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of joyous spirits, full of genuine point, with- She performed the cottage scene in "Two length the imbrogio is cleared up, and each re. out a particle of coarseness or vulgarity. Words" on last Monday night, with as much sumes his own character. Achmet, who is a She is so completely identified with the warm interest and as many delicate touches model of gallantry, declares himself highly character, that she has little to do but follow of nature as ever. The attention of the pleased that Lady Arthur's curiosity should her own impulses; and her judgment, good Audience was as fixed, the applause as loud, have been the means of making him acquainted taste, good sense, and cheering good hu- as frequent, and as well-deserved as on her with an amiable woman, distinguished for her mour, guide her with an instinctive felicity. first performance of that character. talents, and assures my Lord that he shall alLike a sun-beam her vivacity throws an On Tuesday night, My Uncle, Artaxerxes, ways be well received at his court. agreeable light upon the performers around and Don Juan, were performed at this Thea-Turkish manners, is the production of Mr. Louis, This piece which affords a faithful picture of her, and there is a pleasantry of the heart tre. Miss Miriam H. Buggins performed who was some time ago attached to a diplomin her countenance, which, without over- Mandane, with so much taste and feeling as atic department. We suspect he was never stepping the modesty of nature, keeps up fully to justify our hope on seeing her in the charged with a mission to the Sublime Porte. the life of the piece, and retains a constant part of Polly, that she would prove a valuable hold upon the interests of her audience. acquisition to the stage. We understand But when a rustic character is ill-written, that she is a pupil of Mr. Horn, and she and distinguished from better life more by does much credit to his instructions. Her The PARLIAMENTARY CAMPAIGN vulgarity of dress and coarseness of language voice unites great depth and sweetness, and now drawing rapidly towards a close, and inanners, than by an unaffected simpli- she sung with much power and harmony. much of the time of both Houses bas city, and open-hearted display of natural Her execution was fluent, and occasionally been occupied with the usual routine feeling, this actress is by no means so suc- rich in expression; but we do not agree with business; yet not to the exclusion of cessful. The defects of the author, in some those who suppose that she has yet surdegree, attach to her performance. She is mounted the diffidence inseparable from a other important matter. The Habeas necessitated to eke out the deficiency of the new performer. She was visibly much agi- Suspension, being carried through the text, by slatternly neglect or tawdry finery; tated, and once nearly overcome, by the fre-lower House as we anticipated in our by hanging her lip; a gibing tone; twirling quent bursts of applause. She was encored last number, has also passed the HOUSE her person, or striding round the stage; in some of the songs; and her person, which OF LORDS, and actually received the elbowing the performers, swinging her arms is naturally good, was seen, in the course of Royal assent on the same evening. This, and fiddling with her apron. One plainly the evening, to more advantage, as she was sees, when she is thus constrained to act less embarrassed in her action. Her sensi- we believe, is an unprecedented occuragainst her better judgment. We repeat bility, physical power and science, afford rence in parliamentary history; but the it, simplicity, the genuine, feeling simplicity a very flattering prospect to the public. fact is that had the assent been delayed of nature, is her prevailing attraction, and an Mr. Horn performed Arbaces. This Gentle- until the following day, the former act affectation of vulgarity is more gross and man has not, and perhaps never can, wholly would have expired and left, or might awkward, because every thing like coarse overcome the peculiarities of his voice; but have been contended to have left, a vulgarity is unnatural in her. Dressed in he sung in a pleasing style, was more than species of interregnum which must have a rustic character, in which the kindly feel- once encored; and his taste and science ob- liberated all those detained under its ings give a tone to the manners, she is a tained much merited applause. The permodel of rural elegance, such as we are formance of Isaacs and Broadhurst in Arta-enactment. The upper House has made charmed with in the delightful pictures of banes and Artaxerxes, is well known to the great progress in the Bill for abolition of Watteau, Greuze or Wheatley; and such as public. They acquitted themselves with sinecures, brought in under ministerial Wilkie, Bird, or Mulready, would select as a their usual effect. influence; but it has been much obVillage Beauty to lead a group of countryjected to by a leading member on girls, at a dance on the green, or holiday festival. First representation of Le Mouchoir, ou l'Odalisque the opposite side who contends that it Voluntaire. will tend the In the agreeable truth of rustic expression, seriously to diminish which is natural to her, she has no success- has already furnished the subject of a Vaude- the The story of Lady Mary Wortley Montague salutary and constitutional influence of ful rival; but in the pantomimic tricks and ville entitled, l'Anglaise à Bugdad, which was much more limited, at present, in parliaCrown, which he considers as forced gestures, to which she is sometimes performed with the best success in 1812 at the driven, there are many who surpass her. In theatre of La Rue de Chartre, but which, like ment, than at any former period. The the part of a witty intriguing waiting-maid, many others, has disappeared from the promp- Noble Lord, Luuderdale, also maintained she is very entertaining. Her mischievous ter's books, for what reason nobody knows. that parliamentary influence has of late drollery in Flippanta, in the Confederacy, is The story of Le Mouchoir is nearly as follows. only to be approached by Mrs. GIBBS, who The scene is laid at Audrinople, and the young years much decreased—that no less than has not the advantage of her youthful per- and beautiful Lady Arthur, during the absence seventy-two sitting places have been son, and whose humour is somewhat broader, of her husband, succeeds in introducing herself abrogated in the present reign—and that but whose pointed laugh and tones of raillery into the Seraglio, with her maid Betty in a pro- in WALPOLE'S time, there were are irresistibly comic. If Miss Kelly has formed of this stratagem, resolves to play a vencal dress. The Sultan however, who is inmore parliamentary places than at predifferent degrees of merit in the lighter cast trick upon his fair visitor. He receives her sent! Let the advocates for Sweeping of rustic characters, it is the pure unsophis- with the utmost politeness, behaves with all the Reform then learn from his Lordship ticated expression of rustic distress, which gallantry of a Frenchman, and finally throws that the last fifty years have given more calls forth her highest powers, and estab- the handkerchief to her. The imprudent Lady lishes her soothing empire over our senses. Arthur then perceives the danger to which she power to the popular branch of the conIn Annette, in the Maid and Magpie; Mary has exposed herself. How can she avoid the stitution, and taken more from the in the Inn-keeper's Daughter, and the Dis- obligation imposed by this handkerchief? guised Servant in the Robber's Cottage, in Two words," she shines forth at the head of a class, without any successful competitor among the many deserving actresses on the British Stage. It is by her inimitable performance of these characters that she has deservedly gained her celebrity. In these, she is ever affecting, ever new. We have repeatedly seen her in them, and we do not think we could ever tire of her repetitions.

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crown, and that too with more safety, Being informed that his wife is detained in than any proposed plan, short of a revo the Seraglio, Lord Arthur hastens to demand her lution, could possibly have done! Truth liberation. The Sultan declares that he has will thus ever find its way-as friends of not seen her, and that he has only received a Muffled up in a turban and a turkish pelisse of the house it may come-but we trust visit from one Lady, by whom he is beloved. the people we hail it from whatever side Lord Arthur finds means to gain an interview that ministers will not, in pursuit of vain with his wife in order to make a trial of her fidelity; the Sultan, on the other hand, having popularity, sanction any measure that procured an English dress, carries off Lady may positively lead to the consequences Arthur who mistakes him for her husband. At deprecated by the Noble Peer in question.

The Clergy residence Bill is also pro- incarcerated must be all petitions which ANECDOTE OF BUONAPARTE.-Buonaparte, ceeding rapidly through its various turn out to be palpable misrepresentations, seeing an English book, with (to him) the stages. It is a subject on which we could since they disgust all parties and shut the attractive title of "Amusements in Retirecheerfully dilate far beyond our limits. door to-relief where it is perhaps abso-ment," at the house of Mr. Balcombe, asked Much, much indeed is wanted for the lutely required.

VARIETIES.

one of the Miss Balcombes to lend it to him. Mr. Balcombe, knowing that it contained several passages which might irritate the already over-charged feelings of the ExEmperor, told him, that " it was really not worth his attention, or he would lend it to him with pleasure." Buonaparte, however, replying, that in all matters of literature he loved to judge for himself, took it with him to Longwood. When he saw Mr. Balconibe again, he exclaimed, "I have managed to make out part of the book, you said was not worth reading, the other day. I wish, by the flight of the eagle, (a favorite expression of his) that I could have the author of that inflict such a revenge upon him, as the world book but once fairly in my power. I would would never forget;"" and what sort of revenge would that be?" enquired Miss Balcombe, who stood near. "Why, I would soon convince him," returned the Emperor, "that he had formed a wrong and cruel estimate of myself; and by one of the best possible arguments, viz. that of forgiving one insupportable mistake, in compliment to the many beautiful truths his book contains."

This anecdote has been communicated to

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
INTELLIGENCE.

due support of the Established Church The Cause of Literature has been be-more clergymen in large parishes-fore the House during the passing week, more churches for an increasing popu-on a motion of SIR E. BRYDGES, for an lation--and, above all, particularly in the account of what is done with the books metropolis, greater facilities to strangers demanded by Learned Institutions. If it for accommodation, instead of finding be a fact that in many instances, works empty pews locked up, and being forced thus demanded under an Act of Parliaeither to stand in the aisle, or pay a tax ment, are actually turned to waste, the to an uncivil pew-opener. case imperatively demands redress; since The business of the HOUSE of COM-not only authors and publishers, but MONS has been unhappily checked in even the cause of literature itself, are the finance department, by the lamented robbed of their just rights through the illness of Mr. PONSONBY, and by the culpable inattention of superiors, or the indisposition of Mr. TIERNEY-circum- ignorance and interested motives of offistances to which the CHANCELLOR of cial deputies. In FOREIGN POLITICS the EXCHEQUER has deferred, by post- the week has glided over without either poning the promised resolutions. It is for- event or anticipation. tunate for the Empire that even such important subjects can safely wait on circumstances; but it is not with less regret that we lament the causes of such delay. In THEORIES OF THE EARTH.-Many of the the mean time, another finance report has fanciful theories of our globe, founded upon been laid before the House, principally on false conclusions drawn from the repeated naval affairs. It is moderate, yet cheer-discovery of fresh water shells and marine us by a Lady who sent the work to her friend shells being found together in the same at St. Helena. ing; recommends further exertion in strata, are likely to be set at nought by an our dock-yards in keeping up the largest experiment of Mr. Bendant, at Marseilles, classes of ships in each rate; and more from whence it results that fresh water or especially points out the necessity of marine mollusca will live in either medium, abolishing the invidious distinctions of if habituated to it gradually; but with some war and peace salaries to the Secretaries few exceptions. of the Admiralty. Dr. Pariset and M. Michel Berr lately An Academy, in some measure similar to our terminated their courses, the one on Human Society for the Encouragement of Arts, has Many petitions have recently been pre-understanding, and the other on German li-been recently established at Vienna; it is ensented against the exportation of Cotton-terature. Each of these remarkable sittings tion of Natural History, and likewise possesses dowed by the Emperor with his grand collecYarn to the Continent, on the ground of were attended by a numerous and brilliant an extensive chemical and philosophical laborits encouraging cotton-weaving abroad audience. The friend, the disciple and com- atory, together with models and specimens of to the exclusion of our own manufactures. petitor of Cabanis and Fourcroy, received machinery, &c. The Austrians hope by its But then the question rises, if such yarn are justly due to the extent and variety of become independent of foreign industry. The those testimonials of real admiration which means to improve their manufactures and to were not exported, would it be worked his knowledge, as well as the brilliant faci- design is patriotic, and we wish them success; up at home for foreign demand? If so, lity of his elocution. M. Michel Berr was but of this we are certain, that as foreign nathen certainly such exportation ought to listened to with the most lively interest; his tions become rich by means of manufacture, so be stopped, especially of fine yarns, lecture would have deserved unlimited will a new class start up for the purchase of which foreign establishments cannot commendation, had it not been for the ex- British manufactures. A country, merely agri equal. But that fact is doubtful, and the treme precipitation of his delivery, which cultural, is never a very good customer! in some measure destroys the effect of his thropically employed in the advancement of The Germans are now actively and philanwhole affair requires much investigation. excellent dissertations. The parallel which Classical Literature; an Academy for Modern Considerable attention has been ex- he drew between the Lyric Poetry of the Greeks-not a black leg Academy such as may cited, both in and out of doors, by peti-Germans and that of other nations ancient be found nearer home-but a College or Athetions from EVANS, one of the State Pri-as well as modern; and his investigation næum, where knowledge may be acquired by soners. Most certainly the great object of the causes which have prevented Lyric that degraded class of men, natives of a counof the Suspension Bill is prevention, not Poetry from attaining, in France, the same try once famed for liberty and science. The punishment; but confinement must al-degree of perfection as other branches of lite- College is at Munich. rature and poetry, were as just as ingenious. ways, and in a great degree, act in the M. Berr is of opinion that the constant resilatter sense, so that, indubitably, every dence of poets in a capital enriched with relief, every indulgence consistent with numerous master-pieces of Art, and sursecurity, ought to be extended to those rounded with all the refinements of the who suffer under it. Such, notwith-highest degree of civilization, is favorable to standing the loudly excited clamour, taste, education and elegance, but essen-Mercury. really seems to be the wish of ministers; tially tends to confine imagination, enthuyet subordinate officers require a watch-siasm and originality. The developements which he gave to this opinion deprived it ful eye over them. Parliamentary In-of all paradoxical colouring. The last lecture P. 366. Last line note, for Grandiaque quiry therefore is both useful and essen- of Dr. Puriset was on metaphysics and gene-read Grandiaque effossis mirabitur ossa setial; but then the more oppressive to the ral grammar. pulcris.

A German Paper states that Professor Gærres, who is now at Coblentz, has declined the situ ation of Secretary to the Academy of Fine Arts at Stuttgard, in order to accept the more adGovernment, from which he has obtained pervantageous offers made to him by the Prussian mission to resume the publication of bis Rhenish

ERRATUM IN NO. XXIII.

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Journal of Belles Lettres, Politics and Fashion.

NO. XXV.

REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1817.

horrors, for which they are so unjustly upbraided, and whose national mildness and natural goodness of disposition might well yield to the temptation of satisfying a vengeance, which the wrongs and slavery of Au-ages had ripened, nourished, and fomented into madness.

FRANCE, by LADY MORGAN, thor of O'Donnel, The Wild Irish Girl, &c.

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I have known a French Lady attend with the most devoted care her sick friend, for weeks together; live at her bedside, plain the asking eye," anticipate every wish, and forego every pleasure, to fulfil the duties of friendship; and yet the death of this person, wept for some few hours with bitBut that long-enduring race have now terness, and vehemence, in a few days left no trace of sadness behind it. This happy passed away; their children are proprietors, (though not heroic) facility of character, is We had prepared ourselves to expect, where they were vassals. The torture no from the pen of this distinguished lady, longer exists, to feed a spirit of brutal fero- purely constitutional; and while it operates an amusing and instructive account of city, by its horrible exhibitions. Bigotry no graciously upon all the ills of life; while it the French people, and so far from feel- longer presents them with idle forms for real quietly absorbs the tear, and dissipates the ing disappointed, we find our expectations principles; they have nothing to fear from sigh, it neither interferes with the duties, more than fulfilled. Not that the book the "droit de Chasse," the corvée," the nor chills the affections of existence. And "taille," the "gabelle." They have tasted though it would make no figure in tragedy is better written, or the observations a practical freedom, not less perhaps than or romance, it supports resignation, cheers adversity, and enhances those transient sounder than we had premised; but we that enjoyed by the people of England; they pleasures, whose flight is scarcely perceived did not take into calculation the peculiar are moral as the people of Scotland; and pleasures, whose flight is scarcely perceived ere their place is supplied. This light volaeasiness of access to circles of rank and notwithstanding the recent ravages, they tile tone of character, this incapacity for talent, which her Ladyship's literary re- are more prosperous perhaps than either. durable impression, this sensibility to good, putation obtained for her, and which has Oh! may they long continue so; and in this transient susceptibility to evil, is after spite of that scourge of fire," with which given her an opportunity enjoyed by an English minister is said lately to have all perhaps the secret sought by philosonone of our late tourists, to present the threatened them, may they boldly resent phers. The views of the Epicurean, and of British public with a series of deline- and timely oppose every effort made by do- the sceptic, well understood, seem to meet ations, anecdotes, and remarks, at once mestic oppression or foreign invasion, which at that point, which nature has made the basis new and interesting. If she has not gone may tend to bring them back to that state in of the French character; arriving by different sibility is to feel, but not to be overcome. so deep into the philosophy of national which they were declared, by the law of the routs to the same conclusion, that true senun peuple serf, corvéable et character as Mr. Scott, she has afforded land, to be " taillable, à merci et miséricorde!" p. 81. more data whereupon the reader may draw his own inferences; and though her We would suggest to Lady Morgan, sex has prohibited her from ranging with much deference, the propriety of through the nocturnal recesses of the altering, in the next edition, the wish she Palais Royal, and from seeing French expresses, that the peasantry of France life in several of its grosser bearings, that may long continue more prosperous than sex has also enabled her to describe other the peasantry of England and Scotland. and not less important features, which She must be aware that the former would There is no contrast more shocking and editors of newspapers, and teachers of not be less prosperous, if the latter were violent, in English society, than that pregeography and the globes, with all their on a par with them, and that therefore sented by the situation of masters and sersturdy John Bullism, and with their three to wish our own peasantry equally well, vants during the hours of social intercourse or four letters of introduction, have would be somewhat more humane, and of fashionable London. For the one, the no possible opportunity of observing. a good deal more patriotic. We must air is perfumed with roses, and the chill atLady Morgan divides her work, per- also deny the truth of the following mosphere of winter expelled by every artificial contrivance; and comfort, enjoyment, haps somewhat affectedly, into books, passage. "If the English are the wisest and accommodation are studiously accumu and each book is distinguished by a and greatest nation, the French are in-lated. For the other, all is hardship, sufferseparate title. The first is "The Pea-contestibly the happiest and the most ing, and endurance. santry," which contains a delightful, and AMIABLE." But if Lady Morgan uses In France, the health, comfort, and morals we hope, accurate picture of rustic man- amiable as the French do when they say of the servants, gain by an arrangement, ners and morals. We shall quote the "he is a great villain, mais il est si aima- which good taste, and good feeling, seem concluding passage of it, in order to ble," we perfectly coincide with her. make a single observation.

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A French woman has no hesitation in acknowledging, that the "besoin de sentir," the first want of her existence; that a succession of pursuits is necessary to preserve the current of life from that stagnation which is the death of all vivid and gracious emotions. p. 168.

We wish our great folks would take a hint from the following extract :

alike to have instituted. When the guests

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of the evening assembly arrive at the porteThe second and third books are en-cochére the porter assigns a place either in vacant remise, or in the court-yard for the carriage and horses, which, generally sheltered from the weather, and shut up under the care of the porter, leave no further anxiety on the minds of the master or servants, who usually ascend together the vast open stair-case. While the former pass on to the salon, the latter join the circle of secondhand high life in the ante-room. p. 205.

In 1781 the Contrôleur-général of France under Louis XVI. Monsieur Joli de Fleuri, titled, "Society;" and here the pen of defined "the people" of France to be" peuple Lady Morgan puts forth all its grace and serf, corvéable, et taillable, à merci et miseriall its strength. As she had, of necessity, corde." It was the misery of this " peuple been most domesticated with her own serf," that urged the cause of the Revolution; sex, we find her description of it more it was this peuple corréable et taillable à full, accurate, and satisfactory, than any merci et miséricorde," who showed no mercy other part of her work. The following for their heartless oppressors. It was this race of slaves, degraded, trodden on, broken short sketch of French women, is, we down, strangers to liberty, to morals, and to think, just, and certainly touched off with religion, who were urged to commit those a happy pencil.

The fourth, fifth and sixth books are named Paris." They afford a diver

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sified and entertaining account of that conduct:-his character is out of all ordinary | time deluded by the promises of the late capital, with regard to its external ap-keeping, and to him the doctrine of proba- Emperor of Elba, would be to prove bilities could never, in any instance, be ap-ourselves at once imbecile, dastardly and pearance, its amusements, and the manners of its inhabitants; besides some plied." p. 188. degraded. We have less reason to be satisfied

EXTRACT from the Journal of the Circumnavi

1816.

sketches of the principal personages who with Lady Morgan's own observations two other points, from her ladyship, we Differing as we do in this and one or figure there. cannot conclude without offering her our The outline of that extraordinary being respecting the Ex-Emperor. Talleyrand, is drawn with great power tion was not sent to the Chamber within one reflects the highest credit on her talents, Napoleon had learnt, that if his abdica- hearty congratulations on a work, which and effect. hour, he, La Fayette, had resolved to move I had frequently seen this celebrated per-for his expulsion. Yet Buonaparte received and must prove a valuable acquisition to sonage, and future historical character, at this firm opposer of all his views with gra. the public. Court, upon other public occasions, in the ciousness and serenity: and it was this rebustle of processions, at the nuptial pomp of solute and determined foe to his power, who, royalty, under the holy doom of Notre-Dame, after this interview, demanded that the ligator OTTO VON KOTZEBUE, sent to his at the deepest Tragedy, at the liveliest berty and life of Napoleon should be put Father. Communicated by the latter.-TulComedy, amidst the solemnity of the Royal under the protection of the French people.cagnano, on the Coast of Chili, 3d of March, Chapel, and the revelry of the feasting But Napoleon, always greater in adversity Court-but I saw him always the same; than in prosperity, chose to trust to the of the ladies of the town of Conception was This was the day on which the curiosity cold, motionless; not abstracted, but un- generosity of the English nation, and to tint varying the colourless hue of his livid deemed a great and a free people.-This the ladies who did not like to ride so long occupied not absent, but unmoved :-no seek safety and protection amidst what he to be satisfied. Yesterday and this morning there arrived many out of that town; and complexion, no expression marking its chavoluntary trust, so confidingly placed, so racter on his passive countenance. His sacredly reposed, was a splendid event in a way on horseback, came in an odd kind of figure seemed the shell of a human frame, the history of England's greatness-it was a carriage; four-cornered boxes quite like our despoiled of its organic arrangements, or, bright reflection on the records of her vir-dog-kennels, which rested upon immensely if the heart beat, or the brain vibrated, no tues! It illuminated a page in her chroni- large wheels made of boards, drawn, instead power of penetration could reach the recesses cles, on which the eye of posterity might help laughing when I saw a whole row of of horses, by two strong oxen. I could not of the one, or guess at the workings of the have dwelt with transport. It placed her other. From the mind of this man, the these smart equipages arrive filled with pre-eminent among cotemporary nations! world seemed contemptuously shut out Her powerful enemy, against whom she had ladies; but the surprise is very pleasant, and if this most impassable form and face successfully armed and coalesced the civi- when one sees crawling out of these ugly indicated character or opinion, one would lized world, chose his place of refuge in the cages well-educated and handsome young the being who has said: "speech was given knew her brave, and believed her magna- taste of their dress, or in the politeness of have thought, at the first glance, this is surely hour of adversity, in her bosom, because he ladies, who are not at all inferior to the European ladies either in the elegance and to man to conceal his thoughts." It seemed nimous! their behaviour. as if the intimacy of love, the confidence of The quantity of their Alone, in his desolate dwelling; deprived friendship, the community of counsel, could of every solace of humanity; torn from shining diamonds would be envied by many never draw the mind to that countenance, those ties, which alone throw a ray of an European lady. At three in the afterwhich amidst all the vicissitudes, versatility, brightness over the darkest shades of inis-noon all my boats were ready at the beach oranges, and contrasts in the life of its fortune; wanting all the comforts, and many to receive my guests. My ship was in the of the necessaries of life; the victim of the greatest order, and richly furnished with all "A book, in which men read strange things." caprice of petty delegated power; harassed sorts of refreshments, but the number of the It was indeed a book, written in a dead by every day oppression; mortified by mean, once on board the little Rurik (the name of language. p. 135.

owner, had never been

The character of La Fayette, is, we are afraid, rather varnished over; but it is striking, and in the main, correct. His observations on Buonaparte are worth recording.

guests was too great to entertain them all at

in constant activity, to carry those on shore the ship). Accordingly my boats remained again whose curiosity was satisfied, and to bring others in their place.

the last on board. The crowd of the ladies

solitary and inaccessible rock, with no obreiterated, hourly privation; chained to a ject on which to fix his attention, but the sky, to whose inclemency he is exposed; or that little spot of earth, within whose narrow bounds he is destined to wear away dress for the ball. The Rurik was admired At sunset the company left the ship to the dreary hours of unvaried captivity, in seemed affected at the moment that General Where now is his faith in the magnanimity amused him very much, because there were I was desirous to learn how Buonaparte hopeless, cheerless, life-consuming misery! by all of them. The Governor remained La Fayette, at the head of the deputation of England? his trust in her generosity? his but a few gentlemen; in fact the women are who came to thank him in the name of the hopes in her beneficence? p. 189. Chamber for his voluntary abdication, aphere ten times as numerous as the men. As peared before him. "We found him," said We who are old, sturdy, thorough- the Governor left the ship I saluted him General La Fayette, "upon this occasion, paced politicians, feel ourselves quite with eight guns, which were immediately as upon many others, acting out of the or- inadequate to discuss sentimental poli- answered by the fort. On shore I had trans dinary rules of calculation: neither affect-tics with a lady. When we are told of formed a great magazine into a ball-room, ing the pathetic dignity of falling greatness, the poor man's being " alone in his de- and ornamented it with many trees. As it nor evincing the uncontrollable dejection of "chained to a rock," ceived that they were in a great corn magawas brilliantly illuminated, nobody persolate dwelling," disappointed ambition, of hopes crushed, "with no object but the sky," we have zine. never to revive, and of splendor quenched, In two places were transparencies, never to rekindle. We found him calm and nothing to say on the subject. But if which were symbolical of the friendship be serene; he received us with a faint, but we might be permitted humbly to sug-tween the two powers. At eight o'clock the gracious smile he spoke with firmness and gest our opinion, we would insinuate, ball began; there was much dancing; re precision. I think the parallel for this mo- that had not England secured the freshments of all kinds were in abundance, person ment was that, when he presented his breast of Buonaparte by means more stable and the company seemed very cheerful. In to the troops drawn out against him, on his than his own parole, a hundred thousand another house, which was only separated by return from Elba, exclaiming, I am your lives would probably have again been went to supper, and were surprised by a firea garden from the ball-room, the guests Emperor, strike if you will. There have been splendid traits in the life of this man, sacrificed to our magnanimity, or rather work, at which they seemed very much not to be reconciled to his other modes of to our meanness; for to be a second pleased. At two o'clock in the morning the

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