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"Ts lawful to exercise that power Heaven has conferred upon me; which that you, Rebels and traitors to the power of Rome, hould not with all extremities undergo, What can you urge to qualify your crimes, Or mitigate my anger?

K. of Epire. We are now

Slaves to power, that yesterday were kings,
And had command o'er others; we confess
Our grandsires paid yours tribute, yet left us,
As their forefathers had, desire of freedom.
And if you Romans hold it glorious honour,
Not only to defend what is your own,

But to enlarge your empire (though our fortune
Denies that happiness,) who can accuse
The famish'd mouth, if it attempt to feed?
Or, such, whose fetters eat into their freedoms,
If they desire to shake them off?

I. of Pontus. We stand

The last examples, to prove how uncertain
All human happiness is; and are prepared
To endure the worst.

ut mihi informis, sic tibi magnifica est:
habui
equos, viros, arma, opes; quid mirum
si hæc invitus amisi." Mason has likewise
the same sentiment in these spirited lines:
Soldier, I had arms,

Had neighing steeds to whirl my iron cars,
Had wealth, dominions: dost thou wonder, Roman,
I fought to save them?

Scientific Records.

[Comprehending Notices of new Discoveries or Improvements in Science or Art; including, occasionally, sin gular Medical Cases; Astronomical, Mechanical, Philosophical, Botanical, Meteorological, and Mineralogical Phenomena, or singular Facts in Natural History; Vegetation, &c.; Antiquities, &c.; to be continued in a Series through the Volume.]

BRITISH STEAM BOATS.

The Emperor next desires his daughter STEAM-PACKETS TO THE HEBRIDES AND NORTHArtemia to choose a husband, and her WEST OF SCOTLAND.-The great facilities now afchoice falls upon Antoninus. But, his afforded for visiting many parts of this country, by means of the cheap and safe conveyance of these vessels, contifections being already Dorothea's, he first nue to be everywhere on the increase. At present, it attempts to evade her proposals; but over- must afford much satisfaction to all interested in the northern parts of our island, to learn that a communicome with fear of the consequences of re- cation is now to be opened, by this admirable invention, to many parts of the Highlands, which were lately, and fusing the daughter of an Emperor, he at are yet, comparatively inaccessible by roads. It is now last, with seeming pleasure, consents to intended that a Steam-boat shall begin to ply from the Clyde to the Lewes, through the Criman Canal and marry her. The whole of this scene is re- Sound of Mull-to call at Tobermory-from thence to plete with the most beautiful poetry: I can- the sound of Skye-call at Isle-Ornsay, Lochalsh, Castle. moil, Portree, and afterwards to go on to Stornoway. The Steam-boat Highland Chieftain, has already gone as far as the Sound of Skye on this route, for a trial, and performed the passage in the remarkably short space of $5 hours, from Glasgow-a distance of 235 miles; notwithstanding she had to stem the currents which run so violently in the sounds of Skye and Mull. She returned in nearly the same time, and encountered, with great intrepidity, very severe weather. The track now propo sed that this Steam-boat shall run, will be highly grati fying, in the summer months for an excursion.

K. of Macedon. That spoke, which now is highest not, therefore, refrain from laying a few

In fortune's wheel, must, when she turns it next,
Decline as low as we are. This, consider'd,
Taught the Egyptian Hercules, Sesostris,
That had his chariot drawn by captive Kings,
To free them from that slavery ;-but to hope
Such mercy from a Roman, were mere madness:
We are familiar with what cruelty

1 Rome, since her infant greatness, ever used

Such as she triumph'd over; age nor sex
Exempted from her tyranny; scepter'd princes
Kept in their common dungeons, and their children
In scorn train'd up in base mechanic arts
For public bondmen. In the catalogue
Of those unfortunates, we expect to have
Our names remember'd.

The answer of Dioclesian is finely expressed, and prepossesses us much in his favour.

Diocles. In all growing empires,
Even cruelty is useful; some must suffer,
And be set up examples to strike terror
In others, though far off: but, when a state
Is raised to her perfection, and her bases

Too firm to shrink, or yield, we may use mercy,
And do't with safety: but to whom? not cowards,
Nor such whose business shames the conqueror,
And robs him of his victory, as weak Perseus
Did great Amilius. Know, therefore, Kings
Of Epire, Pontus, and of Macedon,
That I with courtesy can use my prisoners,
As well as make them mine by force, provided
That they are noble enemies: such I found you,
Before I made you mine; and, since you were so,
You have not lost the courages of princes,
Although the fortune. Had you borne yourselves
Dejectedly, and base, no slavery

Had been too easy for you: but such is
The power of noble valour, that we love it
Even in our enemies, and, taken with it,
Desire to make them friends, as I will you.

The lines marked in italics bear a strik-
ing resemblance to that noble speech in
Tacitus, of the captive Caractacus, to the
Emperor Claudius: "Præsens sors mea,

morceaux before the reader:

Artem. I am no object to divert your eye
From the beholding.

Antonin. Rather a bright sun,
Too glorious for him to gase upon,

That took not first flight from the eagle's aerie.
As I look on the temples, or the gods,

And with that reverence, Lady, I behold you,
And shall do ever.

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

The celebrated French chemist Mr. Gay-Lussac, is stated to have made a very valuable discovery of a means to render the most inflammable substances combustible

After a few such evasions, he thus em- without flame and without fire. These bodies are conbraces her offer.

Anton. The tender of

My life, my service, or, since you vouchsafe it,
My love, my heart, my all; and pardon me,
Pardon, dread Princess, that I made some scruple
To leave a valley of security,

To mount up to the hill of Majesty,

On which the nearer Jove, the nearer lightning.
What knew I but your grace made trial of me;
Durst I presume to embrace, where but to touch
With an unmanner'd hand, was death? The fox,
When he saw first the forest's king, the lion,
Was almost dead with fear; the second view
Only a little daunted him; the third

He durst salute him boldly; pray you, apply this;
And you shall find a little time will teach me
To look with more familiar eyes upon you,
Than duty yet allows me.

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sumed without properly catching fire; or, in other words, without feeding or propagating the fire. Muslin, prepared after the process of the inventor, has been exposed to the flames, and was consumed without producing even a spark. This discovery, though now first publicly allnounced, is said not to be of recent date.

Organic Remains.-Extract of a letter from Dr. Tyt ler, dated the 9th of March, published in a Calcutta paper:-" I forgot whether I mentioned to you that in my late expedition to Kallingur, I picked up a fossil oyster shell on the summit of a high hill above the vil lage of Bheeamow; strange to say, this organic remain was in union with granite and basalt rocks. Along with many other circumstances this proves that these hills were formerly all under water. In the bed of river near Russur, I also found the fossil remain of the first joint of a human finger. It is evidently the first phalanx of a finger, and I think the first finger of the right hand, but it is more than twice the size of the joint of an ordinary man; ergo, the person it belonged to must at least have been twelve feet high. These two singular curiosities will shortly be despatched to the Asiatic Society."-Cal. Gov. Gaz. March 23.

A CHANGEABLE FLOWER.

On the island of Lewchew, says Mr. M'Leod, is found a remarkable production, about the size of a cherry tree, bearing flowers, which, alternately, on the same day, assume the tint of the rose or lilly, as they are exposed to sunshine or the shade. The bark of this tree is of a dark green, and the flowers bear a resemblance to our common roses. Some of our party, whose powers of vision were strong, (assisted by vigorous imaginations) fancied that, by attentive watching, the change of hue, from white to red, under the influence of the solar ray, was actually preceptible to the eye: that, however, they altered their colour in the course of a few hours, was very obvious.

Remedy for the Disease at present prevalent amon Swine.-Soot, gunpowder, brimstone, and salt, equ parts. Dose: a table spoonful, with as much water will wash it down.

THE CHARACTER OF AN HONEST MAN.

Nor High Church, nor Low Church, nor Tory, nor
Whig:

Nor flutt'ring young Coxcomb, nor formal old Prig;
I can laugh at a Jest, if not told out of time,
And excuse a Mistake, but not flatter a Crime;
Unbiassed I view things around as they pass,
Nor squint at the Great through a blackening glass:
The faults of my friends I'd scorn to expose;
And detest private scandal, tho' cast on my foes;
I put none to the Blush upon any pretence,
For Immodesty shocks both good manners and sense:
No one's Person I hate, though their conduct I blame,
I can censure a crime, without naming a name.
To amend, not expose, is the turn of my mind,
For reproof must be lost, if ill-nature be join'd;
When Merit appears, if in rags, I respect it,

And will plead Virtue's cause, though the world should reject it.

Cool Reason I bow to wherever 'tis found,

And rejoice when true Learning with honour is crown'd.
No Party I serve in no quarrel I join-
Nor damn the opinion that differs from mine.
No Corruption I screen, tho' no Treason I sing.
I'm a Friend to my Country, yet true to my King.

THE PIG IN A POKE;

OB, THE DOUBLE METAMORPHOSIS. (From the London Magazine.)

A farmer's lease contain'd a flaw;
To mend it, he appeal'd to law.
Dear-bought experience told him plain,
That law without a fee was vain;
And that, to clear his Counsel's tone, he
Must bribe him or with meat or money.

One morn he calls his clown in chief,
Here, take this pig to lawyer Brief."
The clown (unlike his wife, they say)
Could both be silent and obey:
The pig, secur'd within a sack,
At ease hung dangling from his back;
Thus loaded, straight to Town he went,
With many an awkward compliment.

A half-way house convenient stood, Where host was kind, and all was good: In steps the clown, and calls to Cecil, "A quart of stout, to wet my whistle!" Eas'd' of his load, he takes a chair, And quaffs oblivion to all care.

Three artful wags accost the clown, And ask his errand up to Town. With potent ale his heart grown warm, Which, drunk or sober, meant no harm, He told them plainly whence he came; His master, and the lawyer's name; And, ere the circling mug was drain'd, Show'd what the prostrate sack contain'd. Whilst two the witless clown amuse, With merry tales and mournful news, A third removes the sack unseen, And soon sets free the guest within: But, lest our clown the trick should trace, A well-fed cur supplies the place.

The point clear'd up of what's to pay,
Our clown in peace pursu'd his way.
Arriv'd, he makes his awkward bow,
With many a wherefore and as how;
"Heaven bless your honour many a year!
"Look what a pig I've brought you here."
The sack untied without demur,
Forthwith out gently crept the cur.
Both stood aghast with eager eyes,
And both, no doubt, look'd wondrous wise.
The clown, who saw the lawyer foam,
Swore 'twas a pig when brought from home:
And, wond'ring at the queer disaster,
In haste return'd to tell his master.

Well pleas'd to see him take the bait,
The wags his quick return await.
What peals of noisy mirth prevail,
To hear him tell his mystic tale!
The devil is in't, they all agree,
And seem to wonder more than he.
From them to Cecil he repairs,
To her the strange event declares:
Meanwhile the wags, to end the joke,
Replace the pig within its poke.
The rustic soon resumes his load,
And, whistling, plods along the road,

Th' impatient farmer hails the clown, And asks, "What news from London Town? "The pig was lik'd, they made you drink?" Nay, master! master! what d'ye think? "The pig (or I'm a stupid log)

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"Is chang'd into a puppy dog."

"A dog?""Nay, since my word you doubt, "See here; I'll fairly turn him out."

No sooner was the sack untied, Than a loud grunt his word belied: "Death!" cries the farmer, "tell me whence "Proceeds this daring insolence? "Make haste, you blunderer, take it back, "Or from my service you shall pack!" The clown, of patient soul and blood, Awhile in silent wonder stood; Then briefly cried, with phiz demure, "Yon lawyer is a witch for sure! "How hoarse his voice! his face how grim! "What's pig with us, is dog with him: "Heaven shield my future days from evil! For, as I live, I've seen the devil."

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A CHARACTER.

The maid I shall love must be free from disguise;
Wear her heart on her lips, her soul in her eyes:
A soul by the precepts of virtue inform'd,
And a heart by the purest benevolence warm'd.
Her converse so varied, as ever to please,
Unaffectedly cheerful, and polish'd with ease;
Her person attractive, her temper serene,

Her wit rather brilliant and playful than keen.

ON SEEING A LADY PAINT A ROSE ON THE FOREGROUND OF A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE.

Pure as the dawn the landscape glows
As Lydia's mimic pencil flies;
Graceful each rural beauty grows,
The forests rise, the river glows,

And swelling mountains reach the skies,
Combining all their modest hues,

The silv'ry shadows clothe the glade, While light with heavenly blue imbues

The rose-with all its charms display'd, She dreams not 'tis herself portray'd; For genius with its ray divine,

Illumes her eye and fires her breast, Where all the fond affections shine, Where all the graces there combine

To make the portrait glow, in virtue's colours

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Tainted art thou, inconstant, cruel maid,

For thou art faithless to my ardent breast, And all thy charms, in my esteem, are laid In shades of darkness, lovely, but unbless'd. So think not, fair one, that a single tear

Shall dim the eye that fondly gazed on thee;
Nor vainly think the world shall ever hear
A tender sigh, where'er I chance to be.
No! rather would I from the poison'd bowl
Drink deep, than sorrow for a faithless fair;
Rather I'd plunge my unrepented soul,
In the wide ocean of perpetual care.
Farewell! I feel; but oh! I must not love,
For all ingratitude art thou to me;

I may remember, but the scene above
Alone can show me true felicity.

COADE LAMBETH.

Liverpool.

The Gleaner.

"I am but a gatherer and disposer of other we's stuff." WOTTON.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-The subject of the extract which seco pauies this, (taken from the "Leamington Gui may, perhaps, prove acceptable 10 many of yourmal ers, as it is believed that "Kenilworth Castle,"i shortly to come out in the form of a novel, from the pen of the admired writer of the works of this de scription, imputed to Sir Walter Scott.

A SUBSCRIBER, XXIIL Liverpool, 5th Dec. 1820.

CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF KENILWORTH CASTLE,

Now in Ruins, situated five miles from Coventry, end the same distance from Warwick.

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LINES

To the Village of Kenilworth, by the Poet lago, which he styles, Assemblage sweet, of social and serene! But chiefly two fair streets in adverse row, Their lengthened front extend, reflecting each Beauty on each reciprocal. Between A verdant valley, slop'd from either side, Forms the mid space, where gently gliding flows A crystal stream, beneath the mouldering base Of an old Abbey's venerable walls. Still further in the vale, her castle lifts Its stately tow'rs and tottering battlements, Dress'd with the rampant ivy's uncheck'd grown

luxuriant."

Kenilworth is supposed to derive its name from s ancient possessor, a Kenil, the syllable "worthe" siga

fying a dwelling-place. Before the Conquest, it belonged to the crown, but in the reign of Henry I. it was given to Geoffery de Clinton, to whom it was under great ob

ligation, he having been the builder of its priory and

Castle. The manor of the castle is the inheritance of the
Earls of Clarendon. Geoffery de Clinton (according to
Ordericus Vitalis) was of mean parentage, and owed
his rise entirely to the extraordinary talents he possessed,

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The late Henry Andrews, of Royston, the celebrated calculator, was born at Frieston, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, of

uninterrupted state of good health till his last illness. He had a very extraordinary genius for astronomy, which he cultivated through life; for more than 40 years he was a computer of the Nautical Ephemeris,* and compiler of Moore's Almanack, published by the Stationers' Company for the

and the profuse favour of his sovereign, by whom he was afterwards raised to the high trust and dignity of Lard Chief Justice of England. Geoffery, following the castle-building rage of that period, raised the ori ginal structure of this "far-famed pile," in which, says poor parents. At the age of 6 years he same period. He was greatly esteemed Dugdale, he much delighted, by reason of its spacious would frequently stand in his shirt, looking woods, and that large and pleasant lake lying amongst them." Geoffery also founded the Monastery of Black at the moon out of the chamber window, at Canons, of the Order of St. Augustine. It was most profusely endowed by him and his posterity, and midnight; and when about 10 years of age, became one of the richest in the kingdom. In the he used to fix a table on Frieston Green, in reign of Henry III. the castle was used as a prison, and justices were twice appointed to the gaol-clear frosty nights, and set a telescope delivery. In the twenty-fourth year of this reign, thereon to view the stars. Soon after, he the chapel was ceiled, wainscoted, and embellished with paintings: handsome seats were made for the King, would sit for weeks together by the fire-side, and Queen. Two years after this, Gilbert de Sedgrove with a table spread full of books, making

was appointed Governor of this castle, for the King, by

nor his wife, sister to Henry, had the trust of it for life;

for his integrity, talents, and modesty, by every scientific man who was personally acquainted with him, or with whom he had been connected, particularly by the late Astronomer Royal (Dr. Maskelyne) who valued him much, and who, in relation to the Nautical Ephemeris, was in constant correspondence with him for nearly half a century:

Almanacks.

Since he ceased, from increase of age, to be the calhome and abroad. culator of the ephemeris, it has fallen into discredit at

+ The sale of Moore's Almanack, in his hands, rose to 430,000 copies per annum-yet honest Andrews never got above £25 for his labours! This prodigious circu the worthy calculator was required to fill it, and with lation arose from the astrological predictions with which which it is allowed to be filled, though printed for a pubPlace, by the Archbishop of Canterbury! Andrews lic company, and revised aud sanctioned at Lambeth himself laughed as much at his own predictions, and their success, as any one of his more enlightened readers; but the circulation of the Almanacks depended on their insertion, and he was expected to supply them, or lose his employment. Of course he predicted secundum artem, and followed his books and the stars, which indicted events in various ratios of probability; and if one in tem came true, it satisfied he superstition, folly, and credu who were his readers, and who, in spite of education and lity of the dupes of dreams, omens, signs, and prophecies, philosophy, still constitute a majority of this great nation,

letters patent; and, in 1254, Simon Montford and Elea astronomical calculations. At a suitable age and also by Dr. Charles Hutton, under Simon much strengthened and enlarged the castle, but he was sent from home to earn his living, whose superintendence he made the asafterwards ungratefully joining the Barons in their rebellion against their sovereign, he made Sir John Gifford and the first situation he filled was at Slea-tronomical calculations of the Stationers' into Governor, and constituted it the strong hold of the ford, as a servant to a shopkeeper: after this Insurgent nobles. But he was soon rewarded for his treachery, for in the battle of Evesham, August, 1265, he went to Lincoln, to wait upon a lady, where he commanded the rebel troops against the royal and during this servitude used, on every opforces, he and his son Henry were both killed, and his youngest son, Simon, only escaped by taking shelter portunity, to make weather-glasses and the castle, with other fugitive nobles. Here this young and daring rebel, for some months committed weather-houses. His last situation of this I sort of excesses; he and his associates became re-kind was in the service of J. Verinum, Esq; rular banditti, and were in the frequent habit of making sallies from the castle, in which they plun- and his master, finding him so intent on red and maltreated every one that fell in their study, allowed him two or three hours every wer, burning the cottages of the peasantry who would not assist them, and rioting, squandering, day for that purpose. On the 1st of April, ad domineering in the most arbitrary manner, so hat they were usually styled the Robber Knights. 1764, he went to Aswerby Hall, the seat Their outrageous conduct so provoked the aged Henry, of Sir Christopher Whitchcote, to view the hat at length he marched his army against them in on, suddenly entering the town and appearing before great eclipse of the sun, which was visible the castle in battle array. This so alarmed young Simon, that he, dastard like, withdrew to France, and left on that day, where a number of ladies and the castle under the government of Henry de Hastings, gentlemen had assembled for that purpose; who, spite of all proposals to surrender, sustained a six month's siege with such resolution, that the King's forces and as he had previously calculated a type were obliged to turn it into a blockade. In the seventh year of Edward I. 1286, a chivalric of this eclipse, he presented the same to the meeting was held in this castle, at the instigation of company, showing the manner of its appearRoger Mortimer, Earl of March, consisting of one andred Knights, English and foreign, of distinction, ance in a dark room upon a board, and and the same number of ladies; this meeting creat-after it was over, they unanimously declared a great bustle at the time and was numerously attended by persons from all parts; the Knights ex-ed that his calculations came nearer the ercised themselves by tournaments in the tilt yard, truth than any given in the Almanacks. A Roger being the principal challenger, and the ladies in lancing. As it was a professed revival of the festival of short time after this period he opened a he Round Table, all the customary ceremonials were bserved; they styled themselves the Society of the school at Bassingthorpe, near Grantham, Round Table, and were seated at one, in order to avoid and afterwards engaged as an usher in a contentions about precedence, At this festival, silks, it said, were first worn in England; it began on the eve clergyman's boarding-school, at Stilton. of St. Matthew, and continued till the festival of St. Mi. He then settled in Cambridge, where he hael. Henry Earl of Lancaster, whose son Henry, Duke f Lancaster, leaving only two daughters, the castle fell, purposed to reside, in the expectation that n partition, to the youngest, Blanche; from her it went

ECCENTRIC CHARACTER. [Inserted at the request of a Correspondent.] There is, at present, residing at Havering Bower, a small village near Romford, in Essex, (heretofore honoured by the residence of Edward the Confessor, and other royal personages,) in a thatched cottage, which formerly might have been neat and respectable, (its preman, aged about sixty, named Elizabeth (commonly sent appearance shall be hereafter described) an old wocalled Betty) Ball. She is known, and talked about, for miles round, by the appellation of "The Goat woman," from her keeping several of these animals: at present, her stock consists of about seven or eight besides four sheep, a small horse and cart, &c. and some poultry. She is of a respectable family, and has a brother, I believe, who keeps his carriage, They cotrage (which is her own, with a piece of ground round it) and present way of living, but in vain. She is of low stature, and bowed still lower by age and infirmity, stooping very much, and having a hunip upon her shoulders. When she goes out any where, which she does sometimes, to purchase hay for her horse, to harness and put her nag into the cart, and she is no firewood, &c.; she procures the assistance of some one, sooner in (indeed frequently not in) than he sets off, full gallop, and very often running away with her to the place where she is going, which he knows as well which she receives, I believe, as she wants it, which as she does. It is said she has about £350 a year, must be very little, and seldom indeed, at the Romford Bank. The cottage is small, containing four

7 her marriage to John of Gaunt, afterwards created he might derive some advantage in prosecu-have frequently endeavoured to induce her to leave her Duke of Lancaster. This celebrated nobleman, in the ting his studies, from the men of science reign of the ill-fated Richard the Second, began the tructure of most of the buildings now remaining, which in the university; but the noise and bustle were called after him, and still retain the name of Lan- of the town not being agreeable to him, he aster Buildings. About this period, Richard the Second is supposed to have lodged with his Court at the left Cambridge, and came to reside at castle, when he went to preside at the duel that was to ave been fought between Henry Duke of Hereford, Royston, where he opened a school at the fterwards Henry the Fourth, and the Duke of Norfolk, at Coventry. The castle was alternately taken and reaken by the adherents to the White and Red Rose, till, on the fifth of Queen Elizabeth, it was bestowed upon her favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who spared no cost in beautifying it.

XXIII.

K. A. R.

age of 23 years, and at this place continued,
as schoolmaster and bookseller, until the
day of his death, which happened, after a
short illness, on the 26th of January, 1820,
at the age of 76 years, having enjoyed an

rooms, two on the ground floor, and two upstairs.

"Realms of everlasting bliss ?"

and who has succeeded in painting, in such vivid
colours, those

"Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace

And rest can never dwell; Hope never comes;"
to the reign of “Chaos and old Night;" to this iu-
fant world; and, in short, through the boundless
space of the universe!

The latter are now never entered, being fastened up | Fields of Elysium, nor to the Shades of Tartarus,
as unsafe, from their decayed state, caused by filth and but to the
neglect; the goats, &c. having had free admission, and
no scouring brush or duster ever following their steps.
The furniture, what there is, is falling fast to pieces;
and it is only by standing still and untouched, that
what is whole remains so. The furniture of her
per-
son is, if possible, worse. It consists chiefly of an
old gown, which the poorest beggar would not pick
from a dung-hill; wrapping, occasionally, when she
goes out or sleeps, an old dirty blanket or counterpane
about her. She is not often seen, for, when she goes
out, she sits down at the bottom of her cart, and foot
passengers can only see her head, her grey hair turned
up in front, and a handkerchief corresponding with
the rest of her dress, tied over it. Of the two lower
rooms, one is filled with firewood, upon which the
poultry roost; the other is her "kitchen, and parlour,
and every thing," for, in it, eat, drink, and sleep, the
whole household, the feathered part excepted in the
last particular. The only things that I can hear of in
this room (for I have not seen it) are, a small hanging
shelf, suspended from the ceiling, on which are depo-
sited such little things as she may wish to keep from
the goats, a stool, and a rail round the fire-place.

Miscellanies.

CATTLE OF THE HEBRIDES.

At the western extremity of the island of Lis. more are some rocks separated at low water, where the cattle may be daily observed resorting quit ting the fertile pastures to feed on sea-weed. has erroneously been supposed, that this practice, as well as the eating of fish, was the result of hun ger. It appears, on the contrary, to be the effect which they attend to the diurnal variations of the of choice in cattle as well as in sheep that have once found access to this diet. The accuracy with tide is very remarkable; calculating the times of the ebb with such nicety, that they are seldom mis taken even when the have some miles to walk to the beach. In the same way they always secure their retreat from these chosen spots in such a manner u never to be surprised and drowned by the returning

for their lively representations of the future state;
If the poets of antiquity deserve so much credit
how much more should Milton meet with, who
portrays angels of the most celestial purity, and
devils, the hideousness of whose forms is only ex-
ceeded by the malignity of their minds; who seem
indeed, in the agonies of despair, well fitted to
"Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air in tide. With respect to fish, it is equally certain the

whirlwind;

And, in the horrors of despair, to exasperate
The Almighty Victor to spend all his rage,
If that may end them."

they often prefer it to their best pastures. It is not les remarkable that the horses of Shetland eat fish fr choice, and that the dogs brought up on those shores continue to prefer it to all other diet, even after leng absence. The feeding of cattle with fish is a practice

And the angels, with which he has peopled the ce- well known in Canada.-Macculloch's description if the lestial world, appear indeed to be

"Natives of heaven,
for other place,

Western Islands of Scotland.

CHINESE WARFARE.

None can than heaven such glorious shapes contain." And after reading his sublime description of the in a late engagement, the Tartars were ordered to In order to act effectually against several mountainee world's creation, (which is, however, but a para-vance, each carrying a bundle of thorns to enable the phrase of the account given by Moses) of the power of HIM who had only to say,

"Thus far extend; thus far thy bound; This be thy just circumference, O world!" and immediately

Some time since she was taken very ill. Not being seen for several days, it was feared something was the matter with her, and the door was forced open, when she was found in a dying state, being unable to move. Those who entered were obliged to do so upon their hands and knees; the never-removed straw for her own bed, and that of her horse, sheep and goats, having accumulated about half-way up the door-way, and was the same height every where else. She was taken to the poor-house, where, after a short time, by proper treatment, she recovered. During her confinement, ten large loads of dung were taken out of her room, which was found so good, that a gentleman gave ten guineas for it! A guinea a load!!! When she became convalescent, they tried again, thinking it a favourable opportunity to induce her to alter her mode of living. She appeared to acquiesce, but said she must first go and see her goats. She went; and there they were obliged to leave her, for she would not leave them. "Earth, self-balanc'd, on her centre hung,” While clearing out the dung, a once handsome eight- one cannot but smile at the complicated machinery day clock, apparently whole, (though no doubt was Virgil makes use of (See 1st Eneid) to get up a entertained of its being much out of order) upon being Storm; which, however, like the spirits which it touched, crumbled all to pieces, being completely rot-caused Manfred so much trouble to rouse, is horri ten. She keeps a fire continually burning, and sleeps ble enough: his demigods, and even "pater omniby the side of it, huddled up in a lump, or, if extended, taking her favourite goat for a pillow. Frequently, potens" Jove himself, are absolutely (even por when putting a piece of bread, &c. on her saving-shelf, trayed by Virgil) contemptible, when compared with and standing on the stool, in order to be able to reach the awfully grand description given by our Milton, of it, some of the goats will run against her, and knock HIM who spake, and it was done; who commanded, her down. "Don't you," she says, "don't you do so." and it stood fast. At her they come again, sometimes; still she only says "don't you," and puts them away with her hands. HENRICUS.

HORE OTIOSE.

[Written for the Kaleidoscope.]

No. II.

MILTON.

The Paradise Lost of this author, abounding with the most daring flights of fancy, and the most beautiful imagery, has long possessed deserved popularity; and when we for a moment recollect, that it was the production of a man deprived of sight, and bowed down under the pressure of old age; in want and poverty; our admiration of the poem is converted into respect for the author. The bold and vigorous manner in which Milton executed this book, under so many and great difficulties, is, indeed, a striking proof that the mind of man is neither necessarily connected with, nor dependant upon, the body, either for existence or animation.

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It has been objected, however, that Milton has acted absurdly in making Satan and his host acquainted with the invention of cannon, long before they were known. But is it not absurd to tie the poet down, by refusing to let him place in the hands of such combatants such weapons, merely because they were not known to man? Although it is far from probable that such weapons were either used or wanted, in a battle of spirits. In short, whether Milton has, however, frequently suffered by com- we regard the sublimity of the subject, the fervor parison with the classic poets of antiquity; and and talents of the poet, the beauty and purity of his some have altogether condemned this unparalleled images, the elegance of his diction, or the boldness poem, as absurd and contemptible. If Virgil, how- and enthusiasm of his style, we feel couvineed, that, ever, deserved so much applause for successfully if some have been found to excel, there are but few painting the heroes, deities, and demons of the Ro-productions that ever equaled Milton's Paradise man Mythology, how much more is due to the man Lost.

who undertook to convey his readers, not to the Liverpool, December, 1820.

M.

to ward off the arrows and stones which were thrown
them. When they had advanced within a gunshot of
the enemy, they were ordered to fall back on their fir
position. This manœuvre was repeated for six succes-
sive days, when the mountaineers having exhausted their
stock of arrows and stones, fell an easy prey to the Ta
tars. When the latter attack a town, they are accustri
ed to seize the inhabitants of the adjacent places, and
make them march before them to the walls of the tow
Every horseman appropriates to himself ten villages
whom he despatches to procure provisions and fuel,
stone and earth to fill up the ditches of the fortres
Those who work slowly, or do not procure suffer
The peasantry are employed night and day in this a
quantities of provisions, are massacred. When
is taken, all the inhabitants, old and young, ra
poor, who oppose the victorious party, are slaughtered
without mercy.-From the Pekin Gazette, March $,

1817.

jun. of Mansfield, cut, in his nursery, upwards of on Remarkable Fact.-On Friday se'nnight, Mr. Ara, hundred heads of asparagus, in full perfection, which had grown in the open ground.

A snake, three quarters of a yard in length, covered, a few days since, to issue from a crevice in floor of the Three Mariners Inn, in Taunton, and tend itself before the fire, where it was killed.

The following is a literal copy of the direction of letter which is now lying in the post office, Mold: to Owen hughs on the lift hand Side hart Street oper Mrs: Salts house if She is removed for Mrs: Salt to Send it to him

HISTORICAL CURIOSITY.

country girl came to London in search of place,
During the troubles in the reign of Charles L
servant maid; but not succeeding, she applied herse
to carrying out beer from a brewhouse, and was t
of those called tubwomen. The brewer observing
well looking girl in this low occupation, took her into a
family as a servant, and after a while married herb
he died while she was yet a young woman, and lef
her a large fortune. The business of the brewery was
dropped, and the young woman was recommended to
Mr. Hyde, as a gentleman of skill in law, to settle her
Earl of Clarendon) finding the widow's fortune ve
Hyde (who was afterwards the
considerable, married her.
Of this marriage the
was no other issue than a daughter, who was after
wards the wife of James the II. and mother of Mary
and Anne, Queens of England.

husband's affairs.

THE FINE ARTS OF ST. GILES'S.

The following whimsical article is upon a subject with which we seldom presume to meddle, as it does

not, to our notion, fall within either the "utile," or the dulci," which form the motto of the Kaleidoscope. here is, however, occasionally in these annals of the ancy, "tit bits," as the following is styled, which may Annuse our readers, and we select the following from the recent London prints, for their edification.

TIT-BITS FOR THE FANCY.

Di (the table-lifter) who can take from the ground

a mahogany table, on which fourteen persons may dine, with his teeth, and shake it with his mouth like a roll; also twist a pair of tongs round a man's neck, by way of a neck cloth, in a twinkling; and break a large kitchen poker across his arm with the utmost Bang froid, a few evenings since, after taking a drain or two of cordial, fancied he could serve out the Birmingham Youth in quick time, and a purse of £5 was instantly collected by the Swells to make it more sweet. It turned out a prime job for Samson, who, in the course of eight minutes, occupying six rounds, put the quilt so completely on Di, that he could not come to the scratch. Samson made quite a picture of him—indeed it was an old friend in the fancy with a new face. Di showed good game; but his friends advised him, at

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" At a large Room, in the New Street, Ashton, Friday
Evening, June 30th, 1797, will be presented a favour-
ite Comedy, called

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.

Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Hillyard; Joseph Surface, Mr.
Hillyard, jun. Sir Benjamin Backbite, Master Hillyard;
Trip, Master T. Hillyard; and Charge, Miss Hillyard.
Lady Teazle, Miss P. Hillyard; Lady Sneerwell, Mrs.
Hillyard. End of the Play, a Song by Mr. Hillyard.
To which will be added, a Farce, called

BARNABY BRITTLE;

OR, A WIFE AT HER WIT'S END.
Sir Peter Pride, Mr. Hillyard, jun. Mr. Lovemore,
Master Hillyard; Clodpole, Mr. Hillyard; Mrs. Brittle,
Miss P. Hillyard; Damaris, Miss Hillyard; Lady
Pride, Mrs. Hillyard. To begin at eight o'clock, ad-
mittance 1s. children 6d."

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-Public speakers and others, when wishing the end of the 5th round, when time was called, to give to impress their hearers with the importance of the in, as he had not a shadow of a chance, Samson, how-subject upon which they are speaking, say "it is of ever, very liberally told Di to take his own time. Af the first importance." Others, when wishing to ter one minute and a half had elapsed, Di again show-make the same impression, say "it is of the last ed fight, when Samson gave him such a receipt in full, importance." Now, Sir, could you or any of your that poor Di was in a trance for a few seconds, and correspondents inform me which phrase is proper, you quite forgot all about the table and pokers. Samson

had not a scratch; and made Di a present of ten bob to
get something to wash his mug-Josh. Hudson, who
so lately disposed of the Swell in such a swellish man-
ner, and who, in consequence, had been making "too
free"
ever since, the other evening, when almost as
groggy as a sailor three sheets in the wind, being in
company with Turner, Shelton, Martin, and Purcell,
Josh. talked of milling the whole kit, Shelton, &c. at
which they only smiled in the most perfect good
hamour. Josh. however, would not be denied-fight
he would, observing, at the same time, that he could
beat both the Nonpareils! Turner declared over and
over again, he had much rather not fight; but Ned
was compelled to take a turn. The action immediately
commenced. The science of Turner was fine and
effective; and in two instances, where he might have
panished Josh. in a severe manner, he tapped him on
the shoulder, and said, "Josh. I won't hit you."
There was no closing. Josh. went down beavily seve-
ral times; and he was also punished sharply about the
mouth. The game of Josh. was excellent, but he had
no chance, and Turner had not a scratch. After fight-
ing about a quarter of an hour, it was observed to the
combatants, they were not fighting for a prize, and
it was better to tie it up." Josh. was then taken away;
he however talked about fighting another day. It was
the daffy in Josh. that kicked up all the row. It was
not Hudson that fought; and Tom Owen was seen to
pull out his wipe, and apply it to his ogles, on witness-
ing this foolish row between his two boys-two game

chicks of his own rearing!

Correspondence.

A FAMILY OF ACTORS.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-The following PLAYBILL may, probably, form an acceptable article among your Dramatic Notices. I understand that the Thespian family, whose performances are announced in it, was well known in Lancashire and Yorkshire, about the latter end of the last century. It would be a fact worth as certaining, whether or not any of the theatrical brood arrived at any excellence in their profession.

shall judge proper to be appropriated to the purpose of building slaughtering houses thereon; and that all and every person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, whether Lay or Ecclesiastical, and all other persons whatsoever, under what disabilities soever they or any of them shall be, shall have full power and authority to contract and agree with the said Common Council for the sale, to them, of such land or ground, and to convey and assure the same unto the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses of Liverpool aforesaid, and their successors, for ever: and that the said Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses shall have the power of selling and letting the same land and ground, and all other lands or grounds whereof they are now scised, or any part thereof for the sole purpose of erecting thereon buildings for the killing and dressing of beasts; or shall have the power of erecting such buildings, or any of them, at their own option, and of demising or selling the same, for the said purpose; and that then, and from thenceforth, no beast or cattle shall be killed or dressed elsewhere in the said town, save in the same buildings, under pain that each person offending, contrary to this act, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty shillings for each and every offence.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-I am an elderly young lady, as a certain Freuch author delicately expresses it—d'un certain age; that is to say, appertaining to forty; a period, which, in those good times I have heard my mamma comment upon, was considered the going-out season for timid girls; but in these degenerate days, when infancy is called youth, and virgin maturity old age, is fairly shoved forward half a century in the foreground of society. Though, through the bad taste and Vandalism of the past generation of beaux, I am would confer an obligation of the greatest import-constrained to wear the yellow wreath of celibacy, ance on still my heart, unchanged by the progress of years, retains so much of its wonted sensibility, that were it not for the useful effects resulting from the invention of sal volatile and Hungary water, I am sure I should suffer as much as Cecilia during her Billinsgate altercation with the hackney-coachman, or poor little Eugenia when she tumbled off the see-saw, and broke her leg-by the way, a very unheroine-like event!

Liverpool, Dec. 21.

Yours,

TO THE EDITOR.

JULIUS.

Sir,-In passing through the different streets of this town during the last three or four wet days, I was surprised to find many of the causeways unpaved; but one in particular I will point out, and that is opposite a timber-yard in Scotland-road, which, in wet weather is almost impassable (especially for the ladies) without having to cross over the street to the other side of the way. Now, as the expense would be very trifling, I should wish our worthy chief magistrate to cause the same to be done forthwith which will oblige many of the inhabitants in Scotland. road, as well as

Liverpool, Dec. 13, 1820.

A DAILY PASSER BY.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR, AS (owing to the unfortunate accident which happened about a fortnight ago) some notice was taken in the Mercury, of the shameful practice of driving cattle through, and slaughtering them in the centre of, I beg leave to send you a copy of the section of an act the town; for the information of your numerous readers, of Parliament, which provides a remedy. They will then see who is to blame; and I hope, that, to the nu merous improvements now taking place in this town, will be added the building of a place properly situated for the purpose.

INHABITANS.

25. Geo. III. cap. 12, sec. 41.—And whereas the slaughtering or killing of beasts or cattle in the public parts of the said town (Liverpool) is found to be exceed ingly noisome and offensive to the inhabitants thereof, and the keeping and using of butchers' stalls, shambles, or shops, fronting to the streets and public passages in the said town, is also very inconvenient to the said inhabitants: therefore, for the remedy thereof, be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful, to and for the Common Council of the said town, to contract and agree with any person_or persons, bodies politic or corporate, whether Lay or Ecclesiastical, and with all other persons what soever, for the purchase of such land or ground, within the liberties of the said town, as they, the said Common Council,

From the above duetto of elegant similies, you may nearly anticipate what my pen hastens to tell you; namely, that I am a most ardent and sincere admirer of that species of study vulgarly denominated romance reading; indeed, to such a degree that I always sleep with the "One-banded Monk" under my pillow, and generally contrive to smuggle the "Castle of Otranto," gigantic sword and all, into my muff, on my weekly visits to St. Anne's church, much to the discomfiture of my little dog Bigou ; that respectable quadruped having for a length of time before been the regular and sole occupier of aforesaid tenement. I have wept with Evelina, sighed with Camilla, and pouted with Indiana, eaten hot cake with Amanda, cracked walnuts with Werter, sliced bread and butter with Charlotte, riet Byron, and played hop step and jump with learned the mysteries of worked chairs from HarGlorvina, or the wild Irish girl; not that I meau to say, that I have actually and bona fide (as Mr. Prosody says) atchieved these exploits; but my imagination is so keenly alive to what I read, that fancy performs what reality denies one. The above books are my favourites, and with them I often hold sweet conference, in (as Lady Morgan expresses it) that dulcet attunement of ideality and sensitiveness, sweet as the morning dew drops glittering on the verdant daisy which decks the mountain side-by the by, I could never rightly understand that simile.

Setting aside the various advantages derived from romances, in the consequent enlargement of soul, and mental melioration in the acquisition of new and beautiful ideas, there are certain peculiar joys every true disciple must experience during their perusal the delight of being nearly frightened out of your reason, the enjoyment attendant on a mental fit of the ague, the sensation of pleasure when every vein

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