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In the present work she has chosen a subject, or rather a chain of connected subjects, well suited to her genius;-the Records of Woman flow delightfully from her muse. These poems are devoted to illustrate many instances of love, fidelity, misfortune, in which the hearts of the sex have led them to act distinguished parts. Honourable memorials of virtues which render them the blessings of this created world, and breathing descriptions of their passions and emotions, are to be found in every little tale. Some embrace historical facts, and others dwell on slighter incidents; but all tend to elevate the character of the dearest and most excellent portion of human nature. Of these we shall offer a few examples. The first Record is of the Lady Arabella Stuart, whose union with William Seymour, son of Lord Beauchamp, led to their imprisonment by James I. Their mutual love, and its fatal consequences, the attempt to escape, and the unfortunate recapture of the lady, are told in a touching style; and the piece concludes with still more affecting traits of lone sufferings, ending in the near view of death, which relieves the captive. Their earliest joys are thus narrated "We, that met and parted, Ever in dread of some dark watchful power, Won back to childhood's trust, and, fearless-hearted, Blent the glad fulness of our thoughts that hour, Ev'n like the mingling of sweet streams beneath Dim woven leaves, and midst the floating breath Of hidden forest flowers. 'Tis past!-I wake, A captive, and alone, and far from thee, The expectation of escape is equally poetical. "Sunset!--I tell each moment-from the skies The last red splendour floats along my wall, Like a king's banner!-Now it melts, it dies! I see one star-I hear-'twas not the call, Th' expected voice; my quick heart throbb'd too soon. I must keep vigil till yon rising moon Shower down less golden light. Beneath her beam Of summer-lands afar, where holy love, Under the vine, or in the citron-grove, May breathe from terror. Now the night grows deep, And silent as its clouds, and full of sleep. I bear my veins beat. Hark! a bell's slow chime. My heart strikes with it. Yet again-'tis time! SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1828. But, alas! after a pause in the song- Brothers long parted meet; fair children rise Ye are from dingle and fresh glade, ye flowers By some kind hand to cheer my dungeon sent; Hath murmur'd, and the rill. My soul grows faint Thou hast forsaken me! I feel, I know, Farewell! and yet once more, All this is most natural and pathetic; but we must pass to the still more tragical story of Gertrude von der Wart, whose devotedness to her husband on the rack has been related in prose in our Journal and other publications. "Her hands were clasp'd, her dark eyes raised, The breeze threw back her hair; Up to the fearful wheel she gazed All that she loved was there. The night was round her clear and cold, Its pale stars watching to behold The might of earthly love. And bid me not depart,' she cried, My Rudolph, say not so! This is no time to quit thy side; Peace, peace, I cannot go. PRICE 8d. Hath the world aught for me to fear The world! what means it?-mine is here- I have been with thee in thine hour Of glory and of bliss; Doubt not its memory's living power We have the blessed heaven in view, And were not these high words to flow But oh! with such a glazing eye, Thou, only thou shouldst speak! While she sat striving with despair And pouring her deep soul in prayer She wiped the death-damps from his brow, She spread her mantle o'er his breast, She had her meed-one smile in death- While ev'n as o'er a martyr's grave She knelt on that sad spot, From Edith, an American-wood tale, we shall quote only the conclusion, which has pleased us much by its mournful solemnity. "And she was passing from the woods away; The broken flower of England might not stay A rose whose root was death. The parting sigh He answer'd mournfully, that thou must go Thither I go. There will my sisters be, And the dead parents, lisping at whose knee My childhood's prayer was learn'd,-the Saviour's Father, and gentle mother !-ye have bound Thou'rt passing hence,' he sang, that warrior old, In sounds like those by plaintive waters roll'd. Thou'rt passing from the lake's green side, For the time of flowers, for the summer's pride, Thou'rt journeying to thy spirit's home, And we shall miss thy voice, my bird! A breeze that roves o'er stream and hill, Hath such sweet falls-yet caught we still But thou my bright one! thou shalt be The mossy grave thy tears have wet, The shadow from thy brow shall melt But where thine earthly smile hath dwelt, Dim will our cabin be, and lone, Yet hath thy step the pathway shewn And we will follow thee, our guide! And join that shining band; Thou'rt passing from the lake's green side Go to the better land!' The song had ceased-the listeners caught no breath, Nearly a third of the volume is given to miscellaneous productions, some of which have previously appeared in print. We, however, select the following, as affording adequate means of judging of the delightful author's various powers. "The Captive Knight. 'Twas a trumpet's pealing sound! And the knight look'd down from the Paynim's tower, And a Christian host, in its pride and power, Through the pass beneath him wound. Cease awhile, clarion! Clarion, wild and shrill, I knew 'twas a trumpet's note! And I see my brethren's lances gleam, I am here, with my heavy chain! And a host to its battle-plain! Cease awhile, clarion! Clarion, wild and shrill, Must I pine in my fetters here? With the wild wave's foam, and the free bird's flight, And the tall spears glancing on my sight, And the trumpet in mine ear? Cease awhile, clarion! Clarion, wild and shrill, They are gone! they have all pass'd by! Sound again, clarion! Clarion, pour thy blast! The Kaiser feasted in his hall, To the peals of minstrelsy: And many a gleam and sparkle came As it caught the glance of the torch's flame, Why fell there silence on the chord And suddenly, from that rich board, The strings were hush'd-the knights made way She led them e'en to the Kaiser's place, Till, with strange wonder, o'er his face Well may a mourning vest be mine, And where is he, thy brother, where? What! from their gentle eyes doth nought Well didst thou love him then, and he How is it that such things can be, As though they ne'er had been? Now must the tears of grief and shame And let them, let them there be pour'd! Thine own wrung heart, to love restored, Oh! death is mighty to make peace; So many an inward strife shall cease- His eye was dimm'd-the strong man shook And strain'd them to his breast. And eyes were wet, midst the brave that met Thou art no lingerer in monarch's hall, I look'd on the mountains-a vapour lay I look'd on the peasant's lowly cot- Thou tak'st through the dim church-isle thy way, And thou turnest not from the humblest grave, Mexico in 1827. By H. G. Ward, Esq., his Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in that Country during the Years 1825, 1826, and part of 1827. 2 vols. 8vo. London. H. Colburn. ENJOYING, both from official station and long residence, the best opportunities for becoming fully acquainted with the state of Mexico, Mr. Ward has here turned these advantages to the most profitable account, and produced a sterling work upon a subject of great and grow. ing interest. But, unluckily for us, in the first instance, the very merits and elaborate nature of his work prevent us from doing it justice, at the hasty glance we are able to take previous to this week's publication. Indeed, we can only say, we have seen enough of it to be satisfied with its features of particular attraction and general importance. The first volume furnishes an excellent history of the revolution in Mexico; and Mr. Ward explains his object very accurately in the preface. "I have (he says) conceived that it ought to be my object to combine as much information as possible in my present work, and thus to render it independent of those which have preceded it, by entering into details, a knowledge of which could not have been derived from other sources, without a perpetual and harassing reference to authorities, many of which are not within the reach of the public in general. For instance, in addition to the Essai Politique of Baron Humboldt, to which I have expressed my obligations in another place, I have drawn largely from the Español; whose eloquent author, Mr. Blanco White, has embodied not only the most curious collection of state papers now extant, with regard to the period at which the tendency towards independence first began to appear in the Spanish colonies, but a mass of reflections upon American affairs, so moderate, so judicious, and so admirably adapted to the circumstances of the times, that, had his counsels been listened to by the contending parties, no small portion of the calamities which have since befallen them might have been averted. I have likewise made free use, in my sketch of the revolution, of the Cuadro Historico of Don Carlos Bustamante, as well as of Robinson, Brackenbridge, and a number of other works published in the United States, and but little read in England, from each of which I have taken whatever my own observations pointed out as correct. The whole will, I think, be found to indicate with sufficient clearness the causes of the American revolution; and these, again, are the best guarantee for its stability.' On the question of the mines, Mr. W. is even more sanguine than Captain Lyon, and his authority is of the greatest weight. He states: "I never have possessed a single mining share; yet, from circumstances stated in the body of my work, I have, perhaps, seen more of the mines of New Spain, and am in possession of more data with regard to their former produce, than the majority of those whose fortunes depend upon the present attempt to work them by foreign capital. With regard to my opinion of their present prospects, the public is now in possession of the data upon which it is formed, and may rectify any errors into which I may inConvinced advertently have been betrayed. that publicity ought to be desired by all the mining companies, as the only security against those suspicions by which their credit has been so frequently shaken, I have laid before the world, without reserve, the whole of the information now in my possession respecting them, together with my own observations upon But we must, for the present, decline all the graver considerations, in order to exemplify the work by a few traits of the revolution." · the mode in which their affairs have been di- not surprising, therefore, that they should have when the firing became hot. He succeeded, rected. The result will, I trust, be to produce engrafted upon the stern despotism under which however, in gaining time, which was his great an impression that these great undertakings they were brought up, the wildest theories of object, nor did the royalists venture to advance have been, in many instances, ably, in all, the French school; nor that their ardour in the upon him, until only one man was left by his honestly conducted; that, if errors have been cause of liberty should have cooled, amidst the side. He was then taken prisoner, for he had committed, they are errors which it was ex-many evils which these theories brought upon sought death in vain during the action. There tremely difficult to avoid; and that, although them. They soon learnt that tyranny was can be little doubt that his late reverses had the investments are large, the magnitude of the not, as they had fondly supposed, an heir-loom inspired him with a disgust for life, and that object (demonstrated by records of a very recent in the family of the kings of Spain; but might he wished to end his days by a proof of devotion date) bears a fair proportion to the magnitude be exercised, just as effectually, in the name of to his country worthy of the most brilliant part of the stake." the sovereign people, by any man, or set of of his former career. Morelos was treated with men, to whom that people was supposed to have the greatest brutality by the Spanish soldiers delegated its authority; and, in their despair into whose hands he first fell. They stripped at not being able to fix, at once, a balance of him, and conducted him, loaded with chains, to “Scattered over a vast continent, separated power, many would almost have purchased Tesmalaca. But Concha (to his honour be it by impenetrable wildernesses, or by chains of tranquillity, by submitting again to that yoke said), on his prisoner being presented to him, mountains still more impassable, and kept pur- to which time had lent its sanction, and given received him with all the marks of respect due posely, under the old system, in a state of igno- respectability. to a fallen enemy, and treated him with unrance with respect to each other, the New States "The years 1812 and 1813 were distin- wonted humanity and attention. He was commenced their contest for freedom without guished by the victories gained by Don Nicolas transferred, with as little delay as possible, to the advantage of any previous combination or Bravo and Matamoros, at the Pălmār, and by the capital, and the whole population of Mexico concert. Even at the present day, the natives the defence of the mountain of Coscomatěpēc. flocked out to San Agustin de las Cuevas, to see of Mexico and Chilé,—of Buenos Ayres and In the first of these actions, Bravo defeated (and some to insult) the man whose name had Bogota,-know as little of each other as the Don Juan Lăbăqui, the commandant of the so long been their terror. But Morelos, both Neapolitan peasant and the Lapland boor; and, regiment of the patriots of Veracruz, at the on his way to prison and while in confinement, in most cases, England would present the only head of a strong detachment. The engage- is said to have shewn a coolness which he premedium of communication between them.ment lasted three days, when the village in served to the last. Indeed, the only thing that At the commencement of the revolution their which the Spaniards had taken refuge was seemed to affect him at all was his degradation; estrangement was still greater, and it may be carried by storm (20th August, 1812). Three a ceremony humiliating in itself, but rendered questioned whether the fact of the existence of hundred prisoners, taken upon this occasion, doubly so, in his case, by the publicity which some of the new states was at all generally were placed by Morelos at the disposal of Bravo, was given to it. His examination, which was known to the rest. With each other's re- who offered them to the Viceroy Venegas, in conducted by the Oidor Bătăller (whose insosources, and means of defence, they certainly exchange for his father, Don Leonardo Bravo, lent assertion of the natural superiority of the had no acquaintance. Each, therefore, indi- who was then under sentence of death in the Spaniards to the Creoles, is said first to have vidually, pursued its object, unconnected with prisons of the capital. The offer was rejected, roused Morelos into action), was not of long the rest; and each was obliged to cope, singly, and the sentence against Don Leonardo ordered duration. On the 22d of December, 1815, with whatever force Spain could bring to bear to be carried into immediate execution. His Concha was charged to remove him from the against it. In addition to this, they had in- son, in lieu of making reprisals by the massacre prisons of the Inquisition, to the hospital of ternal, as well as external, enemies to contend of his prisoners, instantly set them all at liberty, San Christoval, behind which the sentence prowith; the old Spaniards (known in the annals wishing' (as he said) to put it out of his nounced against him was to be carried into of the revolution by the names of Gachupines, own power to avenge on them the death of his execution. On arriving there, he dined in Godos, Patriotas, and various other designa- parent, lest in the first moment of grief, the company with Concha, whom he afterwards tions.) distributed throughout the possessions temptation should prove irresistible!' So noble embraced, and thanked for all his kindness. of Ultramar,-wealthy, powerful, and con- a trait requires no comment." He then confessed himself, and afterwards nected by intermarriages with the most influ walked, with the most perfect serenity, to the ential families amongst the Creoles themselves, place of execution. The short prayer which he —were a check to all their operations. Where pronounced there, deserves to be recorded for they did not openly oppose, they sowed the "The Spaniards conceiving the forces of its affecting simplicity. 'Lord, if I have done seeds of discord amongst the leaders of the in- Morelos to be much more considerable than well, thou knowest it; if ill, to thy infinite dependent cause: while, from their intimate they really were, did not venture to attack him mercy I commend my soul!' After this appeal acquaintance with the resources of the country, until he had penetrated as far as Tesmălăcă, to the Supreme Judge, he fastened with his they were enabled, both by their counsels and where the Indians, though they received him own hands a handkerchief about his eyes, gave the liberality of their donations, to render the with great apparent hospitality, conveyed in- the signal to the soldiers to fire, and met death most essential services to the royalist generals. telligence, both of the real number of his fol- with as much composure as he had ever shewn Nor was this all: the first movements of the lowers, and of their wretched state, to Don when facing it on the field of battle." insurgents had indeed been eminently success- Manuel Concha, the nearest Spanish comfal; and (as we have already seen), with the mandant, who determined to attack the convoy exception of Mexico, a single year had sufficed the next day. Morelos, who fancied himself to wrest from the hands of the Europeans the in security, as he was now beyond the enemy's "It was his practice to keep but a small authority of which they had so long been the line, was surprised on the following morning body of men about his person, and only to sole depositaries. But this was the only point (5th of November, 1815) by two parties of collect his force upon great occasions: a mode apon which any sort of unanimity prevailed royalists, who came upon him unperceived, in a of warfare well suited to the wild habits of the amongst the Creoles. Left to themselves, they mountainous part of the road. He immediately natives, and, at the same time, calculated to knew not how to dispose of the power which ordered Don Nicolas Bravo to continue his baffle all pursuit. The instant a blow was they had so unexpectedly acquired, and it be- march with the main body, as an escort to the struck, a general dispersion followed in the came the apple of discord amongst all who had Congress, while he himself, with a few men, event of a failure, a rendezvous was fixed for any pretensions to a share of it. They were endeavoured to check the advance of the some distant point; and thus losses were often totally inexperienced in the science of govern- Spaniards. My life (he said) is of little con- repaired, before it was known in the capital ment, and had no good model to follow: it is sequence, provided the Congress be saved. My that they had been sustained at all. Nor were "A letter from Buenos Ayres to Mexico would be race was run from the moment that I saw an Victoria's exploits confined to this desultory sent by the double line of packets now established be-independent government established.' His warfare: in 1815 he detained a convoy of tween London and Rio de la Plata, and London and orders were obeyed, and Morelos remained with 6000 mules, escorted by 2000 men, under the Veracruz. And although there may be, once or twice in about fifty men, most of whom abandoned him command of Colonel Aguila, at Puente del Rey, (a pass, the natural strength of which the inthe public documents of the Revolution, the intolerance, surgents had increased by placing artillery upon and jealousy of strangers, which are only now beginning the heights by which it is commanded,) nor to subside." It is melancholy to reflect, how soon the Americans did it reach Veracruz for upwards of six to distrust the bewitching terms of patriotism and public nel of communication with Europe open, inwere initiated in all the cant of revolutions, and taught months. The necessity of keeping the chan felicity, under the sanction of which they found themselves a prey to private ambition, anarchy, and distress," duced Calleja, in December 1815, to intrust the year, a direct intercourse between Mexico and Peru, or Ché, by the Pacific, letters, at all other times, would be forwarded by the English mail." Spain was their only model, and to her most of their errors may be traced. The want of fixed principles, the preference of theory to practice, the dilatory habits of towards impracticable reforms at another, all are of the those in power at one time, and their ill-judged strides modern Spanish school; as are the bombastical addresses to the people, the turgid style which disfigures most of Morelos (one of the bravest and, for a while, most successful of the independent leaders) was at last taken prisoner. The adventures of Victoria, another leader in the same cause, are altogether unequalled in the history of human sufferings. |