999 Garrick's aptitude to take offence is criously illustrated by the following passage in a letter, in which he declines joining a party of private theatricals, assembled by ford and I ady Essex, at Cashiobury :— "This filthy cold I partly got by exhib ting my person in the gallant Hastings, is the best compliment I could pay to the noble host and hostess, where you are; but indeed my pride was very much mortified when I found the family did not come to their box till in the middle of the third act. It will not be long in my power to pay many such compliments. I am, sir, your most obliged humble servant, 6 No have been made of him, and that chiefly causes | from America, which I am glad to find cannot Miss Ray disliked Lord Denbigh. Indeed his embarrassment.' be authentic, as you are unacquainted with it.' a female circumstanced as Miss Ray was, must And then I rather hinted what it was; he soon have considered his jokes as insults; but Lord after retired to his study, and beckoned to me Sandwich could play upon his lordship in reto follow him. I felt quite alarmed. Pray,' turn. The elegant Mrs. Hinchcliffe, lady of said he, may I ask where you heard this the bishop, attended one night, with a party. news, for I own I have my fears of its truth?' She had never seen Miss Ray before, and she Oh, no! it cannot be, my lord; I merely heard feelingly remarked afterwards: I was really it at Mr. Cadell's, as I came down here. Could hurt to sit directly opposite to her, and mark you take the liberty of asking him whence he her discreet conduct, and yet to find it imgained this information?' Certainly, my lord, proper to notice her. She was so assiduous to without the least difficulty.' I went imme- please, was so very excellent, yet so unassumdiately to Mr. Cadell, who informed me that ing, I was quite charmed with her; yet a Mr. Gibbon had brought the letter to him as seeming cruelty to her took off the pleasure of soon as he had received it. However, I found my evening.' It was Lady Blake who went up a message had been sent to Lord North, whilst to her, and spoke to her in the front of the or "D. GARRICK. I was absent: and I went the next night to chestra, that Lord Sandwich had disapproved. "The case was this: Lord and Lady Essex, the House of Lords, where a most violent de- At that time a good anecdote was in circula. I believe, once requested to have the play of bate took place. On the Wednesday, Lord tion. A certain witty lady of quality, at the Jane Shore, and Garrick very obligingly acted Sandwich and Lord North resigned. Lord Opera, curtsied to a lady of rather equivocal Lord Hastings on purpose, though then about Sandwich, when dressed, had a dignified ap- character; when another, much more discreet, leaving the stage. Lord and Lady Essex, Ipearance; but to see him in the street, he had immediately addressed her: I was surprised must say rather incautiously, asked a large an awkward, careless gait. Two gentlemen ob- to see your ladyship notice that person; you party to dine and go with them to the theatre: serving him when at Leicester, one of them surely cannot exactly know all about her.' whether they waited for the company, or the remarked, I think it is Lord Sandwich com- 'Not I,' said the lady of quality, carelessly; company for the dinner, I know not; but they ing;' the other replied, that he thought he perhaps you do, madam; is it catching?' did not reach Drury Lane till Garrick had was mistaken. Nay,' says the gentleman, man, to speak seriously, was more careful than nearly played his part; the character of Has- I am sure it is Lord Sandwich; for, if you Lord Sandwich not to trespass on public de. tings terminating with the fourth act. I did observe, he is walking down both sides of the corum." all in my power to effect a reconciliation, but street at once.' But Lord Sandwich gave a too late for that visit." better anecdote of himself: When I was at Lord Sandwich.-"Stretching out his strong Paris I had a dancing-master; the man was legs and arms, whilst playing at skittles, Lord very civil, and on taking leave of him I offered Sandwich would exult amazingly, if by chance him any service in London. Then,' said the he was able to knock down all nine. His lord-man, bowing, I should take it as a particular ship had a way of what Mr. Bates and I termed favour if your lordship would never tell any badgering, which was not quite pleasant to all; one of whom you learned to dance."-Hurd I have seen even his friend Lord Denbigh ex- once said to me, There is a line in the cessively annoyed. As for ourselves, we always Heroic Epistle that I do not at all comprefought again; for example, in a large com- hend the meaning of; but you can perhaps pany: now here is Cradock; he makes the acquaint me. It alludes to Lord Sandwich, I strangest assertion that you can possibly think suppose; but one word, shambles, I cannot of: he says, if a man wears a wig, he ought guess at :to be punctual; but punctuality ought to be dispensed with, if he wears his own hair. That, sir,' said I, alludes to his lordship's My lord, my assertion is, that, if your lord- shambling gait.'—I did not know his lordship has walked out, you have only to change ship in early life; but this I can attest, and your scratch for your full-dressed wig; but if call any contemporary to ratify, who might I am to dine out, I must sometimes wait half have been present, that we never heard an an hour for my hair-dresser.' 'Oh! very well; oath, or the least profligate conversation at his then the hair-dresser is to be the regulator of lordship's table in our lives. Miss Ray's beyour time.' Lord S. honoured me with visits haviour was particularly circumspect. Dr. for a few days at different times in Leicester-Green, Bishop of Lincoln, always said, I Dr. Hawkesworth was a most agreeable comshire. The dinner hour was fixed in London, never knew so cautious a man as Lord Sand-panion; but he became careless and luxurious; and some of my company were not a little sur- wich.' The bishop came too soon once to an hurt his constitution by high living, and was prised to find his lordship holding his watch up oratorio; we went to receive him in the dining-consequently very unhappy. His excellent and to my face, and exclaiming, as he came in: room, but he said, No; the drawing-room is intelligent wife was always discreet; and had There, Cradock, you see I am within three full of company, and I will go up and take tea the management of his great work, the Voyages, minutes of my time.' Lord Sandwich was a there. Lord Sandwich was embarrassed, as been left entirely with her, nothing either imsteady friend; never kept any one in unneces- he had previously objected to Lady Blake moral or offensive would ever have appeared sary suspense; was exceedingly clear in his speaking to Miss Ray between the acts; and before the public. I never knew till lately answers to all letters, mostly written with his as the bishop would go up, a consequence en- how much merit in former publications was own hand; and I once recollect his receiving sued just as I expected. Some severe verses due to her. She was an unassuming woman, one day seventy when at Leicester. Few could were sent, which Mr. Bates intercepted. [As of very superior talent. The doctor never have preserved such temper during his event- Mr. Cradock possessed a copy, perhaps it may, sinned' but against himself. He was quite ful and vexatious administration; for he then at this distance of time, be allowable to print finical in his dress, by which he sometimes was the most assiduous and active of all the the verses.-ED.] rendered himself subject to ridicule, though a ministers. Let me give an anecdote of the last favourite with all. When Lord Sandwich was days of his remaining in power. On the Monabout to embark at Portsmouth, with Sir Joseph day morning, in passion week, I went to breakBanks, Dr. Solander, and a very large party of fast at the Admiralty, when, in his usual cheerfriends, the doctor was invited to accompany ful manner, he said: Well, Cradock, you are them, and was not a little gratified by the coma great reader of newspapers; what account pliment that was paid him: but when his lordcan you give us of our misdemeanours.' 'My ship mentioned something of a cork-wig, the lord, I was up late last night, and have seen doctor was all astonishment. A cork-wig, nothing. So then, seriously, you know nomy lord, I never heard of such a thing.' thing about us.' Nothing, but what you Oh, yes,' says Lord Sandwich, always on would know first, if the account was true.' these little water excursions we put on our Lord Sandwich said, hastily, What is it, sir I mean the account said to be received Sir Jemmy Twitcher shambles-stop, stop thief.' · When lords turn musicians to gather a throng, When to shew most respect for the lord of the place is, "I became intimate with Dr. Hawkesworth at Lord Sandwich's table at the Admiralty, where I constantly met him about the time of his publishing Cook's Voyages. After this pub. lication, my friend Johnny Ludlam, (who did not like Lord Sandwich) and who was exceed. ingly sarcastical, rallied me in company, on the improvement made in Hawkesworth's principles by attending at that table, and how well he had suited his opinions to those of the company. I replied with truth, that there was no public table in London, where any opinions, either indecent or irreligious, could be so little circulated. Lord Sandwich rarely conversed; as soon as dinner was done, the catches and glee book were brought. After coffee there were cards sometimes in winter; but in the country, Lord Sandwich considered all as lost time that was not given up to some manual exercise for the benefit of his health; however, at Leicester I kept all secret from Lord Sandwich, and, as Ludlam was musical, I introduced him whenever it was in my power. When for wit and for learning they've Cradock and cork-wigs, and I have ordered one to be pre Bates.' pared for you.' The doctor paused, looked very grave, and at last recollected an engage-stance of contrast between the two bishops:—| "And yet, good reader," says the author of met that would absolutely prevent him from the one would have gone to Bath from Prior Henley," my name, if revealed, would excite having the honour of attending his lordship. Park on a scrub pony; the other, when he a certain degree of curiosity if not of interest; However, finding that no excuse would be ac- went from Worcester to Bristol Hot Wells, not, be it understood, with any reference to tepad, he at last submitted to the punishment. was attended by twelve servants, not from the work here submitted, but from the singular The docter, however, finding the laugh to run ostentation, but, as he thought, necessary dig- circumstance of my being the third author of ist him, was resolved to retaliate. When nity annexed to his situation and character. the same name now before the public; and, board, and at leisure, he tried to turn the There was something strange mentioned con- what renders the coincidence yet more striking, tas upon them, if possible. The Esquimaux cerning the death of Warburton, but I can we are all, if I mistake not, of the same proIndans had lately beer in England, and he give it only as report. The bishop lost his only fession. Here, then, is a sort of enigma for etermined to write a ludicrous voyage in cha- son about the time that he himself became an your solution: divine it if you can, but pray racter of one of them. This proved to be very imbecile; and remaining so for several years, a respect my secret." witty, and was most highly relished and com- sudden dawn of light appeared, and he asked The third author of the same name as well pimented by Lord Sandwich and all the party. his attendant in the most rational terms pos- as profession? This was a curious coincidence I returned a manuscript copy of it to Mr. Bates, sible, Is my son really dead, or not? The indeed, and naturally led us to ask ourselves fer it was never printed, and I have never seen servant hesitated: when the bishop more who the two already popular authors were, sy part of it since. I recollect something strongly repeated his question. The attend- likely to be fortunate enough to possess the that Lord Sandwich quoted as highly charac-ant replied, As his lordship so pressed it, he enviable distinction of forming a trio with the teristic. They had endeavoured to give the must own he was.' I thought so,' said the poet of Henley. Does he mean, we thought, Esquimaux some idea of feminine beauty, by bishop; and soon after died. After his death, Thomas Moore and Hannah? Surely not, Whewing him a gallery of English beauties, and Hurd wrote his epitaph, which was placed was the reply: they are not exactly of the wished to know which he preferred. He saw against a pillar in Gloucester cathedral. A same profession, and moreover (we catch the beauty in any of them; but at Portsmouth, brother bishop, Dr. Thurlow, once said to me playful spirit of the poem) the estimable lady Dear the Sally-port, he suddenly called them afterwards, Could your friend find nothing in question writes her name More and not all out from dinner to see a perfect specimen. better to say, in honour of his former idol, Moore. Can it be Francis, then the prophetic It was the Sun painted in full splendour, and than that he died in the belief of what he Francis Moore? But no! There must be inof great magnitude, on a sign-post. The whole conceived to be Christianity?' I gave a copy stances among the Johnsons and Thomsons of what I read appeared to me to possess much of Hurd's epitaph, soon after it was put up, the Smiths and the Browns;-to which family to some learned dignitaries: they thought it does the author of Henley belong? Holda strangely ambiguous; and one could scarcely light bursts upon us we have a clue to the believe it was exactly copied." mystery it must be so. Does the reader give it up? Bruce (the traveller)" was a large man, and in an evening rather splendidly dressed: he had a most extraordinary complaint, which d not be well accounted for: when he attempted to speak, his whole stomach suddenly wed to heave like an organ-bellows. He e not wish to make any secret about it, but ke of it as having originated in Abyssinia, but that it since remained (under various ad**) much the same in every climate. How, one evening, when he appeared rather ted, it lasted much longer than usual, and was so violent that it alarmed the com [To be continued.] Henley: a Poem. Pp. 77. Henley-on-Thames, The Henley Guide. Pp. 80. 1826. Same Publishers. HERE is a descriptive poem, and here is a The world, we doubt not, is already acquainted, through our columns, with the existence of two Mr. Richardsons, rejoicing respectively in the confounding and confounded initials of D. L. and G. F.! Doubtless, then, the author of Henley, a Poem, with whose initials we are unfortunately not acquainted, is Mr. Richardson, No. 3! for it is evident at least that the calling, if not the profession, of all these gentlemen is" poesy divine !" Too long, however, have we lingered over the fascination of this enigma: come, then, good reader, away with us. "Bid your postilions roll the whirling wheel Bishop Hurd." Though no person could more obsequious to his friend and patron, Warburton, than Hurd, yet they were totally Casular in disposition; the one cold, cau- Several of our readers can, without doubt, , and refined; the other, warm, daring, call to mind that beautiful valley on the Oxford dunguarded. Hurd weighed every word road in which the quiet village (it can scarcely More he spoke or wrote; and Johnson once be called town) of Henley is situated its noble , Sir, he's a word-picker;' and another bridge, and the full and smooth-flowing Thames, ed, Yes, Dr. Johnson, he always appears with the tall poplars which stand upon its brink. A picture fair of plenty thou mayst find." ze to be so very precise, that I term him an Long before beholding these volumes we were Even so the beauties of thy verse-plenty maid in breeches.' Indeed he was always fully satisfied with the great capabilities of the enough, we promise,-how then shall we seach upon his guard, that I do not believe place to furnish admirable matériel for a poem lect? Over descriptions which in most hands either his friend Lord Mansfield, or even like Wordsworth's Excursion, or prose like are farbaron, ever talked freely or intimately some of Professor Wilson's lake descriptions; Thim. Trifles from others gave offence: and we absolutely hungered after some young ce strongly reproved me from seeing poet, who, full of fine feeling and rich fancy, Mr. Richardson holds strong mastery. We tran Shandy in my classical library, and should rise and sing the rural charms of the will back the following against the Henley rts instant removal. However, this gave place. How then are we delighted at the com- Guide itself for accuracy, a quality which many to severe remark in another quarter. pletion of our wishes! and how were we other poets have most unphilosophically neg not always so violent against Sterne; charmed at receiving a graceful volume, neatly lected. Vataron corresponded with him, and no- done up in pea-green paper, on which we read, Ang was urged against Tristram, till the Henley-a Poem. Me and Sterne quarrelled, and then Sterne, The preface was devoured in a second, and which we intend, as opportunity serves, to guide the tedious, flat, and dry, And introduced, the Lord knows why,” "Some to the right the sloping height ascend, Or trace the paths which near the stream extend; "Behold the stately bridge, which rears its side And Berks connecting with her sister shires, • Quære-Diamond Letter-press?-Printer's Devil, Beyond the bridge, and on the right, is seen A pleasing structure rising on the strand, Thus do we find, as appetite controls, Purveyors both to bodies and to souls! Still closer to the wave, and there between, The humbler residence of Page' is seen; But Page' of Henley-Page, whose boats to let' "Who glancing lightly, and on either hand We would gladly linger over this delightful Who could in Thames the am'rous Falstaff's flame-tempted to bring under review with it, our All this is admirable! We say nothing on "A host of hobnails glittering in the light, Like diamonds sparkling on a gala night” !! Richardson tertius, great rival of the gentle Shenstone! like him, the poet of sentiment, inspired by the red-brick walls of the Red Lion inn at Henley-" The Lion noted for no lion mien" with all those gentler overflowings of the soul which find relief in song: take, in proof of this, the following: "The Red Lion inn (says the Henley Guide) is immediately contiguous to the Thames; and it was here that Shenstone wrote, with a diamond on a pane of glass, the following pleasing poem, "To thee, fair Freedom, I retire, From flattery, cards, and dice and din; I fly from pomp, I fly from plate! And choose my lodgings at an inn. The warmest welcome at an inn!” We have not yet done either with Mr. Richardson or the Henley Guide. "Henley (says the latter work) contains the following streets: -Hart Street, High Street, West Street, Bell Street, New Street, Duke Street, and Friday Street. A plain stone cross stands at the intersection of the four principal streets." Who but Mr. Richardson could see poetry in this? Stand forth, therefore, Richardson tertius et Shenstone secundus. Of Mr. Richardson's merits, our readers will have given them the means of judging for "No kindred minds my glowing feelings own, rest by a provoking unanimity of sentiment; while the shepherd's well-thumbed Aberdeen Almanack, and a cracked barometer of the laird's, carefully compared and collated, gave an equally ominous concurrence of rainy 6 'saft Symptoms as the result. One of the party, more desperate than the rest, had even ven. tured on the forlorn hope of exploring, from a rising ground in front of the door, the aspect of the skies and mountains; and his lengthened visage and dripping habiliments made even the hardy gillies in waiting allow it to be a morning,' and the party within poke the not very well dried peat-fire, till they succeeded in making it burn worse than before. This puts me in mind,' said the good-humoured colonel, of the times when I, and my two subs, and an old crazy doctor, were shut up together in Heligoland, with your Scottish alternative of rain and snaw for a climate, letter-smuggling for a duty, and counting our fingers for a pastime. It drove us to an expedient, however, which killed time wonderfully. I move that we revive it, and write our adventures.' After sundry pros and cons, this proposition is adopted, and the four Tales of the Moor, which compose this work, are the result. They are entitled, The Return-My Last Day in Rome Adventures of an Attaché and a Day in the Isle of Wight; and are as various Tales of the Moors: or Rainy Days in Ross-in character as in name. The first and longest shire. By the Author of Selwyn in Search is our favourite; it gives some beautiful of a Daughter. Post 8vo. pp. 437. Edin- sketches of native feelings and manners. The burgh, 1828, Blackwood; London, Cadell. others, however, are also most agreeable narraFOR this particularly graceful and interesting tives, and their several stories well contrived volume we are indebted to the pen of a fair to interest us, without being too intricate or writer, whose preceding publication of Selwyn, studied. Our selection for illustration is from (and, we believe, the pleasing papers in Black- the Return, to the land of the mountain and the wood's Magazine under the title of the Bache-flood, of a rich Scotsman, after thirty years lor's Beat, as well as other contributions in absence in India. prose and verse) have rendered whatever she "The chief object of Buchanan in hastenundertakes to do, likely to be very acceptable ing to St. Rule's, had been to embrace, if still to a large class of readers. The present volume alive, the venerable professor under whose must indeed add to her fame, by its easy and roof his youthful years had happily glided, and elegant diction, its simplicity of manner, and to acquire from him particulars relative to the its acuteness of observation on the world as it surviving members of his own family, to whom passes. peculiar circumstances prevented his directly The frame-work is extremely inartificial. addressing himself. In answer to his inquiries A partie quarre, consisting of an English respecting the good doctor, he found, to his country gentleman, a young officer of the same inexpressible regret, that he had died, full of nation, a colonel of Irish extraction and warmth years, but in possession of all his faculties, of heart, and an Edinburgh advocate, meet in only a few months before; but learning that Ross-shire, on the 12th of August, to pursue his maiden sister, the careful and benevolent the healthy diversion of grouse shooting, which superintendent of his household, yet survived, they enjoy to their hearts' content for several he could not resist introducing to the warmdays; but a Scots mist comes over the hills, hearted and almost maternal friend of his youth, and all sporting is at an end. The weather one whose boyish pranks might, perhaps, form had "set in inexorably rainy. The servants his chief hold on her recollection. Having sent and agents, whose various cares had been ex-a previous message, under his assumed name, erted to provide for the bodily comforts of their requesting permission to wait on the old lady, masters, had totally overlooked any food for (still, as he was informed, in the full vigour of the mind; and the weekly newspaper (itself her intellect, at the advanced age of eighty,) he a week old) of the nearest post-town, and two prepared to follow the almost superfluous guidlast year's Sporting Magazines, were but ance of the damsel who came to escort him to scanty provision for four highly intellectual the well-remembered scene of his youthful joys human beings, of cultivated minds and ener- and sorrows. The low-browed entry leading getic character. The party were assembled to the good lady's dwelling, as he mechanically at breakfast one gloomy morning, when the bowed on passing beneath it, forcibly recalled night-caps, which all the surrounding hills the sundry intimations of increasing stature pertinaciously retained, indicated the certainty bestowed upon him, when he last frequented it of an impending deluge. The meal had in the erect pride of fast-approaching manreached the utmost length to which ennui and hood; and amid the Cimmerian darkness of idleness could protract it. The dogs had been the winding staircase, he felt as much at home fed profusely with grouse-pie and mutton-ham; as when his elastic footsteps last bounded over their bruised and tender feet examined and the threshold. His heart beat almost audibly, Please to remember, reader, what you have prescribed for; their pedigrees traced, and as the maid threw open the door of a small just been told, that this cross is adorned by their individual qualities enlarged on, con amore. wainscoted parlour, and he found himself in four lamps. We crave pardon for these inter-Guns had been handled and criticised; and the the presence of a being who, in the absence of ruptions relative merits of flints and percussion set at maternal tenderness, had been to him a mo. "four lamps an ancient fount adorn, · ther. Consideration for her advanced age, and brought, and a hantle mair: and she died no and how likely it is that these sleep in their razie prudential reasons, induced him to lang after Sir John. The young laird, he was graves? You can tell me nothing of them, and epen the conference as a stranger; but his aye saft and gude-natured, and I've heard tell I dread to ask those who can. You can at red composure sustained grievous attacks he was maist ruined wi' a feckless Glasgow least, however,' continued he, anxious, from from the associations with which the small wife, and o'er muckle company.' And Ma- the good lady's increasing tremor, to turn the apartment teemed. Amid the revolution of rion?' eagerly inquired Buchanan, what conversation into less agitating channels, ' give empires, and the rapid strides towards im- became of her?" 'Did ye ken Menie Hamil- me some account of those so kind to me in provement, he had every where observed-here ton? Sweet bonny lamb! She was sair mis. former times at St. Rule's.' And what can all remained unaltered, save that the size alone guided amang them after her brother gaed to I tell you o' them that would do your kind of this dining-room, once so spacious in his India. Her step-mither wad hae her to marry heart gude, Willie?' said the old lady, sighing ts, seemed to have unaccountably diminished. some auld deboshed lord; and Menie couldna mournfully. My brother, ye ken, is gane to There were the dark and gloomy-wainscoted consent, and they led her sic a life, that they his rest, and sae are maist o' the auld gray pilvalls, the high-backed ponderous chairs, the drave her in desperation to marry her half-lars o' the college, whose blessing gaed wi' you. skining well-rubbed tables, the pride of Miss brother's dominie; but a gude lad he was, as The comrades that played at the gouf wi' ye Nelly's heart,-in the polished edge of which, I have heard tell, and as weel born as hersell, are a' fleein' hither and yont, like gouf ba's the conscious eye of Buchanan sought and though he hadna a bawbee: but he had friends themsells; some few may be fawn in the bonfound an incision, made in the wantonness of in England, where he was brought up, and he nie lown sunny spots o' this warld's wilderpower, with the first knife of which he had got some bit kirk in their way, and what's ness, but mair, nae doubt, sunk amang its been lawful possessor;-an outrage which only come o' them I never could hear. But,' con- troubles, or entangled wi' its briers. And the crew from the indulgent matron the well- tinued the old lady, suddenly interrupting her- very bits o' lassies!-Phemie Leslie, that ye known proverb about fules and chapping self amid these long-forgotten reminiscences, danced shantrense wi', and that nae mortal rks.Upon the rug, whose cross-stitch had you said ye were a friend o' puir Willie's. could look at without blessing the blythe blink employed for many years the patient fingers of Maybe ye can tell me whan or whar he died? To o' her ee, is a broken-hearted widow, and a Miss Nelly, reclined the lineal representative think that I dinna even ken whar the creature mourner for stately sons, aulder far than ye of a race of cats, whom she had taught even lies that I lo'ed as my ain son!' He was were when ye gaed to the wars, and said ye has to treat with deference; and last, not alive and well but lately,' said Buchanan, qui-wad come back and marry her! But, wae's least, in the solitary arm-chair, sacred, in vering with suppressed emotion, yet fearful of me,' added she, wiping her eyes, I've little earlier days, to the afternoon slumbers of her the effect of a discovery on a frame so delicate, need to tell you a' this, when I should be doing brother, sat the upright and wonderfully well- and a mind so unprepared. • God be praised!' my best to gie ye a cheery hame-coming! Dinpreserved figure of the old lady herself. She ejaculated his old friend; I'm blythe to hear na be cast down wi' the dowie cracks o' an e with apparent difficulty, on Buchanan's he's in the land o' the living. But will he hae auld body that's lived ower lang for her ain entrance; and with far greater difficulty, as forgotten us a', think ye? will he be grown gude. There's some in St. Rule's yet that will he hastened to prevent her, did he refrain rich, and proud, and cauld-hearted, that he never mind and welcome ye bravely, and there's sons from throwing himself at once into her arms. speirs after the folk he likit sae weel when he and daughters o' them ye were wont to love For Buchanan, where feeling was concerned, was a daft callant? Some o' us are awa to the and honour treading in their fathers' footsteps, was, in many respects, as much a boy as when kirkyard, and the rest grown auld, and frail, and and inheriting their kind hearts. Ye'll be nae be quitted the scene of his education. He had doited; but if Willie wasna sair changed- stranger here the morn, Willie, when they bad little intercourse with the world to blunt And sair changed he must be, when you hear wha's been wi' me.'" sensibilities; and to etiquette he was as can speak to him as a stranger,' exclaimed Bu- This scene of truth and pathos is sufficient rach a stranger as the wild tribes among chanan, moved beyond the power of dissem-voucher for the talents and success of the vom his life had been passed. Summoning bling by this pathetic appeal. He bent before author. Buchanan, however, desires for a has aid all the composure he could muster, her, and clasped her withered hand in his while to remain unknown; and, in the highbe briefly apologised for intruding on the Do you know this?' said he, guiding her aged wrought tone of mind to which this affecting good lady, to make inquiries respecting old finger to a scar, inflicted by a sunken rock interview has led, he seeks a lonely walk in the saintance at St. Rule's; which, without while wrestling with the billows for her darling ancient cathedral of St. Andrews. acknowledging it as the place of his education, brother's life, which his still smooth brow re- "He had but to lift a latch, and stoop beneath be mentioned having frequently visited in his tained. As well might you forget yon day of a low-browed door-way-which admitted more th. The simple words Ye wad ken my jeopardy and joy, as I the blessing you then frequently the dead than the living, and whose par brither?—I miss him sair'-drew from prayed for on my head. It has been elsewhere massy lintel, a relic of the tempest-tost invinBhanan a tribute of respect to the doctor's remembered, mother of my youth, and granted, cible Armada, made it but the more approBy: during which, his eye twinkled, and though but in part. I have been in peril, and priate entrance to a cemetery-to find himself slips faltered, to a degree which might have delivered-in poverty, and am now rich; but, once more on the scene of many a boyish extartled eyes and ears more acute than the good oh, you prayed that I might never want friends, ploit ; and a little farther on, in the now silent 'The doctor,' continued he, was and, alas! I am come home like a ghost from society of most of the instructors of his youth. ly beloved by all who knew him, and by the grave, and know not that I have a friend He was at no loss to discover the plain slab e so much as his former pupils, with one of in the world.' There was some danger of his which modestly recounted the unobtrusive virwhom I was very intimate in India. Do you having assisted to realise this melancholy pic- tues of Dr. X. for he remembered the ndert William Hamilton? Do I mind ture; for the thin figure of his aged friend niche in the long aisle where slumbered the ng Willie Hamilton ?' ejaculated the old lady, became rigid in his embrace, and the flush of remains of that early buried partner with a the fondest tone of reminiscence: I maun emotion gave place to a death-like paleness. whom he was probably now reunited on earth get mysell when I cease to mind the laddie She, however, retained such a firm grasp of his as in heaven; and while the moonbeams fell loed me better than his ain mither; hand, that he could scarce extricate himself to strongly and brightly on the still pure marble ngh, to be sure, that was na saying muckle, fly for water, which was fortunately in the of their mutual grave, Memory threw her no fer the was but a step-mither. But he was aye room; and when, after hastily swallowing a less powerful light on the tenor of their equally 1 tear weel-doin' laddie ;-he risked his life to little, speech and colour slowly returned, it was spotless life. Other revered names called forth pair brither out o' the deepest part o' evident that consciousness had never fled, from their heart-felt tribute. There reposed togeWitch Lake, and wared his first siller in the connected answer she returned to his sad ther, in placid stillness, the deep-read theolohes so buy me this braw shawl;-may my forebodings. Dinna say sae, my ain dear gian; the mild and persuasive pastor; the rehand forget its cunning, if I forget Willie Willie,' said she, gazing on him with unspeak- kind, though awful pedagogue; the warmAhop!—But,' suddenly lowering her voice, able tenderness, and trying to identify the em-hearted, hospitable matron; ay, and the wellw.ping her eyes, he maun be dead, puir browned and elderly stranger with the hand- remembered object of many a boyish prank, , for it's mony a year since ony ane could some stripling of her fond remembrance. the whist playing ancient maiden, whose ze a word about him. There's few that dinna say sae, and me sitting here. If I, that groaning Christmas tea-table seldom, howadded she, sighing, but frem'd folk like was an auld useless body when ye were a light-ever, failed to conciliate, at this joy-dispensing te for he was aye o'er gude for his ain kith hearted hafflins callant, am spared to bid ye period, the most mischievous urchin of the z. You mentioned his family,' said welcome hame again, why should ye no hae grammar school: even he, perhaps, had passed kanan, after a pause; do you know them o' your ain time o' life to take ye kindly at once from childhood's bright holiday to his va viving relations he has ? Troth I by the hand?' Have you forgotten, then, early rest, and slumbered placidly beside his say exactly. The braw madam that my earliest and best friend,' said Buchanan, native waters. While his competitors in the facher married spent a' the siller she how few, few indeed, I left to care for me, voyage of life struggled on, now buffetting the 6 adverse wave, now rising buoyant on its bosom !" We deem it unnecessary to add to these examples, in order to recommend this gentle and delightful volume to the welcome it deserves and will receive: it must please persons of every taste. As a variety, however, we subjoin, from the Day in Rome, an extract describing the celebrated pearl manufactory in that city. of Frankfort, and of the Committee of Censors Austria as it is; or Sketches of Continental at Mentz, have tamed these gentlemen in a way Courts. By an Eye-witness. Post 8vo. more galling to their feelings than even Napp. 228. London, 1828. Hurst, Chance, poleon's despotism. Half a day's ride brought and Co. us to Darmstadt, the capital of the third sove. THERE is much important matter for reflection reign's dominions. Among the curiosities we in this slight volume; though the writer is found a splendid theatre, an assembly of States, evidently imbued with so fierce a spirit of in the same form as that of Wurtemburgh, enmity against continental courts and sove-10,000 soldiers, who, in the true spirit of Hesreigns, that his testimony is often weakened sians, complain loudly of John Bull's being on by his intolerance. No story, however proble-friendly terms with Brother Jonathan, and of matical or improbable, which injures the cha- being thus deprived of every chance of having racter of any one who wears a crown, but their legs or arms shot off, in order to get halffinds in him a firm believer and a ready re- pay. Another half day's ride brought us to lator. He has a sceptrophobia upon him, and Frankfort, the seat of the German Diet. A runs a-muck from Paris to Vienna: still we good charger may carry his rider in an hour are not to disregard his statements, nor dis- through three sovereigns' dominions, viz.-the credit the general views which he takes of the Elector of Hesse Cassel, the Duke of Nassau, various countries through which his route lay. and the Prince Landgrave of Hesse Homburg. On the contrary, we find much of truth and A few traits, which we can state as authentic, force mixed with his credulousness upon certain are sufficient to give us such characteristic outpoints, and exaggerations upon others; and lines of these princes as may enable us to form many shrewd lessons, which it would be well, a competent opinion of them, and the respective both at home and abroad, to pause on and happiness enjoyed by their subjects. The Duke consider calmly. We wish they had been put of Nassau thought proper, in the true spirit of forward calmly. liberality, to grant to his people a constitution. In acknowledgment for this benefit, the loyal representatives presented him with the domains of the dukedom, the national property. He accepted of the gift, passed over to Vienna, and gambled them away in the course of three successive nights. The poor people lost their only resort for paying their taxes, and have now to pay their representatives who voted their property away, and 6000 soldiers, besides a civil list of 100,000%. to the princely family, from a country not much larger than London. His neighbour, the Elector of Hesse Cassel, is said to be the richest, but the most despotic, among the petty sovereigns of Germany and his country is a proof of it. He is indebted for his wealth to his grandfather and his father, two worthy men, than whom none of the Ger man princes better understood the rights of sovereignty. The former proved it by selling his loyal subjects, the latter by exercising that privilege which the German princes and nobles enjoyed of yore. He left, it is said, not less than seventy-four children,' -(a paternal government, at any rate). The author (a foreign noble, we are informed,) entered Germany by Baden; but his first anti-royal paroxysm comes on at Stutgardt, the capital of Wurtemburgh; and he bursts out— "I had intended to devote the evening, much of which remained before me, to a stroll beyond the walls, in the lone Campagna, which was alone wanting to complete my mental panorama; but on returning to my hotel, I found that business, trifling enough in itself, but important to my character as a true and loyal knight, would require my presence in an opposite and more ignoble quarter. I had been enjoined by my sister, and by one whose behests were perhaps still more imperative, to preserve and bring home a large quantity of the highly esteemed Roman pearls; and finding that the precious packet had not, as promised, made its appearance, and that my own servants and my laquais de place were both alike occupied in other indispensable arrangements, I resolved to be my own messenger, and to console myself for other privations by a glance at this manufacture, peculiar to Rome; the fish, somewhat resembling the sardine, whose produce gives it activity, being limited to the neighbouring coast. "A cold shudder seizes me when I think on I was not sorry to be led once more into a his late majesty, commonly called the fat king. quarter of the city which I had rarely trod; He was a great huntsman. In the year 1817, through streets spacious, and chiefly formed of during the dreadful famine, one of his deer and the deserted palaces before alluded to, adjoin. boar chases was held. Among the 4000 peasants ing to, nay, even within some of the most de- who were summoned from the Odenwald to atcayed of which, a population of the wretchedest tend as drivers, there was a poor sick man who description support existence, Heaven alone could not leave his bed. His only support was knows how! In one of these large waste his daughter, who, from the earnings of her buildings was the manufactory I sought; and spinning, supported the miserable existence of the number of persons whom I found employed her father. She dressed herself in her father's in its dilapidated apartments, threw some clothes, and went to attend the royal chase. light on the mystery I had just been endeavour- It lasted three days, during which time these ing to fathom. They were, of course, chiefly people were seen bivouacking in snow and cold. females, but differing as widely in person and The king heard of this disguise, laughed immanners as the nature of their occupations was moderately, and was very sorry not to have powerfully contrasted. In a sort of outer ves-known it sooner, as it would have been an tibule, some coarse Trasteverine Amazons, the excellent joke. When the maid returned to very originals from whom Pinelli must have her father's house, she found him starved. taken his frightfully accurate sketches of a she The king heard of this, but did nothing. "There is nothing," continues the author, fight in that privileged Rione, were character. During the same royal sport, a boar approached "more disgusting than these petty sovereigns, istically and congenially employed in extracting a peasant, when a chamberlain was just going who, by the grace of bowing and cringing to from piles of the half-decaying fish the mate- to dart his javelin at the ferocious animal. Napoleon, became independent; a' prerogative rial which communicates to the artificial pearl The peasant, to defend himself, used his cudgel, of which they make such use as might be exits truly natural lustre. Here, again, sat a and prostrated the beast. The disappointed pected from minds narrow as their territories. group of ordinary-looking women, mingled courtier now turned his javelin against the They now carry on a sort of petty warfare with with some meagre and emaciated men, busied peasant, and laid him with a blow dead at his their tolls and duties, in that modern style in forming the rude bead of alabaster, which, feet. As he was a favourite with the king, which ruins a people, not at once, but by decut while that substance is yet soft, is, when he came off with a fortnight's confinement. grees. They thus contrived to make of each properly rounded, coated over with the lustrous Though the present king is rather a better territory a little Japan, where nothing except fluid before mentioned. This pearl, though far sort of man, yet he is but little beloved. His home growth and home produce is allowed." superior in nature and durability to the com- travels through France, Italy, and Switzer- This, within the first dozen pages, will shew pound of wax and glass which the more vola- land, at the expense of his starving subjects, the temper of the writer; and, from his idiom, tile Parisian employs to deceive the eye, has and his vacillating policy, have changed the that he is a foreigner. At Heidelberg he tells, yet, especially when worn in any quantity, odium which they bore to the former into an in his own way, an anecdote of a more interthe disadvantage of such an overpowering indifference towards his successor. *esting kind. weight, that I never looked at my fair friends, A tour through this kingdom is of very little "When I passed through that place (he fainting in the dance under these very coveted interest. Miserable towns, with dunghills and says), the unfortunate ex-king of Sweden (Count and far-fetched trimmings, without thinking of mud-holes in the streets, houses, or rather Gustavson) alighted in the same hotel where I the fate of Tarpeia, when overwhelmed by the cabins, falling to pieces,still poorer villages, stopped. He had just left the stage-coach, desired reward of her treachery, not far from with huts, out of whose square-foot windows and entered the dining-room of the posthof, his this very fabbrica di perle." wretched and fretful faces are peeping;-these portmanteau under his arm, dressed plain and They are finally polished and freed from are the features which accompany the traveller rather poorly, and without a servant. The adhering impurities by the hands of female from Stuttgardt to Heidelberg. Here the room was crowded with passengers and stuartisans. country assumes a romantic aspect, rather dents; the conversation, though not noisy, yet more friendly and prosperous, owing to the lively. As soon as the ex-monarch entered, a exceeding fertility of the soil, and the Jew deep respectful silence ensued; the students students who spend their money in the latter left off smoking, and the gentleman who occuplace. 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