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 same corner, there may be quarrelling for the pated in consequence of the war which he has a glass of rare Falnerian was drank to the healths 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. of the destruction of Pharaoh and all his host. Spirit of Contemporary Prints. FOREIGN SKETCHES. Montmorency, Rue St. Marc, an establishment re 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 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."-pair must find it exceedingly difficult to be It was dark and gloomy, with nothing but a lamp Boston Commentator. gratified. But if the happy couple are endowsuspended here and there in the middle of the street, ed with different tastes, so that the husband to give one an idea of one of the most splendid cities 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 sentenced to hard labour for several years in Phila- all will be right. The husband may sit snug we seemed to be driven along through narrow streets, 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; 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, But if we were allowed to peep behind the 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 style to which we had been accustomed. We were long been confined, had obtained release from the pair should both happen to prefer the right or cells. The reply was, that, "he promised to behave the left side of the bed, instead of pleasant sadly puzzled to know why there was such a dispar-well, and that he had been put upon his honour." dreams, the night might be spent in most unity of size between the coffee-pot and cream-pitcher; Would you trust mine?" he rejoined. the latter absolutely looked the former into insignipleasant altercations. As thus: was said, if he would pledge it. He did so, was reficance; it was not crockery ware, earthen ware, leased, went cheerfully to work, behaved with proor britannia ware, but a simple tin vessel with a long priety' during the remainder of his time, and has nose turned up, looking for all the world like a repository for hot coffee. never returned.-Sat. Bulletin. SIMILARITY OF TASTES. "Yes," OLD SONG. of My dear, you know I prefer the right side the bed." "And, my dear, you know I prefer the right side of the bed." My dear! Don't call me dear, without yon can use me better, I beg on ye." "O, very well, my dear, I did'nt mean any thing by it." 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 "That's the way you always treat me, so it sojourned in Paris. It was here, at a dinner party, is, you barbarous man. I'll break my heart." we had the pleasure of meeting and becoming acquainted with our unknown travelling companion in It is the prevailing opinion, that the man and "But I'm determined you shant break mine the Brighton steam packet, and from whom, by the woman, in order to be happy in married life, and so if you please, I'll go to sleep." by, we parted with the conviction that he was some should possess the same or similar tastes. But Sleep may possibly visit the eyes of the fond 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 reasoning to decide. Apart from the sublime and all, because they happen to possess a taste recollections of other days. 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 what part would you prefer?" "The side bone, to the wise is sufficient and that if they will elegant and accomplished women in Paris, entered 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. Constelhostess 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 sudboth brown and white meats in the same fowl, denly a door opened. Mr. Washington Irving was 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 for two, the husband and wife may sip their scribes her figure' as that of a hatter's block on a nouncing her arrival in that place. The editor dewe were at that moment. We had been previously 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. She says, she is a 'people's woman,' (which, we seen on board the steamer, puzzled us in the exBy too great a similarity of tastes, some of suppose, means a woman for the people's money,) treme. The short pepper and salt coat, was exchanged for a beautiful brown, and a plain vest, for the most valuable gifts of fortune may be turn- and that she alone has preserved them from being 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 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 intellec the 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 Bost. Trav. Gullibility. The most extraordinary instance, dition to the Rocky Mountains, with all its pe- power of mind calculated to enhance our na perhaps, 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 education— honest 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 a laugh, but in what country under heavens could of the foreign booksellers. such a proposal have been taken in earnest? Long 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 fallaa quart bottle, but to no purpose; however, to con LITERARY. NEAL'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 Bentham and of Dumont. The account of the translator has prefixed a biographical notice of but withal superlatively inquisitive. Having one stand upon our own strength, and develope our English philosopher occupies, perhaps, one hunday 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, insecond letter was added a postscript couched in the ple. telligence and general career, should allow their following terms: You may send a verbal answer by the bearer; he is perfectly acquainted with the names to be responsible for the emission of dewhole affair, having taken the precaution to read We frequently see complaints in the newspa-tails so sorry and offensive. It appears, from 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 months under the roof of Bentham; that he exproaches. perienced much liberality, as his guest; and that 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 enterassume the credit to himself of that, which of tainer is an atheist, a babyish babbler, a miserable 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 capaci- "To his own text, Mr. Neal has, here and Hitherto the pages of this journal have been ties, to be eternally pointing out the importance there, appended notes of an anonymous friend, who seems to have some sense of decorum and occupied almost exclusively with the spirited attached to the authorship of a paragraph decontributions of foreign magazines, and in many tailing a murder, or some improbable and exag- coarse disclosure of particular blasphemy. It gratitude, and who reproaches him with the 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 LITERARY PORT FOLIO. AMERICAN LITERATURE. tham; it gratifies none but your enemies and his." "We regret the more the publication of this trumpery and treachery, since Bentham's chapters, entitled Principles of Legislation, strained and clarified by Dumont, deserve the credit and simply that it was his impression, more novelty EDUCATION.-Throughout the country a party and interest would be imparted to the work, has risen whose principal object is the establishfrom giving the earliest transcript from the pages ment of some national system of education. In of foreign journals, than from furnishing his New York, for example, the adherents of this selected department with articles that originat- principle are numerous, they are closely con- currency which they have acquired in Europe, 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 1 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. STORIES OF WATERLOO. 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 that 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 con- of 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 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 cur- libel 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 apparasuccess, 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. over the fallen dead. The volumes before us, 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 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 recognis tle, was over. mented a victory which had been achieved at ing individuals difficult, and in some cases imthe expense of many personal friends, and thou- possible. sands of his gallant soldiery. Night came, but it brought no respite to the shattered army of Napoleon; and the moon 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. er and more sanguinary allies. Nothing, indeed, could surpass the desperate and unrelentNor was war's misery confined to man. Thousands of wounded horses were strewn ing animosity of the Prussians towards the French. Repose and plunder were sacrificed over this scene of slaughter. Some lay quietto 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 with pain, been defeated. Here, in column, that favoured 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 was traceable by a mass of fallen Frenchmen. and sabre. In vain a feeble effort was made Killing them twice." In the hollow below, the last struggle of France ters, was grappled in death with the Polish lancer. On the summit of the ridge, where the grounds lay cumbered with the dead, and trodden fetlock deep, in mud and gore, by the fre 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 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 KING AND THE TWO MURDERERS. the Bois de Vincennes: I will now follow his august example, and administer justice at Saint Germain." The following interesting circumstance is detailed in a letter from Madame de Maintenen to Madame de Montespan: He ordered the throne-room to be immediately prepared. Twenty of the principal citiand seats were assigned to them beside the zens of the town were summoned to the castle, Lords and Ladies. The King, adorned with his 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 were left in full possession of the interior, while the thickly. They were 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 soldier was seated beside a fallen officer. Feeble as his own strength was, he had exerted it to protect the wounded man. His musket was placed beside him for defence, and his own sufferings seemed forgotten in his solicitude for You know, Madame, how much his Majesty likes Louis XIII's Belvedere, and how fond he the person he was watching. The noise occasioned by the hasty approach of the muffled is of amusing himself with the telescope of that 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 imthat distant point where the Seine, forming an arms of Lucy Davidson! 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 whers 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 evithey had sacrificed their young brother Abel. One 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 the throne they threw themselves at his feet, When they saw his Majesty descend from 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 and, confessing their odious crime, presumed His Lordship was suddenly called down to Notting-dragged him into the river, they forcibly held to implore pardon. hamshire. He had taken places for "two gentle-him under the water until he was drowned. The King stopped, thanked God for the confession by which they had men" in a northern mail, in the names of Byron and Bruin. "Twas a dark November night-the friends When they had consummated their crime, that part of the sentence which related to the disburthened their consciences, and remitted 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 confiscation of their property. 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 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. quidnunc! a Cockney! and a tailor! Old Snip's V's our friend Moore has omitted some of the most into the "vehicle of letters," followed, and imme They were executed before sunset on the Next day, that is to say, yesterday, the three same day on which the murder was perpetrated. 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 se parate burial. The youngest was brought to St. Germain, where his Majesty directed that ing guard was quan. suff. for Byron-a pleasant were three of you when you passed this way his innocence and his unhappy lot. and W's in his short dialogue with the door-open- said he, "where is your companion? There he should be interred with the respect due to 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 "Gentlemen," RESOURCES OF THE BLIND. Perhaps the most singular instance on re 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 ally scrupulous, begged the King to consider the tracks were covered with snow. Strange laugh, was obliged to issue a tremendous snore that 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 snoring 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 of your'n.' Receiving no reply but a growl and a him. anore, 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 precipices, exploring valleys, and investigating rather take chance in the Bog of Allen, for he ran over every circumstance, even the mitheir several extents, forms, and situations, so that matter. nutest which had occurred since he entered the as to answer his designs, and the estimates he A severe storm, however, compelled a tra- inn; and now that his attention was excited, it makes are done in a method peculiar to himself, veller to halt there one evening, although he did strike him that, after making every allowand which he cannot well convey the meaning had originally intended to get further on his ance for boorishness, and rusticity, and sullenof to others. His abilities in this respect are journey, before he put up for the night. Not ness of temper, there was more of the gaoler nevertheless so great, that he finds constant that he had any suspicion of the place; on the than the innkeeper in the bearing and deportemployment. Most of the roads over the Peak contrary, he thought it rather a comfortable, ment of the silent host; he remembered, too, in Derbyshire have been altered by his direc-quiet-looking concern; and turning from the how heavily the miserable looking, haggard tions, particularly those in the vicinity of Bux-lowering inhospitable sky, and wishing the piti-wife had sighed, while she looked at his own ton; and he is at this time constructing a new less driving sleet good night, he rode into the burly figure as he stood by the fire, as though one betwixt Winslow and Congleton, with a inn-yard, saying in his own mind, 'I may go she sorrowed over a victim whom she could view to open a communication to the great further and fare worse.' Now, I am of a very not save; and, lastly, and above all, he ponderLondon road, without being obliged to pass different opinion. ed on the ominous smile with which the innover the mountains." Mr. Bew adds in a note, It was late in the evening, and late in the keeper received his directions to be awakened "Since this paper was written, and had the ho-year-no matter about dates, I am not particu- early in the morning. nour of being delivered to the society, I have lar. So the traveller (who, being a merciful Meanwhile the indefatigable dog was busied met this blind projector of the roads, who man, was merciful to his beast,) having seen in pulling off the bed clothes as well as his was alone as usual; and amongst other con- his horse fed and carefully laid up for the night, strength would permit; and when his master versation, I made some inquiries concerning thought it high time to look after himself, as to went to his assistance, what was his horror at this new road. It was really astonishing to both his outward and inward man. Accord-seeing, beneath clean sheets and well arranged hear with what accuracy he described the ingly, throwing his saddle-bags over his arm, blankets, a bed and mattress literally dyed with courses and the nature of the different soils he walked into the inn-kitchen, in those days dark-red stains of blood! Though a man of through which it was conducted. Having the most comfortable winter apartment in the peaceful habits, he knew as little of fear as most mentioned to him a boggy piece of ground it house, to thaw himself at the huge fire, and people, and the exigency of the moment roused passed through, he observed, that that was give the customary mandates concerning sup- every energy of his mind; he deliberately lockthe only place he had doubts concerning; and per and bed-to say nothing of a bottle of good ed the door, examined the walls to see if there that he was apprehensive they had, contrary old wine, then to be found in every inn in Ire- was any secret entrance, looked to the priming to his directions, been too sparing of their ma- land. This feat accomplished, away he stalk-of his pistols, and then stood prepared to abide terials.' ed to his own apartment-jack-boots, silver- by whatever might come, and to sell his life as headed riding-whip, cloak and all-followed dearly as he could. RED GAP INN. *:. close by a terrier dog, who had been lying at The dog watched him intently until his preI remember well how strongly my boyish kept snuffing and smelling at his heels every assured himself that his movements were obthe kitchen fire when he came in, but who now parations were completed; and then, having feelings were excited at reading the narrative of Raymond's escape from the murderous inn-step of the way up stairs. served by his master, he jumped once more on When he had reached his room, and had dis-the fatal bed; then, after lying down for an inkeepers, in Lewis's romance of" The Monk." His version of the story has nearly faded from the dog at once leaped upon him with a cry a person composing himself to sleep, he sudencumbered himself of his heavy riding gear, stant, as if in imitation of the usual posture of my memory, but the circumstances upon which he founded it are said to have occurred in Ire-favourite whom he had lost in Dublin a year hastily to the floor; and stood with eyes fixed of joy; and he immediately recognised an old denly changed his mind, as it were, sprang land, and, wild and improbable as they are, you or two before; wondering, at the same time, and ears erect, in an attitude of most intense have them, verbatim, as they are related upon how he had got so far into the country, and attention, watching the bed itself, and nothing the spot; and, moreover, I am not to blame if why he had not known him before. When the else. The traveller, in the mean time, never you think fit to believe them, inasmuch as 1 landlord entered the room with supper, the tra- stirred from the spot, though his eyes naturalgive up my authority-and Lord Lyndburst veller claimed his dog, and expressed his de-ly followed those of the dog; and for a time himself could ask no more. My informant's termination to bring him on with him to Cork, every thing was as still as the grave; and not a name is Catharine Flynn. whither he was bound. The host made not the stir nor a breath broke the stillness of the room, had bought him from a Dublin carrier, who, he last a slight rustling sound was heard in the slightest objection, merely observing, that he or interrupted the silence of the mute pair. At supposed, had found him in the streets. That direction of the bed; the dog, with ears cocked lord for the night, with directions to cause him ter, as if to make sure that he was attentive; point settled, the traveller dismissed his land- and tail slightly moving, looked up at his masto be called betimes in the morning: the man and in an instant the bed was seen descending smiled darkly, and withdrew. Some seventy or eighty years ago, it was a swiftly and stealthily through the yawning The traveller made himself as comfortable floor, while a strong light flashed upwards into substantial-looking inn; the proprietor was a as he could, with the aid of a good supper and the room. Not a second was to be lost. The farmer, as well as an inn-keeper, and although a cheerful fire, not forgetting his lost-and-found traveller dashed open the window, and leaped no particular or satisfactory reason could be assigned for it, beyond vague and uncertain the wine ran low, and that a certain disposition nion. companion, until, after some time, finding that into the yard, followed by his faithful comparumours, he was by no means a favourite with to trace castles and abbeys in the glowing re- himself any trouble on the score of a saddle, Another moment, and without giving his neighbours. He had little, indeed, of the Boniface about him; dark, sullen, and down-him-that is to say, in plain English, catching ter as any in Leinster, and scouring away for cesses of the burning turf, was creeping over he was on the back of his horse, as fast a hunlooking, he never appeared, even to a guest, himself nodding over the fire-he thought it life and death on the road to Kilcullen, followunless when specially called for, much less to best to transfer his somnolency to a well-cur-ed by a train as pitiless as that which hurried a thirsty brother farmer or labourer, pass-tained bed that stood invitingly in a recess of from Kirk Alloway after poor Tam O'Shanter. ing his heavy, old-fashioned door, to ask the room. You may be sure he spared neither whip, As you go from Kilcullen Bridge to Carlow, about three miles on your road, there stands, and barely stands, a ruined house. The situation has nothing particularly striking about it, the country is open and thinly cultivated, and a faint outline of hills is visible in the distance. him to taste his home-brewed ale or usque baugh; yet the man was well to pass in the As he proceeded to undress, the anxiety and spur, nor horseflesh, and, thanks to Providence world, and with the aid of three or four hulk- agitation of his dog attracted his attention, and and a good steed, he reached Kilcullen in safeing sons, and a heart-broken drudge of a wife, at last fairly aroused him, sleepy as he was, ty. The authorities secured the villanous host managed his farm and his inn, so as to pay his though he could in no way account for it. The and his accomplice sons, and the infuriated way at fair and market, and "hold his own," the bed, and as he laid aside each article of crets to the flames. animal ran backward and forward from him to peasantry gave the fatal inn and its bloody se as the saying is, in the country. For all that, there were those who did not stick to say that clothing, fetched it to him again, with the There is the story; and if it be true, I can more travellers went to his inn in the night most intelligent and beseeching gestures, and only say that I wish I knew where I could get than ever left it in the morning; and one or to discover, if possible, what he wanted and love or money. when, to satisfy the poor creature, as well as one of the breed of the traveller's terrier, for two who remembered him in his early days, before he had learned to mask the evil traits of meant, he resumed some portion of his dress, his character by sullenness and reserve, would nothing could equal his joy. Strange suspinot have taken the broad lands of the Geral- cions began to flash across the traveller's mind; dines of Leinster to pass a night in the best Timbuctoo. The King of Timbuctoo has 500 or 600 horses. He frequently hunts the antelope, wild ass, ostrich, and an animal which appears to be the In most parts of Ireland, peat, or, as we call it, wild cow of Africa. The wild ass is very fleet, and when closely pursued kicks back the earth and the bed-room in the house; no, no-they would turf, is used for fuel. |