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altogether, an injustice to other graceful or striking productions, to particularise these. From some interesting Notices of the Canadian Indians, by Edward Walsh, M.D., physician to his Majesty's forces, we select the following example of the prose.

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antly and sumptuously supplied with venison, hogh! hogh! It was now intimated to me fish, wild turkey, pheasant, and partridges; that I might be initiated into these mysteries; and we were daily tempted with bear, porcu- but I confess I had no wish to be further ac pine, racoon, squirrel, dog-flesh, and rattle. quainted with this Miamee masonry, although snake soup, these being the choicest delicacies I was informed I should be enabled to dream of an Indian mess; and some extraordinary dreams, to foretell events, to raise the dead, to "Of all regions, the Canadas seem most ceremony or usage was continually occurring, eat fire, swallow trees, and digest bayonets. congenial to the British habits. The soil and at which I was present. The first to which No doubt these juggling prophets, by a knowclimate are, in the highest degree, fertile and my attention was directed, was a matter of ledge of medicinal plants, and by great sagacity salubrious. There are some countries which, great curiosity and interest, which I had often and experience, exercise a strong, but not from an unknown constitution of the atmo-heard of, but never before had an opportunity despotic, influence over the multitude. To sphere, seem to be exempt from certain fatal of witnessing. This was the initiation of a these naturalists of the forest we are indebted diseases that infest their neighbours; thus the young warrior into the society, or college of for some of our most valuable articles of the plague never visits Persia, nor the yellow fever magicians. The ceremony is conducted with materia medica; as sarsaparilla, jalap, snakethe Canadas. I have only to regret one conse- a deal of mystery, and none but distinguished root, gingsing, and ipecacuanha. They are also quence that results, or will inevitably result, chiefs admitted to be spectators. By special adroit at reducing a dislocation or setting a from the rapid increase of the population of favour I was allowed to stand in the circle. fracture: but they do not understand bloodBritish America, and that is, the utter extinc- The aspirant had been severely disciplined, letting, although they practise cupping with a tion or absorption of the aborginal natives. in a state of probation, for some time before. gourd. To introduce among them so important The red and the white people cannot co-exist There was a small arched hut constructed, a practice, I gave the paw-waw a case of in the same place. Many well-informed writers very close, and barely high enough for him lancets, and instructed him in their use; and, have described the country and its inhabitants, to sit up. A dog having been previously sacri- in return, he conferred on me his buffalo conand treated at large of American population. ficed, the bones were scraped, and wrapped up juring cap, which, like the mantle of the proI am willing to contribute my gleanings, col- in its skin. The aspirant was placed, sitting, phet, was also to confer his miraculous spirit: lected during a residence of more than five at the little door; he was entirely naked, his but not finding it efficacious, I gave it, with years among them, and to testify, before they body oiled, and painted in stripes of black, many other Indian articles, to a public museum, go hence, and be no more seen,' that an un- white, and red, and his head decorated with where it now is. * lettered, but interesting race of red people had porcupine quills, and powdered with swans- "The marriage ceremonies, in many parexisted. The opportunities I had of mixing down. All being now ready, the most extra- ticulars, were like those of the Hebrews. They with these people, and knowing them well, ordinary figure that was ever seen among the purchase their wives, by making presents, as were such as do not usually happen to those demons of the theatre, strode out of his wig- Abraham's servant purchased Rebecca for Isaac, who merely visit the country. Shortly after wam. He was a Miamee chief, gaunt and and Jacob purchased Leah and Rachel. my arrival, one of these occurred, which I was big-boned, and upwards of six feet high. His young warrior addresses the father of his beglad to avail myself of. Among the misfor- face was terrific. Projecting brows overhung loved in a short speech, to this purport :— tunes which the migration of Europeans to a pair of keen, small, black eyes; the nose Father, I love your daughter; will you give America has brought on the natives, is the large, prominent, and angular; visage lengthy; her to me? and let the small roots of her heart introduction of the small-pox, from the scourge chin square and long, with a bushy beard; and twine round mine.' On permission having been of which they had before been exempt. Dis. a mouth which appeared to extend from ear to obtained, he brings his presents, and lays them eases are always most fatal when they seize, ear. A white line divided his features; one at the door of the lodge or wigwam; if they for the first time, fresh victims; and this side was painted black, the other red. His are accepted, he visits his mistress, and remains spread its ravages among the red people, with head-dress was made of the shaggy skin of all night with her; and so he continues to do the resistless fury of a conflagration. I shall a buffalo's forehead, with the ears and horns for two or three months before the wedding is mention one instance of its devastating effects. on. A buffalo robe hung on his broad shoul- celebrated. After feasting and dancing, the A distant tribe in alliance with the Chipawas ders, the inside of which was wrought in high priest or prophet finishes the ceremony, had been in a flourishing state, when it was figures of sun, moon, and stars, and other when the bride presents a cake to her husband, first attacked by this awful pest. In vain their hieroglyphics. The okama-paw-waw, or chief and he divides an ear of Indian corn between priests, prophets, and physicians, attempted to worker of miracles, now addressed the young them. The bride is then carried by her bride'sarrest its progress; they themselves became its aspirant, in a short speech, uttered with a deep maids, in a buffalo skin, to her husband's cavictims. The survivors shifted their encamp-intonation, as from the bottom of his breast. bin. Polygamy and divorce were common to ments from place to place; the inexorable pes- He then flung a small pebble at him, with Jews and Indians; but among the latter it is tilence pursued them, till the whole nation some force. The Indian, the instant he was not general. The Indian females are naturally perished, with the exception of one family-hit, fell back, and appeared to be in a swoon. gentle, modest, and silent;-they are passion. a man, his wife, and child. This last man' Two assistants, with hooded skins over their ately fond of their children, and are submissive fled towards the British settlements, and was heads, thrust him head foremost, in this state slaves, and at the same time affectionately atseen to pitch his wigwam on the edge of the of insensibility, into the hut, which had pre-tached to their husbands. This they evince by forest; but here, too, his enemy found him. viously been heated with hot stones, upon which self-immolation, after the manner of eastern The woman and child sickened and died-the water was thrown, to raise a vapour. While wives. Among the few poisonous plants of last survivor dug their grave, and laid them in this was performing, the grand paw-waw Canada, is a shrub, which yields a wholesome it; he then sat down on the edge of the grave, threw himself on the ground, muttering words, fruit, but contains in its roots a deadly juice, and in this attitude he was found by a passing as if he was talking to somebody; rolling him. which the widow, who wishes not to survive trader. Him he requested to cover him up self from side to side, and working like one in her husband, drinks. An eye-witness describes with his wife and child; and then, giving him-strong convulsions. In this state he was dragged its effects: the woman having resolved to die, self a mortal wound, he flung himself upon into his wigwam, and left there to dream. In chanted her death-song and funeral service; their bodies. The Indians seldom, if ever, about half an hour he sallied forth, and made a she then drank off the poisonous juice, was commit suicide; but this was an extreme case, sign; upon which the assistants drew out by seized with shivering and convulsions, and which put to the test the fortitude even of the heels the miserable candidate from his oven. expired in a few minutes on the body of her He was bathed in a clammy sweat, and had the husband. In their persons they are small and appearance of having actually expired, evincing well-made; many of them, if dressed in the no perceptible respiration or pulse. The great English fashion, would be counted pretty bru Having performed this first and important paw-waw, no ways disconcerted, stooped over nettes; their complexions are not so dark as to duty, I applied myself to study the Indian him, and uttered aloud his incantations. The veil their blushes. It is curious to see them character and manners; and no situation could two assistants sat on either side, each with a toddling after their tall husbands, loaded with be better calculated for the purpose. Most of skin pouch, in which was some ignited sub-gear, and perhaps an infant fastened on the top these tribes had, as yet, little intercourse with stance, the smoke of which they puffed into his of the bundle. However, they are indemnified, European visiters; and they brought with ears. In a few minutes, he fetched a deep sigh, when they grow old; for, as among the ancient them, and practised, all their primitive habits, and opened his eyes. The high priest then put Germans, their authority and advice are then their languages, oratory, gala dresses, dances, a calabash, in which was some liquor, to his paramount. amusements, and religious ceremonies. They mouth: after which he soon recovered. The "The last ceremony they practise is called hunted for us every day, and we occasionally spectators then testified the strongest signs of the feast of souls. Every three or four years, joined their parties. Our table was abundapprobation, crying altogether, hu hu hu! by a general agreement, they disinter all the

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Dr. Walsh went on the humane mission of introducing vaccination.

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bodies of such as have died within that time: finding the soft parts mouldered away, they carefully clean the bones, and each family wrap up the remains of their departed friends in new furs. They are then all laid together in one common cemetery, which forms a mound, or barrow, sometimes of considerable magnitude. Many such may be seen in Upper Canada, exactly similar to those of Dorset and Wiltshire. Such remains of antiquity are, indeed, spread over the whole surface of the globe. This last grand ceremony is concluded with a feast, with dances, songs, speeches, games, and mock combats.

"The Indians have several apologues referring to the deluge, in which the ark, the raven, and dove, are alluded to. Indeed, the present aspect of the country is itself a commentary on the deluge. The soil of British America is evidently alluvial; the waters of the great lakes are subsiding, and the basins of many small ones are quite dry. The channel of the great river St. Laurence has obviously very much contracted within its former limits. In fine, from the vigour and freshness of the vegetable kingdom, it may be fairly inferred that the ground was uncovered by the waters at a much later period than in the old world. The Indians have also a tradition that the world will be destroyed by fire. To a people ignorant of astronomy, their theory is plausible. They think that the sun is approaching nearer the earth, and that the effect is perceptible every fifty years:-of course, in time, the orb of fire must come near enough to consume it. Perhaps they adopted this notion from observing the evident amelioration of the climate. They have also various traditions of the creation and the fall of man. One has some disfigured resemblance to Scripture: In the beginning, a few men rose out of the ground, but there was no woman among them. One of them found out a road to heaven, where he met a woman; they offended the Great Spirit, upon which they were both thrust out. They fell on the back of the tortoise; the woman was delivered of male twins: in process of time, one of these twins slew the other.'"

With all its good qualities, we need hardly add, that the Amulet may fairly reckon on an increased patronage.

The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not: a Christmas
and New Year's Gift, or Birthday Present
for 1829. Edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall. 12mo.
pp. 239. London, 1828. Hailes.
A CHARMING little volume, doing much credit
to its fair lady editor, who is herself a very
interesting contributor. There is a pretty tale
by Mrs. Hofland; another, which we think
will be a great favourite, by the Author of
Solitary Hours-the Leaside Cottage; a neat
Dedication to the Princess Vittoria, by W.
Kennedy; and many other historiettes and
poems, which, we doubt not, will be very popu-
lar among our young friends. We like the
following, by Allan Cunningham, very much.

"The Town Child and the Country Child.
Child of the country! free as air
Art thou, and as the sunshine fair;
Born, like the lily, where the dew
Lies odorous when the day is new;
Fed 'mid the May-flowers like the bee,
Nursed to sweet music on the knee,
Lull'd in the breast to that glad tune
Which winds make 'mong the woods of June;
1 sing of thee;-'tis sweet to sing

Of such a fair and gladsome thing.
Child of the town! for thee I sigh:

A gilded roof's thy golden sky,

A carpet is thy daisled sod,

A narrow street thy boundless road,

Thy rushing deer's the clattering tramp
Of watchmen, thy best light's a lamp,

Through smoke, and not through trellised vines
And blooming trees, thy sunbeam shines:
I sing of thee in sadness; where
Else is wreck wrought in aught so fair.
Child of the country! thy small feet
Tread on strawberries red and sweet:
With thee I wander forth to see
The flowers which most delight the bee;
The bush o'er which the throstle sung
In April while she nursed her young;
The den beneath the sloe-thorn, where
She bred her twins the timorous hare;
The knoll, wrought o'er with wild bluebells,
Where brown bees build their balmy cells;
The greenwood stream, the shady pool,
Where trouts leap when the day is cool;
The shilfa's nest that seems to be
A portion of the sheltering tree,
And other marvels which my verse
Can find no language to rehearse.

Child of the town! for thee, alas!
Glad nature spreads nor flowers nor grass;
Birds build no nests, nor in the sun
Glad streams come singing as they run:
A maypole is thy blossom'd tree,
A beetle is thy murmuring bee;
Thy bird is caged, thy dove is where
Thy poulterer dwells, beside thy hare;
Thy fruit is pluck'd, and by the pound
Hawk'd clamorous all the city round;
No roses, twinborn on the stalk,
Perfume thee in thy evening walk;
No voice of birds-but to thee comes
The mingled din of cars and drums,
And startling cries, such as are rife
When wine and wassail waken strife.

Child of the country! on the lawn
I see thee like the bounding fawn,
Blithe as the bird which tries its wing
The first time on the winds of spring;
Bright as the sun when from the cloud
He comes as cocks are crowing loud;
Now running, shouting, 'mid sunbeams,
Now groping trouts in lucid streams,
Now spinning like a mill-wheel round,
Now hunting echo's empty sound,
Now climbing up some old tall tree
For climbing sake. 'Tis sweet to thee,
To sit where birds can sit alone,

Or share with thee thy venturous throne.
Child of the town and bustling street,
What woes and snares await thy feet!
Thy paths are paved for five long miles,
Thy groves and hills are peaks and tiles;
Thy fragrant air is yon thick smoke,
Which shrouds thee like a mourning cloak;
And thou art cabin'd and confined
At once from sun, and dew, and wind;
Or set thy tottering feet but on
Thy lengthen'd walks of slippery stone;
The coachman there careering reels
With goaded steeds and maddening wheels;
And Commerce pours each poring son
In pelf's pursuit and hollos' run.
While, flush'd with wine, and stung at play,
Men rush from darkness into day.
The stream's too strong for thy small bark;
There nought can sail, save what is stark.

ings of the ladies on an outward-bound voyage, -full, as their bosoms are, of hopes, of fears, of flirtations, of ambitious projects, and of novel wonders, according to their respective ages, temperaments, and experience. As there have been and are many exports of this kind, we have no doubt but that curiosity will supply, from so numerous a class and its numerous relations, a multitude of readers for the perusal of these pages. There is, besides, to recommend them still farther to fair readers, lots of parties, balls, spectacles, loves, and marriages. These, however, being more of the commonplaces of works of this nature than the Indian varieties, we shall make our sample extract a leaf from an account of O Meer Sing, who attacked a British escort, and plundered the convoy.

"He was known to command a numerous and desperate banditti, who for years had been the terror of the country; but as they had never before ventured to despoil the Company, the search after them had not been carried on with such vigour as to prevent their escape. When a village had been plundered, and its inhabitants murdered, parties had been sent in pursuit; which the robbers commonly evaded, by dashing into the dominions of neutral princes, whose concurrence was at all times easily secured by participation in the plunder. Here the case was different; the Company were the sufferers, and to a large amount; and government caused a statement of the offence to be sent to all their native allies, requiring their permission to let search, if necessary, be made in their territories, and assistance given to discover the robbers. Scouts were sent out in every direction, and the intelligence they received of O Meer Sing was, that he had effected his escape into Oude, and was in hiding amongst his majesty's, the King of Oude's, refractory zeemindars. There Melville followed him from one native stockade to another, and was sometimes obliged to level these fortifications with the ground before he could dislodge him. He resolutely defended every place in which he took shelter to the last moment, in order to wear out his pursuers; and when further defence was impossible, mounted his horse, which was always in waiting, and fled to the next strong-hold. These stockades are protections thrown up by the landholders, to defend themselves against the exactions of the tax-gatherers; and as the one party is just as unwilling to pay what is justly due, as the other is ready to practise brought to an adjustment without blows given most grievous extortion, the affair is seldom and blood shed. The taxes are sold by the king to the highest bidders, and the takeels who purchase them have authority to make the circuit of the provinces, when the crops are upon the ground, and settle their arbitrary assessments at their own good pleasure. This is commonly to the very uttermost rupee From the minutia of that the state of the harvest will permit ; many of the descriptions of female feelings and leaving to the wretched cultivators a bare conduct, the authorship is evidently fixed upon subsistence, and the satisfaction of knowing a lady, and it is equally clear that she must that, however luxuriant the harvest may be, have resided for a considerable time in the East, the pleasure of labour is all the reward they and mixed with the best society there. To en- must expect. Their honourable masters are hance the interest of the story, there are a se- permitted to come with a strong body of troops, ries of adventures more resembling facts than and with fire and sword sweep the produce fictions, and several scenes from what is called of the harvest into the royal treasury, taking "up the country," into which somewhat more of the romantic is thrown, though, perhaps, founded on the same realities with the rest of the narrative. The pictures of the voyage out, &c. are faithful, and possess the peculiar merit of exhibiting the impressions and the proceed

Fly from the town, sweet child! for health Is happiness, and strength, and wealth. There is a lesson in each flower, A story in each stream and bower: On every herb on which you tread Are written words which, rightly read, Will lead you from earth's fragrant sod To hope, and holiness, and God." be duly sensible of their advantages over their We can only hope the rising generation will grandmothers and grandfathers.

Life in India; or, the English at Calcutta.

3 vols. 12mo. London, 1828. Colburn. THERE is a degree of verisimilitude and truth in these volumes, which must render them acceptable to all who wish to see a genuine picture of life in India.

care always to reserve an equal share for themselves in private, as a reward for their trouble and risk. O Meer Sing had before assisted the zeemindars; now it was their turn to render him the same service. The pursuing party were by this means denied sleep or rest; even

Major Melville goes to see an elephantfight:

himself in his stirrups, discharged his second pistol with as sure aim as he had done the first, and laid his adversary flat on the grass. The horse seemed to share the spirit and feeling of the rider; he snorted at the well-known sound of the pistol, and, skimming the earth like a swallow, was out of sight in an instant, even before his unmounted pursuers could make a second effort.

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food could be taken but by snatches; and, | cummerbund bound his waist, set in fine and favourite elephant!' 'What are the lives of worn out with fatigue, and hopeless of suc- nicely-arranged folds, and firmly drawn as if low caste men, to the king's pleasure?" "Slaves cess, Melville resolved to present himself at for walking or riding; below it appeared a who would be much honoured by dying under the court of Lucknow, and demand the inter-gold-linked waistband, from which his tulwar the feet of an animal who had borne the ruler ference of the Company's resident. He was hung suspended. His turban, white as the of the destinies of men!' Even those whom now out of the Company's provinces, and in drifted snow, was also, by its ample folds, his presence of mind had rescued from instant a land where every man keeps his own by the beautifully crossed and re-crossed over each death, with true native servility shouted, strength of his arm, and ploughs his field with other, -a good defence against the rays of the Seize him! seize him! cut off his ears and his target on his back and his tulwar at his sun or the blows of a sabre, as occasion might his nose! off with his head for his presump. side, and is sometimes called upon to use both, require. In his ears he wore gold ear-rings, tion!' But this man, who seemed as active in the defence of the bullocks in his plough. and round his neck a massy broad gold collar, as he was resolute, ran through the opening It is a well-known fact that, under native go- studded with large polished projecting knobs; the elephant had caused in the crowd, and vernments, where thieves can commonly afford on his wrists he wore bangles of the same crossed the road which bounded the plain, to buy protection at a higher rate than better metal, and his fingers were covered with rings; where a black horse stood picketed under a men, the eyes of power wink at the dirty his shoes, with their long pointed curling toes, tree. A native, who watched the approach of sources from which the bright gold flows; were plainer than beseemed the rest of his his master, undid the heel ropes while he and that whole villages exist, whose inhabitants dress, being merely yellow morocco, with a leaped into his saddle. His foremost pursuer are of the caste of thieves, whose fathers and little silver embroidery on the front of the just got up with him, as he mounted his wellgrandfathers were thieves before them, and foot, and indicated that he had not come on trained steed. 'Seize O Meer Sing!' shouted whose children will be thieves after them; the ground in a palanquin. His chudder was the muscular chokeydar, as he ran with his and, provided they do not practise their trade thrown over his left shoulder, much in the target on his left arm, and brandished his tultoo near home, and never fail in their assess- way of a Highland plaid, and, contrary to war with the other. Seize him whose name ments, no notice is taken: so that in such common custom, light enough to leave both makes men's hearts to tremble, and get the circumstances Melville experienced more ob- his arms at liberty. His age Major Melville price which is set upon his head, and a great struction than assistance from the people he thought might be about two- or three-and-name to fill the world!' But the redoubtable was amongst, who seemed to have a natural thirty; and, accustomed as he was to see grace-O Meer Sing, for it was indeed he, lost no abhorrence of all power supported by legal ful and dignified carriage amongst natives, he time in useless parley; he turned round, raised authority, and a kind of fellow-feeling with thought he had never remarked it in a greater one who had carried off a government trea- degree than in this man. He stood with his Jure." arms folded over his bosom, and his head a little drawn back, looking intently upon the combat before him; his black eye from time to "The plain without the lists seemed one time flashed fire as he observed the successful dense mass of human creatures, all anxiously blows, but no muscle of his finely-formed counwatching the movements of two huge male tenance moved; and while it was evident that elephants, who drew near in opposite direc- the spirit within felt strongly, the outward tions; and the combatants were led into the man remained as immovable as if he had been "Many of his own people had mixed with arena. In an instant the whole plain was in carved in marble. His features, high and the crowd, and ran anxiously forward as if to motion, as if the spectators, by moving an regular, were well calculated to express all assist in his capture, which in fact they ob inch, could see better; and turbans undulated, strong passions; his coal-black hair, musta- structed by intercepting the pursuers and inand shawls streamed, while the rays of the sun chios, and short beard, had a slight turn in creasing the commotion. O Meer Sing took flashed back from the gold and silver caparisons the points, which might be natural or the the way to the river, where a twelve-oared of elephants and horses, or glittered upon the effect of careful keeping, as there was not a boat lay in readiness, her hands resting on jewels and sumptuous tulwars of their riders. single hair out of place in either, while the their oars. His horse, as if perfectly acquaintThe elephants were introduced at opposite sides ruddy glow which mantled through his darked with what was expected of him, leaped in, of the enclosure, and the openings by which cheek shewed he was accustomed to air and his rider still in his saddle; the boatmen pulled they entered securely closed after them. A exercise. When the defeated elephant turned, their oars, they flashed in the air, and notwithclamour of exultation rose over the plain, in- he cast a glance upon Melville, but without standing the deep and rapid stream, the vessel, termixed with the shrill neighing of the horses. moving his head, and when he fled his nostrils under their skilful guidance, shot quickly to The combatants for a few minutes stood face dilated with scorn. Flushed with conquest, the opposite side, where two or three armed to face, eyeing each other with every symptom the triumphant victor followed, and his trunk horsemen waited its approach; and it had no of rising anger, which all their reputed wisdom repeated the blows, until the vanquished, sorely sooner gained the shore, than the horse, with was ineffectual to repress; then, rearing their pressed and perfectly furious, effected a breach one bound as before, leaped on the bank, and trunks with a curve high over their heads, ran in the barrier, and rushed through the assembled continued his rapid route." furiously at each other, uttering roars of rage, multitude, crushing under foot and trampling The offender is proscribed, and a price set which caused all the horses in the field to rear to death every one in his way. Melville's on his head:-his future perils and escapes, and curvet to the imminent danger of their horse became perfectly unmanageable, reared, and the catastrophe, fill the third volume, and riders. The furious elephants came together and, spinning round on his hind legs, tried all form an exceedingly interesting and characterfull shock, with a noise which shook the ground in his power to dislodge his rider; but Mel-istic tale, which we recommend to all the lovers like thunder, and renewed their hideous roar- ville kept his seat; and the native, who had of the extraordinary; though, we believe, in ing; they charged again and again; their blows watched his movements, seized the bridle with this instance, it is hardly an over-charged picmight be heard in alternate succession, like the a practised hand, and with a jerk brought the ture of a fierce Pindaree chief and his brave and strokes of a sledge-hammer, until, after what horse to the ground, advising Melville, in lawless band of followers. his majesty pronounced to be a very good battle, Hindostanee, to lose not a moment in effecting the heaviest elephant seemed evidently giving his escape from danger; an advice with which way, exhausted by his own exertions; his ad- he was well disposed to comply, but his refrac versary saw his advantage, and struck him tory animal, in his efforts to turn him, frantic such a blow with his trunk, that, mad with with fear, bolted forward and fell, throwing pain, he turned and fled. Melville, though his rider just in the path which the infuriated deeply interested in the fate of the noble ani- elephant was taking. The native who had bemals before him, could not help being from fore assisted him made a spring in the same time to time attracted by the manners and direction, and, drawing a pistol from his cumappearance of a native who stood by him, and berbund, which had been concealed by his who also seemed to survey him with more chudder, took a steady aim at the eye of the interest than the native apathy usually per- exasperated elephant, and lodged the contents mits. His dress at once shewed that he was in his brain. He fell with a groan, and exa Hindoo of high caste. It was altogether pired; while his destroyer replaced his pistol white, and of very fine materials. Melville in his belt, and disappeared. remarked that, notwithstanding the heat of the weather, his jacket was quilted; a large

"A hundred voices exclaimed together,
Seize the man who dared to kill the king's

The Anniversary; or, Poetry and Prose for 1829. Edited by Allan Cunningham. pp. 320. London, J. Sharpe.

Or the largest size of the Annuals, in this respect resembling the Keepsake, our copy of the Anniversary has reached us too late in the week to admit of analysis. We must, however, observe, that it is indeed a beautiful volume, combining a degree of neatness and elegance in all its details, with the more striking efforts of the graphic art.

Owing to the same cause, the period at which we received it, we have confined our extracts from the Amulet to prose; and for the sake of variety, we shall select only specimens of poetry from the Anniversary; though, Going

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to the Races, by Miss Mitford; the Honeycomb and Bitter Gourd, a Scottish tale; the Three Questions (the legend of a dreamer, who comes to London and obtains a fortune, which has contemporaneously figured in two other of the Annuals); Paddy Kelleher and his Pig, an excellent Irish story; the Cameronian Preacher's Tale, by J. Hogg; and another of the same Covenanting class a Tale of the Times of the Martyrs, extremely well told by the celebrated and Rev. Edward Irving, would at any earlier hour tempt us into quo

Edderline's Dream, by Professor Wilson, is a fine poem; and we regret that we can only give the most exquisite description of her sleep:

Castle-Oban is lost in the darkness of night,
For the moon is swept from the starless heaven,
And the latest line of lowering light

That lingered on the stormy even,

A dim-seen line, half cloud, half wave,
Hath sunk into the weltering grave.
Castle-Oban is dark without and within,
And downwards to the fearful din,
Where Ocean with his thunder shocks
6! Stuns the green foundation rocks,

Through the grim abyss that mocks his eye,
Oft hath the eerie watchman sent
A shuddering look, a shivering sigh,

From the edge of the howling battlement !

Therein is a lonesome room,
Undisturbed as some old tomb
That, built within a forest glen,
Far from feet of living men,
And sheltered by its black pine-trees
From sound of rivers, lochs, and seas,
Flings back its arched gateway tall,
At times to some great funeral !
Noiseless as a central cell

In the bosom of a mountain
Where the fairy people dwell,
By the cold and sunless fountain!

Breathless as a holy shrine,

When the voice of psalms is shed!
And there upon her stately bed,
While her raven locks recline

O'er an arm more pure than snow,
Motionless beneath her head,

And through her large fair eyelids shine
Shadowy dreams that come and go,
By too deep bliss disquieted,-
There sleeps in love and beauty's glow,
The high-born Lady Edderline.
Lo! the lamp's wan fitful light,
Glide,-gliding round the golden rim!
Restored to life, now glancing bright,
Now just expiring, faint and dim!
Like a spirit loath to die,
Contending with its destiny.
All dark! a momentary veil

Is o'er the sleeper! now a pale
Uncertain beauty glimmers faint,
And now the calm face of the saint
With every feature reappears,
Celestial in unconscious tears!
Another gleam! how sweet the while,
Those pictured faces on the wall,
Through the midnight silence smile!
Shades of fair ones, in the aisle
Vaulted the castle cliff's below,

To nothing mouldered, one and all,
Ages long ago!

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Disturbing the repose of heaven,

Hath fallen her head! The long black hair, From the fillet's silken band

In dishevelled masses riven,

Is steaming downwards to the floor.

Is the last convulsion o'er?

And will that length of glorious tresses,
So laden with the soul's distresses,
By those fair hands in morning light,
Above those eyelids opening bright,
Be braided nevermore!

No, the lady is not dead,

Though flung thus wildly o'er her bed;
Like a wretched corse upon the shore,
That lies until the morning brings
Searchings, and shrieks, and sorrowings;
Or, haply, to all eyes unknown,
Is borne away without a groan,
On a chance plank, 'mid joyful cries
Of birds that pierce the sunny skies
With seaward dash, or in calm bands
Parading o'er the silvery sands,
Or mid the lovely flush of shells,
Pausing to burnish crest or wing.
No fading footmark see that tells
Of that poor unremembered thing!

Before the time to tell,

When moons as brief once more go by,

For whom this cup again shall swell.

The hoary mower strides apace,

Nor crops alone the ripened ear;
And we may miss the merriest face
Among us, 'gainst another year.
Whoe'er survive, be kind as we have been,

And think of friends that sleep beneath the green.

Nay, droop not: being is not breath;
"Tis fate that friends must part,

But God will bless in life, in death,

The noble soul, the gentle heart.
So deeds be just and words be true,

We need not shrink from Nature's rule;

The tomb, so dark to mortal view,

Is heaven's own blessed vestibule; And solemn, but not sad, this cup should flow, Though nearer lies the land to which we go." To the Virgin, by the same, is also a sweet composition; but, if our memory does not fail us, he has rendered that theme still higher justice before, in his admirable Spanish Ballads. We like the pathos and simplicity of the Wedding Wake, by G. Darley, so well, that, in spite of its melancholy, we must yield it a place.

"Dead Beauty's eye is beamless all,
Its glance is dull as hail;

The snow that on her cheek might fall
Were nothing half so pale.

Her lip O God! her sullen lip,
So brightly raised erewhile;

No sweet thought curls its hollowed tip,
Not even a marble smile!

See, maidens! see, to hide its charms,
Cross'd on her neck of pearl;
See how she lays her lily arms,
The chaste, the careful girl!

The Sea King's Death-Song.

I'll launch my gallant bark no more, wh Nor smile to see how gay

Its pennon dances, as we bound

Along the watery way;

The wave I walk on's mine--the god

I worship is the breeze;

My rudder is my magic rod

Of rule, on isles and seas:

Blow, blow, ye winds, for lordly France,

Or shores of swarthy Spain;

Blow where ye list, of earth I'm lord,
When monarch of the main.

When last upon the surge I rode,
A strong wind on me shot,
And tossed me as I toss my plume,
In battle fierce and hot;
Three days and nights no sun I saw,
Nor gentle star nor moon;

Three foot of foam flashed o'er my decks,
I sang to see it-soon

The wind fell mute, forth shone the sun,
Broad dimpling smiled the brine;

I leap'd on Ireland's shore, and made

Half of her riches mine.

The wild hawk wets her yellow foot

In blood of serf and king;

Deep bites the brand, sharp smites the axe,
And helm and cuirass ring;

The foam flies from the charger's flanks,
Like wreaths of winter's snow;
Spears shiver, and the bright shafts start
In thousands from the bow-
Strike up, strike up, my minstrels all,
Use tongue and tuneful chord-

Be mute!My music is the clang
Of cleaving axe and sword.

Cursed be the Norseman who puts trust
In mortar and in stone;

Who rears a wall, 'or builds a tower,
Or makes on earth his throne;
My monarch throne's the willing wave,
That bears me to the beach;
My sepulchre's the deep sea surge,
Where lead shall never reach;
My death-song is the howling wind,
That bends my quivering mast,-
Bid England's maidens join the song,
I there made orphans last.

Mourn, all ye hawks of heaven, for me,
Oft, oft, by frith and flood,
I called ye forth to feast on kings;
Who now shall give ye food?
Mourn, too, thou deep-devouring sea,
For of earth's proudest lords
We served thee oft a sumptuous feast
With our sharp shining swords;
Mourn, midnight, mourn, no more thou'lt hear
Armed thousands shout my name,
Nor see me rushing, red wet shod,
Through cities doomed to flame.

My race is run, my flight is flown;
And, like the cagle free,

That soars into the cloud and dies,
I leave my life on sea.

To man I yield not; spear nor sword
Ne'er harmed me in their ire,

Vain on me Europe shower'd her shafts,
And Asia poured her fire.

Nor wound nor scar my body bears,

My lip made never moan,

And Odin bold, who gave me life,
Now comes and takes his own.

Light! light there! let me get one look,-
Yon is the golden sky,

With all its glorious lights, and there
My subject sea flows by:
Around me all my comrades stand,
Who oft have trod with me

On prince's necks, a joy that's flown,
And never more may be.
Now put my helmet on my head,
My bright sword in my hand,
That I may die as I have lived,

In arms and high command."

Did we say we would quote no prose? We must, in the most direct and short manner possible, break our word!

retrenchment; but it is not so unnatural, I am | Empress Josephine, then Madame Buonaparte,
not naturally ostentatious, although once care-determined to laugh at him a little. One even-
less, and expensive because careless; and my ing when she received company, she selected
most extravagant passions have pretty well him as her partner at whist. He was unlucky,
subsided, as it is time that they should on the and they were beaten several rubbers in suc-
very verge of thirty-five. I always looked to cession; his partner saying every time, I am
about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce grieved, count, to see you lose so much; but
delight in the passions, and determined to work another day you will be more fortunate;' with
them out in the younger ore and better veins many other phrases which pierced him to the
of the mine; and I flatter myself, that, per- heart, as he was persuaded that the wife of the
haps, I have pretty well done so, and now the first consul must play enormously high. Ma-
dross is coming, and I loves lucre; for we must dame Buonaparte committed error after error,
love something; at least, if I have not quite which tripled the misfortune of the unhappy
worked out the others, it is not for want of man; and the perspiration rolled down his
labouring hard to do so. But, perhaps I de- face in large drops. At length this eternal.
ceive myself. At any rate, then, I have a party ended; and the trembling ambassador,
passion the more; and, thus, a feeling. How-in a low tone of voice, asked how much he had
ever, it is not for myself; but I should like, to pay. 'Nothing, count,' answered Madame
God willing, to leave something to my relatives Buonaparte; and that explains to you the
more than a mere name; and besides that, to philosophy with which I have supported our
be able to do good to others to a greater extent. reverses. At these words the count's visage
If nothing else will do, I must try bread and brightened; and he seemed quite happy at
water, which, by the way, are very nourishing being quit of his fear. Yet this man had an
and sufficient, if good of their kind.
income of two hundred thousand livres !"

"NOEL BYRON.""

Mémoires sur Josephine, &c. Colburn. WE Subjoin some further passages from this exceedingly lively and amusing volume. There is not much arrangement in the original; there is not any in our extracts.

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"The attachment of M. de Talleyrand to Madame Grandt, who, though as handsome as an angel, was utterly incapable of entertaining the least notion of the superiority of the man whom she had, however, contrived to charm, astonished every body. Some one asked M. de Talleyrand how he could talk to so empty a person. 'It rests me,' was the answer."

"The Empress Josephine was present at St. Cloud, with the emperor, at the performance "There are many people in the world who of the Zingari in fiera by Paësiello, who was have a reputation which they do not deserve. in the box with their majesties. A superb air Among these is the Duc de Laval, who has the by Cimarosa had been introduced into it. character of being a perfect fool. It is reported Napoleon, passionately fond of Italian music, of him that on one occasion he talked of having which he was very desirous of bringing into received an anonymous letter, signed by all the "Lord Byron. We cannot resist the temp- fashion, was in ecstasies at every piece, and officers of his regiment; that on another, he tation of illustrating our plate and our poetry paid Paësiello compliments, which were the ordered ottomans to be placed in the four corwith the following characteristic letter from more flattering, as the mouth from which they ners of his octagon saloon, &c. &c. Madame Lord Byron, dated Genoa 1823, and addressed proceeded was seldom prodigal of such speeches. de Montesson, however, who was very capable to one of his best and wisest friends. It is an At length, when the air by Cimarosa was of judging of the talents of her acquaintance, answer to a letter advising economy and re- played, the emperor turned round, and taking denied that M. de Laval was so weak; and trenchment. Its peculiar humour cannot be Paesiello by the hand, exclaimed: By my related several good things which he had said. mistaken; the poet's resolution to become faith, my friend, the man who has composed He was in the habit of visiting her every day; parsimonious was but a pleasant theory, for in that air, may proclaim himself the greatest but on one occasion he told her that he should practice he spent a fair fortune. ***This composer in Europe.' It is Cimarosa's,' not be there the next morning. She was very is merely a line of advice to your honour, to feebly articulated Paësiello. I am sorry for much surprised, therefore, the next morning, get me out of the tremulous funds of these it; but I cannot recall what I have said." To to see him enter as usual. 6 You told me that oscillatory times. There will be a war some- atone in some degree for the chagrin of which you would not come to day.' 'Mon Dieu! I where, no doubt; and wherever it may be, he had been the cause, the emperor, who es- was in fact overwhelmed with business, and the funds will be affected more or less; so teemed Paësiellos's talents, and was personally I did not expect to see you; but what could I pray get us out of them with all proper ex- attached to him, sent him next day a handsome do? My horses bring me here as instinctively pedition. It has been the burthen of my song present." as those of a devotee take her to church.' to you these three years and better, and about “When above fifty years of age, Madame When he arrived in England, on his emigraas useful as wiser counsels. With regard to Visconti preserved the remains of extreme tion from France, he called on several of the Chancery, appeals, arbitrations, surveyings, beauty, and inspired the Prince of Wagram nobility, by whom he had been well received bills, fees, receipts, disbursements, copyrights, with so violent a passion, that he was anxious before the revolution. Almost all of them remanorial ditto, funds, land, &c. &c. &c., I shall to divorce her from her husband, and to marry turned this politeness; but among those who always be disposed to follow your more prac- her himself. The emperor opposed this pro- failed to do so was the Duke of D- who tised and practicable experience. I will econo- ject, and in order to deprive him for ever of did not even take the trouble of writing to a mise, and do, as I have partly proved to you the hope of seeing his wishes realised, negoby my surplus revenue of 1822, which almost tiated for his favourite a marriage with the equals the ditto of the United States of Ame- Princess of Bavaria. A few weeks after the rica, in proportion, (vide President's report to celebration of these nuptials, M. Visconti died. Congress); and do you second my parsimony What a pity it was so late!' exclaimed, in by judicious disbursements of what is requisite, despair, his disconsolate widow." and a moderate liquidation. Also make an investment of any spare monies as may render some usance to the owner; because, however little, every little makes a meikle,' as we of the north say, with more reason than rhyme. I hope that you have all receipts, &c. &c. &c., and acknowledgments of monies paid in liquidation of debts, to prevent extortion and hinder the fellows from coming twice, of which they would be capable, particularly as my absence would lend them a pretext. You will, perhaps, wonder at this recent and furious fit of accumulation and

M. de G. so well known by his want of wit, his pretensions, his success with certain females, and his large fortune, was also remarkable for a determined squint. At a time when every body was in suspense in consequence of the vacillating conduct of the French government, M. de G. approached M. de Talleyrand, and said to him, "Well, prince, how do affairs go on ?'

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"As you see."
"The reputation for avarice of M. de Co-
bentzel, the second ambassador of that name at
Paris, was so decidedly established, that the

man whom he supposed poor. Some time afterwards, they met at Lord Cholmondeley's. The master of the house asked M. de Laval to join a party at whist, with the Duke of D Probably,' observed his grace, M. de Laval

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will not be inclined to do so when he is told that we play very high.' I beg your pardon,' replied M. de Laval, I play from one guinea to one hundred a point; and it is on that account that I am surprised you have not returned my visit.'"

"When Napoleon was a lieutenant of artillery, he was under great obligations to a Madame de Chat. Having nothing to live on but his pay, he was subject to great privations, and was frequently destitute of the commonest necessaries. Madame de Chat-, who was tenderly attached to him, invented a thousand

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