time was passed in a little cell in Cornwall, the king's followers, all of whose names if I we have been treating, Jean de Montagu, near St. Caroke, a short distance from Lost- were to repeat, and recount their brave actions, archbishop of Sens, served in the army of withiel, in study and devotion; but his chief the labour would be too heavy, so many were the Duke of Orleans, completely armed: he pursuit was history; "for his knowledge therein there, and so well did they behave. Nor would fought with the greatest intrepidity, and was he hath obtained this character, quòd in his- this suffice without those of the retinue of the killed. As the bishops were convoked for the toriarum cognitione non fuit ultimus; and the king's son, great numbers of whom came there ban and arriere ban, like other seigniors, they part of history he was most skilled in was the in noble array; for many a shield newly painted petitioned the pope to be dispensed from mili lives of the saints and other great men, which and splendidly adorned, many a helmet and tary service, and consented to pay a fine in lieu induced Baldwin, his fellow-citizen, to put him many a burnished hat, many a rich gambezon thereof; but they soon had the address to get upon writing the life of Guy of Warwick.' garnished with silk, tow, and cotton, were there the fine remitted also. What more things he wrote,' Prince adds, to be seen, of divers forms and fashions. There As a specimen of the heraldical parts, we 'he does not find; but, dying as is probable I saw Ralph de Gorges, a newly-dubbed knight, quote the description of the banner of John of in his cell, he lieth interred near that place."" fall more than once to the ground from stones Brittany. The text has been formed from a MS. copy and the crowd, for he was of so haughty a spirit of the poem by Glover, in the College of Arms, that he would not deign to retire. He had all collated with a contemporary copy in the British his harness and attire mascally of gold and Museum; and every variation is inserted in the azure. Those who were on the wall Robert de notes. "With the view of rendering the volume Tony severely harassed; for he had in his comas complete as possible, a topographical and ge-pany the good Richard de Rokeley, who so well neral history of Carlaverock Castle has been plied those within that he frequently obliged prefixed to the poem; and memoirs of every them to retreat. He had his shield painted individual who is noticed by the poet have been mascally of red and ermine. Adam de la Forde added to it." mined the walls as well as he could, for his stones flew in and out as thick as rain, by which many were disabled. He bore, in clear blue, three gold lioncels rampant crowned. The good Baron of Wigtown received such blows that it was the astonishment of all that he was not stunned; for, without excepting any lord present, none shewed a more resolute or unembarrassed countenance. He bore within a bordure indented, three gold stars on sable. Many a heavy and crushing stone did he of Kirkbride receive, but he placed before him a white shield with a green cross engrailed. So stoutly was the gate of the castle assailed by him, that never did smith with his hammer strike his iron as he and his did there. Notwithstanding, there were showered upon them such huge stones, quarrels, and arrows, that with wounds and bruises they were so hurt and exhausted, that it was with very great difficulty they were able to retire.' It is in these memoirs of the baronage that Mr. Nicolas has displayed a profound knowledge of the subject he has undertaken. We are well acquainted with his "Remarks on the Seals attached to the Letter from the Barons of England to Pope Boniface VIII., in the year 1301, respecting the Sovereignty of Scotland," printed in the Archæologia, vol. xxi., to which he refers frequently in the course of this work; a paper in which, by extensive and laborious researches, he dissipated much of the obscurity which involved the heraldical differences of the arms of the early barons. Heraldry, indeed, derives the most important illustration from the poem now published, which represents, in marginal decoration, the armorial bearings of above 100 barons and knights, and other curious particulars of the arms of the Maxwells, then, and now, possessors of Carlaverock Castle. The poem begins with a circumstantial account of the general array. We have an admirable eulogium of the Bishop of Durham in the course of the poem, who, however, avoided the militant in his temporal capacity. former times, with all his spells, had not so "The arms borne by the Earl of Richmond were, checky or and azure, a bordure gules charged with lions passant gardant of the first; a quarter ermine: or, as they are blazoned in the contemporary MS., which has been so frequently referred to, Les armes de garine, a un quarter de ermine, od la bordure de Engleterre.' This coat presents an example of the arrangement of different arms upon the same shield before the system of quartering was adopted, which is too curious to be allowed to pass unobserved. The arms of Dreux were checky or and azure: on the marriage of that house with the heiress of Brittany, they placed the coat of that family, ermine, on a quarter; and, as a distinction, the ensigns of the subject of this memoir were surrounded by a border of England, his mother's arms.' We also extract a portion of the life of the Bishop of Durham. "The palatine power reached its highest elevation under the splendid pontificate of Anthony Bek. Surrounded by his officers of state, or marching at the head of his troops, in peace or war, he appeared as the military chief of a powerful and independent franchise. The court of Durham exhibited all the appendages of royalty: nobles addressed the palatine sovereign kneeling, and, instead of menial servants, knights waited in his presence chamber and at his table, bareheaded and standing. Impatient of control, whilst he asserted an oppressive "In the year of grace one thousand three superiority over the convent, and trampled on hundred, on the day of Saint John, Edward the rights of his vassals, he jealously guarded held a great court at Carlisle, and commanded "In all the king's wars he appeared in his own palatine franchise, and resisted the enthat in a short time all his men should pre-noble array, with a great and expensive re-croachments of the crown when they trenched pare to go together with him against his ene-tinue. Being well informed of the king's on the privileges of the aristocracy. When his mies the Scots. On the appointed day the whole expedition, he sent him of his people one pride or his patriotism had provoked the dishost was ready, and the good king, with his hundred and sixty men at arms. Arthur, in pleasure of his sovereign, he met the storm household, then set forward against the Scots, with firmness; and had the fortune or the not in coats and surcoats, but on powerful and address to emerge from disgrace and difficulty costly chargers; and that they might not be with added rank and influence. His high birth taken by surprise, well and securely armed. gave him a natural claim to power, and he posThere were many rich caparisons embroidered We may here call to the remembrance of our sessed every popular and splendid quality which on silks and satins; many a beautiful penon readers, that in the early ages of Christianity could command obedience or excite admiration. fixed to a lance; and many a banner displayed. the bishops went to war, and distinguished His courage and constancy were shewn in the And afar off was the noise heard of the neigh-themselves as generals. At the battle of Bou-service of his sovereign. His liberality knew ing of horses: mountains and valleys were every vines, Guerin, bishop of Serles, commanded no bounds; and he regarded no expense, how. where covered with sumpter horses and wag- the French army jointly with the Count de ever enormous, when placed in competition with gons with provisions, and sacks of tents and St. Paul: he was armed with a club, with any object of pleasure or magnificence. Yet in pavilions. And the days were long and fine. which he despatched the celebrated Earl of the midst of apparent profusion he was too They proceeded by easy journeys, arranged in Salisbury:-"he commanded like an experi- prudent ever to feel the embarrassment of want. four squadrons; the which I will so describe to enced captain, and fought like a brave soldier." Surrounded by habitual luxury, his personal you, that not one shall be passed over. But In 1196, the bishop of Beauvais and his arch-temperance was as strict as it was singular; and first I will tell you of the names and arms of deacon having sallied out of the town com- his chastity was exemplary in an age of general the companions, especially of the banners, if you pletely armed, they were made prisoners by the corruption. Not less an enemy to sloth than to will listen how." English. The pope, on being informed of it, intemperance, his leisure was devoted either to wrote to Richard I., to reproach him with his splendid progresses from one manor to another, strange conduct in detaining as prisoner a or to the sports of the field; and his activity bishop, his very dear son. Richard sent the and temperance preserved his faculties of mind bishop of Beauvais' cuirass to the pope, with and body vigorous under the approach of age this answer, Vide utrum tunica filii tui sit, an and infirmity. In the munificence of his public non? Gen. xxxvii. 32. Jacob knew the coat works, he rivalled the greatest of his prede to be Joseph's; but the pope did not acknow-cessors. Within the bishopric of Durham he ledge the cuirass, and abandoned the bishop to founded the colleges of Chester and Lanchester, "Then you might hear the tumult begin. his fate. erected towers at Gainford and Coniscliff, and With them were intermixed a great body of The knights are severally described, with their qualifications, sometimes in a quaint and punning style; as, "Robert de Montalt was there, who highly endeavoured to acquire high honour. He had a banner of a blue colour, with a lion rampant of silver." The description of the attack is curious, and not the least interesting. At the very battle of Agincourt, of which added to the buildings of Alnwick and Barnard castles. He gave Evenwood manor to the convent, and appropriated the vicarage of Morpeth to the chapel which he had founded at Auckland. In his native county of Lincoln he endowed Alvingham Priory, and built a castle at Somerton. In Kent he erected the beautiful manor-house of Eltham, whose fuins still speak the taste and magnificence of its founder. Notwithstanding the vast expenses incurred in these and other works, in his contests with the crown and with his vassals, in his foreign journeys, and in the continued and excessive charges of bis household, he died wealthier than any of his predecessors, leaving immense treasures in the riches of the age: gallant horses, costly robes, rich furniture, plate, and jewels. Anthony Bek was the first prelate of Durham who was buried within the walls of the cathedral. His predecessors had been restrained from sepulture within the sacred edifice by a reverential awe the body of the holy confessor; and on this aasion, from some motive of superstition, the apse was not allowed to enter the doors, ahhough a passage was broken through the vall for its reception, near the place of interment. The tomb was placed in the east transept, between the altars of St. Adrian and Michael, close to the holy shrine. A brass, lng since destroyed, surrounded the ledge of de marble, and bore the following inscripfion :— *Prasul magnanimus Antonius hic jacet imus, The Man of Ton. A Satire. 8vo. pp. 112. London, 1828. H. Colburn. SIR JOHN PAUL, baronet and banker, is, we anderstand, answerable for this issue; which is a thing of good credit, and likely enough to continue for a while in circulation. John, the Man of Ton, was the son and heir of a worthy wealthy pair in Warwickshire, whose birth was hailed with the rejoicings usual on similar occasions. Eton had the honour of his tuition: **But public schools, if rightly we would class 'em, Teach any steps buat Gradus ad Parnassum;" and though *All masters for great conjurors would pass, Boys learn to say Amo, while they amass." So it happened with John, who gave early praise of turning out the lad of all lads, and Warwickshire lad. Cambridge in due course Allows Eton; horse-racing comes in regular tation; and plucked in the schools, and pened on the turf, the young heir is whitewashed by sacrifices on the part of his fond London is the next scene of his exploits, and a contrast to his rustic sports: for "Here 'tis non-existence up to noon, And careless health begins the day too soon. The world's not air'd till twelve, and seldom here Tthen en papillottes the maids appear, Told the chairs their former place resume, Or deck with decent care the dusty room." In London his acres are spoken of, and he is marked down for prey by the many gangs of frat and small, high and low, noble and plehan swindlers who infest the metropolis, and Eve upon the foolish, the uninformed, and the Dowary. "Each lady patroness with Willis met, Arrange in conclave deep their next new set, Now dowagers, in fashionable slang, Talk of his acres, and from whom he sprang. Nay, give the lad a chance." He shall have nine Or sevin.' He wants a mistress. Give him mine.' Now mark the storms that gather o'er his head, Each snare is ready, and each net is spread: So from his oozy bed a caddis late, But now transmuted to a gaudier fate, A May-fly now light skimming o'er the stream, Bright as young love, and fleeting as his dream, Lives to look gay-but ere the day lives out, Wets his light wing, and feeds a hungry trout." dancer; and no wonder that the time quickly John keeps a betting-book, and an operaarrives when "Often when alone, He saw his heart as in a mirror shewn: And spectres oft his fitful fancy cross'd, Of broken promises, and honour lost; Of good men's pity, and of bad men's sneers, His father's anguish, and his mother's tears; Whilst cares increasing, still his thoughts employ, His reason asks his heart if this be joy? But asks in vain; in magic circle bound, He still must follow as the wheel goes round." He had pledged his honour to his father that he would never play again; but as men of his class have no honour, it might be anticipated that he would play again, and be completely plundered. This accordingly happens. Melton Mowbray becomes the theatre of his extravagance and senselessness: Melton Mowbray, of which we say as little as can be said, when we describe it, its companionship, its vices, and its crimes, as not to be surpassed by Crockford's, or any hell in London. Equally at one or other, is it reckoned no disgrace to profane the name of friendship and rob the man who trusts you, to disregard every honest principle, to play the common sharper, to laugh at the misery and despair brought on by base arts practised on confiding folly, to plunge families into ruin, and devote many a hapless victim to disgrace, the gaol, the avenging gallows, or soul-destroying suicide. Such is Melton, which receives our hero, "Nothing loath; surprise His train awakes not, for these passing flies The sun of fashion with the season brings,One season is enough to singe their wings. Critics abound in Melton, and you meet The lounging menials quizzing in the street; Or grooms that idly crowd each stable door, Who swagger, lie, and cheat-and do no more." Returning, betrayed and involved in debt, to the Fashionable World of London, Jack is not the worse received by that despicable World; for it knew not the extent of his losses, and he still passed for a rich spendthrift. "But still before him goes a great man's name, And all the dowagers had heard his fame, Who, eager for the means, forget the end: Not what they have, inquire-but what they spend ? His hunters-hacks-his mistress-and his cook! For twice ten thousand surely they may look. Girls, dress your best, here's something good to catch, And he must want an honourable match. Blood he has not, but then his ample cash Will give you girls ability to dash.' And now in conclave close are gravely met Mammas of deep design-a tip-top set: For now they hunt in couples, nor disdain To play each other's game, and so they gain For my sweet Emma' or your pretty Jane: 'Tis equal chance if either are at home, Beaux meet the girls, and all unnoticed come. You give a water-party-I a ball; And you to-day-and I to-morrow call.' But Almack's, dreadful Almack's is the place: Night after night appears some pretty face, And all that schemes and stratagems can do, Is lost and ruined by that something new! These are the underplots that wait the beaux, And these the arts the practised matron knows. At this same sitting, had they known the truth,The crippled, maimed condition of the youth, Post obits claimed-annuities unpaid, And two new mortgages but newly made,Those crafty ladies had contrived no more, But spurned the worthless spendthrift from the door. Still character is money, chance is all, And by what all men say, we stand or fall! Thus Jack's pronounced a wealthy goose at best; They knew the one, and fairly guess'd the rest. * None ask the question that all parents should, Now lady Di of Greenwich talks and Bab Would be quite happy-take her in your cab." He turns away, and quick, to get him back, The duchess grows familiar-calls him Jack: Why, Jack, my Sophy has not danced to-night: Stand you poking girl, you're quite a fright." To waltz with you, Miss Jumper cries, 'I came.' Upon my soul, I can't to-night-I'm lame.' Thus, like an ice-berg floating in the sea, Unthaw'd in warmer climes, as cold is he." unhappily married. He is at last caught, however, but by a lady A summer fête on the banks of the Thames, which, for impudent immorality might readily be paralleled from the records of last season, completes this gallant intrigue. The guilty pair fly together to the Continent,-pursuit and a duel follow the elopement; and the author winds up his picture of high-life guilt and fashionable vice with true poetical justice. The Man of Ton returns from the rencontre. "Short space sufficed to speed him from the spot, Before the door he paused, but all was still, Soft o'er her form the ling'ring zephyr plays: Shall bless him when he wakes, and brighter shine, He starts convulsive from her cold embrace, A moment now he smiles-a moment weeps, But never comes a change, for his the doom Need we remark, after these quotations, that there are considerable poetical talents, and some genuine touches of satire against the reigning foibles and vices which startle beholders among the upper circles of society, displayed in these pages? Tales and Legends. By the Authors of the Marshall. rather humorous. his hand. He opened it, and after a short | scarcely have been able to support a feeble and speech, he presented a gift to each of the suffering existence, had she not been supported blushing girls, saying, as he passed from one and consoled by Aloyse's tender and benevolent to the other, it was a remembrance of that cares. She devotedly loved her young benehappy evening. He placed a sparkling gem factress, and her little cottage always seemed to Or the Odd Volume, about a year and a half in the hair of one, put a brilliant ring upon be lighted up when Aloyse made her appearago, we remember we spoke as of a collection the finger of another, and fastened a gold ance in it, for she was indeed as a ministering of Tales, of various kinds and qualities-several comb in the auburn ringlets of a third, and angel to her. The morning after the little very good, several of less observable merit, before they had time to recover from their festival that had been held at her father's, and several which, though well told and en- surprise, or reject his proffered gifts, they Aloyse set out to visit, as usual, her poor old tertaining in the narrative, rather disappointed sparkled with the jewels with which he had friend, simply clad, and with her half-withered the reader by lame and impotent conclusions. so profusely ornamented them; and the last violet in her bosom. When she entered, MarOn the whole, we opined the volume to be an rays of the setting sun, which had hitherto, garet fixed her eyes upon her with a look of excellent lounging miscellany. Such was the in this happy spot, shone only upon flowers, so much anxiety, that she tenderly inquired if authors' first work, and such (to say nothing now fell upon these brilliant gems, and added she were in want of any thing. 6 No, nothing, of those between*) is their last. Vol. I. con- a dazzling lustre to the wreath. Struck with my sweet child,' she replied, "nothing while tains the Three Kings, a Scots story of the astonishment, Martin Ereté, Madame Gageot, you are with me. I desire nothing but a time of James V.; and the Rescue, from the and Aloyse, gazed upon the scene. Madame, crown of glory to deck thy pure brow. What German of Döring. Vol. II. has seven shorter who was deeply read in fairy lore, believed now disquiets me is a dream I have had, in pieces of diversified character; and Vol. III. she beheld some enchanter before her. Aloyse which you bore a part. I thought you were two, both Scots-the first pathetic, and the last grew pale, with a mixture of grief and dismay, threatened by some danger to which I could as she looked upon the munificent stranger. give no name. You bent down to seize a Having expressed our approbation generally Who could this youth be, who, with such sparkling jewel which was rolling towards an of performances like the present, we may be laughing and careless indifference, threw from abyss; you grasped it, and as you pressed it to allowed to observe, that it is one of the diffi- him what appeared to her to be immeasurable your bosom, it pierced you to the heart. I saw culties of the reviewing craft to convey the riches? She felt that it would wound her to you afterwards in a magnificent chamber, grounds of our judgment to the public. It is the heart, to be treated in the same manner where every thing shone with gold, but the hardly possible to make satisfactory extracts as he had done her companions. She was gold cast a pale, ghastly shade upon your cheek; from connected tales; and to find room for a shocked at the thought, but her fears were and when I observed you more closely, your whole relation (though even that could not vain. He passed by her with his sparkling bright and lovely colour was no longer there— illustrate its companion miscellanies) is equally gifts; and when he had gone the round of the your eyes were closed-you belonged no more beyond our command. All we can do, there- circle, he set the casket upon the ground, bent to the living.' Aloyse shuddered at these fore, for the pleasing publication in hand, is down to a bed of flowers, took from it a violet, words; and thoughts of the jewels of yesterday, to recommend it in bulk, though sustained by and brought it to the gratified Aloyse. I with which they stood in so close connexion, very small samples in the way of critical retail. well knew,' he whispered, as he presented it sunk deeply into her heart. She felt the Aloyse, from the German of Döring, and to her, that I dared not so to approach you, wound; but her grief was mingled with so the Danish of A. F. Elmquist, is a very pretty, Aloyse. Flowers only are fit for flowers; the much sweetness, that she could not know it to natural, and affecting anecdote of Philip of daughter of nature loves nature alone. Ah! be a consuming poison." Anjou, king of Spain, A.D. 1700, and a Aloyse, this violet will be happy even in beautiful girl, the daughter of a Garde Chasse, withering upon your bosom; but longer, much and the Jesuits to remove the young prince, Montejo is employed by Cardinal Mazarin into whose abode two strangers are driven by a longer than its short existence, may my re- in order to pave the way to the throne of Spain storm to seek shelter. Here the flame of an membrance dwell in your heart! Aloyse felt for another candidate; and it is on a journey to unequal love is suddenly lighted up between her heart sink within her; she received the Toulon that these adventures ensue. At this the fair Aloyse and the youngest stranger, of flower with a trembling hand, and glanced moment the king of Spain dies, and the amwhose dignity the country maiden is entirely anxiously around lest he might have been bassadors are on their way to Paris with his ignorant. She accidentally discovers that the overheard; but her companions were too deep- will and the Spanish crown, to lay them at the object of her heart's adoration is threatened ly engaged to attend to her. They were all feet of the new monarch. They are to pass by with imminent danger, and that his appa- busily occupied in comparing their jewels, the residence of the Garde Chasse; and Monrent friend, Colonel Montejo, is his concealed laughing, jesting, and were so superlatively tejo is in despair, lest he may not induce his enemy. To beguile the time of his guests, happy, that they could scarcely wait with victim to proceed on his destination. All this, the honest Garde Chase gives a rural fête. "Madame Gageot (his sister) went off early ating, so impatient were they to return home sharpened," Aloyse overhears, on her way composure for the appointed hour of separ- with the expression of "the daggers are in the morning to Nevers, to make prepara- to exhibit their gifts, and astonish their pa- home from the charitable visit just described. tions for the entertainment; to tell all her rents with the extraordinary tale. At length" She remained for an hour immovable, and acquaintances about the agreeable strangers, the hour of departure arrived, and they bade lost in deep thought. Now she clearly felt that and to invite some of Aloyse's companions to a grateful good night to their entertainers and an invincible barrier lay on her path, and that spend the evening with them, that she might the generous stranger; and with light steps a deep, impassable gulf separated her from shew her favourite Philip with what tact she they hurried home, holding fast their precious happiness. She was now awakened to all the managed these matters. How the morning gems. This incident could not fail of causing depth of her love; but an inexpressible anguish was passed is not known, but what occurred much noise in the town. The girls were mingled itself with her tenderness, for it was during the evening has been faithfully pre-closely questioned by their parents, and they evident that some horrible fate was impending served by tradition. They all assembled un-related so many particulars that had occurred over that beloved one. At this fearful thought der the large chestnut trees, which formerly at Martin Ereté's, and spoke so much of the she sprung from the ground, and while she stood where these nut trees have since been stranger, that people did not know what to rapidly pursued her way homewards, she enplanted. The lovely girls, seated in a row, think of the matter. They were examined deavoured to think what it was now her duty in their holiday clothes, with Aloyse in the again and again, and they only repeated that to do. Away he must not go. I must enmidst of them, resembled a wreath of bloom- they had received costly presents from a sin- deavour to detain him; he is safe with us."" ing flowers, which exhibited every pale and gularly handsome young man; but that his Her efforts to keep him, and defeat the purdeeper tint of spring and summer's blossoms. companion had scarcely remained long enough poses of Montejo, have much interest, and Madame Gageot was seated at a large table to throw a glance upon them. The gems were would make an agreeable drama. Among other covered with fruits and confections. Montejo, examined by a lapidary, and declared to be of things, the Maire of Nevers suspects the under pretence of sudden indisposition, retired great value; and as there were amongst the strangers of having obtained the jewels, so precipitately into the house. Philip, who by girls' parents some of the magistrates, and lavishly bestowed, by unlawful means; but his gaiety and engaging manners had quickly even Mons. le Maire himself, the interesting their papers are about to procure them perwound himself into the hearts of the youthful enigma quickly began to take a somewhat dif- mission to depart. party, hastily followed him, but almost as ferent character. "Montejo called impaquickly returned, bearing a small casket in tiently to Henri to lead round the horses, "Aloyse had for some time past been in the without a moment's delay; and Madame lived in the village of St. Pierre, about half a her young friend, when Aloyse, with totterhabit of daily visiting a poor old woman, who Gageot was triumphing in the innocence of mile from Martin Ereté's, and who would ling step, approached the maire, exclaiming, The second "Odd Volume," see L. G. No. 537, and the Busy Bodies, No, 538-the former lauded,-the latter not * The news of the death of Charles II. precedes the arrival of the ambassadors, on their ute to Paris, the day after the foregoing incident. During the intervening night, Aloyse, like a guardian angel, is on the watch. Again she interferes to prevent the departure of Philip, warns him of his danger; and Montejo flies, after wounding her with his dagger. 6 6 . Marly; or, a Planter's Life in Jamaica. 8vo. pp. 364. Glasgow, 1828. Griffin and Co. London, Hunt and Clarke. Allow them not to escape; I accuse them of quillity, for we part for ever in this world.'| in interrupted words, in his America it rises having stolen these jewels.' A thunderbolt She replied not, but, with deep sobs, pressed up again, and in his Heaven it shines for could not have occasioned greater astonishment his hand to her bosom. He embraced her once ever! They were her last words. She died and consternation than these words. She again more, and laying her on her father's breast, in Margaret's arms." repeated the accusation in a firmer tone. rushed from the spot. About a month after We have only to add, that we can add no. Montejo threw upon her a look of the deepest Philip's departure, Aloyse sat in a corner, and thing to this paper; and, therefore, the Scotmalignity, while Philip gazed at her in the ut- wept bitterly. Martin Ereté bent tenderly tish tales, the German legends, and all the most surprise. Martin Ereté dropt a glass of over her, and softly named Philip. Yes,' rest of these compositions, ten in number, water he was about to raise to his lips; and exclaimed she, with impetuous vehemence, must be referred to for their own illustration. Madame Gageot surveyed her from head to yes, my father, I deny it not. I shall love foot with angry eyes." Upon this charge they him for ever-he has taken my life with him. are stopped. Yet be calin, dear father, be calm-I shall be composed. But fulfil your promise, and let us set out for Paris instantly.' They went. THREE or four years ago, Mr. J. Stewart's “Louis had already accepted for his grand-View of the Past and Present State of Jamaica son the crown of Spain, and the ambassadors afforded us a mass of valuable information rewere appointed to a solemn audience. The specting that island: the present publication French nobles were assembled. A number also gives us a picture of society and manners of great men from the young Bourbon's in the same quarter, but is altogether of a different dominions, even from distant Ame- different and of a very familiar class. A sort rica, arranged themselves round Louis's still of romance story is wound up in it, or rather Philip scarcely observed the flight of his empty throne. The ladies of the court were made the vehicle for its sketches; though the treacherous friend, for all his attention was also present; and at their head, the admired, latter are its chief recommendation, being apix upon the beautiful bleeding girl at his the envied Madame de Maintenon. In the parently drawn with truth and spirit, by an ivet. He raised her up, held her in his arms, back-ground were several of the middle ranks, actual observer of, and actor in, the scenes ad, by a thousand tender epithets and expres- as spectators of this magnificent scene, and which he paints. Marly, a young Scotsman, , recalled her fleeting spirit. He placed amongst these were Madame Gageot and and, like very many young Scotsmen, having aer upon a seat, and quickly struck a light Aloyse. The door of the royal cabinet was his way to push in the wide world, lands in with the assistance of a tinder-box, and began now flung open, and Louis stept proudly forth, Jamaica in search of fortune. At first he is to render her the assistance she so instantly leading his grandson by the hand, with the air tormented in the flesh by what the negroes required. He uncovered her bleeding shoul- and majesty of the master of the world. But, call the devil's trumpeters (the mosquito), and Cer, tore a handkerchief in two, and stanched beautiful as the son of a god, led by the hand suffers other inconveniences of climate; but the blood. He bent over her, endeavoured to of Jupiter, walked the youthful Philip at his soon gets the place of a book-keeper on a reve her, parted her ringlets from her pale side. He was attired in the Spanish costume, plantation. Here the poor slaves are flogged row, and supported her sinking head. An sparkling with jewels, as if Peru had showered and steal; steal and are flogged. Idleness and hour she thus lay in silent bliss, her cheek its diamonds upon him. The royal mantle carelessness are met by the cart-whip: and resting upon that gentle princely hand. Oh, flowed gracefully from his shoulder; the sword very disgusting punishments are rather too my Philip she murmured in a soft low of Castile glittered at his side, and the feathers minutely described. The following extract, voice; why have I not been wounded to death? of Arragon waved from the diadem that bound however, at our hero's entry upon his duties, why have I not been permitted to make thee his youthful brow. Spaniards, behold here is is new to us: the overseer is speaking of a the only sacrifice I can make thee?' He en- your king!' said Louis, as he looked with pa- theft committed in the sugar house, and he treated her to be calm, and they now came rental pride upon his grandson, whom he pre- tells Marly of the grand receiving-place. to mutual explanations. Aloyse related every sented to them. Albufera threw himself upon "Calibash estate is by far the largest in thing she had overheard in the forest; and the his knee before Philip, whose cheek was tinged the island, though it cannot with propriety be Philip heard, the more indignant he with the blush of modesty, and pressed the kiss said to have any express owners. I rather crime. Yes!' he exclaimed, I can well of homage of his hand. The rest followed his think every sugar proprietor is somewhat conred believe that he would have betrayed example, and the ceremony had nearly con- cerned in it. But be this as it may, it is from He obtained my friendship and confidence cluded, when Philip's eye fell upon a pale this estate the great part of the white people mir to lead me more certainly to destruction. dying countenance, that looked as if it had in the towns, and the free browns and blacks, Latria, or perhaps Spain itself, has sent him risen from the dead to gaze upon him. The supply themselves with the essential article of colour suddenly fled from his cheek, for it was sugar. It derives its name, I believe, chiefly -They agreed to keep every thing secret Aloyse's sweet mournful glance he had encoun- owing to no coopered casks being used, the the arrival of the Spanish ambassadors, tered, and it was impossible for him to conceal substitute for which are calibashes, procured the duke should make himself known the emotions which overpowered him. His from the calibash tree, of which there are no bem, and accompany them back to Paris. hand trembled in that of Louis, who said, in scarcity, and in which the sugar is not only Vafaltering steps Aloyse now approached a low voice, Dost thou tremble, King of carried out of the estate, but conveyed to marletor. She paused—she stretched out her Spain?' Philip departed for Spain, and about ket and sold, according to the apparent size towards him. Philip!' said her pale a year after this, Aloyse went one evening of the calibash, no weights or measures being Ping lips - Philip! once only in this as usual to visit old Margaret in St. Pierre. used by the proprietors of this large estate. we meet no more-once only She My child,' said she, as she looked upon Another peculiarity attached to this estate, is, ed finish, but he understood her. He Aloyse's pale, death-like countenance, have I that the crop is almost uniformly disposed of her ardently to his bosom-one short not been right with my dream? Oh, that you on Sunday, no other day in the week being so et the rested in anguished bliss in his had never, never known this death-bringing suitable to the owners. To make a long story , then tore herself away, rushed down jewel!' Good mother,' replied Aloyse, in short, Calibash estate comprehends the whole , and threw herself upon her couch." her soft voice, do not thus grieve over me; I island of Jamaica, each sugar plantation furThe ambassadors arrive, and the dénoue- am not unhappy.' But Margaret remarked nishing a little, some more and some less, ww takes place. Immediately, bound by such an extraordinary weakness about her, that according to circumstances. But it differs ha etiquette, Philip departs. "While she determined, although against her wishes, very materially in regard to good crops being were occupied in despatching expresses to accompany her on her way home. When produced from it with that of good crops from Matrad and elsewhere, in pursuit of the they came to the forest, Aloyse felt herself any single estate; for when a good crop is *** Montejo, Philip retired into the thicket, overpowered by great weakness and indispo- produced from a single estate, praise is bened to Martin Ereté, Madame Gageot, sition, about the place where she had overheard stowed, and promotion ensured to the plantto follow him. He took a kind fare- Montejo's treachery. It was here,' said she, ers; but if it is only supposed that at any of ise first, and begged him to come and in a low, stifled voice: the tree lies there time a good crop is taken off for Calibash * Paris. But what shall I say to still. Let us sit down upon it, good mother.' estate, the planters, in place of promotion, lo, continued he, turning to Aloyse, thou They did so, and Aloyse seated herself beside must go and seek their bread elsewhere. Caspy one-what shall I say to thee, Margaret, and laid her head upon her shoul- libash estate, therefore, is furnished from the A Shall I ever repay thee thy der. The setting sun gilded the leaves with sugar purloined by the negroes, from the varead thy tears? Aloyse, fare thee his dying rays. See,' whispered Aloyse, 'the rious plantations on which they live; and Uk, may thy heart soon regain its tran- sun goes down in Spain; but,' continued she, from the extent of the population which they supply, the quantity stolen in a year must be immense. It seems, however, altogether impossible to put an entire stop to this nefarious traffic, for Calibash estate will always be supplied. But, where the white people are continually on the alert, they in a great measure are enabled to save their own sugar from being embezzled." to dirt-eating (eating earth); and though they unfortunate and truly miserable creatures, the had endeavoured to persuade her to desist, by most of whom were, from their age, apparently the means both of gentle and harsh treatment, tottering on the brink of eternity. They sang they had not been able to make her abandon out repeatedly for mercy, but the overseer was this abominable and pernicious propensity. relentless. ** Finding that their most On this account they had brought her for compassionate and importunate exclamations massa to put her into the stocks, in order to were unable to move his tenderness, and that prevent her from having any farther oppor- the driver continued using his whip, several of Upon the estate, a negro named Homer was tunity of so doing in future, and which was them, amidst the cries under the torture of the employed in rat-catching; and when he came accordingly done. She was rather a good-heavy lash, exclaimed, No man pities him home in the evening, his "small deer" met looking negress; but, like many others, had poor old neger, but massa above,' meaning with a quick sale among the other slaves. This fallen into this detestable negro practice of eat- God. What rendered it still more distressing astonished our neophyte. "He asked a negro ing earth,-a species of disease, which, if per- to Marly, whom custom had not yet rendered girl who had bought part of the game, why sisted in for any length of time, uniformly ter- callous to such sights, was the piteous aspects she came to eat rats? She exclaimed, Dey minates in dropsy and death. She was kept in of the children of several of them, who were good nyamn for him neger, massa! Him, Sir confinement for a number of days; and as this spectators of their mothers' and fathers' galling Charles Price, good nyamn for him neger, unnatural craving is considered a disease, she and degrading sufferings, without daring to massa! Him good as hims hens pickeniny, was properly medicined by the doctor, and fed complain. The last who was laid down, was massa! At this time Marly was told dinner from the white people's table, until she was the mother of the overseer's boy, one of the waited, when he entered the buckra-house. dismissed." youngest of the whole. She also very naturally Shortly after the cloth was removed, he men- Although our author does not describe pleaded for mercy, and in this plea she was tioned what he had seen, and inquired if rats slavery with that disgust and abhorrence aided by her son, who no doubt thought were in general eaten by the negroes. Being which it must excite in every humane breast, he was entitled to use more liberty with informed that they were, the overseer re- yet his details tend powerfully to excite these the Busha than the others, crying for forgivemarked, that he could perceive no reason why feelings. ness for his mumma. Finding that their rats should not be good eating, though, from "One day, after the space allotted for din-conjoined importunities were ineffectual, he our education, we may entertain a disgust of her had elapsed, the overseer visited Marly furiously sprung at the overseer, as if he would them. Rats in towns are filthy feeding ani- and his gang, during a drizzling shower (a force him to comply; and before the latter was mals, but those fed in cane plots live upon the circumstance rather uncommon in Jamaica), aware of his intention, his face was scratched, sugar plant, the most cleanly of all kinds of when he observed the pickeniny mothers till the blood followed. She, notwithstanding, food; and why then they should not form good coming to the field. There might be six or received her dozen. But, although the Busha eating, I cannot conjecture. But as I never eight of these mothers, who were allowed ten must have pretty keenly felt the smart of the tried a mess of them, I am not a proper judge, minutes additional to the other negroes, to scratches on his face, and was evidently enand I only once saw a white man commence come to the field in the morning, and in the raged; it seemed, however, that even he felt eating a roasted one, (he was a Frenchman) afternoon. They generally, however, took a indignant at the idea of ordering a boy of then I fell sick, and had to retire. The little more than the prescribed time; but on twelve or fourteen years of age to be punished Frenchman afterwards declared it was excel- this afternoon, whether it was owing to the merely for shewing the strong and natural aflent, and that it equalled, if it did not excel, fection he bore to his mother, and which we, in a fine-fed tender chicken, or an excellent young this country, should so highly commend; he rabbit. The negroes, however, who have none therefore instantly mounted his mule and rode of these prejudices of our education to overoff, the boy holding on as usual by the tail, come, are very partial to rats, and have decheered with the customary song of I don't nominated them Sir Charles Price, thereby care a damn, oh!' The overseer's anger had commemorating an event that otherwise might nearly evaporated before he reached home, for have descended into oblivion, as I do not at his boy only received a cuff or two on the side present recollect to have seen it observed in of the head, and an admonition to behave better any of the authors who have written respecting in future, under the pain of being placed in one this island. Sir Charles Price, it appears, was of the gangs as a field negro." a great man in the country, at an early period after our taking it from the Spaniards. In his time, there was a small species of rat, which proved very destructive to the canes, and which was also thought to be very prolific; in addition to which, field mice were very numerous and pretty destructive. This Sir Charles Price had been told that there was a large-sized rat on the Mosquito shore, which was an enemy to every other species of rat, as well as to mice, and though equally destructive as the small one, was said to be less prolific. As a choice of two evils, we are directed to choose the lesser; therefore, to get rid of the mice and small rats which then pestered the colonists, he sent to the Mosquito shore, and had a number of the large ones imported. It answered the expectation in one respect, for it cleared the country, as it is generally supposed, of the small rats, and thinned the field mice; but it has proved equally prolific with those it has exterminated. And should you continue for any length of time a planter, you will have occasion too often to observe the immense devastation in the cane plots, caused by this destructive and widely disseminated race.' 339 Another negro practice is thus mentioned. "After shell-blow, a negro man and woman brought their daughter, a girl about sixteen years of age, who belonged to one of the field gangs, with a sad complaint to the overscer, that for some time past she had been addicted rain, or some other cause, which prevented Th |