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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Eve of All-Hallows, v. 1 of 3 - Adelaide of Tyrconnel - -Author: Matthew Weld Hartstonge - -Release Date: November 1, 2012 [EBook #41212] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS, V. 1 OF 3 *** - - - - -Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Sue Fleming and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - - - - - THE - - EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS; - - OR, - - ADELAIDE OF TYRCONNEL; - - A ROMANCE. - - _IN THREE VOLUMES._ - - By MATTHEW WELD HARTSTONGE, ESQ. M. R. I. A. - - - Nescia mens hominum, fati sortisque futurae - Et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis! - . . . . . . . . . . tempus erit, - . . . . . et quum spolia ista diemque - Oderit! - - VIRGILIUS, AE. x. I. 501. - - - VOL. I. - - LONDON: - - FOR G. B. WHITTAKER, AVE MARIA LANE. - - 1825. - - - - - TO - - SIR WALTER SCOTT, OF ABBOTSFORD, BART., - - &c. &c. &c. - - (WITH WHOSE KIND PERMISSION,) - - THE FOLLOWING TALE OF ERIN - - IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, - - BY HIS EVER OBLIGED FRIEND - - AND FAITHFUL SERVANT, - - THE AUTHOR. - - - MOLESWORTH-STREET, DUBLIN, - _February 1, 1825._ - - - - - THE - - EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS. - - - - -CHAPTER I. - - Tollimur in coelum curvato gurgite, et idem - Subducta ad manes imos descendimus unda. - Ter scopuli clamorem inter cava saxa dedere; - Ter spumam elisam, et rorantia vidimus astra. - - VIRG. AE. l. III. - - * * * * * - - Lay her aloof, the sea grows dangerous: - How it spits against the clouds! how it capers, - And how the fiery element frights it back! - There be devils dancing in the air, I think. - - _The Sea Voyage._--FLETCHER. - - -It was upon a dark and lowering afternoon, the 30th day of October, one -thousand six hundred and ---- the day preceding _The Eve of -All-Hallows_, when the Rev. Doctor M'Kenzie, at that time Chaplain to -his Grace the Duke of Tyrconnel, and who had been for some time in the -ancient realm of Scotland, on a visit to his kind relatives and friends -in that hospitable land, had formed a resolution to depart for the -shores of Ireland, to meet his noble patron. When, in pursuance of this -intention, he embarked on board "The William Wallace of Ayr," the sails -of the vessel were unfurled, and the signal-flag was seen streaming from -the pendant of the main-top-gallant, all giving true and significant -indications that the sea-worthy vessel was upon the eve of sailing, and -her destination was known to be for the northern coast of Ireland. - -Torrents of rain had showered down during the entire of the day, as is -not unusual at that advanced autumnal period; these were accompanied -with loud peals of thunder, while continuous sheets of lightning -illumined and flashed throughout the darkly tinted horizon, which were -succeeded by frequent squalls of wind, that at intervals dying suddenly -away, served but to make the returning roaring blast the more -tremendous and disheartening. - -The vessel was to have sailed at the full tide, but this measure was -entirely prevented by the strong and continued recurrence of the storm, -which blew with such pertinacious force and opposition that "The William -Wallace of Ayr" lay close to its anchors all that afternoon, the whole -of the night, and during the next succeeding day. About nine o'clock, -however, of the evening of the thirty-first, _The Eve of All-Hallows_, -the storm to every appearance had wholly abated, and preparations -accordingly were commenced for the ship to sail, without any further -delay, as bound on its destination. At that point of time the Reverend -Chaplain, Doctor M'Kenzie, and his servant, were the only passengers on -board. "All hands unmoor!" was now loudly and manfully rung forth by the -crew; and all matters having been duly arranged for setting sail, while -the wind blowing fresh and fair, the ponderous anchor was raised from -its oozy bed. - -The reader may well imagine, from all these previous preparations, that -the vessel and crew were on the point of sailing; when, hark! the hoarse -exclaiming "halloo!" and the clattering hoofs of horsemen in full -gallop, were heard sounding sullenly on the ear, and next loudly -thundering their deep echoes through the hollow and deserted streets of -Ayr, which rivetted the sailor to the deck, and at once, as if by magic -influence, paralyzed and arrested his motions. The rapid progress of the -strangers exciting the curiosity of the sailors, called forth in a no -less degree the astonishment of the quiet and peaceable burghers of the -good and loyal town of Ayr, who were then about to retire to repose. Two -horsemen now advanced, their wearied steeds pressed onward with the -utmost velocity; who halting for the instant at the brig of Ayr, -inquired with breathless and hurried anxiety, if a boat did not there -await in readiness to convey passengers on board "The William Wallace?" -But the boat was gone! The few sailors, however, or fishermen, who -loitered on the quay, said in reply, that they had gude reason to ken -that the Bonnie Wullie had not slipped cables, sic warstling winds had -blown sic a hurricane, that the gude and bonnie ship was unco snug in -harbour. - -The strangers now dashed desperately onward, as if life or death were -staked upon the attainment of their object. The vessel was not yet under -way when they arrived on the beach, their panting steeds besmeared with -blood and foam, and nearly exhausted by fatigue. - -The principal personage attracted the gaze of every eye, so noble and -martial was his mien; a tall, graceful, and commanding figure, whose -whole appearance bespoke the undaunted warrior; his firm step, and manly -air, and sinewy arm, boldly told that he knew well how to wield the -falchion in the doubtful fight; while his intrepid eye blazed forth the -talisman of feats in arms and war, and nobly indicating how oft it had -flashed defiance and death upon the daring foe. - - "From gory selle and reeling steed - Sprung the fierce horseman with a bound, - And reeking from some recent deed, - He dash'd his carbine on the ground."[1] - - [1] Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott. - -He was enveloped in a plaid, and wore a Highland bonnet, richly -surmounted with plumes; the stranger was nearly breathless from fatigue -and the rapidity of his flight, for such it seemed to be; added to which -the pallid brow and glaring eye-balls, gave strong and powerful -demonstrations that there existed some other more influential, though -latent source--perchance, it was of sorrow! which affected him even -still more than bodily fatigue. But still these might have been only -mere suspicions, suggestions probably unjustly awakened at the -interesting moment, from the lateness of the hour, the hasty, -embarrassed approach of the stranger; and added to all this, his -impatience and manifest anxiety to embark. It might be assumed that "the -sum and front" of all amounted to no more than this. What then of the -extraordinary or the marvellous could by possibility attach to -circumstances that doubtless any individual, placed in similar -situations, must unavoidably have felt, and betrayed a strong and equal -portion of awkwardness and embarrassment to have encountered? - -But without further interlocution we proceed onward with our tale. The -stranger hastily, but urgently, inquired if the vessel would immediately -sail? Upon his being answered in the affirmative, and the boat on the -instant having been hauled down to take him on board, he promptly flung -into it a small valise, which he had carried at his saddle-bow, and -instantly springing after it himself, was followed by his attendant. -When placed in the boat, he took his station at the stern, where, -enveloped in his plaid, he sat immoveably silent, wrapped in gloomy -meditation. Upon the stranger's having reached the ship, he still seemed -deeply absorbed in thought; the same continued gloom and silence were -preserved, while with hurried strides ever and anon he stately paced the -deck. At intervals, however, he would suddenly stop, and then he would -deeply and intently muse within himself, with folded arms, and dark and -lowering brow. Upon his valise was his address written, "Colonel -Davidson,----Brigade;" the term or epithet preceding the word -"brigade," was torn off, whether by accident or intention did not -appear. - -All matters on board having been duly arranged and adjusted, while a -momentary interval of silence prevailed--"I say," said a sailor, -addressing his comrade, "its a fearfu' mirk to-night, which bodes nae -gude!" - -"Aye, aye!" replied his companion; "but what is still warse, it is -Hallowmass; and too weel I ken that the arch-fient, wi' a' the weirds -and warlocks, will be abread, and alake! I spae the Bonnie Wullie -wull tint the gate! and then we a' maun gang down auld Davie's locker." - -"Weel," rejoins the comrade, "it is a donsie night, but I'm nae fasht my -cantie carl! whare we a' maun gang togither, a' that's kenspeckle, sae -nae mair Claivers!" - -"Aye, but I wiss, Sandy," replies the other, "to make a' sicker, that -the Deil haed a houd o' the haly man belaw!" - -"Whom do you mean?--what holy man below do you speak of?" said Colonel -Davidson, the first time that he had noticed aught was going forward. - -"A haly auld chiel belaw," rejoined the sailor, "that's boune for -Eirin." - -"Who----what----how----whom do you call him, friend?" - -"I ca' him nae doot Maukeenzie. Pray wha do ye ca' um, your worship?" - -"Is the vessel bound for Ireland?" - -"Yea it be, anely frae the gate o' the wind, that says nae to it." - -Occasional squalls of wind now arose, the compass veered, the wind -became adverse; and the storm, or rather hurricane, of the preceding day -threatened to return. Under these gloomy presages - - "Short time there were for gratulating speech." - -Suddenly sounds like the mournful cadence of the plaintive AEolian harp, -were heard above the waves; but no shape, no form, was visible, not -even in shadowy indistinctness: but solemn musical sounds, wherever they -might have proceeded from, and mocking the human voice, only were heard, -sad, slow, and solemn, as the choral chant, _De mortuis_. - - THE SPIRIT OF THE STORM. - - LOQUITUR. - - Where loud tumultuous tempests rave, - And foaming surges daunt the brave; - I mount my storm-swept throne, the wave! - - When midnight fiends their vigils keep, - While lightnings rend the mountain's steep, - I, scowling, rise from out the deep! - - When hope within each bosom dies, - While heard the drowning seaman's cries, - The raving spirit of the storm, I rise! - - Now list! with more than mortal fear, - The dismal dirge which strikes the ear! - - THE DIRGE. - - Once we held fair Scotland's throne, - Aye, once we claimed that realm our own; - Fuimus, non sumus! - - Valorous deeds our claymores crowned, - We ever were true heroes found. - Fuimus, non sumus! - - But feuds, dissension, strife arose; - Oppressed by ranks of hostile foes. - Fuimus, non sumus! - - Behold! the last of all our race - Is forced to fly his natal place! - He bears the vengeful, fatal knife, - Deep stained by bloody feudal strife! - Fuimus, non sumus![2] - -The chant and dirge were audible to the crew, who listened with deep -consternation, and were awfully impressed upon the recollection of the -Reverend Chaplain. - - [2] For the benefit of our fair readers, we venture to translate - the Latin chorus to the Dirge; it means, "We have been, and are - not!" - -Every succeeding blast of wind bore increased terror as it swept along, -and every startling sound excited suspense and dismay. Again the howling -tempest burst forth, and raged with loud and renovated force, what time -the stately stranger, or more correctly to speak, Colonel Davidson, in -deep apparent despondency, was incontinently observed furiously to pace -to and fro the deck, as if in a state of mental aberration. He appeared -of more than mortal size to the terrified eyes of the beholders; his -action was wild and frantic. At one time he walked with such rapidity as -if pursued by an enemy; anon he would suddenly halt, and, folding his -arms, gaze upon the troubled deep, which seemed in unison with his -troubled mind. Next, loudly he uttered a deep and contrite groan; when -having rapidly pushed aside his plaid, he drew forth dirk, sabre, or -sword, whatever it might be, which brightly glistened in the lightning -flash; and then, with hurried impulse, he at once precipitated it down -the side of the vessel into the foaming waves. It sunk with a hissing -noise, and its descent was accompanied by a fiend-like laugh, which -arose from the billows; while at the moment, in a deep, base, sepulchral -tone, the chorus of the dirge again fearfully was chanted from the -waves: - - FUIMUS, NON SUMUS! - -When this dolefully awful chorus was repeated, the Colonel's countenance -assumed the horrible expression of one writhing under intolerable pain, -and seeming to undergo the agonizing tortures of the damned! His -eye-balls flashed fire, he gnashed his teeth, then clenched his brawny -hand, and made a sudden spring, as if in the very act of throwing -himself over board. When at the moment his faithful attendant manfully -grasped him by the shoulder. The Colonel was seized with a trance, and -instantly fell, apparently lifeless, upon the deck. This fainting fit -lasted for some time. At length, however, he was heard deeply to -respire; then broke forth a hollow moan; a cold and clammy moisture was -perceivable on his face and hands. His attendant had him carried down -immediately to the cabin, where he was placed in his bed. - -The unearthly dirge and chorus, as has been before observed, were long -remembered by Doctor M'Kenzie, who was then in bed in the cabin below; -and he has been often heard to express his feelings deeply excited upon -this awful occasion; and to declare, that to the last expiring moment of -his existence, he never could forget the mysterious sounds of that -ominous night! - -The events, beyond all dispute, were passing strange and fearful; but -then all on board "The William Wallace" bore strongly in their -remembrance, that this portentously awful night was "_The Eve of -All-Hallows_;" and then they ceased to wonder, while each thought to -himself, that - - "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here!" - -They scarcely had been a few hours at sea, bound on their destined -track, when again, with resumed fury, the storm returned. They -consequently were obliged to make several tacks, still endeavouring to -force their way upon the perilous voyage. The harbour of Ayr is a -dangerous one, and to attempt to regain it were to encounter greater -danger than what might eventually await the navigators upon the open -seas. For a length of time they beat between the isles of Arran and the -Firth of Clyde; when at last the wind changing, the breeze blew fair -from the north-east, while the staunch vessel proceeded on her watery -way. They were now sailing along the deep-indented and romantic coast of -Ayrshire, when wearied by the eternal tacking to and fro, the heat and -pent-up-air, and all the dull monotony and purgatorial misery of the -cabin of a ship, Doctor M'Kenzie ascended the deck, and thence inhaled -the invigorating and refreshing breeze, while intently, with admiring -gaze, he surveyed the bold and broken masses of those picturesque -shores, which had become strongly illuminated by the bright lightning -flashes then briskly darting over the wild masses of rock, bank, and -brae, and glanced athwart steeple, fort, and tower, o'er lofty peak and -promontory; when suddenly again all was immersed in darkness! Yet he -perceived that this interesting scene totally failed to attract the -stranger's attention, who had returned about the same time on deck that -the Reverend Chaplain had done, and continued with persevering -pertinacity to pace it, as upon the preceding day. - -At that period of time nobly frowned in feudal grandeur those -fortresses, castles, towers, and rampires, which then defended the -romantic shores of Ayrshire from the sword of the invader, extending -their line of defence from Loch-Ryan to the port of Irvine; but which in -our own days have become picturesque ruins, festooned with fern, lichen, -and ivy, and affording solitary shelter to the owl, bat, and raven. - -All these were passed by unlooked at and unobserved by the singular and -silent stranger; those classic shores of fame, destined in subsequent -ages to be immortalized in the ever imperishable song of the tender and -inimitable BURNS; these scenes, the favourite haunt of his "Tam o' -Shanter," the rich and verdant lawns, and the romantic rocky braes of -lordly Cassilis. All these delightful scenes were passed by unheeded, -for the stranger did not even look to shore, but studiously turned his -eyes seaward; and wrapt in deep, moody, mournful meditation, he seemed -to rejoice in the bounding billow, and in the roar of the tempest. Not -the mighty towering pyramid, of stupendous height, the colossal craig -of Ailsa,[3] which now they sailed past, could arrest his eye; nor the -fierce wild scream of the osprey, on its summit, could strike his ear, -although joined in hoarse, sullen, and dissonant chorus, by myriads of -the Solan tribe, that plumaged its surrounding base; while other -sea-fowl, like a misty-halo, hovering in mid-air, crowned its conic -crest. - - [3] "The stupendous rock of Ailsa rises almost perpendicularly to - the height of 940 feet. The circumference of this singular rock at - its base is about two miles; its shape is somewhat conical, and it - is on all sides extremely precipitous. The only landing-place is - on the north-east, where there is a small beach, formed by - fragments which have fallen from the neighbouring rocks. The - cliffs of Ailsa are in several places distinctly columnar; and the - whole isle appears to be composed of rocks belonging to the newest - Floetz formation, the individual members of which resemble those - that occur in the island of Arran. This rock is inhabited by - immense flocks of birds, particularly gannets, or Solan geese; and - is rented from the Earl of Cassilis at L33 a year."--_Description - of Ayrshire._ - -The vessel had just shot past Ailsa-Rock, when fiercely the rising -tempest blew such a violent gale, that it caused "The William Wallace" -to be hurried, with vast impetuosity, through the straits between -Fair-Head and the Mull of Cantyre, and then boldly to be at once -launched into the Irish Sea. - -The storm now raged with such fury, that it was necessary to furl every -sail, and to beat about the entire night under bare poles; while the -pitchy darkness of the sky, added to the horrors of the storm, made -their situation still more alarming and formidable. - -The Reverend Chaplain, much fatigued and wearied, thought it advisable -to retire below to his hammock; so thought too even the solitary -stranger, who, although hitherto he seemed to woo the breeze, and enjoy -the storm, yet also thought it prudent to resume his station in the -cabin, and descended accordingly. - -None now remained upon deck except such of the crew as were upon -immediate duty, and who were lashed to the masts; the hatchways were -closed down, and the sea, in mountain cataracts, burst over the deck -with impetuous roar; while overpowered with fatigue, perhaps too with -fear, the passengers fell into a sound sleep. Thus passed away the first -tempestuous night of their voyage. - -Before the morning watch the wind strangely and perversely changed to -the opposite point of the compass, while squall fiercely succeeded -squall; and the dawn of day witnessed them coasting, west and by south, - - "The storm-swept Orcades,"[4] - -in a boisterous swollen sea, and beneath a darkened sky. Sorry we are -here to have it our duty to narrate that the vessel, probably from the -straining of her timbers, unhappily sprung a leak. All hands instantly -were at their post, and the crew exerted them-selves to the utmost in -closing the chasm, and incessantly, without respite or intermission, -plying every pump; and at length their efforts providentially fully -succeeded: for what will not determined resolution do, and persevering -unabating energy achieve! Relieved from this imminent and impending -danger, once more they proceed on their perilous course, amid this -fearful warfare of the elements. - - [4] The Hebrides. - -The entire of this eventful day the storm raged with unabated fury, the -wind continuing still in the same point, and onward tumultuously they -were driven by force of wave and wind. Towards night-fall the vessel -came close to the Feroe Islands, where it shortly got hemmed -in amid a cluster of rocks, not noticed in their charts. The night was -pitch-dark. However, after an interval, the clouds partially giving way, -the moon, which was nearly full, arose, and afforded a sufficient -friendly light for the Captain to ascertain the extent of the danger -which he had to encounter. He immediately caused the gunwale to be -lightened, by throwing the guns overboard, which effectually raised her, -and the waves of the returning tide assisted in extricating the vessel -from imminent peril. They at length happily succeeded in clearing the -vessel from her jeopardy, and rescuing the crew from impending -destruction. Still, however, it was momentarily dreaded that a new leak -might break forth, or that the vessel, bulging upon other unknown rocks, -might go to pieces, and the sufferers be swallowed up by the treacherous -and remorseless deep. These apprehensions continued throughout the -entire day. - -The storm ere long returned more furious than at its first onset, and -soon broadly launched the vessel into the Northern Sea, - - "While to the helm unfaithful still she lies." - -The masts now became dreadfully shattered from the intensity of the -storm. Dangers and difficulties so increased, that all hopes of safety -seemed nearly at an end. Upon Providence, nevertheless, still the -hapless crew devoutly placed their trust; the Captain, from the very -perilous situation in which they were placed, was compelled to try one -desperate remedy, namely, to cut away the shrouds, and stay, and with -all possible expedition to hew down the mizen-mast. During this awful -operation the crew did not conduct them-selves like men without hope, -although around them all was danger and despair! They felt, however, -fully aware that little less than a miracle could extricate them from -the horrors which surrounded them. With instant promptitude having -obeyed and executed the orders of their Captain, with bold and skilful -celerity they soon lightened the vessel, which bounded with desperate -rapidity into the vast and boundless German Ocean: the watery world was -now all before them, and Providence their guide! - -Once more it was day. Nothing however, worthy of being recorded, -occurred at that period, nor during the night. - -On the fourth morning a watery sun arose in a hazy sky, they now were -close in view of the coast of Austrian-Flanders, with such rapidity, had -wind, and tide, and currents impelled them onward. They now proceeded at -the surprising rate of twelve knots an hour, the wind and tide -conjointly impelling, unassisted by any sail! - -On the disastrous afternoon of this day the vessel made a desperate -plunge, striking upon a cluster of rocks some leagues distant from -land; the shock was so violent that nearly it had split the stern of the -gallant ship. Overcome by terror and fatigue, depressed by despair, and -more like the dead than the living, they remained awfully wedged in -between these dreadful rocks. Eventually, after an interval of suspense -and horror, which appeared to all as though it would never end, the -force and ascendant power of the buoyant billows heaved the vessel -completely over these formidable crags. She was now once more afloat, -but her rudder was borne away; and onward she was drifted at the sport -and will of the fiercely rolling waves. - -Thus rapid was the vessel whirled, the mounting waves every moment -dashing in torrents athwart the deck. Again a second shock was -encountered. It was then all despair, desperation, madness! But, oh how -appalling to every feeling heart was the dreadful cry, - - "All's lost! to prayers, to prayers! all's lost!" - -Still in this state awfully the vessel rapidly was impelled, and -approached more closely to the coast of Austrian-Flanders. But alas! it -is our painful lot to record the unhappy fate of "The William Wallace of -Ayr;" when approaching Ostend the ill-omened bark struck upon a sand -bank, which but too truly is called "_Banc-Dangereux_;" then her -crushing timbers fatally loosened, and, dissevered by the convulsive -shock, promiscuously scattered upon the surface of the waves were seen -floating the disjoined wreck, shattered spars, divided stores, bales of -cargo, &c., along with the mangled corses of the dead, and the -struggling bodies of the living, all commingled, and tumultuously -undulating upon the agitated billows. But providential it was for the -survivors, who, in number, we grieve to state, were but few, that this -dreadful catastrophe occurred so closely to the shores of Ostend. Sorry, -however, we are to relate that all the crew (except two persons) -perished; and that among those who were saved, we have only to count the -Captain of the ship, the Mate, the Rev. Doctor M'Kenzie, Colonel -Davidson and his servant, these forming the very confined list, we -regret to say, of those who survived the terrors of that eventful day. - -Impelled by the resistless call of humanity, several boats had put out -from the harbour, perceiving the perilous situation of the poor unhappy -sufferers; so that when the dread event took place, these were ready and -prompt to save the remnant of those who survived what time "The William -Wallace" - - "Bulg'd at once, and in the deep was lost!" - -The humanity of the Flemish sailors was rewarded by preserving the lives -of five individuals, as we have already observed, from a watery grave; -great manual and unwearied exertions were necessary for success, and the -unhappy sufferers were landed in safety upon the quay of Ostend. - -Ostend is well known to every intelligent reader as a strong fortified -sea-port; but at the period of our narrative it did not appear under the -most favourable point of view, from the devastation that had ensued in -consequence of the long protracted siege of three years and three -months, which it had sustained against the Spaniards, under the command -of Spinola,[5] when fifty thousand of the garrison and inhabitants -perished in this fatal siege, either by disease or the sword; which -losses were severely retaliated and multiplied by the deaths of eighty -thousand of the besiegers! - - [5] This, by the way, seems too like a bold anachronism of the - Reverend Gentleman's, but it has been correctly transcribed from - the M'Kenzie MSS. at least _omnia quae extant_. However, for our - own part we must say, that we are strongly inclined to acquit the - Reverend Gentleman and scholar upon this score, inasmuch as he has - high authority to plead in self-defence the Bard of Mantua having - thought proper to make AEneas and Dido cotemporaries; and yet the - former flourished ONLY two hundred years before the building of - Carthage! with which anachronism to compare the Doctor's little - historical lapse, were indeed merely to match - - "A mole-hill with Olympus!" - -Upon their landing on _terra firma_, Colonel Davidson and Doctor -M'Kenzie put up their quarters at the old Saint Michael Inn; and there -having been refreshed and invigorated by a hearty substantial meal, -which fully and essentially answered every purpose of three or four -breakfasts, dinners, and suppers, they heartily congratulated each other -in a bottle of genuine and veritable Rhenish wine, upon their most -miraculous escape from a watery grave! They subsequently retired at an -early hour to repose, overcome, as they had been, by their sufferings -and fatigue both of body and of mind, to recover, by the renovation of -slumber, "kind Nature's gentle restorer," from the lassitude and horrors -of this eventful day. - -The next morning they arose quite, or nearly, recovered from their past -sufferings; however, with the exception of the Reverend Gentleman, who -rather somewhat gravely grumbled at the perils which they had passed. -Nevertheless, with good seeming appetites, both began a tolerable _coup -de main et de fourchette_ upon the breakfast placed before them. Doctor -M'Kenzie observed, while he and the Colonel were sipping some admirable -coffee, assisted by the _agrements_ of excellent Flemish bread and eggs, -and swallowing _con amore_ some Malines ham, which, accompanied with a -flowing flagon of Louvaine beer, no doubt put the grave and Reverend -Gentleman into the following train of thought: "I feel, my dear Sir," -said he, "such a decided and unconquerable objection to a sea-voyage, at -least for some time to come, from which, although it may be silly in -sooth to say I have suffered so much, yet for the present I quite forego -my intention of returning to Ireland--I have indeed too much in my -recollection the - - 'Quaeque ipse miserrima vidi, - Et quorum pars magna fui----.' - -I therefore purpose to proceed to Aix la Chapelle for the benefit of its -waters. Indeed so great is the decided repugnance which I feel to again -encounter an aquatic expedition, that in the words of our old classical -acquaintance, Ovid, I needs must confess that-- - - '_AEquora me terrent, et ponti, tristis imago!_' - - 'The expansive ocean now affrights me, - And sad the mournful aspect of the deep!' - -Moreover, gallant Colonel, I must say that I prefer the peaceful scenes -of nature and rural life to the war of elements, and the rage of -battle!" - -"Well spoken, my Reverend Sir, like a peaceful gownsman, and quite -becoming the doctrine of that Gospel of which thou art a sacred -minister. But as for me, I like the din of battle, the neighing of the -noble war-horse, and the battle-stirring trumpet's brazen voice, the -groan of death, where contending squadrons commingle in the dreadful -shock, chorused by the cheering shout of victory." - -The Colonel had just, in an emphatic tone of voice, twice shouted -"victory!" and had fiercely made another gallant attack upon the Malines -ham, when the door of the apartment was rudely opened, and entered by a -party of Gen d'Armes, who immediately proceeded to arrest them as -prisoners of war, on suspicion of being spies; and after a short -interval they both were led off and escorted to prison, where, attended -by the Colonel's servant, for the present we needs must leave them, -however reluctant, in durance vile. - - * * * * * - -The above Chapter, unquestionably in unison both with the history and -chronology of our Tale, should indeed occupy a much more remote station -in this our Romance of the days of superstition; but as we felt and -considered it of importance, and besides imping too our flight with some -portion of epic boldness, we have nobly dared and adventured to dash at -once "_in medias res_;" in the pursuance of which truly magnanimous -determination, courteous reader, we shall tell thee fair and softly, yet -in candour, that we shall necessarily be obliged (if thou wilt so -graciously permit us) to make some retrograde motions in the subsequent -chapters. - -But, gentle reader, if thou wilt deign to recollect, that once a year -even mighty Sol himself, beneath Cancer, the influential sign of the -summer solstice, becomes retrograde. When thus we plead such high -authority thou wilt not perhaps deny an extension of the same privilege, -albeit to a disk, small and insignificant even as ours, undiscernible by -the eye of a Brinkley or a Herschell![6] - -Permit us then, kind and patient reader, to retrace our steps and story -to the early part of this our notable history; then shalt thou learn the -birth of our interesting heroine, and become acquainted with personages, -characters, and events, connected with our Tale, which we trust thou -mayst find to be withal not unpalatable to thy taste; for which favour, -and all retrogressions, and progressions, and egressions, (we hope no -transgressions!) thanks and health to thee, mild and patient reader! We -laud thee for thy gentle forbearance and good humour in having -accompanied us thus far in this our long peregrination; wishing, -courteous reader, that thou couldst bestow on us the "_plaudite_" of old -Plautus, but without his _valete_, as we shall meet anon! - - [6] Since the above was written Dr. Herschell has paid the debt of - nature. The other celebrated astronomer lives, and it is hoped - providence will yet grant him many years to preside over the noble - science which his powerful mind so ably illustrates and adorns. - - - - -CHAPTER II. - - Still in the vale the village bells ring round, - Still in TYRCONNEL hall the jests resound; - For now the caudle-cup is circling there, - Now glad at heart the gossips breathe their prayer, - And crowding, stop the cradle to admire - The babe. - - HUMAN LIFE. - - -The lovely Adelaide Raymond, the heroine of our Tale, was the only child -of Raymond Duke of Tyrconnel. An old prophecy or tradition had -immemorially prevailed, that what time a raven should build her nest in -the ducal coronet which decorated the summit of the loftiest -pavilion-tower of the castle, a male heir, upon this event, should then -be wanting to the noble house of Tyrconnel. And this sad occurrence, so -deprecated by the dark and credulous terror and tenor of those -superstitious times, actually occurred some months previous to -Adelaide's birth: a raven had then built her nest within the ducal -coronet; and a few posts after brought an account that Lord Richard -Raymond, the Duke's only brother, had been killed in a duel at Paris. -From this partial fulfilment of the augury the Duke's dependants were -filled with the melancholy forebodings that the Duchess, expiring during -the pains of parturition, should give birth either to a still-born, or a -female infant. - -However the latter supposition proved to be well-founded, as the Duchess -was soon safely delivered of a female child, in due and given time, upon -the Eve of All-Hallows, the 31st day of October, in the year one -thousand six hundred and ---- pending the bodings of the raven, and the -vaticinations of the vicinage. - -The family of Tyrconnel, through the female line, traced their high -descent from a proud and ennobled ancestry, (not less illustrious than -that of the noble Duke;) the pedigree was traced from the high -chieftain, famed _Nial Necalloch_, (or, Nial of the Nine Hostages,) who -in his glorious and chivalrous career had achieved various noble feats -in arms. But not content with these successes at home, he sought for -fame in foreign lands, where in the ardent search and attainment of -glory, his gallant course of valour run, he closed his brave and -honourable life amid the sunny regions of France; where this warlike -planet, this Mars of Erin, expired upon the banks of the Loire,[7] -falling like the valiant Richard I. of England, "The lion-hearted," by -the arrow of the assassin. - - [7] Histoire d'Irlande, par L'Abbe Ma-Geoghegan, _tome_ 1. - -Indeed the house of Tyrconnel might be truly called _a noble family_, -"for all the daughters were chaste, and all the sons were valiant." PER -ACUTA BELLI was the motto which fearlessly they bore, and which, ever -unchanged amid the war-trumpet's clang, the burst of battle, and the -shouts of victory, or the dismaying groans of defeat, they proudly and -nobly maintained; their escutcheon might oft have been encrimsoned by -the blood of the bold, but it still defended the heart, and was upheld -by the arm of the brave! - -The Duke traced his ancient, lordly, and lineal descent from Raymond -Count of Toulouse, who was the first zealous champion in serving, and -enthusiastically heading, the Christian cause in the holy wars. - -Adelaide Raymond, the only child of Raymond Duke of Tyrconnel, was born -upon the 31st day of October, _anno salutis_, one thousand six hundred -and----upon the Eve of All-Hallows, as we have already noticed. His -Royal Highness James Duke of York, (brother and presumptive heir to -Charles II.,) and who afterwards succeeded to the throne of the triple -realms as James II., upon this happy event was most graciously pleased -to signify his royal intention of standing sponsor for Lady Adelaide; -which high distinction was gratefully and proudly accepted by the Duke -and Duchess of Tyrconnel; and the Lord Glandarrah was chosen as proxy -for the royal sponsor. - -Adelaide almost immediately after her birth had been privately -baptized; but the first day of May, which had now arrived, was the day -appointed for the state christening. The Duchess d'Aremberg, an early -friend of the Duchess of Tyrconnel, stood godmother for the Lady -Adelaide, and appointed Lady Lucy Raymond, the Duke's youngest sister, -as her proxy. Nor did the Duchess d'Aremberg forget to send a baptismal -present upon this august occasion, which arrived in due season, in the -shape and form of an infant's cap and frock, all beautifully formed of -exquisite Brussels lace, and made under the eye and express directions -of the illustrious godmother: and to these were added a scarf and sash -of rich Mechlin lace. Nor did Her Grace omit also to send, as was then -usual, a handsome _honorarium_ to the child's nurse, Mrs. Judith -Braingwain, with whom our gentle reader, in due and given time and -place, shall become better acquainted in the following pages of this our -eventful history. - -But with due leave and respect we must now be permitted to say a word or -two concerning the ancient and noble baronial castle, where the high -and exalted ceremonial of this day was with such pomp to be celebrated. - -The castle of Tyrconnel was situated in the province of Ulster, where -its majestic stately ruins still remain magnificent even in decay. It -stood upon the verge of a triangular village, to which it gave its own -ennobled name, as it was the generic name at that period of the town and -the county, which was a district of large extent. Since that time, in -these our modern days, the ancient name of Tyrconnel has been changed -into Donegal.[8] - - [8] This castle now belongs to the Marquis of Conyngham. - -The castle is boldly elevated upon the rocky and precipitous margin of -the river Eske, which rolls its impetuous torrent into the Atlantic -Ocean, from which it is only half-a-mile distant. Mountains surround the -castle on every side, except to the west, from which point receding, -they open a noble vista to the sea, and give a solemn and magnificent -character to the entire scenery. Here the curving and fantastic -outlines of the distant mountains, clad in aerial blue, arise in endless -and beautiful variety, glowing or darkening with every varying tint and -tone of sun-shine or of shadow, reflecting each rainbow hue of the -atmosphere, and then boldly blending sky and mountain into one -congregated mass of undefinable tint; so that the dark blue cloud which -rolls above can with difficulty be distinguished from the dark blue -mountain that, towering, frowns beneath. - -The approach to the majestic steep where this ancient and celebrated -fortress stands, is through the well-known pass of _Barna-More_, or the -great gap; which is here formed by the opening arms of the stupendous -mountain of Sleavedoon, whose gigantic heights constitute vast -continuous barriers to the extent of fourteen miles, girdling within -their extended embrace a varied and lonely valley, which expands and -smiles beneath. - -This massive fabric was planned and piled in the twelfth century by the -first Earl of Tyrconnel, and was then, and subsequently for a series of -years, garrisoned as a fortress. The castle, although by no means -deficient in architectural grandeur, yet appears to have been -constituted principally with a view to strength; and that object -unquestionably in those days was fully attained, for it was utterly -impregnable to all hostile attacks in that early age. The form of the -castle is square, and flanked by frowning turrets of similar -conformation; the ground-plan is constructed upon an extended scale, and -the design of the building is withal irregular: a large magnificent -quadrangular court-yard adorns the interior, which is surrounded by -bastions, battlements, and towers. - -There is a projecting barbican, whose fragments yet remain still boldly -overhanging the river Eske, and which seems to have been intended for -the purpose of supplying the castle with water, while it is also -supposed to have been occasionally used as a donjon-keep, and which -afforded an expeditious mode of despatching the prisoners whom the -haughty Lord refused to surrender, or was unwilling to maintain, by -plunging them down the vortex of the ceaseless current which rapidly -rolls beneath. - -When the Duke of Tyrconnel resided here several small pieces of cannon -were pointed from the embattled bartizan of the central tower, adding to -its ornament as well as to its defence. The grand front of the castle -was situated seaward; to the west extended a lofty terrace; the -embrasures of the parapet wall which enclosed the terrace were furnished -with about a dozen of twelve pounders; while the deep foundations of the -bastions were moated by the impetuous waters of the Eske, fiercely -rolling onward to the Atlantic Ocean. - -This lordly pile was this day (the 1st of May, one thousand six hundred -and----) destined to be the scene of uncommon festivity and grandeur; -indeed such pomp and magnificence never before were witnessed within the -walls of Tyrconnel castle. All the nobility and gentry in the country -for many miles round were invited to assist at the baptismal banquet -given for the noble and lovely infant; and every princely preparation -was in readiness duly to celebrate this distinguished day. - -The noble banner, quartered and emblazoned with the ancient bearings of -this illustrious family, from its gilt flag-staff, which was crowned -with the ducal coronet, proudly floated over the high central tower, -which latterly had obtained the _agnomen_ of "the raven tower," from a -circumstance which already has been related. The guns on the parapet -fired a loud _salvo_ to welcome the happy day; while the ancient harper -(old blind Cormac) and the piper were put in immediate requisition, to -add the notes of harmony to the loud reports of joy. - -The tenantry and peasantry, both male and female, were invited, and -gladly came, clad in their holiday suits, to partake of a rural banquet, -prepared expressly for the occasion within marquees erected on the lawn. -The costume of the servants of the Duke was truly princely, and all who -wore livery appeared richly apparelled in their state attire of green -cloth, deeply laced, and embroidered with gold. The old cathedral tower -pealed forth many a merry chime, which duly was responded to by the -distant tinkling of the surrounding village bells. - -While these preparations were advancing, the Duke happened to be walking -upon the terrace, and hearing old Cormac touch his harp and prepare to -sing, with the intent, no doubt, that his voice and strings might sound -in due tone and harmony at the approaching festival; the Duke had the -curiosity to step onward to hear the notes of the aged minstrel--for he -was both minstrel and harper; and His Grace listened to learn whether -old Cormac had composed any rhythm or song for this great and happy -occasion. Accordingly with this fixed intent His Grace advanced to the -door of the great hall which led out to the terrace, and which happened -to be then open; from thence he listened, and heard the following lines -sung by Cormac, which the old man accompanied with his harp:-- - - CORMAC'S SONG. - - Loud strike the harp! and raise the song! - To Raymond shall the verse belong! - And hail his noble, lovely child, - The image of her mother mild. - - O softly rest, sweet baby there, - And as thy morn, thy life be fair! - - Long may that smile of angel grace - That now illumes thy beauteous face, - Attend thee through life's stormy race! - - May no mischance destroy thy rest, - Be thine the sun-shine of the blest; - And when thy earthly course is past, - Be thine the joys shall ever last! - - Friendship on earth be thine, and love, - And thine eternal bliss above! - -The Duke felt exceedingly pleased at the attachment and feeling -expressed by the old man in his extempore song, although he might not -think very highly of the poetical composition. But the words came from -the old man's heart, and the strain to which his harp rang forth was an -old Irish air, so the Duke was fully satisfied; and having advanced and -entered the hall, he approached old Cormac, and in a gracious tone he -said to the sightless bard, "Thanks, Cormac, accept my grateful thanks; -and moreover, here is largess for the minstrel, and withal it is stamped -in gold." So having said, he passed a gold _Carolus_ into the minstrel's -hand; for which bounty, with tears flowing from his sightless eye-balls, -the grateful old man made a low and respectful obeisance, adding due -courtesy. - -Here the Duke retired to dress, to receive his company; and meeting with -his physician, Sir Patricius Placebo, on his way, he deputed him to do -the honours should any of the guests arrive while His Grace was attiring -for the banquet. - -Sir Patricius Placebo had been created a baronet by king Charles II., in -grateful return for active services and personal kindnesses performed in -favour of the monarch during his long exile from the throne of his -ancestors; and he was, through the favour of His Royal Highness James -Duke of York, who afterwards became James II., introduced, with every -favourable recommendation, to the Duke of Tyrconnel. - -Sir Patricius Placebo now became forth-with family physician to the -Duke. He had been baptized plain Patrick, but assumed that of Patricius; -whether it was selected for the euphony of the sound, or the dignity -which it implied, or both considerations probably swaying together, the -reason of the selection has not been sufficiently defined, nor do our -historical annals record the cause. But thus the baronet in sooth was -called, and so he wished to be designated. - -The attire of Sir Patricius was in due accordance and conformity to the -medical costume of the time, which is worthy of being preserved as a -historical morceau. His head was enveloped within an enormous bushy -peruke, which at this period was confined to the learned professions, or -those who affected gravity. This said peruke was _bien poudre_, and upon -its summit was perched a small gold-laced hat of triangular shape and -form, fastened with gold loops, and a button at the sinister side of -said triangle. His costume was a rich black velvet coat, without a -cape, made single-breasted, with long and portentously extended skirts, -starched, and stuffed, and stiffened forth, with a magnanimous -expenditure of stay-tape and buckram; from out of which sprung, and -sparkled forth, the ornamented hilt of a small sword. The sleeves of the -coat were large and slashed, each capacious enough to have contained a -moderate sized turkey. The waistcoat, formed of the same materials, was -likewise in unison with the coat, single-breasted, with long flaps or -skirts, which might have given no bad idea of the Roman _sportula_. His -cravat was formed of the richest muslin, deeply edged with Mechlin lace, -which, after passing several times around the neck, meandered through -the button-holes of the waistcoat, so as nearly to reach the extremity -of the waist. His small-clothes were made likewise of black velvet, -according to the curious, and certainly not very seemly fashion of the -times. The hose, or stockings, were of scarlet silk, which were tightly -drawn up, and ascended the knees upon the exterior of the small-clothes, -and that too to the very utmost of their outstretched extent; at the -ankles the hose were adorned with clokes of gold net-work.[9] The shoes -were fashioned with broad square toes, made with short quarters and high -tops, and were so highly polished that they might well indeed have -elicited the admiration, if not the envy, of the fabricator (if then -living) of "Warren's jet blacking!"[10] The shoes were fastened by small -square gold buckles richly wrought. His solitaire of rich black satin, -must not perish in oblivion, along with all the dignified _et ceteras_ -of a proud chevalier of that chivalrous day. His ruffles and chitterlin -were of rich Poyntz lace; while over and around his shoulders was flung -a long Spanish _capa ropa larga_, a large wide cloak or roquelaire of -rich Spanish cloth, the inside dyed white, the exterior scarlet; and it -is certainly imagined that no one ever yet stood in proximity with the -Doctor's red flowing roquelaire without wishing mentally for the -approach of a fire-engine! - - [9] Silk stockings first became usual in the reign of Elizabeth. - These articles of finery "were curiously knit with open seam down - the legge, with quirks and clokes about the ancles, and sometimes - (haply) _interlaced with gold or silver threads_, as it is - wonderful to behold."--_Beaumont and Fletcher_, vol. v. _Note_, p. - 353. - - [10] "Shining shoes" are often noticed by Massinger, Jonson, and - other old dramatists. - -But we must now complete the portrait of Sir Patricius. He constantly -carried an Indian cane, surmounted with a gold head of beautifully -perforated filligree-work, the interior of which contained cotton -steeped in aromatic vinegar; and it was amusing to behold with what -dignified gravity and grimace he ever and anon applied the said cane to -the olfactory organ, and with much seeming satisfaction. When this -stately toy was relinquished, it gave place to a more magnificent bijou, -in the shape of a gold snuff-box: upon the lid was inserted a miniature -of Charles II. by the celebrated Samuel Cooper. And let it be remembered -that "he was the first who gave the strength and freedom of oil to -miniature!" This fine production of original genius was appropriately -encircled around with large brilliants. The act of snuff-taking was -slowly performed by the grave pressure of the thumb and fore-finger of -the right hand, deliberately and ceremoniously performing a curve, or -segment of a circle, while with a sly and approving gaze he contentedly -ogled a large diamond ring placed on the little finger. When the Baronet -spoke it was with a rich and most mellifluous brogue, and to which the -tone of consequence did not seem wanting: albeit to those who invited -him to a good dinner when the Duke was absent, or who annually -vouchsafed to take or order a box of his _Pillulae Vitae_, he was, in -sooth, a very pleasant, accommodating, and polite gentleman. - -Sir Patricius was standing on the terrace, and leaning thoughtfully upon -his cane, when Captain Heaviside rode up to the steps; and alighting -from horseback, he ascended the stately terrace. Captain Heaviside was -all things to all men--ay, and to all women. He was the _pious AEneas_ in -church, conventicle, or chapel; but he was the _dux Trojanus_ in the -grotto or drawing-room. - -"Good morrow, Captain." - -"Sir Patricius, your most humble servant." - -"Would you wish, Captain, to view the demesne?" - -"Certainly, Sir Patrick--I mean Sir Patricius. I beg pardon, dear Sir; -but will you first allow me to jump out of these leathern turrets? I -hate all confounded French fashions." - -The Captain retired to the chamber appropriated for him. There freely -disengaged from the ponderous encumbrances which were worn at that era. -After a few moments he rejoined the Baronet in the great hall of the -castle. It was not then the fashion, _a la Turke_, to wear mustaches; -nor was it considered necessary to announce the approach into -the drawing-room or dancing saloon, of the man of war, by the loud clank -and clatter of his iron heels, steel chains, and brass spurs, or the -ponderosity of an immense sabre, enclosed in an iron sheath, and -"dragging its slow length along." No; Captain Heaviside came in -full-dress, according to the studied propriety and etiquette of the age. - -The great baronial hall was sumptuously fitted up as an armoury; the -walls were adorned with all the ancient arms and weapons which were -peculiar to Ireland; it was wainscoted with carved native oak; the -ceiling also was of oak, ornamented with carved, basso-relievos of -armorial escutcheons, armour, warlike weapons, coats of arms, crests -mottoes, &c. Several horns of the moose-deer, of immense dimensions, -surmounted the architraves and door-cases. At either end of the hall -were two large fire-places, with gigantic chimney-pieces of Irish -marble; the central compartment of each was decorated with armorial -sculpture, representing the Irish harp, surmounted by the radiate, or -Irish crown, the supporters, two wolf-dogs of the Irish breed, and -underneath, in Gaelic, a motto under each device; the interpretation of -which, partly in allusion to the Irish wolf-dog, as also to the manly -character of the inhabitants of the island, was, "Gentle when soothed, -fierce when provoked." Various war-weapons tastefully displayed and -arranged, of ancient Irish make and form, glittered upon the walls; viz. -spears and javelins, "the heavy broad-eyed spear of battle," swords, -daggers, skeines of iron and brass, two-handled swords, and among them -conspicuously shone forth the double-handled sword of the renowned NIAL -NECALLOCH, richly ornamented and inlaid with gold; metal halberts were -arranged in the same class with tuagh-catha, _i.e._ battle-axes, tuagh -suaighte or clipping axes, fiadhgha, crannuibhs, spears, clubs, Irish -lances, spears, javelins, jacks, corslets, haubergeons, targets, -bucklers, pavices (shields), cailmhions, salets, skulls (_i.e._ -helmets), sceptres beautifully inlaid with gold, fibula (brooches) of -brass, silver, and gold, richly and exquisitely wrought; bits and spurs -of an enormous size, and inlaid with gold; druidical scythes, ancient -Irish harps (the _cithara_), ancient Irish trumpets of various kinds and -names, the stuic or stock, the buabhall, the beann, the adharc, and the -corna or bugle-horn; the dudag, the gall-trompa, the cibbural or -corabus, the cornan or cronan, and the iachdarchannus (_quasi_, _cantus -bassus_.) But here we close our antiquarian summary, as we begin fairly -to suspect that many of our readers have no partiality to such ancient -researches; suffice it then to say, that all these various specimens -were arranged in diversified ornamental shapes and forms of sun, moon, -star, and crescent, that fancy could conceive or taste execute. - -Here Sir Patricius again proposed to the Captain to accompany him in a -ramble to view the grounds; to which Captain Heaviside readily and -gladly assented. As they stood upon the terrace, Sir Patricius said, "My -worthy Sir, just as you had arrived I was upon this spot, thinking with -what taste and judgment my very excellent patron-- - - (_O et praesidium et dulce decus meum!_) - -has so much improved and adorned these lawns, when, Captain, I can well -remember what they were. Great natural capabilities, no doubt, presented -them-selves, and His Grace has acted upon them with spirit, taste, and -judgment, and withal no expense has been spared. However highly meriting -the meed of praise, which doubtless His Grace so well is entitled to, I -was just thinking of the great Archimedes, who so sagely and -appropriately said, - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -And I----" - -"I must beg a thousand pardons, most gallant, illustrate, and learned -Sir Patricius," said Captain Heaviside, interrupting the Baronet, "but, -under favour, my good Sir, I do not in verity understand one word of -_Hebrew_; no, nor any of these nostrums; albeit I have little doubt that -Archimedes the great was, in good sooth, a most famous and skilful -physician and gifted leech in his celebrated day."[11] - - [11] The reader will have the candour to recollect that this can - mean no disparagement to the military profession.--This was said - when knowledge was limited to the few--one hundred and forty years - ago. - -"Nay, Captain Heaviside, I cry nay. Mark me, he was a geometrician and -astronomer, and very celebrated as both! The passage which I have put -into the mouth of the renowned philosopher of Syracuse is Greek; and if -I may be indeed permitted to pique myself upon any kind of erudition, -(although, perhaps, in modesty I might say, _Vix ea nostra voco_), I -should then pride myself upon a knowledge of the Greek tongue; and -moreover too, the proper pronunciation and due intonation of voice, what -Horace so sonorously and emphatically calls the _ore rotundo Graecorum_. -Indeed I do flatter myself that I speak the best Greek beyond any other -person in the island!" - -"Oh, come, no disparagement, good Sir Patricius! to all your learned -acquirements; you excel in speech, and no doubt succeed as well in the -gift and exercise of your pen! but I, Sir, the hapless child of wayward -fortune, am only acquainted with _this_! [half drawing his sword from -its scabbard.] On this simple stake rest all my fortune and my hope, -which, while I have a hand to wield, shall be held forth in the defence -of my king and country!" - -"Well said, i' faith, my master! and spoken nobly, like a brave and -honest soldier! Ay, to be sure, Sir! _every man in his vocation, Hal!_ -as the inimitable Shakespeare sagely saith; although, nevertheless, a -little knowledge methinks, after all, to the tune of the old proverb, is -in sooth no great burden! But come, presto! we shall change the topic -and the scene. The day beams forth its vernal glow beneath a brilliant -sky, and the melodious strains of the feathered songsters, vying in -harmonious notes, invite us abroad. Come, we have stayed too long." - -Thus at last the learned physician and the preux chevalier sallied forth -to behold the varied and noble domains of the illustrious proprietor. -The lawns, shrubberies, walks, gardens, &c., were all kept with the -greatest possible care and neatness. Several artificial lakes fed by a -living stream, and of great extent, so as to seem as if placed there by -the hand of nature, wound along beneath the shadow of ancient groves, -and fully diversified the scene. The lawns and parks were smooth and -verdant as a bowling-green from the frequent pressure of the roller. -While the walks, parterres, and terraces, were so trimly kept that not a -fallen leaf was to be seen; which order and regularity was placed to the -account and agency of several old females, habited as witches, whose -brooms, ever on the alert, kept all in due and perfect neatness. Part of -the grounds which adjoined the castle were laid out in that -old-fashioned style which we confess we are antediluvian enough to -admire; however, be it known that no tree, shrub, nor ever-green, -whatever, was clipt and mutilated by the shears to shrink into the -abortioned form and pressure of a wizard's broom, or a true-lover's -knot! no pyramid of clipped beech, no cypress-tree which assumed the -fantastic form of Cleopatra's needle. No: nor did shivering Adam and -Eve, and the cold clammy serpent and "forbidden tree," astound the -spectator in shorn yew; no fountain impotently attempted to spring -upward in boxwood; no such puerilities were tolerated to disfigure by -grotesqueness the scenery of nature. So far on the contrary, that every -thing was in good taste--at least it was so at the distant time of which -now we write. The grounds were laid out in what would now be called the -improved English taste: here lawns of richest verdure, and cultivated to -the highest degree of luxuriance; there wild rocks of granite or -limestone, as placed by the hand of nature, trailed and festooned around -with lichen grey and ivy green; while the _Osmunda regalis_, the royal -fern, spreading wide its majestic plumes, and undulating in the breeze, -gracefully waved and bent over the apex of these romantic rocks, and -gave a pleasure to the eye that scenes of nature only can bestow. The -terraces which surrounded the castle were kept gravelled and rolled to -the extreme of neatness, and were hedged with luxuriant myrtle. The -_now_ old-fashioned ponds, which it would have been little less than -sacrilege to remove, reposed beneath the terraces, which gave a tone of -grandeur to the whole; _jets d'eau_ sprung from the centre of these to -an elevated height, and over the head of many a triton and river deity; -while the waters, as the declination of the ground permitted, bursting -forth at once the bonds of artificial force, they - - "From large cascades in pleasing tumult roll'd, - Or rose from figured stone," - -brightly spreading and sparkling beneath a brilliant sun. It must, -however, be admitted, that it was somewhat chilling, even in the merry -month of May, to behold the shivering deities who presented them-selves -in cold tangible marble _sans chemise_, _sans robe_, _et sans drape_, -while they sentinelled the verdant banks of pond, lake, or canal; and -which, in some degree to qualify our praise, we are ready and free to -admit were after all somewhat _selon le ecole d'Hollande_! - -Here suddenly a vernal shower coming on, the Doctor and Captain, at no -great distance from the castle, were glad to make a race to avoid a -wetting; and before their dress could receive any damage they entered -the castle-hall, having luckily accomplished their object. Sir Patricius -now proposed to show to Captain Heaviside the Duke's great gallery of -paintings, _pour passer le temps_ until the hour appointed for the -baptismal ceremony should arrive. - -Just at this moment the Duchess of Tyrconnel drove up in her equipage to -the castle door. It was a low demesne cabriole, drawn by two small -ponies, and driven by a postillion; in it was seated the Duchess, Mrs. -Judith Braingwain, the nurse, and in her arms the lovely child, the Lady -Adelaide. Sir Patricius hastened forth to hand them from the vehicle, -and the Duchess most graciously saluted both her guests, the little -Adelaide sweetly smiled, and the Duchess with all due courtesy retired. - -"There she goes--there goes Her Grace," said Sir Patricius; "that highly -intellectual lady; the _rara avis_--the black swan of literature of this -our day--my right noble patroness; shining amid her compeers a bright -star of intellectual, and literary, and domestic worth, and rich indeed -in all, - - 'Velut inter ignes - Luna minores.'" - -Captain Heaviside here rejoined--"Although, Sir Patricius, I knew well -that the Duchess gave with her noble hand a distinguished fortune to the -Duke, yet verily I did not until now learn that Her Grace had any estate -in the _Minories_!" - -"No, no; ha, ha!" said Sir Patricius, with a most self-applauding laugh. -"Oh no! nor in the _Stannaries_ neither. But _allons nous donc, mon -preux chevalier_! Apollo and the muses now invite us.--So, ho! to the -picture gallery." To which the learned Theban and the valiant Captain -now hastily ascended. - -The grand picture gallery, which now they entered, was of truly -magnificent dimensions, and lighted from an elevated dome. This truly -splendid collection of paintings was most judiciously arranged on the -walls of the superb gallery, collected and selected with a taste and -discernment that spoke volumes in praise of the liberality of the -distinguished collector. This splendid gallery was adorned with the -_chefs d'ouvres_ of the most ancient celebrated masters; forming, on -entrance, a truly grand and most imposing _coup d'oeil_ of the -different works of Reubens', "the prince of painters;" Raphael, "the -divine!" Angelo, Guido, Titian, with a long and noble extended _et -cetera_, too magnificently formidable to be here introduced. - -The first painting which they approached was from the pencil of Teniers; -it was that of his famous _Alchymist_. - -"This," said Sir Patricius, pointing to the painting, "is a work of -Teniers!" - -"Vastly fine, indeed, Sir Patricius!--Oh, monstrous fine! grand, -expressively sublime! eh! But here," added the surprised Captain, "what, -_ten years_!--was the patient artist employed ten years thereon? -Monstrous length of time! what sad solemn patience and perseverance the -fellow had to be sure!--tedious faith, as the old siege of Troy!" - -"No, no, my very good Captain, I did not say that the renowned artist -was _ten years_ employed in accomplishing this fine painting, but merely -announced that his distinguished name was Teniers." - -"Oh, a thousand pardons, Sir Patricius!--eh--_ten_ thousand pardons! But -then the painting is truly monstrous fine!--upon my s--l it is vastly -fine indeed--eh!" - -The next painting which they approached was the famous painting of -Europa carried off by Jupiter in the shape of a bull, from the -distinguished pencil of the celebrated Claude Lorraine. - -"The painter who has produced that truly ennobled specimen of his divine -art," said Sir Patricius, with great pomp and emphasis, save when he -was interrupted by a constitutional cough, "the painter, hem, hem, hem, -was, Sir Captain, let me tell to you, inimitable! He deeply studied -nature, and hence he acquired that elevated _gusto_, which has justly -stamped a superlative value upon all his masterly works; his truly -lovely landscapes, glowing with Italian suns, and with Italian verdure, -_Italia diis sacra_, hem, hem, hem! Yes, bold Sir, upon these he acted, -and on the noble inspirations of nature! verifying on glowing canvass -the most apposite and veritable saying of the great and learned -Archimedes, - - 'DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!' - -That, brave Sir, means--'Give me a point to stand upon;' and Sir, aye -Sir, I shall move '_the great globe itself; yea, and all that it -inhabit!_'--That, Sir, is a Claude!" - -"Heaven and earth!--_clawed!_ What do I hear," said the astonished -Captain, in a most lachrymal tone; "_clawed!_--what a thousand pities! -irreparable--hopelessly irreparable! Indeed I always knew too well that -cats were most destructive, malicious animals. But say what inducing -cause--what motive? here was depicted no lively representation of rat, -rabbit, pigeon--no, nor mouse! wonderful! 'Fore Jove I swear, that all -the confounded pestilential breed of cats in the county should swing -before I should endure to have such a noble painting as that _clawed_ by -any cat o' the mountain in the province!" - -Here Sir Patricius Placebo raised his intelligent eyes in dumb despair, -very nearly indeed allied to positive contempt. But after a short -momentary gaze of astonishment, and a slight expression of contempt, his -muscles relaxed into a cheering smile; and seeing from the window, as he -looked out, some of the guests to arrive, he gaily said--"I see clearly, -Captain Heaviside, that you prefer living faces to their mute -representation on canvass, so let us adjourn, _si vous voulez_, and -attend the ladies; and egad I think I can show you some fine girls; -there, Captain, you see are some fair specimens, the six Misses -O'Carrol, and all dressed so gay in pink, blue, and crimson, smiling -and blooming like a bed of budding paeonies in June!" - -"Vastly koind, good Sir Patricius; vastly koind, _j'irai la sans -failler_, eh?--Yes I do admire pretty girls exceedingly; and I must say, -by Jove, that I prefer them to all your _Hebes_, _Cupids_, and -_Ganymedes_, on copper, canvass, or panel!" - -The chimes of the bells of the ducal chapel now gave warning note that -the baptismal ceremony was nigh at hand, and all the guests consequently -approached the sacred edifice. And at the high altar, gorgeously -decorated, from a golden ewer the ceremony of ablution was performed. -When the lovely Adelaide received the sprinkling she smiled most -sweetly; and as her nurse, Mrs. Judith Braingwain, (whom we shall hear -more of anon,) afterwards very appropriately told it: "Heaven bless the -dear bonnie babe, how sweetly it was she smiled bekase she was made a -Christian cratur!" - -The ceremony concluded upon the return of the noble party to the castle. -Cake, caudle, and wine, and various confectionary, were dealt out with -no sparing hand. Many of the company sat down to different card-tables, -and played, as was then the fashion, at ombre, cribbage, loo, _jusque a -diner_, when they were entertained at a most princely and magnificent -banquet. - -The Duke of Tyrconnel received all his guests with frank and due welcome -and courtesy. His Grace was attired in the following costume:--a large -well powdered peruke, which freely flowed over the splendid mantle and -robes of the order of the garter. His Grace also wore the magnificent -collar and gem, and resplendent star, of the illustrious order. His -stockings were of light blue coloured silk, and drawn up in a fashion -similar to those of Sir Patricius Placebo; and around the left leg, -beneath the knee, was buckled the embroidered and mottoed garter, which -pertains to, and from which this distinguished order receives its -appellation. The stockings were adorned "with quirks and clokes about -the ancles" of gold withal, and curiously and richly wrought. - -The Duke of Tyrconnel was considered as the handsomest man of the age, -and upon this occasion looked uncommonly well, every inch the nobleman. -Lord Glandarrah was attired in the magnificent robes of the order of the -Bath. All the guests, of both sexes were splendidly arrayed, and the -entertainment passed off with undiminished eclat. - -But we have already exceeded our limits, and have yet to speak of the -highly gifted Duchess, who indeed deserves a chapter to be appropriated -to herself, to which we shall now proceed, and to the acquaintance of -other persons, matters, and things, connected with this our delectable -history. - - - - -CHAPTER III. - - Haec mulier, genere atque forma, preterea viro atque liberis, - satis fortunata fuit: litteris Graecis et Latinis docta, * * - * * prorsus multae facetiae multusque lepos inerat. - - SALLUST. - - -The noble guests sat long and cheerfully to celebrate with due honour -the baptismal day; while potations of claret, liberally flowing, and -constantly renovated from _magnum_ bottles, according to the approved -custom and social fellowship and habit of the times, were deep and -frequent.[12] The splendid supper which followed the sumptuous dinner -was accompanied with the unqualified commendations of Sir Patricius, who -insisted "that it even excelled the Roman banquets of Lucullus or -Apicius; and was in sooth so luxurious, that, verily, his old friend -Flaccus would have called it a _dubia coena_; and although they had -neither the juice of the Tuscan nor Falernian grape, they had still -nobler potations to quaff!" And it has been currently reported that his -actions sagely comported, _pari passu_, with his asseverations, that he -"suited the action to the word," and did most ample, nay summary -justice, to testify beyond all possible contradiction how highly his -palate lauded the excellence of the entertainment! All this was -confidently and cautiously whispered, and discreetly intrusted to a -chosen few. But it met with the fate usually attendant upon all such -confidential communications, _videlicet_, to be made known and published -in a few hours to the unselected many; or in other words, to all the -king's liege subjects throughout the vicinity! - - [12] This fondness for drinking is noticed in Lord Strafford's - Letters.--"In Ireland, where drinking was grown a disease - epidemical."--_Appendix to Lord Strafford's Letters_, vol. II. p. - 433. - -The supper was served at ten o'clock; an hour which was considered at -that period as late, and was prolonged still later, while jest and joke, -and revelry, and song, and glee, and glass went round; and at a -protracted hour the guests retired to repose; and thus terminated the -social hilarities of the festive night. - -The Duchess rose upon the following day at an early hour, as invariably -was her custom, and having retired to her classical cabinet, opened the -latticed casement to admit the enlivening rays of a brilliant vernal -sun, and to inhale the balmy breeze of the morning. It was truly a -beauteous spring morning; the Eske rolled rapidly over his stony -channel, pouring forth his tributary torrent into the peaceful bosom of -the Atlantic Sea; while with mournful plaint the wood-quest called her -mate, perched on her favourite sycamore; and the red-breast and linnet -sweetly warbled forth their matin-hymn from bush and spray, - - "To gratulate the sweet return of morn." - -The Duchess of Tyrconnel was indeed an extraordinary woman, highly -gifted by nature, instructed by education, (in these days, certainly an -unusual occurrence), and still more learned from her own assiduity and -perseverance. All this was the more remarkable, when we pause to -consider the period in which she lived! The vast powers of her mind were -demonstrated by the universality of her knowledge, the various -accomplishments which she possessed, her acquaintance, even to a -colloquial knowledge, with several different languages, the numerous -acquirements, in all of which she excelled. No less distinguished was -the Duchess of Tyrconnel for her singular modesty, her unaffected -manners, and that retiring grace, at once characteristic of those high -endowments which flung around her such imposing charms. Indeed it has -generally been remarked and acknowledged, that affectation and conceit -are seldom found to be connected with genius, but are the satellites of -those who would usurp her throne; and that the never-failing attendant -upon true genius is simplicity of manners. - -The Duchess had been educated at the convent of Vernon sur le Seine, -where she was wont - - "To walk the studious cloisters pale, - And love the high embowed roof, - With antic pillars massy proof, - And storied windows, richly dight, - Casting a dim religious light." - -Here, during her novitiate, the Duchess (then Lady Katherine O'Nial) -formed a friendship with a young lady, an inmate at the convent, which -terminated only in death. The friend of her youth was the beautiful Lady -Adelaide Alencon, daughter of the Duke of Alencon. They became dear and -inseparable friends, from similarity of taste and talent. The _idem -velle_--the _idem nolle_--was theirs! The same, or nearly the same, -distinguished talents, a similar and uncontrollable wish for -information, led them on in the paths of science and of literature, of -virtue and of religion. Then, oh! how delightful it was, after a short -sojourn with their friends, again to return to the sacred convent, and -to hear at early morn the solemn anthem from the hallowed choir, which -pealed over rock and flood, deeply re-echoed by the convent walls: or if -at eve they returned, to hear floating upon the silent and slumbering -bosom of the Seine the sad and solemn evening vesper, which was wafted -to the skies! - -But this pure and disinterested friendship was doomed to be only of -short duration. Lady Adelaide Alencon's powers of mind were superior to -the fragile tenement they illuminated and adorned, and over-studiousness -brought on a consumption, which unfortunately was a hereditary disease. -The physicians ordered the patient to remove to Tours, from thence to -the aromatic isles of the Heyeres. But, alas! it was all in vain! The -promises at first were fair, like expanding snow-drops on the cold -breast of spring, which blow--then bloom--then die! But each sad -succeeding account only brought fresh accession of regret; and at an -early age, in the ever-blooming green islands of the Heyeres, the lovely -and the gifted Lady Adelaide Alencon drooped, and pined, and died! -deeply deplored by all her relatives, and justly and duly lamented by -her friends. - - "The hectic form, the beauteous maid, - That just as life its charms displayed, - To death devoted, glides away; - With brilliant eye, that watery gleams, - While still the rosy spectre dreams - Of many a morrow gay." - -Upon the deeply regretted event of Lady Adelaide Alencon's death, the -Duchess made a vow that if she married, her first female child should be -called after her first regarded, her early and lamented friend; and to -this cause our heroine was indebted for the illustrious name which she -bore. - -The Duchess, even during her juvenile abode at the convent of Vernon -sur le Seine, had manifested much talent and infinite taste, and at that -early period had displayed an extraordinary degree of ingenuity and -delicacy of tact; she cut paper into an innumerable variety of figures, -characters, and landscapes, solely dictated by her own genius, and -executed with much taste and spirit. Her Grace also drew in crayons, -flowers that were so naturally depicted, that they seemed to have been -recently culled from the garden. She was conversant, besides, with vocal -and instrumental music; and, moreover, displayed much skill in -oil-painting and in sculpture: indeed her talents seemed to rival those -of that noble and distinguished lady, Anne-Maria Schurman.[13] A -proficient too in etching. Her writing in various languages was -inimitable. She was also perfect mistress of the Greek and Latin -languages, and understood and spoke with facility French, Italian, and -German; and no less excelling in the sciences of geography, astronomy, -and philosophy, with many other rare acquirements, which we shall pass -by unnoticed, as we do not choose to classify this gifted lady with the -heroines of romance. Under the guidance and instructions of such a -mother everything was to be hoped for, if not realized, in the education -of an only and beloved daughter--her first-born, and possibly her last; -certainly her only one! - - [13] For an account of this noble and distinguished lady, see - "_Moreri Dictionnaire Historique_," folio, Paris, 1654, tome VI. - p. 173;--and Descamps, in his "_Vie des Peintres_," &c., tome II. - Paris, 1754, makes the following honourable mention of her: - "Anne-Marie Schurman, les Poetes Hollandois nomment dans leurs - vers cette fille illustre, leur Sapho et leur Cornelie: si elle a - merite les eloges de ses compatriotes, elle a aussi obtenu les - suffrages des grands et des scavants de l'Europe," &c.--Tome II. - p. 119. - -With all these splendid acquirements, the Duchess was an ardent admirer -of the beauties of nature. She took delight in beholding the sun, with -glorious burst, to ascend and illuminate the lofty mountain-peak; and at -night to behold the starry host of heaven, the moon, and all the -unnumbered stars that gem with imperishable lustre the canopy of the -skies. Even while the morning dew impearled the grass, she was wont to -traverse the verdant lawn, with "daisies pied and violets blue;" all -these charms of rural nature gave delight and indescribable pleasure to -a mind at peace with itself, and in harmony with the tranquil solitude -which surrounded her. Who can doubt, then, that it was with unmixed -contempt that the Duchess looked down upon the green and frivolous field -of a loo, tredille, or cribbage-table, and that even primero had no -charms for her!--a preference at that period very remarkable, and that -completely puzzled all the suppositions and gossipings of the courtly -card-playing dowagers of those courtly days. - -However, with all this wild love for nature, and with all those -commanding accomplishments to boot, we cannot, howbeit, deny that the -Duchess was proud of the country which gave her birth, and pardie proud -perhaps too of her own ennobled descent; although we must observe that, -with due discretion, she was never known to dwell upon the latter, while -upon the former, conversant as she was with the aboriginal language of -her country, when time and opportunity offered, she then indulged -herself therein, in learning the wants and the necessities of the lower -orders; and, furthermore, in acquiring a knowledge of the character and -the feelings of the native Irish, with which the more she became -acquainted, the still more she became endeared. - -While thus we have been endeavouring to delineate the mind and -acquirements of the Duchess of Tyrconnel, we must, however, not silently -pass by her remarkable costume, for this is strictly in unison with the -history of those times; and it must be confessed that it was -sufficiently _outre_ and extraordinary. Her Grace's head-dress, or -head-gear, was strangely elevated, indeed we might say castellated, upon -the stiff, formal, and firm foundation of an internal satin cushion, on -bastion of silk, surmounted by a natural coronal of fine auburn hair; so -that she might have been mistaken for Cybele, the mother of the gods; -and like the goddess too, she was crowned with the model of a citadel. -The hair was raised with such force, that it appeared from the process -to be nearly starting from the roots. A double tier of curls formidably -flanked and circled round this superstructure, on which were arranged -three magnificent rows of eastern pearls, while above was placed a -costly coif or cap of superb Brussels lace, bordered with Mechlin. Large -pendant diamond rings sparkled in each ear; a superb brilliant necklace -glittered on her bosom; her kerchief was of the richest Poyntz lace; her -jacket or bodice was short, formed with close sleeves, and made of light -blue Spanish cloth, adorned with longitudinal stripes of gold. This -bodice was fastened at the breast, so as to form a most splendid -stomacher, by means of two parallel superb rows of large brilliant -diamond buttons, which were interlaced by crimson ribbons, enclosing it -in front. The sleeves were of deep crimson velvet, trimmed with rich -gold net-work. The petticoat was of rich blue velvet, festooned by -golden cords and tassels, and richly trimmed with a border of deep gold -net-work. The petticoat, it must needs be confessed, was distended to a -disfiguring circumference, swelled out by the unseemly and uncouth -bell-hoop, which was then the appanage to a lady's full dress, and still -further increased by long peaked stays, which gave a most Dutch-like and -awkward solemnity, if not an armorial stiffness of carriage, to the -wearer. - -Her Grace's shoes were of red Morocco leather, with high tapering -heels, so elevated as to form with the sole the outlines of an arch; and -the colour, to contrast with the red upper leather, was blue. The shoes -were tastefully stitched and worked in a pattern of gold-thread work, -and fastened with diamond clasps. The hose were of light blue silk, -ornamented with clokes of gold.[14] - - [14] There is another item of Her Grace's dress which is not - noticed above, as it was only used on occasions of going abroad to - visit, or when on horseback; we speak of a velvet mask, worn by - ladies of rank at this period, and for which a high duty was - imposed upon their being imported from France. - -Upon the festival of the previous day the Duchess was thus attired as we -have endeavoured to describe her state dress; her beautifully formed -hands and fingers were adorned with bracelets and rings set with "gems -both rich and rare;" while her animated countenance, and still more -brilliant eyes, and affable manners, spread joy and delight around the -festive circle which she graced and adorned. - -We must here by no means whatever pass over an important character in -the _dramatis personae_ of our history, (at least so she was in her own -personal estimation), and forsooth be it known too, moreover, a highly -privileged person. We here venture to speak of Lady Adelaide's nurse, -Mistress Judith Braingwain, who was in every respect most truly Irish. -Her superstitions were deeply rooted, so that nothing could shake them; -and her belief in ghosts, wraiths, banshees, and fairies, and all that -was marvellous, was truly orthodox. She believed in astrology, then much -in vogue; in dreams, omens, prognostications, and - - "Chimeras all, still more absurd or less," - -and all the attendant phantasmagoria of credulity. Mrs. Judith's -attachment to her country was great and strong, as likewise was her -affection for her child; but her whole stock of fondness seemed to be -concentrated in her foster child, whom she actually loved better than -the child she had borne in her own maternal bosom. "My dear, dear child, -my darling," she would say, "oh, my Adelaide! may the sun-shine and -peace of this world ever be thine _mavourneen_!" [i.e. my beloved.] - -Mrs. Judith's dress[15] was so perfectly and truly aboriginal, that it -may amuse the reader, and possibly afford a reminiscence to the -antiquary, while we notice it in the following description. - - [15] See Cooper Walker's able Essay on Irish Dresses. - -The curious specimen of Irish costume worn by persons in Mrs. Judith -Braingwain's station in life, prevailed in Ireland at the close of the -reign of the second Charles, and during the reign of his successor, -James II., the patron and friend of the Duke of Tyrconnel. It was as -follows:-- - -Mrs. Judith wore placed upon her head-top a cushion of linen or stuff, -which she called her "system;" it was not dissimilar, save in its want -of utility, to the roll or plait twisted cushion of hay used by -milk-maids in carrying their pails; but with this difference, that it -was not flat, but rose higher to the back of the head; it was fastened -and attached by long pins, and over and around this under-structure she -combed and attached her long hair, of which the Irish were always proud, -even to absurdity, and which withal looked as stiff and formal as if it -had been hewn out, the work of some primeval statuary, sternly staring -in stone, certainly most Medusa-like, upon some ancient tomb! This most -strange redoubt or fortification of hair-work was supported by a -side-battery of two curls on each side of the head above the ears, and -masked on high by a little round cap or coif, surrounded with a cambric -border, over which was thrown a kerchief, which being made fast upon the -apex of the head, was allowed to fall down carelessly behind, where it -streamed, when she walked abroad, like a banner over a fortress. Her -jacket was of brown cloth, and made to fit close to the shape, by means -of whalebone scientifically, as now we would say, wrought into it both -in front and at the back, but managed so as not to meet; while it was -laced in the front across the breast, forming there a stomacher, and -evidently borrowed from the Spanish costume. The sleeves, halfway to the -elbow, were constructed of the same kind of cloth as the jacket, and -from thence they continued to the wrist, formed of longitudinal stripes -of red camlet, interwoven with green ferreting, and then being turned -up, formed a little cuff, embraced within three circles of narrow green -ribbon. Her petticoat was formed of scarlet broad-cloth, bordered with -three rows of green ribbon. Her apron was of green serge, striped -longitudinally with scarlet ferreting, and bound with the same. Her hose -were of blue worsted; and her shoes were of black leather, laced with -scarlet galloon, and ankle high, and withal mounted upon heels of a most -portentous height. But _eheu! jam satis_, we are glad to have done with -this specimen of costume, of which we are not over fond; but writing of -the history, &c. of the times, from such we found it to be our bounden -duty not to depart or swerve one single iota. - -The Duchess allowed to nurse Braingwain very extensive liberties, and -latitude of converse too, induced by the affectionate, nay, almost more -than motherly care which she bestowed upon her child; as well as amused -withal, she permitted nurse occasionally to show off that strange -originality which she possessed. - -The Duchess having gone through her morning devotions, ascended the -nursery to embrace her dear child, who was sweetly and serenely -reposing. - -"See, my honoured lady, how sweetly _mavourneen_ sleeps! Och, and may be -I didn't dream last night that my dear young princess was one day to be -queen of auld Ireland; and in troth, in my dream, sure enough I saw, not -a crownet, but a royal crown placed upon her sweet baby brow. But as for -you, my lady Duchess, I moreover drimt that Your Grace was created -_Impress of Europa_--and long, long, my lady Impress, may you live and -reign over us, and over all the world besides! Musha amen, says a -grateful heart!" - -"Prithee, Nurse, be silent; you will awake my child with your -nonsensical rodomontade!" - -Just here a message arrived from the Duke, that he wished to speak with -Her Grace in his closet. The Duchess immediately left the nursery, in -obedience to the ducal summons. - -The Duke took the Duchess by the hand: "Here's great news, my Kate! -Charles is dead, and the noble York that was, is now monarch of England; -and permit me to kiss the fair and lady-like hand of the vice-queen of -Ireland," he said, gaily kissing Her Grace's hand. - -"Why, my Lord Duke, I really believe that you have laid this scheme of -cajolery with so very great a personage as the very high and mighty -lady, Mrs. Judith Braingwain, who even just now saluted me with the _all -hail hereafter_! of Macbeth's witches: for Duchess of Tyrconnel though I -be, yet Empress of Europe I _am to be_, or "Impress of Europa," as I was -styled. What think you of that, my Lord? Surely I must feel quite -shocked and horrified, as you must well conceive, at this dreadful and -unexpected downfall from my high imperial state! Only think, -at once too, without meet preparation, to be deprived of the diadem -which fancy was fitting upon my brow, and _only_ to be dubbed vice-queen -of Ireland; oh! my Lord, you must needs confess what a provoking falling -off was here! But no; it will not do; I am resolved that I must be -empress, or only simple plain duchess!" - -"Now Katherine you think I am rallying, but no such thing, I seriously -assure you a patent has arrived, constituting and appointing me, and so -forth, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland! And now, fair lady, I must kiss the -hands of the vice-queen of Ireland, according to the statute in that -case made and provided." And having thus gaily spoken, he affectionately -and tenderly embraced his Duchess. - -"Well then it appears quite a hopeless case, your patent has arrived; -_you not only achieve greatness yourself, but likewise have greatness -thrust upon you_, as Malvolio says; so I suppose that you must have even -the grace to submit, and entrap yourself forth-with in the harness of -office. As for my part, I shall sigh for the charms of the dear country, -and would rather wear a simple coronal of hawthorn-blossoms than a -diadem studded with resplendent gems, and "the rich east to boot;" and -I, my Lord, warn you, for you must prepare to hear ejaculations from the -towers of Dublin castle somewhat to the tune and measure of--_O rus -quando ego te aspiciam?_ Then you, my Lord, with your high waving plumed -crest of chivalry come rushing up to the turret, fancying that you are -most heroically about to liberate some captive dame, or forlorn -princess, who has been cruelly incarcerated by some old cruel-hearted -necromancer, when I shall fly into your arms, forgetting pomp and power, -and even the divine country too; I will rush into your bosom, and only -remember that I am your wife--_the wife of Tyrconnel_!" - -"Bravo, bravo, _viva, viva, sempre l'imperatrice_!" exclaimed the Duke -in rapture. "Yes, dearest Katherine, you are the empress of my heart, -and need never, never fear a rival near the throne: come then to my -arms, and with your simple diadem of hawthorn I shall ever adore you, in -cottage or in palace!" - -The Duke was a Major-General in the army, he had served under the -banner of the illustrious Turenne, and his royal patron the Duke of -York, now James II., had also fought beneath the same victorious -standard. The Duke was considered the handsomest man of the age, and was -beloved alike in camp and in court. His knowledge and attainments were -great; he was not only _aliquis in omnibus_, but also _singularis in -omnibus_. He was indeed-- - - "A courtier of the chamber, - A soldier of the field; - Whose tongue could never flatter, - Whose heart could never yield!" - -The Duke's two sisters, Lady Letitia and Lady Lucy Raymond, who -constantly resided with him, affectionately approached to congratulate -their brother upon his appointment to the viceroyship. "Oh joy, dearest -brother!" they both exclaimed, while each at the same moment kissed the -Duke's cheeks. - -Lady Lucy had been educated abroad, and was always speaking in warmest -raptures of "the dear continent," or of whatever was foreign, or -_recherche_. Indeed her friends were obliged to admit that it was a vast -pity that Lady Lucy, with all her amiable qualities, should be somewhat -a little tinctured with conceit; and apprehended, that as it had been of -long continuance they feared it was too late to be remedied, her -affectation having become something very like second nature. Thus argued -her kind, consoling friends, who sat down most contentedly beneath the -shade of their own sage conclusions. - -Lady Lucy continued her expressions of joy in a sort of soliloquy: "Oh -really this will be quite deloightful! quite _impose_! surpassingly -deloightful! Why actually we shall hold a little court of St. Germains -at Dublin castle!" - -Lady Letitia during her infancy had been a sickly child, and, in -consequence of her inability to travel, had remained at home; while her -family were sometime resident abroad, and her education was wholly -unattended to; or to speak more explicitly, was never once thought of as -a matter of the slightest concern--no uncommon occurrence in the olden -time. This deficiency at this period was not confined to two or three -noble families;--nay, gentle reader, start not, for thou wilt please to -recollect that we are speaking of what happened above one hundred and -forty years ago. In consequence of this neglect Lady Letitia made such -broad and palpable mistakes, and of so extraordinary a kind, as could -not of failed to have beaten that modern personage, Mrs. Malaprop, of -blundering notoriety, completely defeated from the field. - -"No, Lucy, no!" rejoined Lady Letitia, "No, nothing _German_; neither -caps nor boots, rats, whiskers, nor muskatoes. I hate every thing -German; no, our court shall not be a German one, but a second St. -James's. And old Cormac shall compose such a grand ode upon the solemn -occasion, to be said or sung in the old hall at Dublin castle; aye, and -we shall have duly chanted for my dear brother such a noble hypothesis -as ear never----" - -"Apotheosis, you mean, Letitia," said the Duke, interrupting her. "Yes, -indeed, _that_ would be a _solemn occasion_; but I pray you be not in -such mighty haste to send me so soon 'unanointed, unanealed,' to the -other world before my time too; this is not altogether so kind, sister; -and besides, previous to the possession of the honours which you would -somewhat too prematurely celebrate.----But a truce to this badinage; I -must forth-with prepare for my journey to take possession of the -government of Barataria!" - -Sir Patricius Placebo now advanced to join and congratulate the family -circle, and to express his joy upon the Duke's appointment. "My Lord -Duke in verity believe me, that this day there exists none whose -feelings and whose heart are more truly gratified by this gracious -selection of my sovereign than what mine are; and I also must -congratulate your Grace's friends, and the country too, at the happy -choice which king James has made. And I further beg to say, with meet -reason, and under due discretion and correction, that you confer more -honour upon the king by your acceptance of it, than His Majesty has done -you by the presentation. Yea, and I may truly and fearlessly add, in the -words of old Flaccus, - - "Cum tot sustineas et tanta negotia solus, - * * * * * - * * in publica commoda peccem - Si longo sermone morer tua tempora----" - -Just at the moment that the words of old Flaccus were flowing forth -from the tongue of the obsequious Baronet, in a mellifluent Cork or -Kerry brogue, the butler entered the drawing-room, and announced, to the -great delight of Sir Patricius, that "dinner was served." The Duke, -drawing the arm of the Duchess beneath his own, for a moment stopped, -and said playfully--"See, my good Sir Patricius, how opportunely Mercury -pops in to clip the wings of Pegasus, and announce that the banquet of -the gods is ready; and now to our repast with all the appetite we may!" - -Sir Patricius bowed, and handing the ladies Letitia and Lucy, followed -to the dinner-room, solemnly muttering to himself, - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -while stately he moved along with an increased stride and attitude of -dignity. - - - - -CHAPTER IV. - - Por cierto, Senoer Gobernador * * * * que vuesa merced tiene mucha - razon en quanto ha dicho: y que yo ofrezco en nombre de todos los - insulanos desta insula, que han de servir a vuesa merced con toda - puntualidad, amor y benevolencia, porque el suave modo gobenar que - en estos principios vuesa merced ha dado, no les da lugar de - hacer, ni de pensar cosa que en deservicio de vuesa merced - redunde. - - DON QUIXOTE, tome IV. - - - TRANSLATION. - - Doubtless, Sir Governor * * * * you have much reason in all you - have been pleased to say: and let me promise you, in behalf of all - the inhabitants of this island, that they shall serve your will - and pleasure with all due diligence, love, and good-will; for the - sweet and mild mode of government that hitherto in the beginning - you have administered to them, causes them neither to do, nor even - to think, aught that may redound disloyal to your government. - - DON QUIXOTE, vol. IV. - - -Before the Duke had arisen upon the ensuing morning the Duchess thus -addressed him, and pronounced, if we may so express it, the -curtain-lecture, with which the reader is here made acquainted:-- - -"My dear and much beloved Lord, you are now about to assume the -government of your native island, a land richly abundant in agricultural -and commercial resources, possessing a peasantry inured to toil, hardy, -industrious, and intelligent; keenly alive to and sensible of wrong and -injustice, yet still a passive and a patient people, who, like the Roman -ox, stand ready victims, stationed between the ploughshare and the -altar, alike prepared for the yoke or for sacrifice!--a soil luxuriant -for tillage or for pasture, abounding in quarries, mines, and minerals; -blest with a mild and temperate climate, and adorned with scenery -picturesque, romantic, and sublime; with mountains high as the lofty -spirit of the race who inhabit them, and with harbours (open as their -generous hearts) expanding their numerous emporiums to receive the -tribute of every coast and every clime. - -"Remember, I pray thee, my good Lord, a passage which once we read, -and that I never can forget; we found it in the Lives of Plutarch, where -we are told the courtiers of Philip of Macedon essayed to mount and -master the noble animal Bucephalus, afterwards the war-horse of the -great and renowned Alexander. Courtier succeeding courtier attempted to -mount the back of Bucephalus, but in vain. They knew, indeed, how to -cringe, and fawn, and flatter in a despot's court, but they were wholly -ignorant and incompetent how to manage this nobly spirited war-horse; -their shadows, as they successively attempted to mount, startled the -steed, and they could make nothing of it. It was then that the son of -Ammon sprang forth, and said, 'Father, give him into my hands; I see the -noble bearing of the proud and generous animal, let me too, therefore, -have a trial!' The request was granted. When Alexander, leading him into -the shade where the steed neither startled by the shadow of his person -nor the flowing of his mantle, Alexander instantly sprung upon his back, -and galloped him several times past the presence of Philip, reining him -with full command, wheeling him round in full career, and then suddenly -halting to address his admiring king and father, and no less astonished -courtiers. At length, overcome with joy and admiration, Philip exclaimed -to Alexander, 'Go, go, my son, and seek to rule over other realms, for -Macedonia is too small for thee!' Yes, my dear Lord, I at once see you -forcibly feel the allusion. In the hands of ignorant, or stupid, or -bigoted governors, and their underlings, Ireland shall ever prove and -remain untractable, as Bucephalus was in the clumsy and untoward hands -of the courtiers of Macedon; but rule the inhabitants of this isle with -gentleness and moderation, with equal and impartial justice, alike -administered to all beneath a mild and conciliatory government, and then -mark how submissively they shall obey their ruler. In peace you shall -see drawn home the heavy harvest team; and on the day of battle our -navies shall ride triumphant, and our armies march victorious!" - -The Duke smiled at the conclusion of this lengthened lecture; but he -was truly pleased withal at the judicious remarks, the sound sense, and -also with the enthusiastic feeling of his Duchess; and he said somewhat -gaily, "Bravo! well done, my Katherine. I long knew the extensive range -of your reading and information; but, 'fore Jupiter Ammon, I _certes_ -did not know until the present what a famous politician thou hast -become. Thou assuredly hast pronounced a very notable and altisonant -lecture upon legislation, wherewithal from which I fully trust that I -shall ultimately derive much advantage. But yet under favour, lady mine, -my vice-regal _femme covert_, you will peradventure please to carry in -your noble recollection, that I am no sovereign prince or potentate, and -that the _roy le veult_ belongs not to me, but to my royal master; that -simply I am but a deputy, and therefore it is evident that I can have no -will of mine own, but, on the contrary, that every measure must emanate -from the throne. However, it is nevertheless true, that although I owe -much to my regarded sovereign, yet unhappily should this reflected light -of majesty prove to be but mere "disastrous twilight," I have still the -power to resign; and albeit I am not devoid certainly of ambition, yet -there exists not a man who is more attached to retirement than what I -confessedly am;--none, I am sure, more devoted to his country, friends, -family, and home!" - -The intention of the Duke of Tyrconnel being fixed to pursue his journey -onward without unnecessary delay, to assume the reins of his vice-regal -government, His Grace and his amiable Duchess descended betimes to the -breakfast saloon. The Duke was in uncommon good spirits, spoke -sportively to his beloved Adelaide. The Ladies Letitia and Lucy soon -made their appearance, and Sir Patricius was not the last to take his -station at the breakfast-table, on which was duly placed every solace -for the regalement of the worthy Baronet, if indeed a salutary morning -walk amid the mountain-air could have rendered his appetite fastidious. - -The Duke soon began in a jocular way to rally the Ladies Letitia and -Lucy, by observing, "I propose very soon, gentle ladies, so hearken to -me both, to dispose of you twain by promotion--in the temple of Hymen! -What say ye, ladies fair, to my proposition? Doubtless it will meet with -your joint approval, and most dutiful concurrence to my high and -puissant command!" - -Lady Lucy replied, that she had no wish nor intention whatsoever to -alter her situation, feeling perfectly happy and contented as she was, -desirous of no change, and fully resolved, as far as was within her -control, that no cruel _empechement_ should ever separate her from those -she so dearly regarded and loved. - -Lady Letitia said in reply: "As for your _high men_, they are always -sure to have their own high ways in aught perchance they would do or -dare; and I needs must observe that I have no wish whatever to be -connected with such high cavaliers, having, alas! upon a former occasion -experienced much vexation and disappointment at the hands of one of -those said _high men_." - -"Prithee, Letitia, explain in what manner," rejoined the Duke. - -"You must know, then, that a proposal of marriage was made to me from -one of noble birth, and likewise of affluent fortune, while you, my -Lord, were absent in foreign lands. The gentleman was the Honourable Mr. -Gwillim Ap-Gwillim, of Caper Ap-Shenkin, in North Wales, who was not -slow in using every endeavour to win my love and affections; and, alas! -he succeeded but too well in the accomplishment of his wishes. But after -all, a long courtship and fair promises, this Cambrian proved himself to -be one of your '_perhaps_' knights-errant; and so, my good Lord, no more -of them for poor me! The man, prince, potentate, or peer, who deals in -the shuffling word '_perhaps_,' shall never possess my affection, nor -have my hand in the tie of holy wedlock. Never, I am resolved. No; for -ever I forswear and detest the word, as being the most offensive and -deceitful in the English tongue, past, present, or to come." - -"Hold, hold, Letitia," said the Duke, "you are off in full gallop from -your story. Pray rein in thy noble indignation and imagination awhile, -and do let us have the conclusion of your most tragical hero, whom you -stigmatize with the title and appanage of '_perhaps_?'" - -"I fairly promised my hand where before I had given my heart; that is to -say, provided you had so approved; and while matters were, as I -conceived, happily arriving, as I had fondly hoped, at the long wished -claracism (_eclaircissement_), who would have suspected or have dreamed -the result? - -"'I am told, Sir,' addressing Mr. Gwillim Ap-Gwillim, of Caper -Ap-Shenkin, 'I am told, Sir,' said I, with proud tears in my eyes, 'that -you at present entertain a paramour?' - -"'Well, Madam,' rejoined he, 'perhaps' (oh, the abominable word) 'I do; -and if so, it is surely not unusual or marvellous in an unmarried man.' - -"'But then, Sir,' I replied, (somewhat enraged at his tawdry 'perhaps',) -'sure before we become man and wife, you will no doubt part with and -discharge this said paramour?' - -"'Perhaps,' he rejoined, 'perhaps, (the third time, observe,) Madam, I -may.' - -"'_Perhaps_, Sir,' I loudly re-echoed, my blood boiling, my breath -parting, my tongue gasping, and enraged to the very utmost, 'Perhaps, -Sir,' I said vehemently, 'know, my hand never shall be yours--never, -never!' Then with a strong impulse of collected coolness, for very often -what is the most opposite will occur, I distantly retired, with the -utmost indifference I dropt a low court courtesy, and never beheld him -more." - -The Duke proposed, previous to departing, to accompany his noble -consort and family in a promenade on the pleasure grounds. Their Graces -led the way; and while apart from the attending group, the Duke -addressed the Duchess in a low voice--"I shall do every thing, depend -upon it, that is within my power, to render my vicegerency popular; not -from a love of popularity, but from the impulse of administering even -and equal justice to all His Majesty's subjects, which is a debt I shall -not fail to discharge, so far as the responsibility of my station -admits, and my duty to the king allows. The salary which I may receive -during my administration shall, to the uttermost farthing, be expended -among the generous people, from whose purses I am to receive it; I shall -assist the poor, and the great I will entertain. Thus when the -termination of my government arrives, I trust that my departure from the -viceregency shall not be mistaken for that of a collector of taxes, who -retires _sub umbra_, having embezzled the public coffers, and who -departs _ex-officio_, attended, justly I admit, with "curses, not loud -but deep!" Oh no, my dearest love, by no earthly possibility shall any -one mistake me for a Jamaica planter, a bullock feeder, or a Jew broker! -Never; my private fortune shall be expended in addition to the princely -income which I receive from the nation; and I am resolved that in every -way it shall be my study, as it will be my pleasure, to prove indeed the -true and appropriate representative of a noble and generous king!" - -To this expressive burst of loyal and ardent feeling, the Duchess fully -accorded her hearty assent. While the noble pair remained thus employed -in discussing the high and grave affairs of state, the ladies Letitia -and Lucy, attended by Sir Patricius Placebo and Captain Heaviside, were -employed in admiring the surrounding scenery. - -"What a romantic delightful prospect here presents itself to the -spectator," observed Sir Patricius Placebo to Lady Letitia, who stood -next him. - -"Oh yes," replied her Ladyship, "it is truly a noble tract of verdant -valley and lofty mountain, scenery, sea, and river; the goats on the -rock, the sheep on the hill, and the cows in the vale; indeed the Duke -positively asserts that the surrounding scene displays perhaps the most -beautiful cow-dell (_coup d'oeil_) in the whole kingdom." - -The promenaders returned from their ramble, and were stationed on the -terrace when the Duke's travelling coach and six drove up to the -embattled porch of the castle. The Duke, addressing himself to Sir -Patricius, pleasantly and playfully said: "Sir knight we do hereby, by -the powers in us vested, constitute, nominate, and appoint, with all the -briefness and celerity the occasion demands, you, Sir Patricius Placebo, -M. D. Baronet, _eques non male notus_, our _locum tenens_, and Lord -Constable of this our good castle of Tyrconnel during our absence -herefrom; and thou, Sir Patricius Placebo, art bound, in due accordance -with right, ancient, and laudable usage, to dispense all manner of -ancient hospitality, as if we ourself were in person present; and within -a few given days to escort our beloved partner and family to His -Majesty's castle of Dublin; all which fail not to do, under the pain and -penalty of our heavy displeasure." - -The Duke fondly and affectionately embracing his Duchess, his beloved -Adelaide, and his sisters, and cordially shaking hands with his guests, -entered his travelling carriage, which set off, the horses travelling in -a brisk pace, for Dublin, to assume the chief government of the island. -The ladies followed the Duchess, who retired into the castle to regret -even the temporary absence of her lord. - -Meanwhile Sir Patricius proposed to Captain Heaviside an excursion on -horseback, to pass away the time _jusque a diner_. After a short -interval Sir Patricius having doffed his grave professional peruke; and -having assumed his hunting wig, mounted his gallant steed, and set out -with the Captain in a ramble through the country. While thus they were -employed in exploring the surrounding scenery, Captain Heaviside, -addressing Sir Patricius, said, "Pray, my good Sir, did I ever repeat to -you my _chronicle_?" - -"Oh no, never, Captain, upon my veracity; but in sooth I should be quite -delighted to hear it, so pray let us have it by all manner and means." - -"I call it," continued Captain Heaviside, _my_ chronicle, but I must -say, really and truly, that it was never written by me;--positively not -mine, but written indeed by a particular friend." - -"Come, come, bold Captain, that is very well, and likewise most sagely -and discreetly expressed; very good indeed--an excellent come off, _cum -grano salis_, hem! It is, however, to be sure, vastly convenient upon -all such occasions to enlist a friend into the service who shall enact -you the part of a poetical godfather, and act too as pioneer: a most -meritorious gentleman truly, who is disposed with such magnanimous -generosity to place all our written sins and verses upon his own -muster-roll. Vastly, egad vastly convenient, I needs must observe, -master Heaviside, hah, hah, hah, _sed, litera scripta manet!_ There is -no getting over that, my gallant young Captain, by my halidam!" - -"My good Sir Patricius accredit me, it was really written by my very -excellent friend, Captain Drinkwater, a dashing dragoon." - -"I can then flatly tell you, Captain, that it will never do--I know it -will never do; for as friend Horace sings, - - 'Nulla placere diu nec vivere carmina possunt - Quae scribuntur aquae potoribus.' - -I hate and detest your _aquae potoribus_, all your drink-waters, and -your water-drinkers, they are beyond all compare the very worst -description of enemies that our profession has to contend with: so no -more of this; give me your drinkers of _aqua vitae_, and honest -stout-hearted topers of genuine Drogheda usque-baugh; these are the -generous souls whose quaffing I admire, and whose fees I dearly prize. -But come, my brave Captain, notwithstanding we must positively have your -_chronicle_." - -"Well, Sir Patricius, since it must be so, here it is. - - - CAPTAIN HEAVISIDE'S CHRONICLE, - - BEING AN EXCELLENT NEW ANACREONTIC, AND WRITTEN BY - CAPTAIN DRINKWATER OF THE HORSE-GRENADIERS. - - Julia first met me with bright sparkling eye; - Next Sally so sober, yet so very sly, - Margery, matchless at grin and grimace; - Then Susan so simple, with innocent face. - Betty was breathless when told of a fray, - And Judy in sooth would have her own way: - Of Nelly 'tis needless ought for to tell, - On ev'ry occasion she bore off the belle. - - There was rattling, laughing, roaring young Kate, - Who many did think was perturbed in her pate: - Of Kathlane so cunning, and Mollys a score, - Och, I could sing till I tired you sore. - Let this little sample the truth only tell, - That, ah! I have lov'd too long and too well!" - -"_Olet lucernam_, good master Heaviside! methinks it smells somewhat -rather too strong of the lamp. Nay, nay, come noble Captain, I say, -cheer up man! never mind, my brave boy, for in faith I like your -chronicle, master Heaviside, passing well; and the very first open day, -to speak the _vox parliamentaria_, that is to express, that the first -day that the Duke shall dine abroad----hah, hah, which, 'fore Jupiter, -egad he does this very day--aye, good--very good, - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -this very day, by my halidam, we shall have it! By the mass he who -gainsays it wets not his lips with a cup of hermitage! Nay more, down -goes my gauntlet; Captain--there is my hand for you! A fig, I say, for -your black rods, your white rods, and your green rods! I would fain -flagellate them all with their own proper _insignia_ of office; aye, -marry, I say, a plague upon them all, master Heaviside! I am a man -somewhat gifted with authority, as you are, Captain, fully aware, being -no less than grand Seneschal of yonder ancient castle; and by the mass, -indubitably, with due and meet discretion, we shall have _viva voce_ -this very day your much to be lauded Anacreontic, and that too without a -single repugnant '_perhaps_,' against which vague, dubious, and most -distrustful adverb, that sage and circumspect Lady Letitia doth so -continently and cautiously enter her solemn protest. But my good Sir, -time and place--place and time? methinks as I don't toss off drams in a -morning, that songs sound sweeter heard in the evening. Oh, ever time -and place are to be taken into account, my good Captain, for - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -as the venerable Archimedes enforces it--hem; and I shall----But come, -Captain, for once I will give a gratuitous prescription--take my -nostrum--sing, or hear it sang, Captain Harry Heaviside's new Chronicle, -which be sure to wash down with the potation of two honest quarts of old -bottled Chateau-Margut, or good Burgundy, for I am not squeamish, which -shall answer just quite as well;--swallow the dose, charily, charily, -but without shaking the bottle!" - -The equestrians soon approached the castle on their return to dinner, -and the first bell was now heard pealing over battlement and tower, duly -giving warning note; hence from a smart trot they hastened to a brisk -gallop. - -"Ahem," said Sir Patricius, "see, noble Captain, how strong and lustily -the smoke mounts up from the kitchen chimney, _bonum signum, bonum -signum_, by Bacchus and Ceres a most propitious omen! Ahem, spur on, my -gallant chevalier!" - -The two worthies now reached the lordly castle; and entering the -embattled porch, Captain Heaviside observed in a whisper to Sir -Patricius: "A d----d bore to be sure it is, all this dressing for -dinner, my good Sir Patricius. But no matter, it is some consolation, -however, that we shall have an excellent feed; and I am resolved to do -it justice, exercise and the mountain air having sharpened a natural -good appetite." - -"But," rejoined Sir Patricius, "hark, again this accursed bell, how it -frights the castle from its propriety. - - 'Ring out the alarum-bell, blow winds come, crack, - At least we'll die with harness on our back.' - -But never mind, we shall be ready before the bell rings a third time." - -The man of physic and the man of war having thus spoken, they wended -their way to their respective toilettes, which were quickly despatched. -Here then we leave them to pay their attentions to the Duchess and the -ladies, and enjoy all the good cheer at the ducal _salle a manger_. -Meanwhile, in our next chapter, we shall return to the Duke, and escort -His Grace to the vice-regal abode at Dublin castle. - - - - -CHAPTER V. - - ----Al llegar a las puertas de la villa que era cercada, salio - regimiento del pueblo a recebirle, tocaron las campanas, y todos - los vecinos dieron muestras de general alegria, y con mucha pompa - le llevaron a la iglesia mayor a dar gracias a Dios, y luego con - algunas ceremonias le entregaron las llaves del pueblo, y le - admitieron por Gobernador de la insula. - - DON QUIXOTE, tome IV. ch. 45. - - TRANSLATION. - - When he approached the town gates (for it was walled) the officers - came out to welcome him, the bells rang, and all the inhabitants - made show of a general gladness; and they carried him in great - pomp to the high church, to give God thanks; and shortly after - some ceremonies they delivered him the keys, and admitted him as - Governor of the island. - - DON QUIXOTE, book IV. ch. 45. - - -The Duke of Tyrconnel took his departure, as was observed in the last -chapter, at an early hour; the roads were in excellent order for -travelling, the morning appeared settled and serene, and an enlivening -sun shone forth propitiously on his journey. - -The vice-regal carriage had just reached the town of Ballyshannon, when -one of the fine animals (a leader) which drew the vehicle lost a fore -shoe, which caused the cavalcade to stop. This interruption to the -journey afforded an opportunity to the Duke, of which he availed -himself, of visiting the venerable ruins of Ashrow Abbey, which were at -that point of time noble and imposing even in decay. The beautifully -pointed gothic arches, and the gilded ceilings in the vaults of the -cloisters, called forth and attracted the attention and admiration of -His Grace. When the Duke had returned to his inn from the inspection of -these venerable monastic remains, a large party of horsemen were -discerned trotting onward at a round and rapid pace. The Duke was -stationed in a small gallery, or balcony, surmounting the door of the -inn, when a tumultuous congratulatory roar from the equestrians, and -addressed to His Grace, resounded on all sides, and the well-known Irish -welcome of "_Cead millia failtha_," (that is "a hundred thousand hearty -welcomes,") saluted the ducal ear. His Grace took off his hat, which he -most gracefully waved, and graciously bowed. He then addressed them, and -was pleased to say, "My good friends, I feel truly grateful for this -warm burst of loyalty; but I request to ask whither, and in such rapid -haste, ye are all proceeding? - - 'Go ye in peace, or go ye in war?' - -There is surely no fair now going on in these parts of the country; -there is no wake, no saint's patron-day recorded in the calendar; there -is no racing, no hurling-match, no rural sport that I know of; and -therefore I feel at a loss how to account for thus assembling in -numbers, and I must needs doubt whether the motive be justifiable." - -The troop of peasants, to the number of twelve or fifteen persons, were -mounted on horseback; most of the horses carried double, in accordance -to an old strange Irish usage, and which custom prevails in many parts -of Ireland even at the point of time in which we now address our -readers. The peasants replied, in respondence to the queries of the -Duke, to this effect: "So may it please your Lordship's noble Reverence, -we are men of the mountains, just going up for a bit to town, to procure -a little law," [i. e. being duly interpreted, means _litigation_.] - -"Then," rejoined the Duke, "if such be your intention, my serious and -friendly advice to you all, my good men of the mountains, is simply -this, that you do all at the present immediately return back to your -respective districts, and peaceably retire to your native hills and -homes; avoid law, strife, and litigation; return to the tranquil heights -of the lofty Tyraugh, and there enjoy, undisturbed by the factious or -the turbulent, that peace and tranquillity which is shed around your -happy cottages, beyond the turmoil of the world, and there dwell, and -likewise cultivate the Christian virtues of peace and brotherly love. -Forget and forgive the past; bear and forbear! And if I wore the -sacerdotal garb, I could not in so few words, perhaps, advert more to -the present purpose which has, be it what it may, conjured up some bad -blood, as I have strong reasons to apprehend. This line of conduct, my -countrymen, you must be sensible, it is your bounden duty to pursue; -attend to your farms, cherish your families, and look to yourselves; -obey your magistrates, and attend to your religious duties; and last, -though not least, honour and reverence your noble king. I feel it -incumbent on me to tell you such ought to be your line of conduct, and -to this effect, too, will all your Clergy to a man pronounce to you, -whether parson, priest, or prelate!" - -This speech allayed the threatened storm; and as if the wind had -changed to a different point, gently impelling a vessel in a contrary -course, thus suddenly were the litigious intentions of the "men of the -mountains" changed. They thanked his Lordship's "glorious Honour for his -kind condescension, and solemnly protested that they would forego _the -bit of law_ which they had intended, and willingly abide by his -Lordship's most worshipful advice." Reining round their steeds, they -proceeded upon their return home in a trot more rapid even than that in -which they had approached; and giving three loud distinct cheers of -"_Cead millia failtha_," were soon out of sight. - -The book of wisdom saith "a soft answer turneth away wrath;" and it is -no less true, that a generous act, or even a kind expression, makes an -indelible impression upon the grateful heart of an Irishman! - -While the Duke was engaged in the foregoing expostulation with "the men -of the mountains," the farrier, as he called himself, was meantime -actively employed, in which his tongue was as prompt as his hand was -ready, in performing, as he conceived it, the proud destiny of replacing -the fore shoe on the noble leader, in lieu of that which had been lost; -and thus from his anvil he addressed the Duke's valet: "Och then, plaze -your honour, master Brushwell, may be it isn't I who understands, any -how, in a jiffy to whip on a shoe upon any poor beast in the four -bordering counties; and a great sin and shame in me it would be if I -didn't exart myself for one of the true ould Irish stock? In troth in a -jiffy I will knock off the job, and by J---- it shall be properly well -done! for oh, _naboclish_, sure enough may be Tom Hob isn't the boy, -after all, for quickly knocking off a job for a parson he loves; and in -troth he may say with the ould ballad-- - - 'Tom's heart, like his iron, is hissingly hot, - Though his iron should cool, his heart it shall not!'" - -In these remote days the peaceful methods of life, the arts of -agriculture and husbandry, were but imperfectly known; and the practice -of farriery was rudely and ignorantly performed; then veterinary -professors did not exist, [the foregoing incident of the lost horse-shoe -has led to this short digression,] and farriery was clumsily practised, -save, perchance in the forge of some farrier of heavy dragoons. The arts -of war, meanwhile, were but too successfully carried on, while the happy -arts of peace slumbered in the shade, and neglected agriculture sunk -depressed beneath the warlike tone and temper of the times. The sickle -and the ploughshare, the attributes and implements of husbandry, were -destined to be neglected, else otherwise to be transmuted into the spear -and falchion of war. - -But we resume our narrative.--The first day and night of the Duke's -departure he dined and slept at the hospitable abode of Castle-Caldwell, -the noble and magnificent mansion of the Baronet of the same name, which -delightful residence derived its name from the owner. The promontories -that raised their peninsular summits above and around the beautiful and -expanded lake of Lough Erne, were all brilliantly illuminated by -bonfires made by the peasantry. The beacon-flame also blazed from the -crowned summit of every surrounding hill and mountain. These bright -testimonies of gladness burst forth to hail the Duke's welcome arrival. -In furtherance of which the furze, fern, heath, and tall sword-grass, on -hill and rock, were all set into one universal conflagration, the -brilliant coruscations of which flashed, flamed, and undulated upon the -expanded waters of Lough Erne; while bonfires were seen to burn and -blaze upon the cloud-crested heights of the Tyraugh mountains. - -Meanwhile, in sympathy with the scene, the great promontory of -Ross-a-Goul brightly bore the beacon blaze upon his lofty brow, which -flamed forth and flashed volcano-like above the adjacent woods and -groves, illuminating every islet, rock, and indented shore, and -reflecting its ruddy light in brilliance upon the dark waves of -Ross-Moor, which seemed emulous to flash back their radiance on -Ross-Goul. - -The town of Churchill manifested similar demonstrations of joy and -gratulation upon the arrival of the popular viceroy. It is time, -however, to return to the hospitable board of the worthy host, who, with -his noble and distinguished guests, sat down to a magnificent dinner at -the good, early, rational, but now antiquated hour of four o'clock, -which was the healthy custom in these times remote. Among many -surrounding nobles and gentry present at this splendid banquet, we must -not pass by unobserved two notable characters who were seated at the -Baronet's table: the one was the Lord Viscount Glandarah, and the other -was the Rev. Doctor Dismal Drew, L.L.D., a quondam Fellow of Trinity -College, Dublin,[16] and who had been collated to the valuable living of -----, the advowson of which was in the gift of the University of Dublin. -These two worthies formed a remarkable and striking contrast to each -other. - - [16] "Anno 1590.--The Monastery of All-Hallows was granted by the - citizens for the site of an university. - - "----1591.--Trinity College founded by Queen Elizabeth. Opened - 1593. Received a new charter and statutes 1637."--_Annals of the - City of Dublin._ - -Lord Glandarah, imitating the profitable example of the wise Ulysses, -who - - ----"Multorum providus urbes - Et mores, hominum inspexit," - -had visited foreign countries and courts, where he had resided during a -very long period, even from his early youth. It was whispered, and it -was also believed, that he was at heart _un bon Catholique_. However, -whether the assertion was true or false, certain it is that his Lordship -took his seat in the Irish House of Peers; so that his case was -completely _in foro conscientiae_, and with which nobody had any right to -intermeddle, it being a matter between him and a higher power than any -court upon earth, temporal or spiritual. - -His Lordship was an accomplished and polished nobleman; he had seen, -and with no unobserving eye, the different nations and courts of Europe; -had examined their laws, their governments, and establishments; he had -been so long resident upon the continent, (even from his earliest -years,) that from his foreign intonation of voice, and speaking, as he -did, broken English, he might readily have passed for a German or a -Frenchman. Lord Glandarah was personally known by the Duke of Tyrconnel, -who, upon this interview, heartily shook hands; and the former warmly -congratulated the latter upon his promotion to the viceroyship of -Ireland: "Gad save my soul, _mon tres-excellent_ Duke, I am _absolument_ -delighted; _je suis ravis entirement a vous revoir_. I am _tout_ -delighted! _Jamais, jamais si bien heureux! Un verre de vin: a votre -tres bonne sante, et aussi la de votre tres amiable et accomplie Madame -la Duchesse. Nous aurons une petit Cour de Versailes a la Chateau de -Dublin. Sans doute et comme certainement nous verrons! Tres joli, tres -joli! Sir Jacques Colville, j'ai l'honneur de saluer votre sante._" - -Lord Glandarah was attired in a court dress of green Genoa velvet, -richly embroidered with gold; and the old aristocratic peer was so -orthodox that even his hunting wig, when he rode on horseback, had _une -petite bourse_ attached to it, and the peruke was surmounted by a small -cocked hat, trimmed with broad gold lace, with an appendant feather; and -these he considered as indispensable appanages of _un gentilhomme comme -il faut_! or, as Horace has expressed it, "_Homo factus ad unguem_"--a -finished gentleman, even to the paring of his nail! Compared with Doctor -Dismal Drew, he was "Hyperion to a satyr." Doctor Drew was in stature -six feet by two, without diminution or subtraction, but awfully - - "Measured by cubit, length, and breadth, and height." - -The Doctor's head was of a portentous size, which induced his -cotemporaries, while a student in college, to bestow on him the epithet -or sobriquet of "the bull-headed ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}) student;" and -most certain it is, that the exterior exceeded in dimensions every other -head within the precincts of that learned corporation. He was extremely -near-sighted, and always wore either goggles or spectacles made of green -glass, which, as our readers may fairly suspect, did not by any means -add to his personal appearance or attraction, whatever they might have -abducted. He was however, be the truth spoken, an excellent scholar, -philosopher, and moreover this same "learned Theban" was a mathematician -to boot. His manners were unpolished--nay, repulsive. His gait in the -street or drawing-room was so strange and inhuman-like, that it was only -ideally to be compared to the floundering motion of a wounded walrus -standing on its hind legs, then dragging its heavy weight along. At -table the movement of his arms was so exceedingly annoying to his -neighbours that it invariably caused them to keep a most circumspect and -respectful distance. His voice, when he spoke, which was only when he -wanted to be helped to some piquant viand, was harsh and stentorian, and -might not unaptly be compared to the discordant cadence of a cracked -bassoon. He was learned--he abounded in anecdote; and if he chose to be -at the trouble, he could be witty. But no; during dinner, and even when -the cloth was removed, solemn as the grave he sat doggedly pinioned to -his chair, silently sipping drop by drop his Burgundy. He seemed to be -apprehensive that the time he would occupy in conversation would -interfere with the time allotted for the act of deglutition; therefore -he sat taciturn, as if the use of his tongue was inevitably and -irretrievably to destroy the powers of his palate! - -Doctor Drew was by no means deficient in dry and sarcastic humour; and -many anecdotes may be still found savoury in the college-courts and -dinner-hall of this quondam queer-fellow of old _alma mater_; however we -will trespass on the reader's attention only with one anecdote:-- - -Doctor Dismal Drew passing one morning through the college courts, from -the library to his chambers, happened to meet a young student who had -been only a few days matriculated, and such are, in popular parlance in -the university, called _jibs_; the young student had the ill-fortune to -pass this learned Leviathan, without the usual salutation of doffing his -four-cornered cap to his mighty superior:--"Halloo," roared the Doctor, -"come back; hark ye, I say, young master, pray how long, young -gentleman, allow me to ask, have you worn the academic gown?" - -"Just eight days, may it so please your Reverence." - -"Ay, ay; in sooth, young master, I thought as much, for we all know that -puppies cannot make use of their eyes until they are nine days old!" - -When Doctor Dismal Drew had with-drawn from the dinner-room, Lord -Glandarah addressed the Duke of Tyrconnel in an under tone: "Gad save -me, my Lord Duke, _mais cette est un homme austere, outre, et tres -singulier; et, par tout, un bete horrible_." - -"Adonis, you recollect, my Lord, was killed by a _boar_!" - -"Excellent, O Duke! and I too should be killed by--the Doctor's -company!--_non, pardonnez moi_ presence, I should say; he be no company! -_en verite_ two entire days would despatch me. He is _assurement -Polyphemus le second, mais avec cette dissemblance par tout que le -monstre il eut un oeil bel excellent, pendant que, le Docteur ave sans -doubte deux diaboleux_ bad eyes!" - -"Oh, unquestionably, my Lord! but then he has an intellectual one; and -we must give due credit to Sir James Caldwell for the attention and -kindness which he dispenses to his quondam tutor. It is kind, -considerate, grateful, and honourable, to his feelings." - -Sir James Caldwell, for whom the Duke of Tyrconnel entertained a great -regard and affection, from long acquaintance and intercourse, took an -opportunity, previous to the departure of His Grace, of making a strong -and impressive request that the Duke would be pleased to appoint his -worthy and learned friend the Doctor to be one of His Grace's domestic -chaplains. - -"Why really, my kind and worthy friend, your request appears to me to -be a matter of greater difficulty than you, Sir James, seem to be aware -of, biassed, no doubt, by your kindness and partiality for the Doctor; -however you must needs acknowledge that there is somewhat _outre_ and -repulsive in the _tout ensemble_ of this extraordinary man; his general -appearance, his manners, his dress, and address, and those unindurable -appendices of green goggles, and his _je ne scai quoi_ impression, which -is better seen than described. However, if it be possible I shall -willingly assent to your request, provided that you, on the part of the -learned Doctor, accede to my capitulations, which I require and demand. -First, I insist upon the total abandonment of those everlasting green -goggles, in which I verily believe he sleeps withal. Secondly, I -resolve, as a _sine qua non_, that the learned Doctor, upon his arrival -in the metropolis, shall employ either a drill sergeant or a _maitre de -danse_, to mollify his movements of legs and arms! You stare in -astonishment, my good Sir James, but marry, I do not mean, in sooth, -that your grave Doctor and L.L.D. should slowly glide down the sober -minuet, or the more solemn paven, with formal features and extended -cassock, _chausse_ the cotillion, or trot down the merry _contredanse_; -no, _mehercule_, by no means, but this exercise I would fain prescribe -merely in order to give a gentlemanly ease and deportment of person. And -thirdly, I must require that the Doctor should purchase a new gown and -cassock; these habiliments having become threadbare in the service of -old Alma. Fourthly, that the Doctor shall, _sine mora_, have constructed -a neat orthodox wig, curled and powdered _a la Louis Quatorze_, &c. &c." - -All these sage and precise preliminaries being agreed, ratified, and -concluded upon, by the high contracting parties, the Duke upon the -following morning took a friendly leave, and set off to pursue his -journey to Dublin. He kindly offered the Lord Glandarah a seat in his -carriage, who was likewise destined for Dublin; and which offer was most -thankfully accepted by the noble peer. Having duly paid their respective -devoirs to their hospitable host they departed, much gratified by their -reception at the noble and social mansion of Castle-Caldwell. - -The Duke and his noble _compagnon de voyage_ travelled onward without -any accident or occurrence worth narrating, and arrived that day to -dinner at Tarah-Castle, the noble residence of the Lord Tarah. But at -the present day no vestige of this once celebrated castle remains, where -once - - "To chiefs and ladies bright - The harp of Tarah swelled!" - -Upon this distinguished day the hospitable board was loaded with every -luxury; generous Burgundy and enlivening Champaign flowed around in -bumpers; while it seemed a mooted matter of opinion which was most to be -admired, the generous courtesy and hospitality of the noble proprietor -of the castle, the excellence of his viands and wines, or the "soul of -music" that breathed around! - -Moments of convivial joy and harmony, however, soon pass by, and are -forgotten likewise in the advance of time. - -The following morning, soon after breakfast was concluded, the Duke of -Tyrconnel bade an affectionate adieu to the Lord of Tarah, and -accompanied by Lord Glandarah, set off in his travelling carriage for -the castle of Dublin. The journey was safely proceeded on to -Dunshauglin, where the Duke's state carriages and horses were in -attendance to convey him to Dublin, accompanied by a squadron of horse. - -As he approached the city of Dublin, at the barrier of Barrack-street -the horses were taken from the carriage by the populace, and His Grace -was drawn in triumph to the capital; all the cathedral and church bells -ringing forth a merry peal. His Grace was sworn into his high office, -the patent having been read, before the privy council; at the same -moment three rockets in succession ascended from Birmingham Tower, which -were signals of His Grace having been sworn into his high official -station; and were duly responded to by the salute-battery in His -Majesty's royal chase, or park; and the salute was again returned by the -battery stationed on the south-wall of the Liffey. At night a general -and splendid illumination succeeded, which concluded the rejoicings of -this most memorable day. - - - - -CHAPTER VI. - - ----The nature of our people, - Our city's institutions, and the terms - Of common justice, y'are as pregnant in - As art and practice hath enriched any - That we remember. There is our commission! - - MEASURE FOR MEASURE. - - -Fully resolved justly and conscientiously to discharge with unremitting -and unceasing attention the responsible duties of his high office, the -Duke now commenced his vice-regal career. He arose at an early hour, and -whatever public business was to be transacted, he constantly despatched -before the hour of breakfast. He was polite, courteous, and accessible -to all; his was the _suaviter in modo_, but it was also accompanied with -the _fortiter in re_. - -The first day for holding a vice-regal levee, as specified by public -notice from the Chamberlain's office, having arrived, it commenced -exactly at one o'clock, and was most numerously attended. Among the vast -assemblage were noticed the Lord Mayor, the Lord High Chancellor Sir -Alexander Fitton Lord Baron of Gausworth; the judges and great officers -of state; a long train of gentry, numerous members of the lower and -upper houses of parliament attended; many a grave and reverend prelate, -and many a baron bold--"_Post alios_; _fortemque Gyan_, _fortemque -Cloanthum_," &c. - -The company appeared arrayed in full and appropriate court costume. -There were likewise present the different staff officers, besides those -of the garrison; and a large body of ecclesiastics, Protestant and -Catholic, attended. The ceremonies of the day were throughout conducted -with great decorum and propriety. - -Among the notable personages that were this day presented to the Duke, -we must not omit to notice the Honourable Mr. Berenger, M. P. for the -County of----, of an ancient and ennobled family, whose ancestor came -to Ireland in the time of the second Henry. He wore a very large black -curled peruke, which flowed like a lion's mane adown his shoulders; his -coat and small-clothes were of light blue velvet, richly embroidered; a -waistcoat richly worked, and adorned with foliations formed of various -precious stones. He wore, too, a superb diamond-hilted sword; diamond -shoe and knee buckles; silk stockings, with gold embroidered clokes; and -the heels of his shoes were of red Morocco leather. He was indeed, -beyond all dispute, the unparalleled dandy of his day! Mr. Berenger had -been in his youth a very handsome man; but his face now was deadly pale; -and his eyes, which had been once brilliant as the diamonds which -adorned him, reposed, dim and shorn of their beams, within their hollow -and shrivelled sockets. Time, too, had left his stern impress in the -indented furrows of the cheek and the care-scored wrinkles of his brow: -he looked the languid voluptuary, while surfeit and satiety seemed to -seal up his lips. His figure, notwithstanding, was yet even still fine -and commanding. His countenance, however, spoke more plainly of the -preterpluperfect than either of the present or future tense. His eyes -reposed on the carpet or upon vacancy; they had in them "no speculation, -that they did glare withal." When attending the gay and dissipated court -of the second Charles he had often revelled with Rochester, and jested -with Killigrew and, moreover, had the high distinction paid him of -being called "a very finished gentleman indeed" by the witty monarch, -"whose word no man relied on!" - -The eccentric Mr. Berenger had severally proposed at three different -times a matrimonial alliance with Lady Lucy, the Duke's youngest sister, -who politely, but positively refused him; and upon some overtures to -renew his solicitations, Lady Lucy observed, that as she had so long -delayed to marry for love, she was now resolved not to marry in the -capacity of a nurse-tender! This was so home an _argumentum ad -superbiam_ a cut and thrust at the pride of the Honourable Member, that -he now seemed to have no intention of becoming a Benedict. Lady Letitia -found great fault with her sister, complained of her cruelty, and -sturdily maintained "that the Honourable M. P. having shewn such a -confirmed constancy, ought not to have met with this sharp repulse; for -it was evident and manifest that Mr. Berenger did not indeed belong to -the shabby class of '_perhaps_' suitors. - -But it is now time that we should return from this digression. Sir John -Caldwell was at the levee, and his _protege_, our quondam acquaintance -Doctor Dismal Drew, a newly-appointed chaplain, in a gown and cassock -spick and span, who having fully acceded to the rules and stipulations -of address, costume, and conduct, appeared indeed to have been moulded -into quite a different personage. However his strange absence of mind -and defect of judgment fully remained unaltered, as was fully -exemplified on the ensuing Sunday, when he preached a sermon at the -castle chapel before the Duke and his vice-regal suite. The text was -chosen in bad tact, however, and still worse policy: it was selected -from the xxvth chapter of Proverbs, 5th verse: "Take away the wicked -from before the king, and his throne shall be established in -righteousness!" This was unquestionably an uncalled for attack upon the -ministry, upon the noble viceroy, and on his patron; and his name was -struck out of the list of chaplains, never to be again restored. So much -for Doctor Drew! whose head seemed to be obtuse albeit--certainly, -however, it was never destined to be encircled with that ornament with -which Sancho crowned the head of his favourite Dapple. - -Early on the succeeding day her Grace the Duchess of Tyrconnel, the -lovely Lady Adelaide, Ladies Letitia and Lucy, escorted by the polite -and facetious Sir Patricius Placebo, arrived safely at Dublin Castle, -and were most warmly and affectionately received by the Duke and -viceroy. - -The vice-regal party sat down to dinner at their usual and not -irrational hour of four o'clock, which, in these our modern days of -dissipation and late hours, would be considered as an hour for dinner -quite gothic and _a la Bourgeois_; for in these our polished days of -finished taste and refinement, late hours seem to be the very _acme_ of -fashion; late dinners necessarily being succeeded by late suppers, and, -_par consequence_, afternoon breakfasts, in consequatory succession, -bringing up the rere of fashionable high-life to the great practice and -benefit of the College of Physicians. - -The conversation after dinner was lively and agreeable. The Duchess -described their journey, and gave many traits of the good feeling and -humour of the lower classes, as witnessed in their journey from -Tyrconnel Castle. When the ladies had retired, Lord Glandarah, who was -of the party, speaking of the eccentric Mr. Berenger, who had been at -the levee on the preceding day, turning to Sir Patricius, inquired of -him if he knew that eccentric personage? and the following reply, aided -by the effects of brisk Champaign, thus effervesced and flowed from his -lips: "Oh, yes, my Lord, I have before these days met with Count -Berenger, as he was called; I have too heard him converse with the -Windsor beauties, whose similitudes Sir Peter Lely, of pictorial fame, - - ----'On animated canvass stole - Their sleepy eye that speaks the melting soul.' - -Ay, my Lord, and often have I met him at the carousals of old King -Carolus, now defunct, but of blessed memory! He is _certes_ the -completely finished gentleman. He was once gay, and airy, and agreeable; -but now in sooth I must say that he looks as sombre and demure as a -solemn gentleman of the long robe extending his silken train, and -dancing down a paven![17] In the sublime art of eating he is not a -professor, but an artist, only munches the sunny side of a peach or a -nectarine; when he wishes to be helped to fowl or chicken, he is always -sure to bespeak the liver wing; knows all the nice cuts in a haunch of -venison, and he can carve you twenty nice _morceaux_ from the head of a -cod-fish; he knows too how turtle should be cooked, and how duly to -appreciate callipash and callipe; a glass of liqueur or genuine Coniac -he knows as well as I do to be a safe, salutary, and no unpleasant -condiment to his fish. In a word, his is the true art of _scavoir -vivre_; and 'fore Jove or great Apollo, if this were a writing or a -printing age, I should incontinently like and admire to have 'Culinary -Lucubrations, or the whole divine Art of Cookery,' from the pen of the -honourable and polished Mr. Berenger! But it was a sad omission of mine, -my Lord, not to include among his various accomplishments, that he is an -excellent judge of wines, and an excellent taster too, to boot; for he -would never mistake Port wine for Tokay, Chambertin for Chateau-Margut, -nor Vin de Grave for Hock! I think there is no going beyond these. Here, -then, I sum up the climax of his character, 'not to know him argues -one's self unknown!'--My Lord Glandarah, your Lordship's very good -health." - - [17] The _paven_ (from _pavo_, a peacock) is a grave, majestic - dance. The method of dancing it was anciently by gentlemen dressed - with a cap and sword; by those of the long robe in their gowns; by - the princes in their mantles; and by ladies in gowns with long - trains, the motion whereof in the dance resembled that of a - _peacock's tail_. This dance is supposed to have been invented by - the Spaniards, and its figure is given, with the characters for - the steps, in the _Orchesographia_ of Thoinet Arbeau.--See Note to - "_The Mad Lover_." Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, vol. IV. p. 186. - -Here the noble Duke, concluding from the foregoing symptoms that the -Doctor had not omitted taking his _quantum sufficit_ of Burgundy, -proposed another flask to Lord Glandarah, or some coffee with the -ladies. The ladies had the preference given them; and the Duke retiring -to the drawing-room, was followed by his guests. - -"I have," whispered Sir Patricius to Lord Glandarah, "observed, in -divers companies and upon several occasions, that His Grace in these -matters always leaves the discussion to the _liberum arbitrium_ of his -guests." - -"And," replied the Peer, "Gad save my soul, I laud his discreet -resolution!" - -The Duchess appointed her first drawing-room for the succeeding -evening. It may not be amiss here to acquaint the reader, that at the -period of which we now write, court dresses were universally worn by -both sexes at evening routes and balls: the gentlemen appeared in full -court costume, with bags, swords, and buckles; and the ladies with -monstrous bell-hoops, and portentous stomachers of an ell in longitude! -and withal incased in the cumbrous accoutrement of a heavy stiffened -silk mantua; while their false and elevated tetes reminded one of Pelion -piled up on Ossa. - -The above remarks will be sufficient to account for the short notice -given for the intended drawing-room. We would also observe upon the -hours at which the worthy folks of these days assembled at their evening -parties. At this period of time the fashionable hour of paying visits -was not, as it is now, in the morning, or rather mid-day, when every -body is abroad, but it was in the evening, when every one almost was at -home; and the visiting hour commenced at so early an hour as seven -o'clock. In the autumnal and winter months the saloons and -drawings-rooms of the noblesse and gentry in Dublin were at that hour, -or at the first visitor's knock at the door, immediately brilliantly -lighted up, and if both parties were perfectly disengaged, the guests -remained; each room displaying richly cut glass lustres and glass -chandeliers illuminated with wax; there was a numerous display of -card-tables; the servants attending in rich liveries; while lords and -knights, and commoners, and stately dames, and ladies gay, came attired -in their court costume. The company partook of tea, coffee, &c.; in the -course of the evening lemonade, orgeat, cake, wine, negus, jellies, -sweetmeats, and confections, (for the luxury of ice was then unknown,) -were handed around to the company, many of whom had meantime sat down to -the card-table, some playing whist, cribbage, or tredrille; some at -ombre, and others at loo. And as the clock struck ten the company -separated, and all retired. - -Ladies of high rank usually visited in their state sedan-chairs, which -were stuffed, and lined with white and pink satin, and externally -decorated with different rich ornaments; large silk tassels dangled at -the four angular points of the roof, and the highest top, or pinnacle, -was surmounted by a gilt coronet reposing on a crimson cushion; three, -sometimes four, footmen, according to the rank of the individual, -habited in splendid liveries, and arranged in single files, preceded the -sedan-chair, each bearing a lighted flambeau. And sooth to say, some of -the old dowagers, when the doubtful light of the flambeau flashed upon -their withered visages, incontinently reminded the spectator of the -waxen figure of queen Elizabeth in the glass-case at Westminster-Abbey! - -The drawing-room night arrived, and was crowded by numbers of the -nobility and gentry of both sexes, when the old and the young were -assembled together. It was indeed a splendid scene--a galaxy of beauty -and magnificence; the dresses were superb; and bright and brilliant were -the blaze of gems and jewels that adorned the brows, ears, and encircled -the lovely necks of the young, and sparkled on those of a more matronly -description. The youthful and lovely fair presenting no unfavourable -specimen of the beauty of the daughters of Erin; their cheeks rivalling -the rose, and blushing in graceful adolescence; while their lovely -bosoms, glowing in healthful bloom, reflected a pearly radiance around -the diamonds which sparkled upon and adorned them. - -Several ladies of the nobility and gentry, amounting to many hundreds, -were presented, and all of whom were most graciously received by the -truly kind and agreeable Duchess. - -The amusements of the evening commenced. Several grave minuets were -danced in a most marvellous solemn pace; to these succeeded the _minuet -de la Cour_, which was danced by Sir Patricius Placebo and Lady Letitia -Raymond, to the great entertainment of the Duke and Duchess, whose -gravity, in sooth to say, was upon this occasion quite borne down and -vanquished. Then followed cotillions, which were succeeded -by contre-dances, which ended the amusements of the night. Numerous -card-tables were placed, and were not unoccupied by the elder part of -the assemblage, many of whom went away with their purses many a _minus_ -diminished, when they at solemn leisure reckoned their losses on the -said night or ensuing morning. But the fun and the drollery of the -evening seemed to concentrate in the ridicule attached to Sir Philip -Fumbally, a civic knight and alderman, who somewhat resembled, in -corporal shape and form, the paunch of Falstaff, with all the stiffness -of mine ancient Pistol--aye, and the very nose of renowned Bardolph! -However we must take up the brush and finish our portrait. Sir Philip -was in stature about four feet five, a perfect rotundity in corpulence, -fat short hands, fat short legs; and his face--oh, ye gods, such a face -was his! Forehead, he had none! his hair was red, his small ferret eyes -were grey, if eyes they could be called, which were indeed to him _no -windows of the soul_! but closed as if under the awful influence of -Somnus! His nose was flat, and in colour ruddy red, his chubby cheeks -the same; and his mouth opened and grinned with all the agreeability of -a cayman or crocodile! His laugh and look were horrid, the former the -diapason of a demon, and the latter the very outline of Memistopheles. -Leaning upon his unwieldy arm was seen his long-necked, long-armed, and -long-legged ugly lady. The Irish, who are somewhat "both the great, -vulgar, and the small," too much given liberally to bestow -_soubriquets_, nicknamed this unparalleled pair _flesh and bone_! And -Sir Patricius Placebo somewhat wittily observed, upon his word of -honour, as a true knight, that Lady Fumbally always reminded him of an -undertaker's horse, a Rosinante covered with a compound of velvet -trappings and nodding plumage, withal to cover the skeleton which they -adorned! - -When the presentations commenced, Sir Philip, "like a doating mallard," -waddled after the unfurled train of "his darling duckie," (by which -endearing name he familiarly styled my Lady Fumbally,) it so happened -that in discharging this uxorious task he tripped up fairly, or rather -foully, his lady's train, and by which losing his equipoise, the worthy -knight was very nearly tripped up himself. The courtiers all tittered, -and some indeed extended it to a most uncourtly loud laugh. The lady, -like unto Lot's wife, would fain turn around in defiance of all courtly -etiquette, and her visage seemed deeply to participate in the -_bouleversement_ of her velvet train. Here the amiable knight, -compassionating her trodden down vanity, fairly took up the said -portentous train, which was soon somewhat incontinently snatched by a -chamberlain in waiting from the grasp of the knight, and again permitted -to perform its meanders on the carpet _ad libitum_. The laugh and -titters were again renewed. Mr. Berenger, who was standing close to Sir -Patricius Placebo, seemed to be quite roused from his usual -_nonchalance_, and whispered Sir Patricius, "this is too bad, _risu -ineptu nulla res ineptior est_; (nothing is so foolish as the laugh of -fools!) however, we courtiers are always too fond of a laugh, that is to -say, (_crede experto_,) provided that it be never directed against -ourselves! Sir Patricius, we (with his fore-finger touching the facial -nerve of his nose) _have been_ at the court of good old Carolus!" - -The worthy Baronet, to whom these observations were addressed, did not -commit himself by one single comment, but silently nodded, and was -meantime taking snuff with immoderate rapidity, and in no stinted -quantities; and when these piquant remarks were made by the ornament of -the old court, Sir Patricius politely and gently as possible laughed -(_voce depresso_) his heh, heh, heh, and his ahem! "Yes, yes, Mr. -Berenger, _indeed we_ have seen the world!--ahem! - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!" - -Sir Philip Fumbally was the renowned and recorded alderman who at a -civic feast loudly proclaimed that Marshal Turenne had taken GREAT -UMBRAGE, and proposed as a right gallant toast--"Health to the mighty -and glorious conqueror of GREAT UMBRAGE, the valiant Turenne!" The toast -was drank with great enthusiasm; but soon each civic guest asked -significantly his neighbour the geographical position of GREAT UMBRAGE; -was it in France, in Flanders, Utopia, or the Lord knows where? The -Gazetteer was put in requisition, and the general atlas (such as the -times afforded) were called for, and were conned over. But alas! -UMBRAGE--the proud, the great, and mighty, could no where be found; its -place was a blank amid the nations! - -What conduced to the mistake or blunder was, that a pique had arisen at -that time between General Konigsmark and General Geis (subsequent to the -passage of the river Neckar in Germany,) against the Duc d'Enghien, (by -whose valour that pass was won, and also Wimpfen was taken;) declaring -that the two former would quit the army, &c. At this declaration the -Field Marshal Viscount Turenne, it was rumoured, had _taken_ UMBRAGE! It -was upon this _datum_ that the worthy alderman had built his _el -dorado_, his airy citadel, his undiscoverable principality and victory! -But Turenne soared above the impetuosity of Konigsmark, and the -obstinacy of the other two. Turenne was a hero! and one who would scorn -to the city achievement of _taking_ UMBRAGE from friend or foe! - -For about the space of an hour the lovely Lady Adelaide was permitted to -remain at the drawing-room, the delight of every eye, and the theme of -every tongue. - -The Duke sat down to play at tredrille with the Countess Dowager of -Ossory and Lord Glandarah. This game, as the name implies, was played by -three persons at a small triangular table, which in these our degenerate -days, are shown only as curiosities in the cabinets of the curious; and -the Duke, when they left off play, arose a winner of about twenty -pounds; for in their quiet, snug way the good folks of those days often -lost or won fourteen or fifteen pounds of the current coin of the realm -at a pool of tredrille, which was then considered _most moderate_ play! - -About the hour of eleven o'clock the Duke and Duchess, who had been much -gratified and amused during the course of the evening, arose, and bowing -most gracefully and courteously to their guests, broke up the -drawing-room, and retired. - -The company soon departed for their homes, highly pleased and -gratified with the courteous deportment of the noble pair; charmed alike -by their affable manners and fascinating attentions equally bestowed on -all. It would be tedious at this time of day to detail the names, and it -might seem invidious to record the particular beauties that graced the -brilliant circle, which upon that memorable evening crowded and adorned -the splendid suite of rooms at Dublin Castle. - - - - -CHAPTER VII. - - Young innocent, on whose sweet forehead mild - The parted ringlet shone in simplest guise, - An inmate in the home of RAYMOND smil'd, - Or blest his noonday walk.--She was his only child. - - CAMPBELL. - - -The faculty having strongly recommended sea-bathing as salutary and -beneficial to the health of Lady Adelaide, the Duke, in consequence of -this advice, purchased a hunting lodge, not remote from the sea-shore, -and beautifully situated amid the romantic scenery of the county of -Wicklow, which, from its proximity to the metropolis, afforded a -convenient retreat, and from whence he could, with little or no delay, -receive and despatch the duties attendant upon his high official -situation. As soon as the mansion was placed in a state of proper -repair, and becomingly furnished to be worthy of the reception of the -representative of majesty, the Duke resolved, for the benefit of the -health of a beloved and only daughter, as well as for his own repose -from the fatigues of office, to retire to his newly-acquired purchase of -Laetely Abbey--for thus was this hunting lodge denominated; and this -resolve was not long without being carried into execution. The Duke and -Duchess of Tyrconnel, accompanied by Lady Adelaide, the sisters of the -Duke, not forgetting Sir Patricius Placebo, that witty knight; along -with a numerous attendant suite, left Dublin Castle for their sojourn at -Laetely Abbey, and after a few hours travelling, they safely reached the -place of their destination. - -Letely (or Laetely) Abbey (_quasi laetus locus_), for by this latter -designation antiquarians insisted that it should be called, was indeed a -lovely place, surrounded as it was by all the combining beauties of -natural scenery: here stood the venerable ruins of a decayed abbey, its -walls wreathed and its summits crowned with ivy, while its grand oriel -or eastern window, magnificent even in decay, was festooned and -enlivened with various creeping plants, the sweet-smelling clematis, the -jessamine, and woodbine, trailed around the ruins of the stone casement, -through which the sun-beams cheerfully shone, while the foliage -gracefully waved in the blast, and the blossoms all sweetly perfumed the -surrounding air. To the right of the abbey arose an extensive -sheep-walk, whose boundaries were crowned by lofty groves of arbutus, or -the strawberry tree; laurel, holly, added their combining greens and -shades; and though last, not least, myrtle groves, which in this county -grow to an amazing height, verifying the very just description of the -great pastoral poet, Virgil, "_amantes littora myrtos_"--myrtles which -rejoice in being near to the shores of the sea. While in the fore-ground -of the landscape, in all its splendid azure majesty, burst forth upon -the delighted spectator's view the mighty ocean, its bosom studded with -frequent white sails, which, as they scudded along, brightly glistened -in the rays of a refulgent autumnal sun. The shore was indented by high -and undulating downs, all richly cultivated, whose green sward, in -smoothness and brilliance, vied with, if not rivalled, any carpet from -the looms of Bruxelles, Turkey, or Persia. A range of meadows succeeded -the downs, which were bordered with hedge-rows of oak, sycamore, and -ash. Adjoining this enlivening scene stood a dense grove of forest -trees, now glowing in all the rich and diversified tints of autumn. The -dark green hue of the American spruce formed a rich and striking -contrast with its deep brown cones, which gracefully clustered amid -their parent verdure, and undulated upon the waving branches, while they -bent to the breeze. The lemon-tinted leaves of the Alpine larch here -were also seen, which were finely opposed to the deep copper colour of -the umbrageous beech, and alternately blending with the bright green of -the Scottish fir, or the deeper shades of the ilex, or ever-green oak. - -To the left yawned a rocky, dark, romantic glen, surmounted by -stupendous rocks frowning on the abyss beneath, whose sides were studded -with every variety of wild herb and plant indigenous to a mountainy -region, and, among others, that rare plant, the _adianthum_, fringed the -interstices of the frowning cliffs. - -Beneath reposed in a secluded dell the cottage of the Duke's steward. -The latticed windows were trellised with the rose, jasmin, and woodbine; -the blue smoke which ascended and curled into clouds amid the -overhanging foliage, betokened habitation and comfort. To the cottage -was annexed an extensive farm-yard, with all the appendices of -corn-stacks, turf, and hay likewise, _cum multis aliis_, besides the -various addition of live stock, all of which added interest and -animation to the scene. - -Through the bosom of this glen slowly meandered along a mountain -stream, (in winter a torrent,) whose devious course was distinctly -outlined by an accompanying range of alder trees, that in double columns -densely shaded its winding banks. - -In the back ground, veiled in dark neutral tint, arose a craggy -mountain, whose base was richly dotted with groves of larch and spruce. -Prominently in the fore-ground was situated the Duke's hunting lodge, -which, as we have already said, was denominated Laetely Abbey. This -structure was built in the style of architecture of the family mansions -of the Elizabethan period. An extensive lake, supplied by a copious -mountain stream, presented itself in front of the house, until, winding -onward, it was lost amid the adjoining woods. Close by was a deer-park, -well enclosed, and numerously stocked with deer, some of whom -gregariously reposed, while others were seen trooping through the dense -woods, and gazing at the passing stranger, which added interest and a -picturesque beauty to the scene. - -But the pride, grace, and ornament of Laetely Abbey was to be found in -the attractive and lovely Adelaide, who had now entered upon her -fifteenth year--so rapidly onward does time advance. Indeed it was no -flattery to say, that Adelaide was most truly engaging in her manners. -Her statue would have graced the design of Phidias or Praxiteles; her -lovely and expressive countenance captivated every beholder; the rose of -youth was upon her cheek, and her skin was fair and pure as the unsunned -lily; her dark blue eyes sparkled intelligence, beaming beneath her -beautifully arched eye-brows. Her look, gesture, and demeanour, -communicated joy; and we shall not deny a parental pride to the Duke and -Duchess, at the same time, that her looks beamed forth delight upon all -who beheld her; while her converse, sustained with a voice sweet, -distinct, and melodious, charmed every listening ear. Her manners were -unaffected, as they were natural, and all was silence when she spoke. -Her figure was graceful, as we have before noticed, and beautifully and -finely proportioned. When animated by discourse her features seemed to -be lighted up by almost celestial fire; her brilliant eyes sparkled -bright as the native diamond, and her entire countenance became -irresistibly charming. - -To those of inferior rank her deportment was kind and unassuming, and -down to the lowest domestic she was beloved, for they felt and knew that -her delight was to protect those beneath her power, and not to tyrannise -over them. - -With an ardent and sanguine admiration of the beauties of nature, -Adelaide too possessed an enthusiastic love of literature, conjoined to -a correctly formed and delicately refined taste. Every day her mind -expanded, from the literary lore which she imbibed, and gradually, but -extensively, her brilliant talents developed their powers. Poetry, -painting, and music, principally fascinated, as they are ever wont to -do, the feeling and romantic mind of youth. Some of those impressions -thus elicited Adelaide was occasionally in the habit of committing to -writing. One day, while some workmen of the Duke were employed in -breaking up ground upon the confines of an ancient, but neglected -cemetery, which surrounded a small dilapidated church, stationed on a -green and rising knoll, whose ruinous walls were thickly overspread with -ivy, while the alder, holly, and thorn, had stoutly installed -them-selves in what had been once the chancel--it happened that, upon -digging at the foot of an ancient thorn, they threw up a human skull, -which the Duke caused immediately to be reinterred in the same spot; and -within no distant space of time a tombstone was prepared to surmount the -grave, upon which was duly chiselled a crucifix, with the usual -accompaniments of a death's head, &c., and having called upon his -daughter's muse for some lines to be inscribed thereon, the interesting -Adelaide wrote the following, which was sculptured upon the tomb:-- - - INSCRIPTION. - - Rest here in peace beneath this ancient thorn! - Perhaps thou once didst rural life adorn, - And raised thy hopes to heaven in yonder aisle: - Now droops thy relick nigh yon ruin'd pile! - Still peaceful rest beneath thy parent earth, - Until awakened to a nobler birth! - -The Duke and Duchess having attentively perused this brief inscription, -fondly and affectionately embraced their lovely and much beloved child, -no less pleased with the religious feeling which had called forth their -warm approbation, and which they distinctly expressed, than delighted as -they were with the poetic feeling (for thus their partial fondness -adjudged) with which it was written; considering it as no unfavourable -specimen of the expanding powers of a youthful mind. Adelaide was -infinitely far more delighted by this praise of her parents, an incense -so grateful to her heart, than any aspirant to fame in these our -degenerate days could receive from the partial praise and prejudiced -columns of any literary critick. - -Time rapidly moved onward, the winter had passed over with an uncommon -mildness; but the spring, which had now succeeded, proved unusually -harsh, tardy, and severe. The cold north-east wind had incessantly -blown, and vegetation had consequently been chillingly repelled; while -the usual flowers that form the chaplet of spring were chained in their -petals, or wholly destroyed by the frost. And when the merry month of -June arrived, it was indeed unusual and extraordinary to behold the -blossoms of the wild rose, hawthorn, and the laburnum, all mingling -their beauties and their perfumes amid the numerous hedge-rows, and -presenting a diversified mass of colours and foliage, like to the bloom -of a Russian spring, when, melted by a genial vernal sun, trees, plants, -and flowers bud, and immediately burst forth into luxuriant and varied -vegetation; the annual resurrection of nature vigorously springing forth -in renovated youth from the tomb of winter! - -One morning while Lady Adelaide was seated in the library reading some -interesting work with that deep attention and wrapt enthusiasm with -which she always dwelt upon a book of merit, she was suddenly -interrupted in her studies by the approach of that important person, (as -in her own estimation she considered herself;) we here speak of the -redoubtable Mrs. Judith Braingwain, who, rushing incontinently into the -library, and quite out of breath, exclaimed, "Oh, my Lady, who would -have thought it? But however marvellous it is, see, yonder they come; -see, there they are, Bishop Rocket along with his tall wife, who, by the -bye, is hardy as a seagull; and, moreover, a whole flock, aye, a -beautiful bevy of dainty damozels besides! See, my Lady, there--there -they are; they are now just entering the porch; aye, there they come, -sure enough!" - -"How strange!" replied Lady Adelaide, "we left them at Tyrconnel; what -unaccountable anomaly brings the bishop and family from his palace to -this retired spot?" - -Here Mrs. Judith catching at the word _anomaly_, and wholly -uncomprehending it, while she thought proper to confound its meaning, -thus rejoined:--"Anne O'Mally! Oh yes, my dear young Lady, just as if -now before my eyes, I ken that sweet and charming creature, worth a -whole fleet and cargo of such like ladies as Dame Rocket. I remember, ay -faith do I, she was the finest----Oh no, not the finest--that belongs to -another; but as fine a girl as a body might see on a fair May-day in -ould Connaught, any how! And beside, and moreover, she was right loyally -discended [lineally descended] from the great bould pirate princess, -Grace O'Malley, in troth, and sure enough, far and near, and abroad and -at home, far better known, mavourneen, by the famous name of Grana Uile, -who (it is a storical fact) visited Elizabeth,[18] the grand and -conquering queen of all England, in her gallipot [galliot,] afar across -the salt water seas. Oh, Lady Adelaide! Anne O'Malley was indeed a -promising young lady--the finest----" - - [18] Queen Elizabeth received her graciously at court, and offered - to create her a Countess.--See _Notes_ v. III. - -"Nay, nay, nurse," said Lady Adelaide, "be not so flippant in thy -praise, else I shall grow positively jealous. I therefore must stop you -just now, for it seems your tongue runs riot quite with your discretion; -and has bounced off at a tangent in full gallop, jumping pell-mell, hop -and step, from the young and lovely Anne O'Malley to grey-head old -Grana Uile, (of neither of whom, by the bye, did I speak,) until in most -crab-like motion you pounce upon the majestic Elizabeth; and all this -in most manifest and notable contempt of time, place, and circumstance. -This really is not to be endured. Besides, I pray you to remember, that -_once_, however, _there was a time_ when no one was so handsome, so -good, and all so angelic and so forth, as _your own Adelaide_! And, in -undisguised truth, I was in a very fair and hopeful way of being utterly -spoiled, but that happily I turned a deaf and obdurate ear to all your -too partial praise, as well I knew that your commendations all sprung -from overweening kindness. However, just now I am happy to find that you -are converted from your former heresies, and that at length you behold -your poor idol in its mortal shape, imbued with all its natural and -perverse imperfections; and that you are now free to confess that, in -sooth, I am not, as I never was, that angel of excellence, and that -paragon of beauty, which your early devotions conceived me to be. You -have broken your idol, and it has fallen from the pedestal upon which -you had proudly placed it, shivered into atoms on the earth!" - -This Lady Adelaide said in a playful way, half pretendedly serious, and -the other half wholly comic. - -"Ah, my dear young Lady! and so you are still the idol of goodness, and -the very dragon of beauty! none who ever saw you, who ever knew you, can -think otherwise; this I ever thought you were; and I defy Guy of Warwig, -the seven Champions of Chrysostom, and Saint Patrick himself, to boot, -to deny it if they durst, but that you are the best, the brightest, and -finest young lady in the 'varsal world; and I challenge ould England and -ould Ireland to gainsay me! - -It now becomes necessary to say a word or two of this said Bishop -Rocket, who came a visitor to the Duke. Patronage--all powerful -patronage--had placed the mitre upon his brow, as it too often has done -upon the head of many an unmeritorious aspirant to the hierarchy. His -classic acquirements and literary attainments will best be told by the -subsequent details:--Three friends who came to dine _en famille_ one day -at his house in Dublin, sat down, previously to dinner, to play a snug -rubber of whist, thus to pass the intermediate time. It happened to be -of a Friday, during a parliament winter; the printed proceedings of the -House of Lords of the preceding day were brought in, and, as is always -the case, the day of the week and the date of the month surmounted the -top of the page, as the head and front of these transactions. It ran -thus:--"_Die jovis_," &c. "What?" inquired the prelate, addressing one -whom his Lordship considered as the most classic of the trio, "pray, -what is the meaning of _Die jovis_?" - -And in order that such of our fair readers who are not conversant with -the Latin tongue may not burst in ignorance with the hierarchical -inquirant, we shall give, _in totidem verbis_, the answer of the learned -Theban, the bishop's friend:--"Why, my good Lord," said the facetious -gentleman, smiling withal, "'fore Jove, my Lord, the two words conjoined -mean nothing more nor less than _Thursday_! upon which day your Lordship -gave your _benedicite_ to the House of Peers!" - -His Lordship lost the odd trick, looked all quite discomposed; nor did -he recover himself again until the sumptuous and savoury dinner smoked -upon the board. - -Bishop Rocket had enlarged the palace at the See-house of----and had -built, or caused to be built, with his usual want of tact and judgment, -a grand and heavy portico, which fronted the north! Upon the final -completion of this most notable and extraordinary structure the prelate -seemed quite pleased; in which it was conceived that he remained solely -in the singular number. However, he thought fit most condescendingly to -write to a friend, then residing at Rome, a long letter, the burden of -which ran to the following tenor:--"Now, dear and Reverend Sir, as you -are seated, or I, who am a bishop, may say, enthroned at the fountain -head of the fine arts, I have to request that you would have the -goodness to purchase for me twelve statues of the heathen gods and -goddesses to adornate my grand portico, which I have built at an immense -expense; and it is allowed by all the curates in my diocese to have been -accomplished with no inconsiderable portion of taste! And by so doing -you will vastly oblige me." - -The Reverend friend thus wrote back a letter, the chief paragraph of -which, in reply to Bishop Rocket, ran to this effect:--"Most dear and -Right Reverend Lord, as your Lordship requires the statues which you -specify, to adorn the portico of a Christian bishop's palace, what would -your Lordship think--(and oh, good, my Lord, I pray you not to be -offended at the voice of truth, which is seldom heard with patience -either within the precincts of courts or the palaces of -prelates!)--what, I pray, my Lord, would you think if I should select -for you, instead of the heathen gods of antiquated Greece and Rome, -_videlicet_: Jupiter, Vulcan, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Bacchus, and Co., -shall I, most dear and Reverend Lord, transmit to you statues of the -twelve apostles, which surely, most venerated Prelate, you will find to -be, upon mature deliberation, every way far more episcopal, apostolical, -more in good taste, and indeed I must add, quite orthodox. And -assuredly, my good Lord, I feel, and am most fully confident to say and -pronounce it, that the Reverend Head of the holy see would most freely -and cheerfully acquiesce in yielding his assent and consent to permit -these said apostolical statues to be removed and transported to 'the -Island of Saints,' so soon as His Holiness shall be informed that these -stone-sculptured saints are destined for a brother bishop!" - -But know, gentle reader, that Bishop Rocket, whatever might have been -the cause, never even deigned to return any answer to this remonstrative -letter of his too candid friend; and here consequently the proposal fell -to the ground, and never was again resumed. The portico, however, still -stood, presenting its dark _facade_ to the bleak northern blast, -unsurmounted by statue either mythological or apostolical. - -Mrs. Rocket _had been_--we must speak here historically in the past -tense--had once been a fine woman, and still a portion of that beauty, -though somewhat clipped by the shears of old Father Chronos, still -remained. It was this attracted the bishop when only a curate, and - - "Passing rich on forty pounds a year." - -But all powerful love, whose transcendant sway remains undisputed from -the days of the Teian bard down to those of the mighty minstrel of our -own time, in whose own words we are told, - - "Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, - And men below, and saints above, - For love is heaven, and heaven is love!" - -This potent urchin slily sprung a shaft, which securely settled in the -curate's reverend breast, but which was not long permitted by the -compassionate lady hopelessly to rankle in the bosom of her accepted -mate; for ere long the "happy, happy pair" were indissolubly united in -the bands of holy wedlock. Some folks however, and, by the bye, not few -in number, gave it as their opinion, that the lady happening to be the -niece and nearest relative to the bishop of----who was unmarried, and -besides much attached to his niece, that there appeared to be more of -prudent calculation for the future, than ardent love at the present, in -the transaction; inasmuch, that a large portion of the uncle's fortune, -if not the entire, would ultimately vest in the selected fair one; and -perchance, moreover, a rich benefice to boot, which might be expected -from his Lordship's great episcopal patronage, that in the developement -of time would be bestowed upon Curate Rocket. And all these conjectures, -in due and ordinary course, finally and fully occurred. Indeed, in -confirmation of these conjectures, there existed an additional cause for -nobody's doubting the truth of this popular surmise; it was no less a -cogent reason than this, that the lady was by some ten years, at least, -elder than the man to whom she was affianced. This was indeed an -objection not to be overruled by any thesis or syllogism of the schools; -there was here - - "No quirk left, no quiddit," - -to defeat its truth. It was in contradiction to sense, to propriety, -and meet discretion. Upon this subject thus speaks the immortal -Shakespeare, the great moral bard, and poet of nature:-- - - "Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take - An elder than herself; so wears she to him, - So sways she level in her husband's heart. - For----however we do praise ourselves, - Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, - More longing, wavering, sooner lost or worn, - Than women's are!" - -We must now attempt to present to the reader's eye a just description -of the peripatetic, or walking-dress, of Mrs. Rocket, which no doubt -pertained to a strange, peculiar, and extraordinary costume, which was -in vogue in the times to which we advert. Upon her head she wore a small -cap of Valenciennes lace, which was enveloped in a large and ponderous -machine, ycleped a _calash_; which was so denominated from its structure -and conformation, bearing a close similitude to the head or leather -covering of the French vehicle which is called by a similar name. This -structure was formed of various hoops of whalebone, arranged in -equidistant, semicircular, parallels, forming _en masse_ a huge and -outlandish head-gear; the outside was covered with black lutestring; and -the penultimate circle of this pent-house was adornated and fringed with -deep lace; the interior was lined with rose-coloured silk, which -artfully threw a bloom upon the wearer's visage, whether wife or widow. -This ponderous machine could be advanced or drawn back (like the head of -a modern barouche or landau) by the occupant _ad libitum_, according as -wind or weather permitted, or caprice might dictate. Likewise, with -equal facility, the head of the wearer might be wholly divested of this -incumbrance, which, in such a case, was handed over to the custody of -the attending lackey. - -The reader will please to observe, that this head costume was prevalent -before the modern umbrella, or still more recent parasol came into -general use; and indeed, in some degree, so far as the covering of the -head was taken into calculation, this invention, strange though it may -at the present time appear, so far fully answered the functions and -intentions of these later discoveries of modern art. The lady wore a -large silk cloak, trimmed and flounced with ermine; she also carried a -muff, small in size and calibre, formed of the same materials. To these -were added, as the _materiale_ of her dress, a stiff flowered silk -mantua, supported upon a bell-hoop; an apron trimmed with lace; high -heeled shoes formed likewise a part of the dress, with the dangerous -appanage of pattens, long since exploded in these parts. - -Such was the strange costume which formed the morning or peripatetic -habiliments of Mrs. Rocket. This lady also carried a walking-staff, or -cane; by this we do not, in any measure, mean to assimilate it to the -most formidable and terrific walking-staff once borne by the bluff king -Harry of tyrannic memory, and now exhibited in the tower of London with -sundry other curiosities that belong not to our province to enumerate. -No, gentle reader, the simple staff which the lady bore was of a most -placable description; it was, in sooth, a tall tapering indian cane, and -adorned on the top with a head of beautiful china porcelain, upon which, -in rich and brilliant colouring, were depicted some of the most -beautiful wild flowers of summer. And through every change of weather, -hail or snow, storm, rain, or sun-shine, was to be seen this -indefatigable pedestrian trudging her daily peregrinations. Often, when -remonstrated with for thus running the risk of catching cold, and so -forth, when in good humour, which was _not always_ the case, she was -wont to hum or troll forth an old ditty, one stave of which ran pretty -much to the following effect and tenor:-- - - Why at home should I budge, - Not abroad freely trudge, - My bairns and I altogether? - While my skin I don't grudge, - So be heav'n my judge! - To melt or to freeze with the weather. - -Very often her temper was extremely cross, which she vented in scolding -the servants right and left, wrong or right; and Sunday being a day of -rest, was very often selected, with due circumspection, for this -wholesome exercise of her lungs. An auld Scottish steward, who -superintended the agricultural establishment, upon having auricular -proof how matters stood within the mansion, slily remarked: "Ah, wae to -the hoose where hens craw, and the cocks are silent!" - -Madam Rocket had the reputation all throughout her husband's diocese of -being truly a most notable lady in every sublunary concern. She was -constituted as sole manageress of the entire home department at the -See-house of----; and it was there bruited abroad and around the -country far and near, that the "_omnia Romae cum pretio_" of Juvenal, -might be fairly applied to Madam Rocket's establishment; but it was -insisted that the "_cito peritura_" did by no means belong to the lady. -However, rumour went on, with its gossip tongue, to whisper that at the -See-house of----every thing was vendible, from the produce of the -farm, the barn, the poultry-yard, the piggery, the dairy, the fruit and -flower garden--nay, even down to the kitchen garden; every article of -which was duly transmuted, as was insisted, into the _Regina Pecunia_. - -The Bishop and his lady, albeit they were no favourites with the Duke -and Duchess, were nevertheless most hospitably invited, and even -pressed, according to the custom of the times, to remain to dinner, and -also to continue their guests for some days at Laetely Abbey. But this -was upon their part most gratefully declined. The Bishop and Mrs. Rocket -partook of a collation, and departed for Dublin, declining the warm and -hospitable invitation upon plea of business in the capital, and to -rejoin their family, who had been with them at Arklow for the benefit of -sea-bathing, and who had that morning proceeded on their way to the -metropolis. - -During the residence of the vice-regal visitors in the county of -Wicklow, they visited all the romantic scenery and the various -picturesque views, each lofty mountain, retired valley, and secluded -stream or glen, within the precincts of that fairy region. - -The lake of Luggelaw made a deep impression upon the Lady Adelaide. She -thus expressed her feelings upon viewing it: "It was," she said, "a -scene so sad, so lonely, and solitary; so wild, so rude, and -mountain-locked, that one here might almost imagine that they saw one of -the secluded pilgrims of Salvator Rosa studiously wrapt in silent -devotion, intent on the sacred volume which he held, and praying to his -Creator; the wilderness his temple, and his choir the roaring cataract -and the accompanying winds of heaven!" - -"Vastly well, Adelaide," said the Duke, smiling with pleasure, "vastly -well, indeed; and now, my love, to complete your sketch, people these -craggy heights above us with three or four banditti; put helmets upon -their heads and lances in their firm hands; then on a sudden our whole -party, spurring onward our jaded steeds, are to fly from the attack; add -to this too to your sketch, and I really think it will be then a -finished _tableaux_, and quite in the due and terrific tone and style of -this great poetic painter." - -Adelaide sweetly smiled, but replied not. - -They next visited Glendalough, or the Seven Churches, and the "sweet -Vale of Ovoca." Ascending the high hill of Knockmokil, Adelaide, in -impromptu, repeated the following lines:-- - - Romantic spirit of this mountain glen - Tell the blest time we may here meet again! - Wilt thou to distant Aughnavanock stray, - Or wend, 'mid Lara's wilds, thy lonely way? - Or here ascend Knockmokil's lofty height, - Where vales transcendant burst upon the sight; - Sea, grove, and forest, rivers, all combine - Their matchless charms, to stamp the spot divine? - -They next visited Loch Dan, the Demon's Glen and Waterfall, the -Waterfall of Powerscourt, &c. &c. - -Lady Adelaide derived the greatest benefit from sea-bathing, and her -health became completely re-established, which one day called forth the -following eulogium from Sir Patricius Placebo; while engaged in -conversation with the Duchess, he observed, "Oh, my Lady, how truly -lovely the Lady Adelaide looks in renovated health and beauty! Each day -still adds to her charms; and, in verity, I should be fully justified to -speak of her in the words of the historic worthy, old Titus Livius, -(whose name, by the bye, the ridiculous French sink down into _Tit -Live_--just, my Lady, as if they were speaking of the little bird called -Tom Tit!) his words are these: '_Adulta virgo; adeo eximia, forma, ut -quacunque incedebat converteret omnium oculos_'--'An adult virgin of -such exquisite form, that wherever her steps were turned, thither with -delight the looks of all beholders were directed.'" - -The Duchess duly curtsied, and thanked the Baronet for the classical -compliment which he had paid; and said, "that inasmuch as she was mother -to the object of his praise, she confessed that withal she was indeed -too partial to her beloved daughter to gainsay the polite eulogium of -Sir Patricius." - -The Duke and Duchess determined to remain during each year for some -months at their delightful retreat amid the romantic beauties of the -county of Wicklow; this residence only to be interrupted by the -occasional absence of the Duke to hold a levee or a privy council at -Dublin Castle; the routine of state dinners, or when her Grace presided -at drawing-rooms, balls, &c. or in occasionally going in state to the -theatre royal, &c. &c. The autumnal months were passed at Tyrconnel -Castle, but the winter invariably was spent at Dublin Castle. - -Thus days and months passed over, marked only in the calendar by health, -tranquillity, and social pleasure, without the occurrence of any event -of importance sufficient to be recorded here. Two years at this point of -time had passed over in peaceful serenity, Lady Adelaide daily improving -in the expansion of her mental powers, and in gradual increase of -personal beauty. The Duke, who had been long absent from Tyrconnel -Castle, proposed to pass the ensuing summer and autumn at that lordly -residence, and with all due pomp and solemnity there to celebrate -Adelaide's birth-day, who would at that time enter into her seventeenth -year; and from thence, these high ceremonials completed, his Grace -proposed to proceed to Dublin, to open the biennial session of -parliament: and preparations were immediately set on foot to carry these -intentions into effect. - -During the absence of the noble proprietor Tyrconnel Castle had -undergone a thorough repair, and many judicious alterations and -improvements had taken place in the internal decoration of the castle, -as well as in the external adornment of the lawns, parks, and gardens of -this princely abode. Pursuant to their determination, their Graces set -out accordingly, upon a fine summer morning, on their journey to their -ancient castle; and the space of a week having been occupied in -travelling, the entire family of the Duke safely arrived at their -destination. - -Adelaide was peculiarly delighted once more to behold the scenes of her -infancy, which to every feeling mind have indelible charms; and the -morning after her arrival at Tyrconnel she ascended the ramparts of the -castle, to review the surrounding prospect, so dear to her recollection. -It was a serene summer morning. Our readers perchance may recollect the -scenery which surrounds the castle of Tyrconnel, the lofty mountains of -Slieve-Doon, and the great gap or pass to the mountains, called -Barna-More, all of which we have endeavoured to describe in the second -chapter of this work. Adelaide's mind was fully in unison with the -serenity of the morning, and being deeply impressed with the poetic -impulse, she produced her tablets, and poured forth her tribute to the -_Genius Loci_, in the following - - INVOCATION TO THE RIVER ESKE. - - Roll onward, fierce torrent! roll on to the main! - What bastion or tow'r may thy billows restrain? - Resounds thy hoarse current's loud thundering roar - Round cloud-crested Slieve-Doon and wide Barna-More.[19] - How oft hath the foe-man deep plunged in thy wave, - Thy billows encrimsoned with blood of the brave! - These towers shall yet crumble, these rampires shall fall, - But thou, rapid Eske, be survivor of all! - While down to the confines of uncounted time, - Thy waters roll onward in measure sublime! - - Swift emblem of LIFE, changing, flowing anew; - Still the symbol thou art of eternity too! - Unceasing thy current, impetuous thy force, - Speeding on, full-tiding thy unaltered course: - Still glide, regal stream! let thy bright waters flow, - And foam 'gainst these bastions, which frown'd on the foe. - - Oh, murmuring Eske! from thy deep rocky bed, - O'er dream of my childhood sweet charms thou has - shed, - Whilst gurgling thy waters, to sleep lulled my head! - Nor shall mem'ry ever her pencil withdraw - From thy waters, bright Eske, and thy - heights, proud Tyraugh! - - Flow on, rapid Eske! still roll in commotion; - Unite thy deep foam with the wave of the ocean! - - [19] _i. e._ The great gap, or pass to the mountains. - -Time onward rapidly fled on downy pinions, and the birth-day of the -Lady Adelaide, which occurred upon the Eve of All-Hallows, was now fast -approaching, in celebration of which most magnificent preparations were -making, had been made, and were in a progressive state of continuation -at this hospitable chateau. The Duke and Duchess seemed fully resolved -to spare no expense to testify, if indeed it were at all necessary so to -do, their love and attachment to an amiable and affectionate daughter, -who was most truly worthy of her parents' love, and of every respect and -honour that could be awarded her. - - - - -CHAPTER VIII. - - Vetus opinio est, jam usque ab heroicis ducta temporibus, - Eaque et populi Romani et omnium gentium firmata - Consensu, versari quandam inter homines divinationem - Quam Graeci MANTIKE appellant, - Id est, praesensionem, et scientiam rerum futurarum. - - CICERO, DE DIVINATIONE. - - -The thirty-first day of October, _anno salutis_ sixteen hundred and -----, being the Eve of All-Hallows, happened also to be the anniversary -of the birth-day of our heroine, which was duly to be celebrated upon -this memorable day with more than its accustomed splendour, as we have -already premised in the foregoing chapter. - -Adelaide had now entered her seventeenth year; so rapidly doth old -father Time speed along, borne upon his ever fugitive wings, verifying -the truly appropriate motto that we have somewhere seen engraved upon -the dial of a clock, "DUM SPECTAS, FUGIO!"--"while you look on, I fly!" - -Mrs. Judith Braingwain, Lady Adelaide's nurse and foster-mother, and who -from the very beginning seemed resolved not to hold a subordinate place -in the back ground of our story, but firmly determined to carry matters -on in somewhat a consequential way, had now become her young Lady's -_femme de chambre_, and was ever and had been on the alert in instilling -into her youthful and susceptible mind the superstitions of her native -isle; and these stories, daily and hourly as they were repeated, did not -fail to make an impression upon a youthful and romantic mind. This -morning, at an early hour, she attended upon her young lady and -foster-child, a title she was pre-eminently proud of using upon all -occasions. The Irish have been ever proverbial for loving their -foster-children even beyond their own, and the ancient crone who made -her appearance was a living proof of the truth of the assertion. Mrs. -Braingwain having respectfully and affectionately congratulated her -noble foster-child upon the anniversary of her birth, entered into a -long and elaborate series of reminiscences of all the sad and mournful -events which had happened to herself and others upon the Eve of -All-Hallows. But as we are inclined to imagine that the old lady's -melancholy ditties are not very likely to awaken an interest and -sympathy in the reader's breast, we have therefore magnanimously -determined to suppress them altogether. - -The loquacious old dame continued her long-winded reminiscences without -the slightest compunction of mercy or conscience, until interrupted by -the tolling forth of the breakfast bell, which luckily saved the Lady -Adelaide from further prolixity, by at once silencing the garulous old -nurse, whom she regarded from her early years, and wished not to offend. -Adelaide rejoiced at the timely interruption that cut short the prosings -of the old crone, and promptly descended to the breakfast-room. - -A number of young people of both sexes were invited to dinner, to -celebrate Adelaide's birth-day; and the party was to be enlarged in the -evening by an invitation to crack nuts at the castle, which was sure to -include the _nucleus_ of a good supper. All the principal persons of -distinction for several miles around the castle were invited, and all -with alacrity obeyed the festive summons. - -Lady Adelaide, although not always much interested upon such festivals, -yet upon this occasion manifested some degree of anxiety, which was -caused no doubt by that noble generosity of character which she so -eminently possessed, and ever invariably felt greater pleasure in the -gratification of her friends, than in being personally gratified. - -The dinner went off with much _eclat_; pleasantry, wit, and good-humour, -all aiding with their potent charms. When the cloth was removed from the -ducal table, and the desert and wines were duly placed in order, a -stately plateau of confectionary and pastry arrived at the side-table, -which was destined for the juvenile guests, who were there seated. That -day was indeed a right busy one to all the cooks, scullions, and -kitcheners of the household. The thrifty pastry-cooks of these happy -days were most notable for, and assumed very considerable pride, in -raising those superstructures called "pastry fortifications." The -display chosen for this festival was the model of Tyrconnel Castle, -flanked by bastion, battlement, and tower; armorial flags, heraldically -emblazoned in sugar, decorated the summit of each tower and parapet; and -the fosse was floated from its parent Eske, which, instead of a -mountain-stream, supplied the said fosse with a broad and deep portion -of excellent Spanish flummery, upon which was anchored a tiny Armada; -the heights of the barbican and the embrasures of the terrace were -defended with a long train of "eatable artillery," and manned by a large -disposable garrison of sugar-almonds; the watch-towers were alternately -constructed of jelly and _blanc manger_. - -The Duke now gave the word of "assault!" which command was -incontinently obeyed, the juvenile party in every direction making one -grand attack, by a general _coup de fourchette_, _de couteau_, _de -cullier_. The assault was crowned with entire success; the fosse of -Spanish flummery quickly disappeared; the whole train of "eatable -artillery" promptly were destroyed; the jelly and _blanc manger_ towers -were scaled, battered down, and swallowed in a thrice; the Armada -shattered and dispersed; the entire garrison without any remorse or -mercy were devoured, and the "pastry fortifications" completely razed, -without leaving a wreck behind! This attack upon the confectionary -_bijou_ much gratified the juvenile assailants, and highly pleased the -noble hosts, and the grave company seated at their festive board were -most marvellously entertained withal. - -In some short time after, _selon des regles_, the sightless bard, old -Cormac, was led in, bearing his harp beneath his arm. He courteously -expostulated with those who would fain save him the trouble, by -observing, "that he had long borne that instrument his companion in joy -or in sorrow, his last and almost only solace upon earth; and that when -he was unable to bear his harp, his wish was then to be borne to the -grave!" Upon the entrance of the aged minstrel into the saloon, the Duke -ordered that a goblet of mead, foaming and sparkling to the brim, should -be given to old Cormac; which was accordingly done; and then the toast -of that high festival was to be drank, which he repeated: "The health of -the noble young Lady Adelaide," said the sightless bard; and to which he -was facetiously pleased to annex a friendly addition of his own, which -was, "and long may the Lady Adelaide reign!" This is a favourite -expression of fervent zeal and affection used by the warm-hearted Irish -to their superiors. Now in crowds advanced the young folks, who in -various circles thronged around old Cormac, making various inquiries, -and asking numerous questions: "Was the old man always blind?" - -"Nae, nae, that I was not. I once could see, and well; and _truly the -light was sweet, and a pleasant thing it was to behold the light of the -sun_! But now all is dim and dark. Yet I trust that I shall hereafter be -permitted to behold the light of heaven! That fervent hope and my harp -are my consolations during my pilgrimage of darkness!" - -It was next inquired of him how long he had been blind? He replied, "I -was of the same age that our dear and ever honoured young Lady (heaven -bless her here and hereafter!) has entered into this holy day.--I was in -my seventeenth year." - -The Duke interdicted all further interruptions: "Cormac, my honest -fellow, I fear that my young friends are somewhat disposed to trespass -too much upon your time and patience; so quaff your flagon and strike -your harp. But remember, Cormac, nothing dismal upon this happy day; no -dirge--not even an overture, will be endured!" - -Cormac made due obeisance; and seizing his harp, struck its accompanying -notes, while he sung the following:-- - - SONG. - - Who would not toast that lovely maid, - And drink the health of Adelaide, - And fill a bumper round? - - Who, in wandering o'er the glade, - Could meet a nymph like Adelaide? - Then fill a bumper round! - - The beauties of a court would fade - When they're compared with Adelaide-- - Let all fill bumpers round! - - Of sweetest flowers a crown we'll braid, - To deck the brow of Adelaide, - While bumpers flow around! - - Alas! old Cormac he is blind, - Or soon the flow'rets he could find - Should braid the brow and gem the breast - Of Adelaide the loveliest, - While bumpers foam'd around! - -Much applause rang forth a chorus to the minstrel's impromptu -Anacreontic, and flowing bumpers were quaffed to "the health of Lady -Adelaide!" A glass of Burgundy was handed to old Cormac, which he -respectfully declined, but with the request that a glass of pure -Innishowen (whiskey) might be substituted in place of it; and with this -sturdy appendage to his request, "that it might be unadulterated!" These -demands being all strictly complied with, he most devoutly gave his -young lady's health, tossed down at the instant the pure Innishowen, and -in due approval cordially smacked his lips as the beverage disappeared. - -The ladies soon retired, Adelaide deeply blushing at all the honours and -attentions bestowed this day; and felt most grateful to the sightless -old bard, who had in so feeling a manner manifested such attachment to -his young mistress. - -The ceremonies of the tea-table being duly concluded, the graver portion -of the company sat down to their cards: various games were played, loo, -cribbage, gresco, ombre, and lansquenet. The Duke sat down to primero, -"which," observed his Grace, "is my favourite game, as it had been with -Lord Strafford, when he held the high station in which I am at present -placed." - -The younger part of the company, in the mean time, not to discompose the -gravity of the card-playing dowagers, retired apart to the great saloon, -where were stationed all the preliminary _accessoires_ proper and duly -prepared for the mysteries of the Eve of All-Hallows, in order to -commence the various spells, tricks, sports, and charms, which national -superstition and credulity have consecrated, and hoary tradition handed -down from age to age as the records of popular faith. - -"_Allons nous_," said Lady Lucy, playfully, "_allons mes enfants_!" - -"Oh, for mercy's sake, dear Lucy," rejoined Lady Letitia, "pray let us -have no more of this outlandish gibberish; but I pray you let the young -folks at once begin their play, without preface or prologue." - -"Thy design and intention, sweet sister of mine, displeaseth me not; for -be it known, that I also am fully possessed with a most marvellous -disposition, a wondrous curiosity for the commencement of the various -charms, or mysteries, or incantations of this memorable night, call -them by any name you think befitting; and here am I ready and willing to -be the lady mistress of the ceremonies to be done and performed--ay, -without the fee or reward of even plumb-cake or a single poesy! And now, -my merry maids all, for the full and complete execution of the important -duties attending my most consequential appointment, we shall soon -commence our ceremonies of office, and all the various charms of this -night of incantation." Then, with much sprightliness, she added, "But -where, oh, where is my wand? my wand--my kingdom for a wand! I can do -nothing with effect, unless armed with the insignia of my office." - -A servant then came in, and presented a peeled wand or rod, which was -framed from a witch-hazel that had grown on the Tyraugh mountains, and -had been cut and stript of its bark at the express desire of old Cormac, -and was now assumed and wielded with all due and becoming authority. - -"Yes, yes, this is _comme il faut_! this will do. Now I am the most -mysterious mistress of these enchanted revels, and this the wand of my -stately vocation! Young ladies fair, young lords so gay, hear ye, hear -ye all! In full plenitude, potency, and execution of this my office, -hear and obey the important injunctions which I have to premise to each -and to all of you--[this was expressed with much _gaiete du coeur_.] -Be it then known to you all _by these presents_, (as an old dotard once -upon a time began his will);--but I am not dead, yet my _will_ is this: -hear, hear ye all good people and true! and thus I do proclaim, amid all -our play and revels to-night, but without sound of trumpet or -kettle-drum, that there still remains a charm yet to be consummated, and -of such confessed potency too, that this night should not be passed over -without giving it a fair trial, and at once putting its efficacy to the -test! Having thus premised, it would be but foul play that my young -friends should _burst in ignorance_ as to the mode and nature of the -charm. _Eh! bien donc, mes chers enfants!_ you then must know, the fair -young lady who wishes to recognise her future spouse for life, is to -proceed at just this hour to a sequestered lime-kiln, bearing a charmed -ball of untwisted cotton thread, and strongly holding the cord, is to -fling the ball adown the cavern of the kiln; and upon its having reached -the bottom, stoutly to exclaim, 'Who holds the ball?' When this is duly -performed, the person who accomplishes it is to retire before midnight -to bed; a banquet must be spread, and a mirror in which her fortune -shall be read! Now, my gay and merry lasses all, where is to be found -that courageous one who dare do this?" - -The young ladies all, as if by tacit consent, drew back, dissenting from -the proposal. But not so Lady Adelaide, who advanced: "That daring one -am I, and I accept your challenge;" seizing at the same time upon the -charmed ball of untwisted cotton which Lady Lucy then held in her hand, -and of which Lady Adelaide now became the possessor. "I hold now the -charm; it shall not perish until at least its efficacy be tried. But -remember I go alone!" - -"Oh, my dearest, my best beloved Adelaide do not go!--I beseech you -that you do not go at this hour of night--at this season of the year! -storm and rain may overtake you, and cause you to lament the rashness of -your undertaking! In what I have said I wished to raise youthful -curiosity, but at the same time I likewise meant to intimidate, but not -to encourage the attempt!--Why will you go?" - -"Because," rejoined Lady Adelaide, "from the very first I resolved that -I would undertake the execution of the charm; and no remonstrance, not -even force, shall compel me to relinquish my purpose; call it fate, call -it destiny; describe it as rashness; call it e'en what pleaseth thee; it -must--it shall be performed!" - -"But," observed Lady Lucy, "should your absence be noticed what is then -to be done to account for it? What will the Duke say?--what will the -Duchess? And you will bring down the united raillery of all the loo, -tredrille, primero, and cribbage tables, upon your truant head for this -nocturnal adventure of romance!" - -"Oh, tell the Duke and Duchess that as they know _the gods have made me -poetical_, that the fit of inspiration was upon me; and now or never! If -I were not to obey the impulse my precious verse would perish for ever!" - -Adelaide then most sweetly smiling, said: "It boots not what remark may -come from the sober dowagers and solemn wig-pated personages at the loo -and ombre tables; they will be too much absorbed in their winnings and -tricks to think of me. And now I go!" - -"Oh stay, I prithee, stay a moment!--just until I tell thee," said Lady -Lucy. "For before you go you must be told of what positively and fatally -happened in our own family to a kinswoman of mine own, a young lady, -upon the Eve of All-Hallows, who----" - -"Not for the wide world," said Lady Adelaide, "would I hear another -word. If the story, my dear aunt, be amusing or horrific, I pray thee -tell it to my young friends, and then I shall have it told me when I -return. Now wave thy mystic wand, and like a spirit I vanish.--_Presto_ -I'm gone!" - -Adelaide departed. This young lady was indeed the child of romance, with -feelings the most tender and acute; and one who deeply had imbibed the -superstitions of the age in which she lived; all of which had chiefly -been instilled, even from the very cradle, by the old talkative crone, -her quondam nurse; and although possessing a strong understanding, yet -still, as the ever constant dropping of water will impress and penetrate -the hardest stone, in like manner the tales of superstition unceasingly -told, and the numerous attestations of popular faith, did not fail fully -to operate on her credulity. - -Adelaide alone sallied forth from the ducal towers of Tyrconnel Castle, -with deep determination to fulfil the spell of the charmed ball. The -moon with pearly radiance shone forth on her fearless enterprise; -enthusiastic in this adventure as in every thing which she thought, -said, or did, she now boldly advanced to commence the solemn charm; and -with firm and unshaken step she proceeded to the accomplishment of her -nocturnal visit; while intently she looked around, fully to be assured -that no human eye gazed upon the orgies which she was about to perform. - -Adelaide then with quickened step approached a lime-kiln. This fabric -had been for a lapse of time deserted and disused; its apex was crested -with saxifrage, snap-dragon, and foxglove, which told its desolation; -and the ivy too, in curling festoons suspended, overhung the passenger, -and undulated in the breeze. The autumnal gale in mournful gusts swept, -sighing in its course, over hill, and vale, and stream; while the owl -hooted her solitary scream as Adelaide reached this deserted pile, now -the lonely asylum of the nocturnal bat and wary field-mouse. The kiln -had been constructed at the angle of a green knoll, which served as an -ascent to it; and by this mount, or hill, Adelaide with facility -ascended to the empty crater of the lime-kiln; when duly turning her -face to the south she produced an untwisted ball of cotton thread, and -firmly holding the end of the cord, or thread, of the ball, she flung -the ball, as if a plummet, down the concavity of the kiln; when -sounding its depth she ascertained that it had duly reached the bottom, -then she undauntedly inquired in a loud and firm tone of voice--"Who -holds the ball?" The cotton cord on the instant dropped promptly from -her hand, whether by force or fear she knew not; while she thought she -heard a voice unknown ascending in hollow tones from the echoing depth -beneath, emphatically reply--"I grasp the ball!" - -This might have been merely the effect of fear and mental deception, yet -still she thought she had heard the awful response. No shape, no form, -no figure, met her eye; but the words struck her ear and pierced her -heart. Adelaide stood motionless, silent, and pale, as a statue; she had -not the power to scream, articulation was totally suspended; and the -powers of locomotion too were completely paralized, her imagination -became spell-bound, her recollection was fled! At length nature -completely overpowered, she fainted; and it was not for some time that -she recovered the powers of animation, when all the solemn scene that -had so lately occurred appeared to her but as a frightful dream that -had passed in review before her deceived imagination while she slumbered -in that dreadful swoon. - -For some considerable pause of time Adelaide sat motionless upon the -sward of the little knoll that adjoined that ominous fabric, where so -lately that awful charm, consecrated by the credulity of ages, had been -performed. - -After much mental exertion Adelaide found upon trial that she had -sufficient bodily strength to arise; and now having stood up, she -proceeded upon her return to the castle. The moon had retired behind a -cloud, when, with a deep sigh, she exclaimed, "Oh, how much I wish that -the deed had remained undone, and then my mind would have been at rest! -But now I am sadly disquieted, and my heart is sick within me. Oh, it -was not well done!" - -After a pause she continued--"But what will they all this while think of -me at the castle? How shall my absence be accounted for? Why--why do I -shudder thus in self-condemnation? This should not have been!" - -Thus, in self-crimination, Adelaide vented her contrition, while with -trembling fear and step she slowly wended back her wearied way to -Tyrconnel Castle. - -Still advancing, terror seemed every where to accompany her. - - "Horror ubique----simul ipsa silentia terrent!" - -The distant murmurs of the Eske uniting with the ocean affrighted her, -as did her footsteps,--she thought them not her own; while ever and anon -she would stop to listen; but no sounds were heard but those of the -adjoining brook brawling[20] over its rocky channel, or the autumnal -gale rustling the fallen foliage as it swept its plaintive blast along. -At times when partially the wind reposed, and all, for the interval, was -in silence lulled, still her mind was not at rest; occasionally she -would stop, and seemed to meditate to herself; then would she rehearse -the ominous incantation at the kiln, she would raise up her right arm, -bend the hand, with thumb and fore-finger conjoined together; next -suddenly dip the arm and hand, as when she plumbed the charmed ball -adown the mystic concavity of the kiln. When having violently acted -this, she would utter a piercing scream, and then awaken from her -reverie. - - [20] "Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out upon the brook - that _brawls_ along this wood." - - AS YOU LIKE IT. - - -As Adelaide was proceeding onward in her return to the castle, the sky -suddenly became deeply darkened, and a thunder-storm arose; the thunder -loudly re-echoed through the vaulted heavens, and the vivid -lightning-flash preceded each awful peal; then descended torrents of -rain, which fell with the plenitude and the force of a water-spout. - -"Ah, if I had here a friend, a companion in this my hour of trial, I -then would slightly value the tempest that now surrounds me! But the -deed was all my own doing, and plaints now are of no avail. So unto the -castle with whatever remnant of strength or courage may remain.--This is -my only resource!" - -All terrified, pale, and her garments deeply drenched with rain, at -length Adelaide regained the castle; where, when she had put on fresh -attire, forgetful of all the fears and perils which she had encountered, -(such and so great are the contradictions of human nature,) that she -fully, nevertheless, resolved to abide the full completion of the -mysterious charm. - -The awful thunder-storm served as a well-timed explanation for the -deadly paleness of her countenance as the Lady Adelaide rejoined the -social circle. The juvenile party were employed in the various pastimes -of the night, in burning the boding nuts, while - - "Some lovingly in flames consume, - Till wasting into embers grey." - -Meantime others parted company, north and south, with the rapidity, if -not with the force, of a modern Congreve rocket. In others the spark -soon expired, while the gentle relict that was left behind, "like -Patience on a monument," kept stationary on her ordeal bar of trial, -tranquil and serene, until, in expiring embers she blazed, and was no -more! The melting of lead, and various other dainty devices followed. -All which were now succeeded by the grand finale of a ball, in which -minuets, cotillions, and contre-danses followed in course, and were -succeeded by a splendid supper. - -The supper, which was superb and princely throughout, commenced and -ended with delight to all the guests. And while sipping the noble -beverage of the grape, pressed and brought from every generous clime, -the following erudite discussion upon presages, prophecies, and -predictions, occupied the grave and learned portion of the company:-- - -"Some presages," observed the Duke, "may certainly appear to have been -casual, and subsequently adapted to the occasion by the ingenuity of -others; but still there are others that appear supported by such a -connected mass of evidence, that they can be neither questioned nor -denied. Mariana, the famed historian of Spain, (A. D. 1453,) makes -mention, in speaking of the tragical end of Don Alvaro, Earl of Luna, -'that it had been foretold to Alvaro that his death would be at -Cadahalso, by which he supposed to be meant, a town he had of that -name, and therefore he never went thither; but Cadahalso, in Spanish, -means a _scaffold_,' (this prophecy thus 'paltered in a double -sense,') for upon the scaffold Alvaro suffered, and there concluded a -life eminent in glory." - -"And you may recollect, my Lord," said the Duchess, "that George -Buchanan, the famed Scottish historian, relates the very remarkable -forewarning which James the Fourth of Scotland had in the church of St. -Michael, Linlithgow, from an old man of venerable aspect, and clad in -blue habiliments. This person forewarned the king from his proceeding in -his expedition against England, fore-telling to him that it would prove -his ruin. The queen also remonstrated with him against the project of -invasion, by acquainting him with the visions and frightful dreams which -she nightly encountered. But no warning could avert his destiny. And he -fell with a number of his nobility in the ever memorable field of -Flodden Sept. 9, 1513." - -"There is," said the Duke, "another case in point; it is that of Walter -Devereux, Earl of Essex, who foretold that his son, Robert Devereux, -afterwards Earl of Essex, should never survive his thirty-sixth year; -observing at the same time that his father had died at that period of -life, and that he would himself die at that age. The death of his son, -Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, who was beheaded in the thirty-fourth -year of his age, 1567, is a well known and recorded fact." - -Here the Duchess rejoined:--"And you may recollect too, my dear Lord, -that Mezeray, the historian of France, records, that it had been -foretold to Henry the Fourth of France and Navarre, that he should die -in a coach; so that upon the least jolt he would cry out, as if he -beheld the grave opened ready to swallow him. And it is as well known -that this prediction took place, Henry the Fourth having been -assassinated in his coach as he was proceeding to the arsenal to consult -with the immortal Sully, when he was stabbed by the knife of an -assassin, 1610." - -"Sully too," rejoined Lady Lucy, "in his admirable memoirs, makes -mention of those black presages which, it is but too certain, this -unfortunate prince had of his cruel destiny; they were indeed dreadful -and surprising to the last degree!" - -Lady Adelaide next paid a short tribute to this learned and mystical -investigation:--"It may not be amiss," she said, "briefly to notice the -prediction of the death of the Duke of Buckingham, as related by Lord -Clarendon in his history, _and built_, as he emphatically expresses it, -_upon better foundations of credit than usually such discourses are -founded_.--His account is strikingly remarkable; but to recount the -accompanying circumstances would occupy too much time, and seriously -intrude on the pleasantry of the company by entering into the awful and -appalling detail; I must beg, therefore, to refer those friends who may -be desirous to gratify their curiosity on this subject to consult the -pages of the noble historiographer. The presages of our poet Dryden are -deserving of notice, he was extremely addicted to judicial astrology: -upon the birth of his son he took his horoscope, and all his -calculations respecting him marvellously were accomplished; and which -are too recent in the recollection of those present to render it -necessary for me to dwell upon; only to observe, that these astrological -calculations were fulfilled with an accuracy almost amounting to -mathematical correctness." - -It came next to Sir Patricius Placebo's turn to contribute to these -ghostly recollections, who began with a stately hem. "I rather think I -can notify to this noble company a very remarkable circumstance, and I -flatter myself indeed it is one not generally known. It is recorded in -the life of the very erudite and estimable scholar, John H. Hottinger, -that when he ascended the pulpit of the academy of Basle to make _a -farewell oration_ to that society previous to his departure for the city -of Leyden, where he had been appointed Professor of the Oriental -Languages at the College of Leyden, he observed a line written upon it, -which much disturbed him, and surprised the whole auditory, as being -prophetical of his death, which happened soon after. The line was from -Ovid:-- - - '_Carmina jam moriens, canit exequialia cygnus._' - - 'The dying swan his fun'ral song doth sing.' - -Shortly after this the very learned and accomplished scholar was drowned -with part of his family in the river Lemit, in the year 1667. The due -application of this celebrated line, and the analogy of the water-bird -fore-telling the time and manner of his death--hem! - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -Yes, doubtless, there is much grave matter for deep reflection in -this well-authenticated event." - -Lord Glandarah prepared to yield his contribution to the strange topic -under discussion. His Lordship had resided nearly all his life upon the -continent; he was a Roman Catholic, and this, it was believed, was the -disposing reason for his living abroad. He spoke broken English so like -a foreigner, that he might have been almost mistaken for one, as has -been already observed in a previous chapter. "Gad save my soul, my Lady -Duchess, I do remember one of a very remarkable occurrence that happened -some few years ago when I was travelling through Normandy. My Lord -Roscommon, being then a boy of ten years of age, had preternatural -intelligence of his father's death. Gad save my soul, it is the very -most extraordinary circumstance to be sure! Your Grace must know that it -happened at Caen: one day his Lordship was, as it were, madly -extravagant in playing, leaping, getting over the tables, and playing, -Gad save my soul! many other wild gambols. He was, _sans doubte_, wont -to be sober, staid, lad enough. Those who saw him exclaimed, 'heaven -grant this bodes no ill-luck to him!' In the heat of this extravagant -fit he suddenly cried out, 'My father is dead!' And _assurement_, Gad -save my soul! a fortnight after accounts arrived from Ireland that the -Earl of Roscommon was dead! This account was told me, Gad save my soul, -by Mr. Knolles, who had been his governor, and at that time with him. -And, Gad save my soul! I have often heard my Lord Roscommon's relations -affirm this account to be true. Now, Gad save my soul! could any thing -be more extraordinary? _Sans doute c'est impossible!_" - -The hour was indeed very late; and the guests arose, and making due -obeisance, withdrew. Adelaide, according to the good old fashion, -embraced her parents, and retired to her chamber. But she had no sooner -lain down to rest than she heartily repented of what she had done. The -tempest continued with unabated rage; so much so indeed that the guests -departed not from the Castle, but there found a safe retreat from "the -pelting of the pitiless storm." The storm still continued to increase; -the roaring waves of the Atlantic thundered against the shore, and burst -upon the firm foundations of Tyrconnel Castle. - -Adelaide's chamber was ever and anon illuminated with brilliant flashes -of vivid lightning; and often did she wish the mysterious deed undone! - - ---- ---- ----"Oh, - Between the acting of a dreadful thing - And the first motion, all the interim is - Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream!" - -But what Adelaide saw upon that awful night ever remained untold.--She -could never be prevailed upon to divulge the tremendous and frightful -circumstances of that eventful night. The next morning, as it afterwards -appeared, she complained of being very unwell, and kept her bed for some -days. The blame was very discreetly thrown upon her having eaten too -many nuts--having danced too much; and, moreover, supper having -disagreed with her; besides a variety of _et cetera_ explanations. It -was a long period before Adelaide resumed her usual serenity and gaiety -of temper; and whenever her friends or acquaintance would interrogate -her upon the adventures of that memorable night, she would assume much -reserve, and seemed displeased: this the only occasion, it was by all -remarked, that she had ever been observed to have appeared displeased -since they first had the happiness to be acquainted with her. - -The unwarrantable practice of inquiring into futurity prevailed very -generally at and before the period which we write of; and most strange -to say, at times the sacred volume of the Scriptures,[21] and at others -the poems of Virgil and Homer, were consulted for oracular purposes. The -_sortes Prenestinae_, _sortes Homerianae_, and _sortes Virgilianae_, which -were modes of inquiring into the secrets of futurity, are well known to -the classic reader. A remarkable instance of the trial of this latter -sortilege occurred to King Charles I. when at the city of Oxford, during -the civil wars. Going one day to inspect the Boedlian Library, His -Majesty was shown, along with other volumes, an early copy of Virgil, -beautifully printed and exquisitely bound. Lord Falkland, to amuse the -King, insisted upon His Majesty's trying his fortune by the _sortes -Virgilianae_; whereupon the King, opening the volume, hit upon the fourth -AEneid, line 615, which much disconcerted him. - - [21] Even so recently as during Wesley's time [See Southey's Life - of Wesley] will be perceived the fondness of this celebrated - preacher for divination by lot, and by the casual opening of the - Bible, expecting thereby the peculiar and immediate guidance of - the Almighty! - -The passage is prophetic of the fortunes of AEneas, and, _mutato nomine_, -it was applicable to the royal martyr.[22] - - [22] For the gratification of the curious we here subjoin the - quotation from Virgil, with which is given a translation of the - remarkable lines by Dryden:-- - - "At bello audacis populi, vexatus et armis - Finibus extorris, complexu avulsus Juli, - Auxilium imploret; videatque indigna suorum - Funera: nec quum se sub leges pacis iniquae - Tradiderit, regno aut optata luce fruatur: - Sed cadat ante diem, mediaque inhumatus arena." - - VIRGIL AE. IV. 1. 615. - - "Yet shall a race untamed, and haughty foes, - His peaceful entrance with dire arms oppose: - Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field, - His men discouraged, and himself expell'd, - Let him for succour sue from place to place, - Torn from his subjects and his son's embrace. - First let him see his friends in battle slain, - And their untimely fate lament in vain: - And when at length the cruel war shall cease, - On hard conditions may he buy his peace: - Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, - But fall untimely by some hostile hand, - And lie unburied on the barren strand." - -Lord Falkland, upon observing that the King was discomposed, resolved to -try his own fortune in the same manner, hoping that perchance he might -alight on some sentence that would bear no relation to his own, and -thereby turn aside the thoughts of the King from any impression the -lines might have occasioned. However, the subject of the passage upon -which he unluckily stumbled was fully as unpropitious and as applicable -as that upon which his sovereign had alighted. It was the lamentation of -Evander for the untimely death of his son, in the 11th AEneid. It is well -known that the eldest son of this nobleman, a young man of amiable -character, had been previously slain in the first battle of Newburg. - -It is recorded of the famous and excellent sculptor Giovanni Lorenzi -Bernini, that upon his beholding a painting by Vandyke, which presents -three portraits of King Charles I. on the same canvass--the one a front -face, the other a half side, and the third a profile--the artist -observed: "whoever the individual be whose likeness these three -portraits represent, I am of opinion that the same will come to an -untimely end." - -This painting had been expressly taken and forwarded to Rome, in order -that Bernini might, from the resemblance, sculpture a marble bust of the -King, which accordingly he did; and King Charles, the greatest and best -patron of the fine arts that England can boast of, was so much pleased -with the performance, that he sent Bernini a ring of very great value; -and said to the person who was deputed to bring it: "_Andate a coronar -quello mano, che ha fatto si bel lavorno_."[23] - - [23] Le Vite de Piu celebri Architecti, &c.--_Pagina 358, Roma - 1768._ - -All attempts to inquire into and penetrate the secrets of futurity are -highly to be condemned, as they are nothing less than tempting the -Almighty; it is not for frail man to anticipate the ways of Providence, -and discover these events that heaven always in its wisdom, and often in -its mercy, withholds from mortal eyes. But it is indeed full time to -close (as we apprehend we have trespassed too long on our reader's -forbearance) - - ----"The day to superstition dear, - - * * * * * - - Hallow'd and reverenc'd in the olden time, - Sacred to every saint of every clime." - - - - -CHAPTER IX. - - ----Think ye see - The very persons of our noble story - As they were living; think ye see them great, - And follow'd with the general throng. - - PROLOGUE TO K. HENRY VIII. - - -The celebration of the birth-day of the Lady Adelaide passed over as we -have described in the preceding chapter, and our lovely heroine was now -quite recovered from whatever cause it might have been which had so -disturbed and agitated her upon that eventful and recorded night. The -Duke and Duchess, according to their previous determination, towards the -close of November set off with their suite on their route for Dublin -Castle; for the time was now fast approaching when in great pomp and -state the Viceroy-Duke was to open the sessions of the Irish parliament. - -Their Graces travelled by short stages on account of the abridgment of -the days, and arrived in about four days in perfect health and safety at -the vice-royal palace; no incident, occurrence, or even pleasantry, -happening, that could possibly amuse the story-loving reader, or -important enough to be handed down to posterity in savoury remembrance. - -At this epoch of the Irish history the parliament met only once in two -years; and a member of the lower house, the House of Commons, then held -his seat for life, or at least certainly during the period of the life -of the reigning sovereign, upon whose demise alone a new parliament was -to be called. What then had a member thus chosen under these -circumstances to apprehend or fear from the resentment of his -constituents? Nothing!--certainly nothing! The member was virtually -placed beyond their control, beyond their remonstrance, and above their -resentment; while his hopes and expectations of reward from a minister -for services done, or to be performed, were reasonably great, and held -forth attractive bait to corruption. The representative would, or might, -oppose the measures of a good minister, in order that his services might -be brought into action, and duly paid for upon the performance thereof; -and it would be equally his interest, upon the same corrupt _data_, to -sell himself to a bad and profligate minister for prompt payment! But -both these alternatives were fraught with evils to the constituents; and -against these evils they had, they could have, no control! The minister -too could indeed well afford to bid high and imposing terms, when the -purchase was for life. Thus, although a small portion of virtue might -resist a small portion of temptation, nevertheless that resistance would -become weaker as time advanced, in an increased ratio; and, moreover, as -a long duration and manifold opportunities were given for the temptation -and the tempter, which could not, by possibility, be the case if -parliaments, instead of being for the life of the sovereign,[24] and -meeting only once in every two years, were to have met annually, and the -conduct of the representative were placed under the eye and the control -of their constituents. And assuredly it must strike the good sense of -the reader that the prolongation of the term of parliament weakens the -security of the people, for whose benefit parliaments were constituted; -and that nothing can make it safe to repose so great a trust in any body -of men, as the constitutive body delegates to its representative, but -the shortness of the term for which such delegation is made. - - [24] It was not, however, until the year 1768, during the - administration of Lord Townsend, that the royal assent was given - to an act for limiting the duration of parliament to eight years. - -It appears, from consulting the page of history, that England was one of -the first countries in which the representatives of boroughs were -admitted into the great council of the nation; for until the year A. D. -1265, it was a privilege unknown and unclaimed. - -The cause of calling the burgesses to the great council, or parliament -of the nation, (according to Dr. Robertson, in his "View of the State of -Europe,") was "in order to add greater popularity to the party of the -barons that had armed against Henry the Third, and to strengthen the -barrier against the encroachments of regal power." - -But, alas! how fatally has the converse of the intention of our wise -progenitors been established! From lapse of time, ministerial influence, -the pecuniary embarrassments of the nobles and proprietors of boroughs, -and the all powerful lever of corruption, the boroughs have changed -masters. Those boroughs that were erected as mounds and ramparts against -the powerful influence of the crown, have many of them been purchased by -the crown, and now powerfully preponderating to the opposite scale, have -increased, in a formidable degree, the royal influence and prerogative -which they were created to check; and have but too effectually magnified -the evils which they were formed to repress! - -The day for the assembling of parliament had now arrived, and the -Viceroy-Duke proceeded in great pomp and state to the House of Lords to -open the session. The cap of maintenance was borne by Lord -Mount-Leinster, and the sword of state by the Lord Glandarah. His Grace -was seated in the superb antique state-coach, which was lined with -crimson velvet, and trimmed with gold lace; the exterior was richly and -magnificently adorned; the pannels had been painted by a celebrated -Venetian artist, and the subjects were chosen from the heathen -mythology. The state-carriage was drawn by eight beautiful black horses, -with long flowing tails, and right nobly caparisoned; they were a -present from His gracious Majesty James the Second. The harness and all -the _accessoires_ were in unison in their magnificence. Six -state-carriages and four preceded that which bore the Duke of Tyrconnel; -and the state-carriage was surrounded by the battle-axe guards. The -streets were lined with soldiery, and no demonstration of respect was -wanting as the noble Duke proceeded to the House of Peers. We need not -tell that his Grace wore the robes of the order of the garter, nor dwell -upon the brilliancy of the diamond star which glittered upon his breast, -nor upon his fine appearance; for the Duke was justly accounted by far -the handsomest man of the age in which he flourished. With great and -unaffected dignity he entered the House of Peers, the trumpets, &c. all -pealing forth the _now_ national anthem of "God save the King," which no -former monarch or viceroy had ever received, as it was composed -expressly for James II. Meanwhile the long and continued peal of cannon -told to all that the noble viceroy was seated upon the throne.[25] We -mean not to harass our kind reader to actual death by giving him, in -_totidem verbis_, the speech of his Grace, but we will however venture -to record, for historical remembrance, the mode _entre_:--The Duke of -Tyrconnel enters the House of Peers, the Earl of Mount-Leinster bearing -the cap of maintenance; the Lord Glandarah carrying the sword of state; -the train being supported by Sir Richard Talbot. His Grace made his -_conges_ to the cloth of state; then taketh his seat on the throne under -the canopy, the Secretary of State standing at his right hand. The Lord -Chancellor then proceeds to his stall on the Lord Lieutenant's right -hand, and acquaints the Lords that it is the Lord Lieutenant's pleasure -that their Lordships should be covered. Next, the Lord Chancellor, -kneeling, receiveth a direction from the Lord Lieutenant; and thereupon -standing up again wills the Gentleman-Usher of the black-rod to acquaint -the House of Commons that it is the Lord Lieutenant's pleasure that they -should attend his Grace. When the speech contained the following -items:--'Thanks to the House of Peers for their loyal devotion so often -manifested for the honour of the crown, and so forth; their unshaken -loyalty, &c. to the king's person and government. Thanks followed to -the House of Commons for the necessary provisions for the services of -the ensuing year so cheerfully made, &c. Then followed a general appeal -to both houses, entreating them that when they returned to their -respective counties to use their utmost endeavours to inculcate and -bring to bear the same loyalty and affection by them so often and -efficiently demonstrated.' The Duke concluded his speech in these -emphatic terms:--"And I cannot conclude, my lords and gentlemen, without -the hope that you will permit no apprehensions of grievances or -causeless jealousies to interrupt that tranquillity and social order, -and obedience to the laws, which constitute the fountain of all -political happiness--the source and the support of industry, -agriculture, commerce, and all national amelioration, which has been -ever the unvaried pursuit of the best of kings. And I shall not fail to -represent to my royal master your dutiful devotion; and the only reward -which I look to, is your free and unbiassed approbation!" - - [25] At this point of time the Irish House of Lords met at the - hour of three o'clock in the afternoon; but when the house was - engaged in the hearing of appeals they regularly assembled at the - hour of nine o'clock in the morning. - -His Grace upon quitting the throne was dutifully received by the house -uncovering, and rising from their seats. An address was then moved as an -echo of the speech, by the Earl of Clanrickarde, and was seconded by the -Viscount Kilmallock; which passed the noble house, _nemine -contradicente_. In the lower house the address was moved by Mr. Murtagh -Magennis of Balligorionbeg, and seconded by Mr. James Lally of -Tallendaly, and passed the house unanimously. - -Leave was granted for an act to be brought into the house, entitled, -"The Tithe Agistment Bill," which was read next day the first time, and -after a few days a second time; and a day was appointed for the third -reading. When that day had arrived Lord Glandarah, who was in the -robing-room, observed a strong muster of bishops; and upon entering the -house he whispered a friend--"I clearly perceive, Gad save my soul! that -we shall have a very angry political debate to-day, for I left my lords -the bishops duly caparisoning them-selves in their celestial armour!" - -Some altercation took place in the robing-chamber between Lord -Mount-Leinster and Bishop Rocket, between whom there existed a private -pique. - -"I see, my Lord Bishop, that charity covers a multitude of----Hem! I -mean, my Lord, that I verily saw your Lordship giving alms to the amount -of----one shilling just now as I arrived in the house!" - -"Yes, my Lord Mount-Leinster, I deny it not: and I perceived that your -Lordship followed on the instant so excellent an example; for, from the -cogency of the case, you too were forced to pay twice the sum! Ha, ha, -ha!--_two_ shillings into the poor's box." - -All which being _translated_, (no offence to Bishop Rocket,) signifies -that the Bishop and the Earl were both late in their arrival in the -House of Peers, and they had accordingly to pay the penalty for arriving -in the house "beyond a quarter of an hour after prayers had been -read"--_secundum regulam_.[26] - - [26] "Every Lord that comes not within a quarter of an hour after - prayers, if he be a Bishop or Baron, he, is to pay one shilling, - and if he be any degree above, two shillings to the poor man's - box."--_Standing Orders of the Irish House of Lords_, p. 13. - Printed by Sleater, Dublin, 1778. The title of the work was, - "Rules and Orders to be observed in the Upper House of Parliament - of Ireland."--The Clerk of the House was treasurer of the poor's - box.--p. 39. - -The clerk read aloud at the table, "_Hodie, tertia vice lecta est -billa._" This act was "the Tithe Agistment Bill," entitled, "An act to -quiet and bar all claims of tithe agistment for dry and barren cattle." - -When an angry debate ensued, Bishop Rocket arose with much warmth, and -contended "that it was an act tending most forcibly to wrest the rights -and privileges of the Church, to the great detriment of the hierarchy, -and the all unalienable properties and immunities of their lawful -successors; and forcibly militating against the welfare, property, and -prosperity, of the Church and State, as then by the laws of the land -established and in force." - -Lord Mount-Leinster arose: "My Lords, this is a bill which I would call -as one of the most pacificatory nature, and tending to repress the -grievous mode in which tithes are generally collected from the -population of this country, who have, if they are of the Catholic -persuasion, to pay two pastors; and I will moreover, my Lords, be bold -to say, that no school-boy, studying his _as in presenti_, could be so -stupidly credulous as to give credence to the monstrous assertion of the -Right Reverend Lord, or for a moment believe that posthumous piety to -his successors can or could be the predominating cause of the vote given -this night by the Right Reverend Prelate."--[_Hear, hear, hear._] - -With the most violent indignation Bishop Rocket arose: "Lord -Mount-Leinster, but for these black rags," shaking indignantly his -sacerdotal robes; "look ye, but for these black rags, I would fight -you!"--[Here numerous cries were heard of "_Order, order, -order_"--"_Chair, chair, chair!_"] - -Sir Patricius Placebo and Mr. Berenger were stationed at the bar of the -house, and the risible muscles of the Baronet were incontinently put -into play, which had been _certes_ audible, but for the noise and -uproar in the house. Laughingly, he whispered Mr. Berenger, "Room, room, -my Lords and Nobles all; I cry make room for the incensed worthies! - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!" - -He then laughed immoderately, and took snuff at a surprising rate from -his King Carolus' snuff-box. "Yes, yes, Mr. Berenger," he added, "ha, -ha, - - 'Fools will talk, and fools will prate, - Nor silence keep at any gait.' - -For, Sir, you know, - - '{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH VARIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}.'[27] - - [27] "All fools are mad." - -That is at least according to the doctrine of the stoics." - -The gallant, gay Mr. Berenger so politely smiled ever and anon, that it -nearly amounted to a laugh. But this had been interdicted at the court -where he too often had - - ----"listened, - When the last Charles's beauties glistened - In splendid robes of gaudy vice, - And could with syren songs entice." - -However the question, upon being put, was resolved in the negative, by -the motion that the bill should be read that day six months! The -Chancellor could make no peace between the enraged combatants, who -adjourned to the robing-room, when this scene of altercation took -place:-- - -Lord Mount-Leinster, addressing Bishop Rocket, emphatically said: "My -Lord Bishop, you are now unharnessing yourself from that celestial -panoply or armour in which you flourished in the House of Peers, and -which, I must observe, you somewhat unseemingly, if not indecorously, -called your "black rags," - - "Tutius est igitur fictis contendere verbis, - Quam pugnare manu." - -I have ever been, my Lord--mark me--a gallant swordsman; nor would I -brook an affront from a king. Let not then your sacerdotal robes, or, -as you were pleased in mirth to call them, your "black rags," let them -not, I say, prove your peace-makers in this gross breach of decorum. I -must observe, that, according to the spirit and strict laws of the -_Duello_, or single combat, the ceremonies thereunto affixed and -appertaining, connected and deducible from chivalry, are duly and -implicitly laid down by the celebrated Caranza,[28] the oracle of -duelling, and the no less sage and famous Master Selden, in his very -learned and unimpeachable treatise upon the laws of the _Duello_; and in -good sooth my very grave and reverend Lord Coke has it as a _punctum_ in -his Institutes, 'that in these matters, where the person possessing a -right, or sustaining a grievance, could not act, on account of -professional or personal disability, or perform the service required in -person, he was then to name a sufficient person for his deputy!' Now, my -Lord Bishop, I must needs observe, that I think that this was truly a -marvellous right praiseworthy custom, that when any grave and reverend -personage, willing to give satisfaction, as you profess, finds himself -impeded by his reverend skirts tripping up the laws of the _Duello_, -from being, for sad ensample, a son or dignitary of the Church, and so -forth, that upon such occasions their _next_ and _nearest of kin_ should -take up the gauntlet: and such a proxy, my Lord Bishop, I now claim from -you to enter the lists with me, as becomes your true knight and -representative!" - - [28] The celebrated Caranza was, in sooth, the oracle and manual - of duelling in his day. He was by birth a Spaniard; his name - Geronimo Caranza. His famous work was entitled, "_Verdera Destreza - de las Armas_"--"The true Dexterity or Skill in Arms." His talents - are thus eulogized in the comedy of "_Los Locos de Valencia_," of - Lope de Vega:-- - - ----"El gran Caranza, - A quien las armas en Espana deben - Quanta mayor destreza el arte alcanza." - -BISHOP ROCKET.--"Know then, Lord Mount-Leinster, that I shall send my -sedan chairmen to fight you!!" - -"A precious boon, and peerless proxies, I needs must say, my Lord -Bishop, thou hast chosen!!! In sooth I oft have heard of knights of the -lance and eke of the bucket,[29] but never until now heard of knights of -the pole! But although, from your Lordship's reply, it appears that your -_next_ and _nearest_ of kin happen to be your sedan-chairmen!! my own -dignity prevents me having any further parley with you, much less -contact with _your kindred_!" And then Lord Mount-Leinster, wheeling -around, made his exit from the robing-room, flinging a rapid and most -contemptuous look at the discomfitted bishop. - - [29] This slily alludes to the _Secchia Rapita_, ("The Rape of the - Bucket,") a burlesque poem, by Tassoni. - -All peers and prelates, much diverted at the result, now withdrew. -_Solventur risu curiae._ The enemies of Bishop Rocket (who had certainly -sprung from a low origin) insisted that his two sedan chairmen were his -own proper kinsmen, and, moreover, bore his name. His friends did not -deny the charge; but said, in extenuation, that "after all this was no -wondrous thing, as the Mareschal de Richelieu, when at Vienna, had -purchased baronies for his two _porteurs de chaise_; and when some -ladies of fashion boasted that they had in their kitchen several French -Marquises, 'I believe it,' replied the Mareschal, 'for my sedan chair is -supported by a brace of German barons!'" - -The eulogists of Lord Mount-Leinster loudly lauded him for the -chivalrous spirit which he had manifested in this _rencontre_ with the -Church, which they considered and maintained as in no wise inferior to -the adventure of the redoubted knight _de la Mancha_, when he -encountered the windmill, and whose valour it was confessed was only to -be paralleled with his discretion! - - - - -CHAPTER X. - - Times have their changes; sorrows make us wise: - The sun itself must set as well as rise! - - PERKIN WARBECK. - - -While matters were going forward in Ireland as we have endeavoured to -describe them in the preceding chapters, the tide, meanwhile, of -political occurrences in England arose to a tempestuous and -uncontrollable flood, that was wholly unexpected by Tyrconnel, and quite -unapprehended by his royal master. To England, therefore, we now must -trace our steps. - -The various unpopular and arbitrary acts of King James the Second -paralyzed those loyal effusions that burst forth when he ascended the -royal throne of the Stuarts. The acquittal of the seven bishops who had -been arbitrarily imprisoned in the tower still further increased the -king's unpopularity. The confiscation too of property which followed, -and the attainder of many loyal Protestants, soon swelled high the -torrent that shortly was to burst against the abutments of his throne, -and destroy that prerogative of power which he had so unjustly and so -unconstitutionally assumed. Many now doubted the justness of the -appellation of "James the Just," which had been awarded him shortly -subsequent to his having been proclaimed king. Indeed his going publicly -to mass two days consequent to his succession to the crown, at the time -gave surprise and offence to the nation. Some events too occurred in -those superstitious days, that in the present times would be slightly -passed over, but which, albeit, were certainly considered as ill omens -in that age. At the solemnity of the coronation, the crown not being -properly fitted for the royal head, was often observed in a tottering -condition, and likely to fall off. Mr. Henry Sidney supported it once -with his hand, and pleasantly told the king,[30] that "this was not the -first time that his family had supported the crown." "In one of the -churches in London, the king's arms, stained on a glass window, suddenly -fell down and broke in pieces, while the rest remained standing, without -a possibility of discovery why that part should fall down sooner than -the rest. The canopy also, which had been borne over his head at the -coronation, did break."[31] - - [30] Rapin's History of England, vol. II. pages 742, 743, and - Note. - - [31] Ibid.--pages 742, 743, 771. - -James II. espoused the Princess Maria d'Este, the sister of Francis Duke -of Modena, who was as beautiful as she was unfortunate. The queen had -been married some time without presenting her royal consort with a -child. When this event did take place, malice, falsehood, envy, and -intrigue, were not slow in pronouncing that the heir apparent thus born -was a "suppositious Prince of Wales." Then followed the ridiculous -episodes of the "sham conception," and "the warming-pan," which were all -a tissue of forgery and falsehood, still further intended to diminish -the king's decreasing popularity, and bring his person and throne into -disrepute. But upon the whole mass and evidence of history that is -presented, the only conclusion to be drawn was this, and only this--that -the Prince of Wales, so far from being suppositious, was royally and -legally born, the royal and lawful successor to his father's throne and -realms. - -In consequence of all these combining unpopular results, a resolution -was taken by many of the disappointed, disaffected nobility and gentry, -of calling in the Prince of Orange of Nassau to ascend the throne of -Britain. And in pursuance of this determination several noblemen and -gentlemen were secretly deputed to go over to the prince, and invite him -to assume the sceptre of England. To these invitations the prince fully -acceded, and firmly determined to head the party. It need not be told -the reader that the Prince of Orange was the son-in-law of King James, -having espoused his daughter, the Princess Mary. The intriguing party -used all their endeavours to prevent the secret of their project from -being divulged. In this matter the Earl of Sunderland basely betrayed -his royal master. Meanwhile King James remained wholly incredulous to -the belief of the existence of these political machinations; and -although he was advised thereto by Mr. Skelton, his Majesty's Envoy at -the Hague, "that a great project was secretly carrying on against him," -yet was this incredulous sovereign so sure of success, that he quite -neglected this intelligence, conceiving that it was only an artifice to -divert him from his designs; and he, therefore, to all such reports -closed an unwilling and unbelieving ear. - -Numbers of the English nobility and gentry now addressed the Prince of -Orange to deliver them from that oppression under which they bent. And -in reply to a long _memoire_ presented to the prince, he published two -manifestoes, declaratory of, and justifying his descent upon England, -which were accompanied by his embarkation from the states of Holland, -and shortly followed by his arrival in England, where by numbers his -Highness was warmly received. Many personages of high rank declared to -him their support; and furthermore, several regiments of the army of -King James joined the standard of the Prince of Orange. - -At length the landing of the prince, and the cordial reception with -which he met withal, awoke the royal and too incredulous James from his -trance, and he now finally resolved upon the measure of flying from his -discontented subjects, whom he considered had betrayed him by thus -calling in a foreigner to assume the sovereignty; and he forth-with -determined to sail with what expedition he might from the shores of -England, and put himself at once under the protection of the King of -France. - -However, previous to the flight of the unhappy James from his throne and -realm of fair England, he resolved in the first instance to provide for -the escape of his queen consort, and his son, the infant Prince of -Wales. King James was so surrounded by spies and informers, that the -very greatest circumspection was absolutely necessary to shun the -hundred eyes of Argus which environed him; for, as but too often is the -unhappy case with kings, that almost literally he knew not whom to -trust. While flatterers and sycophants surround and blockade a throne, -it must not be expected that truth, sincerity, or friendship, can there -be found;--no! they are quite unknown within the stately precincts of a -court! But still there was one found, and one worthy of the royal -trust--the Count de Lauzun, a noble, brave, and generous Frenchman; and -to this nobleman the king intrusted his queen and infant son, to assist -them in conducting them in safety to France, aloof from all the enemies -of the royal James. - -The plan of proceeding, and all the consecutive details, were -accordingly secretly arranged, and the greatest and most scrupulous care -and caution were duly taken to keep these determinations a profound -secret, lest the flight of the queen and infant prince being known or -suspected, the measure might be wholly frustrated by the intervention of -the emissaries of the Prince of Orange. - -The solemn hour of midnight was selected as the safest time for the -flight of the royal fugitives. The young prince, to escape suspicion, -was placed in bed at his accustomed hour; and shortly after the king and -queen, having duly dismissed all their attendants, retired seemingly to -repose, but not to rest! - -When the eyes of all in the palace were closed, save the waking, -watching, unwearied eye-lids of the royal sufferers, the king and queen -arose from their couch, and cautiously opened the private door leading -to the royal closet, where in readiness awaited the noble and faithful -Count de Lauzun. The queen raised the infant prince from his cradle, -wrapped him in a swathe of flannel to keep the infant warm; indeed no -unnecessary precaution, for cold and bitter was the winter weather in -which the royal child was thus in silent secrecy of night taken away -from the princely hall of his royal progenitors. - -King James affectionately embraced them both, as sad and sorrowful he -bade them a mournful farewell; and wept most bitterly at this parting -scene, in which affliction his royal consort fully participated. His -Majesty then intrusted them both to the loyal charge of the noble and -faithful count, who taking the royal infant under one arm, while he -assisted the queen with the other, they set forth from the palace to -pursue their perilous and melancholy journey. - -Stormy and tempestuous was the night, the wind blew with violence, and -rain impetuously descended in torrents. They now approached the banks of -the Thames, in order to procure a boat to cross over to Lambeth. At this -point of time Count de Lauzun had previously engaged a boat to be ready -in attendance, thence to escape down the river to Gravesend, to come up -with the vessel which he had hired, and there awaited to convey them to -France. But unluckily it happened that so pitchy dark and stormy was the -night, the boat, when hailed, was not to be found. In total despair for -some moments he remained; but again, more loud and stoutly once more he -hailed the boat: the signal was heard, and obeyed. They descended down -the Whitehall stairs and embarked; and finding a great swell in the -river the count resolved not to proceed by water to Gravesend, but to -land at Lambeth, and thence proceed by land. They arrived in safety at -the Lambeth stairs, and landed, when the count surrendered to the queen -the royal charge to hold, while he went forth to obtain a coach from the -nearest adjoining inn. - -Meanwhile the hapless queen--queen of the greatest realm in Europe, -arrayed in disguised habiliments, stood trembling under the shelter of -the ruined walls of a church, shivering in the blast, and dripping with -rain, wistfully listening to every sound, and piteously raising her eyes -to heaven. Oh, what a fearful lesson was here! a few days ago she might -have proclaimed to all the world--"This is my throne, let kings come bow -to it!" And this awful night she might envy the poorest cottier in her -dominions. However, after long suspense, suffering, and delay, the -count returned, having procured a carriage; and he lost no time in -placing the trembling queen and shivering infant in the vehicle. - -Without any accident whatever the royal fugitives reached Gravesend in -perfect safety. Here, trembling with fear, and nearly overpowered by -sorrow, the queen alighted on the quay, where the boat, (which was an -open one,) belonging to the brig destined for Calais, awaited their -coming. The count, without a moment's delay, placed the queen and prince -in the boat, and flinging around them the boatman's cloak, he sat down -by them, and bade him to row on. He told the boatman that the persons he -bore away were his wife and child; and thus no suspicions were awakened -in the mind of the boatman of the great personages he thus bore off amid -the shades of night. - - "Sail on, sail on, thou fearless bark, - Wherever blows the welcome wind; - It cannot lead to scenes more dark, - More sad, than those we leave behind!" - -By the morning tide they had reached, without molestation, a small brig -destined for France. To the captain the count also pretended that the -queen and prince were his own wife and child; he bargained for the -voyage, and the contract was agreed to. But the vessel was no sooner -under weigh, when how great their surprise, and how proportionate must -have been their apprehensions and alarm, while they beheld the whole of -the English fleet stationed at the mouth of the Thames, to examine all -vessels, and prevent their escape. But fortunately the vessel was so -small that, being unsuspected, she was permitted with impunity to pass -the admiral of the fleet, in no wise suspecting that her hull contained -such very distinguished personages on board, so no examination took -place. The vessel sailed on unmolested; and that very night the Count de -Lauzun had the happiness of safely landing the royal sufferers on the -pier of Calais. From thence they proceeded to Versailles, where her -Majesty and infant prince were received by Louis the Fourteenth with -great marks of affection and of the highest respect, which afforded some -consolation to the queen under her melancholy reverse of fortune. - -Meanwhile King James suffered great and intense anxiety concerning the -fate of his unhappy queen and infant prince. - -His Majesty now fully determined to follow the queen, and waited but one -day to execute his design.[32] The following night, in a plain suit, and -a bob-wig, he took water at Whitehall,[33] accompanied only by Sir -Edward Hales, Mr. Sheldon, and Abbadie, a Frenchman, and a page of the -back-stairs, without acquainting any other person with his intentions. -All writs sent out for the electing of parliament he ordered to be -burnt; and when he took water he threw the great seal of England into -the Thames, (which was some time afterwards taken up by a fisherman in -his net,) that nothing might be legally done in his absence. "If," -continued Rapin, "this may not be called a real desertion of his -kingdom, it will be difficult to give a name to such proceedings!"[34] - - [32] Rapin's History of England, vol. II. p. 781. - - [33] Ibid. p. 782. - - [34] Ibid. p. 783. - -However, the king did not succeed in this attempt to escape, inasmuch as -he was arrested at Feversham, and abused and insulted by the rabble; he -lost a number of valuables, and gave up to the mob about between three -and four hundred pounds in specie. Here he was protected by the Dutch -guards of the Prince of Orange, and chose to retire to Rochester; where, -in the space of about ten days from the time he had attempted his first -escape, he now resolved upon trying a second. About three o'clock in a -dark winter's morning he privately withdrew, taking with him only the -Duke of Berwick, (his natural son,) Mr. Sheldon, and Abbadie, the page; -and went on horseback to a place near the river, where he embarked in a -small frigate, which landed him safely at Ambleteuse, in France; from -whence he repaired to the court of Louis the Fourteenth, where with much -satisfaction he rejoined his queen and infant prince. "This abdication," -emphatically observes Rapin, "paved the prince's way to the throne!"[35] - - [35] Rapin's History of England, vol. II. p. 783. - -Upon the departure of King James from the shores of England, an -_interregnum_ occurred of such a nature as was hitherto unknown in -England. It was not caused by the death, but by the flight of the -sovereign. Hence this incongruity took place, that the nation was -without a king, nay, even without the representative of one, that would -take the charge of the government! Yet still, strange to say, there was -a king!--albeit a fugitive; who, although he had fled, and abandoned his -throne, yet still pretended to retain his rights! - -How short and limited is the narrow space between popular adoration and -popular disgrace! To-day a king, an emperor, a demi-god--To-morrow a -fugitive, an outcast from his realm, unregarded and forgotten! for ever -blotted from the page of kings, his fate or banishment or the scaffold! -Who can then rely upon the popular breath, wayward, fickle, and -uncertain as the wave or wind? Oh! then, let the true patriot, _if_ such -is to be found upon earth, think on this; and, divested and purified -from the dross of poor mortality, reflect upon all this; aye, and let -him then, firmly armed in integrity, despise equally alike public -censure or public praise! - -From this melancholy digression upon fallen greatness on English ground, -we shall reconduct the reader once more to the shores of Erin, and again -return to the family of Tyrconnel in the succeeding chapter. - - - - -CHAPTER XI. - - ----------O, behold - How pomp is followed! mine will now be your's; - And should we shift estates, your's would be mine! - - ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. - - -We now bring back the reader to the realm of Ireland, which was doomed -shortly to be the scene of anarchy and civil war, where disastrous -tidings of awful import, posting incessantly onward, hourly arrived, -rapidly heralded by rumour's thousand tongues, to afflict the loyal and -disconcert the brave. - -An official despatch soon followed, which communicated and confirmed to -Tyrconnel the sad and dismal event of the flight of his royal master to -France, which truly gave him deep and sincere affliction. This -voluntary abdication of his throne upon the part of King James II. gave -Tyrconnel sorrowful concern for the present, and a sad and mournful -foreboding of the future! "Oh, had my royal master only stood his -ground," said the duke, "and have firmly held his throne, who would, who -could have dared to hurl him from it? No; even with all his political -miscalculations, nevertheless his enemies could not have succeeded. The -Prince of Orange would still have found it a difficult, perhaps an -impossible task, to have ousted his truly royal, accomplished, and brave -father-in-law, from his lawful throne; for brave and valiant was the -king, and I doubt not but still brave he is. And there was a time, be it -not forgotten, while he was Duke of York and Lord High Admiral of -England, when nobly he fought beneath the British banner, and gloriously -led on his fleet to victory!" - -The Duchess of Tyrconnel, whose powerful mind and firm nerves were -"albeit unused to the melting mood," yet when her Grace heard the -mournful recital of the sufferings and voluntary exile of her afflicted -queen; she then indeed was deeply affected, and - - "Dropt tears as fast as the Arabian trees - Their medicinal gum." - -The Duchess was a wife--moreover a mother, and she knew how to pity and -compassionate the unfortunate, from the palace of kings down to the -cottage of the poor. And equally distressed was our lovely heroine, -whose generous bosom ever beat, and felt, and assisted the afflicted. - -Some months had now elapsed, when one morning, while the duke was at -breakfast with his family, a despatch for his Grace, and in the -hand-writing of King James, arrived. The despatch intimated that His -Majesty was then on his way to Ireland, and summoning the immediate -attendance of Tyrconnel at Kinsale, where the king proposed to land. The -despatch was brought over in a fast-sailing French corvette, called -"_l'Eclair_," which had been detached from the French fleet which was to -escort King James to Kinsale, expressly upon this mission. And his -Grace, in obedience to the royal mandate, instantly set off by land for -the town of Kinsale. - -King James II., upon _abdicating_, or _deserting_ (for great debates in -the British parliament ensued upon the proper term to be used) the -throne of England, had sought and obtained an asylum in France, -generously yielded to him by Louis XIV. King James now fully resolved, -as His Majesty expressed himself, "to make one more glorious attempt to -recover his throne;" which to effectuate he sailed from the shores of -France, attended by fourteen ships of war, six frigates, and three -fire-ships, which had been prepared in the port of Brest by the French -king. At the same time seven French battalions embarked in the fleet -which conveyed King James. The troops were commanded by the Count de -Lauzun, the same gallant, generous nobleman who had escorted King -James's queen and the Prince of Wales to the court of Versailles. The -forces were accompanied with twelve field pieces. - -King James was attended in this expedition by several noble personages. -His Majesty landed at Kinsale amid the loudest cheers, and was warmly -received and welcomed by all descriptions, from the peer to the peasant, -with the greatest joy and enthusiasm. Here, in pursuance to the -instructions given to Tyrconnel, he was in readiness on the beach to -receive his royal master, where he knelt as the king approached; who -instantly upraised him, and affectionately embraced his faithful -viceroy; and instantly set off in his travelling carriage for his good -city of Dublin, accompanied by the Dukes of Berwick, Albemarle, and -Tyrconnel. - -Sir Patricius Placebo, from the very moment of the announcement of the -intended arrival of his much loved sovereign at Kinsale, was constantly -on the _qui vive_, considering himself, if not the _locum tenens_, at -least the Lord Constable of his vice-regal lord, and spared no pains to -make every meet and solemn preparation to receive the right royal Stuart -into his loyal city of Dublin. - -"Yes, yes, my lady Duchess," observed Sir Patricius Placebo one morning, -while at breakfast, "we will indeed receive our king right royally, -_more majorum_--ha, ha, ha! _Certes_ we shall, my Lady! with no lack -whatever of respect, and albeit with no deficit of heart!--there, in -sooth, no failing was ever yet found in an Irishman; although I -asseverate it, who, pardie, ought not, my Lady: for - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -as indeed the learned, great, and renowned Archimedes said of old. And I -will "do a deed"--not "without a name" however; for this moment I shall -fly to old Cormac, whom I shall adventure to appoint and depute, in the -absence of my superior, as the vice-regal poet laureat. Next I will post -to Ulster King at Arms; ay, and shall advise and give him hints and -innuendos of far more value and importance than all the gilt tinsel and -crimson silk which surround his brow. I shall admonish him, and his -tributaries and gallant pursuivants, one and all, decorously to furbish -their tabards, and to hire, beg, borrow, or steal stately palfreys, to -bear the herald king and suite, to meet and receive their lawful and -beloved king upon his honoured entrance into his loyal and ancient city -of Eblana, _vulgo dicta_ Dublin. Then will I hie me to the Commander -(_pro tempore_) of the Forces, and tell him of the programme which I -have planned for the king's _entre_. And next, noble Lady, returning to -this His Majesty's royal Castle, I shall give sage and precautionary -hints and instructions to all the state battle-axe guards, state -kettle-drums and trumpets, and so forth:-- - - -------------------------------"trumpeters, - With brazen din blast ye the city's ear; - Make mingle with our rattling tambourines; - That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together, - Applauding our approach!" - -Ha, ha, ha! I think, my lady Duchess, we shall get on vastly -well--vastly well indeed, and not only receive the applause of my -vice-regal lord, but perchance that also of my mighty monarch." - -The Duchess smiled. "I doubt not," said her Grace, "that all matters -shall go on well, _te duce_. But Sir Patricius you are, (it were in vain -to deny it,) you are an enthusiast!" - -"Well, well, my lady Duchess, I shall not gainsay it. Perchance, your -Grace, I am an enthusiast; and after all, my Lady, I do not see, -constituted as this cold and phlegmatic planet of ours is, I see, -really, after all, no very great harm in this said enthusiasm, if indeed -it doth not degenerate into bigotry of politics or religious rancour; -and therefore, when my king doth come, my tongue must utter the loyal -inditings of my heart." - -We must now adventure to describe the triumphant entry of King James -into his good city of Dublin. Regiments of foot, stationed in parallel -files, lined each side of every street extending from the great gate of -Dublin Castle the entire way to Saint James's gate, at the western -extremity of St. James's-street, through which the king was to make his -_entre_. That morning all the principal avenues were purposely strewed -with fresh gravel, to facilitate the king's approach. - -A triumphal arch of living laurel, surmounted by the crown of England, -adorned St. James's gate, and the armorial quarterings, richly -emblazoned, of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France, were tastefully -displayed in the arrangement. Various wreaths, laurel crowns, cordons, -and garlands of various living flowers, were suspended across the -principal streets through which the royal cavalcade was to pass.--Every -window in every avenue was festooned with laurel, oak, and various -evergreens, all tastefully contrasted and displayed.--These -demonstrations of joy were not confined merely to the city, but extended -to all the adjoining villages, towns, and hamlets, for several miles in -circuit. The royal flag was hoisted on Bedford Tower, and on the -steeples of the different churches. At night the city shone forth in a -brilliant blaze of universal illumination, which was vividly reflected -in the sparkling and undulating waves of old father Liffey, as he -joyously rolled onward to the main. - -Various loyal mottoes and devices caught the eye: The harp and crown; -"Rejoice, O Erin, for behold thy king cometh unto thee!" - - "The king shall have his own again!" - ---"Welcome Erin's king!"--"Hibernia hails her noble king!" &c. &c.; with -many other mottoes and devices, with which we shall not weary our -reader. A large platform was erected without James's gate on the west -and county side, on which, under a splendid gonfalon, or canopy, were -stationed several friars beneath a large cross, who sang "_Te Deum -laudamus_," as King James approached. To the right of the gate, on the -city side, was erected a large stage, covered with tapestry, on which -were stationed two Irish harpers, in due and proper costume; one of them -was no less a person than our old acquaintance, blind Cormac, the -sightless harper and minstrel of the Duke of Tyrconnel. Sir Patricius -Placebo albeit was fond of comparing the sightless bard to old -Tiresias, of prophetic memory, whose ear and recollection nearly -supplied the deficiencies of sight. - - '{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}', &c. &c. - -as Sir Patricius was wont to express himself; and then he would say, -"Yes, verily, old Cormac doth much resemble, in multiform coincidence -and fortune, the wise Tiresias! but then with this sage and discreet -difference to boot, that old Cormac will never die the death of old -Tiresias, to wit, from drinking cold water! No, no, inasmuch his fond -and strong addiction lies in genuine _aqua vitae_, or the true Drogheda -Usquebaugh; so that Cormac will never die from drinking cold water, as -he hath "forsworn thin potations," unless, peradventure, he should -happen one day or another to be drowned in the Eske or the Liffey, and -there can be no doubt then vastly against his choice and determination!" - -A shout of universal joy now burst forth: "The King! the King!!" The -heavy dragoons came thundering down with an astounding clatter; the -trumpets rung a levant, the foot soldiers presented arms; standard, and -banner, and pennon, kissed the pavement; while drum, fife, cymbal, -French-horn, and trumpet, resounded through the stricken welkin, "God -save the King!" The foreign, English, and Scottish nobility, who -accompanied the king, were marshalled duly according to their respective -rank. And now, amid shouts that rent the air, King James approached. He -was mounted on a beautiful long-tailed roan charger, bred in Normandy, -which His Majesty right royally and gracefully bestrode; the steed was -gorgeously caparisoned; the trappings were of damask gold, bordered and -interspersed with the rose, shamrock, thistle, and _fleur de lis_; and -fringed withal with a deep pursell of ermine. - -From the vast crowd, and the extended length of the pageant, and -prolonged procession, King James was obliged to rein up his charger, and -to halt. It so did happen that this stoppage occurred just at the stage -where the two harpers were stationed to greet, with their native harp -and song, the entrance of their king into his capital of the island of -poesy and song. They performed several loyal and sprightly airs, which -seemed to please the monarch well: among others was - - OLD CORMAC'S WELCOME. - - All welcome be the royal James, - Let all confess his legal claims; - While ev'ry loyal heart exclaims, - God save the king![36] - - From war, dissension, anarchy, - Kind heav'n protect this kingdom free! - United may it ever be! - God save the king! - - From exile see the monarch bring - The olive round our harp to string! - With transport let each patriot sing, - God save the king! - - Then welcome be the royal James, - None shall resist his legal claims; - While ev'ry honest heart exclaims, - God save the king! - - [36] The air of "God save the King" had been a French anthem, and - words were appropriated to it, with the chorus of "God save the - king," expressly for James the Second. Since which time it has - been played and sung as a national anthem. - -During this pause the public curiosity had sufficient time for its -indulgence by a full view of the royal person. King James looked -extremely well; he possessed a manly and animated countenance, illumined -by fine penetrating hazel eyes, his eloquent lips, his stately person; -his head was enveloped, according to the fashion of the times, in a deep -flowing full-dress peruke, surmounted by a large black beaver triangular -cocked hat, deeply edged with white ostrich feathers; the peruke -descended down freely, even to the richly polished silver corslet[37] -which he wore; his neck was adorned with the ribbons and gems of St. -George and St. Andrew; and the star of the garter sparkled in diamonds -on his breast. His whole deportment was fraught with that attractive -grace and commanding elegance of manner and address which he so fully -and peculiarly possessed, and which charmed every beholder. - - [37] The above description of the person and appearance of King - James the Second, is taken from a beautiful oil miniature, painted - on copper; it is believed to be from the pencil of Samuel Cooper, - when the king was Duke of York. It is in possession of the author. - -A number of handsome young women, amounting nearly to the number of -fifty, all dressed in white, and with coronals of white roses, now -advanced, and preceding the monarch, danced before him the entire way to -the gate of Dublin Castle, the Irish dance, called _Rinceadh-Fada_, -which delighted the king exceedingly. The same had been performed upon -the king's landing at Kinsale, and then too pleased him well, the -particulars of which will be found in a succeeding chapter. These young -and beautiful nymphs strewed the streets, while they danced along, with -_bouquets_ of flowers. The supply for this ceremony was contained in -small wicker baskets, which they respectively bore, with much -appropriate grace, upon their left arm; and, ever and anon, in -sylph-like attitude, they wheeled round and made obeisance to the king; -while oft, with the grace of Raphael, the right hand was duly employed -in scattering flowers, thus manifesting their unbought homage to -majesty. "The rich citizens, to testify their joy upon this occasion, -hung their balconies with tapestry and cloth of arras; those who were -not so provided displayed silk, or hangings of rich cloth; while the -poorer kind were content to sew together the coverings of Turkey-work -chairs; while others were obliged to arrange draperies of linen -cloth."[38] - - [38] Extract from the Life of King James. - -At the limits of the Liberty His Majesty was met by the Lord Mayor, -aldermen, and common council, the masters, wardens, and brethren of the -twenty-five corporations of the city. Ulster King at Arms was in dutiful -attendance, accompanied by the Dublin Herald at Arms, the Athlone -Pursuivant at Arms, and lastly followed the Cork Herald at Arms. The -heralds and pursuivants all mounted upon their grey palfreys, and -attired in new and splendid tabards, made expressly for the occasion, -and which shone forth in all the blaze of heraldic pomp; while they -onward proceeded in accordance to their rank and station. Next onward -rode an esquire bearing a royal standard, on which were richly -embroidered the initials of - - "JACOBUS II. REX."[39] - - [39] Life of King James the Second. - -The letters were brilliantly surrounded with a garland composed of the -rose of England, the shamrock of Erin, the thistle of Caledon, and the -lily of France. Next was borne another standard, on which was emblazoned -the armorial bearing of the harp, with the motto, - - "EX CORDE LAETUS," - -and encircled with shamrocks. Next, the standard of England waved in the -breeze, on which was embroidered the motto, - - "NON SIC MILLE COHORTES."[40] - - [40] Ibid. - -Various other banners and armorial escutcheons were borne in the -procession;--namely, the heraldic bearings of England, France, Scotland, -and Ireland. Then came on the state trumpeters, no less gorgeously and -characteristically attired than their party _per-pale_ cousins at arms, -and withal accompanied by the drowsy base of "the Almaine's sullen -kettle-drum," which closed the rere of this truly rare and illustrious -procession. - -So soon as the royal cavalcade had approached the Tholsel, the Recorder -of Dublin, Counsellor Dillon, knelt to the king, and presented to him -the keys of the city; and loyally and dutifully addressed the king, -expressing "the great and unqualified joy of all the loyal citizens of -His Majesty's ancient and faithful city of Dublin, to hail their beloved -king, and welcome him within their gates; whereby was presented the -glorious opportunity of testifying to all the world their untainted -loyalty and unshaken affection; and that in defence of their sovereign's -throne they were ready and willing to risk, to the uttermost, both -their lives and fortunes."[41] The king most graciously and majestically -received the keys of the city; and on the instant graciously returned -them, while he knighted the Recorder on the spot; saying, with the -greatest courtesy and kindness, "I return them to you, Sir Recorder, -fully convinced that the keys of my most faithful city of Dublin could -not be placed in the custody of honester hearts, or more loyal hands, -than those who guard them now." And having thus said, he gracefully -bowed, and courteously waved his hand. - - [41] Life of King James the Second. - -This interesting ceremony and speech having been concluded, the king -continued his route to the castle of Dublin, followed by a number of the -state-carriages of the nobility, each drawn by six horses; various other -vehicles attended--calashes, covered carriages, &c.; these were followed -by squadrons of French dragoons. Major Barker, of the Royal Guards, next -came onward, clearing the centre of the street, and ordering the troops -again to "present arms." Then approached the Grand Prior, (the Duke of -Albemarle,) in a coach drawn by six beautiful horses. Next approached -several officers of the Guards, mounted on high-mettled chargers, and -followed by grooms, each of them adroitly conducting a led horse. Then -came on several officers of the army, attended by five trumpets and as -many kettle-drums, all arrayed in new state-dresses. Next advanced -twenty of the band of gentlemen at large, who were on horseback; they -were followed by the messengers, Sergeants at Arms, bearing the maces of -the Lords and Commons. Then came on the pursuivants, heralds, and King -at Arms. - -And now the Duke of Tyrconnel presented himself, mounted on a noble -milk-white charger, and martially arrayed in steel armour, highly -wrought and polished; the star of the garter glittered on his manly -breast; and the magnificent collar, with its splendid and appendant gem, -swung from the graceful shoulders of the valiant duke. The Marquis -d'Estrades and Lord Drummond were on the right hand of the Duke; the -Earl of Melfort and Lord Seaforth supported the left. Then succeeded -many troops of dragoons, a numerous list of nobles and gentry, with -numerous servants and attendants; a large assemblage of state-carriages -of peers, drawn by six horses, some with four, and others with only a -pair. Thus was the rear of this princely cavalcade brought up. And the -procession was last of all closed by an immense assemblage who rent the -air with loud and continued shouts and acclamations of joy. - -"In this stately progress King James reached the capital, and made his -triumphant entry, followed by a splendid train of French, British, and -Irish; and attended by the Count d'Avaux in the character of ambassador -of France."[42] - - [42] Leland's History of Ireland, vol. III. p. 522. - -Meanwhile all the bands of the different regiments joined in playing the -then well known air of - - "The king shall enjoy his own again!" - -When this warlike symphony had ceased the populace with one accord -huzzaed, and shouted "God save the King!" They hailed and warmly -congratulated His Majesty's arrival at his Castle of Dublin, where, -having alighted from his horse, he was met at the portal by the -host,[43] which was overshadowed by a gonfalon, or canopy of state, -borne by four Roman bishops, and accompanied by a numerous train of -friars singing, and attended by other clergy of the same persuasion, -along with the titular primate at their head, who wore a triple crown, -or tiara. The king was conducted by them into the chapel-royal, which -had been built by the Duke of Tyrconnel,[44] where _Te Deum_ was chanted -upon the welcome and happy arrival of His Majesty. - - [43] Life of King James. - - [44] This is literally true: this chapel was pulled down, and a - new one built during the administration of the present Duke of - Bedford. - -These ceremonies being concluded, His Majesty subsequently retired to -the new apartments, which had been recently built and decorated by -Tyrconnel, where the king dined. - -It having been intimated to the king that upon the following day the -triennial perambulation of the liberties and franchises of the city of -Dublin was to take place; and His Majesty having been humbly solicited -to witness the same, most graciously gave his consent. The riding of the -franchises, or "riding the fringes," as popularly called, was in fact a -most brilliant and truly imposing public spectacle, not to be equalled, -and quite surpassing, every other pageant then or since known in Europe. - - - - -CHAPTER XII. - - Praetexta, et trabeae, fasces, lectica, tribunal. - Quid, si vidisset Praetorem curribus altis - Enstantem, et medio sublimem in pulvere circi - In tunica Jovis, et pictae sarrana ferentem - Ex humeris aulaea togae, magnaeque coronae - Tantum orbem, quanto cervix non sufficit ulla? - - JUVENAL, Sat. x. - - ----Fasces, chains, litters, purple gowns. - What! had he seen, in his triumphal car, - Amid the dusty cirque conspicuous far, - The praetor perched aloft, superbly drest - In Jove's proud tunic, with a trailing vest - Of Tyrian tapestry, and o'er him spread - A crown too bulky for a mortal head? - - GIFFORD'S JUVENAL. - - -Peradventure, kind reader, thou art no lover of history or chronicles, -no admirer of antiquarian research, and art withal (forefend us!) in -thine heart a determined foe to every matter and circumstance -pertaining to the "dark, backward, and abysm of time." If such, gentle -reader, be the materials of which thou art made, pause fair and softly, -if it so beseemeth thee, ere thou venturest again to open this volume, -from perusal of which, in sober seriousness, we would make bold to -dissuade thee, courteous reader! lest perchance the discussion might -"hurt thy health, and prejudice thy conscience," as the sage Sancho -Panza hath said of yore. - -The day appointed for the display of the grand and solemn pageant of the -perambulation of the liberties and franchises of the city of Dublin had -arrived. This event only occurred every third year; and upon this august -occasion was to be witnessed by the royal eye of the princely James. The -arrangement of the procession and of its various details presented the -most grand and magnificent spectacle ever witnessed in the Irish -metropolis. It was a custom so singular, so unlike any procession or -pageant known in any other realm, that when it did occur the nobility -and gentry from every near and foreign land crowded to Dublin to behold -the splendid array of this unique and magnificent spectacle. Upon this -triennial occurrence the interest was most highly increased, and the -stately pomp and splendour of the pageant aided and augmented by the -cheering presence of the sovereign. - -The grand cavalcade in slow and solemn measure advanced, preceded by a -noble troop of heavy dragoons;--we mention heavy dragoons distinctly to -mark to the reader's attention the distant period of time of which we -here speak; for at that period light dragoons were unknown in the -British service. The enlivening trumpets rent the air; meanwhile the -military bands played at intervals loyal and national airs; banners -waving on high, and the various flags and ensigns attached to the -numerous vessels in the river, all undulating in the breeze; while -around and upon every side the genius of ancient chivalry seemed to -preside and conduct the procession. Sir John Ottrington, Lord Mayor of -the city of Dublin, came in great pomp, pride, and circumstance of civic -distinction, in his magnificent state coach; his dignified head was -arrayed in a full flowing peruke, upon which much care and caution had -been studiously expended for its adornation; and that day witnessed -good-man shaver, Bob Basin to wit, the city barber, a proud and happy -man, who seemed all-sufficient to enjoy the triumph of the day, in -which, as he modestly conceived, he had done "the State some service, -and they knew it." This most formidable bushy specimen of a peruke was -cumberously surmounted by the bulky civic crown, which was in sooth -unwieldy and most unbecoming in its conformation and appearance; indeed -not dissimilar to that worn by the Herald King at Arms upon the high -ceremonial of a coronation. The Lord Mayor was attired in full court -dress, over which was worn a flowing scarlet gown, and around his neck -was suspended the splendid gold enamelled collar which had been most -graciously presented to the city of Dublin by Charles the Second, of -chaste and pious memory! It must not forsooth be disguised that the -costume was as cumbersome as it was unbecoming; yet still the ladies -all unanimously agreed in the opinion that Sir John Ottrington was "a -very pretty fellow in his day;" a most portly personage he was, who -would have become any costume, civil or military, nay, even the hodiern -foppery of an English Field-Marshal--tags, bobs, cordons, trappings, -ribands, feathers, and so forth. However, had any modern taken a glance -at a similar figure, he must assuredly have been incontinently reminded -of his facetious old acquaintance, Lord Grizel, in the inimitable and -humorous burletta of O'Hara's _Tom Thumb_! - -All the _accessoires_ of city regalia were duly and circumspectly -displayed at this truly splendid pageant. The ponderous city mace was -regilt and richly burnished, which shone conspicuous and refulgent from -the sinister window of the civic coach; while from the dexter side -gently undulated, _in transitu_, the mayoral wand, like the caduceus of -Mercury, imposing peace and silence on the dense and congregated -multitude. - -The sword of state was carried in the van, while the silver baton was -borne by a corporate officer in the rere, attended by the city -battle-axe guards, who followed the state coach two by two, while others -of the guard flanked it, and the remaining number closed the procession. -It is but just to say, that all the civic regalia, in due pomp, and -circumstance, and order, were displayed conformable to the ancient, -laudable, and loyal usages of this most enlightened corporation. - -The persons who personified the civic battle-axe guards were grenadiers -hired for the occasion expressly, and duly selected from the ranks. The -costume of these worthies, although varying in colour, yet resembled in -shape and fashion that of the royal Buffetteers, (in popular parlance -called beef eaters, from their portly appearance, no doubt;)[45] the -bonnets were formed of green velvet, with a rich gold foliage of -shamrocks, which surrounded them. The exterior habiliments were of rich -green cloth, laced, and richly embroidered with national devices; and -upon the breast of each were duly embroidered the city arms, namely, -three castles in flames, and the motto, "_obedientia civium, felicitas -urbis_." The hose were of red worsted, with large open clokes; the shoes -short quartered and high heeled, with the appanage of small brass -buckles. The partisans which they bore were similar to those of the -royal battle-axe guards. As the procession slowly proceeded onward, the -populace accommodated them-selves with great attention and most discreet -silence, being right marvelously amazed at such unusual pomp and -splendour. - - [45] But actually so named from being the guard who preside over - the royal buffet, or side-board. - -Next in the proud pageant came the High Sheriffs, each in his own -splendid state chariot, with a crowd of lackeys in rich liveries behind. -These worthies, Sir Mark Rainsford and Sir Edward Lloyd, not forgetting -the Lord Mayor, did not escape the ceremonial of being knighted by King -James. The Aldermen followed in their respective carriages. They were -succeeded in the procession by the several guilds or corporations of the -city, amounting in the aggregate to the number of twenty-five; at the -unprecedented splendour of whose appearance the populace were verily -struck with downright delight and astonishment. - -The particular detail and explanation of each guild, as it advanced, -halted, and retreated in the proud pageant, was explained most minutely -by the Duke of Tyrconnel to his gracious and royal master. His Grace -certainly acquitted himself with most sage, cautious, and circumspect -discretion, but attended withal with sundry and various circumforaneous -explanations; all which long ambages and diffuse prolixities purposely -to avoid, we have cut down and curtailed the whole, which would -otherwise not be contained in a chapter, but require an essay to give -the entire. We have therefore abridged the particulars, and thrown the -whole into as brief a narrative as the subject would admit of, premising -that the splendid and imposing spectacle was beheld from the windows of -the presence-chamber of Dublin Castle by the royal James, surrounded by -all the beauty of the land, and encompassed by all the flower of -chivalry. - -The magnificence of the pageant of riding the franchises (or fringes, -as corruptly called in popular parlance) was considerably increased in -pomp and effect from the introduction of different individuals of the -different corporations, who were attired in habits emblematical and -illustrative of the different trades of the different guilds. The -characters were generally borrowed from the heathen mythology, and were -strictly and classically arrayed in proper pantheon costume. - -We must observe in a general way, that the five-and-twenty guilds, or -corporations of the city, formed an unrivalled pageant, the most -singular and remarkable in Europe; it would occupy too much time to -enter into a minute detail--however, a few we shall briefly notice. - -Neptune, surrounded by his attendant tritons, dolphins, &c., sat proudly -enthroned in a triumphal car. He was the presiding deity of the guild of -merchants. The marine deity was followed by their corporate friend -Mercury, bearing all his attributes, and stately standing in an elevated -illuminated caravan, representing the clouds. - -The tree of knowledge, adorned with the forbidden fruit, the serpent -encompassing the bole of the tree, and supported on each side by our -first parents, duly preceded the corporation of Tailors. Adam and Eve -were clad in flesh-coloured garments, fitting close to the person; and, -sooth to say, the fig-leaf was not forgotten by the grateful -corporation! - -But we must needs be brief in this general outline:-- - -Vulcan presided over the corporation of Smiths. He was stationed on a -superb car, with his attending Cyclops, who were intently working on a -mounted forge; a lovely Venus graced his side; and as the arrows came -formed from the anvil, they were handed to Cupid. - -Saturn, with his attributes, his scythe and serpent, and attended by -Esculapius, presiding over the guild of Barbers and Surgeons, followed -in a splendid car. - -Ceres, seated in a triumphal chariot, drawn by four oxen, presided over -the corporation of Bakers. In a caravan which followed was placed an -oven, which was briskly at work; whence cakes were made, and -distributed to the populace. - -The guild of Carpenters were preceded by a most magnificent caravan, -adorned with the various orders of architecture; in the centre of which -was placed a representation of Mount Ararat, on which reposed a model of -Noah's ark; thereby the corporation slyly intimating that their -handicraft was as old as the deluge! - -Crispin and Crispianus, the two tutelar saints of the corporation of -Shoemakers, duly personated, and attired in strict saintly costume, -preceded the worthy guild. - -Bacchus, "ever fair and young," crowned with his own ivy, bearing the -Thyrsus wand in his right, and a golden goblet in his left hand, duly -enthroned on a wine-cask, and mounted on a triumphal car, decorated with -festoons of grapes and vine-leaves, presided over the guild of Cooks and -Vintners. - -Jason supporting the golden fleece, (with the ship Argo in the back -ground of his splendid car, blazing in burnished gold,) presided over -the guild of Weavers. - -Iris, enveloped in her own rainbow, and borne in a car, adorned with -transparent clouds, presided over the Sheermen and Dyers. - -We shall only notice one guild more--the corporation of Printers, to -whom we, in common with every Briton, owe such a debt of gratitude. A -free press has always been acknowledged, and we trust ever may continue, -the _palladium_ of British liberty! - -This guild, forming a magnificent and extended cavalcade, made a grand -and interesting display; their ancient banners and standards borne in -the van were tri-coloured, crimson, light-yellow, and blue. The first -banner bore the legend, or motto, "_Rex et Lex_;" upon the second, "_Pro -rege saepe, Pro Patria semper_;" upon the last banner was splendidly -emblazoned the words, "_Liberty of the Press_!" - -A statue of Minerva, placed on a high pedestal, and mounted in a -triumphal car, headed the procession. A bomb-cart followed, heavily -laden, containing ammunition and stores; that is to say, not gunpowder, -chain-balls, and grape-shot, but more peaceful pastime, _videlicet_: -cold meat, pasties, pies, confectionary, wines, &c. Next advanced four -fine palfreys, covered with richly embroidered field-clothes, each led -by a groom in splendid livery. Then came on a brother of the -corporation, who personated Vulcan; he was arrayed in a noble suit of -armour, which had belonged to king Charles the First; it was the gift of -the late Colonel Joshua Paul, a free-brother of the guild, to the -corporation. Vulcan rode on horseback, the housings, trappings, and -horse-furniture, were decorated with appropriate emblems; he bore an -immense sledge-hammer of richly polished steel, the handle curiously -ornamented with fanciful Arabesque ornaments, inlaid in gold and silver. - -Next in succession advanced a triumphal car, or caravan, drawn by six -beautiful black steeds, covered with handsome nets, the coachman and -postillion in rich splendid liveries. Within the carriage was exhibited -a handsome printing-press, with two pressmen and a compositor at work. A -hackney author was occupied in writing for and correcting the press. A -printer's devil was busily at work; and a painter engaged at his eazle, -all in meet and proper costume. The printing-press was richly and -appropriately ornamented: in the front stood a figure of Mercury holding -a poem, copies of which were struck off, and distributed among the -spectators; it was in praise of the noble art of printing, in which -honourable mention was made of the founders and benefactors of this -glorious invention. Nor were the following distinguished worthies -forgotten:--Wynkin de Worde, Caxton, Pynson, Kerver, Simon Vostre, -Theodore Martin, Jean Petit, Plantin, the two Elzivers, &c. The -printer's devil published impressions of the poem among the congregated -multitude. - -The masters and wardens of the guild, splendidly arrayed in appropriate -costume, attended by kettle-drums mounted on horseback, the performers -dressed in Turkish habits, and attended by grooms in Tartar habits, who -led the horses, that were most splendidly caparisoned, next came on. -They were followed by persons on foot bearing long silver maces; at -intervals they obtained copies from the press of verses laudatory of -King James, which were distributed among the people. Four copies were -struck off on white satin, and sent into the castle to be presented to -King James; the verses were by Waller and Lord Lansdowne; at receiving -of which King James seemed most highly gratified. They were as -follows:-- - - "Bred in the camp, fam'd for his valour young; - At sea successful, vigorous, and strong; - His fleet, his army, and his mighty mind, - Esteem and rev'rence thro' the world do find."[46] - - "Tho' trained in arms, and learned in martial arts, - Thou choosest not to conquer men but hearts; - Expecting nations for thy triumphs wait, - But thou prefer'st the name of just to great."[47] - - [46] Extract from lines presented to His Majesty King James the - Second, upon his birth-day, by _Edmund Waller_. - - [47] From _Lord Lansdowne_ to King James II. - -Having perused these lines, King James most sweetly smiled, and with his -accustomed gracious condescension, gracefully approached the centre -window of the presence-chamber; he condescendingly looked down, and most -courteously bowed to the corporation of Printers, his face illumined -with a smile peculiar to himself, and in a most king-like attitude he -gracefully waved his hand. Then addressing the Duke of Tyrconnel, who, -with the other nobles of the household, surrounded His Majesty, the king -was pleased to say, "I perceive your Grace's countrymen are _tam Marti, -quam Mercurio_--they are courteous as they are brave." The Duke lowly -and respectfully bowed his acquiescence to the observation. - -The proud pageant having closed, all the troops assembled presented -arms, lowered their banners; while drum, trumpet, and kettle-drum struck -up the anthem of "God save the King!" - -The Duke of Tyrconnel fully explained to the king the name, description, -and detail of each guild as it made its entrance and exit. The duke had -taken some pains to prepare himself to be the royal _Cicerone_ of the -day; and, in sooth, as King James remarked to him, like my Lord Hamlet, -he was "as good as a chorus." - -The number of saddle, led, and draft-horses, produced in this splendid -pageant were the best bred and most beautiful horses in the kingdom, -being selected, by the courtesy and permission of the noble proprietors, -from the most valuable studs the country then could boast of. The -richness of the horse furniture, housings, trappings, harness, &c., -quite surpasses description. Never were present upon any former occasion -so many foreigners of distinction; and exclusive of those immediately -attendant upon the king, the nobility and gentry crowded to Dublin, as -did the noblesse of foreign realms, to witness, whenever it occurred, -this magnificent spectacle, which could not be equalled in any other -part of Europe. - -King James was quite enraptured at the brilliant display, and addressing -the Duke of Tyrconnel, said:--"Albeit I have sojourned for a length of -time at my court of St. Germains, and have, in sooth, resided in the -country of pomp, spectacle, and pageantry, yet assuredly never have I -there witnessed such a scene of splendour as I have beheld this day, -either at Versailles or at Paris!--It has given me great satisfaction -truly, and I must observe that I consider that the taste, pomp, and -splendour of the pageant of to-day has rarely, if ever, been surpassed." - -At night-fall the waits were in attendance at the upper castle-gate to -serenade the royal James. As the usage has become obsolete, it is -necessary to acquaint the reader that WAITS were a band of itinerant -nocturnal musicians, who perambulated the streets, singing, and playing -on different instruments, at different houses, where they addressed the -master or mistress of the mansion; and at Christmas-tide they were -usually most alert in their avocation, when they were tolerably sure of -an _honorarium_. The Irish waits resembled the _musique ambulante_ of -France. In England waits are very ancient. It is now about thirty-eight -or forty years since this custom has wholly ceased in the city of -Dublin. The Irish waits were always attended by a man who bore a long -pole, from which was suspended a spherical illuminated lantern, which -they called their moon; with Falstaff they might indeed say, "Let us be -gentlemen of the shade--minions of the moon!" They sung and accompanied -the following verses to the air of "God save the King!" - - O welcome be our noble king! - Resound the harp, each dulcet string, - While every loyal chord shall ring, - And every loyal tongue shall sing, - With filial burst, God save the king! - - Oh, ever on his natal day - Our grateful homage we shall pay; - And bless the fav'ring breeze whose wing - Wafted our great and generous king! - -After this long digression we shall resume our story in the following -chapter. - - - - -CHAPTER XIII. - - ----Hark! from camp to camp - The hum of either army stilly sounds, - That the fix'd sentinels almost receive - The secret whispers of each other's watch; - Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighings, - Piercing the night's dull ear. - - KING HENRY V. - - -King James, almost immediately after his arrival in his capital of -Dublin, assembled and met the Irish parliament. His Majesty proceeded in -great state to the House of Peers to open the session, where, arrayed in -his royal robes, and adorned with his crown,[48] he met the assembled -lords and commons of Ireland. He made a most truly dignified and -impressive speech[49] from the throne, with all that native grace and -dignity with which indeed King James was peculiarly gifted; and he -adopted his royal residence, while he sojourned in his Irish capital, at -the Castle of Dublin, from whence His Majesty issued various -proclamations. - - [48] Life of King James. - - [49] This speech will be found in the third volume of Rapin's - History of England, page 85. - -The morning which succeeded the said meeting of parliament, at an early -hour, the Duke of Tyrconnel received an express, which stated, that[50] -"the Prince of Orange had landed at Carrickfergus, from the Mary yacht, -attended by Prince George of Denmark, the Duke of Ormond, the Earls of -Devonshire, Oxford, Scarborough, and Manchester, the Honourable Mr. -Boyle, and many other persons of distinction. He tarried," it was added -to the report, "only about half an hour after his landing, and then set -off in Duke Schomberg's carriage for Belfast." - - [50] History and Antiquities of the County and Town of - Carrickfergus. - -When this was told to King James, his only reply was, in allusion to -Prince George: "What! has little '_est-il possible_' deserted me at -last!"[51] - - [51] Memoirs of Grammont. - -The plain, but extraordinary fact now came forth, that the Prince of -Orange had been actually six days in Ireland before any intimation or -express to that effect had arrived thereby to acquaint King James of the -event. - -The Prince of Orange having driven King James from England, Ireland was -now fated to become the scene of civil war, which, as will appear, was -conducted with considerable talent on both sides. And very soon a battle -was to be fought between two contending sovereigns, and the glorious -prize depending upon the eventful issue of the mighty contest was no -less than the triple crown of three powerful kingdoms! - -At this period England was most critically circumstanced: defeat at home -was succeeded by victory of the enemy abroad. The defeat of the fleet -of Torrington off the shores of England, was the harbinger of the defeat -of the Dutch in the great battle of Fleurus. The reins of government -were guided by a woman, whose councils were distracted by two implacable -factions. Invasion was impending; rebellion existed in one of the three -kingdoms, and was expected in the other two; the king was absent; the -army abroad in other countries; and an exiled master returning home, -armed with power and vengeance. These combined causes shook the British -empire to its centre. - -Numerous indeed were the difficulties and obstructions with which the -Prince of Orange had to contend; and various the plots, intrigues, and -conspiracies, that he had to overcome, which rendered the commencement -of his reign (when styled William III.) so very tempestuous, that more -than once he had resolved[52] "to abandon his throne, and retire into -Holland, and for ever to relinquish the sovereignty of England; -distracted, as he found it, with political and religious contentions, -and convulsed by party and faction." - - [52] Rapin's History of England. - -However, he hesitated before he carried this measure into execution. He -issued a proclamation previous to his departure from England, promising -to the Irish who should lay down their arms and return to their homes, -that they should not be molested in their persons or injured in their -properties; and this he promulgated to some Irish lords, who were at -that time in London, at the very moment that Duke Schomberg was -departing for Ireland. The discourse which King William gave at a -council held was to this effect:[53] "He declared to them, that he had -resolved, with the assistance of God, to reduce Ireland to the obedience -of England, and not to stop at any measure that was necessary for its -accomplishment; but that he loved not the effusion of blood--no, not -even of his most implacable enemy; and that he had resolved, so far as -human prudence permitted, to extend his pardon and his clemency to all -those who were in arms against him, except the Duke of Tyrconnel, the -Lord Chancellor Fitton," and about twelve peers more, who were -enumerated in this proclamation, and were thereby excluded from the -royal mercy; and in this exception some generals and field officers were -included. - - [53] Rapin's History of England. - -Intrusting the government of England to his royal consort Queen Mary, -the daughter of King James II., he proceeded immediately to Ireland, -there in person to pursue the war with vigour; and very shortly landed, -as has been already told, at Carrickfergus, where he was expected with -impatience, and was met by his army, which in number amounted to forty -thousand men, not only well appointed and provided with necessaries, but -also well disciplined. They were attended by a commissariat corps, and a -train of sixty large cannon, which completed the military force of -William. The army consisted of English, Dutch, and Brandenburghers, who -received their illustrious leader with shouts and transports of joy. -Upon the landing of King William he was received by the Duke of -Schomberg, the Count Menard Schomberg (son to the duke), by the Prince -of Wirtemberg, Count Solms, Major-General Scravenmore, Lord Sidney, Sir -David Bruce, and Sir John Lanier, &c. &c. - -As soon as King James had positive intelligence of the arrival of the -Prince of Orange, (who, strange to say, had been, as we before noticed, -six days in Ireland without King James having been made acquainted with -the event,) he then instantly commenced his march; and committing the -guard of Dublin to Colonel Luttrel, who afterwards betrayed him,[54] and -who then commanded a body of militia, His Majesty set onward in his -march, attended by an army consisting of about six thousand foot, old -experienced soldiers of the army of Louis XIV., the same which had -lately accompanied him from France. These were destined to form a -junction with the chief body of his troops, who were then stationed on -the banks of the Boyne. These, when they should be united, although -considerable, yet, in point of numbers, were still inferior to the army -of the Prince of Orange. - - [54] Life of King James. - -Several months previous to the arrival of King James, Duke Schomberg had -landed at Carrickfergus Bay, at the head of twelve thousand men; and -without any opposition, assisted by six ships of war, he took possession -of the town. Upon his advance into the country the position of the -hostile armies were thus constituted:--Schomberg then occupied Dundalk, -which he was forced to fortify; while Marshal Rosen threatened his right -flank. King James had lost previous to his arrival, by the defeat of his -forces, the fort and garrison of Charlemont, along with a large store of -ammunition, seventeen pieces of brass cannon, &c.; and want of -provisions caused the surrender of this important fortress. The troops -of Marshal Rosen then found it necessary to march to the banks of the -Shannon, until they should ascertain how matters went on at sea. For -Louis XIV. had sent them assurances that he would not only fit out a -great fleet, but that as soon as the squadron which coasted in the -Irish seas to guard the transport fleet, and to secure the Prince of -Orange's passage over, should sail into the channel to join the grand -fleet of England, he would then send into the Irish seas a fleet of -small frigates and privateers, to destroy the transports of the Prince -of Orange.[55] This indeed would have proved fatal if it had taken -effect; and the execution of the scheme seemed easy, if not certain. It -would have shut up the Prince of Orange in Ireland until a new transport -fleet could have been brought thither, which would have taken some -months to complete; so that England, in the mean time, might have been -lost before, by any possibility, he could have repassed the seas with -his army. - - [55] Rapin's History of England. - -There can be no doubt whatever that the destruction of the transports of -the Prince of Orange must also have caused the ruin of his army; for the -stores both of bread and ammunition were still on board, from whence he -was to draw his supplies. Conscious of this, he made his fleet sail -slowly along the eastern coast towards the capital, spread out in sight -of his army as it advanced in its march, to elevate the spirits of his -soldiers by the grandeur of the spectacle, and to inspire them with -confidence by the idea of security which it presented.[56] Upon all -that coast there was not a safe port to cover and secure the fleets and -transports of the Prince of Orange; and it was this induced the staff -and officers of King James to oppose the measure of bringing the war to -a speedy termination. Meanwhile King James's army was stationed on the -banks of the Boyne, to defend the capital. King James had now arrived at -the head quarters of his army; and with the reinforcements which he -brought along with him, as well as by his royal presence, gave hope and -confidence to his army. But there was an oversight in King James when an -opportunity was presented of totally defeating Schomberg, which, by -remissness or want of determination, he wholly lost. Schomberg, upon the -arrival of King James, was in the occupation of Dundalk, which he was -forced to fortify. Marshal Rosen threatened his right flank at the same -time that King James, with thirty thousand men, was stationed on the -banks of the Boyne, at Drogheda. It hence appears that King James had -thus Schomberg shut up there in a _cul de sac_, all retreat being cut -off;[57] Schomberg's army pining and diminishing by sickness, and -enclosed in retrenchments; while King James, with a far superior army, -stood in front. But strange to say, he permitted Schomberg to escape, -and make good his retreat unmolested by any pursuit. - - [56] Sir John Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, - and Rapin's History of England. - - [57] Colonel Keating's Defence of Ireland. - -However, this inaction of King James arose, it would appear, from his -positive determination to remain where he was encamped, and defend the -Boyne, which he considered to be the key that mastered the pass to the -capital. "We must," said the king, addressing himself to his council of -war, and principally to Tyrconnel, "_coute qui coute_ defend the Boyne. -Not to do this is to abandon Dublin; and by so doing we should lose our -reputation, so that the people would desert us, and capitulate; and all -our friends in England would be also dispirited; therefore I am fully -resolved to have one fair and, I trust, decisive battle for my -crown."[58] - - [58] Rapin's History of England. - -Lieutenant-General Hamilton advised King James at this council, "to send -a detachment of dragoons to defend the ford of Slane, which was below -the town of Drogheda, (which the English either knew not of, or did not -regard of importance,) and to despatch eight regiments to defend the -bridge of Slane." - -But King James coldly said in reply: "I shall send fifty dragoons to -protect the ford."[59] - - [59] Ibid. - -This reply put Hamilton into the utmost amazement, considering the -importance of the place to be defended. But he remained silent. - -In many respects the determination of King James to maintain the post he -occupied, which certainly was well chosen, was as correct as his resolve -was judicious; where encamped, - - "His white pavilions made a show, - Like remnants of the winter's snow, - Along DONORE'S dark ridge." - -"Stationed upon the commanding hill of Donore, which looked down upon -the Boyne, his right approach was upon Drogheda, which he occupied, his -front facing the Boyne, fordable, but still deep, and rising every tide, -with strong banks, which, intersected by mounds of earth, and divided by -hedges and ditches; hence his army presented a front of about three -miles, extending towards the Slane, where he negligently failed to -occupy a bridge, which had been advised by General Hamilton. The river -Boyne forms towards the centre of where James was stationed a -considerable projecting curve, and another in reverse higher up toward -Slane."[60] This, as will be seen in a subsequent chapter, was of the -utmost importance to the two contending princes. We must add, that the -localities of the station added to the security of King James; for had -his opponent succeeded in crossing the Boyne at this point, there was -still a morass also to be passed, and then succeeded by the barrier of a -rising ground. - - [60] Keating's Defence of Ireland. - -Thus advantageously was encamped upon the 30th of June the army of King -James.--He had thrown up some breast-works upon the banks of the fords -which lay between the two camps; and he now gave orders that "if his -troops were driven from these on the morrow, then to retire to the line -of houses; if from the houses, to the hedges; if from the hedges, to the -range of small hills; and if driven from these, to occupy the heights of -Donore: and if they could not then make that station good, they were to -retreat to Duleek, and stop further pursuit by defending the pass." - -Throughout the whole of this eventful day, the precursor of the ever -memorable first of July, salutation from the cannon's mouth had been -interchanged between each contending army, and not without leaving -numerous ostensible marks of slaughter in the camps of the two -contending princes. But towards the close of day the thundering roar of -cannon ceased at once on both sides; while in the rival camps of royal -James and William was only then to be heard the "dreadful note of -preparation" for the battle on the morrow. - -King James having caused his army to pass him in single files, -surrounded by his nobles, generals, and staff, he thus addressed his -army:-- - -"Soldiers, and comrades of my toil! to-morrow I purpose putting an end -to all our hardships and privations by terminating the war; by boldly -encountering those squadrons who are now yonder encamped, and whose -standards, waving on the banks of the Boyne below, seem to invite us to -the battle. We shall not disappoint them! nor, brave men, shall you be -disappointed! They shall indeed feel what loyal men, determined in a -just cause, can do and dare for their lawful sovereign. And God protect -those who fight under the banner of justice;--who fight for their lawful -king, and for all that is dear to men! As for myself I have been bred in -the ranks of war, (if your king may for once be permitted to speak of -what he has performed;) educated alike in the school of hardship as of -war. I have fought in different realms--in Spain, in France, and -Holland, I have fought and conquered with the brave Turenne, for whom I -have ever felt the tenderness of a son. I have fought by land and by -sea, and with those same Dutch that now invade us; aye, and beat them -too we have to boot! at the mouth of their Texel--upon their own shores, -I did it! But to-morrow we shall meet them again, and their vaunting -leader, in the battle-field; when and where, I trust, under the auspices -of heaven, that again and once more I shall rout them, and that too -upon my loyal shores of Ireland! For strongly I feel that the blood of -the noble Edwards and the Henrys still pulsates in these veins; and that -the valiant blood of the fourth Henry of France, my glorious -grandfather, still survives, and animates his descended son. Soldiers! -he too, like myself, met with ingratitude--with disloyalty! he, like me, -was driven from his throne! But he had a Sully; and I can boast that I -have a Tyrconnel! His loyal troops of Navarre restored him to his -throne; and on to-morrow, with the benison of God, I shall witness my -restoration to the ancient throne of the Stuarts, by my brave--my loyal -Irish, and the gallant swords of my noble Frenchmen that now encircle -me; and who, to a man, are fully determined to conquer or to die for me; -and in that fate shall your king fully participate with you all--to -vanquish or to perish!" - -Here shouts of "_Vive le Roy_," and of "God save King James," from the -French, English, and Irish troops of the king, rent the air with loud -and tumultuous huzzas; which bursting over the heights of Donore, were -re-echoed by the waters of the Boyne below, and wafted to the camp of -the Prince of Orange. - -Meanwhile, in the camp of King James, the Duke of Tyrconnel was every -where to be seen galloping from post to _piquet_. He ordered each -soldier to wear in his cap a small cockade of white paper upon the -ensuing day of battle, that in the heat of the engagement they might -thence distinguish each other from their foes.[61] - - [61] Life of King James. - -"The watch-word of to-night," said the duke, as he rode along the camp, -addressing himself to the officers, "be '_Eblana_;' and our gallant -war-cry on the morrow let it be--'James and Victory!'" - -Here the whole army rent the air with shouts of applause; while -Tyrconnel retired to his tent, impatiently awaiting the dawn of day. - -From the moment of the arrival of the Prince of Orange in Ireland he had -taken every pains, and had used every art, to inspire his army with -confidence, and to ingratiate himself in their favour and love.[62] All -the arts of a general and of a man of sense he put in practice to draw -the attention of his soldiers from the misfortunes of the last year in -Ireland, and from the danger of the present. The day upon which all his -troops from different quarters met and united with him: he then ordered -the whole army to pass him, and thus threw a march into a review. -Instead of keeping one station, he rode in among the regiments so soon -as they appeared, to encourage the soldiers, and to satisfy himself of -the state of every regiment. An order having been brought him to affix -his signature for wine for his table, the prince said aloud:--"No, I -will drink water with my soldiers!" He slept every night in camp, and -was throughout the day on horseback; he flew from place to place to -survey the army, or the country, intrusting nothing to others. While at -one time he brought up the rere with an anxiety which fully engaged the -affections of the soldiers; at another with a spirit which inflamed -them, he was the foremost in advanced parties if danger seemed to -threaten, or that the object to be known was of importance.[63] - - [62] Story's Civil Wars of Ireland. - - [63] Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, by Sir John Dalrymple, - vol. I. p. 135. - -But it is now full time that we should attend in the camp of the Prince -of Orange, and take a cursory view of some of the principal events of -the remarkable 30th day of June, and notice his force, the occurrences -of this day, and his preparations for the approaching battle. - -At break of day the Prince of Orange, upon the 30th of June, being -informed that the army of King James had repassed the Boyne, ordered his -whole army to move forward at that early hour, in three lines, towards -the river, which was distant from them about three miles. The advanced -guards of horse commanded by Sir John Lanier; the Brandenburghers by -Colonel Sir David Bruce. They moved onward in very good order, and by -nine o'clock were within two miles of Drogheda. The Prince of Orange, -who marched in front of them, observing that there was a hill to the -east of the enemy, and to the north from the town, he rode instantly -thither to inspect their camp, which he found to be stationed along the -river in two parallel lines.[64] - - [64] Rapin's History of England. - -Here different observations were made as to the force and numbers of the -enemy by Prince George of Denmark, the Dukes of Schomberg and Ormond, -and other generals. Amongst them General Scravenmore appeared to despise -their numbers, observing, at the same time, that they were but a handful -of men, for he could not reckon above forty-six battalions that were -then encamped. - -But both the Prince of Orange and Prince George replied, that they might -have a great many men in the town; and that there was also a hill to the -south-east, beyond which part of their army might be encamped. - -"However," rejoined the Prince of Orange, "we shall soon be better -acquainted with their numbers-- - - 'If fight King James, as well I trust - That fight he will, and fight he must.'" - -The Prince of Orange now proceeded in person to visit every outpost, -every videt, every guard, and every _piquet_. He marked out his -encampment, and fathomed the Boyne in order to ascertain where it was -fordable for his army to pass, which he firmly resolved to do upon the -following morning. While the prince was thus occupied, and advancing to -take a nearer view of the situation of his enemy, and while the army was -marching, he alighted from his horse, and sat down upon a rising ground, -where he refreshed himself for about an hour. During which time a party -of about forty horse of King James came on; but advancing very slowly, -they made a halt upon a ploughed field opposite to the Prince of Orange. -They brought with them in the rere two field-pieces, which, -undiscovered, they planted at the angle of a hedge, which screened the -cannon. The prince was no sooner remounted than the party instantly -fired at him, and with the first shot killed a man and two horses very -near to the prince. This bullet was presently succeeded by another, -which having first grazed upon the bank of the river, then upon -rebounding struck the Prince of Orange in the right shoulder, tore away -a piece of his coat, and stripped off the skin; afterwards in the recoil -it broke the handle of a gentleman's pistol. - -Lord Conningsby seeing what had happened, rode up hastily, and putting -his handkerchief to the prince's shoulder, staunched the wound. The -prince remounted his charger, and observed to Lord Conningsby, "_Il ne -faloit pas que le coup fut plus pres_."[65] There was no necessity that -the bullet should have come nearer! - - [65] Histoire de Guillaume III. tome II. Amsterdam, 1703. - -This accident having occasioned some disorder among the attendants of -the Prince of Orange, caused the enemy to conclude that he was killed; -who thereupon set up a great shout, and the report of his death reached -Dublin, and even Paris. However, having his wound dressed, the prince -remounted his horse, and showed himself to his whole army, to dissipate -their apprehensions. He continued on horseback until four o'clock, dined -in the open field, and then mounted his favourite _Sorrel_ again, (for -so was the royal charger called,) although he had been abroad from one -in the morning. About the hour of nine at night he called a council of -war, and declared his determination to pass the river Boyne upon the -next day. Which resolve Duke Schomberg at first opposed; but finding the -king positive, he advised that part of the army, horse and foot, should -be sent that night towards the bridge of Slane, in order there to pass -the Boyne, and so advance between the enemy and the pass at Duleek. This -advice, which if followed would perhaps have ended the war in one -campaign, seemed at first to be relished; but it was afterwards opposed -by General de Ginckle, and the other Dutch general officers. Duke -Schomberg retired to his tent, where not long after the order of battle -was brought him, which he received with discontent and indifference, -observing, that _this was the first that ever was sent to him_. The -opinion of Schomberg was right; not to occupy the important pass of -Slane was certainly a strange omission in the tactics of the two -contending princes. - -The Prince of Orange ordered that every soldier should be provided with -a sufficient stock of ammunition, and all the army to be ready to march -at break of day. And every man was to wear a green bough, or sprig, -pulled from the adjoining wood which overhung the ford, that they might -ascertain friends from foes during the fury of the fight. His Highness, -attended by torch-light, rode at the twelfth hour at night through his -camp, making his observations, and ascertaining that all was in -readiness for the important day that was now about to arrive. He gave -orders to his equery "to saddle blithe _Sorrel_ for the field -to-morrow!" - -The watch-word of the prince that night was "Westminster." And as he was -retiring to his tent he said to the Prince of Denmark, "Our watch-word -to-night is '_Westminster_;' let our war-cry to-morrow be--'_Nassau and -Freedom!_'" - -Having thus said, he saluted Prince George, and retired to repose. - - - END OF VOL. I. - - - - -Transcriber's Note: Advertisements that were placed at the beginning of -the book, have been moved to the end. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Eve of All-Hallows, v. 1 of 3 - Adelaide of Tyrconnel - -Author: Matthew Weld Hartstonge - -Release Date: November 1, 2012 [EBook #41212] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS, V. 1 OF 3 *** - - - - -Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Sue Fleming and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - - - - - THE - - EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS; - - OR, - - ADELAIDE OF TYRCONNEL; - - A ROMANCE. - - _IN THREE VOLUMES._ - - By MATTHEW WELD HARTSTONGE, ESQ. M. R. I. A. - - - Nescia mens hominum, fati sortisque futuræ - Et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis! - . . . . . . . . . . tempus erit, - . . . . . et quum spolia ista diemque - Oderit! - - VIRGILIUS, Æ. x. I. 501. - - - VOL. I. - - LONDON: - - FOR G. B. WHITTAKER, AVE MARIA LANE. - - 1825. - - - - - TO - - SIR WALTER SCOTT, OF ABBOTSFORD, BART., - - &c. &c. &c. - - (WITH WHOSE KIND PERMISSION,) - - THE FOLLOWING TALE OF ERIN - - IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, - - BY HIS EVER OBLIGED FRIEND - - AND FAITHFUL SERVANT, - - THE AUTHOR. - - - MOLESWORTH-STREET, DUBLIN, - _February 1, 1825._ - - - - - THE - - EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS. - - - - -CHAPTER I. - - Tollimur in coelum curvato gurgite, et idem - Subductâ ad manes imos descendimus undâ. - Ter scopuli clamorem inter cava saxa dedere; - Ter spumam elisam, et rorantia vidimus astra. - - VIRG. Æ. l. III. - - * * * * * - - Lay her aloof, the sea grows dangerous: - How it spits against the clouds! how it capers, - And how the fiery element frights it back! - There be devils dancing in the air, I think. - - _The Sea Voyage._--FLETCHER. - - -It was upon a dark and lowering afternoon, the 30th day of October, one -thousand six hundred and ---- the day preceding _The Eve of -All-Hallows_, when the Rev. Doctor M'Kenzie, at that time Chaplain to -his Grace the Duke of Tyrconnel, and who had been for some time in the -ancient realm of Scotland, on a visit to his kind relatives and friends -in that hospitable land, had formed a resolution to depart for the -shores of Ireland, to meet his noble patron. When, in pursuance of this -intention, he embarked on board "The William Wallace of Ayr," the sails -of the vessel were unfurled, and the signal-flag was seen streaming from -the pendant of the main-top-gallant, all giving true and significant -indications that the sea-worthy vessel was upon the eve of sailing, and -her destination was known to be for the northern coast of Ireland. - -Torrents of rain had showered down during the entire of the day, as is -not unusual at that advanced autumnal period; these were accompanied -with loud peals of thunder, while continuous sheets of lightning -illumined and flashed throughout the darkly tinted horizon, which were -succeeded by frequent squalls of wind, that at intervals dying suddenly -away, served but to make the returning roaring blast the more -tremendous and disheartening. - -The vessel was to have sailed at the full tide, but this measure was -entirely prevented by the strong and continued recurrence of the storm, -which blew with such pertinacious force and opposition that "The William -Wallace of Ayr" lay close to its anchors all that afternoon, the whole -of the night, and during the next succeeding day. About nine o'clock, -however, of the evening of the thirty-first, _The Eve of All-Hallows_, -the storm to every appearance had wholly abated, and preparations -accordingly were commenced for the ship to sail, without any further -delay, as bound on its destination. At that point of time the Reverend -Chaplain, Doctor M'Kenzie, and his servant, were the only passengers on -board. "All hands unmoor!" was now loudly and manfully rung forth by the -crew; and all matters having been duly arranged for setting sail, while -the wind blowing fresh and fair, the ponderous anchor was raised from -its oozy bed. - -The reader may well imagine, from all these previous preparations, that -the vessel and crew were on the point of sailing; when, hark! the hoarse -exclaiming "halloo!" and the clattering hoofs of horsemen in full -gallop, were heard sounding sullenly on the ear, and next loudly -thundering their deep echoes through the hollow and deserted streets of -Ayr, which rivetted the sailor to the deck, and at once, as if by magic -influence, paralyzed and arrested his motions. The rapid progress of the -strangers exciting the curiosity of the sailors, called forth in a no -less degree the astonishment of the quiet and peaceable burghers of the -good and loyal town of Ayr, who were then about to retire to repose. Two -horsemen now advanced, their wearied steeds pressed onward with the -utmost velocity; who halting for the instant at the brig of Ayr, -inquired with breathless and hurried anxiety, if a boat did not there -await in readiness to convey passengers on board "The William Wallace?" -But the boat was gone! The few sailors, however, or fishermen, who -loitered on the quay, said in reply, that they had gude reason to ken -that the Bonnie Wullie had not slipped cables, sic warstling winds had -blown sic a hurricane, that the gude and bonnie ship was unco snug in -harbour. - -The strangers now dashed desperately onward, as if life or death were -staked upon the attainment of their object. The vessel was not yet under -way when they arrived on the beach, their panting steeds besmeared with -blood and foam, and nearly exhausted by fatigue. - -The principal personage attracted the gaze of every eye, so noble and -martial was his mien; a tall, graceful, and commanding figure, whose -whole appearance bespoke the undaunted warrior; his firm step, and manly -air, and sinewy arm, boldly told that he knew well how to wield the -falchion in the doubtful fight; while his intrepid eye blazed forth the -talisman of feats in arms and war, and nobly indicating how oft it had -flashed defiance and death upon the daring foe. - - "From gory selle and reeling steed - Sprung the fierce horseman with a bound, - And reeking from some recent deed, - He dash'd his carbine on the ground."[1] - - [1] Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott. - -He was enveloped in a plaid, and wore a Highland bonnet, richly -surmounted with plumes; the stranger was nearly breathless from fatigue -and the rapidity of his flight, for such it seemed to be; added to which -the pallid brow and glaring eye-balls, gave strong and powerful -demonstrations that there existed some other more influential, though -latent source--perchance, it was of sorrow! which affected him even -still more than bodily fatigue. But still these might have been only -mere suspicions, suggestions probably unjustly awakened at the -interesting moment, from the lateness of the hour, the hasty, -embarrassed approach of the stranger; and added to all this, his -impatience and manifest anxiety to embark. It might be assumed that "the -sum and front" of all amounted to no more than this. What then of the -extraordinary or the marvellous could by possibility attach to -circumstances that doubtless any individual, placed in similar -situations, must unavoidably have felt, and betrayed a strong and equal -portion of awkwardness and embarrassment to have encountered? - -But without further interlocution we proceed onward with our tale. The -stranger hastily, but urgently, inquired if the vessel would immediately -sail? Upon his being answered in the affirmative, and the boat on the -instant having been hauled down to take him on board, he promptly flung -into it a small valise, which he had carried at his saddle-bow, and -instantly springing after it himself, was followed by his attendant. -When placed in the boat, he took his station at the stern, where, -enveloped in his plaid, he sat immoveably silent, wrapped in gloomy -meditation. Upon the stranger's having reached the ship, he still seemed -deeply absorbed in thought; the same continued gloom and silence were -preserved, while with hurried strides ever and anon he stately paced the -deck. At intervals, however, he would suddenly stop, and then he would -deeply and intently muse within himself, with folded arms, and dark and -lowering brow. Upon his valise was his address written, "Colonel -Davidson,----Brigade;" the term or epithet preceding the word -"brigade," was torn off, whether by accident or intention did not -appear. - -All matters on board having been duly arranged and adjusted, while a -momentary interval of silence prevailed--"I say," said a sailor, -addressing his comrade, "its a fearfu' mirk to-night, which bodes nae -gude!" - -"Aye, aye!" replied his companion; "but what is still warse, it is -Hallowmass; and too weel I ken that the arch-fient, wi' a' the weirds -and warlocks, will be abread, and alake! I spae the Bonnie Wullie -wull tint the gate! and then we a' maun gang down auld Davie's locker." - -"Weel," rejoins the comrade, "it is a donsie night, but I'm nae fasht my -cantie carl! whare we a' maun gang togither, a' that's kenspeckle, sae -nae mair Claivers!" - -"Aye, but I wiss, Sandy," replies the other, "to make a' sicker, that -the Deil haed a houd o' the haly man belaw!" - -"Whom do you mean?--what holy man below do you speak of?" said Colonel -Davidson, the first time that he had noticed aught was going forward. - -"A haly auld chiel belaw," rejoined the sailor, "that's boune for -Eirin." - -"Who----what----how----whom do you call him, friend?" - -"I ca' him nae doot Maukeenzie. Pray wha do ye ca' um, your worship?" - -"Is the vessel bound for Ireland?" - -"Yea it be, anely frae the gate o' the wind, that says nae to it." - -Occasional squalls of wind now arose, the compass veered, the wind -became adverse; and the storm, or rather hurricane, of the preceding day -threatened to return. Under these gloomy presages - - "Short time there were for gratulating speech." - -Suddenly sounds like the mournful cadence of the plaintive Æolian harp, -were heard above the waves; but no shape, no form, was visible, not -even in shadowy indistinctness: but solemn musical sounds, wherever they -might have proceeded from, and mocking the human voice, only were heard, -sad, slow, and solemn, as the choral chant, _De mortuis_. - - THE SPIRIT OF THE STORM. - - LOQUITUR. - - Where loud tumultuous tempests rave, - And foaming surges daunt the brave; - I mount my storm-swept throne, the wave! - - When midnight fiends their vigils keep, - While lightnings rend the mountain's steep, - I, scowling, rise from out the deep! - - When hope within each bosom dies, - While heard the drowning seaman's cries, - The raving spirit of the storm, I rise! - - Now list! with more than mortal fear, - The dismal dirge which strikes the ear! - - THE DIRGE. - - Once we held fair Scotland's throne, - Aye, once we claimed that realm our own; - Fuimus, non sumus! - - Valorous deeds our claymores crowned, - We ever were true heroes found. - Fuimus, non sumus! - - But feuds, dissension, strife arose; - Oppressed by ranks of hostile foes. - Fuimus, non sumus! - - Behold! the last of all our race - Is forced to fly his natal place! - He bears the vengeful, fatal knife, - Deep stained by bloody feudal strife! - Fuimus, non sumus![2] - -The chant and dirge were audible to the crew, who listened with deep -consternation, and were awfully impressed upon the recollection of the -Reverend Chaplain. - - [2] For the benefit of our fair readers, we venture to translate - the Latin chorus to the Dirge; it means, "We have been, and are - not!" - -Every succeeding blast of wind bore increased terror as it swept along, -and every startling sound excited suspense and dismay. Again the howling -tempest burst forth, and raged with loud and renovated force, what time -the stately stranger, or more correctly to speak, Colonel Davidson, in -deep apparent despondency, was incontinently observed furiously to pace -to and fro the deck, as if in a state of mental aberration. He appeared -of more than mortal size to the terrified eyes of the beholders; his -action was wild and frantic. At one time he walked with such rapidity as -if pursued by an enemy; anon he would suddenly halt, and, folding his -arms, gaze upon the troubled deep, which seemed in unison with his -troubled mind. Next, loudly he uttered a deep and contrite groan; when -having rapidly pushed aside his plaid, he drew forth dirk, sabre, or -sword, whatever it might be, which brightly glistened in the lightning -flash; and then, with hurried impulse, he at once precipitated it down -the side of the vessel into the foaming waves. It sunk with a hissing -noise, and its descent was accompanied by a fiend-like laugh, which -arose from the billows; while at the moment, in a deep, base, sepulchral -tone, the chorus of the dirge again fearfully was chanted from the -waves: - - FUIMUS, NON SUMUS! - -When this dolefully awful chorus was repeated, the Colonel's countenance -assumed the horrible expression of one writhing under intolerable pain, -and seeming to undergo the agonizing tortures of the damned! His -eye-balls flashed fire, he gnashed his teeth, then clenched his brawny -hand, and made a sudden spring, as if in the very act of throwing -himself over board. When at the moment his faithful attendant manfully -grasped him by the shoulder. The Colonel was seized with a trance, and -instantly fell, apparently lifeless, upon the deck. This fainting fit -lasted for some time. At length, however, he was heard deeply to -respire; then broke forth a hollow moan; a cold and clammy moisture was -perceivable on his face and hands. His attendant had him carried down -immediately to the cabin, where he was placed in his bed. - -The unearthly dirge and chorus, as has been before observed, were long -remembered by Doctor M'Kenzie, who was then in bed in the cabin below; -and he has been often heard to express his feelings deeply excited upon -this awful occasion; and to declare, that to the last expiring moment of -his existence, he never could forget the mysterious sounds of that -ominous night! - -The events, beyond all dispute, were passing strange and fearful; but -then all on board "The William Wallace" bore strongly in their -remembrance, that this portentously awful night was "_The Eve of -All-Hallows_;" and then they ceased to wonder, while each thought to -himself, that - - "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here!" - -They scarcely had been a few hours at sea, bound on their destined -track, when again, with resumed fury, the storm returned. They -consequently were obliged to make several tacks, still endeavouring to -force their way upon the perilous voyage. The harbour of Ayr is a -dangerous one, and to attempt to regain it were to encounter greater -danger than what might eventually await the navigators upon the open -seas. For a length of time they beat between the isles of Arran and the -Firth of Clyde; when at last the wind changing, the breeze blew fair -from the north-east, while the staunch vessel proceeded on her watery -way. They were now sailing along the deep-indented and romantic coast of -Ayrshire, when wearied by the eternal tacking to and fro, the heat and -pent-up-air, and all the dull monotony and purgatorial misery of the -cabin of a ship, Doctor M'Kenzie ascended the deck, and thence inhaled -the invigorating and refreshing breeze, while intently, with admiring -gaze, he surveyed the bold and broken masses of those picturesque -shores, which had become strongly illuminated by the bright lightning -flashes then briskly darting over the wild masses of rock, bank, and -brae, and glanced athwart steeple, fort, and tower, o'er lofty peak and -promontory; when suddenly again all was immersed in darkness! Yet he -perceived that this interesting scene totally failed to attract the -stranger's attention, who had returned about the same time on deck that -the Reverend Chaplain had done, and continued with persevering -pertinacity to pace it, as upon the preceding day. - -At that period of time nobly frowned in feudal grandeur those -fortresses, castles, towers, and rampires, which then defended the -romantic shores of Ayrshire from the sword of the invader, extending -their line of defence from Loch-Ryan to the port of Irvine; but which in -our own days have become picturesque ruins, festooned with fern, lichen, -and ivy, and affording solitary shelter to the owl, bat, and raven. - -All these were passed by unlooked at and unobserved by the singular and -silent stranger; those classic shores of fame, destined in subsequent -ages to be immortalized in the ever imperishable song of the tender and -inimitable BURNS; these scenes, the favourite haunt of his "Tam o' -Shanter," the rich and verdant lawns, and the romantic rocky braes of -lordly Cassilis. All these delightful scenes were passed by unheeded, -for the stranger did not even look to shore, but studiously turned his -eyes seaward; and wrapt in deep, moody, mournful meditation, he seemed -to rejoice in the bounding billow, and in the roar of the tempest. Not -the mighty towering pyramid, of stupendous height, the colossal craig -of Ailsa,[3] which now they sailed past, could arrest his eye; nor the -fierce wild scream of the osprey, on its summit, could strike his ear, -although joined in hoarse, sullen, and dissonant chorus, by myriads of -the Solan tribe, that plumaged its surrounding base; while other -sea-fowl, like a misty-halo, hovering in mid-air, crowned its conic -crest. - - [3] "The stupendous rock of Ailsa rises almost perpendicularly to - the height of 940 feet. The circumference of this singular rock at - its base is about two miles; its shape is somewhat conical, and it - is on all sides extremely precipitous. The only landing-place is - on the north-east, where there is a small beach, formed by - fragments which have fallen from the neighbouring rocks. The - cliffs of Ailsa are in several places distinctly columnar; and the - whole isle appears to be composed of rocks belonging to the newest - Floetz formation, the individual members of which resemble those - that occur in the island of Arran. This rock is inhabited by - immense flocks of birds, particularly gannets, or Solan geese; and - is rented from the Earl of Cassilis at £33 a year."--_Description - of Ayrshire._ - -The vessel had just shot past Ailsa-Rock, when fiercely the rising -tempest blew such a violent gale, that it caused "The William Wallace" -to be hurried, with vast impetuosity, through the straits between -Fair-Head and the Mull of Cantyre, and then boldly to be at once -launched into the Irish Sea. - -The storm now raged with such fury, that it was necessary to furl every -sail, and to beat about the entire night under bare poles; while the -pitchy darkness of the sky, added to the horrors of the storm, made -their situation still more alarming and formidable. - -The Reverend Chaplain, much fatigued and wearied, thought it advisable -to retire below to his hammock; so thought too even the solitary -stranger, who, although hitherto he seemed to woo the breeze, and enjoy -the storm, yet also thought it prudent to resume his station in the -cabin, and descended accordingly. - -None now remained upon deck except such of the crew as were upon -immediate duty, and who were lashed to the masts; the hatchways were -closed down, and the sea, in mountain cataracts, burst over the deck -with impetuous roar; while overpowered with fatigue, perhaps too with -fear, the passengers fell into a sound sleep. Thus passed away the first -tempestuous night of their voyage. - -Before the morning watch the wind strangely and perversely changed to -the opposite point of the compass, while squall fiercely succeeded -squall; and the dawn of day witnessed them coasting, west and by south, - - "The storm-swept Orcades,"[4] - -in a boisterous swollen sea, and beneath a darkened sky. Sorry we are -here to have it our duty to narrate that the vessel, probably from the -straining of her timbers, unhappily sprung a leak. All hands instantly -were at their post, and the crew exerted them-selves to the utmost in -closing the chasm, and incessantly, without respite or intermission, -plying every pump; and at length their efforts providentially fully -succeeded: for what will not determined resolution do, and persevering -unabating energy achieve! Relieved from this imminent and impending -danger, once more they proceed on their perilous course, amid this -fearful warfare of the elements. - - [4] The Hebrides. - -The entire of this eventful day the storm raged with unabated fury, the -wind continuing still in the same point, and onward tumultuously they -were driven by force of wave and wind. Towards night-fall the vessel -came close to the Feroe Islands, where it shortly got hemmed -in amid a cluster of rocks, not noticed in their charts. The night was -pitch-dark. However, after an interval, the clouds partially giving way, -the moon, which was nearly full, arose, and afforded a sufficient -friendly light for the Captain to ascertain the extent of the danger -which he had to encounter. He immediately caused the gunwale to be -lightened, by throwing the guns overboard, which effectually raised her, -and the waves of the returning tide assisted in extricating the vessel -from imminent peril. They at length happily succeeded in clearing the -vessel from her jeopardy, and rescuing the crew from impending -destruction. Still, however, it was momentarily dreaded that a new leak -might break forth, or that the vessel, bulging upon other unknown rocks, -might go to pieces, and the sufferers be swallowed up by the treacherous -and remorseless deep. These apprehensions continued throughout the -entire day. - -The storm ere long returned more furious than at its first onset, and -soon broadly launched the vessel into the Northern Sea, - - "While to the helm unfaithful still she lies." - -The masts now became dreadfully shattered from the intensity of the -storm. Dangers and difficulties so increased, that all hopes of safety -seemed nearly at an end. Upon Providence, nevertheless, still the -hapless crew devoutly placed their trust; the Captain, from the very -perilous situation in which they were placed, was compelled to try one -desperate remedy, namely, to cut away the shrouds, and stay, and with -all possible expedition to hew down the mizen-mast. During this awful -operation the crew did not conduct them-selves like men without hope, -although around them all was danger and despair! They felt, however, -fully aware that little less than a miracle could extricate them from -the horrors which surrounded them. With instant promptitude having -obeyed and executed the orders of their Captain, with bold and skilful -celerity they soon lightened the vessel, which bounded with desperate -rapidity into the vast and boundless German Ocean: the watery world was -now all before them, and Providence their guide! - -Once more it was day. Nothing however, worthy of being recorded, -occurred at that period, nor during the night. - -On the fourth morning a watery sun arose in a hazy sky, they now were -close in view of the coast of Austrian-Flanders, with such rapidity, had -wind, and tide, and currents impelled them onward. They now proceeded at -the surprising rate of twelve knots an hour, the wind and tide -conjointly impelling, unassisted by any sail! - -On the disastrous afternoon of this day the vessel made a desperate -plunge, striking upon a cluster of rocks some leagues distant from -land; the shock was so violent that nearly it had split the stern of the -gallant ship. Overcome by terror and fatigue, depressed by despair, and -more like the dead than the living, they remained awfully wedged in -between these dreadful rocks. Eventually, after an interval of suspense -and horror, which appeared to all as though it would never end, the -force and ascendant power of the buoyant billows heaved the vessel -completely over these formidable crags. She was now once more afloat, -but her rudder was borne away; and onward she was drifted at the sport -and will of the fiercely rolling waves. - -Thus rapid was the vessel whirled, the mounting waves every moment -dashing in torrents athwart the deck. Again a second shock was -encountered. It was then all despair, desperation, madness! But, oh how -appalling to every feeling heart was the dreadful cry, - - "All's lost! to prayers, to prayers! all's lost!" - -Still in this state awfully the vessel rapidly was impelled, and -approached more closely to the coast of Austrian-Flanders. But alas! it -is our painful lot to record the unhappy fate of "The William Wallace of -Ayr;" when approaching Ostend the ill-omened bark struck upon a sand -bank, which but too truly is called "_Banc-Dangereux_;" then her -crushing timbers fatally loosened, and, dissevered by the convulsive -shock, promiscuously scattered upon the surface of the waves were seen -floating the disjoined wreck, shattered spars, divided stores, bales of -cargo, &c., along with the mangled corses of the dead, and the -struggling bodies of the living, all commingled, and tumultuously -undulating upon the agitated billows. But providential it was for the -survivors, who, in number, we grieve to state, were but few, that this -dreadful catastrophe occurred so closely to the shores of Ostend. Sorry, -however, we are to relate that all the crew (except two persons) -perished; and that among those who were saved, we have only to count the -Captain of the ship, the Mate, the Rev. Doctor M'Kenzie, Colonel -Davidson and his servant, these forming the very confined list, we -regret to say, of those who survived the terrors of that eventful day. - -Impelled by the resistless call of humanity, several boats had put out -from the harbour, perceiving the perilous situation of the poor unhappy -sufferers; so that when the dread event took place, these were ready and -prompt to save the remnant of those who survived what time "The William -Wallace" - - "Bulg'd at once, and in the deep was lost!" - -The humanity of the Flemish sailors was rewarded by preserving the lives -of five individuals, as we have already observed, from a watery grave; -great manual and unwearied exertions were necessary for success, and the -unhappy sufferers were landed in safety upon the quay of Ostend. - -Ostend is well known to every intelligent reader as a strong fortified -sea-port; but at the period of our narrative it did not appear under the -most favourable point of view, from the devastation that had ensued in -consequence of the long protracted siege of three years and three -months, which it had sustained against the Spaniards, under the command -of Spinola,[5] when fifty thousand of the garrison and inhabitants -perished in this fatal siege, either by disease or the sword; which -losses were severely retaliated and multiplied by the deaths of eighty -thousand of the besiegers! - - [5] This, by the way, seems too like a bold anachronism of the - Reverend Gentleman's, but it has been correctly transcribed from - the M'Kenzie MSS. at least _omnia quæ extant_. However, for our - own part we must say, that we are strongly inclined to acquit the - Reverend Gentleman and scholar upon this score, inasmuch as he has - high authority to plead in self-defence the Bard of Mantua having - thought proper to make Æneas and Dido cotemporaries; and yet the - former flourished ONLY two hundred years before the building of - Carthage! with which anachronism to compare the Doctor's little - historical lapse, were indeed merely to match - - "A mole-hill with Olympus!" - -Upon their landing on _terra firma_, Colonel Davidson and Doctor -M'Kenzie put up their quarters at the old Saint Michael Inn; and there -having been refreshed and invigorated by a hearty substantial meal, -which fully and essentially answered every purpose of three or four -breakfasts, dinners, and suppers, they heartily congratulated each other -in a bottle of genuine and veritable Rhenish wine, upon their most -miraculous escape from a watery grave! They subsequently retired at an -early hour to repose, overcome, as they had been, by their sufferings -and fatigue both of body and of mind, to recover, by the renovation of -slumber, "kind Nature's gentle restorer," from the lassitude and horrors -of this eventful day. - -The next morning they arose quite, or nearly, recovered from their past -sufferings; however, with the exception of the Reverend Gentleman, who -rather somewhat gravely grumbled at the perils which they had passed. -Nevertheless, with good seeming appetites, both began a tolerable _coup -de main et de fourchette_ upon the breakfast placed before them. Doctor -M'Kenzie observed, while he and the Colonel were sipping some admirable -coffee, assisted by the _agréments_ of excellent Flemish bread and eggs, -and swallowing _con amoré_ some Malines ham, which, accompanied with a -flowing flagon of Louvaine beer, no doubt put the grave and Reverend -Gentleman into the following train of thought: "I feel, my dear Sir," -said he, "such a decided and unconquerable objection to a sea-voyage, at -least for some time to come, from which, although it may be silly in -sooth to say I have suffered so much, yet for the present I quite forego -my intention of returning to Ireland--I have indeed too much in my -recollection the - - 'Quæque ipse miserrima vidi, - Et quorum pars magna fui----.' - -I therefore purpose to proceed to Aix la Chapelle for the benefit of its -waters. Indeed so great is the decided repugnance which I feel to again -encounter an aquatic expedition, that in the words of our old classical -acquaintance, Ovid, I needs must confess that-- - - '_Æquora me terrent, et ponti, tristis imago!_' - - 'The expansive ocean now affrights me, - And sad the mournful aspect of the deep!' - -Moreover, gallant Colonel, I must say that I prefer the peaceful scenes -of nature and rural life to the war of elements, and the rage of -battle!" - -"Well spoken, my Reverend Sir, like a peaceful gownsman, and quite -becoming the doctrine of that Gospel of which thou art a sacred -minister. But as for me, I like the din of battle, the neighing of the -noble war-horse, and the battle-stirring trumpet's brazen voice, the -groan of death, where contending squadrons commingle in the dreadful -shock, chorused by the cheering shout of victory." - -The Colonel had just, in an emphatic tone of voice, twice shouted -"victory!" and had fiercely made another gallant attack upon the Malines -ham, when the door of the apartment was rudely opened, and entered by a -party of Gen d'Armes, who immediately proceeded to arrest them as -prisoners of war, on suspicion of being spies; and after a short -interval they both were led off and escorted to prison, where, attended -by the Colonel's servant, for the present we needs must leave them, -however reluctant, in durance vile. - - * * * * * - -The above Chapter, unquestionably in unison both with the history and -chronology of our Tale, should indeed occupy a much more remote station -in this our Romance of the days of superstition; but as we felt and -considered it of importance, and besides imping too our flight with some -portion of epic boldness, we have nobly dared and adventured to dash at -once "_in medias res_;" in the pursuance of which truly magnanimous -determination, courteous reader, we shall tell thee fair and softly, yet -in candour, that we shall necessarily be obliged (if thou wilt so -graciously permit us) to make some retrograde motions in the subsequent -chapters. - -But, gentle reader, if thou wilt deign to recollect, that once a year -even mighty Sol himself, beneath Cancer, the influential sign of the -summer solstice, becomes retrograde. When thus we plead such high -authority thou wilt not perhaps deny an extension of the same privilege, -albeit to a disk, small and insignificant even as ours, undiscernible by -the eye of a Brinkley or a Herschell![6] - -Permit us then, kind and patient reader, to retrace our steps and story -to the early part of this our notable history; then shalt thou learn the -birth of our interesting heroine, and become acquainted with personages, -characters, and events, connected with our Tale, which we trust thou -mayst find to be withal not unpalatable to thy taste; for which favour, -and all retrogressions, and progressions, and egressions, (we hope no -transgressions!) thanks and health to thee, mild and patient reader! We -laud thee for thy gentle forbearance and good humour in having -accompanied us thus far in this our long peregrination; wishing, -courteous reader, that thou couldst bestow on us the "_plaudite_" of old -Plautus, but without his _valete_, as we shall meet anon! - - [6] Since the above was written Dr. Herschell has paid the debt of - nature. The other celebrated astronomer lives, and it is hoped - providence will yet grant him many years to preside over the noble - science which his powerful mind so ably illustrates and adorns. - - - - -CHAPTER II. - - Still in the vale the village bells ring round, - Still in TYRCONNEL hall the jests resound; - For now the caudle-cup is circling there, - Now glad at heart the gossips breathe their prayer, - And crowding, stop the cradle to admire - The babe. - - HUMAN LIFE. - - -The lovely Adelaide Raymond, the heroine of our Tale, was the only child -of Raymond Duke of Tyrconnel. An old prophecy or tradition had -immemorially prevailed, that what time a raven should build her nest in -the ducal coronet which decorated the summit of the loftiest -pavilion-tower of the castle, a male heir, upon this event, should then -be wanting to the noble house of Tyrconnel. And this sad occurrence, so -deprecated by the dark and credulous terror and tenor of those -superstitious times, actually occurred some months previous to -Adelaide's birth: a raven had then built her nest within the ducal -coronet; and a few posts after brought an account that Lord Richard -Raymond, the Duke's only brother, had been killed in a duel at Paris. -From this partial fulfilment of the augury the Duke's dependants were -filled with the melancholy forebodings that the Duchess, expiring during -the pains of parturition, should give birth either to a still-born, or a -female infant. - -However the latter supposition proved to be well-founded, as the Duchess -was soon safely delivered of a female child, in due and given time, upon -the Eve of All-Hallows, the 31st day of October, in the year one -thousand six hundred and ---- pending the bodings of the raven, and the -vaticinations of the vicinage. - -The family of Tyrconnel, through the female line, traced their high -descent from a proud and ennobled ancestry, (not less illustrious than -that of the noble Duke;) the pedigree was traced from the high -chieftain, famed _Nial Necalloch_, (or, Nial of the Nine Hostages,) who -in his glorious and chivalrous career had achieved various noble feats -in arms. But not content with these successes at home, he sought for -fame in foreign lands, where in the ardent search and attainment of -glory, his gallant course of valour run, he closed his brave and -honourable life amid the sunny regions of France; where this warlike -planet, this Mars of Erin, expired upon the banks of the Loire,[7] -falling like the valiant Richard I. of England, "The lion-hearted," by -the arrow of the assassin. - - [7] Histoire d'Irlande, par L'Abbe Ma-Geoghegan, _tome_ 1. - -Indeed the house of Tyrconnel might be truly called _a noble family_, -"for all the daughters were chaste, and all the sons were valiant." PER -ACUTA BELLI was the motto which fearlessly they bore, and which, ever -unchanged amid the war-trumpet's clang, the burst of battle, and the -shouts of victory, or the dismaying groans of defeat, they proudly and -nobly maintained; their escutcheon might oft have been encrimsoned by -the blood of the bold, but it still defended the heart, and was upheld -by the arm of the brave! - -The Duke traced his ancient, lordly, and lineal descent from Raymond -Count of Toulouse, who was the first zealous champion in serving, and -enthusiastically heading, the Christian cause in the holy wars. - -Adelaide Raymond, the only child of Raymond Duke of Tyrconnel, was born -upon the 31st day of October, _anno salutis_, one thousand six hundred -and----upon the Eve of All-Hallows, as we have already noticed. His -Royal Highness James Duke of York, (brother and presumptive heir to -Charles II.,) and who afterwards succeeded to the throne of the triple -realms as James II., upon this happy event was most graciously pleased -to signify his royal intention of standing sponsor for Lady Adelaide; -which high distinction was gratefully and proudly accepted by the Duke -and Duchess of Tyrconnel; and the Lord Glandarrah was chosen as proxy -for the royal sponsor. - -Adelaide almost immediately after her birth had been privately -baptized; but the first day of May, which had now arrived, was the day -appointed for the state christening. The Duchess d'Aremberg, an early -friend of the Duchess of Tyrconnel, stood godmother for the Lady -Adelaide, and appointed Lady Lucy Raymond, the Duke's youngest sister, -as her proxy. Nor did the Duchess d'Aremberg forget to send a baptismal -present upon this august occasion, which arrived in due season, in the -shape and form of an infant's cap and frock, all beautifully formed of -exquisite Brussels lace, and made under the eye and express directions -of the illustrious godmother: and to these were added a scarf and sash -of rich Mechlin lace. Nor did Her Grace omit also to send, as was then -usual, a handsome _honorarium_ to the child's nurse, Mrs. Judith -Braingwain, with whom our gentle reader, in due and given time and -place, shall become better acquainted in the following pages of this our -eventful history. - -But with due leave and respect we must now be permitted to say a word or -two concerning the ancient and noble baronial castle, where the high -and exalted ceremonial of this day was with such pomp to be celebrated. - -The castle of Tyrconnel was situated in the province of Ulster, where -its majestic stately ruins still remain magnificent even in decay. It -stood upon the verge of a triangular village, to which it gave its own -ennobled name, as it was the generic name at that period of the town and -the county, which was a district of large extent. Since that time, in -these our modern days, the ancient name of Tyrconnel has been changed -into Donegal.[8] - - [8] This castle now belongs to the Marquis of Conyngham. - -The castle is boldly elevated upon the rocky and precipitous margin of -the river Eske, which rolls its impetuous torrent into the Atlantic -Ocean, from which it is only half-a-mile distant. Mountains surround the -castle on every side, except to the west, from which point receding, -they open a noble vista to the sea, and give a solemn and magnificent -character to the entire scenery. Here the curving and fantastic -outlines of the distant mountains, clad in aërial blue, arise in endless -and beautiful variety, glowing or darkening with every varying tint and -tone of sun-shine or of shadow, reflecting each rainbow hue of the -atmosphere, and then boldly blending sky and mountain into one -congregated mass of undefinable tint; so that the dark blue cloud which -rolls above can with difficulty be distinguished from the dark blue -mountain that, towering, frowns beneath. - -The approach to the majestic steep where this ancient and celebrated -fortress stands, is through the well-known pass of _Barna-More_, or the -great gap; which is here formed by the opening arms of the stupendous -mountain of Sleavedoon, whose gigantic heights constitute vast -continuous barriers to the extent of fourteen miles, girdling within -their extended embrace a varied and lonely valley, which expands and -smiles beneath. - -This massive fabric was planned and piled in the twelfth century by the -first Earl of Tyrconnel, and was then, and subsequently for a series of -years, garrisoned as a fortress. The castle, although by no means -deficient in architectural grandeur, yet appears to have been -constituted principally with a view to strength; and that object -unquestionably in those days was fully attained, for it was utterly -impregnable to all hostile attacks in that early age. The form of the -castle is square, and flanked by frowning turrets of similar -conformation; the ground-plan is constructed upon an extended scale, and -the design of the building is withal irregular: a large magnificent -quadrangular court-yard adorns the interior, which is surrounded by -bastions, battlements, and towers. - -There is a projecting barbican, whose fragments yet remain still boldly -overhanging the river Eske, and which seems to have been intended for -the purpose of supplying the castle with water, while it is also -supposed to have been occasionally used as a donjon-keep, and which -afforded an expeditious mode of despatching the prisoners whom the -haughty Lord refused to surrender, or was unwilling to maintain, by -plunging them down the vortex of the ceaseless current which rapidly -rolls beneath. - -When the Duke of Tyrconnel resided here several small pieces of cannon -were pointed from the embattled bartizan of the central tower, adding to -its ornament as well as to its defence. The grand front of the castle -was situated seaward; to the west extended a lofty terrace; the -embrasures of the parapet wall which enclosed the terrace were furnished -with about a dozen of twelve pounders; while the deep foundations of the -bastions were moated by the impetuous waters of the Eske, fiercely -rolling onward to the Atlantic Ocean. - -This lordly pile was this day (the 1st of May, one thousand six hundred -and----) destined to be the scene of uncommon festivity and grandeur; -indeed such pomp and magnificence never before were witnessed within the -walls of Tyrconnel castle. All the nobility and gentry in the country -for many miles round were invited to assist at the baptismal banquet -given for the noble and lovely infant; and every princely preparation -was in readiness duly to celebrate this distinguished day. - -The noble banner, quartered and emblazoned with the ancient bearings of -this illustrious family, from its gilt flag-staff, which was crowned -with the ducal coronet, proudly floated over the high central tower, -which latterly had obtained the _agnomen_ of "the raven tower," from a -circumstance which already has been related. The guns on the parapet -fired a loud _salvo_ to welcome the happy day; while the ancient harper -(old blind Cormac) and the piper were put in immediate requisition, to -add the notes of harmony to the loud reports of joy. - -The tenantry and peasantry, both male and female, were invited, and -gladly came, clad in their holiday suits, to partake of a rural banquet, -prepared expressly for the occasion within marquees erected on the lawn. -The costume of the servants of the Duke was truly princely, and all who -wore livery appeared richly apparelled in their state attire of green -cloth, deeply laced, and embroidered with gold. The old cathedral tower -pealed forth many a merry chime, which duly was responded to by the -distant tinkling of the surrounding village bells. - -While these preparations were advancing, the Duke happened to be walking -upon the terrace, and hearing old Cormac touch his harp and prepare to -sing, with the intent, no doubt, that his voice and strings might sound -in due tone and harmony at the approaching festival; the Duke had the -curiosity to step onward to hear the notes of the aged minstrel--for he -was both minstrel and harper; and His Grace listened to learn whether -old Cormac had composed any rhythm or song for this great and happy -occasion. Accordingly with this fixed intent His Grace advanced to the -door of the great hall which led out to the terrace, and which happened -to be then open; from thence he listened, and heard the following lines -sung by Cormac, which the old man accompanied with his harp:-- - - CORMAC'S SONG. - - Loud strike the harp! and raise the song! - To Raymond shall the verse belong! - And hail his noble, lovely child, - The image of her mother mild. - - O softly rest, sweet baby there, - And as thy morn, thy life be fair! - - Long may that smile of angel grace - That now illumes thy beauteous face, - Attend thee through life's stormy race! - - May no mischance destroy thy rest, - Be thine the sun-shine of the blest; - And when thy earthly course is past, - Be thine the joys shall ever last! - - Friendship on earth be thine, and love, - And thine eternal bliss above! - -The Duke felt exceedingly pleased at the attachment and feeling -expressed by the old man in his extempore song, although he might not -think very highly of the poetical composition. But the words came from -the old man's heart, and the strain to which his harp rang forth was an -old Irish air, so the Duke was fully satisfied; and having advanced and -entered the hall, he approached old Cormac, and in a gracious tone he -said to the sightless bard, "Thanks, Cormac, accept my grateful thanks; -and moreover, here is largess for the minstrel, and withal it is stamped -in gold." So having said, he passed a gold _Carolus_ into the minstrel's -hand; for which bounty, with tears flowing from his sightless eye-balls, -the grateful old man made a low and respectful obeisance, adding due -courtesy. - -Here the Duke retired to dress, to receive his company; and meeting with -his physician, Sir Patricius Placebo, on his way, he deputed him to do -the honours should any of the guests arrive while His Grace was attiring -for the banquet. - -Sir Patricius Placebo had been created a baronet by king Charles II., in -grateful return for active services and personal kindnesses performed in -favour of the monarch during his long exile from the throne of his -ancestors; and he was, through the favour of His Royal Highness James -Duke of York, who afterwards became James II., introduced, with every -favourable recommendation, to the Duke of Tyrconnel. - -Sir Patricius Placebo now became forth-with family physician to the -Duke. He had been baptized plain Patrick, but assumed that of Patricius; -whether it was selected for the euphony of the sound, or the dignity -which it implied, or both considerations probably swaying together, the -reason of the selection has not been sufficiently defined, nor do our -historical annals record the cause. But thus the baronet in sooth was -called, and so he wished to be designated. - -The attire of Sir Patricius was in due accordance and conformity to the -medical costume of the time, which is worthy of being preserved as a -historical morceau. His head was enveloped within an enormous bushy -peruke, which at this period was confined to the learned professions, or -those who affected gravity. This said peruke was _bien poudré_, and upon -its summit was perched a small gold-laced hat of triangular shape and -form, fastened with gold loops, and a button at the sinister side of -said triangle. His costume was a rich black velvet coat, without a -cape, made single-breasted, with long and portentously extended skirts, -starched, and stuffed, and stiffened forth, with a magnanimous -expenditure of stay-tape and buckram; from out of which sprung, and -sparkled forth, the ornamented hilt of a small sword. The sleeves of the -coat were large and slashed, each capacious enough to have contained a -moderate sized turkey. The waistcoat, formed of the same materials, was -likewise in unison with the coat, single-breasted, with long flaps or -skirts, which might have given no bad idea of the Roman _sportula_. His -cravat was formed of the richest muslin, deeply edged with Mechlin lace, -which, after passing several times around the neck, meandered through -the button-holes of the waistcoat, so as nearly to reach the extremity -of the waist. His small-clothes were made likewise of black velvet, -according to the curious, and certainly not very seemly fashion of the -times. The hose, or stockings, were of scarlet silk, which were tightly -drawn up, and ascended the knees upon the exterior of the small-clothes, -and that too to the very utmost of their outstretched extent; at the -ankles the hose were adorned with clokes of gold net-work.[9] The shoes -were fashioned with broad square toes, made with short quarters and high -tops, and were so highly polished that they might well indeed have -elicited the admiration, if not the envy, of the fabricator (if then -living) of "Warren's jet blacking!"[10] The shoes were fastened by small -square gold buckles richly wrought. His solitaire of rich black satin, -must not perish in oblivion, along with all the dignified _et ceteras_ -of a proud chevalier of that chivalrous day. His ruffles and chitterlin -were of rich Poyntz lace; while over and around his shoulders was flung -a long Spanish _cápa rópa lárga_, a large wide cloak or roquelaire of -rich Spanish cloth, the inside dyed white, the exterior scarlet; and it -is certainly imagined that no one ever yet stood in proximity with the -Doctor's red flowing roquelaire without wishing mentally for the -approach of a fire-engine! - - [9] Silk stockings first became usual in the reign of Elizabeth. - These articles of finery "were curiously knit with open seam down - the legge, with quirks and clokes about the ancles, and sometimes - (haply) _interlaced with gold or silver threads_, as it is - wonderful to behold."--_Beaumont and Fletcher_, vol. v. _Note_, p. - 353. - - [10] "Shining shoes" are often noticed by Massinger, Jonson, and - other old dramatists. - -But we must now complete the portrait of Sir Patricius. He constantly -carried an Indian cane, surmounted with a gold head of beautifully -perforated filligree-work, the interior of which contained cotton -steeped in aromatic vinegar; and it was amusing to behold with what -dignified gravity and grimace he ever and anon applied the said cane to -the olfactory organ, and with much seeming satisfaction. When this -stately toy was relinquished, it gave place to a more magnificent bijou, -in the shape of a gold snuff-box: upon the lid was inserted a miniature -of Charles II. by the celebrated Samuel Cooper. And let it be remembered -that "he was the first who gave the strength and freedom of oil to -miniature!" This fine production of original genius was appropriately -encircled around with large brilliants. The act of snuff-taking was -slowly performed by the grave pressure of the thumb and fore-finger of -the right hand, deliberately and ceremoniously performing a curve, or -segment of a circle, while with a sly and approving gaze he contentedly -ogled a large diamond ring placed on the little finger. When the Baronet -spoke it was with a rich and most mellifluous brogue, and to which the -tone of consequence did not seem wanting: albeit to those who invited -him to a good dinner when the Duke was absent, or who annually -vouchsafed to take or order a box of his _Pillulæ Vitæ_, he was, in -sooth, a very pleasant, accommodating, and polite gentleman. - -Sir Patricius was standing on the terrace, and leaning thoughtfully upon -his cane, when Captain Heaviside rode up to the steps; and alighting -from horseback, he ascended the stately terrace. Captain Heaviside was -all things to all men--ay, and to all women. He was the _pious Æneas_ in -church, conventicle, or chapel; but he was the _dux Trojanus_ in the -grotto or drawing-room. - -"Good morrow, Captain." - -"Sir Patricius, your most humble servant." - -"Would you wish, Captain, to view the demesne?" - -"Certainly, Sir Patrick--I mean Sir Patricius. I beg pardon, dear Sir; -but will you first allow me to jump out of these leathern turrets? I -hate all confounded French fashions." - -The Captain retired to the chamber appropriated for him. There freely -disengaged from the ponderous encumbrances which were worn at that era. -After a few moments he rejoined the Baronet in the great hall of the -castle. It was not then the fashion, _à la Turke_, to wear mustâches; -nor was it considered necessary to announce the approach into -the drawing-room or dancing saloon, of the man of war, by the loud clank -and clatter of his iron heels, steel chains, and brass spurs, or the -ponderosity of an immense sabre, enclosed in an iron sheath, and -"dragging its slow length along." No; Captain Heaviside came in -full-dress, according to the studied propriety and etiquette of the age. - -The great baronial hall was sumptuously fitted up as an armoury; the -walls were adorned with all the ancient arms and weapons which were -peculiar to Ireland; it was wainscoted with carved native oak; the -ceiling also was of oak, ornamented with carved, basso-relievos of -armorial escutcheons, armour, warlike weapons, coats of arms, crests -mottoes, &c. Several horns of the moose-deer, of immense dimensions, -surmounted the architraves and door-cases. At either end of the hall -were two large fire-places, with gigantic chimney-pieces of Irish -marble; the central compartment of each was decorated with armorial -sculpture, representing the Irish harp, surmounted by the radiate, or -Irish crown, the supporters, two wolf-dogs of the Irish breed, and -underneath, in Gælic, a motto under each device; the interpretation of -which, partly in allusion to the Irish wolf-dog, as also to the manly -character of the inhabitants of the island, was, "Gentle when soothed, -fierce when provoked." Various war-weapons tastefully displayed and -arranged, of ancient Irish make and form, glittered upon the walls; viz. -spears and javelins, "the heavy broad-eyed spear of battle," swords, -daggers, skeines of iron and brass, two-handled swords, and among them -conspicuously shone forth the double-handled sword of the renowned NIAL -NECALLOCH, richly ornamented and inlaid with gold; metal halberts were -arranged in the same class with tuagh-catha, _i.e._ battle-axes, tuagh -suaighte or clipping axes, fiadhgha, crannuibhs, spears, clubs, Irish -lances, spears, javelins, jacks, corslets, haubergeons, targets, -bucklers, pavices (shields), cailmhions, salets, skulls (_i.e._ -helmets), sceptres beautifully inlaid with gold, fibula (brooches) of -brass, silver, and gold, richly and exquisitely wrought; bits and spurs -of an enormous size, and inlaid with gold; druidical scythes, ancient -Irish harps (the _cithara_), ancient Irish trumpets of various kinds and -names, the stuic or stock, the buabhall, the beann, the adharc, and the -corna or bugle-horn; the dudag, the gall-trompa, the cibbural or -corabus, the cornan or cronan, and the iachdarchannus (_quasi_, _cantus -bassus_.) But here we close our antiquarian summary, as we begin fairly -to suspect that many of our readers have no partiality to such ancient -researches; suffice it then to say, that all these various specimens -were arranged in diversified ornamental shapes and forms of sun, moon, -star, and crescent, that fancy could conceive or taste execute. - -Here Sir Patricius again proposed to the Captain to accompany him in a -ramble to view the grounds; to which Captain Heaviside readily and -gladly assented. As they stood upon the terrace, Sir Patricius said, "My -worthy Sir, just as you had arrived I was upon this spot, thinking with -what taste and judgment my very excellent patron-- - - (_O et præsidium et dulce decus meum!_) - -has so much improved and adorned these lawns, when, Captain, I can well -remember what they were. Great natural capabilities, no doubt, presented -them-selves, and His Grace has acted upon them with spirit, taste, and -judgment, and withal no expense has been spared. However highly meriting -the meed of praise, which doubtless His Grace so well is entitled to, I -was just thinking of the great Archimedes, who so sagely and -appropriately said, - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -And I----" - -"I must beg a thousand pardons, most gallant, illustrate, and learned -Sir Patricius," said Captain Heaviside, interrupting the Baronet, "but, -under favour, my good Sir, I do not in verity understand one word of -_Hebrew_; no, nor any of these nostrums; albeit I have little doubt that -Archimedes the great was, in good sooth, a most famous and skilful -physician and gifted leech in his celebrated day."[11] - - [11] The reader will have the candour to recollect that this can - mean no disparagement to the military profession.--This was said - when knowledge was limited to the few--one hundred and forty years - ago. - -"Nay, Captain Heaviside, I cry nay. Mark me, he was a geometrician and -astronomer, and very celebrated as both! The passage which I have put -into the mouth of the renowned philosopher of Syracuse is Greek; and if -I may be indeed permitted to pique myself upon any kind of erudition, -(although, perhaps, in modesty I might say, _Vix ea nostra voco_), I -should then pride myself upon a knowledge of the Greek tongue; and -moreover too, the proper pronunciation and due intonation of voice, what -Horace so sonorously and emphatically calls the _ore rotundo Græcorum_. -Indeed I do flatter myself that I speak the best Greek beyond any other -person in the island!" - -"Oh, come, no disparagement, good Sir Patricius! to all your learned -acquirements; you excel in speech, and no doubt succeed as well in the -gift and exercise of your pen! but I, Sir, the hapless child of wayward -fortune, am only acquainted with _this_! [half drawing his sword from -its scabbard.] On this simple stake rest all my fortune and my hope, -which, while I have a hand to wield, shall be held forth in the defence -of my king and country!" - -"Well said, i' faith, my master! and spoken nobly, like a brave and -honest soldier! Ay, to be sure, Sir! _every man in his vocation, Hal!_ -as the inimitable Shakespeare sagely saith; although, nevertheless, a -little knowledge methinks, after all, to the tune of the old proverb, is -in sooth no great burden! But come, presto! we shall change the topic -and the scene. The day beams forth its vernal glow beneath a brilliant -sky, and the melodious strains of the feathered songsters, vying in -harmonious notes, invite us abroad. Come, we have stayed too long." - -Thus at last the learned physician and the preux chevalier sallied forth -to behold the varied and noble domains of the illustrious proprietor. -The lawns, shrubberies, walks, gardens, &c., were all kept with the -greatest possible care and neatness. Several artificial lakes fed by a -living stream, and of great extent, so as to seem as if placed there by -the hand of nature, wound along beneath the shadow of ancient groves, -and fully diversified the scene. The lawns and parks were smooth and -verdant as a bowling-green from the frequent pressure of the roller. -While the walks, parterres, and terraces, were so trimly kept that not a -fallen leaf was to be seen; which order and regularity was placed to the -account and agency of several old females, habited as witches, whose -brooms, ever on the alert, kept all in due and perfect neatness. Part of -the grounds which adjoined the castle were laid out in that -old-fashioned style which we confess we are antediluvian enough to -admire; however, be it known that no tree, shrub, nor ever-green, -whatever, was clipt and mutilated by the shears to shrink into the -abortioned form and pressure of a wizard's broom, or a true-lover's -knot! no pyramid of clipped beech, no cypress-tree which assumed the -fantastic form of Cleopatra's needle. No: nor did shivering Adam and -Eve, and the cold clammy serpent and "forbidden tree," astound the -spectator in shorn yew; no fountain impotently attempted to spring -upward in boxwood; no such puerilities were tolerated to disfigure by -grotesqueness the scenery of nature. So far on the contrary, that every -thing was in good taste--at least it was so at the distant time of which -now we write. The grounds were laid out in what would now be called the -improved English taste: here lawns of richest verdure, and cultivated to -the highest degree of luxuriance; there wild rocks of granite or -limestone, as placed by the hand of nature, trailed and festooned around -with lichen grey and ivy green; while the _Osmunda regalis_, the royal -fern, spreading wide its majestic plumes, and undulating in the breeze, -gracefully waved and bent over the apex of these romantic rocks, and -gave a pleasure to the eye that scenes of nature only can bestow. The -terraces which surrounded the castle were kept gravelled and rolled to -the extreme of neatness, and were hedged with luxuriant myrtle. The -_now_ old-fashioned ponds, which it would have been little less than -sacrilege to remove, reposed beneath the terraces, which gave a tone of -grandeur to the whole; _jets d'eau_ sprung from the centre of these to -an elevated height, and over the head of many a triton and river deity; -while the waters, as the declination of the ground permitted, bursting -forth at once the bonds of artificial force, they - - "From large cascades in pleasing tumult roll'd, - Or rose from figured stone," - -brightly spreading and sparkling beneath a brilliant sun. It must, -however, be admitted, that it was somewhat chilling, even in the merry -month of May, to behold the shivering deities who presented them-selves -in cold tangible marble _sans chemisè_, _sans robè_, _et sans drapè_, -while they sentinelled the verdant banks of pond, lake, or canal; and -which, in some degree to qualify our praise, we are ready and free to -admit were after all somewhat _selon le ecole d'Hollandè_! - -Here suddenly a vernal shower coming on, the Doctor and Captain, at no -great distance from the castle, were glad to make a race to avoid a -wetting; and before their dress could receive any damage they entered -the castle-hall, having luckily accomplished their object. Sir Patricius -now proposed to show to Captain Heaviside the Duke's great gallery of -paintings, _pour passer le temps_ until the hour appointed for the -baptismal ceremony should arrive. - -Just at this moment the Duchess of Tyrconnel drove up in her equipage to -the castle door. It was a low demesne cabriole, drawn by two small -ponies, and driven by a postillion; in it was seated the Duchess, Mrs. -Judith Braingwain, the nurse, and in her arms the lovely child, the Lady -Adelaide. Sir Patricius hastened forth to hand them from the vehicle, -and the Duchess most graciously saluted both her guests, the little -Adelaide sweetly smiled, and the Duchess with all due courtesy retired. - -"There she goes--there goes Her Grace," said Sir Patricius; "that highly -intellectual lady; the _rara avis_--the black swan of literature of this -our day--my right noble patroness; shining amid her compeers a bright -star of intellectual, and literary, and domestic worth, and rich indeed -in all, - - 'Velut inter ignes - Luna minores.'" - -Captain Heaviside here rejoined--"Although, Sir Patricius, I knew well -that the Duchess gave with her noble hand a distinguished fortune to the -Duke, yet verily I did not until now learn that Her Grace had any estate -in the _Minories_!" - -"No, no; ha, ha!" said Sir Patricius, with a most self-applauding laugh. -"Oh no! nor in the _Stannaries_ neither. But _allons nous donc, mon -preux chevalier_! Apollo and the muses now invite us.--So, ho! to the -picture gallery." To which the learned Theban and the valiant Captain -now hastily ascended. - -The grand picture gallery, which now they entered, was of truly -magnificent dimensions, and lighted from an elevated dome. This truly -splendid collection of paintings was most judiciously arranged on the -walls of the superb gallery, collected and selected with a taste and -discernment that spoke volumes in praise of the liberality of the -distinguished collector. This splendid gallery was adorned with the -_chefs d'ouvres_ of the most ancient celebrated masters; forming, on -entrance, a truly grand and most imposing _coup d'oeil_ of the -different works of Reubens', "the prince of painters;" Raphael, "the -divine!" Angelo, Guido, Titian, with a long and noble extended _et -cetera_, too magnificently formidable to be here introduced. - -The first painting which they approached was from the pencil of Teniers; -it was that of his famous _Alchymist_. - -"This," said Sir Patricius, pointing to the painting, "is a work of -Teniers!" - -"Vastly fine, indeed, Sir Patricius!--Oh, monstrous fine! grand, -expressively sublime! eh! But here," added the surprised Captain, "what, -_ten years_!--was the patient artist employed ten years thereon? -Monstrous length of time! what sad solemn patience and perseverance the -fellow had to be sure!--tedious faith, as the old siege of Troy!" - -"No, no, my very good Captain, I did not say that the renowned artist -was _ten years_ employed in accomplishing this fine painting, but merely -announced that his distinguished name was Teniers." - -"Oh, a thousand pardons, Sir Patricius!--eh--_ten_ thousand pardons! But -then the painting is truly monstrous fine!--upon my s--l it is vastly -fine indeed--eh!" - -The next painting which they approached was the famous painting of -Europa carried off by Jupiter in the shape of a bull, from the -distinguished pencil of the celebrated Claude Lorraine. - -"The painter who has produced that truly ennobled specimen of his divine -art," said Sir Patricius, with great pomp and emphasis, save when he -was interrupted by a constitutional cough, "the painter, hem, hem, hem, -was, Sir Captain, let me tell to you, inimitable! He deeply studied -nature, and hence he acquired that elevated _gústo_, which has justly -stamped a superlative value upon all his masterly works; his truly -lovely landscapes, glowing with Italian suns, and with Italian verdure, -_Italia diis sacra_, hem, hem, hem! Yes, bold Sir, upon these he acted, -and on the noble inspirations of nature! verifying on glowing canvass -the most apposite and veritable saying of the great and learned -Archimedes, - - 'DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!' - -That, brave Sir, means--'Give me a point to stand upon;' and Sir, aye -Sir, I shall move '_the great globe itself; yea, and all that it -inhabit!_'--That, Sir, is a Claude!" - -"Heaven and earth!--_clawed!_ What do I hear," said the astonished -Captain, in a most lachrymal tone; "_clawed!_--what a thousand pities! -irreparable--hopelessly irreparable! Indeed I always knew too well that -cats were most destructive, malicious animals. But say what inducing -cause--what motive? here was depicted no lively representation of rat, -rabbit, pigeon--no, nor mouse! wonderful! 'Fore Jove I swear, that all -the confounded pestilential breed of cats in the county should swing -before I should endure to have such a noble painting as that _clawed_ by -any cat o' the mountain in the province!" - -Here Sir Patricius Placebo raised his intelligent eyes in dumb despair, -very nearly indeed allied to positive contempt. But after a short -momentary gaze of astonishment, and a slight expression of contempt, his -muscles relaxed into a cheering smile; and seeing from the window, as he -looked out, some of the guests to arrive, he gaily said--"I see clearly, -Captain Heaviside, that you prefer living faces to their mute -representation on canvass, so let us adjourn, _si vous voulez_, and -attend the ladies; and egad I think I can show you some fine girls; -there, Captain, you see are some fair specimens, the six Misses -O'Carrol, and all dressed so gay in pink, blue, and crimson, smiling -and blooming like a bed of budding pæonies in June!" - -"Vastly koind, good Sir Patricius; vastly koind, _j'irai la sans -failler_, eh?--Yes I do admire pretty girls exceedingly; and I must say, -by Jove, that I prefer them to all your _Hebes_, _Cupids_, and -_Ganymedes_, on copper, canvass, or panel!" - -The chimes of the bells of the ducal chapel now gave warning note that -the baptismal ceremony was nigh at hand, and all the guests consequently -approached the sacred edifice. And at the high altar, gorgeously -decorated, from a golden ewer the ceremony of ablution was performed. -When the lovely Adelaide received the sprinkling she smiled most -sweetly; and as her nurse, Mrs. Judith Braingwain, (whom we shall hear -more of anon,) afterwards very appropriately told it: "Heaven bless the -dear bonnie babe, how sweetly it was she smiled bekase she was made a -Christian cratur!" - -The ceremony concluded upon the return of the noble party to the castle. -Cake, caudle, and wine, and various confectionary, were dealt out with -no sparing hand. Many of the company sat down to different card-tables, -and played, as was then the fashion, at ombre, cribbage, loo, _jusquè a -díner_, when they were entertained at a most princely and magnificent -banquet. - -The Duke of Tyrconnel received all his guests with frank and due welcome -and courtesy. His Grace was attired in the following costume:--a large -well powdered peruke, which freely flowed over the splendid mantle and -robes of the order of the garter. His Grace also wore the magnificent -collar and gem, and resplendent star, of the illustrious order. His -stockings were of light blue coloured silk, and drawn up in a fashion -similar to those of Sir Patricius Placebo; and around the left leg, -beneath the knee, was buckled the embroidered and mottoed garter, which -pertains to, and from which this distinguished order receives its -appellation. The stockings were adorned "with quirks and clokes about -the ancles" of gold withal, and curiously and richly wrought. - -The Duke of Tyrconnel was considered as the handsomest man of the age, -and upon this occasion looked uncommonly well, every inch the nobleman. -Lord Glandarrah was attired in the magnificent robes of the order of the -Bath. All the guests, of both sexes were splendidly arrayed, and the -entertainment passed off with undiminished eclat. - -But we have already exceeded our limits, and have yet to speak of the -highly gifted Duchess, who indeed deserves a chapter to be appropriated -to herself, to which we shall now proceed, and to the acquaintance of -other persons, matters, and things, connected with this our delectable -history. - - - - -CHAPTER III. - - Hæc mulier, genere atque forma, preterea viro atque liberis, - satis fortunata fuit: litteris Græcis et Latinis docta, * * - * * prorsus multæ facetiæ multusque lepos inerat. - - SALLUST. - - -The noble guests sat long and cheerfully to celebrate with due honour -the baptismal day; while potations of claret, liberally flowing, and -constantly renovated from _magnum_ bottles, according to the approved -custom and social fellowship and habit of the times, were deep and -frequent.[12] The splendid supper which followed the sumptuous dinner -was accompanied with the unqualified commendations of Sir Patricius, who -insisted "that it even excelled the Roman banquets of Lucullus or -Apicius; and was in sooth so luxurious, that, verily, his old friend -Flaccus would have called it a _dubia coena_; and although they had -neither the juice of the Tuscan nor Falernian grape, they had still -nobler potations to quaff!" And it has been currently reported that his -actions sagely comported, _pari passu_, with his asseverations, that he -"suited the action to the word," and did most ample, nay summary -justice, to testify beyond all possible contradiction how highly his -palate lauded the excellence of the entertainment! All this was -confidently and cautiously whispered, and discreetly intrusted to a -chosen few. But it met with the fate usually attendant upon all such -confidential communications, _videlicet_, to be made known and published -in a few hours to the unselected many; or in other words, to all the -king's liege subjects throughout the vicinity! - - [12] This fondness for drinking is noticed in Lord Strafford's - Letters.--"In Ireland, where drinking was grown a disease - epidemical."--_Appendix to Lord Strafford's Letters_, vol. II. p. - 433. - -The supper was served at ten o'clock; an hour which was considered at -that period as late, and was prolonged still later, while jest and joke, -and revelry, and song, and glee, and glass went round; and at a -protracted hour the guests retired to repose; and thus terminated the -social hilarities of the festive night. - -The Duchess rose upon the following day at an early hour, as invariably -was her custom, and having retired to her classical cabinet, opened the -latticed casement to admit the enlivening rays of a brilliant vernal -sun, and to inhale the balmy breeze of the morning. It was truly a -beauteous spring morning; the Eske rolled rapidly over his stony -channel, pouring forth his tributary torrent into the peaceful bosom of -the Atlantic Sea; while with mournful plaint the wood-quest called her -mate, perched on her favourite sycamore; and the red-breast and linnet -sweetly warbled forth their matin-hymn from bush and spray, - - "To gratulate the sweet return of morn." - -The Duchess of Tyrconnel was indeed an extraordinary woman, highly -gifted by nature, instructed by education, (in these days, certainly an -unusual occurrence), and still more learned from her own assiduity and -perseverance. All this was the more remarkable, when we pause to -consider the period in which she lived! The vast powers of her mind were -demonstrated by the universality of her knowledge, the various -accomplishments which she possessed, her acquaintance, even to a -colloquial knowledge, with several different languages, the numerous -acquirements, in all of which she excelled. No less distinguished was -the Duchess of Tyrconnel for her singular modesty, her unaffected -manners, and that retiring grace, at once characteristic of those high -endowments which flung around her such imposing charms. Indeed it has -generally been remarked and acknowledged, that affectation and conceit -are seldom found to be connected with genius, but are the satellites of -those who would usurp her throne; and that the never-failing attendant -upon true genius is simplicity of manners. - -The Duchess had been educated at the convent of Vernon sur le Seinè, -where she was wont - - "To walk the studious cloisters pale, - And love the high embowed roof, - With antic pillars massy proof, - And storied windows, richly dight, - Casting a dim religious light." - -Here, during her novitiate, the Duchess (then Lady Katherine O'Nial) -formed a friendship with a young lady, an inmate at the convent, which -terminated only in death. The friend of her youth was the beautiful Lady -Adelaide Alençon, daughter of the Duke of Alençon. They became dear and -inseparable friends, from similarity of taste and talent. The _idem -velle_--the _idem nolle_--was theirs! The same, or nearly the same, -distinguished talents, a similar and uncontrollable wish for -information, led them on in the paths of science and of literature, of -virtue and of religion. Then, oh! how delightful it was, after a short -sojourn with their friends, again to return to the sacred convent, and -to hear at early morn the solemn anthem from the hallowed choir, which -pealed over rock and flood, deeply re-echoed by the convent walls: or if -at eve they returned, to hear floating upon the silent and slumbering -bosom of the Seinè the sad and solemn evening vesper, which was wafted -to the skies! - -But this pure and disinterested friendship was doomed to be only of -short duration. Lady Adelaide Alençon's powers of mind were superior to -the fragile tenement they illuminated and adorned, and over-studiousness -brought on a consumption, which unfortunately was a hereditary disease. -The physicians ordered the patient to remove to Tours, from thence to -the aromatic isles of the Heyères. But, alas! it was all in vain! The -promises at first were fair, like expanding snow-drops on the cold -breast of spring, which blow--then bloom--then die! But each sad -succeeding account only brought fresh accession of regret; and at an -early age, in the ever-blooming green islands of the Heyères, the lovely -and the gifted Lady Adelaide Alençon drooped, and pined, and died! -deeply deplored by all her relatives, and justly and duly lamented by -her friends. - - "The hectic form, the beauteous maid, - That just as life its charms displayed, - To death devoted, glides away; - With brilliant eye, that watery gleams, - While still the rosy spectre dreams - Of many a morrow gay." - -Upon the deeply regretted event of Lady Adelaide Alençon's death, the -Duchess made a vow that if she married, her first female child should be -called after her first regarded, her early and lamented friend; and to -this cause our heroine was indebted for the illustrious name which she -bore. - -The Duchess, even during her juvenile abode at the convent of Vernon -sur le Seinè, had manifested much talent and infinite taste, and at that -early period had displayed an extraordinary degree of ingenuity and -delicacy of tact; she cut paper into an innumerable variety of figures, -characters, and landscapes, solely dictated by her own genius, and -executed with much taste and spirit. Her Grace also drew in crayons, -flowers that were so naturally depicted, that they seemed to have been -recently culled from the garden. She was conversant, besides, with vocal -and instrumental music; and, moreover, displayed much skill in -oil-painting and in sculpture: indeed her talents seemed to rival those -of that noble and distinguished lady, Anne-Maria Schurman.[13] A -proficient too in etching. Her writing in various languages was -inimitable. She was also perfect mistress of the Greek and Latin -languages, and understood and spoke with facility French, Italian, and -German; and no less excelling in the sciences of geography, astronomy, -and philosophy, with many other rare acquirements, which we shall pass -by unnoticed, as we do not choose to classify this gifted lady with the -heroines of romance. Under the guidance and instructions of such a -mother everything was to be hoped for, if not realized, in the education -of an only and beloved daughter--her first-born, and possibly her last; -certainly her only one! - - [13] For an account of this noble and distinguished lady, see - "_Moreri Dictionnaire Historique_," folio, Paris, 1654, tome VI. - p. 173;--and Descamps, in his "_Vie des Peintres_," &c., tome II. - Paris, 1754, makes the following honourable mention of her: - "Anne-Marie Schurman, les Poëtes Hollandois nomment dans leurs - vers cette fille illustre, leur Sapho et leur Cornelie: si elle a - merité les éloges de ses compatriotes, elle a aussi obtenu les - suffrages des grands et des sçavants de l'Europe," &c.--Tome II. - p. 119. - -With all these splendid acquirements, the Duchess was an ardent admirer -of the beauties of nature. She took delight in beholding the sun, with -glorious burst, to ascend and illuminate the lofty mountain-peak; and at -night to behold the starry host of heaven, the moon, and all the -unnumbered stars that gem with imperishable lustre the canopy of the -skies. Even while the morning dew impearled the grass, she was wont to -traverse the verdant lawn, with "daisies pied and violets blue;" all -these charms of rural nature gave delight and indescribable pleasure to -a mind at peace with itself, and in harmony with the tranquil solitude -which surrounded her. Who can doubt, then, that it was with unmixed -contempt that the Duchess looked down upon the green and frivolous field -of a loo, tredille, or cribbage-table, and that even primero had no -charms for her!--a preference at that period very remarkable, and that -completely puzzled all the suppositions and gossipings of the courtly -card-playing dowagers of those courtly days. - -However, with all this wild love for nature, and with all those -commanding accomplishments to boot, we cannot, howbeit, deny that the -Duchess was proud of the country which gave her birth, and pardie proud -perhaps too of her own ennobled descent; although we must observe that, -with due discretion, she was never known to dwell upon the latter, while -upon the former, conversant as she was with the aboriginal language of -her country, when time and opportunity offered, she then indulged -herself therein, in learning the wants and the necessities of the lower -orders; and, furthermore, in acquiring a knowledge of the character and -the feelings of the native Irish, with which the more she became -acquainted, the still more she became endeared. - -While thus we have been endeavouring to delineate the mind and -acquirements of the Duchess of Tyrconnel, we must, however, not silently -pass by her remarkable costume, for this is strictly in unison with the -history of those times; and it must be confessed that it was -sufficiently _outrè_ and extraordinary. Her Grace's head-dress, or -head-gear, was strangely elevated, indeed we might say castellated, upon -the stiff, formal, and firm foundation of an internal satin cushion, on -bastion of silk, surmounted by a natural coronal of fine auburn hair; so -that she might have been mistaken for Cybele, the mother of the gods; -and like the goddess too, she was crowned with the model of a citadel. -The hair was raised with such force, that it appeared from the process -to be nearly starting from the roots. A double tier of curls formidably -flanked and circled round this superstructure, on which were arranged -three magnificent rows of eastern pearls, while above was placed a -costly coif or cap of superb Brussels lace, bordered with Mechlin. Large -pendant diamond rings sparkled in each ear; a superb brilliant necklace -glittered on her bosom; her kerchief was of the richest Poyntz lace; her -jacket or bodice was short, formed with close sleeves, and made of light -blue Spanish cloth, adorned with longitudinal stripes of gold. This -bodice was fastened at the breast, so as to form a most splendid -stomacher, by means of two parallel superb rows of large brilliant -diamond buttons, which were interlaced by crimson ribbons, enclosing it -in front. The sleeves were of deep crimson velvet, trimmed with rich -gold net-work. The petticoat was of rich blue velvet, festooned by -golden cords and tassels, and richly trimmed with a border of deep gold -net-work. The petticoat, it must needs be confessed, was distended to a -disfiguring circumference, swelled out by the unseemly and uncouth -bell-hoop, which was then the appanage to a lady's full dress, and still -further increased by long peaked stays, which gave a most Dutch-like and -awkward solemnity, if not an armorial stiffness of carriage, to the -wearer. - -Her Grace's shoes were of red Morocco leather, with high tapering -heels, so elevated as to form with the sole the outlines of an arch; and -the colour, to contrast with the red upper leather, was blue. The shoes -were tastefully stitched and worked in a pattern of gold-thread work, -and fastened with diamond clasps. The hose were of light blue silk, -ornamented with clokes of gold.[14] - - [14] There is another item of Her Grace's dress which is not - noticed above, as it was only used on occasions of going abroad to - visit, or when on horseback; we speak of a velvet mask, worn by - ladies of rank at this period, and for which a high duty was - imposed upon their being imported from France. - -Upon the festival of the previous day the Duchess was thus attired as we -have endeavoured to describe her state dress; her beautifully formed -hands and fingers were adorned with bracelets and rings set with "gems -both rich and rare;" while her animated countenance, and still more -brilliant eyes, and affable manners, spread joy and delight around the -festive circle which she graced and adorned. - -We must here by no means whatever pass over an important character in -the _dramatis personæ_ of our history, (at least so she was in her own -personal estimation), and forsooth be it known too, moreover, a highly -privileged person. We here venture to speak of Lady Adelaide's nurse, -Mistress Judith Braingwain, who was in every respect most truly Irish. -Her superstitions were deeply rooted, so that nothing could shake them; -and her belief in ghosts, wraiths, banshees, and fairies, and all that -was marvellous, was truly orthodox. She believed in astrology, then much -in vogue; in dreams, omens, prognostications, and - - "Chimeras all, still more absurd or less," - -and all the attendant phantasmagoria of credulity. Mrs. Judith's -attachment to her country was great and strong, as likewise was her -affection for her child; but her whole stock of fondness seemed to be -concentrated in her foster child, whom she actually loved better than -the child she had borne in her own maternal bosom. "My dear, dear child, -my darling," she would say, "oh, my Adelaide! may the sun-shine and -peace of this world ever be thine _mavourneen_!" [i.e. my beloved.] - -Mrs. Judith's dress[15] was so perfectly and truly aboriginal, that it -may amuse the reader, and possibly afford a reminiscence to the -antiquary, while we notice it in the following description. - - [15] See Cooper Walker's able Essay on Irish Dresses. - -The curious specimen of Irish costume worn by persons in Mrs. Judith -Braingwain's station in life, prevailed in Ireland at the close of the -reign of the second Charles, and during the reign of his successor, -James II., the patron and friend of the Duke of Tyrconnel. It was as -follows:-- - -Mrs. Judith wore placed upon her head-top a cushion of linen or stuff, -which she called her "system;" it was not dissimilar, save in its want -of utility, to the roll or plait twisted cushion of hay used by -milk-maids in carrying their pails; but with this difference, that it -was not flat, but rose higher to the back of the head; it was fastened -and attached by long pins, and over and around this under-structure she -combed and attached her long hair, of which the Irish were always proud, -even to absurdity, and which withal looked as stiff and formal as if it -had been hewn out, the work of some primeval statuary, sternly staring -in stone, certainly most Medusa-like, upon some ancient tomb! This most -strange redoubt or fortification of hair-work was supported by a -side-battery of two curls on each side of the head above the ears, and -masked on high by a little round cap or coif, surrounded with a cambric -border, over which was thrown a kerchief, which being made fast upon the -apex of the head, was allowed to fall down carelessly behind, where it -streamed, when she walked abroad, like a banner over a fortress. Her -jacket was of brown cloth, and made to fit close to the shape, by means -of whalebone scientifically, as now we would say, wrought into it both -in front and at the back, but managed so as not to meet; while it was -laced in the front across the breast, forming there a stomacher, and -evidently borrowed from the Spanish costume. The sleeves, halfway to the -elbow, were constructed of the same kind of cloth as the jacket, and -from thence they continued to the wrist, formed of longitudinal stripes -of red camlet, interwoven with green ferreting, and then being turned -up, formed a little cuff, embraced within three circles of narrow green -ribbon. Her petticoat was formed of scarlet broad-cloth, bordered with -three rows of green ribbon. Her apron was of green serge, striped -longitudinally with scarlet ferreting, and bound with the same. Her hose -were of blue worsted; and her shoes were of black leather, laced with -scarlet galloon, and ankle high, and withal mounted upon heels of a most -portentous height. But _eheu! jam satis_, we are glad to have done with -this specimen of costume, of which we are not over fond; but writing of -the history, &c. of the times, from such we found it to be our bounden -duty not to depart or swerve one single iota. - -The Duchess allowed to nurse Braingwain very extensive liberties, and -latitude of converse too, induced by the affectionate, nay, almost more -than motherly care which she bestowed upon her child; as well as amused -withal, she permitted nurse occasionally to show off that strange -originality which she possessed. - -The Duchess having gone through her morning devotions, ascended the -nursery to embrace her dear child, who was sweetly and serenely -reposing. - -"See, my honoured lady, how sweetly _mavourneen_ sleeps! Och, and may be -I didn't dream last night that my dear young princess was one day to be -queen of auld Ireland; and in troth, in my dream, sure enough I saw, not -a crownet, but a royal crown placed upon her sweet baby brow. But as for -you, my lady Duchess, I moreover drimt that Your Grace was created -_Impress of Europa_--and long, long, my lady Impress, may you live and -reign over us, and over all the world besides! Musha amen, says a -grateful heart!" - -"Prithee, Nurse, be silent; you will awake my child with your -nonsensical rodomontade!" - -Just here a message arrived from the Duke, that he wished to speak with -Her Grace in his closet. The Duchess immediately left the nursery, in -obedience to the ducal summons. - -The Duke took the Duchess by the hand: "Here's great news, my Kate! -Charles is dead, and the noble York that was, is now monarch of England; -and permit me to kiss the fair and lady-like hand of the vice-queen of -Ireland," he said, gaily kissing Her Grace's hand. - -"Why, my Lord Duke, I really believe that you have laid this scheme of -cajolery with so very great a personage as the very high and mighty -lady, Mrs. Judith Braingwain, who even just now saluted me with the _all -hail hereafter_! of Macbeth's witches: for Duchess of Tyrconnel though I -be, yet Empress of Europe I _am to be_, or "Impress of Europa," as I was -styled. What think you of that, my Lord? Surely I must feel quite -shocked and horrified, as you must well conceive, at this dreadful and -unexpected downfall from my high imperial state! Only think, -at once too, without meet preparation, to be deprived of the diadem -which fancy was fitting upon my brow, and _only_ to be dubbed vice-queen -of Ireland; oh! my Lord, you must needs confess what a provoking falling -off was here! But no; it will not do; I am resolved that I must be -empress, or only simple plain duchess!" - -"Now Katherine you think I am rallying, but no such thing, I seriously -assure you a patent has arrived, constituting and appointing me, and so -forth, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland! And now, fair lady, I must kiss the -hands of the vice-queen of Ireland, according to the statute in that -case made and provided." And having thus gaily spoken, he affectionately -and tenderly embraced his Duchess. - -"Well then it appears quite a hopeless case, your patent has arrived; -_you not only achieve greatness yourself, but likewise have greatness -thrust upon you_, as Malvolio says; so I suppose that you must have even -the grace to submit, and entrap yourself forth-with in the harness of -office. As for my part, I shall sigh for the charms of the dear country, -and would rather wear a simple coronal of hawthorn-blossoms than a -diadem studded with resplendent gems, and "the rich east to boot;" and -I, my Lord, warn you, for you must prepare to hear ejaculations from the -towers of Dublin castle somewhat to the tune and measure of--_O rus -quando ego te aspiciam?_ Then you, my Lord, with your high waving plumed -crest of chivalry come rushing up to the turret, fancying that you are -most heroically about to liberate some captive dame, or forlorn -princess, who has been cruelly incarcerated by some old cruel-hearted -necromancer, when I shall fly into your arms, forgetting pomp and power, -and even the divine country too; I will rush into your bosom, and only -remember that I am your wife--_the wife of Tyrconnel_!" - -"Bravo, bravo, _viva, viva, sémpre l'imperatrice_!" exclaimed the Duke -in rapture. "Yes, dearest Katherine, you are the empress of my heart, -and need never, never fear a rival near the throne: come then to my -arms, and with your simple diadem of hawthorn I shall ever adore you, in -cottage or in palace!" - -The Duke was a Major-General in the army, he had served under the -banner of the illustrious Turenne, and his royal patron the Duke of -York, now James II., had also fought beneath the same victorious -standard. The Duke was considered the handsomest man of the age, and was -beloved alike in camp and in court. His knowledge and attainments were -great; he was not only _aliquis in omnibus_, but also _singularis in -omnibus_. He was indeed-- - - "A courtier of the chamber, - A soldier of the field; - Whose tongue could never flatter, - Whose heart could never yield!" - -The Duke's two sisters, Lady Letitia and Lady Lucy Raymond, who -constantly resided with him, affectionately approached to congratulate -their brother upon his appointment to the viceroyship. "Oh joy, dearest -brother!" they both exclaimed, while each at the same moment kissed the -Duke's cheeks. - -Lady Lucy had been educated abroad, and was always speaking in warmest -raptures of "the dear continent," or of whatever was foreign, or -_recherché_. Indeed her friends were obliged to admit that it was a vast -pity that Lady Lucy, with all her amiable qualities, should be somewhat -a little tinctured with conceit; and apprehended, that as it had been of -long continuance they feared it was too late to be remedied, her -affectation having become something very like second nature. Thus argued -her kind, consoling friends, who sat down most contentedly beneath the -shade of their own sage conclusions. - -Lady Lucy continued her expressions of joy in a sort of soliloquy: "Oh -really this will be quite deloightful! quite _imposé_! surpassingly -deloightful! Why actually we shall hold a little court of St. Germains -at Dublin castle!" - -Lady Letitia during her infancy had been a sickly child, and, in -consequence of her inability to travel, had remained at home; while her -family were sometime resident abroad, and her education was wholly -unattended to; or to speak more explicitly, was never once thought of as -a matter of the slightest concern--no uncommon occurrence in the olden -time. This deficiency at this period was not confined to two or three -noble families;--nay, gentle reader, start not, for thou wilt please to -recollect that we are speaking of what happened above one hundred and -forty years ago. In consequence of this neglect Lady Letitia made such -broad and palpable mistakes, and of so extraordinary a kind, as could -not of failed to have beaten that modern personage, Mrs. Malaprop, of -blundering notoriety, completely defeated from the field. - -"No, Lucy, no!" rejoined Lady Letitia, "No, nothing _German_; neither -caps nor boots, rats, whiskers, nor muskatoes. I hate every thing -German; no, our court shall not be a German one, but a second St. -James's. And old Cormac shall compose such a grand ode upon the solemn -occasion, to be said or sung in the old hall at Dublin castle; aye, and -we shall have duly chanted for my dear brother such a noble hypothesis -as ear never----" - -"Apotheosis, you mean, Letitia," said the Duke, interrupting her. "Yes, -indeed, _that_ would be a _solemn occasion_; but I pray you be not in -such mighty haste to send me so soon 'unanointed, unanealed,' to the -other world before my time too; this is not altogether so kind, sister; -and besides, previous to the possession of the honours which you would -somewhat too prematurely celebrate.----But a truce to this badinage; I -must forth-with prepare for my journey to take possession of the -government of Barataria!" - -Sir Patricius Placebo now advanced to join and congratulate the family -circle, and to express his joy upon the Duke's appointment. "My Lord -Duke in verity believe me, that this day there exists none whose -feelings and whose heart are more truly gratified by this gracious -selection of my sovereign than what mine are; and I also must -congratulate your Grace's friends, and the country too, at the happy -choice which king James has made. And I further beg to say, with meet -reason, and under due discretion and correction, that you confer more -honour upon the king by your acceptance of it, than His Majesty has done -you by the presentation. Yea, and I may truly and fearlessly add, in the -words of old Flaccus, - - "Cum tot sustineas et tanta negotia solus, - * * * * * - * * in publica commoda peccem - Si longo sermone morer tua tempora----" - -Just at the moment that the words of old Flaccus were flowing forth -from the tongue of the obsequious Baronet, in a mellifluent Cork or -Kerry brogue, the butler entered the drawing-room, and announced, to the -great delight of Sir Patricius, that "dinner was served." The Duke, -drawing the arm of the Duchess beneath his own, for a moment stopped, -and said playfully--"See, my good Sir Patricius, how opportunely Mercury -pops in to clip the wings of Pegasus, and announce that the banquet of -the gods is ready; and now to our repast with all the appetite we may!" - -Sir Patricius bowed, and handing the ladies Letitia and Lucy, followed -to the dinner-room, solemnly muttering to himself, - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -while stately he moved along with an increased stride and attitude of -dignity. - - - - -CHAPTER IV. - - Por cierto, Senör Gobernador * * * * que vuesa merced tiene mucha - razon en quanto ha dicho: y que yo ofrezco en nombre de todos los - insulanos desta insula, que han de servir á vuesa merced con toda - puntualidad, amor y benevolencia, porque el suave modo gobenar que - en estos principios vuesa merced ha dado, no les da lugar de - hacer, ni de pensar cosa que en deservicio de vuesa merced - redunde. - - DON QUIXOTE, tome IV. - - - TRANSLATION. - - Doubtless, Sir Governor * * * * you have much reason in all you - have been pleased to say: and let me promise you, in behalf of all - the inhabitants of this island, that they shall serve your will - and pleasure with all due diligence, love, and good-will; for the - sweet and mild mode of government that hitherto in the beginning - you have administered to them, causes them neither to do, nor even - to think, aught that may redound disloyal to your government. - - DON QUIXOTE, vol. IV. - - -Before the Duke had arisen upon the ensuing morning the Duchess thus -addressed him, and pronounced, if we may so express it, the -curtain-lecture, with which the reader is here made acquainted:-- - -"My dear and much beloved Lord, you are now about to assume the -government of your native island, a land richly abundant in agricultural -and commercial resources, possessing a peasantry inured to toil, hardy, -industrious, and intelligent; keenly alive to and sensible of wrong and -injustice, yet still a passive and a patient people, who, like the Roman -ox, stand ready victims, stationed between the ploughshare and the -altar, alike prepared for the yoke or for sacrifice!--a soil luxuriant -for tillage or for pasture, abounding in quarries, mines, and minerals; -blest with a mild and temperate climate, and adorned with scenery -picturesque, romantic, and sublime; with mountains high as the lofty -spirit of the race who inhabit them, and with harbours (open as their -generous hearts) expanding their numerous emporiums to receive the -tribute of every coast and every clime. - -"Remember, I pray thee, my good Lord, a passage which once we read, -and that I never can forget; we found it in the Lives of Plutarch, where -we are told the courtiers of Philip of Macedon essayed to mount and -master the noble animal Bucephalus, afterwards the war-horse of the -great and renowned Alexander. Courtier succeeding courtier attempted to -mount the back of Bucephalus, but in vain. They knew, indeed, how to -cringe, and fawn, and flatter in a despot's court, but they were wholly -ignorant and incompetent how to manage this nobly spirited war-horse; -their shadows, as they successively attempted to mount, startled the -steed, and they could make nothing of it. It was then that the son of -Ammon sprang forth, and said, 'Father, give him into my hands; I see the -noble bearing of the proud and generous animal, let me too, therefore, -have a trial!' The request was granted. When Alexander, leading him into -the shade where the steed neither startled by the shadow of his person -nor the flowing of his mantle, Alexander instantly sprung upon his back, -and galloped him several times past the presence of Philip, reining him -with full command, wheeling him round in full career, and then suddenly -halting to address his admiring king and father, and no less astonished -courtiers. At length, overcome with joy and admiration, Philip exclaimed -to Alexander, 'Go, go, my son, and seek to rule over other realms, for -Macedonia is too small for thee!' Yes, my dear Lord, I at once see you -forcibly feel the allusion. In the hands of ignorant, or stupid, or -bigoted governors, and their underlings, Ireland shall ever prove and -remain untractable, as Bucephalus was in the clumsy and untoward hands -of the courtiers of Macedon; but rule the inhabitants of this isle with -gentleness and moderation, with equal and impartial justice, alike -administered to all beneath a mild and conciliatory government, and then -mark how submissively they shall obey their ruler. In peace you shall -see drawn home the heavy harvest team; and on the day of battle our -navies shall ride triumphant, and our armies march victorious!" - -The Duke smiled at the conclusion of this lengthened lecture; but he -was truly pleased withal at the judicious remarks, the sound sense, and -also with the enthusiastic feeling of his Duchess; and he said somewhat -gaily, "Bravo! well done, my Katherine. I long knew the extensive range -of your reading and information; but, 'fore Jupiter Ammon, I _certes_ -did not know until the present what a famous politician thou hast -become. Thou assuredly hast pronounced a very notable and altisonant -lecture upon legislation, wherewithal from which I fully trust that I -shall ultimately derive much advantage. But yet under favour, lady mine, -my vice-regal _femme covert_, you will peradventure please to carry in -your noble recollection, that I am no sovereign prince or potentate, and -that the _roy le veult_ belongs not to me, but to my royal master; that -simply I am but a deputy, and therefore it is evident that I can have no -will of mine own, but, on the contrary, that every measure must emanate -from the throne. However, it is nevertheless true, that although I owe -much to my regarded sovereign, yet unhappily should this reflected light -of majesty prove to be but mere "disastrous twilight," I have still the -power to resign; and albeit I am not devoid certainly of ambition, yet -there exists not a man who is more attached to retirement than what I -confessedly am;--none, I am sure, more devoted to his country, friends, -family, and home!" - -The intention of the Duke of Tyrconnel being fixed to pursue his journey -onward without unnecessary delay, to assume the reins of his vice-regal -government, His Grace and his amiable Duchess descended betimes to the -breakfast saloon. The Duke was in uncommon good spirits, spoke -sportively to his beloved Adelaide. The Ladies Letitia and Lucy soon -made their appearance, and Sir Patricius was not the last to take his -station at the breakfast-table, on which was duly placed every solace -for the regalement of the worthy Baronet, if indeed a salutary morning -walk amid the mountain-air could have rendered his appetite fastidious. - -The Duke soon began in a jocular way to rally the Ladies Letitia and -Lucy, by observing, "I propose very soon, gentle ladies, so hearken to -me both, to dispose of you twain by promotion--in the temple of Hymen! -What say ye, ladies fair, to my proposition? Doubtless it will meet with -your joint approval, and most dutiful concurrence to my high and -puissant command!" - -Lady Lucy replied, that she had no wish nor intention whatsoever to -alter her situation, feeling perfectly happy and contented as she was, -desirous of no change, and fully resolved, as far as was within her -control, that no cruel _empêchement_ should ever separate her from those -she so dearly regarded and loved. - -Lady Letitia said in reply: "As for your _high men_, they are always -sure to have their own high ways in aught perchance they would do or -dare; and I needs must observe that I have no wish whatever to be -connected with such high cavaliers, having, alas! upon a former occasion -experienced much vexation and disappointment at the hands of one of -those said _high men_." - -"Prithee, Letitia, explain in what manner," rejoined the Duke. - -"You must know, then, that a proposal of marriage was made to me from -one of noble birth, and likewise of affluent fortune, while you, my -Lord, were absent in foreign lands. The gentleman was the Honourable Mr. -Gwillim Ap-Gwillim, of Caper Ap-Shenkin, in North Wales, who was not -slow in using every endeavour to win my love and affections; and, alas! -he succeeded but too well in the accomplishment of his wishes. But after -all, a long courtship and fair promises, this Cambrian proved himself to -be one of your '_perhaps_' knights-errant; and so, my good Lord, no more -of them for poor me! The man, prince, potentate, or peer, who deals in -the shuffling word '_perhaps_,' shall never possess my affection, nor -have my hand in the tie of holy wedlock. Never, I am resolved. No; for -ever I forswear and detest the word, as being the most offensive and -deceitful in the English tongue, past, present, or to come." - -"Hold, hold, Letitia," said the Duke, "you are off in full gallop from -your story. Pray rein in thy noble indignation and imagination awhile, -and do let us have the conclusion of your most tragical hero, whom you -stigmatize with the title and appanage of '_perhaps_?'" - -"I fairly promised my hand where before I had given my heart; that is to -say, provided you had so approved; and while matters were, as I -conceived, happily arriving, as I had fondly hoped, at the long wished -claracism (_eclaircissement_), who would have suspected or have dreamed -the result? - -"'I am told, Sir,' addressing Mr. Gwillim Ap-Gwillim, of Caper -Ap-Shenkin, 'I am told, Sir,' said I, with proud tears in my eyes, 'that -you at present entertain a paramour?' - -"'Well, Madam,' rejoined he, 'perhaps' (oh, the abominable word) 'I do; -and if so, it is surely not unusual or marvellous in an unmarried man.' - -"'But then, Sir,' I replied, (somewhat enraged at his tawdry 'perhaps',) -'sure before we become man and wife, you will no doubt part with and -discharge this said paramour?' - -"'Perhaps,' he rejoined, 'perhaps, (the third time, observe,) Madam, I -may.' - -"'_Perhaps_, Sir,' I loudly re-echoed, my blood boiling, my breath -parting, my tongue gasping, and enraged to the very utmost, 'Perhaps, -Sir,' I said vehemently, 'know, my hand never shall be yours--never, -never!' Then with a strong impulse of collected coolness, for very often -what is the most opposite will occur, I distantly retired, with the -utmost indifference I dropt a low court courtesy, and never beheld him -more." - -The Duke proposed, previous to departing, to accompany his noble -consort and family in a promenade on the pleasure grounds. Their Graces -led the way; and while apart from the attending group, the Duke -addressed the Duchess in a low voice--"I shall do every thing, depend -upon it, that is within my power, to render my vicegerency popular; not -from a love of popularity, but from the impulse of administering even -and equal justice to all His Majesty's subjects, which is a debt I shall -not fail to discharge, so far as the responsibility of my station -admits, and my duty to the king allows. The salary which I may receive -during my administration shall, to the uttermost farthing, be expended -among the generous people, from whose purses I am to receive it; I shall -assist the poor, and the great I will entertain. Thus when the -termination of my government arrives, I trust that my departure from the -viceregency shall not be mistaken for that of a collector of taxes, who -retires _sub umbra_, having embezzled the public coffers, and who -departs _ex-officio_, attended, justly I admit, with "curses, not loud -but deep!" Oh no, my dearest love, by no earthly possibility shall any -one mistake me for a Jamaica planter, a bullock feeder, or a Jew broker! -Never; my private fortune shall be expended in addition to the princely -income which I receive from the nation; and I am resolved that in every -way it shall be my study, as it will be my pleasure, to prove indeed the -true and appropriate representative of a noble and generous king!" - -To this expressive burst of loyal and ardent feeling, the Duchess fully -accorded her hearty assent. While the noble pair remained thus employed -in discussing the high and grave affairs of state, the ladies Letitia -and Lucy, attended by Sir Patricius Placebo and Captain Heaviside, were -employed in admiring the surrounding scenery. - -"What a romantic delightful prospect here presents itself to the -spectator," observed Sir Patricius Placebo to Lady Letitia, who stood -next him. - -"Oh yes," replied her Ladyship, "it is truly a noble tract of verdant -valley and lofty mountain, scenery, sea, and river; the goats on the -rock, the sheep on the hill, and the cows in the vale; indeed the Duke -positively asserts that the surrounding scene displays perhaps the most -beautiful cow-dell (_coup d'oeil_) in the whole kingdom." - -The promenaders returned from their ramble, and were stationed on the -terrace when the Duke's travelling coach and six drove up to the -embattled porch of the castle. The Duke, addressing himself to Sir -Patricius, pleasantly and playfully said: "Sir knight we do hereby, by -the powers in us vested, constitute, nominate, and appoint, with all the -briefness and celerity the occasion demands, you, Sir Patricius Placebo, -M. D. Baronet, _eques non male notus_, our _locum tenens_, and Lord -Constable of this our good castle of Tyrconnel during our absence -herefrom; and thou, Sir Patricius Placebo, art bound, in due accordance -with right, ancient, and laudable usage, to dispense all manner of -ancient hospitality, as if we ourself were in person present; and within -a few given days to escort our beloved partner and family to His -Majesty's castle of Dublin; all which fail not to do, under the pain and -penalty of our heavy displeasure." - -The Duke fondly and affectionately embracing his Duchess, his beloved -Adelaide, and his sisters, and cordially shaking hands with his guests, -entered his travelling carriage, which set off, the horses travelling in -a brisk pace, for Dublin, to assume the chief government of the island. -The ladies followed the Duchess, who retired into the castle to regret -even the temporary absence of her lord. - -Meanwhile Sir Patricius proposed to Captain Heaviside an excursion on -horseback, to pass away the time _jusquè a dinèr_. After a short -interval Sir Patricius having doffed his grave professional peruke; and -having assumed his hunting wig, mounted his gallant steed, and set out -with the Captain in a ramble through the country. While thus they were -employed in exploring the surrounding scenery, Captain Heaviside, -addressing Sir Patricius, said, "Pray, my good Sir, did I ever repeat to -you my _chronicle_?" - -"Oh no, never, Captain, upon my veracity; but in sooth I should be quite -delighted to hear it, so pray let us have it by all manner and means." - -"I call it," continued Captain Heaviside, _my_ chronicle, but I must -say, really and truly, that it was never written by me;--positively not -mine, but written indeed by a particular friend." - -"Come, come, bold Captain, that is very well, and likewise most sagely -and discreetly expressed; very good indeed--an excellent come off, _cum -grano salis_, hem! It is, however, to be sure, vastly convenient upon -all such occasions to enlist a friend into the service who shall enact -you the part of a poetical godfather, and act too as pioneer: a most -meritorious gentleman truly, who is disposed with such magnanimous -generosity to place all our written sins and verses upon his own -muster-roll. Vastly, egad vastly convenient, I needs must observe, -master Heaviside, hah, hah, hah, _sed, litera scripta manet!_ There is -no getting over that, my gallant young Captain, by my halidam!" - -"My good Sir Patricius accredit me, it was really written by my very -excellent friend, Captain Drinkwater, a dashing dragoon." - -"I can then flatly tell you, Captain, that it will never do--I know it -will never do; for as friend Horace sings, - - 'Nulla placere diu nec vivere carmina possunt - Quæ scribuntur aquæ potoribus.' - -I hate and detest your _aquæ potoribus_, all your drink-waters, and -your water-drinkers, they are beyond all compare the very worst -description of enemies that our profession has to contend with: so no -more of this; give me your drinkers of _aqua vitæ_, and honest -stout-hearted topers of genuine Drogheda usque-baugh; these are the -generous souls whose quaffing I admire, and whose fees I dearly prize. -But come, my brave Captain, notwithstanding we must positively have your -_chronicle_." - -"Well, Sir Patricius, since it must be so, here it is. - - - CAPTAIN HEAVISIDE'S CHRONICLE, - - BEING AN EXCELLENT NEW ANACREONTIC, AND WRITTEN BY - CAPTAIN DRINKWATER OF THE HORSE-GRENADIERS. - - Julia first met me with bright sparkling eye; - Next Sally so sober, yet so very sly, - Margery, matchless at grin and grimace; - Then Susan so simple, with innocent face. - Betty was breathless when told of a fray, - And Judy in sooth would have her own way: - Of Nelly 'tis needless ought for to tell, - On ev'ry occasion she bore off the belle. - - There was rattling, laughing, roaring young Kate, - Who many did think was perturbed in her pate: - Of Kathlane so cunning, and Mollys a score, - Och, I could sing till I tired you sore. - Let this little sample the truth only tell, - That, ah! I have lov'd too long and too well!" - -"_Olet lucernam_, good master Heaviside! methinks it smells somewhat -rather too strong of the lamp. Nay, nay, come noble Captain, I say, -cheer up man! never mind, my brave boy, for in faith I like your -chronicle, master Heaviside, passing well; and the very first open day, -to speak the _vox parliamentaria_, that is to express, that the first -day that the Duke shall dine abroad----hah, hah, which, 'fore Jupiter, -egad he does this very day--aye, good--very good, - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -this very day, by my halidam, we shall have it! By the mass he who -gainsays it wets not his lips with a cup of hermitage! Nay more, down -goes my gauntlet; Captain--there is my hand for you! A fig, I say, for -your black rods, your white rods, and your green rods! I would fain -flagellate them all with their own proper _insignia_ of office; aye, -marry, I say, a plague upon them all, master Heaviside! I am a man -somewhat gifted with authority, as you are, Captain, fully aware, being -no less than grand Seneschal of yonder ancient castle; and by the mass, -indubitably, with due and meet discretion, we shall have _viva voce_ -this very day your much to be lauded Anacreontic, and that too without a -single repugnant '_perhaps_,' against which vague, dubious, and most -distrustful adverb, that sage and circumspect Lady Letitia doth so -continently and cautiously enter her solemn protest. But my good Sir, -time and place--place and time? methinks as I don't toss off drams in a -morning, that songs sound sweeter heard in the evening. Oh, ever time -and place are to be taken into account, my good Captain, for - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -as the venerable Archimedes enforces it--hem; and I shall----But come, -Captain, for once I will give a gratuitous prescription--take my -nostrum--sing, or hear it sang, Captain Harry Heaviside's new Chronicle, -which be sure to wash down with the potation of two honest quarts of old -bottled Chateau-Margut, or good Burgundy, for I am not squeamish, which -shall answer just quite as well;--swallow the dose, charily, charily, -but without shaking the bottle!" - -The equestrians soon approached the castle on their return to dinner, -and the first bell was now heard pealing over battlement and tower, duly -giving warning note; hence from a smart trot they hastened to a brisk -gallop. - -"Ahem," said Sir Patricius, "see, noble Captain, how strong and lustily -the smoke mounts up from the kitchen chimney, _bonum signum, bonum -signum_, by Bacchus and Ceres a most propitious omen! Ahem, spur on, my -gallant chevalier!" - -The two worthies now reached the lordly castle; and entering the -embattled porch, Captain Heaviside observed in a whisper to Sir -Patricius: "A d----d bore to be sure it is, all this dressing for -dinner, my good Sir Patricius. But no matter, it is some consolation, -however, that we shall have an excellent feed; and I am resolved to do -it justice, exercise and the mountain air having sharpened a natural -good appetite." - -"But," rejoined Sir Patricius, "hark, again this accursed bell, how it -frights the castle from its propriety. - - 'Ring out the alarum-bell, blow winds come, crack, - At least we'll die with harness on our back.' - -But never mind, we shall be ready before the bell rings a third time." - -The man of physic and the man of war having thus spoken, they wended -their way to their respective toilettes, which were quickly despatched. -Here then we leave them to pay their attentions to the Duchess and the -ladies, and enjoy all the good cheer at the ducal _salle à manger_. -Meanwhile, in our next chapter, we shall return to the Duke, and escort -His Grace to the vice-regal abode at Dublin castle. - - - - -CHAPTER V. - - ----Al llegar á las puertas de la villa que era cercada, salio - regimiento del pueblo á recebirle, tocáron las campanas, y todos - los vecinos diéron muestras de general alegria, y con mucha pompa - le lleváron á la iglesia mayor á dar gracias a Dios, y luego con - algunas ceremonias le entregaron las llaves del pueblo, y le - admitiéron por Gobernador de la insula. - - DON QUIXOTE, tome IV. ch. 45. - - TRANSLATION. - - When he approached the town gates (for it was walled) the officers - came out to welcome him, the bells rang, and all the inhabitants - made show of a general gladness; and they carried him in great - pomp to the high church, to give God thanks; and shortly after - some ceremonies they delivered him the keys, and admitted him as - Governor of the island. - - DON QUIXOTE, book IV. ch. 45. - - -The Duke of Tyrconnel took his departure, as was observed in the last -chapter, at an early hour; the roads were in excellent order for -travelling, the morning appeared settled and serene, and an enlivening -sun shone forth propitiously on his journey. - -The vice-regal carriage had just reached the town of Ballyshannon, when -one of the fine animals (a leader) which drew the vehicle lost a fore -shoe, which caused the cavalcade to stop. This interruption to the -journey afforded an opportunity to the Duke, of which he availed -himself, of visiting the venerable ruins of Ashrow Abbey, which were at -that point of time noble and imposing even in decay. The beautifully -pointed gothic arches, and the gilded ceilings in the vaults of the -cloisters, called forth and attracted the attention and admiration of -His Grace. When the Duke had returned to his inn from the inspection of -these venerable monastic remains, a large party of horsemen were -discerned trotting onward at a round and rapid pace. The Duke was -stationed in a small gallery, or balcony, surmounting the door of the -inn, when a tumultuous congratulatory roar from the equestrians, and -addressed to His Grace, resounded on all sides, and the well-known Irish -welcome of "_Cead millia failtha_," (that is "a hundred thousand hearty -welcomes,") saluted the ducal ear. His Grace took off his hat, which he -most gracefully waved, and graciously bowed. He then addressed them, and -was pleased to say, "My good friends, I feel truly grateful for this -warm burst of loyalty; but I request to ask whither, and in such rapid -haste, ye are all proceeding? - - 'Go ye in peace, or go ye in war?' - -There is surely no fair now going on in these parts of the country; -there is no wake, no saint's patron-day recorded in the calendar; there -is no racing, no hurling-match, no rural sport that I know of; and -therefore I feel at a loss how to account for thus assembling in -numbers, and I must needs doubt whether the motive be justifiable." - -The troop of peasants, to the number of twelve or fifteen persons, were -mounted on horseback; most of the horses carried double, in accordance -to an old strange Irish usage, and which custom prevails in many parts -of Ireland even at the point of time in which we now address our -readers. The peasants replied, in respondence to the queries of the -Duke, to this effect: "So may it please your Lordship's noble Reverence, -we are men of the mountains, just going up for a bit to town, to procure -a little law," [i. e. being duly interpreted, means _litigation_.] - -"Then," rejoined the Duke, "if such be your intention, my serious and -friendly advice to you all, my good men of the mountains, is simply -this, that you do all at the present immediately return back to your -respective districts, and peaceably retire to your native hills and -homes; avoid law, strife, and litigation; return to the tranquil heights -of the lofty Tyraugh, and there enjoy, undisturbed by the factious or -the turbulent, that peace and tranquillity which is shed around your -happy cottages, beyond the turmoil of the world, and there dwell, and -likewise cultivate the Christian virtues of peace and brotherly love. -Forget and forgive the past; bear and forbear! And if I wore the -sacerdotal garb, I could not in so few words, perhaps, advert more to -the present purpose which has, be it what it may, conjured up some bad -blood, as I have strong reasons to apprehend. This line of conduct, my -countrymen, you must be sensible, it is your bounden duty to pursue; -attend to your farms, cherish your families, and look to yourselves; -obey your magistrates, and attend to your religious duties; and last, -though not least, honour and reverence your noble king. I feel it -incumbent on me to tell you such ought to be your line of conduct, and -to this effect, too, will all your Clergy to a man pronounce to you, -whether parson, priest, or prelate!" - -This speech allayed the threatened storm; and as if the wind had -changed to a different point, gently impelling a vessel in a contrary -course, thus suddenly were the litigious intentions of the "men of the -mountains" changed. They thanked his Lordship's "glorious Honour for his -kind condescension, and solemnly protested that they would forego _the -bit of law_ which they had intended, and willingly abide by his -Lordship's most worshipful advice." Reining round their steeds, they -proceeded upon their return home in a trot more rapid even than that in -which they had approached; and giving three loud distinct cheers of -"_Cead millia failtha_," were soon out of sight. - -The book of wisdom saith "a soft answer turneth away wrath;" and it is -no less true, that a generous act, or even a kind expression, makes an -indelible impression upon the grateful heart of an Irishman! - -While the Duke was engaged in the foregoing expostulation with "the men -of the mountains," the farrier, as he called himself, was meantime -actively employed, in which his tongue was as prompt as his hand was -ready, in performing, as he conceived it, the proud destiny of replacing -the fore shoe on the noble leader, in lieu of that which had been lost; -and thus from his anvil he addressed the Duke's valet: "Och then, plaze -your honour, master Brushwell, may be it isn't I who understands, any -how, in a jiffy to whip on a shoe upon any poor beast in the four -bordering counties; and a great sin and shame in me it would be if I -didn't exart myself for one of the true ould Irish stock? In troth in a -jiffy I will knock off the job, and by J---- it shall be properly well -done! for oh, _naboclish_, sure enough may be Tom Hob isn't the boy, -after all, for quickly knocking off a job for a parson he loves; and in -troth he may say with the ould ballad-- - - 'Tom's heart, like his iron, is hissingly hot, - Though his iron should cool, his heart it shall not!'" - -In these remote days the peaceful methods of life, the arts of -agriculture and husbandry, were but imperfectly known; and the practice -of farriery was rudely and ignorantly performed; then veterinary -professors did not exist, [the foregoing incident of the lost horse-shoe -has led to this short digression,] and farriery was clumsily practised, -save, perchance in the forge of some farrier of heavy dragoons. The arts -of war, meanwhile, were but too successfully carried on, while the happy -arts of peace slumbered in the shade, and neglected agriculture sunk -depressed beneath the warlike tone and temper of the times. The sickle -and the ploughshare, the attributes and implements of husbandry, were -destined to be neglected, else otherwise to be transmuted into the spear -and falchion of war. - -But we resume our narrative.--The first day and night of the Duke's -departure he dined and slept at the hospitable abode of Castle-Caldwell, -the noble and magnificent mansion of the Baronet of the same name, which -delightful residence derived its name from the owner. The promontories -that raised their peninsular summits above and around the beautiful and -expanded lake of Lough Erne, were all brilliantly illuminated by -bonfires made by the peasantry. The beacon-flame also blazed from the -crowned summit of every surrounding hill and mountain. These bright -testimonies of gladness burst forth to hail the Duke's welcome arrival. -In furtherance of which the furze, fern, heath, and tall sword-grass, on -hill and rock, were all set into one universal conflagration, the -brilliant coruscations of which flashed, flamed, and undulated upon the -expanded waters of Lough Erne; while bonfires were seen to burn and -blaze upon the cloud-crested heights of the Tyraugh mountains. - -Meanwhile, in sympathy with the scene, the great promontory of -Ross-a-Goul brightly bore the beacon blaze upon his lofty brow, which -flamed forth and flashed volcano-like above the adjacent woods and -groves, illuminating every islet, rock, and indented shore, and -reflecting its ruddy light in brilliance upon the dark waves of -Ross-Moor, which seemed emulous to flash back their radiance on -Ross-Goul. - -The town of Churchill manifested similar demonstrations of joy and -gratulation upon the arrival of the popular viceroy. It is time, -however, to return to the hospitable board of the worthy host, who, with -his noble and distinguished guests, sat down to a magnificent dinner at -the good, early, rational, but now antiquated hour of four o'clock, -which was the healthy custom in these times remote. Among many -surrounding nobles and gentry present at this splendid banquet, we must -not pass by unobserved two notable characters who were seated at the -Baronet's table: the one was the Lord Viscount Glandarah, and the other -was the Rev. Doctor Dismal Drew, L.L.D., a quondam Fellow of Trinity -College, Dublin,[16] and who had been collated to the valuable living of -----, the advowson of which was in the gift of the University of Dublin. -These two worthies formed a remarkable and striking contrast to each -other. - - [16] "Anno 1590.--The Monastery of All-Hallows was granted by the - citizens for the site of an university. - - "----1591.--Trinity College founded by Queen Elizabeth. Opened - 1593. Received a new charter and statutes 1637."--_Annals of the - City of Dublin._ - -Lord Glandarah, imitating the profitable example of the wise Ulysses, -who - - ----"Multorum providus urbes - Et mores, hominum inspexit," - -had visited foreign countries and courts, where he had resided during a -very long period, even from his early youth. It was whispered, and it -was also believed, that he was at heart _un bon Catholiquè_. However, -whether the assertion was true or false, certain it is that his Lordship -took his seat in the Irish House of Peers; so that his case was -completely _in foro conscientiæ_, and with which nobody had any right to -intermeddle, it being a matter between him and a higher power than any -court upon earth, temporal or spiritual. - -His Lordship was an accomplished and polished nobleman; he had seen, -and with no unobserving eye, the different nations and courts of Europe; -had examined their laws, their governments, and establishments; he had -been so long resident upon the continent, (even from his earliest -years,) that from his foreign intonation of voice, and speaking, as he -did, broken English, he might readily have passed for a German or a -Frenchman. Lord Glandarah was personally known by the Duke of Tyrconnel, -who, upon this interview, heartily shook hands; and the former warmly -congratulated the latter upon his promotion to the viceroyship of -Ireland: "Gad save my soul, _mon très-excellent_ Duke, I am _absolumènt_ -delighted; _je suis ravis entirement à vous revoir_. I am _tout_ -delighted! _Jamais, jamais si bien heureux! Un verre de vin: à votre -tres bonne santé, et aussi la de votre tres amiable et accomplié Madame -la Duchesse. Nous aurons une petit Cour de Versailes à la Chateau de -Dublin. Sans doute et comme certainement nous verrons! Tres joli, tres -joli! Sir Jacques Colville, j'ai l'honneur de saluër votre santé._" - -Lord Glandarah was attired in a court dress of green Genoa velvet, -richly embroidered with gold; and the old aristocratic peer was so -orthodox that even his hunting wig, when he rode on horseback, had _une -petite bourse_ attached to it, and the peruke was surmounted by a small -cocked hat, trimmed with broad gold lace, with an appendant feather; and -these he considered as indispensable appanages of _un gentilhomme comme -il faut_! or, as Horace has expressed it, "_Homo factus ad unguem_"--a -finished gentleman, even to the paring of his nail! Compared with Doctor -Dismal Drew, he was "Hyperion to a satyr." Doctor Drew was in stature -six feet by two, without diminution or subtraction, but awfully - - "Measured by cubit, length, and breadth, and height." - -The Doctor's head was of a portentous size, which induced his -cotemporaries, while a student in college, to bestow on him the epithet -or sobriquet of "the bull-headed (βοῦς κέφαλος) student;" and -most certain it is, that the exterior exceeded in dimensions every other -head within the precincts of that learned corporation. He was extremely -near-sighted, and always wore either goggles or spectacles made of green -glass, which, as our readers may fairly suspect, did not by any means -add to his personal appearance or attraction, whatever they might have -abducted. He was however, be the truth spoken, an excellent scholar, -philosopher, and moreover this same "learned Theban" was a mathematician -to boot. His manners were unpolished--nay, repulsive. His gait in the -street or drawing-room was so strange and inhuman-like, that it was only -ideally to be compared to the floundering motion of a wounded walrus -standing on its hind legs, then dragging its heavy weight along. At -table the movement of his arms was so exceedingly annoying to his -neighbours that it invariably caused them to keep a most circumspect and -respectful distance. His voice, when he spoke, which was only when he -wanted to be helped to some piquant viand, was harsh and stentorian, and -might not unaptly be compared to the discordant cadence of a cracked -bassoon. He was learned--he abounded in anecdote; and if he chose to be -at the trouble, he could be witty. But no; during dinner, and even when -the cloth was removed, solemn as the grave he sat doggedly pinioned to -his chair, silently sipping drop by drop his Burgundy. He seemed to be -apprehensive that the time he would occupy in conversation would -interfere with the time allotted for the act of deglutition; therefore -he sat taciturn, as if the use of his tongue was inevitably and -irretrievably to destroy the powers of his palate! - -Doctor Drew was by no means deficient in dry and sarcastic humour; and -many anecdotes may be still found savoury in the college-courts and -dinner-hall of this quondam queer-fellow of old _alma mater_; however we -will trespass on the reader's attention only with one anecdote:-- - -Doctor Dismal Drew passing one morning through the college courts, from -the library to his chambers, happened to meet a young student who had -been only a few days matriculated, and such are, in popular parlance in -the university, called _jibs_; the young student had the ill-fortune to -pass this learned Leviathan, without the usual salutation of doffing his -four-cornered cap to his mighty superior:--"Halloo," roared the Doctor, -"come back; hark ye, I say, young master, pray how long, young -gentleman, allow me to ask, have you worn the academic gown?" - -"Just eight days, may it so please your Reverence." - -"Ay, ay; in sooth, young master, I thought as much, for we all know that -puppies cannot make use of their eyes until they are nine days old!" - -When Doctor Dismal Drew had with-drawn from the dinner-room, Lord -Glandarah addressed the Duke of Tyrconnel in an under tone: "Gad save -me, my Lord Duke, _mais cette est un homme austere, outre, et tres -singulier; et, par tout, un bête horriblè_." - -"Adonis, you recollect, my Lord, was killed by a _boar_!" - -"Excellent, O Duke! and I too should be killed by--the Doctor's -company!--_non, pardonnez moi_ presence, I should say; he be no company! -_en veritè_ two entire days would despatch me. He is _assuremènt -Polyphemus le second, mais avec cette dissemblance par tout que le -monstre il eut un oeil bel excellènt, pendant que, le Docteur ave sans -doubtè deux diaboleùx_ bad eyes!" - -"Oh, unquestionably, my Lord! but then he has an intellectual one; and -we must give due credit to Sir James Caldwell for the attention and -kindness which he dispenses to his quondam tutor. It is kind, -considerate, grateful, and honourable, to his feelings." - -Sir James Caldwell, for whom the Duke of Tyrconnel entertained a great -regard and affection, from long acquaintance and intercourse, took an -opportunity, previous to the departure of His Grace, of making a strong -and impressive request that the Duke would be pleased to appoint his -worthy and learned friend the Doctor to be one of His Grace's domestic -chaplains. - -"Why really, my kind and worthy friend, your request appears to me to -be a matter of greater difficulty than you, Sir James, seem to be aware -of, biassed, no doubt, by your kindness and partiality for the Doctor; -however you must needs acknowledge that there is somewhat _outré_ and -repulsive in the _tout ensemble_ of this extraordinary man; his general -appearance, his manners, his dress, and address, and those unindurable -appendices of green goggles, and his _je ne scai quoi_ impression, which -is better seen than described. However, if it be possible I shall -willingly assent to your request, provided that you, on the part of the -learned Doctor, accede to my capitulations, which I require and demand. -First, I insist upon the total abandonment of those everlasting green -goggles, in which I verily believe he sleeps withal. Secondly, I -resolve, as a _sine qua non_, that the learned Doctor, upon his arrival -in the metropolis, shall employ either a drill sergeant or a _maitre de -danse_, to mollify his movements of legs and arms! You stare in -astonishment, my good Sir James, but marry, I do not mean, in sooth, -that your grave Doctor and L.L.D. should slowly glide down the sober -minuet, or the more solemn paven, with formal features and extended -cassock, _chausse_ the cotillion, or trot down the merry _contredanse_; -no, _mehercule_, by no means, but this exercise I would fain prescribe -merely in order to give a gentlemanly ease and deportment of person. And -thirdly, I must require that the Doctor should purchase a new gown and -cassock; these habiliments having become threadbare in the service of -old Alma. Fourthly, that the Doctor shall, _sine mora_, have constructed -a neat orthodox wig, curled and powdered _a la Louis Quatorze_, &c. &c." - -All these sage and precise preliminaries being agreed, ratified, and -concluded upon, by the high contracting parties, the Duke upon the -following morning took a friendly leave, and set off to pursue his -journey to Dublin. He kindly offered the Lord Glandarah a seat in his -carriage, who was likewise destined for Dublin; and which offer was most -thankfully accepted by the noble peer. Having duly paid their respective -devoirs to their hospitable host they departed, much gratified by their -reception at the noble and social mansion of Castle-Caldwell. - -The Duke and his noble _compagnon de voyage_ travelled onward without -any accident or occurrence worth narrating, and arrived that day to -dinner at Tarah-Castle, the noble residence of the Lord Tarah. But at -the present day no vestige of this once celebrated castle remains, where -once - - "To chiefs and ladies bright - The harp of Tarah swelled!" - -Upon this distinguished day the hospitable board was loaded with every -luxury; generous Burgundy and enlivening Champaign flowed around in -bumpers; while it seemed a mooted matter of opinion which was most to be -admired, the generous courtesy and hospitality of the noble proprietor -of the castle, the excellence of his viands and wines, or the "soul of -music" that breathed around! - -Moments of convivial joy and harmony, however, soon pass by, and are -forgotten likewise in the advance of time. - -The following morning, soon after breakfast was concluded, the Duke of -Tyrconnel bade an affectionate adieu to the Lord of Tarah, and -accompanied by Lord Glandarah, set off in his travelling carriage for -the castle of Dublin. The journey was safely proceeded on to -Dunshauglin, where the Duke's state carriages and horses were in -attendance to convey him to Dublin, accompanied by a squadron of horse. - -As he approached the city of Dublin, at the barrier of Barrack-street -the horses were taken from the carriage by the populace, and His Grace -was drawn in triumph to the capital; all the cathedral and church bells -ringing forth a merry peal. His Grace was sworn into his high office, -the patent having been read, before the privy council; at the same -moment three rockets in succession ascended from Birmingham Tower, which -were signals of His Grace having been sworn into his high official -station; and were duly responded to by the salute-battery in His -Majesty's royal chase, or park; and the salute was again returned by the -battery stationed on the south-wall of the Liffey. At night a general -and splendid illumination succeeded, which concluded the rejoicings of -this most memorable day. - - - - -CHAPTER VI. - - ----The nature of our people, - Our city's institutions, and the terms - Of common justice, y'are as pregnant in - As art and practice hath enriched any - That we remember. There is our commission! - - MEASURE FOR MEASURE. - - -Fully resolved justly and conscientiously to discharge with unremitting -and unceasing attention the responsible duties of his high office, the -Duke now commenced his vice-regal career. He arose at an early hour, and -whatever public business was to be transacted, he constantly despatched -before the hour of breakfast. He was polite, courteous, and accessible -to all; his was the _suaviter in modo_, but it was also accompanied with -the _fortiter in re_. - -The first day for holding a vice-regal levee, as specified by public -notice from the Chamberlain's office, having arrived, it commenced -exactly at one o'clock, and was most numerously attended. Among the vast -assemblage were noticed the Lord Mayor, the Lord High Chancellor Sir -Alexander Fitton Lord Baron of Gausworth; the judges and great officers -of state; a long train of gentry, numerous members of the lower and -upper houses of parliament attended; many a grave and reverend prelate, -and many a baron bold--"_Post alios_; _fortemque Gyan_, _fortemque -Cloanthum_," &c. - -The company appeared arrayed in full and appropriate court costume. -There were likewise present the different staff officers, besides those -of the garrison; and a large body of ecclesiastics, Protestant and -Catholic, attended. The ceremonies of the day were throughout conducted -with great decorum and propriety. - -Among the notable personages that were this day presented to the Duke, -we must not omit to notice the Honourable Mr. Berenger, M. P. for the -County of----, of an ancient and ennobled family, whose ancestor came -to Ireland in the time of the second Henry. He wore a very large black -curled peruke, which flowed like a lion's mane adown his shoulders; his -coat and small-clothes were of light blue velvet, richly embroidered; a -waistcoat richly worked, and adorned with foliations formed of various -precious stones. He wore, too, a superb diamond-hilted sword; diamond -shoe and knee buckles; silk stockings, with gold embroidered clokes; and -the heels of his shoes were of red Morocco leather. He was indeed, -beyond all dispute, the unparalleled dandy of his day! Mr. Berenger had -been in his youth a very handsome man; but his face now was deadly pale; -and his eyes, which had been once brilliant as the diamonds which -adorned him, reposed, dim and shorn of their beams, within their hollow -and shrivelled sockets. Time, too, had left his stern impress in the -indented furrows of the cheek and the care-scored wrinkles of his brow: -he looked the languid voluptuary, while surfeit and satiety seemed to -seal up his lips. His figure, notwithstanding, was yet even still fine -and commanding. His countenance, however, spoke more plainly of the -preterpluperfect than either of the present or future tense. His eyes -reposed on the carpet or upon vacancy; they had in them "no speculation, -that they did glare withal." When attending the gay and dissipated court -of the second Charles he had often revelled with Rochester, and jested -with Killigrew and, moreover, had the high distinction paid him of -being called "a very finished gentleman indeed" by the witty monarch, -"whose word no man relied on!" - -The eccentric Mr. Berenger had severally proposed at three different -times a matrimonial alliance with Lady Lucy, the Duke's youngest sister, -who politely, but positively refused him; and upon some overtures to -renew his solicitations, Lady Lucy observed, that as she had so long -delayed to marry for love, she was now resolved not to marry in the -capacity of a nurse-tender! This was so home an _argumentum ad -superbiam_ a cut and thrust at the pride of the Honourable Member, that -he now seemed to have no intention of becoming a Benedict. Lady Letitia -found great fault with her sister, complained of her cruelty, and -sturdily maintained "that the Honourable M. P. having shewn such a -confirmed constancy, ought not to have met with this sharp repulse; for -it was evident and manifest that Mr. Berenger did not indeed belong to -the shabby class of '_perhaps_' suitors. - -But it is now time that we should return from this digression. Sir John -Caldwell was at the levee, and his _protegè_, our quondam acquaintance -Doctor Dismal Drew, a newly-appointed chaplain, in a gown and cassock -spick and span, who having fully acceded to the rules and stipulations -of address, costume, and conduct, appeared indeed to have been moulded -into quite a different personage. However his strange absence of mind -and defect of judgment fully remained unaltered, as was fully -exemplified on the ensuing Sunday, when he preached a sermon at the -castle chapel before the Duke and his vice-regal suite. The text was -chosen in bad tact, however, and still worse policy: it was selected -from the xxvth chapter of Proverbs, 5th verse: "Take away the wicked -from before the king, and his throne shall be established in -righteousness!" This was unquestionably an uncalled for attack upon the -ministry, upon the noble viceroy, and on his patron; and his name was -struck out of the list of chaplains, never to be again restored. So much -for Doctor Drew! whose head seemed to be obtuse albeit--certainly, -however, it was never destined to be encircled with that ornament with -which Sancho crowned the head of his favourite Dapple. - -Early on the succeeding day her Grace the Duchess of Tyrconnel, the -lovely Lady Adelaide, Ladies Letitia and Lucy, escorted by the polite -and facetious Sir Patricius Placebo, arrived safely at Dublin Castle, -and were most warmly and affectionately received by the Duke and -viceroy. - -The vice-regal party sat down to dinner at their usual and not -irrational hour of four o'clock, which, in these our modern days of -dissipation and late hours, would be considered as an hour for dinner -quite gothic and _à la Bourgeois_; for in these our polished days of -finished taste and refinement, late hours seem to be the very _acme_ of -fashion; late dinners necessarily being succeeded by late suppers, and, -_par consèquence_, afternoon breakfasts, in consequatory succession, -bringing up the rere of fashionable high-life to the great practice and -benefit of the College of Physicians. - -The conversation after dinner was lively and agreeable. The Duchess -described their journey, and gave many traits of the good feeling and -humour of the lower classes, as witnessed in their journey from -Tyrconnel Castle. When the ladies had retired, Lord Glandarah, who was -of the party, speaking of the eccentric Mr. Berenger, who had been at -the levee on the preceding day, turning to Sir Patricius, inquired of -him if he knew that eccentric personage? and the following reply, aided -by the effects of brisk Champaign, thus effervesced and flowed from his -lips: "Oh, yes, my Lord, I have before these days met with Count -Berenger, as he was called; I have too heard him converse with the -Windsor beauties, whose similitudes Sir Peter Lely, of pictorial fame, - - ----'On animated canvass stole - Their sleepy eye that speaks the melting soul.' - -Ay, my Lord, and often have I met him at the carousals of old King -Carolus, now defunct, but of blessed memory! He is _certes_ the -completely finished gentleman. He was once gay, and airy, and agreeable; -but now in sooth I must say that he looks as sombre and demure as a -solemn gentleman of the long robe extending his silken train, and -dancing down a paven![17] In the sublime art of eating he is not a -professor, but an artist, only munches the sunny side of a peach or a -nectarine; when he wishes to be helped to fowl or chicken, he is always -sure to bespeak the liver wing; knows all the nice cuts in a haunch of -venison, and he can carve you twenty nice _morceaux_ from the head of a -cod-fish; he knows too how turtle should be cooked, and how duly to -appreciate callipash and callipe; a glass of liqueur or genuine Coniac -he knows as well as I do to be a safe, salutary, and no unpleasant -condiment to his fish. In a word, his is the true art of _sçavoir -vivre_; and 'fore Jove or great Apollo, if this were a writing or a -printing age, I should incontinently like and admire to have 'Culinary -Lucubrations, or the whole divine Art of Cookery,' from the pen of the -honourable and polished Mr. Berenger! But it was a sad omission of mine, -my Lord, not to include among his various accomplishments, that he is an -excellent judge of wines, and an excellent taster too, to boot; for he -would never mistake Port wine for Tokay, Chambertin for Chateau-Margut, -nor Vin de Grave for Hock! I think there is no going beyond these. Here, -then, I sum up the climax of his character, 'not to know him argues -one's self unknown!'--My Lord Glandarah, your Lordship's very good -health." - - [17] The _paven_ (from _pavo_, a peacock) is a grave, majestic - dance. The method of dancing it was anciently by gentlemen dressed - with a cap and sword; by those of the long robe in their gowns; by - the princes in their mantles; and by ladies in gowns with long - trains, the motion whereof in the dance resembled that of a - _peacock's tail_. This dance is supposed to have been invented by - the Spaniards, and its figure is given, with the characters for - the steps, in the _Orchesographia_ of Thoinet Arbeau.--See Note to - "_The Mad Lover_." Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, vol. IV. p. 186. - -Here the noble Duke, concluding from the foregoing symptoms that the -Doctor had not omitted taking his _quantum sufficit_ of Burgundy, -proposed another flask to Lord Glandarah, or some coffee with the -ladies. The ladies had the preference given them; and the Duke retiring -to the drawing-room, was followed by his guests. - -"I have," whispered Sir Patricius to Lord Glandarah, "observed, in -divers companies and upon several occasions, that His Grace in these -matters always leaves the discussion to the _liberum arbitrium_ of his -guests." - -"And," replied the Peer, "Gad save my soul, I laud his discreet -resolution!" - -The Duchess appointed her first drawing-room for the succeeding -evening. It may not be amiss here to acquaint the reader, that at the -period of which we now write, court dresses were universally worn by -both sexes at evening routes and balls: the gentlemen appeared in full -court costume, with bags, swords, and buckles; and the ladies with -monstrous bell-hoops, and portentous stomachers of an ell in longitude! -and withal incased in the cumbrous accoutrement of a heavy stiffened -silk mantua; while their false and elevated tetes reminded one of Pelion -piled up on Ossa. - -The above remarks will be sufficient to account for the short notice -given for the intended drawing-room. We would also observe upon the -hours at which the worthy folks of these days assembled at their evening -parties. At this period of time the fashionable hour of paying visits -was not, as it is now, in the morning, or rather mid-day, when every -body is abroad, but it was in the evening, when every one almost was at -home; and the visiting hour commenced at so early an hour as seven -o'clock. In the autumnal and winter months the saloons and -drawings-rooms of the noblesse and gentry in Dublin were at that hour, -or at the first visitor's knock at the door, immediately brilliantly -lighted up, and if both parties were perfectly disengaged, the guests -remained; each room displaying richly cut glass lustres and glass -chandeliers illuminated with wax; there was a numerous display of -card-tables; the servants attending in rich liveries; while lords and -knights, and commoners, and stately dames, and ladies gay, came attired -in their court costume. The company partook of tea, coffee, &c.; in the -course of the evening lemonade, orgeat, cake, wine, negus, jellies, -sweetmeats, and confections, (for the luxury of ice was then unknown,) -were handed around to the company, many of whom had meantime sat down to -the card-table, some playing whist, cribbage, or tredrille; some at -ombre, and others at loo. And as the clock struck ten the company -separated, and all retired. - -Ladies of high rank usually visited in their state sedan-chairs, which -were stuffed, and lined with white and pink satin, and externally -decorated with different rich ornaments; large silk tassels dangled at -the four angular points of the roof, and the highest top, or pinnacle, -was surmounted by a gilt coronet reposing on a crimson cushion; three, -sometimes four, footmen, according to the rank of the individual, -habited in splendid liveries, and arranged in single files, preceded the -sedan-chair, each bearing a lighted flambeau. And sooth to say, some of -the old dowagers, when the doubtful light of the flambeau flashed upon -their withered visages, incontinently reminded the spectator of the -waxen figure of queen Elizabeth in the glass-case at Westminster-Abbey! - -The drawing-room night arrived, and was crowded by numbers of the -nobility and gentry of both sexes, when the old and the young were -assembled together. It was indeed a splendid scene--a galaxy of beauty -and magnificence; the dresses were superb; and bright and brilliant were -the blaze of gems and jewels that adorned the brows, ears, and encircled -the lovely necks of the young, and sparkled on those of a more matronly -description. The youthful and lovely fair presenting no unfavourable -specimen of the beauty of the daughters of Erin; their cheeks rivalling -the rose, and blushing in graceful adolescence; while their lovely -bosoms, glowing in healthful bloom, reflected a pearly radiance around -the diamonds which sparkled upon and adorned them. - -Several ladies of the nobility and gentry, amounting to many hundreds, -were presented, and all of whom were most graciously received by the -truly kind and agreeable Duchess. - -The amusements of the evening commenced. Several grave minuets were -danced in a most marvellous solemn pace; to these succeeded the _minùet -de là Cour_, which was danced by Sir Patricius Placebo and Lady Letitia -Raymond, to the great entertainment of the Duke and Duchess, whose -gravity, in sooth to say, was upon this occasion quite borne down and -vanquished. Then followed cotillions, which were succeeded -by contre-dances, which ended the amusements of the night. Numerous -card-tables were placed, and were not unoccupied by the elder part of -the assemblage, many of whom went away with their purses many a _minus_ -diminished, when they at solemn leisure reckoned their losses on the -said night or ensuing morning. But the fun and the drollery of the -evening seemed to concentrate in the ridicule attached to Sir Philip -Fumbally, a civic knight and alderman, who somewhat resembled, in -corporal shape and form, the paunch of Falstaff, with all the stiffness -of mine ancient Pistol--aye, and the very nose of renowned Bardolph! -However we must take up the brush and finish our portrait. Sir Philip -was in stature about four feet five, a perfect rotundity in corpulence, -fat short hands, fat short legs; and his face--oh, ye gods, such a face -was his! Forehead, he had none! his hair was red, his small ferret eyes -were grey, if eyes they could be called, which were indeed to him _no -windows of the soul_! but closed as if under the awful influence of -Somnus! His nose was flat, and in colour ruddy red, his chubby cheeks -the same; and his mouth opened and grinned with all the agreeability of -a cayman or crocodile! His laugh and look were horrid, the former the -diapason of a demon, and the latter the very outline of Memistopheles. -Leaning upon his unwieldy arm was seen his long-necked, long-armed, and -long-legged ugly lady. The Irish, who are somewhat "both the great, -vulgar, and the small," too much given liberally to bestow -_soubriquets_, nicknamed this unparalleled pair _flesh and bone_! And -Sir Patricius Placebo somewhat wittily observed, upon his word of -honour, as a true knight, that Lady Fumbally always reminded him of an -undertaker's horse, a Rosinante covered with a compound of velvet -trappings and nodding plumage, withal to cover the skeleton which they -adorned! - -When the presentations commenced, Sir Philip, "like a doating mallard," -waddled after the unfurled train of "his darling duckie," (by which -endearing name he familiarly styled my Lady Fumbally,) it so happened -that in discharging this uxorious task he tripped up fairly, or rather -foully, his lady's train, and by which losing his equipoise, the worthy -knight was very nearly tripped up himself. The courtiers all tittered, -and some indeed extended it to a most uncourtly loud laugh. The lady, -like unto Lot's wife, would fain turn around in defiance of all courtly -etiquette, and her visage seemed deeply to participate in the -_bouleversement_ of her velvet train. Here the amiable knight, -compassionating her trodden down vanity, fairly took up the said -portentous train, which was soon somewhat incontinently snatched by a -chamberlain in waiting from the grasp of the knight, and again permitted -to perform its meanders on the carpet _ad libitum_. The laugh and -titters were again renewed. Mr. Berenger, who was standing close to Sir -Patricius Placebo, seemed to be quite roused from his usual -_nonchalance_, and whispered Sir Patricius, "this is too bad, _risu -ineptu nulla res ineptior est_; (nothing is so foolish as the laugh of -fools!) however, we courtiers are always too fond of a laugh, that is to -say, (_crede experto_,) provided that it be never directed against -ourselves! Sir Patricius, we (with his fore-finger touching the facial -nerve of his nose) _have been_ at the court of good old Carolus!" - -The worthy Baronet, to whom these observations were addressed, did not -commit himself by one single comment, but silently nodded, and was -meantime taking snuff with immoderate rapidity, and in no stinted -quantities; and when these piquant remarks were made by the ornament of -the old court, Sir Patricius politely and gently as possible laughed -(_voce depresso_) his heh, heh, heh, and his ahem! "Yes, yes, Mr. -Berenger, _indeed we_ have seen the world!--ahem! - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!" - -Sir Philip Fumbally was the renowned and recorded alderman who at a -civic feast loudly proclaimed that Marshal Turenne had taken GREAT -UMBRAGE, and proposed as a right gallant toast--"Health to the mighty -and glorious conqueror of GREAT UMBRAGE, the valiant Turenne!" The toast -was drank with great enthusiasm; but soon each civic guest asked -significantly his neighbour the geographical position of GREAT UMBRAGE; -was it in France, in Flanders, Utopia, or the Lord knows where? The -Gazetteer was put in requisition, and the general atlas (such as the -times afforded) were called for, and were conned over. But alas! -UMBRAGE--the proud, the great, and mighty, could no where be found; its -place was a blank amid the nations! - -What conduced to the mistake or blunder was, that a pique had arisen at -that time between General Konigsmark and General Geis (subsequent to the -passage of the river Neckar in Germany,) against the Duc d'Enghien, (by -whose valour that pass was won, and also Wimpfen was taken;) declaring -that the two former would quit the army, &c. At this declaration the -Field Marshal Viscount Turenne, it was rumoured, had _taken_ UMBRAGE! It -was upon this _datum_ that the worthy alderman had built his _el -dorado_, his airy citadel, his undiscoverable principality and victory! -But Turenne soared above the impetuosity of Konigsmark, and the -obstinacy of the other two. Turenne was a hero! and one who would scorn -to the city achievement of _taking_ UMBRAGE from friend or foe! - -For about the space of an hour the lovely Lady Adelaide was permitted to -remain at the drawing-room, the delight of every eye, and the theme of -every tongue. - -The Duke sat down to play at tredrille with the Countess Dowager of -Ossory and Lord Glandarah. This game, as the name implies, was played by -three persons at a small triangular table, which in these our degenerate -days, are shown only as curiosities in the cabinets of the curious; and -the Duke, when they left off play, arose a winner of about twenty -pounds; for in their quiet, snug way the good folks of those days often -lost or won fourteen or fifteen pounds of the current coin of the realm -at a pool of tredrille, which was then considered _most moderate_ play! - -About the hour of eleven o'clock the Duke and Duchess, who had been much -gratified and amused during the course of the evening, arose, and bowing -most gracefully and courteously to their guests, broke up the -drawing-room, and retired. - -The company soon departed for their homes, highly pleased and -gratified with the courteous deportment of the noble pair; charmed alike -by their affable manners and fascinating attentions equally bestowed on -all. It would be tedious at this time of day to detail the names, and it -might seem invidious to record the particular beauties that graced the -brilliant circle, which upon that memorable evening crowded and adorned -the splendid suite of rooms at Dublin Castle. - - - - -CHAPTER VII. - - Young innocent, on whose sweet forehead mild - The parted ringlet shone in simplest guise, - An inmate in the home of RAYMOND smil'd, - Or blest his noonday walk.--She was his only child. - - CAMPBELL. - - -The faculty having strongly recommended sea-bathing as salutary and -beneficial to the health of Lady Adelaide, the Duke, in consequence of -this advice, purchased a hunting lodge, not remote from the sea-shore, -and beautifully situated amid the romantic scenery of the county of -Wicklow, which, from its proximity to the metropolis, afforded a -convenient retreat, and from whence he could, with little or no delay, -receive and despatch the duties attendant upon his high official -situation. As soon as the mansion was placed in a state of proper -repair, and becomingly furnished to be worthy of the reception of the -representative of majesty, the Duke resolved, for the benefit of the -health of a beloved and only daughter, as well as for his own repose -from the fatigues of office, to retire to his newly-acquired purchase of -Lætely Abbey--for thus was this hunting lodge denominated; and this -resolve was not long without being carried into execution. The Duke and -Duchess of Tyrconnel, accompanied by Lady Adelaide, the sisters of the -Duke, not forgetting Sir Patricius Placebo, that witty knight; along -with a numerous attendant suite, left Dublin Castle for their sojourn at -Lætely Abbey, and after a few hours travelling, they safely reached the -place of their destination. - -Letely (or Lætely) Abbey (_quasi lætus locus_), for by this latter -designation antiquarians insisted that it should be called, was indeed a -lovely place, surrounded as it was by all the combining beauties of -natural scenery: here stood the venerable ruins of a decayed abbey, its -walls wreathed and its summits crowned with ivy, while its grand oriel -or eastern window, magnificent even in decay, was festooned and -enlivened with various creeping plants, the sweet-smelling clematis, the -jessamine, and woodbine, trailed around the ruins of the stone casement, -through which the sun-beams cheerfully shone, while the foliage -gracefully waved in the blast, and the blossoms all sweetly perfumed the -surrounding air. To the right of the abbey arose an extensive -sheep-walk, whose boundaries were crowned by lofty groves of arbutus, or -the strawberry tree; laurel, holly, added their combining greens and -shades; and though last, not least, myrtle groves, which in this county -grow to an amazing height, verifying the very just description of the -great pastoral poet, Virgil, "_amantes littora myrtos_"--myrtles which -rejoice in being near to the shores of the sea. While in the fore-ground -of the landscape, in all its splendid azure majesty, burst forth upon -the delighted spectator's view the mighty ocean, its bosom studded with -frequent white sails, which, as they scudded along, brightly glistened -in the rays of a refulgent autumnal sun. The shore was indented by high -and undulating downs, all richly cultivated, whose green sward, in -smoothness and brilliance, vied with, if not rivalled, any carpet from -the looms of Bruxelles, Turkey, or Persia. A range of meadows succeeded -the downs, which were bordered with hedge-rows of oak, sycamore, and -ash. Adjoining this enlivening scene stood a dense grove of forest -trees, now glowing in all the rich and diversified tints of autumn. The -dark green hue of the American spruce formed a rich and striking -contrast with its deep brown cones, which gracefully clustered amid -their parent verdure, and undulated upon the waving branches, while they -bent to the breeze. The lemon-tinted leaves of the Alpine larch here -were also seen, which were finely opposed to the deep copper colour of -the umbrageous beech, and alternately blending with the bright green of -the Scottish fir, or the deeper shades of the ilex, or ever-green oak. - -To the left yawned a rocky, dark, romantic glen, surmounted by -stupendous rocks frowning on the abyss beneath, whose sides were studded -with every variety of wild herb and plant indigenous to a mountainy -region, and, among others, that rare plant, the _adianthum_, fringed the -interstices of the frowning cliffs. - -Beneath reposed in a secluded dell the cottage of the Duke's steward. -The latticed windows were trellised with the rose, jasmin, and woodbine; -the blue smoke which ascended and curled into clouds amid the -overhanging foliage, betokened habitation and comfort. To the cottage -was annexed an extensive farm-yard, with all the appendices of -corn-stacks, turf, and hay likewise, _cum multis aliis_, besides the -various addition of live stock, all of which added interest and -animation to the scene. - -Through the bosom of this glen slowly meandered along a mountain -stream, (in winter a torrent,) whose devious course was distinctly -outlined by an accompanying range of alder trees, that in double columns -densely shaded its winding banks. - -In the back ground, veiled in dark neutral tint, arose a craggy -mountain, whose base was richly dotted with groves of larch and spruce. -Prominently in the fore-ground was situated the Duke's hunting lodge, -which, as we have already said, was denominated Lætely Abbey. This -structure was built in the style of architecture of the family mansions -of the Elizabethan period. An extensive lake, supplied by a copious -mountain stream, presented itself in front of the house, until, winding -onward, it was lost amid the adjoining woods. Close by was a deer-park, -well enclosed, and numerously stocked with deer, some of whom -gregariously reposed, while others were seen trooping through the dense -woods, and gazing at the passing stranger, which added interest and a -picturesque beauty to the scene. - -But the pride, grace, and ornament of Lætely Abbey was to be found in -the attractive and lovely Adelaide, who had now entered upon her -fifteenth year--so rapidly onward does time advance. Indeed it was no -flattery to say, that Adelaide was most truly engaging in her manners. -Her statue would have graced the design of Phidias or Praxiteles; her -lovely and expressive countenance captivated every beholder; the rose of -youth was upon her cheek, and her skin was fair and pure as the unsunned -lily; her dark blue eyes sparkled intelligence, beaming beneath her -beautifully arched eye-brows. Her look, gesture, and demeanour, -communicated joy; and we shall not deny a parental pride to the Duke and -Duchess, at the same time, that her looks beamed forth delight upon all -who beheld her; while her converse, sustained with a voice sweet, -distinct, and melodious, charmed every listening ear. Her manners were -unaffected, as they were natural, and all was silence when she spoke. -Her figure was graceful, as we have before noticed, and beautifully and -finely proportioned. When animated by discourse her features seemed to -be lighted up by almost celestial fire; her brilliant eyes sparkled -bright as the native diamond, and her entire countenance became -irresistibly charming. - -To those of inferior rank her deportment was kind and unassuming, and -down to the lowest domestic she was beloved, for they felt and knew that -her delight was to protect those beneath her power, and not to tyrannise -over them. - -With an ardent and sanguine admiration of the beauties of nature, -Adelaide too possessed an enthusiastic love of literature, conjoined to -a correctly formed and delicately refined taste. Every day her mind -expanded, from the literary lore which she imbibed, and gradually, but -extensively, her brilliant talents developed their powers. Poetry, -painting, and music, principally fascinated, as they are ever wont to -do, the feeling and romantic mind of youth. Some of those impressions -thus elicited Adelaide was occasionally in the habit of committing to -writing. One day, while some workmen of the Duke were employed in -breaking up ground upon the confines of an ancient, but neglected -cemetery, which surrounded a small dilapidated church, stationed on a -green and rising knoll, whose ruinous walls were thickly overspread with -ivy, while the alder, holly, and thorn, had stoutly installed -them-selves in what had been once the chancel--it happened that, upon -digging at the foot of an ancient thorn, they threw up a human skull, -which the Duke caused immediately to be reinterred in the same spot; and -within no distant space of time a tombstone was prepared to surmount the -grave, upon which was duly chiselled a crucifix, with the usual -accompaniments of a death's head, &c., and having called upon his -daughter's muse for some lines to be inscribed thereon, the interesting -Adelaide wrote the following, which was sculptured upon the tomb:-- - - INSCRIPTION. - - Rest here in peace beneath this ancient thorn! - Perhaps thou once didst rural life adorn, - And raised thy hopes to heaven in yonder aisle: - Now droops thy relick nigh yon ruin'd pile! - Still peaceful rest beneath thy parent earth, - Until awakened to a nobler birth! - -The Duke and Duchess having attentively perused this brief inscription, -fondly and affectionately embraced their lovely and much beloved child, -no less pleased with the religious feeling which had called forth their -warm approbation, and which they distinctly expressed, than delighted as -they were with the poetic feeling (for thus their partial fondness -adjudged) with which it was written; considering it as no unfavourable -specimen of the expanding powers of a youthful mind. Adelaide was -infinitely far more delighted by this praise of her parents, an incense -so grateful to her heart, than any aspirant to fame in these our -degenerate days could receive from the partial praise and prejudiced -columns of any literary critick. - -Time rapidly moved onward, the winter had passed over with an uncommon -mildness; but the spring, which had now succeeded, proved unusually -harsh, tardy, and severe. The cold north-east wind had incessantly -blown, and vegetation had consequently been chillingly repelled; while -the usual flowers that form the chaplet of spring were chained in their -petals, or wholly destroyed by the frost. And when the merry month of -June arrived, it was indeed unusual and extraordinary to behold the -blossoms of the wild rose, hawthorn, and the laburnum, all mingling -their beauties and their perfumes amid the numerous hedge-rows, and -presenting a diversified mass of colours and foliage, like to the bloom -of a Russian spring, when, melted by a genial vernal sun, trees, plants, -and flowers bud, and immediately burst forth into luxuriant and varied -vegetation; the annual resurrection of nature vigorously springing forth -in renovated youth from the tomb of winter! - -One morning while Lady Adelaide was seated in the library reading some -interesting work with that deep attention and wrapt enthusiasm with -which she always dwelt upon a book of merit, she was suddenly -interrupted in her studies by the approach of that important person, (as -in her own estimation she considered herself;) we here speak of the -redoubtable Mrs. Judith Braingwain, who, rushing incontinently into the -library, and quite out of breath, exclaimed, "Oh, my Lady, who would -have thought it? But however marvellous it is, see, yonder they come; -see, there they are, Bishop Rocket along with his tall wife, who, by the -bye, is hardy as a seagull; and, moreover, a whole flock, aye, a -beautiful bevy of dainty damozels besides! See, my Lady, there--there -they are; they are now just entering the porch; aye, there they come, -sure enough!" - -"How strange!" replied Lady Adelaide, "we left them at Tyrconnel; what -unaccountable anomaly brings the bishop and family from his palace to -this retired spot?" - -Here Mrs. Judith catching at the word _anomaly_, and wholly -uncomprehending it, while she thought proper to confound its meaning, -thus rejoined:--"Anne O'Mally! Oh yes, my dear young Lady, just as if -now before my eyes, I ken that sweet and charming creature, worth a -whole fleet and cargo of such like ladies as Dame Rocket. I remember, ay -faith do I, she was the finest----Oh no, not the finest--that belongs to -another; but as fine a girl as a body might see on a fair May-day in -ould Connaught, any how! And beside, and moreover, she was right loyally -discended [lineally descended] from the great bould pirate princess, -Grace O'Malley, in troth, and sure enough, far and near, and abroad and -at home, far better known, mavourneen, by the famous name of Grana Uile, -who (it is a storical fact) visited Elizabeth,[18] the grand and -conquering queen of all England, in her gallipot [galliot,] afar across -the salt water seas. Oh, Lady Adelaide! Anne O'Malley was indeed a -promising young lady--the finest----" - - [18] Queen Elizabeth received her graciously at court, and offered - to create her a Countess.--See _Notes_ v. III. - -"Nay, nay, nurse," said Lady Adelaide, "be not so flippant in thy -praise, else I shall grow positively jealous. I therefore must stop you -just now, for it seems your tongue runs riot quite with your discretion; -and has bounced off at a tangent in full gallop, jumping pell-mell, hop -and step, from the young and lovely Anne O'Malley to grey-head old -Grana Uile, (of neither of whom, by the bye, did I speak,) until in most -crab-like motion you pounce upon the majestic Elizabeth; and all this -in most manifest and notable contempt of time, place, and circumstance. -This really is not to be endured. Besides, I pray you to remember, that -_once_, however, _there was a time_ when no one was so handsome, so -good, and all so angelic and so forth, as _your own Adelaide_! And, in -undisguised truth, I was in a very fair and hopeful way of being utterly -spoiled, but that happily I turned a deaf and obdurate ear to all your -too partial praise, as well I knew that your commendations all sprung -from overweening kindness. However, just now I am happy to find that you -are converted from your former heresies, and that at length you behold -your poor idol in its mortal shape, imbued with all its natural and -perverse imperfections; and that you are now free to confess that, in -sooth, I am not, as I never was, that angel of excellence, and that -paragon of beauty, which your early devotions conceived me to be. You -have broken your idol, and it has fallen from the pedestal upon which -you had proudly placed it, shivered into atoms on the earth!" - -This Lady Adelaide said in a playful way, half pretendedly serious, and -the other half wholly comic. - -"Ah, my dear young Lady! and so you are still the idol of goodness, and -the very dragon of beauty! none who ever saw you, who ever knew you, can -think otherwise; this I ever thought you were; and I defy Guy of Warwig, -the seven Champions of Chrysostom, and Saint Patrick himself, to boot, -to deny it if they durst, but that you are the best, the brightest, and -finest young lady in the 'varsal world; and I challenge ould England and -ould Ireland to gainsay me! - -It now becomes necessary to say a word or two of this said Bishop -Rocket, who came a visitor to the Duke. Patronage--all powerful -patronage--had placed the mitre upon his brow, as it too often has done -upon the head of many an unmeritorious aspirant to the hierarchy. His -classic acquirements and literary attainments will best be told by the -subsequent details:--Three friends who came to dine _en famille_ one day -at his house in Dublin, sat down, previously to dinner, to play a snug -rubber of whist, thus to pass the intermediate time. It happened to be -of a Friday, during a parliament winter; the printed proceedings of the -House of Lords of the preceding day were brought in, and, as is always -the case, the day of the week and the date of the month surmounted the -top of the page, as the head and front of these transactions. It ran -thus:--"_Die jovis_," &c. "What?" inquired the prelate, addressing one -whom his Lordship considered as the most classic of the trio, "pray, -what is the meaning of _Die jovis_?" - -And in order that such of our fair readers who are not conversant with -the Latin tongue may not burst in ignorance with the hierarchical -inquirant, we shall give, _in totidem verbis_, the answer of the learned -Theban, the bishop's friend:--"Why, my good Lord," said the facetious -gentleman, smiling withal, "'fore Jove, my Lord, the two words conjoined -mean nothing more nor less than _Thursday_! upon which day your Lordship -gave your _benedicite_ to the House of Peers!" - -His Lordship lost the odd trick, looked all quite discomposed; nor did -he recover himself again until the sumptuous and savoury dinner smoked -upon the board. - -Bishop Rocket had enlarged the palace at the See-house of----and had -built, or caused to be built, with his usual want of tact and judgment, -a grand and heavy portico, which fronted the north! Upon the final -completion of this most notable and extraordinary structure the prelate -seemed quite pleased; in which it was conceived that he remained solely -in the singular number. However, he thought fit most condescendingly to -write to a friend, then residing at Rome, a long letter, the burden of -which ran to the following tenor:--"Now, dear and Reverend Sir, as you -are seated, or I, who am a bishop, may say, enthroned at the fountain -head of the fine arts, I have to request that you would have the -goodness to purchase for me twelve statues of the heathen gods and -goddesses to adornate my grand portico, which I have built at an immense -expense; and it is allowed by all the curates in my diocese to have been -accomplished with no inconsiderable portion of taste! And by so doing -you will vastly oblige me." - -The Reverend friend thus wrote back a letter, the chief paragraph of -which, in reply to Bishop Rocket, ran to this effect:--"Most dear and -Right Reverend Lord, as your Lordship requires the statues which you -specify, to adorn the portico of a Christian bishop's palace, what would -your Lordship think--(and oh, good, my Lord, I pray you not to be -offended at the voice of truth, which is seldom heard with patience -either within the precincts of courts or the palaces of -prelates!)--what, I pray, my Lord, would you think if I should select -for you, instead of the heathen gods of antiquated Greece and Rome, -_videlicet_: Jupiter, Vulcan, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Bacchus, and Co., -shall I, most dear and Reverend Lord, transmit to you statues of the -twelve apostles, which surely, most venerated Prelate, you will find to -be, upon mature deliberation, every way far more episcopal, apostolical, -more in good taste, and indeed I must add, quite orthodox. And -assuredly, my good Lord, I feel, and am most fully confident to say and -pronounce it, that the Reverend Head of the holy see would most freely -and cheerfully acquiesce in yielding his assent and consent to permit -these said apostolical statues to be removed and transported to 'the -Island of Saints,' so soon as His Holiness shall be informed that these -stone-sculptured saints are destined for a brother bishop!" - -But know, gentle reader, that Bishop Rocket, whatever might have been -the cause, never even deigned to return any answer to this remonstrative -letter of his too candid friend; and here consequently the proposal fell -to the ground, and never was again resumed. The portico, however, still -stood, presenting its dark _facadè_ to the bleak northern blast, -unsurmounted by statue either mythological or apostolical. - -Mrs. Rocket _had been_--we must speak here historically in the past -tense--had once been a fine woman, and still a portion of that beauty, -though somewhat clipped by the shears of old Father Chronos, still -remained. It was this attracted the bishop when only a curate, and - - "Passing rich on forty pounds a year." - -But all powerful love, whose transcendant sway remains undisputed from -the days of the Teian bard down to those of the mighty minstrel of our -own time, in whose own words we are told, - - "Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, - And men below, and saints above, - For love is heaven, and heaven is love!" - -This potent urchin slily sprung a shaft, which securely settled in the -curate's reverend breast, but which was not long permitted by the -compassionate lady hopelessly to rankle in the bosom of her accepted -mate; for ere long the "happy, happy pair" were indissolubly united in -the bands of holy wedlock. Some folks however, and, by the bye, not few -in number, gave it as their opinion, that the lady happening to be the -niece and nearest relative to the bishop of----who was unmarried, and -besides much attached to his niece, that there appeared to be more of -prudent calculation for the future, than ardent love at the present, in -the transaction; inasmuch, that a large portion of the uncle's fortune, -if not the entire, would ultimately vest in the selected fair one; and -perchance, moreover, a rich benefice to boot, which might be expected -from his Lordship's great episcopal patronage, that in the developement -of time would be bestowed upon Curate Rocket. And all these conjectures, -in due and ordinary course, finally and fully occurred. Indeed, in -confirmation of these conjectures, there existed an additional cause for -nobody's doubting the truth of this popular surmise; it was no less a -cogent reason than this, that the lady was by some ten years, at least, -elder than the man to whom she was affianced. This was indeed an -objection not to be overruled by any thesis or syllogism of the schools; -there was here - - "No quirk left, no quiddit," - -to defeat its truth. It was in contradiction to sense, to propriety, -and meet discretion. Upon this subject thus speaks the immortal -Shakespeare, the great moral bard, and poet of nature:-- - - "Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take - An elder than herself; so wears she to him, - So sways she level in her husband's heart. - For----however we do praise ourselves, - Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, - More longing, wavering, sooner lost or worn, - Than women's are!" - -We must now attempt to present to the reader's eye a just description -of the peripatetic, or walking-dress, of Mrs. Rocket, which no doubt -pertained to a strange, peculiar, and extraordinary costume, which was -in vogue in the times to which we advert. Upon her head she wore a small -cap of Valenciennes lace, which was enveloped in a large and ponderous -machine, ycleped a _calash_; which was so denominated from its structure -and conformation, bearing a close similitude to the head or leather -covering of the French vehicle which is called by a similar name. This -structure was formed of various hoops of whalebone, arranged in -equidistant, semicircular, parallels, forming _en massè_ a huge and -outlandish head-gear; the outside was covered with black lutestring; and -the penultimate circle of this pent-house was adornated and fringed with -deep lace; the interior was lined with rose-coloured silk, which -artfully threw a bloom upon the wearer's visage, whether wife or widow. -This ponderous machine could be advanced or drawn back (like the head of -a modern barouche or landau) by the occupant _ad libitum_, according as -wind or weather permitted, or caprice might dictate. Likewise, with -equal facility, the head of the wearer might be wholly divested of this -incumbrance, which, in such a case, was handed over to the custody of -the attending lackey. - -The reader will please to observe, that this head costume was prevalent -before the modern umbrella, or still more recent parasol came into -general use; and indeed, in some degree, so far as the covering of the -head was taken into calculation, this invention, strange though it may -at the present time appear, so far fully answered the functions and -intentions of these later discoveries of modern art. The lady wore a -large silk cloak, trimmed and flounced with ermine; she also carried a -muff, small in size and calibre, formed of the same materials. To these -were added, as the _materialè_ of her dress, a stiff flowered silk -mantua, supported upon a bell-hoop; an apron trimmed with lace; high -heeled shoes formed likewise a part of the dress, with the dangerous -appanage of pattens, long since exploded in these parts. - -Such was the strange costume which formed the morning or peripatetic -habiliments of Mrs. Rocket. This lady also carried a walking-staff, or -cane; by this we do not, in any measure, mean to assimilate it to the -most formidable and terrific walking-staff once borne by the bluff king -Harry of tyrannic memory, and now exhibited in the tower of London with -sundry other curiosities that belong not to our province to enumerate. -No, gentle reader, the simple staff which the lady bore was of a most -placable description; it was, in sooth, a tall tapering indian cane, and -adorned on the top with a head of beautiful china porcelain, upon which, -in rich and brilliant colouring, were depicted some of the most -beautiful wild flowers of summer. And through every change of weather, -hail or snow, storm, rain, or sun-shine, was to be seen this -indefatigable pedestrian trudging her daily peregrinations. Often, when -remonstrated with for thus running the risk of catching cold, and so -forth, when in good humour, which was _not always_ the case, she was -wont to hum or troll forth an old ditty, one stave of which ran pretty -much to the following effect and tenor:-- - - Why at home should I budge, - Not abroad freely trudge, - My bairns and I altogether? - While my skin I don't grudge, - So be heav'n my judge! - To melt or to freeze with the weather. - -Very often her temper was extremely cross, which she vented in scolding -the servants right and left, wrong or right; and Sunday being a day of -rest, was very often selected, with due circumspection, for this -wholesome exercise of her lungs. An auld Scottish steward, who -superintended the agricultural establishment, upon having auricular -proof how matters stood within the mansion, slily remarked: "Ah, wae to -the hoose where hens craw, and the cocks are silent!" - -Madam Rocket had the reputation all throughout her husband's diocese of -being truly a most notable lady in every sublunary concern. She was -constituted as sole manageress of the entire home department at the -See-house of----; and it was there bruited abroad and around the -country far and near, that the "_omnia Romæ cum pretio_" of Juvenal, -might be fairly applied to Madam Rocket's establishment; but it was -insisted that the "_cito peritura_" did by no means belong to the lady. -However, rumour went on, with its gossip tongue, to whisper that at the -See-house of----every thing was vendible, from the produce of the -farm, the barn, the poultry-yard, the piggery, the dairy, the fruit and -flower garden--nay, even down to the kitchen garden; every article of -which was duly transmuted, as was insisted, into the _Regina Pecunia_. - -The Bishop and his lady, albeit they were no favourites with the Duke -and Duchess, were nevertheless most hospitably invited, and even -pressed, according to the custom of the times, to remain to dinner, and -also to continue their guests for some days at Lætely Abbey. But this -was upon their part most gratefully declined. The Bishop and Mrs. Rocket -partook of a collation, and departed for Dublin, declining the warm and -hospitable invitation upon plea of business in the capital, and to -rejoin their family, who had been with them at Arklow for the benefit of -sea-bathing, and who had that morning proceeded on their way to the -metropolis. - -During the residence of the vice-regal visitors in the county of -Wicklow, they visited all the romantic scenery and the various -picturesque views, each lofty mountain, retired valley, and secluded -stream or glen, within the precincts of that fairy region. - -The lake of Luggelaw made a deep impression upon the Lady Adelaide. She -thus expressed her feelings upon viewing it: "It was," she said, "a -scene so sad, so lonely, and solitary; so wild, so rude, and -mountain-locked, that one here might almost imagine that they saw one of -the secluded pilgrims of Salvator Rosa studiously wrapt in silent -devotion, intent on the sacred volume which he held, and praying to his -Creator; the wilderness his temple, and his choir the roaring cataract -and the accompanying winds of heaven!" - -"Vastly well, Adelaide," said the Duke, smiling with pleasure, "vastly -well, indeed; and now, my love, to complete your sketch, people these -craggy heights above us with three or four banditti; put helmets upon -their heads and lances in their firm hands; then on a sudden our whole -party, spurring onward our jaded steeds, are to fly from the attack; add -to this too to your sketch, and I really think it will be then a -finished _tableaux_, and quite in the due and terrific tone and style of -this great poetic painter." - -Adelaide sweetly smiled, but replied not. - -They next visited Glendalough, or the Seven Churches, and the "sweet -Vale of Ovoca." Ascending the high hill of Knockmokil, Adelaide, in -impromptu, repeated the following lines:-- - - Romantic spirit of this mountain glen - Tell the blest time we may here meet again! - Wilt thou to distant Aughnavanock stray, - Or wend, 'mid Lara's wilds, thy lonely way? - Or here ascend Knockmokil's lofty height, - Where vales transcendant burst upon the sight; - Sea, grove, and forest, rivers, all combine - Their matchless charms, to stamp the spot divine? - -They next visited Loch Dan, the Demon's Glen and Waterfall, the -Waterfall of Powerscourt, &c. &c. - -Lady Adelaide derived the greatest benefit from sea-bathing, and her -health became completely re-established, which one day called forth the -following eulogium from Sir Patricius Placebo; while engaged in -conversation with the Duchess, he observed, "Oh, my Lady, how truly -lovely the Lady Adelaide looks in renovated health and beauty! Each day -still adds to her charms; and, in verity, I should be fully justified to -speak of her in the words of the historic worthy, old Titus Livius, -(whose name, by the bye, the ridiculous French sink down into _Tit -Live_--just, my Lady, as if they were speaking of the little bird called -Tom Tit!) his words are these: '_Adulta virgo; adeo eximia, forma, ut -qûacunquè incedebat converteret omnium oculos_'--'An adult virgin of -such exquisite form, that wherever her steps were turned, thither with -delight the looks of all beholders were directed.'" - -The Duchess duly curtsied, and thanked the Baronet for the classical -compliment which he had paid; and said, "that inasmuch as she was mother -to the object of his praise, she confessed that withal she was indeed -too partial to her beloved daughter to gainsay the polite eulogium of -Sir Patricius." - -The Duke and Duchess determined to remain during each year for some -months at their delightful retreat amid the romantic beauties of the -county of Wicklow; this residence only to be interrupted by the -occasional absence of the Duke to hold a levee or a privy council at -Dublin Castle; the routine of state dinners, or when her Grace presided -at drawing-rooms, balls, &c. or in occasionally going in state to the -theatre royal, &c. &c. The autumnal months were passed at Tyrconnel -Castle, but the winter invariably was spent at Dublin Castle. - -Thus days and months passed over, marked only in the calendar by health, -tranquillity, and social pleasure, without the occurrence of any event -of importance sufficient to be recorded here. Two years at this point of -time had passed over in peaceful serenity, Lady Adelaide daily improving -in the expansion of her mental powers, and in gradual increase of -personal beauty. The Duke, who had been long absent from Tyrconnel -Castle, proposed to pass the ensuing summer and autumn at that lordly -residence, and with all due pomp and solemnity there to celebrate -Adelaide's birth-day, who would at that time enter into her seventeenth -year; and from thence, these high ceremonials completed, his Grace -proposed to proceed to Dublin, to open the biennial session of -parliament: and preparations were immediately set on foot to carry these -intentions into effect. - -During the absence of the noble proprietor Tyrconnel Castle had -undergone a thorough repair, and many judicious alterations and -improvements had taken place in the internal decoration of the castle, -as well as in the external adornment of the lawns, parks, and gardens of -this princely abode. Pursuant to their determination, their Graces set -out accordingly, upon a fine summer morning, on their journey to their -ancient castle; and the space of a week having been occupied in -travelling, the entire family of the Duke safely arrived at their -destination. - -Adelaide was peculiarly delighted once more to behold the scenes of her -infancy, which to every feeling mind have indelible charms; and the -morning after her arrival at Tyrconnel she ascended the ramparts of the -castle, to review the surrounding prospect, so dear to her recollection. -It was a serene summer morning. Our readers perchance may recollect the -scenery which surrounds the castle of Tyrconnel, the lofty mountains of -Slieve-Doon, and the great gap or pass to the mountains, called -Barna-More, all of which we have endeavoured to describe in the second -chapter of this work. Adelaide's mind was fully in unison with the -serenity of the morning, and being deeply impressed with the poetic -impulse, she produced her tablets, and poured forth her tribute to the -_Genius Loci_, in the following - - INVOCATION TO THE RIVER ESKE. - - Roll onward, fierce torrent! roll on to the main! - What bastion or tow'r may thy billows restrain? - Resounds thy hoarse current's loud thundering roar - Round cloud-crested Slieve-Doon and wide Barna-More.[19] - How oft hath the foe-man deep plunged in thy wave, - Thy billows encrimsoned with blood of the brave! - These towers shall yet crumble, these rampires shall fall, - But thou, rapid Eske, be survivor of all! - While down to the confines of uncounted time, - Thy waters roll onward in measure sublime! - - Swift emblem of LIFE, changing, flowing anew; - Still the symbol thou art of eternity too! - Unceasing thy current, impetuous thy force, - Speeding on, full-tiding thy unaltered course: - Still glide, regal stream! let thy bright waters flow, - And foam 'gainst these bastions, which frown'd on the foe. - - Oh, murmuring Eske! from thy deep rocky bed, - O'er dream of my childhood sweet charms thou has - shed, - Whilst gurgling thy waters, to sleep lulled my head! - Nor shall mem'ry ever her pencil withdraw - From thy waters, bright Eske, and thy - heights, proud Tyraugh! - - Flow on, rapid Eske! still roll in commotion; - Unite thy deep foam with the wave of the ocean! - - [19] _i. e._ The great gap, or pass to the mountains. - -Time onward rapidly fled on downy pinions, and the birth-day of the -Lady Adelaide, which occurred upon the Eve of All-Hallows, was now fast -approaching, in celebration of which most magnificent preparations were -making, had been made, and were in a progressive state of continuation -at this hospitable chateau. The Duke and Duchess seemed fully resolved -to spare no expense to testify, if indeed it were at all necessary so to -do, their love and attachment to an amiable and affectionate daughter, -who was most truly worthy of her parents' love, and of every respect and -honour that could be awarded her. - - - - -CHAPTER VIII. - - Vetus opinio est, jam usque ab heroicis ducta temporibus, - Eaque et populi Romani et omnium gentium firmata - Consensu, versari quandam inter homines divinationem - Quam Græci MANTIKE appellant, - Id est, præsensionem, et scientiam rerum futurarum. - - CICERO, DE DIVINATIONE. - - -The thirty-first day of October, _anno salutis_ sixteen hundred and -----, being the Eve of All-Hallows, happened also to be the anniversary -of the birth-day of our heroine, which was duly to be celebrated upon -this memorable day with more than its accustomed splendour, as we have -already premised in the foregoing chapter. - -Adelaide had now entered her seventeenth year; so rapidly doth old -father Time speed along, borne upon his ever fugitive wings, verifying -the truly appropriate motto that we have somewhere seen engraved upon -the dial of a clock, "DUM SPECTAS, FUGIO!"--"while you look on, I fly!" - -Mrs. Judith Braingwain, Lady Adelaide's nurse and foster-mother, and who -from the very beginning seemed resolved not to hold a subordinate place -in the back ground of our story, but firmly determined to carry matters -on in somewhat a consequential way, had now become her young Lady's -_femme de chambre_, and was ever and had been on the alert in instilling -into her youthful and susceptible mind the superstitions of her native -isle; and these stories, daily and hourly as they were repeated, did not -fail to make an impression upon a youthful and romantic mind. This -morning, at an early hour, she attended upon her young lady and -foster-child, a title she was pre-eminently proud of using upon all -occasions. The Irish have been ever proverbial for loving their -foster-children even beyond their own, and the ancient crone who made -her appearance was a living proof of the truth of the assertion. Mrs. -Braingwain having respectfully and affectionately congratulated her -noble foster-child upon the anniversary of her birth, entered into a -long and elaborate series of reminiscences of all the sad and mournful -events which had happened to herself and others upon the Eve of -All-Hallows. But as we are inclined to imagine that the old lady's -melancholy ditties are not very likely to awaken an interest and -sympathy in the reader's breast, we have therefore magnanimously -determined to suppress them altogether. - -The loquacious old dame continued her long-winded reminiscences without -the slightest compunction of mercy or conscience, until interrupted by -the tolling forth of the breakfast bell, which luckily saved the Lady -Adelaide from further prolixity, by at once silencing the garulous old -nurse, whom she regarded from her early years, and wished not to offend. -Adelaide rejoiced at the timely interruption that cut short the prosings -of the old crone, and promptly descended to the breakfast-room. - -A number of young people of both sexes were invited to dinner, to -celebrate Adelaide's birth-day; and the party was to be enlarged in the -evening by an invitation to crack nuts at the castle, which was sure to -include the _nucleus_ of a good supper. All the principal persons of -distinction for several miles around the castle were invited, and all -with alacrity obeyed the festive summons. - -Lady Adelaide, although not always much interested upon such festivals, -yet upon this occasion manifested some degree of anxiety, which was -caused no doubt by that noble generosity of character which she so -eminently possessed, and ever invariably felt greater pleasure in the -gratification of her friends, than in being personally gratified. - -The dinner went off with much _eclat_; pleasantry, wit, and good-humour, -all aiding with their potent charms. When the cloth was removed from the -ducal table, and the desert and wines were duly placed in order, a -stately plateau of confectionary and pastry arrived at the side-table, -which was destined for the juvenile guests, who were there seated. That -day was indeed a right busy one to all the cooks, scullions, and -kitcheners of the household. The thrifty pastry-cooks of these happy -days were most notable for, and assumed very considerable pride, in -raising those superstructures called "pastry fortifications." The -display chosen for this festival was the model of Tyrconnel Castle, -flanked by bastion, battlement, and tower; armorial flags, heraldically -emblazoned in sugar, decorated the summit of each tower and parapet; and -the fosse was floated from its parent Eske, which, instead of a -mountain-stream, supplied the said fosse with a broad and deep portion -of excellent Spanish flummery, upon which was anchored a tiny Armada; -the heights of the barbican and the embrasures of the terrace were -defended with a long train of "eatable artillery," and manned by a large -disposable garrison of sugar-almonds; the watch-towers were alternately -constructed of jelly and _blanc manger_. - -The Duke now gave the word of "assault!" which command was -incontinently obeyed, the juvenile party in every direction making one -grand attack, by a general _coup de fourchette_, _de couteau_, _de -cullier_. The assault was crowned with entire success; the fosse of -Spanish flummery quickly disappeared; the whole train of "eatable -artillery" promptly were destroyed; the jelly and _blanc manger_ towers -were scaled, battered down, and swallowed in a thrice; the Armada -shattered and dispersed; the entire garrison without any remorse or -mercy were devoured, and the "pastry fortifications" completely razed, -without leaving a wreck behind! This attack upon the confectionary -_bijou_ much gratified the juvenile assailants, and highly pleased the -noble hosts, and the grave company seated at their festive board were -most marvellously entertained withal. - -In some short time after, _selon des régles_, the sightless bard, old -Cormac, was led in, bearing his harp beneath his arm. He courteously -expostulated with those who would fain save him the trouble, by -observing, "that he had long borne that instrument his companion in joy -or in sorrow, his last and almost only solace upon earth; and that when -he was unable to bear his harp, his wish was then to be borne to the -grave!" Upon the entrance of the aged minstrel into the saloon, the Duke -ordered that a goblet of mead, foaming and sparkling to the brim, should -be given to old Cormac; which was accordingly done; and then the toast -of that high festival was to be drank, which he repeated: "The health of -the noble young Lady Adelaide," said the sightless bard; and to which he -was facetiously pleased to annex a friendly addition of his own, which -was, "and long may the Lady Adelaide reign!" This is a favourite -expression of fervent zeal and affection used by the warm-hearted Irish -to their superiors. Now in crowds advanced the young folks, who in -various circles thronged around old Cormac, making various inquiries, -and asking numerous questions: "Was the old man always blind?" - -"Nae, nae, that I was not. I once could see, and well; and _truly the -light was sweet, and a pleasant thing it was to behold the light of the -sun_! But now all is dim and dark. Yet I trust that I shall hereafter be -permitted to behold the light of heaven! That fervent hope and my harp -are my consolations during my pilgrimage of darkness!" - -It was next inquired of him how long he had been blind? He replied, "I -was of the same age that our dear and ever honoured young Lady (heaven -bless her here and hereafter!) has entered into this holy day.--I was in -my seventeenth year." - -The Duke interdicted all further interruptions: "Cormac, my honest -fellow, I fear that my young friends are somewhat disposed to trespass -too much upon your time and patience; so quaff your flagon and strike -your harp. But remember, Cormac, nothing dismal upon this happy day; no -dirge--not even an overture, will be endured!" - -Cormac made due obeisance; and seizing his harp, struck its accompanying -notes, while he sung the following:-- - - SONG. - - Who would not toast that lovely maid, - And drink the health of Adelaide, - And fill a bumper round? - - Who, in wandering o'er the glade, - Could meet a nymph like Adelaide? - Then fill a bumper round! - - The beauties of a court would fade - When they're compared with Adelaide-- - Let all fill bumpers round! - - Of sweetest flowers a crown we'll braid, - To deck the brow of Adelaide, - While bumpers flow around! - - Alas! old Cormac he is blind, - Or soon the flow'rets he could find - Should braid the brow and gem the breast - Of Adelaide the loveliest, - While bumpers foam'd around! - -Much applause rang forth a chorus to the minstrel's impromptu -Anacreontic, and flowing bumpers were quaffed to "the health of Lady -Adelaide!" A glass of Burgundy was handed to old Cormac, which he -respectfully declined, but with the request that a glass of pure -Innishowen (whiskey) might be substituted in place of it; and with this -sturdy appendage to his request, "that it might be unadulterated!" These -demands being all strictly complied with, he most devoutly gave his -young lady's health, tossed down at the instant the pure Innishowen, and -in due approval cordially smacked his lips as the beverage disappeared. - -The ladies soon retired, Adelaide deeply blushing at all the honours and -attentions bestowed this day; and felt most grateful to the sightless -old bard, who had in so feeling a manner manifested such attachment to -his young mistress. - -The ceremonies of the tea-table being duly concluded, the graver portion -of the company sat down to their cards: various games were played, loo, -cribbage, gresco, ombre, and lansquenet. The Duke sat down to primero, -"which," observed his Grace, "is my favourite game, as it had been with -Lord Strafford, when he held the high station in which I am at present -placed." - -The younger part of the company, in the mean time, not to discompose the -gravity of the card-playing dowagers, retired apart to the great saloon, -where were stationed all the preliminary _accessoires_ proper and duly -prepared for the mysteries of the Eve of All-Hallows, in order to -commence the various spells, tricks, sports, and charms, which national -superstition and credulity have consecrated, and hoary tradition handed -down from age to age as the records of popular faith. - -"_Allons nous_," said Lady Lucy, playfully, "_allons mes enfants_!" - -"Oh, for mercy's sake, dear Lucy," rejoined Lady Letitia, "pray let us -have no more of this outlandish gibberish; but I pray you let the young -folks at once begin their play, without preface or prologue." - -"Thy design and intention, sweet sister of mine, displeaseth me not; for -be it known, that I also am fully possessed with a most marvellous -disposition, a wondrous curiosity for the commencement of the various -charms, or mysteries, or incantations of this memorable night, call -them by any name you think befitting; and here am I ready and willing to -be the lady mistress of the ceremonies to be done and performed--ay, -without the fee or reward of even plumb-cake or a single poesy! And now, -my merry maids all, for the full and complete execution of the important -duties attending my most consequential appointment, we shall soon -commence our ceremonies of office, and all the various charms of this -night of incantation." Then, with much sprightliness, she added, "But -where, oh, where is my wand? my wand--my kingdom for a wand! I can do -nothing with effect, unless armed with the insignia of my office." - -A servant then came in, and presented a peeled wand or rod, which was -framed from a witch-hazel that had grown on the Tyraugh mountains, and -had been cut and stript of its bark at the express desire of old Cormac, -and was now assumed and wielded with all due and becoming authority. - -"Yes, yes, this is _comme il faut_! this will do. Now I am the most -mysterious mistress of these enchanted revels, and this the wand of my -stately vocation! Young ladies fair, young lords so gay, hear ye, hear -ye all! In full plenitude, potency, and execution of this my office, -hear and obey the important injunctions which I have to premise to each -and to all of you--[this was expressed with much _gaieté du coeur_.] -Be it then known to you all _by these presents_, (as an old dotard once -upon a time began his will);--but I am not dead, yet my _will_ is this: -hear, hear ye all good people and true! and thus I do proclaim, amid all -our play and revels to-night, but without sound of trumpet or -kettle-drum, that there still remains a charm yet to be consummated, and -of such confessed potency too, that this night should not be passed over -without giving it a fair trial, and at once putting its efficacy to the -test! Having thus premised, it would be but foul play that my young -friends should _burst in ignorance_ as to the mode and nature of the -charm. _Eh! bien donc, mes chers enfants!_ you then must know, the fair -young lady who wishes to recognise her future spouse for life, is to -proceed at just this hour to a sequestered lime-kiln, bearing a charmed -ball of untwisted cotton thread, and strongly holding the cord, is to -fling the ball adown the cavern of the kiln; and upon its having reached -the bottom, stoutly to exclaim, 'Who holds the ball?' When this is duly -performed, the person who accomplishes it is to retire before midnight -to bed; a banquet must be spread, and a mirror in which her fortune -shall be read! Now, my gay and merry lasses all, where is to be found -that courageous one who dare do this?" - -The young ladies all, as if by tacit consent, drew back, dissenting from -the proposal. But not so Lady Adelaide, who advanced: "That daring one -am I, and I accept your challenge;" seizing at the same time upon the -charmed ball of untwisted cotton which Lady Lucy then held in her hand, -and of which Lady Adelaide now became the possessor. "I hold now the -charm; it shall not perish until at least its efficacy be tried. But -remember I go alone!" - -"Oh, my dearest, my best beloved Adelaide do not go!--I beseech you -that you do not go at this hour of night--at this season of the year! -storm and rain may overtake you, and cause you to lament the rashness of -your undertaking! In what I have said I wished to raise youthful -curiosity, but at the same time I likewise meant to intimidate, but not -to encourage the attempt!--Why will you go?" - -"Because," rejoined Lady Adelaide, "from the very first I resolved that -I would undertake the execution of the charm; and no remonstrance, not -even force, shall compel me to relinquish my purpose; call it fate, call -it destiny; describe it as rashness; call it e'en what pleaseth thee; it -must--it shall be performed!" - -"But," observed Lady Lucy, "should your absence be noticed what is then -to be done to account for it? What will the Duke say?--what will the -Duchess? And you will bring down the united raillery of all the loo, -tredrille, primero, and cribbage tables, upon your truant head for this -nocturnal adventure of romance!" - -"Oh, tell the Duke and Duchess that as they know _the gods have made me -poetical_, that the fit of inspiration was upon me; and now or never! If -I were not to obey the impulse my precious verse would perish for ever!" - -Adelaide then most sweetly smiling, said: "It boots not what remark may -come from the sober dowagers and solemn wig-pated personages at the loo -and ombre tables; they will be too much absorbed in their winnings and -tricks to think of me. And now I go!" - -"Oh stay, I prithee, stay a moment!--just until I tell thee," said Lady -Lucy. "For before you go you must be told of what positively and fatally -happened in our own family to a kinswoman of mine own, a young lady, -upon the Eve of All-Hallows, who----" - -"Not for the wide world," said Lady Adelaide, "would I hear another -word. If the story, my dear aunt, be amusing or horrific, I pray thee -tell it to my young friends, and then I shall have it told me when I -return. Now wave thy mystic wand, and like a spirit I vanish.--_Présto_ -I'm gone!" - -Adelaide departed. This young lady was indeed the child of romance, with -feelings the most tender and acute; and one who deeply had imbibed the -superstitions of the age in which she lived; all of which had chiefly -been instilled, even from the very cradle, by the old talkative crone, -her quondam nurse; and although possessing a strong understanding, yet -still, as the ever constant dropping of water will impress and penetrate -the hardest stone, in like manner the tales of superstition unceasingly -told, and the numerous attestations of popular faith, did not fail fully -to operate on her credulity. - -Adelaide alone sallied forth from the ducal towers of Tyrconnel Castle, -with deep determination to fulfil the spell of the charmed ball. The -moon with pearly radiance shone forth on her fearless enterprise; -enthusiastic in this adventure as in every thing which she thought, -said, or did, she now boldly advanced to commence the solemn charm; and -with firm and unshaken step she proceeded to the accomplishment of her -nocturnal visit; while intently she looked around, fully to be assured -that no human eye gazed upon the orgies which she was about to perform. - -Adelaide then with quickened step approached a lime-kiln. This fabric -had been for a lapse of time deserted and disused; its apex was crested -with saxifrage, snap-dragon, and foxglove, which told its desolation; -and the ivy too, in curling festoons suspended, overhung the passenger, -and undulated in the breeze. The autumnal gale in mournful gusts swept, -sighing in its course, over hill, and vale, and stream; while the owl -hooted her solitary scream as Adelaide reached this deserted pile, now -the lonely asylum of the nocturnal bat and wary field-mouse. The kiln -had been constructed at the angle of a green knoll, which served as an -ascent to it; and by this mount, or hill, Adelaide with facility -ascended to the empty crater of the lime-kiln; when duly turning her -face to the south she produced an untwisted ball of cotton thread, and -firmly holding the end of the cord, or thread, of the ball, she flung -the ball, as if a plummet, down the concavity of the kiln; when -sounding its depth she ascertained that it had duly reached the bottom, -then she undauntedly inquired in a loud and firm tone of voice--"Who -holds the ball?" The cotton cord on the instant dropped promptly from -her hand, whether by force or fear she knew not; while she thought she -heard a voice unknown ascending in hollow tones from the echoing depth -beneath, emphatically reply--"I grasp the ball!" - -This might have been merely the effect of fear and mental deception, yet -still she thought she had heard the awful response. No shape, no form, -no figure, met her eye; but the words struck her ear and pierced her -heart. Adelaide stood motionless, silent, and pale, as a statue; she had -not the power to scream, articulation was totally suspended; and the -powers of locomotion too were completely paralized, her imagination -became spell-bound, her recollection was fled! At length nature -completely overpowered, she fainted; and it was not for some time that -she recovered the powers of animation, when all the solemn scene that -had so lately occurred appeared to her but as a frightful dream that -had passed in review before her deceived imagination while she slumbered -in that dreadful swoon. - -For some considerable pause of time Adelaide sat motionless upon the -sward of the little knoll that adjoined that ominous fabric, where so -lately that awful charm, consecrated by the credulity of ages, had been -performed. - -After much mental exertion Adelaide found upon trial that she had -sufficient bodily strength to arise; and now having stood up, she -proceeded upon her return to the castle. The moon had retired behind a -cloud, when, with a deep sigh, she exclaimed, "Oh, how much I wish that -the deed had remained undone, and then my mind would have been at rest! -But now I am sadly disquieted, and my heart is sick within me. Oh, it -was not well done!" - -After a pause she continued--"But what will they all this while think of -me at the castle? How shall my absence be accounted for? Why--why do I -shudder thus in self-condemnation? This should not have been!" - -Thus, in self-crimination, Adelaide vented her contrition, while with -trembling fear and step she slowly wended back her wearied way to -Tyrconnel Castle. - -Still advancing, terror seemed every where to accompany her. - - "Horror ubique----simul ipsa silentia terrent!" - -The distant murmurs of the Eske uniting with the ocean affrighted her, -as did her footsteps,--she thought them not her own; while ever and anon -she would stop to listen; but no sounds were heard but those of the -adjoining brook brawling[20] over its rocky channel, or the autumnal -gale rustling the fallen foliage as it swept its plaintive blast along. -At times when partially the wind reposed, and all, for the interval, was -in silence lulled, still her mind was not at rest; occasionally she -would stop, and seemed to meditate to herself; then would she rehearse -the ominous incantation at the kiln, she would raise up her right arm, -bend the hand, with thumb and fore-finger conjoined together; next -suddenly dip the arm and hand, as when she plumbed the charmed ball -adown the mystic concavity of the kiln. When having violently acted -this, she would utter a piercing scream, and then awaken from her -reverie. - - [20] "Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out upon the brook - that _brawls_ along this wood." - - AS YOU LIKE IT. - - -As Adelaide was proceeding onward in her return to the castle, the sky -suddenly became deeply darkened, and a thunder-storm arose; the thunder -loudly re-echoed through the vaulted heavens, and the vivid -lightning-flash preceded each awful peal; then descended torrents of -rain, which fell with the plenitude and the force of a water-spout. - -"Ah, if I had here a friend, a companion in this my hour of trial, I -then would slightly value the tempest that now surrounds me! But the -deed was all my own doing, and plaints now are of no avail. So unto the -castle with whatever remnant of strength or courage may remain.--This is -my only resource!" - -All terrified, pale, and her garments deeply drenched with rain, at -length Adelaide regained the castle; where, when she had put on fresh -attire, forgetful of all the fears and perils which she had encountered, -(such and so great are the contradictions of human nature,) that she -fully, nevertheless, resolved to abide the full completion of the -mysterious charm. - -The awful thunder-storm served as a well-timed explanation for the -deadly paleness of her countenance as the Lady Adelaide rejoined the -social circle. The juvenile party were employed in the various pastimes -of the night, in burning the boding nuts, while - - "Some lovingly in flames consume, - Till wasting into embers grey." - -Meantime others parted company, north and south, with the rapidity, if -not with the force, of a modern Congreve rocket. In others the spark -soon expired, while the gentle relict that was left behind, "like -Patience on a monument," kept stationary on her ordeal bar of trial, -tranquil and serene, until, in expiring embers she blazed, and was no -more! The melting of lead, and various other dainty devices followed. -All which were now succeeded by the grand finale of a ball, in which -minuets, cotillions, and contre-danses followed in course, and were -succeeded by a splendid supper. - -The supper, which was superb and princely throughout, commenced and -ended with delight to all the guests. And while sipping the noble -beverage of the grape, pressed and brought from every generous clime, -the following erudite discussion upon presages, prophecies, and -predictions, occupied the grave and learned portion of the company:-- - -"Some presages," observed the Duke, "may certainly appear to have been -casual, and subsequently adapted to the occasion by the ingenuity of -others; but still there are others that appear supported by such a -connected mass of evidence, that they can be neither questioned nor -denied. Mariana, the famed historian of Spain, (A. D. 1453,) makes -mention, in speaking of the tragical end of Don Alvaro, Earl of Luna, -'that it had been foretold to Alvaro that his death would be at -Cadahalso, by which he supposed to be meant, a town he had of that -name, and therefore he never went thither; but Cadahalso, in Spanish, -means a _scaffold_,' (this prophecy thus 'paltered in a double -sense,') for upon the scaffold Alvaro suffered, and there concluded a -life eminent in glory." - -"And you may recollect, my Lord," said the Duchess, "that George -Buchanan, the famed Scottish historian, relates the very remarkable -forewarning which James the Fourth of Scotland had in the church of St. -Michael, Linlithgow, from an old man of venerable aspect, and clad in -blue habiliments. This person forewarned the king from his proceeding in -his expedition against England, fore-telling to him that it would prove -his ruin. The queen also remonstrated with him against the project of -invasion, by acquainting him with the visions and frightful dreams which -she nightly encountered. But no warning could avert his destiny. And he -fell with a number of his nobility in the ever memorable field of -Flodden Sept. 9, 1513." - -"There is," said the Duke, "another case in point; it is that of Walter -Devereux, Earl of Essex, who foretold that his son, Robert Devereux, -afterwards Earl of Essex, should never survive his thirty-sixth year; -observing at the same time that his father had died at that period of -life, and that he would himself die at that age. The death of his son, -Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, who was beheaded in the thirty-fourth -year of his age, 1567, is a well known and recorded fact." - -Here the Duchess rejoined:--"And you may recollect too, my dear Lord, -that Mezeray, the historian of France, records, that it had been -foretold to Henry the Fourth of France and Navarre, that he should die -in a coach; so that upon the least jolt he would cry out, as if he -beheld the grave opened ready to swallow him. And it is as well known -that this prediction took place, Henry the Fourth having been -assassinated in his coach as he was proceeding to the arsenal to consult -with the immortal Sully, when he was stabbed by the knife of an -assassin, 1610." - -"Sully too," rejoined Lady Lucy, "in his admirable memoirs, makes -mention of those black presages which, it is but too certain, this -unfortunate prince had of his cruel destiny; they were indeed dreadful -and surprising to the last degree!" - -Lady Adelaide next paid a short tribute to this learned and mystical -investigation:--"It may not be amiss," she said, "briefly to notice the -prediction of the death of the Duke of Buckingham, as related by Lord -Clarendon in his history, _and built_, as he emphatically expresses it, -_upon better foundations of credit than usually such discourses are -founded_.--His account is strikingly remarkable; but to recount the -accompanying circumstances would occupy too much time, and seriously -intrude on the pleasantry of the company by entering into the awful and -appalling detail; I must beg, therefore, to refer those friends who may -be desirous to gratify their curiosity on this subject to consult the -pages of the noble historiographer. The presages of our poet Dryden are -deserving of notice, he was extremely addicted to judicial astrology: -upon the birth of his son he took his horoscope, and all his -calculations respecting him marvellously were accomplished; and which -are too recent in the recollection of those present to render it -necessary for me to dwell upon; only to observe, that these astrological -calculations were fulfilled with an accuracy almost amounting to -mathematical correctness." - -It came next to Sir Patricius Placebo's turn to contribute to these -ghostly recollections, who began with a stately hem. "I rather think I -can notify to this noble company a very remarkable circumstance, and I -flatter myself indeed it is one not generally known. It is recorded in -the life of the very erudite and estimable scholar, John H. Hottinger, -that when he ascended the pulpit of the academy of Basle to make _a -farewell oration_ to that society previous to his departure for the city -of Leyden, where he had been appointed Professor of the Oriental -Languages at the College of Leyden, he observed a line written upon it, -which much disturbed him, and surprised the whole auditory, as being -prophetical of his death, which happened soon after. The line was from -Ovid:-- - - '_Carmina jam moriens, canit exequialia cygnus._' - - 'The dying swan his fun'ral song doth sing.' - -Shortly after this the very learned and accomplished scholar was drowned -with part of his family in the river Lemit, in the year 1667. The due -application of this celebrated line, and the analogy of the water-bird -fore-telling the time and manner of his death--hem! - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -Yes, doubtless, there is much grave matter for deep reflection in -this well-authenticated event." - -Lord Glandarah prepared to yield his contribution to the strange topic -under discussion. His Lordship had resided nearly all his life upon the -continent; he was a Roman Catholic, and this, it was believed, was the -disposing reason for his living abroad. He spoke broken English so like -a foreigner, that he might have been almost mistaken for one, as has -been already observed in a previous chapter. "Gad save my soul, my Lady -Duchess, I do remember one of a very remarkable occurrence that happened -some few years ago when I was travelling through Normandy. My Lord -Roscommon, being then a boy of ten years of age, had preternatural -intelligence of his father's death. Gad save my soul, it is the very -most extraordinary circumstance to be sure! Your Grace must know that it -happened at Caen: one day his Lordship was, as it were, madly -extravagant in playing, leaping, getting over the tables, and playing, -Gad save my soul! many other wild gambols. He was, _sans doubtè_, wont -to be sober, staid, lad enough. Those who saw him exclaimed, 'heaven -grant this bodes no ill-luck to him!' In the heat of this extravagant -fit he suddenly cried out, 'My father is dead!' And _assuremènt_, Gad -save my soul! a fortnight after accounts arrived from Ireland that the -Earl of Roscommon was dead! This account was told me, Gad save my soul, -by Mr. Knolles, who had been his governor, and at that time with him. -And, Gad save my soul! I have often heard my Lord Roscommon's relations -affirm this account to be true. Now, Gad save my soul! could any thing -be more extraordinary? _Sans doute c'est impossible!_" - -The hour was indeed very late; and the guests arose, and making due -obeisance, withdrew. Adelaide, according to the good old fashion, -embraced her parents, and retired to her chamber. But she had no sooner -lain down to rest than she heartily repented of what she had done. The -tempest continued with unabated rage; so much so indeed that the guests -departed not from the Castle, but there found a safe retreat from "the -pelting of the pitiless storm." The storm still continued to increase; -the roaring waves of the Atlantic thundered against the shore, and burst -upon the firm foundations of Tyrconnel Castle. - -Adelaide's chamber was ever and anon illuminated with brilliant flashes -of vivid lightning; and often did she wish the mysterious deed undone! - - ---- ---- ----"Oh, - Between the acting of a dreadful thing - And the first motion, all the interim is - Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream!" - -But what Adelaide saw upon that awful night ever remained untold.--She -could never be prevailed upon to divulge the tremendous and frightful -circumstances of that eventful night. The next morning, as it afterwards -appeared, she complained of being very unwell, and kept her bed for some -days. The blame was very discreetly thrown upon her having eaten too -many nuts--having danced too much; and, moreover, supper having -disagreed with her; besides a variety of _et cetera_ explanations. It -was a long period before Adelaide resumed her usual serenity and gaiety -of temper; and whenever her friends or acquaintance would interrogate -her upon the adventures of that memorable night, she would assume much -reserve, and seemed displeased: this the only occasion, it was by all -remarked, that she had ever been observed to have appeared displeased -since they first had the happiness to be acquainted with her. - -The unwarrantable practice of inquiring into futurity prevailed very -generally at and before the period which we write of; and most strange -to say, at times the sacred volume of the Scriptures,[21] and at others -the poems of Virgil and Homer, were consulted for oracular purposes. The -_sortes Prenestinæ_, _sortes Homerianæ_, and _sortes Virgilianæ_, which -were modes of inquiring into the secrets of futurity, are well known to -the classic reader. A remarkable instance of the trial of this latter -sortilege occurred to King Charles I. when at the city of Oxford, during -the civil wars. Going one day to inspect the Boedlian Library, His -Majesty was shown, along with other volumes, an early copy of Virgil, -beautifully printed and exquisitely bound. Lord Falkland, to amuse the -King, insisted upon His Majesty's trying his fortune by the _sortes -Virgilianæ_; whereupon the King, opening the volume, hit upon the fourth -Æneid, line 615, which much disconcerted him. - - [21] Even so recently as during Wesley's time [See Southey's Life - of Wesley] will be perceived the fondness of this celebrated - preacher for divination by lot, and by the casual opening of the - Bible, expecting thereby the peculiar and immediate guidance of - the Almighty! - -The passage is prophetic of the fortunes of Æneas, and, _mutato nomine_, -it was applicable to the royal martyr.[22] - - [22] For the gratification of the curious we here subjoin the - quotation from Virgil, with which is given a translation of the - remarkable lines by Dryden:-- - - "At bello audacis populi, vexatus et armis - Finibus extorris, complexu avulsus Juli, - Auxilium imploret; videatque indigna suorum - Funera: nec quum se sub leges pacis iniquæ - Tradiderit, regno aut optatâ luce fruatur: - Sed cadat ante diem, mediâque inhumatus arenâ." - - VIRGIL Æ. IV. 1. 615. - - "Yet shall a race untamed, and haughty foes, - His peaceful entrance with dire arms oppose: - Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field, - His men discouraged, and himself expell'd, - Let him for succour sue from place to place, - Torn from his subjects and his son's embrace. - First let him see his friends in battle slain, - And their untimely fate lament in vain: - And when at length the cruel war shall cease, - On hard conditions may he buy his peace: - Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, - But fall untimely by some hostile hand, - And lie unburied on the barren strand." - -Lord Falkland, upon observing that the King was discomposed, resolved to -try his own fortune in the same manner, hoping that perchance he might -alight on some sentence that would bear no relation to his own, and -thereby turn aside the thoughts of the King from any impression the -lines might have occasioned. However, the subject of the passage upon -which he unluckily stumbled was fully as unpropitious and as applicable -as that upon which his sovereign had alighted. It was the lamentation of -Evander for the untimely death of his son, in the 11th Æneid. It is well -known that the eldest son of this nobleman, a young man of amiable -character, had been previously slain in the first battle of Newburg. - -It is recorded of the famous and excellent sculptor Giovanni Lorenzi -Bernini, that upon his beholding a painting by Vandyke, which presents -three portraits of King Charles I. on the same canvass--the one a front -face, the other a half side, and the third a profile--the artist -observed: "whoever the individual be whose likeness these three -portraits represent, I am of opinion that the same will come to an -untimely end." - -This painting had been expressly taken and forwarded to Rome, in order -that Bernini might, from the resemblance, sculpture a marble bust of the -King, which accordingly he did; and King Charles, the greatest and best -patron of the fine arts that England can boast of, was so much pleased -with the performance, that he sent Bernini a ring of very great value; -and said to the person who was deputed to bring it: "_Andate a coronar -quello mano, che ha fatto si bel lavorno_."[23] - - [23] Le Vite de Piu celebri Architecti, &c.--_Pagina 358, Roma - 1768._ - -All attempts to inquire into and penetrate the secrets of futurity are -highly to be condemned, as they are nothing less than tempting the -Almighty; it is not for frail man to anticipate the ways of Providence, -and discover these events that heaven always in its wisdom, and often in -its mercy, withholds from mortal eyes. But it is indeed full time to -close (as we apprehend we have trespassed too long on our reader's -forbearance) - - ----"The day to superstition dear, - - * * * * * - - Hallow'd and reverenc'd in the olden time, - Sacred to every saint of every clime." - - - - -CHAPTER IX. - - ----Think ye see - The very persons of our noble story - As they were living; think ye see them great, - And follow'd with the general throng. - - PROLOGUE TO K. HENRY VIII. - - -The celebration of the birth-day of the Lady Adelaide passed over as we -have described in the preceding chapter, and our lovely heroine was now -quite recovered from whatever cause it might have been which had so -disturbed and agitated her upon that eventful and recorded night. The -Duke and Duchess, according to their previous determination, towards the -close of November set off with their suite on their route for Dublin -Castle; for the time was now fast approaching when in great pomp and -state the Viceroy-Duke was to open the sessions of the Irish parliament. - -Their Graces travelled by short stages on account of the abridgment of -the days, and arrived in about four days in perfect health and safety at -the vice-royal palace; no incident, occurrence, or even pleasantry, -happening, that could possibly amuse the story-loving reader, or -important enough to be handed down to posterity in savoury remembrance. - -At this epoch of the Irish history the parliament met only once in two -years; and a member of the lower house, the House of Commons, then held -his seat for life, or at least certainly during the period of the life -of the reigning sovereign, upon whose demise alone a new parliament was -to be called. What then had a member thus chosen under these -circumstances to apprehend or fear from the resentment of his -constituents? Nothing!--certainly nothing! The member was virtually -placed beyond their control, beyond their remonstrance, and above their -resentment; while his hopes and expectations of reward from a minister -for services done, or to be performed, were reasonably great, and held -forth attractive bait to corruption. The representative would, or might, -oppose the measures of a good minister, in order that his services might -be brought into action, and duly paid for upon the performance thereof; -and it would be equally his interest, upon the same corrupt _data_, to -sell himself to a bad and profligate minister for prompt payment! But -both these alternatives were fraught with evils to the constituents; and -against these evils they had, they could have, no control! The minister -too could indeed well afford to bid high and imposing terms, when the -purchase was for life. Thus, although a small portion of virtue might -resist a small portion of temptation, nevertheless that resistance would -become weaker as time advanced, in an increased ratio; and, moreover, as -a long duration and manifold opportunities were given for the temptation -and the tempter, which could not, by possibility, be the case if -parliaments, instead of being for the life of the sovereign,[24] and -meeting only once in every two years, were to have met annually, and the -conduct of the representative were placed under the eye and the control -of their constituents. And assuredly it must strike the good sense of -the reader that the prolongation of the term of parliament weakens the -security of the people, for whose benefit parliaments were constituted; -and that nothing can make it safe to repose so great a trust in any body -of men, as the constitutive body delegates to its representative, but -the shortness of the term for which such delegation is made. - - [24] It was not, however, until the year 1768, during the - administration of Lord Townsend, that the royal assent was given - to an act for limiting the duration of parliament to eight years. - -It appears, from consulting the page of history, that England was one of -the first countries in which the representatives of boroughs were -admitted into the great council of the nation; for until the year A. D. -1265, it was a privilege unknown and unclaimed. - -The cause of calling the burgesses to the great council, or parliament -of the nation, (according to Dr. Robertson, in his "View of the State of -Europe,") was "in order to add greater popularity to the party of the -barons that had armed against Henry the Third, and to strengthen the -barrier against the encroachments of regal power." - -But, alas! how fatally has the converse of the intention of our wise -progenitors been established! From lapse of time, ministerial influence, -the pecuniary embarrassments of the nobles and proprietors of boroughs, -and the all powerful lever of corruption, the boroughs have changed -masters. Those boroughs that were erected as mounds and ramparts against -the powerful influence of the crown, have many of them been purchased by -the crown, and now powerfully preponderating to the opposite scale, have -increased, in a formidable degree, the royal influence and prerogative -which they were created to check; and have but too effectually magnified -the evils which they were formed to repress! - -The day for the assembling of parliament had now arrived, and the -Viceroy-Duke proceeded in great pomp and state to the House of Lords to -open the session. The cap of maintenance was borne by Lord -Mount-Leinster, and the sword of state by the Lord Glandarah. His Grace -was seated in the superb antique state-coach, which was lined with -crimson velvet, and trimmed with gold lace; the exterior was richly and -magnificently adorned; the pannels had been painted by a celebrated -Venetian artist, and the subjects were chosen from the heathen -mythology. The state-carriage was drawn by eight beautiful black horses, -with long flowing tails, and right nobly caparisoned; they were a -present from His gracious Majesty James the Second. The harness and all -the _accessoirès_ were in unison in their magnificence. Six -state-carriages and four preceded that which bore the Duke of Tyrconnel; -and the state-carriage was surrounded by the battle-axe guards. The -streets were lined with soldiery, and no demonstration of respect was -wanting as the noble Duke proceeded to the House of Peers. We need not -tell that his Grace wore the robes of the order of the garter, nor dwell -upon the brilliancy of the diamond star which glittered upon his breast, -nor upon his fine appearance; for the Duke was justly accounted by far -the handsomest man of the age in which he flourished. With great and -unaffected dignity he entered the House of Peers, the trumpets, &c. all -pealing forth the _now_ national anthem of "God save the King," which no -former monarch or viceroy had ever received, as it was composed -expressly for James II. Meanwhile the long and continued peal of cannon -told to all that the noble viceroy was seated upon the throne.[25] We -mean not to harass our kind reader to actual death by giving him, in -_totidem verbis_, the speech of his Grace, but we will however venture -to record, for historical remembrance, the mode _entrè_:--The Duke of -Tyrconnel enters the House of Peers, the Earl of Mount-Leinster bearing -the cap of maintenance; the Lord Glandarah carrying the sword of state; -the train being supported by Sir Richard Talbot. His Grace made his -_congès_ to the cloth of state; then taketh his seat on the throne under -the canopy, the Secretary of State standing at his right hand. The Lord -Chancellor then proceeds to his stall on the Lord Lieutenant's right -hand, and acquaints the Lords that it is the Lord Lieutenant's pleasure -that their Lordships should be covered. Next, the Lord Chancellor, -kneeling, receiveth a direction from the Lord Lieutenant; and thereupon -standing up again wills the Gentleman-Usher of the black-rod to acquaint -the House of Commons that it is the Lord Lieutenant's pleasure that they -should attend his Grace. When the speech contained the following -items:--'Thanks to the House of Peers for their loyal devotion so often -manifested for the honour of the crown, and so forth; their unshaken -loyalty, &c. to the king's person and government. Thanks followed to -the House of Commons for the necessary provisions for the services of -the ensuing year so cheerfully made, &c. Then followed a general appeal -to both houses, entreating them that when they returned to their -respective counties to use their utmost endeavours to inculcate and -bring to bear the same loyalty and affection by them so often and -efficiently demonstrated.' The Duke concluded his speech in these -emphatic terms:--"And I cannot conclude, my lords and gentlemen, without -the hope that you will permit no apprehensions of grievances or -causeless jealousies to interrupt that tranquillity and social order, -and obedience to the laws, which constitute the fountain of all -political happiness--the source and the support of industry, -agriculture, commerce, and all national amelioration, which has been -ever the unvaried pursuit of the best of kings. And I shall not fail to -represent to my royal master your dutiful devotion; and the only reward -which I look to, is your free and unbiassed approbation!" - - [25] At this point of time the Irish House of Lords met at the - hour of three o'clock in the afternoon; but when the house was - engaged in the hearing of appeals they regularly assembled at the - hour of nine o'clock in the morning. - -His Grace upon quitting the throne was dutifully received by the house -uncovering, and rising from their seats. An address was then moved as an -echo of the speech, by the Earl of Clanrickarde, and was seconded by the -Viscount Kilmallock; which passed the noble house, _nemine -contradicente_. In the lower house the address was moved by Mr. Murtagh -Magennis of Balligorionbeg, and seconded by Mr. James Lally of -Tallendaly, and passed the house unanimously. - -Leave was granted for an act to be brought into the house, entitled, -"The Tithe Agistment Bill," which was read next day the first time, and -after a few days a second time; and a day was appointed for the third -reading. When that day had arrived Lord Glandarah, who was in the -robing-room, observed a strong muster of bishops; and upon entering the -house he whispered a friend--"I clearly perceive, Gad save my soul! that -we shall have a very angry political debate to-day, for I left my lords -the bishops duly caparisoning them-selves in their celestial armour!" - -Some altercation took place in the robing-chamber between Lord -Mount-Leinster and Bishop Rocket, between whom there existed a private -pique. - -"I see, my Lord Bishop, that charity covers a multitude of----Hem! I -mean, my Lord, that I verily saw your Lordship giving alms to the amount -of----one shilling just now as I arrived in the house!" - -"Yes, my Lord Mount-Leinster, I deny it not: and I perceived that your -Lordship followed on the instant so excellent an example; for, from the -cogency of the case, you too were forced to pay twice the sum! Ha, ha, -ha!--_two_ shillings into the poor's box." - -All which being _translated_, (no offence to Bishop Rocket,) signifies -that the Bishop and the Earl were both late in their arrival in the -House of Peers, and they had accordingly to pay the penalty for arriving -in the house "beyond a quarter of an hour after prayers had been -read"--_secundum regulam_.[26] - - [26] "Every Lord that comes not within a quarter of an hour after - prayers, if he be a Bishop or Baron, he, is to pay one shilling, - and if he be any degree above, two shillings to the poor man's - box."--_Standing Orders of the Irish House of Lords_, p. 13. - Printed by Sleater, Dublin, 1778. The title of the work was, - "Rules and Orders to be observed in the Upper House of Parliament - of Ireland."--The Clerk of the House was treasurer of the poor's - box.--p. 39. - -The clerk read aloud at the table, "_Hodie, tertia vice lecta est -billa._" This act was "the Tithe Agistment Bill," entitled, "An act to -quiet and bar all claims of tithe agistment for dry and barren cattle." - -When an angry debate ensued, Bishop Rocket arose with much warmth, and -contended "that it was an act tending most forcibly to wrest the rights -and privileges of the Church, to the great detriment of the hierarchy, -and the all unalienable properties and immunities of their lawful -successors; and forcibly militating against the welfare, property, and -prosperity, of the Church and State, as then by the laws of the land -established and in force." - -Lord Mount-Leinster arose: "My Lords, this is a bill which I would call -as one of the most pacificatory nature, and tending to repress the -grievous mode in which tithes are generally collected from the -population of this country, who have, if they are of the Catholic -persuasion, to pay two pastors; and I will moreover, my Lords, be bold -to say, that no school-boy, studying his _as in presenti_, could be so -stupidly credulous as to give credence to the monstrous assertion of the -Right Reverend Lord, or for a moment believe that posthumous piety to -his successors can or could be the predominating cause of the vote given -this night by the Right Reverend Prelate."--[_Hear, hear, hear._] - -With the most violent indignation Bishop Rocket arose: "Lord -Mount-Leinster, but for these black rags," shaking indignantly his -sacerdotal robes; "look ye, but for these black rags, I would fight -you!"--[Here numerous cries were heard of "_Order, order, -order_"--"_Chair, chair, chair!_"] - -Sir Patricius Placebo and Mr. Berenger were stationed at the bar of the -house, and the risible muscles of the Baronet were incontinently put -into play, which had been _certes_ audible, but for the noise and -uproar in the house. Laughingly, he whispered Mr. Berenger, "Room, room, -my Lords and Nobles all; I cry make room for the incensed worthies! - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!" - -He then laughed immoderately, and took snuff at a surprising rate from -his King Carolus' snuff-box. "Yes, yes, Mr. Berenger," he added, "ha, -ha, - - 'Fools will talk, and fools will prate, - Nor silence keep at any gait.' - -For, Sir, you know, - - 'Πάντες οἱ μωροὶ μαίνονται.'[27] - - [27] "All fools are mad." - -That is at least according to the doctrine of the stoics." - -The gallant, gay Mr. Berenger so politely smiled ever and anon, that it -nearly amounted to a laugh. But this had been interdicted at the court -where he too often had - - ----"listened, - When the last Charles's beauties glistened - In splendid robes of gaudy vice, - And could with syren songs entice." - -However the question, upon being put, was resolved in the negative, by -the motion that the bill should be read that day six months! The -Chancellor could make no peace between the enraged combatants, who -adjourned to the robing-room, when this scene of altercation took -place:-- - -Lord Mount-Leinster, addressing Bishop Rocket, emphatically said: "My -Lord Bishop, you are now unharnessing yourself from that celestial -panoply or armour in which you flourished in the House of Peers, and -which, I must observe, you somewhat unseemingly, if not indecorously, -called your "black rags," - - "Tutius est igitur fictis contendere verbis, - Quam pugnare manu." - -I have ever been, my Lord--mark me--a gallant swordsman; nor would I -brook an affront from a king. Let not then your sacerdotal robes, or, -as you were pleased in mirth to call them, your "black rags," let them -not, I say, prove your peace-makers in this gross breach of decorum. I -must observe, that, according to the spirit and strict laws of the -_Duello_, or single combat, the ceremonies thereunto affixed and -appertaining, connected and deducible from chivalry, are duly and -implicitly laid down by the celebrated Caranza,[28] the oracle of -duelling, and the no less sage and famous Master Selden, in his very -learned and unimpeachable treatise upon the laws of the _Duello_; and in -good sooth my very grave and reverend Lord Coke has it as a _punctum_ in -his Institutes, 'that in these matters, where the person possessing a -right, or sustaining a grievance, could not act, on account of -professional or personal disability, or perform the service required in -person, he was then to name a sufficient person for his deputy!' Now, my -Lord Bishop, I must needs observe, that I think that this was truly a -marvellous right praiseworthy custom, that when any grave and reverend -personage, willing to give satisfaction, as you profess, finds himself -impeded by his reverend skirts tripping up the laws of the _Duello_, -from being, for sad ensample, a son or dignitary of the Church, and so -forth, that upon such occasions their _next_ and _nearest of kin_ should -take up the gauntlet: and such a proxy, my Lord Bishop, I now claim from -you to enter the lists with me, as becomes your true knight and -representative!" - - [28] The celebrated Caranza was, in sooth, the oracle and manual - of duelling in his day. He was by birth a Spaniard; his name - Geronimo Caranza. His famous work was entitled, "_Verdera Destreza - de las Armas_"--"The true Dexterity or Skill in Arms." His talents - are thus eulogized in the comedy of "_Los Locos de Valencia_," of - Lope de Vega:-- - - ----"El gran Caranza, - A quien las armas en Espana deben - Quanta mayor destreza el arte alcanza." - -BISHOP ROCKET.--"Know then, Lord Mount-Leinster, that I shall send my -sedan chairmen to fight you!!" - -"A precious boon, and peerless proxies, I needs must say, my Lord -Bishop, thou hast chosen!!! In sooth I oft have heard of knights of the -lance and eke of the bucket,[29] but never until now heard of knights of -the pole! But although, from your Lordship's reply, it appears that your -_next_ and _nearest_ of kin happen to be your sedan-chairmen!! my own -dignity prevents me having any further parley with you, much less -contact with _your kindred_!" And then Lord Mount-Leinster, wheeling -around, made his exit from the robing-room, flinging a rapid and most -contemptuous look at the discomfitted bishop. - - [29] This slily alludes to the _Secchia Rapita_, ("The Rape of the - Bucket,") a burlesque poem, by Tassoni. - -All peers and prelates, much diverted at the result, now withdrew. -_Solventur risu curiæ._ The enemies of Bishop Rocket (who had certainly -sprung from a low origin) insisted that his two sedan chairmen were his -own proper kinsmen, and, moreover, bore his name. His friends did not -deny the charge; but said, in extenuation, that "after all this was no -wondrous thing, as the Maréschal de Richelieu, when at Vienna, had -purchased baronies for his two _portéurs de chaise_; and when some -ladies of fashion boasted that they had in their kitchen several French -Marquises, 'I believe it,' replied the Maréschal, 'for my sedan chair is -supported by a brace of German barons!'" - -The eulogists of Lord Mount-Leinster loudly lauded him for the -chivalrous spirit which he had manifested in this _rencontre_ with the -Church, which they considered and maintained as in no wise inferior to -the adventure of the redoubted knight _de la Mancha_, when he -encountered the windmill, and whose valour it was confessed was only to -be paralleled with his discretion! - - - - -CHAPTER X. - - Times have their changes; sorrows make us wise: - The sun itself must set as well as rise! - - PERKIN WARBECK. - - -While matters were going forward in Ireland as we have endeavoured to -describe them in the preceding chapters, the tide, meanwhile, of -political occurrences in England arose to a tempestuous and -uncontrollable flood, that was wholly unexpected by Tyrconnel, and quite -unapprehended by his royal master. To England, therefore, we now must -trace our steps. - -The various unpopular and arbitrary acts of King James the Second -paralyzed those loyal effusions that burst forth when he ascended the -royal throne of the Stuarts. The acquittal of the seven bishops who had -been arbitrarily imprisoned in the tower still further increased the -king's unpopularity. The confiscation too of property which followed, -and the attainder of many loyal Protestants, soon swelled high the -torrent that shortly was to burst against the abutments of his throne, -and destroy that prerogative of power which he had so unjustly and so -unconstitutionally assumed. Many now doubted the justness of the -appellation of "James the Just," which had been awarded him shortly -subsequent to his having been proclaimed king. Indeed his going publicly -to mass two days consequent to his succession to the crown, at the time -gave surprise and offence to the nation. Some events too occurred in -those superstitious days, that in the present times would be slightly -passed over, but which, albeit, were certainly considered as ill omens -in that age. At the solemnity of the coronation, the crown not being -properly fitted for the royal head, was often observed in a tottering -condition, and likely to fall off. Mr. Henry Sidney supported it once -with his hand, and pleasantly told the king,[30] that "this was not the -first time that his family had supported the crown." "In one of the -churches in London, the king's arms, stained on a glass window, suddenly -fell down and broke in pieces, while the rest remained standing, without -a possibility of discovery why that part should fall down sooner than -the rest. The canopy also, which had been borne over his head at the -coronation, did break."[31] - - [30] Rapin's History of England, vol. II. pages 742, 743, and - Note. - - [31] Ibid.--pages 742, 743, 771. - -James II. espoused the Princess Maria d'Este, the sister of Francis Duke -of Modena, who was as beautiful as she was unfortunate. The queen had -been married some time without presenting her royal consort with a -child. When this event did take place, malice, falsehood, envy, and -intrigue, were not slow in pronouncing that the heir apparent thus born -was a "suppositious Prince of Wales." Then followed the ridiculous -episodes of the "sham conception," and "the warming-pan," which were all -a tissue of forgery and falsehood, still further intended to diminish -the king's decreasing popularity, and bring his person and throne into -disrepute. But upon the whole mass and evidence of history that is -presented, the only conclusion to be drawn was this, and only this--that -the Prince of Wales, so far from being suppositious, was royally and -legally born, the royal and lawful successor to his father's throne and -realms. - -In consequence of all these combining unpopular results, a resolution -was taken by many of the disappointed, disaffected nobility and gentry, -of calling in the Prince of Orange of Nassau to ascend the throne of -Britain. And in pursuance of this determination several noblemen and -gentlemen were secretly deputed to go over to the prince, and invite him -to assume the sceptre of England. To these invitations the prince fully -acceded, and firmly determined to head the party. It need not be told -the reader that the Prince of Orange was the son-in-law of King James, -having espoused his daughter, the Princess Mary. The intriguing party -used all their endeavours to prevent the secret of their project from -being divulged. In this matter the Earl of Sunderland basely betrayed -his royal master. Meanwhile King James remained wholly incredulous to -the belief of the existence of these political machinations; and -although he was advised thereto by Mr. Skelton, his Majesty's Envoy at -the Hague, "that a great project was secretly carrying on against him," -yet was this incredulous sovereign so sure of success, that he quite -neglected this intelligence, conceiving that it was only an artifice to -divert him from his designs; and he, therefore, to all such reports -closed an unwilling and unbelieving ear. - -Numbers of the English nobility and gentry now addressed the Prince of -Orange to deliver them from that oppression under which they bent. And -in reply to a long _memoirè_ presented to the prince, he published two -manifestoes, declaratory of, and justifying his descent upon England, -which were accompanied by his embarkation from the states of Holland, -and shortly followed by his arrival in England, where by numbers his -Highness was warmly received. Many personages of high rank declared to -him their support; and furthermore, several regiments of the army of -King James joined the standard of the Prince of Orange. - -At length the landing of the prince, and the cordial reception with -which he met withal, awoke the royal and too incredulous James from his -trance, and he now finally resolved upon the measure of flying from his -discontented subjects, whom he considered had betrayed him by thus -calling in a foreigner to assume the sovereignty; and he forth-with -determined to sail with what expedition he might from the shores of -England, and put himself at once under the protection of the King of -France. - -However, previous to the flight of the unhappy James from his throne and -realm of fair England, he resolved in the first instance to provide for -the escape of his queen consort, and his son, the infant Prince of -Wales. King James was so surrounded by spies and informers, that the -very greatest circumspection was absolutely necessary to shun the -hundred eyes of Argus which environed him; for, as but too often is the -unhappy case with kings, that almost literally he knew not whom to -trust. While flatterers and sycophants surround and blockade a throne, -it must not be expected that truth, sincerity, or friendship, can there -be found;--no! they are quite unknown within the stately precincts of a -court! But still there was one found, and one worthy of the royal -trust--the Count de Lauzun, a noble, brave, and generous Frenchman; and -to this nobleman the king intrusted his queen and infant son, to assist -them in conducting them in safety to France, aloof from all the enemies -of the royal James. - -The plan of proceeding, and all the consecutive details, were -accordingly secretly arranged, and the greatest and most scrupulous care -and caution were duly taken to keep these determinations a profound -secret, lest the flight of the queen and infant prince being known or -suspected, the measure might be wholly frustrated by the intervention of -the emissaries of the Prince of Orange. - -The solemn hour of midnight was selected as the safest time for the -flight of the royal fugitives. The young prince, to escape suspicion, -was placed in bed at his accustomed hour; and shortly after the king and -queen, having duly dismissed all their attendants, retired seemingly to -repose, but not to rest! - -When the eyes of all in the palace were closed, save the waking, -watching, unwearied eye-lids of the royal sufferers, the king and queen -arose from their couch, and cautiously opened the private door leading -to the royal closet, where in readiness awaited the noble and faithful -Count de Lauzun. The queen raised the infant prince from his cradle, -wrapped him in a swathe of flannel to keep the infant warm; indeed no -unnecessary precaution, for cold and bitter was the winter weather in -which the royal child was thus in silent secrecy of night taken away -from the princely hall of his royal progenitors. - -King James affectionately embraced them both, as sad and sorrowful he -bade them a mournful farewell; and wept most bitterly at this parting -scene, in which affliction his royal consort fully participated. His -Majesty then intrusted them both to the loyal charge of the noble and -faithful count, who taking the royal infant under one arm, while he -assisted the queen with the other, they set forth from the palace to -pursue their perilous and melancholy journey. - -Stormy and tempestuous was the night, the wind blew with violence, and -rain impetuously descended in torrents. They now approached the banks of -the Thames, in order to procure a boat to cross over to Lambeth. At this -point of time Count de Lauzun had previously engaged a boat to be ready -in attendance, thence to escape down the river to Gravesend, to come up -with the vessel which he had hired, and there awaited to convey them to -France. But unluckily it happened that so pitchy dark and stormy was the -night, the boat, when hailed, was not to be found. In total despair for -some moments he remained; but again, more loud and stoutly once more he -hailed the boat: the signal was heard, and obeyed. They descended down -the Whitehall stairs and embarked; and finding a great swell in the -river the count resolved not to proceed by water to Gravesend, but to -land at Lambeth, and thence proceed by land. They arrived in safety at -the Lambeth stairs, and landed, when the count surrendered to the queen -the royal charge to hold, while he went forth to obtain a coach from the -nearest adjoining inn. - -Meanwhile the hapless queen--queen of the greatest realm in Europe, -arrayed in disguised habiliments, stood trembling under the shelter of -the ruined walls of a church, shivering in the blast, and dripping with -rain, wistfully listening to every sound, and piteously raising her eyes -to heaven. Oh, what a fearful lesson was here! a few days ago she might -have proclaimed to all the world--"This is my throne, let kings come bow -to it!" And this awful night she might envy the poorest cottier in her -dominions. However, after long suspense, suffering, and delay, the -count returned, having procured a carriage; and he lost no time in -placing the trembling queen and shivering infant in the vehicle. - -Without any accident whatever the royal fugitives reached Gravesend in -perfect safety. Here, trembling with fear, and nearly overpowered by -sorrow, the queen alighted on the quay, where the boat, (which was an -open one,) belonging to the brig destined for Calais, awaited their -coming. The count, without a moment's delay, placed the queen and prince -in the boat, and flinging around them the boatman's cloak, he sat down -by them, and bade him to row on. He told the boatman that the persons he -bore away were his wife and child; and thus no suspicions were awakened -in the mind of the boatman of the great personages he thus bore off amid -the shades of night. - - "Sail on, sail on, thou fearless bark, - Wherever blows the welcome wind; - It cannot lead to scenes more dark, - More sad, than those we leave behind!" - -By the morning tide they had reached, without molestation, a small brig -destined for France. To the captain the count also pretended that the -queen and prince were his own wife and child; he bargained for the -voyage, and the contract was agreed to. But the vessel was no sooner -under weigh, when how great their surprise, and how proportionate must -have been their apprehensions and alarm, while they beheld the whole of -the English fleet stationed at the mouth of the Thames, to examine all -vessels, and prevent their escape. But fortunately the vessel was so -small that, being unsuspected, she was permitted with impunity to pass -the admiral of the fleet, in no wise suspecting that her hull contained -such very distinguished personages on board, so no examination took -place. The vessel sailed on unmolested; and that very night the Count de -Lauzun had the happiness of safely landing the royal sufferers on the -pier of Calais. From thence they proceeded to Versailles, where her -Majesty and infant prince were received by Louis the Fourteenth with -great marks of affection and of the highest respect, which afforded some -consolation to the queen under her melancholy reverse of fortune. - -Meanwhile King James suffered great and intense anxiety concerning the -fate of his unhappy queen and infant prince. - -His Majesty now fully determined to follow the queen, and waited but one -day to execute his design.[32] The following night, in a plain suit, and -a bob-wig, he took water at Whitehall,[33] accompanied only by Sir -Edward Hales, Mr. Sheldon, and Abbadie, a Frenchman, and a page of the -back-stairs, without acquainting any other person with his intentions. -All writs sent out for the electing of parliament he ordered to be -burnt; and when he took water he threw the great seal of England into -the Thames, (which was some time afterwards taken up by a fisherman in -his net,) that nothing might be legally done in his absence. "If," -continued Rapin, "this may not be called a real desertion of his -kingdom, it will be difficult to give a name to such proceedings!"[34] - - [32] Rapin's History of England, vol. II. p. 781. - - [33] Ibid. p. 782. - - [34] Ibid. p. 783. - -However, the king did not succeed in this attempt to escape, inasmuch as -he was arrested at Feversham, and abused and insulted by the rabble; he -lost a number of valuables, and gave up to the mob about between three -and four hundred pounds in specie. Here he was protected by the Dutch -guards of the Prince of Orange, and chose to retire to Rochester; where, -in the space of about ten days from the time he had attempted his first -escape, he now resolved upon trying a second. About three o'clock in a -dark winter's morning he privately withdrew, taking with him only the -Duke of Berwick, (his natural son,) Mr. Sheldon, and Abbadie, the page; -and went on horseback to a place near the river, where he embarked in a -small frigate, which landed him safely at Ambleteusè, in France; from -whence he repaired to the court of Louis the Fourteenth, where with much -satisfaction he rejoined his queen and infant prince. "This abdication," -emphatically observes Rapin, "paved the prince's way to the throne!"[35] - - [35] Rapin's History of England, vol. II. p. 783. - -Upon the departure of King James from the shores of England, an -_interregnum_ occurred of such a nature as was hitherto unknown in -England. It was not caused by the death, but by the flight of the -sovereign. Hence this incongruity took place, that the nation was -without a king, nay, even without the representative of one, that would -take the charge of the government! Yet still, strange to say, there was -a king!--albeit a fugitive; who, although he had fled, and abandoned his -throne, yet still pretended to retain his rights! - -How short and limited is the narrow space between popular adoration and -popular disgrace! To-day a king, an emperor, a demi-god--To-morrow a -fugitive, an outcast from his realm, unregarded and forgotten! for ever -blotted from the page of kings, his fate or banishment or the scaffold! -Who can then rely upon the popular breath, wayward, fickle, and -uncertain as the wave or wind? Oh! then, let the true patriot, _if_ such -is to be found upon earth, think on this; and, divested and purified -from the dross of poor mortality, reflect upon all this; aye, and let -him then, firmly armed in integrity, despise equally alike public -censure or public praise! - -From this melancholy digression upon fallen greatness on English ground, -we shall reconduct the reader once more to the shores of Erin, and again -return to the family of Tyrconnel in the succeeding chapter. - - - - -CHAPTER XI. - - ----------O, behold - How pomp is followed! mine will now be your's; - And should we shift estates, your's would be mine! - - ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. - - -We now bring back the reader to the realm of Ireland, which was doomed -shortly to be the scene of anarchy and civil war, where disastrous -tidings of awful import, posting incessantly onward, hourly arrived, -rapidly heralded by rumour's thousand tongues, to afflict the loyal and -disconcert the brave. - -An official despatch soon followed, which communicated and confirmed to -Tyrconnel the sad and dismal event of the flight of his royal master to -France, which truly gave him deep and sincere affliction. This -voluntary abdication of his throne upon the part of King James II. gave -Tyrconnel sorrowful concern for the present, and a sad and mournful -foreboding of the future! "Oh, had my royal master only stood his -ground," said the duke, "and have firmly held his throne, who would, who -could have dared to hurl him from it? No; even with all his political -miscalculations, nevertheless his enemies could not have succeeded. The -Prince of Orange would still have found it a difficult, perhaps an -impossible task, to have ousted his truly royal, accomplished, and brave -father-in-law, from his lawful throne; for brave and valiant was the -king, and I doubt not but still brave he is. And there was a time, be it -not forgotten, while he was Duke of York and Lord High Admiral of -England, when nobly he fought beneath the British banner, and gloriously -led on his fleet to victory!" - -The Duchess of Tyrconnel, whose powerful mind and firm nerves were -"albeit unused to the melting mood," yet when her Grace heard the -mournful recital of the sufferings and voluntary exile of her afflicted -queen; she then indeed was deeply affected, and - - "Dropt tears as fast as the Arabian trees - Their medicinal gum." - -The Duchess was a wife--moreover a mother, and she knew how to pity and -compassionate the unfortunate, from the palace of kings down to the -cottage of the poor. And equally distressed was our lovely heroine, -whose generous bosom ever beat, and felt, and assisted the afflicted. - -Some months had now elapsed, when one morning, while the duke was at -breakfast with his family, a despatch for his Grace, and in the -hand-writing of King James, arrived. The despatch intimated that His -Majesty was then on his way to Ireland, and summoning the immediate -attendance of Tyrconnel at Kinsale, where the king proposed to land. The -despatch was brought over in a fast-sailing French corvette, called -"_l'Eclair_," which had been detached from the French fleet which was to -escort King James to Kinsale, expressly upon this mission. And his -Grace, in obedience to the royal mandate, instantly set off by land for -the town of Kinsale. - -King James II., upon _abdicating_, or _deserting_ (for great debates in -the British parliament ensued upon the proper term to be used) the -throne of England, had sought and obtained an asylum in France, -generously yielded to him by Louis XIV. King James now fully resolved, -as His Majesty expressed himself, "to make one more glorious attempt to -recover his throne;" which to effectuate he sailed from the shores of -France, attended by fourteen ships of war, six frigates, and three -fire-ships, which had been prepared in the port of Brest by the French -king. At the same time seven French battalions embarked in the fleet -which conveyed King James. The troops were commanded by the Count de -Lauzun, the same gallant, generous nobleman who had escorted King -James's queen and the Prince of Wales to the court of Versailles. The -forces were accompanied with twelve field pieces. - -King James was attended in this expedition by several noble personages. -His Majesty landed at Kinsale amid the loudest cheers, and was warmly -received and welcomed by all descriptions, from the peer to the peasant, -with the greatest joy and enthusiasm. Here, in pursuance to the -instructions given to Tyrconnel, he was in readiness on the beach to -receive his royal master, where he knelt as the king approached; who -instantly upraised him, and affectionately embraced his faithful -viceroy; and instantly set off in his travelling carriage for his good -city of Dublin, accompanied by the Dukes of Berwick, Albemarle, and -Tyrconnel. - -Sir Patricius Placebo, from the very moment of the announcement of the -intended arrival of his much loved sovereign at Kinsale, was constantly -on the _qui vive_, considering himself, if not the _locum tenens_, at -least the Lord Constable of his vice-regal lord, and spared no pains to -make every meet and solemn preparation to receive the right royal Stuart -into his loyal city of Dublin. - -"Yes, yes, my lady Duchess," observed Sir Patricius Placebo one morning, -while at breakfast, "we will indeed receive our king right royally, -_more majorum_--ha, ha, ha! _Certes_ we shall, my Lady! with no lack -whatever of respect, and albeit with no deficit of heart!--there, in -sooth, no failing was ever yet found in an Irishman; although I -asseverate it, who, pardie, ought not, my Lady: for - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -as indeed the learned, great, and renowned Archimedes said of old. And I -will "do a deed"--not "without a name" however; for this moment I shall -fly to old Cormac, whom I shall adventure to appoint and depute, in the -absence of my superior, as the vice-regal poet laureat. Next I will post -to Ulster King at Arms; ay, and shall advise and give him hints and -innuendos of far more value and importance than all the gilt tinsel and -crimson silk which surround his brow. I shall admonish him, and his -tributaries and gallant pursuivants, one and all, decorously to furbish -their tabards, and to hire, beg, borrow, or steal stately palfreys, to -bear the herald king and suite, to meet and receive their lawful and -beloved king upon his honoured entrance into his loyal and ancient city -of Eblana, _vulgo dicta_ Dublin. Then will I hie me to the Commander -(_pro tempore_) of the Forces, and tell him of the programme which I -have planned for the king's _entrè_. And next, noble Lady, returning to -this His Majesty's royal Castle, I shall give sage and precautionary -hints and instructions to all the state battle-axe guards, state -kettle-drums and trumpets, and so forth:-- - - -------------------------------"trumpeters, - With brazen din blast ye the city's ear; - Make mingle with our rattling tambourines; - That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together, - Applauding our approach!" - -Ha, ha, ha! I think, my lady Duchess, we shall get on vastly -well--vastly well indeed, and not only receive the applause of my -vice-regal lord, but perchance that also of my mighty monarch." - -The Duchess smiled. "I doubt not," said her Grace, "that all matters -shall go on well, _te duce_. But Sir Patricius you are, (it were in vain -to deny it,) you are an enthusiast!" - -"Well, well, my lady Duchess, I shall not gainsay it. Perchance, your -Grace, I am an enthusiast; and after all, my Lady, I do not see, -constituted as this cold and phlegmatic planet of ours is, I see, -really, after all, no very great harm in this said enthusiasm, if indeed -it doth not degenerate into bigotry of politics or religious rancour; -and therefore, when my king doth come, my tongue must utter the loyal -inditings of my heart." - -We must now adventure to describe the triumphant entry of King James -into his good city of Dublin. Regiments of foot, stationed in parallel -files, lined each side of every street extending from the great gate of -Dublin Castle the entire way to Saint James's gate, at the western -extremity of St. James's-street, through which the king was to make his -_entrè_. That morning all the principal avenues were purposely strewed -with fresh gravel, to facilitate the king's approach. - -A triumphal arch of living laurel, surmounted by the crown of England, -adorned St. James's gate, and the armorial quarterings, richly -emblazoned, of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France, were tastefully -displayed in the arrangement. Various wreaths, laurel crowns, cordons, -and garlands of various living flowers, were suspended across the -principal streets through which the royal cavalcade was to pass.--Every -window in every avenue was festooned with laurel, oak, and various -evergreens, all tastefully contrasted and displayed.--These -demonstrations of joy were not confined merely to the city, but extended -to all the adjoining villages, towns, and hamlets, for several miles in -circuit. The royal flag was hoisted on Bedford Tower, and on the -steeples of the different churches. At night the city shone forth in a -brilliant blaze of universal illumination, which was vividly reflected -in the sparkling and undulating waves of old father Liffey, as he -joyously rolled onward to the main. - -Various loyal mottoes and devices caught the eye: The harp and crown; -"Rejoice, O Erin, for behold thy king cometh unto thee!" - - "The king shall have his own again!" - ---"Welcome Erin's king!"--"Hibernia hails her noble king!" &c. &c.; with -many other mottoes and devices, with which we shall not weary our -reader. A large platform was erected without James's gate on the west -and county side, on which, under a splendid gonfalon, or canopy, were -stationed several friars beneath a large cross, who sang "_Te Deum -laudamus_," as King James approached. To the right of the gate, on the -city side, was erected a large stage, covered with tapestry, on which -were stationed two Irish harpers, in due and proper costume; one of them -was no less a person than our old acquaintance, blind Cormac, the -sightless harper and minstrel of the Duke of Tyrconnel. Sir Patricius -Placebo albeit was fond of comparing the sightless bard to old -Tiresias, of prophetic memory, whose ear and recollection nearly -supplied the deficiencies of sight. - - 'Ὀφθαλμῶν μὲν ἄμερσε', &c. &c. - -as Sir Patricius was wont to express himself; and then he would say, -"Yes, verily, old Cormac doth much resemble, in multiform coincidence -and fortune, the wise Tiresias! but then with this sage and discreet -difference to boot, that old Cormac will never die the death of old -Tiresias, to wit, from drinking cold water! No, no, inasmuch his fond -and strong addiction lies in genuine _aqua vitæ_, or the true Drogheda -Usquebaugh; so that Cormac will never die from drinking cold water, as -he hath "forsworn thin potations," unless, peradventure, he should -happen one day or another to be drowned in the Eske or the Liffey, and -there can be no doubt then vastly against his choice and determination!" - -A shout of universal joy now burst forth: "The King! the King!!" The -heavy dragoons came thundering down with an astounding clatter; the -trumpets rung a levant, the foot soldiers presented arms; standard, and -banner, and pennon, kissed the pavement; while drum, fife, cymbal, -French-horn, and trumpet, resounded through the stricken welkin, "God -save the King!" The foreign, English, and Scottish nobility, who -accompanied the king, were marshalled duly according to their respective -rank. And now, amid shouts that rent the air, King James approached. He -was mounted on a beautiful long-tailed roan charger, bred in Normandy, -which His Majesty right royally and gracefully bestrode; the steed was -gorgeously caparisoned; the trappings were of damask gold, bordered and -interspersed with the rose, shamrock, thistle, and _fleur de lis_; and -fringed withal with a deep pursell of ermine. - -From the vast crowd, and the extended length of the pageant, and -prolonged procession, King James was obliged to rein up his charger, and -to halt. It so did happen that this stoppage occurred just at the stage -where the two harpers were stationed to greet, with their native harp -and song, the entrance of their king into his capital of the island of -poesy and song. They performed several loyal and sprightly airs, which -seemed to please the monarch well: among others was - - OLD CORMAC'S WELCOME. - - All welcome be the royal James, - Let all confess his legal claims; - While ev'ry loyal heart exclaims, - God save the king![36] - - From war, dissension, anarchy, - Kind heav'n protect this kingdom free! - United may it ever be! - God save the king! - - From exile see the monarch bring - The olive round our harp to string! - With transport let each patriot sing, - God save the king! - - Then welcome be the royal James, - None shall resist his legal claims; - While ev'ry honest heart exclaims, - God save the king! - - [36] The air of "God save the King" had been a French anthem, and - words were appropriated to it, with the chorus of "God save the - king," expressly for James the Second. Since which time it has - been played and sung as a national anthem. - -During this pause the public curiosity had sufficient time for its -indulgence by a full view of the royal person. King James looked -extremely well; he possessed a manly and animated countenance, illumined -by fine penetrating hazel eyes, his eloquent lips, his stately person; -his head was enveloped, according to the fashion of the times, in a deep -flowing full-dress peruke, surmounted by a large black beaver triangular -cocked hat, deeply edged with white ostrich feathers; the peruke -descended down freely, even to the richly polished silver corslet[37] -which he wore; his neck was adorned with the ribbons and gems of St. -George and St. Andrew; and the star of the garter sparkled in diamonds -on his breast. His whole deportment was fraught with that attractive -grace and commanding elegance of manner and address which he so fully -and peculiarly possessed, and which charmed every beholder. - - [37] The above description of the person and appearance of King - James the Second, is taken from a beautiful oil miniature, painted - on copper; it is believed to be from the pencil of Samuel Cooper, - when the king was Duke of York. It is in possession of the author. - -A number of handsome young women, amounting nearly to the number of -fifty, all dressed in white, and with coronals of white roses, now -advanced, and preceding the monarch, danced before him the entire way to -the gate of Dublin Castle, the Irish dance, called _Rinceadh-Fada_, -which delighted the king exceedingly. The same had been performed upon -the king's landing at Kinsale, and then too pleased him well, the -particulars of which will be found in a succeeding chapter. These young -and beautiful nymphs strewed the streets, while they danced along, with -_bouquets_ of flowers. The supply for this ceremony was contained in -small wicker baskets, which they respectively bore, with much -appropriate grace, upon their left arm; and, ever and anon, in -sylph-like attitude, they wheeled round and made obeisance to the king; -while oft, with the grace of Raphael, the right hand was duly employed -in scattering flowers, thus manifesting their unbought homage to -majesty. "The rich citizens, to testify their joy upon this occasion, -hung their balconies with tapestry and cloth of arras; those who were -not so provided displayed silk, or hangings of rich cloth; while the -poorer kind were content to sew together the coverings of Turkey-work -chairs; while others were obliged to arrange draperies of linen -cloth."[38] - - [38] Extract from the Life of King James. - -At the limits of the Liberty His Majesty was met by the Lord Mayor, -aldermen, and common council, the masters, wardens, and brethren of the -twenty-five corporations of the city. Ulster King at Arms was in dutiful -attendance, accompanied by the Dublin Herald at Arms, the Athlone -Pursuivant at Arms, and lastly followed the Cork Herald at Arms. The -heralds and pursuivants all mounted upon their grey palfreys, and -attired in new and splendid tabards, made expressly for the occasion, -and which shone forth in all the blaze of heraldic pomp; while they -onward proceeded in accordance to their rank and station. Next onward -rode an esquire bearing a royal standard, on which were richly -embroidered the initials of - - "JACOBUS II. REX."[39] - - [39] Life of King James the Second. - -The letters were brilliantly surrounded with a garland composed of the -rose of England, the shamrock of Erin, the thistle of Caledon, and the -lily of France. Next was borne another standard, on which was emblazoned -the armorial bearing of the harp, with the motto, - - "EX CORDE LÆTUS," - -and encircled with shamrocks. Next, the standard of England waved in the -breeze, on which was embroidered the motto, - - "NON SIC MILLE COHORTES."[40] - - [40] Ibid. - -Various other banners and armorial escutcheons were borne in the -procession;--namely, the heraldic bearings of England, France, Scotland, -and Ireland. Then came on the state trumpeters, no less gorgeously and -characteristically attired than their party _per-pale_ cousins at arms, -and withal accompanied by the drowsy base of "the Almaine's sullen -kettle-drum," which closed the rere of this truly rare and illustrious -procession. - -So soon as the royal cavalcade had approached the Tholsel, the Recorder -of Dublin, Counsellor Dillon, knelt to the king, and presented to him -the keys of the city; and loyally and dutifully addressed the king, -expressing "the great and unqualified joy of all the loyal citizens of -His Majesty's ancient and faithful city of Dublin, to hail their beloved -king, and welcome him within their gates; whereby was presented the -glorious opportunity of testifying to all the world their untainted -loyalty and unshaken affection; and that in defence of their sovereign's -throne they were ready and willing to risk, to the uttermost, both -their lives and fortunes."[41] The king most graciously and majestically -received the keys of the city; and on the instant graciously returned -them, while he knighted the Recorder on the spot; saying, with the -greatest courtesy and kindness, "I return them to you, Sir Recorder, -fully convinced that the keys of my most faithful city of Dublin could -not be placed in the custody of honester hearts, or more loyal hands, -than those who guard them now." And having thus said, he gracefully -bowed, and courteously waved his hand. - - [41] Life of King James the Second. - -This interesting ceremony and speech having been concluded, the king -continued his route to the castle of Dublin, followed by a number of the -state-carriages of the nobility, each drawn by six horses; various other -vehicles attended--calashes, covered carriages, &c.; these were followed -by squadrons of French dragoons. Major Barker, of the Royal Guards, next -came onward, clearing the centre of the street, and ordering the troops -again to "present arms." Then approached the Grand Prior, (the Duke of -Albemarle,) in a coach drawn by six beautiful horses. Next approached -several officers of the Guards, mounted on high-mettled chargers, and -followed by grooms, each of them adroitly conducting a led horse. Then -came on several officers of the army, attended by five trumpets and as -many kettle-drums, all arrayed in new state-dresses. Next advanced -twenty of the band of gentlemen at large, who were on horseback; they -were followed by the messengers, Sergeants at Arms, bearing the maces of -the Lords and Commons. Then came on the pursuivants, heralds, and King -at Arms. - -And now the Duke of Tyrconnel presented himself, mounted on a noble -milk-white charger, and martially arrayed in steel armour, highly -wrought and polished; the star of the garter glittered on his manly -breast; and the magnificent collar, with its splendid and appendant gem, -swung from the graceful shoulders of the valiant duke. The Marquis -d'Estrades and Lord Drummond were on the right hand of the Duke; the -Earl of Melfort and Lord Seaforth supported the left. Then succeeded -many troops of dragoons, a numerous list of nobles and gentry, with -numerous servants and attendants; a large assemblage of state-carriages -of peers, drawn by six horses, some with four, and others with only a -pair. Thus was the rear of this princely cavalcade brought up. And the -procession was last of all closed by an immense assemblage who rent the -air with loud and continued shouts and acclamations of joy. - -"In this stately progress King James reached the capital, and made his -triumphant entry, followed by a splendid train of French, British, and -Irish; and attended by the Count d'Avaux in the character of ambassador -of France."[42] - - [42] Leland's History of Ireland, vol. III. p. 522. - -Meanwhile all the bands of the different regiments joined in playing the -then well known air of - - "The king shall enjoy his own again!" - -When this warlike symphony had ceased the populace with one accord -huzzaed, and shouted "God save the King!" They hailed and warmly -congratulated His Majesty's arrival at his Castle of Dublin, where, -having alighted from his horse, he was met at the portal by the -host,[43] which was overshadowed by a gonfalon, or canopy of state, -borne by four Roman bishops, and accompanied by a numerous train of -friars singing, and attended by other clergy of the same persuasion, -along with the titular primate at their head, who wore a triple crown, -or tiàra. The king was conducted by them into the chapel-royal, which -had been built by the Duke of Tyrconnel,[44] where _Te Deum_ was chanted -upon the welcome and happy arrival of His Majesty. - - [43] Life of King James. - - [44] This is literally true: this chapel was pulled down, and a - new one built during the administration of the present Duke of - Bedford. - -These ceremonies being concluded, His Majesty subsequently retired to -the new apartments, which had been recently built and decorated by -Tyrconnel, where the king dined. - -It having been intimated to the king that upon the following day the -triennial perambulation of the liberties and franchises of the city of -Dublin was to take place; and His Majesty having been humbly solicited -to witness the same, most graciously gave his consent. The riding of the -franchises, or "riding the fringes," as popularly called, was in fact a -most brilliant and truly imposing public spectacle, not to be equalled, -and quite surpassing, every other pageant then or since known in Europe. - - - - -CHAPTER XII. - - Prætexta, et trabeæ, fasces, lectica, tribunal. - Quid, si vidisset Prætorem curribus altis - Enstantem, et medio sublimem in pulvere circi - In tunica Jovis, et pictæ sarrana ferentem - Ex humeris aulæa togæ, magnæque coronæ - Tantum orbem, quanto cervix non sufficit ulla? - - JUVENAL, Sat. x. - - ----Fasces, chains, litters, purple gowns. - What! had he seen, in his triumphal car, - Amid the dusty cirque conspicuous far, - The prætor perched aloft, superbly drest - In Jove's proud tunic, with a trailing vest - Of Tyrian tapestry, and o'er him spread - A crown too bulky for a mortal head? - - GIFFORD'S JUVENAL. - - -Peradventure, kind reader, thou art no lover of history or chronicles, -no admirer of antiquarian research, and art withal (forefend us!) in -thine heart a determined foe to every matter and circumstance -pertaining to the "dark, backward, and abysm of time." If such, gentle -reader, be the materials of which thou art made, pause fair and softly, -if it so beseemeth thee, ere thou venturest again to open this volume, -from perusal of which, in sober seriousness, we would make bold to -dissuade thee, courteous reader! lest perchance the discussion might -"hurt thy health, and prejudice thy conscience," as the sage Sancho -Panza hath said of yore. - -The day appointed for the display of the grand and solemn pageant of the -perambulation of the liberties and franchises of the city of Dublin had -arrived. This event only occurred every third year; and upon this august -occasion was to be witnessed by the royal eye of the princely James. The -arrangement of the procession and of its various details presented the -most grand and magnificent spectacle ever witnessed in the Irish -metropolis. It was a custom so singular, so unlike any procession or -pageant known in any other realm, that when it did occur the nobility -and gentry from every near and foreign land crowded to Dublin to behold -the splendid array of this unique and magnificent spectacle. Upon this -triennial occurrence the interest was most highly increased, and the -stately pomp and splendour of the pageant aided and augmented by the -cheering presence of the sovereign. - -The grand cavalcade in slow and solemn measure advanced, preceded by a -noble troop of heavy dragoons;--we mention heavy dragoons distinctly to -mark to the reader's attention the distant period of time of which we -here speak; for at that period light dragoons were unknown in the -British service. The enlivening trumpets rent the air; meanwhile the -military bands played at intervals loyal and national airs; banners -waving on high, and the various flags and ensigns attached to the -numerous vessels in the river, all undulating in the breeze; while -around and upon every side the genius of ancient chivalry seemed to -preside and conduct the procession. Sir John Ottrington, Lord Mayor of -the city of Dublin, came in great pomp, pride, and circumstance of civic -distinction, in his magnificent state coach; his dignified head was -arrayed in a full flowing peruke, upon which much care and caution had -been studiously expended for its adornation; and that day witnessed -good-man shaver, Bob Basin to wit, the city barber, a proud and happy -man, who seemed all-sufficient to enjoy the triumph of the day, in -which, as he modestly conceived, he had done "the State some service, -and they knew it." This most formidable bushy specimen of a peruke was -cumberously surmounted by the bulky civic crown, which was in sooth -unwieldy and most unbecoming in its conformation and appearance; indeed -not dissimilar to that worn by the Herald King at Arms upon the high -ceremonial of a coronation. The Lord Mayor was attired in full court -dress, over which was worn a flowing scarlet gown, and around his neck -was suspended the splendid gold enamelled collar which had been most -graciously presented to the city of Dublin by Charles the Second, of -chaste and pious memory! It must not forsooth be disguised that the -costume was as cumbersome as it was unbecoming; yet still the ladies -all unanimously agreed in the opinion that Sir John Ottrington was "a -very pretty fellow in his day;" a most portly personage he was, who -would have become any costume, civil or military, nay, even the hodiern -foppery of an English Field-Marshal--tags, bobs, cordons, trappings, -ribands, feathers, and so forth. However, had any modern taken a glance -at a similar figure, he must assuredly have been incontinently reminded -of his facetious old acquaintance, Lord Grizel, in the inimitable and -humorous burletta of O'Hara's _Tom Thumb_! - -All the _accessoirès_ of city regalia were duly and circumspectly -displayed at this truly splendid pageant. The ponderous city mace was -regilt and richly burnished, which shone conspicuous and refulgent from -the sinister window of the civic coach; while from the dexter side -gently undulated, _in transitu_, the mayoral wand, like the caduceus of -Mercury, imposing peace and silence on the dense and congregated -multitude. - -The sword of state was carried in the van, while the silver baton was -borne by a corporate officer in the rere, attended by the city -battle-axe guards, who followed the state coach two by two, while others -of the guard flanked it, and the remaining number closed the procession. -It is but just to say, that all the civic regalia, in due pomp, and -circumstance, and order, were displayed conformable to the ancient, -laudable, and loyal usages of this most enlightened corporation. - -The persons who personified the civic battle-axe guards were grenadiers -hired for the occasion expressly, and duly selected from the ranks. The -costume of these worthies, although varying in colour, yet resembled in -shape and fashion that of the royal Buffetteers, (in popular parlance -called beef eaters, from their portly appearance, no doubt;)[45] the -bonnets were formed of green velvet, with a rich gold foliage of -shamrocks, which surrounded them. The exterior habiliments were of rich -green cloth, laced, and richly embroidered with national devices; and -upon the breast of each were duly embroidered the city arms, namely, -three castles in flames, and the motto, "_obedientia civium, felicitas -urbis_." The hose were of red worsted, with large open clokes; the shoes -short quartered and high heeled, with the appanage of small brass -buckles. The partisans which they bore were similar to those of the -royal battle-axe guards. As the procession slowly proceeded onward, the -populace accommodated them-selves with great attention and most discreet -silence, being right marvelously amazed at such unusual pomp and -splendour. - - [45] But actually so named from being the guard who preside over - the royal buffet, or side-board. - -Next in the proud pageant came the High Sheriffs, each in his own -splendid state chariot, with a crowd of lackeys in rich liveries behind. -These worthies, Sir Mark Rainsford and Sir Edward Lloyd, not forgetting -the Lord Mayor, did not escape the ceremonial of being knighted by King -James. The Aldermen followed in their respective carriages. They were -succeeded in the procession by the several guilds or corporations of the -city, amounting in the aggregate to the number of twenty-five; at the -unprecedented splendour of whose appearance the populace were verily -struck with downright delight and astonishment. - -The particular detail and explanation of each guild, as it advanced, -halted, and retreated in the proud pageant, was explained most minutely -by the Duke of Tyrconnel to his gracious and royal master. His Grace -certainly acquitted himself with most sage, cautious, and circumspect -discretion, but attended withal with sundry and various circumforaneous -explanations; all which long ambages and diffuse prolixities purposely -to avoid, we have cut down and curtailed the whole, which would -otherwise not be contained in a chapter, but require an essay to give -the entire. We have therefore abridged the particulars, and thrown the -whole into as brief a narrative as the subject would admit of, premising -that the splendid and imposing spectacle was beheld from the windows of -the presence-chamber of Dublin Castle by the royal James, surrounded by -all the beauty of the land, and encompassed by all the flower of -chivalry. - -The magnificence of the pageant of riding the franchises (or fringes, -as corruptly called in popular parlance) was considerably increased in -pomp and effect from the introduction of different individuals of the -different corporations, who were attired in habits emblematical and -illustrative of the different trades of the different guilds. The -characters were generally borrowed from the heathen mythology, and were -strictly and classically arrayed in proper pantheon costume. - -We must observe in a general way, that the five-and-twenty guilds, or -corporations of the city, formed an unrivalled pageant, the most -singular and remarkable in Europe; it would occupy too much time to -enter into a minute detail--however, a few we shall briefly notice. - -Neptune, surrounded by his attendant tritons, dolphins, &c., sat proudly -enthroned in a triumphal car. He was the presiding deity of the guild of -merchants. The marine deity was followed by their corporate friend -Mercury, bearing all his attributes, and stately standing in an elevated -illuminated caravan, representing the clouds. - -The tree of knowledge, adorned with the forbidden fruit, the serpent -encompassing the bole of the tree, and supported on each side by our -first parents, duly preceded the corporation of Tailors. Adam and Eve -were clad in flesh-coloured garments, fitting close to the person; and, -sooth to say, the fig-leaf was not forgotten by the grateful -corporation! - -But we must needs be brief in this general outline:-- - -Vulcan presided over the corporation of Smiths. He was stationed on a -superb car, with his attending Cyclops, who were intently working on a -mounted forge; a lovely Venus graced his side; and as the arrows came -formed from the anvil, they were handed to Cupid. - -Saturn, with his attributes, his scythe and serpent, and attended by -Esculapius, presiding over the guild of Barbers and Surgeons, followed -in a splendid car. - -Ceres, seated in a triumphal chariot, drawn by four oxen, presided over -the corporation of Bakers. In a caravan which followed was placed an -oven, which was briskly at work; whence cakes were made, and -distributed to the populace. - -The guild of Carpenters were preceded by a most magnificent caravan, -adorned with the various orders of architecture; in the centre of which -was placed a representation of Mount Ararat, on which reposed a model of -Noah's ark; thereby the corporation slyly intimating that their -handicraft was as old as the deluge! - -Crispin and Crispianus, the two tutelar saints of the corporation of -Shoemakers, duly personated, and attired in strict saintly costume, -preceded the worthy guild. - -Bacchus, "ever fair and young," crowned with his own ivy, bearing the -Thyrsus wand in his right, and a golden goblet in his left hand, duly -enthroned on a wine-cask, and mounted on a triumphal car, decorated with -festoons of grapes and vine-leaves, presided over the guild of Cooks and -Vintners. - -Jason supporting the golden fleece, (with the ship Argo in the back -ground of his splendid car, blazing in burnished gold,) presided over -the guild of Weavers. - -Iris, enveloped in her own rainbow, and borne in a car, adorned with -transparent clouds, presided over the Sheermen and Dyers. - -We shall only notice one guild more--the corporation of Printers, to -whom we, in common with every Briton, owe such a debt of gratitude. A -free press has always been acknowledged, and we trust ever may continue, -the _palladium_ of British liberty! - -This guild, forming a magnificent and extended cavalcade, made a grand -and interesting display; their ancient banners and standards borne in -the van were tri-coloured, crimson, light-yellow, and blue. The first -banner bore the legend, or motto, "_Rex et Lex_;" upon the second, "_Pro -rege sæpe, Pro Patria semper_;" upon the last banner was splendidly -emblazoned the words, "_Liberty of the Press_!" - -A statue of Minerva, placed on a high pedestal, and mounted in a -triumphal car, headed the procession. A bomb-cart followed, heavily -laden, containing ammunition and stores; that is to say, not gunpowder, -chain-balls, and grape-shot, but more peaceful pastime, _videlicet_: -cold meat, pasties, pies, confectionary, wines, &c. Next advanced four -fine palfreys, covered with richly embroidered field-clothes, each led -by a groom in splendid livery. Then came on a brother of the -corporation, who personated Vulcan; he was arrayed in a noble suit of -armour, which had belonged to king Charles the First; it was the gift of -the late Colonel Joshua Paul, a free-brother of the guild, to the -corporation. Vulcan rode on horseback, the housings, trappings, and -horse-furniture, were decorated with appropriate emblems; he bore an -immense sledge-hammer of richly polished steel, the handle curiously -ornamented with fanciful Arabesque ornaments, inlaid in gold and silver. - -Next in succession advanced a triumphal car, or caravan, drawn by six -beautiful black steeds, covered with handsome nets, the coachman and -postillion in rich splendid liveries. Within the carriage was exhibited -a handsome printing-press, with two pressmen and a compositor at work. A -hackney author was occupied in writing for and correcting the press. A -printer's devil was busily at work; and a painter engaged at his eazle, -all in meet and proper costume. The printing-press was richly and -appropriately ornamented: in the front stood a figure of Mercury holding -a poem, copies of which were struck off, and distributed among the -spectators; it was in praise of the noble art of printing, in which -honourable mention was made of the founders and benefactors of this -glorious invention. Nor were the following distinguished worthies -forgotten:--Wynkin de Worde, Caxton, Pynson, Kerver, Simon Vostre, -Theodore Martin, Jean Petit, Plantin, the two Elzivers, &c. The -printer's devil published impressions of the poem among the congregated -multitude. - -The masters and wardens of the guild, splendidly arrayed in appropriate -costume, attended by kettle-drums mounted on horseback, the performers -dressed in Turkish habits, and attended by grooms in Tartar habits, who -led the horses, that were most splendidly caparisoned, next came on. -They were followed by persons on foot bearing long silver maces; at -intervals they obtained copies from the press of verses laudatory of -King James, which were distributed among the people. Four copies were -struck off on white satin, and sent into the castle to be presented to -King James; the verses were by Waller and Lord Lansdowne; at receiving -of which King James seemed most highly gratified. They were as -follows:-- - - "Bred in the camp, fam'd for his valour young; - At sea successful, vigorous, and strong; - His fleet, his army, and his mighty mind, - Esteem and rev'rence thro' the world do find."[46] - - "Tho' trained in arms, and learned in martial arts, - Thou choosest not to conquer men but hearts; - Expecting nations for thy triumphs wait, - But thou prefer'st the name of just to great."[47] - - [46] Extract from lines presented to His Majesty King James the - Second, upon his birth-day, by _Edmund Waller_. - - [47] From _Lord Lansdowne_ to King James II. - -Having perused these lines, King James most sweetly smiled, and with his -accustomed gracious condescension, gracefully approached the centre -window of the presence-chamber; he condescendingly looked down, and most -courteously bowed to the corporation of Printers, his face illumined -with a smile peculiar to himself, and in a most king-like attitude he -gracefully waved his hand. Then addressing the Duke of Tyrconnel, who, -with the other nobles of the household, surrounded His Majesty, the king -was pleased to say, "I perceive your Grace's countrymen are _tam Marti, -quam Mercurio_--they are courteous as they are brave." The Duke lowly -and respectfully bowed his acquiescence to the observation. - -The proud pageant having closed, all the troops assembled presented -arms, lowered their banners; while drum, trumpet, and kettle-drum struck -up the anthem of "God save the King!" - -The Duke of Tyrconnel fully explained to the king the name, description, -and detail of each guild as it made its entrance and exit. The duke had -taken some pains to prepare himself to be the royal _Cicerone_ of the -day; and, in sooth, as King James remarked to him, like my Lord Hamlet, -he was "as good as a chorus." - -The number of saddle, led, and draft-horses, produced in this splendid -pageant were the best bred and most beautiful horses in the kingdom, -being selected, by the courtesy and permission of the noble proprietors, -from the most valuable studs the country then could boast of. The -richness of the horse furniture, housings, trappings, harness, &c., -quite surpasses description. Never were present upon any former occasion -so many foreigners of distinction; and exclusive of those immediately -attendant upon the king, the nobility and gentry crowded to Dublin, as -did the noblesse of foreign realms, to witness, whenever it occurred, -this magnificent spectacle, which could not be equalled in any other -part of Europe. - -King James was quite enraptured at the brilliant display, and addressing -the Duke of Tyrconnel, said:--"Albeit I have sojourned for a length of -time at my court of St. Germains, and have, in sooth, resided in the -country of pomp, spectacle, and pageantry, yet assuredly never have I -there witnessed such a scene of splendour as I have beheld this day, -either at Versailles or at Paris!--It has given me great satisfaction -truly, and I must observe that I consider that the taste, pomp, and -splendour of the pageant of to-day has rarely, if ever, been surpassed." - -At night-fall the waits were in attendance at the upper castle-gate to -serenade the royal James. As the usage has become obsolete, it is -necessary to acquaint the reader that WAITS were a band of itinerant -nocturnal musicians, who perambulated the streets, singing, and playing -on different instruments, at different houses, where they addressed the -master or mistress of the mansion; and at Christmas-tide they were -usually most alert in their avocation, when they were tolerably sure of -an _honorarium_. The Irish waits resembled the _musiquè ambulantè_ of -France. In England waits are very ancient. It is now about thirty-eight -or forty years since this custom has wholly ceased in the city of -Dublin. The Irish waits were always attended by a man who bore a long -pole, from which was suspended a spherical illuminated lantern, which -they called their moon; with Falstaff they might indeed say, "Let us be -gentlemen of the shade--minions of the moon!" They sung and accompanied -the following verses to the air of "God save the King!" - - O welcome be our noble king! - Resound the harp, each dulcet string, - While every loyal chord shall ring, - And every loyal tongue shall sing, - With filial burst, God save the king! - - Oh, ever on his natal day - Our grateful homage we shall pay; - And bless the fav'ring breeze whose wing - Wafted our great and generous king! - -After this long digression we shall resume our story in the following -chapter. - - - - -CHAPTER XIII. - - ----Hark! from camp to camp - The hum of either army stilly sounds, - That the fix'd sentinels almost receive - The secret whispers of each other's watch; - Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighings, - Piercing the night's dull ear. - - KING HENRY V. - - -King James, almost immediately after his arrival in his capital of -Dublin, assembled and met the Irish parliament. His Majesty proceeded in -great state to the House of Peers to open the session, where, arrayed in -his royal robes, and adorned with his crown,[48] he met the assembled -lords and commons of Ireland. He made a most truly dignified and -impressive speech[49] from the throne, with all that native grace and -dignity with which indeed King James was peculiarly gifted; and he -adopted his royal residence, while he sojourned in his Irish capital, at -the Castle of Dublin, from whence His Majesty issued various -proclamations. - - [48] Life of King James. - - [49] This speech will be found in the third volume of Rapin's - History of England, page 85. - -The morning which succeeded the said meeting of parliament, at an early -hour, the Duke of Tyrconnel received an express, which stated, that[50] -"the Prince of Orange had landed at Carrickfergus, from the Mary yacht, -attended by Prince George of Denmark, the Duke of Ormond, the Earls of -Devonshire, Oxford, Scarborough, and Manchester, the Honourable Mr. -Boyle, and many other persons of distinction. He tarried," it was added -to the report, "only about half an hour after his landing, and then set -off in Duke Schomberg's carriage for Belfast." - - [50] History and Antiquities of the County and Town of - Carrickfergus. - -When this was told to King James, his only reply was, in allusion to -Prince George: "What! has little '_est-il possible_' deserted me at -last!"[51] - - [51] Memoirs of Grammont. - -The plain, but extraordinary fact now came forth, that the Prince of -Orange had been actually six days in Ireland before any intimation or -express to that effect had arrived thereby to acquaint King James of the -event. - -The Prince of Orange having driven King James from England, Ireland was -now fated to become the scene of civil war, which, as will appear, was -conducted with considerable talent on both sides. And very soon a battle -was to be fought between two contending sovereigns, and the glorious -prize depending upon the eventful issue of the mighty contest was no -less than the triple crown of three powerful kingdoms! - -At this period England was most critically circumstanced: defeat at home -was succeeded by victory of the enemy abroad. The defeat of the fleet -of Torrington off the shores of England, was the harbinger of the defeat -of the Dutch in the great battle of Fleurus. The reins of government -were guided by a woman, whose councils were distracted by two implacable -factions. Invasion was impending; rebellion existed in one of the three -kingdoms, and was expected in the other two; the king was absent; the -army abroad in other countries; and an exiled master returning home, -armed with power and vengeance. These combined causes shook the British -empire to its centre. - -Numerous indeed were the difficulties and obstructions with which the -Prince of Orange had to contend; and various the plots, intrigues, and -conspiracies, that he had to overcome, which rendered the commencement -of his reign (when styled William III.) so very tempestuous, that more -than once he had resolved[52] "to abandon his throne, and retire into -Holland, and for ever to relinquish the sovereignty of England; -distracted, as he found it, with political and religious contentions, -and convulsed by party and faction." - - [52] Rapin's History of England. - -However, he hesitated before he carried this measure into execution. He -issued a proclamation previous to his departure from England, promising -to the Irish who should lay down their arms and return to their homes, -that they should not be molested in their persons or injured in their -properties; and this he promulgated to some Irish lords, who were at -that time in London, at the very moment that Duke Schomberg was -departing for Ireland. The discourse which King William gave at a -council held was to this effect:[53] "He declared to them, that he had -resolved, with the assistance of God, to reduce Ireland to the obedience -of England, and not to stop at any measure that was necessary for its -accomplishment; but that he loved not the effusion of blood--no, not -even of his most implacable enemy; and that he had resolved, so far as -human prudence permitted, to extend his pardon and his clemency to all -those who were in arms against him, except the Duke of Tyrconnel, the -Lord Chancellor Fitton," and about twelve peers more, who were -enumerated in this proclamation, and were thereby excluded from the -royal mercy; and in this exception some generals and field officers were -included. - - [53] Rapin's History of England. - -Intrusting the government of England to his royal consort Queen Mary, -the daughter of King James II., he proceeded immediately to Ireland, -there in person to pursue the war with vigour; and very shortly landed, -as has been already told, at Carrickfergus, where he was expected with -impatience, and was met by his army, which in number amounted to forty -thousand men, not only well appointed and provided with necessaries, but -also well disciplined. They were attended by a commissariat corps, and a -train of sixty large cannon, which completed the military force of -William. The army consisted of English, Dutch, and Brandenburghers, who -received their illustrious leader with shouts and transports of joy. -Upon the landing of King William he was received by the Duke of -Schomberg, the Count Menard Schomberg (son to the duke), by the Prince -of Wirtemberg, Count Solms, Major-General Scravenmore, Lord Sidney, Sir -David Bruce, and Sir John Lanier, &c. &c. - -As soon as King James had positive intelligence of the arrival of the -Prince of Orange, (who, strange to say, had been, as we before noticed, -six days in Ireland without King James having been made acquainted with -the event,) he then instantly commenced his march; and committing the -guard of Dublin to Colonel Luttrel, who afterwards betrayed him,[54] and -who then commanded a body of militia, His Majesty set onward in his -march, attended by an army consisting of about six thousand foot, old -experienced soldiers of the army of Louis XIV., the same which had -lately accompanied him from France. These were destined to form a -junction with the chief body of his troops, who were then stationed on -the banks of the Boyne. These, when they should be united, although -considerable, yet, in point of numbers, were still inferior to the army -of the Prince of Orange. - - [54] Life of King James. - -Several months previous to the arrival of King James, Duke Schomberg had -landed at Carrickfergus Bay, at the head of twelve thousand men; and -without any opposition, assisted by six ships of war, he took possession -of the town. Upon his advance into the country the position of the -hostile armies were thus constituted:--Schomberg then occupied Dundalk, -which he was forced to fortify; while Marshal Rosen threatened his right -flank. King James had lost previous to his arrival, by the defeat of his -forces, the fort and garrison of Charlemont, along with a large store of -ammunition, seventeen pieces of brass cannon, &c.; and want of -provisions caused the surrender of this important fortress. The troops -of Marshal Rosen then found it necessary to march to the banks of the -Shannon, until they should ascertain how matters went on at sea. For -Louis XIV. had sent them assurances that he would not only fit out a -great fleet, but that as soon as the squadron which coasted in the -Irish seas to guard the transport fleet, and to secure the Prince of -Orange's passage over, should sail into the channel to join the grand -fleet of England, he would then send into the Irish seas a fleet of -small frigates and privateers, to destroy the transports of the Prince -of Orange.[55] This indeed would have proved fatal if it had taken -effect; and the execution of the scheme seemed easy, if not certain. It -would have shut up the Prince of Orange in Ireland until a new transport -fleet could have been brought thither, which would have taken some -months to complete; so that England, in the mean time, might have been -lost before, by any possibility, he could have repassed the seas with -his army. - - [55] Rapin's History of England. - -There can be no doubt whatever that the destruction of the transports of -the Prince of Orange must also have caused the ruin of his army; for the -stores both of bread and ammunition were still on board, from whence he -was to draw his supplies. Conscious of this, he made his fleet sail -slowly along the eastern coast towards the capital, spread out in sight -of his army as it advanced in its march, to elevate the spirits of his -soldiers by the grandeur of the spectacle, and to inspire them with -confidence by the idea of security which it presented.[56] Upon all -that coast there was not a safe port to cover and secure the fleets and -transports of the Prince of Orange; and it was this induced the staff -and officers of King James to oppose the measure of bringing the war to -a speedy termination. Meanwhile King James's army was stationed on the -banks of the Boyne, to defend the capital. King James had now arrived at -the head quarters of his army; and with the reinforcements which he -brought along with him, as well as by his royal presence, gave hope and -confidence to his army. But there was an oversight in King James when an -opportunity was presented of totally defeating Schomberg, which, by -remissness or want of determination, he wholly lost. Schomberg, upon the -arrival of King James, was in the occupation of Dundalk, which he was -forced to fortify. Marshal Rosen threatened his right flank at the same -time that King James, with thirty thousand men, was stationed on the -banks of the Boyne, at Drogheda. It hence appears that King James had -thus Schomberg shut up there in a _cul de sac_, all retreat being cut -off;[57] Schomberg's army pining and diminishing by sickness, and -enclosed in retrenchments; while King James, with a far superior army, -stood in front. But strange to say, he permitted Schomberg to escape, -and make good his retreat unmolested by any pursuit. - - [56] Sir John Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, - and Rapin's History of England. - - [57] Colonel Keating's Defence of Ireland. - -However, this inaction of King James arose, it would appear, from his -positive determination to remain where he was encamped, and defend the -Boyne, which he considered to be the key that mastered the pass to the -capital. "We must," said the king, addressing himself to his council of -war, and principally to Tyrconnel, "_coutè qui coutè_ defend the Boyne. -Not to do this is to abandon Dublin; and by so doing we should lose our -reputation, so that the people would desert us, and capitulate; and all -our friends in England would be also dispirited; therefore I am fully -resolved to have one fair and, I trust, decisive battle for my -crown."[58] - - [58] Rapin's History of England. - -Lieutenant-General Hamilton advised King James at this council, "to send -a detachment of dragoons to defend the ford of Slane, which was below -the town of Drogheda, (which the English either knew not of, or did not -regard of importance,) and to despatch eight regiments to defend the -bridge of Slane." - -But King James coldly said in reply: "I shall send fifty dragoons to -protect the ford."[59] - - [59] Ibid. - -This reply put Hamilton into the utmost amazement, considering the -importance of the place to be defended. But he remained silent. - -In many respects the determination of King James to maintain the post he -occupied, which certainly was well chosen, was as correct as his resolve -was judicious; where encamped, - - "His white pavilions made a show, - Like remnants of the winter's snow, - Along DONORE'S dark ridge." - -"Stationed upon the commanding hill of Donore, which looked down upon -the Boyne, his right approach was upon Drogheda, which he occupied, his -front facing the Boyne, fordable, but still deep, and rising every tide, -with strong banks, which, intersected by mounds of earth, and divided by -hedges and ditches; hence his army presented a front of about three -miles, extending towards the Slane, where he negligently failed to -occupy a bridge, which had been advised by General Hamilton. The river -Boyne forms towards the centre of where James was stationed a -considerable projecting curve, and another in reverse higher up toward -Slane."[60] This, as will be seen in a subsequent chapter, was of the -utmost importance to the two contending princes. We must add, that the -localities of the station added to the security of King James; for had -his opponent succeeded in crossing the Boyne at this point, there was -still a morass also to be passed, and then succeeded by the barrier of a -rising ground. - - [60] Keating's Defence of Ireland. - -Thus advantageously was encamped upon the 30th of June the army of King -James.--He had thrown up some breast-works upon the banks of the fords -which lay between the two camps; and he now gave orders that "if his -troops were driven from these on the morrow, then to retire to the line -of houses; if from the houses, to the hedges; if from the hedges, to the -range of small hills; and if driven from these, to occupy the heights of -Donore: and if they could not then make that station good, they were to -retreat to Duleek, and stop further pursuit by defending the pass." - -Throughout the whole of this eventful day, the precursor of the ever -memorable first of July, salutation from the cannon's mouth had been -interchanged between each contending army, and not without leaving -numerous ostensible marks of slaughter in the camps of the two -contending princes. But towards the close of day the thundering roar of -cannon ceased at once on both sides; while in the rival camps of royal -James and William was only then to be heard the "dreadful note of -preparation" for the battle on the morrow. - -King James having caused his army to pass him in single files, -surrounded by his nobles, generals, and staff, he thus addressed his -army:-- - -"Soldiers, and comrades of my toil! to-morrow I purpose putting an end -to all our hardships and privations by terminating the war; by boldly -encountering those squadrons who are now yonder encamped, and whose -standards, waving on the banks of the Boyne below, seem to invite us to -the battle. We shall not disappoint them! nor, brave men, shall you be -disappointed! They shall indeed feel what loyal men, determined in a -just cause, can do and dare for their lawful sovereign. And God protect -those who fight under the banner of justice;--who fight for their lawful -king, and for all that is dear to men! As for myself I have been bred in -the ranks of war, (if your king may for once be permitted to speak of -what he has performed;) educated alike in the school of hardship as of -war. I have fought in different realms--in Spain, in France, and -Holland, I have fought and conquered with the brave Turenne, for whom I -have ever felt the tenderness of a son. I have fought by land and by -sea, and with those same Dutch that now invade us; aye, and beat them -too we have to boot! at the mouth of their Texel--upon their own shores, -I did it! But to-morrow we shall meet them again, and their vaunting -leader, in the battle-field; when and where, I trust, under the auspices -of heaven, that again and once more I shall rout them, and that too -upon my loyal shores of Ireland! For strongly I feel that the blood of -the noble Edwards and the Henrys still pulsates in these veins; and that -the valiant blood of the fourth Henry of France, my glorious -grandfather, still survives, and animates his descended son. Soldiers! -he too, like myself, met with ingratitude--with disloyalty! he, like me, -was driven from his throne! But he had a Sully; and I can boast that I -have a Tyrconnel! His loyal troops of Navarre restored him to his -throne; and on to-morrow, with the benison of God, I shall witness my -restoration to the ancient throne of the Stuarts, by my brave--my loyal -Irish, and the gallant swords of my noble Frenchmen that now encircle -me; and who, to a man, are fully determined to conquer or to die for me; -and in that fate shall your king fully participate with you all--to -vanquish or to perish!" - -Here shouts of "_Vive le Roy_," and of "God save King James," from the -French, English, and Irish troops of the king, rent the air with loud -and tumultuous huzzas; which bursting over the heights of Donore, were -re-echoed by the waters of the Boyne below, and wafted to the camp of -the Prince of Orange. - -Meanwhile, in the camp of King James, the Duke of Tyrconnel was every -where to be seen galloping from post to _piquèt_. He ordered each -soldier to wear in his cap a small cockade of white paper upon the -ensuing day of battle, that in the heat of the engagement they might -thence distinguish each other from their foes.[61] - - [61] Life of King James. - -"The watch-word of to-night," said the duke, as he rode along the camp, -addressing himself to the officers, "be '_Eblana_;' and our gallant -war-cry on the morrow let it be--'James and Victory!'" - -Here the whole army rent the air with shouts of applause; while -Tyrconnel retired to his tent, impatiently awaiting the dawn of day. - -From the moment of the arrival of the Prince of Orange in Ireland he had -taken every pains, and had used every art, to inspire his army with -confidence, and to ingratiate himself in their favour and love.[62] All -the arts of a general and of a man of sense he put in practice to draw -the attention of his soldiers from the misfortunes of the last year in -Ireland, and from the danger of the present. The day upon which all his -troops from different quarters met and united with him: he then ordered -the whole army to pass him, and thus threw a march into a review. -Instead of keeping one station, he rode in among the regiments so soon -as they appeared, to encourage the soldiers, and to satisfy himself of -the state of every regiment. An order having been brought him to affix -his signature for wine for his table, the prince said aloud:--"No, I -will drink water with my soldiers!" He slept every night in camp, and -was throughout the day on horseback; he flew from place to place to -survey the army, or the country, intrusting nothing to others. While at -one time he brought up the rere with an anxiety which fully engaged the -affections of the soldiers; at another with a spirit which inflamed -them, he was the foremost in advanced parties if danger seemed to -threaten, or that the object to be known was of importance.[63] - - [62] Story's Civil Wars of Ireland. - - [63] Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, by Sir John Dalrymple, - vol. I. p. 135. - -But it is now full time that we should attend in the camp of the Prince -of Orange, and take a cursory view of some of the principal events of -the remarkable 30th day of June, and notice his force, the occurrences -of this day, and his preparations for the approaching battle. - -At break of day the Prince of Orange, upon the 30th of June, being -informed that the army of King James had repassed the Boyne, ordered his -whole army to move forward at that early hour, in three lines, towards -the river, which was distant from them about three miles. The advanced -guards of horse commanded by Sir John Lanier; the Brandenburghers by -Colonel Sir David Bruce. They moved onward in very good order, and by -nine o'clock were within two miles of Drogheda. The Prince of Orange, -who marched in front of them, observing that there was a hill to the -east of the enemy, and to the north from the town, he rode instantly -thither to inspect their camp, which he found to be stationed along the -river in two parallel lines.[64] - - [64] Rapin's History of England. - -Here different observations were made as to the force and numbers of the -enemy by Prince George of Denmark, the Dukes of Schomberg and Ormond, -and other generals. Amongst them General Scravenmore appeared to despise -their numbers, observing, at the same time, that they were but a handful -of men, for he could not reckon above forty-six battalions that were -then encamped. - -But both the Prince of Orange and Prince George replied, that they might -have a great many men in the town; and that there was also a hill to the -south-east, beyond which part of their army might be encamped. - -"However," rejoined the Prince of Orange, "we shall soon be better -acquainted with their numbers-- - - 'If fight King James, as well I trust - That fight he will, and fight he must.'" - -The Prince of Orange now proceeded in person to visit every outpost, -every videt, every guard, and every _piquèt_. He marked out his -encampment, and fathomed the Boyne in order to ascertain where it was -fordable for his army to pass, which he firmly resolved to do upon the -following morning. While the prince was thus occupied, and advancing to -take a nearer view of the situation of his enemy, and while the army was -marching, he alighted from his horse, and sat down upon a rising ground, -where he refreshed himself for about an hour. During which time a party -of about forty horse of King James came on; but advancing very slowly, -they made a halt upon a ploughed field opposite to the Prince of Orange. -They brought with them in the rere two field-pieces, which, -undiscovered, they planted at the angle of a hedge, which screened the -cannon. The prince was no sooner remounted than the party instantly -fired at him, and with the first shot killed a man and two horses very -near to the prince. This bullet was presently succeeded by another, -which having first grazed upon the bank of the river, then upon -rebounding struck the Prince of Orange in the right shoulder, tore away -a piece of his coat, and stripped off the skin; afterwards in the recoil -it broke the handle of a gentleman's pistol. - -Lord Conningsby seeing what had happened, rode up hastily, and putting -his handkerchief to the prince's shoulder, staunched the wound. The -prince remounted his charger, and observed to Lord Conningsby, "_Il ne -faloit pas que le coup fût plus pres_."[65] There was no necessity that -the bullet should have come nearer! - - [65] Histoire de Guillaume III. tome II. Amsterdam, 1703. - -This accident having occasioned some disorder among the attendants of -the Prince of Orange, caused the enemy to conclude that he was killed; -who thereupon set up a great shout, and the report of his death reached -Dublin, and even Paris. However, having his wound dressed, the prince -remounted his horse, and showed himself to his whole army, to dissipate -their apprehensions. He continued on horseback until four o'clock, dined -in the open field, and then mounted his favourite _Sorrel_ again, (for -so was the royal charger called,) although he had been abroad from one -in the morning. About the hour of nine at night he called a council of -war, and declared his determination to pass the river Boyne upon the -next day. Which resolve Duke Schomberg at first opposed; but finding the -king positive, he advised that part of the army, horse and foot, should -be sent that night towards the bridge of Slane, in order there to pass -the Boyne, and so advance between the enemy and the pass at Duleek. This -advice, which if followed would perhaps have ended the war in one -campaign, seemed at first to be relished; but it was afterwards opposed -by General de Ginckle, and the other Dutch general officers. Duke -Schomberg retired to his tent, where not long after the order of battle -was brought him, which he received with discontent and indifference, -observing, that _this was the first that ever was sent to him_. The -opinion of Schomberg was right; not to occupy the important pass of -Slane was certainly a strange omission in the tactics of the two -contending princes. - -The Prince of Orange ordered that every soldier should be provided with -a sufficient stock of ammunition, and all the army to be ready to march -at break of day. And every man was to wear a green bough, or sprig, -pulled from the adjoining wood which overhung the ford, that they might -ascertain friends from foes during the fury of the fight. His Highness, -attended by torch-light, rode at the twelfth hour at night through his -camp, making his observations, and ascertaining that all was in -readiness for the important day that was now about to arrive. He gave -orders to his equery "to saddle blithe _Sorrel_ for the field -to-morrow!" - -The watch-word of the prince that night was "Westminster." And as he was -retiring to his tent he said to the Prince of Denmark, "Our watch-word -to-night is '_Westminster_;' let our war-cry to-morrow be--'_Nassau and -Freedom!_'" - -Having thus said, he saluted Prince George, and retired to repose. - - - END OF VOL. I. - - - - -Transcriber's Note: Advertisements that were placed at the beginning of -the book, have been moved to the end. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Eve of All-Hallows, v. 1 of 3 - Adelaide of Tyrconnel - -Author: Matthew Weld Hartstonge - -Release Date: November 1, 2012 [EBook #41212] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS, V. 1 OF 3 *** - - - - -Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Sue Fleming and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - - - - -<h1>THE EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS;</h1> - -<p class="little">OR,</p> - -<p class="large">ADELAIDE OF TYRCONNEL;</p> - -<p class="little">A ROMANCE.</p> - -<p class="little"><i>IN THREE VOLUMES.</i></p> - - -<p class="center">By MATTHEW WELD HARTSTONGE, <span class="smcap">Esq. M. R. I. A.</span><br /></p> - -<p><br /></p> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="poem"> -<tr><td align='left'>Nescia mens hominum, fati sortisque futuræ</td></tr> -<tr><td align='left'>Et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis!</td></tr> -<tr><td align='left'>* * * * * * * * * tempus erit,</td></tr> -<tr><td align='left'>* * * * * et quum spolia ista diemque</td></tr> -<tr><td align='left'>Oderit!</td></tr> -<tr><td align='left'><span class="space"> </span><span class="smcap">Virgilius</span>, Æ. x. I. 501.</td></tr></table> - - -<p><br /></p> -<p class="center">VOL. I.<br /></p> - - - -<p class="center">LONDON:</p> - -<p class="center">FOR G. B. WHITTAKER, AVE MARIA LANE.</p> - -<p class="center">1825.<br /></p> -<hr class="chap" /> - - - - -<p class="center">TO</p> - -<p class="center">SIR WALTER SCOTT, OF ABBOTSFORD, BART.,</p> - -<p class="center">&c. &c. &c.</p> - -<p class="center">(WITH WHOSE KIND PERMISSION,)</p> - -<p class="center">THE FOLLOWING TALE OF ERIN</p> - -<p class="center">IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,</p> - -<p class="center">BY HIS EVER OBLIGED FRIEND</p> - -<p class="center">AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,</p> - -<p class="center">THE AUTHOR.<br /></p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Molesworth-street, Dublin,</span><br /></p> -<p class="center"><i>February 1, 1825.</i><br /></p> -<hr class="chap" /> - - - - -<p class="center">CONTENTS<br /></p> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" summary="Illustrations"> -<tr> - <td align="left"><small>CHAPTER</small></td> - <td> </td> - <td align="right"> <small>PAGE</small></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">1.</td> - <td align="right"> <a href="#Page_1">1</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">11.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">III.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">IV.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_95">95</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">V.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_115">115</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">VI.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_137">137</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">VII.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_157">157</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right"> VIII.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_191">191</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">IX.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_228">228</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">X.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_247">247</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">XI.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_263">263</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">XII.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_286">286</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td align="left">CHAPTER</td> - <td align="right">XIII.</td> - <td align="right"><a href="#Page_305">305</a></td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> - - - - -<h1>THE EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS.</h1> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Tollimur in cœlum curvato gurgite, et idem</span> -<span class="i4">Subductâ ad manes imos descendimus undâ.</span> -<span class="i4">Ter scopuli clamorem inter cava saxa dedere;</span> -<span class="i4">Ter spumam elisam, et rorantia vidimus astra.</span> -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Virg.</span> Æ. l. <span class="smcap">III.</span></span></div></div> -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Lay her aloof, the sea grows dangerous:</span> -<span class="i4">How it spits against the clouds! how it capers,</span> -<span class="i4">And how the fiery element frights it back!</span> -<span class="i4">There be devils dancing in the air, I think.</span> -<span class="i12"><i>The Sea Voyage.</i>—<span class="smcap">Fletcher.</span></span></div></div> - - -<p>It was upon a dark and lowering afternoon, the 30th day of October, one -thousand six hundred and——the day preceding <i>The Eve of -All-Hallows</i>, when the Rev. Doctor <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span>M'Kenzie, at that time Chaplain to -his Grace the Duke of Tyrconnel, and who had been for some time in the -ancient realm of Scotland, on a visit to his kind relatives and friends -in that hospitable land, had formed a resolution to depart for the -shores of Ireland, to meet his noble patron. When, in pursuance of this -intention, he embarked on board "The William Wallace of Ayr," the sails -of the vessel were unfurled, and the signal-flag was seen streaming from -the pendant of the main-top-gallant, all giving true and significant -indications that the sea-worthy vessel was upon the eve of sailing, and -her destination was known to be for the northern coast of Ireland.</p> - -<p>Torrents of rain had showered down during the entire of the day, as is -not unusual at that advanced autumnal period; these were accompanied -with loud peals of thunder, while continuous sheets of lightning -illumined and flashed throughout the darkly tinted horizon, which were -succeeded by frequent squalls of wind, that at intervals dying suddenly -away, served but to make the returning <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span>roaring blast the more -tremendous and disheartening.</p> - -<p>The vessel was to have sailed at the full tide, but this measure was -entirely prevented by the strong and continued recurrence of the storm, -which blew with such pertinacious force and opposition that "The William -Wallace of Ayr" lay close to its anchors all that afternoon, the whole -of the night, and during the next succeeding day. About nine o'clock, -however, of the evening of the thirty-first, <i>The Eve of All-Hallows</i>, -the storm to every appearance had wholly abated, and preparations -accordingly were commenced for the ship to sail, without any further -delay, as bound on its destination. At that point of time the Reverend -Chaplain, Doctor M'Kenzie, and his servant, were the only passengers on -board. "All hands unmoor!" was now loudly and manfully rung forth by the -crew; and all matters having been duly arranged for setting sail, while -the wind blowing fresh and fair, the ponderous anchor was raised from -its oozy bed.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span></p> - -<p>The reader may well imagine, from all these previous preparations, that -the vessel and crew were on the point of sailing; when, hark! the hoarse -exclaiming "halloo!" and the clattering hoofs of horsemen in full -gallop, were heard sounding sullenly on the ear, and next loudly -thundering their deep echoes through the hollow and deserted streets of -Ayr, which rivetted the sailor to the deck, and at once, as if by magic -influence, paralyzed and arrested his motions. The rapid progress of the -strangers exciting the curiosity of the sailors, called forth in a no -less degree the astonishment of the quiet and peaceable burghers of the -good and loyal town of Ayr, who were then about to retire to repose. Two -horsemen now advanced, their wearied steeds pressed onward with the -utmost velocity; who halting for the instant at the brig of Ayr, -inquired with breathless and hurried anxiety, if a boat did not there -await in readiness to convey passengers on board "The William Wallace?" -But the boat was gone! The few sailors, however, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>or fishermen, who -loitered on the quay, said in reply, that they had gude reason to ken -that the Bonnie Wullie had not slipped cables, sic warstling winds had -blown sic a hurricane, that the gude and bonnie ship was unco snug in -harbour.</p> - -<p>The strangers now dashed desperately onward, as if life or death were -staked upon the attainment of their object. The vessel was not yet under -way when they arrived on the beach, their panting steeds besmeared with -blood and foam, and nearly exhausted by fatigue.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p><p>The principal personage attracted the gaze of every eye, so noble and -martial was his mien; a tall, graceful, and commanding figure, whose -whole appearance bespoke the undaunted warrior; his firm step, and manly -air, and sinewy arm, boldly told that he knew well how to wield the -falchion in the doubtful fight; while his intrepid eye blazed forth the -talisman of feats in arms and war, and nobly indicating how oft it had -flashed defiance and death upon the daring foe.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"From gory selle and reeling steed</span> -<span class="i4">Sprung the fierce horseman with a bound,</span> -<span class="i4">And reeking from some recent deed,</span> -<span class="i4">He dash'd his carbine on the ground." <a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></span><br /></div></div> - - - -<p>He was enveloped in a plaid, and wore a Highland bonnet, richly -surmounted with plumes; the stranger was nearly breathless from fatigue -and the rapidity of his flight, for such it seemed to be; added to which -the pallid brow and glaring eye-balls, gave strong and powerful -demonstrations that there existed some other more influential, though -latent source—perchance, it was of sorrow! which affected him even -still more than bodily fatigue. But still these might have been only -mere suspicions, suggestions probably unjustly awakened at the -interesting moment, from the lateness of the hour, the hasty, -embarrassed approach of the stranger; and added to all this, his -impatience and manifest anxiety to embark. It might be assumed that "the -sum and front" of all amounted to no more than this. What then of the -extraordinary or the marvellous could by possibility attach to <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> -circumstances that doubtless any individual, placed in similar -situations, must unavoidably have felt, and betrayed a strong and equal -portion of awkwardness and embarrassment to have encountered?</p> - -<p>But without further interlocution we proceed onward with our tale. The -stranger hastily, but urgently, inquired if the vessel would immediately -sail? Upon his being answered in the affirmative, and the boat on the -instant having been hauled down to take him on board, he promptly flung -into it a small valise, which he had carried at his saddle-bow, and -instantly springing after it himself, was followed by his attendant. -When placed in the boat, he took his station at the stern, where, -enveloped in his plaid, he sat immoveably silent, wrapped in gloomy -meditation. Upon the stranger's having reached the ship, he still seemed -deeply absorbed in thought; the same continued gloom and silence were -preserved, while with hurried strides ever and anon he stately paced the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span>deck. At intervals, however, he would suddenly stop, and then he would -deeply and intently muse within himself, with folded arms, and dark and -lowering brow. Upon his valise was his address written, "Colonel -Davidson,——Brigade;" the term or epithet preceding the word -"brigade," was torn off, whether by accident or intention did not -appear.</p> - -<p>All matters on board having been duly arranged and adjusted, while a -momentary interval of silence prevailed—"I say," said a sailor, -addressing his comrade, "its a fearfu' mirk to-night, which bodes nae -gude!"</p> - -<p>"Aye, aye!" replied his companion; "but what is still warse, it is -Hallowmass; and too weel I ken that the arch-fient, wi' a' the weirds -and warlocks, will be abread, and alake! I spae the Bonnie Wullie -wull tint the gate! and then we a' maun gang down auld Davie's locker."</p> - -<p>"Weel," rejoins the comrade, "it is a donsie night, but I'm nae fasht my -cantie carl! whare we a' maun gang togither, a' that's kenspeckle, sae -nae mair Claivers!" <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Aye, but I wiss, Sandy," replies the other, "to make a' sicker, that -the Deil haed a houd o' the haly man belaw!"</p> - -<p>"Whom do you mean?—what holy man below do you speak of?" said Colonel -Davidson, the first time that he had noticed aught was going forward.</p> - -<p>"A haly auld chiel belaw," rejoined the sailor, "that's boune for -Eirin."</p> - -<p>"Who——what——how——whom do you call him, friend?"</p> - -<p>"I ca' him nae doot Maukeenzie. Pray wha do ye ca' um, your worship?"</p> - -<p>"Is the vessel bound for Ireland?"</p> - -<p>"Yea it be, anely frae the gate o' the wind, that says nae to it."</p> - -<p>Occasional squalls of wind now arose, the compass veered, the wind -became adverse; and the storm, or rather hurricane, of the preceding day -threatened to return. Under these gloomy presages</p> - -<blockquote><p>"Short time there were for gratulating speech."</p></blockquote> - -<p>Suddenly sounds like the mournful cadence of the plaintive Æolian harp, -were heard <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>above the waves; but no shape, no form, was visible, not -even in shadowy indistinctness: but solemn musical sounds, wherever they -might have proceeded from, and mocking the human voice, only were heard, -sad, slow, and solemn, as the choral chant, <i>De mortuis</i>.</p> - -<p class="center">THE SPIRIT OF THE STORM.</p> - -<p class="center">LOQUITUR.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Where loud tumultuous tempests rave,</span> -<span class="i4">And foaming surges daunt the brave;</span> -<span class="i4">I mount my storm-swept throne, the wave!</span></div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">When midnight fiends their vigils keep,</span> -<span class="i4">While lightnings rend the mountain's steep,</span> -<span class="i4">I, scowling, rise from out the deep!</span></div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">When hope within each bosom dies,</span> -<span class="i4">While heard the drowning seaman's cries,</span> -<span class="i4">The raving spirit of the storm, I rise!</span></div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Now list! with more than mortal fear,</span> -<span class="i4">The dismal dirge which strikes the ear!</span></div></div> - -<p class="center">THE DIRGE.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Once we held fair Scotland's throne,</span> -<span class="i4">Aye, once we claimed that realm our own;</span> -<span class="i12">Fuimus, non sumus!</span></div> - - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Valorous deeds our claymores crowned,</span> -<span class="i4">We ever were true heroes found.</span> -<span class="i12">Fuimus, non sumus!</span></div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">But feuds, dissension, strife arose;</span> -<span class="i4">Oppressed by ranks of hostile foes.</span> -<span class="i12">Fuimus, non sumus!</span></div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Behold! the last of all our race</span> -<span class="i4">Is forced to fly his natal place!</span> -<span class="i4">He bears the vengeful, fatal knife,</span> -<span class="i4">Deep stained by bloody feudal strife!</span> -<span class="i12">Fuimus, non sumus!<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></span><br /></div></div> - -<p>The chant and dirge were audible to the crew, who listened with deep -consternation, and were awfully impressed upon the recollection of the -Reverend Chaplain.</p> - -<p>Every succeeding blast of wind bore increased terror as it swept along, -and every startling sound excited suspense and dismay. Again the howling -tempest burst forth, and raged with loud and renovated force, what time -the stately stranger, or more correctly to <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>speak, Colonel Davidson, in -deep apparent despondency, was incontinently observed furiously to pace -to and fro the deck, as if in a state of mental aberration. He appeared -of more than mortal size to the terrified eyes of the beholders; his -action was wild and frantic. At one time he walked with such rapidity as -if pursued by an enemy; anon he would suddenly halt, and, folding his -arms, gaze upon the troubled deep, which seemed in unison with his -troubled mind. Next, loudly he uttered a deep and contrite groan; when -having rapidly pushed aside his plaid, he drew forth dirk, sabre, or -sword, whatever it might be, which brightly glistened in the lightning -flash; and then, with hurried impulse, he at once precipitated it down -the side of the vessel into the foaming waves. It sunk with a hissing -noise, and its descent was accompanied by a fiend-like laugh, which -arose from the billows; while at the moment, in a deep, base, sepulchral -tone, the chorus of the dirge again fearfully was chanted from the -waves:</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Fuimus, Non Sumus!</span><br /></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p> - -<p>When this dolefully awful chorus was repeated, the Colonel's countenance -assumed the horrible expression of one writhing under intolerable pain, -and seeming to undergo the agonizing tortures of the damned! His -eye-balls flashed fire, he gnashed his teeth, then clenched his brawny -hand, and made a sudden spring, as if in the very act of throwing -himself over board. When at the moment his faithful attendant manfully -grasped him by the shoulder. The Colonel was seized with a trance, and -instantly fell, apparently lifeless, upon the deck. This fainting fit -lasted for some time. At length, however, he was heard deeply to -respire; then broke forth a hollow moan; a cold and clammy moisture was -perceivable on his face and hands. His attendant had him carried down -immediately to the cabin, where he was placed in his bed.</p> - -<p>The unearthly dirge and chorus, as has been before observed, were long -remembered by Doctor M'Kenzie, who was then in bed in the cabin below; -and he has been often heard to express his feelings deeply excited <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>upon -this awful occasion; and to declare, that to the last expiring moment of -his existence, he never could forget the mysterious sounds of that -ominous night!</p> - -<p>The events, beyond all dispute, were passing strange and fearful; but -then all on board "The William Wallace" bore strongly in their -remembrance, that this portentously awful night was "<i>The Eve of -All-Hallows</i>;" and then they ceased to wonder, while each thought to -himself, that</p> - -<p class="center">"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here!"</p> - -<p>They scarcely had been a few hours at sea, bound on their destined -track, when again, with resumed fury, the storm returned. They -consequently were obliged to make several tacks, still endeavouring to -force their way upon the perilous voyage. The harbour of Ayr is a -dangerous one, and to attempt to regain it were to encounter greater -danger than what might eventually await the navigators upon the open -seas. For a length of time they beat between the isles of Arran and the -Firth of Clyde; when at last the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>wind changing, the breeze blew fair -from the north-east, while the staunch vessel proceeded on her watery -way. They were now sailing along the deep-indented and romantic coast of -Ayrshire, when wearied by the eternal tacking to and fro, the heat and -pent-up-air, and all the dull monotony and purgatorial misery of the -cabin of a ship, Doctor M'Kenzie ascended the deck, and thence inhaled -the invigorating and refreshing breeze, while intently, with admiring -gaze, he surveyed the bold and broken masses of those picturesque -shores, which had become strongly illuminated by the bright lightning -flashes then briskly darting over the wild masses of rock, bank, and -brae, and glanced athwart steeple, fort, and tower, o'er lofty peak and -promontory; when suddenly again all was immersed in darkness! Yet he -perceived that this interesting scene totally failed to attract the -stranger's attention, who had returned about the same time on deck that -the Reverend Chaplain had done, and continued with persevering -pertinacity to pace it, as upon the preceding day.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p> - -<p>At that period of time nobly frowned in feudal grandeur those -fortresses, castles, towers, and rampires, which then defended the -romantic shores of Ayrshire from the sword of the invader, extending -their line of defence from Loch-Ryan to the port of Irvine; but which in -our own days have become picturesque ruins, festooned with fern, lichen, -and ivy, and affording solitary shelter to the owl, bat, and raven.</p> - -<p>All these were passed by unlooked at and unobserved by the singular and -silent stranger; those classic shores of fame, destined in subsequent -ages to be immortalized in the ever imperishable song of the tender and -inimitable <span class="smcap">Burns</span>; these scenes, the favourite haunt of his "Tam o' -Shanter," the rich and verdant lawns, and the romantic rocky braes of -lordly Cassilis. All these delightful scenes were passed by unheeded, -for the stranger did not even look to shore, but studiously turned his -eyes seaward; and wrapt in deep, moody, mournful meditation, he seemed -to rejoice in the bounding billow, and in the roar of the tempest. Not -the mighty towering pyramid, of stupendous height, the colossal craig <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> -of Ailsa,<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> which now they sailed past, could arrest his eye; nor the -fierce wild scream of the osprey, on its summit, could strike his ear, -although joined in hoarse, sullen, and dissonant chorus, by myriads of -the Solan tribe, that plumaged its surrounding base; while other -sea-fowl, like a misty-halo, hovering in mid-air, crowned its conic -crest.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p><p>The vessel had just shot past Ailsa-Rock, when fiercely the rising -tempest blew such a violent gale, that it caused "The William Wallace" -to be hurried, with vast impetuosity, through the straits between -Fair-Head and the Mull of Cantyre, and then boldly to be at once -launched into the Irish Sea.</p> - -<p>The storm now raged with such fury, that it was necessary to furl every -sail, and to beat about the entire night under bare poles; while the -pitchy darkness of the sky, added to the horrors of the storm, made -their situation still more alarming and formidable.</p> - -<p>The Reverend Chaplain, much fatigued and wearied, thought it advisable -to retire below to his hammock; so thought too even the solitary -stranger, who, although hitherto he seemed to woo the breeze, and enjoy -the storm, yet also thought it prudent to resume his station in the -cabin, and descended accordingly.</p> - -<p>None now remained upon deck except such of the crew as were upon -immediate duty, and who were lashed to the masts; the hatchways were -closed down, and the sea, in mountain cataracts, burst over the deck -with impetuous roar; while overpowered <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span>with fatigue, perhaps too with -fear, the passengers fell into a sound sleep. Thus passed away the first -tempestuous night of their voyage.</p> - -<p>Before the morning watch the wind strangely and perversely changed to -the opposite point of the compass, while squall fiercely succeeded -squall; and the dawn of day witnessed them coasting, west and by south,</p> - -<p class="center">"The storm-swept Orcades," <a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a></p> - -<p>in a boisterous swollen sea, and beneath a darkened sky. Sorry we are -here to have it our duty to narrate that the vessel, probably from the -straining of her timbers, unhappily sprung a leak. All hands instantly -were at their post, and the crew exerted them-selves to the utmost in -closing the chasm, and incessantly, without respite or intermission, -plying every pump; and at length their efforts providentially fully -succeeded: for what will not determined resolution do, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>and persevering -unabating energy achieve! Relieved from this imminent and impending -danger, once more they proceed on their perilous course, amid this -fearful warfare of the elements.</p> - -<p>The entire of this eventful day the storm raged with unabated fury, the -wind continuing still in the same point, and onward tumultuously they -were driven by force of wave and wind. Towards night-fall the vessel -came close to the Feroe Islands, where it shortly got hemmed -in amid a cluster of rocks, not noticed in their charts. The night was -pitch-dark. However, after an interval, the clouds partially giving way, -the moon, which was nearly full, arose, and afforded a sufficient -friendly light for the Captain to ascertain the extent of the danger -which he had to encounter. He immediately caused the gunwale to be -lightened, by throwing the guns overboard, which effectually raised her, -and the waves of the returning tide assisted in extricating the vessel -from imminent peril. They at length happily succeeded in clearing the -vessel from her jeopardy, and <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>rescuing the crew from impending -destruction. Still, however, it was momentarily dreaded that a new leak -might break forth, or that the vessel, bulging upon other unknown rocks, -might go to pieces, and the sufferers be swallowed up by the treacherous -and remorseless deep. These apprehensions continued throughout the -entire day.</p> - -<p>The storm ere long returned more furious than at its first onset, and -soon broadly launched the vessel into the Northern Sea,</p> - -<p class="center">"While to the helm unfaithful still she lies."</p> - -<p>The masts now became dreadfully shattered from the intensity of the -storm. Dangers and difficulties so increased, that all hopes of safety -seemed nearly at an end. Upon Providence, nevertheless, still the -hapless crew devoutly placed their trust; the Captain, from the very -perilous situation in which they were placed, was compelled to try one -desperate remedy, namely, to cut away the shrouds, and stay, and with -all possible expedition to hew down the mizen-mast. During this awful -operation the crew did not conduct them-selves like men without hope, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> -although around them all was danger and despair! They felt, however, -fully aware that little less than a miracle could extricate them from -the horrors which surrounded them. With instant promptitude having -obeyed and executed the orders of their Captain, with bold and skilful -celerity they soon lightened the vessel, which bounded with desperate -rapidity into the vast and boundless German Ocean: the watery world was -now all before them, and Providence their guide!</p> - -<p>Once more it was day. Nothing however, worthy of being recorded, -occurred at that period, nor during the night.</p> - -<p>On the fourth morning a watery sun arose in a hazy sky, they now were -close in view of the coast of Austrian-Flanders, with such rapidity, had -wind, and tide, and currents impelled them onward. They now proceeded at -the surprising rate of twelve knots an hour, the wind and tide -conjointly impelling, unassisted by any sail!</p> - -<p>On the disastrous afternoon of this day the vessel made a desperate -plunge, striking <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span>upon a cluster of rocks some leagues distant from -land; the shock was so violent that nearly it had split the stern of the -gallant ship. Overcome by terror and fatigue, depressed by despair, and -more like the dead than the living, they remained awfully wedged in -between these dreadful rocks. Eventually, after an interval of suspense -and horror, which appeared to all as though it would never end, the -force and ascendant power of the buoyant billows heaved the vessel -completely over these formidable crags. She was now once more afloat, -but her rudder was borne away; and onward she was drifted at the sport -and will of the fiercely rolling waves.</p> - -<p>Thus rapid was the vessel whirled, the mounting waves every moment -dashing in torrents athwart the deck. Again a second shock was -encountered. It was then all despair, desperation, madness! But, oh how -appalling to every feeling heart was the dreadful cry,</p> - -<p class="center">"All's lost! to prayers, to prayers! all's lost!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> -<p>Still in this state awfully the vessel rapidly was impelled, and -approached more closely to the coast of Austrian-Flanders. But alas! it -is our painful lot to record the unhappy fate of "The William Wallace of -Ayr;" when approaching Ostend the ill-omened bark struck upon a sand -bank, which but too truly is called "<i>Banc-Dangereux</i>;" then her -crushing timbers fatally loosened, and, dissevered by the convulsive -shock, promiscuously scattered upon the surface of the waves were seen -floating the disjoined wreck, shattered spars, divided stores, bales of -cargo, &c., along with the mangled corses of the dead, and the -struggling bodies of the living, all commingled, and tumultuously -undulating upon the agitated billows. But providential it was for the -survivors, who, in number, we grieve to state, were but few, that this -dreadful catastrophe occurred so closely to the shores of Ostend. Sorry, -however, we are to relate that all the crew (except two persons) -perished; and that among those who were saved, we have only to count the -Captain of the ship, the Mate, the Rev. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>Doctor M'Kenzie, Colonel -Davidson and his servant, these forming the very confined list, we -regret to say, of those who survived the terrors of that eventful day.</p> - -<p>Impelled by the resistless call of humanity, several boats had put out -from the harbour, perceiving the perilous situation of the poor unhappy -sufferers; so that when the dread event took place, these were ready and -prompt to save the remnant of those who survived what time "The William -Wallace"</p> - -<p class="center">"Bulg'd at once, and in the deep was lost!"</p> - -<p>The humanity of the Flemish sailors was rewarded by preserving the lives -of five individuals, as we have already observed, from a watery grave; -great manual and unwearied exertions were necessary for success, and the -unhappy sufferers were landed in safety upon the quay of Ostend.</p> - -<p>Ostend is well known to every intelligent reader as a strong fortified -sea-port; but at the period of our narrative it did not appear under the -most favourable point of view, from <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span>the devastation that had ensued in -consequence of the long protracted siege of three years and three -months, which it had sustained against the Spaniards, under the command -of Spinola,<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> when fifty thousand of the garrison and inhabitants -perished in this fatal siege, either by disease or the sword; which -losses were severely retaliated and multiplied by the deaths of eighty -thousand of the besiegers!</p> - -<p>Upon their landing on <i>terra firma</i>, Colonel Davidson and Doctor -M'Kenzie put up their quarters at the old Saint Michael Inn; and there -having been refreshed and invigorated by a hearty substantial meal, -which fully and essentially answered every purpose of three or four -breakfasts, dinners, and suppers, they heartily congratulated each other -in a bottle of genuine and veritable Rhenish wine, upon their most -miraculous escape from a watery grave! They subsequently retired at an -early hour to repose, overcome, as they had been, by their sufferings -and fatigue both of body and of mind, to recover, by the renovation of -slumber, "kind Nature's gentle restorer," from the lassitude and horrors -of this eventful day.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> -<p>The next morning they arose quite, or nearly, recovered from their past -sufferings; however, with the exception of the Reverend Gentleman, who -rather somewhat gravely grumbled at the perils which they had passed. -Nevertheless, with good seeming appetites, both began a tolerable <i>coup -de main et de fourchette</i> upon the breakfast placed before them. Doctor -M'Kenzie observed, while he and the Colonel were sipping some admirable <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> -coffee, assisted by the <i>agrèments</i> of excellent Flemish bread and eggs, -and swallowing <i>con amorè</i> some Malines ham, which, accompanied with a -flowing flagon of Louvaine beer, no doubt put the grave and Reverend -Gentleman into the following train of thought: "I feel, my dear Sir," -said he, "such a decided and unconquerable objection to a sea-voyage, at -least for some time to come, from which, although it may be silly in -sooth to say I have suffered so much, yet for the present I quite forego -my intention of returning to Ireland—I have indeed too much in my -recollection the</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">'Quæque ipse miserrima vidi,</span> -<span class="i4">Et quorum pars magna fui——.'</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> I therefore purpose to proceed to Aix la Chapelle for the benefit of its -waters. Indeed so great is the decided repugnance which I feel to again -encounter an aquatic expedition, that in the words of our old classical -acquaintance, Ovid, I needs must confess that—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">'<i>Æquora me terrent, et ponti, tristis imago!</i>'</span><br /> -<br /> -<span class="i4">'The expansive ocean now affrights me,</span> -<span class="i4">And sad the mournful aspect of the deep!'</span></div></div> - -<p>Moreover, gallant Colonel, I must say that I prefer the peaceful scenes -of nature and rural life to the war of elements, and the rage of -battle!"</p> - -<p>"Well spoken, my Reverend Sir, like a peaceful gownsman, and quite -becoming the doctrine of that Gospel of which thou art a sacred -minister. But as for me, I like the din of battle, the neighing of the -noble war-horse, and the battle-stirring trumpet's brazen voice, the -groan of death, where contending squadrons commingle in the dreadful -shock, chorused by the cheering shout of victory."</p> - -<p>The Colonel had just, in an emphatic tone of voice, twice shouted -"victory!" and had fiercely made another gallant attack upon the Malines -ham, when the door of the apartment was rudely opened, and entered by a -party of Gen d'Armes, who immediately proceeded to arrest them as -prisoners of war, on suspicion of being spies; and after a short -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span>interval they both were led off and escorted to prison, where, attended -by the Colonel's servant, for the present we needs must leave them, -however reluctant, in durance vile.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>The above Chapter, unquestionably in unison both with the history and -chronology of our Tale, should indeed occupy a much more remote station -in this our Romance of the days of superstition; but as we felt and -considered it of importance, and besides imping too our flight with some -portion of epic boldness, we have nobly dared and adventured to dash at -once "<i>in medias res</i>;" in the pursuance of which truly magnanimous -determination, courteous reader, we shall tell thee fair and softly, yet -in candour, that we shall necessarily be obliged (if thou wilt so -graciously permit us) to make some retrograde motions in the subsequent -chapters.</p> - -<p>But, gentle reader, if thou wilt deign to recollect, that once a year -even mighty Sol himself, beneath Cancer, the influential sign of the -summer solstice, becomes retrograde. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span>When thus we plead such high -authority thou wilt not perhaps deny an extension of the same privilege, -albeit to a disk, small and insignificant even as ours, undiscernible by -the eye of a Brinkley or a Herschell!<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p><p>Permit us then, kind and patient reader, to retrace our steps and story -to the early part of this our notable history; then shalt thou learn the -birth of our interesting heroine, and become acquainted with personages, -characters, and events, connected with our Tale, which we trust thou -mayst find to be withal not unpalatable to thy taste; for which favour, -and all retrogressions, and progressions, and egressions, (we hope no -transgressions!) thanks and health to thee, mild and patient reader! We -laud thee for thy gentle forbearance and good humour in having -accompanied us thus far in this our long peregrination; wishing, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> -courteous reader, that thou couldst bestow on us the "<i>plaudite</i>" of old -Plautus, but without his <i>valete</i>, as we shall meet anon!</p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Still in the vale the village bells ring round,</span> -<span class="i4">Still in <span class="smcap">Tyrconnel</span> hall the jests resound;</span> -<span class="i4">For now the caudle-cup is circling there,</span> -<span class="i4">Now glad at heart the gossips breathe their prayer,</span> -<span class="i4">And crowding, stop the cradle to admire</span> -<span class="i4">The babe.</span> -<br /> -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Human Life.</span></span></div></div> - - -<p>The lovely Adelaide Raymond, the heroine of our Tale, was the only child -of Raymond Duke of Tyrconnel. An old prophecy or tradition had -immemorially prevailed, that what time a raven should build her nest in -the ducal coronet which decorated the summit of the loftiest -pavilion-tower of the castle, a male heir, upon this event, should then -be wanting to the noble house of Tyrconnel. And this sad occurrence, so -deprecated by the dark and credulous terror and tenor of <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span>those -superstitious times, actually occurred some months previous to -Adelaide's birth: a raven had then built her nest within the ducal -coronet; and a few posts after brought an account that Lord Richard -Raymond, the Duke's only brother, had been killed in a duel at Paris. -From this partial fulfilment of the augury the Duke's dependants were -filled with the melancholy forebodings that the Duchess, expiring during -the pains of parturition, should give birth either to a still-born, or a -female infant.</p> - -<p>However the latter supposition proved to be well-founded, as the Duchess -was soon safely delivered of a female child, in due and given time, upon -the Eve of All-Hallows, the 31st day of October, in the year one -thousand six hundred and——pending the bodings of the raven, and the -vaticinations of the vicinage.</p> - -<p>The family of Tyrconnel, through the female line, traced their high -descent from a proud and ennobled ancestry, (not less illustrious than -that of the noble Duke;) the pedigree was traced from the hight -chieftain, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span>famed <i>Nial Necalloch</i>, (or, Nial of the Nine Hostages,) who -in his glorious and chivalrous career had achieved various noble feats -in arms. But not content with these successes at home, he sought for -fame in foreign lands, where in the ardent search and attainment of -glory, his gallant course of valour run, he closed his brave and -honourable life amid the sunny regions of France; where this warlike -planet, this Mars of Erin, expired upon the banks of the Loire,<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> -falling like the valiant Richard I. of England, "The lion-hearted," by -the arrow of the assassin.</p> - -<p>Indeed the house of Tyrconnel might be truly called <i>a noble family</i>, -"for all the daughters were chaste, and all the sons were valiant." <span class="smcap">Per -acuta belli</span> was the motto which fearlessly they bore, and which, ever -unchanged amid the war-trumpet's clang, the burst of battle, and the -shouts of victory, or the dismaying groans of defeat, they proudly and -nobly maintained; their escutcheon might oft have been encrimsoned by -the blood of the bold, but it still defended the heart, and was upheld -by the arm of the brave!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p> -<p>The Duke traced his ancient, lordly, and lineal descent from Raymond -Count of Toulouse, who was the first zealous champion in serving, and -enthusiastically heading, the Christian cause in the holy wars.</p> - -<p>Adelaide Raymond, the only child of Raymond Duke of Tyrconnel, was born -upon the 31st day of October, <i>anno salutis</i>, one thousand six hundred -and——upon the Eve of All-Hallows, as we have already noticed. His -Royal Highness James Duke of York, (brother and presumptive heir to -Charles II.,) and who afterwards succeeded to the throne of the triple -realms as James II., upon this happy event was most graciously pleased -to signify his royal intention of standing sponsor for Lady Adelaide; -which high distinction was gratefully and proudly accepted by the Duke -and Duchess of Tyrconnel; and the Lord Glandarrah was chosen as proxy -for the royal sponsor.</p> - -<p>Adelaide almost immediately after her <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span>birth had been privately -baptized; but the first day of May, which had now arrived, was the day -appointed for the state christening. The Duchess d'Aremberg, an early -friend of the Duchess of Tyrconnel, stood godmother for the Lady -Adelaide, and appointed Lady Lucy Raymond, the Duke's youngest sister, -as her proxy. Nor did the Duchess d'Aremberg forget to send a baptismal -present upon this august occasion, which arrived in due season, in the -shape and form of an infant's cap and frock, all beautifully formed of -exquisite Brussels lace, and made under the eye and express directions -of the illustrious godmother: and to these were added a scarf and sash -of rich Mechlin lace. Nor did Her Grace omit also to send, as was then -usual, a handsome <i>honorarium</i> to the child's nurse, Mrs. Judith -Braingwain, with whom our gentle reader, in due and given time and -place, shall become better acquainted in the following pages of this our -eventful history.</p> - -<p>But with due leave and respect we must now be permitted to say a word or -two concerning the ancient and noble baronial castle, where the high <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> -and exalted ceremonial of this day was with such pomp to be celebrated.</p> - -<p>The castle of Tyrconnel was situated in the province of Ulster, where -its majestic stately ruins still remain magnificent even in decay. It -stood upon the verge of a triangular village, to which it gave its own -ennobled name, as it was the generic name at that period of the town and -the county, which was a district of large extent. Since that time, in -these our modern days, the ancient name of Tyrconnel has been changed -into Donegal.<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a></p> - -<p>The castle is boldly elevated upon the rocky and precipitous margin of -the river Eske, which rolls its impetuous torrent into the Atlantic -Ocean, from which it is only half-a-mile distant. Mountains surround the -castle on every side, except to the west, from which point receding, -they open a noble vista to the sea, and give a solemn and magnificent -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>character to the entire scenery. Here the curving and fantastic -outlines of the distant mountains, clad in ë blue, arise in endless -and beautiful variety, glowing or darkening with every varying tint and -tone of sun-shine or of shadow, reflecting each rainbow hue of the -atmosphere, and then boldly blending sky and mountain into one -congregated mass of undefinable tint; so that the dark blue cloud which -rolls above can with difficulty be distinguished from the dark blue -mountain that, towering, frowns beneath.</p> - -<p>The approach to the majestic steep where this ancient and celebrated -fortress stands, is through the well-known pass of <i>Barna-More</i>, or the -great gap; which is here formed by the opening arms of the stupendous -mountain of Sleavedoon, whose gigantic heights constitute vast -continuous barriers to the extent of fourteen miles, girdling within -their extended embrace a varied and lonely valley, which expands and -smiles beneath.</p> - -<p>This massive fabric was planned and piled in the twelfth century by the -first Earl of Tyrconnel, and was then, and subsequently for <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span>a series of -years, garrisoned as a fortress. The castle, although by no means -deficient in architectural grandeur, yet appears to have been -constituted principally with a view to strength; and that object -unquestionably in those days was fully attained, for it was utterly -impregnable to all hostile attacks in that early age. The form of the -castle is square, and flanked by frowning turrets of similar -conformation; the ground-plan is constructed upon an extended scale, and -the design of the building is withal irregular: a large magnificent -quadrangular court-yard adorns the interior, which is surrounded by -bastions, battlements, and towers.</p> - -<p>There is a projecting barbican, whose fragments yet remain still boldly -overhanging the river Eske, and which seems to have been intended for -the purpose of supplying the castle with water, while it is also -supposed to have been occasionally used as a donjon-keep, and which -afforded an expeditious mode of despatching the prisoners whom the -haughty Lord refused to surrender, or was unwilling to maintain, by -plunging them down <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span>the vortex of the ceaseless current which rapidly -rolls beneath.</p> - -<p>When the Duke of Tyrconnel resided here several small pieces of cannon -were pointed from the embattled bartizan of the central tower, adding to -its ornament as well as to its defence. The grand front of the castle -was situated seaward; to the west extended a lofty terrace; the -embrasures of the parapet wall which enclosed the terrace were furnished -with about a dozen of twelve pounders; while the deep foundations of the -bastions were moated by the impetuous waters of the Eske, fiercely -rolling onward to the Atlantic Ocean.</p> - -<p>This lordly pile was this day (the 1st of May, one thousand six hundred -and——) destined to be the scene of uncommon festivity and grandeur; -indeed such pomp and magnificence never before were witnessed within the -walls of Tyrconnel castle. All the nobility and gentry in the country -for many miles round were invited to assist at the baptismal banquet -given for the noble and lovely infant; and every princely preparation <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> -was in readiness duly to celebrate this distinguished day.</p> - -<p>The noble banner, quartered and emblazoned with the ancient bearings of -this illustrious family, from its gilt flag-staff, which was crowned -with the ducal coronet, proudly floated over the high central tower, -which latterly had obtained the <i>agnomen</i> of "the raven tower," from a -circumstance which already has been related. The guns on the parapet -fired a loud <i>salvo</i> to welcome the happy day; while the ancient harper -(old blind Cormac) and the piper were put in immediate requisition, to -add the notes of harmony to the loud reports of joy.</p> - -<p>The tenantry and peasantry, both male and female, were invited, and -gladly came, clad in their holiday suits, to partake of a rural banquet, -prepared expressly for the occasion within marquees erected on the lawn. -The costume of the servants of the Duke was truly princely, and all who -wore livery appeared richly apparelled in their state attire of green -cloth, deeply laced, and embroidered with gold. The old cathedral tower -pealed <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span>forth many a merry chime, which duly was responded to by the -distant tinkling of the surrounding village bells.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p><p>While these preparations were advancing, the Duke happened to be walking -upon the terrace, and hearing old Cormac touch his harp and prepare to -sing, with the intent, no doubt, that his voice and strings might sound -in due tone and harmony at the approaching festival; the Duke had the -curiosity to step onward to hear the notes of the aged minstrel—for he -was both minstrel and harper; and His Grace listened to learn whether -old Cormac had composed any rhythm or song for this great and happy -occasion. Accordingly with this fixed intent His Grace advanced to the -door of the great hall which led out to the terrace, and which happened -to be then open; from thence he listened, and heard the following lines -sung by Cormac, which the old man accompanied with his harp:—</p> - -<p class="center">CORMAC'S SONG.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Loud strike the harp! and raise the song!</span> -<span class="i4">To Raymond shall the verse belong!</span> -<span class="i4">And hail his noble, lovely child,</span> -<span class="i4">The image of her mother mild.</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">O softly rest, sweet baby there,</span> -<span class="i4">And as thy morn, thy life be fair!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">Long may that smile of angel grace</span> -<span class="i4">That now illumes thy beauteous face,</span> -<span class="i4">Attend thee through life's stormy race!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">May no mischance destroy thy rest,</span> -<span class="i4">Be thine the sun-shine of the blest;</span> -<span class="i4">And when thy earthly course is past,</span> -<span class="i4">Be thine the joys shall ever last!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">Friendship on earth be thine, and love,</span> -<span class="i4">And thine eternal bliss above!</span></div></div> - -<p>The Duke felt exceedingly pleased at the attachment and feeling -expressed by the old man in his extempore song, although he might not -think very highly of the poetical composition. But the words came from -the old man's heart, and the strain to which his harp rang forth was an -old Irish air, so the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>Duke was fully satisfied; and having advanced and -entered the hall, he approached old Cormac, and in a gracious tone he -said to the sightless bard, "Thanks, Cormac, accept my grateful thanks; -and moreover, here is largess for the minstrel, and withal it is stamped -in gold." So having said, he passed a gold <i>Carolus</i> into the minstrel's -hand; for which bounty, with tears flowing from his sightless eye-balls, -the grateful old man made a low and respectful obeisance, adding due -courtesy.</p> - -<p>Here the Duke retired to dress, to receive his company; and meeting with -his physician, Sir Patricius Placebo, on his way, he deputed him to do -the honours should any of the guests arrive while His Grace was attiring -for the banquet.</p> - -<p>Sir Patricius Placebo had been created a baronet by king Charles II., in -grateful return for active services and personal kindnesses performed in -favour of the monarch during his long exile from the throne of his -ancestors; and he was, through the favour of His Royal Highness James -Duke of York, who afterwards became James II., introduced, with <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span>every -favourable recommendation, to the Duke of Tyrconnel.</p> - -<p>Sir Patricius Placebo now became forth-with family physician to the -Duke. He had been baptized plain Patrick, but assumed that of Patricius; -whether it was selected for the euphony of the sound, or the dignity -which it implied, or both considerations probably swaying together, the -reason of the selection has not been sufficiently defined, nor do our -historical annals record the cause. But thus the baronet in sooth was -called, and so he wished to be designated.</p> - -<p>The attire of Sir Patricius was in due accordance and conformity to the -medical costume of the time, which is worthy of being preserved as a -historical morceau. His head was enveloped within an enormous bushy -peruke, which at this period was confined to the learned professions, or -those who affected gravity. This said peruke was <i>bien poudrè</i>, and upon -its summit was perched a small gold-laced hat of triangular shape and -form, fastened with gold loops, and a button at the sinister side of -said triangle. His costume was a rich black velvet coat, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span>without a -cape, made single-breasted, with long and portentously extended skirts, -starched, and stuffed, and stiffened forth, with a magnanimous -expenditure of stay-tape and buckram; from out of which sprung, and -sparkled forth, the ornamented hilt of a small sword. The sleeves of the -coat were large and slashed, each capacious enough to have contained a -moderate sized turkey. The waistcoat, formed of the same materials, was -likewise in unison with the coat, single-breasted, with long flaps or -skirts, which might have given no bad idea of the Roman <i>sportula</i>. His -cravat was formed of the richest muslin, deeply edged with Mechlin lace, -which, after passing several times around the neck, meandered through -the button-holes of the waistcoat, so as nearly to reach the extremity -of the waist. His small-clothes were made likewise of black velvet, -according to the curious, and certainly not very seemly fashion of the -times. The hose, or stockings, were of scarlet silk, which were tightly -drawn up, and ascended the knees upon the exterior of the small-clothes, -and that too to the very utmost of their outstretched extent; <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span>at the -ankles the hose were adorned with clokes of gold net-work.<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> The shoes -were fashioned with broad square toes, made with short quarters and high -tops, and were so highly polished that they might well indeed have -elicited the admiration, if not the envy, of the fabricator (if then -living) of "Warren's jet blacking!" <a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> The shoes were fastened by small -square gold buckles richly wrought. His solitaire of rich black satin, -must not perish in oblivion, along with all the dignified <i>et ceteras</i> -of a proud chevalier of that chivalrous day. His ruffles and chitterlin -were of rich Poyntz lace; while over and around his shoulders was flung -a long Spanish <i>càpa ròpa làrga</i>, a large wide cloak or roquelaire of -rich Spanish cloth, the inside dyed white, the exterior scarlet; and it -is certainly imagined that no one ever yet stood in proximity with the -Doctor's red flowing roquelaire without wishing mentally for the -approach of a fire-engine!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p> - -<p>But we must now complete the portrait of Sir Patricius. He constantly -carried an Indian cane, surmounted with a gold head of beautifully -perforated filligree-work, the interior of which contained cotton -steeped in aromatic vinegar; and it was amusing to behold with what -dignified gravity and grimace he ever and anon applied the said cane to -the olfactory organ, and with much seeming satisfaction. When this -stately toy was relinquished, it gave place to a more magnificent bijou, -in the shape of a gold snuff-box: upon the lid was inserted a miniature -of Charles II. by the celebrated Samuel Cooper. And let it be remembered -that "he was the first who gave the strength and freedom of oil to -miniature!" This fine production of original genius was appropriately -encircled around with large brilliants. The act of snuff-taking was -slowly performed by the grave pressure of the thumb and fore-finger of -the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span>right hand, deliberately and ceremoniously performing a curve, or -segment of a circle, while with a sly and approving gaze he contentedly -ogled a large diamond ring placed on the little finger. When the Baronet -spoke it was with a rich and most mellifluous brogue, and to which the -tone of consequence did not seem wanting: albeit to those who invited -him to a good dinner when the Duke was absent, or who annually -vouchsafed to take or order a box of his <i>Pillulæ Vitæ</i>, he was, in -sooth, a very pleasant, accommodating, and polite gentleman.</p> - -<p>Sir Patricius was standing on the terrace, and leaning thoughtfully upon -his cane, when Captain Heaviside rode up to the steps; and alighting -from horseback, he ascended the stately terrace. Captain Heaviside was -all things to all men—ay, and to all women. He was the <i>pious Æneas</i> in -church, conventicle, or chapel; but he was the <i>dux Trojanus</i> in the -grotto or drawing-room.</p> - -<p>"Good morrow, Captain."</p> - -<p>"Sir Patricius, your most humble servant."</p> - -<p>"Would you wish, Captain, to view the demesne?" <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Certainly, Sir Patrick—I mean Sir Patricius. I beg pardon, dear Sir; -but will you first allow me to jump out of these leathern turrets? I -hate all confounded French fashions."</p> - -<p>The Captain retired to the chamber appropriated for him. There freely -disengaged from the ponderous encumbrances which were worn at that era. -After a few moments he rejoined the Baronet in the great hall of the -castle. It was not then the fashion, <i>á la Turke</i>, to wear mustâches; -nor was it considered necessary to announce the approach into -the drawing-room or dancing saloon, of the man of war, by the loud clank -and clatter of his iron heels, steel chains, and brass spurs, or the -ponderosity of an immense sabre, enclosed in an iron sheath, and -"dragging its slow length along." No; Captain Heaviside came in -full-dress, according to the studied propriety and etiquette of the age.</p> - -<p>The great baronial hall was sumptuously fitted up as an armoury; the -walls were adorned with all the ancient arms and weapons which were <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> -peculiar to Ireland; it was wainscoted with carved native oak; the -ceiling also was of oak, ornamented with carved, basso-relievos of -armorial escutcheons, armour, warlike weapons, coats of arms, crests -mottoes, &c. Several horns of the moose-deer, of immense dimensions, -surmounted the architraves and door-cases. At either end of the hall -were two large fire-places, with gigantic chimney-pieces of Irish -marble; the central compartment of each was decorated with armorial -sculpture, representing the Irish harp, surmounted by the radiate, or -Irish crown, the supporters, two wolf-dogs of the Irish breed, and -underneath, in Gælic, a motto under each device; the interpretation of -which, partly in allusion to the Irish wolf-dog, as also to the manly -character of the inhabitants of the island, was, "Gentle when soothed, -fierce when provoked." Various war-weapons tastefully displayed and -arranged, of ancient Irish make and form, glittered upon the walls; viz. -spears and javelins, "the heavy broad-eyed spear of battle," swords, -daggers, skeines of iron and brass, two-handled swords, and among them -conspicuously shone forth <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span>the double-handled sword of the renowned <span class="smcap">Nial -Necalloch</span>, richly ornamented and inlaid with gold; metal halberts were -arranged in the same class with tuagh-catha, <i>i.e.</i> battle-axes, tuagh -suaighte or clipping axes, fiadhgha, crannuibhs, spears, clubs, Irish -lances, spears, javelins, jacks, corslets, haubergeons, targets, -bucklers, pavices (shields), cailmhions, salets, skulls (<i>i.e.</i> -helmets), sceptres beautifully inlaid with gold, fibula (brooches) of -brass, silver, and gold, richly and exquisitely wrought; bits and spurs -of an enormous size, and inlaid with gold; druidical scythes, ancient -Irish harps (the <i>cithara</i>), ancient Irish trumpets of various kinds and -names, the stuic or stock, the buabhall, the beann, the adharc, and the -corna or bugle-horn; the dudag, the gall-trompa, the cibbural or -corabus, the cornan or cronan, and the iachdarchannus (<i>quasi</i>, <i>cantus -bassus</i>.) But here we close our antiquarian summary, as we begin fairly -to suspect that many of our readers have no partiality to such ancient -researches; suffice it then to say, that all these various specimens -were arranged in diversified ornamental shapes and forms of sun, moon, -star, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span>and crescent, that fancy could conceive or taste execute.</p> - -<p>Here Sir Patricius again proposed to the Captain to accompany him in a -ramble to view the grounds; to which Captain Heaviside readily and -gladly assented. As they stood upon the terrace, Sir Patricius said, "My -worthy Sir, just as you had arrived I was upon this spot, thinking with -what taste and judgment my very excellent patron—</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>O et præsidium et dulce decus meum!</i>)</p> - -<p>has so much improved and adorned these lawns, when, Captain, I can well -remember what they were. Great natural capabilities, no doubt, presented -them-selves, and His Grace has acted upon them with spirit, taste, and -judgment, and withal no expense has been spared. However highly meriting -the meed of praise, which doubtless His Grace so well is entitled to, I -was just thinking of the great Archimedes, who so sagely and -appropriately said,</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!</span></p> - -<p>And I——" </p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p> - -<p>"I must beg a thousand pardons, most gallant, illustrate, and learned -Sir Patricius," said Captain Heaviside, interrupting the Baronet, "but, -under favour, my good Sir, I do not in verity understand one word of -<i>Hebrew</i>; no, nor any of these nostrums; albeit I have little doubt that -Archimedes the great was, in good sooth, a most famous and skilful -physician and gifted leech in his celebrated day." <a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a></p> - -<p>"Nay, Captain Heaviside, I cry nay. Mark me, he was a geometrician and -astronomer, and very celebrated as both! The passage which I have put -into the mouth of the renowned philosopher of Syracuse is Greek; and if -I may be indeed permitted to pique myself upon any kind of erudition, -(although, perhaps, in modesty I might say, <i>Vix ea nostra voco</i>), I -should then pride myself upon a knowledge of the Greek tongue; and -moreover too, the proper pronunciation and due intonation of voice, what -Horace so sonorously and emphatically calls the <i>ore rotundo Græcorum</i>. -Indeed I do flatter myself that I speak the best Greek beyond any other -person in the island!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> "Oh, come, no disparagement, good Sir Patricius! to all your learned -acquirements; you excel in speech, and no doubt succeed as well in the -gift and exercise of your pen! but I, Sir, the hapless child of wayward -fortune, am only acquainted with <i>this</i>! [half drawing his sword from -its scabbard.] On this simple stake rest all my fortune and my hope, -which, while I have a hand to wield, shall be held forth in the defence -of my king and country!"</p> - -<p>"Well said, i' faith, my master! and spoken nobly, like a brave and -honest soldier! Ay, to be sure, Sir! <i>every man in his vocation, Hal!</i> -as the inimitable Shakespeare sagely saith; although, nevertheless, a -little knowledge methinks, after all, to the tune of the old proverb, is -in sooth no great burden! But come, presto! we shall change the topic -and the scene. The day beams forth its vernal glow <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span>beneath a brilliant -sky, and the melodious strains of the feathered songsters, vying in -harmonious notes, invite us abroad. Come, we have stayed too long."</p> - -<p>Thus at last the learned physician and the preux chevalier sallied forth -to behold the varied and noble domains of the illustrious proprietor. -The lawns, shrubberies, walks, gardens, &c., were all kept with the -greatest possible care and neatness. Several artificial lakes fed by a -living stream, and of great extent, so as to seem as if placed there by -the hand of nature, wound along beneath the shadow of ancient groves, -and fully diversified the scene. The lawns and parks were smooth and -verdant as a bowling-green from the frequent pressure of the roller. -While the walks, parterres, and terraces, were so trimly kept that not a -fallen leaf was to be seen; which order and regularity was placed to the -account and agency of several old females, habited as witches, whose -brooms, ever on the alert, kept all in due and perfect neatness. Part of -the grounds which adjoined the castle were laid out in that -old-fashioned style which we confess we are antediluvian enough to <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> -admire; however, be it known that no tree, shrub, nor ever-green, -whatever, was clipt and mutilated by the shears to shrink into the -abortioned form and pressure of a wizard's broom, or a true-lover's -knot! no pyramid of clipped beech, no cypress-tree which assumed the -fantastic form of Cleopatra's needle. No: nor did shivering Adam and -Eve, and the cold clammy serpent and "forbidden tree," astound the -spectator in shorn yew; no fountain impotently attempted to spring -upward in boxwood; no such puerilities were tolerated to disfigure by -grotesqueness the scenery of nature. So far on the contrary, that every -thing was in good taste—at least it was so at the distant time of which -now we write. The grounds were laid out in what would now be called the -improved English taste: here lawns of richest verdure, and cultivated to -the highest degree of luxuriance; there wild rocks of granite or -limestone, as placed by the hand of nature, trailed and festooned around -with lichen grey and ivy green; while <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span>the <i>Osmunda regalis</i>, the royal -fern, spreading wide its majestic plumes, and undulating in the breeze, -gracefully waved and bent over the apex of these romantic rocks, and -gave a pleasure to the eye that scenes of nature only can bestow. The -terraces which surrounded the castle were kept gravelled and rolled to -the extreme of neatness, and were hedged with luxuriant myrtle. The -<i>now</i> old-fashioned ponds, which it would have been little less than -sacrilege to remove, reposed beneath the terraces, which gave a tone of -grandeur to the whole; <i>jets d'eau</i> sprung from the centre of these to -an elevated height, and over the head of many a triton and river deity; -while the waters, as the declination of the ground permitted, bursting -forth at once the bonds of artificial force, they</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"From large cascades in pleasing tumult roll'd,</span> -<span class="i4">Or rose from figured stone,"</span></div></div> - -<p>brightly spreading and sparkling beneath a brilliant sun. It must, -however, be admitted, that it was somewhat chilling, even in the merry -month of May, to behold the shivering <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span>deities who presented them-selves -in cold tangible marble <i>sans chemisé</i>, <i>sans robé</i>, <i>et sans drapé</i>, -while they sentinelled the verdant banks of pond, lake, or canal; and -which, in some degree to qualify our praise, we are ready and free to -admit were after all somewhat <i>selon le ecole d'Hollandé</i>!</p> - -<p>Here suddenly a vernal shower coming on, the Doctor and Captain, at no -great distance from the castle, were glad to make a race to avoid a -wetting; and before their dress could receive any damage they entered -the castle-hall, having luckily accomplished their object. Sir Patricius -now proposed to show to Captain Heaviside the Duke's great gallery of -paintings, <i>pour passer le temps</i> until the hour appointed for the -baptismal ceremony should arrive.</p> - -<p>Just at this moment the Duchess of Tyrconnel drove up in her equipage to -the castle door. It was a low demesne cabriole, drawn by two small -ponies, and driven by a postillion; in it was seated the Duchess, Mrs. -Judith Braingwain, the nurse, and in her arms the lovely child, the Lady -Adelaide. Sir Patricius hastened forth to hand them from the vehicle, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> -and the Duchess most graciously saluted both her guests, the little -Adelaide sweetly smiled, and the Duchess with all due courtesy retired.</p> - -<p>"There she goes—there goes Her Grace," said Sir Patricius; "that highly -intellectual lady; the <i>rara avis</i>—the black swan of literature of this -our day—my right noble patroness; shining amid her compeers a bright -star of intellectual, and literary, and domestic worth, and rich indeed -in all,</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">'Velut inter ignes<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Luna minores.'"</span></div></div> - -<p>Captain Heaviside here rejoined—"Although, Sir Patricius, I knew well -that the Duchess gave with her noble hand a distinguished fortune to the -Duke, yet verily I did not until now learn that Her Grace had any estate -in the <i>Minories</i>!"</p> - -<p>"No, no; ha, ha!" said Sir Patricius, with a most self-applauding laugh. -"Oh no! nor in the <i>Stannaries</i> neither. But <i>allons nous donc, mon -preux chevalier</i>! Apollo and the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span>muses now invite us.—So, ho! to the -picture gallery." To which the learned Theban and the valiant Captain -now hastily ascended.</p> - -<p>The grand picture gallery, which now they entered, was of truly -magnificent dimensions, and lighted from an elevated dome. This truly -splendid collection of paintings was most judiciously arranged on the -walls of the superb gallery, collected and selected with a taste and -discernment that spoke volumes in praise of the liberality of the -distinguished collector. This splendid gallery was adorned with the -<i>chefs d'ouvres</i> of the most ancient celebrated masters; forming, on -entrance, a truly grand and most imposing <i>coup d'œil</i> of the -different works of Reubens', "the prince of painters;" Raphael, "the -divine!" Angelo, Guido, Titian, with a long and noble extended <i>et -cetera</i>, too magnificently formidable to be here introduced.</p> - -<p>The first painting which they approached was from the pencil of Teniers; -it was that of his famous <i>Alchymist</i>.</p> - -<p>"This," said Sir Patricius, pointing to the painting, "is a work of -Teniers!" <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Vastly fine, indeed, Sir Patricius!—Oh, monstrous fine! grand, -expressively sublime! eh! But here," added the surprised Captain, "what, -<i>ten years</i>!—was the patient artist employed ten years thereon? -Monstrous length of time! what sad solemn patience and perseverance the -fellow had to be sure!—tedious faith, as the old siege of Troy!"</p> - -<p>"No, no, my very good Captain, I did not say that the renowned artist -was <i>ten years</i> employed in accomplishing this fine painting, but merely -announced that his distinguished name was Teniers."</p> - -<p>"Oh, a thousand pardons, Sir Patricius!—eh—<i>ten</i> thousand pardons! But -then the painting is truly monstrous fine!—upon my s—l it is vastly -fine indeed—eh!"</p> - -<p>The next painting which they approached was the famous painting of -Europa carried off by Jupiter in the shape of a bull, from the -distinguished pencil of the celebrated Claude Lorraine.</p> - -<p>"The painter who has produced that truly ennobled specimen of his divine -art," said <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span>Sir Patricius, with great pomp and emphasis, save -when he was interrupted by a constitutional cough, "the painter, hem, -hem, hem, was, Sir Captain, let me tell to you, inimitable! He deeply -studied nature, and hence he acquired that elevated <i>gùsto</i>, which has -justly stamped a superlative value upon all his masterly works; his -truly lovely landscapes, glowing with Italian suns, and with Italian -verdure, <i>Italia diis sacra</i>, hem, hem, hem! Yes, bold Sir, upon these -he acted, and on the noble inspirations of nature! verifying on glowing -canvass the most apposite and veritable saying of the great and learned -Archimedes,</p> - -<p class="center">'<span class="smcap">DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!</span>'</p> - -<p>'That, brave Sir, means—'Give me a point to stand upon;' and Sir, aye -Sir, I shall move '<i>the great globe itself; yea, and all that it -inhabit!</i>'—That, Sir, is a Claude!"</p> - -<p>"Heaven and earth!—<i>clawed!</i> What do I hear," said the astonished -Captain, in a most lachrymal tone; "<i>clawed!</i>—what a thousand pities! -irreparable—hopelessly irreparable! <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span>Indeed I always knew too well that -cats were most destructive, malicious animals. But say what inducing -cause—what motive? here was depicted no lively representation of rat, -rabbit, pigeon—no, nor mouse! wonderful! 'Fore Jove I swear, that all -the confounded pestilential breed of cats in the county should swing -before I should endure to have such a noble painting as that <i>clawed</i> by -any cat o' the mountain in the province!"</p> - -<p>Here Sir Patricius Placebo raised his intelligent eyes in dumb despair, -very nearly indeed allied to positive contempt. But after a short -momentary gaze of astonishment, and a slight expression of contempt, his -muscles relaxed into a cheering smile; and seeing from the window, as he -looked out, some of the guests to arrive, he gaily said—"I see clearly, -Captain Heaviside, that you prefer living faces to their mute -representation on canvass, so let us adjourn, <i>si vous voulez</i>, and -attend the ladies; and egad I think I can show you some fine girls; -there, Captain, you see are some fair specimens, the six Misses -O'Carrol, and all dressed so gay in <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span>pink, blue, and crimson, smiling -and blooming like a bed of budding pæonies in June!"</p> - -<p>"Vastly koind, good Sir Patricius; vastly koind, <i>j'irai la sans -failler</i>, eh?—Yes I do admire pretty girls exceedingly; and I must say, -by Jove, that I prefer them to all your <i>Hebes</i>, <i>Cupids</i>, and -<i>Ganymedes</i>, on copper, canvass, or panel!"</p> - -<p>The chimes of the bells of the ducal chapel now gave warning note that -the baptismal ceremony was nigh at hand, and all the guests consequently -approached the sacred edifice. And at the high altar, gorgeously -decorated, from a golden ewer the ceremony of ablution was performed. -When the lovely Adelaide received the sprinkling she smiled most -sweetly; and as her nurse, Mrs. Judith Braingwain, (whom we shall hear -more of anon,) afterwards very appropriately told it: "Heaven bless the -dear bonnie babe, how sweetly it was she smiled bekase she was made a -Christian cratur!"</p> - -<p>The ceremony concluded upon the return of the noble party to the castle. -Cake, caudle, and wine, and various confectionary, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span>were dealt out with -no sparing hand. Many of the company sat down to different card-tables, -and played, as was then the fashion, at ombre, cribbage, loo, <i>jusqué a -dìner</i>, when they were entertained at a most princely and magnificent -banquet.</p> - -<p>The Duke of Tyrconnel received all his guests with frank and due welcome -and courtesy. His Grace was attired in the following costume:—a large -well powdered peruke, which freely flowed over the splendid mantle and -robes of the order of the garter. His Grace also wore the magnificent -collar and gem, and resplendent star, of the illustrious order. His -stockings were of light blue coloured silk, and drawn up in a fashion -similar to those of Sir Patricius Placebo; and around the left leg, -beneath the knee, was buckled the embroidered and mottoed garter, which -pertains to, and from which this distinguished order receives its -appellation. The stockings were adorned "with quirks and clokes about -the ancles" of gold withal, and curiously and richly wrought.</p> - -<p>The Duke of Tyrconnel was considered as <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span>the handsomest man of the age, -and upon this occasion looked uncommonly well, every inch the nobleman. -Lord Glandarrah was attired in the magnificent robes of the order of the -Bath. All the guests, of both sexes were splendidly arrayed, and the -entertainment passed off with undiminished eclat.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span></p><p>But we have already exceeded our limits, and have yet to speak of the -highly gifted Duchess, who indeed deserves a chapter to be appropriated -to herself, to which we shall now proceed, and to the acquaintance of -other persons, matters, and things, connected with this our delectable -history.</p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Hæc mulier, genere atque forma, preterea viro atque liberis,</span> -<span class="i4">satis fortunata fuit: litteris Græcis et Latinis docta, * *</span> -<span class="i4">* * prorsus multæ facetiæ multusque lepos inerat.</span> -<br /> -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Sallust.</span></span></div></div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p><p>The noble guests sat long and cheerfully to celebrate with due honour -the baptismal day; while potations of claret, liberally flowing, and -constantly renovated from <i>magnum</i> bottles, according to the approved -custom and social fellowship and habit of the times, were deep and -frequent.<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> The splendid supper which followed the sumptuous dinner was -accompanied with the unqualified commendations of Sir Patricius, who -insisted "that it even excelled the Roman banquets of Lucullus or -Apicius; and was in sooth so luxurious, that, verily, his old friend -Flaccus would have called it a <i>dubia cœna</i>; and although they had -neither the juice of the Tuscan nor Falernian grape, they had still -nobler potations to quaff!" And it has been currently reported that his -actions sagely comported, <i>pari passu</i>, with his asseverations, that he -"suited the action to the word," and did most ample, nay summary -justice, to testify beyond all possible contradiction how highly his -palate lauded the excellence of the entertainment! All this was -confidently and cautiously whispered, and discreetly intrusted to a -chosen few. But it met with the fate usually attendant upon all such -confidential communications, <i>videlicet</i>, to be made known and published -in a few hours to the unselected many; or in other words, to all the -king's liege subjects throughout the vicinity!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span></p><p>The supper was served at ten o'clock; an hour which was considered at -that period as late, and was prolonged still later, while jest and joke, -and revelry, and song, and glee, and glass went round; and at a -protracted hour the guests retired to repose; and thus terminated the -social hilarities of the festive night.</p> - -<p>The Duchess rose upon the following day at an early hour, as invariably -was her custom, and having retired to her classical cabinet, opened the -latticed casement to admit the enlivening rays of a brilliant vernal -sun, and to inhale the balmy breeze of the morning. It was truly a -beauteous spring morning; the Eske rolled rapidly over his stony -channel, pouring forth his tributary torrent into the peaceful bosom of -the Atlantic Sea; while with mournful plaint the wood-quest called her -mate, perched on her favourite sycamore; and the red-breast and linnet -sweetly warbled forth their matin-hymn from bush and spray,</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"To gratulate the sweet return of morn."<br /></span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a><br /><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span></p><p>The Duchess of Tyrconnel was indeed an extraordinary woman, highly -gifted by nature, instructed by education, (in these days, certainly an -unusual occurrence), and still more learned from her own assiduity and -perseverance. All this was the more remarkable, when we pause to -consider the period in which she lived! The vast powers of her mind were -demonstrated by the universality of her knowledge, the various -accomplishments which she possessed, her acquaintance, even to a -colloquial knowledge, with several different languages, the numerous -acquirements, in all of which she excelled. No less distinguished was -the Duchess of Tyrconnel for her singular modesty, her unaffected -manners, and that retiring grace, at once characteristic of those high -endowments which flung around her such imposing charms. Indeed it has -generally been remarked and acknowledged, that affectation and conceit -are seldom found to be connected with genius, but are the satellites of -those who would usurp her throne; and that the never-failing attendant -upon true genius is simplicity of manners.</p> - -<p>The Duchess had been educated at the convent of Vernon sur le Seiné, -where she was wont</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"To walk the studious cloisters pale,</span> -<span class="i4">And love the high embowed roof,</span> -<span class="i4">With antic pillars massy proof,</span> -<span class="i4">And storied windows, richly dight,</span> -<span class="i4">Casting a dim religious light."</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> Here, during her novitiate, the Duchess (then Lady Katherine O'Nial) -formed a friendship with a young lady, an inmate at the convent, which -terminated only in death. The friend of her youth was the beautiful Lady -Adelaide Alençon, daughter of the Duke of Alençon. They became dear and -inseparable friends, from similarity of taste and talent. The <i>idem -velle</i>—the <i>idem nolle</i>—was theirs! The same, or nearly the same, -distinguished talents, a similar and uncontrollable wish for -information, led them on in the paths of science and of literature, of -virtue and of religion. Then, oh! how delightful it was, after a short -sojourn with their friends, again to return to the sacred convent, and -to hear at early morn the solemn anthem from the hallowed choir, which -pealed over rock and flood, deeply re-echoed by the convent walls: or if -at eve they returned, to hear floating upon the silent and slumbering -bosom of the Seiné the sad and solemn evening vesper, which was wafted -to the skies!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> But this pure and disinterested friendship was doomed to be only of -short duration. Lady Adelaide Alençon's powers of mind were superior to -the fragile tenement they illuminated and adorned, and over-studiousness -brought on a consumption, which unfortunately was a hereditary disease. -The physicians ordered the patient to remove to Tours, from thence to -the aromatic isles of the Heyéres. But, alas! it was all in vain! The -promises at first were fair, like expanding snow-drops on the cold -breast of spring, which blow—then bloom—then die! But each sad -succeeding account only brought fresh accession of regret; and at an -early age, in the ever-blooming green islands of the Heyéres, the lovely -and the gifted Lady Adelaide Alençon drooped, and pined, and died! -deeply deplored by all her relatives, and justly and duly lamented by -her friends.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"The hectic form, the beauteous maid,</span> -<span class="i4">That just as life its charms displayed,</span> -<span class="i4">To death devoted, glides away;</span> -<span class="i4">With brilliant eye, that watery gleams,</span> -<span class="i4">While still the rosy spectre dreams</span> -<span class="i4">Of many a morrow gay."</span></div></div> - -<p>Upon the deeply regretted event of Lady Adelaide Alençon's death, the -Duchess made a vow that if she married, her first female child should be -called after her first regarded, her early and lamented friend; and to -this cause our heroine was indebted for the illustrious name which she -bore.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p><p>The Duchess, even during her juvenile abode at the convent of Vernon -sur le Seiné, had manifested much talent and infinite taste, and at that -early period had displayed an extraordinary degree of ingenuity and -delicacy of tact; she cut paper into an innumerable variety of figures, -characters, and landscapes, solely dictated by her own genius, and -executed with much taste and spirit. Her Grace also drew in crayons, -flowers that were so naturally depicted, that they seemed to have been -recently culled from the garden. She was conversant, besides, with vocal -and instrumental music; and, moreover, displayed much skill in -oil-painting and in sculpture: indeed her talents seemed to rival those -of that noble and distinguished lady, Anne-Maria Schurman.<a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> A -proficient too in etching. Her writing in various languages was -inimitable. She was also perfect mistress of the Greek and Latin -languages, and understood and spoke with facility French, Italian, and -German; and no less excelling in the sciences of geography, astronomy, -and philosophy, with many other rare acquirements, which we shall pass -by unnoticed, as we do not choose to classify this gifted lady with the -heroines of romance. Under the guidance and instructions of such a -mother everything was to be hoped for, if not realized, in the education -of an only and beloved daughter—her first-born, and possibly her last; -certainly her only one! <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p><p>With all these splendid acquirements, the Duchess was an ardent admirer -of the beauties of nature. She took delight in beholding the sun, with -glorious burst, to ascend and illuminate the lofty mountain-peak; and at -night to behold the starry host of heaven, the moon, and all the -unnumbered stars that gem with imperishable lustre the canopy of the -skies. Even while the morning dew impearled the grass, she was wont to -traverse the verdant lawn, with "daisies pied and violets blue;" all -these charms of rural nature gave delight and indescribable pleasure to -a mind at peace with itself, and in harmony with the tranquil solitude -which surrounded her. Who can doubt, then, that it was with unmixed -contempt that the Duchess looked down upon the green and frivolous field -of a loo, tredille, or cribbage-table, and that even primero had no -charms for her!—a preference at that period very remarkable, and that -completely puzzled all the suppositions and gossipings of the courtly -card-playing dowagers of those courtly days.</p> - -<p>However, with all this wild love for nature, and with all those -commanding accomplishments to boot, we cannot, howbeit, deny that the -Duchess was proud of the country which gave her birth, and pardie proud -perhaps too of her own ennobled descent; although we must observe that, -with due discretion, she was never known to dwell upon the latter, while -upon the former, conversant as she was with the aboriginal language of -her country, when time and opportunity offered, she then indulged -herself therein, in learning the wants and the necessities of the lower -orders; and, furthermore, in acquiring a knowledge of the character and -the feelings of the native Irish, with which the more she became -acquainted, the still more she became endeared.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span></p><p>While thus we have been endeavouring to delineate the mind and -acquirements of the Duchess of Tyrconnel, we must, however, not silently -pass by her remarkable costume, for this is strictly in unison with the -history of those times; and it must be confessed that it was -sufficiently <i>outré</i> and extraordinary. Her Grace's head-dress, or -head-gear, was strangely elevated, indeed we might say castellated, upon -the stiff, formal, and firm foundation of an internal satin cushion, on -bastion of silk, surmounted by a natural coronal of fine auburn hair; so -that she might have been mistaken for Cybele, the mother of the gods; -and like the goddess too, she was crowned with the model of a citadel. -The hair was raised with such force, that it appeared from the process -to be nearly starting from the roots. A double tier of curls formidably -flanked and circled round this superstructure, on which were arranged -three magnificent rows of eastern pearls, while above was placed a -costly coif or cap of superb Brussels lace, bordered with Mechlin. Large -pendant diamond rings sparkled in each ear; a superb brilliant necklace -glittered on her bosom; her kerchief was of the richest Poyntz lace; her -jacket or bodice was short, formed with close sleeves, and made of light -blue Spanish cloth, adorned with longitudinal stripes of gold. This -bodice was fastened at the breast, so as to form a most splendid -stomacher, by means of two parallel superb rows of large brilliant -diamond buttons, which were interlaced by crimson ribbons, enclosing it -in front. The sleeves were of deep crimson velvet, trimmed with rich -gold net-work. The petticoat was of rich blue velvet, festooned by -golden cords and tassels, and richly trimmed with a border of deep gold -net-work. The petticoat, it must needs be confessed, was distended to a -disfiguring circumference, swelled out by the unseemly and uncouth -bell-hoop, which was then the appanage to a lady's full dress, and still -further increased by long peaked stays, which gave a most Dutch-like and -awkward solemnity, if not an armorial stiffness of carriage, to the -wearer.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p><p>Her Grace's shoes were of red Morocco leather, with high tapering -heels, so elevated as to form with the sole the outlines of an arch; and -the colour, to contrast with the red upper leather, was blue. The shoes -were tastefully stitched and worked in a pattern of gold-thread work, -and fastened with diamond clasps. The hose were of light blue silk, -ornamented with clokes of gold.<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a></p> - -<p>Upon the festival of the previous day the Duchess was thus attired as we -have endeavoured to describe her state dress; her beautifully formed -hands and fingers were adorned with bracelets and rings set with "gems -both rich and rare;" while her animated countenance, and still more -brilliant eyes, and affable manners, spread joy and delight around the -festive circle which she graced and adorned.</p> - -<p>We must here by no means whatever pass over an important character in -the <i>dramatis personæ</i> of our history, (at least so she was in her own -personal estimation), and forsooth be it known too, moreover, a highly -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span>privileged person. We here venture to speak of Lady Adelaide's nurse, -Mistress Judith Braingwain, who was in every respect most truly Irish. -Her superstitions were deeply rooted, so that nothing could shake them; -and her belief in ghosts, wraiths, banshees, and fairies, and all that -was marvellous, was truly orthodox. She believed in astrology, then much -in vogue; in dreams, omens, prognostications, and</p> - -<p class="center">"Chimeras all, still more absurd or less,"</p> - -<p>and all the attendant phantasmagoria of credulity. Mrs. Judith's -attachment to her country was great and strong, as likewise was her -affection for her child; but her whole stock of fondness seemed to be -concentrated in her foster child, whom she actually loved better than -the child she had borne in her own maternal bosom. "My dear, dear child, -my darling," she would say, "oh, my Adelaide! may the sun-shine and peace -of this world ever be thine <i>mavourneen</i>!" [i.e. my beloved.]</p> - -<p>Mrs. Judith's dress<a name="FNanchor_15_15" id="FNanchor_15_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a> was so perfectly and truly aboriginal, that it -may amuse the reader, and possibly afford a reminiscence to the -antiquary, while we notice it in the following description.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p> -<p>The curious specimen of Irish costume worn by persons in Mrs. Judith -Braingwain's station in life, prevailed in Ireland at the close of the -reign of the second Charles, and during the reign of his successor, -James II., the patron and friend of the Duke of Tyrconnel. It was as -follows:—</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p><p>Mrs. Judith wore placed upon her head-top a cushion of linen or stuff, -which she called her "system;" it was not dissimilar, save in its want -of utility, to the roll or plait twisted cushion of hay used by -milk-maids in carrying their pails; but with this difference, that it -was not flat, but rose higher to the back of the head; it was fastened -and attached by long pins, and over and around this under-structure she -combed and attached her long hair, of which the Irish were always proud, -even to absurdity, and which withal looked as stiff and formal as if it -had been hewn out, the work of some primeval statuary, sternly staring -in stone, certainly most Medusa-like, upon some ancient tomb! This most -strange redoubt or fortification of hair-work was supported by a -side-battery of two curls on each side of the head above the ears, and -masked on high by a little round cap or coif, surrounded with a cambric -border, over which was thrown a kerchief, which being made fast upon the -apex of the head, was allowed to fall down carelessly behind, where it -streamed, when she walked abroad, like a banner over a fortress. Her -jacket was of brown cloth, and made to fit close to the shape, by means -of whalebone scientifically, as now we would say, wrought into it both -in front and at the back, but managed so as not to meet; while it was -laced in the front across the breast, forming there a stomacher, and -evidently borrowed from the Spanish costume. The sleeves, halfway to the -elbow, were constructed of the same kind of cloth as the jacket, and -from thence they continued to the wrist, formed of longitudinal stripes -of red camlet, interwoven with green ferreting, and then being turned -up, formed a little cuff, embraced within three circles of narrow green -ribbon. Her petticoat was formed of scarlet broad-cloth, bordered with -three rows of green ribbon. Her apron was of green serge, striped -longitudinally with scarlet ferreting, and bound with the same. Her hose -were of blue worsted; and her shoes were of black leather, laced with -scarlet galloon, and ankle high, and withal mounted upon heels of a most -portentous height. But <i>eheu! jam satis</i>, we are glad to have done with -this specimen of costume, of which we are not over fond; but writing of -the history, &c. of the times, from such we found it to be our bounden -duty not to depart or swerve one single iota.</p> - -<p>The Duchess allowed to nurse Braingwain very extensive liberties, and -latitude of converse too, induced by the affectionate, nay, almost more -than motherly care which she bestowed upon her child; as well as amused -withal, she permitted nurse occasionally to show off that strange -originality which she possessed.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p><p>The Duchess having gone through her morning devotions, ascended the -nursery to embrace her dear child, who was sweetly and serenely -reposing.</p> - -<p>"See, my honoured lady, how sweetly <i>mavourneen</i> sleeps! Och, and may be -I didn't dream last night that my dear young princess was one day to be -queen of auld Ireland; and in troth, in my dream, sure enough I saw, not -a crownet, but a royal crown placed upon her sweet baby brow. But as for -you, my lady Duchess, I moreover drimt that Your Grace was created -<i>Impress of Europa</i>—and long, long, my lady Impress, may you live and -reign over us, and over all the world besides! Musha amen, says a -grateful heart!"</p> - -<p>"Prithee, Nurse, be silent; you will awake my child with your -nonsensical rodomontade!"</p> - -<p>Just here a message arrived from the Duke, that he wished to speak with -Her Grace in his closet. The Duchess immediately left the nursery, in -obedience to the ducal summons.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span></p><p>The Duke took the Duchess by the hand: "Here's great news, my Kate! -Charles is dead, and the noble York that was, is now monarch of England; -and permit me to kiss the fair and lady-like hand of the vice-queen of -Ireland," he said, gaily kissing Her Grace's hand.</p> - -<p>"Why, my Lord Duke, I really believe that you have laid this scheme of -cajolery with so very great a personage as the very high and mighty -lady, Mrs. Judith Braingwain, who even just now saluted me with the <i>all -hail hereafter</i>! of Macbeth's witches: for Duchess of Tyrconnel though I -be, yet Empress of Europe I <i>am to be</i>, or "Impress of Europa," as I was -styled. What think you of that, my Lord? Surely I must feel quite -shocked and horrified, as you must well conceive, at this dreadful and -unexpected downfall from my high imperial state! Only think, -at once too, without meet preparation, to be deprived of the diadem -which fancy was fitting upon my brow, and <i>only</i> to be dubbed vice-queen -of Ireland; oh! my Lord, you must needs confess what a provoking falling -off was here! But no; it will not do; I am resolved that I must be -empress, or only simple plain duchess!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span> "Now Katherine you think I am rallying, but no such thing, I seriously -assure you a patent has arrived, constituting and appointing me, and so -forth, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland! And now, fair lady, I must kiss the -hands of the vice-queen of Ireland, according to the statute in that -case made and provided." And having thus gaily spoken, he affectionately -and tenderly embraced his Duchess.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span> "Well then it appears quite a hopeless case, your patent has arrived; -<i>you not only achieve greatness yourself, but likewise have greatness -thrust upon you</i>, as Malvolio says; so I suppose that you must have even -the grace to submit, and entrap yourself forth-with in the harness of -office. As for my part, I shall sigh for the charms of the dear country, -and would rather wear a simple coronal of hawthorn-blossoms than a -diadem studded with resplendent gems, and "the rich east to boot;" and -I, my Lord, warn you, for you must prepare to hear ejaculations from the -towers of Dublin castle somewhat to the tune and measure of—<i>O rus -quando ego te aspiciam?</i> Then you, my Lord, with your high waving plumed -crest of chivalry come rushing up to the turret, fancying that you are -most heroically about to liberate some captive dame, or forlorn -princess, who has been cruelly incarcerated by some old cruel-hearted -necromancer, when I shall fly into your arms, forgetting pomp and power, -and even the divine country too; I will rush into your bosom, and only -remember that I am your wife—<i>the wife of Tyrconnel</i>!"</p> - -<p>"Bravo, bravo, <i>viva, viva, sèmpre l'imperatrice</i>!" exclaimed the Duke -in rapture. "Yes, dearest Katherine, you are the empress of my heart, -and need never, never fear a rival near the throne: come then to my -arms, and with your simple diadem of hawthorn I shall ever adore you, in -cottage or in palace!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span></p><p>The Duke was a Major-General in the army, he had served under the -banner of the illustrious Turenne, and his royal patron the Duke of -York, now James II., had also fought beneath the same victorious -standard. The Duke was considered the handsomest man of the age, and was -beloved alike in camp and in court. His knowledge and attainments were -great; he was not only <i>aliquis in omnibus</i>, but also <i>singularis in -omnibus</i>. He was indeed—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"A courtier of the chamber,</span> -<span class="i4">A soldier of the field;</span> -<span class="i4">Whose tongue could never flatter,</span> -<span class="i4">Whose heart could never yield!"</span></div></div> - -<p>The Duke's two sisters, Lady Letitia and Lady Lucy Raymond, who -constantly resided with him, affectionately approached to congratulate -their brother upon his appointment to the viceroyship. "Oh joy, dearest -brother!" they both exclaimed, while each at the same moment kissed the -Duke's cheeks.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span></p><p>Lady Lucy had been educated abroad, and was always speaking in warmest -raptures of "the dear continent," or of whatever was foreign, or -<i>recherchè</i>. Indeed her friends were obliged to admit that it was a vast -pity that Lady Lucy, with all her amiable qualities, should be somewhat -a little tinctured with conceit; and apprehended, that as it had been of -long continuance they feared it was too late to be remedied, her -affectation having become something very like second nature. Thus argued -her kind, consoling friends, who sat down most contentedly beneath the -shade of their own sage conclusions.</p> - -<p>Lady Lucy continued her expressions of joy in a sort of soliloquy: "Oh -really this will be quite deloightful! quite <i>imposè</i>! surpassingly -deloightful! Why actually we shall hold a little court of St. Germains -at Dublin castle!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span></p><p>Lady Letitia during her infancy had been a sickly child, and, in -consequence of her inability to travel, had remained at home; while her -family were sometime resident abroad, and her education was wholly -unattended to; or to speak more explicitly, was never once thought of as -a matter of the slightest concern—no uncommon occurrence in the olden -time. This deficiency at this period was not confined to two or three -noble families;—nay, gentle reader, start not, for thou wilt please to -recollect that we are speaking of what happened above one hundred and -forty years ago. In consequence of this neglect Lady Letitia made such -broad and palpable mistakes, and of so extraordinary a kind, as could -not of failed to have beaten that modern personage, Mrs. Malaprop, of -blundering notoriety, completely defeated from the field.</p> - -<p>"No, Lucy, no!" rejoined Lady Letitia, "No, nothing <i>German</i>; neither -caps nor boots, rats, whiskers, nor muskatoes. I hate every thing -German; no, our court shall not be a German one, but a second St. -James's. And old Cormac shall compose such a grand ode upon the solemn -occasion, to be said or sung in the old hall at Dublin castle; aye, and -we shall have duly chanted for my dear brother such a noble hypothesis -as ear never——"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span> "Apotheosis, you mean, Letitia," said the Duke, interrupting her. "Yes, -indeed, <i>that</i> would be a <i>solemn occasion</i>; but I pray you be not in -such mighty haste to send me so soon 'unanointed, unanealed,' to the -other world before my time too; this is not altogether so kind, sister; -and besides, previous to the possession of the honours which you would -somewhat too prematurely celebrate.——But a truce to this badinage; I -must forth-with prepare for my journey to take possession of the -government of Barataria!"</p> - -<p>Sir Patricius Placebo now advanced to join and congratulate the family -circle, and to express his joy upon the Duke's appointment. "My Lord -Duke in verity believe me, that this day there exists none whose -feelings and whose heart are more truly gratified by this gracious -selection of my sovereign than what mine are; and I also must -congratulate your Grace's friends, and the country too, at the happy -choice which king James has made. And I further beg to say, with meet -reason, and under due discretion and correction, that you confer more -honour upon the king by your acceptance of it, than His Majesty has done -you by the presentation. Yea, and I may truly and fearlessly add, in the -words of old Flaccus,</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"Cum tot sustineas et tanta negotia solus,</span></div></div> -<hr class="tb" /> -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">in publica commoda peccem</span> -<span class="i4">Si longo sermone morer tua tempora——"</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span></p><p>Just at the moment that the words of old Flaccus were flowing forth -from the tongue of the obsequious Baronet, in a mellifluent Cork or -Kerry brogue, the butler entered the drawing-room, and announced, to the -great delight of Sir Patricius, that "dinner was served." The Duke, -drawing the arm of the Duchess beneath his own, for a moment stopped, -and said playfully—"See, my good Sir Patricius, how opportunely Mercury -pops in to clip the wings of Pegasus, and announce that the banquet of -the gods is ready; and now to our repast with all the appetite we may!"</p> - -<p>Sir Patricius bowed, and handing the ladies Letitia and Lucy, followed -to the dinner-room, solemnly muttering to himself,</p> - -<p class="center">DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!<br /></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span></p><p>while stately he moved along with an increased stride and attitude of -dignity.</p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2> - -<blockquote><p>Por cierto, Senôr Gobernador * * * * que vuesa merced tiene mucha razon -en quanto ha dicho: y que yo ofrezco en nombre de todos los insulanos -desta insula, que han de servir à vuesa merced con toda puntualidad, -amor y benevolencia, porque el suave modo gobenar que en estos -principios vuesa merced ha dado, no les da lugar de hacer, ni de pensar -cosa que en deservicio de vuesa merced redunde.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Don Quixote</span>, tome <span class="smcap">IV</span>.</p></blockquote> - -<p class="center">TRANSLATION.</p> - -<blockquote><p>Doubtless, Sir Governor * * * * you have much reason in all you have -been pleased to say: and let me promise you, in behalf of all the -inhabitants of this island, that they shall serve your will and pleasure -with all due diligence, love, and good-will; for the sweet and mild mode -of government that hitherto in the beginning you have administered to -them, causes them neither to do, nor even to think, aught that may -redound disloyal to your government.</p> - -<p><span class="center"><span class="smcap">Don Quixote</span>, vol. <span class="smcap">IV</span>.</span></p></blockquote> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span></p><p>Before the Duke had arisen upon the ensuing morning the Duchess thus -addressed him, and pronounced, if we may so express it, the -curtain-lecture, with which the reader is here made acquainted:—</p> - -<p>"My dear and much beloved Lord, you are now about to assume the -government of your native island, a land richly abundant in agricultural -and commercial resources, possessing a peasantry inured to toil, hardy, -industrious, and intelligent; keenly alive to and sensible of wrong and -injustice, yet still a passive and a patient people, who, like the Roman -ox, stand ready victims, stationed between the ploughshare and the -altar, alike prepared for the yoke or for sacrifice!—a soil luxuriant -for tillage or for pasture, abounding in quarries, mines, and minerals; -blest with a mild and temperate climate, and adorned with scenery -picturesque, romantic, and sublime; with mountains high as the lofty -spirit of the race who inhabit them, and with harbours (open as their -generous hearts) expanding their numerous emporiums to receive the -tribute of every coast and every clime.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span> "Remember, I pray thee, my good Lord, a passage which once we read, -and that I never can forget; we found it in the Lives of Plutarch, where -we are told the courtiers of Philip of Macedon essayed to mount and -master the noble animal Bucephalus, afterwards the war-horse of the -great and renowned Alexander. Courtier succeeding courtier attempted to -mount the back of Bucephalus, but in vain. They knew, indeed, how to -cringe, and fawn, and flatter in a despot's court, but they were wholly -ignorant and incompetent how to manage this nobly spirited war-horse; -their shadows, as they successively attempted to mount, startled the -steed, and they could make nothing of it. It was then that the son of -Ammon sprang forth, and said, 'Father, give him into my hands; I see the -noble bearing of the proud and generous animal, let me too, therefore, -have a trial!' The request was granted. When Alexander, leading him into -the shade where the steed neither startled by the shadow of his person -nor the flowing of his mantle, Alexander instantly sprung upon his back, -and galloped him several times past the presence of Philip, reining him -with full command, wheeling him round in full career, and then suddenly -halting to address his admiring king and father, and no less astonished -courtiers. At length, overcome with joy and admiration, Philip exclaimed -to Alexander, 'Go, go, my son, and seek to rule over other realms, for -Macedonia is too small for thee!' Yes, my dear Lord, I at once see you -forcibly feel the allusion. In the hands of ignorant, or stupid, or -bigoted governors, and their underlings, Ireland shall ever prove and -remain untractable, as Bucephalus was in the clumsy and untoward hands -of the courtiers of Macedon; but rule the inhabitants of this isle with -gentleness and moderation, with equal and impartial justice, alike -administered to all beneath a mild and conciliatory government, and then -mark how submissively they shall obey their ruler. In peace you shall -see drawn home the heavy harvest team; and on the day of battle our -navies shall ride triumphant, and our armies march victorious!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span></p><p>The Duke smiled at the conclusion of this lengthened lecture; but he -was truly pleased withal at the judicious remarks, the sound sense, and -also with the enthusiastic feeling of his Duchess; and he said somewhat -gaily, "Bravo! well done, my Katherine. I long knew the extensive range -of your reading and information; but, 'fore Jupiter Ammon, I <i>certes</i> -did not know until the present what a famous politician thou hast -become. Thou assuredly hast pronounced a very notable and altisonant -lecture upon legislation, wherewithal from which I fully trust that I -shall ultimately derive much advantage. But yet under favour, lady mine, -my vice-regal <i>femme covert</i>, you will peradventure please to carry in -your noble recollection, that I am no sovereign prince or potentate, and -that the <i>roy le veult</i> belongs not to me, but to my royal master; that -simply I am but a deputy, and therefore it is evident that I can have no -will of mine own, but, on the contrary, that every measure must emanate -from the throne. However, it is nevertheless true, that although I owe -much to my regarded sovereign, yet unhappily should this reflected light -of majesty prove to be but mere "disastrous twilight," I have still the -power to resign; and albeit I am not devoid certainly of ambition, yet -there exists not a man who is more attached to retirement than what I -confessedly am;—none, I am sure, more devoted to his country, friends, -family, and home!"</p> - -<p>The intention of the Duke of Tyrconnel being fixed to pursue his journey -onward without unnecessary delay, to assume the reins of his vice-regal -government, His Grace and his amiable Duchess descended betimes to the -breakfast saloon. The Duke was in uncommon good spirits, spoke -sportively to his beloved Adelaide. The Ladies Letitia and Lucy soon -made their appearance, and Sir Patricius was not the last to take his -station at the breakfast-table, on which was duly placed every solace -for the regalement of the worthy Baronet, if indeed a salutary morning -walk amid the mountain-air could have rendered his appetite fastidious.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span></p><p>The Duke soon began in a jocular way to rally the Ladies Letitia and -Lucy, by observing, "I propose very soon, gentle ladies, so hearken to -me both, to dispose of you twain by promotion—in the temple of Hymen! -What say ye, ladies fair, to my proposition? Doubtless it will meet with -your joint approval, and most dutiful concurrence to my high and -puissant command!"</p> - -<p>Lady Lucy replied, that she had no wish nor intention whatsoever to -alter her situation, feeling perfectly happy and contented as she was, -desirous of no change, and fully resolved, as far as was within her -control, that no cruel <i>empêchement</i> should ever separate her from those -she so dearly regarded and loved."</p> - -<p>Lady Letitia said in reply: "As for your <i>high men</i>, they are always -sure to have their own high ways in aught perchance they would do or -dare; and I needs must observe that I have no wish whatever to be -connected with such high cavaliers, having, alas! upon a former occasion -experienced much vexation and disappointment at the hands of one of -those said <i>high men</i>."</p> - -<p>"Prithee, Letitia, explain in what manner," rejoined the Duke.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span> "You must know, then, that a proposal of marriage was made to me from -one of noble birth, and likewise of affluent fortune, while you, my -Lord, were absent in foreign lands. The gentleman was the Honourable Mr. -Gwillim Ap-Gwillim, of Caper Ap-Shenkin, in North Wales, who was not -slow in using every endeavour to win my love and affections; and, alas! -he succeeded but too well in the accomplishment of his wishes. But after -all, a long courtship and fair promises, this Cambrian proved himself to -be one of your '<i>perhaps</i>' knights-errant; and so, my good Lord, no more -of them for poor me! The man, prince, potentate, or peer, who deals in -the shuffling word '<i>perhaps</i>,' shall never possess my affection, nor -have my hand in the tie of holy wedlock. Never, I am resolved. No; for -ever I forswear and detest the word, as being the most offensive and -deceitful in the English tongue, past, present, or to come."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span> "Hold, hold, Letitia," said the Duke, "you are off in full gallop from -your story. Pray rein in thy noble indignation and imagination awhile, -and do let us have the conclusion of your most tragical hero, whom you -stigmatize with the title and appanage of '<i>perhaps</i>?'"</p> - -<p>"I fairly promised my hand where before I had given my heart; that is to -say, provided you had so approved; and while matters were, as I -conceived, happily arriving, as I had fondly hoped, at the long wished -claracism (<i>eclaircissement</i>), who would have suspected or have dreamed -the result?</p> - -<p>"'I am told, Sir,' addressing Mr. Gwillim Ap-Gwillim, of Caper -Ap-Shenkin, 'I am told, Sir,' said I, with proud tears in my eyes, 'that -you at present entertain a paramour?'</p> - -<p>"'Well, Madam,' rejoined he, 'perhaps' (oh, the abominable word) 'I do; -and if so, it is surely not unusual or marvellous in an unmarried man.'</p> - -<p>"'But then, Sir,' I replied, (somewhat enraged at his tawdry 'perhaps',) -'sure before we become man and wife, you will no doubt part with and -discharge this said paramour?'</p> - -<p>"'Perhaps,' he rejoined, 'perhaps, (the third time, observe,) Madam, I -may.'</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span></p><p>"'<i>Perhaps</i>, Sir,' I loudly re-echoed, my blood boiling, my breath -parting, my tongue gasping, and enraged to the very utmost, 'Perhaps, -Sir,' I said vehemently, 'know, my hand never shall be yours—never, -never!' Then with a strong impulse of collected coolness, for very often -what is the most opposite will occur, I distantly retired, with the -utmost indifference I dropt a low court courtesy, and never beheld him -more."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span> The Duke proposed, previous to departing, to accompany his noble -consort and family in a promenade on the pleasure grounds. Their Graces -led the way; and while apart from the attending group, the Duke -addressed the Duchess in a low voice—"I shall do every thing, depend -upon it, that is within my power, to render my vicegerency popular; not -from a love of popularity, but from the impulse of administering even -and equal justice to all His Majesty's subjects, which is a debt I shall -not fail to discharge, so far as the responsibility of my station -admits, and my duty to the king allows. The salary which I may receive -during my administration shall, to the uttermost farthing, be expended -among the generous people, from whose purses I am to receive it; I shall -assist the poor, and the great I will entertain. Thus when the -termination of my government arrives, I trust that my departure from the -viceregency shall not be mistaken for that of a collector of taxes, who -retires <i>sub umbra</i>, having embezzled the public coffers, and who -departs <i>ex-officio</i>, attended, justly I admit, with "curses, not loud -but deep!" Oh no, my dearest love, by no earthly possibility shall any -one mistake me for a Jamaica planter, a bullock feeder, or a Jew broker! -Never; my private fortune shall be expended in addition to the princely -income which I receive from the nation; and I am resolved that in every -way it shall be my study, as it will be my pleasure, to prove indeed the -true and appropriate representative of a noble and generous king!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span></p><p>To this expressive burst of loyal and ardent feeling, the Duchess fully -accorded her hearty assent. While the noble pair remained thus employed -in discussing the high and grave affairs of state, the ladies Letitia -and Lucy, attended by Sir Patricius Placebo and Captain Heaviside, were -employed in admiring the surrounding scenery.</p> - -<p>"What a romantic delightful prospect here presents itself to the -spectator," observed Sir Patricius Placebo to Lady Letitia, who stood -next him.</p> - -<p>"Oh yes," replied her Ladyship, "it is truly a noble tract of verdant -valley and lofty mountain, scenery, sea, and river; the goats on the -rock, the sheep on the hill, and the cows in the vale; indeed the Duke -positively asserts that the surrounding scene displays perhaps the most -beautiful cow-dell (<i>coup d'œil</i>) in the whole kingdom."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span></p><p>The promenaders returned from their ramble, and were stationed on the -terrace when the Duke's travelling coach and six drove up to the -embattled porch of the castle. The Duke, addressing himself to Sir -Patricius, pleasantly and playfully said: "Sir knight we do hereby, by -the powers in us vested, constitute, nominate, and appoint, with all the -briefness and celerity the occasion demands, you, Sir Patricius Placebo, -M. D. Baronet, <i>eques non male notus</i>, our <i>locum tenens</i>, and Lord -Constable of this our good castle of Tyrconnel during our absence -herefrom; and thou, Sir Patricius Placebo, art bound, in due accordance -with right, ancient, and laudable usage, to dispense all manner of -ancient hospitality, as if we ourself were in person present; and within -a few given days to escort our beloved partner and family to His -Majesty's castle of Dublin; all which fail not to do, under the pain and -penalty of our heavy displeasure."</p> - -<p>The Duke fondly and affectionately embracing his Duchess, his beloved -Adelaide, and his sisters, and cordially shaking hands with his guests, -entered his travelling carriage, which set off, the horses travelling in -a brisk pace, for Dublin, to assume the chief government of the island. -The ladies followed the Duchess, who retired into the castle to regret -even the temporary absence of her lord.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span></p><p>Meanwhile Sir Patricius proposed to Captain Heaviside an excursion on -horseback, to pass away the time <i>jusqué a dinér</i>. After a short -interval Sir Patricius having doffed his grave professional peruke; and -having assumed his hunting wig, mounted his gallant steed, and set out -with the Captain in a ramble through the country. While thus they were -employed in exploring the surrounding scenery, Captain Heaviside, -addressing Sir Patricius, said, "Pray, my good Sir, did I ever repeat to -you my <i>chronicle</i>?"</p> - -<p>"Oh no, never, Captain, upon my veracity; but in sooth I should be quite -delighted to hear it, so pray let us have it by all manner and means."</p> - -<p>"I call it," continued Captain Heaviside, <i>my</i> chronicle, but I must -say, really and truly, that it was never written by me;—positively not -mine, but written indeed by a particular friend."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span> "Come, come, bold Captain, that is very well, and likewise most sagely -and discreetly expressed; very good indeed—an excellent come off, <i>cum -grano salis</i>, hem! It is, however, to be sure, vastly convenient upon -all such occasions to enlist a friend into the service who shall enact -you the part of a poetical godfather, and act too as pioneer: a most -meritorious gentleman truly, who is disposed with such magnanimous -generosity to place all our written sins and verses upon his own -muster-roll. Vastly, egad vastly convenient, I needs must observe, -master Heaviside, hah, hah, hah, <i>sed, litera scripta manet!</i> There is -no getting over that, my gallant young Captain, by my halidam!"</p> - -<p>"My good Sir Patricius accredit me, it was really written by my very -excellent friend, Captain Drinkwater, a dashing dragoon."</p> - -<p>"I can then flatly tell you, Captain, that it will never do—I know it -will never do; for as friend Horace sings,</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">'Nulla placere diu nec vivere carmina possunt</span> -<span class="i4">Quæ scribuntur aquæ potoribus.'</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span></p><p>I hate and detest your <i>aquæ potoribus</i>, all your drink-waters, -and your water-drinkers, they are beyond all compare the very worst -description of enemies that our profession has to contend with: so no -more of this; give me your drinkers of <i>aqua vitæ</i>, and honest -stout-hearted topers of genuine Drogheda usque-baugh; these are the -generous souls whose quaffing I admire, and whose fees I dearly prize. -But come, my brave Captain, notwithstanding we must positively have your -<i>chronicle</i>."</p> - -<p>"Well, Sir Patricius, since it must be so, here it is.</p> - -<p class="center">CAPTAIN HEAVISIDE'S CHRONICLE,</p> - -<p class="center">BEING AN EXCELLENT NEW ANACREONTIC, AND WRITTEN BY</p> -<p class="center">CAPTAIN DRINKWATER OF THE HORSE-GRENADIERS.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Julia first met me with bright sparkling eye;</span> -<span class="i4">Next Sally so sober, yet so very sly,</span> -<span class="i4">Margery, matchless at grin and grimace;</span> -<span class="i4">Then Susan so simple, with innocent face.</span> -<span class="i4">Betty was breathless when told of a fray,</span> -<span class="i4">And Judy in sooth would have her own way:</span> -<span class="i4">Of Nelly 'tis needless ought for to tell,</span> -<span class="i4">On ev'ry occasion she bore off the belle.</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">There was rattling, laughing, roaring young Kate,</span> -<span class="i4">Who many did think was perturbed in her pate:</span> -<span class="i4">Of Kathlane so cunning, and Mollys a score,</span> -<span class="i4">Och, I could sing till I tired you sore.</span> -<span class="i4">Let this little sample the truth only tell,</span> -<span class="i4">That, ah! I have lov'd too long and too well!"</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span></p> -<p>"<i>Olet lucernam</i>, good master Heaviside! methinks it smells somewhat -rather too strong of the lamp. Nay, nay, come noble Captain, I say, -cheer up man! never mind, my brave boy, for in faith I like your -chronicle, master Heaviside, passing well; and the very first open day, -to speak the <i>vox parliamentaria</i>, that is to express, that the first -day that the Duke shall dine abroad——hah, hah, which, 'fore Jupiter, -egad he does this very day—aye, good—very good,</p> - -<p class="center">DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span></p><p>this very day, by my halidam, we shall have it! By the mass he who -gainsays it wets not his lips with a cup of hermitage! Nay more, down -goes my gauntlet; Captain—there is my hand for you! A fig, I say, for -your black rods, your white rods, and your green rods! I would fain -flagellate them all with their own proper <i>insignia</i> of office; aye, -marry, I say, a plague upon them all, master Heaviside! I am a man -somewhat gifted with authority, as you are, Captain, fully aware, being -no less than grand Seneschal of yonder ancient castle; and by the mass, -indubitably, with due and meet discretion, we shall have <i>viva voce</i> -this very day your much to be lauded Anacreontic, and that too without a -single repugnant '<i>perhaps</i>,' against which vague, dubious, and most -distrustful adverb, that sage and circumspect Lady Letitia doth so -continently and cautiously enter her solemn protest. But my good Sir, -time and place—place and time? methinks as I don't toss off drams in a -morning, that songs sound sweeter heard in the evening. Oh, ever time -and place are to be taken into account, my good Captain, for</p> - -<p class="center">DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span></p><p>as the venerable Archimedes enforces it—hem; and I shall——But come, -Captain, for once I will give a gratuitous prescription—take my -nostrum—sing, or hear it sang, Captain Harry Heaviside's new Chronicle, -which be sure to wash down with the potation of two honest quarts of old -bottled Chateau-Margut, or good Burgundy, for I am not squeamish, which -shall answer just quite as well;—swallow the dose, charily, charily, -but without shaking the bottle!"</p> - -<p>The equestrians soon approached the castle on their return to dinner, -and the first bell was now heard pealing over battlement and tower, duly -giving warning note; hence from a smart trot they hastened to a brisk -gallop.</p> - -<p>"Ahem," said Sir Patricius, "see, noble Captain, how strong and lustily -the smoke mounts up from the kitchen chimney, <i>bonum signum, bonum -signum</i>, by Bacchus and Ceres a most propitious omen! Ahem, spur on, my -gallant chevalier!"</p> - -<p>The two worthies now reached the lordly castle; and entering the -embattled porch, Captain Heaviside observed in a whisper to Sir -Patricius: "A d——d bore to be sure it is, all this dressing for -dinner, my good Sir Patricius. But no matter, it is some consolation, -however, that we shall have an excellent feed; and I am resolved to do -it justice, exercise and the mountain air having sharpened a natural -good appetite."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span> "But," rejoined Sir Patricius, "hark, again this accursed bell, how it -frights the castle from its propriety.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">'Ring out the alarum-bell, blow winds come, crack,</span> -<span class="i4">At least we'll die with harness on our back.'<br /></span></div></div> - -<p>But never mind, we shall be ready before the bell rings a third time."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span></p><p>The man of physic and the man of war having thus spoken, they wended -their way to their respective toilettes, which were quickly despatched. -Here then we leave them to pay their attentions to the Duchess and the -ladies, and enjoy all the good cheer at the ducal <i>salle á manger</i>. -Meanwhile, in our next chapter, we shall return to the Duke, and escort -His Grace to the vice-regal abode at Dublin castle.</p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2> - -<blockquote><p>----Al llegar à las puertas de la villa que era cercada, salio -regimiento del pueblo à recebirle, tocàron las campanas, y todos los -vecinos dièron muestras de general alegria, y con mucha pompa le -llevàron à la iglesia mayor à dar gracias a Dios, y luego con algunas -ceremonias le entregaron las llaves del pueblo, y le admitièron por -Gobernador de la insula.</p> - -<p><span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Don Quixote</span>, tome <span class="smcap">IV</span>. ch. 45.<br /></span></p></blockquote> - -<p class="center">TRANSLATION.</p> - -<blockquote><p>When he approached the town gates (for it was walled) the officers came -out to welcome him, the bells rang, and all the inhabitants made show of -a general gladness; and they carried him in great pomp to the high -church, to give God thanks; and shortly after some ceremonies they -delivered him the keys, and admitted him as Governor of the island.</p> - -<p><span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Don Quixote</span>, book <span class="smcap">IV</span>. ch. 45.<br /></span></p></blockquote> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span></p><p>The Duke of Tyrconnel took his departure, as was observed in the last -chapter, at an early hour; the roads were in excellent order for -travelling, the morning appeared settled and serene, and an enlivening -sun shone forth propitiously on his journey.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span></p><p>The vice-regal carriage had just reached the town of Ballyshannon, when -one of the fine animals (a leader) which drew the vehicle lost a fore -shoe, which caused the cavalcade to stop. This interruption to the -journey afforded an opportunity to the Duke, of which he availed -himself, of visiting the venerable ruins of Ashrow Abbey, which were at -that point of time noble and imposing even in decay. The beautifully -pointed gothic arches, and the gilded ceilings in the vaults of the -cloisters, called forth and attracted the attention and admiration of -His Grace. When the Duke had returned to his inn from the inspection of -these venerable monastic remains, a large party of horsemen were -discerned trotting onward at a round and rapid pace. The Duke was -stationed in a small gallery, or balcony, surmounting the door of the -inn, when a tumultuous congratulatory roar from the equestrians, and -addressed to His Grace, resounded on all sides, and the well-known Irish -welcome of "<i>Cead millia failtha</i>," (that is "a hundred thousand hearty -welcomes,") saluted the ducal ear. His Grace took off his hat, which he -most gracefully waved, and graciously bowed. He then addressed them, and -was pleased to say, "My good friends, I feel truly grateful for this -warm burst of loyalty; but I request to ask whither, and in such rapid -haste, ye are all proceeding?</p> - -<p class="center">'Go ye in peace, or go ye in war?'<br /></p> - -<p>There is surely no fair now going on in these parts of the country; -there is no wake, no saint's patron-day recorded in the calendar; there -is no racing, no hurling-match, no rural sport that I know of; and -therefore I feel at a loss how to account for thus assembling in -numbers, and I must needs doubt whether the motive be justifiable."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span></p><p>The troop of peasants, to the number of twelve or fifteen persons, were -mounted on horseback; most of the horses carried double, in accordance -to an old strange Irish usage, and which custom prevails in many parts -of Ireland even at the point of time in which we now address our -readers. The peasants replied, in respondence to the queries of the -Duke, to this effect: "So may it please your Lordship's noble Reverence, -we are men of the mountains, just going up for a bit to town, to procure -a little law," [i. e. being duly interpreted, means <i>litigation</i>.]</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span> "Then," rejoined the Duke, "if such be your intention, my serious and -friendly advice to you all, my good men of the mountains, is simply -this, that you do all at the present immediately return back to your -respective districts, and peaceably retire to your native hills and -homes; avoid law, strife, and litigation; return to the tranquil heights -of the lofty Tyraugh, and there enjoy, undisturbed by the factious or -the turbulent, that peace and tranquillity which is shed around your -happy cottages, beyond the turmoil of the world, and there dwell, and -likewise cultivate the Christian virtues of peace and brotherly love. -Forget and forgive the past; bear and forbear! And if I wore the -sacerdotal garb, I could not in so few words, perhaps, advert more to -the present purpose which has, be it what it may, conjured up some bad -blood, as I have strong reasons to apprehend. This line of conduct, my -countrymen, you must be sensible, it is your bounden duty to pursue; -attend to your farms, cherish your families, and look to yourselves; -obey your magistrates, and attend to your religious duties; and last, -though not least, honour and reverence your noble king. I feel it -incumbent on me to tell you such ought to be your line of conduct, and -to this effect, too, will all your Clergy to a man pronounce to you, -whether parson, priest, or prelate!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span></p><p>This speech allayed the threatened storm; and as if the wind had -changed to a different point, gently impelling a vessel in a contrary -course, thus suddenly were the litigious intentions of the "men of the -mountains" changed. They thanked his Lordship's "glorious Honour for his -kind condescension, and solemnly protested that they would forego <i>the -bit of law</i> which they had intended, and willingly abide by his -Lordship's most worshipful advice." Reining round their steeds, they -proceeded upon their return home in a trot more rapid even than that in -which they had approached; and giving three loud distinct cheers of -"<i>Cead millia failtha</i>," were soon out of sight.</p> - -<p>The book of wisdom saith "a soft answer turneth away wrath;" and it is -no less true, that a generous act, or even a kind expression, makes an -indelible impression upon the grateful heart of an Irishman!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span></p><p>While the Duke was engaged in the foregoing expostulation with "the men -of the mountains," the farrier, as he called himself, was meantime -actively employed, in which his tongue was as prompt as his hand was -ready, in performing, as he conceived it, the proud destiny of replacing -the fore shoe on the noble leader, in lieu of that which had been lost; -and thus from his anvil he addressed the Duke's valet: "Och then, plaze -your honour, master Brushwell, may be it isn't I who understands, any -how, in a jiffy to whip on a shoe upon any poor beast in the four -bordering counties; and a great sin and shame in me it would be if I -didn't exart myself for one of the true ould Irish stock? In troth in a -jiffy I will knock off the job, and by J—— it shall be properly well -done! for oh, <i>naboclish</i>, sure enough may be Tom Hob isn't the boy, -after all, for quickly knocking off a job for a parson he loves; and in -troth he may say with the ould ballad—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">'Tom's heart, like his iron, is hissingly hot,</span> -<span class="i4">Though his iron should cool, his heart it shall not!'"</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span></p><p>In these remote days the peaceful methods of life, the arts of -agriculture and husbandry, were but imperfectly known; and the practice -of farriery was rudely and ignorantly performed; then veterinary -professors did not exist, [the foregoing incident of the lost horse-shoe -has led to this short digression,] and farriery was clumsily practised, -save, perchance in the forge of some farrier of heavy dragoons. The arts -of war, meanwhile, were but too successfully carried on, while the happy -arts of peace slumbered in the shade, and neglected agriculture sunk -depressed beneath the warlike tone and temper of the times. The sickle -and the ploughshare, the attributes and implements of husbandry, were -destined to be neglected, else otherwise to be transmuted into the spear -and falchion of war.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span></p><p>But we resume our narrative.—The first day and night of the Duke's -departure he dined and slept at the hospitable abode of Castle-Caldwell, -the noble and magnificent mansion of the Baronet of the same name, which -delightful residence derived its name from the owner. The promontories -that raised their peninsular summits above and around the beautiful and -expanded lake of Lough Erne, were all brilliantly illuminated by -bonfires made by the peasantry. The beacon-flame also blazed from the -crowned summit of every surrounding hill and mountain. These bright -testimonies of gladness burst forth to hail the Duke's welcome arrival. -In furtherance of which the furze, fern, heath, and tall sword-grass, on -hill and rock, were all set into one universal conflagration, the -brilliant coruscations of which flashed, flamed, and undulated upon the -expanded waters of Lough Erne; while bonfires were seen to burn and -blaze upon the cloud-crested heights of the Tyraugh mountains.</p> - -<p>Meanwhile, in sympathy with the scene, the great promontory of -Ross-a-Goul brightly bore the beacon blaze upon his lofty brow, which -flamed forth and flashed volcano-like above the adjacent woods and -groves, illuminating every islet, rock, and indented shore, and -reflecting its ruddy light in brilliance upon the dark waves of -Ross-Moor, which seemed emulous to flash back their radiance on -Ross-Goul.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span></p><p>The town of Churchill manifested similar demonstrations of joy and -gratulation upon the arrival of the popular viceroy. It is time, -however, to return to the hospitable board of the worthy host, who, with -his noble and distinguished guests, sat down to a magnificent dinner at -the good, early, rational, but now antiquated hour of four o'clock, -which was the healthy custom in these times remote. Among many -surrounding nobles and gentry present at this splendid banquet, we must -not pass by unobserved two notable characters who were seated at the -Baronet's table: the one was the Lord Viscount Glandarah, and the other -was the Rev. Doctor Dismal Drew, L.L.D., a quondam Fellow of Trinity -College, Dublin,<a name="FNanchor_16_16" id="FNanchor_16_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> and who had been collated to the valuable living of -----, the advowson of which was in the gift of the University of Dublin. -These two worthies formed a remarkable and striking contrast to each -other.</p> - -<p>Lord Glandarah, imitating the profitable example of the wise Ulysses, -who</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">----"Multorum providus urbes</span> -<span class="i4">Et mores, hominum inspexit,"</span></div></div> - -<p>had visited foreign countries and courts, where he had resided during a -very long period, even from his early youth. It was whispered, and it -was also believed, that he was at heart <i>un bon Catholiqué</i>. However,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span> -whether the assertion was true or false, certain it is that his Lordship -took his seat in the Irish House of Peers; so that his case was -completely <i>in foro conscientiæ</i>, and with which nobody had any right to -intermeddle, it being a matter between him and a higher power than any -court upon earth, temporal or spiritual.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span></p><p>His Lordship was an accomplished and polished nobleman; he had seen, -and with no unobserving eye, the different nations and courts of Europe; -had examined their laws, their governments, and establishments; he had -been so long resident upon the continent, (even from his earliest -years,) that from his foreign intonation of voice, and speaking, as he -did, broken English, he might readily have passed for a German or a -Frenchman. Lord Glandarah was personally known by the Duke of Tyrconnel, -who, upon this interview, heartily shook hands; and the former warmly -congratulated the latter upon his promotion to the viceroyship of -Ireland: "Gad save my soul, <i>mon trés-excellent</i> Duke, I am <i>absolumént</i> -delighted; <i>je suis ravis entirement á vous revoir</i>. I am <i>tout</i> -delighted! <i>Jamais, jamais si bien heureux! Un verre de vin: á votre -tres bonne santè, et aussi la de votre tres amiable et accompliè Madame -la Duchesse. Nous aurons une petit Cour de Versailes á la Chateau de -Dublin. Sans doute et comme certainement nous verrons! Tres joli, tres -joli! Sir Jacques Colville, j'ai l'honneur de saluër votre santè.</i>"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span></p><p>Lord Glandarah was attired in a court dress of green Genoa velvet, -richly embroidered with gold; and the old aristocratic peer was so -orthodox that even his hunting wig, when he rode on horseback, had <i>une -petite bourse</i> attached to it, and the peruke was surmounted by a small -cocked hat, trimmed with broad gold lace, with an appendant feather; and -these he considered as indispensable appanages of <i>un gentilhomme comme -il faut</i>! or, as Horace has expressed it, "<i>Homo factus ad unguem</i>"—a -finished gentleman, even to the paring of his nail! Compared with Doctor -Dismal Drew, he was "Hyperion to a satyr." Doctor Drew was in stature -six feet by two, without diminution or subtraction, but awfully</p> - -<p class="center">"Measured by cubit, length, and breadth, and height."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span></p><p>The Doctor's head was of a portentous size, which induced his -cotemporaries, while a student in college, to bestow on him the epithet -or sobriquet of "the bull-headed (βοῦς κέφαλος) student;" and -most certain it is, that the exterior exceeded in dimensions every other -head within the precincts of that learned corporation. He was extremely -near-sighted, and always wore either goggles or spectacles made of green -glass, which, as our readers may fairly suspect, did not by any means -add to his personal appearance or attraction, whatever they might have -abducted. He was however, be the truth spoken, an excellent scholar, -philosopher, and moreover this same "learned Theban" was a mathematician -to boot. His manners were unpolished—nay, repulsive. His gait in the -street or drawing-room was so strange and inhuman-like, that it was only -ideally to be compared to the floundering motion of a wounded walrus -standing on its hind legs, then dragging its heavy weight along. At -table the movement of his arms was so exceedingly annoying to his -neighbours that it invariably caused them to keep a most circumspect and -respectful distance. His voice, when he spoke, which was only when he -wanted to be helped to some piquant viand, was harsh and stentorian, and -might not unaptly be compared to the discordant cadence of a cracked -bassoon. He was learned—he abounded in anecdote; and if he chose to be -at the trouble, he could be witty. But no; during dinner, and even when -the cloth was removed, solemn as the grave he sat doggedly pinioned to -his chair, silently sipping drop by drop his Burgundy. He seemed to be -apprehensive that the time he would occupy in conversation would -interfere with the time allotted for the act of deglutition; therefore -he sat taciturn, as if the use of his tongue was inevitably and -irretrievably to destroy the powers of his palate!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span></p><p>Doctor Drew was by no means deficient in dry and sarcastic humour; and -many anecdotes may be still found savoury in the college-courts and -dinner-hall of this quondam queer-fellow of old <i>alma mater</i>; however we -will trespass on the reader's attention only with one anecdote:—</p> - -<p>Doctor Dismal Drew passing one morning through the college courts, from -the library to his chambers, happened to meet a young student who had -been only a few days matriculated, and such are, in popular parlance in -the university, called <i>jibs</i>; the young student had the ill-fortune to -pass this learned Leviathan, without the usual salutation of doffing his -four-cornered cap to his mighty superior:—"Halloo," roared the Doctor, -"come back; hark ye, I say, young master, pray how long, young -gentleman, allow me to ask, have you worn the academic gown?"</p> - -<p>"Just eight days, may it so please your Reverence."</p> - -<p>"Ay, ay; in sooth, young master, I thought as much, for we all know that -puppies cannot make use of their eyes until they are nine days old!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span></p><p>When Doctor Dismal Drew had with-drawn from the dinner-room, Lord -Glandarah addressed the Duke of Tyrconnel in an under tone: "Gad save -me, my Lord Duke, <i>mais cette est un homme austere, outré, et tres -singulier; et, par tout, un bête horriblé</i>."</p> - -<p>"Adonis, you recollect, my Lord, was killed by a <i>boar</i>!"</p> - -<p>"Excellent, O Duke! and I too should be killed by—the Doctor's -company!—<i>non, pardonnez moi</i> presence, I should say; he be no company! -<i>en verité</i> two entire days would despatch me. He is <i>assuremént -Polyphemus le second, mais avec cette dissemblance par tout que le -monstre il eut un œil bel excellent, pendant que, le Docteur ave sans -doubté deux diaboleúx</i> bad eyes!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, unquestionably, my Lord! but then he has an intellectual one; and -we must give due credit to Sir James Caldwell for the attention and -kindness which he dispenses to his quondam tutor. It is kind, -considerate, grateful, and honourable, to his feelings."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span></p><p>Sir James Caldwell, for whom the Duke of Tyrconnel entertained a great -regard and affection, from long acquaintance and intercourse, took an -opportunity, previous to the departure of His Grace, of making a strong -and impressive request that the Duke would be pleased to appoint his -worthy and learned friend the Doctor to be one of His Grace's domestic -chaplains.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span> "Why really, my kind and worthy friend, your request appears to -me to be a matter of greater difficulty than you, Sir James, seem to be -aware of, biassed, no doubt, by your kindness and partiality for the -Doctor; however you must needs acknowledge that there is somewhat -<i>outrè</i> and repulsive in the <i>tout ensemble</i> of this -extraordinary man; his general appearance, his manners, his dress, and -address, and those unindurable appendices of green goggles, and his <i>je -ne scai quoi</i> impression, which is better seen than described. However, -if it be possible I shall willingly assent to your request, provided -that you, on the part of the learned Doctor, accede to my capitulations, -which I require and demand. First, I insist upon the total abandonment -of those everlasting green goggles, in which I verily believe he sleeps -withal. Secondly, I resolve, as a <i>sine qua non</i>, that the learned -Doctor, upon his arrival in the metropolis, shall employ either a drill -sergeant or a <i>maitre de danse</i>, to mollify his movements of legs and -arms! You stare in astonishment, my good Sir James, but marry, I do not -mean, in sooth, that your grave Doctor and L.L.D. should slowly glide -down the sober minuet, or the more solemn paven, with formal features -and extended cassock, <i>chausse</i> the cotillion, or trot down the merry -<i>contredanse</i>; no, <i>mehercule</i>, by no means, but this exercise I would -fain prescribe merely in order to give a gentlemanly ease and deportment -of person. And thirdly, I must require that the Doctor should purchase a -new gown and cassock; these habiliments having become threadbare in the -service of old Alma. Fourthly, that the Doctor shall, <i>sine mora</i>, have -constructed a neat orthodox wig, curled and powdered <i>a la Louis -Quatorze</i>, &c. &c."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span></p><p>All these sage and precise preliminaries being agreed, ratified, and -concluded upon, by the high contracting parties, the Duke upon the -following morning took a friendly leave, and set off to pursue his -journey to Dublin. He kindly offered the Lord Glandarah a seat in his -carriage, who was likewise destined for Dublin; and which offer was most -thankfully accepted by the noble peer. Having duly paid their respective -devoirs to their hospitable host they departed, much gratified by their -reception at the noble and social mansion of Castle-Caldwell.</p> - -<p>The Duke and his noble <i>compagnon de voyage</i> travelled onward without -any accident or occurrence worth narrating, and arrived that day to -dinner at Tarah-Castle, the noble residence of the Lord Tarah. But at -the present day no vestige of this once celebrated castle remains, where -once</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"To chiefs and ladies bright</span> -<span class="i4">The harp of Tarah swelled!"</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span></p><p>Upon this distinguished day the hospitable board was loaded with every -luxury; generous Burgundy and enlivening Champaign flowed around in -bumpers; while it seemed a mooted matter of opinion which was most to be -admired, the generous courtesy and hospitality of the noble proprietor -of the castle, the excellence of his viands and wines, or the "soul of -music" that breathed around!</p> - -<p>Moments of convivial joy and harmony, however, soon pass by, and are -forgotten likewise in the advance of time.</p> - -<p>The following morning, soon after breakfast was concluded, the Duke of -Tyrconnel bade an affectionate adieu to the Lord of Tarah, and -accompanied by Lord Glandarah, set off in his travelling carriage for -the castle of Dublin. The journey was safely proceeded on to -Dunshauglin, where the Duke's state carriages and horses were in -attendance to convey him to Dublin, accompanied by a squadron of horse.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a><br /><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span></p><p>As he approached the city of Dublin, at the barrier of Barrack-street -the horses were taken from the carriage by the populace, and His Grace -was drawn in triumph to the capital; all the cathedral and church bells -ringing forth a merry peal. His Grace was sworn into his high office, -the patent having been read, before the privy council; at the same -moment three rockets in succession ascended from Birmingham Tower, which -were signals of His Grace having been sworn into his high official -station; and were duly responded to by the salute-battery in His -Majesty's royal chase, or park; and the salute was again returned by the -battery stationed on the south-wall of the Liffey. At night a general -and splendid illumination succeeded, which concluded the rejoicings of -this most memorable day.</p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">----The nature of our people,</span> -<span class="i4">Our city's institutions, and the terms</span> -<span class="i4">Of common justice, y'are as pregnant in</span> -<span class="i4">As art and practice hath enriched any</span> -<span class="i4">That we remember. There is our commission!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Measure for Measure.</span></span></div></div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span></p><p>Fully resolved justly and conscientiously to discharge with unremitting -and unceasing attention the responsible duties of his high office, the -Duke now commenced his vice-regal career. He arose at an early hour, and -whatever public business was to be transacted, he constantly despatched -before the hour of breakfast. He was polite, courteous, and accessible -to all; his was the <i>suaviter in modo</i>, but it was also accompanied with -the <i>fortiter in re</i>.</p> - -<p>The first day for holding a vice-regal levee, as specified by public -notice from the Chamberlain's office, having arrived, it commenced -exactly at one o'clock, and was most numerously attended. Among the vast -assemblage were noticed the Lord Mayor, the Lord High Chancellor Sir -Alexander Fitton Lord Baron of Gausworth; the judges and great officers -of state; a long train of gentry, numerous members of the lower and -upper houses of parliament attended; many a grave and reverend prelate, -and many a baron bold—"<i>Post alios</i>; <i>fortemque Gyan</i>, <i>fortemque -Cloanthum</i>," &c.</p> - -<p>The company appeared arrayed in full and appropriate court costume. -There were likewise present the different staff officers, besides those -of the garrison; and a large body of ecclesiastics, Protestant and -Catholic, attended. The ceremonies of the day were throughout conducted -with great decorum and propriety.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a><br /><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span></p><p>Among the notable personages that were this day presented to the Duke, -we must not omit to notice the Honourable Mr. Berenger, M. P. for the -County of——, of an ancient and ennobled family, whose ancestor came -to Ireland in the time of the second Henry. He wore a very large black -curled peruke, which flowed like a lion's mane adown his shoulders; his -coat and small-clothes were of light blue velvet, richly embroidered; a -waistcoat richly worked, and adorned with foliations formed of various -precious stones. He wore, too, a superb diamond-hilted sword; diamond -shoe and knee buckles; silk stockings, with gold embroidered clokes; and -the heels of his shoes were of red Morocco leather. He was indeed, -beyond all dispute, the unparalleled dandy of his day! Mr. Berenger had -been in his youth a very handsome man; but his face now was deadly pale; -and his eyes, which had been once brilliant as the diamonds which -adorned him, reposed, dim and shorn of their beams, within their hollow -and shrivelled sockets. Time, too, had left his stern impress in the -indented furrows of the cheek and the care-scored wrinkles of his brow: -he looked the languid voluptuary, while surfeit and satiety seemed to -seal up his lips. His figure, notwithstanding, was yet even still fine -and commanding. His countenance, however, spoke more plainly of the -preterpluperfect than either of the present or future tense. His eyes -reposed on the carpet or upon vacancy; they had in them "no speculation, -that they did glare withal." When attending the gay and dissipated court -of the second Charles he had often revelled with Rochester, and jested -with Killigrew and, moreover, had the high distinction paid him of -being called "a very finished gentleman indeed" by the witty monarch, -"whose word no man relied on!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span></p><p>The eccentric Mr. Berenger had severally proposed at three different -times a matrimonial alliance with Lady Lucy, the Duke's youngest sister, -who politely, but positively refused him; and upon some overtures to -renew his solicitations, Lady Lucy observed, that as she had so long -delayed to marry for love, she was now resolved not to marry in the -capacity of a nurse-tender! This was so home an <i>argumentum ad -superbiam</i> a cut and thrust at the pride of the Honourable Member, that -he now seemed to have no intention of becoming a Benedict. Lady Letitia -found great fault with her sister, complained of her cruelty, and -sturdily maintained "that the Honourable M. P. having shewn such a -confirmed constancy, ought not to have met with this sharp repulse; for -it was evident and manifest that Mr. Berenger did not indeed belong to -the shabby class of '<i>perhaps</i>' suitors.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span></p><p>But it is now time that we should return from this digression. Sir John -Caldwell was at the levee, and his <i>protegé</i>, our quondam acquaintance -Doctor Dismal Drew, a newly-appointed chaplain, in a gown and cassock -spick and span, who having fully acceded to the rules and stipulations -of address, costume, and conduct, appeared indeed to have been moulded -into quite a different personage. However his strange absence of mind -and defect of judgment fully remained unaltered, as was fully -exemplified on the ensuing Sunday, when he preached a sermon at the -castle chapel before the Duke and his vice-regal suite. The text was -chosen in bad tact, however, and still worse policy: it was selected -from the xxvth chapter of Proverbs, 5th verse: "Take away the wicked -from before the king, and his throne shall be established in -righteousness!" This was unquestionably an uncalled for attack upon the -ministry, upon the noble viceroy, and on his patron; and his name was -struck out of the list of chaplains, never to be again restored. So much -for Doctor Drew! whose head seemed to be obtuse albeit—certainly, -however, it was never destined to be encircled with that ornament with -which Sancho crowned the head of his favourite Dapple.</p> - -<p>Early on the succeeding day her Grace the Duchess of Tyrconnel, the -lovely Lady Adelaide, Ladies Letitia and Lucy, escorted by the polite -and facetious Sir Patricius Placebo, arrived safely at Dublin Castle, -and were most warmly and affectionately received by the Duke and -viceroy.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span></p><p>The vice-regal party sat down to dinner at their usual and not -irrational hour of four o'clock, which, in these our modern days of -dissipation and late hours, would be considered as an hour for dinner -quite gothic and <i>á la Bourgeois</i>; for in these our polished days of -finished taste and refinement, late hours seem to be the very <i>acme</i> of -fashion; late dinners necessarily being succeeded by late suppers, and, -<i>par conséquence</i>, afternoon breakfasts, in consequatory succession, -bringing up the rere of fashionable high-life to the great practice and -benefit of the College of Physicians.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span></p><p>The conversation after dinner was lively and agreeable. The Duchess -described their journey, and gave many traits of the good feeling and -humour of the lower classes, as witnessed in their journey from -Tyrconnel Castle. When the ladies had retired, Lord Glandarah, who was -of the party, speaking of the eccentric Mr. Berenger, who had been at -the levee on the preceding day, turning to Sir Patricius, inquired of -him if he knew that eccentric personage? and the following reply, aided -by the effects of brisk Champaign, thus effervesced and flowed from his -lips: "Oh, yes, my Lord, I have before these days met with Count -Berenger, as he was called; I have too heard him converse with the -Windsor beauties, whose similitudes Sir Peter Lely, of pictorial fame,</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">----'On animated canvass stole</span> -<span class="i4">Their sleepy eye that speaks the melting soul.'</span></div></div> - -<p>Ay, my Lord, and often have I met him at the carousals of old King -Carolus, now defunct, but of blessed memory! He is <i>certes</i> the -completely finished gentleman. He was once gay, and airy, and agreeable; -but now in sooth I must say that he looks as sombre and demure as a -solemn gentleman of the long robe extending his silken train, and -dancing down a paven!<a name="FNanchor_17_17" id="FNanchor_17_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a> In the sublime art of eating he is not a -professor, but an artist, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a><br /><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span> only munches the sunny side -of a peach or a nectarine; when he wishes to be helped to fowl or -chicken, he is always sure to bespeak the liver wing; knows all the nice -cuts in a haunch of venison, and he can carve you twenty nice <i>morceaux</i> -from the head of a cod-fish; he knows too how turtle should be cooked, -and how duly to appreciate callipash and callipe; a glass of liqueur or -genuine Coniac he knows as well as I do to be a safe, salutary, and no -unpleasant condiment to his fish. In a word, his is the true art of -<i>sçavoir vivre</i>; and 'fore Jove or great Apollo, if this were a writing -or a printing age, I should incontinently like and admire to have -'Culinary Lucubrations, or the whole divine Art of Cookery,' from the -pen of the honourable and polished Mr. Berenger! But it was a sad -omission of mine, my Lord, not to include among his various -accomplishments, that he is an excellent judge of wines, and an -excellent taster too, to boot; for he would never mistake Port wine for -Tokay, Chambertin for Chateau-Margut, nor Vin de Grave for Hock! I think -there is no going beyond these. Here, then, I sum up the climax of his -character, 'not to know him argues one's self unknown!'—My Lord -Glandarah, your Lordship's very good health."</p> - -<p>Here the noble Duke, concluding from the foregoing symptoms that the -Doctor had not omitted taking his <i>quantum sufficit</i> of Burgundy, -proposed another flask to Lord Glandarah, or some coffee with the -ladies. The ladies had the preference given them; and the Duke retiring -to the drawing-room, was followed by his guests.</p> - -<p>"I have," whispered Sir Patricius to Lord Glandarah, "observed, in -divers companies and upon several occasions, that His Grace in these -matters always leaves the discussion to the <i>liberum arbitrium</i> of his -guests."</p> - -<p>"And," replied the Peer, "Gad save my soul, I laud his discreet -resolution!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span></p><p>The Duchess appointed her first drawing-room for the succeeding -evening. It may not be amiss here to acquaint the reader, that at the -period of which we now write, court dresses were universally worn by -both sexes at evening routes and balls: the gentlemen appeared in full -court costume, with bags, swords, and buckles; and the ladies with -monstrous bell-hoops, and portentous stomachers of an ell in longitude! -and withal incased in the cumbrous accoutrement of a heavy stiffened -silk mantua; while their false and elevated tetes reminded one of Pelion -piled up on Ossa.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span></p><p>The above remarks will be sufficient to account for the short notice -given for the intended drawing-room. We would also observe upon the -hours at which the worthy folks of these days assembled at their evening -parties. At this period of time the fashionable hour of paying visits -was not, as it is now, in the morning, or rather mid-day, when every -body is abroad, but it was in the evening, when every one almost was at -home; and the visiting hour commenced at so early an hour as seven -o'clock. In the autumnal and winter months the saloons and -drawings-rooms of the noblesse and gentry in Dublin were at that hour, -or at the first visitor's knock at the door, immediately brilliantly -lighted up, and if both parties were perfectly disengaged, the guests -remained; each room displaying richly cut glass lustres and glass -chandeliers illuminated with wax; there was a numerous display of -card-tables; the servants attending in rich liveries; while lords and -knights, and commoners, and stately dames, and ladies gay, came attired -in their court costume. The company partook of tea, coffee, &c.; in the -course of the evening lemonade, orgeat, cake, wine, negus, jellies, -sweetmeats, and confections, (for the luxury of ice was then unknown,) -were handed around to the company, many of whom had meantime sat down to -the card-table, some playing whist, cribbage, or tredrille; some at -ombre, and others at loo. And as the clock struck ten the company -separated, and all retired.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span></p><p>Ladies of high rank usually visited in their state sedan-chairs, which -were stuffed, and lined with white and pink satin, and externally -decorated with different rich ornaments; large silk tassels dangled at -the four angular points of the roof, and the highest top, or pinnacle, -was surmounted by a gilt coronet reposing on a crimson cushion; three, -sometimes four, footmen, according to the rank of the individual, -habited in splendid liveries, and arranged in single files, preceded the -sedan-chair, each bearing a lighted flambeau. And sooth to say, some of -the old dowagers, when the doubtful light of the flambeau flashed upon -their withered visages, incontinently reminded the spectator of the -waxen figure of queen Elizabeth in the glass-case at Westminster-Abbey!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span></p><p>The drawing-room night arrived, and was crowded by numbers of the -nobility and gentry of both sexes, when the old and the young were -assembled together. It was indeed a splendid scene—a galaxy of beauty -and magnificence; the dresses were superb; and bright and brilliant were -the blaze of gems and jewels that adorned the brows, ears, and encircled -the lovely necks of the young, and sparkled on those of a more matronly -description. The youthful and lovely fair presenting no unfavourable -specimen of the beauty of the daughters of Erin; their cheeks rivalling -the rose, and blushing in graceful adolescence; while their lovely -bosoms, glowing in healthful bloom, reflected a pearly radiance around -the diamonds which sparkled upon and adorned them.</p> - -<p>Several ladies of the nobility and gentry, amounting to many hundreds, -were presented, and all of whom were most graciously received by the -truly kind and agreeable Duchess.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a><br /><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span></p><p>The amusements of the evening commenced. Several grave -minuets were danced in a most marvellous solemn pace; to these succeeded -the <i>minuet de lá Cour</i>, which was danced by Sir Patricius Placebo and -Lady Letitia Raymond, to the great entertainment of the Duke and -Duchess, whose gravity, in sooth to say, was upon this occasion quite -borne down and vanquished. Then followed cotillions, which were -succeeded by contre-dances, which ended the amusements of the night. -Numerous card-tables were placed, and were not unoccupied by the elder -part of the assemblage, many of whom went away with their purses many a -<i>minus</i> diminished, when they at solemn leisure reckoned their losses on -the said night or ensuing morning. But the fun and the drollery of the -evening seemed to concentrate in the ridicule attached to Sir Philip -Fumbally, a civic knight and alderman, who somewhat resembled, in -corporal shape and form, the paunch of Falstaff, with all the stiffness -of mine ancient Pistol—aye, and the very nose of renowned -Bardolph! However we must take up the brush and finish our portrait. Sir -Philip was in stature about four feet five, a perfect rotundity in -corpulence, fat short hands, fat short legs; and his face—oh, ye -gods, such a face was his! Forehead, he had none! his hair was red, his -small ferret eyes were grey, if eyes they could be called, which were -indeed to him <i>no windows of the soul</i>! but closed as if under the awful -influence of Somnus! His nose was flat, and in colour ruddy red, his -chubby cheeks the same; and his mouth opened and grinned with all the -agreeability of a cayman or crocodile! His laugh and look were horrid, -the former the diapason of a demon, and the latter the very outline of -Memistopheles. Leaning upon his unwieldy arm was seen his long-necked, -long-armed, and long-legged ugly lady. The Irish, who are somewhat "both -the great, vulgar, and the small," too much given liberally to bestow -<i>soubriquets</i>, nicknamed this unparalleled pair <i>flesh and bone</i>! And -Sir Patricius Placebo somewhat wittily observed, upon his word of -honour, as a true knight, that Lady Fumbally always reminded him of an -undertaker's horse, a Rosinante covered with a compound of velvet -trappings and nodding plumage, withal to cover the skeleton which they -adorned!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span></p><p>When the presentations commenced, Sir Philip, "like a doating mallard," -waddled after the unfurled train of "his darling duckie," (by which -endearing name he familiarly styled my Lady Fumbally,) it so happened -that in discharging this uxorious task he tripped up fairly, or rather -foully, his lady's train, and by which losing his equipoise, the worthy -knight was very nearly tripped up himself. The courtiers all tittered, -and some indeed extended it to a most uncourtly loud laugh. The lady, -like unto Lot's wife, would fain turn around in defiance of all courtly -etiquette, and her visage seemed deeply to participate in the -<i>bouleversement</i> of her velvet train. Here the amiable knight, -compassionating her trodden down vanity, fairly took up the said -portentous train, which was soon somewhat incontinently snatched by a -chamberlain in waiting from the grasp of the knight, and again permitted -to perform its meanders on the carpet <i>ad libitum</i>. The laugh and -titters were again renewed. Mr. Berenger, who was standing close to Sir -Patricius Placebo, seemed to be quite roused from his usual -<i>nonchalance</i>, and whispered Sir Patricius, "this is too bad, <i>risu -ineptu nulla res ineptior est</i>; (nothing is so foolish as the laugh of -fools!) however, we courtiers are always too fond of a laugh, that is to -say, (<i>crede experto</i>,) provided that it be never directed against -ourselves! Sir Patricius, we (with his fore-finger touching the facial -nerve of his nose) <i>have been</i> at the court of good old Carolus!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span></p><p>The worthy Baronet, to whom these observations were addressed, did not -commit himself by one single comment, but silently nodded, and was -meantime taking snuff with immoderate rapidity, and in no stinted -quantities; and when these piquant remarks were made by the ornament of -the old court, Sir Patricius politely and gently as possible laughed -(<i>voce depresso</i>) his heh, heh, heh, and his ahem! "Yes, yes, Mr. -Berenger, <i>indeed we</i> have seen the world!—ahem!</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN</span>!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span></p><p>Sir Philip Fumbally was the renowned and recorded alderman who at a -civic feast loudly proclaimed that Marshal Turenne had taken <span class="smcap">Great -Umbrage</span>, and proposed as a right gallant toast—"Health to the mighty -and glorious conqueror of <span class="smcap">Great Umbrage</span>, the valiant Turenne!" The toast -was drank with great enthusiasm; but soon each civic guest asked -significantly his neighbour the geographical position of <span class="smcap">Great Umbrage</span>; -was it in France, in Flanders, Utopia, or the Lord knows where? The -Gazetteer was put in requisition, and the general atlas (such as the -times afforded) were called for, and were conned over. But alas! -<span class="smcap">Umbrage</span>—the proud, the great, and mighty, could no where be found; its -place was a blank amid the nations!</p> - -<p>What conduced to the mistake or blunder was, that a pique had arisen at -that time between General Konigsmark and General Geis (subsequent to the -passage of the river Neckar in Germany,) against the Duc d'Enghien, (by -whose valour that pass was won, and also Wimpfen was taken;) declaring -that the two former would quit the army, &c. At this declaration the -Field Marshal Viscount Turenne, it was rumoured, had <i>taken</i> <span class="smcap">Umbrage</span>! It -was upon this <i>datum</i> that the worthy alderman had built his <i>el -dorado</i>, his airy citadel, his undiscoverable principality and victory! -But Turenne soared above the impetuosity of Konigsmark, and the -obstinacy of the other two. Turenne was a hero! and one who would scorn -to the city achievement of <i>taking</i> <span class="smcap">Umbrage</span> from friend or foe!</p> - -<p>For about the space of an hour the lovely Lady Adelaide was permitted to -remain at the drawing-room, the delight of every eye, and the theme of -every tongue.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span></p><p>The Duke sat down to play at tredrille with the Countess Dowager of -Ossory and Lord Glandarah. This game, as the name implies, was played by -three persons at a small triangular table, which in these our degenerate -days, are shown only as curiosities in the cabinets of the curious; and -the Duke, when they left off play, arose a winner of about twenty -pounds; for in their quiet, snug way the good folks of those days often -lost or won fourteen or fifteen pounds of the current coin of the realm -at a pool of tredrille, which was then considered <i>most moderate</i> play!</p> - -<p>About the hour of eleven o'clock the Duke and Duchess, who had been much -gratified and amused during the course of the evening, arose, and bowing -most gracefully and courteously to their guests, broke up the -drawing-room, and retired.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</a><br /><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span></p><p>The company soon departed for their homes, highly pleased and -gratified with the courteous deportment of the noble pair; charmed alike -by their affable manners and fascinating attentions equally bestowed on -all. It would be tedious at this time of day to detail the names, and it -might seem invidious to record the particular beauties that graced the -brilliant circle, which upon that memorable evening crowded and adorned -the splendid suite of rooms at Dublin Castle.</p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Young innocent, on whose sweet forehead mild</span> -<span class="i4">The parted ringlet shone in simplest guise,</span> -<span class="i4">An inmate in the home of <span class="smcap">Raymond</span> smil'd,</span> -<span class="i4">Or blest his noonday walk.—She was his only child.</span> -<br /> -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Campbell</span>.</span></div></div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span></p><p>The faculty having strongly recommended sea-bathing as salutary and -beneficial to the health of Lady Adelaide, the Duke, in consequence of -this advice, purchased a hunting lodge, not remote from the sea-shore, -and beautifully situated amid the romantic scenery of the county of -Wicklow, which, from its proximity to the metropolis, afforded a -convenient retreat, and from whence he could, with little or no delay, -receive and despatch the duties attendant upon his high official -situation. As soon as the mansion was placed in a state of proper -repair, and becomingly furnished to be worthy of the reception of the -representative of majesty, the Duke resolved, for the benefit of the -health of a beloved and only daughter, as well as for his own repose -from the fatigues of office, to retire to his newly-acquired purchase of -Lætely Abbey—for thus was this hunting lodge denominated; and this -resolve was not long without being carried into execution. The Duke and -Duchess of Tyrconnel, accompanied by Lady Adelaide, the sisters of the -Duke, not forgetting Sir Patricius Placebo, that witty knight; along -with a numerous attendant suite, left Dublin Castle for their sojourn at -Lætely Abbey, and after a few hours travelling, they safely reached the -place of their destination.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a><br /><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span></p><p>Letely (or Lætely) Abbey (<i>quasi lætus locus</i>), for by this latter -designation antiquarians insisted that it should be called, was indeed a -lovely place, surrounded as it was by all the combining beauties of -natural scenery: here stood the venerable ruins of a decayed abbey, its -walls wreathed and its summits crowned with ivy, while its grand oriel -or eastern window, magnificent even in decay, was festooned and -enlivened with various creeping plants, the sweet-smelling clematis, the -jessamine, and woodbine, trailed around the ruins of the stone casement, -through which the sun-beams cheerfully shone, while the foliage -gracefully waved in the blast, and the blossoms all sweetly perfumed the -surrounding air. To the right of the abbey arose an extensive -sheep-walk, whose boundaries were crowned by lofty groves of arbutus, or -the strawberry tree; laurel, holly, added their combining greens and -shades; and though last, not least, myrtle groves, which in this county -grow to an amazing height, verifying the very just description of the -great pastoral poet, Virgil, "<i>amantes littora myrtos</i>"—myrtles which -rejoice in being near to the shores of the sea. While in the fore-ground -of the landscape, in all its splendid azure majesty, burst forth upon -the delighted spectator's view the mighty ocean, its bosom studded with -frequent white sails, which, as they scudded along, brightly glistened -in the rays of a refulgent autumnal sun. The shore was indented by high -and undulating downs, all richly cultivated, whose green sward, in -smoothness and brilliance, vied with, if not rivalled, any carpet from -the looms of Bruxelles, Turkey, or Persia. A range of meadows succeeded -the downs, which were bordered with hedge-rows of oak, sycamore, and -ash. Adjoining this enlivening scene stood a dense grove of forest -trees, now glowing in all the rich and diversified tints of autumn. The -dark green hue of the American spruce formed a rich and striking -contrast with its deep brown cones, which gracefully clustered amid -their parent verdure, and undulated upon the waving branches, while they -bent to the breeze. The lemon-tinted leaves of the Alpine larch here -were also seen, which were finely opposed to the deep copper colour of -the umbrageous beech, and alternately blending with the bright green of -the Scottish fir, or the deeper shades of the ilex, or ever-green oak.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span></p><p>To the left yawned a rocky, dark, romantic glen, surmounted by -stupendous rocks frowning on the abyss beneath, whose sides were studded -with every variety of wild herb and plant indigenous to a mountainy -region, and, among others, that rare plant, the <i>adianthum</i>, fringed the -interstices of the frowning cliffs.</p> - -<p>Beneath reposed in a secluded dell the cottage of the Duke's steward. -The latticed windows were trellised with the rose, jasmin, and woodbine; -the blue smoke which ascended and curled into clouds amid the -overhanging foliage, betokened habitation and comfort. To the cottage -was annexed an extensive farm-yard, with all the appendices of -corn-stacks, turf, and hay likewise, <i>cum multis aliis</i>, besides the -various addition of live stock, all of which added interest and -animation to the scene.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span></p><p>Through the bosom of this glen slowly meandered along a mountain -stream, (in winter a torrent,) whose devious course was distinctly -outlined by an accompanying range of alder trees, that in double columns -densely shaded its winding banks.</p> - -<p>In the back ground, veiled in dark neutral tint, arose a craggy -mountain, whose base was richly dotted with groves of larch and spruce. -Prominently in the fore-ground was situated the Duke's hunting lodge, -which, as we have already said, was denominated Lætely Abbey. This -structure was built in the style of architecture of the family mansions -of the Elizabethan period. An extensive lake, supplied by a copious -mountain stream, presented itself in front of the house, until, winding -onward, it was lost amid the adjoining woods. Close by was a deer-park, -well enclosed, and numerously stocked with deer, some of whom -gregariously reposed, while others were seen trooping through the dense -woods, and gazing at the passing stranger, which added interest and a -picturesque beauty to the scene.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span></p><p>But the pride, grace, and ornament of Lætely Abbey was to be found in -the attractive and lovely Adelaide, who had now entered upon her -fifteenth year—so rapidly onward does time advance. Indeed it was no -flattery to say, that Adelaide was most truly engaging in her manners. -Her statue would have graced the design of Phidias or Praxiteles; her -lovely and expressive countenance captivated every beholder; the rose of -youth was upon her cheek, and her skin was fair and pure as the unsunned -lily; her dark blue eyes sparkled intelligence, beaming beneath her -beautifully arched eye-brows. Her look, gesture, and demeanour, -communicated joy; and we shall not deny a parental pride to the Duke and -Duchess, at the same time, that her looks beamed forth delight upon all -who beheld her; while her converse, sustained with a voice sweet, -distinct, and melodious, charmed every listening ear. Her manners were -unaffected, as they were natural, and all was silence when she spoke. -Her figure was graceful, as we have before noticed, and beautifully and -finely proportioned. When animated by discourse her features seemed to -be lighted up by almost celestial fire; her brilliant eyes sparkled -bright as the native diamond, and her entire countenance became -irresistibly charming.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span></p><p>To those of inferior rank her deportment was kind and unassuming, and -down to the lowest domestic she was beloved, for they felt and knew that -her delight was to protect those beneath her power, and not to tyrannise -over them.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span></p><p>With an ardent and sanguine admiration of the beauties of nature, -Adelaide too possessed an enthusiastic love of literature, conjoined to -a correctly formed and delicately refined taste. Every day her mind -expanded, from the literary lore which she imbibed, and gradually, but -extensively, her brilliant talents developed their powers. Poetry, -painting, and music, principally fascinated, as they are ever wont to -do, the feeling and romantic mind of youth. Some of those impressions -thus elicited Adelaide was occasionally in the habit of committing to -writing. One day, while some workmen of the Duke were employed in -breaking up ground upon the confines of an ancient, but neglected -cemetery, which surrounded a small dilapidated church, stationed on a -green and rising knoll, whose ruinous walls were thickly overspread with -ivy, while the alder, holly, and thorn, had stoutly installed -them-selves in what had been once the chancel—it happened that, upon -digging at the foot of an ancient thorn, they threw up a human skull, -which the Duke caused immediately to be reinterred in the same spot; and -within no distant space of time a tombstone was prepared to surmount the -grave, upon which was duly chiselled a crucifix, with the usual -accompaniments of a death's head, &c., and having called upon his -daughter's muse for some lines to be inscribed thereon, the interesting -Adelaide wrote the following, which was sculptured upon the tomb:—</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">INSCRIPTION</span>.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Rest here in peace beneath this ancient thorn!</span> -<span class="i4">Perhaps thou once didst rural life adorn,</span> -<span class="i4">And raised thy hopes to heaven in yonder aisle:</span> -<span class="i4">Now droops thy relick nigh yon ruin'd pile!</span> -<span class="i4">Still peaceful rest beneath thy parent earth,</span> -<span class="i4">Until awakened to a nobler birth!</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span></p><p>The Duke and Duchess having attentively perused this brief inscription, -fondly and affectionately embraced their lovely and much beloved child, -no less pleased with the religious feeling which had called forth their -warm approbation, and which they distinctly expressed, than delighted as -they were with the poetic feeling (for thus their partial fondness -adjudged) with which it was written; considering it as no unfavourable -specimen of the expanding powers of a youthful mind. Adelaide was -infinitely far more delighted by this praise of her parents, an incense -so grateful to her heart, than any aspirant to fame in these our -degenerate days could receive from the partial praise and prejudiced -columns of any literary critick.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span></p><p>Time rapidly moved onward, the winter had passed over with an uncommon -mildness; but the spring, which had now succeeded, proved unusually -harsh, tardy, and severe. The cold north-east wind had incessantly -blown, and vegetation had consequently been chillingly repelled; while -the usual flowers that form the chaplet of spring were chained in their -petals, or wholly destroyed by the frost. And when the merry month of -June arrived, it was indeed unusual and extraordinary to behold the -blossoms of the wild rose, hawthorn, and the laburnum, all mingling -their beauties and their perfumes amid the numerous hedge-rows, and -presenting a diversified mass of colours and foliage, like to the bloom -of a Russian spring, when, melted by a genial vernal sun, trees, plants, -and flowers bud, and immediately burst forth into luxuriant and varied -vegetation; the annual resurrection of nature vigorously springing forth -in renovated youth from the tomb of winter!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span></p><p>One morning while Lady Adelaide was seated in the library reading some -interesting work with that deep attention and wrapt enthusiasm with -which she always dwelt upon a book of merit, she was suddenly -interrupted in her studies by the approach of that important person, (as -in her own estimation she considered herself;) we here speak of the -redoubtable Mrs. Judith Braingwain, who, rushing incontinently into the -library, and quite out of breath, exclaimed, "Oh, my Lady, who would -have thought it? But however marvellous it is, see, yonder they come; -see, there they are, Bishop Rocket along with his tall wife, who, by the -bye, is hardy as a seagull; and, moreover, a whole flock, aye, a -beautiful bevy of dainty damozels besides! See, my Lady, there—there -they are; they are now just entering the porch; aye, there they come, -sure enough!"</p> - -<p>"How strange!" replied Lady Adelaide, "we left them at Tyrconnel; what -unaccountable anomaly brings the bishop and family from his palace to -this retired spot?"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span></p><p>Here Mrs. Judith catching at the word <i>anomaly</i>, and wholly -uncomprehending it, while she thought proper to confound its meaning, -thus rejoined:—"Anne O'Mally! Oh yes, my dear young Lady, just as if -now before my eyes, I ken that sweet and charming creature, worth a -whole fleet and cargo of such like ladies as Dame Rocket. I remember, ay -faith do I, she was the finest——Oh no, not the finest—that belongs to -another; but as fine a girl as a body might see on a fair May-day in -ould Connaught, any how! And beside, and moreover, she was right loyally -discended [lineally descended] from the great bould pirate princess, -Grace O'Malley, in troth, and sure enough, far and near, and abroad and -at home, far better known, mavourneen, by the famous name of Grana Uile, -who (it is a storical fact) visited Elizabeth,<a name="FNanchor_18_18" id="FNanchor_18_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a> the grand and -conquering queen of all England, in her gallipot [galliot,] afar across -the salt water seas. Oh, Lady Adelaide! Anne O'Malley was indeed a -promising young lady—the finest——"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span> "Nay, nay, nurse," said Lady Adelaide, "be not so flippant in thy -praise, else I shall grow positively jealous. I therefore must stop you -just now, for it seems your tongue runs riot quite with your discretion; -and has bounced off at a tangent in full gallop, jumping pell-mell, hop -and step, from the young and lovely Anne O'Malley to grey-head old -Grana Uile, (of neither of whom, by the bye, did I speak,) until in most -crab-like motion you pounce upon the majestic Elizabeth; and all this -in most manifest and notable contempt of time, place, and circumstance. -This really is not to be endured. Besides, I pray you to remember, that -<i>once</i>, however, <i>there was a time</i> when no one was so handsome, so -good, and all so angelic and so forth, as <i>your own Adelaide</i>! And, in -undisguised truth, I was in a very fair and hopeful way of being utterly -spoiled, but that happily I turned a deaf and obdurate ear to all your -too partial praise, as well I knew that your commendations all sprung -from overweening kindness. However, just now I am happy to find that you -are converted from your former heresies, and that at length you behold -your poor idol in its mortal shape, imbued with all its natural and -perverse imperfections; and that you are now free to confess that, in -sooth, I am not, as I never was, that angel of excellence, and that -paragon of beauty, which your early devotions conceived me to be. You -have broken your idol, and it has fallen from the pedestal upon which -you had proudly placed it, shivered into atoms on the earth!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span></p><p>This Lady Adelaide said in a playful way, half pretendedly serious, and -the other half wholly comic.</p> - -<p>"Ah, my dear young Lady! and so you are still the idol of goodness, and -the very dragon of beauty! none who ever saw you, who ever knew you, can -think otherwise; this I ever thought you were; and I defy Guy of Warwig, -the seven Champions of Chrysostom, and Saint Patrick himself, to boot, -to deny it if they durst, but that you are the best, the brightest, and -finest young lady in the 'varsal world; and I challenge ould England and -ould Ireland to gainsay me!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span></p><p>It now becomes necessary to say a word or two of this said -Bishop Rocket, who came a visitor to the Duke. Patronage—all -powerful patronage—had placed the mitre upon his brow, as it too -often has done upon the head of many an unmeritorious aspirant to the -hierarchy. His classic acquirements and literary attainments will best -be told by the subsequent details:—Three friends who came to dine -<i>en famille</i> one day at his house in Dublin, sat down, previously to -dinner, to play a snug rubber of whist, thus to pass the intermediate -time. It happened to be of a Friday, during a parliament winter; the -printed proceedings of the House of Lords of the preceding day were -brought in, and, as is always the case, the day of the week and the date -of the month surmounted the top of the page, as the head and front of -these transactions. It ran thus:—"<i>Die jovis</i>," &c. "What?" -inquired the prelate, addressing one whom his Lordship considered as the -most classic of the trio, "pray, what is the meaning of <i>Die jovis</i>?"</p> - -<p>And in order that such of our fair readers who are not conversant with -the Latin tongue may not burst in ignorance with the hierarchical -inquirant, we shall give, <i>in totidem verbis</i>, the answer of the learned -Theban, the bishop's friend:—"Why, my good Lord," said the facetious -gentleman, smiling withal, "'fore Jove, my Lord, the two words conjoined -mean nothing more nor less than <i>Thursday</i>! upon which day your Lordship -gave your <i>benedicite</i> to the House of Peers!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span></p><p>His Lordship lost the odd trick, looked all quite discomposed; nor did -he recover himself again until the sumptuous and savoury dinner smoked -upon the board.</p> - -<p>Bishop Rocket had enlarged the palace at the See-house of—— -and had built, or caused to be built, with his usual want of tact and -judgment, a grand and heavy portico, which fronted the north! Upon the -final completion of this most notable and extraordinary structure the -prelate seemed quite pleased; in which it was conceived that he remained -solely in the singular number. However, he thought fit most -condescendingly to write to a friend, then residing at Rome, a long -letter, the burden of which ran to the following tenor:—"Now, dear -and Reverend Sir, as you are seated, or I, who am a bishop, may say, -enthroned at the fountain head of the fine arts, I have to request that -you would have the goodness to purchase for me twelve statues of the -heathen gods and goddesses to adornate my grand portico, which I have -built at an immense expense; and it is allowed by all the curates in my -diocese to have been accomplished with no inconsiderable portion of -taste! And by so doing you will vastly oblige me."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a><br /><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span></p><p>The Reverend friend thus wrote back a letter, the chief paragraph of -which, in reply to Bishop Rocket, ran to this effect:—"Most dear and -Right Reverend Lord, as your Lordship requires the statues which you -specify, to adorn the portico of a Christian bishop's palace, what would -your Lordship think—(and oh, good, my Lord, I pray you not to be -offended at the voice of truth, which is seldom heard with patience -either within the precincts of courts or the palaces of -prelates!)—what, I pray, my Lord, would you think if I should select -for you, instead of the heathen gods of antiquated Greece and Rome, -<i>videlicet</i>: Jupiter, Vulcan, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Bacchus, and Co., -shall I, most dear and Reverend Lord, transmit to you statues of the -twelve apostles, which surely, most venerated Prelate, you will find to -be, upon mature deliberation, every way far more episcopal, apostolical, -more in good taste, and indeed I must add, quite orthodox. And -assuredly, my good Lord, I feel, and am most fully confident to say and -pronounce it, that the Reverend Head of the holy see would most freely -and cheerfully acquiesce in yielding his assent and consent to permit -these said apostolical statues to be removed and transported to 'the -Island of Saints,' so soon as His Holiness shall be informed that these -stone-sculptured saints are destined for a brother bishop!"</p> - -<p>But know, gentle reader, that Bishop Rocket, whatever might have been -the cause, never even deigned to return any answer to this remonstrative -letter of his too candid friend; and here consequently the proposal fell -to the ground, and never was again resumed. The portico, however, still -stood, presenting its dark <i>facadé</i> to the bleak northern blast, -unsurmounted by statue either mythological or apostolical.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Rocket <i>had been</i>—we must speak here historically in the past -tense—had once been a fine woman, and still a portion of that beauty, -though somewhat clipped by the shears of old Father Chronos, still -remained. It was this attracted the bishop when only a curate, and</p> - -<p class="center">"Passing rich on forty pounds a year."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</a></span></p> -<p>But all powerful love, whose transcendant sway remains undisputed from -the days of the Teian bard down to those of the mighty minstrel of our -own time, in whose own words we are told,</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,</span> -<span class="i4">And men below, and saints above,</span> -<span class="i4">For love is heaven, and heaven is love!"</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[Pg 177]</a></span></p><p>This potent urchin slily sprung a shaft, which securely settled in the -curate's reverend breast, but which was not long permitted by the -compassionate lady hopelessly to rankle in the bosom of her accepted -mate; for ere long the "happy, happy pair" were indissolubly united in -the bands of holy wedlock. Some folks however, and, by the bye, not few -in number, gave it as their opinion, that the lady happening to be the -niece and nearest relative to the bishop of——who was unmarried, and -besides much attached to his niece, that there appeared to be more of -prudent calculation for the future, than ardent love at the present, in -the transaction; inasmuch, that a large portion of the uncle's fortune, -if not the entire, would ultimately vest in the selected fair one; and -perchance, moreover, a rich benefice to boot, which might be expected -from his Lordship's great episcopal patronage, that in the developement -of time would be bestowed upon Curate Rocket. And all these conjectures, -in due and ordinary course, finally and fully occurred. Indeed, in -confirmation of these conjectures, there existed an additional cause for -nobody's doubting the truth of this popular surmise; it was no less a -cogent reason than this, that the lady was by some ten years, at least, -elder than the man to whom she was affianced. This was indeed an -objection not to be overruled by any thesis or syllogism of the schools; -there was here</p> - -<p class="center">"No quirk left, no quiddit,"<br /></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[Pg 178]</a></span></p><p>to defeat its truth. It was in contradiction to sense, to propriety, -and meet discretion. Upon this subject thus speaks the immortal -Shakespeare, the great moral bard, and poet of nature:—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take</span> -<span class="i4">An elder than herself; so wears she to him,</span> -<span class="i4">So sways she level in her husband's heart.</span> -<span class="i4">For——however we do praise ourselves,</span> -<span class="i4">Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,</span> -<span class="i4">More longing, wavering, sooner lost or worn,</span> -<span class="i4">Than women's are!"</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[Pg 179]</a></span></p><p>We must now attempt to present to the reader's eye a just description -of the peripatetic, or walking-dress, of Mrs. Rocket, which no doubt -pertained to a strange, peculiar, and extraordinary costume, which was -in vogue in the times to which we advert. Upon her head she wore a small -cap of Valenciennes lace, which was enveloped in a large and ponderous -machine, ycleped a <i>calash</i>; which was so denominated from its structure -and conformation, bearing a close similitude to the head or leather -covering of the French vehicle which is called by a similar name. This -structure was formed of various hoops of whalebone, arranged in -equidistant, semicircular, parallels, forming <i>en massé</i> a huge and -outlandish head-gear; the outside was covered with black lutestring; and -the penultimate circle of this pent-house was adornated and fringed with -deep lace; the interior was lined with rose-coloured silk, which -artfully threw a bloom upon the wearer's visage, whether wife or widow. -This ponderous machine could be advanced or drawn back (like the head of -a modern barouche or landau) by the occupant <i>ad libitum</i>, according as -wind or weather permitted, or caprice might dictate. Likewise, with -equal facility, the head of the wearer might be wholly divested of this -incumbrance, which, in such a case, was handed over to the custody of -the attending lackey.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[Pg 180]</a></span></p><p>The reader will please to observe, that this head costume was prevalent -before the modern umbrella, or still more recent parasol came into -general use; and indeed, in some degree, so far as the covering of the -head was taken into calculation, this invention, strange though it may -at the present time appear, so far fully answered the functions and -intentions of these later discoveries of modern art. The lady wore a -large silk cloak, trimmed and flounced with ermine; she also carried a -muff, small in size and calibre, formed of the same materials. To these -were added, as the <i>materialé</i> of her dress, a stiff flowered silk -mantua, supported upon a bell-hoop; an apron trimmed with lace; high -heeled shoes formed likewise a part of the dress, with the dangerous -appanage of pattens, long since exploded in these parts.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span></p><p>Such was the strange costume which formed the morning or -peripatetic habiliments of Mrs. Rocket. This lady also carried a -walking-staff, or cane; by this we do not, in any measure, mean to -assimilate it to the most formidable and terrific walking-staff once -borne by the bluff king Harry of tyrannic memory, and now exhibited in -the tower of London with sundry other curiosities that belong not to our -province to enumerate. No, gentle reader, the simple staff which the -lady bore was of a most placable description; it was, in sooth, a tall -tapering indian cane, and adorned on the top with a head of beautiful -china porcelain, upon which, in rich and brilliant colouring, were -depicted some of the most beautiful wild flowers of summer. And through -every change of weather, hail or snow, storm, rain, or sun-shine, was to -be seen this indefatigable pedestrian trudging her daily peregrinations. -Often, when remonstrated with for thus running the risk of catching -cold, and so forth, when in good humour, which was <i>not always</i> the -case, she was wont to hum or troll forth an old ditty, one stave of -which ran pretty much to the following effect and tenor:—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Why at home should I budge,</span> -<span class="i4">Not abroad freely trudge,</span> -<span class="i4">My bairns and I altogether?</span> -<span class="i4">While my skin I don't grudge,</span> -<span class="i4">So be heav'n my judge!</span> -<span class="i4">To melt or to freeze with the weather.</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[Pg 182]</a></span></p><p>Very often her temper was extremely cross, which she vented in scolding -the servants right and left, wrong or right; and Sunday being a day of -rest, was very often selected, with due circumspection, for this -wholesome exercise of her lungs. An auld Scottish steward, who -superintended the agricultural establishment, upon having auricular -proof how matters stood within the mansion, slily remarked: "Ah, wae to -the hoose where hens craw, and the cocks are silent!"</p> - -<p>Madam Rocket had the reputation all throughout her husband's diocese of -being truly a most notable lady in every sublunary concern. She was -constituted as sole manageress of the entire home department at the -See-house of——; and it was there bruited abroad and around the -country far and near, that the "<i>omnia Romæ cum pretio</i>" of Juvenal, -might be fairly applied to Madam Rocket's establishment; but it was -insisted that the "<i>cito peritura</i>" did by no means belong to the lady. -However, rumour went on, with its gossip tongue, to whisper that at the -See-house of——every thing was vendible, from the produce of the -farm, the barn, the poultry-yard, the piggery, the dairy, the fruit and -flower garden—nay, even down to the kitchen garden; every article of -which was duly transmuted, as was insisted, into the <i>Regina Pecunia</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span></p><p>The Bishop and his lady, albeit they were no favourites with the Duke -and Duchess, were nevertheless most hospitably invited, and even -pressed, according to the custom of the times, to remain to dinner, and -also to continue their guests for some days at Lætely Abbey. But this -was upon their part most gratefully declined. The Bishop and Mrs. Rocket -partook of a collation, and departed for Dublin, declining the warm and -hospitable invitation upon plea of business in the capital, and to -rejoin their family, who had been with them at Arklow for the benefit of -sea-bathing, and who had that morning proceeded on their way to the -metropolis.</p> - -<p>During the residence of the vice-regal visitors in the county of -Wicklow, they visited all the romantic scenery and the various -picturesque views, each lofty mountain, retired valley, and secluded -stream or glen, within the precincts of that fairy region.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</a></span></p><p>The lake of Luggelaw made a deep impression upon the Lady Adelaide. She -thus expressed her feelings upon viewing it: "It was," she said, "a -scene so sad, so lonely, and solitary; so wild, so rude, and -mountain-locked, that one here might almost imagine that they saw one of -the secluded pilgrims of Salvator Rosa studiously wrapt in silent -devotion, intent on the sacred volume which he held, and praying to his -Creator; the wilderness his temple, and his choir the roaring cataract -and the accompanying winds of heaven!"</p> - -<p>"Vastly well, Adelaide," said the Duke, smiling with pleasure, "vastly -well, indeed; and now, my love, to complete your sketch, people these -craggy heights above us with three or four banditti; put helmets upon -their heads and lances in their firm hands; then on a sudden our whole -party, spurring onward our jaded steeds, are to fly from the attack; add -to this too to your sketch, and I really think it will be then a -finished <i>tableaux</i>, and quite in the due and terrific tone and style of -this great poetic painter."</p> - -<p>Adelaide sweetly smiled, but replied not.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</a></span></p><p>They next visited Glendalough, or the Seven Churches, and the "sweet -Vale of Ovoca." Ascending the high hill of Knockmokil, Adelaide, in -impromptu, repeated the following lines:—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Romantic spirit of this mountain glen</span> -<span class="i4">Tell the blest time we may here meet again!</span> -<span class="i4">Wilt thou to distant Aughnavanock stray,</span> -<span class="i4">Or wend, 'mid Lara's wilds, thy lonely way?</span> -<span class="i4">Or here ascend Knockmokil's lofty height,</span> -<span class="i4">Where vales transcendant burst upon the sight;</span> -<span class="i4">Sea, grove, and forest, rivers, all combine</span> -<span class="i4">Their matchless charms, to stamp the spot divine?</span></div></div> - -<p>They next visited Loch Dan, the Demon's Glen and Waterfall, the -Waterfall of Powerscourt, &c. &c.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[Pg 186]</a></span></p><p>Lady Adelaide derived the greatest benefit from sea-bathing, and her -health became completely re-established, which one day called forth the -following eulogium from Sir Patricius Placebo; while engaged in -conversation with the Duchess, he observed, "Oh, my Lady, how truly -lovely the Lady Adelaide looks in renovated health and beauty! Each day -still adds to her charms; and, in verity, I should be fully justified to -speak of her in the words of the historic worthy, old Titus Livius, -(whose name, by the bye, the ridiculous French sink down into <i>Tit -Live</i>—just, my Lady, as if they were speaking of the little bird called -Tom Tit!) his words are these: '<i>Adulta virgo; adeo eximia, forma, ut -qûacunqué incedebat converteret omnium oculos</i>'—'An adult virgin of -such exquisite form, that wherever her steps were turned, thither with -delight the looks of all beholders were directed.'"</p> - -<p>The Duchess duly curtsied, and thanked the Baronet for the classical -compliment which he had paid; and said, "that inasmuch as she was mother -to the object of his praise, she confessed that withal she was indeed -too partial to her beloved daughter to gainsay the polite eulogium of -Sir Patricius."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span></p><p>The Duke and Duchess determined to remain during each year for some -months at their delightful retreat amid the romantic beauties of the -county of Wicklow; this residence only to be interrupted by the -occasional absence of the Duke to hold a levee or a privy council at -Dublin Castle; the routine of state dinners, or when her Grace presided -at drawing-rooms, balls, &c. or in occasionally going in state to the -theatre royal, &c. &c. The autumnal months were passed at Tyrconnel -Castle, but the winter invariably was spent at Dublin Castle.</p> - -<p>Thus days and months passed over, marked only in the calendar by health, -tranquillity, and social pleasure, without the occurrence of any event -of importance sufficient to be recorded here. Two years at this point of -time had passed over in peaceful serenity, Lady Adelaide daily improving -in the expansion of her mental powers, and in gradual increase of -personal beauty. The Duke, who had been long absent from Tyrconnel -Castle, proposed to pass the ensuing summer and autumn at that lordly -residence, and with all due pomp and solemnity there to celebrate -Adelaide's birth-day, who would at that time enter into her seventeenth -year; and from thence, these high ceremonials completed, his Grace -proposed to proceed to Dublin, to open the biennial session of -parliament: and preparations were immediately set on foot to carry these -intentions into effect.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span></p><p>During the absence of the noble proprietor Tyrconnel Castle had -undergone a thorough repair, and many judicious alterations and -improvements had taken place in the internal decoration of the castle, -as well as in the external adornment of the lawns, parks, and gardens of -this princely abode. Pursuant to their determination, their Graces set -out accordingly, upon a fine summer morning, on their journey to their -ancient castle; and the space of a week having been occupied in -travelling, the entire family of the Duke safely arrived at their -destination.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span></p><p>Adelaide was peculiarly delighted once more to behold the scenes of her -infancy, which to every feeling mind have indelible charms; and the -morning after her arrival at Tyrconnel she ascended the ramparts of the -castle, to review the surrounding prospect, so dear to her recollection. -It was a serene summer morning. Our readers perchance may recollect the -scenery which surrounds the castle of Tyrconnel, the lofty mountains of -Slieve-Doon, and the great gap or pass to the mountains, called -Barna-More, all of which we have endeavoured to describe in the second -chapter of this work. Adelaide's mind was fully in unison with the -serenity of the morning, and being deeply impressed with the poetic -impulse, she produced her tablets, and poured forth her tribute to the -<i>Genius Loci</i>, in the following</p> - -<p class="center">INVOCATION TO THE RIVER ESKE.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Roll onward, fierce torrent! roll on to the main!</span> -<span class="i4">What bastion or tow'r may thy billows restrain?</span> -<span class="i4">Resounds thy hoarse current's loud thundering roar</span> -<span class="i4">Round cloud-crested Slieve-Doon and wide Barna-More.<a name="FNanchor_19_19" id="FNanchor_19_19"></a><a href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a></span> -<span class="i4">How oft hath the foe-man deep plunged in thy wave,</span> -<span class="i4">Thy billows encrimsoned with blood of the brave!</span> -<span class="i4">These towers shall yet crumble, these rampires shall fall,</span> -<span class="i4">But thou, rapid Eske, be survivor of all!</span> -<span class="i4">While down to the confines of uncounted time,</span> -<span class="i4">Thy waters roll onward in measure sublime!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">Swift emblem of <span class="smcap">LIFE</span>, changing, flowing anew;</span> -<span class="i4">Still the symbol thou art of eternity too!</span> -<span class="i4">Unceasing thy current, impetuous thy force,</span> -<span class="i4">Speeding on, full-tiding thy unaltered course:</span> -<span class="i4">Still glide, regal stream! let thy bright waters flow,</span> -<span class="i4">And foam 'gainst these bastions, which frown'd on the foe.</span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span> -<span class="i4">Oh, murmuring Eske! from thy deep rocky bed,</span> -<span class="i4">O'er dream of my childhood sweet charms thou has</span> -<span class="i4">shed,</span> -<span class="i4">Whilst gurgling thy waters, to sleep lulled my head!</span> -<span class="i4">Nor shall mem'ry ever her pencil withdraw</span> -<span class="i4">From thy waters, bright Eske, and thy</span> -<span class="i4">heights, proud Tyraugh!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">Flow on, rapid Eske! still roll in commotion;</span> -<span class="i4">Unite thy deep foam with the wave of the ocean!</span></div></div> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span></p><p>Time onward rapidly fled on downy pinions, and the birth-day of the -Lady Adelaide, which occurred upon the Eve of All-Hallows, was now fast -approaching, in celebration of which most magnificent preparations were -making, had been made, and were in a progressive state of continuation -at this hospitable chateau. The Duke and Duchess seemed fully resolved -to spare no expense to testify, if indeed it were at all necessary so to -do, their love and attachment to an amiable and affectionate daughter, -who was most truly worthy of her parents' love, and of every respect and -honour that could be awarded her.</p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h2> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Vetus opinio est, jam usque ab heroicis ducta temporibus,</span> -<span class="i4">Eaque et populi Romani et omnium gentium firmata</span> -<span class="i4">Consensu, versari quandam inter homines divinationem</span> -<span class="i4">Quam Græci MANTIKE appellant,</span> -<span class="i4">Id est, præsensionem, et scientiam rerum futurarum.</span> -<br /> -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Cicero, de Divinatione.</span></span></div></div> - - -<p>The thirty-first day of October, <i>anno salutis</i> sixteen hundred and -----, being the Eve of All-Hallows, happened also to be the anniversary -of the birth-day of our heroine, which was duly to be celebrated upon -this memorable day with more than its accustomed splendour, as we have -already premised in the foregoing chapter.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span></p><p>Adelaide had now entered her seventeenth year; so rapidly doth old -father Time speed along, borne upon his ever fugitive wings, verifying -the truly appropriate motto that we have somewhere seen engraved upon -the dial of a clock, "<span class="smcap">DUM SPECTAS, FUGIO!</span>"—"while you look on, I fly!"</p> - -<p>Mrs. Judith Braingwain, Lady Adelaide's nurse and foster-mother, and who -from the very beginning seemed resolved not to hold a subordinate place -in the back ground of our story, but firmly determined to carry matters -on in somewhat a consequential way, had now become her young Lady's -<i>femme de chambre</i>, and was ever and had been on the alert in instilling -into her youthful and susceptible mind the superstitions of her native -isle; and these stories, daily and hourly as they were repeated, did not -fail to make an impression upon a youthful and romantic mind. This -morning, at an early hour, she attended upon her young lady and -foster-child, a title she was pre-eminently proud of using upon all -occasions. The Irish have been ever proverbial for loving their -foster-children even beyond their own, and the ancient crone who made -her appearance was a living proof of the truth of the assertion. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span>Mrs. -Braingwain having respectfully and affectionately congratulated her -noble foster-child upon the anniversary of her birth, entered into a -long and elaborate series of reminiscences of all the sad and mournful -events which had happened to herself and others upon the Eve of -All-Hallows. But as we are inclined to imagine that the old lady's -melancholy ditties are not very likely to awaken an interest and -sympathy in the reader's breast, we have therefore magnanimously -determined to suppress them altogether.</p> - -<p>The loquacious old dame continued her long-winded reminiscences without -the slightest compunction of mercy or conscience, until interrupted by -the tolling forth of the breakfast bell, which luckily saved the Lady -Adelaide from further prolixity, by at once silencing the garulous old -nurse, whom she regarded from her early years, and wished not to offend. -Adelaide rejoiced at the timely interruption that cut short the prosings -of the old crone, and promptly descended to the breakfast-room.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span></p> - -<p>A number of young people of both sexes were invited to dinner, to -celebrate Adelaide's birth-day; and the party was to be enlarged in the -evening by an invitation to crack nuts at the castle, which was sure to -include the <i>nucleus</i> of a good supper. All the principal persons of -distinction for several miles around the castle were invited, and all -with alacrity obeyed the festive summons.</p> - -<p>Lady Adelaide, although not always much interested upon such festivals, -yet upon this occasion manifested some degree of anxiety, which was -caused no doubt by that noble generosity of character which she so -eminently possessed, and ever invariably felt greater pleasure in the -gratification of her friends, than in being personally gratified.</p> - -<p>The dinner went off with much <i>eclat</i>; pleasantry, wit, and good-humour, -all aiding with their potent charms. When the cloth was removed from the -ducal table, and the desert and wines were duly placed in order, a -stately plateau of confectionary and pastry arrived at the side-table, -which was <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span>destined for the juvenile guests, who were there seated. That -day was indeed a right busy one to all the cooks, scullions, and -kitcheners of the household. The thrifty pastry-cooks of these happy -days were most notable for, and assumed very considerable pride, in -raising those superstructures called "pastry fortifications." The -display chosen for this festival was the model of Tyrconnel Castle, -flanked by bastion, battlement, and tower; armorial flags, heraldically -emblazoned in sugar, decorated the summit of each tower and parapet; and -the fosse was floated from its parent Eske, which, instead of a -mountain-stream, supplied the said fosse with a broad and deep portion -of excellent Spanish flummery, upon which was anchored a tiny Armada; -the heights of the barbican and the embrasures of the terrace were -defended with a long train of "eatable artillery," and manned by a large -disposable garrison of sugar-almonds; the watch-towers were alternately -constructed of jelly and <i>blanc manger</i>.</p> - -<p>The Duke now gave the word of "assault!" which command was <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span> -incontinently obeyed, the juvenile party in every direction making one -grand attack, by a general <i>coup de fourchette</i>, <i>de couteau</i>, <i>de -cullier</i>. The assault was crowned with entire success; the fosse of -Spanish flummery quickly disappeared; the whole train of "eatable -artillery" promptly were destroyed; the jelly and <i>blanc manger</i> towers -were scaled, battered down, and swallowed in a thrice; the Armada -shattered and dispersed; the entire garrison without any remorse or -mercy were devoured, and the "pastry fortifications" completely razed, -without leaving a wreck behind! This attack upon the confectionary -<i>bijou</i> much gratified the juvenile assailants, and highly pleased the -noble hosts, and the grave company seated at their festive board were -most marvellously entertained withal.</p> - -<p>In some short time after, <i>selon des règles</i>, the sightless bard, old -Cormac, was led in, bearing his harp beneath his arm. He courteously -expostulated with those who would fain save him the trouble, by -observing, "that he had long borne that instrument his companion in joy <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span> -or in sorrow, his last and almost only solace upon earth; and that when -he was unable to bear his harp, his wish was then to be borne to the -grave!" Upon the entrance of the aged minstrel into the saloon, the Duke -ordered that a goblet of mead, foaming and sparkling to the brim, should -be given to old Cormac; which was accordingly done; and then the toast -of that high festival was to be drank, which he repeated: "The health of -the noble young Lady Adelaide," said the sightless bard; and to which he -was facetiously pleased to annex a friendly addition of his own, which -was, "and long may the Lady Adelaide reign!" This is a favourite -expression of fervent zeal and affection used by the warm-hearted Irish -to their superiors. Now in crowds advanced the young folks, who in -various circles thronged around old Cormac, making various inquiries, -and asking numerous questions: "Was the old man always blind?"</p> - -<p>"Nae, nae, that I was not. I once could see, and well; and <i>truly the -light was sweet, and a pleasant thing it was to behold the light -of the sun</i>! But now all is dim and dark. Yet I trust that I <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span> -shall hereafter be permitted to behold the light of heaven! That fervent -hope and my harp are my consolations during my pilgrimage of darkness!"</p> - -<p>It was next inquired of him how long he had been blind? He replied, "I -was of the same age that our dear and ever honoured young Lady (heaven -bless her here and hereafter!) has entered into this holy day.—I was in -my seventeenth year."</p> - -<p>The Duke interdicted all further interruptions: "Cormac, my honest -fellow, I fear that my young friends are somewhat disposed to trespass -too much upon your time and patience; so quaff your flagon and strike -your harp. But remember, Cormac, nothing dismal upon this happy day; no -dirge—not even an overture, will be endured!"</p> - -<p>Cormac made due obeisance; and seizing his harp, struck its accompanying -notes, while he sung the following:<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span>—</p> - -<p class="center">SONG.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Who would not toast that lovely maid,</span> -<span class="i4">And drink the health of Adelaide,</span> -<span style="margin-left: 6em;">And fill a bumper round?</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">Who, in wandering o'er the glade,</span> -<span class="i4">Could meet a nymph like Adelaide?</span> -<span class="i12">Then fill a bumper round!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">The beauties of a court would fade</span> -<span class="i4">When they're compared with Adelaide—</span> -<span class="i12">Let all fill bumpers round!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">Of sweetest flowers a crown we'll braid,</span> -<span class="i4">To deck the brow of Adelaide,</span> -<span class="i12">While bumpers flow around!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">Alas! old Cormac he is blind,</span> -<span class="i4">Or soon the flow'rets he could find</span> -<span class="i4">Should braid the brow and gem the breast</span> -<span class="i4">Of Adelaide the loveliest,</span> -<span class="i12">While bumpers foam'd around!</span></div></div> - -<p>Much applause rang forth a chorus to the minstrel's impromptu -Anacreontic, and flowing bumpers were quaffed to "the health of Lady -Adelaide!" A glass of Burgundy was handed to old Cormac, which he -respectfully declined, but with the request that a glass of pure <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span> -Innishowen (whiskey) might be substituted in place of it; and with this -sturdy appendage to his request, "that it might be unadulterated!" These -demands being all strictly complied with, he most devoutly gave his -young lady's health, tossed down at the instant the pure Innishowen, and -in due approval cordially smacked his lips as the beverage disappeared.</p> - -<p>The ladies soon retired, Adelaide deeply blushing at all the honours and -attentions bestowed this day; and felt most grateful to the sightless -old bard, who had in so feeling a manner manifested such attachment to -his young mistress.</p> - -<p>The ceremonies of the tea-table being duly concluded, the graver portion -of the company sat down to their cards: various games were played, loo, -cribbage, gresco, ombre, and lansquenet. The Duke sat down to primero, -"which," observed his Grace, "is my favourite game, as it had been with -Lord Strafford, when he held the high station in which I am at present -placed." <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span></p> - -<p>The younger part of the company, in the mean time, not to discompose the -gravity of the card-playing dowagers, retired apart to the great saloon, -where were stationed all the preliminary <i>accessoirés</i> proper and duly -prepared for the mysteries of the Eve of All-Hallows, in order to -commence the various spells, tricks, sports, and charms, which national -superstition and credulity have consecrated, and hoary tradition handed -down from age to age as the records of popular faith.</p> - -<p>"<i>Allons nous</i>," said Lady Lucy, playfully, "<i>allons mes enfants</i>!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, for mercy's sake, dear Lucy," rejoined Lady Letitia, "pray let us -have no more of this outlandish gibberish; but I pray you let the young -folks at once begin their play, without preface or prologue."</p> - -<p>"Thy design and intention, sweet sister of mine, displeaseth me not; for -be it known, that I also am fully possessed with a most marvellous -disposition, a wondrous curiosity for the commencement of the various -charms, or mysteries, or incantations <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span>of this memorable night, call -them by any name you think befitting; and here am I ready and willing to -be the lady mistress of the ceremonies to be done and performed—ay, -without the fee or reward of even plumb-cake or a single poesy! And now, -my merry maids all, for the full and complete execution of the important -duties attending my most consequential appointment, we shall soon -commence our ceremonies of office, and all the various charms of this -night of incantation." Then, with much sprightliness, she added, "But -where, oh, where is my wand? my wand—my kingdom for a wand! I can do -nothing with effect, unless armed with the insignia of my office."</p> - -<p>A servant then came in, and presented a peeled wand or rod, which was -framed from a witch-hazel that had grown on the Tyraugh mountains, and -had been cut and stript of its bark at the express desire of old Cormac, -and was now assumed and wielded with all due and becoming authority.</p> - -<p>"Yes, yes, this is <i>comme il faut</i>! this will do. Now I am the most -mysterious <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span>mistress of these enchanted revels, and this the wand of my -stately vocation! Young ladies fair, young lords so gay, hear ye, hear -ye all! In full plenitude, potency, and execution of this my office, -hear and obey the important injunctions which I have to premise to each -and to all of you—[this was expressed with much <i>gaietè du cœur</i>.] -Be it then known to you all <i>by these presents</i>, (as an old dotard once -upon a time began his will);—but I am not dead, yet my <i>will</i> is this: -hear, hear ye all good people and true! and thus I do proclaim, amid all -our play and revels to-night, but without sound of trumpet or -kettle-drum, that there still remains a charm yet to be consummated, and -of such confessed potency too, that this night should not be passed over -without giving it a fair trial, and at once putting its efficacy to the -test! Having thus premised, it would be but foul play that my young -friends should <i>burst in ignorance</i> as to the mode and nature of the -charm. <i>Eh! bien donc, mes chers enfants!</i> you then must know, the fair -young lady who wishes to recognise her future spouse for life, is to <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span> -proceed at just this hour to a sequestered lime-kiln, bearing a charmed -ball of untwisted cotton thread, and strongly holding the cord, is to -fling the ball adown the cavern of the kiln; and upon its having reached -the bottom, stoutly to exclaim, 'Who holds the ball?' When this is duly -performed, the person who accomplishes it is to retire before midnight -to bed; a banquet must be spread, and a mirror in which her fortune -shall be read! Now, my gay and merry lasses all, where is to be found -that courageous one who dare do this?"</p> - -<p>The young ladies all, as if by tacit consent, drew back, dissenting from -the proposal. But not so Lady Adelaide, who advanced: "That daring one -am I, and I accept your challenge;" seizing at the same time upon the -charmed ball of untwisted cotton which Lady Lucy then held in her hand, -and of which Lady Adelaide now became the possessor. "I hold now the -charm; it shall not perish until at least its efficacy be tried. But -remember I go alone!"</p> - -<p>"Oh, my dearest, my best beloved Adelaide do not go!—I beseech you <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span> -that you do not go at this hour of night—at this season of the year! -storm and rain may overtake you, and cause you to lament the rashness of -your undertaking! In what I have said I wished to raise youthful -curiosity, but at the same time I likewise meant to intimidate, but not -to encourage the attempt!—Why will you go?"</p> - -<p>"Because," rejoined Lady Adelaide, "from the very first I resolved that -I would undertake the execution of the charm; and no remonstrance, not -even force, shall compel me to relinquish my purpose; call it fate, call -it destiny; describe it as rashness; call it e'en what pleaseth thee; it -must—it shall be performed!"</p> - -<p>"But," observed Lady Lucy, "should your absence be noticed what is then -to be done to account for it? What will the Duke say?—what will the -Duchess? And you will bring down the united raillery of all the loo, -tredrille, primero, and cribbage tables, upon your truant head for this -nocturnal adventure of romance!" <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Oh, tell the Duke and Duchess that as they know <i>the gods have made me -poetical</i>, that the fit of inspiration was upon me; and now or never! If -I were not to obey the impulse my precious verse would perish for ever!"</p> - -<p>Adelaide then most sweetly smiling, said: "It boots not what remark may -come from the sober dowagers and solemn wig-pated personages at the loo -and ombre tables; they will be too much absorbed in their winnings and -tricks to think of me. And now I go!"</p> - -<p>"Oh stay, I prithee, stay a moment!—just until I tell thee," said Lady -Lucy. "For before you go you must be told of what positively and fatally -happened in our own family to a kinswoman of mine own, a young lady, -upon the Eve of All-Hallows, who——"</p> - -<p>"Not for the wide world," said Lady Adelaide, "would I hear another -word. If the story, my dear aunt, be amusing or horrific, I pray thee -tell it to my young friends, and then I shall have it told me when I -return. Now wave thy mystic wand, and like a spirit I vanish.—<i>Prèsto</i> -I'm gone!" <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span></p> - -<p>Adelaide departed. This young lady was indeed the child of romance, with -feelings the most tender and acute; and one who deeply had imbibed the -superstitions of the age in which she lived; all of which had chiefly -been instilled, even from the very cradle, by the old talkative crone, -her quondam nurse; and although possessing a strong understanding, yet -still, as the ever constant dropping of water will impress and penetrate -the hardest stone, in like manner the tales of superstition unceasingly -told, and the numerous attestations of popular faith, did not fail fully -to operate on her credulity.</p> - -<p>Adelaide alone sallied forth from the ducal towers of Tyrconnel Castle, -with deep determination to fulfil the spell of the charmed ball. The -moon with pearly radiance shone forth on her fearless enterprise; -enthusiastic in this adventure as in every thing which she thought, -said, or did, she now boldly advanced to commence the solemn charm; and -with firm and unshaken step she proceeded to the accomplishment of her -nocturnal visit; while intently she looked around, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span>fully to be assured -that no human eye gazed upon the orgies which she was about to perform.</p> - -<p>Adelaide then with quickened step approached a lime-kiln. This fabric -had been for a lapse of time deserted and disused; its apex was crested -with saxifrage, snap-dragon, and foxglove, which told its desolation; -and the ivy too, in curling festoons suspended, overhung the passenger, -and undulated in the breeze. The autumnal gale in mournful gusts swept, -sighing in its course, over hill, and vale, and stream; while the owl -hooted her solitary scream as Adelaide reached this deserted pile, now -the lonely asylum of the nocturnal bat and wary field-mouse. The kiln -had been constructed at the angle of a green knoll, which served as an -ascent to it; and by this mount, or hill, Adelaide with facility -ascended to the empty crater of the lime-kiln; when duly turning her -face to the south she produced an untwisted ball of cotton thread, and -firmly holding the end of the cord, or thread, of the ball, she flung -the ball, as if a plummet, down the concavity of the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span>kiln; when -sounding its depth she ascertained that it had duly reached the bottom, -then she undauntedly inquired in a loud and firm tone of voice—"Who -holds the ball?" The cotton cord on the instant dropped promptly from -her hand, whether by force or fear she knew not; while she thought she -heard a voice unknown ascending in hollow tones from the echoing depth -beneath, emphatically reply—"I grasp the ball!"</p> - -<p>This might have been merely the effect of fear and mental deception, yet -still she thought she had heard the awful response. No shape, no form, -no figure, met her eye; but the words struck her ear and pierced her -heart. Adelaide stood motionless, silent, and pale, as a statue; she had -not the power to scream, articulation was totally suspended; and the -powers of locomotion too were completely paralized, her imagination -became spell-bound, her recollection was fled! At length nature -completely overpowered, she fainted; and it was not for some time that -she recovered the powers of animation, when all the solemn scene that -had so lately occurred <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span>appeared to her but as a frightful dream that -had passed in review before her deceived imagination while she slumbered -in that dreadful swoon.</p> - -<p>For some considerable pause of time Adelaide sat motionless upon the -sward of the little knoll that adjoined that ominous fabric, where so -lately that awful charm, consecrated by the credulity of ages, had been -performed.</p> - -<p>After much mental exertion Adelaide found upon trial that she had -sufficient bodily strength to arise; and now having stood up, she -proceeded upon her return to the castle. The moon had retired behind a -cloud, when, with a deep sigh, she exclaimed, "Oh, how much I wish that -the deed had remained undone, and then my mind would have been at rest! -But now I am sadly disquieted, and my heart is sick within me. Oh, it -was not well done!"</p> - -<p>After a pause she continued—"But what will they all this while think of -me at the castle? How shall my absence be accounted for? Why—why do I -shudder thus in self-condemnation? This should not have been!" <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span></p> - -<p>Thus, in self-crimination, Adelaide vented her contrition, while with -trembling fear and step she slowly wended back her wearied way to -Tyrconnel Castle.</p> - -<p>Still advancing, terror seemed every where to accompany her.</p> - -<p class="center">"Horror ubique——simul ipsa silentia terrent!"</p> - -<p>The distant murmurs of the Eske uniting with the ocean affrighted her, -as did her footsteps,—she thought them not her own; while ever and anon -she would stop to listen; but no sounds were heard but those of the -adjoining brook brawling<a name="FNanchor_20_20" id="FNanchor_20_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a> over its rocky channel, or the autumnal gale -rustling the fallen foliage as it swept its plaintive blast along. At -times when partially the wind reposed, and all, for the interval, was in -silence lulled, still her mind was not at rest; occasionally she would -stop, and seemed to meditate to herself; then would she rehearse the -ominous incantation at the kiln, she would raise up her right arm, bend -the hand, with thumb <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span>and fore-finger conjoined together; next suddenly -dip the arm and hand, as when she plumbed the charmed ball adown the -mystic concavity of the kiln. When having violently acted this, she -would utter a piercing scream, and then awaken from her -reverie.</p> - -<p>As Adelaide was proceeding onward in her return to the castle, the sky -suddenly became deeply darkened, and a thunder-storm arose; the thunder -loudly re-echoed through the vaulted heavens, and the vivid -lightning-flash preceded each awful peal; then descended torrents of -rain, which fell with the plenitude and the force of a water-spout.</p> - -<p>"Ah, if I had here a friend, a companion in this my hour of trial, I -then would slightly value the tempest that now surrounds me! But the -deed was all my own doing, and plaints now are of no avail. So unto the -castle with whatever remnant of strength or courage may remain.—This is -my only resource!"</p> - -<p>All terrified, pale, and her garments deeply drenched with rain, at -length Adelaide regained the castle; where, when she had put <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg 213]</a></span>on fresh -attire, forgetful of all the fears and perils which she had encountered, -(such and so great are the contradictions of human nature,) that she -fully, nevertheless, resolved to abide the full completion of the -mysterious charm.</p> - -<p>The awful thunder-storm served as a well-timed explanation for the -deadly paleness of her countenance as the Lady Adelaide rejoined the -social circle. The juvenile party were employed in the various pastimes -of the night, in burning the boding nuts, while</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"Some lovingly in flames consume,</span> -<span class="i4">Till wasting into embers grey."</span></div></div> - -<p>Meantime others parted company, north and south, with the rapidity, if -not with the force, of a modern Congreve rocket. In others the spark -soon expired, while the gentle relict that was left behind, "like -Patience on a monument," kept stationary on her ordeal bar of trial, -tranquil and serene, until, in expiring embers she blazed, and was no -more! The melting of lead, and various other dainty devices followed. -All which <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg 214]</a></span>were now succeeded by the grand finale of a ball, in which -minuets, cotillions, and contre-danses followed in course, and were -succeeded by a splendid supper.</p> - -<p>The supper, which was superb and princely throughout, commenced and -ended with delight to all the guests. And while sipping the noble -beverage of the grape, pressed and brought from every generous clime, -the following erudite discussion upon presages, prophecies, and -predictions, occupied the grave and learned portion of the company:—</p> - -<p>"Some presages," observed the Duke, "may certainly appear to have been -casual, and subsequently adapted to the occasion by the ingenuity of -others; but still there are others that appear supported by such a -connected mass of evidence, that they can be neither questioned nor -denied. Mariana, the famed historian of Spain, (A. D. 1453,) makes -mention, in speaking of the tragical end of Don Alvaro, Earl of Luna, -'that it had been foretold to Alvaro that his death would be at -Cadahalso, by which he supposed to be meant, a town he had of that -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span>name, and therefore he never went thither; but Cadahalso, in Spanish, -means a <i>scaffold</i>,' (this prophecy thus 'paltered in a double -sense,') for upon the scaffold Alvaro suffered, and there concluded a -life eminent in glory."</p> - -<p>"And you may recollect, my Lord," said the Duchess, "that George -Buchanan, the famed Scottish historian, relates the very remarkable -forewarning which James the Fourth of Scotland had in the church of St. -Michael, Linlithgow, from an old man of venerable aspect, and clad in -blue habiliments. This person forewarned the king from his proceeding in -his expedition against England, fore-telling to him that it would prove -his ruin. The queen also remonstrated with him against the project of -invasion, by acquainting him with the visions and frightful dreams which -she nightly encountered. But no warning could avert his destiny. And he -fell with a number of his nobility in the ever memorable field of -Flodden Sept. 9, 1513."</p> - -<p>"There is," said the Duke, "another case in point; it is that of Walter -Devereux, Earl of Essex, who foretold that his son, Robert <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span>Devereux, -afterwards Earl of Essex, should never survive his thirty-sixth year; -observing at the same time that his father had died at that period of -life, and that he would himself die at that age. The death of his son, -Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, who was beheaded in the thirty-fourth -year of his age, 1567, is a well known and recorded fact."</p> - -<p>Here the Duchess rejoined:—"And you may recollect too, my dear Lord, -that Mezeray, the historian of France, records, that it had been -foretold to Henry the Fourth of France and Navarre, that he should die -in a coach; so that upon the least jolt he would cry out, as if he -beheld the grave opened ready to swallow him. And it is as well known -that this prediction took place, Henry the Fourth having been -assassinated in his coach as he was proceeding to the arsenal to consult -with the immortal Sully, when he was stabbed by the knife of an -assassin, 1610."</p> - -<p>"Sully too," rejoined Lady Lucy, "in his admirable memoirs, makes -mention of those black presages which, it is but too certain, this -unfortunate prince had of his cruel destiny; <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span>they were indeed dreadful -and surprising to the last degree!"</p> - -<p>Lady Adelaide next paid a short tribute to this learned and mystical -investigation:—"It may not be amiss," she said, "briefly to notice the -prediction of the death of the Duke of Buckingham, as related by Lord -Clarendon in his history, <i>and built</i>, as he emphatically expresses it, -<i>upon better foundations of credit than usually such discourses are -founded</i>.—His account is strikingly remarkable; but to recount the -accompanying circumstances would occupy too much time, and seriously -intrude on the pleasantry of the company by entering into the awful and -appalling detail; I must beg, therefore, to refer those friends who may -be desirous to gratify their curiosity on this subject to consult the -pages of the noble historiographer. The presages of our poet Dryden are -deserving of notice, he was extremely addicted to judicial astrology: -upon the birth of his son he took his horoscope, and all his -calculations respecting him marvellously were accomplished; and which <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span> -are too recent in the recollection of those present to render it -necessary for me to dwell upon; only to observe, that these astrological -calculations were fulfilled with an accuracy almost amounting to -mathematical correctness."</p> - -<p>It came next to Sir Patricius Placebo's turn to contribute to these -ghostly recollections, who began with a stately hem. "I rather think I -can notify to this noble company a very remarkable circumstance, and I -flatter myself indeed it is one not generally known. It is recorded in -the life of the very erudite and estimable scholar, John H. Hottinger, -that when he ascended the pulpit of the academy of Basle to make <i>a -farewell oration</i> to that society previous to his departure for the city -of Leyden, where he had been appointed Professor of the Oriental -Languages at the College of Leyden, he observed a line written upon it, -which much disturbed him, and surprised the whole auditory, as being -prophetical of his death, which happened soon after. The line was from -Ovid:—<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg 219]</a></span></p> - -<p>'<i>Carmina jam moriens, canit exequialia cygnus.</i>'<br /></p> - -<p>'The dying swan his fun'ral song doth sing.'<br /></p> - -<p>Shortly after this the very learned and accomplished scholar was drowned -with part of his family in the river Lemit, in the year 1667. The due -application of this celebrated line, and the analogy of the water-bird -fore-telling the time and manner of his death—hem!</p> - -<p class="center">DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!</p> - -<p>Yes, doubtless, there is much grave matter for deep reflection in -this well-authenticated event."</p> - -<p>Lord Glandarah prepared to yield his contribution to the strange topic -under discussion. His Lordship had resided nearly all his life upon the -continent; he was a Roman Catholic, and this, it was believed, was the -disposing reason for his living abroad. He spoke broken English so like -a foreigner, that he might have been almost mistaken for one, as has -been already observed in a previous chapter. "Gad save my soul, my <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span>Lady -Duchess, I do remember one of a very remarkable occurrence that happened -some few years ago when I was travelling through Normandy. My Lord -Roscommon, being then a boy of ten years of age, had preternatural -intelligence of his father's death. Gad save my soul, it is the very -most extraordinary circumstance to be sure! Your Grace must know that it -happened at Caen: one day his Lordship was, as it were, madly -extravagant in playing, leaping, getting over the tables, and playing, -Gad save my soul! many other wild gambols. He was, <i>sans doubté</i>, wont -to be sober, staid, lad enough. Those who saw him exclaimed, 'heaven -grant this bodes no ill-luck to him!' In the heat of this extravagant -fit he suddenly cried out, 'My father is dead!' And <i>assuremént</i>, Gad -save my soul! a fortnight after accounts arrived from Ireland that the -Earl of Roscommon was dead! This account was told me, Gad save my soul, -by Mr. Knolles, who had been his governor, and at that time with him. -And, Gad save my soul! I have often heard my Lord Roscommon's relations -affirm this account to be true. Now, Gad save my soul! could any thing <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span> -be more extraordinary? <i>Sans doute c'est impossible!</i>"</p> - -<p>The hour was indeed very late; and the guests arose, and making due -obeisance, withdrew. Adelaide, according to the good old fashion, -embraced her parents, and retired to her chamber. But she had no sooner -lain down to rest than she heartily repented of what she had done. The -tempest continued with unabated rage; so much so indeed that the guests -departed not from the Castle, but there found a safe retreat from "the -pelting of the pitiless storm." The storm still continued to increase; -the roaring waves of the Atlantic thundered against the shore, and burst -upon the firm foundations of Tyrconnel Castle.</p> - -<p>Adelaide's chamber was ever and anon illuminated with brilliant flashes -of vivid lightning; and often did she wish the mysterious deed undone!</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">————"Oh,</span> -<span class="i4">Between the acting of a dreadful thing</span> -<span class="i4">And the first motion, all the interim is</span> -<span class="i4">Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream!"</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg 222]</a></span></p> -<p>But what Adelaide saw upon that awful night ever remained untold.—She -could never be prevailed upon to divulge the tremendous and frightful -circumstances of that eventful night. The next morning, as it afterwards -appeared, she complained of being very unwell, and kept her bed for some -days. The blame was very discreetly thrown upon her having eaten too -many nuts—having danced too much; and, moreover, supper having -disagreed with her; besides a variety of <i>et cetera</i> explanations. It -was a long period before Adelaide resumed her usual serenity and gaiety -of temper; and whenever her friends or acquaintance would interrogate -her upon the adventures of that memorable night, she would assume much -reserve, and seemed displeased: this the only occasion, it was by all -remarked, that she had ever been observed to have appeared displeased -since they first had the happiness to be acquainted with her.</p> - -<p>The unwarrantable practice of inquiring into futurity prevailed very -generally at and before the period which we write of; and <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span>most strange -to say, at times the sacred volume of the Scriptures,<a name="FNanchor_21_21" id="FNanchor_21_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a> and at others -the poems of Virgil and Homer, were consulted for oracular purposes. The -<i>sortes Prenestinæ</i>, <i>sortes Homerianæ</i>, and <i>sortes Virgilianæ</i>, which -were modes of inquiring into the secrets of futurity, are well known to -the classic reader. A remarkable instance of the trial of this latter -sortilege occurred to King Charles I. when at the city of Oxford, during -the civil wars. Going one day to inspect the Boedlian Library, His -Majesty was shown, along with other volumes, an early copy of Virgil, -beautifully printed and exquisitely bound. Lord Falkland, to amuse the -King, insisted upon His Majesty's trying his fortune by the <i>sortes -Virgilianæ</i>; whereupon the King, opening the volume, hit upon the fourth -Æneid, line 615, which much disconcerted him.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span></p> -<p>The passage is prophetic of the fortunes of Æneas, and, <i>mutato nomine</i>, -it was applicable to the royal martyr.<a name="FNanchor_22_22" id="FNanchor_22_22"></a><a href="#Footnote_22_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a></p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span></p> - -<p>Lord Falkland, upon observing that the King was discomposed, resolved to -try his own fortune in the same manner, hoping that perchance he might -alight on some sentence that would bear no relation to his own, and -thereby turn aside the thoughts of the King from any impression the -lines might have occasioned. However, the subject of the passage upon -which he unluckily stumbled was fully as unpropitious and as applicable -as that upon which his sovereign had alighted. It was the lamentation of -Evander for the untimely death of his son, in the 11th Æneid. It is well -known that the eldest son of this nobleman, a young man of amiable -character, had been previously slain in the first battle of Newburg.</p> - -<p>It is recorded of the famous and excellent sculptor Giovanni Lorenzi -Bernini, that upon his beholding a painting by Vandyke, which presents -three portraits of King Charles I. on the same canvass—the one a front -face, the other a half side, and the third a profile—the artist -observed: "whoever the individual <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span>be whose likeness these three -portraits represent, I am of opinion that the same will come to an -untimely end."</p> - -<p>This painting had been expressly taken and forwarded to Rome, in order -that Bernini might, from the resemblance, sculpture a marble bust of the -King, which accordingly he did; and King Charles, the greatest and best -patron of the fine arts that England can boast of, was so much pleased -with the performance, that he sent Bernini a ring of very great value; -and said to the person who was deputed to bring it: "<i>Andate a coronar -quello mano, che ha fatto si bel lavorno</i>." <a name="FNanchor_23_23" id="FNanchor_23_23"></a><a href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a></p> - -<p>All attempts to inquire into and penetrate the secrets of futurity are -highly to be condemned, as they are nothing less than tempting the -Almighty; it is not for frail man to anticipate the ways of Providence, -and discover these events that heaven always in its wisdom, and often in -its mercy, withholds from mortal eyes. But it is indeed full time to -close (as we apprehend we have trespassed too long on our reader's -forbearance)<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span></p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">----"The day to superstition dear,</span></div></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Hallow'd and reverenc'd in the olden time,</span> -<span class="i4">Sacred to every saint of every clime."</span></div></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IX" id="CHAPTER_IX"></a>CHAPTER IX.</h2> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">----Think ye see</span> -<span class="i4">The very persons of our noble story</span> -<span class="i4">As they were living; think ye see them great,</span> -<span class="i4">And follow'd with the general throng.</span> - -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Prologue to K. Henry VIII.</span></span></div></div> - - -<p>The celebration of the birth-day of the Lady Adelaide passed over as we -have described in the preceding chapter, and our lovely heroine was now -quite recovered from whatever cause it might have been which had so -disturbed and agitated her upon that eventful and recorded night. The -Duke and Duchess, according to their previous determination, towards the -close of November set off with their suite on their route for Dublin -Castle; for the time was now fast approaching when <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span>in great pomp and -state the Viceroy-Duke was to open the sessions of the Irish parliament.</p> - -<p>Their Graces travelled by short stages on account of the abridgment of -the days, and arrived in about four days in perfect health and safety at -the vice-royal palace; no incident, occurrence, or even pleasantry, -happening, that could possibly amuse the story-loving reader, or -important enough to be handed down to posterity in savoury remembrance.</p> - -<p>At this epoch of the Irish history the parliament met only once in two -years; and a member of the lower house, the House of Commons, then held -his seat for life, or at least certainly during the period of the life -of the reigning sovereign, upon whose demise alone a new parliament was -to be called. What then had a member thus chosen under these -circumstances to apprehend or fear from the resentment of his -constituents? Nothing!—certainly nothing! The member was virtually -placed beyond their control, beyond their remonstrance, and above their -resentment; while his hopes and expectations <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span>of reward from a -minister for services done, or to be performed, were reasonably great, -and held forth attractive bait to corruption. The representative would, -or might, oppose the measures of a good minister, in order that his -services might be brought into action, and duly paid for upon the -performance thereof; and it would be equally his interest, upon the same -corrupt <i>data</i>, to sell himself to a bad and profligate minister for -prompt payment! But both these alternatives were fraught with evils to -the constituents; and against these evils they had, they could have, no -control! The minister too could indeed well afford to bid high and -imposing terms, when the purchase was for life. Thus, although a small -portion of virtue might resist a small portion of temptation, -nevertheless that resistance would become weaker as time advanced, in an -increased ratio; and, moreover, as a long duration and manifold -opportunities were given for the temptation and the tempter, which could -not, by possibility, be the case if parliaments, instead of being <span class="pagenum"><a -name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span> for the life of the sovereign, <a -name="FNanchor_24_24" id="FNanchor_24_24"></a><a href="#Footnote_24_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a> and meeting only once in -every two years, were to have met annually, and the conduct of the -representative were placed under the eye and the control of their -constituents. And assuredly it must strike the good sense of the reader -that the prolongation of the term of parliament weakens the security of -the people, for whose benefit parliaments were constituted; and that -nothing can make it safe to repose so great a trust in any body of men, -as the constitutive body delegates to its representative, but the -shortness of the term for which such delegation is made.</p> - -<p>It appears, from consulting the page of history, that England was one of -the first countries in which the representatives of boroughs were -admitted into the great council of the nation; for until the year A. D. -1265, it was a privilege unknown and unclaimed.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span></p><p>The cause of calling the burgesses to the great council, or parliament -of the nation, (according to Dr. Robertson, in his "View of the State of -Europe,") was "in order to add greater popularity to the party of the -barons that had armed against Henry the Third, and to strengthen the -barrier against the encroachments of regal power."</p> - -<p>But, alas! how fatally has the converse of the intention of our wise -progenitors been established! From lapse of time, ministerial influence, -the pecuniary embarrassments of the nobles and proprietors of boroughs, -and the all powerful lever of corruption, the boroughs have changed -masters. Those boroughs that were erected as mounds and ramparts against -the powerful influence of the crown, have many of them been purchased by -the crown, and now powerfully preponderating to the opposite scale, have -increased, in a formidable degree, the royal influence and prerogative -which they were created to check; and have but too effectually magnified -the evils which they were formed to repress!</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span></p> - -<p>The day for the assembling of parliament had now arrived, and the -Viceroy-Duke proceeded in great pomp and state to the House of Lords to -open the session. The cap of maintenance was borne by Lord -Mount-Leinster, and the sword of state by the Lord Glandarah. His Grace -was seated in the superb antique state-coach, which was lined with -crimson velvet, and trimmed with gold lace; the exterior was richly and -magnificently adorned; the pannels had been painted by a celebrated -Venetian artist, and the subjects were chosen from the heathen -mythology. The state-carriage was drawn by eight beautiful black horses, -with long flowing tails, and right nobly caparisoned; they were a -present from His gracious Majesty James the Second. The harness and all -the <i>accessoirés</i> were in unison in their magnificence. Six -state-carriages and four preceded that which bore the Duke of Tyrconnel; -and the state-carriage was surrounded by the battle-axe guards. The -streets were lined with soldiery, and no demonstration of respect was -wanting as the noble Duke proceeded to the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span>House of Peers. We -need not tell that his Grace wore the robes of the order of the garter, -nor dwell upon the brilliancy of the diamond star which glittered upon -his breast, nor upon his fine appearance; for the Duke was justly -accounted by far the handsomest man of the age in which he flourished. -With great and unaffected dignity he entered the House of Peers, the -trumpets, &c. all pealing forth the <i>now</i> national anthem of "God -save the King," which no former monarch or viceroy had ever received, as -it was composed expressly for James II. Meanwhile the long and continued -peal of cannon told to all that the noble viceroy was seated upon the -throne.<a name="FNanchor_25_25" id="FNanchor_25_25"></a><a href="#Footnote_25_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a> We mean not to harass our kind reader to actual death by -giving him, in <i>totidem verbis</i>, the speech of his Grace, but we will -however venture to record, for historical <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span>remembrance, the mode -<i>entré</i>:—The Duke of Tyrconnel enters the House of Peers, the Earl -of Mount-Leinster bearing the cap of maintenance; the Lord Glandarah -carrying the sword of state; the train being supported by Sir Richard -Talbot. His Grace made his <i>congés</i> to the cloth of state; then taketh -his seat on the throne under the canopy, the Secretary of State standing -at his right hand. The Lord Chancellor then proceeds to his stall on the -Lord Lieutenant's right hand, and acquaints the Lords that it is the -Lord Lieutenant's pleasure that their Lordships should be covered. Next, -the Lord Chancellor, kneeling, receiveth a direction from the Lord -Lieutenant; and thereupon standing up again wills the Gentleman-Usher of -the black-rod to acquaint the House of Commons that it is the Lord -Lieutenant's pleasure that they should attend his Grace. When the speech -contained the following items:—'Thanks to the House of Peers for -their loyal devotion so often manifested for the honour of the crown, -and so forth; their unshaken loyalty, &c. to the king's person and -government. Thanks followed to <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span> the House of Commons for the -necessary provisions for the services of the ensuing year so cheerfully -made, &c. Then followed a general appeal to both houses, entreating -them that when they returned to their respective counties to use their -utmost endeavours to inculcate and bring to bear the same loyalty and -affection by them so often and efficiently demonstrated.' The Duke -concluded his speech in these emphatic terms:—"And I cannot -conclude, my lords and gentlemen, without the hope that you will permit -no apprehensions of grievances or causeless jealousies to interrupt that -tranquillity and social order, and obedience to the laws, which -constitute the fountain of all political happiness—the source and -the support of industry, agriculture, commerce, and all national -amelioration, which has been ever the unvaried pursuit of the best of -kings. And I shall not fail to represent to my royal master your dutiful -devotion; and the only reward which I look to, is your free and -unbiassed approbation!"</p> - -<p>His Grace upon quitting the throne was <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span>dutifully received by -the house uncovering, and rising from their seats. An address was then -moved as an echo of the speech, by the Earl of Clanrickarde, and was -seconded by the Viscount Kilmallock; which passed the noble house, -<i>nemine contradicente</i>. In the lower house the address was moved by Mr. -Murtagh Magennis of Balligorionbeg, and seconded by Mr. James Lally of -Tallendaly, and passed the house unanimously.</p> - -<p>Leave was granted for an act to be brought into the house, entitled, -"The Tithe Agistment Bill," which was read next day the first time, and -after a few days a second time; and a day was appointed for the third -reading. When that day had arrived Lord Glandarah, who was in the -robing-room, observed a strong muster of bishops; and upon entering the -house he whispered a friend—"I clearly perceive, Gad save my soul! -that we shall have a very angry political debate to-day, for I left my -lords the bishops duly caparisoning them-selves in their celestial -armour!"</p> - -<p>Some altercation took place in the robing-chamber between Lord -Mount-Leinster and <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span>Bishop Rocket, between whom there existed a private -pique.</p> - -<p>"I see, my Lord Bishop, that charity covers a multitude -of——Hem! I mean, my Lord, that I verily saw your Lordship -giving alms to the amount of——one shilling just now as I -arrived in the house!"</p> - -<p>"Yes, my Lord Mount-Leinster, I deny it not: and I perceived that your -Lordship followed on the instant so excellent an example; for, from the -cogency of the case, you too were forced to pay twice the sum! Ha, ha, -ha!—<i>two</i> shillings into the poor's box."</p> - -<p>All which being <i>translated</i>, (no offence to Bishop Rocket,) signifies -that the Bishop and the Earl were both late in their arrival in the -House of Peers, and they had accordingly to pay the penalty for arriving -in the house "beyond a quarter of an hour after prayers had been -read"—<i>secundum regulam</i>.<a name="FNanchor_26_26" id="FNanchor_26_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a></p> - -<p>The clerk read aloud at the table, "<i>Hodie, tertia vice lecta est -billa.</i>" This act was "the Tithe Agistment Bill," entitled, "An act to -quiet and bar all claims of tithe agistment for dry and barren cattle."</p> - -<p>When an angry debate ensued, Bishop Rocket arose with much warmth, and -contended "that it was an act tending most forcibly to wrest the rights -and privileges of the Church, to the great detriment of the hierarchy, -and the all unalienable properties and immunities of their lawful -successors; and forcibly militating against the welfare, property, and -prosperity, of the Church and State, as then by the laws of the land -established and in force."</p> - -<p>Lord Mount-Leinster arose: "My Lords, this is a bill which I would call -as one of the most pacificatory nature, and tending to repress the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span> -grievous mode in which tithes are generally collected from the -population of this country, who have, if they are of the Catholic -persuasion, to pay two pastors; and I will moreover, my Lords, be bold -to say, that no school-boy, studying his <i>as in presenti</i>, could be so -stupidly credulous as to give credence to the monstrous assertion of the -Right Reverend Lord, or for a moment believe that posthumous piety to -his successors can or could be the predominating cause of the vote given -this night by the Right Reverend Prelate."—[<i>Hear, hear, hear.</i>]</p> - -<p>With the most violent indignation Bishop Rocket arose: "Lord -Mount-Leinster, but for these black rags," shaking indignantly his -sacerdotal robes; "look ye, but for these black rags, I would fight -you!"—[Here numerous cries were heard of "<i>Order, order, -order</i>"—"<i>Chair, chair, chair!</i>"]</p> - -<p>Sir Patricius Placebo and Mr. Berenger were stationed at the bar of the -house, and the risible muscles of the Baronet were incontinently put -into play, which had been <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span><i>certes</i> audible, but for the noise -and uproar in the house. Laughingly, he whispered Mr. Berenger, "Room, -room, my Lords and Nobles all; I cry make room for the incensed -worthies!</p> - -<p class="center">DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!"</p> - -<p>He then laughed immoderately, and took snuff at a surprising rate from -his King Carolus' snuff-box. "Yes, yes, Mr. Berenger," he added, "ha, -ha,</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">'Fools will talk, and fools will prate,</span> -<span class="i4">Nor silence keep at any gait.'</span></div></div> - -<p>For, Sir, you know,</p> - -<p class="center">'Πάντες οἱ μωροὶ μαίνονται.'<a name="FNanchor_27_27" id="FNanchor_27_27"></a><a href="#Footnote_27_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a><br /></p> - -<p>That is at least according to the doctrine of the stoics."</p> - -<p>The gallant, gay Mr. Berenger so politely smiled ever and anon, that it -nearly amounted to a laugh. But this had been interdicted at the court -where he too often had <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span></p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">----"listened,</span> -<span class="i4">When the last Charles's beauties glistened</span> -<span class="i4">In splendid robes of gaudy vice,</span> -<span class="i4">And could with syren songs entice."</span></div></div> - -<p>However the question, upon being put, was resolved in the negative, by -the motion that the bill should be read that day six months! The -Chancellor could make no peace between the enraged combatants, who -adjourned to the robing-room, when this scene of altercation took -place:—</p> - -<p>Lord Mount-Leinster, addressing Bishop Rocket, emphatically said: "My -Lord Bishop, you are now unharnessing yourself from that celestial -panoply or armour in which you flourished in the House of Peers, and -which, I must observe, you somewhat unseemingly, if not indecorously, -called your "black rags,"</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"Tutius est igitur fictis contendere verbis,</span> -<span class="i4">Quam pugnare manu."</span></div></div> - -<p>I have ever been, my Lord—mark me—a gallant swordsman; nor would I -brook an affront from a king. Let not then your sacerdotal robes, or, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span> -as you were pleased in mirth to call them, your "black rags," let them -not, I say, prove your peace-makers in this gross breach of decorum. I -must observe, that, according to the spirit and strict laws of the -<i>Duello</i>, or single combat, the ceremonies thereunto affixed and -appertaining, connected and deducible from chivalry, are duly and -implicitly laid down by the celebrated Caranza,<a name="FNanchor_28_28" id="FNanchor_28_28"></a><a href="#Footnote_28_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a> the oracle of -duelling, and the no less sage and famous Master Selden, in his very -learned and unimpeachable treatise upon the laws of the <i>Duello</i>; and in -good sooth my very grave and reverend Lord Coke has it as a <i>punctum</i> in -his Institutes, 'that in these matters, where the person possessing a <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg 244]</a></span> -right, or sustaining a grievance, could not act, on account of -professional or personal disability, or perform the service required in -person, he was then to name a sufficient person for his deputy!' Now, my -Lord Bishop, I must needs observe, that I think that this was truly a -marvellous right praiseworthy custom, that when any grave and reverend -personage, willing to give satisfaction, as you profess, finds himself -impeded by his reverend skirts tripping up the laws of the <i>Duello</i>, -from being, for sad ensample, a son or dignitary of the Church, and so -forth, that upon such occasions their <i>next</i> and <i>nearest of kin</i> should -take up the gauntlet: and such a proxy, my Lord Bishop, I now claim from -you to enter the lists with me, as becomes your true knight and -representative!"</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Bishop Rocket.</span>—"Know then, Lord Mount-Leinster, that I shall send my -sedan chairmen to fight you!!"</p> - -<p>"A precious boon, and peerless proxies, I needs must say, my Lord -Bishop, thou hast <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span>chosen!!! In sooth I oft have heard of knights of the -lance and eke of the bucket,<a name="FNanchor_29_29" id="FNanchor_29_29"></a><a href="#Footnote_29_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a> but never until now heard of knights of -the pole! But although, from your Lordship's reply, it appears that your -<i>next</i> and <i>nearest</i> of kin happen to be your sedan-chairmen!! my own -dignity prevents me having any further parley with you, much less -contact with <i>your kindred</i>!" And then Lord Mount-Leinster, wheeling -around, made his exit from the robing-room, flinging a rapid and most -contemptuous look at the discomfitted bishop.</p> - -<p>All peers and prelates, much diverted at the result, now withdrew. -<i>Solventur risu curiæ.</i> The enemies of Bishop Rocket (who had certainly -sprung from a low origin) insisted that his two sedan chairmen were his -own proper kinsmen, and, moreover, bore his name. His friends did not -deny the charge; but said, in extenuation, that "after all this was no -wondrous thing, as the Marèschal de <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</a></span>Richelieu, when at Vienna, had -purchased baronies for his two <i>portèurs de chaise</i>; and when some -ladies of fashion boasted that they had in their kitchen several French -Marquises, 'I believe it,' replied the Marèschal, 'for my sedan chair is -supported by a brace of German barons!'"</p> - -<p>The eulogists of Lord Mount-Leinster loudly lauded him for the -chivalrous spirit which he had manifested in this <i>rencontre</i> with the -Church, which they considered and maintained as in no wise inferior to -the adventure of the redoubted knight <i>de la Mancha</i>, when he -encountered the windmill, and whose valour it was confessed was only to -be paralleled with his discretion!</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_X" id="CHAPTER_X"></a>CHAPTER X.</h2> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Times have their changes; sorrows make us wise:</span> -<span class="i4">The sun itself must set as well as rise!</span> -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Perkin Warbeck.</span></span> -</div></div> - - - -<p>While matters were going forward in Ireland as we have endeavoured to -describe them in the preceding chapters, the tide, meanwhile, of -political occurrences in England arose to a tempestuous and -uncontrollable flood, that was wholly unexpected by Tyrconnel, and quite -unapprehended by his royal master. To England, therefore, we now must -trace our steps.</p> - -<p>The various unpopular and arbitrary acts of King James the Second -paralyzed those loyal effusions that burst forth when he ascended the -royal throne of the Stuarts. The <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</a></span>acquittal of the seven bishops who had -been arbitrarily imprisoned in the tower still further increased the -king's unpopularity. The confiscation too of property which followed, -and the attainder of many loyal Protestants, soon swelled high the -torrent that shortly was to burst against the abutments of his throne, -and destroy that prerogative of power which he had so unjustly and so -unconstitutionally assumed. Many now doubted the justness of the -appellation of "James the Just," which had been awarded him shortly -subsequent to his having been proclaimed king. Indeed his going publicly -to mass two days consequent to his succession to the crown, at the time -gave surprise and offence to the nation. Some events too occurred in -those superstitious days, that in the present times would be slightly -passed over, but which, albeit, were certainly considered as ill omens -in that age. At the solemnity of the coronation, the crown not being -properly fitted for the royal head, was often observed in a tottering -condition, and likely to fall off. Mr. Henry Sidney supported it once -with his <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg 249]</a></span>hand, and pleasantly told the king,<a name="FNanchor_30_30" id="FNanchor_30_30"></a><a href="#Footnote_30_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a> that "this was not the -first time that his family had supported the crown." "In one of the -churches in London, the king's arms, stained on a glass window, suddenly -fell down and broke in pieces, while the rest remained standing, without -a possibility of discovery why that part should fall down sooner than -the rest. The canopy also, which had been borne over his head at the -coronation, did break." <a name="FNanchor_31_31" id="FNanchor_31_31"></a><a href="#Footnote_31_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a></p> - -<p>James II. espoused the Princess Maria d'Este, the sister of Francis Duke -of Modena, who was as beautiful as she was unfortunate. The queen had -been married some time without presenting her royal consort with a -child. When this event did take place, malice, falsehood, envy, and -intrigue, were not slow in pronouncing that the heir apparent thus born -was a "suppositious <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span>Prince of Wales." Then followed the ridiculous -episodes of the "sham conception," and "the warming-pan," which were all -a tissue of forgery and falsehood, still further intended to diminish -the king's decreasing popularity, and bring his person and throne into -disrepute. But upon the whole mass and evidence of history that is -presented, the only conclusion to be drawn was this, and only this—that -the Prince of Wales, so far from being suppositious, was royally and -legally born, the royal and lawful successor to his father's throne and -realms.</p> - -<p>In consequence of all these combining unpopular results, a resolution -was taken by many of the disappointed, disaffected nobility and gentry, -of calling in the Prince of Orange of Nassau to ascend the throne of -Britain. And in pursuance of this determination several noblemen and -gentlemen were secretly deputed to go over to the prince, and invite him -to assume the sceptre of England. To these invitations the prince fully -acceded, and firmly determined to head the party. It need not be told -the reader that <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span>the Prince of Orange was the son-in-law of King James, -having espoused his daughter, the Princess Mary. The intriguing party -used all their endeavours to prevent the secret of their project from -being divulged. In this matter the Earl of Sunderland basely betrayed -his royal master. Meanwhile King James remained wholly incredulous to -the belief of the existence of these political machinations; and -although he was advised thereto by Mr. Skelton, his Majesty's Envoy at -the Hague, "that a great project was secretly carrying on against him," -yet was this incredulous sovereign so sure of success, that he quite -neglected this intelligence, conceiving that it was only an artifice to -divert him from his designs; and he, therefore, to all such reports -closed an unwilling and unbelieving ear.</p> - -<p>Numbers of the English nobility and gentry now addressed the Prince of -Orange to deliver them from that oppression under which they bent. And -in reply to a long <i>memoiré</i> presented to the prince, he published two -manifestoes, declaratory of, and justifying his descent upon England, -which were <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span>accompanied by his embarkation from the states of Holland, -and shortly followed by his arrival in England, where by numbers his -Highness was warmly received. Many personages of high rank declared to -him their support; and furthermore, several regiments of the army of -King James joined the standard of the Prince of Orange.</p> - -<p>At length the landing of the prince, and the cordial reception with -which he met withal, awoke the royal and too incredulous James from his -trance, and he now finally resolved upon the measure of flying from his -discontented subjects, whom he considered had betrayed him by thus -calling in a foreigner to assume the sovereignty; and he forth-with -determined to sail with what expedition he might from the shores of -England, and put himself at once under the protection of the King of -France.</p> - -<p>However, previous to the flight of the unhappy James from his throne and -realm of fair England, he resolved in the first instance to provide for -the escape of his queen consort, and his son, the infant Prince of -Wales. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[Pg 253]</a></span>King James was so surrounded by spies and informers, that the -very greatest circumspection was absolutely necessary to shun the -hundred eyes of Argus which environed him; for, as but too often is the -unhappy case with kings, that almost literally he knew not whom to -trust. While flatterers and sycophants surround and blockade a throne, -it must not be expected that truth, sincerity, or friendship, can there -be found;—no! they are quite unknown within the stately precincts of a -court! But still there was one found, and one worthy of the royal -trust—the Count de Lauzun, a noble, brave, and generous Frenchman; and -to this nobleman the king intrusted his queen and infant son, to assist -them in conducting them in safety to France, aloof from all the enemies -of the royal James.</p> - -<p>The plan of proceeding, and all the consecutive details, were -accordingly secretly arranged, and the greatest and most scrupulous care -and caution were duly taken to keep these determinations a profound -secret, lest the flight of the queen and infant prince <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[Pg 254]</a></span>being known or -suspected, the measure might be wholly frustrated by the intervention of -the emissaries of the Prince of Orange.</p> - -<p>The solemn hour of midnight was selected as the safest time for the -flight of the royal fugitives. The young prince, to escape suspicion, -was placed in bed at his accustomed hour; and shortly after the king and -queen, having duly dismissed all their attendants, retired seemingly to -repose, but not to rest!</p> - -<p>When the eyes of all in the palace were closed, save the waking, -watching, unwearied eye-lids of the royal sufferers, the king and queen -arose from their couch, and cautiously opened the private door leading -to the royal closet, where in readiness awaited the noble and faithful -Count de Lauzun. The queen raised the infant prince from his cradle, -wrapped him in a swathe of flannel to keep the infant warm; indeed no -unnecessary precaution, for cold and bitter was the winter weather in -which the royal child was thus in silent secrecy of night taken away -from the princely hall of his royal progenitors.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[Pg 255]</a></span></p> - -<p>King James affectionately embraced them both, as sad and sorrowful he -bade them a mournful farewell; and wept most bitterly at this parting -scene, in which affliction his royal consort fully participated. His -Majesty then intrusted them both to the loyal charge of the noble and -faithful count, who taking the royal infant under one arm, while he -assisted the queen with the other, they set forth from the palace to -pursue their perilous and melancholy journey.</p> - -<p>Stormy and tempestuous was the night, the wind blew with violence, and -rain impetuously descended in torrents. They now approached the banks of -the Thames, in order to procure a boat to cross over to Lambeth. At this -point of time Count de Lauzun had previously engaged a boat to be ready -in attendance, thence to escape down the river to Gravesend, to come up -with the vessel which he had hired, and there awaited to convey them to -France. But unluckily it happened that so pitchy dark and stormy was the -night, the boat, when hailed, was not to be found. In total despair for -some moments he remained; but again, more loud and stoutly once more he <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[Pg 256]</a></span> -hailed the boat: the signal was heard, and obeyed. They descended down -the Whitehall stairs and embarked; and finding a great swell in the -river the count resolved not to proceed by water to Gravesend, but to -land at Lambeth, and thence proceed by land. They arrived in safety at -the Lambeth stairs, and landed, when the count surrendered to the queen -the royal charge to hold, while he went forth to obtain a coach from the -nearest adjoining inn.</p> - -<p>Meanwhile the hapless queen—queen of the greatest realm in Europe, -arrayed in disguised habiliments, stood trembling under the shelter of -the ruined walls of a church, shivering in the blast, and dripping with -rain, wistfully listening to every sound, and piteously raising her eyes -to heaven. Oh, what a fearful lesson was here! a few days ago she might -have proclaimed to all the world—"This is my throne, let kings come bow -to it!" And this awful night she might envy the poorest cottier in her -dominions. However, after long suspense, suffering, and delay, the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[Pg 257]</a></span>count returned, having procured a carriage; and he lost no time in -placing the trembling queen and shivering infant in the vehicle.</p> - -<p>Without any accident whatever the royal fugitives reached Gravesend in -perfect safety. Here, trembling with fear, and nearly overpowered by -sorrow, the queen alighted on the quay, where the boat, (which was an -open one,) belonging to the brig destined for Calais, awaited their -coming. The count, without a moment's delay, placed the queen and prince -in the boat, and flinging around them the boatman's cloak, he sat down -by them, and bade him to row on. He told the boatman that the persons he -bore away were his wife and child; and thus no suspicions were awakened -in the mind of the boatman of the great personages he thus bore off amid -the shades of night.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"Sail on, sail on, thou fearless bark,</span> -<span class="i4">Wherever blows the welcome wind;</span> -<span class="i4">It cannot lead to scenes more dark,</span> -<span class="i4">More sad, than those we leave behind!"</span></div></div> - -<p>By the morning tide they had reached, without molestation, a small brig -destined for <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[Pg 258]</a></span>France. To the captain the count also pretended that the -queen and prince were his own wife and child; he bargained for the -voyage, and the contract was agreed to. But the vessel was no sooner -under weigh, when how great their surprise, and how proportionate must -have been their apprehensions and alarm, while they beheld the whole of -the English fleet stationed at the mouth of the Thames, to examine all -vessels, and prevent their escape. But fortunately the vessel was so -small that, being unsuspected, she was permitted with impunity to pass -the admiral of the fleet, in no wise suspecting that her hull contained -such very distinguished personages on board, so no examination took -place. The vessel sailed on unmolested; and that very night the Count de -Lauzun had the happiness of safely landing the royal sufferers on the -pier of Calais. From thence they proceeded to Versailles, where her -Majesty and infant prince were received by Louis the Fourteenth with -great marks of affection and of the highest respect, which afforded some -consolation to the queen under her melancholy reverse of fortune.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[Pg 259]</a></span></p> - -<p>Meanwhile King James suffered great and intense anxiety concerning the -fate of his unhappy queen and infant prince.</p> - -<p>His Majesty now fully determined to follow the queen, and waited but one -day to execute his design.<a name="FNanchor_32_32" id="FNanchor_32_32"></a><a href="#Footnote_32_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a> The following night, in a plain suit, and -a bob-wig, he took water at Whitehall,<a name="FNanchor_33_33" id="FNanchor_33_33"></a><a href="#Footnote_33_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a> accompanied only by Sir Edward -Hales, Mr. Sheldon, and Abbadie, a Frenchman, and a page of the -back-stairs, without acquainting any other person with his intentions. -All writs sent out for the electing of parliament he ordered to be -burnt; and when he took water he threw the great seal of England into -the Thames, (which was some time afterwards taken up by a fisherman in -his net,) that nothing might be legally done in his absence. "If," -continued Rapin, "this may not be called a real desertion of his -kingdom, it will be difficult to give a name to such proceedings!" <a name="FNanchor_34_34" id="FNanchor_34_34"></a><a href="#Footnote_34_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a></p> - -<p>However, the king did not succeed in this attempt to escape, inasmuch as -he was arrested at Feversham, and abused and insulted by the rabble; he -lost a number of valuables, and gave up to the mob about between three -and four hundred pounds in specie. Here he was protected by the Dutch -guards of the Prince of Orange, and chose to retire to Rochester; where, -in the space of about ten days from the time he had attempted his first -escape, he now resolved upon trying a second. About three o'clock in a -dark winter's morning he privately withdrew, taking with him only the -Duke of Berwick, (his natural son,) Mr. Sheldon, and Abbadie, the page; -and went on horseback to a place near the river, where he embarked in a -small frigate, which landed him safely at Ambleteusé, in France; from -whence he repaired to the court of Louis the Fourteenth, where with much -satisfaction he rejoined his queen and infant prince. "This abdication," -emphatically observes Rapin, "paved the prince's way to the throne!" <a name="FNanchor_35_35" id="FNanchor_35_35"></a><a href="#Footnote_35_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a></p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg 261]</a></span></p> - -<p>Upon the departure of King James from the shores of England, an -<i>interregnum</i> occurred of such a nature as was hitherto unknown in -England. It was not caused by the death, but by the flight of the -sovereign. Hence this incongruity took place, that the nation was -without a king, nay, even without the representative of one, that would -take the charge of the government! Yet still, strange to say, there was -a king!—albeit a fugitive; who, although he had fled, and abandoned his -throne, yet still pretended to retain his rights!</p> - -<p>How short and limited is the narrow space between popular adoration and -popular disgrace! To-day a king, an emperor, a demi-god—To-morrow a -fugitive, an outcast from his realm, unregarded and forgotten! for ever -blotted from the page of kings, his fate or banishment or the scaffold! -Who can then rely upon the popular breath, wayward, fickle, and -uncertain as the wave or wind? Oh! then, let the true patriot, <i>if</i> such -is to be found upon earth, think on this; and, divested and purified -from the dross of poor mortality, reflect upon all this; aye, and let <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[Pg 262]</a></span> -him then, firmly armed in integrity, despise equally alike public -censure or public praise!</p> - -<p>From this melancholy digression upon fallen greatness on English ground, -we shall reconduct the reader once more to the shores of Erin, and again -return to the family of Tyrconnel in the succeeding chapter.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[Pg 263]</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XI" id="CHAPTER_XI"></a>CHAPTER XI.</h2> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">----------O, behold</span> -<span class="i4">How pomp is followed! mine will now be your's;</span> -<span class="i4">And should we shift estates, your's would be mine!</span> -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Antony and Cleopatra.</span></span> -</div></div> - - - -<p>We now bring back the reader to the realm of Ireland, which was doomed -shortly to be the scene of anarchy and civil war, where disastrous -tidings of awful import, posting incessantly onward, hourly arrived, -rapidly heralded by rumour's thousand tongues, to afflict the loyal and -disconcert the brave.</p> - -<p>An official despatch soon followed, which communicated and confirmed to -Tyrconnel the sad and dismal event of the flight of his royal master to -France, which truly gave him deep and sincere affliction. This -voluntary abdication of his throne upon the part of King James II. gave <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[Pg 264]</a></span> -Tyrconnel sorrowful concern for the present, and a sad and mournful -foreboding of the future! "Oh, had my royal master only stood his -ground," said the duke, "and have firmly held his throne, who would, who -could have dared to hurl him from it? No; even with all his political -miscalculations, nevertheless his enemies could not have succeeded. The -Prince of Orange would still have found it a difficult, perhaps an -impossible task, to have ousted his truly royal, accomplished, and brave -father-in-law, from his lawful throne; for brave and valiant was the -king, and I doubt not but still brave he is. And there was a time, be it -not forgotten, while he was Duke of York and Lord High Admiral of -England, when nobly he fought beneath the British banner, and gloriously -led on his fleet to victory!"</p> - -<p>The Duchess of Tyrconnel, whose powerful mind and firm nerves were -"albeit unused to the melting mood," yet when her Grace heard the -mournful recital of the sufferings and voluntary exile of her afflicted <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[Pg 265]</a></span> -queen; she then indeed was deeply affected, and</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"Dropt tears as fast as the Arabian trees</span> -<span class="i4">Their medicinal gum."</span></div></div> - -<p>The Duchess was a wife—moreover a mother, and she knew how to pity and -compassionate the unfortunate, from the palace of kings down to the -cottage of the poor. And equally distressed was our lovely heroine, -whose generous bosom ever beat, and felt, and assisted the afflicted.</p> - -<p>Some months had now elapsed, when one morning, while the duke was at -breakfast with his family, a despatch for his Grace, and in the -hand-writing of King James, arrived. The despatch intimated that His -Majesty was then on his way to Ireland, and summoning the immediate -attendance of Tyrconnel at Kinsale, where the king proposed to land. The -despatch was brought over in a fast-sailing French corvette, called -"<i>l'Eclair</i>," which had been detached from the French fleet which was to -escort King James to Kinsale, expressly upon this mission. And his <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[Pg 266]</a></span> -Grace, in obedience to the royal mandate, instantly set off by land for -the town of Kinsale.</p> - -<p>King James II., upon <i>abdicating</i>, or <i>deserting</i> (for great debates in -the British parliament ensued upon the proper term to be used) the -throne of England, had sought and obtained an asylum in France, -generously yielded to him by Louis XIV. King James now fully resolved, -as His Majesty expressed himself, "to make one more glorious attempt to -recover his throne;" which to effectuate he sailed from the shores of -France, attended by fourteen ships of war, six frigates, and three -fire-ships, which had been prepared in the port of Brest by the French -king. At the same time seven French battalions embarked in the fleet -which conveyed King James. The troops were commanded by the Count de -Lauzun, the same gallant, generous nobleman who had escorted King -James's queen and the Prince of Wales to the court of Versailles. The -forces were accompanied with twelve field pieces.</p> - -<p>King James was attended in this expedition by several noble personages. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[Pg 267]</a></span> -His Majesty landed at Kinsale amid the loudest cheers, and was warmly -received and welcomed by all descriptions, from the peer to the peasant, -with the greatest joy and enthusiasm. Here, in pursuance to the -instructions given to Tyrconnel, he was in readiness on the beach to -receive his royal master, where he knelt as the king approached; who -instantly upraised him, and affectionately embraced his faithful -viceroy; and instantly set off in his travelling carriage for his good -city of Dublin, accompanied by the Dukes of Berwick, Albemarle, and -Tyrconnel.</p> - -<p>Sir Patricius Placebo, from the very moment of the announcement of the -intended arrival of his much loved sovereign at Kinsale, was constantly -on the <i>qui vive</i>, considering himself, if not the <i>locum tenens</i>, at -least the Lord Constable of his vice-regal lord, and spared no pains to -make every meet and solemn preparation to receive the right royal Stuart -into his loyal city of Dublin.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[Pg 268]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Yes, yes, my lady Duchess," observed Sir Patricius Placebo one morning, -while at breakfast, "we will indeed receive our king right royally, -<i>more majorum</i>—ha, ha, ha! <i>Certes</i> we shall, my Lady! with no lack -whatever of respect, and albeit with no deficit of heart!—there, in -sooth, no failing was ever yet found in an Irishman; although I -asseverate it, who, pardie, ought not, my Lady: for</p> - -<p class="center">DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!<br /></p> - -<p>as indeed the learned, great, and renowned Archimedes said of old. And I -will "do a deed"—not "without a name" however; for this moment I shall -fly to old Cormac, whom I shall adventure to appoint and depute, in the -absence of my superior, as the vice-regal poet laureat. Next I will post -to Ulster King at Arms; ay, and shall advise and give him hints and -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[Pg 269]</a></span>innuendos of far more value and importance than all the gilt tinsel and -crimson silk which surround his brow. I shall admonish him, and his -tributaries and gallant pursuivants, one and all, decorously to furbish -their tabards, and to hire, beg, borrow, or steal stately palfreys, to -bear the herald king and suite, to meet and receive their lawful and -beloved king upon his honoured entrance into his loyal and ancient city -of Eblana, <i>vulgo dicta</i> Dublin. Then will I hie me to the Commander -(<i>pro tempore</i>) of the Forces, and tell him of the programme which I -have planned for the king's <i>entré</i>. And next, noble Lady, returning to -this His Majesty's royal Castle, I shall give sage and precautionary -hints and instructions to all the state battle-axe guards, state -kettle-drums and trumpets, and so forth:—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">-------------------------------"trumpeters,</span> -<span class="i4">With brazen din blast ye the city's ear;</span> -<span class="i4">Make mingle with our rattling tambourines;</span> -<span class="i4">That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,</span> -<span class="i4">Applauding our approach!"</span></div></div> - -<p>Ha, ha, ha! I think, my lady Duchess, we shall get on vastly -well—vastly well indeed, and not only receive the applause of my -vice-regal lord, but perchance that also of my mighty monarch." <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[Pg 270]</a></span></p> - -<p>The Duchess smiled. "I doubt not," said her Grace, "that all matters -shall go on well, <i>te duce</i>. But Sir Patricius you are, (it were in vain -to deny it,) you are an enthusiast!"</p> - -<p>"Well, well, my lady Duchess, I shall not gainsay it. Perchance, your -Grace, I am an enthusiast; and after all, my Lady, I do not see, -constituted as this cold and phlegmatic planet of ours is, I see, -really, after all, no very great harm in this said enthusiasm, if indeed -it doth not degenerate into bigotry of politics or religious rancour; -and therefore, when my king doth come, my tongue must utter the loyal -inditings of my heart."</p> - -<p>We must now adventure to describe the triumphant entry of King James -into his good city of Dublin. Regiments of foot, stationed in parallel -files, lined each side of every street extending from the great gate of -Dublin Castle the entire way to Saint James's gate, at the western -extremity of St. James's-street, through which the king was to make his -<i>entré</i>. That morning all the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[Pg 271]</a></span>principal avenues were purposely strewed -with fresh gravel, to facilitate the king's approach.</p> - -<p>A triumphal arch of living laurel, surmounted by the crown of England, -adorned St. James's gate, and the armorial quarterings, richly -emblazoned, of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France, were tastefully -displayed in the arrangement. Various wreaths, laurel crowns, cordons, -and garlands of various living flowers, were suspended across the -principal streets through which the royal cavalcade was to pass.—Every -window in every avenue was festooned with laurel, oak, and various -evergreens, all tastefully contrasted and displayed.—These -demonstrations of joy were not confined merely to the city, but extended -to all the adjoining villages, towns, and hamlets, for several miles in -circuit. The royal flag was hoisted on Bedford Tower, and on the -steeples of the different churches. At night the city shone forth in a -brilliant blaze of universal illumination, which was vividly reflected -in the sparkling and undulating waves <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[Pg 272]</a></span>of old father Liffey, as he -joyously rolled onward to the main.</p> - -<p>Various loyal mottoes and devices caught the eye: The harp and crown; -"Rejoice, O Erin, for behold thy king cometh unto thee!"</p> - -<p class="center">"The king shall have his own again!"</p> - -<p>—"Welcome Erin's king!"—"Hibernia hails her noble king!" &c. &c.; with -many other mottoes and devices, with which we shall not weary our -reader. A large platform was erected without James's gate on the west -and county side, on which, under a splendid gonfalon, or canopy, were -stationed several friars beneath a large cross, who sang "<i>Te Deum -laudamus</i>," as King James approached. To the right of the gate, on the -city side, was erected a large stage, covered with tapestry, on which -were stationed two Irish harpers, in due and proper costume; one of them -was no less a person than our old acquaintance, blind Cormac, the -sightless harper and minstrel of the Duke of Tyrconnel. Sir Patricius -Placebo <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[Pg 273]</a></span>albeit was fond of comparing the sightless bard to old -Tiresias, of prophetic memory, whose ear and recollection nearly -supplied the deficiencies of sight.</p> - -<p class="center">'Ὀφθαλμῶν μὲν ἄμερσε', &c. &c.</p> - -<p>as Sir Patricius was wont to express himself; and then he would say, -"Yes, verily, old Cormac doth much resemble, in multiform coincidence -and fortune, the wise Tiresias! but then with this sage and discreet -difference to boot, that old Cormac will never die the death of old -Tiresias, to wit, from drinking cold water! No, no, inasmuch his fond -and strong addiction lies in genuine <i>aqua vitæ</i>, or the true Drogheda -Usquebaugh; so that Cormac will never die from drinking cold water, as -he hath "forsworn thin potations," unless, peradventure, he should -happen one day or another to be drowned in the Eske or the Liffey, and -there can be no doubt then vastly against his choice and determination!"</p> - -<p>A shout of universal joy now burst forth: "The King! the King!!" The -heavy dragoons came thundering down with an astounding clatter; the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[Pg 274]</a></span> -trumpets rung a levant, the foot soldiers presented arms; standard, and -banner, and pennon, kissed the pavement; while drum, fife, cymbal, -French-horn, and trumpet, resounded through the stricken welkin, "God -save the King!" The foreign, English, and Scottish nobility, who -accompanied the king, were marshalled duly according to their respective -rank. And now, amid shouts that rent the air, King James approached. He -was mounted on a beautiful long-tailed roan charger, bred in Normandy, -which His Majesty right royally and gracefully bestrode; the steed was -gorgeously caparisoned; the trappings were of damask gold, bordered and -interspersed with the rose, shamrock, thistle, and <i>fleur de lis</i>; and -fringed withal with a deep pursell of ermine.</p> - -<p>From the vast crowd, and the extended length of the pageant, and -prolonged procession, King James was obliged to rein up his charger, and -to halt. It so did happen that this stoppage occurred just at the stage -where the two harpers were stationed to greet, with <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[Pg 275]</a></span>their native harp -and song, the entrance of their king into his capital of the island of -poesy and song. They performed several loyal and sprightly airs, which -seemed to please the monarch well: among others was</p> - -<p class="center">OLD CORMAC'S WELCOME.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">All welcome be the royal James,</span> -<span class="i4">Let all confess his legal claims;</span> -<span class="i4">While ev'ry loyal heart exclaims,</span> -<span class="i12">God save the king!<a name="FNanchor_36_36" id="FNanchor_36_36"></a><a href="#Footnote_36_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a></span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">From war, dissension, anarchy,</span> -<span class="i4">Kind heav'n protect this kingdom free!</span> -<span class="i4">United may it ever be!</span> -<span class="i12">God save the king!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">From exile see the monarch bring</span> -<span class="i4">The olive round our harp to string!</span> -<span class="i4">With transport let each patriot sing,</span> -<span class="i12">God save the king!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">Then welcome be the royal James,</span> -<span class="i4">None shall resist his legal claims;</span> -<span class="i4">While ev'ry honest heart exclaims,</span> -<span class="i12">God save the king!</span></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[Pg 276]</a></span></p> -<p>During this pause the public curiosity had sufficient time for its -indulgence by a full view of the royal person. King James looked -extremely well; he possessed a manly and animated countenance, illumined -by fine penetrating hazel eyes, his eloquent lips, his stately person; -his head was enveloped, according to the fashion of the times, in a deep -flowing full-dress peruke, surmounted by a large black beaver triangular -cocked hat, deeply edged with white ostrich feathers; the peruke -descended down freely, even to the richly polished silver corslet<a name="FNanchor_37_37" id="FNanchor_37_37"></a><a href="#Footnote_37_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a> -which he wore; his neck was adorned with the ribbons and gems of St. -George and St. Andrew; <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[Pg 277]</a></span>and the star of the garter sparkled in diamonds -on his breast. His whole deportment was fraught with that attractive -grace and commanding elegance of manner and address which he so fully -and peculiarly possessed, and which charmed every beholder.</p> - -<p>A number of handsome young women, amounting nearly to the number of -fifty, all dressed in white, and with coronals of white roses, now -advanced, and preceding the monarch, danced before him the entire way to -the gate of Dublin Castle, the Irish dance, called <i>Rinceadh-Fada</i>, -which delighted the king exceedingly. The same had been performed upon -the king's landing at Kinsale, and then too pleased him well, the -particulars of which will be found in a succeeding chapter. These young -and beautiful nymphs strewed the streets, while they danced along, with -<i>bouquets</i> of flowers. The supply for this ceremony was contained in -small wicker baskets, which they respectively bore, with much -appropriate grace, upon their left arm; and, ever and anon, in -sylph-like attitude, they wheeled round and made obeisance to the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[Pg 278]</a></span>king; -while oft, with the grace of Raphael, the right hand was duly employed -in scattering flowers, thus manifesting their unbought homage to -majesty. "The rich citizens, to testify their joy upon this occasion, -hung their balconies with tapestry and cloth of arras; those who were -not so provided displayed silk, or hangings of rich cloth; while the -poorer kind were content to sew together the coverings of Turkey-work -chairs; while others were obliged to arrange draperies of linen -cloth." <a name="FNanchor_38_38" id="FNanchor_38_38"></a><a href="#Footnote_38_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a></p> - -<p>At the limits of the Liberty His Majesty was met by the Lord Mayor, -aldermen, and common council, the masters, wardens, and brethren of the -twenty-five corporations of the city. Ulster King at Arms was in dutiful -attendance, accompanied by the Dublin Herald at Arms, the Athlone -Pursuivant at Arms, and lastly followed the Cork Herald at Arms. The -heralds and pursuivants all mounted upon their grey palfreys, and -attired in new and splendid tabards, made expressly for the occasion, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[Pg 279]</a></span> -and which shone forth in all the blaze of heraldic pomp; while they -onward proceeded in accordance to their rank and station. Next onward -rode an esquire bearing a royal standard, on which were richly -embroidered the initials of</p> - -<p class="center">"JACOBUS II. REX."<a name="FNanchor_39_39" id="FNanchor_39_39"></a><a href="#Footnote_39_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a><br /></p> - -<p>The letters were brilliantly surrounded with a garland composed of the -rose of England, the shamrock of Erin, the thistle of Caledon, and the -lily of France. Next was borne another standard, on which was emblazoned -the armorial bearing of the harp, with the motto,</p> - -<p class="center">"EX CORDE LÆTUS,"<br /></p> - -<p>and encircled with shamrocks. Next, the standard of England waved in the -breeze, on which was embroidered the motto,</p> - -<p class="center">"NON SIC MILLE COHORTES." <a name="FNanchor_40_40" id="FNanchor_40_40"></a><a href="#Footnote_40_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a><br /></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[Pg 280]</a></span> Various other banners and armorial escutcheons were borne in the -procession;—namely, the heraldic bearings of England, France, Scotland, -and Ireland. Then came on the state trumpeters, no less gorgeously and -characteristically attired than their party <i>per-pale</i> cousins at arms, -and withal accompanied by the drowsy base of "the Almaine's sullen -kettle-drum," which closed the rere of this truly rare and illustrious -procession.</p> - -<p>So soon as the royal cavalcade had approached the Tholsel, the Recorder -of Dublin, Counsellor Dillon, knelt to the king, and presented to him -the keys of the city; and loyally and dutifully addressed the king, -expressing "the great and unqualified joy of all the loyal citizens of -His Majesty's ancient and faithful city of Dublin, to hail their beloved -king, and welcome him within their gates; whereby was presented the -glorious opportunity of testifying to all the world their untainted -loyalty and unshaken affection; and that in defence of their sovereign's -throne they were ready and willing to risk, to the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[Pg 281]</a></span>uttermost, both -their lives and fortunes." <a name="FNanchor_41_41" id="FNanchor_41_41"></a><a href="#Footnote_41_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a> The king most graciously and majestically -received the keys of the city; and on the instant graciously returned -them, while he knighted the Recorder on the spot; saying, with the -greatest courtesy and kindness, "I return them to you, Sir Recorder, -fully convinced that the keys of my most faithful city of Dublin could -not be placed in the custody of honester hearts, or more loyal hands, -than those who guard them now." And having thus said, he gracefully -bowed, and courteously waved his hand.</p> - -<p>This interesting ceremony and speech having been concluded, the king -continued his route to the castle of Dublin, followed by a number of the -state-carriages of the nobility, each drawn by six horses; various other -vehicles attended—calashes, covered carriages, &c.; these were followed -by squadrons of French dragoons. Major Barker, of the Royal Guards, next -came onward, clearing the centre of the street, and ordering the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[Pg 282]</a></span>troops -again to "present arms." Then approached the Grand Prior, (the Duke of -Albemarle,) in a coach drawn by six beautiful horses. Next approached -several officers of the Guards, mounted on high-mettled chargers, and -followed by grooms, each of them adroitly conducting a led horse. Then -came on several officers of the army, attended by five trumpets and as -many kettle-drums, all arrayed in new state-dresses. Next advanced -twenty of the band of gentlemen at large, who were on horseback; they -were followed by the messengers, Sergeants at Arms, bearing the maces of -the Lords and Commons. Then came on the pursuivants, heralds, and King -at Arms.</p> - -<p>And now the Duke of Tyrconnel presented himself, mounted on a noble -milk-white charger, and martially arrayed in steel armour, highly -wrought and polished; the star of the garter glittered on his manly -breast; and the magnificent collar, with its splendid and appendant gem, -swung from the graceful shoulders of the valiant duke. The Marquis -d'Estrades and Lord Drummond <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[Pg 283]</a></span>were on the right hand of the Duke; the -Earl of Melfort and Lord Seaforth supported the left. Then succeeded -many troops of dragoons, a numerous list of nobles and gentry, with -numerous servants and attendants; a large assemblage of state-carriages -of peers, drawn by six horses, some with four, and others with only a -pair. Thus was the rear of this princely cavalcade brought up. And the -procession was last of all closed by an immense assemblage who rent the -air with loud and continued shouts and acclamations of joy.</p> - -<p>"In this stately progress King James reached the capital, and made his -triumphant entry, followed by a splendid train of French, British, and -Irish; and attended by the Count d'Avaux in the character of ambassador -of France."<a name="FNanchor_42_42" id="FNanchor_42_42"></a><a href="#Footnote_42_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a></p> - -<p>Meanwhile all the bands of the different regiments joined in playing the -then well known air of</p> - -<p class="center">"The king shall enjoy his own again!"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[Pg 284]</a></span></p><p>When this warlike symphony had ceased the populace with one accord -huzzaed, and shouted "God save the King!" They hailed and warmly -congratulated His Majesty's arrival at his Castle of Dublin, where, -having alighted from his horse, he was met at the portal by the host,<a name="FNanchor_43_43" id="FNanchor_43_43"></a><a href="#Footnote_43_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a> -which was overshadowed by a gonfalon, or canopy of state, borne by four -Roman bishops, and accompanied by a numerous train of friars singing, -and attended by other clergy of the same persuasion, along with the -titular primate at their head, who wore a triple crown, or tiára. The -king was conducted by them into the chapel-royal, which had been built -by the Duke of Tyrconnel,<a name="FNanchor_44_44" id="FNanchor_44_44"></a><a href="#Footnote_44_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a> where <i>Te Deum</i> was chanted upon the -welcome and happy arrival of His Majesty.</p> - -<p>These ceremonies being concluded, His Majesty subsequently retired to -the new <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[Pg 285]</a></span>apartments, which had been recently built and decorated by -Tyrconnel, where the king dined.</p> - -<p>It having been intimated to the king that upon the following day the -triennial perambulation of the liberties and franchises of the city of -Dublin was to take place; and His Majesty having been humbly solicited -to witness the same, most graciously gave his consent. The riding of the -franchises, or "riding the fringes," as popularly called, was in fact a -most brilliant and truly imposing public spectacle, not to be equalled, -and quite surpassing, every other pageant then or since known in Europe.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[Pg 286]</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XII" id="CHAPTER_XII"></a>CHAPTER XII.</h2> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">Prætexta, et trabeæ, fasces, lectica, tribunal.</span> -<span class="i4">Quid, si vidisset Prætorem curribus altis</span> -<span class="i4">Enstantem, et medio sublimem in pulvere circi</span> -<span class="i4">In tunica Jovis, et pictæ sarrana ferentem</span> -<span class="i4">Ex humeris aulæa togæ, magnæque coronæ</span> -<span class="i4">Tantum orbem, quanto cervix non sufficit ulla?</span> -<br /> -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Juvenal</span>, Sat. x.</span></div></div> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">----Fasces, chains, litters, purple gowns.</span> -<span class="i4">What! had he seen, in his triumphal car,</span> -<span class="i4">Amid the dusty cirque conspicuous far,</span> -<span class="i4">The prætor perched aloft, superbly drest</span> -<span class="i4">In Jove's proud tunic, with a trailing vest</span> -<span class="i4">Of Tyrian tapestry, and o'er him spread</span> -<span class="i4">A crown too bulky for a mortal head?</span> -<br /> -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Gifford's Juvenal.</span></span></div></div> - - -<p>Peradventure, kind reader, thou art no lover of history or chronicles, -no admirer of antiquarian research, and art withal (forefend us!) in -thine heart a determined foe to every <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[Pg 287]</a></span>matter and circumstance -pertaining to the "dark, backward, and abysm of time." If such, gentle -reader, be the materials of which thou art made, pause fair and softly, -if it so beseemeth thee, ere thou venturest again to open this volume, -from perusal of which, in sober seriousness, we would make bold to -dissuade thee, courteous reader! lest perchance the discussion might -"hurt thy health, and prejudice thy conscience," as the sage Sancho -Panza hath said of yore.</p> - -<p>The day appointed for the display of the grand and solemn pageant of the -perambulation of the liberties and franchises of the city of Dublin had -arrived. This event only occurred every third year; and upon this august -occasion was to be witnessed by the royal eye of the princely James. The -arrangement of the procession and of its various details presented the -most grand and magnificent spectacle ever witnessed in the Irish -metropolis. It was a custom so singular, so unlike any procession or -pageant known in any other realm, that when it did occur the nobility -and gentry from every near and foreign land <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[Pg 288]</a></span>crowded to Dublin to behold -the splendid array of this unique and magnificent spectacle. Upon this -triennial occurrence the interest was most highly increased, and the -stately pomp and splendour of the pageant aided and augmented by the -cheering presence of the sovereign.</p> - -<p>The grand cavalcade in slow and solemn measure advanced, preceded by a -noble troop of heavy dragoons;—we mention heavy dragoons distinctly to -mark to the reader's attention the distant period of time of which we -here speak; for at that period light dragoons were unknown in the -British service. The enlivening trumpets rent the air; meanwhile the -military bands played at intervals loyal and national airs; banners -waving on high, and the various flags and ensigns attached to the -numerous vessels in the river, all undulating in the breeze; while -around and upon every side the genius of ancient chivalry seemed to -preside and conduct the procession. Sir John Ottrington, Lord Mayor of -the city of Dublin, came in great pomp, pride, and circumstance of civic -distinction, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[Pg 289]</a></span>in his magnificent state coach; his dignified head was -arrayed in a full flowing peruke, upon which much care and caution had -been studiously expended for its adornation; and that day witnessed -good-man shaver, Bob Basin to wit, the city barber, a proud and happy -man, who seemed all-sufficient to enjoy the triumph of the day, in -which, as he modestly conceived, he had done "the State some service, -and they knew it." This most formidable bushy specimen of a peruke was -cumberously surmounted by the bulky civic crown, which was in sooth -unwieldy and most unbecoming in its conformation and appearance; indeed -not dissimilar to that worn by the Herald King at Arms upon the high -ceremonial of a coronation. The Lord Mayor was attired in full court -dress, over which was worn a flowing scarlet gown, and around his neck -was suspended the splendid gold enamelled collar which had been most -graciously presented to the city of Dublin by Charles the Second, of -chaste and pious memory! It must not forsooth be disguised that the -costume was as cumbersome as it was unbecoming; yet still the ladies <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[Pg 290]</a></span> -all unanimously agreed in the opinion that Sir John Ottrington was "a -very pretty fellow in his day;" a most portly personage he was, who -would have become any costume, civil or military, nay, even the hodiern -foppery of an English Field-Marshal—tags, bobs, cordons, trappings, -ribands, feathers, and so forth. However, had any modern taken a glance -at a similar figure, he must assuredly have been incontinently reminded -of his facetious old acquaintance, Lord Grizel, in the inimitable and -humorous burletta of O'Hara's <i>Tom Thumb</i>!</p> - -<p>All the <i>accessoirés</i> of city regalia were duly and circumspectly -displayed at this truly splendid pageant. The ponderous city mace was -regilt and richly burnished, which shone conspicuous and refulgent from -the sinister window of the civic coach; while from the dexter side -gently undulated, <i>in transitu</i>, the mayoral wand, like the caduceus of -Mercury, imposing peace and silence on the dense and congregated -multitude.</p> - -<p>The sword of state was carried in the van, while the silver baton was -borne by a <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[Pg 291]</a></span>corporate officer in the rere, attended by the city -battle-axe guards, who followed the state coach two by two, while others -of the guard flanked it, and the remaining number closed the procession. -It is but just to say, that all the civic regalia, in due pomp, and -circumstance, and order, were displayed conformable to the ancient, -laudable, and loyal usages of this most enlightened corporation.</p> - -<p>The persons who personified the civic battle-axe guards were grenadiers -hired for the occasion expressly, and duly selected from the ranks. The -costume of these worthies, although varying in colour, yet resembled in -shape and fashion that of the royal Buffetteers, (in popular parlance -called beef eaters, from their portly appearance, no doubt;)<a name="FNanchor_45_45" id="FNanchor_45_45"></a><a href="#Footnote_45_45" class="fnanchor">[45]</a> the -bonnets were formed of green velvet, with a rich gold foliage of -shamrocks, which surrounded them. The exterior habiliments were of rich -green cloth, laced, and richly embroidered with national devices; <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[Pg 292]</a></span>and -upon the breast of each were duly embroidered the city arms, namely, -three castles in flames, and the motto, "<i>obedientia civium, felicitas -urbis</i>." The hose were of red worsted, with large open clokes; the shoes -short quartered and high heeled, with the appanage of small brass -buckles. The partisans which they bore were similar to those of the -royal battle-axe guards. As the procession slowly proceeded onward, the -populace accommodated them-selves with great attention and most discreet -silence, being right marvelously amazed at such unusual pomp and -splendour.</p> - -<p>Next in the proud pageant came the High Sheriffs, each in his own -splendid state chariot, with a crowd of lackeys in rich liveries behind. -These worthies, Sir Mark Rainsford and Sir Edward Lloyd, not forgetting -the Lord Mayor, did not escape the ceremonial of being knighted by King -James. The Aldermen followed in their respective carriages. They were -succeeded in the procession by the several guilds or corporations of the -city, amounting in the aggregate to the number of twenty-five; at the -unprecedented splendour of whose appearance the populace were verily <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[Pg 293]</a></span> -struck with downright delight and astonishment.</p> - -<p>The particular detail and explanation of each guild, as it advanced, -halted, and retreated in the proud pageant, was explained most minutely -by the Duke of Tyrconnel to his gracious and royal master. His Grace -certainly acquitted himself with most sage, cautious, and circumspect -discretion, but attended withal with sundry and various circumforaneous -explanations; all which long ambages and diffuse prolixities purposely -to avoid, we have cut down and curtailed the whole, which would -otherwise not be contained in a chapter, but require an essay to give -the entire. We have therefore abridged the particulars, and thrown the -whole into as brief a narrative as the subject would admit of, premising -that the splendid and imposing spectacle was beheld from the windows of -the presence-chamber of Dublin Castle by the royal James, surrounded by -all the beauty of the land, and encompassed by all the flower of -chivalry.</p> - -<p>The magnificence of the pageant of riding <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[Pg 294]</a></span>the franchises (or fringes, -as corruptly called in popular parlance) was considerably increased in -pomp and effect from the introduction of different individuals of the -different corporations, who were attired in habits emblematical and -illustrative of the different trades of the different guilds. The -characters were generally borrowed from the heathen mythology, and were -strictly and classically arrayed in proper pantheon costume.</p> - -<p>We must observe in a general way, that the five-and-twenty guilds, or -corporations of the city, formed an unrivalled pageant, the most -singular and remarkable in Europe; it would occupy too much time to -enter into a minute detail—however, a few we shall briefly notice.</p> - -<p>Neptune, surrounded by his attendant tritons, dolphins, &c., sat -proudly enthroned in a triumphal car. He was the presiding deity of the -guild of merchants. The marine deity was followed by their corporate -friend Mercury, bearing all his attributes, and stately standing in an -elevated illuminated caravan, representing the clouds.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[Pg 295]</a></span></p> - -<p>The tree of knowledge, adorned with the forbidden fruit, the serpent -encompassing the bole of the tree, and supported on each side by our -first parents, duly preceded the corporation of Tailors. Adam and Eve -were clad in flesh-coloured garments, fitting close to the person; and, -sooth to say, the fig-leaf was not forgotten by the grateful -corporation!</p> - -<p>But we must needs be brief in this general outline:—</p> - -<p>Vulcan presided over the corporation of Smiths. He was stationed on a -superb car, with his attending Cyclops, who were intently working on a -mounted forge; a lovely Venus graced his side; and as the arrows came -formed from the anvil, they were handed to Cupid.</p> - -<p>Saturn, with his attributes, his scythe and serpent, and attended by -Esculapius, presiding over the guild of Barbers and Surgeons, followed -in a splendid car.</p> - -<p>Ceres, seated in a triumphal chariot, drawn by four oxen, presided over -the corporation of Bakers. In a caravan which followed was placed an -oven, which was briskly at <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[Pg 296]</a></span>work; whence cakes were made, and -distributed to the populace.</p> - -<p>The guild of Carpenters were preceded by a most magnificent caravan, -adorned with the various orders of architecture; in the centre of which -was placed a representation of Mount Ararat, on which reposed a model of -Noah's ark; thereby the corporation slyly intimating that their -handicraft was as old as the deluge!</p> - -<p>Crispin and Crispianus, the two tutelar saints of the corporation of -Shoemakers, duly personated, and attired in strict saintly costume, -preceded the worthy guild.</p> - -<p>Bacchus, "ever fair and young," crowned with his own ivy, bearing the -Thyrsus wand in his right, and a golden goblet in his left hand, duly -enthroned on a wine-cask, and mounted on a triumphal car, decorated with -festoons of grapes and vine-leaves, presided over the guild of Cooks and -Vintners.</p> - -<p>Jason supporting the golden fleece, (with the ship Argo in the back -ground of his splendid car, blazing in burnished gold,) presided over -the guild of Weavers.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[Pg 297]</a></span></p> - -<p>Iris, enveloped in her own rainbow, and borne in a car, adorned with -transparent clouds, presided over the Sheermen and Dyers.</p> - -<p>We shall only notice one guild more—the corporation of Printers, -to whom we, in common with every Briton, owe such a debt of gratitude. A -free press has always been acknowledged, and we trust ever may continue, -the <i>palladium</i> of British liberty!</p> - -<p>This guild, forming a magnificent and extended cavalcade, made a grand -and interesting display; their ancient banners and standards borne in -the van were tri-coloured, crimson, light-yellow, and blue. The first -banner bore the legend, or motto, "<i>Rex et Lex</i>;" upon the second, "<i>Pro -rege sæpe, Pro Patria semper</i>;" upon the last banner was splendidly -emblazoned the words, "<i>Liberty of the Press</i>!"</p> - -<p>A statue of Minerva, placed on a high pedestal, and mounted in a -triumphal car, headed the procession. A bomb-cart followed, heavily -laden, containing ammunition and stores; that is to say, not gunpowder, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[Pg 298]</a></span>chain-balls, and grape-shot, but more peaceful pastime, -<i>videlicet</i>: cold meat, pasties, pies, confectionary, wines, &c. -Next advanced four fine palfreys, covered with richly embroidered -field-clothes, each led by a groom in splendid livery. Then came on a -brother of the corporation, who personated Vulcan; he was arrayed in a -noble suit of armour, which had belonged to king Charles the First; it -was the gift of the late Colonel Joshua Paul, a free-brother of the -guild, to the corporation. Vulcan rode on horseback, the housings, -trappings, and horse-furniture, were decorated with appropriate emblems; -he bore an immense sledge-hammer of richly polished steel, the handle -curiously ornamented with fanciful Arabesque ornaments, inlaid in gold -and silver.</p> - -<p>Next in succession advanced a triumphal car, or caravan, drawn by six -beautiful black steeds, covered with handsome nets, the coachman and -postillion in rich splendid liveries. Within the carriage was exhibited -a handsome printing-press, with two pressmen and a compositor at work. A -hackney author was occupied in writing for and correcting the press. A <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[Pg 299]</a></span> -printer's devil was busily at work; and a painter engaged at his eazle, -all in meet and proper costume. The printing-press was richly and -appropriately ornamented: in the front stood a figure of Mercury holding -a poem, copies of which were struck off, and distributed among the -spectators; it was in praise of the noble art of printing, in which -honourable mention was made of the founders and benefactors of this -glorious invention. Nor were the following distinguished worthies -forgotten:—Wynkin de Worde, Caxton, Pynson, Kerver, Simon Vostre, -Theodore Martin, Jean Petit, Plantin, the two Elzivers, &c. The -printer's devil published impressions of the poem among the congregated -multitude.</p> - -<p>The masters and wardens of the guild, splendidly arrayed in appropriate -costume, attended by kettle-drums mounted on horseback, the performers -dressed in Turkish habits, and attended by grooms in Tartar habits, who -led the horses, that were most splendidly caparisoned, next came on. -They were followed by persons on foot bearing long silver maces; at <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[Pg 300]</a></span> -intervals they obtained copies from the press of verses laudatory of -King James, which were distributed among the people. Four copies were -struck off on white satin, and sent into the castle to be presented to -King James; the verses were by Waller and Lord Lansdowne; at receiving -of which King James seemed most highly gratified. They were as -follows:—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"Bred in the camp, fam'd for his valour young;</span> -<span class="i4">At sea successful, vigorous, and strong;</span> -<span class="i4">His fleet, his army, and his mighty mind,</span> -<span class="i4">Esteem and rev'rence thro' the world do find." <a name="FNanchor_46_46" id="FNanchor_46_46"></a><a href="#Footnote_46_46" class="fnanchor">[46]</a></span><br /></div></div> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"Tho' trained in arms, and learned in martial arts,</span> -<span class="i4">Thou choosest not to conquer men but hearts;</span> -<span class="i4">Expecting nations for thy triumphs wait,</span> -<span class="i4">But thou prefer'st the name of just to great." <a name="FNanchor_47_47" id="FNanchor_47_47"></a><a href="#Footnote_47_47" class="fnanchor">[47]</a></span><br /></div></div> - -<p>Having perused these lines, King James most sweetly smiled, and with his -accustomed gracious condescension, gracefully approached the centre -window of the presence-chamber; he condescendingly looked down, and most -courteously bowed to the corporation of Printers, his face illumined -with a smile peculiar to himself, and in a most king-like attitude he -gracefully waved his hand. Then addressing the Duke of Tyrconnel, who, -with the other nobles of the household, surrounded His Majesty, the king -was pleased to say, "I perceive your Grace's countrymen are <i>tam Marti, -quam Mercurio</i>—they are courteous as they are brave." The Duke lowly -and respectfully bowed his acquiescence to the observation.</p> - -<p>The proud pageant having closed, all the troops assembled presented -arms, lowered their banners; while drum, trumpet, and kettle-drum struck -up the anthem of "God save the King!"</p> - -<p>The Duke of Tyrconnel fully explained to the king the name, description, -and detail of each guild as it made its entrance and exit. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[Pg 302]</a></span>The duke had -taken some pains to prepare himself to be the royal <i>Cicerone</i> of the -day; and, in sooth, as King James remarked to him, like my Lord Hamlet, -he was "as good as a chorus."</p> - -<p>The number of saddle, led, and draft-horses, produced in this splendid -pageant were the best bred and most beautiful horses in the kingdom, -being selected, by the courtesy and permission of the noble proprietors, -from the most valuable studs the country then could boast of. The -richness of the horse furniture, housings, trappings, harness, &c., -quite surpasses description. Never were present upon any former occasion -so many foreigners of distinction; and exclusive of those immediately -attendant upon the king, the nobility and gentry crowded to Dublin, as -did the noblesse of foreign realms, to witness, whenever it occurred, -this magnificent spectacle, which could not be equalled in any other -part of Europe.</p> - -<p>King James was quite enraptured at the brilliant display, and addressing -the Duke of Tyrconnel, said:—"Albeit I have sojourned <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[Pg 303]</a></span>for a length of -time at my court of St. Germains, and have, in sooth, resided in the -country of pomp, spectacle, and pageantry, yet assuredly never have I -there witnessed such a scene of splendour as I have beheld this day, -either at Versailles or at Paris!—It has given me great satisfaction -truly, and I must observe that I consider that the taste, pomp, and -splendour of the pageant of to-day has rarely, if ever, been surpassed."</p> - -<p>At night-fall the waits were in attendance at the upper castle-gate to -serenade the royal James. As the usage has become obsolete, it is -necessary to acquaint the reader that <span class="smcap">WAITS</span> were a band of itinerant -nocturnal musicians, who perambulated the streets, singing, and playing -on different instruments, at different houses, where they addressed the -master or mistress of the mansion; and at Christmas-tide they were -usually most alert in their avocation, when they were tolerably sure of -an <i>honorarium</i>. The Irish waits resembled the <i>musiqué ambulanté</i> of -France. In England waits are very ancient. It is now about thirty-eight -or forty years since this <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[Pg 304]</a></span>custom has wholly ceased in the city of -Dublin. The Irish waits were always attended by a man who bore a long -pole, from which was suspended a spherical illuminated lantern, which -they called their moon; with Falstaff they might indeed say, "Let us be -gentlemen of the shade—minions of the moon!" They sung and accompanied -the following verses to the air of "God save the King!"</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">O welcome be our noble king!</span> -<span class="i4">Resound the harp, each dulcet string,</span> -<span class="i4">While every loyal chord shall ring,</span> -<span class="i4">And every loyal tongue shall sing,</span> -<span class="i4">With filial burst, God save the king!</span> -<br /> -<span class="i4">Oh, ever on his natal day</span> -<span class="i4">Our grateful homage we shall pay;</span> -<span class="i4">And bless the fav'ring breeze whose wing</span> -<span class="i4">Wafted our great and generous king!</span></div></div> - -<p>After this long digression we shall resume our story in the following -chapter.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[Pg 305]</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XIII" id="CHAPTER_XIII"></a>CHAPTER XIII.</h2> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">----Hark! from camp to camp</span> -<span class="i4">The hum of either army stilly sounds,</span> -<span class="i4">That the fix'd sentinels almost receive</span> -<span class="i4">The secret whispers of each other's watch;</span> -<span class="i4">Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighings,</span> -<span class="i4">Piercing the night's dull ear.</span> -<br /> -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">King Henry V.</span></span></div></div> - - -<p>King James, almost immediately after his arrival in his capital of -Dublin, assembled and met the Irish parliament. His Majesty proceeded in -great state to the House of Peers to open the session, where, arrayed in -his royal robes, and adorned with his crown,<a name="FNanchor_48_48" id="FNanchor_48_48"></a><a href="#Footnote_48_48" class="fnanchor">[48]</a> he met the assembled -lords and commons of Ireland. He made a most truly dignified <span class="pagenum"><a -name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[Pg 306]</a></span> and impressive speech<a -name="FNanchor_49_49" id="FNanchor_49_49"></a><a href="#Footnote_49_49" class="fnanchor">[49]</a> from the throne, with all -that native grace and dignity with which indeed King James was -peculiarly gifted; and he adopted his royal residence, while he -sojourned in his Irish capital, at the Castle of Dublin, from whence His -Majesty issued various proclamations.</p> - -<p>The morning which succeeded the said meeting of parliament, at an early -hour, the Duke of Tyrconnel received an express, which stated, that<a -name="FNanchor_50_50" id="FNanchor_50_50"></a><a href="#Footnote_50_50" class="fnanchor">[50]</a> "the Prince of Orange had -landed at Carrickfergus, from the Mary yacht, attended by Prince George -of Denmark, the Duke of Ormond, the Earls of Devonshire, Oxford, -Scarborough, and Manchester, the Honourable Mr. Boyle, and many other -persons of distinction. He tarried," it was added to the report, "only -about half an hour after his landing, and then set off in Duke -Schomberg's carriage for Belfast."</p> - -<p>When this was told to King James, his only reply was, in allusion to -Prince George: "What! has little '<i>est-il possible</i>' deserted me at -last!" <a name="FNanchor_51_51" id="FNanchor_51_51"></a><a href="#Footnote_51_51" class="fnanchor">[51]</a></p> - -<p>The plain, but extraordinary fact now came forth, that the Prince of -Orange had been actually six days in Ireland before any intimation or -express to that effect had arrived thereby to acquaint King James of the -event.</p> - -<p>The Prince of Orange having driven King James from England, Ireland was -now fated to become the scene of civil war, which, as will appear, was -conducted with considerable talent on both sides. And very soon a battle -was to be fought between two contending sovereigns, and the glorious -prize depending upon the eventful issue of the mighty contest was no -less than the triple crown of three powerful kingdoms!</p> - -<p>At this period England was most critically circumstanced: defeat at home -was succeeded by victory of the enemy abroad. The <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[Pg 308]</a></span>defeat of the fleet -of Torrington off the shores of England, was the harbinger of the defeat -of the Dutch in the great battle of Fleurus. The reins of government -were guided by a woman, whose councils were distracted by two implacable -factions. Invasion was impending; rebellion existed in one of the three -kingdoms, and was expected in the other two; the king was absent; the -army abroad in other countries; and an exiled master returning home, -armed with power and vengeance. These combined causes shook the British -empire to its centre.</p> - -<p>Numerous indeed were the difficulties and obstructions with which the -Prince of Orange had to contend; and various the plots, intrigues, and -conspiracies, that he had to overcome, which rendered the commencement -of his reign (when styled William III.) so very tempestuous, that more -than once he had resolved<a name="FNanchor_52_52" id="FNanchor_52_52"></a><a href="#Footnote_52_52" class="fnanchor">[52]</a> "to abandon his throne, and retire into -Holland, and for ever to relinquish the sovereignty of England; -distracted, as he found it, with political and religious contentions, -and convulsed by party and faction."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[Pg 309]</a></span></p> - -<p>However, he hesitated before he carried this measure into execution. He -issued a proclamation previous to his departure from England, promising -to the Irish who should lay down their arms and return to their homes, -that they should not be molested in their persons or injured in their -properties; and this he promulgated to some Irish lords, who were at -that time in London, at the very moment that Duke Schomberg was -departing for Ireland. The discourse which King William gave at a -council held was to this effect:<a name="FNanchor_53_53" id="FNanchor_53_53"></a><a href="#Footnote_53_53" class="fnanchor">[53]</a> "He declared to them, that he had -resolved, with the assistance of God, to reduce Ireland to the obedience -of England, and not to stop at any measure that was necessary for its -accomplishment; but that he loved not the effusion of blood—no, not -even of his most implacable enemy; and that he had resolved, so far as -human prudence permitted, to extend his pardon and his clemency to all <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[Pg 310]</a></span> -those who were in arms against him, except the Duke of Tyrconnel, the -Lord Chancellor Fitton," and about twelve peers more, who were -enumerated in this proclamation, and were thereby excluded from the -royal mercy; and in this exception some generals and field officers were -included.</p> - -<p>Intrusting the government of England to his royal consort Queen Mary, -the daughter of King James II., he proceeded immediately to Ireland, -there in person to pursue the war with vigour; and very shortly landed, -as has been already told, at Carrickfergus, where he was expected with -impatience, and was met by his army, which in number amounted to forty -thousand men, not only well appointed and provided with necessaries, but -also well disciplined. They were attended by a commissariat corps, and a -train of sixty large cannon, which completed the military force of -William. The army consisted of English, Dutch, and Brandenburghers, who -received their illustrious leader with shouts and transports of joy. -Upon the landing of King William he was received by the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[Pg 311]</a></span>Duke of -Schomberg, the Count Menard Schomberg (son to the duke), by the Prince -of Wirtemberg, Count Solms, Major-General Scravenmore, Lord Sidney, Sir -David Bruce, and Sir John Lanier, &c. &c.</p> - -<p>As soon as King James had positive intelligence of the arrival of the -Prince of Orange, (who, strange to say, had been, as we before noticed, -six days in Ireland without King James having been made acquainted with -the event,) he then instantly commenced his march; and committing the -guard of Dublin to Colonel Luttrel, who afterwards betrayed him,<a name="FNanchor_54_54" id="FNanchor_54_54"></a><a href="#Footnote_54_54" class="fnanchor">[54]</a> and -who then commanded a body of militia, His Majesty set onward in his -march, attended by an army consisting of about six thousand foot, old -experienced soldiers of the army of Louis XIV., the same which had -lately accompanied him from France. These were destined to form a -junction with the chief body of his troops, who were then stationed on -the banks of the Boyne. These, when they should be united, although -considerable, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[Pg 312]</a></span> yet, in point of numbers, were still inferior to the army -of the Prince of Orange.</p> - -<p>Several months previous to the arrival of King James, Duke Schomberg had -landed at Carrickfergus Bay, at the head of twelve thousand men; and -without any opposition, assisted by six ships of war, he took possession -of the town. Upon his advance into the country the position of the -hostile armies were thus constituted:—Schomberg then occupied -Dundalk, which he was forced to fortify; while Marshal Rosen threatened -his right flank. King James had lost previous to his arrival, by the -defeat of his forces, the fort and garrison of Charlemont, along with a -large store of ammunition, seventeen pieces of brass cannon, &c.; -and want of provisions caused the surrender of this important fortress. -The troops of Marshal Rosen then found it necessary to march to the -banks of the Shannon, until they should ascertain how matters went on at -sea. For Louis XIV. had sent them assurances that he would not only fit -out a great fleet, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[Pg 313]</a></span>but that as soon as the squadron which -coasted in the Irish seas to guard the transport fleet, and to secure -the Prince of Orange's passage over, should sail into the channel to -join the grand fleet of England, he would then send into the Irish seas -a fleet of small frigates and privateers, to destroy the transports of -the Prince of Orange.<a name="FNanchor_55_55" id="FNanchor_55_55"></a><a href="#Footnote_55_55" class="fnanchor">[55]</a> This indeed would have proved fatal if it had -taken effect; and the execution of the scheme seemed easy, if not -certain. It would have shut up the Prince of Orange in Ireland until a -new transport fleet could have been brought thither, which would have -taken some months to complete; so that England, in the mean time, might -have been lost before, by any possibility, he could have repassed the -seas with his army.</p> - -<p>There can be no doubt whatever that the destruction of the transports of -the Prince of Orange must also have caused the ruin of his army; for the -stores both of bread and ammunition were still on board, from whence -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[Pg 314]</a></span>he was to draw his supplies. Conscious of this, he made his -fleet sail slowly along the eastern coast towards the capital, spread -out in sight of his army as it advanced in its march, to elevate the -spirits of his soldiers by the grandeur of the spectacle, and to inspire -them with confidence by the idea of security which it presented."<a -name="FNanchor_56_56" id="FNanchor_56_56"></a><a href="#Footnote_56_56" class="fnanchor">[56]</a> Upon all that coast there -was not a safe port to cover and secure the fleets and transports of the -Prince of Orange; and it was this induced the staff and officers of King -James to oppose the measure of bringing the war to a speedy termination. -Meanwhile King James's army was stationed on the banks of the Boyne, to -defend the capital. King James had now arrived at the head quarters of -his army; and with the reinforcements which he brought along with him, -as well as by his royal presence, gave hope and confidence to his army. -But there was an oversight in King James when an opportunity was -presented of totally <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[Pg 315]</a></span>defeating Schomberg, which, by remissness -or want of determination, he wholly lost. Schomberg, upon the arrival of -King James, was in the occupation of Dundalk, which he was forced to -fortify. Marshal Rosen threatened his right flank at the same time that -King James, with thirty thousand men, was stationed on the banks of the -Boyne, at Drogheda. It hence appears that King James had thus Schomberg -shut up there in a <i>cul de sac</i>, all retreat being cut off;<a -name="FNanchor_57_57" id="FNanchor_57_57"></a><a href="#Footnote_57_57" class="fnanchor">[57]</a> Schomberg's army pining -and diminishing by sickness, and enclosed in retrenchments; while King -James, with a far superior army, stood in front. But strange to say, he -permitted Schomberg to escape, and make good his retreat unmolested by -any pursuit.</p> - -<p>However, this inaction of King James arose, it would appear, from his -positive determination to remain where he was encamped, and defend the -Boyne, which he considered to be the key that mastered the pass <span class="pagenum"><a -name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[Pg 316]</a> </span>to the capital. "We must," said -the king, addressing himself to his council of war, and principally to -Tyrconnel, "<i>couté qui couté</i> defend the Boyne. Not to do -this is to abandon Dublin; and by so doing we should lose our -reputation, so that the people would desert us, and capitulate; and all -our friends in England would be also dispirited; therefore I am fully -resolved to have one fair and, I trust, decisive battle for my crown." -<a name="FNanchor_58_58" id="FNanchor_58_58"></a><a href="#Footnote_58_58" class="fnanchor">[58]</a></p> - -<p>Lieutenant-General Hamilton advised King James at this council, "to send -a detachment of dragoons to defend the ford of Slane, which was below -the town of Drogheda, (which the English either knew not of, or did not -regard of importance,) and to despatch eight regiments to defend the -bridge of Slane."</p> - -<p>But King James coldly said in reply: "I shall send fifty dragoons to -protect the ford." <a name="FNanchor_59_59" id="FNanchor_59_59"></a><a href="#Footnote_59_59" class="fnanchor">[59]</a></p> - -<p>This reply put Hamilton into the utmost <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[Pg 317]</a></span>amazement, considering the -importance of the place to be defended. But he remained silent.</p> - -<p>In many respects the determination of King James to maintain the post he -occupied, which certainly was well chosen, was as correct as his resolve -was judicious; where encamped,</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"His white pavilions made a show,</span> -<span class="i4">Like remnants of the winter's snow,</span> -<span class="i4">Along <span class="smcap">Donore's</span> dark ridge."</span></div></div> - -<p>"Stationed upon the commanding hill of Donore, which looked down upon -the Boyne, his right approach was upon Drogheda, which he occupied, his -front facing the Boyne, fordable, but still deep, and rising every tide, -with strong banks, which, intersected by mounds of earth, and divided by -hedges and ditches; hence his army presented a front of about three -miles, extending towards the Slane, where he negligently failed to -occupy a bridge, which had been advised by General Hamilton. The river -Boyne forms towards the centre of where <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[Pg 318]</a></span>James was stationed a -considerable projecting curve, and another in reverse higher up toward -Slane." <a name="FNanchor_60_60" id="FNanchor_60_60"></a><a href="#Footnote_60_60" class="fnanchor">[60]</a> This, as will be seen in a subsequent chapter, was of the -utmost importance to the two contending princes. We must add, that the -localities of the station added to the security of King James; for had -his opponent succeeded in crossing the Boyne at this point, there was -still a morass also to be passed, and then succeeded by the barrier of a -rising ground.</p> - -<p>Thus advantageously was encamped upon the 30th of June the army of King -James.—He had thrown up some breast-works upon the banks of the fords -which lay between the two camps; and he now gave orders that "if his -troops were driven from these on the morrow, then to retire to the line -of houses; if from the houses, to the hedges; if from the hedges, to the -range of small hills; and if driven from these, to occupy the heights of -Donore: and if they could not then make that station good, they <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[Pg 319]</a></span>were to -retreat to Duleek, and stop further pursuit by defending the pass."</p> - -<p>Throughout the whole of this eventful day, the precursor of the ever -memorable first of July, salutation from the cannon's mouth had been -interchanged between each contending army, and not without leaving -numerous ostensible marks of slaughter in the camps of the two -contending princes. But towards the close of day the thundering roar of -cannon ceased at once on both sides; while in the rival camps of royal -James and William was only then to be heard the "dreadful note of -preparation" for the battle on the morrow.</p> - -<p>King James having caused his army to pass him in single files, -surrounded by his nobles, generals, and staff, he thus addressed his -army:—</p> - -<p>"Soldiers, and comrades of my toil! to-morrow I purpose putting an end to -all our hardships and privations by terminating the war; by boldly -encountering those squadrons who are now yonder encamped, and whose -standards, waving on the banks of the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[Pg 320]</a></span>Boyne below, seem to invite us to -the battle. We shall not disappoint them! nor, brave men, shall you be -disappointed! They shall indeed feel what loyal men, determined in a -just cause, can do and dare for their lawful sovereign. And God protect -those who fight under the banner of justice;—who fight for their lawful -king, and for all that is dear to men! As for myself I have been bred in -the ranks of war, (if your king may for once be permitted to speak of -what he has performed;) educated alike in the school of hardship as of -war. I have fought in different realms—in Spain, in France, and -Holland, I have fought and conquered with the brave Turenne, for whom I -have ever felt the tenderness of a son. I have fought by land and by -sea, and with those same Dutch that now invade us; aye, and beat them -too we have to boot! at the mouth of their Texel—upon their own shores, -I did it! But to-morrow we shall meet them again, and their vaunting -leader, in the battle-field; when and where, I trust, under the auspices -of heaven, that again and once more I shall rout them, and that too -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[Pg 321]</a></span>upon my loyal shores of Ireland! For strongly I feel that the blood of -the noble Edwards and the Henrys still pulsates in these veins; and that -the valiant blood of the fourth Henry of France, my glorious -grandfather, still survives, and animates his descended son. Soldiers! -he too, like myself, met with ingratitude—with disloyalty! he, like me, -was driven from his throne! But he had a Sully; and I can boast that I -have a Tyrconnel! His loyal troops of Navarre restored him to his -throne; and on to-morrow, with the benison of God, I shall witness my -restoration to the ancient throne of the Stuarts, by my brave—my loyal -Irish, and the gallant swords of my noble Frenchmen that now encircle -me; and who, to a man, are fully determined to conquer or to die for me; -and in that fate shall your king fully participate with you all—to -vanquish or to perish!"</p> - -<p>Here shouts of "<i>Vive le Roy</i>," and of "God save King James," from the -French, English, and Irish troops of the king, rent the air with loud -and tumultuous huzzas; which bursting over the heights of Donore, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">[Pg 322]</a></span>were -re-echoed by the waters of the Boyne below, and wafted to the camp of -the Prince of Orange.</p> - -<p>Meanwhile, in the camp of King James, the Duke of Tyrconnel was every -where to be seen galloping from post to <i>piquét</i>. He ordered each -soldier to wear in his cap a small cockade of white paper upon the -ensuing day of battle, that in the heat of the engagement they might -thence distinguish each other from their foes.<a name="FNanchor_61_61" id="FNanchor_61_61"></a><a href="#Footnote_61_61" class="fnanchor">[61]</a></p> - -<p>"The watch-word of to-night," said the duke, as he rode along the camp, -addressing himself to the officers, "be '<i>Eblana</i>;' and our gallant -war-cry on the morrow let it be—'James and Victory!'"</p> - -<p>Here the whole army rent the air with shouts of applause; while -Tyrconnel retired to his tent, impatiently awaiting the dawn of day.</p> - -<p>From the moment of the arrival of the Prince of Orange in Ireland he had -taken every pains, and had used every art, to inspire <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[Pg 323]</a></span>his army with -confidence, and to ingratiate himself in their favour and love.<a name="FNanchor_62_62" id="FNanchor_62_62"></a><a href="#Footnote_62_62" class="fnanchor">[62]</a> All -the arts of a general and of a man of sense he put in practice to draw -the attention of his soldiers from the misfortunes of the last year in -Ireland, and from the danger of the present. The day upon which all his -troops from different quarters met and united with him: he then ordered -the whole army to pass him, and thus threw a march into a review. -Instead of keeping one station, he rode in among the regiments so soon -as they appeared, to encourage the soldiers, and to satisfy himself of -the state of every regiment. An order having been brought him to affix -his signature for wine for his table, the prince said aloud:—"No, I -will drink water with my soldiers!" He slept every night in camp, and -was throughout the day on horseback; he flew from place to place to -survey the army, or the country, intrusting nothing to others. While at -one time he brought up <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[Pg 324]</a></span>the rere with an anxiety which fully engaged the -affections of the soldiers; at another with a spirit which inflamed -them, he was the foremost in advanced parties if danger seemed to -threaten, or that the object to be known was of importance.<a name="FNanchor_63_63" id="FNanchor_63_63"></a><a href="#Footnote_63_63" class="fnanchor">[63]</a></p> - -<p>But it is now full time that we should attend in the camp of the Prince -of Orange, and take a cursory view of some of the principal events of -the remarkable 30th day of June, and notice his force, the occurrences -of this day, and his preparations for the approaching battle.</p> - -<p>At break of day the Prince of Orange, upon the 30th of June, being -informed that the army of King James had repassed the Boyne, ordered his -whole army to move forward at that early hour, in three lines, towards -the river, which was distant from them about three miles. The advanced -guards of horse commanded by Sir John Lanier; the Brandenburghers by -Colonel Sir David <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_325" id="Page_325">[Pg 325]</a></span>Bruce. They moved onward in very good order, and by -nine o'clock were within two miles of Drogheda. The Prince of Orange, -who marched in front of them, observing that there was a hill to the -east of the enemy, and to the north from the town, he rode instantly -thither to inspect their camp, which he found to be stationed along the -river in two parallel lines.<a name="FNanchor_64_64" id="FNanchor_64_64"></a><a href="#Footnote_64_64" class="fnanchor">[64]</a></p> - -<p>Here different observations were made as to the force and numbers of the -enemy by Prince George of Denmark, the Dukes of Schomberg and Ormond, -and other generals. Amongst them General Scravenmore appeared to despise -their numbers, observing, at the same time, that they were but a handful -of men, for he could not reckon above forty-six battalions that were -then encamped.</p> - -<p>But both the Prince of Orange and Prince George replied, that they might -have a great many men in the town; and that there was also a hill to the -south-east, beyond which part of their army might be encamped.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_326" id="Page_326">[Pg 326]</a></span> "However," rejoined the Prince of Orange, "we shall soon be better -acquainted with their numbers—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">'If fight King James, as well I trust</span> -<span class="i4">That fight he will, and fight he must.'"</span></div></div> - -<p>The Prince of Orange now proceeded in person to visit every outpost, -every videt, every guard, and every <i>piquét</i>. He marked out his -encampment, and fathomed the Boyne in order to ascertain where it was -fordable for his army to pass, which he firmly resolved to do upon the -following morning. While the prince was thus occupied, and advancing to -take a nearer view of the situation of his enemy, and while the army was -marching, he alighted from his horse, and sat down upon a rising ground, -where he refreshed himself for about an hour. During which time a party -of about forty horse of King James came on; but advancing very slowly, -they made a halt upon a ploughed field opposite to the Prince of Orange. -They brought with them in the rere two field-pieces, which, -undiscovered, they planted at the angle of a <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">[Pg 327]</a></span>hedge, which screened the -cannon. The prince was no sooner remounted than the party instantly -fired at him, and with the first shot killed a man and two horses very -near to the prince. This bullet was presently succeeded by another, -which having first grazed upon the bank of the river, then upon -rebounding struck the Prince of Orange in the right shoulder, tore away -a piece of his coat, and stripped off the skin; afterwards in the recoil -it broke the handle of a gentleman's pistol.</p> - -<p>Lord Conningsby seeing what had happened, rode up hastily, and putting -his handkerchief to the prince's shoulder, staunched the wound. The -prince remounted his charger, and observed to Lord Conningsby, "<i>Il ne -faloit pas que le coup fût plus pres</i>." There was no necessity that<a -name="FNanchor_65_65" id="FNanchor_65_65"></a><a href="#Footnote_65_65" class="fnanchor">[65]</a> the bullet should have -come nearer!</p> - -<p>This accident having occasioned some disorder among the attendants of -the Prince <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_328" id="Page_328">[Pg 328]</a></span>of Orange, caused the enemy to conclude that he was killed; -who thereupon set up a great shout, and the report of his death reached -Dublin, and even Paris. However, having his wound dressed, the prince -remounted his horse, and showed himself to his whole army, to dissipate -their apprehensions. He continued on horseback until four o'clock, dined -in the open field, and then mounted his favourite <i>Sorrel</i> again, (for -so was the royal charger called,) although he had been abroad from one -in the morning. About the hour of nine at night he called a council of -war, and declared his determination to pass the river Boyne upon the -next day. Which resolve Duke Schomberg at first opposed; but finding the -king positive, he advised that part of the army, horse and foot, should -be sent that night towards the bridge of Slane, in order there to pass -the Boyne, and so advance between the enemy and the pass at Duleek. This -advice, which if followed would perhaps have ended the war in one -campaign, seemed at first to be relished; but it was afterwards opposed -by <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[Pg 329]</a></span>General de Ginckle, and the other Dutch general officers. Duke -Schomberg retired to his tent, where not long after the order of battle -was brought him, which he received with discontent and indifference, -observing, that <i>this was the first that ever was sent to him</i>. The -opinion of Schomberg was right; not to occupy the important pass of -Slane was certainly a strange omission in the tactics of the two -contending princes.</p> - -<p>The Prince of Orange ordered that every soldier should be provided with -a sufficient stock of ammunition, and all the army to be ready to march -at break of day. And every man was to wear a green bough, or sprig, -pulled from the adjoining wood which overhung the ford, that they might -ascertain friends from foes during the fury of the fight. His Highness, -attended by torch-light, rode at the twelfth hour at night through his -camp, making his observations, and ascertaining that all was in -readiness for the important day that was now about to arrive. He gave -orders to his equery "to saddle blithe <i>Sorrel</i> for the field -to-morrow!" <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_330" id="Page_330">[Pg 330]</a></span></p> - -<p>The watch-word of the prince that night was "Westminster." And as he was -retiring to his tent he said to the Prince of Denmark, "Our watch-word -to-night is '<i>Westminster</i>;' let our war-cry to-morrow be—'<i>Nassau and -Freedom!</i>'"</p> - -<p>Having thus said, he saluted Prince George, and retired to repose.</p> - - -<p class="center">END OF VOL. I.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3 class="center">Footnotes</h3> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> For the benefit of our fair readers, we venture to translate the -Latin chorus to the Dirge; it means, "We have been, and are not!"</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> "The stupendous rock of Ailsa rises almost perpendicularly -to the height of 940 feet. The circumference of this singular rock at -its base is about two miles; its shape is somewhat conical, and it is on -all sides extremely precipitous. The only landing-place is on the -north-east, where there is a small beach, formed by fragments which have -fallen from the neighbouring rocks. The cliffs of Ailsa are in several -places distinctly columnar; and the whole isle appears to be composed of -rocks belonging to the newest Flœtz formation, the individual members -of which resemble those that occur in the island of Arran. This rock is -inhabited by immense flocks of birds, particularly gannets, or Solan -geese; and is rented from the Earl of Cassilis at £33 a -year."—<i>Description of Ayrshire.</i></p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> The Hebrides.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> This, by the way, seems too like a bold anachronism of the -Reverend Gentleman's, but it has been correctly transcribed from the -M'Kenzie MSS. at least <i>omnia quæ extant</i>. However, for our own part we -must say, that we are strongly inclined to acquit the Reverend Gentleman -and scholar upon this score, inasmuch as he has high authority to plead -in self-defence the Bard of Mantua having thought proper to make Æneas -and Dido cotemporaries; and yet the former flourished <span class="smcap">ONLY</span> two hundred -years before the building of Carthage! with which anachronism to compare -the Doctor's little historical lapse, were indeed merely to match -<br /> -<span class="i12">"A mole-hill with Olympus!"<br /></span></p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> Since the above was written Dr. Herschell has paid the debt -of nature. The other celebrated astronomer lives, and it is hoped -providence will yet grant him many years to preside over the noble -science which his powerful mind so ably illustrates and adorns.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> Histoire d'Irlande, par L'Abbe Ma-Geoghegan, <i>tome</i> 1.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> This castle now belongs to the Marquis of Conyngham.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> Silk stockings first became usual in the reign of -Elizabeth. These articles of finery "were curiously knit with open seam -down the legge, with quirks and clokes about the ancles, and sometimes -(haply) <i>interlaced with gold or silver threads</i>, as it is wonderful to -behold."—<i>Beaumont and Fletcher</i>, vol. v. <i>Note</i>, p. 353.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> "Shining shoes" are often noticed by Massinger, Jonson, and -other old dramatists.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label">[11]</span></a> The reader will have the candour to recollect that this can -mean no disparagement to the military profession.—This was said when -knowledge was limited to the few—one hundred and forty years ago.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12"><span class="label">[12]</span></a> This fondness for drinking is noticed in Lord Strafford's -Letters.—"In Ireland, where drinking was grown a disease -epidemical."—<i>Appendix to Lord Strafford's Letters</i>, vol. II. p. 433.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13"><span class="label">[13]</span></a> For an account of this noble and distinguished lady, see -"<i>Moreri Dictionnaire Historique</i>," folio, Paris, 1654, tome <span class="smcap">VI.</span> p. -173;—and Descamps, in his "<i>Vie des Peintres</i>," &c., tome <span class="smcap">II.</span> Paris, -1754, makes the following honourable mention of her: "Anne-Marie -Schurman, les Poëtes Hollandois nomment dans leurs vers cette fille -illustre, leur Sapho et leur Cornelie: si elle a meritè les èloges de ses -compatriotes, elle a aussi obtenu les suffrages des grands et des -sçavants de l'Europe," &c.—Tome <span class="smcap">II.</span> p. 119.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label">[14]</span></a> There is another item of Her Grace's dress which is not -noticed above, as it was only used on occasions of going abroad to -visit, or when on horseback; we speak of a velvet mask, worn by ladies -of rank at this period, and for which a high duty was imposed upon their -being imported from France.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_15_15" id="Footnote_15_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_15"><span class="label">[15]</span></a> See Cooper Walker's able Essay on Irish Dresses.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_16_16" id="Footnote_16_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_16_16"><span class="label">[16]</span></a> "Anno 1590.—The Monastery of All-Hallows was granted by -the citizens for the site of an university.</p> - -<p>"——1591.—Trinity College founded by Queen Elizabeth. Opened 1593. -Received a new charter and statutes 1637."—<i>Annals of the City of -Dublin.</i></p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_17_17" id="Footnote_17_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_17_17"><span class="label">[17]</span></a> The <i>paven</i> (from <i>pavo</i>, a peacock) is a grave, majestic -dance. The method of dancing it was anciently by gentlemen dressed with -a cap and sword; by those of the long robe in their gowns; by the -princes in their mantles; and by ladies in gowns with long trains, the -motion whereof in the dance resembled that of a <i>peacock's tail</i>. This -dance is supposed to have been invented by the Spaniards, and its figure -is given, with the characters for the steps, in the <i>Orchesographia</i> of -Thoinet Arbeau.—See Note to "<i>The Mad Lover</i>." Beaumont and Fletcher's -Works, vol. <span class="smcap">IV</span>. p. 186.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_18_18" id="Footnote_18_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_18_18"><span class="label">[18]</span></a> Queen Elizabeth received her graciously at court, and -offered to create her a Countess.—See <i>Notes</i> v. III.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_19_19" id="Footnote_19_19"></a><a href="#FNanchor_19_19"><span class="label">[19]</span></a> <i>i. e.</i> The great gap, or pass to the mountains.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_20_20" id="Footnote_20_20"></a><a href="#FNanchor_20_20"><span class="label">[20]</span></a> "Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out upon the brook -that <i>brawls</i> along this wood."</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">As you like it.</span><br /></p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_21_21" id="Footnote_21_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_21_21"><span class="label">[21]</span></a> Even so recently as during Wesley's time [See Southey's -Life of Wesley] will be perceived the fondness of this celebrated -preacher for divination by lot, and by the casual opening of the Bible, -expecting thereby the peculiar and immediate guidance of the Almighty!</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_22_22" id="Footnote_22_22"></a><a href="#FNanchor_22_22"><span class="label">[22]</span></a></p> For the gratification of the curious we here subjoin the -quotation from Virgil, with which is given a translation of the -remarkable lines by Dryden:— - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"At bello audacis populi, vexatus et armis</span> -<span class="i4">Finibus extorris, complexu avulsus Juli,</span> -<span class="i4">Auxilium imploret; videatque indigna suorum</span> -<span class="i4">Funera: nec quum se sub leges pacis iniquæ</span> -<span class="i4">Tradiderit, regno aut optatâ luce fruatur:</span> -<span class="i4">Sed cadat ante diem, mediâque inhumatus arenâ."</span></div></div> - -<span class="i12"><span class="smcap">Virgil Æ. iv. 1. 615.</span></span> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">"Yet shall a race untamed, and haughty foes,</span> -<span class="i4">His peaceful entrance with dire arms oppose:</span> -<span class="i4">Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field,</span> -<span class="i4">His men discouraged, and himself expell'd,</span> -<span class="i4">Let him for succour sue from place to place,</span> -<span class="i4">Torn from his subjects and his son's embrace.</span> -<span class="i4">First let him see his friends in battle slain,</span> -<span class="i4">And their untimely fate lament in vain:</span> -<span class="i4">And when at length the cruel war shall cease,</span> -<span class="i4">On hard conditions may he buy his peace:</span> -<span class="i4">Nor let him then enjoy supreme command,</span> -<span class="i4">But fall untimely by some hostile hand,</span> -<span class="i4">And lie unburied on the barren strand."</span></div></div></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_23_23" id="Footnote_23_23"></a><a href="#FNanchor_23_23"><span class="label">[23]</span></a> Le Vite de Piu celebri Architecti, &c.—<i>Pagina 358, Roma -1768.</i></p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_24_24" id="Footnote_24_24"></a><a href="#FNanchor_24_24"><span class="label">[24]</span></a> It was not, however, until the year 1768, during the -administration of Lord Townsend, that the royal assent was given to an -act for limiting the duration of parliament to eight years.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_25_25" id="Footnote_25_25"></a><a href="#FNanchor_25_25"><span class="label">[25]</span></a> At this point of time the Irish House of Lords met at the -hour of three o'clock in the afternoon; but when the house was engaged -in the hearing of appeals they regularly assembled at the hour of nine -o'clock in the morning.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_26_26" id="Footnote_26_26"></a><a href="#FNanchor_26_26"><span class="label">[26]</span></a> "Every Lord that comes not within a quarter of an hour after -prayers, if he be a Bishop or Baron, he, is to pay one shilling, and if -he be any degree above, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span>two shillings to the poor man's -box."—<i>Standing Orders of the Irish House of Lords</i>, p. 13. -Printed by Sleater, Dublin, 1778. The title of the work was, "Rules and -Orders to be observed in the Upper House of Parliament of -Ireland."—The Clerk of the House was treasurer of the poor's -box.—p. 39.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_27_27" id="Footnote_27_27"></a><a href="#FNanchor_27_27"><span class="label">[27]</span></a> "All fools are mad."</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28"><span class="label">[28]</span></a> The celebrated Caranza was, in sooth, the oracle and manual -of duelling in his day. He was by birth a Spaniard; his name Geronimo -Caranza. His famous work was entitled, "<i>Verdera Destreza de las -Armas</i>"—"The true Dexterity or Skill in Arms." His talents are thus -eulogized in the comedy of "<i>Los Locos de Valencia</i>," of Lope de Vega:—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">----"El gran Caranza,</span> -<span class="i4">A quien las armas en Espana deben</span> -<span class="i4">Quanta mayor destreza el arte alcanza."</span></div></div></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_29_29" id="Footnote_29_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_29_29"><span class="label">[29]</span></a> This slily alludes to the <i>Secchia Rapita</i>, ("The Rape of -the Bucket,") a burlesque poem, by Tassoni.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_30_30" id="Footnote_30_30"></a><a href="#FNanchor_30_30"><span class="label">[30]</span></a> Rapin's History of England, vol. II. pages 742, 743, and -Note.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_31_31" id="Footnote_31_31"></a><a href="#FNanchor_31_31"><span class="label">[31]</span></a> Ibid.—pages 742, 743, 771.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_32_32" id="Footnote_32_32"></a><a href="#FNanchor_32_32"><span class="label">[32]</span></a> Rapin's History of England, vol. II. p. 781.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_33_33" id="Footnote_33_33"></a><a href="#FNanchor_33_33"><span class="label">[33]</span></a> Ibid. p. 782.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_34_34" id="Footnote_34_34"></a><a href="#FNanchor_34_34"><span class="label">[34]</span></a> Ibid. p. 783.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[Pg 260]</a></span></p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_35_35" id="Footnote_35_35"></a><a href="#FNanchor_35_35"><span class="label">[35]</span></a> Rapin's History of England, vol. II. p. 783.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_36_36" id="Footnote_36_36"></a><a href="#FNanchor_36_36"><span class="label">[36]</span></a> The air of "God save the King" had been a French anthem, -and words were appropriated to it, with the chorus of "God save the -king," expressly for James the Second. Since which time it has been -played and sung as a national anthem.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_37_37" id="Footnote_37_37"></a><a href="#FNanchor_37_37"><span class="label">[37]</span></a> The above description of the person and appearance of King -James the Second, is taken from a beautiful oil miniature, painted on -copper; it is believed to be from the pencil of Samuel Cooper, when the -king was Duke of York. It is in possession of the author.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_38_38" id="Footnote_38_38"></a><a href="#FNanchor_38_38"><span class="label">[38]</span></a> Extract from the Life of King James.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_39_39" id="Footnote_39_39"></a><a href="#FNanchor_39_39"><span class="label">[39]</span></a> Life of King James the Second.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_40_40" id="Footnote_40_40"></a><a href="#FNanchor_40_40"><span class="label">[40]</span></a> Ibid.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_41_41" id="Footnote_41_41"></a><a href="#FNanchor_41_41"><span class="label">[41]</span></a> Life of King James the Second.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_42_42" id="Footnote_42_42"></a><a href="#FNanchor_42_42"><span class="label">[42]</span></a> Leland's History of Ireland, vol. <span class="smcap">III</span>. p. 522.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_43_43" id="Footnote_43_43"></a><a href="#FNanchor_43_43"><span class="label">[43]</span></a> Life of King James.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_44_44" id="Footnote_44_44"></a><a href="#FNanchor_44_44"><span class="label">[44]</span></a> This is literally true: this chapel was pulled down, and a -new one built during the administration of the present Duke of Bedford.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_45_45" id="Footnote_45_45"></a><a href="#FNanchor_45_45"><span class="label">[45]</span></a> But actually so named from being the guard who preside over -the royal buffet, or side-board.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_46_46" id="Footnote_46_46"></a><a href="#FNanchor_46_46"><span class="label">[46]</span></a> Extract from lines presented to His Majesty King James the -Second, upon his birth-day, by <i>Edmund Waller</i>.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_47_47" id="Footnote_47_47"></a><a href="#FNanchor_47_47"><span class="label">[47]</span></a> From <i>Lord Lansdowne</i> to King James II.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[Pg 301]</a></span></p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_48_48" id="Footnote_48_48"></a><a href="#FNanchor_48_48"><span class="label">[48]</span></a> Life of King James.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_49_49" id="Footnote_49_49"></a><a href="#FNanchor_49_49"><span class="label">[49]</span></a> This speech will be found in the third volume of Rapin's -History of England, page 85.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_50_50" id="Footnote_50_50"></a><a href="#FNanchor_50_50"><span class="label">[50]</span></a> History and Antiquities of the County and Town of -Carrickfergus.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[Pg 307]</a></span></p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_51_51" id="Footnote_51_51"></a><a href="#FNanchor_51_51"><span class="label">[51]</span></a> Memoirs of Grammont.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_52_52" id="Footnote_52_52"></a><a href="#FNanchor_52_52"><span class="label">[52]</span></a> Rapin's History of England.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_53_53" id="Footnote_53_53"></a><a href="#FNanchor_53_53"><span class="label">[53]</span></a> Rapin's History of England.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_54_54" id="Footnote_54_54"></a><a href="#FNanchor_54_54"><span class="label">[54]</span></a> Life of King James.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_55_55" id="Footnote_55_55"></a><a href="#FNanchor_55_55"><span class="label">[55]</span></a> Rapin's History of England.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_56_56" id="Footnote_56_56"></a><a href="#FNanchor_56_56"><span class="label">[56]</span></a> Sir John Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, -and Rapin's History of England.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_57_57" id="Footnote_57_57"></a><a href="#FNanchor_57_57"><span class="label">[57]</span></a> Colonel Keating's Defence of Ireland.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_58_58" id="Footnote_58_58"></a><a href="#FNanchor_58_58"><span class="label">[58]</span></a> Rapin's History of England.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_59_59" id="Footnote_59_59"></a><a href="#FNanchor_59_59"><span class="label">[59]</span></a> Ibid.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_60_60" id="Footnote_60_60"></a><a href="#FNanchor_60_60"><span class="label">[60]</span></a> Keating's Defence of Ireland.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_61_61" id="Footnote_61_61"></a><a href="#FNanchor_61_61"><span class="label">[61]</span></a> Life of King James.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_62_62" id="Footnote_62_62"></a><a href="#FNanchor_62_62"><span class="label">[62]</span></a> Story's Civil Wars of Ireland.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_63_63" id="Footnote_63_63"></a><a href="#FNanchor_63_63"><span class="label">[63]</span></a> Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, by Sir John -Dalrymple, vol. I. p. 135.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_64_64" id="Footnote_64_64"></a><a href="#FNanchor_64_64"><span class="label">[64]</span></a> Rapin's History of England.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_65_65" id="Footnote_65_65"></a><a href="#FNanchor_65_65"><span class="label">[65]</span></a> Histoire de Guillaume III. tome II. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Eve of All-Hallows, v. 1 of 3 - Adelaide of Tyrconnel - -Author: Matthew Weld Hartstonge - -Release Date: November 1, 2012 [EBook #41212] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS, V. 1 OF 3 *** - - - - -Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Sue Fleming and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - - - - - THE - - EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS; - - OR, - - ADELAIDE OF TYRCONNEL; - - A ROMANCE. - - _IN THREE VOLUMES._ - - By MATTHEW WELD HARTSTONGE, ESQ. M. R. I. A. - - - Nescia mens hominum, fati sortisque futurae - Et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis! - . . . . . . . . . . tempus erit, - . . . . . et quum spolia ista diemque - Oderit! - - VIRGILIUS, AE. x. I. 501. - - - VOL. I. - - LONDON: - - FOR G. B. WHITTAKER, AVE MARIA LANE. - - 1825. - - - - - TO - - SIR WALTER SCOTT, OF ABBOTSFORD, BART., - - &c. &c. &c. - - (WITH WHOSE KIND PERMISSION,) - - THE FOLLOWING TALE OF ERIN - - IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, - - BY HIS EVER OBLIGED FRIEND - - AND FAITHFUL SERVANT, - - THE AUTHOR. - - - MOLESWORTH-STREET, DUBLIN, - _February 1, 1825._ - - - - - THE - - EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS. - - - - -CHAPTER I. - - Tollimur in coelum curvato gurgite, et idem - Subducta ad manes imos descendimus unda. - Ter scopuli clamorem inter cava saxa dedere; - Ter spumam elisam, et rorantia vidimus astra. - - VIRG. AE. l. III. - - * * * * * - - Lay her aloof, the sea grows dangerous: - How it spits against the clouds! how it capers, - And how the fiery element frights it back! - There be devils dancing in the air, I think. - - _The Sea Voyage._--FLETCHER. - - -It was upon a dark and lowering afternoon, the 30th day of October, one -thousand six hundred and ---- the day preceding _The Eve of -All-Hallows_, when the Rev. Doctor M'Kenzie, at that time Chaplain to -his Grace the Duke of Tyrconnel, and who had been for some time in the -ancient realm of Scotland, on a visit to his kind relatives and friends -in that hospitable land, had formed a resolution to depart for the -shores of Ireland, to meet his noble patron. When, in pursuance of this -intention, he embarked on board "The William Wallace of Ayr," the sails -of the vessel were unfurled, and the signal-flag was seen streaming from -the pendant of the main-top-gallant, all giving true and significant -indications that the sea-worthy vessel was upon the eve of sailing, and -her destination was known to be for the northern coast of Ireland. - -Torrents of rain had showered down during the entire of the day, as is -not unusual at that advanced autumnal period; these were accompanied -with loud peals of thunder, while continuous sheets of lightning -illumined and flashed throughout the darkly tinted horizon, which were -succeeded by frequent squalls of wind, that at intervals dying suddenly -away, served but to make the returning roaring blast the more -tremendous and disheartening. - -The vessel was to have sailed at the full tide, but this measure was -entirely prevented by the strong and continued recurrence of the storm, -which blew with such pertinacious force and opposition that "The William -Wallace of Ayr" lay close to its anchors all that afternoon, the whole -of the night, and during the next succeeding day. About nine o'clock, -however, of the evening of the thirty-first, _The Eve of All-Hallows_, -the storm to every appearance had wholly abated, and preparations -accordingly were commenced for the ship to sail, without any further -delay, as bound on its destination. At that point of time the Reverend -Chaplain, Doctor M'Kenzie, and his servant, were the only passengers on -board. "All hands unmoor!" was now loudly and manfully rung forth by the -crew; and all matters having been duly arranged for setting sail, while -the wind blowing fresh and fair, the ponderous anchor was raised from -its oozy bed. - -The reader may well imagine, from all these previous preparations, that -the vessel and crew were on the point of sailing; when, hark! the hoarse -exclaiming "halloo!" and the clattering hoofs of horsemen in full -gallop, were heard sounding sullenly on the ear, and next loudly -thundering their deep echoes through the hollow and deserted streets of -Ayr, which rivetted the sailor to the deck, and at once, as if by magic -influence, paralyzed and arrested his motions. The rapid progress of the -strangers exciting the curiosity of the sailors, called forth in a no -less degree the astonishment of the quiet and peaceable burghers of the -good and loyal town of Ayr, who were then about to retire to repose. Two -horsemen now advanced, their wearied steeds pressed onward with the -utmost velocity; who halting for the instant at the brig of Ayr, -inquired with breathless and hurried anxiety, if a boat did not there -await in readiness to convey passengers on board "The William Wallace?" -But the boat was gone! The few sailors, however, or fishermen, who -loitered on the quay, said in reply, that they had gude reason to ken -that the Bonnie Wullie had not slipped cables, sic warstling winds had -blown sic a hurricane, that the gude and bonnie ship was unco snug in -harbour. - -The strangers now dashed desperately onward, as if life or death were -staked upon the attainment of their object. The vessel was not yet under -way when they arrived on the beach, their panting steeds besmeared with -blood and foam, and nearly exhausted by fatigue. - -The principal personage attracted the gaze of every eye, so noble and -martial was his mien; a tall, graceful, and commanding figure, whose -whole appearance bespoke the undaunted warrior; his firm step, and manly -air, and sinewy arm, boldly told that he knew well how to wield the -falchion in the doubtful fight; while his intrepid eye blazed forth the -talisman of feats in arms and war, and nobly indicating how oft it had -flashed defiance and death upon the daring foe. - - "From gory selle and reeling steed - Sprung the fierce horseman with a bound, - And reeking from some recent deed, - He dash'd his carbine on the ground."[1] - - [1] Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott. - -He was enveloped in a plaid, and wore a Highland bonnet, richly -surmounted with plumes; the stranger was nearly breathless from fatigue -and the rapidity of his flight, for such it seemed to be; added to which -the pallid brow and glaring eye-balls, gave strong and powerful -demonstrations that there existed some other more influential, though -latent source--perchance, it was of sorrow! which affected him even -still more than bodily fatigue. But still these might have been only -mere suspicions, suggestions probably unjustly awakened at the -interesting moment, from the lateness of the hour, the hasty, -embarrassed approach of the stranger; and added to all this, his -impatience and manifest anxiety to embark. It might be assumed that "the -sum and front" of all amounted to no more than this. What then of the -extraordinary or the marvellous could by possibility attach to -circumstances that doubtless any individual, placed in similar -situations, must unavoidably have felt, and betrayed a strong and equal -portion of awkwardness and embarrassment to have encountered? - -But without further interlocution we proceed onward with our tale. The -stranger hastily, but urgently, inquired if the vessel would immediately -sail? Upon his being answered in the affirmative, and the boat on the -instant having been hauled down to take him on board, he promptly flung -into it a small valise, which he had carried at his saddle-bow, and -instantly springing after it himself, was followed by his attendant. -When placed in the boat, he took his station at the stern, where, -enveloped in his plaid, he sat immoveably silent, wrapped in gloomy -meditation. Upon the stranger's having reached the ship, he still seemed -deeply absorbed in thought; the same continued gloom and silence were -preserved, while with hurried strides ever and anon he stately paced the -deck. At intervals, however, he would suddenly stop, and then he would -deeply and intently muse within himself, with folded arms, and dark and -lowering brow. Upon his valise was his address written, "Colonel -Davidson,----Brigade;" the term or epithet preceding the word -"brigade," was torn off, whether by accident or intention did not -appear. - -All matters on board having been duly arranged and adjusted, while a -momentary interval of silence prevailed--"I say," said a sailor, -addressing his comrade, "its a fearfu' mirk to-night, which bodes nae -gude!" - -"Aye, aye!" replied his companion; "but what is still warse, it is -Hallowmass; and too weel I ken that the arch-fient, wi' a' the weirds -and warlocks, will be abread, and alake! I spae the Bonnie Wullie -wull tint the gate! and then we a' maun gang down auld Davie's locker." - -"Weel," rejoins the comrade, "it is a donsie night, but I'm nae fasht my -cantie carl! whare we a' maun gang togither, a' that's kenspeckle, sae -nae mair Claivers!" - -"Aye, but I wiss, Sandy," replies the other, "to make a' sicker, that -the Deil haed a houd o' the haly man belaw!" - -"Whom do you mean?--what holy man below do you speak of?" said Colonel -Davidson, the first time that he had noticed aught was going forward. - -"A haly auld chiel belaw," rejoined the sailor, "that's boune for -Eirin." - -"Who----what----how----whom do you call him, friend?" - -"I ca' him nae doot Maukeenzie. Pray wha do ye ca' um, your worship?" - -"Is the vessel bound for Ireland?" - -"Yea it be, anely frae the gate o' the wind, that says nae to it." - -Occasional squalls of wind now arose, the compass veered, the wind -became adverse; and the storm, or rather hurricane, of the preceding day -threatened to return. Under these gloomy presages - - "Short time there were for gratulating speech." - -Suddenly sounds like the mournful cadence of the plaintive AEolian harp, -were heard above the waves; but no shape, no form, was visible, not -even in shadowy indistinctness: but solemn musical sounds, wherever they -might have proceeded from, and mocking the human voice, only were heard, -sad, slow, and solemn, as the choral chant, _De mortuis_. - - THE SPIRIT OF THE STORM. - - LOQUITUR. - - Where loud tumultuous tempests rave, - And foaming surges daunt the brave; - I mount my storm-swept throne, the wave! - - When midnight fiends their vigils keep, - While lightnings rend the mountain's steep, - I, scowling, rise from out the deep! - - When hope within each bosom dies, - While heard the drowning seaman's cries, - The raving spirit of the storm, I rise! - - Now list! with more than mortal fear, - The dismal dirge which strikes the ear! - - THE DIRGE. - - Once we held fair Scotland's throne, - Aye, once we claimed that realm our own; - Fuimus, non sumus! - - Valorous deeds our claymores crowned, - We ever were true heroes found. - Fuimus, non sumus! - - But feuds, dissension, strife arose; - Oppressed by ranks of hostile foes. - Fuimus, non sumus! - - Behold! the last of all our race - Is forced to fly his natal place! - He bears the vengeful, fatal knife, - Deep stained by bloody feudal strife! - Fuimus, non sumus![2] - -The chant and dirge were audible to the crew, who listened with deep -consternation, and were awfully impressed upon the recollection of the -Reverend Chaplain. - - [2] For the benefit of our fair readers, we venture to translate - the Latin chorus to the Dirge; it means, "We have been, and are - not!" - -Every succeeding blast of wind bore increased terror as it swept along, -and every startling sound excited suspense and dismay. Again the howling -tempest burst forth, and raged with loud and renovated force, what time -the stately stranger, or more correctly to speak, Colonel Davidson, in -deep apparent despondency, was incontinently observed furiously to pace -to and fro the deck, as if in a state of mental aberration. He appeared -of more than mortal size to the terrified eyes of the beholders; his -action was wild and frantic. At one time he walked with such rapidity as -if pursued by an enemy; anon he would suddenly halt, and, folding his -arms, gaze upon the troubled deep, which seemed in unison with his -troubled mind. Next, loudly he uttered a deep and contrite groan; when -having rapidly pushed aside his plaid, he drew forth dirk, sabre, or -sword, whatever it might be, which brightly glistened in the lightning -flash; and then, with hurried impulse, he at once precipitated it down -the side of the vessel into the foaming waves. It sunk with a hissing -noise, and its descent was accompanied by a fiend-like laugh, which -arose from the billows; while at the moment, in a deep, base, sepulchral -tone, the chorus of the dirge again fearfully was chanted from the -waves: - - FUIMUS, NON SUMUS! - -When this dolefully awful chorus was repeated, the Colonel's countenance -assumed the horrible expression of one writhing under intolerable pain, -and seeming to undergo the agonizing tortures of the damned! His -eye-balls flashed fire, he gnashed his teeth, then clenched his brawny -hand, and made a sudden spring, as if in the very act of throwing -himself over board. When at the moment his faithful attendant manfully -grasped him by the shoulder. The Colonel was seized with a trance, and -instantly fell, apparently lifeless, upon the deck. This fainting fit -lasted for some time. At length, however, he was heard deeply to -respire; then broke forth a hollow moan; a cold and clammy moisture was -perceivable on his face and hands. His attendant had him carried down -immediately to the cabin, where he was placed in his bed. - -The unearthly dirge and chorus, as has been before observed, were long -remembered by Doctor M'Kenzie, who was then in bed in the cabin below; -and he has been often heard to express his feelings deeply excited upon -this awful occasion; and to declare, that to the last expiring moment of -his existence, he never could forget the mysterious sounds of that -ominous night! - -The events, beyond all dispute, were passing strange and fearful; but -then all on board "The William Wallace" bore strongly in their -remembrance, that this portentously awful night was "_The Eve of -All-Hallows_;" and then they ceased to wonder, while each thought to -himself, that - - "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here!" - -They scarcely had been a few hours at sea, bound on their destined -track, when again, with resumed fury, the storm returned. They -consequently were obliged to make several tacks, still endeavouring to -force their way upon the perilous voyage. The harbour of Ayr is a -dangerous one, and to attempt to regain it were to encounter greater -danger than what might eventually await the navigators upon the open -seas. For a length of time they beat between the isles of Arran and the -Firth of Clyde; when at last the wind changing, the breeze blew fair -from the north-east, while the staunch vessel proceeded on her watery -way. They were now sailing along the deep-indented and romantic coast of -Ayrshire, when wearied by the eternal tacking to and fro, the heat and -pent-up-air, and all the dull monotony and purgatorial misery of the -cabin of a ship, Doctor M'Kenzie ascended the deck, and thence inhaled -the invigorating and refreshing breeze, while intently, with admiring -gaze, he surveyed the bold and broken masses of those picturesque -shores, which had become strongly illuminated by the bright lightning -flashes then briskly darting over the wild masses of rock, bank, and -brae, and glanced athwart steeple, fort, and tower, o'er lofty peak and -promontory; when suddenly again all was immersed in darkness! Yet he -perceived that this interesting scene totally failed to attract the -stranger's attention, who had returned about the same time on deck that -the Reverend Chaplain had done, and continued with persevering -pertinacity to pace it, as upon the preceding day. - -At that period of time nobly frowned in feudal grandeur those -fortresses, castles, towers, and rampires, which then defended the -romantic shores of Ayrshire from the sword of the invader, extending -their line of defence from Loch-Ryan to the port of Irvine; but which in -our own days have become picturesque ruins, festooned with fern, lichen, -and ivy, and affording solitary shelter to the owl, bat, and raven. - -All these were passed by unlooked at and unobserved by the singular and -silent stranger; those classic shores of fame, destined in subsequent -ages to be immortalized in the ever imperishable song of the tender and -inimitable BURNS; these scenes, the favourite haunt of his "Tam o' -Shanter," the rich and verdant lawns, and the romantic rocky braes of -lordly Cassilis. All these delightful scenes were passed by unheeded, -for the stranger did not even look to shore, but studiously turned his -eyes seaward; and wrapt in deep, moody, mournful meditation, he seemed -to rejoice in the bounding billow, and in the roar of the tempest. Not -the mighty towering pyramid, of stupendous height, the colossal craig -of Ailsa,[3] which now they sailed past, could arrest his eye; nor the -fierce wild scream of the osprey, on its summit, could strike his ear, -although joined in hoarse, sullen, and dissonant chorus, by myriads of -the Solan tribe, that plumaged its surrounding base; while other -sea-fowl, like a misty-halo, hovering in mid-air, crowned its conic -crest. - - [3] "The stupendous rock of Ailsa rises almost perpendicularly to - the height of 940 feet. The circumference of this singular rock at - its base is about two miles; its shape is somewhat conical, and it - is on all sides extremely precipitous. The only landing-place is - on the north-east, where there is a small beach, formed by - fragments which have fallen from the neighbouring rocks. The - cliffs of Ailsa are in several places distinctly columnar; and the - whole isle appears to be composed of rocks belonging to the newest - Floetz formation, the individual members of which resemble those - that occur in the island of Arran. This rock is inhabited by - immense flocks of birds, particularly gannets, or Solan geese; and - is rented from the Earl of Cassilis at L33 a year."--_Description - of Ayrshire._ - -The vessel had just shot past Ailsa-Rock, when fiercely the rising -tempest blew such a violent gale, that it caused "The William Wallace" -to be hurried, with vast impetuosity, through the straits between -Fair-Head and the Mull of Cantyre, and then boldly to be at once -launched into the Irish Sea. - -The storm now raged with such fury, that it was necessary to furl every -sail, and to beat about the entire night under bare poles; while the -pitchy darkness of the sky, added to the horrors of the storm, made -their situation still more alarming and formidable. - -The Reverend Chaplain, much fatigued and wearied, thought it advisable -to retire below to his hammock; so thought too even the solitary -stranger, who, although hitherto he seemed to woo the breeze, and enjoy -the storm, yet also thought it prudent to resume his station in the -cabin, and descended accordingly. - -None now remained upon deck except such of the crew as were upon -immediate duty, and who were lashed to the masts; the hatchways were -closed down, and the sea, in mountain cataracts, burst over the deck -with impetuous roar; while overpowered with fatigue, perhaps too with -fear, the passengers fell into a sound sleep. Thus passed away the first -tempestuous night of their voyage. - -Before the morning watch the wind strangely and perversely changed to -the opposite point of the compass, while squall fiercely succeeded -squall; and the dawn of day witnessed them coasting, west and by south, - - "The storm-swept Orcades,"[4] - -in a boisterous swollen sea, and beneath a darkened sky. Sorry we are -here to have it our duty to narrate that the vessel, probably from the -straining of her timbers, unhappily sprung a leak. All hands instantly -were at their post, and the crew exerted them-selves to the utmost in -closing the chasm, and incessantly, without respite or intermission, -plying every pump; and at length their efforts providentially fully -succeeded: for what will not determined resolution do, and persevering -unabating energy achieve! Relieved from this imminent and impending -danger, once more they proceed on their perilous course, amid this -fearful warfare of the elements. - - [4] The Hebrides. - -The entire of this eventful day the storm raged with unabated fury, the -wind continuing still in the same point, and onward tumultuously they -were driven by force of wave and wind. Towards night-fall the vessel -came close to the Feroe Islands, where it shortly got hemmed -in amid a cluster of rocks, not noticed in their charts. The night was -pitch-dark. However, after an interval, the clouds partially giving way, -the moon, which was nearly full, arose, and afforded a sufficient -friendly light for the Captain to ascertain the extent of the danger -which he had to encounter. He immediately caused the gunwale to be -lightened, by throwing the guns overboard, which effectually raised her, -and the waves of the returning tide assisted in extricating the vessel -from imminent peril. They at length happily succeeded in clearing the -vessel from her jeopardy, and rescuing the crew from impending -destruction. Still, however, it was momentarily dreaded that a new leak -might break forth, or that the vessel, bulging upon other unknown rocks, -might go to pieces, and the sufferers be swallowed up by the treacherous -and remorseless deep. These apprehensions continued throughout the -entire day. - -The storm ere long returned more furious than at its first onset, and -soon broadly launched the vessel into the Northern Sea, - - "While to the helm unfaithful still she lies." - -The masts now became dreadfully shattered from the intensity of the -storm. Dangers and difficulties so increased, that all hopes of safety -seemed nearly at an end. Upon Providence, nevertheless, still the -hapless crew devoutly placed their trust; the Captain, from the very -perilous situation in which they were placed, was compelled to try one -desperate remedy, namely, to cut away the shrouds, and stay, and with -all possible expedition to hew down the mizen-mast. During this awful -operation the crew did not conduct them-selves like men without hope, -although around them all was danger and despair! They felt, however, -fully aware that little less than a miracle could extricate them from -the horrors which surrounded them. With instant promptitude having -obeyed and executed the orders of their Captain, with bold and skilful -celerity they soon lightened the vessel, which bounded with desperate -rapidity into the vast and boundless German Ocean: the watery world was -now all before them, and Providence their guide! - -Once more it was day. Nothing however, worthy of being recorded, -occurred at that period, nor during the night. - -On the fourth morning a watery sun arose in a hazy sky, they now were -close in view of the coast of Austrian-Flanders, with such rapidity, had -wind, and tide, and currents impelled them onward. They now proceeded at -the surprising rate of twelve knots an hour, the wind and tide -conjointly impelling, unassisted by any sail! - -On the disastrous afternoon of this day the vessel made a desperate -plunge, striking upon a cluster of rocks some leagues distant from -land; the shock was so violent that nearly it had split the stern of the -gallant ship. Overcome by terror and fatigue, depressed by despair, and -more like the dead than the living, they remained awfully wedged in -between these dreadful rocks. Eventually, after an interval of suspense -and horror, which appeared to all as though it would never end, the -force and ascendant power of the buoyant billows heaved the vessel -completely over these formidable crags. She was now once more afloat, -but her rudder was borne away; and onward she was drifted at the sport -and will of the fiercely rolling waves. - -Thus rapid was the vessel whirled, the mounting waves every moment -dashing in torrents athwart the deck. Again a second shock was -encountered. It was then all despair, desperation, madness! But, oh how -appalling to every feeling heart was the dreadful cry, - - "All's lost! to prayers, to prayers! all's lost!" - -Still in this state awfully the vessel rapidly was impelled, and -approached more closely to the coast of Austrian-Flanders. But alas! it -is our painful lot to record the unhappy fate of "The William Wallace of -Ayr;" when approaching Ostend the ill-omened bark struck upon a sand -bank, which but too truly is called "_Banc-Dangereux_;" then her -crushing timbers fatally loosened, and, dissevered by the convulsive -shock, promiscuously scattered upon the surface of the waves were seen -floating the disjoined wreck, shattered spars, divided stores, bales of -cargo, &c., along with the mangled corses of the dead, and the -struggling bodies of the living, all commingled, and tumultuously -undulating upon the agitated billows. But providential it was for the -survivors, who, in number, we grieve to state, were but few, that this -dreadful catastrophe occurred so closely to the shores of Ostend. Sorry, -however, we are to relate that all the crew (except two persons) -perished; and that among those who were saved, we have only to count the -Captain of the ship, the Mate, the Rev. Doctor M'Kenzie, Colonel -Davidson and his servant, these forming the very confined list, we -regret to say, of those who survived the terrors of that eventful day. - -Impelled by the resistless call of humanity, several boats had put out -from the harbour, perceiving the perilous situation of the poor unhappy -sufferers; so that when the dread event took place, these were ready and -prompt to save the remnant of those who survived what time "The William -Wallace" - - "Bulg'd at once, and in the deep was lost!" - -The humanity of the Flemish sailors was rewarded by preserving the lives -of five individuals, as we have already observed, from a watery grave; -great manual and unwearied exertions were necessary for success, and the -unhappy sufferers were landed in safety upon the quay of Ostend. - -Ostend is well known to every intelligent reader as a strong fortified -sea-port; but at the period of our narrative it did not appear under the -most favourable point of view, from the devastation that had ensued in -consequence of the long protracted siege of three years and three -months, which it had sustained against the Spaniards, under the command -of Spinola,[5] when fifty thousand of the garrison and inhabitants -perished in this fatal siege, either by disease or the sword; which -losses were severely retaliated and multiplied by the deaths of eighty -thousand of the besiegers! - - [5] This, by the way, seems too like a bold anachronism of the - Reverend Gentleman's, but it has been correctly transcribed from - the M'Kenzie MSS. at least _omnia quae extant_. However, for our - own part we must say, that we are strongly inclined to acquit the - Reverend Gentleman and scholar upon this score, inasmuch as he has - high authority to plead in self-defence the Bard of Mantua having - thought proper to make AEneas and Dido cotemporaries; and yet the - former flourished ONLY two hundred years before the building of - Carthage! with which anachronism to compare the Doctor's little - historical lapse, were indeed merely to match - - "A mole-hill with Olympus!" - -Upon their landing on _terra firma_, Colonel Davidson and Doctor -M'Kenzie put up their quarters at the old Saint Michael Inn; and there -having been refreshed and invigorated by a hearty substantial meal, -which fully and essentially answered every purpose of three or four -breakfasts, dinners, and suppers, they heartily congratulated each other -in a bottle of genuine and veritable Rhenish wine, upon their most -miraculous escape from a watery grave! They subsequently retired at an -early hour to repose, overcome, as they had been, by their sufferings -and fatigue both of body and of mind, to recover, by the renovation of -slumber, "kind Nature's gentle restorer," from the lassitude and horrors -of this eventful day. - -The next morning they arose quite, or nearly, recovered from their past -sufferings; however, with the exception of the Reverend Gentleman, who -rather somewhat gravely grumbled at the perils which they had passed. -Nevertheless, with good seeming appetites, both began a tolerable _coup -de main et de fourchette_ upon the breakfast placed before them. Doctor -M'Kenzie observed, while he and the Colonel were sipping some admirable -coffee, assisted by the _agrements_ of excellent Flemish bread and eggs, -and swallowing _con amore_ some Malines ham, which, accompanied with a -flowing flagon of Louvaine beer, no doubt put the grave and Reverend -Gentleman into the following train of thought: "I feel, my dear Sir," -said he, "such a decided and unconquerable objection to a sea-voyage, at -least for some time to come, from which, although it may be silly in -sooth to say I have suffered so much, yet for the present I quite forego -my intention of returning to Ireland--I have indeed too much in my -recollection the - - 'Quaeque ipse miserrima vidi, - Et quorum pars magna fui----.' - -I therefore purpose to proceed to Aix la Chapelle for the benefit of its -waters. Indeed so great is the decided repugnance which I feel to again -encounter an aquatic expedition, that in the words of our old classical -acquaintance, Ovid, I needs must confess that-- - - '_AEquora me terrent, et ponti, tristis imago!_' - - 'The expansive ocean now affrights me, - And sad the mournful aspect of the deep!' - -Moreover, gallant Colonel, I must say that I prefer the peaceful scenes -of nature and rural life to the war of elements, and the rage of -battle!" - -"Well spoken, my Reverend Sir, like a peaceful gownsman, and quite -becoming the doctrine of that Gospel of which thou art a sacred -minister. But as for me, I like the din of battle, the neighing of the -noble war-horse, and the battle-stirring trumpet's brazen voice, the -groan of death, where contending squadrons commingle in the dreadful -shock, chorused by the cheering shout of victory." - -The Colonel had just, in an emphatic tone of voice, twice shouted -"victory!" and had fiercely made another gallant attack upon the Malines -ham, when the door of the apartment was rudely opened, and entered by a -party of Gen d'Armes, who immediately proceeded to arrest them as -prisoners of war, on suspicion of being spies; and after a short -interval they both were led off and escorted to prison, where, attended -by the Colonel's servant, for the present we needs must leave them, -however reluctant, in durance vile. - - * * * * * - -The above Chapter, unquestionably in unison both with the history and -chronology of our Tale, should indeed occupy a much more remote station -in this our Romance of the days of superstition; but as we felt and -considered it of importance, and besides imping too our flight with some -portion of epic boldness, we have nobly dared and adventured to dash at -once "_in medias res_;" in the pursuance of which truly magnanimous -determination, courteous reader, we shall tell thee fair and softly, yet -in candour, that we shall necessarily be obliged (if thou wilt so -graciously permit us) to make some retrograde motions in the subsequent -chapters. - -But, gentle reader, if thou wilt deign to recollect, that once a year -even mighty Sol himself, beneath Cancer, the influential sign of the -summer solstice, becomes retrograde. When thus we plead such high -authority thou wilt not perhaps deny an extension of the same privilege, -albeit to a disk, small and insignificant even as ours, undiscernible by -the eye of a Brinkley or a Herschell![6] - -Permit us then, kind and patient reader, to retrace our steps and story -to the early part of this our notable history; then shalt thou learn the -birth of our interesting heroine, and become acquainted with personages, -characters, and events, connected with our Tale, which we trust thou -mayst find to be withal not unpalatable to thy taste; for which favour, -and all retrogressions, and progressions, and egressions, (we hope no -transgressions!) thanks and health to thee, mild and patient reader! We -laud thee for thy gentle forbearance and good humour in having -accompanied us thus far in this our long peregrination; wishing, -courteous reader, that thou couldst bestow on us the "_plaudite_" of old -Plautus, but without his _valete_, as we shall meet anon! - - [6] Since the above was written Dr. Herschell has paid the debt of - nature. The other celebrated astronomer lives, and it is hoped - providence will yet grant him many years to preside over the noble - science which his powerful mind so ably illustrates and adorns. - - - - -CHAPTER II. - - Still in the vale the village bells ring round, - Still in TYRCONNEL hall the jests resound; - For now the caudle-cup is circling there, - Now glad at heart the gossips breathe their prayer, - And crowding, stop the cradle to admire - The babe. - - HUMAN LIFE. - - -The lovely Adelaide Raymond, the heroine of our Tale, was the only child -of Raymond Duke of Tyrconnel. An old prophecy or tradition had -immemorially prevailed, that what time a raven should build her nest in -the ducal coronet which decorated the summit of the loftiest -pavilion-tower of the castle, a male heir, upon this event, should then -be wanting to the noble house of Tyrconnel. And this sad occurrence, so -deprecated by the dark and credulous terror and tenor of those -superstitious times, actually occurred some months previous to -Adelaide's birth: a raven had then built her nest within the ducal -coronet; and a few posts after brought an account that Lord Richard -Raymond, the Duke's only brother, had been killed in a duel at Paris. -From this partial fulfilment of the augury the Duke's dependants were -filled with the melancholy forebodings that the Duchess, expiring during -the pains of parturition, should give birth either to a still-born, or a -female infant. - -However the latter supposition proved to be well-founded, as the Duchess -was soon safely delivered of a female child, in due and given time, upon -the Eve of All-Hallows, the 31st day of October, in the year one -thousand six hundred and ---- pending the bodings of the raven, and the -vaticinations of the vicinage. - -The family of Tyrconnel, through the female line, traced their high -descent from a proud and ennobled ancestry, (not less illustrious than -that of the noble Duke;) the pedigree was traced from the high -chieftain, famed _Nial Necalloch_, (or, Nial of the Nine Hostages,) who -in his glorious and chivalrous career had achieved various noble feats -in arms. But not content with these successes at home, he sought for -fame in foreign lands, where in the ardent search and attainment of -glory, his gallant course of valour run, he closed his brave and -honourable life amid the sunny regions of France; where this warlike -planet, this Mars of Erin, expired upon the banks of the Loire,[7] -falling like the valiant Richard I. of England, "The lion-hearted," by -the arrow of the assassin. - - [7] Histoire d'Irlande, par L'Abbe Ma-Geoghegan, _tome_ 1. - -Indeed the house of Tyrconnel might be truly called _a noble family_, -"for all the daughters were chaste, and all the sons were valiant." PER -ACUTA BELLI was the motto which fearlessly they bore, and which, ever -unchanged amid the war-trumpet's clang, the burst of battle, and the -shouts of victory, or the dismaying groans of defeat, they proudly and -nobly maintained; their escutcheon might oft have been encrimsoned by -the blood of the bold, but it still defended the heart, and was upheld -by the arm of the brave! - -The Duke traced his ancient, lordly, and lineal descent from Raymond -Count of Toulouse, who was the first zealous champion in serving, and -enthusiastically heading, the Christian cause in the holy wars. - -Adelaide Raymond, the only child of Raymond Duke of Tyrconnel, was born -upon the 31st day of October, _anno salutis_, one thousand six hundred -and----upon the Eve of All-Hallows, as we have already noticed. His -Royal Highness James Duke of York, (brother and presumptive heir to -Charles II.,) and who afterwards succeeded to the throne of the triple -realms as James II., upon this happy event was most graciously pleased -to signify his royal intention of standing sponsor for Lady Adelaide; -which high distinction was gratefully and proudly accepted by the Duke -and Duchess of Tyrconnel; and the Lord Glandarrah was chosen as proxy -for the royal sponsor. - -Adelaide almost immediately after her birth had been privately -baptized; but the first day of May, which had now arrived, was the day -appointed for the state christening. The Duchess d'Aremberg, an early -friend of the Duchess of Tyrconnel, stood godmother for the Lady -Adelaide, and appointed Lady Lucy Raymond, the Duke's youngest sister, -as her proxy. Nor did the Duchess d'Aremberg forget to send a baptismal -present upon this august occasion, which arrived in due season, in the -shape and form of an infant's cap and frock, all beautifully formed of -exquisite Brussels lace, and made under the eye and express directions -of the illustrious godmother: and to these were added a scarf and sash -of rich Mechlin lace. Nor did Her Grace omit also to send, as was then -usual, a handsome _honorarium_ to the child's nurse, Mrs. Judith -Braingwain, with whom our gentle reader, in due and given time and -place, shall become better acquainted in the following pages of this our -eventful history. - -But with due leave and respect we must now be permitted to say a word or -two concerning the ancient and noble baronial castle, where the high -and exalted ceremonial of this day was with such pomp to be celebrated. - -The castle of Tyrconnel was situated in the province of Ulster, where -its majestic stately ruins still remain magnificent even in decay. It -stood upon the verge of a triangular village, to which it gave its own -ennobled name, as it was the generic name at that period of the town and -the county, which was a district of large extent. Since that time, in -these our modern days, the ancient name of Tyrconnel has been changed -into Donegal.[8] - - [8] This castle now belongs to the Marquis of Conyngham. - -The castle is boldly elevated upon the rocky and precipitous margin of -the river Eske, which rolls its impetuous torrent into the Atlantic -Ocean, from which it is only half-a-mile distant. Mountains surround the -castle on every side, except to the west, from which point receding, -they open a noble vista to the sea, and give a solemn and magnificent -character to the entire scenery. Here the curving and fantastic -outlines of the distant mountains, clad in aerial blue, arise in endless -and beautiful variety, glowing or darkening with every varying tint and -tone of sun-shine or of shadow, reflecting each rainbow hue of the -atmosphere, and then boldly blending sky and mountain into one -congregated mass of undefinable tint; so that the dark blue cloud which -rolls above can with difficulty be distinguished from the dark blue -mountain that, towering, frowns beneath. - -The approach to the majestic steep where this ancient and celebrated -fortress stands, is through the well-known pass of _Barna-More_, or the -great gap; which is here formed by the opening arms of the stupendous -mountain of Sleavedoon, whose gigantic heights constitute vast -continuous barriers to the extent of fourteen miles, girdling within -their extended embrace a varied and lonely valley, which expands and -smiles beneath. - -This massive fabric was planned and piled in the twelfth century by the -first Earl of Tyrconnel, and was then, and subsequently for a series of -years, garrisoned as a fortress. The castle, although by no means -deficient in architectural grandeur, yet appears to have been -constituted principally with a view to strength; and that object -unquestionably in those days was fully attained, for it was utterly -impregnable to all hostile attacks in that early age. The form of the -castle is square, and flanked by frowning turrets of similar -conformation; the ground-plan is constructed upon an extended scale, and -the design of the building is withal irregular: a large magnificent -quadrangular court-yard adorns the interior, which is surrounded by -bastions, battlements, and towers. - -There is a projecting barbican, whose fragments yet remain still boldly -overhanging the river Eske, and which seems to have been intended for -the purpose of supplying the castle with water, while it is also -supposed to have been occasionally used as a donjon-keep, and which -afforded an expeditious mode of despatching the prisoners whom the -haughty Lord refused to surrender, or was unwilling to maintain, by -plunging them down the vortex of the ceaseless current which rapidly -rolls beneath. - -When the Duke of Tyrconnel resided here several small pieces of cannon -were pointed from the embattled bartizan of the central tower, adding to -its ornament as well as to its defence. The grand front of the castle -was situated seaward; to the west extended a lofty terrace; the -embrasures of the parapet wall which enclosed the terrace were furnished -with about a dozen of twelve pounders; while the deep foundations of the -bastions were moated by the impetuous waters of the Eske, fiercely -rolling onward to the Atlantic Ocean. - -This lordly pile was this day (the 1st of May, one thousand six hundred -and----) destined to be the scene of uncommon festivity and grandeur; -indeed such pomp and magnificence never before were witnessed within the -walls of Tyrconnel castle. All the nobility and gentry in the country -for many miles round were invited to assist at the baptismal banquet -given for the noble and lovely infant; and every princely preparation -was in readiness duly to celebrate this distinguished day. - -The noble banner, quartered and emblazoned with the ancient bearings of -this illustrious family, from its gilt flag-staff, which was crowned -with the ducal coronet, proudly floated over the high central tower, -which latterly had obtained the _agnomen_ of "the raven tower," from a -circumstance which already has been related. The guns on the parapet -fired a loud _salvo_ to welcome the happy day; while the ancient harper -(old blind Cormac) and the piper were put in immediate requisition, to -add the notes of harmony to the loud reports of joy. - -The tenantry and peasantry, both male and female, were invited, and -gladly came, clad in their holiday suits, to partake of a rural banquet, -prepared expressly for the occasion within marquees erected on the lawn. -The costume of the servants of the Duke was truly princely, and all who -wore livery appeared richly apparelled in their state attire of green -cloth, deeply laced, and embroidered with gold. The old cathedral tower -pealed forth many a merry chime, which duly was responded to by the -distant tinkling of the surrounding village bells. - -While these preparations were advancing, the Duke happened to be walking -upon the terrace, and hearing old Cormac touch his harp and prepare to -sing, with the intent, no doubt, that his voice and strings might sound -in due tone and harmony at the approaching festival; the Duke had the -curiosity to step onward to hear the notes of the aged minstrel--for he -was both minstrel and harper; and His Grace listened to learn whether -old Cormac had composed any rhythm or song for this great and happy -occasion. Accordingly with this fixed intent His Grace advanced to the -door of the great hall which led out to the terrace, and which happened -to be then open; from thence he listened, and heard the following lines -sung by Cormac, which the old man accompanied with his harp:-- - - CORMAC'S SONG. - - Loud strike the harp! and raise the song! - To Raymond shall the verse belong! - And hail his noble, lovely child, - The image of her mother mild. - - O softly rest, sweet baby there, - And as thy morn, thy life be fair! - - Long may that smile of angel grace - That now illumes thy beauteous face, - Attend thee through life's stormy race! - - May no mischance destroy thy rest, - Be thine the sun-shine of the blest; - And when thy earthly course is past, - Be thine the joys shall ever last! - - Friendship on earth be thine, and love, - And thine eternal bliss above! - -The Duke felt exceedingly pleased at the attachment and feeling -expressed by the old man in his extempore song, although he might not -think very highly of the poetical composition. But the words came from -the old man's heart, and the strain to which his harp rang forth was an -old Irish air, so the Duke was fully satisfied; and having advanced and -entered the hall, he approached old Cormac, and in a gracious tone he -said to the sightless bard, "Thanks, Cormac, accept my grateful thanks; -and moreover, here is largess for the minstrel, and withal it is stamped -in gold." So having said, he passed a gold _Carolus_ into the minstrel's -hand; for which bounty, with tears flowing from his sightless eye-balls, -the grateful old man made a low and respectful obeisance, adding due -courtesy. - -Here the Duke retired to dress, to receive his company; and meeting with -his physician, Sir Patricius Placebo, on his way, he deputed him to do -the honours should any of the guests arrive while His Grace was attiring -for the banquet. - -Sir Patricius Placebo had been created a baronet by king Charles II., in -grateful return for active services and personal kindnesses performed in -favour of the monarch during his long exile from the throne of his -ancestors; and he was, through the favour of His Royal Highness James -Duke of York, who afterwards became James II., introduced, with every -favourable recommendation, to the Duke of Tyrconnel. - -Sir Patricius Placebo now became forth-with family physician to the -Duke. He had been baptized plain Patrick, but assumed that of Patricius; -whether it was selected for the euphony of the sound, or the dignity -which it implied, or both considerations probably swaying together, the -reason of the selection has not been sufficiently defined, nor do our -historical annals record the cause. But thus the baronet in sooth was -called, and so he wished to be designated. - -The attire of Sir Patricius was in due accordance and conformity to the -medical costume of the time, which is worthy of being preserved as a -historical morceau. His head was enveloped within an enormous bushy -peruke, which at this period was confined to the learned professions, or -those who affected gravity. This said peruke was _bien poudre_, and upon -its summit was perched a small gold-laced hat of triangular shape and -form, fastened with gold loops, and a button at the sinister side of -said triangle. His costume was a rich black velvet coat, without a -cape, made single-breasted, with long and portentously extended skirts, -starched, and stuffed, and stiffened forth, with a magnanimous -expenditure of stay-tape and buckram; from out of which sprung, and -sparkled forth, the ornamented hilt of a small sword. The sleeves of the -coat were large and slashed, each capacious enough to have contained a -moderate sized turkey. The waistcoat, formed of the same materials, was -likewise in unison with the coat, single-breasted, with long flaps or -skirts, which might have given no bad idea of the Roman _sportula_. His -cravat was formed of the richest muslin, deeply edged with Mechlin lace, -which, after passing several times around the neck, meandered through -the button-holes of the waistcoat, so as nearly to reach the extremity -of the waist. His small-clothes were made likewise of black velvet, -according to the curious, and certainly not very seemly fashion of the -times. The hose, or stockings, were of scarlet silk, which were tightly -drawn up, and ascended the knees upon the exterior of the small-clothes, -and that too to the very utmost of their outstretched extent; at the -ankles the hose were adorned with clokes of gold net-work.[9] The shoes -were fashioned with broad square toes, made with short quarters and high -tops, and were so highly polished that they might well indeed have -elicited the admiration, if not the envy, of the fabricator (if then -living) of "Warren's jet blacking!"[10] The shoes were fastened by small -square gold buckles richly wrought. His solitaire of rich black satin, -must not perish in oblivion, along with all the dignified _et ceteras_ -of a proud chevalier of that chivalrous day. His ruffles and chitterlin -were of rich Poyntz lace; while over and around his shoulders was flung -a long Spanish _capa ropa larga_, a large wide cloak or roquelaire of -rich Spanish cloth, the inside dyed white, the exterior scarlet; and it -is certainly imagined that no one ever yet stood in proximity with the -Doctor's red flowing roquelaire without wishing mentally for the -approach of a fire-engine! - - [9] Silk stockings first became usual in the reign of Elizabeth. - These articles of finery "were curiously knit with open seam down - the legge, with quirks and clokes about the ancles, and sometimes - (haply) _interlaced with gold or silver threads_, as it is - wonderful to behold."--_Beaumont and Fletcher_, vol. v. _Note_, p. - 353. - - [10] "Shining shoes" are often noticed by Massinger, Jonson, and - other old dramatists. - -But we must now complete the portrait of Sir Patricius. He constantly -carried an Indian cane, surmounted with a gold head of beautifully -perforated filligree-work, the interior of which contained cotton -steeped in aromatic vinegar; and it was amusing to behold with what -dignified gravity and grimace he ever and anon applied the said cane to -the olfactory organ, and with much seeming satisfaction. When this -stately toy was relinquished, it gave place to a more magnificent bijou, -in the shape of a gold snuff-box: upon the lid was inserted a miniature -of Charles II. by the celebrated Samuel Cooper. And let it be remembered -that "he was the first who gave the strength and freedom of oil to -miniature!" This fine production of original genius was appropriately -encircled around with large brilliants. The act of snuff-taking was -slowly performed by the grave pressure of the thumb and fore-finger of -the right hand, deliberately and ceremoniously performing a curve, or -segment of a circle, while with a sly and approving gaze he contentedly -ogled a large diamond ring placed on the little finger. When the Baronet -spoke it was with a rich and most mellifluous brogue, and to which the -tone of consequence did not seem wanting: albeit to those who invited -him to a good dinner when the Duke was absent, or who annually -vouchsafed to take or order a box of his _Pillulae Vitae_, he was, in -sooth, a very pleasant, accommodating, and polite gentleman. - -Sir Patricius was standing on the terrace, and leaning thoughtfully upon -his cane, when Captain Heaviside rode up to the steps; and alighting -from horseback, he ascended the stately terrace. Captain Heaviside was -all things to all men--ay, and to all women. He was the _pious AEneas_ in -church, conventicle, or chapel; but he was the _dux Trojanus_ in the -grotto or drawing-room. - -"Good morrow, Captain." - -"Sir Patricius, your most humble servant." - -"Would you wish, Captain, to view the demesne?" - -"Certainly, Sir Patrick--I mean Sir Patricius. I beg pardon, dear Sir; -but will you first allow me to jump out of these leathern turrets? I -hate all confounded French fashions." - -The Captain retired to the chamber appropriated for him. There freely -disengaged from the ponderous encumbrances which were worn at that era. -After a few moments he rejoined the Baronet in the great hall of the -castle. It was not then the fashion, _a la Turke_, to wear mustaches; -nor was it considered necessary to announce the approach into -the drawing-room or dancing saloon, of the man of war, by the loud clank -and clatter of his iron heels, steel chains, and brass spurs, or the -ponderosity of an immense sabre, enclosed in an iron sheath, and -"dragging its slow length along." No; Captain Heaviside came in -full-dress, according to the studied propriety and etiquette of the age. - -The great baronial hall was sumptuously fitted up as an armoury; the -walls were adorned with all the ancient arms and weapons which were -peculiar to Ireland; it was wainscoted with carved native oak; the -ceiling also was of oak, ornamented with carved, basso-relievos of -armorial escutcheons, armour, warlike weapons, coats of arms, crests -mottoes, &c. Several horns of the moose-deer, of immense dimensions, -surmounted the architraves and door-cases. At either end of the hall -were two large fire-places, with gigantic chimney-pieces of Irish -marble; the central compartment of each was decorated with armorial -sculpture, representing the Irish harp, surmounted by the radiate, or -Irish crown, the supporters, two wolf-dogs of the Irish breed, and -underneath, in Gaelic, a motto under each device; the interpretation of -which, partly in allusion to the Irish wolf-dog, as also to the manly -character of the inhabitants of the island, was, "Gentle when soothed, -fierce when provoked." Various war-weapons tastefully displayed and -arranged, of ancient Irish make and form, glittered upon the walls; viz. -spears and javelins, "the heavy broad-eyed spear of battle," swords, -daggers, skeines of iron and brass, two-handled swords, and among them -conspicuously shone forth the double-handled sword of the renowned NIAL -NECALLOCH, richly ornamented and inlaid with gold; metal halberts were -arranged in the same class with tuagh-catha, _i.e._ battle-axes, tuagh -suaighte or clipping axes, fiadhgha, crannuibhs, spears, clubs, Irish -lances, spears, javelins, jacks, corslets, haubergeons, targets, -bucklers, pavices (shields), cailmhions, salets, skulls (_i.e._ -helmets), sceptres beautifully inlaid with gold, fibula (brooches) of -brass, silver, and gold, richly and exquisitely wrought; bits and spurs -of an enormous size, and inlaid with gold; druidical scythes, ancient -Irish harps (the _cithara_), ancient Irish trumpets of various kinds and -names, the stuic or stock, the buabhall, the beann, the adharc, and the -corna or bugle-horn; the dudag, the gall-trompa, the cibbural or -corabus, the cornan or cronan, and the iachdarchannus (_quasi_, _cantus -bassus_.) But here we close our antiquarian summary, as we begin fairly -to suspect that many of our readers have no partiality to such ancient -researches; suffice it then to say, that all these various specimens -were arranged in diversified ornamental shapes and forms of sun, moon, -star, and crescent, that fancy could conceive or taste execute. - -Here Sir Patricius again proposed to the Captain to accompany him in a -ramble to view the grounds; to which Captain Heaviside readily and -gladly assented. As they stood upon the terrace, Sir Patricius said, "My -worthy Sir, just as you had arrived I was upon this spot, thinking with -what taste and judgment my very excellent patron-- - - (_O et praesidium et dulce decus meum!_) - -has so much improved and adorned these lawns, when, Captain, I can well -remember what they were. Great natural capabilities, no doubt, presented -them-selves, and His Grace has acted upon them with spirit, taste, and -judgment, and withal no expense has been spared. However highly meriting -the meed of praise, which doubtless His Grace so well is entitled to, I -was just thinking of the great Archimedes, who so sagely and -appropriately said, - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -And I----" - -"I must beg a thousand pardons, most gallant, illustrate, and learned -Sir Patricius," said Captain Heaviside, interrupting the Baronet, "but, -under favour, my good Sir, I do not in verity understand one word of -_Hebrew_; no, nor any of these nostrums; albeit I have little doubt that -Archimedes the great was, in good sooth, a most famous and skilful -physician and gifted leech in his celebrated day."[11] - - [11] The reader will have the candour to recollect that this can - mean no disparagement to the military profession.--This was said - when knowledge was limited to the few--one hundred and forty years - ago. - -"Nay, Captain Heaviside, I cry nay. Mark me, he was a geometrician and -astronomer, and very celebrated as both! The passage which I have put -into the mouth of the renowned philosopher of Syracuse is Greek; and if -I may be indeed permitted to pique myself upon any kind of erudition, -(although, perhaps, in modesty I might say, _Vix ea nostra voco_), I -should then pride myself upon a knowledge of the Greek tongue; and -moreover too, the proper pronunciation and due intonation of voice, what -Horace so sonorously and emphatically calls the _ore rotundo Graecorum_. -Indeed I do flatter myself that I speak the best Greek beyond any other -person in the island!" - -"Oh, come, no disparagement, good Sir Patricius! to all your learned -acquirements; you excel in speech, and no doubt succeed as well in the -gift and exercise of your pen! but I, Sir, the hapless child of wayward -fortune, am only acquainted with _this_! [half drawing his sword from -its scabbard.] On this simple stake rest all my fortune and my hope, -which, while I have a hand to wield, shall be held forth in the defence -of my king and country!" - -"Well said, i' faith, my master! and spoken nobly, like a brave and -honest soldier! Ay, to be sure, Sir! _every man in his vocation, Hal!_ -as the inimitable Shakespeare sagely saith; although, nevertheless, a -little knowledge methinks, after all, to the tune of the old proverb, is -in sooth no great burden! But come, presto! we shall change the topic -and the scene. The day beams forth its vernal glow beneath a brilliant -sky, and the melodious strains of the feathered songsters, vying in -harmonious notes, invite us abroad. Come, we have stayed too long." - -Thus at last the learned physician and the preux chevalier sallied forth -to behold the varied and noble domains of the illustrious proprietor. -The lawns, shrubberies, walks, gardens, &c., were all kept with the -greatest possible care and neatness. Several artificial lakes fed by a -living stream, and of great extent, so as to seem as if placed there by -the hand of nature, wound along beneath the shadow of ancient groves, -and fully diversified the scene. The lawns and parks were smooth and -verdant as a bowling-green from the frequent pressure of the roller. -While the walks, parterres, and terraces, were so trimly kept that not a -fallen leaf was to be seen; which order and regularity was placed to the -account and agency of several old females, habited as witches, whose -brooms, ever on the alert, kept all in due and perfect neatness. Part of -the grounds which adjoined the castle were laid out in that -old-fashioned style which we confess we are antediluvian enough to -admire; however, be it known that no tree, shrub, nor ever-green, -whatever, was clipt and mutilated by the shears to shrink into the -abortioned form and pressure of a wizard's broom, or a true-lover's -knot! no pyramid of clipped beech, no cypress-tree which assumed the -fantastic form of Cleopatra's needle. No: nor did shivering Adam and -Eve, and the cold clammy serpent and "forbidden tree," astound the -spectator in shorn yew; no fountain impotently attempted to spring -upward in boxwood; no such puerilities were tolerated to disfigure by -grotesqueness the scenery of nature. So far on the contrary, that every -thing was in good taste--at least it was so at the distant time of which -now we write. The grounds were laid out in what would now be called the -improved English taste: here lawns of richest verdure, and cultivated to -the highest degree of luxuriance; there wild rocks of granite or -limestone, as placed by the hand of nature, trailed and festooned around -with lichen grey and ivy green; while the _Osmunda regalis_, the royal -fern, spreading wide its majestic plumes, and undulating in the breeze, -gracefully waved and bent over the apex of these romantic rocks, and -gave a pleasure to the eye that scenes of nature only can bestow. The -terraces which surrounded the castle were kept gravelled and rolled to -the extreme of neatness, and were hedged with luxuriant myrtle. The -_now_ old-fashioned ponds, which it would have been little less than -sacrilege to remove, reposed beneath the terraces, which gave a tone of -grandeur to the whole; _jets d'eau_ sprung from the centre of these to -an elevated height, and over the head of many a triton and river deity; -while the waters, as the declination of the ground permitted, bursting -forth at once the bonds of artificial force, they - - "From large cascades in pleasing tumult roll'd, - Or rose from figured stone," - -brightly spreading and sparkling beneath a brilliant sun. It must, -however, be admitted, that it was somewhat chilling, even in the merry -month of May, to behold the shivering deities who presented them-selves -in cold tangible marble _sans chemise_, _sans robe_, _et sans drape_, -while they sentinelled the verdant banks of pond, lake, or canal; and -which, in some degree to qualify our praise, we are ready and free to -admit were after all somewhat _selon le ecole d'Hollande_! - -Here suddenly a vernal shower coming on, the Doctor and Captain, at no -great distance from the castle, were glad to make a race to avoid a -wetting; and before their dress could receive any damage they entered -the castle-hall, having luckily accomplished their object. Sir Patricius -now proposed to show to Captain Heaviside the Duke's great gallery of -paintings, _pour passer le temps_ until the hour appointed for the -baptismal ceremony should arrive. - -Just at this moment the Duchess of Tyrconnel drove up in her equipage to -the castle door. It was a low demesne cabriole, drawn by two small -ponies, and driven by a postillion; in it was seated the Duchess, Mrs. -Judith Braingwain, the nurse, and in her arms the lovely child, the Lady -Adelaide. Sir Patricius hastened forth to hand them from the vehicle, -and the Duchess most graciously saluted both her guests, the little -Adelaide sweetly smiled, and the Duchess with all due courtesy retired. - -"There she goes--there goes Her Grace," said Sir Patricius; "that highly -intellectual lady; the _rara avis_--the black swan of literature of this -our day--my right noble patroness; shining amid her compeers a bright -star of intellectual, and literary, and domestic worth, and rich indeed -in all, - - 'Velut inter ignes - Luna minores.'" - -Captain Heaviside here rejoined--"Although, Sir Patricius, I knew well -that the Duchess gave with her noble hand a distinguished fortune to the -Duke, yet verily I did not until now learn that Her Grace had any estate -in the _Minories_!" - -"No, no; ha, ha!" said Sir Patricius, with a most self-applauding laugh. -"Oh no! nor in the _Stannaries_ neither. But _allons nous donc, mon -preux chevalier_! Apollo and the muses now invite us.--So, ho! to the -picture gallery." To which the learned Theban and the valiant Captain -now hastily ascended. - -The grand picture gallery, which now they entered, was of truly -magnificent dimensions, and lighted from an elevated dome. This truly -splendid collection of paintings was most judiciously arranged on the -walls of the superb gallery, collected and selected with a taste and -discernment that spoke volumes in praise of the liberality of the -distinguished collector. This splendid gallery was adorned with the -_chefs d'ouvres_ of the most ancient celebrated masters; forming, on -entrance, a truly grand and most imposing _coup d'oeil_ of the -different works of Reubens', "the prince of painters;" Raphael, "the -divine!" Angelo, Guido, Titian, with a long and noble extended _et -cetera_, too magnificently formidable to be here introduced. - -The first painting which they approached was from the pencil of Teniers; -it was that of his famous _Alchymist_. - -"This," said Sir Patricius, pointing to the painting, "is a work of -Teniers!" - -"Vastly fine, indeed, Sir Patricius!--Oh, monstrous fine! grand, -expressively sublime! eh! But here," added the surprised Captain, "what, -_ten years_!--was the patient artist employed ten years thereon? -Monstrous length of time! what sad solemn patience and perseverance the -fellow had to be sure!--tedious faith, as the old siege of Troy!" - -"No, no, my very good Captain, I did not say that the renowned artist -was _ten years_ employed in accomplishing this fine painting, but merely -announced that his distinguished name was Teniers." - -"Oh, a thousand pardons, Sir Patricius!--eh--_ten_ thousand pardons! But -then the painting is truly monstrous fine!--upon my s--l it is vastly -fine indeed--eh!" - -The next painting which they approached was the famous painting of -Europa carried off by Jupiter in the shape of a bull, from the -distinguished pencil of the celebrated Claude Lorraine. - -"The painter who has produced that truly ennobled specimen of his divine -art," said Sir Patricius, with great pomp and emphasis, save when he -was interrupted by a constitutional cough, "the painter, hem, hem, hem, -was, Sir Captain, let me tell to you, inimitable! He deeply studied -nature, and hence he acquired that elevated _gusto_, which has justly -stamped a superlative value upon all his masterly works; his truly -lovely landscapes, glowing with Italian suns, and with Italian verdure, -_Italia diis sacra_, hem, hem, hem! Yes, bold Sir, upon these he acted, -and on the noble inspirations of nature! verifying on glowing canvass -the most apposite and veritable saying of the great and learned -Archimedes, - - 'DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!' - -That, brave Sir, means--'Give me a point to stand upon;' and Sir, aye -Sir, I shall move '_the great globe itself; yea, and all that it -inhabit!_'--That, Sir, is a Claude!" - -"Heaven and earth!--_clawed!_ What do I hear," said the astonished -Captain, in a most lachrymal tone; "_clawed!_--what a thousand pities! -irreparable--hopelessly irreparable! Indeed I always knew too well that -cats were most destructive, malicious animals. But say what inducing -cause--what motive? here was depicted no lively representation of rat, -rabbit, pigeon--no, nor mouse! wonderful! 'Fore Jove I swear, that all -the confounded pestilential breed of cats in the county should swing -before I should endure to have such a noble painting as that _clawed_ by -any cat o' the mountain in the province!" - -Here Sir Patricius Placebo raised his intelligent eyes in dumb despair, -very nearly indeed allied to positive contempt. But after a short -momentary gaze of astonishment, and a slight expression of contempt, his -muscles relaxed into a cheering smile; and seeing from the window, as he -looked out, some of the guests to arrive, he gaily said--"I see clearly, -Captain Heaviside, that you prefer living faces to their mute -representation on canvass, so let us adjourn, _si vous voulez_, and -attend the ladies; and egad I think I can show you some fine girls; -there, Captain, you see are some fair specimens, the six Misses -O'Carrol, and all dressed so gay in pink, blue, and crimson, smiling -and blooming like a bed of budding paeonies in June!" - -"Vastly koind, good Sir Patricius; vastly koind, _j'irai la sans -failler_, eh?--Yes I do admire pretty girls exceedingly; and I must say, -by Jove, that I prefer them to all your _Hebes_, _Cupids_, and -_Ganymedes_, on copper, canvass, or panel!" - -The chimes of the bells of the ducal chapel now gave warning note that -the baptismal ceremony was nigh at hand, and all the guests consequently -approached the sacred edifice. And at the high altar, gorgeously -decorated, from a golden ewer the ceremony of ablution was performed. -When the lovely Adelaide received the sprinkling she smiled most -sweetly; and as her nurse, Mrs. Judith Braingwain, (whom we shall hear -more of anon,) afterwards very appropriately told it: "Heaven bless the -dear bonnie babe, how sweetly it was she smiled bekase she was made a -Christian cratur!" - -The ceremony concluded upon the return of the noble party to the castle. -Cake, caudle, and wine, and various confectionary, were dealt out with -no sparing hand. Many of the company sat down to different card-tables, -and played, as was then the fashion, at ombre, cribbage, loo, _jusque a -diner_, when they were entertained at a most princely and magnificent -banquet. - -The Duke of Tyrconnel received all his guests with frank and due welcome -and courtesy. His Grace was attired in the following costume:--a large -well powdered peruke, which freely flowed over the splendid mantle and -robes of the order of the garter. His Grace also wore the magnificent -collar and gem, and resplendent star, of the illustrious order. His -stockings were of light blue coloured silk, and drawn up in a fashion -similar to those of Sir Patricius Placebo; and around the left leg, -beneath the knee, was buckled the embroidered and mottoed garter, which -pertains to, and from which this distinguished order receives its -appellation. The stockings were adorned "with quirks and clokes about -the ancles" of gold withal, and curiously and richly wrought. - -The Duke of Tyrconnel was considered as the handsomest man of the age, -and upon this occasion looked uncommonly well, every inch the nobleman. -Lord Glandarrah was attired in the magnificent robes of the order of the -Bath. All the guests, of both sexes were splendidly arrayed, and the -entertainment passed off with undiminished eclat. - -But we have already exceeded our limits, and have yet to speak of the -highly gifted Duchess, who indeed deserves a chapter to be appropriated -to herself, to which we shall now proceed, and to the acquaintance of -other persons, matters, and things, connected with this our delectable -history. - - - - -CHAPTER III. - - Haec mulier, genere atque forma, preterea viro atque liberis, - satis fortunata fuit: litteris Graecis et Latinis docta, * * - * * prorsus multae facetiae multusque lepos inerat. - - SALLUST. - - -The noble guests sat long and cheerfully to celebrate with due honour -the baptismal day; while potations of claret, liberally flowing, and -constantly renovated from _magnum_ bottles, according to the approved -custom and social fellowship and habit of the times, were deep and -frequent.[12] The splendid supper which followed the sumptuous dinner -was accompanied with the unqualified commendations of Sir Patricius, who -insisted "that it even excelled the Roman banquets of Lucullus or -Apicius; and was in sooth so luxurious, that, verily, his old friend -Flaccus would have called it a _dubia coena_; and although they had -neither the juice of the Tuscan nor Falernian grape, they had still -nobler potations to quaff!" And it has been currently reported that his -actions sagely comported, _pari passu_, with his asseverations, that he -"suited the action to the word," and did most ample, nay summary -justice, to testify beyond all possible contradiction how highly his -palate lauded the excellence of the entertainment! All this was -confidently and cautiously whispered, and discreetly intrusted to a -chosen few. But it met with the fate usually attendant upon all such -confidential communications, _videlicet_, to be made known and published -in a few hours to the unselected many; or in other words, to all the -king's liege subjects throughout the vicinity! - - [12] This fondness for drinking is noticed in Lord Strafford's - Letters.--"In Ireland, where drinking was grown a disease - epidemical."--_Appendix to Lord Strafford's Letters_, vol. II. p. - 433. - -The supper was served at ten o'clock; an hour which was considered at -that period as late, and was prolonged still later, while jest and joke, -and revelry, and song, and glee, and glass went round; and at a -protracted hour the guests retired to repose; and thus terminated the -social hilarities of the festive night. - -The Duchess rose upon the following day at an early hour, as invariably -was her custom, and having retired to her classical cabinet, opened the -latticed casement to admit the enlivening rays of a brilliant vernal -sun, and to inhale the balmy breeze of the morning. It was truly a -beauteous spring morning; the Eske rolled rapidly over his stony -channel, pouring forth his tributary torrent into the peaceful bosom of -the Atlantic Sea; while with mournful plaint the wood-quest called her -mate, perched on her favourite sycamore; and the red-breast and linnet -sweetly warbled forth their matin-hymn from bush and spray, - - "To gratulate the sweet return of morn." - -The Duchess of Tyrconnel was indeed an extraordinary woman, highly -gifted by nature, instructed by education, (in these days, certainly an -unusual occurrence), and still more learned from her own assiduity and -perseverance. All this was the more remarkable, when we pause to -consider the period in which she lived! The vast powers of her mind were -demonstrated by the universality of her knowledge, the various -accomplishments which she possessed, her acquaintance, even to a -colloquial knowledge, with several different languages, the numerous -acquirements, in all of which she excelled. No less distinguished was -the Duchess of Tyrconnel for her singular modesty, her unaffected -manners, and that retiring grace, at once characteristic of those high -endowments which flung around her such imposing charms. Indeed it has -generally been remarked and acknowledged, that affectation and conceit -are seldom found to be connected with genius, but are the satellites of -those who would usurp her throne; and that the never-failing attendant -upon true genius is simplicity of manners. - -The Duchess had been educated at the convent of Vernon sur le Seine, -where she was wont - - "To walk the studious cloisters pale, - And love the high embowed roof, - With antic pillars massy proof, - And storied windows, richly dight, - Casting a dim religious light." - -Here, during her novitiate, the Duchess (then Lady Katherine O'Nial) -formed a friendship with a young lady, an inmate at the convent, which -terminated only in death. The friend of her youth was the beautiful Lady -Adelaide Alencon, daughter of the Duke of Alencon. They became dear and -inseparable friends, from similarity of taste and talent. The _idem -velle_--the _idem nolle_--was theirs! The same, or nearly the same, -distinguished talents, a similar and uncontrollable wish for -information, led them on in the paths of science and of literature, of -virtue and of religion. Then, oh! how delightful it was, after a short -sojourn with their friends, again to return to the sacred convent, and -to hear at early morn the solemn anthem from the hallowed choir, which -pealed over rock and flood, deeply re-echoed by the convent walls: or if -at eve they returned, to hear floating upon the silent and slumbering -bosom of the Seine the sad and solemn evening vesper, which was wafted -to the skies! - -But this pure and disinterested friendship was doomed to be only of -short duration. Lady Adelaide Alencon's powers of mind were superior to -the fragile tenement they illuminated and adorned, and over-studiousness -brought on a consumption, which unfortunately was a hereditary disease. -The physicians ordered the patient to remove to Tours, from thence to -the aromatic isles of the Heyeres. But, alas! it was all in vain! The -promises at first were fair, like expanding snow-drops on the cold -breast of spring, which blow--then bloom--then die! But each sad -succeeding account only brought fresh accession of regret; and at an -early age, in the ever-blooming green islands of the Heyeres, the lovely -and the gifted Lady Adelaide Alencon drooped, and pined, and died! -deeply deplored by all her relatives, and justly and duly lamented by -her friends. - - "The hectic form, the beauteous maid, - That just as life its charms displayed, - To death devoted, glides away; - With brilliant eye, that watery gleams, - While still the rosy spectre dreams - Of many a morrow gay." - -Upon the deeply regretted event of Lady Adelaide Alencon's death, the -Duchess made a vow that if she married, her first female child should be -called after her first regarded, her early and lamented friend; and to -this cause our heroine was indebted for the illustrious name which she -bore. - -The Duchess, even during her juvenile abode at the convent of Vernon -sur le Seine, had manifested much talent and infinite taste, and at that -early period had displayed an extraordinary degree of ingenuity and -delicacy of tact; she cut paper into an innumerable variety of figures, -characters, and landscapes, solely dictated by her own genius, and -executed with much taste and spirit. Her Grace also drew in crayons, -flowers that were so naturally depicted, that they seemed to have been -recently culled from the garden. She was conversant, besides, with vocal -and instrumental music; and, moreover, displayed much skill in -oil-painting and in sculpture: indeed her talents seemed to rival those -of that noble and distinguished lady, Anne-Maria Schurman.[13] A -proficient too in etching. Her writing in various languages was -inimitable. She was also perfect mistress of the Greek and Latin -languages, and understood and spoke with facility French, Italian, and -German; and no less excelling in the sciences of geography, astronomy, -and philosophy, with many other rare acquirements, which we shall pass -by unnoticed, as we do not choose to classify this gifted lady with the -heroines of romance. Under the guidance and instructions of such a -mother everything was to be hoped for, if not realized, in the education -of an only and beloved daughter--her first-born, and possibly her last; -certainly her only one! - - [13] For an account of this noble and distinguished lady, see - "_Moreri Dictionnaire Historique_," folio, Paris, 1654, tome VI. - p. 173;--and Descamps, in his "_Vie des Peintres_," &c., tome II. - Paris, 1754, makes the following honourable mention of her: - "Anne-Marie Schurman, les Poetes Hollandois nomment dans leurs - vers cette fille illustre, leur Sapho et leur Cornelie: si elle a - merite les eloges de ses compatriotes, elle a aussi obtenu les - suffrages des grands et des scavants de l'Europe," &c.--Tome II. - p. 119. - -With all these splendid acquirements, the Duchess was an ardent admirer -of the beauties of nature. She took delight in beholding the sun, with -glorious burst, to ascend and illuminate the lofty mountain-peak; and at -night to behold the starry host of heaven, the moon, and all the -unnumbered stars that gem with imperishable lustre the canopy of the -skies. Even while the morning dew impearled the grass, she was wont to -traverse the verdant lawn, with "daisies pied and violets blue;" all -these charms of rural nature gave delight and indescribable pleasure to -a mind at peace with itself, and in harmony with the tranquil solitude -which surrounded her. Who can doubt, then, that it was with unmixed -contempt that the Duchess looked down upon the green and frivolous field -of a loo, tredille, or cribbage-table, and that even primero had no -charms for her!--a preference at that period very remarkable, and that -completely puzzled all the suppositions and gossipings of the courtly -card-playing dowagers of those courtly days. - -However, with all this wild love for nature, and with all those -commanding accomplishments to boot, we cannot, howbeit, deny that the -Duchess was proud of the country which gave her birth, and pardie proud -perhaps too of her own ennobled descent; although we must observe that, -with due discretion, she was never known to dwell upon the latter, while -upon the former, conversant as she was with the aboriginal language of -her country, when time and opportunity offered, she then indulged -herself therein, in learning the wants and the necessities of the lower -orders; and, furthermore, in acquiring a knowledge of the character and -the feelings of the native Irish, with which the more she became -acquainted, the still more she became endeared. - -While thus we have been endeavouring to delineate the mind and -acquirements of the Duchess of Tyrconnel, we must, however, not silently -pass by her remarkable costume, for this is strictly in unison with the -history of those times; and it must be confessed that it was -sufficiently _outre_ and extraordinary. Her Grace's head-dress, or -head-gear, was strangely elevated, indeed we might say castellated, upon -the stiff, formal, and firm foundation of an internal satin cushion, on -bastion of silk, surmounted by a natural coronal of fine auburn hair; so -that she might have been mistaken for Cybele, the mother of the gods; -and like the goddess too, she was crowned with the model of a citadel. -The hair was raised with such force, that it appeared from the process -to be nearly starting from the roots. A double tier of curls formidably -flanked and circled round this superstructure, on which were arranged -three magnificent rows of eastern pearls, while above was placed a -costly coif or cap of superb Brussels lace, bordered with Mechlin. Large -pendant diamond rings sparkled in each ear; a superb brilliant necklace -glittered on her bosom; her kerchief was of the richest Poyntz lace; her -jacket or bodice was short, formed with close sleeves, and made of light -blue Spanish cloth, adorned with longitudinal stripes of gold. This -bodice was fastened at the breast, so as to form a most splendid -stomacher, by means of two parallel superb rows of large brilliant -diamond buttons, which were interlaced by crimson ribbons, enclosing it -in front. The sleeves were of deep crimson velvet, trimmed with rich -gold net-work. The petticoat was of rich blue velvet, festooned by -golden cords and tassels, and richly trimmed with a border of deep gold -net-work. The petticoat, it must needs be confessed, was distended to a -disfiguring circumference, swelled out by the unseemly and uncouth -bell-hoop, which was then the appanage to a lady's full dress, and still -further increased by long peaked stays, which gave a most Dutch-like and -awkward solemnity, if not an armorial stiffness of carriage, to the -wearer. - -Her Grace's shoes were of red Morocco leather, with high tapering -heels, so elevated as to form with the sole the outlines of an arch; and -the colour, to contrast with the red upper leather, was blue. The shoes -were tastefully stitched and worked in a pattern of gold-thread work, -and fastened with diamond clasps. The hose were of light blue silk, -ornamented with clokes of gold.[14] - - [14] There is another item of Her Grace's dress which is not - noticed above, as it was only used on occasions of going abroad to - visit, or when on horseback; we speak of a velvet mask, worn by - ladies of rank at this period, and for which a high duty was - imposed upon their being imported from France. - -Upon the festival of the previous day the Duchess was thus attired as we -have endeavoured to describe her state dress; her beautifully formed -hands and fingers were adorned with bracelets and rings set with "gems -both rich and rare;" while her animated countenance, and still more -brilliant eyes, and affable manners, spread joy and delight around the -festive circle which she graced and adorned. - -We must here by no means whatever pass over an important character in -the _dramatis personae_ of our history, (at least so she was in her own -personal estimation), and forsooth be it known too, moreover, a highly -privileged person. We here venture to speak of Lady Adelaide's nurse, -Mistress Judith Braingwain, who was in every respect most truly Irish. -Her superstitions were deeply rooted, so that nothing could shake them; -and her belief in ghosts, wraiths, banshees, and fairies, and all that -was marvellous, was truly orthodox. She believed in astrology, then much -in vogue; in dreams, omens, prognostications, and - - "Chimeras all, still more absurd or less," - -and all the attendant phantasmagoria of credulity. Mrs. Judith's -attachment to her country was great and strong, as likewise was her -affection for her child; but her whole stock of fondness seemed to be -concentrated in her foster child, whom she actually loved better than -the child she had borne in her own maternal bosom. "My dear, dear child, -my darling," she would say, "oh, my Adelaide! may the sun-shine and -peace of this world ever be thine _mavourneen_!" [i.e. my beloved.] - -Mrs. Judith's dress[15] was so perfectly and truly aboriginal, that it -may amuse the reader, and possibly afford a reminiscence to the -antiquary, while we notice it in the following description. - - [15] See Cooper Walker's able Essay on Irish Dresses. - -The curious specimen of Irish costume worn by persons in Mrs. Judith -Braingwain's station in life, prevailed in Ireland at the close of the -reign of the second Charles, and during the reign of his successor, -James II., the patron and friend of the Duke of Tyrconnel. It was as -follows:-- - -Mrs. Judith wore placed upon her head-top a cushion of linen or stuff, -which she called her "system;" it was not dissimilar, save in its want -of utility, to the roll or plait twisted cushion of hay used by -milk-maids in carrying their pails; but with this difference, that it -was not flat, but rose higher to the back of the head; it was fastened -and attached by long pins, and over and around this under-structure she -combed and attached her long hair, of which the Irish were always proud, -even to absurdity, and which withal looked as stiff and formal as if it -had been hewn out, the work of some primeval statuary, sternly staring -in stone, certainly most Medusa-like, upon some ancient tomb! This most -strange redoubt or fortification of hair-work was supported by a -side-battery of two curls on each side of the head above the ears, and -masked on high by a little round cap or coif, surrounded with a cambric -border, over which was thrown a kerchief, which being made fast upon the -apex of the head, was allowed to fall down carelessly behind, where it -streamed, when she walked abroad, like a banner over a fortress. Her -jacket was of brown cloth, and made to fit close to the shape, by means -of whalebone scientifically, as now we would say, wrought into it both -in front and at the back, but managed so as not to meet; while it was -laced in the front across the breast, forming there a stomacher, and -evidently borrowed from the Spanish costume. The sleeves, halfway to the -elbow, were constructed of the same kind of cloth as the jacket, and -from thence they continued to the wrist, formed of longitudinal stripes -of red camlet, interwoven with green ferreting, and then being turned -up, formed a little cuff, embraced within three circles of narrow green -ribbon. Her petticoat was formed of scarlet broad-cloth, bordered with -three rows of green ribbon. Her apron was of green serge, striped -longitudinally with scarlet ferreting, and bound with the same. Her hose -were of blue worsted; and her shoes were of black leather, laced with -scarlet galloon, and ankle high, and withal mounted upon heels of a most -portentous height. But _eheu! jam satis_, we are glad to have done with -this specimen of costume, of which we are not over fond; but writing of -the history, &c. of the times, from such we found it to be our bounden -duty not to depart or swerve one single iota. - -The Duchess allowed to nurse Braingwain very extensive liberties, and -latitude of converse too, induced by the affectionate, nay, almost more -than motherly care which she bestowed upon her child; as well as amused -withal, she permitted nurse occasionally to show off that strange -originality which she possessed. - -The Duchess having gone through her morning devotions, ascended the -nursery to embrace her dear child, who was sweetly and serenely -reposing. - -"See, my honoured lady, how sweetly _mavourneen_ sleeps! Och, and may be -I didn't dream last night that my dear young princess was one day to be -queen of auld Ireland; and in troth, in my dream, sure enough I saw, not -a crownet, but a royal crown placed upon her sweet baby brow. But as for -you, my lady Duchess, I moreover drimt that Your Grace was created -_Impress of Europa_--and long, long, my lady Impress, may you live and -reign over us, and over all the world besides! Musha amen, says a -grateful heart!" - -"Prithee, Nurse, be silent; you will awake my child with your -nonsensical rodomontade!" - -Just here a message arrived from the Duke, that he wished to speak with -Her Grace in his closet. The Duchess immediately left the nursery, in -obedience to the ducal summons. - -The Duke took the Duchess by the hand: "Here's great news, my Kate! -Charles is dead, and the noble York that was, is now monarch of England; -and permit me to kiss the fair and lady-like hand of the vice-queen of -Ireland," he said, gaily kissing Her Grace's hand. - -"Why, my Lord Duke, I really believe that you have laid this scheme of -cajolery with so very great a personage as the very high and mighty -lady, Mrs. Judith Braingwain, who even just now saluted me with the _all -hail hereafter_! of Macbeth's witches: for Duchess of Tyrconnel though I -be, yet Empress of Europe I _am to be_, or "Impress of Europa," as I was -styled. What think you of that, my Lord? Surely I must feel quite -shocked and horrified, as you must well conceive, at this dreadful and -unexpected downfall from my high imperial state! Only think, -at once too, without meet preparation, to be deprived of the diadem -which fancy was fitting upon my brow, and _only_ to be dubbed vice-queen -of Ireland; oh! my Lord, you must needs confess what a provoking falling -off was here! But no; it will not do; I am resolved that I must be -empress, or only simple plain duchess!" - -"Now Katherine you think I am rallying, but no such thing, I seriously -assure you a patent has arrived, constituting and appointing me, and so -forth, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland! And now, fair lady, I must kiss the -hands of the vice-queen of Ireland, according to the statute in that -case made and provided." And having thus gaily spoken, he affectionately -and tenderly embraced his Duchess. - -"Well then it appears quite a hopeless case, your patent has arrived; -_you not only achieve greatness yourself, but likewise have greatness -thrust upon you_, as Malvolio says; so I suppose that you must have even -the grace to submit, and entrap yourself forth-with in the harness of -office. As for my part, I shall sigh for the charms of the dear country, -and would rather wear a simple coronal of hawthorn-blossoms than a -diadem studded with resplendent gems, and "the rich east to boot;" and -I, my Lord, warn you, for you must prepare to hear ejaculations from the -towers of Dublin castle somewhat to the tune and measure of--_O rus -quando ego te aspiciam?_ Then you, my Lord, with your high waving plumed -crest of chivalry come rushing up to the turret, fancying that you are -most heroically about to liberate some captive dame, or forlorn -princess, who has been cruelly incarcerated by some old cruel-hearted -necromancer, when I shall fly into your arms, forgetting pomp and power, -and even the divine country too; I will rush into your bosom, and only -remember that I am your wife--_the wife of Tyrconnel_!" - -"Bravo, bravo, _viva, viva, sempre l'imperatrice_!" exclaimed the Duke -in rapture. "Yes, dearest Katherine, you are the empress of my heart, -and need never, never fear a rival near the throne: come then to my -arms, and with your simple diadem of hawthorn I shall ever adore you, in -cottage or in palace!" - -The Duke was a Major-General in the army, he had served under the -banner of the illustrious Turenne, and his royal patron the Duke of -York, now James II., had also fought beneath the same victorious -standard. The Duke was considered the handsomest man of the age, and was -beloved alike in camp and in court. His knowledge and attainments were -great; he was not only _aliquis in omnibus_, but also _singularis in -omnibus_. He was indeed-- - - "A courtier of the chamber, - A soldier of the field; - Whose tongue could never flatter, - Whose heart could never yield!" - -The Duke's two sisters, Lady Letitia and Lady Lucy Raymond, who -constantly resided with him, affectionately approached to congratulate -their brother upon his appointment to the viceroyship. "Oh joy, dearest -brother!" they both exclaimed, while each at the same moment kissed the -Duke's cheeks. - -Lady Lucy had been educated abroad, and was always speaking in warmest -raptures of "the dear continent," or of whatever was foreign, or -_recherche_. Indeed her friends were obliged to admit that it was a vast -pity that Lady Lucy, with all her amiable qualities, should be somewhat -a little tinctured with conceit; and apprehended, that as it had been of -long continuance they feared it was too late to be remedied, her -affectation having become something very like second nature. Thus argued -her kind, consoling friends, who sat down most contentedly beneath the -shade of their own sage conclusions. - -Lady Lucy continued her expressions of joy in a sort of soliloquy: "Oh -really this will be quite deloightful! quite _impose_! surpassingly -deloightful! Why actually we shall hold a little court of St. Germains -at Dublin castle!" - -Lady Letitia during her infancy had been a sickly child, and, in -consequence of her inability to travel, had remained at home; while her -family were sometime resident abroad, and her education was wholly -unattended to; or to speak more explicitly, was never once thought of as -a matter of the slightest concern--no uncommon occurrence in the olden -time. This deficiency at this period was not confined to two or three -noble families;--nay, gentle reader, start not, for thou wilt please to -recollect that we are speaking of what happened above one hundred and -forty years ago. In consequence of this neglect Lady Letitia made such -broad and palpable mistakes, and of so extraordinary a kind, as could -not of failed to have beaten that modern personage, Mrs. Malaprop, of -blundering notoriety, completely defeated from the field. - -"No, Lucy, no!" rejoined Lady Letitia, "No, nothing _German_; neither -caps nor boots, rats, whiskers, nor muskatoes. I hate every thing -German; no, our court shall not be a German one, but a second St. -James's. And old Cormac shall compose such a grand ode upon the solemn -occasion, to be said or sung in the old hall at Dublin castle; aye, and -we shall have duly chanted for my dear brother such a noble hypothesis -as ear never----" - -"Apotheosis, you mean, Letitia," said the Duke, interrupting her. "Yes, -indeed, _that_ would be a _solemn occasion_; but I pray you be not in -such mighty haste to send me so soon 'unanointed, unanealed,' to the -other world before my time too; this is not altogether so kind, sister; -and besides, previous to the possession of the honours which you would -somewhat too prematurely celebrate.----But a truce to this badinage; I -must forth-with prepare for my journey to take possession of the -government of Barataria!" - -Sir Patricius Placebo now advanced to join and congratulate the family -circle, and to express his joy upon the Duke's appointment. "My Lord -Duke in verity believe me, that this day there exists none whose -feelings and whose heart are more truly gratified by this gracious -selection of my sovereign than what mine are; and I also must -congratulate your Grace's friends, and the country too, at the happy -choice which king James has made. And I further beg to say, with meet -reason, and under due discretion and correction, that you confer more -honour upon the king by your acceptance of it, than His Majesty has done -you by the presentation. Yea, and I may truly and fearlessly add, in the -words of old Flaccus, - - "Cum tot sustineas et tanta negotia solus, - * * * * * - * * in publica commoda peccem - Si longo sermone morer tua tempora----" - -Just at the moment that the words of old Flaccus were flowing forth -from the tongue of the obsequious Baronet, in a mellifluent Cork or -Kerry brogue, the butler entered the drawing-room, and announced, to the -great delight of Sir Patricius, that "dinner was served." The Duke, -drawing the arm of the Duchess beneath his own, for a moment stopped, -and said playfully--"See, my good Sir Patricius, how opportunely Mercury -pops in to clip the wings of Pegasus, and announce that the banquet of -the gods is ready; and now to our repast with all the appetite we may!" - -Sir Patricius bowed, and handing the ladies Letitia and Lucy, followed -to the dinner-room, solemnly muttering to himself, - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -while stately he moved along with an increased stride and attitude of -dignity. - - - - -CHAPTER IV. - - Por cierto, Senoer Gobernador * * * * que vuesa merced tiene mucha - razon en quanto ha dicho: y que yo ofrezco en nombre de todos los - insulanos desta insula, que han de servir a vuesa merced con toda - puntualidad, amor y benevolencia, porque el suave modo gobenar que - en estos principios vuesa merced ha dado, no les da lugar de - hacer, ni de pensar cosa que en deservicio de vuesa merced - redunde. - - DON QUIXOTE, tome IV. - - - TRANSLATION. - - Doubtless, Sir Governor * * * * you have much reason in all you - have been pleased to say: and let me promise you, in behalf of all - the inhabitants of this island, that they shall serve your will - and pleasure with all due diligence, love, and good-will; for the - sweet and mild mode of government that hitherto in the beginning - you have administered to them, causes them neither to do, nor even - to think, aught that may redound disloyal to your government. - - DON QUIXOTE, vol. IV. - - -Before the Duke had arisen upon the ensuing morning the Duchess thus -addressed him, and pronounced, if we may so express it, the -curtain-lecture, with which the reader is here made acquainted:-- - -"My dear and much beloved Lord, you are now about to assume the -government of your native island, a land richly abundant in agricultural -and commercial resources, possessing a peasantry inured to toil, hardy, -industrious, and intelligent; keenly alive to and sensible of wrong and -injustice, yet still a passive and a patient people, who, like the Roman -ox, stand ready victims, stationed between the ploughshare and the -altar, alike prepared for the yoke or for sacrifice!--a soil luxuriant -for tillage or for pasture, abounding in quarries, mines, and minerals; -blest with a mild and temperate climate, and adorned with scenery -picturesque, romantic, and sublime; with mountains high as the lofty -spirit of the race who inhabit them, and with harbours (open as their -generous hearts) expanding their numerous emporiums to receive the -tribute of every coast and every clime. - -"Remember, I pray thee, my good Lord, a passage which once we read, -and that I never can forget; we found it in the Lives of Plutarch, where -we are told the courtiers of Philip of Macedon essayed to mount and -master the noble animal Bucephalus, afterwards the war-horse of the -great and renowned Alexander. Courtier succeeding courtier attempted to -mount the back of Bucephalus, but in vain. They knew, indeed, how to -cringe, and fawn, and flatter in a despot's court, but they were wholly -ignorant and incompetent how to manage this nobly spirited war-horse; -their shadows, as they successively attempted to mount, startled the -steed, and they could make nothing of it. It was then that the son of -Ammon sprang forth, and said, 'Father, give him into my hands; I see the -noble bearing of the proud and generous animal, let me too, therefore, -have a trial!' The request was granted. When Alexander, leading him into -the shade where the steed neither startled by the shadow of his person -nor the flowing of his mantle, Alexander instantly sprung upon his back, -and galloped him several times past the presence of Philip, reining him -with full command, wheeling him round in full career, and then suddenly -halting to address his admiring king and father, and no less astonished -courtiers. At length, overcome with joy and admiration, Philip exclaimed -to Alexander, 'Go, go, my son, and seek to rule over other realms, for -Macedonia is too small for thee!' Yes, my dear Lord, I at once see you -forcibly feel the allusion. In the hands of ignorant, or stupid, or -bigoted governors, and their underlings, Ireland shall ever prove and -remain untractable, as Bucephalus was in the clumsy and untoward hands -of the courtiers of Macedon; but rule the inhabitants of this isle with -gentleness and moderation, with equal and impartial justice, alike -administered to all beneath a mild and conciliatory government, and then -mark how submissively they shall obey their ruler. In peace you shall -see drawn home the heavy harvest team; and on the day of battle our -navies shall ride triumphant, and our armies march victorious!" - -The Duke smiled at the conclusion of this lengthened lecture; but he -was truly pleased withal at the judicious remarks, the sound sense, and -also with the enthusiastic feeling of his Duchess; and he said somewhat -gaily, "Bravo! well done, my Katherine. I long knew the extensive range -of your reading and information; but, 'fore Jupiter Ammon, I _certes_ -did not know until the present what a famous politician thou hast -become. Thou assuredly hast pronounced a very notable and altisonant -lecture upon legislation, wherewithal from which I fully trust that I -shall ultimately derive much advantage. But yet under favour, lady mine, -my vice-regal _femme covert_, you will peradventure please to carry in -your noble recollection, that I am no sovereign prince or potentate, and -that the _roy le veult_ belongs not to me, but to my royal master; that -simply I am but a deputy, and therefore it is evident that I can have no -will of mine own, but, on the contrary, that every measure must emanate -from the throne. However, it is nevertheless true, that although I owe -much to my regarded sovereign, yet unhappily should this reflected light -of majesty prove to be but mere "disastrous twilight," I have still the -power to resign; and albeit I am not devoid certainly of ambition, yet -there exists not a man who is more attached to retirement than what I -confessedly am;--none, I am sure, more devoted to his country, friends, -family, and home!" - -The intention of the Duke of Tyrconnel being fixed to pursue his journey -onward without unnecessary delay, to assume the reins of his vice-regal -government, His Grace and his amiable Duchess descended betimes to the -breakfast saloon. The Duke was in uncommon good spirits, spoke -sportively to his beloved Adelaide. The Ladies Letitia and Lucy soon -made their appearance, and Sir Patricius was not the last to take his -station at the breakfast-table, on which was duly placed every solace -for the regalement of the worthy Baronet, if indeed a salutary morning -walk amid the mountain-air could have rendered his appetite fastidious. - -The Duke soon began in a jocular way to rally the Ladies Letitia and -Lucy, by observing, "I propose very soon, gentle ladies, so hearken to -me both, to dispose of you twain by promotion--in the temple of Hymen! -What say ye, ladies fair, to my proposition? Doubtless it will meet with -your joint approval, and most dutiful concurrence to my high and -puissant command!" - -Lady Lucy replied, that she had no wish nor intention whatsoever to -alter her situation, feeling perfectly happy and contented as she was, -desirous of no change, and fully resolved, as far as was within her -control, that no cruel _empechement_ should ever separate her from those -she so dearly regarded and loved. - -Lady Letitia said in reply: "As for your _high men_, they are always -sure to have their own high ways in aught perchance they would do or -dare; and I needs must observe that I have no wish whatever to be -connected with such high cavaliers, having, alas! upon a former occasion -experienced much vexation and disappointment at the hands of one of -those said _high men_." - -"Prithee, Letitia, explain in what manner," rejoined the Duke. - -"You must know, then, that a proposal of marriage was made to me from -one of noble birth, and likewise of affluent fortune, while you, my -Lord, were absent in foreign lands. The gentleman was the Honourable Mr. -Gwillim Ap-Gwillim, of Caper Ap-Shenkin, in North Wales, who was not -slow in using every endeavour to win my love and affections; and, alas! -he succeeded but too well in the accomplishment of his wishes. But after -all, a long courtship and fair promises, this Cambrian proved himself to -be one of your '_perhaps_' knights-errant; and so, my good Lord, no more -of them for poor me! The man, prince, potentate, or peer, who deals in -the shuffling word '_perhaps_,' shall never possess my affection, nor -have my hand in the tie of holy wedlock. Never, I am resolved. No; for -ever I forswear and detest the word, as being the most offensive and -deceitful in the English tongue, past, present, or to come." - -"Hold, hold, Letitia," said the Duke, "you are off in full gallop from -your story. Pray rein in thy noble indignation and imagination awhile, -and do let us have the conclusion of your most tragical hero, whom you -stigmatize with the title and appanage of '_perhaps_?'" - -"I fairly promised my hand where before I had given my heart; that is to -say, provided you had so approved; and while matters were, as I -conceived, happily arriving, as I had fondly hoped, at the long wished -claracism (_eclaircissement_), who would have suspected or have dreamed -the result? - -"'I am told, Sir,' addressing Mr. Gwillim Ap-Gwillim, of Caper -Ap-Shenkin, 'I am told, Sir,' said I, with proud tears in my eyes, 'that -you at present entertain a paramour?' - -"'Well, Madam,' rejoined he, 'perhaps' (oh, the abominable word) 'I do; -and if so, it is surely not unusual or marvellous in an unmarried man.' - -"'But then, Sir,' I replied, (somewhat enraged at his tawdry 'perhaps',) -'sure before we become man and wife, you will no doubt part with and -discharge this said paramour?' - -"'Perhaps,' he rejoined, 'perhaps, (the third time, observe,) Madam, I -may.' - -"'_Perhaps_, Sir,' I loudly re-echoed, my blood boiling, my breath -parting, my tongue gasping, and enraged to the very utmost, 'Perhaps, -Sir,' I said vehemently, 'know, my hand never shall be yours--never, -never!' Then with a strong impulse of collected coolness, for very often -what is the most opposite will occur, I distantly retired, with the -utmost indifference I dropt a low court courtesy, and never beheld him -more." - -The Duke proposed, previous to departing, to accompany his noble -consort and family in a promenade on the pleasure grounds. Their Graces -led the way; and while apart from the attending group, the Duke -addressed the Duchess in a low voice--"I shall do every thing, depend -upon it, that is within my power, to render my vicegerency popular; not -from a love of popularity, but from the impulse of administering even -and equal justice to all His Majesty's subjects, which is a debt I shall -not fail to discharge, so far as the responsibility of my station -admits, and my duty to the king allows. The salary which I may receive -during my administration shall, to the uttermost farthing, be expended -among the generous people, from whose purses I am to receive it; I shall -assist the poor, and the great I will entertain. Thus when the -termination of my government arrives, I trust that my departure from the -viceregency shall not be mistaken for that of a collector of taxes, who -retires _sub umbra_, having embezzled the public coffers, and who -departs _ex-officio_, attended, justly I admit, with "curses, not loud -but deep!" Oh no, my dearest love, by no earthly possibility shall any -one mistake me for a Jamaica planter, a bullock feeder, or a Jew broker! -Never; my private fortune shall be expended in addition to the princely -income which I receive from the nation; and I am resolved that in every -way it shall be my study, as it will be my pleasure, to prove indeed the -true and appropriate representative of a noble and generous king!" - -To this expressive burst of loyal and ardent feeling, the Duchess fully -accorded her hearty assent. While the noble pair remained thus employed -in discussing the high and grave affairs of state, the ladies Letitia -and Lucy, attended by Sir Patricius Placebo and Captain Heaviside, were -employed in admiring the surrounding scenery. - -"What a romantic delightful prospect here presents itself to the -spectator," observed Sir Patricius Placebo to Lady Letitia, who stood -next him. - -"Oh yes," replied her Ladyship, "it is truly a noble tract of verdant -valley and lofty mountain, scenery, sea, and river; the goats on the -rock, the sheep on the hill, and the cows in the vale; indeed the Duke -positively asserts that the surrounding scene displays perhaps the most -beautiful cow-dell (_coup d'oeil_) in the whole kingdom." - -The promenaders returned from their ramble, and were stationed on the -terrace when the Duke's travelling coach and six drove up to the -embattled porch of the castle. The Duke, addressing himself to Sir -Patricius, pleasantly and playfully said: "Sir knight we do hereby, by -the powers in us vested, constitute, nominate, and appoint, with all the -briefness and celerity the occasion demands, you, Sir Patricius Placebo, -M. D. Baronet, _eques non male notus_, our _locum tenens_, and Lord -Constable of this our good castle of Tyrconnel during our absence -herefrom; and thou, Sir Patricius Placebo, art bound, in due accordance -with right, ancient, and laudable usage, to dispense all manner of -ancient hospitality, as if we ourself were in person present; and within -a few given days to escort our beloved partner and family to His -Majesty's castle of Dublin; all which fail not to do, under the pain and -penalty of our heavy displeasure." - -The Duke fondly and affectionately embracing his Duchess, his beloved -Adelaide, and his sisters, and cordially shaking hands with his guests, -entered his travelling carriage, which set off, the horses travelling in -a brisk pace, for Dublin, to assume the chief government of the island. -The ladies followed the Duchess, who retired into the castle to regret -even the temporary absence of her lord. - -Meanwhile Sir Patricius proposed to Captain Heaviside an excursion on -horseback, to pass away the time _jusque a diner_. After a short -interval Sir Patricius having doffed his grave professional peruke; and -having assumed his hunting wig, mounted his gallant steed, and set out -with the Captain in a ramble through the country. While thus they were -employed in exploring the surrounding scenery, Captain Heaviside, -addressing Sir Patricius, said, "Pray, my good Sir, did I ever repeat to -you my _chronicle_?" - -"Oh no, never, Captain, upon my veracity; but in sooth I should be quite -delighted to hear it, so pray let us have it by all manner and means." - -"I call it," continued Captain Heaviside, _my_ chronicle, but I must -say, really and truly, that it was never written by me;--positively not -mine, but written indeed by a particular friend." - -"Come, come, bold Captain, that is very well, and likewise most sagely -and discreetly expressed; very good indeed--an excellent come off, _cum -grano salis_, hem! It is, however, to be sure, vastly convenient upon -all such occasions to enlist a friend into the service who shall enact -you the part of a poetical godfather, and act too as pioneer: a most -meritorious gentleman truly, who is disposed with such magnanimous -generosity to place all our written sins and verses upon his own -muster-roll. Vastly, egad vastly convenient, I needs must observe, -master Heaviside, hah, hah, hah, _sed, litera scripta manet!_ There is -no getting over that, my gallant young Captain, by my halidam!" - -"My good Sir Patricius accredit me, it was really written by my very -excellent friend, Captain Drinkwater, a dashing dragoon." - -"I can then flatly tell you, Captain, that it will never do--I know it -will never do; for as friend Horace sings, - - 'Nulla placere diu nec vivere carmina possunt - Quae scribuntur aquae potoribus.' - -I hate and detest your _aquae potoribus_, all your drink-waters, and -your water-drinkers, they are beyond all compare the very worst -description of enemies that our profession has to contend with: so no -more of this; give me your drinkers of _aqua vitae_, and honest -stout-hearted topers of genuine Drogheda usque-baugh; these are the -generous souls whose quaffing I admire, and whose fees I dearly prize. -But come, my brave Captain, notwithstanding we must positively have your -_chronicle_." - -"Well, Sir Patricius, since it must be so, here it is. - - - CAPTAIN HEAVISIDE'S CHRONICLE, - - BEING AN EXCELLENT NEW ANACREONTIC, AND WRITTEN BY - CAPTAIN DRINKWATER OF THE HORSE-GRENADIERS. - - Julia first met me with bright sparkling eye; - Next Sally so sober, yet so very sly, - Margery, matchless at grin and grimace; - Then Susan so simple, with innocent face. - Betty was breathless when told of a fray, - And Judy in sooth would have her own way: - Of Nelly 'tis needless ought for to tell, - On ev'ry occasion she bore off the belle. - - There was rattling, laughing, roaring young Kate, - Who many did think was perturbed in her pate: - Of Kathlane so cunning, and Mollys a score, - Och, I could sing till I tired you sore. - Let this little sample the truth only tell, - That, ah! I have lov'd too long and too well!" - -"_Olet lucernam_, good master Heaviside! methinks it smells somewhat -rather too strong of the lamp. Nay, nay, come noble Captain, I say, -cheer up man! never mind, my brave boy, for in faith I like your -chronicle, master Heaviside, passing well; and the very first open day, -to speak the _vox parliamentaria_, that is to express, that the first -day that the Duke shall dine abroad----hah, hah, which, 'fore Jupiter, -egad he does this very day--aye, good--very good, - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -this very day, by my halidam, we shall have it! By the mass he who -gainsays it wets not his lips with a cup of hermitage! Nay more, down -goes my gauntlet; Captain--there is my hand for you! A fig, I say, for -your black rods, your white rods, and your green rods! I would fain -flagellate them all with their own proper _insignia_ of office; aye, -marry, I say, a plague upon them all, master Heaviside! I am a man -somewhat gifted with authority, as you are, Captain, fully aware, being -no less than grand Seneschal of yonder ancient castle; and by the mass, -indubitably, with due and meet discretion, we shall have _viva voce_ -this very day your much to be lauded Anacreontic, and that too without a -single repugnant '_perhaps_,' against which vague, dubious, and most -distrustful adverb, that sage and circumspect Lady Letitia doth so -continently and cautiously enter her solemn protest. But my good Sir, -time and place--place and time? methinks as I don't toss off drams in a -morning, that songs sound sweeter heard in the evening. Oh, ever time -and place are to be taken into account, my good Captain, for - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -as the venerable Archimedes enforces it--hem; and I shall----But come, -Captain, for once I will give a gratuitous prescription--take my -nostrum--sing, or hear it sang, Captain Harry Heaviside's new Chronicle, -which be sure to wash down with the potation of two honest quarts of old -bottled Chateau-Margut, or good Burgundy, for I am not squeamish, which -shall answer just quite as well;--swallow the dose, charily, charily, -but without shaking the bottle!" - -The equestrians soon approached the castle on their return to dinner, -and the first bell was now heard pealing over battlement and tower, duly -giving warning note; hence from a smart trot they hastened to a brisk -gallop. - -"Ahem," said Sir Patricius, "see, noble Captain, how strong and lustily -the smoke mounts up from the kitchen chimney, _bonum signum, bonum -signum_, by Bacchus and Ceres a most propitious omen! Ahem, spur on, my -gallant chevalier!" - -The two worthies now reached the lordly castle; and entering the -embattled porch, Captain Heaviside observed in a whisper to Sir -Patricius: "A d----d bore to be sure it is, all this dressing for -dinner, my good Sir Patricius. But no matter, it is some consolation, -however, that we shall have an excellent feed; and I am resolved to do -it justice, exercise and the mountain air having sharpened a natural -good appetite." - -"But," rejoined Sir Patricius, "hark, again this accursed bell, how it -frights the castle from its propriety. - - 'Ring out the alarum-bell, blow winds come, crack, - At least we'll die with harness on our back.' - -But never mind, we shall be ready before the bell rings a third time." - -The man of physic and the man of war having thus spoken, they wended -their way to their respective toilettes, which were quickly despatched. -Here then we leave them to pay their attentions to the Duchess and the -ladies, and enjoy all the good cheer at the ducal _salle a manger_. -Meanwhile, in our next chapter, we shall return to the Duke, and escort -His Grace to the vice-regal abode at Dublin castle. - - - - -CHAPTER V. - - ----Al llegar a las puertas de la villa que era cercada, salio - regimiento del pueblo a recebirle, tocaron las campanas, y todos - los vecinos dieron muestras de general alegria, y con mucha pompa - le llevaron a la iglesia mayor a dar gracias a Dios, y luego con - algunas ceremonias le entregaron las llaves del pueblo, y le - admitieron por Gobernador de la insula. - - DON QUIXOTE, tome IV. ch. 45. - - TRANSLATION. - - When he approached the town gates (for it was walled) the officers - came out to welcome him, the bells rang, and all the inhabitants - made show of a general gladness; and they carried him in great - pomp to the high church, to give God thanks; and shortly after - some ceremonies they delivered him the keys, and admitted him as - Governor of the island. - - DON QUIXOTE, book IV. ch. 45. - - -The Duke of Tyrconnel took his departure, as was observed in the last -chapter, at an early hour; the roads were in excellent order for -travelling, the morning appeared settled and serene, and an enlivening -sun shone forth propitiously on his journey. - -The vice-regal carriage had just reached the town of Ballyshannon, when -one of the fine animals (a leader) which drew the vehicle lost a fore -shoe, which caused the cavalcade to stop. This interruption to the -journey afforded an opportunity to the Duke, of which he availed -himself, of visiting the venerable ruins of Ashrow Abbey, which were at -that point of time noble and imposing even in decay. The beautifully -pointed gothic arches, and the gilded ceilings in the vaults of the -cloisters, called forth and attracted the attention and admiration of -His Grace. When the Duke had returned to his inn from the inspection of -these venerable monastic remains, a large party of horsemen were -discerned trotting onward at a round and rapid pace. The Duke was -stationed in a small gallery, or balcony, surmounting the door of the -inn, when a tumultuous congratulatory roar from the equestrians, and -addressed to His Grace, resounded on all sides, and the well-known Irish -welcome of "_Cead millia failtha_," (that is "a hundred thousand hearty -welcomes,") saluted the ducal ear. His Grace took off his hat, which he -most gracefully waved, and graciously bowed. He then addressed them, and -was pleased to say, "My good friends, I feel truly grateful for this -warm burst of loyalty; but I request to ask whither, and in such rapid -haste, ye are all proceeding? - - 'Go ye in peace, or go ye in war?' - -There is surely no fair now going on in these parts of the country; -there is no wake, no saint's patron-day recorded in the calendar; there -is no racing, no hurling-match, no rural sport that I know of; and -therefore I feel at a loss how to account for thus assembling in -numbers, and I must needs doubt whether the motive be justifiable." - -The troop of peasants, to the number of twelve or fifteen persons, were -mounted on horseback; most of the horses carried double, in accordance -to an old strange Irish usage, and which custom prevails in many parts -of Ireland even at the point of time in which we now address our -readers. The peasants replied, in respondence to the queries of the -Duke, to this effect: "So may it please your Lordship's noble Reverence, -we are men of the mountains, just going up for a bit to town, to procure -a little law," [i. e. being duly interpreted, means _litigation_.] - -"Then," rejoined the Duke, "if such be your intention, my serious and -friendly advice to you all, my good men of the mountains, is simply -this, that you do all at the present immediately return back to your -respective districts, and peaceably retire to your native hills and -homes; avoid law, strife, and litigation; return to the tranquil heights -of the lofty Tyraugh, and there enjoy, undisturbed by the factious or -the turbulent, that peace and tranquillity which is shed around your -happy cottages, beyond the turmoil of the world, and there dwell, and -likewise cultivate the Christian virtues of peace and brotherly love. -Forget and forgive the past; bear and forbear! And if I wore the -sacerdotal garb, I could not in so few words, perhaps, advert more to -the present purpose which has, be it what it may, conjured up some bad -blood, as I have strong reasons to apprehend. This line of conduct, my -countrymen, you must be sensible, it is your bounden duty to pursue; -attend to your farms, cherish your families, and look to yourselves; -obey your magistrates, and attend to your religious duties; and last, -though not least, honour and reverence your noble king. I feel it -incumbent on me to tell you such ought to be your line of conduct, and -to this effect, too, will all your Clergy to a man pronounce to you, -whether parson, priest, or prelate!" - -This speech allayed the threatened storm; and as if the wind had -changed to a different point, gently impelling a vessel in a contrary -course, thus suddenly were the litigious intentions of the "men of the -mountains" changed. They thanked his Lordship's "glorious Honour for his -kind condescension, and solemnly protested that they would forego _the -bit of law_ which they had intended, and willingly abide by his -Lordship's most worshipful advice." Reining round their steeds, they -proceeded upon their return home in a trot more rapid even than that in -which they had approached; and giving three loud distinct cheers of -"_Cead millia failtha_," were soon out of sight. - -The book of wisdom saith "a soft answer turneth away wrath;" and it is -no less true, that a generous act, or even a kind expression, makes an -indelible impression upon the grateful heart of an Irishman! - -While the Duke was engaged in the foregoing expostulation with "the men -of the mountains," the farrier, as he called himself, was meantime -actively employed, in which his tongue was as prompt as his hand was -ready, in performing, as he conceived it, the proud destiny of replacing -the fore shoe on the noble leader, in lieu of that which had been lost; -and thus from his anvil he addressed the Duke's valet: "Och then, plaze -your honour, master Brushwell, may be it isn't I who understands, any -how, in a jiffy to whip on a shoe upon any poor beast in the four -bordering counties; and a great sin and shame in me it would be if I -didn't exart myself for one of the true ould Irish stock? In troth in a -jiffy I will knock off the job, and by J---- it shall be properly well -done! for oh, _naboclish_, sure enough may be Tom Hob isn't the boy, -after all, for quickly knocking off a job for a parson he loves; and in -troth he may say with the ould ballad-- - - 'Tom's heart, like his iron, is hissingly hot, - Though his iron should cool, his heart it shall not!'" - -In these remote days the peaceful methods of life, the arts of -agriculture and husbandry, were but imperfectly known; and the practice -of farriery was rudely and ignorantly performed; then veterinary -professors did not exist, [the foregoing incident of the lost horse-shoe -has led to this short digression,] and farriery was clumsily practised, -save, perchance in the forge of some farrier of heavy dragoons. The arts -of war, meanwhile, were but too successfully carried on, while the happy -arts of peace slumbered in the shade, and neglected agriculture sunk -depressed beneath the warlike tone and temper of the times. The sickle -and the ploughshare, the attributes and implements of husbandry, were -destined to be neglected, else otherwise to be transmuted into the spear -and falchion of war. - -But we resume our narrative.--The first day and night of the Duke's -departure he dined and slept at the hospitable abode of Castle-Caldwell, -the noble and magnificent mansion of the Baronet of the same name, which -delightful residence derived its name from the owner. The promontories -that raised their peninsular summits above and around the beautiful and -expanded lake of Lough Erne, were all brilliantly illuminated by -bonfires made by the peasantry. The beacon-flame also blazed from the -crowned summit of every surrounding hill and mountain. These bright -testimonies of gladness burst forth to hail the Duke's welcome arrival. -In furtherance of which the furze, fern, heath, and tall sword-grass, on -hill and rock, were all set into one universal conflagration, the -brilliant coruscations of which flashed, flamed, and undulated upon the -expanded waters of Lough Erne; while bonfires were seen to burn and -blaze upon the cloud-crested heights of the Tyraugh mountains. - -Meanwhile, in sympathy with the scene, the great promontory of -Ross-a-Goul brightly bore the beacon blaze upon his lofty brow, which -flamed forth and flashed volcano-like above the adjacent woods and -groves, illuminating every islet, rock, and indented shore, and -reflecting its ruddy light in brilliance upon the dark waves of -Ross-Moor, which seemed emulous to flash back their radiance on -Ross-Goul. - -The town of Churchill manifested similar demonstrations of joy and -gratulation upon the arrival of the popular viceroy. It is time, -however, to return to the hospitable board of the worthy host, who, with -his noble and distinguished guests, sat down to a magnificent dinner at -the good, early, rational, but now antiquated hour of four o'clock, -which was the healthy custom in these times remote. Among many -surrounding nobles and gentry present at this splendid banquet, we must -not pass by unobserved two notable characters who were seated at the -Baronet's table: the one was the Lord Viscount Glandarah, and the other -was the Rev. Doctor Dismal Drew, L.L.D., a quondam Fellow of Trinity -College, Dublin,[16] and who had been collated to the valuable living of -----, the advowson of which was in the gift of the University of Dublin. -These two worthies formed a remarkable and striking contrast to each -other. - - [16] "Anno 1590.--The Monastery of All-Hallows was granted by the - citizens for the site of an university. - - "----1591.--Trinity College founded by Queen Elizabeth. Opened - 1593. Received a new charter and statutes 1637."--_Annals of the - City of Dublin._ - -Lord Glandarah, imitating the profitable example of the wise Ulysses, -who - - ----"Multorum providus urbes - Et mores, hominum inspexit," - -had visited foreign countries and courts, where he had resided during a -very long period, even from his early youth. It was whispered, and it -was also believed, that he was at heart _un bon Catholique_. However, -whether the assertion was true or false, certain it is that his Lordship -took his seat in the Irish House of Peers; so that his case was -completely _in foro conscientiae_, and with which nobody had any right to -intermeddle, it being a matter between him and a higher power than any -court upon earth, temporal or spiritual. - -His Lordship was an accomplished and polished nobleman; he had seen, -and with no unobserving eye, the different nations and courts of Europe; -had examined their laws, their governments, and establishments; he had -been so long resident upon the continent, (even from his earliest -years,) that from his foreign intonation of voice, and speaking, as he -did, broken English, he might readily have passed for a German or a -Frenchman. Lord Glandarah was personally known by the Duke of Tyrconnel, -who, upon this interview, heartily shook hands; and the former warmly -congratulated the latter upon his promotion to the viceroyship of -Ireland: "Gad save my soul, _mon tres-excellent_ Duke, I am _absolument_ -delighted; _je suis ravis entirement a vous revoir_. I am _tout_ -delighted! _Jamais, jamais si bien heureux! Un verre de vin: a votre -tres bonne sante, et aussi la de votre tres amiable et accomplie Madame -la Duchesse. Nous aurons une petit Cour de Versailes a la Chateau de -Dublin. Sans doute et comme certainement nous verrons! Tres joli, tres -joli! Sir Jacques Colville, j'ai l'honneur de saluer votre sante._" - -Lord Glandarah was attired in a court dress of green Genoa velvet, -richly embroidered with gold; and the old aristocratic peer was so -orthodox that even his hunting wig, when he rode on horseback, had _une -petite bourse_ attached to it, and the peruke was surmounted by a small -cocked hat, trimmed with broad gold lace, with an appendant feather; and -these he considered as indispensable appanages of _un gentilhomme comme -il faut_! or, as Horace has expressed it, "_Homo factus ad unguem_"--a -finished gentleman, even to the paring of his nail! Compared with Doctor -Dismal Drew, he was "Hyperion to a satyr." Doctor Drew was in stature -six feet by two, without diminution or subtraction, but awfully - - "Measured by cubit, length, and breadth, and height." - -The Doctor's head was of a portentous size, which induced his -cotemporaries, while a student in college, to bestow on him the epithet -or sobriquet of "the bull-headed ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}) student;" and -most certain it is, that the exterior exceeded in dimensions every other -head within the precincts of that learned corporation. He was extremely -near-sighted, and always wore either goggles or spectacles made of green -glass, which, as our readers may fairly suspect, did not by any means -add to his personal appearance or attraction, whatever they might have -abducted. He was however, be the truth spoken, an excellent scholar, -philosopher, and moreover this same "learned Theban" was a mathematician -to boot. His manners were unpolished--nay, repulsive. His gait in the -street or drawing-room was so strange and inhuman-like, that it was only -ideally to be compared to the floundering motion of a wounded walrus -standing on its hind legs, then dragging its heavy weight along. At -table the movement of his arms was so exceedingly annoying to his -neighbours that it invariably caused them to keep a most circumspect and -respectful distance. His voice, when he spoke, which was only when he -wanted to be helped to some piquant viand, was harsh and stentorian, and -might not unaptly be compared to the discordant cadence of a cracked -bassoon. He was learned--he abounded in anecdote; and if he chose to be -at the trouble, he could be witty. But no; during dinner, and even when -the cloth was removed, solemn as the grave he sat doggedly pinioned to -his chair, silently sipping drop by drop his Burgundy. He seemed to be -apprehensive that the time he would occupy in conversation would -interfere with the time allotted for the act of deglutition; therefore -he sat taciturn, as if the use of his tongue was inevitably and -irretrievably to destroy the powers of his palate! - -Doctor Drew was by no means deficient in dry and sarcastic humour; and -many anecdotes may be still found savoury in the college-courts and -dinner-hall of this quondam queer-fellow of old _alma mater_; however we -will trespass on the reader's attention only with one anecdote:-- - -Doctor Dismal Drew passing one morning through the college courts, from -the library to his chambers, happened to meet a young student who had -been only a few days matriculated, and such are, in popular parlance in -the university, called _jibs_; the young student had the ill-fortune to -pass this learned Leviathan, without the usual salutation of doffing his -four-cornered cap to his mighty superior:--"Halloo," roared the Doctor, -"come back; hark ye, I say, young master, pray how long, young -gentleman, allow me to ask, have you worn the academic gown?" - -"Just eight days, may it so please your Reverence." - -"Ay, ay; in sooth, young master, I thought as much, for we all know that -puppies cannot make use of their eyes until they are nine days old!" - -When Doctor Dismal Drew had with-drawn from the dinner-room, Lord -Glandarah addressed the Duke of Tyrconnel in an under tone: "Gad save -me, my Lord Duke, _mais cette est un homme austere, outre, et tres -singulier; et, par tout, un bete horrible_." - -"Adonis, you recollect, my Lord, was killed by a _boar_!" - -"Excellent, O Duke! and I too should be killed by--the Doctor's -company!--_non, pardonnez moi_ presence, I should say; he be no company! -_en verite_ two entire days would despatch me. He is _assurement -Polyphemus le second, mais avec cette dissemblance par tout que le -monstre il eut un oeil bel excellent, pendant que, le Docteur ave sans -doubte deux diaboleux_ bad eyes!" - -"Oh, unquestionably, my Lord! but then he has an intellectual one; and -we must give due credit to Sir James Caldwell for the attention and -kindness which he dispenses to his quondam tutor. It is kind, -considerate, grateful, and honourable, to his feelings." - -Sir James Caldwell, for whom the Duke of Tyrconnel entertained a great -regard and affection, from long acquaintance and intercourse, took an -opportunity, previous to the departure of His Grace, of making a strong -and impressive request that the Duke would be pleased to appoint his -worthy and learned friend the Doctor to be one of His Grace's domestic -chaplains. - -"Why really, my kind and worthy friend, your request appears to me to -be a matter of greater difficulty than you, Sir James, seem to be aware -of, biassed, no doubt, by your kindness and partiality for the Doctor; -however you must needs acknowledge that there is somewhat _outre_ and -repulsive in the _tout ensemble_ of this extraordinary man; his general -appearance, his manners, his dress, and address, and those unindurable -appendices of green goggles, and his _je ne scai quoi_ impression, which -is better seen than described. However, if it be possible I shall -willingly assent to your request, provided that you, on the part of the -learned Doctor, accede to my capitulations, which I require and demand. -First, I insist upon the total abandonment of those everlasting green -goggles, in which I verily believe he sleeps withal. Secondly, I -resolve, as a _sine qua non_, that the learned Doctor, upon his arrival -in the metropolis, shall employ either a drill sergeant or a _maitre de -danse_, to mollify his movements of legs and arms! You stare in -astonishment, my good Sir James, but marry, I do not mean, in sooth, -that your grave Doctor and L.L.D. should slowly glide down the sober -minuet, or the more solemn paven, with formal features and extended -cassock, _chausse_ the cotillion, or trot down the merry _contredanse_; -no, _mehercule_, by no means, but this exercise I would fain prescribe -merely in order to give a gentlemanly ease and deportment of person. And -thirdly, I must require that the Doctor should purchase a new gown and -cassock; these habiliments having become threadbare in the service of -old Alma. Fourthly, that the Doctor shall, _sine mora_, have constructed -a neat orthodox wig, curled and powdered _a la Louis Quatorze_, &c. &c." - -All these sage and precise preliminaries being agreed, ratified, and -concluded upon, by the high contracting parties, the Duke upon the -following morning took a friendly leave, and set off to pursue his -journey to Dublin. He kindly offered the Lord Glandarah a seat in his -carriage, who was likewise destined for Dublin; and which offer was most -thankfully accepted by the noble peer. Having duly paid their respective -devoirs to their hospitable host they departed, much gratified by their -reception at the noble and social mansion of Castle-Caldwell. - -The Duke and his noble _compagnon de voyage_ travelled onward without -any accident or occurrence worth narrating, and arrived that day to -dinner at Tarah-Castle, the noble residence of the Lord Tarah. But at -the present day no vestige of this once celebrated castle remains, where -once - - "To chiefs and ladies bright - The harp of Tarah swelled!" - -Upon this distinguished day the hospitable board was loaded with every -luxury; generous Burgundy and enlivening Champaign flowed around in -bumpers; while it seemed a mooted matter of opinion which was most to be -admired, the generous courtesy and hospitality of the noble proprietor -of the castle, the excellence of his viands and wines, or the "soul of -music" that breathed around! - -Moments of convivial joy and harmony, however, soon pass by, and are -forgotten likewise in the advance of time. - -The following morning, soon after breakfast was concluded, the Duke of -Tyrconnel bade an affectionate adieu to the Lord of Tarah, and -accompanied by Lord Glandarah, set off in his travelling carriage for -the castle of Dublin. The journey was safely proceeded on to -Dunshauglin, where the Duke's state carriages and horses were in -attendance to convey him to Dublin, accompanied by a squadron of horse. - -As he approached the city of Dublin, at the barrier of Barrack-street -the horses were taken from the carriage by the populace, and His Grace -was drawn in triumph to the capital; all the cathedral and church bells -ringing forth a merry peal. His Grace was sworn into his high office, -the patent having been read, before the privy council; at the same -moment three rockets in succession ascended from Birmingham Tower, which -were signals of His Grace having been sworn into his high official -station; and were duly responded to by the salute-battery in His -Majesty's royal chase, or park; and the salute was again returned by the -battery stationed on the south-wall of the Liffey. At night a general -and splendid illumination succeeded, which concluded the rejoicings of -this most memorable day. - - - - -CHAPTER VI. - - ----The nature of our people, - Our city's institutions, and the terms - Of common justice, y'are as pregnant in - As art and practice hath enriched any - That we remember. There is our commission! - - MEASURE FOR MEASURE. - - -Fully resolved justly and conscientiously to discharge with unremitting -and unceasing attention the responsible duties of his high office, the -Duke now commenced his vice-regal career. He arose at an early hour, and -whatever public business was to be transacted, he constantly despatched -before the hour of breakfast. He was polite, courteous, and accessible -to all; his was the _suaviter in modo_, but it was also accompanied with -the _fortiter in re_. - -The first day for holding a vice-regal levee, as specified by public -notice from the Chamberlain's office, having arrived, it commenced -exactly at one o'clock, and was most numerously attended. Among the vast -assemblage were noticed the Lord Mayor, the Lord High Chancellor Sir -Alexander Fitton Lord Baron of Gausworth; the judges and great officers -of state; a long train of gentry, numerous members of the lower and -upper houses of parliament attended; many a grave and reverend prelate, -and many a baron bold--"_Post alios_; _fortemque Gyan_, _fortemque -Cloanthum_," &c. - -The company appeared arrayed in full and appropriate court costume. -There were likewise present the different staff officers, besides those -of the garrison; and a large body of ecclesiastics, Protestant and -Catholic, attended. The ceremonies of the day were throughout conducted -with great decorum and propriety. - -Among the notable personages that were this day presented to the Duke, -we must not omit to notice the Honourable Mr. Berenger, M. P. for the -County of----, of an ancient and ennobled family, whose ancestor came -to Ireland in the time of the second Henry. He wore a very large black -curled peruke, which flowed like a lion's mane adown his shoulders; his -coat and small-clothes were of light blue velvet, richly embroidered; a -waistcoat richly worked, and adorned with foliations formed of various -precious stones. He wore, too, a superb diamond-hilted sword; diamond -shoe and knee buckles; silk stockings, with gold embroidered clokes; and -the heels of his shoes were of red Morocco leather. He was indeed, -beyond all dispute, the unparalleled dandy of his day! Mr. Berenger had -been in his youth a very handsome man; but his face now was deadly pale; -and his eyes, which had been once brilliant as the diamonds which -adorned him, reposed, dim and shorn of their beams, within their hollow -and shrivelled sockets. Time, too, had left his stern impress in the -indented furrows of the cheek and the care-scored wrinkles of his brow: -he looked the languid voluptuary, while surfeit and satiety seemed to -seal up his lips. His figure, notwithstanding, was yet even still fine -and commanding. His countenance, however, spoke more plainly of the -preterpluperfect than either of the present or future tense. His eyes -reposed on the carpet or upon vacancy; they had in them "no speculation, -that they did glare withal." When attending the gay and dissipated court -of the second Charles he had often revelled with Rochester, and jested -with Killigrew and, moreover, had the high distinction paid him of -being called "a very finished gentleman indeed" by the witty monarch, -"whose word no man relied on!" - -The eccentric Mr. Berenger had severally proposed at three different -times a matrimonial alliance with Lady Lucy, the Duke's youngest sister, -who politely, but positively refused him; and upon some overtures to -renew his solicitations, Lady Lucy observed, that as she had so long -delayed to marry for love, she was now resolved not to marry in the -capacity of a nurse-tender! This was so home an _argumentum ad -superbiam_ a cut and thrust at the pride of the Honourable Member, that -he now seemed to have no intention of becoming a Benedict. Lady Letitia -found great fault with her sister, complained of her cruelty, and -sturdily maintained "that the Honourable M. P. having shewn such a -confirmed constancy, ought not to have met with this sharp repulse; for -it was evident and manifest that Mr. Berenger did not indeed belong to -the shabby class of '_perhaps_' suitors. - -But it is now time that we should return from this digression. Sir John -Caldwell was at the levee, and his _protege_, our quondam acquaintance -Doctor Dismal Drew, a newly-appointed chaplain, in a gown and cassock -spick and span, who having fully acceded to the rules and stipulations -of address, costume, and conduct, appeared indeed to have been moulded -into quite a different personage. However his strange absence of mind -and defect of judgment fully remained unaltered, as was fully -exemplified on the ensuing Sunday, when he preached a sermon at the -castle chapel before the Duke and his vice-regal suite. The text was -chosen in bad tact, however, and still worse policy: it was selected -from the xxvth chapter of Proverbs, 5th verse: "Take away the wicked -from before the king, and his throne shall be established in -righteousness!" This was unquestionably an uncalled for attack upon the -ministry, upon the noble viceroy, and on his patron; and his name was -struck out of the list of chaplains, never to be again restored. So much -for Doctor Drew! whose head seemed to be obtuse albeit--certainly, -however, it was never destined to be encircled with that ornament with -which Sancho crowned the head of his favourite Dapple. - -Early on the succeeding day her Grace the Duchess of Tyrconnel, the -lovely Lady Adelaide, Ladies Letitia and Lucy, escorted by the polite -and facetious Sir Patricius Placebo, arrived safely at Dublin Castle, -and were most warmly and affectionately received by the Duke and -viceroy. - -The vice-regal party sat down to dinner at their usual and not -irrational hour of four o'clock, which, in these our modern days of -dissipation and late hours, would be considered as an hour for dinner -quite gothic and _a la Bourgeois_; for in these our polished days of -finished taste and refinement, late hours seem to be the very _acme_ of -fashion; late dinners necessarily being succeeded by late suppers, and, -_par consequence_, afternoon breakfasts, in consequatory succession, -bringing up the rere of fashionable high-life to the great practice and -benefit of the College of Physicians. - -The conversation after dinner was lively and agreeable. The Duchess -described their journey, and gave many traits of the good feeling and -humour of the lower classes, as witnessed in their journey from -Tyrconnel Castle. When the ladies had retired, Lord Glandarah, who was -of the party, speaking of the eccentric Mr. Berenger, who had been at -the levee on the preceding day, turning to Sir Patricius, inquired of -him if he knew that eccentric personage? and the following reply, aided -by the effects of brisk Champaign, thus effervesced and flowed from his -lips: "Oh, yes, my Lord, I have before these days met with Count -Berenger, as he was called; I have too heard him converse with the -Windsor beauties, whose similitudes Sir Peter Lely, of pictorial fame, - - ----'On animated canvass stole - Their sleepy eye that speaks the melting soul.' - -Ay, my Lord, and often have I met him at the carousals of old King -Carolus, now defunct, but of blessed memory! He is _certes_ the -completely finished gentleman. He was once gay, and airy, and agreeable; -but now in sooth I must say that he looks as sombre and demure as a -solemn gentleman of the long robe extending his silken train, and -dancing down a paven![17] In the sublime art of eating he is not a -professor, but an artist, only munches the sunny side of a peach or a -nectarine; when he wishes to be helped to fowl or chicken, he is always -sure to bespeak the liver wing; knows all the nice cuts in a haunch of -venison, and he can carve you twenty nice _morceaux_ from the head of a -cod-fish; he knows too how turtle should be cooked, and how duly to -appreciate callipash and callipe; a glass of liqueur or genuine Coniac -he knows as well as I do to be a safe, salutary, and no unpleasant -condiment to his fish. In a word, his is the true art of _scavoir -vivre_; and 'fore Jove or great Apollo, if this were a writing or a -printing age, I should incontinently like and admire to have 'Culinary -Lucubrations, or the whole divine Art of Cookery,' from the pen of the -honourable and polished Mr. Berenger! But it was a sad omission of mine, -my Lord, not to include among his various accomplishments, that he is an -excellent judge of wines, and an excellent taster too, to boot; for he -would never mistake Port wine for Tokay, Chambertin for Chateau-Margut, -nor Vin de Grave for Hock! I think there is no going beyond these. Here, -then, I sum up the climax of his character, 'not to know him argues -one's self unknown!'--My Lord Glandarah, your Lordship's very good -health." - - [17] The _paven_ (from _pavo_, a peacock) is a grave, majestic - dance. The method of dancing it was anciently by gentlemen dressed - with a cap and sword; by those of the long robe in their gowns; by - the princes in their mantles; and by ladies in gowns with long - trains, the motion whereof in the dance resembled that of a - _peacock's tail_. This dance is supposed to have been invented by - the Spaniards, and its figure is given, with the characters for - the steps, in the _Orchesographia_ of Thoinet Arbeau.--See Note to - "_The Mad Lover_." Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, vol. IV. p. 186. - -Here the noble Duke, concluding from the foregoing symptoms that the -Doctor had not omitted taking his _quantum sufficit_ of Burgundy, -proposed another flask to Lord Glandarah, or some coffee with the -ladies. The ladies had the preference given them; and the Duke retiring -to the drawing-room, was followed by his guests. - -"I have," whispered Sir Patricius to Lord Glandarah, "observed, in -divers companies and upon several occasions, that His Grace in these -matters always leaves the discussion to the _liberum arbitrium_ of his -guests." - -"And," replied the Peer, "Gad save my soul, I laud his discreet -resolution!" - -The Duchess appointed her first drawing-room for the succeeding -evening. It may not be amiss here to acquaint the reader, that at the -period of which we now write, court dresses were universally worn by -both sexes at evening routes and balls: the gentlemen appeared in full -court costume, with bags, swords, and buckles; and the ladies with -monstrous bell-hoops, and portentous stomachers of an ell in longitude! -and withal incased in the cumbrous accoutrement of a heavy stiffened -silk mantua; while their false and elevated tetes reminded one of Pelion -piled up on Ossa. - -The above remarks will be sufficient to account for the short notice -given for the intended drawing-room. We would also observe upon the -hours at which the worthy folks of these days assembled at their evening -parties. At this period of time the fashionable hour of paying visits -was not, as it is now, in the morning, or rather mid-day, when every -body is abroad, but it was in the evening, when every one almost was at -home; and the visiting hour commenced at so early an hour as seven -o'clock. In the autumnal and winter months the saloons and -drawings-rooms of the noblesse and gentry in Dublin were at that hour, -or at the first visitor's knock at the door, immediately brilliantly -lighted up, and if both parties were perfectly disengaged, the guests -remained; each room displaying richly cut glass lustres and glass -chandeliers illuminated with wax; there was a numerous display of -card-tables; the servants attending in rich liveries; while lords and -knights, and commoners, and stately dames, and ladies gay, came attired -in their court costume. The company partook of tea, coffee, &c.; in the -course of the evening lemonade, orgeat, cake, wine, negus, jellies, -sweetmeats, and confections, (for the luxury of ice was then unknown,) -were handed around to the company, many of whom had meantime sat down to -the card-table, some playing whist, cribbage, or tredrille; some at -ombre, and others at loo. And as the clock struck ten the company -separated, and all retired. - -Ladies of high rank usually visited in their state sedan-chairs, which -were stuffed, and lined with white and pink satin, and externally -decorated with different rich ornaments; large silk tassels dangled at -the four angular points of the roof, and the highest top, or pinnacle, -was surmounted by a gilt coronet reposing on a crimson cushion; three, -sometimes four, footmen, according to the rank of the individual, -habited in splendid liveries, and arranged in single files, preceded the -sedan-chair, each bearing a lighted flambeau. And sooth to say, some of -the old dowagers, when the doubtful light of the flambeau flashed upon -their withered visages, incontinently reminded the spectator of the -waxen figure of queen Elizabeth in the glass-case at Westminster-Abbey! - -The drawing-room night arrived, and was crowded by numbers of the -nobility and gentry of both sexes, when the old and the young were -assembled together. It was indeed a splendid scene--a galaxy of beauty -and magnificence; the dresses were superb; and bright and brilliant were -the blaze of gems and jewels that adorned the brows, ears, and encircled -the lovely necks of the young, and sparkled on those of a more matronly -description. The youthful and lovely fair presenting no unfavourable -specimen of the beauty of the daughters of Erin; their cheeks rivalling -the rose, and blushing in graceful adolescence; while their lovely -bosoms, glowing in healthful bloom, reflected a pearly radiance around -the diamonds which sparkled upon and adorned them. - -Several ladies of the nobility and gentry, amounting to many hundreds, -were presented, and all of whom were most graciously received by the -truly kind and agreeable Duchess. - -The amusements of the evening commenced. Several grave minuets were -danced in a most marvellous solemn pace; to these succeeded the _minuet -de la Cour_, which was danced by Sir Patricius Placebo and Lady Letitia -Raymond, to the great entertainment of the Duke and Duchess, whose -gravity, in sooth to say, was upon this occasion quite borne down and -vanquished. Then followed cotillions, which were succeeded -by contre-dances, which ended the amusements of the night. Numerous -card-tables were placed, and were not unoccupied by the elder part of -the assemblage, many of whom went away with their purses many a _minus_ -diminished, when they at solemn leisure reckoned their losses on the -said night or ensuing morning. But the fun and the drollery of the -evening seemed to concentrate in the ridicule attached to Sir Philip -Fumbally, a civic knight and alderman, who somewhat resembled, in -corporal shape and form, the paunch of Falstaff, with all the stiffness -of mine ancient Pistol--aye, and the very nose of renowned Bardolph! -However we must take up the brush and finish our portrait. Sir Philip -was in stature about four feet five, a perfect rotundity in corpulence, -fat short hands, fat short legs; and his face--oh, ye gods, such a face -was his! Forehead, he had none! his hair was red, his small ferret eyes -were grey, if eyes they could be called, which were indeed to him _no -windows of the soul_! but closed as if under the awful influence of -Somnus! His nose was flat, and in colour ruddy red, his chubby cheeks -the same; and his mouth opened and grinned with all the agreeability of -a cayman or crocodile! His laugh and look were horrid, the former the -diapason of a demon, and the latter the very outline of Memistopheles. -Leaning upon his unwieldy arm was seen his long-necked, long-armed, and -long-legged ugly lady. The Irish, who are somewhat "both the great, -vulgar, and the small," too much given liberally to bestow -_soubriquets_, nicknamed this unparalleled pair _flesh and bone_! And -Sir Patricius Placebo somewhat wittily observed, upon his word of -honour, as a true knight, that Lady Fumbally always reminded him of an -undertaker's horse, a Rosinante covered with a compound of velvet -trappings and nodding plumage, withal to cover the skeleton which they -adorned! - -When the presentations commenced, Sir Philip, "like a doating mallard," -waddled after the unfurled train of "his darling duckie," (by which -endearing name he familiarly styled my Lady Fumbally,) it so happened -that in discharging this uxorious task he tripped up fairly, or rather -foully, his lady's train, and by which losing his equipoise, the worthy -knight was very nearly tripped up himself. The courtiers all tittered, -and some indeed extended it to a most uncourtly loud laugh. The lady, -like unto Lot's wife, would fain turn around in defiance of all courtly -etiquette, and her visage seemed deeply to participate in the -_bouleversement_ of her velvet train. Here the amiable knight, -compassionating her trodden down vanity, fairly took up the said -portentous train, which was soon somewhat incontinently snatched by a -chamberlain in waiting from the grasp of the knight, and again permitted -to perform its meanders on the carpet _ad libitum_. The laugh and -titters were again renewed. Mr. Berenger, who was standing close to Sir -Patricius Placebo, seemed to be quite roused from his usual -_nonchalance_, and whispered Sir Patricius, "this is too bad, _risu -ineptu nulla res ineptior est_; (nothing is so foolish as the laugh of -fools!) however, we courtiers are always too fond of a laugh, that is to -say, (_crede experto_,) provided that it be never directed against -ourselves! Sir Patricius, we (with his fore-finger touching the facial -nerve of his nose) _have been_ at the court of good old Carolus!" - -The worthy Baronet, to whom these observations were addressed, did not -commit himself by one single comment, but silently nodded, and was -meantime taking snuff with immoderate rapidity, and in no stinted -quantities; and when these piquant remarks were made by the ornament of -the old court, Sir Patricius politely and gently as possible laughed -(_voce depresso_) his heh, heh, heh, and his ahem! "Yes, yes, Mr. -Berenger, _indeed we_ have seen the world!--ahem! - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!" - -Sir Philip Fumbally was the renowned and recorded alderman who at a -civic feast loudly proclaimed that Marshal Turenne had taken GREAT -UMBRAGE, and proposed as a right gallant toast--"Health to the mighty -and glorious conqueror of GREAT UMBRAGE, the valiant Turenne!" The toast -was drank with great enthusiasm; but soon each civic guest asked -significantly his neighbour the geographical position of GREAT UMBRAGE; -was it in France, in Flanders, Utopia, or the Lord knows where? The -Gazetteer was put in requisition, and the general atlas (such as the -times afforded) were called for, and were conned over. But alas! -UMBRAGE--the proud, the great, and mighty, could no where be found; its -place was a blank amid the nations! - -What conduced to the mistake or blunder was, that a pique had arisen at -that time between General Konigsmark and General Geis (subsequent to the -passage of the river Neckar in Germany,) against the Duc d'Enghien, (by -whose valour that pass was won, and also Wimpfen was taken;) declaring -that the two former would quit the army, &c. At this declaration the -Field Marshal Viscount Turenne, it was rumoured, had _taken_ UMBRAGE! It -was upon this _datum_ that the worthy alderman had built his _el -dorado_, his airy citadel, his undiscoverable principality and victory! -But Turenne soared above the impetuosity of Konigsmark, and the -obstinacy of the other two. Turenne was a hero! and one who would scorn -to the city achievement of _taking_ UMBRAGE from friend or foe! - -For about the space of an hour the lovely Lady Adelaide was permitted to -remain at the drawing-room, the delight of every eye, and the theme of -every tongue. - -The Duke sat down to play at tredrille with the Countess Dowager of -Ossory and Lord Glandarah. This game, as the name implies, was played by -three persons at a small triangular table, which in these our degenerate -days, are shown only as curiosities in the cabinets of the curious; and -the Duke, when they left off play, arose a winner of about twenty -pounds; for in their quiet, snug way the good folks of those days often -lost or won fourteen or fifteen pounds of the current coin of the realm -at a pool of tredrille, which was then considered _most moderate_ play! - -About the hour of eleven o'clock the Duke and Duchess, who had been much -gratified and amused during the course of the evening, arose, and bowing -most gracefully and courteously to their guests, broke up the -drawing-room, and retired. - -The company soon departed for their homes, highly pleased and -gratified with the courteous deportment of the noble pair; charmed alike -by their affable manners and fascinating attentions equally bestowed on -all. It would be tedious at this time of day to detail the names, and it -might seem invidious to record the particular beauties that graced the -brilliant circle, which upon that memorable evening crowded and adorned -the splendid suite of rooms at Dublin Castle. - - - - -CHAPTER VII. - - Young innocent, on whose sweet forehead mild - The parted ringlet shone in simplest guise, - An inmate in the home of RAYMOND smil'd, - Or blest his noonday walk.--She was his only child. - - CAMPBELL. - - -The faculty having strongly recommended sea-bathing as salutary and -beneficial to the health of Lady Adelaide, the Duke, in consequence of -this advice, purchased a hunting lodge, not remote from the sea-shore, -and beautifully situated amid the romantic scenery of the county of -Wicklow, which, from its proximity to the metropolis, afforded a -convenient retreat, and from whence he could, with little or no delay, -receive and despatch the duties attendant upon his high official -situation. As soon as the mansion was placed in a state of proper -repair, and becomingly furnished to be worthy of the reception of the -representative of majesty, the Duke resolved, for the benefit of the -health of a beloved and only daughter, as well as for his own repose -from the fatigues of office, to retire to his newly-acquired purchase of -Laetely Abbey--for thus was this hunting lodge denominated; and this -resolve was not long without being carried into execution. The Duke and -Duchess of Tyrconnel, accompanied by Lady Adelaide, the sisters of the -Duke, not forgetting Sir Patricius Placebo, that witty knight; along -with a numerous attendant suite, left Dublin Castle for their sojourn at -Laetely Abbey, and after a few hours travelling, they safely reached the -place of their destination. - -Letely (or Laetely) Abbey (_quasi laetus locus_), for by this latter -designation antiquarians insisted that it should be called, was indeed a -lovely place, surrounded as it was by all the combining beauties of -natural scenery: here stood the venerable ruins of a decayed abbey, its -walls wreathed and its summits crowned with ivy, while its grand oriel -or eastern window, magnificent even in decay, was festooned and -enlivened with various creeping plants, the sweet-smelling clematis, the -jessamine, and woodbine, trailed around the ruins of the stone casement, -through which the sun-beams cheerfully shone, while the foliage -gracefully waved in the blast, and the blossoms all sweetly perfumed the -surrounding air. To the right of the abbey arose an extensive -sheep-walk, whose boundaries were crowned by lofty groves of arbutus, or -the strawberry tree; laurel, holly, added their combining greens and -shades; and though last, not least, myrtle groves, which in this county -grow to an amazing height, verifying the very just description of the -great pastoral poet, Virgil, "_amantes littora myrtos_"--myrtles which -rejoice in being near to the shores of the sea. While in the fore-ground -of the landscape, in all its splendid azure majesty, burst forth upon -the delighted spectator's view the mighty ocean, its bosom studded with -frequent white sails, which, as they scudded along, brightly glistened -in the rays of a refulgent autumnal sun. The shore was indented by high -and undulating downs, all richly cultivated, whose green sward, in -smoothness and brilliance, vied with, if not rivalled, any carpet from -the looms of Bruxelles, Turkey, or Persia. A range of meadows succeeded -the downs, which were bordered with hedge-rows of oak, sycamore, and -ash. Adjoining this enlivening scene stood a dense grove of forest -trees, now glowing in all the rich and diversified tints of autumn. The -dark green hue of the American spruce formed a rich and striking -contrast with its deep brown cones, which gracefully clustered amid -their parent verdure, and undulated upon the waving branches, while they -bent to the breeze. The lemon-tinted leaves of the Alpine larch here -were also seen, which were finely opposed to the deep copper colour of -the umbrageous beech, and alternately blending with the bright green of -the Scottish fir, or the deeper shades of the ilex, or ever-green oak. - -To the left yawned a rocky, dark, romantic glen, surmounted by -stupendous rocks frowning on the abyss beneath, whose sides were studded -with every variety of wild herb and plant indigenous to a mountainy -region, and, among others, that rare plant, the _adianthum_, fringed the -interstices of the frowning cliffs. - -Beneath reposed in a secluded dell the cottage of the Duke's steward. -The latticed windows were trellised with the rose, jasmin, and woodbine; -the blue smoke which ascended and curled into clouds amid the -overhanging foliage, betokened habitation and comfort. To the cottage -was annexed an extensive farm-yard, with all the appendices of -corn-stacks, turf, and hay likewise, _cum multis aliis_, besides the -various addition of live stock, all of which added interest and -animation to the scene. - -Through the bosom of this glen slowly meandered along a mountain -stream, (in winter a torrent,) whose devious course was distinctly -outlined by an accompanying range of alder trees, that in double columns -densely shaded its winding banks. - -In the back ground, veiled in dark neutral tint, arose a craggy -mountain, whose base was richly dotted with groves of larch and spruce. -Prominently in the fore-ground was situated the Duke's hunting lodge, -which, as we have already said, was denominated Laetely Abbey. This -structure was built in the style of architecture of the family mansions -of the Elizabethan period. An extensive lake, supplied by a copious -mountain stream, presented itself in front of the house, until, winding -onward, it was lost amid the adjoining woods. Close by was a deer-park, -well enclosed, and numerously stocked with deer, some of whom -gregariously reposed, while others were seen trooping through the dense -woods, and gazing at the passing stranger, which added interest and a -picturesque beauty to the scene. - -But the pride, grace, and ornament of Laetely Abbey was to be found in -the attractive and lovely Adelaide, who had now entered upon her -fifteenth year--so rapidly onward does time advance. Indeed it was no -flattery to say, that Adelaide was most truly engaging in her manners. -Her statue would have graced the design of Phidias or Praxiteles; her -lovely and expressive countenance captivated every beholder; the rose of -youth was upon her cheek, and her skin was fair and pure as the unsunned -lily; her dark blue eyes sparkled intelligence, beaming beneath her -beautifully arched eye-brows. Her look, gesture, and demeanour, -communicated joy; and we shall not deny a parental pride to the Duke and -Duchess, at the same time, that her looks beamed forth delight upon all -who beheld her; while her converse, sustained with a voice sweet, -distinct, and melodious, charmed every listening ear. Her manners were -unaffected, as they were natural, and all was silence when she spoke. -Her figure was graceful, as we have before noticed, and beautifully and -finely proportioned. When animated by discourse her features seemed to -be lighted up by almost celestial fire; her brilliant eyes sparkled -bright as the native diamond, and her entire countenance became -irresistibly charming. - -To those of inferior rank her deportment was kind and unassuming, and -down to the lowest domestic she was beloved, for they felt and knew that -her delight was to protect those beneath her power, and not to tyrannise -over them. - -With an ardent and sanguine admiration of the beauties of nature, -Adelaide too possessed an enthusiastic love of literature, conjoined to -a correctly formed and delicately refined taste. Every day her mind -expanded, from the literary lore which she imbibed, and gradually, but -extensively, her brilliant talents developed their powers. Poetry, -painting, and music, principally fascinated, as they are ever wont to -do, the feeling and romantic mind of youth. Some of those impressions -thus elicited Adelaide was occasionally in the habit of committing to -writing. One day, while some workmen of the Duke were employed in -breaking up ground upon the confines of an ancient, but neglected -cemetery, which surrounded a small dilapidated church, stationed on a -green and rising knoll, whose ruinous walls were thickly overspread with -ivy, while the alder, holly, and thorn, had stoutly installed -them-selves in what had been once the chancel--it happened that, upon -digging at the foot of an ancient thorn, they threw up a human skull, -which the Duke caused immediately to be reinterred in the same spot; and -within no distant space of time a tombstone was prepared to surmount the -grave, upon which was duly chiselled a crucifix, with the usual -accompaniments of a death's head, &c., and having called upon his -daughter's muse for some lines to be inscribed thereon, the interesting -Adelaide wrote the following, which was sculptured upon the tomb:-- - - INSCRIPTION. - - Rest here in peace beneath this ancient thorn! - Perhaps thou once didst rural life adorn, - And raised thy hopes to heaven in yonder aisle: - Now droops thy relick nigh yon ruin'd pile! - Still peaceful rest beneath thy parent earth, - Until awakened to a nobler birth! - -The Duke and Duchess having attentively perused this brief inscription, -fondly and affectionately embraced their lovely and much beloved child, -no less pleased with the religious feeling which had called forth their -warm approbation, and which they distinctly expressed, than delighted as -they were with the poetic feeling (for thus their partial fondness -adjudged) with which it was written; considering it as no unfavourable -specimen of the expanding powers of a youthful mind. Adelaide was -infinitely far more delighted by this praise of her parents, an incense -so grateful to her heart, than any aspirant to fame in these our -degenerate days could receive from the partial praise and prejudiced -columns of any literary critick. - -Time rapidly moved onward, the winter had passed over with an uncommon -mildness; but the spring, which had now succeeded, proved unusually -harsh, tardy, and severe. The cold north-east wind had incessantly -blown, and vegetation had consequently been chillingly repelled; while -the usual flowers that form the chaplet of spring were chained in their -petals, or wholly destroyed by the frost. And when the merry month of -June arrived, it was indeed unusual and extraordinary to behold the -blossoms of the wild rose, hawthorn, and the laburnum, all mingling -their beauties and their perfumes amid the numerous hedge-rows, and -presenting a diversified mass of colours and foliage, like to the bloom -of a Russian spring, when, melted by a genial vernal sun, trees, plants, -and flowers bud, and immediately burst forth into luxuriant and varied -vegetation; the annual resurrection of nature vigorously springing forth -in renovated youth from the tomb of winter! - -One morning while Lady Adelaide was seated in the library reading some -interesting work with that deep attention and wrapt enthusiasm with -which she always dwelt upon a book of merit, she was suddenly -interrupted in her studies by the approach of that important person, (as -in her own estimation she considered herself;) we here speak of the -redoubtable Mrs. Judith Braingwain, who, rushing incontinently into the -library, and quite out of breath, exclaimed, "Oh, my Lady, who would -have thought it? But however marvellous it is, see, yonder they come; -see, there they are, Bishop Rocket along with his tall wife, who, by the -bye, is hardy as a seagull; and, moreover, a whole flock, aye, a -beautiful bevy of dainty damozels besides! See, my Lady, there--there -they are; they are now just entering the porch; aye, there they come, -sure enough!" - -"How strange!" replied Lady Adelaide, "we left them at Tyrconnel; what -unaccountable anomaly brings the bishop and family from his palace to -this retired spot?" - -Here Mrs. Judith catching at the word _anomaly_, and wholly -uncomprehending it, while she thought proper to confound its meaning, -thus rejoined:--"Anne O'Mally! Oh yes, my dear young Lady, just as if -now before my eyes, I ken that sweet and charming creature, worth a -whole fleet and cargo of such like ladies as Dame Rocket. I remember, ay -faith do I, she was the finest----Oh no, not the finest--that belongs to -another; but as fine a girl as a body might see on a fair May-day in -ould Connaught, any how! And beside, and moreover, she was right loyally -discended [lineally descended] from the great bould pirate princess, -Grace O'Malley, in troth, and sure enough, far and near, and abroad and -at home, far better known, mavourneen, by the famous name of Grana Uile, -who (it is a storical fact) visited Elizabeth,[18] the grand and -conquering queen of all England, in her gallipot [galliot,] afar across -the salt water seas. Oh, Lady Adelaide! Anne O'Malley was indeed a -promising young lady--the finest----" - - [18] Queen Elizabeth received her graciously at court, and offered - to create her a Countess.--See _Notes_ v. III. - -"Nay, nay, nurse," said Lady Adelaide, "be not so flippant in thy -praise, else I shall grow positively jealous. I therefore must stop you -just now, for it seems your tongue runs riot quite with your discretion; -and has bounced off at a tangent in full gallop, jumping pell-mell, hop -and step, from the young and lovely Anne O'Malley to grey-head old -Grana Uile, (of neither of whom, by the bye, did I speak,) until in most -crab-like motion you pounce upon the majestic Elizabeth; and all this -in most manifest and notable contempt of time, place, and circumstance. -This really is not to be endured. Besides, I pray you to remember, that -_once_, however, _there was a time_ when no one was so handsome, so -good, and all so angelic and so forth, as _your own Adelaide_! And, in -undisguised truth, I was in a very fair and hopeful way of being utterly -spoiled, but that happily I turned a deaf and obdurate ear to all your -too partial praise, as well I knew that your commendations all sprung -from overweening kindness. However, just now I am happy to find that you -are converted from your former heresies, and that at length you behold -your poor idol in its mortal shape, imbued with all its natural and -perverse imperfections; and that you are now free to confess that, in -sooth, I am not, as I never was, that angel of excellence, and that -paragon of beauty, which your early devotions conceived me to be. You -have broken your idol, and it has fallen from the pedestal upon which -you had proudly placed it, shivered into atoms on the earth!" - -This Lady Adelaide said in a playful way, half pretendedly serious, and -the other half wholly comic. - -"Ah, my dear young Lady! and so you are still the idol of goodness, and -the very dragon of beauty! none who ever saw you, who ever knew you, can -think otherwise; this I ever thought you were; and I defy Guy of Warwig, -the seven Champions of Chrysostom, and Saint Patrick himself, to boot, -to deny it if they durst, but that you are the best, the brightest, and -finest young lady in the 'varsal world; and I challenge ould England and -ould Ireland to gainsay me! - -It now becomes necessary to say a word or two of this said Bishop -Rocket, who came a visitor to the Duke. Patronage--all powerful -patronage--had placed the mitre upon his brow, as it too often has done -upon the head of many an unmeritorious aspirant to the hierarchy. His -classic acquirements and literary attainments will best be told by the -subsequent details:--Three friends who came to dine _en famille_ one day -at his house in Dublin, sat down, previously to dinner, to play a snug -rubber of whist, thus to pass the intermediate time. It happened to be -of a Friday, during a parliament winter; the printed proceedings of the -House of Lords of the preceding day were brought in, and, as is always -the case, the day of the week and the date of the month surmounted the -top of the page, as the head and front of these transactions. It ran -thus:--"_Die jovis_," &c. "What?" inquired the prelate, addressing one -whom his Lordship considered as the most classic of the trio, "pray, -what is the meaning of _Die jovis_?" - -And in order that such of our fair readers who are not conversant with -the Latin tongue may not burst in ignorance with the hierarchical -inquirant, we shall give, _in totidem verbis_, the answer of the learned -Theban, the bishop's friend:--"Why, my good Lord," said the facetious -gentleman, smiling withal, "'fore Jove, my Lord, the two words conjoined -mean nothing more nor less than _Thursday_! upon which day your Lordship -gave your _benedicite_ to the House of Peers!" - -His Lordship lost the odd trick, looked all quite discomposed; nor did -he recover himself again until the sumptuous and savoury dinner smoked -upon the board. - -Bishop Rocket had enlarged the palace at the See-house of----and had -built, or caused to be built, with his usual want of tact and judgment, -a grand and heavy portico, which fronted the north! Upon the final -completion of this most notable and extraordinary structure the prelate -seemed quite pleased; in which it was conceived that he remained solely -in the singular number. However, he thought fit most condescendingly to -write to a friend, then residing at Rome, a long letter, the burden of -which ran to the following tenor:--"Now, dear and Reverend Sir, as you -are seated, or I, who am a bishop, may say, enthroned at the fountain -head of the fine arts, I have to request that you would have the -goodness to purchase for me twelve statues of the heathen gods and -goddesses to adornate my grand portico, which I have built at an immense -expense; and it is allowed by all the curates in my diocese to have been -accomplished with no inconsiderable portion of taste! And by so doing -you will vastly oblige me." - -The Reverend friend thus wrote back a letter, the chief paragraph of -which, in reply to Bishop Rocket, ran to this effect:--"Most dear and -Right Reverend Lord, as your Lordship requires the statues which you -specify, to adorn the portico of a Christian bishop's palace, what would -your Lordship think--(and oh, good, my Lord, I pray you not to be -offended at the voice of truth, which is seldom heard with patience -either within the precincts of courts or the palaces of -prelates!)--what, I pray, my Lord, would you think if I should select -for you, instead of the heathen gods of antiquated Greece and Rome, -_videlicet_: Jupiter, Vulcan, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Bacchus, and Co., -shall I, most dear and Reverend Lord, transmit to you statues of the -twelve apostles, which surely, most venerated Prelate, you will find to -be, upon mature deliberation, every way far more episcopal, apostolical, -more in good taste, and indeed I must add, quite orthodox. And -assuredly, my good Lord, I feel, and am most fully confident to say and -pronounce it, that the Reverend Head of the holy see would most freely -and cheerfully acquiesce in yielding his assent and consent to permit -these said apostolical statues to be removed and transported to 'the -Island of Saints,' so soon as His Holiness shall be informed that these -stone-sculptured saints are destined for a brother bishop!" - -But know, gentle reader, that Bishop Rocket, whatever might have been -the cause, never even deigned to return any answer to this remonstrative -letter of his too candid friend; and here consequently the proposal fell -to the ground, and never was again resumed. The portico, however, still -stood, presenting its dark _facade_ to the bleak northern blast, -unsurmounted by statue either mythological or apostolical. - -Mrs. Rocket _had been_--we must speak here historically in the past -tense--had once been a fine woman, and still a portion of that beauty, -though somewhat clipped by the shears of old Father Chronos, still -remained. It was this attracted the bishop when only a curate, and - - "Passing rich on forty pounds a year." - -But all powerful love, whose transcendant sway remains undisputed from -the days of the Teian bard down to those of the mighty minstrel of our -own time, in whose own words we are told, - - "Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, - And men below, and saints above, - For love is heaven, and heaven is love!" - -This potent urchin slily sprung a shaft, which securely settled in the -curate's reverend breast, but which was not long permitted by the -compassionate lady hopelessly to rankle in the bosom of her accepted -mate; for ere long the "happy, happy pair" were indissolubly united in -the bands of holy wedlock. Some folks however, and, by the bye, not few -in number, gave it as their opinion, that the lady happening to be the -niece and nearest relative to the bishop of----who was unmarried, and -besides much attached to his niece, that there appeared to be more of -prudent calculation for the future, than ardent love at the present, in -the transaction; inasmuch, that a large portion of the uncle's fortune, -if not the entire, would ultimately vest in the selected fair one; and -perchance, moreover, a rich benefice to boot, which might be expected -from his Lordship's great episcopal patronage, that in the developement -of time would be bestowed upon Curate Rocket. And all these conjectures, -in due and ordinary course, finally and fully occurred. Indeed, in -confirmation of these conjectures, there existed an additional cause for -nobody's doubting the truth of this popular surmise; it was no less a -cogent reason than this, that the lady was by some ten years, at least, -elder than the man to whom she was affianced. This was indeed an -objection not to be overruled by any thesis or syllogism of the schools; -there was here - - "No quirk left, no quiddit," - -to defeat its truth. It was in contradiction to sense, to propriety, -and meet discretion. Upon this subject thus speaks the immortal -Shakespeare, the great moral bard, and poet of nature:-- - - "Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take - An elder than herself; so wears she to him, - So sways she level in her husband's heart. - For----however we do praise ourselves, - Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, - More longing, wavering, sooner lost or worn, - Than women's are!" - -We must now attempt to present to the reader's eye a just description -of the peripatetic, or walking-dress, of Mrs. Rocket, which no doubt -pertained to a strange, peculiar, and extraordinary costume, which was -in vogue in the times to which we advert. Upon her head she wore a small -cap of Valenciennes lace, which was enveloped in a large and ponderous -machine, ycleped a _calash_; which was so denominated from its structure -and conformation, bearing a close similitude to the head or leather -covering of the French vehicle which is called by a similar name. This -structure was formed of various hoops of whalebone, arranged in -equidistant, semicircular, parallels, forming _en masse_ a huge and -outlandish head-gear; the outside was covered with black lutestring; and -the penultimate circle of this pent-house was adornated and fringed with -deep lace; the interior was lined with rose-coloured silk, which -artfully threw a bloom upon the wearer's visage, whether wife or widow. -This ponderous machine could be advanced or drawn back (like the head of -a modern barouche or landau) by the occupant _ad libitum_, according as -wind or weather permitted, or caprice might dictate. Likewise, with -equal facility, the head of the wearer might be wholly divested of this -incumbrance, which, in such a case, was handed over to the custody of -the attending lackey. - -The reader will please to observe, that this head costume was prevalent -before the modern umbrella, or still more recent parasol came into -general use; and indeed, in some degree, so far as the covering of the -head was taken into calculation, this invention, strange though it may -at the present time appear, so far fully answered the functions and -intentions of these later discoveries of modern art. The lady wore a -large silk cloak, trimmed and flounced with ermine; she also carried a -muff, small in size and calibre, formed of the same materials. To these -were added, as the _materiale_ of her dress, a stiff flowered silk -mantua, supported upon a bell-hoop; an apron trimmed with lace; high -heeled shoes formed likewise a part of the dress, with the dangerous -appanage of pattens, long since exploded in these parts. - -Such was the strange costume which formed the morning or peripatetic -habiliments of Mrs. Rocket. This lady also carried a walking-staff, or -cane; by this we do not, in any measure, mean to assimilate it to the -most formidable and terrific walking-staff once borne by the bluff king -Harry of tyrannic memory, and now exhibited in the tower of London with -sundry other curiosities that belong not to our province to enumerate. -No, gentle reader, the simple staff which the lady bore was of a most -placable description; it was, in sooth, a tall tapering indian cane, and -adorned on the top with a head of beautiful china porcelain, upon which, -in rich and brilliant colouring, were depicted some of the most -beautiful wild flowers of summer. And through every change of weather, -hail or snow, storm, rain, or sun-shine, was to be seen this -indefatigable pedestrian trudging her daily peregrinations. Often, when -remonstrated with for thus running the risk of catching cold, and so -forth, when in good humour, which was _not always_ the case, she was -wont to hum or troll forth an old ditty, one stave of which ran pretty -much to the following effect and tenor:-- - - Why at home should I budge, - Not abroad freely trudge, - My bairns and I altogether? - While my skin I don't grudge, - So be heav'n my judge! - To melt or to freeze with the weather. - -Very often her temper was extremely cross, which she vented in scolding -the servants right and left, wrong or right; and Sunday being a day of -rest, was very often selected, with due circumspection, for this -wholesome exercise of her lungs. An auld Scottish steward, who -superintended the agricultural establishment, upon having auricular -proof how matters stood within the mansion, slily remarked: "Ah, wae to -the hoose where hens craw, and the cocks are silent!" - -Madam Rocket had the reputation all throughout her husband's diocese of -being truly a most notable lady in every sublunary concern. She was -constituted as sole manageress of the entire home department at the -See-house of----; and it was there bruited abroad and around the -country far and near, that the "_omnia Romae cum pretio_" of Juvenal, -might be fairly applied to Madam Rocket's establishment; but it was -insisted that the "_cito peritura_" did by no means belong to the lady. -However, rumour went on, with its gossip tongue, to whisper that at the -See-house of----every thing was vendible, from the produce of the -farm, the barn, the poultry-yard, the piggery, the dairy, the fruit and -flower garden--nay, even down to the kitchen garden; every article of -which was duly transmuted, as was insisted, into the _Regina Pecunia_. - -The Bishop and his lady, albeit they were no favourites with the Duke -and Duchess, were nevertheless most hospitably invited, and even -pressed, according to the custom of the times, to remain to dinner, and -also to continue their guests for some days at Laetely Abbey. But this -was upon their part most gratefully declined. The Bishop and Mrs. Rocket -partook of a collation, and departed for Dublin, declining the warm and -hospitable invitation upon plea of business in the capital, and to -rejoin their family, who had been with them at Arklow for the benefit of -sea-bathing, and who had that morning proceeded on their way to the -metropolis. - -During the residence of the vice-regal visitors in the county of -Wicklow, they visited all the romantic scenery and the various -picturesque views, each lofty mountain, retired valley, and secluded -stream or glen, within the precincts of that fairy region. - -The lake of Luggelaw made a deep impression upon the Lady Adelaide. She -thus expressed her feelings upon viewing it: "It was," she said, "a -scene so sad, so lonely, and solitary; so wild, so rude, and -mountain-locked, that one here might almost imagine that they saw one of -the secluded pilgrims of Salvator Rosa studiously wrapt in silent -devotion, intent on the sacred volume which he held, and praying to his -Creator; the wilderness his temple, and his choir the roaring cataract -and the accompanying winds of heaven!" - -"Vastly well, Adelaide," said the Duke, smiling with pleasure, "vastly -well, indeed; and now, my love, to complete your sketch, people these -craggy heights above us with three or four banditti; put helmets upon -their heads and lances in their firm hands; then on a sudden our whole -party, spurring onward our jaded steeds, are to fly from the attack; add -to this too to your sketch, and I really think it will be then a -finished _tableaux_, and quite in the due and terrific tone and style of -this great poetic painter." - -Adelaide sweetly smiled, but replied not. - -They next visited Glendalough, or the Seven Churches, and the "sweet -Vale of Ovoca." Ascending the high hill of Knockmokil, Adelaide, in -impromptu, repeated the following lines:-- - - Romantic spirit of this mountain glen - Tell the blest time we may here meet again! - Wilt thou to distant Aughnavanock stray, - Or wend, 'mid Lara's wilds, thy lonely way? - Or here ascend Knockmokil's lofty height, - Where vales transcendant burst upon the sight; - Sea, grove, and forest, rivers, all combine - Their matchless charms, to stamp the spot divine? - -They next visited Loch Dan, the Demon's Glen and Waterfall, the -Waterfall of Powerscourt, &c. &c. - -Lady Adelaide derived the greatest benefit from sea-bathing, and her -health became completely re-established, which one day called forth the -following eulogium from Sir Patricius Placebo; while engaged in -conversation with the Duchess, he observed, "Oh, my Lady, how truly -lovely the Lady Adelaide looks in renovated health and beauty! Each day -still adds to her charms; and, in verity, I should be fully justified to -speak of her in the words of the historic worthy, old Titus Livius, -(whose name, by the bye, the ridiculous French sink down into _Tit -Live_--just, my Lady, as if they were speaking of the little bird called -Tom Tit!) his words are these: '_Adulta virgo; adeo eximia, forma, ut -quacunque incedebat converteret omnium oculos_'--'An adult virgin of -such exquisite form, that wherever her steps were turned, thither with -delight the looks of all beholders were directed.'" - -The Duchess duly curtsied, and thanked the Baronet for the classical -compliment which he had paid; and said, "that inasmuch as she was mother -to the object of his praise, she confessed that withal she was indeed -too partial to her beloved daughter to gainsay the polite eulogium of -Sir Patricius." - -The Duke and Duchess determined to remain during each year for some -months at their delightful retreat amid the romantic beauties of the -county of Wicklow; this residence only to be interrupted by the -occasional absence of the Duke to hold a levee or a privy council at -Dublin Castle; the routine of state dinners, or when her Grace presided -at drawing-rooms, balls, &c. or in occasionally going in state to the -theatre royal, &c. &c. The autumnal months were passed at Tyrconnel -Castle, but the winter invariably was spent at Dublin Castle. - -Thus days and months passed over, marked only in the calendar by health, -tranquillity, and social pleasure, without the occurrence of any event -of importance sufficient to be recorded here. Two years at this point of -time had passed over in peaceful serenity, Lady Adelaide daily improving -in the expansion of her mental powers, and in gradual increase of -personal beauty. The Duke, who had been long absent from Tyrconnel -Castle, proposed to pass the ensuing summer and autumn at that lordly -residence, and with all due pomp and solemnity there to celebrate -Adelaide's birth-day, who would at that time enter into her seventeenth -year; and from thence, these high ceremonials completed, his Grace -proposed to proceed to Dublin, to open the biennial session of -parliament: and preparations were immediately set on foot to carry these -intentions into effect. - -During the absence of the noble proprietor Tyrconnel Castle had -undergone a thorough repair, and many judicious alterations and -improvements had taken place in the internal decoration of the castle, -as well as in the external adornment of the lawns, parks, and gardens of -this princely abode. Pursuant to their determination, their Graces set -out accordingly, upon a fine summer morning, on their journey to their -ancient castle; and the space of a week having been occupied in -travelling, the entire family of the Duke safely arrived at their -destination. - -Adelaide was peculiarly delighted once more to behold the scenes of her -infancy, which to every feeling mind have indelible charms; and the -morning after her arrival at Tyrconnel she ascended the ramparts of the -castle, to review the surrounding prospect, so dear to her recollection. -It was a serene summer morning. Our readers perchance may recollect the -scenery which surrounds the castle of Tyrconnel, the lofty mountains of -Slieve-Doon, and the great gap or pass to the mountains, called -Barna-More, all of which we have endeavoured to describe in the second -chapter of this work. Adelaide's mind was fully in unison with the -serenity of the morning, and being deeply impressed with the poetic -impulse, she produced her tablets, and poured forth her tribute to the -_Genius Loci_, in the following - - INVOCATION TO THE RIVER ESKE. - - Roll onward, fierce torrent! roll on to the main! - What bastion or tow'r may thy billows restrain? - Resounds thy hoarse current's loud thundering roar - Round cloud-crested Slieve-Doon and wide Barna-More.[19] - How oft hath the foe-man deep plunged in thy wave, - Thy billows encrimsoned with blood of the brave! - These towers shall yet crumble, these rampires shall fall, - But thou, rapid Eske, be survivor of all! - While down to the confines of uncounted time, - Thy waters roll onward in measure sublime! - - Swift emblem of LIFE, changing, flowing anew; - Still the symbol thou art of eternity too! - Unceasing thy current, impetuous thy force, - Speeding on, full-tiding thy unaltered course: - Still glide, regal stream! let thy bright waters flow, - And foam 'gainst these bastions, which frown'd on the foe. - - Oh, murmuring Eske! from thy deep rocky bed, - O'er dream of my childhood sweet charms thou has - shed, - Whilst gurgling thy waters, to sleep lulled my head! - Nor shall mem'ry ever her pencil withdraw - From thy waters, bright Eske, and thy - heights, proud Tyraugh! - - Flow on, rapid Eske! still roll in commotion; - Unite thy deep foam with the wave of the ocean! - - [19] _i. e._ The great gap, or pass to the mountains. - -Time onward rapidly fled on downy pinions, and the birth-day of the -Lady Adelaide, which occurred upon the Eve of All-Hallows, was now fast -approaching, in celebration of which most magnificent preparations were -making, had been made, and were in a progressive state of continuation -at this hospitable chateau. The Duke and Duchess seemed fully resolved -to spare no expense to testify, if indeed it were at all necessary so to -do, their love and attachment to an amiable and affectionate daughter, -who was most truly worthy of her parents' love, and of every respect and -honour that could be awarded her. - - - - -CHAPTER VIII. - - Vetus opinio est, jam usque ab heroicis ducta temporibus, - Eaque et populi Romani et omnium gentium firmata - Consensu, versari quandam inter homines divinationem - Quam Graeci MANTIKE appellant, - Id est, praesensionem, et scientiam rerum futurarum. - - CICERO, DE DIVINATIONE. - - -The thirty-first day of October, _anno salutis_ sixteen hundred and -----, being the Eve of All-Hallows, happened also to be the anniversary -of the birth-day of our heroine, which was duly to be celebrated upon -this memorable day with more than its accustomed splendour, as we have -already premised in the foregoing chapter. - -Adelaide had now entered her seventeenth year; so rapidly doth old -father Time speed along, borne upon his ever fugitive wings, verifying -the truly appropriate motto that we have somewhere seen engraved upon -the dial of a clock, "DUM SPECTAS, FUGIO!"--"while you look on, I fly!" - -Mrs. Judith Braingwain, Lady Adelaide's nurse and foster-mother, and who -from the very beginning seemed resolved not to hold a subordinate place -in the back ground of our story, but firmly determined to carry matters -on in somewhat a consequential way, had now become her young Lady's -_femme de chambre_, and was ever and had been on the alert in instilling -into her youthful and susceptible mind the superstitions of her native -isle; and these stories, daily and hourly as they were repeated, did not -fail to make an impression upon a youthful and romantic mind. This -morning, at an early hour, she attended upon her young lady and -foster-child, a title she was pre-eminently proud of using upon all -occasions. The Irish have been ever proverbial for loving their -foster-children even beyond their own, and the ancient crone who made -her appearance was a living proof of the truth of the assertion. Mrs. -Braingwain having respectfully and affectionately congratulated her -noble foster-child upon the anniversary of her birth, entered into a -long and elaborate series of reminiscences of all the sad and mournful -events which had happened to herself and others upon the Eve of -All-Hallows. But as we are inclined to imagine that the old lady's -melancholy ditties are not very likely to awaken an interest and -sympathy in the reader's breast, we have therefore magnanimously -determined to suppress them altogether. - -The loquacious old dame continued her long-winded reminiscences without -the slightest compunction of mercy or conscience, until interrupted by -the tolling forth of the breakfast bell, which luckily saved the Lady -Adelaide from further prolixity, by at once silencing the garulous old -nurse, whom she regarded from her early years, and wished not to offend. -Adelaide rejoiced at the timely interruption that cut short the prosings -of the old crone, and promptly descended to the breakfast-room. - -A number of young people of both sexes were invited to dinner, to -celebrate Adelaide's birth-day; and the party was to be enlarged in the -evening by an invitation to crack nuts at the castle, which was sure to -include the _nucleus_ of a good supper. All the principal persons of -distinction for several miles around the castle were invited, and all -with alacrity obeyed the festive summons. - -Lady Adelaide, although not always much interested upon such festivals, -yet upon this occasion manifested some degree of anxiety, which was -caused no doubt by that noble generosity of character which she so -eminently possessed, and ever invariably felt greater pleasure in the -gratification of her friends, than in being personally gratified. - -The dinner went off with much _eclat_; pleasantry, wit, and good-humour, -all aiding with their potent charms. When the cloth was removed from the -ducal table, and the desert and wines were duly placed in order, a -stately plateau of confectionary and pastry arrived at the side-table, -which was destined for the juvenile guests, who were there seated. That -day was indeed a right busy one to all the cooks, scullions, and -kitcheners of the household. The thrifty pastry-cooks of these happy -days were most notable for, and assumed very considerable pride, in -raising those superstructures called "pastry fortifications." The -display chosen for this festival was the model of Tyrconnel Castle, -flanked by bastion, battlement, and tower; armorial flags, heraldically -emblazoned in sugar, decorated the summit of each tower and parapet; and -the fosse was floated from its parent Eske, which, instead of a -mountain-stream, supplied the said fosse with a broad and deep portion -of excellent Spanish flummery, upon which was anchored a tiny Armada; -the heights of the barbican and the embrasures of the terrace were -defended with a long train of "eatable artillery," and manned by a large -disposable garrison of sugar-almonds; the watch-towers were alternately -constructed of jelly and _blanc manger_. - -The Duke now gave the word of "assault!" which command was -incontinently obeyed, the juvenile party in every direction making one -grand attack, by a general _coup de fourchette_, _de couteau_, _de -cullier_. The assault was crowned with entire success; the fosse of -Spanish flummery quickly disappeared; the whole train of "eatable -artillery" promptly were destroyed; the jelly and _blanc manger_ towers -were scaled, battered down, and swallowed in a thrice; the Armada -shattered and dispersed; the entire garrison without any remorse or -mercy were devoured, and the "pastry fortifications" completely razed, -without leaving a wreck behind! This attack upon the confectionary -_bijou_ much gratified the juvenile assailants, and highly pleased the -noble hosts, and the grave company seated at their festive board were -most marvellously entertained withal. - -In some short time after, _selon des regles_, the sightless bard, old -Cormac, was led in, bearing his harp beneath his arm. He courteously -expostulated with those who would fain save him the trouble, by -observing, "that he had long borne that instrument his companion in joy -or in sorrow, his last and almost only solace upon earth; and that when -he was unable to bear his harp, his wish was then to be borne to the -grave!" Upon the entrance of the aged minstrel into the saloon, the Duke -ordered that a goblet of mead, foaming and sparkling to the brim, should -be given to old Cormac; which was accordingly done; and then the toast -of that high festival was to be drank, which he repeated: "The health of -the noble young Lady Adelaide," said the sightless bard; and to which he -was facetiously pleased to annex a friendly addition of his own, which -was, "and long may the Lady Adelaide reign!" This is a favourite -expression of fervent zeal and affection used by the warm-hearted Irish -to their superiors. Now in crowds advanced the young folks, who in -various circles thronged around old Cormac, making various inquiries, -and asking numerous questions: "Was the old man always blind?" - -"Nae, nae, that I was not. I once could see, and well; and _truly the -light was sweet, and a pleasant thing it was to behold the light of the -sun_! But now all is dim and dark. Yet I trust that I shall hereafter be -permitted to behold the light of heaven! That fervent hope and my harp -are my consolations during my pilgrimage of darkness!" - -It was next inquired of him how long he had been blind? He replied, "I -was of the same age that our dear and ever honoured young Lady (heaven -bless her here and hereafter!) has entered into this holy day.--I was in -my seventeenth year." - -The Duke interdicted all further interruptions: "Cormac, my honest -fellow, I fear that my young friends are somewhat disposed to trespass -too much upon your time and patience; so quaff your flagon and strike -your harp. But remember, Cormac, nothing dismal upon this happy day; no -dirge--not even an overture, will be endured!" - -Cormac made due obeisance; and seizing his harp, struck its accompanying -notes, while he sung the following:-- - - SONG. - - Who would not toast that lovely maid, - And drink the health of Adelaide, - And fill a bumper round? - - Who, in wandering o'er the glade, - Could meet a nymph like Adelaide? - Then fill a bumper round! - - The beauties of a court would fade - When they're compared with Adelaide-- - Let all fill bumpers round! - - Of sweetest flowers a crown we'll braid, - To deck the brow of Adelaide, - While bumpers flow around! - - Alas! old Cormac he is blind, - Or soon the flow'rets he could find - Should braid the brow and gem the breast - Of Adelaide the loveliest, - While bumpers foam'd around! - -Much applause rang forth a chorus to the minstrel's impromptu -Anacreontic, and flowing bumpers were quaffed to "the health of Lady -Adelaide!" A glass of Burgundy was handed to old Cormac, which he -respectfully declined, but with the request that a glass of pure -Innishowen (whiskey) might be substituted in place of it; and with this -sturdy appendage to his request, "that it might be unadulterated!" These -demands being all strictly complied with, he most devoutly gave his -young lady's health, tossed down at the instant the pure Innishowen, and -in due approval cordially smacked his lips as the beverage disappeared. - -The ladies soon retired, Adelaide deeply blushing at all the honours and -attentions bestowed this day; and felt most grateful to the sightless -old bard, who had in so feeling a manner manifested such attachment to -his young mistress. - -The ceremonies of the tea-table being duly concluded, the graver portion -of the company sat down to their cards: various games were played, loo, -cribbage, gresco, ombre, and lansquenet. The Duke sat down to primero, -"which," observed his Grace, "is my favourite game, as it had been with -Lord Strafford, when he held the high station in which I am at present -placed." - -The younger part of the company, in the mean time, not to discompose the -gravity of the card-playing dowagers, retired apart to the great saloon, -where were stationed all the preliminary _accessoires_ proper and duly -prepared for the mysteries of the Eve of All-Hallows, in order to -commence the various spells, tricks, sports, and charms, which national -superstition and credulity have consecrated, and hoary tradition handed -down from age to age as the records of popular faith. - -"_Allons nous_," said Lady Lucy, playfully, "_allons mes enfants_!" - -"Oh, for mercy's sake, dear Lucy," rejoined Lady Letitia, "pray let us -have no more of this outlandish gibberish; but I pray you let the young -folks at once begin their play, without preface or prologue." - -"Thy design and intention, sweet sister of mine, displeaseth me not; for -be it known, that I also am fully possessed with a most marvellous -disposition, a wondrous curiosity for the commencement of the various -charms, or mysteries, or incantations of this memorable night, call -them by any name you think befitting; and here am I ready and willing to -be the lady mistress of the ceremonies to be done and performed--ay, -without the fee or reward of even plumb-cake or a single poesy! And now, -my merry maids all, for the full and complete execution of the important -duties attending my most consequential appointment, we shall soon -commence our ceremonies of office, and all the various charms of this -night of incantation." Then, with much sprightliness, she added, "But -where, oh, where is my wand? my wand--my kingdom for a wand! I can do -nothing with effect, unless armed with the insignia of my office." - -A servant then came in, and presented a peeled wand or rod, which was -framed from a witch-hazel that had grown on the Tyraugh mountains, and -had been cut and stript of its bark at the express desire of old Cormac, -and was now assumed and wielded with all due and becoming authority. - -"Yes, yes, this is _comme il faut_! this will do. Now I am the most -mysterious mistress of these enchanted revels, and this the wand of my -stately vocation! Young ladies fair, young lords so gay, hear ye, hear -ye all! In full plenitude, potency, and execution of this my office, -hear and obey the important injunctions which I have to premise to each -and to all of you--[this was expressed with much _gaiete du coeur_.] -Be it then known to you all _by these presents_, (as an old dotard once -upon a time began his will);--but I am not dead, yet my _will_ is this: -hear, hear ye all good people and true! and thus I do proclaim, amid all -our play and revels to-night, but without sound of trumpet or -kettle-drum, that there still remains a charm yet to be consummated, and -of such confessed potency too, that this night should not be passed over -without giving it a fair trial, and at once putting its efficacy to the -test! Having thus premised, it would be but foul play that my young -friends should _burst in ignorance_ as to the mode and nature of the -charm. _Eh! bien donc, mes chers enfants!_ you then must know, the fair -young lady who wishes to recognise her future spouse for life, is to -proceed at just this hour to a sequestered lime-kiln, bearing a charmed -ball of untwisted cotton thread, and strongly holding the cord, is to -fling the ball adown the cavern of the kiln; and upon its having reached -the bottom, stoutly to exclaim, 'Who holds the ball?' When this is duly -performed, the person who accomplishes it is to retire before midnight -to bed; a banquet must be spread, and a mirror in which her fortune -shall be read! Now, my gay and merry lasses all, where is to be found -that courageous one who dare do this?" - -The young ladies all, as if by tacit consent, drew back, dissenting from -the proposal. But not so Lady Adelaide, who advanced: "That daring one -am I, and I accept your challenge;" seizing at the same time upon the -charmed ball of untwisted cotton which Lady Lucy then held in her hand, -and of which Lady Adelaide now became the possessor. "I hold now the -charm; it shall not perish until at least its efficacy be tried. But -remember I go alone!" - -"Oh, my dearest, my best beloved Adelaide do not go!--I beseech you -that you do not go at this hour of night--at this season of the year! -storm and rain may overtake you, and cause you to lament the rashness of -your undertaking! In what I have said I wished to raise youthful -curiosity, but at the same time I likewise meant to intimidate, but not -to encourage the attempt!--Why will you go?" - -"Because," rejoined Lady Adelaide, "from the very first I resolved that -I would undertake the execution of the charm; and no remonstrance, not -even force, shall compel me to relinquish my purpose; call it fate, call -it destiny; describe it as rashness; call it e'en what pleaseth thee; it -must--it shall be performed!" - -"But," observed Lady Lucy, "should your absence be noticed what is then -to be done to account for it? What will the Duke say?--what will the -Duchess? And you will bring down the united raillery of all the loo, -tredrille, primero, and cribbage tables, upon your truant head for this -nocturnal adventure of romance!" - -"Oh, tell the Duke and Duchess that as they know _the gods have made me -poetical_, that the fit of inspiration was upon me; and now or never! If -I were not to obey the impulse my precious verse would perish for ever!" - -Adelaide then most sweetly smiling, said: "It boots not what remark may -come from the sober dowagers and solemn wig-pated personages at the loo -and ombre tables; they will be too much absorbed in their winnings and -tricks to think of me. And now I go!" - -"Oh stay, I prithee, stay a moment!--just until I tell thee," said Lady -Lucy. "For before you go you must be told of what positively and fatally -happened in our own family to a kinswoman of mine own, a young lady, -upon the Eve of All-Hallows, who----" - -"Not for the wide world," said Lady Adelaide, "would I hear another -word. If the story, my dear aunt, be amusing or horrific, I pray thee -tell it to my young friends, and then I shall have it told me when I -return. Now wave thy mystic wand, and like a spirit I vanish.--_Presto_ -I'm gone!" - -Adelaide departed. This young lady was indeed the child of romance, with -feelings the most tender and acute; and one who deeply had imbibed the -superstitions of the age in which she lived; all of which had chiefly -been instilled, even from the very cradle, by the old talkative crone, -her quondam nurse; and although possessing a strong understanding, yet -still, as the ever constant dropping of water will impress and penetrate -the hardest stone, in like manner the tales of superstition unceasingly -told, and the numerous attestations of popular faith, did not fail fully -to operate on her credulity. - -Adelaide alone sallied forth from the ducal towers of Tyrconnel Castle, -with deep determination to fulfil the spell of the charmed ball. The -moon with pearly radiance shone forth on her fearless enterprise; -enthusiastic in this adventure as in every thing which she thought, -said, or did, she now boldly advanced to commence the solemn charm; and -with firm and unshaken step she proceeded to the accomplishment of her -nocturnal visit; while intently she looked around, fully to be assured -that no human eye gazed upon the orgies which she was about to perform. - -Adelaide then with quickened step approached a lime-kiln. This fabric -had been for a lapse of time deserted and disused; its apex was crested -with saxifrage, snap-dragon, and foxglove, which told its desolation; -and the ivy too, in curling festoons suspended, overhung the passenger, -and undulated in the breeze. The autumnal gale in mournful gusts swept, -sighing in its course, over hill, and vale, and stream; while the owl -hooted her solitary scream as Adelaide reached this deserted pile, now -the lonely asylum of the nocturnal bat and wary field-mouse. The kiln -had been constructed at the angle of a green knoll, which served as an -ascent to it; and by this mount, or hill, Adelaide with facility -ascended to the empty crater of the lime-kiln; when duly turning her -face to the south she produced an untwisted ball of cotton thread, and -firmly holding the end of the cord, or thread, of the ball, she flung -the ball, as if a plummet, down the concavity of the kiln; when -sounding its depth she ascertained that it had duly reached the bottom, -then she undauntedly inquired in a loud and firm tone of voice--"Who -holds the ball?" The cotton cord on the instant dropped promptly from -her hand, whether by force or fear she knew not; while she thought she -heard a voice unknown ascending in hollow tones from the echoing depth -beneath, emphatically reply--"I grasp the ball!" - -This might have been merely the effect of fear and mental deception, yet -still she thought she had heard the awful response. No shape, no form, -no figure, met her eye; but the words struck her ear and pierced her -heart. Adelaide stood motionless, silent, and pale, as a statue; she had -not the power to scream, articulation was totally suspended; and the -powers of locomotion too were completely paralized, her imagination -became spell-bound, her recollection was fled! At length nature -completely overpowered, she fainted; and it was not for some time that -she recovered the powers of animation, when all the solemn scene that -had so lately occurred appeared to her but as a frightful dream that -had passed in review before her deceived imagination while she slumbered -in that dreadful swoon. - -For some considerable pause of time Adelaide sat motionless upon the -sward of the little knoll that adjoined that ominous fabric, where so -lately that awful charm, consecrated by the credulity of ages, had been -performed. - -After much mental exertion Adelaide found upon trial that she had -sufficient bodily strength to arise; and now having stood up, she -proceeded upon her return to the castle. The moon had retired behind a -cloud, when, with a deep sigh, she exclaimed, "Oh, how much I wish that -the deed had remained undone, and then my mind would have been at rest! -But now I am sadly disquieted, and my heart is sick within me. Oh, it -was not well done!" - -After a pause she continued--"But what will they all this while think of -me at the castle? How shall my absence be accounted for? Why--why do I -shudder thus in self-condemnation? This should not have been!" - -Thus, in self-crimination, Adelaide vented her contrition, while with -trembling fear and step she slowly wended back her wearied way to -Tyrconnel Castle. - -Still advancing, terror seemed every where to accompany her. - - "Horror ubique----simul ipsa silentia terrent!" - -The distant murmurs of the Eske uniting with the ocean affrighted her, -as did her footsteps,--she thought them not her own; while ever and anon -she would stop to listen; but no sounds were heard but those of the -adjoining brook brawling[20] over its rocky channel, or the autumnal -gale rustling the fallen foliage as it swept its plaintive blast along. -At times when partially the wind reposed, and all, for the interval, was -in silence lulled, still her mind was not at rest; occasionally she -would stop, and seemed to meditate to herself; then would she rehearse -the ominous incantation at the kiln, she would raise up her right arm, -bend the hand, with thumb and fore-finger conjoined together; next -suddenly dip the arm and hand, as when she plumbed the charmed ball -adown the mystic concavity of the kiln. When having violently acted -this, she would utter a piercing scream, and then awaken from her -reverie. - - [20] "Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out upon the brook - that _brawls_ along this wood." - - AS YOU LIKE IT. - - -As Adelaide was proceeding onward in her return to the castle, the sky -suddenly became deeply darkened, and a thunder-storm arose; the thunder -loudly re-echoed through the vaulted heavens, and the vivid -lightning-flash preceded each awful peal; then descended torrents of -rain, which fell with the plenitude and the force of a water-spout. - -"Ah, if I had here a friend, a companion in this my hour of trial, I -then would slightly value the tempest that now surrounds me! But the -deed was all my own doing, and plaints now are of no avail. So unto the -castle with whatever remnant of strength or courage may remain.--This is -my only resource!" - -All terrified, pale, and her garments deeply drenched with rain, at -length Adelaide regained the castle; where, when she had put on fresh -attire, forgetful of all the fears and perils which she had encountered, -(such and so great are the contradictions of human nature,) that she -fully, nevertheless, resolved to abide the full completion of the -mysterious charm. - -The awful thunder-storm served as a well-timed explanation for the -deadly paleness of her countenance as the Lady Adelaide rejoined the -social circle. The juvenile party were employed in the various pastimes -of the night, in burning the boding nuts, while - - "Some lovingly in flames consume, - Till wasting into embers grey." - -Meantime others parted company, north and south, with the rapidity, if -not with the force, of a modern Congreve rocket. In others the spark -soon expired, while the gentle relict that was left behind, "like -Patience on a monument," kept stationary on her ordeal bar of trial, -tranquil and serene, until, in expiring embers she blazed, and was no -more! The melting of lead, and various other dainty devices followed. -All which were now succeeded by the grand finale of a ball, in which -minuets, cotillions, and contre-danses followed in course, and were -succeeded by a splendid supper. - -The supper, which was superb and princely throughout, commenced and -ended with delight to all the guests. And while sipping the noble -beverage of the grape, pressed and brought from every generous clime, -the following erudite discussion upon presages, prophecies, and -predictions, occupied the grave and learned portion of the company:-- - -"Some presages," observed the Duke, "may certainly appear to have been -casual, and subsequently adapted to the occasion by the ingenuity of -others; but still there are others that appear supported by such a -connected mass of evidence, that they can be neither questioned nor -denied. Mariana, the famed historian of Spain, (A. D. 1453,) makes -mention, in speaking of the tragical end of Don Alvaro, Earl of Luna, -'that it had been foretold to Alvaro that his death would be at -Cadahalso, by which he supposed to be meant, a town he had of that -name, and therefore he never went thither; but Cadahalso, in Spanish, -means a _scaffold_,' (this prophecy thus 'paltered in a double -sense,') for upon the scaffold Alvaro suffered, and there concluded a -life eminent in glory." - -"And you may recollect, my Lord," said the Duchess, "that George -Buchanan, the famed Scottish historian, relates the very remarkable -forewarning which James the Fourth of Scotland had in the church of St. -Michael, Linlithgow, from an old man of venerable aspect, and clad in -blue habiliments. This person forewarned the king from his proceeding in -his expedition against England, fore-telling to him that it would prove -his ruin. The queen also remonstrated with him against the project of -invasion, by acquainting him with the visions and frightful dreams which -she nightly encountered. But no warning could avert his destiny. And he -fell with a number of his nobility in the ever memorable field of -Flodden Sept. 9, 1513." - -"There is," said the Duke, "another case in point; it is that of Walter -Devereux, Earl of Essex, who foretold that his son, Robert Devereux, -afterwards Earl of Essex, should never survive his thirty-sixth year; -observing at the same time that his father had died at that period of -life, and that he would himself die at that age. The death of his son, -Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, who was beheaded in the thirty-fourth -year of his age, 1567, is a well known and recorded fact." - -Here the Duchess rejoined:--"And you may recollect too, my dear Lord, -that Mezeray, the historian of France, records, that it had been -foretold to Henry the Fourth of France and Navarre, that he should die -in a coach; so that upon the least jolt he would cry out, as if he -beheld the grave opened ready to swallow him. And it is as well known -that this prediction took place, Henry the Fourth having been -assassinated in his coach as he was proceeding to the arsenal to consult -with the immortal Sully, when he was stabbed by the knife of an -assassin, 1610." - -"Sully too," rejoined Lady Lucy, "in his admirable memoirs, makes -mention of those black presages which, it is but too certain, this -unfortunate prince had of his cruel destiny; they were indeed dreadful -and surprising to the last degree!" - -Lady Adelaide next paid a short tribute to this learned and mystical -investigation:--"It may not be amiss," she said, "briefly to notice the -prediction of the death of the Duke of Buckingham, as related by Lord -Clarendon in his history, _and built_, as he emphatically expresses it, -_upon better foundations of credit than usually such discourses are -founded_.--His account is strikingly remarkable; but to recount the -accompanying circumstances would occupy too much time, and seriously -intrude on the pleasantry of the company by entering into the awful and -appalling detail; I must beg, therefore, to refer those friends who may -be desirous to gratify their curiosity on this subject to consult the -pages of the noble historiographer. The presages of our poet Dryden are -deserving of notice, he was extremely addicted to judicial astrology: -upon the birth of his son he took his horoscope, and all his -calculations respecting him marvellously were accomplished; and which -are too recent in the recollection of those present to render it -necessary for me to dwell upon; only to observe, that these astrological -calculations were fulfilled with an accuracy almost amounting to -mathematical correctness." - -It came next to Sir Patricius Placebo's turn to contribute to these -ghostly recollections, who began with a stately hem. "I rather think I -can notify to this noble company a very remarkable circumstance, and I -flatter myself indeed it is one not generally known. It is recorded in -the life of the very erudite and estimable scholar, John H. Hottinger, -that when he ascended the pulpit of the academy of Basle to make _a -farewell oration_ to that society previous to his departure for the city -of Leyden, where he had been appointed Professor of the Oriental -Languages at the College of Leyden, he observed a line written upon it, -which much disturbed him, and surprised the whole auditory, as being -prophetical of his death, which happened soon after. The line was from -Ovid:-- - - '_Carmina jam moriens, canit exequialia cygnus._' - - 'The dying swan his fun'ral song doth sing.' - -Shortly after this the very learned and accomplished scholar was drowned -with part of his family in the river Lemit, in the year 1667. The due -application of this celebrated line, and the analogy of the water-bird -fore-telling the time and manner of his death--hem! - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -Yes, doubtless, there is much grave matter for deep reflection in -this well-authenticated event." - -Lord Glandarah prepared to yield his contribution to the strange topic -under discussion. His Lordship had resided nearly all his life upon the -continent; he was a Roman Catholic, and this, it was believed, was the -disposing reason for his living abroad. He spoke broken English so like -a foreigner, that he might have been almost mistaken for one, as has -been already observed in a previous chapter. "Gad save my soul, my Lady -Duchess, I do remember one of a very remarkable occurrence that happened -some few years ago when I was travelling through Normandy. My Lord -Roscommon, being then a boy of ten years of age, had preternatural -intelligence of his father's death. Gad save my soul, it is the very -most extraordinary circumstance to be sure! Your Grace must know that it -happened at Caen: one day his Lordship was, as it were, madly -extravagant in playing, leaping, getting over the tables, and playing, -Gad save my soul! many other wild gambols. He was, _sans doubte_, wont -to be sober, staid, lad enough. Those who saw him exclaimed, 'heaven -grant this bodes no ill-luck to him!' In the heat of this extravagant -fit he suddenly cried out, 'My father is dead!' And _assurement_, Gad -save my soul! a fortnight after accounts arrived from Ireland that the -Earl of Roscommon was dead! This account was told me, Gad save my soul, -by Mr. Knolles, who had been his governor, and at that time with him. -And, Gad save my soul! I have often heard my Lord Roscommon's relations -affirm this account to be true. Now, Gad save my soul! could any thing -be more extraordinary? _Sans doute c'est impossible!_" - -The hour was indeed very late; and the guests arose, and making due -obeisance, withdrew. Adelaide, according to the good old fashion, -embraced her parents, and retired to her chamber. But she had no sooner -lain down to rest than she heartily repented of what she had done. The -tempest continued with unabated rage; so much so indeed that the guests -departed not from the Castle, but there found a safe retreat from "the -pelting of the pitiless storm." The storm still continued to increase; -the roaring waves of the Atlantic thundered against the shore, and burst -upon the firm foundations of Tyrconnel Castle. - -Adelaide's chamber was ever and anon illuminated with brilliant flashes -of vivid lightning; and often did she wish the mysterious deed undone! - - ---- ---- ----"Oh, - Between the acting of a dreadful thing - And the first motion, all the interim is - Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream!" - -But what Adelaide saw upon that awful night ever remained untold.--She -could never be prevailed upon to divulge the tremendous and frightful -circumstances of that eventful night. The next morning, as it afterwards -appeared, she complained of being very unwell, and kept her bed for some -days. The blame was very discreetly thrown upon her having eaten too -many nuts--having danced too much; and, moreover, supper having -disagreed with her; besides a variety of _et cetera_ explanations. It -was a long period before Adelaide resumed her usual serenity and gaiety -of temper; and whenever her friends or acquaintance would interrogate -her upon the adventures of that memorable night, she would assume much -reserve, and seemed displeased: this the only occasion, it was by all -remarked, that she had ever been observed to have appeared displeased -since they first had the happiness to be acquainted with her. - -The unwarrantable practice of inquiring into futurity prevailed very -generally at and before the period which we write of; and most strange -to say, at times the sacred volume of the Scriptures,[21] and at others -the poems of Virgil and Homer, were consulted for oracular purposes. The -_sortes Prenestinae_, _sortes Homerianae_, and _sortes Virgilianae_, which -were modes of inquiring into the secrets of futurity, are well known to -the classic reader. A remarkable instance of the trial of this latter -sortilege occurred to King Charles I. when at the city of Oxford, during -the civil wars. Going one day to inspect the Boedlian Library, His -Majesty was shown, along with other volumes, an early copy of Virgil, -beautifully printed and exquisitely bound. Lord Falkland, to amuse the -King, insisted upon His Majesty's trying his fortune by the _sortes -Virgilianae_; whereupon the King, opening the volume, hit upon the fourth -AEneid, line 615, which much disconcerted him. - - [21] Even so recently as during Wesley's time [See Southey's Life - of Wesley] will be perceived the fondness of this celebrated - preacher for divination by lot, and by the casual opening of the - Bible, expecting thereby the peculiar and immediate guidance of - the Almighty! - -The passage is prophetic of the fortunes of AEneas, and, _mutato nomine_, -it was applicable to the royal martyr.[22] - - [22] For the gratification of the curious we here subjoin the - quotation from Virgil, with which is given a translation of the - remarkable lines by Dryden:-- - - "At bello audacis populi, vexatus et armis - Finibus extorris, complexu avulsus Juli, - Auxilium imploret; videatque indigna suorum - Funera: nec quum se sub leges pacis iniquae - Tradiderit, regno aut optata luce fruatur: - Sed cadat ante diem, mediaque inhumatus arena." - - VIRGIL AE. IV. 1. 615. - - "Yet shall a race untamed, and haughty foes, - His peaceful entrance with dire arms oppose: - Oppress'd with numbers in th' unequal field, - His men discouraged, and himself expell'd, - Let him for succour sue from place to place, - Torn from his subjects and his son's embrace. - First let him see his friends in battle slain, - And their untimely fate lament in vain: - And when at length the cruel war shall cease, - On hard conditions may he buy his peace: - Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, - But fall untimely by some hostile hand, - And lie unburied on the barren strand." - -Lord Falkland, upon observing that the King was discomposed, resolved to -try his own fortune in the same manner, hoping that perchance he might -alight on some sentence that would bear no relation to his own, and -thereby turn aside the thoughts of the King from any impression the -lines might have occasioned. However, the subject of the passage upon -which he unluckily stumbled was fully as unpropitious and as applicable -as that upon which his sovereign had alighted. It was the lamentation of -Evander for the untimely death of his son, in the 11th AEneid. It is well -known that the eldest son of this nobleman, a young man of amiable -character, had been previously slain in the first battle of Newburg. - -It is recorded of the famous and excellent sculptor Giovanni Lorenzi -Bernini, that upon his beholding a painting by Vandyke, which presents -three portraits of King Charles I. on the same canvass--the one a front -face, the other a half side, and the third a profile--the artist -observed: "whoever the individual be whose likeness these three -portraits represent, I am of opinion that the same will come to an -untimely end." - -This painting had been expressly taken and forwarded to Rome, in order -that Bernini might, from the resemblance, sculpture a marble bust of the -King, which accordingly he did; and King Charles, the greatest and best -patron of the fine arts that England can boast of, was so much pleased -with the performance, that he sent Bernini a ring of very great value; -and said to the person who was deputed to bring it: "_Andate a coronar -quello mano, che ha fatto si bel lavorno_."[23] - - [23] Le Vite de Piu celebri Architecti, &c.--_Pagina 358, Roma - 1768._ - -All attempts to inquire into and penetrate the secrets of futurity are -highly to be condemned, as they are nothing less than tempting the -Almighty; it is not for frail man to anticipate the ways of Providence, -and discover these events that heaven always in its wisdom, and often in -its mercy, withholds from mortal eyes. But it is indeed full time to -close (as we apprehend we have trespassed too long on our reader's -forbearance) - - ----"The day to superstition dear, - - * * * * * - - Hallow'd and reverenc'd in the olden time, - Sacred to every saint of every clime." - - - - -CHAPTER IX. - - ----Think ye see - The very persons of our noble story - As they were living; think ye see them great, - And follow'd with the general throng. - - PROLOGUE TO K. HENRY VIII. - - -The celebration of the birth-day of the Lady Adelaide passed over as we -have described in the preceding chapter, and our lovely heroine was now -quite recovered from whatever cause it might have been which had so -disturbed and agitated her upon that eventful and recorded night. The -Duke and Duchess, according to their previous determination, towards the -close of November set off with their suite on their route for Dublin -Castle; for the time was now fast approaching when in great pomp and -state the Viceroy-Duke was to open the sessions of the Irish parliament. - -Their Graces travelled by short stages on account of the abridgment of -the days, and arrived in about four days in perfect health and safety at -the vice-royal palace; no incident, occurrence, or even pleasantry, -happening, that could possibly amuse the story-loving reader, or -important enough to be handed down to posterity in savoury remembrance. - -At this epoch of the Irish history the parliament met only once in two -years; and a member of the lower house, the House of Commons, then held -his seat for life, or at least certainly during the period of the life -of the reigning sovereign, upon whose demise alone a new parliament was -to be called. What then had a member thus chosen under these -circumstances to apprehend or fear from the resentment of his -constituents? Nothing!--certainly nothing! The member was virtually -placed beyond their control, beyond their remonstrance, and above their -resentment; while his hopes and expectations of reward from a minister -for services done, or to be performed, were reasonably great, and held -forth attractive bait to corruption. The representative would, or might, -oppose the measures of a good minister, in order that his services might -be brought into action, and duly paid for upon the performance thereof; -and it would be equally his interest, upon the same corrupt _data_, to -sell himself to a bad and profligate minister for prompt payment! But -both these alternatives were fraught with evils to the constituents; and -against these evils they had, they could have, no control! The minister -too could indeed well afford to bid high and imposing terms, when the -purchase was for life. Thus, although a small portion of virtue might -resist a small portion of temptation, nevertheless that resistance would -become weaker as time advanced, in an increased ratio; and, moreover, as -a long duration and manifold opportunities were given for the temptation -and the tempter, which could not, by possibility, be the case if -parliaments, instead of being for the life of the sovereign,[24] and -meeting only once in every two years, were to have met annually, and the -conduct of the representative were placed under the eye and the control -of their constituents. And assuredly it must strike the good sense of -the reader that the prolongation of the term of parliament weakens the -security of the people, for whose benefit parliaments were constituted; -and that nothing can make it safe to repose so great a trust in any body -of men, as the constitutive body delegates to its representative, but -the shortness of the term for which such delegation is made. - - [24] It was not, however, until the year 1768, during the - administration of Lord Townsend, that the royal assent was given - to an act for limiting the duration of parliament to eight years. - -It appears, from consulting the page of history, that England was one of -the first countries in which the representatives of boroughs were -admitted into the great council of the nation; for until the year A. D. -1265, it was a privilege unknown and unclaimed. - -The cause of calling the burgesses to the great council, or parliament -of the nation, (according to Dr. Robertson, in his "View of the State of -Europe,") was "in order to add greater popularity to the party of the -barons that had armed against Henry the Third, and to strengthen the -barrier against the encroachments of regal power." - -But, alas! how fatally has the converse of the intention of our wise -progenitors been established! From lapse of time, ministerial influence, -the pecuniary embarrassments of the nobles and proprietors of boroughs, -and the all powerful lever of corruption, the boroughs have changed -masters. Those boroughs that were erected as mounds and ramparts against -the powerful influence of the crown, have many of them been purchased by -the crown, and now powerfully preponderating to the opposite scale, have -increased, in a formidable degree, the royal influence and prerogative -which they were created to check; and have but too effectually magnified -the evils which they were formed to repress! - -The day for the assembling of parliament had now arrived, and the -Viceroy-Duke proceeded in great pomp and state to the House of Lords to -open the session. The cap of maintenance was borne by Lord -Mount-Leinster, and the sword of state by the Lord Glandarah. His Grace -was seated in the superb antique state-coach, which was lined with -crimson velvet, and trimmed with gold lace; the exterior was richly and -magnificently adorned; the pannels had been painted by a celebrated -Venetian artist, and the subjects were chosen from the heathen -mythology. The state-carriage was drawn by eight beautiful black horses, -with long flowing tails, and right nobly caparisoned; they were a -present from His gracious Majesty James the Second. The harness and all -the _accessoires_ were in unison in their magnificence. Six -state-carriages and four preceded that which bore the Duke of Tyrconnel; -and the state-carriage was surrounded by the battle-axe guards. The -streets were lined with soldiery, and no demonstration of respect was -wanting as the noble Duke proceeded to the House of Peers. We need not -tell that his Grace wore the robes of the order of the garter, nor dwell -upon the brilliancy of the diamond star which glittered upon his breast, -nor upon his fine appearance; for the Duke was justly accounted by far -the handsomest man of the age in which he flourished. With great and -unaffected dignity he entered the House of Peers, the trumpets, &c. all -pealing forth the _now_ national anthem of "God save the King," which no -former monarch or viceroy had ever received, as it was composed -expressly for James II. Meanwhile the long and continued peal of cannon -told to all that the noble viceroy was seated upon the throne.[25] We -mean not to harass our kind reader to actual death by giving him, in -_totidem verbis_, the speech of his Grace, but we will however venture -to record, for historical remembrance, the mode _entre_:--The Duke of -Tyrconnel enters the House of Peers, the Earl of Mount-Leinster bearing -the cap of maintenance; the Lord Glandarah carrying the sword of state; -the train being supported by Sir Richard Talbot. His Grace made his -_conges_ to the cloth of state; then taketh his seat on the throne under -the canopy, the Secretary of State standing at his right hand. The Lord -Chancellor then proceeds to his stall on the Lord Lieutenant's right -hand, and acquaints the Lords that it is the Lord Lieutenant's pleasure -that their Lordships should be covered. Next, the Lord Chancellor, -kneeling, receiveth a direction from the Lord Lieutenant; and thereupon -standing up again wills the Gentleman-Usher of the black-rod to acquaint -the House of Commons that it is the Lord Lieutenant's pleasure that they -should attend his Grace. When the speech contained the following -items:--'Thanks to the House of Peers for their loyal devotion so often -manifested for the honour of the crown, and so forth; their unshaken -loyalty, &c. to the king's person and government. Thanks followed to -the House of Commons for the necessary provisions for the services of -the ensuing year so cheerfully made, &c. Then followed a general appeal -to both houses, entreating them that when they returned to their -respective counties to use their utmost endeavours to inculcate and -bring to bear the same loyalty and affection by them so often and -efficiently demonstrated.' The Duke concluded his speech in these -emphatic terms:--"And I cannot conclude, my lords and gentlemen, without -the hope that you will permit no apprehensions of grievances or -causeless jealousies to interrupt that tranquillity and social order, -and obedience to the laws, which constitute the fountain of all -political happiness--the source and the support of industry, -agriculture, commerce, and all national amelioration, which has been -ever the unvaried pursuit of the best of kings. And I shall not fail to -represent to my royal master your dutiful devotion; and the only reward -which I look to, is your free and unbiassed approbation!" - - [25] At this point of time the Irish House of Lords met at the - hour of three o'clock in the afternoon; but when the house was - engaged in the hearing of appeals they regularly assembled at the - hour of nine o'clock in the morning. - -His Grace upon quitting the throne was dutifully received by the house -uncovering, and rising from their seats. An address was then moved as an -echo of the speech, by the Earl of Clanrickarde, and was seconded by the -Viscount Kilmallock; which passed the noble house, _nemine -contradicente_. In the lower house the address was moved by Mr. Murtagh -Magennis of Balligorionbeg, and seconded by Mr. James Lally of -Tallendaly, and passed the house unanimously. - -Leave was granted for an act to be brought into the house, entitled, -"The Tithe Agistment Bill," which was read next day the first time, and -after a few days a second time; and a day was appointed for the third -reading. When that day had arrived Lord Glandarah, who was in the -robing-room, observed a strong muster of bishops; and upon entering the -house he whispered a friend--"I clearly perceive, Gad save my soul! that -we shall have a very angry political debate to-day, for I left my lords -the bishops duly caparisoning them-selves in their celestial armour!" - -Some altercation took place in the robing-chamber between Lord -Mount-Leinster and Bishop Rocket, between whom there existed a private -pique. - -"I see, my Lord Bishop, that charity covers a multitude of----Hem! I -mean, my Lord, that I verily saw your Lordship giving alms to the amount -of----one shilling just now as I arrived in the house!" - -"Yes, my Lord Mount-Leinster, I deny it not: and I perceived that your -Lordship followed on the instant so excellent an example; for, from the -cogency of the case, you too were forced to pay twice the sum! Ha, ha, -ha!--_two_ shillings into the poor's box." - -All which being _translated_, (no offence to Bishop Rocket,) signifies -that the Bishop and the Earl were both late in their arrival in the -House of Peers, and they had accordingly to pay the penalty for arriving -in the house "beyond a quarter of an hour after prayers had been -read"--_secundum regulam_.[26] - - [26] "Every Lord that comes not within a quarter of an hour after - prayers, if he be a Bishop or Baron, he, is to pay one shilling, - and if he be any degree above, two shillings to the poor man's - box."--_Standing Orders of the Irish House of Lords_, p. 13. - Printed by Sleater, Dublin, 1778. The title of the work was, - "Rules and Orders to be observed in the Upper House of Parliament - of Ireland."--The Clerk of the House was treasurer of the poor's - box.--p. 39. - -The clerk read aloud at the table, "_Hodie, tertia vice lecta est -billa._" This act was "the Tithe Agistment Bill," entitled, "An act to -quiet and bar all claims of tithe agistment for dry and barren cattle." - -When an angry debate ensued, Bishop Rocket arose with much warmth, and -contended "that it was an act tending most forcibly to wrest the rights -and privileges of the Church, to the great detriment of the hierarchy, -and the all unalienable properties and immunities of their lawful -successors; and forcibly militating against the welfare, property, and -prosperity, of the Church and State, as then by the laws of the land -established and in force." - -Lord Mount-Leinster arose: "My Lords, this is a bill which I would call -as one of the most pacificatory nature, and tending to repress the -grievous mode in which tithes are generally collected from the -population of this country, who have, if they are of the Catholic -persuasion, to pay two pastors; and I will moreover, my Lords, be bold -to say, that no school-boy, studying his _as in presenti_, could be so -stupidly credulous as to give credence to the monstrous assertion of the -Right Reverend Lord, or for a moment believe that posthumous piety to -his successors can or could be the predominating cause of the vote given -this night by the Right Reverend Prelate."--[_Hear, hear, hear._] - -With the most violent indignation Bishop Rocket arose: "Lord -Mount-Leinster, but for these black rags," shaking indignantly his -sacerdotal robes; "look ye, but for these black rags, I would fight -you!"--[Here numerous cries were heard of "_Order, order, -order_"--"_Chair, chair, chair!_"] - -Sir Patricius Placebo and Mr. Berenger were stationed at the bar of the -house, and the risible muscles of the Baronet were incontinently put -into play, which had been _certes_ audible, but for the noise and -uproar in the house. Laughingly, he whispered Mr. Berenger, "Room, room, -my Lords and Nobles all; I cry make room for the incensed worthies! - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN!" - -He then laughed immoderately, and took snuff at a surprising rate from -his King Carolus' snuff-box. "Yes, yes, Mr. Berenger," he added, "ha, -ha, - - 'Fools will talk, and fools will prate, - Nor silence keep at any gait.' - -For, Sir, you know, - - '{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH VARIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}.'[27] - - [27] "All fools are mad." - -That is at least according to the doctrine of the stoics." - -The gallant, gay Mr. Berenger so politely smiled ever and anon, that it -nearly amounted to a laugh. But this had been interdicted at the court -where he too often had - - ----"listened, - When the last Charles's beauties glistened - In splendid robes of gaudy vice, - And could with syren songs entice." - -However the question, upon being put, was resolved in the negative, by -the motion that the bill should be read that day six months! The -Chancellor could make no peace between the enraged combatants, who -adjourned to the robing-room, when this scene of altercation took -place:-- - -Lord Mount-Leinster, addressing Bishop Rocket, emphatically said: "My -Lord Bishop, you are now unharnessing yourself from that celestial -panoply or armour in which you flourished in the House of Peers, and -which, I must observe, you somewhat unseemingly, if not indecorously, -called your "black rags," - - "Tutius est igitur fictis contendere verbis, - Quam pugnare manu." - -I have ever been, my Lord--mark me--a gallant swordsman; nor would I -brook an affront from a king. Let not then your sacerdotal robes, or, -as you were pleased in mirth to call them, your "black rags," let them -not, I say, prove your peace-makers in this gross breach of decorum. I -must observe, that, according to the spirit and strict laws of the -_Duello_, or single combat, the ceremonies thereunto affixed and -appertaining, connected and deducible from chivalry, are duly and -implicitly laid down by the celebrated Caranza,[28] the oracle of -duelling, and the no less sage and famous Master Selden, in his very -learned and unimpeachable treatise upon the laws of the _Duello_; and in -good sooth my very grave and reverend Lord Coke has it as a _punctum_ in -his Institutes, 'that in these matters, where the person possessing a -right, or sustaining a grievance, could not act, on account of -professional or personal disability, or perform the service required in -person, he was then to name a sufficient person for his deputy!' Now, my -Lord Bishop, I must needs observe, that I think that this was truly a -marvellous right praiseworthy custom, that when any grave and reverend -personage, willing to give satisfaction, as you profess, finds himself -impeded by his reverend skirts tripping up the laws of the _Duello_, -from being, for sad ensample, a son or dignitary of the Church, and so -forth, that upon such occasions their _next_ and _nearest of kin_ should -take up the gauntlet: and such a proxy, my Lord Bishop, I now claim from -you to enter the lists with me, as becomes your true knight and -representative!" - - [28] The celebrated Caranza was, in sooth, the oracle and manual - of duelling in his day. He was by birth a Spaniard; his name - Geronimo Caranza. His famous work was entitled, "_Verdera Destreza - de las Armas_"--"The true Dexterity or Skill in Arms." His talents - are thus eulogized in the comedy of "_Los Locos de Valencia_," of - Lope de Vega:-- - - ----"El gran Caranza, - A quien las armas en Espana deben - Quanta mayor destreza el arte alcanza." - -BISHOP ROCKET.--"Know then, Lord Mount-Leinster, that I shall send my -sedan chairmen to fight you!!" - -"A precious boon, and peerless proxies, I needs must say, my Lord -Bishop, thou hast chosen!!! In sooth I oft have heard of knights of the -lance and eke of the bucket,[29] but never until now heard of knights of -the pole! But although, from your Lordship's reply, it appears that your -_next_ and _nearest_ of kin happen to be your sedan-chairmen!! my own -dignity prevents me having any further parley with you, much less -contact with _your kindred_!" And then Lord Mount-Leinster, wheeling -around, made his exit from the robing-room, flinging a rapid and most -contemptuous look at the discomfitted bishop. - - [29] This slily alludes to the _Secchia Rapita_, ("The Rape of the - Bucket,") a burlesque poem, by Tassoni. - -All peers and prelates, much diverted at the result, now withdrew. -_Solventur risu curiae._ The enemies of Bishop Rocket (who had certainly -sprung from a low origin) insisted that his two sedan chairmen were his -own proper kinsmen, and, moreover, bore his name. His friends did not -deny the charge; but said, in extenuation, that "after all this was no -wondrous thing, as the Mareschal de Richelieu, when at Vienna, had -purchased baronies for his two _porteurs de chaise_; and when some -ladies of fashion boasted that they had in their kitchen several French -Marquises, 'I believe it,' replied the Mareschal, 'for my sedan chair is -supported by a brace of German barons!'" - -The eulogists of Lord Mount-Leinster loudly lauded him for the -chivalrous spirit which he had manifested in this _rencontre_ with the -Church, which they considered and maintained as in no wise inferior to -the adventure of the redoubted knight _de la Mancha_, when he -encountered the windmill, and whose valour it was confessed was only to -be paralleled with his discretion! - - - - -CHAPTER X. - - Times have their changes; sorrows make us wise: - The sun itself must set as well as rise! - - PERKIN WARBECK. - - -While matters were going forward in Ireland as we have endeavoured to -describe them in the preceding chapters, the tide, meanwhile, of -political occurrences in England arose to a tempestuous and -uncontrollable flood, that was wholly unexpected by Tyrconnel, and quite -unapprehended by his royal master. To England, therefore, we now must -trace our steps. - -The various unpopular and arbitrary acts of King James the Second -paralyzed those loyal effusions that burst forth when he ascended the -royal throne of the Stuarts. The acquittal of the seven bishops who had -been arbitrarily imprisoned in the tower still further increased the -king's unpopularity. The confiscation too of property which followed, -and the attainder of many loyal Protestants, soon swelled high the -torrent that shortly was to burst against the abutments of his throne, -and destroy that prerogative of power which he had so unjustly and so -unconstitutionally assumed. Many now doubted the justness of the -appellation of "James the Just," which had been awarded him shortly -subsequent to his having been proclaimed king. Indeed his going publicly -to mass two days consequent to his succession to the crown, at the time -gave surprise and offence to the nation. Some events too occurred in -those superstitious days, that in the present times would be slightly -passed over, but which, albeit, were certainly considered as ill omens -in that age. At the solemnity of the coronation, the crown not being -properly fitted for the royal head, was often observed in a tottering -condition, and likely to fall off. Mr. Henry Sidney supported it once -with his hand, and pleasantly told the king,[30] that "this was not the -first time that his family had supported the crown." "In one of the -churches in London, the king's arms, stained on a glass window, suddenly -fell down and broke in pieces, while the rest remained standing, without -a possibility of discovery why that part should fall down sooner than -the rest. The canopy also, which had been borne over his head at the -coronation, did break."[31] - - [30] Rapin's History of England, vol. II. pages 742, 743, and - Note. - - [31] Ibid.--pages 742, 743, 771. - -James II. espoused the Princess Maria d'Este, the sister of Francis Duke -of Modena, who was as beautiful as she was unfortunate. The queen had -been married some time without presenting her royal consort with a -child. When this event did take place, malice, falsehood, envy, and -intrigue, were not slow in pronouncing that the heir apparent thus born -was a "suppositious Prince of Wales." Then followed the ridiculous -episodes of the "sham conception," and "the warming-pan," which were all -a tissue of forgery and falsehood, still further intended to diminish -the king's decreasing popularity, and bring his person and throne into -disrepute. But upon the whole mass and evidence of history that is -presented, the only conclusion to be drawn was this, and only this--that -the Prince of Wales, so far from being suppositious, was royally and -legally born, the royal and lawful successor to his father's throne and -realms. - -In consequence of all these combining unpopular results, a resolution -was taken by many of the disappointed, disaffected nobility and gentry, -of calling in the Prince of Orange of Nassau to ascend the throne of -Britain. And in pursuance of this determination several noblemen and -gentlemen were secretly deputed to go over to the prince, and invite him -to assume the sceptre of England. To these invitations the prince fully -acceded, and firmly determined to head the party. It need not be told -the reader that the Prince of Orange was the son-in-law of King James, -having espoused his daughter, the Princess Mary. The intriguing party -used all their endeavours to prevent the secret of their project from -being divulged. In this matter the Earl of Sunderland basely betrayed -his royal master. Meanwhile King James remained wholly incredulous to -the belief of the existence of these political machinations; and -although he was advised thereto by Mr. Skelton, his Majesty's Envoy at -the Hague, "that a great project was secretly carrying on against him," -yet was this incredulous sovereign so sure of success, that he quite -neglected this intelligence, conceiving that it was only an artifice to -divert him from his designs; and he, therefore, to all such reports -closed an unwilling and unbelieving ear. - -Numbers of the English nobility and gentry now addressed the Prince of -Orange to deliver them from that oppression under which they bent. And -in reply to a long _memoire_ presented to the prince, he published two -manifestoes, declaratory of, and justifying his descent upon England, -which were accompanied by his embarkation from the states of Holland, -and shortly followed by his arrival in England, where by numbers his -Highness was warmly received. Many personages of high rank declared to -him their support; and furthermore, several regiments of the army of -King James joined the standard of the Prince of Orange. - -At length the landing of the prince, and the cordial reception with -which he met withal, awoke the royal and too incredulous James from his -trance, and he now finally resolved upon the measure of flying from his -discontented subjects, whom he considered had betrayed him by thus -calling in a foreigner to assume the sovereignty; and he forth-with -determined to sail with what expedition he might from the shores of -England, and put himself at once under the protection of the King of -France. - -However, previous to the flight of the unhappy James from his throne and -realm of fair England, he resolved in the first instance to provide for -the escape of his queen consort, and his son, the infant Prince of -Wales. King James was so surrounded by spies and informers, that the -very greatest circumspection was absolutely necessary to shun the -hundred eyes of Argus which environed him; for, as but too often is the -unhappy case with kings, that almost literally he knew not whom to -trust. While flatterers and sycophants surround and blockade a throne, -it must not be expected that truth, sincerity, or friendship, can there -be found;--no! they are quite unknown within the stately precincts of a -court! But still there was one found, and one worthy of the royal -trust--the Count de Lauzun, a noble, brave, and generous Frenchman; and -to this nobleman the king intrusted his queen and infant son, to assist -them in conducting them in safety to France, aloof from all the enemies -of the royal James. - -The plan of proceeding, and all the consecutive details, were -accordingly secretly arranged, and the greatest and most scrupulous care -and caution were duly taken to keep these determinations a profound -secret, lest the flight of the queen and infant prince being known or -suspected, the measure might be wholly frustrated by the intervention of -the emissaries of the Prince of Orange. - -The solemn hour of midnight was selected as the safest time for the -flight of the royal fugitives. The young prince, to escape suspicion, -was placed in bed at his accustomed hour; and shortly after the king and -queen, having duly dismissed all their attendants, retired seemingly to -repose, but not to rest! - -When the eyes of all in the palace were closed, save the waking, -watching, unwearied eye-lids of the royal sufferers, the king and queen -arose from their couch, and cautiously opened the private door leading -to the royal closet, where in readiness awaited the noble and faithful -Count de Lauzun. The queen raised the infant prince from his cradle, -wrapped him in a swathe of flannel to keep the infant warm; indeed no -unnecessary precaution, for cold and bitter was the winter weather in -which the royal child was thus in silent secrecy of night taken away -from the princely hall of his royal progenitors. - -King James affectionately embraced them both, as sad and sorrowful he -bade them a mournful farewell; and wept most bitterly at this parting -scene, in which affliction his royal consort fully participated. His -Majesty then intrusted them both to the loyal charge of the noble and -faithful count, who taking the royal infant under one arm, while he -assisted the queen with the other, they set forth from the palace to -pursue their perilous and melancholy journey. - -Stormy and tempestuous was the night, the wind blew with violence, and -rain impetuously descended in torrents. They now approached the banks of -the Thames, in order to procure a boat to cross over to Lambeth. At this -point of time Count de Lauzun had previously engaged a boat to be ready -in attendance, thence to escape down the river to Gravesend, to come up -with the vessel which he had hired, and there awaited to convey them to -France. But unluckily it happened that so pitchy dark and stormy was the -night, the boat, when hailed, was not to be found. In total despair for -some moments he remained; but again, more loud and stoutly once more he -hailed the boat: the signal was heard, and obeyed. They descended down -the Whitehall stairs and embarked; and finding a great swell in the -river the count resolved not to proceed by water to Gravesend, but to -land at Lambeth, and thence proceed by land. They arrived in safety at -the Lambeth stairs, and landed, when the count surrendered to the queen -the royal charge to hold, while he went forth to obtain a coach from the -nearest adjoining inn. - -Meanwhile the hapless queen--queen of the greatest realm in Europe, -arrayed in disguised habiliments, stood trembling under the shelter of -the ruined walls of a church, shivering in the blast, and dripping with -rain, wistfully listening to every sound, and piteously raising her eyes -to heaven. Oh, what a fearful lesson was here! a few days ago she might -have proclaimed to all the world--"This is my throne, let kings come bow -to it!" And this awful night she might envy the poorest cottier in her -dominions. However, after long suspense, suffering, and delay, the -count returned, having procured a carriage; and he lost no time in -placing the trembling queen and shivering infant in the vehicle. - -Without any accident whatever the royal fugitives reached Gravesend in -perfect safety. Here, trembling with fear, and nearly overpowered by -sorrow, the queen alighted on the quay, where the boat, (which was an -open one,) belonging to the brig destined for Calais, awaited their -coming. The count, without a moment's delay, placed the queen and prince -in the boat, and flinging around them the boatman's cloak, he sat down -by them, and bade him to row on. He told the boatman that the persons he -bore away were his wife and child; and thus no suspicions were awakened -in the mind of the boatman of the great personages he thus bore off amid -the shades of night. - - "Sail on, sail on, thou fearless bark, - Wherever blows the welcome wind; - It cannot lead to scenes more dark, - More sad, than those we leave behind!" - -By the morning tide they had reached, without molestation, a small brig -destined for France. To the captain the count also pretended that the -queen and prince were his own wife and child; he bargained for the -voyage, and the contract was agreed to. But the vessel was no sooner -under weigh, when how great their surprise, and how proportionate must -have been their apprehensions and alarm, while they beheld the whole of -the English fleet stationed at the mouth of the Thames, to examine all -vessels, and prevent their escape. But fortunately the vessel was so -small that, being unsuspected, she was permitted with impunity to pass -the admiral of the fleet, in no wise suspecting that her hull contained -such very distinguished personages on board, so no examination took -place. The vessel sailed on unmolested; and that very night the Count de -Lauzun had the happiness of safely landing the royal sufferers on the -pier of Calais. From thence they proceeded to Versailles, where her -Majesty and infant prince were received by Louis the Fourteenth with -great marks of affection and of the highest respect, which afforded some -consolation to the queen under her melancholy reverse of fortune. - -Meanwhile King James suffered great and intense anxiety concerning the -fate of his unhappy queen and infant prince. - -His Majesty now fully determined to follow the queen, and waited but one -day to execute his design.[32] The following night, in a plain suit, and -a bob-wig, he took water at Whitehall,[33] accompanied only by Sir -Edward Hales, Mr. Sheldon, and Abbadie, a Frenchman, and a page of the -back-stairs, without acquainting any other person with his intentions. -All writs sent out for the electing of parliament he ordered to be -burnt; and when he took water he threw the great seal of England into -the Thames, (which was some time afterwards taken up by a fisherman in -his net,) that nothing might be legally done in his absence. "If," -continued Rapin, "this may not be called a real desertion of his -kingdom, it will be difficult to give a name to such proceedings!"[34] - - [32] Rapin's History of England, vol. II. p. 781. - - [33] Ibid. p. 782. - - [34] Ibid. p. 783. - -However, the king did not succeed in this attempt to escape, inasmuch as -he was arrested at Feversham, and abused and insulted by the rabble; he -lost a number of valuables, and gave up to the mob about between three -and four hundred pounds in specie. Here he was protected by the Dutch -guards of the Prince of Orange, and chose to retire to Rochester; where, -in the space of about ten days from the time he had attempted his first -escape, he now resolved upon trying a second. About three o'clock in a -dark winter's morning he privately withdrew, taking with him only the -Duke of Berwick, (his natural son,) Mr. Sheldon, and Abbadie, the page; -and went on horseback to a place near the river, where he embarked in a -small frigate, which landed him safely at Ambleteuse, in France; from -whence he repaired to the court of Louis the Fourteenth, where with much -satisfaction he rejoined his queen and infant prince. "This abdication," -emphatically observes Rapin, "paved the prince's way to the throne!"[35] - - [35] Rapin's History of England, vol. II. p. 783. - -Upon the departure of King James from the shores of England, an -_interregnum_ occurred of such a nature as was hitherto unknown in -England. It was not caused by the death, but by the flight of the -sovereign. Hence this incongruity took place, that the nation was -without a king, nay, even without the representative of one, that would -take the charge of the government! Yet still, strange to say, there was -a king!--albeit a fugitive; who, although he had fled, and abandoned his -throne, yet still pretended to retain his rights! - -How short and limited is the narrow space between popular adoration and -popular disgrace! To-day a king, an emperor, a demi-god--To-morrow a -fugitive, an outcast from his realm, unregarded and forgotten! for ever -blotted from the page of kings, his fate or banishment or the scaffold! -Who can then rely upon the popular breath, wayward, fickle, and -uncertain as the wave or wind? Oh! then, let the true patriot, _if_ such -is to be found upon earth, think on this; and, divested and purified -from the dross of poor mortality, reflect upon all this; aye, and let -him then, firmly armed in integrity, despise equally alike public -censure or public praise! - -From this melancholy digression upon fallen greatness on English ground, -we shall reconduct the reader once more to the shores of Erin, and again -return to the family of Tyrconnel in the succeeding chapter. - - - - -CHAPTER XI. - - ----------O, behold - How pomp is followed! mine will now be your's; - And should we shift estates, your's would be mine! - - ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. - - -We now bring back the reader to the realm of Ireland, which was doomed -shortly to be the scene of anarchy and civil war, where disastrous -tidings of awful import, posting incessantly onward, hourly arrived, -rapidly heralded by rumour's thousand tongues, to afflict the loyal and -disconcert the brave. - -An official despatch soon followed, which communicated and confirmed to -Tyrconnel the sad and dismal event of the flight of his royal master to -France, which truly gave him deep and sincere affliction. This -voluntary abdication of his throne upon the part of King James II. gave -Tyrconnel sorrowful concern for the present, and a sad and mournful -foreboding of the future! "Oh, had my royal master only stood his -ground," said the duke, "and have firmly held his throne, who would, who -could have dared to hurl him from it? No; even with all his political -miscalculations, nevertheless his enemies could not have succeeded. The -Prince of Orange would still have found it a difficult, perhaps an -impossible task, to have ousted his truly royal, accomplished, and brave -father-in-law, from his lawful throne; for brave and valiant was the -king, and I doubt not but still brave he is. And there was a time, be it -not forgotten, while he was Duke of York and Lord High Admiral of -England, when nobly he fought beneath the British banner, and gloriously -led on his fleet to victory!" - -The Duchess of Tyrconnel, whose powerful mind and firm nerves were -"albeit unused to the melting mood," yet when her Grace heard the -mournful recital of the sufferings and voluntary exile of her afflicted -queen; she then indeed was deeply affected, and - - "Dropt tears as fast as the Arabian trees - Their medicinal gum." - -The Duchess was a wife--moreover a mother, and she knew how to pity and -compassionate the unfortunate, from the palace of kings down to the -cottage of the poor. And equally distressed was our lovely heroine, -whose generous bosom ever beat, and felt, and assisted the afflicted. - -Some months had now elapsed, when one morning, while the duke was at -breakfast with his family, a despatch for his Grace, and in the -hand-writing of King James, arrived. The despatch intimated that His -Majesty was then on his way to Ireland, and summoning the immediate -attendance of Tyrconnel at Kinsale, where the king proposed to land. The -despatch was brought over in a fast-sailing French corvette, called -"_l'Eclair_," which had been detached from the French fleet which was to -escort King James to Kinsale, expressly upon this mission. And his -Grace, in obedience to the royal mandate, instantly set off by land for -the town of Kinsale. - -King James II., upon _abdicating_, or _deserting_ (for great debates in -the British parliament ensued upon the proper term to be used) the -throne of England, had sought and obtained an asylum in France, -generously yielded to him by Louis XIV. King James now fully resolved, -as His Majesty expressed himself, "to make one more glorious attempt to -recover his throne;" which to effectuate he sailed from the shores of -France, attended by fourteen ships of war, six frigates, and three -fire-ships, which had been prepared in the port of Brest by the French -king. At the same time seven French battalions embarked in the fleet -which conveyed King James. The troops were commanded by the Count de -Lauzun, the same gallant, generous nobleman who had escorted King -James's queen and the Prince of Wales to the court of Versailles. The -forces were accompanied with twelve field pieces. - -King James was attended in this expedition by several noble personages. -His Majesty landed at Kinsale amid the loudest cheers, and was warmly -received and welcomed by all descriptions, from the peer to the peasant, -with the greatest joy and enthusiasm. Here, in pursuance to the -instructions given to Tyrconnel, he was in readiness on the beach to -receive his royal master, where he knelt as the king approached; who -instantly upraised him, and affectionately embraced his faithful -viceroy; and instantly set off in his travelling carriage for his good -city of Dublin, accompanied by the Dukes of Berwick, Albemarle, and -Tyrconnel. - -Sir Patricius Placebo, from the very moment of the announcement of the -intended arrival of his much loved sovereign at Kinsale, was constantly -on the _qui vive_, considering himself, if not the _locum tenens_, at -least the Lord Constable of his vice-regal lord, and spared no pains to -make every meet and solemn preparation to receive the right royal Stuart -into his loyal city of Dublin. - -"Yes, yes, my lady Duchess," observed Sir Patricius Placebo one morning, -while at breakfast, "we will indeed receive our king right royally, -_more majorum_--ha, ha, ha! _Certes_ we shall, my Lady! with no lack -whatever of respect, and albeit with no deficit of heart!--there, in -sooth, no failing was ever yet found in an Irishman; although I -asseverate it, who, pardie, ought not, my Lady: for - - DOSS MOI, TANE STIGMEN! - -as indeed the learned, great, and renowned Archimedes said of old. And I -will "do a deed"--not "without a name" however; for this moment I shall -fly to old Cormac, whom I shall adventure to appoint and depute, in the -absence of my superior, as the vice-regal poet laureat. Next I will post -to Ulster King at Arms; ay, and shall advise and give him hints and -innuendos of far more value and importance than all the gilt tinsel and -crimson silk which surround his brow. I shall admonish him, and his -tributaries and gallant pursuivants, one and all, decorously to furbish -their tabards, and to hire, beg, borrow, or steal stately palfreys, to -bear the herald king and suite, to meet and receive their lawful and -beloved king upon his honoured entrance into his loyal and ancient city -of Eblana, _vulgo dicta_ Dublin. Then will I hie me to the Commander -(_pro tempore_) of the Forces, and tell him of the programme which I -have planned for the king's _entre_. And next, noble Lady, returning to -this His Majesty's royal Castle, I shall give sage and precautionary -hints and instructions to all the state battle-axe guards, state -kettle-drums and trumpets, and so forth:-- - - -------------------------------"trumpeters, - With brazen din blast ye the city's ear; - Make mingle with our rattling tambourines; - That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together, - Applauding our approach!" - -Ha, ha, ha! I think, my lady Duchess, we shall get on vastly -well--vastly well indeed, and not only receive the applause of my -vice-regal lord, but perchance that also of my mighty monarch." - -The Duchess smiled. "I doubt not," said her Grace, "that all matters -shall go on well, _te duce_. But Sir Patricius you are, (it were in vain -to deny it,) you are an enthusiast!" - -"Well, well, my lady Duchess, I shall not gainsay it. Perchance, your -Grace, I am an enthusiast; and after all, my Lady, I do not see, -constituted as this cold and phlegmatic planet of ours is, I see, -really, after all, no very great harm in this said enthusiasm, if indeed -it doth not degenerate into bigotry of politics or religious rancour; -and therefore, when my king doth come, my tongue must utter the loyal -inditings of my heart." - -We must now adventure to describe the triumphant entry of King James -into his good city of Dublin. Regiments of foot, stationed in parallel -files, lined each side of every street extending from the great gate of -Dublin Castle the entire way to Saint James's gate, at the western -extremity of St. James's-street, through which the king was to make his -_entre_. That morning all the principal avenues were purposely strewed -with fresh gravel, to facilitate the king's approach. - -A triumphal arch of living laurel, surmounted by the crown of England, -adorned St. James's gate, and the armorial quarterings, richly -emblazoned, of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France, were tastefully -displayed in the arrangement. Various wreaths, laurel crowns, cordons, -and garlands of various living flowers, were suspended across the -principal streets through which the royal cavalcade was to pass.--Every -window in every avenue was festooned with laurel, oak, and various -evergreens, all tastefully contrasted and displayed.--These -demonstrations of joy were not confined merely to the city, but extended -to all the adjoining villages, towns, and hamlets, for several miles in -circuit. The royal flag was hoisted on Bedford Tower, and on the -steeples of the different churches. At night the city shone forth in a -brilliant blaze of universal illumination, which was vividly reflected -in the sparkling and undulating waves of old father Liffey, as he -joyously rolled onward to the main. - -Various loyal mottoes and devices caught the eye: The harp and crown; -"Rejoice, O Erin, for behold thy king cometh unto thee!" - - "The king shall have his own again!" - ---"Welcome Erin's king!"--"Hibernia hails her noble king!" &c. &c.; with -many other mottoes and devices, with which we shall not weary our -reader. A large platform was erected without James's gate on the west -and county side, on which, under a splendid gonfalon, or canopy, were -stationed several friars beneath a large cross, who sang "_Te Deum -laudamus_," as King James approached. To the right of the gate, on the -city side, was erected a large stage, covered with tapestry, on which -were stationed two Irish harpers, in due and proper costume; one of them -was no less a person than our old acquaintance, blind Cormac, the -sightless harper and minstrel of the Duke of Tyrconnel. Sir Patricius -Placebo albeit was fond of comparing the sightless bard to old -Tiresias, of prophetic memory, whose ear and recollection nearly -supplied the deficiencies of sight. - - '{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}', &c. &c. - -as Sir Patricius was wont to express himself; and then he would say, -"Yes, verily, old Cormac doth much resemble, in multiform coincidence -and fortune, the wise Tiresias! but then with this sage and discreet -difference to boot, that old Cormac will never die the death of old -Tiresias, to wit, from drinking cold water! No, no, inasmuch his fond -and strong addiction lies in genuine _aqua vitae_, or the true Drogheda -Usquebaugh; so that Cormac will never die from drinking cold water, as -he hath "forsworn thin potations," unless, peradventure, he should -happen one day or another to be drowned in the Eske or the Liffey, and -there can be no doubt then vastly against his choice and determination!" - -A shout of universal joy now burst forth: "The King! the King!!" The -heavy dragoons came thundering down with an astounding clatter; the -trumpets rung a levant, the foot soldiers presented arms; standard, and -banner, and pennon, kissed the pavement; while drum, fife, cymbal, -French-horn, and trumpet, resounded through the stricken welkin, "God -save the King!" The foreign, English, and Scottish nobility, who -accompanied the king, were marshalled duly according to their respective -rank. And now, amid shouts that rent the air, King James approached. He -was mounted on a beautiful long-tailed roan charger, bred in Normandy, -which His Majesty right royally and gracefully bestrode; the steed was -gorgeously caparisoned; the trappings were of damask gold, bordered and -interspersed with the rose, shamrock, thistle, and _fleur de lis_; and -fringed withal with a deep pursell of ermine. - -From the vast crowd, and the extended length of the pageant, and -prolonged procession, King James was obliged to rein up his charger, and -to halt. It so did happen that this stoppage occurred just at the stage -where the two harpers were stationed to greet, with their native harp -and song, the entrance of their king into his capital of the island of -poesy and song. They performed several loyal and sprightly airs, which -seemed to please the monarch well: among others was - - OLD CORMAC'S WELCOME. - - All welcome be the royal James, - Let all confess his legal claims; - While ev'ry loyal heart exclaims, - God save the king![36] - - From war, dissension, anarchy, - Kind heav'n protect this kingdom free! - United may it ever be! - God save the king! - - From exile see the monarch bring - The olive round our harp to string! - With transport let each patriot sing, - God save the king! - - Then welcome be the royal James, - None shall resist his legal claims; - While ev'ry honest heart exclaims, - God save the king! - - [36] The air of "God save the King" had been a French anthem, and - words were appropriated to it, with the chorus of "God save the - king," expressly for James the Second. Since which time it has - been played and sung as a national anthem. - -During this pause the public curiosity had sufficient time for its -indulgence by a full view of the royal person. King James looked -extremely well; he possessed a manly and animated countenance, illumined -by fine penetrating hazel eyes, his eloquent lips, his stately person; -his head was enveloped, according to the fashion of the times, in a deep -flowing full-dress peruke, surmounted by a large black beaver triangular -cocked hat, deeply edged with white ostrich feathers; the peruke -descended down freely, even to the richly polished silver corslet[37] -which he wore; his neck was adorned with the ribbons and gems of St. -George and St. Andrew; and the star of the garter sparkled in diamonds -on his breast. His whole deportment was fraught with that attractive -grace and commanding elegance of manner and address which he so fully -and peculiarly possessed, and which charmed every beholder. - - [37] The above description of the person and appearance of King - James the Second, is taken from a beautiful oil miniature, painted - on copper; it is believed to be from the pencil of Samuel Cooper, - when the king was Duke of York. It is in possession of the author. - -A number of handsome young women, amounting nearly to the number of -fifty, all dressed in white, and with coronals of white roses, now -advanced, and preceding the monarch, danced before him the entire way to -the gate of Dublin Castle, the Irish dance, called _Rinceadh-Fada_, -which delighted the king exceedingly. The same had been performed upon -the king's landing at Kinsale, and then too pleased him well, the -particulars of which will be found in a succeeding chapter. These young -and beautiful nymphs strewed the streets, while they danced along, with -_bouquets_ of flowers. The supply for this ceremony was contained in -small wicker baskets, which they respectively bore, with much -appropriate grace, upon their left arm; and, ever and anon, in -sylph-like attitude, they wheeled round and made obeisance to the king; -while oft, with the grace of Raphael, the right hand was duly employed -in scattering flowers, thus manifesting their unbought homage to -majesty. "The rich citizens, to testify their joy upon this occasion, -hung their balconies with tapestry and cloth of arras; those who were -not so provided displayed silk, or hangings of rich cloth; while the -poorer kind were content to sew together the coverings of Turkey-work -chairs; while others were obliged to arrange draperies of linen -cloth."[38] - - [38] Extract from the Life of King James. - -At the limits of the Liberty His Majesty was met by the Lord Mayor, -aldermen, and common council, the masters, wardens, and brethren of the -twenty-five corporations of the city. Ulster King at Arms was in dutiful -attendance, accompanied by the Dublin Herald at Arms, the Athlone -Pursuivant at Arms, and lastly followed the Cork Herald at Arms. The -heralds and pursuivants all mounted upon their grey palfreys, and -attired in new and splendid tabards, made expressly for the occasion, -and which shone forth in all the blaze of heraldic pomp; while they -onward proceeded in accordance to their rank and station. Next onward -rode an esquire bearing a royal standard, on which were richly -embroidered the initials of - - "JACOBUS II. REX."[39] - - [39] Life of King James the Second. - -The letters were brilliantly surrounded with a garland composed of the -rose of England, the shamrock of Erin, the thistle of Caledon, and the -lily of France. Next was borne another standard, on which was emblazoned -the armorial bearing of the harp, with the motto, - - "EX CORDE LAETUS," - -and encircled with shamrocks. Next, the standard of England waved in the -breeze, on which was embroidered the motto, - - "NON SIC MILLE COHORTES."[40] - - [40] Ibid. - -Various other banners and armorial escutcheons were borne in the -procession;--namely, the heraldic bearings of England, France, Scotland, -and Ireland. Then came on the state trumpeters, no less gorgeously and -characteristically attired than their party _per-pale_ cousins at arms, -and withal accompanied by the drowsy base of "the Almaine's sullen -kettle-drum," which closed the rere of this truly rare and illustrious -procession. - -So soon as the royal cavalcade had approached the Tholsel, the Recorder -of Dublin, Counsellor Dillon, knelt to the king, and presented to him -the keys of the city; and loyally and dutifully addressed the king, -expressing "the great and unqualified joy of all the loyal citizens of -His Majesty's ancient and faithful city of Dublin, to hail their beloved -king, and welcome him within their gates; whereby was presented the -glorious opportunity of testifying to all the world their untainted -loyalty and unshaken affection; and that in defence of their sovereign's -throne they were ready and willing to risk, to the uttermost, both -their lives and fortunes."[41] The king most graciously and majestically -received the keys of the city; and on the instant graciously returned -them, while he knighted the Recorder on the spot; saying, with the -greatest courtesy and kindness, "I return them to you, Sir Recorder, -fully convinced that the keys of my most faithful city of Dublin could -not be placed in the custody of honester hearts, or more loyal hands, -than those who guard them now." And having thus said, he gracefully -bowed, and courteously waved his hand. - - [41] Life of King James the Second. - -This interesting ceremony and speech having been concluded, the king -continued his route to the castle of Dublin, followed by a number of the -state-carriages of the nobility, each drawn by six horses; various other -vehicles attended--calashes, covered carriages, &c.; these were followed -by squadrons of French dragoons. Major Barker, of the Royal Guards, next -came onward, clearing the centre of the street, and ordering the troops -again to "present arms." Then approached the Grand Prior, (the Duke of -Albemarle,) in a coach drawn by six beautiful horses. Next approached -several officers of the Guards, mounted on high-mettled chargers, and -followed by grooms, each of them adroitly conducting a led horse. Then -came on several officers of the army, attended by five trumpets and as -many kettle-drums, all arrayed in new state-dresses. Next advanced -twenty of the band of gentlemen at large, who were on horseback; they -were followed by the messengers, Sergeants at Arms, bearing the maces of -the Lords and Commons. Then came on the pursuivants, heralds, and King -at Arms. - -And now the Duke of Tyrconnel presented himself, mounted on a noble -milk-white charger, and martially arrayed in steel armour, highly -wrought and polished; the star of the garter glittered on his manly -breast; and the magnificent collar, with its splendid and appendant gem, -swung from the graceful shoulders of the valiant duke. The Marquis -d'Estrades and Lord Drummond were on the right hand of the Duke; the -Earl of Melfort and Lord Seaforth supported the left. Then succeeded -many troops of dragoons, a numerous list of nobles and gentry, with -numerous servants and attendants; a large assemblage of state-carriages -of peers, drawn by six horses, some with four, and others with only a -pair. Thus was the rear of this princely cavalcade brought up. And the -procession was last of all closed by an immense assemblage who rent the -air with loud and continued shouts and acclamations of joy. - -"In this stately progress King James reached the capital, and made his -triumphant entry, followed by a splendid train of French, British, and -Irish; and attended by the Count d'Avaux in the character of ambassador -of France."[42] - - [42] Leland's History of Ireland, vol. III. p. 522. - -Meanwhile all the bands of the different regiments joined in playing the -then well known air of - - "The king shall enjoy his own again!" - -When this warlike symphony had ceased the populace with one accord -huzzaed, and shouted "God save the King!" They hailed and warmly -congratulated His Majesty's arrival at his Castle of Dublin, where, -having alighted from his horse, he was met at the portal by the -host,[43] which was overshadowed by a gonfalon, or canopy of state, -borne by four Roman bishops, and accompanied by a numerous train of -friars singing, and attended by other clergy of the same persuasion, -along with the titular primate at their head, who wore a triple crown, -or tiara. The king was conducted by them into the chapel-royal, which -had been built by the Duke of Tyrconnel,[44] where _Te Deum_ was chanted -upon the welcome and happy arrival of His Majesty. - - [43] Life of King James. - - [44] This is literally true: this chapel was pulled down, and a - new one built during the administration of the present Duke of - Bedford. - -These ceremonies being concluded, His Majesty subsequently retired to -the new apartments, which had been recently built and decorated by -Tyrconnel, where the king dined. - -It having been intimated to the king that upon the following day the -triennial perambulation of the liberties and franchises of the city of -Dublin was to take place; and His Majesty having been humbly solicited -to witness the same, most graciously gave his consent. The riding of the -franchises, or "riding the fringes," as popularly called, was in fact a -most brilliant and truly imposing public spectacle, not to be equalled, -and quite surpassing, every other pageant then or since known in Europe. - - - - -CHAPTER XII. - - Praetexta, et trabeae, fasces, lectica, tribunal. - Quid, si vidisset Praetorem curribus altis - Enstantem, et medio sublimem in pulvere circi - In tunica Jovis, et pictae sarrana ferentem - Ex humeris aulaea togae, magnaeque coronae - Tantum orbem, quanto cervix non sufficit ulla? - - JUVENAL, Sat. x. - - ----Fasces, chains, litters, purple gowns. - What! had he seen, in his triumphal car, - Amid the dusty cirque conspicuous far, - The praetor perched aloft, superbly drest - In Jove's proud tunic, with a trailing vest - Of Tyrian tapestry, and o'er him spread - A crown too bulky for a mortal head? - - GIFFORD'S JUVENAL. - - -Peradventure, kind reader, thou art no lover of history or chronicles, -no admirer of antiquarian research, and art withal (forefend us!) in -thine heart a determined foe to every matter and circumstance -pertaining to the "dark, backward, and abysm of time." If such, gentle -reader, be the materials of which thou art made, pause fair and softly, -if it so beseemeth thee, ere thou venturest again to open this volume, -from perusal of which, in sober seriousness, we would make bold to -dissuade thee, courteous reader! lest perchance the discussion might -"hurt thy health, and prejudice thy conscience," as the sage Sancho -Panza hath said of yore. - -The day appointed for the display of the grand and solemn pageant of the -perambulation of the liberties and franchises of the city of Dublin had -arrived. This event only occurred every third year; and upon this august -occasion was to be witnessed by the royal eye of the princely James. The -arrangement of the procession and of its various details presented the -most grand and magnificent spectacle ever witnessed in the Irish -metropolis. It was a custom so singular, so unlike any procession or -pageant known in any other realm, that when it did occur the nobility -and gentry from every near and foreign land crowded to Dublin to behold -the splendid array of this unique and magnificent spectacle. Upon this -triennial occurrence the interest was most highly increased, and the -stately pomp and splendour of the pageant aided and augmented by the -cheering presence of the sovereign. - -The grand cavalcade in slow and solemn measure advanced, preceded by a -noble troop of heavy dragoons;--we mention heavy dragoons distinctly to -mark to the reader's attention the distant period of time of which we -here speak; for at that period light dragoons were unknown in the -British service. The enlivening trumpets rent the air; meanwhile the -military bands played at intervals loyal and national airs; banners -waving on high, and the various flags and ensigns attached to the -numerous vessels in the river, all undulating in the breeze; while -around and upon every side the genius of ancient chivalry seemed to -preside and conduct the procession. Sir John Ottrington, Lord Mayor of -the city of Dublin, came in great pomp, pride, and circumstance of civic -distinction, in his magnificent state coach; his dignified head was -arrayed in a full flowing peruke, upon which much care and caution had -been studiously expended for its adornation; and that day witnessed -good-man shaver, Bob Basin to wit, the city barber, a proud and happy -man, who seemed all-sufficient to enjoy the triumph of the day, in -which, as he modestly conceived, he had done "the State some service, -and they knew it." This most formidable bushy specimen of a peruke was -cumberously surmounted by the bulky civic crown, which was in sooth -unwieldy and most unbecoming in its conformation and appearance; indeed -not dissimilar to that worn by the Herald King at Arms upon the high -ceremonial of a coronation. The Lord Mayor was attired in full court -dress, over which was worn a flowing scarlet gown, and around his neck -was suspended the splendid gold enamelled collar which had been most -graciously presented to the city of Dublin by Charles the Second, of -chaste and pious memory! It must not forsooth be disguised that the -costume was as cumbersome as it was unbecoming; yet still the ladies -all unanimously agreed in the opinion that Sir John Ottrington was "a -very pretty fellow in his day;" a most portly personage he was, who -would have become any costume, civil or military, nay, even the hodiern -foppery of an English Field-Marshal--tags, bobs, cordons, trappings, -ribands, feathers, and so forth. However, had any modern taken a glance -at a similar figure, he must assuredly have been incontinently reminded -of his facetious old acquaintance, Lord Grizel, in the inimitable and -humorous burletta of O'Hara's _Tom Thumb_! - -All the _accessoires_ of city regalia were duly and circumspectly -displayed at this truly splendid pageant. The ponderous city mace was -regilt and richly burnished, which shone conspicuous and refulgent from -the sinister window of the civic coach; while from the dexter side -gently undulated, _in transitu_, the mayoral wand, like the caduceus of -Mercury, imposing peace and silence on the dense and congregated -multitude. - -The sword of state was carried in the van, while the silver baton was -borne by a corporate officer in the rere, attended by the city -battle-axe guards, who followed the state coach two by two, while others -of the guard flanked it, and the remaining number closed the procession. -It is but just to say, that all the civic regalia, in due pomp, and -circumstance, and order, were displayed conformable to the ancient, -laudable, and loyal usages of this most enlightened corporation. - -The persons who personified the civic battle-axe guards were grenadiers -hired for the occasion expressly, and duly selected from the ranks. The -costume of these worthies, although varying in colour, yet resembled in -shape and fashion that of the royal Buffetteers, (in popular parlance -called beef eaters, from their portly appearance, no doubt;)[45] the -bonnets were formed of green velvet, with a rich gold foliage of -shamrocks, which surrounded them. The exterior habiliments were of rich -green cloth, laced, and richly embroidered with national devices; and -upon the breast of each were duly embroidered the city arms, namely, -three castles in flames, and the motto, "_obedientia civium, felicitas -urbis_." The hose were of red worsted, with large open clokes; the shoes -short quartered and high heeled, with the appanage of small brass -buckles. The partisans which they bore were similar to those of the -royal battle-axe guards. As the procession slowly proceeded onward, the -populace accommodated them-selves with great attention and most discreet -silence, being right marvelously amazed at such unusual pomp and -splendour. - - [45] But actually so named from being the guard who preside over - the royal buffet, or side-board. - -Next in the proud pageant came the High Sheriffs, each in his own -splendid state chariot, with a crowd of lackeys in rich liveries behind. -These worthies, Sir Mark Rainsford and Sir Edward Lloyd, not forgetting -the Lord Mayor, did not escape the ceremonial of being knighted by King -James. The Aldermen followed in their respective carriages. They were -succeeded in the procession by the several guilds or corporations of the -city, amounting in the aggregate to the number of twenty-five; at the -unprecedented splendour of whose appearance the populace were verily -struck with downright delight and astonishment. - -The particular detail and explanation of each guild, as it advanced, -halted, and retreated in the proud pageant, was explained most minutely -by the Duke of Tyrconnel to his gracious and royal master. His Grace -certainly acquitted himself with most sage, cautious, and circumspect -discretion, but attended withal with sundry and various circumforaneous -explanations; all which long ambages and diffuse prolixities purposely -to avoid, we have cut down and curtailed the whole, which would -otherwise not be contained in a chapter, but require an essay to give -the entire. We have therefore abridged the particulars, and thrown the -whole into as brief a narrative as the subject would admit of, premising -that the splendid and imposing spectacle was beheld from the windows of -the presence-chamber of Dublin Castle by the royal James, surrounded by -all the beauty of the land, and encompassed by all the flower of -chivalry. - -The magnificence of the pageant of riding the franchises (or fringes, -as corruptly called in popular parlance) was considerably increased in -pomp and effect from the introduction of different individuals of the -different corporations, who were attired in habits emblematical and -illustrative of the different trades of the different guilds. The -characters were generally borrowed from the heathen mythology, and were -strictly and classically arrayed in proper pantheon costume. - -We must observe in a general way, that the five-and-twenty guilds, or -corporations of the city, formed an unrivalled pageant, the most -singular and remarkable in Europe; it would occupy too much time to -enter into a minute detail--however, a few we shall briefly notice. - -Neptune, surrounded by his attendant tritons, dolphins, &c., sat proudly -enthroned in a triumphal car. He was the presiding deity of the guild of -merchants. The marine deity was followed by their corporate friend -Mercury, bearing all his attributes, and stately standing in an elevated -illuminated caravan, representing the clouds. - -The tree of knowledge, adorned with the forbidden fruit, the serpent -encompassing the bole of the tree, and supported on each side by our -first parents, duly preceded the corporation of Tailors. Adam and Eve -were clad in flesh-coloured garments, fitting close to the person; and, -sooth to say, the fig-leaf was not forgotten by the grateful -corporation! - -But we must needs be brief in this general outline:-- - -Vulcan presided over the corporation of Smiths. He was stationed on a -superb car, with his attending Cyclops, who were intently working on a -mounted forge; a lovely Venus graced his side; and as the arrows came -formed from the anvil, they were handed to Cupid. - -Saturn, with his attributes, his scythe and serpent, and attended by -Esculapius, presiding over the guild of Barbers and Surgeons, followed -in a splendid car. - -Ceres, seated in a triumphal chariot, drawn by four oxen, presided over -the corporation of Bakers. In a caravan which followed was placed an -oven, which was briskly at work; whence cakes were made, and -distributed to the populace. - -The guild of Carpenters were preceded by a most magnificent caravan, -adorned with the various orders of architecture; in the centre of which -was placed a representation of Mount Ararat, on which reposed a model of -Noah's ark; thereby the corporation slyly intimating that their -handicraft was as old as the deluge! - -Crispin and Crispianus, the two tutelar saints of the corporation of -Shoemakers, duly personated, and attired in strict saintly costume, -preceded the worthy guild. - -Bacchus, "ever fair and young," crowned with his own ivy, bearing the -Thyrsus wand in his right, and a golden goblet in his left hand, duly -enthroned on a wine-cask, and mounted on a triumphal car, decorated with -festoons of grapes and vine-leaves, presided over the guild of Cooks and -Vintners. - -Jason supporting the golden fleece, (with the ship Argo in the back -ground of his splendid car, blazing in burnished gold,) presided over -the guild of Weavers. - -Iris, enveloped in her own rainbow, and borne in a car, adorned with -transparent clouds, presided over the Sheermen and Dyers. - -We shall only notice one guild more--the corporation of Printers, to -whom we, in common with every Briton, owe such a debt of gratitude. A -free press has always been acknowledged, and we trust ever may continue, -the _palladium_ of British liberty! - -This guild, forming a magnificent and extended cavalcade, made a grand -and interesting display; their ancient banners and standards borne in -the van were tri-coloured, crimson, light-yellow, and blue. The first -banner bore the legend, or motto, "_Rex et Lex_;" upon the second, "_Pro -rege saepe, Pro Patria semper_;" upon the last banner was splendidly -emblazoned the words, "_Liberty of the Press_!" - -A statue of Minerva, placed on a high pedestal, and mounted in a -triumphal car, headed the procession. A bomb-cart followed, heavily -laden, containing ammunition and stores; that is to say, not gunpowder, -chain-balls, and grape-shot, but more peaceful pastime, _videlicet_: -cold meat, pasties, pies, confectionary, wines, &c. Next advanced four -fine palfreys, covered with richly embroidered field-clothes, each led -by a groom in splendid livery. Then came on a brother of the -corporation, who personated Vulcan; he was arrayed in a noble suit of -armour, which had belonged to king Charles the First; it was the gift of -the late Colonel Joshua Paul, a free-brother of the guild, to the -corporation. Vulcan rode on horseback, the housings, trappings, and -horse-furniture, were decorated with appropriate emblems; he bore an -immense sledge-hammer of richly polished steel, the handle curiously -ornamented with fanciful Arabesque ornaments, inlaid in gold and silver. - -Next in succession advanced a triumphal car, or caravan, drawn by six -beautiful black steeds, covered with handsome nets, the coachman and -postillion in rich splendid liveries. Within the carriage was exhibited -a handsome printing-press, with two pressmen and a compositor at work. A -hackney author was occupied in writing for and correcting the press. A -printer's devil was busily at work; and a painter engaged at his eazle, -all in meet and proper costume. The printing-press was richly and -appropriately ornamented: in the front stood a figure of Mercury holding -a poem, copies of which were struck off, and distributed among the -spectators; it was in praise of the noble art of printing, in which -honourable mention was made of the founders and benefactors of this -glorious invention. Nor were the following distinguished worthies -forgotten:--Wynkin de Worde, Caxton, Pynson, Kerver, Simon Vostre, -Theodore Martin, Jean Petit, Plantin, the two Elzivers, &c. The -printer's devil published impressions of the poem among the congregated -multitude. - -The masters and wardens of the guild, splendidly arrayed in appropriate -costume, attended by kettle-drums mounted on horseback, the performers -dressed in Turkish habits, and attended by grooms in Tartar habits, who -led the horses, that were most splendidly caparisoned, next came on. -They were followed by persons on foot bearing long silver maces; at -intervals they obtained copies from the press of verses laudatory of -King James, which were distributed among the people. Four copies were -struck off on white satin, and sent into the castle to be presented to -King James; the verses were by Waller and Lord Lansdowne; at receiving -of which King James seemed most highly gratified. They were as -follows:-- - - "Bred in the camp, fam'd for his valour young; - At sea successful, vigorous, and strong; - His fleet, his army, and his mighty mind, - Esteem and rev'rence thro' the world do find."[46] - - "Tho' trained in arms, and learned in martial arts, - Thou choosest not to conquer men but hearts; - Expecting nations for thy triumphs wait, - But thou prefer'st the name of just to great."[47] - - [46] Extract from lines presented to His Majesty King James the - Second, upon his birth-day, by _Edmund Waller_. - - [47] From _Lord Lansdowne_ to King James II. - -Having perused these lines, King James most sweetly smiled, and with his -accustomed gracious condescension, gracefully approached the centre -window of the presence-chamber; he condescendingly looked down, and most -courteously bowed to the corporation of Printers, his face illumined -with a smile peculiar to himself, and in a most king-like attitude he -gracefully waved his hand. Then addressing the Duke of Tyrconnel, who, -with the other nobles of the household, surrounded His Majesty, the king -was pleased to say, "I perceive your Grace's countrymen are _tam Marti, -quam Mercurio_--they are courteous as they are brave." The Duke lowly -and respectfully bowed his acquiescence to the observation. - -The proud pageant having closed, all the troops assembled presented -arms, lowered their banners; while drum, trumpet, and kettle-drum struck -up the anthem of "God save the King!" - -The Duke of Tyrconnel fully explained to the king the name, description, -and detail of each guild as it made its entrance and exit. The duke had -taken some pains to prepare himself to be the royal _Cicerone_ of the -day; and, in sooth, as King James remarked to him, like my Lord Hamlet, -he was "as good as a chorus." - -The number of saddle, led, and draft-horses, produced in this splendid -pageant were the best bred and most beautiful horses in the kingdom, -being selected, by the courtesy and permission of the noble proprietors, -from the most valuable studs the country then could boast of. The -richness of the horse furniture, housings, trappings, harness, &c., -quite surpasses description. Never were present upon any former occasion -so many foreigners of distinction; and exclusive of those immediately -attendant upon the king, the nobility and gentry crowded to Dublin, as -did the noblesse of foreign realms, to witness, whenever it occurred, -this magnificent spectacle, which could not be equalled in any other -part of Europe. - -King James was quite enraptured at the brilliant display, and addressing -the Duke of Tyrconnel, said:--"Albeit I have sojourned for a length of -time at my court of St. Germains, and have, in sooth, resided in the -country of pomp, spectacle, and pageantry, yet assuredly never have I -there witnessed such a scene of splendour as I have beheld this day, -either at Versailles or at Paris!--It has given me great satisfaction -truly, and I must observe that I consider that the taste, pomp, and -splendour of the pageant of to-day has rarely, if ever, been surpassed." - -At night-fall the waits were in attendance at the upper castle-gate to -serenade the royal James. As the usage has become obsolete, it is -necessary to acquaint the reader that WAITS were a band of itinerant -nocturnal musicians, who perambulated the streets, singing, and playing -on different instruments, at different houses, where they addressed the -master or mistress of the mansion; and at Christmas-tide they were -usually most alert in their avocation, when they were tolerably sure of -an _honorarium_. The Irish waits resembled the _musique ambulante_ of -France. In England waits are very ancient. It is now about thirty-eight -or forty years since this custom has wholly ceased in the city of -Dublin. The Irish waits were always attended by a man who bore a long -pole, from which was suspended a spherical illuminated lantern, which -they called their moon; with Falstaff they might indeed say, "Let us be -gentlemen of the shade--minions of the moon!" They sung and accompanied -the following verses to the air of "God save the King!" - - O welcome be our noble king! - Resound the harp, each dulcet string, - While every loyal chord shall ring, - And every loyal tongue shall sing, - With filial burst, God save the king! - - Oh, ever on his natal day - Our grateful homage we shall pay; - And bless the fav'ring breeze whose wing - Wafted our great and generous king! - -After this long digression we shall resume our story in the following -chapter. - - - - -CHAPTER XIII. - - ----Hark! from camp to camp - The hum of either army stilly sounds, - That the fix'd sentinels almost receive - The secret whispers of each other's watch; - Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighings, - Piercing the night's dull ear. - - KING HENRY V. - - -King James, almost immediately after his arrival in his capital of -Dublin, assembled and met the Irish parliament. His Majesty proceeded in -great state to the House of Peers to open the session, where, arrayed in -his royal robes, and adorned with his crown,[48] he met the assembled -lords and commons of Ireland. He made a most truly dignified and -impressive speech[49] from the throne, with all that native grace and -dignity with which indeed King James was peculiarly gifted; and he -adopted his royal residence, while he sojourned in his Irish capital, at -the Castle of Dublin, from whence His Majesty issued various -proclamations. - - [48] Life of King James. - - [49] This speech will be found in the third volume of Rapin's - History of England, page 85. - -The morning which succeeded the said meeting of parliament, at an early -hour, the Duke of Tyrconnel received an express, which stated, that[50] -"the Prince of Orange had landed at Carrickfergus, from the Mary yacht, -attended by Prince George of Denmark, the Duke of Ormond, the Earls of -Devonshire, Oxford, Scarborough, and Manchester, the Honourable Mr. -Boyle, and many other persons of distinction. He tarried," it was added -to the report, "only about half an hour after his landing, and then set -off in Duke Schomberg's carriage for Belfast." - - [50] History and Antiquities of the County and Town of - Carrickfergus. - -When this was told to King James, his only reply was, in allusion to -Prince George: "What! has little '_est-il possible_' deserted me at -last!"[51] - - [51] Memoirs of Grammont. - -The plain, but extraordinary fact now came forth, that the Prince of -Orange had been actually six days in Ireland before any intimation or -express to that effect had arrived thereby to acquaint King James of the -event. - -The Prince of Orange having driven King James from England, Ireland was -now fated to become the scene of civil war, which, as will appear, was -conducted with considerable talent on both sides. And very soon a battle -was to be fought between two contending sovereigns, and the glorious -prize depending upon the eventful issue of the mighty contest was no -less than the triple crown of three powerful kingdoms! - -At this period England was most critically circumstanced: defeat at home -was succeeded by victory of the enemy abroad. The defeat of the fleet -of Torrington off the shores of England, was the harbinger of the defeat -of the Dutch in the great battle of Fleurus. The reins of government -were guided by a woman, whose councils were distracted by two implacable -factions. Invasion was impending; rebellion existed in one of the three -kingdoms, and was expected in the other two; the king was absent; the -army abroad in other countries; and an exiled master returning home, -armed with power and vengeance. These combined causes shook the British -empire to its centre. - -Numerous indeed were the difficulties and obstructions with which the -Prince of Orange had to contend; and various the plots, intrigues, and -conspiracies, that he had to overcome, which rendered the commencement -of his reign (when styled William III.) so very tempestuous, that more -than once he had resolved[52] "to abandon his throne, and retire into -Holland, and for ever to relinquish the sovereignty of England; -distracted, as he found it, with political and religious contentions, -and convulsed by party and faction." - - [52] Rapin's History of England. - -However, he hesitated before he carried this measure into execution. He -issued a proclamation previous to his departure from England, promising -to the Irish who should lay down their arms and return to their homes, -that they should not be molested in their persons or injured in their -properties; and this he promulgated to some Irish lords, who were at -that time in London, at the very moment that Duke Schomberg was -departing for Ireland. The discourse which King William gave at a -council held was to this effect:[53] "He declared to them, that he had -resolved, with the assistance of God, to reduce Ireland to the obedience -of England, and not to stop at any measure that was necessary for its -accomplishment; but that he loved not the effusion of blood--no, not -even of his most implacable enemy; and that he had resolved, so far as -human prudence permitted, to extend his pardon and his clemency to all -those who were in arms against him, except the Duke of Tyrconnel, the -Lord Chancellor Fitton," and about twelve peers more, who were -enumerated in this proclamation, and were thereby excluded from the -royal mercy; and in this exception some generals and field officers were -included. - - [53] Rapin's History of England. - -Intrusting the government of England to his royal consort Queen Mary, -the daughter of King James II., he proceeded immediately to Ireland, -there in person to pursue the war with vigour; and very shortly landed, -as has been already told, at Carrickfergus, where he was expected with -impatience, and was met by his army, which in number amounted to forty -thousand men, not only well appointed and provided with necessaries, but -also well disciplined. They were attended by a commissariat corps, and a -train of sixty large cannon, which completed the military force of -William. The army consisted of English, Dutch, and Brandenburghers, who -received their illustrious leader with shouts and transports of joy. -Upon the landing of King William he was received by the Duke of -Schomberg, the Count Menard Schomberg (son to the duke), by the Prince -of Wirtemberg, Count Solms, Major-General Scravenmore, Lord Sidney, Sir -David Bruce, and Sir John Lanier, &c. &c. - -As soon as King James had positive intelligence of the arrival of the -Prince of Orange, (who, strange to say, had been, as we before noticed, -six days in Ireland without King James having been made acquainted with -the event,) he then instantly commenced his march; and committing the -guard of Dublin to Colonel Luttrel, who afterwards betrayed him,[54] and -who then commanded a body of militia, His Majesty set onward in his -march, attended by an army consisting of about six thousand foot, old -experienced soldiers of the army of Louis XIV., the same which had -lately accompanied him from France. These were destined to form a -junction with the chief body of his troops, who were then stationed on -the banks of the Boyne. These, when they should be united, although -considerable, yet, in point of numbers, were still inferior to the army -of the Prince of Orange. - - [54] Life of King James. - -Several months previous to the arrival of King James, Duke Schomberg had -landed at Carrickfergus Bay, at the head of twelve thousand men; and -without any opposition, assisted by six ships of war, he took possession -of the town. Upon his advance into the country the position of the -hostile armies were thus constituted:--Schomberg then occupied Dundalk, -which he was forced to fortify; while Marshal Rosen threatened his right -flank. King James had lost previous to his arrival, by the defeat of his -forces, the fort and garrison of Charlemont, along with a large store of -ammunition, seventeen pieces of brass cannon, &c.; and want of -provisions caused the surrender of this important fortress. The troops -of Marshal Rosen then found it necessary to march to the banks of the -Shannon, until they should ascertain how matters went on at sea. For -Louis XIV. had sent them assurances that he would not only fit out a -great fleet, but that as soon as the squadron which coasted in the -Irish seas to guard the transport fleet, and to secure the Prince of -Orange's passage over, should sail into the channel to join the grand -fleet of England, he would then send into the Irish seas a fleet of -small frigates and privateers, to destroy the transports of the Prince -of Orange.[55] This indeed would have proved fatal if it had taken -effect; and the execution of the scheme seemed easy, if not certain. It -would have shut up the Prince of Orange in Ireland until a new transport -fleet could have been brought thither, which would have taken some -months to complete; so that England, in the mean time, might have been -lost before, by any possibility, he could have repassed the seas with -his army. - - [55] Rapin's History of England. - -There can be no doubt whatever that the destruction of the transports of -the Prince of Orange must also have caused the ruin of his army; for the -stores both of bread and ammunition were still on board, from whence he -was to draw his supplies. Conscious of this, he made his fleet sail -slowly along the eastern coast towards the capital, spread out in sight -of his army as it advanced in its march, to elevate the spirits of his -soldiers by the grandeur of the spectacle, and to inspire them with -confidence by the idea of security which it presented.[56] Upon all -that coast there was not a safe port to cover and secure the fleets and -transports of the Prince of Orange; and it was this induced the staff -and officers of King James to oppose the measure of bringing the war to -a speedy termination. Meanwhile King James's army was stationed on the -banks of the Boyne, to defend the capital. King James had now arrived at -the head quarters of his army; and with the reinforcements which he -brought along with him, as well as by his royal presence, gave hope and -confidence to his army. But there was an oversight in King James when an -opportunity was presented of totally defeating Schomberg, which, by -remissness or want of determination, he wholly lost. Schomberg, upon the -arrival of King James, was in the occupation of Dundalk, which he was -forced to fortify. Marshal Rosen threatened his right flank at the same -time that King James, with thirty thousand men, was stationed on the -banks of the Boyne, at Drogheda. It hence appears that King James had -thus Schomberg shut up there in a _cul de sac_, all retreat being cut -off;[57] Schomberg's army pining and diminishing by sickness, and -enclosed in retrenchments; while King James, with a far superior army, -stood in front. But strange to say, he permitted Schomberg to escape, -and make good his retreat unmolested by any pursuit. - - [56] Sir John Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, - and Rapin's History of England. - - [57] Colonel Keating's Defence of Ireland. - -However, this inaction of King James arose, it would appear, from his -positive determination to remain where he was encamped, and defend the -Boyne, which he considered to be the key that mastered the pass to the -capital. "We must," said the king, addressing himself to his council of -war, and principally to Tyrconnel, "_coute qui coute_ defend the Boyne. -Not to do this is to abandon Dublin; and by so doing we should lose our -reputation, so that the people would desert us, and capitulate; and all -our friends in England would be also dispirited; therefore I am fully -resolved to have one fair and, I trust, decisive battle for my -crown."[58] - - [58] Rapin's History of England. - -Lieutenant-General Hamilton advised King James at this council, "to send -a detachment of dragoons to defend the ford of Slane, which was below -the town of Drogheda, (which the English either knew not of, or did not -regard of importance,) and to despatch eight regiments to defend the -bridge of Slane." - -But King James coldly said in reply: "I shall send fifty dragoons to -protect the ford."[59] - - [59] Ibid. - -This reply put Hamilton into the utmost amazement, considering the -importance of the place to be defended. But he remained silent. - -In many respects the determination of King James to maintain the post he -occupied, which certainly was well chosen, was as correct as his resolve -was judicious; where encamped, - - "His white pavilions made a show, - Like remnants of the winter's snow, - Along DONORE'S dark ridge." - -"Stationed upon the commanding hill of Donore, which looked down upon -the Boyne, his right approach was upon Drogheda, which he occupied, his -front facing the Boyne, fordable, but still deep, and rising every tide, -with strong banks, which, intersected by mounds of earth, and divided by -hedges and ditches; hence his army presented a front of about three -miles, extending towards the Slane, where he negligently failed to -occupy a bridge, which had been advised by General Hamilton. The river -Boyne forms towards the centre of where James was stationed a -considerable projecting curve, and another in reverse higher up toward -Slane."[60] This, as will be seen in a subsequent chapter, was of the -utmost importance to the two contending princes. We must add, that the -localities of the station added to the security of King James; for had -his opponent succeeded in crossing the Boyne at this point, there was -still a morass also to be passed, and then succeeded by the barrier of a -rising ground. - - [60] Keating's Defence of Ireland. - -Thus advantageously was encamped upon the 30th of June the army of King -James.--He had thrown up some breast-works upon the banks of the fords -which lay between the two camps; and he now gave orders that "if his -troops were driven from these on the morrow, then to retire to the line -of houses; if from the houses, to the hedges; if from the hedges, to the -range of small hills; and if driven from these, to occupy the heights of -Donore: and if they could not then make that station good, they were to -retreat to Duleek, and stop further pursuit by defending the pass." - -Throughout the whole of this eventful day, the precursor of the ever -memorable first of July, salutation from the cannon's mouth had been -interchanged between each contending army, and not without leaving -numerous ostensible marks of slaughter in the camps of the two -contending princes. But towards the close of day the thundering roar of -cannon ceased at once on both sides; while in the rival camps of royal -James and William was only then to be heard the "dreadful note of -preparation" for the battle on the morrow. - -King James having caused his army to pass him in single files, -surrounded by his nobles, generals, and staff, he thus addressed his -army:-- - -"Soldiers, and comrades of my toil! to-morrow I purpose putting an end -to all our hardships and privations by terminating the war; by boldly -encountering those squadrons who are now yonder encamped, and whose -standards, waving on the banks of the Boyne below, seem to invite us to -the battle. We shall not disappoint them! nor, brave men, shall you be -disappointed! They shall indeed feel what loyal men, determined in a -just cause, can do and dare for their lawful sovereign. And God protect -those who fight under the banner of justice;--who fight for their lawful -king, and for all that is dear to men! As for myself I have been bred in -the ranks of war, (if your king may for once be permitted to speak of -what he has performed;) educated alike in the school of hardship as of -war. I have fought in different realms--in Spain, in France, and -Holland, I have fought and conquered with the brave Turenne, for whom I -have ever felt the tenderness of a son. I have fought by land and by -sea, and with those same Dutch that now invade us; aye, and beat them -too we have to boot! at the mouth of their Texel--upon their own shores, -I did it! But to-morrow we shall meet them again, and their vaunting -leader, in the battle-field; when and where, I trust, under the auspices -of heaven, that again and once more I shall rout them, and that too -upon my loyal shores of Ireland! For strongly I feel that the blood of -the noble Edwards and the Henrys still pulsates in these veins; and that -the valiant blood of the fourth Henry of France, my glorious -grandfather, still survives, and animates his descended son. Soldiers! -he too, like myself, met with ingratitude--with disloyalty! he, like me, -was driven from his throne! But he had a Sully; and I can boast that I -have a Tyrconnel! His loyal troops of Navarre restored him to his -throne; and on to-morrow, with the benison of God, I shall witness my -restoration to the ancient throne of the Stuarts, by my brave--my loyal -Irish, and the gallant swords of my noble Frenchmen that now encircle -me; and who, to a man, are fully determined to conquer or to die for me; -and in that fate shall your king fully participate with you all--to -vanquish or to perish!" - -Here shouts of "_Vive le Roy_," and of "God save King James," from the -French, English, and Irish troops of the king, rent the air with loud -and tumultuous huzzas; which bursting over the heights of Donore, were -re-echoed by the waters of the Boyne below, and wafted to the camp of -the Prince of Orange. - -Meanwhile, in the camp of King James, the Duke of Tyrconnel was every -where to be seen galloping from post to _piquet_. He ordered each -soldier to wear in his cap a small cockade of white paper upon the -ensuing day of battle, that in the heat of the engagement they might -thence distinguish each other from their foes.[61] - - [61] Life of King James. - -"The watch-word of to-night," said the duke, as he rode along the camp, -addressing himself to the officers, "be '_Eblana_;' and our gallant -war-cry on the morrow let it be--'James and Victory!'" - -Here the whole army rent the air with shouts of applause; while -Tyrconnel retired to his tent, impatiently awaiting the dawn of day. - -From the moment of the arrival of the Prince of Orange in Ireland he had -taken every pains, and had used every art, to inspire his army with -confidence, and to ingratiate himself in their favour and love.[62] All -the arts of a general and of a man of sense he put in practice to draw -the attention of his soldiers from the misfortunes of the last year in -Ireland, and from the danger of the present. The day upon which all his -troops from different quarters met and united with him: he then ordered -the whole army to pass him, and thus threw a march into a review. -Instead of keeping one station, he rode in among the regiments so soon -as they appeared, to encourage the soldiers, and to satisfy himself of -the state of every regiment. An order having been brought him to affix -his signature for wine for his table, the prince said aloud:--"No, I -will drink water with my soldiers!" He slept every night in camp, and -was throughout the day on horseback; he flew from place to place to -survey the army, or the country, intrusting nothing to others. While at -one time he brought up the rere with an anxiety which fully engaged the -affections of the soldiers; at another with a spirit which inflamed -them, he was the foremost in advanced parties if danger seemed to -threaten, or that the object to be known was of importance.[63] - - [62] Story's Civil Wars of Ireland. - - [63] Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, by Sir John Dalrymple, - vol. I. p. 135. - -But it is now full time that we should attend in the camp of the Prince -of Orange, and take a cursory view of some of the principal events of -the remarkable 30th day of June, and notice his force, the occurrences -of this day, and his preparations for the approaching battle. - -At break of day the Prince of Orange, upon the 30th of June, being -informed that the army of King James had repassed the Boyne, ordered his -whole army to move forward at that early hour, in three lines, towards -the river, which was distant from them about three miles. The advanced -guards of horse commanded by Sir John Lanier; the Brandenburghers by -Colonel Sir David Bruce. They moved onward in very good order, and by -nine o'clock were within two miles of Drogheda. The Prince of Orange, -who marched in front of them, observing that there was a hill to the -east of the enemy, and to the north from the town, he rode instantly -thither to inspect their camp, which he found to be stationed along the -river in two parallel lines.[64] - - [64] Rapin's History of England. - -Here different observations were made as to the force and numbers of the -enemy by Prince George of Denmark, the Dukes of Schomberg and Ormond, -and other generals. Amongst them General Scravenmore appeared to despise -their numbers, observing, at the same time, that they were but a handful -of men, for he could not reckon above forty-six battalions that were -then encamped. - -But both the Prince of Orange and Prince George replied, that they might -have a great many men in the town; and that there was also a hill to the -south-east, beyond which part of their army might be encamped. - -"However," rejoined the Prince of Orange, "we shall soon be better -acquainted with their numbers-- - - 'If fight King James, as well I trust - That fight he will, and fight he must.'" - -The Prince of Orange now proceeded in person to visit every outpost, -every videt, every guard, and every _piquet_. He marked out his -encampment, and fathomed the Boyne in order to ascertain where it was -fordable for his army to pass, which he firmly resolved to do upon the -following morning. While the prince was thus occupied, and advancing to -take a nearer view of the situation of his enemy, and while the army was -marching, he alighted from his horse, and sat down upon a rising ground, -where he refreshed himself for about an hour. During which time a party -of about forty horse of King James came on; but advancing very slowly, -they made a halt upon a ploughed field opposite to the Prince of Orange. -They brought with them in the rere two field-pieces, which, -undiscovered, they planted at the angle of a hedge, which screened the -cannon. The prince was no sooner remounted than the party instantly -fired at him, and with the first shot killed a man and two horses very -near to the prince. This bullet was presently succeeded by another, -which having first grazed upon the bank of the river, then upon -rebounding struck the Prince of Orange in the right shoulder, tore away -a piece of his coat, and stripped off the skin; afterwards in the recoil -it broke the handle of a gentleman's pistol. - -Lord Conningsby seeing what had happened, rode up hastily, and putting -his handkerchief to the prince's shoulder, staunched the wound. The -prince remounted his charger, and observed to Lord Conningsby, "_Il ne -faloit pas que le coup fut plus pres_."[65] There was no necessity that -the bullet should have come nearer! - - [65] Histoire de Guillaume III. tome II. Amsterdam, 1703. - -This accident having occasioned some disorder among the attendants of -the Prince of Orange, caused the enemy to conclude that he was killed; -who thereupon set up a great shout, and the report of his death reached -Dublin, and even Paris. However, having his wound dressed, the prince -remounted his horse, and showed himself to his whole army, to dissipate -their apprehensions. He continued on horseback until four o'clock, dined -in the open field, and then mounted his favourite _Sorrel_ again, (for -so was the royal charger called,) although he had been abroad from one -in the morning. About the hour of nine at night he called a council of -war, and declared his determination to pass the river Boyne upon the -next day. Which resolve Duke Schomberg at first opposed; but finding the -king positive, he advised that part of the army, horse and foot, should -be sent that night towards the bridge of Slane, in order there to pass -the Boyne, and so advance between the enemy and the pass at Duleek. This -advice, which if followed would perhaps have ended the war in one -campaign, seemed at first to be relished; but it was afterwards opposed -by General de Ginckle, and the other Dutch general officers. Duke -Schomberg retired to his tent, where not long after the order of battle -was brought him, which he received with discontent and indifference, -observing, that _this was the first that ever was sent to him_. The -opinion of Schomberg was right; not to occupy the important pass of -Slane was certainly a strange omission in the tactics of the two -contending princes. - -The Prince of Orange ordered that every soldier should be provided with -a sufficient stock of ammunition, and all the army to be ready to march -at break of day. And every man was to wear a green bough, or sprig, -pulled from the adjoining wood which overhung the ford, that they might -ascertain friends from foes during the fury of the fight. His Highness, -attended by torch-light, rode at the twelfth hour at night through his -camp, making his observations, and ascertaining that all was in -readiness for the important day that was now about to arrive. He gave -orders to his equery "to saddle blithe _Sorrel_ for the field -to-morrow!" - -The watch-word of the prince that night was "Westminster." And as he was -retiring to his tent he said to the Prince of Denmark, "Our watch-word -to-night is '_Westminster_;' let our war-cry to-morrow be--'_Nassau and -Freedom!_'" - -Having thus said, he saluted Prince George, and retired to repose. - - - END OF VOL. I. - - - - -Transcriber's Note: Advertisements that were placed at the beginning of -the book, have been moved to the end. 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