguano, battle of, 122.<br /> +Marketing in America, 237.<br /> +Marriage Tree, 256.<br /> +Martinet, the, 213.<br /> +Martin's Picture on Glass, 219.<br /> +Martyr Student, the, 120.<br /> +Mary of Cambria, a sonnet, 388.<br /> +Massena's Tomb in Pere la Chaise, 357.<br /> +Mauritius, the, 172.<br /> +May Day Games, 259.<br /> +Melrose Abbey, history of, 241.<br /> +Men compared with Bees, 285.<br /> +Milan, Panorama of, 392.<br /> +Minstrelsy of Scotland, 352.<br /> +Mirabeau, character of, 422.<br /> +Modern Building, 134.<br /> +Monkey-houses, in the Zoological Gardens, 114.<br /> +Monkey Island, 369.<br /> +Moorhen, the, 266.<br /> +Morning in London, 134.<br /> +Morning, lines to, 99.<br /> +Morrice Dances of Robin Hood, 260.<br /> +Mortality in the Reign of William IV., 208.<br /> +"Mother Carey's Chickens," origin of, 306.<br /> +Moving Houses in America, 237.<br /> +Munden, biography of, 105.<br /> +Mungo Park, death of, 229.<br /> +Music,<br /> + effect of, 223<br /> + old English, 189.<br /> +Muswell Hill, origin of, 304.<br /> +My Fire, a sketch, 20.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Napier, Hon. Mrs., a sketch, 3.<br /> +Napoleon<br /> + at St. Helena, 403<br /> + 's residence at St. Helena, 348<br /> + tomb, 374.<br /> +Naples, fruit at, 384.<br /> +Nasmyth, the artist, 139.<br /> +Naturalists', three enthusiastic, 183.<br /> +Navy, ancient British, 7—86.<br /> +New South Wales, society in, 318.<br /> +New Zealand, islands in, 7.<br /> +Newton,<br /> + his mode of study, 193<br /> + 's Weather-wisdom, 288.<br /> +Newtown Pippin, the, 399.<br /> +Nicknames, 175.<br /> +Niger,<br /> + river, night on, 126<br /> + sailing on the, 231.<br /> +Night, lines on, 8.<br /> +Nightmare, lines on, 98.<br /> +Nobles of Johanna, 207.<br /> +Non-proposals, or Doubts resolved, 284.<br /> +Northcote and William III., 41.<br /> +"Nothing Impossible," 274.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Odd Story, 111.<br /> +Opera, the Italian, 397.<br /> +Optics, witty, 112.<br /> +Owl,<br /> + the barn, 27—38<br /> + the white-horned of the Arctic regions, 354.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Paganini, a singing, 112.<br /> +Painted Window of the Crucifixion, 90.<br /> +Palankeen Travelling in India, 345.<br /> +Palming in Italy, 383.<br /> +Pancras Old Church described, 289—388.<br /> +Pantomimes, expenses of, 80.<br /> +Parks, the royal, 267.<br /> +Parliament, curious, 335.<br /> +Pastimes, ancient, 405.<br /> +Patriarchal Times, 397.<br /> +Pelican House, 273.<br /> +Penderell Jewel, 276.<br /> +Penitential Habit, origin of, 398.<br /> +Pepper, Arden, anecdote of, 420.<br /> +Personal Injuries, pecuniary compensation for, 276.<br /> +Philosopher's Stone, the, 288.<br /> +Phrenology, Illustrations of, 240.<br /> +Pictures, new, gossip on, 395.<br /> +Piercy Islands, 145.<br /> +Pig Scavengers in America, 236.<br /> +Pike, habits of the, 266.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page438" + name="page438"> + </a>[pg 438] +</span> +Pilgrim's Progress, beauties of, 77.<br /> +Pin Money explained, 271.<br /> +Plague, great, in the fifteenth century, 430.<br /> +Plank, unlucky one, 368.<br /> +Plough described, 304.<br /> +Poetry of Ancient Days, 276.<br /> +Polynesian Islands, 145.<br /> +Poisoned Valley in Java, 6.<br /> +Pontefract Castle, history of, 50.<br /> +Pontine Marshes, 383.<br /> +Porcupine and Hedgehog, 179.<br /> +Porter, Anna Maria, 422.<br /> +Pottery, manufacture of, 283—324—363.<br /> +Prairies, origin of, 46.<br /> +Premiers of England, 320.<br /> +Presbyterian Churches in Cincinnati, 202.<br /> +Property, nature of, 252.<br /> +Prussic Acid, poisonous to vegetables, 412.<br /> +Psalter, illuminated, 178.<br /> +Punishments in the reign of Charles II., 87.<br /> +Pyramids, the, 224.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Quadrant, the Regent's, 133.<br /> +Quarantine in America, 192.<br /> +Queen Anne's Spring, near Eton, 248.<br /> +Queen Consorts, rights of, 270.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Railway, Marine, 412.<br /> +Rainbow, phenomenon of, 427.<br /> +Raphael China, 283.<br /> +Raven and Dove at the Deluge, 410.<br /> +Reading at Meals, 176.<br /> +Recollections of a Wanderer, 313.<br /> +Recreations in the Law, 251.<br /> +Reformation in England, 9.<br /> +Revenue and Debt of European States, 3.<br /> +Rhapsody on Nature, 373.<br /> +Rhinoceros, the, 179.<br /> +Rhinoceros Bird, history of, 312.<br /> +Rich Man, the true, 175.<br /> +Robert the Devil, Castle and Cavern of, 66.<br /> +Robin in Bushy Park, 267.<br /> +Robin Hood and May Games, 261.<br /> +Rook-shooting, cruelty of, 266.<br /> +Rousseau at Dove Dale, 432.<br /> +Rural peace, lines on, 351.<br /> +Russel, origin of the house of, 334.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Sailors, superstition of, 270.<br /> +St. Albans,<br /> + duchess of, 144<br /> + Bride's, parish registers of, 335<br /> + Helena, Captain Mundy's visit to, 348—403.<br /> +Saline Spa near Norwood, 227.<br /> +Saviour, address to the, 398.<br /> +Scandal-loving letter, 407.<br /> +Scottish,<br /> + Economy, 132—244<br /> + Literary Dinner, 73<br /> + Sporting, 136—148.<br /> +Scriptural,<br /> + Antiquities, 382—409—427<br /> + Heraldry, 404.<br /> +Sea Serpent, the, 212.<br /> +Seals, the, by J.S. Knowles, 302.<br /> +Sermons, plain, 416.<br /> +Serpents, superstitions respecting, 212.<br /> +Servants, duty of, 271.<br /> +Serventius, confessions of, 44.<br /> +Shakespeariana, 389.<br /> +Shark's Bay, adventure in, 173.<br /> +Sharp, the astronomer, 293.<br /> +Shaving, origin of, 192.<br /> +Shavings, waste of, 83—132.<br /> +Shelley,<br /> + eccentricities of, 420<br /> + P.B. at Oxford, 12—264.<br /> +Sheridan, anecdotes of, 137.<br /> +Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, 252.<br /> +Ships, names of, 288.<br /> +Shrew-mouse, the, 179.<br /> +Shrimps, inquiries on, 20.<br /> +Signs, origin of, 160.<br /> +Silk from Spiders, 412.<br /> +Singapore, sketch of, 35.<br /> +Sismondi, politics of, 420.<br /> +Sisters, four learned, 335.<br /> +Sitting in the Druid's Chair, 261.<br /> +Skulls, grinning, 101.<br /> +Skylark, claws of the, 245.<br /> +Skylark, a song, 323.<br /> +Slaughter, family, 368.<br /> +Slippery Love, 256.<br /> +Smuggling, extraordinary, 48.<br /> +Snake, habits of the, 342.<br /> +Snowdrop, address to, 132.<br /> +Social distinctions in America, 237.<br /> +Songs of the Gipsies, 232.<br /> +Songs found in a Grecian Urn, 156.<br /> +Song in imitation of Cowley, 419.<br /> +Songs by a Delia Cruscan poet, 323.<br /> +Songs, by T. Moore, 12.<br /> +Song by J.S. Knowles, 423.<br /> +Song of Pitcairn's Island, 232.<br /> +Sonnet on Love, 357.<br /> +Sorrow, concealed, 399.<br /> +Soizthey, recollections of, 254.<br /> +Spanish characteristics, 361.<br /> +Spanish scenery, charms of, 307.<br /> +Spanish superstition, 413.<br /> +Squares in London, 133.<br /> +Staines New Bridge, described, 321.<br /> +Starvation, ancient, 384.<br /> +Stones, speaking and moving, 101.<br /> +Sugar Cane of Otaheite, 27.<br /> +Sugar consumed in England, 222.<br /> +Sun-fish, the short, 425.<br /> +Surrey Zoological Gardens, 2.<br /> +Sutton Wash Embankment, 46.<br /> +Swelled Ancles, 160.<br /> +Swift at Moore Park, 422.<br /> +Swimming, Hints on, 3.<br /> +Swine, errors respecting, 171.<br /> +Swiss Cottage at the Colosseum, 258.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Tailors, renowned, 77.<br /> +Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 213.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"> + <a id="page439" + name="page439"> + </a>[pg 439] +</span> +Talleyrand, anecdote of, 256.<br /> +Tea, facts relative to, 220—222.<br /> +Tea, price of, 245.<br /> +Theatres, ancient English, 193.<br /> +Theatrical Property in France, 320.<br /> +Thief, how to detect, 272.<br /> +Three Death's Heads, 431.<br /> +Thrush, habits of the, 265.<br /> +Tigers, sortie of, 345.<br /> +Time's Telescope for 1832, 71.<br /> +Tinto, the river, 299.<br /> +Toads,<br /> + in Jersey, 267<br /> + poison of, 426<br /> + superstition respecting, 180.<br /> +Toast of a Scotch Peer, 287.<br /> +Tobacco,<br /> + in Cholera, 412<br /> + and snuff, virtues of, 96.<br /> +Tom and Jerry, ancient, 16.<br /> +Tomato Sauce, to make, 15.<br /> +Town and village defined, 175.<br /> +Trade, ancient, 128.<br /> +Travelling Notes in South Wales, 20—147.<br /> +Trout tickling in Ireland, 234.<br /> +Tucopia, isle of, 145.<br /> +Tunbridge Wells, sketches of, 376.<br /> +Tunnel in Regent's Park, 114.<br /> +Turenne, Marshal, 272.<br /> +Turkey, skeleton of, 312.<br /> +Twa Burdies, the, 91.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Under, house of, 69.<br /> +Unlucky present, a tale, 309.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Valentines, ancient, 178.<br /> +Valletort, Viscount, lines to, 378.<br /> +Vampire Bat, 40.<br /> +Vapour Bath in Cholera, 6—55.<br /> +Vegetable Wonders, 200.<br /> +Vegetation, curious facts in, 344.<br /> +Venice described, 429.<br /> +Venice, sonnet to, 69.<br /> +Ventilation of Rooms, 152.<br /> +Victor Hugo,<br /> + drama by, 118<br /> + lines by, 318.<br /> +Village,<br /> + Cemetery, the, 216<br /> + Hampden, 175.<br /> +Virginia Water, cascade at, 81—210.<br /> +Visit to the Morgue, at Paris, 349.<br /> +Voices of the Night, 259.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Waller, the poet, tomb of, 233.<br /> +War Song against the Chinese, 14.<br /> +Warton, Thomas, the poet, 421.<br /> +Washington Irving, Medwin, and Grattan, 421.<br /> +Water from the Rock in Horeb, 428.<br /> +Watering-places in the fifteenth century, 431.<br /> +Waverley Novels, character of, 284—365.<br /> +Waverley Novels,<br /> + heroines of, 365<br /> + Plots of, 366<br /> + Scenic description, 366<br /> + Scott and Shakspeare, 367<br /> + Style, 367.<br /> +Weather Rhymes, by the Monks, 228.<br /> +Wedgewood's Ware, manufacture of, 363.<br /> +Weighing in the Balance, 429.<br /> +West, sign painted by, 432.<br /> +Western Church, corruption of, 372.<br /> +Westminster Hall, Old, 251.<br /> +Whale Chase in the Hebrides, 297.<br /> +Widow, paraphernalia of, 271.<br /> +Wife, an American one, 272.<br /> +Wilderness described, 397.<br /> +William IV. and Queen Adelaide, 143.<br /> +William Tell, legend of, 430.<br /> +Wills of bachelors, 271<br /> + curious facts respecting, 270<br /> + compulsory, 271<br /> + of criminals, 271.<br /> +Wilton Castle, history of, 305.<br /> +Windsor Castle from the N.E., 177.<br /> +Wine,<br /> + bramble, to make, 15<br /> + grape, to make, 15.<br /> +Wit, lines on, 9.<br /> +Witchcrafts in 1647, 174.<br /> +Wolf,<br /> + anecdotes of, 171<br /> + Dog in Cumberland, 426.<br /> +Woodpecker, arctic, 356.<br /> +Wordsworth, recollections of, 255.<br /> +Wreck, lines on the, 322.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Xenophon, picture by Haydon, 218.<br /> +</p> +<p> +Zebu, or Indian Ox, the, 385.<br /> +Zoological Gardens,<br /> + Regent's Park, 114—273—385<br /> + picture of, 386.<br /> +Zoological Gardens,<br /> + Surrey, 1—273<br /> + Society, report of, 275.<br /> +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<h2>LIST OF SIXTY-THREE ENGRAVINGS</h2> + +<hr /> + +<h3>IN THE PRESENT VOLUME.</h3> + +<h3><i>STEEL-PLATE PORTRAIT OF THE RT. HON. EARL GREY.</i></h3> + +<p> +Three Views in the Surrey Zoological Gardens.<br /> +Fishmongers' Hall.<br /> +—————Arms.<br /> +Law Institution, Chancery Lane.<br /> +Pontefract Castle.<br /> +Castle of Robert the Devil.<br /> +Cavern of Robert the Devil.<br /> +Cascade at Virginia Water.<br /> +Brighton in 1743.<br /> +Lady Chapel, St. Saviour, Southwark.<br /> +Three Views in the Zoological Gardens.<br /> +Entrance to the Botanic Garden, Manchester.<br /> +Tucopia, in the Southern Pacific Ocean.<br /> +Piercy Islands.<br /> +Seven Cuts of the Arbalest, or Cross-Bow.<br /> +Windsor Castle (N.E. View.)<br /> +Burial-place in Tongatabu.<br /> +Ancient Bankside.<br /> +Two Cuts of Bull and Bear-baiting Theatres.<br /> +Lowther Arcade, West Strand.<br /> +Beulah Saline Spa, Norwood.<br /> +Tomb of the poet, Waller.<br /> +Melrose Abbey.<br /> +Queen Anne's Spring, near Eton.<br /> +Swiss Cottage at the Colosseum.<br /> +Bay-Window at ditto.<br /> +Three Cuts of the Zoological Gardens.<br /> +"Happy Jerry.<br />" +St. Pancras (Old) Church.<br /> +Fire Temples in Persia.<br /> +Wilton Castle, on the Wye.<br /> +Skeleton of the Turkey.<br /> +Rhinoceros Bird.<br /> +Staines New Bridge.<br /> +Bamborough Castle.<br /> +The Alhambra, in Spain.<br /> +Palace of Charles V.<br /> +White-horned Arctic Owl.<br /> +Cock of the Plains.<br /> +Legs and Feet of Mountain Grouse.<br /> +Claw of Woodpecker.<br /> +Monkey Island.<br /> +Hampton-wick Chapel.<br /> +Brahmin Bull.<br /> +———Shed.<br /> +Sir Thomas Fowler's Lodge, Islington.<br /> +Dunheved Castle.<br /> +Ancient Chimney Piece at Exeter.<br /> +Lord Cornwallis's Monument.<br /> +</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"> + </a><b>Footnote 1</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag1"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + Wilton Castle, on the Wye, was for several centuries the + baronial residence of the Greys of the South, who derived + from it their first title, and became its owners in the time + of Edward I.—See <i>Mirror</i>, vol. xiv. p. 305. + </p> +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"> + </a><b>Footnote 2</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag2"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + The barony of Werke was given to the family of Ros, Barons of + Hemsley, in Yorkshire, by Henry I. for the service of two + knights' fees, and was in their possession till 1399; but in + the next year was found to belong to Sir Thomas Grey, of + Heton. It gave title of baron in 1622, to Sir William Grey, + who died in 1674. The village of Werke, and its ruined castle, + are all that remain of the possessions of the barony; the + former consisting of a miserable cluster of thatched cottages; + the latter of mere fragments of ashlar work, near its + foundations and lines of its moat. The village stands on the + margin of the Tweed: and the castle is celebrated in the + border annals. Heton, of which we have just spoken, in Edward + the First's reign, belonged to William de Heton; and in the + next reign, to Sir Thomas Grey, captain of Norham Castle. Sir + John Grey, of Heton, in 1420, was graced with the order of St. + George, or the Garter; and from him the estate descended to + the Tankervilles. + </p> +</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"> + </a><b>Footnote 3</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag3"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + Speech on the second reading of the Reform Bill, in the House + of Lords, Oct. 4, 1831. + </p> +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote4" name="footnote4"> + </a><b>Footnote 4</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag4"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + Life and Reign of George IV. by William Wallace, Esq. 3 vols. + 1831. + </p> +</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote5" name="footnote5"> + </a><b>Footnote 5</b>: + <a href="#footnotetag5"> + (return) + </a> + <p> + Life and Reign of George IV. By W. Wallace, Esq. 3 vols. 1831. + </p> +</blockquote> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, +and Instruction, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, SUPPL. *** + +***** This file should be named 12554-h.htm or 12554-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/5/5/12554/ + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Allen Siddle and PG Distributed Proofreaders + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction + No. 555, Supplement to Volume 19 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 8, 2004 [EBook #12554] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, SUPPL. *** + + + + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Allen Siddle and PG Distributed Proofreaders + + + + + +[Illustration: EARL GREY.] + + + + +THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. + + +CONTAINING + +ORIGINAL ESSAYS; HISTORICAL NARRATIVES; BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS; SKETCHES OF +SOCIETY; TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NOVELS AND TALES; ANECDOTES; + +SELECT EXTRACTS FROM NEW AND EXPENSIVE WORKS; POETRY, ORIGINAL AND +SELECTED; + +THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS; DISCOVERIES IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES; +USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS; + +&c. &c. &c. + + +VOL. XIX. + +LONDON: + +PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. LIMBIRD, 143, STRAND, (Near Somerset-House.) + +1832. + + + + * * * * * + +PREFACE. + + +Here we are with our Nineteenth Volume complete. We do not carry it to +Court to gain patronage, neither do we preface it with a costly dedication +to a purse-proud patron; but we present it at the levee of the people, as +a production in which the information and amusement of one and all are +equally kept in view. We know that instances have occurred of authors +tiring out their patrons. A pleasant story is told of Spencer, who sent +the manuscript of his Faery Queen to the Earl of Southampton, the Mecaenas +of those days; when the earl reading a few pages, ordered the poet to be +paid twenty pounds; reading further, another twenty pounds; and proceeding +still, twenty pounds more; till losing all patience, his lordship cried, +"Go turn that fellow out of the house, for if I read on I shall be ruined." +We have no fear this will be our fate; especially as we strive to effect +all that can be accomplished in our economical form to follow as well as +direct the public taste. + +Experience has taught us in the conduct of nineteen volumes of +this Miscellany, that the most effectual method of conveying instruction, +or aiding the progress of knowledge, is by combining it with amusement; +or, in other words by at once aiming at the head and heart. +The world is already too full of precept upon precept; and a smattering +of principles is too often found in the place of practice. How can +this order of things be improved but by setting forth duties as innocent +pleasures, sweetening utility with entertainment, and garnishing fact +with fancy. A man need not study Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations +to become rich, nor seek the glories of nature in artificial Systems. +But the contrary notion has probably given rise to the observation, that, +"what the present generation have gained in head, they have lost in +heart." It should not, however, be so, with the abundance of materials +we have for social improvement. + +We hope the reader has recognised the influence of these feelings in the +many illustrations of men, manners, and times, which it has ever been our +object to garner into the pages of THE MIRROR. Hence the traits of +domestic life in all ages, and the tales and traditions of the family +hearth, when pointed with a moral, receive our special attention. In this +department, as well as in the playful fancies of poetry, in embellishing +the softer sympathies of nature,--we have been materially aided by our +Correspondents; to all of whom we proffer our best thanks. + +In the present volume, the Public Journals of the day have not been +disregarded; while sterling literature, of the _utile cum dulce_ character, +has been studied; and new books have been consulted, not so much for the +purpose of exposing their defects, as exhibiting their perfections. Art +has contributed its novelties; and the progress of Natural Science has +developed many new beauties appreciable by every reader. + +The ENGRAVINGS are somewhat more numerous than usual; in all numbering +sixty-three; and they are accompanied by illustrative letter-press of +concise, but we trust, entertaining character. + +In Popular Antiquities we may mention Old Fishmongers' Hall, which has +disappeared since the date of our last volume; the Castles of Pontefract, +Wilton, and Dunheved, with traits of their historic lore; the Lady Chapel, +in Southwark, and its changing history; Brighton about a hundred years +since; the Arbalest, or Cross-bow explained with Cuts; Old Bankside, and +the First Theatres; the venerable Melrose on the Tweed; St. Pancras (Old) +Church; and the castellated palace of the Alhambra, in Spain. + +Among the Architectural novelties are the Law Institution, in Chancery +Lane; the Lowther Arcade, in the Strand; Staines New Bridge; and two +scenes of the picturesque wonders of the Colosseum, in the Regent's Park. + +In Zoology, the most popular study of the day, there are upwards of a +score of novelties. Among them are a dozen Vignettes from the Zoological +Gardens in the Regent's Park, and in Surrey; and illustrations of Rare +Arctic Birds observed during the last overland expedition to the Polar Sea, +by Captain Sir John Franklin. + +In the ensuing volume, we have determined upon enlarging our letter-press +page; whilst a new and handsome type has been cast expressly for this work. +By these improvements, as well as by the renewed vigour of our artists, +and a like zeal on our own part, THE MIRROR will be found still worthy of +its old friends, and attractive to new patrons. Its economy need not be +again enforced, although in this respect, our contemplated alterations +cannot but be received as additional points for the encouragement of a +discerning public. + +_London, June 28, 1832._ + + * * * * * + + + + +MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES GREY, EARL GREY, K.G., + +FIRST LORD OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY, &c. &c. + + * * * * * + +DE BON VOULOIR SERVIR LE ROI.--_Family Motto._ + + * * * * * + +The family of GREY--the Greys of the North, as they are styled +distinctively from the Greys of the South,[1]--is of Saxon origin.[2] They +have held manors in Northumberland from the earliest records to the +present time. The direct founder of the present branch was Baron Grey of +Werke, ennobled by James I. and advanced to the earldom of Tankerville by +William III. which titles became extinct in 1710; and the heiress carried +the estates by marriage to Charles Bennet, Lord Ossulston, who was, in +consequence, created Earl of Tankerville, in 1714. + + [1] Wilton Castle, on the Wye, was for several centuries the + baronial residence of the Greys of the South, who derived + from it their first title, and became its owners in the time + of Edward I.--See _Mirror_, vol. xiv. p. 305. + + [2] The barony of Werke was given to the family of Ros, Barons of + Hemsley, in Yorkshire, by Henry I. for the service of two + knights' fees, and was in their possession till 1399; but in + the next year was found to belong to Sir Thomas Grey, of + Heton. It gave title of baron in 1622, to Sir William Grey, + who died in 1674. The village of Werke, and its ruined castle, + are all that remain of the possessions of the barony; the + former consisting of a miserable cluster of thatched cottages; + the latter of mere fragments of ashlar work, near its + foundations and lines of its moat. The village stands on the + margin of the Tweed: and the castle is celebrated in the + border annals. Heton, of which we have just spoken, in Edward + the First's reign, belonged to William de Heton; and in the + next reign, to Sir Thomas Grey, captain of Norham Castle. Sir + John Grey, of Heton, in 1420, was graced with the order of St. + George, or the Garter; and from him the estate descended to + the Tankervilles. + +The father of Earl Grey was Sir Charles Grey, who entered the army at an +early age, had a command in the American war, and commanded in chief the +military forces in the expeditions against the French West India Islands, +the successful result of which was the annexing of Martinique, St. Lucie, +Guadaloupe, &c. to our empire. He married, in 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of +George Grey, Esq. of Southwick, in Durham, (of a different family,) by +whom he had five sons and two daughters. He was created Lord Grey of +Howick, in 1801; and Viscount Howick, and Earl Grey, in 1806. He died in +the following year, and was succeeded by his son, Charles, second and +present earl. + +Mr. Grey was born March 13, 1764, and educated at Eton, in the same class +with the late Mr. Lambton, (father of the present Lord Durham,) Mr. +Whitbread, and others, with whom he afterwards acted in political life. He +was then sent to King's College, Cambridge, where he displayed first-rate +abilities. On his leaving the University, he set out on the tour of Europe, +though only eighteen years of age. In Italy, he was introduced to the late +Duke of Cumberland, in whose household he obtained an appointment. He +returned to England in 1786, and soon after his arrival, was, by the +interest of his family, returned to parliament for the county of +Northumberland, when he joined the Whigs, it has been stated, to the +surprise of his family, whose principles were those of Toryism. + +At a subsequent general election, as an expensive contest was expected for +Northumberland, Mr. Grey declined nomination, and was returned to +parliament for Appleby, which borough he represented till his succession +to the peerage. In the House of Commons his great talents soon shone forth; +and, in conjunction with Fox, Sheridan, Lambton, Ponsonby, and others, he +maintained an intrepid opposition to the doctrines of that darling of fame, +Mr. Pitt. Immediately after his entrance into Parliament, his discussion +of the minister's important treaty of commerce, may be said to have +established his reputation, by the force of his eloquence, as well as by +the enlarged views which he seemed to have acquired of commercial +relations; which knowledge is more frequently the result of gradual +experience than of early attainment. + +In these stormy times Mr. Grey ranked among the head and front of +contending politics. He was appointed one of the managers of that +magnificent political drama--the impeachment of Warren Hastings, when he +displayed great acumen in that part of the accusation termed the Benares +Charge. + +In 1791, we find Mr. Grey taking the lead in a measure, which, in the +language of a great orator (Burke) "shed a lustre on the character and +humanity of the nation." The subject to which we allude, was the +melancholy situation of those who were unable to satisfy the demands of +importunate creditors, and consequently subjected to the operation of a +rigorous code of laws. His observation in moving for a parliamentary +committee to inquire into the present practice and effect of imprisonment +for debt is worthy of quotation: "it was desirable to distinguish the +unfortunate debtor from the knavish one, to place the creditor in that +situation which afforded the fairest and the speediest means of +compensation, and to regulate the jails of this country in such a manner +as to prevent unnecessary hardship and restraint. Whether they considered +the practice of confining for debt men who had no means of discharging +such debt, or, on the contrary, fraudulent debtors, whose creditors by no +process could compel them to pay; these circumstances were alone +sufficient to constitute an inquiry into the state of the laws relating to +debtor and creditor." This motion being acceded to, a committee consisting +of Mr. Grey, Mr. Pitt, Sir John Sinclair, Mr. Vansittart, Mr. Martin, the +Attorney and Solicitor Generals, and other legal gentlemen, was +immediately appointed. The origin of this inquiry is an indicative of the +liberal policy of the statesman as it is of the humanity of the mover. + +In 1792, Mr. Grey instituted an inquiry into the conduct of ministers with +regard to the recently threatened hostilities with Russia. His +animadversion upon the vacillating and ruinous measures of government were +characterized by that fearless intrepidity, truth, energy, and eloquence, +which have distinguished his political career. The motion for the inquiry +was lost, though the powerful remarks of the mover drew from Mr. Pitt the +following memorable confession: "All unlimited confidence is +unconstitutional; and I hope the inglorious moment will never arrive, when +this house will abandon the privilege of examining, condemning, and +correcting the abuses in the executive government. It is the dearest +privilege you possess, and should never be relinguished." + +During the schisms occasioned in this country by the French revolution, Mr. +Grey enrolled himself in a political society, called the Friends of the +People. He also became a member of the Whig Club, then in the zenith of +its celebrity. His active advocacy of the cause of a reform in parliament +was equal within and without the house of commons. To quote one of his +Lordship's most recent speeches, "In 1786 he had voted for reform. He had +supported Mr. Pitt in his motion for shortening the duration of +parliaments. He had given his best assistance to the measure of reform +introduced by Mr. Flood, before the French revolution; and, on one or two +different occasions, he had originated motions on the subject."[3] One of +these was in 1793, when he presented a petition for reform and a shorter +duration of parliament, from the Society of the Friends of the People: his +motion for a committee was lost by 280 to 41. Another occasion to which +his Lordship alludes, was in 1797, when he proposed, in his plan of +parliamentary reform, to give to the county of York four new members; to +divide each county into two districts, each returning a member. +Copyholders and leaseholders were to have equal rights of voting with +freeholders, as were all householders paying taxes in cities and boroughs; +and parliaments were to be triennial. This motion was, however, negatived +by 149 votes. + + [3] Speech on the second reading of the Reform Bill, in the House + of Lords, Oct. 4, 1831. + +In 1795, Mr. Grey opposed with great firmness, Mr. Pitt's motion for the +adjustment of the Prince of Wales's debts, and moved for the reduction of +the Prince's income. He professed himself ready to support the real +splendour of the royal family "as any slippery sycophant of a court;" but +said he thought there was more true dignity in manifesting a heart alive +to the distresses of millions, than in all those trappings which encumber +royalty without adorning it. He asked whether the legislature should give +an example of encouraging extravagance at a moment when the prevailing +fashion of prodigality among people of fortune was rapidly destroying +their independence, and making them the tools of the court, and the +contempt of the people. He knew the refusal to pay his debts would be a +severe privation to the Prince of Wales; but it would be a just penalty +for the past, a useful lesson for the future, and a proper deference to +the severe pressure and privations endured by the people. Mr. Grey's +amendment was supported by what was then a strong majority--99 to 260; and +the original motion carried: his conduct on this occasion seems never to +have been forgotten by the Prince of Wales, the Regent or the King. It +should here be mentioned, that, with equal justice, Mr. Grey subsequently +defended the rights of His Royal Highness from the shackles proposed to be +laid on him as Regent. + +Mr. Grey's opposition to Mr. Pitt's measures continued unabated for many +years, while he remained equally steady in his attachment to Mr. Fox. His +bitter hostility to the union between Ireland and England may be said to +have produced one of his most celebrated speeches. Neither was he dazzled, +nor misled by the splendid talents of Burke, at this time in highest +repute. When Mr. Fox was deserted by Lords Fitzwilliam, Carlisle, and +other alarmists, Mr. Grey unchangingly adhered to him; and when Mr. Fox +and Lord Grenville formed a Whig ministry, in 1806, Mr. Grey, then, by his +father's elevation to the peerage, become Lord Howick, was appointed First +Lord of the Admiralty, and one of the Cabinet Council. He next succeeded +Mr. Fox as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and leader in the House of +Commons. This ministry was ill-formed, and wanted unity of purpose: their +abolition of the Slave Trade was a redeeming measure, in which Lord Howick +bore a conspicuous part; but his lordship's motion for the emancipation of +the Catholics brought about his dismissal from the ministry. + +Lord Howick, soon after, by the death of his father, succeeded to the +title of Earl Grey; and by the death of his uncle, Sir Henry Grey, to the +family estate. Ill health, for a time, kept his lordship from public life: +he retired with no place but that of a Governor of the Charter House, and +without pension or sinecure. Upon the resignation of the Duke of Portland, +in 1809, his successor, Mr. Perceval, proposed a coalition with Lords +Grenville and Grey, which was at once rejected by the latter. In the +following year, his lordship "felt it his duty to arraign and to expose +the gross mismanagement of the government, and their repeated and +dangerous misconduct," in Parliament. In the same session, he charged the +lord chancellor (Eldon) with a crime little short of treason, in having +set the great seal, in 1801 and 1804, to commissions for giving the royal +assent to several bills, whilst the King was in a state of mental +infirmity, under medical care, and subject to personal control. The motion +was negatived by a majority of 189 to 64; "but Lord Eldon has not +forgotten the accusation, or forgiven the mover."[4] In 1812, another +attempt was made to bring Lord Grey, with Lord Grenville, into the cabinet; +but this was rejected as promptly as before. + + [4] Life and Reign of George IV. by William Wallace, Esq. 3 vols. + 1831. + +Lord Grey again retired to private life. In 1817, his lordship reappeared, +and moved an amendment to the parliamentary address to the throne, urging +rigid economy, retrenchment, and an inquiry into the state of the nation. +In the same year he brought before the House of Lords, the notable +circular of Lord Sidmouth for the prosecution of libels by magistrates. +"It is a singular fact," observes an acute historical writer,[5] "that +Lord Grey, on this occasion, made an able and erudite law argument; which +all the law lords, including Lord Ellenborough, made vain efforts to +refute; and which Lord Ellenborough had the manliness to eulogize;" +notwithstanding which Lord Grey's motion for a copy of the opinion of the +law officers of the crown was negatived. + + [5] Life and Reign of George IV. By W. Wallace, Esq. 3 vols. 1831. + +During the trial of Queen Caroline, the wisdom-tempered zeal of Lord Grey +ranked him amongst the most efficient, as he was the most eloquent, of her +defenders: his lordship, in conjunction with Lord King, also made +successive attempts, by motions, to quash the investigation. + +To the administration of the Earl of Liverpool, it need scarcely be added, +Earl Grey was thoroughly hostile: his aversion to the policy of Mr. +Canning was equally decided; and the same independent spirit urged him to +oppose the measures of the Wellington cabinet, except the memorable +measure of Catholic Emancipation, by the proposal of which he had lost +office in the year 1810. His lordship's eloquent efforts in this cause +must be alive in the recollection of the reader. + +We are now fast approaching the consummation of one of the grand objects +of his lordship's political life. By the dissolution of the Wellington +cabinet, in 1830, Lord Grey became at the head of the present +administration. His first act was the introduction of the grand measure +for parliamentary reform, which, for sixteen months past, has interested +the whole population of this mighty empire. His lordship's emphatic +expressions, on this occasion, are "familiar as household words." "He made +it a condition on accepting office, that Parliamentary Reform should be +introduced as a government measure. That condition having been assented to +by his most gracious sovereign, by this measure he was prepared to stand +or fall." Gratifying as would be the task, we need not detail the +incidents of the last few months of his lordship's career. Our eulogium +would be poor indeed, while nine-tenths of the journals of our country are +perpetuating his good deeds; while his political integrity has become +exemplary to every cabinet in Europe; and millions are about to burst +forth in "the loud festivity of mirth" to celebrate the virtue of their +popular minister. + +Earl Grey married in 1794, Mary Elizabeth Brabazon, daughter of Lord +Ponsonby, by whom his lordship has had a numerous family: the eldest son +and heir apparent being Viscount Howick, born in 1802. In our outline of +Lord Grey's public life, the reader may have observed his Lordship's +fondness for the retirement of the domestic circle. This accords with his +recent declaration in parliament: "he was fond of retirement, and in +domestic life he lived happy in the bosom of his family. Nothing could +have tempted him to embark on these stormy seas-- + + Bankrupt of life, but prodigal of ease-- + +nothing but an overpowering sense of the duty which he owed to his +country." Even apart from political distinction, Earl Grey must be +considered happy indeed; but honoured in public and cherished in private +life, his pre-eminence is proud indeed. Shakspeare tells of the "divinity" +that "doth hedge a king:" yet who would enjoy more than the consciousness +of having been true to his sovereign, his country, and his honour. + + * * * * * + + + +INDEX. + +ANECDOTE GALLERY, 277--291--309--375--404. +CORRESPONDENCE in each Number. +COSMOPOLITE, 170--179--211--237--276. +EMBELLISHED ARTICLES in each Number. +FINE ARTS, 90--139--150--164--198--218--393. +GATHERER in each Number. +MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS, 22--253--259--297--329--361--405. +NATURALIST, 27--38--56--150--183--245--265--297--311--383--425. +NOTES OF A READER, 23--55--73--92--100--140--152--168--180--200--220 + --235--251--270--279----326--372--413--429. +NOVELIST, 44--59. +OLD POETS, 8. +RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS, 7--38--76--86--174--227--334--419. +SELECT BIOGRAPHY, 105. +SELECTOR, 9--40--69--84--107--121--137--157--172--185--216--228--254 + --261--293--307--324--331--331--358--382--397--407--427. +SKETCH BOOK, 3--20--36--116--136--148--268--313. +SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY, 6--46--54--126--190--283--363--411. +SPIRIT OF PUBLIC JOURNALS, 12--28--42--62--77--91--102--118--133--155 + --165--189--203--213--234--248--264--284--299--316--365--378--394 + --413--420. +TOPOGRAPHER, 124--377. +USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS, 15--83. + + * * * * * + + + +Abernethy, Mr., Anecdotes of, 40. +Abbot of Tewkesbury, the, 268 +Abstract Studies, 292. +Academy Delia Crusca, Origin of, 406. +Adrian IV., Anecdotes of, 304. +Advent Customs, 22. +Advertisement Extraordinary, 240. +Affection of Animals, 266. +African Expedition, 7 + Horse Race, 216. +Agricultural Societies, Ancient, 229. +Alhambra, Palace of, described, 337. +Alligator on the Ganges, 347. +Altrive Tales, by the Ettrick Shepherd, 254. +America, + Domestic Life in, 180--235--323 + North, Birds of, 356 + Prosperity of, 239. +American English, 236 + Prejudice, 399 + Women, conversation with, 182. +Anagrams, 16. +Anatomists, Skilful, 183. +Anecdotage, 375. +Angel of Departure, Song of, 168 + Welcome, 168. +Angling, Hints on, 183. +Anglo-Saxon Dress, 407. +Animals, Superstition relative to, 170--178--211--237. +Anne Boleyn, 96. +Apologue, Oriental, 336. +Arabian Beauty, 157. +Arbalest, or Cross-bow explained, 161--210 + of Robin Hood, 322. +Arcadian Child Sleeping, 157. +Archbishop, Dancing, 191. +Arctic Birds, rare, 354. +Ark of Noah and Mount Ararat, 382. +Arrows, Poisoned, 192. +Artillery Company, Origin of, 406. +Asmodeus in London, 29. +Ass, Persecution of the, 171. +Astronomical Toasts, 256. +Athenian Lover to his Mistress, 157. +Audubon, the Naturalist, 298. +Aviary in the Zoological Gardens, 273. + +Babylon, Willows of, 411. +Backwoodsman of America, 201. +Ballad Singing, English, 370. +Bamborough Castle described, 327. +Bankrupt Court, the New, 159. +Bankside, Old, 193. +Barbarous Punishments, 253. +Bardic Chorus, 100. +Barn Owl, economy of, 27--38. +Barton Booth, the actor, 192. +Bathing, Nocturnal, 347. +Bear, + errors respecting, 179 + Polar, habits of, 114. +Bed of Leaves, 207. +Bedford Level, 192 + Missal, 192. +Bell-rock Lighthouse, 182. +Beranger, Song from, 370. +Beulah Spa, near Norwood, 225. +Bills of Mortality, Origin of, 76. +Biography, Splendid, 303. +Birds, Structure of, 311. +Birmingham Railway, 190. +Birth Song, 168. +Black Monday, 208. +Blondel de Nesle, a ballad, 28. +Blunder, Conversational, 292. +Bonington, the artist, 168. +Books, New, noticed and quoted: + Adventures of a Younger Son, 157--172. + Advice to Executors, 270. + Annual Biography and Obituary, for 1832, 40. + Arlington, 407. + Bath Guide, New, 94. + Book of Instruction, 93. + Britain's Historical Drama, 100. + British Relations with the Chinese Empire, 220. + Britton's Tunbridge Wells, 376. + Cabinet Annual Register for 1831, 334. + Chantilly, a Novel, 154. + Characteristic Sketches of Animals, by Landseer, 386. + Contarini Fleming, 429. + Contrast, by Earl Mulgrave, 293. + Domestic Manners of the Americans, 180--201. + Elements of Chemistry familiarly explained, 152. + Eugene Aram, 23--57--95--101--142. + Fair of May Fair, 331. + Francis I., a tragedy, by Miss F. Kemble, 170--185. + Frankland's Visit to Russia and Sweden, 84. + Georgian Era, 122--137--278. + Gleanings in Natural History, 245--265. + Hampden and his times, 140. + Herbert's Country Parson, 93. + History of the Reformation in + England, 9 + Italian Republics, 121 + Spain and Portugal, 398. + Hunchback, by J.S. Knowles, 279. + Indian Tale and other Poems, 373. + Knowledge for the People, 25--200--344. + Landers' Travels in Africa, 126--216--231. + Life of Gregory VII., by Sir Roger Greisley, 372. + Life and Reign of George IV., 280. + Lives of Eminent British Military Commanders, 358 + British Painters, 168. + Maid of Elvar, by Allan Cunningham, 351. + Memoirs of Sir Ralph Esher, 105. + Messiah, by Montgomery, 397. + Outline of English History, 95. + Paris and its Historical Scenes, 69. + Pen and Pencil Sketches of India, by Capt. Mundy, 345. + Songs of the Gipsies, 232. + Summer Fete, by Moore, 12. + Tales of the Alhambra, by Washington Irving, 307--337 to 342--361 + Early Ages, 261. + Time's Telescope for 1832, 71. + Tour of a German Prince, 143. + Transactions of the Society of Arts, 283. + Truth of Revelation demonstrated, 382--409--427. + Watts's New Year's Gift, 85. + Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America, 354. +"Boot, to," the phrase, 31. +Botany, Curiosities of, 25. +Bouts Rimes, Origin of, 191. +Box Wood, uses of, 15. +Brahmin Bull, the, 385. +Brazil, a day in, 150. +Brereton, the late Colonel, 105. +Brighton in 1743, 88--124. +British Artists Society, + Exhibition of, 198 + Institution, Visit to, 164 + Museum, the, 152 + Warriors, 358. +Bull and Bear-baiting Theatres, 193. +Bullock, Mr., in America, 236. +Burial, + Science of, 165 + Place in Tongatabu, 184. +Burke, Writings of, 357. +Burns, Birthday of, 73. +Bushy, owners of, 432. + +Calves-head Roll, 416. +Camoens, fate of, 288. +Cambridge Freshman, 43. +Campagna Felice, 383. +Cape Town, Population of, 348. +Capillary Attraction, 303. +Caps, Laws respecting, 303. +Cardinal Spider, the, 266. +Caroline, Queen, death of, 278. +Catching Tigers, 160. +Catholic Religion, dramatic character of the, 189. +Cats, Superstitions relative to, 170. +Caviare to the Multitude, 271. +Cedar Wood, scent of, 342. +Chalk, none in America, 182. +Chancery Suit, to decide, 252. +Chapel at Hampton Wick, 376. +Char, habits of, 425. +Charles + II. at Epsom, 108 + V., Palace of, in the Alhambra, 337. +Cheating in the Law, 252. +Chelsea + Heroines, 416 + Pensioners, Longevity of, 416. +Chemistry, Familiar Elements of, 152. +Child in Prayer, Lines to a, 423. +Children, + Lines on, 8 + Impromptu on, 189. +Chimney-piece, curious, at Exeter, 417. +China, + Picture of, 221 + Varieties of, 324. +Chinese Proverbs, &c., 16. +Chit Chat of the Day, 394. +Cholera, + Vapour Bath in, 6--54 + Notes on, 80--128. +Christ, Portrait of, 87--140. +Cincinnati, + Health in, 236 + Letter from, 323. +Cincinnatus, Modern, 400. +Civil, + Death explained, 270 + War, Lines on, 351. +Claret, Properties of, 192. +Clavering's Autobiography, 420. +Cleopatra's Needles, 291. +Coasting Scrap, 116. +Cock of the Arctic Plains, 355. +Cockney Horsemen, Hints to, 77. +Coffee, + as made in the East, 173 + Shops in London, 222. +Coffin-maker, the, by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, 203. +Coin of Edward III., 275. +Colchester, Lord, 422. +Colosseum, Swiss Cottage at the, 258. +Colton, the late Mr., 403. +Comets, concussion of, with the Earth, 71. +Confessions of Serventius, 44--59. +Congreve, + at Dove Dale, 432 + Rockets, 239. +Cornwall, Scene on the coast of, 313. +Cornwallis, Lord, Mausoleum of, in India, 423. +Count, a noble, 48. +Courage, Cool, 292. +Coventry Charity, 334. +Counterfeit Kings, 176. +Cowley, the poet, 105. +Cows in America, 236. +Crime, Progress of, 379. +Crocodiles on the Mississippi, 235. +Cromwell, + Lely's Portrait of, 109 + his Fun, 112. +Cross-bow, History of the, 162. +Crowland Abbey, 228. +Crucifixion, + the, 398 + Hilton's Picture of, 90. +Cumberland Titles, 239. +Curfew Bell, custom of, 253--273--307. + +Dancers, Aged, 416. +David and Goliath, 411. +De Lolme, Politics of, 421. +Deer, errors respecting, 179. +Delft or Dutch Ware, 283. +Deluge, the, 382--410. +Demosthenes, Studies of, 291. +Devil's Sonata, the, 42. +Diamonds in Brazil, 234. +Dibdin, Rev. Dr., 423. +Dirge of Death, 168. +Dispute, an odd one, 373. +Dogs, Superstitions relative to, 171. +Doll's Eyes, Trade in, 336. +Drama, decline of, 55. +Druid's Chair, sitting in, 261. +Druids and Mistletoe, 336. +Drunkenness in old London, 176. +Ducks, instinct of, 426. +Duc de Bordeaux, the young, 271. +Dunheved Castle, described, 401. +Dutch Rushes, 426. +Dwarfs, Russian, 84. +Dying Maiden's Pardon to her faithless lover, 291. + +Early Rising, 96. +East India Company, origin of, 221. +Echo Puns, 240. +Eclipse at Boossa, 281. +Economic Hints, 15. +Eels, economy of, 246. +Effrontery, 292. +Eggs, duty on, 336. +Egypt, + court of, a sketch, 413 + researches in, 96. +Elegy, from the German, 291. +Elliston and the Ass' Head, 91. +Emu, + economy of, 267 + house, 273. +Encroachers on Commons, 20. +Entomology, curious fact in, 298. +Epitaphs, in Wiltshire, 48. +Epsom Races, origin of, 329--361. +Ettrick Shepherd, dinner to, 73. +Eugene Aram, scene from, 23--56--95--102. +Evening, + lines to, 147 + lines on, 352. +Every man in his humour, 36. +Expedition, African, 7. + +Facetiae of Hierocles, 24. +Fairies, lines on, 8. +Fame, lines on, 352. +Farmer, Dr. of Cambridge, 421. +Fashion, ennui of, 326. +Feathers, economy of collecting, 83. +Felony, classic, 384. +Fiddling, poetry, 400. +Fights of wild beasts, 346. +Fines and Recoveries, 252. +Fire of London, 109. +Fire Temples in Persia, 297. +First born, a song, 156. +Fish, superstitions respecting, 212. +Fishing in Canada, 210. +Fishmongers' + Arms, 17 + Hall, ancient, 17. +Fitzherbert, Mrs., 143. +Floating Scheme, 76. +Fortune-telling in high life, 144. +Forty-ninth Birthday, 133. +Fowler, Sir Thomas, his Lodge at Islington, 392. +Fox's Book of Martyrs characterized, 10. +Fox-hunting, expenses of, 223. +Fragments on Human Life, 115. +Franking Letters, 160. +Frederick I. of Prussia, 47. +French + Cruelty, 292 + Drama, scene from, 118 + Literature, recent, 349 + Revolution, scenes from, 62--69. +Friendship, lines on, 224. +Fright, effects of, 7. +Fuel, economical, 15. + +Galley Slaves, a tale, 299. +Gardens and promenades, 399. +Garratt Election, 415. +Garrick Club, 144. +George + I. and II. anecdotes of, 277--278 + II., humanity of, 400 + IV., character of, 123--280. +Gipsey Fortune-teller, lines to, 164. +Glass, enamel paintings on, 219. +Gleanings in Natural History, 245--265. +Glee, a legal one, 251. +Gluttony, royal and noble, 35. +Goats, fabulous account of, 170. +God, supremacy of, 9. +Goldsmith, Oliver, 147. +Good Samaritan, parable of, 410. +Gorhambury, fete at, 304. +Governess, qualifications for, 176. +Greek Sailors, 76. +Greenwich Hospital, 400. +Groaning Tree of Baddesley, 419. +Grouse, rocky mountain, 356. +Gurnard and Sprat, habits of, 311. +Gutting the Fish, 64. + +Hail at Lausanne, 342. +Half-hanged Anne Green, 47. +Hainet and Raschid, a tale, 82. +Hamlet, ditty in, 32. +"Happy Jerry," anecdotes of, 273. +Harlow's Triul of Queen Katherine, 219. +Haydon's Pictures, 150--218. +Heating with Hot Water, 411. +Heating Rooms, 152. +Heckington, Holy Sepulchre at, 19. +Hemans, Mrs., sketch of, 358. +Henri III. of France, 154. +Henry I., speech of, 38. +Henry VII., character of England by, 304. +Hindoo Burial Service, 406. +Hip! Hip! Hurra! origin of, 208. +Hogg, James, dinner to, 73. +Hogs in America, 182. +Hoadley and Oldfield's Paintings on Glass, 219. +Hobbes at Chatsworth, 404. +Hobby-horse, the, 228. +Holly Leaves, medicinal use of, 412. +Holy Land, 228. +Hope, lines on, 34. +Horace Walpole, 421. +Horse Racing, origin of in England, 329--361. +Human Life, fragments on, 115. +Humbug, origin of, 159. +Humming-bird, a song, 323. +Hurley in Berkshire, account of, 419. +Hyaena, fables of, 171. +Hyde Park in America, 399. + +Iceland, desolation of, 96. +Inclosure Acts, 252. +Infancy, lines on, 318. +Ink Spots, to remove, 84. +Insects, superstitions respecting, 180--211. +Instinct allied to reason, 246. +Iron Trade, British, 46. +Irish character, traits of, 291. +Isabel of Spain, character of, 415. +Isaiah, lines on, 398. +Italian + Climate, 383 + Inn, 383 + Landscape, 383. +Italian Warfare, character of, 121. +Italy, Horticultural Tour in, 382. + +Jackal, errors respecting, 179. +Jardin de Plantes, described, 85. +Jay, remarkable, 298. +Jests of the Ancients, 24. +Justice, laconic, 76. + +Kemble, Miss, Tragedy by, 170--185. +Kensington Palace, expenses of, 302. +King John at the Cape, 347. +King of Kippen, the, 303. +Knaresborough Castle, 142. +Knight's Return, the, 244. + +Labourers' Friend Society, 148. +Laconics, or Guesses at Truth, 52--67--82--242--196--99. +Lady, lines to, on her age, 370. +Lady Chapel, Southward, 97--131. +Lamp, primitive one, 288. +Lancashire, improvement of, 326. +Landers' Journey to the Niger, 126--216--229--281. +Lark, lines to, 211. +Last Dying Speech and Confession of the Immortal Gods, 264. +Law of Arrest, the, 155. +Law Institution in Chancery Lane, 33--53. +Laws, ancient, 227. +Leather, manufacture of in Canada, 368. +Legal Rhymes, 197. +Lemons, sweet, 383. +Leopards, hunting with, 347. +Letter from London, 15. +Liberty in Rome, 121. +Library, a queer one, 272. +Light on the ears of a horse, 425. +Lions, tame, 32. +Lizard and Crocodile, 180. +London, Philosophy of, 133. +London and the Provinces Compared, 316. +Love, Court and Country, 372. +Love of Country, 352. +Love, French-English, 32. +Love's Kerchief, 35. +Lowther Arcade, the, 210. +Loyalist, a staunch one, 256. +Lulworth, a day at, 102. +Lyall's Geology, extract from, 57. +Lynx, errors respecting, 179. +Lyons, city of, 32. + +Macauley, Mrs., 421. +Madagascar, isle of, 172. +Magdalenes in church, 320. +Magic, state of, in Egypt, 248. +Maid's First Love, 352. +Man, agency of in extinguishing and spreading the species, 57. +Manager, duties of, 287. +Manchester Botanic Garden at, 129. +Manna, fall of, 427. +Manorial Right, curious, 23. +March of Mind, 178. +Marlborough, Life of, 359. +Mariguano, battle of, 122. +Marketing in America, 237. +Marriage Tree, 256. +Martinet, the, 213. +Martin's Picture on Glass, 219. +Martyr Student, the, 120. +Mary of Cambria, a sonnet, 388. +Massena's Tomb in Pere la Chaise, 357. +Mauritius, the, 172. +May Day Games, 259. +Melrose Abbey, history of, 241. +Men compared with Bees, 285. +Milan, Panorama of, 392. +Minstrelsy of Scotland, 352. +Mirabeau, character of, 422. +Modern Building, 134. +Monkey-houses, in the Zoological Gardens, 114. +Monkey Island, 369. +Moorhen, the, 266. +Morning in London, 134. +Morning, lines to, 99. +Morrice Dances of Robin Hood, 260. +Mortality in the Reign of William IV., 208. +"Mother Carey's Chickens," origin of, 306. +Moving Houses in America, 237. +Munden, biography of, 105. +Mungo Park, death of, 229. +Music, + effect of, 223 + old English, 189. +Muswell Hill, origin of, 304. +My Fire, a sketch, 20. + +Napier, Hon. Mrs., a sketch, 3. +Napoleon + at St. Helena, 403 + 's residence at St. Helena, 348 + tomb, 374. +Naples, fruit at, 384. +Nasmyth, the artist, 139. +Naturalists', three enthusiastic, 183. +Navy, ancient British, 7--86. +New South Wales, society in, 318. +New Zealand, islands in, 7. +Newton, + his mode of study, 193 + 's Weather-wisdom, 288. +Newtown Pippin, the, 399. +Nicknames, 175. +Niger, + river, night on, 126 + sailing on the, 231. +Night, lines on, 8. +Nightmare, lines on, 98. +Nobles of Johanna, 207. +Non-proposals, or Doubts resolved, 284. +Northcote and William III., 41. +"Nothing Impossible," 274. + +Odd Story, 111. +Opera, the Italian, 397. +Optics, witty, 112. +Owl, + the barn, 27--38 + the white-horned of the Arctic regions, 354. + +Paganini, a singing, 112. +Painted Window of the Crucifixion, 90. +Palankeen Travelling in India, 345. +Palming in Italy, 383. +Pancras Old Church described, 289--388. +Pantomimes, expenses of, 80. +Parks, the royal, 267. +Parliament, curious, 335. +Pastimes, ancient, 405. +Patriarchal Times, 397. +Pelican House, 273. +Penderell Jewel, 276. +Penitential Habit, origin of, 398. +Pepper, Arden, anecdote of, 420. +Personal Injuries, pecuniary compensation for, 276. +Philosopher's Stone, the, 288. +Phrenology, Illustrations of, 240. +Pictures, new, gossip on, 395. +Piercy Islands, 145. +Pig Scavengers in America, 236. +Pike, habits of the, 266. +Pilgrim's Progress, beauties of, 77. +Pin Money explained, 271. +Plague, great, in the fifteenth century, 430. +Plank, unlucky one, 368. +Plough described, 304. +Poetry of Ancient Days, 276. +Polynesian Islands, 145. +Poisoned Valley in Java, 6. +Pontefract Castle, history of, 50. +Pontine Marshes, 383. +Porcupine and Hedgehog, 179. +Porter, Anna Maria, 422. +Pottery, manufacture of, 283--324--363. +Prairies, origin of, 46. +Premiers of England, 320. +Presbyterian Churches in Cincinnati, 202. +Property, nature of, 252. +Prussic Acid, poisonous to vegetables, 412. +Psalter, illuminated, 178. +Punishments in the reign of Charles II., 87. +Pyramids, the, 224. + +Quadrant, the Regent's, 133. +Quarantine in America, 192. +Queen Anne's Spring, near Eton, 248. +Queen Consorts, rights of, 270. + +Railway, Marine, 412. +Rainbow, phenomenon of, 427. +Raphael China, 283. +Raven and Dove at the Deluge, 410. +Reading at Meals, 176. +Recollections of a Wanderer, 313. +Recreations in the Law, 251. +Reformation in England, 9. +Revenue and Debt of European States, 3. +Rhapsody on Nature, 373. +Rhinoceros, the, 179. +Rhinoceros Bird, history of, 312. +Rich Man, the true, 175. +Robert the Devil, Castle and Cavern of, 66. +Robin in Bushy Park, 267. +Robin Hood and May Games, 261. +Rook-shooting, cruelty of, 266. +Rousseau at Dove Dale, 432. +Rural peace, lines on, 351. +Russel, origin of the house of, 334. + +Sailors, superstition of, 270. +St. Albans, + duchess of, 144 + Bride's, parish registers of, 335 + Helena, Captain Mundy's visit to, 348--403. + +Saline Spa near Norwood, 227. +Saviour, address to the, 398. +Scandal-loving letter, 407. +Scottish, + Economy, 132--244 + Literary Dinner, 73 + Sporting, 136--148. +Scriptural, + Antiquities, 382--409--427 + Heraldry, 404. +Sea Serpent, the, 212. +Seals, the, by J.S. Knowles, 302. +Sermons, plain, 416. +Serpents, superstitions respecting, 212. +Servants, duty of, 271. +Serventius, confessions of, 44. +Shakespeariana, 389. +Shark's Bay, adventure in, 173. +Sharp, the astronomer, 293. +Shaving, origin of, 192. +Shavings, waste of, 83--132. +Shelley, + eccentricities of, 420 + P.B. at Oxford, 12--264. +Sheridan, anecdotes of, 137. +Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, 252. +Ships, names of, 288. +Shrew-mouse, the, 179. +Shrimps, inquiries on, 20. +Signs, origin of, 160. +Silk from Spiders, 412. +Singapore, sketch of, 35. +Sismondi, politics of, 420. +Sisters, four learned, 335. +Sitting in the Druid's Chair, 261. +Skulls, grinning, 101. +Skylark, claws of the, 245. +Skylark, a song, 323. +Slaughter, family, 368. +Slippery Love, 256. +Smuggling, extraordinary, 48. +Snake, habits of the, 342. +Snowdrop, address to, 132. +Social distinctions in America, 237. +Songs of the Gipsies, 232. +Songs found in a Grecian Urn, 156. +Song in imitation of Cowley, 419. +Songs by a Delia Cruscan poet, 323. +Songs, by T. Moore, 12. +Song by J.S. Knowles, 423. +Song of Pitcairn's Island, 232. +Sonnet on Love, 357. +Sorrow, concealed, 399. +Soizthey, recollections of, 254. +Spanish characteristics, 361. +Spanish scenery, charms of, 307. +Spanish superstition, 413. +Squares in London, 133. +Staines New Bridge, described, 321. +Starvation, ancient, 384. +Stones, speaking and moving, 101. +Sugar Cane of Otaheite, 27. +Sugar consumed in England, 222. +Sun-fish, the short, 425. +Surrey Zoological Gardens, 2. +Sutton Wash Embankment, 46. +Swelled Ancles, 160. +Swift at Moore Park, 422. +Swimming, Hints on, 3. +Swine, errors respecting, 171. +Swiss Cottage at the Colosseum, 258. + +Tailors, renowned, 77. +Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 213. +Talleyrand, anecdote of, 256. +Tea, facts relative to, 220--222. +Tea, price of, 245. +Theatres, ancient English, 193. +Theatrical Property in France, 320. +Thief, how to detect, 272. +Three Death's Heads, 431. +Thrush, habits of the, 265. +Tigers, sortie of, 345. +Time's Telescope for 1832, 71. +Tinto, the river, 299. +Toads, + in Jersey, 267 + poison of, 426 + superstition respecting, 180. +Toast of a Scotch Peer, 287. +Tobacco, + in Cholera, 412 + and snuff, virtues of, 96. +Tom and Jerry, ancient, 16. +Tomato Sauce, to make, 15. +Town and village defined, 175. +Trade, ancient, 128. +Travelling Notes in South Wales, 20--147. +Trout tickling in Ireland, 234. +Tucopia, isle of, 145. +Tunbridge Wells, sketches of, 376. +Tunnel in Regent's Park, 114. +Turenne, Marshal, 272. +Turkey, skeleton of, 312. +Twa Burdies, the, 91. + +Under, house of, 69. +Unlucky present, a tale, 309. + +Valentines, ancient, 178. +Valletort, Viscount, lines to, 378. +Vampire Bat, 40. +Vapour Bath in Cholera, 6--55. +Vegetable Wonders, 200. +Vegetation, curious facts in, 344. +Venice described, 429. +Venice, sonnet to, 69. +Ventilation of Rooms, 152. +Victor Hugo, + drama by, 118 + lines by, 318. +Village, + Cemetery, the, 216 + Hampden, 175. +Virginia Water, cascade at, 81--210. +Visit to the Morgue, at Paris, 349. +Voices of the Night, 259. + +Waller, the poet, tomb of, 233. +War Song against the Chinese, 14. +Warton, Thomas, the poet, 421. +Washington Irving, Medwin, and Grattan, 421. +Water from the Rock in Horeb, 428. +Watering-places in the fifteenth century, 431. +Waverley Novels, character of, 284--365. +Waverley Novels, + heroines of, 365 + Plots of, 366 + Scenic description, 366 + Scott and Shakspeare, 367 + Style, 367. +Weather Rhymes, by the Monks, 228. +Wedgewood's Ware, manufacture of, 363. +Weighing in the Balance, 429. +West, sign painted by, 432. +Western Church, corruption of, 372. +Westminster Hall, Old, 251. +Whale Chase in the Hebrides, 297. +Widow, paraphernalia of, 271. +Wife, an American one, 272. +Wilderness described, 397. +William IV. and Queen Adelaide, 143. +William Tell, legend of, 430. +Wills of bachelors, 271 + curious facts respecting, 270 + compulsory, 271 + of criminals, 271. +Wilton Castle, history of, 305. +Windsor Castle from the N.E., 177. +Wine, + bramble, to make, 15 + grape, to make, 15. +Wit, lines on, 9. +Witchcrafts in 1647, 174. +Wolf, + anecdotes of, 171 + Dog in Cumberland, 426. +Woodpecker, arctic, 356. +Wordsworth, recollections of, 255. +Wreck, lines on the, 322. + +Xenophon, picture by Haydon, 218. + +Zebu, or Indian Ox, the, 385. +Zoological Gardens, + Regent's Park, 114--273--385 + picture of, 386. +Zoological Gardens, + Surrey, 1--273 + Society, report of, 275. + + * * * * * + + + +LIST OF SIXTY-THREE ENGRAVINGS + +IN THE PRESENT VOLUME. + + * * * * * + +_STEEL-PLATE PORTRAIT OF THE RT. HON. EARL GREY._ + +Three Views in the Surrey Zoological + Gardens. +Fishmongers' Hall. +-----------------Arms. +Law Institution, Chancery Lane. +Pontefract Castle. +Castle of Robert the Devil. +Cavern of Robert the Devil. +Cascade at Virginia Water. +Brighton in 1743. +Lady Chapel, St. Saviour, Southwark. +Three Views in the Zoological Gardens. +Entrance to the Botanic Garden, Manchester. +Tucopia, in the Southern Pacific Ocean. +Piercy Islands. +Seven Cuts of the Arbalest, or Cross-Bow. +Windsor Castle (N.E. View.) +Burial-place in Tongatabu. +Ancient Bankside. +Two Cuts of Bull and Bear-baiting + Theatres. +Lowther Arcade, West Strand +Beulah Saline Spa, Norwood. +Tomb of the poet, Waller. +Melrose Abbey. + +Queen Anne's Spring, near Eton. +Swiss Cottage at the Colosseum. +Bay-Window at ditto. +Three Cuts of the Zoological Gardens. +"Happy Jerry." +St. Pancras (Old) Church. +Fire Temples in Persia. +Wilton Castle, on the Wye. +Skeleton of the Turkey. +Rhinoceros Bird. +Staines New Bridge. +Bamborough Castle. +The Alhambra, in Spain. +Palace of Charles V. +White-horned Arctic Owl. +Cock of the Plains. +Legs and Feet of Mountain Grouse. +Claw of Woodpecker. +Monkey Island. +Hampton-wick Chapel. +Brahmin Bull. +-----------------Shed. +Sir Thomas Fowler's Lodge, Islington. +Dunheved Castle. +Ancient Chimney Piece at Exeter. +Lord Cornwallis's Monument. + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, +and Instruction, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, SUPPL. *** + +***** This file should be named 12554.txt or 12554.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/5/5/12554/ + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Allen Siddle and PG Distributed Proofreaders + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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