Did I say my eyes were large and black? I could see that she was convinced-but a woman will never acknowledge herself satisfied while any thing like a secret remains. Trust me, chary one, said I, pressing my hand against my coat, just over the place where my heart might be supposed to reside a large quantity of wadding which the tailor had crammed into the lapelle, intercepted the pulsation [What a load of this sort Macbeth must have carried-it is one among innumerable proofs how fashions come round again—when he cried out to the Apothecary "Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff It is not so bad now a days. Perhaps Macbeth wore the dove-breast as a disguise.] and with a solemn inclination of my headwhich bent my well starched cloth right across the middle and totally discomposed its propriety-as much as to say Upon my honour, my dear, I would not deceive you. Which in fact was exactly what I meant.You tell me so; said she, quizzingly, turning up the corner of her eye at the inconvenience I had sustained, and with a smile of the most unutterable mer riment at the attempt I was making to restore it-by compression of the extreme points of the line of incurvity, so as to bring back the centre within the power of the elastic action-but in vain. You tell me so ; The play, Madam, is HAMLET.' Only to think, Riar, it's a tragedy-play, and my pocket ankercher's as dirty:-Joe, my love, go run home, the man'll perhaps let you out again, and fetch me a clean white ankercher; ask Susan to find it you; they're in one of the top-drawers in the little set, in the right hand side corner; tell her to mind and not disturb the lace-cap, and them there flowers that lies at the top make haste. The young gentleman, who was despatched with these specific directions, seemed not exactly to relish the commission he was employed in- he looked round at me, conscious that I had overheard what had passed, and with a titter of most refined contempt for his mother's vulgarity, proceeded to expostulate on her command. O! that'll do very well; nobody'll see it, or if they do what matter-here I'll lend you mine-it's quite clean. Your's is a silk un ; it wont do at all. What does one want a white pocket ankercher for at a tragedy-play! why, what for but to hold up to. one's eyes like every body else, to be sure. Joseph looked round again, and winked. Come go, there's a good lad. Not I; said the obedient son, venturing a peremptory refusal. But I insists on your going, said the mother: how dares you dispute what I says; go this instant. A muttering wrangle now took place between authority and resistance, which was terminated by the drawing up of the curtain, and a proposal on the part of the son, that his mother and sister should have for the evening a common convenience in the handkerchief of the latter. O, ay! Riar, I never thought of that we can use your's in kales: and when I've the ankercher you shall have the spy-glass; that shall be it :-and then we shall both be genteel, Good lorjus! what's that? said the matron, as the ghost stalked over the scene, Sir, what's that?' The ghost, madam. What is the play-house awnted? said she. I never heard of it before, and I've been here many a time. It only happens on particular occasions, said I, and very likely you were never present at one before. I hope it won't come again,' groaned she. The ghost however, contrary to the hopes of the lady, shortly reappeared on the stage, and it was with some difficulty that I succeeded in convincing her that she need not apprehend any injury from the spectre, as, though it had often appeared on the stage, it had never been known to commit any mischief, and was, indeed, perfectly harmless. But how frightened all those people is: argued she, and one of 'em's drawn his sword too; I wish it was gone again. Who's that gentleman in black-will you lend me your bill, Sir, a minute. handed her the bill. That is Hamlet, said I, pointing to his name as I Hamlet! dear o' me, how sorrowful he looks; what's the matter with him, Sir. Aye my mother, said the daughter, I see how it is now: Joe! you know that about Hamlet and the Ghost in Speaker, now see if it does not come in the play somehow.< Pooh! said Joseph, with a consequential twist of the chin in his black neck-handkerchief and diddlers, any body could tell that. Oh dear! that's very paythetick, said the old lady, at the recital of the first soliloquy: Riar, do lend me the ankercher: no, never mind, I don't see any body else with one. O! yes, there's a lady there, give it me: She took the handkerchief from her daughter, and, inspiring a sob, which nearly drained the theatre of air, was beginning to apply it, with a variety of graceful contortions, to her eyes, when, casting another look at the object of her imitation, she exclaimed O, no! she's only blowing her nose; and passed the handkerchief again to Maria. Now, Riar, I'll have a peep through the spy-glass; do shew me, child, how it is to use it; I'm always obliged to put my finger over my eye when I look through it, for I can't wink o' one eye well. O! you need not wink, mother, at all: keep both eyes open. Ay! but then, somehow, I always look out at that eye that is not at the spy-glass, and so it's a no use. Aye, hark, they're telling that mournful gentleman, Hamlet, about the ghost: let's listen. After paying the strictest attention to the scene for some time, she turned round to me, and opening a paper on her lap, held it forth with a civil invitation to take a mint-drop:' which I as civilly declined. You'll find 'em very nice, Sir, for warming the inside, said she, do have one or two-you cannot think how good they are for keeping off the bellyache as often comes at these here sort of places. Try one, Sir, do. I could not resist so much polite importunity. Take two or three more, Sir, you need not be afraid of robbing us, we've more than we shall suck to-night. Here, Joe said she, taking three, fast together, from the paper, and offering them to her son-who looked rather suspiciously at the coherent mass.I've not had 'em in my mouth, it's only with getting warm on my knees that they stick together i thissy. O Lord, here's the ghost again; see how that gentleman's hair stands up: is'nt he afraid, Sir. He appears so, madam, but without any real occasion. I should not like to be so near a ghost, should you, Sir. 'Not much, madam ;' and again the old lady's attention was earnestly directed to the play: the daughter had scarcely ever withdrawn her eyes from the stage, and seemed wonderfully engrossed in observing its action through the glass. The young gentleman was reclining with the point of his left elbow on the higher bench of the box, and with the right-hand turning about an ash-plant, the head of which he held in his mouth. Good lauk, Sir, Hamlet's gone mad: what'll be done think you; can they cure him: dear o' me, how, wild the poor gentleman talks: Hearken, Riar, that's what I was telling you yesterday, no longer since, not to walk in the sun; I said it would spoil your skin, and so you hear. Oh dear! it's quite pitiful to see that poor gentleman, how mad he is—I can hardly tell any thing that he's talking about. Why ar'nt these the players; I thought they was all the time-what is these, Sir, that we've been looking at, they seemed like as players. The players are coming now, madam. What them, why, how shabby; they are just like those we saw at th' Minur wonst, arn't they Riar? Did you ever go to the Minur Theaytre, Sir; Riar and that was of her being killed, only it was an oaxme went to see Madam Sackwi; what a hawfull thing but I said I'd never go no more, they were such a poor set of players, and there was so many low lived people went. My polished neighbour once more turned to the performance, and telling Riar that she would have a reluctant fingers, and began to manoeuvre it herself. kale with the spy-glass,' took it from the daughter's Hamlet now entered with the celebrated soliloquy commencing To be, or not to be-and the young lady, relieved from the assiduous exercise of the glass, began to exhibit her powers of recitation and memory by repeating it along with the performer, in a very audible whisper. O, it's a sublime piece, said she, when she had at the breaking up-that pangs of despised love, is finished; I once got it off by heart for a task to say off very tender don't you think so,said she, speaking to her mother, but looking sidelong at me. The girl was about sixteen, and seemed to have just sufficient knowledge of propriety to tell her that she ought not to address a strange gentleman without an introduction: and yet it was evident that she wanted to fall into conversation. I was not in the humour to encourage her by entering into the discussion, or I have no doubt that I should have found her critically conversant with all the pieces in the Speaker, and wonderfully alive to their beauties.. O dear! here's the berring, said the old lady, who had for a long while ceased her remarks, excepting an occasional exclamation when any thing particularly excited her attention: such as the murder of Polonius Ophelia's madness, and the Grave-digging. Here's the berring, do Riar, give me the ankercher; I suppose, Sir, it's the end now isn't it-it's a handsomish coffin: oh dear! that mad fellow's jumping into the hole: he'll break it:-a pause, Aye! there's that funny chap, Browne ;-how queer he acts awlis, does'nt he, Sir:another pause. Aye, that is nice; what are they going to do now, Sir-those swords is'nt sharp, is they, Sir:- Bless me; what's matter with that lady! its like a stroke: ---Oh! dear that mad Hamlet's killed the King-player -aye dear, they're all dying :-but it's only sham, Sir, is it;-I hope none of um's been hurt. I'm always fearful of swords-are you going, Sir--- well, I wish you good bye!June, 1819. JU. V. WEEKLYĆ DIARY. JULY REMARKABLE DAYS. This haughty prelate was born in London, in the year 1119, and was the son of Gilbert, a merchant, and Matilda, a Saracen lady, who is said to have fallen in love with him when he was a prisoner to her father in Jerusalem. Thomas received the first part of his education at Merton Abbey in Surrey, whence he went to Oxford, and afterwards studied at Paris. In 1159, he made a campaign with King Henry to Toulouse, having in his own pay, 1200 horses. besides a retinue of 700 knights or gentlemen His bridle was of silver, his saddle of velvet, his stirrups, spurs, and bosses, double gilt. His expenses far surpassing the expenses of an Earl. He fed with the fattest, was clad with the softest, and kept company with the plea santest. And the king made him [Becket] his chan the Regent's Tent; but the knight is himself excluded, on account of the small number of his followers. Young Gordon, not knowing him, resolves to remain with him. On learning his name from Vipont, he is with difficulty restrained from rushing, sword in hand, on the man by whom his father fell Maxwell issues from the Regent's tent, announcing that all is confusion and uproar within; and Gordon learns that Swinton is the only man in the host, who can put the Scottish army on an equality with the enemy. The Regent and Chiefs now come forth, and Douglas finds a remedy for their contention about the command of the van, in the senseless expedient of waiting the attack of the enemy, as the army, stands on the hill, utterly exposed to the English arrow-shot. The madness of this resolve is shewn by Swin ton, who asks permission to lead a body of horse to attack the English bowmen, and implores the chiefs to lay aside their feuds ing this hour of need. Douglas denies his request, and calls for the youths who expect knighthood from his sword. When Gordon is named, he refuses to be knighted by any but Sir Alan Swinton. The Lords, Lennox and Maxwell, recommend the consideration of Swinton's cies of his country. But the incident, as related, seems altogether beyond our nature. It were indeed a sublime spectacle, to behold a young man performing the last pious offices, and closing, with a friendly hand, the dying eyes of him by whom his father fell: but that man is not the individual to whom he would in any situation, much less in the midst of carnage, discourse of the power possessed by his mistress to move the feelings by her skill in music. The clamor made by the Abbot for his tithes, in the front of two armies on the very point of engaging, is altogether improbable. And this incident is the more objectionable, not only as it involves, none of those sublime sentiments which accompany the other, as proper to the sacrifice. of deadly hatred, but, as it borders on the ridiculous. THE RING. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MAĢIO LANTERN: cellor, in which office he passed the pomp andunsel; but the Regent tauntingly replies, bijouterie, displayed. for sale in the window of a pride of Thomas [Wolsey] Cardinal, as far. as the ones shrine passeth the others tomb in glory and riches. And after that he was a man of war, and captain of 5 or 6000 men in full harness, as bright as St. George, and his spear in his hand; and encountered whosoever came against him, and overthrew the jolliest rutter that was in all the host of France. And out of the field, hot from blood-shedding, was he made bishop of Canterbury, and did put off his helm, and put on his mitre; put off his harness, and on with his robes; and laid down his spear, and took his cross, ere his hands were cold; and so came, with a lusty courage of a man of war, to fight another while against his prince for the Pope: when his prince's cause were with the law of God, and the Pope's clean contrary: (Old Tracts cited by Dibdin, in his Bibliomania, p, 234, note.) REVIEW.. Halidon. Hill; a Dramatic Sketch. By Sir WALTER SCOTT, Bart. Constable, Edinburgh; Hurst and Co. London. 1822. Halidon Hill is a dramatic sketch, very properly so called, for it is nothing more; written in two acts, and designed, as we are informed, to illustrate military antiquities, and the manners of chivalry. The scene opens with the arrival of Adam de Vipont, a Knight Templar, under the guidance of the Prior of Maison-Dieu, (after an absence of 12 years in the wars of Palestine,) before Halidon Hill, which is occupied by the Regent Douglas. Sir Alan Swinton, a knight of gigantic stature and great prowess, relates to Vipont the reduced number of his followers, and the loss of his four sons in a feud with the Gordons, the vengeance, taken for their deaths, and the increased power of the present youthful head of the Gordons. The army of England, under King Edward, is descried, and the Scottish leaders, being summond to meet the Regent, disagree about the array of battle. In the midst of their quarrel, intelligence arrives that the English army is within a mile of their position. Even then their madness continues, and they brawl about the lead of the van. Advised by Swinton, they retire to debate in that he may attack the English bowmen, with his fair threescore horsemen.' Gordon, how ever, declares his resolution to join him, with all his followers. Gordon and Swinton are entirely reconciled, and in Hob Hattely, a notorious cattle reaver, Swinton finds a guide to a flank attack on the English. In Act II. while the English chiefs are impatiently waiting the sounding of the charge, the Abbot of Walthamstow enters, to demand certain tithes withheld from his house by Lord Chandos; and, on the entrance of the King, informs him that Chandos had termed his grace a rat-catcher. Chandos, in return, tells the King that the Abbot had declared it was sinful in the King's chaplain to have caught up a secular weapon, and so to have secured the life and liberty of Edward, when he was in great peril from Swinton in a night attack; and that the chaplain's soul is therefore in purgatory. The King questions the Abbot sharply, who is glad to compound with Chandos for his tithes, so he will take off the King. Chandos which induces Edward to command the attack immediately sees, in front of the army, that to be made instantly. Great havoc is made by the English bowmen, when Swinton, and Gordon are descried rushing forward from a thicket under the hill, and the. King rushes out crying, to the rescue Lords, to the rescue! ha, St. George, St. Edward Swinton and Gordon are victorious over the English, vanguard; and Gordon relates his love, and the accomplishments of the lady of whom he is enamoured. Vipont, enters, and they learn that no aid is sent to them from the main arm. Swinton would fains provide for the safety of Gordon by sending him to the Regent; but he refuses to go, and they once more charge the enemy. They fall, desperately wounded-the English pass over them, and they see the flight of their countrymen.— Swinton dies-Edward enters, attended by the British leaders, and Baliol the pretender to the Scottish crown.-Gordon rushing on, them with Vipont, is made prisoner, and immediately after sinks down and dies. There is something grand in the devoted spirit in which Gordon follows Swinton, surrendering his hereditary hatred to the exigen Walking up St. James's Street a few days ago, I was attracted by some very beautiful specimens of shop; and seeing a very curious antique ring, set in, diamonds, labelled for a sum that I fancied, beneath its value, I was tempted to purchase it, Examining I dropped asleep, as is my usual custom; and the my bargain while sitting in my easy chair after dinner, ring being the last subject of my thoughts, gave rise to the following dream, I thought that, while in the act of contemplating, my new purchase, it thus addressed me--and, however unnatural, and impro bable it may seem, that an inanimate object should be gifted with the power of speech, yet, with the usual incoherence of a dicam, all appeared to me perfectly correct. into your possession for a comparatively trifling sum. Though you see me now with my lustre dimmed by age, and want of care, time was, that I wore a dif ferent aspect. In my fate you will see the lot of all sublunary grandeur, and I shall therefore.relate to you my eventful history. Do not undervalue me because this day I came if I was purchased in Rome, where I was examined and admired by many virtuoso: but a young, English man, on, his, travels, no sooner saw, me than he wished to possess me, Doubtful, however, of his own skill as a connoisseur, he determined on consulting a person with all the unsuspicious openness of his countrymen, considered a perfect judge in such matters; and than my master bastened to the virtuoso that the told my owner so. No sooner had he left the house, Englishmap had named as the arbiter of my destiny; and having originally demanded, double my value, he now offered a handsome douceur, to the antiquary he could, by his commendations, ensure my sale to the young amateur. Those, two precious Romans soon came to a perfect understanding; in a day or two the bargain was made, and I was consigned to the care of my new master. Though I disliked the still it was not without a pang, that I bade, adieu to cupidity of my late owner, and wished to leave him, the lovely cameos and intaglios, that had been so long my neighbours in the same drawer; and the precious antique gems that had been so often in close contact with me, never appeared to possess so many charis as in the moment that I was torn from them forever. My vanity, however, consoled me for the separation; for it had been cruelly wounded by having overheard my, crafty, conntryman say, that he had two loles, one on a beryl, and another on a sardonyx, both far superior to me, who am, as you perceive, an agafe and that, he heartily wished me off, huis, hands, one but an Englishman would buy me. as no My new master having looked at me with a carelessness that bespoke him as little interested as skilled in antiques, consigned me to his writing-box: where. I lay side, by side with many other art.cles of virtu, and surrounded by all the gages d'amour wish hair or dress, and as frequently expressed her admiration of me, which not a little excited my vanity; but my self-complacency was much abated by discovering that she admired the diamonds that surrounded me more than myself, and my respect for her was much decreased by ascertaining, from her observations, that she was totally unskilled in antiques. which he had been favoured since he left college. : "The scene I had witnessed conveyed no favourHere I lay in inglorious obscurity for some time; for,able impression of England; and I could not help though my prison was frequently opened, to draw ejaculating to myself, is this, then, that famed land from it a fresh supply of money, I remained unno- of freedom of which I have so often heard; and ticed. At length, by finding my cage moved about, whose laws and protection of private property are so I guessed that a change in my destiny was taking frequently held up to admiration? How prone are place, and I soon discovered, by the rumbling motion mankind to misrepresent and exaggerate; and how and rude jolts which I experienced, that I was leaving ill-governed must this same England be, and how my native city, the once proud and imperial capital defective its laws, when the goods for which an in- For about a year I retained the post of honour of the world. I shall pass over the grief which this dividual has paid his money, and which, of course, with my new mistress; but towards the close of that parting caused me; nor shall I dwell on the desagré- have become his property, are taken from him with-period, I discovered a visible alteration in her; of mens that took place between my fellow travellers out even the civility of au excuse, and this by the which, as it affected her treatment of me, I took and myself on the journey; our careless master had very officers employed to carry their boasted laws particular notice. The first symptom I observed was bestowed so little attention in packing us, that we into effect! I made many more wise reflections on a want of cordiality between her and my ci devant frequently experienced some of the unpleasant rubs laws and governments, but of which, as they do not master. Occasional differences took place between of life. The glass that covered a portrait fell a victim concern my history, I shall spare you the recital; them, conducted on both sides with much warmth; to one of the quarrels, and some beautiful Roman let it suffice to say, that no where had I heard law and I noticed that a male visitor, who was very assishells were shattered into fragments. and justice so violently denounced as in an English duous în his attention, seemed to have taken a great Custom House: and there it was I first learned that fancy either to my mistress's hand or myself, for he they are not synonymous terms. frequently pressed both between his, and as frequently raised them to his lips, though gently reprimanded for from the fair finger I had so long encircled; and then it by the lady. At length, one day he removed me drawing off the plain gold ring that I had so faithfully guarded, replaced it by one of nearly a similar kind, and then restored me to my former station, having consigned my old companion to his pocket. We proceeded to Florence, and thence to Paris, where we took up our abode; and we had not been long there, when I observed that my prison was never opened that my master did not exhibit ocrtain symptoms of chagrin and impatience which boded something disagreeable. One day he seized my cage with a violence that threatened its annitilation, and flattered me with the hope of liberty: but the lock soon obeyed his band; and from the frequent exclamations I heard him utter, of 'cursed fool!' stupid dupe!' stingy father!' I guessed that something unusual had occured and I found he was writing to solicit from his father fresh supplies. His application failed of success, but brought him a recal. We soon bade adieu to Paris, and set out for England,-that country, of whose wealth I had heard so much, and whose sons have been considered as the natural prey of the artful and designing. The motion of the vehicle, as we rolled along that to which I had hitherto been accustomed, that I from Dover towards London, was so different from concluded the roads in England to be much better, or that some peculiar excellence appertained to English horses or postillions. My travelling companions and I agreed much better; and, during my journey from Dover to the metropolis, we maintained our equilibrium with perfect decorum, and had not a single rupture. 'We arrived in the British capital on a fine evening in May; and I was the next morning released from the narrow precints of my prison, and consigned, with some other articles of virtu, to the fair sister of my master. She admired me extremely; but returned me to her brother, with the observation, that he had better reserve me for the finger of a fair female friend of hers, to whom he was to be present at dinner; but to all bis inquiries as to the name of this fair unknown, she declined giving any information. 'I felt, or fancied that I felt, my mistresses hand agitated by a tremulous emotion, and a drop that, save from its warmth, I should have taken for crystal, at that moment fell on me, and was hastily brushed away by the lips of the gentleman. I felt indignant at being robbed of this liquid pearl, which, to my prophetic soul, appeared like the last memorial of departing purity, nor could I be reconciled to the new companion who had usurped the place of my old one, to which habit and its unobtrusive qualities had en"The first gleam of light that visited me in deared me. The next day my Mistress took advantage England shone through the dusty panes of a window of the absence of her husband to elope with her lover, in the Custom House at Dover; where my prison and though pressed by him to remove me for a ring of was unceremoniously opened, and my companions "I was placed on the dressing table of my master, great beauty and value that he had provided as a suband myself exposed to the view of a crowd of specand could not help observing that, when attiring him-stitute, she expressed such a desire still to retain me, tators, amidst a heap of clothes-bags, dressing- self for dinner this day, he bestowed more than his that; though with a visible degree of chagrin, he concases, portfeuilles, portmanteaus, china, artificial usual care in arranging his neckcloth, and giving his sented to permit me to occupy my old station, and flowers, &c. &c. &c. Never shall I forget the hair that careless waving flow so much admired by placed his gift on a finger of the right hand. scene that presented itself to me. The looks of intravelled beaus. I had hitherto fancied that the male exorable rigidity of the Custom House officers,sex were superior to the minor considerations of the pale faces of the owners of the various proper- personal decorations; but I now discovered that no ties, which told a piteous tale of sufferings past, blooming nymph of seventeen, at her first presentaand from which they had not yet recovered, the tion, could have taken more pains in displaying her soiled dresses, mis shaped hats and bonnets, and uneharms to the best advantage, than did my master on curled ringlets falling over fanguid cheeks, showed the present occasion. I felt considerable interest to the ladies in no very favourable point of view; while know the result of his interview with the fair unknown, the unshorn chins and rampled neckcloths of the but had no means of gratifying my curiosity. I regentlemen, betrayed that they had not escaped the marked, however, that from this eventful day, he disasters of the briny element. Each individual appeared more than usually anxious to adorn his stood close to his or her property; and all personal person to the best advantage; and, at the end of a suffering appeared to be forgotten in the anxiety few weeks, I observed him draw a small turquoise which they felt to recover their possessions from the ring from his finger, which he kissed with a rapture rathless fangs of the Custom House officers. One that excited my astonishment, mingled with indignalady was declaring that a piece of fine Mechlin lace, tion, that an ornament so inferior to myself could be found in her band-box, was English manufacture; so valued, while I was left whole weeks unnoticed and another was insisting that a piece of French silk, on his dressing-table, or only casually touched by the which was discovered peeping through her pocket- honsemaid when arranging the room. At length I hole, was merely the lining of her dress. Innumerwas one day taken up, and conveyed by my master to able female voices, all speaking together, were a celebrated jeweller, to whose care he consigned me, heard around, making confusion doubly confused; with particular injunctions to have me reset, enwhile the gentlemen, who appeared less able to circled with diamonds, and made to the size of a argue with the revenue officers, contented themselves very small gold ring which he left as a pattern. He with undervaluing their properties, that the duties gave innumerable directions, expressive of his anxmight be proportionally reduced. I made one reflec-iety to have me completed; all of which convinced tion on the scene around me, which was, that the female sex are all addicted to dealing in contraband goods or smuggling, as it was there called; for out of above fifty ladies present, there was not one who did not endeavour to defraud the revenne. "After witnessing several animated contests and countless seizures, it at length came to my tarn to be examined; and I felt my dignity not a little offended by being taken up between the soiled finger and thumb of one of the inspectors, who, after viewing me for a moment, pronounced me English, which my master having with rather a disdainful smile tacitly admitted, I was restored to my old abode, and, with my companions, again haddled up in our narrow cell. me that I was designed for the finger of some fair "My mistress seemed excessively pleased with 'I soon observed many symptoms of unhappiness in my mistress; I was frequently bedewed with the tears that trickled down her pale cheek, as the hand to which I belonged supported it; and the same hand was often pressed to her burning forehead, as if to still the throbbing pulse that agonized her there. By degrees the once snowy hand lost its fairness, and assumed a sickly yellow hue; the once finely rounded taper finger which I had so closely encircled; shrunk from my embrace. Yet still my unhappy mistress seemed to wish to retain me, and, by twisting several silken threads round me, she again secured me; but, alas! in a few days I felt an unusual coldness steal over the attenuated finger, which was succeeded by a rigidity that gave it the feel and semblance of marble." At this * moment my servant, entering the room, awoke me, and interrupted a dream, the impression of which was so vivid, as to leave the traces of tears on my cheek.' DIRECTIONS FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE DROWNED. (Published by the Humane Society of London.) 1. As soon as the patient is taken out of the water, the wet clothes, if the person is not naked at the time of the accident, should be taken off with all convenient expedition on the spot, (unless some convenient house be very near) and a great coat or two, or some blankets, if convenient, should be wrapped round the body. 2. The patient is to be thus carefully conveyed in the arms of three or four men, or on a bier, to the nearest public or other house, where a good fire, if in the winter season, and a warm bed can be made ready for its reception. As the body is conveying to this place, a great attention is to be paid to the position of the head; it must be kept supported in |