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If the corn be less good when we happen to reap,
More plenteous the grass for the cows and the sheep;
If hot, it is better to ripen the grain;

If cloudy, my men their work better sustain ;
And, whate'er be the weather, the wind and the rain,
Still all goes on well, and I never complain.
Instead, then, of watching the clouds and the wind,
That promise most gracious I bear in my mind,
That thro' ages, so long as the earth shall remain,
Shall seed-time require, and harvest give grain,
The cold and the heat, and the day and the night,
And summer and winter their course take aright;'
And, whate'er be the weather, the wind and the rain,
I will still trust in God, and will never complain.

The Virginia creeper (hedera quinque-folia) is particularly rich and beautiful in the autumnal mouths, with its leaves of every hue, from a bright to a dark green and deep crimson.

That highly-esteemed fish, the salmon, now ascends rivers to deposit its spawn in their gravelly beds, at a great distance from their mouths. The trees are now stripped of their foliage.

TREES IN AUTUMN.

Alas! their splendour does but mark their fall,
Such is, and e'er shall be the lot of all;
Soon the north winds th' neighbouring vales shall fill
With branchy spoils from every tow'ring hill:
The leaves by fits too, strewn upon the ground,
May rouse the wanderer from his thoughts profound;
Yet still for me these ruins have their charms,

And, if some fond regret my soul alarms,

With nature's grief I love to mix mp own,

Well pleased to stay amidst these scenes alone;

And whilst I on their leafy honours tread,

The days of vanity and folly fled,

Let me to musing melancholy bring

A tribute equal to the sprightly spring;

Not her whose cloud-wrapp'd brow is mix'd with storms,
Or angry lightnings which her face deforms;
But her who through her misty veil we trace,
When lovely autumn shews each softer grace,
With pensive looks, calm front, and dewy eyes,
That sober sympathy to all supplies.

Delille.

The stock-dove (columba ænas) one of the latest winter birds of passage, arrives from more northern regions, towards the end of this month. The females and young of the brown or Norway rat now leave their holes at the sides of ponds and rivers, to which they had betaken themselves in the spring, and repair to barns, out-houses, corn-stacks, and dwellings. Moles now make their nests, in which they lodge during the winter, and which are ready for depositing their young in the spring. These are distinguished by being of a larger size than the common mole-hill, and are lined with dried grass, leaves, &c.

The woodman now repairs to the woodlands to fell coppices, underwood, and timber.

(Continued from our last.)

Biographical Notices.

THE ANTIQUARY.

least the merit of being a faithful picture of his habits
and pursuits:-

In Mancunium lived a man who knew

Much of old times, and much of ancient lore;
Strange and scarce books had he, and curious coins,
Medals, and painted glass, and ponderous arms,
Helmets and breast-plates, gauntlets vast, and shields
Of many kinds, proof against bloody War;
Swords without number, of murdering shapes;
And one, which erst had graced a Prince's thigh,
More valued than the rest-and more revered
By him who owned it, and by all his friends.
He was versed in heraldry, and could tell
How all the thanes and all the knights and squires,
And famed, too, was he, for his industry,
Within his shire, had sprung from times remote.
For aye at Work, for much his business called;
And yet full many a picture did he paint,
Pedigrees copied, branch and root, and carvings made
Of antique shapes; and, almost beyond belief,
Helmets and shields, to rival Greece and Rome;
Nay, once, grappling Patience, he made a suit of mail,
Stealing from sleep the time to give them form.
With thousands upon thousand links, for the love
He bore to ancient arms; for he was curious
As the searching air, which pries, without a blush,
Into things scarce, or sacred, or profane.

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Hard Times in Cincinnati.-The following extract
of a letter, dated July 26, to a gentleman in Lexingtont
is copied from the Public Advertiser. We are aware
that the distress in that town was keenly felt, but had
formed no idea that it was so great as here de cribed:
"I am sorry I can give you no good tidings of this
once flourishing town. The distress is beyond all con-
ception. Marshal and sheriff sales are almost daily. To
give you an idea of the situation of this town (alas! it is
called a city!) I will give you a statement of some pro-
perty sold this day by the Marshal, and which I have
seen myself. A handsome gig and very valuable horse
sold for four dollars; an elegant sideboard for three dol-
lars; a fine Brussels carpet, and two Scotch carpets, for
three dollars; three beds and bedding for three dollars;
a good dining table for 25 cents; and a long list of other
valuable articles at the same rate, and which I cannot
now exactly remember, and would not mention for fear
of mistakes."-American papers.

On Sunday, in the 77th year of his age, died, Mr. T. Barrit, of Hanging-ditch, Manchester; but better known, and in a far more expanded field, as an Antiquarian of no common acquirements; as a man to whom the first scholars in the kingdom have often applied for information, and have bowed to his opinions, At Girgentum, in Sicily, there are immense wells dug which, on subjects connected with general and local an out of the rock, for the purpose of keeping grain for tiquities, Genealogy and Heraldry, could at any time be the use of the troops and inhabitants: during the late quoted as most respectable authority. He was, we be- revolution in Sicily the King's troops of the abovelieve, the oldest member of the Manchester Literary mentioned garrison seized the convicts, about 300 in and Philosophical Society, to whose Memoirs he contri- number, and lowered them down into these empty fosses, buted several ingenious papers. We cannot refrain as they are called, where, from the excessive heat, numfrom adding the following tribute to the persevering in-bers were suffocated, and others, in desperation, dedustry and talents of Mr. Barritt, which was paid to him nearly twenty years ago by one who knew him well, who valued his friendship, and who now mourns his death. The lines (humble as the poetry is) have at

stroyed each other. There could have been no real ne-
cessity for this horrid way of sacrificing the poor wretches,
as they were strongly ironed and in the midst of a gar-
rison of nearly 8000.

A BLACKSMITH'S WIFE BECOME A QUEEN.

It is a curious circumstance that the present Queen of the Sandwich Islands was formerly, or rather is at this time, the wife of a Russian blacksmith. An Eng. lish vessel lying off, what we usually call the Fox Island, several years ago, one of the officers became enamoured of the fair spouse of a son of Vulcan there; and, his passion being returned, contrived to smuggle her on board the vessel, and keep her there concealed without the knowledge of his captain, till they had cleared the port.

In the course of the voyage, however, the circumstance became known to the Captain, who being highly enraged at such a breach of faith and discipline, kept her con fined till they arrived at the Sandwich Islands, where she was put on shore. The forlorn Ariadne, however, found a Bacchus for her Theseus, a royal lover to replace her lost Lieutenant. The King of the Island became enamoured of the fair Russian, made her his wife and raised her to his throne. He was no every day King. him a savage. He progressively created a respectable He was a statesman and a hero, though we should call navy of several well-built frigates, taught his subjects to be excellent sailors; raised armies, subdued the sur rounding islands, and at the close of a prosperous teigs, left his possessions and his sovereignty to his Queen, who now reigns as his successor. She is well obeyed by her subjects; possesses great wealth in flocks, herds, and rice grounds, and sends frequent presents to her former deserted husband, who still continues to hammer horses' shoes in a Russian colony, while his faithless, but seems, not quite ungrateful spouse, stretches her sceptre over several prosperous isles.

Hospitable Institution.-The labours, the attentions, and the hazards of the monks of St. Bernard, who in habit the highest regions of the Alps are too well known, nor can any considerate person, whether or not he has been assisted by their exertions and hospitality, with hold the praise due to that compassionate fraternity. But it is not so well known, that a similar institution exists among the defiles of Mount Olympus; or, at least, an institution that has in view the same purposes, and employs the same means. It is maintained by five vil lages, the inhabitants of which pay no kind of tax, but are bound to give their assistance to all travellers who cross the mountains; and to serve them as guides They discharge this honourable task with the greates alacrity and good management; and like the benevolen religious already alluded to, they employ the sagacity of dogs, to discover travellers who may have been so unke. tunate as to be buried Beneath the snow.

Punishment of Drunkards at Constantinople.-T Grand Vizier, in order to fill his coffers, command during the festival of the Bairami, and in times of mity, that the taverns, which, like the gaming-house Europe, are licensed, shall he shut, and soon afterwards t receives a petition from the Greeks accompanied with a present, which settles all difficulties. The news of the opening of the taverns spreads joy among the drinks, tised for their want of decorum. A Turk found drunk who form a numerous class, though they are often cha in the streets by the guard is condemned to the bas nado, which punishment is inflicted three times, if he so often commit the offence; after this, he is considered incorrigible, and receives the title of an imperial or pri vileged drunkard. The next time he is arrested and in danger of receiving punishment, he has only to tell his name, and prove his privilege, in order to be released. -Fouqueville.

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Miracle. At the church of St. Gervais, in Paris, a mass, called the the Hostie enlevée," is performed every Friday. Respecting the origin of this custer", the following curious story is related, A thief stole the vessel containing the host from the church of St. Gervais. On arriving near St. Denis, be opened the cup, when the host flew out, and fluttered around him, without his being able to catch it. He was tried and condemned on the prosecution of the Abbé of St. Denis. A lawsuit afterwards ensued between the Abbe and the Bishop of Paris, respecting the possession of the miraculous host; and it was finally agreed that it should be delivered up to the curate of St Gerval, who had consecrated it; but on the express conditi that the mass above mentioned should be regularly

celebrated.

Vaulting Ambition.-A rope-dancer lately applied to the magistrate of a little town in Switzerland, for permission to perform within his jurisdiction. The magistrate refused, observing that the country was already overrun with mountebanks. But (said the dancer) I am not one of the common class; here is proof of my superiority." With these words, he leaped completely over the head of the magistrate, and this feat of agility gained him the indulgence he applied for.

The title of Lord Byron's forthcoming tragedy is, we hear," The Doge of Venice." We have before mentioned that it is to be published, not acted.

so abundant in the Philadelphia market, that those of a
Cheap Fruit.-In the summer of 1819, peaches were
quality fit to be placed upon any gentleman's table were
carted about the streets, and sold 12-10, and even 64
cents a half peck. This year, those of the same quality
are selling from 25 to 50 cents.

The Drama.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR, It is a matter of regret to me, that I have not witnessed Mr. Vandenhoff's performance in any of his principal characters, excepting Lucius Junius Brutus, and his great descendant, Marcus; a regret which I feel the more deeply, as he has given out to the public, Duelling-Some writer says this practice ought to be At this time, melons are so abundant as to be almost that he is about to come before the bar of the million, in encouraged, on the probability that in most duels, the without a price. The cry of melons and cantelopes, for an engagement at Covent-garden. Vandenhoff's Lucius world may get rid of one fool if not two. We never sale, assails our ears in every street and at every corner, Junius is a fine and correct piece of acting, and unsaw a better illustration of the principle, than in a morn- and from morning until night. But loads of water-doubtedly superior to Mr. Kean's. Indeed, in almost ing paper lately, which announces a duel being about to melons have been sold, of ordinary size, at 100, 75, 50, all the essentials requisite for the just representation of take place at Cheltenham, in consequence of a pamph- and even 374 cents per hundred. and the largest single this noble character, Vandenhoff has a great advantage let published there by a physician, respecting the com- one which is brought to market, can be had for 64 cents. over his Herculean rival. Man is more or less the slave parative efficacy of the waters of the different spas !"-Philadelphia Daily Advertiser. of prejudices; and those which we form in boyhood are The magistrates prevented the meeting. "What a pity! plants that take deep root, and wither but with life. All -Wooler's British Gazette. the cool experience and philosophy of our maturer years are unable to shake them, and they fall, like old Priam's dart, Telum in belle sine ictu. When our boyish imaginations are roused by the exploits of a Camillus, a Coriolanus, or a Brutus, as painted by the masterly pencil of Livy, we ascribe to them the highest physical and moral attributes. They are men, to use the words of the poet, "Who are as a rock,

As some workmen were lately repairing the church of St. Mary-de-Crypt, in Gloucester, they discovered A Swiss soldier, of the 7th regiment of the Roya under one of the tables of benefactions a very curious Guard, who was killed in a duel, was lately inter-painting in fresco, representing a nobleman and his red in the burial-ground of Vaurigard. A young and ady richly attired, with coronets on their heads; it is handsome female, who was fondly attached to the de- thought that the persons here represented were James ceased, followed his remains from Orleans to Paris. She Lord Berkely and his lady. The lady was cruelly on after repaired to the tomb of her lover, where she murdered in Gloucester Castle, and was buried in the gabbed herself three times with a pair of scissors, and adjoining monastery of Grey Friars, 1452. was carried off in a state which renders her recovery Doubtful.

Hymen on Crutches.-John Graham, of Bannockburn, miserable looking old man, about 70 years of age, Bring a wooden leg, and leaning upon crutches, was targed with celebrating clandestine marriages, and on is own confession found guilty, and banished Scotland life.Graham, we understand, was a dissenting miister near Kilsyth.

Wonderful Potato.-A remarkable potato was raised ta field at Marchfield, belonging to James Heron, Esq. potato, of the enormous weight of 4lb. 1oz. This ocato is of the Winter-kidney kind, and has six of those crescences, which gardeners call paps, growing from he main body. But even independently of these exrescences, the body is of itself at least 3lb. weight, and rans by far the largest potato we ever saw.-Dumfries Tourier, Oct. 24.

Gathering of the Clans.-It is a singular circumstance, that, in the island of Ceylon, a custom prevailed among the natives of the former kingdom of Candy, similar to the Gathering," described in Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake. On any sudden call of the natives to rise up in arms, one of them, carrying a crooked stick in his ad, ran swiftly along, announcing to all he met the bot of rendezvous. The place was generally some Ball rising ground, and marked by a single tree left ading. There are many such in the Canadian territy, and they are commonly the resort of the natives religious or other purposes.

The prolific author of Waverley, whose genius eres to be as inexhaustible as it is extraordinary, has nounced another romance, the title of which is "Kenworth." From this name we presume that it will emble Ivanhoe more than any of the other produc-s of the same pen; and from the circumstance havtranspired, we expect that we may look for its comtion soon after Christmas.

Extraordinary instance of honesty.-A farmer of the be of Waller, who formerly resided near Stockton, Fame unfortunate and failed, and was unable to pay ⚫ creditors more than 8s. in the pound. Since that ind (twenty-six years ago) he has by his industry, alised a sufficient sum to pay his creditors 203. in the tand, and last Tuesday summoned the whole of them the house of Mr. Simpson, Red Lion, Silver-street, This city, where, (after treating them with a good dinhe paid them a further dividend of twelve shillings. creditors wishing to testify their admiration, as well ratitude for such an honourable action, immediately scribed a sum to buy Mrs. Waller a set of China. rham Chronicle.

specimen of the Corona Solis, or Sun-flower, was wn down by the late high winds in the garden of Mr. omas King, at Lewes, the stem was above 15 feet h, and of a proportionate circumference; and it exsited more than thirty branches bearing flowers.

Curiosity. At a museum in Hamburgh, we are told they exbibit, among other ancient reliques, a fragment of a black substance, which they call "Egyptian Darkness." This, they think, agrees with the ancient description in one particular at least, viz. that it might be felt.

29.13 Mean.
30.45 | Highest.
28.60 Lowest.
1.85 | Range.

.85 | Greatest variation in 24 hours. 5.6 | Mean daily Spaces in inches. 15 Number of changes.

| Real Spaces in Inches.

| Real Number of Changes.
47.7° Mean.
61° | Highest.
35° | Lowest.
26° | Range.

14° | Greatest variation in 24 hours.
4.310 Inches.

21 Number of wet days.

0 | Foggy.

0 Snowy.
0 | Haily.

0 | North.

6 | North-east.
0 East.

1 | South-east.
1 | South.

13 | South-west.

5 | West.

1 | North-west.
4 Variable.
0 Calm.
1 | Brisk.

0 Boisterous.

REMARKS.

METEOROLOGICAL

REPORT

Temperature Rain, &c. |
Deducted from Diurnal Observations made at Manchester, in the month of October, 1820.
BY THOMAS HANSON, Surgeon.
OF THE ATMOSPHERICAL PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE, RAIN, WIND, &c.

Barometrical Pressure.

Wind.

The greatest daily variation of the barometer was on the 22d; upwards of eight-tenths of an inch of pressure was lost in the course of the day. The greatest daily variation of temperature was on the 15th. Mean temperature of the 40th week, commencing on the 30th of September, 50°; 41st, 49.4°; 42d, 48 3°; 43d, 45.4; ending on the 27th of the present month.

The character of this month has been wet and variable; upwards of four inches of rain has fallen on twenty-one days and nights, eight of which may be designated as very rainy.

Ice was noticed on the ground for the first time this season, on the 21st. Prevailing winds south-east.

Opposed to the rude sea that beats against it,
Worn by the waves, yet still o'ertopping them
In sullen majesty."

Now, when we see an actor like Kean, possessed of
none of these external requisites for Roman representa-
tion, come before us in Brutus or Cato, we cannot help
remembering all the time, that it is Mr. Kean; and thus
the illusion, which is so necessary to the pleasure of the
spectator, is entirely lost. In short, an actor, to pro-
duce a powerful effect on his audience, must completely
identify himself with the character he represents; and
this, from his physical defects, Mr. Kean is unable to
do in his representation of the heroes of Greece or Rome.
Mr. Vandenhoff's physical attributes are very great.
His voice is full toned, powerful, and melodious; and
in those passages which express patriotism or magnani-
mity, extremely grand. His figure, although not of
correet symmetry, is dignified and commanding; his
gestures, which are sometimes too stiff and formal, are
yet chaste, and never offend against the modesty of na..
ture; his countenance is in some respects defective, but
he has such a wonderful power over it, and fashions it'
so finely to the conceit of the character he represents,
that I may apply to him with great justice, the follow-
ing passage of the great master spirit of nature:
"This player here,

But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit,
That from her working all his visage wann'd;
Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,

A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit."
But I am afraid I am departing from my original in-
tention, which was to offer some observations on Mr.
Vandenhoff's representation of Marcus Brutus. Not-:
withstanding the high opinion I entertained of this
actor's merits, I confess I took my seat in the Theatre
not without some fears of his success; for I had im-
bibed such a prejudice in favour of the Brutus of Kem-
ble, that mighty identifier of Roman character, that I
doubted if I could relish its representation by any other

actor.

"He was a man take him for all in all,

We may not look upon his like again."

These doubts were however most agreeably dispelled,
and since the days of our second British Roscius, I do
not know when I was more delighted: Mr. Vandenhoff's
Brutus was a complete masterpiece; he was throughout
the whole performance, the noble, generous, patriotic
Roman-the friend of peace, and the guardian of the
freedom and liberty of his country. The actor identi-
fied himself completely with the character; the audi-
ence seemed entirely to forget him; and the patriot
that slew his best lover for the good of Rome, and had
the same dagger for himself when it should please his
country to need his death, stood before them.

when he meditates on the death of Casar, was very fine,
His soliloquy in the first scene of the Second Act,
particularly his promise of redress to his country:
"O Rome, I make thee promise

If the redres will follow, thou receiv'st
Thy full petition at the hand of Cæsar."

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Cæsar mina bleed for it! and, gentle friend,
L's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully
Let's carve him as a dish fit for the Gods,
Not hew hit na areas is for hounds"

mjestad te kurder, knew little, and cared less, for
by thing pertamang to learning or the Belles Lettres
these were happy days, Mr. Editor, but as the poet says,

TO THE EDITOR.

STE—I was much pleased at your noticing that very duagreeable nuisance which has so often in fested our streets. I mean, what is called " playing at bandy." I could enumerate a variety of serious injuries, in addition to those mentioned by your correspondent, that have too frequently attended this dangerous amusement. But as instances can be wanting to none, from the frequency of their ocear. recce, it appears unnecessary to particularize any is dividually. It is of a more serious and still mur dangerous evil, that I beg leave to solicit your i terposition in order to prevent. This is allowing powder to boys. While they pretend to commemorate the happy frustration of an event long gone by, and which does not appear to have any reference to the of dangers. Every praise is due to our worthy Chief present times, they subject themselves to a variety

"Tyes metaciet et nos mutamur in Niu,” the realization of which sage axiom our family have proved within the last two years. An Ozonian cousin has discovered that there are some faint glimmerings of genius amidst our intellectual darkness; and on this hint a total change and reform in our manners and custos has been effected. My father has become chief orator at his political club, and has already laid the corner-stone of his reputation, by his last speech on the Turnpike Act." My mother reads us sermons of her own composing, which have always the undesired effect of setting us all asleep. My sister has turned portess, and has already composed three son-Magistrate for issuing handbills to prevent accidents The famous address to the Romans, Vriends, Romans, nets-"To Sensibility," "To a Tear," and "On the entrymen wod lovers," was rather delivered in too ele death of the Princess Charlotte:" the last beginning vated a tone of voles, and, on that account, lost some of with, "Why weeps the Muse," is universally admired, He offers but upon the whole, it was a fine piece of de- and even quoted by the parson himself, in his sermon clamation. To enumerate the scenes in which this actor serelled, wild upy much more space than is consist'other day; and my maiden aunt, Deborah, having no ant with the plan of your journal. But I cannot close this taste for literature, is content to raise her reputation on subjects without taking some notice of his performance the tottering basis of a tiff-raff shaking pudding, or the in the last scene in the fourth act. This scene, for the nagural exhibition of impotent rage on the one side, and endless ramifications of a dish of macaroni; in the patient suffering and magnanimity on the other, excels making of both which dainties she has attained a mort very thing of the kind in the drains of this or any other enviable pitch of pre-eminence. On my own merit efury, is no wonder, then, that an actor of such talents pa Mr. Vandenhoff, should rise far above himwer in it. Indeed there was something so ineffably pro viking in the galim dignified indifference, and in the fatter lawiting irony with which he answered the threats of Caggs, that I could forgive him the latter from my heart had he been tempted to have forgotten himself." The spirit of Brutus flew only to his eye, and his steady look slons, supplied that terror which he disdained to effect by a intemperance in his voice and with a settled dignity of contempt, like an unheeding rock, he repelled the foam of Cassius.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
For I am arm'd so strong in honesty,
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which respect not.

1 must be dumb.

You see, Mr. Editor, what a little nest of geniuses we form; one fame was all about the country, and of Minerva in those parts; yet in such society, where "Roast Beef Hall," became the acknowledged temple one might expect to find social and elegant mìrth gil་་ ding the feast of reason and the flow of soul," should we not all be happy? Alas! it is not so. My father is happy when composing, and still more when reading to us his club speeches, a weekly penance we endure every Monday morning at breakfast. My mother is happy when she is lulling her nodding audience by the somniferous and unaccountable spell her homilies proUpon the whole, the masterly manner in which this very duce. My sister is happy when she sees, under the illicule character was sustained throughout, reflects the word "original," her own verses shining in fair print highest honour on Mr. Vandenhoff, as an actor and a scholar, and when I say that he was greeted with just in your amusing Kaleidoscope; and happy, thrice and deserved applause, I am saying a great deal, and happy, is that amiable spinster, my aunt Deborah, probably paying the best compliment to the actor for when she sees the oft-replenished plate of the parson or detticism, to use the words of a cotemporary writer, written oritielam may either be unjust, or interested, or exciseman sent again for another small piece of her pudinsincere. Hat the involuntary and unpremeditated ap-ding; with a commendatory expatiation on its merits, plauso that bursts from an assembled multitude, is quite between the time the plate vanishes from under his Conclusive; it goes directly to the matter, and there is fork, till it resumes its place again on the table-cloth. no gainsaying It

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plied, and yet so liute capable of analysis, as that of gemisk. It runs in so many various channels, and as

I alone am the black sheep amidst this fair flock. My
father calls me a "blockhead;" my mother and sister
declare me "incorrigible; and my aunt Deborah has
never forgiven me the insult I put upon her, by making
her favourite cat swallow half the contents of the
mustard pot. I am fond of society: but false taste
and ignorance have banished it from this house: no
more hunting parties, no more balls; all is dull, stupid,
and tiresome; and were it not for fear of being disin-
herited, I should be at open war with the whole party.
My sister has prevailed on her father to change the

name of our seat; and "Roast Beef Hall" is now

by fire-wurks, but methinks he has not struck at the root of this evil; and I know you will ndulge the warmth of a parent's feelings (whose only child has been nearly deprived of sight, and totally of the use of one hand by gunpowder), when I say, that did, and so unfeeling as to sell this dangerous com long as any shall be found so inconsiderate-50 Fposition to a thoughtless child, this evil will still continue.

That such wretches abound, I bare no hesitation in saying, though I do not wa to mention any one in particular; but should the dictates of humanity so far preponderate over the diminish this serious evil, an important consolation acquisition of a little paltry gain, as in any degree w would be enjoyed by many an unhappy

Liverpool, Nov. 10, 1820.

TO THE EDITOR.

PARENT.

esteemed paper, to state the great inconvenience part of SIB, I beg leave, through the medium of the congregation of St. Peter's church are under, young persons of both sexes, who make a practice meeting, every Sunday afternoon, in a gallery near the least paying little attention to them, "This is ent organ; forgetting the words over the Communion, of other but the house of God;" for, during the whale time of Divine service, they are talking, laughing, and making a noise with the chains belonging to the p speedily be removed, is the sincere wish of Hoping this long-continued eyl Yours, respectfully,

books, &c.

November 8, 1820.

A FRIEND TO GOOD ORDIL

To Correspondents.

GENERAL APOLOGY.-The messenger to whose cle our acknowledgments to Correspondents was com mitted, lost the manuscript from the packet, in the road between our residence and the printing-office. E. J. of Staffordshire Potteries, one of whose pieces peared in a recent number, is informed that we feat we have mislaid the copy of the remainder, which i was our intention to publish also. If our correspond ent can overlook the circumstance, we hope to her again from him.

of the Stranger's Friend fund.

sumes an many grotesque appearances, that it would mollitied into "Hymetrus Park." These innovations BENVOLIO'S ONE POUND has been passed to the tredit require the eve of a Lavater, or the figures of a Spur distract me, and when I say so, I am told that I have aheim, to detect it beneath its variety and multiplicity genius. Pray now, Mr. Editor, do let the world of superficial owvering. To a family who are "each and know what is the actual definition of the word genius all gen del belong my grandfathers, good honest and whether bad taste, ignorance, and folly, can ever

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Literary and Scientific Mirror.

No. 21.-NEW SERIES.

Circumstantial Evidence.

(Continued from our former numbers.)

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that he entreated the deceased to discover, if possible, the occasion of his misfortune, assuring him he would use his utmost endeavours to bring the murderer to justice; that the deceased seemed to be sensible of

during which, he observed the change of the more so, as there seemed too much raiment which the prisoner had made since reason to apprehend he had been murdered; the time he had seen him in the morning; that at the time of the examination, the In the reign of Queen Elizabeth a person prisoner was dressed in the same cloaths was arraigned before Sir John Dyer, Lord which he had on at the trial; end that on Chief Justice of the Court of Common the witness's charging him with having Pleas, upon an indictment for the murder changed his clothes, he gave several evasive what he said, and in the midst of his agoof a man who dwelt in the same parish with answers, and would have denied it; that nies attempted to speak, but being seized the prisoner. The first witness deposed, upon his mentioning this circumstance of with a rattling in his throat, after a hard hat on a certain day mentioned by the the change of dress, the justice granted a struggle, he gave a dreadful groan, and vitness, in the morning, as he was going warrant to search the prisoner's house for vomiting a great deal of blood, some of hrough a close which he particularly de- the clothes described by the witness, as which fell on his (the prisoner's) clothes,' eribed, at some distance from the path, he having been put off since the morning; that he expired in his arms; that the shock he aw a person lying, seeming to be either after a diligent search the very clothes felt on account of this accident was not to lead or drunk: that he went and found him which the witness had described were dis-be expressed; and the rather, as it was well ctually dead, two wounds appearing in his covered all bloody, concealed in a straw known there had been a difference between reast, and his shirt and clothes much bed. He then produced the bloody clothes the deceased and himself, on which account tained with blood; that the wounds ap-in court, which the prisoner owned to be peared to have been given by the puncture his, and to have been thrust into the straw of a fork or some such instrument: and bed, with an intention to conceal them on looking about he discovered a fork, lying account of their being bloody. near the corpse, which he took up, and observed it to be marked with the initial leters of the prisoner's name. The witness the same time produced the fork in court, hich the prisoner owned to be his.

A second witness deposed, that on the worning of the day on which the deceased as killed, he had risen early with an intenon to go to a neighbouring market-town; ad as he was standing in his house, the oor being open, he saw the prisoner go by, essed in a suit of clothes, the colour and shion of which he described; that he (the itness) was prevented from going to maret, and afterwards the first witness brought otice to the town of the death and wounds the deceased, and of the prisoner's fork ing found near the corpse; that upon this port the prisoner was apprehended and rried before a justice of the peace, who s then present in court; that he (the itness) followed the prisoner to the jusce's house and attended his examination,

he might possibly be suspected of the murder: that he therefore thought it advisable to leave the deceased in the condition he was, and to take no further notice of the The prisoner being called upon to make matter, that in the confusion he was in, his defence, gave the following narrative to when he left the place, he took away the the court as containing all he knew con- fork of the deceased, and left his own in cerning the manner and circumstance of the room of it, by the side of the corpse; the death of the deceased, viz. "That he that, being obliged to go to his work, he rented a close in the same parish with the thought it best to shift his clothes; and that deceased, and that the deceased rented they might not be seen, he confessed he had another close adjoining to it: that the only hid them in the place where they were found: way to his close was through that of the that it was true, he had denied before the jusdeceased, and on that day when the murder tice to have changed his clothes, being conwas committed, he rose early in the morn-scious that it was an ugly circumstance that ing to go to work in his close, with a fork might be urged against him, and being unin his hand, and passing through the ground willing to be brought into trouble, if he could of the deceased, he observed a man at some distance from the path, lying as if dead, or drunk; that he went to see what condition the person was in, and found him in the last extremity, with two wounds in his breast, from which a great deal of blood had issued; that, in order to relieve him, he raised him up, and with great difficulty set him in his lap; that he told the deceased he was greatly concerned at his unhappy fate, and

help it. He concluded his story with a solemn declaration, that he had related nothing but the truth, without adding or diminishing one tittle, as he should answer it to God Almighty." Being called upon to produce his witnesses, the prisoner answered with a steady composed countenance and solemn tone of voice, that he had no witness but God and his own conscience.

The Judge then proceeded to deliver his

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charge to the Jury, in which he pathetically the next morning, he sent again to the jury, at the accident, and especially when the enlarged on the heinousness of the crime, on which all the eleven members joined in prisoner was taken up on suspicion of the and laid great stress on the force of the evi- requesting their Foreman to go again into murder: that the former assizes being just dence, which, although circumstantial only, Court, assuring him they would adhere to over, he was unwilling to surrender himself he declared he thought to be irresistible, their former verdict, whatever was the con- because his farm and affairs would have and little inferior to the most positive proof: sequence; and upon being reproached for been ruined, by his living in a jail so long: that the prisoner had indeed contrived a their former inconstancy, they promised that he was sure to have been acquitted on very plausible story, but if such allegations never to desert or recriminate their Foreman his trial, for he had consulted the ablest were admitted, in a case of this kind, no any more. Upon this, they proceeded into lawyers on the case, who all agreed, that as murderer would ever be brought to justice, Court, and again brought in the prisoner-the deceased had been the aggressor, be such bloody deeds being generally perpe- Not Guilty. would only be found guilty of manslaughter trated in the dark, and with the greatest seit was true he had suffered greatly in ba cresy that the present case was exempted, own mind on the prisoner's account; but in his opinion, from all possibility of doubt, being well assured that imprisonment would and that they ought not to hesitate one mobe of less ill consequence to the prisoner ment about finding the prisoner guilty. than to himself, he had suffered the law to take its course. And in order to reader

The Judge, unable to conceal his rage at a verdict which appeared to him in the most iniquitous light, reproached them with the severest censures, and dismissed them with this cutting reflection, "That the blood of the deceased lay at their door."

The Foreman begged of his Lordship, as it was a case of life and death, that the The Judge enquired, both of the sheriff the prisoner's confinement as easy as possi Jury might be at liberty to withdraw; and and the minister of the parish, into the cha-ble, he had given him every kind of assiste upon this motion, an officer was sworn to racter of the Foreman, who each gave him ance, and had wholly supported his family keep the Jury. This trial came on in the an excellent character. ever since; but to get him cleared of the morning, and the Judge having sat till nine These accounts rather increased his Lord-charge against him, he could think of no at night, expecting the return of the jury, ship's perplexity; he therefore desired a other expedient than procuring himself to at last sent an officer, to enquire if they conference with the juryman. The jury-be summoned on the jury, and sit at the were agreed in their verdict, for his Lord-man and his Lordship having met, and re- head of them, which with great labour and ship would wait no longer for them. Some tired to a closet, the Judge asked his rea- expense he had accomplished, having all answered, that eleven of them had been of sons for acquitting the prisoner. The jury- along determined in his own breast, rather one mind from the first, but their Foreman man said, as he was under no compulsion to die himself, than to suffer any harm to was of a different opinion, and was unaltera- to avow his reasons, he expected his Lord-be done to the prisoner." bly fixed in it. ship would engage upon his honour, to His Lordship expressed great satisfaction The messenger no sooner returned, but keep what he was about to unfold, as secret at this account, and after thanking him for the complaining members, alarmed at the as himself had done; which his Lordship it, and making this farther stipulation, that thoughts of being confined all night, and having promised to do, the juryman then in case his Lordship should happen to sur despairing of bringing their dissenting bro-proceeded to give him the following ac- vive him, he might then be at liberty to ther over to their way of thinking, agreed count:-The deceased being titheman of relate this story, that it might be delivered to accede to his opinion, and having ac- the parish, where he (the juryman) lived, down to posterity, the conference broke up quainted him with their resolution, they sent he had, the morning of his decease been in The juryman lived fifteen years af an officer to detain his Lordship a few mi- his (the juryman's) grounds amongst his wards: the Judge enquired after him eve nutes, and then went into Court, and by corn, and had done him much injustice, by year, and happening to survive him, deltheir Foreman brought in the prisoner-taking more than his due, and acting other-vered the above relation. Not Guilty.

wise in a most arbitrary manner; when he His Lordship could not help expressing complained of this arbitrary treatment, he the greatest surprise and indignation at this was not only abused with scurrilous lanunexpected verdict, and, after giving the guage, but the deceased likewise struck at jury a severe admonition, he refused to him several times with his fork, and actually record their verdict, and sent them back wounded him in two places, the scars of again, with directions that they should be which wounds he then showed his Lordlocked up all night without fire or candle. ship. The deceased seemed bent on misThe whole blame was publicly laid upon the chief, and he (the juryman) having no Foreman by the rest of the members, and weapon to defend himself, had no other they spent the night in loading him with way to preserve his own life, but by closing reflections, and bewailing their fate in being in with the deceased, and wrenching the associated with so hardened a wretch; but fork out of his hands, which having effecthe remained quite inflexible, constantly de-ed, the deceased attempted to recover the claring he would suffer death rather than fork, and in the scuffle received the two change his opinion. wounds which had occasioned his death. He said he was inexpressibly concerned

As soon as his Lordship came into Court

Biographical Notices.

ALI PASHA.

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[The following account of Ali Pasha, of whose s cess and defeat we have had so many contradicte stories, is partly from Mr. Hobhouse's Trav and partly from the British Review.]

"The vizier (Ali) was a short man, abo five feet five inches in height, and very though not particularly corpulent. Hel a very pleasing face, fair and round, w blue quick eyes, not at all settled into Turkish gravity. His beard was long white and such a one as any other T would have been proud of; though he w

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