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We have now had several books of this kind, and we are very sceptical about their leading to the diminution of crime. In one of his own illustrative quotations, Mr. Smeeton says, "your ignorance is bliss, and proves the words of Pope" [Pope or Gray, 'tis all de same, for the beauty and correctness of the poetical quotation,] "If ignorance is bliss, PRICE 8d. anon there is an exclamation against some par-Jhis mind is stored with information, scarcely ticular offensive statement, we pass over the inferior to others of his age in similar walks of constant repetition of a system of filth which life. He is now (1826), with the exception of must eradicate every idea of innocency from Hossey, whom you see sitting on the table, with the face of the country, and plant in its stead a pipe in his mouth, and a glass in his hand, and an acquaintance with all that is vile and de- who lost his legs by the fall of some timber, testable in human nature. Day after day is in December 1784, the only sledge-beggar in the deluge poured forth, and the perpetual London. Go-cart, Billies-in-bowls, or sledgewearing of the stream must produce effects to beggars, are denominations for those cripples be deprecated, not only from the actual guilt of whose misfortunes will not permit them to trawhich they are the origin, but from their wide-vel in any other way. The following are the spreading debasement of character where purity most celebrated of this class:-Philip in the is most to be coveted. It is a growing and a Tub: a fellow who constantly attended wedfearful evil; and, if it does not speedily correct dings in London, and recited the ballad of itself, it will, in our opinion, bring ruin upon Jesse, or the Happy Pair.' Hogarth has inthe existing periodical press. troduced him in his wedding of the Industrious As these remarks are more of digression Apprentice. Billy in the Bowl was famous in Now if this be true, any detailed account of than review, it may be gathered that we are Dublin: he left Ireland on the union, and was the "depravities of London" must be injuri- not inclined to go into the particulars of Mr. met in London by a noble lord, who observed, ous; and we are inclined to think that it is so. Smeeton's work. It tells of many things we' So, you are here, too?' 'Yes, my lord,' reYouthful curiosity is more likely to be piqued could wish never to have seen in print; but, plied Billy, the union has brought us all by some of the scenes, than vice deterred by we must add, that if warnings to avoid what is over.' John Mac Nally, who, after scuttling disgust or dread from seeking the most danger-wrong are likely to prevent persons from com- about the streets for some time, discovered the ous of them. But we would not care so much mitting wrong, these warnings are not wanting power of novelty, and trained two dogs, Boxer for books of this class, though recommended by in the present volume. We will endeavour and Rover, to draw him in a sledge with wheels, wood-cuts ad captandum and low prices, were to extract a passage as a specimen, which may by which means he increased his income beit not that they serve to fill up the measure of amuse our readers without producing any more youd all belief. The celebrated Jew Beggar, a very bad and corruptive course of popular unfavourable impression. of Petticoat Lane, who was to be seen there reading. The far greater mischief is wrought "Now, pray, let us trace our steps towards and in the neighbourhood in a go-cart. His by the newspaper press. Not to mention the St. Giles's, which being agreed to, they set out venerable appearance gained him a very comSunday journals, which par excellence too on their voyage of discovery to that most de-fortable living. That beggar you see fiddling generally live upon slander and obscenity,-let lectable region, well known as the Holy Land. is the equally notorious Billy Waters, the king any one look at the common construction ofIn order,' said Mentor, that we may obtain of the beggars elect: he is a most facetious the best daily papers, and say if they furnish an admission to the meeting of beggars, or fellow, full of fun and whim, and levies great that species of intelligence and information cadgers, as they are called, we must disguise contributions on the credulity of John Bull which is fittest for a well-regulated commu- ourselves, and be dressed in rags; and I will from the singularity of his appearance. The nity. On the contrary, the disproportionate speak to the landlord of the Beggar's Opera, woman dancing is known as the barker: she space in their columns allotted to prurient law in Church Lane, and, I have no doubt, he will gets her living by pretending to be in fits, and cases and to low police reports is enough, by gain us an interview.' Upon application to the barking like a dog: she is well known about reiteration, to corrupt the feelings and morals worthy host, he furnished Mentor and Pere- Holborn. When she is tired of the fit trade, of any People. It is true that the foreign grine with such clothes as he was sure would she regularly goes over London, early in the news is very scanty, derived from sources of no completely prevent them from being discovered, morning, to strike out the teeth of dead dogs authority, conflicting and partial, and almost and introduced them the same evening: they that have been stolen and killed for the sake of repetitions of the same things for months toge-paid their footing, which was a gallon of beer their skins. These teeth she sells to book. ther; but surely, after this sort of matter is each, and were then desired to take a seat, if binders, carvers, and gilders, as burnishing-tools. disposed of, it would be possible to fill even a they could find one, and join heartily in the At other times she frequents Thames Street, daily journal with superior matter to that with Merry Doings of the Jovial Beggars. That and the adjoining lanes, inhabited by orange which these influential engines are now stuffed. little fellow on the right,' said Mentor, sitting merchants, and picks up, from the kennels, the Silly paragraphs, taken without discrimination on his go-cart, is the celebrated Andrew Whit- refuse of lemons and rotten oranges: these she or correction from country newspapers, are the son, the king of the beggars, and one of the sells to the Jew distillers, who extract from most venial of their offences. It is the avidity most dissipated of his class. He is only two them a portion of liquor, and can thus afford with which infamous transactions are reported feet eight inches in height, thirty-three inches the means of selling, at considerably reduced that disgraces them, and renders their tendency round the body, twenty-two inches round the prices, lemon-drops and orange-juice to the pernicious on society. In short, it is a serious head, and fourteen inches from the chin to the lower order of confectioners. She likewise consideration to admit any Newspaper into a fa- crown. From the heel to the knee-joint he begs vials, pretending to have an order for mily circle, unless your mind be made up to the measures sixteen inches, ten from the knee-medicines at the hospital or dispensary, for point, that details of every vulgar and worth- joint to the hip-bone, and six inches and a her dear husband, or only child, but cannot less piece of riot and ribaldry, minute descrip-quarter round the waist: he is double-jointed get the physic without a bottle; and, when tions of what passes in brothels, and circum- throughout, and possesses considerable strength, she can, she begs some white linen rags to stantial accounts of the most unnatural and particularly in the hand: he always sleeps on dress the wounds with; these she soon turns abhorrent crimes, are fit for the perusal of the the floor, and has done so ever since he was into money, at the old iron shops young and the female portions of your home. eight years old; and, perhaps, in the course of Were these subjects, or any of them, only in cidental, were they touched upon once or twice, the sense and feeling of the public would revolt from the insult to decency and propriety: but custom doth breed habit; and we are becoming so accustomed to them, that, though ever and 6 his life never stood upright. His legs are the dealers in marine stores.' Very frequently she assumes an appearance of pregnancy, in order to obtain child-bed linen, which she has done nine or ten times over. Her partner is Granne Manoo, in a different dress to that in which he appears in public: he is scarcely out of gaol three months in the year. He In some "She stood beside the ruin of a wall Painted and carved; where unplucked flowers and moss O'ergrew the beauty of the ruling Cross: scratches his legs about the ancles to make generosity of his fellow-creatures, and even | meaning, and shew that if Mr. Blanchard has them bleed, and he never goes out with shoes sometimes lead him to this disgraceful mode of much that offends the judgment, he has many on his feet. He goes literally so naked, that existence. I think,' continued the landlord, parts whose best praise is to be found in their it is almost disgusting to see him; and thus there are seven thousand beggars upon the own beauties. he collects a greater quantity of habiliments town daily, and that they each beg two shiland shoes than any other man: these shoes helings a day, take one with the other, that is, sells to the people who live in cellars in Mon-7001. a day. There are between two hundred mouth Street, Chick Lane, Rosemary Lane, and three hundred beggars frequent my house &c. These persons give them new soles, or in the course of the day. I am particular as otherwise repair them, and are called trans- to whom I have to sleep here. lators. That man at the back part of the houses, a fellow stands at the door, and takes room has been in the medical line; he is an the money; for threepence they have straw; Irishman; he writes a beautiful hand, and for fourpence they have clean straw; and for gets a good livelihood by writing petitions and sixpence, a mattress to sleep on. The servants begging-letters, for which he obtains sixpence go and examine all the places, to see that all is or a shilling each, according to their length. free from felony; and then they are let out "I was told,' continued Mentor, by the late into the streets, just as you would open the Major Hanger, that he accompanied our pre- door of a gaol; and at night they come in sent king, when Prince of Wales, to one of again. They have a general meeting in the these beggars' carnivals, as they were then course of the year, and each day they are called; and, after being there some time, the divided into companies, and each company has chairman, Sir Jeffrey Dunstan, addressing the its particular walk; the whole company taking company, and pointing to the prince, said, I the most beneficial walks in turn, keeping it call upon that ere gentleman with a shirt on half an hour to three or four hours, as agreed for a song." The prince, as well as he could, on: their earnings vary much, some as much got excused, upon Major Hanger promising to as five shillings a day. We estimate every sing for him, and he chanted the following one expends about two shillings a day, and ballad, called the Beggar's Wedding, or the sixpence for a bed. They start off in parties Jovial Crew,' with great applause: of four and six together. There are many lodging-houses besides public-houses. Then Tom o' Bedlam winds his horn at best, Lame men, lame women, manfully cry advance, . However wretched and depraved the beg- Lyric Offerings. Were greenly wreathed in mockery of age. Stood hills, the hiding-place of sunny storms Their melancholy was but deeper joy, Too deep for smiles-for he was marked with grief; Where never mortal eye hath seen how well And then the following slight but exquisite touches: "O'er the sands she stray'd, A track where the moon glides, with stars strewn o'er Or the little boat that glides on in "the mornBy S. Laman Blanchard.ing of the moon." Or where the Poet's Bride, 12mo. pp. 96. London, 1828. Ainsworth. "Oh! how this dawn of poetry resembleth "On the scroll Of the vast shore, his haunting image traced, The uncertain glory of an April day!" These lines are perhaps the truest criticism If images and expressions like these are we can apply to this little volume: we know not fresh from the fairy land of poetry, we few whose fate it would be more difficult to know not what constitutes that language whose foresee; for it is full of poetry and full of words are pictures. And now that we proceed faults. We should think the author was a to the less pleasant task of censuring, it is very young man; if so, he has all the matériel with the firm belief that such faults as we o for a great poet: Lyric Offerings are the work of genius in its earliest stage, when the mind, fevered "with unreal beauty," turns its very feelings into fancies-springs impatiently from earth, forgetting that it is a fabled bird, which "It is seldom the beggars eat the food given to is said to exist only in the air; and often bethem; and it is a well-known fact that they sell their comes affected, to avoid being common-place. broken bread to biscuit-bakers, who grind it for the pur-A few quotations will best exemplify our pose of making tops and bottoms!" serve, belong to one whose blemishes are worth the wave; "Stanzas for Evening. There is an hour when leaves are still, and winds sleep on Return, like sun-tired birds, to seck the sable boughs of sweet, And visions to the hearts of men direct their fairy feet; rest, The wearied wing hath gained a tree, pain sighs itself to known, newly fed. blight of all may come, bered spark, send; nigh, [pall; beauties. We like the following little poem Itinerary, is a rich mine of information, like space of eighteen centuries at least; for the much. one of those of tin or copper in the district of historian describes the access to this island prewhich it treats. We shall therefore, without cisely such as it is at the present period-pracfurther preface, transfer some of its stores to ticable only at low water for wheel carriages.' our page. The action of the sea and other natural "The sea is encroaching upon every part of causes produice many remarkable effects on the Cornish coast. In the memory of many this coast. For example, at Kynance Cove, persons still living, the cricketers were unable" One of the rocks in this cove exhibits a very to throw a ball across the Western Green, be- curious phenomenon, whimsically called the tween Penzance and Newlyn, which is now Devil's Bellows. There is a very deep chasm, not many feet in breadth; and the grandfather through which the sea rushes like a waterof the present vicar of Madron is known to spout, preceded by a sub-marine rumbling, as have received tithes from the land under the loud as thunder: a flowing tide, accompanied cliff of Penzance. On the northern coast we with a swell of the waves, seems to be essential have striking instances of the sea having made for the production of this effect. De Luc offers similar inroads. This, however, is the natural the following explanation of the phenomenon. result of the slow and silent depredation of the In the rock there is a succession of caverns, The mournful moon her rainbows hath, and mid the water upon the land: but at a very remote into which the agitated sea rushes by some That garlands life, some blossoms live, like lilies on a period we are assured by tradition that a consi-sub-marine passage, and being dashed and Thus while to lone affliction's couch some stranger-joy derable part of the present bay, especially that broken against their sides, a large quantity of [hum. The bee that hoardeth sweets all day hath sadness in its comprehended within a line drawn from near air" is thus disengaged from them, which, Yet some there are whose fire of years leaves no remem- Cuddan point on the east side, to Mousehole on becoming highly compressed, and not being [dark. the west, was land covered with wood, but able to escape beneath, in consequence of the Whose summer-time itself is bleak, whose very daybreak which, by an awful convulsion and irruption of perpetual entrance of the waves, is forced to The stem, though naked, still may live, the leaf though the sea, was suddenly swept away. perished cling; If we pass with great violence and noise from cavern But if at first the root be cleft, it lies a branchless thing. trace the north-west shore of the bay, from the to cavern, until it forces itself, together with a And oh! to such, long, hallow'd nights their patient music Mount westward to Newlyn, the ebb-tide leaves column of water, through the opening above."" [they bend; The hours like drooping angels walk, more graceful as a large space uncovered; the sea-sand is from "We now proceed to Sennan Church-town,† And stars emit a hope-like ray, that melts as it comes one to two or three feet deep, and under this which, according to barometrical admeasure[die." stratum of sand is found a black vegetable ment, is 391 feet above the level of the sea. It And nothing in that calm hath life that doth not wish to mould, full of woodland detritus, such as the is about a mile from the Land's End, and is It is evident that Shelley has been the favour-branches, leaves, and nuts of coppice wood, to-celebrated for containing the ale-house whimite inspiration of these pages; and we scarcely gether with the roots and trunks of forest sically called The First and Last Inn in Engobject to this the very enthusiasm of admira- trees of large growth. All these are mani. land." On the western side of its sign is tion is the mark of a poet; but faults are festly indigenous; and, from the freshness and inscribed The First,' and on the eastern side, catching, and few faults would be greater stum- preservation of some of the remains, the inun- The Last Inn in England.' Having bling-blocks than his in the way of popularity. dation of sand, as well as water, must have arrived at the celebrated promontory, we Poets should always bear in mind that they do been sudden and simultaneous; and the cir- descend a rapid slope, which brings us to a not write for poets only. We now close Mr. cumstance of ripe nuts and leaves remaining bold group of rocks, composing the western Blanchard's volume, convinced that his future together would seem to shew that the irruption extremity of our island. Some years ago a reputation rests with himself: he has only to happened in the autumn or in the beginning of military officer who visited this spot, was rash concentrate the essence of poetry, which he most winter. This vegetable substratum has been enough to descend on horseback; the horse undeniably possesses, and to take care, while traced seaward as far as the ebb would permit, soon became unruly, plunged, reared, and, looking for felicitous expressions, not to adopt and has been found continuous and of like na- fearful to relate, fell backwards over the preci those which are not allowable by any stretch of ture. Another proof of these shores having pice, and, rolling from rock to rock, was dashed allusion or meaning; which render similes and been suddenly visited by a tremendous cata-to atoms before it reached the sea. The rider metaphors, otherwise excellent, perfectly bur- strophe, has been afforded by the nature of the was for some time unable to disengage himself; lesque; and which provoke the carpings of sand banks constituting the Eastern and West-but at length, by a desperate effort, he threw little crities, who are insensible to the higher ern Greens, and which will be found to be the himself off, and was happily caught by some qualities which they certainly spot, but neither detritus of disintegrated granite; whereas the fragments of rock, at the very brink of the mar nor conceal. He will thus make the Spirit natural sand, which forms the bed of the sea, precipice, where he remained suspended in a of Poetry what he exquisitely defines it to be in is altogether unlike it, being much more com- state of insensibility until assistance could be this couplet minuted, different in colour, and evidently the afforded him! The awful spot is marked by result of pulverised clay-slate.' But when did the figure of a horse-shoe, traced on the turf this mighty catastrophe occur, and what were with a deep incision, which is cleared out from its causes? These are questions which are not time to time, in order to preserve it as a monuA Guide to Mount's Bay and Land's End, &c. readily answered: the event is so buried in the ment of rashness, which could be alone equalled A new edition. By a Physician. 12mo. depths of antiquity, that nothing certain or by the good fortune with which it was attended. pp. 272. London, 1828. Underwoods. satisfactory can be collected concerning it; al- Why any promontory in an island should be THE republication of a volume which appeared though it would appear, from the concurrent exclusively denominated the Land's End, it is some years ago, when there were no Literary testimony of Florence of Worcester and the difficult to understand; yet, so powerful is the Gazettes to make the merits of authors known, Saxon Chronicles, that a remarkable invasion of charm of a name, that many persons have and which consequently did not attract a tithe the ocean occurred in November 1099. With visited it on no other account. The intelligent of that attention so justly due to it: for un-respect to the causes of the phenomenon we are tourist, however, will receive a much more der the unassuming title of a local Guide, it is equally uninformed: let the geologist examine substantial gratification from his visit; the indeed a work of various and excellent qualities, the appearance of the coast with attention, and great geological interest of the spot will afford alike entertaining and instructive. We have then decide with what probability De Luc him an ample source of entertainment and no hesitation in pitching upon Dr. Paris as the attributed the catastrophe to a subsidence of instruction, while the magnificence of its conPhysician to whom the public is indebted for it. the land. It must not, however, be concealed vulsed scenery, the ceaseless roar and deep Like several of his other writings, it makes that many geologists have questioned the pro-intonation of the ocean, and the wild shrieks philosophy a sport, and science a pleasure, by bability of the occurrence altogether; and argue of the cormorant,-all combine to awaken the mingling anecdote, amusing recollections, and from the appearance of the coast, whose rocks lighter matter, with notices of the extraordinary beat back the envious siege of watery Neptune,' "The quantity of air thus separated from water is so great, that in the Alps and in the Pyrenees very powerful geology, mineralogy, botany, antiquities, &c. that no very important change in the hydro-bellows are made for forges by the fall of a column of which distinguish this very peculiar part of the graphical outline of the Cornish peninsula can water, through a wooden pipe, into a closed cask, in British coast. Six short excursions from Pen-have taken place during the present constitu- which it dashes on a stone in the bottom, when the air zance furnish his observant mind with materials tion of the earth's surface. If St. Michael's in the cover of the cask, into the foundery." thus disengaged from it is carried by another pipe, placed of greater interest than many men could elicit Mount be in reality the Ictis of Diodorus Siby travelling from one end of Europe to the culus, we have certainly a decisive proof that other; and his book, instead of being a dry no material change has taken place for the "What is it but the air of Heaven Along an earthly lyre?" "Church-turen. This expression is peculiar to Cornwall. The fact is, that since many market, and even borough towns are without a church, the Cornish dignify those that have it with the title of church-town." overhang rocks in ruinous grandeur, and appear so fearfully equipoised, that, although secure in their immensity, they create in the mind the most awful apprehension of their instability, whilst the mighty roar of the ocean beneath unites in effect with the scenery above. All around is sublime." We like the plain manner better, even were it as plain as Dolly Pentreath's epitaph. blended sensations of awe and admiration. | tardy sun sink into the western ocean, than | membrance of the ancient prophecy, that they The cliff which bounds this extremity is rather the young and old of both sexes, animated by fled in all directions, supposing that it was useabrupt than elevated, not being more than the genius of the night, assemble in the town less to contend against the destiny that had sixty feet above the level of the sea. It is and different villages of the bay with lighted been predicted. The Spaniards, availing themcomposed entirely of granite, the forms of torches. Tar-barrels having been erected on selves of this desertion, set it on fire in difwhich present a very extraordinary appear- tall poles in the market-place, on the pier, and ferent places, as they had already done to ance, assuming in some places the resemblance in other conspicuous spots, are soon urged into Newlyn, and then returned to their galleys, of shafts that had been regularly cut with the a state of vivid combustion, shedding an ap- intending to renew the flames on the ensuing chisel; in others, regular equidistant fissures palling glare on every surrounding object, and day; but the Cornish having recovered from divide the rock into horizontal masses, and which, when multiplied by numerous reflec- their panic, and assembled in great numbers on give it the character of basaltic columns; in tions in the waves, produce at a distant view a the beach, so annoyed the Spaniards with their other places, again, the impetuous waves of the spectacle so singular and novel as to defy the bullets and arrows, that they drew their gal ocean have opened, for their retreat, gigantic powers of description; while the stranger wholeys farther off, and, availing themselves of a arches, through which the angry billows roll issues forth to gain a closer view of the fes- favourable breeze, put to sea and escaped. It and bellow with tremendous fury. Several of tivities of the town, may well imagine himself is worthy of remark, that when the Spaniards these rocks, from their grotesque forms, have suddenly transported to the regions of the first came on shore, they actually landed on a acquired whimsical appellations, as that of the furies and infernal gods; or else that he is rock called Merlin.' The historian concludes Armed Knight, the Irish Lady, &c. An witnessing, in the magic mirror of Cornelius this narrative by observing, that these were the inclining rock on the side of a craggy head- Agrippa, the awful celebration of the fifth day only Spaniards that ever landed in England as land, south of the Land's End, has obtained of the Eleusinian feast; while the shrieks of enemies." the name of Dr. Johnson's Head; and visiters, the female spectators, and the triumphant yells In this quotation we have been somewhat after having heard the appellation, seldom fail of the torch-bearers, with their hair streaming amused with the grand philosophical language to acknowledge that it bears some resemblance in the wind, and their flambeaus whirling in which the simple fact of lighting the tarto the physiognomy of that extraordinary man. with inconceivable velocity, are realities not barrels is told;-they are soon urged into a On the north, this rocky scene is terminated calculated to dispel the illusion. No sooner state of vivid combustion." There are here by a promontory 229 feet above the level of the are the torches burnt out, than the numerous and there touches of the same kind of flowery sea, called Cape Cornwall, between which and inhabitants engaged in the frolic, pouring style; for instance" The scenery, too, is the Land's End the coast retires, and forms forth from the quay and its neighbourhood, here of the most magnificent description; rocks Whitsand Bay; a name which it derives from form a long string, and, hand in hand, run the peculiar whiteness of its sand, and amongst furiously through every street, vociferating, which the naturalist will find several rare mi- an eye,' an eye,' an eye!' At length croscopic shells. There are, besides, some his- they suddenly stop, and the two last of the torical recollections which invest this spot with string, elevating their clasped hands, form an eye interest. It was in this bay that Stephen landed to this enormous needle, through which the on his first arrival in England, as did King thread of populace runs; and thus they conJohn on his return from Ireland; and Perkin tinue to repeat the game until weariness disWarbeck, in the prosecution of those claims to solves the union, which rarely happens before the crown to which some late writers have been midnight. On the following day (Midsummer "Paul church is a very conspicuous object, disposed to consider that he was entitled, as the day) festivities of a very different character from its high elevation, and interests the hisreal son of Edward the Fourth. The enliven the bay; and the spectator can hardly torian from the tradition, already stated, of its natural product of the high lands is only a be induced to believe that the same actors are having been burnt by the Spaniards; upon thin turf, interspersed with heath, fern, and engaged in both dramas. At about four or which occasion the south porch alone is said, furze. This product is carefully collected, five o'clock in the afternoon, the country peo-in consequence of the direction of the wind, to and preserved in stacks by the inhabitants, for ple, drest in their best apparel, pour into Pen- have escaped the conflagration. A pleasing the purpose of fuel. It is worthy of remark, zance from the neighbouring villages, for the confirmation of this tradition was lately afthat the nature of the fuel employed in a coun- purpose of performing an aquatic divertisement. forded during some repairs, when one of the try always imparts a character to its cookery; At this hour the quay and pier are crowded wooden supporters was found charred at the hence the striking difference between that of with holiday-makers, where a number of ves-end nearest the body of the church. It also Paris and London: so in Cornwall, the conve- sels, many of which are provided with music deserves notice, that the thick stone division nience afforded by the furze in the process of for the occasion, lie in readiness to receive at the back of the Trewarveneth pew, which baking, has given origin to the general use of them. In a short time the embarkation is has so frequently occasioned inquiry, is a part pies. Every article of food is dressed in a pie; completed, and the sea continues for many of the old church which escaped the fire. In whence it has become a proverb, that the hours to present a moving picture of the most the church is the following curious notice of devil will not come into Cornwall for fear of animating description. Penzance is remarkable its having been burnt: The Spanger burnt being put into a pie.' In a season of scarcity, in history for having been entered and burnt this church in the year 1595.' Most tourists the attorneys of the county having at the by the Spaniards in the year 1595. From time inform us that in this churchyard is to be seen quarter sessions very properly resolved to ab- immemorial a prediction had prevailed, that a the monumental stone with the epitaph of old stain from every kind of pastry, an allusion to period would arrive when some strangers Dolly Pentreath, so celebrated among anthe above proverb was very happily introduced should land on the rocks of Merlin, who should tiquaries as having been the last person who into an epigram extemporaneously delivered burn Paul's Church, Penzance, and Newlyn.' spoke the Cornish language. Such a monuon the occasion, and which, from its point and Of the actual accomplishment of this predic-ment, however, if it ever existed, is no longer humour, deserves to be recorded: tion we receive a full account from Carew; to be found; nor can any information be obfrom which it would appear, that on the 23d tained with regard to its probable locality. Her of July, 1595, about two hundred men landed epitaph is said to have been both in the Cornish from a squadron of Spanish galleys on the coast and English language, viz. of Paul, and then to Mousehole itself. Findof Mousehole, when they set fire to the church ing little or no resistance, they proceeded to Francis Godolphin endeavoured to inspire the Newlyn,† and from thence to Penzance. Sir inhabitants with courage to repel these assailants; but so fascinated were they by the re If the proverb be true, that the fame of our pies It is clear that his friends-the attorneys-are wise Among the curious customs remaining in this remote and ancient quarter, the author mentions the following at Penzance. "The most singular one is, perhaps, the celebration of the Eve of Saint John the Baptist, our town saint, which falls on Midsum. mer Eve; and that of the Eve of Saint Peter, the patron of fishermen. No sooner does the "It is reasonable to advert to the summer solstice for this custom, although brought into the Christian calendar under the sanction of John the Baptist. Those sacred fires kindled about midnight, on the moment of the solstice, by the great part of the ancient and modern nations, the origin of which loses itself in antiquity.See Gebelin, and also Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities." "The fifth day of the Eleusinian feast was called women ran about with them in imitation of Ceres, who, the day of the torches, because at night the men and having lighted a torch at the fire of Mount Etna, wandered about from place to place, in search of her daughter Proserpine. Hence may we not trace the high antiquity of this species of popular rejoicing?" Coth Dol Pentreath canz ha deaw Old Dol Pentreath, one hundred age and two, "On one of the angles of this tower is to be Will not this historical fict explain the peculiar cast of beauty possessed by many of the fish-women re-seen the carcass of a stone lantern, in which, siding in this village ?" during the fishing season, and in dark tem |