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wife till the death of the Queen in her prison, at the age of sixty, on the 2d of November, 1726.

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"It is very extraordinary, and little to the credit of the times, that not the slightest notice was ever taken of the unhappy Sophia by the English Parliament or people, after the arrival of her husband. If she was guilty, a legal divorce ought to have been called for, upon public grounds; and if she was not, the honour of the nation, and the cause of humanity, required her liberation, and an establishment in circumstances suited to her high birth and royal station. Instead of this, though the mother to the heir apparent, and actually Queen of England, she was suffered to linger out her days in a dungeon, while the mistress of her husband shone as a peeress of the first rank at the English court. "One person alone ventured to incur the royal displeasure, by advocating the cause of the afflicted and much-injured Sophia Dorothea of Zell. This was the prince, her son who was so fully convinced of his mother's innocence, (and he was not ignorant of all that had been alleged against her,) that on many occasions he reproached his father for his injustice towards her, and openly declared his intention of bringing her to England, and acknowledging her as Queen Dowager, in the event of his succeeding to the crown while she was living.

of a wife and a mother. On the 30th October, 1688, the Princess gave her husband a son, who was named George; and four years afterwards she brought him a daughter, named Sophia Dorothea, who became the wife of Frederick William of Prussia, and mother of Frederick the Great. To account for the distance of time between the births of these children, it must be observed that Prince George Lewis, soon after his marriage, entered again upon the military career in Hungary, where he commanded the Brunswick troops in the imperial service, and soon after took Neuhäusel, and raised the siege of Gran. In 1686, he was at the taking of Buda; in 1689, he was at the capture of Mayence; and the next year he commanded an army of eleven thousand men in the Spanish Netherlands, where, in 1693, he bore a distinguished part in the sanguinary battle of Neerwinden. Soon after this, the prince returned to Hanover; but within a few months his temper was observed to be much altered, and he either looked upon his wife with an eye of jealousy, or his own affections were estranged from her, and transferred to some other object. "A young German count, named Philip Christopher Königsmark, who held the commission of colonel in the Swedish service, happened to be then at Hanover, and upon him the suspicions of the prince fell, but whether from secret information, or any particular observations of his "This virtuous resolution he was only prevented fromTM own, has never been determined. His highness, however, carrying into execution by the death of his unhappy mois said to have entered the bedchamber of Sophia Dorothea ther, six months before that of her husband. The prince. so suddenly, that Königsmark, in his haste to escape, left made several attempts to get access to his imprisoned pahis hat behind him, which confirmed all that had been sur-rent; but all his efforts to accomplish his praiseworthy obmised of an improper intercourse between him and the ject proved unavailing, by the vigilance of the guards. princess, and a separation immediately took place. Another account of a darker hue, which obtained currency, was, that the Prince of Hanover actually found Königsmark in the room, and in his fury ran him through the body. "Though this last story appears to be incorrect in the principal points, certain it is, that the princess was arrested, and sent off to the castle of Ahlen, where she lingered out a miserable life of two-and-thirty years in close confinement, without a trial, or being allowed to see any of her family. "The fate of the colonel was never exactly known, any farther than that a report of his having died at Hanover, in the month of August, 1694, was transmitted to his friends, who were too much accustomed to such calamities in their family, to make any stir about the affair. That the count came to a violent end, seems to be put beyond all doubt by the manner in which he disappeared; and it is remarkable, that some years ago, when, the castle of Zell underwent repair, the skeleton of a man was found beneath one of the floors, which revived the name and story of the unfortunate Königsmark.

"He was so sensibly affected upon this point, that he had the picture of Sophia Dorothea painted in her royal robes, long before he came to the crown; and this portrait he caused to be so placed as to attract the notice of all his visitors, which gave such offence to the King, that he not only declined going himself to see the prince and princess;'> but forbade his courtiers from showing them that respect, It was also owing to this sentiment of filial regard, that George II., when in a passion, always took off his hat, and kicked it about the floor, without considering the place or the company. Thus it is that early impressions once fixed in the mind, create habits; and circumstances, by an asso ciation of ideas with events long since passed away, excite either disagreeable or pleasing emotions. In allusion to this remarkable history, and the effect it had on the mind of the King, Dr Hoadly, the physician, wrote his comedy of The Suspicious Husband; the plot of which turns upon an incident similar to that which proved so disastrous? to the Princess of Hanover. With this play, George II., who had little taste for the drama, was much delighted."

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"With regard to Sophia Dorothea, her connexions prevented any severer measures from being pursued against her A very plentiful supply of anecdotes, and gossip conthan perpetual confinement; to justify which, a decree was cerning all the four Georges, is given, which will serve published at Hanover, asserting that circumstances had to make the book popular among a certain class of read-s been produced in evidence before the consistory, of such a ers. As the extract we have already made is long, we nature as warranted the belief that she had been unfaithful shall limit ourselves to one more, in which a rather intes to her illustrious husband. The strongest of these circum-resting question is discussed as to the extent of military stances, however, was that of the hat which the prince command that should be allowed to the heir apparent of found in the room; and the agitation which the discovery the British throne: naturally produced in her highness was at once interpreted into a demonstration of conscious guilt. To those who have been accustomed to the consideration of criminal charges, and the minute investigation of evidence, this case will appear more like an occurrence of an iron age, when feudal oppression and military despotism prevailed, than an event of the seventeenth century, in a country boasting of its jurisprudence. baby! * all · 197338

That no proof of adultery was ever brought forward, is certain; and, for the want of it, the parties could not be legally divorced, which they certainly would have been, had evidence existed of the criminality of the princess. Some there were, even in Hanover, who not only considered Sophia Dorothea as perfectly innocent of what she was accused of, but as being actually made a victim to the prostituted affections of her husband. This opinion may now be adopted, without any hazard of refutation, or of giving of fence; for neither before the accession of the Elector of Hanover to the British throne, nor afterwards, when such a proceeding became especially necessary, as a matter affecting the succession, was the conduct of the Duchess brought, as it ought to have been, under judicial investigation. Had Sophia Dorothea been really guilty of an adulterous intercourse with Königsmark, or any other person, the public interest, required a trial, but nothing of the kind ever took place, and the parties remained in the relation of man and

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GEORGE HIL AND GEORGE IV. ON THE SUBJECT OF THE FRENCH INVASION. OH, Napoleon, indicating a design of invading England, the "In the same year, 1803, the military preparations of spirit of the people was roused in an extraordinary degree, which was encouraged by the proceedings in Parliament. Mr Sheridan, in the House of Commons, and Earl Moira, in the Lords, described in glowing colours the power and ambition of Bonaparte; and as they were known to be the particular friends of the Prince of Wales, it was reason ably believed that their sentiments did not materially differ from those of his Royal Highness himself. As soon as hostilities were actually renewed, volunteer associations were formed with incredible rapidity throughout the country; some of the Ministers enrolled themselves as privates:" the Duke of Clarence commanded a corps near Bushy, his speech to which, on its first assembling, deserves to be recorded for its manly and patriotic simplicity: My friends and neighbours,' said the Duke, wherever our duty calls us, I will go with you, fight in your ranks, and never return without you. On the 4th of December, the Prince of Wales presented a pair of colours to this corps, on which occasion he delivered a very animated address.

Prince of Wales was extremely desirous of having a more "Participating in the patriotic ardour of the nation, the

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distinguished station allotted to him than that of Colonel of dragoons, and a most interesting correspondence on the subject took place between himself, Mr Addington, the Duke of York, and his Majesty. The Prince first addressed a letter to Mr Addington, on the 18th of July, 1803: In this he says, I am aware I do not possess the experience of actual warfare; at the same time, I cannot regard myself as totally unqualified or deficient in military science, since I have long made the service my particular study.' Mr Addington (Lord Sidmouth) did not even answer this letter, and on the 26th July, the Prince again wrote to him, saying, 'A week has now elapsed since the Prince of Wales transmitted to Mr Addington a letter on a subject of the highest importance. Though he cannot anticipate a refusal to so reasonable a demand, he must still express some surprise that a communication of such a nature should have remained so long unanswered. When the Prince of Wales desired to be placed in a situation which might enable him to show to the people of England an example of zeal, fidelity, and devotion to his Sovereign, he naturally thought he was only fulfilling his appropriate duty, as the first subject of the realm, in which, as it has pleased Providence to cause him to be born, so he is determined to maintain himself by all those honourable exertions which the exigencies of these critical times peculiarly demand.'

"The next day, Mr Addington returned a brief reply, appreciating the Prince's motives, and referring to answers which the King had given to similar applications made by the Prince in former years. The Prince insisted that his letter of the 26th of July should be laid before the King; and, on the 1st of August, Mr Addington wrote a brief contemptuous letter to the Prince, saying, 'that the King's opinion being fixed, his Majesty desired that no farther mention should be made to him upon the subject.'

"On the 6th of August, the Prince addressed a long and very beautiful letter to the King, of which the following is an extract:

"My dear Son,-Though I applaud your zeal and spirit, in which, I trust, no one can suppose any of my family wanting, yet, considering the repeated declarations I' have made of my determination, on your former applications to the same purpose, I had flattered myself to have heard. no farther on the subject. Should the implacable enemy succeed so far as to land, you will have an opportunity of showing your zeal at the head of your regiment. It will be the duty of every man to stand forward on such an occasion, and I shall certainly think it mine to set an example, in defence of every thing that is dear to me and to my people.

father,
"I ever remain, my dear Son, your most affectionate
GEORGE R.'

ful, admirable, and, it may be said, unanswerable reply to
"On the 23d of August, the Prince sent a most beauti-,
this letter, which seems to have closed the correspondence
with the King. On the 2d of October, he wrote to the
looked in the very extensive military promotions which had
Duke of York, complaining that he had been wholly over-
appeared in the preceding day's Gazette. The Duke re-
plied at great length, merely urging the King's unalterable
his profession, or receive any higher rank than that of co-
resolution, that the heir-apparent should not make the army

lonel."

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Ir is quite petrifying the number of clever novel-wriI ask to be allowed to display the best energies of my ters, we have just now. When in town, one cannot turn character, to shed the last drop of my blood, in support of a corner without coming plump upon a man (or woman) your Majesty's person, crown, and dignity; for this is not who can sit you down at a moment's warning, and, a war for empire, glory, or dominion, but for existence. In this contest the lowest and humblest of your Majesty's Writing at an average forty pages a-day, send a novel to subjects have been called on: it would, therefore, little be the press in three weeks, spiritedly conceived, expressed come me, who am the first, and who stand at the very foot- in tolerable English, with a story sufficiently interesting stool of the throne, to remain a tame, an idle, and a lifeless to prevent one from throwing the book away before it is spectator of the mischief's that threaten us, unconscious finished, and a pretty considerable sprinkling of jokes, of the dangers which surround us, and indifferent to the sentiments, and reflections. Our only objection to these consequences which may follow. Hanover is lost; Eng-works is, that, like the successive Numbers of the New land is menaced with invasion; Ireland is in rebellion; Monthly Magazine, they are so excessively like each other, Europe is at the foot of France. At such a moment, the Prince of Wales, yielding to none of your servants in zeal we never can tell which is which. At the hot season of and devotion,-to none of your subjects in duty,-to none the year we mean about Christmas, and call it so figuraof your children in tenderness and affection-presumes to tively, from the incessant noise of novels exploding about approach you, and again to repeat those offers which he has one's ears-our waking dreams are positively more dreadalready made through your Majesty's ministers. A feel- ful than the worst nightmare. For four weeks we reing of honest ambition, a sense of what I owe to myself and view, and of course read, for we are very conscientious, my family, and above all, the fear of sinking in the estimation of that gallant army which may be the support of your keep floating about in our memory--nantes in gurgite vasto not fewer than six novels per week. Their incidents Majesty's crown, and my best hope hereafter, command me to persevere, and to assure your Majesty, with all hu- -as disjointedly scattered as the wrecks of the Trojan mility and respect, that, conscious of the justice of my fleet; and the fever-excitement of our over-tasked brain claim, no human power can ever induce me to relinquish it. continues heaving with as tremendous a ground-swell as Allow me to say, Sir, that I am bound to adopt this line Virgil's sea. Then a fragment of the plot of one gets of conduct by every motive dear to me as a man, and sacred entangled with an anecdote of another, and that with the to me as a prince. Ought I not to come forward in a mo- intricacies of a third, and the dénouement of a fourth, and ment of unexampled difficulty and danger? Ought I not to share in the glory of victory, when I have every thing we sit and strive to unravel the tangled threads, and canto lose by defeat? The highest places in your Majesty's not acquiesce in our state of confusion, till the perplexity service are filled by the younger branches of the royal fa- and discomfort become more than we can bear, and rising mily; to me alone no place is assigned; I am not thought in wrath, we make one vast funeral pile of the luckless worthy to be even the junior major-general of your army. authors and their works,-Colburn, John Murray, SimpIf I could submit in silence to such indiguities, I should kin and Marshall, and "the rest." indeed deserve such treatment, and prove, to the satisfaction of your enemies and my own, that I am entirely incapable of those exertions which my birth and the circumstances of the times peculiarly call for. Standing so near the throne, when I am debased, the cause of royalty is wounded. I cannot sink in public opinion without the participation of your Majesty in my degradation; therefore, every motive of private feeling and public duty induces me to implore your Majesty to review your decision, and place me in that situation which my birth, the duties of my station, the examples of my predecessors, and the expectations of the people of England, entitle me to claim.'

The next day the Prince received the following an

swer:

hundred of his brethren, whom we have sent before him It is well for Norrington, that his similarity to three to the tomb of all the Capulets, has led our memory to recall the painful labour of threading the tangled brakes of that dire wood; for, on returning to ourselves, his calm, placid, and unmeaning face meets us with an effect soothing as that of green meadows after sickness, or the unaltering and eternal expression of rooted attachment in the eye of her who we last night fancied looked coldly

upon us,—a fancy which made us toss and turn the whole long endless night. We feel almost inclined to fall upon Norrington's neck and weep aloud, seeing that it is the

approved fashion for romantic murderers, after they have killed sixteen brothers, to conceive a strong affection for the seventeenth.

sure the editor that he must take a little more pains with the future numbers of this series, for the impression it has already made is by no means so favourable as he of course desires.

MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE.

TRUSTEES' GALLERY OF SCULPTURE AND
DRAWING ACADEMY.

Norrington thus commences his story:"Tired of existence, disgusted with the world, a prey to ennuichild of remorse-I, in this my hermitage, will, to while away time, dedicate my hours to the recalling of the past. This is a fine tragic commencement. But Norrington soon tires of it, and drops into a more rational style. His story is of a naughty schoolboy, who becomes ERRONEOUS MANAGEMENT OF THE EDINBURGH afterwards a lively young nobleman-flirts with half-adozen girls-receives as many heart-scratches, but no wounds-travels-returns home to celebrate his coming We believe there are but few even of the citizens of of age-manages to escape a lady, whom his defunct papa Edinburgh who are aware of the existence of a very fine had destined for his bride-and concludes in a tone of collection of casts, from the antique, in the building on gaiety not quite in keeping with his exordium :-" And the Earthen Mound. It is the property, or, more cornow, as I have made more than one individual happy, I rectly speaking, it is intrusted to the management, of the may even here lay down my pen, and rest awhile. My Board of Trustees for the Encouragement of Manufactures, youth is passed, and I cannot yet intrude on manhood's &c. in Scotland. It contains, among other exquisite rehallowed precincts; but should all the beaux and belles, mains of ancient art, the Laocoon; the Apollo Belvidere; that have with many a yawn perused the events of my the Capitoline, and the Medici Venus; the Venus of younger days, view with a favourable eye the adventures Milo, and the Venus Urania; the Fighting and Dying of Norrington's earl, all I can promise is, that the puppy' | Gladiators, the Germanicus, the two Dioscobuli, Mars shall again do author, and give you his manhood and old resting, &c. &c. In short, it is a collection at once exage." We simply advise him to live them first. tensive, and selected with admirable judgment and taste.

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When the Board commenced this gallery, they had no higher object in view than to assemble a few models for the use of a drawing academy, which they had recently established, for the instruction of such mechanics as evin

By the way, authors are contracting a bad habit of addressing epistolary remonstrances to their reviewers. To save the present gentleman the trouble of writing to us that the above is no proper review of his book, we beg to inform him that we do not profess to engage in micro-ced a taste for the finer branches of their respective prescopic dissections.

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Outlines of History, being Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, Vol. IX. London. Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co. 1830.

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Ax epitome of the history of the world, in one volame must of course resemble more a chronological table than any thing else. The present volume will no doubt be useful as a book of reference, but as we look upon it in no other light, we care not to confess that we have not yet read it, and cannot therefore speak of the merits or faults of its execution. We question the propriety of admitting into the Cabinet Cyclopædia works, which few will take the trouble of perusing consecutively, and which will be valued only on the same principle that we value dictionaries. Que of these, to which Dr Lardner has already given his sanction, is an entire failure, and we take this opportunity of retracting some favourable expressions which we rather prematurely applied to it. allude to the volume which pretends to give an account of the principal towns of Europe, which is nothing better than a hasty and most inaccurate compilation from old Gazetteers. The Cyclopædia, if it wishes to prosper, must be "made of sterner stuff than this."

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fessions. By degrees, however, the increasing value of
the casts, and the high characters of the masters, who
have at different times been appointed by the Trustees,
rendered admission to the gallery an object even with
young artists; and latterly, although a carver and gilder
or upholsterer is occasionally to be found reaping the
benefits of the instruction there dispensed, yet the main

body of the students have in view the prosecution of the
We suspect that the honourable
Board, in thus extending its fostering care from manu»
higher branches of art.
factures to the fine arts, must be considered as in› some ›
measure playing the part of a sutor ultra crepidam ; but
when we consider that Allan and Wilkie have received
their first lessons in this institution, we incline to regard
its adventurousness with any thing but a feeling of un-
kindness. We rejoice to see a corporation, which was
established, originally, in conformity with obsolete and
erroneous views of the best way of encouraging manu-
than an apology for a sinecure, or for the assumption of
factures, and which, for a long while, was little better
a degree of factitious importance in some small function
ary, we rejoice to see it rendering itself really useful,
quit the regular sphere of its activity. But we have
even although it has been obliged, in order to do so, to

something to complain of, and we trust our complaint
will be attended to. We have to state that the Board
cramps its own powers of doing good, and has become of
less use than it might have been, by the adoption of a
silly and illiberal policy.

The Juvenile Library, No. II. Historie AnecdotesFrance. London. Colburn and Bentley. 1830. The number of students on the Academy's books is reWe cannot say that we feel quite sure that the Juve- stricted to forty. Applicants are admitted, upon petinile Library is not to turn out a humbug. The first tioning the Board, for the limited period of two years. volume was a compilation principally from the British During that time, they are allowed to draw, in the galand Juvenile Plutarch, and the present is an abridge-lery, under the superintendence of the master, two hours ment from any popular history of France. Nor do we see any thing in the style in which these compilations and abridgements are executed to make them peculiarly attractive. Concerning Charles the Tenth, with a brief notice of whom the present volume concludes, we find the following curious sentence:" He is spoken of as a man of kindly habits, of amiable disposition, and as less inclined to arbitrary measures than any of his predecessors." (!) This is an unlucky mistake, which will of course be remedied in a second edition. It is not, however, a solitary instance of incorrectness, and we can as

(from six to eight), on the evenings of the Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays of every week. At the end of the two years, if their attendance has been regular, and their proficiency such as to induce the Trus tees to hope they may rise in the art, they may be res admitted for other two years. This is all very well. The permission to study such splendid works of art as grace the walls of the gallery, and under the direction of the eminent artists now at the head of the Institution, ( Allan, and in his absence, Lauder,) is a generous boon to a young artist. But might not more be done? Except

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** during eight hours of every week, these treasures are alslowed to lie useless and unseen, under lock and key. None of our artists are allowed to study from them. The public cannot see them except on Saturdays; none even then, but at the price of kicking their heels for hours in the lobby of the assistant secretary, until the great man is at leisure to give them an order, and afterwards submitting to the petty impertinence of a spoiled domestic.

of visitors likely to be attracted by such a show know in general enough of the decencies of life to keep their fingers to themselves. We have never heard that the statues in the British Museum have suffered from the free admission of strangers. One day in the week would be sufficient for the cleaning of the gallery; and it might remain closed for a short period every autumn, during which any necessary repairs or new arrangements might be effected. We repeat, that we trust these suggestions will speedily be attended to,

RECOLLECTIONS OF A PARSONAGE.

ABUSES IN THE CHURCH.

I SAY, what is the meaning of this? I have been a minister of the church of Scotland these twenty years, and I have never known any abuse so flagrant as the fol

It is not long ago since an attempt was made on the part of some of the artists to obtain admission to the gallery. With considerable reluctance their request was granted, but clogged on the part of the Trustees by a restriction of the liberty to a stated hour, and an attempt to - impose a fine upon every artist who was absent at the -hour allotted to him. There was something exquisitely , ludicrous in this. Such restrictions are necessary in a school for boys; but do the Trustees not know that some artists are of as mature an age as themselves, and from the nature of their avocation, better aware of what willlowing:further their studies 2 To pretend to tie down an artist, who has his hours engrossed by the business of his profession, to a schoolboy's regularity, shows an ignorance of the world only to be equalled by that which could believe that men, actuated by an ardent love of their art, would receive an additional stimulus from the fear of losing a sixpence.

In many churches there are no elders!-In some the minister himself collects the offering, and then ascends the pulpit, tapping the precentor on the head, and proceeding with prayer, In others, there is only one elder, who collects the Sabbath offering-makes a jotting at his convenience, and renders an account to the minister after dinner on Sunday. In others, again, there is a legal session, three, four, or ten, who attend seriatim at the plate-see women rebuked officiate at the sacrament→→ and are summoned, once in ten years, to the presbytery, to humour some of the clergyman's whims...

We have not minced this matter, nor sought to use weighed and guarded words in stating these facts to our readers. We have waited long, in hopes that the gentlemen who took the chief management of this Institution upon them, would have of themselves adopted a more Now, it is with this last set that I have to do. The liberal line of conduct. But we have seen them charily, former cases are the exceptions, but this forms the rule. and with reluctance, yield occasionally an inch after re- When there is no session, there can be no sessional visitaa peated and urgent remonstrances, and if the insufficient tions; but when there actually exists the legitimate boon was not accepted with servile adulation, imme- amount of elders-I say, in the name of Presbytery-why diately retracting it, Latterly, like spoiled children, do not these elders do their duty? Is it the whole duty who, because they cannot have their own way in every of an elder to collect half-pence, to dine once a-year with thing, will not consent to do any thing, they have retired the minister, vote in session and presbytery as he bids, within themselves, and refused to listen to further remon- and be sent ten times in a century to the Assembly? or strances. We know of what importance it is to our artists is it not rather the duty of an elder to consider himself to have access to such a gallery of sculpture as that now in as the hands or feelers of the minister-to perforate the the possession of the Trustees. We know that at Paris, district to which he belongs to communicate the vivifyRome, Dresden, and Florence, such access is at all times ing influence of his spiritual instruction wherever his freely and cheerfully granted. We are of opinion, more- personal influence can reach, and to become the angel of over, that the admission of the public to an habitual con- consolation to all and every one who stand in need of it ? versance with such works, is requisite to the formation In the times that have been, and of which our records of a just national taste. Lastly, we know that these speak with distinctness and delight, there were men works are not the property of the Trustees, to be locked called "Elders," whose Sabbath evenings were spent in up by them at their pleasure. They are purchased with visiting the sick, in comforting the afflicted for the loss the public money, and held by them in trust for the of friends or means, in expostulating with the froward, public user: The doors must be opened, and we call upon and in building up the repentant in their new resolutions; the press of Edinburgh, the public in general, and art-but how are our modern elders occupied? It were alists in particular, to join with us in insisting that this be done... V

It is as well on all occasions to have before us a distinet, notion of what we want, and on this account we here specify our demands:That the Gallery of Sculpture, at present possessed by the Board of Trustees for behoof of the public, be open at least five days in the week, from nine o'clock A.M. to four o'clock P.M., at which time it has hitherto been inaccessible and useless ;-That the public, during that time, have free access to see the casts; And, that every artist be allowed, upon application, to draw of model from any of the figures. The Trustees will speak of the danger to which the casts may be exposed by promiscuous exhibition; but there are two or more functionaries, as it is, always in attendance at the building on the Mound, and a trifling annual allowance would obtain their services, or, if necessary, those of a person specially attached to the Institution, who might keep watch over the visitors. A very small deduction from the annual expenditure of the Trustees, would enable them to pay such a person; or a trifling sum exacted from every visitor, and from the artists admitted to use the gallery, would defray his salary. Besides, the class

most libellous or invidious to mention. In surveying their gardens and pig-sties,-in encompassing their fields, and ascertaining the ravages of the wheat-fly,-in discussing politics over a bottle of claret with a neighbouring laird, or in adjudicating betwixt master and servant in a law case. I once knew an elder of a very reverend Presbytery in the south of Scotland. He was regularly returned, and as regularly absented himself from the House of Assembly, unless when his vote might serve some "political purpose." I met him when I was going to church. He was sitting in his carriage, on a pleasure visit, alongside of a Lord of the Court of Session, and both of them were "playing cards!" By all that is decorous and proper, this was, and is, too much; and yet, I believe, he would have commanded his return, suppose he had maimed his father, and turned his mother's "king's hood into a spleuchan." There is much efficiency in the priesthood of our church, but our elders are rotten. They have ceased to wear their original aspect, and have become too frequently legal instruments to carry into execution, the whims of the minister.

Let us return to that healthy and vigorous state from which we have degenerated. Let the elders read the

Apostle's description of their indispensable duties, and, mingling with the hopes and the fears of the religious portion of society, let them lead

o' this, an' resolv't to profit by it, in his needcessity.” #4 So I have caught you at last, neighbour,' said Cabtain Macawaken into Then Jock reminder him o' his gràn1⁄4 boast, an" tell‍t him activity the sleeping energies of virtue. I have an elder what oongentlemany conduc' it would be to seize upon a before me of this character, on whom, except in the soli-vessel at anchor Od,bsir): they Cabtain's corruption tary instance of preaching, the minister could on all oc- raise at this, an' wi' an awfu' oath he order't Jock, for casions rely. He was an elder indeed his blue bonnet, a labber, to hoist an' flee Nae sooner said than done. and duffle coat of the same colour, are still before me. Aff went the free-tredder, every sail set-and aff and Nor shall I ever forget the prayer which I once heard efter her, in three minutes space, gaid M'Brocket's cuthim pronounce over the deathbed of a repentant sinner. ter. Ye micht as woelʊhaë sentwa anail after a hare. There was that in it which learning cannot give, but Bang gaed a cutter's gun but the day was lost. The which it too frequently takes away There was the crew of the three "unction" of the spirit. The spirit not indeed of self- Jock cam boo, WI His reliance, and confidence of wild dreams and fanatic ec- cocket hat aneath his oxter, an as a fareweel salutation to stasies, but of sober trust and humble reliance. Cabtain M Brocket 8h 987 yilda aq foot li 2 gritour si el TanovasH0 Inweb sdT

let them moderate what agant, andate zeal; Brocket, whan thebwesshels had come near thegether.

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SOMETHING IN THE SHAPE OF A NARRATIVE.

By Thomas Brydson.

THE honest man-(honest is the general prescriptive title of a certain set of persons just as disconsolate is the particular title of widows and worthy, of knights and baronets)—the honest man having laid his pack beside him on the grass, and inflicted the rap consequential and preparatory upon the lid of his snuff-box, took therefrom an extra pinch, sneezed three several times, and, without more ado, proceeded with the following narrative—if, indeed, it deserve that "There Is, nae dodified appellation.

a deal o' the romantic, as ye ca't, in the character misguidet loons the smugglers-especially them that fre frequent the high seas. As they hae the blackguardism o' the ithers, withoot the qualities. What a difference atween them, for instance, an' Nanty Ewart, whom ye was describin' the noo oot o' Sir Walter Scott's novells? He seems to hae been a gentlemany-aneuch creatur whan he thocht proper to be sae, and pits me verra muckle in min, in some respects, o' Divin' Jock, the commander o' the Spit-fire, free

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This Jock was a great Ο o Reissleton; an' nae wunner; for mony a pickle tea, and m mony a row tobacco

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did he distribute amang them, free gratis, as regular as
the Spit-fire anchort i'.
Pthe herbour. Them that saw
farer ben than their neebure, kent wha to thank for this
a few o' the kintra Jairds were hidlins
partners in Jock's traffic, and fand their ain accoont in
garrin him stap the mooth o' a bitin' dug, or in ither
words, pleasin' the toon, fock, to keep doon din ;-ƒe un-
derstaun' me? Reissleton, becam' in this way the key
o' the distrec' to the free tredder chaps,cas Calais was
langsyne the key o' France, whenever it pleas't the Bri-
tish to open the door-Ye're takin yer lauch aff me,
sir; but I hae read some i' my day, though I'm only a
packman. Aweely to cut a tang tale short, the Spit-fire
had feenisht anwso' shers maist "successful trips, an' was
lyin' beekin Rothe sun, an' waitin' for a landin' tide, afore
the croodit piero' Reisśletong whana skroigh got up that
the cutter was in sicht! Sure heuchoshe was, and ye
wadna hae coontit a penny's worth o' till she had

Divin' Jock completely at
at her mercy. Cabtain N
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o' the cutter was a little wee man, of a verra prood an'
rather hauchty speerit uncommoli jealous of his courage
and cappabilities as a seaman. He had often said that
naething wad gie him mair pleesure than a guid breeze
an' an open sea, an' the Spit-fire within a mile o' his
bowspritz Sae far had he carriet this boast, as to declare
to Bailie Sneddie, as they were crackin'
on the

plainstanes at the cross, that even were lie to seize Divin
Jock's vessel unawares, he would let her try a run for
her life, or words to that purpose.ta Jock had heard tell

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She heard the impassion'd sighs and lulling plaints.
There the remorseless Fates, exulting, show'dai2
Troy's shining spoils, which, o'er the splendid couch
In festoons banging, to her sight display'd saidT
The lustrous shield, and bright refulgent sword2
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The fatal blade, and on its goring points vyruos2
Urges her tender alabaster breastizos nodr! zalA
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The warm blood leaps in terrents from the woshd;
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Tremble and start the Dorian columns'shakwiT
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Thrice, agonized, upon the couch reclines
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