interviews with Augustus at the dance, they Our Village. By Mary Russel Mitford. Vol. III. 12mo. Whittaker. the clear bright eyes, and red lips and shining curly hair, giving such an assurance of health Contrast. By Regina Maria Roche, Author of the "Children of the Abbey," &c. 3 vols. and strength? And do you not recollect how 12mo. London, 1828. Newman and Co. the bounding foot, and the gay young voice, and the merry musical laugh, seemed to fill the WRITTEN under the pressure of altered cirhouse and the court with her own quick and cumstances, in ill health, which made the nejoyous spirit, as she darted about in her inno- cessity of exertion doubly painful,-by an old cent play or her small housewifery, so lively favourite, over whose pages many a young and and so vigorous, so lovely and so beloved? Do pleasant hour has been past, these volumes you not remember, too, how when we stopped come forth with no common appeal to the to speak to her at that ever-open door, the sympathy of the reader; and a most respectwhole ample kitchen was strewed with her able list of subscribers shews that such appeal little property, so that you used to liken it to a has not been made in vain. But, setting even great baby-house? Here her kitten, there her these considerations aside, the book itself well doll; on one chair an old copy-book, on an- deserves patronage. A very entertaining tale other a new sash; her work and needle-book inculcates the purest morality; and the two and scissors and thimble put neatly away on heroines relieve and heighten each other. her own little table; her straw hat, orna- Our limits will not permit us to analyse the mented with a tuft of feathery grasses or a story; indeed, we should be sorry to break in garland of woodbine, hanging carelessly against upon the interest of the narrative; but one or the wall; and pots of flowers of all sorts, of the two passages will serve to give an idea of the garden and the field, from the earliest bud to style. The following is the scene which introthe latest blossom, ranged in the window, on duces one of these heroines :the dresser, on the mantel-shelf, wherever a "The city, with its intervening plain, was jug could find room. Every thing spoke of completely hidden from his view by the wild, Lizzy, her mother's comfort, her father's de-luxuriant thickets of aloes and Indian fig that light, the charm and life of the house; and overran the unequal surface of the ground, WE dwell upon Miss Mitford's delightful little every body loved to hear and see so fair a spe- intermingled with oleander and palmetto, survolume with much the same feeling that makes cimen of healthful and happy childhood. It mounted by lofty beech and chestnut again clad us linger in the Water-Colour Exhibition;-both did one's heart good to pass that open door. in spring's green livery, while as yet hardly a alike present the same series of fresh, green, But the door is closed now, always closed; and tender bud in colder climates marked the glad animated pictures of nature. Our readers will the father, a hale and comely man, of middle return of the genial season. He went on, lookbe glad to see so many old favourites, collected age, is become all at once old and bent and ing about him for some place at which he might from various periodical repositories, in a less broken; and the smiling, placid mother looks inquire his way, when he suddenly found himscattered form another claimant for the espe- as if she would never smile again. Nothing self on the edge of a deep rift or glen in the cially-pet shelf in the bookcase. But this very has been displaced in that sad and silent dwell- very heart of the mountain, at the opposite merit to others, makes it a difficult task for ing. The straw hat, with its faded garland, extremity of which stood a very ancient, solione journal to select from what has already still hangs against the wall; the work is folded tary-looking building, with the green summit been so popular in the pages of many others. on the little table, with the small thimble upon of the steep acclivity on which it was erected The introduction is, however, quite new; and it, as if just laid down; jars of withered appearing above it, casting a soft shadow on we cannot do better than see how "Our Vil- flowers crowd the mantel and the window; — the nether scene. Here De Montville thought lage" goes on. but the light hath departed; the living flower he might obtain the direction he required, and Any changes in our village since the last is gone; poor Lizzy is dead! Are you not accordingly, throwing the bridle of his horse advices? What news of May, and Lizzy, and sorry for poor, poor Lizzy? But this is too over the arm of a tree, he descended into the Fanny, and Lucy? Is the pretty nymph of mournful a subject: :-we must talk now of glen, but did not advance without frequently the shoe-shop married yet? And does the the Loddon, the beautiful Loddon-yes, it pausing to admire the profusion of glowing Loddon continue to flow as brightly as when still flows; ay, and still overflows, according flowers with which it was enamelled, sending we gathered musk roses together in the old to its naughty custom. Only last winter it forth a cloud of fragrance as his foot carelessly grounds of Aberleigh? filled our meadows like a lake; rushed over pressed them, and the sunbeams playing in the "You used to say, and there was too much our mill-dams like a cataract, and played such wild eddies of a beautiful stream that meantruth in the assertion, that for pigs, geese, and pranks with the old arch at York-pool, that dered through the verdant turf, uniting its children, and their concomitants, dirt and noise, people were fain to boat it betwixt here and soft murmurs to the still softer ones of the this pretty place was unrivalled. But then Aberleigh; and the bridge having been de- Sicilian dove. As he drew near the building, you were here when the two first evils were at nounced as dangerous in summer, and impas- he perceived it was in a very ruinous state, their height, in June and July. At present, sable in winter, is like to cause a dispute and altogether had such an aspect of decay and the geese have felt the stroke of Michaelmas, between those two grand abstractions, the desolation, as inclined him to fear he had inand are fatted and thinned; pigs too have di- parish and the county, each of which wishes curred his present trouble to no purpose. Deminished; though as the children are propor- to turn the cost of rebuilding on the other. termined, however, to ascertain whether it was tionably increased, we are not much better off By their own account, they are two of the untenanted, as he had such reason to imagine in point of cleanliness, and much worse in poorest personages in his majesty's dominions; from its appearance and the profound stillness regard to noise:-a pig being, except just full of debt and difficulty, and exceedingly that reigned around, he knocked loudly at the whea ringing or killing, a tolerably silent ani- likely to go to law on the case, by way of old portal; but no answer was returned, and mal; and a goose, in spite of the old Roman amending their condition. The pretty naughty after repeating the knock several times, he story, only vociferous by fits and starts; where- river! There it flows bright and clear, as when became confirmed in his surmise of its deseras, little boys and little girls at least, the lit- we walked by its banks to the old house at tion. By this time there was a curiosity awatle boys and little girls hereabout-seem to me Aberleigh, looking as innocent and uncon- kened to view the interior, and he went reconon the full cry, or the full shout, from sunrise to scious as if its victim, the bridge, had not been noitring about to try if he could discover any sunset. Even the dinner hour, that putter indicted - No-that's not the word! -pre- way of entering, conceiving there could be no down of din in most civilised countries, makes sented at the quarter sessions; as if a worship-great impropriety in intruding into a place that no pause amongst our small people. The night- ful committee were not sitting to inquire into was abandoned. At length his diligent scruingale, who sings all day and all night to solace its malversations; and an ancient and well-re- tiny discovered to him, within a deep niche or his brooding mate, is but a type of their un-puted parish and a respectable midland county recess in one of the old towers that flanked the wearying power of voice. His sweet harmony portal, a small door that with very little diffidoth find intervals; their discord hath none. culty yielded to his hand, and admitted him "Lizzy! Alas! alas! you ask for Lizzy!— into a spacious court, surrounded by the buildDo you remember how surely at the closed gate ing. Here all was silent as the grave all of the flower-court, or through the open door of evinced the melancholy omnipotence of Time ; her father's neat dwelling, we used to see the the fine entablatures of the marble colonnade smiling rosy face, so full of life and glee; the that ran round it were mutilated and defaced; square sturdy form, strong and active as a boy; the fountain, that had once diffused an agree. going together by the ears in consequence of its Perhaps the best praise for Vol. III. is to state, that it is quite equal to its predecessors; and that is saying a great deal. able freshness through the place, no longer played; its basin was covered with slime and weeds; and the waving of some tall cypresses added, if possible, to the mournful aspect of the place. De Montville looked and listened, to try if he could see or hear any indication of an inhabitant; but nothing of the kind met either eye or ear, and he ventured to advance into another cloistered court, thickly planted with orange, lemon, and citron, and containing in the centre a capacious marble basin of limpid water. The heat was by this time intense, and to obtain a temporary refuge from it, he sat down upon the step of the colonnade, refreshed by the cool look of the water, and the diversified tints and balmy fragrance of the agrumi. As his eye wandered, he every where beheld evidences of decay and desertion, in shattered windows, and mouldering turrets hung with streaming grass. A sensation of melancholy was impressed upon his mind, and he gradually sunk into a fit of musing, from which he was suddenly roused by the low creaking of a door, at the end of the colonnade under which he had taken shelter; but whe ther through the influence of the air or the this bed? was he who, but a few days ago, was city to another; but rather extract here and Italy as it is; or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence for Three Years in that movement of a hand, he could not of course decide. Keeping his eye fixed, he saw it in Country. By the Author of "Four Years the course of a few minutes gradually open, in France." 8vo. pp. 441. Colburn, 1828. and a female, of an elegant form, issue from it, WE take some blame to ourselves for not her head shrouded in the antique veil of the having earlier noticed this work. Its subject Sicilian women. She advanced with not merely (notwithstanding the title) is not, however, a cautious, but fearful air, and, with her looks of a temporary nature. Italy is almost of all vation to the English traveller or resident." directed to the other side of the court, was within time, and has been treated of by poets and Without stopping to remark on the ima few paces of De Montville, when his sudden, historians, by monks and warriors, by mer-proper flippancy with which our converted friend perhaps involuntary, rising at her approach, chants and travellers, in prose, in verse, in mentions Henry, Edward, and Elizabeth, or betrayed him to her: she started back, her letters, in notes, in diaries, in sketches-in the complacent silence in which he passes over veil at the same instant escaped from her hand, short, in every possible division of literature; Mary of sanguinary memory, we will proceed and her face revealed to his view, he beheld one till it is (or ought to be) nearly as well known to his remarks on servants. of surpassing beauty." in the precincts of Grosvenor Square, as upon Mount Aventine itself. St. Peter's and the Vatican are "familiar in our mouths as household words;" the Pontine Marshes common as the Lincolnshire Fens; the Via Appia nearly as much trodden by the English as the York Road; and the Cascades of Terni and Tivoli absolutely better known than the solitary Fountain which we boast in the Middle Temple Gardens. We must also introduce her fair companion Helena, whose fortunes make the detail of the other pages. "In a villa it was necessary to have a kitchen, as the town and its means and appliances for dining were half a mile off. We changed our cook three times in four months "She wished to visit the grave of her parents at Leghorn. The first took snuff; the second before her departure, and one gloomy evening required that a little boy, only fourteen years bent her steps in the direction of the lonely old, should be invited daily to eat her dinner road the funeral of her father had so lately for her, as she had no appetite herself; the marked. An ancient tomb covered the sepulthird bought the refuse of the market, in every chre of the family. With difficulty she made sort of viand-and this, as the price accorded her way to it, so unequal was the surface of The author of the present volume (Mr. not with the quality, I considered as a symptom the ground, and completely choked up every Best), whose former work and conversion we of dishonesty: he delighted, moreover, in that path with danky weeds. Nothing indeed could noticed in our volume for 1826 (pp. 482-501), excitement of ideas for which wine is so much be more wild, or waste, or desolate, than was professes to strike out a new course for his commended by the poets. On these two points the aspect of the place, lying open as it was to literary labours, observing, that the narrative I endeavoured to descant in a way that, as I every intrusive foot, and belonging to one of of a residence in a foreign country will differ thought, might edify him, as a persuasive to those numerous dilapidated churches that are from a tour;-the tourist may see and observe, an honest and sober life. I reminded him that scattered over Ireland. Every thing here spoke the resident will reflect and compare. The we must all appear before the great judgmentof mortality and the effects of time; white narrative of the residence of a family will seat: he answered, instead of trembling and bleached bones were scattered about, while differ from that of the residence of an indi- putting off the conversation to a more convemany of the graves were tenantless, from their vidual. The one records the impressions made nient season,' Chi lo sa? (Who knows that?) great antiquity and long exposure to the piercing on himself; the members of a family commu. This confounded me, and entirely altered the winds, and plashing rains, and melting snows, nicate to each other in conversation the varied theological state of the question. He is the of revolving ages. If the strongest minds can- and multiplied impressions which each seve-only example of drunkenness and infidelity that not always successfully struggle against the rally receives and he mentions some other I have met with, in his condition of life, in chilling emotions, the awful sensations, excited distinctive qualities which ought. to exist be- France or Italy. Of the higher orders, it is by a visit to mortality, how much less could it tween the mere passer-by and the sojourner. superfluous to say, because it is so well known, be expected that one that had never yet given These principles are good; but the promise is that in the use of wine they seldom proceed itself time for deep reflection, could do so? hardly fulfilled in the execution. We have even to exhilaration: of their religious belief, Helena shuddered and wept; and while a feel- still the usual description of the places of I may speak hereafter. One of the great ining of chill dismay would have hurried her which we have been accustomed to read; we conveniences of sojourning abroad with a fafrom the spot, she was still detained by the hear of the same statues which have so long mily, is the difficulty of procuring good serthought, that he so lately loved and honoured, enchanted the world; of the pictures cele- vants. I have been assured that two footmen the life and ornament of the social circle, was brated throughout Europe; and of the cathedrals were taken away from behind a foreigner's now reposing within a few yards of her. She and palaces which have already furnished food carriage at Florence, for some cause which had sat down beside the old tomb of the family, just for many a goodly quarto to descant upon. attracted the notice of the police. The very where a solitary tree threw the shadow of its refuse of domestics offer themselves to those skeleton arms upon the marble, and sought to who have but scanty means of knowing their look within the grating that had so lately characters, or are perhaps indifferent about opened to admit the remains of her father to them. A good servant will not displace himtheir destined bed: and was the cold wet earth self to enter a foreign family, on the stability Nevertheless, though Mr. Best does not quite We shall not follow him from one Italian tenure." decide, of the blood of St. Januarius. Kneel-were disembarked in France, and had assem- Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, of whose residence he cannot depend; and the English, having the reputation of spoiling their servants by carelessness and high wages, he avoids their service as likely to be an objection to his being received afterwards by one of his own country. In Italian families, the servants are numerous, and receive but low wages; but a service is, in some sort, an establishment for life. Many of them are married, and, attending during a portion of the day only at their mas ter's house, exercise some additional means of "He then determined to employ severe gaining a livelihood; a pension, too, is geneEven Mr. Best cannot refrain now and then had an inconceivable tact for judging when measures to elicit truth from darkness. He rally allotted to them in their old age. This easy mode of life, with the prospect towards from a good story at the expense of a saint. he was upon a volcano, and for laying the close of it, they would not barter even for He tells us there is one named Agricol, of his finger on the precise spot where any high wages, with constant work and uncertain Avignon, who is said to be very efficacious in thing was to be discovered. Since he had procuring rain for his devotees whenever re- been at the head of the government, trials With Mr. Best's religion we have certainly quested. In a time of drought, the clergy of by council of war had been extremely rare; nothing to do, farther than he has chosen to that diocese waited on their bishop, to propose he had even entertained the intention of display his feelings on the subject in the publica- that the image of the saint should be carried suppressing them, excepting in cases of mition before us; which, unfortunately, he does through the streets in procession, with prayers litary discipline. There were, nevertheless, for rain. The bishop went to look at his in the prisons several persons detained by the but too often. A querulousness and soreness betray themselves incessantly, which to us seem barometer, and seeing the top of the mercury police as spies, or charged with political machiutterly inconsistent with the meek and quiet to be quite spherical, said, "Messieurs, ne nations; and they were not ordered for trial, spirit of the Christian faith. He is, as our compromettons pas le credit du saint: attend- because the First Consul said that the time This is very good, but perhaps not would come when no farther importance could readers may recollect, a Roman Catholic; who, having formerly been of the English established better than the Irish pastor, who professed to be attached to those intrigues, and they might religion, has chosen to renounce his faith (for have a similar power over the weather, and then be set at liberty. On this occasion he dereasons which appeared to us but little satisfac-who, when applied to by one of his flock for sired to be shewn the list of all those persons, tory), and was received into the bosom of the a shower of rain, told him he should be happy with the date of their apprehension, and notes to oblige him, but he had had several previous of their different anterior circumstances. Among Romish church. However, on this subject we can have no cause of complaint: his creed is applications for dry weather; and as it would them was a man named Picot, and another his own; but it is exceeding painful to see be impossible for him to disoblige any of his named Le Bourgeois, who had been apprea sensible man omitting no opportunity of congregation, he was under the necessity of hended a year before at Port Audemer in Norshewing his chagrin that our Protestant belief declining to interfere. mandy, as coming from England: on their We quit this subject, which is the chief departure from London, a description of their still flourishes; nor hardly less so, to find him endeavouring to gloss over the miserable relics cause for censure in this work; and but that persons had been given by an agent whom the and miracles with which Italy abounds, and the feeling against the Protestant faith is ob-police kept there, and who had learned from trying to persuade his readers, at any rate, of trusive, and displayed continually on occasions themselves the atrocious design with which the utility, if not of the infallibility, of these when it is totally uncalled for, we should have they were going to France, and which was -legends. refrained from noticing it. As an account of nothing less than to assassinate the First ConItaly, the book is amusing, and may be plea-sul. The government had hitherto contented santly and usefully consulted. : The cathedral of Turin is well deserving of attention, at least as much so as the chapel situated between it and the king's palace;a chapel much visited by Protestants, because in it is kept the 'holy napkin' (sindone santo). This relic is shewn only on an appointed day yearly at other times, it may be exhibited on especial application, a mass being said on the occasion. It is not to be supposed that Protestants ever become applicants for a view to which such a condition is annexed; but they go into this chapel for the sake of saying in their tour!' something about relics, as the colonel put sticking-plaster on his shoulder, that he might in his despatches report himself wounded. Fortunately for the mockers, there is somewhere in Flanders another holy napkin' it follows, therefore, that no veneration is to be paid to relics, and that popery is a cheat throughout. Q. E. D." ons." Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo. [Second Paper conclusion.] itself with keeping them in prison. The First Consul directed that they and three others should be tried: they were brought before a commission.. The first-mentioned two maniLE GLOBE, Parisian journal, of May 31st, fested an obstinacy that was not expected; they remarks very justly upon this publication, that refused to answer, and were condemned and it hardly extends our knowledge one iota be-shot without making the slightest confession. yond what we had already learned from M. They seemed even determined to defy authoSavary's Extrait, which appeared in 1823; rity; and perished, declaring that it would and that instead of affording us revelations, not survive the war. This bravado diminished such as the ancien ministère of the police the painful impression which an execution could abundantly divulge, it baulks curiosity always produces. Not a single step had been by reiterating the oft-repeated stories of French gained." victories and conquests, marching from the This military murder of two unfortunate Rhine to the Nile, from Egypt to Marengo, men, who had lain a year in prison without and from Marengo to Austerlitz and Jena. notice, because of the unimportance of their But the writer's object was not to inform, but intrigues (or imputed intrigues), was, indeed, to mystify; not to tell the truth, but to shift a fit prelude to the higher catastrophe which the responsibility and ignominy of crime from was about to ensue. Querel, another prisoner, This is idle, at least. The napkin cannot tell his own and his master's shoulders upon any was picked out from the miserable list of the for much as a relic; and the sample of reason-other shoulders he could devise most likely to suspected, and condemned to die: in order to ing might just as well have concluded thus:- bear them. Thus Bernadotte (the King of save himself, he accused Cadonal and some "It follows, therefore, that every possible Sweden), Talleyrand, Fouché, Baron Dalberg, twenty more, and indicated where other parveneration is to be paid to relics, and that &c. are all conspirators, traitors, and blood-ties coming to join them in Paris, were at this popery is proved to be the true religion in thirsters, without any peculiar objects of their period disembarking at Biville, near Dieppe. every respect. Q. E. D." own to gratify, but simply to promote views The subservient Savary was instantly dewhich we can very readily perceive tended to spatched on a business which seems to have augment the power, and apparently rivet the been particularly suited to his disposition, "Of the churches of Naples, five or six stability, of Buonaparte. A coup d'œil over namely, to watch for, entrap, and betray principal ones were indicated as especially the statements respecting the murder of the for sacrifice, the victims of whom he had thus worthy of being visited. The churches, gene- Duke d'Enghien (the most interesting portion got scent: and he says, with ineffable coolness; rally speaking, are handsome. The cathedral of this volume), will perhaps shew in the" I took young Troche" (a wretched accomis a very venerable pile; three great churches clearest manner the villany and ruthlessness plice, who had been terrified into the cowardly are united by a vast nave. In the eastern of the actors in that infamous tragedy. act of betraying his associates)" along with me, church are the much-spoken-of busts of the In a mission into La Vendée, M. Savary because the party would not have landed untwelve Apostles in silver: in the transept on acted the part of a most accomplished spy and less it had perceived him on the shore. On the right hand is the precious treasure, or informer, and discovered some clue to the mo- the road he related his adventures to me with precious trickery, as faith or incredulity may tions of George Cadoual and his associates, who the utmost frankness. He had but just dis Read, too, his account of the famous liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius. SIGHTS OF BOOKS. covered that he had been employed in intrigues | falsehood to shift the odium of this atrocious tell him the news" of the former's having which might have brought him to the scaffold; deed off its real perpetrators and those who had strangled himself "this is a pretty end for and he shewed as much zeal in laying a snare advantages to expect from it: and every word the conqueror of Holland" or the no less for those who were coming, as he could have he utters only convicts him and his party of strange remark of M. Real when he and Savary done to serve those who had already passed." perfidy and baseness which may well be desig- went in to see the corpse of the suicide:Language and sentiments of more utter nated infernal. "Well, though nothing was ever more clearly baseness could not disgrace the character of the "Means were dexterously contrived to con- proved than this suicide, yet, in spite of all we vilest hangman; yet they are the boast of a vict General Moreau of having seen Pichegru:" can do, it will be said, that because he could Duke of France, and one of the most exalted but Moreau was too powerful to be safely dis- not he convicted, he has been strangled:"-on favourites and adherents of Napoleon. The posed of (though the jury was suppressed on the remarkable attachment of the gendarmes fellow hid himself like a common thief-taker, the occasion), and he escaped the scaffold and (who alone could enter the Temple) to their and watched for eight-and-twenty days and the equally sure prison-room, where Pichegru virtuous commander, Savary :t-or on the pronights; but was foiled in his honourable aim, strangled himself, and where Captain Wright bable story, that Captain Wright "cut his and obliged to return to Paris without snaring also fell by his own hand!! To absolve Buo- throat in despair, after reading the account a single person. One chuckles at the disap- naparte and himself, and other ready satellites, of the capitulation of the Austrian general, pointment of such a blood-hound. However, from the guilt of these foul transactions, M. Mack." as nobody could be caught on the coast, it was Savary has the hardihood to assert the mon- But this work hardly deserves even the thought the more expedient to pour out the strous lie, page 48, that "He (Napoleon) was consideration we have bestowed on it. Upon full measure of vengeance upon the plotters in ignorant of the existence of the Duke d'En- every unprejudiced mind it must produce conParis George Cadoual and his friends, who, ghien”—“ the duke was described to him as the viction entirely opposite to what the writer it seems, had got together for the purpose of head of George's party: he consented to his intended; and also prove himself to be undespatching Napoleon, but had remained six seizure." Innocent Lamb!" It has also worthy of credit-a tool and a ruffian. months in the capital without attempting to (says his experienced apologist) been asserted, strike a blow!! Moreau was arrested, and that the First Consul had a direct personal inall France was inflamed with the story of a terest in ridding himself of a prince whom he A Letter on the Present State of the Affairs of horrible conspiracy to assassinate the Consul, knew to be of a firm and enterprising charac- the Thames Tunnel Company. Ridgway. whom the whole republic "besought, for the ter. To reason in this manner is to admit that THIS Letter is addressed by a Shareholder to sake of the future, to turn a deaf ear to the First Consul had not rejected the proposal the Deputy Chairman of the Company. The clemency." " Every functionary, whether of a crime. But then, instead of making such writer remonstrates against the clause in the present or at a distance; every officer, of every a stir at Paris, the same end might have been new act of parliament by which the directors rank whatsoever, and particularly all who as- attained with greater certainty and less noise are empowered to dispose of the Tunnel; a pired to favour, thought of nothing but how to at a hunting party on the other side of the clause which he considers as tending absolutely avail himself of this circumstance to prove his Rhine, or even at Ettenheim. There would to annihilate the property of the original share. devotedness to the person of the First Consul." have been no want of assassins, had they been holders. He is sanguine in his opinion both Thus strengthened by popular credulity, the sought after." Yes, ingenious and able sug- that the Tunnel may be completed, and that, government hastened on to fulfil its sanguinary gester of plans of murder, a good argument, if completed, it would afford to the proprietors intentions. It was discovered that a person perhaps, were it true that scoundrels always a fair chance of receiving about three per cent of some consequence had been in the habit of take the wisest methods of perpetrating their for their money. He recommends to the divisiting Cadoual every ten days or fortnight; atrocities. But what was the horror or repent-rectors to publish a clear statement of the but it puzzled the police to ascertain who this ance of Buonaparte when he found (as we are present condition and future prospects of the mysterious individual was. It turned out ul- to believe) that the Duke d'Enghien had been Tunnel, as well as of the engineer's plan of protimately to have been Pichegru; but before put to death in a mistake for General Piche-ceeding; then to try, resolutely and promptly, the truth was known, suspicion fell upon the gru? Did he lament the bloody deed? did he to raise money by loan; and, if that fail, to Duke d'Enghien; and the consequence was, sorrow for the hapless fate of a youthful prince that the unfortunate prince was seized on a cut off in the midst of his gay career? Not > The manner in which this is described is so curious, neutral territory, hurried to Vincennes, sub-he: he only regretted that the murder was that we yield the space of a note to it, in the author's own mitted to a midnight mock-trial, and butchered not likely to produce him any benefit: "HERE arrived at the Temple at the same time as M. Real, who credible words, and on his unblemished testimony. "I in the castle ditch by the break of day. Our IS A CRIME (quoth he), AND WHICH LEADS came on behalf of the grand judge to learn the particulars worthy historian labours through wile and TO NOTHING." Comment upon so damning a of this event. I went with M. Real, the keeper and the sentence would be most superfluous: its pro-room; and I knew him again very well, though his face surgeon of the prison, straight to General Pichegru's It is with infinite scorn we read the imputation, digious villany surpasses imagination. But was turned of a crimson colour, from the effect of the apocoming from so degraded a quarter as the spy and in- let it not be supposed that we are of a party the ground-floor, and the head of his bed against the winplexy with which he had been struck. His room was on former of La Vendée, and the baffled way-layer of Biville, that, notwithstanding the disclosure made by certain arguing for the guilt of one or other, more or dow, so that the seat served to set his light upon for the they carried about them at the moment of their appre- der. Do we think one of them innocent or easily upon occasions see all that was passing in the room. subordinate agents of George's, relative to daggers which less, of the accomplices in this individual mur- purpose of reading in bed. On the outside there was a sentinel placed under this window, through which he might hension, every one felt convinced that this enterprise was no other than the work of the English ministry, resisting? one of them not acting or consent-General Pichegru was lying on his right side; he had put which was bent on getting rid at any rate of the First ing? one of them not interested or subser-round his neck his own black silk cravat, which he had Consul. It was thought that, alarmed at the wisdom previously twisted like a small rope: this must have occupied with which he had repaired every thing, and tranquillised vient? Far be the folly from us, to fancy that him so long as to afford time for reflection, had he not been the country, it had determined on his destruction; but to persons inured to the daily blood and massacres resolutely bent on self-destruction. He appeared to have avoid the odium of such an attempt, it had contrived to of the French Revolution cared a pin for such tied his cravat, thus twisted, about his neck, and to have engage the wretched relics of a party, which it had never at first drawn it as tight as he could bear it, then to have ceased to feed with false hopes, in the execution of its a deed, or would hesitate a moment at putting taken a piece of wood, of the length of a finger, which he design. It abused their unfortunate condition by de- an obnoxious scion of the house of Bourbon out had broken from a branch that yet lay in the middle of ceiving them with the assistance of the reports furnished the room (part of a faggot, the relics of which were still by the agents whom it kept in France: it violated hos- of their way. The only thing to provoke our in his fire-place): this he must have slipped between his pitality by causing an attempt to be made, in their name, contempt and indignation is, to see such fellows neck and his cravat, on the right side, and turned round to commit a crime which could not fail to extinguish the attempting to consider this a crime now, and till the moment that reason forsook him. His head had Interest excited by their misfortunes." fallen back on the pillow and compressed the little bit of What was Lord Hawkesbury's reply, in April 1804, in endeavouring to excuse themselves. stick, which had prevented the cravat from untwisting. his note to the foreign ambassadors in London?In this situation, apoplexy could not fail to supervene. Piche-His hand was still under his head, and almost touched this little tourniquet. On the night-table was a book open and with its back upward, as if laid down for a moment by one who had been interrupted while reading. M. Real him; and he remarked that it was open at that passage We are not inclined to observe at any length His Majesty has in consequence directed me to declare that he hopes he shall not be reduced to the necessity of repelling, with merited scorn and indignation, the atrocious and utterly unfounded calumny, that the government of his Majesty have been a party to plans of assassination: --an accusation already made with equal falsehood and calumny by the same authority against the members of his Majesty's government during the last war --an accusation incompatible with the honour of his Ma- "The pleadings lasted twelve days: they were conjesty and the known character of the British nation; and stantly attended by a crowd which filled all the avenues so completely devoid of any shadow of proof, that it may of the palace. A fault had been committed in persuading be reasonably presumed to have been brought forward at the First Consul to agree to the suppression of the jury the present moment for no other purpose than that of for this occasion only, in consequence of the alarm, diverting the attention of Europe from the contemplation whether well or ill-founded, excited by the language held of the sanguinary deed which has recently been per- since the catastrophe of the Duke d'Enghien. This petrated, by the direct order of the First Consul in measure, though vigorous, produced a bad effect, and France, in violation of the right of nations, and in con- awakened still more distrust in the public mind in getempt of the most simple laws of humanity and honour."neral."-Rare admissions! found this book to be the Seneca which he had sent to where Seneca says, that the man who is determined to conspire ought above all things not to fear death. This was probably the last thing read by General Pichegru, who having placed himself in a situation to lose his life on the scaf fold, or under the necessity of having recourse to the clemency of the First Consul, had preferred dying by his own hand." "I had (he tells us) infused into them all the zeal for the First Consul with which I was myself animated; and I had no greater pleasure than in availing myself of the advantages of my situation to do good for them or their relatives." The Principles of Union in the Church of England, considered in a Charge of the Archdeaconry of London, at a Visitation, held May 12, 1828. By the Venerable J. H. Pott, M.A. Archdeacon of London, &c. 8vo. pp. 31. C. and J. Rivington. LEARNING, piety, and a sincere love for that church of which his whole blameless and benevolent life has made the author an ornament; are the distinguishing features of this Charge. Its moderate tone and soundness of principle combined, recommend it to the attention of our junior clergy, as well as of every member of the Church of England. apply to his Majesty's government for assist-trees of his native Arragon, as pretend to be the f of Spain; which suspicion was confirmed by ance, in any way in which they may think fit founder of the Cork family in Ireland. The his having made many purchases, the money to grant it. We confess, that for our own "Great Earl of Cork" is himself doubted; and for which could be furnished only by Spainpart, it would give us great satisfaction to our author asserts, that, instead of the received and from the circumstance of his being an hear that any measure had been adopted, cal- account of him being true-viz. his own re- Irish Papist instead of an English Protestant, culated to bring this great national under-lation: -"When I first arrived at Dublin, for which he had given himself out.' These taking to a successful termination. June 23, 1588, all my wealth was 271. 3s. and charges were notified by the English governtwo tokens, which my mother had formerly ment to Sir George Carew, whose creature Engraved Illustrations of Ancient Arms and given me, viz. a diamond ring, which I still Boyle was; and Sir George advised him to go Armour. After the Drawings of Dr. Mey-wear, and a bracelet of gold, worth about 107.; off to England forthwith, giving him a letter rick, by Joseph Skelton, F.S.A. Part XII. a taffety doublet, cut with and upon taffety; a to the Earl of Essex, who would protect him in Oxford, J. Skelton. pair of black velvet breeches laced; a new case of need. When Wallop heard of Boyle's ANOTHER beautiful Number. This admirable Milan fustian suit, laced, and cut upon taf- having escaped his clutches, and being actually and unique publication has now advanced fety; two cloaks; competent linen and neces-in London, he renewed his charges with greater nearly half way in its course, during which, saries; with my rapier and dagger." We re- virulence; in consequence of which Boyle was it has uniformly preserved the high character peat, the author asserts in contradiction to arrested and thrown into prison, from whence with which it commenced. It is really me- this:-" I happen to have in my possession a his friend and principal, Carew, had him relancholy to observe what pains and expense most curious manuscript, which contains the leased. Carew now turned upon Wallop; and have been bestowed, in all countries and at true history of the origin of the illustrious on account of the insight which Boyle had got all periods, in ornamenting and enriching house of Boyle, and satisfactorily accounts for into the manner of Wallop's passing his acweapons intended for the destruction of hu- our traveller's steering his course for Ireland, counts, the rival statesman brought him for man beings! The forms of some of the po- in preference to all" other points of the com- ward as informer. Wallop was displaced; Caniards and daggers, in the plates of this Num-pass; shewing, in fact, that he was returning rew was appointed treasurer in his stead; and ber, are singularly graceful. to the land of his fathers, unattended indeed, his instrument, Boyle, was nominated clerk of but not unattending. the council of Munster: and so successfully and "The real name of this family (he proceeds) is deceitfully did this clerk play his cards, by Bocalac, pronounced Boohaly, the Irish term always filching the best trump, that he amassed for a herdsman,-anglicised to Boyle. The such a sum of public money as enabled him to father of our hero was a poor Irish fellow, who purchase the entire of the enormous estate of hired himself as servant to an Englishman of Sir Walter Raleigh, whereon he planted colodistinction of the name of Roper, who had nies from England with Protestants (always come to Ireland in quest of plunder, and whom affecting, like many counterfeit converts in rehe attended on his return to England, where ligion and politics, greater zeal than sterling he married a poor wench, Janet Naylor, the professors of good principles), as at Youghall, waiting-maid of Mr. Roper's mother: the fruit Bandon, Dungarvan, Charleville, Lismore, and of this union was our traveller, who received Tallow; which were all erected into boroughs, old Mr. Roper's name of Richard, and, as his by means whereof he became the great Earl of good genius would have it, was reared in the Cork, and three of his younger sons were made Protestant faith. After some time of servitude, lords. The vast wealth of this family, thus Rory Boohaly, alias Roger Boyle, left Mr. acquired, has caused report of them in history: Roper's house, and kept a kind of tap at Fa--that consulted, they appear, from all concurversham, where he owned a boat: here, their rent testimony, to be a most greedy pack, with son Richard was reared till he entered into the cunning not to be surpassed. They have been service of a man named Mawood, a lawyer, too prone to desert those, if adversity assailed who in the time of Elizabeth was sent to Ire- them, to whom they appeared most attached: land; whither Dick Boohaly, now Richard witness their conduct from the time of the reBoyle, a Protestant, attended him. He had sistance to Charles the First, and during the not been long in his father's land before he usurpation of Cromwell, to the restoration of married the widow of an apothecary named his son Charles the exclusion of his son James Lecky, who died shortly afterwards, leaving the revolution, Hannoverian succession, and him a few score pounds, but no child. It seems regency, during the administration of Lord Sir Roger Mawood had advanced Boyle to be Buckingham; on all which occasions they fled his amanuensis, in which capacity he attended with the timid hare, and ran with the eager the knight to Limeric; his original occupation hound. Now, reader, judge of the illustrious being concealed. Here he insinuated himself house of Boyle, which in good truth doth not into the good graces of a rich old man, of the rest on an Arragon knight, nor on a Kentish name of Apsley, with one daughter rather esquire, but is sprung from a poor Irish creastricken in years, who, thinking God had for- ture, whose father had been a herdman, Boogotten her, made advances to Mr. Boyle, and haly, a name changed, with religion, to English he by the help of his master bore off the prize. Boyle, by his son, who, as good luck would This union Mr. Apsley did not long survive: have it, was born of an English Protestant and the lady having died in childbirth of her mother, and whose father most fortunately hapfirst child, left our hero a gentleman of landed pened to go to England. One word more :-as property and with a good deal of money; which my humour leads me to defeat pretensions aslatter he proceeded, as occasion offered, to in- sumed without a shadow of truth, I beg leave vest in lands. At this time, indeed at all other to notice, by the way, that a family of untimes, there were jealousies in Ireland amongst doubted consequence long before these Boyles candidates for the public money, and for ex- appeared prominently, I mean the house of tension of power. The principal competitors Glasgow in Scotland, do not derive their oriof the day were Sir Henry Wallop, treasurer gin from a Spanish knight of Arragon, but of Ireland, and Sir George Carew, lord-presi- from Irish progenitors. How did it come to dent of Munster, who designed to supplant pass, that when Dick Boohaly, afterwards the Wallop; and for that purpose employed Boyle great Earl of Cork, became rich enough to asto acquire some knowledge of the manner of sume coat armour, he took that of the Lords of the treasurer's passing his accounts. This cir- Glasgow? Again: look on Pynnar's Survey cumstance having transpired, the treasurer of the County of Donegall, where you will find wrote to the English government, that a as follows: Lands granted to Irish servitors, person who called himself Boyle, and had come Mulmorie, M'Swyne - M'Swyne Banagh. poor and friendless to Ireland but a few years Tirlagh Roe O'Boyle-Donnell M'Swyne Farne before, was strongly suspected of being an agent-Walter M'Laughlen M'Swyne. These do The Manual of Rank and Nobility; or, a Key to the Peerage: containing the Origin and History of all the various Titles, Orders, and Dignities, &c. &c. of the British Nobility. pp. 598. Saunders and Otley. THIS book is very neatly got up; but we fear we can say nothing in its favour as a work of reference for the antiquary or herald. It seems to be compiled from sources of no great authority, and is by no means correct. The writer, whoever he is, has not done justice to an excellent design: we recommend the publishers to have a new edition, under competent superintendence. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. [Concluding notice.] WE had intended to conclude our remarks on, and extracts from, this work in the present No. of the Literary Gazette; but if we had wavered in that intention, the following letter, just received, with the post-mark "Kil-cool, County Wicklow," upon it, would have decided our trembling purpose. "YE VILLEN, "This is to giv ye nottis, that if ye dare betray anny mor of our opinyuns or manings, ye shall be Piked, if in the middell of Westmonster Church, or burnt in yere own houss befor ye kno where ye are. So Be WareRock." After this, we have but one course;—we promised our readers another paper, and Rock himself shall not make us break our word to them, though he pike us at the altar, or burn us (as his own 500 copies were burnt) in our study.--The annexed, therefore, are the genealogical quotations to which we are pledged. Sir Philip Boyle, a knight of Arragon, temp. Henry VI. of England, is a mere parvenu; and may as well seek to derive himself from the cork |