moit dans un silence menaçant, il fixoit sur la terre The Kiosk is a Turkish summer-house: the palm son visage féroce, et ne donnoit point d'essor à sa is without the present walls of Athens, not far from profonde indignation.-De toutes parts cependant the temple of Theseus, between which and the tree les soldats et les peuples accouroient; ils vouloient the wall intervenes.-Cephisus' stream is indeed voir cet homme, jadis si puissant, et la joie univer- scanty, and Ilissus has no stream at all. selle éclatoit de toutes parts. 219, 220. "Eccelin étoit d'une petite taillie; mais tout l'as- That frown-where gentler ocean seems to smile. pect de sa personne, tous ses mouvemens, indiquoiPage 146, line 20. ent un soldat.-Son langage étoit amer, son deportement superbe et par son seul egard, il faisoit haps, little business here, and were annexed to an The opening lines as far as Section II. have, pertrembler les plus hardis." Sismondi, tome III. page unpublished (though printed) poem; but they were "Gizericus (Genseric, king of the Vandals, the written on the spot in the spring of 1811, and—I scarce know why-the reader must excuse their apconqueror of both Carthage and Rome) staturà mediocris, et equi casu claudicans, animo profundus, pearance here if he can. зermone rarus, luxuria contemptor, ira turbidus, habendi cupidus, ad solicitandas gentes providentissimus," &c., &c. Jornandes de Rebus Geticis, c. 33. 24. 9. He tore his beard, and foaming fed the fight. 16. His only bends in seeming o'er his beads. 17. And the cold flowers her colder hand contain'd. Page 150, line 75. the bodies of the dead, and in the hands of young In the Levant it is the custom to strew flowers on persons to place a nosegay. 18. Link'd with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. Page 151, line 43. That the point of honor which is represented in one instance of Conrad's character has not been carried beyond the bounds of probability may per A common and not very novel effect of Mussul-haps be in some degree confirmed by the following man anger. See Prince Eugene's Memoirs, page "The Seraskier received a wound in the thigh; he plucked up his beard by the roots, because he was obliged to quit the field." 10. Brief time had Conrad now to greet Gulnare. Page 142, line 117. Gulnare, a female name; it means, literally, the flower of the pomegranate. 11. anecdote of a brother Buccaneer in the year 1814. Our readers have all seen the account of the enterprise against the pirates of Barrataria; but few, we believe, were informed of the situation, history, or nature of that establishment. For the information of such as were unacquainted with it, we have procured from a friend the following interesting narrative of the main facts, of which he has personal knowledge, and which cannot fail to interest some of our readers. Barrataria is a bay, or a narrow arm of the Gulf of Mexico: it runs through a rich but very flat country until it reaches within a mile of the Mississippi Till even the scaffold echoes with their jest! River fifteen miles below the city of New Orleans. Page 144, line 87. The bay has branches almost innumerable, in which In Sir Thomas More, for instance, on the scaffold, It communicates with three lakes which lie on the persons can lie concealed from the severest scrutiny. and Anne Boleyn, in the Tower, when grasping her neck, she remarked that it "was too slender to southwest side, and these, with the lake of the trouble the headsman much." During one part of same name, and which lies contiguous to the sea, the French Revolution, it became a fashion to leave where there is an island formed by the two arms of some "mot as a legacy; and the quantity of fa- this lake and the sea. The east and west points of cetious last words spoken during that period would this island were fortified, in the year 1811, by a band form a melancholy jest-book of a considerable size. of pirates under the command of one Monsieur La 12. That closed their murder'd sage's latest day. Page 145, line 100. Socrates drank the hemlock a short time before sunset, (the hour of execution,) notwithstanding the entreaties of his disciples to wait till the sun went down. 13. The queen of night asserts her silent reign. Page 145, line 112. The twilight in Greece is much shorter than in our own country: the days in winter are longer, but in summer of shorter duration. 14. The gleaming turret of the gay Kiosk. Fitte. A large majority of these outlaws are of that class of the population of the State of Louisiana who fled from the Island of St. Domingo during the troubles there, and took refuge in the Island of Cuba: and when the last war between France and Spain commenced, they were compelled to leave that island with the short notice of a few days. Without ceremony, they entered the United States, the most of them the State of Louisiana, with all the negroes they had possessed in Cuba. They were notified by the Governor of that State of the clause in the constitution which forbade the importation of slaves; but, at the same time, received the assurance of the Governor that he would obtain, if possible, the approbation of the General Government for their retaining this property. The Island of Barrataria is situated about lat. See "Curse of Minerva. ' 29 deg. 15 min. lon. 92. 30. and is as remarkable for measure connected with the profess.on of the hero its health, as for the superior scale and shell-fish of the foregoing poem, I cannot resist the temptawith which its waters abound. The chief of this tion of extracting it. horde, like Charles de Moor, had mixed with his "There is something mysterious in the history many vices some virtues. In the year 1813, this and character of Dr. Blackbourne. The former is party had from its turpitude and boldness, claimed but imperfectly known; and report has even asthe attention of the Governor of Louisiana; and to serted he was a buccaneer; and that one of his break up the establishment, he thought proper to brethren in that profession having asked, on his arstrike at the head. He therefore offered a reward rival in England, what had become of his old chum, of five hundred dollars for the head of Monsieur La Blackbourne, was answered, he is archbishop of Fitte who was well known to the inhabitants of the York. We are informed, that Blackbourne was incity of New Orleans, from his immediate connexion, stalled sub-dean of Exeter, in 1694, which office he and his once having been a fencing-master in that resigned in 1702; but after his successor Lewis Barcity of great reputation, which art he learnt in net's death, in 1704, he regained it. In the followBonaparte's army, where he was captain. The re- ing year he became dean: and, in 1714, held with it ward which was offered by the Governor for the the archdeanery of Cornwall. He was consecrated head of La Fitte was answered by the offer of a re- bishop of Exeter, February 24, 1716; and translated ward from the latter of fifteen thousand for the head to York, November 28, 1724, as a reward, accordof the Governor. The Governor ordered out a com- ing to court scandal, for uniting George I. to the pany to march from the city to La Fitte's island, Duchess of Munster. This, however, appears to and to burn and destroy all the property, and to have been an unfounded calumny. As archbishop bring to the city of New Orleans all his banditti. he behaved with great prudence, and was equally This company, under the command of a man who respectable as the guardian of the revenues of the had been the intimate associate of this bold Cap- see. Rumor whispered he retained the vices of his tain, approached very near to the fortified island, youth, and that a passion for the fair sex formed an before he saw a man, or heard a sound, until he item in the list of his weaknesses; but so far from heard a whistle, not unlike a boatswain's call. being convicted by seventy witnesses, he does not Then it was he found himself surrounded by armed appear to have been directly criminated by one. In men who had emerged from the secret avenues short, I look upon these aspersions as the effects of which led into Bayou. Here it was that the mod- mere malice. How is it possible a buccaneer should ern Charles de Moor developed his few noble traits; have been so good a scholar as Blackbourne cerfor to this man, who had come to destroy his life tainly was? he who had so perfect a knowledge of and all that was dear to him, he not only spared his the classics, (particularly of the Greek tragedians,) life, but offered him that which would have made as to be able to read them with the same ease as he the honest soldier easy for the remainder of his could Shakspeare, must have taken great pains to days, which was indignantly refused. He then, acquire the learned languages; and have had both with the approbation of his captor, returned to the leisure and good masters. But he was undoubtedly city. This circumstance, and some concomitant educated at Christchurch College, Oxford. He is events, proved that this band of pirates was not to allowed to have been a pleasant man: this, howbe taken by land. Our naval force having always ever, was turned against him, by its being said, he been small in that quarter, exertions for the destruc- gained more hearts than souls.' tion of this illicit establishment could not be ex pected from them until augmented; for an officer of the navy, with most of the gunboats on that "The only voice that could soothe the passions that station, had to retreat from an overwhelming of the savage, (Alphonso III.) was that of an amiaforce of La Fitte's. So soon as the augmentation ble and virtuous wife, the sole object of his love; of the navy authorized an attack, one was made; the voice of Donna Isabella, the daughter of the the overthrow of this banditti has been the result; Duke of Savoy, and the grand-daughter of Philip II. and now this almost invulnerable point and key to King of Spain.-Her dying words sunk deep into New Orleans is clear of an enemy, it is to be hoped his memory; his fierce spirit melted into tears; and the government will hold it by a strong military after the last embrace, Alphonso retired into his force. From an American Newspaper. chamber to bewail his irreparable loss, and to medi In Noble's continuation of Granger's Biographi- tate on the vanity of human life.-Miscellaneous cal History, there is a singular passage in his ac- Works of Gibbon, New Edition. 8vo. vol. iii. page count of Archbishop Blac.sbourne, and as in some 473. 20 THE Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, II. The chief of Lara is return'd again: And why had Lara cross'd the bounding main? III. And Lara left in youth his father-land; His hall scarce echoes with his wonted name, A hundred scutcheons deck with gloomy grace, IV. He comes at last in sudden loneliness, Of foreign aspect, and of tender age. He lives, nor yet is past his manhood's prime, Though sear'd by toil, and something touch'd by time; His faults, whate'er they were, if scarce forgot, V. And they indeed were changed-'tis quickly seen, That darts in seeming playfulness around, That some can conquer, and that all would claim, VI. Not much he loved long question of the past, VII. Not unrejoiced to see him once again, VIII. Twas strange-in youth all action and all life, To curse the wither'd heart that would not break. IX. Books, for his volume heretofore was Man, With eye more curious he appear'd to scan, And oft, in sudden mood, for many a day From all communion he would. start away; And then, his rarely call'd attendants said, O'er the dark gallery, where his fathers frown'd The sound of words less carthly than his own. Why gazed he so upon the ghastly head Which hands profane had gather'd from the dead. That still beside his open'd volume lay, As if to startle all save him away? Why slept he not when others were at rest X. It was the night-and Lara's glassy stream XI. He turn'd within his solitary hall, And his high shadow shot along the wall; Like life, but not like mortal life, to view; His bristling locks of sable, brow of gloom, XII. 'Twas midnight-all was slumber; the lone light XIII. Cold as the marble where his length was laid, He to his marvelling vassals show'd it not, XVI. Vain thought! that hour of ne'er unravell'd gloom Some half-form'd threat in utterance there had died, Or did that silence prove his memory fix'd Some imprecation of despairing pride; His eye was almost seal'd, but not forsook, That oft awake his aspect could disclose, And now was fixed in horrible repose. Too deep for words, indellible, unmix'd They raise him-bear him;-hush! he breathes, he Of thoughts that mortal lips must leave half told: speaks, The swarthy blush recolers in his cheeks, And such they were, and meant to meet an ear XIV. His page approach'd, and he alone appear'd XV. Whate'er his frenzy dream'd or eye beheld, What had he been? what was he, thus unknown, In self-inflicted penance of a breast Which tenderness might once have wrung from rest; XVIII. There was in him a vital scorn of all: |