lieutenant of the Tower, when Penn was before him, accused him with having "been as bad as other folks," "abroad and at home too." He denied it with becoming indignation. "I make this bold challenge," said he, "to all men, women, and children upon earth, justly to accuse me with ever having seen me drunk, heard me swear, utter a curse, or speak one obscene word (much less that I made it my practice). I speak this to God's glory, that has preserved me from the power of these pollutions, and that from a child begot an hatred in me towards them;" adding, with no little of the martial spirit which was undoubtedly in him, thy words shall be thy burden, and I trample thy slander as dirt under my 66 feet!" It is much to be regretted that so little is known of this particular period of Penn's life, as the only anecdote preserved, exhibits the courage and self-possession which distinguished him on all occasions of real danger. It appears that a person who supposed that he was insulted by Penn, drew his sword and attacked him, but without any great satisfaction, it would seem, for the to be " captain-general" of Pennsylvania proved the better tilter of the two, and disarmed his antagonist, forbearing, however, to put him to death, according to the strict law of arms. His subsequent history we are better acquainted with. His attention, in France, was turned to theology, in which he became greatly now Kensington, the northeastern suburb of Philadelphia. This "Elm" was blown down in 1810. A small monument has since been erected upon the, site. The former and the present appearances of the spot are well represented in Cuts Nos. 11 and 12.-ED.] [Penn's famous "Treaty" with the Indians, -"the only treaty," says Voltaire, "between those natives and the Christians, which was Of the portraits of the descendants of Wilnever sworn to, and was never broken"-was liam Penn, we are better prepared to speak. made beneath an "Elm Tree" at Shackamaxon, Of William Penn, Junior, his dissipated son, PENN'S TREATY GROUND AND MONUMENT (PRESENT APPEARANCE). PENN'S TREATY GROUND (BEFORE "THE OLD ELM TREE" WAS BLOWN DOWN). who fell an early victim to his irregularities, | rican Philosophical Society, and another, in in 1720, we possess no likeness; but of Thomas that of a member of the bar in this city, which Penn, there is a very scarce private plate (mezzotint), by Martin, after Davis, 1751. There is an impression in the possession of the Ame are the only ones we have seen. This gentleman married Lady Juliana Fermor, daughter of the Earl of Pomfret: there is of her a pri vate plate, a half-length, by Read, after Prauker. Of Richard Penn, and his wife (Miss Lardner), there are fine portraits, in oil, in excellent condition, in the possession of a member of the lady's family, of which, as historical personages, there ought to be engravings. There is also a portrait of John Penn, the eldest son of William Penn, taken-it is said -by Kneller, in the possession of a gentleman of this city. It represents him at a very early age, and ought to be engraved. John Penn, the grandson of William Penn, and the eldest son of Thomas Penn, was the author of two volumes of poems, not without literary merit, indeed, but chiefly remarkable for Bulmer's typography, and for the excellently engraved portrait of the author, by Schiavonetti. There is also a full-length of this gentleman, with a view of Stoke Pogis, his seat (Cut No. 13), -a spot connected with not a few literary associations. THE LATER FRENCH LYRIC POETS. I. LAMARTINE. BY WILLIAM DOWE, ESQ. him down; but the attempt, like Phaeton's, was a glorious one, and Alphonse de Lamartine achieved, for a time, in his decline, a more general popularity than that of his first WHILE the revolution-poet of the French people, Beranger, was insisting on remain-poetical essor. Lamartine attempted to make ing in his garret, though elected by the Parisians to the National Assembly, the poet of Meditations, Harmonies, and all the rapt inspirations of a pious spirit, was, curiously enough, carried up to the highest political place in the realm by a storm of popular revolution! The storm that blew him up blew a revolution with rose-water. He wished to make a compromise between the rights and vehement claims of the industrious poor and the political bienséances-the customary interests and tendencies of society. He shrank from the task of carrying out the principles of February, 1848. Revolution, in fact, lay in |