JOURNAL OF THE BELLES LETTRES.

Original Poems. 8vo. pp. 167. London, 1830. Wallenstein's Camp, from the German; and Murray.

"First Cuirassier.-The man whose trade it is to die, Must feel his profession's dignity;

If not, he had better remain away
From the losing game of the battle fray;
Or, like the Croat, for paltry hire,
By himself and others despised, expire.

Both Yagers. Yes, life is light against honour
weighed.

First Cuirassier. The sword is neither share nor

spade

We were fools to plough with the iron blade.
For us no corn-stalk, or golden grain,
Springs, blooms, or ripens; on earth's wide plain
We must flit, and look for an home in vain."
The soldier checks not his restless flight
To gaze on his own hearth's ruddy light;
The city is thronged, and the streets are gay-
On marches the column, he must not stay;
In the village meadows he must not share
With the cattle the verdure and freshness there;
On vintage and harvest, with longing eye,
From far he gazes and wanders by.
What has the soldier to call his own,
If it lie not in self-esteem alone?

If that be denied him, in wrath he turns

Mr. Lloyd, of necessity, enters largely into or contributed to effect, this alteration; but it | which prevails among all the branches of the the painful history of that unfortunate union seems much more rational to ascribe it to the royal race at this day. It is an auspicious between the Prince of Wales and his cousin, intrigues of a rival, than to a princess whose omen: the man who loves his nearest reand regard to a far wider circle; and our which led to so much national confusion, conduct in every part of her life places her far latives, has a heart likely to expand in love disgrace, and danger. We will not revive the above any such suspicion." Afterwards we are told-and the sentiment prayer is that such may be the fate of William recollection farther than by quoting two or and is inestimably returned by them. three curious passages, which bear on points of is a little at variance with the preceding quota-the Fourth, till it embraces his entire people, the question that so fearfully agitated the tion: "While the conduct of the prince, in renewbody politic. When the proposal of the marriage was made, says Mr. Lloyd, "the princess ing his intimacy with Mrs. Fitzherbert, must received the intelligence with composure, be blamed and lamented, as an unhappy deamounting to indifference. That the proposed viation from the course which a just regard to union was one by which her family would be his own honour, and to the influence of his elevated, and by which her own happiness example, should have led him to pursue, it is A MOST animated translation of that curious might be improved, she admitted; but her impossible not to acknowledge that that of the picture of the momentary rest in a soldier's heart was, of course, unmoved by the prospect. princess was not calculated to overcome the life, that scene among the privates which, preHer consent she did not withhold, because, dislike which she was well aware her consort ceding the appearance of their generals, is a although she had heard of the follies of the had had to the union, to inspire him with that species of prologue to Schiller's Wallenstein. prince, she had also heard of his virtues; and affection which she knew he did not, and could How characteristic are the following speeches his generosity and sensibility had been greatly not, yet feel or to command his respect and of a fearless but unscrupulous warrior, upholdextolled. Yet here it must be admitted, that esteem at least, if she failed in gaining his love. ing to his companions the higher feeling, the the princess neither did nor could love her As his present majesty, then Duke of Cla-honour of a warlike career! Her affections had been rence, designated her, in the House of Lords, future husband. fixed on a young German prince, to whom she as a lovely and amiable woman' (a eulogium could not give her hand. The precise state of which, after the lapse of a quarter of a cenher mind cannot be better explained than in tury, was repeated in still more energetic In a letter written to a terms by the late Mr. Canning), it can hardly her own words. friend, dated 28th November, 1794, she thus be doubted that, with patience and forbearance, expressed herself: You are aware, my she might, in a great degree at least, have atfriend, of my destiny. I am about entering tained so desirable an object. Might it not into a matrimonial alliance with my first- have been expected that she would, by such a cousin, George Prince of Wales. His gene-mode of proceeding, have acquired the friendrosity I regard, and his letters bespeak a mind ship of her most amiable and accomplished well cultivated and refined. My uncle is a sisters-in-law, considering the sympathy that good man, and I love him very much; but I the female heart ever has for female wrongs? feel that I shall never be inexpressibly happy. But, instead of acting in this manner, she took Estranged from my connexions, my associa- no pains to conceal her resentment and dislike. tions, my friends, all that I hold dear and She behaved with marked difference to the valuable, I am about entering on a permanent king and to the queen-caressing the former Yet as her father, and receiving the latter with connexion. I fear for the consequences. I esteem and respect my intended husband, stiffness and court etiquette. It has been and I hope for great kindness and attention. stated that she vented her complaints on this But, ah me! I say sometimes I cannot now subject to Lady Jersey, and that her ladyship I am indifferent to my repeated these complaints to the queen. love him with ardour. marriage, but not averse to it; I think I shall this be true, the inference irresistibly follows, be happy, but I fear my joy will not be enthu- either that the stories of the prince's attachsiastic. The man of my choice I am debarred ment to her ladyship, and of the resentment of from possessing, and I resign myself to my the princess on that account, are fables; or that destiny. I am attentively studying the En- the princess must have been the most impruglish language; I am acquainted with it, but dent of women, to make a confidante of a perI wish to speak it with fluency. I shall strive son whom she regarded as an enemy and a to render my husband happy, and to interest rival; unless, indeed, we should suppose that him in my favour, since the fates will have it such observations were made with a view of vexing the person against whom they were that I am to be Princess of Wales."" At their first interview, it is stated the directed, and to whom it was intended they Prince was not only affable, but warm in his should be conveyed. That a female of high attentions to his bride; and the author adds descent, and a haughty spirit, could ill brook Free would I wander and live and die No man's spoiler and no man's heir; "Lady Jersey, who had been present dur- neglect or aversion, will be readily acknow. And with reckless glance, and with spirits gay, ing the greatest part of the interview between ledged; but the princess, instead of the lofty From the back of my charger the world survey." the prince and princess, and had remarked, pride of conscious innocence and offended virMost of the minor poems have been pubwith a feeling of displeasure, the attentions tue, which have led women of as proud spirits which the prince paid to his intended consort, as her own to endure in dignified silence the seems to have resolved to avail herself of the most outrageous wrongs, rather than expose lished before: the spirit and gaiety of "Boyle time that would elapse before a second inter- them to the unhallowed gaze of unfeeling cuview, to prejudice the prince against her royal riosity, was much too fond of venting her com- Farm" are admirably contrasted with the noble The princess, it is said, had incau- plaints both in conversation and letters; and translation of Müller's elegy on Lord Byron; tiously avowed to Lady Jersey her previous during the course of her unfortunate life, her but we prefer quoting the following little attachment to a German prince-but probably communications in writing, which ought to poem: it is new, we think, at least; and will, not in such strong terms as her ladyship re- have been secret and confidential, too fre- even if a repetition, excuse itself. presented; however, on the succeeding day quently found their way to the public through Lady Jersey apprised the prince of this pre- the medium of the press, for which, rather vious attachment owned by the princess, with than for the information of those to whom whose person and manners she also found much they were immediately addressed, many of fault. On the next day, therefore, when the them, like speeches in some popular assemPrince of Wales visited St. James's, he was blies, appear to have been composed." But we have done. This quarrel was an cool and reserved in his manners, and manifested, if not an aversion to the Princess of unhappy affair, in which, as in all family disBrunswick, at least a considerable alteration sensions, there was little to commend, and in his behaviour. Queen Charlotte has been much to condemn, on both sides. We rejoice accused of being the individual who effected, to conclude by remarking on the harmony

mistress.

If

On others, and murders, and robs, and burns.

First Arquebusier.-God knows it a life of misery.
First Cuirassier-Vet not to another beneath the sky
Would I turn from the soldier's life to fly.

Now, mark: through the world I have wandered wide
Much by experience have proved and tried;
Have served St. Mark's republican reign,
And the crowns of Naples and kingly Spain;
Sought fortune far, though I sought in vain--
The church and the law have alike surveyed-
The statesman, the monk, and the sons of trade;
There is not among them, if choice were free,
Robe, cowl, or doublet, would sit on me
Like the iron jerkin which here you see.

First Arquebusier.-In faith! with that I can hardly

agree.

First Cuirassier.-Would we follow a chase, we must
be content

Through toil and through danger to track the scent:
Who seeks for title, and rank, and state,
Must bow down his neck to their golden weight:
Who seeks to pass through his life possessing
His children's love and his parents' blessing,
In peace and honour some trade inay ply ;-
Not so minded, in sooth, am I.

"The White Lady.

Our troops went forth on Sarfeldt's morn,
Beneath their monarch's eye,

And merrily peal'd the yager's horn
As the guard was marching by.
And first and last the howitzers past,
And the battery's iron train,
And all to throw the desperate cast
Upon Jena's fated plain.

The march they play'd was sweet to hear,
The sight was fair to see;

It smooth'd our Frederic's brow austere,
And Blucher smiled with glee,

That sight was fair to all but those
Who own'd prophetic fears;
And sweet that martial strain arose
To all but gifted ears.

And was there none in dream or trance-
Could follow the column's way,
And with the vulture's prescient glance
The death-doom'd troops survey?

Yes, close at hand she had taken her stand,
I saw and I mark'd her well;
'Twas she who wanders through the land,
Whose name I fear to tell.

They saw not her form, nor her visage of grief-
It was not that their sight was dim;

But fix'd on his troops were the eyes of their chief,
And their glances were fix'd on him.

But I knew her at once by the long lank hair,
And the garments as white as snow;

And she linger'd there in her still despair,

And scowl'd on the troops below.

I knew her at once for a lady who wends,
Impell'd by the curse divine,

And who wanders abroad when wo impends
Upon Prussia's regal line.

I have kept the night-watch, where she chiefly is said
To roam by the ruinous stair;

I should not have trembled, I should not have fled

For I could have faced her there.

For I fear'd not the sight of the lady in white
By the moonlight's spectral ray,

In the hall of our kings, at the hour of night;
But I shrunk from the vision by day.

Yet I thought what the fortunes of Prussia decreed
By questioning her to know;

So right to that lady I spurr'd my steed,

Till no nearer he would go.

For he rear'd at the sight of the lady in white,

And he stopp'd in his full career.

roes.

They have therefore thrown the whole and grehunde. Notwithstanding the rank it medical tribe like physic to the dogs; and but held among the canine race, Caius mentions, for the kind interposition of a Family Library on the authority of Froissart, the following volume, these valuable family friends might fact, not much to the credit of the fidelity of have been passed over in silence to the end of this species: When that unhappy prince, time. Richard the Second, was taken in Flint Castle, Here we have eighteen of them, from Li- his favourite greyhound immediately deserted nacre to Gooch, rescued from this unmerited him, and fawned on his rival, Bolingbroke, as fate; and if experience should prove the ex- if he understood and foresaw the misfortunes periment to be judicious, there are now so of his former master. This act of ingratitude, many Libraries afloat, we have no doubt but the unfortunate monarch observed, and de. the public will be drugged from Esculapius to clared aloud, to be the presage of his future Dr. Jordan. With this, however, we have at death. The leviner, or lyemmer: the first present little to do; the one pill before us is a name is derived from the lightness of the dose; and as it is likely to produce a very kind; the other from the old word lyemme, a good effect upon our patients, the public, we thong: this species being used to be led with a shall make it our business to inform them what thong, and slipped at the game. This dog are the component parts of the recipe. hunted both by scent and sight, and in the The lives consist of Linacre, Caius, Harvey, form of its body observed a medium between Browne, (improperly Brown, without the finale, the hound and the grehunde. They were on the plate), Sydenbam, Radcliffe, Mead, Hux- chiefly used for the chase of wolves. According ham, Pringle, Fothergill, Heberden, Cullen, to Caius, we are indebted to Spain for the W. Hunter, Warren, Baillie, Jenner, Parry, and spainel; but the comforter, or spainel-gentle, Gooch. The first, the founder of the College comes from Malta. The mastive, or bandedog: of Physicians, is more meagre than we could of these, he says, three were a match for a have wished; for the biography of Linacre was bear, and four for a lion. It appears that an extraordinary one, and might have fur- Great Britain was so noted for its mastiffs, nished matter for a far longer and very in- that the Roman emperors appointed an officer teresting sketch. There is no notice whatever in this island, with the title of Procurator of the curious Greek manuscripts, and other Cynegii, whose sole business it was to breed,

She spoke, and her words, when I heard them aright, stores of literature which he brought into and transmit from hence to the amphitheatre, They curdled my blood for fear.

Now trouble me not-I list to the shot-
On Sarfeldt I see the dead;

Disturb me no more-I weep for your lot!'
Was all that the lady said.

She strided away, and I could not tell where,
For a shuddering seized my frame;
And whither she vanish'd I cannot declare,
And as little know whence she came.

But at Sarfeldt's fight, since the morning light,
The Frenchmen had fired well,

And the lady had spoken the moment aright
When Louis of Prussia fell."

other merits.

England; and yet we know of no private such dogs as would prove equal to the combats
individual whose efforts in this way would exhibited at that place. The mastiffe has been
have furnished matter of greater attraction to described, by other naturalists, as a species of
the reader. The history of Caius is observ-great size and strength, and a very loud barker;
able for its extract of his account of the whence they have derived its name, mastiff,
sweating sickness.
quasi mase thefese; it being supposed to fright-
en away robbers by its tremendous voice."

In another work (as the writer states) the
learned doctor "gives a brief account of the The next anecdote which occurs to us as
variety of dogs existing, in his time, in this worthy of extract is to be found in the life of
country, and adds a systematic table of them, Harvey, the immortal discoverer of the circu
subjoining for the instruction of his correlation of the blood: it follows

There are surprisingly few good translations spondent, their English names, which are as "Soon after his return from Scotland, the from the German; and our literature owes an follows: Terrare-harier-bludhunde-gase- anatomical skill of Harvey was employed, by important service to the young nobleman hunde-grehunde-leviner, or lyemmer-tum- the king's command, in the dissection of that (Lord Francis Leveson Gower) who thus de- bler-spainel-setter-water-spainel, or fyn- extraordinary instance of longevity, Thomas votes his talents and his information. We like der-spainel-gentle, or comforter-shepherd's Parr, who died November 14, 1635, at the age this little volume too much not cordially to dog-mastive, or bande-dog-wappe-turn- of 153 years. He was a poor countryman, hope that its author will add industry to his spit-dancer.'' Of his manner of treating his who had been brought up from his native subject, the following may be given as speci- country, Shropshire, by Thomas, Earl of Arun. mens: The terrare takes its name from its del, and shewn as a great curiosity at court. The Family Library, No. XIV. Lives of subterraneous employ, being a small kind of At the age of 88 he had married his first wife; British Physicians. London, 1830. Murray.hound, used to force the fox, or other beasts of at 102 he had done penance in church, for a IT is full time that there should be a book in prey, out of their holes. The harier derives breach of the laws provided against inconti which medical men are the principal charac- its name from hunting the hare. The blud- nency. When he was 120 he married again, ters; for it is really a strange thing to say, we hunde, or slothunde, was of great use, and in taking to wife a widow, with whom he is re. do not remember in history, in fiction, in the high esteem, among our ancestors. Slot means presented to have lived upon the most affec drama, or in any other class of literature, a the impression left by the foot of the dog in tionate terms. At 130 he had threshed corn, single instance in which a doctor, a surgeon, the mire. This dog was remarkable for the and done other agricultural work, by which he an apothecary, or an accoucheur, is the hero. acuteness of his smell, tracing any wounded gained his livelihood. His usual habits of life How comes it that these able and amiable game that had escaped from the hunter, and had been most sparing; his diet consisting of men have been so sadly neglected? This, following the footsteps of the thief, let the coarse brown bread made of bran; of rancid we presume, is to be attributed to the nature distance of his flight be ever so great. The cheese, and sour whey; but when, on his arri of their profession. Deeply as every human bloodhound was in great request on the con- val in London, he became domesticated in the sympathy is interwoven with the visit of the fines of England and Scotland, when the Bor- family of the Earl of Arundel, his mode of liv. physician, his practice, his care; there is no- derers were continually preying on the herds ing was changed, he fed high, drank wine, and thing in the mode of his proceedings which is and flocks of their neighbours, and was used soon died. According to Harvey, who opened elevated or imposing. On the contrary, al- also by Wallace and Bruce, during the civil his body, his death was occasioned by a peri. most all medical acts either approach the nasty wars. The gasehunde would select from the pneumony, brought on by the impurity of a or the ridiculous. Feeling the pulse with a herd the fattest and fairest deer, pursue it by London atmosphere and the sudden alteration grave look would make a savage laugh; and the eye, and if lost for a time, recover it, and of his diet. There were adhesions of the lungs putting out the tongue, &c. &c. &c., besides again select it from the herd which it might to the pleura on the right side; his heart was dressing wounds and sores, examining noisome have rejoined. (This species is now extinct, large, his intestines sound; but the cartilages substances, and other necessary offices, are or, at least, unknown.) The grehunde was of his ribs, instead of being ossified, as they derogatory to those ideas of brilliancy with the first in rank among dogs, as appears from generally are in elderly persons, were, on the which the imaginative love to invest their he- the forest-laws of Canute, who enacted, That contrary, soft and flexible in this man, who was no one under the degree of a gentleman should more than a century and a half old. His brain presume to keep a greyhound; as also from an was sound; he had been blind for twenty years old Welsh saying, which signifies that you may before his death, but his hearing was distinct a know a gentleman by his hawke, his horse, his memory was very bad."

We do remember one play in which a surgeon was the chief person. He was a sort of Inkle, and performed

the operation of couching on a fair Indian-but the audience would not see it out.

In the life of Sydenham we have an episode of the plague, of considerable interest, though it has been so often described; and we fear we may consider the anecdotes of Dr. Radcliffe, amusing as some of them are, to be also too notorious for any chance of novelty.

"Richardson relates of him that he once said to Dr. Mead, I love you, and now I will tell you a sure secret to make your fortune; use all mankind ill,' and it certainly was his own practice. Radcliffe himself owned that he was avaricious, even to spunging (whenever he could contrive to do it), at a tavern reckoning, a sixpence or shilling among the rest of the company, under pretence of hating (as he ever did) to change a guinea, because, said he, it slips away so fast. He could never be brought to pay bills without much following and importunity; nor even then, if there appeared any chance of wearying out his creditors. A pavier, after long and fruitless attempts, caught him just getting out of his chariot at his own door, in Bloomsbury Square, and set upon him. Why, you rascal,' said the doctor, do you pretend to be paid for such a piece of work? why you have spoiled my pavement, and then covered it over with earth to hide your bad work.' Doctor,' said the pavier, mine is not the only bad work that the earth hides.' 'You dog, you,' said Radcliffe, are you a wit? you must be poor-come in;' and paid him."

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It appears that Radcliffe, who told King William he would not have his two (swollen) legs for his three crowns, and affronted Queen Anne by telling her nothing ailed her but the vapours, if she could only believe it, was one of those medical men of whom there seems to have been a pretty regular succession in London, and who have got into great note and practice not merely by skill and talents, but by a real or affected rudeness in speech and manners. This is a peculiarity which we have observed in no other liberal professions and it is difficult to account for it but the notorious fact is, that there has always been some celebrated bear of the kind flourishing in the metropolis, and that no sooner does one die, than his mantle (we beg pardon, his skin) falls upon a worthy successor. Of these, the diffident and gentle Gooch, so lately taken from us by death, was not one, and his personal memoir is particularly affect ing; though we shall copy from it a portion of more general interest, relating to his literary labours.

is free to range where it pleases, they are con- and Vassall, who had a great love for the
stantly painting their future lives with a pencil canine race, determined to give the turn-spits
dipped in black. Aware that they possess cer- a holyday; and he fixed on Sunday, as on that
tain resources of money, knowledge, and pa- day the bakers' ovens were not at work. Our
tronage, they view their present situation in wag, by bribing a batch of vagabonds, con-
the same light with the most cheerful of their trived to gather together every turn-spit
companions. But the character of the man, within the bills of mortality,' which he shut
the extent of his resources, and the usual con- up in stables, feeding them well. Great was
duct of the world being given, to find his future the consternation of the hogs' when the
lot, he commences his calculations with the cooks struck work, for lack of their marmitons.
same assumptions, and differs from them in There was a hue and cry all over the town,
the conclusion. They deduce success, he mis- and the roasts were put aside for another occa-
fortune; and the consequence is, that he be- sion. In the evening the dogs returned, and,
comes a frequent prey to those sorrowful appre- contrary to their patron's calculation, got well
hensions and gloomy emotions which want only trimmed; but he had the satisfaction of hug-
strength and permanency to constitute one spe- ging himself with the thoughts that the gour-
cies of mental disease.'"
inands had a meagre day, and the quadrupeds
a holyday. It was soon found out that the
trick was got up by Vassall. Miss Vassall was
at this time a pretty piquante girl of sixteen,
and a great favourite of her papa, who played
off his tricks on every one but her."

Poor Gooch!" on the 16th of February, 1830, he breathed his last. Enough has been stated in this brief memoir to shew that Robert Gooch was no ordinary man. During a short life, embittered by almost constant illness, he succeeded in attaining to great eminence in his profession, and left behind him valuable contributions to medical knowledge.'

With this we end our notice: if not one of the most sparkling, this volume is not one of the least various and useful of the excellent Library of which it forms a part.

PRYSE LOCKHART GORDON'S MEMOIRS, &c.
AT Bristol,-continuing our review of these
amusing volumes—at a future period, the au-
thor tells us :

If we can credit Mr. Gordon's recollection, the following is decisive on the disputed question about breaking the line. In 1782 he was on service at Rodney's landing, on his return from his celebrated battle in the West Indies, and he says:

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"The hero was extremely condescending in his manners. I took an opportunity of complimenting him on the glorious victory he had achieved. I owe not a little of my success,' said he, to a countryman of yours, who sent to me a description of a plan, demonstrating that by breaking the centre of an enemy's "I happened to meet the celebrated Dean fleet, either the van or rear would be compelled Tucker, who had just published a pamphlet to fight. This gentleman's name is Clerk, a against the American war, which made a squire near Edinburgh, and who could not be great noise. It was one of the first political supposed to know much of sea affairs; but his treatises I had read; and being struck with plan appeared to me to be ingenious, and I put the reasoning, I could not avoid complimenting it in practice with success; and I intend the reverend gentleman, saying that I writing to him to thank him for giving me the should be converted into a Whig from his first opportunity of shewing the effect of a arguments.' Though the praises of such a mode of attacking fleets hitherto unpractised, youth were not highly flattering to a dignitary and which in my opinion is a very important of the church, he seemed gratified, and next discovery." day sent me the pamphlet with an invitation Mr. Gordon occupied succeeding years by to dinner. The dean was a man of singular serving in the marines, till the breaking out of conversational talents. He advised me to stick the French Revolution, when, after being fifto the Tories; for depend on it,' said he, teen years a subaltern, he joined the Fencible that gentlemen of the army have no business regiment raised by the Duke of Gordon, as with politics.' At this party was the father of lieutenant and quarter-master;-by marrying Lady Holland, Mr. Vassall, a wag, a bon Miss Browne in 1787, and raising a family, as vivant, and a whist-player. We cottoned in his chief raised a regiment;-and by subse"It was (says the writer) at the commence- these propensities, and I was often at his plea- quently travelling as a companion to Lord ment of the year 1808 that Gooch first appeared sant dinners. I recollect a singular trick Montgomery. in the character of a critic. Several of his friends which he played on the Bristol hogs,' as he agreed to establish a new medical journal, and called the merchants, to which he made me an he became one of the principal contributors to accessary. It is well known, that although the London Medical Review, which existed for these merchants have a handsome exchange, about five years, and contained many articles they transact all their business in the street, of very considerable merit. The great error of rain or sunshine. Vassall made a bet, that at all young reviewers is the abuse of assumed the usual hour of high change he would collect power; it is gratifying to self-esteem to point the whole commercial body within the building. out defects, and the youthful critic is more For this purpose he procured a badger and anxious to discover faults than excellencies. several brace of terriers; and as I had a faGooch used often, at a later period of his life, mous dog, he made me an accomplice. As "Shortly after our arrival (at Palermo) we to regret the severity in which he had indulged three o'clock struck, there was a great hubbub dined with our ambassador. In the evening a in some of his early essays in this department. in the area of the Exchange, and every one ran stranger was announced as having arrived, His first article was on the subject of insanity; to see what was the matter. The dogs were bearing a despatch from the Emperor Paul of the book reviewed, a translation of Pinel. By drawing the badger; not an individual dealer, Russia; the messenger was a Turk. Lady H., a singular coincidence the first and the last of broker, chapman, or merchant, was to be seen with her usual tact, recommended Lord Nelson, his literary labours were on the same subject. in the street while the sports continued; and it for whom the despatch was destined, to clothe There is a paragraph in this review which is was at last found that it was one of Vassall's himself in his pelisse and aigrette to receive so applicable to Gooch's own peculiar conforma-hoaxes. On another occasion he played one the Turk: this was done in a moment. tion of mind, that he must have had an eye to of his practical jokes off on these gentlemen. party moved to a salle de réception. himself when he wrote it. There are some It was the fashion, fifty years ago,' to roast folding-doors were thrown open, and the Muscharacters,' he says, who are commonly called meat by a wheel, in which was enclosed a sulman entered. The moment he caught a low-spirited, gloomy, desponding fellows. Dur- short-legged cur called a turn-spit. There glance of his lordship's costume, the slave was ing an interval of occupation, when the mind was hardly any other sort of jack in Bristol;|prostrate on the earth, making the grand

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As a part of his adventures in the latter sphere, we regret to read some statements very injurious to the memory of Lord Nelson and of Lady Hamilton. The moral repute of the lady it is not ours to defend, nor to go into the story of her connexion with the hero of the Nile; but we firmly believe that she rendered great political services to him and to her country; and we confess we cannot credit such an anecdote as the annexed..

The

The

THE LITERARY GAZETTE, AND

salaam. This was the scene her ladyship had seasons. anticipated, and it was got up with stage tutions, and composed of many men of esprit good-natured friend who had given him this It was a sort of quiz on all insti- quiring for him.' The bait took, and the same effect. The credentials being delivered were of its time. found to contain an autograph letter from twelve judges, and the meetings were weekly, escape from the window. Ropes were proThere were Paul, complimenting the hero on the glories he at a tavern, during three or four of the winter cured, and the Jew (for he was a Levite) of a president and information, recommended him to make his had achieved; and in testimony of his majesty's months. The club was assembled by procla- sixteen stone was lowered into a yard from regard, the emperor of all the Russias desired mation on the first day of the year, and pub-which there was no outlet. He remained quiet his acceptance of a gold snuff-box, on which lished in the Chronicle: it was written by for two hours, fearing discovery; at length he was the imperial portrait. French) was read to the assembly, and the Humbugallo Rex!' and countersigned by his was taken for a thief, and the watch was about The letter (in Mr. Perry, who was the president, designated began to hollow out for aid. It came-but he present exhibited. It was superb, of chaste secretary, [chased] gold; the portrait was set with large were very humorous, and may be seen by look- from the round-house; and he never shewed Screech.' brilliants, a gift worthy of an emperor. These proclamations to be called, when an explanation saved Moses "The only memorable event which occurred When a new member was proposed, he was ever, was short-lived: it became too mixed, ing on the files of the paper of 1790 (I think). his face again at the club. at the minister's entertainment, was this war- admitted blind-folded with great ceremony. and many disagreeable low-bred persons got rior getting drunk with rum, which does not He was then conducted by a member to the into it. It died a natural death after the seThis society, howcome under the prohibition of the prophet. bottom of a large apartment, where he mounted cond year. Messrs. Perry and Gray were also The monster, who had the post of honour at a dozen of almost perpendicular steps, being members of a club (to which I belonged) at the her ladyship's side, entertained her through warned, that if he slipped, he would probably British, in Cockspur Street: it was called 'the the interpretation of the Greek with an account break his neck!' When the candidate had as- Anonymous,' and the meetings were monthly. of his exploits; among others, that of his cended to the top of this rostrum, and the ban- Many eminent men were members of this sohaving lately fallen in with a French transport, dage was removed from his eyes, he found him-ciety, which lasted till more than half of the conveying invalids and wounded soldiers from self elevated some ten feet above the rest of the club were dead. Professor Porson, Dr. Burney, Egypt, whom he had brought on board his company, near the ceiling, and standing on a Dr. Raine, my brother Mr. George Gordon, frigate; but provisions and water having run platform of four feet square, looking on a table Mr. John Kemble, and many other men of short, he found it necessary to get rid of his round which were sitting the president, his esprit, composed one of the pleasantest societies prisoners, and amused himself by putting them secretary, and twelve judges, all masked, with ever formed, where wit, tempered with good to death. With this weapon,' said he, in his long beards and black gowns; and in the cen-humour, was the order of the day.' Toasts vile jargon, and drawing his shabola, I cut tre of the table was a cauldron of spirits of from Shakespeare were given, and it was exoff the heads of twenty French prisoners in wine, which threw a most lugubrious light on pected that the members were to produce a one day! Look, there is their blood remaining these hideous dramatis persona! It required new one at every meeting. The variety of on it!' The speech being translated, her la- a man of good nerves to look on this coup d'œil convivial sentiments found in this great author dyship's eye beamed with delight, and she without being a little agitated. Behind the was astonishing. Dr. Burney, on one occasion, said, Oh let me see the sword that did the president's chair was placed on a perch a live having nothing new to propose, gave · Another glorious deed!' It was presented to her; she owl, whom he consulted in all difficult cases. can! All were puzzled to recollect the pastook it into her fair hand covered with rings, The secretary, Screech,' was ordered to exa- sage, till Porson exclaimed If one can'tand looking at the encrusted Jacobin blood, mine the candidate, and the queries were so another can.' Such was the extraordinary mekissed it and handed it to the hero of the Nile extremely absurd, that answering them gravely mory and quick imagination of the Greek proHad I not been an eye-witness to this dis- was out of the question: they were merely in- fessor. Out of this club rose another called graceful act, I would not have ventured to tended to raise a laugh at the expense of the the One Bottle;' but it was short-lived :— relate it. Mrs. Cs Le, the beautiful candidate; but it sometimes happened that a and amiable wife of our consul-general, was witty reply turned the laugh on the examiner; many of the wits of the Anon. Hewerdine, sitting vis-à-vis to the Turk, and was so hor- the candidate was in this case admitted without the convivial poet, was laureate to the Humbug 'the days of chivalry were gone,' along with rified at the scene (being near her accouche- further questioning. ment), that she fainted, and was taken out of present at your birth?' was the first question cross-examinations were never exceeded by Mr. the room. Her ladyship said it was a piece of put to me. Pray, sir, were you Club, as well as prosecutor-general; and his affectation, and made no efforts to assist her Are you a sportsman ?' 'Yes.' 'Well, sup-to write a constitutional song in eight days, 'I do not remember,' said 1. Scarlett in his best days. H. was also ordered guest; the truth is, she was jealous of her pose you are in a stubble field-the wind being under penalty of an amende of 5007. ! beauty, and insinuated that, being a sister of easterly, your dog Nero points, and your bitch cuted this task in four and twenty hours, and the late Lord E. F., she must, necessarily, be a Juno backs-a covey of patridges take flight-sang it the following evening. It was an adJacobin. N.B. She wore green ribands. The there are thirteen in it: you kill two birds mirable piece of humour." He exetoad-eaters applauded, but many groaned, and with the first barrel, and one with the second, cried 'shame' loud enough to reach the ears how many remain ?-take care what you reply, to which we shall probably devote another of the admiral, who turned pale, hung his sir; think well before you speak.' I did not There are still a few miscellaneous matters, head, and seemed ashamed. Lord M. got up hesitate, boldly exclaiming, and left the room, and I speedily followed. Poor Nelson was to be pitied-never was man so mystified and deluded!"

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Mackintosh's History of England.
(Third and concluding Notice.)

the following:-
The rise of the papal sway is well shewn in

On his return to London, Mr. Gordon be- After having been badgered in this way for ten To give three notices to a small volume is some came acquainted with the late Mr. Perry, minutes, I was admitted a member on paying proof of the interest it has excited in us : with editor of the Morning Chronicle, with whom a bottle of claret-the usual fine. If a mem-the present we close our review of Sir James and his associates he appears to have mixed a ber became obnoxious to the society, he was Mackintosh's history. good deal in company; frequenting taverns got rid of in a summary way. The attorney with them in their dissipating hours, and general was ordered to prosecute him for some being one of such convivial clubs as in those alleged crime, and council was appointed to days, more than now, were the relaxations of defend him; but he was always found guilty, papal throne, after having reigned over the literary men; for there were then no United and fined 5001. or to quit the club!' Mr. Felix church for many years, through a succession of "Hildebrand, who soon after ascended the Service, University, Oriental, Athenæum, or M'Carthy, a celebrated personage, was indited his creatures whom he raised to a titular popeLiterary Union haunts, with all their pseudo luxuries for novices; and the scribes, our pre- a great length, and he made an able defence tremendous scheme of a universal theocracy, for being a coxcomb.' His case was heard at dom, had then completed the portentous and decessors, were fain to put up with "Hum- without the assistance of council, and was ac-administered by the pope, in which all civil bug" Societies, and others of hardly more im- quitted of the charge, but recommended to rulers were to be treated as subordinate and posing denominations. "Mr. Perry," we are informed, "was very Another worthy, who was obnoxious to the of his age, combining original genius, commandput on a clean shirt when he went to the club.' removable officers. He was the greatest man convivial during his whole life, but never ne- society, had a practical joke played off on him, ing spirit, and undaunted courage, with an exglected his business for pleasure. He was a which produced great mirth. It was known emplary life, and with principles which seem to member of many clubs, one of which, of a very he had many debts, and that he was afraid of have been disinterested. The astonishing presingular nature, originated with him. It was being arrested. A hint was given to him one tensions which had almost triumphed in his called the Humbug Club,' was instituted evening, that a suspicious fellow, looking like vigorous hands were deduced from simple and about forty years ago, and existed for two a bailiff, had got into the house, and was in-apparently true premises. Most associations

If it be

On the first war to preserve the balance of

of men exercise the power of expelling delin- their law,-might, in itself, be considered as a for right than interest in their own. quent or obnoxious members; excommunication perpetual declaration of war against states of a good for an individual to be disinterested, to was accordingly practised by the apostolical different faith. But in the eleventh century help the miserable, to defend the oppressed, church, as it is at this day without dispute by this insolent pretension was maintained by these virtues must equally contribute to the the humblest meetings of Quakers. It would arms, with a success very alarming to Christen- well-being, the honour, and the safety of combe absurd that civil rank and authority should dom. About that time Europe, in different munities. The European law of nations is involve exemption from an ecclesiastical cen- parts of her frontier, shewed the sense of dan-well adapted to a body of states of the same sure. Hitherto the reasoning seems indis- ger by beginning to resist the invaders. The general character, not differing from each other putable. The next step was alarming: as the expeditions against the northern and Sarmatian too widely in civilisation, and professing a refaithful were forbidden to hold intercourse with pagans manifested the like vague and confused verence for the like principles of justice. In any man excommunicated, they could scarcely fear in an unwarrantable form. The tottering the ordinary wars of such nations, the rules of perform any active duty towards him. It state of the Greek empire, and the successive international law are of sacred authority. In therefore became unfit for the subjects of an invasions from Tatars, which renewed the va- relations spreading through communities of a excommunicated king to obey him in peace or lour and barbarism of the southern Mahome- different character, and on occasions too new to serve him in war; and when the sovereign tans, combined to threaten the eastern frontier and great to be embraced by precedent, the pontiff expressly absolved them from their alle- of Christendom. The Mahometans acted on principles of that law retain their inviolability, giance, he seemed only to warn his children one principle, and as one body. The Chris- but its rules may sometimes yield for the sake against the necessary consequence of acting tians were justified in acting, and compelled to of the principle. It seems morally evident, under the commands of a man excluded from act with the like union. According to the most that whatever a nation may lawfully defend participation in sacred rites. Another reason, rigid principles of international law, an attack for themselves, they may also defend for another equally simple, offered itself. In the many on any Mahometan territory was an act of self- people, if called upon to interpose. It is true contests between different states, or between defence: it was the means of securing them- that ambition often converts these principles subjects and their rulers, it was often difficult selves against attack. The European rulers into pretexts; but ambition deals in the same to determine on which side justice lay. As it could undertake no such perilous enterprise manner with all the purest motives of human was their moral duty to satisfy their conscience without the hearty and enthusiastic concur- conduct. Our blame is not in such cases to be on that head before they proceeded to or perse-rence of their people. Nothing but a strong lessened: it is to be applied, not to the prinvered in violence, they could not consult any feeling could have bound together all the scat-ciple avowed, but to the hypocrisy and fraud person more likely to be learned or impartial tered power of a feudal force. It was lawful to practised by the ambitious. Much doubt has than the common father of Christians. As a rouse their spirit against the wrong-doers, and been brought on these questions by the general king took the advice of the private director of excite a zeal necessary for the effectual exercise condemnation of religious wars. This is an his conscience, so it became him to recur, in of just defence. The only means by which equivocal phrase. Wars to impose religion by great difficulties, to the general confessor of these ends could be reached were an appeal to force are the most execrable violation of the Christians. It could not be blamable in the the fellow-feeling and religious sentiments of rights of mankind: wars to defend it are the pope to offer his mediation to prevent the effu- the body of their subjects. These grand springs most sacred exercise of these rights." sion of Christian blood. The rejection of his of human action were made to act by an expegood offices naturally indicated conscious guilt, dition for the safety of the pilgrims to Jerusa-power, Sir James remarks: and might be so contumacious as to justify a lem, who could not be really safe without the "The support given by Louis le Gros to recourse to spiritual censures. In watching establishment of a Christian authority in Pa- Robert and his gallant son, as well as to the over the safety of the church, it was the duty lestine. No cold representation of distant and malecontent nobles of Normandy, may be consiof the pope to take care that the acts of civil disputable dangers could have put such masses dered as the earliest precautionary wars to pregovernments should not endanger it. Of the in motion. But were not the feelings of the serve such a balance in the force of neighbourreality and extent of the danger he alone could people perfectly justifiable? Is it true that ing states, that one or a few might not acquire judge; and he had no effectual means of de-nations, while they may maintain at the point the means of oppressing the rest. fending the church but by excluding enemies of the sword every rock and islet of their old House of Brunswick." In 1165 the Elector from her communion. As all subjects who possessions, are forbidden to defend the undis- of Cologne came to London to espouse the abetted the aggressions of their rulers against turbed exercise of religion, which may (and if princess Matilda, the king's eldest daughter, the spiritual power were accomplices in that it be real, must) be their dearest and most pre-as the proxy of Henry the Lion, duke of heinous crime, the pope might defend himself cious interest? The assault on their territory Saxony, a puissant, ambitious, and magnificent by the formidable sentence of a universal inter- cannot more wound and degrade them than prince, who was spoiled of his dominions by a dict, in the territory of the delinquents, of all outrage towards what they most reverence.decree of the imperial diet, in 1180, and who those religious rites on which depended many They had acquired, by a usage older than Ma- twice took refuge in England from the pursuit of the most important transactions of life, and, hometan power, a right peaceably to visit of his triumphant enemies. It is a remarkable in the opinion of the parties interested, their Bethlehem and Calvary, and their rulers were circumstance, that his posterity by this lady, eternal salvation." morally bound to protect that right. As every who out of the vast dominions of their ancestor state may maintain its honour because it is preserved only the duchies of Brunswick and essential to its safety, so Europe had a right to Luneburgh, after the lapse of near six hundred "No war is just which is not defensive. By defend her common honour, which consisted years, came back to the throne of a greater that principle the expeditions for the recovery materially in resisting, or averting by chastise-England than the empire of the Plantagenets, of the Holy Land must, like all other wars, be ment, attacks on her common religion. It is to be holden by a nobler tenure than that of tried. It must be owned, at the outset, that not true that every war which is disinterested birth. At the espousals the Earl of Leicester the Europeans of that age did not conform to and generous, which is waged for our fellow-would not kiss the archbishop-elector, because the technical rules of our international law. Christians against persecution, or for our fellow-he was excommunicated as an adherent of the They did not make a formal demand of repara- men against tyranny, is on these accounts for-anti-pope Octavian." tion for wrong, and of security against danger. bidden by the true principles of international Maid of Orleans." It is true that her acThey did not inquire whether the possession of law. Though it be dangerous to allow too cusers and all others then believed in the reality Palestine could directly add to their means of much latitude where virtuous motives may be of sorcery: and the most important lesson defence. Nor did they content themselves with used as pretexts, yet it is also certain that every taught by the event is the value of that knowa moderate succour to the Greek empire, as nation which supinely contemplates flagrant ledge, the fruit of free inquiry and fearless resome modern philosophers have required. But, wrong done to others, weakens its spirit as well flection, which has banished such imaginary is the disregard of technical rules always at- as lessens its reputation. They, on the other crimes from the civilised world." tended by violations of their principle? There hand, who draw the sword for justice on behalf was no doubt that embassy and negotiation of other wronged nations, carry back to their would be vain. It was lawful for them to de- own defence a remembrance which gives them fend the safe exercise of their religious worship the strength of an approving conscience in their in Palestine; and it was for them to determine own cause. A just and brave people may be where they could best defend any of their rights wrongfully deprived of the confidence and eswhich were either violated or threatened. The teem of other nations; but they cannot be beavowed principle of all Mahometans, that they reaved of the efficacy of such remembrances, in are entitled to universal monarchy-a principle assuring them that they who fought for justice consecrated by their religion, and enforced by alone in the case of others, may contend more

The view taken of the crusades strikes us as peculiarly just.

These are but a few of the acute and original remarks with which these pages abound; and in continuing his work as he has begun, Sir James Mackintosh will confer a great benefit on his country.

Juvenile Library, No. I.-(Conclusion). THE length to which the story of Sir T. Lawence's early days is carried, has compelled us