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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. 357 + Vol. XIII, No. 357., Saturday, February 21, 1829 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: July 12, 2004 [EBook #12897] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE *** + + + + +Produced by Jonathan Ingram and PG Distributed Proofreaders + + + + + +</pre> + + <hr class="full" /> + <span class="pagenum"><a name="page113" id="page113"></a>[pg 113]</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. XIII, No. 357.</b></td> + <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1829.</b></td> + <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + + + + +<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href="images/357-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/357-1.png" alt="WARWICK CASTLE." /></a> WARWICK CASTLE.</div> + +<h2>WARWICK CASTLE.</h2> + + +<p>The history of a fabric, so intimately +connected with some of the most important +events recorded in the chronicles of +our country, as that of Warwick Castle, +cannot fail to be alike interesting to the +antiquary, the historian, and the man of +letters. This noble edifice is also rendered +the more attractive, as being one +of the very few that have escaped the ravages +of war, or have defied the mouldering +hand of time; it having been inhabited +from its first foundation up to the present +time, a period of nearly one thousand +years. Before, however, noticing the +castle, it will be necessary to make a few +remarks on the antiquity of the town of +which it is the chief ornament.</p> + +<p>The town of Warwick is delightfully +situated on the banks of the river Avon, +nearly in the centre of the county to which +it has given its name, and of which it is +the principal town. Much diversity of +opinion exists among antiquaries, as to +whether it be of Roman or Saxon origin; +but it is the opinion of Rous, as well as +that of the learned Dugdale,<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> that its +foundation is as remote as the earliest period +of the Christian era. These authors +attribute its erection to Gutheline, or +Kimbeline, a British king, who called it +after his own name, Caer-Guthleon, a +compound of the British word Caer, +(<i>civitas</i>,) and Gutieon, or Gutheline, which +afterwards, for the sake of brevity, was +usually denominated <i>Caerleon</i>. We are +also informed that Guiderius, the son +and successor of Kimbeline, greatly extended +it, granting thereto numerous privileges +and immunities; but being afterwards +almost totally destroyed by the +incursions of the Picts and Scots, it lay +in a ruinous condition until it was rebuilt +by the renowned Caractacus. This town +afterwards greatly suffered from the ravages +of the Danish invaders; but was +again repaired by the lady Ethelfleda, +the daughter of King Alfred, to whom it +had been given, together with the kingdom +of Mercia, of which it was the capital, +by her father. Camden,<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> with whose +opinion several other antiquaries also +concur, supposes that Warwick was the +ancient <i>Præsidium</i> of the Romans, and +the post where the præfect of the +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page114" id="page114"></a>[pg 114]</span> +Dalmatian horse was stationed by the governor +of Britain, as mentioned in the Notitia.</p> + +<p>The appearance of this town in the +time of Leland is thus described by that +celebrated writer:—"The town of Warwick +hath been right strongly defended +and waullid, having a compace of a good +mile within the waul. The dike is most +manifestly perceived from the castelle to +the west gate, and there is a great crest +of yearth that the waul stood on. Within +the precincts of the toune is but one paroche +chirche, dedicated to St. Mary, +standing in the middle of the toune, faire +and large. The toune standeth on a main +rokki hill, rising from est to west. The +beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, +whereof the hye street goes from est to +west, having a righte goodely crosse in +the middle of it, making a quadrivium, +and goeth from north to south." Its +present name is derived, according to +Matthew Paris, from Warmund, the father +of Offa, king of the Mercians, who +rebuilt it, and called it after his own +name, Warwick.<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a></p> + +<p>The castle, which is one of the most +magnificent specimens of the ancient baronial +splendour of our ancestors now remaining +in this kingdom, rears its proud +and lofty turrets, gray with age, in the +immediate vicinity of the town. It stands +on a rocky eminence, forty feet in perpendicular +height, and overhanging the river, +which laves its base. The first fortified +building on this spot was erected by the +before-mentioned lady Ethelfleda, who +built the donjon upon an artificial mound +of earth. No part of that edifice, however, +is now supposed to remain, except +the mound, which is still to be traced in +the western part of the grounds surrounding +the castle. The present structure is +evidently the work of different ages, the +most ancient part being erected, as appears +from the "Domesday Book," in +the reign of Edward the Confessor; which +document also informs us, that it was "a +special strong hold for the midland part +of the kingdom." In the reign of William +the Norman it received considerable +additions and improvements; when Turchill, +the then vicomes of Warwick, was +ordered by that monarch to enlarge and +repair it. The Conqueror, however, being +distrustful of Turchill, committed the +custody of it to one of his own followers, +Henry de Newburgh, whom he created +Earl of Warwick, the first of that title +of the Norman line. The stately building +at the north-east angle, called <i>Guy's +Tower</i>, was erected in the year 1394, +by Thomas Beauchamp, the son and +successor of the first earl of that family, +and was so called in honour of the ancient +hero of that name, and also one +of the earls of Warwick. It is 128 feet +in height, and the walls, which are of +solid masonry, measure 10 feet in thickness. +<i>Cæsar's Tower</i>, which is supposed +to be the most ancient part of the +fabric, is 147 feet in height; but appears +to be less lofty than that of Guy's, +from its being situated on a less elevated +part of the rock.</p> + +<p>In the reign of Henry III., Warwick +Castle was of such importance, that security +was required from Margery, the sister +and heiress of Thomas de Newburgh, the +sixth earl of the Norman line, that she +would not marry with any person in whom +the king could not place the greatest confidence. +During the same reign, in the +year 1265, William Manduit, who had +garrisoned the castle on the side of the +king against the rebellious barons, was +surprised by John Gifford, the governor +of Kenilworth Castle, who, having destroyed +a great part of the walls, took +him, together with the countess, his wife, +prisoners; and a ransom of nineteen hundred +marks were paid, before their release +could be obtained. The last attack which +it sustained was during the civil wars in +the seventeenth century, when it was besieged +for a fortnight, but did not surrender.</p> + +<p>Few persons have made a greater figure +in history than the earls of Warwick, +from the renowned</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>—— Sir Guy of Warwicke, as was weten</p> +<p>In palmer wyse, as Colman hath it wryten;</p> +<p>The battaill toke on hym for Englandis right,</p> +<p>With the Colbrond in armes for to fight.<a id="footnotetag4" name="footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a></p> + </div> </div> + +<p>up to the accomplished Sir Fulk Greville, +to whom the castle, with all its dependencies, +was granted by James I., after +having passed through the successive +lines of Beauchamp, Neville, Plantagenet, +and Dudley.</p> + +<p>L.L.</p> + + +<hr /> + + +<h3>ODE TO THE LONDON STONE.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Mound of antiquity's dark hidden ways,</p> +<p class="i2">Though long thou'st slumber'd in thy holy niche,</p> +<p>Now, the first time, a modern bard essays</p> +<p class="i2">To crave thy primal use, the what and which!</p> +<p>Speak! break my sorry ignorance asunder!</p> +<p class="i2">City stone-henge, of aldermanic wonder.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page115" id="page115"></a>[pg 115]</span></p> +<p>Wert them a fragment of a Druid pile,</p> +<p class="i2">Some glorious throne of early British art?</p> +<p>Some trophy worthy of our rising isle,</p> +<p class="i2">Soon from its dull obscurity to start.</p> +<p>Wert thou an altar for a world's respect?</p> +<p>Now the sole remnant of thy fame and sect.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Wert thou a churchyard ornament, to braid</p> +<p class="i2">The charnel of putridity, and part</p> +<p>The spot where what was mortal had been laid,</p> +<p class="i2">With all thy native coldness in his heart?</p> +<p>Thou sure wert not the stone—let critics cavil!—</p> +<p>Of quack M.D. who lectur'd on the gravel.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Did e'er fat Falstaff, wreathing 'neath his cup</p> +<p class="i2">Of glorious sack, unable to reel home,</p> +<p>Sit on thy breast, and give his fancy up,</p> +<p class="i2">The all that wine had given pow'r to roam,</p> +<p>And left the mind in gay, but dreamy talk,</p> +<p>Wakeful in wit when legs denied to walk?</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Did e'er wise Shakspeare brood upon thy mass,</p> +<p class="i2">And whimsey thee to any wondrous use</p> +<p>Of sage forefathers, in his verse to class</p> +<p class="i2">That which a worse bard had despis'd to choose,</p> +<p>Unconscious how the meanest objects grow,</p> +<p>Giants of notice in the poet's show?</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Canst thou not tell a tale of varied life,</p> +<p class="i2">That gave Time's annals their recording name?</p> +<p>No notes of Cade, marching with mischief rife,</p> +<p class="i2">By Britain's misery to raise his fame?</p> +<p>Wert thou the hone that "City's Lord" essay'd<a id="footnotetag5" name="footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a></p> +<p>To make the whetstone of his rebel blade?</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Wert thou—'tis pleasant to imagine it,</p> +<p class="i2">Howe'er absurd such notions may be thought—</p> +<p>When the wide heavens, wild with thunder fit,</p> +<p class="i2">Huge hailstones to distress the nation wrought,</p> +<p>A mass congeal'd of heaven's artill'ry wain,<a id="footnotetag6" name="footnotetag6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a></p> +<p>A "hailstone chorus" of a Mary's reign?</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Or, wert thou part of monumental shrine</p> +<p class="i2">Rais'd to a genius, who, for daily bread,</p> +<p>While living, the base world had left to pine,</p> +<p class="i2">Only to find his value out when dead?</p> +<p>Say, wert thou any such memento lone,</p> +<p>Of bard who wrote for bread, and got a stone?</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>How many nations slumber on their deeds.</p> +<p class="i2">The all that's left them of their mighty race?</p> +<p>How may heroes' bosoms, wars, and creeds</p> +<p class="i2">Have sought in stilly death a resting place,</p> +<p>Since thou first gave thy presence to the air,</p> +<p>Thou, who art looking scarce the worse for wear!</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Oft may each wave have travell'd to the shore,</p> +<p class="i2">That ends the vasty ocean's unknown sway,</p> +<p>Since thou wert first from earth's remotest pore,</p> +<p class="i2">Rais'd as an emblem of man's craft to lay;</p> +<p>Yet those same waves shall dwindle into earth,</p> +<p>Ere, lost in time, we learn thy primal worth.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>They tell us "walls have ears"—then why, forsooth,</p> +<p class="i2">Hast thou no tongue, like ancient stones of Rome,</p> +<p>To paint the gory days of Britain's youth,</p> +<p class="i2">And what thou wert when viler was thy home?</p> +<p>Man makes thy kindred record of his name—</p> +<p>Hast <i>thou</i> no tongue to historize thy fame?</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>But thou! O, thou hast nothing to repeat!</p> +<p class="i2">Lump of mysteriousness, the hand of Time</p> +<p>No early pleasures from thy breast could cheat,</p> +<p class="i2">Or witness in decay thine early prime!</p> +<p>Yes, thou didst e'er in stony slumbers lay,</p> +<p>Defying each M'Adam of his day.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Eternity of stone! Time's lasting shrine!</p> +<p class="i2">Whose minutes shall by thee unheeded pour!</p> +<p>With whom in still companionship thou'lt twine</p> +<p class="i2">The past, the present, shall be evermore,</p> +<p>While innate strength shall shield thee from his hurt,</p> +<p>And worlds remain <i>stone blind</i> to what thou wert.</p> + </div> </div> + +<p>P.T.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>THE NECK.<a id="footnotetag7" name="footnotetag7"></a><a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a></h3> + +<h3>A SWEDISH TRADITION.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>His cheek was blanch'd, but beautiful and soft, each curling tress</p> +<p>Wav'd round the harp, o'er which he bent with zephyrine caress;</p> +<p>And as that lyrist sat all lorn, upon the silv'ry stream,</p> +<p>The music of his harp was as the music of a dream,</p> +<p>Most mournfully delicious, like those tones that wound the heart,</p> +<p>Yet soothe it, when it cherishes the griefs that ne'er depart.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>"O Neck! O water-spirit! demon, delicate, and fair!"</p> +<p>The young twain cried, who heard his lay, "<i>why</i> art thou harping there?</p> +<p>Thine airy form is drooping, Neck! thy cheek is pale with dree,</p> +<p>And torrents shouldst thou weep, poor fay, <i>no Saviour lives for thee!</i>"</p> +<p>All mournful look'd the elflet then, and sobbing, cast aside</p> +<p>His harp, and with a piteous wail, sunk fathoms in the tide.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Keen sorrow seiz'd those gentle youths, who'd given cureless pain—</p> +<p>In haste they sought their priestly sire, in haste return'd again;</p> +<p>Return'd to view the elf enthron'd in waters as before,</p> +<p>Whose music now was sighs, whose tears gush'd e'en from his heart's core.</p> +<p>"Why weeping, Neck? look up, and clear those tearful eyes of blue—</p> +<p>Our father bids us say, that thy <i>Redeemer liveth too!</i>"</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Oh, beautiful! blest words! they sooth'd the Nikkar's anguish'd breast,</p> +<p>As breezy, angel-whisperings lull holy ones to rest.</p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page116" id="page116"></a>[pg 116]</span></p> +<p>He seiz'd his harp—its airy strings, beneath a master hand,</p> +<p>Woke melodies, too, <i>too</i> divine for earth or elfin land;</p> +<p>He rais'd his glad, rich voice in song, and sinking saw the sun,</p> +<p>Ere in that hymn of love he paus'd, for Paradise begun!</p> +<p class="i10"> M.L.B.</p> + </div> </div> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>PLAN FOR SNUFF TAKERS TO PAY OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + + +<p>As snuff-taking seems to increase, the +following plan might be adopted by the +patrons of that art, to ease <i>John Bull</i> of +his <i>weight</i>, and make him feel as <i>light</i> +and <i>easy</i>, as if he had taken a <i>pinch of +the "Prince Regent's Mixture</i>.'"</p> + +<p>Lord Stanhope says, "Every professed, +inveterate, and incurable snuff-taker, at a +moderate computation, takes one pinch in +ten minutes. Every pinch, with the +agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping +the nose, and other incidental circumstances, +consumes a minute and a half. +One minute and a half out of every ten, +allowing sixteen hours and a half to a +snuff-taking day, amounts to two hours +and twenty-four minutes out of every natural +day, or one day out of every ten. +One day out of every ten amounts to +thirty-six days and a half in a-year. Hence, +if we suppose the practice to be persisted +in forty years, two entire years of the +snuff-taker's life will be dedicated to tickling +his nose, and two more to blowing it. +The expense of snuff, snuff-boxes, and +handkerchiefs, will be the subject of +a second essay, in which it will appear, +that this luxury encroaches as much on +the income of the snuff-taker as it does +on his time; and that by a proper application +of the time and money thus lost +to the public, a fund might be constituted +for the discharge of the national +debt."</p> + +<p>Queries.—Is not this subject worthy +the attention of the finance committee? +Might not the <i>cigar gentlemen add</i> to the +discharge of the debt?</p> + +<p>P.T.W.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>THE DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD.</h3> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Our hearth—we hear its music now—to us a bower and home;</p> +<p>When will its lustre in our souls with Spring's young freshness come?</p> +<p>Sweet faces beam'd around it then, and cherub lips did weave</p> +<p>Their clear Hosannas in the glow that ting'd the skies at eve!</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Oh, lonely is our forest stream, and bare the woodland tree,</p> +<p>And whose sunny wreath of leaves the cuckoo carolled free;</p> +<p>The pilgrim passeth by our cot—no hand shall greet him there—</p> +<p>The household is divided now, and mute the evening pray'r!</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Amid green walks and fringed slopes, still gleams the village pond.</p> +<p>And see, a hoar and sacred pile, the old church peers beyond;</p> +<p>And there we deem'd it bliss to gaze upon the Sabbath skies,—</p> +<p>Gold as our sister's clustering hair, and blue as her meek eyes.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Our home—when will these eyes, now dimm'd with frequent weeping, see</p> +<p>The infant's pure and rosy ark, the stripling's sanctuary?</p> +<p>When will these throbbing hearts grow calm around its lighted hearth?—</p> +<p>Quench'd is the fire within its walls, and hush'd the voice of mirth!</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>The haunts—they are forsaken now—where our companions play'd;</p> +<p>We see their silken ringlets glow amid the moonlight glade;</p> +<p>We hear their voices floating up like pæan songs divine;</p> +<p>Their path is o'er the violet-beds beneath the springing vine!</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Restore, sweet spirit of our home! our native hearth restore—</p> +<p>Why are our bosoms desolate, our summer rambles o'er?</p> +<p>Let thy mild light on us be pour'd—our raptures kindle up,</p> +<p>And with a portion of thy bliss illume the household cup.</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p>Yet mourn not, wanderers—onto you a thrilling hope is given,</p> +<p>A tabernacle unconfin'd, an endless home in heaven!</p> +<p>And though ye are divided now, ye shall be made as one</p> +<p>In Eden, beauteous as the skies that o'er your childhood shone!</p> + </div> </div> + +<p><i>Deal.</i></p> + +<p>REGINALD AUGUSTINE.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3><b>A CHAPTER ON KISSING.</b></h3> + +<h4>BY A PROFESSOR OF THE ART.</h4> + +<h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4> + + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Away with your fictions of flimsy romance,</p> +<p class="i2">Those tissues of falsehood which folly has wove;</p> +<p>Give me the mild gleam of the soul breathing glance,</p> +<p class="i2">And the rapture which dwells in the first <i>kiss</i> of love."</p> +<p class="i10"> BYRON.</p> + </div> </div> + +<p>There is no national custom so universally +and so justly honoured with esteem +and respect, "winning golden opinions +from all sorts of people," as kissing. +Generally speaking, we discover that a +usage which finds favour in the eyes of +the vulgar, is despised and detested by the +educated, the refined, and the proud; but +this elegant practice forms a brilliant exception +to a rule otherwise tolerably absolute. +Kissing possesses infinite claims +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page117" id="page117"></a>[pg 117]</span> +to our love, claims which no other custom +in the wide world can even pretend to advance. +Kissing is an endearing, affectionate, +ancient, rational, and national +mode of displaying the thousand glowing +emotions of the soul;—it is traced back +by some as far as the termination of the +siege of Troy, for say they, "Upon the +return of the Grecian warriors, their wives +met them, and joined their lips together +with joy." There are some, however, +who give the honour of having invented +kissing to Rouix, or Rowena, the daughter +of Hengist, the Saxon; a Dutch historian +tells us, she, "pressed the beaker +with her lipkens (little lips,) and saluted +the amorous Vortigern with a husgin +(little kiss,)" and this latter authority we +ourselves feel most inclined to rely on; +deeply anxious to secure to our fair countrywomen +the honour of having invented +this delightful art.</p> + +<p>Numberless are the authors who have +written and spoken with rapture on English +kissing.</p> + +<p>"The women of England," says Polydore +Virgil, "not only salute their relations +with a kiss, but all persons promiscuously; +and this ceremony they +repeat, gently touching them with their +lips, not only with grace, but without the +least immodesty. Such, however, as are +of the blood-royal do not kiss their inferiors, +but offer the back of the hand, as +men do, by way of saluting each other."</p> + +<p>Erasmus too—the grave, the phlegmatic +Erasmus, melts into love and playful +thoughts, when he thinks of kisses—"Did +you but know, my Faustus," +he writes to one of his friends, "the +pleasures which England affords, you +would fly here on winged feet, and if your +gout would not allow you, you would +wish yourself a Dædalus. To mention +to you one among many things, here are +nymphs of the loveliest looks, good humoured, +and whom you would prefer +even to your favourite Muses. Here also +prevails a custom never enough to be +commended, that wherever you come, +every one receives you with a kiss, and +when you take your leave, every one +gives you a kiss; when you return, kisses +again meet you. If any one leaves you +they give you a kiss; if you meet any +one, the first salutation is a kiss; in short, +wherever you go, kisses every where +abound; which, my Faustus, did you once +taste how very sweet and how very fragrant +they are, you would not, like Solon, +wish for ten years exile in England, but +would desire to spend there the whole of +your life."</p> + +<p>Oh what miracles have been wrought +by a kiss! Philosophers, stoics, hermits, +and misers have become men of the world, +of taste, and of generosity; idiots have +become wise; and, truth to tell, wise men +idiots—warriors have turned cowards and +cowards brave—statesmen have become +poets, and political economists sensible +men. Oh, wonderful art, which can produce +such strange effects! to thee, the +magic powers of steam seem commonplace +and tedious; the wizard may break +his rod in despair, and the king his sceptre, +for thou canst effect in a moment what +they may vainly labour years to accomplish. +Well may the poet celebrate thy +praises in words that breathe and thoughts +that burn; well may the minstrel fire +with sudden inspiration and strike the +lute with rapture when he thinks of thee; +well might the knight of bygone times +brave every danger when thou wert his +bright reward; well might Vortigern resign +his kingdom, or Mark Antony the +world, when it was thee that tempted. +Long, long, may England be praised for +her prevalence of this divine custom! +Long may British women be as celebrated +for the fragrance of their kisses, as +they ever were, and ever will be for their +virtue and their beauty.</p> + +<p>CHILDE WILFUL.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2><b>Notes of a Reader.</b></h2> + +<hr /> + + + +<h3>"COMPANION TO THE THEATRES."</h3> + + + +<p>An inveterate play-goer announces a +little manual under this title, for publication +in a few days. Such a work, if well +executed, will be very acceptable to the +amateur and visitor, as well as attractive to +the general reader. The outline or plan +looks well, and next week we may probably +give our readers some idea of its +execution.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>VOYAGE TO INDIA.</h3> + + +<p>The generality of our society on board +was respectable, and some of its members +were men of education and talent. +Excepting that there was no lady of the +party, it was composed of the usual materials +to be found at the cuddy-table of +an outward bound Indiaman. First, there +was a puisne judge, intrenched in all the +dignity of a dispenser of law to his majesty's +loving subjects beyond the Cape, +with a <i>Don't tell me</i> kind of face, a magisterial +air, and dictatorial manner, ever +more ready to lay down the law, than to +lay down the lawyer. Then, there was a +general officer appointed to the staff in +India, in consideration of his services on +Wimbledon Common and at the Horse +Guards, proceeding to teach the art military +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page118" id="page118"></a>[pg 118]</span> +to the Indian army—a man of gentlemanly +but rather pompous manners; +who, considering his simple nod equivalent +to the bows of half a dozen subordinates, +could never swallow a glass of wine +at dinner without lumping at least that +number of officers or civilians in the invitation +to join him, while his aid-de-camp +practised the same airs among the +cadets. Then, there was a proportion of +civilians and Indian officers returning from +furlough or sick certificate, with patched-up +livers, and lank countenances, from +which two winters of their native climate +had extracted only just sufficient sunbeams +to leave them of a dirty lemon +colour. Next, there were a few officers +belonging to detachments of king's troops +proceeding to join their regiments in India, +looking, of course, with some degree +of contempt on their brethren in arms, +whose rank was bounded by the longitude +of the Cape; but condescending to patronize +some of the most gentlemanly of the +cadets. These, with a free mariner, and +no inconsiderable sprinkling of writers, +cadets, and assistant-surgeons, together +with the officers of the ship, who dined +at the captain's table, formed a party of +about twenty-five.—<i>Twelve Years' Military +Adventure.</i></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>EDUCATION IN DENMARK.</h3> + + +<p>Much pains has lately been taken in +Denmark to promote the means of elementary +education, and Lancasterian +schools have been generally established +throughout the country. We have now +before us the Report made to the king by +the Chevalier Abrahamson, of the progress, +prospects, and present state of the +schools for mutual instruction in Denmark, +to the 28th of January, 1828, by +which it appears, that 2,371 schools for +mutual instruction have been established, +and are in full progress, in the different +districts of the kingdom and in the army. +—<i>North American Review.</i></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>RECORDS.</h3> + + +<p>Some faint idea of the bulk of our English +records may be obtained, by adverting +to the fact, that a single statute, the +Land Tax Commissioners' Act, passed +in the first year of the reign of his present +majesty, measures, when unrolled, +upwards of <i>nine hundred feet</i>, or nearly +twice the length of St. Paul's Cathedral +within the walls; and if it ever should +become necessary to consult the fearful +volume, an able-bodied man must be employed +during three hours in coiling and +uncoiling its monstrous folds. Should +our law manufactory go on at this rate, +and we do not anticipate any interruption +in its progress, we may soon be able to +belt the round globe with parchment. +When, to the solemn acts of legislature, +we add the showers of petitions, which +lie (and in more senses than one) upon +the table, every night of the session; the +bills, which, at the end of every term, +are piled in stacks, under the parental +custody of our good friends, the Six +Clerks in Chancery; and the innumerable +membranes, which, at every hour of +the day, are transmitted to the gloomy +dens and recesses of the different courts +of common-law and of criminal jurisdiction +throughout the kingdom, we are +afraid that there are many who may +think that the time is fast approaching +for performing the operation which Hugh +Peters recommended as "A good work +for a good Magistrate." This learned +person, it will be recollected, exhorted +the commonwealth men to destroy all the +muniments in the Tower—a proposal +which Prynne considers as an act inferior +only in atrocity to his participation in the +murder of Charles I., and we should not +be surprised if some zealous reformer +were to maintain, that a general conflagration +of these documents would be the +most essential benefit that could be conferred +upon the realm.—<i>Quarterly Rev.</i></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>ENCYCLOPÆDIAS.</h3> + + +<p>In the German universities an extensive +branch of lectures is formed by the <i>Encyclopædias</i> +of the various sciences. Encyclopædia +originally implied the complete +course or circle of a liberal education +in science and art, as pursued by the +young men of Greece; namely, gymnastics, +a cultivated taste for their own classics, +music, arithmetic, and geometry. +European writers give the name of <i>encyclopædia</i>, +in the widest scientific sense, +to the whole round or empire of human +knowledge, arranged in systematic or alphabetic +order; whereas the Greek imports +but practical school knowledge. The +literature of the former is voluminous beyond +description, it having been cultivated +from the beginning of the middle +ages to the present day. Different from +either of them is the <i>encyclopædia</i> of the +German universities; this is an introduction +into the several arts and sciences, +showing the nature of each, its extent, +utility, relation to other studies and to +practical life, the best method of pursuing +it, and the sources from whence the +knowledge of it is to be derived. An introduction +of this compass is, however, +with greater propriety styled <i>encyclopædia +and methodology</i>. Thus, we hear of separate +lectures on encyclopædias and methodologies +of divinity, jurisprudence, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page119" id="page119"></a>[pg 119]</span> +medicine, philosophy, mathematical sciences, +physical science, the fine arts, and +philology. Manuals and lectures of this +kind are exceedingly useful for those who +are commencing a course of professional +study. For "the best way to learn any +science," says Watts, "is to begin with +a regular system, or a short and plain +scheme of that science, well drawn up +into a narrow compass."—<i>Ibid.</i></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>PERSIAN CAVALIER.</h3> + + +<p>The following sketch of a Persian cavalier +has the richness and freshness of one +of Heber's, or Morier's or Sir John Malcolm's +pages:—"He was a man of goodly +stature, and powerful frame; his countenance, +hard, strongly marked, and furnished +with a thick, black beard, bore +testimony of exposure to many a blast, +but it still preserved a prepossessing expression +of good humour and benevolence. +His turban, which was formed of +a cashmere shawl, sorely tached and torn, +and twisted here and there with small +steel chains, according to the fashion of +the time, was wound around a red cloth +cap, that rose in four peaks high above +the head. His oemah, or riding coat, of +crimson cloth much stained and faded, +opening at the bosom, showed the links +of a coat of mail which he wore below; +a yellow shawl formed his girdle; his +huge shulwars, or riding trousers, of +thick, fawn-coloured Kerman woollen-stuff, +fell in folds over the large red leather +boots in which his legs were cased: +by his side hung a crooked scymetar in a +black leather scabbard, and from the +holsters of his saddle peeped out the butt +ends of a pair of pistols; weapons of +which I then knew not the use, any more +than of the matchlock which was slung +at his back. He was mounted on a powerful +but jaded horse, and appeared to +have already travelled far."—<i>Kuzzilbash.</i></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>ORATORY</h3> + + +<p>The national glory of Great Britain +rests, in no small degree, on the refined +taste and classical education of her politicians; +and the portion of her oratory +acknowledged to be the most energetic, +bears the greatest resemblance to the spirit +of Demosthenes.—<i>North American +Review.</i></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>GRESHAM COLLEGE.<a id="footnotetag8" name="footnotetag8"></a><a href="#footnote8"><sup>8</sup></a></h3> + + +<p>The City of London could not do a more +fitting thing than to convert the Gresham +lectureships into fourteen scholarships for +King's College, retaining the name and +reserving the right of presentation. A +bounty which is at present useless would +thus be rendered efficient, and to the +very end which was intended by Gresham +himself. An act of parliament would be +necessary; and the annexations would of +course take place as the lectureships became +vacant.—<i>Quarterly Rev.</i></p> + + +<hr /> + + +<p>In Germany, seminaries for the education +of popular teachers, are conducted +by distinguished divines of each state, +who, for the most part, reside in the capital, +and are the same persons who examine +each clergyman three times before +his ordination. Unless a candidate can +give evidence of his ability, and of, at +least, a two years' stay in those popular +Institutions where religious instruction is +the main object, he is not allowed to +teach any branch of knowledge whatever. +—<i>Russell's Tour in Germany.</i></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>MUNGO PARK.</h3> + + +<p>Captain Clapperton being near that +part of the Quorra, where Mungo Park +perished, our traveller thought he might +get some information of this melancholy +event. The head man's story is this:— +"That the boat stuck fast between two +rocks; that the people in it laid out four +anchors a-head; that the water falls down +with great rapidity from the rocks, and +that the white men, in attempting to get +on shore, were drowned; that crowds of +people went to look at them, but the +white men did not shoot at them as I had +heard; that the natives were too much +frightened either to shoot at them or to +assist them; that there were found a +great many things in the boat, books and +riches, which the Sultan of Boussa has +got; that beef cut in slices and salted +was in great plenty in the boat; that the +people of Boussa who had eaten of it all +died, because it was human flesh, and +that they knew we white men eat human +flesh. I was indebted to the messenger +of Yarro for a defence, who told the narrator +that I was much more nice in my +eating than his countrymen were. But +it was with some difficulty I could persuade +him that if his story was true, it +was the people's own fears that had killed +them; that the meat was good beef or +mutton: that I had eaten more goats' +flesh since I had been in this country than +ever I had done in my life; that in +England we eat nothing but fowls, beef, +and mutton."—<i>Clapperton's Travels.</i></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>SILK.</h3> + + +<p>We find in a statement of the raw silk +imported into England, from all parts of +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page120" id="page120"></a>[pg 120]</span> +the world, that in 1814, it amounted to +one million, six hundred and thirty-four +thousand, five hundred and one pounds; +and in 1824, to three millions, three +hundred and eighty-two thousand, three +hundred and fifty-seven.<a id="footnotetag9" name="footnotetag9"></a><a href="#footnote9"><sup>9</sup></a> Italy, which +is not better situated in regard to the culture +of silk than a large portion of the +United States, furnishes to the English +fabrics about eight hundred thousand +pounds' weight. The Bengal silk is +complained of by the British manufacturers, +on account of its defective preparation; +by bestowing more care on his +produce, the American cultivator could +have in England the advantage over the +British East Indies. It is a fact well +worthy of notice, and the accuracy of +which seems warranted by its having been +brought before a Committee of both +Houses of Parliament, that the labour in +preparing new silk affords much more +employment to the country producing it, +than any other raw material. It appears +from an official document, that the value +of the imports of raw silk into France, +during the year 1824, amounted to thirty +seven millions, one hundred and forty-nine +thousand, nine hundred and sixty +francs.—<i>North American Review.</i></p> + + +<hr /> + + +<h3>CHINESE NOVELS.</h3> + + +<p>A union of three persons, cemented by +a conformity of taste and character, constitutes, +in the opinion of the Chinese, +the perfection of earthly happiness, a sort +of ideal bliss, reserved by heaven for peculiar +favourites as a suitable reward for +their talent and virtue. Looking at the +subject under this point of view, their +novel-writers not unfrequently arrange +matters so as to secure this double felicity +to their heroes at the close of the +work; and a catastrophe of this kind is +regarded as the most satisfactory that +can be employed. Without exposing +ourselves to the danger incurred by one +of the German divines, who was nearly +torn to pieces by the mob of Stockholm +for defending polygamy, we may venture +to remark, that for the mere purposes of +art, this system certainly possesses very +great advantages. It furnishes the novel-writer +with an easy method of giving general +satisfaction to all his characters, at +the end of the tale, without recurring to +the fatal though convenient intervention +of consumption and suicide, with us the +only resources, when there happens to be +a heroine too many. What floods of +tears would not the Chinese method have +spared to the high-minded Corinna, to +the interesting and poetical Clementina! +From what bitter pangs would it not have +relieved the irresolute Oswald, perhaps +even the virtuous Grandison himself! +The Chinese are entitled to the honour of +having invented the domestic and historical +novel several centuries before they +were introduced in Europe. Fables, tales +of supernatural events, and epic poems, +belong to the infancy of nations; but the +real novel is the product of a later period +in the progress of society, when men are +led to reflect upon the incidents of domestic +life, the movement of the passions, +the analysis of sentiment, and the +conflicts of adverse interests and opinions. +—<i>Preface to a French Translation of a +Chinese Novel.</i></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>HERO OF A CHINESE NOVEL.</h3> + + +<p>There came out a youth of about fifteen +or sixteen years of age, dressed in a +violet robe with a light cap on his head. +His vermilion lips, brilliant white teeth, +and arched eye-brows gave him the air of +a charming girl. So graceful and airy +are his movements, that one might well +ask, whether he be mortal or a heavenly +spirit. He looks like a sylph formed of +the essence of flowers, or a soul descended +from the moon. Is it indeed a youth +who has come out to divert himself, or is +it a sweet perfume from the inner apartment?—<i>Ibid.</i></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>BEES.</h3> + + +<p>It has been the custom, from the earliest +ages, to rub the inside of the hive with a +handful of salt and clover, or some other +grass or sweet-scented herb, previously to +the swarm's being put in the hive. We +have seen no advantage in this; on the +contrary, it gives a great deal of unnecessary +labour to the bees, as they will +be compelled to remove every particle of +foreign matter from the hive before they +begin to work. A clean, cool hive, free +from any peculiar smell or mustiness, will +be acceptable to the bees; and the more +closely the hive is joined together, the +less labour will the insects have, whose +first care it is to stop up every crevice, +that light and air may be excluded. We +must not omit to reprehend, as utterly +useless, the vile practice of making an +astounding noise, with tin pans and +kettles, when the bees are swarming. It +may have originated in some ancient superstition, +or it may have been the signal +to call aid from the fields, to assist in the +hiving. If harmless it is unnecessary; +and everything that tends to encumber +the management of bees should be avoided.—<i>American +Farmer's Manual.</i></p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page121" id="page121"></a>[pg 121]</span> +<h2>CONVENT GARDEN MARKET.</h2> + + +<div class="figure" style="width:100%;"><a href="images/357-2.png"><img width="100%" src="images/357-2.png" alt="Covent Garden Market.—"Here to-day, and gone to-morrow."—Tristram Shandy. " /></a> Covent Garden Market.—"Here to-day, and gone to-morrow."—Tristram Shandy.</div> + +<p>I know some of the ugliest men who are +the most agreeable fellows in the world. +The ladies may doubt this remark; but +if they compel me to produce an example, +I shall waive all modesty, and prove my +veracity by quoting <i>myself</i>. I have often +thought how it is that ugliness contrives +to invest itself with a "<i>certain something</i>," +that not only destroys its disagreeable +properties, but actually commands +an interest—(by the by, this is referring +<i>generally</i>, and nothing personal to myself.) +I philosophically refer it all to the <i>balance +of nature</i>. Now I know some very ugly +places that have a degree of interest, and +here again I fancy a lady's sceptical ejaculation, +"Indeed!" Ay, but it is so; +and let us go no further than Covent +Garden. Enter it from Russell-street. +What can be more unsightly,—with its +piles of cabbages in the street, and basket-measures +on the roofs of the shops—narrow +alleys, wooden buildings, rotting vegetables +"undique," and swarms of Irish +basket-women, who wander about like the +ghosts on this side of the Styx, and who, +in habits, features, and dialect, appear as +if belonging to another world. Yet the +Garden, like every garden, has its charms. +I have lounged through it on a summer's +day, mixing with pretty women, looking +upon choice fruit, smelling delicious roses, +with now and then an admixture of sundry +disagreeables, such as a vigorous puff +out of an ugly old woman's doodeen, just +as you are about to make a pretty speech +to a much prettier lady—to say nothing +of the unpleasant odours arising from +heaps of putrescent vegetables, or your hat +being suddenly knocked off by a contact +with some unlucky Irish basket-woman, +with cabbages piled on her head sufficient +for a month's consumption at Williams's +boiled beef and cabbage warehouse, in the +Old Bailey. The narrow passages through +this mart remind me of the Chinese streets, +where all is shop, bustle, squeeze, and +commerce. The lips of the fair promenaders +I collate (in my mind's eye, gentle +reader) with the delicious cherry, and +match their complexions with the peach, +the nectarine, the rose, red or white, and +even sometimes with the russet apple. +Then again I lounge amidst chests of +oranges, baskets of nuts, and other <i>et +cetera</i>, which, as boys, we relished in the +play-ground, or, in maturer years, have +enjoyed at the wine feast. Here I can +saunter in a green-house among plants +and heaths, studying botany and beauty. +Facing me is a herb-shop, where old +nurses, like Medeas of the day, obtain +herbs for the sick and dying; and within +a door or two flourishes a vender of the +choicest fruits, with a rich display of every +luxury to delight the living and the +healthy.</p> + +<p>I know of no spot where such variety +may be seen in so small a compass. +Rich and poor, from the almost naked to +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page122" id="page122"></a>[pg 122]</span> +the almost naked lady (of fashion, of +course.) "Oh crikey, Bill," roared a +chimney-sweep in high glee. The villain +turned a pirouette in his rags, and in the +centre mall of the Garden too; he finished +it awkwardly, made a stagger, and recovered +himself against—what?—"<i>Animus +meminisse horret</i>"—against a lady's +white gown! But he apologized. Oh, +ye gods! his apology was so sincere, his +manner was so sincere, that the true and +thorough gentleman was in his every act +and word. (Mem. merely as a corroboration, +the lady forgave him.) What a +lesson would this act of the man of high +callings (from the chimney-tops) have +been to our mustachioed and be-whiskered +dandies, who, instead of apologizing to a +female after they may have splashed her +from head to foot, trod on her heel, or +nearly carried away her bonnet, feathers, +cap, and wig, only add to her confusion +by an unmanly, impudent stare or sneer!</p> + +<p>But to the Garden again. I like it much; +it is replete with humour, fun, and drollery; +it contributes a handsome revenue +to the pocket of his Grace the Duke of +Bedford, besides supplying half the town +with cabbages and melons, (the richest +Melon on record came from Covent-Garden, +and was graciously presented to our +gracious sovereign.)</p> + +<p>The south side appears to be devoted +to potatoes, a useful esculent, and of +greater use to the poor than all the melons +in christendom. Here kidneys and champions +are to be seen from Scotland, York, +and Kent; and here have I observed the +haggard forms of withered women</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"In rags and tatters, friendless and forlorn,"</p> + </div> </div> + +<p>creeping from shop to shop, bargaining +for "a good pen'orth of the best boilers;" +and here have I often watched the sturdy +Irishman walking with a regular connoisseur's +eye, peeping out <i>above</i> a short +pipe, and <i>below</i> a narrow-brimmed hat,—a +perfect, keen, twinkling, connoisseur's +eye, critically examining every basket for +the best lot of his <i>own peculiar</i>.</p> + +<p>Now let us take a retrospective view of +this our noble theme, and our interest +will be the more strengthened thereon. +All the world knows that a convent stood +in this neighbourhood, and the present +market was the garden, <i>undè</i> Convent +Garden; would that all etymologists were +as distinct. Of course the monastic institution +was abolished in the time of +Henry VIII., when he plundered convents +and monasteries with as much <i>gusto</i> +as boys abolish wasps-nests. After this +it was given to Edmund Seymour, Duke +of Somerset, brother-in-law to Henry +VIII., afterwards the protector of his +country, but not of himself for he was +beheaded in 1552. The estate then became, +by royal grant, the property of the +Bedford family; and in the Privy Council +Records for March, 1552, is the following +entry of the transfer:—"A patent +granted to John, Earl of Bedford, of the +gifts of the Convent Garden, lying in the +parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, near +Charing Cross, with seven acres, called +Long Acre, of the yearly value of 6<i>l</i>. +6<i>s</i>. 8<i>d</i>. +parcel of the possessions of the late Duke +of Somerset, to have to him and his heirs, +reserving a tenure to the king's majesty +in socage, and not in capite." In 1634, +Francis, Earl of Bedford, began to clear +away the old buildings, and form the +present square; and in 1671, a patent +was granted for a market, which shows +the rapid state of improvement in this +neighbourhood, because in the Harleian +MSS., No. 5,900, British Museum, is a +letter, written in the early part of Charles +II., by an observing foreigner to his friend +abroad, who notices Bloomsbury, Hungerford, +Newport, and other markets, but +never hints of the likelihood or prospect +of one being established in Covent Garden; +yet before Charles's death the patent +was obtained. It is a market, <i>sui +generis</i>, confined mostly to vegetables +and fruits; and the plan reflects much +credit upon the speculative powers of the +noble earl who founded it.</p> + +<p>Thus far goes the public history; now +let us turn to the private memoranda. In +1690, the parish, being very loyal, gave +a grand display of fire-works on the +happy return of William the Third from +Ireland; and in the parish books appear +the following entries on the subject, which +will give some idea of the moderate +charges of parish festivities in those +"<i>dark ages</i>."</p> + + +<pre>"Sept. 23, 1690. £. <i>s</i>. <i>d</i>. + Paid to Mr. Brown for 200 + ffaggotts and 30 brushes for + bonefire for the parish —— 01 02 06 + +Sept. 25.—Paid Mr. Stockes + for a barrell of ale for bonefire —— 01 00 00 + +Given to the watchmen to + drincke att the king's returne + from Ireland —— 00 02 06 + +1691.—Given to Stockes and + ye watchmen to drincke att + the bonefire and fire workes + att the king's returne from + Ireland —— 00 10 00 + +Oct. 12.—Paid the labourers + and carters for four dayes' + worke in laying and spreading + the gravell —— 01 06 00</pre> + +<p>Making a grand total of £4. 1<i>s</i>. 0<i>d</i>. for +a St. Paul's parish fête; but this was in +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page123" id="page123"></a>[pg 123]</span> +1690. This festival was of sufficient +note to engage the artist's attention, and +an engraving of it was sold by "B. +Lens, between Bridewell and Fleet Bridge +in Blackfryers."</p> + +<p>Convent Garden has been the abode of +talented and noble men. Richardson's +Hotel was the residence of Dr. Hunter, +the anatomical lecturer; and in 1724, +Sir James Thornhill, who painted the +dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, resided in +this garden and opened a school for drawing +in his house. Moreover, for the honour +of the Garden, be it known, that at +Sir Francis Kynaston's house therein +situated, Charles the First established an +academy called "<i>Museum Minervæ</i>," +for the instruction of gentlemen in arts +and sciences, knowledge of medals, antiquities, +painting, architecture, and foreign +languages. Not a vestige remains +of the museum establishment now-a-days, +or the subjects it embraced, unless it be +<i>foreign languages</i>, including wild Irish, +and very low English. Even as late as +1722, Lord Ferrers lived in Convent +Garden; but this is trifling compared +with the list of nobles who have lived +around about this attractive spot, where +nuns wandered in cloistered innocence, +and now, oh! for sentimentality, what a +relief to a fine, sensitive mind, or a sickly +milliner!</p> + +<p>In the front of the church quacks used +to harangue the mob and give advice +gratis. Westminster elections are held +also on the same spot—that's a coincidence.</p> + +<p>A CORRESPONDENT.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2>Manners & Customs of all Nations.</h2> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>AFRICAN FESTIVITIES.</h3> + + +<p>At Yourriba Captain Clapperton was invited +to theatrical entertainments, quite +as amusing, and almost as refined as any +which his celestial Majesty can command +to be exhibited before a foreign ambassador. +The king of Yourriba made a +point of our traveller staying to witness +these entertainments. They were exhibited +in the king's park, in a square +space, surrounded by clumps of trees. The +first performance was that of a number of +men dancing and tumbling about in sacks, +having their heads fantastically decorated +with strips of rags, damask silk, and cotton +of variegated colours; and they performed +to admiration. The second exhibition +was hunting the <i>boa</i> snake, by the +men in the sacks. The huge snake, it +seems, went through the motions of this +kind of reptile, "in a very natural manner, +though it appeared to be rather full in the +belly, opening and shutting its mouth in +the most natural manner imaginable." A +running fight ensued, which lasted some +time, till at length the chief of the bag-men +contrived to scotch his tail with a tremendous +sword, when he gasped, twisted +up, seemed in great torture, endeavouring +to bite his assailants, who hoisted him on +their shoulders, and bore him off in triumph. +The festivities of the day concluded +with the exhibition of the <i>white devil</i>, +which had the appearance of a human +figure in white wax, looking miserably thin +and as if starved with cold, taking snuff, +rubbing his hands, treading the ground as +if tender-footed, and evidently meant to +burlesque and ridicule a white man, while +his sable majesty frequently appealed to +Clapperton whether it was not well performed. +After this the king's women +sang in chorus, and were accompanied by +the whole crowd.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<p>The price of a slave at Jannah, as nearly +as can be calculated, is from 3<i>l</i>. to 4<i>l</i>. sterling; +their domestic slaves, however, are +never sold, except for misconduct.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>AFRICAN WIDOW.</h3> + + +<p>Capt. Clapperton tells of a widow's +arrival in town, with a drummer beating +before her, whose cap was bedecked with +ostrich feathers; a bowman walking on +foot at the head of her horse; a train behind, +armed with bows, swords, and +spears. She rode a-straddle on a fine +horse, whose trappings were of the first +order for this country. The head of the +horse was ornamented with brass plates, +the neck with brass bells, and charms +sewed in various coloured leather, such as +red, green, and yellow; a scarlet breast-piece, +with a brass plate in the centre; +scarlet saddle-cloth, trimmed with lace. +She was dressed in red silk trousers, and +red morocco boots; on her head a white +turban, and over her shoulders a mantle +of silk and gold. Had she been somewhat +younger and less corpulent, there +might have been great temptation to head +her party, for she had certainly been a +very handsome woman, and such as would +have been thought a beauty in any country +in Europe.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>AFRICAN NURSE.</h3> + + +<p>She was of a dark copper colour. In +dress and countenance, very like one of +Captain Lyon's female Esquimaux. She +was mounted on a long-backed bright +bay horse, with a scraggy tale, crop-eared, +and the mane as if the rats had eaten part +of it; and he was not in high condition. +She rode a-straddle; had on a conical +straw dish-cover for a hat, or to shade her +face from the sun, a short, dirty, white +bedgown, a pair of dirty, white, loose +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page124" id="page124"></a>[pg 124]</span> +and wide trousers, a pair of Houssa +boots, which are wide, and came up over +the knee, fastened with a string round +the waist. She had also a whip and spurs. +At her saddle-bow hung about half a +dozen gourds, filled with water, and a +brass basin to drink out of; and with this +she supplied the wounded and the thirsty. +I certainly was much obliged to her, for +she twice gave me a basin of water. The +heat and the dust made thirst almost intolerable +—<i>Clapperton's Travels.</i></p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.</h2> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>THE BOXES.</h3> + +<h4>(<i>To the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine</i>.)</h4> + + +<p>Sir,—In the course of my study in the +English language, which I made now for +three years, I always read your periodically, +and now think myself capable to +write at your Magazin. I love always +the modesty, or you shall have a letter of +me very long time past. But, never mind, +I would well tell you, that I am come to +this country to instruct me in the manners, +the customs, the habits, the policies, +and the other affairs general of Great +Britain. And truly I think me good +fortunate, being received in many families, +so as I can to speak your language +now with so much facility as the French.</p> + +<p>But, never mind. That what I would +you say, is not only for the Englishes, +but for the strangers, who come at your +country from all the other kingdoms, +polite and instructed; because, as they +tell me, that they are abonnements<a id="footnotetag10" name="footnotetag10"></a><a href="#footnote10"><sup>10</sup></a> for +you in all the kingdoms in Europe, so +well as in the Orientals and Occidentals.</p> + +<p>No, sir, upon my honour, I am not +egotist. I not proud myself with chateaux +en Espagne. I am but a particular +gentleman, come here for that what I +said; but, since I learn to comprehend +the language, I discover that I am become +an object of pleasantry, and for himself to +mock, to one of your comedians even before +I put my foot upon the ground at +Douvres. He was Mr. Mathew, who tell +of some contretems of me and your word +detestable <i>Box</i>. Well, never mind. I +know at present how it happen, because +I see him since in some parties and dinners; +and he confess he love much to go +travel and mix himself altogether up with +the stage-coach and vapouring<a id="footnotetag11" name="footnotetag11"></a><a href="#footnote11"><sup>11</sup></a> boat for +fun, what he bring at his theatre.</p> + +<p>Well, never mind. He see me, perhaps, +to ask a question in the paque-bot—but +he not confess after, that he goed +and bribe the garçon at the hotel and the +coach man to mystify me with all the +boxes; but, very well, I shall tell you +how it arrived, so as you shall see that it +was impossible that a stranger could miss +to be perplexed, and to advertise the travellers +what will come after, that they +shall converse with the gentlemen and not +with the badinstructs.</p> + +<p>But, it must that I begin. I am a +gentleman, and my goods are in the public +rentes,<a id="footnotetag12" name="footnotetag12"></a><a href="#footnote12"><sup>12</sup></a> and a chateau with a handsome +propriety on the bank of the Loire, +which I lend to a merchant English, who +pay me very well in London for my expenses. +Very well. I like the peace, +nevertheless that I was force, at other +time, to go to war with Napoleon. But +it is passed. So I come to Paris in my +proper post-chaise, where I selled him, +and hire one, for almost nothing at all, +for bring me to Calais all alone, because +I will not bring my valet to speak French +here where all the world is ignorant.</p> + +<p>The morning following I get upon the +vapouring boat to walk so far as Douvres. +It was fine day—and, after I am recover +myself of a malady of the sea, I walk +myself about the shep, and I see a great +mechanic of wood, with iron wheel, and +thing to push up inside, and handle to +turn. It seemed to be ingenuous, and +proper to hoist great burdens. They use +it for shoving the timber, what come down +of the vessel, into the place; and they tell +me it was call "Jaques in the <i>box;</i>" and +I was very much please with the invention +so novel.</p> + +<p>Very well. I go again promenade upon +the board of the vessel, and I look at the +compass, and little boy sailor come and +sit him down, and begin to chatter like +the little monkey. Then the man what +turns a wheel about and about laugh, +and say, "Very well, Jaques;" but I not +understand one word the little fellow say. +So I make inquire, and they tell me he +was "<i>Box</i> the compass." I was surprise, +but I tell myself, "Well, never mind;" +and so we arrived at Douvres. I find +myself enough well in the hotel, but as +there has been no table d'hote, I ask for +some dinner, and it was long time I wait; +and so I walk myself to the customary +house, and give the key to my portmanteau +to the Douaniers, or excisemen, as +you call, for them to see as I had not no +snuggles in my equipage. Very well—I +return at my hotel, and meet one of the +waiters, who tell me, (after I stand little +moment to the door to see the world what +pass by upon a coach at the instant,) +"Sir," he say, "your dinner is ready."—"Very +well," I make response, "where, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page125" id="page125"></a>[pg 125]</span> +was it?"—"This way, sir," he answer; +"I have put it in a <i>box</i> in the café room."—"Well—never +mind," I say to myself; +"when a man himself finds in a stranger +country, he must be never surprised. +'<i>Nil admirari.</i>' Keep the eyes opened, +and stare at nothing at all."</p> + +<p>I found my dinner only there there,<a id="footnotetag13" name="footnotetag13"></a><a href="#footnote13"><sup>13</sup></a> +because I was so soon come from France; +but, I learn, another sort of the box was +a partition and table particular in a saloon, +and I keep there when I eated some good +sole fritted, and some not cooked mutton +cutlet; and a gentleman what was put in +another <i>box</i>, perhaps Mr. Mathew, because +nobody not can know him twice, +like a cameleon he is, call for the "pepper +<i>box</i>." Very well. I take a cup of +coffee, and then all my hards and portmanteau +come with a wheelbarrow; and, +because it was my intention to voyage up +at London with the coach, and I find my +many little things was not convenient, I +ask the waiter where I might buy a night +sack, or get them tie up all together in a +burden. He was well attentive at my +cares, and responded, that he shall find +me a <i>box</i> to put them all into. Well, I +say nothing to all but "Yes," for fear to +discover my ignorance; so he bring the +little <i>box</i> for the clothes and things into +the great <i>box</i> what I was put into; and +he did my affairs in it very well. Then +I ask him for some spectacle in the town, +and he send boot-boy with me so far as +the Theatre, and I go in to pay. It was +shabby poor little place, but the man +what set to have the money, when I say +"how much," asked me if I would not +go into the <i>boxes</i>. "Very well," I say, +"never mind—oh yes—to be sure;" and +I find very soon the <i>box</i> was the loge, +same thing. I had not understanding +sufficient in your tongue then to comprehend +all what I hear—only one poor +maiger doctor, what had been to give his +physic too long time at a cavalier old +man, was condemned to swallow up a +whole <i>box</i> of his proper pills. "Very +well," I say, "that must be egregious. +It is cannot be possible;" but they bring +little a <i>box</i>, not more grand nor my thumb. +It seem to be to me very ridiculous; so +I returned to my hotel at despair how I +could possibility learn a language what +meant so many differents in one word.</p> + +<p>I found the same waiter, who, so soon +as I come in, tell me, "Sir, did you not +say that you would go by the coach to-morrow +morning?" I replied, "Yes—and +I have bespeaked a seat out of the +side, because I shall wish to amuse myself +with the country, and you have no +cabriolets<a id="footnotetag14" name="footnotetag14"></a><a href="#footnote14"><sup>14</sup></a> in your coaches."—"Sir," he +say, very polite, "if you shall allow me, +I would recommend you the <i>box</i>, and then +the coachman shall tell every thing."—"Very +well," I reply, "yes—to be sure—I +shall have a <i>box</i> then—yes;" and +then I demanded a fire into my chamber, +because I think myself enrhumed upon +the sea, and the maid of the chamber +come to send me in bed;—but I say, "No +so quick, if you please; I will write to +some friend how I find myself in England. +Very well—here is the fire, but +perhaps it shall go out before I have +finish." She was pretty laughing young +woman, and say, "Oh no, sir, if you +pull the bell, the porter, who sit up all +night, will come, unless you like to attend +to it yourself, and then you will find the +coal-<i>box</i> in the closet."—Well—I say +nothing but "Yes—oh yes." But, when +she is gone, I look direct into the closet, +and see a <i>box</i> not no more like none of +the other <i>boxes</i> what I see all day than +nothing.</p> + +<p>Well—I write at my friends, and then +I tumble about when I wake, and dream +in the sleep what should possible be the +description of the <i>box</i> what I must be +put in to-morrow for my voyage.</p> + +<p>In the morning, it was very fine time, +I see the coach at the door, and I walk all +round before they bring the horses; but +I see nothing what they can call <i>boxes</i>, +only the same kind as what my little business +was put into. So I ask for the post +of letters at a little boots boy, who showed +me by the Quay, and tell me, pointing +by his finger at a window—"There see, +there was the letter <i>box</i>," and I perceive +a crevice. "Very well—all <i>box</i> again to-day," +I say, and give my letter to the +master of postes, and go away again at +the coach, where I very soon find out +what was coach-<i>box</i>, and mount myself +upon it. Then come the coachman, habilitated +like the gentleman, and the first +word he say was—"Keephorses! Bring +my <i>box</i>-coat!" and he push up a grand +capote with many scrapes.</p> + +<p>"But—never mind," I say; "I shall +see all the <i>boxes</i> in time." So he kick +his leg upon the board, and cry "cheat!" +and we are out into the country in lesser +than one minute, and roll at so grand +pace, what I have had fear we will be +reversed. But after little times, I take +courage, and we begin to entertain together: +but I hear one of the wheels cry +squeak, so I tell him, "Sir—one of the +wheel would be greased;" then he make +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page126" id="page126"></a>[pg 126]</span> +reply, nonchalancely, "Oh—it is nothing +but one of the <i>boxes</i> what is too tight." +But it is very long time after as I learn +that wheel a <i>box</i> was pipe of iron what +go turn round upon the axle.</p> + +<p>Well—we fly away at the paces of +charge. I see great castles, many; then +come a pretty house of country well ornamented, +and I make inquire what it +should be. "Oh;" responsed he, "I +not remember the gentleman's name, but +it is what we call a snug country <i>box</i>."</p> + +<p>Then I feel myself abymed at despair, +and begin to suspect that he amused himself. +But, still I tell myself, "Well—never +mind; we shall see." And then +after sometimes, there come another house, +all alone in a forest, not ornated at all. +"What, how you call that?" I demand +of him.—"Oh!" he responded again, +"That is a shooting <i>box</i> of Lord Killfots."—"Oh!" +I cry at last out, "that +is little too strong;" but he hoisted his +shoulders and say nothing. Well, we +come at a house of country, ancient, with +the trees cut like some peacocks, and I +demand, "What you call these trees?"—"<i>Box</i>, +sir," he tell me. "Devil is in +the <i>box</i>," I say at myself. "But—never +mind; we shall see." So I myself refreshed +with a pinch of snuff and offer +him, and he take very polite, and remark +upon an instant, "That is a very handsome +<i>box</i> of yours, sir."</p> + +<p>"Morbleu!" I exclaimed with inadvertencyness, +but I stop myself. Then +he pull out his snuff-<i>box</i>, and I take a +pinch, because I like at home to be sociable +when I am out at voyages, and not +show some pride with inferior. It was +of wood beautiful with turnings, and +colour of yellowish. So I was pleased to +admire very much, and inquire the name +of the wood, and again he say, "<i>Box</i>, +Sir!" Well—I hold myself with patience, +but it was difficilly; and we keep +with great gallop till we come at a great +crowd of the people. Then I say, "What +for all so large concourse?" "Oh!" he +response again, "there is one grand <i>boxing</i> +match—a battle here to-day."—"Peste!" +I tell myself, "a battle of +<i>boxes</i>! Well, never mind! I hope it +can be a combat at the outrance, and they +all shall destroy one another, for I am +fatigued."</p> + +<p>Well—we arrive at an hotel, very superb, +all as it ought, and I demand a +morsel to refresh myself. I go into a +salon, but before I finish, great noise +come into the passage, and I pull the +bell's rope to demand why so great tapage? +The waiter tell me, and he laugh at same +time, but very civil no less, "Oh, sir, +it is only two of the women what quarrel, +and one has given another a <i>box</i> on the +ear."</p> + +<p>Well—I go back on the coach-box, but +I look, as I pass, at all the women ear, +for the <i>box</i>; but not none I see. "Well," +I tell myself once more, "never mind, +we shall see;" and we drive on very passable +and agreeable times till we approached +ourselves near London; but then come +one another coach of the opposition to +pass by, and the coachman say, "No, +my boy, it shan't do!" and then he whip +his horses, and made some traverse upon +the road, and tell to me, all the times, a +long explication what the other coachman +have done otherwhiles, and finish not till +we stop, and the coach of opposition come +behind him in one narrow place. Well—then +he twist himself round, and, with +full voice, cry himself out at the another +man, who was so angry as himself, "I'll +tell you what, my hearty! If you comes +some more of your gammon at me, I +shan't stand, and you shall yourself find +in the wrong <i>box</i>." It was not for many +weeks after as I find out the wrong <i>box</i> +meaning.</p> + +<p>Well—we get at London, at the coaches +office, and I unlightened from my seat, +and go at the bureau for pay my passage, +and gentleman very politely demanded if +I had some friend at London. I converse +with him very little time in voyaging, because +he was in the interior; but I perceive +he is real gentleman. So, I say, "No, sir, I +am stranger." Then he very honestly +recommend me at an hotel, very proper, +and tell me, "Sir, because I have some +affairs at the Banque, I must sleep in the +city this night; but to-morrow I shall +come at the hotel, where you shall find +some good attentions if you make the use +of my name." "Very well," I tell myself, +"this is best." So we exchange the +cards, and I have hackney coach to come +at my hotel, where they say, "No room, +sir,—very sorry,—no room." But I demand +to stop the moment, and produce +the card what I could not read before, in +the movements of the coach with the +darkness. The master of the hotel take +it from my hand, and become very polite +at the instant, and whisper at the ear of +some waiters, and these come at me, and +say, "Oh yes, sir. I know Mr. <i>Box</i> +very well. Worthy gentleman, Mr. Box.—Very +proud to incommode any friend +of Mr. Box—pray inlight yourself, and +walk in my house." So I go in, and find +myself very proper, and soon come so as +if I was in my own particular chamber; +and Mr. Box come next day, and I find +very soon that he was the <i>right</i> Box, and +not the <i>wrong</i> box.—Ha, ha!—You shall +excuse my badinage,—eh? But never +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page127" id="page127"></a>[pg 127]</span> +mind—I am going at Leicestershire to see +the foxes hunting, and perhaps will get +upon a coach-box in the spring, and go +at Edinburgh; but I have fear I cannot +come at your "Noctes," because I have +not learn yet to eat so great supper. I +always read what they speak there twice +over, except what Mons. Le "Shepherd" +say, what I read three time; but never +could comprehend exactly what he say, +though I discern some time the grand +idea, what walk in darkness almost "visible," +as your divine Milton say. I am +particular fond of the poetry. I read +three books of the "Paradise Lost" to +Mr. Box, but he not hear me no more—he +pronounce me perfect.</p> + +<p>After one such compliment, it would +be almost the same as ask you for another, +if I shall make apology in case I have +not find the correct ideotism of your language +in this letter; so I shall not make +none at all,—only throw myself at your +mercy, like a great critic. But never +mind,—we shall see. If you take this +letter as it ought, I shall not promise if +I would not write you one other some +time.</p> + +<p>I conclude by presenting at you my +compliments very respectful. I am sorry +for your gout and crutchedness, and hope +you shall miss them in the spring.</p> + +<p>I have the honour of subscribe myself,</p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2">Sir,</p> +<p class="i4">Your very humble and</p> +<p class="i6">Much obedient servant,</p> +<p class="i8">LOUIS LE CHEMINANT.</p> + </div> </div> + +<p>P.S.—Ha, ha!—It is very droll!—I +tell my valet, we go at Leicestershire +for the hunting fox.—Very well.—So +soon as I finish this letter, he come and +demand what I shall leave behind in +orders for some presents, to give what +people will come at my lodgments for +Christmas <i>Boxes</i>.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2><b>Retrospective Gleanings.</b></h2> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>ANTIQUITY OF THE ALDERMAN.</h3> + + +<p>Alderman is derived from the Saxon +word <i>ealderman</i>, that is a senior or <i>alderman</i>, +which by degrees came to stand for +persons of great distinction, because such +were chosen to discharge the highest offices, +being those whose long experience +rendered them most capable, and whose +birth and fortunes made them most conspicuous; +and as they were generally entrusted +with the government of the counties, +instead of saying the governor, it +was said the <i>ealderman</i> of such a county. +While the heptarchy lasted, these offices +were only during the king's pleasure; at +last they became during life. After the +Danes were settled in England, the title +of <i>ealderman</i> was changed into that of +<i>earl</i>, and the Normans introduced that of +<i>count</i>, which, though different in its original +signification, meant, however, the +same dignity. There were several sorts +of <i>ealdermen</i>; some were properly only +governors of a province or county, others +were owners of their province, holding it +as a fee of the crown. These ealdermen, +or earls, were honoured with titles of <i>reguli +subreguli</i>, <i>principes</i>, <i>patricii</i>, and +some times <i>rex</i>. Those who were only +governors, had the title of ealderman of +such a county, or sometimes in Latin by +the term <i>consul</i>. The first administered +justice in their own name, and appropriated +to their own use all the revenues +and profits of their respective counties. +The last administered justice in the king's +name and had only part of the profits assigned +them. A third sort of ealdermen +were those, who upon account of their +high birth, bore the title, without any +authority, out of which rank the governors +were generally chosen. There were also +inferior ealdermen in cities or boroughs, +who administered justice in the king's +name, and were dependent on the great +ealdermen, or earls, which by the name +of <i>alderman</i> still continues among us to +those inferior officers, while they are called +earls only. The office of the ealderman +was wholly civil, and had nothing to +do with either military or ecclesiastical +affairs. What power each of them had, +it is not easy to determine; but they were +all obliged to have some knowledge of +the law. In the Saxon times, the bishop +and ealderman sat together to try causes; +the one proceeded by the canons, the +other by the common law. Part of the +ealderman's jurisdiction was to examine +the arms, and to raise the militia within +such a district, in order to suppress riot +and execute the sentence of a court of +justice. He had likewise the cognizance +of house-breaking, robbing, &c. Nor +was it lawful for any person to move from +one place to another without a certificate +from the ealderman.</p> + +<p>HALBERT H.</p> + +<hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2><b>The Gatherer.</b></h2> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.</p> +<p class="i10"> SHAKSPEARE.</p> + </div> </div> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>HANDSOME BAR-MAIDS.</h3> + + +<p>The following advertisement appeared in +a New Orlean's journal:—Wanted, two +handsome ladies to assist in two bar-rooms, +and to whom liberal wages will +be given. Beauties from New York, +Charlestown, or Savannah will be preferred. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page128" id="page128"></a>[pg 128]</span> +A well-shaped, well-looking +black lady would meet encouragement as +an under bar-maid. Due attention will +be paid to applicants, at No. 60, Camp-street.</p> + +<p>W.G.C.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>FRENCH MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.</h3> + + +<p>Matrimonial advertisements being +standard articles in our own newspapers +at this period, as a pleasantry they may +be compared with the following, extracted +from various French journals:—</p> + +<p>Une demoiselle bien née et aimable, +ayant 120,000 francs de bien, desire +épouser un homme âgé et riche.</p> + +<p>Une demoiselle de 24 ans, jolie et d'une +education distinguée, ayant 40,000 francs +comptant, et par la suite 200,000 francs, +desire épouser un jeune homme aimable, +et ayant de la fortune.</p> + +<p>Une demoiselle de 19 ans, sans fortune, +mais jolie, aimable, et bien élevée, +desire épouser une homme âgé, et assez +aisé, pour pouvoir faire quelque bien à +sa mère.</p> + +<p>J.G.R.</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>SONG.</h3> + + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Oh, silent was her grief and woe,</p> +<p class="i2">No tear her eye betray'd,</p> +<p>When Damon from his Anna fled,</p> +<p class="i2">And took some other maid!</p> +<p>But, ah, her bleeding heart did tell</p> +<p class="i2">What outward show denied;</p> +<p>For at that simple word, "Farewell,"</p> +<p class="i2">She bow'd her head and died!</p> + </div><div class="stanza"> +<p class="i10"> J.B.</p> + </div> </div> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>TO A YOUNG LADY WHO REQUESTED +THE AUTHOR TO RESTORE A LOCK +OF HAIR HE HAD TAKEN FROM +HER.—<i>By E.S. Barrett.</i></h3> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>By one only recompense can I be led</p> +<p class="i2">With this beautiful ringlet to part;</p> +<p>That should I restore you the <i>lock</i> of your head,</p> +<p class="i2">You will give me the key of your heart.—<i>Atlas.</i></p> + </div> </div> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>PARLIAMENTARY QUALIFICATIONS.</h3> + + +<p>When the friends of the youngest Thelluson +proposed making him a member of +parliament, he said, "he did not understand +exactly what it was to be in parliament, +or what they meant by constituents +in the country; but, if there was any +necessity to go backwards and forwards +<i>for their orders</i>, he could trot down as +fast as any member of parliament in the +kingdom."</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>CHANGING NAMES.</h3> + + +<p>Thomas Knight, Esq. whose paternal +name was Brodnax, which, very early in +life, he changed for that of May, afterwards, +by a statute of 9th Geo. II. took +the name of Knight, which occasioned a +facetious member of the house to get up, +and propose "<i>a general bill</i> to enable +<i>that gentleman to take what name he pleased</i>."</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>TOUCHSTONE FOR THE TIMES.</h3> + + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Midas (we read) with wond'rous art of old,</p> +<p>Whate'er he touch'd, at once transformed to gold;</p> +<p>This modern statesmen can reverse with ease,</p> +<p>Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.</p> + </div> </div> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>GENIUS DEFINED.</h3> + + +<p>A wit being asked what the word <i>genius</i> +meant, replied, "If you had it in you, +you would not ask the question; but as +you have not, you will never know what +it means."</p> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>POOR SACK, (HANGED.)</h3> + + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Though Sack's misdeed is punished right,</p> +<p class="i2">It never was intended</p> +<p>That he should leave his office quite,</p> +<p class="i2">He only is <i>suspended</i>.</p> + </div> </div> + +<hr /> + + +<h3>EPITAPH</h3> + + +<p><i>On a man of the name of Fish.</i></p> + +<div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Worm's bait for fish; but here's a sudden change,</p> +<p><i>Fish's</i> bait for worms—is that not passing strange?</p> +<p class="i10"> C.K.W.</p> + </div> </div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p><b>LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE</b></p> + +<p><i>Following Novels are already Published:</i></p> + +<pre> + <i>s</i>. <i>d</i>. +Mackenzie's Man of Feeling 0 6 +Paul and Virginia 0 6 +The Castle of Otranto 0 6 +Almoran and Hamet 0 6 +Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia 0 6 +The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 0 6 +Rasselas 0 8 +The Old English Baron 0 8 +Nature and Art 0 8 +Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield 0 10 +Sicilian Romance 1 0 +The Man of the World 1 0 +A Simple Story 1 4 +Joseph Andrews 1 6 +Humphry Clinker 1 8 +The Romance of the Forest 1 8 +The Italian 2 0 +Zeluco, by Dr. Moore 2 6 +Edward, by Dr. Moore 2 0 +Roderick Random 2 6 +The Mysteries of Udolpho 3 6 +</pre> + + +<hr class="full" /> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a href="#footnotetag1"> (return) </a><p>"Warwickshire," p. 298, edit. 1661.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2:</b><a href="#footnotetag2"> (return) </a><p>Vide Camden's "Britannia," by Bishop +Gibson, vol. i. p. 603, edit. 1722.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3:</b><a href="#footnotetag3"> (return) </a><p>"Inter <i>Occidentalium Anglorum</i> Reges illustrissimos, +præcipua commendationis laude +celebratur, rex <i>Warmundus</i>, ab his qui Historias +<i>Anglorum</i> non solum relatu proferre, sed +etiam scriptis inserere, consueverant. Is fundator +cujusdam urbis a seipso denominatæ; +quæ lingua <i>Anglicana Warwick</i>, id est, <i>Curia +Warmundi</i> nuncupatur."—Matthæi Paris "Historia +Major," à Watts, edit. 1640.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4:</b><a href="#footnotetag4"> (return) </a><p>Hardynge's "Chronicle," p, 211, edit. 1812.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote5" name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5:</b><a href="#footnotetag5"> (return) </a><p>"Now is Mortimer lord of the city."—Vide Shakspeare.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote6" name="footnote6"></a><b>Footnote 6:</b><a href="#footnotetag6"> (return) </a><p>In the reign of Mary, hailstones, which measured +fifteen inches in circumference, fell upon +and destroyed two small towns near Nottingham.—Cooper's +Hist. England.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote7" name="footnote7"></a><b>Footnote 7:</b><a href="#footnotetag7"> (return) </a><p>"The Neck, a water-spirit, answering, in +Sweden, &c. to the Scottish kelpie, as to its +place of abode; but we believe its character is +not so mischievous. The northern idea, that all +fairies, demons, &c. who resided in this world, +were spirits out of the pale of salvation, is very +ancient. Mr. Keightley assures us, that the +legend of which these stanzas attempt a versification, +is extremely popular in Sweden."—Vide +"Fairy Mythology."</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote8" name="footnote8"></a><b>Footnote 8:</b><a href="#footnotetag8"> (return) </a><p>See MIRROR, vol. xii. page 34.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote9" name="footnote9"></a><b>Footnote 9:</b><a href="#footnotetag9"> (return) </a><p>The official values of these imports are £703,009 and £1,464,994.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote10" name="footnote10"></a><b>Footnote 10:</b><a href="#footnotetag10"> (return) </a><p>Abonnements—subscriptions.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote11" name="footnote11"></a><b>Footnote 11:</b><a href="#footnotetag11"> (return) </a><p>Bateau an vapeur—a steam-boat.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote12" name="footnote12"></a><b>Footnote 12:</b><a href="#footnotetag12"> (return) </a><p>Rentes—public funds.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote13" name="footnote13"></a><b>Footnote 13:</b><a href="#footnotetag13"> (return) </a><p>Là là, signifies passable, indifferent.</p></blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote14" name="footnote14"></a><b>Footnote 14:</b><a href="#footnotetag14"> (return) </a><p>The cabriolet is the front part of the old +French diligence, with a hood and apron, holding +three persons, including the guard, or "conducteur."</p></blockquote> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<p><i>Printed and Published by J. 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