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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11710 ***
+
+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+
+VOL. 13., No. 375.] SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1829. [PRICE 2_d_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+[Illustration: CUMBERLAND TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK.]
+
+
+CUMBERLAND TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+
+The annexed Engraving completes our Series of _Architectural
+Illustrations_ of the REGENT'S PARK, and is, withal the most magnificent
+Terrace in the circuit. It stands considerably above the road, and is
+approached by a fine carriage sweep, with handsome balustrades; below
+which, and level with the road, is the garden, or promenade for the
+residents of the Terrace.
+
+The architect of Cumberland Terrace is Mr. Nash, who appears to have been
+so lavish of ornament, as to give the whole range the appearance of a
+triumphal temple. It consists of a centre and wings, connected by two
+handsome arches, which have a very pleasing and novel effect. The entrance,
+or ground story throughout, is rusticated, and in the principal parts or
+masses of the elevation, serves as a base or pediment for handsome Doric
+columns, above which is a balustrade, on which are placed allegorical
+figures of the Seasons, the Quarters of the Globe, the Arts and Sciences,
+&c. Each of these masses has a most imposing appearance, and bears four
+figures; the figures in the whole range amount to twenty-seven. Above the
+balustrade rises the attic story. The subordinate fronts of the residences
+are embellished with Doric pilasters.
+
+Each arch consists of four handsome Doric columns, with an entablature,
+and blocking course.
+
+The central portion of the terrace is in correspondent style with the
+wings; and consists of a splendid colonnade of twelve columns and an
+entablature. Above the attic story rises a pediment surmounted with
+figures of Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture. This pediment is filled
+with a basso-relievo, executed by J.H. Bubb, and representing Britannia
+crowned by Fame, and seated on a throne, the basis of which represents
+Valour and Wisdom. On one side, Literature, Genius, Manufacture,
+Agriculture, and Prudence, are bringing youth of different nations for
+instruction; and on the other side, the guardian-spirit of the Navy,
+surmounted by Victory, Navigation, Commerce, and Freedom, is extending her
+blessings to the Africans. The group is terminated on each side by Plenty.
+This is supposed to be the largest ornamental pediment in the kingdom,
+with the exception of that of the portico of St. Paul's, which only
+exceeds it by a few feet.
+
+From the sweep of this terrace may be enjoyed a highly picturesque view of
+the park, with the crown of Primrose Hill in the distance.
+
+At this close of the Series of Views, and as we are approaching the
+conclusion of our volume, it may not be amiss to recapitulate the several
+engravings, with their pages in the preceding and present volumes of the
+MIRROR, and the order in which they stand in the Regent's Park, which
+order circumstances have prevented our uniformly following in their
+publication: thus--
+
+
+  _Buildings_.                _Architects_.   _Mirror, Vol._ _Page._
+
+  Ulster Terrace                                  xi           401
+  York Terrace                  Nash              xiii         129
+  Sussex Place                  Nash              xiii         273
+  Cornwall Terrace              D. Burton         xiii         305
+  Clarence Terrace              D. Burton         xii           17
+  Hanover Terrace               Nash              x            313
+  Hanover Lodge                                   xiii          49
+  Grove House                   D. Burton         xiii          49
+  Marquess of Hertford's Villa  D. Burton         xiii          81
+  Macclesfield Bridge           Morgan            xiii         351
+  East (now Gloucester) Gate                      xi           225
+  St. Katherine's               Poynter           xi           273
+  Master's Residence            Poynter           xi           289
+  Cumberland Terrace            Nash              xiii         401
+  Chester Terrace               Nash              xiii         193
+  Exterior of the Colosseum     D. Burton         xiii          65
+  Interior of the Colosseum     D. Burton         xiii          97
+
+In this _Series_ we have endeavoured to represent all the architectural
+beauties of the Park, and liable as are all of them to critical objection,
+they are extremely interesting for pictorial displays of the taste of this
+castle-building age.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE KING'S STAG, &C.
+
+_(To the Editor of the Mirror.)_
+
+
+As several of your correspondents have lately interested themselves in the
+sign of "The Cat and Fiddle;" a few observations may not be thought
+irrelevant, on the probable origin of the "King's Stag," a description of
+which, under the signature, _Ruris_, appeared in the MIRROR, of Saturday,
+the 30th ult. Its rise may, I conceive, with tolerable certainty, be
+traced to the stag said to have been taken in the Forest of Senlis, by
+Charles the Sixth, about whose neck was a collar, with the inscription,
+"_Caesar hoc mihi donavit_," which induced a belief that the animal had
+lived from the reign of some one of the twelve Caesars. This inscription
+also exists in the following form:--
+
+  "Tempore, quo Caesar Româ, dominatus in altâ
+  Aureolo jussit collum signare moniti;
+  Ne depascentem quisquis me gramina laedat,
+  Caesaris heu causâ, periturae parcere vitae."
+
+which has been thus literally translated in nearly the same words quoted
+by _Ruris_--
+
+  "When Julius Caesar reigned king,
+  About my neck he put this ring,
+  That whosoever did me take,
+  Should spare my life for Caesar's sake."
+
+It thus appears that _Julius_ Caesar is gratuitously introduced by the
+English paraphrast, nothing appearing in the original inscription to
+determine its application, or render it more probable, that the reference
+should be to Julius Caesar, than to Domitian; and the two first lines
+given by _Ruris_, have evidently been introduced by way of transferring
+the subject to our own country.
+
+Allow me before concluding this communication, one word in reply to E.D.'s
+observations on the "Cat and Fiddle." It is not impossible that some
+resemblance (though I am disposed to think it very trifling) may exist
+between the "tones of a _flute_" and those of "the human voice;" but I
+have yet to learn wherein consists the similarity of the notes of the
+clarinet and those of a "GOOSE;" neither do I imagine performers on the
+violin, (especially Italians,) will feel themselves obliged by E.D.'s
+comparison of their favourite instrument, to the vile squall of the feline
+race. On the whole, I should feel more disposed to concur with him who
+"has been led away by a love of etymology" that the "Cat and Fiddle" is an
+"anomalous" sign, and that "no two objects in the world have less to do
+with each other than a cat and a violin," than to adopt the opposite
+theories of E.D. or his predecessor, unless better supported than they are
+at present. IOTA.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER.
+
+_The Wreck._[1]
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+
+
+  All night the booming minute-gun
+    Had pealed along the deep,
+  And mournfully the rising sun
+    Look'd o'er the tide-worn steep,
+  A bark from India's coral strand,
+    Before the rushing blast,
+  Had vailed her topsails to the sand
+    And bowed her noble mast.
+  The Queenly ship! brave hearts had striven
+    And true ones died with her!
+  We saw her mighty cable riven,
+    Like floating gossamer!
+  We saw her proud flag struck that morn,
+    A star once o'er the seas,
+  Her helm beat down, her deck uptorn,
+    And sadder things than these!
+                              MRS. HEMANS
+
+Sweet romantic Cove of Torwich--repository of my youth's recollections!--A
+mingled gust of feeling crosses over me, rainbow-like,--fraught with the
+checkered remembrances of "life's eventful history," when I turn to the
+past, and glance over the scenes of my early life.
+
+The Bay of Torwich, on the southern coast, unites in its fullest extent
+the singularly wild and picturesque, with the softer features of the
+landscape. The bay consists of two headlands, about four miles apart. On
+the eastern side a lofty range of rocky heights extends for a considerable
+way, almost equalling those of Dovor in sublimity, and juts out into the
+sea, on the assaults of which they seem to frown defiance, terminating in
+a bold headland. The violence of the sea has caused extensive and
+picturesque excavations and caverns; and at the end of the cliff, two
+sharp rocks called the Needles, raised their heads at low water, connected
+by a low, sunken reef. In a westerly gale these rocks were very dangerous
+to homeward-bound ships, and I have often sat with admiration in the
+heights above, watching the grotesque forms and silvery spray of the
+gigantic breakers, which after being broken in their progress, heaved
+their expiring rage with a shock like thunder, against the base of the
+cliffs, causing a prolonged echo in the huge caverns above. About midway
+between these cliffs and the western side there was another lofty headland,
+which terminated the Cove of Torwich; as the sea, except at low-water in
+high spring tides, washed the foot of this promontory, it was only
+fordable at ebb-tide. In the middle of the intermediate space, three rocks
+which might truly be called "forked promontories" from their sharp
+pyramidical shape, jutted abruptly out of the beach, and were connected by
+a sort of natural causeway to the main land. Beyond, a wild and rocky
+valley ran inland, and the time-worn ruins of ---- Castle, beetling over
+the heights, terminated the view in this direction. This valley formed the
+bed of a small stream, which ran by the end of the rocks, composing a
+channel by which coasting vessels could run up and discharge their cargoes
+for the village of Torwich, only part of which was visible at this spot. A
+natural cleft in the vein opened through the centre of these singular
+rocks, resembling a lofty gothic arch, and it was my favourite pastime to
+sit here in the most perfect seclusion, reading "sermons in stones" and
+watching the progress of the tide till it kissed my feet, and often
+surrounded me, for the flood came in with great velocity. Between these
+rocks and the heights on the eastern side, there was another little
+retired creek, renowned in the village annals, for the adventures of Jack
+Covering, a noted smuggler on this coast, some forty years ago, with the
+locality of which the reader will erewhile become better acquainted. The
+magnificence of the convulsed scenery, and yawning chasms around, the deep
+intonation and ceaseless roar of the ocean, all combined to awaken in the
+mind of the spectator, mingled sensations of admiration and awe.
+
+The coast receded between the eastern point of the cove to that which
+terminated the Bay of Torwich, embracing what may be almost termed a
+champaign country, compared with the barren scenery I have described; and
+displaying the uneven surface of the richly wooded Park of Dovedale, with
+the ruins of two castles.
+
+The village of Torwich which stood on a declivity, with an opening descent
+to the shore, about half a mile from the entrance of the cove, had little
+communication, from the nature of its site, with the neighbouring country,
+except when the all-powerful attraction of a wreck existed. Its
+inhabitants were chiefly sailors or fishermen, barring a few useless
+individuals like myself. I loved to study life in all its gradations--the
+"March of Intellect" was yet unknown here! and though the situation
+afforded such numerous advantages for smuggling, there were, rather
+unaccountably, only three persons in the village connected with the coast
+blockade; and it was whispered that relying on the entire seclusion of the
+cove, these persons too often winked when they ought to have been astir on
+their duty.
+
+The day was far spent, when towards the close of the month of October,
+18--, I wandered out to the shore to watch the flow of the evening's tide.
+The weather had been unsettled for some time previous, and the rain had
+fallen in torrents, with a moderate breeze, during most part of the day.
+Towards evening the rain ceased, though large heavy masses of black clouds
+were flying about, and backing up to seaward, accompanied with a short
+gusty gale of wind. I never recollect a more dismal night. A thick haze
+overspread the lower parts of the landscape, throwing the bloated masses
+of clouds higher up in the horizon, into a sort of sombre relief. As I
+passed a little look-out house on my way to the beach, I sauntered to a
+group of sailors at their usual council, who were gazing with deep
+interest at a solitary vessel dimly discernible through the fog in the
+offing. As she neared us we found her to be a barque of apparently
+considerable burthen, making a tack to weather the Torhead, which lay
+several miles under her lee, with a strong breeze from windward. She was
+evidently quite out of her reckoning from the indecision and embarassment
+displayed in her movements; and the captain seemed not sufficiently aware
+of the hazard he ran. I waited sometime at this place watching the
+movements of the ship. The tide came roaring in with a broken swell
+increased by a high spring flood; and there was that in the "wind's eye"
+which betokened approaching disaster; while the gloom was increasing, and
+the harsh cries and hurried flight of the sea-birds indicated tempestuous
+weather.
+
+"An ugly looking night this, Mr. ---- as I have seen for many a-day,"
+remarked Harry Covering, one of the oldest of the group of sailors, and a
+crony of mine. "Sink the Customs! if yon ship weathers Torhead this night,
+may I never pull an oar again." "It is, indeed, a fearful-looking night,
+messmate, and no time ought to be lost in the present state of the tide in
+putting off to her--for if the wind holds in this part, it is great odds
+indeed, that she does not go upon the Needles."
+
+The breeze was freshening every moment; indeed the situation of the
+strange ship must soon become imminently dangerous. The crew seemed at
+last to have awakened from their lethargy, and were apparently making
+every effort to enable her to gain an offing and weather Torhead, before
+the combined force of wind and flood should render that impracticable. It
+was a moment of deep interest. I am not acquainted with any event,
+notwithstanding the frequency of its recurrence, that appeals more
+directly to our sympathies, than a shipwreck. The mighty power of the
+ocean is thus brought before us in its most striking sense, and the
+general scene of disaster it occasions is almost always varied with
+instances of individual sympathy for some of the wrecked. We were now
+joined by the resident officer of the coast-blockade, and a party of men
+were dispatched to pull off to the ship in distress, while the rest of us
+hurried towards the Torhead, accompanied in our rear, (for the news had
+reached the village) by a turn-out of most of its inhabitants, influenced
+both by the passion of curiosity and that of expected plunder. Many of the
+older class looked upon wrecking as legitimate a trade as fishing for
+herrings or pilchards; while perhaps nearly all from the force of habit
+and long-practised example, regarded a wreck as a booty sent them by the
+elements; the scattered contents of which it was no more crime to take
+than it would be to pick up any other thing cast by accident on the beach.
+
+The sea was breaking over the needles with frightful violence when we
+reached Torhead--the spray dashing almost to the summit of the cliffs. We
+were now almost opposite the vessel, which appeared to be French built;
+but the increasing darkness prevented our distinguishing her minutely. The,
+flash of a gun from her side, amidst the deepening gloom, redoubled my
+interest. A more interesting object than a solitary vessel in danger, I
+cannot well conceive. I have always looked upon a ship as a living
+creature--the companion of man--a thing instinct with life, walking the
+waters--and our feelings are not only excited for the safety of the crew,
+but for that of the vessel itself, to which we attach a degree of interest
+as for a friend. A gale was now up; the boat put off to their aid was in
+danger of being swamped by the surf, and found it impracticable to make
+way against a violent head-wind and tide united. Nothing short of a
+miracle could now save the ship; however the wind suddenly shifted a
+little, and I began to hope that if she was to be wrecked, it might be
+farther on the shore; as in case of her striking on the Needles, she must
+almost immediately go to pieces under our eyes, without the most remote
+chance of the escape of one of the crew. A sheet of light flashed
+occasionally from her sides, calling for aid out of the power of man to
+grant. There was a sudden lull in the wind, which sometimes happens in the
+most violent tempests, though often succeeded by increased fury; and a
+strong shower of sleet and rain drove most of our followers home. As it
+had now become quite dark, and it was morally impossible to yield the ship
+any aid till daylight, I returned to the village with melancholy
+forebodings, having placed beacons on the heights.
+
+I hastily proceeded again to the shore just before daybreak. The distant
+moaning of the sea, the harsh screams of the cormorants with the desolate
+nature of the spot, chilled my spirits. I had passed a sleepless night,
+and the storm rose again, and raged till near daybreak with increased fury,
+but the wind was now greatly hushed. The sea, however, showed marks of its
+violence; the bay was white with foam, and as I proceeded, the tide, which
+was just beginning to flow, roared loudly, and advanced in short breakers
+wreathed with spray. The sky also looked dismally, and gave token that the
+gale had not entirely passed away, though its violence had temporarily
+abated. I advanced with deep interest by the peaked group of rocks, and
+passed the wreck of a brig lying high and dry on the sand just before me.
+The whole of the shore between the Heads, was strewed with her contents. I
+never witnessed so total a wreck in so short a space of time. The violence
+of the surf had completely beaten her sides out, leaving stem and stern
+hanging together as by a thread, while her ribs and broken cordage and
+sails, completed the picture, had any thing been wanting to perfect it. I
+could moralize any day on a single bit of plank on a shore--each fragment
+seems to tell its tale, and awakens a train of thoughts and feelings in
+the mind; but "grim desolation" was here visibly before me.
+
+Though I was early astir, I found that the prospect of booty had been
+sufficiently powerful already to draw out not only the inhabitants of
+Torwich, but great numbers of the neighbouring peasantry. But where was
+the ship, about whose fate we had been so greatly interested the preceding
+evening? This was manifestly not her; but I distinctly saw a large, black
+hull lying under the western cliffs, half a mile distant, towards which
+the people were rapidly moving. She had come ashore a little after high
+water, during the night. I picked my way through the wreck strewn
+around--to a small group of persons standing near me; five of them were
+strangers, the crew of the brig. I learnt that my surmises were right
+concerning the ship in the distance, and that the brig which was laden
+with crockery came ashore about the same period.
+
+I left these poor fellows endeavouring to rescue their little articles of
+property, and took a route apart from the course of the crowd towards the
+other ship. I had not gone far, when I almost stumbled over the dead body
+of a young female, lying with her face uppermost, half buried in the sand--
+
+  Her very tresses clung
+  All tangled by the storm.
+
+The bodies of a gentleman of foreign aspect, and that of a lad about
+seventeen, (their hands still firmly clasped together, undivided even in
+death,) lay close by. It was a melancholy scene. They had evidently been a
+father and his children. The long boat of the vessel, which had I suppose,
+taken ground here, being staved and swamped by the surf, was close beyond,
+near which I observed the bodies of several other men. It was with pain
+and horror I remarked that some wretches who had been here before me, had
+partly stripped the bodies of the lady and others in their search after
+plunder, besides rifling the contents of some cases of valuables, which
+had been put into the boat. I hastily turned towards the principal scene
+of disaster, and addressed myself to one of the survivors, whom I found to
+be the supercargo. The vessel was _La Bonne Esperance_ of Brest, of 550
+tons, homeward bound, with a mixed cargo of rum, cotton, and colonial
+produce, from the West Indies. It appeared that the captain, mate, and
+passengers had left the ship just as she struck, and taken to the long
+boat, the fatal result of which has been seen. As I surmised, the bodies I
+had seen consisted of one family, the only passengers on board, a colonel
+in the army, with his son and daughter, returning to his country after
+long service in foreign parts. The supercargo, in the confusion which took
+place, could not get into the long boat in time, and remained with the
+rest of the crew on board; several of the seamen were washed off the decks
+and dashed against the rocks, and my narrator and three others were all
+that survived "to tell the tale."
+
+The ship's hull lay jammed between two small rocks near the foot of the
+cliffs; she was still almost outwardly entire, as the tide receded just
+after she came ashore in the night; but there was a hole knocked in her
+side from whence a portion of the cargo had been washed out. The two
+principal masts had gone by the board, but a part of the mizen-mast was
+still standing; and the rocks were covered, far and near, with tattered
+portions of her sails and cordage pasted against their sides, disposed by
+the sea, in a grotesque manner.
+
+As the principal station of the preventive corps was at a considerable
+distance, some time would elapse before they could lend their aid in the
+protection of the property; and the mob from the neighbouring country,
+disappointed at finding little else but broken crockery at the other wreck,
+seemed disposed to make the most of their time, and were proceeding with
+all the violence and rapacity of professed wreckers. In spite of the
+exertions of the officer from Torwich and his assistants, they were
+mounting the sides, and had spread themselves over the vessel like a pack
+of hungry wolves on the dead carcass of a horse, when I arrived. A scene
+of greater confusion and singularity cannot be described.
+
+It was not long before their attention was awakened by the tapping of a
+cask of rum, which with many more had been washed out of the hold. This
+beverage presented a powerful attraction; the ship was soon, in some
+measure, deserted, and the mob concentrated like a swarm of wasps round
+the casks. All distinctions were now at an end; the better sort of farmer
+or shopkeeper, scrambled with the pauper for a cup or cap (or shoe) full
+of the mellow liquid; while the supercargo and his men, aided by myself
+and a few others, were occupied in hastily putting into some carts the
+more valuable articles rescued from plunder. As the parties had been
+immoderate in their potations, so the effects were equally speedy. Women
+lay on the sand, dead drunk, beside the booty they had collected, while
+unable to stir, it was snatched from their powerless grasp by others
+stronger or more sober than themselves. Several pitched battles were also
+taking place, both amongst boys and men, which generally terminated by
+each of the combatants falling prostrate martyrs to Bacchus. The infection
+was universal, and even the three "mounseers," the surviving crew of the
+Bonne Esperance, could not resist an occasional sly pull at the liquor.
+These men, though they had only just escaped sudden death, seemed not to
+be cast down; but with their characteristic agility, one minute assisted
+to roll the casks into carts, and then ran off perhaps to whisper a
+compliment to some pretty girl, shrugging up their shoulders at the
+unceremonious repulse they met with from _mademoiselle_.
+
+But this scene was not to last long: for the tide had been imperceptibly
+making way and closing. I had always observed that after coming to a
+certain place, its velocity was greatly accelerated, and it was with
+feelings of alarm that I saw the danger which the almost unconscious
+people incurred. From regard to our own safety we had to retreat rapidly
+towards the shingles, carrying as many of the helpless as time would admit
+out of danger, in which we were aided by many of the sailors from Torwich,
+who had assisted in rescuing a portion of the cargo. The peasantry, at
+last aware of the hazard they ran, took to their heels also; but from the
+state they were in, many were forgotten or left behind. The roar of waters
+came rapidly onward, and amid the foaming eddy created by its advance, the
+stifled death-cry, mingled with the harsh and piercing shrieks of some of
+the half drowning victims--one moment awakened to the consciousness of
+their situation, and the next hurried to eternity--burst on the ear; and
+such was the advance of the spring-flood, that a few minutes after the
+rush of people had reached the shingles, the curling breakers rolled the
+bodies of several of the sufferers almost to their feet. The most lively
+interest was now excited towards a small rock, which jutted out of the
+sand a little distance from the wreck. The two poor children of a
+fisherman's widow in the village, were playing in a cavity of this rock,
+when the tide surrounded them. Their voices were drowned by the roaring of
+the waters, and their fate would have been unknown, had not the wild
+appearance and frantic screams of the mother--come in search of her
+children--attracted notice. When they were discovered, only a ledge of the
+rock was discernible; and the little sufferers were seen imploring for
+help amidst the spray with which the waves, fanned by a stiff breeze from
+windward, covered them. Several brave fellows swam off towards the rock,
+but before they could reach it, a sudden rush of tide swept over, and
+engulfed the children amidst the fragments of wreck hurled forward in its
+advance. One of the sailors seized the youngest of the children and bore
+him safely to shore. The body of the other was found when the tide ebbed,
+under a ledge of rocks on the eastern side. Upwards of fifteen persons
+were amongst the missing. It was an impressive scene, and read a powerful
+lesson to all.
+
+"Wrecking" has long been deservedly a national reproach. It is, however,
+rarely accompanied with the cruelty and violence by which it was formerly
+characterized; and such aggravated scenes now seldom occur. The people of
+our coasts have become, generally, much more civilized, and probably the
+"march of improvement" will ultimately eradicate so inhuman a custom. In
+Cornwall it was carried to such an excess that the example was even given
+from the pulpit; and there is a story related of a Cornish parson, who
+upon information being brought to his congregation of a wreck whilst they
+were at church, exhorted them to pause as they were rushing out _en masse_
+in the midst of the service; and having gained the door, took to his heels
+saying, "Now, my lads, it is but fair we should all start alike!" and
+reached the wreck first. The people view the plunder of a wreck as a right,
+and it is in vain to attempt to persuade them otherwise. However it is but
+justice to say that they have frequently risked, and even sacrificed,
+their own lives in endeavouring to preserve those of others; though some
+recent instances, especially in Wales, prove that the old disposition
+still lurks amongst the people, and sometimes breaks out with unabated
+violence.
+
+The arrival of a party of the Preventive Service that evening, in some
+measure proved a check to the plunder of the peasantry; but the guards
+themselves were not proof against the prevailing infection, and similar
+scenes to that related, prevailed as long as there was any thing left to
+drink or pick up; however, a considerable part of the cargo was safely
+stowed, though there were few of the rum casks that did not afterwards
+turn out impregnated with bilge water.
+
+On a fine grey morning, about a week after these events occurred, I
+wandered out towards the shore: there had been rough weather in the
+channel, and many wrecks, and the turbulence of the ocean had not yet
+subsided. It was about half-flood when I reached the _Bonne Esperance_.
+She had disappeared by piece-meal under the repeated assaults of the sea,
+but the principal part of the hull was still hanging together. Each wave
+as it struck her tattered timbers, seemed to sap away her strength and
+threatened to shake her to fragments. I sat with the supercargo for about
+an hour, watching the flow of the tide. Her timbers cracked louder and
+louder at each shock of the breakers; when a heavy sea struck her, her
+joints loosened, and she broke up at last, scattered into fragments, and
+whelmed in a gulf of boiling waters which foamed like an immense cauldron
+over the place she had occupied a minute before. We had watched the
+progress to this final disaster with the deepest interest--I may almost
+say sympathy--for we could hardly help looking upon the ship as a friend
+in need, hovering as it were over destruction without an arm being
+stretched forth to save her, and it was not without a real feeling of pain
+and sorrow that we witnessed her destruction.
+
+About half-ebb we descended to the shore--it was covered as far as the eye
+could reach with her ruin and materials; and one could almost imagine it
+had been the destruction of a fleet. Thus ended the fate of _La Bonne
+Esperance_ of Brest, and the occasional appearance of a solitary fragment
+on the beach, was soon all that recalled her history to the remembrance of
+the passers-by.
+
+VYVYAN.
+
+[1] The scenes and events in tins sketch are drawn from nature, and real
+    occurrences on the southern coast.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OLD POETS.
+
+
+GOOD DEEDS.
+
+  Wretched is he who thinks of doing ill.
+    His evil deeds long to conceal and hide;
+  For though the voice and tongues of men be still,
+    By fowls and beasts his sins shall be descried.
+  And God oft worketh by his secret will,
+    That sin itself, the sinner so doth guide,
+  That of its own accord without request,
+    He makes his wicked doings manifest.
+
+SIR J. HARRINGTON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DEATH.
+
+  Death is a port whereby we reach to joy,
+    Life is a lake that drowneth all in pain,
+  Death is so near it ceaseth all annoy,
+    Life is so leav'd that all it yields is vain;
+  And as by life to bondage Man was brought,
+  Even so likewise by death was freedom wrought.
+
+EARL OF SURREY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BEAUTY.
+
+  Nought under Heaven so strongly doth allure
+    The sense of man and all his mind possess,
+  As Beauty's lovely bait that doth procure
+    Great warriors oft their rigour to repress,
+  And mighty hands forget their manliness.
+    Driven with the power of an heart robbing eye,
+  And wrapt in flowers of a golden tress,
+    That can with melting pleasance mollify
+    Their hard'ned hearts enur'd to blood and cruelty.
+
+SPENSER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LEARNING.
+
+  ----But that Learning in despite of fate
+  Will mount aloft and enter Heaven's gate;
+  And to the seat of Jove itself advance,
+  Hermes had slept in Hell with Ignorance.
+  Yet as a punishment they added this,
+  That he and Poverty should always kiss.
+  And to this day is every scholar poor,
+  Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor.
+
+C. MARLOWE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FEELING.
+
+  ----The feeling power which is life's root,
+    Through every living part itself doth shed,
+  By sinews which extend from head to foot,
+    And like a net all over the body spread.
+  Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit
+    In middle of her web which spreadeth wide,
+  If aught do touch the outmost thread of it,
+    She feels it instantly on every side.
+
+J. DAVIES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+INJUSTICE.
+
+  So foul a thing, O thou injustice art,
+    That torment'st the doer and distrest;
+  For when a man hath done a wicked part,
+    O how he strives to excuse--to make the best;
+  To shift the fault t' unburden his charg'd heart,
+    And glad to find the least surmise of rest;
+  And if he could make his, seem other's sin,
+  O what repose, what ease he'd find therein.
+
+DANIELL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RICHES.
+
+  Vessels of brass oft handled brightly shine.
+  What difference between the richest mine
+  And basest earth, but use? for both not used
+  Are of little worth; then treasure is abused,
+  When misers keep it; being put to loan,
+  In time it will return us two for one.
+
+C. MARLOWE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE IDIOT LOVER.
+
+(DRAWN FROM LIFE.)
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+
+  "That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
+  If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."
+
+
+John Laconi was born in the romantic country of Switzerland. He was
+educated tolerably well; he was a good musician, and could draw
+excellently. He possessed a small, though independent fortune. However,
+notwithstanding his advantages and acquirements, he proved, when he became
+a lover, to be an idiot.
+
+At a certain period of his life, he fell violently in love with a
+beautiful young Swiss lady. She was considerably younger than our hero,
+was much taller, and her elegant refinements rendered her a very desirable
+object. John had a sister, to whom the young lady paid frequent friendly
+visits, and upon such occasions, owing probably to that _mauvaise honte_,
+with which he was cursed, he was usually absent from home. I will not
+disgust my fair readers with a minute description of _all_ his absurdities;
+one example, or so, shall suffice.
+
+One fine evening, in the month of June, after spending the day with
+Laconi's sister, the young lady prepared to return alone to her father's
+_château_, at the distance of about a mile; and on this occasion, John
+determined to give a specimen of his gallantry in escorting the fair one
+home, resolving likewise to declare his passion in plain terms.
+Accordingly, having put on his hat and cloak, and stationed himself at the
+gate, he appeared as formidable as any doughty knight in the days of
+romance, ready to offer his protection to some forlorn damsel. No sooner,
+however, did the lady appear, than he became so confused as not to be able
+to answer her greeting. She was also confused for a moment at his manner,
+but immediately began her walk with much disgust and _nonchalance_; while
+he, like a silly _valet de chambre_, followed behind, leaving his dear
+mistress' questions unanswered, and gazing with a vacant stare at the moon.
+At length, to the lady's infinite satisfaction, the white gate of her
+father's _château_ appeared in view, and John, finding they had nearly
+reached their destination, articulated, in a half suffocated tone, "I--I
+beg pardon, ma--madam, I have been considering--." "You have, indeed,
+Mr. John," quickly returned the smiling damsel, "but I think you might
+have chosen another opportunity, more seasonable than the present, to
+consider the moon!" To this retort, he said nothing, but looked extremely
+foolish and ridiculous. However, when they had actually gained the gate of
+the _château_, he boldly resolved to kiss his fair enslaver; but, after a
+moment, his resolution failed, and his legs tottered under him. Without
+hearing the lady's sweet "good night," as she tripped gaily from him, he
+exclaimed, "Madam, can you love me?" This appeal was not heard by the
+flying maiden, who hastily ascended the steps to her father's door, which
+opened and concealed her lovely form from the sight of the amazed lover,
+who had not courage sufficient to follow her.
+
+Whether our idiot did not comprehend the behaviour of his mistress, I
+cannot say; certain it is, he went home well contented with the success he
+imagined he had gained towards winning her heart. But, in reality, she was
+disgusted with his foolery, and ceased paying any more visits to her
+female friend, in order to avoid the sight of so strange a lover.
+
+John, however, was a kind of philosopher, and calmly sustained his love
+misfortunes. A particular occurrence happened which will somewhat account
+for this passive resignation. One evening, during a solitary walk, he saw
+his identical mistress in company with a young French officer. He walked
+sullenly home, wrote some verses on the inconstancy of women, drew from
+recollection a portrait of the cruel fair, which he hung in his study, and
+banished his former pretences. Report says, that he lived the remainder of
+his days in a state of celibacy. G.W.N.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.
+
+
+Sincerely do we regret to announce the death of this great and good
+man--the most celebrated philosopher of our times, who has done more for
+the happiness of his species than any associated Academy in Europe. He
+died at Geneva, May 29, aged 51. We shall endeavour to do justice to his
+talents and amiable character, in a Memoir to be published at the close of
+this volume of THE MIRROR--prefixed to which will be a fine Portrait of
+the illustrious deceased.
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DISCOVERY OF THE FATE OF LA PEROUSE.
+
+_Abridged from the United Service Journal._
+
+
+The fate of this celebrated French navigator, which for upwards of forty
+years has remained enveloped in mystery, has at length been satisfactorily
+ascertained, a result that is owing to the active and spirited exertions
+of our gallant and enterprising countryman Captain Dillon.
+
+It is a remarkable circumstance, that the discovery of the relics of La
+Perouse, arose out of the massacre of the ship Hunter's crew, at the
+Feejee Islands, in 1813.
+
+In this unfortunate affair, fourteen persons in all, from the ship Hunter,
+lost their lives. The two that escaped with Mr. Dillon, were William
+Wilson and Martin Buchart, a Prussian, who resided for two years at Bough.
+The latter entreated captain Robson to give him and his Bough wife a
+passage to the first land at which he might arrive, as they would
+certainly be sacrificed if they returned to the island. Having made
+Tucopia on the 20th of September, Buchart, his wife, and a Lascar, were
+put on shore, and the Hunter proceeded on her voyage to Canton.
+
+On the 13th of May, 1826, while in command of the St. Patrick, bound from
+Valparaiso to Pondicherry, captain Dillon came in sight of the island of
+Tucopia. Prompted by curiosity, as well as regard for old companions in
+danger, he lay to, anxious to ascertain whether the persons left there in
+1813, were still alive. A canoe, in which was the Lascar, soon afterwards
+put off from land and came alongside. This was immediately succeeded by
+another canoe, containing Martin Buchart, the Prussian. They were both in
+excellent health, and exceedingly rejoiced to see him. They informed him,
+that the natives had treated them very kindly; and that no ship had
+touched at the island from the time they were first landed, until about a
+year previous to his arrival, when an English whaler visited them, and was
+soon after followed by a second. The Lascar had an old silver sword-guard,
+which he bartered for a few fishing-hooks. Captain Dillon inquired where
+he had obtained it; the Prussian informed him, that on his arrival at the
+island, he saw it in the possession of the natives, also several
+chainplates belonging to a ship, a number of iron bolts, five axes, the
+handle of a silver fork, a few knives, tea-cups, glass beads and bottles,
+one silver spoon with a crest and a cipher, a sword, &c. As soon as he
+became sufficiently acquainted with the language, he asked the natives how
+they obtained those articles, as they said that the Hunter was the first
+ship with which they had ever held communication. They replied, that about
+two days' sail in their canoes to leeward, there was a large group of
+islands, known generally by the name of Manicolo, to which they were in
+the habit of making frequent voyages, and that they had procured these
+articles from the inhabitants, who possessed many more of a similar
+description.
+
+Buchart proceeded to state, that the Tucopians asserted that a great
+number of articles were on the Manicolo Islands in a state of preservation,
+and such articles were evidently obtained from the wreck of a vessel.
+About seven months before captain Dillon touched at Tucopia, a canoe had
+returned from Manicolo, and brought away two large chain plates, and an
+iron bolt, about four feet in length. He spoke with some of the crew of
+the canoe which had last made the voyage to Manicolo. They told him that
+there was abundance of iron materials still remaining on the island. Those
+which Martin Buchart saw were much oxydized and worn. The only silver
+spoon brought to Tucopia, as far as captain Dillon could learn, was beaten
+out into a wire by Buchart, for the purpose of making rings and other
+ornaments for the female islanders. Upon examining the sword-guard
+minutely, captain Dillon discovered, or thought he discovered, the
+initials of Perouse stamped upon it, which circumstance prompted him to be
+more eager in his inquiries.
+
+The Prussian said he had himself never made a trip to Manicolo with the
+Tucopians, but the Lascar had gone once or twice. He positively affirmed,
+that he had seen and conversed at Paiow, a native town, with the Europeans
+who spoke the language of the islanders. They were old men, he said, who
+told him that they had been wrecked several years ago in one of the ships,
+the remnants of which they pointed out to him. They informed him also that
+no vessel had touched at the islands since they had been there; that most
+of their comrades were dead, but they had been so scattered among the
+various islands, that they could not tell precisely how many of them were
+still living.
+
+On hearing so many circumstances all tending to confirm his suspicions,
+from the moment he saw the silver sword-guard with the cipher, captain
+Dillon determined to proceed as quickly as possible to the Manicolo
+Islands, examine the wrecks himself, and, if practicable, bring off the
+two men with whom the Lascar had spoken, and whom, he said, were Frenchmen.
+For this purpose he begged the latter to accompany him, but as he was
+married and comfortably settled on the island, neither promises nor
+threats were of any avail, although captain Dillon offered to bring him
+back to Tucopia. Martin Buchart, on the contrary, was tired of the savage
+life he had led for the last fourteen years, and gladly acceded to the
+wishes of captain Dillon, who after prevailing with a Tucopian also to
+come on board, sailed for the island. Unfortunately, as the ship neared
+the land, it fell a perfect calm, and continued so for seven days. At this
+time the stock of dry provisions was nearly exhausted, and there was no
+animal food to be procured on Tucopia. The crew lived principally on New
+Zealand potatoes and bananas. The vessel became every day more leaky from
+a long continuance at sea; and a person on board, who was interested in
+the cargo, had, during captain Dillon's stay in the islands, shown himself
+particularly discontented, and had frequently and warmly remonstrated at
+what he considered an unnecessary and useless delay; for these reasons,
+therefore, captain Dillon determined, though with the greatest reluctance,
+to take advantage of a breeze which sprang up, continued his voyage, and
+arrived at Bengal with much difficulty, his ship being in a very leaky
+condition.
+
+Unwilling to abandon his favourite object, captain Dillon now applied to
+the Asiatic Society, and to the Bengal Government; and in consequence of
+his representations, his suggestions were at length carried into effect.
+He was appointed to the command of one of the Company's cruisers, of
+sixteen guns and eighty-five men, called the Research; and on the 27th of
+January, 1827, he sailed from Bengal, visited Van Dieman's Land, New South
+Wales, New Zealand, the Friendly Islands, Ro-Thoma, or Granville Island of
+the Pandora, Tucopia, and arrived at Manicolo on the 27th of September.
+This island (Manicolo, or Vanicolo) is not the Mallicolo of captain Cook,
+being situated only 118 miles to the leeward of Tucopia, in latitude 11
+deg. 47 min., whilst the former lies in south latitude 16 deg. 15 min.
+
+Captain Dillon personally visited the reefs on which the French ships are
+ascertained to have struck and gone to pieces, according to the accounts
+of the natives, from which the following particulars have been obtained of
+that disastrous event:--"Many years ago two large ships arrived at the
+islands; one anchored off the island of Whanoo, and the other off that of
+Paiow, a little distance from each other. Soon after, and before they had
+any communication with the natives, a heavy gale arose, and both vessels
+were driven ashore. The ship off Whanoo grounded upon the rocks. The
+natives came in crowds to the sea-shore, armed with clubs, spears, bows
+and arrows, and discharged some arrows into the vessel; the crew in return
+fired, and killed several of the islanders. The vessel continued to strike
+violently against the rocks, and soon went to pieces. Some of the crew
+took to their boats, but were driven on shore, and murdered by the natives;
+others threw themselves into the sea, and such as reached the land, shared
+the fate of their unfortunate companions, so that not a single soul
+belonging to this vessel escaped alive."
+
+"The ship which grounded on Paiow, was driven on a sandy beach, and the
+natives came down and also discharged their arrows into her; but the crew
+prudently did not resent the aggression, but held up axes, beads, and toys,
+as peace-offerings, upon which the assailants desisted from farther
+hostilities. As soon as the wind had moderated, an aged chief, in a canoe,
+put off to the ship. He was received with caresses, accepted the presents
+offered to him: and upon going ashore, pacified the islanders by
+assurances that the ship's crew were peaceably inclined towards them. Upon
+this, several natives went on board, and were all presented with toys. In
+return, they supplied the crew with yams, fowls, bananas, cocoa-nuts, hogs,
+&c. and confidence was established between them. The ship was now
+abandoned, and the crew went on shore, bringing with them part of her
+stores. Here they remained for some time, and built a small vessel with
+the materials from the wreck. When it was ready to put to sea, as many as
+could conveniently, embarked in her, being plentifully supplied with fresh
+provisions by the islanders. The commander promised those who were left
+behind, to return immediately with presents for the natives, and to bring
+them off; but, as the little vessel was never afterwards heard of, the men
+sought the protection of the neighbouring chiefs, with whom they lived.
+Several muskets and some gunpowder had been left them by their comrades,
+and by means of these, they proved of great service to their friends, in
+encounters with the neighbouring islanders."
+
+The natives of Manicolo are not cannibals; but when an enemy falls into
+their power he is immediately killed, and his body is deposited in
+sea-water, and kept there until the bones become perfectly bare. The
+skeleton is then taken up, the bones of the extremities scraped and cut
+into various forms, to point arrows and spears. Their arms consist of
+heavy clubs, spears, and bows and arrows. They poison the latter with a
+kind of reddish gum, extracted from a species of tree peculiar to the
+island. When any one is struck by a poisoned arrow in any of the limbs,
+the part is quickly cut out, and his life is sometimes saved; but if the
+wound happens to be in the body, where it cannot be easily excised, he
+resigns himself quietly to death without a murmur, though he frequently
+lingers for four or five days in excruciating agony.
+
+The Manicolans differ from almost all the other islanders in the South Sea;
+they are as black as negroes, have short woolly hair, and resemble them in
+their features. Their religion also is different; in every village in the
+island there is a house dedicated to the Deity. At the principal chapel,
+the skulls of all the people who were killed, belonging to the ship that
+grounded at Whanoo, are still preserved. The natives of Tucopia,
+unaccustomed to the sight of human bones, avoid, as much as possible, when
+they visit the island, approaching the sacred house where the skulls are
+deposited.
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+WAVERLEY NOVELS.
+
+
+The _new edition_, (of which _Waverley_ has just appeared,) is, without
+exception, the handsomest book of the day, in editorship, literary and
+graphic embellishment or typography. Perhaps little persuasion was
+necessary for a second reading of so delightful a novel as _Waverley_, but
+the author's piquant notes to the present edition would alike tempt the
+matter-of-fact man, and the inveterate novel reader to "begin again." The
+prefatory anecdotes to _Waverley_ are extremely interesting--and the
+little autobiographic sketches are so many leaves from the life of the
+ingenious author. We hope to introduce a few of the notes of the Series;
+but content ourselves for the present with the following: being the
+original of the legend of Mrs. Grizel Oldbuck:
+
+Mr. R----d of Bowland, a gentleman of landed property in the vale of Gala,
+was prosecuted for a very considerable sum, the accumulated arrears of
+teind (or tithe) for which he was said to be indebted to a noble family,
+the titulars (lay impropriators of the tithes.) Mr. R----d was strongly
+impressed with the belief that his father had, by a form of process
+peculiar to the law of Scotland, purchased these lands from the titular,
+and therefore that the present prosecution was groundless. But after an
+industrious search among his father's papers, an investigation of the
+public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had transacted
+law business for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his
+defence. The period was now near at hand when he conceived the loss of his
+lawsuit to be inevitable, and he had formed his determination to ride to
+Edinburgh next day, and make the best bargain he could in the way of
+compromise. He went to bed with this resolution, and with all the
+circumstances of the case floating upon his mind, had a dream to the
+following purpose. His father, who had been many years dead, appeared to
+him, he thought, and asked him why he was disturbed in his mind. In dreams
+men are not surprised at such apparitions. Mr. R----d thought that he had
+informed his father of the cause of his distress, adding that the payment
+of a considerable sum of money was the more unpleasant to him, because he
+had a strong consciousness that it was not due, though he was unable to
+recover any evidence in support of his belief. "You are right, my son,"
+replied the paternal shade; "I did acquire right to these teinds, for
+payment of which you are now prosecuted. The papers relating to the
+transaction are in the hands of Mr. ----, a writer (or attorney,) who is
+now retired from professional business, and resides at Inveresk, near
+Edinburgh. He was a person whom I employed on that occasion for a
+particular reason, but who never on any other occasion transacted business
+on my account. It is very possible," pursued the vision, "that Mr. ----
+may have forgotten a matter which is now of a very old date; but you may
+call it to his recollection by this token, that when I came to pay his
+account, there was difficulty in getting change for a Portugal piece of
+gold, and that we were forced to drink out the balance at a tavern."
+Mr. R----d awaked in the morning with all the words of the vision imprinted
+on his mind, and thought it worth while to ride across the country to
+Inveresk, instead of going straight to Edinburgh. When he came there, he
+waited on the gentleman mentioned in the dream, a very old man; without
+saying any thing of the vision, he inquired whether he remembered having
+conducted such a matter for his deceased father. The old gentleman could
+not at first bring the circumstance to his recollection, but on mention of
+the Portugal piece of gold, the whole returned upon his memory; he made an
+immediate search for the papers, and recovered them; so that Mr. R----d
+carried to Edinburgh the documents necessary to gain the cause which he
+was on the verge of losing. The author has often heard this story told by
+persons who had the best access to know the facts, who were not likely
+themselves to be deceived, and were certainly incapable of deception. He
+cannot therefore refuse to give it credit, however extraordinary the
+circumstances may appear. The circumstantial character of the information
+given in the dream, takes it out of the general class of impressions of
+the kind which are occasioned by the fortuitous coincidence of actual
+events with our sleeping thoughts. On the other hand, few would suppose
+that the laws of nature were suspended, and a special communication from
+the dead to the living permitted, for the purpose of saving Mr. R----d a
+certain number of hundred pounds. The author's theory is, that the dream
+was only the recapitulation of information which Mr. R----d had really
+received from his father while in life, but which at first he merely
+recalled as a general impression that the claim was settled. It is not
+uncommon for persons to recover, during sleep, the thread of ideas which
+they have lost during their waking hours. It may be added, that this
+remarkable circumstance was attended with bad consequences to Mr. R----d,
+whose health and spirits were afterwards impaired by the attention which
+he thought himself obliged to pay to the visions of the night.--_Notes to
+the Antiquary._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ROAD-BOOK OF FRANCE.
+
+
+People who are bound for the Continent should provide themselves with the
+new edition of Mr. Leigh's descriptive Road Book of France--even before
+they get their passports at the French ambassador's, or if they only
+_intend_ to visit Calais, Boulogne, or Dieppe--and the chances are that
+they will be induced to travel beyond these places, which, in truth, give
+an Englishman no more idea of France than Dovor would afford a foreigner
+of England. A few years since, comparatively speaking, people only knew
+their way from York to London, much less the objects on the road--now, by
+the economy of guide books they may know every good inn in France, and
+carry the _ichnography_ of the kingdom in their coat pocket. In the
+present edition of the "Road Book of France," attention has been paid to
+the description of the delightful South, especially of Bordeaux, the
+mineral springs and bathing-places of the Pyrenees, the navigation of the
+Rhone from Lyons to Avignon, as well as of Marseilles, Toulouse, &c., and
+some of the principal towns have been illustrated with plans. Dipping into
+the Itinerary from Calais to Paris, we were reminded of a curious
+coincidence: Julius Caesar is supposed to have sailed from Boulogne on his
+expedition against the Britons; and in later times, Napoleon Bonaparte
+there prepared to carry into execution the invasion of Great Britain. But
+how different have been the results!
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+JOURNEY FROM THE BANK TO BARNES.
+
+
+A lively volume with many shreds of wit and humour, and occasional patches
+of "righte merrie conceite," has just fallen into our hands, and has
+afforded us some very pleasant reading. There is fun in the very title,
+"Personal Narrative of a Journey overland from the Bank to Barnes, &c. with
+some account of the Regions east of Kensington. By an Inside Passenger.
+With a Model for a Magazine, being the product of the Author's sojourn at
+the village of Barnes, during five rainy days." The author is a shrewd,
+clever fellow, who loves a little raillery on the follies of the day, and
+joins with our friend, Popanilla in deploring the present artificial state
+of society; therefore, suppose we give a few _flying_ extracts from his
+tour, premising that the good people of the little villages through which
+he passed, are not aware of what good things he has said of them; for his
+little book would suit every parlour window from Hyde Park Corner to
+Barnes.
+
+_Brentford._
+
+The ancient and nearly deserted barony of Brentford still contains, in its
+monuments and antiquities, vestiges of former splendour. The horse-trough
+opposite the "Bell and Feathers" is to the antiquarian a most particularly
+interesting _morceau_; the verdure of age has defaced it in part, but
+enough still remains to prove that our ancestors had made no mean
+proficiency in the rustic style of architecture. The reservoir, which
+contains the sparkling element so grateful to that noble animal, is
+modelled from the celebrated sarcophagus in the British Museum; and the
+posts which support it are evidently Doric. On the outside of it are
+several nearly obliterated specimens of carving, as well as drawings in
+chalk.
+
+Nearly parallel with the horse-trough, as you go down "Maud's Rents," is
+that useful, and indeed indispensible, triumph of hydraulics, the pump.
+The taste and science displayed in its execution do credit to the engineer;
+and the soil in which it is imbedded, being argillaceous, partially
+encrusted with strontian, reflects equal honour on his geological
+attainments. This pump, which you approach by three steps, is
+perpendicular, and of an elegant appearance; and forms the chief ornament
+of the "Rents." The handle is of wrought iron, highly polished; the snout
+copper, studded with hobnails. It is neatly coated with white paint, and
+bears on its front the following inscription, which I have copied for the
+gratification of the curious in antiquarian research.
+
+  This Pump was erected,
+  and Well sunk,
+  A.D. 1824,
+  from the proceeds of a Charity Sermon,
+  preached
+  in the Parish Church
+  of this Parish,
+  by his Grace the Bishop
+  of Bath and Wells.
+  *  *  *
+  Peter Broddupp,
+  Overseer,
+  Slingsby Stygle, and John Moles,
+  Churchwardens.
+  *  *  *
+  N.B. Whoever washes Fish at this Pump
+  will be prosecuted.
+
+I cannot take leave of this interesting town without noticing the church.
+It is surmounted by a neat steeple, cut in wood, in the pointed style of
+architecture; on the top of which is a goodly key, to indicate the
+wind,--which, the inhabitants remark, has blown due south for the last ten
+years. The porch, which is a curious specimen of the Maeso-Gothic, is
+rather hurt by the simplicity of the scrapers, which, being merely
+segments of iron hoops, do not harmonize with the otherwise elaborate
+approach.
+
+_Tossbury._
+
+The demesne of Tossbury (by Camden written Tossbery) was anciently a grant
+in feoffment to the College of Physicians by King John. On the spot now
+occupied by the burial grounds formerly stood their college; and here they
+flourished until the population, originally abundant, diminished so
+alarmingly, as to induce them to remove to Warwick Lane.
+
+Mr. P. (the landlord of the inn,) ever ready to shew his guests what at
+that village are esteemed great curiosities, was indefatigable in
+explaining the various instances in which he has made science subservient
+to utility. The staircase, as far as the great dining-room, he has, at
+considerable expense, macadamized; which, provided it is kept well watered,
+and scrapers attached to the chamber-doors, our worthy host assured us,
+was infinitely preferable to marble. He begged us to be under no
+apprehension as to the dampness of our beds, as they were warmed by a
+steam-apparatus of his own contrivance. He always keeps a Leyden jar,
+about the size of a boiler, ready charged, wherewith he kills geese,
+turkeys, and even lamb; which, he affirms, is a much less shocking method
+of neutralizing the vital spark than the vulgar butchery of twisting and
+sticking. He has lost three of his fingers, through incautiously handling
+a self-acting rat-trap of his own construction; and had his left eye blown
+out, while investigating the exact interval between combustion and
+explosion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I found a difference of about half an hour between the dial of Putney
+Church and my watch, which a young gentleman "intended for one of the
+universities" accounted for from difference of latitude. He likewise
+explained a phenomenon, which rather startled us, near Kew. We saw about
+half-a-dozen cows galloping furiously towards the river's brink; flirting
+their tails, and, indeed, conducting themselves with a vivacity perfectly
+inconsistent with the acknowledged sobriety of that useful animal. He
+calmed our apprehensions, by informing us they were intended for the East
+Indies. Every other day they are fed with best rock-salt, instead of
+green-meat; which, by chemical agency, renders them fat and fit to be
+killed, and sent on ship-board at a moment's notice; the trouble and delay
+of salting down being totally unnecessary. These cows, he assured us, had
+just finished their thirst-inducing meal.
+
+Near Hill's boat-shed is the patent Philanthropical Hay-tosser, a
+stupendous machine, invented expressly to prevent the degradation and
+slavery to which thousands of our fellow men are subjected during
+hay-harvest. It must gratify every friend to the amelioration of his
+species to learn, that the humane intention of the inventer is likely to
+be realized, as there are already three thousand Irishmen out of employ.
+
+Here we must halt with our tourist. The result of his lucubrations at
+Barnes--a Model for a Magazine will be found very serviceable to all
+prospectus writers, and furnish skeleton articles for a whole volume. We
+have been amused with the pleasantries of the author, and in return we
+thank him, and recommend his little book to our readers.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CLASSICAL CORRECTIONS.
+
+
+  In a neat little cottage, some five miles from town,
+  Lived a pretty young maiden, by name Daphne Brown,
+    Like a butterfly, pretty and airy:
+  In a village hard by lived a medical prig,
+  With a rubicund nose, and a full-bottomed wig,
+    Apollo, the apothecary.
+
+  He, being crop sick of his bachelor life,
+  Resolved, in his old days, to look for a wife--
+    (_Nota bene_--Thank Heaven, I'm not married):
+  He envied his neighbours their curly-poled brats,
+  (All swarming, as if in a village of Pats,)
+    And sighed that so long he had tarried.
+
+  Having heard of fair Daphne, the village coquette,
+  As women to splendour were never blind yet,
+    He resolved with his grandeur to strike her;
+  So he bought a new buggy, where, girt in a wreath,
+  Were his arms, pills, and pestle--this motto beneath--
+    _"Ego opifer per orbem dicor."_
+
+  To the village he drove, sought young Daphne's old sire,
+  Counted gold by rouleaus, and bank notes by the quire,
+    And promised the old buck a share in't,
+  If his daughter he'd give--for the amorous fool
+  Thought of young ladies' hearts and affections the rule
+    Apparently rests with a parent.
+
+  Alas! his old mouth may long water in vain,
+  Who tries by this method a mistress to gain--
+    A _miss_ is the sure termination:
+  For a maiden's delight is to plague the old boy,
+  And to think sixty-five not the period for joy;
+    Alas! all the sex are vexation.
+
+  Daphne Brown had two eyes with the tenderest glances!
+  Her brain had been tickled by reading romances,
+    And those compounds of nonsense called novels,
+  Where Augustus and Ellen, or fair Isabel,
+  With Romeo, in sweet little cottages dwell:
+   _Sed meo periclo_, read hovels.
+
+  She had toiled through Clarissa; Camilla could quote;
+  Knew the raptures of Werter and Charlotte by rote;
+    Thought Smith and Sir Walter ecstatic;
+  And as for the novels of Miss Lefanu,
+  She dog's-eared them till the whole twenty looked blue;
+    And studied 'The Monk' in the attic.
+
+  When her sire introduced our Apollo, he found
+  The maiden in torrents of sympathy drowned--
+    "Floods of tears" is too trite and too common:
+  Her eyes were quite swelled--her lips pouting and pale;
+  For she just had been reading that heartbreaking tale,
+    "Annabelle, or the Sufferings of Woman."
+
+  Apollo, I'll swear, had more courage than I,
+  To accost a young maid with a _drop in her eye_;
+    I'd as soon catch a snake or a viper:
+  She, while wiping her tears, gives Apollo some wipes;
+  And when a young lady has set up her pipes,
+    Her lover will soon pay the piper.
+
+  Papa locked her up--but the very next night,
+  With a cornet of horse, the young lady took flight;
+    To Apollo she left this apology--
+  "That, were she to spend with an old man her life,
+  She would gain, by the penance she'd bear as a wife,
+    A place in the next martyrology."
+
+  Apollo gave chase, but was destined to fail;
+  The female had safely been lodged in the mail,
+    Now flying full speed to the borders;
+  So the doctor, compelled his sad fate to endure,
+  Came back to his shop, commissioned to cure
+    All disorders but Cupid's disorders.
+
+_Monthly Magazine._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BAMBOROUGH CASTLE.
+
+The origin of this princely establishment may be new to our readers:--One
+of the owners of the castle, John Forster, member for Northumberland,
+having joined in the rebellion, and being general of the English part of
+the rebel army, of course his estates, then valued at 1,314 _l_. _per
+annum_, were forfeited; Crewe, bishop of Durham, purchased them from the
+government commissioners, and settled the whole, by his will, on
+charitable uses. Under a clause which left the residue of the rents to
+such charitable uses as his trustees might appoint, the "princely
+establishment of Bamborough" has arisen--where
+
+  "Charity hath fixed her chosen seat;
+    And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour
+  Of midnight, when the moon is hid on high,
+    Keeps her love watch upon the topmost tower,
+  And turns her ear to each expiring cry,
+    Blest if her aid some fainting wretch might save,
+    And snatch him, cold and speechless, from the grave."
+
+BOWLES.
+
+
+The charitable intentions of a testator have never, in any instance, been
+better fulfilled than this; the residuary rents, owing to the great
+increase of rental in the Forster estates, became considerably the most
+important part of the bequest; and the trustees, who are restricted to
+five in number, all clergymen, and of whom the rector of Lincoln College
+is always one, being unfettered by any positive regulations, have so
+discharged their trust as to render Bamborough Castle the most extensively
+useful, as well as the most munificent, of all our eleemosynary
+institutions. There are two free-schools there, both on the Madras system,
+one for boys, the other for girls; and thirty of the poorest girls are
+clothed, lodged, and boarded, till, at the age of sixteen, they are put
+out to service, with a good stock of clothing, and a present of 2_l_.
+12_s_. 6_d_. each; and at the end of the first year, if the girl has
+behaved well, another guinea is given her, with a Bible, a Prayer-book,
+the Whole Duty of Man, and Secker's Lectures on the Catechism. There is a
+library in the castle, to which Dr. Sharp, one of the trustees, bequeathed,
+in 1792, the whole of his own collection, valued at more than 800_l_.; the
+books are lent gratuitously to any householder, of good report, residing
+within twenty miles of Bamborough, and to any clergyman, Roman Catholic
+priest, or dissenting minister within the said distance. There is an
+infirmary also in the castle, of which the average annual number of
+in-patients is about thirty-five--of out-patients above one thousand. There
+is an ample granary, from whence, in time of scarcity, the poor are
+supplied on low terms. Twice a week the poor are supplied with meal, at
+reduced prices, and with groceries at prime cost; and the average number
+of persons who partake this benefit is about one thousand three hundred in
+ordinary times, in years of scarcity very many more. To sailors on that
+perilous coast Bamborough Castle is what the Convent of St. Bernard is to
+travellers in the Alps. Thirty beds are kept for shipwrecked sailors; a
+patrol for above eight miles (being the length of the manor) is kept along
+the coast every stormy night; signals are made; a life-boat is in
+readiness at Holy Island, and apparatus of every kind is ready for
+assisting seamen in distress;--wrecked goods are secured and stored, the
+survivors are relieved, the bodies that are cast on shore are decently
+interred.
+
+_Quarterly Review._
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FINE ARTS
+
+
+THE DIORAMA.
+
+
+On the day of the unfortunate destruction of the Oxford Street Diorama and
+Bazaar, by fire, two new views were opened at the Diorama in the Regent's
+Park. These are the _Interior of St. Peter's at Rome_, and the _Village of
+Thiers_.
+
+We have so often spoken in terms of the highest commendation of the
+Regent's Park Diorama, that we hardly know in what set of words to point
+out the beauties of these new views, the merits of which must not alter
+our meed of praise, however the subjects may its details. The Interior of
+St. Peter's is by M. Bouton. The point of view is at the east entry,
+opposite to the choir; the reader, perhaps, not being aware that the choir
+in this cathedral is situated differently from all others, being at the
+west end. So beautiful are the proportions of the cathedral itself, that
+its vastness does not strike at first sight, and this effect is admirably
+preserved in the Diorama. We think we could point out a few inaccuracies
+in the drawing; but the projections, capitals of the columns, and some of
+the medallion portraits which ornament them, are so well painted, that we
+can scarcely believe ourselves looking on a flat surface. Again, the
+emmet-like figures of the distant congregation are admirable illustrations
+of the vastness of the building; and above all, the flood of light shed
+from the lantern of the dome is a perfect triumph of art.
+
+The other view is the French Village of Thiers in the department of the
+Puy de Doue, on the bank of the little River Durolle, which is actually
+made to flow, or rather trickle over large stones; whilst smoke ascends
+from the chimney of an adjoining cottage. As a romantic picture of still
+life, its merits can scarcely be too highly spoken of, and when we say it
+is quite equal to _Unterseen_, by the same artist, and engraved in our
+last volume, we hope our readers will not be long ere they judge for
+themselves. We could have lingered for an hour in the contemplation of
+this peaceful picture, with the devotional interior of St. Peter's--and in
+contrasting them with the turmoil of the Great Town out of which we had
+just stepped to view this little _Creation_ of art.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE GATHERER
+
+  A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
+                            SHAKSPEARE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LINES
+
+
+_Written impromptu, by Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart. in the Theatre Royal,
+Drury Lane, at the Benefit of Miss Foote, on Wednesday, May 10, 1826, the
+last night of her engagement._
+
+
+  Maria departs!--'tis a sentence of dread,
+  For the Graces turn pale, and the Fates droop their head!
+  In mercy to breasts that tumultuously burn,
+  Dwell no more on departure--but speak of return.
+  Since she goes, when the buds are just ready to burst,
+  In expanding its leaves, let the Willow be first.
+  We here shall no longer find beauties in May;
+  It cannot be Spring, when Maria's away:
+  If vernal at all, 'tis an April appears,
+  For the Blossom flies off, in the midst of our tears.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE KING'S SPEECH IN 993.
+
+
+Sharon Turner, in his "History of the Anglo-Saxons," vol. iv. says, "The
+King presided at the witena-gemots, and sometimes, perhaps, always
+addressed them." In 993, we have this account of a royal speech. The King
+says, in a charter which recites what had passed at one of their meetings,
+"I benignantly addressed to them salutary and pacific words. I admonished
+all--that those things which were worthy of the Creator, and serviceable
+to the health of my soul, or to my royal dignity, and which should prevail
+as proper for the English people, they might, with the Lord's assistance,
+discuss in common." P.T.W.
+
+
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+sixpence. Suppose you have a mile and a half to go, the fare is one
+shilling and sixpence; you will be about eighteen minutes going that
+distance, and for that sum you may detain the coach forty-four minutes.
+Always call a coach a quarter of an hour before you want it--i.e. if you
+do not wish to be too late.
+
+
+
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+    <span class="pagenum"><a id="page129" name="page129"></a>[pg 129]</span>
+    <h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+     OF<br />
+     LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <table width="100%" summary="Volume, Number, and Date">
+      <tr>
+        <td align="left"><b>VOL. 13., No. 375.</b></td>
+        <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1829.</b></td>
+        <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+      </tr>
+    </table>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>CUMBERLAND TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK.</h2>
+    <div class="figure" style="width:100%;">
+      <a href="images/375-001.png"><img width="100%" src="images/375-001.png"
+      alt="CUMBERLAND TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK." /></a>
+    </div>
+    <hr />
+    <p>The annexed Engraving completes our Series of <i>Architectural Illustrations</i>
+    of the REGENT'S PARK, and is, withal the most magnificent Terrace in the circuit. It
+    stands considerably above the road, and is approached by a fine carriage sweep, with
+    handsome balustrades; below which, and level with the road, is the garden, or
+    promenade for the residents of the Terrace.</p>
+    <p>The architect of Cumberland Terrace is Mr. Nash, who appears to have been so
+    lavish of ornament, as to give the whole range the appearance of a triumphal temple.
+    It consists of a centre and wings, connected by two handsome arches, which have a
+    very pleasing and novel effect. The entrance, or ground story throughout, is
+    rusticated, and in the principal parts or masses of the elevation, serves as a base
+    or pediment for handsome Doric columns, above which is a balustrade, on which are
+    placed allegorical figures of the Seasons, the Quarters of the Globe, the Arts and
+    Sciences, &amp;c. Each of these masses has a most imposing appearance, and bears four
+    figures; the figures in the whole range amount to twenty-seven. Above the balustrade
+    rises the attic story. The subordinate fronts of the residences are embellished with
+    Doric pilasters.</p>
+    <p>Each arch consists of four handsome Doric columns, with an entablature, and
+    blocking course.</p>
+    <p>The central portion of the terrace is in correspondent style with the wings; and
+    consists of a splendid colonnade of twelve columns and an entablature. Above the
+    attic story rises a pediment surmounted with figures of Painting, Architecture, and
+    Sculpture. This pediment is filled with a basso-relievo, executed by J.H. Bubb, and
+    representing Britannia crowned by Fame, and seated on a throne, the basis of which
+    represents Valour and Wisdom. On one side, Literature, Genius, Manufacture,
+    Agriculture, and Prudence, are bringing youth of different nations for instruction;
+    and on the other side, the guardian-spirit of the Navy, surmounted by Victory,
+    Navigation, Commerce, and Freedom, is extending her blessings to the Africans. The
+    group is terminated on each side by Plenty. This is supposed to be the largest
+    ornamental pediment in the kingdom, with the exception of that of the portico of St.
+    Paul's, which only exceeds it by a few feet.</p>
+    <p>From the sweep of this terrace may be enjoyed a highly picturesque view of the
+    park, with the crown of Primrose Hill in the distance.</p>
+    <p>At this close of the Series of Views, and as we are approaching the conclusion of
+    our volume, it may not be amiss to recapitulate the several engravings, with their
+    pages in the preceding and present volumes of the MIRROR, and the order in which they
+    stand in the Regent's Park, which order circumstances have prevented our uniformly
+    following in their publication: thus&mdash;</p>
+    <table width="100%" summary="Illustrations, Page references">
+      <thead>
+        <tr>
+          <th><i>Buildings.</i></th>
+          <th><i>Architects.</i></th>
+          <th><i>Mirror, Vol.</i></th>
+          <th><i>Page.</i></th>
+        </tr>
+      </thead>
+      <tbody>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Ulster Terrace</td>
+          <td>&nbsp;</td>
+          <td>xi</td>
+          <td>401</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>York Terrace</td>
+          <td>Nash</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>129</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Sussex Place</td>
+          <td>Nash</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>273</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Cornwall Terrace</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>305</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Clarence Terrace</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xii</td>
+          <td>17</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Hanover Terrace</td>
+          <td>Nash</td>
+          <td>x</td>
+          <td>313</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Hanover Lodge</td>
+          <td>&nbsp;</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>49</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Grove House</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>49</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Marquess of Hertford's Villa</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>81</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Macclesfield Bridge</td>
+          <td>Morgan</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>351</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>East (now Gloucester) Gate</td>
+          <td>&nbsp;</td>
+          <td>xi</td>
+          <td>225</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>St. Katherine's</td>
+          <td>Poynter</td>
+          <td>xi</td>
+          <td>273</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Master's Residence</td>
+          <td>Poynter</td>
+          <td>xi</td>
+          <td>289</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Cumberland Terrace</td>
+          <td>Nash</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>401</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Chester Terrace</td>
+          <td>Nash</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>193</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Exterior of the Colosseum</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>65</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Interior of the Colosseum</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>97</td>
+        </tr>
+      </tbody>
+    </table>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <p>In this <i>Series</i> we have endeavoured to represent all the architectural
+    beauties of the Park, and liable as are all of them to critical objection, they are
+    extremely interesting for pictorial displays of the taste of this castle-building
+    age.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h3>THE KING'S STAG, &amp;C.</h3>
+    <h4><i>(To the Editor of the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+    <p>As several of your correspondents have lately interested themselves in the sign of
+    "The Cat and Fiddle;" a few observations may not be thought irrelevant, on the
+    probable origin of the "King's Stag," a description of which, under the signature,
+    <i>Ruris</i>, appeared in the MIRROR, of Saturday, the 30th ult. Its rise may, I
+    conceive, with tolerable certainty, be traced to the stag said to have been taken in
+    the Forest of Senlis, by Charles the Sixth, about whose neck was a collar, with the
+    inscription, <i>"Caesar hoc mihi donavit"</i>, which induced a belief that the animal
+    had lived from the reign of some one of the twelve Caesars. This inscription also
+    exists in the following form:&mdash;</p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>"Tempore, quo Caesar Rom&acirc;, dominatus in alt&acirc;</p>
+        <p>Aureolo jussit collum signare moniti;</p>
+        <p>Ne depascentem quisquis me gramina laedat,</p>
+        <p>Caesaris heu caus&acirc;, periturae parcere vitae."</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p>which has been thus literally translated in nearly the same words quoted by
+    <i>Ruris</i>&mdash;</p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>"When Julius Caesar reigned king,</p>
+        <p>About my neck he put this ring,</p>
+        <p>That whosoever did me take,</p>
+        <p>Should spare my life for Caesar's sake."</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p>It thus appears that <i>Julius</i> Caesar is gratuitously introduced by the
+    English paraphrast, nothing appearing in the original inscription to determine its
+    application, or render it more probable, that the reference should be to Julius
+    Caesar, than to Domitian; and the two first lines given by <i>Ruris</i>, have
+    evidently been introduced by way of transferring the subject to our own country.</p>
+    <p>Allow me before concluding this communication, one word in reply to E.D.'s
+    observations on the "Cat and Fiddle." It is not impossible that some resemblance
+    (though I am disposed to think it very trifling) may exist between the "tones of a
+    <i>flute</i>" and those of "the human voice;" but I have yet to learn wherein
+    consists the similarity of the notes of the clarinet and those of a "GOOSE;" neither
+    do I imagine performers on the violin, (especially Italians,) will feel themselves
+    obliged by E.D.'s comparison of their favourite instrument, to the vile squall of the
+    feline race. On the whole, I should feel more disposed to concur with him who "has
+    been led away by a love of etymology" that the "Cat and Fiddle" is an "anomalous"
+    sign, and that "no two objects in the world have less to do with each other than a
+    cat and a violin," than to adopt the opposite theories of E.D. or his predecessor,
+    unless better supported than they are at present. IOTA.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>THE SKETCH-BOOK.</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER.</h3>
+    <h4><i>The Wreck.</i><a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a
+    href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a></h4>
+    <h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>All night the booming minute-gun</p>
+        <p class="i2">Had pealed along the deep,</p>
+        <p>And mournfully the rising sun</p>
+        <p class="i2">Look'd o'er the tide-worn steep,</p>
+        <p>A bark from India's coral strand,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Before the rushing blast,</p>
+        <p>Had vailed her topsails to the sand</p>
+        <p class="i2">And bowed her noble mast.</p>
+        <p>The Queenly ship! brave hearts had striven</p>
+        <p class="i2">And true ones died with her!</p>
+        <p>We saw her mighty cable riven,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Like floating gossamer!</p>
+        <p>We saw her proud flag struck that morn,</p>
+        <p class="i2">A star once o'er the seas,</p>
+        <p>Her helm beat down, her deck uptorn,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And sadder things than these!</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      MRS. HEMANS
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <p>Sweet romantic Cove of Torwich&mdash;repository of my youth's
+    recollections!&mdash;A mingled gust of feeling crosses over me,
+    rainbow-like,&mdash;fraught with the checkered remembrances of "life's eventful
+    history," when I turn to the past, and glance over the scenes of my early life.</p>
+    <p>The Bay of Torwich, on the southern coast, unites in its fullest extent the
+    singularly wild and picturesque, with the softer features of the landscape. The bay
+    consists of two headlands, about four miles apart. On the eastern side a lofty range
+    of rocky heights extends for a considerable way, almost equalling those of Dovor in
+    sublimity, and juts out into the sea, on the assaults of which they seem to frown
+    defiance, terminating in a bold headland. The violence of the sea has caused
+    extensive and picturesque excavations and caverns; and at the end of the cliff, two
+    sharp rocks called the Needles, raised their heads at low water, connected by a low,
+    sunken reef. In a westerly gale these rocks were very dangerous to homeward-bound
+    ships, and I have often sat with admiration in the heights above, watching the
+    grotesque forms and silvery spray of the gigantic breakers, which after being broken
+    in their progress, heaved their expiring rage with a shock like thunder, against the
+    base of the cliffs, causing a prolonged echo in the huge caverns above. About midway
+    between these cliffs and the western side there was another lofty headland, which
+    terminated the Cove of Torwich; as the sea, except at low-water in high spring tides,
+    washed the foot of this promontory, it was only fordable at ebb-tide. In the middle
+    of the intermediate space, three rocks which might truly be called "forked
+    promontories" from their sharp pyramidical shape, jutted abruptly out of the beach,
+    and were connected by a sort of natural causeway to the main land. Beyond, a wild and
+    rocky valley ran inland, and the time-worn ruins of &mdash;&mdash; Castle, beetling
+    over the heights, terminated the view in this direction. This valley formed the bed
+    of a small stream, which ran by the end of the rocks, composing a channel by which
+    coasting vessels could run up and discharge their cargoes for the village of Torwich,
+    only part of which was visible at this spot. A natural cleft in the vein opened
+    through the centre of these singular rocks, resembling a lofty gothic arch, and it
+    was my favourite pastime to sit here in the most perfect seclusion, reading "sermons
+    in stones" and watching the progress of the tide till it kissed my feet, and often
+    surrounded me, for the flood came in with great velocity. Between these rocks and the
+    heights on the eastern side, there was another little retired creek, renowned in the
+    village annals, for the adventures of Jack Covering, a noted smuggler on this coast,
+    some forty years ago, with the locality of which the reader will erewhile become
+    better acquainted. The magnificence of the convulsed scenery, and yawning chasms
+    around, the deep intonation and ceaseless roar of the ocean, all combined to awaken
+    in the mind of the spectator, mingled sensations of admiration and awe.</p>
+    <p>The coast receded between the eastern point of the cove to that which terminated
+    the Bay of Torwich, embracing what may be almost termed a champaign country, compared
+    with the barren scenery I have described; and displaying the uneven surface of the
+    richly wooded Park of Dovedale, with the ruins of two castles.</p>
+    <p>The village of Torwich which stood on a declivity, with an opening descent to the
+    shore, about half a mile from the entrance of the cove, had little communication,
+    from the nature of its site, with the neighbouring country, except when the
+    all-powerful attraction of a wreck existed. Its inhabitants were chiefly sailors or
+    fishermen, barring a few useless individuals like myself. I loved to study life in
+    all its gradations&mdash;the "March of Intellect" was yet unknown here! and though
+    the situation afforded such numerous advantages for smuggling, there were, rather
+    unaccountably, only three persons in the village connected with the coast blockade;
+    and it was whispered that relying on the entire seclusion of the cove, these persons
+    too often winked when they ought to have been astir on their duty.</p>
+    <p>The day was far spent, when towards the close of the month of October, 18&mdash;,
+    I wandered out to the shore to watch the flow of the evening's tide. The weather had
+    been unsettled for some time previous, and the rain had fallen in torrents, with a
+    moderate breeze, during most part of the day. Towards evening the rain ceased, though
+    large heavy masses of black clouds were flying about, and backing up to seaward,
+    accompanied with a short gusty gale of wind. I never recollect a more dismal night. A
+    thick haze overspread the lower parts of the landscape, throwing the bloated masses
+    of clouds higher up in the horizon, into a sort of sombre relief. As I passed a
+    little look-out house on my way to the beach, I sauntered to a group of sailors at
+    their usual council, who were gazing with deep interest at a solitary vessel dimly
+    discernible through the fog in the offing. As she neared us we found her to be a
+    barque of apparently considerable burthen, making a tack to weather the Torhead,
+    which lay several miles under her lee, with a strong breeze from windward. She was
+    evidently quite out of her reckoning from the indecision and embarassment displayed
+    in her movements; and the captain seemed not sufficiently aware of the hazard he ran.
+    I waited sometime at this place watching the movements of the ship. The tide came
+    roaring in with a broken swell increased by a high spring flood; and there was that
+    in the "wind's eye" which betokened approaching disaster; while the gloom was
+    increasing, and the harsh cries and hurried flight of the sea-birds indicated
+    tempestuous weather.</p>
+    <p>"An ugly looking night this, Mr. &mdash;&mdash; as I have seen for many a-day,"
+    remarked Harry Covering, one of the oldest of the group of sailors, and a crony of
+    mine. "Sink the Customs! if yon ship weathers Torhead this night, may I never pull an
+    oar again." "It is, indeed, a fearful-looking night, messmate, and no time ought to
+    be lost in the present state of the tide in putting off to her&mdash;for if the wind
+    holds in this part, it is great odds indeed, that she does not go upon the
+    Needles."</p>
+    <p>The breeze was freshening every moment; indeed the situation of the strange ship
+    must soon become imminently dangerous. The crew seemed at last to have awakened from
+    their lethargy, and were apparently making every effort to enable her to gain an
+    offing and weather Torhead, before the combined force of wind and flood should render
+    that impracticable. It was a moment of deep interest. I am not acquainted with any
+    event, notwithstanding the frequency of its recurrence, that appeals more directly to
+    our sympathies, than a shipwreck. The mighty power of the ocean is thus brought
+    before us in its most striking sense, and the general scene of disaster it occasions
+    is almost always varied with instances of individual sympathy for some of the
+    wrecked. We were now joined by the resident officer of the coast-blockade, and a
+    party of men were dispatched to pull off to the ship in distress, while the rest of
+    us hurried towards the Torhead, accompanied in our rear, (for the news had reached
+    the village) by a turn-out of most of its inhabitants, influenced both by the passion
+    of curiosity and that of expected plunder. Many of the older class looked upon
+    wrecking as legitimate a trade as fishing for herrings or pilchards; while perhaps
+    nearly all from the force of habit and long-practised example, regarded a wreck as a
+    booty sent them by the elements; the scattered contents of which it was no more crime
+    to take than it would be to pick up any other thing cast by accident on the
+    beach.</p>
+    <p>The sea was breaking over the needles with frightful violence when we reached
+    Torhead&mdash;the spray dashing almost to the summit of the cliffs. We were now
+    almost opposite the vessel, which appeared to be French built; but the increasing
+    darkness prevented our distinguishing her minutely. The, flash of a gun from her
+    side, amidst the deepening gloom, redoubled my interest. A more interesting object
+    than a solitary vessel in danger, I cannot well conceive. I have always looked upon a
+    ship as a living creature&mdash;the companion of man&mdash;a thing instinct with
+    life, walking the waters&mdash;and our feelings are not only excited for the safety
+    of the crew, but for that of the vessel itself, to which we attach a degree of
+    interest as for a friend. A gale was now up; the boat put off to their aid was in
+    danger of being swamped by the surf, and found it impracticable to make way against a
+    violent head-wind and tide united. Nothing short of a miracle could now save the
+    ship; however the wind suddenly shifted a little, and I began to hope that if she was
+    to be wrecked, it might be farther on the shore; as in case of her striking on the
+    Needles, she must almost immediately go to pieces under our eyes, without the most
+    remote chance of the escape of one of the crew. A sheet of light flashed occasionally
+    from her sides, calling for aid out of the power of man to grant. There was a sudden
+    lull in the wind, which sometimes happens in the most violent tempests, though often
+    succeeded by increased fury; and a strong shower of sleet and rain drove most of our
+    followers home. As it had now become quite dark, and it was morally impossible to
+    yield the ship any aid till daylight, I returned to the village with melancholy
+    forebodings, having placed beacons on the heights.</p>
+    <p>I hastily proceeded again to the shore just before daybreak. The distant moaning
+    of the sea, the harsh screams of the cormorants with the desolate nature of the spot,
+    chilled my spirits. I had passed a sleepless night, and the storm rose again, and
+    raged till near daybreak with increased fury, but the wind was now greatly hushed.
+    The sea, however, showed marks of its violence; the bay was white with foam, and as I
+    proceeded, the tide, which was just beginning to flow, roared loudly, and advanced in
+    short breakers wreathed with spray. The sky also looked dismally, and gave token that
+    the gale had not entirely passed away, though its violence had temporarily abated. I
+    advanced with deep interest by the peaked group of rocks, and passed the wreck of a
+    brig lying high and dry on the sand just before me. The whole of the shore between
+    the Heads, was strewed with her contents. I never witnessed so total a wreck in so
+    short a space of time. The violence of the surf had completely beaten her sides out,
+    leaving stem and stern hanging together as by a thread, while her ribs and broken
+    cordage and sails, completed the picture, had any thing been wanting to perfect it. I
+    could moralize any day on a single bit of plank on a shore&mdash;each fragment seems
+    to tell its tale, and awakens a train of thoughts and feelings in the mind; but "grim
+    desolation" was here visibly before me.</p>
+    <p>Though I was early astir, I found that the prospect of booty had been sufficiently
+    powerful already to draw out not only the inhabitants of Torwich, but great numbers
+    of the neighbouring peasantry. But where was the ship, about whose fate we had been
+    so greatly interested the preceding evening? This was manifestly not her; but I
+    distinctly saw a large, black hull lying under the western cliffs, half a mile
+    distant, towards which the people were rapidly moving. She had come ashore a little
+    after high water, during the night. I picked my way through the wreck strewn
+    around&mdash;to a small group of persons standing near me; five of them were
+    strangers, the crew of the brig. I learnt that my surmises were right concerning the
+    ship in the distance, and that the brig which was laden with crockery came ashore
+    about the same period.</p>
+    <p>I left these poor fellows endeavouring to rescue their little articles of
+    property, and took a route apart from the course of the crowd towards the other ship.
+    I had not gone far, when I almost stumbled over the dead body of a young female,
+    lying with her face uppermost, half buried in the sand&mdash;</p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Her very tresses clung</p>
+        <p>All tangled by the storm.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p>The bodies of a gentleman of foreign aspect, and that of a lad about seventeen,
+    (their hands still firmly clasped together, undivided even in death,) lay close by.
+    It was a melancholy scene. They had evidently been a father and his children. The
+    long boat of the vessel, which had I suppose, taken ground here, being staved and
+    swamped by the surf, was close beyond, near which I observed the bodies of several
+    other men. It was with pain and horror I remarked that some wretches who had been
+    here before me, had partly stripped the bodies of the lady and others in their search
+    after plunder, besides rifling the contents of some cases of valuables, which had
+    been put into the boat. I hastily turned towards the principal scene of disaster, and
+    addressed myself to one of the survivors, whom I found to be the supercargo. The
+    vessel was <i>La Bonne Esperance</i> of Brest, of 550 tons, homeward bound, with a
+    mixed cargo of rum, cotton, and colonial produce, from the West Indies. It appeared
+    that the captain, mate, and passengers had left the ship just as she struck, and
+    taken to the long boat, the fatal result of which has been seen. As I surmised, the
+    bodies I had seen consisted of one family, the only passengers on board, a colonel in
+    the army, with his son and daughter, returning to his country after long service in
+    foreign parts. The supercargo, in the confusion which took place, could not get into
+    the long boat in time, and remained with the rest of the crew on board; several of
+    the seamen were washed off the decks and dashed against the rocks, and my narrator
+    and three others were all that survived "to tell the tale."</p>
+    <p>The ship's hull lay jammed between two small rocks near the foot of the cliffs;
+    she was still almost outwardly entire, as the tide receded just after she came ashore
+    in the night; but there was a hole knocked in her side from whence a portion of the
+    cargo had been washed out. The two principal masts had gone by the board, but a part
+    of the mizen-mast was still standing; and the rocks were covered, far and near, with
+    tattered portions of her sails and cordage pasted against their sides, disposed by
+    the sea, in a grotesque manner.</p>
+    <p>As the principal station of the preventive corps was at a considerable distance,
+    some time would elapse before they could lend their aid in the protection of the
+    property; and the mob from the neighbouring country, disappointed at finding little
+    else but broken crockery at the other wreck, seemed disposed to make the most of
+    their time, and were proceeding with all the violence and rapacity of professed
+    wreckers. In spite of the exertions of the officer from Torwich and his assistants,
+    they were mounting the sides, and had spread themselves over the vessel like a pack
+    of hungry wolves on the dead carcass of a horse, when I arrived. A scene of greater
+    confusion and singularity cannot be described.</p>
+    <p>It was not long before their attention was awakened by the tapping of a cask of
+    rum, which with many more had been washed out of the hold. This beverage presented a
+    powerful attraction; the ship was soon, in some measure, deserted, and the mob
+    concentrated like a swarm of wasps round the casks. All distinctions were now at an
+    end; the better sort of farmer or shopkeeper, scrambled with the pauper for a cup or
+    cap (or shoe) full of the mellow liquid; while the supercargo and his men, aided by
+    myself and a few others, were occupied in hastily putting into some carts the more
+    valuable articles rescued from plunder. As the parties had been immoderate in their
+    potations, so the effects were equally speedy. Women lay on the sand, dead drunk,
+    beside the booty they had collected, while unable to stir, it was snatched from their
+    powerless grasp by others stronger or more sober than themselves. Several pitched
+    battles were also taking place, both amongst boys and men, which generally terminated
+    by each of the combatants falling prostrate martyrs to Bacchus. The infection was
+    universal, and even the three "mounseers," the surviving crew of the Bonne Esperance,
+    could not resist an occasional sly pull at the liquor. These men, though they had
+    only just escaped sudden death, seemed not to be cast down; but with their
+    characteristic agility, one minute assisted to roll the casks into carts, and then
+    ran off perhaps to whisper a compliment to some pretty girl, shrugging up their
+    shoulders at the unceremonious repulse they met with from <i>mademoiselle</i>.</p>
+    <p>But this scene was not to last long: for the tide had been imperceptibly making
+    way and closing. I had always observed that after coming to a certain place, its
+    velocity was greatly accelerated, and it was with feelings of alarm that I saw the
+    danger which the almost unconscious people incurred. From regard to our own safety we
+    had to retreat rapidly towards the shingles, carrying as many of the helpless as time
+    would admit out of danger, in which we were aided by many of the sailors from
+    Torwich, who had assisted in rescuing a portion of the cargo. The peasantry, at last
+    aware of the hazard they ran, took to their heels also; but from the state they were
+    in, many were forgotten or left behind. The roar of waters came rapidly onward, and
+    amid the foaming eddy created by its advance, the stifled death-cry, mingled with the
+    harsh and piercing shrieks of some of the half drowning victims&mdash;one moment
+    awakened to the consciousness of their situation, and the next hurried to
+    eternity&mdash;burst on the ear; and such was the advance of the spring-flood, that a
+    few minutes after the rush of people had reached the shingles, the curling breakers
+    rolled the bodies of several of the sufferers almost to their feet. The most lively
+    interest was now excited towards a small rock, which jutted out of the sand a little
+    distance from the wreck. The two poor children of a fisherman's widow in the village,
+    were playing in a cavity of this rock, when the tide surrounded them. Their voices
+    were drowned by the roaring of the waters, and their fate would have been unknown,
+    had not the wild appearance and frantic screams of the mother&mdash;come in search of
+    her children&mdash;attracted notice. When they were discovered, only a ledge of the
+    rock was discernible; and the little sufferers were seen imploring for help amidst
+    the spray with which the waves, fanned by a stiff breeze from windward, covered them.
+    Several brave fellows swam off towards the rock, but before they could reach it, a
+    sudden rush of tide swept over, and engulfed the children amidst the fragments of
+    wreck hurled forward in its advance. One of the sailors seized the youngest of the
+    children and bore him safely to shore. The body of the other was found when the tide
+    ebbed, under a ledge of rocks on the eastern side. Upwards of fifteen persons were
+    amongst the missing. It was an impressive scene, and read a powerful lesson to
+    all.</p>
+    <p>"Wrecking" has long been deservedly a national reproach. It is, however, rarely
+    accompanied with the cruelty and violence by which it was formerly characterized; and
+    such aggravated scenes now seldom occur. The people of our coasts have become,
+    generally, much more civilized, and probably the "march of improvement" will
+    ultimately eradicate so inhuman a custom. In Cornwall it was carried to such an
+    excess that the example was even given from the pulpit; and there is a story related
+    of a Cornish parson, who upon information being brought to his congregation of a
+    wreck whilst they were at church, exhorted them to pause as they were rushing out
+    <i>en masse</i> in the midst of the service; and having gained the door, took to his
+    heels saying, "Now, my lads, it is but fair we should all start alike!" and reached
+    the wreck first. The people view the plunder of a wreck as a right, and it is in vain
+    to attempt to persuade them otherwise. However it is but justice to say that they
+    have frequently risked, and even sacrificed, their own lives in endeavouring to
+    preserve those of others; though some recent instances, especially in Wales, prove
+    that the old disposition still lurks amongst the people, and sometimes breaks out
+    with unabated violence.</p>
+    <p>The arrival of a party of the Preventive Service that evening, in some measure
+    proved a check to the plunder of the peasantry; but the guards themselves were not
+    proof against the prevailing infection, and similar scenes to that related, prevailed
+    as long as there was any thing left to drink or pick up; however, a considerable part
+    of the cargo was safely stowed, though there were few of the rum casks that did not
+    afterwards turn out impregnated with bilge water.</p>
+    <p>On a fine grey morning, about a week after these events occurred, I wandered out
+    towards the shore: there had been rough weather in the channel, and many wrecks, and
+    the turbulence of the ocean had not yet subsided. It was about half-flood when I
+    reached the <i>Bonne Esperance</i>. She had disappeared by piece-meal under the
+    repeated assaults of the sea, but the principal part of the hull was still hanging
+    together. Each wave as it struck her tattered timbers, seemed to sap away her
+    strength and threatened to shake her to fragments. I sat with the supercargo for
+    about an hour, watching the flow of the tide. Her timbers cracked louder and louder
+    at each shock of the breakers; when a heavy sea struck her, her joints loosened, and
+    she broke up at last, scattered into fragments, and whelmed in a gulf of boiling
+    waters which foamed like an immense cauldron over the place she had occupied a minute
+    before. We had watched the progress to this final disaster with the deepest
+    interest&mdash;I may almost say sympathy&mdash;for we could hardly help looking upon
+    the ship as a friend in need, hovering as it were over destruction without an arm
+    being stretched forth to save her, and it was not without a real feeling of pain and
+    sorrow that we witnessed her destruction.</p>
+    <p>About half-ebb we descended to the shore&mdash;it was covered as far as the eye
+    could reach with her ruin and materials; and one could almost imagine it had been the
+    destruction of a fleet. Thus ended the fate of <i>La Bonne Esperance</i> of Brest,
+    and the occasional appearance of a solitary fragment on the beach, was soon all that
+    recalled her history to the remembrance of the passers-by.</p>
+    <p>VYVYAN.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>OLD POETS.</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>GOOD DEEDS.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Wretched is he who thinks of doing ill.</p>
+        <p class="i2">His evil deeds long to conceal and hide;</p>
+        <p>For though the voice and tongues of men be still,</p>
+        <p class="i2">By fowls and beasts his sins shall be descried.</p>
+        <p>And God oft worketh by his secret will,</p>
+        <p class="i2">That sin itself, the sinner so doth guide,</p>
+        <p>That of its own accord without request,</p>
+        <p class="i2">He makes his wicked doings manifest.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      SIR J. HARRINGTON.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>DEATH.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Death is a port whereby we reach to joy,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Life is a lake that drowneth all in pain,</p>
+        <p>Death is so near it ceaseth all annoy,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Life is so leav'd that all it yields is vain;</p>
+        <p>And as by life to bondage Man was brought,</p>
+        <p>Even so likewise by death was freedom wrought.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      EARL OF SURREY.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>BEAUTY.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Nought under Heaven so strongly doth allure</p>
+        <p class="i2">The sense of man and all his mind possess,</p>
+        <p>As Beauty's lovely bait that doth procure</p>
+        <p class="i2">Great warriors oft their rigour to repress,</p>
+        <p>And mighty hands forget their manliness.</p>
+        <p class="i2">Driven with the power of an heart robbing eye,</p>
+        <p>And wrapt in flowers of a golden tress,</p>
+        <p class="i2">That can with melting pleasance mollify</p>
+        <p class="i2">Their hard'ned hearts enur'd to blood and cruelty.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      SPENSER.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>LEARNING.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>&mdash;&mdash;But that Learning in despite of fate</p>
+        <p>Will mount aloft and enter Heaven's gate;</p>
+        <p>And to the seat of Jove itself advance,</p>
+        <p>Hermes had slept in Hell with Ignorance.</p>
+        <p>Yet as a punishment they added this,</p>
+        <p>That he and Poverty should always kiss.</p>
+        <p>And to this day is every scholar poor,</p>
+        <p>Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      C. MARLOWE.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>FEELING.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>&mdash;&mdash;The feeling power which is life's root,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Through every living part itself doth shed,</p>
+        <p>By sinews which extend from head to foot,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And like a net all over the body spread.</p>
+        <p>Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit</p>
+        <p class="i2">In middle of her web which spreadeth wide,</p>
+        <p>If aught do touch the outmost thread of it,</p>
+        <p class="i2">She feels it instantly on every side.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      J. DAVIES.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>INJUSTICE.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>So foul a thing, O thou injustice art,</p>
+        <p class="i2">That torment'st the doer and distrest;</p>
+        <p>For when a man hath done a wicked part,</p>
+        <p class="i2">O how he strives to excuse&mdash;to make the best;</p>
+        <p>To shift the fault t' unburden his charg'd heart,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And glad to find the least surmise of rest;</p>
+        <p>And if he could make his, seem other's sin,</p>
+        <p>O what repose, what ease he'd find therein.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      DANIELL.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>RICHES.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Vessels of brass oft handled brightly shine.</p>
+        <p>What difference between the richest mine</p>
+        <p>And basest earth, but use? for both not used</p>
+        <p>Are of little worth; then treasure is abused,</p>
+        <p>When misers keep it; being put to loan,</p>
+        <p>In time it will return us two for one.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      C. MARLOWE.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h3>THE IDIOT LOVER.</h3>
+    <h4>(DRAWN FROM LIFE.)</h4>
+    <h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>"That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,</p>
+        <p>If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p>John Laconi was born in the romantic country of Switzerland. He was educated
+    tolerably well; he was a good musician, and could draw excellently. He possessed a
+    small, though independent fortune. However, notwithstanding his advantages and
+    acquirements, he proved, when he became a lover, to be an idiot.</p>
+    <p>At a certain period of his life, he fell violently in love with a beautiful young
+    Swiss lady. She was considerably younger than our hero, was much taller, and her
+    elegant refinements rendered her a very desirable object. John had a sister, to whom
+    the young lady paid frequent friendly visits, and upon such occasions, owing probably
+    to that <i>mauvaise honte</i>, with which he was cursed, he was usually absent from
+    home. I will not disgust my fair readers with a minute description of <i>all</i> his
+    absurdities; one example, or so, shall suffice.</p>
+    <p>One fine evening, in the month of June, after spending the day with Laconi's
+    sister, the young lady prepared to return alone to her father's <i>ch&acirc;teau</i>,
+    at the distance of about a mile; and on this occasion, John determined to give a
+    specimen of his gallantry in escorting the fair one home, resolving likewise to
+    declare his passion in plain terms. Accordingly, having put on his hat and cloak, and
+    stationed himself at the gate, he appeared as formidable as any doughty knight in the
+    days of romance, ready to offer his protection to some forlorn damsel. No sooner,
+    however, did the lady appear, than he became so confused as not to be able to answer
+    her greeting. She was also confused for a moment at his manner, but immediately began
+    her walk with much disgust and <i>nonchalance</i>; while he, like a silly <i>valet de
+    chambre</i>, followed behind, leaving his dear mistress' questions unanswered, and
+    gazing with a vacant stare at the moon. At length, to the lady's infinite
+    satisfaction, the white gate of her father's <i>ch&acirc;teau</i> appeared in view,
+    and John, finding they had nearly reached their destination, articulated, in a half
+    suffocated tone, "I&mdash;I beg pardon, ma&mdash;madam, I have been
+    considering&mdash;." "You have, indeed, Mr. John," quickly returned the smiling
+    damsel, "but I think you might have chosen another opportunity, more seasonable than
+    the present, to consider the moon!" To this retort, he said nothing, but looked
+    extremely foolish and ridiculous. However, when they had actually gained the gate of
+    the <i>ch&acirc;teau</i>, he boldly resolved to kiss his fair enslaver; but, after a
+    moment, his resolution failed, and his legs tottered under him. Without hearing the
+    lady's sweet "good night," as she tripped gaily from him, he exclaimed, "Madam, can
+    you love me?" This appeal was not heard by the flying maiden, who hastily ascended
+    the steps to her father's door, which opened and concealed her lovely form from the
+    sight of the amazed lover, who had not courage sufficient to follow her.</p>
+    <p>Whether our idiot did not comprehend the behaviour of his mistress, I cannot say;
+    certain it is, he went home well contented with the success he imagined he had gained
+    towards winning her heart. But, in reality, she was disgusted with his foolery, and
+    ceased paying any more visits to her female friend, in order to avoid the sight of so
+    strange a lover.</p>
+    <p>John, however, was a kind of philosopher, and calmly sustained his love
+    misfortunes. A particular occurrence happened which will somewhat account for this
+    passive resignation. One evening, during a solitary walk, he saw his identical
+    mistress in company with a young French officer. He walked sullenly home, wrote some
+    verses on the inconstancy of women, drew from recollection a portrait of the cruel
+    fair, which he hung in his study, and banished his former pretences. Report says,
+    that he lived the remainder of his days in a state of celibacy. G.W.N.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.</h3>
+    <p>Sincerely do we regret to announce the death of this great and good man&mdash;the
+    most celebrated philosopher of our times, who has done more for the happiness of his
+    species than any associated Academy in Europe. He died at Geneva, May 29, aged 51. We
+    shall endeavour to do justice to his talents and amiable character, in a Memoir to be
+    published at the close of this volume of THE MIRROR&mdash;prefixed to which will be a
+    fine Portrait of the illustrious deceased.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY.</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>DISCOVERY OF THE FATE OF LA PEROUSE.</h3>
+    <h4><i>Abridged from the United Service Journal.</i></h4>
+    <p>The fate of this celebrated French navigator, which for upwards of forty years has
+    remained enveloped in mystery, has at length been satisfactorily ascertained, a
+    result that is owing to the active and spirited exertions of our gallant and
+    enterprising countryman Captain Dillon.</p>
+    <p>It is a remarkable circumstance, that the discovery of the relics of La Perouse,
+    arose out of the massacre of the ship Hunter's crew, at the Feejee Islands, in
+    1813.</p>
+    <p>In this unfortunate affair, fourteen persons in all, from the ship Hunter, lost
+    their lives. The two that escaped with Mr. Dillon, were William Wilson and Martin
+    Buchart, a Prussian, who resided for two years at Bough. The latter entreated captain
+    Robson to give him and his Bough wife a passage to the first land at which he might
+    arrive, as they would certainly be sacrificed if they returned to the island. Having
+    made Tucopia on the 20th of September, Buchart, his wife, and a Lascar, were put on
+    shore, and the Hunter proceeded on her voyage to Canton.</p>
+    <p>On the 13th of May, 1826, while in command of the St. Patrick, bound from
+    Valparaiso to Pondicherry, captain Dillon came in sight of the island of Tucopia.
+    Prompted by curiosity, as well as regard for old companions in danger, he lay to,
+    anxious to ascertain whether the persons left there in 1813, were still alive. A
+    canoe, in which was the Lascar, soon afterwards put off from land and came alongside.
+    This was immediately succeeded by another canoe, containing Martin Buchart, the
+    Prussian. They were both in excellent health, and exceedingly rejoiced to see him.
+    They informed him, that the natives had treated them very kindly; and that no ship
+    had touched at the island from the time they were first landed, until about a year
+    previous to his arrival, when an English whaler visited them, and was soon after
+    followed by a second. The Lascar had an old silver sword-guard, which he bartered for
+    a few fishing-hooks. Captain Dillon inquired where he had obtained it; the Prussian
+    informed him, that on his arrival at the island, he saw it in the possession of the
+    natives, also several chainplates belonging to a ship, a number of iron bolts, five
+    axes, the handle of a silver fork, a few knives, tea-cups, glass beads and bottles,
+    one silver spoon with a crest and a cipher, a sword, &amp;c. As soon as he became
+    sufficiently acquainted with the language, he asked the natives how they obtained
+    those articles, as they said that the Hunter was the first ship with which they had
+    ever held communication. They replied, that about two days' sail in their canoes to
+    leeward, there was a large group of islands, known generally by the name of Manicolo,
+    to which they were in the habit of making frequent voyages, and that they had
+    procured these articles from the inhabitants, who possessed many more of a similar
+    description.</p>
+    <p>Buchart proceeded to state, that the Tucopians asserted that a great number of
+    articles were on the Manicolo Islands in a state of preservation, and such articles
+    were evidently obtained from the wreck of a vessel. About seven months before captain
+    Dillon touched at Tucopia, a canoe had returned from Manicolo, and brought away two
+    large chain plates, and an iron bolt, about four feet in length. He spoke with some
+    of the crew of the canoe which had last made the voyage to Manicolo. They told him
+    that there was abundance of iron materials still remaining on the island. Those which
+    Martin Buchart saw were much oxydized and worn. The only silver spoon brought to
+    Tucopia, as far as captain Dillon could learn, was beaten out into a wire by Buchart,
+    for the purpose of making rings and other ornaments for the female islanders. Upon
+    examining the sword-guard minutely, captain Dillon discovered, or thought he
+    discovered, the initials of Perouse stamped upon it, which circumstance prompted him
+    to be more eager in his inquiries.</p>
+    <p>The Prussian said he had himself never made a trip to Manicolo with the Tucopians,
+    but the Lascar had gone once or twice. He positively affirmed, that he had seen and
+    conversed at Paiow, a native town, with the Europeans who spoke the language of the
+    islanders. They were old men, he said, who told him that they had been wrecked
+    several years ago in one of the ships, the remnants of which they pointed out to him.
+    They informed him also that no vessel had touched at the islands since they had been
+    there; that most of their comrades were dead, but they had been so scattered among
+    the various islands, that they could not tell precisely how many of them were still
+    living.</p>
+    <p>On hearing so many circumstances all tending to confirm his suspicions, from the
+    moment he saw the silver sword-guard with the cipher, captain Dillon determined to
+    proceed as quickly as possible to the Manicolo Islands, examine the wrecks himself,
+    and, if practicable, bring off the two men with whom the Lascar had spoken, and whom,
+    he said, were Frenchmen. For this purpose he begged the latter to accompany him, but
+    as he was married and comfortably settled on the island, neither promises nor threats
+    were of any avail, although captain Dillon offered to bring him back to Tucopia.
+    Martin Buchart, on the contrary, was tired of the savage life he had led for the last
+    fourteen years, and gladly acceded to the wishes of captain Dillon, who after
+    prevailing with a Tucopian also to come on board, sailed for the island.
+    Unfortunately, as the ship neared the land, it fell a perfect calm, and continued so
+    for seven days. At this time the stock of dry provisions was nearly exhausted, and
+    there was no animal food to be procured on Tucopia. The crew lived principally on New
+    Zealand potatoes and bananas. The vessel became every day more leaky from a long
+    continuance at sea; and a person on board, who was interested in the cargo, had,
+    during captain Dillon's stay in the islands, shown himself particularly discontented,
+    and had frequently and warmly remonstrated at what he considered an unnecessary and
+    useless delay; for these reasons, therefore, captain Dillon determined, though with
+    the greatest reluctance, to take advantage of a breeze which sprang up, continued his
+    voyage, and arrived at Bengal with much difficulty, his ship being in a very leaky
+    condition.</p>
+    <p>Unwilling to abandon his favourite object, captain Dillon now applied to the
+    Asiatic Society, and to the Bengal Government; and in consequence of his
+    representations, his suggestions were at length carried into effect. He was appointed
+    to the command of one of the Company's cruisers, of sixteen guns and eighty-five men,
+    called the Research; and on the 27th of January, 1827, he sailed from Bengal, visited
+    Van Dieman's Land, New South Wales, New Zealand, the Friendly Islands, Ro-Thoma, or
+    Granville Island of the Pandora, Tucopia, and arrived at Manicolo on the 27th of
+    September. This island (Manicolo, or Vanicolo) is not the Mallicolo of captain Cook,
+    being situated only 118 miles to the leeward of Tucopia, in latitude 11 deg. 47 min.,
+    whilst the former lies in south latitude 16 deg. 15 min.</p>
+    <p>Captain Dillon personally visited the reefs on which the French ships are
+    ascertained to have struck and gone to pieces, according to the accounts of the
+    natives, from which the following particulars have been obtained of that disastrous
+    event:&mdash;"Many years ago two large ships arrived at the islands; one anchored off
+    the island of Whanoo, and the other off that of Paiow, a little distance from each
+    other. Soon after, and before they had any communication with the natives, a heavy
+    gale arose, and both vessels were driven ashore. The ship off Whanoo grounded upon
+    the rocks. The natives came in crowds to the sea-shore, armed with clubs, spears,
+    bows and arrows, and discharged some arrows into the vessel; the crew in return
+    fired, and killed several of the islanders. The vessel continued to strike violently
+    against the rocks, and soon went to pieces. Some of the crew took to their boats, but
+    were driven on shore, and murdered by the natives; others threw themselves into the
+    sea, and such as reached the land, shared the fate of their unfortunate companions,
+    so that not a single soul belonging to this vessel escaped alive."</p>
+    <p>"The ship which grounded on Paiow, was driven on a sandy beach, and the natives
+    came down and also discharged their arrows into her; but the crew prudently did not
+    resent the aggression, but held up axes, beads, and toys, as peace-offerings, upon
+    which the assailants desisted from farther hostilities. As soon as the wind had
+    moderated, an aged chief, in a canoe, put off to the ship. He was received with
+    caresses, accepted the presents offered to him: and upon going ashore, pacified the
+    islanders by assurances that the ship's crew were peaceably inclined towards them.
+    Upon this, several natives went on board, and were all presented with toys. In
+    return, they supplied the crew with yams, fowls, bananas, cocoa-nuts, hogs, &amp;c.
+    and confidence was established between them. The ship was now abandoned, and the crew
+    went on shore, bringing with them part of her stores. Here they remained for some
+    time, and built a small vessel with the materials from the wreck. When it was ready
+    to put to sea, as many as could conveniently, embarked in her, being plentifully
+    supplied with fresh provisions by the islanders. The commander promised those who
+    were left behind, to return immediately with presents for the natives, and to bring
+    them off; but, as the little vessel was never afterwards heard of, the men sought the
+    protection of the neighbouring chiefs, with whom they lived. Several muskets and some
+    gunpowder had been left them by their comrades, and by means of these, they proved of
+    great service to their friends, in encounters with the neighbouring islanders."</p>
+    <p>The natives of Manicolo are not cannibals; but when an enemy falls into their
+    power he is immediately killed, and his body is deposited in sea-water, and kept
+    there until the bones become perfectly bare. The skeleton is then taken up, the bones
+    of the extremities scraped and cut into various forms, to point arrows and spears.
+    Their arms consist of heavy clubs, spears, and bows and arrows. They poison the
+    latter with a kind of reddish gum, extracted from a species of tree peculiar to the
+    island. When any one is struck by a poisoned arrow in any of the limbs, the part is
+    quickly cut out, and his life is sometimes saved; but if the wound happens to be in
+    the body, where it cannot be easily excised, he resigns himself quietly to death
+    without a murmur, though he frequently lingers for four or five days in excruciating
+    agony.</p>
+    <p>The Manicolans differ from almost all the other islanders in the South Sea; they
+    are as black as negroes, have short woolly hair, and resemble them in their features.
+    Their religion also is different; in every village in the island there is a house
+    dedicated to the Deity. At the principal chapel, the skulls of all the people who
+    were killed, belonging to the ship that grounded at Whanoo, are still preserved. The
+    natives of Tucopia, unaccustomed to the sight of human bones, avoid, as much as
+    possible, when they visit the island, approaching the sacred house where the skulls
+    are deposited.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>WAVERLEY NOVELS.</h3>
+    <p>The <i>new edition</i>, (of which <i>Waverley</i> has just appeared,) is, without
+    exception, the handsomest book of the day, in editorship, literary and graphic
+    embellishment or typography. Perhaps little persuasion was necessary for a second
+    reading of so delightful a novel as <i>Waverley</i>, but the author's piquant notes
+    to the present edition would alike tempt the matter-of-fact man, and the inveterate
+    novel reader to "begin again." The prefatory anecdotes to <i>Waverley</i> are
+    extremely interesting&mdash;and the little autobiographic sketches are so many leaves
+    from the life of the ingenious author. We hope to introduce a few of the notes of the
+    Series; but content ourselves for the present with the following: being the original
+    of the legend of Mrs. Grizel Oldbuck:</p>
+    <p>Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d of Bowland, a gentleman of landed property in the vale of
+    Gala, was prosecuted for a very considerable sum, the accumulated arrears of teind
+    (or tithe) for which he was said to be indebted to a noble family, the titulars (lay
+    impropriators of the tithes.) Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d was strongly impressed with the
+    belief that his father had, by a form of process peculiar to the law of Scotland,
+    purchased these lands from the titular, and therefore that the present prosecution
+    was groundless. But after an industrious search among his father's papers, an
+    investigation of the public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had
+    transacted law business for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his
+    defence. The period was now near at hand when he conceived the loss of his lawsuit to
+    be inevitable, and he had formed his determination to ride to Edinburgh next day, and
+    make the best bargain he could in the way of compromise. He went to bed with this
+    resolution, and with all the circumstances of the case floating upon his mind, had a
+    dream to the following purpose. His father, who had been many years dead, appeared to
+    him, he thought, and asked him why he was disturbed in his mind. In dreams men are
+    not surprised at such apparitions. Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d thought that he had informed
+    his father of the cause of his distress, adding that the payment of a considerable
+    sum of money was the more unpleasant to him, because he had a strong consciousness
+    that it was not due, though he was unable to recover any evidence in support of his
+    belief. "You are right, my son," replied the paternal shade; "I did acquire right to
+    these teinds, for payment of which you are now prosecuted. The papers relating to the
+    transaction are in the hands of Mr. &mdash;&mdash;, a writer (or attorney,) who is
+    now retired from professional business, and resides at Inveresk, near Edinburgh. He
+    was a person whom I employed on that occasion for a particular reason, but who never
+    on any other occasion transacted business on my account. It is very possible,"
+    pursued the vision, "that Mr. &mdash;&mdash; may have forgotten a matter which is now
+    of a very old date; but you may call it to his recollection by this token, that when
+    I came to pay his account, there was difficulty in getting change for a Portugal
+    piece of gold, and that we were forced to drink out the balance at a tavern." Mr.
+    R&mdash;&mdash;d awaked in the morning with all the words of the vision imprinted on
+    his mind, and thought it worth while to ride across the country to Inveresk, instead
+    of going straight to Edinburgh. When he came there, he waited on the gentleman
+    mentioned in the dream, a very old man; without saying any thing of the vision, he
+    inquired whether he remembered having conducted such a matter for his deceased
+    father. The old gentleman could not at first bring the circumstance to his
+    recollection, but on mention of the Portugal piece of gold, the whole returned upon
+    his memory; he made an immediate search for the papers, and recovered them; so that
+    Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d carried to Edinburgh the documents necessary to gain the cause
+    which he was on the verge of losing. The author has often heard this story told by
+    persons who had the best access to know the facts, who were not likely themselves to
+    be deceived, and were certainly incapable of deception. He cannot therefore refuse to
+    give it credit, however extraordinary the circumstances may appear. The
+    circumstantial character of the information given in the dream, takes it out of the
+    general class of impressions of the kind which are occasioned by the fortuitous
+    coincidence of actual events with our sleeping thoughts. On the other hand, few would
+    suppose that the laws of nature were suspended, and a special communication from the
+    dead to the living permitted, for the purpose of saving Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d a
+    certain number of hundred pounds. The author's theory is, that the dream was only the
+    recapitulation of information which Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d had really received from his
+    father while in life, but which at first he merely recalled as a general impression
+    that the claim was settled. It is not uncommon for persons to recover, during sleep,
+    the thread of ideas which they have lost during their waking hours. It may be added,
+    that this remarkable circumstance was attended with bad consequences to Mr.
+    R&mdash;&mdash;d, whose health and spirits were afterwards impaired by the attention
+    which he thought himself obliged to pay to the visions of the night.&mdash;<i>Notes
+    to the Antiquary.</i></p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>ROAD-BOOK OF FRANCE.</h3>
+    <p>People who are bound for the Continent should provide themselves with the new
+    edition of Mr. Leigh's descriptive Road Book of France&mdash;even before they get
+    their passports at the French ambassador's, or if they only <i>intend</i> to visit
+    Calais, Boulogne, or Dieppe&mdash;and the chances are that they will be induced to
+    travel beyond these places, which, in truth, give an Englishman no more idea of
+    France than Dovor would afford a foreigner of England. A few years since,
+    comparatively speaking, people only knew their way from York to London, much less the
+    objects on the road&mdash;now, by the economy of guide books they may know every good
+    inn in France, and carry the <i>ichnography</i> of the kingdom in their coat pocket.
+    In the present edition of the "Road Book of France," attention has been paid to the
+    description of the delightful South, especially of Bordeaux, the mineral springs and
+    bathing-places of the Pyrenees, the navigation of the Rhone from Lyons to Avignon, as
+    well as of Marseilles, Toulouse, &amp;c., and some of the principal towns have been
+    illustrated with plans. Dipping into the Itinerary from Calais to Paris, we were
+    reminded of a curious coincidence: Julius Caesar is supposed to have sailed from
+    Boulogne on his expedition against the Britons; and in later times, Napoleon
+    Bonaparte there prepared to carry into execution the invasion of Great Britain. But
+    how different have been the results!</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>JOURNEY FROM THE BANK TO BARNES.</h3>
+    <p>A lively volume with many shreds of wit and humour, and occasional patches of
+    "righte merrie conceite," has just fallen into our hands, and has afforded us some
+    very pleasant reading. There is fun in the very title, "Personal Narrative of a
+    Journey overland from the Bank to Barnes, &amp;c. with some account of the Regions
+    east of Kensington. By an Inside Passenger. With a Model for a Magazine, being the
+    product of the Author's sojourn at the village of Barnes, during five rainy days."
+    The author is a shrewd, clever fellow, who loves a little raillery on the follies of
+    the day, and joins with our friend, Popanilla in deploring the present artificial
+    state of society; therefore, suppose we give a few <i>flying</i> extracts from his
+    tour, premising that the good people of the little villages through which he passed,
+    are not aware of what good things he has said of them; for his little book would suit
+    every parlour window from Hyde Park Corner to Barnes.</p>
+    <h4><i>Brentford.</i></h4>
+    <p>The ancient and nearly deserted barony of Brentford still contains, in its
+    monuments and antiquities, vestiges of former splendour. The horse-trough opposite
+    the "Bell and Feathers" is to the antiquarian a most particularly interesting
+    <i>morceau</i>; the verdure of age has defaced it in part, but enough still remains
+    to prove that our ancestors had made no mean proficiency in the rustic style of
+    architecture. The reservoir, which contains the sparkling element so grateful to that
+    noble animal, is modelled from the celebrated sarcophagus in the British Museum; and
+    the posts which support it are evidently Doric. On the outside of it are several
+    nearly obliterated specimens of carving, as well as drawings in chalk.</p>
+    <p>Nearly parallel with the horse-trough, as you go down "Maud's Rents," is that
+    useful, and indeed indispensible, triumph of hydraulics, the pump. The taste and
+    science displayed in its execution do credit to the engineer; and the soil in which
+    it is imbedded, being argillaceous, partially encrusted with strontian, reflects
+    equal honour on his geological attainments. This pump, which you approach by three
+    steps, is perpendicular, and of an elegant appearance; and forms the chief ornament
+    of the "Rents." The handle is of wrought iron, highly polished; the snout copper,
+    studded with hobnails. It is neatly coated with white paint, and bears on its front
+    the following inscription, which I have copied for the gratification of the curious
+    in antiquarian research.</p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>This Pump was erected,</p>
+        <p>and Well sunk,</p>
+        <p>A.D. 1824,</p>
+        <p>from the proceeds of a Charity Sermon,</p>
+        <p>preached</p>
+        <p>in the Parish Church</p>
+        <p>of this Parish,</p>
+        <p>by his Grace the Bishop</p>
+        <p>of Bath and Wells.</p>
+        <hr class="short" />
+        <p>Peter Broddupp,</p>
+        <p>Overseer,</p>
+        <p>Slingsby Stygle, and John Moles,</p>
+        <p>Churchwardens.</p>
+        <hr class="short" />
+        <p>N.B. Whoever washes Fish at this Pump</p>
+        <p>will be prosecuted.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p>I cannot take leave of this interesting town without noticing the church. It is
+    surmounted by a neat steeple, cut in wood, in the pointed style of architecture; on
+    the top of which is a goodly key, to indicate the wind,&mdash;which, the inhabitants
+    remark, has blown due south for the last ten years. The porch, which is a curious
+    specimen of the Maeso-Gothic, is rather hurt by the simplicity of the scrapers,
+    which, being merely segments of iron hoops, do not harmonize with the otherwise
+    elaborate approach.</p>
+    <h4><i>Tossbury.</i></h4>
+    <p>The demesne of Tossbury (by Camden written Tossbery) was anciently a grant in
+    feoffment to the College of Physicians by King John. On the spot now occupied by the
+    burial grounds formerly stood their college; and here they flourished until the
+    population, originally abundant, diminished so alarmingly, as to induce them to
+    remove to Warwick Lane.</p>
+    <p>Mr. P. (the landlord of the inn,) ever ready to shew his guests what at that
+    village are esteemed great curiosities, was indefatigable in explaining the various
+    instances in which he has made science subservient to utility. The staircase, as far
+    as the great dining-room, he has, at considerable expense, macadamized; which,
+    provided it is kept well watered, and scrapers attached to the chamber-doors, our
+    worthy host assured us, was infinitely preferable to marble. He begged us to be under
+    no apprehension as to the dampness of our beds, as they were warmed by a
+    steam-apparatus of his own contrivance. He always keeps a Leyden jar, about the size
+    of a boiler, ready charged, wherewith he kills geese, turkeys, and even lamb; which,
+    he affirms, is a much less shocking method of neutralizing the vital spark than the
+    vulgar butchery of twisting and sticking. He has lost three of his fingers, through
+    incautiously handling a self-acting rat-trap of his own construction; and had his
+    left eye blown out, while investigating the exact interval between combustion and
+    explosion.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>I found a difference of about half an hour between the dial of Putney Church and
+    my watch, which a young gentleman "intended for one of the universities" accounted
+    for from difference of latitude. He likewise explained a phenomenon, which rather
+    startled us, near Kew. We saw about half-a-dozen cows galloping furiously towards the
+    river's brink; flirting their tails, and, indeed, conducting themselves with a
+    vivacity perfectly inconsistent with the acknowledged sobriety of that useful animal.
+    He calmed our apprehensions, by informing us they were intended for the East Indies.
+    Every other day they are fed with best rock-salt, instead of green-meat; which, by
+    chemical agency, renders them fat and fit to be killed, and sent on ship-board at a
+    moment's notice; the trouble and delay of salting down being totally unnecessary.
+    These cows, he assured us, had just finished their thirst-inducing meal.</p>
+    <p>Near Hill's boat-shed is the patent Philanthropical Hay-tosser, a stupendous
+    machine, invented expressly to prevent the degradation and slavery to which thousands
+    of our fellow men are subjected during hay-harvest. It must gratify every friend to
+    the amelioration of his species to learn, that the humane intention of the inventer
+    is likely to be realized, as there are already three thousand Irishmen out of
+    employ.</p>
+    <p>Here we must halt with our tourist. The result of his lucubrations at
+    Barnes&mdash;a Model for a Magazine will be found very serviceable to all prospectus
+    writers, and furnish skeleton articles for a whole volume. We have been amused with
+    the pleasantries of the author, and in return we thank him, and recommend his little
+    book to our readers.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>CLASSICAL CORRECTIONS.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>In a neat little cottage, some five miles from town,</p>
+        <p>Lived a pretty young maiden, by name Daphne Brown,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Like a butterfly, pretty and airy:</p>
+        <p>In a village hard by lived a medical prig,</p>
+        <p>With a rubicund nose, and a full-bottomed wig,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Apollo, the apothecary.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>He, being crop sick of his bachelor life,</p>
+        <p>Resolved, in his old days, to look for a wife&mdash;</p>
+        <p class="i2">(<i>Nota bene</i>&mdash;Thank Heaven, I'm not married):</p>
+        <p>He envied his neighbours their curly-poled brats,</p>
+        <p>(All swarming, as if in a village of Pats,)</p>
+        <p class="i2">And sighed that so long he had tarried.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Having heard of fair Daphne, the village coquette,</p>
+        <p>As women to splendour were never blind yet,</p>
+        <p class="i2">He resolved with his grandeur to strike her;</p>
+        <p>So he bought a new buggy, where, girt in a wreath,</p>
+        <p>Were his arms, pills, and pestle&mdash;this motto beneath&mdash;</p>
+        <p class="i2"><i>"Ego opifer per orbem dicor."</i></p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>To the village he drove, sought young Daphne's old sire,</p>
+        <p>Counted gold by rouleaus, and bank notes by the quire,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And promised the old buck a share in't,</p>
+        <p>If his daughter he'd give&mdash;for the amorous fool</p>
+        <p>Thought of young ladies' hearts and affections the rule</p>
+        <p class="i2">Apparently rests with a parent.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Alas! his old mouth may long water in vain,</p>
+        <p>Who tries by this method a mistress to gain&mdash;</p>
+        <p class="i2">A <i>miss</i> is the sure termination:</p>
+        <p>For a maiden's delight is to plague the old boy,</p>
+        <p>And to think sixty-five not the period for joy;</p>
+        <p class="i2">Alas! all the sex are vexation.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Daphne Brown had two eyes with the tenderest glances!</p>
+        <p>Her brain had been tickled by reading romances,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And those compounds of nonsense called novels,</p>
+        <p>Where Augustus and Ellen, or fair Isabel,</p>
+        <p>With Romeo, in sweet little cottages dwell:</p>
+        <p class="i2"><i>Sed meo periclo</i>, read hovels.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>She had toiled through Clarissa; Camilla could quote;</p>
+        <p>Knew the raptures of Werter and Charlotte by rote;</p>
+        <p class="i2">Thought Smith and Sir Walter ecstatic;</p>
+        <p>And as for the novels of Miss Lefanu,</p>
+        <p>She dog's-eared them till the whole twenty looked blue;</p>
+        <p class="i2">And studied 'The Monk' in the attic.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>When her sire introduced our Apollo, he found</p>
+        <p>The maiden in torrents of sympathy drowned&mdash;</p>
+        <p class="i2">"Floods of tears" is too trite and too common:</p>
+        <p>Her eyes were quite swelled&mdash;her lips pouting and pale;</p>
+        <p>For she just had been reading that heartbreaking tale,</p>
+        <p class="i2">"Annabelle, or the Sufferings of Woman."</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Apollo, I'll swear, had more courage than I,</p>
+        <p>To accost a young maid with a <i>drop in her eye</i>;</p>
+        <p class="i2">I'd as soon catch a snake or a viper:</p>
+        <p>She, while wiping her tears, gives Apollo some wipes;</p>
+        <p>And when a young lady has set up her pipes,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Her lover will soon pay the piper.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Papa locked her up&mdash;but the very next night,</p>
+        <p>With a cornet of horse, the young lady took flight;</p>
+        <p class="i2">To Apollo she left this apology&mdash;</p>
+        <p>"That, were she to spend with an old man her life,</p>
+        <p>She would gain, by the penance she'd bear as a wife,</p>
+        <p class="i2">A place in the next martyrology."</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Apollo gave chase, but was destined to fail;</p>
+        <p>The female had safely been lodged in the mail,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Now flying full speed to the borders;</p>
+        <p>So the doctor, compelled his sad fate to endure,</p>
+        <p>Came back to his shop, commissioned to cure</p>
+        <p class="i2">All disorders but Cupid's disorders.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p><i>Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>BAMBOROUGH CASTLE.</h3>
+    <p>The origin of this princely establishment may be new to our readers:&mdash;One of
+    the owners of the castle, John Forster, member for Northumberland, having joined in
+    the rebellion, and being general of the English part of the rebel army, of course his
+    estates, then valued at 1,314 <i>l</i>. <i>per annum</i>, were forfeited; Crewe,
+    bishop of Durham, purchased them from the government commissioners, and settled the
+    whole, by his will, on charitable uses. Under a clause which left the residue of the
+    rents to such charitable uses as his trustees might appoint, the "princely
+    establishment of Bamborough" has arisen&mdash;where</p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>"Charity hath fixed her chosen seat;</p>
+        <p class="i2">And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour</p>
+        <p>Of midnight, when the moon is hid on high,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Keeps her love watch upon the topmost tower,</p>
+        <p>And turns her ear to each expiring cry,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Blest if her aid some fainting wretch might save,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And snatch him, cold and speechless, from the grave."</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      BOWLES.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <p>The charitable intentions of a testator have never, in any instance, been better
+    fulfilled than this; the residuary rents, owing to the great increase of rental in
+    the Forster estates, became considerably the most important part of the bequest; and
+    the trustees, who are restricted to five in number, all clergymen, and of whom the
+    rector of Lincoln College is always one, being unfettered by any positive
+    regulations, have so discharged their trust as to render Bamborough Castle the most
+    extensively useful, as well as the most munificent, of all our eleemosynary
+    institutions. There are two free-schools there, both on the Madras system, one for
+    boys, the other for girls; and thirty of the poorest girls are clothed, lodged, and
+    boarded, till, at the age of sixteen, they are put out to service, with a good stock
+    of clothing, and a present of 2<i>l</i>. 12<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. each; and at the end
+    of the first year, if the girl has behaved well, another guinea is given her, with a
+    Bible, a Prayer-book, the Whole Duty of Man, and Secker's Lectures on the Catechism.
+    There is a library in the castle, to which Dr. Sharp, one of the trustees,
+    bequeathed, in 1792, the whole of his own collection, valued at more than
+    800<i>l</i>.; the books are lent gratuitously to any householder, of good report,
+    residing within twenty miles of Bamborough, and to any clergyman, Roman Catholic
+    priest, or dissenting minister within the said distance. There is an infirmary also
+    in the castle, of which the average annual number of in-patients is about
+    thirty-five&mdash;of out-patients above one thousand. There is an ample granary, from
+    whence, in time of scarcity, the poor are supplied on low terms. Twice a week the
+    poor are supplied with meal, at reduced prices, and with groceries at prime cost; and
+    the average number of persons who partake this benefit is about one thousand three
+    hundred in ordinary times, in years of scarcity very many more. To sailors on that
+    perilous coast Bamborough Castle is what the Convent of St. Bernard is to travellers
+    in the Alps. Thirty beds are kept for shipwrecked sailors; a patrol for above eight
+    miles (being the length of the manor) is kept along the coast every stormy night;
+    signals are made; a life-boat is in readiness at Holy Island, and apparatus of every
+    kind is ready for assisting seamen in distress;&mdash;wrecked goods are secured and
+    stored, the survivors are relieved, the bodies that are cast on shore are decently
+    interred.</p>
+    <p><i>Quarterly Review.</i></p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>FINE ARTS</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>THE DIORAMA.</h3>
+    <p>On the day of the unfortunate destruction of the Oxford Street Diorama and Bazaar,
+    by fire, two new views were opened at the Diorama in the Regent's Park. These are the
+    <i>Interior of St. Peter's at Rome</i>, and the <i>Village of Thiers</i>.</p>
+    <p>We have so often spoken in terms of the highest commendation of the Regent's Park
+    Diorama, that we hardly know in what set of words to point out the beauties of these
+    new views, the merits of which must not alter our meed of praise, however the
+    subjects may its details. The Interior of St. Peter's is by M. Bouton. The point of
+    view is at the east entry, opposite to the choir; the reader, perhaps, not being
+    aware that the choir in this cathedral is situated differently from all others, being
+    at the west end. So beautiful are the proportions of the cathedral itself, that its
+    vastness does not strike at first sight, and this effect is admirably preserved in
+    the Diorama. We think we could point out a few inaccuracies in the drawing; but the
+    projections, capitals of the columns, and some of the medallion portraits which
+    ornament them, are so well painted, that we can scarcely believe ourselves looking on
+    a flat surface. Again, the emmet-like figures of the distant congregation are
+    admirable illustrations of the vastness of the building; and above all, the flood of
+    light shed from the lantern of the dome is a perfect triumph of art.</p>
+    <p>The other view is the French Village of Thiers in the department of the Puy de
+    Doue, on the bank of the little River Durolle, which is actually made to flow, or
+    rather trickle over large stones; whilst smoke ascends from the chimney of an
+    adjoining cottage. As a romantic picture of still life, its merits can scarcely be
+    too highly spoken of, and when we say it is quite equal to <i>Unterseen</i>, by the
+    same artist, and engraved in our last volume, we hope our readers will not be long
+    ere they judge for themselves. We could have lingered for an hour in the
+    contemplation of this peaceful picture, with the devotional interior of St.
+    Peter's&mdash;and in contrasting them with the turmoil of the Great Town out of which
+    we had just stepped to view this little <i>Creation</i> of art.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>THE GATHERER</h2>
+    <center>
+      A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
+    </center>
+    <center>
+      SHAKSPEARE.
+    </center>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>LINES</h3>
+    <p><i>Written impromptu, by Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart. in the Theatre Royal, Drury
+    Lane, at the Benefit of Miss Foote, on Wednesday, May 10, 1826, the last night of her
+    engagement.</i></p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Maria departs!&mdash;'tis a sentence of dread,</p>
+        <p>For the Graces turn pale, and the Fates droop their head!</p>
+        <p>In mercy to breasts that tumultuously burn,</p>
+        <p>Dwell no more on departure&mdash;but speak of return.</p>
+        <p>Since she goes, when the buds are just ready to burst,</p>
+        <p>In expanding its leaves, let the Willow be first.</p>
+        <p>We here shall no longer find beauties in May;</p>
+        <p>It cannot be Spring, when Maria's away:</p>
+        <p>If vernal at all, 'tis an April appears,</p>
+        <p>For the Blossom flies off, in the midst of our tears.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>THE KING'S SPEECH IN 993.</h3>
+    <p>Sharon Turner, in his "History of the Anglo-Saxons," vol. iv. says, "The King
+    presided at the witena-gemots, and sometimes, perhaps, always addressed them." In
+    993, we have this account of a royal speech. The King says, in a charter which
+    recites what had passed at one of their meetings, "I benignantly addressed to them
+    salutary and pacific words. I admonished all&mdash;that those things which were
+    worthy of the Creator, and serviceable to the health of my soul, or to my royal
+    dignity, and which should prevail as proper for the English people, they might, with
+    the Lord's assistance, discuss in common." P.T.W.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>A very common excuse set up by economists for being too late for dinner is, "There
+    was not a coach to be found."&mdash;Uncalculating and improvident selfish idiot, not
+    to send for one till the very last moment; you save nothing by it, and spoil your
+    friend's dinner, in order to save yourself sixpence. Suppose you have a mile and a
+    half to go, the fare is one shilling and sixpence; you will be about eighteen minutes
+    going that distance, and for that sum you may detain the coach forty-four minutes.
+    Always call a coach a quarter of an hour before you want it&mdash;i.e. if you do not
+    wish to be too late.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>LIMBIRD'S EDITIONS.</h2>
+    <p>CHEAP and POPULAR WORKS published at the MIRROR OFFICE in the Strand, near
+    Somerset House.</p>
+    <p>The ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS. Embellished with nearly 150 Engravings. Price
+    6s. 6d. boards.</p>
+    <p>The TALES of the GENII. Price 2s.</p>
+    <p>The MICROCOSM. By the Right Hon. G. CANNING. &amp;c. Price 2s.</p>
+    <p>PLUTARCH'S LIVES, with Fifty Portraits, 2 vols. price 13s. boards.</p>
+    <p>COWPER'S POEMS, with 12 Engravings, price 3s. 6d. boards.</p>
+    <p>COOK'S VOYAGES, 2 vols. price 8s. boards.</p>
+    <p>The CABINET of CURIOSITIES: or, WONDERS of the WORLD DISPLAYED. Price 5s.
+    boards.</p>
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Vol. 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+
+VOL. 13., No. 375.] SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1829. [PRICE 2_d_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+[Illustration: CUMBERLAND TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK.]
+
+
+CUMBERLAND TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+
+The annexed Engraving completes our Series of _Architectural
+Illustrations_ of the REGENT'S PARK, and is, withal the most magnificent
+Terrace in the circuit. It stands considerably above the road, and is
+approached by a fine carriage sweep, with handsome balustrades; below
+which, and level with the road, is the garden, or promenade for the
+residents of the Terrace.
+
+The architect of Cumberland Terrace is Mr. Nash, who appears to have been
+so lavish of ornament, as to give the whole range the appearance of a
+triumphal temple. It consists of a centre and wings, connected by two
+handsome arches, which have a very pleasing and novel effect. The entrance,
+or ground story throughout, is rusticated, and in the principal parts or
+masses of the elevation, serves as a base or pediment for handsome Doric
+columns, above which is a balustrade, on which are placed allegorical
+figures of the Seasons, the Quarters of the Globe, the Arts and Sciences,
+&c. Each of these masses has a most imposing appearance, and bears four
+figures; the figures in the whole range amount to twenty-seven. Above the
+balustrade rises the attic story. The subordinate fronts of the residences
+are embellished with Doric pilasters.
+
+Each arch consists of four handsome Doric columns, with an entablature,
+and blocking course.
+
+The central portion of the terrace is in correspondent style with the
+wings; and consists of a splendid colonnade of twelve columns and an
+entablature. Above the attic story rises a pediment surmounted with
+figures of Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture. This pediment is filled
+with a basso-relievo, executed by J.H. Bubb, and representing Britannia
+crowned by Fame, and seated on a throne, the basis of which represents
+Valour and Wisdom. On one side, Literature, Genius, Manufacture,
+Agriculture, and Prudence, are bringing youth of different nations for
+instruction; and on the other side, the guardian-spirit of the Navy,
+surmounted by Victory, Navigation, Commerce, and Freedom, is extending her
+blessings to the Africans. The group is terminated on each side by Plenty.
+This is supposed to be the largest ornamental pediment in the kingdom,
+with the exception of that of the portico of St. Paul's, which only
+exceeds it by a few feet.
+
+From the sweep of this terrace may be enjoyed a highly picturesque view of
+the park, with the crown of Primrose Hill in the distance.
+
+At this close of the Series of Views, and as we are approaching the
+conclusion of our volume, it may not be amiss to recapitulate the several
+engravings, with their pages in the preceding and present volumes of the
+MIRROR, and the order in which they stand in the Regent's Park, which
+order circumstances have prevented our uniformly following in their
+publication: thus--
+
+
+  _Buildings_.                _Architects_.   _Mirror, Vol._ _Page._
+
+  Ulster Terrace                                  xi           401
+  York Terrace                  Nash              xiii         129
+  Sussex Place                  Nash              xiii         273
+  Cornwall Terrace              D. Burton         xiii         305
+  Clarence Terrace              D. Burton         xii           17
+  Hanover Terrace               Nash              x            313
+  Hanover Lodge                                   xiii          49
+  Grove House                   D. Burton         xiii          49
+  Marquess of Hertford's Villa  D. Burton         xiii          81
+  Macclesfield Bridge           Morgan            xiii         351
+  East (now Gloucester) Gate                      xi           225
+  St. Katherine's               Poynter           xi           273
+  Master's Residence            Poynter           xi           289
+  Cumberland Terrace            Nash              xiii         401
+  Chester Terrace               Nash              xiii         193
+  Exterior of the Colosseum     D. Burton         xiii          65
+  Interior of the Colosseum     D. Burton         xiii          97
+
+In this _Series_ we have endeavoured to represent all the architectural
+beauties of the Park, and liable as are all of them to critical objection,
+they are extremely interesting for pictorial displays of the taste of this
+castle-building age.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE KING'S STAG, &C.
+
+_(To the Editor of the Mirror.)_
+
+
+As several of your correspondents have lately interested themselves in the
+sign of "The Cat and Fiddle;" a few observations may not be thought
+irrelevant, on the probable origin of the "King's Stag," a description of
+which, under the signature, _Ruris_, appeared in the MIRROR, of Saturday,
+the 30th ult. Its rise may, I conceive, with tolerable certainty, be
+traced to the stag said to have been taken in the Forest of Senlis, by
+Charles the Sixth, about whose neck was a collar, with the inscription,
+"_Caesar hoc mihi donavit_," which induced a belief that the animal had
+lived from the reign of some one of the twelve Caesars. This inscription
+also exists in the following form:--
+
+  "Tempore, quo Caesar Româ, dominatus in altâ
+  Aureolo jussit collum signare moniti;
+  Ne depascentem quisquis me gramina laedat,
+  Caesaris heu causâ, periturae parcere vitae."
+
+which has been thus literally translated in nearly the same words quoted
+by _Ruris_--
+
+  "When Julius Caesar reigned king,
+  About my neck he put this ring,
+  That whosoever did me take,
+  Should spare my life for Caesar's sake."
+
+It thus appears that _Julius_ Caesar is gratuitously introduced by the
+English paraphrast, nothing appearing in the original inscription to
+determine its application, or render it more probable, that the reference
+should be to Julius Caesar, than to Domitian; and the two first lines
+given by _Ruris_, have evidently been introduced by way of transferring
+the subject to our own country.
+
+Allow me before concluding this communication, one word in reply to E.D.'s
+observations on the "Cat and Fiddle." It is not impossible that some
+resemblance (though I am disposed to think it very trifling) may exist
+between the "tones of a _flute_" and those of "the human voice;" but I
+have yet to learn wherein consists the similarity of the notes of the
+clarinet and those of a "GOOSE;" neither do I imagine performers on the
+violin, (especially Italians,) will feel themselves obliged by E.D.'s
+comparison of their favourite instrument, to the vile squall of the feline
+race. On the whole, I should feel more disposed to concur with him who
+"has been led away by a love of etymology" that the "Cat and Fiddle" is an
+"anomalous" sign, and that "no two objects in the world have less to do
+with each other than a cat and a violin," than to adopt the opposite
+theories of E.D. or his predecessor, unless better supported than they are
+at present. IOTA.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER.
+
+_The Wreck._[1]
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+
+
+  All night the booming minute-gun
+    Had pealed along the deep,
+  And mournfully the rising sun
+    Look'd o'er the tide-worn steep,
+  A bark from India's coral strand,
+    Before the rushing blast,
+  Had vailed her topsails to the sand
+    And bowed her noble mast.
+  The Queenly ship! brave hearts had striven
+    And true ones died with her!
+  We saw her mighty cable riven,
+    Like floating gossamer!
+  We saw her proud flag struck that morn,
+    A star once o'er the seas,
+  Her helm beat down, her deck uptorn,
+    And sadder things than these!
+                              MRS. HEMANS
+
+Sweet romantic Cove of Torwich--repository of my youth's recollections!--A
+mingled gust of feeling crosses over me, rainbow-like,--fraught with the
+checkered remembrances of "life's eventful history," when I turn to the
+past, and glance over the scenes of my early life.
+
+The Bay of Torwich, on the southern coast, unites in its fullest extent
+the singularly wild and picturesque, with the softer features of the
+landscape. The bay consists of two headlands, about four miles apart. On
+the eastern side a lofty range of rocky heights extends for a considerable
+way, almost equalling those of Dovor in sublimity, and juts out into the
+sea, on the assaults of which they seem to frown defiance, terminating in
+a bold headland. The violence of the sea has caused extensive and
+picturesque excavations and caverns; and at the end of the cliff, two
+sharp rocks called the Needles, raised their heads at low water, connected
+by a low, sunken reef. In a westerly gale these rocks were very dangerous
+to homeward-bound ships, and I have often sat with admiration in the
+heights above, watching the grotesque forms and silvery spray of the
+gigantic breakers, which after being broken in their progress, heaved
+their expiring rage with a shock like thunder, against the base of the
+cliffs, causing a prolonged echo in the huge caverns above. About midway
+between these cliffs and the western side there was another lofty headland,
+which terminated the Cove of Torwich; as the sea, except at low-water in
+high spring tides, washed the foot of this promontory, it was only
+fordable at ebb-tide. In the middle of the intermediate space, three rocks
+which might truly be called "forked promontories" from their sharp
+pyramidical shape, jutted abruptly out of the beach, and were connected by
+a sort of natural causeway to the main land. Beyond, a wild and rocky
+valley ran inland, and the time-worn ruins of ---- Castle, beetling over
+the heights, terminated the view in this direction. This valley formed the
+bed of a small stream, which ran by the end of the rocks, composing a
+channel by which coasting vessels could run up and discharge their cargoes
+for the village of Torwich, only part of which was visible at this spot. A
+natural cleft in the vein opened through the centre of these singular
+rocks, resembling a lofty gothic arch, and it was my favourite pastime to
+sit here in the most perfect seclusion, reading "sermons in stones" and
+watching the progress of the tide till it kissed my feet, and often
+surrounded me, for the flood came in with great velocity. Between these
+rocks and the heights on the eastern side, there was another little
+retired creek, renowned in the village annals, for the adventures of Jack
+Covering, a noted smuggler on this coast, some forty years ago, with the
+locality of which the reader will erewhile become better acquainted. The
+magnificence of the convulsed scenery, and yawning chasms around, the deep
+intonation and ceaseless roar of the ocean, all combined to awaken in the
+mind of the spectator, mingled sensations of admiration and awe.
+
+The coast receded between the eastern point of the cove to that which
+terminated the Bay of Torwich, embracing what may be almost termed a
+champaign country, compared with the barren scenery I have described; and
+displaying the uneven surface of the richly wooded Park of Dovedale, with
+the ruins of two castles.
+
+The village of Torwich which stood on a declivity, with an opening descent
+to the shore, about half a mile from the entrance of the cove, had little
+communication, from the nature of its site, with the neighbouring country,
+except when the all-powerful attraction of a wreck existed. Its
+inhabitants were chiefly sailors or fishermen, barring a few useless
+individuals like myself. I loved to study life in all its gradations--the
+"March of Intellect" was yet unknown here! and though the situation
+afforded such numerous advantages for smuggling, there were, rather
+unaccountably, only three persons in the village connected with the coast
+blockade; and it was whispered that relying on the entire seclusion of the
+cove, these persons too often winked when they ought to have been astir on
+their duty.
+
+The day was far spent, when towards the close of the month of October,
+18--, I wandered out to the shore to watch the flow of the evening's tide.
+The weather had been unsettled for some time previous, and the rain had
+fallen in torrents, with a moderate breeze, during most part of the day.
+Towards evening the rain ceased, though large heavy masses of black clouds
+were flying about, and backing up to seaward, accompanied with a short
+gusty gale of wind. I never recollect a more dismal night. A thick haze
+overspread the lower parts of the landscape, throwing the bloated masses
+of clouds higher up in the horizon, into a sort of sombre relief. As I
+passed a little look-out house on my way to the beach, I sauntered to a
+group of sailors at their usual council, who were gazing with deep
+interest at a solitary vessel dimly discernible through the fog in the
+offing. As she neared us we found her to be a barque of apparently
+considerable burthen, making a tack to weather the Torhead, which lay
+several miles under her lee, with a strong breeze from windward. She was
+evidently quite out of her reckoning from the indecision and embarassment
+displayed in her movements; and the captain seemed not sufficiently aware
+of the hazard he ran. I waited sometime at this place watching the
+movements of the ship. The tide came roaring in with a broken swell
+increased by a high spring flood; and there was that in the "wind's eye"
+which betokened approaching disaster; while the gloom was increasing, and
+the harsh cries and hurried flight of the sea-birds indicated tempestuous
+weather.
+
+"An ugly looking night this, Mr. ---- as I have seen for many a-day,"
+remarked Harry Covering, one of the oldest of the group of sailors, and a
+crony of mine. "Sink the Customs! if yon ship weathers Torhead this night,
+may I never pull an oar again." "It is, indeed, a fearful-looking night,
+messmate, and no time ought to be lost in the present state of the tide in
+putting off to her--for if the wind holds in this part, it is great odds
+indeed, that she does not go upon the Needles."
+
+The breeze was freshening every moment; indeed the situation of the
+strange ship must soon become imminently dangerous. The crew seemed at
+last to have awakened from their lethargy, and were apparently making
+every effort to enable her to gain an offing and weather Torhead, before
+the combined force of wind and flood should render that impracticable. It
+was a moment of deep interest. I am not acquainted with any event,
+notwithstanding the frequency of its recurrence, that appeals more
+directly to our sympathies, than a shipwreck. The mighty power of the
+ocean is thus brought before us in its most striking sense, and the
+general scene of disaster it occasions is almost always varied with
+instances of individual sympathy for some of the wrecked. We were now
+joined by the resident officer of the coast-blockade, and a party of men
+were dispatched to pull off to the ship in distress, while the rest of us
+hurried towards the Torhead, accompanied in our rear, (for the news had
+reached the village) by a turn-out of most of its inhabitants, influenced
+both by the passion of curiosity and that of expected plunder. Many of the
+older class looked upon wrecking as legitimate a trade as fishing for
+herrings or pilchards; while perhaps nearly all from the force of habit
+and long-practised example, regarded a wreck as a booty sent them by the
+elements; the scattered contents of which it was no more crime to take
+than it would be to pick up any other thing cast by accident on the beach.
+
+The sea was breaking over the needles with frightful violence when we
+reached Torhead--the spray dashing almost to the summit of the cliffs. We
+were now almost opposite the vessel, which appeared to be French built;
+but the increasing darkness prevented our distinguishing her minutely. The,
+flash of a gun from her side, amidst the deepening gloom, redoubled my
+interest. A more interesting object than a solitary vessel in danger, I
+cannot well conceive. I have always looked upon a ship as a living
+creature--the companion of man--a thing instinct with life, walking the
+waters--and our feelings are not only excited for the safety of the crew,
+but for that of the vessel itself, to which we attach a degree of interest
+as for a friend. A gale was now up; the boat put off to their aid was in
+danger of being swamped by the surf, and found it impracticable to make
+way against a violent head-wind and tide united. Nothing short of a
+miracle could now save the ship; however the wind suddenly shifted a
+little, and I began to hope that if she was to be wrecked, it might be
+farther on the shore; as in case of her striking on the Needles, she must
+almost immediately go to pieces under our eyes, without the most remote
+chance of the escape of one of the crew. A sheet of light flashed
+occasionally from her sides, calling for aid out of the power of man to
+grant. There was a sudden lull in the wind, which sometimes happens in the
+most violent tempests, though often succeeded by increased fury; and a
+strong shower of sleet and rain drove most of our followers home. As it
+had now become quite dark, and it was morally impossible to yield the ship
+any aid till daylight, I returned to the village with melancholy
+forebodings, having placed beacons on the heights.
+
+I hastily proceeded again to the shore just before daybreak. The distant
+moaning of the sea, the harsh screams of the cormorants with the desolate
+nature of the spot, chilled my spirits. I had passed a sleepless night,
+and the storm rose again, and raged till near daybreak with increased fury,
+but the wind was now greatly hushed. The sea, however, showed marks of its
+violence; the bay was white with foam, and as I proceeded, the tide, which
+was just beginning to flow, roared loudly, and advanced in short breakers
+wreathed with spray. The sky also looked dismally, and gave token that the
+gale had not entirely passed away, though its violence had temporarily
+abated. I advanced with deep interest by the peaked group of rocks, and
+passed the wreck of a brig lying high and dry on the sand just before me.
+The whole of the shore between the Heads, was strewed with her contents. I
+never witnessed so total a wreck in so short a space of time. The violence
+of the surf had completely beaten her sides out, leaving stem and stern
+hanging together as by a thread, while her ribs and broken cordage and
+sails, completed the picture, had any thing been wanting to perfect it. I
+could moralize any day on a single bit of plank on a shore--each fragment
+seems to tell its tale, and awakens a train of thoughts and feelings in
+the mind; but "grim desolation" was here visibly before me.
+
+Though I was early astir, I found that the prospect of booty had been
+sufficiently powerful already to draw out not only the inhabitants of
+Torwich, but great numbers of the neighbouring peasantry. But where was
+the ship, about whose fate we had been so greatly interested the preceding
+evening? This was manifestly not her; but I distinctly saw a large, black
+hull lying under the western cliffs, half a mile distant, towards which
+the people were rapidly moving. She had come ashore a little after high
+water, during the night. I picked my way through the wreck strewn
+around--to a small group of persons standing near me; five of them were
+strangers, the crew of the brig. I learnt that my surmises were right
+concerning the ship in the distance, and that the brig which was laden
+with crockery came ashore about the same period.
+
+I left these poor fellows endeavouring to rescue their little articles of
+property, and took a route apart from the course of the crowd towards the
+other ship. I had not gone far, when I almost stumbled over the dead body
+of a young female, lying with her face uppermost, half buried in the sand--
+
+  Her very tresses clung
+  All tangled by the storm.
+
+The bodies of a gentleman of foreign aspect, and that of a lad about
+seventeen, (their hands still firmly clasped together, undivided even in
+death,) lay close by. It was a melancholy scene. They had evidently been a
+father and his children. The long boat of the vessel, which had I suppose,
+taken ground here, being staved and swamped by the surf, was close beyond,
+near which I observed the bodies of several other men. It was with pain
+and horror I remarked that some wretches who had been here before me, had
+partly stripped the bodies of the lady and others in their search after
+plunder, besides rifling the contents of some cases of valuables, which
+had been put into the boat. I hastily turned towards the principal scene
+of disaster, and addressed myself to one of the survivors, whom I found to
+be the supercargo. The vessel was _La Bonne Esperance_ of Brest, of 550
+tons, homeward bound, with a mixed cargo of rum, cotton, and colonial
+produce, from the West Indies. It appeared that the captain, mate, and
+passengers had left the ship just as she struck, and taken to the long
+boat, the fatal result of which has been seen. As I surmised, the bodies I
+had seen consisted of one family, the only passengers on board, a colonel
+in the army, with his son and daughter, returning to his country after
+long service in foreign parts. The supercargo, in the confusion which took
+place, could not get into the long boat in time, and remained with the
+rest of the crew on board; several of the seamen were washed off the decks
+and dashed against the rocks, and my narrator and three others were all
+that survived "to tell the tale."
+
+The ship's hull lay jammed between two small rocks near the foot of the
+cliffs; she was still almost outwardly entire, as the tide receded just
+after she came ashore in the night; but there was a hole knocked in her
+side from whence a portion of the cargo had been washed out. The two
+principal masts had gone by the board, but a part of the mizen-mast was
+still standing; and the rocks were covered, far and near, with tattered
+portions of her sails and cordage pasted against their sides, disposed by
+the sea, in a grotesque manner.
+
+As the principal station of the preventive corps was at a considerable
+distance, some time would elapse before they could lend their aid in the
+protection of the property; and the mob from the neighbouring country,
+disappointed at finding little else but broken crockery at the other wreck,
+seemed disposed to make the most of their time, and were proceeding with
+all the violence and rapacity of professed wreckers. In spite of the
+exertions of the officer from Torwich and his assistants, they were
+mounting the sides, and had spread themselves over the vessel like a pack
+of hungry wolves on the dead carcass of a horse, when I arrived. A scene
+of greater confusion and singularity cannot be described.
+
+It was not long before their attention was awakened by the tapping of a
+cask of rum, which with many more had been washed out of the hold. This
+beverage presented a powerful attraction; the ship was soon, in some
+measure, deserted, and the mob concentrated like a swarm of wasps round
+the casks. All distinctions were now at an end; the better sort of farmer
+or shopkeeper, scrambled with the pauper for a cup or cap (or shoe) full
+of the mellow liquid; while the supercargo and his men, aided by myself
+and a few others, were occupied in hastily putting into some carts the
+more valuable articles rescued from plunder. As the parties had been
+immoderate in their potations, so the effects were equally speedy. Women
+lay on the sand, dead drunk, beside the booty they had collected, while
+unable to stir, it was snatched from their powerless grasp by others
+stronger or more sober than themselves. Several pitched battles were also
+taking place, both amongst boys and men, which generally terminated by
+each of the combatants falling prostrate martyrs to Bacchus. The infection
+was universal, and even the three "mounseers," the surviving crew of the
+Bonne Esperance, could not resist an occasional sly pull at the liquor.
+These men, though they had only just escaped sudden death, seemed not to
+be cast down; but with their characteristic agility, one minute assisted
+to roll the casks into carts, and then ran off perhaps to whisper a
+compliment to some pretty girl, shrugging up their shoulders at the
+unceremonious repulse they met with from _mademoiselle_.
+
+But this scene was not to last long: for the tide had been imperceptibly
+making way and closing. I had always observed that after coming to a
+certain place, its velocity was greatly accelerated, and it was with
+feelings of alarm that I saw the danger which the almost unconscious
+people incurred. From regard to our own safety we had to retreat rapidly
+towards the shingles, carrying as many of the helpless as time would admit
+out of danger, in which we were aided by many of the sailors from Torwich,
+who had assisted in rescuing a portion of the cargo. The peasantry, at
+last aware of the hazard they ran, took to their heels also; but from the
+state they were in, many were forgotten or left behind. The roar of waters
+came rapidly onward, and amid the foaming eddy created by its advance, the
+stifled death-cry, mingled with the harsh and piercing shrieks of some of
+the half drowning victims--one moment awakened to the consciousness of
+their situation, and the next hurried to eternity--burst on the ear; and
+such was the advance of the spring-flood, that a few minutes after the
+rush of people had reached the shingles, the curling breakers rolled the
+bodies of several of the sufferers almost to their feet. The most lively
+interest was now excited towards a small rock, which jutted out of the
+sand a little distance from the wreck. The two poor children of a
+fisherman's widow in the village, were playing in a cavity of this rock,
+when the tide surrounded them. Their voices were drowned by the roaring of
+the waters, and their fate would have been unknown, had not the wild
+appearance and frantic screams of the mother--come in search of her
+children--attracted notice. When they were discovered, only a ledge of the
+rock was discernible; and the little sufferers were seen imploring for
+help amidst the spray with which the waves, fanned by a stiff breeze from
+windward, covered them. Several brave fellows swam off towards the rock,
+but before they could reach it, a sudden rush of tide swept over, and
+engulfed the children amidst the fragments of wreck hurled forward in its
+advance. One of the sailors seized the youngest of the children and bore
+him safely to shore. The body of the other was found when the tide ebbed,
+under a ledge of rocks on the eastern side. Upwards of fifteen persons
+were amongst the missing. It was an impressive scene, and read a powerful
+lesson to all.
+
+"Wrecking" has long been deservedly a national reproach. It is, however,
+rarely accompanied with the cruelty and violence by which it was formerly
+characterized; and such aggravated scenes now seldom occur. The people of
+our coasts have become, generally, much more civilized, and probably the
+"march of improvement" will ultimately eradicate so inhuman a custom. In
+Cornwall it was carried to such an excess that the example was even given
+from the pulpit; and there is a story related of a Cornish parson, who
+upon information being brought to his congregation of a wreck whilst they
+were at church, exhorted them to pause as they were rushing out _en masse_
+in the midst of the service; and having gained the door, took to his heels
+saying, "Now, my lads, it is but fair we should all start alike!" and
+reached the wreck first. The people view the plunder of a wreck as a right,
+and it is in vain to attempt to persuade them otherwise. However it is but
+justice to say that they have frequently risked, and even sacrificed,
+their own lives in endeavouring to preserve those of others; though some
+recent instances, especially in Wales, prove that the old disposition
+still lurks amongst the people, and sometimes breaks out with unabated
+violence.
+
+The arrival of a party of the Preventive Service that evening, in some
+measure proved a check to the plunder of the peasantry; but the guards
+themselves were not proof against the prevailing infection, and similar
+scenes to that related, prevailed as long as there was any thing left to
+drink or pick up; however, a considerable part of the cargo was safely
+stowed, though there were few of the rum casks that did not afterwards
+turn out impregnated with bilge water.
+
+On a fine grey morning, about a week after these events occurred, I
+wandered out towards the shore: there had been rough weather in the
+channel, and many wrecks, and the turbulence of the ocean had not yet
+subsided. It was about half-flood when I reached the _Bonne Esperance_.
+She had disappeared by piece-meal under the repeated assaults of the sea,
+but the principal part of the hull was still hanging together. Each wave
+as it struck her tattered timbers, seemed to sap away her strength and
+threatened to shake her to fragments. I sat with the supercargo for about
+an hour, watching the flow of the tide. Her timbers cracked louder and
+louder at each shock of the breakers; when a heavy sea struck her, her
+joints loosened, and she broke up at last, scattered into fragments, and
+whelmed in a gulf of boiling waters which foamed like an immense cauldron
+over the place she had occupied a minute before. We had watched the
+progress to this final disaster with the deepest interest--I may almost
+say sympathy--for we could hardly help looking upon the ship as a friend
+in need, hovering as it were over destruction without an arm being
+stretched forth to save her, and it was not without a real feeling of pain
+and sorrow that we witnessed her destruction.
+
+About half-ebb we descended to the shore--it was covered as far as the eye
+could reach with her ruin and materials; and one could almost imagine it
+had been the destruction of a fleet. Thus ended the fate of _La Bonne
+Esperance_ of Brest, and the occasional appearance of a solitary fragment
+on the beach, was soon all that recalled her history to the remembrance of
+the passers-by.
+
+VYVYAN.
+
+[1] The scenes and events in tins sketch are drawn from nature, and real
+    occurrences on the southern coast.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OLD POETS.
+
+
+GOOD DEEDS.
+
+  Wretched is he who thinks of doing ill.
+    His evil deeds long to conceal and hide;
+  For though the voice and tongues of men be still,
+    By fowls and beasts his sins shall be descried.
+  And God oft worketh by his secret will,
+    That sin itself, the sinner so doth guide,
+  That of its own accord without request,
+    He makes his wicked doings manifest.
+
+SIR J. HARRINGTON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DEATH.
+
+  Death is a port whereby we reach to joy,
+    Life is a lake that drowneth all in pain,
+  Death is so near it ceaseth all annoy,
+    Life is so leav'd that all it yields is vain;
+  And as by life to bondage Man was brought,
+  Even so likewise by death was freedom wrought.
+
+EARL OF SURREY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BEAUTY.
+
+  Nought under Heaven so strongly doth allure
+    The sense of man and all his mind possess,
+  As Beauty's lovely bait that doth procure
+    Great warriors oft their rigour to repress,
+  And mighty hands forget their manliness.
+    Driven with the power of an heart robbing eye,
+  And wrapt in flowers of a golden tress,
+    That can with melting pleasance mollify
+    Their hard'ned hearts enur'd to blood and cruelty.
+
+SPENSER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LEARNING.
+
+  ----But that Learning in despite of fate
+  Will mount aloft and enter Heaven's gate;
+  And to the seat of Jove itself advance,
+  Hermes had slept in Hell with Ignorance.
+  Yet as a punishment they added this,
+  That he and Poverty should always kiss.
+  And to this day is every scholar poor,
+  Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor.
+
+C. MARLOWE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FEELING.
+
+  ----The feeling power which is life's root,
+    Through every living part itself doth shed,
+  By sinews which extend from head to foot,
+    And like a net all over the body spread.
+  Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit
+    In middle of her web which spreadeth wide,
+  If aught do touch the outmost thread of it,
+    She feels it instantly on every side.
+
+J. DAVIES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+INJUSTICE.
+
+  So foul a thing, O thou injustice art,
+    That torment'st the doer and distrest;
+  For when a man hath done a wicked part,
+    O how he strives to excuse--to make the best;
+  To shift the fault t' unburden his charg'd heart,
+    And glad to find the least surmise of rest;
+  And if he could make his, seem other's sin,
+  O what repose, what ease he'd find therein.
+
+DANIELL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RICHES.
+
+  Vessels of brass oft handled brightly shine.
+  What difference between the richest mine
+  And basest earth, but use? for both not used
+  Are of little worth; then treasure is abused,
+  When misers keep it; being put to loan,
+  In time it will return us two for one.
+
+C. MARLOWE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE IDIOT LOVER.
+
+(DRAWN FROM LIFE.)
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+
+  "That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
+  If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."
+
+
+John Laconi was born in the romantic country of Switzerland. He was
+educated tolerably well; he was a good musician, and could draw
+excellently. He possessed a small, though independent fortune. However,
+notwithstanding his advantages and acquirements, he proved, when he became
+a lover, to be an idiot.
+
+At a certain period of his life, he fell violently in love with a
+beautiful young Swiss lady. She was considerably younger than our hero,
+was much taller, and her elegant refinements rendered her a very desirable
+object. John had a sister, to whom the young lady paid frequent friendly
+visits, and upon such occasions, owing probably to that _mauvaise honte_,
+with which he was cursed, he was usually absent from home. I will not
+disgust my fair readers with a minute description of _all_ his absurdities;
+one example, or so, shall suffice.
+
+One fine evening, in the month of June, after spending the day with
+Laconi's sister, the young lady prepared to return alone to her father's
+_château_, at the distance of about a mile; and on this occasion, John
+determined to give a specimen of his gallantry in escorting the fair one
+home, resolving likewise to declare his passion in plain terms.
+Accordingly, having put on his hat and cloak, and stationed himself at the
+gate, he appeared as formidable as any doughty knight in the days of
+romance, ready to offer his protection to some forlorn damsel. No sooner,
+however, did the lady appear, than he became so confused as not to be able
+to answer her greeting. She was also confused for a moment at his manner,
+but immediately began her walk with much disgust and _nonchalance_; while
+he, like a silly _valet de chambre_, followed behind, leaving his dear
+mistress' questions unanswered, and gazing with a vacant stare at the moon.
+At length, to the lady's infinite satisfaction, the white gate of her
+father's _château_ appeared in view, and John, finding they had nearly
+reached their destination, articulated, in a half suffocated tone, "I--I
+beg pardon, ma--madam, I have been considering--." "You have, indeed,
+Mr. John," quickly returned the smiling damsel, "but I think you might
+have chosen another opportunity, more seasonable than the present, to
+consider the moon!" To this retort, he said nothing, but looked extremely
+foolish and ridiculous. However, when they had actually gained the gate of
+the _château_, he boldly resolved to kiss his fair enslaver; but, after a
+moment, his resolution failed, and his legs tottered under him. Without
+hearing the lady's sweet "good night," as she tripped gaily from him, he
+exclaimed, "Madam, can you love me?" This appeal was not heard by the
+flying maiden, who hastily ascended the steps to her father's door, which
+opened and concealed her lovely form from the sight of the amazed lover,
+who had not courage sufficient to follow her.
+
+Whether our idiot did not comprehend the behaviour of his mistress, I
+cannot say; certain it is, he went home well contented with the success he
+imagined he had gained towards winning her heart. But, in reality, she was
+disgusted with his foolery, and ceased paying any more visits to her
+female friend, in order to avoid the sight of so strange a lover.
+
+John, however, was a kind of philosopher, and calmly sustained his love
+misfortunes. A particular occurrence happened which will somewhat account
+for this passive resignation. One evening, during a solitary walk, he saw
+his identical mistress in company with a young French officer. He walked
+sullenly home, wrote some verses on the inconstancy of women, drew from
+recollection a portrait of the cruel fair, which he hung in his study, and
+banished his former pretences. Report says, that he lived the remainder of
+his days in a state of celibacy. G.W.N.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.
+
+
+Sincerely do we regret to announce the death of this great and good
+man--the most celebrated philosopher of our times, who has done more for
+the happiness of his species than any associated Academy in Europe. He
+died at Geneva, May 29, aged 51. We shall endeavour to do justice to his
+talents and amiable character, in a Memoir to be published at the close of
+this volume of THE MIRROR--prefixed to which will be a fine Portrait of
+the illustrious deceased.
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DISCOVERY OF THE FATE OF LA PEROUSE.
+
+_Abridged from the United Service Journal._
+
+
+The fate of this celebrated French navigator, which for upwards of forty
+years has remained enveloped in mystery, has at length been satisfactorily
+ascertained, a result that is owing to the active and spirited exertions
+of our gallant and enterprising countryman Captain Dillon.
+
+It is a remarkable circumstance, that the discovery of the relics of La
+Perouse, arose out of the massacre of the ship Hunter's crew, at the
+Feejee Islands, in 1813.
+
+In this unfortunate affair, fourteen persons in all, from the ship Hunter,
+lost their lives. The two that escaped with Mr. Dillon, were William
+Wilson and Martin Buchart, a Prussian, who resided for two years at Bough.
+The latter entreated captain Robson to give him and his Bough wife a
+passage to the first land at which he might arrive, as they would
+certainly be sacrificed if they returned to the island. Having made
+Tucopia on the 20th of September, Buchart, his wife, and a Lascar, were
+put on shore, and the Hunter proceeded on her voyage to Canton.
+
+On the 13th of May, 1826, while in command of the St. Patrick, bound from
+Valparaiso to Pondicherry, captain Dillon came in sight of the island of
+Tucopia. Prompted by curiosity, as well as regard for old companions in
+danger, he lay to, anxious to ascertain whether the persons left there in
+1813, were still alive. A canoe, in which was the Lascar, soon afterwards
+put off from land and came alongside. This was immediately succeeded by
+another canoe, containing Martin Buchart, the Prussian. They were both in
+excellent health, and exceedingly rejoiced to see him. They informed him,
+that the natives had treated them very kindly; and that no ship had
+touched at the island from the time they were first landed, until about a
+year previous to his arrival, when an English whaler visited them, and was
+soon after followed by a second. The Lascar had an old silver sword-guard,
+which he bartered for a few fishing-hooks. Captain Dillon inquired where
+he had obtained it; the Prussian informed him, that on his arrival at the
+island, he saw it in the possession of the natives, also several
+chainplates belonging to a ship, a number of iron bolts, five axes, the
+handle of a silver fork, a few knives, tea-cups, glass beads and bottles,
+one silver spoon with a crest and a cipher, a sword, &c. As soon as he
+became sufficiently acquainted with the language, he asked the natives how
+they obtained those articles, as they said that the Hunter was the first
+ship with which they had ever held communication. They replied, that about
+two days' sail in their canoes to leeward, there was a large group of
+islands, known generally by the name of Manicolo, to which they were in
+the habit of making frequent voyages, and that they had procured these
+articles from the inhabitants, who possessed many more of a similar
+description.
+
+Buchart proceeded to state, that the Tucopians asserted that a great
+number of articles were on the Manicolo Islands in a state of preservation,
+and such articles were evidently obtained from the wreck of a vessel.
+About seven months before captain Dillon touched at Tucopia, a canoe had
+returned from Manicolo, and brought away two large chain plates, and an
+iron bolt, about four feet in length. He spoke with some of the crew of
+the canoe which had last made the voyage to Manicolo. They told him that
+there was abundance of iron materials still remaining on the island. Those
+which Martin Buchart saw were much oxydized and worn. The only silver
+spoon brought to Tucopia, as far as captain Dillon could learn, was beaten
+out into a wire by Buchart, for the purpose of making rings and other
+ornaments for the female islanders. Upon examining the sword-guard
+minutely, captain Dillon discovered, or thought he discovered, the
+initials of Perouse stamped upon it, which circumstance prompted him to be
+more eager in his inquiries.
+
+The Prussian said he had himself never made a trip to Manicolo with the
+Tucopians, but the Lascar had gone once or twice. He positively affirmed,
+that he had seen and conversed at Paiow, a native town, with the Europeans
+who spoke the language of the islanders. They were old men, he said, who
+told him that they had been wrecked several years ago in one of the ships,
+the remnants of which they pointed out to him. They informed him also that
+no vessel had touched at the islands since they had been there; that most
+of their comrades were dead, but they had been so scattered among the
+various islands, that they could not tell precisely how many of them were
+still living.
+
+On hearing so many circumstances all tending to confirm his suspicions,
+from the moment he saw the silver sword-guard with the cipher, captain
+Dillon determined to proceed as quickly as possible to the Manicolo
+Islands, examine the wrecks himself, and, if practicable, bring off the
+two men with whom the Lascar had spoken, and whom, he said, were Frenchmen.
+For this purpose he begged the latter to accompany him, but as he was
+married and comfortably settled on the island, neither promises nor
+threats were of any avail, although captain Dillon offered to bring him
+back to Tucopia. Martin Buchart, on the contrary, was tired of the savage
+life he had led for the last fourteen years, and gladly acceded to the
+wishes of captain Dillon, who after prevailing with a Tucopian also to
+come on board, sailed for the island. Unfortunately, as the ship neared
+the land, it fell a perfect calm, and continued so for seven days. At this
+time the stock of dry provisions was nearly exhausted, and there was no
+animal food to be procured on Tucopia. The crew lived principally on New
+Zealand potatoes and bananas. The vessel became every day more leaky from
+a long continuance at sea; and a person on board, who was interested in
+the cargo, had, during captain Dillon's stay in the islands, shown himself
+particularly discontented, and had frequently and warmly remonstrated at
+what he considered an unnecessary and useless delay; for these reasons,
+therefore, captain Dillon determined, though with the greatest reluctance,
+to take advantage of a breeze which sprang up, continued his voyage, and
+arrived at Bengal with much difficulty, his ship being in a very leaky
+condition.
+
+Unwilling to abandon his favourite object, captain Dillon now applied to
+the Asiatic Society, and to the Bengal Government; and in consequence of
+his representations, his suggestions were at length carried into effect.
+He was appointed to the command of one of the Company's cruisers, of
+sixteen guns and eighty-five men, called the Research; and on the 27th of
+January, 1827, he sailed from Bengal, visited Van Dieman's Land, New South
+Wales, New Zealand, the Friendly Islands, Ro-Thoma, or Granville Island of
+the Pandora, Tucopia, and arrived at Manicolo on the 27th of September.
+This island (Manicolo, or Vanicolo) is not the Mallicolo of captain Cook,
+being situated only 118 miles to the leeward of Tucopia, in latitude 11
+deg. 47 min., whilst the former lies in south latitude 16 deg. 15 min.
+
+Captain Dillon personally visited the reefs on which the French ships are
+ascertained to have struck and gone to pieces, according to the accounts
+of the natives, from which the following particulars have been obtained of
+that disastrous event:--"Many years ago two large ships arrived at the
+islands; one anchored off the island of Whanoo, and the other off that of
+Paiow, a little distance from each other. Soon after, and before they had
+any communication with the natives, a heavy gale arose, and both vessels
+were driven ashore. The ship off Whanoo grounded upon the rocks. The
+natives came in crowds to the sea-shore, armed with clubs, spears, bows
+and arrows, and discharged some arrows into the vessel; the crew in return
+fired, and killed several of the islanders. The vessel continued to strike
+violently against the rocks, and soon went to pieces. Some of the crew
+took to their boats, but were driven on shore, and murdered by the natives;
+others threw themselves into the sea, and such as reached the land, shared
+the fate of their unfortunate companions, so that not a single soul
+belonging to this vessel escaped alive."
+
+"The ship which grounded on Paiow, was driven on a sandy beach, and the
+natives came down and also discharged their arrows into her; but the crew
+prudently did not resent the aggression, but held up axes, beads, and toys,
+as peace-offerings, upon which the assailants desisted from farther
+hostilities. As soon as the wind had moderated, an aged chief, in a canoe,
+put off to the ship. He was received with caresses, accepted the presents
+offered to him: and upon going ashore, pacified the islanders by
+assurances that the ship's crew were peaceably inclined towards them. Upon
+this, several natives went on board, and were all presented with toys. In
+return, they supplied the crew with yams, fowls, bananas, cocoa-nuts, hogs,
+&c. and confidence was established between them. The ship was now
+abandoned, and the crew went on shore, bringing with them part of her
+stores. Here they remained for some time, and built a small vessel with
+the materials from the wreck. When it was ready to put to sea, as many as
+could conveniently, embarked in her, being plentifully supplied with fresh
+provisions by the islanders. The commander promised those who were left
+behind, to return immediately with presents for the natives, and to bring
+them off; but, as the little vessel was never afterwards heard of, the men
+sought the protection of the neighbouring chiefs, with whom they lived.
+Several muskets and some gunpowder had been left them by their comrades,
+and by means of these, they proved of great service to their friends, in
+encounters with the neighbouring islanders."
+
+The natives of Manicolo are not cannibals; but when an enemy falls into
+their power he is immediately killed, and his body is deposited in
+sea-water, and kept there until the bones become perfectly bare. The
+skeleton is then taken up, the bones of the extremities scraped and cut
+into various forms, to point arrows and spears. Their arms consist of
+heavy clubs, spears, and bows and arrows. They poison the latter with a
+kind of reddish gum, extracted from a species of tree peculiar to the
+island. When any one is struck by a poisoned arrow in any of the limbs,
+the part is quickly cut out, and his life is sometimes saved; but if the
+wound happens to be in the body, where it cannot be easily excised, he
+resigns himself quietly to death without a murmur, though he frequently
+lingers for four or five days in excruciating agony.
+
+The Manicolans differ from almost all the other islanders in the South Sea;
+they are as black as negroes, have short woolly hair, and resemble them in
+their features. Their religion also is different; in every village in the
+island there is a house dedicated to the Deity. At the principal chapel,
+the skulls of all the people who were killed, belonging to the ship that
+grounded at Whanoo, are still preserved. The natives of Tucopia,
+unaccustomed to the sight of human bones, avoid, as much as possible, when
+they visit the island, approaching the sacred house where the skulls are
+deposited.
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+WAVERLEY NOVELS.
+
+
+The _new edition_, (of which _Waverley_ has just appeared,) is, without
+exception, the handsomest book of the day, in editorship, literary and
+graphic embellishment or typography. Perhaps little persuasion was
+necessary for a second reading of so delightful a novel as _Waverley_, but
+the author's piquant notes to the present edition would alike tempt the
+matter-of-fact man, and the inveterate novel reader to "begin again." The
+prefatory anecdotes to _Waverley_ are extremely interesting--and the
+little autobiographic sketches are so many leaves from the life of the
+ingenious author. We hope to introduce a few of the notes of the Series;
+but content ourselves for the present with the following: being the
+original of the legend of Mrs. Grizel Oldbuck:
+
+Mr. R----d of Bowland, a gentleman of landed property in the vale of Gala,
+was prosecuted for a very considerable sum, the accumulated arrears of
+teind (or tithe) for which he was said to be indebted to a noble family,
+the titulars (lay impropriators of the tithes.) Mr. R----d was strongly
+impressed with the belief that his father had, by a form of process
+peculiar to the law of Scotland, purchased these lands from the titular,
+and therefore that the present prosecution was groundless. But after an
+industrious search among his father's papers, an investigation of the
+public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had transacted
+law business for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his
+defence. The period was now near at hand when he conceived the loss of his
+lawsuit to be inevitable, and he had formed his determination to ride to
+Edinburgh next day, and make the best bargain he could in the way of
+compromise. He went to bed with this resolution, and with all the
+circumstances of the case floating upon his mind, had a dream to the
+following purpose. His father, who had been many years dead, appeared to
+him, he thought, and asked him why he was disturbed in his mind. In dreams
+men are not surprised at such apparitions. Mr. R----d thought that he had
+informed his father of the cause of his distress, adding that the payment
+of a considerable sum of money was the more unpleasant to him, because he
+had a strong consciousness that it was not due, though he was unable to
+recover any evidence in support of his belief. "You are right, my son,"
+replied the paternal shade; "I did acquire right to these teinds, for
+payment of which you are now prosecuted. The papers relating to the
+transaction are in the hands of Mr. ----, a writer (or attorney,) who is
+now retired from professional business, and resides at Inveresk, near
+Edinburgh. He was a person whom I employed on that occasion for a
+particular reason, but who never on any other occasion transacted business
+on my account. It is very possible," pursued the vision, "that Mr. ----
+may have forgotten a matter which is now of a very old date; but you may
+call it to his recollection by this token, that when I came to pay his
+account, there was difficulty in getting change for a Portugal piece of
+gold, and that we were forced to drink out the balance at a tavern."
+Mr. R----d awaked in the morning with all the words of the vision imprinted
+on his mind, and thought it worth while to ride across the country to
+Inveresk, instead of going straight to Edinburgh. When he came there, he
+waited on the gentleman mentioned in the dream, a very old man; without
+saying any thing of the vision, he inquired whether he remembered having
+conducted such a matter for his deceased father. The old gentleman could
+not at first bring the circumstance to his recollection, but on mention of
+the Portugal piece of gold, the whole returned upon his memory; he made an
+immediate search for the papers, and recovered them; so that Mr. R----d
+carried to Edinburgh the documents necessary to gain the cause which he
+was on the verge of losing. The author has often heard this story told by
+persons who had the best access to know the facts, who were not likely
+themselves to be deceived, and were certainly incapable of deception. He
+cannot therefore refuse to give it credit, however extraordinary the
+circumstances may appear. The circumstantial character of the information
+given in the dream, takes it out of the general class of impressions of
+the kind which are occasioned by the fortuitous coincidence of actual
+events with our sleeping thoughts. On the other hand, few would suppose
+that the laws of nature were suspended, and a special communication from
+the dead to the living permitted, for the purpose of saving Mr. R----d a
+certain number of hundred pounds. The author's theory is, that the dream
+was only the recapitulation of information which Mr. R----d had really
+received from his father while in life, but which at first he merely
+recalled as a general impression that the claim was settled. It is not
+uncommon for persons to recover, during sleep, the thread of ideas which
+they have lost during their waking hours. It may be added, that this
+remarkable circumstance was attended with bad consequences to Mr. R----d,
+whose health and spirits were afterwards impaired by the attention which
+he thought himself obliged to pay to the visions of the night.--_Notes to
+the Antiquary._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ROAD-BOOK OF FRANCE.
+
+
+People who are bound for the Continent should provide themselves with the
+new edition of Mr. Leigh's descriptive Road Book of France--even before
+they get their passports at the French ambassador's, or if they only
+_intend_ to visit Calais, Boulogne, or Dieppe--and the chances are that
+they will be induced to travel beyond these places, which, in truth, give
+an Englishman no more idea of France than Dovor would afford a foreigner
+of England. A few years since, comparatively speaking, people only knew
+their way from York to London, much less the objects on the road--now, by
+the economy of guide books they may know every good inn in France, and
+carry the _ichnography_ of the kingdom in their coat pocket. In the
+present edition of the "Road Book of France," attention has been paid to
+the description of the delightful South, especially of Bordeaux, the
+mineral springs and bathing-places of the Pyrenees, the navigation of the
+Rhone from Lyons to Avignon, as well as of Marseilles, Toulouse, &c., and
+some of the principal towns have been illustrated with plans. Dipping into
+the Itinerary from Calais to Paris, we were reminded of a curious
+coincidence: Julius Caesar is supposed to have sailed from Boulogne on his
+expedition against the Britons; and in later times, Napoleon Bonaparte
+there prepared to carry into execution the invasion of Great Britain. But
+how different have been the results!
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+JOURNEY FROM THE BANK TO BARNES.
+
+
+A lively volume with many shreds of wit and humour, and occasional patches
+of "righte merrie conceite," has just fallen into our hands, and has
+afforded us some very pleasant reading. There is fun in the very title,
+"Personal Narrative of a Journey overland from the Bank to Barnes, &c. with
+some account of the Regions east of Kensington. By an Inside Passenger.
+With a Model for a Magazine, being the product of the Author's sojourn at
+the village of Barnes, during five rainy days." The author is a shrewd,
+clever fellow, who loves a little raillery on the follies of the day, and
+joins with our friend, Popanilla in deploring the present artificial state
+of society; therefore, suppose we give a few _flying_ extracts from his
+tour, premising that the good people of the little villages through which
+he passed, are not aware of what good things he has said of them; for his
+little book would suit every parlour window from Hyde Park Corner to
+Barnes.
+
+_Brentford._
+
+The ancient and nearly deserted barony of Brentford still contains, in its
+monuments and antiquities, vestiges of former splendour. The horse-trough
+opposite the "Bell and Feathers" is to the antiquarian a most particularly
+interesting _morceau_; the verdure of age has defaced it in part, but
+enough still remains to prove that our ancestors had made no mean
+proficiency in the rustic style of architecture. The reservoir, which
+contains the sparkling element so grateful to that noble animal, is
+modelled from the celebrated sarcophagus in the British Museum; and the
+posts which support it are evidently Doric. On the outside of it are
+several nearly obliterated specimens of carving, as well as drawings in
+chalk.
+
+Nearly parallel with the horse-trough, as you go down "Maud's Rents," is
+that useful, and indeed indispensible, triumph of hydraulics, the pump.
+The taste and science displayed in its execution do credit to the engineer;
+and the soil in which it is imbedded, being argillaceous, partially
+encrusted with strontian, reflects equal honour on his geological
+attainments. This pump, which you approach by three steps, is
+perpendicular, and of an elegant appearance; and forms the chief ornament
+of the "Rents." The handle is of wrought iron, highly polished; the snout
+copper, studded with hobnails. It is neatly coated with white paint, and
+bears on its front the following inscription, which I have copied for the
+gratification of the curious in antiquarian research.
+
+  This Pump was erected,
+  and Well sunk,
+  A.D. 1824,
+  from the proceeds of a Charity Sermon,
+  preached
+  in the Parish Church
+  of this Parish,
+  by his Grace the Bishop
+  of Bath and Wells.
+  *  *  *
+  Peter Broddupp,
+  Overseer,
+  Slingsby Stygle, and John Moles,
+  Churchwardens.
+  *  *  *
+  N.B. Whoever washes Fish at this Pump
+  will be prosecuted.
+
+I cannot take leave of this interesting town without noticing the church.
+It is surmounted by a neat steeple, cut in wood, in the pointed style of
+architecture; on the top of which is a goodly key, to indicate the
+wind,--which, the inhabitants remark, has blown due south for the last ten
+years. The porch, which is a curious specimen of the Maeso-Gothic, is
+rather hurt by the simplicity of the scrapers, which, being merely
+segments of iron hoops, do not harmonize with the otherwise elaborate
+approach.
+
+_Tossbury._
+
+The demesne of Tossbury (by Camden written Tossbery) was anciently a grant
+in feoffment to the College of Physicians by King John. On the spot now
+occupied by the burial grounds formerly stood their college; and here they
+flourished until the population, originally abundant, diminished so
+alarmingly, as to induce them to remove to Warwick Lane.
+
+Mr. P. (the landlord of the inn,) ever ready to shew his guests what at
+that village are esteemed great curiosities, was indefatigable in
+explaining the various instances in which he has made science subservient
+to utility. The staircase, as far as the great dining-room, he has, at
+considerable expense, macadamized; which, provided it is kept well watered,
+and scrapers attached to the chamber-doors, our worthy host assured us,
+was infinitely preferable to marble. He begged us to be under no
+apprehension as to the dampness of our beds, as they were warmed by a
+steam-apparatus of his own contrivance. He always keeps a Leyden jar,
+about the size of a boiler, ready charged, wherewith he kills geese,
+turkeys, and even lamb; which, he affirms, is a much less shocking method
+of neutralizing the vital spark than the vulgar butchery of twisting and
+sticking. He has lost three of his fingers, through incautiously handling
+a self-acting rat-trap of his own construction; and had his left eye blown
+out, while investigating the exact interval between combustion and
+explosion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I found a difference of about half an hour between the dial of Putney
+Church and my watch, which a young gentleman "intended for one of the
+universities" accounted for from difference of latitude. He likewise
+explained a phenomenon, which rather startled us, near Kew. We saw about
+half-a-dozen cows galloping furiously towards the river's brink; flirting
+their tails, and, indeed, conducting themselves with a vivacity perfectly
+inconsistent with the acknowledged sobriety of that useful animal. He
+calmed our apprehensions, by informing us they were intended for the East
+Indies. Every other day they are fed with best rock-salt, instead of
+green-meat; which, by chemical agency, renders them fat and fit to be
+killed, and sent on ship-board at a moment's notice; the trouble and delay
+of salting down being totally unnecessary. These cows, he assured us, had
+just finished their thirst-inducing meal.
+
+Near Hill's boat-shed is the patent Philanthropical Hay-tosser, a
+stupendous machine, invented expressly to prevent the degradation and
+slavery to which thousands of our fellow men are subjected during
+hay-harvest. It must gratify every friend to the amelioration of his
+species to learn, that the humane intention of the inventer is likely to
+be realized, as there are already three thousand Irishmen out of employ.
+
+Here we must halt with our tourist. The result of his lucubrations at
+Barnes--a Model for a Magazine will be found very serviceable to all
+prospectus writers, and furnish skeleton articles for a whole volume. We
+have been amused with the pleasantries of the author, and in return we
+thank him, and recommend his little book to our readers.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CLASSICAL CORRECTIONS.
+
+
+  In a neat little cottage, some five miles from town,
+  Lived a pretty young maiden, by name Daphne Brown,
+    Like a butterfly, pretty and airy:
+  In a village hard by lived a medical prig,
+  With a rubicund nose, and a full-bottomed wig,
+    Apollo, the apothecary.
+
+  He, being crop sick of his bachelor life,
+  Resolved, in his old days, to look for a wife--
+    (_Nota bene_--Thank Heaven, I'm not married):
+  He envied his neighbours their curly-poled brats,
+  (All swarming, as if in a village of Pats,)
+    And sighed that so long he had tarried.
+
+  Having heard of fair Daphne, the village coquette,
+  As women to splendour were never blind yet,
+    He resolved with his grandeur to strike her;
+  So he bought a new buggy, where, girt in a wreath,
+  Were his arms, pills, and pestle--this motto beneath--
+    _"Ego opifer per orbem dicor."_
+
+  To the village he drove, sought young Daphne's old sire,
+  Counted gold by rouleaus, and bank notes by the quire,
+    And promised the old buck a share in't,
+  If his daughter he'd give--for the amorous fool
+  Thought of young ladies' hearts and affections the rule
+    Apparently rests with a parent.
+
+  Alas! his old mouth may long water in vain,
+  Who tries by this method a mistress to gain--
+    A _miss_ is the sure termination:
+  For a maiden's delight is to plague the old boy,
+  And to think sixty-five not the period for joy;
+    Alas! all the sex are vexation.
+
+  Daphne Brown had two eyes with the tenderest glances!
+  Her brain had been tickled by reading romances,
+    And those compounds of nonsense called novels,
+  Where Augustus and Ellen, or fair Isabel,
+  With Romeo, in sweet little cottages dwell:
+   _Sed meo periclo_, read hovels.
+
+  She had toiled through Clarissa; Camilla could quote;
+  Knew the raptures of Werter and Charlotte by rote;
+    Thought Smith and Sir Walter ecstatic;
+  And as for the novels of Miss Lefanu,
+  She dog's-eared them till the whole twenty looked blue;
+    And studied 'The Monk' in the attic.
+
+  When her sire introduced our Apollo, he found
+  The maiden in torrents of sympathy drowned--
+    "Floods of tears" is too trite and too common:
+  Her eyes were quite swelled--her lips pouting and pale;
+  For she just had been reading that heartbreaking tale,
+    "Annabelle, or the Sufferings of Woman."
+
+  Apollo, I'll swear, had more courage than I,
+  To accost a young maid with a _drop in her eye_;
+    I'd as soon catch a snake or a viper:
+  She, while wiping her tears, gives Apollo some wipes;
+  And when a young lady has set up her pipes,
+    Her lover will soon pay the piper.
+
+  Papa locked her up--but the very next night,
+  With a cornet of horse, the young lady took flight;
+    To Apollo she left this apology--
+  "That, were she to spend with an old man her life,
+  She would gain, by the penance she'd bear as a wife,
+    A place in the next martyrology."
+
+  Apollo gave chase, but was destined to fail;
+  The female had safely been lodged in the mail,
+    Now flying full speed to the borders;
+  So the doctor, compelled his sad fate to endure,
+  Came back to his shop, commissioned to cure
+    All disorders but Cupid's disorders.
+
+_Monthly Magazine._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BAMBOROUGH CASTLE.
+
+The origin of this princely establishment may be new to our readers:--One
+of the owners of the castle, John Forster, member for Northumberland,
+having joined in the rebellion, and being general of the English part of
+the rebel army, of course his estates, then valued at 1,314 _l_. _per
+annum_, were forfeited; Crewe, bishop of Durham, purchased them from the
+government commissioners, and settled the whole, by his will, on
+charitable uses. Under a clause which left the residue of the rents to
+such charitable uses as his trustees might appoint, the "princely
+establishment of Bamborough" has arisen--where
+
+  "Charity hath fixed her chosen seat;
+    And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour
+  Of midnight, when the moon is hid on high,
+    Keeps her love watch upon the topmost tower,
+  And turns her ear to each expiring cry,
+    Blest if her aid some fainting wretch might save,
+    And snatch him, cold and speechless, from the grave."
+
+BOWLES.
+
+
+The charitable intentions of a testator have never, in any instance, been
+better fulfilled than this; the residuary rents, owing to the great
+increase of rental in the Forster estates, became considerably the most
+important part of the bequest; and the trustees, who are restricted to
+five in number, all clergymen, and of whom the rector of Lincoln College
+is always one, being unfettered by any positive regulations, have so
+discharged their trust as to render Bamborough Castle the most extensively
+useful, as well as the most munificent, of all our eleemosynary
+institutions. There are two free-schools there, both on the Madras system,
+one for boys, the other for girls; and thirty of the poorest girls are
+clothed, lodged, and boarded, till, at the age of sixteen, they are put
+out to service, with a good stock of clothing, and a present of 2_l_.
+12_s_. 6_d_. each; and at the end of the first year, if the girl has
+behaved well, another guinea is given her, with a Bible, a Prayer-book,
+the Whole Duty of Man, and Secker's Lectures on the Catechism. There is a
+library in the castle, to which Dr. Sharp, one of the trustees, bequeathed,
+in 1792, the whole of his own collection, valued at more than 800_l_.; the
+books are lent gratuitously to any householder, of good report, residing
+within twenty miles of Bamborough, and to any clergyman, Roman Catholic
+priest, or dissenting minister within the said distance. There is an
+infirmary also in the castle, of which the average annual number of
+in-patients is about thirty-five--of out-patients above one thousand. There
+is an ample granary, from whence, in time of scarcity, the poor are
+supplied on low terms. Twice a week the poor are supplied with meal, at
+reduced prices, and with groceries at prime cost; and the average number
+of persons who partake this benefit is about one thousand three hundred in
+ordinary times, in years of scarcity very many more. To sailors on that
+perilous coast Bamborough Castle is what the Convent of St. Bernard is to
+travellers in the Alps. Thirty beds are kept for shipwrecked sailors; a
+patrol for above eight miles (being the length of the manor) is kept along
+the coast every stormy night; signals are made; a life-boat is in
+readiness at Holy Island, and apparatus of every kind is ready for
+assisting seamen in distress;--wrecked goods are secured and stored, the
+survivors are relieved, the bodies that are cast on shore are decently
+interred.
+
+_Quarterly Review._
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FINE ARTS
+
+
+THE DIORAMA.
+
+
+On the day of the unfortunate destruction of the Oxford Street Diorama and
+Bazaar, by fire, two new views were opened at the Diorama in the Regent's
+Park. These are the _Interior of St. Peter's at Rome_, and the _Village of
+Thiers_.
+
+We have so often spoken in terms of the highest commendation of the
+Regent's Park Diorama, that we hardly know in what set of words to point
+out the beauties of these new views, the merits of which must not alter
+our meed of praise, however the subjects may its details. The Interior of
+St. Peter's is by M. Bouton. The point of view is at the east entry,
+opposite to the choir; the reader, perhaps, not being aware that the choir
+in this cathedral is situated differently from all others, being at the
+west end. So beautiful are the proportions of the cathedral itself, that
+its vastness does not strike at first sight, and this effect is admirably
+preserved in the Diorama. We think we could point out a few inaccuracies
+in the drawing; but the projections, capitals of the columns, and some of
+the medallion portraits which ornament them, are so well painted, that we
+can scarcely believe ourselves looking on a flat surface. Again, the
+emmet-like figures of the distant congregation are admirable illustrations
+of the vastness of the building; and above all, the flood of light shed
+from the lantern of the dome is a perfect triumph of art.
+
+The other view is the French Village of Thiers in the department of the
+Puy de Doue, on the bank of the little River Durolle, which is actually
+made to flow, or rather trickle over large stones; whilst smoke ascends
+from the chimney of an adjoining cottage. As a romantic picture of still
+life, its merits can scarcely be too highly spoken of, and when we say it
+is quite equal to _Unterseen_, by the same artist, and engraved in our
+last volume, we hope our readers will not be long ere they judge for
+themselves. We could have lingered for an hour in the contemplation of
+this peaceful picture, with the devotional interior of St. Peter's--and in
+contrasting them with the turmoil of the Great Town out of which we had
+just stepped to view this little _Creation_ of art.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE GATHERER
+
+  A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
+                            SHAKSPEARE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LINES
+
+
+_Written impromptu, by Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart. in the Theatre Royal,
+Drury Lane, at the Benefit of Miss Foote, on Wednesday, May 10, 1826, the
+last night of her engagement._
+
+
+  Maria departs!--'tis a sentence of dread,
+  For the Graces turn pale, and the Fates droop their head!
+  In mercy to breasts that tumultuously burn,
+  Dwell no more on departure--but speak of return.
+  Since she goes, when the buds are just ready to burst,
+  In expanding its leaves, let the Willow be first.
+  We here shall no longer find beauties in May;
+  It cannot be Spring, when Maria's away:
+  If vernal at all, 'tis an April appears,
+  For the Blossom flies off, in the midst of our tears.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE KING'S SPEECH IN 993.
+
+
+Sharon Turner, in his "History of the Anglo-Saxons," vol. iv. says, "The
+King presided at the witena-gemots, and sometimes, perhaps, always
+addressed them." In 993, we have this account of a royal speech. The King
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+"I benignantly addressed to them salutary and pacific words. I admonished
+all--that those things which were worthy of the Creator, and serviceable
+to the health of my soul, or to my royal dignity, and which should prevail
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
+Instruction, by Various
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Vol. 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: March 25, 2004 [EBook #11710]
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+    <hr class="full" />
+    <span class="pagenum"><a id="page129" name="page129"></a>[pg 129]</span>
+    <h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+     OF<br />
+     LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <table width="100%" summary="Volume, Number, and Date">
+      <tr>
+        <td align="left"><b>VOL. 13., No. 375.</b></td>
+        <td align="center"><b>SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1829.</b></td>
+        <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
+      </tr>
+    </table>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>CUMBERLAND TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK.</h2>
+    <div class="figure" style="width:100%;">
+      <a href="images/375-001.png"><img width="100%" src="images/375-001.png"
+      alt="CUMBERLAND TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK." /></a>
+    </div>
+    <hr />
+    <p>The annexed Engraving completes our Series of <i>Architectural Illustrations</i>
+    of the REGENT'S PARK, and is, withal the most magnificent Terrace in the circuit. It
+    stands considerably above the road, and is approached by a fine carriage sweep, with
+    handsome balustrades; below which, and level with the road, is the garden, or
+    promenade for the residents of the Terrace.</p>
+    <p>The architect of Cumberland Terrace is Mr. Nash, who appears to have been so
+    lavish of ornament, as to give the whole range the appearance of a triumphal temple.
+    It consists of a centre and wings, connected by two handsome arches, which have a
+    very pleasing and novel effect. The entrance, or ground story throughout, is
+    rusticated, and in the principal parts or masses of the elevation, serves as a base
+    or pediment for handsome Doric columns, above which is a balustrade, on which are
+    placed allegorical figures of the Seasons, the Quarters of the Globe, the Arts and
+    Sciences, &amp;c. Each of these masses has a most imposing appearance, and bears four
+    figures; the figures in the whole range amount to twenty-seven. Above the balustrade
+    rises the attic story. The subordinate fronts of the residences are embellished with
+    Doric pilasters.</p>
+    <p>Each arch consists of four handsome Doric columns, with an entablature, and
+    blocking course.</p>
+    <p>The central portion of the terrace is in correspondent style with the wings; and
+    consists of a splendid colonnade of twelve columns and an entablature. Above the
+    attic story rises a pediment surmounted with figures of Painting, Architecture, and
+    Sculpture. This pediment is filled with a basso-relievo, executed by J.H. Bubb, and
+    representing Britannia crowned by Fame, and seated on a throne, the basis of which
+    represents Valour and Wisdom. On one side, Literature, Genius, Manufacture,
+    Agriculture, and Prudence, are bringing youth of different nations for instruction;
+    and on the other side, the guardian-spirit of the Navy, surmounted by Victory,
+    Navigation, Commerce, and Freedom, is extending her blessings to the Africans. The
+    group is terminated on each side by Plenty. This is supposed to be the largest
+    ornamental pediment in the kingdom, with the exception of that of the portico of St.
+    Paul's, which only exceeds it by a few feet.</p>
+    <p>From the sweep of this terrace may be enjoyed a highly picturesque view of the
+    park, with the crown of Primrose Hill in the distance.</p>
+    <p>At this close of the Series of Views, and as we are approaching the conclusion of
+    our volume, it may not be amiss to recapitulate the several engravings, with their
+    pages in the preceding and present volumes of the MIRROR, and the order in which they
+    stand in the Regent's Park, which order circumstances have prevented our uniformly
+    following in their publication: thus&mdash;</p>
+    <table width="100%" summary="Illustrations, Page references">
+      <thead>
+        <tr>
+          <th><i>Buildings.</i></th>
+          <th><i>Architects.</i></th>
+          <th><i>Mirror, Vol.</i></th>
+          <th><i>Page.</i></th>
+        </tr>
+      </thead>
+      <tbody>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Ulster Terrace</td>
+          <td>&nbsp;</td>
+          <td>xi</td>
+          <td>401</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>York Terrace</td>
+          <td>Nash</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>129</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Sussex Place</td>
+          <td>Nash</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>273</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Cornwall Terrace</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>305</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Clarence Terrace</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xii</td>
+          <td>17</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Hanover Terrace</td>
+          <td>Nash</td>
+          <td>x</td>
+          <td>313</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Hanover Lodge</td>
+          <td>&nbsp;</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>49</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Grove House</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>49</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Marquess of Hertford's Villa</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>81</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Macclesfield Bridge</td>
+          <td>Morgan</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>351</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>East (now Gloucester) Gate</td>
+          <td>&nbsp;</td>
+          <td>xi</td>
+          <td>225</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>St. Katherine's</td>
+          <td>Poynter</td>
+          <td>xi</td>
+          <td>273</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Master's Residence</td>
+          <td>Poynter</td>
+          <td>xi</td>
+          <td>289</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Cumberland Terrace</td>
+          <td>Nash</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>401</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Chester Terrace</td>
+          <td>Nash</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>193</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Exterior of the Colosseum</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>65</td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>Interior of the Colosseum</td>
+          <td>D. Burton</td>
+          <td>xiii</td>
+          <td>97</td>
+        </tr>
+      </tbody>
+    </table>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <p>In this <i>Series</i> we have endeavoured to represent all the architectural
+    beauties of the Park, and liable as are all of them to critical objection, they are
+    extremely interesting for pictorial displays of the taste of this castle-building
+    age.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h3>THE KING'S STAG, &amp;C.</h3>
+    <h4><i>(To the Editor of the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+    <p>As several of your correspondents have lately interested themselves in the sign of
+    "The Cat and Fiddle;" a few observations may not be thought irrelevant, on the
+    probable origin of the "King's Stag," a description of which, under the signature,
+    <i>Ruris</i>, appeared in the MIRROR, of Saturday, the 30th ult. Its rise may, I
+    conceive, with tolerable certainty, be traced to the stag said to have been taken in
+    the Forest of Senlis, by Charles the Sixth, about whose neck was a collar, with the
+    inscription, <i>"Caesar hoc mihi donavit"</i>, which induced a belief that the animal
+    had lived from the reign of some one of the twelve Caesars. This inscription also
+    exists in the following form:&mdash;</p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>"Tempore, quo Caesar Rom&acirc;, dominatus in alt&acirc;</p>
+        <p>Aureolo jussit collum signare moniti;</p>
+        <p>Ne depascentem quisquis me gramina laedat,</p>
+        <p>Caesaris heu caus&acirc;, periturae parcere vitae."</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p>which has been thus literally translated in nearly the same words quoted by
+    <i>Ruris</i>&mdash;</p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>"When Julius Caesar reigned king,</p>
+        <p>About my neck he put this ring,</p>
+        <p>That whosoever did me take,</p>
+        <p>Should spare my life for Caesar's sake."</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p>It thus appears that <i>Julius</i> Caesar is gratuitously introduced by the
+    English paraphrast, nothing appearing in the original inscription to determine its
+    application, or render it more probable, that the reference should be to Julius
+    Caesar, than to Domitian; and the two first lines given by <i>Ruris</i>, have
+    evidently been introduced by way of transferring the subject to our own country.</p>
+    <p>Allow me before concluding this communication, one word in reply to E.D.'s
+    observations on the "Cat and Fiddle." It is not impossible that some resemblance
+    (though I am disposed to think it very trifling) may exist between the "tones of a
+    <i>flute</i>" and those of "the human voice;" but I have yet to learn wherein
+    consists the similarity of the notes of the clarinet and those of a "GOOSE;" neither
+    do I imagine performers on the violin, (especially Italians,) will feel themselves
+    obliged by E.D.'s comparison of their favourite instrument, to the vile squall of the
+    feline race. On the whole, I should feel more disposed to concur with him who "has
+    been led away by a love of etymology" that the "Cat and Fiddle" is an "anomalous"
+    sign, and that "no two objects in the world have less to do with each other than a
+    cat and a violin," than to adopt the opposite theories of E.D. or his predecessor,
+    unless better supported than they are at present. IOTA.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>THE SKETCH-BOOK.</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER.</h3>
+    <h4><i>The Wreck.</i><a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a
+    href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a></h4>
+    <h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>All night the booming minute-gun</p>
+        <p class="i2">Had pealed along the deep,</p>
+        <p>And mournfully the rising sun</p>
+        <p class="i2">Look'd o'er the tide-worn steep,</p>
+        <p>A bark from India's coral strand,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Before the rushing blast,</p>
+        <p>Had vailed her topsails to the sand</p>
+        <p class="i2">And bowed her noble mast.</p>
+        <p>The Queenly ship! brave hearts had striven</p>
+        <p class="i2">And true ones died with her!</p>
+        <p>We saw her mighty cable riven,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Like floating gossamer!</p>
+        <p>We saw her proud flag struck that morn,</p>
+        <p class="i2">A star once o'er the seas,</p>
+        <p>Her helm beat down, her deck uptorn,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And sadder things than these!</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      MRS. HEMANS
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <p>Sweet romantic Cove of Torwich&mdash;repository of my youth's
+    recollections!&mdash;A mingled gust of feeling crosses over me,
+    rainbow-like,&mdash;fraught with the checkered remembrances of "life's eventful
+    history," when I turn to the past, and glance over the scenes of my early life.</p>
+    <p>The Bay of Torwich, on the southern coast, unites in its fullest extent the
+    singularly wild and picturesque, with the softer features of the landscape. The bay
+    consists of two headlands, about four miles apart. On the eastern side a lofty range
+    of rocky heights extends for a considerable way, almost equalling those of Dovor in
+    sublimity, and juts out into the sea, on the assaults of which they seem to frown
+    defiance, terminating in a bold headland. The violence of the sea has caused
+    extensive and picturesque excavations and caverns; and at the end of the cliff, two
+    sharp rocks called the Needles, raised their heads at low water, connected by a low,
+    sunken reef. In a westerly gale these rocks were very dangerous to homeward-bound
+    ships, and I have often sat with admiration in the heights above, watching the
+    grotesque forms and silvery spray of the gigantic breakers, which after being broken
+    in their progress, heaved their expiring rage with a shock like thunder, against the
+    base of the cliffs, causing a prolonged echo in the huge caverns above. About midway
+    between these cliffs and the western side there was another lofty headland, which
+    terminated the Cove of Torwich; as the sea, except at low-water in high spring tides,
+    washed the foot of this promontory, it was only fordable at ebb-tide. In the middle
+    of the intermediate space, three rocks which might truly be called "forked
+    promontories" from their sharp pyramidical shape, jutted abruptly out of the beach,
+    and were connected by a sort of natural causeway to the main land. Beyond, a wild and
+    rocky valley ran inland, and the time-worn ruins of &mdash;&mdash; Castle, beetling
+    over the heights, terminated the view in this direction. This valley formed the bed
+    of a small stream, which ran by the end of the rocks, composing a channel by which
+    coasting vessels could run up and discharge their cargoes for the village of Torwich,
+    only part of which was visible at this spot. A natural cleft in the vein opened
+    through the centre of these singular rocks, resembling a lofty gothic arch, and it
+    was my favourite pastime to sit here in the most perfect seclusion, reading "sermons
+    in stones" and watching the progress of the tide till it kissed my feet, and often
+    surrounded me, for the flood came in with great velocity. Between these rocks and the
+    heights on the eastern side, there was another little retired creek, renowned in the
+    village annals, for the adventures of Jack Covering, a noted smuggler on this coast,
+    some forty years ago, with the locality of which the reader will erewhile become
+    better acquainted. The magnificence of the convulsed scenery, and yawning chasms
+    around, the deep intonation and ceaseless roar of the ocean, all combined to awaken
+    in the mind of the spectator, mingled sensations of admiration and awe.</p>
+    <p>The coast receded between the eastern point of the cove to that which terminated
+    the Bay of Torwich, embracing what may be almost termed a champaign country, compared
+    with the barren scenery I have described; and displaying the uneven surface of the
+    richly wooded Park of Dovedale, with the ruins of two castles.</p>
+    <p>The village of Torwich which stood on a declivity, with an opening descent to the
+    shore, about half a mile from the entrance of the cove, had little communication,
+    from the nature of its site, with the neighbouring country, except when the
+    all-powerful attraction of a wreck existed. Its inhabitants were chiefly sailors or
+    fishermen, barring a few useless individuals like myself. I loved to study life in
+    all its gradations&mdash;the "March of Intellect" was yet unknown here! and though
+    the situation afforded such numerous advantages for smuggling, there were, rather
+    unaccountably, only three persons in the village connected with the coast blockade;
+    and it was whispered that relying on the entire seclusion of the cove, these persons
+    too often winked when they ought to have been astir on their duty.</p>
+    <p>The day was far spent, when towards the close of the month of October, 18&mdash;,
+    I wandered out to the shore to watch the flow of the evening's tide. The weather had
+    been unsettled for some time previous, and the rain had fallen in torrents, with a
+    moderate breeze, during most part of the day. Towards evening the rain ceased, though
+    large heavy masses of black clouds were flying about, and backing up to seaward,
+    accompanied with a short gusty gale of wind. I never recollect a more dismal night. A
+    thick haze overspread the lower parts of the landscape, throwing the bloated masses
+    of clouds higher up in the horizon, into a sort of sombre relief. As I passed a
+    little look-out house on my way to the beach, I sauntered to a group of sailors at
+    their usual council, who were gazing with deep interest at a solitary vessel dimly
+    discernible through the fog in the offing. As she neared us we found her to be a
+    barque of apparently considerable burthen, making a tack to weather the Torhead,
+    which lay several miles under her lee, with a strong breeze from windward. She was
+    evidently quite out of her reckoning from the indecision and embarassment displayed
+    in her movements; and the captain seemed not sufficiently aware of the hazard he ran.
+    I waited sometime at this place watching the movements of the ship. The tide came
+    roaring in with a broken swell increased by a high spring flood; and there was that
+    in the "wind's eye" which betokened approaching disaster; while the gloom was
+    increasing, and the harsh cries and hurried flight of the sea-birds indicated
+    tempestuous weather.</p>
+    <p>"An ugly looking night this, Mr. &mdash;&mdash; as I have seen for many a-day,"
+    remarked Harry Covering, one of the oldest of the group of sailors, and a crony of
+    mine. "Sink the Customs! if yon ship weathers Torhead this night, may I never pull an
+    oar again." "It is, indeed, a fearful-looking night, messmate, and no time ought to
+    be lost in the present state of the tide in putting off to her&mdash;for if the wind
+    holds in this part, it is great odds indeed, that she does not go upon the
+    Needles."</p>
+    <p>The breeze was freshening every moment; indeed the situation of the strange ship
+    must soon become imminently dangerous. The crew seemed at last to have awakened from
+    their lethargy, and were apparently making every effort to enable her to gain an
+    offing and weather Torhead, before the combined force of wind and flood should render
+    that impracticable. It was a moment of deep interest. I am not acquainted with any
+    event, notwithstanding the frequency of its recurrence, that appeals more directly to
+    our sympathies, than a shipwreck. The mighty power of the ocean is thus brought
+    before us in its most striking sense, and the general scene of disaster it occasions
+    is almost always varied with instances of individual sympathy for some of the
+    wrecked. We were now joined by the resident officer of the coast-blockade, and a
+    party of men were dispatched to pull off to the ship in distress, while the rest of
+    us hurried towards the Torhead, accompanied in our rear, (for the news had reached
+    the village) by a turn-out of most of its inhabitants, influenced both by the passion
+    of curiosity and that of expected plunder. Many of the older class looked upon
+    wrecking as legitimate a trade as fishing for herrings or pilchards; while perhaps
+    nearly all from the force of habit and long-practised example, regarded a wreck as a
+    booty sent them by the elements; the scattered contents of which it was no more crime
+    to take than it would be to pick up any other thing cast by accident on the
+    beach.</p>
+    <p>The sea was breaking over the needles with frightful violence when we reached
+    Torhead&mdash;the spray dashing almost to the summit of the cliffs. We were now
+    almost opposite the vessel, which appeared to be French built; but the increasing
+    darkness prevented our distinguishing her minutely. The, flash of a gun from her
+    side, amidst the deepening gloom, redoubled my interest. A more interesting object
+    than a solitary vessel in danger, I cannot well conceive. I have always looked upon a
+    ship as a living creature&mdash;the companion of man&mdash;a thing instinct with
+    life, walking the waters&mdash;and our feelings are not only excited for the safety
+    of the crew, but for that of the vessel itself, to which we attach a degree of
+    interest as for a friend. A gale was now up; the boat put off to their aid was in
+    danger of being swamped by the surf, and found it impracticable to make way against a
+    violent head-wind and tide united. Nothing short of a miracle could now save the
+    ship; however the wind suddenly shifted a little, and I began to hope that if she was
+    to be wrecked, it might be farther on the shore; as in case of her striking on the
+    Needles, she must almost immediately go to pieces under our eyes, without the most
+    remote chance of the escape of one of the crew. A sheet of light flashed occasionally
+    from her sides, calling for aid out of the power of man to grant. There was a sudden
+    lull in the wind, which sometimes happens in the most violent tempests, though often
+    succeeded by increased fury; and a strong shower of sleet and rain drove most of our
+    followers home. As it had now become quite dark, and it was morally impossible to
+    yield the ship any aid till daylight, I returned to the village with melancholy
+    forebodings, having placed beacons on the heights.</p>
+    <p>I hastily proceeded again to the shore just before daybreak. The distant moaning
+    of the sea, the harsh screams of the cormorants with the desolate nature of the spot,
+    chilled my spirits. I had passed a sleepless night, and the storm rose again, and
+    raged till near daybreak with increased fury, but the wind was now greatly hushed.
+    The sea, however, showed marks of its violence; the bay was white with foam, and as I
+    proceeded, the tide, which was just beginning to flow, roared loudly, and advanced in
+    short breakers wreathed with spray. The sky also looked dismally, and gave token that
+    the gale had not entirely passed away, though its violence had temporarily abated. I
+    advanced with deep interest by the peaked group of rocks, and passed the wreck of a
+    brig lying high and dry on the sand just before me. The whole of the shore between
+    the Heads, was strewed with her contents. I never witnessed so total a wreck in so
+    short a space of time. The violence of the surf had completely beaten her sides out,
+    leaving stem and stern hanging together as by a thread, while her ribs and broken
+    cordage and sails, completed the picture, had any thing been wanting to perfect it. I
+    could moralize any day on a single bit of plank on a shore&mdash;each fragment seems
+    to tell its tale, and awakens a train of thoughts and feelings in the mind; but "grim
+    desolation" was here visibly before me.</p>
+    <p>Though I was early astir, I found that the prospect of booty had been sufficiently
+    powerful already to draw out not only the inhabitants of Torwich, but great numbers
+    of the neighbouring peasantry. But where was the ship, about whose fate we had been
+    so greatly interested the preceding evening? This was manifestly not her; but I
+    distinctly saw a large, black hull lying under the western cliffs, half a mile
+    distant, towards which the people were rapidly moving. She had come ashore a little
+    after high water, during the night. I picked my way through the wreck strewn
+    around&mdash;to a small group of persons standing near me; five of them were
+    strangers, the crew of the brig. I learnt that my surmises were right concerning the
+    ship in the distance, and that the brig which was laden with crockery came ashore
+    about the same period.</p>
+    <p>I left these poor fellows endeavouring to rescue their little articles of
+    property, and took a route apart from the course of the crowd towards the other ship.
+    I had not gone far, when I almost stumbled over the dead body of a young female,
+    lying with her face uppermost, half buried in the sand&mdash;</p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Her very tresses clung</p>
+        <p>All tangled by the storm.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p>The bodies of a gentleman of foreign aspect, and that of a lad about seventeen,
+    (their hands still firmly clasped together, undivided even in death,) lay close by.
+    It was a melancholy scene. They had evidently been a father and his children. The
+    long boat of the vessel, which had I suppose, taken ground here, being staved and
+    swamped by the surf, was close beyond, near which I observed the bodies of several
+    other men. It was with pain and horror I remarked that some wretches who had been
+    here before me, had partly stripped the bodies of the lady and others in their search
+    after plunder, besides rifling the contents of some cases of valuables, which had
+    been put into the boat. I hastily turned towards the principal scene of disaster, and
+    addressed myself to one of the survivors, whom I found to be the supercargo. The
+    vessel was <i>La Bonne Esperance</i> of Brest, of 550 tons, homeward bound, with a
+    mixed cargo of rum, cotton, and colonial produce, from the West Indies. It appeared
+    that the captain, mate, and passengers had left the ship just as she struck, and
+    taken to the long boat, the fatal result of which has been seen. As I surmised, the
+    bodies I had seen consisted of one family, the only passengers on board, a colonel in
+    the army, with his son and daughter, returning to his country after long service in
+    foreign parts. The supercargo, in the confusion which took place, could not get into
+    the long boat in time, and remained with the rest of the crew on board; several of
+    the seamen were washed off the decks and dashed against the rocks, and my narrator
+    and three others were all that survived "to tell the tale."</p>
+    <p>The ship's hull lay jammed between two small rocks near the foot of the cliffs;
+    she was still almost outwardly entire, as the tide receded just after she came ashore
+    in the night; but there was a hole knocked in her side from whence a portion of the
+    cargo had been washed out. The two principal masts had gone by the board, but a part
+    of the mizen-mast was still standing; and the rocks were covered, far and near, with
+    tattered portions of her sails and cordage pasted against their sides, disposed by
+    the sea, in a grotesque manner.</p>
+    <p>As the principal station of the preventive corps was at a considerable distance,
+    some time would elapse before they could lend their aid in the protection of the
+    property; and the mob from the neighbouring country, disappointed at finding little
+    else but broken crockery at the other wreck, seemed disposed to make the most of
+    their time, and were proceeding with all the violence and rapacity of professed
+    wreckers. In spite of the exertions of the officer from Torwich and his assistants,
+    they were mounting the sides, and had spread themselves over the vessel like a pack
+    of hungry wolves on the dead carcass of a horse, when I arrived. A scene of greater
+    confusion and singularity cannot be described.</p>
+    <p>It was not long before their attention was awakened by the tapping of a cask of
+    rum, which with many more had been washed out of the hold. This beverage presented a
+    powerful attraction; the ship was soon, in some measure, deserted, and the mob
+    concentrated like a swarm of wasps round the casks. All distinctions were now at an
+    end; the better sort of farmer or shopkeeper, scrambled with the pauper for a cup or
+    cap (or shoe) full of the mellow liquid; while the supercargo and his men, aided by
+    myself and a few others, were occupied in hastily putting into some carts the more
+    valuable articles rescued from plunder. As the parties had been immoderate in their
+    potations, so the effects were equally speedy. Women lay on the sand, dead drunk,
+    beside the booty they had collected, while unable to stir, it was snatched from their
+    powerless grasp by others stronger or more sober than themselves. Several pitched
+    battles were also taking place, both amongst boys and men, which generally terminated
+    by each of the combatants falling prostrate martyrs to Bacchus. The infection was
+    universal, and even the three "mounseers," the surviving crew of the Bonne Esperance,
+    could not resist an occasional sly pull at the liquor. These men, though they had
+    only just escaped sudden death, seemed not to be cast down; but with their
+    characteristic agility, one minute assisted to roll the casks into carts, and then
+    ran off perhaps to whisper a compliment to some pretty girl, shrugging up their
+    shoulders at the unceremonious repulse they met with from <i>mademoiselle</i>.</p>
+    <p>But this scene was not to last long: for the tide had been imperceptibly making
+    way and closing. I had always observed that after coming to a certain place, its
+    velocity was greatly accelerated, and it was with feelings of alarm that I saw the
+    danger which the almost unconscious people incurred. From regard to our own safety we
+    had to retreat rapidly towards the shingles, carrying as many of the helpless as time
+    would admit out of danger, in which we were aided by many of the sailors from
+    Torwich, who had assisted in rescuing a portion of the cargo. The peasantry, at last
+    aware of the hazard they ran, took to their heels also; but from the state they were
+    in, many were forgotten or left behind. The roar of waters came rapidly onward, and
+    amid the foaming eddy created by its advance, the stifled death-cry, mingled with the
+    harsh and piercing shrieks of some of the half drowning victims&mdash;one moment
+    awakened to the consciousness of their situation, and the next hurried to
+    eternity&mdash;burst on the ear; and such was the advance of the spring-flood, that a
+    few minutes after the rush of people had reached the shingles, the curling breakers
+    rolled the bodies of several of the sufferers almost to their feet. The most lively
+    interest was now excited towards a small rock, which jutted out of the sand a little
+    distance from the wreck. The two poor children of a fisherman's widow in the village,
+    were playing in a cavity of this rock, when the tide surrounded them. Their voices
+    were drowned by the roaring of the waters, and their fate would have been unknown,
+    had not the wild appearance and frantic screams of the mother&mdash;come in search of
+    her children&mdash;attracted notice. When they were discovered, only a ledge of the
+    rock was discernible; and the little sufferers were seen imploring for help amidst
+    the spray with which the waves, fanned by a stiff breeze from windward, covered them.
+    Several brave fellows swam off towards the rock, but before they could reach it, a
+    sudden rush of tide swept over, and engulfed the children amidst the fragments of
+    wreck hurled forward in its advance. One of the sailors seized the youngest of the
+    children and bore him safely to shore. The body of the other was found when the tide
+    ebbed, under a ledge of rocks on the eastern side. Upwards of fifteen persons were
+    amongst the missing. It was an impressive scene, and read a powerful lesson to
+    all.</p>
+    <p>"Wrecking" has long been deservedly a national reproach. It is, however, rarely
+    accompanied with the cruelty and violence by which it was formerly characterized; and
+    such aggravated scenes now seldom occur. The people of our coasts have become,
+    generally, much more civilized, and probably the "march of improvement" will
+    ultimately eradicate so inhuman a custom. In Cornwall it was carried to such an
+    excess that the example was even given from the pulpit; and there is a story related
+    of a Cornish parson, who upon information being brought to his congregation of a
+    wreck whilst they were at church, exhorted them to pause as they were rushing out
+    <i>en masse</i> in the midst of the service; and having gained the door, took to his
+    heels saying, "Now, my lads, it is but fair we should all start alike!" and reached
+    the wreck first. The people view the plunder of a wreck as a right, and it is in vain
+    to attempt to persuade them otherwise. However it is but justice to say that they
+    have frequently risked, and even sacrificed, their own lives in endeavouring to
+    preserve those of others; though some recent instances, especially in Wales, prove
+    that the old disposition still lurks amongst the people, and sometimes breaks out
+    with unabated violence.</p>
+    <p>The arrival of a party of the Preventive Service that evening, in some measure
+    proved a check to the plunder of the peasantry; but the guards themselves were not
+    proof against the prevailing infection, and similar scenes to that related, prevailed
+    as long as there was any thing left to drink or pick up; however, a considerable part
+    of the cargo was safely stowed, though there were few of the rum casks that did not
+    afterwards turn out impregnated with bilge water.</p>
+    <p>On a fine grey morning, about a week after these events occurred, I wandered out
+    towards the shore: there had been rough weather in the channel, and many wrecks, and
+    the turbulence of the ocean had not yet subsided. It was about half-flood when I
+    reached the <i>Bonne Esperance</i>. She had disappeared by piece-meal under the
+    repeated assaults of the sea, but the principal part of the hull was still hanging
+    together. Each wave as it struck her tattered timbers, seemed to sap away her
+    strength and threatened to shake her to fragments. I sat with the supercargo for
+    about an hour, watching the flow of the tide. Her timbers cracked louder and louder
+    at each shock of the breakers; when a heavy sea struck her, her joints loosened, and
+    she broke up at last, scattered into fragments, and whelmed in a gulf of boiling
+    waters which foamed like an immense cauldron over the place she had occupied a minute
+    before. We had watched the progress to this final disaster with the deepest
+    interest&mdash;I may almost say sympathy&mdash;for we could hardly help looking upon
+    the ship as a friend in need, hovering as it were over destruction without an arm
+    being stretched forth to save her, and it was not without a real feeling of pain and
+    sorrow that we witnessed her destruction.</p>
+    <p>About half-ebb we descended to the shore&mdash;it was covered as far as the eye
+    could reach with her ruin and materials; and one could almost imagine it had been the
+    destruction of a fleet. Thus ended the fate of <i>La Bonne Esperance</i> of Brest,
+    and the occasional appearance of a solitary fragment on the beach, was soon all that
+    recalled her history to the remembrance of the passers-by.</p>
+    <p>VYVYAN.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>OLD POETS.</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>GOOD DEEDS.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Wretched is he who thinks of doing ill.</p>
+        <p class="i2">His evil deeds long to conceal and hide;</p>
+        <p>For though the voice and tongues of men be still,</p>
+        <p class="i2">By fowls and beasts his sins shall be descried.</p>
+        <p>And God oft worketh by his secret will,</p>
+        <p class="i2">That sin itself, the sinner so doth guide,</p>
+        <p>That of its own accord without request,</p>
+        <p class="i2">He makes his wicked doings manifest.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      SIR J. HARRINGTON.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>DEATH.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Death is a port whereby we reach to joy,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Life is a lake that drowneth all in pain,</p>
+        <p>Death is so near it ceaseth all annoy,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Life is so leav'd that all it yields is vain;</p>
+        <p>And as by life to bondage Man was brought,</p>
+        <p>Even so likewise by death was freedom wrought.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      EARL OF SURREY.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>BEAUTY.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Nought under Heaven so strongly doth allure</p>
+        <p class="i2">The sense of man and all his mind possess,</p>
+        <p>As Beauty's lovely bait that doth procure</p>
+        <p class="i2">Great warriors oft their rigour to repress,</p>
+        <p>And mighty hands forget their manliness.</p>
+        <p class="i2">Driven with the power of an heart robbing eye,</p>
+        <p>And wrapt in flowers of a golden tress,</p>
+        <p class="i2">That can with melting pleasance mollify</p>
+        <p class="i2">Their hard'ned hearts enur'd to blood and cruelty.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      SPENSER.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>LEARNING.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>&mdash;&mdash;But that Learning in despite of fate</p>
+        <p>Will mount aloft and enter Heaven's gate;</p>
+        <p>And to the seat of Jove itself advance,</p>
+        <p>Hermes had slept in Hell with Ignorance.</p>
+        <p>Yet as a punishment they added this,</p>
+        <p>That he and Poverty should always kiss.</p>
+        <p>And to this day is every scholar poor,</p>
+        <p>Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      C. MARLOWE.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>FEELING.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>&mdash;&mdash;The feeling power which is life's root,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Through every living part itself doth shed,</p>
+        <p>By sinews which extend from head to foot,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And like a net all over the body spread.</p>
+        <p>Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit</p>
+        <p class="i2">In middle of her web which spreadeth wide,</p>
+        <p>If aught do touch the outmost thread of it,</p>
+        <p class="i2">She feels it instantly on every side.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      J. DAVIES.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>INJUSTICE.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>So foul a thing, O thou injustice art,</p>
+        <p class="i2">That torment'st the doer and distrest;</p>
+        <p>For when a man hath done a wicked part,</p>
+        <p class="i2">O how he strives to excuse&mdash;to make the best;</p>
+        <p>To shift the fault t' unburden his charg'd heart,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And glad to find the least surmise of rest;</p>
+        <p>And if he could make his, seem other's sin,</p>
+        <p>O what repose, what ease he'd find therein.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      DANIELL.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <h3>RICHES.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Vessels of brass oft handled brightly shine.</p>
+        <p>What difference between the richest mine</p>
+        <p>And basest earth, but use? for both not used</p>
+        <p>Are of little worth; then treasure is abused,</p>
+        <p>When misers keep it; being put to loan,</p>
+        <p>In time it will return us two for one.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      C. MARLOWE.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h3>THE IDIOT LOVER.</h3>
+    <h4>(DRAWN FROM LIFE.)</h4>
+    <h4><i>(For the Mirror.)</i></h4>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>"That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,</p>
+        <p>If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p>John Laconi was born in the romantic country of Switzerland. He was educated
+    tolerably well; he was a good musician, and could draw excellently. He possessed a
+    small, though independent fortune. However, notwithstanding his advantages and
+    acquirements, he proved, when he became a lover, to be an idiot.</p>
+    <p>At a certain period of his life, he fell violently in love with a beautiful young
+    Swiss lady. She was considerably younger than our hero, was much taller, and her
+    elegant refinements rendered her a very desirable object. John had a sister, to whom
+    the young lady paid frequent friendly visits, and upon such occasions, owing probably
+    to that <i>mauvaise honte</i>, with which he was cursed, he was usually absent from
+    home. I will not disgust my fair readers with a minute description of <i>all</i> his
+    absurdities; one example, or so, shall suffice.</p>
+    <p>One fine evening, in the month of June, after spending the day with Laconi's
+    sister, the young lady prepared to return alone to her father's <i>ch&acirc;teau</i>,
+    at the distance of about a mile; and on this occasion, John determined to give a
+    specimen of his gallantry in escorting the fair one home, resolving likewise to
+    declare his passion in plain terms. Accordingly, having put on his hat and cloak, and
+    stationed himself at the gate, he appeared as formidable as any doughty knight in the
+    days of romance, ready to offer his protection to some forlorn damsel. No sooner,
+    however, did the lady appear, than he became so confused as not to be able to answer
+    her greeting. She was also confused for a moment at his manner, but immediately began
+    her walk with much disgust and <i>nonchalance</i>; while he, like a silly <i>valet de
+    chambre</i>, followed behind, leaving his dear mistress' questions unanswered, and
+    gazing with a vacant stare at the moon. At length, to the lady's infinite
+    satisfaction, the white gate of her father's <i>ch&acirc;teau</i> appeared in view,
+    and John, finding they had nearly reached their destination, articulated, in a half
+    suffocated tone, "I&mdash;I beg pardon, ma&mdash;madam, I have been
+    considering&mdash;." "You have, indeed, Mr. John," quickly returned the smiling
+    damsel, "but I think you might have chosen another opportunity, more seasonable than
+    the present, to consider the moon!" To this retort, he said nothing, but looked
+    extremely foolish and ridiculous. However, when they had actually gained the gate of
+    the <i>ch&acirc;teau</i>, he boldly resolved to kiss his fair enslaver; but, after a
+    moment, his resolution failed, and his legs tottered under him. Without hearing the
+    lady's sweet "good night," as she tripped gaily from him, he exclaimed, "Madam, can
+    you love me?" This appeal was not heard by the flying maiden, who hastily ascended
+    the steps to her father's door, which opened and concealed her lovely form from the
+    sight of the amazed lover, who had not courage sufficient to follow her.</p>
+    <p>Whether our idiot did not comprehend the behaviour of his mistress, I cannot say;
+    certain it is, he went home well contented with the success he imagined he had gained
+    towards winning her heart. But, in reality, she was disgusted with his foolery, and
+    ceased paying any more visits to her female friend, in order to avoid the sight of so
+    strange a lover.</p>
+    <p>John, however, was a kind of philosopher, and calmly sustained his love
+    misfortunes. A particular occurrence happened which will somewhat account for this
+    passive resignation. One evening, during a solitary walk, he saw his identical
+    mistress in company with a young French officer. He walked sullenly home, wrote some
+    verses on the inconstancy of women, drew from recollection a portrait of the cruel
+    fair, which he hung in his study, and banished his former pretences. Report says,
+    that he lived the remainder of his days in a state of celibacy. G.W.N.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.</h3>
+    <p>Sincerely do we regret to announce the death of this great and good man&mdash;the
+    most celebrated philosopher of our times, who has done more for the happiness of his
+    species than any associated Academy in Europe. He died at Geneva, May 29, aged 51. We
+    shall endeavour to do justice to his talents and amiable character, in a Memoir to be
+    published at the close of this volume of THE MIRROR&mdash;prefixed to which will be a
+    fine Portrait of the illustrious deceased.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY.</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>DISCOVERY OF THE FATE OF LA PEROUSE.</h3>
+    <h4><i>Abridged from the United Service Journal.</i></h4>
+    <p>The fate of this celebrated French navigator, which for upwards of forty years has
+    remained enveloped in mystery, has at length been satisfactorily ascertained, a
+    result that is owing to the active and spirited exertions of our gallant and
+    enterprising countryman Captain Dillon.</p>
+    <p>It is a remarkable circumstance, that the discovery of the relics of La Perouse,
+    arose out of the massacre of the ship Hunter's crew, at the Feejee Islands, in
+    1813.</p>
+    <p>In this unfortunate affair, fourteen persons in all, from the ship Hunter, lost
+    their lives. The two that escaped with Mr. Dillon, were William Wilson and Martin
+    Buchart, a Prussian, who resided for two years at Bough. The latter entreated captain
+    Robson to give him and his Bough wife a passage to the first land at which he might
+    arrive, as they would certainly be sacrificed if they returned to the island. Having
+    made Tucopia on the 20th of September, Buchart, his wife, and a Lascar, were put on
+    shore, and the Hunter proceeded on her voyage to Canton.</p>
+    <p>On the 13th of May, 1826, while in command of the St. Patrick, bound from
+    Valparaiso to Pondicherry, captain Dillon came in sight of the island of Tucopia.
+    Prompted by curiosity, as well as regard for old companions in danger, he lay to,
+    anxious to ascertain whether the persons left there in 1813, were still alive. A
+    canoe, in which was the Lascar, soon afterwards put off from land and came alongside.
+    This was immediately succeeded by another canoe, containing Martin Buchart, the
+    Prussian. They were both in excellent health, and exceedingly rejoiced to see him.
+    They informed him, that the natives had treated them very kindly; and that no ship
+    had touched at the island from the time they were first landed, until about a year
+    previous to his arrival, when an English whaler visited them, and was soon after
+    followed by a second. The Lascar had an old silver sword-guard, which he bartered for
+    a few fishing-hooks. Captain Dillon inquired where he had obtained it; the Prussian
+    informed him, that on his arrival at the island, he saw it in the possession of the
+    natives, also several chainplates belonging to a ship, a number of iron bolts, five
+    axes, the handle of a silver fork, a few knives, tea-cups, glass beads and bottles,
+    one silver spoon with a crest and a cipher, a sword, &amp;c. As soon as he became
+    sufficiently acquainted with the language, he asked the natives how they obtained
+    those articles, as they said that the Hunter was the first ship with which they had
+    ever held communication. They replied, that about two days' sail in their canoes to
+    leeward, there was a large group of islands, known generally by the name of Manicolo,
+    to which they were in the habit of making frequent voyages, and that they had
+    procured these articles from the inhabitants, who possessed many more of a similar
+    description.</p>
+    <p>Buchart proceeded to state, that the Tucopians asserted that a great number of
+    articles were on the Manicolo Islands in a state of preservation, and such articles
+    were evidently obtained from the wreck of a vessel. About seven months before captain
+    Dillon touched at Tucopia, a canoe had returned from Manicolo, and brought away two
+    large chain plates, and an iron bolt, about four feet in length. He spoke with some
+    of the crew of the canoe which had last made the voyage to Manicolo. They told him
+    that there was abundance of iron materials still remaining on the island. Those which
+    Martin Buchart saw were much oxydized and worn. The only silver spoon brought to
+    Tucopia, as far as captain Dillon could learn, was beaten out into a wire by Buchart,
+    for the purpose of making rings and other ornaments for the female islanders. Upon
+    examining the sword-guard minutely, captain Dillon discovered, or thought he
+    discovered, the initials of Perouse stamped upon it, which circumstance prompted him
+    to be more eager in his inquiries.</p>
+    <p>The Prussian said he had himself never made a trip to Manicolo with the Tucopians,
+    but the Lascar had gone once or twice. He positively affirmed, that he had seen and
+    conversed at Paiow, a native town, with the Europeans who spoke the language of the
+    islanders. They were old men, he said, who told him that they had been wrecked
+    several years ago in one of the ships, the remnants of which they pointed out to him.
+    They informed him also that no vessel had touched at the islands since they had been
+    there; that most of their comrades were dead, but they had been so scattered among
+    the various islands, that they could not tell precisely how many of them were still
+    living.</p>
+    <p>On hearing so many circumstances all tending to confirm his suspicions, from the
+    moment he saw the silver sword-guard with the cipher, captain Dillon determined to
+    proceed as quickly as possible to the Manicolo Islands, examine the wrecks himself,
+    and, if practicable, bring off the two men with whom the Lascar had spoken, and whom,
+    he said, were Frenchmen. For this purpose he begged the latter to accompany him, but
+    as he was married and comfortably settled on the island, neither promises nor threats
+    were of any avail, although captain Dillon offered to bring him back to Tucopia.
+    Martin Buchart, on the contrary, was tired of the savage life he had led for the last
+    fourteen years, and gladly acceded to the wishes of captain Dillon, who after
+    prevailing with a Tucopian also to come on board, sailed for the island.
+    Unfortunately, as the ship neared the land, it fell a perfect calm, and continued so
+    for seven days. At this time the stock of dry provisions was nearly exhausted, and
+    there was no animal food to be procured on Tucopia. The crew lived principally on New
+    Zealand potatoes and bananas. The vessel became every day more leaky from a long
+    continuance at sea; and a person on board, who was interested in the cargo, had,
+    during captain Dillon's stay in the islands, shown himself particularly discontented,
+    and had frequently and warmly remonstrated at what he considered an unnecessary and
+    useless delay; for these reasons, therefore, captain Dillon determined, though with
+    the greatest reluctance, to take advantage of a breeze which sprang up, continued his
+    voyage, and arrived at Bengal with much difficulty, his ship being in a very leaky
+    condition.</p>
+    <p>Unwilling to abandon his favourite object, captain Dillon now applied to the
+    Asiatic Society, and to the Bengal Government; and in consequence of his
+    representations, his suggestions were at length carried into effect. He was appointed
+    to the command of one of the Company's cruisers, of sixteen guns and eighty-five men,
+    called the Research; and on the 27th of January, 1827, he sailed from Bengal, visited
+    Van Dieman's Land, New South Wales, New Zealand, the Friendly Islands, Ro-Thoma, or
+    Granville Island of the Pandora, Tucopia, and arrived at Manicolo on the 27th of
+    September. This island (Manicolo, or Vanicolo) is not the Mallicolo of captain Cook,
+    being situated only 118 miles to the leeward of Tucopia, in latitude 11 deg. 47 min.,
+    whilst the former lies in south latitude 16 deg. 15 min.</p>
+    <p>Captain Dillon personally visited the reefs on which the French ships are
+    ascertained to have struck and gone to pieces, according to the accounts of the
+    natives, from which the following particulars have been obtained of that disastrous
+    event:&mdash;"Many years ago two large ships arrived at the islands; one anchored off
+    the island of Whanoo, and the other off that of Paiow, a little distance from each
+    other. Soon after, and before they had any communication with the natives, a heavy
+    gale arose, and both vessels were driven ashore. The ship off Whanoo grounded upon
+    the rocks. The natives came in crowds to the sea-shore, armed with clubs, spears,
+    bows and arrows, and discharged some arrows into the vessel; the crew in return
+    fired, and killed several of the islanders. The vessel continued to strike violently
+    against the rocks, and soon went to pieces. Some of the crew took to their boats, but
+    were driven on shore, and murdered by the natives; others threw themselves into the
+    sea, and such as reached the land, shared the fate of their unfortunate companions,
+    so that not a single soul belonging to this vessel escaped alive."</p>
+    <p>"The ship which grounded on Paiow, was driven on a sandy beach, and the natives
+    came down and also discharged their arrows into her; but the crew prudently did not
+    resent the aggression, but held up axes, beads, and toys, as peace-offerings, upon
+    which the assailants desisted from farther hostilities. As soon as the wind had
+    moderated, an aged chief, in a canoe, put off to the ship. He was received with
+    caresses, accepted the presents offered to him: and upon going ashore, pacified the
+    islanders by assurances that the ship's crew were peaceably inclined towards them.
+    Upon this, several natives went on board, and were all presented with toys. In
+    return, they supplied the crew with yams, fowls, bananas, cocoa-nuts, hogs, &amp;c.
+    and confidence was established between them. The ship was now abandoned, and the crew
+    went on shore, bringing with them part of her stores. Here they remained for some
+    time, and built a small vessel with the materials from the wreck. When it was ready
+    to put to sea, as many as could conveniently, embarked in her, being plentifully
+    supplied with fresh provisions by the islanders. The commander promised those who
+    were left behind, to return immediately with presents for the natives, and to bring
+    them off; but, as the little vessel was never afterwards heard of, the men sought the
+    protection of the neighbouring chiefs, with whom they lived. Several muskets and some
+    gunpowder had been left them by their comrades, and by means of these, they proved of
+    great service to their friends, in encounters with the neighbouring islanders."</p>
+    <p>The natives of Manicolo are not cannibals; but when an enemy falls into their
+    power he is immediately killed, and his body is deposited in sea-water, and kept
+    there until the bones become perfectly bare. The skeleton is then taken up, the bones
+    of the extremities scraped and cut into various forms, to point arrows and spears.
+    Their arms consist of heavy clubs, spears, and bows and arrows. They poison the
+    latter with a kind of reddish gum, extracted from a species of tree peculiar to the
+    island. When any one is struck by a poisoned arrow in any of the limbs, the part is
+    quickly cut out, and his life is sometimes saved; but if the wound happens to be in
+    the body, where it cannot be easily excised, he resigns himself quietly to death
+    without a murmur, though he frequently lingers for four or five days in excruciating
+    agony.</p>
+    <p>The Manicolans differ from almost all the other islanders in the South Sea; they
+    are as black as negroes, have short woolly hair, and resemble them in their features.
+    Their religion also is different; in every village in the island there is a house
+    dedicated to the Deity. At the principal chapel, the skulls of all the people who
+    were killed, belonging to the ship that grounded at Whanoo, are still preserved. The
+    natives of Tucopia, unaccustomed to the sight of human bones, avoid, as much as
+    possible, when they visit the island, approaching the sacred house where the skulls
+    are deposited.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS</i>.</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>WAVERLEY NOVELS.</h3>
+    <p>The <i>new edition</i>, (of which <i>Waverley</i> has just appeared,) is, without
+    exception, the handsomest book of the day, in editorship, literary and graphic
+    embellishment or typography. Perhaps little persuasion was necessary for a second
+    reading of so delightful a novel as <i>Waverley</i>, but the author's piquant notes
+    to the present edition would alike tempt the matter-of-fact man, and the inveterate
+    novel reader to "begin again." The prefatory anecdotes to <i>Waverley</i> are
+    extremely interesting&mdash;and the little autobiographic sketches are so many leaves
+    from the life of the ingenious author. We hope to introduce a few of the notes of the
+    Series; but content ourselves for the present with the following: being the original
+    of the legend of Mrs. Grizel Oldbuck:</p>
+    <p>Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d of Bowland, a gentleman of landed property in the vale of
+    Gala, was prosecuted for a very considerable sum, the accumulated arrears of teind
+    (or tithe) for which he was said to be indebted to a noble family, the titulars (lay
+    impropriators of the tithes.) Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d was strongly impressed with the
+    belief that his father had, by a form of process peculiar to the law of Scotland,
+    purchased these lands from the titular, and therefore that the present prosecution
+    was groundless. But after an industrious search among his father's papers, an
+    investigation of the public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had
+    transacted law business for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his
+    defence. The period was now near at hand when he conceived the loss of his lawsuit to
+    be inevitable, and he had formed his determination to ride to Edinburgh next day, and
+    make the best bargain he could in the way of compromise. He went to bed with this
+    resolution, and with all the circumstances of the case floating upon his mind, had a
+    dream to the following purpose. His father, who had been many years dead, appeared to
+    him, he thought, and asked him why he was disturbed in his mind. In dreams men are
+    not surprised at such apparitions. Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d thought that he had informed
+    his father of the cause of his distress, adding that the payment of a considerable
+    sum of money was the more unpleasant to him, because he had a strong consciousness
+    that it was not due, though he was unable to recover any evidence in support of his
+    belief. "You are right, my son," replied the paternal shade; "I did acquire right to
+    these teinds, for payment of which you are now prosecuted. The papers relating to the
+    transaction are in the hands of Mr. &mdash;&mdash;, a writer (or attorney,) who is
+    now retired from professional business, and resides at Inveresk, near Edinburgh. He
+    was a person whom I employed on that occasion for a particular reason, but who never
+    on any other occasion transacted business on my account. It is very possible,"
+    pursued the vision, "that Mr. &mdash;&mdash; may have forgotten a matter which is now
+    of a very old date; but you may call it to his recollection by this token, that when
+    I came to pay his account, there was difficulty in getting change for a Portugal
+    piece of gold, and that we were forced to drink out the balance at a tavern." Mr.
+    R&mdash;&mdash;d awaked in the morning with all the words of the vision imprinted on
+    his mind, and thought it worth while to ride across the country to Inveresk, instead
+    of going straight to Edinburgh. When he came there, he waited on the gentleman
+    mentioned in the dream, a very old man; without saying any thing of the vision, he
+    inquired whether he remembered having conducted such a matter for his deceased
+    father. The old gentleman could not at first bring the circumstance to his
+    recollection, but on mention of the Portugal piece of gold, the whole returned upon
+    his memory; he made an immediate search for the papers, and recovered them; so that
+    Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d carried to Edinburgh the documents necessary to gain the cause
+    which he was on the verge of losing. The author has often heard this story told by
+    persons who had the best access to know the facts, who were not likely themselves to
+    be deceived, and were certainly incapable of deception. He cannot therefore refuse to
+    give it credit, however extraordinary the circumstances may appear. The
+    circumstantial character of the information given in the dream, takes it out of the
+    general class of impressions of the kind which are occasioned by the fortuitous
+    coincidence of actual events with our sleeping thoughts. On the other hand, few would
+    suppose that the laws of nature were suspended, and a special communication from the
+    dead to the living permitted, for the purpose of saving Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d a
+    certain number of hundred pounds. The author's theory is, that the dream was only the
+    recapitulation of information which Mr. R&mdash;&mdash;d had really received from his
+    father while in life, but which at first he merely recalled as a general impression
+    that the claim was settled. It is not uncommon for persons to recover, during sleep,
+    the thread of ideas which they have lost during their waking hours. It may be added,
+    that this remarkable circumstance was attended with bad consequences to Mr.
+    R&mdash;&mdash;d, whose health and spirits were afterwards impaired by the attention
+    which he thought himself obliged to pay to the visions of the night.&mdash;<i>Notes
+    to the Antiquary.</i></p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>ROAD-BOOK OF FRANCE.</h3>
+    <p>People who are bound for the Continent should provide themselves with the new
+    edition of Mr. Leigh's descriptive Road Book of France&mdash;even before they get
+    their passports at the French ambassador's, or if they only <i>intend</i> to visit
+    Calais, Boulogne, or Dieppe&mdash;and the chances are that they will be induced to
+    travel beyond these places, which, in truth, give an Englishman no more idea of
+    France than Dovor would afford a foreigner of England. A few years since,
+    comparatively speaking, people only knew their way from York to London, much less the
+    objects on the road&mdash;now, by the economy of guide books they may know every good
+    inn in France, and carry the <i>ichnography</i> of the kingdom in their coat pocket.
+    In the present edition of the "Road Book of France," attention has been paid to the
+    description of the delightful South, especially of Bordeaux, the mineral springs and
+    bathing-places of the Pyrenees, the navigation of the Rhone from Lyons to Avignon, as
+    well as of Marseilles, Toulouse, &amp;c., and some of the principal towns have been
+    illustrated with plans. Dipping into the Itinerary from Calais to Paris, we were
+    reminded of a curious coincidence: Julius Caesar is supposed to have sailed from
+    Boulogne on his expedition against the Britons; and in later times, Napoleon
+    Bonaparte there prepared to carry into execution the invasion of Great Britain. But
+    how different have been the results!</p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>JOURNEY FROM THE BANK TO BARNES.</h3>
+    <p>A lively volume with many shreds of wit and humour, and occasional patches of
+    "righte merrie conceite," has just fallen into our hands, and has afforded us some
+    very pleasant reading. There is fun in the very title, "Personal Narrative of a
+    Journey overland from the Bank to Barnes, &amp;c. with some account of the Regions
+    east of Kensington. By an Inside Passenger. With a Model for a Magazine, being the
+    product of the Author's sojourn at the village of Barnes, during five rainy days."
+    The author is a shrewd, clever fellow, who loves a little raillery on the follies of
+    the day, and joins with our friend, Popanilla in deploring the present artificial
+    state of society; therefore, suppose we give a few <i>flying</i> extracts from his
+    tour, premising that the good people of the little villages through which he passed,
+    are not aware of what good things he has said of them; for his little book would suit
+    every parlour window from Hyde Park Corner to Barnes.</p>
+    <h4><i>Brentford.</i></h4>
+    <p>The ancient and nearly deserted barony of Brentford still contains, in its
+    monuments and antiquities, vestiges of former splendour. The horse-trough opposite
+    the "Bell and Feathers" is to the antiquarian a most particularly interesting
+    <i>morceau</i>; the verdure of age has defaced it in part, but enough still remains
+    to prove that our ancestors had made no mean proficiency in the rustic style of
+    architecture. The reservoir, which contains the sparkling element so grateful to that
+    noble animal, is modelled from the celebrated sarcophagus in the British Museum; and
+    the posts which support it are evidently Doric. On the outside of it are several
+    nearly obliterated specimens of carving, as well as drawings in chalk.</p>
+    <p>Nearly parallel with the horse-trough, as you go down "Maud's Rents," is that
+    useful, and indeed indispensible, triumph of hydraulics, the pump. The taste and
+    science displayed in its execution do credit to the engineer; and the soil in which
+    it is imbedded, being argillaceous, partially encrusted with strontian, reflects
+    equal honour on his geological attainments. This pump, which you approach by three
+    steps, is perpendicular, and of an elegant appearance; and forms the chief ornament
+    of the "Rents." The handle is of wrought iron, highly polished; the snout copper,
+    studded with hobnails. It is neatly coated with white paint, and bears on its front
+    the following inscription, which I have copied for the gratification of the curious
+    in antiquarian research.</p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>This Pump was erected,</p>
+        <p>and Well sunk,</p>
+        <p>A.D. 1824,</p>
+        <p>from the proceeds of a Charity Sermon,</p>
+        <p>preached</p>
+        <p>in the Parish Church</p>
+        <p>of this Parish,</p>
+        <p>by his Grace the Bishop</p>
+        <p>of Bath and Wells.</p>
+        <hr class="short" />
+        <p>Peter Broddupp,</p>
+        <p>Overseer,</p>
+        <p>Slingsby Stygle, and John Moles,</p>
+        <p>Churchwardens.</p>
+        <hr class="short" />
+        <p>N.B. Whoever washes Fish at this Pump</p>
+        <p>will be prosecuted.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p>I cannot take leave of this interesting town without noticing the church. It is
+    surmounted by a neat steeple, cut in wood, in the pointed style of architecture; on
+    the top of which is a goodly key, to indicate the wind,&mdash;which, the inhabitants
+    remark, has blown due south for the last ten years. The porch, which is a curious
+    specimen of the Maeso-Gothic, is rather hurt by the simplicity of the scrapers,
+    which, being merely segments of iron hoops, do not harmonize with the otherwise
+    elaborate approach.</p>
+    <h4><i>Tossbury.</i></h4>
+    <p>The demesne of Tossbury (by Camden written Tossbery) was anciently a grant in
+    feoffment to the College of Physicians by King John. On the spot now occupied by the
+    burial grounds formerly stood their college; and here they flourished until the
+    population, originally abundant, diminished so alarmingly, as to induce them to
+    remove to Warwick Lane.</p>
+    <p>Mr. P. (the landlord of the inn,) ever ready to shew his guests what at that
+    village are esteemed great curiosities, was indefatigable in explaining the various
+    instances in which he has made science subservient to utility. The staircase, as far
+    as the great dining-room, he has, at considerable expense, macadamized; which,
+    provided it is kept well watered, and scrapers attached to the chamber-doors, our
+    worthy host assured us, was infinitely preferable to marble. He begged us to be under
+    no apprehension as to the dampness of our beds, as they were warmed by a
+    steam-apparatus of his own contrivance. He always keeps a Leyden jar, about the size
+    of a boiler, ready charged, wherewith he kills geese, turkeys, and even lamb; which,
+    he affirms, is a much less shocking method of neutralizing the vital spark than the
+    vulgar butchery of twisting and sticking. He has lost three of his fingers, through
+    incautiously handling a self-acting rat-trap of his own construction; and had his
+    left eye blown out, while investigating the exact interval between combustion and
+    explosion.</p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>I found a difference of about half an hour between the dial of Putney Church and
+    my watch, which a young gentleman "intended for one of the universities" accounted
+    for from difference of latitude. He likewise explained a phenomenon, which rather
+    startled us, near Kew. We saw about half-a-dozen cows galloping furiously towards the
+    river's brink; flirting their tails, and, indeed, conducting themselves with a
+    vivacity perfectly inconsistent with the acknowledged sobriety of that useful animal.
+    He calmed our apprehensions, by informing us they were intended for the East Indies.
+    Every other day they are fed with best rock-salt, instead of green-meat; which, by
+    chemical agency, renders them fat and fit to be killed, and sent on ship-board at a
+    moment's notice; the trouble and delay of salting down being totally unnecessary.
+    These cows, he assured us, had just finished their thirst-inducing meal.</p>
+    <p>Near Hill's boat-shed is the patent Philanthropical Hay-tosser, a stupendous
+    machine, invented expressly to prevent the degradation and slavery to which thousands
+    of our fellow men are subjected during hay-harvest. It must gratify every friend to
+    the amelioration of his species to learn, that the humane intention of the inventer
+    is likely to be realized, as there are already three thousand Irishmen out of
+    employ.</p>
+    <p>Here we must halt with our tourist. The result of his lucubrations at
+    Barnes&mdash;a Model for a Magazine will be found very serviceable to all prospectus
+    writers, and furnish skeleton articles for a whole volume. We have been amused with
+    the pleasantries of the author, and in return we thank him, and recommend his little
+    book to our readers.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>CLASSICAL CORRECTIONS.</h3>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>In a neat little cottage, some five miles from town,</p>
+        <p>Lived a pretty young maiden, by name Daphne Brown,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Like a butterfly, pretty and airy:</p>
+        <p>In a village hard by lived a medical prig,</p>
+        <p>With a rubicund nose, and a full-bottomed wig,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Apollo, the apothecary.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>He, being crop sick of his bachelor life,</p>
+        <p>Resolved, in his old days, to look for a wife&mdash;</p>
+        <p class="i2">(<i>Nota bene</i>&mdash;Thank Heaven, I'm not married):</p>
+        <p>He envied his neighbours their curly-poled brats,</p>
+        <p>(All swarming, as if in a village of Pats,)</p>
+        <p class="i2">And sighed that so long he had tarried.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Having heard of fair Daphne, the village coquette,</p>
+        <p>As women to splendour were never blind yet,</p>
+        <p class="i2">He resolved with his grandeur to strike her;</p>
+        <p>So he bought a new buggy, where, girt in a wreath,</p>
+        <p>Were his arms, pills, and pestle&mdash;this motto beneath&mdash;</p>
+        <p class="i2"><i>"Ego opifer per orbem dicor."</i></p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>To the village he drove, sought young Daphne's old sire,</p>
+        <p>Counted gold by rouleaus, and bank notes by the quire,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And promised the old buck a share in't,</p>
+        <p>If his daughter he'd give&mdash;for the amorous fool</p>
+        <p>Thought of young ladies' hearts and affections the rule</p>
+        <p class="i2">Apparently rests with a parent.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Alas! his old mouth may long water in vain,</p>
+        <p>Who tries by this method a mistress to gain&mdash;</p>
+        <p class="i2">A <i>miss</i> is the sure termination:</p>
+        <p>For a maiden's delight is to plague the old boy,</p>
+        <p>And to think sixty-five not the period for joy;</p>
+        <p class="i2">Alas! all the sex are vexation.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Daphne Brown had two eyes with the tenderest glances!</p>
+        <p>Her brain had been tickled by reading romances,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And those compounds of nonsense called novels,</p>
+        <p>Where Augustus and Ellen, or fair Isabel,</p>
+        <p>With Romeo, in sweet little cottages dwell:</p>
+        <p class="i2"><i>Sed meo periclo</i>, read hovels.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>She had toiled through Clarissa; Camilla could quote;</p>
+        <p>Knew the raptures of Werter and Charlotte by rote;</p>
+        <p class="i2">Thought Smith and Sir Walter ecstatic;</p>
+        <p>And as for the novels of Miss Lefanu,</p>
+        <p>She dog's-eared them till the whole twenty looked blue;</p>
+        <p class="i2">And studied 'The Monk' in the attic.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>When her sire introduced our Apollo, he found</p>
+        <p>The maiden in torrents of sympathy drowned&mdash;</p>
+        <p class="i2">"Floods of tears" is too trite and too common:</p>
+        <p>Her eyes were quite swelled&mdash;her lips pouting and pale;</p>
+        <p>For she just had been reading that heartbreaking tale,</p>
+        <p class="i2">"Annabelle, or the Sufferings of Woman."</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Apollo, I'll swear, had more courage than I,</p>
+        <p>To accost a young maid with a <i>drop in her eye</i>;</p>
+        <p class="i2">I'd as soon catch a snake or a viper:</p>
+        <p>She, while wiping her tears, gives Apollo some wipes;</p>
+        <p>And when a young lady has set up her pipes,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Her lover will soon pay the piper.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Papa locked her up&mdash;but the very next night,</p>
+        <p>With a cornet of horse, the young lady took flight;</p>
+        <p class="i2">To Apollo she left this apology&mdash;</p>
+        <p>"That, were she to spend with an old man her life,</p>
+        <p>She would gain, by the penance she'd bear as a wife,</p>
+        <p class="i2">A place in the next martyrology."</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Apollo gave chase, but was destined to fail;</p>
+        <p>The female had safely been lodged in the mail,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Now flying full speed to the borders;</p>
+        <p>So the doctor, compelled his sad fate to endure,</p>
+        <p>Came back to his shop, commissioned to cure</p>
+        <p class="i2">All disorders but Cupid's disorders.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p><i>Monthly Magazine.</i></p>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>BAMBOROUGH CASTLE.</h3>
+    <p>The origin of this princely establishment may be new to our readers:&mdash;One of
+    the owners of the castle, John Forster, member for Northumberland, having joined in
+    the rebellion, and being general of the English part of the rebel army, of course his
+    estates, then valued at 1,314 <i>l</i>. <i>per annum</i>, were forfeited; Crewe,
+    bishop of Durham, purchased them from the government commissioners, and settled the
+    whole, by his will, on charitable uses. Under a clause which left the residue of the
+    rents to such charitable uses as his trustees might appoint, the "princely
+    establishment of Bamborough" has arisen&mdash;where</p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>"Charity hath fixed her chosen seat;</p>
+        <p class="i2">And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour</p>
+        <p>Of midnight, when the moon is hid on high,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Keeps her love watch upon the topmost tower,</p>
+        <p>And turns her ear to each expiring cry,</p>
+        <p class="i2">Blest if her aid some fainting wretch might save,</p>
+        <p class="i2">And snatch him, cold and speechless, from the grave."</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <center>
+      BOWLES.
+    </center>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <p>The charitable intentions of a testator have never, in any instance, been better
+    fulfilled than this; the residuary rents, owing to the great increase of rental in
+    the Forster estates, became considerably the most important part of the bequest; and
+    the trustees, who are restricted to five in number, all clergymen, and of whom the
+    rector of Lincoln College is always one, being unfettered by any positive
+    regulations, have so discharged their trust as to render Bamborough Castle the most
+    extensively useful, as well as the most munificent, of all our eleemosynary
+    institutions. There are two free-schools there, both on the Madras system, one for
+    boys, the other for girls; and thirty of the poorest girls are clothed, lodged, and
+    boarded, till, at the age of sixteen, they are put out to service, with a good stock
+    of clothing, and a present of 2<i>l</i>. 12<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. each; and at the end
+    of the first year, if the girl has behaved well, another guinea is given her, with a
+    Bible, a Prayer-book, the Whole Duty of Man, and Secker's Lectures on the Catechism.
+    There is a library in the castle, to which Dr. Sharp, one of the trustees,
+    bequeathed, in 1792, the whole of his own collection, valued at more than
+    800<i>l</i>.; the books are lent gratuitously to any householder, of good report,
+    residing within twenty miles of Bamborough, and to any clergyman, Roman Catholic
+    priest, or dissenting minister within the said distance. There is an infirmary also
+    in the castle, of which the average annual number of in-patients is about
+    thirty-five&mdash;of out-patients above one thousand. There is an ample granary, from
+    whence, in time of scarcity, the poor are supplied on low terms. Twice a week the
+    poor are supplied with meal, at reduced prices, and with groceries at prime cost; and
+    the average number of persons who partake this benefit is about one thousand three
+    hundred in ordinary times, in years of scarcity very many more. To sailors on that
+    perilous coast Bamborough Castle is what the Convent of St. Bernard is to travellers
+    in the Alps. Thirty beds are kept for shipwrecked sailors; a patrol for above eight
+    miles (being the length of the manor) is kept along the coast every stormy night;
+    signals are made; a life-boat is in readiness at Holy Island, and apparatus of every
+    kind is ready for assisting seamen in distress;&mdash;wrecked goods are secured and
+    stored, the survivors are relieved, the bodies that are cast on shore are decently
+    interred.</p>
+    <p><i>Quarterly Review.</i></p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>FINE ARTS</h2>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>THE DIORAMA.</h3>
+    <p>On the day of the unfortunate destruction of the Oxford Street Diorama and Bazaar,
+    by fire, two new views were opened at the Diorama in the Regent's Park. These are the
+    <i>Interior of St. Peter's at Rome</i>, and the <i>Village of Thiers</i>.</p>
+    <p>We have so often spoken in terms of the highest commendation of the Regent's Park
+    Diorama, that we hardly know in what set of words to point out the beauties of these
+    new views, the merits of which must not alter our meed of praise, however the
+    subjects may its details. The Interior of St. Peter's is by M. Bouton. The point of
+    view is at the east entry, opposite to the choir; the reader, perhaps, not being
+    aware that the choir in this cathedral is situated differently from all others, being
+    at the west end. So beautiful are the proportions of the cathedral itself, that its
+    vastness does not strike at first sight, and this effect is admirably preserved in
+    the Diorama. We think we could point out a few inaccuracies in the drawing; but the
+    projections, capitals of the columns, and some of the medallion portraits which
+    ornament them, are so well painted, that we can scarcely believe ourselves looking on
+    a flat surface. Again, the emmet-like figures of the distant congregation are
+    admirable illustrations of the vastness of the building; and above all, the flood of
+    light shed from the lantern of the dome is a perfect triumph of art.</p>
+    <p>The other view is the French Village of Thiers in the department of the Puy de
+    Doue, on the bank of the little River Durolle, which is actually made to flow, or
+    rather trickle over large stones; whilst smoke ascends from the chimney of an
+    adjoining cottage. As a romantic picture of still life, its merits can scarcely be
+    too highly spoken of, and when we say it is quite equal to <i>Unterseen</i>, by the
+    same artist, and engraved in our last volume, we hope our readers will not be long
+    ere they judge for themselves. We could have lingered for an hour in the
+    contemplation of this peaceful picture, with the devotional interior of St.
+    Peter's&mdash;and in contrasting them with the turmoil of the Great Town out of which
+    we had just stepped to view this little <i>Creation</i> of art.</p>
+    <hr class="full" />
+    <h2>THE GATHERER</h2>
+    <center>
+      A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
+    </center>
+    <center>
+      SHAKSPEARE.
+    </center>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>LINES</h3>
+    <p><i>Written impromptu, by Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart. in the Theatre Royal, Drury
+    Lane, at the Benefit of Miss Foote, on Wednesday, May 10, 1826, the last night of her
+    engagement.</i></p>
+    <div class="poem">
+      <div class="stanza">
+        <p>Maria departs!&mdash;'tis a sentence of dread,</p>
+        <p>For the Graces turn pale, and the Fates droop their head!</p>
+        <p>In mercy to breasts that tumultuously burn,</p>
+        <p>Dwell no more on departure&mdash;but speak of return.</p>
+        <p>Since she goes, when the buds are just ready to burst,</p>
+        <p>In expanding its leaves, let the Willow be first.</p>
+        <p>We here shall no longer find beauties in May;</p>
+        <p>It cannot be Spring, when Maria's away:</p>
+        <p>If vernal at all, 'tis an April appears,</p>
+        <p>For the Blossom flies off, in the midst of our tears.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <hr />
+    <h3>THE KING'S SPEECH IN 993.</h3>
+    <p>Sharon Turner, in his "History of the Anglo-Saxons," vol. iv. says, "The King
+    presided at the witena-gemots, and sometimes, perhaps, always addressed them." In
+    993, we have this account of a royal speech. The King says, in a charter which
+    recites what had passed at one of their meetings, "I benignantly addressed to them
+    salutary and pacific words. I admonished all&mdash;that those things which were
+    worthy of the Creator, and serviceable to the health of my soul, or to my royal
+    dignity, and which should prevail as proper for the English people, they might, with
+    the Lord's assistance, discuss in common." P.T.W.</p>
+    <hr />
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+    half to go, the fare is one shilling and sixpence; you will be about eighteen minutes
+    going that distance, and for that sum you may detain the coach forty-four minutes.
+    Always call a coach a quarter of an hour before you want it&mdash;i.e. if you do not
+    wish to be too late.</p>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
+Instruction, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
+       Vol. 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: March 25, 2004 [EBook #11710]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Allen Siddle, and the Online Distributed
+Proofreaders Team
+
+
+
+
+
+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+
+VOL. 13., No. 375.] SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1829. [PRICE 2_d_.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+[Illustration: CUMBERLAND TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK.]
+
+
+CUMBERLAND TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK.
+
+
+The annexed Engraving completes our Series of _Architectural
+Illustrations_ of the REGENT'S PARK, and is, withal the most magnificent
+Terrace in the circuit. It stands considerably above the road, and is
+approached by a fine carriage sweep, with handsome balustrades; below
+which, and level with the road, is the garden, or promenade for the
+residents of the Terrace.
+
+The architect of Cumberland Terrace is Mr. Nash, who appears to have been
+so lavish of ornament, as to give the whole range the appearance of a
+triumphal temple. It consists of a centre and wings, connected by two
+handsome arches, which have a very pleasing and novel effect. The entrance,
+or ground story throughout, is rusticated, and in the principal parts or
+masses of the elevation, serves as a base or pediment for handsome Doric
+columns, above which is a balustrade, on which are placed allegorical
+figures of the Seasons, the Quarters of the Globe, the Arts and Sciences,
+&c. Each of these masses has a most imposing appearance, and bears four
+figures; the figures in the whole range amount to twenty-seven. Above the
+balustrade rises the attic story. The subordinate fronts of the residences
+are embellished with Doric pilasters.
+
+Each arch consists of four handsome Doric columns, with an entablature,
+and blocking course.
+
+The central portion of the terrace is in correspondent style with the
+wings; and consists of a splendid colonnade of twelve columns and an
+entablature. Above the attic story rises a pediment surmounted with
+figures of Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture. This pediment is filled
+with a basso-relievo, executed by J.H. Bubb, and representing Britannia
+crowned by Fame, and seated on a throne, the basis of which represents
+Valour and Wisdom. On one side, Literature, Genius, Manufacture,
+Agriculture, and Prudence, are bringing youth of different nations for
+instruction; and on the other side, the guardian-spirit of the Navy,
+surmounted by Victory, Navigation, Commerce, and Freedom, is extending her
+blessings to the Africans. The group is terminated on each side by Plenty.
+This is supposed to be the largest ornamental pediment in the kingdom,
+with the exception of that of the portico of St. Paul's, which only
+exceeds it by a few feet.
+
+From the sweep of this terrace may be enjoyed a highly picturesque view of
+the park, with the crown of Primrose Hill in the distance.
+
+At this close of the Series of Views, and as we are approaching the
+conclusion of our volume, it may not be amiss to recapitulate the several
+engravings, with their pages in the preceding and present volumes of the
+MIRROR, and the order in which they stand in the Regent's Park, which
+order circumstances have prevented our uniformly following in their
+publication: thus--
+
+
+  _Buildings_.                _Architects_.   _Mirror, Vol._ _Page._
+
+  Ulster Terrace                                  xi           401
+  York Terrace                  Nash              xiii         129
+  Sussex Place                  Nash              xiii         273
+  Cornwall Terrace              D. Burton         xiii         305
+  Clarence Terrace              D. Burton         xii           17
+  Hanover Terrace               Nash              x            313
+  Hanover Lodge                                   xiii          49
+  Grove House                   D. Burton         xiii          49
+  Marquess of Hertford's Villa  D. Burton         xiii          81
+  Macclesfield Bridge           Morgan            xiii         351
+  East (now Gloucester) Gate                      xi           225
+  St. Katherine's               Poynter           xi           273
+  Master's Residence            Poynter           xi           289
+  Cumberland Terrace            Nash              xiii         401
+  Chester Terrace               Nash              xiii         193
+  Exterior of the Colosseum     D. Burton         xiii          65
+  Interior of the Colosseum     D. Burton         xiii          97
+
+In this _Series_ we have endeavoured to represent all the architectural
+beauties of the Park, and liable as are all of them to critical objection,
+they are extremely interesting for pictorial displays of the taste of this
+castle-building age.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE KING'S STAG, &C.
+
+_(To the Editor of the Mirror.)_
+
+
+As several of your correspondents have lately interested themselves in the
+sign of "The Cat and Fiddle;" a few observations may not be thought
+irrelevant, on the probable origin of the "King's Stag," a description of
+which, under the signature, _Ruris_, appeared in the MIRROR, of Saturday,
+the 30th ult. Its rise may, I conceive, with tolerable certainty, be
+traced to the stag said to have been taken in the Forest of Senlis, by
+Charles the Sixth, about whose neck was a collar, with the inscription,
+"_Caesar hoc mihi donavit_," which induced a belief that the animal had
+lived from the reign of some one of the twelve Caesars. This inscription
+also exists in the following form:--
+
+  "Tempore, quo Caesar Roma, dominatus in alta
+  Aureolo jussit collum signare moniti;
+  Ne depascentem quisquis me gramina laedat,
+  Caesaris heu causa, periturae parcere vitae."
+
+which has been thus literally translated in nearly the same words quoted
+by _Ruris_--
+
+  "When Julius Caesar reigned king,
+  About my neck he put this ring,
+  That whosoever did me take,
+  Should spare my life for Caesar's sake."
+
+It thus appears that _Julius_ Caesar is gratuitously introduced by the
+English paraphrast, nothing appearing in the original inscription to
+determine its application, or render it more probable, that the reference
+should be to Julius Caesar, than to Domitian; and the two first lines
+given by _Ruris_, have evidently been introduced by way of transferring
+the subject to our own country.
+
+Allow me before concluding this communication, one word in reply to E.D.'s
+observations on the "Cat and Fiddle." It is not impossible that some
+resemblance (though I am disposed to think it very trifling) may exist
+between the "tones of a _flute_" and those of "the human voice;" but I
+have yet to learn wherein consists the similarity of the notes of the
+clarinet and those of a "GOOSE;" neither do I imagine performers on the
+violin, (especially Italians,) will feel themselves obliged by E.D.'s
+comparison of their favourite instrument, to the vile squall of the feline
+race. On the whole, I should feel more disposed to concur with him who
+"has been led away by a love of etymology" that the "Cat and Fiddle" is an
+"anomalous" sign, and that "no two objects in the world have less to do
+with each other than a cat and a violin," than to adopt the opposite
+theories of E.D. or his predecessor, unless better supported than they are
+at present. IOTA.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SKETCH-BOOK.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER.
+
+_The Wreck._[1]
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+
+
+  All night the booming minute-gun
+    Had pealed along the deep,
+  And mournfully the rising sun
+    Look'd o'er the tide-worn steep,
+  A bark from India's coral strand,
+    Before the rushing blast,
+  Had vailed her topsails to the sand
+    And bowed her noble mast.
+  The Queenly ship! brave hearts had striven
+    And true ones died with her!
+  We saw her mighty cable riven,
+    Like floating gossamer!
+  We saw her proud flag struck that morn,
+    A star once o'er the seas,
+  Her helm beat down, her deck uptorn,
+    And sadder things than these!
+                              MRS. HEMANS
+
+Sweet romantic Cove of Torwich--repository of my youth's recollections!--A
+mingled gust of feeling crosses over me, rainbow-like,--fraught with the
+checkered remembrances of "life's eventful history," when I turn to the
+past, and glance over the scenes of my early life.
+
+The Bay of Torwich, on the southern coast, unites in its fullest extent
+the singularly wild and picturesque, with the softer features of the
+landscape. The bay consists of two headlands, about four miles apart. On
+the eastern side a lofty range of rocky heights extends for a considerable
+way, almost equalling those of Dovor in sublimity, and juts out into the
+sea, on the assaults of which they seem to frown defiance, terminating in
+a bold headland. The violence of the sea has caused extensive and
+picturesque excavations and caverns; and at the end of the cliff, two
+sharp rocks called the Needles, raised their heads at low water, connected
+by a low, sunken reef. In a westerly gale these rocks were very dangerous
+to homeward-bound ships, and I have often sat with admiration in the
+heights above, watching the grotesque forms and silvery spray of the
+gigantic breakers, which after being broken in their progress, heaved
+their expiring rage with a shock like thunder, against the base of the
+cliffs, causing a prolonged echo in the huge caverns above. About midway
+between these cliffs and the western side there was another lofty headland,
+which terminated the Cove of Torwich; as the sea, except at low-water in
+high spring tides, washed the foot of this promontory, it was only
+fordable at ebb-tide. In the middle of the intermediate space, three rocks
+which might truly be called "forked promontories" from their sharp
+pyramidical shape, jutted abruptly out of the beach, and were connected by
+a sort of natural causeway to the main land. Beyond, a wild and rocky
+valley ran inland, and the time-worn ruins of ---- Castle, beetling over
+the heights, terminated the view in this direction. This valley formed the
+bed of a small stream, which ran by the end of the rocks, composing a
+channel by which coasting vessels could run up and discharge their cargoes
+for the village of Torwich, only part of which was visible at this spot. A
+natural cleft in the vein opened through the centre of these singular
+rocks, resembling a lofty gothic arch, and it was my favourite pastime to
+sit here in the most perfect seclusion, reading "sermons in stones" and
+watching the progress of the tide till it kissed my feet, and often
+surrounded me, for the flood came in with great velocity. Between these
+rocks and the heights on the eastern side, there was another little
+retired creek, renowned in the village annals, for the adventures of Jack
+Covering, a noted smuggler on this coast, some forty years ago, with the
+locality of which the reader will erewhile become better acquainted. The
+magnificence of the convulsed scenery, and yawning chasms around, the deep
+intonation and ceaseless roar of the ocean, all combined to awaken in the
+mind of the spectator, mingled sensations of admiration and awe.
+
+The coast receded between the eastern point of the cove to that which
+terminated the Bay of Torwich, embracing what may be almost termed a
+champaign country, compared with the barren scenery I have described; and
+displaying the uneven surface of the richly wooded Park of Dovedale, with
+the ruins of two castles.
+
+The village of Torwich which stood on a declivity, with an opening descent
+to the shore, about half a mile from the entrance of the cove, had little
+communication, from the nature of its site, with the neighbouring country,
+except when the all-powerful attraction of a wreck existed. Its
+inhabitants were chiefly sailors or fishermen, barring a few useless
+individuals like myself. I loved to study life in all its gradations--the
+"March of Intellect" was yet unknown here! and though the situation
+afforded such numerous advantages for smuggling, there were, rather
+unaccountably, only three persons in the village connected with the coast
+blockade; and it was whispered that relying on the entire seclusion of the
+cove, these persons too often winked when they ought to have been astir on
+their duty.
+
+The day was far spent, when towards the close of the month of October,
+18--, I wandered out to the shore to watch the flow of the evening's tide.
+The weather had been unsettled for some time previous, and the rain had
+fallen in torrents, with a moderate breeze, during most part of the day.
+Towards evening the rain ceased, though large heavy masses of black clouds
+were flying about, and backing up to seaward, accompanied with a short
+gusty gale of wind. I never recollect a more dismal night. A thick haze
+overspread the lower parts of the landscape, throwing the bloated masses
+of clouds higher up in the horizon, into a sort of sombre relief. As I
+passed a little look-out house on my way to the beach, I sauntered to a
+group of sailors at their usual council, who were gazing with deep
+interest at a solitary vessel dimly discernible through the fog in the
+offing. As she neared us we found her to be a barque of apparently
+considerable burthen, making a tack to weather the Torhead, which lay
+several miles under her lee, with a strong breeze from windward. She was
+evidently quite out of her reckoning from the indecision and embarassment
+displayed in her movements; and the captain seemed not sufficiently aware
+of the hazard he ran. I waited sometime at this place watching the
+movements of the ship. The tide came roaring in with a broken swell
+increased by a high spring flood; and there was that in the "wind's eye"
+which betokened approaching disaster; while the gloom was increasing, and
+the harsh cries and hurried flight of the sea-birds indicated tempestuous
+weather.
+
+"An ugly looking night this, Mr. ---- as I have seen for many a-day,"
+remarked Harry Covering, one of the oldest of the group of sailors, and a
+crony of mine. "Sink the Customs! if yon ship weathers Torhead this night,
+may I never pull an oar again." "It is, indeed, a fearful-looking night,
+messmate, and no time ought to be lost in the present state of the tide in
+putting off to her--for if the wind holds in this part, it is great odds
+indeed, that she does not go upon the Needles."
+
+The breeze was freshening every moment; indeed the situation of the
+strange ship must soon become imminently dangerous. The crew seemed at
+last to have awakened from their lethargy, and were apparently making
+every effort to enable her to gain an offing and weather Torhead, before
+the combined force of wind and flood should render that impracticable. It
+was a moment of deep interest. I am not acquainted with any event,
+notwithstanding the frequency of its recurrence, that appeals more
+directly to our sympathies, than a shipwreck. The mighty power of the
+ocean is thus brought before us in its most striking sense, and the
+general scene of disaster it occasions is almost always varied with
+instances of individual sympathy for some of the wrecked. We were now
+joined by the resident officer of the coast-blockade, and a party of men
+were dispatched to pull off to the ship in distress, while the rest of us
+hurried towards the Torhead, accompanied in our rear, (for the news had
+reached the village) by a turn-out of most of its inhabitants, influenced
+both by the passion of curiosity and that of expected plunder. Many of the
+older class looked upon wrecking as legitimate a trade as fishing for
+herrings or pilchards; while perhaps nearly all from the force of habit
+and long-practised example, regarded a wreck as a booty sent them by the
+elements; the scattered contents of which it was no more crime to take
+than it would be to pick up any other thing cast by accident on the beach.
+
+The sea was breaking over the needles with frightful violence when we
+reached Torhead--the spray dashing almost to the summit of the cliffs. We
+were now almost opposite the vessel, which appeared to be French built;
+but the increasing darkness prevented our distinguishing her minutely. The,
+flash of a gun from her side, amidst the deepening gloom, redoubled my
+interest. A more interesting object than a solitary vessel in danger, I
+cannot well conceive. I have always looked upon a ship as a living
+creature--the companion of man--a thing instinct with life, walking the
+waters--and our feelings are not only excited for the safety of the crew,
+but for that of the vessel itself, to which we attach a degree of interest
+as for a friend. A gale was now up; the boat put off to their aid was in
+danger of being swamped by the surf, and found it impracticable to make
+way against a violent head-wind and tide united. Nothing short of a
+miracle could now save the ship; however the wind suddenly shifted a
+little, and I began to hope that if she was to be wrecked, it might be
+farther on the shore; as in case of her striking on the Needles, she must
+almost immediately go to pieces under our eyes, without the most remote
+chance of the escape of one of the crew. A sheet of light flashed
+occasionally from her sides, calling for aid out of the power of man to
+grant. There was a sudden lull in the wind, which sometimes happens in the
+most violent tempests, though often succeeded by increased fury; and a
+strong shower of sleet and rain drove most of our followers home. As it
+had now become quite dark, and it was morally impossible to yield the ship
+any aid till daylight, I returned to the village with melancholy
+forebodings, having placed beacons on the heights.
+
+I hastily proceeded again to the shore just before daybreak. The distant
+moaning of the sea, the harsh screams of the cormorants with the desolate
+nature of the spot, chilled my spirits. I had passed a sleepless night,
+and the storm rose again, and raged till near daybreak with increased fury,
+but the wind was now greatly hushed. The sea, however, showed marks of its
+violence; the bay was white with foam, and as I proceeded, the tide, which
+was just beginning to flow, roared loudly, and advanced in short breakers
+wreathed with spray. The sky also looked dismally, and gave token that the
+gale had not entirely passed away, though its violence had temporarily
+abated. I advanced with deep interest by the peaked group of rocks, and
+passed the wreck of a brig lying high and dry on the sand just before me.
+The whole of the shore between the Heads, was strewed with her contents. I
+never witnessed so total a wreck in so short a space of time. The violence
+of the surf had completely beaten her sides out, leaving stem and stern
+hanging together as by a thread, while her ribs and broken cordage and
+sails, completed the picture, had any thing been wanting to perfect it. I
+could moralize any day on a single bit of plank on a shore--each fragment
+seems to tell its tale, and awakens a train of thoughts and feelings in
+the mind; but "grim desolation" was here visibly before me.
+
+Though I was early astir, I found that the prospect of booty had been
+sufficiently powerful already to draw out not only the inhabitants of
+Torwich, but great numbers of the neighbouring peasantry. But where was
+the ship, about whose fate we had been so greatly interested the preceding
+evening? This was manifestly not her; but I distinctly saw a large, black
+hull lying under the western cliffs, half a mile distant, towards which
+the people were rapidly moving. She had come ashore a little after high
+water, during the night. I picked my way through the wreck strewn
+around--to a small group of persons standing near me; five of them were
+strangers, the crew of the brig. I learnt that my surmises were right
+concerning the ship in the distance, and that the brig which was laden
+with crockery came ashore about the same period.
+
+I left these poor fellows endeavouring to rescue their little articles of
+property, and took a route apart from the course of the crowd towards the
+other ship. I had not gone far, when I almost stumbled over the dead body
+of a young female, lying with her face uppermost, half buried in the sand--
+
+  Her very tresses clung
+  All tangled by the storm.
+
+The bodies of a gentleman of foreign aspect, and that of a lad about
+seventeen, (their hands still firmly clasped together, undivided even in
+death,) lay close by. It was a melancholy scene. They had evidently been a
+father and his children. The long boat of the vessel, which had I suppose,
+taken ground here, being staved and swamped by the surf, was close beyond,
+near which I observed the bodies of several other men. It was with pain
+and horror I remarked that some wretches who had been here before me, had
+partly stripped the bodies of the lady and others in their search after
+plunder, besides rifling the contents of some cases of valuables, which
+had been put into the boat. I hastily turned towards the principal scene
+of disaster, and addressed myself to one of the survivors, whom I found to
+be the supercargo. The vessel was _La Bonne Esperance_ of Brest, of 550
+tons, homeward bound, with a mixed cargo of rum, cotton, and colonial
+produce, from the West Indies. It appeared that the captain, mate, and
+passengers had left the ship just as she struck, and taken to the long
+boat, the fatal result of which has been seen. As I surmised, the bodies I
+had seen consisted of one family, the only passengers on board, a colonel
+in the army, with his son and daughter, returning to his country after
+long service in foreign parts. The supercargo, in the confusion which took
+place, could not get into the long boat in time, and remained with the
+rest of the crew on board; several of the seamen were washed off the decks
+and dashed against the rocks, and my narrator and three others were all
+that survived "to tell the tale."
+
+The ship's hull lay jammed between two small rocks near the foot of the
+cliffs; she was still almost outwardly entire, as the tide receded just
+after she came ashore in the night; but there was a hole knocked in her
+side from whence a portion of the cargo had been washed out. The two
+principal masts had gone by the board, but a part of the mizen-mast was
+still standing; and the rocks were covered, far and near, with tattered
+portions of her sails and cordage pasted against their sides, disposed by
+the sea, in a grotesque manner.
+
+As the principal station of the preventive corps was at a considerable
+distance, some time would elapse before they could lend their aid in the
+protection of the property; and the mob from the neighbouring country,
+disappointed at finding little else but broken crockery at the other wreck,
+seemed disposed to make the most of their time, and were proceeding with
+all the violence and rapacity of professed wreckers. In spite of the
+exertions of the officer from Torwich and his assistants, they were
+mounting the sides, and had spread themselves over the vessel like a pack
+of hungry wolves on the dead carcass of a horse, when I arrived. A scene
+of greater confusion and singularity cannot be described.
+
+It was not long before their attention was awakened by the tapping of a
+cask of rum, which with many more had been washed out of the hold. This
+beverage presented a powerful attraction; the ship was soon, in some
+measure, deserted, and the mob concentrated like a swarm of wasps round
+the casks. All distinctions were now at an end; the better sort of farmer
+or shopkeeper, scrambled with the pauper for a cup or cap (or shoe) full
+of the mellow liquid; while the supercargo and his men, aided by myself
+and a few others, were occupied in hastily putting into some carts the
+more valuable articles rescued from plunder. As the parties had been
+immoderate in their potations, so the effects were equally speedy. Women
+lay on the sand, dead drunk, beside the booty they had collected, while
+unable to stir, it was snatched from their powerless grasp by others
+stronger or more sober than themselves. Several pitched battles were also
+taking place, both amongst boys and men, which generally terminated by
+each of the combatants falling prostrate martyrs to Bacchus. The infection
+was universal, and even the three "mounseers," the surviving crew of the
+Bonne Esperance, could not resist an occasional sly pull at the liquor.
+These men, though they had only just escaped sudden death, seemed not to
+be cast down; but with their characteristic agility, one minute assisted
+to roll the casks into carts, and then ran off perhaps to whisper a
+compliment to some pretty girl, shrugging up their shoulders at the
+unceremonious repulse they met with from _mademoiselle_.
+
+But this scene was not to last long: for the tide had been imperceptibly
+making way and closing. I had always observed that after coming to a
+certain place, its velocity was greatly accelerated, and it was with
+feelings of alarm that I saw the danger which the almost unconscious
+people incurred. From regard to our own safety we had to retreat rapidly
+towards the shingles, carrying as many of the helpless as time would admit
+out of danger, in which we were aided by many of the sailors from Torwich,
+who had assisted in rescuing a portion of the cargo. The peasantry, at
+last aware of the hazard they ran, took to their heels also; but from the
+state they were in, many were forgotten or left behind. The roar of waters
+came rapidly onward, and amid the foaming eddy created by its advance, the
+stifled death-cry, mingled with the harsh and piercing shrieks of some of
+the half drowning victims--one moment awakened to the consciousness of
+their situation, and the next hurried to eternity--burst on the ear; and
+such was the advance of the spring-flood, that a few minutes after the
+rush of people had reached the shingles, the curling breakers rolled the
+bodies of several of the sufferers almost to their feet. The most lively
+interest was now excited towards a small rock, which jutted out of the
+sand a little distance from the wreck. The two poor children of a
+fisherman's widow in the village, were playing in a cavity of this rock,
+when the tide surrounded them. Their voices were drowned by the roaring of
+the waters, and their fate would have been unknown, had not the wild
+appearance and frantic screams of the mother--come in search of her
+children--attracted notice. When they were discovered, only a ledge of the
+rock was discernible; and the little sufferers were seen imploring for
+help amidst the spray with which the waves, fanned by a stiff breeze from
+windward, covered them. Several brave fellows swam off towards the rock,
+but before they could reach it, a sudden rush of tide swept over, and
+engulfed the children amidst the fragments of wreck hurled forward in its
+advance. One of the sailors seized the youngest of the children and bore
+him safely to shore. The body of the other was found when the tide ebbed,
+under a ledge of rocks on the eastern side. Upwards of fifteen persons
+were amongst the missing. It was an impressive scene, and read a powerful
+lesson to all.
+
+"Wrecking" has long been deservedly a national reproach. It is, however,
+rarely accompanied with the cruelty and violence by which it was formerly
+characterized; and such aggravated scenes now seldom occur. The people of
+our coasts have become, generally, much more civilized, and probably the
+"march of improvement" will ultimately eradicate so inhuman a custom. In
+Cornwall it was carried to such an excess that the example was even given
+from the pulpit; and there is a story related of a Cornish parson, who
+upon information being brought to his congregation of a wreck whilst they
+were at church, exhorted them to pause as they were rushing out _en masse_
+in the midst of the service; and having gained the door, took to his heels
+saying, "Now, my lads, it is but fair we should all start alike!" and
+reached the wreck first. The people view the plunder of a wreck as a right,
+and it is in vain to attempt to persuade them otherwise. However it is but
+justice to say that they have frequently risked, and even sacrificed,
+their own lives in endeavouring to preserve those of others; though some
+recent instances, especially in Wales, prove that the old disposition
+still lurks amongst the people, and sometimes breaks out with unabated
+violence.
+
+The arrival of a party of the Preventive Service that evening, in some
+measure proved a check to the plunder of the peasantry; but the guards
+themselves were not proof against the prevailing infection, and similar
+scenes to that related, prevailed as long as there was any thing left to
+drink or pick up; however, a considerable part of the cargo was safely
+stowed, though there were few of the rum casks that did not afterwards
+turn out impregnated with bilge water.
+
+On a fine grey morning, about a week after these events occurred, I
+wandered out towards the shore: there had been rough weather in the
+channel, and many wrecks, and the turbulence of the ocean had not yet
+subsided. It was about half-flood when I reached the _Bonne Esperance_.
+She had disappeared by piece-meal under the repeated assaults of the sea,
+but the principal part of the hull was still hanging together. Each wave
+as it struck her tattered timbers, seemed to sap away her strength and
+threatened to shake her to fragments. I sat with the supercargo for about
+an hour, watching the flow of the tide. Her timbers cracked louder and
+louder at each shock of the breakers; when a heavy sea struck her, her
+joints loosened, and she broke up at last, scattered into fragments, and
+whelmed in a gulf of boiling waters which foamed like an immense cauldron
+over the place she had occupied a minute before. We had watched the
+progress to this final disaster with the deepest interest--I may almost
+say sympathy--for we could hardly help looking upon the ship as a friend
+in need, hovering as it were over destruction without an arm being
+stretched forth to save her, and it was not without a real feeling of pain
+and sorrow that we witnessed her destruction.
+
+About half-ebb we descended to the shore--it was covered as far as the eye
+could reach with her ruin and materials; and one could almost imagine it
+had been the destruction of a fleet. Thus ended the fate of _La Bonne
+Esperance_ of Brest, and the occasional appearance of a solitary fragment
+on the beach, was soon all that recalled her history to the remembrance of
+the passers-by.
+
+VYVYAN.
+
+[1] The scenes and events in tins sketch are drawn from nature, and real
+    occurrences on the southern coast.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OLD POETS.
+
+
+GOOD DEEDS.
+
+  Wretched is he who thinks of doing ill.
+    His evil deeds long to conceal and hide;
+  For though the voice and tongues of men be still,
+    By fowls and beasts his sins shall be descried.
+  And God oft worketh by his secret will,
+    That sin itself, the sinner so doth guide,
+  That of its own accord without request,
+    He makes his wicked doings manifest.
+
+SIR J. HARRINGTON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DEATH.
+
+  Death is a port whereby we reach to joy,
+    Life is a lake that drowneth all in pain,
+  Death is so near it ceaseth all annoy,
+    Life is so leav'd that all it yields is vain;
+  And as by life to bondage Man was brought,
+  Even so likewise by death was freedom wrought.
+
+EARL OF SURREY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BEAUTY.
+
+  Nought under Heaven so strongly doth allure
+    The sense of man and all his mind possess,
+  As Beauty's lovely bait that doth procure
+    Great warriors oft their rigour to repress,
+  And mighty hands forget their manliness.
+    Driven with the power of an heart robbing eye,
+  And wrapt in flowers of a golden tress,
+    That can with melting pleasance mollify
+    Their hard'ned hearts enur'd to blood and cruelty.
+
+SPENSER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LEARNING.
+
+  ----But that Learning in despite of fate
+  Will mount aloft and enter Heaven's gate;
+  And to the seat of Jove itself advance,
+  Hermes had slept in Hell with Ignorance.
+  Yet as a punishment they added this,
+  That he and Poverty should always kiss.
+  And to this day is every scholar poor,
+  Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor.
+
+C. MARLOWE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FEELING.
+
+  ----The feeling power which is life's root,
+    Through every living part itself doth shed,
+  By sinews which extend from head to foot,
+    And like a net all over the body spread.
+  Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit
+    In middle of her web which spreadeth wide,
+  If aught do touch the outmost thread of it,
+    She feels it instantly on every side.
+
+J. DAVIES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+INJUSTICE.
+
+  So foul a thing, O thou injustice art,
+    That torment'st the doer and distrest;
+  For when a man hath done a wicked part,
+    O how he strives to excuse--to make the best;
+  To shift the fault t' unburden his charg'd heart,
+    And glad to find the least surmise of rest;
+  And if he could make his, seem other's sin,
+  O what repose, what ease he'd find therein.
+
+DANIELL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RICHES.
+
+  Vessels of brass oft handled brightly shine.
+  What difference between the richest mine
+  And basest earth, but use? for both not used
+  Are of little worth; then treasure is abused,
+  When misers keep it; being put to loan,
+  In time it will return us two for one.
+
+C. MARLOWE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE IDIOT LOVER.
+
+(DRAWN FROM LIFE.)
+
+_(For the Mirror.)_
+
+
+  "That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
+  If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."
+
+
+John Laconi was born in the romantic country of Switzerland. He was
+educated tolerably well; he was a good musician, and could draw
+excellently. He possessed a small, though independent fortune. However,
+notwithstanding his advantages and acquirements, he proved, when he became
+a lover, to be an idiot.
+
+At a certain period of his life, he fell violently in love with a
+beautiful young Swiss lady. She was considerably younger than our hero,
+was much taller, and her elegant refinements rendered her a very desirable
+object. John had a sister, to whom the young lady paid frequent friendly
+visits, and upon such occasions, owing probably to that _mauvaise honte_,
+with which he was cursed, he was usually absent from home. I will not
+disgust my fair readers with a minute description of _all_ his absurdities;
+one example, or so, shall suffice.
+
+One fine evening, in the month of June, after spending the day with
+Laconi's sister, the young lady prepared to return alone to her father's
+_chateau_, at the distance of about a mile; and on this occasion, John
+determined to give a specimen of his gallantry in escorting the fair one
+home, resolving likewise to declare his passion in plain terms.
+Accordingly, having put on his hat and cloak, and stationed himself at the
+gate, he appeared as formidable as any doughty knight in the days of
+romance, ready to offer his protection to some forlorn damsel. No sooner,
+however, did the lady appear, than he became so confused as not to be able
+to answer her greeting. She was also confused for a moment at his manner,
+but immediately began her walk with much disgust and _nonchalance_; while
+he, like a silly _valet de chambre_, followed behind, leaving his dear
+mistress' questions unanswered, and gazing with a vacant stare at the moon.
+At length, to the lady's infinite satisfaction, the white gate of her
+father's _chateau_ appeared in view, and John, finding they had nearly
+reached their destination, articulated, in a half suffocated tone, "I--I
+beg pardon, ma--madam, I have been considering--." "You have, indeed,
+Mr. John," quickly returned the smiling damsel, "but I think you might
+have chosen another opportunity, more seasonable than the present, to
+consider the moon!" To this retort, he said nothing, but looked extremely
+foolish and ridiculous. However, when they had actually gained the gate of
+the _chateau_, he boldly resolved to kiss his fair enslaver; but, after a
+moment, his resolution failed, and his legs tottered under him. Without
+hearing the lady's sweet "good night," as she tripped gaily from him, he
+exclaimed, "Madam, can you love me?" This appeal was not heard by the
+flying maiden, who hastily ascended the steps to her father's door, which
+opened and concealed her lovely form from the sight of the amazed lover,
+who had not courage sufficient to follow her.
+
+Whether our idiot did not comprehend the behaviour of his mistress, I
+cannot say; certain it is, he went home well contented with the success he
+imagined he had gained towards winning her heart. But, in reality, she was
+disgusted with his foolery, and ceased paying any more visits to her
+female friend, in order to avoid the sight of so strange a lover.
+
+John, however, was a kind of philosopher, and calmly sustained his love
+misfortunes. A particular occurrence happened which will somewhat account
+for this passive resignation. One evening, during a solitary walk, he saw
+his identical mistress in company with a young French officer. He walked
+sullenly home, wrote some verses on the inconstancy of women, drew from
+recollection a portrait of the cruel fair, which he hung in his study, and
+banished his former pretences. Report says, that he lived the remainder of
+his days in a state of celibacy. G.W.N.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.
+
+
+Sincerely do we regret to announce the death of this great and good
+man--the most celebrated philosopher of our times, who has done more for
+the happiness of his species than any associated Academy in Europe. He
+died at Geneva, May 29, aged 51. We shall endeavour to do justice to his
+talents and amiable character, in a Memoir to be published at the close of
+this volume of THE MIRROR--prefixed to which will be a fine Portrait of
+the illustrious deceased.
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DISCOVERY OF THE FATE OF LA PEROUSE.
+
+_Abridged from the United Service Journal._
+
+
+The fate of this celebrated French navigator, which for upwards of forty
+years has remained enveloped in mystery, has at length been satisfactorily
+ascertained, a result that is owing to the active and spirited exertions
+of our gallant and enterprising countryman Captain Dillon.
+
+It is a remarkable circumstance, that the discovery of the relics of La
+Perouse, arose out of the massacre of the ship Hunter's crew, at the
+Feejee Islands, in 1813.
+
+In this unfortunate affair, fourteen persons in all, from the ship Hunter,
+lost their lives. The two that escaped with Mr. Dillon, were William
+Wilson and Martin Buchart, a Prussian, who resided for two years at Bough.
+The latter entreated captain Robson to give him and his Bough wife a
+passage to the first land at which he might arrive, as they would
+certainly be sacrificed if they returned to the island. Having made
+Tucopia on the 20th of September, Buchart, his wife, and a Lascar, were
+put on shore, and the Hunter proceeded on her voyage to Canton.
+
+On the 13th of May, 1826, while in command of the St. Patrick, bound from
+Valparaiso to Pondicherry, captain Dillon came in sight of the island of
+Tucopia. Prompted by curiosity, as well as regard for old companions in
+danger, he lay to, anxious to ascertain whether the persons left there in
+1813, were still alive. A canoe, in which was the Lascar, soon afterwards
+put off from land and came alongside. This was immediately succeeded by
+another canoe, containing Martin Buchart, the Prussian. They were both in
+excellent health, and exceedingly rejoiced to see him. They informed him,
+that the natives had treated them very kindly; and that no ship had
+touched at the island from the time they were first landed, until about a
+year previous to his arrival, when an English whaler visited them, and was
+soon after followed by a second. The Lascar had an old silver sword-guard,
+which he bartered for a few fishing-hooks. Captain Dillon inquired where
+he had obtained it; the Prussian informed him, that on his arrival at the
+island, he saw it in the possession of the natives, also several
+chainplates belonging to a ship, a number of iron bolts, five axes, the
+handle of a silver fork, a few knives, tea-cups, glass beads and bottles,
+one silver spoon with a crest and a cipher, a sword, &c. As soon as he
+became sufficiently acquainted with the language, he asked the natives how
+they obtained those articles, as they said that the Hunter was the first
+ship with which they had ever held communication. They replied, that about
+two days' sail in their canoes to leeward, there was a large group of
+islands, known generally by the name of Manicolo, to which they were in
+the habit of making frequent voyages, and that they had procured these
+articles from the inhabitants, who possessed many more of a similar
+description.
+
+Buchart proceeded to state, that the Tucopians asserted that a great
+number of articles were on the Manicolo Islands in a state of preservation,
+and such articles were evidently obtained from the wreck of a vessel.
+About seven months before captain Dillon touched at Tucopia, a canoe had
+returned from Manicolo, and brought away two large chain plates, and an
+iron bolt, about four feet in length. He spoke with some of the crew of
+the canoe which had last made the voyage to Manicolo. They told him that
+there was abundance of iron materials still remaining on the island. Those
+which Martin Buchart saw were much oxydized and worn. The only silver
+spoon brought to Tucopia, as far as captain Dillon could learn, was beaten
+out into a wire by Buchart, for the purpose of making rings and other
+ornaments for the female islanders. Upon examining the sword-guard
+minutely, captain Dillon discovered, or thought he discovered, the
+initials of Perouse stamped upon it, which circumstance prompted him to be
+more eager in his inquiries.
+
+The Prussian said he had himself never made a trip to Manicolo with the
+Tucopians, but the Lascar had gone once or twice. He positively affirmed,
+that he had seen and conversed at Paiow, a native town, with the Europeans
+who spoke the language of the islanders. They were old men, he said, who
+told him that they had been wrecked several years ago in one of the ships,
+the remnants of which they pointed out to him. They informed him also that
+no vessel had touched at the islands since they had been there; that most
+of their comrades were dead, but they had been so scattered among the
+various islands, that they could not tell precisely how many of them were
+still living.
+
+On hearing so many circumstances all tending to confirm his suspicions,
+from the moment he saw the silver sword-guard with the cipher, captain
+Dillon determined to proceed as quickly as possible to the Manicolo
+Islands, examine the wrecks himself, and, if practicable, bring off the
+two men with whom the Lascar had spoken, and whom, he said, were Frenchmen.
+For this purpose he begged the latter to accompany him, but as he was
+married and comfortably settled on the island, neither promises nor
+threats were of any avail, although captain Dillon offered to bring him
+back to Tucopia. Martin Buchart, on the contrary, was tired of the savage
+life he had led for the last fourteen years, and gladly acceded to the
+wishes of captain Dillon, who after prevailing with a Tucopian also to
+come on board, sailed for the island. Unfortunately, as the ship neared
+the land, it fell a perfect calm, and continued so for seven days. At this
+time the stock of dry provisions was nearly exhausted, and there was no
+animal food to be procured on Tucopia. The crew lived principally on New
+Zealand potatoes and bananas. The vessel became every day more leaky from
+a long continuance at sea; and a person on board, who was interested in
+the cargo, had, during captain Dillon's stay in the islands, shown himself
+particularly discontented, and had frequently and warmly remonstrated at
+what he considered an unnecessary and useless delay; for these reasons,
+therefore, captain Dillon determined, though with the greatest reluctance,
+to take advantage of a breeze which sprang up, continued his voyage, and
+arrived at Bengal with much difficulty, his ship being in a very leaky
+condition.
+
+Unwilling to abandon his favourite object, captain Dillon now applied to
+the Asiatic Society, and to the Bengal Government; and in consequence of
+his representations, his suggestions were at length carried into effect.
+He was appointed to the command of one of the Company's cruisers, of
+sixteen guns and eighty-five men, called the Research; and on the 27th of
+January, 1827, he sailed from Bengal, visited Van Dieman's Land, New South
+Wales, New Zealand, the Friendly Islands, Ro-Thoma, or Granville Island of
+the Pandora, Tucopia, and arrived at Manicolo on the 27th of September.
+This island (Manicolo, or Vanicolo) is not the Mallicolo of captain Cook,
+being situated only 118 miles to the leeward of Tucopia, in latitude 11
+deg. 47 min., whilst the former lies in south latitude 16 deg. 15 min.
+
+Captain Dillon personally visited the reefs on which the French ships are
+ascertained to have struck and gone to pieces, according to the accounts
+of the natives, from which the following particulars have been obtained of
+that disastrous event:--"Many years ago two large ships arrived at the
+islands; one anchored off the island of Whanoo, and the other off that of
+Paiow, a little distance from each other. Soon after, and before they had
+any communication with the natives, a heavy gale arose, and both vessels
+were driven ashore. The ship off Whanoo grounded upon the rocks. The
+natives came in crowds to the sea-shore, armed with clubs, spears, bows
+and arrows, and discharged some arrows into the vessel; the crew in return
+fired, and killed several of the islanders. The vessel continued to strike
+violently against the rocks, and soon went to pieces. Some of the crew
+took to their boats, but were driven on shore, and murdered by the natives;
+others threw themselves into the sea, and such as reached the land, shared
+the fate of their unfortunate companions, so that not a single soul
+belonging to this vessel escaped alive."
+
+"The ship which grounded on Paiow, was driven on a sandy beach, and the
+natives came down and also discharged their arrows into her; but the crew
+prudently did not resent the aggression, but held up axes, beads, and toys,
+as peace-offerings, upon which the assailants desisted from farther
+hostilities. As soon as the wind had moderated, an aged chief, in a canoe,
+put off to the ship. He was received with caresses, accepted the presents
+offered to him: and upon going ashore, pacified the islanders by
+assurances that the ship's crew were peaceably inclined towards them. Upon
+this, several natives went on board, and were all presented with toys. In
+return, they supplied the crew with yams, fowls, bananas, cocoa-nuts, hogs,
+&c. and confidence was established between them. The ship was now
+abandoned, and the crew went on shore, bringing with them part of her
+stores. Here they remained for some time, and built a small vessel with
+the materials from the wreck. When it was ready to put to sea, as many as
+could conveniently, embarked in her, being plentifully supplied with fresh
+provisions by the islanders. The commander promised those who were left
+behind, to return immediately with presents for the natives, and to bring
+them off; but, as the little vessel was never afterwards heard of, the men
+sought the protection of the neighbouring chiefs, with whom they lived.
+Several muskets and some gunpowder had been left them by their comrades,
+and by means of these, they proved of great service to their friends, in
+encounters with the neighbouring islanders."
+
+The natives of Manicolo are not cannibals; but when an enemy falls into
+their power he is immediately killed, and his body is deposited in
+sea-water, and kept there until the bones become perfectly bare. The
+skeleton is then taken up, the bones of the extremities scraped and cut
+into various forms, to point arrows and spears. Their arms consist of
+heavy clubs, spears, and bows and arrows. They poison the latter with a
+kind of reddish gum, extracted from a species of tree peculiar to the
+island. When any one is struck by a poisoned arrow in any of the limbs,
+the part is quickly cut out, and his life is sometimes saved; but if the
+wound happens to be in the body, where it cannot be easily excised, he
+resigns himself quietly to death without a murmur, though he frequently
+lingers for four or five days in excruciating agony.
+
+The Manicolans differ from almost all the other islanders in the South Sea;
+they are as black as negroes, have short woolly hair, and resemble them in
+their features. Their religion also is different; in every village in the
+island there is a house dedicated to the Deity. At the principal chapel,
+the skulls of all the people who were killed, belonging to the ship that
+grounded at Whanoo, are still preserved. The natives of Tucopia,
+unaccustomed to the sight of human bones, avoid, as much as possible, when
+they visit the island, approaching the sacred house where the skulls are
+deposited.
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+WAVERLEY NOVELS.
+
+
+The _new edition_, (of which _Waverley_ has just appeared,) is, without
+exception, the handsomest book of the day, in editorship, literary and
+graphic embellishment or typography. Perhaps little persuasion was
+necessary for a second reading of so delightful a novel as _Waverley_, but
+the author's piquant notes to the present edition would alike tempt the
+matter-of-fact man, and the inveterate novel reader to "begin again." The
+prefatory anecdotes to _Waverley_ are extremely interesting--and the
+little autobiographic sketches are so many leaves from the life of the
+ingenious author. We hope to introduce a few of the notes of the Series;
+but content ourselves for the present with the following: being the
+original of the legend of Mrs. Grizel Oldbuck:
+
+Mr. R----d of Bowland, a gentleman of landed property in the vale of Gala,
+was prosecuted for a very considerable sum, the accumulated arrears of
+teind (or tithe) for which he was said to be indebted to a noble family,
+the titulars (lay impropriators of the tithes.) Mr. R----d was strongly
+impressed with the belief that his father had, by a form of process
+peculiar to the law of Scotland, purchased these lands from the titular,
+and therefore that the present prosecution was groundless. But after an
+industrious search among his father's papers, an investigation of the
+public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had transacted
+law business for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his
+defence. The period was now near at hand when he conceived the loss of his
+lawsuit to be inevitable, and he had formed his determination to ride to
+Edinburgh next day, and make the best bargain he could in the way of
+compromise. He went to bed with this resolution, and with all the
+circumstances of the case floating upon his mind, had a dream to the
+following purpose. His father, who had been many years dead, appeared to
+him, he thought, and asked him why he was disturbed in his mind. In dreams
+men are not surprised at such apparitions. Mr. R----d thought that he had
+informed his father of the cause of his distress, adding that the payment
+of a considerable sum of money was the more unpleasant to him, because he
+had a strong consciousness that it was not due, though he was unable to
+recover any evidence in support of his belief. "You are right, my son,"
+replied the paternal shade; "I did acquire right to these teinds, for
+payment of which you are now prosecuted. The papers relating to the
+transaction are in the hands of Mr. ----, a writer (or attorney,) who is
+now retired from professional business, and resides at Inveresk, near
+Edinburgh. He was a person whom I employed on that occasion for a
+particular reason, but who never on any other occasion transacted business
+on my account. It is very possible," pursued the vision, "that Mr. ----
+may have forgotten a matter which is now of a very old date; but you may
+call it to his recollection by this token, that when I came to pay his
+account, there was difficulty in getting change for a Portugal piece of
+gold, and that we were forced to drink out the balance at a tavern."
+Mr. R----d awaked in the morning with all the words of the vision imprinted
+on his mind, and thought it worth while to ride across the country to
+Inveresk, instead of going straight to Edinburgh. When he came there, he
+waited on the gentleman mentioned in the dream, a very old man; without
+saying any thing of the vision, he inquired whether he remembered having
+conducted such a matter for his deceased father. The old gentleman could
+not at first bring the circumstance to his recollection, but on mention of
+the Portugal piece of gold, the whole returned upon his memory; he made an
+immediate search for the papers, and recovered them; so that Mr. R----d
+carried to Edinburgh the documents necessary to gain the cause which he
+was on the verge of losing. The author has often heard this story told by
+persons who had the best access to know the facts, who were not likely
+themselves to be deceived, and were certainly incapable of deception. He
+cannot therefore refuse to give it credit, however extraordinary the
+circumstances may appear. The circumstantial character of the information
+given in the dream, takes it out of the general class of impressions of
+the kind which are occasioned by the fortuitous coincidence of actual
+events with our sleeping thoughts. On the other hand, few would suppose
+that the laws of nature were suspended, and a special communication from
+the dead to the living permitted, for the purpose of saving Mr. R----d a
+certain number of hundred pounds. The author's theory is, that the dream
+was only the recapitulation of information which Mr. R----d had really
+received from his father while in life, but which at first he merely
+recalled as a general impression that the claim was settled. It is not
+uncommon for persons to recover, during sleep, the thread of ideas which
+they have lost during their waking hours. It may be added, that this
+remarkable circumstance was attended with bad consequences to Mr. R----d,
+whose health and spirits were afterwards impaired by the attention which
+he thought himself obliged to pay to the visions of the night.--_Notes to
+the Antiquary._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ROAD-BOOK OF FRANCE.
+
+
+People who are bound for the Continent should provide themselves with the
+new edition of Mr. Leigh's descriptive Road Book of France--even before
+they get their passports at the French ambassador's, or if they only
+_intend_ to visit Calais, Boulogne, or Dieppe--and the chances are that
+they will be induced to travel beyond these places, which, in truth, give
+an Englishman no more idea of France than Dovor would afford a foreigner
+of England. A few years since, comparatively speaking, people only knew
+their way from York to London, much less the objects on the road--now, by
+the economy of guide books they may know every good inn in France, and
+carry the _ichnography_ of the kingdom in their coat pocket. In the
+present edition of the "Road Book of France," attention has been paid to
+the description of the delightful South, especially of Bordeaux, the
+mineral springs and bathing-places of the Pyrenees, the navigation of the
+Rhone from Lyons to Avignon, as well as of Marseilles, Toulouse, &c., and
+some of the principal towns have been illustrated with plans. Dipping into
+the Itinerary from Calais to Paris, we were reminded of a curious
+coincidence: Julius Caesar is supposed to have sailed from Boulogne on his
+expedition against the Britons; and in later times, Napoleon Bonaparte
+there prepared to carry into execution the invasion of Great Britain. But
+how different have been the results!
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+JOURNEY FROM THE BANK TO BARNES.
+
+
+A lively volume with many shreds of wit and humour, and occasional patches
+of "righte merrie conceite," has just fallen into our hands, and has
+afforded us some very pleasant reading. There is fun in the very title,
+"Personal Narrative of a Journey overland from the Bank to Barnes, &c. with
+some account of the Regions east of Kensington. By an Inside Passenger.
+With a Model for a Magazine, being the product of the Author's sojourn at
+the village of Barnes, during five rainy days." The author is a shrewd,
+clever fellow, who loves a little raillery on the follies of the day, and
+joins with our friend, Popanilla in deploring the present artificial state
+of society; therefore, suppose we give a few _flying_ extracts from his
+tour, premising that the good people of the little villages through which
+he passed, are not aware of what good things he has said of them; for his
+little book would suit every parlour window from Hyde Park Corner to
+Barnes.
+
+_Brentford._
+
+The ancient and nearly deserted barony of Brentford still contains, in its
+monuments and antiquities, vestiges of former splendour. The horse-trough
+opposite the "Bell and Feathers" is to the antiquarian a most particularly
+interesting _morceau_; the verdure of age has defaced it in part, but
+enough still remains to prove that our ancestors had made no mean
+proficiency in the rustic style of architecture. The reservoir, which
+contains the sparkling element so grateful to that noble animal, is
+modelled from the celebrated sarcophagus in the British Museum; and the
+posts which support it are evidently Doric. On the outside of it are
+several nearly obliterated specimens of carving, as well as drawings in
+chalk.
+
+Nearly parallel with the horse-trough, as you go down "Maud's Rents," is
+that useful, and indeed indispensible, triumph of hydraulics, the pump.
+The taste and science displayed in its execution do credit to the engineer;
+and the soil in which it is imbedded, being argillaceous, partially
+encrusted with strontian, reflects equal honour on his geological
+attainments. This pump, which you approach by three steps, is
+perpendicular, and of an elegant appearance; and forms the chief ornament
+of the "Rents." The handle is of wrought iron, highly polished; the snout
+copper, studded with hobnails. It is neatly coated with white paint, and
+bears on its front the following inscription, which I have copied for the
+gratification of the curious in antiquarian research.
+
+  This Pump was erected,
+  and Well sunk,
+  A.D. 1824,
+  from the proceeds of a Charity Sermon,
+  preached
+  in the Parish Church
+  of this Parish,
+  by his Grace the Bishop
+  of Bath and Wells.
+  *  *  *
+  Peter Broddupp,
+  Overseer,
+  Slingsby Stygle, and John Moles,
+  Churchwardens.
+  *  *  *
+  N.B. Whoever washes Fish at this Pump
+  will be prosecuted.
+
+I cannot take leave of this interesting town without noticing the church.
+It is surmounted by a neat steeple, cut in wood, in the pointed style of
+architecture; on the top of which is a goodly key, to indicate the
+wind,--which, the inhabitants remark, has blown due south for the last ten
+years. The porch, which is a curious specimen of the Maeso-Gothic, is
+rather hurt by the simplicity of the scrapers, which, being merely
+segments of iron hoops, do not harmonize with the otherwise elaborate
+approach.
+
+_Tossbury._
+
+The demesne of Tossbury (by Camden written Tossbery) was anciently a grant
+in feoffment to the College of Physicians by King John. On the spot now
+occupied by the burial grounds formerly stood their college; and here they
+flourished until the population, originally abundant, diminished so
+alarmingly, as to induce them to remove to Warwick Lane.
+
+Mr. P. (the landlord of the inn,) ever ready to shew his guests what at
+that village are esteemed great curiosities, was indefatigable in
+explaining the various instances in which he has made science subservient
+to utility. The staircase, as far as the great dining-room, he has, at
+considerable expense, macadamized; which, provided it is kept well watered,
+and scrapers attached to the chamber-doors, our worthy host assured us,
+was infinitely preferable to marble. He begged us to be under no
+apprehension as to the dampness of our beds, as they were warmed by a
+steam-apparatus of his own contrivance. He always keeps a Leyden jar,
+about the size of a boiler, ready charged, wherewith he kills geese,
+turkeys, and even lamb; which, he affirms, is a much less shocking method
+of neutralizing the vital spark than the vulgar butchery of twisting and
+sticking. He has lost three of his fingers, through incautiously handling
+a self-acting rat-trap of his own construction; and had his left eye blown
+out, while investigating the exact interval between combustion and
+explosion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I found a difference of about half an hour between the dial of Putney
+Church and my watch, which a young gentleman "intended for one of the
+universities" accounted for from difference of latitude. He likewise
+explained a phenomenon, which rather startled us, near Kew. We saw about
+half-a-dozen cows galloping furiously towards the river's brink; flirting
+their tails, and, indeed, conducting themselves with a vivacity perfectly
+inconsistent with the acknowledged sobriety of that useful animal. He
+calmed our apprehensions, by informing us they were intended for the East
+Indies. Every other day they are fed with best rock-salt, instead of
+green-meat; which, by chemical agency, renders them fat and fit to be
+killed, and sent on ship-board at a moment's notice; the trouble and delay
+of salting down being totally unnecessary. These cows, he assured us, had
+just finished their thirst-inducing meal.
+
+Near Hill's boat-shed is the patent Philanthropical Hay-tosser, a
+stupendous machine, invented expressly to prevent the degradation and
+slavery to which thousands of our fellow men are subjected during
+hay-harvest. It must gratify every friend to the amelioration of his
+species to learn, that the humane intention of the inventer is likely to
+be realized, as there are already three thousand Irishmen out of employ.
+
+Here we must halt with our tourist. The result of his lucubrations at
+Barnes--a Model for a Magazine will be found very serviceable to all
+prospectus writers, and furnish skeleton articles for a whole volume. We
+have been amused with the pleasantries of the author, and in return we
+thank him, and recommend his little book to our readers.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CLASSICAL CORRECTIONS.
+
+
+  In a neat little cottage, some five miles from town,
+  Lived a pretty young maiden, by name Daphne Brown,
+    Like a butterfly, pretty and airy:
+  In a village hard by lived a medical prig,
+  With a rubicund nose, and a full-bottomed wig,
+    Apollo, the apothecary.
+
+  He, being crop sick of his bachelor life,
+  Resolved, in his old days, to look for a wife--
+    (_Nota bene_--Thank Heaven, I'm not married):
+  He envied his neighbours their curly-poled brats,
+  (All swarming, as if in a village of Pats,)
+    And sighed that so long he had tarried.
+
+  Having heard of fair Daphne, the village coquette,
+  As women to splendour were never blind yet,
+    He resolved with his grandeur to strike her;
+  So he bought a new buggy, where, girt in a wreath,
+  Were his arms, pills, and pestle--this motto beneath--
+    _"Ego opifer per orbem dicor."_
+
+  To the village he drove, sought young Daphne's old sire,
+  Counted gold by rouleaus, and bank notes by the quire,
+    And promised the old buck a share in't,
+  If his daughter he'd give--for the amorous fool
+  Thought of young ladies' hearts and affections the rule
+    Apparently rests with a parent.
+
+  Alas! his old mouth may long water in vain,
+  Who tries by this method a mistress to gain--
+    A _miss_ is the sure termination:
+  For a maiden's delight is to plague the old boy,
+  And to think sixty-five not the period for joy;
+    Alas! all the sex are vexation.
+
+  Daphne Brown had two eyes with the tenderest glances!
+  Her brain had been tickled by reading romances,
+    And those compounds of nonsense called novels,
+  Where Augustus and Ellen, or fair Isabel,
+  With Romeo, in sweet little cottages dwell:
+   _Sed meo periclo_, read hovels.
+
+  She had toiled through Clarissa; Camilla could quote;
+  Knew the raptures of Werter and Charlotte by rote;
+    Thought Smith and Sir Walter ecstatic;
+  And as for the novels of Miss Lefanu,
+  She dog's-eared them till the whole twenty looked blue;
+    And studied 'The Monk' in the attic.
+
+  When her sire introduced our Apollo, he found
+  The maiden in torrents of sympathy drowned--
+    "Floods of tears" is too trite and too common:
+  Her eyes were quite swelled--her lips pouting and pale;
+  For she just had been reading that heartbreaking tale,
+    "Annabelle, or the Sufferings of Woman."
+
+  Apollo, I'll swear, had more courage than I,
+  To accost a young maid with a _drop in her eye_;
+    I'd as soon catch a snake or a viper:
+  She, while wiping her tears, gives Apollo some wipes;
+  And when a young lady has set up her pipes,
+    Her lover will soon pay the piper.
+
+  Papa locked her up--but the very next night,
+  With a cornet of horse, the young lady took flight;
+    To Apollo she left this apology--
+  "That, were she to spend with an old man her life,
+  She would gain, by the penance she'd bear as a wife,
+    A place in the next martyrology."
+
+  Apollo gave chase, but was destined to fail;
+  The female had safely been lodged in the mail,
+    Now flying full speed to the borders;
+  So the doctor, compelled his sad fate to endure,
+  Came back to his shop, commissioned to cure
+    All disorders but Cupid's disorders.
+
+_Monthly Magazine._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BAMBOROUGH CASTLE.
+
+The origin of this princely establishment may be new to our readers:--One
+of the owners of the castle, John Forster, member for Northumberland,
+having joined in the rebellion, and being general of the English part of
+the rebel army, of course his estates, then valued at 1,314 _l_. _per
+annum_, were forfeited; Crewe, bishop of Durham, purchased them from the
+government commissioners, and settled the whole, by his will, on
+charitable uses. Under a clause which left the residue of the rents to
+such charitable uses as his trustees might appoint, the "princely
+establishment of Bamborough" has arisen--where
+
+  "Charity hath fixed her chosen seat;
+    And Pity, at the dark and stormy hour
+  Of midnight, when the moon is hid on high,
+    Keeps her love watch upon the topmost tower,
+  And turns her ear to each expiring cry,
+    Blest if her aid some fainting wretch might save,
+    And snatch him, cold and speechless, from the grave."
+
+BOWLES.
+
+
+The charitable intentions of a testator have never, in any instance, been
+better fulfilled than this; the residuary rents, owing to the great
+increase of rental in the Forster estates, became considerably the most
+important part of the bequest; and the trustees, who are restricted to
+five in number, all clergymen, and of whom the rector of Lincoln College
+is always one, being unfettered by any positive regulations, have so
+discharged their trust as to render Bamborough Castle the most extensively
+useful, as well as the most munificent, of all our eleemosynary
+institutions. There are two free-schools there, both on the Madras system,
+one for boys, the other for girls; and thirty of the poorest girls are
+clothed, lodged, and boarded, till, at the age of sixteen, they are put
+out to service, with a good stock of clothing, and a present of 2_l_.
+12_s_. 6_d_. each; and at the end of the first year, if the girl has
+behaved well, another guinea is given her, with a Bible, a Prayer-book,
+the Whole Duty of Man, and Secker's Lectures on the Catechism. There is a
+library in the castle, to which Dr. Sharp, one of the trustees, bequeathed,
+in 1792, the whole of his own collection, valued at more than 800_l_.; the
+books are lent gratuitously to any householder, of good report, residing
+within twenty miles of Bamborough, and to any clergyman, Roman Catholic
+priest, or dissenting minister within the said distance. There is an
+infirmary also in the castle, of which the average annual number of
+in-patients is about thirty-five--of out-patients above one thousand. There
+is an ample granary, from whence, in time of scarcity, the poor are
+supplied on low terms. Twice a week the poor are supplied with meal, at
+reduced prices, and with groceries at prime cost; and the average number
+of persons who partake this benefit is about one thousand three hundred in
+ordinary times, in years of scarcity very many more. To sailors on that
+perilous coast Bamborough Castle is what the Convent of St. Bernard is to
+travellers in the Alps. Thirty beds are kept for shipwrecked sailors; a
+patrol for above eight miles (being the length of the manor) is kept along
+the coast every stormy night; signals are made; a life-boat is in
+readiness at Holy Island, and apparatus of every kind is ready for
+assisting seamen in distress;--wrecked goods are secured and stored, the
+survivors are relieved, the bodies that are cast on shore are decently
+interred.
+
+_Quarterly Review._
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FINE ARTS
+
+
+THE DIORAMA.
+
+
+On the day of the unfortunate destruction of the Oxford Street Diorama and
+Bazaar, by fire, two new views were opened at the Diorama in the Regent's
+Park. These are the _Interior of St. Peter's at Rome_, and the _Village of
+Thiers_.
+
+We have so often spoken in terms of the highest commendation of the
+Regent's Park Diorama, that we hardly know in what set of words to point
+out the beauties of these new views, the merits of which must not alter
+our meed of praise, however the subjects may its details. The Interior of
+St. Peter's is by M. Bouton. The point of view is at the east entry,
+opposite to the choir; the reader, perhaps, not being aware that the choir
+in this cathedral is situated differently from all others, being at the
+west end. So beautiful are the proportions of the cathedral itself, that
+its vastness does not strike at first sight, and this effect is admirably
+preserved in the Diorama. We think we could point out a few inaccuracies
+in the drawing; but the projections, capitals of the columns, and some of
+the medallion portraits which ornament them, are so well painted, that we
+can scarcely believe ourselves looking on a flat surface. Again, the
+emmet-like figures of the distant congregation are admirable illustrations
+of the vastness of the building; and above all, the flood of light shed
+from the lantern of the dome is a perfect triumph of art.
+
+The other view is the French Village of Thiers in the department of the
+Puy de Doue, on the bank of the little River Durolle, which is actually
+made to flow, or rather trickle over large stones; whilst smoke ascends
+from the chimney of an adjoining cottage. As a romantic picture of still
+life, its merits can scarcely be too highly spoken of, and when we say it
+is quite equal to _Unterseen_, by the same artist, and engraved in our
+last volume, we hope our readers will not be long ere they judge for
+themselves. We could have lingered for an hour in the contemplation of
+this peaceful picture, with the devotional interior of St. Peter's--and in
+contrasting them with the turmoil of the Great Town out of which we had
+just stepped to view this little _Creation_ of art.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE GATHERER
+
+  A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
+                            SHAKSPEARE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LINES
+
+
+_Written impromptu, by Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart. in the Theatre Royal,
+Drury Lane, at the Benefit of Miss Foote, on Wednesday, May 10, 1826, the
+last night of her engagement._
+
+
+  Maria departs!--'tis a sentence of dread,
+  For the Graces turn pale, and the Fates droop their head!
+  In mercy to breasts that tumultuously burn,
+  Dwell no more on departure--but speak of return.
+  Since she goes, when the buds are just ready to burst,
+  In expanding its leaves, let the Willow be first.
+  We here shall no longer find beauties in May;
+  It cannot be Spring, when Maria's away:
+  If vernal at all, 'tis an April appears,
+  For the Blossom flies off, in the midst of our tears.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE KING'S SPEECH IN 993.
+
+
+Sharon Turner, in his "History of the Anglo-Saxons," vol. iv. says, "The
+King presided at the witena-gemots, and sometimes, perhaps, always
+addressed them." In 993, we have this account of a royal speech. The King
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+"I benignantly addressed to them salutary and pacific words. I admonished
+all--that those things which were worthy of the Creator, and serviceable
+to the health of my soul, or to my royal dignity, and which should prevail
+as proper for the English people, they might, with the Lord's assistance,
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+
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