peculiar state of society it depicts, its actual | appropriated to that use. The burial dress of 1 lem, which is indeed hid from her eyes, oh, details are more attractive than even its merits the deceased was then delivered to them: it lift up thine heart to the Most High, and join as a fiction. Nothing can be more extraordi- consisted of fine linen, curiously worked at the with the royal Psalmist in saying- Oh that nary than the present situation of the Jews: collar and hands, and a robe, girdle, and tur- the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! here is a vast body of people living with us and ban, which had been constantly worn on the when God bringeth back the captivity of his among us, with whom we must be in daily in- day of atonement and festival of the new year people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be tercourse; yet of whose manners, customs, &c. by the departed in the synagogue worship. glad.' On the commencement of the Passoverwe know less than we do of nations from which When clothed in these long-prepared habili-eve, all the males of the family repaired to the land and sea separate us in vain. Amid the ments, the garment of fringes was placed in synagogue; while Anna and her daughters rechances and changes which have swept away its due form about him, and its ends twisted mained at home, to prepare the chamber for every vestige of classical or chivalric associa- into certain mystic forms, a winding - sheet the celebration of the ceremony. They decked tion; when even the very last century is so of fine linen enclosed the whole, and the the table, which was large enough for the whole utterly forgotten, that scarce one fashion or corpse was lifted into the plain deal shell pre- household to surround, with a cloth of snowy habit remains; amid all this perpetual altera-pared for its reception; beneath the head and whiteness, and set on it a cup for every person, tion, the Jews alone retain almost all the cus-arms were placed small pillows stuffed with and a book for each one, containing the prayers toms and ceremonies of their ancestors. It saw-dust, and the lid of the shell immediately used at this time. In the centre of the table would seem as if the more of difficulty is involv-fastened; after which it was removed to a stood a large dish, on which was laid, folded in ed in the performance of a religious duty, the lower apartment, and the near relatives led separate napkins, three very large cakes of unmore certain is its performance. Considerable in to perform the ceremony of rending their leavened bread, differing from those used for part of the volume is given to sketches of this garments over the deceased. An aged Jew, food, and distinguished from each other by kind; from them we shall proceed to make a whose province it was, then advanced, and in peculiar notches, according to which they were selection. audible accents renounced, in the name of placed to be made use of in the ceremony. On A Jewish Funeral." The dying man, now his relatives, friends, and lastly, of all Israel, this dish was also placed bitter herbs and a cup nearly exhausted, repeated the confession used any farther connexion with the departed, either of salt water, into which they were dipped at this period, (repeated for them by a by- here or hereafter. The body was then lifted (during the observance of these solemn rites), stander, when the dying are either unable to into the hearse, and followed by various and eaten in remembrance of the bitter bondage articulate or insensible,) then half raising him- friends, and by the religious societies he had of Egypt. Small balls, composed of apples, self on his bed, he exclaimed, or rather at- formerly belonged to; and lowered into a almonds, &c. pounded into a paste, were placed tempted to exclaim, 'Hear, O Israel! the Lord grave, which his nearest relatives first as- there, as symbolic of the bricks and mortar thy God is One!' and expired with the sen-sisted to fill, and which was then closed to among which the Hebrews worked at that evertence (so momentous in the eyes of a Jew at open no more, as more than one corpse is memorable period. The shank-bone of a lamb, this awful period) imperfectly pronounced. never laid in the same grave. When the roasted, was among these emblems, as a memoAll present then replied with a loud shout, procession returned, a meal of eggs boiled rial of the paschal lamb, commanded by the The Lord he is God.' The sad and well- hard, and salt, was laid before the mourners, children of Israel, and which may not be eaten, known sound announced to the household that who kindled a light of pure olive oil, which as there ordered, out of the holy city. An egg, all was over. They then quitted the chamber was kept burning during the seven days of roasted by fire, completed the articles set on of death, leaving the now inanimate clay to the close mourning, and which was lighted up on the dish. The duteous children of Solomon de care of the men who had previously watched the anniversary day of death, as long as the Lissau next arranged a couch for their revered it while living; and, according to the Jewish departed had a near relative living. These father to recline on, while he presided at the custom, immediate arrangements were made seven days are observed by the family sitting performance of the ceremony; and concluded for the funeral. A messenger for this purpose on the ground, with rent garments and di- their labour by placing ewers filled with water was sent to the synagogue of which the de-shevelled hair, while their friends come to and basins and towels, that they might pou parted was a member, and where are deposited condole with them on their loss; ten Jews water on the hands of all who partook of th the bier and copper vessels invariably used in regularly attend morning and evening to recite Passover, the meanest Hebrew servant not ex cleansing and preparing the body for inter- prayers. The bereaved relatives wear their cepted, according to ancient usage; for on th ment. As dissolution had taken place at six in night of their great deliverance there was n the evening, four the next afternoon was the distinction of persons, but all the children time appointed for the burial. In the mean Israel were free. The Nazarene servants we time the corpse was removed from the bed, and commanded to keep closely in their kitche placed on the floor of the same chamber, with during the ceremony, nor were they, or ar its feet towards the door; a black cloth one but the true seed of Abraham, allowed thrown over it ;-lighted candles placed at the Jewish Passover." The leaven having been witness it; indeed, on the preceding year, An head; and the two men left in charge of it cleared away with scrupulous care, the family had discharged two servants, who, by indiscre until the time of preparing it for the grave. ceased to eat leavened bread, or any other arti- curiosity, had been tempted to listen in t During this interval, the relatives ate no meat, cle of that kind, by ten in the morning of the ante-chamber, and who had been caught the nor tasted wine or spirits; all the water in the day on which the ceremony of the Passover when the chamber door was, according cisterns or other vessels was thrown away; was to be celebrated in the evening; and Leo- custom, set open, while the assembled fam and in the movements of the household the pold, as eldest son, fasted in memory of the repeated the malediction contained in Psa stillness of death seemed to prevail unbroken." slaying all the first-born throughout the land lxxix. 6." "Next day, about noon, the bier and copper of Egypt. Rabbi Colmar, in person, assisted vessels already alluded to arrived, and soon to cleanse all the utensils and vessels of plate, after, a coach drew up to the door filled with china, and glass, and the wooden tables and respectable Jews, who came to perform the dressers of the kitchen. All other articles for last kind offices, which they immediately pro-use at this festival were new, or such as had ceeded to do. Laying the body on the bier, been reserved from the preceding year. The which was placed in a sloping position on a Nazarene servants were closely watched, to aslong table, they carefully washed it with warm water, handed to them in the copper pots, and finished their ablution by pouring water on the head three times, which, from the inclined position of the corpse, flowed all over it; they next dried the body with peculiar care, and combed the beard and hair with a silver comb

"This custom, which is invariably observed, though few Jews know its meaning, originated from an idea preyalent among the cabalistic Rabbins, that the angel of death, having executed his mission, washed his sword in the water. Similar to this superstition, is their custom of covering their cisterns at the equinox, from the belief that deteriorate and spoil the water."

a drop of blood then falls from the spheres, which would

beards unshaved thirty complete days; and the
sons of a departed Jew attend morning worship
eleven months, with scrupulous exactness, to
recite certain prayers deemed requisite to fa-
cilitate the entrance of the soul into final
happiness.'

Jewish Marriage." In the presence these friends, Leoni and Sophia were mutua contracted to each other; and the deed esp ally declared, that the marriage was to t place within six months from its date, un penalty of a heavy forfeiture of money (to amount therein specified) by the receding pa This deed having been duly signed and nessed, the ceremony ended by breaking a ch cup, according to ancient usage, as a rati tion of it.

certain that they brought no leaven into the
house at this period; for most strictly do the
Jews of the present day observe every minutia
of the Passover, and all its ceremonies, both
written and traditional. Alas! the letter alone "The marriage ceremony is always
remains to them;-the glory is departed; the brated with splendour and show by the J
spirit is not discerned; the veil is on their nor are the poorest among them exempt
hearts; the great Antitype of this solemn feast this custom. As every guest brings a pre
is hid from their eyes. In their observances chiefly consisting of plate, according to ab
they may truly be said to sow the wind;' the the lower orders, especially, are anxiou
awful consequence of which is declared by the invite as many as possible on that account
lip of infallible truth to be, that they shall which purpose they generally hire a p
who art concerned for the true peace of Jerusa- and not unfrequently, when the wedded
reap the whirlwind.' Christian reader! thou room, to accommodate such a large assemb

are very poor, these gifts are disposed of imme- | too, he has confessed faults in his earliest per- | were by no means the weak ones, but often the diately, to defray the expense of the feast, and formance which few eyes but his own were soundest and strongest. My being aware of assist the young couple in housekeeping. A competent to detect: he has himself repudiated these faults, and desirous to make use of the friend, on whom dependance can be placed, is these errors, and he has given his laborious new discoveries, was the main reason which stationed near the entrance of the apartment, and useful life to a new edition of this work, retarded the continuation: for it was necesto receive the presents of the guests, as they such as he may safely rest an immortal literary sary that, before I proceeded, the first volume arrive; another writes down each person's reputation upon, as one of the ablest and most should be written anew. Meanwhile, howname and their gift, which is instantly depo- impartial historians of any age or country. ever, I was living in Italy, and living at Rome, sited in a chest; and after all invited have ar- "The end of the last century (says his pre- too much taken up in gazing and receiving rived, it is locked and put in a place of safety. face) was the opening of a new era for Ger-impressions to work with energy at books: If any person invited is prevented attending, many. Men were no longer satisfied with besides, I fancied I should not be able to prothis circumstance does not prevent their gifts superficial views in any field of knowledge; ceed without the happiness I had once enjoyed, from being regularly sent in their names; but vague empty words had lost their currency: at the time when the point on which the questhose who are merely invited to tea and dance, but neither was the work of destruction, in tion hinged would come forward into a clear are not expected to bring any present. It may which the preceding age, indignant against light while I was conversing with Savigny, and here be observed, that the Jews consider it a protracted usurpation, had taken pleasure, any it was so easy for me to ask many a question, highly meritorious act to promote marriage, or longer held to be sufficient: my countrymen so cheering to complete the embryo thought in any way assist in its celebration; but those strove after definite and positive knowledge, and to try its worth. On my return to Gerwho are in their year of mourning for a near like that of their forefathers; but it was after many I drew up the plan of the third volume, relative may not attend a wedding feast, nor true knowledge, in the room of that imaginary preparing the way for it by remodelling the be seen where music or cards form any part of knowledge which had been overthrown. We first, and correcting the second. This new the entertainment. Wednesday is the day on had now a literature, worthy of our nation and edition, in which it was my aim to make the which the Jews celebrate their marriages, and language: we had Lessing and Goëthe: and proofs and the solutions perfect, required very a second ball on Thursday evening concludes this literature comprised, what none had yet, extensive labours; but as all labour is lightthe feast; but if either of the party have been a great part of the Greek and Roman, not ened when new springs of activity are im previously married, Sunday is the day chosen, copied, but, as it were, reproduced. For this parted, so this was mainly promoted by my and music and dancing form no part of the en- Germany is indebted to Voss, whom our grand- lectures on Roman antiquities last winter. tertainment. The choice of Wednesday for children's children and grandchildren must What Pyrrhus said to his Epirots - Ye are the above purpose still continues among the extol as their benefactor: with whom a new my wings-is the feeling of a zealous teacher Jews; but like many other of their observances, age for the knowledge of antiquity begins; toward hearers whom he loves, and whose the original cause for selecting that day has inasmuch as he succeeded in eliciting out of whole souls take an interest in his discourse. long ceased to exist, and had its origin simply the classical writers what they presuppose,- Not only does the endeavour to make himself because, as the Sanhedrin held its sitting on their notions of the earth, for instance, and clear to them, and to utter nothing as truth Thursday, the newly married man could im- of the gods, their ways of life and their house- which can admit of a doubt, speed his remediately bring his wife before them, if he had hold habits: and understood and interpreted searches: the sight of them assembled before Ay ground of complaint. Homer and Virgil as if they were our contem- him, the immediate relation in which he stands poraries, and only separated from us by an to them, awakens a thousand thoughts during interval of space. His example wrought upon the time he is speaking: and in how very dif many: upon me, ever since my childhood, it ferent a manner does one write down words has been enforced by personal encouragement which had previously been poured forth as the from this old friend of my family. fresh thoughts prompted them! The work It was," (he continues, in relating his own which I here lay before the public is, as the progress as a successor worthy of all the pane- first glance will shew, an entirely new one, in gyric he bestows on Voss,)" it was a time which scarcely a few fragments of the former full of hope when the university of Berlin was have been incorporated. It would have been opened: and the enthusiasm and delight in incomparably easier to have preserved the which months rolled away, while the contents groundwork of the first edition; I resolved on Both as a work of curiosity and an interest of the first volumes of this history were digested the far more difficult task, as the most expeing tale, this volume is, we think, very likely for lectures and worked up for publication;. dient, which would give unity and harmony to to be popular; we are, therefore, doubly anx- to have enjoyed this, and to have lived in the whole. That whole, consisting of this and was to enter our protest against the bigotry of 1813, this of itself is enough to make a man's the next two volumes, is the work of a man the sweeping condemnation at page 264. Such life, notwithstanding much sad experience, a who has reached his maturity: whose powers dgment was never meant to be pronounced by happy one. In this state of delight the mean- may decline, but whose convictions are thoting and finite creatures: when we are dis- ing of many an ancient mystery disclosed itself: roughly settled, whose views cannot change! sers of God's justice, then may we presume but yet more were overlooked in much I and so I wish that the former edition may be to set bounds to that mercy, which they who erred: a still greater part was left in a dis-regarded as a youthful work. Our friends are tay it to others, ought surely not to hope for jointed condition feebly supported by proofs. often more tender-hearted toward us than we Temselves." For my knowledge was the unsatisfactory know- are ourselves; and perhaps one or two may ledge of one who had been self-taught, and who regret some things that have been destroyed History of Rome, by B. G. Niebuhr. as yet had only been able to devote to study and cast away. More than once it was with a Translated by Julius Charles Hare, M.A. such hours as he could withdraw from business: lingering hand that I overthrew the old edifice: and Connop Thirlwall, M.A., Fellows of and I had reached the end of my journey like but what was built on suppositions which had Trinity College, Cambridge. Vol. I. 8vo. a man walking in his sleep along the eaves. been found to be wrong, could not be permitted 7.556. London, 1828. J. Taylor; J. Dun- That these defects, and the overhasty compo-to remain; nor was it allowable to preserve it Hessey; Hatchard: Deightons, Cam-sition of the first volume, which had compelled by slipping some other prop under it, so as to ge; and Parker, Oxford. me to introduce repeated corrections in the efface the appearance of the original founda. Is No. 335 of the Literary Gazette, (April 21, sequel of the work itself, did not hinder its tion. The continuation, down to the term we spoke of the vast historical import-reception from being on the whole very favour- which I have now set before me, I may, Fred Mr. Niebuhr's work, of which a trans-able, is a proof that the revival of Roman his- please God and his blessing abide with me, a. in two volumes, by Mr. Walter, was tory was in accord with the spirit of the age: confidently promise, although the progress may the jurt published: and whatever encomiums nay, our age, it seems to me, may discern that be but slow. It is the work of my life, which bewed at that time may now be reiterated it is immediately called by Providence to this is to preserve my name, not unworthy of my increased warmth and force. Not content inquiry, inasmuch as, within the eleven years father's: I will not lazily abandon it. the fame which his first publication ob- since it commenced, three new and rich sources It is with a solemn feeling that I close this f him, Mr. Niebuhr has only been have been opened to us by the publication of preface with the words which, fifteen years ced by success to greater exertions, and Lydus, Gaius, and Cicero's Republic: whereas ago, closed that of the first edition: the repe har years devoted himself to the acquisition centuries had previously elapsed without adding tition of them brings back the images of of aths, and the consequent improve any thing to our means of knowledge. To joyous days, and much-loved shades rise up is justly celebrated History of Rome. these defects of my work I was far from blind: before my soul."" With a rare degree of candour and honesty the points attacked by those who criticised it

The nuptial canopy is composed, in general, of crimson velvet; it is square, and supported at each corner by four of the persons present; a piece of carpet is spread beneath it, and the bridegroom and bride, the rabbi, and all concerned in the ceremony, stand under it, while the contract is read, &c. It is deposited at the synagogue, and is brought to the house, where the wedding is celebrated, by the servants of the synagogue, and carried back as soon as the ceremony is over."

*

if it

These sentences powerfully explain the ́au

The Parochial History of Bremhill, in the
County of Wilts; &c. &c. By the Rev.
W. L. Bowles, A.M. 8vo. pp. 285. Lon-
don, 1828. Murray.

thor's means, his objects, and his character. | origine the same, and the Britons worshipped | "Let us then compare his situation under They teach us to expect, what we already find him on account of their learning; what learn- the present state of civil society: Firstin this first volume, a work of almost ines-ing, may we further admit, could they derive he receives no oblations, showered into his timable value: in short, a work which makes from him which entitled him above the rest of hands by superstition, and all lands which Rome and the Romans another city and another the gods to such honours and so high a rank? fed the poor are alienated. Secondly - not people to us. Of the translation we need only That learning which Thoth taught the Egyp- one clergyman in ten (I think I may say in say, that it renders the German original as tians, astronomy and the idea of immortality. twenty) has one-fourth or one-fifth of tithes purely and accurately into English as has ever What are Cæsar's own words respecting the at all. The clergyman visits the sick - the been accomplished by any writer. The con- first? 'Multa præterea de sideribus atque clergyman is at his post the clergyman, cluding two volumes must be looked for impa-eorum motu, de mundi et terrarum magni- standing between the rich and the poor, is, tiently throughout the whole civilised world. tudine, de rerum naturâ, de deorum immor- in remote parishes, (of course there are exceptalium vi ac potestate disputant, et juventuti tions,) the poor man's only friend. Yet the tradunt.' They argue much on the stars and tithes, the great tithes I mean are paid at their motion, of the magnitude of the world the highest value, in most cases to some distant and the earth, of the nature of things, of the lay impropriator. Between Bath and Marl. power of the immortal gods, and this they borough, every living is in other hands than deliver or teach their youth.' those of the clergyman. Thus not only all the lands are taken away, but most of the tithes; and the clergyman might well say, give me back half you took from me, excuse me from paying poor-rates, government taxes of all kindskeep my house in repair — educate my children. provide for my wife and children only some independent comforts when I am dead; and most cheerfully would I pay the repairs of the whole church, as I do now of the chancel and the parsonage house. keep all the sick, aged, and needy poor, give the bishop half, instead of a quarter, and pay the first fruits and tenths- bonâ fide, ad valorem,' into the bargain! This is the proper way of meeting the objection; but, though there are so many well-informed gentlemen in the House of Commons, and many who would be inclined to answer, or glad to hear these charges answered, the obvious refutation has not been satisfactorily brought forward in that assembly."

"Pure fount, that, welling from this wooded hill,
Dost wander forth, as into life's wide vale,
Thou to the traveller dost tell no tale

THE title of this work by no means prepared
us for such an interesting collection of histo- In reference to Stanley Abbey, we are pre-
rical matter, anecdotes, and antiquarian dis-sented with some very sweet and pathetic lines
quisitions, as its pages contain. Bremhill is a on Lockswell spring.
romantic parish in the deanery of Avebury,
over which our highly respected author presides
as vicar. By a survey of the parish itself, a
reference to many curious particulars connected
with it, and some acute illustrations of ancient
monuments in the neighbourhood, Mr. Bowles
has completed a volume which will be prized
by antiquaries, and pleasing to all.

In p. 47 the following ingenious observations respecting the mounds of Marlborough, Marden, and Silbury, occur:

Of other years; a lone unnoticed rill,
In thy forsaken track, unheard of men,
Making thy own wild music through the glen.
Time was when other sounds and songs arose-
When o'er the pensive scene, at evening's close
The distant bell was heard, or the full chant
At morn came sounding high and jubilant;
Or, stealing on the wilder'd pilgrim's way,
The moonlight miserere died away,
Like all things earthly--

Stranger, mark the spot-
No echoes of the chiding world intrude-
The structure rose, and vanish'd-solitude
Possess'd the woods again-old Time forgot,
Passing to wider spoil, its place and name.
Since then, ev'n as the clouds of yesterday,
Seven hundred years have well nigh pass'd away:
No wreck remains of all its early pride;
Like its own orisons, its fame has died.

We conclude our extracts from this various work with an account of the Moravian funeral cereinonies; of which sect there is an establishment near Bremhill.

"1. The Celts had their chief deity, Mercury, distinguished above all the rest; a fact ascertained from Cæsar: Deum maximè Mercurium colunt.' The Britons and the Celts, I need not add, are considered by Cæsar as the same. 2. The Britons had their temples of stone worship; a fact which I think could not But this pure fount, through rolling years the same, Yet lifts its small still voice, like penitence be denied by any one who looks on Stonehenge Or lowly pray'r. Thou, pass, admonish'd hence, with the passage of Diodorus in his mind. Happy, thrice happy, is, through good or ill, 3. It being admitted that this round temple' Christian, thy heart respond to this forsaken rill." was dedicated to one of their deities, a temple At a time when the subject of the division still more ancient and stupendous, we might of the tithes is exciting considerable interest, naturally conceive, would be dedicated to the the observations of one who is well versed in more distinguished and most honoured deity. the matter cannot be deemed unimportant. 4. What deity was this? Teutates, whom Cæsar calls Mercury. Hitherto we are on facts, and the most inevitable inferences seem to follow these facts. Cæsar says of this god among the Celts there are 'plurima simulacra.' 5. If we may naturally admit that the most ancient elaborate temple was dedicated by the Britons to some deity, that deity, it is equally the episcopal missionary was first made inde- This is sung in unison by the young women, natural to conceive, would not be the second or pendent; that is to say, he was no longer and the effect is very impressive. The coffin third in their estimation, but the first: it fur-paid precariously at will, but for his trouble is then borne into the chapel; the clergy of ther follows that some of the ascertained cir- a fourth of the tithes were given. The bishop the established church invited, go the next in cumstances which mark the worship of this still kept one part; one portion being set order, then the Moravian ministers, and afterdeity would not be here omitted; and Livy apart for the repairs; a third for the poor wards the congregation. A sermon is preachspeaks of the mound, which he calls by the and a fourth for the officiating missionary.ed, and, in the same order as before, the coffin name of the Tumulus of Mercury. 6. An ob- Before I proceed, it might be proper. vious reason would occur for such an elevation much has been made of this circumstance, this area is surrounded on one side by the is borne to the burial-ground. The whole of being peculiarly appropriate to him. This I which, from ignorance or malice, has been have endeavoured to shew from his character so often repeated by the enemies of the as messenger of Jupiter. 7. A temple dedi- church establishment in our days, to state cated to the Thunderer would be on the highest briefly some particulars which will, I hope, elevation. The highest elevation is near, dedi- set this matter in a fair light: First. cated to Tanaris; and near also appears the that time tithes were the smallest part of what temple to Teutates, dedicated to the messenger the priest received. Oblations of all kinds of that deity, who in Britain is placed before were far more productive when the priest had the god he served. 8. There must be some the consciences of almost all the rich in his reasons for this superiority; then let us see hands, and when such immense estates were poswhat facts we can produce. Will it be denied sessed by the convents. Secondly the priest that the Druids derived their knowledge from had no taxes of any kind to pay; no house to the East, or that Mercury was derived from furnish and keep in repair or to build. Thirdly the great Egyptian Hermes ? But if Teutates-he had no wife and children, for whose was so distinguished among the Britons as to welfare, after he was dead, he must feel a

"The garden-green before the chapel is surrounded by those invited the neighbours of their own fraternity, old and young, and After remarking that, anciently," the cathedral the young ladies of the school, all similarly church was the parish church," Mr. Bowles dressed in white, with a simple black riband. adds, "the great and truly venerable Bede was As soon as the coffin is brought from the honse, the intimate friend of Egbert, then archbishop the officiating minister reads the opening verof York. From his advice and direction, I ses of our funeral service; after which he have no doubt, what are called the Consti- gives out the first stanza of a hymntutions of Egbert' were framed, by which Our aged friend is gone to rest.

-as so

-at

At

women of the establishment and the young
and fraternity. The whole join in an affect-
females; on the other by the minister, friends,
ing hymn, after which the coffin is deposited
in the earth, and a few prayers are read.
the afternoon service in the chapel there are
The
prayers and an appropriate anthem.
minister then gives a narrative of the life of
cluded by the congregation, rich and poor,
the departed brother, and the whole is con-
taking bread together, and, what is difficult to
mention with appropriate seriousness, drinking

invert the very order of the Roman divinities, husband's and a parent's anxiety. Fourthly-borough, are small vicarages.
ham, Overton, Preshute, and two churches in Marl-

on what account could it be? because from instruction cost him nothing, and he had no
him the Britons derived their highest know-son to educate at Oxford-with such expense
ledge. 9. If Teutates and Thoth were abl
As pinches parents blue!'

"Bath-Easton, Bath-ford, Box, Corsham, ChippenCorsham is scarcely worth two hundred a-year to the vicar; but the rector, a gallant and amiable admiral, whose parish is the Atlantic or Mediterranean, Sir H. B. Neale, receives, probably, three thousand!"

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tos! The place devoted to receive the last panion of the noble mind, and marks the cha-rated. They fought side by side, cheering, deremains of those who die among the congre- racter of those who, in the perilous path to fending, and encouraging each other, as if the ration is a square enclosure, to which a walk freedom, must too often sacrifice the softer success of the field solely depended on their exleads from the sister's house and the minis- ties of kindred and domestic attachments; his ertions. Monroe had assigned on the 12th a ter's: it is surrounded by a few firs and heart was formed for the enjoyment of these, separate command to each, but they entreated shrubs. The sisters are buried by themselves, but embraced the wrongs of the human race. to be permitted to conquer or perish together. and another portion of the consecrated ground-Lively, generous, and sincere, I met no One had an only sister; she was the pride of a is allotted to the brethren. A small, square man who bore privations with greater firm-widowed mother, the loved and admired of stone is laid on the ground, the top somewhat ele-ness. A short sketch has been drawn by one their village, where to this hour the perfection vated; no inscription appears except H. H. S. S. of his companions in arms, who survived the of female beauty is described as it approximates for single sister; or M. H. M. S. married sis- fatal catastrophe. I saw him,' said he, as in resemblance to the fair Elizabeth Grey. terdeparted; or, on the brother's side, he marched for the field; his loose, flowing She had seen her brother and his friend march W. G. M. B. or S. B.-married or single locks were confined by the helm which shaded to the field: she had bidden the one adieu with brother departed. No distinction is made the arch of his manly brow, while his eye the fond affection of a sister, but a feeling between rich or poor, minister or brother." beamed with the fire which animated his soul, more tender watched for the safety of the In some parts our worthy author is a little pure as the breeze from his native mountain, other. Every hour's absence rendered sepacontroversial, and alludes to by-gone discus- and generous as the floods which fertilise the ration more painful; every moment created sions: but he is always in good humour, and valleys. The damps of the dungeon had ren- additional suspense. She resolved to follow generally entertaining. dered pallid his cheek, and less robust his her brother-her lover to the field. The form; but the vigour of his mind was unin-fatal morn of the 13th had not yet dawned jured by the tyranny of the oppressor. I saw when she reached Ednevady heights. The him in the blaze of his conquest-I saw him in troops of the Union were in motion. She the chill of defeat. I witnessed his splendour joined the embattled ranks. The enthusiasm Wr closed our first notice of this volume by in arms, and the pride of his soul in distress. of love supported her through the perils of the observing that all Mr. Teeling's friends in Circumstances unavoidably separated us. A fight, but borne down in the retreat, she fell the rebellion were beautiful heroes. Ex. gr. little time and he was the tenant of the in the indiscriminate slaughter, while her Lord E. Fitzgerald: "Young, ardent, and tomb !'" brother and her lover perished by her side. terprising; enthusiastic in his love of li The partiality of friendship may plead for The town of Ballynahinch was pillaged and herty; of devoted attachment to his country, these extravagant eulogies; but we fear history fired. So intent were the British troops on ad possessing the most unbounded confidence must pause upon them as but the warm effu- plunder, that many fugitives escaped the his countrymen in return; reared in the sions of a kindred spirit, magnifying the merits slaughter to which they must otherwise have school of arms, and distinguished for military of those embarked with him in a bloody and fallen victims. Subsequent courts - martial, ence, he possessed all the qualities to con- unsuccessful cause,-the deeply tragic portions however, afforded an ample scope for the indulstate a great and popular leader, and seemed of which were well calculated to excite strong gence of the sanguinary passions. The brave destined by nature for the bold and daring rather than correct feelings. But the subject Monroe was one of their first victims. Two terprise to which an abhorrence of oppres-is too painful to dwell much longer on, and we days after the battle his place of concealment san, and the most lively sense of justice, irre-shall hasten our brief remaining extracts. Of was discovered; his person was soon identified; auty impelled him." the cruelties exercised towards prisoners or sus-nothing further was wanting. He knew the

Personal Narrative of the Irish Rebellion.

[Second notice: conclusion.]

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Mr. Aylmer, in Kildare, was "the bold and pected persons, it is related and asserted to be fate that awaited him. With a quick but a enterprising Aylmer. Descended from a family true, that such instances as the following oc- firm step and undaunted composure he asof high respectability and worth, still conspicu- curred. On a public thanksgiving, "the cended the scaffold, evidently more desirous ous for the virtues which distinguished their religious rites of the day had terminated, when to meet death than to avoid it. He was exeMoestors, Aylmer's example produced a power- the next after me in succession, the humane cuted in the thirty-first year of his age, at the ful effect, while it gave confidence to his asso- and kind-hearted Black, crossed the ferry. front of his own house, where his wife, his cates in arms: their confidence was not mis-Ile had scarcely pressed the shore, when he mother, and sister resided. His head was se. pard, and his courage and military talent was rudely seized, suspended by the neck, vered from his body, and exhibited upon the proved him not undeserving of their choice." and though life was not extinguished, he ex-market-house on a pike, so situated as to be A gentleman designated as Young Carroll. perienced all the terrors and the pains of the first and the last object daily before the The rising traits of manly beauty were con- death. This was a species of punishment so eyes of his desolate family." marsons in his person. Not exceeding twenty generally practised throughout Ireland, and in We are told the following story in a note, ars of age, he had all the deportment of which the executioner became so expert, that which laments the expatriation of Irishmen to manhood—a countenance intelligent and he prided himself in his knowledge of the ex-serve in foreign armies. Presting portrayed a heart sensibly alive to tent of human suffering; distinguishing the "The field of Fontenoy was contested with the finer feelings of honour,-brave, gene- precise point when the soul, just winged for the most obstinate courage by the allied troops and humane. This was the first day in its flight to a more peaceful world, might yet of England, Hanover, &c. under the comhe had borne arms, and he bore them be detained, by the suspension of animal tor- mand of the Duke of Cumberland, and those a manly courage." Merciful Heaven! what refinement in of France under the veteran Marshal Saxe. I Down the commander was Mr. Russell: the science of human suffering! Poor Black The battle was long and doubtful, but the -Gentle by nature, but lofty in soul, he had given no offence he had done no wrong-fortune of the day promised victory to the va enthusiastic in all his attachments; and but his benevolent heart was suspected of sym- allies. The troops of France were worsted he bore personal privations with an pathising in the miseries of his country." in every quarter, and the attention of the here firmness, he felt the keenest sensibility After the battle of Ballynahinch, "the commander was now chiefly directed to the the misfortunes of others. A model of British never gave quarter, which accounts personal safety of the monarch. In this hour ly auty, he seemed formed no less for for the circumstance that few or no prisoners of discomfiture and impending ruin, the French amon than command, and won, by the were made. Amongst those who perished on king addressed the veteran Saxe, and eagerly cess of his manners and the purity of his this occasion was a young and interesting fe- inquired was there nothing left to uphold tears, that marked distinction which was more male, whose fate has been so feelingly recorded the honour of the day. I have yet,' rethe spontaneous offering to superior worth, in the poetic strains of our distinguished coun-plied the gallant Saxe, a small reserve. boked for or assumed by the unconscious trywoman, Miss Balfour. Many were the ro- The Irish troops are fresh, but their numinantic occurrences of a similar nature at this bers are few. They were led to immediate Is Antrim "the attention of the bolder unfortunate period, but none perhaps more de-action, and the stimulating cry of Cieniegeg Er directed to the man on whose talent serving of our sympathy than the interesting er Louimeneigh augus er faule ne Sassinagh and frames all could rely; this was the gal-subject of the present incident. The men of was re-echoed from man to man. Jane M-Cracken, into whose breast no timid Ards were distinguished for their courage and tune of the field was no longer doubtful, lever found entrance. He promptly discipline, and their division hore a full share and victory the most decisive crowned the sumed the call, and placed in that situation in the disasters of the day. In this division arms of France.' Curse on the laws,' exwird had been so recently abandoned, he de- were two young men remarkable for their claimed the British monarch, which deprive life to the hopes and security of his early attachment and continued friendship. me of such subjects!' I have extracted the M-Cracken was possessed of all that They were amongst the first to take up arms, foregoing anecdote from a journal of the cammungy of soul which is the inseparable com.and from that moment had never been sepa-} Remember Limerick and British faith."

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