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trophes that ever shook the European | ries of Europe have been vindicated in three deputies could be admitted, and offered system. Great disasters at home, great the punishment of France. The inju- to send out as many hostages while they revicissitudes abroad, the unexampled suf-ries of her royal family have been left mained, which was agreed to. De la RoziERE, a Parisian barrister, and first elector of ferings of the surrounding nations, and to another vindication, gentler but not the district of St. Louis, arrived, and at his the consummate triumph of the rival less decisive. The single survivor of own request was likewise admitted. He said power which had fought from the begin-their prison has been placed in her old that he came to represent to the Governor, ning against her violence and her princi- conspicuous rank, and in it has given evi- that the cannon, pointed from the towers on ples, crowded into the last twenty-five dence of the admirable qualities which the different streets, had alarmed the inhayears a mass of interest utterly une-lived in that place of martyrdom. She bitants, and to solicit their being withdrawn. The Governor urged the impossibility of his qualled in the memory of civilization. has been tried in all the stronger emercompliance, without orders from his supeIn The French revolution had another inte-gencies that display the noble heart. riors. He observed that they were in places rest; it seemed to have been devised as the endurance of long and hopeless exile, where they had been for many years past; a mighty lesson to all ranks of men. in the perils of rebellion, in the sudden but that to quiet those alarms, he would orThe period which shewed Sovereigns return to the palace of her ancestors, she der them to be drawn back within the parashaken from their thrones, like dust from has had the whole trial that pain, danger, pet. De la ROZIERE asked permission to go into the castle, to see that this was done. the balance, shewed the most pitiless in- and prosperity could offer for the tempt-The Governor at first objected to this; but cursions on individual happiness. All ation of the spirit. In all she has been on being requested by Major de LosME, conconditions in France bore their share in found equal to the exigency. As soon as De la RoZIERE was giving this dreadful experience to the Duchess d'Angouleme is now the repre- within the castle, he began to beseech the world. But of all, the highest contri-sentative of the virtues which were bu- Governor and garrison not to fire on the buted the most unmerited and fearful ried in the grave of her parents. The people, but quietly yield the place: to this share. The royal family of France sat, memory of LOUIS and ANTOINETTE is it was answered, that they would not fire, at the close of the American war, on a renewed to the world, in the magnani- unless they were attacked; and that the consequences must rest with the aggressors. throne the most enviable that ever bore mity of their child; and France, awaken- After staying a short time, and completing a monarch, if in thrones all is not vanity.ed from her delirium, has learned to the object of his mission, which afterwards The kingdom, recovered from the agi- curse the treacherous hands that robbed appeared to have been to ascertain the best tation of a brief war, was returning to her of sovereigns, who could possess and mode of attack, he retired. In about half an rapid prosperity: the intelligence of the inspire the virtues living before their hour the people appeared in great numbers in the street St. Antoine, and in the Passage nation was flowing out in energized in-eyes. Courte, armed with muskets, sabres, and dustry, wealth, and literature. Honoured The present volume details the early. hatchets, exclaiming, They must have as the central land of European cultiva-process of the Revolution down to the the Bastile! Down with the troops!" &c, tion, France was already ascending to release of the Duchess d'Angouleme The officers begged them from the walls to the height from which she was to look from the Temple. The narrative is of keep back, and represented the danger to down as the great mistress of European unequal excellence; but it is of high au- which they were exposing themselves: they power. The king was young, popular, thority. The memoirs of eye-witnesses however persisted in advancing, and as there were no troops to defend it, succeeded in accomplished, a man of virtue, and a pa-have been chiefly employed. HUE'S, getting down the first draw-bridge. The triot; the queen, the finest woman of CLERY'S, and the DUCHESS D'AN- garrison on this, called out to them again to her age, admirable for talent, grace, and GOULEME'S affecting journal have given retire, or they must fire upon them; but beauty, the daughter of a heroine, and the chief material of the latter part: the they answered by continuing to advance, and with a heart noble as her mother's; their earlier is from the most authentic docu- firing on the soldiers. The garrison now children, full of the promise of beauty ments of the time. We quote the attack returned the fire, and drove the insurgents and virtue, the hope of France. In a on the Bastile, the first open violence back to the first draw-bridge, from which they kept up a constant fire upon the ramparts. moment this brilliant prospect was over-against the laws and the throne. Soon after, a flag was seen advancing from the shadowed, and if human nature were to Apprehensive of disturbances, the Gover-arsenal, followed by an immense number of have been searched for an example of nor of the Bastile, the Marquis de Launay, people in arms, some of whom halted in the the deepest humiliation, it must have had a few days before arranged for its de- first court, called the Court of the Elins, been found in the midst of that illustri- fence, by placing some additional guns on while others advanced to the next, calling the walls. A quantity of small arms, balls, out to the garrison not to fire, as deputies ous and ruined family. They had one and cartridges had been also brought in, be- were come from the town-house. De LAUconsolation, and it was above all that sides two hundred and fifty barrels of pow-NAY said that the deputies might advance, the world could give; they were inno- der. The garrison consisted of one hundred but that the people in arms must not adcent. With the sufferings of the old con- and fourteen men, chiefly invalids, besides vance beyond the first draw-bridge. The fessors of the gospel, they had their pu- the Governor's servants. About two in the soldiers on the walls called out that they rity. It cheered them in their prison; morning of the 13th, the Governor ordered would not fire, and in proof clubbed their it threw dignity around their dying hour; the soldiers to occupy the castle, and placed muskets. After many signs and much enit made their grave glorious; but it sentinels at the gate leading to the street of treaty, the people stopped, and the deputies deepened the crime of France. St. Antoine. During this day no act of vio-advanced into the Passage Courte. There lence was committed, but some shots were they remained about ten minutes without wretched and bloody people, haunted discharged at the guards on the tower. advancing, notwithstanding the soldiers on by the memory of their murder, and Early on the morning of the 14th, the senti- the towers called out to them, "Come and driven to lose the last crime in the agita- nels of the gate St. Antoine were taken pri- speak to the Governor; we will be answertion of new guilt, wandered with fire and soners by the people, and carried to the able for your safety with our lives." They sword through the nations, its hand committee at the town-house. About ten in then returned to the Elm Court, where in against every man, and the world's hatred the morning, three deputies came from the about a quarter of an hour they went away. committee as far as the iron railing at the The people again came on, and the miserwarring against the world's enemy. The first draw-bridge, and desired to speak with able irresolution of the Governor and treamark of Cain was on its forehead, and the Governor, who went to them; but see-chery of the garrison gave them every advanIn due time it was stricken. The inju-ing an immense crowd, he said that only the tage. In the teeth of the castle guns they

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set fire to the guard-room, and to the Gover-what was their astonishment to find that scholars appointed to collect the money are nor's house. A cannon was then fired at those dreary dungeons, which they expected called salt-bearers; they are arrayed in fancy them, the only one discharged during the to find crowded with the victims of despo- dresses, and are attended by others called attack, the place having been defended sim- tism, contained but seven prisoners! Four scouts, of a similar, but less showy appearply with muskets! of those had been placed there, preparatory ance. Tickets are given to such persons as The French guards, who had been seduced to their trial for an extensive forgery of bills have paid their contributions, to secure them from their allegiance, now appeared, bringing of exchange; one, a notorious offender, as a from any further demand. This ceremony a mortar, two four-pounders, and a cannon temporary punishment; one, who was in-is always very numerously attended by inlaid with silver, which had been taken out sane, and whom the mob afterwards sent to Etonians, and has frequently been honoured of the Garde Meuble. DE LAUNAY having a mad-house; and the last, the COUNT DE by the presence of his Majesty and the differneglected to lay in provisions, and the peo- SOLAGES, who by his own detail had been ent branches of the Royal Family. The sum ple persisting in their determination to re-arrested at Toulouse, by an order from the collected on the occasion has sometimes duce the place, about four o'clock in the minister, granted at the request of his own exceeded 8001., and is given to the senior afternoon, all the non-commissioned officers father, for dissipation and other misconduct. scholar, who is called captain of the school. went to solicit the Governor to surrender it! He had been first sent to Vincennes, and This procession appears to be coeval with Finding himself in this extremity, he endea- afterwards removed to the Bastile in Febru- the foundation, and it is the opinion of Mr. voured to fire a pistol into the gunpowder ary 1784. Having heared the firing, he en- Lysons, who is the last writer on this subwhich was deposited in the Tour de la Li- quired of the turnkey, who had just brought ject, and whose industry in collecting, as berté, but was prevented by two serjeants. up his dinner, what it meant. He was told well as judgment in deciding on, matters of He asked the garrison what they wished him it was occasioned by a revolt of the people, this character, are beyond all challenge, to do? He said his own opinion was, that on account of the scarcity of bread; but that it was a ceremonial of the Bairn, or they ought to defend themselves to the last, while the turnkey was apologizing for being Boy Bishop. He states, from information and even blow up the place rather than fall later than usual in bringing him his dinner, which he had received, that it originally into the hands of a furious mob. But as the the room was filled with armed men. It took place on the 6th of December, the garrison continued to insist on surrendering, was some time before the Count could think festival of St. Nicholas, the patron of chilhe gave a white handkerchief to a serjeant, himself in safety. He was removed to an dren; being the day on which it was ordered him to shew it from the battlements, hotel. The populace, of their own impulse, customary at Salisbury, and in other places and sent a drummer to beat the Chamade. had destroyed the Governor's house, and where the ceremony was observed, to elect The populace, regardless of the signals, and some of the other buildings of the Bastile. the Boy Bishop from among the children rendered more courageous by the cessation But the committee at the town-house re- belonging to the cathedral; which mockof resistance, continued to fire. They soon solved that the castle itself should be demo-dignity lasted till Innocent's Day, and duradvanced to the draw-bridge and ordered it lished. The city architects were appointed ing the intermediate time the boy performed to be let down. The officer commanding to conduct the work, and this immense edi- various episcopal functions; and if it hapthe Swiss detachment, spoke to them through fice was soon levelled with the ground.pened that he died before the allotted period a loop-hole at the side of the gate, and pro- Many cannon-balls were found in the walls, of this extraordinary mummery had expired, posed that the garrison should be allowed to supposed to have been lodged there during he was buried with all the ceremonials march out with their arms; but the popu- the war of the Fronde, at the battle in the which were used at the funeral of a bishop. lace exclaimed, "No! No!" He then told Fauxbourg St. Antoine, when the Royal In the voluminous collections relating to them, that the troops would deliver up the army was commanded by TURENNE, and antiquities, bequeathed by Mr. Cole, who place and their arms, if they were assured that of the Fronde, by the great CONDE. was himself of Eton and King's College, to that neither insult nor violence of any kind The Bastile was begun to be built in 1369, the British Museum, is a note which menwould be offered to them. The insurgents by order of Charles V., and finished by his tions that the ceremony of the Bairn, or the replied, "Let down the bridge, nothing shall successor in 1383, as a state prison. Upon Boy Bishop, was to be observed by charter; happen to you." The Governor on this as- the accession of Louis XVI., the registers and that Jeffery Blythe, Bishop of Lichsurance took the key out of his pocket, and had been inspected, and most of the priso-field, who died in 1530, bequeathed several ordered two corporals to let down the bridge. ners liberated." ornaments to those colleges, for the dress It was no sooner down, than the people. of the Bairn-Bishop. But on what authorushed into the court, and attacked the inrity this industrious antiquary gives the valids who had laid down their arms, and NEIGHBOURHOOD. BY JAMES HAKE- information, which, if correct, would put an end to all doubts on the subject, does not

were ranged along the wall on the right.

THE HISTORY OF WINDSOR and its

WILL, Architect. Published by E. Lloyd.
Large 4to. pp. 352. Price, Royal 5, | appear.
Imperial 10, and Atlas 15 Guineas.

(Concluded.)

The Swiss were opposite to them, and escaped, not being immediately remarked; owing probably to the canvas frocks which Till the time of Doctor Barnard, the prothey wore over their uniforms. The people cession of the Montem was every two years, then entered the apartments of the officers, We now proceed to the first Tour and on the first or second Tuesday in Fewhere they broke the furniture, doors, and through the Environs of Windsor, which bruary. It consisted of something of a windows; and so great was the confusion, commences with a description of Eton military array. The boys in the Remove, that many continued to fire, and without in- College, and the ancient custom, observ-fourth and inferior forms, marched in a long tending it, killed and wounded their compa- ed every third year on Whit-Tuesday, their hands, while the sixth and fifth form file of two and two, with white poles in nions. The officers and invalids were dragged bearing the title of Montem, the original boys walked on their flanks as officers, and institution of which appears to have habited in all the variety of dress which hitherto defied antiquarian research.

to the Greve."

DE LAUNAY was assassinated in front of the town-house by the mob; his head cut off, and paraded through the streets on a pike.

It consists of a procession to a small tumulus on the southern side of the Bath road, which has given the name of Salt Hill to the spot, now better known by the splendid inns that are established there. The chief object of this celebration, however, is to collect money the day, from all persons who assemble to for salt, according to the language of see the show, nor does it fail to be exacted from travellers on the road, and even at the The people now, intoxicated with their private residences within a certain, but no successes, began to search the cells. But inconsiderable, range of the spot. The

Besides this unfortunate nobleman, they murdered M. DE LOSME SALBRAY, Major of the Bastile; DE HESSELLES, Provost of the Merchants; DE MIRAY, Aide-Major, and PERSAN, Lieutenant of the Invalids.

Monmouth-street could furnish, each of them having a boy of the inferior forms, smartly dressed, attending upon him as a footman. The second boy in the school led the procession in a military dress, with a truncheon in his hand, and bore for the day the title of Marshall; then followed the Captain, supthe fifth form, dressed in a suit of black, ported by his Chaplain, the head scholar of with a large bushy wig, and a broad beaver, decorated with a twisted silk hatband and a rose, the fashionable distinction of the dig nified clergy of that day. It was his office

to read certain Latin prayers on the mount| Molines, is very fully noticed, and the and other eminent artists. A View of St. at Salt Hill. The third boy of the school descent of his lordship carefully collected Leonard's Hill, by George Cook, is, we brought up the rear as Lieutenant. One of from Dugdale, and authentic documents. think, one of the best engravings we have the higher classes, whose qualification was In the account of this place is included lately seen; but, indeed, to speak genehis activity, was chosen Ensign, and carried

ROUGH SKETCHES of BATH; IMITATIONS of HORACE; LINES on CAof Windsor, and passing over Englefield- RABOO; and other Poems. By Q. IN

THE CORNER. Published by Meyler

the colours, which were emblazoned with a very pleasant description of the intro- rally, all its companions are executed in the college arms, and the motto Pro More et duction of the poet Gray to Lady Schaub's a style to combine the freedom of sketch Monte. This flag, before the procession left family, and the Long Story written by with the finish of art, to a degree of perthe college, he flourished in the school-yard him on that occasion, is introduced; fection very rarely attained in book The historical researches are with great dexterity, as displayed sometimes together with the Sequels discovered in prints. at Astley's and places of similar exhibitions. amusing, and the number of interesting 1783 and 1801. The same ceremony was repeated after The second Tour, passing from Wind- facts relating to the places mentioned, prayers on the mount. The whole regiment dined in the inns at Salt Hill, and then re-sor by Peascod-street, takes a westerly render the work as agreeable to the deturned to the college, and its dismission in direction, and reaching Billingbear, re-sultory reader, as it is calculated to be the school-yard was announced by the uni- turns by Ascot, and through the Great useful to the antiquarian and man of versal drawing of all the swords. Those who Park. In this route every village and science. bore the title of commissioned officers were house, worthy of notice, is particularized. exclusively on the foundation, and carried The third Tour takes a direction south spontoons; the rest were considered as serjeants and corporals, and a most curious assemblage of figures it exhibited. The two Green, through Egham to St. Anne's principal salt-bearers consisted of an oppidan Hill and Botleys, returns by the Bagshot and Son, Bath, pp. 56. and a colleger; the former was generally road to Sunning-Hill, and over a part of Since the publication of the Bath some nobleman, whose figure and personal the Forest to Windsor. Frogmore House connections might advance the interests of is the first place described; we have Guide, Bath has become a sort of nurthe collection. They were dressed like run- then some account of Beaumont-Lodge, this class belongs the present work, for light and humorous poetry. To ning footmen, and carried each of them a silk bag to receive the contributions, in the seat of Viscount Ashbrook; and in a which was a small quantity of salt. During note we have a full description of that Doctor Barnard's mastership the ceremony order of architecture proposed by Mr. was made triennial; the time changed from Emlyn, of Windsor, and by him called February to Whit-Tuesday, and several of the British Order; but it does not appear its absurdities retrenched. An ancient and that this order has ever been employed, savage custom of hunting a ram by the foundation scholars, on Saturday in the except at Beaumont-Lodge and on the election week, was abolished in the earlier artist's own house at Windsor. The curious part of the last century. twisted clubs, with which these collegiate hunters were armed on the occasion, are still to be seen in antiquarian collections.

A description of the College Chapel and its monuments, &c. follows the ac

count of this strange ceremony.

The small village called Upton, is next visited; the church-yard of which is worthy of remark, from being in the neighbourhood of Stoke Pogeis, the occasional residence of Mr. Gray, and having been considered as the scene of his beautiful elegy. Upon this subject we have the following paragraph in the Appendix: The combination in this church-yard, of all the features particularized in Gray's beautiful Elegy in a Church-Yard, gives weight to the opinion, that here his idea was originated, and from hence his objects selected.

sery

writer destitute of neither humour nor

which appears to be that of a young

talent, but in some parts rather crudely put forth, and not sufficiently attendant upon the celebrated rule of the Roman bard, who supplies the subjects for se

veral imitations :

Nonumque prematur in annum.
The fourth Tour extends along the
There is a very brief dedication, as
follows. "To my Mother the following
Thames, from Hedsor to Oatlands. -
Cliefden-House, which was begun by Poems are affectionately inscribed,"
George Villiers, second Duke of Buck-which is a sort of illustration and variety
ingham, and completed by the Earl of in those noticed as the ton by the Messrs.
Orkney, the brave associate of John Whistlecrafts ;-
Duke of Marlborough, is very particular- Most authors now-a-days are deemed importune
If their addresses are diffusely penn'd;
ly mentioned.
Most fashionable authors make a short one
To their own wife or child, or private friend.
under which canon of ridicule Q. in the
Corner falls.

We now proceed to Old Windsor, which place was in ancient times a place of considerable consequence.

In the

church-yard of this village lies interred
Mrs. Mary Robinson, the beautiful and
unfortunate Perdita.

The favourite Cottage of Her Royal
Highness the Princess Elizabeth is slightly
noticed, and a neat engraving, represent-
ing the same, very properly added.

But with all the slight defects, which care and attention to the construction will enable the author readily to amend, there is a good deal of life and spirit in these sketches, which promise future productions of greater merit. We do not like to censure even trifling blemishes, without justifying our criticism by example: at the close of the poem these lines

occur:

If in my lines no point of wit they view,
It lacks the venomed point of malice too.
This is not grammatical, and must have
escaped in the hurry of composition, and

Runnymede and Magna Charta Island are particularly described, and accomA description of Doctor Herschel's panied by an engraving of the latter great reflecting telescope is included in celebrated place. In a short but comthe account of Slough. prehensive account of Chertsey, our auPercy Lodge, formerly called Rich-thor has not omitted to mention the ing's Lodge, in the parish of Iver, is tablet in the church to the memory of described in a very interesting manner; the celebrated Charles James Fox; and this description is extracted from three the work concludes with a description different letters, written by the Duchess of Oatlands, and particularly records the of Somerset, when Lady Hartford, in the celebrated grotto which was completed at year 1740. Stoke Pogeis, a village so the expense of twelve thousand pounds. called from the ancient Lords De Pogeys, The volume is adorned by above 30 the heiress of which family conveyed it plates and vignettes, very cleverly executby marriage into the family of the Lords ed by Landseer, Middiman, the two Cooks, are forthcoming. Jed

the haste of revisal.

Since the Review of the curions Poem under this whimsical signature, in our No. XXVI. we have heard that it is the production of a no less celebrated and witty pen than that of Mr. Frere, and from the entertainment we received from it, rejoice to learn that succeeding Cantos

We do not think so much of the imi- Is she new? is she old? is she false? is she true? tations of Horace. To be only endured, Come read me the riddle of Miss CaraBOO. pieces of this kind must now be exqui-A daughter-in-law to the man in the moon; Astronomers sage may exhibit her soon,

site; these are but mediocre.

The other poems display fancy and an easy vein of writing, though not of the highest order. We select one of them as a specimen, and as worthy of preserving, from its familiar description of an imposition which attracted much public attention. It may perhaps be allowed us to preface "Caraboo" with an extract from Baker's Chronicle of the Reign of King Stephen, which is curious in itself, and serves to shew that, after all, we do not far excel our rudest ancestors in the novelty or cunning of our impostures.

"In this King's time also, there appeared two children, a boy and a girl, clad in green, in a stuffe unknown, of a strange language, and of a strange diet; whereof the boy being baptized, dyed shortly after, but the girl lived to be very old; and being asked from whence they were, she answered, They were of the Land of St. Martyn, where there are Christian Churches erected; but that no Sun did ever rise unto them but where that land is, and how she came hither, she herself knew not. This I the rather write, that we may know there are other parts of the world, then those which to us are known and this story I should not have believed, if it were not testified by so many and so credible witnesses as it is." CARABOO.

Oh! aid me, ye Spirits of wonder! who soar In realms of Romance where none ventured before;

Ye Fairies! who govern the fancies of men,
And sit on the point of Monk Lewis's pen;
Ye mysterious Elves! who for ever remain
With Lusus Naturæs, and Ghosts of Cock-Lane;
Who ride upon broomsticks, intent to deceive
All those who appear predisposed to believe,

And softly repeat from your home in the spheres

Incredible stories to credulous ears;
With every thing marvellous, every thing new,
We'll trace a description of Miss CARABOO.

Johanna's disciples, who piously came

To present babies' caps to the elderly dame,
Though all hope of the virgin's accouchement
is o'er,

Shall meet with the smile of derision no more;
Their wonders were weak, their credulity small-
Caraboo was engender'd by nothing at all!
And where did she come from?-and who can
she be?

the sea?

A seraph of day, or a shadow of night?

Did she spring upon earth in a stream of gas-
light?

Did she ride on the back of a fish, or sea-dog?
A spirit of health, or a devil incog.?

Or declare that her visit accounts for the rain
Which happen'd last year, and may happen
again;

That dark spots appear in the course she has run,
That she may be connected with Corsairs-all
Coeval perhaps with the spots on the sun;

these,

Historians relate that the war with Veii was intermingled with prodigies. A circumstance mentioned by Livy, offers a resource for the marvellous, especially belonging to this epopee. Juno was the object of particular worship at Veii. Her temple was built upon the summit of a rock, in the middle of the citadel. "The Romans," says mine dug by the orders of Camillus, and Livy, "entered the temple by means of a the Romans present, whether he were inseized the statue of the goddess: one of spired, or whether he did it merely for a joke, said, Juno, wilt thou come to Rome? the others exclaimed that she answered Yes." The author has built on this tradition, and happily adapted it to his poem. He has considered his subject under a point of view which could not but furnish him with interesting details and local colours. The RoShe then wore no ear-rings, though still maymans, the descendants of the Trojans who

And as many more possible things as you please.
In what hand does she write?--In what tongue
does she speak?

She must be a blue-stocking lady indeed,
Is it Arabic, Persic, Egyptian, or Greek?
To write an epistle which no man can read;
Though we have some publishing scribes I could

name,

Whose letters will meet with a fate much the

same.

be seen

The holes in her ears, where her ear-rings had
been;

Leathern shoes on her feet; a black shawl round
her hair;

And of black worsted stockings an elegant pair
Her gown was black stuff, and my readers may

guess

If her story contains as much stuff as her dress.
Of the famed Indian Jugglers we all must
have heard,

Who to gain a subsistence would swallow

sword;

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But men (without proof) who believe tales like

these,

Will undoubtedly swallow whatever you please.

I have heard those who thought that she
wish'd to deceive,

After seeing her person have learn'd to believe;
Even those who have doubted the truth of her

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The truth of her tale is apparent to me,
I never have seen her; but if, when I see,
I will cancel these lines, and most gladly rehearse
Her swimming and fencing in beautiful verse;
In the graces and charms of my muse to adorn

her,

Shall be the employment of

Q. IN THE CORNER.

Bath, June 10th, 1817.

invaded Italy, are represented as the heirs of their system of aggression. Turnus, on in defence of the liberty of his country. the contrary, is regarded as a hero who fell of the most distinguished characters of the Divine honours are paid him at Veii. One poem, is of the race of Turnus. The Queen of Veil, consort of King Tolumnius, and Tuscans, is descended from the same race. mother of Tyrrhenus, the Hector of the All the other people of Italy, fearing for their liberty, league against the Romans. Even the Carthaginians, in the hope of revenging the injuries of Dido, bring aid, and join the Etrurian army.

Juno, at the end of the Eneid, had pardoned the Trojans, the ancestors of the Romans, and becoming favourable to Æneas, had abandoned Turnus to the decrees of fate. The author has sought for a new motive of sufficient force to rekindle the anger of Juno, and has found it in the rape of the Sabines. The goddess, who is the patroness of legitimate marriages, is justly incensed at this public crime, suddenly quits the Capitol, fixes her abode at Veil, and vows

the destruction of the Romans. Notwithstanding her desire of revenge, she resolves to suspend it, knowing that there will be born of the royal blood of Veil, allied to IL CAMILLO, O VEJO CONQUISTATA; CA-that of Turnus, a warrior whose valour will MILLUS, or VEII CONQUERED: an Epic Poem, by CHARLES BOTTA.

be fatal to the Romans. This warrior is Tyrrhenus. He is born; he soon acquires glory in arms, and then Juno thinks of satisfying her vengeance against Rome.

The author of this Poem, desiring to treat a subject which Italy might consider as national, has chosen the siege and conquest of In order to kindle a war between Rome Did she fall from the sky?-did she rise from Veii by the Romans. This celebrated event and Veii, Juno has intimated to the Tuscans, was worthy to serve as the foundation of an that they will obtain the empire of Italy, epic poem. Veil, the capital of Etruria, a if they bring to Veii the statue of Hercules, rich, great, and beautiful city, inspired even which the Romans worship on Mount Avenits conquerors with a momentary desire to tine. Tolumnius, king of Veii, carries it inhabit it, and abandon Rome. One of the off by surprise, having killed the priests to greatest of the Romans, perhaps the great-whose care it was entrusted. Thus war est of all, Camillus, immortalized himself breaks out; Camillus commands the Rowhich he obtained. The catastrophe which success; but the death of one of the geneby the war against Veii, and the success mans; the two armies fight with dubious destroyed the town and the inhabitants, had rals having caused the command to devolve the utmost influence on the fate of the on Appius Claudius, who is detested by the other people of the peninsula, by overthrow-soldiers, they refuse to fight. This event Her component degrees from some hot-watering for ever the ancient dominion of the turns to the advantage of the Tuscans. The spa? Etruscans, which had civilized them all, and Carthaginians are to come to their aid, and which was the only power in Italy able to the king of Veii not only refuses the peace check the progress of ambitious Rome. proposed by the Roman ambassadors, but

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even violates the law of nations, by putting | solicits Jupiter to spare the Tuscans. Jupi- de Conange threw himself out of bed, and the ambassadors to death. The Carthagi- ter consoles her by unveiling to her the taking up his candle, proceeded to the clonians arrive, and a general battle begins. brilliant destiny which is reserved for Tus-set. What was his horror and astonishment After the two armies have performed prodi-cany. He shews her that it was necessary when he beheld his friend lying senseless gies of valour, Camillus succeeds in deciding that the empire should pass from the Etrus- beneath the strangling grasp of a dead man, the victory in favour of Rome. The Africans, a people already weakened by effemi-loaded with chains. The cries of distress cans are on the point of re-embarking. The nacy, to the Romans, a new people, who are which this dreadful sight called forth soon Veians deliberate on surrendering. At this still in the full vigour of their warlike cha- brought the host to his assistance, whose critical moment news is received from racter; that the Romans alone are able fear and astonishment acquitted him of Rome, that the popular faction has prevail- to defend Italy against the valiant Gauls, being in any way an actor in the tragic ed against Camillus, and that he is deprived rushing from the summit of the Alps, scene before them. It was however a more of his command. The patricians who are and against the ferocious Africans. Juno pressing duty to endeavour at recovering with him are incensed, and resolve to leave thus consoled, becomes again favourable to the senseless traveller than to unravel the the army. Camillus conjures them to re- the Romans, and consents to return to the mysterious event which had reduced him to main at their post; and having prevailed Capitol. that state. The barber of the village was upon them, takes his departure. therefore immediately sent for, and in the mean time they extricated the traveller from the grasp of the man, whose hand had in death closed on his throat with a force which rendered it difficult to unclench. While performing this they happily ascertained that the spark of life still faintly glowed in the heart of the traveller, although wholly fled from that of his assaulter. The operation of bleeding, which the barber now arrived to perform, gave that spark new vigour, and he was shortly put to bed out of danger, and left to all that could now be of service to him-repose.

With Camillus depart the glory and fortune of Rome. The reverses of the Romans commence. The pestilence ravages their camp; the enemies resume their courage, and obtain some advantages. However, the Romans bear up against their afflictions, and the attacks of the hostile armies: they take the king of Veii prisoner; and lastly, just at the moment when the various nations of Italy approach, to attempt the deliverance of the besieged city, Camillus, having triumphed over the adverse faction at Rome, is restored to the army. A general battle decides the fate of Veii; the Romans are victorious, and make themselves masters of the city.

Having thus given an account of the Poem, in respect to the marvellous, and to the epic action, we shall, in a second article, make our readers acquainted with some of the secondary actions and episodes interwoven in it.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

THE SCRIP.
NO. IV.

FRENCH ANECDOTE.

It is impossible to conceive that any mental suffering arising from fear could exceed that experienced by the traveller whose adMonsieur de Conange then felt himself at venture is the subject of this Number. There liberty to satisfy his curiosity in developing was no illusion in it, all was real; yet in him the cause of this strange adventure, which We proceed to notice the marvellous the horror of a supernatural enemy super- was quickly effected by his host. This man which the poet has chosen. In the first seded all dread of a mortal assassin, which informed him that the deceased was his Canto, Juno sends a dream to Tolumnius, to his midnight intruder might have been sup-groom, who had within a few days exhibited incite him to carry off from Rome the statue posed to have proved. Monsieur de Co- such strong proofs of mental derangement of Hercules; in the second, Jupiter con- nange, on a wandering excursion which he as to render it absolutely necessary to use vokes the Gods; the greater number were was making with a friend through one of coercive measures to prevent his either doing already in the camp of the Tuscans to assist the French provinces, found it necessary mischief to himself or others, and that he them, having been prevailed upon by Juno. one night to take refuge from a storm, in had in consequence been confined and Venus on the other hand protects her favour- an inn whch had little else to recommend chained in the stables-but that it was eviite Romans, and implores for them the jus- it but that the host was well known to Mon-dent his fetters had proved too weak to retice of Jupiter. In the third Canto, Juno sieur de Conange. This man had all the in- sist the strength of frenzy, and that in liberdescends into the infernal regions, chooses clination in the world to accommodate the ating himself he had passed through a little the most active monsters, and sends them travellers to their satisfaction, but unfortu- door, imprudently left unlocked, which led through all Italy, to raise up enemies to the nately he possessed not the power. The from the saddle room into the closet in Romans; in the fourth, Jupiter sends a situation was desolate, and the few cham-which the traveller slept, and had entered it dream to alarm the queen respecting the bers the house contained were already occu- to die with such frightful effects on his bed. issue of the contest, and the queen terrified pied by other travellers. There remained When in the course of a few days Monconjures Tolumnius, her consort, to make unengaged only a single parlour on the sieur de Conange's friend was able to conpeace; but Juno counteracts this, by excit- ground floor, with a closet adjoining, with verse, he acknowledged that never in his ing in the heart of the king a new fit of which, inconvenient as they were, Monsieur life had he suffered so much, and that he was rage, the horrible consequences of which de Conange and his friend were obliged to confident had he not fainted, madness inust render peace impossible. In the tenth content themselves. The closet was pre- have been the consequence of a prolonged Canto, Juno appears supplicating Jupiter in pared with a very uninviting bed for the lat-state of terror. favour of the Tuscans. Lastly, in the ter, while they supped together in the partwelfth, the decisive battle being inevitable, lour, where it was decided Monsieur de Coalmost all the Gods have joined to protect nange was to sleep. As they purposed dethe Tuscans. In this last trial Jupiter parting very early in the morning, they soon alone remains calm on the summit of Olym-retired to their separate beds, and ere long pus: expectation is eager to know which of fell into a profound sleep. Short, however, the two nations will obtain the victory and had been Monsieur de Conange's repose, the empire. Already the Romans triumph, when he was disturbed by the voice of his The Gods who are opposed to them excite a fellow traveller crying out that something dreadful tempest, which pours from the was strangling him. Though he heard his summits of the Apennines flame, hail, and friend speak to him, he could not for some rain, upon the victors; they are forced to time sufficiently rouse himself from his stop, and the Tuscans take courage. But drowsiness to awaken to a full sense of the Jupiter causes his thunder to be thrice heard, words his friend had uttered. That it was and declares that it is his will that the des- in a voice of distress he now perfectly undertinies should be accomplished. At this sign stood, and he called anxiously to inquire nature trembles, and becomes calm; the what was the matter-no answer was reGods fly terrified, and the victory remains turned, no sound was heard, all was still as with those who had obtained it. Juno again death. Now seriously alarmed, Monsieur

INFANT LOVE;
OR,
THE KISS.
When first I measured with my goat,
And he was taller of the two,
My infant heart began to doat

On lovely Chloe's eyes of blue.
E'en then I thought her form so fair

It seem'd of more than mortal birth;
Her voice, her smile, her winning air

To nought could be compar'd on earth,
Her heart a mountain shepherd bless'd
Ere I had words to tell my love;
Yet something in my looks express'd,
I too could fond and faithful prove.
For once she said "Go simple boy"-
And press'd upon my lips a kiss-
"You still with Love may safely toy;
Youth guarded from his pains and bliss."

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