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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
+Instruction, by Various
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827
+
+Author: Various
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+Release Date: May 30, 2005 [EBook #15945]
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. X, NO. 279.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1827. [PRICE 2d.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: Brambletye House.]
+
+
+
+
+BRAMBLETYE HOUSE.
+
+
+On the borders of Ashdown Forest, in the county of Sussex, stands the
+above picturesque ruin of Brambletye House, whose lettered fame may be
+dated from the publication of Mr. Smith's novel of that name, in
+January, 1826. The ruin has since attracted scores of tourists, as we
+were, on our recent visit, informed by the occupier of the adjoining
+farm-house; which circumstance coupled with the high literary success of
+Mr. Smith's novel, has induced us to select Brambletye House for the
+illustration of our present number.
+
+Brambletye, or, as it is termed in Doomsday Book, Brambertie House,
+after the conquest, became the property of the Earl of Mortain and
+Cornwall, forming part of the barony then conferred upon him, and
+subsequently denominated the honour of the eagle. Passing into
+possession of the Andehams, Saint Clares, and several others, it came
+into the occupation of the Comptons, towards the beginning of the
+seventeenth century; and from the arms of that family impaling those of
+Spencer, still remaining over the principal entrance, with the date 1631
+in a lozenge, it is conjectured that the old moated edifice (represented
+in the annexed vignette) which had hitherto been the residence of the
+proprietors, was abandoned in the reign of James I., by Sir Henry
+Compton, who built the extensive and solid baronial mansion, commonly
+known by the name of Brambletye House.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"From their undaunted courage and inflexible loyalty to the Stuarts,"
+says the novelist, "the Comptons had been heavy sufferers, both in purse
+and person, during the eventful progress of the civil wars. The Earl of
+Northampton, the head of the family, and nephew to Sir Henry, the
+presumed builder of Brambletye, had four sons, officers under him,
+whereof three charged in the field at the battle of Hopton Heath, and
+the eldest, Lord Compton, was wounded. The Earl himself, refusing to
+take quarter from the rascally Roundheads, as he indignantly termed
+them, even when their swords were at his throat, was put to death in the
+same battle; and the successor to his title, with one of his brothers,
+finally accompanied the royal family in their exile. Sir John Compton, a
+branch of this family, having preserved much of his property from the
+committee of sequestration, displayed rather more splendour than fell to
+the lot of most of the cavaliers who took an equally conspicuous part
+against the parliament armies. Although never capable of any regular
+defence, yet the place being hastily fortified, refused the summons of
+the parliamentarian colonel, Okey, by whom it Was invested; but it was
+speedily taken, when sad havoc was committed by the soldiery, all the
+armorial bearings, and every symbol of rank and gentility, being
+wantonly mutilated or destroyed."
+
+In the time of the commonwealth, Brambletye was the focus of many a
+cavalier conspiracy. "From its not being a place of any strength or
+notice, it was imagined that Brambletye might better escape the keen and
+jealous watchfulness, which kept the protector's eye ever fixed upon the
+strong holds and defensible mansions of the nobility and gentry; while
+its proximity to the metropolis, combined with the seclusion of its
+situation, adapted it to any enterprize which required at the same time
+secrecy, and an easy communication with the metropolis."
+
+In the novel just quoted, which is altogether a pleasant assemblage of
+historical facts, aided by the imaginative garniture of the author, the
+denouement is brought about by the explosion of a gunpowder vault which
+destroyed part of the mansion; and on the marriage of his hero and
+heroine Brambletye House was abandoned to its fate; "and the time that
+has intervened since its desertion," says our author, "combining with
+the casualty and violence by which it was originally shattered and
+dismantled, has reduced it to its present condition of a desolate and
+forlorn ruin."
+
+A visit to Brambletye was the immediate object of our journey, and
+though a distance of thirty-three miles, we considered ourselves amply
+requited by the pensive interest of the scene and its crowded
+associations. In our childhood we had been accustomed to clamber its
+ruins and tottering staircases with delight, not to say triumph;
+heedless as we then were of the historical interest attached to them.
+After a lapse of a score and ---- years, the whole scene had become
+doubly attractive. A new road had been formed from East Grinstead to
+Forest Row, from which a pleasant lane wound off to Brambletye. We are
+at a loss to describe our emotions as we approached the ruin. It was
+altogether a little struggle of human suffering. Within two hundred
+years the mansion had been erected, and by turns became the seat of
+baronial splendour and of civil feuds,--of the best and basest feelings
+of mankind;--the loyalty and hospitality of cavaliers; the fanatic
+outrages of Roundheads; and ultimately of wanton desolation! The gate
+through which Colonel Lilburne and his men entered, was blocked up with
+a hurdle; and the yard where his forces were marshalled was covered with
+high flourishing grass; the towers had almost become mere shells, but
+the vaulted passages, once stored with luxuries and weapons, still
+retained much of their original freshness. What a contrast did these few
+wrecks of turbulent times present with the peaceful scene by which they
+were surrounded, viz. a farm and two water-mills--on one side displaying
+the stormy conflict of man's passion and petty desolation--and on the
+other, the humble attributes of cheerful industry. We strove to repress
+our feelings as we entered the principal porch, where by an assemblage
+of names of visiters scribbled on the walls, and not unknown to us, we
+learnt that, we were not the first to sympathize with the fate of
+Brambletye!
+
+Within these few years, through a sort of barbarous disregard for their
+associations, the lodge and the greater part of the wall represented in
+our engraving, has been pulled down! and the moated house has lately
+shared the same fate--for the sake of their materials--cupidity in which
+we rejoiced to hear the destroyers were disappointed--their intrinsic
+worth not being equal to the labour of removing them: the work of
+destruction would, however, have extended to the whole of the ruins had
+not some guardian hand interfered. It will be seen that the moated house
+was furnished with a ponderous drawbridge and other fortifying
+resources; from the licentious character of its founders it was
+_consequently_ haunted many years before its removal.
+
+In East Grinstead we learned that the Comptons were a noble family, and
+traditions of their hospitality are current amongst the oldest
+inhabitants of that town.[1]
+
+    [1] For the loan of the drawing (made in 1780), whence the first
+        engraving is copied, we are indebted to the kindness of a
+        gentleman of East Grinstead; and for the sketch of the latter
+        to an affectionate relative.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BATTLE HYMN.
+
+_Imitated from the German of Theodore Korner._[2]
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+     Father, in mercy hear
+     A youthful warrior's prayer.
+  Thundering cannons are roaring around me:
+  Carnage and death, and destruction surround me;
+     God of eternal power.
+     Guide me in this dread hour!
+     Guide me in this dread hour
+     God of eternal power!
+  Lead me, base Tyranny manfully braving,
+  Onwards to where _Freedom's_ banner is waving--
+     To death--or victory;
+     I bow to thy decree!
+     I bow to thy decree,
+     In death or victory!
+  'Mid the loud din of the battle's commotion,
+  When Nature smiles, or when storms rend the ocean,
+     Lord of the brave and just
+     In _thee_ I'll put my trust!
+     In thee I'll put my trust,
+     Lord of the brave and just!
+  On thee, the fountain of goodness relying,
+  Whatever ills may come--living and dying
+     I will thy praise proclaim,
+     Blest be thy holy name.
+     Blest be thy holy name,
+     I will thy praise proclaim,
+  'Tis not for worldly ends we're contending,
+  _Liberty's_ sacred cause we're defending,
+     And by thy might on high,
+     We'll conquer--or we'll _die!_
+     We'll conquer--or we'll _die_
+     By the great God on High.
+  When life's red stream from my bosom is swelling,
+  And the last sigh on my faint lip is dwelling,
+     Then Lord in mercy hear
+     A youthful warrior's prayer!
+
+
+J.E.S.
+
+    [2] See "Select Biography," page 199, present Volume of the MIRROR.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ENGLAND IN 827, 1827, 2827.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+One thousand years have now elapsed since Egbert laid the foundation of
+England's glory, by uniting the kingdoms of the heptarchy. What was
+England then? what is it now? what will it be in 2827?
+
+In 827, how confined her empire, how narrow her limits, how few her
+resources; the lord and his vassals the only classes of society. In
+1827, she may exclaim with the Spanish Philip, "The sun never sets upon
+my dominions." How difficult to mention the bounds of her empire, or to
+calculate the vastness of her resources! and still more difficult task
+to enumerate the gradations of society which modern refinement has
+produced. Where will this extended sway, this power, these resources,
+and these refinements be in 2827?
+
+  "Oh! for the glance of prophet's eye,
+  To scan thy depths, futurity."
+
+
+Judging by the fate of nations, they will have passed away like a
+morning cloud. Look at the fame of Nineveh levelled in the dust. Search
+for the site of Babylon, with its walls and gates, its hanging gardens
+and terraces! Contemplate the ghost of the enlightened Athens, stalking
+through the ruins of her Parthenon, her Athenaeum, or Acropolis. Examine
+the shadow of power which now remains to the mighty Rome, the empress of
+the world. Even so will it be with England; ere ten centuries have
+rolled away, her sun-like splendour will illume a western world. Our
+stately palaces and venerable cathedrals, our public edifices and
+manufactories, our paintings and sculpture, will be fruitful subjects of
+conjecture and controversy to the then learned. And a fragment of a
+pillar from St. Paul's, or a mutilated statue from Westminster, will be
+as valuable to them as a column from the Temple of Belus, or a broken
+cornice from the Temple of Theseus, is now to us!
+
+D.A.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE ROBIN.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+  Hark to the robin--whistling clear--
+  The requiem of the dying year--
+    Amidst the garden bower.
+  He quits his native forest shade,
+  Ere ruin stern hath there display'd
+    Its desolating power.
+
+  He sings--but not the song of love--
+  No,--that is for the quick'ning grove--
+    The brightly budding tree.
+  And tho' we listen and rejoice;
+  In melody that sweet-ton'd voice
+    Implores our charity.
+
+  The birds of passage take their flight
+  To other lands--of warmth and light--
+    Where orient breezes blow.
+  While here the little red-breast stays,
+  And sweetly warbles out his lays,
+    Amidst the chilling snow.
+
+  When the keen North congeals the stream
+  That sparkled in the summer-beam--
+    Chink--chink--the Robin comes.
+  His near approach proclaims a dearth
+  Of food upon the ice-bound earth;--
+    He whistles for our crumbs.
+
+  But, like the child of want, he hails
+  Too oft where avarice prevails--
+    Devoid of charity;--
+  Where hearts 'neath rich-clad bosoms glow,
+  Yet never feel the inspiring throe
+    Of tender sympathy.
+
+  Tho' pleas'd with wildly-warbled song,
+  The minstrel's life will they prolong
+    With food and shelter warm?
+  No,--see, to shun the cruel snare,
+  Again he wings the frozen air,
+    And dies amidst the storm.
+
+  How sweeter far it were to see
+  The bird familiar, fond, and free,
+    With confidence intrude;--
+  To see him to the table come,
+  And hear him sing o'er ev'ry crumb
+    A song of gratitude.
+
+
+C. COLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BUYING AND SELLING THE DEVIL.
+
+(_For the Mirror._[3])
+
+
+"Every thing may be had for money," is an old remark, and perhaps no
+less true.
+
+There have been also proverbial sayings of buying and selling the devil;
+but that such a traffic was actually ever negociated will appear
+incredible. Blount's "Law Dictionary," under _Conventio_, gives an
+instance of a sale; it is extracted from the court rolls of the manor of
+Hatfield, near the isle of Axholme, county of York, where a curious
+gentleman searched for it and found it regularly entered. There then
+followeth an English translation for the benefit of those who do not
+understand the original language.
+
+"Curia tenta apud Hatfield die Mercurii Prov post Festum. Anno II Edw.
+III."
+
+Robert de Roderham appeared against John de Ithon, for that he had not
+kept the agreement made between them, and therefore complains, that on a
+certain day and year, at Thorne, there was an agreement between the
+aforesaid Robert and John, whereby the said John sold to the said Robert
+the devil, bound in a certain bond, for threepence farthing; and
+thereupon the said Robert delivered to the said John one farthing as
+earnest-money, by which the property of the said devil rested in the
+person of the said Robert, to have livery of the said devil on the
+fourth day next following, at which day the said Robert came to the
+aforementioned John, and asked livery of the said devil, according to
+the agreement between them made. But the said John refused to deliver
+the said devil, nor has he yet done it, &c. to the grievous damage of
+the said Robert to the amount of sixty shillings; and he has therefore
+brought his suit, &c.
+
+The said John came, &c., and did not deny the said agreement; and
+because it appeared to the court that such a suit ought not to subsist
+among Christians, the aforesaid parties are therefore adjourned to the
+infernal regions, there to hear their judgment; and both parties were
+amerced, &c.--by William de Scargell Snesclal.
+
+The above is an exact translation of the original Latin; and if this is
+inserted in your entertaining work, I will make inquiries respecting the
+proceedings.
+
+W.H.H.
+
+    [3] Notwithstanding our correspondent's equivocal title to this
+        article, we beg to assure our readers, who may suspect us of
+        _diablerie_, that we are not a party to the purchase or sale.
+        Could an _ejectment_ in this case be effected by _common law_?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PREVENTION OF EFFLUVIUM.
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Sir,--The choruret of lime is recommended for preventing bad smells from
+water-closets, &c. Can any of your correspondents oblige me and the
+public by communicating the least expensive method of preparing it ready
+for use, and also to state the proper quantity to be used?
+
+C.C.C.C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NANCY LEWIS,
+
+(A CASTLE BAYNARD LYRIC.)
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+  My peace is fled--I cannot rest,--
+    The tale I tell most true is;
+  My heart's been stolen from my breast,
+    By lovely Nancy Lewis.
+
+  Fair is the blossom of the thorn,
+    And bright the morning dew is;
+  But sweeter than the dewy morn
+    The smiles of Nancy Lewis.
+
+  The eye that's sparkling black I love,
+    Ay, more than that which blue is;
+  And thine are like two stars above,
+    And sloe black--Nancy Lewis.
+
+  Alas! alas! their power I feel;
+    My bosom pierced right through is:
+  In pity, then, my bosom heal,
+    My charming Nancy Lewis.
+
+  Oh! bless me with thy heaven of charms,
+    And take a heart that true is,
+  While circling life my bosom warms
+    In thine dear Nancy Lewis.
+
+F. G----N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE NOVELIST
+
+No. CXII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A MOUNTAIN STORY.
+
+
+In one of the most picturesque parts of the western Highlands of
+Scotland stands an inn, which is much frequented by travellers. This inn
+itself adds considerably to the beauty of the landscape. It was formerly
+a manor-house; and the sedate grandeur of its appearance is in such good
+keeping with the scenes in its neighbourhood, and so little in
+accordance with its present appropriation, that travellers more commonly
+stop at the gate to inquire the way to the inn, than drive up at once
+through the green field which is spread before its windows, and its fine
+flight of stone steps. Very few dwellings are to be seen from it; and
+those few are mere cottages, chiefly inhabited by the fishermen of the
+loch. One of these cottages is my dwelling. It stands so near to the
+inn, that I can observe all that goes forward there; but it is so
+over-shadowed and hidden by trees, that I doubt not the greater
+proportion of the visiters to the inn are quite unaware that such a
+cottage is in existence; and of the thousand sketches which artists and
+amateurs have carried away with them, perhaps not one bears any trace of
+the lowly chimneys, or the humble porch of my dwelling.
+
+On one fine evening in the month of August, seven years ago, I was
+depositing my watering-pot in the tool-house, when I observed a gig
+drive up to the inn; it contained a young lady and a gentleman.
+According to my usual habit of conjecture, I settled in my own mind that
+they were husband and wife: bride and bridegroom they could not be, as
+they were in deep mourning. They seated themselves by an open window
+till it grew dark, and I saw no more of them that night. In my early
+watch the next morning, I passed them twice, and changed my opinion
+respecting them. They were evidently brother and sister: there was a
+strong resemblance between them, and a slight difference in years--the
+young man appearing to be about eighteen, his sister one or two and
+twenty. She was not handsome; but the expression of melancholy on her
+countenance, and an undefinable air of superiority about her, engaged my
+attention. The brother _was_ handsome--very handsome. His features
+were fine, but their expression was finer still. He had taken off his
+hat, and I had a full view of him. What an intellect did that forehead
+bespeak! what soul was in those eyes! "Why," thought I, "does she look
+so melancholy, while leaning on the arm of such a brother?" But a glance
+at her dress let me into the cause of her sorrow. A father or a mother,
+or perhaps such another brother, has been taken from her. Whatever the
+cause of their common grief might be, it seemed only to knit them more
+closely together; for never did I see a brother and sister so attached.
+They were inseparable: and during the many days which they spent at the
+inn, the interest of their conversations never seemed to flag. They were
+always talking; and always, apparently, with animation and sympathy.
+
+On the fourth day after their arrival, I was sitting at work, at a
+window which commands a view of the head of the loch, and of the
+mountains on the opposite side. It was then between four and five in the
+afternoon; the sun was bright, and the weather as fine as possible. The
+tide was out, and, as usual, many groups of children were busied in
+collecting shells and sea-weed. Among them were my two friends (for so I
+must call them.) They seemed in gayer spirits than I had yet seen them;
+they picked up a basket-full of shells; they set up a mark by which to
+watch the receding waters; they entered into conversation with a
+boatman, and strolled on till they came to the little bridge which spans
+a rivulet at the head of the loch. I saw them lean over the parapet, to
+watch the gurgling brook beneath. Then they turned, to survey the high
+mountains above them; and after awhile, they directed their steps to the
+base of one of them. I saw them gradually mount the green slope, turning
+every now and then to gaze at the scene below, until I could but
+indistinctly discern their figures, amidst the shadows which were
+beginning to spread over the valley and the lower parts of the mountain.
+I knew that the mountain which they were ascending was not often tried
+either by natives or by strangers, for it was boggy and pathless; though
+tempting to the eye by its verdure, and by a fine pile of rocks, which
+stood like a crown on the brow of the first grand ascent.
+
+The richest glow of the evening sun was upon the mountain's brow; light
+crimson clouds were floating, as it seemed to me, just over the head of
+the youth, as he mounted higher and higher--springing from one point to
+another. I saw his slight form on the very ridge, though lessened almost
+to a point by the distance, yet conspicuous by its motion, and by the
+relief of the glowing sky behind. He disappeared. I looked for his
+sister: she was still sitting on her sunny seat, while all below was
+wrapped in a deep grey shadow. I laid down my glass, and resumed my work
+for awhile. I looked again; she was still there, and alone--but the
+sun-light was gone! I thought she looked forlorn; and I wished her
+brother would return to her. Again the sun burst forth on the
+mountain-top--it had only been obscured by a cloud. I saw the lady start
+from her seat, and turn round. An eagle had sprung from among the rocks:
+she was watching its flight--it ascended into the blue sky, and was lost
+to sight. She sauntered a few steps on one side of her seat, then on the
+other, and looked around her. "I wish her brother would return to her,"
+thought I again. She shaded her eyes with her hand, and looked up: but
+vainly! The shadows had crept apace up the mountain side: her seat was
+no longer sunny, but she sat down again.
+
+I had by this time become, I knew not why, rather nervous: my hand shook
+so, that I could not fix the glass. I laid it down, and went to take a
+turn in my garden. I came back presently to the window, and once more
+turned my glass in the direction of the mountain. The seat was vacant.
+"They are coming down together, I hope," thought I. "It is high time
+they should; it is becoming dark and chilly!" But I could not trace
+them. At length I saw something white fluttering in the breeze. It was
+so small that I should not have discerned it, if my very power of sight
+had not been sharpened by the anxiety I began to feel for these young
+people. By intently gazing--by straining my sight to the uttermost, I
+made out that the young lady was standing on a point of rock, lower
+down, and more conspicuous than that on which she had been seated. She
+had tied her handkerchief to her parasol, and was waving it, no doubt,
+as a signal to her brother. My heart turned sick, and I could see no
+more. I looked at my watch, and found that it was nearly three hours
+since they had begun their ascent. The next consideration was, what I
+ought to do. If I had been certain that the brother had lost his way, it
+was, no doubt, my duty to send persons from the inn, to find him. But
+how did I know that any peril existed, excepting in my own imagination?
+He might have ascended before, and be perfectly acquainted with the
+descent; he might be gone in search of some particular view, and have
+prepared his sister for the length of his absence, as she was too much
+fatigued to accompany him. In this case, any interference of mine would
+be impertinent. What should I do? I leaned out of my window, as if in
+the hope of seeing some object, which should help me to a decision. Such
+an object was just before me, in the person of an old fisherman, a
+next-door neighbour, and very honest friend of mine. "Come hither,
+John," said I; and I stated the case to him. He thought we need not fear
+any danger. The mountain was not very high; he knew of no dangerous
+places on it; and was of opinion that there would be light enough to
+guide their steps half an hour longer. He advised me to leave them
+alone, for that time at least. I determined to do so, and sat down to my
+tea-table, on which I had not yet bestowed a thought. I drew it close to
+the window, and looked as earnestly as ever; but it was now too dark to
+see anything but the indistinct outlines of the mountains, and the loch
+gleaming in the twilight. The half-hour passed, and I had not seen them
+return; they might have returned without my having seen them; but I
+could not bear uncertainty any longer. I sent my servant to the inn, to
+inquire if they had arrived, and whether they had ordered tea, or given
+any expectation as to the time of their retain.
+
+She brought word, that though tea had been ready for an hour past, the
+lady and gentleman had not returned; and that the landlady would be glad
+to know whether I could give her any intelligence of them.
+
+"Let me pass!" said I, hastily opening the gate.
+
+"Your bonnet, ma'am! shall I fetch your bonnet?" said my maid.
+
+At that moment some one rushed past me. It was the young lady--running,
+or attempting to run, but with faltering and unequal steps. I followed
+her. At the first of the flight of steps before the inn, she stumbled
+and fell. She was trembling and sobbing violently; whether from
+breathlessness or agony, I could not tell. I raised her, and assisted
+her to mount the steps. "My brother! my brother!" she exclaimed
+incessantly. I could get no words but these from her. No time was to be
+lost. I sat down beside her, and took both her hands; and speaking as
+calmly as I could, said, "Compose yourself, and tell us what we must do.
+Have you missed your brother, or has any accident befallen him before
+your eyes?"
+
+"He is on the mountain there! He left me, and did not come back. He said
+he should not be gone twenty minutes."
+
+"Now I know all," replied I. "I will take some people from the inn with
+lights, and we will find him. You must stay and compose yourself, and be
+patient; he has only missed his way."
+
+She insisted upon going too; and declared that this was necessary, in
+order to point out the track which her brother had taken. I explained to
+her how I had watched their progress, and was therefore able to direct
+their search. But she was resolute in her determination to go; and
+finding her to be so, I gave up my intention of accompanying the party,
+believing that I should only retard their progress.
+
+I arranged with the landlady, that in case of any fatal accident having
+happened, the young lady should be brought to my house, where she would
+be in greater quiet and retirement than amid the bustle of an inn.
+
+Hour after hour did we wait, listening to every sound, trembling at
+every breath; and so shaken and weakened by intolerable suspense, that
+we were ill-fitted to think and to act as occasion might require. It was
+a dark, cloudy, and windy night. We often looked out, but could see
+nothing, scarcely even the outline of the mountain. We listened, and our
+hearts beat thick, when there was no sound but the rising gust! I dwell
+on these circumstances too long, because I recoil from relating the
+catastrophe, as if it were but recent--as if my thoughts had not been
+familiarized with it for years.
+
+It was as we feared; he was found lying at the bottom of a rock, no more
+than ten feet high--but lifeless. His neck had been dislocated by the
+fall. There were no external bruises--no signs of any struggle--nothing
+painful in his appearance. I cannot relate every circumstance of that
+dreadful night. I thought _she_ was gone too; she was brought in,
+insensible, and remained so for hours. She was taken immediately to my
+house, and put to bed. The body of her brother was also carried there,
+for I knew she would not be separated from it. I sat beside her,
+watching her faint breathing, anxious for some sign of returning
+consciousness, but dreading the agony which must attend it. If she had
+died, I could hardly have grieved for her; but there might be parents,
+brothers, and sisters! Oh, that I knew, that I could bring them to her!
+Alone, among strangers! how was she to bear her solitary grief?--how was
+she to sustain the struggle which awaited her in the first hour of her
+awakening? I could not banish the remembrance of them as I had seen them
+in the afternoon; happy in each other, and thinking not of separation;
+then, as he was when I last saw him, full of life and acuity, and
+apparently unboundedly happy, in the contemplation of scenes which a
+soul like his was fitted to enjoy.
+
+Day dawned, and no change was perceivable; but in two hours afterwards
+she opened her eyes. I crossed the room, to see whether she observed my
+motion. She did; and I therefore opened the curtain, and spoke to her.
+She gazed, but did not reply. Presently she seized my arm, muttering
+some words, of which "my mother!" was all I could understand. I took the
+opportunity of saying, that I was going to write to her family, and
+asked how I should address them.
+
+"My family!" said she, "I have none. They are all gone now!"
+
+I thought her mind was wandering. "Your father and mother," said I,
+"where are they?" My heart smote me as I uttered the words, but the
+question was necessary.
+
+"I have no father and mother!"
+
+"Nor brothers and sisters? Pardon me, but I must ask."
+
+"You need not ask, because I will tell you. There were many of us once,
+but I am the last!"
+
+I could not go on, yet it must be done.
+
+"But you have friends, who will come to you?"
+
+"Yes; I have a grandfather. He lives in Hampshire. He is very old, but
+he will come to me, if he still lives. If not!"----
+
+"He _will_ come," said I, "I will write to him directly."
+
+"I will write myself!" exclaimed she, starting up. "He will not believe
+the story unless I write myself. Who _would_ believe it?"
+
+I assured her she should write the next day; but I positively forbad
+such an exertion at present. She yielded; she was indeed in no condition
+for writing. Her mind seemed in an unnatural state; and I was by no
+means sure that she had given a correct account of herself. I wrote to
+her grandfather, on the supposition that she had; and was quite
+satisfied when, in the evening, she gave me, in few words, her family
+history. She had been relieved, though exhausted, by tears; and her mind
+was calm and rational. She was indeed the last of her family. Her mother
+had died a few weeks before, after a lingering illness; and the sole
+surviving brother and sister had been prevailed on to take this tour,
+to recruit their strength and spirits, after their long watching and
+anxiety. They were always, as I discovered, bound together by the
+strongest affection; and now that they had been made by circumstances
+all in all to each other, they were thus separated! Will not my readers
+excuse my attempting to describe such grief as her's must have been?
+
+Her grandfather arrived on the earliest possible day. He was old, and
+had some infirmities; but his health was not, as he assured us, at all
+injured by his hurried and painful journey. Nothing could be more tender
+than his kindness to his charge; though he was, perhaps, too far
+advanced in this life, and too near another, to feel the pressure of
+this kind of sorrow, as a younger or weaker mind would have done.
+
+I could not help indulging in much painful conjecture as to the fate of
+this young creature, when she should lose her last remaining stay: a
+period which could not be far distant. But on this point I obtained some
+satisfaction before her departure.
+
+A few days before she left me, a gentleman arrived at the inn, and came
+immediately to my cottage. She introduced him to me as "a friend." No
+one said what kind of a friend he was; but I could entertain no doubt
+that he was one who would supply the place of her brother to her.
+
+"Her mind will not be left without a keeper," thought I, as I saw them
+direct their steps to the brother's grave. "Thank God, her grandfather
+is not her only remaining stay!"
+
+They quitted the place together; and many a sympathizing heart did they
+leave behind them--by many an anxious wish and prayer were they
+followed. The last promise required from me was, that I would see that
+the grave of her brother was respected. What a pang did it cost her to
+leave that grave?
+
+I heard tidings of her three times afterwards. Her letters pleased me;
+they testified a deep, but not a selfish or corroding grief--a power of
+exertion, and a disposition to hope and be cheerful. The last letter I
+received from her, arrived more than five years ago. She had taken the
+name which I conjectured would in time be her's. She had lost her
+grandfather; but the time was past when his departure could occasion
+much grief. She was then going abroad with her husband, for an
+indefinite period of time. If they were spared to return to their native
+country, they proposed visiting my little dwelling once more, to gaze
+with softened emotions on scenes sadly endeared to them, and to mingle
+their tears once more over a brother's grave.
+
+Perhaps that day may yet arrive.
+
+_Literary Magnet_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+ARCANA OF SCIENCE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_Polar Expedition._
+
+It is known by the experience of all former voyages to the arctic
+circle, that towards the end of the season, in consequence of the heat
+radiating from the lard, the ice is detached from the shores of these
+seas, and floats southward. Ice, therefore, does not detach from other
+ice, but from the coast. Taking this principle with us, when we find
+that our expedition traversed a surface of some hundred miles, we
+conclude, whatever was the extent of that mass drifting south, it must
+have left an equal extent of open water in its original place in the
+north. We also infer, that there must be land at the north pole, from
+which this body was separated; and that if it could have been entirely
+crossed, Captain Parry and his companions would have found a clear sea
+for the boats, and had little difficulty in reaching Polar
+Land.--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+
+_Pemecan._
+
+This substance (mentioned in our recent abstract of the Polar Expedition
+as part of the provision for the crew) consists of meat prepared in the
+same way that the Indians prepare their provision of buffalo or deer.
+The flesh, _beef_ in this case, is cut into stripes, and dried by
+the smoke of wood. It is then beaten into a powder, and an equal
+proportion of fat being melted, the whole is mixed up together into a
+solid mass. It is evident that more of real sustenance from animal
+matter cannot be combined in any less bulky or burdensome compound. It
+makes an excellent and very nutritious soup.
+
+
+_Egyptian Architecture._
+
+It is somewhat surprising, that among the crowd of novelties, and
+very especially of attempts to depart from the received models of
+architecture, the _Egyptian_ has not taken its share. It is true
+that some very partial attempts have been made; in the metropolis, we
+believe, not exceeding two; and if we add to these a school recently
+erected at Devonport, a mausoleum at Trentham for the Stafford family,
+and an iron-manufactory now erecting in Wales, we have probably
+enumerated the whole. Such as the examples have been, they have not
+spread; and, indeed, we may say, that they have scarcely attracted any
+notice, whether for good or evil; though the publicity and singularity
+of aspect of the most accessible specimen in Piccadilly might have at
+least been expected to distinguish it, in the general eye, from the
+buildings by which it is surrounded. As to the public, we find no
+difficulty in accounting for this. This style has not been pointed out
+to them, and they have not been desired either to admire or dislike it.
+Why the architects have neglected it, they must themselves explain,
+since we believe there have been but two in that profession who have
+been concerned with the buildings to which we have alluded, the last
+named of these being an attempt of a dillettante in the art. As to the
+specimens where it has been thought fit to introduce the Egyptian window
+or doorway in churches of a Greek design, we consider the attempt faulty
+and censurable. This is a false and misplaced ambition after novelty,
+which marks far too much of what has recently been effected in our new
+churches.--_Westminster Review._
+
+
+_Coinage._
+
+Coins are generally completed by one blow of the coining-press. These
+presses are worked in the Royal Mint by machinery, so contrived that
+they shall strike, upon an average, 60 blows in a minute; the blank
+piece, previously properly prepared and annealed, being placed between
+the dies by part of the same mechanism. The number of pieces which may
+be struck by a single die of good steel, properly hardened and duly
+tempered, not unfrequently amounts at the Mint to between 3 and 400,000.
+There are eight presses at the Mint, frequently at work ten hours a day,
+each press producing 3,600 pieces per hour; but making allowance for
+occasional stoppages, the daily progress of each press may be reckoned
+at 30,000 pieces; the eight presses, therefore, will furnish a diurnal
+average of 240,000 pieces.--_Quarterly Journal._
+
+
+_The Ornithorynous._
+
+This remarkable animal, which forms the link between the bird and beast,
+has a bill like a duck, and paws webbed similar to that bird, but legs
+and body like those of a quadruped, covered with thick, coarse hair,
+with a broad tail to steer by. It abounds in the rivers of New Holland,
+and may be seen bobbing to the top every now and then, to breathe, like
+a seal, then diving again in quest of its prey. It is believed to lay
+eggs, as a nest with eggs in it of a peculiar appearance was some time
+ago found. It bears a claw on the inside of its foot, having a tube
+therein, through which it emits a poisonous fluid into the wounds which
+the claw inflicts; as, when assailed, it strikes its paws together, and
+fastens upon its enemy like a crab.--_Cunningham's New South
+Wales._
+
+
+_Sheep_
+
+Are bred to an immense extent in New South Wales. In 1813, the number of
+sheep in the colony amounted to 6,514; in 1821, to 119,777. The
+exportation of wool to England during the last year exceeded a million
+of pounds, and at the same rate of increase, in 1840, will reach to
+between 30 and 40 millions of pounds. Bullocks are recommended for
+draught in preference to horses, and the speed of a well-taught, lively,
+strong bullock is little short of that of a horse.--_Ibid._
+
+
+_Garden Rhubarb._
+
+To force garden rhubarb, sow the seed on a rich moist border in the
+beginning of April. Thin the young plants during the summer; in the end
+of October, carefully transplant them into forcing-pots, five or six in
+each pot. Place them in a northern aspect, to recover the effect of
+their removal from the seed-bed, and in a month they are fit for
+forcing.
+
+
+_American Canals._
+
+The canals are the most striking internal improvements in the United
+States. The Great Erie canal is 360 miles in length, with an average
+breadth of 40 feet. It connects the great line of lakes with the ocean
+by the Hudson. Another to connect the Hudson with Lake Champlain is also
+complete. Above 2,000,000_l._ have been expended on them; and the
+annual returns from the tolls alone have already amounted to
+120,000_l._ In the state of Ohio, another canal is in progress,
+almost equal in magnitude to the Erie canal. On the rivers which it
+connects with the lakes, there is a steam-boat navigation of 5,000
+miles. In Pennsylvania, the Schuylkill navigation works comprise an
+extent of 108 miles, of which 62 are canal, and 46 the river made
+navigable. These works are complete. The Union canal, a line of 74
+miles, to connect the Schuylkill with the Susqueannah, is in progress,
+and will be completed within the present year. These, however, are but a
+few of the gigantic strides which America is making in the march of
+nations.
+
+
+_Caledonian Canal._
+
+Between August 1, 1826, and August 1, 1827, 212 vessels have passed
+through the Caledonian canal from sea to sea. 295 vessels have made
+partial passages through one end of the canal, to and from various
+ports; 74 boats, not above 15 tons burden each, have been employed in
+the carriage of articles to the fishery stations; and 91 steam-boats
+have passed through the canal, all within the period abovementioned.
+
+
+_Medicine._
+
+A respectable contemporary journal gives the following calculations on
+the relative state of the medical profession in London and Paris. The
+French have long objected to the multitude of our professors, and the
+drugs they employ; and it would seem by this comparative statement that
+their objection is not ill-founded:--
+
+In _London_ there are 174 physicians, or 1 physician to 700
+inhabitants; 1,000 surgeons, or 1 surgeon to 1,200 inhabitants; 2,000
+apothecaries, or 1 apothecary to 600 inhabitants.
+
+In _Paris_ there is 1 physician to 1,300 inhabitants; 1 surgeon to
+6,000 inhabitants; 1 apothecary to 4,450 inhabitants.
+
+Being in the proportion of 1 physician in Paris to 5 in London; 5
+surgeons in London to 1 in Paris; 7 apothecaries in London to 1 in
+Paris.
+
+Supposing, on an average, each of these persons to receive
+1,000_l._ a year, the whole income of the medical profession in
+London would be 3,474,000_l._ annually.
+
+
+_Poor Rates._
+
+About the close of the seventeenth century, the poors' rates of England
+and Wales were stated, on the authority of parliamentary documents, to
+amount to 665,362_l._; and the population of both to 5,475,000. In
+1821, the poors' rates amounted to about 7,000,000_l._, and the
+population to 12,218,000. Dividing the greater rates 7,000,000_l._
+by the lesser 665,362_l._, we have about 10-1/2 to 1, which is the
+proportion in which the poors' rates have increased in the last 127
+years. And dividing the greater population 12,218,000 by the lesser
+5,475,000, give about 2-1/2 to 1, which is the proportionate increase of
+population during that space of time.
+
+
+_Van Dieman's Land Wasp._
+
+The wasp of Van Dieman's Land is a smaller but much more splendid insect
+than the English wasp; it has four orange-coloured wings, and horns and
+legs of the same colour, a hard body, and a formidable sting. It is an
+inhabitant of the forest, and is at war with a spider that makes its
+hole in the sandy places, and which is armed with a cap or door, which
+it pulls over on the approach of its enemy, or in rainy weather. The
+wasp hovers close over the ground, prowling from one hole to another.
+Having seized its prey, it immediately kills the spider, and carries it
+off to its own hole, when it is said to devour the limbs, and to deposit
+its egg in the body to be hatched by the putrefaction that ensues, and
+which furnishes food for the young insect produced.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+
+No. XLVIII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HIGHLAND SUPERSTITION.
+
+
+There is an extraordinary superstition connected with the M'Alister
+family. Ages ago,--for I have never yet got a date from a Highlander as
+to the transactions of long past times,--but many generations back, in
+the days of a chief of great renown in the clan, called M'Alister More,
+either from his deeds or his stature, there was a skirmish with a
+neighbouring clan that ended fatally for the M'Alisters, though in the
+contest at the time they were victorious.
+
+A party of their young men set out once upon a foray; they marched over
+the hills for several hours, and at last descended into a little glen,
+which was rented as a black cattle farm by a widow woman and her two
+sons. The sons were absent from home on some excursion, and had carried
+most of their servants with them, so that the M'Alisters met with no
+resistance in their attempts to raise the cattle. They hunted every
+corner of the glen, secured every beast, and, in spite of the tears of
+the widow, they drove her herd away. When the sons returned, and heard
+the story of the raid, they collected a strong party of their friends,
+and crossing the hill secretly by night, surprised the few M'Alisters
+who were left in charge of the spoil, vanquished them easily, and
+recovered their cattle. Such a slight to the power of M'Alister More
+could not go unpunished. The chief himself headed the band which set out
+to vindicate the honour of the clan. He marched steadily over the rugged
+mountains, and arrived towards sunset in the little glen. To oppose the
+force he brought with him, would have been fruitless; the sons and their
+few adherents were speedily overpowered, and led bound before him; they
+were small in number, but they were gallant and brave, and yielded only
+to superior strength. M'Alister More was always attended by four and
+twenty bowmen, who acted as his body guard, his jury, his judges, and
+his executioners. They erected on the instant a gibbet before the door
+of the wretched mother, and there her sons were hung.
+
+Her cottage was built at the foot of a craggy, naked rock, on a strip of
+green pasture land, and beside a mountain torrent; the gibbet was a few
+paces from it, on the edge of the shelf; and the setting rays of a
+bright summer sun fell on the bodies of the widow's sons. They were
+still warm when she came and stood beside them. She raised her eyes on
+the stern chief, and his many followers, and slowly and steadily she
+pronounced her curse:--
+
+"Shame, shame on you, M'Alister! You have slain them that took but their
+own; you have slain them you had injured! You have murdered the
+fatherless, and spoiled the widow! but he that is righteous shall judge
+between us, and the curse of God shall cling to you for this for ever.
+The sun rose on me the proud mother of two handsome boys; he sets on
+their stiffening bodies!" and she raised her arm, as she spoke, towards
+the gibbet. Her eye kindled, and her form dilated, as she turned again
+to her vindictive foe. "I suffer now," said she, "but you shall surfer
+always. You have made me childless, but you and yours shall be heirless
+for ever. Long may their name last, and wide may their lands be; but
+never, while the name and the lands continue, shall there be a son to
+the house of M'Alister!"
+
+The curse of the bereaved widow clung steadily to the house of
+M'Alister. The lands passed from heir to heir, but no laird had ever
+been succeeded by a son. Often had the hopes of the clan been raised;
+often had they thought for years that the punishment of their ancestor's
+cruelty was to be continued to them no longer--that the spirits of the
+widow's sons were at length appeased; but M'Alister More was to suffer
+for ever; the hopes of his house might blossom, but they always faded.
+It was in the reign of the good Queen Anne that they flourished for the
+last time; they were blighted then, and for ever.
+
+The laird and the lady had had several daughters born to them in
+succession, and at last a son: he grew up to manhood in safety--the
+pride of his people, and the darling of his parents; giving promise of
+every virtue that could adorn his rank. He had been early contracted in
+marriage to the daughter of another powerful chieftain in the North, and
+the alliance, which had been equally courted by both families, was
+concluded immediately on the return of the young laird from his travels.
+There was a great intercourse in those days with France--most of the
+young highland chiefs spent a year or two in that country, many of them
+were entirely educated there, but that was not the case with the young
+heir of M'Alister; he had only gone abroad to finish his breeding after
+coming to man's estate. It was shortly before the first rebellion in the
+15, to speak as my informant spoke to me--and being young, and of an
+ardent nature, he was soon attracted to the court of the old Pretender,
+whose policy it was to gain every Scotch noble, by every means, to his
+views. The measures he took succeeded with the only son of
+M'Alister:--he returned to his native country, eager for the approaching
+contest, pledged heart and hand to his exiled sovereign. In the troubles
+which broke out almost immediately on the death of the queen, he and his
+father took different sides; the old laird fortified his high tower, and
+prepared to defend it to the last, against the enemies of the House of
+Hanover. The young laird bade adieu to his beautiful wife, and attended
+by a band of his young clansmen, easily gained to aid a cause so
+romantic, he secretly left his duchess, and joined the army of the
+Pretender at Perth.
+
+The young wife had lived with her husband, at a small farm on the
+property, a little way up the glen, a mile or two from the castle. But
+when her husband deserted her, she was removed by her father-in-law to
+his own house for greater security. Months rolled away, and the various
+fortunes of the rebels were reported, from time to time, in the remote
+glen where the chief strength of the M'Alisters lay. News did not travel
+swiftly then, and often they heard what was little to be relied on, so
+much did hope or fear magnify any slight success, or any ill-fortune. At
+last, there came a sough of a great battle having been fought somewhere
+in the west country, which had decided the fate of the opposing parties.
+The young laird and his valiant band had turned the fortune of the day.
+Argyle was defeated and slain, and the Earl of Marr was victorious;--King
+James had arrived, and was to be crowned at Scone, and all Scotland was
+his own.
+
+It was on a cold, bleak, stormy, November evening, when this news was
+brought, by a Brae-Marr-man, to the laird's tower. He was wise and
+prudent, and he would give no ear to a tale so lightly told: but his
+beautiful daughter-in-law, sanguine for her husband's sake, cherished
+reports that brightened all her prospects. She retired to her chamber,
+almost hoping that another day might see it enlivened by his presence,
+without whom life to her was a dreary blank. She was lodged in a small
+apartment on the third story of the tower, opening straight from a
+narrow passage at the head of the winding stairs. It had two small
+windows, which looked on the paved courtyard of the castle; and beyond,
+to what was then a bare meadow, and the river. The moon gave little
+light, and she turned from the gloomy prospect to the ample hearth, on
+which the bright logs were blazing. Her heart was full, and her mind so
+restless, that after her maidens left her, she continued to pace up and
+down her little chamber, unwilling to retire to rest. At length she
+threw herself upon her bed, exhausted by the eagerness of her feelings,
+and in the agitation of her ideas she forgot to say her prayers. Yet
+she slept, and calmly, but her sleep was short. She awakened suddenly,
+and starting half up, listened anxiously for some minutes. The wind blew
+strongly round the old tower, and a thick shower of sleet was driving
+fast against the casements; but, in the pauses of the storm, she thought
+she heard distinctly, though at a distance, the tramp of a horse at his
+speed. She bent forward and watched the sound. It came nearer--it grew
+louder--it gallopped over the hard ground, and approached with the
+swiftness of lightning. She gasped and trembled--it was he, it must be
+he,--she knew the long firm bound of her husband's charger. Its rapid
+feet struck loud on the pavement of the courtyard below, and in an
+instant dropt dead below the great door of the castle. She had neither
+power to breathe, nor to move, but she listened for the call of the
+porter's name, and the jar of the chains and bolts which secured the
+door. She heard nothing--she grew bewildered, and tried to rise to call
+for succour--but a spell was on her to keep her down. At length, from
+the very bottom of the winding stair, came the sound of a firm foot,
+ascending regularly step by step, without a pause in its motion, the
+several stories. It rang on the stone passage adjoining her apartment,
+and stept with a loud tread at her door. No lock was turned, no hinge
+was opened, but a rushing wind swept through the room. Her fire had
+burned away, and she had neither lamp nor taper by her, but as she
+started up in an agony of terror, the heavy logs in her wide chimney
+fell of themselves, and lighting by the fall, sent forth a blaze into
+the chamber. Almost frantic with fear, she seized with one hand the
+curtains of her bed, and darting a look of horror, she saw, seated by
+the hearth, a figure in martial array, without a head; it held its arms
+out towards her, and slowly rose. The scream she tried to utter was
+suffocated in her throat--she fell motionless; the last sight she saw
+was an eagle's plume steeped in blood, cast at her feet by the advancing
+spectre--the last sound she heard was the loud crash of every door in
+the castle. When her maidens came to her in the morning, she was
+extended in a swoon upon the floor. She lay for hours cold and
+insensible, and they thought that she was gone for ever. After many
+trials she came at last to herself, but she recovered only to hear the
+true tale of the battle of Sheriff-muir.
+
+The Chevalier de St. George and the Earl of Marr had fled the country;
+many of their noble adherents had been fortunate enough to secure a
+retreat with them to France; some had been pardoned; a few had been
+taken in arms, and these few were executed; amongst them was the young
+heir of M'Alister--_Inspector._
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+
+SADDLED AND BRIDLED.
+
+BY A. CUNNINGHAM.
+
+
+  Saddled and bridled,
+   And booted was he--
+  A plume at his helmet,
+   A sword at his knee;--
+  Toom hame came the saddle
+   At evening to me,
+  And hame came his steed--
+   But hame never came he!
+
+  Down came his grey father,
+   Sobbing fu' sair;
+  Down came his auld mother,
+   Tearing her hair:
+  Down came his sweet wife,
+   Wi' her bonnie bairns three--
+  Ane at her bosom,
+   And twa at her knee!
+
+  There stood his fleet steed,
+   All foaming and hot;
+  There shrieked his sweet wife,
+   And sank on the spot,--
+  There stood his grey father,
+   Weeping fu' free,
+  For hame came his steed,
+   But hame never came he!
+
+_Literary Magnet._
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+
+TOBACCO-PIPE CONTROVERSY.
+
+
+A furious, and yet unappeased, controversy has lately raged in the
+newspapers, upon the question of the filthy nuisance of smoking
+tobacco--segars or pipe; and as in all other cases when men allow their
+passions to be heated by opposition, has run in great personalities
+between gentlemen who sign themselves Viator and Tabatiere. Whole
+columns of the newspapers have been occupied in discussing, in the first
+place, whether a man who smokes at all is a beast or not; and secondly,
+the argument has run into the comparative beastliness of smoking and
+snuffing. A future Hume, on looking over the journals, may thus sum up
+the merits of the case. About this period great hostilities arose
+between the advocates of segars and their opponents, which occupied the
+attention of thousands, who took a lively interest in the successful
+issue of the controversy. By the advocates for the practice it was urged
+with some plausibility of statement, that as to the pleasure of a segar,
+none but those who used them ought to express an opinion upon the
+point--that to appeal to experience, tobacco was in more universal
+use among nations than bread corn--that it had been known to stay the
+plague, and was the friend and companion of rich and poor. These
+statements were met with undisguised contempt, and it was retaliated,
+that the practice of using tobacco either by smoke or snuff, was a
+nuisance to others, thus infringing the very primary principles of civil
+liberty--that it led to drunkenness and debauch--that snuff spoiled the
+complexion--stopped the nose to the perception of odours--and that as to
+the ladies, they would positively spurn any approach of familiar
+friendship from a snuff-taker. This raised the concealed anger of the
+snuff-takers, who had hitherto maintained a stubborn neutrality while
+the argument was kept to smoke. They replied both by wit and
+invective--they affirmed snuff to have a moral use--"Dust to
+dust"--would remind them of the brevity of life--that the king and
+ministers patronized the habit, and gave away £10,000 worth of
+snuff-boxes in every year--that as to the nose being blockaded, that was
+a happy circumstance to London residents, and enabled them to acquire
+the French accent more naturally--that as to the assumed yellowness of
+complexion complained of, it was only studious and Werter-like--and that
+as to the ladies refusing to be saluted by snuff-takers, that was a
+thing which modesty and prudence required them to sneeze at. The
+historian might add by way of reflection, that nothing could more
+clearly show the national freedom from anxious cares, when it was
+thought that the public took interest in the comparative merits of
+blackened teeth or a snuffy pocket-handkerchief.--_The Inspector._
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+
+FASHIONABLE NOVELS.
+
+
+Of the slip-slop reading, under this denomination, with which the town
+has lately been inundated, the following is a fair specimen:--
+
+_Hyde Nugent._--The book is made up completely of the gossip of
+drawing-rooms, hotels, dinners, and balls. As to the hero, if any one
+has a grain of curiosity about him--gratify it. Hyde is the son of a man
+of family and fortune; he goes to Oxford, fights a duel, and is
+expelled--prevails upon a marquess to break the matter to the
+father--falls in love with the marquess's daughter--goes large and loose
+about town--is every where introduced--and one of every party.
+Notwithstanding certain warnings, and his own disgusts, he frequents
+Crockford's--gets plucked, and moreover deeply involved with the Jews.
+In the meanwhile he does not neglect the marquess's daughter. They soon
+come to an understanding. He is irresistible--she is an houri. But the
+consciousness of his embarrassments press heavily upon him, and he is on
+the point of taking some desperate step, when he is summoned to attend a
+friend in a duel, who kills his antagonist; and he and Hyde are obliged
+to fly. This rescues him from his gaming associates; though he gets
+among others at Lisbon, and narrowly escapes assassination. On his
+return to England, his sister has married a duke's eldest son, and all
+the family visit the said duke's, and there also assemble the aforesaid
+marquess and his beautiful daughter.
+
+But now comes forward more than before, an officer of the guards--a
+guardsman is now become indispensable--who is also in love with the
+marquess's daughter, and being not at all scrupulous of the means of
+accomplishing his point--a very worthless person in short--he plays
+Iago, and pours into the lady's ear the tale of Hyde's gambling
+propensities, and his deep involvements; and moreover of a lady whose
+affection he had wantonly won, and wantonly cut, and who was now
+actually dying for him. This, however, was not all true; the lady
+alluded to was the daughter of his father's friend and neighbour; she
+and Hyde had been brought up together from children, and played and
+romped together, and once, before Hyde went to Oxford, he had forced
+from her a kiss. The poor fond girl had treasured up the kiss, and Hyde
+had thought no more of her, or of it. She, however, pined away, and let
+concealment feed on her damask cheek; and at this time was at Brighton
+for change of air. She has a brother, a lancer; he hears, through Hyde's
+precious rival, of the state of his sister, and for the first time, of
+the cause. He flies to the duke's--though deeply occupied, at the
+moment, in seducing the affections of a married woman in Ireland--and
+calls upon Hyde to meet him forthwith. Hyde's rival is the lancer's
+second. Hyde falls, and as he is borne bleeding to the house, Lady
+Georgina, the marquess's daughter, meets him. The shock kills her
+outright, and the story stops; but hints are given that he slowly
+recovers, and by still slower degrees is brought to think of the
+charming girl, who had treasured his boyish kiss, and marries.--_Monthly
+Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MAN-EATING SOCIETY.
+
+
+There is a horrible institution among some of the Indian tribes, which
+furnishes a powerful illustration of their never-tiring love of
+vengeance. It is called the Man-Eating Society, and it is the duty of
+its associates to devour such prisoners as are preserved and delivered
+to them for that purpose. The members of this society belong to a
+particular family, and the dreadful inheritance descends to all the
+children, male and female. Its duties cannot be dispensed with, and the
+sanctions of religion are added to the obligations of immemorial usage.
+The feast is considered a solemn ceremony, at which the whole tribe is
+collected as actors or spectators. The miserable victim is fastened to a
+stake, and burned at a slow fire, with all the refinements of cruelty
+which savage ingenuity can invent. There is a traditionary ritual, which
+regulates, with revolting precision, the whole course of procedure at
+these ceremonies. The institution has latterly declined, but we know
+those who have seen and related to us the incidents which occurred on
+these occasions, when white men were sacrificed and consumed. The chief
+of the family and principal members of the society among the Miames,
+whose name was White Skin, we have seen, and with feelings of loathing,
+excited by a narrative of his atrocities, amid the scenes when they
+occurred..--_North American Review._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR;
+
+AND
+
+LITERARY NOTICES OF
+
+_NEW WORKS._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SAILING ROUND CONSTANTINOPLE.
+
+
+Hiring a _peramidias_, or one of the beautiful boats which ply on
+the canal, I proceeded, accompanied by my janissary and dragoman, to
+make the circuit of the city, by rowing round the Seraglio Point into
+the sea of Marmora, then landing at the Seven Towers, and walking across
+the isthmus by the famous wall to the Golden Horn, where we again
+embarked, and returned to Pera. On passing the Seraglio Point, we
+remarked a number of cannon of different forms, ranged apparently more
+for effect than defence, as a sloop of war with a commanding breeze
+might dislodge the men; such is their exposed situation. Although two of
+the guns appeared to be of the calibre of sixteen or seventeen inches,
+and calculated to throw some immense stone-balls, which we observed near
+them, others were of small calibre, but having twelve barrels; over
+them, were suspended some very large bones, about which I could not get
+even a marvellous account, both my companions declaring honestly their
+ignorance of their history. The current sent us, with astonishing
+rapidity, round the Point, (on which men are always stationed with small
+lines to track boats upwards,) and we soon landed under the Seven
+Towers. The town on the west side, towards the sea presents a poor and
+miserable appearance. We were allowed just to enter the outer court of
+the castle, as it may be more properly called than the Seven Towers,
+because there are only two conspicuous towers, and I suspect that the
+term Seven Towers was originally applied to the whole wall which runs
+across the isthmus, and which has seven gates, over each of which was
+formerly placed a tower.
+
+Leaving the castle, we proceeded along the great road which runs
+parallel to the venerable and highly interesting triple walls, said to
+have been begun by Constantine, and enlarged by the second Theodosius.
+They consist of alternate courses of large flat bricks and stones, in
+some parts perfect, with their battlements and towers; in others partly
+destroyed by earthquakes or time--the whole rendered venerable by thick
+ivy or shading trees. The height of the walls is such, that, when near
+them, the town is completely hid; and as the ditches are well cultivated
+as gardens or orchards, and the country beyond is clear of houses, it is
+difficult to fancy one's self so near the thickly populated city, once
+the mistress of the eastern world. The distance across the isthmus to
+the Golden Horn, or harbour, is about four miles, and the walls are
+uninterrupted by the before-mentioned gates. At about two-thirds of the
+distance, we came to Baloucli, where, in the ruins of a chapel dedicated
+by Justinian to the Virgin, is a fountain or well of excellent cold
+water, said to contain fish, black on one side and red on the other, or,
+according to tradition, half fried.
+
+The Golden Horn, or harbour, terminates by the Valley of Sweet Waters,
+the sides of which are adorned with pleasure-grounds, and an imperial
+kiosk, near which, with extremely bad taste, art and expense have been
+exerted to the utmost to constrain and prune nature, so as to destroy
+the luxuriance and wildness of the rivulet and its banks, by giving them
+the appearance of a straight canal, passing through an avenue of formal
+trees, and occasionally over flights of marble steps, intended to
+represent cataracts. On gala days, this spot is the scene of festivity
+and enjoyment for persons of every sect; and before the last dispersion
+and persecution of the Greeks, is said, in consequence of the number of
+their women who frequented it, to have presented extraordinary animation
+and attraction. The sultan was often to be found enjoying the sight.
+Beyond this valley is another, where his horses are turned out to graze
+in the spring, and which takes place with extraordinary ceremony and
+pomp. So much consequence was formerly attached to the noble animals,
+that petitioners address themselves to the imperial stirrup. Between
+the Valley of the Sweet Waters and the walls, is the village of Eyub,
+pleasantly situated, adjoining to which are several palaces, belonging
+to members of the imperial family. But the most remarkable and
+interesting monument is the mosque or tomb of Eyub, (a disciple of
+Mahomet, who was killed in the first siege of Constantinople, in 608,)
+erected by Mahomet II. after the capture of the city, as is said, in
+consequence of the place of his sepulchre having been revealed to one of
+his favourites in a dream; he immediately ordered an excavation to be
+made, and very soon, either by hazard or imposture, a marble slab was
+discovered.
+
+The Valley of the Sweet Waters, Eyub, and the country immediately behind
+the walls, may be considered the only pretty spots near Constantinople;
+for beyond them, and in other directions, nothing is to be seen but an
+expansion of unpopulated, and, at this time, sunburnt downs.
+
+_Jones's Travels_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CORAL ISLAND.
+
+
+  On a stony eminence, that stood
+  Girt with inferior ridges, at the point,
+  Where light and darkness meet in spectral gloom.
+  Midway between the height and depth of ocean,
+  I mark'd a whirlpool in perpetual play,
+  As though the mountain were itself alive,
+  And catching prey on every side, with feelers
+  Countless as sunbeams, slight as gossamer:
+  Ere long transfigured, each fine film became
+  An independent creature, self-employd,
+  Yet but an agent in one common work,
+  The slim of all their individual labours.
+  Shap'less they seem'd, but endless shape assumed;
+  Elongated like worms, they writhed and shrunk
+  Their tortuous bodies to grotesque dimensions;
+  Compress'd like wedges, radiated like stars,
+  Branching like sea-weed, whirl'd in dazzling rings;
+  Subtle and variable as flickering flames,
+  Sight could not trace their evanescent changes,
+  Nor comprehend their motions, till minute
+  And curious observation caught the clew
+  To this live labyrinth,--where every one,
+  By instinct taught, perform'd its little task;
+  --To build its dwelling and its sepulchre,
+  From its own essence exquisitely modell'd;
+  There breed, and die, and leave a progeny,
+  Still multiplied beyond the reach of numbers.
+  To frame new cells and tombs; then breed and die,
+  As all their ancestors had done,--and rest,
+  Hermetically sealed, each in its shrine,
+  A statue in this temple of oblivion!
+  Millions of millions thus, from age to age,
+  With simplest skill, and toil unwearyable.
+  No moment and no movement unimproved,
+  Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread,
+  To swell the heightening, brightening gradual mound,
+  By marvellous structure climbing tow'rds the day.
+  Each wrought alone, yet altogether wrought,
+  Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments,
+  By which a hand invisible was rearing
+  A new creation in the secret deep.
+  Omnipotence wrought in them, with them, by them;
+  Hence what Omnipotence alone could do,
+  Worms did. I saw the living pile ascend.
+  The mausoleum of its architects,
+  Still dying upwards as their labours closed:
+  Slime the material, but the slime was turn'd
+  To adamant, by their petrific touch;
+  Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives,
+  Their masonry imperishable. All
+  Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest,
+  By nice economy of Providence
+  Were overruled to carry on the process.
+  Which out of water brought forth solid rock.
+
+  "Atom by atom thus the burthen grew,
+  Even like an infant in the womb, till Time
+  Deliver'd ocean of that monstrous birth,
+  --A coral island, stretching east and west,
+  In God's own language to its parent saying,
+  'Thus far, no farther, shalt thou go; and here
+  Shall thy proud waves be stay'd:'--A point at first
+  It peer'd above those waves; a point so small,
+  I just perceived it, fix'd where all was floating:
+  And when a bubble cross'd it, the blue film
+  Expanded like a sky above the speck;
+  That speck became a hand-breadth; day and night
+  It spread, accumulated, and ere long
+  Presented to my view a dazzling plain.
+  White as the moon amid the sapphire sea;
+  Bare at low water, and as still as death,
+  But when the tide came gurgling o'er the surface,
+  'Twas like a resurrection of the dead:
+  From graves innumerable, punctures fine
+  In the close coral, capillary swarms
+  Of reptiles, horrent as Medusa's snakes,
+  Cover'd the bald-pate reef; then all was life,
+  And indefatigable industry:
+  The artisans were twisting to and fro.
+  In idle-seeming convolutions; yet
+  They never vanish'd with the ebbing surge,
+  Till pellicle on pellicle, and layer
+  On layer, was added to the growing mass.
+  Ere long the reef o'ertopt the spring-flood's height,
+  And mock'd the billows when they leapt upon it,
+  Unable to maintain their slippery hold,
+  And falling down in foam-wreaths round its verge.
+  Steep were the flanks, sharp precipices,
+  Descending to their base in ocean gloom.
+  Chasms few, and narrow and irregular,
+  Form'd harbours, safe at once and perilous,--
+  Safe for defence, but perilous to enter.
+  A sea lake shone amidst the fossil isle,
+  Reflecting in a ring its cliffs and caverns,
+  With heaven itself seen like a lake below."
+
+_Montgomery's Pelican Island._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+
+"I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's stuff."--_Wotton_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TAKING PHYSIC.
+
+
+David Hartley eat two hundred pounds weight of soap to cure the stone,
+but died of that disease. Bishop Berkeley drank a butt of tar-water.
+Meyer, in a course of chemical neutralization, swallowed 1,200 pounds of
+crabs' eyes. In the German Ephemerides, the case of a person is
+described who had taken so much elixir of vitriol, that his keys were
+rusted in his pocket by the transudation of the acid through the pores
+of his skin; another patient is said to have taken argentum nitratum in
+solution till he became blue. _Throw physic to the dogs!_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MARRIAGE.
+
+
+There are two cardinal points in a man's life, which determine his
+happiness or his misery; these are his birth and his marriage. It is in
+vain for a man to be born fortunate if he be unfortunate in his
+marriage.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PERVERSENESS OF FOREIGNERS.
+
+
+"What a rum language they talk in this place!" said an English sailor
+the other day to his companion, who arrived a few days later than the
+speaker himself had done at Rochefort--"Why, they call a cabbage a
+_shoe_--(choux!)" "They are a d--d set!" was the reply, "why can't
+they call it a cabbage!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+In a newspaper, dated January 31, 1746, we find the following theatrical
+announcement:--
+
+"We are certainly informed that on Monday next, at the Theatre Royal,
+Drury-Lane, will be performed _The Lying Valet_, and that Mr.
+Steevens, at the particular desire of some persons of quality, is to act
+the part of _Justice Guttle_; in which character he will devour
+_twelve pounds of plumb cake at three mouthfuls_."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DOUBLE DEALING.
+
+
+Commercial morality is an unaccountable kind of thing. In the report of
+a recent trial for the robbery of a watch, it is stated that
+
+"Mr. Beauchamp identified the watch. He was sure that it was not sold;
+he knew that circumstance from his books; and also because he had the
+watch for four years, not being able to recommend it; _he would not
+have shown it to a lady, but he would have been glad to have sold it to
+a gentleman_. There was a private mark put on it which meant nine
+guineas."
+
+There is honour, it is said, among thieves. Is there gallantry in
+imposition?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+EIKON BASILIKE.
+
+
+Epigram on the publication by Dr. Wordsworth, master of Trinity College,
+Cambridge, of his inquiry, "Who wrote Eikon Basilike?" published by
+Rivington. (A parody.)
+
+  Who wrote "Who wrote Eikon Basilike?"
+    I, says the master of trinity,--
+    I am a doctor o' divinity,
+  And I wrote "Who wrote Eikon Basilike?"
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TIME.
+
+
+Sir William Jones, so well known for his great acquisitions in oriental
+literature, was no less remarkable for his piety.--A friend reciting Sir
+Edward Coke's couplet of
+
+  "Six hours to sleep, in law's grave study six,
+   Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix,"
+
+
+he subjoined, rather say,
+
+  Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
+  Ten to the world allot, and _all to Heav'n_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+RIVAL SINGERS.
+
+
+Dr. Arne was once asked by two vocalists of Covent Garden theatre, to
+decide which of them sung the best. The day being appointed, both
+parties exerted themselves to the utmost, and when they had finished,
+the Dr. addressing the first, said, "As for you, sir, you are the
+_worst singer_ I ever heard in my life." "Ah! ah! (said the other,
+exulting,) I knew I should win my wager." "Stop sir," (says the Dr.) "I
+have a word to say to you before you go;--as for you, sir, you _cannot
+sing at all_."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HOW TO EVADE PROOF.
+
+
+  An Irishman, charg'd with a crime,
+  Was told it would be brought home to him:
+  "No, no," quoth Pat, "it sha'nt this time--
+  I'll _keep away from home_--and do 'em."
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near
+Somerset-House,) and sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827
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+ <hr class="full" />
+  <span class="pagenum"><a id="page265" name="page265"></a>[pg 265]</span>
+
+  <h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+  OF<br />
+  LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <table width="100%" summary="Banner">
+    <tr>
+      <td align="left"><b>VOL. X, NO. 279.]</b></td>
+      <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1827.</b></td>
+      <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+    </tr>
+  </table>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/279-1.png"><img width="100%" src="images/279-1.png"
+alt="Brambletye House." /></a>
+</div>
+
+<h2>
+	BRAMBLETYE HOUSE.
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+On the borders of Ashdown Forest, in the county of Sussex, stands the
+above picturesque ruin of Brambletye House, whose lettered fame may be
+dated from the publication of Mr. Smith's novel of that name, in
+January, 1826. The ruin has since attracted scores of tourists, as we
+were, on our recent visit, informed by the occupier of the adjoining
+farm-house; which circumstance coupled with the high literary success of
+Mr. Smith's novel, has induced us to select Brambletye House for the
+illustration of our present number.
+</p>
+<p>
+Brambletye, or, as it is termed in Doomsday Book, Brambertie House,
+after the conquest, became the property of the Earl of Mortain and
+Cornwall, forming part of the barony then conferred upon him, and
+subsequently denominated the honour of the eagle. Passing into
+possession of the Andehams, Saint Clares, and several others, it came
+into the occupation of the Comptons, towards the beginning of the
+seventeenth century; and from the arms of that family impaling those of
+Spencer, still remaining over the principal entrance, with the date 1631
+in a lozenge, it is conjectured that the old
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page266" name="page266"></a>[pg 266]</span>
+
+moated edifice (represented in the annexed vignette) which had hitherto
+been the residence of the proprietors, was abandoned in the reign of
+James I., by Sir Henry Compton, who built the extensive and solid
+baronial mansion, commonly known by the name of Brambletye House.
+</p>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+<a href="images/279-2.png"><img width="100%" src="images/279-2.png"
+alt="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+"From their undaunted courage and inflexible loyalty to the Stuarts,"
+says the novelist, "the Comptons had been heavy sufferers, both in purse
+and person, during the eventful progress of the civil wars. The Earl of
+Northampton, the head of the family, and nephew to Sir Henry, the
+presumed builder of Brambletye, had four sons, officers under him,
+whereof three charged in the field at the battle of Hopton Heath, and
+the eldest, Lord Compton, was wounded. The Earl himself, refusing to
+take quarter from the rascally Roundheads, as he indignantly termed
+them, even when their swords were at his throat, was put to death in the
+same battle; and the successor to his title, with one of his brothers,
+finally accompanied the royal family in their exile. Sir John Compton, a
+branch of this family, having preserved much of his property from the
+committee of sequestration, displayed rather more splendour than fell to
+the lot of most of the cavaliers who took an equally conspicuous part
+against the parliament armies. Although never capable of any regular
+defence, yet the place being hastily fortified, refused the summons of
+the parliamentarian colonel, Okey, by whom it Was invested; but it was
+speedily taken, when sad havoc was committed by the soldiery, all the
+armorial bearings, and every symbol of rank and gentility, being
+wantonly mutilated or destroyed."
+</p>
+<p>
+In the time of the commonwealth, Brambletye was the focus of many a
+cavalier conspiracy. "From its not being a place of any strength or
+notice, it was imagined that Brambletye might better escape the keen and
+jealous watchfulness, which kept the protector's eye ever fixed upon the
+strong holds and defensible mansions of the nobility and gentry; while
+its proximity to the metropolis, combined with the seclusion of its
+situation, adapted it to any enterprize which required at the same time
+secrecy, and an easy communication with the metropolis."
+</p>
+<p>
+In the novel just quoted, which is altogether a pleasant assemblage of
+historical facts, aided by the imaginative garniture of the author, the
+denouement is brought about by the explosion of a gunpowder vault which
+destroyed part of the mansion; and on the marriage of his hero and
+heroine Brambletye House was abandoned to its fate; "and the time that
+has intervened since its desertion," says our author, "combining with
+the casualty and violence by which it was originally shattered and
+dismantled, has reduced it to its present condition of a desolate and
+forlorn ruin."
+</p>
+<p>
+A visit to Brambletye was the immediate object of our journey, and
+though a distance of thirty-three miles, we considered ourselves amply
+requited by the pensive interest of the scene and its crowded
+associations. In our childhood we had been accustomed to clamber its
+ruins and tottering staircases with delight, not to say triumph;
+heedless as we then were of the historical interest attached to them.
+After a lapse of a score and &mdash;&mdash; years, the whole scene had become
+doubly attractive. A new road had been formed from East Grinstead to
+Forest Row, from which a pleasant lane wound off to Brambletye. We are
+at a loss to describe our emotions as we approached the ruin. It was
+altogether a little struggle of human suffering. Within two hundred
+years the mansion had been erected, and by turns became the seat of
+baronial splendour and of civil feuds,&mdash;of the best and basest feelings
+of mankind;&mdash;the loyalty and hospitality of cavaliers; the fanatic
+outrages of Roundheads; and ultimately of wanton desolation! The gate
+through which Colonel Lilburne and his men entered, was blocked up with
+a hurdle; and the yard where his forces were marshalled was covered with
+high flourishing grass; the towers had almost become mere shells, but
+the vaulted passages, once stored with luxuries and weapons, still
+retained much of their original freshness. What a contrast did these few
+wrecks of turbulent times present with the peaceful scene by which they
+were surrounded, viz. a farm and two water-mills&mdash;on one side displaying
+the stormy conflict of man's passion and petty desolation&mdash;and on the
+other, the humble attributes of cheerful industry. We strove to repress
+our feelings as we entered the principal porch, where by an assemblage
+of names of visiters scribbled on the walls, and not unknown to us, we
+learnt that, we were not the first to sympathize with the fate of
+Brambletye!
+</p>
+<p>
+Within these few years, through a sort of barbarous disregard for their
+associations, the lodge and the greater part of the wall represented in
+our engraving, has been pulled down! and the moated house has lately
+shared the same fate&mdash;for the sake of their materials&mdash;cupidity in which
+we rejoiced to hear the destroyers were disappointed&mdash;their intrinsic
+worth not being equal to the labour of removing them: the work of
+destruction would, however, have extended to the whole of
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page267" name="page267"></a>[pg 267]</span>
+
+the ruins had not some guardian hand interfered. It will be seen that
+the moated house was furnished with a ponderous drawbridge and other
+fortifying resources; from the licentious character of its founders it
+was <i>consequently</i> haunted many years before its removal.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In East Grinstead we learned that the Comptons were a noble family, and
+traditions of their hospitality are current amongst the oldest
+inhabitants of that town.<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a>
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	BATTLE HYMN.
+</h3>
+
+<center>
+<i>Imitated from the German of Theodore Korner.</i><a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>
+</center>
+
+<center>
+(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)
+</center>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">     Father, in mercy hear</p>
+<p class="i2">     A youthful warrior's prayer.</p>
+           <p>  Thundering cannons are roaring around me:</p>
+           <p>  Carnage and death, and destruction surround me;</p>
+<p class="i2">     God of eternal power.</p>
+<p class="i2">     Guide me in this dread hour!</p>
+<p class="i2">     Guide me in this dread hour</p>
+<p class="i2">     God of eternal power!</p>
+           <p>  Lead me, base Tyranny manfully braving,</p>
+           <p>  Onwards to where <i>Freedom's</i> banner is waving&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">     To death&mdash;or victory;</p>
+<p class="i2">     I bow to thy decree!</p>
+<p class="i2">     I bow to thy decree,</p>
+<p class="i2">     In death or victory!</p>
+           <p>  'Mid the loud din of the battle's commotion,</p>
+           <p>  When Nature smiles, or when storms rend the ocean,</p>
+<p class="i2">     Lord of the brave and just</p>
+<p class="i2">     In <i>thee</i> I'll put my trust!</p>
+<p class="i2">     In thee I'll put my trust,</p>
+<p class="i2">     Lord of the brave and just!</p>
+           <p>  On thee, the fountain of goodness relying,</p>
+           <p>  Whatever ills may come&mdash;living and dying</p>
+<p class="i2">     I will thy praise proclaim,</p>
+<p class="i2">     Blest be thy holy name.</p>
+<p class="i2">     Blest be thy holy name,</p>
+<p class="i2">     I will thy praise proclaim,</p>
+           <p>  'Tis not for worldly ends we're contending,</p>
+           <p>  <i>Liberty's</i> sacred cause we're defending,</p>
+<p class="i2">     And by thy might on high,</p>
+<p class="i2">     We'll conquer&mdash;or we'll <i>die!</i></p>
+<p class="i2">     We'll conquer&mdash;or we'll <i>die</i></p>
+<p class="i2">     By the great God on High.</p>
+           <p>  When life's red stream from my bosom is swelling,</p>
+           <p>  And the last sigh on my faint lip is dwelling,</p>
+<p class="i2">     Then Lord in mercy hear</p>
+<p class="i2">     A youthful warrior's prayer!</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<h4>
+	J.E.S.
+</h4>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	ENGLAND IN 827, 1827, 2827.
+</h3>
+
+<center>
+(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)
+</center>
+
+<p>
+One thousand years have now elapsed since Egbert laid the foundation of
+England's glory, by uniting the kingdoms of the heptarchy. What was
+England then? what is it now? what will it be in 2827?
+</p>
+<p>
+In 827, how confined her empire, how narrow her limits, how few her
+resources; the lord and his vassals the only classes of society. In
+1827, she may exclaim with the Spanish Philip, "The sun never sets upon
+my dominions." How difficult to mention the bounds of her empire, or to
+calculate the vastness of her resources! and still more difficult task
+to enumerate the gradations of society which modern refinement has
+produced. Where will this extended sway, this power, these resources,
+and these refinements be in 2827?
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  "Oh! for the glance of prophet's eye,</p>
+           <p>  To scan thy depths, futurity."</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>
+Judging by the fate of nations, they will have passed away like a
+morning cloud. Look at the fame of Nineveh levelled in the dust. Search
+for the site of Babylon, with its walls and gates, its hanging gardens
+and terraces! Contemplate the ghost of the enlightened Athens, stalking
+through the ruins of her Parthenon, her Athenaeum, or Acropolis. Examine
+the shadow of power which now remains to the mighty Rome, the empress of
+the world. Even so will it be with England; ere ten centuries have
+rolled away, her sun-like splendour will illume a western world. Our
+stately palaces and venerable cathedrals, our public edifices and
+manufactories, our paintings and sculpture, will be fruitful subjects of
+conjecture and controversy to the then learned. And a fragment of a
+pillar from St. Paul's, or a mutilated statue from Westminster, will be
+as valuable to them as a column from the Temple of Belus, or a broken
+cornice from the Temple of Theseus, is now to us!
+</p>
+
+<h4>
+D.A.H.
+</h4>
+
+<hr />
+
+
+<h3>
+	THE ROBIN.
+</h3>
+
+<center>
+(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)
+</center>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Hark to the robin&mdash;whistling clear&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  The requiem of the dying year&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">    Amidst the garden bower.</p>
+           <p>  He quits his native forest shade,</p>
+           <p>  Ere ruin stern hath there display'd</p>
+<p class="i2">    Its desolating power.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  He sings&mdash;but not the song of love&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  No,&mdash;that is for the quick'ning grove&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">    The brightly budding tree.</p>
+           <p>  And tho' we listen and rejoice;</p>
+           <p>  In melody that sweet-ton'd voice</p>
+<p class="i2">    Implores our charity.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  The birds of passage take their flight</p>
+           <p>  To other lands&mdash;of warmth and light&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">    Where orient breezes blow.</p>
+           <p>  While here the little red-breast stays,</p>
+           <p>  And sweetly warbles out his lays,</p>
+<p class="i2">    Amidst the chilling snow.</p>
+</div>
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page268" name="page268"></a>[pg 268]</span>
+
+<div class="stanza">
+           <p>  When the keen North congeals the stream</p>
+           <p>  That sparkled in the summer-beam&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">    Chink&mdash;chink&mdash;the Robin comes.</p>
+           <p>  His near approach proclaims a dearth</p>
+           <p>  Of food upon the ice-bound earth;&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">    He whistles for our crumbs.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  But, like the child of want, he hails</p>
+           <p>  Too oft where avarice prevails&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">    Devoid of charity;&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  Where hearts 'neath rich-clad bosoms glow,</p>
+           <p>  Yet never feel the inspiring throe</p>
+<p class="i2">    Of tender sympathy.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Tho' pleas'd with wildly-warbled song,</p>
+           <p>  The minstrel's life will they prolong</p>
+<p class="i2">    With food and shelter warm?</p>
+           <p>  No,&mdash;see, to shun the cruel snare,</p>
+           <p>  Again he wings the frozen air,</p>
+<p class="i2">    And dies amidst the storm.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  How sweeter far it were to see</p>
+           <p>  The bird familiar, fond, and free,</p>
+<p class="i2">    With confidence intrude;&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  To see him to the table come,</p>
+           <p>  And hear him sing o'er ev'ry crumb</p>
+<p class="i2">    A song of gratitude.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<h4>
+	C. COLE.
+</h4>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	BUYING AND SELLING THE DEVIL.
+</h3>
+
+<center>
+(<i>For the Mirror.</i><a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a>)
+</center>
+
+<p>
+"Every thing may be had for money," is an old remark, and perhaps no
+less true.
+</p>
+<p>
+There have been also proverbial sayings of buying and selling the devil;
+but that such a traffic was actually ever negociated will appear
+incredible. Blount's "Law Dictionary," under <i>Conventio</i>, gives an
+instance of a sale; it is extracted from the court rolls of the manor of
+Hatfield, near the isle of Axholme, county of York, where a curious
+gentleman searched for it and found it regularly entered. There then
+followeth an English translation for the benefit of those who do not
+understand the original language.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Curia tenta apud Hatfield die Mercurii Prov post Festum. Anno II Edw.
+III."
+</p>
+<p>
+Robert de Roderham appeared against John de Ithon, for that he had not
+kept the agreement made between them, and therefore complains, that on a
+certain day and year, at Thorne, there was an agreement between the
+aforesaid Robert and John, whereby the said John sold to the said Robert
+the devil, bound in a certain bond, for threepence farthing; and
+thereupon the said Robert delivered to the said John one farthing as
+earnest-money, by which the property of the said devil rested in the
+person of the said Robert, to have livery of the said devil on the
+fourth day next following, at which day the said Robert came to the
+aforementioned John, and asked livery of the said devil, according to
+the agreement between them made. But the said John refused to deliver
+the said devil, nor has he yet done it, &amp;c. to the grievous damage of
+the said Robert to the amount of sixty shillings; and he has therefore
+brought his suit, &amp;c.
+</p>
+<p>
+The said John came, &amp;c., and did not deny the said agreement; and
+because it appeared to the court that such a suit ought not to subsist
+among Christians, the aforesaid parties are therefore adjourned to the
+infernal regions, there to hear their judgment; and both parties were
+amerced, &amp;c.&mdash;by William de Scargell Snesclal.
+</p>
+<p>
+The above is an exact translation of the original Latin; and if this is
+inserted in your entertaining work, I will make inquiries respecting the
+proceedings.
+</p>
+
+<h4>
+W.H.H.
+</h4>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	PREVENTION OF EFFLUVIUM.
+</h3>
+
+<center>
+(<i>To the Editor of the Mirror</i>.)
+</center>
+
+<p>
+Sir,&mdash;The choruret of lime is recommended for preventing bad smells from
+water-closets, &amp;c. Can any of your correspondents oblige me and the
+public by communicating the least expensive method of preparing it ready
+for use, and also to state the proper quantity to be used?
+</p>
+
+<h4>
+C.C.C.C.
+</h4>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	NANCY LEWIS,
+</h3>
+
+<center>
+(A CASTLE BAYNARD LYRIC.)
+</center>
+
+<center>
+(<i>For the Mirror</i>.)
+</center>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  My peace is fled&mdash;I cannot rest,&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">    The tale I tell most true is;</p>
+           <p>  My heart's been stolen from my breast,</p>
+<p class="i2">    By lovely Nancy Lewis.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Fair is the blossom of the thorn,</p>
+<p class="i2">    And bright the morning dew is;</p>
+           <p>  But sweeter than the dewy morn</p>
+<p class="i2">    The smiles of Nancy Lewis.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  The eye that's sparkling black I love,</p>
+<p class="i2">    Ay, more than that which blue is;</p>
+           <p>  And thine are like two stars above,</p>
+<p class="i2">    And sloe black&mdash;Nancy Lewis.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Alas! alas! their power I feel;</p>
+<p class="i2">    My bosom pierced right through is:</p>
+           <p>  In pity, then, my bosom heal,</p>
+<p class="i2">    My charming Nancy Lewis.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Oh! bless me with thy heaven of charms,</p>
+<p class="i2">    And take a heart that true is,</p>
+           <p>  While circling life my bosom warms</p>
+<p class="i2">    In thine dear Nancy Lewis.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<h4>
+F. G&mdash;&mdash;N.
+</h4>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page269" name="page269"></a>[pg 269]</span>
+</p>
+
+<h2>
+	THE NOVELIST
+</h2>
+<h3>
+No. CXII.
+</h3>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h4>
+A MOUNTAIN STORY.
+</h4>
+
+<p>
+In one of the most picturesque parts of the western Highlands of
+Scotland stands an inn, which is much frequented by travellers. This inn
+itself adds considerably to the beauty of the landscape. It was formerly
+a manor-house; and the sedate grandeur of its appearance is in such good
+keeping with the scenes in its neighbourhood, and so little in
+accordance with its present appropriation, that travellers more commonly
+stop at the gate to inquire the way to the inn, than drive up at once
+through the green field which is spread before its windows, and its fine
+flight of stone steps. Very few dwellings are to be seen from it; and
+those few are mere cottages, chiefly inhabited by the fishermen of the
+loch. One of these cottages is my dwelling. It stands so near to the
+inn, that I can observe all that goes forward there; but it is so
+over-shadowed and hidden by trees, that I doubt not the greater
+proportion of the visiters to the inn are quite unaware that such a
+cottage is in existence; and of the thousand sketches which artists and
+amateurs have carried away with them, perhaps not one bears any trace of
+the lowly chimneys, or the humble porch of my dwelling.
+</p>
+<p>
+On one fine evening in the month of August, seven years ago, I was
+depositing my watering-pot in the tool-house, when I observed a gig
+drive up to the inn; it contained a young lady and a gentleman.
+According to my usual habit of conjecture, I settled in my own mind that
+they were husband and wife: bride and bridegroom they could not be, as
+they were in deep mourning. They seated themselves by an open window
+till it grew dark, and I saw no more of them that night. In my early
+watch the next morning, I passed them twice, and changed my opinion
+respecting them. They were evidently brother and sister: there was a
+strong resemblance between them, and a slight difference in years&mdash;the
+young man appearing to be about eighteen, his sister one or two and
+twenty. She was not handsome; but the expression of melancholy on her
+countenance, and an undefinable air of superiority about her, engaged my
+attention. The brother <i>was</i> handsome&mdash;very handsome. His features
+were fine, but their expression was finer still. He had taken off his
+hat, and I had a full view of him. What an intellect did that forehead
+bespeak! what soul was in those eyes! "Why," thought I, "does she look
+so melancholy, while leaning on the arm of such a brother?" But a glance
+at her dress let me into the cause of her sorrow. A father or a mother,
+or perhaps such another brother, has been taken from her. Whatever the
+cause of their common grief might be, it seemed only to knit them more
+closely together; for never did I see a brother and sister so attached.
+They were inseparable: and during the many days which they spent at the
+inn, the interest of their conversations never seemed to flag. They were
+always talking; and always, apparently, with animation and sympathy.
+</p>
+<p>
+On the fourth day after their arrival, I was sitting at work, at a
+window which commands a view of the head of the loch, and of the
+mountains on the opposite side. It was then between four and five in the
+afternoon; the sun was bright, and the weather as fine as possible. The
+tide was out, and, as usual, many groups of children were busied in
+collecting shells and sea-weed. Among them were my two friends (for so I
+must call them.) They seemed in gayer spirits than I had yet seen them;
+they picked up a basket-full of shells; they set up a mark by which to
+watch the receding waters; they entered into conversation with a
+boatman, and strolled on till they came to the little bridge which spans
+a rivulet at the head of the loch. I saw them lean over the parapet, to
+watch the gurgling brook beneath. Then they turned, to survey the high
+mountains above them; and after awhile, they directed their steps to the
+base of one of them. I saw them gradually mount the green slope, turning
+every now and then to gaze at the scene below, until I could but
+indistinctly discern their figures, amidst the shadows which were
+beginning to spread over the valley and the lower parts of the mountain.
+I knew that the mountain which they were ascending was not often tried
+either by natives or by strangers, for it was boggy and pathless; though
+tempting to the eye by its verdure, and by a fine pile of rocks, which
+stood like a crown on the brow of the first grand ascent.
+</p>
+<p>
+The richest glow of the evening sun was upon the mountain's brow; light
+crimson clouds were floating, as it seemed to me, just over the head of
+the youth, as he mounted higher and higher&mdash;springing from one point to
+another. I saw his slight form on the very ridge, though lessened almost
+to a point by the distance, yet conspicuous by its motion, and by the
+relief of the glowing sky behind. He disappeared. I looked for his
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page270" name="page270"></a>[pg 270]</span>
+
+sister: she was still sitting on her sunny seat, while all below was
+wrapped in a deep grey shadow. I laid down my glass, and resumed my work
+for awhile. I looked again; she was still there, and alone&mdash;but the
+sun-light was gone! I thought she looked forlorn; and I wished her
+brother would return to her. Again the sun burst forth on the
+mountain-top&mdash;it had only been obscured by a cloud. I saw the lady start
+from her seat, and turn round. An eagle had sprung from among the rocks:
+she was watching its flight&mdash;it ascended into the blue sky, and was lost
+to sight. She sauntered a few steps on one side of her seat, then on the
+other, and looked around her. "I wish her brother would return to her,"
+thought I again. She shaded her eyes with her hand, and looked up: but
+vainly! The shadows had crept apace up the mountain side: her seat was
+no longer sunny, but she sat down again.
+</p>
+<p>
+I had by this time become, I knew not why, rather nervous: my hand shook
+so, that I could not fix the glass. I laid it down, and went to take a
+turn in my garden. I came back presently to the window, and once more
+turned my glass in the direction of the mountain. The seat was vacant.
+"They are coming down together, I hope," thought I. "It is high time
+they should; it is becoming dark and chilly!" But I could not trace
+them. At length I saw something white fluttering in the breeze. It was
+so small that I should not have discerned it, if my very power of sight
+had not been sharpened by the anxiety I began to feel for these young
+people. By intently gazing&mdash;by straining my sight to the uttermost, I
+made out that the young lady was standing on a point of rock, lower
+down, and more conspicuous than that on which she had been seated. She
+had tied her handkerchief to her parasol, and was waving it, no doubt,
+as a signal to her brother. My heart turned sick, and I could see no
+more. I looked at my watch, and found that it was nearly three hours
+since they had begun their ascent. The next consideration was, what I
+ought to do. If I had been certain that the brother had lost his way, it
+was, no doubt, my duty to send persons from the inn, to find him. But
+how did I know that any peril existed, excepting in my own imagination?
+He might have ascended before, and be perfectly acquainted with the
+descent; he might be gone in search of some particular view, and have
+prepared his sister for the length of his absence, as she was too much
+fatigued to accompany him. In this case, any interference of mine would
+be impertinent. What should I do? I leaned out of my window, as if in
+the hope of seeing some object, which should help me to a decision. Such
+an object was just before me, in the person of an old fisherman, a
+next-door neighbour, and very honest friend of mine. "Come hither,
+John," said I; and I stated the case to him. He thought we need not fear
+any danger. The mountain was not very high; he knew of no dangerous
+places on it; and was of opinion that there would be light enough to
+guide their steps half an hour longer. He advised me to leave them
+alone, for that time at least. I determined to do so, and sat down to my
+tea-table, on which I had not yet bestowed a thought. I drew it close to
+the window, and looked as earnestly as ever; but it was now too dark to
+see anything but the indistinct outlines of the mountains, and the loch
+gleaming in the twilight. The half-hour passed, and I had not seen them
+return; they might have returned without my having seen them; but I
+could not bear uncertainty any longer. I sent my servant to the inn, to
+inquire if they had arrived, and whether they had ordered tea, or given
+any expectation as to the time of their retain.
+</p>
+<p>
+She brought word, that though tea had been ready for an hour past, the
+lady and gentleman had not returned; and that the landlady would be glad
+to know whether I could give her any intelligence of them.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Let me pass!" said I, hastily opening the gate.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Your bonnet, ma'am! shall I fetch your bonnet?" said my maid.
+</p>
+<p>
+At that moment some one rushed past me. It was the young lady&mdash;running,
+or attempting to run, but with faltering and unequal steps. I followed
+her. At the first of the flight of steps before the inn, she stumbled
+and fell. She was trembling and sobbing violently; whether from
+breathlessness or agony, I could not tell. I raised her, and assisted
+her to mount the steps. "My brother! my brother!" she exclaimed
+incessantly. I could get no words but these from her. No time was to be
+lost. I sat down beside her, and took both her hands; and speaking as
+calmly as I could, said, "Compose yourself, and tell us what we must do.
+Have you missed your brother, or has any accident befallen him before
+your eyes?"
+</p>
+<p>
+"He is on the mountain there! He left me, and did not come back. He said
+he should not be gone twenty minutes."
+</p>
+<p>
+"Now I know all," replied I. "I will take some people from the inn with
+lights, and we will find him. You must
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page271" name="page271"></a>[pg 271]</span>
+
+stay and compose yourself, and be patient; he has only missed his way."
+</p>
+<p>
+She insisted upon going too; and declared that this was necessary, in
+order to point out the track which her brother had taken. I explained to
+her how I had watched their progress, and was therefore able to direct
+their search. But she was resolute in her determination to go; and
+finding her to be so, I gave up my intention of accompanying the party,
+believing that I should only retard their progress.
+</p>
+<p>
+I arranged with the landlady, that in case of any fatal accident having
+happened, the young lady should be brought to my house, where she would
+be in greater quiet and retirement than amid the bustle of an inn.
+</p>
+<p>
+Hour after hour did we wait, listening to every sound, trembling at
+every breath; and so shaken and weakened by intolerable suspense, that
+we were ill-fitted to think and to act as occasion might require. It was
+a dark, cloudy, and windy night. We often looked out, but could see
+nothing, scarcely even the outline of the mountain. We listened, and our
+hearts beat thick, when there was no sound but the rising gust! I dwell
+on these circumstances too long, because I recoil from relating the
+catastrophe, as if it were but recent&mdash;as if my thoughts had not been
+familiarized with it for years.
+</p>
+<p>
+It was as we feared; he was found lying at the bottom of a rock, no more
+than ten feet high&mdash;but lifeless. His neck had been dislocated by the
+fall. There were no external bruises&mdash;no signs of any struggle&mdash;nothing
+painful in his appearance. I cannot relate every circumstance of that
+dreadful night. I thought <i>she</i> was gone too; she was brought in,
+insensible, and remained so for hours. She was taken immediately to my
+house, and put to bed. The body of her brother was also carried there,
+for I knew she would not be separated from it. I sat beside her,
+watching her faint breathing, anxious for some sign of returning
+consciousness, but dreading the agony which must attend it. If she had
+died, I could hardly have grieved for her; but there might be parents,
+brothers, and sisters! Oh, that I knew, that I could bring them to her!
+Alone, among strangers! how was she to bear her solitary grief?&mdash;how was
+she to sustain the struggle which awaited her in the first hour of her
+awakening? I could not banish the remembrance of them as I had seen them
+in the afternoon; happy in each other, and thinking not of separation;
+then, as he was when I last saw him, full of life and acuity, and
+apparently unboundedly happy, in the contemplation of scenes which a
+soul like his was fitted to enjoy.
+</p>
+<p>
+Day dawned, and no change was perceivable; but in two hours afterwards
+she opened her eyes. I crossed the room, to see whether she observed my
+motion. She did; and I therefore opened the curtain, and spoke to her.
+She gazed, but did not reply. Presently she seized my arm, muttering
+some words, of which "my mother!" was all I could understand. I took the
+opportunity of saying, that I was going to write to her family, and
+asked how I should address them.
+</p>
+<p>
+"My family!" said she, "I have none. They are all gone now!"
+</p>
+<p>
+I thought her mind was wandering. "Your father and mother," said I,
+"where are they?" My heart smote me as I uttered the words, but the
+question was necessary.
+</p>
+<p>
+"I have no father and mother!"
+</p>
+<p>
+"Nor brothers and sisters? Pardon me, but I must ask."
+</p>
+<p>
+"You need not ask, because I will tell you. There were many of us once,
+but I am the last!"
+</p>
+<p>
+I could not go on, yet it must be done.
+</p>
+<p>
+"But you have friends, who will come to you?"
+</p>
+<p>
+"Yes; I have a grandfather. He lives in Hampshire. He is very old, but
+he will come to me, if he still lives. If not!"&mdash;&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"He <i>will</i> come," said I, "I will write to him directly."
+</p>
+<p>
+"I will write myself!" exclaimed she, starting up. "He will not believe
+the story unless I write myself. Who <i>would</i> believe it?"
+</p>
+<p>
+I assured her she should write the next day; but I positively forbad
+such an exertion at present. She yielded; she was indeed in no condition
+for writing. Her mind seemed in an unnatural state; and I was by no
+means sure that she had given a correct account of herself. I wrote to
+her grandfather, on the supposition that she had; and was quite
+satisfied when, in the evening, she gave me, in few words, her family
+history. She had been relieved, though exhausted, by tears; and her mind
+was calm and rational. She was indeed the last of her family. Her mother
+had died a few weeks before, after a lingering illness; and the sole
+surviving brother and sister had been prevailed on to take this tour, to
+recruit their strength and spirits, after their long watching and
+anxiety. They were always, as I discovered, bound together by the
+strongest affection; and now that they had been made by circumstances
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page272" name="page272"></a>[pg 272]</span>
+
+all in all to each other, they were thus separated! Will not my readers
+excuse my attempting to describe such grief as her's must have been?
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Her grandfather arrived on the earliest possible day. He was old, and
+had some infirmities; but his health was not, as he assured us, at all
+injured by his hurried and painful journey. Nothing could be more tender
+than his kindness to his charge; though he was, perhaps, too far
+advanced in this life, and too near another, to feel the pressure of
+this kind of sorrow, as a younger or weaker mind would have done.
+</p>
+<p>
+I could not help indulging in much painful conjecture as to the fate of
+this young creature, when she should lose her last remaining stay: a
+period which could not be far distant. But on this point I obtained some
+satisfaction before her departure.
+</p>
+<p>
+A few days before she left me, a gentleman arrived at the inn, and came
+immediately to my cottage. She introduced him to me as "a friend." No
+one said what kind of a friend he was; but I could entertain no doubt
+that he was one who would supply the place of her brother to her.
+</p>
+<p>
+"Her mind will not be left without a keeper," thought I, as I saw them
+direct their steps to the brother's grave. "Thank God, her grandfather
+is not her only remaining stay!"
+</p>
+<p>
+They quitted the place together; and many a sympathizing heart did they
+leave behind them&mdash;by many an anxious wish and prayer were they
+followed. The last promise required from me was, that I would see that
+the grave of her brother was respected. What a pang did it cost her to
+leave that grave?
+</p>
+<p>
+I heard tidings of her three times afterwards. Her letters pleased me;
+they testified a deep, but not a selfish or corroding grief&mdash;a power of
+exertion, and a disposition to hope and be cheerful. The last letter I
+received from her, arrived more than five years ago. She had taken the
+name which I conjectured would in time be her's. She had lost her
+grandfather; but the time was past when his departure could occasion
+much grief. She was then going abroad with her husband, for an
+indefinite period of time. If they were spared to return to their native
+country, they proposed visiting my little dwelling once more, to gaze
+with softened emotions on scenes sadly endeared to them, and to mingle
+their tears once more over a brother's grave.
+</p>
+<p>
+Perhaps that day may yet arrive.
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: right;">
+<i>Literary Magnet</i>.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>
+	ARCANA OF SCIENCE.
+</h2>
+
+<hr />
+
+<center>
+<i>Polar Expedition.</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+It is known by the experience of all former voyages to the arctic
+circle, that towards the end of the season, in consequence of the heat
+radiating from the lard, the ice is detached from the shores of these
+seas, and floats southward. Ice, therefore, does not detach from other
+ice, but from the coast. Taking this principle with us, when we find
+that our expedition traversed a surface of some hundred miles, we
+conclude, whatever was the extent of that mass drifting south, it must
+have left an equal extent of open water in its original place in the
+north. We also infer, that there must be land at the north pole, from
+which this body was separated; and that if it could have been entirely
+crossed, Captain Parry and his companions would have found a clear sea
+for the boats, and had little difficulty in reaching Polar
+Land.&mdash;<i>Literary Gazette</i>.
+</p>
+
+<center>
+<i>Pemecan.</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+This substance (mentioned in our recent abstract of the Polar Expedition
+as part of the provision for the crew) consists of meat prepared in the
+same way that the Indians prepare their provision of buffalo or deer.
+The flesh, <i>beef</i> in this case, is cut into stripes, and dried by
+the smoke of wood. It is then beaten into a powder, and an equal
+proportion of fat being melted, the whole is mixed up together into a
+solid mass. It is evident that more of real sustenance from animal
+matter cannot be combined in any less bulky or burdensome compound. It
+makes an excellent and very nutritious soup.
+</p>
+
+<center>
+<i>Egyptian Architecture.</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+It is somewhat surprising, that among the crowd of novelties, and very
+especially of attempts to depart from the received models of
+architecture, the <i>Egyptian</i> has not taken its share. It is true
+that some very partial attempts have been made; in the metropolis, we
+believe, not exceeding two; and if we add to these a school recently
+erected at Devonport, a mausoleum at Trentham for the Stafford family,
+and an iron-manufactory now erecting in Wales, we have probably
+enumerated the whole. Such as the examples have been, they have not
+spread; and, indeed, we may say, that they have scarcely attracted any
+notice, whether for good or evil; though the publicity and singularity
+of aspect of the most accessible specimen in Piccadilly might have at
+least been expected to distinguish it, in the general eye, from the
+buildings by which it is surrounded. As to the public, we find
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page273" name="page273"></a>[pg 273]</span>
+
+no difficulty in accounting for this. This style has not been pointed
+out to them, and they have not been desired either to admire or dislike
+it. Why the architects have neglected it, they must themselves explain,
+since we believe there have been but two in that profession who have
+been concerned with the buildings to which we have alluded, the last
+named of these being an attempt of a dillettante in the art. As to the
+specimens where it has been thought fit to introduce the Egyptian window
+or doorway in churches of a Greek design, we consider the attempt faulty
+and censurable. This is a false and misplaced ambition after novelty,
+which marks far too much of what has recently been effected in our new
+churches.&mdash;<i>Westminster Review.</i>
+</p>
+
+<center>
+<i>Coinage.</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+Coins are generally completed by one blow of the coining-press. These
+presses are worked in the Royal Mint by machinery, so contrived that
+they shall strike, upon an average, 60 blows in a minute; the blank
+piece, previously properly prepared and annealed, being placed between
+the dies by part of the same mechanism. The number of pieces which may
+be struck by a single die of good steel, properly hardened and duly
+tempered, not unfrequently amounts at the Mint to between 3 and 400,000.
+There are eight presses at the Mint, frequently at work ten hours a day,
+each press producing 3,600 pieces per hour; but making allowance for
+occasional stoppages, the daily progress of each press may be reckoned
+at 30,000 pieces; the eight presses, therefore, will furnish a diurnal
+average of 240,000 pieces.&mdash;<i>Quarterly Journal.</i>
+</p>
+
+<center>
+<i>The Ornithorynous.</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+This remarkable animal, which forms the link between the bird and beast,
+has a bill like a duck, and paws webbed similar to that bird, but legs
+and body like those of a quadruped, covered with thick, coarse hair,
+with a broad tail to steer by. It abounds in the rivers of New Holland,
+and may be seen bobbing to the top every now and then, to breathe, like
+a seal, then diving again in quest of its prey. It is believed to lay
+eggs, as a nest with eggs in it of a peculiar appearance was some time
+ago found. It bears a claw on the inside of its foot, having a tube
+therein, through which it emits a poisonous fluid into the wounds which
+the claw inflicts; as, when assailed, it strikes its paws together, and
+fastens upon its enemy like a crab.&mdash;<i>Cunningham's New South
+Wales.</i>
+</p>
+
+<center>
+<i>Sheep</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+Are bred to an immense extent in New South Wales. In 1813, the number of
+sheep in the colony amounted to 6,514; in 1821, to 119,777. The
+exportation of wool to England during the last year exceeded a million
+of pounds, and at the same rate of increase, in 1840, will reach to
+between 30 and 40 millions of pounds. Bullocks are recommended for
+draught in preference to horses, and the speed of a well-taught, lively,
+strong bullock is little short of that of a horse.&mdash;<i>Ibid.</i>
+</p>
+
+<center>
+<i>Garden Rhubarb.</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+To force garden rhubarb, sow the seed on a rich moist border in the
+beginning of April. Thin the young plants during the summer; in the end
+of October, carefully transplant them into forcing-pots, five or six in
+each pot. Place them in a northern aspect, to recover the effect of
+their removal from the seed-bed, and in a month they are fit for
+forcing.
+</p>
+
+<center>
+<i>American Canals.</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+The canals are the most striking internal improvements in the United
+States. The Great Erie canal is 360 miles in length, with an average
+breadth of 40 feet. It connects the great line of lakes with the ocean
+by the Hudson. Another to connect the Hudson with Lake Champlain is also
+complete. Above 2,000,000<i>l.</i> have been expended on them; and the
+annual returns from the tolls alone have already amounted to
+120,000<i>l.</i> In the state of Ohio, another canal is in progress,
+almost equal in magnitude to the Erie canal. On the rivers which it
+connects with the lakes, there is a steam-boat navigation of 5,000
+miles. In Pennsylvania, the Schuylkill navigation works comprise an
+extent of 108 miles, of which 62 are canal, and 46 the river made
+navigable. These works are complete. The Union canal, a line of 74
+miles, to connect the Schuylkill with the Susqueannah, is in progress,
+and will be completed within the present year. These, however, are but a
+few of the gigantic strides which America is making in the march of
+nations.
+</p>
+
+<center>
+<i>Caledonian Canal.</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+Between August 1, 1826, and August 1, 1827, 212 vessels have passed
+through the Caledonian canal from sea to sea. 295 vessels have made
+partial passages through one end of the canal, to and from various
+ports; 74 boats, not above 15 tons burden each, have been employed in
+the carriage of articles to the fishery stations; and 91 steam-boats
+have passed through the canal, all within the period abovementioned.
+</p>
+
+<center>
+<i>Medicine.</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+A respectable contemporary journal gives the following calculations on
+the relative state of the medical profession in London and Paris. The
+French have
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page274" name="page274"></a>[pg 274]</span>
+
+long objected to the multitude of our professors, and the drugs they
+employ; and it would seem by this comparative statement that their
+objection is not ill-founded:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+In <i>London</i> there are 174 physicians, or 1 physician to 700
+inhabitants; 1,000 surgeons, or 1 surgeon to 1,200 inhabitants; 2,000
+apothecaries, or 1 apothecary to 600 inhabitants.
+</p>
+<p>
+In <i>Paris</i> there is 1 physician to 1,300 inhabitants; 1 surgeon to
+6,000 inhabitants; 1 apothecary to 4,450 inhabitants.
+</p>
+<p>
+Being in the proportion of 1 physician in Paris to 5 in London; 5
+surgeons in London to 1 in Paris; 7 apothecaries in London to 1 in
+Paris.
+</p>
+<p>
+Supposing, on an average, each of these persons to receive
+1,000<i>l.</i> a year, the whole income of the medical profession in
+London would be 3,474,000<i>l.</i> annually.
+</p>
+
+<center>
+<i>Poor Rates.</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+About the close of the seventeenth century, the poors' rates of England
+and Wales were stated, on the authority of parliamentary documents, to
+amount to 665,362<i>l.</i>; and the population of both to 5,475,000. In
+1821, the poors' rates amounted to about 7,000,000<i>l.</i>, and the
+population to 12,218,000. Dividing the greater rates 7,000,000<i>l.</i>
+by the lesser 665,362<i>l.</i>, we have about 10-1/2 to 1, which is the
+proportion in which the poors' rates have increased in the last 127
+years. And dividing the greater population 12,218,000 by the lesser
+5,475,000, give about 2-1/2 to 1, which is the proportionate increase of
+population during that space of time.
+</p>
+
+<center>
+<i>Van Dieman's Land Wasp.</i>
+</center>
+
+<p>
+The wasp of Van Dieman's Land is a smaller but much more splendid insect
+than the English wasp; it has four orange-coloured wings, and horns and
+legs of the same colour, a hard body, and a formidable sting. It is an
+inhabitant of the forest, and is at war with a spider that makes its
+hole in the sandy places, and which is armed with a cap or door, which
+it pulls over on the approach of its enemy, or in rainy weather. The
+wasp hovers close over the ground, prowling from one hole to another.
+Having seized its prey, it immediately kills the spider, and carries it
+off to its own hole, when it is said to devour the limbs, and to deposit
+its egg in the body to be hatched by the putrefaction that ensues, and
+which furnishes food for the young insect produced.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>
+	THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+</h2>
+
+<h3>
+No. XLVIII.
+</h3>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h4>
+	HIGHLAND SUPERSTITION.
+</h4>
+
+<p>
+There is an extraordinary superstition connected with the M'Alister
+family. Ages ago,&mdash;for I have never yet got a date from a Highlander as
+to the transactions of long past times,&mdash;but many generations back, in
+the days of a chief of great renown in the clan, called M'Alister More,
+either from his deeds or his stature, there was a skirmish with a
+neighbouring clan that ended fatally for the M'Alisters, though in the
+contest at the time they were victorious.
+</p>
+<p>
+A party of their young men set out once upon a foray; they marched over
+the hills for several hours, and at last descended into a little glen,
+which was rented as a black cattle farm by a widow woman and her two
+sons. The sons were absent from home on some excursion, and had carried
+most of their servants with them, so that the M'Alisters met with no
+resistance in their attempts to raise the cattle. They hunted every
+corner of the glen, secured every beast, and, in spite of the tears of
+the widow, they drove her herd away. When the sons returned, and heard
+the story of the raid, they collected a strong party of their friends,
+and crossing the hill secretly by night, surprised the few M'Alisters
+who were left in charge of the spoil, vanquished them easily, and
+recovered their cattle. Such a slight to the power of M'Alister More
+could not go unpunished. The chief himself headed the band which set out
+to vindicate the honour of the clan. He marched steadily over the rugged
+mountains, and arrived towards sunset in the little glen. To oppose the
+force he brought with him, would have been fruitless; the sons and their
+few adherents were speedily overpowered, and led bound before him; they
+were small in number, but they were gallant and brave, and yielded only
+to superior strength. M'Alister More was always attended by four and
+twenty bowmen, who acted as his body guard, his jury, his judges, and
+his executioners. They erected on the instant a gibbet before the door
+of the wretched mother, and there her sons were hung.
+</p>
+<p>
+Her cottage was built at the foot of a craggy, naked rock, on a strip of
+green pasture land, and beside a mountain torrent; the gibbet was a few
+paces from it, on the edge of the shelf; and the setting rays of a
+bright summer sun fell on the bodies of the widow's sons. They were
+still warm when she came and stood beside them. She raised her eyes on
+the stern chief, and his many followers, and slowly and steadily she
+pronounced her curse:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"Shame, shame on you, M'Alister! You have slain them that took but their
+own; you have slain them you had injured! You have murdered the
+fatherless,
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page275" name="page275"></a>[pg 275]</span>
+
+and spoiled the widow! but he that is righteous shall judge between us,
+and the curse of God shall cling to you for this for ever. The sun rose
+on me the proud mother of two handsome boys; he sets on their stiffening
+bodies!" and she raised her arm, as she spoke, towards the gibbet. Her
+eye kindled, and her form dilated, as she turned again to her vindictive
+foe. "I suffer now," said she, "but you shall surfer always. You have
+made me childless, but you and yours shall be heirless for ever. Long
+may their name last, and wide may their lands be; but never, while the
+name and the lands continue, shall there be a son to the house of
+M'Alister!"
+</p>
+<p>
+The curse of the bereaved widow clung steadily to the house of
+M'Alister. The lands passed from heir to heir, but no laird had ever
+been succeeded by a son. Often had the hopes of the clan been raised;
+often had they thought for years that the punishment of their ancestor's
+cruelty was to be continued to them no longer&mdash;that the spirits of the
+widow's sons were at length appeased; but M'Alister More was to suffer
+for ever; the hopes of his house might blossom, but they always faded.
+It was in the reign of the good Queen Anne that they flourished for the
+last time; they were blighted then, and for ever.
+</p>
+<p>
+The laird and the lady had had several daughters born to them in
+succession, and at last a son: he grew up to manhood in safety&mdash;the
+pride of his people, and the darling of his parents; giving promise of
+every virtue that could adorn his rank. He had been early contracted in
+marriage to the daughter of another powerful chieftain in the North, and
+the alliance, which had been equally courted by both families, was
+concluded immediately on the return of the young laird from his travels.
+There was a great intercourse in those days with France&mdash;most of the
+young highland chiefs spent a year or two in that country, many of them
+were entirely educated there, but that was not the case with the young
+heir of M'Alister; he had only gone abroad to finish his breeding after
+coming to man's estate. It was shortly before the first rebellion in the
+15, to speak as my informant spoke to me&mdash;and being young, and of an
+ardent nature, he was soon attracted to the court of the old Pretender,
+whose policy it was to gain every Scotch noble, by every means, to his
+views. The measures he took succeeded with the only son of
+M'Alister:&mdash;he returned to his native country, eager for the approaching
+contest, pledged heart and hand to his exiled sovereign. In the troubles
+which broke out almost immediately on the death of the queen, he and his
+father took different sides; the old laird fortified his high tower, and
+prepared to defend it to the last, against the enemies of the House of
+Hanover. The young laird bade adieu to his beautiful wife, and attended
+by a band of his young clansmen, easily gained to aid a cause so
+romantic, he secretly left his duchess, and joined the army of the
+Pretender at Perth.
+</p>
+<p>
+The young wife had lived with her husband, at a small farm on the
+property, a little way up the glen, a mile or two from the castle. But
+when her husband deserted her, she was removed by her father-in-law to
+his own house for greater security. Months rolled away, and the various
+fortunes of the rebels were reported, from time to time, in the remote
+glen where the chief strength of the M'Alisters lay. News did not travel
+swiftly then, and often they heard what was little to be relied on, so
+much did hope or fear magnify any slight success, or any ill-fortune. At
+last, there came a sough of a great battle having been fought somewhere
+in the west country, which had decided the fate of the opposing parties.
+The young laird and his valiant band had turned the fortune of the day.
+Argyle was defeated and slain, and the Earl of Marr was victorious;&mdash;King
+James had arrived, and was to be crowned at Scone, and all Scotland was
+his own.
+</p>
+<p>
+It was on a cold, bleak, stormy, November evening, when this news was
+brought, by a Brae-Marr-man, to the laird's tower. He was wise and
+prudent, and he would give no ear to a tale so lightly told: but his
+beautiful daughter-in-law, sanguine for her husband's sake, cherished
+reports that brightened all her prospects. She retired to her chamber,
+almost hoping that another day might see it enlivened by his presence,
+without whom life to her was a dreary blank. She was lodged in a small
+apartment on the third story of the tower, opening straight from a
+narrow passage at the head of the winding stairs. It had two small
+windows, which looked on the paved courtyard of the castle; and beyond,
+to what was then a bare meadow, and the river. The moon gave little
+light, and she turned from the gloomy prospect to the ample hearth, on
+which the bright logs were blazing. Her heart was full, and her mind so
+restless, that after her maidens left her, she continued to pace up and
+down her little chamber, unwilling to retire to rest. At length she
+threw herself upon her bed, exhausted by the eagerness of her feelings,
+and in the agitation of her ideas she forgot to say her prayers. Yet
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page276" name="page276"></a>[pg 276]</span>
+
+she slept, and calmly, but her sleep was short. She awakened suddenly,
+and starting half up, listened anxiously for some minutes. The wind blew
+strongly round the old tower, and a thick shower of sleet was driving
+fast against the casements; but, in the pauses of the storm, she thought
+she heard distinctly, though at a distance, the tramp of a horse at his
+speed. She bent forward and watched the sound. It came nearer&mdash;it grew
+louder&mdash;it gallopped over the hard ground, and approached with the
+swiftness of lightning. She gasped and trembled&mdash;it was he, it must be
+he,&mdash;she knew the long firm bound of her husband's charger. Its rapid
+feet struck loud on the pavement of the courtyard below, and in an
+instant dropt dead below the great door of the castle. She had neither
+power to breathe, nor to move, but she listened for the call of the
+porter's name, and the jar of the chains and bolts which secured the
+door. She heard nothing&mdash;she grew bewildered, and tried to rise to call
+for succour&mdash;but a spell was on her to keep her down. At length, from
+the very bottom of the winding stair, came the sound of a firm foot,
+ascending regularly step by step, without a pause in its motion, the
+several stories. It rang on the stone passage adjoining her apartment,
+and stept with a loud tread at her door. No lock was turned, no hinge
+was opened, but a rushing wind swept through the room. Her fire had
+burned away, and she had neither lamp nor taper by her, but as she
+started up in an agony of terror, the heavy logs in her wide chimney
+fell of themselves, and lighting by the fall, sent forth a blaze into
+the chamber. Almost frantic with fear, she seized with one hand the
+curtains of her bed, and darting a look of horror, she saw, seated by
+the hearth, a figure in martial array, without a head; it held its arms
+out towards her, and slowly rose. The scream she tried to utter was
+suffocated in her throat&mdash;she fell motionless; the last sight she saw
+was an eagle's plume steeped in blood, cast at her feet by the advancing
+spectre&mdash;the last sound she heard was the loud crash of every door in
+the castle. When her maidens came to her in the morning, she was
+extended in a swoon upon the floor. She lay for hours cold and
+insensible, and they thought that she was gone for ever. After many
+trials she came at last to herself, but she recovered only to hear the
+true tale of the battle of Sheriff-muir.
+</p>
+<p>
+The Chevalier de St. George and the Earl of Marr had fled the country;
+many of their noble adherents had been fortunate enough to secure a
+retreat with them to France; some had been pardoned; a few had been
+taken in arms, and these few were executed; amongst them was the young
+heir of M'Alister&mdash;<i>Inspector.</i>
+</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>
+	SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+</h2>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	SADDLED AND BRIDLED.
+</h3>
+
+<h4>
+BY A. CUNNINGHAM.
+</h4>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Saddled and bridled,</p>
+           <p>   And booted was he&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  A plume at his helmet,</p>
+           <p>   A sword at his knee;&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  Toom hame came the saddle</p>
+           <p>   At evening to me,</p>
+           <p>  And hame came his steed&mdash;</p>
+           <p>   But hame never came he!</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Down came his grey father,</p>
+           <p>   Sobbing fu' sair;</p>
+           <p>  Down came his auld mother,</p>
+           <p>   Tearing her hair:</p>
+           <p>  Down came his sweet wife,</p>
+           <p>   Wi' her bonnie bairns three&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  Ane at her bosom,</p>
+           <p>   And twa at her knee!</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  There stood his fleet steed,</p>
+           <p>   All foaming and hot;</p>
+           <p>  There shrieked his sweet wife,</p>
+           <p>   And sank on the spot,&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  There stood his grey father,</p>
+           <p>   Weeping fu' free,</p>
+           <p>  For hame came his steed,</p>
+           <p>   But hame never came he!</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p style="text-align: right;">
+<i>Literary Magnet.</i>
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	TOBACCO-PIPE CONTROVERSY.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+A furious, and yet unappeased, controversy has lately raged in the
+newspapers, upon the question of the filthy nuisance of smoking
+tobacco&mdash;segars or pipe; and as in all other cases when men allow their
+passions to be heated by opposition, has run in great personalities
+between gentlemen who sign themselves Viator and Tabatiere. Whole
+columns of the newspapers have been occupied in discussing, in the first
+place, whether a man who smokes at all is a beast or not; and secondly,
+the argument has run into the comparative beastliness of smoking and
+snuffing. A future Hume, on looking over the journals, may thus sum up
+the merits of the case. About this period great hostilities arose
+between the advocates of segars and their opponents, which occupied the
+attention of thousands, who took a lively interest in the successful
+issue of the controversy. By the advocates for the practice it was urged
+with some plausibility of statement, that as to the pleasure of a segar,
+none but those who used them ought to express an opinion upon the
+point&mdash;that to appeal to experience, tobacco was in more universal
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page277" name="page277"></a>[pg 277]</span>
+
+use among nations than bread corn&mdash;that it had been known to stay the
+plague, and was the friend and companion of rich and poor. These
+statements were met with undisguised contempt, and it was retaliated,
+that the practice of using tobacco either by smoke or snuff, was a
+nuisance to others, thus infringing the very primary principles of civil
+liberty&mdash;that it led to drunkenness and debauch&mdash;that snuff spoiled the
+complexion&mdash;stopped the nose to the perception of odours&mdash;and that as to
+the ladies, they would positively spurn any approach of familiar
+friendship from a snuff-taker. This raised the concealed anger of the
+snuff-takers, who had hitherto maintained a stubborn neutrality while
+the argument was kept to smoke. They replied both by wit and
+invective&mdash;they affirmed snuff to have a moral use&mdash;"Dust to
+dust"&mdash;would remind them of the brevity of life&mdash;that the king and
+ministers patronized the habit, and gave away £10,000 worth of
+snuff-boxes in every year&mdash;that as to the nose being blockaded, that was
+a happy circumstance to London residents, and enabled them to acquire
+the French accent more naturally&mdash;that as to the assumed yellowness of
+complexion complained of, it was only studious and Werter-like&mdash;and that
+as to the ladies refusing to be saluted by snuff-takers, that was a
+thing which modesty and prudence required them to sneeze at. The
+historian might add by way of reflection, that nothing could more
+clearly show the national freedom from anxious cares, when it was
+thought that the public took interest in the comparative merits of
+blackened teeth or a snuffy pocket-handkerchief.&mdash;<i>The Inspector.</i>
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	FASHIONABLE NOVELS.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+Of the slip-slop reading, under this denomination, with which the town
+has lately been inundated, the following is a fair specimen:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+<i>Hyde Nugent.</i>&mdash;The book is made up completely of the gossip of
+drawing-rooms, hotels, dinners, and balls. As to the hero, if any one
+has a grain of curiosity about him&mdash;gratify it. Hyde is the son of a man
+of family and fortune; he goes to Oxford, fights a duel, and is
+expelled&mdash;prevails upon a marquess to break the matter to the
+father&mdash;falls in love with the marquess's daughter&mdash;goes large and loose
+about town&mdash;is every where introduced&mdash;and one of every party.
+Notwithstanding certain warnings, and his own disgusts, he frequents
+Crockford's&mdash;gets plucked, and moreover deeply involved with the Jews.
+In the meanwhile he does not neglect the marquess's daughter. They soon
+come to an understanding. He is irresistible&mdash;she is an houri. But the
+consciousness of his embarrassments press heavily upon him, and he is on
+the point of taking some desperate step, when he is summoned to attend a
+friend in a duel, who kills his antagonist; and he and Hyde are obliged
+to fly. This rescues him from his gaming associates; though he gets
+among others at Lisbon, and narrowly escapes assassination. On his
+return to England, his sister has married a duke's eldest son, and all
+the family visit the said duke's, and there also assemble the aforesaid
+marquess and his beautiful daughter.
+</p>
+<p>
+But now comes forward more than before, an officer of the guards&mdash;a
+guardsman is now become indispensable&mdash;who is also in love with the
+marquess's daughter, and being not at all scrupulous of the means of
+accomplishing his point&mdash;a very worthless person in short&mdash;he plays
+Iago, and pours into the lady's ear the tale of Hyde's gambling
+propensities, and his deep involvements; and moreover of a lady whose
+affection he had wantonly won, and wantonly cut, and who was now
+actually dying for him. This, however, was not all true; the lady
+alluded to was the daughter of his father's friend and neighbour; she
+and Hyde had been brought up together from children, and played and
+romped together, and once, before Hyde went to Oxford, he had forced
+from her a kiss. The poor fond girl had treasured up the kiss, and Hyde
+had thought no more of her, or of it. She, however, pined away, and let
+concealment feed on her damask cheek; and at this time was at Brighton
+for change of air. She has a brother, a lancer; he hears, through Hyde's
+precious rival, of the state of his sister, and for the first time, of
+the cause. He flies to the duke's&mdash;though deeply occupied, at the
+moment, in seducing the affections of a married woman in Ireland&mdash;and
+calls upon Hyde to meet him forthwith. Hyde's rival is the lancer's
+second. Hyde falls, and as he is borne bleeding to the house, Lady
+Georgina, the marquess's daughter, meets him. The shock kills her
+outright, and the story stops; but hints are given that he slowly
+recovers, and by still slower degrees is brought to think of the
+charming girl, who had treasured his boyish kiss, and marries.&mdash;<i>Monthly
+Magazine</i>.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	MAN-EATING SOCIETY.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+There is a horrible institution among some of the Indian tribes, which
+furnishes a powerful illustration of their never-tiring
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page278" name="page278"></a>[pg 278]</span>
+
+love of vengeance. It is called the Man-Eating Society, and it is the
+duty of its associates to devour such prisoners as are preserved and
+delivered to them for that purpose. The members of this society belong
+to a particular family, and the dreadful inheritance descends to all the
+children, male and female. Its duties cannot be dispensed with, and the
+sanctions of religion are added to the obligations of immemorial usage.
+The feast is considered a solemn ceremony, at which the whole tribe is
+collected as actors or spectators. The miserable victim is fastened to a
+stake, and burned at a slow fire, with all the refinements of cruelty
+which savage ingenuity can invent. There is a traditionary ritual, which
+regulates, with revolting precision, the whole course of procedure at
+these ceremonies. The institution has latterly declined, but we know
+those who have seen and related to us the incidents which occurred on
+these occasions, when white men were sacrificed and consumed. The chief
+of the family and principal members of the society among the Miames,
+whose name was White Skin, we have seen, and with feelings of loathing,
+excited by a narrative of his atrocities, amid the scenes when they
+occurred..&mdash;<i>North American Review.</i>
+</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>
+	THE SELECTOR;
+<br />
+AND
+<br />
+LITERARY NOTICES OF
+<br />
+<i>NEW WORKS.</i>
+</h2>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	SAILING ROUND CONSTANTINOPLE.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+Hiring a <i>peramidias</i>, or one of the beautiful boats which ply on
+the canal, I proceeded, accompanied by my janissary and dragoman, to
+make the circuit of the city, by rowing round the Seraglio Point into
+the sea of Marmora, then landing at the Seven Towers, and walking across
+the isthmus by the famous wall to the Golden Horn, where we again
+embarked, and returned to Pera. On passing the Seraglio Point, we
+remarked a number of cannon of different forms, ranged apparently more
+for effect than defence, as a sloop of war with a commanding breeze
+might dislodge the men; such is their exposed situation. Although two of
+the guns appeared to be of the calibre of sixteen or seventeen inches,
+and calculated to throw some immense stone-balls, which we observed near
+them, others were of small calibre, but having twelve barrels; over
+them, were suspended some very large bones, about which I could not get
+even a marvellous account, both my companions declaring honestly their
+ignorance of their history. The current sent us, with astonishing
+rapidity, round the Point, (on which men are always stationed with small
+lines to track boats upwards,) and we soon landed under the Seven
+Towers. The town on the west side, towards the sea presents a poor and
+miserable appearance. We were allowed just to enter the outer court of
+the castle, as it may be more properly called than the Seven Towers,
+because there are only two conspicuous towers, and I suspect that the
+term Seven Towers was originally applied to the whole wall which runs
+across the isthmus, and which has seven gates, over each of which was
+formerly placed a tower.
+</p>
+<p>
+Leaving the castle, we proceeded along the great road which runs
+parallel to the venerable and highly interesting triple walls, said to
+have been begun by Constantine, and enlarged by the second Theodosius.
+They consist of alternate courses of large flat bricks and stones, in
+some parts perfect, with their battlements and towers; in others partly
+destroyed by earthquakes or time&mdash;the whole rendered venerable by thick
+ivy or shading trees. The height of the walls is such, that, when near
+them, the town is completely hid; and as the ditches are well cultivated
+as gardens or orchards, and the country beyond is clear of houses, it is
+difficult to fancy one's self so near the thickly populated city, once
+the mistress of the eastern world. The distance across the isthmus to
+the Golden Horn, or harbour, is about four miles, and the walls are
+uninterrupted by the before-mentioned gates. At about two-thirds of the
+distance, we came to Baloucli, where, in the ruins of a chapel dedicated
+by Justinian to the Virgin, is a fountain or well of excellent cold
+water, said to contain fish, black on one side and red on the other, or,
+according to tradition, half fried.
+</p>
+<p>
+The Golden Horn, or harbour, terminates by the Valley of Sweet Waters,
+the sides of which are adorned with pleasure-grounds, and an imperial
+kiosk, near which, with extremely bad taste, art and expense have been
+exerted to the utmost to constrain and prune nature, so as to destroy
+the luxuriance and wildness of the rivulet and its banks, by giving them
+the appearance of a straight canal, passing through an avenue of formal
+trees, and occasionally over flights of marble steps, intended to
+represent cataracts. On gala days, this spot is the scene of festivity
+and enjoyment for persons of every sect; and before the last dispersion
+and persecution of the Greeks, is said, in consequence of the number of
+their women who frequented it, to have presented
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page279" name="page279"></a>[pg 279]</span>
+
+extraordinary animation and attraction. The sultan was often to be found
+enjoying the sight. Beyond this valley is another, where his horses are
+turned out to graze in the spring, and which takes place with
+extraordinary ceremony and pomp. So much consequence was formerly
+attached to the noble animals, that petitioners address themselves to
+the imperial stirrup. Between the Valley of the Sweet Waters and the
+walls, is the village of Eyub, pleasantly situated, adjoining to which
+are several palaces, belonging to members of the imperial family. But
+the most remarkable and interesting monument is the mosque or tomb of
+Eyub, (a disciple of Mahomet, who was killed in the first siege of
+Constantinople, in 608,) erected by Mahomet II. after the capture of the
+city, as is said, in consequence of the place of his sepulchre having
+been revealed to one of his favourites in a dream; he immediately
+ordered an excavation to be made, and very soon, either by hazard or
+imposture, a marble slab was discovered.
+</p>
+<p>
+The Valley of the Sweet Waters, Eyub, and the country immediately behind
+the walls, may be considered the only pretty spots near Constantinople;
+for beyond them, and in other directions, nothing is to be seen but an
+expansion of unpopulated, and, at this time, sunburnt downs.
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: right;">
+<i>Jones's Travels</i>.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	THE CORAL ISLAND.
+</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  On a stony eminence, that stood</p>
+           <p>  Girt with inferior ridges, at the point,</p>
+           <p>  Where light and darkness meet in spectral gloom.</p>
+           <p>  Midway between the height and depth of ocean,</p>
+           <p>  I mark'd a whirlpool in perpetual play,</p>
+           <p>  As though the mountain were itself alive,</p>
+           <p>  And catching prey on every side, with feelers</p>
+           <p>  Countless as sunbeams, slight as gossamer:</p>
+           <p>  Ere long transfigured, each fine film became</p>
+           <p>  An independent creature, self-employd,</p>
+           <p>  Yet but an agent in one common work,</p>
+           <p>  The slim of all their individual labours.</p>
+           <p>  Shap'less they seem'd, but endless shape assumed;</p>
+           <p>  Elongated like worms, they writhed and shrunk</p>
+           <p>  Their tortuous bodies to grotesque dimensions;</p>
+           <p>  Compress'd like wedges, radiated like stars,</p>
+           <p>  Branching like sea-weed, whirl'd in dazzling rings;</p>
+           <p>  Subtle and variable as flickering flames,</p>
+           <p>  Sight could not trace their evanescent changes,</p>
+           <p>  Nor comprehend their motions, till minute</p>
+           <p>  And curious observation caught the clew</p>
+           <p>  To this live labyrinth,&mdash;where every one,</p>
+           <p>  By instinct taught, perform'd its little task;</p>
+           <p>  &mdash;To build its dwelling and its sepulchre,</p>
+           <p>  From its own essence exquisitely modell'd;</p>
+           <p>  There breed, and die, and leave a progeny,</p>
+           <p>  Still multiplied beyond the reach of numbers.</p>
+           <p>  To frame new cells and tombs; then breed and die,</p>
+           <p>  As all their ancestors had done,&mdash;and rest,</p>
+           <p>  Hermetically sealed, each in its shrine,</p>
+           <p>  A statue in this temple of oblivion!</p>
+           <p>  Millions of millions thus, from age to age,</p>
+           <p>  With simplest skill, and toil unwearyable.</p>
+           <p>  No moment and no movement unimproved,</p>
+           <p>  Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread,</p>
+           <p>  To swell the heightening, brightening gradual mound,</p>
+           <p>  By marvellous structure climbing tow'rds the day.</p>
+           <p>  Each wrought alone, yet altogether wrought,</p>
+           <p>  Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments,</p>
+           <p>  By which a hand invisible was rearing</p>
+           <p>  A new creation in the secret deep.</p>
+           <p>  Omnipotence wrought in them, with them, by them;</p>
+           <p>  Hence what Omnipotence alone could do,</p>
+           <p>  Worms did. I saw the living pile ascend.</p>
+           <p>  The mausoleum of its architects,</p>
+           <p>  Still dying upwards as their labours closed:</p>
+           <p>  Slime the material, but the slime was turn'd</p>
+           <p>  To adamant, by their petrific touch;</p>
+           <p>  Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives,</p>
+           <p>  Their masonry imperishable. All</p>
+           <p>  Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest,</p>
+           <p>  By nice economy of Providence</p>
+           <p>  Were overruled to carry on the process.</p>
+           <p>  Which out of water brought forth solid rock.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  "Atom by atom thus the burthen grew,</p>
+           <p>  Even like an infant in the womb, till Time</p>
+           <p>  Deliver'd ocean of that monstrous birth,</p>
+           <p>  &mdash;A coral island, stretching east and west,</p>
+           <p>  In God's own language to its parent saying,</p>
+           <p>  'Thus far, no farther, shalt thou go; and here</p>
+           <p>  Shall thy proud waves be stay'd:'&mdash;A point at first</p>
+           <p>  It peer'd above those waves; a point so small,</p>
+           <p>  I just perceived it, fix'd where all was floating:</p>
+           <p>  And when a bubble cross'd it, the blue film</p>
+           <p>  Expanded like a sky above the speck;</p>
+           <p>  That speck became a hand-breadth; day and night</p>
+           <p>  It spread, accumulated, and ere long</p>
+           <p>  Presented to my view a dazzling plain.</p>
+           <p>  White as the moon amid the sapphire sea;</p>
+           <p>  Bare at low water, and as still as death,</p>
+           <p>  But when the tide came gurgling o'er the surface,</p>
+           <p>  'Twas like a resurrection of the dead:</p>
+           <p>  From graves innumerable, punctures fine</p>
+           <p>  In the close coral, capillary swarms</p>
+           <p>  Of reptiles, horrent as Medusa's snakes,</p>
+           <p>  Cover'd the bald-pate reef; then all was life,</p>
+           <p>  And indefatigable industry:</p>
+           <p>  The artisans were twisting to and fro.</p>
+           <p>  In idle-seeming convolutions; yet</p>
+           <p>  They never vanish'd with the ebbing surge,</p>
+           <p>  Till pellicle on pellicle, and layer</p>
+           <p>  On layer, was added to the growing mass.</p>
+           <p>  Ere long the reef o'ertopt the spring-flood's height,</p>
+           <p>  And mock'd the billows when they leapt upon it,</p>
+           <p>  Unable to maintain their slippery hold,</p>
+           <p>  And falling down in foam-wreaths round its verge.</p>
+           <p>  Steep were the flanks, sharp precipices,</p>
+           <p>  Descending to their base in ocean gloom.</p>
+           <p>  Chasms few, and narrow and irregular,</p>
+           <p>  Form'd harbours, safe at once and perilous,&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  Safe for defence, but perilous to enter.</p>
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page280" name="page280"></a>[pg 280]</span>
+
+           <p>  A sea lake shone amidst the fossil isle,</p>
+           <p>  Reflecting in a ring its cliffs and caverns,</p>
+           <p>  With heaven itself seen like a lake below."</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p style="text-align:right;">
+<i>Montgomery's Pelican Island.</i>
+</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>
+	THE GATHERER.
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+"I am but a <i>Gatherer</i> and disposer of other men's stuff."&mdash;<i>Wotton</i>.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	TAKING PHYSIC.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+David Hartley eat two hundred pounds weight of soap to cure the stone,
+but died of that disease. Bishop Berkeley drank a butt of tar-water.
+Meyer, in a course of chemical neutralization, swallowed 1,200 pounds of
+crabs' eyes. In the German Ephemerides, the case of a person is
+described who had taken so much elixir of vitriol, that his keys were
+rusted in his pocket by the transudation of the acid through the pores
+of his skin; another patient is said to have taken argentum nitratum in
+solution till he became blue. <i>Throw physic to the dogs!</i>
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	MARRIAGE.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+There are two cardinal points in a man's life, which determine his
+happiness or his misery; these are his birth and his marriage. It is in
+vain for a man to be born fortunate if he be unfortunate in his
+marriage.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	PERVERSENESS OF FOREIGNERS.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+"What a rum language they talk in this place!" said an English sailor
+the other day to his companion, who arrived a few days later than the
+speaker himself had done at Rochefort&mdash;"Why, they call a cabbage a
+<i>shoe</i>&mdash;(choux!)" "They are a d&mdash;d set!" was the reply, "why can't
+they call it a cabbage!"
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+In a newspaper, dated January 31, 1746, we find the following theatrical
+announcement:&mdash;
+</p>
+<p>
+"We are certainly informed that on Monday next, at the Theatre Royal,
+Drury-Lane, will be performed <i>The Lying Valet</i>, and that Mr.
+Steevens, at the particular desire of some persons of quality, is to act
+the part of <i>Justice Guttle</i>; in which character he will devour
+<i>twelve pounds of plumb cake at three mouthfuls</i>."
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	DOUBLE DEALING.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+Commercial morality is an unaccountable kind of thing. In the report of
+a recent trial for the robbery of a watch, it is stated that
+</p>
+<p>
+"Mr. Beauchamp identified the watch. He was sure that it was not sold;
+he knew that circumstance from his books; and also because he had the
+watch for four years, not being able to recommend it; <i>he would not
+have shown it to a lady, but he would have been glad to have sold it to
+a gentleman</i>. There was a private mark put on it which meant nine
+guineas."
+</p>
+<p>
+There is honour, it is said, among thieves. Is there gallantry in
+imposition?
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	EIKON BASILIKE.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+Epigram on the publication by Dr. Wordsworth, master of Trinity College,
+Cambridge, of his inquiry, "Who wrote Eikon Basilike?" published by
+Rivington. (A parody.)
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Who wrote "Who wrote Eikon Basilike?"</p>
+<p class="i2">    I, says the master of trinity,&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">    I am a doctor o' divinity,</p>
+           <p>  And I wrote "Who wrote Eikon Basilike?"</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	TIME.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+Sir William Jones, so well known for his great acquisitions in oriental
+literature, was no less remarkable for his piety.&mdash;A friend reciting Sir
+Edward Coke's couplet of
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  "Six hours to sleep, in law's grave study six,</p>
+           <p>   Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix,"</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>
+he subjoined, rather say,
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,</p>
+           <p>  Ten to the world allot, and <i>all to Heav'n</i>.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	RIVAL SINGERS.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+Dr. Arne was once asked by two vocalists of Covent Garden theatre, to
+decide which of them sung the best. The day being appointed, both
+parties exerted themselves to the utmost, and when they had finished,
+the Dr. addressing the first, said, "As for you, sir, you are the
+<i>worst singer</i> I ever heard in my life." "Ah! ah! (said the other,
+exulting,) I knew I should win my wager." "Stop sir," (says the Dr.) "I
+have a word to say to you before you go;&mdash;as for you, sir, you <i>cannot
+sing at all</i>."
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3>
+	HOW TO EVADE PROOF.
+</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  An Irishman, charg'd with a crime,</p>
+           <p>  Was told it would be brought home to him:</p>
+           <p>  "No, no," quoth Pat, "it sha'nt this time&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  I'll <i>keep away from home</i>&mdash;and do 'em."</p>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<p>
+<i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near
+Somerset-House,) and sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers</i>.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<blockquote class="footnote">
+<a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a>
+<b>Footnote 1</b>:
+<a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+For the loan of the drawing (made in 1780), whence the first
+engraving is copied, we are indebted to the kindness of a
+gentleman of East Grinstead; and for the sketch of the latter
+to an affectionate relative.
+</blockquote>
+
+<blockquote class="footnote">
+<a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a>
+<b>Footnote 2</b>:
+<a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+See "Select Biography," page 199, present Volume of the MIRROR.
+</blockquote>
+
+<blockquote class="footnote">
+<a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"></a>
+<b>Footnote 3</b>:
+<a href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+Notwithstanding our correspondent's equivocal title to this
+article, we beg to assure our readers, who may suspect us of
+<i>diablerie</i>, that we are not a party to the purchase or sale.
+Could an <i>ejectment</i> in this case be effected by <i>common law</i>?
+</blockquote>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement,
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
+Instruction, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  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
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+
+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: May 30, 2005 [EBook #15945]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE ***
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+       *       *       *       *       *
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. X, NO. 279.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1827. [PRICE 2d.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: Brambletye House.]
+
+
+
+
+BRAMBLETYE HOUSE.
+
+
+On the borders of Ashdown Forest, in the county of Sussex, stands the
+above picturesque ruin of Brambletye House, whose lettered fame may be
+dated from the publication of Mr. Smith's novel of that name, in
+January, 1826. The ruin has since attracted scores of tourists, as we
+were, on our recent visit, informed by the occupier of the adjoining
+farm-house; which circumstance coupled with the high literary success of
+Mr. Smith's novel, has induced us to select Brambletye House for the
+illustration of our present number.
+
+Brambletye, or, as it is termed in Doomsday Book, Brambertie House,
+after the conquest, became the property of the Earl of Mortain and
+Cornwall, forming part of the barony then conferred upon him, and
+subsequently denominated the honour of the eagle. Passing into
+possession of the Andehams, Saint Clares, and several others, it came
+into the occupation of the Comptons, towards the beginning of the
+seventeenth century; and from the arms of that family impaling those of
+Spencer, still remaining over the principal entrance, with the date 1631
+in a lozenge, it is conjectured that the old moated edifice (represented
+in the annexed vignette) which had hitherto been the residence of the
+proprietors, was abandoned in the reign of James I., by Sir Henry
+Compton, who built the extensive and solid baronial mansion, commonly
+known by the name of Brambletye House.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"From their undaunted courage and inflexible loyalty to the Stuarts,"
+says the novelist, "the Comptons had been heavy sufferers, both in purse
+and person, during the eventful progress of the civil wars. The Earl of
+Northampton, the head of the family, and nephew to Sir Henry, the
+presumed builder of Brambletye, had four sons, officers under him,
+whereof three charged in the field at the battle of Hopton Heath, and
+the eldest, Lord Compton, was wounded. The Earl himself, refusing to
+take quarter from the rascally Roundheads, as he indignantly termed
+them, even when their swords were at his throat, was put to death in the
+same battle; and the successor to his title, with one of his brothers,
+finally accompanied the royal family in their exile. Sir John Compton, a
+branch of this family, having preserved much of his property from the
+committee of sequestration, displayed rather more splendour than fell to
+the lot of most of the cavaliers who took an equally conspicuous part
+against the parliament armies. Although never capable of any regular
+defence, yet the place being hastily fortified, refused the summons of
+the parliamentarian colonel, Okey, by whom it Was invested; but it was
+speedily taken, when sad havoc was committed by the soldiery, all the
+armorial bearings, and every symbol of rank and gentility, being
+wantonly mutilated or destroyed."
+
+In the time of the commonwealth, Brambletye was the focus of many a
+cavalier conspiracy. "From its not being a place of any strength or
+notice, it was imagined that Brambletye might better escape the keen and
+jealous watchfulness, which kept the protector's eye ever fixed upon the
+strong holds and defensible mansions of the nobility and gentry; while
+its proximity to the metropolis, combined with the seclusion of its
+situation, adapted it to any enterprize which required at the same time
+secrecy, and an easy communication with the metropolis."
+
+In the novel just quoted, which is altogether a pleasant assemblage of
+historical facts, aided by the imaginative garniture of the author, the
+denouement is brought about by the explosion of a gunpowder vault which
+destroyed part of the mansion; and on the marriage of his hero and
+heroine Brambletye House was abandoned to its fate; "and the time that
+has intervened since its desertion," says our author, "combining with
+the casualty and violence by which it was originally shattered and
+dismantled, has reduced it to its present condition of a desolate and
+forlorn ruin."
+
+A visit to Brambletye was the immediate object of our journey, and
+though a distance of thirty-three miles, we considered ourselves amply
+requited by the pensive interest of the scene and its crowded
+associations. In our childhood we had been accustomed to clamber its
+ruins and tottering staircases with delight, not to say triumph;
+heedless as we then were of the historical interest attached to them.
+After a lapse of a score and ---- years, the whole scene had become
+doubly attractive. A new road had been formed from East Grinstead to
+Forest Row, from which a pleasant lane wound off to Brambletye. We are
+at a loss to describe our emotions as we approached the ruin. It was
+altogether a little struggle of human suffering. Within two hundred
+years the mansion had been erected, and by turns became the seat of
+baronial splendour and of civil feuds,--of the best and basest feelings
+of mankind;--the loyalty and hospitality of cavaliers; the fanatic
+outrages of Roundheads; and ultimately of wanton desolation! The gate
+through which Colonel Lilburne and his men entered, was blocked up with
+a hurdle; and the yard where his forces were marshalled was covered with
+high flourishing grass; the towers had almost become mere shells, but
+the vaulted passages, once stored with luxuries and weapons, still
+retained much of their original freshness. What a contrast did these few
+wrecks of turbulent times present with the peaceful scene by which they
+were surrounded, viz. a farm and two water-mills--on one side displaying
+the stormy conflict of man's passion and petty desolation--and on the
+other, the humble attributes of cheerful industry. We strove to repress
+our feelings as we entered the principal porch, where by an assemblage
+of names of visiters scribbled on the walls, and not unknown to us, we
+learnt that, we were not the first to sympathize with the fate of
+Brambletye!
+
+Within these few years, through a sort of barbarous disregard for their
+associations, the lodge and the greater part of the wall represented in
+our engraving, has been pulled down! and the moated house has lately
+shared the same fate--for the sake of their materials--cupidity in which
+we rejoiced to hear the destroyers were disappointed--their intrinsic
+worth not being equal to the labour of removing them: the work of
+destruction would, however, have extended to the whole of the ruins had
+not some guardian hand interfered. It will be seen that the moated house
+was furnished with a ponderous drawbridge and other fortifying
+resources; from the licentious character of its founders it was
+_consequently_ haunted many years before its removal.
+
+In East Grinstead we learned that the Comptons were a noble family, and
+traditions of their hospitality are current amongst the oldest
+inhabitants of that town.[1]
+
+    [1] For the loan of the drawing (made in 1780), whence the first
+        engraving is copied, we are indebted to the kindness of a
+        gentleman of East Grinstead; and for the sketch of the latter
+        to an affectionate relative.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BATTLE HYMN.
+
+_Imitated from the German of Theodore Korner._[2]
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+     Father, in mercy hear
+     A youthful warrior's prayer.
+  Thundering cannons are roaring around me:
+  Carnage and death, and destruction surround me;
+     God of eternal power.
+     Guide me in this dread hour!
+     Guide me in this dread hour
+     God of eternal power!
+  Lead me, base Tyranny manfully braving,
+  Onwards to where _Freedom's_ banner is waving--
+     To death--or victory;
+     I bow to thy decree!
+     I bow to thy decree,
+     In death or victory!
+  'Mid the loud din of the battle's commotion,
+  When Nature smiles, or when storms rend the ocean,
+     Lord of the brave and just
+     In _thee_ I'll put my trust!
+     In thee I'll put my trust,
+     Lord of the brave and just!
+  On thee, the fountain of goodness relying,
+  Whatever ills may come--living and dying
+     I will thy praise proclaim,
+     Blest be thy holy name.
+     Blest be thy holy name,
+     I will thy praise proclaim,
+  'Tis not for worldly ends we're contending,
+  _Liberty's_ sacred cause we're defending,
+     And by thy might on high,
+     We'll conquer--or we'll _die!_
+     We'll conquer--or we'll _die_
+     By the great God on High.
+  When life's red stream from my bosom is swelling,
+  And the last sigh on my faint lip is dwelling,
+     Then Lord in mercy hear
+     A youthful warrior's prayer!
+
+
+J.E.S.
+
+    [2] See "Select Biography," page 199, present Volume of the MIRROR.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ENGLAND IN 827, 1827, 2827.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+One thousand years have now elapsed since Egbert laid the foundation of
+England's glory, by uniting the kingdoms of the heptarchy. What was
+England then? what is it now? what will it be in 2827?
+
+In 827, how confined her empire, how narrow her limits, how few her
+resources; the lord and his vassals the only classes of society. In
+1827, she may exclaim with the Spanish Philip, "The sun never sets upon
+my dominions." How difficult to mention the bounds of her empire, or to
+calculate the vastness of her resources! and still more difficult task
+to enumerate the gradations of society which modern refinement has
+produced. Where will this extended sway, this power, these resources,
+and these refinements be in 2827?
+
+  "Oh! for the glance of prophet's eye,
+  To scan thy depths, futurity."
+
+
+Judging by the fate of nations, they will have passed away like a
+morning cloud. Look at the fame of Nineveh levelled in the dust. Search
+for the site of Babylon, with its walls and gates, its hanging gardens
+and terraces! Contemplate the ghost of the enlightened Athens, stalking
+through the ruins of her Parthenon, her Athenaeum, or Acropolis. Examine
+the shadow of power which now remains to the mighty Rome, the empress of
+the world. Even so will it be with England; ere ten centuries have
+rolled away, her sun-like splendour will illume a western world. Our
+stately palaces and venerable cathedrals, our public edifices and
+manufactories, our paintings and sculpture, will be fruitful subjects of
+conjecture and controversy to the then learned. And a fragment of a
+pillar from St. Paul's, or a mutilated statue from Westminster, will be
+as valuable to them as a column from the Temple of Belus, or a broken
+cornice from the Temple of Theseus, is now to us!
+
+D.A.H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE ROBIN.
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+  Hark to the robin--whistling clear--
+  The requiem of the dying year--
+    Amidst the garden bower.
+  He quits his native forest shade,
+  Ere ruin stern hath there display'd
+    Its desolating power.
+
+  He sings--but not the song of love--
+  No,--that is for the quick'ning grove--
+    The brightly budding tree.
+  And tho' we listen and rejoice;
+  In melody that sweet-ton'd voice
+    Implores our charity.
+
+  The birds of passage take their flight
+  To other lands--of warmth and light--
+    Where orient breezes blow.
+  While here the little red-breast stays,
+  And sweetly warbles out his lays,
+    Amidst the chilling snow.
+
+  When the keen North congeals the stream
+  That sparkled in the summer-beam--
+    Chink--chink--the Robin comes.
+  His near approach proclaims a dearth
+  Of food upon the ice-bound earth;--
+    He whistles for our crumbs.
+
+  But, like the child of want, he hails
+  Too oft where avarice prevails--
+    Devoid of charity;--
+  Where hearts 'neath rich-clad bosoms glow,
+  Yet never feel the inspiring throe
+    Of tender sympathy.
+
+  Tho' pleas'd with wildly-warbled song,
+  The minstrel's life will they prolong
+    With food and shelter warm?
+  No,--see, to shun the cruel snare,
+  Again he wings the frozen air,
+    And dies amidst the storm.
+
+  How sweeter far it were to see
+  The bird familiar, fond, and free,
+    With confidence intrude;--
+  To see him to the table come,
+  And hear him sing o'er ev'ry crumb
+    A song of gratitude.
+
+
+C. COLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BUYING AND SELLING THE DEVIL.
+
+(_For the Mirror._[3])
+
+
+"Every thing may be had for money," is an old remark, and perhaps no
+less true.
+
+There have been also proverbial sayings of buying and selling the devil;
+but that such a traffic was actually ever negociated will appear
+incredible. Blount's "Law Dictionary," under _Conventio_, gives an
+instance of a sale; it is extracted from the court rolls of the manor of
+Hatfield, near the isle of Axholme, county of York, where a curious
+gentleman searched for it and found it regularly entered. There then
+followeth an English translation for the benefit of those who do not
+understand the original language.
+
+"Curia tenta apud Hatfield die Mercurii Prov post Festum. Anno II Edw.
+III."
+
+Robert de Roderham appeared against John de Ithon, for that he had not
+kept the agreement made between them, and therefore complains, that on a
+certain day and year, at Thorne, there was an agreement between the
+aforesaid Robert and John, whereby the said John sold to the said Robert
+the devil, bound in a certain bond, for threepence farthing; and
+thereupon the said Robert delivered to the said John one farthing as
+earnest-money, by which the property of the said devil rested in the
+person of the said Robert, to have livery of the said devil on the
+fourth day next following, at which day the said Robert came to the
+aforementioned John, and asked livery of the said devil, according to
+the agreement between them made. But the said John refused to deliver
+the said devil, nor has he yet done it, &c. to the grievous damage of
+the said Robert to the amount of sixty shillings; and he has therefore
+brought his suit, &c.
+
+The said John came, &c., and did not deny the said agreement; and
+because it appeared to the court that such a suit ought not to subsist
+among Christians, the aforesaid parties are therefore adjourned to the
+infernal regions, there to hear their judgment; and both parties were
+amerced, &c.--by William de Scargell Snesclal.
+
+The above is an exact translation of the original Latin; and if this is
+inserted in your entertaining work, I will make inquiries respecting the
+proceedings.
+
+W.H.H.
+
+    [3] Notwithstanding our correspondent's equivocal title to this
+        article, we beg to assure our readers, who may suspect us of
+        _diablerie_, that we are not a party to the purchase or sale.
+        Could an _ejectment_ in this case be effected by _common law_?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PREVENTION OF EFFLUVIUM.
+
+(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.)
+
+
+Sir,--The choruret of lime is recommended for preventing bad smells from
+water-closets, &c. Can any of your correspondents oblige me and the
+public by communicating the least expensive method of preparing it ready
+for use, and also to state the proper quantity to be used?
+
+C.C.C.C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NANCY LEWIS,
+
+(A CASTLE BAYNARD LYRIC.)
+
+(_For the Mirror_.)
+
+
+  My peace is fled--I cannot rest,--
+    The tale I tell most true is;
+  My heart's been stolen from my breast,
+    By lovely Nancy Lewis.
+
+  Fair is the blossom of the thorn,
+    And bright the morning dew is;
+  But sweeter than the dewy morn
+    The smiles of Nancy Lewis.
+
+  The eye that's sparkling black I love,
+    Ay, more than that which blue is;
+  And thine are like two stars above,
+    And sloe black--Nancy Lewis.
+
+  Alas! alas! their power I feel;
+    My bosom pierced right through is:
+  In pity, then, my bosom heal,
+    My charming Nancy Lewis.
+
+  Oh! bless me with thy heaven of charms,
+    And take a heart that true is,
+  While circling life my bosom warms
+    In thine dear Nancy Lewis.
+
+F. G----N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE NOVELIST
+
+No. CXII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A MOUNTAIN STORY.
+
+
+In one of the most picturesque parts of the western Highlands of
+Scotland stands an inn, which is much frequented by travellers. This inn
+itself adds considerably to the beauty of the landscape. It was formerly
+a manor-house; and the sedate grandeur of its appearance is in such good
+keeping with the scenes in its neighbourhood, and so little in
+accordance with its present appropriation, that travellers more commonly
+stop at the gate to inquire the way to the inn, than drive up at once
+through the green field which is spread before its windows, and its fine
+flight of stone steps. Very few dwellings are to be seen from it; and
+those few are mere cottages, chiefly inhabited by the fishermen of the
+loch. One of these cottages is my dwelling. It stands so near to the
+inn, that I can observe all that goes forward there; but it is so
+over-shadowed and hidden by trees, that I doubt not the greater
+proportion of the visiters to the inn are quite unaware that such a
+cottage is in existence; and of the thousand sketches which artists and
+amateurs have carried away with them, perhaps not one bears any trace of
+the lowly chimneys, or the humble porch of my dwelling.
+
+On one fine evening in the month of August, seven years ago, I was
+depositing my watering-pot in the tool-house, when I observed a gig
+drive up to the inn; it contained a young lady and a gentleman.
+According to my usual habit of conjecture, I settled in my own mind that
+they were husband and wife: bride and bridegroom they could not be, as
+they were in deep mourning. They seated themselves by an open window
+till it grew dark, and I saw no more of them that night. In my early
+watch the next morning, I passed them twice, and changed my opinion
+respecting them. They were evidently brother and sister: there was a
+strong resemblance between them, and a slight difference in years--the
+young man appearing to be about eighteen, his sister one or two and
+twenty. She was not handsome; but the expression of melancholy on her
+countenance, and an undefinable air of superiority about her, engaged my
+attention. The brother _was_ handsome--very handsome. His features
+were fine, but their expression was finer still. He had taken off his
+hat, and I had a full view of him. What an intellect did that forehead
+bespeak! what soul was in those eyes! "Why," thought I, "does she look
+so melancholy, while leaning on the arm of such a brother?" But a glance
+at her dress let me into the cause of her sorrow. A father or a mother,
+or perhaps such another brother, has been taken from her. Whatever the
+cause of their common grief might be, it seemed only to knit them more
+closely together; for never did I see a brother and sister so attached.
+They were inseparable: and during the many days which they spent at the
+inn, the interest of their conversations never seemed to flag. They were
+always talking; and always, apparently, with animation and sympathy.
+
+On the fourth day after their arrival, I was sitting at work, at a
+window which commands a view of the head of the loch, and of the
+mountains on the opposite side. It was then between four and five in the
+afternoon; the sun was bright, and the weather as fine as possible. The
+tide was out, and, as usual, many groups of children were busied in
+collecting shells and sea-weed. Among them were my two friends (for so I
+must call them.) They seemed in gayer spirits than I had yet seen them;
+they picked up a basket-full of shells; they set up a mark by which to
+watch the receding waters; they entered into conversation with a
+boatman, and strolled on till they came to the little bridge which spans
+a rivulet at the head of the loch. I saw them lean over the parapet, to
+watch the gurgling brook beneath. Then they turned, to survey the high
+mountains above them; and after awhile, they directed their steps to the
+base of one of them. I saw them gradually mount the green slope, turning
+every now and then to gaze at the scene below, until I could but
+indistinctly discern their figures, amidst the shadows which were
+beginning to spread over the valley and the lower parts of the mountain.
+I knew that the mountain which they were ascending was not often tried
+either by natives or by strangers, for it was boggy and pathless; though
+tempting to the eye by its verdure, and by a fine pile of rocks, which
+stood like a crown on the brow of the first grand ascent.
+
+The richest glow of the evening sun was upon the mountain's brow; light
+crimson clouds were floating, as it seemed to me, just over the head of
+the youth, as he mounted higher and higher--springing from one point to
+another. I saw his slight form on the very ridge, though lessened almost
+to a point by the distance, yet conspicuous by its motion, and by the
+relief of the glowing sky behind. He disappeared. I looked for his
+sister: she was still sitting on her sunny seat, while all below was
+wrapped in a deep grey shadow. I laid down my glass, and resumed my work
+for awhile. I looked again; she was still there, and alone--but the
+sun-light was gone! I thought she looked forlorn; and I wished her
+brother would return to her. Again the sun burst forth on the
+mountain-top--it had only been obscured by a cloud. I saw the lady start
+from her seat, and turn round. An eagle had sprung from among the rocks:
+she was watching its flight--it ascended into the blue sky, and was lost
+to sight. She sauntered a few steps on one side of her seat, then on the
+other, and looked around her. "I wish her brother would return to her,"
+thought I again. She shaded her eyes with her hand, and looked up: but
+vainly! The shadows had crept apace up the mountain side: her seat was
+no longer sunny, but she sat down again.
+
+I had by this time become, I knew not why, rather nervous: my hand shook
+so, that I could not fix the glass. I laid it down, and went to take a
+turn in my garden. I came back presently to the window, and once more
+turned my glass in the direction of the mountain. The seat was vacant.
+"They are coming down together, I hope," thought I. "It is high time
+they should; it is becoming dark and chilly!" But I could not trace
+them. At length I saw something white fluttering in the breeze. It was
+so small that I should not have discerned it, if my very power of sight
+had not been sharpened by the anxiety I began to feel for these young
+people. By intently gazing--by straining my sight to the uttermost, I
+made out that the young lady was standing on a point of rock, lower
+down, and more conspicuous than that on which she had been seated. She
+had tied her handkerchief to her parasol, and was waving it, no doubt,
+as a signal to her brother. My heart turned sick, and I could see no
+more. I looked at my watch, and found that it was nearly three hours
+since they had begun their ascent. The next consideration was, what I
+ought to do. If I had been certain that the brother had lost his way, it
+was, no doubt, my duty to send persons from the inn, to find him. But
+how did I know that any peril existed, excepting in my own imagination?
+He might have ascended before, and be perfectly acquainted with the
+descent; he might be gone in search of some particular view, and have
+prepared his sister for the length of his absence, as she was too much
+fatigued to accompany him. In this case, any interference of mine would
+be impertinent. What should I do? I leaned out of my window, as if in
+the hope of seeing some object, which should help me to a decision. Such
+an object was just before me, in the person of an old fisherman, a
+next-door neighbour, and very honest friend of mine. "Come hither,
+John," said I; and I stated the case to him. He thought we need not fear
+any danger. The mountain was not very high; he knew of no dangerous
+places on it; and was of opinion that there would be light enough to
+guide their steps half an hour longer. He advised me to leave them
+alone, for that time at least. I determined to do so, and sat down to my
+tea-table, on which I had not yet bestowed a thought. I drew it close to
+the window, and looked as earnestly as ever; but it was now too dark to
+see anything but the indistinct outlines of the mountains, and the loch
+gleaming in the twilight. The half-hour passed, and I had not seen them
+return; they might have returned without my having seen them; but I
+could not bear uncertainty any longer. I sent my servant to the inn, to
+inquire if they had arrived, and whether they had ordered tea, or given
+any expectation as to the time of their retain.
+
+She brought word, that though tea had been ready for an hour past, the
+lady and gentleman had not returned; and that the landlady would be glad
+to know whether I could give her any intelligence of them.
+
+"Let me pass!" said I, hastily opening the gate.
+
+"Your bonnet, ma'am! shall I fetch your bonnet?" said my maid.
+
+At that moment some one rushed past me. It was the young lady--running,
+or attempting to run, but with faltering and unequal steps. I followed
+her. At the first of the flight of steps before the inn, she stumbled
+and fell. She was trembling and sobbing violently; whether from
+breathlessness or agony, I could not tell. I raised her, and assisted
+her to mount the steps. "My brother! my brother!" she exclaimed
+incessantly. I could get no words but these from her. No time was to be
+lost. I sat down beside her, and took both her hands; and speaking as
+calmly as I could, said, "Compose yourself, and tell us what we must do.
+Have you missed your brother, or has any accident befallen him before
+your eyes?"
+
+"He is on the mountain there! He left me, and did not come back. He said
+he should not be gone twenty minutes."
+
+"Now I know all," replied I. "I will take some people from the inn with
+lights, and we will find him. You must stay and compose yourself, and be
+patient; he has only missed his way."
+
+She insisted upon going too; and declared that this was necessary, in
+order to point out the track which her brother had taken. I explained to
+her how I had watched their progress, and was therefore able to direct
+their search. But she was resolute in her determination to go; and
+finding her to be so, I gave up my intention of accompanying the party,
+believing that I should only retard their progress.
+
+I arranged with the landlady, that in case of any fatal accident having
+happened, the young lady should be brought to my house, where she would
+be in greater quiet and retirement than amid the bustle of an inn.
+
+Hour after hour did we wait, listening to every sound, trembling at
+every breath; and so shaken and weakened by intolerable suspense, that
+we were ill-fitted to think and to act as occasion might require. It was
+a dark, cloudy, and windy night. We often looked out, but could see
+nothing, scarcely even the outline of the mountain. We listened, and our
+hearts beat thick, when there was no sound but the rising gust! I dwell
+on these circumstances too long, because I recoil from relating the
+catastrophe, as if it were but recent--as if my thoughts had not been
+familiarized with it for years.
+
+It was as we feared; he was found lying at the bottom of a rock, no more
+than ten feet high--but lifeless. His neck had been dislocated by the
+fall. There were no external bruises--no signs of any struggle--nothing
+painful in his appearance. I cannot relate every circumstance of that
+dreadful night. I thought _she_ was gone too; she was brought in,
+insensible, and remained so for hours. She was taken immediately to my
+house, and put to bed. The body of her brother was also carried there,
+for I knew she would not be separated from it. I sat beside her,
+watching her faint breathing, anxious for some sign of returning
+consciousness, but dreading the agony which must attend it. If she had
+died, I could hardly have grieved for her; but there might be parents,
+brothers, and sisters! Oh, that I knew, that I could bring them to her!
+Alone, among strangers! how was she to bear her solitary grief?--how was
+she to sustain the struggle which awaited her in the first hour of her
+awakening? I could not banish the remembrance of them as I had seen them
+in the afternoon; happy in each other, and thinking not of separation;
+then, as he was when I last saw him, full of life and acuity, and
+apparently unboundedly happy, in the contemplation of scenes which a
+soul like his was fitted to enjoy.
+
+Day dawned, and no change was perceivable; but in two hours afterwards
+she opened her eyes. I crossed the room, to see whether she observed my
+motion. She did; and I therefore opened the curtain, and spoke to her.
+She gazed, but did not reply. Presently she seized my arm, muttering
+some words, of which "my mother!" was all I could understand. I took the
+opportunity of saying, that I was going to write to her family, and
+asked how I should address them.
+
+"My family!" said she, "I have none. They are all gone now!"
+
+I thought her mind was wandering. "Your father and mother," said I,
+"where are they?" My heart smote me as I uttered the words, but the
+question was necessary.
+
+"I have no father and mother!"
+
+"Nor brothers and sisters? Pardon me, but I must ask."
+
+"You need not ask, because I will tell you. There were many of us once,
+but I am the last!"
+
+I could not go on, yet it must be done.
+
+"But you have friends, who will come to you?"
+
+"Yes; I have a grandfather. He lives in Hampshire. He is very old, but
+he will come to me, if he still lives. If not!"----
+
+"He _will_ come," said I, "I will write to him directly."
+
+"I will write myself!" exclaimed she, starting up. "He will not believe
+the story unless I write myself. Who _would_ believe it?"
+
+I assured her she should write the next day; but I positively forbad
+such an exertion at present. She yielded; she was indeed in no condition
+for writing. Her mind seemed in an unnatural state; and I was by no
+means sure that she had given a correct account of herself. I wrote to
+her grandfather, on the supposition that she had; and was quite
+satisfied when, in the evening, she gave me, in few words, her family
+history. She had been relieved, though exhausted, by tears; and her mind
+was calm and rational. She was indeed the last of her family. Her mother
+had died a few weeks before, after a lingering illness; and the sole
+surviving brother and sister had been prevailed on to take this tour,
+to recruit their strength and spirits, after their long watching and
+anxiety. They were always, as I discovered, bound together by the
+strongest affection; and now that they had been made by circumstances
+all in all to each other, they were thus separated! Will not my readers
+excuse my attempting to describe such grief as her's must have been?
+
+Her grandfather arrived on the earliest possible day. He was old, and
+had some infirmities; but his health was not, as he assured us, at all
+injured by his hurried and painful journey. Nothing could be more tender
+than his kindness to his charge; though he was, perhaps, too far
+advanced in this life, and too near another, to feel the pressure of
+this kind of sorrow, as a younger or weaker mind would have done.
+
+I could not help indulging in much painful conjecture as to the fate of
+this young creature, when she should lose her last remaining stay: a
+period which could not be far distant. But on this point I obtained some
+satisfaction before her departure.
+
+A few days before she left me, a gentleman arrived at the inn, and came
+immediately to my cottage. She introduced him to me as "a friend." No
+one said what kind of a friend he was; but I could entertain no doubt
+that he was one who would supply the place of her brother to her.
+
+"Her mind will not be left without a keeper," thought I, as I saw them
+direct their steps to the brother's grave. "Thank God, her grandfather
+is not her only remaining stay!"
+
+They quitted the place together; and many a sympathizing heart did they
+leave behind them--by many an anxious wish and prayer were they
+followed. The last promise required from me was, that I would see that
+the grave of her brother was respected. What a pang did it cost her to
+leave that grave?
+
+I heard tidings of her three times afterwards. Her letters pleased me;
+they testified a deep, but not a selfish or corroding grief--a power of
+exertion, and a disposition to hope and be cheerful. The last letter I
+received from her, arrived more than five years ago. She had taken the
+name which I conjectured would in time be her's. She had lost her
+grandfather; but the time was past when his departure could occasion
+much grief. She was then going abroad with her husband, for an
+indefinite period of time. If they were spared to return to their native
+country, they proposed visiting my little dwelling once more, to gaze
+with softened emotions on scenes sadly endeared to them, and to mingle
+their tears once more over a brother's grave.
+
+Perhaps that day may yet arrive.
+
+_Literary Magnet_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+ARCANA OF SCIENCE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+_Polar Expedition._
+
+It is known by the experience of all former voyages to the arctic
+circle, that towards the end of the season, in consequence of the heat
+radiating from the lard, the ice is detached from the shores of these
+seas, and floats southward. Ice, therefore, does not detach from other
+ice, but from the coast. Taking this principle with us, when we find
+that our expedition traversed a surface of some hundred miles, we
+conclude, whatever was the extent of that mass drifting south, it must
+have left an equal extent of open water in its original place in the
+north. We also infer, that there must be land at the north pole, from
+which this body was separated; and that if it could have been entirely
+crossed, Captain Parry and his companions would have found a clear sea
+for the boats, and had little difficulty in reaching Polar
+Land.--_Literary Gazette_.
+
+
+_Pemecan._
+
+This substance (mentioned in our recent abstract of the Polar Expedition
+as part of the provision for the crew) consists of meat prepared in the
+same way that the Indians prepare their provision of buffalo or deer.
+The flesh, _beef_ in this case, is cut into stripes, and dried by
+the smoke of wood. It is then beaten into a powder, and an equal
+proportion of fat being melted, the whole is mixed up together into a
+solid mass. It is evident that more of real sustenance from animal
+matter cannot be combined in any less bulky or burdensome compound. It
+makes an excellent and very nutritious soup.
+
+
+_Egyptian Architecture._
+
+It is somewhat surprising, that among the crowd of novelties, and
+very especially of attempts to depart from the received models of
+architecture, the _Egyptian_ has not taken its share. It is true
+that some very partial attempts have been made; in the metropolis, we
+believe, not exceeding two; and if we add to these a school recently
+erected at Devonport, a mausoleum at Trentham for the Stafford family,
+and an iron-manufactory now erecting in Wales, we have probably
+enumerated the whole. Such as the examples have been, they have not
+spread; and, indeed, we may say, that they have scarcely attracted any
+notice, whether for good or evil; though the publicity and singularity
+of aspect of the most accessible specimen in Piccadilly might have at
+least been expected to distinguish it, in the general eye, from the
+buildings by which it is surrounded. As to the public, we find no
+difficulty in accounting for this. This style has not been pointed out
+to them, and they have not been desired either to admire or dislike it.
+Why the architects have neglected it, they must themselves explain,
+since we believe there have been but two in that profession who have
+been concerned with the buildings to which we have alluded, the last
+named of these being an attempt of a dillettante in the art. As to the
+specimens where it has been thought fit to introduce the Egyptian window
+or doorway in churches of a Greek design, we consider the attempt faulty
+and censurable. This is a false and misplaced ambition after novelty,
+which marks far too much of what has recently been effected in our new
+churches.--_Westminster Review._
+
+
+_Coinage._
+
+Coins are generally completed by one blow of the coining-press. These
+presses are worked in the Royal Mint by machinery, so contrived that
+they shall strike, upon an average, 60 blows in a minute; the blank
+piece, previously properly prepared and annealed, being placed between
+the dies by part of the same mechanism. The number of pieces which may
+be struck by a single die of good steel, properly hardened and duly
+tempered, not unfrequently amounts at the Mint to between 3 and 400,000.
+There are eight presses at the Mint, frequently at work ten hours a day,
+each press producing 3,600 pieces per hour; but making allowance for
+occasional stoppages, the daily progress of each press may be reckoned
+at 30,000 pieces; the eight presses, therefore, will furnish a diurnal
+average of 240,000 pieces.--_Quarterly Journal._
+
+
+_The Ornithorynous._
+
+This remarkable animal, which forms the link between the bird and beast,
+has a bill like a duck, and paws webbed similar to that bird, but legs
+and body like those of a quadruped, covered with thick, coarse hair,
+with a broad tail to steer by. It abounds in the rivers of New Holland,
+and may be seen bobbing to the top every now and then, to breathe, like
+a seal, then diving again in quest of its prey. It is believed to lay
+eggs, as a nest with eggs in it of a peculiar appearance was some time
+ago found. It bears a claw on the inside of its foot, having a tube
+therein, through which it emits a poisonous fluid into the wounds which
+the claw inflicts; as, when assailed, it strikes its paws together, and
+fastens upon its enemy like a crab.--_Cunningham's New South
+Wales._
+
+
+_Sheep_
+
+Are bred to an immense extent in New South Wales. In 1813, the number of
+sheep in the colony amounted to 6,514; in 1821, to 119,777. The
+exportation of wool to England during the last year exceeded a million
+of pounds, and at the same rate of increase, in 1840, will reach to
+between 30 and 40 millions of pounds. Bullocks are recommended for
+draught in preference to horses, and the speed of a well-taught, lively,
+strong bullock is little short of that of a horse.--_Ibid._
+
+
+_Garden Rhubarb._
+
+To force garden rhubarb, sow the seed on a rich moist border in the
+beginning of April. Thin the young plants during the summer; in the end
+of October, carefully transplant them into forcing-pots, five or six in
+each pot. Place them in a northern aspect, to recover the effect of
+their removal from the seed-bed, and in a month they are fit for
+forcing.
+
+
+_American Canals._
+
+The canals are the most striking internal improvements in the United
+States. The Great Erie canal is 360 miles in length, with an average
+breadth of 40 feet. It connects the great line of lakes with the ocean
+by the Hudson. Another to connect the Hudson with Lake Champlain is also
+complete. Above 2,000,000_l._ have been expended on them; and the
+annual returns from the tolls alone have already amounted to
+120,000_l._ In the state of Ohio, another canal is in progress,
+almost equal in magnitude to the Erie canal. On the rivers which it
+connects with the lakes, there is a steam-boat navigation of 5,000
+miles. In Pennsylvania, the Schuylkill navigation works comprise an
+extent of 108 miles, of which 62 are canal, and 46 the river made
+navigable. These works are complete. The Union canal, a line of 74
+miles, to connect the Schuylkill with the Susqueannah, is in progress,
+and will be completed within the present year. These, however, are but a
+few of the gigantic strides which America is making in the march of
+nations.
+
+
+_Caledonian Canal._
+
+Between August 1, 1826, and August 1, 1827, 212 vessels have passed
+through the Caledonian canal from sea to sea. 295 vessels have made
+partial passages through one end of the canal, to and from various
+ports; 74 boats, not above 15 tons burden each, have been employed in
+the carriage of articles to the fishery stations; and 91 steam-boats
+have passed through the canal, all within the period abovementioned.
+
+
+_Medicine._
+
+A respectable contemporary journal gives the following calculations on
+the relative state of the medical profession in London and Paris. The
+French have long objected to the multitude of our professors, and the
+drugs they employ; and it would seem by this comparative statement that
+their objection is not ill-founded:--
+
+In _London_ there are 174 physicians, or 1 physician to 700
+inhabitants; 1,000 surgeons, or 1 surgeon to 1,200 inhabitants; 2,000
+apothecaries, or 1 apothecary to 600 inhabitants.
+
+In _Paris_ there is 1 physician to 1,300 inhabitants; 1 surgeon to
+6,000 inhabitants; 1 apothecary to 4,450 inhabitants.
+
+Being in the proportion of 1 physician in Paris to 5 in London; 5
+surgeons in London to 1 in Paris; 7 apothecaries in London to 1 in
+Paris.
+
+Supposing, on an average, each of these persons to receive
+1,000_l._ a year, the whole income of the medical profession in
+London would be 3,474,000_l._ annually.
+
+
+_Poor Rates._
+
+About the close of the seventeenth century, the poors' rates of England
+and Wales were stated, on the authority of parliamentary documents, to
+amount to 665,362_l._; and the population of both to 5,475,000. In
+1821, the poors' rates amounted to about 7,000,000_l._, and the
+population to 12,218,000. Dividing the greater rates 7,000,000_l._
+by the lesser 665,362_l._, we have about 10-1/2 to 1, which is the
+proportion in which the poors' rates have increased in the last 127
+years. And dividing the greater population 12,218,000 by the lesser
+5,475,000, give about 2-1/2 to 1, which is the proportionate increase of
+population during that space of time.
+
+
+_Van Dieman's Land Wasp._
+
+The wasp of Van Dieman's Land is a smaller but much more splendid insect
+than the English wasp; it has four orange-coloured wings, and horns and
+legs of the same colour, a hard body, and a formidable sting. It is an
+inhabitant of the forest, and is at war with a spider that makes its
+hole in the sandy places, and which is armed with a cap or door, which
+it pulls over on the approach of its enemy, or in rainy weather. The
+wasp hovers close over the ground, prowling from one hole to another.
+Having seized its prey, it immediately kills the spider, and carries it
+off to its own hole, when it is said to devour the limbs, and to deposit
+its egg in the body to be hatched by the putrefaction that ensues, and
+which furnishes food for the young insect produced.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+
+No. XLVIII.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HIGHLAND SUPERSTITION.
+
+
+There is an extraordinary superstition connected with the M'Alister
+family. Ages ago,--for I have never yet got a date from a Highlander as
+to the transactions of long past times,--but many generations back, in
+the days of a chief of great renown in the clan, called M'Alister More,
+either from his deeds or his stature, there was a skirmish with a
+neighbouring clan that ended fatally for the M'Alisters, though in the
+contest at the time they were victorious.
+
+A party of their young men set out once upon a foray; they marched over
+the hills for several hours, and at last descended into a little glen,
+which was rented as a black cattle farm by a widow woman and her two
+sons. The sons were absent from home on some excursion, and had carried
+most of their servants with them, so that the M'Alisters met with no
+resistance in their attempts to raise the cattle. They hunted every
+corner of the glen, secured every beast, and, in spite of the tears of
+the widow, they drove her herd away. When the sons returned, and heard
+the story of the raid, they collected a strong party of their friends,
+and crossing the hill secretly by night, surprised the few M'Alisters
+who were left in charge of the spoil, vanquished them easily, and
+recovered their cattle. Such a slight to the power of M'Alister More
+could not go unpunished. The chief himself headed the band which set out
+to vindicate the honour of the clan. He marched steadily over the rugged
+mountains, and arrived towards sunset in the little glen. To oppose the
+force he brought with him, would have been fruitless; the sons and their
+few adherents were speedily overpowered, and led bound before him; they
+were small in number, but they were gallant and brave, and yielded only
+to superior strength. M'Alister More was always attended by four and
+twenty bowmen, who acted as his body guard, his jury, his judges, and
+his executioners. They erected on the instant a gibbet before the door
+of the wretched mother, and there her sons were hung.
+
+Her cottage was built at the foot of a craggy, naked rock, on a strip of
+green pasture land, and beside a mountain torrent; the gibbet was a few
+paces from it, on the edge of the shelf; and the setting rays of a
+bright summer sun fell on the bodies of the widow's sons. They were
+still warm when she came and stood beside them. She raised her eyes on
+the stern chief, and his many followers, and slowly and steadily she
+pronounced her curse:--
+
+"Shame, shame on you, M'Alister! You have slain them that took but their
+own; you have slain them you had injured! You have murdered the
+fatherless, and spoiled the widow! but he that is righteous shall judge
+between us, and the curse of God shall cling to you for this for ever.
+The sun rose on me the proud mother of two handsome boys; he sets on
+their stiffening bodies!" and she raised her arm, as she spoke, towards
+the gibbet. Her eye kindled, and her form dilated, as she turned again
+to her vindictive foe. "I suffer now," said she, "but you shall surfer
+always. You have made me childless, but you and yours shall be heirless
+for ever. Long may their name last, and wide may their lands be; but
+never, while the name and the lands continue, shall there be a son to
+the house of M'Alister!"
+
+The curse of the bereaved widow clung steadily to the house of
+M'Alister. The lands passed from heir to heir, but no laird had ever
+been succeeded by a son. Often had the hopes of the clan been raised;
+often had they thought for years that the punishment of their ancestor's
+cruelty was to be continued to them no longer--that the spirits of the
+widow's sons were at length appeased; but M'Alister More was to suffer
+for ever; the hopes of his house might blossom, but they always faded.
+It was in the reign of the good Queen Anne that they flourished for the
+last time; they were blighted then, and for ever.
+
+The laird and the lady had had several daughters born to them in
+succession, and at last a son: he grew up to manhood in safety--the
+pride of his people, and the darling of his parents; giving promise of
+every virtue that could adorn his rank. He had been early contracted in
+marriage to the daughter of another powerful chieftain in the North, and
+the alliance, which had been equally courted by both families, was
+concluded immediately on the return of the young laird from his travels.
+There was a great intercourse in those days with France--most of the
+young highland chiefs spent a year or two in that country, many of them
+were entirely educated there, but that was not the case with the young
+heir of M'Alister; he had only gone abroad to finish his breeding after
+coming to man's estate. It was shortly before the first rebellion in the
+15, to speak as my informant spoke to me--and being young, and of an
+ardent nature, he was soon attracted to the court of the old Pretender,
+whose policy it was to gain every Scotch noble, by every means, to his
+views. The measures he took succeeded with the only son of
+M'Alister:--he returned to his native country, eager for the approaching
+contest, pledged heart and hand to his exiled sovereign. In the troubles
+which broke out almost immediately on the death of the queen, he and his
+father took different sides; the old laird fortified his high tower, and
+prepared to defend it to the last, against the enemies of the House of
+Hanover. The young laird bade adieu to his beautiful wife, and attended
+by a band of his young clansmen, easily gained to aid a cause so
+romantic, he secretly left his duchess, and joined the army of the
+Pretender at Perth.
+
+The young wife had lived with her husband, at a small farm on the
+property, a little way up the glen, a mile or two from the castle. But
+when her husband deserted her, she was removed by her father-in-law to
+his own house for greater security. Months rolled away, and the various
+fortunes of the rebels were reported, from time to time, in the remote
+glen where the chief strength of the M'Alisters lay. News did not travel
+swiftly then, and often they heard what was little to be relied on, so
+much did hope or fear magnify any slight success, or any ill-fortune. At
+last, there came a sough of a great battle having been fought somewhere
+in the west country, which had decided the fate of the opposing parties.
+The young laird and his valiant band had turned the fortune of the day.
+Argyle was defeated and slain, and the Earl of Marr was victorious;--King
+James had arrived, and was to be crowned at Scone, and all Scotland was
+his own.
+
+It was on a cold, bleak, stormy, November evening, when this news was
+brought, by a Brae-Marr-man, to the laird's tower. He was wise and
+prudent, and he would give no ear to a tale so lightly told: but his
+beautiful daughter-in-law, sanguine for her husband's sake, cherished
+reports that brightened all her prospects. She retired to her chamber,
+almost hoping that another day might see it enlivened by his presence,
+without whom life to her was a dreary blank. She was lodged in a small
+apartment on the third story of the tower, opening straight from a
+narrow passage at the head of the winding stairs. It had two small
+windows, which looked on the paved courtyard of the castle; and beyond,
+to what was then a bare meadow, and the river. The moon gave little
+light, and she turned from the gloomy prospect to the ample hearth, on
+which the bright logs were blazing. Her heart was full, and her mind so
+restless, that after her maidens left her, she continued to pace up and
+down her little chamber, unwilling to retire to rest. At length she
+threw herself upon her bed, exhausted by the eagerness of her feelings,
+and in the agitation of her ideas she forgot to say her prayers. Yet
+she slept, and calmly, but her sleep was short. She awakened suddenly,
+and starting half up, listened anxiously for some minutes. The wind blew
+strongly round the old tower, and a thick shower of sleet was driving
+fast against the casements; but, in the pauses of the storm, she thought
+she heard distinctly, though at a distance, the tramp of a horse at his
+speed. She bent forward and watched the sound. It came nearer--it grew
+louder--it gallopped over the hard ground, and approached with the
+swiftness of lightning. She gasped and trembled--it was he, it must be
+he,--she knew the long firm bound of her husband's charger. Its rapid
+feet struck loud on the pavement of the courtyard below, and in an
+instant dropt dead below the great door of the castle. She had neither
+power to breathe, nor to move, but she listened for the call of the
+porter's name, and the jar of the chains and bolts which secured the
+door. She heard nothing--she grew bewildered, and tried to rise to call
+for succour--but a spell was on her to keep her down. At length, from
+the very bottom of the winding stair, came the sound of a firm foot,
+ascending regularly step by step, without a pause in its motion, the
+several stories. It rang on the stone passage adjoining her apartment,
+and stept with a loud tread at her door. No lock was turned, no hinge
+was opened, but a rushing wind swept through the room. Her fire had
+burned away, and she had neither lamp nor taper by her, but as she
+started up in an agony of terror, the heavy logs in her wide chimney
+fell of themselves, and lighting by the fall, sent forth a blaze into
+the chamber. Almost frantic with fear, she seized with one hand the
+curtains of her bed, and darting a look of horror, she saw, seated by
+the hearth, a figure in martial array, without a head; it held its arms
+out towards her, and slowly rose. The scream she tried to utter was
+suffocated in her throat--she fell motionless; the last sight she saw
+was an eagle's plume steeped in blood, cast at her feet by the advancing
+spectre--the last sound she heard was the loud crash of every door in
+the castle. When her maidens came to her in the morning, she was
+extended in a swoon upon the floor. She lay for hours cold and
+insensible, and they thought that she was gone for ever. After many
+trials she came at last to herself, but she recovered only to hear the
+true tale of the battle of Sheriff-muir.
+
+The Chevalier de St. George and the Earl of Marr had fled the country;
+many of their noble adherents had been fortunate enough to secure a
+retreat with them to France; some had been pardoned; a few had been
+taken in arms, and these few were executed; amongst them was the young
+heir of M'Alister--_Inspector._
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+
+
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+
+SADDLED AND BRIDLED.
+
+BY A. CUNNINGHAM.
+
+
+  Saddled and bridled,
+   And booted was he--
+  A plume at his helmet,
+   A sword at his knee;--
+  Toom hame came the saddle
+   At evening to me,
+  And hame came his steed--
+   But hame never came he!
+
+  Down came his grey father,
+   Sobbing fu' sair;
+  Down came his auld mother,
+   Tearing her hair:
+  Down came his sweet wife,
+   Wi' her bonnie bairns three--
+  Ane at her bosom,
+   And twa at her knee!
+
+  There stood his fleet steed,
+   All foaming and hot;
+  There shrieked his sweet wife,
+   And sank on the spot,--
+  There stood his grey father,
+   Weeping fu' free,
+  For hame came his steed,
+   But hame never came he!
+
+_Literary Magnet._
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+
+TOBACCO-PIPE CONTROVERSY.
+
+
+A furious, and yet unappeased, controversy has lately raged in the
+newspapers, upon the question of the filthy nuisance of smoking
+tobacco--segars or pipe; and as in all other cases when men allow their
+passions to be heated by opposition, has run in great personalities
+between gentlemen who sign themselves Viator and Tabatiere. Whole
+columns of the newspapers have been occupied in discussing, in the first
+place, whether a man who smokes at all is a beast or not; and secondly,
+the argument has run into the comparative beastliness of smoking and
+snuffing. A future Hume, on looking over the journals, may thus sum up
+the merits of the case. About this period great hostilities arose
+between the advocates of segars and their opponents, which occupied the
+attention of thousands, who took a lively interest in the successful
+issue of the controversy. By the advocates for the practice it was urged
+with some plausibility of statement, that as to the pleasure of a segar,
+none but those who used them ought to express an opinion upon the
+point--that to appeal to experience, tobacco was in more universal
+use among nations than bread corn--that it had been known to stay the
+plague, and was the friend and companion of rich and poor. These
+statements were met with undisguised contempt, and it was retaliated,
+that the practice of using tobacco either by smoke or snuff, was a
+nuisance to others, thus infringing the very primary principles of civil
+liberty--that it led to drunkenness and debauch--that snuff spoiled the
+complexion--stopped the nose to the perception of odours--and that as to
+the ladies, they would positively spurn any approach of familiar
+friendship from a snuff-taker. This raised the concealed anger of the
+snuff-takers, who had hitherto maintained a stubborn neutrality while
+the argument was kept to smoke. They replied both by wit and
+invective--they affirmed snuff to have a moral use--"Dust to
+dust"--would remind them of the brevity of life--that the king and
+ministers patronized the habit, and gave away L10,000 worth of
+snuff-boxes in every year--that as to the nose being blockaded, that was
+a happy circumstance to London residents, and enabled them to acquire
+the French accent more naturally--that as to the assumed yellowness of
+complexion complained of, it was only studious and Werter-like--and that
+as to the ladies refusing to be saluted by snuff-takers, that was a
+thing which modesty and prudence required them to sneeze at. The
+historian might add by way of reflection, that nothing could more
+clearly show the national freedom from anxious cares, when it was
+thought that the public took interest in the comparative merits of
+blackened teeth or a snuffy pocket-handkerchief.--_The Inspector._
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+
+FASHIONABLE NOVELS.
+
+
+Of the slip-slop reading, under this denomination, with which the town
+has lately been inundated, the following is a fair specimen:--
+
+_Hyde Nugent._--The book is made up completely of the gossip of
+drawing-rooms, hotels, dinners, and balls. As to the hero, if any one
+has a grain of curiosity about him--gratify it. Hyde is the son of a man
+of family and fortune; he goes to Oxford, fights a duel, and is
+expelled--prevails upon a marquess to break the matter to the
+father--falls in love with the marquess's daughter--goes large and loose
+about town--is every where introduced--and one of every party.
+Notwithstanding certain warnings, and his own disgusts, he frequents
+Crockford's--gets plucked, and moreover deeply involved with the Jews.
+In the meanwhile he does not neglect the marquess's daughter. They soon
+come to an understanding. He is irresistible--she is an houri. But the
+consciousness of his embarrassments press heavily upon him, and he is on
+the point of taking some desperate step, when he is summoned to attend a
+friend in a duel, who kills his antagonist; and he and Hyde are obliged
+to fly. This rescues him from his gaming associates; though he gets
+among others at Lisbon, and narrowly escapes assassination. On his
+return to England, his sister has married a duke's eldest son, and all
+the family visit the said duke's, and there also assemble the aforesaid
+marquess and his beautiful daughter.
+
+But now comes forward more than before, an officer of the guards--a
+guardsman is now become indispensable--who is also in love with the
+marquess's daughter, and being not at all scrupulous of the means of
+accomplishing his point--a very worthless person in short--he plays
+Iago, and pours into the lady's ear the tale of Hyde's gambling
+propensities, and his deep involvements; and moreover of a lady whose
+affection he had wantonly won, and wantonly cut, and who was now
+actually dying for him. This, however, was not all true; the lady
+alluded to was the daughter of his father's friend and neighbour; she
+and Hyde had been brought up together from children, and played and
+romped together, and once, before Hyde went to Oxford, he had forced
+from her a kiss. The poor fond girl had treasured up the kiss, and Hyde
+had thought no more of her, or of it. She, however, pined away, and let
+concealment feed on her damask cheek; and at this time was at Brighton
+for change of air. She has a brother, a lancer; he hears, through Hyde's
+precious rival, of the state of his sister, and for the first time, of
+the cause. He flies to the duke's--though deeply occupied, at the
+moment, in seducing the affections of a married woman in Ireland--and
+calls upon Hyde to meet him forthwith. Hyde's rival is the lancer's
+second. Hyde falls, and as he is borne bleeding to the house, Lady
+Georgina, the marquess's daughter, meets him. The shock kills her
+outright, and the story stops; but hints are given that he slowly
+recovers, and by still slower degrees is brought to think of the
+charming girl, who had treasured his boyish kiss, and marries.--_Monthly
+Magazine_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MAN-EATING SOCIETY.
+
+
+There is a horrible institution among some of the Indian tribes, which
+furnishes a powerful illustration of their never-tiring love of
+vengeance. It is called the Man-Eating Society, and it is the duty of
+its associates to devour such prisoners as are preserved and delivered
+to them for that purpose. The members of this society belong to a
+particular family, and the dreadful inheritance descends to all the
+children, male and female. Its duties cannot be dispensed with, and the
+sanctions of religion are added to the obligations of immemorial usage.
+The feast is considered a solemn ceremony, at which the whole tribe is
+collected as actors or spectators. The miserable victim is fastened to a
+stake, and burned at a slow fire, with all the refinements of cruelty
+which savage ingenuity can invent. There is a traditionary ritual, which
+regulates, with revolting precision, the whole course of procedure at
+these ceremonies. The institution has latterly declined, but we know
+those who have seen and related to us the incidents which occurred on
+these occasions, when white men were sacrificed and consumed. The chief
+of the family and principal members of the society among the Miames,
+whose name was White Skin, we have seen, and with feelings of loathing,
+excited by a narrative of his atrocities, amid the scenes when they
+occurred..--_North American Review._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR;
+
+AND
+
+LITERARY NOTICES OF
+
+_NEW WORKS._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SAILING ROUND CONSTANTINOPLE.
+
+
+Hiring a _peramidias_, or one of the beautiful boats which ply on
+the canal, I proceeded, accompanied by my janissary and dragoman, to
+make the circuit of the city, by rowing round the Seraglio Point into
+the sea of Marmora, then landing at the Seven Towers, and walking across
+the isthmus by the famous wall to the Golden Horn, where we again
+embarked, and returned to Pera. On passing the Seraglio Point, we
+remarked a number of cannon of different forms, ranged apparently more
+for effect than defence, as a sloop of war with a commanding breeze
+might dislodge the men; such is their exposed situation. Although two of
+the guns appeared to be of the calibre of sixteen or seventeen inches,
+and calculated to throw some immense stone-balls, which we observed near
+them, others were of small calibre, but having twelve barrels; over
+them, were suspended some very large bones, about which I could not get
+even a marvellous account, both my companions declaring honestly their
+ignorance of their history. The current sent us, with astonishing
+rapidity, round the Point, (on which men are always stationed with small
+lines to track boats upwards,) and we soon landed under the Seven
+Towers. The town on the west side, towards the sea presents a poor and
+miserable appearance. We were allowed just to enter the outer court of
+the castle, as it may be more properly called than the Seven Towers,
+because there are only two conspicuous towers, and I suspect that the
+term Seven Towers was originally applied to the whole wall which runs
+across the isthmus, and which has seven gates, over each of which was
+formerly placed a tower.
+
+Leaving the castle, we proceeded along the great road which runs
+parallel to the venerable and highly interesting triple walls, said to
+have been begun by Constantine, and enlarged by the second Theodosius.
+They consist of alternate courses of large flat bricks and stones, in
+some parts perfect, with their battlements and towers; in others partly
+destroyed by earthquakes or time--the whole rendered venerable by thick
+ivy or shading trees. The height of the walls is such, that, when near
+them, the town is completely hid; and as the ditches are well cultivated
+as gardens or orchards, and the country beyond is clear of houses, it is
+difficult to fancy one's self so near the thickly populated city, once
+the mistress of the eastern world. The distance across the isthmus to
+the Golden Horn, or harbour, is about four miles, and the walls are
+uninterrupted by the before-mentioned gates. At about two-thirds of the
+distance, we came to Baloucli, where, in the ruins of a chapel dedicated
+by Justinian to the Virgin, is a fountain or well of excellent cold
+water, said to contain fish, black on one side and red on the other, or,
+according to tradition, half fried.
+
+The Golden Horn, or harbour, terminates by the Valley of Sweet Waters,
+the sides of which are adorned with pleasure-grounds, and an imperial
+kiosk, near which, with extremely bad taste, art and expense have been
+exerted to the utmost to constrain and prune nature, so as to destroy
+the luxuriance and wildness of the rivulet and its banks, by giving them
+the appearance of a straight canal, passing through an avenue of formal
+trees, and occasionally over flights of marble steps, intended to
+represent cataracts. On gala days, this spot is the scene of festivity
+and enjoyment for persons of every sect; and before the last dispersion
+and persecution of the Greeks, is said, in consequence of the number of
+their women who frequented it, to have presented extraordinary animation
+and attraction. The sultan was often to be found enjoying the sight.
+Beyond this valley is another, where his horses are turned out to graze
+in the spring, and which takes place with extraordinary ceremony and
+pomp. So much consequence was formerly attached to the noble animals,
+that petitioners address themselves to the imperial stirrup. Between
+the Valley of the Sweet Waters and the walls, is the village of Eyub,
+pleasantly situated, adjoining to which are several palaces, belonging
+to members of the imperial family. But the most remarkable and
+interesting monument is the mosque or tomb of Eyub, (a disciple of
+Mahomet, who was killed in the first siege of Constantinople, in 608,)
+erected by Mahomet II. after the capture of the city, as is said, in
+consequence of the place of his sepulchre having been revealed to one of
+his favourites in a dream; he immediately ordered an excavation to be
+made, and very soon, either by hazard or imposture, a marble slab was
+discovered.
+
+The Valley of the Sweet Waters, Eyub, and the country immediately behind
+the walls, may be considered the only pretty spots near Constantinople;
+for beyond them, and in other directions, nothing is to be seen but an
+expansion of unpopulated, and, at this time, sunburnt downs.
+
+_Jones's Travels_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CORAL ISLAND.
+
+
+  On a stony eminence, that stood
+  Girt with inferior ridges, at the point,
+  Where light and darkness meet in spectral gloom.
+  Midway between the height and depth of ocean,
+  I mark'd a whirlpool in perpetual play,
+  As though the mountain were itself alive,
+  And catching prey on every side, with feelers
+  Countless as sunbeams, slight as gossamer:
+  Ere long transfigured, each fine film became
+  An independent creature, self-employd,
+  Yet but an agent in one common work,
+  The slim of all their individual labours.
+  Shap'less they seem'd, but endless shape assumed;
+  Elongated like worms, they writhed and shrunk
+  Their tortuous bodies to grotesque dimensions;
+  Compress'd like wedges, radiated like stars,
+  Branching like sea-weed, whirl'd in dazzling rings;
+  Subtle and variable as flickering flames,
+  Sight could not trace their evanescent changes,
+  Nor comprehend their motions, till minute
+  And curious observation caught the clew
+  To this live labyrinth,--where every one,
+  By instinct taught, perform'd its little task;
+  --To build its dwelling and its sepulchre,
+  From its own essence exquisitely modell'd;
+  There breed, and die, and leave a progeny,
+  Still multiplied beyond the reach of numbers.
+  To frame new cells and tombs; then breed and die,
+  As all their ancestors had done,--and rest,
+  Hermetically sealed, each in its shrine,
+  A statue in this temple of oblivion!
+  Millions of millions thus, from age to age,
+  With simplest skill, and toil unwearyable.
+  No moment and no movement unimproved,
+  Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread,
+  To swell the heightening, brightening gradual mound,
+  By marvellous structure climbing tow'rds the day.
+  Each wrought alone, yet altogether wrought,
+  Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments,
+  By which a hand invisible was rearing
+  A new creation in the secret deep.
+  Omnipotence wrought in them, with them, by them;
+  Hence what Omnipotence alone could do,
+  Worms did. I saw the living pile ascend.
+  The mausoleum of its architects,
+  Still dying upwards as their labours closed:
+  Slime the material, but the slime was turn'd
+  To adamant, by their petrific touch;
+  Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives,
+  Their masonry imperishable. All
+  Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest,
+  By nice economy of Providence
+  Were overruled to carry on the process.
+  Which out of water brought forth solid rock.
+
+  "Atom by atom thus the burthen grew,
+  Even like an infant in the womb, till Time
+  Deliver'd ocean of that monstrous birth,
+  --A coral island, stretching east and west,
+  In God's own language to its parent saying,
+  'Thus far, no farther, shalt thou go; and here
+  Shall thy proud waves be stay'd:'--A point at first
+  It peer'd above those waves; a point so small,
+  I just perceived it, fix'd where all was floating:
+  And when a bubble cross'd it, the blue film
+  Expanded like a sky above the speck;
+  That speck became a hand-breadth; day and night
+  It spread, accumulated, and ere long
+  Presented to my view a dazzling plain.
+  White as the moon amid the sapphire sea;
+  Bare at low water, and as still as death,
+  But when the tide came gurgling o'er the surface,
+  'Twas like a resurrection of the dead:
+  From graves innumerable, punctures fine
+  In the close coral, capillary swarms
+  Of reptiles, horrent as Medusa's snakes,
+  Cover'd the bald-pate reef; then all was life,
+  And indefatigable industry:
+  The artisans were twisting to and fro.
+  In idle-seeming convolutions; yet
+  They never vanish'd with the ebbing surge,
+  Till pellicle on pellicle, and layer
+  On layer, was added to the growing mass.
+  Ere long the reef o'ertopt the spring-flood's height,
+  And mock'd the billows when they leapt upon it,
+  Unable to maintain their slippery hold,
+  And falling down in foam-wreaths round its verge.
+  Steep were the flanks, sharp precipices,
+  Descending to their base in ocean gloom.
+  Chasms few, and narrow and irregular,
+  Form'd harbours, safe at once and perilous,--
+  Safe for defence, but perilous to enter.
+  A sea lake shone amidst the fossil isle,
+  Reflecting in a ring its cliffs and caverns,
+  With heaven itself seen like a lake below."
+
+_Montgomery's Pelican Island._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE GATHERER.
+
+
+"I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's stuff."--_Wotton_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TAKING PHYSIC.
+
+
+David Hartley eat two hundred pounds weight of soap to cure the stone,
+but died of that disease. Bishop Berkeley drank a butt of tar-water.
+Meyer, in a course of chemical neutralization, swallowed 1,200 pounds of
+crabs' eyes. In the German Ephemerides, the case of a person is
+described who had taken so much elixir of vitriol, that his keys were
+rusted in his pocket by the transudation of the acid through the pores
+of his skin; another patient is said to have taken argentum nitratum in
+solution till he became blue. _Throw physic to the dogs!_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MARRIAGE.
+
+
+There are two cardinal points in a man's life, which determine his
+happiness or his misery; these are his birth and his marriage. It is in
+vain for a man to be born fortunate if he be unfortunate in his
+marriage.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PERVERSENESS OF FOREIGNERS.
+
+
+"What a rum language they talk in this place!" said an English sailor
+the other day to his companion, who arrived a few days later than the
+speaker himself had done at Rochefort--"Why, they call a cabbage a
+_shoe_--(choux!)" "They are a d--d set!" was the reply, "why can't
+they call it a cabbage!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+In a newspaper, dated January 31, 1746, we find the following theatrical
+announcement:--
+
+"We are certainly informed that on Monday next, at the Theatre Royal,
+Drury-Lane, will be performed _The Lying Valet_, and that Mr.
+Steevens, at the particular desire of some persons of quality, is to act
+the part of _Justice Guttle_; in which character he will devour
+_twelve pounds of plumb cake at three mouthfuls_."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DOUBLE DEALING.
+
+
+Commercial morality is an unaccountable kind of thing. In the report of
+a recent trial for the robbery of a watch, it is stated that
+
+"Mr. Beauchamp identified the watch. He was sure that it was not sold;
+he knew that circumstance from his books; and also because he had the
+watch for four years, not being able to recommend it; _he would not
+have shown it to a lady, but he would have been glad to have sold it to
+a gentleman_. There was a private mark put on it which meant nine
+guineas."
+
+There is honour, it is said, among thieves. Is there gallantry in
+imposition?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+EIKON BASILIKE.
+
+
+Epigram on the publication by Dr. Wordsworth, master of Trinity College,
+Cambridge, of his inquiry, "Who wrote Eikon Basilike?" published by
+Rivington. (A parody.)
+
+  Who wrote "Who wrote Eikon Basilike?"
+    I, says the master of trinity,--
+    I am a doctor o' divinity,
+  And I wrote "Who wrote Eikon Basilike?"
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TIME.
+
+
+Sir William Jones, so well known for his great acquisitions in oriental
+literature, was no less remarkable for his piety.--A friend reciting Sir
+Edward Coke's couplet of
+
+  "Six hours to sleep, in law's grave study six,
+   Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix,"
+
+
+he subjoined, rather say,
+
+  Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
+  Ten to the world allot, and _all to Heav'n_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+RIVAL SINGERS.
+
+
+Dr. Arne was once asked by two vocalists of Covent Garden theatre, to
+decide which of them sung the best. The day being appointed, both
+parties exerted themselves to the utmost, and when they had finished,
+the Dr. addressing the first, said, "As for you, sir, you are the
+_worst singer_ I ever heard in my life." "Ah! ah! (said the other,
+exulting,) I knew I should win my wager." "Stop sir," (says the Dr.) "I
+have a word to say to you before you go;--as for you, sir, you _cannot
+sing at all_."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HOW TO EVADE PROOF.
+
+
+  An Irishman, charg'd with a crime,
+  Was told it would be brought home to him:
+  "No, no," quoth Pat, "it sha'nt this time--
+  I'll _keep away from home_--and do 'em."
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near
+Somerset-House,) and sold by all Newsmen and Booksellers_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+
+
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