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Literary, Moral, and Scientific Journal.

He that teaches us any thing that we knew not before, is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master; he that conveys knowledge by more pleasing ways, may very property be loved as a benefactor; and he that supplies life with innocent amusement, will certainly be caressed as a pleasing companion.-JOHNSON.

No. 28. VOL. I.

Critical Sketches of the Clergy.

No. XVII.

REV. JAMES WIDOWS, MINISTER OF THE INDEPENDENT CHAPEL,

RUSSELL-STreet, liverpool.

when judgment assumes her dominion, and certainly possesses a clear understanding,
presents every thing in its simple form, our a devout heart, and a fervent zeal, which
notions sometimes change, and are generally are the first requisite qualifications in the
steady. A change of profession, in a man minister of Christ, and the most reasonable
of acknowledged honesty, should at least grounds on which to expect success in lis
be viewed as the result of sincere and dis-operations. He appears to be extensively
interested reasoning.
acquainted with the sacred volume, that in-
exhaustible mine of truth, in which no one
can dig too much, in which a minister of the
gospel especially should make it his business
to search with unremitting diligence. It is
by this means only he can furnish himself
with effectual arguments against the follies
of the profane, the subtleties of the scep-
tical, and be prepared to meet the diversi-
fied cases of the people of God. The mi-
mister who gives more of his time to meta-
physical research or classical acquisition
than to the study of the Bible, may shine
at a public meeting or perplex in a contro-
versy; but he will not be very profitable
in doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruc
tion in righteousness, which is the great end
of his profession.
Were this more gene-

It is about twelve months since we first heard Mr. Widows; in whose favor we were greatly prepossessed, from the fervor and simplicity with which he dwelt on the indispensable duty of prayer, and the unvarnished manner in which his own addresses to the Divine Majesty were made. Decided as is our preference of the ornate style in addresses to a congregation, we conceive it only proper that he to whom all hearts are open, who is more ready to hear than we are to pray, and who needs no rhe torical efforts of ours to engage his benevo lence, should be approached with unaffected humility and plainness.

rally kept in view by the ministers of every denomination, we should soon witness a decline in that love of distinctions and that tenacity of privileges which occasions so much acrimony and bickering in the churches, and a more obvious approach of that wished-for era, when the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.

THE Reverend James Widows was born near Warrington, and for some time studied under the learned and pious Mr. Jones, of Newchurch, with a view to the established ministry; but by the perusal of Farmer's Catechism, as we have been led to understand, and some other books on ecclesiastical discipline, his opinions on this subject were changed, and he attached himself to the Dissenters about three years ago. On the 28th of February, last year, he was specially set apart to the pastorship he now sustains, and which, we sincerely hope, he may adorn for many years to come. For a considerable period after his appointment over the congregation in Russell-street, Mr. At the commencement of Mr. Widows' Widows continued to read the Liturgy and pulpit labors, there was something of an wear the surplice, in conformity with the awkward rusticity in his manner and his previous custom of the place; but as his pronunciation, which is now fast wearing principles became more decided, he judged away. Indeed we have never heard a the use of a formulary unscriptural and in- preacher whose style and address have exjudicious, and has recently abandoned it. hibited so great a change for the better in On the propriety of this we say nothing; but the same space of time. There is yet room we are not of that number who condemn for improvement in both these particulars. a change of religious profession as the evi- He occasionally throws himself into an undence of a weak understanding or a volatile graceful attitude, by grasping each side of disposition; and who invariably oppugn the the Bible, squaring his elbows, and pro- When Mr. Widows announced his intenmotives of the man who, thinking and acting jecting his face over the cushion. We ad- tion of ceasing to read the Liturgy, we are for himself, may be induced openly to cast mire those preachers most who always pre told that it occasioned a division among his off the prejudices of youth. Though it is serve an erect position through their dis- people, which is likely to end in a separaequally weak and wicked to be carried courses, and whose chief efforts at effect are tion. Circumstances of this kind are ever about by divers and strange doctrines," it in the modulations of the voice and the easy to be deplored, because of the unhappiness is yet enjoined to " prove all things, and exercise of the arms Mr. Widows' greatest experienced by the parties at variance; but hold fast that which is good." The history defect in pronunciation is in a too heavy the closest observers of Providence have of the Christian church, moreover, gives us application of the aspirate, which causes found, that they have an ultimate tendency many illustrious examples, in proof that they heaven,' ," and "holiness," to sound like to promote the essential truths of religion, who are led to abjure their early religious "a-heaven," and "a-holiness." This is Thus does the great head of the church opinions are commonly men of strong minds a very common error with those who have cause even the wrath of man to praise him. and strict integrity. Porteus in the Epis-been accustomed to a provincial dialect, In his conduct on the matter in question, copacy and Wesley among Dissenters may when aiming to avoid the vulgar habit. we believe Mr. Widows acquitted himself be selected from a hundred others that could We do not expect that this young gen- with meekness, candor, and affection; stating be mentioned. The opinions of youth are tleman will ever become a popular preacher, clearly his motives, recommending those of generally ingrafted on the mind; they be-in the common sense of the word; nor do his people who were still attached to the come firm by habit, grow with our growth we flatter when we express a hope of seeing Liturgy to such churches as possess evanand strengthen with our strength; we love him surrounded by a numerous and exem-gelical pastors, and solemnly commending them, as we love every early association, ei-plary congregation. He is not distinguished them to God and to the word of his grace. ther because of our familiarity with them, or by a vivid imagination, which seems to be This is our heart's desire and prayer for as the mementos of former felicity. But essential in a captivating orator: but he' them and him.

POLITE LITERATURE.

On the Rise and Maturity, and the cline and Fall of Empires.

SIR,

than they contained any necessary principle by which they arose from obscurity and adDe-vanced to affluence and power.

I take the liberty to express my dissent from the generally received opinion on the subject announced above, through the medium of your weekly publication; which has become, of late, the subject of animadversion and justification, both in private and public.

It is a popular sentiment, that states, nations, and empires, have necessarily their rise, maturity, and decline; and in the application of this sentiment to modern times, it has been said, that the British empire arose to its full altitude at the battle of Waterloo; and that having once attained its acme, it must of course, from that remarkable point, retrogade, but by what steps, or in what period it is to descend to its destined depression, I was not privileged to learn.

In support of the above opinion, two classes of argument are resorted to: the first drawn from the examples of all ancient goverments recorded in history; the second from the very defective principle upon which the constitution of every government is founded. I shall confine my attention, in this letter, to some observations on the first class of arguments employed to support the opinion, without touching the second.

The abettors of this opinion surely forget, that, because all the states, kingdoms, and empires that have ever florished, have in the course of time declined and fallen, it does not follow by any rule in logic or reason, that all others that do now or that may hereafter exist, must likewise fall.

It is true that those ancient and renowned monarchies, the Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian, arose, florished, and are passed away; it is true that the once magnificent and populous capitals of vast empires have been in vain sought for-their places are no more known;-it is true that rivers not unknown to song or to fame, now roll their peaceful streams through the ample territories of once throned and ambitious monarchs; and their banks, once trodden by the busy merchant, the intrepid warrior, and the ingenious mechanic, now lie solitary desarts; it is true that the ball of empire has rolled from one hemisphere to the other, and has visited in its mysterious course the east and the west; collecting around the place of its rest the interest and the admiof the world, and leaving behind it only its remembrance, impressed in characters of ruin and wide desolation; it is true that like the flowers of the field, these kingdoms had their spring and maturity-like them also they have had their decay and fall; but, unlike them, the latter contained in them no necessary principle of decay, any more

Virtue and emulation are the only principles by which they arose, and by which any state ever rises to any considerable rank among the nations of the earth.There are not wanting in history, examples of colonies and small states, who, not exercising public virtue and a laudable emulation, have quietly and basely sunk into deserved obscurity.

learned gentleman has given to the world a string In a late number of the Kaleidoscope, Sir, a of remarks on the inutility of what are called the Learned Languages. The reasoning he has used, however, and the style of his correspondence, his readers; and a few additional considerations are little calculated to obtain the concurrence of may perhaps occasion a change in his own views. It is not improbable, that an individual who thus depreciates what has obtained the recommenda tion of the wise and good in all ages, must either be actuated by a vain delight in singularity, or be totally ignorant on the subject he presumes to treat. What was it but the study of the classics which raised Johnson to his pre-eminent station in the world of letters? what but his knowledge poet the world ever saw? what but an acquaintance with the classics occasioned the elegant sententiousness of Gibbon, the chasteness of Addison, the simplicity of Beattie? what but the utiation by every writer of eminence from Luther lity of the classics has induced their recommend to Roscoe? Until Peregrine dare enter the lists. against this army of giants, let him withhold his pigmy protests against the acquisition of the learned languages.

If the position had been, that states which
suffer their councils to be ruled, and their
measures to be executed by injustice and
ambition, must necessarily decline and fall,
I should not think it questionable, for nation-
al injustice is connected by the arrangements
of him who superintends and governs all
governments, with national retribution;
besides, ambition usually leads those who
are under its influence, whether states or
individuals, to the possession of power and
conquest, to wealth and luxury; and these,
thus obtained, almost universally destroy-son, the
first the principles, and then the well-being
of their possessors.

There is in realiy, no necessary connec-
tion between the mere possession of power
and wealth, and the fatal effects which usu-
ally follow their possession. Power and
wealth are not themselves corruptions; they
are indifferent things, which may be made
instruments of good or evil: but if either
have been obtained by the abandonment of
principle, nothing can be reasonably calcu-
lated upon, but a further departure from
principle and the consequences which then
necessarily follow.

of the classics which made Milton the sublimest

"Though men," according to Locke, “have no further design in learning languages, than the ordinary intercourse with society," it is evident that he who has the advantages of a liberal education, feels himself always at ease in every company on the other hand, a man who has pursued no such studies,-unless truly he has an uncommon share of assurance-in finding himself without an easy flow of words, feels himself par which a torch emits, passes unnoticed when the ticularly distressed and embarrassed. The light, sun shines in all its splendor. The greater lumi. nary confounds and dissipates the less, and the dulness of the one serves only to show to the greater advantage the lustre of the sther. In like manner is the difference, which subsists between lettered and unlettered men, and so much do the shining qualities of the one dazzle the feebler intelligence of the other.

In every thing of human acquirement, excel

The true cause of the decline and fall of states is, I believe, the decline of private and public virtue. The cause is not to be superstitiously sought for in some mysterious decree of fate, which connects by the chain of necessity, the ruin and degradation, with the highest eminent glory of kingdoms; guage in general, let us now give our attention to Having premised thus much concerning lannor is the cause the possession of power or the Greek and Latin languages; and weighing wealth, or luxury; for if the mere possession every thing fairly and impartially, proceed to and enjoyment of the conveniences, or the determine on their utility and inutility. elegances, or splendors of life, which can be lence is attained by slow and gradual approachpurchased by wealth alone, were the neces-es; but when once realised, transmission and sary cause of corruption of manners and diffusion are works comparatively of little labor. baseness of principle, it would follow, that Those who aspire to eminence have only to con taste and genius, and many other of the form to the models already provided. Thus statuaries and painters are always eager to imitate finer faculties of the mind, were either be- the copies of the best masters; to restrain their stowed in vain, that is, not to be exercised, fancy if too luxuriant, and assist it when jejeune or given that their exercise might be detri- and feeble. In like manner, the best specimens mental to the principles, and well-being of of language will always be an importaut desideratum to those who study its perfections; and as a the species. model, therefore, on which to form the expression of our ideas, and to improve or preserve the puri. ty of our native dialect, the knowledge of the Greek and Latin tongue is particularly valuable. that legitimate refinement, which does not enfee We'mark the several stages of their progress to ble, or degenerate into puerile conceits, a me ritricious excess, and an affectation of ornament. We observe also their decline. Taken at ascertained, being in a manner universally agreed the proper period, which is clearly and distinctly upon, they furnish a standard which may be had

Only let it be remembered, that reason and judgment were given by the same divine hand which beautified the human mind with those fine faculties-taste, genius, and imagination; and it will be perceived, that this wise and just bestowment was to regulate their exercise, and to guard them from abuse. The corruption and misery, therefore, with which they are so frequently found

recourse to with the greatest advantage by men of all nations. Of this period are the writers whose works are accounted classical. Though highly cultivated and improved, a just simplicity reigns throughout, and yet with this simplicity is combined a loftiness and sublimity, or majesty of expression, united to the greatest sweetness.

poet of celebrity exists, who has not imitated the
classical authors, We have poets and other
writers, perhaps scarcely inferior to the ancients.
But the purity of the Augustan age, we know,
And as modern statuaries
quickly declined.

NEW BOOKS.

The Liberal. Verse and Prose, from the
South. Vol. III.

Of the views and motives of the writers of this and painters, notwithstanding the present height of their arts, still recur to the original models; execrable work no doubt can be entertained: and while societies are established for the propa A close attention to the rules of syntax, gives so must linguists, if theirs, the noblest of all acoften an unnatural harshness, yet we can never quirements, does not rapidly degenerate. In lan- gation of infidelity and atheism, as has been reperceive in that grammatical precision, so strik.guages there is the stronger necessity for this, as cently seen is the case in Scotland, there can be ing a feature in the ancient languages, any thing the former always have before them their great in- no doubt that a work, the avowed object of which but the greatest elegance and natural arrange-fallible guide, the works of nature; but a pare is to undermine every thing like decency, good ment. We cannot wonder then that the works and polished diction is not immediately derivable feeling, social order, and revealed religion, will of the classic authors have always been read with from this source. Writers indeed of the present❘ find purchasers. But it must be done well, to sethe greatest avidity. A celebrated character, day have need to be continually reminded of those cure the patronage even of the debased crea lately dead, has told us that had he not read them approved and acknowledged standards of excel-tures whose smiles and favor the demoralized daily, he should have felt himself very uncomfort-lence which are as much opposed to all vicious scribbler's linked in the diabolical cause, are so It is most pro-anxious to secure. The present, number of the able; and that they were as necessary to him as excess, as poverty of ornament. Liberal has rendered a single remark upon its meat and drink. However this might be, the least bable to suppose, that were we to neglect the anthat can be said of them, is that they are like to cient languages, our own would lose its strength mischievous tendency unnecessary-its innate, a noble prospect where no obstacle rise to check and energy, in barbarian luxuriance; at least it incomprehensible, incalculable stupidity, its abthe view, a prospect not the same in every di- would be exceedingly foolish to hazard the expe- solute idiotism and gross vulgarity, will, we hope, render it innocuous in society. Its extreme and rection, but diversified with hill and dale, rocks riment. Mortalia facta peribunt, and mountains, flowery meads, and soft enamellunparallelled blasphemies we are unwilling to ed plains. quote, further than as they may serve to prove the justice of the sentence denounced; for which purpose the subjoined paragraph of folly and infamy may be sufficient:

Nedum Sermonum stet honos et gratia vivax.
Multa renascentur quæ jam cecidere, cadentque
Quæ nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus.
Quem penes arbitrium est, et jus, et normal lo-
quendi.

ALLUSION TO JESUS CHRIST. even bright"His complexion was at that time clear, and

The Romans were perfectly sensible of the beauties of the Greek language and the many defects of their own. To remove these defects was no small object with them. Their nobles, as well as their orators, daily exercised themselves in the Whereas, while our youths in schools and colleges study of the Greek authors. Continual labor, are duly conversant with the most approved with increasing zeal and resolution, effected the As are the children of yon azure sheen. end proposed; and so necessary was the Greek patterns of antiquity, the tone which a study of His forehead was broad and high, light as if built them gives, universally diffused, and produces of ivory, with large projecting eyebrows, and his tongue thought to a noble among them, that it was the happiest effects even on those who are totally as necessary for them to go to Athens, as for our ened lustre. 'A certain tender bloom his face youths to the different universities. Cicero studi- unacquainted with them. In the very nature of eyes rolling beneath them, like a sea with darked at Rhodes; the language of Greece at Athens. things, no living language, even with the assist- o'erspread, a purple tinge, as we see it in the ance of the press, can be long stationary. How pale, thoughtful complexions of the Spanish porCæsar, Virgil, Horace, in every part of their works mention their stay at Athens to be instructed in much has our own altered since the time the trait painters, Murillo and Velasquez. His mouth Bible was translated, although used in most the elegancies of their more erudite neighbors, schools for the instruction of the young, publicly good-humored and round; but his nose, the rudwas gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent; his chin Their taste was formed upon the Greeks; and whilst they followed this model, their own lan- read in our churches, and so essentially requisite der of the face, the index of the will, was small, to be frequently consulted by all descriptions of feeble, nothing-like what he has done. It might guage acquired copiousness, suavity, and an elegant simplicity. As the Greek polished the Ro-men? In the fluctuations then of living language, seem that the genius of his face, as from a height I would ask how purity of diction is to be pre- surveyed and projected him (with sufficient capaman language, so did they both combine in over served under its several changes? The answer is city and huge aspiration) into the world unknown coming the ruggedness and want of harmony in obvious. There exists but one possible method: of thought and imagination, with nothing to supours. That this is the case, a short review of the and that is, to keep our eye steadily fixed on port or guide his veering purpose, as if Columbus state of the English language, from the twelfth some dead language of acknowledged excellence had launched his adventurous course for the New century to the present day, will clearly evince. as a standard which will always continue to im. World in a shallop, without oars or compass. So In the twelfth century, overrun as we were by a host of Norman invaders, little room was left for part to our own its inherent perfections. By at least I comment on it after the event. Coleridge the cultivation of the nine sisters. But what little which means, though the form of our expression in his person was rather above the common size, poetry has been transmitted to us of that period, doubt what has already polished and refined the somewhat fat and pursy. His hair (now, alas! alter, there will be no deterioration, and without inclining to the corpulent, or like Lord Hamlet, is harsh and inelegant. The best specimens, medium of our intellectual intercourse, is the fit-grey) was then black and glossy as the raven's, without any fixed metre, seem to be nothing more than a recital of warlike actions, in high-sound that the advantages which have been ascribed to long pendulous hair is peculiar to enthusiasts, to test for preserving the advantage. It is obvious and fell in smooth masses over his forehead. This ing prose, tiresome with an endless tautology and a competent acquaintance with the Greek and those whose minds tend heavenward; and is trasameness, both of thought and expression. If we come to the century in which Chaucer and his translation; ideas may be partly transfused, but lor) from the pictures of Christ. It ought to beLatin writers, cannot be obtained by means of ditionally inseparable (though of a different comaster Gower florished, when our language was not language, not idiom, not composition, not the long, as a character, to all who preach Christ beginning to raise its head, we find that the poets of the age had universally a smattering of peculiar force, spirit, character, engery, elegance, Greek and Latin. They thought fit to drink at Pope's Homer conveys not to the reader the Recollections of the Peninsula. By the or any thing valuable that belongs to them. Even crucified, and Coleridge was at that time one of the Grecian spring, and hence we may date an increasing harmony in our language. Yet still, of that divine poet, and what is an elegant transslightest perception of the inimitable excellence Author of Sketches in India. 8vo pp. in spite of native genius, its inherent defects are lation now, a few years, or ages hence will be.ob. strongly marked. In the 15th and 16th centuries, solete and scarcely intelligible. But if the taste A BIVOUACK. the Latin authors came into high estimation.➡ "We bivouacked daily. It is a pleasing sight Every child was initiated into its mysteries. Yet continue correct, that is to be found on solid though the Latin was much in vogue, the Greek principles such as have stood the test of many to see a column arrive at its halting ground. The We perceive a general taste centuries, however fashion may vary, the garb in camp is generally marked out, if circumstances for the classic authors gaining ground. Homer which men's thoughts are clothed, will still be ele- allow of it, on the edge of some wood, and near was translated. Theocritus, Virgil, Ovid, and gant and truly classical. Much are we indebted a river or stream. The troops are halted in open to our forefathers for having cultivated the ele- columns, arms piled, picquets and guards paradMartial, quickly followed. The man of taste admired their beauties, and attempted to imitate gant language of Greece and Rome. If we have ed and posted, and, in two minutes, all appear them. His efforts succeeded. The taste of our the gratitude and the wisdom to respect their pre- at home. Some fetch large stones to form firelanguage was greatly improved. Fresh words cepts, and to follow ther example, I am persuad- places; others hurry off with canteens and ketwere daily added, and with them harmony of ed we shall not only be an honor to the age we tles for water, while the wood resounds with the live in, but reflect transcendant lustre on succeed-blows of the bill-hook. Dispersed, under the composition and expansion of thought. If we more distant trees, you see the officers; some take up a volume of Chaucer, it wants melody, it ing generations, dressing, some arranging a few boughs to shelter is grating to our ears; but the works of Spenser, Sidney, and others of that age, interest our feel them by night; others kindling their own fires; while the most active are seen returning from the ings. At present, it is absolutely necessary to be well acquainted with classical literature. No village, laden with bread, or from some flock of

was not neglected.

Hoping that Peregrine may now be disposed to acknowledge the utility of the classics, I am, Mr. Hermes, your friend,

NATHAN NOTE’EM.

those!"

262.

goats feeding near us, with a supply of new milk. How often, under some spreading cork-tree, which offered shade, shelter, and fuel, have I taken up my lodging for the night; and here, or by some gurgling stream, my bosom fanned by whatever air was stirring, made my careless toilet, and sat down with men I both liked and esteemed, to a coarse but wholesome meal, seasoned by hunger and by cheerfulness. The rude simplicity of this life I found most pleasing. An enthusiastic admirer of nature, I was glad to move and dwell amid her grandest scenes, remote from cities, and unconnected with what is called society. Her mountains, her forests, and sometimes her bare and bladeless plains, yielded me a passing home; her rivers, streams, and springs cooled my brow, and allayed my thirst."

SPANISH COSTUME.

from the town, and double the post? We will pay you well.' 'Not I,' cried he, 'I would not do such a thing for all the world.'

"From these words I immediately conceived an idea of all the horrors of our situation, and seeing no prospect of hope, I only thought of resignation to the fate of which I had aclear foresight. My own sacrifice was not painful, but the ruin of D'Avaray engrossed all my feelings. He however, never lost his firmuess, and being always calm, in the midst of danger, addressed the postillion in bad French, but with a degree of eloquence which I am unable to imitate; and gave him to understand that we were extremely anxious to reach Mons, as he had left his sister, who was also my cousin—a charming young woman, equally dear to us both-very ill at Soissons, that the only physician in whom she had any confidence, lived at Mons; that if we delayed a mo meut to procure his assistance, his sister would expire, and we should be both wretched for the remainder of our lives; and that if he passed us through, he would give him a guinea; perhaps two or three. He then recommended to us not to enter Maubeuge, but to have the horses brought out. We expressed our apprehensions of the dificulty of that proceeding; but he assured us that suburbs, and would procure himself a guide. We he was unacquainted with the road through the then replaced Sayer in the carriage, and making Perronet mount on horseback, and charging him to keep an eye on the movements of the postillion, we proceeded on our journey."

give us six horses I will only pay for five.' This made the post-mistress laugh. I then turned to Perronet, and addressing myself very seriously to him, 'Monsieur Perron,' said I,' pay whatever Madame demands. It shall never be said that Michael Foster held any dispute with a lady for the sake of interest.' The tone with which I uttered this sentiment, the gravity of my aspect, my gestures and accent, and a thousand other little points that cannot be described, made the scene extremely diverting and comical, but I resolutely resisted every inclination to laughter. We then inquired what regiment was in garrison at Avesnes; and were informed that it was the regiment of Vintimille. This intelligence was displeasing to D'Avaray, who happened unfortunately to have given an entertainment to the officers of that regiment two years before; but we agreed that he should sit as far back as he could in the carriage, and we then set out. As we proceeded, the sun, which had not before appeared during the whole of the day, now displayed himself so powerfully, as to induce me to draw up the blind in my defence. This little circumstance may appear trifling, but it will be seen how important it afterwards turned out. "When we arrived at the gates of Avesnes, we whether we were going to make any stay. We were asked for our names, in the usual form; and replied, that we were two Englishmen, and that "The lemonade seller of Valencia has a linen we wished to proceed on our journey without deshirt open at the neck, a fancy waistcoat without lay. We presented our passports, which they sleeves, a kilt of white cotton, white stockings scarcely looked at, and made our way to the rising to the calf, and sandals. Muleteers, with post-house. But Sayer, who felt much fatigued, their broad body-belts of buff leather, their caand whom every one around him endeavored to pitans or train masters, with the ancient carpersuade particularly an Englishman who haptridge belts, and the old Spanish gun, were min-pened to be present-that it was madness to go gled in these groups. Here, too, were many offi. further, as he could not hope to reach Maubeuge, Abroad, which, through the senses, comes upon cers and soldiers of the patriot armies, which had suffered himself to be convinced by their The inmost soul with dews of melancholy. raised in haste, were not regularly or uniformly advice, and had not taken the precaution to order How awful is this wide repose! No sound clothed, if I except some of the old standing for them, and while we were left between the Of herd, or flock, or happy villager, post-horses. We did not, however, fail to call

"The Estremaduran has a brown jacket without a collar, and with sleeves, which lace at the shoulder, so that they are removed at pleasure. The red sash is universally worn, and a cloak is generally carried on the left arm A jacket and waistcoat profusely ornamented with silk lace, and buttons of silver filigree, the hair clubbed, and tied with broad black ribbon, and a neat cap of cloth or velvet, mark the Andalusian. The

ass driver of Cordova is clothed in a complete dress of the tawny brown leather of his native province.

Durazzo, a Tragedy, in Five Acts. By
James Haynes, Author of "Conscience,"
a Tragedy. London 1823.
There is chili damp air

force. Of these, you might see the royal cara-
bineer, with the cocked hat, blue coat faced with
red, and, instead of boots, the ancient greaves,
of thick hard black leather, laced at the sides.
The dragoon, in an uniform of yellow, black
belts, and a helmet with a cone of brass. The above, secured us on the side of the coffee-house, As if this earth were but the shadow of

royal or Walloon guards in their neat dress of

blue and red, with white lace. The common sol

dier in brown. mingled with these was the lighthorseman, in a hussar jacket of brown, and overalls capped, lined, and vandiked at the bottom with tan leather; here, again, a peasant with the cap and coat of a soldier, there, a soldier from Navarre or Arragon, with the bare foot, and the light hempen sandal of his country. There was a pleasure I took in the contemplation of these scenes, which the deep interest I felt in the fate of the unfortunate Spaniards, very greatly enhanced. They are people of the most primitive and uncorrupted singleness of heart; a people whose national character is very little understood, and has been very often and very cruelly misrepresented."

Manuscript of Louis XVIII.

FLIGHT OF THE BOURBONS.. "We travelled with three horses, for which we generously paid thirty sous. The post-mistress insisted, and in this she was right,-that as there were three in the carriage, we ought to pay for four horses. The contrary was maintained by Perronet, but she threatened to charge us with four horses and two postillions. It was rather a pleasant circumstance in our case, to hazard our lives for ten sous, for that is all the difference between three horses at thirty sous, and four at twenty-five, D'Avary told her, that she treated us ill, because we were strangers. No,' replied she, I am entitled, if such were my pleasure, to make you take six horses.'Well, then,' replied I, being now convinced, by the frequent bursts of laughter I excited among the postillions, what I was taken for a real Englishman-' if you'

post-house and a coffee-house frequented by the
military, we were detained a full quarter of an
hour, and exposed to the view of a number of
officers. Happily the blind to which I alluded
while the officers had the politeness to repulse the
town's people, who seemed inclined to peep into
D'Avary, whose feelings were divided between
our coach. But I felt deeply the sufferings of
the dangers of our present position, and his re-
sentment against Sayer, who had led us into this
awkward predicament. I used my utmost efforts
to appease him, in which I ultimately succeeded,
and at last we set out; and finding ourselves clear
of the town, we chanted victory in the joy of our

hearts."

"The postillion who drove us was going on at
a good round pace, and seemed to be what we
might call a very brisk and pleasant fellow that
was not easily terrified. We observed, however,
and with some degree of pain, that he frequently
looked behind him, and seemed to discover some
apprehension. At last he made a halt, and asked
us whither we wished him to conduct us. To
the post-house, cried I. Very well,' said he,
but the post-house is a miserable inn.
will take you to the Grand Cerf, where you will
But I
be well treated.' 'Good treatment,' replied I,
is not the question at present. We do not wish to
sleep at Maubeuge.Where, then, do you wish
to go? cried he.To Mons,' said I. To Mons,'
repeated he, with a laugh; you will not get there
to day." Why not? replied I, in my turn.
'Because,' said he, there is every chance that
they will not open the gates to let us in; but if
they do, they will certainly not open them again
to let us out. What is it to us, said I, 'whe-
ther the gates are open or shut, since the post-
house is not at Maubeuge? It has been fixed
there these six months,' replied be.
worthy friend,' added I, 'as we are in a hurry,
Well, my
and our horses are good, could you not turn aside

.

Breaks on the ear through the vast amplitade
Of living, moving, or articulate thing,
Within the arms of silence; and the breath
Of the surrounding skies. Nature is laid
She drew by day is charm'd to such suspense,
Some other world, and all things wrought thereon
Held by no stronger tenure than the moonbeams
My passion with an enemy who smote-
Hold of the vacant air. But, can I trust
Degraded-cuffed me as a froward boy
Is taught his manners, or the drudging team
To mend its pace? Sustain me in this trial,
Sweet patience, and lock up the memory
That fills the vessel of my heart with gall,
And stamps on shame the color of revenge.
No; 'twas the falling of some wither'd leaf,
His age again shall save him. Hark! he comes-
That left its branch as men drop of by time
From the green stem of life.
Methinks I am an outcast from the name
And race of man ;-the enemy, and not
The fellow of their kind.-I'll seek some care,
And have myself there chained to a rock,
Lest I should murder others in my madness.
Or shall I murder still, and still be seen
But standing, iike the spirit of the plague
Not sparing-not repenting-not at peace;
Within a ravaged city, listening for
A stir of life to fix its fangs again?

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There is more anguish in one drop of mine
If lions weep, they weep such tears.
Than floods that fall from patient gentleness;
For mine are tortured from me: others flow,
But mine are tears that bleed.
Ballantyne's Novelist's Library. Vol. V.
Concluded.

HORACE WALPOLE.

"In private life, his temper appears to have been own taste, he always seems to have done so on the precarious; and though expensive in indulging bis most economical terms possible. He is often, in kis