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of delivering it over to Mr. Elliot. His answer was
in character. Literally translated, it ran as follows:
I give my word of honour, that there is not the
most distant ground for this accusation; the more
so, as it is contrary to my principles to wish to see
a man fall by an assassin who deserves death by the
hands of justice.' I need not say, that Alquier took
good care not to irritate him afterwards."

Antiquities.

"UNDER THE ROSE!"

As a paragraph in explanation of this term very r cently appeared in our publication, it may be acceptable to give another reading from the Morning Chronick, in a late number of which it appeared in the following

the cooking of a good dinner on Friday, in order to game. By some chance or other, this came to the bergs, floating into warm latitudes, soon dissolve, prove my owner's aversion to the Roman faith. It knowledge of that morose, brutal fellow, Alquier, This is perhaps one reason for the formation of ice. was soon concluded that the witches or the Catho- the French minister, who, in revenge, gave in a me- bergs, for field ice could not otherwise be packed lics had fired the chimney with their incantations; of that, said the gudewife, there could be no manner morial to the Court, accusing Mr. Elliot of being so high, nor could it any other way be so easily of doubt; her husband was of the same opinion; partaker in a plot to poison or assassinate his master. moved and melted. so down they sat to dinner as pale as ashes. Their The Court protested against the indecency of this; fears, however, could not master their appetites. but, as Alquier insisted, it was under the necessity Suddenly the woman started up in a dreadful rage, nearly choking in the attempt to swallow an immense slice of bacon, the very sight of which would cause heart-heavings or sickness in one of the polite females of the present day. "She remembered," she said, “an old book which had long been in the house, and in which were divers paintings of things akin to flying dragons, and that no one that she had ever seen could understand a word of the reading." "Certes it portended nothing good," replied her husband. A young urchin, without more ado, rau up to the book in which I had so long abode in quiet) seized it and carried it off in triumph (horresco referens) and, with all the might his puny limbs could assist him to, was hurling it into the fire;-the latch of the door was raised, it slowly opened, and a venerable figure advanced: the bustle was immediately hushed; every one seemed ashamed of their bigotry, in attributing so natural an 'occurrence to invisible agency. This venerable person was evidently some one of superior talents and exalted rank; it was —— but I doubt whether you will not treat me with contempt; should you, however, publish this, you will encourage me to continue my history.

Biographical Notices.

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR, I hope that you will find the following ex. tract from a letter written in 1816 sufficiently interesting for your valuable publication, and am, A SUBSCRIBER AND WELLWISHER. April 18, 1821. "Among the remarkable characters, whose friendship I had an opportunity of acquiring in the course of my travels, the one that interested me the most was Hugh Elliot, who has been British minister to half the Courts in Europe; and, from the very high and lucrative situation he now fills in the East Indies, may be soon expected back, especially as he has a very numerous family, which he most dearly loves. I had an opportunity of knowing him the more particularly, as I spent two years (between 1803 and 1805) mostly at his house, at Naples. Never have I found a man so gifted by nature. To the soundest sense and the most enlivening wit, were joined the most elegant person and the most robust constitution. As perhaps no man in existence has seen so much of life, or borne so great a share in the most important events of his time, nothing would be so interesting as memoirs of his life. *

* Many happy hours have I passed in his family; many interesting scenes have I been witness of, and many distinguished persons did I get acquainted with there. Playing with him one day at whist, Elliot lost several rubbers. 'Gentlemen,' said he, with his usual pleasantry, 'you will force me to have recourse to my talisman; and that is, I take out my snuff-box, I knock upon it three times, and I say, God save the King and the devil take Bouaparte,' Odd enough, that after this he won every

Scientific Records.

letter to the editor:

[Comprehending Notices of new Discoveries or Improve-
ments in Science or Art; including, occasionally,
singular Medical Cases; Astronomical, Mechanical,
Philosophical, Botanical, Meteorological, and Mine-rical rose is a band, and is to be found in the hats of
ralogical Phenomena, or singular Facts in Natural
History, Vegetation, &c.; Antiquities, &c.; to be
continued in a Series through the Volume.]

ON THE FORMATION OF THE GLOBE.

Sir, In a work" by a late very learned and Re verend Divine," I find this explanation of the phrase, "under the rose be it spoken.""The clergyman," says the writer," means a rose in his hat; and, in conte sion, what is spoke in his ear is in effect under the ne, and is to be kept secret, as being under the seal of con fession." Now, the clerical rose could never have been worn in the hat of a father Confessor, for this simple reason he wore, no hat, and no rose was ever seen in his hood; hats were only used by Cardinals. The cle very aged clergymen, or dignified ecclesiastics of the Protestant persuasion, but they have nothing to do with confession. A paragraph in your paper of to-day is als as I suspect, in error. It says, that roses were conse crated as presents from the Pope, and placed over Co fessionals as the symbols of secresy, 1526; hence the phrase of under the rose." Under favour, I believe the antiquity of the phrase to be much greater. I have In Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, the great- heard it assested, that the expression, under the rose, bat est portion of land is to the northward of the equa- top of the room of the secret apartment, where company its origin in a rose being placed in the wainscot at the tor; there being so small a proportion of land were entertained during the unhappy civil wars between to the southward of the line to counterbalance the the branches of the regal house of Plantagenet, distinweight to the northward, that a French philosopher guished by the name of the white and red rose; the rose had the proper colouring significant of the party. It is was induced to write a book, to prove the existence well known, that, at this period, the tops of apartments of a southern continent, in which opinion that great were not then of plaister, but board, so indeed at that geographer, the late Mr. Dalrymple, coincided.seen rooms with such wainscoted tops, and several times time were our churches. I have, in very ancient houses, Another Frenchman wrote a book in reply, “that observed a rose carved and painted in the centre. The all the precious metals were towards the South Pole, be not admitted, we may go further back, for I have device remained after the cause had ceased. But if this and the sea not so deep as generally imagined." At little doubt that the meaning of under the rose, as it last this point was determined by the Abbé de la implies secresy, will be best discovered by a consideration of the rules of the ancient Symposium." Caille (See Mr. Barrow's Account of Southern Africa, vol. 1.) who measured a degree of the meridian from the Cape of Good Hope to the northward. "He discovered that the radii of the parallels of southern latitudes were greater than the radii of the same parallels in the northern hemisphere." From which it follows, that the southern hemisphere is more elevated than the northern; which accounts for the greater degrees of cold in the same latitudes in the southern hemisphere; because, if our London and the plain around it were elevated a geometric mile, or 6,084 feet, how much colder they would be than at present? The southern hemisphere being so much elevated, balances the land in the northern hemisphere. Any point at the equator moves at the rate of 163 miles in a minute of time, owing to the diurnal motion of the globe. Is this velocity for no purpose? or does it occasion a whirlpool at each Pole? The diameter of each being 34 miles (the excess of the equatorial diameter beyond the polar) the ice at the Poles falling into the whirlpools, will adhere together, aud in its distant ascent form those stupendous masses of ice called icebergs, which are driven southerly from the North Pole, and northerly from the South Pole, by currents formed by the reaction of the water of the whirlpools, and the ice

Above forty skeletons have, within the last few weeks, been dug up on the Sussex Downs, by flint-diggs: doubt part of the slain in the battle that was fr there between King Henry the Third and his Ba the year 1264.

Miscellanies.

GRETNA GREEN, OR GRAITNEY,

Is a parish and village in Dumfriesshire, a few mile from the English borders, near the bottom of the Solway Frith. This place has long been famous in the ana of matrimonial adventure, from the clandestine mar riages of fugitive lovers from England, which have bett celebrated here. These are performed by several per sons, none of whom are clergymen; but the greates part of the trade has been monopolised by a tobacconist, and not à blacksmith, as generally believed; a fellev and without manners; whose life is a continued scen without learning, without principles, without religion, of debauchery, and whose irregular conduct rendered him an object of detestation to the sober and virtuous part of the neighbourhood (in 1806). This traffic connubial engagements began in 1738, since which there have been, at an average, upwards of sixty nually, estimated at fifteen guineas each, producing more than £945 per annum. The ceremony, when any is used, is that of the church of England, and the cr tificate is signed by the pretended parson and two wit nesses, under fictitious names. The following is a cor rect copy of the certificates:

This is to sartifay all persons that may be consemi,

n

March, 1806."

A. B. from the parish of G. and in the county of D. and E. F. from the parish of G. and in the county of A. and both comes before me, and declayred themselfs to be both single persons, and now mayried by the form of the Kirk of Scotland, and agreible to the Church of England, and given ondre my hand this 6th day of On some occasions, particularly when the parson is intoxicated, a ceruficate only is given, and the ceremony is dispensed with. In Scotland it is held a legal marriage if a single man calls a single woman his wife in the presence of a third person; the mutual appellation of husband or wife, in presence of a witness, is declared sufficient by Scottish law.

The following old story, which we have before recorded, is repeated at the desire of the Toxteth Park =Corporation:

hem.

CORPORATION ORATORY.

"Hold up your head; look like a man.'

Correspondence.

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The

Companies, the readiness evinced by those, who
have flattered themselves into the belief of being
wholly perfect, to dwell with malicious prolixity on
the misfortune of labouring under such and such
imperfections of person, when there have been indi-
viduals present, subject to the very defects which
formed the topic of conversation: nay, some have
been so lost to all sense of just feeling and propriety
of conduct, as to make a direct appeal to the ble-
mished person, whether such blemish was not a
most odious thing! What can possibly be more
galling to a sensitive mind! Here we behold
the feelings of an individual most unnecessarily
wounded, and such is the construction of the human
mind that by allusions of this nature a sense of
shame may be excited in one who has never de-
parted from the paths of moral rectitude, and who
has uniformly done unto others, as he would they
should do unto him,

unto them.

Liverpool, 10th April, 1821.

ADOLESCENS.

TO THE EDITOR.

HYDROPHOBIA.

SIR,-At a time when Hydrophobia is supposed to have become much more prevalent than formerly, the following article, which is extracted from a current pe riodical publication, is entitled to attention: and I think your medical readers would confer an important benefit on the public, by stating how far we may depend on

TO THE EDITOR,

SIR,-You will oblige half a dozen of your friends by inserting the following, that some of your numerous correspondents may give an answer to it,

At the game of Cribbage (no Cribbage-board being used, having marked the numbers each time on paper with a pencil) A. announced himself to be 49; next hand he had 11, which made him 60; but, on adding again, he found he was 50, instead of 49, by which means the 11 made him up. Query, A. having 50 marked, but announcing only 49, was it, or was it not the part of B. to examine into it? Should any of your correspondents reply to the D. N. R.. above, they will oblige

Bally-blunder Castle, Tipperary.

During the reign of King James II. and when the peo. Nothing can be more indicative of a good heart MY DEAR EDitor. Old Horace (long rest his honest soul!) ple were much oppressed and burthened with taxes, that and well regulated mind, than a tender commisseramonarch made a very expensive tour through England, never sit down to write till he and on his return he slept at the palace of Winchester. tion for the failings of our fellow creatures. Those The mayor and corporation, for the honour done them who are free from outward personal defects, ought says, a man should r by this royal visit, determined to address his majesty in to be more forward in a grateful acknowledgment is at least two-thirds drunk. Now it happens, most -the morning; but, as the mayor could neither read nor of the blessing bestowed, than in making it the unfortunately for his sins, that your humble write, it was agreed that the recorder should prompt theme of boasting and tauut over less favoured in is not only perfectly sober, but very stupid witbal, Beauty and symmetry of person are shim on the occasion. Accordingly, being introduced dividuals. into the royal presence, and every thing ready for the pleasing to the eye; but when the interior of the and in no ways inclined to the scribbling mood. ceremony, the recorder, by way of encouraging the man bears no proportion to this fair and perfect ex-Still however, being painfully aware how absolutely mayor, who appeared awkward and embarrassed, gently jogged his elbow, and, at the same time, whispered interior, he becomes as insipid as the oft-told tale; as necessary it is to your peace of mind, and to the unpalable as the meat of which we have partaken general satisfaction of the fairer and more discerning his ear, mayor mistaking this for the beginning of the speech to satiety. Besides, beauty has ever been compared portion of your readers to learn something of my stared the King boldly in the face, and with a loud with the flower that fadeth; and therefore no one can calculate with certainty upon the extent of its unworthy self, I have seized my pen, jogged my voice repeated, Hold up your head; look like a man.” The recorder, amazed at his behaviour, again whispered duration. Let those then who possess it enjoy the slumbering ideas, and malgré vapours, ennui, and a the mayor, "What the devil do you mean ?" The blessing with becoming modesty, and instead of whole host of blue devils who are kicking up a mayor, in the same manner, instantly repeated What deriding those who are of a more uncomely make, the devil do you mean ?" The recorder, chagrined at let them be truly thankful that they are not like pretty row in my seat of reason, manfully determined to give you my usual modicum of news and this untoward circumstance, and fearing his majesty's nonsense, in the hope that if your readers do not displeasure, still whispering in the mayor's ear, said, Zounds, Sir, you'll ruin us all," which the mayor find me so very agreeable as usual, they will ascribe thinking to be a continuance of the speech, and still it entirely to the present dull temperament of my staring the king in the face, with a louder voice than humour, on the causes of which I shall expound before, repeated "Zounds, Sir, you'll ruin us all." The king, on this, rose with some anger; but, anon-Well, Sir, I have seen this precious literary being informed of the cause of this rough address, his bantling, this third canto which has been promised majesty was pleased to pass it by with a smile; and the corporation was perfectly satisfied with the honour done and prefaced, puffed up and ushered into the presence of gaping expectants with as much ceremony: as a dowager Duchess at St. James's; and I confess the feelings its first perusal excited, totally defy analyzation. I sat with my legs astride the chimney-piece, your paper betwixt my finger and thumb, A report lately made by the Russian Counsellor of my chin protruding horizontally, and the whole State, Lewnshien, states, that an old soldier, living in a village in the circle of Belewsky, had frequently cured aggregate mass of my ideas mixed in interminable The successful progress of your undertaking suf. men and brutes who had been bitten by mad dogs. He chaos, and gasping and struggling for vent and ficiently proves that the motto you have adopted reduced into powder the water plantain (alisma plan- utterance: out at last they came, like the cork of a - has been strictly adhered to; for it must be evident tago) and, having strewed it on a slice of bread and to all, that the pages of the Kaleidoscope have butter, gave it to the patients to eat. The Counsellor cider-bottle, embodied in this pithy and expressive observes, I gave little credit to it, until accident fur-sentence, which I pronounced with all the gravity hitherto contained matter not less useful than pleas-nished me with a sufficient proof of its efficacy. One of a Dutch burgomaster, “Lorenzo, Lorenzo, ing; all contributions, therefore, which have a ten of my brother's hounds went mad, and bit the huntsdency to promote either of these designs, will I am man. The ordinary operation was performed to prevent Lorenzo, thou art a very impudent fellow," Still I the propagation of the virus, and the wound healed: own the fellow has surprized me; he has positively confident meet with your kind attention. but, in a few weeks, all the symptoms of hydrophobia appeared. The huntsman was taken to the old soldier, a knack at rhyming; and for one whose ideas have who administered two doses of his remedy, one the germinated in the contaminating atmosphere of a evening, the other in the morning; and then said the man might be unbound and taken home without dan compting house, amidst the degrading.companion ger. The huntsman experienced great weakness; but ship of rum puncheons and cotton bags, he has had no fits either of delirium or hydrophobia. In a actually done wouders. We certainly miss the Aris few days he found himself perfectly cured; and he has totelian precision, the Homeric majesty of the late now lived eighteen years without having any relapse.' "The water plantain grows in marshes: the root re-cantos; but still the man is by no means a very despicable poet and may possibly, hereafter, be read without yawning. You see I love to encourage An author, called merit; indeed the natural tenderness of ray disposition prompts me to it. "Thompson's Seasons,” finely observes, “ modesty and worth go hand in hand;" and of a surety I an much of Mr. Season's opinion, as I verily believe

PERSONALITIES.

TO THE EDITOR.

I propose to throw together a few observations upon the impropriety of making the personal fail ing and imperfections of any of our fellow creatures, the butt of our witticism, or the subject of our sarcasm. That this is a practice very prevalent at the present day cannot be denied.

such means of cure.

Z.

It however too frequently happens, that in our anxious endeavours to discover the beam in our brother's eye we altogether neglect the mote which is in our own, the previous perception of whichsembles an onion, with thick fibres. It remains under might have prevented unnecessary trouble and re-water till the latter end of May, or the beginning of proach. But such is the natural state of man. Prone to self-commendation and approval he is apt to view the blemishes of his neighbours with the eye of keen reproof; and by rendering them the objects of his ridicule, wantonly to sport with their feelings, N. B. The quantity is not stated; and this, from the and wound them in the most tender part. How weakening effects described, it is of importance to ascer+ often have I witnessed, both in mixed and selecttain.

June: it flowers all the summer, and may be gathered
at any time; but the best is at the end of August. The
roots are well washed and cleaned, and dried in the
shade. When dry, it is pulverised; and administered
as above."

the reason why I am so unaccountably modest is entirely owing to the very super-extraordinary stock of merit which doubtless you and your readers have long since discovered in the humble individual who now addresses you.

When I last had the pleasure of brandishing a gouse-quill in your service, I might have subscribed myself Calebs in search of a wife; I am now, thank heaven, fairly uncælebized; I have put on for "good and aye" the sober suit and Benedictine phiz of matrimony. The lovely Murphina and I have long been subdued with a mutual passion; and though the extreme delicacy and fervor of my love prevented my coming to an oral declaration, yet the soft intelligence of speaking glances, burning sighs, and gentle toe-treadings, were all put in practice, and spoke volumes to our enamoured bosoms. At length, ́one day as we were taking a romantic walk by the horsepond, my good genius put it in my head to make the declaration: out it came, almost overwhelmed and dried up in its passage by the accom panying torrent of Arcadian groans, red-hot sighs, and burning blushes: but come it did; and, I rejoice to say, met with a favourable reception: the lovely maid blushed like the verdant daisy which decks the mountain's side, and, smiling a sweet content, sunk sighing into the arms of one of the tenderest of Hibernian swains. Not having a talent for description, I shall not fatigue you with an account of the wedding, which was tasteful and elegant; suffice it to say, I am the happiest of men. Mrs. O'Goster is a lady who, in one word, unites every accomplishment. Not to tire you with the whole list, I shall merely recount her leading and most brilliant attainments: she cuts watch-papers and makes conundrums to admiration, paints figures on a Chinese box, plays on the glasses with a bit of stick, and has a decided talent for making bread seals with such a woman, my dear Sir, a man may reasonably promise himself happiness. Beauty is a very fine thing, to be sure; but, as a certain clerical romancier delicately observes, "it is only painted Eve's flesh," and cannot outlive a fit of the small-pox, or a propensity for strong liquors. But mind! mind is everything. I could quote you a monstrous fine thing about beauty and mind, and the lord knows what, from one Addison, who wrote a very stupid play; but for two reasous; first, am afraid of making your readers yawn; and secondly and lastly, to tell you the truth, I have for. gotten the passage; so let us say no more about it at present. But hold, as I am a sinner I must put a stop to this verbose epistle, or I shall be inflicting the punishment of double postage on you; besides I see Captain O'Whiskers coming down the avenue to pay a visit to my wife, and I must go in and receive him. I shall give you a line occasionally, and shall be more explicit about my views in my next. Mrs. O'Goster desires her respects; and believe me, dear Editor,

:

Yours, till death, DERMOT O'GOSTER.

To Correspondents.

We beg to call the attention of our friend HORA OTIOSA to the indispensible requisite of punctuation, and care in composition.

NOTES TO THE SIEGE OF LATHOM HOUSE.When these notes are completed, which must of course be previously to the termination of the present volume, we shall reserve a place for the interesting story recommended by A FRIEND.

-

Having, as we have just stated, already trespassed too long in this department of our journal, we can only further notice A READER-L.J.-PYRUS (Letter V.) -The short Sketch of the History of Beeston Castle, by aWARRINGTONREADER-WILLIAM-SQUARE TOES COLLECTOR-ALCANDER-The Extract from CAREW-K-Y's note, and S. S.'s second communication.

ZODIACAL SIGNS.-A correspondent, who some time ago offered for insertion the first of a series of ex. planations of the zodiacal signs, is informed that we shall defer their introduction until our next volume, in order that there may be a regular monthly series of them, as there are of the Naturalist's Diary, Meteorological Tables, &c. If our correspondent would refer us to the book from which he copies, we would rather refer to it than follow MS.

THE ENRAGED POET.-In our last number but one, we stated that we should take an early opportunity of noticing the amusing impertinence of a pedant, who subscribes A CONSTANT READER, and dates from Ormskirk; and we shall now devote a spare column to the purpose, merely with the view of showing our readers a specimen of the trials to which the patience of us poor editors is so severely subjected; although We seldom tell our griefs,

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"But let concealment, like a worm i'th' bud,
"Prey on our damask cheek.”

The subject of the present commentary is, however, too rich a morceau to be withheld from the gaze of the public, who must admire the versatility of the genius, which, spurning all the ordinary and groveling prejudices of grammar and orthography, excels equally in verse and prose; which can descant, with equal grace, upon the preservation of female virtue, and the preservation of eggs. That so highly-gifted a mortal should feel wrath at our not having set a proper value upon the offspring of his muse, is natural enough; nor is it the first time that our want of taste, in this particular, has caused an indignant poet to cease signing himself A CONSTANT READER.

"Ormskirk, 13th April, 1821. "Sir,-Several numbers of your paper which hath lately been issued, has contained a number of very useless and disinteresting works, and more especially that of the Bachelors Fancy Ball. I will not disown but that it may excite a considerable quantity of curiosity in the Town of Liverpool, yet what curiosity or delight can it excite in us country readers, but on the other hand, troublesome and disappointing to all who peruse your paper except those who dwell in the immediate neighbourhood of your town. I do not pretend to dictate to you for my own individual purpose, but I see so much of it's falling off in this, and several other such like country places for the express purpose already stated, and I see upon perusing the long and tedious poetry upon that subject that it is your intention to publish and describe in the like manner the Ladies who attended that place called the Bachelors Fancy Ball and if given in the same light would be rather indelicate and disgusting. I also see that a Housewife is at a loss how to preserve Eggs, the following I know is very frequently practiced and always

We

found to be effectual, viz."

must pass over the meaner affair of preserving eggs, to come to a passage which expounds the cause of the wrath of our author, who has, to adopt a homely phrase, "let the cat out of the bag," in the following remonstrance.

I forwarded to you on the 17th March last a few lines on the memory of and it appears you do not chuse to insert them, if so I must request you to return them by post directed to Mr. * Ormskirk.' Yet notwithstanding that rejection of the Lines I forward the following Caution to Fe

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males' and if they should also be rejected I shall for ever cease sending anything more and be induced by that treatment to withdraw taking the paper any longer."

Notwithstanding this threat, which will, no doubt, be carried into execution, we shall not deprive our readers of the remaining specimen of our correspondent's talents, in the pathetic and moral-strain; and

we sincerely hope the Liverpool "HIGHFLYING" Lotharios, and the Ormskirk Fair Penitents, will not fail to profit by the advice of this sage Mentor, whose "well-intended mind" is so laudably bent on reforma ing the "little population" in which he lives. "CAUTION TO FEMALES. "I beg leave through the medium of your Kaleidoscope to present the following Letter for its insertion; and beg for the honour gratitude and affection which I have and bear towards the female sex, and for the honour due to their tender weakness to solicit the favour of its publication. In the short period of my life, in this little population I have witnessed several gross instances of impropriety in conduct and human manners. That the young gentlemen (generally styled Bucks) out of your town in par cular, come flying in their best apparel and assuming all the outward grandour and appearance their inward puny minds can suggest, and all to seduce and bewilder our innocent girls here and although they have even once or twice experienced the base ness and impropriety of their conduct by pledging their love and honour to them, and after gaining their utmost affections they then fly back again and make a public boast of their triumphant dexterity, and never think of the object more; yet if another of the same discription comes and assumes the same outward grandour and appearance the weak girls (for so I must call them) still incourage their base ness still look upon their outward appearance is sufficient for their inward enjoyment hereafter, and alas still submit themselves to be seduced and led astray by such fly-away Bucks, whose only intentions are to accomplish that purpose. It would be tedious to me and rather indelicate to describe the few instances which are involved in my mind, and more tedious would it be to your readers to trace such circumstances through. But I have only to say that my well intended mind would wil lingly suggest and if possible persuade the female society and more particularly in this immediate neighbourhood to desist from such encouragement, and at once to set at defiance such attempts of ma lignity.

"Yours most oblg.

"a constant reader." If we have consumed too much space in endeavouring to expose the pedantic coxcomb, of whose precious not sense we have just given a specimen, our readers will we trust excuse us for this once tiring their patience, by exhibiting a specimen of the kind of trials to which our own patience is often submitted. It is the lot of an editor not only to be pestered occasionally with nonsense, impertinence, and imposition; but what aggravates the grievance, he has also sometimes to pay for such offerings. Our Ormskirk correspond. ent's communications have cost us eight-pence; but the only revenge we shall take will be to forward his last angry and abusive letter to Ormskirk, in order that it may be publicly exhibited to the neighbours of a writer, of whom we now take our leave by serving, that we are not at all ambitious of retaining him amongst the list of our "Constant Readers." Our friend W. H. is respectfully informed that we are prepared to defend the propriety of the changes have ventured to make; this however we shall forbear to do in this place, and as the letter of W. His marked "private," we shall communicate to him in another way probably next week.

In compliance with the wish of a FRIEND, we shall next week insert the critique on the new work Fa lerius, to which we shall probably add some extracts from the work itself. The interesting account of Belzoni's View of the Egyptian Tombs was in our contemplation before we were favoured with the note We thank a SUBSCRIBER also for his suggestion, of of our correspondent.

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The Traveler.

[Never before published.]

A PEDESTRIAN PILGRIMAGE

OF FIVE DAYS,

THRO' SOME OF THE MOST ROMANTIC PARTS OF
DER BYSHIRE:

7th Month, 1820.

BY WILFRED WENDER.

(Continued from our last.)

VALK THROUGH HADDON, BAKEWELL,
ASHFORD IN THE WATER, TO EYAM.

well.

Hanley-T. Allbut;
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Soon after, we came in sight of and the scenes, and persons, and manners it Haddon Hall, and took the footpath up the had witnessed-is venerable, though not meadows that lead to it. The afternoon magnificent, and most impressive, though not was very sultry; the roads were excessively noble. Its grey turrets, and solemn doors, dusty; and I know not when I have enjoyed and small heavy windows, all in excellent a more absolute luxury, than strolling up preservation; its elms, some scathed with through the rich mowing grass of Haddon's lightning or with age, bleached in part to celebrated meadows: the soft, cool turf whiteness, and rising with a wild naked air under our feet; the track almost hid in the of desolation, and in part exhibiting some thick mass of herbage; and the bents rust-remains of vegetative life; and the cool, ling against our boots as we sauntered on. damp silence that surrounded its outer walls, We enjoyed a still greater treat of delicious where the orpine and gilliflower were springoisiveté; for we lay down on the banks of ing from every crevice, and the overhangthe crystalline Wye, to taste its cool waters, ing trees threw their wavering shadows and to contemplate the ancient scenery of cast over us a sort of musing and romantic the park. The sun was casting his evening influence. After this, we committed a gleams along its mighty and venerable trees; crime, unpardonable in the opinion of an I have enumerated the principal features and there seemed to rest a deep and impo- antiquary, by not seeing the inside. We f this part of the Dale, from the prospect sing solitude in its glades, where they flung were so deficient in that species of enthusiRiber Hill. As we proceeded, we were their long sweeping shadows on the yellow- asm, as to balance the lateness of the evenmost impressed with the fine fertility of its tinged grass; a scene, I suspect, which de-ing and our fatigue, the distance we had to eadows, the rich effect of the woods at rived much of its power from the grave go, and the luxurious imagination of the e feet and on the sides of its hills, and the remembrance of past ages. We crossed a tea-table, against the gratification we might gh wild range of gloomy precipices, and narrow bridge, overhung with broad-spread experience from viewing its curious internal st square masses of rock, seen on the lof-ing elms, and covered with yellow tufts of fashion and furniture, which, notwithstandst eminences of Stanton Moor. These stone-crop and the long waving panicles of ing the removal of much to Belvoir Abbey, ve, probably, been the resort of Druidical the wild oat. This bridge is close to the is well worth observation, as conveying a perstition and, associated with that be- hall, which is a low, square building, erected vivid notion of baronial habitations and , call up, at sight, a train of gloomy round a court, and, therefore, occupying a modes of living. As two parties were then as. These heights are now planted with great extent of ground. It stands near the in the hall, and the evening was so far ades, which in a few years will conceal the foot of the range of hills that bounds that vanced, we readily persuaded ourselves to ks from view. At Darley, where the side of the valley, yet considerably elevated leave the inspection of its interior till our leys that run from the north, by Castle- above the meadows in front, where the Wye return; consoling ourselves with the idea, and Chatsworth, (the course of the runs in a most circuitous, twining course, that should we, possibly, go another way, -rwent) and from Buxton, by Ashford crossed near the hall by a handsome bridge. it was not so far from home but that we Bakewell (the course of the Wye) Behind, a venerable wood of elm extends could see it almost any day. It is often Ite; and where the swift clear Wye rushes to the top of the hill. The building is the case that we neglect opportunities dly into its kindred stream, yielding up, much lighter than that of castles in general; because they are cheap, or of frequent reeerfully, name and waters, like a good yet it is flanked with square towers, and currence, and by that means lose them zen, to purchase by union of strength mounted with battlements. The hour of altogether: perhaps this may be one incharacter-a nobler existence, we evening added much to the solemnity of its stance. Ened quickly to the left, towards Bake- aspect, which, associated with its antiquity, At Bakewell, after tea, we visited the

church, a handsome, though singularly-scene of peaceful pleasantness. The large enviable looking houses, at a pleasant dis shaped building; but more particularly de-square meadow of which I just now spoke, tance in the fields, with shrubberies and serving notice from containing three or four deliciously green, with its clear outline of a green plots, and with creepers twining different orders of English architecture, and square mote, once enclosing a palace, as about the windows; and all rendered more in the western front a curious Saxon door-tradition says, of a king; and its footpaths strikingly pleasing by the contrast of the way. Bakewell has been pronounced by a winding along to the neat churchyard, with trees about these villages, with the high traveler, some years ago, "A poor, dirty its low gray tower, and broad leaden roof, and naked hills at the foot of which they place;" it, however, now presents a very and scattered headstones, and more imposing are situated. Great Longstone is a long respectable appearance. The Duke of tombs, and solitary towering tree, is but populous village; yet, like most Peak vil Rutland, a principal proprietor, has contri- the foreground of a great rural picture.-lages, wearing an air of uncommon stillness buted very much to its improvement. The From the town, on all sides, the ground The appearance of its cottages is far from Rutland Arms Inn, is a handsome building; seems to rise, and ascends in various direc- prepossessing, in general. Calico weaving the bath, an ancient one, is restored in an tions, and to various heights. On the right and mining are the principal sources of elegant manner, and pleasantly ornamented winds the Moneyash-road, up a steep valley, support. In the churchyard, the usual with adjoining gardens. Its situation, on a rearing, on either hand, its rich piles of repository of village curiosities, and the fine flat of this noble dale, on the Wye, is green hills. Before you, to the south, is a resort of the traveler fond of observing very agreeable, possessing a rich view down vast slope, gently and smoothly extended to rural life, we noticed nothing remark, the valley beyond Haddon, and of the sur-the distance of a mile or more upwards, on unless it were two or three idle fellows e rounding range of hills. The walks are which the light falls so clearly, that you may to sleep with their fathers; and pertars clean and pleasant, and the entrance from discern distinctly every living thing that society would have been no loser, if they Buxton particularly romantic, with its rocks, rests among the smaller inclosures near the had actually lain beneath the turf instead of waters, buildings, and distant scenes. We town, beautifully decorated with trees, in lying on it, chewing bents, and kicking up walked up to Ashford in the evening. The the prime of vegetable youth; or among their heels in the sunshine, and whetting sun had long gone down; the deep twilight the higher and more extensive fields, marked their knives on the edge of a tombstone. shaded all distant things; the white floating by long lines of fences and thinly-scattered Thence we ascended the high moor-lands ; mist veiled all nearer objects, and enveloped, trees, and gently-swelling and falling land; and from this wild tract, covered with with a fleecy wreath, every scattered tree: and by here and there a plantation up to its heath, and marked only by long white and the singular aspect of the green undu- top, which is fringed, for some miles, with traces of exhausted mines, called groovelating hills that lay below us, in the deep a rising crest of larch woods. More to the rakes, we enjoyed a magnificent prospect. valley to the right, softened by the waning south-east, the ground rising in sudden The day was clear and very warm; and light, and contrasted with the circumscri- hills, hides from the view all but the most after climbing slowly and laboriously up bing gloom of the deep intervening dells; distant range of mountains; and to the east, this wild ascent, it was a noble reward to with the hum of the distant village, the over a pleasant knoll, on which stands the lie on the dry, soft, and fresh smelling turf laugh of some sportive lass, the ocean-like noble house of the Duke of Devonshire's in the midst of this rude monotonous solimurmur of the Wye, and other sylvan sounds steward, the eye wanders voluptuously tude, and feel the sweet cool gale playing that came to us in the stillness and coolness through an opening towards Darley Dale, about one's temples, while the lark caroled of evening, from places unseen and un- amongst the varying forms and shadows jocundly above us, and the eye ran gloriknown, conspired to form a region of en- of prominent hills that confine it, till it ously through one wide resplendent ocean chantment which delighted our imagination. rests on the high, wild range that runs of light, filled with innumerable islands of This village contains most extensive mar- between Chatsworth and Bakewell. At green and gleaming hills. Below us were ble-works, and its inhabitants are principally night we lay with our window open, lulled the villages we had passed, peeping from employed in these, in mining, and in stock. by the sounds of the Wye; and in the their umbrageous trees; and between us and ing-weaving. From the hill on the south morning this charming scene, beaming with them, even the hill sides were embellished side, where we were stationed, is presented the sun, and animated by many a file with scattered plantations of ash and beech, a scene of great picturesque beauty, not of of merry haymakers, roused us early, and which there seem to flourish very well. Te that wild and majestic kind, so common to we pursued our route to Eyam. We the left appeared a dark region of woods. the Peak, but of a serene, rich, and rural passed over some pleasant flowery fields and the top of Chatsworth-house peeping nature. Immediately at our fect, descended to Little and Great Longstone, two villa- above them; and all beyond, on every side, a steep green bank into a large flat, on which ges near together, containing some re- was an immense scene of mountains sleepstands the town, enclosing it on three sides spectable houses: Little Longstone, that ing in a verdant sunny softness amid ther of a quadrangular form; these, though of Mr. I ongstone, the descendant of an own shadows, and the dimness of winding forming the three streets, are not built in ancient family of that name there; and vales. Not a cloud traveled the blue cothe regular connected manner of streets in Great Longstone, that inhabited by Colonel cave of heaven; and no vapour was visible large towns. The gray stone houses stand Carlise, a large brick house (a curiosity in except a light transparent mist that rein various directions, most of them detached this land of limestone) adjoining a very posed on the far distant scenery, like the from each other, and each with its garden antiquated stone hall. Beyond these are purest veil on the bosom of beauty. It is and trees waving here and there, forming a some other very neat, and one or two truly impossible to convey any idea of the soft

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