and humane. His fate drew tears from the spectators, and was a great misfortune to the district in which he lived. He gave bread to multitudes of people whom he employed on his estate; the poor, the widow, and the orphan, rejoiced in his bounty. The earl had such assurance given him of life by his friends, that he was under some surprise on being brought to execution. He left a paper behind him asserting the justice of the cause he died in. Charles Radcliffe, brother to the earl, who had also been in the rebellion, was arraigned at the exchequer bar at Westminster, May 8, 1716, for high treason, and pleaded not guilty. On the 18th of the same month, he was, after a short trial, found guilty, and on the 11th of December, he made his escape out of Newgate. He was taken at sea returning to assist in the rebellion of 1745, and beheaded on the 8th of December, 1746. As before stated, Holy Island was seized for the Pretender by two men only, who planned and performed the following desperate exploit: One Lancelot Errington, a man of an ancient and respectable family in Northumberland, and of a bold and enterprising spirit, entered into a conspiracy for seizing this castle for the Pretender, in which, it is said, he was promised assistance, not only by Mr Forster, the rebel general, then in arms, but also by the masters of several French privateers. At this time, the garrison consisted of a sergeant, a corporal, and ten or twelve men only. In order to put this scheme into execution, being well known in that country, he went to the castle, and after some discourse with the sergeant, invited him and the rest of the men, who were not immediately on duty, to partake of a treat on board of the ship of which he was master, then lying in the harbour; this being unsuspectedly accepted of, he so well plied his guests with brandy, that they were soon incapable of any opposition. These men being thus secured, he made some pretence for going on shore, and, with Mark Errington, his nephew, returning again to the castle, they knocked down the sentinel, surprised and turned out an old gunner, the corporal, and two other soldiers, being the remainder of the garrison, and shutting the gates, hoisted the Pretender's colours as a signal of their success, anxiously expecting the promised succour. No reinforcement coming, but, on the contrary, a party of the king's troops arriving from Berwick, they were obliged to retreat over the walls of the castle, among the rocks, hoping to conceal themselves under the sea-weeds till it was dark, and then, by swimming to the main land, to make their escape. But the tide rising, they were obliged to swim, when the soldiers firing at Lancelot as he was climbing up a rock, wounded him in the thigh. Thus disabled, he and his nephew were taken and conveyed to Berwick gaol, where they continued till his wound was cured. During this time, he had dug a burrow quite under the foundations of the prison, depositing the earth taken out in an old oven. Through this,burrow he and his nephew, with divers other prisoners, escaped; but most of the latter were soon after taken. The two Erringtons, however, had the good fortune to make their way to the Tweed side, where they found the custom-house boat; they rowed themselves over, and afterwards turned it adrift. From thence they pursued their journey to Bamborough castle, near which they were concealed nine days in a pea-stack, a relation, who resided in the castle, supplying them with provisions. At length, travelling in the night by secret paths, they reached Gateshead house, near Newcastle, where they were secreted till they secured a passage from Sunderland to France. A reward of 500l. was now offered to any one who would apprehend them; notwithstanding which, Lancelot was so daring as soon after to come into England, and even to visit some of his friends in Newgate. After the suppression of the rebellion, when everything was quiet, he and his nephew took the benefit of the general pardon, and returned to Newcastle, where he died about the year 1746, as it is said, of grief, at the victory of Culloden." Patten's Rebellion. Surtees, &c. "The beginning of the year (1760) at a sale of furniture, at Winlaton, near Newcastle, a woman bought a very large old bureau for 4s. 6d., being considered nothing better than lumber. After the sale, she with some difficulty prevailed on a nailor, her neighbour, to assist her in removing it; he, in forcing it open by the middle, discovered some papers and loose gold; told her of it, and made it fast again; got more help, and took it away whole. In getting it out, one of the papers fell, and the gold jingling, was taken notice of by one of the assistants, but the nailor saying it was only a bag with a few nails he had put out of his pocket, he was believed. After getting it home and dismissing the assistants, the purchaser and her friend, the nailor, went to work and took it to pieces, and were paid for their trouble with several purses and papers of gold to a considerable amount. She gave the nailor five papers untold, which enabled him to pay his debts and purchase a house and shop to work in, which amounted to upwards of 2007., and was told by the woman to apply to her if he wanted more; but he was satisfied, and looked upon it as a particular piece of providence, being deep in debt and out of credit, with a sick wife and a small family. It was remarkable that this old piece of furniture was recollected to have passed through several sales during the preceding forty years; that none of the gold was of a later coinage than James II, and that it was in the possession of an opulent family in the neighbourhood of Newcastle in the year 1715." "May 23. About ten o'clock at night, some company went into Mr Pinkney's, a publican, in the Bigg market, Newcastle, when words arose between them and Ewan Macdonald, a recruit in General Guise's regiment of Highlanders, then quartered in that town; from words they came to blows, which caused some of the company to leave the room, but Macdonald followed them out, laid hold on one Mr Robert Parker, a cooper, in the entry of the house, and wickedly stabbed him in the neck with a knife, in so desperate a man ner that he died immediately. When he returned to the house he abused several, and broke another man's arm. A file of musqueteers was sent for, who conducted the murderer to the guard-house, where he was confined till next day, when he was committed to Newgate. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of wilful murder. September 28th, Ewan Macdonald was executed on the town moor, Newcastle, pursuant to his sentence at the assizes. This most unfortunate young man, who was only nineteen years of age, appeared all the time of his confinement deeply affected with a true sense of his guilt, and regretted much the murdered person, whom he declared to have taken no part in the quarrel between him and another man named Parker, and who was also a cooper; but at the gallows his behaviour in endeavouring to throw the executioner from off the ladder, was unbecoming one just on the brink of eternity; however, as it was generally and justly believed that he had been grossly irritated to the perpetration of the crime for which he suffered, his unhappy end was pitied by every one. His body was taken to the Surgeons' hall, and there dissected." "June 30. Died at Bath, John Bacon, of Northumberland, Esq., F.R.S. and F.S.A., and governor of Bethlehem and Bridewell hospitals, to the former of which he gave, a short time before his death, 100l. in South Sea annuities, to begin a foundation for the support of incurables, for whom there was no provision. A few hours before his death, he desired his friends to put him in his coffin with his best wig on his head, a ruffled shirt, and stone buttons in the sleeves, a small ring on his finger, a laced waistcoat, and a plain coat, with black velvet breeches, a new pair of pumps with stone buckles, and a clean pair of white stockings; that he might be privately interred in the abbey church; and that his servants might support his pall in their liveries, all which was performed." "September 2. The new style was adopted in Great Britain, by which the day immediately succeeding was called the 13th of that month." THE TRIUMPH OF ETHELRED, OR THE FALL OF LONDON BRIDGE. THE Chronicle of the Kings of Norway,' as translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, gives an animated sketch of some of the wars of England. Not the least singular is the following : "Swend Forked Beard was in England *"It was said that after the body was taken to the Surgeons' hall, and placed ready for dissection, that the surgeons were called to attend a case at the Infirmary, who, on their return, found Macdonald so far recovered as to be sitting up; he immediately begged for mercy, but a young surgeon, not wishing to be disappointed of the dissection, seized a wooden mall with which he deprived him of life. It was further reported, as the just vengeance of God, that this young man was soon after killed in the stable by his own horse. They used to show a mall at the Surgeons' hall as the identical one used by the surgeon." with a Danish army, and had seized upon King Ethelred's kingdom. King Ethelred had departed from the country, and had gone south to Valland. The same autumn pened that King Swend died suddenly in that King Olaf came to England, it hapthe night in his bed; and it is said by Englishmen that Edmund the Saint killed him, in the same way that the holy Mercurius had killed the apostate Julian. When Ethelred, the king of the English, heard this in Flanders, he returned directly to England; and no sooner was he come back, than he sent an invitation to all the him in recovering the country. Then many men who would enter into his pay, to join people flocked to him; and among others came King Olaf with a great troop of Northmen to his aid. They steered first to London, and sailed into the Thames with their fleet; but the Danes had a castle within. On the other side of the river is a great trading place, which is called Sudrviki [Southwark]. had raised a great work, dug large ditches, There the Danes and within had built a bulwark of stone, timber, and turf, where they had stationed a strong army. King Ethelred ordered a great assault: but the Danes defended themselves bravely, and King Ethelred could make nothing of it. Between the castle and Southwark there was a bridge, so broad that two waggons could pass each other apon it. On the bridge were raised barricades, both towers and wooden parapets, in the direction of the river, which were nearly breast high; and under the bridge were piles driven into the bottom of the river. Now when the attack was made the troops stood on the bridge everywhere, and defended themselves. King Ethelred was very anxious to get possession of the bridge, and he called together all the chiefs to consult how they should get the bridge broken down. Then said King Olaf he would attempt to lay his fleet along side of it, if the other ships would do council that they should lay their war the same. It was then determined in this forces under the bridge; and each made himself ready with ships and men. King Olaf ordered great platforms of floating wood to be tied together with hazel bands, and for this he took down old houses; and with these, as a roof, he covered over his ships so widely, that it reached over the ships' sides. Under this screen he set pillars so high and stout, that there both was room for swinging their swords, and the roofs were strong enough to withstand the stones cast down upon them. Now when the fleet and men were ready, they rowed up along the river; but when they came them so many stones and missile weapons, near the bridge, there were cast down upon such as arrows and spears, that neither helmet nor shield could hold out against it; and the ships themselves were so greatly damaged that many retreated out of it. But King Olaf, and the Northmen's fleet with him, rowed quite up under the bridge, laid their cables around the piles which supported it, and then rowed off with all the ships as hard as they could down the stream. The piles were thus shaken in the bottom, and were loosened under the bridge. Now as the armed troops stood thick upon the bridge, and there were likewise many heaps of stones and other weapons upon it, and the piles under it being loosened and broken, the bridge gave way; and a great part of the men upon it fell into the river, and all the others fled, some into the castle, some into Southwark. Thereafter Southwark was stormed and taken. Now when the people in the castle saw that the river Thames was mastered, and that they could not hinder the passage of ships up into the country, they became afraid, surrendered the tower, and took Ethelred to be their king. So says Ottar Swarte: "London Bridge is broken down,- Miscellaneous. THE GOOD LORD CLIFFORD. - The "Shepherd Lord" was restored to all his estates and titles in the first year of Henry VII. He was a lover of study, and had lived too long, according to reason, to assimilate with the court of the crafty Henry. By the Lady Anne, he is described "as a plain man, who lived for the most part a country life, and came seldom either to court or to London, excepting when called to parliament; on which occasion he behaved like a wise and good English nobleman." His usual retreat, when in Yorkshire, was Barden Tower; his chosen companions, the canons of Bolton. His favourite pursuit was astronomy. He had been accustomed to watch the motions of the heavenly bodies from the hill-tops, when he kept sheep; for in those days, when clocks and almanacs were few, every shepherd made acquaintance with the stars. If he added a little judicial astrology, and was a seeker for the philosopher's stone, he had the countenance of the wisest of his time for his learned superstition. It is asserted that at the period of his restoration he was almost wholly illiterate. Very probably he was so; but it does not follow that he was ignorant. He might know many things well worth knowing, without He lived being able to write his name. at Barden with what was then a small retinue, though his household accounts made mention of sixty servants on that establishment, whose wages were from five to five-and-twenty shillings each. But the state of his revenues, after so many years of spoliation, must have required rigorous economy; and he preferred abating something of ancestral splendour to grind the faces of the poor. This peaceful life he led, with little interruption, from the accession of the house of Tudor till the Scotch invasion, which was defeated at Flodden field. Then he became a warrior in his sixtieth year, and well supported the fame of his house on that bloody day. He survived the battle ten years, and died April 23, 1553, aged about 70. By his last will, he appointed his body to be interred at Shap, if he died in Westmoreland; at Bolton, if he died in Yorkshire.-Coleridge's Northern Worthies. MR BELL AND MR BUNN.-The question on the subject of the comedy of 'Mothers and Daughters' was announced in the 'Mirror' some weeks since to have been amicably settled. The following letter was written by the manager:-" Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Jan. 3, 1844.-My dear sir,-Regretting, as I do, the disappointment created by the non-repetition of Mr Bell's comedy of Mothers and Daughters,' I beg to repeat that it arose from no want of merit in the comedy itself (of which I entertain the same opinion I have ever expressed, that it is one of our best of modern comedies), but is entirely to be attributed to the crippled state of the theatre, and the impossibility of doing it justice by those means which previous failures had left in my hands. The best opinion I can give you of Mr Bell's comedy is, that I would have done it this season at Drury Lane, if I possessed a company capable of doing it justice. I am most happy in putting an end to the litigation between Mr Bell and myself, by the payment of 50l. towards the expenses incurred by Mr Bell in printing the comedy, as well as his legal expenses, and of ceding to him the entire right of representing that comedy. I do this, not merely to express my sense of Mr Bell's forbearance throughout all the unpleasantry which has arisen, but my highest appreciation of his gentlemanly conduct, &c., &c. If I knew how, either to Mr Bell himself, or to the merits of his comedy, I could offer higher tribute, I would do so.-Yours, &c., A, BUNN." ON THE COVENT GARDEN "DEMONSTRATION." The course to be followed is plain, Well known as the "Song of the Shirt;" From friends Dan a dinner may gain, His foes mean to give the desert (dessert). L.M. S. The London Peace Society.-This body have presented a petition to the House of Commons, declaring that they are fully of opinion that war cannot but be displeasing to Almighty God, whilst it is fraught with unnumbered evils to all parties; and therefore pray that there may be no more increase whatever made to the existing military establishments of the empire. Reading for the Blind.-Mr Hughes, a gentleman who has lost his sight, has cleverly contrived a set of arbitrary claracters for letters, which being indented or embossed on paper by a very simple instrument, with different points at the ends, enable the blind to commit their thoughts to paper and read them by the touch with great facility. A Dauphiness Undressed.-When a foreign princess became the wife of the Dauphin of France, a curious ceremony was observed on her passing the French frontier. Madame de Campan thus describes it in the case of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette:-"A superb pavilion had been prefixed on the frontiers near Kell; it consisted of a vast saloon connected with two apartments, one of which was assigned to the lords and ladies of the court of Nisma, and the other to the suite of the Dauphiness. When the Dauphiness had been entirely undressed, even to her body linen and stockings, in order that she might retain nothing belonging to a foreign court (an etiquette always observed on such an occasion), the doors were opened; the young princess came forward, looking round for the Countess de Noailles; then rushing into her arms she implored her, with tears in her eyes, to direct her, to advise her, and to be in every respect her guide and support.' Poisonous Effects of Milk when kept in Zinc Vessels. The following extract will show the danger and folly of the practice of keeping milk in zinc bowls, a custom which has lately become very prevalent, these articles being sold with the recommendation of a larger quantity of cream being produced, owing to galvanic action. "I would scarcely have believed," says Dr Elaines, of Berlin, "that zinc vessels could again have come into use for holding fluids Used for alimentary purposes, as Vanquelin, forty years ago, proved that such were certain, after a short time, to hold a considerable portion of zinc in solution. I have found by experience that a solution of sugar, which had stood only a few hours in the summer in a zinc vessel, contained a considerable amount of zinc salts. It has been often stated that the cream will separate more easily from milk if the latter be kept for a short time in a zinc vessel. As, however, it is known that milk will turn acid much sooner than a solution of sugar, it is the more to be apprehended that some zinc will be dissolved, and such milk will be the more noxious, as it is well known that even a small amount of zinc will cause violent spasmodic vomiting." ."-Pharmaceutical Journal. Colleges of London and Edinburgh have Veterinary Surgeons.-The Veterinary just been joined in a Royal Charter of Incorporation, which confers on them, as title of "The Royal College of Veterinary a simple body corporate, the name and Surgeons." By this charter the veterinary art is recognised as a profession. The Lyceum.-This theatre, which has generally been unfortunate, has at length fallen into good hands. Keeley has taken it, and opens at Easter. One favourite from the great houses generally makes the fortune of a minor. What will two, himself and his lady, do? I am a good poet, but a better historian; Southey's Estimate of Himself.—Me judice, because, though I read other poets and am humbled, I read other historians with a very different feeling. They who have talents want industry or virtue: they who like a French sensualist, another like a have industry want talents. One writes Scotch scoundrel, calculating how to make the most per sheet with the least expense of labour: one like a slave, another like a fool. Now I know myself to be free from these staminal defects, and feel that where poet's feeling, without the slightest affecthe subject deserves it, I write with a tation of style or ornament, going always straightforward to the meaning by the shortest road. My golden rule is to relate everything as briefly, as perspicuously, as rememberably as possible. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Erratum.-Line 21, p. 170, of the Mirror,' of last March 16, for "Baronet," read "Earl." We have not yet found in any Peerage the informa. tion wanted by our Perth correspondent. 'Villages in Middlesex' next week. Several articles intended for the present Number must be postponed. LONDON: Published by JOHN MORTIMER, Adelaide Street, Trafalgar Square; and sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen. Printed by REYNELL and WEIGHT, Little Pulteney street, and at the Royal Polytechnic Institution. Original Communications. CHRIST CHURCH AT TURNHAM GREEN. THIS elegant structure, completed and consecrated in the last year, has been mainly raised by the pious anxiety of the gentry and others in the neighbourhood to see their poorer neighbours adequately provided with spiritual instruction. Of the generous care thus manifested to soothe the poor man under present woe, and teach him to entertain a lively hope of happiness above, there can be but one opinion. It was consecrated and opened in due form by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of No. 1209.] London, in the presence of a numerous assemblage of the neighbouring clergy and a large and respectable congregation. The prelate, on this interesting occasion, preached a sermon from the 10th chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, 10th verse"For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." At its conclusion a collection, amounting to 150l., was made. An adjournment to the large room of the National School, on the south side of the green, took place, where a splendid déjeuner a la fourchette (provided at the expense of the Committee) had been prepared. On his health being drunk, the Bishop, in returning thanks, took occasion [VOL. XLIV. |