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diff --git a/old/11710.txt b/old/11710.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf30e98 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/11710.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1888 @@ +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 +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. + + + * * * * * + +A very common excuse set up by economists for being too late for dinner is, +"There was not a coach to be found."--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--i.e. if you +do not wish to be too late. + + + + * * * * * + +LIMBIRD'S EDITIONS. + +CHEAP and POPULAR WORKS published at the MIRROR OFFICE in the Strand, near +Somerset House. + +The ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS. Embellished with nearly 150 Engravings. +Price 6s. 6d. boards. + +The TALES of the GENII. Price 2s. + +The MICROCOSM. By the Right Hon. G. CANNING. &c. Price 2s. + +PLUTARCH'S LIVES, with Fifty Portraits, 2 vols. price 13s. boards. + +COWPER'S POEMS, with 12 Engravings, price 3s. 6d. boards. + +COOK'S VOYAGES, 2 vols. price 8s. boards. + +The CABINET of CURIOSITIES: or, WONDERS of the WORLD DISPLAYED. Price 5s. +boards. + +BEAUTIES of SCOTT, 2 vols. price 7s. boards. + +The ARCANA of SCIENCE for 1828. 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