The brokers have to notify her arrival to their respective bushmen or inland traders, who reside at the great slave mart in the interior of the country; and to whom they must send suitable presents previous to any negociation. By all accounts, the slaves are so reconciled to their unhappy lot, that they evince very little concern at the final separation from their friends and country; but this, without any want of natural affection, may be the consequence of living continually under the apprehension of such an event;-nor do the friends on their part testify a greater degree of sorrow this, perhaps, partly arises from a consideration of individual safety to themselves, conjoined with causes unknown to us. We do

not hear that the wretched victims are feelingly alive to their lamentable situation; but let us recollect, that fortitude and contempt of suffering, are among the greatest virtues of the savage mind.

Stature. The inhabitants of these countries are of the middle stature, and may be reckoned the blackest, as well as the most handsome, of the Negro race. To a full chest, and well-proportioned limbs, we find united, regular features and an expressive

countenance.

of the Arts; and we enjoy a high gratification in
having to describe the Bronze Statue which now
adorns Hyde Park.

The height of the Statue as it stands, is rather
more than eighteen feet. It is erected upon a base-
ment and plinth of Dartmoor gray granite, sur-
mounted on
Peterhead (near Aberdeen, and exceedingly beauti-
a simple pedestal of red granite from
ful;) the whole, with the mound, from the line of
road, being thirty-six feet in height. The site is
just within the angle where, after entering by the
gate at Hyde Park Corner, the carriage-roads divide;
the one leading to Oxford-Street, the other to the
Serpentine. The Statue fronts the corner, and the
head is turned almost directly towards the residence
of the Hero whose glories it commemorates in the
following inscription in bronze letters on the

pedestal :

TO ARTHUR DUKE OF WELLINGTON,
AND HIS BRAVE COMPANIONS IN ARMS,
THE STATUE OF ACHILLES,
CAST FROM CANNON TAKEN IN THE BATTLES
OF SALAMANCA, VITTORIA, TOULOUSE,
AND WATERLOO,

IS INSCRIBED

BY THEIR COUNTRY-WOMEN.

Upon the base (not yet affixed) will appear the following Inscription:

PLACED ON THIS SPOT,

ON THE XVIII DAY OF JUNE MDCCCXXII.
BY COMMAND OF

HIS MAJESTY GEORGE IV.

Character. They have been called a jealous, cruel, and revengeful people,-much given to theft; but, in my opinion, very unjustly. I would rather term them, in their ordinary mode of life, a mild, inoffensive, and effeminate race; yet of astonishing resolution and perseverance when once roused to The Statue was brought upon the ground on this action. Of all the slaves brought from the time since has been employed in the difficult task Anniversary of the Victory of Waterloo; and the coast of Africa, those of Congo are accounted (which will be completed in another week) of elethe most refractory and determined on ship-vating and placing it upon the pedestal. The meboard.

As an instance of their probity and honour; -Captain Coufflin, when sailing up the river, run his ship upon a sunk rock. He was obliged to unload the whole cargo whilst the vessel was refitting; and, although the goods remained in their huts all that time, not a single article was missing.

To the spontaneous productions of nature, and to the climate which causes them to spring up so luxuriantly and in such profusion, must be ascribed the effeminacy of the Congoese, not to any inherent defect in the constitution of a race, whose outward appearance, time and situation have so altered. The Negro, in his native land, is, comparatively speaking, in a great measure exempt from toil; he enjoys life to the full, and, by a little tuition, can think as acutely and act as justly as the man, who, born in a civilized country, has enjoyed all the advantages of education.

FINE ARTS.

COLOSSAL STATUE

TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

The ladies of England having, with a spirit which does them infinite grace, resolved to erect a monument in honour of the Duke of Wellington and his brave companions in victory-the brothers, sons, lovers, and husbands of many of those from whom the tribute so nobly and so gratefully comes--about ten thousand pounds were voluntarily and speedily raised; and, but for the jealousies and envy which interfere with all plans of this kind, it is probable that a greater amount would have been subscribed, so as to enable the Artist to enrich his design with sculptures illustrative of the achievements of Wellington, in relief, upon the base. What has been done, however, is worthy both of the intention and

chanical means used in transporting it from the
foundry and effecting this its final position were
necessarily of immense power; for we learn that its
weight cannot be estimated at less than 33 or 34
tons!! In it composition twelve 24 pounders were
be wrought into such shapes, it was requisite to add
melted; but as the metal of cannon is too brittle to
about one-third more of metal, whose fusion would
render the work, if we may say so, pliant and per-
fect. The whole is thus equal to eighteen 24-
pounders; and it may gratify curiosity to state in
what manner this immense design was executed.
The extraordinary magnitude and prodigious weight
of the Statue, although they did not present insur-
mountable obstacles to casting in one mass, must
nevertheless have occasioned many difficulties, con-
been adopted. It would also have interfered with
siderable hazard, and much expense, had that course

in copying his model so as to make his Statue a fac-
the plan which the artist has so judiciously pursued

of being so finely cast. To speak of its entire effect
upon the spectator, if we may judge from the im-
pression upon our own mind, we will say that it is
imposing and sublime in an extraordinary degree.
Burke justly ranked magnitude among the sources
of the latter feeling; and probably no work of Art
exists in which it is so intimately connected with
grace and beauty. We shall not at present enlarge
upon its appearance, but conclude with mentioning a
coincidence deserving of being remembered as long
as it shall adorn the British Metropolis.

In ancient Greece, the honoured Victors of the
Olympic games, on returning crowned to their native
cities, were not permitted to enter them by the com-
mon way and gate; to distinguish them above all
their compatriots, a breach was made in the wall.
By one of those accidents which seem to be fate, the
Ladies' Statue to the Duke of Wellington, when
brought to its destination, was found to be too
mighty for the gates by which it should have entered,
and it became necessary to breach the wall for the
admission of this trophy to a Victor more glorious
than ever threw lustre on the resplendent annals of
immortal Greece.

VEIL OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.

We are requested (says the Literary Gazette) to correct some of the statements respecting this venerable relic of antiquity. Sir J. C. Hippisley (to whom this interesting bequest was made by the will of the late Cardinal of York) does not claim himself to be a descendant of the Royal House of Stuart: It is otherwise expressly stated in one of the authentic attestations annexed to the representations of the Veil, as it distinctly refers, not to the mother of Sir J. C.. Hippisley, but to the wife, who was the daughter of Sir John Stuart of Allanbank, Bart.

The pension to the Cardinal, of £4000, was granted by his late Majesty, who on the decease of the Cardinal also munificently granted a pension of £1600 per annum to the Countess of Albany, widow of the Cardinal's elder brother, Charles Edward, which Princess was a daughter of the Prince of Stolberg, and nearly allied to the noble family of the Bruces of this kingdom. The Marquis of Aylesbury has liberally granted a pension of £100 to the mother of the Countess, who still resides, in very reduced circumstances, at Frankfort on the Maine. The gold medal (a part of the Cardinal's legacy) is also erroneously stated to have been a coin of Queen Mary; whereas it is a medal of the Cardinal's portrait.

The extracts of attestations engraved on the plate,
under the representation of the Veil, are of Mon-
signor Angelo Cesarini, Bishop of Mèlevi, sole exe-
cutor of the Cardinal of York, and of Signor Andrea
degli Abbati, the principal officer of the household
the four angles of the Veil are attached, worked in
of the late Cardinal, and a legatee of his will. At

crimson silk and gold, what is termed the “ stemma”
of the order of Jesuits-a cross, with the letters
I. H. S. and the representation of a heart pierced
with thorns, surrounded by a glory.

simile of the original. To effect this, he restored
the time-corroded parts by floating the surface with
a composition which exactly filled up the anatomical The Cardinal of York devised also by will to his
details, and enabled him to accomplish his admirable present Majesty, an ancient ring, worn by the kings
purpose. Having thus far proceeded, he followed of Scotland at their coronation, and the Order of St.
a mode frequently practised by the ancients, by Andrew worn by Charles I. on the scaffold. Before
separating the extremities from the trunk in casting; the French revolution, the revenues of the Cardinal,
but instead of attaching them by the ancient method principally derived from rich abbeys in France and
(by what is called Swallows-tails, and exemplified in Spain, in addition to his Roman bishopric of Frascati,
several antique bronzes, particularly those in the amounted to £24,000 sterling per annum. The Car-
Museum at Portici), Mr. Westmacott adopted dinal was also Chancellor of the See of Rome. When
fusion, as far as we are informed, an entirely new the French invaded the Roman State, he fled with
process, and one which avoids all risk of separation many other Cardinals, and was present at the Con-
and renders the junction of the parts invisible. This clave at Venice, at the election of the present Pope.
we consider to have been a happy idea, and certainly The Cardinal at that time was reduced to a subsist-
its execution, as seen in the Statue, reflects infinite ence by the sale of the small remains of plate in his
credit on the genius of the artist. Nothing can ex-possession; and in this distressed state the magnifi-
ceed the beauty of the figure. Not a flaw or a
scratch detract from the harmony of its pure pro-
portions and anatomical markings. The surface of
the body, the limbs, the head, are all as exquisitely
finished, as if the production were a copy of as many
inches in size as it is of feet. The workmanship is
indeed surprising; and until we witnessed it, we
could not have believed so large a design susceptible

cent act of his late Majesty was announced to him in
the bosom of the Conclave. The Cardinal's existing
correspondence demonstrates that the act was duly
appreciated not only by himself but by his colleagues.
Of the Cross, said to be in the possession of the
celebrated German actress, Mrs. Schulz, the writer
of the present article has no information other than
what is stated in the Literary Gazette. J. C. H.

1

FOR THE IRIS.

"THE CLUB."

No. XIII.-FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1822.

The almond-tree blooms though the canker infest,
And the nightingale sings with the thorn at her breast;
The smile of apparent content may betray;
For the heart may be sad while the visage is gay.
ANON.

had prepared himself for it, by reading the
account of the Moravians in Dr. Hurd's His-
tory of the Religions of the Universe.

As we were upon the way, our friend re-
minded us of this book; and, after expressing
his disapprobation of the partiality which he
fancied it in some places manifested, he re-
peated to us a few of the particulars which it
contains respecting the Moravians.

It appears that Count Nicholas Lewis Zinzendorf, prince of the German empire, who was born in 1700, conceived the project, when only seventeen years old, of being the founder SOME of the members of the Club at the of a new sect. When he came of age, in Green Dragon, have long been in the prac-1721, he purchased, for the purpose, an estate tice of making short excursions together, into in Bertholsdorf, where he and his disciples the country, during the summer season. From had their first settlement, giving themselves this practice they have derived many pleasures the appellation of Hernhuters. He was soon and advantages. The rustic manners of the joined by a carpenter named Christian David, peasantry, and the rural scenery of the coun- who, though willing to act an under part in try, have often been themes of conversation connection with the founder, does not appear at the Club. The striking differences in cha- to have been inferior to the Count, in the racter, between persons who are engaged in warmth of his zeal, or the activity of his the fretful hurry of commercial pursuits, and perseverance. This man, who was the first those who are occupied in the calm concerns missionary of the Hernhuters, made many of agriculture, have, occasionally, formed converts, and seems, indeed, to have mainly the subject of our speculations. These topics contributed to the establishment of the seet. are always particular favourites with the Pre-The number of proselytes having increased sident. He has often been accustomed to ex- rapidly and become considerable, the Count patiate upon the peaceful happiness of a made several voyages to America, and to other country life, and the bland manners of the places, to promulgate his opinions. He was, country people. Their habits, whether of bu- besides, able to send out his missionaries, who siness or of pleasure, appear to him to be exwere at one time very numerous, into different posed to few temptations to evil; and their parts of the world. The relaxing zeal of his labours in the open air to be conducive to followers was revived by occasional love-feasts, health of body, and cheerfulness of mind. and other private ceremonies. The mode of He takes more pleasure in viewing a beautiful worship, and the general economy of the sect, landscape, than in contemplating some of the are singular. The Hernhuters are very definest specimens of art. He has a number of pendant upon their superiors, who possess favourite haunts, to which he retires during is valid unless it receive the sanction of the absolute authority. No promise of marriage intervals of leisure. When not prevented by Elders. The sexes are, during celibacy, kept the weather, he usually passes the Saturday afternoon in the country; and there is not, apart as much as possible. In their meetingwithin six or seven miles of the town, a rehouses, as in the case of the Quakers, the tired place, which commands a tolerable pros-other. They are not suffered to mingle even men sit on one side, and the women on the pect, where he has not, some time or other,

"Sat him down a pensive hour to spend."

Our worthy friend, who is rather prone to exaggerate the best view of any favourite subject, seems to have rather over-rated the felicities of the country, and the morality of rustic life. Of this fact he has, several times, been rather ludicrously apprized; and our readers may recollect the mention of one instance in the paper in which we described our adventures at the races.

During the fine weather which preceded the late rain, a party of us made, one afternoon, an excursion to Fairfield. This walk had, for some time, been meditated, and the Chairman

in the grave; their burial ground being
divided into two parts, each of which is ex-
clusively appropriated to one sex. Indepen-
dently of their worship in the chapel, prayers
for the society are, day and night without
intermission, offered up by the congregation,
who perform that duty one at a time in suc-
cession. The President was telling us that
the Count was a great advocate for early mar-
riages, and that Dr. Franklin and himself
were of the same opinion, when we came in
sight of the place of our destination.

The chapel, and the surrounding dwellings,
present rather an interesting appearance from
the Ashton road. The widower, indeed, made

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some trifling objections to the architecture of the buildings; but we were all agreed as to the cleanliness and neatness which every where prevailed. The President in particular was very warm in his eulogiums on the Moravians, and fancied that he had found here an argument in favour of a country life, by which, in their next discussion upon the subject, he might triumph over the Doctor.

The Moravians appear to take much pains in cultivating plants in flower-pots, of which we saw, in almost every window, some interesting specimens. This fact, however, increased our surprize when we came to examine their gardens, which seemed to be in rather a disorderly state, and in which we observed not a single plant that gave evidence of any taste for botany.

Our Chairman, who was very much on the alert in making his observations, dwelt upon the advantages which, he conceived, the Moravians must derive from their peculiar regulations. He imagined that these regulations must have suggested, in a great measure, the plans proposed and tried by Mr. Owen of Lanark. The Chairman contended that the few strong excitements which these retired and regular people are liable to, must be highly conducive to happiness. Their addresses to the Deity, he had been assured, were solemn and affecting, and he much approved of their frequency and brevity, as, he said, they afforded the congregation a pleasing variety, and could not be irksome by their duration. He commended the unaffected neatness of the female dress;-he applauded the attention which the Moravians are said to pay to the education of their youth; and he found something to praise them for on account of the their chapel, and the situation they had chosen arrangement of their houses, the simplicity-of for their residence, which placed within their reach all the advantages to be derived from a residence amid the bustle of the town, veniencies. unalloyed by any of the attendant incon

The widower had formed rather a different opinion on the subject. Quick in his feelings, and sometimes a little hasty in his judgments, he fancied he saw, on this occasion, less to admire than to condemn. "As to the happiness of this people," said he, "to which our friend has just referred, it cannot, I think, be considerable. Human nature will never willingly submit to continued retirement. Every creature is fond of variety; and you may be assured, that it is not without reluctance that many of these people, especially the young females, lead a life so tediously regular as to be almost as invariable as the motion of the shadow on the sun-dial. Their happiness, on the

ground on which it has been supposed to rest, can only be negative. If they are free from painful events on the one hand, they must be devoid of acutely pleasurable sensations on the other. If they have few temptations to vice, they can have no merit in the preservation of their virtue. Our happiness in this world arises, if I mistake not, in a great measure at least, from the contrast of our situations at different periods. The person who has experienced the privations and hardships of poverty, is, I imagine, of all persons the most likely to enjoy the possession of wealth. The very difficulties we have overcome in the attainment of any object, enhance its value, that is to say, increase our happiness in its possession. It has been truly said, though by way of sarcasm, that "novelty captivates the vulgar;" and I will add, without fear of contradiction, that we have only to change the objects, and it will be found to be essential to the enjoyments of the wise. In speculating upon the happiness which these people may be supposed to derive from their mode of life, let it not be forgotten that restraint is always irksome. To illustrate this proposition, I need only refer to a well known anecdote. An old man that took a pleasure in boasting that he had never been out of his native city. When a despotic emperor issued an edict that, he should, at the peril of his life, always continue within its walls, the oid man's boast had lost its charm, and he is said to have died of a broken heart, in consequence of the restraint. "For my part," continued the widower, "I think some beautiful lines in The Giaour,' not inapplicable to my argument,—

'The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void-The leafless desart of the mind

The waste of feelings unemployedWho would be doomed to gaze upon

Ephraim, take the world as it wags, though he were
droll as Scarron, easy as La Fontaine, and witty as
Cervantes, would he dare to trespass o'er the verge
of decorum by inuendo, inference, little playfulness
or what not, and escape? no, Sir, no more than if
silver forks; no, Sir! a man must look a Falstaff!
he opened the side-board drawer, and pocketed the
have a double chin and a laughing eye! It is only on
the outer covering-the funny-fat, that good breed-
ing, touching such liberties, consents to hang the
badge of license."

"Yet, spite of this necessity for bulk to cover saucy wit,-Caleb, no fatter than a half-starved stote, and visaged sharp as a prick-eared cur of Iceland,' said as he thought, and did what he pleased, the merry wag-made others fat, the rogue, with laughter, and laughed his own flesh away. Faith I remember Lib-for so we dubbed him, we were at school together; yes! I remember Lib making the master laugh and drop the strap, and once-O what a joyous day was that so little things of early days chase present thoughts, big with events, away! Aye-I have this day, odd enough, finished my eightieth year-and laugh-laugh-laughed, he-he-ha-ha -ha-at a frolic of his that happened before King George was king,-ba, ha,-he-he-he! wiping a tear of mirth from one eye, and one of affection from the other-which, worthy man, was almost dark. Yes! the audacious dog-I think I see him now, with his lively grey eye fixed on old scaretruant all askance, uttering his playful grumblings, till the good preceptor laughed ready to burst his sides. He-he-ba-ha-ha! Did'st never hear me tell it, Hardcastle? 'twas all about a new thrum mop,—” and then the old gentleman mopped his eyes again.

Our story was broken off suddenly, for it began to spit with rain, in sympathy perhaps with us two garrulous old men, for verily I laughed too until I cried. We spread our umbrellas, gave each other the good morrow, and went our respective ways. Mercy! how old acquaintances drop off-He too, I hear, has since knocked at that dread door, which, once entered, is closed upon you for ever! I had heard the tale before; and odd enough, by way of coincidence, for though losing it now from the lips of the original relator, through a sprinkling of rain, I had previously got it second-hand by favour of a thunder-shower, and that many years ago, under the shelter of Vanhagen's shop, facing the north-gate

of St. Paul's.

There was a custom, horrible to tell! in Scotland, once, when blood was to be spilled, to bring to the festive board a raw bull's head, and set it in a dish before the wretched victim who was doomed to die!

Scarcely less scared was he, the youth at Caleb's school, who having truant played or orchard robbed, when he beheld brought in a bran-span new birchbroom!

When things went very wrong, sometimes the potent monarch of the school would send the culprits one by one to the dark repository, to fetch each a broom, from which he was commanded to tear out the knotty sprigs, and bind up his own instrument of

punishment. Fetch me that thing,' quoth he, (for

the old gentleman at these awful times would speak in parables)- Fetch me that foul instrument,' quoth he, which servants use to sweep and clean corruption quite away from human sight, and each of you shall bind a rod, in presence of our majesty, such as your conscience shall suit unto the measure of your crimes.'

It happened that the stock was just exhausted. To make the matter still more solemn, he caused each culprit to send a written order to the pickleshop, and seal it with black wax, and wait without until the messenger returned. Then each was marshalled by loud command, and ordered to come forth bearing the ensign of disgrace. Eight unhappy wights crawled in, with downcast looks, each with a broom. Caleb brought up the rear, shouldering a new thrum mop, looking as bold as brass; he was the youngest of the group.

What's this I do behold?' quoth the schoolmaster, staring with surprise—' is it thus you dare mock me, urchin !'

'No, Sir,' said Caleb, standing with his broom as soldiers were wont to rest a pike, the other arm resting on his hip, I take you at your word, and chuse my rod from this, such as my conscience measures to my crime,' quoting at the same time without altering a muscle of bis roguish face-now, your majesty, clean corruption quite away from human sight, and give us a good thrumming!'

Where is your besom, Sir?' said the schoolmaster, struggling to keep his countenance.

'I trucked it with a witch for this thrum mop,' patting its woolly head, and it has a charm to hold

us harmless.'

A sky without a cloud or sun?"" The widower was proceeding with his objecIt was a magical charm, indeed! for the worthy tions when he was interrupted by an accidental circumstance; and the company beginning to schoolmaster laughed so heartily, so out of all deThis Vanhagen, would you know, was the famous cency in fact, that the Ushers politically begged a think the discussion rather tedious, and, being fat pastry-cook, who a long while kept the confec-half holiday for the whole school, to save his mafond of that variety which they had just been tioners on that spot, where perchance you, courteous jesty's reputation, and thus they escaped a thrumtold was essential to happiness, took the oppor-reader, have taken ice, and may again, if ice again ming! tunity of changing the subject.

J. T.

WINE AND WALLNUTS;

OR,

AFTER-DINNER CHIT-CHAT.

By a Cockney Greybeard.

CALEB WHITEFOORD AND THE THRUM MOP. "Of all the wits I ever knew, the most impudent dog, who really was not an impudent dog, was this said master Caleb Whitefoord," observed one of his oldest cronies, whom I lately met taking his forenoon hobble, as he termed it, round the bason at Constitution Hill,-'tis but a step from his house to Clerges-street.

appears! He, this said old Van, was a great joker
in his way and it was only last week when hunting
for something very remote to he,' that I found the
caricature of the hero of the rolling-pin, under the
title of the Soldier. tired of War's Alarms! He had
held a commission in the Train Bands-a corps, for
why I cannot bring to mind, that was the everlasting
butt whereat for wit and ridicule to aim the shaft.

The story then was this-since I am in a story-
telling mood-grant me thy patience, reader-then,
and it be thy pleasure, we will return to Hampstead,
and have a further cose at the Bull and Bush.

Caleb's schoolmaster was a humourist, and purchased all his rods, like old John Dick of Covent Garden, at a pickle-shop hard by-and in the shape and make of new birch brooms. This is a fact; and so have I heard did Thomas Dilworth, hight of Deptford, the schoolmaster so far famed! From these infernal brooms, worse than old witches cross"It is not uncommon, look you, mister Hard-ed, they used to cull your long and springy birch, castle," said he, "to meet with a man of a certain of which they fabricated such rods as made your bulk, who carries a portly corporation, who wears culprits tremble. a jocular, round, rosy face, particularly if he have a light brow, and white lashes to his eye: It is not uncommon with such a one, to say all what he thinks --and to be tolerated for all what he says-aye! even in good society-and by the very ladies too, yea! even by pretty misses, not yet come Perhaps the highest, the most finished order of this Momus-like being, was my honoured friend the old Lord Guildford.-Sir, he was unique-he was delectable. But a wight thin as you-or I, friend

out.

Old Dick returned his sticks, as we do bottles when we recruit our stock of wine, and had allowance. Dilworth, I'm told, had a garden; thither he consigned his sticks to train the scarlet-beans. But Caleb's schoolmaster, loyal soul! reserved his broomstuks for the fifth of November, and gave them, all fastened together with a thong, a notable bundle, like the Roman lictors' fasces, to help to burn, in ragged miserable effigy, old Guy, and his papa, no better clad, the Pope of Rome!

Caleb's ready wit, which began thus early, and continued so late, prompted him to take due advantage of his master's dramatic humour, and instead of sending for a birch-broom, he wrote an order for a best thrum mop, and desired it, at a venture, to be put down to the separate account of_mistress.

I verily believe,' said George Stevens, who told me this in Vanhagen's shop, and we all know what a curious nose he had for hunting out derivationsI do verily believe we may here trace the origin of the common threat, I will give you a good THRUMMING!'

Yet this has escaped the research of Johnson's daily hunt, and even the inquisitive nocturnal lamp, otherwise hucubrations, of the learned and right worthy chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury. But Lexicographying, like other mental pursuits, like memory to-wit, routs out things remote, when things present staring us in the face cannot be laid held of. So the butcher, dreaming of love perhaps, as he was skinning a lamb, called out for a light, when, mirabile dictu, a short six was blazing and guttering in the front of his hat!

So much for Caleb's thrum mop. But this is nothing to his tale of HURLO-THRUMBO, which made such a special noise some thirty-five years ago, which I would relate with all my heart, only that at this rate we shall never get back to Hampstead.

He was a choice fellow, that wight who told his story of a GUN,-who, though he had worked it as hatters o'er a trough work at a felt; namely, up to a point, then down again into a hole, then round about,

ORIGIN OF CINDERELLA.-The following story, which Burton, in his anatomy of MeAs sketched, in a Letter to a Friend, by Miss Seward. lancholy, (ed. 1813, vol. II. p. 404,) quotes from Ælian, is obviously the origin of one of our most popular nursery tales :—

He is a being of all others I ever knew the most heterogeneously contrasted--at once the most liberal, and the most ungenerous; the most dark, and the most enlightened; the most compassionate, and the most merciless; the most friendly, and the least sincere; the best tempered, and the most acrimonious; the most soothing, and the most abusive of mankind." I know him well. He was a native of Litchfield, his parents were extremely poor. My mother's father, a clergyman, and an eminent schoolmaster, gave him his education without the most distant idea of ever receiving a farthing on his account--took pains with him, as with the sons of the wealthiest gentlemen. He comes down for a month every two years, the guest of his daughter-in-law, an old friend of ours. Dr. J. may be called the most liberal of men, because he has open-handed bounty to all who need it, and has been known to divide his last guinea with the distressed, when all he possessed | lamus.