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·SAUNDERS: MONT II L Y MAGAZINE No. IV.] FEBRUARY, 1852. wwwww (VOL. JA 3 CONTENTS FOR FEBRUIRY. PAGE. RETROSPECTIONS OF A. YOUNG MAN ; BEING TIIT ANTECE- VENTS OF FREEMAN, OP TIL 76TIL B. N. I., RELATED BY . MAN HIMSELF, 211 PuŲ BE,.... 220 REVIEW OF MLRIVALE's llISTORY OF TE ROMANS UNDER THE EMPIRE, 221 NIGIITTALI......... 232 SAMUEL SLOMAN, TIIE WITO COULDN'T TELP IT, ......... 23,3 lloc ERAT in Votis,... 239 DRY LEAVES FROM Young EGY!'T,. 210 A Burst, &c. 245 THE FOLK AT OUR STATION-No. II., 216 HOPE AND EXPERIENCE,... LINDENSTOWE-A TALE, 234 STANZAS For Muc,.... ,,267 Tu DYING Deist, ÆG SOMNIA,...... 273 TIE Partition OF THE EARTII 275 to seto 252 268 .... Schections AŃD TRANSLATIONS. Week Paris, in February 1818. - The Aissaoua. Helena, Vallisneria.--- Verses. The Unknown Vocalist, 9.II .... XCIII. to CXXIV.

·TO CONTRIBUTORS. Tule verses entitled “ DIAMONDS," are declinrd with thanh. ippoo Khan Junior is thanked for the offer of his MSS., which shall receive our early attention. Simpkins and his Friends" has already appeared in another Periodical. We hope to publish in our next number the “ Remarks on our Cape Policy,” and also the paper on “ Oudh and its Affairs." The articles on " Vedantisın” and “ The Rohilla Afghans," are under consideration. We shall be happy to receive the following numbers of “ My Uncle Bcu's Courtsliip." The paper on the “ Wants and Prospects of the Uncovenanted Service" is quite unsuited to the pages of a Literary Miscellany. C N. B.— Rejected Manuscripts will not be returned, except at tine particular request of the writers.

·NOTE TO PAGE 178_WOMEN OF CJIAUCER-NO III. As reference has been made to a modernized paraphrase of the Decameron version of . Grizelda,' it is proper that I should tell you what a very carctul and anxious adinirer of Chancer has stated in respect of this Tale. Petrarch was Chaucer's avowed original, but I believe it is decided that both Petrarch and Boccaccio were themselves reuderers and paraphrasers, not origin&tors. Chaucer, after his Envdyship to (ienoa, made a tour through the north of Italy in A. D. 1373, and there met Petrarch, the latter writing to Borrucrw on 8th June A N. 1373, says in for pliu-* Your work of the Decamerone fell for the first time into my hands, in an excursion I made to Ara a few weeks ago." Agaiu--" The parrative with which your work concludes, (Tale of sildis) particularly struck me. 1 yielded to the propensity which impelled ine to translate it into Lutin with such variations asmy fancy suggested, and I now send you the translation." Petrarch had been affccted deeply by hearing the story many years beforc, and congr:,tulated Boccaccio upon his translation of it into Italian. Petrarch at the tune of his interview with Chaucer was upwards of seventy years of age, and Godwin goey on thus * Petrarch wao interesting to Chaucer because Chandr waw in him as it were the lineal descendant of the Cieerus, the Virgils, and the Ovids of Italy in the days of its clas- Saul greatness. Chaucer was interesting to Petrarch for a different reason. не came from the "Ultima Thule," the " perutus tuto dimsus orbe Britannos," --Petrarch had just finished his (insuldis. He had put it into the hands of one of his friends, a Citizen of Padua. IIis fitend attempted to read it all, but he had no spone got into the nucident of the tale than he found hinself obliged to desist; it's voice was choaked with tears. Petrarch read this tale to Chaucer, Chaucer was entranced. The magic of a tale perhaps the inr st pathetic that human fancy ever conceived heard ander the sacred roof of him in, whoin the genus of modern poetry seemed to be conceni- “ Taving heard the tale, Chaucer requested of Petrarch perinission to take a copy of it. So much is implied when he makes the Clerk of Oxentord say that he • Lern'd it at Padowc of a Worthy Clerk Frauncois Petrarko" “Jf Chancer learned the lIistory of Grisiidis from Petrarch at Padua, (and it would imply au idle and winton imputation upon the veracity of Chancer to doubt it) it then follows, though Boccaccio began liis Decameronc shortly after the plagne in 1318, A D). that the work was not yet buffickently famılar to the most enlightened and studio's part of the English public in 1:373, A. D. for Chaucer to be aware of the contents of the admirable story it contains.” “Chancer was early conversant with the writings of Boccacuo, but the unrivalled fame of Petrarch threw for some time a sort of obscurity upon the more nature and unpretending effusions of his Florentine contemporary." This is all, or nearly all, that Godwin says upon this subject, in his lite of Chaucer. tica *

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·PUBLIC ARAH LIBRARY 1859). SAUNDERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE No.' IV.] FEBRUARY, 1852. [Vol. I. RETROSPECTIONS OF A YOUNG MAN ; BEING TIIE ANTECEDENTS OF FREEMAN, OF TIL 76TII B. N. I., RELATED BY HIMSELF. CHAPTZR XIII. I got to Oxford to find that I plete outcast. It is true that was rusticated, and witti a numb Abud the Lawyer, meeting me in ed fceling which seemed as if it the street, did once and for all, never would wake again, I ar attempt to take me hy the button ranged my affairs, and left for my with an address which begannow hateful home. “Sir, under the peculiar ctrcum- The state of my mother's health stances. but l interprevented Warren from commu rupted him with so fierce an oath, nicating the intelligence, to her.'n that he was fain to beat a quick To me he would not speak. I retreat. Fortunately perhaps for cannot say how I passed the... me, Dashwood had escaped rustimonth that succeeded. I have cation, whether from the fidelity no recollection of it whatever. of a well-feed scout, or whether No one was by to share my sor from its being known that his fa- Miss Eversfield had not ther had the disposal of several returned from London, where she livings. Consequently he rewas staying with the Right Ho mained at Oxford, and I was for norable Richard Tufto, and her the present spared the temptation cousin, his wife. My poor mother of his good humour and spirits, lay on her sofa, and spoke to np. his liberal expenditurc, and his air one save on the most common : noble. place subjects; the young ladies One day, grown desperate, I at the parsonage forbore to ad- resolved to bring my persecutors dress me : in short I was a com (80 I was beginning to look upon rows. VOL. 1. NO. IV.

·212 Retrospections of a Young Man. every one) to a distinct inder- I was affeated to a greater destanding. With this purpose I grec than I cared to shew. Dr. called upon my guardianx. As the Warren procceded : old footman, with what I look for "Take my advice, dear Charley; 'a reproachful look, shut the door your principles are good ; your taof the rectory drawing-room, and lents will win you any reasonable went to call his master, I felt success. Try it once more ; go my courage ooze away : but the back to Oxford for the next term, sound of footsteps re-assured me, and, if you find it still so disagreeand I deternzined to put a bold able, why we'll see what can be face ou a bad business. The done." Rector entered. "Disagreeable," I said, “it • Well, Charles." The Rector must ever be. The experience 1 paused. have had of the University, hey undeceived me bitterly : all I “ Well, Charles," (with a kindness that surprised and pained the want is a Cadetship in the East India Company's Service. Do not pride in which was entrenched,) “ I ain' glad to oppose mee These appointments see you have are not very difficult to get; assist got the better of your evil feelme in this, and I shall have an ings." increase to a load of obligation, Sir," I answered with all due dear Dr. Warren, which is even gravity ; 1 am not here to speak now too much for me,' of my feelings; they have been “ You are mistaken, my boy, wither cousulted, nor, I believe, ' mistaken in every point. The Caunderstood.' detships are not by any means "Nay, Charles, hut they have, easy to get ; in fact I have no idea and the moment you are prepared that we could ever hope to sucto converse coolly on the subject, ceed in such an attempt. Go back to Oxford. you shall be convinced on this N. will watch point..' What are your wishes?” over you." "N" cried I, indignantly ; “My wisher," I replied, in the you are mistaken, sir, in that spirit of a child who, feeling that gentleman. He thinks of nothing it has been deservedly punished, . But himself, and his own enjoyrefuses to eat its dry broud ;'“my ments. He would not spend five wishes are simply to leave Engminutes on me, if I wanted it land as soon as possible, and for ever so much, ever.' he was starting as for his walk up IIcadington hill." “Don't be in a hurry; remem “ Nor ought you to expect it. ber our past consultations at such a moment," answered member, 1 besce&h you, the trou the Rector, with a smile which set ble and expense that has been laid every thing to rights ; it is the out on your education, the hopes 'only exercise my good friend and prayers of that poor saint who ever takes and without it he is out of the reach of these sorrows would lose his health." now. Faith," said the parsop in: Qr' his appetite for Hall. his hearty way; lcould almost Well, sir, it shall be as you wishi hope that she might remain inher I will go back. Do yod on your part remember that you are pledg- ; re- 17 . 66 19 present state."

·Retrospections of a Young Man. 213 ed to do what you can to get the sitting up here in ny arm-chair, Cadetship." listening so the chapel bell, and Next term, therefore, I return wondering at the men going ed to Oxford, but it was with through the dark raw evening, very much freer and happier feel. when up comes the smell of roast ings ; no attention was ever shewn goose. I could not stand it. me again by the “ Dons," with " Thomas,' said ], 'ląt me have the exeeption at least of poor N., a goose for supper.' Thomas whose health was beginning to started, having heard the Doctor's fail under the regularity of his order. However I had my goose mismanagement. I continued, or and a bottle of old port out of my rather improved, my attendance own cellar, and I don't helieve it at Lectures and Chapels, and put did me the least harm whatever. such force upon my impulses, that I was dropping into a nice doze, no serious collision again occurreu when the man overhead, (whom between myself and authority. I've had rustirated) began to play But my mind was made up, and the flageolet. I never could viewing my position from one bear flageolets, and now it gave side, I felt convinced that India me such a pain in the head and was my only field, and arms the stomach that I could have sworn profession for which“ a disap the last day was at hand. In pointed man" was best adapted. short, sir, I have never been out Meantime Mr. N. got worse of bed since." and worse. One morning I found A few days afterwards I callhim confined to his chair. He ed ; Thomas lookea blank. was dangerously ill. “How's your master ?" said I. “ I am a victim," said he, “ if “Some one sent him a brace I die, (though for that matter I of partridges yesterday, which he don't think I am so near it, as ordered to be roasted to-day some people might like ;) you see at fiye for his dinner. Woke in I had had a little attack of my tire night ; called to', me : old complaint, and sent for old · Thomas,' says he. Yes, sir,' Q.—crabbed old fellow, does not What o'clock ?' says know the difference between tripe he. Five, sir,' says 1. Five and calf's foot jelly (rather prcfurs in the morning I meant, for I saw the former I think). Got it a light in the shoe-black's roon. sharpish this time,' says lie ; 'I * Then let me have my partridges. don't want to knows that,' was my So, say and do what I would, he • There now,' says he ; had his partridges since when, Show can you expect to get well delirious, as a matter of course.' with lat temper. I'll tell you I sate by the old man's bedside. what it is N. ; you eat and drink The last words he breathed, as twice as much as any mah ought, well as could catch thein, to. Ever read Horace ?' Yes,' Were these : says I, rather surprised ; Cres " I should like to live,"asaid cit indulgens sibi, eh? Fow many he, " till the asparagus comes in." bottles to-day ?' In short) all The term wore slowly on. I could get out of hiſ was to live was beginning to fancy myself entirely tipon slops, and not touch ho errot' ábout college, or at any wine or spirits. Well, sir, I was rate about my chance of getting 6 1 says I. answer. We ·214 Retrospections of a Young Man. . once any other opening, when I re aspirant, however humble, to her ceived a letter froin Dr. Warren, favour was of course an object to in which he informed me that he be reinoved. But with the new was led by the uniformly dis confidence that, told me this, came couraging letters of my Tutor and the bitter antidote which the part of myself to communicate a piece she had taken in the inatter forced of news. Miss Eversfield, always upon my notice. My expatriation, anxious to do a kind action, had much as I had wished for it, applied to her cousin's husband, chould not have been owing to Mr. Tufto, and that gentleman had her. My plans were at at once put in motion his un formed. I would take my name bounded interest to get nie off the University Books, return Cadetship. Of course with suc to Stagnum, and seek an eclair- Part of this I understood cissement with Edith; if that immediately. Edith had no near- proved unfavorable, I would see er relation than Mrs. Lufto ; that England no more. family wer poor and ambitious; It was under these influences if Mís. Eversfield died unmar that I wrote, one dreary dark, ried, they would inherit her November morning, the followenormous property, ing:- а cess. and every FAREWELL. Flad is the Suminer, silent bird and bee, And harsh the wind in every shivering tree. Fast fade the woods, hoarse flows the swollen stream, All nature mourns beneath yon watery beam; And who shall wonder, if the lonely heart, * With nature's desolation bears its pärt, Owns its core a sad and sickening fear, And sinks, despondent, with the sinking year? Else, whence this vague involuntary gloom, This shadow of the hills beyond the dɔbs That casts asombre hue on every thought, And makes the Futus e seem a thing of nought? Once more I leave the place where I was born, And so departing, can I choose but mourn? Haply Aome coning day, with cloudless skies, May gild, to Fancy's Eye, my destindes: SM), while I bless the casual relief, I feel the truest sentiment is Grief. Perchance no more in this my native land, Shall I belpold the Summer smiling bland; Or feel, by wooded height or shadowy dell The sweet enchantments that I love so well :

·tang Retrospections of a Young Man. 215 How oft beneath the glowing Indian' sky, When this weak frame shall all exhausted lie, Will nemory paint the streams and upland fields, "And the brave breezes that my country yields. Su be it; but the soul is of no time, Son of no soil, and denizen of no clime ; What ! though it sometimes own its partner's claiin, And sympathize with all the sensuous frame ; True to itself, and fortified by lore, It scorns control, and wears the chain no more ; Burns for new labours, in what field so e'er, Till all the Future glitters, dim, though fair. But hard his lot, whose weak, untutored mind, Sensitive, but untaught, impure, though kind, Clings to the frail companion of life's day, In cold coinmunion with the outer clay ; His Past, a vague, impenitential gloom, His Future, but a sense of wrath to come; While the palc Present, gliding fast away, Accelerates his sad, descending day. To retrospection, now, how sad appears The dream of lost, but not forgotten, years ; Years when lite's paths were open and sccure, • Till frequent failure made them few, and fewer; Kind hearts estranged, esteem slein wantonly, Make up the dreary tale of Memory. And shall they yet again, in judgincnt rise, Those years that sit with glaring, tearless eyes? Shall failing time still swell the grisly train, Till they o'erthrow me, ne'er to rise again? Almighty Father, no! to Thee I cry, Who seest my heart with undeceived eye. Thus runs Thy word (be wise in time, who can) "My spirit shall not always strive with Man." England, my mother, mistress of the sea! My last sad strain I consecrate to thee ; Brave be thy sons, thy daughters chaste as fair Fruitful thy quarters, and may God be there; True be thy rulers, and, till time shall end, No foes molest thee, and no discords rend! is ·216 Retrospections of a Young Man. CHAPTER XIV. on ACCORDINGLY T returned to Dashwood was, qitim a favourito Stagnum. That little conimunity with her, and even Bloxam (bruto was in a complete uproar. The as he was) had more of her atten- Railway was to come as far as Iym tion than I. stone Regis, and it was thought Time wore on. It was New that a little exertion the Year's Day, and a ship was to sail part of the inhabitants would pro on the twentieth of January, cure its extension to them. In That evening thc Dashwoods dustrial results, sources of traffic had a large dinner party, where never dramed of before,'were sud Edith was handed to her seat by denly adduced, and Abud made Lionel ; Bloxam managed to get speeches from morning till niyht. On the other side, and I, in great The old-fashioned' party, headed dudgeon, was forced to content by Dr. Warren and Thomson the myself' with sitting opposite, which Mcdical man, thinking more of was a much better position, it is the present comfort and repose of true, as far as looking at my idol the neighbourhood than of any was concerned, but I was deterspeculative advantages that the mined to be in a pet. In the future might bring forth, were evening Lionel's presence producstaunch in opposition. Nor were ed a special relaxation of the the ladies and the circle that mov usual grim severity of the Ilall ; a od round then, without their own carpet-dance was permitted under peculiar source of excitement. an express stipulation that there There was a visitor at the village should be no waltzing. At an carwho had created some sensation ly hour I danced a quadrille with amongst the natives : imagine my Miss Eversfield, who talked with disgust,, when it proved to be her usual heartful manrrr on gethat heartless, uncducated cub, neral subjects, but utterly kept me Cox Bloxam. away from the only thing I would Edith had also returned ; the have cared to speak of. To have prodigal hospitalities and chari- spoken of that, indeed, I would ties of her ancestral castle were have given up all my prospects in conducted with more discrimina life, but I could not introduce it tion when its gifted mistress was without obvious rudeness to her. there. Little as I understood As we proceeded with the dance, that almost perfect nature then, I ventured to ask her to let me I was taught by love to read her carry her bouquet. She gave ita love, her ardent, active love of me, and when the dance was over, mankind. I saw that her chari took my arm, desiring me to lead ties were neither the ostentatious, her to a "seat, and asking to have injustice of pfofusion, nor the cold the flowers back again. I objected dolmugs of calculation, but the free with all the eloquence I could results of enlightened and unwea summon to my assistance, but ried benevolence. With a jea- , without success. So I gave up lousy that proceeded as much from my prize, and wandered into the the intellect as from the head, I Conservatory, cold as it was, less beheld her unbounded catholicity. painful to me than the room where ·Retrospections of a Young Man. 217 I WEB forced to see her smiling on coxcombs and roués. It was a crisp clear moonlight night, and I walked up and down in the chiaroscuro of the orange trces, till something like calmness, came to my broken spirit. The sound of voices disturbed me. I knew the deep contralto tones of her į Foved. " That Camellia you cannot have Captain Bloxam, but I'll give you the heart's esse if you value it." " Alas! there is no heart's case in the society of Miss Eversfield.” Dear, how co complimentary, rejoined the young Lady. “Why, Mr. Freeman,” they were by the door, and I was passing into the room, why, how cross you look : see, here is the bouquet you asked for just now." Nay, madam," was my reply, “I do not covet a v reath whos: fairest lowers have been given to others." Bloxam, with an insipid stare, walked into the room, and was soon completely occupied in twisting his moustache before a distant pier-glass. “ Edith!” I breathed, rather than spoke, my heart is breaking. Since I first saw you, you have been my life; in leaving you thus, I seem to taste the bitterness of death." Her eyelids were again duwncast with the old peculiar look. This time a tear trembled on the long dark jashes. She laid her left hand on my throbbing forehead. "My poor boy," said she," this must have happened. It is final. You shall know everything soon. Everything,” she repeated mournfully, and left my gaze-for ever. 13 Sec nie no more. - CIIAPTER XV. Look on It was a scene of unparalleled was, and the sight of their hapexcitement. All down the street piness but served more strongly of Portsmouth little bits of genu to-show what I was leaving: The ine donjestic drama were going. good Rector bade me (iod speed ! on ; here a mother was parting in a voice, and manner which I from a son, there a father was hope never to forget. There had half leading, hall supporting a been a coldness between us since wecping daughter. Down to the my failure at Oxford, which lent a Sallyport, call a boat. strange interest to the monient the scene with stony eyes. What "of parting ; for it was done in a is it to me who separate, who moment. Up to the very last, I weup. I have none to part from, had endeavoured to maintain the none to weep for, or to weep, for calm bearing of English society. me. My mother had said “Good At length my Post-chaise was bye!" with the utmost apathy, announced. The clock struck firmly convinced that I twelve. My last day at home was turning to'Oxford. Warren had ended. Old Mrs. Warren bleaded made me spend the last cvening me, the dear girls could not speak, in his lappy domestic circle, But. Warren took my arm, and led me its charms were turned to spells, to the garde: gate. and only - incrcased my pain and " Remember us all," said he, anger. I knew now what Home you will never disgrace us I was re- 66 ·was 218 Retrospections of a Young Man. know. And if,” he pursudi with ready to weigh her anchor, and a deeper tone, you carry in your looking a mere yacht by the side of heart one bitter memory, oh! rc. the "tall Amirals" by which she member that it is a burthen that was surrounded. The first bustle others have carried before you, of inspecting 'cabin and other and it has but increased their preliminary arrangements feeling of dyty. Duty is the grand scarcely over, when the order was est word I can leave you with, passed to clear the ship, and send the last,, the highest note I can off all who were not passengers. strike upon your heart strings. Then were renewed the sad part- God Almighty watch and guide ing scenes. I watched thein coldyou. Remember duty." ly as before. I was alone in the So I got into my boat alone, world, with the ghost of my wastand was pulled out to Spithead, ed youth. Edith had made ño where our noble Indiaman lay,. he sign. PA Rör SECOND. CHAPTER I. a THE Vyage from Portsmouth to India in'our days is not the adventurous affair that it may have been in the time of Sir Abraham Shipman, or Captain Lankester. It is not a subject to inspire much description, and, förtunately, it does not require it. One voyage of the kind closely resembles another. Those who have performed it, know to a fraction every thing thyrt I went through ; those who have not, can imagine the matter with the help of a very few data. It is a cort of perpetual present; hopes and fears are suspended ; passions and money are locked up ; a sort of animal being takes the place of what is, generallý, called life. Breakfast at half-past eight; wine or grog at twelve ; dinner (the event of the day) at half-past three ; tea at seven ; grog and card-playing in the evening; and lights out, willy- Tilly, at half &fter ten. Five meals in twelve hours ! Then we had the swell of the Bay of Biscay---which we passed in something very like calm--the high, scarped cliffs of fape Ortegal, Porto Santo, Madeira ; and then the week upon week of boundless blue, the progress of the Sundays being only marked by the advance of the lessons that were read in the impromptu Church that was rigged" once a week on the quarter-deck ; the change of place being still less noticeably suggested by chalige of temperature and of weather. Nor did the characters of the passengers afford much amusement i they were such as were travelled overi" to Goldsmith's expression. A democratic officer of Artillery ; an Irish Captain of Foot, Wnose strong Orange principles tonstantly brought him into differences with comes soon use ·Retrospections of a Young Man. 219 the democrat; two young Com observe that, luckily for us, there pany's officers, returning from were none of the "femelles de ces furlough, such as are not now so males" on board, such as I was common as once they were,-men afterwards doomed to meet here who came out to this country and there in Indian society. At too young to have quite acquired this time my feelings were in a the tone and character of English state which, permitting of very society, and yet whosc scanty in little individual devotion to partiformation was in some degree cular wonen, inspired a grave helped out by sound feeling and respect for the sex in general. strong sense ; dogmatic in expres The memories of the gentle girls sion, they were, yet deferential in at the Rectory, and still more of julgment;-moten pregnant with the pure and lofty Edith-mystestrugeling meaning, always op- rious as much in lier recent conpressed by the throes of utterance; duct certainly appeared--these all a class of fellows who, when young, came upon 'me' often and often, are neither very gooil nor very while musing at the guiwale bcbad, and when old, swell the ranks neath a tropical moon, while a of some Military Club in London, consecrating influence stole over where they are to be seen with my thoughts of woman and of very red faces, and very white hair, got up in blue and brass, The first land we saw after (like poor Sirickland at the Ilay leaving Madeira was our destined market,) and playing long whişt port, Madras. A weary, time at for half-crown points. and I find that towards the Of the ladies, I have always end of the voyage I recorded my found that the least saill is the runui in some lines, of which the soonest mended ; suffice it to following is mall. A sca ; FRAGMENT. I am weary of the ocean, Emblem of eternity; Boundlessness is too ideal, Tipe and Space suttice for me. Life at spa is but the shadow Of the life we led on land ; And the silent glory of Chronos, llardly seems to drop . sand. Life at sea is life suspended In a present overmore; All the past is din behind us, All the future vague before. "T'is an isthmus, leading on From continent to continent; Where the Spirit, worn with waiting, Sometimes dreams it is content. For I dream, cast out from action, Nothing more remains to do ; Looking at the sky and ocean, Gazing up from blue to blue.

·220 Phæbe. Watching in the constellations, Cirtles of the wheeling mast; Nourishing a sickly fancy, With the visions of the past. On the thirteenth of August we surf which day and night rests were roused at six in the morning not from beating on that low and by the blessed intelligence that wooded coast. “ land was in sight." I' rushed on deck: there it lay,--a long, low, Ilere then was the first act of black line of shore, with another my life brought to its closc: there, before line of white ; and then the sca, me, was the object of iny childhood's wonder, the splicre of dark as pitch, for the moon was setting behind the inass of ruin, my manhood's occupation. called the Seven Pagodas; and that . Hurrah ! the Mount in 'sight, line, which was the only white in and the light-house, and the steeple. the whole scene, 'was the sullen of the Church in Fort St. George. P H EBE. PALE lovely planet, when thy cold beams shed Their silver radiance and slumberipg sca, That calm and placid all around is spread, With nought reflected on its face but tlce, As slowly rippling o'er its sandy bed, It floweth on in tranquil majesty. Or when in fullest splendour froin the sky, Thou lookest down upon the verdant hill, Where erst the young Endymion wont to lie, Stretched on the turf beside the trickling rill, Nought gazing on thee, save the poet's eye, In suinmer midnight, lovely, dark, and still. Or in the autumn evening, when the rays Of dying daylight gild thc ruddy west, When thy pale crescent in that golden blaze, Seems like a fairy island of the blest, And when the wearied hinds upon thee gaze, And hail thee as the harbinger of rest. Each is a scene of beauty, and 'tis thou Givest its chiefest beauty to the scene, Smiling on ocean's breast and mountain's brow, Or pouring down soft floods of silver sheen Upon the sighing elm tree's topmost bough, That bomage waves to thec, Night's gentle Queen.

·[221] ► A HISTORY OF THE ROMANS UNDER THE EMPIRE. BY CHARLES MERIVALE, B. D., Late of St. John's College, Cambridge.--London, 1850. Two volumes only are as yet the lamented Doctor's mantle has published of Mr. Merivale's profallen upon a “ friend and admised work, and they form an mirer," who has succeeded in conintroduction to, rather than the tributing a valuable addition to history of the Romans under the our historic literature. Enpire. The writer has given The task to which the author us a graphic sketch : of the last intends to devote his labour is days of the Commonwealth, and that “of tracing the expansion has ably exposed those momenof the Roman nation, together ous and irresistible circumstances, with the development of the which step by step converted the ideas of unity and inonarchy from republic into a dictato.ship for life, the last days of the Republic to and finally placed the Empire of the the era of Constantine. We world in the hands of one man. commence with a period when the We have not much acquaintance Senate still fondly imagined that through English writers with the the Government of the world was occurrences whiclı pre-shadowed the destined privilege of one conthis nighty change. They have quering race, that its life-source either not cared, 0% from wan vi was enshrined in luc curia of means have been unable, to depict Romulus and Camillus, The the last throes of an expiring repoint at which our review may public. Fortunately tlic labours appropriately terminate is the day of foreign scholars have been when the civilized world received more stressfully extended. Mr. its laws and religion from the Merivale has been chicflyindebted trouth of an autocrat, whose sole for the facts and references cons will transferred the seat of empire tained in his work to the writings without a shock from the sacred of Michelet, Amcdée Thierry, circle of the seven hills to a village Duruy, lloeck Abeken, and on the Bosphorus." others, Dr. Arnold indeed gave The two volumes which we to the public a brilliant descrip- haye undertaken to examine may tion of the latter days of the without impropriety be said lo Comnionwealth, and the literary contain “ The life and times of world looked forward with eager Julius Caesar, from cotemporary curiosity to the continuance of his history." From their perusal we general history of Rome, the have, gained a wider knowledge early promise of which offered of that great Captain and Statesthe surest guarantee for the in man than we possessed before. teresting contents of future vo- Those of our readers who happen lumes. But that eniinent perto read the book will probably son's untimely death left the field adnit that they too have learnt open to any candidate for histori something new, and by a niore cal fame and reputation. It is intimate acquaintance with the some satisfaction to know that wonderful and versatile genius of ·222 A llistory of the Romans under the Empire, one who was, einphaticallylspeak being asked to read history, caning', the Man of his time. not fail to derive enjoyment from The style is in parts clumsy, the perusal of the greacer portion and generally savours of a relish of what the author hay set before for sesquipedalian and high-sound them. “ The find is in itself a ing words. The sentences flow place,' and thus, seated in our not from the well of English arın chair, we can be easily and undefiled. We did not expect to without fatigue transported to find the rich eloquence of Gibbon, Rome. We can take a part in or the sparkling vivacity of Mathe grave consultations of that caulay, but at times the writer is august body, the Senate, at this forced by the great interest of his time so shamefully degraded. subject into the use of nervous There were few men of ability ; and Anaflected language, and oc střil fewer of integrity and princasionally into passages of corsi-, eple within its ranks. Of the derable merit. Tkere is perhaps noble families, Catulus was the some dash of pedaritry and scho most honest, but his talents were lastic affectation in Mr. Merivale's mediocre. Lucullus, a man of careful observance of the Latin great ability, and military skill, termination in the names of Pomwas too lazy and indolent for the pei“us," Marcus” Antoni“us," affairs of public life. Crassus, ad Catalina"-"Pompeius May amongst men of moderately-gilted nus" has' more pretension than intellect was a distinguished states- Pompey the Great, of whose life man, but he was singularly avaand cruel death, in the sight of venivus, and so.didly fond of mohis wife, we read in the days of ney. Cato, great grandson of the our youth. To our view, Mark Censor, though a plebeian, was Antony sounds more agreeably possessed of very great influence than Marcus Antonius. in the Senate. He exhibited duct of Cataline is well known to greater devotion to the cause all; but the name of Catalina car. of oligarchy than the Patricians ries with it uncomfortable thiemselves, and they esteemed mystery-and would seem to at him for his fidelity ; but he was tach too much weight to the bold an obstinate pedant, and a wooden attempt of that daring communist. likeness of his great grandfather. We care not to raise well known Pompey, alternately courted and personages upon stilts, when there despised by the Senate, owed is no necessity for such an exalta whatever interest he possessed tion. We were half afraid that with them, to his successful caour good-natured, vain friend Circer as a general. They looked cero would be written down as Kito him for protection from the kero, but Mr. Merivale has spar Marian party now rápidly regained us that blow. However these ing its inclucnce, which had been are trifling faults, if'indeed they de shaken by the proscriptions under serve so harsh a name. But the Sulla. Cicero, also a new man, real interest of the volumes will we was an object of dislike to the nofound to exist in the various and ex bles. They were afraid of his taciting scenes, which they describe, lents and his ardour for refoim. at Rone, and abroad. Even those Accordingly they opposed his adwho shudder at the very idea of vance to the higher honors of The conan ·A History of the Romans under the Empire. 223 1 $ or cons same muthe Republic, in which they dow of suspicion had fallen upon exhibited short-sightedness ; for their body. But we grieve to find after he had been appointed that not wen the return of the Consul, his . desire for reforin knights can restore purity to the cooled down with incredible ra Bench. Corruption reigns triumpidity ; whilst his respect for rank phant in every Court, over-ruling and the Senate increased with justice and equity. Iljs must be proportionate strength. Horton the knightly mind of the olden sius was another distinguished time, and not the money-covethember of the Senate. He and ing spirit of the last days of the Cicero were rivals in the Forum: Republic, which would escape and both attained the Consulship; contanination. the former was not more eminent Then again we are mixed up in his profession than famous fur with the politics of the day, and, his fish ponds, and affectation in according as our views are liberal dress and manner. This is the nservative, inclined to free Ilortensius who wept for trade or protection in the distributhe death of a favorite pet bution of official emoluments, rornam adeo dilexit ut exani we take the side of the people matam flosse creditur”—Martial against the Senate, or the Senate has a passage on this insane love against the people. We are Maof' fish, which has not escaped Mr. rians or followers of Sulla, as Merivale's notice. our fancy dictates. We unravel “ Natat ad Magistrum delicata murena ; the intrigues of Cataline, .witness Nomenculator mugilem citat autum · Et adesse jussi prodeunt senes mulli." his flight and the destruction of We have suffered ourselves, his followers, and listen to Cicero, during the perusal of Mr. Meri the saviour of the city, praising vale's work to be actually in Rome, himself before the Senate and in we will therefore visit the Courts public. of Justicc, and listen to judges “O fortunatam natam me consule Romam ! Antorti gladios potuit contemne se, gi sic, passing sentence. We arrive in Omnia dixissct." time to hear a decision given in . But this he could not do! his total opposition to the facts of the talents were his destruction. “Inla our astonishment, we genio manus est et cervix cæsa !" all but raise our voices with a For excitepient and amusement cry of "proh pudor !" An oblig we turn into the streets, and being bystander relieves our feel hold the triumphal procession of a ings by the intelligence that such successful general, wending its slow things are not new in Kome, and and-stately way through the prinbeing an experienced person, cipal thoroughfares, crowded with points out the many ways by rejoicing, multitudes. It is not which favorable judgments can without pity that we glance at be obtained. We sigh for those the noble captides, lately taken honest days of the republic gone prisoners on some well-contested by for ever, when the avaricious and bloody field, fighting valiant- Senate had not yet seized upon ly for their liberties and indethe “ Judicia" for themselees; pendence, now in bonds compelled when the knights were allowed to walk behind the chariot wheels to sit as judges, and during a of an exulting conqueror. We period of forty years not a sha listen with feelings of pride to the case. led ·224 A History of the Romans under the Empire. steady trampy of the hardly and booty, and a chivalrous respect for invincible veterans, without whose the military skill of their leaders aid victory perhaps would have been when an enemy, have converted doubtful. We follow with admiring into faithful followers. We hear eyes the martial appearance and the loud shouts and cheers of the gay trappings' of a long line of fickle, populace, ever shifting its warriors, not Roman citizens, but opinion, to-day making Pompey levies from some subdued Pro a god, to-morrow raising their vince, whom the love of war or variable voices in praise of Cæsar, Many a tiine and oft Have you climbed up to 'walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day with patient expectation, Το see great Pompey pass the streets of Ronie ; And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not hade an universal shout, That 'liber trembled underneath hiš banks, To hear the replication of your sounds, Made in his concave shores ? And do you now put on your best attire ; And do you cull out a holiday ; And do you now strew flowers in his way, That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood ?" Such is the breath of popular of the earth, and has in turn been opinion ! Let us move onward, subdued by foreign vices, superand view the elections for City stitions and manners. The Se- Magistrates. We visit the differ nate, distracted by party opposient polling places, and to our tion, is unable to regulate affairs horror ‘are compelled to become at home, still less can they hope all but participators in scenes of to protect the interests of the reriot and licentiousness, committed public abroad. Bad Government by hired ruffians or low mercenahas alienated the Provinces; thcy ries,-the body guard of some are ripe for revolt. The kingdom degenerate Patrician ur popular divided against itself cannot stand. agitator. All sense of, or respect We feel that the Commonwealth for, order, is lost in that general must fall; nay, the whole fabric of corruption, which is rapidlyo de- Roman dominion must melt away, stroying the noble republic of an unless a strong hand can seize the cient days, and its free city, once reins of Government, restore orthe abode of honorable citizens, der, and reconcile' conflicting intenow infested by the vilest of Ita rests, by controlling all. lian and foreign refugees, whose It is well said that God made hands and daggers are ever ready the country, and mar the towns ; to strike at the call of the highest we will therefore leave the confubidder. Rome is no longer the sionand turmoils which faction has capital of a country, but the mc excited within the city walls, and in tropolis of the then known ld. search of the picturesque, wander She has conquered the nations in the country amongst the beau- ·A History of the Romans under the Empire. 225 tiful gardens attached to the vil has consoled himself for the loss las of Roman Senators, Knights, of his daughter Tullia by a second and wealthy citizens. marriage with a young and comely lady; for Ciccro loves neatness From the houses of Brutus, in every thing about him. We Julius Cæsar, Metellus, Crussis, may chance to come in upon that and Pompey, we can look down memorable day, (as great in its with delighted eyes upon the way, as that on which his “sacred "mighty City, mistress of the Majesty Charles II. of happy meworld, gleaming in the sun with mory took his disjune at Tillietudits panoply of roofs, and flashing lem" with Lady Margaret Bellenbrightness into the blue vault den ;) when, unexpected and selfabove it." After several hours' invited, Cæsar' himself 'honored pleasant “strolling" in this spirit-, the philosopher's retreat with a moving scenery, we can, if so dis visit, and stayed to dinner. Ciposed, return to the busier world cero, pleased, but yet not quite and the city's bustle ;'or, being assurd of the great man's dispofortunately acquainted with Cice- sition towards himsell, p.epares ro, we can look in upon him at a fragrant bath for his refreshhis dinner viour. We shall find ment, and recites, during the him more self-complacent than opeations of the toilet, a ever; re-called froin banishment, rilous epigram for his, amusewelcomed to his much-loved Rome mcnt. Then follows dinner, by an enthusiastic multitude, and well-cooked and plentiful : this again in possession of his charming act of attention gratiffes the dice hoine at Tusculum. We shall ob tator, who loves fatness, animal scrve that he is wiser than of old, and humnail; to whom thin men and less cautious of burning his are a stumbling block in his path, fingers with politics during the and a warning; for their thoughts dictators':ip of Julius Cæsar. He are dangerous. scur- Casar.-Antonius Ant. Cæsar! Cæsur.-Let me have men about me that are fat : Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights : Yon Cassifis has a lean and hungry look: He thinks too much ; such men arcodangerous. Ant.Fear him noi, Cæsar : he's not dangerous; llo is a noble Roman, and well given. Casar.- Would he were fatter. The dinner passes off well. The guest not unamused, silently lisdictator continues in high good tened. humour, as indeed he. Ought to Next let us 'accompany some have done, for Cicero says of him nccdy Pro-consul to his province. that he eat and drank merrily. We shall behold the extortion and "edit et bibit adeos et juet ju- rapacity of which he is guilty, and cundé." can iniagine to the tyranny and grievous oppresourselves the edifying conversa sion under which the people suffer tion which ensued : ho the host at the hands of the Publicani. So endeavoured to shine, and the denuded and spoiled were the pro- We ·226 A llistory of the Romans under the Empire. ous o crer seen. vinces, under the rule of officers to the Empirors to complete the whose sole object in accepting a system of control over fiscal Government was to amass a for arrangements abroadl, and the ratune, that the despotism of Julius pacity of the Publicáni, by whom Cæsar was the greatest blessing the sources of revenue, the tolls, which could have befallen the imposts, and titles were farmed. Empire at large. A noble desir Mr. Merivale thus speaks of the of this appointment must Provincial Governments :--" The first serve the offices of Quæstor, luxuriance of Roman oppression Ædile, Prætor, and Consul. These flourished but for a century and magistracies were only to be gain a halt, but in that time it created ed by party influence, bribery, and perhaps the most extensive and corruption. The first whject was searching miscry the world 124 to join a party, and to aid them The establishunont of unfirchingly ; the next to borrow 'the imperial despotism placed in money either from, friends or usu the main an clective control rers to defray, clection expenses. over these petty tyrants, and not- The Consulship once attained, withstanding all the crimes by l'rovincial Government followed which it won its way, and the as a matter of course. The 11W corruptions which were developed Governor proceeded to his Pro in its progress, it serves to be vince, coernined at any cost of regarded, at least in this imporhonor, humanity, or bloodshed, tant particular, is one of the greatto reimburse himself and friends est blessings vouclisated to the • for clection Oxpenses, and to human race.' collect a sum suficiently ample to dinit of his returi to Roire, We can trace the rise of Caesar able to compete with his neiuli to the height of power, step by bours in luxury, and to flatter the step, as the champion of the popeople with public shexs, or take pular party, the Varia.is. Wc a prominent part in state allaifa. view him persecuted by Sulla, The efforts of Cæsar, Pompey, idered to put away his wife Corand Cicero were devondto throw nolia, firmly refusing to puropen these offires to new men of chase prsonal salety by' so distalents and ability. The latter.ox honorali'. an'act. At this time his posed in the case of Verres the in party by severity and proscriptions iquity of Provincial Government, had become thoroughly cowed. but the evil was not removed. Hope, was not even left to them ; New men and the oligarchy, loth Cæsar had no powerful friends parties were equally tyranical to protect hin from the tyrant's and oppressive, when the means anger ; but he never waverd for of being so were in their grasp. an instant in his resolution. Tar When (ausar had leisure, after different was the conduct of Pombeing appointed dictator to pey in a similar difficulty ; he at attend to the great danger which once divorced his wife Antistia at threatened the Roman power, in the bidding of the dictator ; Cæthe alienation of its provinces, he. sar's Grofusal cost him his wife's endeavoured to check the exac fortune and his own place in the tion and avarice of the difierer priesthood. Sull governors. It was however left ed his life, but did not fail to warn orhowever spar- ·A History of the Romans under the Empire. 227 Cinise. conts the Senate what a dangerous man mand, his friends at home were hc would prove. He advised successfulinextending his term of them to beware of “ that young government for five years. The tritler' in whoin more than onc death of Julia, his daughter and Marius would be found. Caesar Pompey's wife, with, the miseraretired abroast, and did not return ble discomfiture and fate of Crasto Rome until the death of his sus in Parthia, broke up the trienemy. Being still too young to umvirate. This connexion had fill public offices, he betook him lasted too long for the ambition Self to Athens to study rhetoric of both. Pompey had discoverand liberalism. On his return he ed his inistake; Cæsar would be prepared to contend for the vari second to no man in Rome, or ous City Magistracies, Not an the Roman doininion. •llere opportunity escaped him of attack conciled himself with the Senate, ing the Senate and their privi- and for a tine appeared warmly leges; nor did he neglect any one to take up their cause. Ilis rival means of upholding the popular continued in his province, pa- His distinguished abili- tiently biding his time and ties and happy relationship with strengthening his means for the Marius placed him in the front day of trial, whenever it should row of public men as the acknow- The breaking up of the lodged leader of the Marian party. first triumvirate and the weak- Fie won over Crassus to his inter ness of the Senate had paralyzed est by flattery, and allowed Pom the state machine. Cæsar was pey to fancy him his instrumen, absent, Pompey remained a paswilling to work out another man's sive spectator of the disorder end, and, provided he could which reigned throughout the only overthrow the power of his city, in the hope that it would enemies--the oligarchy. The first be found necessary to invest him triumvirate was established, and with the dictatorship. The orits influence secured the Consul dinary magistracies were unfillship for Cæsar. At the expiration ed; there were no Consuls. The of his year of office, the Provinces Senate at length prevailed upon of both gauls and Illyricum fell to him to lend the weight of his his lot for a term of five years. He influence to the scale of order. was now in a position to increase He prevailed upon the tribunes his name, to get hiinself more to proceed to the election of Conthan ever talked about, ard to fill suls, who, when elected, proved men's mouths with glowing ac quito incompetent to repress th: counts of his victories over the scenes of violence which almost dreaded enemies of Rome--the daily occurred. The next year He could create opened as the past had done, with an army of devoted followers, and an interregnum The murder of attach, by enriching them, a nu Cl8dius by Milo exasperated the merous retiaue from the best fapopulace into furious and contimilies of the city, who dccompa nued riots. A cominission was nied him to his Province for appointed to take measures for the purpose of seeing the world, the protection of the State, and and studyiug the science of war. Pompey was vested with power At the expiration of his com to raise troops for the safety of VOL. 1. NO. IV. savage Gauls.

·228 A listory of the Romans under the Empire. . the city He'had now the op were almost equally distinguished portunity of scizing upon the dic in the closet, the forum, and the tatorship, but he hesitated, and the field; his virtues, the 'very oppoopportunity so carefully sought site to those of Cato, were asfor passed away, like a word that suredly not less conspicuous. But has been spoken, never to be re he possessed a qualification for callcd. Ile was content to be sole success more essential than these ; Consul. Time passed on, and the the perfect simplicity of his own Senate, having successfully thwart character gave him tact to appreed the designs of his rival, preciate the real circumstances anu pared to take vengeance on Cæ tendercies of public affairs, to sar. Jealous of the unprecedented which his cotemporaries were sigsuccess which the Marian leader nally blind. lle watched the tide had obtained over the Gauls, and of events for many anxious years, of the devotion of his followers, and threw himself upon it at the and equally suspicious of his in moment when its current was most fluence over the minds of the pro irresistible. Favoured on numevincials, they determined to put rous occasions by the most brildown Cæsar. lle was directed liant good fortune, he never lost to resign his command on an ap the opportunities which were thus pointed day. He would return to placed within his grasp. Ile nei- Rome no longer possessed of the ther indulged himself in sloth power.to disobey the coinmands of like Lucullus, nor wavered like the Senate, or overcome the legi Pompeius, nor shifted like Cicero, cimate rulürs of the State. Secure-mor Iike Cate wrapped himself in in the affections of his soldiers and iinpracticable pride ; but equally the good will of the popular party capable of commanding men and at home, Cæsar refused to resign of courting, of yielding to events his cominand, until certain griev and of moulding thein, he mainances which he coinplained of tained his course firmly, and fearwere, redressed. Pompey openly lessly without a single false step, backed the Senate's decree. till lie attained the topmost suin- The crisis had come, and its mii of human power." The redenouement rapidly followed. marks of Mr. Merivale, on his Cæsar crossed the Rybicon : the rival Pempay are, we think, judi- Senate refused all acermmodation, cious, and account for the hesitaand their enemy was carried in tion displayed at the most critical triumph to Roine. Pompey fled moment of his affairs when the from Italy to the court of Epi. substance of the dictator's power rus, carrying with him the Senate, was placed in his hands, and he and leaving the country at the held back for the empty title. mercy of the invader. The fol "Great as Pompeius undoubtlowing extract is otie of the best edly was, it was a cardinal defect and most true in the book. in his character that he failed to Speaking of Cæsar, Mr. Mcri keep his principal atur steadily in “ Ile bore indeed an view, and allowed minor objects to ancient and honorable name ; his dirent his course and fret away his talents for war were perhaps the energies. This may be obstrved highest the world has ever wit even in his military career, in which nessed: his intellectual powers his genius was most auspicious." vale says:

·A History of the Romans under the Empire. 229 a bold It'will be remembered that he took it at first for greatness of succeeded in baffling, nay, in po soul; but when approached nearer sitively defeating Caesar before to the self-proclaimed Ilero, they Petra in Epirus.. Again, though found with disgust of what ordithe enemies over whom he con nary clay he was formed.” quered, when a young man, may We have already alluded to be said to have been woinen and Pompey's flight from Italy ; children when compared with leaving the whole country at Roman veterans, still it must be Cæsar's mercy. It was rccollected that Pompey was but attempt, and perhaps the only twenty-four years old, when he resource left to the man wlio had returned from his brilliant con put aside from his mind all feelquests, was hailed with the title of ings of patriotism ; he was ambi- Magnus, and allowed the honor of. tious to obtain despotic power for a triumphı. But to continue—“In himself, but the forces which he the Spanish campaigns his opc led in Italy would be more disrations were desultory and inde posedeto obey the commands of the cisive, and there seem to be traces Senate than his owin. They were of similar feebleness in his cou not old veterans, like the soldiers test with Mithridates; his coun of Cæsar, devoted to their leader, try-men were dissatisfied, and and having little sympathy with suspected him of protracting the Rome itself. It was therefore struggle for political objects. In necessary that he should carry the the city this want of decision war to some country distant from became daily more evident-uut 'Italy. The western * Porld had consequence was that Pompeius become Romanized ; 'but a sucfailed to acquire any moral as cessful general could hope to atcendency his associates. tach to his cause the inhabitants Hlis virtues were sobriety and mo of the eastern Provinces, whose deration, and these he possessed sympathies, as Mr. Merivale rein an eminent degree. But when marks, are centred alwry's in these qualities are not the result men, and never in governments." of resolute self-control, but arise Provided that Pompey succeeded from a deficiency in animation in triumphing over his enemies, and the sense of enjoyment, they it mattered little to them over have little attraction for men of whom he triumphed. They had warmer temperaments, and exer no interest in the quarrels of faccise still less command over their tions within the City of Rome. imaginations. Accordingly no On this subject Mr. Merivale thus man was so constantly deceived writes : “ That this however was in the persons whom he selected the course Pompeius had deterfor his instruments; they disco minedato adopt (the introduction vered his weaknesses, and shook of eastern allies and a civil war) off the yoke of his condescen from the moment that he saw the sion. Tire distance which he contest with his rival inevitable, affected in his intercodrse with seems sufficiently proved by the those about him arose partly whole tenor of his subsequent from natural coldness, but more conduct. Hechated the oligarchy perhaps from his own distrust of of which he was the leader. Atan his power over them. They mis earlier period, while placing himover ·230 A History of the Romans under the Empire. . self ostensibly'at its head, he had ming up, (which we have quoted) laboured to depress and degrade of his qualifications for the race it. Jealous of the rival whom in which destiny called on him to self-defence he had raised against run, we can have little to add. him in Cicero, he had used Cæsar, It is with the darker shades of as he thought, as an instrument the man that we would deal. to crush this attempt to control Great as Cæsar undoubtedly was, him. But the instrument cut the it cannot be denied that we must workman'shand. The next turn in only view him as an Heathen the wheel of fortun: showed hiin Statesman and Captain, pre-emiin close alliance with this sarne par nent above his cotemporaries, and ty, to defend themselves against even above the great men of old. common adversary. Pompeius His clemency in war and his generhowever was well aware il: it these ous treatment of his enemies, after hollow friends woull size thc he had attained supreme power, moment of victory to diect his are deserving of our admiration. overthrow. If they woiio Ca But though his conduct in this ressar, it, would' not be to submit pect was immeasurably superior once more to hiinself. He feared to that of the men of his own the hostile influence of the Con time, Cirsar could occasionally suls and Alagistrates in a canop of exhibit the greatest cruelty, and Roman citizens, and felt that in allow his soldiers to indulge in the event of a struggle with them, indiscriminate slaughter. In one his title of Imperator would not battle alone it is believed that he weigh against their superior permitted 6,000 prisoners to be claims to the soldier's allegiance. massacred. He appears to have For the armies of which he was had no religious belief, but pronow the nominal leader were fessed atheisin with that inconraised within the limits of Italy; sistency which usually attends they were not debauched, like the such a profession,-he was a slave legions of Sulla, of Marins, "of to superstition. It is recorded Cæsar, or those which he had hini of him that he would not seat self led from Asia, by long ab himself in a chariot without first sence from the city and habits muttering a charm. In.pressed of Military licence. In order to from early life with a conviction strengthen his own exalted posi that he was fated to fill a distintion, or cven to maintain it after guished portion in the world, he the defeat of the invader, he re surmounted perils by sea and quired a Military force of another land under which less buoyant description. It was necessary minds would have sank, and exthat his anticipated victory should posed hinselſ to risk, which other be gained, not on the soil-of Ita men would have cautiously avoidly, nor by the hands of Lentulus ed ; yet. his mind, strong enough and Domitius, and that his return to reject the absurdities of Roto Rome should be a triumph man belief, was unabic to peneover the Senate no less than over tratc the mystery which veiled Cæsar.' from man's eyes the existence of a We must say a few words re Supreme Being, the Great Disposgarding Cæsar's character. To er of human life and events. It Mr. Meriyale's admirable sum is somewhat strange that he ·A History of the Romans under the Empire. 231 a should have been so singularly men to his will, we behold in Cæsar indifferent to the growing con a man who could not subdue himviction which at the time he liv self. In an age of licentiousness cd had taken possession of the he was unable to rise superior to Eastern, and had even reached the vices of the degraded Romans the Western world, that, a new who surrounded him. He was order of things and a golden age notorious in Rome for his immowere at band. If Cæsar had rality and gallantries, and when in becn a mere soldier and adven Egypt fell an easy prey to the turer, this would not appear so fascinating eyes of that "Serpent unaccountable ; but we mnist re of old Nilc," as Mark Antony was collect that his mind was highly wont to call Cleopatra. We precultivated ; he had studied phi sume that this discourteous appel- Tosophy under the best masters of lation was one of tenderness"; Athens ; he was acquainted with, though a feeling of its truth may the East and with Oriental thoughts have suggested the thought. If and history ; he was also an all Mark Antony could lose a kingthor and inquirer himself; and dom for this Sirch when "wrinkshowed himself upon all occasions led deep in time,' we must make to be a close observer of men and some allowance for Cæsar, in whose their opinions. It is impossible arms she threw herself resplento conceive that he should have dent in the morning brightness of had no opportunity of learing her beauty, when she was mention made of this belief in morsel for a monarch," and her some great and stupendouw.ru charms could kindlc. fire in the volution which was to change coldly flowing blood of Pompey! the face of nations, old manners, customs, and superstitions. The When thou wast here above the ground I vras A morsel for a monarch ; and great Pompey Sibylline books clearly alluded Could stand and make his eyes grow in my to this þclief. Virgil was subse- There would he anchor his aspect and die quently acquainted with, and With looking on his life.” made use of them. Antony anıl Cleoputra. Ultima Cumæi venit jam carminis ætas, The lady pleads so strongly for Magnus ab integro saclorini nascitur ordo, Jam relit et virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna her right to conquer, that we can- Jam nova progenies calo dimittitur alto. not be surprised at Cæsar's sur- We can only believe that Cæsar render at discretion. It was howconsidered himself to be the com ever well for his future fame, that ing man, who was to restore order, he fell beneath the dagger of peace, and good will on earth, or Brutus. llis connexion with this that he was really indifferent, as his " Rarc Egyptian" would have philosophy would teach him to be, proved a thorn in his side. Her as to the future, or that he cared residence in Rome, to which place not to solve a problem which she followed her lover, gave great might interfere with his pleasures offence. It was rroreover helierand comfort, and thwart his ed that she studiously laboured to views of self-interest and ambi detach his thoughts from Italy and tion in this world. Trye it is, the consolidation of the Empire tltat “ He that ruleth his spirit is he had won. She would have better than he that taketh a city." persuaded him to turn his thoughts Mighty to subdue nations and bend to eastern conquests, and by her Broad fronted Casar, hrow ·232 Vightfall. fatal influence would have kept terms of foreign Government, with him at Alexandria, until he had many other matters, but unhaplost not only the world, like An- pily this article has already run to tony, but his glorious name and such a length, that we are pre- 'reputation. This was a strange vented from doing so. One subject infatuation, and certainly not however interesting can hardly worthy of the man who could say be allowed to take up inore than that Cæsar's wife ought not even a limited number of pages in a to be suspected—a moral senti- Magazine intended for such variment and tribute to virtue, in ous discussion as the 66 Monthly' consistent with the laxity of mo for all India.” In fancy we can alrals and principle which he per ready hear the voice of our Editor mitted to himself. calling on 148 to stop, though more We had intended to have exa remain behind. We must obey, mined Ciesar's conquests, and fer Necessity is a great Law, and his public life as a ctatesman be one man must not detain a shipfore and after his attainment of ful! supreme pover. We should have Jam tumidus vocat Magister, wished to speak of his reforins, the Castigatque inoras, et aura portum extension of tne franchise, remo- Laravit melior ; vale libelle ! Navem, scis puto, non muratur unus. delling of the Senate, alteration of the calendar, and limitation of the MARTIAL. NIGHTFALL. How sweet it is at ventide to hear The wearied cattle lou, as home they move, What time the happy bird" all through the grove, Are pouring out their vesper music clear: And sweet the time to love-lorn shepherd's car, Who hears his dear one falter of her love. Sweet to the Poet, too, the hour must prove, Lifting the soul to Thee, but freed from fear, Parent of Good ! The solemn silence fills The heart with love and awe, the lingering beams Of Dav's bright chariot crimson all the West, And twilight slumbers on the fading Hills, ()! then come gushing o'er us voiceless dreams, And a vague sorrow rules the chastened breast. 1 H. G. K.

·*[ 233 ] SAMUEL SLOMAN, THE MAN WHO COULDN'T 11ELP IT.* re- Ver Ir ever there was a man in their fair proportions, by duties the world who ought to have which he never need have paid, been happy and prosperous, my had he only thought of proving friend Samuel Sloman was that his affinity ; by Law expenses man. Of all those guides to ruin incurred by over-confidence, by that currently go by the name of rates of exchange, which someyouthful follies, he cultivated not how or other were always against one; le neither drank nor gambled, him, whether to remit or to draw, had no absorbing weakness either and the remainder was fritterud for dogs, horses, dress, or dissipa, away in paying bills for things tion. lle had entered the Madras that he did not want, or that he Army very young, had bee had not got, and was far froin markably fortunate in promotion, certain that he ever had had. But had occasionally got a taste of the somelow or other, there the bills good things of the service in the were, and the charges were so exshape of appointments, had been orbitant, that he could not make blessed with many a snug addi up lis mind to pay them; so they tioirto his means in the way of went on at interest till Samuel comfortable little legacies ; for was flush of money, and did not he had several relatives and collet exactly know what to do with it, nexions, great and other uncles, when he used to pay them off to aunts and cousins, in very respect- get rid of the bother of the thing, able circumstances, and, as in the and save the postage of those words of the Irish Baronet, it ap eternal duns which tortured his pearer hereditary in the family to very soul. What was he to do ? a have no children ; our hero, the pian could not be always counting one sole scion, was naturally licir and calculating, and if he did see to them all. Samuel was more anything that took his fancy, it over by no means deficient in abi was quite natural that he should lities, Yet, strange to say, 10- let the man send it home to him thing ever seemed to thrive with just to look at, and then these lie was always in difficulties, things willºslip one's memory you usually in debt, and never had know, and those shopkeepers any thing to show for it: If he made him buy the articles, begot a Staff appointment, he was cause he had forgotten to send sure to lose it in a fow months, them back again ; and of course nobody knew how or why, though he could not help it, and then he all felt certain that it was by no naturally hated the very sight of fault of his own, but only because them, and was only too glad to he could not help it. His very le get them off his hands. He could gacies came to him shorn of half always get some friend to take him; ** The idea of writing a series of sketches of character has been taken from Douglas Jerrold, and, in part, even the title of the present number ; birt here the resemblance ends, and it will be found that the Indiau Imitator is in uo other respect indebted to his great prototype.

·234 Sanuel Sloman, ihem, so it was not so much loss and so completely did the hideous after all, except that his friends idea possess his whole soul, that took very long credit, and some for once in his life he did an enertimes said they had paid him, getic thiny--purely because he when he could not, for the life of could not help it--he sent his dogs him, recollect ihę fact, and someto the hammer without asking any times denied the transaction in one's advice on the subject. It toto ; and tlven of course Samuel would of course be superfluous could not help it, for although to say that our friend Sloman he always kept most minute ac wis a prodigious favourite with counts, and never torc up rethe ladics; he was such a nice, ceipts or memoranda, yet some quiet, obliging creature ; he used how or other he could never lay to get such charming books out his hand on them when required. frozn England, annuals and picture The only wonder was how le books of all sorts, and was soʻreamanaged to keep clear of those dý to lend, and the dear children speedier agents of destruction did so enjoy, looking at pictures, and mentioned beforę; at least it uvuld Mr. Sloman was so good. natured, have been a wonder, only he did he didn't mind if they did get a not manage it at all; in fact, he little torn or bread-and-buttory. kept clear of them, literally be Children would be children you cause he could not help it. Holud know. Then he was always so an invincible trick of going to ready to copy out music. for sleep at. whist about the middle them, and did it so beautifully of the first deal, never attempted neat, (Samuel always got it done Billiards witſout cutting the cloth, by the band master for a consiand at a round game was sure to deration, and he could always be be seized on as partner by the asked at the last moment to dinlady of the party most addicted to ner, if an unlucky excuse hapcheating, so the consequence was pened to leave a party of thirteen that he could not help keeping, at table, and was not proud, and clear of gambling, as nobody could sing a tolerable song, and would gamble with him. As for would devote himself to the wall horses he rode worse than any flowers at a ball, or stand up for tailor; drinking made him sick a lady on occasion, and always instead of tipsy, indeed a pain bring his flutė with him to tea fully nervous temperarient kept parties, as a last resource against him out of dissipations of all ennui, and never got sulky at not kinds. He did once commit an being asked to play it, and never extravagance in dogs, for his bro smoked, and did not drink much ther officers were fond of sport, wine. They were sure he would and had a bobbery pack in the make a perfect angel of a Imus- Regiment, to which they easily band; in fact it was only the unipersuaded Sloman to contribute versality of this opinion that enathirty fox-hounds as his share ; bled Samuel to help being compulbut one day poor Sainuel got bit- 'sorily married in the earliest porten by one of his dogs, and an early tion of his career; but the ladies horror of hydrophobia, the sole themselves protected him ; he w28 strong emotion he had useful be thrown away, and known, revived within his breast, though many a tender mother did ever ·The Man who couldn't help it. 235 sinfully covet the yoụng man as a husband for her plainest daughter, yet hu was so effcctually shielded by the jealous watchfulness of other tenuer mothers of precisely similar ambitions, that, like the heaven-guarded Una, he walked in safety through myriads of unseendangers-dreading none. But this state of things was not destined to last. Theru was a lady in his regiment, a Mrs. Firebrace, who had been gifted by nature with a genius for matchmaking, which intense study and zealous practice had matured to perfection. She had contrived to get off no less than nine daughters, five nieces, and three particular friends ; and although Firebrace was only third Captain, with a bald head and bottle nose, pot Delly, and strong propensity to brandy-and-water, she had contrived to obtain magnificent mutches for almost all of them. She had even refused a Brigadier for her beautiful Adelinda, and greatly did her friends lament over what they deemed her downfal, greatly did they mourn for the glory of her genius departed—when brighter than ever flashed forth that genius in dazzling coruscation, and the foresight, firmness, and skill of Mrs. Firebrace triumphed indeed, when the lovely Adelinda returned from Church as Mrs. Oldstick, the glittering bride of a Member of Council. And though no other stroke had been equally successful with this, still all of her protegies save two had made most eligible marriages, and rewarded in fullher maternal solicitude. Her youngest daughter Sophia, unmistakeably the prettiest of the lot, was, I grieve to say, one exception. She it was who, when just on the point of being married to Pepsy, the Civil and Sessions Judge, had made a runaway match with a Subaltern of Artillery, and, what annoyed her mother more than any thing else, dared to pretend to be very happy afterwards. It was setting such a very bad example!! The other exception was a niece, whom Mrs. Firebrace had been induced to invite to India, by a very reprehensible deception ; for her mother, who only wanted genius and opportunities to have been a Mrs. Firebrace herself, had deluded her sister by a most glowing, but, alas! apocryphal account of Miss Martha's charms, which, when upbraided therewith, she penitently attributed to maternal partiality. Mrs. Firebrace was of course justly annoyed, but with the decision and practical acuteness that ever mark true genius, she wasted not her time and temper in useless upbraiding, but having calculated the expense of sending the young lady back again, she concluded that it was worth while to make one vigorou effort to dispose of her first, and it was with this intention that she fixed her eye on Mr. Sloman. As there was no time to be lost, she opened her attack on him that very evening when he approached her carriage at the Band. My dear MI, Sloman,” said she, “what an age it is since we have seen you, (it had been three whole days,) why do you never look in and take a quiet cup of tea with us? it will really be a charity, for since the last of my dear girls left us," (she had married a Captain of Cavalry, who was sole heir to an Aldernan, a week or two before,) we are miserably lonely.” Poor Samuel blushed and stammered, and really felt a little proud of being taken notice VOL. I.-NO. IV. E ·236 Samuel Sloman, 1 of by a lady of such high connex tha, for certain extraordinary ions. However, to inake a long sounds not unlike suppressed story short, he accepted an invita laughter which issued from behind tion for the very next evening, to that young lady's pocket handhertea of course, We shall be quite chief. The lost ground was partly alone, Mr. Sloman,' said his fair recovered at supper, by whichi inviter at parting, " and pray do name was dignified a Savoy biscuit please bring your flute with you." and a glass of very weak negus, True to his time went Samuel, prepared by the fair hand of Miss though Buckhorse, the Junior En Martha herself; and about 11" esign, had been joking him most o'clock poor Samuel was permitted confoundedly all the morning. “I to depart to his guilcless slumbers, congratulate you,old boy," said he, which we have no hesitation in you are fairly in for it. I say, saying were not disturbed by any what was the amount of your last ' visions of the fair negus maker. legacy, and why did you let Mo lle had indeed taken most - ther Blazes hear of it?" I gratefully slight notice of that lathought you were coming to mess dy, and though her expressions of to-niglit, Sloman,” said Longstop delight had kept him blowing the Senior Lieutenant. “We shall away at that internal flute till his have a jolly party, and we all chest ached, and his eyes watered, count on you for a song." Real they had made no further impresly," woưid poor Sloman say, “I sion upon him. He had certainly am very sorry, in fact I would looked at the lady, and had como inuch rather-but the truth is Mrs. to the conclusion that she was "Firebrace was so very pressing, about five-and-thirty years of age, and asked me so kindly, that I uncomfortably angular and skincould not help it you know.” And ny, with & sharp-pointed nose, desure enough he went, flute and cidedly red at the tip, and large all, and for three wcary hours did proninent eyes, of a yellowish lie breathe his soul into that in green colour : her figure had alfortưnate flute, while Mrs. Fire most struck him as being slightly brace and her niece Martha were out of the perpendicular, and the in ecstasies, and the Captain went only harmonies which he could to sleep over his second tumbler charitably discover in her features, It was sligItly a draw were that her hair was very nearback on the success of the even ly a match in colour for her nose, ing, that when, afteľ he had blown and her teeth for her eyes. Je did himself black in the face, and been not feel in the slightest degree compelled to lay down his instru enamoured, and Mrs. Firebruce ment from sheer exhaustion, he not only saw that such was the was asked to sing, he found he fact, but candidly admitted that had so wastefully expended his it could scarcely have been exhreath before hand, that he could pected to have been otherwise. do nothing but cough, and broke Most ladies would have given up down irrecoverably in the third the thing in despair. Not so, howbar of the Marble llalls, to the ever, our match-making genius. inexpressible regret of Mrs. Hire Her courage did but rise with difbrace, whose eyes darted an ab ficulties ; opposition did but invisolute thunderbolt at poor Mar gorate her to perseverance ; apaof gros ·The Man who couldn't help it. 237 thy itself was not to be allowed evening, happening to look in rato be proof against the influence ther late, be found Mrs. Firebrace of her will. • Day after day, night sitting alone, with unquestionable after night, did she contrive that traces of tears in her eyes. He the parties should meet on some expressed a hope that she was not pretext or other, yet never so ill.“ No, my dear Sam," she reas to make her design manifest. plied, (for they had long since got She got up a mania for evening through that chrysalis state of inparties among the ladies of the timacy in which a “ Mister" is Regiment. She inveigled the Ba indispensablc,)“ but I have suschelors into giving a series of pictained a sad shock to-day, a very nics. And when Samuel was tired bitter disappointment.". Sloman, of this vortex of dissipation, she who knew she had had a tickct Would echo his tone of weariness, in a ratlle, which had been drawn and ask him in to a quiet tea; it was that.morning a blank, (he had inso pleasant after he had been kept deed presented her with it hiinin a constant whirl of exciternent, self) began, what he thought, an to sit quictly down with his old apposite style of consolation ; but friends without gène or nonsense, Mrs. Firebraçe cut himn short with and talk it all over. So Samuel, rather uncalled-for asperity, and who could never stand much in they, begging pardon for her abthic way of excitement, and knew ruptness, she added : “ No, no ; it no enjoyment in life equal to tak is no selfish sorrow, far less such ing things casy, really did find a trifle as that. Oh ! my dear Sam, these little tea cwnkings very · how could you think es ineanly of pleasant, especially as he only me ? It is connecteel with one played the flute when and as long very very dear to me it is indeed he pleased ; and so far from at iny beloved niece.” And the warmtempting, as le had feared, to force hearted lady burst into a flood of Miss Martha upon him, his kind tears which did not much moisten hostess did all in her power to har pocket handkerchief. Samuel keep them apart. He could not sat with his hat in his hands, lookhelp observing this; he saw it with ing uncommonly blue, and half in wonder, and, I blush to add, with the mind to get up and make a bolt delight, and he felt deep com of it. Not that any definito terrors punction for ever having suspect. had invaded his mind, but he had ed Mrs. Firebrace. There a great abhorrence of a scene,-in nothing therefore to disturb his fact, it agitated him. “We yesterpeace. In that house he had day," " continued the lady, comfort and quietness. After the ceiveda, proposal for her hand, annoyance of military duties, which oh! my dear Sam, so eligible, su he hated, or of balls and dinners, excellent an offer, so admirable a which he scarcely liked better, or man, so very high in the service, the jokes and badgering of his He had seen her, Samuel, handled brother officers, he could drop in known her amiable heart, her esat the Firebraces, and compose timable qualities ; he could not himself to comfort like a worried forget her; he proposed, proposed cat on a hcarth rug. In this para by letter ; I have it in my pocket. dise of dreamy happiness a month Ile was, yes, he was refused ! oh! or two had glided away, when one iny dear Samuel, fancy our diswas 66 re- ·238 Samuel Sloman, fic. tress! We can gain no clue from getting up the steam for a fight. Martha as to the cavse of her Mrs. Firebrace, however, still most extraordinary conduct, ex warmly, though mournfully, shook cept that she bursts into passion our hero's hand, for she felt, as ate tears, and murmurs something she often said, an affection for about never forgetting him. Who him for which she could not acthat him may be, we cannot even count. “ I have now to inform guess, but he little knows the trea you, Mr. Sloman," said she," that sure he has won in my sweet we have discovered the secret; it Martha's heart, or if he does know is one on which much depends ;** it, oh! Samuel, what a villain he upon your reception of that secret must be, if he casts it away." hangs the fate, I fear the life, Alas! poor Sloman, he broke out of an amiable and affectionate into a cold perspiration ; his knees girl, and I shudder to think of trembled, his heart beat, his head any other consequences that ached, and a sort of inspiration might”-here her eye glanced whispered in his car, Thou art the with an expression of terror toman! and I pledge you my honor, wards the Captain whose nose was reader, that it was not vanity, but redder than ever, and on whose rather resembled those strange manly brow was seated a diabolipresentiments, shadowy presages cal scowl. Poor Sloman's heart of coming evil, so fearfully inex was rapidly dying within him. “I plicable by philosophy. All he would have given anything, 'would - thought of was, how to get out of have done anything," continued the house. We had a faint recollec the lady, “ to have avoided this ; tion afterwards of having said he I did do all in my power to prewas very ill, and beyond that re vent it; Samuel, you know I alcollects nothing, until he found ways did I see you anticipate himself on his own couch in a what I have to add ; yes, you are state which he firmly believed to be right, my niece, Martha, (coma high nervous fever. He heard pose yourself, Mr. Sloman,) loves no more from his fair friend for you, loves you with that first pastwo days, but on the third, just sionate fondness of a woman's as he was beginning to reco heart, that no man's breast can ver, he received a note from know; ves, sir, the flower of her Mrs. Firebrace, begging him to virgin soul offers its first fragrance come over immediately, on a busi to you ; if you have any feeling, ness of life and death. He went ; if you have a heart, if you are a he could not help going; he found man I have said enough. the lady dreadfully excited, and my dear Mrs. Firebrace," screamthe Captain, with a tumbler of ed poor Sloman, “it cannot be, brandy and water on the table, really I never..." “ Samuel Slostronger than he had ever seen it man," said the lady solemnly, Hefure, looking portentously so pause before you speak. What lemn and impressive. He returned you ever did or said, rests of course but a supercilious nod to Samuel's with your own conscience, for nesalutation, sniffed significantly, ver would that angelic sufferer and took one or to short turns betray you-but that which you about the room, stamping his heel say annot be, not only: co occasionally, like a buck rabbit but is. You are of course free to 39 6 But be, ·Hoc Lrat in rotis. 239 was even please yourself, but if blighted not help it, and, strange to say, it affection should lay that sweetest turned out to be the best thing he girl in the wld ground," (here she ever did in his life ; for his wife, sobbed, and Samuel burst into though no beauty, proved a good, tears) a victim to an undesery affectionate, hard-working crea- • ed regard for a villain-" “Oh! ture, with a large stock of plain Mrs. Firebirace," interrupted Sa common sense, and indefatigably inuel. “Yes, sir," repeated the active ; so that although, in point lady," for a villain ! all I can say of fact, Samuel, after his marriage, is, that that villain shall never be farther from being forgiven by me, and that my hus able to help anything than he band.... here Sloman sprang had been before, still his wife from his chair with a start of managed matters for him so cleågony, for just at thåt moment verly, taking care in the neatest, the Captain had opened a bottle! manner that he should have all of soda water, and the report was the credit, that spite of himself terribly suggestive of, pistols to he got a ramo for being a deuced the ears of poor Sam., The soda long-headed fellow; for his friends, water in fact finished the business, who saw the steady course his for in less than five minutes, Slo bark was stecring, but were quite man was on his knees before Miss in the dark about the wary little Martha, maundering forth protes pildt in petticoats, whose hand was tations of undying love, in tones at the whecl, always cried him up in which fear, compassion, disgust, as a miracle of prudence and wisand good nature, were queerly. dom, and Samuel passed through mingled. In short Samuel Slo life as a model and an pracle, purca man got married because he could ly because he could not help it. K. HOC ERAT IN VOTIS. I long to live Upon a shaded sloping lawn, That should in summer inist-wreaths give Up to the dawn. There I would listen To the low laughing of a fount, Whose drops that in the sunshine-glisten Break, as they mount. There I would muse Ilow toilsome all things mortal grę : Under the Beech-tree, far froin Yews That drip despair. Let me be laid, When all of me that can shall die, Where the rose hangs o'er the colonnade, And the night winds sigh. H. G. K.

·[ 240 ] DRY LEAVES FROM YOUNG EGYPT. BY PROFESSOR EASTWICK, Jon'ble Company's College, Haileybury. Hu: Inok'd, and saw wide territory spread Betore him, towns, and rural works between, Cities of inen, with loity rates and towers, Concourse marins, ficice faces threatening war, Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise, Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed, Single, or in array of battle ranged, Both horse and foot nor idly mastered stood: One way a band select froin torage drives A nerd of beeves, fair oxeu aud fair kme, Proin a fat meadow ground; or fieccy flock Ewes and then lileating laails, over the plau Their booty scale with lite the shepherds fly, But call in aid, which inakes a bloody tray; With cruel tournament the squadrons join ; Where cattle paptured late, wow scatteird lies With carcasses and arms, thc ensauguiucd field Deserted, &c. &c. MILTON. It is but seldom,-indeed we called upon to review a work may say never,—that we have been similar to the “Dry Leaves from Youäg 3Egrpt," and it augurs well for the public uncorrupted youth, are supertaste that a second edition has added the calm consideration, the been called for within so short prudent foresight, and the inpura period. It is the production tial discriniination of riper age. of a young oflicer lately attaccd We feel in advancing years, to the Political Department in that the science of Government, Sindh, and we do him barely øver when a people revere the justice, when we state, that in law, and honor its ministers, is his case, the act which removed of all hunian labors the most difhim from his regimental duties ficult and unsatisfactory. to a different branch of the Ser What then must it be, where vice, conferred as much credit lawless tyranny, carried on by on the decision of the ruling means of the power of the sword power, as it did honor to tire for successive centuries, has at last individual selected. undermined the whole fabric of Seldom indeed, do inen arrive society ; where the fetid bieath at that carly maturity of judg of the shameless oppressor is at ment that alone can justify their, once the law and the sentence; appointment to such lighly oner where, despising fruitless appeal, ous and responsible duties ; and brooding reyenge proudly justifics it is a fortunatc circumstance for its blood-thirsty and murderous a Government, and a most happy acts, ind the weak and feebleaccident for a people, when to the minded sink into an everlasting warm and generous feelings of despair.

·Dry Leuves from Young Egypt. 241 cide's So violence turcs—who worship within those Prorceded, and oppression and word-law, Through all the plain, and refuge tone was fair fancs--which still found. lift 11p Such is the picture of the pro- Their rutten privilege ! vince of Sindh, as presented by You sit down together on his judgthe talented author. It is indeed mcnt seat, where you do not find - a goodlly land, a stagnation of business.” On the Where a sharp sword or dagger's point de contrary, you discover that the A case in cquity. young judge decides three hun- Turu, the Suttee. dred cases within two inonths, What then but the ardour of youth working on an average for ten and the mons conscia recti, could hours a day. But then he is have supported a clear and con handsomely paid-- he cnjoys his prehensive mind, when the full Quid pro quo ! That must be horror of such a blighting spectacle conceded--for his civil emolument --not in Milton's vision, but in amounts to this excessively liberal horrid reality-was unceasingly allowance of thirty shillings a presented—when the veil of doubt month ; cnough surely, to allure and uncertainty was torn aside, Queen's Counsels or Senior Barand the fresh tints of the loath risters from Westminster llall. some and terrifying picture were With him you exchange the plainly visible to the naked eye! durcet and delicious notes of some Road the book, and when you domestic Persiani, for the gentle have scanned its deeply interest whisper of the Khyrpore noblu, ing pages, you will frankly ac- . whose softest inurmurs rival the knowledge that for an imostenta brain-crushing sledge-hainmer of tious and unyuarded display of a Smithfield slaughterman. all the qualities that endear man With your own eyes you detect to his fellows, you need search no a lady of unspotted reputation and further. You trust the author unblemished virtue, who passed with your whole heart and soul the 'live long starry night with for his are faithfully presented for her closed eyes heavenward;--sub examination-you believe iim, Jove, et in puris naturalibusand more than this is unnecessary. such being the custom of the So simple and unassuming is the burning country : - you also artless style of the 'Dryo Leaves,' cough, and she disappears ! that you feel yourself ever present He mentions, but as it were in- - land in hand, -to revel in the cidentally, tlfe "enticing cry of the cool air and charming prospect : black partridge, and the salınonyou climb the steep treadmill of like favor of the Pulla.” Altraitor Mount Aboo ; with hiin you enter to gastronomy ! is it thus lightthe ancient Jainist temples, built ly that you woald slur over the of " white marble, ornamented delicious shortness of the grain with innumerable figures, and tle of the former, and the extreme richest tracery, which stand on lusciousness of the roc of tho à spot now trodden onby by savage. latter ?-put it on toast, sprin- Bheel or wandering Jogee." When kle it with cayennc, and then ... at leisure, you may read Colonel Well, well! it was, let us hope, Tod's account of the worse than but an oversight of youth, to be degraded bcasts—our fellow-crea corrected in some future edition.

·242 Dry Leaves from Young Egypt. Our author reaches Roliree, and there we are informed that the pious believers in Mahomined's revelation, religiously preserve a hair and a half from the head of the Prophet. This crinose relic, this sacred integer and fraction. are set in a gold tube, adorned with large rubies, and unquestionably rival the famous holy coat of Treves, or the sacred arm of Saint Thingumbob, lately bought to shower its blessings over the broad lands of England, by the pious Cardinal Wiseman. So it seems that Priestcraft and superstition draw largely on the belief of ignorance and darkness, from East to West, in all ages. We turn next, with pleasure to peruse the interesting anecdote of the Sukkur Robin Food, Rahman Bandee, and are delighted to find that both he and his illustrious 'compeers are fond of listening to marvellous stories, and however incredible, they never (good Catholics) express a doubt, if the Agency of a Saint or a Jinn be introduced.” We blush for the neglect of Popish Christendom! Ilow many well-grounded and heart-rending legends might have been carefully circulated amongst these believing people. The winking Virgin ; the bleeding picturc, the blessed Virgin's milk ; the temptations of Saint Anthony; the history of the Santa Casa of Loretto, and innumerablc others all of equal trutdi, might by this time have solaced, their hours of meditation, and been the blessed means of enriching the consuntptive coffers of the Popedom. A succeeding chapter discloses a most painful proof of the worse than utter impotency and rashness of the parties entrusted with political power in Sindh, and will command intense interest. The fruits of this ir competence speedily ripened, and within six months, wholesale plunderings, horrid murders, and the most perfect general disorganization attested that “there never was an enterprise of such magnitude conducted with so little foresight and prudence." True that the indefatigable Parsees were beginning to make their ay-pearanco with beer, soda water, hams, and Scidlitz powder, but five miles from camp no one was safe. Who will not sympathize with the care-worn political chief (may his shadow never be diminished) who under these distressing circumstances issued the following important instructions to his Assistant with a thoughtful anxio'is air. “ I have sent for you to beg you will lay, the came dâk with care, and use every exertion, in order that the produce of the vegetable yhden, particularly green peas, may reach me as often as 66 2) C. To many this relation may appear a caricature, but we happen 'to remember a parallel instance of attention to creature-comforts, in which a young officer, who was detalhed from his Regiment while at Asseergurh, to capture the wily and active free-booter and murderer Shaik Dulloo, actually posted himself in a pleasant ruined summer-house on the banks of the Taftee, and luft the following pencilled memorandum on the white-washed wall:- “On the 29th, I set the black hen on nine tainee (or dunghill) fowl's eggs, The reader may be assured that these mer were not even blood relations.

·Dry Leaves from Young Egypt. 243 We observe with much satis the most fatal results may be apfaction that political characters prehended. We speak under corin all countries are invariably dis rection, but it has always appeared tinguished by their superior cool to us, that so far from expecting ness and self-possession. instant obedience from them, we Prince Metternich and Talleyshould treat them 'as naughty rand could not have displayed these children, and in a great measure, useful, or rather indispensable (excepting of course in very exqualities in higher perfection treme cases,) coax them back to than Abbas Ali and Abdurrah their duty; and this can be effectman ; and to convince the raader, ed only by a cool soldier and a we must narrate the amusing anecthorough linguist. As it is, we dote in the author's own words. have too often seen that it is easy “ Between the two existed a enough to drive them to desperation. Our author's opinions on this mortal antipathy, and cach, as in turn he visited ine, expatiated important subject display much sound judgment and knowledge with much gusto on the vices of the other. of native character, and are emi- One day dhe elder Seyyad was haranguing me on the nently descrving of adoption. Let us now offer a few words usual theme, and had just assured me that Abbas Ali was by on the charining episode of Saula Bundi. birth a slave, and no Seyyad at “It is impossible to conccive a all, wlten the latter, who, in fact, inore truculent looking savage, had been listening at the tent door, entered. I rashly imagined that "hair hall concealed his face: his than he appeared. A mass of ebonmy aged friend would be abashed forehead villainous low, at this contre lemps, but so far from while froni beneath his shaggy it, he welcomed the new-comer eyebrows, his dark eyes gloamed with a bland and tranquil air, and gravely told him that lie had just with the ferocity of a wild beast.' Look at him in the faithful etchbeen praising him to the Saheb. The sudden change was worthy the ground with his wrists hound, 'True he situs on ing before you. of a Persian." and a catenarian rope hanging A subsequent anecdote proves from his neck; but without these that but little dcpendance can be tokens of dependance on the good placed on the vaunted superiority plcasure of others, there are but of the discipline of the Bombay few persons with nerves sufficio Sipahces, who seem not to be a ently strong to look at his face, whit more trustworthy than those imbued, as it is with the most of Bengal. intensely demoniac expression, To the firmness and soldierly without feelings of personal alarm. decision of character which so Yet this blood-thirsty murderer, eminently distinguish Sit C. Na this wholesale robber, was most. pier, it is most indispensably ne undeniably a modest man! cessary that a perfect knowledge He thought so humbly of his of the feelings and manners, the own distinguished merit, as to esprit de corps of native troops, consider his very valuable life should be added; otherwise, while barely worth from five to ten, or suppressing a decided mutiny, at the outside twenty camels; was VOL. I.NO. IV.

·244 Dry Leaves from Young Egypt. nay, he ever offered to toss a judge of the desiccating miseries Beloochee girl, as a make-weight, attendant on an excess of radiating into the bargain! caloric. But this combination This rare combination of large of intense heat with an air saturatorgans of destructiveness, with a ed with moisture, forces up the small self-esteem this curious Holcus Soryum to the astonishing union of murder and modesty height of 20 feet. we say it with much diffidence, The book so much abounds in is not easily to be accounted for pleasing passages, that we feel conon phrenological principles ; while -siderable difficulty in selecting any our faith in phiz-y-oscopy remains striking ones for peculiar study. enduring and unshaken. One A soldier's life, habits, feelings, thing at all events is certain, we and opinions, are most admirably must in future psychological stu displayed throughout the 9:h dies, class modesty, of which we chapter ; but in the 10th, alihear so much daily, amongst the quando bonus dormitat llomerus. minor virtues. We think that the name of the Read now the heart-sickening brave, zealous, and indefatigable talc of triumphant cholera. When soldier, who galloped 130 miles three or four victims are carried over such a burning country, off in a single street of London, commanded the Cavalry at the how rapidly does the vicinage ensuing battle, conquered and reacquire en infamous character, turned with the news of the victowhich is carefully handed down ry to Sukhur within three days, deto posterity. Every heart is filled served an honorable record : while with anxiety and alarm : but in the omission of that of the nin-- Eastern countries, we have known ble valiant, who “reserved his it to continue in one city for weeks, fire altogether for another day," destroying 700 Musulman souls and left his Engineer friend Hill, a day ; but the ruler never single-handed, to stand the brunt thought it worth his while to of a large tiger, merits our entire register the deaths of those dogs, approbation. He was Hindoos, --although they died by ideal of a very different stanıp! thousands. Listen -" It was a Here let us pause : we should fearful night! We were packed feel too happy to believe that the so close together in the Agency innumerable cases of oppression compound, that we could hear and injustice which are to be met sounds, plainly indicative of what with in these truthful pages, were was going on. At least two hun ex parte statements, exaggerated dred died that night !" perhaps by the kind-hearted and The charms of a Sindhian cligenerous feelings of the authormate are most faithfully stated but alas ! the two last chapters, and the heat must have been nearly the most painful public corresequal, if at all inferior, to that pondence between the hard-fated of Calpee, Banda, or any other Ameers of Sinde and our favored spot in Bundlecund, about rulers, but too clearly demonstrate the same season of the year, viz. at that corporate bodies seldom have 150° half an hour after sunset. Let any heads, and never any hearts. the reader peruse the We turn with most unutterable then he may be fully competent' to scorn and disgust from the clear . 7 a beau own assage, and ·Poetry. 245 and damning proofs of the cold Is India free, or does she wear blooded and long-protracted in her plumed and jewelled turban juries to which they have been with a smile of peace; or do we most basely and most ungratefully grind her still ? subjected. Surelyo the cry of the CowPER. injured...... Bah! There are mo Let this honest book answer to ney bags at stake...... our shame! A BURST ON READING IN LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, LA JEUNESSE EST UNE IVRESSE CONTINUELLE, C'EST LA FIEVRE DE LA RAISON." I. Yes—but if apathy be health esteemed, If to grow cautious, pussionless, and sly, The proof of wholesome temperament be deemed, And our best symptomis a dull, cold eye ; II. If from the dreams of youth we are to wake, But to the soulless platitudes of pelf; Of love, tears, smiles our sullen"leave to take, And sober gradually down to self; III. Fill me thc cung of youth; pour out its wine ; Come, drink, till the pulses ring agairt! Die we in passion, for 'tis more divine, And to live loveless, is to live in vain. M ·[ 246 ) THE FOLK AT OUR STATION.NO. II. THE GENERAL, HIS A. D. C., AND DAUGHTER. 1 19 HERE we are on the tented “No, sir !" plain, and Tom Rasper crowing “ Then why does he not go in ?" like a cock on his own dunghill. Here he is, ask him.' The young 'uns are having it all “ Because," I put in, " I have their own way,-a hundred and "sent a better man to the wicket.'' twenty runs in the first innings, “ Who is he?" while we have not made fifty, and " A friend of mine, who arrivthere goes our sixth wicket. I ed only this morning, a Kentish knew how it would be, Harry ! man, fresh out from England, and when the silks and satins began to if I were in the habit of betting, I rustle in the tent," your eyes were would take Rasper's offer of five with your heart, und' that was far to one upon his side." away. Now just listen to that " It wauld not do for me to chap Ilasper : " Come send a betencourage gambling, or I would ter man, if there is one among take the bet myself'; why does not you old cripples-" the match is the youngster there take him ир ?" the over-twenty-five against the This was said in allusion to a under-twenty-five-"Just fancy a very quiet griff, who bud just lot of old forries like those attempt- joined us, so turning to him, I ing to play us young chaps ; I'll saidbet five to one on the matclı, and Barnett, Colonel Noble does even that we win it in a single not approve of gambling, and is hand.” particularly averse to his Subal- “ Ludovick! ny dear fellow ! torns making bets; still he rego to the wicket, and just stop commends you to accept Rasper's that boasting; Jones is well in ; lic offer of five to one." is not a pretty player; he has only “You are a pretty fellow for one one hit to the leg, so tell him to of beware of the round-arm bowling : my Regimental Staff, Lieutenant Fitz Fulke; I'll nuce that he will keep his wicket, if you play steady to him ; I will follow in the private and confidential report, after the inspection next when the next wicket falls." month." *Very well, Etz! but if I don't punish that bowling, I'm a “ Thank you, Colonel ! I am Dutchman, and no true German. glad you appreciate my desire to the ?" a rich promote your wishes, even when game pleasant voice- enquired of the I get only a slight hint." 6 Rasper, I'll take your bet; " All against the old ones, Cowhat, will you give it in ?" lonel," replied an Ensign, who had “ Five turnips to a leg of just examined the score, mutton.", ty-five runs behind in the first When the laugh raised at the innings, and six wickets down." expense of the Griff was over, “ Has Fitz been' in ?" Rasper offered the bet in chicks ; How goes scorers. seven- ·The Folk at our Station. 247 this was accepted, and Barnett well's carriage is turning on to had his revenge. the course ; we dine at home, Scarcely had Ludovick taken Harry! there will be a grilled his place at the wicket, when the bone, and a hot brew at 10 o'clock: ball came flying indo the tent, runs can you tear yourself away so were made rapidly, bowlers were early, think you ?": changed, but to no purpose, no The dinner is over, and the hole could they find in his servants gone; Ludowick and I bat ; cvery good ball was well have drawn our chair to the firestopped ; the bad ones hit clean, side, I to enjoy my hookah, he to out of the field; not a chance was blow an aromatic cloud from the thrown away; and place the field never failing meerschaun of the how they would, Ludovick still German student,--for Ludovick continued to play the ball wide.of had been an inmate of a German them; and brought out his bat as well as an English University, the other players seconded him and became master of most of the well, and when the last wicket fell, accomp ments to be attained at the old ones were alcad. Tiffin both those seats of learning. was not perhaps without its effect I was watching the graceful upon the lads; they cut a sorry undulations of the smoke as it rose figure in the second innings, and slowly upwards, thinner and thin- Harry Mortlock, and four others, ner till it disappeared altogether; wiped off the score, the cripples this is an occupation which always thus winning by six wickets. engenders a train of reflection “I say, Fitz," exclaimed the with me, and coinmencing with a crest-fallen Rasper at the conclu- ' quict chuckle over Tom Rasper's sion of the game, discomfiture, I had passed by a cious deal too bad of you to take natural transition from him to my us in with that long German with Kentish friend, thence to Kentish a swipy name. cricketers, thence to scenes which “ I did not think you could he were familiar to me in that counso easily done, Rasper ; really for ty, and from these to other scenes, a sporting man you are very soft ; » to spots long dear to me, to friends why you said your Civilian friend fondly remembered ; and I was was worth a dozen Germans; well revolving in my inind whether I good evening ! let me know to should ever again re-visit these morrow when you propose to play cherished haunts, where the pleathe return match. By the way the sant days of my childhood and tiffin was a very good one, the youth had been passed, ever champagne undeniably good, and again behold those faces which cooled to a thought; the losers made even the remeinbrance of have to pay for it, so I will send these haunts so swect. the Khansamah to you with the “A penny for your thoughts, bill, and you can collect the Fitz," gaily exclaimed my friends shares : good evening! better as he knocked the ashes out of luck next time.' his pipe, and preparedto re-fil it. Driving home, we came across “I hardly know what I was, Harry Mortlock, his Arab going or rather, what I was not thinkat racing pace. Whither so of, Ludovick home I be. good Harry? Ah ! I see, Heart Lieve." . 66 it was a pre- > ·248 The Folk at our Station. I was certain of that, we have the Non-Commissioned grades talked too much of home to-day. should be made without reference Come now, my fine philosopher, to seniority ; that the smartest and can you trace the progression of best behaved Sepoys shouid be your thoughts from the first idea, selected for promotion, to the exup to the remembrance of home? clusion of the steady old soldiers, Can you define its course, step by who have served long and faithstep, through all its gradations, fully, but who are not quite so and connect the various links of active and spruce as they were the chain into one united series? ten or fifteen years back. He' I trow not : what was your first thinks that in a service, in which thought ?" the officers all obtain promotion “ How you took in our sport in virtue of seniority, and in which ing Lieutenant this morning, and regimental supercession is un. how savage he was with me for known, the same rule should be, as humbugging him with that long far as practicable, maintained with German with the wipy name as the men, and that the oldest solhe calls you ; and the General's dier should always be promoted, pun, I suppose, Rasper, you unless he is physically or inteldesignate him the gentleman lectually unfit for the service, in with the swipy name, because he either of which cases he should swiped away all your balls,' und be pensioned." the old naan chuckled at his own 6 In all of which Lieutenant wit. Fitz Fulke concurs, judging from “Well, suppose we drop our the cvident gusto with which he philosophical discussion, and you enunciates these dicta of superior tell me something about the Genc authority. I asked you for a his.. ral ; he is a fine looking old sol tory of ihs General, not for a disdier." quisition upon the merits of this Thoughts of home have made or that system of promotion in me sad, and I am not much in a the Indian Army ; you have evihumour for story-telling." dently got upon the back of one “ Then the sooner you get into of your hobby horses, and if you one, the better." are not stopped short, you will "Well, there is nothing like mak soon leave a slow coach like mying a beginning, so here goes. Ma self far b hind, if you do not ride jor General Oldham ista soldier of the poor thing to death." the old school; I do not mean to “Well then, I will drop the say that he is an advocate for pipe subject like a hot potato, and tell clay, hair-powder, and pomatu.n, you all I know of the General's but he does not think that the career. He commenced his active moralé of the Indian Armies has service as a subaltern with the been raised by the assimilation of Bengal Volunteers at the storming the Sepoys to the European mo- of Seringapatam ; he was present del ;' he says they marched better at the taking of Alligųrh, and the in sandals and jangheeas, than battles of Delhi and Laswarrie, they do in shoes and pantaloons, also at that of Deeg, and the but above all, he sets his face subsequent capture of the fort. against the order of Sir Henry His next campaign was in Nepal, Fane, requiring that promotion to where he was attached to the Staff 9) >> ·The Folk at our our Station. 249 of the Quarter Master General of Troopers of Irregular Horse; they the Army, and he was employed therefore took a course, which, if in a similar, capacity during the continued In 'a direct line, would Mahratta war.' have led them close to the left “Well, he has seen plenty of flank of their own position. service, and I suppose comes out “Moving off at a trot, they were on grand occasions with the breast prepared to see the enemy attempt of his coat covered with decora to intercept them by a rapid tions." movement, but were surprized to “Not one! his rank was not find that they only endeavoured enough to allow of his admission to retain their place upon their to the Order of the Bath, and in flank. The mystery was soon solvthose days it was not the fashion ed; they had not gone half a mile, to give medals ; now they seem before they discovered a cloud of likely to become as plentiful as. horsemen coming slowly down blackberries : young Lovelace the from the right, and gradually A. 1). C. is to have two for Aff enclosing the space on both flanks, ghanistan and Ghuznee." and to the rear, still strange to “ Did he do 'anything remark say, leaving an opening to the able during the campaign?" front, through which it appear- Nothing; he served with his cd possible to make a successcorps as a Subaltern, just what ful dash. Putting their horses into his uncle did at Seringapatam." a smart canter, they prossed for- “ Well, if that is not a crying ward towards a rising. ground shame, I never-but these inatters right before them, but before they will be set to rights ere long; go could reach the summit, the leads on; I am a bad listener, always of the tall spears of the Mahrattas interrupting you." were seen glancing above it. During the Mahratta war, The Officer in command was a General Oldham had one of those gallant spirit ; he halted his little escapes, which occasionally occur party, gazed round upon the faces to officers on active service, and of the men, where, seeing tesomay be almost termed miraculous,•lusion written, he boldly gave the certainly providential. He was word to draw swords and advance. out with the head of his depart The two parties met almost on the ment in the field reconnoitering ; crest of the ascent, when giving under cover of a small grove they the order to charge, he launched had been observing through their his small treop upon the loose glasses the enemy's position, and ranks of the foe, and burst through taking notes of it, fancying them them like an arrow from a bow,- selves all the while unperceived ; not however without leaving seon energing however from their veral of his gallant little band beshelter, they found the straight hind.' line of retreat to camp tut off by “Now came the hot pursuit, and a body of hostile horse, so numer. they had to run the gauntlet ous that it would have been mad through the best mounted of the ness to have attempted to force a foc, who dashed forward to interpassage through them with an escept them. One by one their folcort consisting of only a Havil lowers fell, out off or overtaken, dar's party of Cavalry, and a few till at last Colonel Oldham, his ·250 The Folk at our Station. was superior and the Havildar, who water, while his rider was runwas better mounted than his com ning beside the charger of his prepanions, rode alone. The pursuit server, whose chicl, was alrcacy seemed to slacken, and they hop far in advance. The Maltrattas, ed the danger past, when sudden baulked of this last remnant of ly they found themselves upon the their prey, fired a few matchlock edge of a broad nullah, many balls at the fugitives, all of the feet dcep, and with lofty perpen party whoever returned to camp. dicular banks : they were enclosed " And what was the General's by a bend of the stream on two „reward for saving the life of thru sides, on the third by foes : escape soldier ?” appeared hopeless. " The mention of his name in " To turn back certain a General Order, and the gratifideath, to attempt to leap the nullah cation which every one fecls at appeared equally so; a moment's having been able to aid a fellowconsultation, and the two Euro creature in distress." pean Officers detemiNed to make " A Roman warrior would have one more effort, for life : turning been crowned with the civic back, they rode slowly towards the enemy, who came on cqually crown in the Capitol ; anything more about the General ?" slowly, with taunting cries as if wishing to prolong the bitterhess “ He has been a peace soldier of death. Having got about a hunsince then ; le rose in his de partdred yards from the ravine, and ment, and was at length obliged about the same distance from their to reşign his appointinent on reach- "opponents, they suddenly wheeled ing the rank of Lient.-Colonel, their horses, round, struck their Con manding a Regiment for some spurs into their flanks, and urging ten years, a Brigade for five, and them to full speed, dashed them at has been in command of this Dithe yawning chasm ; bravely did vision for two. Thus we bring the English horses, on which the him down to the present iime, and General and his brother Officer were proceed to his A. 1. C., Ensign mounted, charge the leap, landing Lovelace, who being but newly themselves and riders safe on the hatched, is all fuss and feathers, other side. Gallantly too did the like a young chicken. Tom Ras- Havildar's little horse follow, but per swears he sleeps in his spurs, the bank crumbled under his hind for that when he went earlier than feet, the rider threw himself upon usual one morning to look at Aunt the neck of the animal, they hung Louisa's sick Arab, he found suspended for a few seconds. That Lovelace asleep on a charpoy in sufficient for the General, the verandah, with his gold laced who had been watching the whole pantaloons, boots, and spurt on." occurrence, and had pulled up " But who is Aunt Louisa, his horse the instant he had clearand who is her Arab; what kind ed the leap to urge him forwald, of an individual is he?" seize the soldier by the collar, I was on the point of explainand drag him from his perilous ins, but perceiving that Ludovick position, was the work of a mo had really misapprehended my ment, the next and the disencum meaning, I thought it as well to bered steed was struggling in the humour his mistake, and replied was 21 ·The Folk at our Station. 251 . . 66 99 19 . ) "This Arab is a very beautiful spinster, and I am surprized that creature, and Aunt Louisa makes she should have continued so long quite a lion of him ; his complex unmarried, when there are forty ion is' brilliant, white as the un thousand good reasons for her sunned snow.' getting a husband.”. “ [le can't be a true Arab; “ A thousandth part would, I they are a swarthy race." should imagine, suffice, or even “ Indeed he is, for I had the one good reason; but what are pleasure of translating his pedigree they?" for his mistress, and a precious. Forty thousand rupees, which tough job it was.' she will have on her wedding day, « Ila! ha! that is rich; a serand I fancy she will get at least as vant with a pedigree !" much more wdien the General Who ever said he was a serdies. There is a chance for you, vant ?" Ludovick !" " You did." By Jow! so there is ! Come, " Devil a bit." “ Then what, are you talking let mo hear all about the fair lady, why do you call her “ Aupt Louabout all this time ?" isa ?! “ A horse, a milk-white Arab, of exceedingly high caste. “ Lovelace called her so when " What on earth has a horse to first-he arrived : now single ladies do with caste ? I thought that do not admire being dubbed Aunt was an Hindoo institution." by young gentlemen with hair on their faces, and he has given up “ So it is; but the Mussulmen in India, who are as ignorant of the practice; but the soubriquet the Koran, as a Jew is of the will stick to her as long as she remains Miss Oldham, so, like a New Testament, and as innocent of all knowledge of Arabic, as I good knight, and true, you should am of High Dutch, have adopted go to her relief," the term, and we have foolishly " I must hear more regarding done the same ; in the present inher first, and, what is more, see stance I mean that the horse is of her.” a very pure blood, descended, it is “ Louisa is the daughter of a said, from the Prophet's famous Cashmerian woman, who resides in mare : he was presented to the a small detached house in the Ge- General by an Arab Merchant, neral's compound. English ladies with whom he has dealt for years were rare in Bengal forty years past, and who, falling sick at this ago, and the General, like too station three years back, received many of the Officers of that day, much kind attention from the Ge formed a connection with a beauneral: the horse's pedigree is a tiful Cashmerian. She became the yard long, and it took me a week mother of children, and he has to translate it." never parted from her. Louisa * “ Never mind the horse's pedi shews her Asiatic extraction in her gree ! give me Aunt Louisa's ?” large dark eyes, and black hair. “ She is the General's youngest I will noc however stop to describe daughter; the other two are mar her further than by saying, that ried ; Aunt Louisa is not very she always reminds me of Byron's youthful, that is, for an Indian Dudu." ) VOL. 1. NO. IV.

·252 Hope and Experience. 2 " A very beautiful creature to “ Doosra bottle port shurab, be reminded of! Forty thousand nimboo, misree, gurrum mussalah, rupees ! well, I must really think sub kooch juldee lao.” over the matter. The snow-white “ Buhoot khoob, khodawund." Arab would be greatly admired “ Our khuburdar, ki panee in Rotten Row; well, here is Aunt kholtee howe, our tazu chilum lao." Louisa's health." “ What an infernal jaw-break- Saying whicń, Ludovick poured ing lingo that Hindostanee is !" the remaining contents of a jug " Yes ! ncarly as barbarous as standing upon the teapoy at his .German." elbow, into his tumbler, quaffed “ You beno, I won't swear; the generous liquor, drew a long it is improper ; and Dudu, I mean breath, and smacked his lips in Aunt Louisa, would not approve token of satisfaction, of it. Come, quick with the brew; " You do not make a bad brew I must hear more about your sta- Fitz; : squeeze more of lemon, tion lions before I get too sleepy a trifle less spice, and it would be to listen." undeniable.' “I rather think not; I hear the By which you of course mean sound of wheels ;" Harry is home that you are ready for another. I early ; so we will discuss the grillwill keep an eye on you next ed bones, instead of the “ Folk time, for talking so much is dry at our Station." work, and you certainly appear “Supher tyar hie, Khodawund.” to consider the brew drinkable Good night, reader! Harry says with all its faults : Khidmut- he is hungry,; can he really be in love then, think you ? Sahib ? REGLD. Fitz FULKE. gar!" HOPE AND EXPERIENCE. I. God's earth is bright with sunny beams, Green trees, rich fruits, and blushing flowers, There's music in the mountain streams, And holy rest in shady bowers. The west wind murmurs o'er the mead, Waving the high grass to and fro- Dailies with lily, and with reed, And seems as if 'twere loth to go! The soaring lárk sublimely sings With distant note, distinct and clear, While butterflies, with painted wings, Are gaily fluttering far and near. 0! look and listen ! stay alıd suse ! Of Nature's beauties drink thy fill, And say, if mortal can refuse To deem this earth an Eden still ?

·Hope and Experience. 253 II. Ay, look and listen : in the bower, That nestles in the shady grove, A maiden weeps the fatal hour Of broken faith and slighted love ! The murmuring vind bears accents wild From yonder cottage in the vale, A widowed mother mourns her child, With constant tears and ceaseless wail ! And lo! upon the distant plain, The sun's far darting beams reveal The steady march of armed men, With banners bright and glittering steel. Of Nature's beauties sing no more, The Serpent's trail is over all- An Eden may have smiled of yore, But never, never since the Fall! III. Yet in the maid's unsullied breast, Pure truth unalterably dwells, There darker passion nder shall rest To mar the tale her anguish Alls. The mourning mother's sorrow, too, Is holy as yon skies above, Whither bright angels, fond and true, In merey bear her little love. And those fierce men who o'er the plain March onward slowly to the strife, Will ne'er witth crime their banners stain- They fight for freedom, home, and life! Say not, then, Sin's destroying blight Is over everything below, Since virtues still are shiningo bright, Like those that did in Eden glow! IV. Like those ! ab! weigh thy words againai In that fair garden all was pure,--- The body ne'er was racked with pain- The spirit's happiness was sure. No falsehood vile, no fearful strife, No drear disease with venom'd breath All, all was love, and light, and life The world had tasted not of death. But here, upon this varied scene, No joy unlinked with care we know, And scarce a virtue but is Kin To some proud vice or secret woe. This is the doom that God hath willed, And this must be in patience borne Until the sentence is fulfilled, And Eden's days in truth return! T. J. A. S.

·[ 254 ] LINDENSTOWE.- A TALE, SERENE will be our days, and bright, And happy will our vat be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security." WORDSWORDB. BOOK THE FIRST. CHAPTER VI. Most of the morning was spent cealed from you. On my last by Arthur in concocting an epistle: visit to this place, I was happy to Mr. Lattimer, and it was sent enough to receive some assurance off early in the afteriison. Old Mr. that feelings of affection, which Chester was very much knocked my intercourse with your family up with his walk on the cliffs, had engendered towards Miss Lat. so Arthur went out by himself, timer, your daughter, were not and, hiring a horse, galloped along wholly unreturned. This was kept the coast to Pevensey. Aman from your knowledge, merely in in Arthur's circumstances rides the fear, lest your unqualified with a loose rein, abstractedly, refusal of permission should at and occasional pieces of grass are once crush my-no, I may say got over at racing pace. Arthur the word-our hopes. But conaccordingly rode after this fashion. cealment is no longer proper. And at levensey, amongst the You we rich, my dear sir, ancient ruins, he lay an hour by Miss Lattimer is an heiress, and I the dial on the grass, looking up know it is your wish, a natural at the silent walls, and musing full and a worthy one, that by her the of hope and anxiety. There, per name and interest of your family haps, on the same spot, had lain. should be advanced. long since some youch in the an I cannot offer rank or station tique garb of centuries gone by, or influence. By birth a gentleand yet his heart berting with the man, a .d I may say of some edusame love, for the heart knows cation, as my Cambridge degree not the changing frshions of time. testifies for me, I look forward to In the meantime his letter had entering that profession to which reached Mr. Lattimer,, and its indeed society has thrown open contents had better be disclosed. all her doors freely and unexclu- Hastings, July 18. sively, but which has little of what is called distinction to hold out in MY DEAR SIR;-I arrived at prospecr to the ambitious : I mean this place yesterday, having Just of course—the Church. My unreturned from Geneva. The rea cle is one of the Judges, and son of my coming was a wish to through him perhaps a crown-livacquaint you with some circum ing may be obtained for me, and stances which I feel I have done that is the horizon of my career. wrong in keeping so long con To tell you that I think your ·Lindenstowe-A Tale. 25 . 66 Can daughter would be happy with easy, cheerful manner, has, all said me, is more than I can venture to and done, a good deal of presence prophesy. To leave the comforts about him. He immediately saw and advantages of her father's that all was not right. home, and to forget the possibili “ Are the ladies thinking of • ties of rank in a country-parson the boat this afternoon, Lattiage, is undoubtedly a trial for mer?" he began. affection, a trial to which I do not “No, I think ifot,' replied the think it would yield, but which other, “there is no wind, and they you might believe would be tri, will only be ill." umphant. I will not bụrthen “My dear sir," said Lord you with sentiment, but this much Redgate, “there's a beautiful I must say: You have now seen breeze sprung up ; it's just the a great deal of the world, but you day for a sail. can remember, I feel sure, before “ Oh yes," said Mr. Lattimer, the busy days, the dreaming days "there's a beautiful brecze sprung when your fancy pourtrayed to up ; it's just the day for a sail." you in lier brightest folors, the As this was spoken evidently girl you could love. From all without Mr. Lattimer knowing I have heard from Miss Lattimer a word he was saying, there was of her mother, and froin the beaua pause. At length Lattimer tiful face she has shown me in looked up with a strange expresa miniature, you were fortunate sion, and said abruptky, enough to find in Mrs. Lattimer, you keep a secret ?" the ideal of your happiest imagin-. I never have kept any thing of ings. I too have had my dreams, the kind yet, but there is nothing and to me the memorable chance like trying," replied the other. of meeting your daughter fulfilled Well, then, read that," said the brightest, and I saw before Lattimer, putting Arthur's letter me, in reality, the beloved phantom into his hand, and then getting up, my hopes had created. Here I hastily threw open the window, must leave the matter in your and asked an old woman who was hands. I have Miss Lattimer's passing, in a loud voice, what fish kind assurance that her feelings she had got. Lord Redgate have undergone no change since turned perhaps a little pale when our last meeting, and therefore I he first opened the letter, but may add, that we both wait with quickly regaining his composure, deep anxiety your reply. he hastily perused its contents, Believe me, and shutting it up. took it to Mr. With great sincerity yours, Lattimer. ARTHUR CHESTER. “ It's a•very nice letter, and With this letter open before him, written in a fine hand, but, my Lattimer was sitting alone and dear sir, you will get into great silent, both hands in his pockets, scrapes with the ladies, if you, and his feet stretched straight out, shew me such matters as these ; when the servant threw open the you should lock them up in your door, and announced "Lord Red-writing desk.” gate.” Lord Redgate was looking This speech rather disconcertexceedingly blooming and bright, ed Mr. Lattimer; Lord Redgate and a well-dressed man, with an was preparing to leave the room. 66 ·256 Lindenstowe-A Tale. " Where are you going, Lord Redgate ?" Upstairs, to pay my respects to the ladies. “ But you are not going to speak about this,” said Lattimer, holding up the letter. Gad, no- should think I wasn't ; get you into a pretty row if I did," replied the other, and he left the room laughing. Lattimer was very much surprised : Lord Redgate's attentions indeed had been marked, and his wishes had been certainly understood, if not expressed ; and yet he seemed perfectly imlitterent about the contents of Arthur's letter. The ladies would not go out boating, and so Lord Redgate went away After he was gone, Lattirer wrote hiin a note saying, “ I am very sorry Eva did not inform you before of this foolish engagement, and I sincerely trust you are not offended at her conduct." The answer was, “ We can have the boats another day. I should like Miss Lattimer to hear you call her engagement foblisha one --why she would not come today because she was going to prayers at the Church, Tell her however, that I do not believe in the prayers, but I think she's in a rage at losing that pair of gloves to me yesterday ; I very much offended, and have just made a bad stroke in consequence." This note was dated from the Billiard room, and headed by a jocose sketch in pen and ink, of a young gentleman and a young lady standing together, the former pointing to a boat one way, and the latter to a Church the other." On its receipt Lattimer was still more confused and now much hurt. He did not answer Arthur's letter that day, but remained in a moody curious temper, and was very silent and abrupt at dinner, frequently looking at Eva, who, as she knew what was under consideration, had considerable difficulty in preserving an unmoved expression. Arthur in the meantime having come back from Pevensey, and finding no answer, spent a fitful evening of conjectures; sometimes soating into high spirits from having argued himself into the belief that no news must be good news; then again sinking into sloughs of despond from fancying that deliberation in a case like his, would only strengthen disapproval. The next morning Mr. Lattimer sent for Eva, before breakfast: as soon as she came, he said in a harsh tone, without any preface, “Eva, if you do this, you cannot have the money." a 1 am “ Dearest father," she said, “I am sure we shall not want the money ; it is the produce of your own industry and labors, and therefore it is more especially at your own disposal. I can be happy without wealth. I would sooner be poor with him, than an heiress with any one else." Eva," said her father, getting up and kissing her with tears in you have disappointed me deeply; but never mind now, the plans of a lifetime are frustrated, and the hopes I had founded upon you have crumbled away. However regret is no use, if you will not marry whom I wish you to do," he added rather bitterly, you may just as well marry the parson or any one else ; you may marry th clerk or the sexton either for what I care." his eyes, Eva was ·Lindenstowe--A Tale. Letonc, disposed to burst into tears at the The poet Keats, in his beginning of this speeth, but the vinia," has these lines :- sneer at Arthur dried her eye in an instant, and brought the flush into “And then she whispered in such trembling her cheek. Lattiiner saw she was As those who safe together met alone, hurt, and said, “Well, well, I will For the first time through many anguished days, not say unkind things ; go away, Use other speech than looks." Eva dear, and I will write to this young gentleman." One odd And so did Arthur and Eva thing about this brief conversa-, mcet for the first time after many tion was, that father and daughter desponding days, as openly behad never exactly mentioned what trothed, and so did they whisper they were talking about, but had long together brightly of the fubegun as if it was a topic they ture, and with pleasurable sadness were always discussing : though, of the past. they had never spoken of it before. The next day the old men were About 11 o'clock Arthur received introduced to each other, and the following note from Mr. Lat- though as different as possible, got timer. on very well, for Chester was slow MY DEAR SIR,- I am a man of to see any one's faults, and Latbusiness, and I do not see why timer was always attracted by people should not be straightfor graceful manners, partly erhaps ward in all matters, love included ; from a sense of his own vicientherefore I do not approve of cies in that respect. That evenyour asking my daughter a ques ing all parties met at dinner at Mr. tion a year ago which I am to an- 'Lattimer's house ; afterwards Miss Lattimer is an there was music, and mellow were heiress, Mr. Chester willenot be : the voices of Arthur and Eva as we understand each other-ver they joined together in a duet. bum suff. If on receiving this Miss Hesther insisted upon a call : hint, your views remain unaltered, she wanted " that little mopish I make no opposition to your thing I like," and Eva sang alone coming and telling Eva so. • to a simple air with a few sad lit- Yours truly, tle touches of minor in it, the fol- Thomas LATTIMER. lowing swer now. BALLAD. Oie Todten dauarn inmar. I. She dwelt amidst the ruins Of former hopes and fears, And prais'd the merry doings Of long departed years. She said—the dgad came round me, From grassy graves afar, No griefs can now confound me, They have been and They are. 0 ·258 Lindenstowe-A Tale. II. To Her no vow was plighted, No tender words were said; Her smile, her kiss was slighted, But still remain'd the dead. She lov'd those phantom faces, And knew that they lov'd her, Nor sigh'd for new embraces, They had been and They were. Miss Hesther was very funny might be delivered : after careful about love matters ; she had been watching, she at length thonght perfectly taken by surprise the she perceived a slight leaning day before when Eva disclosed towards the medical man, who, the proposed marriage ; she was by the way, was a very quiet perfectly blind to all the symp widower of five-and-forty ; the toms of heart vohirplaint ; she gloominess of whose looks had had no diagnosis of love. Once lost himn ,half his practice. Iter indeed, not long after she came caution to Eva " not to think of to live with her brother, she took it," and her solemn assurance that it into her head, that as an aunt, papa would never approve," it forn a part of her duties to were received with such convulkeep a ducnna look-out against sions of laughter on Eva's part, lovers : so she tried to observe if that the aunt had calmly sunk Eva discovered a weakness for any back into permanent blindness and one in particular, that a warning negligence from that hour. 11 CHAPTER VII. werc. The moment Lattimer, in the Eva after his first offer. It was curious impulse of the moment, so far impossible to contradict put Arthur's letter into Lord this, that he certainly never had Redgate's hand, the latter per-' made any stated proposals the seceived that he shouid be placed cond time, but still neither Lattiin rather a foolish position. He mer nor Eva had the least doubt felt that extreme unrrillingness to in their minds as to what his lose the chance of a match which wishes Lord Redgate's would at once have retrieved his was a peculiar sort of character : fortunes had,led him to forget his he was exceedingly good humourself-respect, and to put hin.selfed, but he had a passion for acin circumstances un..orthy of his quiring calmness and an apathy usual circumspection and savoir to emotion : the passion - often faire. He saw in the glance of requiring him to be a little heartan eye, his only escape from all less, anu the apathy to seem more embarrassment: it was nota ge SO. He would never do anything nerous idea, but then perhaps a for a friend if it required him to man of a generous mind would appear anxious : he would meet never have been exactly in the his best friend after separation same position ; it was to affect with the same calm cheerful smile that he had never thought of which he bestowed on a morning ·Lindenstowe-A Fale. 259 visitor. School-fellows at Eton who should have been most had been delighted with him as happy. a companion p he did everything Eva was a little sorrowful and well --boating and swimming and touched, that her father should all athletic sports----but when a have said, “You have disappointfellow was ill, Lord Redgate, was ed me." not the least the sort of boy to do Arthur was rather chagrined at any of the little offices of the sick feeling that he was & bad match, room for him, and these traits and was asking a girl to thwart were soon found out, so that he' her father's wishes, and resign her had been admired and liked, but fortune-having only to offer in not loved. He did not therefore compensation-himself: though hnusitate to take advantage of the the remembrance that this conpresent loophole to escape a di pensation had been deemed suflemma, and having a plentiful :ficient was of course soothing tostock of self-possession, made use what we all have, -his vanity. of it very well. Lattimer called Old Chester, tuo, did not feel to see him, in the hope of being quite sure whether things were able to explain matters, but was not going on too straight for met with so cheerful a flow of the battle of life; there seemconversation on ordinary topics, ed so little necessity for selfthat he had no opportunity of inreliance. troducing what he came to talk But the shade passed away ; about, and went away half doubt time did a little and love indre ; ing, whether he must not have and old Chester hit upon a most mistaken the young Lord's inten fortunate thought for his tions. Lord Redgate called also comfort that Eva was certainly himself upon Eva, meeting her fighting bravely in giving up the without the least embarrassment, money, so that there was a strugwas introduced to Arthur, and ac gle after all : though I believe tually took him aside on leaving, the, thought of the money never to congratulate him on having entered dear Eva's head. won the affections of "an uncom When things were thus brightmon fine girl." Eva was natu ening, Lattimer suddenly prorally annoyed with this coolness, posed one morning, with a very but after the first little wound was cheerful air, that they should got over, it was obviously the all go to Paris. This the more most convenient to all parties that astonished them, as he was not Lord Redgate had chosen to be fond of the Continent ; in fact, have as he did. What seemed had only been once extraordinary was, that old Latti Rhine".with Eva; but all liked mer, though occasionally in odd the plan except Miss Hesther, who bewildered humours, was more perhaps looked forward to some favourable to Arthur, and less little trouble with the French vexed with all the circumstances tongue, and had heard, moreover, which had occurred, than any one .that French beds could have expected. All othis aired, and French maid-servants was very well, and yet after the very flighty. Old Chester decidfirst joyful excitement of success, ed too, that he would not go in there fell a blank upon those person, but he was delighted that own up the were never VOL. 1.NO. IY.

·woman 360 Lindenstowe--A Tale. Arthur should have an opportu Norfolk to Lindenstowe, when nity of visiting Paris. The Lat Beauchamp, dying in Chester's timers went up to London to arms, commended them to his prepare for the trip, and Arthur charge. Martin had spent all his accompanied his father back to days in Dr. Beauchamp's service, Lindenstowe, from whence he was with the exception of an æra in to join the Lattimers, when they early life, where he had lived with were ready. More distant plans one Mr. Roberts, a Merchant in were that Arthur was to enter Suffolk, and this period Martin the Church at the close of the always looked upon as having year, and that all exertions were given him a complete knowledge to be made through Mr. Chester's of, and insight into, the world. brother, and by Lattimer, to get The difficulty with Mrs. Scrimhim a living, and as soon as he shaw was of a two-fold naturę, first, obtained preferment, and was ca- iwho was Scrimshaw, and then did pable of holding ita, the marriage she sleep in the black silk bonwas to take place. net : au reste she was exceeding- All seemed so gentle and ly shy, and had a habit of talking hushed when Arthur and Mr. on domestic matters from behind Chester were seated again on a half-opened door, so that a voice the lawn at Lindenstowe on the indeed was heard, but no eveninge of their return, that was visible : finally, she was very to Arth the place looked sweeter red faced, not in the limited sense than it had ever done before. of red cheeks, but red forchicad When our hearts are happy, how. also and red.chin. keen the eye to detect the latent Presently Mr. Flant, the parson beauty and brightness in things of the village adjoining the cotaround us ! Martin and Mrs. tage, cásled Yalton, came up to Scrimshaw were of course there pay his respects. He was one with their welcome. These two of a class which has now almost old people were comparatively disappeared. How he could have new friends of Mr. Chester, but got into the Church with not a dear to him as reminding him letter of Greek or a formula of of his oldest friend' Dr. Beau theology, one does not know. but champ, a Norfolk clergyman. Let once in, and settled in a small me pourtray thee fos' an instant, village where Greek would have thou gentlest, if weakest of the been of no use, and theology of human race ! Oh the charities little more, he did very well. thou didst bestow ! Oh the bencfits He scolded the people when they thy heart swelled to perform ! Oh were living badly; physieked them the poor who blesseor thy name! when they were vil with a few The very ruffiaus praised thee, for simples ; farmed himself a little ; thou didst not stint even them dined with the farmers and the their share, “ Poor things,” thou schoolmaster ; very seldom gave wouldst say, " if they are to suf a sermon atall on Sunday ; and fer in the next world, it is hard when he did, it was one of an old that they should starve in this." batch he bought years ago at Martin and the house-keeper were Plymouth : but still in the whole two spoiled servants of this tender he was hardly unsuited to the heart, and were transferred from rude capacities and humble spiri- ·Lindenstowe-A Tale. 26.1 . tual wants of his parishioners, for fellow I told my two compahe was of pure life and kindly nions the fact of love calling you disposition, and this secured him away, and of your going to be martheir respect. ried, in due course of time, as soon Marquis, too, was on the lawn, as I heard it for certain. Goodall you may be sure, first makipg vio said you were too young, at which lent circular excursions through Delafield was very indignant, and the shrubs, and finally sitting replied, “ Too young to love-vis down in a wild sort of way in he too young to live ?" front of the party. "No," said the instrument dirty A few days after Arthur's re enough, “ not if he has got any turn to Lindenstowe, he received thing to live on." Here the suba letter in a well known hand, and ject concluded for a time. Delawith. post mark, Geneva, which field was really very affectionate here follows: about you, and being shortly after Geneva, August, 18– taken with 2 pang of poetry, he Glorious news ! Defeat of the shed some verses on your future Lords, triumph of the Commons ! lady--which he obegs to insert yes, dear pal--but how came you here. Ile requested me to be to let more than ten days pass particular about the capitals (it is after your victory without a word æsthetical, you know, to use capito poor me. So that I literally tals) and to put them in just as he heard the news from my brother wrote them. You remember how George, no ready penman as you elaborately he arranges his poeknow ; hc, by the way, seems to try: these lines were on faint blue have no idea that Lord Redgate paper, and written ir his most had ever been in the field. Well, beautiful hand, which indeed is many congratulations, my dear always a beautiful one. TO THE UNKNOWN LADY. I have not seen Thee, Florimel, but Him I know, Thy Loved, and I have loved him tor; Therefore shall Fancy deck Thee with a wreath, Pleasant Imagination trick Thee out With woodbine and the blue forget-me-not; And Hope, like Iris, wind-heeled, Deautiful, Shall trip before Thee, leaving in her track, Foot-prints of many colored mingled hues, To guide Thee on the Pilgrimage of Life.com CRAUDE DELAFIELD, Geneva. I told him the lady's name (I behaves in so absent a manner ! ventured to do so) was Eva and He has large eyes, and there seems not Florimel, and he told me I to be a sort of shade thrown over had no soul for the ideal, so I got them and the lower part of the nothing by the suggestion. The forehead, which is rather striking. Pollens are gone : before they But he does not appear at all a went Sir Julian joined them. He superior person. What a difficult is such a strange creature : he question that seems ; whether wears such dreamy clothes, and music appeals to, or is dependent ·Tell me I I ain 5262 Lindenstowe--A Tale. upon, the intellect. A poet of without harmony after all; it could course must be all mind, a painter not have been any thing worth must have a very fine mind, need hearing." a musician have any ? I nearly laughed in his face ; what you think on this. Now I is not the utter predominence of will relate a conversation I had one idea strange ? with him ; I asked him (rather Well, we are hurrying our steps & stupid question) which conti homeward soon. I have got a pernental country he liked best He fect portfolio of drawings which I said he preferred the Catholic to hope will amuse my sisters. the Protestant countries, because long. to introduce Mrs. Arthur more care was taken in the former Chester elect to them. with sacred music. A hint, dear sure they will all get on beauti- Arthur, for you and me some day fully : Emily will, I think, be to see what we can do in this the favorite. My father is crazy matter. Well then I said next, about camphor just now: he has “ Are not a great many of the just got the idea from Raspail or leading performers Jews ?" He some Frerch physician, and it is looked at me for a moment as to prevent all sorts of diseases. if to know why I asked—and George writes me he is getting then answered-yes--presently his guns ready, and that llarvey he added, " Oh ! by the bye, you is trying to learn Spanish-is he are going into the Church ; you not a very odd boy ? Such a will have to preach probably about iere lad, with so great a passion King David." I said "Very proba for lonowledge. Well, Delafield bly I migkt." "Well," he said, "T and Goodall are clamoring for do not think you will make much dinner-s0 I must stop : they of him." " Why not?'' said I, send besc regards. "Why," he replied, "his Neginoth Believe me, as ever, yours, and Gittith are all very well, but FRED. EVERETT. CHAPTER VIII. At length the summons came every thing was enhanced doubly to Arthur at Lindenstowe; the to Arthur by the company in Lattimers and the party embark which ithwas enjoyed. ing at Folkestone, crossed to Amongst the English families Boulogne, and thence to Paris. residing there, the Lattimers by It was sometim before the sea chance got introduced to the son, and therefore everything was Pollens, whom Fred. Excrett has not at its brightest, but still Paris described, and who had come there is never veryo dull_" c'est un from Switzerland. Lady Pollen chaos, to use Voltaire's words, proved quite as rattling as Fred. “ c'est une presse dans laquelle had said she was, and Norah quite tout le monde cherche le pldisir,' as Chinese. Lattimer enjoyed and must we add at this day too, . himself exceedingly, and was in "et où presque personne ne le very high spirits : he was a great trouve ?" deal out by himself, and one day There is plenty to see in ſaris, Arthur calling accidentally at the and of course the pleasure of Pollens, was surprised to iind Mr.

·Lindenstowe-A Tale. 268.com His long 7 66 Lattimer there, and positively lis of how utterly inappropriate a tening to a song which Norah was husband he would be for poor litsinging at the piano. The Pol tle Norah." Eva was tearfully lens also dined several times at astonished by this announcement. Lattimer's by his particular re It was a clue, however, though quest. she did not iminediately per- At last, one morning Lattimer ceive it to be so, to part of came into the room where Eva Lattimer's condutt which may was sitting by herself, reading, have seemed inexplicable-his and sat down near her without . easy acquiescence in Eva's marspeaking : after a while he said riage with Arthur. with a half comical, shy expres cherished scheme of marrying his sion, " I shall beat you now, daughter to some one of influence Eva !” or title, in the hope of advancing What do you mean, papa ?" his family in station, began to flag asked she, looking up. a little when he saw that she was Why, my dear, I believe I a yirl of great determination, and shall better and worse, it first,” who would not marry any one said he, laughing. she did not love, and somettme be- “I really do not understand fare Arthur came forward, though you." Lattimer still urged the Redgate Why, to tell you the truth, I matchi, he had began inwardly am thinking of marrying." to meditate whether another “ What ? papa,” cried Eva, scheme was not feasible. So that "impossible." .when Arthur did propose, though " Is it though," said her father, it was annoying, deeply.annoying surely you do not want to have to Lattimer to give up any scheme the monopoly of marrräge, do he had in view, for he was very obstinate, still it at once decided But, papa, you never told him to adopt his new plan. And No, no-why should I," he this, In short, was no other than interrupted, “ till all was settled." to marry again, in hopes of a son. " But who is the lady ?" “ I shall live, humanly speaking," “ Who do you think ?" he calculated,"twenty-five years “I really cannot guess," said longer," (he was then about five- Eva, and she really could not, and-fifty, bo whis was taking rather for the idea had never entered a favourable View of the chances her head. of life)" and may live to see my “ Her name begins with P." boy with my money in his hand, What! Lady Pollen; oh, ne and such an education as I never had, in his fiead, -a rising man, "No, noº; not quite so bad as just going into Parliament for that : Miss Pollen would be a any thing any body can tell.” little nearer the mark-oh! fancy Part, of course, of this plan was, my marrying the old woman; ha, that Eva was not to have the ha, ha!" .money, as indeed he had fully Mr. Lattimer seemed veby Warned her. Thoroughly bent much amused at this idea, but now on the hopes of a second there would be some perhaps family, he dismissed Eva, not more disposed to sigh at thinking indeed from his affection, but from you?" ver !"

·264 Lindenstowe-A Tale. 2 a his thoughts, as far as caring the least about what her career and prospects might be. The next question naturally was--the wife? With a whimsical, affectionate sort of memory for his first lady, he thought he should like to marry another French woman, and in this wish originated his plan of going to Paris. But when he got there, and was introduced to the Pollens, he thought, on second reflection, that they were just the people for him to form an alliance with, possessing, as they did, some influence from family connexion, and yet from narrow means anxious in any way to secure wealthy relation. The old woman was much too glad to get hold of a man of Lattimer's property even to consult Norah on the subject of yes, or no, and indeed the poor girl, from an apathetic disposition, and a thoroughly heartless education, was very easily moulded to any, plan. Sir Julian was a mere cypher in domestic matters, and acquiesced in any thing his mother proposed, if she would only leave him alone to his beautiful reverie of sound, Lattimer's courtship was odd and awkward, and rendered more so by Norah's waxen placidity; however the old woman danceti round them, and by joking Lattimer and putting words into Novah's moutheverything was at last settled. There was no occasion for any delay; the trousseau was soon provided in the city of milliners, and Lattimer ran over to London for a day or two with Sir Julian to manage about the papers, the Baronet having been crammed by his mother as to what points he was to 100k to ; but her advice, I fear, passed long before they reached town, into Fugues and such like, and floated into the air. The marriage was performed in the most orthodox style by Bishop L., and the happy pair set off for the south of France. Eva went to live with the Pollens, who shortly after took her with them to Nice, where Lattimer and his wife had gone; and where the whole party were to winter. Arthur returned, when Eva and the Pollens left, to England, and once again in the quiet cottage, his stay at Paris seemed all like a charming vision of pictures and palaces, and theatres and music, and poetry and love. A lifetime only contains one or two delightful occasions of this sort : they are soon over, and we return to the dead level of ordinary occupations ; but happily for us what we have once enjoyed is permanently our's, and the merry days abide with us whilst recollection lasts. CHAPTER IX. ALTHOUGH I'am drawing very In the interim he had served as near the conclusion of the first Deacon in a small Church in the part of this narrative, I must ask city, city, 80 that he had frequent the reader to imagine the lapse of opportunities of being with the a year and a half. To prevent Lattimers: In 1842, the living confusion, I will here mention of Gilston St. Mary's became dates. Arthur Chester took or vacant, and Arthur's uncle could ders in the winter of 1841-42, have got him nominated, but and priest's orders a year after. he was not then a priest : how·ever zon. ! no Aud leaveth me al Lindenstowe-A Tale. 265 an old clergyman, curate The sound of footsteps and of a village near Lihdenstowe, voices in conyersation at a disconsented to hold Gilston till Ar tance seemed unnaturally clear thur was a priest, and then vacate. in the gloomy silence of the ele. Accordingly, in the beginning of ments. Every now and then, far 1843, Arthur became the incum out at sea, forks of fire fell out bent of Gilston. There was now from the faintness of the horizon therefore obstacle to the into the waters beneath. Arthur marriage. In the time which had felt a most singular depression of etapsed, Delafield and Frederick • mind, that utter faintness of Emery bad both passed respect spirits, thus beautifully described able examinations, taken their de by Barry Cornwall :- grecs, and started in life. Dela A deep and a mighty shadowfield had got a clerkship in one of Across my heart is throwu, Like the cloud on a summer meadow, the Government offices, and Fred. • When the Thunder-wind hath blown ; The wild-rose', fancy, dietli, having entered the Church, was The sweet-hardeniory, tlieth, settling as curate in a village near East Bourn, in Sussex. He was oppressed by an un- Lord Redgate was going on bearable longing for gas-lighted badly in default of money ; he rooms, wine, song, laughter, anywas living expensively, chiefly in thing but this : and in a feverish town, not mixing in high society, state of this kind he went to bed. for of that indeed he had hardly He remembered these things afever seen anything, but to be inet terwards, nor could he dissociate with on race-stand.sm in theatre from the omens of the day that saloons, or at gambling houses, the next morning when the thunwith tolerable certainty. der clouds had all broken up, and It was now summer, and once a great sea was dashing in, and a again the Lattimers were at their breeze blustering in his face, favorite Hastings : Arthur also poor little Marquis, who had gone was there, and Mr. Chester, and ous with hin, deafened by the even Martin and Marquis. The waves, and heedlessly walking in marriage was fixed for a week the middle of the road, was killed. later than a day I have now to A butcher's cart was driving along, describe. To positively state that and Arthur, seeing the dog in coming events cast their Shadows the way, called out its name : the before" would savour of supersti poor thing, hearing his familiar tion. We do not calculate the ma voice, but not sceing him at the ny shadows after which no event moment, stood stil, bewildered, comes, so that what seems super and was crushed under the wheel. natural may perhaps be account The death of a favourite dog is ed for by the laws of mere chance. really a great nuisance ; it is ab- However this may be, Arthur cer solute grief'; and yet you can neitainly called to inind afterwards, ther expect sympathy, nor oth long afterwards, the peculiarity of yourself with lamentation. "The the evening preceding this day. .only relief at the time is to be It was a hot stifling night » the angry, and accordingly Arthur sea was utterly hushed, and of a was furious with the butcher's sombre color, from the black skirt boy, who, as he was looking the of cloud which hung on the hori other way, and as dogs are gene·mat 266 Lindenstowe-A Tale, rally supposed to be able to take about on rough seas, and starving care of themselves, was not the on bare istands-here the poor least in blaine. Old Chester was devil is. Will my Uncle consent quite cut up, and insisted on hav to see me : all this wind and seaing the poor little carcase, with its water ought to take out some of startling glazed eyes, buried, the old scores against me. Mine which ceremony Martin perform is a strange story, such as happens ed in the 'enclosed garden of a but to one of a thousand men. square, not then finished, at St. Ask your father if I may come Leonard's, where his bones remain and tell it you. I am staying in unto this day. a tavern near London Bridge. About one o'clock, Arthur was Do you remember, Eva, how we sitting alone in the verandah of parted, and what we said, or are the house his father and he had you like the rest of theiņ? I taken, when a servant brought suppose I must not expect the in a little note. It was Eva's world to change its fashions for hand-writing, but in the most my particular benefit, and must wild and blotteri characters. Ar put up with being a forgotten. thur tore it open ; it ran thus : Your loving Cousin, “ Dearest Arthur,--Come, I be- ALBAN II ESCOTT. secch you, this instant to our house. June, 1843. Aunt Hesther will tell you all. The reader will kindly remem- I am tod'ill to write more. Your ber that he and myself know more distracted Eva." Arthur flew to about Alban than poor Arthur the Lattimer's house, and rushed. did. .lle had only a faint gliminto the drawing-room. Mr. and mering of facts, through an im- Mrs. Lattimer were sitting out on perfect story of the events, about the beach ; the room was empty. a cousin which, as it ended in this Presently in came Miss Hesther ; cousin being drowned, was not she was deadly pale ; she held a one naturally that Arthực would letter in her hand ; she mumbled take interest in as affecting his out-"I have got a strange story prospects. to tell you, Mr. Chester, but you 'Arthur, however, in an instant know that Eva made a kind of connected this rumour with the disvow to him, you know, before he closures of the letter, and wove out was dead." This was not very a thread Yrom them both. He lookintelligible, as Miss Hesther per ed wild and bewildered, Miss Hestceived herself, so "urning red, her rushed in utter incapacity offurshe continued,-“I really cannot ther explanation from the room. A explain matters, but read for your moinent after the door opened, and self, and you will understand." Eva entered in. Arthur kney the Arthur seized the proffered letter; step ; he dare not trust himself to it was written in a large rapid look up., Had he, he would have seen that she was ashy pale; there BRITISH FLAG TAVERN, were blue lines beneath her eyes ; London Bridge. her white lips quivered. But a DEAREST EVA,--Have you for beautiful woe lay on her brow, and gotten a wretched cast-away of a humbled her eye, and thus she fellow, called by such a fine name walked in speechless--her black as Alban Hescott. Atter knocking hair hanging in disordered tresses. hando ·Slanzas for Music. 267 She came to the sofa and sat down in a more settled voice, and disby Arthur ; hc put out his hand engaging alorself from his arm, without turning his head, and so which was passed guardingly and they remained for a few seconds atfectionately round her, “I cansilent. At last he looked her in not, must not marry you: oh what the face and said, “ Dearest Eva, shall we do," she added, "I lear what is all this?” She bumst into Papa's step on the stairs." Poor a flood of relieving tears, and then girl, it was not left to her at that jn sobs, and scarcely articulate moment to decide how to act ; words, but still with the cloquence for the feclings of the occasion of sorrow, when pride has once re were too heavy for woman's frame moved its restraint, she relatea to bear; she sat down, saying she the whole story of how she was felt, giddy and faint, and in a few brought up with Alban and seconds fell back gently on the of their early love, and of cushions in a state of unconscihow he was thought to have perished. Ewl in a swoon on the sofa: What, wlrat shåll I do ? Arthur, the picture of despair, clearest Arthur," she passionately standing over her; an open letter exclaimed. · I cannot, dare not lying on the carpet: this was the forsake him ; ly all that is boly scene presented to Lattimer, and in love, I am pledged to reneu Iris little impassive wile, as they ber him! Arthur !” she said entered the room. Ousness. 6. END OF TJIR FIRST BOOK. STANZAS FOR MUSIC. Fondly trusts the heart of youth In breasts it kindred deems, Fondly hopes in love and truth, Oh ! how sweet its drcams ! Sadly mourns the heart of youth, Lonely and forsaken, Vainly sighs o'er vanish'd truth, Oh! how sad to waken: Augustus TOWARD. VOL. 1.NO. iv.

·† 268 ] "THE DYING DEIST. ( Exth SCT FROM A LETTFK TO THE EDITOR." Yes ; it is true, poor is dead, peace to have maner. He was one of the finest hearted beings that ever struggled with the diſfrultres of Inte, and at the same tino probably one of the most unhappy. Generous and hencvolcot mibe extrenie, he walked iipon the carth like an angel, shedding peakc and happiness around him, whercorret hic went ; abd yet for all this, I fully believe that no man ever knew less peace ihan lunself, or tasted less happiness than he did. Alas! he was cursed with a spirit ouubeliel,-- pirit which, robbing him of all rest in this world, banished all certainty of another, and a better, from his aching brcast. His was not the pride of intellect whirl dcludes too many into rejecting the only thing which sheds a certain balm upon the wounded heart, and the troubles and trials of life ; with him it was the mistake (and ah' howlearly hic pan for that error, these lines will show) of supposing that Revelution, if true, must be in that accordance with human ideas of truth and justice. The lines which I inclose, were found upon his tablc the morning of Mis death ; they had evidently been written the night before , and though they contain much that I can neither agree with, or approve, they may yet do good by awakening some waverers to a sense of the niserics that those expenance, who, through cherishing some darling error, cast away from them the blessed ass10.20", which religion, and religion alone, can give. Poor G-dicd, it is true, with a sort of vague hope (for he was in other respects a pure and holy man that there might be a world beyonrl the tortib, where woe should not break in to steal lus joys, nor thic rust ot remorse corrupt his happiness ; but still he died “doubt. ing and tearing much," whicreas, hai hc bowed in rumble meokness to the Christian faith, he would have passed away a holy gladness, like one who feels that his sorrows are over, and that, the weary fight sought out, he is about to reccive the victor's amaranth wreath of everlasting happiness, But enough ; let me + "No farther seck his merits to disclose, Or diaw his frailties from their dread a bode." He was and he is uut, should be hiy only epitaph. AUGUSTUS HOWARD.”] C I sit upon the skirts of night; the day Is fleeting fast-Will soon have fled away ; Robed in the glowing hues which sunset sheds, The landscape of the Past behind me spreads ; Before, a dark impenetrable gloom Hangs o'er the portals of the opening tomb, And hideg-perhaps a Future, or, perchande, Annihilation's cold, cternal trance. * I sit within the shadow of the grave, No faith to soothe, no hope to cheer or save;

·The Dying Deist. 269 My eyes are tearless, but my faint soul wceps, And thro' my worn mind, like a ghost, there,creeps A strange and fearful feeling, as I look Around on Life and Nature's glorious book So soon to close for me. The smiling carth 'Neath Spring's soft gales, refreshen'd in neu birti, Tells of a Suminer which I may not see, Of happy days, when I, have ceas'd to be. Oh! the fair Earth, how wondrous fair she seems, When o'er her cheek our latest sunset streams ! How sweet her joys, by us scarce prized before, How bright her charms, for us, alas! no more. Her flower-deck'd mantle, and her perfum'd breath, Her living landscapes, which the night of death Ev'n now hangs brooding o'er.-How my alim”yes Athwartothe sullen mist, which herald flies Of that dread comer, fix upon the scene, Belov'd in vain, for me, it but hath been; Bitter the thought, that 'tis but as we part, We feel, () Earth! how beautiful thou art, •Instinct with life, and joy and endless youtlı, Changeless, eternal as some glorious truth; Our days, scæce heeded, pass away on thee, Thy joys unpriz'd, thy charms unfelt; and we But learn to love thee as we ought, the wbile Thou don'st for us thy latest, sweetest sinile Yes, thou art lovely, lovelier e'en tban when Thy myriad beauties blossom'd into kon Of our young life ; but tho' the parting grieve', It is not thee alone we dread to leave : Friends-much lov'd friends to lose them all, and lie An unlov'd clod, to rot and putrify, To know that they, with a few pitying tenrs, Will close my grave, forget the love of years And, like a grim dreanr, chase me from their inind ; That, a few months roll'd on, the best will find My name grate strangely on their ears, and hate The sound that, ghost-like, tells them of their fate. That a few years, and then my grave, worn down By the world's tread, shall vanish, and earth own No single trace of one whose heart beat high With idle hopes of Immortality. Are they all vain ? Is life then but a dream- Shadows of things which are not, only seem!

·270 The Dying Dcist. HIath virtue then no heritage on high ? Is love a morta], doom'd like us, to die? Oh! must I leave her,-must I, inust I go, From all I love, to the dark grave below ? Must I, whose hend on beauty's bosom oft Has lain, in the rank mould be pillow'd soft ; And myst the slim worm revel on the breast, Where oft she lay, caressing and carest ; And must the brain grow dull, qand dim the rye, And the heart beat not, -must I, must I die? Yes, the dread writing glimmer hers on the wall; My hours are number'd, o'er me hangs the pall : An unseen hand hath rung the noiseless, knell, Earth, life, friends, kindred, fare ye, fare ye well! The seal is set opon mc,-yes, I go From life, from cartlı,—but whither—who shall show? Shall the mind live uninjur'd by the change That disunites its home, and, bircl-like, range With kindred spirits thro' the realıns- of space ? As the frame budding swells in youthful grace, So the young mind grows stronger day by day : When the frame weakens, then slow fade away The mental powers, that streng-limbid manhood knew : When the frame dics, oh ! can the mind die tuo ? The spirit's claycy temple is dissolr'd, New forms of nature from its wreck evolv'd : It hangs as dow-drops on the leafy trees, It floats a vapour in the evening's breeze, It blossoins in the rose on beauty's cheeks, Glows in the grape, and in the thunder spcaks, In each new form, as wond'rous as the first, But the fair bonds that bound it, all arc burst. And shall the mind change thus, and pass away, To shed the hloom of life on other clay, And live in countless shapes, yet suill the same In different harmonies on nature's frame, (As notes that form some chord, when hush'd its strain, Unchand'd themselves in new chords sound again ?) Ah! who shall teach us, Death's alone the lorc, We feel it cannot die,mand know no more. Oh! happy they whose minds can find relief, E'en in death's shadow, in some blind belief; Blest are the souls to whom kind nature gives A trust, they know not why, a faith that lives ·The Dying Deist. 271 . - Bright and unchanging 'midst the gloom of death Alas! that faill* should fly, at reason's breath! As on some awful brink the traveller sleeps, And, hid by night, fears not the unseen siceps, So blind belief' sits by the gulf of death, And, hid by faith, fears not the grave beneath : But let the sun arise,olet reason speak, Up fly the mists, the power of faith grows weak, How trembles he, who lata.so calm repos'd, When that drcad gulf beyond, lies all disclos’d. There is a Nemesis of Faith, and woe to them Who can believe not,-they must stem, All unassisted, the dread sea of doubt That surges round the soul; they must wear ( . In the vain yearnings after truth, their life.. And their strong souls, in ceaseless ngental strife ; They minst live on unpitied; who would share Or soothe the unbeliever's bitter carc? Scorn'd and despis'd by each wlfose trusting breast, Finds hope in Faith, or in Religion,rest ; Doom'd o'er the past, wlien faitlr was 'thcirs, to sigh, And hate the future, with its dread “ To dic," Like some poor bark, the sport of winds and waves, Doubting and fearing, puss they to their graves. Such is their lot; and yet, tho' sad it bc, My heart, take coverage, there is Hope for thee. What, tho' no priestly tales may soothe thy fears, No faith in creeds dry up thy starting tears ? Soldier of Life, remember, when he dier's, The brave man scorns a kerchief o'er his eyes ! What, tho' traditions, which thy fathers taught, Of God, of Heaven, have no conviction wrought, Look round on Nature, on the glorious whole, Of things existing, search from pole to pole, The heavens, the earth, the rainbow, and the flower; Say, do not all bespcakra Maker's power What, tho' in books, they say, truth lies conceal'd, Thou deem, by nature, that the truth's reveal'd; ? * The error of this assertion scarcely requires to be pointed out ; the fact being that it is naturally absurd to suppose that superhuman events should be reducible to human lawa, or that the mind of muun should be able fully to comprehend the workings of the spirit of God. To turn their own wenpons on the Philosophers (?) of the so-called reason-school, it only necessary to quote their own law, that the right or wrong of a question depends, not on any partirular result, but on its gomrul effects. Now as we can only know individual results of God's laws, it is obviously unfair to accuse or doubt that Gud (as these reasonists impiously do), because a particular result (e. g. the order for the indiscriminate inagsucre of a trihe, dnes not appear to coincide with the precepts of justice. They know nothing of the general effects and this alone (setting aside many other, and I think better rcanone by their own admission, incapacitates them from deciding on the justice or injustice of the law, or which this ineasure was an isolated consequence.-A. H.

·272 The Dying Dcist. What, tho' thou leav'st the paths thy Fathers trod, Wilt thou net any with them, “ There is a God!" What, tho' the written promises they show, Of Future life, thy reason bids thee know, As but the transcripts from some lofty mind, Of what it crav'd for, meant to sooth mankind : What, tho' the pages which they deen inspired, Record for ther, but what man's heart desir'd : Say! does not something whisper to thy soul, That carth is but a part, and not the whole ; That is some lonely dove awhile may rest Within a charnel house, when far its nesl, So dwells the soul on earth, a'gentle thing, That sorrowing, rests awhile its tired wing Within a temple of decay, but form’d for flight In regions, glorious 'vith celestial light : "Oh! can its love of truth and virtuc fade, Earth yields that love smell sphere, and was it made, Scarce born, to die on Earth? Oh! ran the doom Of all its high aspirings be the Tomb ? No! the soul feels that in its love of truth, • There lies a changeless life, an endless youth ; Feels it was formed for love; and not for fear, Forined to be happy-is it happy here? 1. Thus fcels or hopes the soul, and tho' doubt lie, (Like a dark cloud upon the western sky) O'er death the sunset of our life, tho' fear Goad the wrack'd frame, that fecls its end is near, Hope on my soul, in thinc own self be brave, Tho' there be terrors hanging'o'er the grave; Hope on in thinc own iminortality, And trust in Hiin who made thcc-Let me die ! 1 Poor G , he refue us to put faith in a revelation, the truth of which is supported by Internal as well as Historical ovidepce, but placesot, in that made by his own mind, (at best liable to error) and originating probably as much (if not more) in a desire that curtain things should be true, as in any actual proscience of that truth.-A. II.

·[ 273 ÆGRI SOMNIA. In the year 18– I lodged at a Whatever I did, I was not an idle Tobacconist's near Covent Gar man : though I lodged at a Toden Market. Why I selected bacconist's, I never Shuffed, and lodgings over a Tobacconist's I abhorred the fragrant weed, know not. But it is plain that if though used to the company of Tobacconists let lodgings, and are smokers from infancy. Now wheto eke out a living by so doing, ther it was the close atmosphere some one must take them. I do which I daily .breathed, or my not remember that they were • want of regular exercise, or the cheap ; I am sure I found it a greasy food of the cheap dining hard task to pay their hire, and house, or the walking too soon to discharge the “ little bills" afterwards ; no'matter, I say, the for sundries which were weekly cause, but I became dyspeptic, submitted to me. The Latin and consulted the great queller Grammar says (in a quotation) of Lincolnshire farmers of that Pauper enim non est cui rerum day, the renowned and dreaded suppetit usus : and Pope Ay. After waiting in his awful ante-room a long while, it " What riches give us let us then enquire, Fire, meat, and clothes; what more ? meat, came to my turn to be admitted clothes, and fire ?" into the presence, when I was di- But notwithstanding these wise rected to peruse a certain page in £399 I was poor. It is true that a certain book. Upon meekly I was fed, but it was at a cheap intimating to the great man that dining house (clubs were not). I I had already frequently perused had clotles, but they were shab that I was told with more by ; I had fires, but I spared my energy than politeness, and in coals. I should have liked very language imputing to me the very well better clothes and more of reverse of wisdom, that he had them; better food, better dressed, never asserted that I had not with an accompaniment of clean read the work, and that if I read er knives, forks, spoons, aill glass it again, even I might be the es, and waiter less greasy, and wiser for such perusal : at all fellow feeders less monopolizers events this all he would of what fire there was, and of the tell ine. A little disconcerted, newsrapci. What my business I retirce, and was moping in my was in London, that, reader, is no lodgings with stomach distended business of yours. Perhaps I like that of a cow that has eaten an author ; perhaps I was too much clover, when an a gentleman connected with the quaintance entered my ppom, He Press ;" perhaps I studied the was a tall and handsome young Law or Physic; no one ever talks • man, but with a dissatisfied air, of studying Divinity, for in ma which spoke a constant sense of the dern times a Call savos a world of world's ill usage ; what the world udy, and is a great dispenser owed him, I recisely with the use of midnight oil. knew ; but must do the world page; 0 was was acnover ·274 Egri Somnia. norance. was all SO < the justice to say that if it sinned ingly short time the house was in this instance, it sinned in ig almost overthrown by a tremenllis conýcrsation, like dous knocking at the door, which a statist's speech in Parliament, was presently opened and slammatter of fact," but al med to again with a force which ways of a peculiar kind, and often seemed to shake the slight teneassuming the form of a question: ment to its foundations, inaking “ Well, thč fact is this, how do the iîl-fitted windows rattle, and you find yourself to-day p" or ring. A heavy step on the stairs ; “Why, the fact is this, who can be a sound of a stick regularly ramwell in a Tobacconist's shop?" med down on cach step of the In vain I lastened to assure him ascent; my door was burst open, somewhat pettishủy, that I did not and the great Dr. Bagge stvod live in ; but over a Tobacconist's before me. My awe was intense shop ; and that the Tobacconist, and was my surprise. lle with his wife and children, all was neither dressed in the fashion enjoyed excellent health, his of the day nor of any one precedrcply only was " The fact is this, ing period ; a short, very square you shuuld go to Brighton, and built man, not corpulent exactly consult Dr. Bagge." But who is but bulky, and of prodigions Doctor Bagye?" "Why good God, strerzth of build, very broad where have you lived ?" * What?" shouldered and very crect. Не cried I, “ you but now twitted stood like a statue, a' the pedesine with living in a Tobacconist's. tals were solid as that which they Well, the fact is this, Dr. Bagge supported ; his face was broad, bis is the only man in his profession colour, that of a ruisset apple, bis that is worth a straw, and if I were nostrils distended like those of 2 dying tó-morrow, I'd call him in, irard breathing horse. lle wore I'll be dd if I didn't." What a snuff-coloured, swallow-tailed the precise value of a man who is coat, prodigionsly ample in front, worth a straw may be, I am not which looked like a compound of aware, and it occurred to me that the fashions of the reigns of' (ieorge calling in the Doctor might not 1st and George 4th. Ilis knee necessarily avert the consequence breeches were of blue clotlı, and my friend had imprecated. But with strings (not buckles) of green I remained silent, ard after a short ribbon. llis stockings were of time he took his hat and left me to blue-ribbed cotton ; and he wore my.uneasy sensations,-to my tea, a „wuistcoat of black silk, with a my headache, and my bed. I went white cravat, but no collar or frill. to Brighton, and was no better ; This figure stood motionless at had been shampoo'd, 1.ad bathed, the door, gazing on me, with a I had done everything acce ding gold-headed cane pressed to its to rule and advice, but grew no lips. Behind were too ruflianly better. I know not how it wa'i, looking fellows, with very much but *r. Bagge occurred to me; the air of resurrection men ; one I will send for him directly, said haviny a villainous scowl on his 1:1 rang the bell, the servant kroy, and a deep scar upon his “Run directly and bring cheek ; thin and hungry in mien, Dr. agge to see ime." and vulture-like about his naked treated'in silence. In an amaz unsightly throat ; the o.her was came. She re·give him 66 66 do you " It is the way 17 me. Doctor ; The Partition of the Earth. 275 a stout burly varlet, who bore a scourge that almost seemed to box of implements in his hand, cut me in two, " Take the gag while his companion flourished a from his mouth," said the Doctor, sort of scourge, or cat-o'-nine-tails. in a benevolent tone, For some time I was silent, but the relief of screams. It was cried at last, “What does this done. Why," asked I, mean?" "I understand," replied treat me thus ?" the Doctor, in a half-menacingand to bring you to your senses, loud voice, “ that you sent for shouted the Doctor. “ I am not Yes," I murmureel faint-mad,” cried l as loudly. " 'Tis ly, “I own I did so." “ Ala!" the song of you all," answered the cried he, " then I see no time not mad, you fool ! is to be lost. Do your duty." then why did you send for me ?" In an instant his myrmidons •“ Nay,” said I, " that clinches had rushed forward ; I flew to the the matter; I must indeed be poker, but, ere I could seize it, was mad." “Give it him, Gauger," seized myself, pinioned, placed roared the Doctor in a fury; but on an overthrown chair, émy arms here I gave so viokent a twist of tied, my clothes stripped off to the body to avoid his impending the waist, and my head shaved ; scourge, that I fell from the bed I could not cry for help, for I in which I had been lying, and was gagged. When all this was awoke. There was no Brighton, done, wirictroccupied an incredi no sea breeze,--the weed I smell bly short time, he cried, “ There was not sea-weed. I had been is too much hot blood here ; there dying with my neck on the sharp is too much of the spirit of resis edge of a board ; Doctor Bagge, tance: do your work, Gauger." his myrmidons, and all the rest Gauger did his work, and gave of it, had been nothing but-a sick me three or four cuts with his man's dream. 2 THE PARTITION OF THE EARTH. FROM SCHILLER. “ Take hence the world !" Zeus, from his lofty station, Proolaimed to man- Take ; it shall be your own: Henceforth to you I yield its occupation, Share it like brethren, I will reign alone." Then might you see each sharing at his pleasure, And settling in their places young and old ; The Farmer takes the fields with all their treasure, The mounted Noble proudly sweeps the world. VOL. I.NO. IV.

·276
The Partition of the Earth.
The Merchant counts his generative riches,
The Abbot, stipulates for choice of wine;"
The King blockades the highways and the bridges,
And saith, “ For verily, the toll is mine."
Long time after this sharing had been ended,
The Poet came from some remotest land;
O'er all the world his anxious gaze he bended,
And saw that all things owned some master's hand.
“ Ah me!” he cried, “must I alone of all then
Forgottep be, thy most devoted son ?"
Thus loud he dared to lift liis, voice and call then,
And bowed his head before the thunderer's throne.
5. If in the larid of dreams thou must be faring,”
(Calm' spoke the God) " there lies no blame in we;
Where wert thou, then, when men the earth were sharing?"
Answered the Poet—"Lord, I was with thee."
Mine eye upon thy wiajesty was dwelling,
Upon thy Heaven's harmonies mine car,
Forgive the heart that with that rapture swelling
Lost by neglect the earth Ife felt too
near.
“ What shall be done ?" said Zeus, "The earth is given,
The Wood, the Tilth, the Mart, no more are inine,
Wilt thou for ever dwell with me in Heaven ?
Come, for the gate will ope to touch of thine."
H. G. K.

·Selections and Translations, A WEEK IN PARIS, IN FEBRUARY, 1848.* LETTER NO. I. Paris, Feby. 21st, 1848. Whence, you will ask, arises this The obstinacy of the king or of his intolerance ? I answer unhesitatingministers--or of b8th-has brought ly, that it arises from the peculiar on a crisis which can only be termi characteristic of the Franks-from nated by the disgrace of the one, or their vanity. And to wounded vanity the downfal of both. I need not do I ascribe the present perilous remind you that the worthy inhabi position of the Ministry. While it tants of the ancient Lutetia Parisio is undeniable that the venality, corrum have ever been noted for their ruption, and unconstitutional conindependent and turbulent spirit ; duct of those placed at the lead of nor need I recall to your recollec affairs, have tended in a great detion the histories of the Sainte Ligue, gree to alienate the minds of all the Fronde, of the first great Re right-thinking men--to a more trivial volution, or of the “ glorious three cause must be assigned the bitterdays" of July 1830-- not to mention ness and personality exhibited in a host of minor disturbances. T'his the attacks of the opposition. In somewhať disorderly love of liberty the opening speech of the session and aversion to anything like auto an injudicious paragraph denounced cratic power is not, however, altoge the Reformists, or, as we would call ther peculiar to the Parisians. The them, the Demagogues, as "enemies Franks generally, from the age of or blind.' This was an unpardon- Clovis down to our own times, have able affront. Inimical they might ever and anon given striking proofs be, but blind!. The idea was prethat their designation was no misno posterous, and the Ministry who mer, though they seem rather to could devise, and the sovereign who have venerated the idea, than to could utter, such an opprobrious epihave possessed the reality of free- thet, were equally to be regarded as dom. Moreover, it has always ap laboring under mental derangement peared to me that a Frenchman's of a peculiarly malignant order. notions of liberty are truly republi Hinc illa lacryme. Hence the fucan-I would say, democratical rious diatribes of the Marquis de that is, every one covets fot himself Bgisay and of M. Odilon-Barrot ; the free exposition of his own opini hence the argumentative und Singapons, but would coerce his neighbour cial opposition of M. Thiers; ffence similar profession of faith. the smart sayings of M. Lamartine; to a * Those letters were written on the spot to a friend in England, and, although perfectly original, are now inserted among our selections and Translations, ato the particular request of the writer.-ED. S, M, M. VOL. I. NO. IV.

·XCIV A Week in Paris in February, 1848. and hence the concerted yelping of most surprising. As long as he perthe entire pack of Café frequenters, mitted the Demagogues to rant at of Charivari readers, and of ad cap their pleasure, there was no great tandum scribblers. But not content danger of action. Woll pleased to with this insult to their understand hear themselves speak, and not a ing, M. Guizot went so far as to little puffed up by the certain degree taunt the opposition with the inferior of after-dinner popularity they had ity of their numbers, and even insi acquited, these sage politicians would nuated that it was in the power of have veen content to let things hold the Ministry to stifle all discussion on the even tener of their way, and by means of the immense majority would have never dreamed of corthat supported them. This was a verting their noisy bark into an endeplorable imprudence, and the venomed bite. However sic diis plabravado will not readily be forgiven. cuit, The Government prohibited By thus continually adding insult to the celebration of any inore Baninjury, M. Guizot has succeeded in, quets for political purposes, and making himself the most unpopular threatened to proceed juuicially minister that has held office since the 'against all who should prove confall of Prince Polignan. The great tumacious. Immediately, the elecest grievance of all remains tą be told. tors of the Twelfth Arrondissement For many moaths past Banquets of Paris agreed that a Reform Banhave been given in the principal quet should be held on the 22nd cities of the kingdom, at which çer of February at a convenient spot tain inflammatory speeches were ut near the Champs Elysées, and invitered, and toasts proposed not tations were sent to several Peers of much to the honor of the powers France, the most violent members of that be. Not only was the king's the opposition, and the students-a health-invariably omitted, but at Li numerous and influential body, remoges Republicanism was tainted. markable fo: their intelligence, diswith profanity, and the name of Je sipation, and turbulence. Preparasus Christ, the Chief of Republicans, tions have been made with nuch was offered and received as a politi- secrecy and dispatch, and a breakcal toast. At last it was determined fast has been appointed for twelve that a Reform Banquet--for their o'clock to-morrow, at which will be professed object is to obtain an elec- present three Peers, fifty-four Deputoral reform-should be celebreted ties, and a host of students, clectors, in the very metropolis. This was and busy-bodies, who are to assembringing the pest too near to their ble on the Place de la Madeleine, own doors, and the Ministry now and march in procession up the prepared to bring the struggle to an Champs Elysées. issue. It was officially announced that the Governm»nt refused its Since writing the above, a change sapction to any public meetings of has come over the spirit of the dream. this description, and M. Hebert, The Government having notified the Minister of Justice, declared their intention of putting down the from his place, that if necesary, the meeting by extreme measures, if nearmed force would be oulled upon to cessary, a deputation waited upon compel the dye observance of a law M. Odilon-Barrot to ascertain if he of 1792, which every body had long was prepared to persist at all risks. regarded as obdolete. This law, That prudent gentleman hus declinhowcem, was admirably adapted to ed to take upon himself the resanswer the present purposes of the ponsibility of the fearful conse- Government, and it was accordingly quences that might result from a resolved to enforge it at all hazards. collision between the people and the Thata inan of M. Guizot's experience military. M. Lamartine, however, and perspicæcity of view should have and some seventeen of his colleagues, decido ou "taking such a step, is lifted up their voices against this ·A Week in Paris in February, 1848, XCV cowardly abandonment-not of a Banquet,--but of a principle, and loudly, protested against such pusillanimity. The people, too, are evidently disgusted with the poltroonery of the declamatory M. 0. Barrot, and the utmost agitation pervades Paris. On the Boulevards large groups are formed, and the modus operandi on the morrow seems to be the subject of much anxious disoussion. Qui vivra, verran LETTER NO. II. a were now OC- Paris, February 22nd, 1851. other side of the river, and began In my letter of yesterday I men bawling out with more energy than tioned the general dissatisfaction harmony the Marseillaise and the that prevailed on account of the Chồur des Girondins. Occasionally postponement of the long-talked was heard a cry of Vive la Réforme, of Banquet, but I little expected that . à bas Guizot, which was always the in the short space of four-and-twenty, signal for a hearty laugh from hours things would have taken so the spectators, The Place de la unfavorable turn. About ten Madeleine and the upper part of o'clock this morning some 200 caval the Rue Royale ry of the Municipal Guard, the cupied by a dense crowd while finest corps in the kingdom, trotted froin every window appeared a mass slowly up the Champs Elysées, and of human heads, seemingly much proceeded to the spot indicated as amused by the noisy demonstrations the probable scene of the proposed that were taking place in the street meeting Fxrapting a few of the curi below them. A general movement ous not a soul was visible, and they became inevitable from the continued accordingly wheeled about and rode accession to their numbers, and back again, amid the good-humored like an avalanche forced from its laughter of the by-standers. The position by its own weight, the pets were filled at an early hour, people were slowly impelled towards for even the sluggards were up by the Place de la Concorde. Opposite times and intent on enjoying a holi to them stood the Chamber of Deday. Besides which, the workshops puties, where, on that very day, and magazines were all closed, M. Odilon Barrot was to demand under the apprehension that the men the impeachment of the Ministers. might possess themselves of the. By common consent, for most as implements of their daily occupation suredly there was no leader, the rude and convert them into formidable mass moved across the Pont de la weapons of offence. This fear might Concorde, and tearing down the rails possibly be well founded, but to my min front of the palace, endeavored to self this conduct appears extremely force their way into the Chamber. injudicious, for thus all the laboring Some few, indeed, succeeded, but population has been 'let loose at the others were driven in confusion the very time that their attention across the bridge by a brisk charge ought to 'have been the most en-. of cavalty, under General Sebastiani, gaged. Double wages for the day who arrtveu'at a mont opportune mowould have thinned the streets, ment) Within half an hour afterand spared much distress to the werde the Place de la Concorde was unoffending: Between teh and elem occupied by an imposing force of ven a considerable number of work Dragoons, Municipal Guard and men and idlers had collected on the Infantry, and presented a strange Place de la Madeleine, bůt evidently and dazzling scene when the sun without any fixed plan of action. shone out on their burnished arms. Soon afterwards a procession of stu The boys now began to pelt the dents, accompanied by a regular mob military with stone and it was of the lowest class, arrived from the found necessary to clear the ground ·XCVI A Week in Paris in February, 1848. by repeated charges. Unhappily, one of which conspicuously figured an the Municipal Guard exhibited but unfortunate oinnibus that had been little forbearance, and frequently stopped and overturned, the horses dashed in among peaceful groups of course being first haken out, and of citizens in the most brutal manner. the passengers invited to alight with Thus was engendered a feeling of all iinaginable politeness. Boughs of enmity between that gallant corps trees,, stone benches torn up from and the people, and on some occa their sockets, and the chairs usually sions the National Guards stepped let půt to the frequenters of this forward and loudly blamed the vio beautiful promet.ade, were adroitly lent conduct of the Municipals. interwoven, and formed a very ti. I must now beg you to accompany lerable screen against the sudden me into the Chamber of Deputies. onslatights of the cavalry. The ex- You probably expect to find them ample was too good to be thrown greatly excited, or at least anxiously away, and ere long similar barricades devising some means of tranquillizing arose in different parts of the Fauthe people, and restoring stability bourg St. Honoré, and in the cross to the Government. Not at all. streets that connect it with the upper The worthy Deputies are gravely half of the Champs Elysees. The discussing the merits and domerits guard house at the corner of the Rue of the Bordeaux Bank Billa mea de Ponthieu was set on fire, and sure of no intrinsic importance, and some dozens of trees cut down bewhich could have been postponed tween the Rond Point and the Arc another week, without the slightest de Triomphe; and here as well as in detriment to the public weal. To the Rue and Faubourg St. Ilonoré all wards the close of the sitting M. the street lamps were, smashed to 0. Barrot presented a paper to the atoms, though private lamps were President demanding the impeach universally respected. During the ment of M. Guizot and his colleagues, afternoon the shops were closed withfor having betrayed the honour out exception, saving always the and interests of France--for having Marchands des Vins, who have reanviolated the guarantees of liberty ed a productive liarvest, and the for having pursued a systematic appearance of the streets was singucourse of corruption, and so perverted lar in the extreme. Heads the representation of the country--for peeping out of every window, and having trafficked in ministerial ap at each door stood a group of quidpointments—for having ruined the nyncs, gossiping with the Concierge, finances of the State for having de and ready to take shelter within the spoiled the citirens of the right of friendly porte cochère, as soon as the meeting together, a right inherent sonorous voice of the trumpets and in every free constitution, and the scam yering of the people betoparticularly guaranteed by the Char kened a charge of the cavalry. As ter, by the laws, and by precedent the day advanced, and no symptoms and finally for having adopted a line of tranquillity showed themselves, of policy diametrically opposed to the respectable part of the commuthe tendencies of the two revolutions nity began to grow anxious, and consecrated by the blood“f citizens. looked forward to the darkness of But out of doors the progress of the night with no small appréfienevents was more rapid and exciting. sion. There would be no moon to The mob, harassed by the furioųs replace the broken lamps, and not charges of the Municipal Guard, be a single police officer or sergent de gan to throw up barricades,-am ope ville was anywhere to be seen. ration which they performed with · last, about ffve o'clock, drums were much skill and expedition. The first heurd beating the rappel in every barricade formed was the quarter of the town, and the National of the Champs Elysées, Guard turned out with alacrity to and collaisted of three . lines, in protect persons and property from were At across Mavenue ·A Week in Paris in Felruary, 1848. xcvii - insult and outrage. But the mob announce that their physical qualities evinced no disposition to plunder are not deficient, whatever may be any thing but arms, and the only wanting in the moral. In short, shops into which they broke were they are Pucks of a larger growth, those of gunsmiths. , In the evening and bid fair to eclipse the deeds of indeed they pillaged some of the that merry elf. offices for collecting the Octroi, or Every one asks why were not the Town duty, which, being levied on Garde Nationale called out, to-day? provisions, is peculiarly odious to the It is their peculiar duty to keep poor, and not very popular among peace and order in the capital, and the rich-and after possessing them yet until five o'clock in the afternoon selves of the receipts of the day, not a single division was on duty. amounting to nearly 3,000 francs, set The answer to this question is easily the offices on fire. Mischief seems found. Louis Philippe, who owed to have been the predominant pas his elevation to the throne to the sion of the day, and in no case have I support and good will of this influheard of any person being insulted, ential body, has most imprudently which is the more remarkable as no contrived to make himself exceedprotection could have been afforded ingly unpopular among them. It is by the usual guardians of the public well known that they have long been peace. And yet the riot of to-day the advocates of lectoral reforni, has been no more than what we would and for this reason the minisery fearcall a police-riot, and such as would ed to call them out. This apprehenhave been speedily put down by our sion was unfounded. There cannot London Police. In one respect, in be ao doubt but that the National deed, it has differed from an English Guard would at once have checked row, and "that is in the absence of the rioting, and prevented the conany pillaging-though many of the struction of the barricades. Conrioters are in a state of atter destitu posed of the most respectable citizens, tion. The most active offenders have professional men as well as tradesbech the incorrigible Gamins, who people, it is their manifest interest to appear to be a race pecüliar to prescrve trinquillity, and guard Paris. Varying from twelve to eigh against any attempts upon life or teen years of age, they coinbine the property. At the same time it is mischievous propensities of the boy probable that after suppressing these with the strength and astuteness of riots, they will make such a signithe man. Unwashed and unshorn, ficant demonstration of their political they are singularly repulsive in out: opinions, that it will be no longward appearance; nor is their pover er possible for the king to retain ty rendered interesting by an air of his present ministry-and assuredly depression or suffering. On the con some consideration is due to the de trary, their eye beams with malice, liberate opiniofs of 60,000 men, who audacity, and acuteness, and their are the true representatives of the short, thick-set, hairy figures, pláirfly popular feeling LETTER NO. III.. Paris, February 23rd, 1848. The political horizon, that for a brief space seemed about to clear up, has again clouded over, and a fearful storm is at hand-but let us begin with the beginning. After consuming with fire the Octroi offices, as I mentioned in my letter of yesterday, the rioters vanished from the streets 3whither, few know and still fewer care to know. Strong patrols of the National Guard and troops of the Line paraded the town, the night passed over in the utmost tranquillity, broken only by the measured tread of the soldiers and the beating of the rain, as fitful gusts hurled it against windows ambio volete At a ·XCV111 A Week in Paris in February, 1848. 4 was very early hour, however, of the peared quite as reluctant to enter morning might be seen men, women, upon hostilities. In the afternoon and children, hurrying about from the Boulevards were crowded to exshop to shop, laying in ainple stores cess, and an incessant bawling of the for one or inore days, according to Marseillaise and the Chaur des Gironthe timidity of the good housewives. dins served as a safety-valve to the An air of anxiety marked every pent-up patriotism of the mob. At countenance, and by cleven o'clock times indeed were heard loud shouts almost every Shop was closed, and of Vive la Réforme ! which being rewhile the females occupied the upper echued by the National Guards, prowindows of the house, the door was duced a tremendous cheering, ard* again beset by a little knot of retail "Vive la Garde Nationale ! resounded ers of news-each one bringing some far and wide. As the crowd collectstartling rumour or fact to swell the ed round the Ministry of Foreign comnion budget, and then hastening Affairs, fierce cries of 1 bus Guizot ! on to another group with his growing Vive la Réforme ! rent the air, and stock of absurdities. The quarters as the soldiers on duty gently drove of the town that were most disturbed the mob before them at a walking yesterday have been tolerably quiet pace, insidious cheers were hcard, to-day, thanks to the good-temper and Vive la Ligne ! l'ivent les Cuied firmness of the National Guard. rassiers ! were uttered by stentorian In the populous quarters, however, lungs, and evidently were not thrown of St. Denis, St. Martin, and St. An away on the well-affected military. toine, the violence of the Municipal Altogether it a curious and Guard has caused a loss of life, and it amusing scene to view that sea of is said that five or six inen of the peo heads moving to and fro-dashing ple have been seriously wounded, furiously towards some one point, while one was shot dead on the spot: and then rushing back with equal one of the Municipals is also report force -at tipies roaring in fearful ed to have been killed. tones ; and then would come a low few arms were seen in the hands of murmur yet more terrible, and exthe rioters, and these of the inost in pressive of much intensity of feeling. efficient description, if we except the Suddenly it became known that M. muskets stolen from the gunsniiths, Guizot had resigned, and that the and those wrested from the soldiery King had sent for Coun: Molé to posted at some of the guard-louges. form a liberal Ministry. The transi- The general feeling was in favor of tion froin discontent and menace to --the military, and loud chcers grcet iñe most extravagant joy is altogeed them whenever they appeared in ther indescribablo. llands sight, occasionally mingled with clasped, hats thrown into the air, fierce . menaces against the Garde men flung themselves into each Municipale. During the entire day other's arms, and rays of gladness the Place de la Concorde was occupied beamed on every countenance. Vive by a formidable bodyeof Cuirassiers, la Réforme ! again and again rung Dragoons, Municipal Guards, and In around, and then came a feebler fantry, while the National Guard slout Vive le roi ! but thiq, died away lined the arcades of the Rue de Ri amid laughter and sarcasm The voli, and kept open the communica glad tidings rapidly spread through tion between the Chamber of Depu every quarter of the town, and peace ties and the Palace of the Tuileries. was at once established. But alas ! The Place du Carousel was also this calm was destined to be of brief ettfethi guarded, and several pieces duration! About nine o'clock in of artillery were pointed in the direc-, the evening a dense crowd had astion whence a mob might be expect semhled on the Boulevards, especialed to advanoe: But the people ly near the Ministry of Foreign Afshewed no inclination to attack the fairs, but the utmost good-humour military and key on their part ap was displayed, and the majprity were But very were ·A Week in Paris in February, 1848. xcix reon their way to their homes, singing somewhat vociferously buy otherwise orderly, enough. Opposite the Ministry they preseed rather close upon the military-it was indeed unavoidable, for the latter occupied two- 'thirds of the entire width of the strect. The officer in commandinistook the movement, and, imagining that the mob intended to disarm his men, in an evil moment gave the word to fire. So great, so tloselypacked was the crowd, and so welldirected the volley, that above sixty meu fell to the ground, either dead or severely wounded. A moment of panic and wild confusion ensued. Many were trampled under foot, and no one deerned himself safe until far reinoved from the fatal spot. Then arose a fearful cry for vengcance. They who but that instant had so tumultuously fled, now turned for the fallen, and bore the dead to the office of the National, and thence to the Place de la Bastille, where they lie exposed. to the gaze of all. Few who heard it will ever forget that cry for blood which arose from the people as from one " l'engeance ! Aux armes ! Nous sommes trahis! On assassine nos fréres !" Such were the terrible sounds that spread wide dismay, and every one hastened to his home with a heavy heart, as he thought of what must happen on the mormen. row. LETTER NO. IV. Paris, February 24th, 1818. waandrous tale I have now to pen. The events I am about to relate Can you not now understand how are so extraordinary, and the time eternéty, may be as a single day? occupied liv them so brief, that you I resume my narrative from the will imagine I am endeavoring to moment of the fatal catastrophe that rival the thousand and one nights of occurred opposite to the Ministry of marvellous meinory. Even I, the Foreign Affairs. narrator, hardly know whether or Notwithstanding the cold, the rain, not I am under the influence of a and the darkness, of a stormy night, troubled dream, or a disordercd inn the people fabored perseveringly to agination. Since this hour last construct barricades, and to place night two ministries have fallen to themselves in a position to take a the ground ; an aged monarch has signalovengeance for what they deembeen forced to abdicate ; his infant ed an act of treachcry on the part of grandson accepted by the represch. the King and his government. A tatives of the people, has been re terrible thing is the energy of a deterfused by the people themselves ; the mined people. 'Silently and unceas- Chainber of Deputies has been dis ingly their work progressed. Few solved ; two palaces have been sack or no arms were in their handsed, and their splendid furniture com furor arma ministrat-their most mitted to the flames ; a royal dy.nas- formidable weapon was their own ty has been overthrown, root and unbending will, their own indomibranch, and a Republic demanded; table spirit. From the commencecighty th vusand troops have laid ment of the Boulevard des Italiens down their arms at the command of to the Porte St. Denis, the barrian almost unarmed inob; the wealth cades rose behind each other in stern iest individual in Europe has been defiance, and so strongly were they glad to escape froin the metropolis built that artillery alone could have of his dominions in a one-horse made any impression upon them. shay; and he, who in the morning The trees that lined the Boulevards magnanimously offered a general • were cut down and drawn across the amnesty to his rebellious subjecta, street ; carts, omnibuses, cabriolets, was in the afternoon compelled to and vehicles of all descriptions were flee from his palace without even overturned ; and finally a solid wall a change of linen. Such is the of paving stones was run up breast ·A Week in Paris in February, 1848. high, and in soine degree secured de combat-but the lukewarmness of by the branches of the fallen trees. the military and the want of fire-arms Owing to some strange neglect, or on the part of the people prevented still stranger infatuation, not the any serious loss of life from taking slightest opposition was offered by place. A little after nine a rumor the military during the progress of spread abroad that further concesthese works, and when the morning sions had been made, and that Messrs. dawned, it was discovered that the Thiers and Odilon Barrot had been cavalry could no longer act. The commanded to form a popular Misituation of the inilitary indeed was nistry. In fact, Count Molé had any thing but enviable. Many of informed the King at five o'clock them had been under arins for near A. M. (!) that he found it impossible ly six-and-thirty hours, and their to compose a cabinet suited to meet adversaries were their own relatives, the exigencies of the case. His with whom moreo:er they sympa Majesty was therefore reduced to thised in opinions and feelings. Ne submit to necessity, and to accept a vertheless, I firinly believe that they Ministry extremely obnoxious to his would have done their duty had tastes. Orders were instantly desthere been any symptoms of firin patched by General Lamoričière, the ness in their leaders. In no one in new Commander-in-Chief of the Nastance did they exhibit any insub tional Guard and of the department ordination. When ordered to fire, of the Seine, to suspend all firing ; they fired, when the word was given and the soldiers, reversing their to charge,' not a man reined in his muskets, slowly descended thc Boulehorse, and finally when commanded vards, amid the loud vivats of the to surrender their arms, they obey mob. The National Guard, who ed without a inurmur. The fortune closed the march, were greeted of the day would probably have been with the inost enthusiastic cheering, very different, had Marshal Bugeaud: and the people cordially mingled becn allowed to retain the com with them as they advanced towards mund of the troops. But his apthe Church of the Magdalene. Or arpointment was scarcely announced, riving opposite M. Guizot's late before it was cancelled. Of his un residence, they were joined by the popularity among the people some soldiers placed there on guard, but idea may be formed from the saying this important public building was attributed to him, with or withfut saved from plunder and devastabreason, “ Je mitraillerai la canaille tion by the prompt presence of d'une bonne manière. Though not mind of an officer of the Garde Naa favorite with the troops, they had tionale, who hastily posted at the so long been accustomed to obey gates one of his own corps, and a him in Algeria, and the determined man taken at random from the peoipflexibility of his character was so ple. The hint was readily underwell known, that they would have stood and appreciated, and in a few executed his orders mechanically, seconds were traced in huge characand a frightful carnage would "have ters in chalk the magic words Procemented the despotism bf the priété Nationale on one door, and throne. As it was, the soldiers left on the other; Hotel sous la sauvewithout a head <speedily fraternized garde du Peuple. But 'even in the with the people, and scattered de midst of these trying scenes the natachments of the Municipal Guard tional love of ridicule peeped forth, alowe attempted to offer a resistance and a wag attached to the entrance which their paucity of numbers ren tw-3 boards bearing respectively the dered worse than useless. inscriptions Boutique à louer and So early as seven in the morning Granit appartement à louer presentihostilities commenced in the neigh ment. On the outer wall appeared bourhood of the Place Boyale, and a a terrible memento of last night's few on both sides were placed hors massacre : the words à mort Guizot L ·to A Week in Paris in Febøuary, 1848. ci were written in letters of blood. A writing on the wall, than that fierce considerable number of the people and sudden cry—it was the death here separated from the main body, knell of the monarchy and the and proceeded to the Rue de Clichy, dormant strength of the people was where they liberated the prisoners about to be developed in all its terconfined for debt. In the meantime rible energy, as the huge giant shaka procession was observed slowly ad ing, off the lethargy of habit and vancing up the Boulevards, and mak prejudice arose in all the retributive ing for the Rue St. Denis. It was majesty of an angwy and injured composed of M. Odilon Barrot,ac people. It was now too late to bar companied by Horace Vernet, the their passage. The irresistible torcelebrated historical painter, in the *rent poured on regardless of the uniform of an officer of the National puny efforts of a handful of the Mu- Guard, and by several Deputies of nicipal Guard, and momentarily ultra-radical principles. On reach swelling by the continued accession ing the great barricade that defended of armed men, who were hastening the entrance of the Rue St. Denis, by a common impulse to join their M. Odilon-Barrot attempted to ha- ' brethren, after attacking the barrangue the mob, but had hardly time racks and scizing upon the arms of utter the words : “My good the soldiery. It must be confessed, friends, our jointo efforts have tri indeed, that the latter operation was umphed. We have re-conquered by no means a difficult one, for offiour liberty," whien a loud murmur cers of approved valour were seen to of dissent drowned his voice, and a surrender their swords at the first man with much violent gesticula summons to the unarmed blacktion shouted aloud.-" It is too guards who demanded them, late! We have been too often be About noon, a desperate attack trayed !" The crest-fallen dema was made upon the guard house in gogue discovered his mistake, and the corner of the Place de la Conabruptly turning round, made his corde, and four or five of the Garde escape with all despatch. The peo Municipale were slain outright. An ple, though easily cajoled for time, o Ministère des Finances in the Rue atternpt was also made to carry the are possessed of sound good sense, and soon discover the difference be de Rivoli, bat the soldiers retreated tween a tme friend and a vain, ego within the gates, and the mob dartistical, interested declaimer. On ed got to assail them in so strong a Monday, M. Odilon Barrot had the position. The Ministère de la Magame in his own hands. Had herine was unmolested throughout the persisted in holding the Banquet, he day, for a rude inscription besought would have been the idol of the day, the people to respect the brave Mabut his vacillation has brought upon riners, and their wives and families, him the contempt and distrust of all whose papers were deposited in parties. this edifice. Up to this moment no lips had In the meanwhile the great mass uttered the great purpose of the peo of the people had arrived on the ple, but a secret and mysterious un open space in front of the Palais derstanding seemed to thrill through Royal, and resolved to make themthem. They thought and felt as one selves masters of the guard-house man, and needed no outward sym before continuing their march upon bols to communicate their mutual the Palace of the Tuileries, so as not wishes. But the appearance and to leave in the hands of the Military conciliatory words of M. Odilon a stronghold which threatened the Barrot acted as a spark on a well rear of the advancing column. This laid train. It was now time to de post was occupied by a company of clare their intentions, and one uni the 14th Regiment of the line, the versal shout arose- -Aux Tuileries ! same that had fined on the people not more ominous or sure was the the previous evening, autd by some IV. VOL . 1.NO.

·cii A Week in Paris in February, 1848. 0 corner's twenty-five men of the Garde Mu Hauranne, Emile de Girardin, and nicipale. These gallant fellows re a few other Deputies arrived in fused to deliver up their arins, or to quick succession, and besought the listen to any terms, and, as the peo King to abdicate in favor of his ple pressed upon them, they even grandson ere yst it was too late. It fired a well-directed volley, which was long before Louis Philippe could specdily cleared the space in front be induced to sign the humiliating' of thein. The conflict lasted above act, 'out there was cvidently no altwo hours. National Guards and terna ive. At one o'clock the folthe armed men, mingled indiscrimi- lowing proclamation was posted up :- nately tngether, placed themselves “ Citizens! Abdication of the King. at the of the adjoining 'Regency of the Duchess of Orleans. streets and in the Cour l'ffonneur of Dissulution of the Chamber. Gethe Palais Royal, whence they kept neral Amnesty." By this time the up an incessant, and galling lire. people had spread over the Place In the middle of the fray, General du Carousel, and several legions of Lamoricière galloped into the open the National Guard completely hemspace and called upon the solaiers med in the Palace. Within the to suspendhostilities, but all in vain : railed court of the Tuileries there still and the General, tcing wounded in remained nearly 3000 troops of all the hand, returned to the Tuileries. arms, besides sonra picces of Artil- At last, the royal carriages here lery. The day was not yet lost. brought out from the Rue St. Tho But the Duke de Nemours preferred mas du Louvre into the Place du the humane alternative (I use a gentle 'Palais Royal, and there set or, fire. epithet, for the Prince" is fallen from Advancing up to this new 'defonce, his high estate") and the soldiery the mob succeeded in firing the defiled ont of the Court on to the guardhouse, and thus compelled its Quay. The Duke and his Staff hasgallant defenders to evacuate a post tily passed through the vestibule of they had so bravely maintained the palace, and made their horses against overwhelining numbers. In descend the steps. In a few minutes Hamed by the ardor of the combat, more the people were in the Tuilethe people seemed disposed to make ries, and nearly at the same instant a terrible use of their victory, and the gate at the bottom of the Rue was heard to exclaim : de Castiglionc was forced epen, and “ Ils ont tué mon frère: il faut que another division of the mob rushed je tue quelqu'uli." tues into the garden. quelqu'un,''replicd a National Guard, The King and Queen had fortuce sera ton frere aussi." This noble nutely escaped before this irruption answer instantly allayed the vengeful took place. The former spirit of the people, and with a glad black coat without any decorations, shout they rushed of to the Place du anda plam round hat, while the latter "Carousel. But the struggle was al was dressed in deep mourning. A ready decided. Thete was no longer feeble escoru of two hundred horsea King. The people was sup eme. men, arrayed in different uniforms, By noon despair had seized upon surrounded the unfortunate couple, the innates of the palace. The and screened them in some degree generals occupied the waiting foonis, from the painful gaze of the public. silent and depressed. No one could Louis Phillippe walked with downdevise a remedy for the growing cast loo's and unsteady step, but eyil. to one had the courage to the Queen walked crect and calm, counsel energy and action. The casting a cold, proud glance at the barricades and the determined con inquisitive and prying mob. It was duct of the people, supported by supposed that they were proceeding their National Guards, had paralysed to the Chamber of Deputies to deposit the est hearts. Messrs. hiers, the act of abdi but on arriv- Dupin, Odilon Barrot, Duvergier de ing on the Place de la Concorde, one man 66 wore & ·A IVeck in Paris in february, 1818. cui near the spot where Marie Antoi because an existing law had appointnette was guillotincd, the King sud ed the Duke of Nemours to that of denly stopped, raised his hat in the fice. The sana view of the case was air, and pronounced something taken by M. Cremicux, who further which no one heard, on account of professed the utmost respect for all the noise and confusion that pre the members of the Royal family. vailed. So dreadful was the pressure Loud applause accompanied this of the crowd, that the escort found speech, at the conclusion of which it impossible to keep their tanks, M. Odilon Barrot farcilmy addressed and an officer, alarmed for the per the Chamber in favor of the young apnal safety of the King, exclaimed Prince, contending that thc revolu- " Gentlemen, spare the King: tion of July lad dolinitively settled “ Are we assassins," replied a loud the question as to the form of Govoice, “let him be off!" * Yes! yes! vernment, and calling upon all parechoed the mob, "let him be off! let ties to unite in saying France froin him be off'!” Two small hired vc the horrors of a civil war. The agihicles, tach drawn by one horse, were tation was every moment increasing. stationed at hand. Into one of them A mingled and motley crew of Nathe King and Queen hastily mount tional Guard, students, artizans and ed, while the other was taken by arined, blackguards, dressed in the two ladies who accompanied thein. most fantastic costuenes, taken from In a few minutes they were out of the wardrobes of the palace, now sight, galloping furiously towards rushed into the Chamber, and forced St. Cloud, and garded by their de their way to the open space in front voted escort. of the seats. The conservative While the heads of the Royal fa behcles were instanly vacated, and Inily were thus making their very their latc occupants flocked tuultuamdignified escape, the Duchess of ously to the upper seats. Tremendous Orleans, attended by the Dukes of shouts pealed though the house, Nemours and Montpensier, conduct among which might be distinguished ed her two intant children into the the omino's words, La déchéance! Chamber of Deputics. Leadmg tlem La déchéance ! The uproar was realby the hand, she took her station in ly frightful, but the Duchess sat the front of the semicircle beneath unmoved, though many an anxious the President. But at this moment glance was directed towards the roya body of arıncd men forced theni al group; and the President, putselves into the tribunes, and appear ting on his hat, declared the sitting ed disposed to interfere with the de to be suspended. A M. Chevalier, liberations of the Chambcr. The formerly editot of the Bibliothèque Duchess accordingly rose from her Historique, forcibly ascended the iriseat, and led her children to the bune, and besought the Duchess to back of the Deputies' benches, but proceed along Ilie Boulevards with still directly facing the President. her son, in order that the people, by M. Dupin then ascended the tribune their acclamations, night signify and announced the abdication of their consent or their refusal to be Louis Phillippe in favor of the governed by a minor and a regent. young Count of Paris, under the re Again a fresh influx of armed peogence of his mother, the Duchess of ple burst into the Chamber, seated Orleans. This announcement was themselves on such benches as were greeted with cheers from the conser still unoccupied, and even pointed vative benches, but with tremendous their nuskets at the Preciment and uproar from the radical benches and the more obnoxious of the Deputies. from the tribunes. As soon as he The latter hastily retired from the could obtain a hearing, M. Marie hall, and even the Duchess, yielding suggested the expedienįy of appoint to the solicitations of the mixed ing a provisional Gorernment, until crowd that surrounded her, slowly the regency Bill could be amended, withdrew with her two children, .

·civ A Week in Faris in February, 1848. whose bright prospects were thus ly be appointed without an appeal early obscured. Fortunately a ve to the country, and concluded by hicle was standing in the court of demanding a provisional government the President's house, and in this she named by the people chemselves, and escaped to the Hotel des Invalides, the immediate convocation of a Nawhere the dukes of Nemours and tional Assembly to settle a definitive Montpensier, consulting their com form of governinent. To him sucmon safety, separated from their ceeded M. de Lamartine, who comroyal sister, end are supposed to have menced his eloquent harangue by assumed some convenient disguise. professing his syunpathy for the au- The confusion in the Chamber was gust princess who, with her innocerte in the meantime at its height. Arms child, had hastened from her deserted were franticly brandished in the air. palace to throw herself under the A perfect Babel of discordant cries protection of the representatives of interrupted or overpowered the voices the people. But yet greater than of even their favorite oratory. A the einotion thus inspired was the more outrageous scene could scarce admiration he felt for that noble peoly have been witnessed in the first ple, who had so gloriously combated great Revolution. Many of the to establish on an inmovable founpeople were partially intoxicated, dation the einpire of order, the einand others had not yet laid aside pire of libe:ty. at the same time the savage ferocity excited by the he could not deceive himself into obstinate defence of the guard house the belief that a permanent governin the Place du Palais Royal, while ment for thirty-five millions of men others again exhibited a ludi rous could be regulated by the impulse or combination of vanity of attire, and the acclamations of a moment of fierce exultation. Blouses and dra excitement. A popular, stable, and goon helmets, shakos and seedy sound government can only be obsurtouts constituted their inharmo tained' by an« appeal to the country, nious, costume, and arms of all de and in the meanwhile a provisional nominations gleained in the air. government is absolutely necessary Sabre and lance, rapier and mus to prevent civil war, to staunch the ket, poniard and fowling piece, pis etfusion of blood, and to calm the tols and bludgeons, confusedly mnin angry feelings of fellow-citizens, as gled together, and gave a wild pic well as to prepare the way for a tyresqueness to a scene, which other general convocation of the entire peowise would have been replete with ple. The tumult that for a time had horror alone. A citizen in the cos subsided, now burst forth with tentume of an officer of the National fold fury. Some shouting one thing, Guard ascended the tribune, and some another. The President, findlaid upon the marble the staff of a ing it impossible to command silence, tricolor flag. “Gentlemen," he ex now quitted the chair, after de claimed, "the people has this day re claring the sitting to be terminated, covered its liberty and independence and retired from the Chamber acas in 1830. The throne at the Tui companied by all the remaining Deleries is demolished, and thruwn out puties, except a few on the radical of the window." This, by the way, benches. It is almost impossible to was not strictly true, but the inob describe what followed. M. Dupont loudly applauded, and cries rent the de l'Eure, an octogenarian, air of A bas les Bourbons ! Plus de called to the chair, and a thousand trgitresole Un gouvernement provisioře fruitless efforts were made to read immédiatement ! As soon as order was the names of the proposed members partially re-established by every one of the provisional government. At calling out Silence ! at the same mo last, at the suggestion of M. Ledru ment M. Ledru Rollin addressed the Rollin, it was agreed to adjourn to Chamber with mnch vehemence, and the Hôtel de Ville, as the true seat declared that no regency could just of government. Amid enthusiastic was ·A Week in Paris in February, 1848. CV а cries of-Vive la République ! Vive being piled up into an immense Lamartine! Vive Ledry Rollin! the heap in the inner court was ruthmass poured forth from the Chamber, lessly consumed' to ashes. Among which was speedily abandoned to a the objects that attracted the most silence singularly contrasting with notice was the identical chair on the late uproar. Before the crowd which Louis Philippe sat for the had entirely withdrawn, some one first time as King. Books superbly called attention to the painting bebound and of incstimable, value to hind the President's chair, reptesentthe curious, were mercilessly coming Louis Philippe swearing fidelity mitted to the flames, together with to the charter. Instantly a nuinber huge bundles. of papers,, drawings, of men ran up the steps to destroy and many treasures of art. While it with sword and lance, when a these Vandals were thus wreaking workinan called out, “Stay a mo their barbarous revenge on the ment! I am going to have a shot Palais Royal, another horde had at Louis Philippe !" and discharged inade violent irruption into both barrels of a fowling piece he the Palace of the Tuileries. At held in his hands. The work of first, they contented themselves with destruction would speedily have been parading though the various suites completed, had not an artizan mount of apartments, singing, shouting, ed the tribune, and with a loud voice and laughing, like demons at the called upon his comrades to respect triumph of brute force. A bust of national monuments, and to spare Louis Philippe indeed, was somenational property. 66 We have what unceremoniously ejected from shown,” he continued, “ that the an upper window into the Rue te people will not wubmit to be mis-go Rivoli, where a mischievous gamin verned ; let us now show that the demolished his nose, and the throne, people can do honor to their own after receiving several mud-besmearvictory.” ed occupants, was carried in proces- A little after four o'clock the sion through the streets to the Place Chanber of Deputies was entirely de la Bastille, and there burnt at the deserted, and one of the most event foot of the column of July. But as ful scenes in history had drawn to a the intoxication of successgave place close Shortly afterwards the walls to the intuxication of strong wines of Paris were covered with placards which the royal cellars liberally announcing the formation of a pro afforded to their new proprietorsvisional government composed of and as gratifiea 'curiosity was suc=" the following members : Dupont de ceeded by barbarous disdain, the l'Eure, Lamartine, Cremieux, Le late residence of an almost despodru Rollin, Garnier Pages, Marie, tic King became the of and Fr. Arago ; with Louis Blanc, the most frightful excesses. A Armand-Marrast, Ferdinand Flocon, huge bonfire was kindled in the and Albert, for secretaries. Place du Carousel, into which was While the fall of the monarchy flung ever first came to hand, and the institution of a Republic while the most wanton spirit of dewere thus being consummated, the vaštation reduced to fragments that insignia and residence of royalty which, the flames seemed disposed escaped not the rude hands of the spare. And yet the most scrupdespoilers. After firing the guard lous probity was preserved. A box of house known as the Chateau d'Eau, jewelty found in the Queen's apartthe victors rushed into the Palais ment was instantly convived to the Royal, smashing the magnificent Mairie of the third Arrondissement, mirrors, hacking and hewing with . and men of the people stationed at their sabres the rich hangings and the different doors searched every not a few choice paintings, and one passing out. Death, instant throwing out of the windows the va death, was the punishment of the luable and costly furniture, which robber, and few indeed were the ob- 7 scene to ·CVI A Week in Paris in February, 1848. jects purloined, though many of the cade, when a mere boy, snatching victors had not broken their fast the national colors from the hands that day, nor knew where to find of a bystander, scrambled on to the means for buying a morsel of bread, top of the barricade and winding Viewed in this light the conduct of the flag around him, cried out with a the Parisian inob has been exempla clear voice--" It is the banner of ry. No insult .to private persons, France-fire, if you dare." Anno injury to their property, has other ..ade himself very conspicuous stained the apnals of these three me in the attack on the guard house in morable days; on the contrary, the the Face du Palais Royal. Woundutmost politeness and inodoration ed in the shoulder, and armed only have hitherto been observed. To- .With a suyord, he stood in advance wards the latter part of the after of the people, encouraging them by noon, indeed, it became unpleasant voice and gesture, and seemingly to traverse the streets in consequence insensible to the danger of his posiof the incessant firing off of guns, tion, or the agony of his wound. and the advanced stage of intoxica During this attack much true coution at which many had arrivedl, and sage was exhibited in removing the who from this cause garried their wounded immediately from the spot arms in anything but a soldierly to the Gallérie Vitrée, which had manner, but even then the only been hastily, converted into an hosdanger would have been accidental. pital, and where the utmost attention The costuine of these heroes was was lavished upon the sufferers. often ludicrous in the extreme. The But however remarkable may have wirdrobes at the Palace had been been the intrepidity of these young rifled, and their contents now adorn rogues, nothing could surpass the ed the persons of as hideous a populace soldierly bearing of the National as may anywhere be found, and Guards, unless it were their huumacontrasted strangely with the spoils nity and forbegrance. Wherever the gathered froin the barracks and the danger was inost imminent, they disarmed soldiery. Ilere reeled a were sure to be found in the foreman with a dragoon's helmet on his most rai_k, cool and collected and head, a inusket in his hand, and an when victory crowned their efforts, embroidered coat upon his back. they were still the first to protect There stalked another, sabre in hand, the vanquished, and freque_tly, at with a bell rope for a sash, and arti much personal risk, inediated befitial flowers in kis foraging cap. tween the people and their treinbling A third staggered along, bearing a Victims. To their active generosity rich ball dress on the point of his must be attributed the lives of the bayonet, an Aide-de-Camp's cocked Municipal Guard, who otherwise hat on his head, and muslin cur would have fallen a sacrifice to the tains rolled round histguttered blourse, popular vengeance. 'while a fourth, wearing the Royal While the National Guards and livery on his back, a.shako, huge the people distinguished themselves as the famed helinet of the castle of .by their determined valour, the troops Otranto, and a pistol stuck in an of the line cxhibited the utmost irreextempore belt, gravely stood on solution and an utter wantot soldierguard, and fancied himself a man, ly feeling. Admitting that their though his sixteenth year had noî yet sympathy for the popular cause dawned, or the sbade fallen on kis up might prevent their acting with per lip. These urchins, in truth, bore much cnergy, surely nothing can the uselves with marvellous gallantry excuse the prompt surrender of their under the hottest fire, and rivalled arins to a inob of boys and vaga- .the most daring of the combatants bonds. With the exception of the in cool audacity. In one instance a 4ith Foot, who so gallantly maindetachment of infantry was about tained themselves in the Chateau to fire on, the defenders of a barri d'Eau against a host of enemies, the ·A Week in Paris in February, 1848. cvii Ht was 80,000 troops who occupied Paris motion. The National Guard, reproved worse than useless, for they presenting as they do the Boursupplied the rabble with those very geoisic or shopocracy of Paris, can arms that had been entrusted to the not be supposed to feel much precustody of their honor and courage. dilection for a state of things that The people theinselves appeared to will utterly ruin thcir trade. In the regard them with a degree of con absence of a Court, there will be but teinpt, for in the afternoon the great few of the nobility residing in the er part of the soldiers were marched metropolis, for what man of high out of the town without arins, and ancestry and refined habits would guarded or escorted by some half find pleasure in mingling, on equal dozen men of the mob. å terins with the rude, upstart demopiteous sight, and the heart of nany crats who will henceforth constitute an officer must have bled at the very the government ? Then, if there be thought of the indignity he had neither a Court nor a resident arisbrought upon himself. tocracy, what strangers of rank or At mis hour the streets are tran fortune will resort to a place no quil. Patrols of National Guard: longer distinguished for its social and the gjeople traverse the town in pleasures ? Now, it is notorious all directions. With the cxception That Paris depends almost entirely of constant. feux le joil, aind the in upon the sale of objects of luxury cessant Marseillaise of drunken pa and taste, which are eagerly souglit triots, not a sound is to be heard in after by foreigners of all nations. dicative of the wonderful change Take away this source of emoluthat has been effected in a few hours. ment, and what will becoine of tile It appears to me very question hitherto gay and giddy capital of the able whether the National Guard civilized world! These are obvious would have co-operated so zealously questions, and the answer is more with the people, could they have . easy than satisfactory. Bankruptcy foreseen the extinction of monarchi and ruin await the tradesman-the cal power. Circumstances drew them nobles and the wealthy will withon farther than they at firs) antici draw to more tranquil, more genial pated or wished. T'heir real and laudsand the populace, thrown out final object was the downfal of an of employment by their own rash odious Sinistry, but when the un violence, will re-enact the scenes of fortunate affair of Wednesday night spoliation and insult which subvertinflained the minds of all men, and ed the originat-and healthy tencreated a feeling of distrust towards dency of the first revolution. That the King--whoin some suspected of there will be the same amount of being by no means averse to a colli bloodshed, I do not imagine, for a sion between the soldiers and the peo countervailing power has since ple--the abdication of Louts Philippe sprung up in the Garde Nationale, became talked of as a desirable con who for their own sakes will be, ere titsgency. Few, very few, are real Jong, compelled to turn against their ly in favor of a republic, except late •comradex in arms, and shoot the idle vagabonds who have no thun down without mercy. God thing to lose, and the handful of grant thyt these fears may prove sedikious demagogues, metly men unfounded, and that we may now of broken fortunes and dissolute have arrived at a new and a better lives, who hope to profit by a coni era irf the history of civilization !

·[cviii] THE AISSAOUA. 1 cer- (Translated from the French of Théophile Gautier.) I must preface the following narra carpet surrounded 0 civilization, tive by stating that the scene is laid who wanted you here !_by a at Bildah, in French Africa, where I tain number of Bougies de l'Etoile, happened to be lowated in the month stuck into the earth like the candles of August 1845. One evening I was of the poor wretches who make a seated with my legs crossed, like a livelihood at Paris by, exhibiting tailor or a Turk, between a Bedoween owls, or howling out ballads in the and a Kabyle, quietly sipping that evening on the Boulevards, or in the excellent coffee one only meets with Champs Elysées. in the East, when my companions A very singular effect was probegan to make some allusions to a duced by this illumination on the festival that was to take place on the surface of the ground, and the light following day at a farm belonging to falling upon the foliage from beneath Ahmed-ben-Kaddour, Caid of the gave the whole scene quite a theatri- Beni-Khelil. The programme, was cal appearance, in part duc also to at that moment crfed aloud by one of the costume of the actors which is irthose itinerant news-mongers that resistibly associated in the mind of always frequent the Coffee-houses, an European with 4 Melodrama or who informed us that there was to the Opera. On beholding that mulbe an exhibition of the Aissaqua, titude of luminous points, a native a sect of convulsionnists, so to poet would have haiti .that the stars speak, of whom the most marvellous had come down from the heavens to and incredible tales are related. My sip the dew on the grass, or that a curiosity being naturally much ex- · Peri had there shaken off the golden cited, I prevailed upon a friend well leaflets from her veil. In simple unacquainted with the manners and sentimental prose, the grocers of Alpeople of the country, td'act as my gicis had disposed of a large quanguide and companion. To enter the tity of bougies. Kaouck, or farm-yard, we had to On a sign made by the Caïd, traverse long lines of horses pirket slaves placed before us, on the edge ed to the ground, whose shrill neigh of the carpet, wooden bowls filled ings resembled the notes of the clawith couscoussou, a piece of mutton, 'rion. The dogs, accustomed to bet some fowls, curds, and a few slices ter treatment at, the 'hands of the of water-melon. To this Homeric re- French settlers than of the natives past we did ample justice, and, after of the soil, gambolled, around us as coffee had, been handed round, we we approached the ha use, barking lit our pipes with much inward satisa glad welcome. Made aware by faction. these unusual sounds that strangers Whilst we were slowly exhaling were at hand, some of the farm ser the smoke which mounted in bluish vants hastily came forth to mčet wreaths beneath the dense canopy us, and conducted us to the pre of leaves, two musicians came and sence of the Caïd Ahmed-ben-Kad stationed themselves in front of us. dour. A strange spectacle presented The beauty of their forms, and the itself to our gaze. The tribe of antique grúce of the folds of their the Beni Khelil enjoying drapery, seemed rather to belong to themselvéd, in Arab fashion, be the, elegant designs of a Grecian neath the wide spreading foliage sculptor, than to mere vulgar minsycamores, carob, and fig-trees. strols with flesh and blood. This At the foot of each, groups of four bas-relief, however, fa red us with or five persons were squatted on a a serenade. The instrument they were ·The Aissaoua, CIX a a the used was a kind of hautbois or flute, devotions in the Mosque beyond his with a flat neck enciraled by usual hour, he was returning sorrowwooden ring, on which rested the fully homewards, thinking that his lips of the performers. Motionless starving family would cry to him for as statues, and witlo their eyes fixed the food he had not to give them, on the ground, they moved, not a but on entering his hovel, he saw inuscle, except those indispensable leg of mutton roasting before the ta the stopping the holes, while they fire, and other preparations for a played in a very high key an ais not comfortable and substantial incal.. unlike some of Félicon David's imi In his boundless reliance on titions of Arab music. There was goodness of Cimd, Aissa sheemed it something altogether novel and de useless to enquire wlicnce came this lightful in the whole scene. "The unexpected abundance ; but on the attitude of the musicians, the shape morrow he returned to the Mosqne, of their instruments, the nature of and indulged in long and ſervent their melody, the audience grouped prayer. in the evening he again around in their biblical draperies,, found a splendid repast set out, and all carried back the imagination to his house filled with the good things the most remote ages, to associations that a stranger bad brought in his of that primitive mode of life, long absence. Thus it went on day by since passed away day, without exciting the slightest Apollo, when coinpelled to watch surprise in the mind of Aissa, for he the flocks of Admetus, must have wal knew that his bountiful purveywiled away the tedious hours of his or was no other than a messenger cxile by playing just such another from an bigh, and so great was the air on just sucli auther pipe, and profision of vegetables and grain, you may depend upon it that his tunic that he was able to feed all the poor fell into exactly such folds. of his city. Before attempting to describe the At another time his wife, whom frightful ceremonies of the Aissaoua, he ho sent to the well to fetch wąit may be as well to say a few words ter in his ablutions, drew up hier by way of introduction to this extra pitcher full of gold coin, and this ordinary sect. Among the Musul every time she let it down. man population of Afiica there are The whole of this treasure was set a great inany orders, or rather con out in an alcove screened off hy a gregations, not like the religious white curtain, sand whenever the fraternities of Europe, and the menag , needy and the deserving applied for bers also style themselves “ Khaou aid, he would give it out in handfuls or Brothers. Several of the without stopping to weigh it or count sects are to be found in Algeria, alit over. though they evidently derive their These visible signs of the divine origin from Morocco, and among favor induced issa, notwithstandthese is the one founded by Sidi-Mo ing his humility, to become the hammed-ben-Aissa. founder of an order, the peculiar The legend connected with this tenets of which should be an abs(- Aissa, who lived some three hundred lute faith in God, and passive obeyears ago, is not a little curigns, lle dience to its Marabout. To put his was a poor man, an inhabitant of disciples to the proof, and they Mequinez in Morocco, and it not amounted to one hundred, he purunfrequently happened that his wife chased as many sheep at the period and children were without a morsel of the feast of Bairain, and enjoines of food. Endowed with a faith ur his followers to assemble at his house assailable by trial or temptation, 'on the morrow. At the appointed Aissa huit his trust in God alone to hour they did not fail to come togerescue him from this miserable con ther in front of his abode. As soon dition Accordingly it came to pass as they were al collected, he went that one day having prolonged his out to them and said, You are all d an,' VOL. 1.NO. IV.

·CX The Aissaoua. sure. ans my children, you love me as a fa I shall not trouble my readers with ther, and are resolved in all things the miracles ascribed to the Musulto do my will-is it net so ?" The man Saint. The rain, the hatchet, disciples unanimously answered in the piece of silver, the woman changthe affirmative. " Well then," he ed into a negrecs, the tuft of white resumed, “it is my pleasure to cut hair, and a hundred others of a simiz the throat of every one of you. It lar character, are either borrowed is customary at this festival to sa from other sources, or too puerile.to crifice sheep, but I prefer taking be further noticed. I must however you as my victims. Let him among mention one racle that refers to you who truly Invesene and has real, the scene I have undertaken to defaith in me; now enter iny house scribe.' On one occasion Sidi-Aissa, that I may slay lim." attended by some of the brothers," This startling proposition caused a set out to visit a douar situated at moment's silence and hesitation, un soine distance. During the journey til one of them stepped forward and his disciples perishing of hunger said, “ Take iny life, if it can be importuned their master to give them useful to you or afford you any plea- 'food. Annoyed by their clamorous Hc then, walked into the appeals, the Marabout impatiently house, when the Maraboat gave exclaimed, " Well then, cat poison. him one of the sheep, and desired Accustomed to render a literal obehim to kill it in such a manner that dience to his commands, thc Klaouthe blood should flow into the collected all the scorpions, street. After this, he again went out toads, serpents, and other venomous and repeated the same invitation as reptiles they could find, and feasted before. The sight of the blood run upon them wit as much relish as ning out from bencath the doorway they had been the most exquisite was not, perhaps, very encouraging, dainties. On arriving at their destiand again the Khaouans faltered in nation, they refused to partake of the hour of trial. A secon one, the repast that was set out for them, however, presently detached ...mself and declared that they had not the from the others, and entered the elightest appetite for any thing master's house. Again the blood Touclied with their exceedpoured forth, but the appalling spec ing great faith, Sidi-Aissa bestowed tacle could not deter thirty-vight of upon them, and, for their sakes, upon his disciples from bindly submitting the whole order, iinpunity from the themselves to their master's will. A, poffects of poison, whether internal or fat sheep rewarded their ready obe external, and this peculiar privilege dience. is said to prevail even at the present A rumour now spread through time. Muley Ismael, Sultan of Mothe city that Sidi Mohammed-ben rocco, had taken offence at the popu- Aissa was murdering his followers, larity of this holy Marabout, and felt "and the authorities of the place hinself thrown into the shade by an hastened to the spot. The door was influence derived froin heaven. He forced open, and thirty-eight living accordingly filled an enormous bowl « brothers" were found sdáted be with the most abominable and filthy side tlıirty-eight dead sleep. ingredients, compared with which It is a curious coincidense that the cauldron of Shakspeare's Witchthe name Aisna corresponds with es was an olla-podrida greatly to be that of Jesus, and Aissaoni in the preferred. The sight and stench singular, or Aissaouan in the plural, were too much for even the practismay be literally rendered by the and stomachs of the Khaouans, and word Jesuit. It is besides not a they were about to retire in confulittle striking that the Marabout Biont, when an ancient female servant adopted, as the fundamental rule, the of Sidi-Mohammed-ben-Aissa, repassive obedience the perinde ac · proaching them with their want of • cadaver af Ignatius Loyola. faith, walked deliberately up to the more. 10 ·The Aissaoua. cxi hideous mess, and began to devour The Aissaoua, to the number of its contents with hearty good will. thirty, were crouched on the ground Encouraged by the gusto with which around the Mukaddem, or officiating she set about iter task, the others priest, who now began in a slow mospeedily joined her, and in a very few notonous tone, to tecite a prayer minutes snakes and rats, slugs and which the Khaouans accompanied in spiders, and other dainties pf a a low murmuring voice From time lil.e naturc, had entirely disappear to time a slight touch on the Tared. The Sultan gazed with mingled bouka gave a cadence to the hoarse estonishment and terror, while the chant, which gradually swelled loudfaithful Khaouans derived the mosta yer and louder, until it resenabled the beneficial effects from their apparent sound of a wave breaking on a disly repulsive repast. In cominėmo tant shore, or a clap of thunder far ration of this iniracle you may some away in the clouds. Suddenly a tines see in the squares and open shrill, sustained, but tremulous cry, places in Algiers, a female with dis che screeching of a night owl or a hevelled hair feigning to swallow ser dazzled ospray, the sob of a stranp nts, regulating the contortions of gled babe, the laugh of a ghoul in her body by the rhythmical cadence a cemetery, reht she night air like of musical instruments. Not only the sharp rushing sound of a rocket. do the Aissaouans possess the power This note pitched in a supernatural of charming reptiles and venomous key, this piercing cry, false as the creatures, they also extend their siglt of a fierce hyena or the laughpower over the fiercest bcasts of ter of a crocodile, awakened in the prey, and the lions of the desert distarrte, the hoarse barking of the tamely follow in their train. jackals, and .froze the very marrow in one's bones. Methought The ceremony was about to com a flight of Afrits or of Jinns was The groups broke up, and passing over This infernal dixpersed. Ahmed-ben-Khaddour. screar was uttered by the women arose and proceeded into the court who kept it up a fearful time, strik of the Kaouck, a kind of Spanish ing their mouth the while with the cloister or series of open arcades. palm of the hand, to give a vibration There he scated myself and my comto the sound. It is impossible to panions on a carpet of honour by his imagine anything more discordant, side. This court was lighted up in harsh, and diablical. Compared an odd nanner with bougies and with this, the creaking of the wheels lampe placed on the ground beside of the bullock carts on the mountains the different groups. Above our of Aragon, which makes the rery heads the sky spread its dark blue wolves flee in terror, must be deemed canopy, indented round the edge by "the harmony of the nightingale. white spectre-like forms perched This frightful applause seemed to like birds upon the roof. One wouls excite the perforiners. They sang have almost said they were a flock with A louder and more accented of ghosts, or goblins, spirits of evil voice. The players on the Tarbonor ghouls 'awaiting the celebration ka struck their wild-asses' skin with of some Thessalian mysteryo or the redoubled tigor, and with ever-inopening of a 'Witches Sabbath. It creasing activity. The audience is difficult to imagine any thing more marked the measure by an involunawful or fantastic than these pale tary movement of the head. And gloomy shadows, silent as night, sus those drcadful women assented pended over our heads, in the deats the interminable litany of the acts like stillness of beings from the other 'and miracles of Sidi-Mohammed-benworld. These were the women of Aissa, by more and more frequent the tribe, seated on the terraces to yellings. As the prayer increased in enjoy at their ease the horrible spec fervour, a nervous agitation pervadtacle that was about to take place. ed the frames of the Khaouwas. Their mence. us.

·схіі The Aissaoua. moinent t scene. me rus. heads moved up and down, and from arms, but he threw himself backside to side, foam gathered on their wards and forwards with such violips, their eyes became blood-shot, lence, that he shook off his supporand their eye-balls rolled about un ters and fell to the ground, drawtil nothing but tlie white was visible. ing himself along like a wounded All this time they never paused for a snakemand hoarsely murinuring the froin exclaiming Allah ! name of Allah in a notc so guttural, Allah! Allah ! with such a frantic so harsh, and yet so decp, thatoit energy, sucli feticious devotion, and was eslistinctly heard above the cries in a voice so hoirse, savage, and pro of the Khnouas, the shrieks of the foundly hollow, that it rather resemrwomen, and the howling of the bled the roaring of famished lions in convulsionists. If ever the Devil a den, than the articulations of the is coünpelled to confess God, he will human voice. do it in this fashion. My own eye Presently the rhythm of the tam grew giddy, and my reason becamo bours became more and more pro- confused as I gazed upon the dizzy nounced. The dissaona werc inspired The same sort of imitative with a mad frenzy. The moveinent of sympathy that makes one, open the the head became general and doubled jaws on beholding a person yawil, in intensity. So terrible were their forced to make involuntary oscillations, that'the chin smote upon jumps on thy carpet. I began methe breast like a battering ram, and chanically to move my head to and from the waist upwards, the whole fr, and with difficulty could I reframe was convulsed as in St. Vitus' strain myself from howling in chodance. At times soine brother or A horseman of a neighbouring other, axhausted by she exertion, tribe, seated not far from iyself, would fall to the ground, gasping for was unable to master the impulse. breatlı, covered with sweat and foam, and rolled in the dust with hysteri and almost insensible; but, roused by cal liughter'aud sobs. The tumult the implacable thuder of the Tar was at its height. The excitemem houkas, he would start up and regain bordered on paroxysm. The conhis position by galvanic efforts, like tinued beating of the musical ina dead frog beneath the shock of a struments, and the increasing os- Voltaic battery. At this sight the cillation of their own persons, had excited spectres above waved their raised the Aissaouans to the degree wwinding sheets in quplause, and sont of delirium necessary for the due forth a yet more piercing yell. The selebration of their rites. Catalepresuscitated performer was again sy, inagnetic trance, congestion of placed on his hrunches, and re-com the brain, the entire cohort of nermenced his efforts with redoubled vous complaints, rendered into sobs, zeal. contortions, and tetanus, convulsed An Aissaoui, one of the most dis those seemingly dislocated limbs, tinguished members of the sect, and those faces destitute of all trace of apparently regarded by the others the human aspect. The lamps enwith a sort of respectful awe, threw circled with halos of red duet rehimself into Inc most deirioniacal flected a ruddy glare ovur this wild contortions. llis nostrils trembled, and fantastic scene, the recollection his lips turned blue, his eyes were of which still weighs upon me like a starting from his head, the muscles nightmare. All these growlinge, on his skinny neck stood out like crawlings, tumblings, howlings, yellsmall cords, a nervous trepidation ings and twistings, formed a most hiagitatea his frame froin lead to foot, dtous confusion. Presently the bearhis arins moved about violently and ing of men' was exchanged for that of at random, as if involuntarily and Orate beasts, and a disgusting odour unconnected with another. arose from those bestial forms like Two of his comrakes placed him on that of a menagerie. We shuddered' his feet, and held him up under the with horror in our retired corner, but one ·The Aissaoran. cxiii 0n to what we had as yet witnessed was soft amorous langour, and gently only the prologue to the play. murmured the name of Allah. Ano- Dragging themselves their ther half-naked, lean, spare-built, knees and elbəws, they half raised and of a tawny hue, struck himself themselves from wie ground, and so violently on the chest that at evestretched their earth-besmeared hands ry blow the blood spurted forth. By the Mokaddem. Turning, to his side, one of his coinpanions jumpwards him their pale, haggard, livid, ed with naked feet on the•upturned leaden faces, streaming with Iverspi edges of Yataghan. . ration, and lighted ep with oyes that The Tarboukas thundered with Rashed a feverish fire, they, demand, out cessation.. The crie of the woed of him something to cat with men became cach instant more piercthe wailings of children. "If you ing, more harsh, more quavering. are hungry, eat poison," replied the Not a single brother remained up- Mokaddein in imitation of the saint right. All were rolling, as if seized Sidi-Mohammed-ben-Aissa. with epilepsy, and winding them- What followed after the Mokad selves into serpentine knots. I aldem had made a sign to bring in the lowed my aching eyes to float, as it food is so altogether strange and in were, over this hideous confusion of credible, that I entrcat iny readers henda and limbs, crawling and to believe literally all that I am about creeping in the dißt, when a moveto tell them. My narrative contains ment at one of the entrances annot the slightest exaggeration, for that wounced a new episode in this sawould be impossible. Toads, scor vage drama. Two Arabs entered pions, and snakes of different kinds the Court, dragging a sheep by the were pulled our vi small bags, and horns, that stoutly resistes, and set deroured alive with cvery demon its furefect on the ground with desstration of delight. Some passed perate but vain resolution. their tongue over red hot shovels The poor animal seemed alınost to and pick-axes; others crunched burn have a presentiment of its fate. . Its ing woals; others again chewed the large blue eye dilated with terror, loaves of the Cactus, the thorns of and cast a glassy, look around, but which ran through their cheeks. without distinguishing anything. A Each Khavuan, while feasting in blood-colored mucus dropped from this disgusting manner, uttered all its n >strils, and its whole frame tremsorts of sounds and cries. One Lled like alext and already it seema roared like a lion, another hisujed ed half dead with fright. like a viper, a third produced only At the sight of the sheep, a deafinarticulate notes, while others fran ening clamour, a frantic shout, istically invoked the visionary forms sued from all these breasts in which that seen by the believer" one would have thought that scarcealone. The ecstatic laid ly a breath could be reinaining. The down on burning coals as if on a Aissaoua precipitated themselves on bed of roses, and an expression of the poor animal, threw it over on its indescribable and celestial. hap- back, and, while some held fast its piness ilumined their countenance, legs,"notwithstanding its maddened such as we see depicted in paintings efforts to get free, others tore open of the early Christian martyrs drawn the belly with theinteeth, and gnawby the hand of the great masters. ed the entrails mingled with tufts of One of these fanatics, hardly twen wool. Others again, like birds of ty years of age, came up to where prey, pulled out the bowels and we were sitting, and with an ait of swallowed them by the yard, while the greatest complacency applied their comrades seized upon the heart, a framing torch to his stupits, the liver, and the lungs. In anneslowly drawing it down to the wrist. credibly short space of time nothing A strong smell of burnt flesh reach remained of the sheep put shapeed our nostrils, while he smiled in less and bleeding thgments, for > were most ·exiv Helana Vallisneria. which the wretches disputed among themselves with a ferocity surpassing that of wolves and hyænas. The strange horror of the scene was augmented by the shaven crowns of the Khaouans, naturally of a dark bluish hue fiom.che action of the razor, and now streaked with blood, as they thrust their heads into the reeking curcase. They were like huge birds of prey, half human, half vulture, gorging themselves on some dead animal abandoned in the desert. At last, intoxicated with their filthy repast, and utterly exhausted by their horrid orgies, the Aissaouans fell heavily to the ground, one by one, and drapped into a deathlike stupor. For my own part, my head was in a perfect whirl, and it was with a sensation of infinite de light that I once more found myself on the road to Blidah, when the fresh air of the morning soon dissipated these terrible visions of the nightvisions, however, of frightful realities. 4 HELENA VALLISNERIA, IJTTLE 6 . (Translated from the Novellen van Julius Mosen.) À way from the town-eaid mented with gilt balls and spires the old huntsman-you may sce even that made a brune-show as they now the ruins of a hut, in which flushed back the rays of the sun. many long years ago dwelt a potter In the interior was a single chamber with his son, an acute, daring lad, without any windows, but only a who did little else than play the circular opening in the roof through guitar all day. No sooner had the which the angels of heaven might old man been gathered to his fathers, look down and adniire the glorious than the boy packed upin a wallet all sight. The walls of this chamber he possessed, and, turning his back were painted by an artist from Dresupon the hovel, set out to wander den with all sorts of flowers and grothrough the world. tesque figures that looked wonder- Wilhelm the Potter, as he was call fully gay. There were besides maed in his native place, was soon as ny different kinds of gilt ornaments, much forgotten is is the summer and a curious door with gilt iron butterfly in the midst of winter bars. But with so much sccresy was when all at once he arrain appeared all this dong that we never could worm among us with horses and carriages, any thing even out of the workmen, and a fine lady in his company. He and we could only guess at what bought that large red-brick house in was going on from the hints of some the market place, and there fared of his neighbours, who were able to sumptuously every day, like Dives catch a glimpse here and where of in the parable. Wilhelm's great his garder, from the roofs of their riches excited nocsmall astonishment houses. among the town's folk, particularly It then began to be bruited abroad, among the women, but what made, and, of course, believed, that the theme wonder still more King was going to pass the winter in beautiful, dark lady, with her strange, our town in a quiet retired manner, foreign customs. In the centre of 'away from all trouble and turmoil, meyard Wilhelm erected a building and enjoy a bottle of our best brew- 90 grand, that nothing in the world ing with Wilhelm, who was now could be compared tabt for beauty. looked upon as a very great person- The roof was painted blue, and orna age. But instead of the King comwas the ·Helena Vallisneria. CXV ing to live in this beautiful building, monies and sacrifices, only that it what, think you, really took place? had now become a silver cow! One day the rich man started off After the service, old and young somewhere into the country, and gathered together before Wilhelin's when he returned after a few weeks' house. Volleys of stones were hurlabsence, he brought with him a ed against the windows, and such large piire-white cow. It was really scrcaming and hooting ! " Come splendid animal, I have heard, out," we cried, " come out, thou deand we were told that the dark lady vil's comrade, thou and thy black went almost mad fre joy on seeing it, witch and infernal cow !" and actually threw her arms roungl. Weeping and monning were heard its neck, hugging and kissing it. within the house, and all at once the This was the King for whom the fine door opened and Wilhelm stepped building had been erected, and now out. · His hands were stuck into his no body could talk of any thing but pockets and he looked as cheerfuland the folly of making such costly sta happy as if he had just come home bles for cows. from church. We all became silent Ainong Wilhelm's foreign servants in a moment, and stood half abashed was a young English girl, who spoke before him. Suddenly an expres- German pretty well, and with whom, sion of sadness swept over his counof course, the inh-keeper's son fell tenance and thus lie addressed us :- desperately in love. It was by this “ Is this the way, my friends, you means we learned that the dark lady greet your old school-fellow and used to wash and feed her cow every playmate ? Is this the way you treat day with her own hands, and adorn mepbecause I have returned among its gilded horns with wreaths of you with my wife? Why are you flowers. We then easily understood so angry with me? llave I ever how it was that Wilhelm had grown turned any one of you away from 80 suddenly rich, and no one 'doubt my door? Have I ever harıncd any ed but that the cow was a fairy who one in word or deed? If so, let bim gavr. hin all his wealth. On the stand forth, and I will make yim Sunday after this grand discovery, amends. My own school-fellows, the parson stood up in the pulpit, and you, friends and companions of his face scarlet with passion, and my father, speak. If I owe you preached a sermon that made the any hing, tell ne-and I will invery wig dance upon his head. His stantly repay you. Do I not see words, as generally happened, could you in your Sunday clothes and with, be better understood outside of the prayer books under your arın ? Do town than within the church itself. you not come direct from that sa- However, he drew such a faithful cred building in which peace and picture of Wilhelin and his wife that brotherly love are proached to all it was impossible not to recognise them. We were ready to tear them On hearing these words we beto pieces. At that time I was the came as silent as mice, and our fcelorgan blower, and, therefore, placed ings towards him began lo change. with the musicians in the choir. T'he But when at that moinent the beauparson went on to warn us against tiful dark lady came out wringing the imp of Satan that had lately her, hands and crying bitterly, the crept into our town by means of a women at took her part, stray sheep from the fold. He de- and upbraided their husbands for nounced war and pestilence if the their cruelty. Wilhelm's old com- Evil Spirit should any longer be panjons then stepped up thim, and worshipped in this place under the shook hands with him in token of form> of a white cow. It was just reconciliation. They also told him the same, said he, as the golden calf how it had all happened, and why.. which the Israelites worshipped in the people were so much offended the wilderness with idolatrous cere with him, and begged him to explain men ?" once ·cxvi Helana Vallisneria. Iarto them why he kept a fuiry cow. ped upon my mouth, and three fel- Upon this Wilhelm replicd : :-"My lows, strong, as oxen, seized upon me dear friends and neighbours, come and threw inc on the ground, when around me and hear me. I have they handcuffed and bound me fast been wrong to keup my life and ac -my dear friend kindly assisting tions a secret from you. They have them to drag me into a boat. They therefore been misconstrued by some then rowerl down Uie Elb as fust is evil-minded persons. But hence- they cøuld pull, while I was unable forth there sheill be no mystery be to turpi' myself one way or the other, tween us. Now listen to my story. for my hands and feel wero tied so Most of you remember me when tightly that iny blond secined to be a boy, and know how I departed from 'frozen. At length the morning dawiamong you at my father's death, as ed, and the sun rose as beautiful and poor as a Church mouse, and tra grand as if only angels dwelt upon velled into forcign lands. First of earth. Soon afterwards we came all I went to Hamburg. alongside a large ship, into which ! rived there without a farthing in was hoisted like a balc of cotton and my, pocket, shivering with cold, stowed away in the hold. Here I and 'fanislied with bunger, and yet found thirty others as unfortunate as merry and free from care. While myself, who told me that we had I was thus wandering through the fallen into the power of a dealer in streets, I'was met by a well-dress. human creatures. I flung nyself ed and nice looking gentleman, who down in a corner won some straw, professed the greatest friendship and bitterly bewailed my fato, alfor me, and, taking me to an enn, though I felt some relief in regainasked me what I would like to take. ing the use of negmuth and limbs. We swore mutual fidelity to one an- As soon as 'we were fairly out at other, and then wept together like sea, we used to be brought upon deck two children. And yet I could not by sixés for an hour at a time. When at all understand why the hostess, it came to iny turn, I recognised my every time she came into the room, Hamburg friend, who informed me made me signs to beware of my kind that he was a Corporal of Marines, friend. However I took no further and that I had now the honour of benotice of thein, for my appetite was iny a soldier in the brave army of too good to be disturbed, and, as one England. In addition to this, I glass of punch followed another, this learned that we were bound for the last one always seemed the best. East Indies, where I should have an 'When night arrived and I was pre opportunity of covering myself with paring to set out in search of a lody glory and dust in fighting against ing, my companion would not allow the Mahrattas. As iny friend now it, but pressed me to sit down for one gave me a bottle of rum and a sillittle hour more and when walk with ver dollar, I gradually became rehim to his own house. So far from conciled both to himself and to my refusing, I was only too glad to accept fate.. After sòine months we arrived Jis proposal. So we sat there drink at our destination, where I joined ing and pledgiig one another till I with my regiment, and nichcd all became frightfully intoxicaier. At dressed in scarlet like an Englishman, inidnight, we rose up and left the to conquer the Mahrattås. Shortly hotel to go to my friend's lodgings, afterwards we fought a terrible batafter he had paid the bill. "Bad tle, and you may well believe that I as I was, I still remember how we raged furiously like a true-born Gerwandered up one street and down mart who knew how to obey liis ofhianother, and how strange all those cers. This however did not last long, aps and downs, ins and outs ap for after a time I found inyself dying peared to me. At length, just as on a soft mattrass in a lofty room we were turning therebrner of a dir from which the light was carefully ty lane, a pluster wag suddenly clap excluded. Indeed there were no win- ·Helena l'allisneria. was ine 3 dows at all, and it was only through ceeded in delighting thcsc people, the open door that the light was and was induced to accompany them able to enter, and the only thing in their wanderings. Whilst they I could distinghish in the chamber performed their tricks of legerdemain, a dirty, triple-headed idol, I used to play the guitar. It happenwhich kept continually staring at me ed that as we were at one time staying from the opposite corner. On rais at Poonah, the capital of the Malirig my hand up to my head, I felt as rattas, I strolled past the royal garif I had been stunned, and now for dens with my instrumentslung across': he first time I discovered that some my shoulder. It was evening, and the. väliant Mahratta must have given , silvery stars shone out Williantly. as a token of remembrance a The warmth was delicious. The sabre cut right across the scalp. trees waved their branches to and After waiting some tiine an old fro, fanning the air, and filling it man, with a long venerable beard, with a thousand flowery perfumes. I came up to my bedside, and bowed hardly knew where I was, and sithinself well nigh down to thc, ting down upon a store, I indulged ground. I was of course much gra in waking dreams. Far off I heard tified by his friendly looks and signs, a sweet soft voice singing, which but it was not until a later period secmedato penetrate my heart and that I became sufficiently acquaint soul. Being in the habit of acconed with the language of the country panying singers, I involuntarily ran to understand wat he said. He miy fingers along the chords. At proved to be an Indian priest, and had length the voice was hushed, and I acted towaris une like the good Sa rose to retire, when the tempter maritan. The day after the battle whispered into me: Wilhelm, the he had found me among the dead, garden door is not so very high, but with life not quite extinct, and had that you could clamber over it. It carried me to his own dwelling. was soon done, and when I looked This charitable Ilcathen had treated into the garden I fancied I must be me as if he had been a Christinn, and in Paradise. Gay-coloured lamps by means of aromatic leaves had were suspended at every corner and healed my wounds. lle now gave turning, and reflected a soft light me abundance of nutritious food, upon the winding paths cut through and, as soon as I was perfectly re. beds or countless flowers. Here and covered, he dismissed me with his there pillars and statues might be blessing . seen through the dim glimmering of I now stood alone in the wide the lamps or in the bright njoonworld beneath the open heaven and shine. Lillies and roses were gently scorching sun of India, without a moving in the balmy air as if they single creature near me who cared were sending sweet messages to cach for my life or death, or would relieve other. The effect was so enervatmy distress. With such gloomy ing that I thought I should have thoughts for my companions, I was swooned. But when, at the further proceeding on my lonely path when end of a long walk, I observed 1 suddenıy came upon a company smail building like a tower, of junglers. I stopped and saluted seemingly 'made of porcelain and ther, and they, in their turn, began 'gold, I could no longer resist, but to pull me about, and play, all sorts crept up to it as silently as possible, of tricks with me. keeping myself carefully in the their musical instruments I saw a shade of the trees and shrubs. guitar, which I can play with tolet- might.casily have got close up to it able skill. Taking it up in my hand, had it not been for two large lamps I began to strike some lively chords that were burning in front of them as if I had been at home in the val door. I was at my wit's end, and ley of the Elster, enjoying the Whit sore troubled whico do. Presently olidays. At any rate, I suc the same female voice issued from VOL. I.NO. IV. However, among sun ·CXVIII Helena Vallisneria. 1 Once More that beautiful building. It was so springing on the other I took up my soft, so sad, so sweet, that I was beauteous hide behind me, and, like quite overpowered. The two lamps A wounded hart, bounded away in were hanging within iny reach. Be rapid flight. During the day time fore my heart had beaten thrice, we concealed ourselves in the woods, they were cxtinguished, but the but all night long we sped on intil, singing went on without interrup we reached a French factory. Here tion. I was about to peep in through we were kindly and hospitably rthe kev-hole, when the door sudden ceivel, and conducted in safety to the ly opened and two females walked sea-coast, when we took ship for out. They stood Ror an instant Europe and landed at Marseillls talking to one another, or they must without harm or accident. In that have heard my heart beat. In a few city Madhawi was baptised by the minutes, however, they were lost to name of Helena Indiana, and then sight, and at the same moment that became my very dear wifc. wondrous harmony was renewed. Impelled by love of horic and The door had been left a-jar. I fatherland, I returned crept softly up to it and looked in. amongst you, my friends; but my The apartment was 1ore beautiful poor wife sufleredi bitterly from our than I can describe. Upon a crim cold foggy climate. Often times 100 son velit sofa à young female was she would talk to me alsont a white reclining. Her eyes were likr two cow she had petted and brought up stars and pierced my very soul. "A in her own country. Who would tear stule down my cheek and invonot do something to please il wifi luntary sobs burst from me as I laid who had sacrificed wealthi, climate, my burring face upon the door-step. and regal xplonilour, everything, for But I cannot tell you how it all hap love ? I thereiore erected a buildpened, though never shall I forget ing in my garden exactly like the that hour when a poor wandering one in which her ludian cow had stranger won the heart of Madhawi, lived, and I myself went away in the sister of the powerful sovereign search of a siinilar animal. Friedof the Malırattas. Proin that time, hold accompanied me, and can vouch however, I went every evening into for the truth of my words." the pavilion in the garden by the The citizens, on hearing this, would assistance of her nurse when we kave sorely ill-treated old Friedhold contrived to gain optr to our inter for not mentioning this before, had jot Wilhelm interposed and pacified Being fully conviụced in our own thcir resentment. minds that we never could enjoy life From this time no man was held separated from one another, we de in such high cstimation as Wilhelm. termined to effi'ct, our escape. I Year after year he was sure to be onght before to have told you that I elected King of the Archery feasts, had parted from ny kind friends the bearuse he never failed on such ocjugglers when they left Poonal, and casions to bestow on his towns-folk afterwards engaged lodgings for my three hogsheads of Bamberg beer. self in the suburbs. If any one was in distress, or com- One dark moonless nigin I took plained of oppression, he was sure my station, asegreed upon, atea pri to meet with sympathy and redress vate gate of the garden, with two at the hands of Wilhelm. But at splendid steeds bought with money length the foreign bank in which he given to me for that, purpose. had invested nearly all his money hardly made the appointed signal became bankrupt, and soon afterwhen Machawi came out, carrying' wards his house was burnt down, so 'ner jewels and valuable property in ih&thc had nothing left hint of all several small boxes. These I packed his wealth but his wife and the potaway in the saddle bags with which ter's yard inherited from his father. I loaded one of the horses, while His reputation and influence departests. I ·Verses. , cxix ed together with his fortune, and with his sorrows, but all those who every house and purse were closed had received favors from him deagainst him. clared that he richly descrved his Tlowever he bore up bravely un fate. This concluded the old huntsder his misfortunes: He began to man-is all that remember about turn his wheel as in the olden time, Wilhelm and his dark Helend, and and his wife carried the plates, and her beautiful white cow. dishes to market. Thus they lived “She was a Vallisneria," said the yin a respectable and becoming anan doctor. “ That marfclloug. plant ner, like good honest working peo blooms deep beneath the wave until pic. But the poor young, woman moved by the Afinighty's iwfluence of gradually sauk into inclancholy, and love, when it loosens itself from its died shortly afterwards in her first stalk and rises to the surface of the child-birth. The dny after she was water into the new world of air, committed to the earth, the potter's to float across to the crimsonhucd lut was deserted, and no one to this flower of its beloved in order to day kuows what became of Wilhelm., churish it, and then wither and sink s few pified him and sympathised for ever. VERSES (From the French of' Mellin of St. Geltais.) TII ASSOCIATION. Uron a certain fête day fair Our Pastor did an Agnus chaunt In sonorons voice both loud and clear, While Annette from the distant aisle Wept as she listened to his lay ; To whom our friend, with kindly smile, Thus said :-" Why weep'st thou, aiden? Say." Al, Messire Jean!" the maiden cried, “ 1 weep my donkey latidly dead, “ Aud ah! your voice"--and here she sigh'd Did so remind me of poor Ned." > TIE VACUUM. he LL 5 In the market place once a knave did say, He'd the Degil to all the word display, And well I woen, there was never sa wight But rushed to the market to see the sight! А purse that was widle, and deep witlul, He then held unwin the Market Ilall, Open your cyes! Is thefe nothing within ?'' “ Nothing," cried one, "neither Devil nor tin." “ Hold !" quoth the knave, “ Ztis the Devil, I swear “ To open one's purse and find nothing is there, LOSS, AGAIN. They say that thou lewat bost thy precious heart To thy sweet self! To thee inost justly dear, "Tis well, since thou alone wilt feel the smart, And jealousy will never interfere. 1 ·cxx ] THE UNKNOWN VOCALIST. G (4 Romance from the French.) CHAPTER 1. ago.” The anniversary of the Marquisc de Laujon's birthday was celebrated with great festivity. The saloons of her house in the Place-Beau-veau, werc crowded with friends all cager to give utterance to their corrgratulations and good vishes. ller husband, the Marquis, a distinguished, musical amateur himself, at the request of his dear Marie, had arranged a concert for the occasion, at which the first singers of the Italian Opera and the Theatre Feydeau were to assist. I was present at this fête which took place on the 14th of August 1808. It was ten at night, and the assembled con pany were eagerly waiting for the arrival of the beautiful and divine Barelli, the prima donna of the Empress's Theatre. At length, she made he. appearance ; her delicious tones charned the friends of the Marquise, and her triumph was so coinplete in the “ Ombra noruta" of Zingarelli's “ Romco," that by a spontaneous movement of admiration, every lady present detached a flower from ser banquetto form a wreath with which the Marquise de Laujon herself crowned the brows of the melodious Italian. One lady alone, young and beautiful, did not shari in the general enthusiasm. She sat seemingly in a deep reverie, regardless of all that was going on around her. To her downcast cye, the thousand waxlights, whose rays scintiliated in prismatic colors the crystal drops of the lustres, were without brilliancy. The swell of hạranony, which floated through the room, 'causing the mind to feel a species of delirium and the heart to mothrob again, reached not her car. One of her hands, clutcheri, convulsively, little lock, suspended round her neck by a chuin of light colored hair.' In the midst of the brilliant throng, she alone wore half-nourning Surrounded by gaily dressed, bloottiing and smiling women, she appeared to me to suggest the simile of a cypress, desolate amongst the roses. The sorrowful attitude, the abstracted air of' this unknown one, inspired me with a degree of undefinable interest. Anxious to find out who she was, I approached the Duchess de Lainey, and legged ner to tell me the name of the pensive beauty, • She is,” answered the Duchess, young lady from Provence, who Jost her husband anionth after their marriage : it is now six years " Six years," cried I, “and she still wears mourning? That is an exiu»ple of conjugal picty rather rare in these times; what you tell me absolutely excites iny cnriosity about her to a degrec; by what dreadful misfortune did she happen to lose her husband so soon after marriage ?" " He died the victim of a horrible outrage." “ Oh!” Duchess, cried I, “ pray tell me all the particulars, it must be a very interesting story." " It is much more mournful, than furious, my friend,” said Madame de Lainey “ and to talk of death, on a birthday in the midst of a gay assembly? If we were to be yverheard, what would be said of us? They are going down to the garden to enjoy the fresh air, permit me to offer you my arm, and there, in that avenue of lindens we can converse without being remarked." " But yet,''s u Do not refuse me, I beg." “ You feel greatly interested in the young widow, then, you fickle being. What would your Madein- ' on 4 ·The Unknown Vocalist. cxxi oiselle de Lussan, your prétendue say, if she heard you entreating me, so earnestly to satisfy your curiosity?" " She would join with me, in begging of you to relate all you know, for she too has a lively, synpathy for all those who suffer. 6 As that is the case," answered the Duchess, “ I can refuse you no longer; come along then, you inquisitive man; give me your arm, but take care we are not observed, the Duke is so jealous!" “No doubt, and who would not be so, in his place? 'remembering of what beauty he is the fortunate possessor. CHAPTER II. Il aving descended into the gar ner gained at once the hearts of her den, we sat down near a Laiterie new friends. At the very com- Suisse, where, concealed from intru mencement of the fête, she made sive eyes, by a screen of honey each guest believe that they had suckle bjishes, Madame de Lainey been acquainted with one another commented the following relation. for a long Ame. Gifted with thie “The young widow, the object of power of being graceful and grayour almost feminine curiosity comes cious everywhere and to gvery one, from Arlès. Her family, one of the which a young and lovely woman richest in Provence, united her in alone can possess, she distributed 1802 to à Monsr. de Verinont, a her attentions with so much tact, that young man of rare mcrit, and unitall present were charmed with her. ing to the advantage of fortune all “The fête was kept up with much the graces of inind a distinguished merriment and briskness for a day or education can bestow. Brought up two, then the more acquaintances in Paris, M. de Vernont conld not gradually dropped off, and only a resolve to bury himself at his age, few of Mons. de Vermont's friends twenty-five, in the feudal manor of remained. The season for field sparts his future father-in-law, and only had commenced. Emma's husband consented to celebrate his marriage was passionately fond of the chase. there, on the condition that a fort lle arranged a party for a stag hunt night after the nuptial ceremony, he on the following morning, which should be at liberty to carry off his Was exactly the thirticth day after wife to an estate he possessed, yn, his marriage." miles from the Capital. His wife's “Oh! yes, I remember it, as if it father agreed to all his wishes, such were yesterday, it was the 14th of was the esteem he had for the man, August. to whom he was about to confide the « Madame de Vermont's sorrowful future happiness of his only child. air this evening, is now accounte 1 Emma (that is the name of her for," said I “I tremble to guess the уси feel so interested about) found 'sequel of your story." in the husband, selected by her pa Although placing no faith in rents, a disposition so noble, gene dreais, continued Madame de rous and tender, that she quitted her Lainey, Emma, haunted by what house to accompany him, without & seemed a vision the night before the sigh of regret. They left at the hunting party, endeavored strongly tiine fixed upon, and arrived at Ver to persuade her husband not to go mont's estate towards the end of out on that day. July. Emma's husband, after pre “Stay at home, dearest Edinond,' senting his young and lovely bride. she said to hiin, do not leave me to all the residents in the neighbour alone, 1 am afraid to remain all alone hood, gave a fête champêtre at his in this immense châtcau Madaine de Verinont's Pray, do not go, the sky is so beauty, and her amiability of man overcast, a storm is brewing I am ·CXX1 The Unknown Vocalist. . nell. sure; hark! to the wind whistling word which escaped his lips before along the corridors. Again and again be expired. I beg of you, to stay at home.' “ It is impossible to relate to you " De Verinont laughed at her pre the grief and terror of poor Madame sentiments and childish fears, and de Vermont when she saw her husembracing her tenderly, he sallied band's friends returning, pale and forth accompanied by his friends. trembling without him. "She followed with her eyes as “Edmond! Where is Edmond? long as lie wees in sight, and then cried, she in a tone of anguish, bursting into tears, returned to her which wring their very rhearts.. apartment. Tears, not to be repressed, were tho. - The chase was a glorious one, sole answer. the stag brought to bay soon suc • Edinond is dead!' she exclaimed. cumbed, and the notes of the hants • My God! My God! thou hadst man's horn, announced the triumph forewarned me of this !' and she fell of the young and active sports to the ground, deprived of consciousness. Diligent search was made “A drizzling mist was falling, on the spot where the outrage had when they coiniencedo their return been committed ; but no luces of homewards. the culprit could be found. Emma “De Vermont, prevented by a purchased that part of the wood slight sprámu in his foot, from keeping where her Edmond had breathed his step with his companions, who were last, and caused a monument to be hurrying on to escape the coming erected therc. She could not be inrail, took advantage of this circym duced to leave the Chateau, the Chastance to stop a little behind, and pel of which contained his remains, gather some will lowers to take and made a vow to wear mourning, to his darling Emma. He sat down till the day should come, on which at the edge of the wood to arrange · she could revenge his death. his little nosegay of primroses and - Uy fortunate and noble woman," dajșies. His friends were already said I tir-the Duchess, “but to what inore than a hundred pales' in ad . cause can one attribute this almost vance of him, when, suddenly they supernatural occurrence ? Mons. de heard the report of fire-arins, follow Vermont was rich, supremely, happy ed by terrific cries, such as a man in the society of the wife he loved, would utter struggling for lifor and of the friends who were attaclı- Greatly alarined, and missing De edro hin. Oh! no, the demol of 'Vermont, the othersportsineu rushed suicide could not have arined his towards the the spot' from whence hands against himself. His gun was the sounds proceeded. found still loaded I think you told “ A dreadful spectacle awaited them De Vermont, the unfortunate De Vermont, was ly.. haps, will solve, some day or other," It is a mystery, which time, per. ing extended on the ground writhing in terrible agony,--the pangs of rejoined Madame de Lainey. death........ Ili head shattered “Emma found a species of pleasure and his body bleeding and mangled in passing hours by the monument His gun lay near him, but she had crouted to her late husband it had not been discharged! No in the wood. One day, whilst undedoubt, the unfortunate young man, signedly loosening the moss which wex the victim of some cowardly covered the trunk of an old vak, murderer', who had lain in ambush about ten paces distant from the for him! mausoleum, the foundthat His friends lifted him up, and Tupa as the Duchess had got 80 tended him with the utmost care, far in her narrative, the Marquis de but in vain, the words were inortal, ļaujon approached and scolded us, aud the nauw of Emma was the only for our long absence froin the saloon. me ?" 63 11 ·The Unknown Varalist. cxxiii Madame de Lainey pleaded a severe headache, which had obliged her to seek the open air. She leant on my arm, and we followed the Marquis into the concert room. CHAPTER 11). 6. Can you 1. It is your I was greatly annoyed at this in Scarcely had he sang the first four terruption, and would gladly have couplets of his now Ballad, when srenounced the remainder of the en Mdc. de Verinont shook off" }remprevicrtainment, to have had my wish, ous langnor. She started tip from the to know the end of this strarge story', . couch where she had been reclining gratified the whole evening, and paid most re- But Madame de Lainey went and inarkable attention to the song. The seated herself next to the pretty wi applause which followed it was even dow, and it was impossible for me to greater than at the couclusion of the learniny thing further. first ? Madame de Vermont added Upon the departure of the profesor her encomium to those of the other sional singers, some amateur music ladies, and even said to the singer, was performed. Several young la with a peculiar grace : dies of the company sang some pi tell me, Monsiend, where you got quant pieces out of the newest comic this roinance, which you have just operas. Then a gentleman, whose sing with so much taste?" name no one wd tell me, but who "Madame," said the stranger, " it seemed to be thought some celebrated has not been published yet, although foreign artist, scated himself at the I. composed it a very long timo piano and played something of his ago. own composition, Mons. de Lanjon own composition asked him to be kind enough to sing then," rejoined Madame de Vera song, which he had sung once bemont, her eye glistening. fore at a party given by the Chan “ Yes, Madame, if you will piercellot of the Empire. Afte: a spiritmit me. cd prelude, he sang as requested. “ You anticipate my wishes, We all applauded the flexibility of Monsieur, I was about to bey the his voire, which was rich and full, and when he ended, complimented faros of your giving me a copy of the words. I admire them exceedhim on the talent le possessed of ingly." setting his own verses to music of his own composition. “ Really, Madame, the honor is too great for 'ine ; and if you will The tæes of the singer had enpermit me, I will myself bring you • grossed the attention of all present the copy you wish for to-morrow with the exception of Madame de** morning." Vermont, whom I perceived apparently suffering froin the gaicty which “No, not tp-morrow, Monsieur, I. reigned around her, and wishing to beg of you, för 1 start at day-break make her escape from it. Madame for the country.” de Lainey beyged of her to stay a But, madamelitt's longers and the Marquise hav., very evening I wish to ing discovered that the lively air have a copy of your delightful verses, which had just been sung was dis would you refuse this small favor to agrecable to Emma, she requested a lady whu is entreating you for it!" the artist who was still at the pigno, Certainly not, Madame; but I to favor the company, with sumeam really quite confused at your thing in a more serious style.. complimentary earnestness ; whinh The stranger bowed his assent to does mc so much honor. I am quite the lady's request, and commenced ready to write jiot only the words' an expressive and solemn ritornelle. but the music also, if yu wish it.” 1) This ·CXXIV The Unknown Vocalist. . The Marquis de Laujon led the After whispering a few words to the stranger into his library ; Emma Marquis the drcaded functionary followed them. The artipt returned went up to the stranger artist, and alone : Madaine de Vermont had placing his hand on his shoulder, said, taken the opportunity to make her “In the name of the law, I arrest escape from the company, which had you!" The unknown, who alone had evidently been irksome to her from blushed amongst the pallid guests the first. during the foregoing scene, stammers : A quadrille was formed; I stood ed out soine protestatious, declaring vis à vis to Mde. de Lainey, hoping that there must be some mistake, thate to extract in the course of the dance I knew not what they wanted with the end of the beautiful Arlèsien him, in short, that he was well known nos story. as a gentleman and a man of honor. The orchestra had just struck up The Procureur Imperial having esthe tune for the secrnd figure in the tablished the identity of the stranger, quadrille, when the valet of the with the description in the warrant Marquis entered and pronounced which he held in his land, orderthese formidable words : * Monsieur ed the gens d'armnes to seize his perle Procureur Imperial." A thunder son, and retired, making saryo aplbolt crashing over our heads would logies to the company for having have terrpied us 'less ..... been obliged to interrrupt their music stopped instantancously, the amusements, in order to fulfil so gentlemen dropped thc hands of the painful a duty. partners..., .the faces of all pre- This incident withered all the gay sent grew pale. flowers of the fête, and the party The valet throw open the folding broke up, evity one quitting the doors of the saloon, and the Impe house thicir minds filled with a vagic rial Procureur, followed by four fear and astonishment at so inexpligens d'armes entered the apartment.' cable In occutrence. ........... The son CHAP EP IV Six months after this event had and it was the first copy full of erataken place, a man was conducted sures of a ballad written by him, he towards the Place de Grêve ifi the had used as wadding to his gun condemned cart. which brought him to the scaf- This man was a highway robber, 'fold !

·" ADVERTISEMENTS. IMPORTANT NOTICE. 1 ** 33 > TO 'REGIMIENTAL MISSIES AND MOFUSSIL RESIDENTS. CVERY ARTICLE SOLD, WARRANTEL TO BE ONLY OF THE BEST AND MOST GENUINE QUALITY. F. W. BROWNE AND Co. respectfully, beg to draw the particular atten. tion" of their kind Friends and the Public to their PirST INDENTS of the coming Cold Seasort, now arriving per Nile," “Wellesley," and “Ellenboroughal! CONBIGTING OF THE FOLLOWING PORTUGAL, SPANISH, RHENISH AND FREN DK WINES, Delicious Champagne-Cognac-Brandy and *LIQUEURS. CONFECTIONERY, GROCERY AND ITALIAN STORES THE NEW AND FASHIONABLE WINES, SPARKLING HOCK AND MOSELLE, OF THE MOST EXQUISITE ALAVOR All who have tasted these deliciouà Vines declare them to be far superior to any other they have ever met with inaladia. TODD AND JAMES' FIRST QUALITY CHAMPAGNE, IN QUART. J. & C. WHITE, & CO.'S CELEBRATED PALE, GOLDEN AND BRCWN SHERBIES, IN QUARTS AND Pinrs. THEIR VERY SUPERIOR PORT, IN QUARTS AND PINTS. DARBONELL'S PORT, IN QUARTS ONLY. SHAW AND MAXWILL'S CHAMPAGNI. OP FIBÁTRAR QUALITY IN QUARTS. WE PARTICULARLY BEG "O RECOMMEND ·Advertisements. S.TILL HOCKS, OF THE FINEST QUALITY, AND THE MOST APPROVED BRANDS. .PETER HERRING AND KNUDSEN'S CHERRY BRANDY. SIR FELIX BQUTH'S AND CORDIAL GIN, GINUINI MARASCHINO AND CURACOA. ANI GENUINE PICKLED NATIVE OYSTERS, In small jars; a rost delicious DISU for TIFFIN at home or on excursions, OLD TOM . : GENUINE BOLOANA SAUSAGLS, Stewed Mushrooms, Artichokes and Green Peas; Fresh Salmormorie did two pound tias; Freslı Lobsters, strongly recommended, Iced or in a Payonaise Salad ; Pale de Becasse, Pate de Beccassines Pate de Faisan ; Pate de Perdrix l'ruffees ; Pate: de Pluviers ; Pate D'Allouettes, &c. &c. ; Saucisses Truffees ; Ortalans Truffees ; Cepe a l'Iluille ; Patee de Foie Gras Truffees ; Assorted Potted Meats ; Assorted Soups ; Spiced and Corned Briskets and Founds of Beef ; Prine Englisl, Ox Tongues ; Dressed Englisit Rolled Ox Tongues : Sardines in Oil Ed Butter; Herrings á la Sardines ; Smoked Yarnjouth Bloaters ; CASTELL AND BROWN'S JAMS AND JELLIES. FORTNUM, ANI MASON'S FANCY CONFECTIONERY. Patent Barley and Groats, Hom Spathic Cotva, Assorted Sauces, &c. &c., Tart Fruits ; Fruits in Brandy and Noypau for dessert ; Crystallised and Fruits Glacés, in small bottles and tins ; French Prunes ; Muscatel Bloom Raisins and Jordan Almonds ; Chocolate ; Comfits and Lozenges ; Turkey Figs; Granulated Honey, &c. &c. , F. W. BROWNE AND Co. Tiine, Beer, and Spirit Merchants. & 9, Old Court House Street, 12 * 4 DESERVING OF NOTICE. REAL OLD MANILLA CHEROOTS OF THE SEASON 1846-47. denne undersigned respectfully beg to notify to their kind patrons and the public in general, that they hare ieceived 85,000 No. 3, and 50,009 No. 4, Manilla Cheroots of the above season, of the well-known brands of S. H. & B', $. H. & CO., ANL' R. & S, which they can confidently recommend as the finest Cheroots that care and age can produce, having been inanufactured more than four years back of the Lost choice and carefully picked Tobacco to special order. ALSO No. 1, AND No. 2, OF 1 HE SEASON 1849-50. Early application is solicited from Mofussil Customers, as these really scarce and valuable Cheroots are fast selling in Culbutta.

·Advertisements, FIRST TLAS OF THE SEASON 1851-52, SIIORTLY EXPECTED FROM CHINA. The first portion of our Annual Indents of Teas of the season 1851-52. We have received per Erin advices of our first indent for Teits being shipped nt (anton, and we are now hously expecting the arrival of t.em. We are assured by our Agents in China that the whole of them have been selected with the greatest care, and are of the finest quality. We tl.v. viure "unfidently recominend them to our Friends and the Public, and have fixed the following low prices on them. :- Imperia. Mixture, per lb), Rs. 2 O Chinam's ditto, 2 0 0 Howqua's ditto, Keying's ditto, 8 0 Finest Imperial Hyson, 8 0 Ditto Young lyson,.. 2 8 () Ditto Gunpowder, 3 0 The above Teas may be had in any quantity, and are warranted by F. W. B, and (o. to be the 'inest Teas procurable in India, and also guaranteed to reach the post distant station in the Empire in perfect condition. .. . 4 2 .. .. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO THE SPORTING COMMUNITY. Tlie undersigned lave just landed a few kegs of WALKERS, PARKER AND CO.'S CELEBRATED PATENT SHOT, of the undermentioned numbers, anu which they are prepared to sell at moderate prices. B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. OVERLAND REGULATION TRUNKS, PORTMAN- TEAUS, LEATHER AND CARPET BAGS AND HAT BOXES. The very best Town made, and at very moderate prices for sale, at F.W. Brown AND Co.'s. ALSO, BY THE “ AINDOOSTAN," A CHOICE SELECTION OF DD LA RU) AND CO'S MUCH ESTEEMED WEDDING STATIONERY, Of every description ; Plain and Fancy Stationery of the most fashionable kind in very variety, consisting of the following :- Ladies' and Gentlemen's enamel Wedding ards with silver Tursade border, silver Tassels attached, ditto ditto, with Chenille Tjes attached, ditto ditto small border, with silver cord attached, ard Torsade Wedding Cards, for print. ing. Also, a most choice assortment of Wedding Envelopes, in neat boxes of dozen in each, with a few quires of beautifully enchiased Note and Letter Pa. per, for writing Wedding invitatxorró.

·12 Advertisements. Also a large quantity of the most elegant. Floral, fancy coloured border, Diurnal Dampsk, Ivory, Rose and Violet Laid, Victoria Wave,, cream and blue laid Note and Letter Paper, of sizes, ladies' mediun Bank Post, Ove.land and Inland Letter Paper, with Envelopes to inatch. An assortment of Mourning Letter and Note Paper, with narrow, Italian, middle and broad border, ditto ditto; with Envelopes attached, also Ledies' and Overland Medium Bank Post and luland Letterad Note Papei. An assortment of very chaste Fancy INITIAL, Morro, Diurnau, fung Silver and Comic-HIEROGLYPHIC Wafers, Pe la Rue's finest PLAYING Cards in every variety, Calcutta. F. W. BROWNÉ AND Co., IVine, Beer and Spirit Merchants. 8 & 9, Old Court House Street, CALCUTTA. 1 HEAL TII FOR ALL!!! Tu E time has now cone w cp the public health in India inust be moro attentisely considered with a view to its preserv ation and improvement. Notwithstanding thic mumber of Medical Gentlemen employed in the Country, it is a well known fact that hundreds of wir Comtrymen are annually consigned to an carly gr.ve, or compelled to return to England with shattered constitutions; no class of freople on earth are so physicked-aye-and physicked with poistoo-d yet with hundreds of Doctors within the three lesidepr, and medicines immunerable--the mortality in India is greater than in any other of our Colonies. The average age to which persons five in this country is 40 years. Another startling fact is, that one-half of all the children born of European parents in India, die before they read their fifth year, and in many whealthy Stations a large portion of these die within the first year. What can inore clearly demonstrate the fact, that while the Residents in India have been' physicked by a large standing Army of Doctors, they have not been taught the best mode of preserving their heuth. One truth must be clearly understood and consistently acted upon, namily, that all the discuso. to which the human frame is subject, arise from an impure state of the blood. Let this vital principal be freed from impurities, and disease carloot take place. PURE AIR AND PURE BLOOD. The relationship between pure air and pure blood is very intimate. The office of the lungs is to decarḥonize the vlood. Previously to its passing through those organs it is of a dark black colour, in consequence of its being charged with Carbon ; it is then ta med venous blood When it comes into contactowith the oxygen of the atmosphere, it is purged from the Carbon and changed to a bcaytiful crimson ; it is then termed arterial blood. If the surrounding air be foul, charged with miasma of Carbonic acid gas, which has escaped fjąn the lungs of individyals or from putrid inatter, it is impossible that the blood should be changed ·Advertisement, V &C 1 3 from venous into arterirl. The object of the blood is to convey a replenishing principle to every part of the human freme for the purpose of repairing the waste which is constantly going on. But if it has come in contact with impure air, it gallops through the systeail, charged-not with health and vigour--but with a disease-cngrndering principle : hence low, intermittent fevers, dysentery, cholera, and other fearful diseases. AN EFFICACIOUS REMEDY FOR ALL DISEASES: Now if disease arise from the cause thus described-who can question the philosophy or doubt thr efficacy of the Hollowayen System.” Unlike Doctors in general, he shows how disease may be prevented, or if its presence be detected, he shows them what is the cause. Of course, lie says, If you are suffering from disease take my Pills." For while Professor Holloway's Pills are perfectly free froin poison--they are at the same time charge with a powerfiil diseasc-exterminating principle. Being taken into the system--they assimilate with the blood, and the vital fluid is thus charsreol with an element, which wages war with every unhealthy obstruction--a work of cinancipation commences and most pleasuring are the results, COMPLAINTS OF THE LIVER, THE LUNGS AND TIIE STOMACII REMOVED. The Lirer hitherto morbid in its action is Seed from unhealthy secretions, acrimonious hiie is carried off, and along with it distressing pain in the right side, and a burning sensation at the Stomach, the sallowness of the skin vanislies a'd is suececded by a healthy liver. The Lungs, which had been held in thraldoi by vitiated hm causing a constant hacking cough, is set free by che u... of these Pills, so that respiration beconnes easy. The Slomach, in which impurities bau been allowed to accumulate, causes nansea, violent headache, indigestion, nerv usness, burning sensation and acute pain, bowel complaints, sleepless nights, and a host of other evils, the stomach is completely cleanetl of its misery-making occupants, by a few doses of this extraordinary medicinc. MALIGNANT CUOLERA ROBBED OF ITS VICTIMS. Tuix disease, which is so common in India, results from a redundancy anu putrid acrimony of tie bile. Now Holloway's Bulls by cleansing the intestines, and imparting vigour to the whole nervous system are of admirable use as a presentive; but when this use of them has been overlooked, the actual attacks of Cholera may be mitigated by a timely and persevering use of them. The stomach and bowels will thus be effectüally freed froin all vitiated humours, and the various functions speedily res:ɔred to their proper trze. RHEUMATISM AND GOUT PREVENTED AND CURED. And what is Rheumatism? It is a painful discase, affecting the joints, and liibs-caused by an accumhlation of impurities.llow cofinion is com the exclamation, “ I have caught a cold, and it has brought on that tiresome excruciating pain on Frry shoulders or limbs !" Do you wish tu ·Advertisements. know why this pain ? We will tell you, and, which is still better, we will tell you how to get rid of it. By means of respiration and perspiration the human system is continually throwing off waste matver. Lavoisier, the celebrated French Chemist, states that the skin alone during every four and twenty hours parts with 20 ounces of useless matter. This supposes health and favourable circumstances. But should any of this matter be thrown back into the system, proportionate dis. wię must necessarily ensue. You spend some time in a heated place, or drive out viriting during the hot months, and the pores of yuur body become ppen and censitive ; you go in this state under a punkha or purhaps lie down on couch right before the “tatties," and fall asleep. The pores are suddenly closed-perspiration is obstructed, and the waste matter reinaining in the sysuem become a fruitful source of disease and pain. The next morning your eyes swim, your voice is lusky and you feel pain, and you exclaim, "what a beastly country! I have taken cold from just sitting near the tatties," and then how do you act? You do not as you ought, at once seek to frue the system from impure obstructions, but you content yourself with some more palliative, you jusu ... ne of the first unpleasant sersations, but the impurities still lurk within you ? "very now and then you feel twitching, torturing pains in your liinbs; but those pains are sent in mercy, and their language is you have broken a physicial law : : our want of care has caused unhealthy obstructions; get rid of these, and you will be free from pain; allow these to remain and pains s'ill more fearful will be the result.' This alone can be effectually done by resorting to a cou.se of lIolloway's Pills and Ointment, which will, in a few days, remove tnese obstructions, and restore health and vigour to the whole system. DISEASES IN GENERAL. The same may be saiu of t1. other, and almost nunberless diseases rising from this fertile, this cole cause of all diseases--the impurities of the blood--and none who have used these invaluable Medicines have been disappointed." The grateful aspirations of thousands in every part of the world furnish aburant lemonstration that never w's a Medicine employed, at once so safe and so saluta-y, so powerful to conquer direase, yet so harmless that an infant may take it with safety. Wherever these Pills and Ointment have been known they have been regarded as a blessing and are held in the highest estimation as an invaluable Medirine, and every resident in India ought to have a box of the Pills and a P'et of the Ointinent in li's Bungalow, both for himselı, his family, his servants, and his friends. Sold in Boxes and Pots, au 1, 2-8, 4-8, 11, 12, and 33 Rupees each. 1 Directions for their use in all diseases accompany each Box and Pot. AGENTS FOR INDIA. Thomas Payne and Sons, 7-8, Writers' Buildings, Calcutta ; Mr. Cook, Dacca ; Mr. Fell, Cuttack' ; Mr. Chapman, Darjeeling; Mr. Wheeler, h; Messrs. Thomas and Co., Monghyr ; F. 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