ly to reap the benefits. Those benefits are well worth ng for; they are not only of great value in the imement and gratification they afford to the mind, but le direct additions which they make to the pecuniary arces of the labouring classes." is conceived, that by this plan we shall secure a more lar attendance and greater attention from the students, if the admission was wholly free; and the pupils will the satisfaction of regarding their improvement as red from the fruits of their own industry. he chief subjects on which instruction is proposed to elivered in the School of Arts, are-Mathematics, as ected with the mechanical arts; various branches of tanical Philosophy; Chymistry, applied to the arts; itecture; and to those who show any taste for it, proPerspective Drawing, and the very useful art of reating machines and their parts on paper. All these ot be taught at the same time, but they may be brought rd in succession, according to the state of the funds, ae desires of the students. I look forward to great stage to the labouring classes from attempts at mutual iction, and expect, in due time, occasional lectures on ent practical arts by artificers themselves; and it may ssible to find in Liverpool persons well qualified to solid instruction in such important subjects as the geprinciples of carpentry and shipbuilding. ere are individuals in Liverpool whose circumstances Literature, Criticism, &c. ON SPANISH LITERATURE. ESSAY IV. Translated expressly for the Kaleidoscope. FIRST AGE OF SPANISH LITERATURE. The Castilian muse made her first attempt at a time when the language was rude, and when the ear, little accustomed to melodious sounds, was as incapable of being pleased with the rhyme of the ancients as art was of imitating it. The most ancient monument of this poetry is a history of the adventures of the celebrated D. Rodrigo de Bivar, commonly called "El Cid Campeador," the conquering lord. This poems contains the sentence of banishment passed on the Cid by King D. Alphonso the Sixth, the departure of the exile from Bivar, his passage through Burgos, his expeditions, his victories, and, in fine, his reconciliation with the King. The work is written with great simplicity. The verses are not confined to a certain number of syllables, nor does it appear that any great attention agitated, to ascertain both the author of this poem and the age in which it was composed; but they have produced no certain results. Its antiquity alone is undoubted. What gives additional value to the poem is, that it is entire, and that it has many passages remarkable for the majesty and propriety of the expressions, especially in poetic. imagery, and in the local descriptions. The verses are of thirteen and fourteen syllables, the most ancient measure used by the Spaniards.* [The two following paragraphs are not in the original.] When Berceo is not warmed by his subject, he falls greatly below his usual manner. He has all the credulity which we ages, and not unfrequently all the dullness of a cloistered should naturally expect in a Spanish monk of the middle chronicler. How foreigners could join in the exaggerated praises which Spanish critics have bestowed on this old monk, would be indeed surprising if we could persuade ourselves that they have ever read any portion of his works. The duty of the critic is strangely performed when every real beauty in composition is extravagantly lauded, and every defect palliated or concealed. Who ever has been at the pains to read the heavy, formal, pe admit of their lending gratuitous assistance in dif- has been paid to the observing either of rhyme or harmony./dantic, and often disgusting attempts at criticism made by We copy the following passage, in which the poet describes many learned Spanish writers, will be disposed to pay g knowledge; and should my small services be coned as desirable, it will give me great pleasure to open School of Arts by gratuitous lectures on some one of ranches of chymistry most interesting to mechanics. good library of books on all subjects connected with seful arts is intended, for the sole use of the students. laboratory, for the performance of simple experiments e artisans themselves, will also be desirable; as well nuseum of models of machines. nay be allowed to state, that the members of the nittee of the Royal Institution feel anxious for the ss of our plan; but, as a body, they do not feel them;authorized, from the state of their funds, and the quate accommodation in their building, to hold out rospect of a union of the institutions. Indeed, my opinion is unfavourable to clogging the School of with any such bond of connection. s proposed to vest the direction of the establishment committee to be annually chosen from all classes cted with it. On this subject there is much differof opinion among the friends of education in other 30 In some towns the direction of the School of Arts tolly vested in trustees, all taken from among the hy classes: in others, the management has been y committed to the artificers themselves. The former is condemned by some of the friends to education, as ishing the interest of the working classes in the eshment; and the last has been productive of serious venience in some of the establishments where it has tried, from the inexperience of the operative classes e management of such undertakings. In some ines they have made the most injudicious choice of ers, and occasionally their attention has been directed to amusing than to useful objects. ter much patient consideration, the projectors of a rpool School of Arts have unanimously agreed to se that the committee shall consist of twenty-four ons: one-third of whom shall be chosen from the ring class; one third from among the master-me ics or master-tradesmen; and one-third from the ral subscribers, who belong to neither of these deno ations. the entrance of the Cid into the city of Burgos: Mio Cid Ruy Diaz por Burgos entraba, Burgeses e Burgesas por las finiestras son puestas, The Cid Ruy Diaz entered into Burgos escorted by sixty bannered horsemen. The streets and windows were crowded by citizens anxious to see him. Their grief was so great that the tears ran from their eyes, and they exclaimed, "Oh, God! what a faithful servant! Oh that he had a good master!" They would willingly have asked him into their houses, but no one dared to do so; so much they feared the anger of King Alphonso. Before night there arrived at Burgos a messenger from the King with a letter closely sealed, containing his express command that no one should give an asylum to the Cid Ruy Diaz under pain of losing his goods, his eyes, or even his life. All the Christians were, therefore, in great grief, but none of them daring to speak to the Cid, they turned away to conceal their admiration and their tears." simplicity, is a prodigy for the time in which it appeared, The author of this poem, which, notwithstanding its is unknown. It was probably composed about the middle of the twelfth century. this arrangement it is hoped that we shall obtain assistance of every class, combining the general ination of the two latter with the practical experience The commencement of the thirteenth century produced e artificers. I am not without hope that thus bring the first poet known in Castile. His name was Gonzalo into friendly communication persons in the different s of life, all animated with the same generous views, Berceo. He was a native of Berceo, and a monk of the anxious for the moral and intellectual improve- Benedictine convent of St. Milan. He wrote in verses of t of their fellow-men, will have a salutary effect, by twelve, thirteen, and fourteen syllables, the lives of St. ring juster ideas of each other than could be formed Milan, of St. Dominic de Silos, and of several other Spae common intercourse of life. It will exhibit to the nish saints. He also left a poem on the mass, and another in a new and favourable point of view, the good and talents of the working-classes: it will add to the on the battle of Simancas, in which the Moors were deiction of the latter, that, among their wealthier fel-feated by Ramiro the Second, King of Leon. citizens, there are many who will devote their time Many individuals have supposed that Berceo was author attention to obtain for their poorer brethren the ad- of the celebrated poem of "Alexander," which contains cages of instruction; and I trust the result will conan account of the life and actions of that hero. Number e all of the truth of the saying of the great English osopher,—“ Knowledge is power." less researches have been made, and many controversies It is our intention to transfer to the Kaleidoscope some We know not whether the above literal translation will Er documents connected with the late meeting, which give any adequate idea of the affecting simplicity of the orirupon the general subject of the education of the people.]inal. very little regard to their decisions. They appear to have arisen from their siestas, with heads half cleared from the effects of sleep and opium; to have seated themselves. with their usual gravity at their meditated task; and to have previously resolved that they would maintain the literary honour with as much obstinacy as their heroic ancestors supported the religion of the country. From the just praise we shall have to bestow on Spanish genius, we shall not, we hope, be suspected of the slightest hostility to a once gallant people. Our object is to do justice to their poetic merit,-not to join in the extravagant and senseless admiration with which many English and French writers have pretended to regard it. We know well that some Castilian poets would do honour to any age and any nation; that they richly deserve immortality; but when we hear in this country an echo of the absurd boast which Spanish ignorance and pride first made, that they are worthy to be compared not only with the most celebrated British, but also with the Roman and Grecian bards, we can no longer restrain our indignant wonder. We do not hesitate to make the unqualified assertion, that Spain has never yet produced an able and impartial critic. with undue severity. Let him examine for himself, and Let not the reader suppose that we have here spoken he will find that we should be fully justified in using still stronger language concerning Spanish criticism, and those, modern literati who seldom read any book, and who derive the little knowledge they possess, if any, from maga zines and reviews. Such criticism must greatly injure the cause it is intended to support: it has provoked the opposition of many who would willingly concede to Spanish writers the claims to which they are justly entitled; to brighter glory on their country than the splendour of her writers who, whatever may be their defects, have shed a conquests, or the extent of her once mighty empire. The Spaniards have a peculiar term, redondillo, which they generally apply to all species of verse not exceeding eight, syllables. The redondillo mayor consists of eight, the endecha properly constitute a redondillo. of seven, and the menor of six syllables. Four trochaic feet The Philanthropist. LIVERPOOL MARINE HUMANE SOCIETY. The following report of the committee of this institution was read at the annual meeting, on Wednesday, the 1st instant, John Moss, Esq. in the chair: "In presenting a report of the proceedings of this society since the last annual meeting, the committee are happy to state, that numerous claims have been made upon the society, on account of services rendered in preserving lives from drowning; and that those demands have been promptly and adequately met. It is proper to state, that, in accordance with an arrangement which has resulted from an interview granted by the Dock Trustees to a deputation from this committee, a considerable part of the rewards which have been given have been disbursed, on the recommendation of the committee, out of the Dock Charitable Fund. "The committee have felt this arrangement to be highly advantageous to the interests of the society in a pecuniary view; and they have, consequently, been enabled to follow up the other means of preserving life, which were referred to, at the last annual meeting, as being desirable to promote. The first and principal measure of the committee, connected with this part of their duty, has been the purchasing of six different sets of the apparatus commonly used in restoring suspended animation, and also two of the pumps used for discharging the stomach, in cases in which its action has been destroyed by poison, or by excessive drinking. The committee have also supplied drags at each dock, for recovering bodies immersed in water; and have lately provided two spine baths, which (though happily no occasion has hitherto occurred to apply them) they believe will be found very efficacious in the restoration of persons apparently drowned. "The apparatus for resuscitation has been applied once with complete success; and the stomach pumps have been resorted to, six or seven times, with effects the most instantaneous and extraordinary that can be conceived. In two cases in which poison had been received into the stomach, and the strongest emetics administered without avail, the pump was used and produced a result almost incredible, the patients being perfectly restored to a state of active existence (so much so as with assistance to be enabled to walk) within one hour after every indication of life had totally disappeared. "It is not easy for the committee to define how far the society may have been instrumental in providing relief to drowning seamen; because it is, of course, impossible to determine the degree in which the rewards given to boatmen, for assistance, may have operated, separately from the general feeling of humanity, which, to a certain extent, is found to actuate all mankind; but it is not difficult to form a reasonable estimate of the nature of the rewards which have been granted, when it is known that no single instance has occurred, within the knowledge of the committee, in which, during the past year, the least disinclination to afford assistance has been manifested; and, that, in most cases, the boatmen and fishermen of the port have evinced a promptitude and a spirit of emulation highly praiseworthy to themselves, and attended with the most satisfactory results to society at large. The cases of persons so rescued have been very numerous, and the services rendered have been suitably remunerated, so far as the committee, in the best use of their discretion, have been enabled justly to estimate their value. "The committee cannot avoid referring, with a feeling of satisfaction, to the happy effects which have already followed the labours of the society, and they are happy to have the opportunity of congragulating this meeting on having received so early and so valuable a requital of their exertions. If the desire of preserving our own existence has been implanted in us by Providence, as the leading instinct of our nature, the necessity of preserving our fellow-men is most certainly dictated by the clearest influences of reason and affection; and if, in so short a period, and with means so comparatively limited, the society has been enabled to effect so much, what an encouragement does it present for renewed exertion, and for extending, by every conceivable means, the application of the humane principle on which the association is formed? "The balance of money at present in the hands of the treasurer is £107 14s. 6d. and the annual subscriptions amount to £113 28. a sum obviously inadequate to the efficient prosecution of the wide purposes of the society, and precluding the possibility of ever successfully extending the range of its utility. institution. And the committee earnestly trust, that as the benefits of the measures already taken shall become more and more apparent, the public may be gradually induced to feel a deeper interest in a society whose objects are so perfectly associated with the urgent duties and the gentlest charities of agreeable to the principles of natural justice, and so nearly our common nature." Correspondence. MENAI-BRIDGE. THE DIORAMA. hind the curtain, and we hereby pledge our word and Since our last, we have, by special favour, had a pe flat surface, and that it hangs perpendicularly like the racter, that this wonderful picture is really painted up scene of a theatre. The painting, on the nearest pa view of it, is most beautiful; and the objects which a surface are palpably flat and smooth, begin to assume appearance of massive solidity the moment we retire a few feet from the canvas. The actual knowledge ef plain surface, and the contemplation of its effect from t SIR,-As the bridge now building over the straits of quately describe; and we are of opinion that it would m gallery, give charms to this picture which we cannot ad Menai is all the rage, perhaps the following old prophe-munerate the proprietor, as it would most assuredly grati cies, which are prevalent in that part of Wales, may amuse the spectators, if the public were admitted to a close in some of your readers. If you think proper to insert the spection of this matchless picture. This might be don same, you will oblige yours, &c.before the present exhibition closes, and, if we may judge from ourselves, we doubt not that the spectators would cheerfully consent to pay an extra sum to have their doubts removed by a personal and close inspection of thi TO THE EDITOR. A CONSTANT READER. Taliesin prophesied as follows about the sixth century: perspective chef d'œuvre.-See adv. Dwy flynedd cin r aflonydd, Two years before the calamity, Pont ar Fenai a fydd, A bridge over Menai will be erected. The following is by Merddin ap Morfran, a celebrated bard, who flourished about A. D. 550:- When the stones near Snowden-hill should be turned into bread, some great event would happen in the world." The Beauties of Chess. "Ludimus effigiem belli"............ VIDA. ...C-1+ ....H-5 4 Pawn ....G-4 5 Pawn....G-3 6 Pawn....G-2 If the black pawn H 6 moved to H 5, the white pawn would take it, and checkmate in the sixth move. "It has been long manifest to the committee, that the subscription list is only prevented from being increased, by an Theatre of Variety.-M. Henry, who has exhibited his impression that the Dock Charitable Fund is sufficient performance the Adelphi with unpurpose in contemplation. It may, however, be proper te perfilleled eclat, for several's Theatre, London; who to state, that that fund is legally applicable only to cases of a open his Theatre of Variety in this town, and, we doubt marine nature, arising out of accidents about the docks, (at least can on and the general line of the harbour, and has no reference report) that his entertainment will be highly gratifying whatever to many of the other valuable intentions of this the public.-See ado. to Interesting View of Naples.-A few days ago we had an opportunity of taking a cursory view of Mr. Barker's beautiful Panoramic view of the City and Bay of Naples, opened this day, for the inspection of the public. We can give no adequate idea of the merits of this exhibition this week, our columns being already crowded; but we can assure our readers, that a more interesting, vad, and harbour of Europe) has seldom or never had claim correct work of art (representing the most enchanting bay public attention. The whole scene is endeared to the scholar from the reminiscences which it cannot fail excite, and as a picturesque and animated view of a c try rich with all the beauties of verdure and magnifmo, and inclosing a wide expanse of water, not less rich w the freighted vessels of every country, it must be eq pleasing to the community at large. See adv. To Correspondents. LETTERS ON THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE GLOBE-We have day, brought to a termination our original transition the French work on the Revolutions of the Globe, th ginal of which consists of about 400 pages. Ours is the English version which has appeared of this work, wi extremely popular in Paris: thus, besides all the matter, the subscribers to the Kaleidoscope, in the c volume, which will terminate next Tuesday, will have be put in possession of an original translation of art, (independent of any expense for literary labour, French, for a sum equal to two-thirds of that at which sell the whole annual volume of the Kaleido MUSIC.-We have to thank our friend J. M. for an ex bass and symphony, which, at our repuest, be ha so good as to supply to an original air, which is intra in the novel of Rothelan, where the mere melody's p We should have published it this week, but we d impossible to complete it in time, and we st fore necessarily defer its appearance until next se LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.-In a preceding we have inserted the whole of Dr. Trail's address late public meeting, for the purpose of setting en Mechanics' Institute, in Liverpool. These establishm are now becoming so general, that we shall render ceptable service to the public, by devoting an occasi column to the subject. We shall, therefore, follow p address of Dr. Traill with such other parts of the p ings as treat of the general subject of affording instratin to the people at large; omitting all that relates to e local points, or fiscal regulations. WELSH ANTIQUITIES-T. is informed, that a small gr tion of the monument is in the hands of the art. MUNGO PARK.-It is rumoured, in the London Cearir, that the paragraph in one of the preceding pages of the Karidan respecting Lieut. Clapperton, is erroneous. However t ordinary and successful the discoveries of the gallant of have been in other respects, we are authorised positively state, that he has not been so fortunate as to obtah a journal or manuscript which formerly belonged to the Mr. Park. We have further to acknowledge-Anna Bella-C-Cotter OR, Literary and Scientific Mirror. "UTILE DULCI." amiliar Miscellany, from whichreligiousand politicalmatters are excluded, contains a varietyof original and selected Articles; comprehending Literature, Criticism Men and Manners, isement, Elegant Extracts, Poetry, Anecdotes, Biography, Meteorology, the Drama, Arts and Sciences, Wit and Satire, Fashions, Natural History, &c. &c. forming a handsome Annual me, with an Index and Title-page.—Its circulationrenders it a most eligible medium for Advertisements. . 261.-Vol. V. The Kaleidoscope. MPLETION OF THE FIFTH VOLUME OF TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1825. tents, we have introduced between twenty and thirty en- COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTH VOLUME. The following Publications are to be had at the Office Vols. I, II, III, IV, and V, of the KALEIDOSCOPE, price Six- PRICE 3d Negro Intellect. The following interesting anecdote of a Negro slave, was related by Chief Justice Esten, of the Bermudas, at a meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, held in London, on the 28th April, 1825 :-" We have a slave of the name of Edward Frazer, who is only twenty-five years of age, and has received no education but in the house of his master, and yet he has made himself master of the first six books of Euclid, has read the the church of England; and great as the powers of his writings of Locke, and of most of the standard divines of mind are, his heart is equally interested, and I do believe him to be a real Christian." Literature, Criticism, &c. [FROM THE LITERARY Gazette.] MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ. F.R.S. and James 11. comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. Decyphered by the Rev. J. Smith, from the original Short-hand MS. in the Pepysian Library. And a selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Lord BRAYBROOKE. 2 vols. 4to. e present number of the Kaleidoscope terminates the In the conduct of our Sixth Volume, we shall follow olume, and the index and title will be delivered gratis as closely as possible the plan of the preceding volumes. next Tuesday's publication, with which the sixth We are in the daily expectation of receiving from Paris an he will commence. The steadily increasing patron-entirely new and fashionable work of the novel or satirical ith which our work has been honoured will be the character, (as we understand) written by one of the most ecurity we can offer for the continuance of our care celebrated and witty writers of France. We shall lay bettention to our editorial duties. We cannot close our fore our readers an original translation of this volume, in it volume without taking the liberty of reminding convenient weekly portions, if, on perusal, we find it unex.. aders of the variety and value of some of the articles ceptionable in its moral tendency. We have also in concontained; and this we feel emboldened to do, templation, in our sixth volume, to introduce some entire se an acquaintance with the principal literary mis- reprints of works of unquestionable merit; amongst which ies in the kingdom justifies the assertion on our parts, will be, "An Essay (168 pages) on the Study of Literahere is not one of them upon which so much labour ture, written originally in French by the celebrated Gibxpense has been incurred. Independent of a great bon, author of the great work on the Decline and Fall of 7of original translations from the favourite works of the Roman Empire. uy, and from the German and Italian, which have ed in the volume now completed, we have given an and original translation of a fashionable French on Natural History, Geology, &c. consisting of ges, with some engravings,—a publication, which, original French, is sold for more than two-thirds of ixed value of our entire volume. Of Music, which w feature in our work, we may be permitted to say ing. We are aware there are many of our friends ould willingly dispense with this department; but g to remind them, that we have, by means of fregratuitous supplements, put them in possession of nal miscellaneous matter more than equal to ice devoted to music. The music alone contained volume, consisting of thirty-eight pieces, would, if A Discourse on the Origin and Vicissitudes of Literature, to be purchased in any other form, cost much more he entire price of our whole volume: we might, Science, and Art, and their Influence on the present State of Society, delivered at the opening of the Liverpool Royal InstiIn this depart-tution, by WILLIAM ROSCOE, Esq. (published by permission.) >s, with truth say, double the sum. we have interfered as little as possible with the bu.-Price Fourpence. of the music dealers, as some of our collection has composed expressly for the Kaleidoscope; and other have either been compositions of great merit reor foreign music in which there is no copyright. e fifth volume of our work has been embellished with usual number of engravings, and contains also fifty In consequence of perpetual applications for the Kalei. al situations at the Game of Chess, selected expressly doscope, from places in the country, where we have no de Kaleidoscope from the rare and most valuable agents, we take this opportunity of informing those who n work of Giambatista Lolli. The first number of each wish to take the work, that they may now be supplied by h comprised the Monthly Fashions, the Naturalist's any bookseller who receives parcels from London. Messrs. 7, and a complete list of new Patents; and in the volume Sherwood, Jones, and Co. in Paternoster-row, have now o be found several hundred original compositions, a regular stock, and as all the other London booksellers rose and verse upon scientific subjects, Literature, are in the habit of supplying each other with the works cism, the Fine Arts, the Drama, Political Economy, they respectively publish, an order given to any bookseller Natural History, Antiquities, Biographical Notices, will ensure the forwarding of the work to any part of the Housekeeper, Choice Recipes, Vive la Bagatelle, kingdom. This, of course, is a circuitous mode of supply les a great variety of selected interesting Stories, Anec- to some parts of the kingdom, but is not on that account s, Scientific Records, Bon Mots, and Miscellanies, less regular or certain, as a few days' delay is a circumstance ther with a number of local letters, printed upon nu- of no consequence with such a work as the Kaleidoscope, ous gratuitous supplements.-In one original depart which does not contain news. It is necessary to observe, it alone of our volume, The Gymnasia, which we that the Kaleidoscope, being an unstamped work, cannot e before omitted to mention in recapitulating its con- be sent free through the post-office like a newspaper. Notwithstanding the extensive popularity of the Memoirs of Grammont, and the still greater attractions of those of Evelyn, we have no hesitation in stating our opinion that these volumes will outstrip them both in public estimation. For ourselves, we are delighted with them: records. The station of the individual gave him access to they reach the very beau ideal of what we desire from such Perspective Views and Interior, with Description of the the most interesting intelligence of the period;—the period Liverpool Exchange, and Nelson's Monument.-Price Six-is one of peculiar variety, mingling of character, and fluc tuation both national and private; the diary is an honest, unaffected memorandum of daily occurrences, not pence. Printed so as to bind up with the Kaleidoscope. Representation and Description of the most extraordinary intended for any eye but that of the writer, being kept in Cavern in America, called the Mammoth Cave.-Price Two-short-hand;—and, finally, the entries give so truly the pence. TO PERSONS RESIDING IN THE COUNTRY, impressions of the moment, that many of them, at a week or month's distance of time apart, perpetuate opinions and facts widely differing from those first felt or believed. Samuel Pepys, born in 1632, was the son of a citizen and tailor of London; of a good family, and probably originally from Scotland. He was educated at St. Paul's School and Cambridge, married very young, and became a protege of his relative, Sir E. Montagu, afterwards the celebrated Earl of Sandwich. He appears to have been a Where there are no Agents for the Kaleidoscope, and who are very drudge in his official appointments, and rose to value desirous of becoming Subscribers. by his application and comparative purity-for in those days the purest men in office seem to have had a less correct notion of integrity than the meanest have now. In private he acts with much simplicity, and might well be own advancement, nor shun (after he acquires fortune) esteemed a worthy fellow, though he does not neglect his the pleasures which surround him. He had at last a seat in Parliament, was two years President of the Royal Society, and, on the accession of William and Mary, redied at Clapham, in 1703, and was buried in St. Olave's, tired from the bustle and fatigue of public affairs. He Hart-street. We hasten to give some choice extracts from this singularly interesting publication: "Jan. 1659-60-Home from my office to my Lord's lodgings, where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner, viz. a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of fowl, three pullets, and a dozen of larks all in a dish; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and cheese. My company was my father, my uncle Fenner, his two sons, Mr. Pierce, and all their wives, and my brother Tom, "The news of this day is a letter that speaks absolutely Monk's concurrence with this Parliament, and nothing else, which yet I hardly believe. Feb. 2. I this day left off my great skirt suit, and put on my white suit with silver lace coat, and went over to Harper's, where I met with W. Simons, Doling, Luellin and three merchants, one of which had occasion to use a porter; so they sent for one, and James the soldier came, who told us how they had been all day and night upon their guard at St. James's, and that through the whole town they did resolve to stand to what they had began, and that to-morrow he did believe they would go into the city, and be received there. After this we went to a sport called selling of a horse for a dish of eggs and herrings, and sat talking there till almost twelve at night." Within a few days Monk entered the metropolis, and the restoration became certain. "We were told that the Parliament had sent Scott and Robinson to Monk this afternoon, but he would not hear them. And that the Mayor and Aldermen had offered their own houses for himself and his officers, and that his soldiers would lack for nothing. And, indeed, I saw many people give the soldiers drink and money, and all along the streets cried God bless them,' and extraordinary good words. Hence we went to a merchant's house, hard by, where I saw Sir Nicholas Crisp, and so went to the Star Tavern, (Monk being then at Benson's.) In Cheapside there was a great many bonfires, and Bow bells and all the churches as we went home were a ringing. Hence we went homewards, it being about ten at night. But the common joy that was every where to be seen! The number of bonfires, there being fourteen between St. Dunstan's and Temple Bar, and at Strand Bridge I could at one time tell thirty one fires. In King-street, seven or eight; and all along burning and roasting, and drinking for rumps. There being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up and down. The butchers at the May Pole in the Strand rang a peal with their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of a spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting of it. Indeed it was past imagination, both the greatness and the suddenness of it. At one end of the street you would think there was a whole lane of fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side." Oct. 13. I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major Gen. Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at which there was great shouts of joy. It is said that he said that he was sure to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge them that now had judged him; and that his wife do expect his coming again. Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White-hall, and to see the first blood shed in revenge for the King at Charing Cross. 14th. To White-hall chappell, where one Dr. Crofts made an indifferent sermon, and after it an anthem, ill sung, which made the King laugh. Here I first did see the Princess Royall since she came into England. Here I also observed, how the Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wantonly through the hangngs that part the King's close and the closet where the ladies sit. 24th. To Mr. Lilly's with Mr. Spong, were well received, there being a clubb to-night among his friends. Among the rest, Esquire Ashmole, the antiquarian, who I found was a very ingenious gentleman. With him we two sang afterwards in Mr. Lilly's study. That done, we all parted; and I home by coach, taking Mr. Rooker with me, who did tell me a great many fooleries, which may be done by nativities, and blaming Mr. Lilly for writing to please his friends and to keep in with the times (as he did formerly to his own dishonour) and not according to the rules of art, by which he could not well erre, as he had done. head when I was a boy, and I was much afraid that he 7th. Notwithstanding this was the first day of the "Jan. 22d. I met with Dr. Thos. Fuller. He tells me 20th. Come my boy, to tell me that the Duke of York King's coming, and the length of the play, near o'clock, before it was done. 11th.-To Dr. Williams, who did carry me into ba garden, where he hath abundance of grapes; and he show me how a dog that he hath do kill all the cats tha come thither to kill his pigeons, and do afterwards hum them; and do it with so much care, that they sha quite covered; that if the tip of the tail hangs out he i take up the cat again, and dig the hole deeper. Whit very strange; and he tells me that he do believe that hath killed above 100 cats." We conclude with some piquant anecdotes of the cei brated Nell Gwyn: 66 July 13th, 1667.-Mr. Pierce tells us what trochlen me, that my Lord Buckhurst hath got Nell away from the King's house, and gives her £100 a-year; so as she hath sent her parts to the house, and will act no more. 14th.-To Epsum by eight o'clock, to the we; where much company. And to the towne to the King's Head; and hear that my Lord Buckhurst and Nelly are lodged at the next house, and Sir Charles Sedley with them: and keep a merry house. Poor girl! I pity her, but more the loss of her at the King's house. “August 22d.-With my Lord Brouncker and his mistress to the King's playhouse, and there saw The lin Emperour:' where I find Nell come again, which In glad of; but was most infinitely displeased with her being put to act the Emperour's daughter, which is a great and serious part, which she does most basely. 26th.-Sir W. Pen and I had a great deal of are with Mall, who tells us that Nell is already left by my Lord Buckhurst, and that he makes sport of her, swears that she hath had all she could get of him; and Hart, her great admirer, now hates her; and that she is very poor, and hath lost my Lady Castlemaine, who her great friend, also: but she is come to the playin but is neglected by them all. "October 5th. To the King's house; and there in met with Knipp, and she took us up into the rooms; and to the woman's shift, where Nell was dres herself, and was all unready, and is very pretty, p than I thought. And into the scene-room, ander down, and she gave us fruit; and here I read the tions to Knipp, while she answered me, through i part of "Flora's Figarys," which was acted to-dar. Lord! to see how they were both painted, would man mad, and did make me loathe them; and wha company of men comes among them; and hos k they talk! And how poor the men are in cas yet what a show they make on the stage by ca is very observable. But to see how Nell cursed, ing so few people in the pit, was strange; the other carrying away all the people at the new play, said now-a-days, to have generally most company, better players. By and by into the pit, and there sav play, which is pretty good.” Human Monster.-The Light-house, on the s Dago, which lies at the entrance of the Gulph of connected with an extraordinary story, which man, the blind traveller, relates as follows:-"TA passage on each side for shipping, but the western ca the deepest and largest. Some years back the p of this island, Baron built a house on an es situation, crowning it with an octagonal to large mirrors of plate glass were disposed to light, so as to resemble the light-house; this room casionally caused to be illuminated, while the proper house was kept in darkness. Deluded by the many vessels were wrecked on the coast, with the many of their crews; the cargoes were then seized monster, and appropriated to the gratification of b mous cupidity. At length the Captain of a vess had been a sufferer in consequence, ventured to the Baron, intending to upbraid him with his it happened that a person who had officiated inh as a tutor, had experienced a fit, and was supposed t died, so that the corpse had been laid out in on Sept. 7th, 1661.-Having appointed the young ladies apartments of the castle. Into this room the Ban at the Wardrobe to go with them to the play to-day, my veyed his victim, and there, dreading a disclosure wife and I took them to the Theatre, where we seated our villanies, murdered him with an axe. At this ju selves close by the King, and Duke of York, and Madame the supposed corpse recovered his sensibility, and Palmer, which was great content; and, indeed, I can never the cruel scene; but had the prudence to continue mode enough admire her beauty. And here was Bartholomew less until the inhuman monster had left the apartme Fayre,' with the puppet-shewe, acted to-day, which had when he availed himself of the opportunity to escape not been these forty years (it being so satyricall against Riga, and gave that information which terminated is Puritanism, they durst not till now, which is strange they wretch's perpetual banishment to the savage should already dare to do it, and the King do countenance Siberia; there, a prey to conscience and remorse, he Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-un-it;) but I do never a whit like it the better for the pup-ged out the miserable remnant of an existence, alre Windsor to White-hall, in order to his trial, and afterwards pets, but rather the worse. Thence home with the ladies, near its close to allow time to expiate a life of sup it being by reason of our staying a great while for the vity." November 1st. This morning Sir W. Penn and I were mounted early, and had very merry discourse all the way, he being very good company. We came to Sir W. Batten's, where he lives like a prince, and we were made very welcome. Among other things he showed me my Lady's closet, wherein was great store of rarities; as also a chair, which he calls King Harry's chaire, where he that sits down is catched with two irons, that come round about him, which makes good sport. Here dined with us two or three more country gentlemen; among the rest Mr. Christmas, my old school-fellow, with whom I had much talk. He did remember that I was a great Round der-Line, appointed by Cromwell to convey Charles I. from at as one of his judges." Again in town: |