6 caught a lesson of the heart's own modulation. (a red checquered handkerchief. She was fol-whispered the widow to her first and favourite And poor Chaunette hurried off to her dog-lowed by a squab, truculent-looking fellow, on guest. Bess, though a ramping wild limmer, hole in the garrets, to gain ten minutes of whose arm another gigantic female leaned, has some good about her; and I wad na be respite from those duties over the kettles and though, to say truth, she appeared to have fain to tarry on this road-side and thraw her pots of St. Peter's Keys, which 'durst not be small need of such support. Have ye com-humour. On the other hand, the supervisor is neglected even in the very agony of her fate. pany?' cried the first speaker, starting back on so sharp about whom we harbour, as if poor I vield to Elizabeth!' thought Wolfe, while seeing Grahame. The persons behind instantly victuallers wha have to pay stent and rent, tax his eyes glistened in sympathy with Chau- shrunk back into the shadow of the door; and and burden, can be chary o' wha are their cus nette's distress. Women are indeed the best the dumb female hastily adjusted her mantle in tomers.' Perhaps this is just a dumb woman,’ lowers from Sappho to the scullion of St. Pe- muffling folds about the lower part of her face. said Grahame. They have always a wild ter's Keys! Meanwhile, Slattery, hemming Already had Grahame recognised the helms-look.' Conscience! she is a grusome ane! off his emotion, addressed his late passenger, woman, who, in the midst of danger and alarm, But the want o' the tongue must, to a woman Your honour sees how it stands wid the had so dauntlessly steered the little skiff. body, be a sore bereavement. It is an unruly creature?' Grahame could have knocked him These were the fugitives from Ireland; and member, no doubt; but if I wanted my whirlidown: And with you, rascal! and but for with a strong feeling of compassion, which he gig, I might lock the door and throw away the her sake I don't know what prevents me from took no time to analyse, he stepped forward, key-for frae morn to night I find use for it. giving you up to the punishment which I doubt and begged the dripping strangers to approach But whisht! It is he, I tell you—I know not you richly merit. Attend to her affection. the fire; and in detailing the brief history of him well. I have known him, since he was ate warning, however, and be off, lest I repent the night, tacitly communicated the extent of cock-bird height,' Rouge-mantle was heard to Ly forbearance. He surely cannot be wholly what he supposed their danger. The dumb say, in that clear audible whisper, which is Food for nothing whom this generous young person, as if feeling confidence from the frank more distinctly heard at a distance than the menian loves so well and truly."" courtesy of the stranger, stepped forward, and loudest tones of ordinary speech. Some mutIn stinted fairness to the varied powers of the man retreated. With a look of intense tering in Irish followed, and Bess, returning the gifted writer, we must give another ex- anxiety she examined the young man's fea- to the kitchen, told the young girl, that the tract; and for variety's sake it shall be a tures: but this vivacity of mien and gesture is dumb lady wished to tell her her fortune, and Sorttish scena from Vol. I. Captain Wolfe Gra- common to those having her infirmity; and the captain his fortune, whichever chose to ne, on his way to join his regiment in Ireland, Wolfe bore her glance with patience, and in attend her first. Let the captain tak' the at the road-side inn of the widow Bo- his turn with more modesty regarded her. And first turn,' said Jean, with a frightened giggle; ale, where the adventure takes place. He hers was a form to invite scrutiny from the and in one minute Wolfe was in the inner ad finished his supper and was preparing for most indifferent spectator. The uncommon apartment alone, by the side of the stranger. repose, when a smart knock came to the stature, the haggard countenance, the wild, The fugitive silently locked the door, and aper, which was promptly answered by the watchful, suspicious glance of a blood-shot hol- proaching him, said in an energetic voice, and ame's Wha's there? This produced the low eye, staring through dishevelled black hair, with impassioned gesture. "You know meexpected response of A friend, gudewife the scanty wet drapery which clung around you know that I am an Irishman—a fugitive en the door." I open nae doors to friends gaunt limbs of giant mould, and sent up a on whose head a price is set-proscribed, at travel so late at e'en.' But we have reeking steam, the free, bold, masculine atti- hunted, guilty, or so called. You are the kinsst the road.' Weel ye maun just find it tudes and unfeminine gait, composed a figure man of John de Bruce ;—he was my friend !— There's a lady and a gentleman both far more picturesque than engaging, and, in I am in your power. Is it your wish to spare ag wet.-There's a good wife-open the contrast, made even Bess Slattery, or Rouge- what the sword and the tempest have sparedre-We'll pay ye handsomely and not trou- mantle, appear a soft and interesting person. the life which misery makes worthless?—or to Here long. We're for Mossbrettles, and want I must say, Bess, begging your pardon, that give me up to the blood-suckers ?—Think of it aztern and direction.' Oh, open mother!' your dumb acquaintance there, is nae ee-sweet well. She who has lain in your bosom—my red Jean. Haud your whisht! If bird,' said the landlady. She is just as like blood is blushing in her cheeks!' Wolfe was there be a lady let her speak-what ken I to tak' a purse as to gi'e ane, I'll say that for too much overcome by the tumult of his feeltony's of your randy gang?' A low her. She is mair like Pearlin Jean, or the ings to reply, save by a broken exclamation of ing consultation was heard without.Lady-wi'-the-lantern,' or a witch-wife in some wonder and doubt. You doubt my truth, he's a dumb lady-deaf and dumb.' Deaf auld-warld tale, than an Irish Christian gen. then! cried the stranger, impatiently stampdumb!-There comes nae dumb leddies tlewoman travelling on her lawfu' occasions. ing, his lip quivering in passion. Your doubts - If ve're for Mossbrettles, haud round the Can she spae ?-Lord preserve's and keep us! are destruction. Hark! I hear the tread of o' the Gallows'-hill-I daur say you have but she has an ee in her head, as dark and their returning horses! Let me at least die as shouthers wi' it afore now-then how as the vizzying hole in an auld castle I have lived a man! With a small dagger postern door. She surely does nae hear me?' or stiletto, which had been concealed about his One of my poor uncle's lang Irish madams,' breast, he cut away the female weeds which thought Wolfe, with a smile; how the good disguised him, tore off his muffling frontlet and soul would stare!' and he began to feel some head-gear, and stood forth in the close-fitting re we could with one keek lay it on its broad anxiety for the whole group taking their de-green vestments which were then the uniform, and never a thanks to ye. Is this a parture, as he was at no loss to perceive that the badge of rebellion-a man in very deed! to lave Christians bawling without, the dumb gentlewoman had ears quick enough, Ay, a man every inch of him!' said Rougethe cowld in their mouths?' Had and arms befitting. The raised anxious look, mantle, who claimed admission to announce, act better afford these poor travellers the start on the slightest movement, the in- in eager whispers, the trampling of the horses, The night has indeed been horrible,' | stinctive clutch, as if at a familiar weapon, all which his own quick ear had heard a second or Wolfe. The dame, who appeared to enjoy told one tale of alarm, danger, flight, and two earlier. Her dark eyes flashed with momy, nodded, as if to say, Leave me to guilt. Shure, and shure, I tould ye the lady mentary delight as she saw her companion and screamed Christians! Donag- was dumb,' said Rouge-mantle, sullenly, in restored to himself. What am I to believe?' Christians, nae doubt?' From New- reply to widow Bonalie's query. Lend me a said Wolfe. Believe what you please, sir,' Stewart then in truth and never a word blast o' the cuttie-pipe; and get us a morsel returned the stranger, haughtily. Your tale E: little good it would do me with one so of supper, and we'll be off for Mossbrettles. is wild and improbable; but it is as certain *** as yourself, Mistress Bonalie. So open Those who ask no questions will be told no that your personal danger is great and immi. dre like a raisonable Christian sowl. lies. In the meanwhile, have you ne'er a nent. Tell me what I can do consistently with you know me, Bess Slattery. Many is dhrop o' brandy?-Fill it up-a pint would my honour as a man and a soldier, and comand pan I sowld ye, and ballad and not touch her when the blood is up.' Both mand me.' Lend me your military greatre-lace for your purty girl; and always females swallowed a goodly portion of the coat to cover this unhappy garb.' Then don't de a raisonable landlady. The name of ardent fluid, and Rouge-mantle made her re- call it so. God bless the merry green!' said Slattery operated like Open Sesame' verences to Grahame; and, in doing so, gave Rouge-mantle, with enthusiasm. Pass me, hostess, who at once recognised that a sudden start, which might have made another if needful, for your friend travelling to, and adering voice." The door cautiously gave spill the liquor. It, however, only impelled it not flying from Ireland. Yes, I will return. forward stalked the speaker, a tall, more rapidly over her throat: and then, with The lion should fall by the mouth of his denat, weather-beaten harridan, in a red eager gesticulation and muttered Irish speech, nobly at bay-not skulking and doubling like and a rusty, crumpled, black silk she drew her dumb companion into the inner the felon fox only to secure his own wretched bonnet, tied down under her chin with room. 'I ken na what to mak' o' thae cattle,' life.' 'Impossible!' replied Grahame. anel-and ach the slack, and that will take you to syne keep straught foret, Open the dure, ye baste,' was again d forth in the angry accents of Kerry. • But 999 take my coat-my purse-my horse. Here is Ye croppies of Dublin I bid ye take care, and I must--and I will-have that lum-head | The character of these instructions shews how looked at." utterly ignorant their framers were respecting We wish we had room for any part of the the terra incognita which they were so boldly account of Monica Doran, the old nurse of Eliza- resolved to traverse: poor simple souls! they beth de Bruce, given by her to the young lady fancied there was but one inn for Oxford, when, in Ireland, she is investigating the story Reading, and Windsor-probably that all these of her mysterious birth; but it cannot be, and populous places, situated in different parts of we must conclude. That this work will obtain the world, were huddled together like Cheappretty extensive popularity, we have no doubt; side, King Street, and the Poultry. The last and we are quite of opinion that, though too week of July was fixed on for the Expedition, long drawn out, it pre-eminently deserves it. on account of the climate at that period being That the author has strong and varied talents, thought most favourable, inasmuch as fevers is plain from every chapter of the work; and and agues were not so likely to be caught from that she does not rashly thrust crude specula- the marshy and infectious plains and pampas tion on the public, is evident from the space between Staines and Henley. It was also, we she has allowed to elapse between her former are told, sagaciously "foreseen that this visit very successful publication and the present. would fall in the long vacation," which led to much inconveniency with respect to having the The Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxford, in the Heads of houses" (for so are the chief caboMonth of July, 1826. Written at the de-ceers of Oxford called) to feast and hold a sire of the Party, by the Chaplain to the palaver with the travellers. The matter was, Mayoralty. 12mo. pp. 157. London, 1827. however, managed satisfactorily, as may be Longman and Co. seen by the extremely interesting correspondence, inserted at full length, between Thomas Roberson, Town Clerk of Oxford, and H. Woodthorpe, Town Clerk of London. Referring to these documents, we need only point public attention to the great learning and intellect which they display; and to the happy consummation which they ingeniously brought about; namely, that the Lord Mayor should spend two days instead of one day at Oxford, and that he should dine with the worshipful mayor on one of these days, and the worshipful mayor should dine with him on the other. Thus, continues the author, "Every prelimi nary arrangement being completed, and ample accommodation having been secured at the Star Inn, Oxford, for his lordship and suite, to the number of about thirty persons, the civic party began to lay their plans for the journey." that we hardly dare venture to express an our consideration. are they not enough to appal the stoutest heart, A Parry may seek the north, a Weddell the For ye're very well known by the cut of your hair.' south pole; a Denham, a Laing, or a Clapper- What these momentous preparations were, is ton, may penetrate African deserts; a King or not detailed; but we are informed of the result. The man, who appeared much less au fait to an Owen may circumnavigate the globe;-but" Mr. Alderman Atkins, accompanied by two such movements, she ordered asleep at once. what are such enterprises to an overland jour. Be about us!-and was it you a' the time, ney from London to far-off Oxford, and a voysupervisor?' cried the widow, with well af- age in the City Barge from distant Oxford to fected astonishment, opening her door. To London? The perils of the way, the dangers keep you cooling your cutes at my door!-But in passing powder-mills at Hounslow, (liable what will ye tak'? This is Captain de Bruce every moment to explode,) the wonders of reGrahame, boune for Ireland to quell the crop- mote and unknown regions to be seen, the pies, and give us peace o' them.' The gentle- adventures with strange natives to be encounmen exchanged salutations. A damned tered, the difficulties in procuring due subsistscamper, captain, I have had after the rebel ence, and all the marvels on earth and waterrascals along shore there. I have had up all the household of Kilwhonnel and Mossbrettles for examination.' Od, ye was right to gar auld David say his carritch,' rejoined the widow, laughing. He likes weel to targe ither folk on theirs.' There can be no doubt but their boat has gone to flinders. The herring- of his task, he commences it like a good and pond has saved government a half-crown tow. I must have acted valet to this scoundrel myself had we nibbed him. It would have been a special commission job.' Grahame could not, at this instant, summon fortitude to make the inquiries which trembled on his tongue; scarcely could he compose his countenance to a By Midsummer, it was determined that the decent shew of indifference. Eh!-What- Lord Mayor should undertake an Expedition to how is this? Surely your lamb's blood is still Oxford, lying somewhere in the west, but far lying near your heart, luckie, if you keep beyond those boundaries known to the city, your parlour window open in such weather'- and which stretch to "the City Stone, near and the officer whistled as he looked about Staines." "Instructions were, accordingly, keenly and suspiciously; and in rushed the agreed to be given to the Town Clerk" (a Sheriff maires from the hallan. Look about gentleman supposed to possess the largest share you there! Sharp's the word. Sharp-sharp!' of geographical intelligence near the walls of The reek-the weary reek,' said the widow. Guildhall)" to secure such accommodation at 'It will not leave an ee in my head and makes an inn in Oxford, Reading, and Windsor, as my bits o' pearlins as yellow as a gule's fit. might be adequate for the civic party; and to Ye are ane o' the trustrees yoursel', supervisor make every other necessary arrangement." Duly impressed with the immense burden sensible divine; modestly professes himself to be "the unworthiest member" of " the sacred profession," and trusts that "not any thing" in his work "will be found at all injurious to the interests of piety"!! He then rushes at once into the Epic. of his daughters, Miss Atkins and Miss Sarah Jane, left his seat, Halstead Place, in Kent, on Monday, the 24th of July, and set out from London for Oxford in the cool of the following morning. On the same day, Mr. Alderman and Mrs. Lucas, with their daughters, Miss Charlotte and Miss Catharine, left their house, at Lea, in Kent, and went by land as far as Boulter's Lock, near Maidenhead, where they embarked on board the Navigation shallop, and proceeded by water to Reading."" In the meantime, the city state barge, which had recently undergone complete repair, was making its way to Oxford, under the direction of Mr. Saunders, the water-bailiff, and expended five days in its passage thither." [How a barge can expend time, is rather incomprehensible; but we were taught to expect miracles from the able Chaplain.] Nor at this eventful era were the safety and welfare of the capital of the British empire neglected ;-though on travel he was bent, the Lord Mayor, like Mrs. Gilpin, had a prudent mind; and had been "careful to make every provision for his absence from London; and having found, in Alderman Sir James Shaw, Bart., who had kindly undertaken to preside at the Mansion House while his lordship was away, a gentleman to whose mature judgment and discretion might be safely left the consi. deration of even weightier matters than those to which the attention of the chief magistrate of London is every day called, his lordship fel that the period of this excursion would pas less anxiously away than if he had not been s fortunate as to make an arrangement in every ay so satisfactory." The subsequent departure from the Mansion | Mr. Alderman Magnay, accompanied by his | The tea and coffee were accompanied not only House is related with all the solemnity be- lady and daughter, arrived in a post-chaise. with bread, warm and cold, in the shape of coming so extraordinary a movement. "On After an interchange of salutations, the Lady loaves, cakes, and biscuits, with other varieties, the morning of the 25th, the Lord Mayor, ac- Mayoress, observing that they must be some and butter; but with every delicacy with companied by the Lady Mayoress, and attended what crowded in the chaise, invited Miss Mag- which the morning meal, when sumptuously by the Chaplain, left the Mansion House soon nay to take the fourth seat, which had yet been provided, is usually furnished." after eight o'clock. The private state-carriage, vacant, in the carriage. As the day was bedrawn by four beautiful bays, had driven to the ginning to be warm, this courteous offer of her doer at half-past seven. The coachman's coun-ladyship was readily accepted." From this very tenance was reserved and thoughtful; indicating touching incident, pass we to Oxford, of which full consciousness of the test by which his there is a superb picture, drawn in the author's equestrian skill would this day be tried, in best manner, which by way of distinction may having the undivided charge of four high-spi- be styled THE FLAMING MANNER. Never were rited and stately horses, a circumstance some- such congratulations witnessed or such courtesies what unusual; for, in the Lord Mayor's car- interchanged as when the chaises stopt at the riage, a postilion usually guides the first pair Star Inn, after which "the mayor and magisof horses. These fine animals were in admi-trates withdrew; congratulating themselves, rable condition for the journey. Having been they said, that only another hour lay between allowed a previous day of unbroken rest, they them and the honour of seeing at dinner, in were quite impatient of delay, and chafed and their council chamber, the chief magistrate, champed exceedingly on the bits by which their and other aldermen, of London." impetuosity was restrained. The murmur of The travellers themselves retired to equip in expectation, which had lasted for more than half apartments previously engaged by “ Mr. Firth, an hour, amongst the crowd who had gathered first clerk of the town clerk," who is lauded for around the carriage, was at length hushed by his services accordingly. The Lady Mayoress, the opening of the hall-door. The Lord Mayor and seven other ladies, it should not be forhad been filling up this interval with instruc-gotten, "ordered dinner at the Star, and spent tions to the FEMME de menage, and OTHER the evening in their own society." The male household officers, who were to be left in resi- portion of the expedition went in procession to dence, to attend, with their wonted fidelity and the dinner at the Town Hall;" and the diligence, to their respective departments of company, to the number of about twenty-five, service during his absence, and now appeared sat down at a quarter before seven o'clock, to a at the door. His lordship was accompanied by banquet of such a grand and costly nature, as the Lady Mayoress, and followed by the Chap- seemed to indicate that the whole neighbouring lain. [Bis, as the French say; in consequence, country had been put in requisition.' no doubt, of its amazing importance.] As soon as the female attendant of the Lady Mayoress had taken her seat, dressed with becoming neatLess, at the side of the well-looking coachman, the carriage drove away; not, however, with that violent and extreme rapidity, which rather astounds than gratifies the beholders, but at that steady and majestic pace, which is always an indication of real greatness." The very carriage felt its mighty charge and mission, and it seems that heaven as well as earth rejoiced. The sun, as though it had been refreshed by the copious and seasonable showers [the sun refreshed by showers: what powers the Lord Mayer must have!] that had fallen very rerently, seemed to rise more bright and clear than usual, and streamed in full glory all around, and the whole face of creation gleamed with joy.". The round of the public buildings of Oxford filled the forenoon; and we gather, that the Theatre "being under repairs was seen to some disadvantage;" still however" the party were astonished to hear, that although its interior is only eighty feet by seventy, it is yet made, by consummate contrivance and geometrical arrangement, to receive, with convenience, upwards of three thousand persons." The Clarendon printing-office quite petrified the travellers with its stores of ancient lore; but the hall of Christ-Church gave them to still more undivided admiration, in consequence of its being" said to be unrivalled as a Refectory throughout the kingdom!" Dr. Kidd at the Theatre of Anatomy, by shewing preparations" all so elegantly constructed as in no degree to offend the delicacy of the most refined female mind," also came in for a share of wonder and applause. Among these elegant preparations was one of peculiar interest to the city of London chief magistrate, aldermen, citizens, their ladies and wives, viz. " a portion of the alimentary canal of the turtle, shewing the arteries and veins artificially filled with wax, and the absorbent vessels with quicksilver." Here was a subject for deep study and reflection; and accordingly our author proceeds: "The exhibition of this fine preparation The wines which were drank were" of the drew forth some very striking observations on most expensive and rarest kind, and as cold as the subject of what is significantly styled comthe most refined bon vivant could have wished;"parative anatomy [carving],-that part of this and the speeches which were made are fully wondrous science which compares the anatomy described. The latter, we think, ought to be of several species of animals with that of man, printed at the Clarendon, and converted into a for the purpose of ascertaining the degree of standard for classical oratory, to be used for similarity of their internal organization to that ever in the University of Oxford.* It seems of the human body, disregarding the occasional to be a lamentable fact, that the colloquial dissimilarity of their external form.". charms of the day cannot probably be collected and preserved in a similar manner, as an eternal model of attic beauty; since the exquisite author says "The conversation at this banquet, in the intervals of the several toasts, though naturally of a desultory and general nature, was yet such as to shew that good taste, good feeling, and good sense, are by no means limited to the citizens of the metropolis." How noble, and generous, and liberal, is this admission! it does honour to the superlative chaplain, and merits to be printed in letters of gold. How poetical, too, is the following turn of phrase" The clock had nearly sounded within an hour of midnight, when the Lord Mayor rose from table, and was followed by the rest of the company. Coffee was handed round." "The professor then took occasion to explain the process of digestion." Nothing could be more appropriate! He described the stomach to be merely a membranous bag;" but is not reported to have said any thing on the important questions of its size, capability of expansion, &c.; and as to the circulation of the blood, he aptly compared it to "the distribution of the blood-vessels, and the distribution by a skilful engineer of the pipes We have, however, to allude to one of those and conduits which are to convey water to the tremendous events which are so apt to attend several parts of a large city." The skill with attempts of great difficulty and danger. As which the learned professor adapted his dethey neared Cranford Bridge, a cloud was seen; monstrations to the capacities of his hearers, is and it was soon ascertained that it proceeded above all eulogy; but at length he touched on from the blowing up "of a powder mill, on rather ticklish grounds, [as might be seen Hanslow Heath, about three quarters of a from the fans in use] by proving that "what e to the south of the road leading to Staines." passes into the lachrymal gland as blood, passes The historian states that seven barrels were The ensuing day, Wednesday, was as full of out as tears; from the glands of the mouth, as exploded; and adds, "the noise is reported to glorious doings and immortal "recollections as saliva; from the liver, as bile; and so on with have been appalling, and accompanied with a the preceding Tuesday. "Mr. Alderman Hey-respect to all the glands of the body." His next perceptible vibratory motion of the earth." But gate and his lady, accompanied by Miss M. exhibition was addressed to another very emicircumstances of deeper interest now begin to Murdo (Mrs. H.'s sister), joined the civic nent portion of the human frame in corporation crowd the narrative. At Cranford Bridge the party;" and "as soon as the first greetings of function-the masticators, or teeth. "For their Lard Mayor's horses were to repose, and then the day had passed, an ample breakfast was nourishment," he told his auditors," there is return to London, while their mighty owner pro- provided in a large room, on the first floor, a cavity contrived on each side of the jaw-bone, eded post. "These noble animals, however, overlooking the street called the Corn-Market. in which are lodged an artery, a vein, and seemed scarcely to need the rest which their mas- The table, which extended through the whole a nerve, which, through smaller cavities, send ter's kindness now allotted them. For though length of the room, was covered with as elegant their twigs to every tooth. The fore-teeth are they had drawn a somewhat heavy carriage a linen as the wardrobe of the inn could furnish, formed broad, and with a thin and sharp edge, distance of nearly seventeen miles, they yet and was loaded with a magnificent breakfast. like chisels, to cut off a morsel from any solid appeared as full of life as ever; arching their ately necks, and dashing in all directions the for the honour which the company had done him in drink- are stronger and deeper rooted, and some *« The Town Clerk of Oxford, in returning thanks food. The ones, on each side, beyond these, ing his health, said, that if it ever fell to his province to write a history of the city of Oxford, he should record the done, P. P., Clerk of the Parish! occurrence of this day as an epoch in its annals."Well white foam from their mouths, as if they were leased that they were to go no further!! Just as the carriage was about to drive away, pointed, to bear tougher aliments. The rest are made flat and broad at top, and somewhat uneven, that they may thereby retain, grind, 66 and mix the aliment. The fore-teeth, called | sence, only gave occasion to the magistrates of villanous in West's altar-piece, the whole mathe incisors, or cutters, as they have little to do, Oxford to express their wish, that, in the invi-gistracy of London declaring that they would have only one root: the grinders, designed for tations to their corporation dinners, arrange- have convicted him at once upon his counte harder work have three. The situation of the ments could be made that would include the nance; how they inspected the castle; how teeth, moreover, is most convenient: the ladies"!!! they paid their respects to the City Stone; how grinders are behind, near the centre of motion, Thus it is that civilisation and refinement are Alderman (it should surely be Admiral) Lucas's because chewing requires considerable force; carried by British enterprise into distant parts." knowledge of navigation unquestionably ex. the cutters are placed in front, ready for their We have no doubt but that the visit of the tends considerably beyond the rudiments of the easier work." Upon which the pious Chaplain Pride of London to Oxford will lead to immense science;" how the vessels paused at Richmond devoutly exclaims, Fresh illustrations these of improvements in that Quarter of such Baotian bridge, and the navigators pursued the rethe wisdom and goodness of the Creator!" But name; that the ladies will hereafter dine with mainder of their arduous journey over land,there are human sympathies too;-the lecture the corporation; and that gownswomen will at every one's countenance deeply imbrowned by on the turtle's inside, the process of digestion, least rank as high and effectively as gownsmen. long exposure to the sun and air,"-in short, the stomach-bag to receive and the mouth so Having impressed these fine and proper feelings looking just like our African or Indian tra cleverly formed to prepare food,-was not with- on the people of Oxford, the natives of London vellers when they return from Timbuctoo or out its natural results. "The day was now set out on their homeward return, followed Persepolis. fast wearing on, and the Lord Mayor proposed by the shouts and blessings of the grateful We need only add, that the winding-up of that they should return to the inn, take some population whom they had redeemed from bar- the whole is worthy of the sublime genius of refreshment, and then resume their walk. Of barism. It was a grand and moving ceremony. the writer. "Suffice it to say (says he), that his lordship's proposal no one felt disposed to In a “large boat, half covered with an awn- although the party were three successive days, decline the acceptance; for the refreshing fra-ing, was his lordship's yeoman of the house--two of which days included fifteen hours, grance of the air which breathed around the hold, who had charge of the provisions for the upon the water; yet, such was the fine and summit of the Radcliffe, had made the party Lord Mayor's party; together with the cook, ever-varying nature of the home scenery around by no means incapable,-spite of a most sub-who was, at the time of embarkation, busily them, which was of itself sufficient to engross stantial breakfast, of doing honour to a copious engaged in preparing a fire in a grate fixed in the luncheon, which, at two o'clock, was presented at the Star." 66 the attention, as the Thames made its azure bow of the boat. About seven o'clock, signals sweeps round slopes of meadow land; so diver. of the approach of his lordship's party were sified were the occupations of reading, working, We are sorry to be obliged to skip a thousand descried and heard." "Oxford, soon, in a and conversation,-conversation, which, always very momentous concerns; and, truly, to de- retrospective view, appeared a beautiful and an easy and intelligent, was often such as to disscend the river much more rapidly than the city affecting object :" Ifley Pound Lock was passed cover memories containing ample registers of barge: but we must make a short cut. Before in safety, and also Sanford Lock; but the miscellaneous snatches and fragments of senti. leaving Oxford, the potentates of London saw beauties of Nuneham were not seen, as "the ments, both in prose and verse, which were New College Chapel, a solemn little place," party" happened to "be all unitedly engaged sometimes applied with considerable tact and but which struck them by the "majestic sa- in the elegant cabin of the state barge, in address to passing scenes ;--so well and intercredness of its magnificent building;" while doing honour to the delicacies of the Lord estingly, in short, were the several successive "the grand intonations" of the organ went Mayor's breakfast table." Down, however, hours filled up, that no recourse was had, in "warbling along the roof," in the vain hope of swept the superb flotilla, "handfuls of half- any single instance throughout the voyage, inducing the ladies to "contribute their contin- pence were scattered to the children as they either to cards or dice, or to any other of those gent." Then came the grand civic dinner, kept pace in running along the banks ;" and frivolous expedients of indolence, to which so with "Mr. Cope, the city marshal, dressed in be it remembered to his fame for ever, that many of the evening hours of life are sacrificed, full uniform;" the chaplain himself" in cleri-" Mr. Alderman Atkins, who assisted the and in which that time is suffered to waste cal robes;" 99 66 assistants," "bailiffs," and the Lord Mayor in the distribution, seemed to away which Providence allows us for the duties Lady Mayoress," arrayed in the most splendid enter with more than common pleasure into of our station; and which, when gone, shall manner, wearing a towering plume of ostrich the enjoyment of the little children;" upon never return." The voyage will, he continues, feathers, and blazing with diamonds." The which the moral Chaplain bursts into one of his "be always deeply interesting, to those at onslaught against the feast itself is delineated fine exclamations :-" It is wonderful (he cries) least connected with it, from the consideration, with all the fire and energy of a true man. how much life and joy even one intelligent and that the individuals of the party are never likely "When the chaplain, by craving a blessing on good-humoured member of a pleasure party to meet again in this world altogether in the the feast, had set the guests at liberty to address will diffuse around him. The fountain of in- same society;" and then he mentions the themselves to the dainties before them, and dwelling delight, which animates his own death of one of the party since, which he justly the room was illuminated throughout by a bosom, overflows to others; and every thing observes," most impressively forbids this exprofusion of delicate wax candles, which cast a around quickly freshens into smiles." Need pectation." light as of broad day over the apartment, it we detail all the other remarkable passages In fine, we wish the Lord Mayor had a would not have been easy for any eye, however of this extraordinary voyage? how the gracious mitre at his disposal; for never was a head accustomed to look on splendour, not to have Ammon of the hour made a coster-monger hap- more worthy of the utmost which the civic been delighted, in no common manner, with pier than ever he was before, by bidding him ride chair could do for it, than is the head of the the elegance of the classic and civic scene now to Reading, and announce his approach; how excellent, learned, and extraordinary divine exhibited in the dining-parlour of the first inn when the state barge moved, the sun also whose magnum opus must augment his fame in Oxford." The toasts, too, combined " loy."whirled down his broad disc;" how they were more and more, so long as London city can alty"! "literature"!! and "religion"!!!; and entertained at the Bear Inn, Reading, with "a boast of its present intelligence, magnanimity, when the Lady Mayoress was drunk," the toast sumptuous supper," and there betook themselves and glory. (we are told) was hailed with warm demon-to silence and retirement. How, on Friday, In justice to the late Lord Mayor, and that he may strations of respect and the honour was ac- they resumed their mighty undertaking, while knowledged with considerable point and taste the bridge was thronged beyond measure;" by Mr. Lockhart, the member, at her ladyship's how Alderman Birch delivered himself of two request." lines from Denham, about the Thames being, After this, we are not surprised to learn that" though gentle, yet not dull;" how the the ladies had, to the great gratification of grounds at Hedsor Lodge are "thrown about the company, sat longer than is usual at most by nature;" how the "Thames seemed to awe tables ;" and yet, incredible as it may appear, itself into stillness, as if to listen more atten- Sepi Messeniennes Nouvelles. Par M. Casimir "their departure, so far from being succeeded tively to the applause bestowed upon its chief Delavigne. Sautelet, Paris, 1827. by that obstreperous and vulgar merriment, conservator" how the said conservator had M. DELAVIGNE ranks high in the class of or any thing like that gross profligacy of con- achieved "high and wide renown from early boy-modern French poets and dramatic writers, versation, which indicates rejoicing at being hood to the robe of dignity ;" and how when the and his talents may be said to have forced the emancipated from the restraint of female pre-evening began to be late, horses were in readi- doors of the Academy, of which he was, it is * Another of the recondite topics mentioned by the less on the towing paths. On Saturday, the said, more surprised than any one to find him. observant author, was the assertion that the eye was not last date of his eventful history, how the party self a member. He is one of those poets who only a very convenient organ, but placed in the most did ample honours to the delicacies of a well-will always be popular in their day, from choos convenient situation; for though " in the hand, indeed, it might have been more ready for service, to how many spread breakfast-table at Windsor; how they ing popular subjects, and handling them toleradangers would it have been exposed!" saw the chapel, and thought Judas looked too bly well. It has been his province to console not be made the victim of ridicule by an injudicious admirer, we ought perhaps to mention that, as far as we could hear of civic doings, his mayoralty was distinguished by great liberality, and gave entire satisfaction to all ranks connected with the city. But to Mr. Dillon, his young Chaplain, he may well cry, “Save me from my friends!" wounded pride and disappointed ambition, and he has found an echo in a thousand tongues. He has now and then had a hit at England, which may well be pardoned; for how could he praise Napoleon and not blame England? His new work consists of seven (what shall we call them?) Odes or Satires. We select the first as a specimen: "The Departure." He embarks at Marseilles for Italy, and passes before Corsica. The birth-place of Napoleon instantly inspires him, and he breaks forth as follows: "What are those lofty rocks that boldly rise The sparkling waves that fateful stripling bore: And thus, as each succeeding day comes on, Where goes that youth, unto himself unknown ? With mid-day glory see him shining now, While on the imperial crown that decks his brow, and about forty merchantmen were driven to afterwards half as many more, were landed the side of the bay which they occupied, and upon Cabrera, a rocky island about fifteen went on shore at the height of the spring tide. miles in circumference, with no other inhabitThe men were taken out by the boats of the ants than a handful of soldiers, who were staBritish squadron, and the ships were set on tioned there to prevent the Barbary corsairs fire by the enemy's red-hot shot; but no small from making it a place of rendezvous. A few part of the lading fell into their hands. During tents were provided for the superior officers, the tempest, the French on board the prison the remainder were left to shelter themselves ships could not receive their supplies of pro- as they could. There was but one spring on visions and water from the shore; their signals the island, and in summer this was dry: they of distress were disregarded by the Spaniards; discovered some old wells, which had been filled and if the British Admiral had not sent his up, and which, when cleared, yielded bad boats to their relief as soon as the gale abated, water, and very little of it. The supplies from very many more of these miserable men than Palma were sent so irregularly, sometimes actually perished must have fallen victims, the owing to the weather, but far more frequently Spaniards being in no haste to encounter the to inhuman negligence, that scores and hunswell for the sake of enemies whom they seem dreds of these miserable creatures died of to have considered as out of the pale of hu- hunger and thirst; many were in a state of manity. In the case of these prisoners, indeed, complete nakedness, when in mere humanity they had cast off all compassion, and the obdu- clothing was sent them by the British comracy of the national character was fully mani- mander in the Mediterranean: and at other fested towards them, the negligence of the times they were kept alive by barrels of biscuit government being in this instance hardly less and of meat which the English ships threw criminal than the avarice and brutality of those overboard for them, to be cast on shore. But whom it employed." in the third year of their abode, the captain of "Two ships of the line were at this time a Spanish frigate, whose name ought to have play-under orders to carry part of them to the been recorded, remonstrated so effectually upon Canaries; and more would have been sent to the manner of their treatment, that from that Majorca and Minorca, whither 5000 had been time they were regularly supplied with food. transported in the preceding year, if the in- He gave them potatoes and cabbage and tobacco habitants had not at this crisis been in a state seed, from which they raised sufficient for their of excitement which would have rendered a consumption: and having by persevering lafarther importation dangerous both to the bour, without any other tools than a single prisoners themselves and to the government. knife, broken six feet into a rock, on the surSerious disturbances had broken out in both face of which there was appearance enough of islands, not from any spirit of disaffection, but moisture to excite their hopes, they obtained a from distress, and indignation that so many of supply of water. Some of them used the skulls these unhappy persons should be cast among of their own dead, for want of other vessels, to them, and no adequate means provided for contain it ;-and others, with no such excuse their subsistence. The Minorcans were less of necessity, manufactured buttons from their likely to be patient under such misgovernment bones! About 1500 entered the Spanish serthan any other Spaniards, remembering the vice rather than endure a banishment to which prosperity and good order which they had en- no end could be foreseen; and some 500, chiefly joyed while their island was in possession of officers, were in compassion removed to Engthe English; with them, however, the ebulli- land. At the end of the war not more than tion of popular feeling past harmlessly off, 2000 remained in Cabrera, nearly half of those while Majorca became the scene of a disgrace- who had been landed there having sunk under ful and dreadful tragedy. Some fugitives landed their sufferings. The Spaniards departed from at Palma from those parts of the south which the straight path of probity when they broke had lately fallen under the French yoke; they the terms of capitulation which had been brought horrible tales concerning the invasion granted at Baylen. They committed that of Andalusia and the conduct of the invaders; breach of faith in deference to popular outcry, and the people, excited by these horrors, cried and to the sophistry of one who soon proved out for vengeance upon the prisoners. Troops himself a traitor,-the most odious of all those were called out to protect these unfortunate men whom the Revolution either found wicked men, but the soldiers would not act against or made so: and in the subsequent treatment their countrymen; and when the commander, of the prisoners humanity was as little regarded General Reding, as the only means of saving the prisoners, consented that they should be sent to the desert island of Cabrera, many were butchered in his presence, in spite of his entreaties and exertions, and many thrown into the sea, before the embarkation could be effected; nor could it have been effected, if the soldiers had not at length been provoked to fire upon the mob. Five thousand at first, and And thus, enslaved ourselves, strange charms we found But, ah! he plays, he loses-and men greet While kings, born for oblivion, thus became, They go unto posterity. One stormy day he reign'd and pass'd away, But shone the while with such resplendent light, That, with the past compared, the following day, Torpid and dull, seem'd gloomy as the night." This fragment is a spirited and faithful translation from the pen of Mr. J. Spooner, and gives a very fair specimen of the author's style and manner. Southey's History of the Peninsular War. HAVING, in our last No., introduced this portant publication to our readers, and essed our want of space wherein to do it any thing like justice, we shall now only by return to more general topics, and cite an account of human wretchedness which ought to make men shudder at the thoughts of Many of the French prisoners were (March 1810) on board prison ships in the Bay of Cadiz, when," during a tremendous ge, which continued four days with unabated Varence, three line of battle ships, one frigate, picked up about thirty tens of quicksilver, in leathern as honour had been in detaining them. Many and grievous were the errors which the Spaniards committed in the course of the war; but this is the only part of its history which will be remembered for them as a national reproach. On the other hand, the French had as yet abated nothing of that insolent cruelty with which they began the contest, supposing that they could intimidate the Spanish nation. Soult, who had recommended that all the comimpassible,-incapable of any feeling by which marding officers employed in Spain should be they might even possibly be moved to compunction,-issued at this time an edict not less extraordinary than Kellermann's. After various enactments, some of which were as impracticable as they were rigorous, imposing penalties upon the inhabitants of those districts in which the patriotic parties should commit any crimes, as this Frenchman was pleased to denominate their hostilities against the invaders of their country; he pronounced, that there was no Spanish army, except that of his catholic ma |