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Et que Rome, effacant tant de titres d'honneur

Me laisse pour tous noms, celui d'empoi

sonneur ?

Ils mettront ma vengeance au rang des parricides. [To be continued.]

Je n'ai que trop de pente á punir son au

dace ;

Et, si je m'en croyais, ce triomphe in

discret.

Serait bientôt suivi d'un eternel regret.
Muis,de tout l'univers quel sera le langage?
Sur les pas des tyrans veux tu que je
m'engage?

For the Monthly Anthology.
SILVA.

Cupidus SYLVARUM.-Juvenal.

CUMBERLAND.

THE memoirs of Cumberland are an entertaining work. He is particularly happy in the description of Irish manners, of which the following narrative is singularly illustrative.

A short time after this (says he) Lord Eyre, who had a great passion for cock-fighting, and whose cocks were the crack of all Ireland, engaged me in a maine at Eyre Court. I was a perfect novice in that elegant sport; but the gentlemen from all parts sent me in their contributions, and having a good feeder, I won every battle in the maine but one. At this meeting I fell in with my hero from Shannon bank. Both parties dined together, but when I found that mine, which was the more, numerous, infinitely the most obstreperous, and disposed to quarrel, could no longer be left in peace with our antagonists, I quitted my seat by Lord Eyre, and went to the gentleman above alluded to, who was presiding at the second table, and seating myself familiarly on the arm of his chair, propossed to him to adjourn our party, and assemble them in another house, for the sake of harmony and good fellowship. With the best grace in life he instantly assented, and when I added that I should put them under his care, and expect from him as a man of

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honour and my friend, that every mother's son of them should be found forth coming and alive the next morning. Then, by the soul of me, he replied, and they shall; provided only that no man in company shall dare to give the glorious and immortal memory for his toast, which no gentleman, who feels as I do, can put up with.' To this I pledged myself, and we removed to a whiskey house, attended by half a score of pipers, playing different tunes. Here we went on very joyously and lovingly for a time, till a well-dressed gentleman entered the room, and civilly accosting me, requested to partake of our festivity, and join the company, if nobody had an objection.

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Ah, now, don't be too sure of that,' a voice was instantly heard to reply, I believe you will find plenty of objection in this company to your being one amongst us.' What had he done, the gentleman demanded. What have you done?' rejoined the first speaker.

Don't I know you for the miscreant, that ravished the poor wench against her will in the presence of her mother? And didnt your pagans, that held her down, ravish the mother afterwards, in the presence of her daughter? And do you think we will admit you into our company? Make yourself sure that we shall not; therefore get out of this as speedily

as you can, and away wid you.' this nature, think themselves great Upon this the whole company philosophers. It is very proper rose, and in their rising the civil that these subjects should be progentleman made his exit, and was foundly understood, and that prooff. I relate this incident exactly fest adepts should be amply reas it happened, suppressing the warded for their ingenious and name of the gentleman, who was useful labours. But pursuits of a man of property and some con- this kind ought not to be made a sequence.

When my surprize branch of general education to the had subsided, and the punch be- exclusion of more useful acquisi„gan to circulate, with a rapidity tions. A gentleman may make a the greater for this gentleman's very handsome figure in life by the having troubled the waters, I took aid of literature alone ; but withmy departure, having first cau- out literature he can be agreeable tioned a friend, who sate by me, neither as a companion nora writer, (and the only protestant in the tho'he should possess the chymical company) to keep his head cool, skill of Lavoisier, or the astroand beware of the glorious memory. nomical knowledge of Herschel. This gallant young officer, son to “ As to physicks, or natural phi. a man, who held lands of my fa- losophy, (says Middleton) Cicero ther, promised faithfully to be so- seems to have had the notion with ber and discreet, as well knowing Socrates, that a minute and parthe company he was in. But my ticular attention to it, and the makfriend, having forgot the first part ing it the sole end and object of of his promise, and getting very our inquiries, was a study rather tipsy, let the second part slip out curious than profitable, and conof his memory, and became very tributing but littie to the improvemad; for stepping aside for his ment of human life. For though pistols, he re-entered the room, he was perfectly acquainted with and laying them on the table, took the various systems of all the phithe cockade , from his hat, and losophers of any name, from the dashed it into the punch-bowl, de- earliest antiquity, and has explainmanding of the company to drink ed them all in his works, yet he the glorious and immortal memory of. did not think it worth while, either king William in a bumper, or abide to form any distinct opinions of the consequences. I was not his own, or at least to declare there, and if I had been present I them. From his account, howcould neither have staid the tu- ever, of those systems, we may mult, nor described it. I only observe, that several of the fundaknow he turned out the next morn- mental principles of the modern ing merely for honour's sake, but philosophers, which pass for the as it was one against a host, the discoveries of these later times, magnanimity of his opponents let are the revival rather of ancient him off with a shot or two, which notions, maintained by some of the did no execution.'

first philosophy of whom we have any notice in history ; as, the

motion of the carth, the antipodes, I know not what Cicero would a vacuum, and an universal gravhave said of the dabblers in chym- itation, or attractive quality of istry, and the frivolous experimen- matter', wbich holds the world in talists of the present day, who, its present form and order." from a superficial knowledge of

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cessors, he would assign a very Johnson observes that Pope pre- high place to his translator, withferred for their harmony these two out requiring any other evidence lines :

of genius." Lo! where Mæotis sleeps, and hardly flows The freezing Tanais through a waste of snows.

Eugene Aram was a very ex. I have somewhere read that he traordinary man. Without the gave a decided preference for the aid of a master he gained a persame reason to the following in- fect knowledge of the Greek and scription on a grotto, which he Latin languages, and read all their translated from a modern Latin authors. He acquired the Chalpoet.

dee, Arabick, Hebrew, and Cel. Nymph of the grot ! this sacred scene I keep, tick, was an excellent botanist, and And to the murmur of those waters sleep. O, spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, a profound mathematician.

But And drink in silence, or in silence lave.

the excellence of his head could His attack on Colly Cibber was not counteract the depravity of his petulant and unjust. Cibber, far heart, and he was induced to murfrom being the dunce which Pope der Daniel Clark, a shoe-maker, to describes him, was a man of vig- possess himself of a trifling sum orous sense and lively wit, as may of money. The murder was conbe proved by his observations on cealed nearly fourteen years, and Cicero, and by many of his plays. was accidentally discovered by

Questions have been asked, and some bones which were dug up. doubts have been entertained, whe. Aram was tried, convicted, and ther Pope was a poet in the digni. executed, on the testimony of his fied meaning of the word. Let own wife, and on that of one the answer be given, and let the Houseman, who had been condoubt be destroyed, by the author. cerned in the murder, but on this ity of reason and the impartiality occasion turned king's evidence. of enlightened criticism.“ After The following defence, which this all this, it is surely superfluous to extraordinary man read in court, answer the question that has once is perhaps one of the finest pieces been asked, Whether Pope was a of eloquence in our language, and poet ; otherwise than by asking in will amply compensate for its return, if Pope be not a poet, where length by its uncommon excel. is poetry to be found ? To circum- lence. scribe poetry by a definition will "My Lord I know not whether only shew the narrowness of the it is of right, or through some indefiner, though a definition which dulgence of your lordship, that I shall exclude Pope will not easily am allowed the liberty at this bar, be made. Let us look round up- and at this time, to attempt a des on the present time, and back up- fence; incapable, and uninstructon the past ; let us inquire to whom ed, as I am to speak. Since, the voice of mankind has decreed while I see so many eyes upon the wreath of poetry ; let their me, so numerous and awful a conproductions be examined, and their course, fixed with attention, and claims stated, and the pretensions filled with I know not what exof Pope will be no more disputed. pectancy, I labour not with guilt,, Had he given the world only his my lord, but with perplexity. For version, the name of poet must have having never seen a court but this, been allowed him : if the writer of being wholly unacquainted with the “ Iliad” were to class his suc- law, the customs of the bar, and

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all judiciary proceedings, I fear I shall be so little capable of speaking with propriety in this place, that it exceeds my hope if I shall be able to speak at all.

I have heard, my lord, the indictment read, wherein I find myself charged with the highest crime; with an enormity I am altogether incapable of; a fact, to the commission of which there goes far more insensibility of heart, more profligacy of morals, than ever fell to my lot. And nothing possibly could have admitted a presumption of this nature but a depravity, not inferiour to that imputed to me. However, as I stand indicted at your lordship's bar, and have heard what is called evidence induced in support of such a charge, I very humbly solicit your lordship's patience, and beg the hearing of this respectable audience, while I, single and unskilful, destitute of friends, and unas sisted by counsel, say something, perhaps, like argument, in my de fence. I shall consume but little of your lordship's time; what I have to say will be short, and this brevity, probably, will be the best part of it however, it is offered with all possible regard, and the greatest submission to your lord. ship's consideration, and that of this honourable court.

First, my lord, the whole tenor of my conduct in life contradicts every particular of this indictment. Yet I had never said this, did not my present circumstances extort it from me, and seem to make it necessary. Permit me here, my lord, to call upon malignity itself, so long and cruelly busied in this prosecution, to charge upon me any immorality, of which prejudice was not the author. No, my lord, I concerted no schemes of fraud, projected no violence, injured no

man's person or property. My days were honestly laborious, my nights intensely studious. And, I humbly conceive, my notice of this, especially at this time, will not be thought impertinent, or unseasonable; but, at least, deserving some attention: because, my lord, that any person, after a temperate use of life, a series of thinking and acting regularly, and without one single deviation from sobriety, should plunge into the very depth of profligacy, precipitately and at once, is altogether improbable and unprecedented, and absolutely inconsistent with the course of things. Mankind is never corrupted at once; villainy is always progressive, and declines from right, step after step, till every regard of probity is lost, and every sense of all moral obligations totally perishes.

"Again, my lord, a suspicion of this kind, which nothing but malevolence could entertain, and ignorance propagate, is violently opposed by my very situation at that time, with respect to health: for, but a little space before, I had been confined to my bed, and suffered under a very long and severe disorder, and was not able, for half a year together, so much as to walk. The distemper left me indeed, yet slowly and in part; but so macerated, so enfeebled, that I was reduced to cructhes; and was so far from being well about the time I am charged with this fact, that I never to this day perfectly recov ered. Could then a person in this condition take any thing into his' head so unlikely, so extravagant ; I, past the vigour of my age, feeble and valetudinary, with no inducement to engage, no ability to accomplish, no weapon wherewith to perpetrate such a fact; without interest, without power, without motive, without means?

Besides, it must needs occur to every one, that an action of this atrocious nature is never heard of, but, when its springs are laid open, it appears that it was to support some indolence, or supply some luxury, to satisfy some avarice, or oblige some malice; to prevent some real, or some imaginary want yet I lay not under the in fluence of any one of these. Surely, my lord, I may, consistent with both truth and modesty, affirm thus much; and none who have any veracity, and knew me, will ever question this.

'In the second place, the disappearance of Clark is suggested as an argument of his being dead: but the uncertainty of such an inference from that, and the fallibility of all conclusions of such a sort, from such a circumstance, are too obvious, and too notorious, to require instances: yet, superseding many, permit me to produce a very recent one, and that afforded by this castle.

In June, 1757, William Thompson, for all the vigilance of this place, in open day-light, and double-ironed, made his escape; and, notwithstanding an immediate inquiry set on foot, the strictest search, and all advertisement, was never seen or heard of since. If then Thompson got off unseen, through all these difficulties, how very easy was it for Clark, when none of them opposed him? But what would be thought of a prosecution commenced against any one seen last with Thompson?

'Permit me next, my lord, to observe a little upon the bones which have been discovered. It is said, which perhaps is saying very far, that these are the skeleton of a man. It is possible indeed it may but is there any certain known criterion, which incontesta

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bly distinguishes the sex in human bones? Let it be considered, my lord, whether the ascertaining of this point ought not to precede any attempt to identify them.

The place of their depositum too claims much more attention than is commonly bestowed upon it for, of all places in the world, none could have mentioned any one, wherein there was greater certainty of finding human bones, than a hermitage; except he should point out a church-yard : hermitages, in time past, being not only places of religious retirement, but of burial too. And it has scarce or never been heard of, but that every cell, now known, contains, or contained, these relicks of humanity; some mutilated, and some entire. I do not inform, but give me leave to remind your lordship, that here sat solitary sanctity, and here the hermit, or the anchoress, hoped that repose for their bones, when dead, they here enjoyed when living,

All this while, my lord, I am sensible this is known to your lordship, and many in this court, better than I. But it seems necessary to my case, that others, who have not at all, perhaps, adverted to things of this nature, and may have concern in my trial, should be made acquainted with it. Suffer me then, my lord, to produce a few of many evidences, that these cells were used as repositories of the dead, and to enumerate a few, in which human bones have been found, as it happened in this in question; lest, to some, that accident might seem extraordinary, and, consequently, occasion prejudice.

1. The bones, as was supposed, of the Saxon, St. Dubritius, were discovered buried in his cell at Guy's cliff, near Warwick, as

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