Cecile rose from the table at 6 o'clock that afternoon, leaving her papa dosing over his Moselle and snuff-box, and ringing for her maid, ordered a trunk and bandboxes into her dressing room. She then turned the key, and laying her dresses all out upon chairs, sofa and fauteuil, selected two or three of the prettiest, (a plain white one among them,) and folded them in the trunk. She threw in next two or three handsful of cameos, coral necklaces, and other necklaces, and other ornaments-some indefinite articles of dress, a muslin night-cap, and a vinai That overhang the deep; neighbouring hills were lighted up; and dark groups of people were seen watching in horrible anxiety the progress of the destruction; the walls and heights of the upper city were crowded with faces, some pale with the agony of despair, others scowling unavailing vengeance. The shouts of the Roman soldiery, as they ran to and fro, and the howlings of the insurgents who were perishing in the flames, mingled with grette to be used in the fainting scene-next, a pair darkened in the Jewish calender by the de-dering sound of falling timbers. The echoes It was on the 10th of August, the day already the roaring of the conflagration and the thunof French slippers and a Bible-and last, a lovely door. From Milman's History of the Jews. ITS DESTRUCTION BY FIRE, UNDER TITUS French apron of a new pattern, with which she in-truction of the former Temple by the King of of the mountains replied, or brought back the tended to astonish her lord at the first breakfast sub- Babylon; it was almost passed. Titus withdrew shrieks of the people on the heights; all the sequent to the ceremony. Having chosen her pret-again into Antonia, intending the next morning walls resounded with screams and wailings; tiest hat, and laid it aside, every thing was complete, to make a general assault. The quiet summer men, who were expiring with famine, rallied and she threw herself upon the sofa to dream away the time till the arrival of the note from Mr. St. John, evening came on; the setting sun shone for the their remaining strength to utter a cry of anannouncing the hour when his bays would be at the last time on the snow-white walls and glisten-guish and desolation. ing pinnacles of the Temple roof. Titus had The slaughter within was even more dreadI shall not attempt to describe the dream, because retired to rest; when suddenly a wild and terri- ful than the spectacle from without. Men and the lady did not attempt it herself in telling me the ble cry was heard, and a man came rushing in, women, old and young, insurgents and priests, story. It was, no doubt, like all city visions of matrimony, a long vista, closed in the blue distance by announcing that the Temple was on fire. Some and those who fought and those who intreated a four story brick house and iron railings, a servant of the besieged, notwithstanding the repulse in mercy, were hewn down in indiscriminate carin livery cleaning the door-plate, and a child in a the morning, had sallied out to attack the men nage. The numbers of the slain exceeded that pink frock and white pantalettes, playing in the ve- who were employed in extinguishing the fires of the slayers. The legionaries had to clamber randah. The arrival of the note, whatever it was, about the cloisters. The Romans not merely over heaps of dead, to carry on the work of put a stop to it very effectually. It was written on drove them back, but entering the sacred space extermination. John, at the head of some of rose paper, and, being June, sealed with a cameo with them, forced their way to the Temple. A his troops, cut his way through, first into the wafer. The first sentence or two, being sentiment, Cecile passed over till the second perusal. The es- soldier, without orders, mounting on the shoul-outer court of the Temple; afterwards into the sential part of it was the naming of the hour, and ders of one of his comrades, threw a blazing upper city. Some of the priests upon the roof glancing her eye down, she read, "I shall be at the brand into a gilded small door on the north side wrenched off the gilded spikes, with their door, in my kurrikle"-it was quite enough. To of the chambers, in the outer building or porch. sockets of lead, and used them as missiles run away with a man that couldn't spell!-oh, no! The flames sprung up at once. She took her pen and wrote a note declining the hoThe Jews ut- against the Romans below. Afterwards they nour, rang for her maid, dressed and went to a party. tered one simultaneous shriek, and grasped fled to a part of the wall, about 14 feet wide; Six months after, she took matrimony, (as the their swords with a furious determination of re- they were summoned to surrender; but two of doctors phrase it,) "the natural way," and when I venging and perishing in the ruins of the Tem- them, Mair, son of Belgo, and Joseph, son of saw her last, was the loveliest of Madonnas, in an ple. Titus rushed down with the utmost speed; Dalia, plunged headlong into the flames. oiled silk apron, getting very learned in corals and he shouted, he made signs to his soldiers to teeth-cutting.-Amer. Mon. Mag. No part escaped the fury of the Romans. The quench the fire; his voice was drowned, and treasuries, with all their wealth of money,jewels, his signs unnoticed, in the blind confusion. The and costly robes-the plunder which the zealots legionaries either could not, or would not hear; had laid up-were totally destroyed-nothing they rushed on, trampling each other down in remained but a small part of the outer cloister, their furious haste, or stumbling over the in which 6,000 unarmed and defenceless people, crumbling ruins, perished with the enemy. with women and children, had taken refuge. Each exhorted the other, and each hurled his These poor wretches, like multitudes of others, blazing brand into the inner part of the edifice, had been led up to the Temple by a false prophet, and then hurried to the work of carnage. The who had proclaimed that God commanded all unarmed and defenceless people were slain in the Jews to go up to the temple, where he would thousands; they lay heaped, like sacrifices, display his Almighty power to save his people. round the altar; the steps of the temple ran with The soldiers set fire to the building; every soul streams of blood, which washed down the perished. bodies that lay about. CHOICE EXTRACTS. From Blackwood's Magazine for April. THE FORSAKEN TO THE FALSE ONE. BY THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY. I dare thee to forget me! Away! thou'rt free! o'er land and sea, But oh, thou canst not fly from thought! Thy curse shall be-to think! That thought, when thou art tempest-tost, In some wild dungeon may'st thou lie, Thy curse shall be to think! Go seek the merry banquet-hall, That thought shall turn the festive cup Will gall thee while they sing; Titus found it impossible to check the rage of the soldiery; he entered with his officers, and Portrait of Bolivar.-The countenance of this surveyed the interior of the sacred edifice. The yellow, his hair crispy, his body slender and very person is daring, his eyes lively, his skin dry and splendour filled them with wonder; and as the bony. He possesses sufficient capacity to conceive flames had not yet penetrated to the holy place, and combine ideas with much promptitude, and at he made a last effort to save it, and springing the same time to receive a multitude of impressions forth, again exhorted the soldiers to stay the sions violent; thence arises that liability, a boyish without. His imagination is enthusiastic, his pas progress of the conflagration. The centurion, weakness, of divulging his thoughts; and an impetaLiberalis, endeavoured to force obedience with osity of explication without regard to decency, good his staff of office; but even respect for the Em- breeding or religion, in phrases low and offensive to peror gave way to the furious animosity against those with whom he speaks, especially inferiors. the Jews, to the fierce excitement of battle, Impolitic enterprise, stupid errors, and enormous and to the insatiable hope of plunder. The sol- with a heavy yoke, for the fame of the hero, who crimes against his country, which he seeks to load diers saw every thing around them radiant with thinks himself superior to Napoleon, and above com gold, which shone dazzlingly in the wild light parison with Washington. He wishes to obtain his of the flames; they supposed that incalculable end by intrigue and force. His imagination carries treasures were laid up in the sanctuary. A him from object to object, and from plan to plan, soldier, unperceived, thrust a lighted torch be- and does not permit him to execute with delibera tween the hinges of the door; the whole build-ing passion is absolute command. He spares nothing tion, what he has conceived with audacity. His rul ing was in flames in an instant. The blinding to obtain it; but he pretends always that he detests smoke and fire forced the officers to retreat, it. His obstinacy is unequalled, and he becomes and the noble edifice was left to its fate. more excited the more his plans are opposed. He It was an appalling spectacle to the Roman, frequently changes his plans. He lives in a state what was it to the Jew? The whole summit of which make him view with disgust at one moment, of continual agitation, always inflamed by passions, the hill, which commanded the city, blazed like what he had embraced the moment before. But that a volcano. One after another the buildings fell which excites him most, is his arrangements to com in with a tremendous crash, and were swal-pass the dominion to which he aspires and sacrifices lowed up in the fiery abyss. The roofs of cedar all things. were like sheets of flame; the gilded pinnacles Justice, public good, private rights, keeping proshone like spires of red light, the gate towers held in contempt by him, when they do not minister mises, social obligations, humanity and religion are sent up tall columns of flame and smoke. The to his ambitious aims, and much more when they stand in his way. It is very probable that he may stature, with dark grayish hair, and eyes which oc- side and hearth are entitled to a high rank. be carried off by some violent disorder; at any casionally remind one of the expression of his pic- And yet if the man and wife both prefer the rate, the date of his exit will probably be antici-ture. Dinner time passed very agreeably, and many of the destruction of Pharaoh and all his host. FOREIGN SKETCHES. pated in consequence of the war which he has a glass of rare Falnerian was drank to the healths same corner, there may be quarrelling for the declared against Peru, and his own countrymen in of the giver, and the lady of the feast. After coffee possession. While the cheerful fire blazes on Colombia, who, instead of lamenting, would cele-all retired to the drawing room, where wit and ge- the hearth, and invites to social harmony and brate his death, in which all the states of America nius shone in conversation, with scarcely less spirit comfort, the sparks of conjugal disagreement are interested, particularly the Peruvians, who, in than in print. The Irvings were both in an excel- may arise, pouting may ensue, cool words may the imitation of the Israelites, would raise the song lent vein, especially Washington, whose archery in- follow, short answers may succeed, hard names variably took effect without wounding its object. There was apparently nothing of the pride of au- may be called, criminations may take place, thorship in his manner. Alluding to this party recriminations may enter in, and pulling caps Spirit of Contemporary Prints. sometime afterwards, we were asked by an Ameri- may be the consequence. Unluckily there is can merchant in London "if Mr. Washington Ir- but one right and one left corner to a fire-place; ving did not fall asleep at the dinner table?" We of course, a similarity of tastes in the married We shall never forget the night we entered Paris. replied "that he had too many eyes about him.”— It was dark and gloomy, with nothing but a lamp Boston Commentator. pair must find it exceedingly difficult to be suspended here and there in the middle of the street, gratified. But if the happy couple are endowto give one an idea of one of the most splendid.cities ed with different tastes, so that the husband A Prison Anecdote.—An accomplished villain, by in the world. The rumbling noise of the Diligence the name of Jackson, who acknowledged that he had will be satisfied with one corner and the wife over the pavement, only served to render the English grumbletonians more surly than ever, while been in most of the jails of the United States, was with the other, there will be no left corner, and we seemed to be driven along through narrow streets, sentenced to hard labour for several years in Phila- all will be right. The husband may sit snug delphia. He gave much trouble, and at length es- and comfortable in one nook, smoking his pipe lanes, and alleys, as if by a destiny beyond our control. At length, we were set down at the Hotel caped over the wall. He was pursued to Maryland, and roasting his shins to his heart's content; Montmorency, Rue St. Marc, an establishment re- and on his way back escaped again. He was finally commended to us by some American friends in Lon-retaken and lodged in the cells, where full of health, while in the other his wife may mend a shirt, and with the high tone of a veteran in crime, he ply the knitting needle, or read a treatise on don. The hostess, Madame David, we found a very boasted of his resolution, and of the impossibility of cookery; and both man and wife be as happy agreeable woman, who conversed fluently in English subduing his spirit, or of effecting any change in as the happiest. and French, and gave us the gratifying assurance, that our food should be served a la mode de Paris. him. But after having been confined for some time, an alteration in his deportment became evident, and or a la mode de Angleterre. Retaining our old par- he took occasion when the inspectors were going curtains, perhaps we should find that a similaritialities, we bespoke the latter, and accordingly our breakfast table was furnished the next morning with through the prison, to enter into conversation, and ty of tastes might cause uncomfortable nights beefstake, eggs, rolls, and butter, exactly in the inquired how an old comrade in iniquity, who had as well as disagreeable days. If the conjugal cells. The reply was, that, "he promised to behave the left side of the bed, instead of pleasant long been confined, had obtained release from the pair should both happen to prefer the right or well, and that he had been put upon his honour." dreams, the night might be spent in most un"Would you trust mine?" he rejoined. "Yes," it was said, if he would pledge it. He did so, was re- pleasant altercations. As thus: leased, went cheerfully to work, behaved with pro"My dear, you know I prefer the right side priety during the remainder of his time, and has of the bed." never returned.-Sat. Bulletin. style to which we had been accustomed. We were sadly puzzled to know why there was such a disparity of size between the coffee-pot and cream-pitcher; the latter absolutely looked the former into insignificance; it was not crockery ware, earthen ware, or britannia ware, but a simple tin vessel with a long nose turned up, looking for all the world like a repository for hot coffee. SIMILARITY OF TASTES. OLD SONG. But if we were allowed to peep behind the "And, my dear, you know I prefer the right side of the bed." "My dear! Don't call me dear, without you can use me better, I beg on ye." "O, very well, my dear, I did'nt mean any thing by it." "That's the way you always treat me, so it is, you barbarous man. I'll break my heart." "But I'm determined you shant break mine and so if you please, I'll go to sleep." Sleep may possibly visit the eyes of the fond Our first object after our arrival was to call on Mr. Wells, the banker, an American gentleman, whose urbane and hospitable deportment we shall never cease to remember. Mr. Wells then resided in a large and splendid mansion Rue Vivienne, which was open at all times to those Americans who Sojourned in Paris. It was here, at a dinner party, we had the pleasure of meeting and becoming acquainted with our unknown travelling companion in It is the prevailing opinion, that the man and the Brighton steam packet, and from whom, by the woman, in order to be happy in married life, by, we parted with the conviction that he was some should possess the same or similar tastes. But New York merchant on a trading expedition. The that this opinion is very far from being correct, pair. But alas! it must be uncomfortable to go party was composed entirely of Americans, many of them Bostonians, with whom it was a treat to renew it requires very little observation or force of to sleep with words of discord on their lips— recollections of other days. reasoning to decide. Apart from the sublime and all, because they happen to possess a taste The charms of Paris were described with the en- and venerable stanza, which we have quoted for the same side of the bed. We would not, thusiasm of a native. Have you been to the Opera?' above, it is evident that where the tastes of indeed, aver that such a thing is likely to hap said one; 'Have you seen Talma and Mademoiselle two persons are fixed on the same article, and pen very often; but if it should take place but Mars?' quoth another. Have you visited the gal- there is barely enough for one, there may be once in a century, it would help to strengthen lery of the Louvre?' inquired a third; Have you viewed the palace of the Thuilliries?' asked a fourth; quarrelling and jangling for its possession. On our arguments in favour of dissimilarity of have you descended the cemetery of the catacombs, the contrary, where the tastes are different, tastes between the married couple. or visited the burial ground of the Pere la chaise? there is greater chance of both being gratified. We might very easily extend this article, but said a fifth; you have doubtless been to St. Cloud In a turkey or chicken there are two kinds we hope our readers, who are about to take to and Versailles? quoth a sixth, and so following, of meat, the white and the brown. Ladies themselves partners for life-" for better or till we verily believe we were compelled to give an answer to every one present. Fortunately there usually prefer the former, the gentlemen the for worse"-are resolved in their own minds were no ladies in the drawing room, to have super-latter, as is sufficiently obvious to any body to have no "worse" about it, and therefore added their inquiries to those of the other sex; for who has paid the least attention to the subject. will attend seriously to the consideration of at that time we had been in Paris only three days," Madam, what part shall I help you to?" "A tastes. Our design was merely to give them and had just discovered that we stood upon our own piece of the breast, sir, if you please." "Sir, a few hints-knowing as we do, that a word legs. At length, our hostess, who is one of the most elegant and accomplished women in Paris, entered what part would you prefer?" "The side bone, to the wise is sufficient-and that if they will the apartment, and was introduced to the guests; if convenient-or if not, the upper joint of the not be convinced by what we have said, aided immediately after which, the dinner room was leg." Such are the answers of the different by their own reflections, they would not profit thrown open, and we took our seats at the table; our sexes. And the inference is, that Nature, in if we should write a volume.-N. Y. Constel hostess and her sister occupying the centre. There forming certain kinds of poultry, had an eye to lation. was a vacant plate and chair between them, which matrimonial connexions, and by constituting remained unappropriated several minutes; when suddenly a door opened. Mr. Washington Irving was both brown and white meats in the same fowl, Madam Royall.-We have not heard of this announced, and having bowed to the company, and intended to provide against the miseries of congiven us a lively glance of recognition, placed him-jugal strife. This adaptation of meats to the Queen of literature and refinement for a long time self in the vacant chair. Had the accomplished au- taste is particularly convenient in the matter of until we saw a pretty warmly peppered article in thor of the 'Sketch Book' really dropped from the a chicken, which affording exactly a breakfast the Montgomery (Alabama) Planter's Gazette, anclouds, we could not have been more amazed than nouncing her arrival in that place. The editor dewe were at that moment. We had been previously for two, the husband and wife may sip their scribes her figure' as that of a hatter's block on a introduced to Mr. Peter Irving, who then sat on coffee, eat their toast, and pick their chicken whiskey barrel,' and her eye' as a fiery orb,' our right hand; but how to account for the presence bones, without ever making them a bone of which glows upon you with an expression intending to denote vast condescension. of Washington Irving in the person whom we had contention. seen on board the steamer, puzzled us in the exShe says, she is a 'people's woman,' (which, we By too great a similarity of tastes, some of treme. The short pepper and salt coat, was exsuppose, means a woman for the people's money,) the most valuable gifts of fortune may be turn- and that she alone has preserved them from being changed for a beautiful brown, and a plain vest, for a rich velvet, from which was suspended a brilliant ed to bitterness and strife. Among the enjoy- duped and hoodwinked; that, poor things,' they set of watch trinkets. He is below the middle ments of human life, the comforts of the fire-sit idle and gaping, while the designing and insidi ous are plucking them of every feather; but that she strictly in accordance with the tone of American|tion, moral, intellectual, and operative, and exwill guard them as a hen her brood; that she has de Bost. Trav. voted to them her time and talents!! Wonderful republicanism and feeling. It is, therefore, that tending to the entire protection, maintenance, goodness! Amazing benevolence!! The wife of we hereafter design to confine our selections and guidance of children and youth, male and Augustus was styled the mother of the common- more particularly to our own literature, although female, without distinction of class, sect or party, wealth; has not Mrs. Anne Royall an equal claim to be dignified with the appellation of Mother of the we shall seize with avidity any thing of peculiar or reference to any of the arbitrary distinctions Republic? Of most unabashed impudence, and merit that may emanate from a foreign pen. of the existing anti-republican and anti-Americompletely dotaged, she has become a common nuisance to the country; and in every part, by dint of There is, however, abundance of food for the can state of society. We concur in sentiment solicitation and abuse, she disposes of her vile and mind in the early history of our people, the re- with this new doctrine. Nothing will so fully slanderous writings. She says, that in Milledge cords of aboriginal character, the deep untrod-elevate the character of the American people as ville she saw but one gentleman, and he was drunk all the while; and with the officers of the army, in den beauties of our forests, the majestic sublimi- an equal distribution of the benefits of intellecthe Indian nation, she was particularly affronted.-ty of our hills, and the interminable windings of tual instruction. Nothing will so completely our rivers. We have no question that an expe- place us upon an equality, and impart to us Gullibility. The most extraordinary instance, dition to the Rocky Mountains, with all its pe- power of mind calculated to enhance our naperhaps, on record, of the gullibility of the London, rilous adventures, if properly described, would tional importance. The editors of three daily ers, is to be found in the story of the Bottle Con-afford a narrative as deeply interesting as many journals of this city have declared themselves jurer. A fellow gave out that he would creep into a quart bottle. The feat was to be performed in an of those to the Polar regions, the description of advocates of this national system of educationhonest bona fide way. It might have been supposed which, adds volume after volume to the shelves the working men make it the most important that the extravagance of the absurdity would create consideration in their political code; and with The American people should better appre- such advocacy it cannot but ultimately become before the hour of the curtain's rising, the house ciate their own resources as well in literary as the prevailing and successful doctrine. was crammed to suffocation. At length the hoaxer made his appearance. Every eye was opened and commercial and political matters. We have too every mouth shut. Ladies and gentlemen,' said the long bowed before the arbiters of foreign criwag, I have searched all the taverns in London for ticism, echoing their opinions whether falla - a laugh, but in what country under heavens could of the foreign booksellers. such a proposal have been taken in earnest? Long LITERARY. a quart bottle, but to no purpose; however, to conNEAL'S BENTHAM.-We are indebted to the sole you for your disappointment, I have procured a cious or otherwise, instead of depending upon National Gazette for the following severe, but pint bottle, which, with your kind permission, I will our own judgments, and drawing from our own just, notice of a work that has recently appeargo into to-morrow night, if you'll come back.' The fellow, of course, bolted immediately on finishing reflections. It is time that the practice should ed, from the pen of John Neal, of Portland. his address; and the audience, instead of laughing at be abandoned-it is one that is calculated to imeach other, actually destroyed the whole of the in"An octavo volume has just been issued at terior of the theatre, because a man about five feet pair instead of advancing our literary character--Boston, containing Jeremy Bentham's Princiten in his stockings had promised them that he would to enervate instead of strengthening the minds ples of Legislation, translated from the French creep into a quart bottle, and had not kept his word. of the present and coming generation. It is, of Dumont, by John Neal-to which work the The Inquisitive Valet.-Talleyrand had a confidential servant excessively devoted to his interest, therefore, that with all due humility, we would translator has prefixed a biographical notice of Bentham and of Dumont. The account of the but withal superlatively inquisitive. Having one stand upon our own strength, and develope our English philosopher occupies, perhaps, one hun. day entrusted him with a letter, the Prince watched his faithful valet from the window of his apartment, own resources; throw off all humiliation, and dred pages, and is as disgusting a farrago as we and with some surprise observed him coolly read-assume to ourselves the rank and the mind of have ever suffered the mischance to read. We ing the letter en route. On the next day a similar cannot refrain from expressing our surprise that commission was confided to the servant, and to the a young, but an ambitious and intellectual peo-publishers, highly respectable in education, in LITERARY PORT FOLIO. THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1830. AMERICAN LITERATURE. "To his own text, Mr. Neal has, here and second letter was added a postscript couched in the ple. telligence and general career, should allow their following terms:-" You may send a verbal answer names to be responsible for the emission of de. by the bearer; he is perfectly acquainted with the We frequently see complaints in the newspa-tails so sorry and offensive. It appears, from whole affair, having taken the precaution to read this previously to its delivery." Such a postscript pers, that such an editor has neglected to credit Mr. Neal's own statement, that he passed many must have been more effectual than the severest re- such a paragraph, which was written originally perienced much liberality, as his guest; and that months under the roof of Bentham; that he exproaches. for such a paper, by a certain individual, and so he found him 'generally the kindest and most forth. Literary larceny is an ignoble quali- attentive and self-denying of hosts.' In requital, ty, especially where an editor endeavours to he has proclaimed to the world that his entertainer is an atheist, a babyish babbler, a miseraassume the credit to himself of that, which of ble dupe, of the most vulgar personal habits and right, belongs to another. But it betrays a little- the weakest superstitions. ness of mind, a narrow opinion of one's capaciHitherto the pages of this journal have been ties, to be eternally pointing out the importance who seems to have some sense of decorum and occupied almost exclusively with the spirited attached to the authorship of a paragraph degratitude, and who reproaches him with the contributions of foreign magazines, and in many tailing a murder, or some improbable and exag- coarse disclosure of particular blasphemy. It cases, to the exclusion of literary articles of high gerated steam-boat disaster, and in most cases, hurts you,' observes the annotator, it hurts Benmerit, emanating from the minds of Ameri- we have discovered that that those who comcan writers. This course, on the part of the plain loudest and with the most vehemence, are editor, was not pursued, because he deemed na- themselves the most addicted to the very practive productions of merit too insignificant to be tice they condemn. worthy of preservation in the Port Folio, but simply that it was his impression, more novelty there, appended notes of an anonymous friend, tham; it gratifies none but your enemies and his.' To which just remark, Neal replies, that all things have their value as truth,'—and that Bentham, who was ready and willing to be caricatured on the stage by Matthews, would never object to such a fair household portraiture as this.' All the doctrine involved in this answer carries fallacy and danger. EDUCATION.-Throughout the country a party and interest would be imparted to the work, has risen whose principal object is the establish"We regret the more the publication of this from giving the earliest transcript from the pages ment of some national system of education. In trumpery and treachery, since Bentham's chapof foreign journals, than from furnishing his New York, for example, the adherents of this ters, entitled Principles of Legislation, strained selected department with articles that originat- principle are numerous, they are closely con- currency which they have acquired in Europe, and clarified by Dumont, deserve the credit and ed with, and had already been widely dissemi- nected with the Working Men's party, and have though there is, in our opinion, a general or ocnated through American journals. One objec- established a daily paper, [the New York Senti- casional departure from the title, in the ethical tion, however, which he has since discovered to nel,] in the prosecution of their views. This or metaphysical ascent, subtlety, or refinement operate against extracts exclusively, is this:- paper is conducted with much ability, in a gen-able-his commentary insignificant.” of the leading topics. Neal's translation is tolerfor the most part, they are written abroad, and tlemanly and dignified tone; and advocates renecessarily partake much of the character of the publican education, free for all and equal for all, Halleck, the poet, has a volume in press at nation for whose people they are especially in at the expense of all-conducted under the New York, entitled, "Ledyard, or the Minutetended, and on their republication in this coun- guardianship of the state, at the expense of the men." We are glad of this. Halleck has given try lose much of their interest; besides not being state-embracing every branch of useful instruc- several compositions to the world highly credit The Ohio Citizen is the title a new paper, the first number of which has reached us from Wooster, Ohio. It is published by David Sloane, and is managed with considerable tact. We regret our exchange list is already so extensive as not to permit of our extending this courtesy to the Citizen, as well as to several other new papers that have been received of late. SELECTIONS. able to American literature. His productions, querors. Blucher forced the passage with his ded to retard the welcome succour. The great generally, are characterized by an energy of cannon; and so entirely had the defeat of Wa- road to Brussels, from heavy rains, and the inthought, and beauty of diction, far surpassing the discipline of the remnant of Napoleon's was so much cut up, as to materially retard the terloo extinguished the spirit and destroyed cessant passage of artillery, and war equipages, the milk and water performances of several of army, that the wild hurrah of the pursuers, or carriages employed to bring the wounded from his contemporaries. the very blast of a Prussian trumpet, became the field.-Dead horses and abandoned bagthe signal for flight and terror. gage choaked the causeway, and rendered the But, although the French army had ceased efforts of Belgic humanity both slow and diffito exist as such, and now (to use the phrase of cult. Up to the very gates of Brussels, "war's a Prussian officer) exhibited rather the flight worst results" were visible. The struggles of of a scattered horde of barbarians, than the re-expiring nature had enabled some to reach the treat of a disciplined body-never had it, in the city. Many, however, had perished in the atproudest days of its glory, shown greater devo- tempt; and dying on the roadside, covered the tion to its leader, or displayed more desperate causeway with their bodies. Pits, rudely dug, and unyielding bravery than during the long and scarcely moulded over, received the and sanguinary battle of the 18th. The plan corpses, which daily became more offensive of Buonaparte's attack was worthy of his mar- from the heat; and the same sod, at the verge tial renown: it was unsuccessful; but let this of the forest, covered "the horse and his rider." be ascribed to the true cause-the heroic and When such evidence of destruction was apenduring courage of the troops and the man to parent at a distance from the field, what a disWaterloo has been trodden by most of the whom he was opposed. Wellington without play of devastation the narrow theatre of yesBritish writers, from Byron and Scott, down to army, or that army without Wellington, terday's conflict must have presented! Fancy the anonymous and irresponsible manufacturers must have fallen beneath the splendid efforts may conceive it; but description must necesof marvellous incidents. History has been conof Napoleon. sarily be scant and imperfect. On a small surverted into romance, and poetry and prose While a mean attempt has been often made face of two square miles, it was ascertained been enlisted to praise the living, and exult to lower the military character of that great that 50,000 men and horses were lying! The over the fallen dead. The volumes before us, warrior, who is now no more, those who would luxurious crop of ripe grain which had covered however, so far as we may judge from a curlibel Napoleon rob Wellington of half his glory. the field of battle was reduced to a litter, and sory examination, present a series of inoffensive It may be the proud boast of England's hero, beaten into the earth; and the surface trodden and amusing tales, in some of which the events that the subjugator of Europe fell before him, down by the cavalry, and furrowed deeply by of the battle ground are blended with circum- not in the wane of his genius, but in the full cannon-wheels, was strewn with many a relic stances, which, as the man in the play saith, possession of those martial talents which placed of the fight. Helmets and cuirasses, shattered "although they did not, nevertheless they might him foremost in the list of conquerors-lead- fire arms and broken swords; all the variety have happened." There are about forty sto-ing that very army which had overthrown of military ornaments; lancer caps and Highries, all with very taking titles. We select at every power that had hitherto opposed it, now land bonnets, uniforms of every colour, plume random, the following, in relation to the fight perfect in its discipline, flushed with recent and pennon, musical instruments, the appara STORIES OF WATERLOO. at Waterloo. THE FIELD OF BATTLE. -Wandering o'er this bloody field, To book our dead, and then to bury them; To sort our nobles from our common men; For many that success, and confident of approaching victory. tus of artillery, drums, bugles; but, good God! At Genappe, and not, as generally believed, why dwell on the harrowing picture of "a at La Belle Alliance, Wellington and Blucher foughten field?"-each and every ruinous dismet after the battle. The moment and spot play bore a mute testimony to the misery of were fitting for the interview of conquerors. such a battle. To Blucher's fresh troops the task of an unabat- Could the melancholy appearance of a field Lie drown'd and soaked in mercenary blood. ing pursuit was entrusted; and Wellington, at of death be heightened, it would be by witnessShakspeare's Henry V. midnight, returned to Waterloo across the ing the researches of the living amid its desoThe last gleam of fading sunshine fell upon crimson field which that day had consummated lation for the objects of their love. Mothers the rout of Waterloo. The finest army, for its his military glory,-'Twas said that he was and wives and children for days were occupied numbers, that France had ever embattled in a deeply affected, as, "by the pale moonlight," in that mournful duty; and the confusion of the field, was utterly defeated; and the dynasty of he unwillingly surveyed the terrible scene of corpses, friend and foe intermingled as they that proud spirit for whom Europe was too lit- slaughter he passed by, and that he bitterly la- were, often rendered the attempt at recognistle, was over. mented a victory which had been achieved at ing individuals difficult, and in some cases imNight came, but it brought no respite to the the expense of many personal friends, and thou- possible. shattered army of Napoleon; and the moon sands of his gallant soldiery. In many places the dead lay four deep upon rose upon the "broken host," to light the vicWhen the next sun rose, the field of battle each other, marking the spot some British tors to their prey. The British, forgetting their presented a tremendous spectacle of carnage. square had occupied, when exposed for hours fatigue, pressed on the rear of the flying ene- Humanity shuddered at the view, for mortal to the murderous fire of a French battery. Outmy; and the roads, covered with the dead and suffering in all its terrible variety was frightful-side, lancer and cuirassier were scattered thickdying, and obstructed by broken equipages and ly exhibited. The dead lay there in thousands ly on the earth. Madly attempting to force deserted guns, became almost impassable to with them human pain and agony were over; the serried bayonets of the British, they had the fugitives, and hence the slaughter from but with them a multitude of maimed wretches fallen in the bootless essay, by the musketry Waterloo to Genappe was frightful. But, were intermingled, mutilated by wounds, and of the inner files. Farther on you trace the wearied with blood (for the French, throwing tortured by thirst and hunger. A few short spot where the cavalry of France and England away their arms to expedite their flight offer- hours had elapsed, and those who but yesterday had encountered. Chasseur and hussar were ed no resistance,) and exhausted with hunger had careered upon the plain of Waterloo, in intermingled; and the heavy Norman horse of and fatigue, the British pursuit relaxed gradu- the full pride of life and manhood, were stretch- the imperial guard were interspersed with the ally; and at Genappe ceased altogether. The ed upon the earth; and many who had led the gray chargers which had carried Albyn's chiinfantry bivouacked for the night around the way to victory, who with exulting hearts had valry. Here the Highlander and tirailleur lay, farm-houses of Caillon and Belle Alliance, and cheered their colder comrades when they quail- side by side, together; and the heavy dragoon, the light cavalry, some miles further on, halted, ed, were laid upon the field in helpless wretch- with green Erin's" badge upon his helmet, and abandoned the work of death to their fresh-edness. was grappled in death with the Polish lancer. er and more sanguinary allies. Nothing, inOn the summit of the ridge, where the grounds lay cumbered with the dead, and trodden fetlock deep, in mud and gore, by the fre deed, could surpass the desperate and unrelent-Thousands of wounded horses were strewn Nor was war's misery confined to man. ing animosity of the Prussians towards the French. Repose and plunder were sacrificed over this scene of slaughter. Some lay quiet 66 to revenge. The memory of former defeat, in- ly on the ground, cropping the grass within quent rush of rival cavalry, the thick strewn sult, and oppression, now produced a dreadful their reach; some with deep moaning expres- corpses of the imperial guard pointed out the retaliation, and overpowered every feeling of sed their sufferings; while others, maddened spot where the last effort of Napoleon had humanity. The vae victis was pronounced, and been defeated. Here, in column, that favourwith pain, ed corps, on whom his last chance rested, had thousands besides those who perished in the "Yerk'd out their armed heels at their dead mas-been annihilated. The advance of the guard field fell that night beneath the Prussian lance ters, and sabre.—In vain a feeble effort was made Killing them twice." was traceable by a mass of fallen Frenchmen. In the hollow below, the last struggle of France by the French to barricade the streets of Ge- When day came, and it was possible to send had been vainly made. The old guard, when nappe, and interrupt the progress of the con-relief to the wounded, many circumstances ten- the middle battalions had been forced back, at 6 66 tempted to meet the British, and afford time ed into the coach-windows, when he awoke to un- and I saw their efforts, and his struggles when for their disorganized companions to rally. thought-of horrors; for the first object which caught they held him under water." Here the British left, which had converged his sight was Bruin's head, with muzzled mouth but But, Sire," resumed the conscientious upon the French centre, had come up; and glaring eyes, within three feet of his own boiled gooseberry goggles. My God!' he exclaimed, Marquis, "our criminal laws require two withere the bayonet had closed the contest. the deaf gentleman in the nice varm travelling coat nesses, and your Majesty, all powerful as you It was at the first light of morn that a soli-is a real live bear!-Help! murder! coach! stop!' are, can offer only the testimony of one." "Sir," tary party were employed in the place we have roused the slumbering guard. Let me out!' shout- replied the king coolly, "I authorize you to exdescribed, examining the dead who there layed Snip and out he went; and the poet and his pet press in your sentence, that you have heard thickly. They were were left in full possession of the interior, while the no plunderers: one, tailor measured the seat of the box for the rest of the the concurring evidence of the King of France, wrapped in a cloak, directed the researches of journey. The Way Bill is still extant, though not and the King of Navarre." the rest, who seemed acting under the stran-written in choice Italian,' as Hamlet says, but Ladger's control, and from their dress appeared to lane English; and the story is known, and still told, be Belgian peasants. Suddenly, the muffled by many an Old Whip on the northern road. person uttered a wild cry, and rushing over a pile of corpses, hurried to a spot where a sol our friend Moore has omitted some of the most Finding that this twofold character did not satisfy the Judge, his Majesty said to the Marquis, "King Louis IX., my grandfather, sometimes administered justice in person, at the Bois de Vincennes: I will now follow his august example, and administer justice at Saint Germain." dier was seated beside a fallen officer. Feeble THE KING AND THE TWO MURDERERS. as his own strength was, he had exerted it to The following interesting circumstance is protect the wounded man. His musket was detailed in a letter from Madame de Maintenen He ordered the throne-room to be immeplaced beside him for defence, and his own suf- to Madame de Montespan: diately prepared. Twenty of the principal citiferings seemed forgotten in his solicitude for You know, Madame, how much his Majesty zens of the town were summoned to the castle, likes Louis XIII's Belvedere, and how fond he and seats were assigned to them beside the the person he was watching. The noise occasioned by the hasty approach of the muffled is of amusing himself with the telescope of that Lords and Ladies. The King, adorned with his stranger roused the wounded officer; he fee-Monarch, which is one of the best that had been orders, ascended the throne, and the two crimibly raised his head, "It is herself!" he faintly made at the time.-The King, as if by inspi-nals were arraigned. muttered; and the next moment sank into the ration, the other day directed the telescope to Their contradictions, embarrassment, and imarms of Lucy Davidson! that distant point where the Seine, forming an elbow, seems to embrace the extremity of the probable assertions rendered their guilt evident Wood of Chaton. His Majesty, whose obser- ceased was their brother, and he had just into the whole assembly. The unfortunate deLord Byron and his Pet Bear. We perceive that vation nothing escapes, saw two young men herited some property from their mother, whose whimsical of Lord Byron's juvenile pranks; amongst bathing in the river, and apparently teaching a son he was by a second marriage. The them, one which we remember was much laughed third, a lad about fourteen or fifteen, to swim. wretches had been instigated to the crime at, and became a stock story with the "knights of They seemed to treat the lad rather roughly, either by revenge or covetousness. The King the whip," and drew many a half-crown from "lots and he having escaped from them, returned to ordered them to be bound hand and foot, and of gemmen vot likes to ride on coachee's left." It the bank of the river and began to dress himself. thrown into the river, at the same place where is well known that the young poet had a favourite bear they were remarkably partial to each other. They enticed him back again, but it was eviOne of his Lordship's great delights was englove, dent that he did not like the usage he received, and spar at Ursa, till the poet became tired and Ur- and that he would willingly have dispensed sa irritated; for though generally a tame and docile with their lessons. He escaped from them quadruped, he was muzzled for fear of accidents. once more, but they ran after him, and having to implore pardon. The King stopped, thankHis Lordship was suddenly called down to Notting-dragged him into the river, they forcibly held hamshire. He had taken places for "two gentlemen" in a northern mail, in the names of Byron and him under the water until he was drowned. arrived in Lombard street in a hackney coach a lit- they anxiously looked round them to ascertain tle before eight. The off-door of the mail, at his whether they had been seen by any one from Lordship's demand, was opened. Byron placed his the banks of the river, or the high hill of St. own travelling cap on Bruin's head and pushed him into the "vehicle of letters," followed, and imme-Germain. Believing that they had safely esdiately made him squat on the seat, looking as "de-caped observation, they dressed themselves mure as a Quaker in a brown Benjamin." They oc- and walked along the side of the river in the cupied the whole of the back; and it so happened direction of the castle. The king speedily that the two B.'s (Byron and Bruin) were the only mounted his horse, and accompanied by five or passengers who started from the Post-office. At Isl-six musqueteers, set off to meet the murderers. ington they took in a third, a retired Cit.: he was a He soon came up to them. "Gentlemen," quidnunc! a Cockney! and a tailor! Old Snip's V's Bruin. Twas a dark November night-the friends When they had consummated their crime, they had sacrificed their young brother Abel. When they saw his Majesty descend from the throne they threw themselves at his feet, and, confessing their odious crime, presumed ed God for the confession by which they had disburthened their consciences, and remitted that part of the sentence which related to the confiscation of their property. They were executed before sunset on the same day on which the murder was perpetrated. Next day, that is to say, yesterday, the three bodies, united by a sort of fatality, were picked willows which border the Seine beyond Poissy. up two leagues from St. Germain, under some Orders were immediately given for their separate burial. The youngest was brought to St. Germain, where his Majesty directed that he should be interred with the respect due to his innocence and his unhappy lot. RESOURCES OF THE BLIND. Perhaps the most singular instance on re and W's in his short dialogue with the door-open- said he, "where is your companion? There ing guard was quan. suff. for Byron-a pleasant were three of you when you passed this way companion for an educated peer, young, proud, and before." This address, delivered in such a tone splenetic! The bear's instinct pleased, but the Cock-of confidence, somewhat staggered them. ney's reason was emetical. Not a sound was heard However, they soon recovered their self-poswithin till ascending Highgate-hill. Alas! what is sciatica or gout compared to the infliction of silence session, and replied that their companion wanton an old garrulous tailor? Snip took advantage of ed to learn to swim, and that they had left him cord of a blind person triumphing over those difthe hill-hemmed thrice, and broke silence with further up the river, near the angle of the fo- ficulties of his situation, which are apparently "Vell, sir; a bit of nice noose in this here mornin's rest; and they pointed to the spot where the most insuperable, is afforded in John Metcalf, paper-vot d'ye think of them goings on of that there clothes of the murdered youth were still lying or, as he was commonly called, Blind Jack, a cowardly rascal Boneypart?" A pretended snore, ་ loud and deep, was his Lordship's only reply to on the sand. On receiving this answer the well known character, who died only a few the Cockney quidnunc's attack on the great sol- King immediately ordered their hands to be years ago. This person was a native of Mandier!' Snip was dead beat by the snore he turned tied. They were conducted to the old castle, chester, or the neighbourhood;—and Mr. Bew with disgust from his supposed sleeping opponent, where they were confined separately. His has given an account of him. After telling us and cast a longing eye towards the quiet gentleman Majesty, whose indignation was highly excited, that he became blind at a very early age, so in the fur cap in t'other corner, and re-opened his vomitory of vociferation' with Hem! a nice bit summoned the Grand Provost, and detailed to as to be entirely ignorant of light and its variof road this here, sir, jest to Vetstun.-(no answer!) him the facts of which he had been an eye wit-ous effects, the narrative proceeds as follows -He's a deaf 'un, perhaps;' and in a louder key he ness, at the same time ordering that the pri- "This man passed the younger part of his re-commenced- A very dark cold night this here, soners should be immediately put upon their life as a wagoner, and occasionally as a guide sir!' Like Brutus over Caesar's body, Snip paused trial. The Marquis, who is always excessive-in intricate roads during the night, or when for a reply, while the embryo peer, to smother aly scrupulous, begged the King to consider the tracks were covered with snow. Strange almost alarmed his quiescent friend Bruin. The tai-that things seen from so great a distance, and as this may appear to those who can see, the lor eased off from his suoring Lordship towards the through the medium of a telescope, might pos- employment he has since undertaken is still supposed deaf gentleman, and, bent on conversation, sibly appear very different from what they ac- more extraordinary: it is one of the last to which was determined to have an answer; and, in defiance tually were; that, perhaps, instead of forcibly we could suppose a blind man would ever turn of Chesterfield, sought to seize a breast-button, but holding their companion under water, the two his attention. His present occupation is that encountered nothing but fur. Ah! sir,' bawled the brothers had been exerting their efforts to save of projector and surveyor of highways in diffi tailor, this here's a werry nice varm travelling coat cult and mountainous parts. With the assis laugh, was obliged to issue a tremendous snore that of your'n.' Receiving no reply but a growl and a him. snore, Snip, in despair, gave his tongue a holiday- "No, Sir, no," replied his Majesty, "I saw tance only of a long staff, I have several times and slept." Aurora's early beams had already peep- them drag him into the river, against his will; met this man traversing the roads, ascending |