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Upon more of preferment for those that will not leap the minute inspection, he was of opinion that the hedge as well as the ditch"-a comment worth whole correspondence deserved to be rescued a hundred pages of history. from its obscurity, and given to the world; as containing entertaining contemporary accounts of the actual period of the revolution, and of the years immediately preceding that event; together with anecdotes of the principal actors 1686. April 6. "The busy time of devoin those scenes; and various traits of the man- tion is now over here: his majesty, God bless ners of the age, which are every day, as the him, one of the zealousest; ten hours in a day time when they existed becomes more distant, sometimes. The court returns from St. acquiring additional value. It is true the James's to Whitehall to-morrow, and goes not Letters, when they do not relate great events, to Windsor till the middle of May, when are frequently filled only with the gossip of also the camp opens at Hownslow. Our sparks the court and of society; but it should be re- all go for Hungary to-morrow. membered, that it is of such small materials I hear poor Princess Ann is sadly teased that history is very mainly composed. They about a new declaration in matter of faith, are all addressed to John Ellis, Esq. a colla- so that at last it is agreed to after lying in; teral ancestor of the editor's, and form a toler- but I hope it may not be thus: say nothing ably accurate journal of what was going on in of it. New equipage in great splendour is London from the beginning of January 1686, every where to be seen, especially their mato the end of December 1688; with the excep-jesties'. Her majesty is wonderful glorious in The Ellis Correspondence. Letters written tion of about seven months, from August 1687, her own apparel. Here is arrived an Italian during the Years 1686-7-8, and addressed to April 1688, during which period there is an Prince of Piombino, the greatest spendthrift to John Ellis, Esq., Secretary to the Com- interruption of the correspondence." in the world reckoned, for he has consumed missioners of Revenue in Ireland; compris- We trust to render the accuracy of this de- the greatest part of a patrimonial estate of ing many Particulars of the Revolution, and scription evident by the extracts which we 150,000l. per annum, and the treasure of three Anecdotes of the History and Manners of shall make, and which we shall divide into popes. So it seems not that we need fear his those Times. Edited from the Originals, two parts; 1. those relative to circumstances politics." REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. * with Notes, and a Preface, by the Hon. which may be deemed historical; and 2. those April 20. "On Sunday at Stamford's George Agar Ellis. 2 vols. 8vo. London, which rather pertain to the class of private chapel came in a heedless prentice, where, 1829. H. Colburn. anecdote, and are illustrative of persons and being laughing and staring, an officer of it MR. ELLIS has already distinguished himself, manners. Before doing this, we have only to bade him go out, since he appeared not by his and gratified the public, by his taste for his- remark, that a good account of the Ellis fa- behaviour to be of that religion. He said he torical researches, and by the abilities he has mily prefixed, may in itself be esteemed an would not go out, and if they said much to displayed in communicating their results. The epitome of the state of society in these change- him, he would break their crosses and jugpresent work adds to our obligations, and is a able and troubled times; for of its five bro- gling-boxes down; whereupon a riot seemed very acceptable illustration of a remarkable thers, the sons of the Rev. John Ellis, the to form; a constable was charged with him, era, though the Clarendons, Evelyn, Burnet, eldest was John (to whom these Letters are and the militia officer on the guard called, Reresby, Pepys, and other eminent and po- addressed), in a government office, under but between them the fellow in fault slipped pular contemporary writers, have thrown their James II. in Ireland, and subsequently comp away; yet not so far but he watched the outstrong lights over its complex politics and ex-troller of the mint, and under-secretary to coming of either the priest or an appendix of traordinary features. Though not so deeply King William; the second, Sir William Ellis, the chapel, and beat and dragged him through versed in the secret history of events, neither followed the fortunes of the Stuarts, was trea- the kennel. The lord mayor was yesterday is the Correspondence now published so much surer to the Prince, and died at Rome a Pro-called before the council upon it, and told, if interested in the perversion of facts, or in the testant; the third was Jolly Phil., a Jesuit he kept not the peace better, the king would cabals and projects of the passing day; and of considerable influence at the court of James send some of his regiments to do it; and in therefore, though it may not develop so much when the revolution took place, and afterwards the mean time, that the negligent militia of the more important points of history, it an Italian popish bishop; the fourth a Pro-officer be taken and secured to answer the certainly shews us, in a less questionable guise, testant bishop of Meath in Ireland (from law." a multitude of curious and characteristic inci- whom the present noble family is descended); The general corruption of men in office is dents. Our partiality for publications of this and the fifth a lawyer, marshal of the King's shewn by the following, of 22d July: “ I am class, indeed, has often been expressed; and Bench at the Revolution!!! What a medley just taking horse for Windsor; and if I find we are well pleased to receive an increase to of opinions and, offices in a family of five-a occasion, shall go on to Newbury, where the our stores of genuine information, by which Roman Catholic and a Protestant bishop, a attorney-general is, for his report, having got we are frequently enabled to try the elaborate secretary to one king and a treasurer to the at last a reference from the Treasury. Besides philosophy and romance of the historian, as a son of his rival, and a marshal of the King's a five-guinea fee, I intend to promise his small candle enables us to penetrate the ob- Bench prison!! But throughout this Corre-honour the strengthening it with a hundred scurity of a dark night. spondence we find nothing but changes. more upon the settlement of the affair; it In the preface Mr. Ellis says, "The Letters changes in politics, changes in religion, changes might possibly be the damning of that other which are here offered to the public are copied in administration, changes in offices, changes of the hackney coaches, this omission. from the originals preserved in the British in laws, changes in lawyers, changes in church Museum among the Birch Collection of Manu- and state, changes in the soldiery, and changes scripts. The editor was first led to examine in the people. Lord Morpeth goes to travel them, by seeing some extracts from them, shortly" (says the writer of a letter of July which struck him as both curious and inter- 31st, 1688), "and if I can settle matters so as esting, in the valuable series of Letters illus, to be able to go with him, I will,-for clouds Nov. 23. "The Gazette gives an account of our little occurrences here at home. That Samuel Johnson* mentioned in it, was chap "Samuel Johnson was born in 1649, and early distin guished himself in the cause of Protestantism and liberty. for which he wrote and preached with boldness and lain to the Lady Russell, and was more than "The closeting affair not over yet, daily "Cleonger in Herefordshire, May 27th, 1687. "H. AUBREY." every honest man should be, to serve the king | flowed these three days in the report of the “Honest Friend,—I take the liberty to repeat your trouble of reading, before I have an account that my last came to your hands. Iceived in most places without any great pomp dare not be so unkind to you as to think it was or numbers, and that at Berks and Oxford the least." Rumours continued to shake the realm; not welcome. News to a man at my distance particularly only the high sheriff and his sons is but the offering, not a cold, but a stale dish met them; that both heard the sermon at but at length the Prince of Orange landed, of meat; and yet you must be content with St. Mary's, but that Judge Rothram went the friendless king was deserted by every body such a treat. The king seems resolved to push where one Father Burgess, a well-gifted man, and England obtained a new constitution, alafterwards to a private exercise of his own, (by many most disgracefully and unnaturally), for breaking the test and penal laws against held forth before him, as he had done at Read-most without blood being shed. his persuasion, and to the members of parliament that have any employ this is the touch-ing, where he told them the duty of judges The foregoing traits are all we can afford to stone, for no man is thought worthy long to and juries, especially at this conjuncture. The illustrate the first division of our review; and eat the king's bread that this will not go down judge accordingly gave his charge to the jury, even the more various topics of the second with. Upon this score, several have laid down in which he much magnified the favour of the must be briefly treated. their commissions already, and more will every king's toleration, and inveighed as briskly day. Sir John Morgan is already come home, against the church of England and its clergy, and is succeeded by Major Purcell. Colonel who discover, he said, now the spirit of perseHenry Cornewall is likely to follow the fate of cution, as much as others had done formerly, his eldest captain, Sir Franeis Edwards. Some in matters of religion." that flatter the king persuade him that he hath already a majority of the House of Commons; but the dispassionate part of mankind is of another judgment. I am a little cooler in my resolves of bringing over my family; for if cannot reasonably hope to stay all the winter in Ireland, I shall hardly break up a whole family here, that, if I am called to parliament, will not stay behind me; and a winter voyage and journey will agree but scurvily with the I am told, I must pass the fire ordeal. I am provided for it, and resolved, as softer sex. I The second Duke of Ormonde being mentioned, the anecdote of him and his great politeness is repeated, that "when he was dying, finding his agony approaching, and fearful he should shock the friends who stood round his No wonder that affairs tended to a revolu- bedside by making faces, his last words were— tion in a country thus split into factions, re- Messieurs, j'espère que vous excuserez la viling and destroying each other, and disre- grimace!' garding alike the public laws and personal "Catherine Sedley, countess of Dorchesrights. The army refused to receive Irish ter, so created for her life, was one of recruits, and "stubborn" officers were tried the mistresses of James the Second. She and dismissed for this offence: in short, all was a coarse, vulgar woman, with some to regain the church and the city of London, Anglesey, and secondly to the Duke of Buckwas disorder, and James, too late, endeavoured humour. She was married first to Lord and other bodies, which he had previously dis-inghamshire. She was separated from Lord gusted. Invasion threatened; and we hear, Anglesey by act of parliament, for his ill-treatnoblemen are out of town, which looks odd.shire, the seat of Lord Mulgrave (who is dein a letter of September 29th, - "Most of our ment of her. At Mulgrave Castle, in Yorkability. Having been active in advocating the exclu-Abundance of commissions are out. We shall scended from her only daughter by Lord Ansion of James from the throne on account of his religion, face the enemy with 5000 horse and 20,000 glesey), is a curious portrait of her. She is he was marked out for persecution as soon as that prince foot; we think the prince comes with no more represented in widow's weeds for the loss of came into power. The pretext taken for the punishment alluded to in this letter, was his publication of an address than 12,000 foot and 3000 German horse. I Lord Anglesey, and upon the picture are the to all Protestants in the army; for this he was sentenced saw Suffolk gentlemen Wednesday come up following lines in gold letters: to be degraded from the priesthood, to stand twice in the pillory, to pay a fine of five hundred marks to the king, alarmed: the Holland packet told them the and to be whipped from Newgate to Tyburn. Great in- Dutch were seventy-six great men-of-war, and tercession was made with the king for the remission of the whipping; but the cruel James only replied in deri- had a hundred tenders, which seemed full of sion, that since Mr. Johnson had the spirit of martyr-foot and horse. I know his first provision was for 30,000 men's transportation. Mr. H. SydGarden. It was executed by Grinling Gibbons, a sculptor ney, Admiral Herbert, and Lord Mordaunt, and carver of eminence, who had been brought into notice by Evelyn, who found him executing carvings in wood in a cottage near Deptford. Gibbons cast the equestrian statue of Charles the Second at Windsor. He also exe cuted the statue of the same monarch at Chelsea Hospital. The carved pedestal of the statue of Charles the First at Charing Cross is by Gibbons; and his exquisite carvings in wood of fruit, flowers, birds, &c. in various dom, it was fit he should suffer.'" *This is the same statue which still remains in Privy country houses, are well known." Tobias Rustat, or Rustate, had been a page of the back stairs, and subsequently was keeper of Hampton Court Palace, and yeoman of the robes to Charles the Second." "The term of closeting was grown almost into a proverb: in consequence of the king's habit of endeavouring to influence and convince those whose principles he was dissatisfied with, by conversing with them one by one in his closet. He was particularly addicted to this custom with regard to the members of the House of Commons." are generally thought in command. I think Again, Oct. 16" Never place was more Puisque le Comte d'Anglesey mourut, sans remords "I dare not promise you much help, either from the solicitation of one, or friendship (to omit brotherly affection) of the other; but as for taking care of exposing me to storms, never think of that, for I am weather-proof where the interest of my friend is concerned." In December 1686, "a poor woman that bought a pillow in Long Lane for a shilling, found in it a necklace of pearl worth 1,500/ Another more unfortunate poor man, who stole a granadoe-shell yesterday from Black Of his force one of the king's party writes, Nov. 6 "We here are in good heart, though in some hurry, and hope for good success. Our enemies having fed these two months upon a biscuit, two herrings, and a pint of much cast down." dortz engelze a-day, we hope to find their noble courage heath, and this morning picking out the com- "Then pray for the soul of Gabriel John, "We have every month some new relation the fair one persisted in her first answer, from the East Indies. Now they tell us, how which provoked the bridegroom to such a the great Mogul hath beheaded the King of degree, that, without respect of place or perGolconda, and lately how the English had beat sons, he immediately stabbed his bride; but the Mogul. But all these tidings may possibly one of her lovers being then in the church, be interpreted some of the shams and amuse- did instantly revenge his mistress's death, for ments of a body of men trading into those he rushed upon her murderer with his sword parts; they may well seem to require better in his hand, and sent him to wed her in the authority.' This would be a libel on the Court other world. This raised such a tumult on of Directors in 1829. all sides, that seven were killed, and many The following extracts refer to persons of "Last week (says another) arrived from wounded in the church. celebrity; viz. Nell Gwynne, the Duke of the East Indies one Dr. St. Johns, who has "Two thousand bombs are thrown into AlBuckingham, and our quondam friend Pepys been there for some years as judge of the giers, but without any great success, which the details of the deaths of the two former are Admiralty for the East India Company. He the Algierines have answered by shooting into interesting-not so those of the rapacity of the is said to give an account of affairs in those the fleet the French consul's head. latter. parts, that is quite different from what was Algiers begins now to be sensible of the French "March 22d, 1687. Mrs. Nelly is dying of published in the Gazette, and not at all com- bombs, the best part of their town being beaten an apoplexy; her son will go for Hungary, and fortable for the nation, at least for those con- down and reduced to ruins; yet the Turks return a good Catholic, as thought. Utensils cerned in the same bottom with the company. bear it with great vigour and resolution, and about him are preparing like it, and his mother The said doctor attended the king in council continue to shoot off Frenchmen in return of acquainted with it, and the fraternity to come last Sunday in Windsor, where the matter of their bombs." upon the same foot, or give way as to their his information depends. He hath also some advantageous stations. April 23d. complaints of his own against the chief of that "The Duke of Bucks, who hath some time sup- company, who have of their own heads (and ported himself with artificial spirits, on Friday without any orders from his majesty) taken fell to a more manifest decay, and on Sunday away the doctor's commission, which was yielded up the ghost at Helmesley, in York- under the great seal, but of this more hereshire, in a little ale-housef (where these eight after. But it animates already a great grumbmonths he hath been without meat or money, ling in the city against a certain great East deserted of all his servants almost.) * India merchant, whose first name rhymes with Phil. (jolly Phil. the Jesuit) has many wonder- Goliah." ful kind expressions from the king, so that I imagine some room in the navy (where they roll in money) might be found; so I advise you to solicit hard and court kindly. Sure Pepys would value Lord Ossory's recommendation at no mean rate, though Eure and he together neglect all where money chinks not. I shall urge your monkish brother all I can, and imagine his personal interest in Alcander will do. He tells me he discoursed Pepys about the matter, who told him all was settled. I know the griping temper of both him and Eure, and what rates every poor boson pays for what he has purchased with his blood and many years' hardship." Gambling in insurances seems to have been known in these days; and in fact a multitude of the anecdotes which we find in these volumes remind us that there is nothing new under the sun-they so closely resemble our own homes. After the birth of the Prince of Wales we find the following: Superstition." The Duke of Ormond died, they say, upon the same day with the duchess, and foretold he himself should die that day, and has cautioned the young duke to have a care of it likewise. "We hear from Genoa, that all the ecclesiastics exhort to penitence, from an old prophecy that foretells they were to expect the same fate with Naples. The ladies are already stript of all their silks and vanities by orders, and persuaded to do acts of mortification barefooted; and their very cast clothes will, they say, amount to a considerable revenue. "The prince is in very good health, and hath given audience to several foreign minis- "The judges at Oxford made strict inquiry ters; the lord mayor of York is come to after those scholars who had rescued the town to kiss the prince's hand, and to present Townesends from the constable, for abusing him a purse of gold, as the lord mayor of of Obadiah Walker; and the high sheriff of London did. the county recommended it to their lord"This evening the fireworks upon the ships' cares in an elegant but short speech he Thames will be played: the devices of them made in court to this effect: Pray, my lordare very ingenious, and too long to be here let's have justice, or else good night, Nicho, inserted. There are several thousands of bal- las.'" loons that are to be shot into the air, and then "Sir John Shorter, the present lord mayor, to fall into the river, and represent several lies very ill with a fall off his horse, under figures. There are twelve mortar-pieces, that Newgate, as he was going to proclaim Barare to cast granado shells into the air, which, tholomew fair. The city custom is, it seems, when they break, will discover odd mixtures and shapes. The figure of Bacchus represents Plenty, out of whose great tun and belly are to be discharged about eight or nine barrels of combustibles. There are also two large female figures, which represent Fecundity and Loyalty; the emblems of the first are a hare and a hen and chickens, each of which are, in their proper time, to act their part in the magnificent show of this evening. to drink always under Newgate when the lord mayor passes that way; and at this time the lord mayor's horse being somewhat skittish, started at the sight of a large glittering tankard which was reached to his lordship.". (On Among other policies of assurance which Tuesday following he died, and the accounts appear at the Exchange, there is one of no add,) His lordship had a piece of helpless ordinary nature; which is, that Esq Neale, comfort brought him before he died, which who hath for some time been a suitor to the was, that a corn-meter's place and that of rich Welsh widow Floyd, offers as many guithe common hunt were fallen void the same neas as people will take to ensure thirty for "The Lady Marquess of Powis, governante day, which were worth to him, or rather his each one, in case he marry the said widow. to the prince, hath taught his royal highness executors, 3000. Few days before died BunHe hath already laid out as much as will bring a way to ask already; for, few days ago, his nian, his lordship's teacher, or chaplain, a man him in 10 or 12,000 guineas; he intends to royal highness was brought to the king with said to be gifted that way, though once a cobmake it 30,000, and then to present it to the a petition in his hand, desiring that 200 hack- bler. Another gentleman, lately one of the lady in case she marry him; and any one that ney-coaches may be added to the 400 now commissioners for the customs, hath quitted will accept of guineas on that condition, may licensed, but that the revenue for that said this world, though he hath not changed it for find as many as he pleases at Garraway's Coffee 200 might be applied towards the feeding and another. He hath stript himself of what neHouse." breeding of foundling children." (This is curious, considering the absurd allegation that the prince was a supposititious child.) Other signs of the manners of the age are subjoined. There are some curious notices of the East India Company :-for instance: "Meaning the other sons of Charles the Second, the Dukes of Richmond, Grafton, Southampton, and Northumberland." This contemporary account of the death of George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, is curious, as shewing the grounds upon which Pope wrote his pathetic description of the decease of this nobleman; and yet it would appear that the statement of his extreme penury and desertion was much exaggerated. He died notin the worst inn's worst room,' but in the house of one of his tenants, in the town of Kirby Moorside, which still exists, and must have been at the time one of the best houses in the place. He had caught cold by sitting on the ground after fox-hunting, which brought on internal Inflammation," cessaries were most cumbersome, and is a-going to France to be a Carthusian monk. He is said to have given his clerk money to pay his debts, and to qualify him to enter the same state, and to have left his goods, except his "Our Italian advices acquaint us with a money and coach, to his friends. tragical story, that two persons who were con- The corn-meter that was reputed dead, proves tracted, repairing to a church in the country to be alive and in health, though the late lord of Orto to marry, the priest having asked the mayor had disposed of his place in favour of lady if she accepted the person to whom she his son."-This is rather a tragi-comedy. was betrothed for her true and faithful hus- "A medal is said to run about with the band, she answered, no; which very much seven bishops on one side, with these words: surprised all the company. The priest, think. Wisdom hath built her house, and chosen out ing this negative to have come from her heed-seven pillars; on the other side, a church unlessly, reiterated his demand twice more; but dermined by a Jesuit and a fanatic, with these words: The gates of hell shall not prevail against her." A picture of an Irish watering-place will amuse our readers : "Wexford, 7th August, 1688. "Dear Sir, Had this place afforded me any thing worth communicating to you, I should have paid you my respects before now: this rendezvous of decrepits, where people entertain one another with histories of their several ails and infirmities, enough if put together to make a second Wiseman's Book of Martyrs, and talk nothing but the jargon of the place, of salts and minerals, volatile spirits, vomits, tinging, precipitating, passing, or, as the ladies say, rendering: then for dry roasted mutton, and rabbits, and chickens without sauce, and to be kept waking, as they try witches. And fantastical ladies, and fops, and lampoons in Wexford doggrel, would be an entertainment to you as bad as drinking the waters them selves." We shall now conclude with a few paragraphs about the news-writers and journals of this epoch. 6 from a savage purpose. Something of this in- ships; that in hunting and in war he would fluence was owing to her infantile beauty; but be an invaluable treasure. The chief remained more to the gentleness of which that beauty inexorable. Then Tahmiroo no longer joined was the emblem. Her's was a species of love- in the dance, and the old men noticed that her liness rare among Indian girls. Her figure had rich voice was silent when they passed her the flexile grace so appropriate to protected and wigwam. The light of her beauty began to dependant woman in refined countries; her fade, and the bright vermilion current which ripe pouting lip and dimpled cheek wore the mantled under her brown cheek became slugpleading air of aggrieved childhood; and her gish and pale. The languid glance she cast on dark eye had such an habitual expression of the morning sun and the bright earth entered timidity and fear, that the young Sioux called into her father's soul. He could not see his her the Startled Fawn.' I know not whether beautiful child thus gradually wasting away. her father's broad lands, or her own appealing He had long averted his eyes whenever he saw beauty, was the most powerful cause of admira- Florimond de Rancé; but one day when he tion; but certain it is, Tahmiroo was the un-crossed his hunting path, he laid his hand on rivalled belle of the Sioux. She was a creature his shoulder, and pointed to Tahmiroo's dwell. all formed for love. Her downcast eye, her ing. Not a word was spoken. The proud old trembling lip, and her quiet, submissive mo- man and the blooming lover entered it totion, all spoke its language; yet various young gether. Tahmiroo was seated in the darkest chieftains had in vain sought her affections; corner of the wigwam, her head leaning on her and when her father urged her to strengthen hand, her basket-work tangled beside her, and his power by an alliance, she answered him a bunch of flowers the village maidens had only by her tears. This state of things conti- brought her scattered and withering at her nued until 1765, when a company of French feet. The chief looked upon her with a yehe. traders came to reside there, for the sake of ment expression of love, which none but stern "Yesterday morning, about three or four deriving profit from the fur-trade. Among countenances can wear. Tahmiroo, he said o'clock, died that pains-taking Henry Carre, them was Florimond de Rancé, a young, indo-in a subdued tone, go to the wigwam of the author of the late Pacquett of Advice from lent Adonis, whom pure ennui had led from stranger, that your father may again see you Rome, and of the Weekly Occurrences; some Quebec to the Falls of St. Anthony. His fair, love to look on the rising sun and the opening of our chief newsmongers are posted to Wind- round face, and studied foppery of dress, might flowers.' There was mingled joy and modesty sor to put in for his places. have done little toward gaining the heart of in the upward glance of the Startled Fawn' of "In the last were mentioned some coffee- the gentle Sioux; but there was a deference the Sioux; and when Florimond de Rancé saw house news-writers who make it their business and courtesy in his manner which the Indian the light of her mild eye suddenly and timidly to poison the town and country with their false never pays to degraded woman, and Tahmiroo's veiled by its deeply fringed lid, he knew that news. One of them has since been met with deep sensibilities were touched by it. A more he had lost none of his power. The marriage. by a gentleman whom he had scandalised in his careful arrangement of her rude dress, an anx- song was soon heard in the royal wigwam, and newspaper, and was lustily convinced by cudgel iety to speak his language fluently, and a close the young adventurer became the son of a king. argument, in the presence of many good wit- observance of European customs, soon betrayed Months and years passed on, and found Tabmi. nesses, that he was in the wrong. Several the subtle power which was fast making her its roo the same devoted, submissive being. Her others wait an opportunity to thrash his jacket slave. The ready vanity of the Frenchman husband no longer treated her with the uniin the same manner, which is the least could be quickly perceived it. At first he encouraged it form gallantry of a lover. He was not often expected by people that venture so far beyond with that sort of undefined pleasure which harsh, but he adopted something of the coldtheir province, in matters, too, which require so man always feels in awakening strong affection ness and indifference of the nation he had much niceness, penetration, and judgment. in the hearts of even the most insignificant. joined. Tahmiroo sometimes wept in secret; "Yesterday the lord chancellor, by the king's Then the idea, that, though an Indian, she was but so much of fear had lately mingled with command, directed the justices of peace of a princess, and that her father's extensive lands her love, that she carefully concealed her grief Middlesex to suppress all coffee-houses and on the Missouri were daily becoming of more and from him who had occasioned it. When she other public houses that deal in news-letters, more consequence to his ambitious nation, led watched his countenance with that pleading, or expose to the public any foreign or domestic him to think of marriage with her as a desirable innocent look which had always characterised newspapers besides the printed Gazette." object. His eyes and his manner had said this her beauty, she sometimes would obtain a glance Having thus executed our task as connectedly long before the old chief began to suspect it, such as he had given her in former days, and as the nature of the work before us rendered and he allowed the wily Frenchman to twine then her heart would leap like a frolicsome possible, we beg, in taking leave, to recommend himself almost as closely around his heart as lamb, and she would live cheerfully on the these volumes to their posts in every good he had around the more yielding soul of his remembrance of that smile, through many library. Some repetitions occur, but they seem darling child. Though exceedingly indolent wearisome days of silence and neglect. Never to have been unavoidable without mutilating by nature, Florimond de Rancé had acquired was woman, in her heart-breaking devotedness, the Correspondence. The notes by the editor skill in many graceful arts, which excited the satisfied with such slight testimonials of love are useful, and do credit to his diligence, as wonder of the savages. He fenced well enough as was this gentle Sioux girl. If Florimond the entire work does to his judgment and to foil the most expert antagonist; and in chose to fish, she would herself ply the oars, ability. It is a valuable addition to the annals hunting, his rifle was sure to carry death to rather than he should suffer fatigue; and the of England. the game. These accomplishments, and the gaudy canoe her father had given her, might facility with which his pliant nation conform often be seen gliding down the stream, while to the usages of savage life, made him a uni- Tahmiroo dipped her oars in unison with her The Legendary, consisting of Original Pieces, versal favourite, and at his request he was for- soft, rich voice, and the indolent Frenchman principally illustrative of American History, mally adopted as one of the tribe. But con- lay sunk in luxurious repose. She had learned Scenery, and Manners. Edited by N. P.scious as he was of his power, it was long his religion; but for herself she never prayed. Willis. 12mo. pp. 286. Boston, 1828. S. G. before he dared to ask for the daughter of the The cross he had given her was always raised haughty chief. When he did make the daring in supplication for him; and if he but looked THIS is a very agreeable specimen of American proposition, it was received with a still and unkindly on her, she kissed it, and invoked its periodical tales of forests, lakes, valleys, &c.; terrible wrath, that might well frighten him aid, in agony of soul. She fancied the sounds many as picturesque as the originals. No- from his purpose. Rage shewed itself only in of his native land might be dear to him, and thing like native resources: the superiority of the swelling veins and clenched hand of the old she studied his language with a patience and those legends founded on incidents, and em- chief. With the boasted coldness and self-pos-perseverance to which the savage has seldom bellished with transatlantic scenery, are as session of an Indian, he answered, There are been known to submit. She tried to imitate superior to those cast in the common mould Sioux girls enough for the poor pale faces that the dresses she had heard him describe; and if of fiction as it is possible to be. We quote the come among us. A king's daughter weds the he looked with a pleased eye on any ornament following, to us, very beautiful story. son of a king. Eagles must sleep in an eagle's she wore, it was always reserved to welcome "Tahmiroo was the daughter of a powerful nest.' In vain Tahmiroo knelt and supplicated. Sioux chieftain; and she was the only being In vain she promised that Florimond de Rancé ever known to turn the relentless old man would adopt all his enmitiés, and all his friend Goodrich. his return. Yet, for all this lavishness of love, she asked but kind, approving looks, which cost the giver nothing. Alas, for the |