"UBI MEL, IBI MUSCA." To. 19-NEW SERIES.] SATURDAY, MAY 11. Every purchaser of this number of "THE FLY," is entitled to an exquisitely-executed Lithographic PRint, THE FLY'S PICTURE-GALLERY. WRITTEN SEEING THE PRINT OF "PRAYER," PRESENTED WITH NO. 18 OF THE "FLY." Consider her attitude! The upraised hands, uplifted eye, the mild benignity of her intenance ! She is engaged in prayer, far noved from the busy haunts of men, or the wded walks of traffic. She has withdrawn her chamber in secret, to worship her heaily Father. Who can long regard so sweet ortrait, without feeling the sublimity of her pearance? And, if we may be allowed to uire, what seems to be the subject of her yer? Perhaps some generous but unforate brother has been ensnared and entand in an almost inextricable labyrinth of e, and she offers up a petition on his behalf the Throne of Mercy, that he may return m the error of his ways, and solace by his entant change the aching hearts of her id and affectionate parents. Delightful occution! She has tried the world and its pleaes; has found them as transitory as a sumer flower, and betakes herself to prayer: d how great a transition of deportment has is produced! No accidental crosses now fle her temper, or cast a melancholy shade sorrow over her beautiful countenance; but e exhibits in her daily converse with her mily and the poor a mild and pleasant look, soft and encouraging aspect, and her disurse is seasoned with piety and good huA fortune our. What a wife for a man! t only with her, but in her; although un possessed of a solitary sixpence. Who would of hearts ?" We could look upon that portrait an hour by the time-piece. In comparison with such a woman, the largest diamond in the world is not worth one single barleycorn. But it is time for us to stop, for we find that language is too feeble to convey adequately the full strength of our ideas. If some of our fair ridge's Hymn on Prayer, we earnestly recomfriends have not read Samuel Taylor Colemend them to peruse it. In that hymn occur the following admirable lines : : Oh! not a joy or blessing, [TWOPENCE. side in the greatest disorder. The compacted masses of troops and the mobbing at this point becoming very dense, caused great agitation and confusion on the part of the populace. But the old Marshal, still youthful in mind and courage, always multiplying the means of resistance, and intent on throwing obstacles in the way of the enemy, addressed the following words to the National Guard, who surrounded and even pressed upon him: -"Since, then, we have so well begun, why not finish in like manner? Here is our last intrenchment; let us make one more effort; honour and our country demands it." Moncey knew well that such words would sink deep into the hearts of the brave citizens to whom they were addressed. Meanwhile, the coalesced party had brought up their artillery, and the barricades of the barriers were either carried away, or prostrated by their shot. Already the howitzer shells rolled into the rue Clichy, when a herald from the side of the allies arrived to announce an armistice. It was now five in the evening, and the firing on both sides had entirely ceased. Whilst blood still flowed in the streets of Paris, and principally at the barrier de Clichy, the Boulevard des Italiens had never once ceased to be covered with a crowd of people on foot, who seemed to be wholly ignorant of all that was passing so close to them, when on a sudden, about four o'clock, a general cry of Sauve qui peut was heard from the Porte St. Martin, extending to the rue de la Paix. Every one fled in the greatest dismay, and in their haste overthrew one another, as it hap(For the FLY.) pened in more recent times, at one of the po(Continued from page 70.) pular risings of the people. The crowds of And thus they went on fighting in the open flying and terrified persons were beyond all plain face to face. The old Marshal smiled at count: these continued their flight, hardly their imprudence and foolhardiness, but al-knowing whither their steps were directing lowed them to fight on. They afterwards retired on the barrier Clichy. By and bye, some insulated battalions are driven in from that Whene'er thon pinest in sadness, M. A. P. John Cunningham, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street. them, even beyond the Palais Royal. It was a long time before the cause of the panic could be ascertained. Some said that two Cosaques had made their way into Paris, by the barrier St. Martin, and having galloped up the Boulevard (where they were both of them killed), had given rise to this disorder. According to others, it originated with a Polish lancer, who having drank in a way to justify completely the proverb, had come down the Fauxbourg at a triple gallop, shouting and crying as loud as he could bawl, "Vive l'Empereur! voici les Cosaques !" ing if any one knew where the Emperor was.visited this charming country. Indeed, it is "Who are you, and who sent you?" de- "Give it me," said the Emperor. Pendant ces entrefaites, while all this was doing, the Dukes of Treviso and Ragusa re- The courier searched his pockets, but the united their forces at the barrier de la Vilette. letter was not to be found he renewed the Here they entered into a low pot-house (ca-search-tried again-got confused, then stam baret), kept by a man named Touron, where they had been preceded by MM. de Nesselrode and the Count Orloff. In this place was committed to writing the leading articles of the capitulation, which were signed by these two representatives of the Emperors of Austria and Russia, and countersigned by the Colonels Fabvier and St. Denis, the first belonging to the corps de l'etat Major General; the second first aide-de-camp of Marmont, and some days after all the world might see on the front of the cabaret, where the lot of France had been decided, the following notice scrawled in large white letters upon a red ground: AU BOEUF A LA MODE, Here the 30th of March, 1814, of august memory, TOURON MARCHAND DE VINS TRAITEUR. mered out something, during which time the ference. If you have a large map of Switzerland, I beg of you to look for a spot in the canton of Schweitz, situated between the lakes of Zuz and Lowertz on two sides, and the mountains of Rigi and Rossberg on the others. Here, but three weeks ago, was one of the most de lightfully fertile valleys of all Switzerland;green and luxuriant, adorned with several little vil ages, full of secure and happy farmers Now three of these villages are for ever effaced from the earth; and a broad waste of ruins, burying alive more than fourteen hundred peasants, overspreads the valley of Lo. wertz. About five o'clock in the evening of the 34 of September, a large projection of the mon Attain of Rossberg, on the north-east, gave way, and precipitated itself into this valley; and in less than four minutes completely overwhelmed the three villages of Goldau, Busingen, and Rathlen, with a part of Lowertz and Oberart The torrent of earth and stones was far more rapid than that of lava, and its effects as resistless and as terrible The mountain in its descent carried trees, rocks, houses, every thing before it. The mass spread in every direction, so as to bury completely a space of charming country, more than three miles "Just one hour too late!" cried the Emperor, with an accent not to be described. "Allons, Messieurs; here then, it seems, we This placard was not effaced till a year after- must alight. Oh, oh!" continued he, as if wards, at the return of Napoleon on the 10th some new crotchet had arose in his mind, "all of March, 1815. The house still exists, only is not yet consummated, as they have been that it has changed the master and its desti- pleased to tell us," repeated he, while denation, being now an infirmary for sick cattle. scending from his travelling chaise. ForthAs to Napoleon, he arrived at Troyes on the with he entered the post-house, followed by 30th of March; he took but two hours' rest, his officers, and called for his map of roads, and again put himself en route. According to on which he was used to mark the different custom, he imparted to no one of all those positions of his troops, with those occupied by who were thus rapidly travelling with him the enemy, by means of small pins, the heads either the object or place to which his views of which were marked with sealing-wax of were directed. Arrived at Sens, he stopped divers colours; but he was soon forced to reonly the requisite time to have a bouillon pre- nounce this cold occupation de stratagie, depared. At every post-house he eagerly de- voured as he was by uncertainty and impamanded news of the Empress and the King tience, to inquire what was then passing in of Rome, and learnt successively on changing Paris. He then abruptly left the post-house, horses that his wife and son had left Paris, in order to breathe freer; for at every moment that the enemy was at the gates of the capi-he repeated that his brain was on fire, and he tal, and that fighting was still going on. Then it was that he pressed the postilions himself, and upon these occasions failed not to apply the stimulation of a golden spur. The carriage wheels actually struck fire from the stones beneath: never did Napoleon more impatiently calculate distances. At length-him, silently. close upon midnight-he was no more than a few leagues from Paris. On halting at Fromenteau, not far from the fountains of de Juvisy, the anxiety which he laboured under had arrived to its highest pitch. "Before an hour hence," said he, "slapping the shoulder of Berthier, who during the route had never ceased biting his nails, shall be at the head of the defenders of the capital." we continued to walk with slow and measured (To be continued.) DESTRUCTION OF GOLDAU, Extracted from a letter dated Geneva, Sept. 26, 1806. There is an event which happened just be fore our arrival in Switzerland, of which no particular account may have yet reached AmeAt the same instant an estafette arrived, who rica, and which I think cannot be uninterestwith great vehemence and clamour was inquiring, especially to those of our friends who have square. The force of the earth must have been pro digious, since it not only spread over the hol low of the valley, but even ascended far the opposite side of the Rigi. The quantity of earth, 100, is enormous, since it has left à considerable hill in what was before the centre of the vale. A portion of the falling mass rolled into the lake of Lowertz, and it is cal culated that a fifth part is filled up. On a minute map you will see two little islands marked in this lake, which have been admired for their picturesqueness. One of them s famous for the residence of two hermits, and the other for the remains of an ancient cha teau once belonging to the house of Haps burg. So large a body of water was raised and pushed forward by the falling of such a mass into the lake, that the two islands, and the whole village of Seven, at the southern extre mi y, were for a time completely submerged by the passing of the swell. A large house in this village was lifted off its foundations, and carried half a mile beyond its place. The hermits were absent on a pilgrimage to a distant abbey. The disastrous consequences of this event extend further than the loss of such a number of inhabitants in a canton of little population. A fertile plain is at once converted into 3 barren tract of rocks and calcareous earth, and the former marks and boundaries of pro perty obliterated. The main road from Art to Schweitz is completely filled up, so that another must be opened with great labour over the Rigi. The former channel of a large stream is choked up, and its course altered; and, as the outlets and passage of large bodies of water must be affected by the filling up such a portion of the lake, the neighbouring villages are still trembling with apprehension of some remote consequence, against which they know not how to provide. Several hundred men have been employed in opening passages for the stagnant waters, in forming a new road for foot passengers along the Rigi, and in exploring the ruins. The different cantons have contributed to the relief of the suffering canton of Schweitz, and every head is at work to contrive means to prevent further disasters. The number of inhabitants buried alive under the ruins of this mountain is scarcely less than fifteen hundred. Some even estimate it as high as two thousand. Of these, a woman and two children have been found alive, after having been several days under ground. They affirm that while they were thus entombed, they heard the cries of creatures who were perishing around them, for want of that succour which they were happy as to receive. Indeed, it is the opinion of many well-informed people that a large number might still be recovered; and a writer in the "Publiciste" goes so far as to blame the inactivity of the neighbouring inhabitants, and quotes many well-attested facts to prove that persons have lived a long time buried under snow and earth. SO This at least is probable in the present case, that many houses, exposed to a lighter weight than others, may have been merely a little crushed, while the lower story, which, in this part of Switzerland, is frequently of stone, may have remained firm, and thus not a few of the inhabitants escaped unhurt. The consternation into which the neighbouring towns of Art and Schweitz were thrown, appears indeed to have left them incapable of contriving and executing those labours, which an enlightened compassion would dictate. The mountain of Rossberg, as well as the Rigi, and other mountains in its vicinity, is composed of a kind of brittle calcareous earth, and pudding stone or aggregated rocks. Such prodigious mass as that which fell would easily crumble by its own weight, and spread over a wide surface. The bed of the mountain, from which the desolation came, is a plane inclined from north to south. Its apbearance, as it is now laid bare, would lead One to suppose that the mass, when it first moved from its base, slid for some distance beore it precipitated itself into the valley. The height of the Spitzberg-the name of the proection which fell-above the lake and valley of Lowertz, was little less than two thousand eet. The composition of the chain of the Rigi, f which the Rossberg makes a part, has always been an obstacle in the way of those ystem-makers who have built their hypothesis pon the structure of the Alps. It has nothing ranitic in its whole mass, and though nearly x thousand feet above the sea, is green and ertile to its summit. It is composed of no hing but earth and stone, combined in rude asses. It is also remarkable that the strata f which it is composed are distinctly inclined om the north toward the south, a character hich is common to all rocks of this kind rough the whole range of Alps, as well as to the greater part of calcareous, schistous, and pyritic rocks, and also to the whole chain of the Jura. It was about a week after the fall of the mountain, that our route through Switzerland led us to visit this scene of desolation; and never can I forget the succession of melancholy views which presented themselves to our curiosity. In our way to it we landed at Art, a town situated at the southern extremity of the lake of Zug; and we skirted along the western boundary of the ruins, by the side of Mount Rigi, towards the lake of Lowertz. From various points on our passage we had complete views of such a scene of destruction as no words can adequately describe. (To be continued.) THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT. The following curious addition to the Ten Commandments was discovered rudely engraven on a stone immediately at the foot of the Commandment table at Aldrington church, near Brighton. They were found upwards of a century ago, and remained nearly half that period before an explanation could be (or was) made known : PRS VRY PR FCT MN, VRK PTH SPRC PTSTN. A singular circumstance, not to say a ridiculous one, now took place. They had just relieved my old respectable gendarme, whose hand, ungrateful that I am, I had not pressed within my own. Another had come in his place; a man of most forbidding aspect, large staring eyes, and a slouching gait; but for any thing else I paid no attention. I turned my back to the door, and sat down to the table. I tried to refresh my forehead by LAMENT OF A SWISS MINSTREL OVER resting it on my hand. My thoughts pressed heavily on me, while ANSWER TO CHARADE IN NO. 18. "Charter." THE RUINS OF GOLDAU. O SWITZERLAND! my country! 'tis to thee O! I have lost you all! Ye sleep beneath a mountain pall; And, deep in its caverns, their merry bells shake; the cry; And repeat huntsman's young That clatter and laugh when the goatherds take Their browzing flocks, at the morning's break, Far over the hills -not one is awake In the swell of thy peaceable sky. They sit on that wave with a motionless wing, And their cymbals are mute; and the desert birds sing Their unanswered notes to the wave and the sky, As they stoop their broad wing and go sluggishly by: For deep, in that blue-bosomed water, is laid "And why not?" said I; nothing else to communicate, leave me; but what means all this ?" "Pardon the criminal," rejoined he; "but three words more; if you could ensure the happiness of a poor man, and provided it cost nothing, would you not do it ?" I shrugged up my shoulders. "Have you just come from Bedlam ?" said I-you seek to draw happiness from a most singular source. Me contribute to any one's happiness!" He lowered his voice, assumed a mysterious air, that ill-accorded with his clownish figure. "Yes, criminal; yes, happiness-aye, fortune: every thing, in fact, is your own free gift. I am a poor gendarme; the service is heavy, the pay is light; my horse is at my own charge, and ruins me. Now, as a counterbalance to this, I venture in the lotteryone must be industrious. Up to this time nothing is wanting to win, but good numbers. I look for them every where, and am always within a pip of the mark. I choose 76; 77 is the lucky number. I back my ticket again and again: all to no purpose. A moment's patience, if you please, and I have done : here is a fine chance for me. It appears, pardon criminal, that your departure is fixed for today. Certain it is that the dead, who are made to perish in this way (making a most significant sign with his fore finger to the side of his neck), have a forecast of the lottery. Promise me to come to-morrow night; it can make no difference to you to give me three numbers-three good ones! Hein! I have no fear of ghosts, so rest easy on that head. Here's my address:- Caserne Popincourt, staircase A, No. 16, at the end of the corridor. You will know me again, nést ce pas? If quite convenient, why not come to-night ?" I should not have deigned a reply to this imbecille, if a feeling, something like hope mingled with desperation, had not flushed on my mind. In the cruel plight I am placed in, there are moments that you fancy a chain may be snapped by a hair. Listen," said I to him; in acting the player, as well as a man, may do whose days and hours are numbered. I can, in sooth, make you as rich as a king, the possessor of a million, upon one condition :" He opened his huge goggle eyes. "What is it? name it;-any thing to please you, mon criminal.” "Instead of three numbers, I will make them four change dress with me." "If it be nothing but that," said he, beginning to loosen the clasps of his great coat. I rose from my chair-I watched all his motions-my heart beat violently. I saw the gates open to the uniform of the gens d'arme, and the gaol, street, hall of justice, already behind me! "Ah! but," said he, turning round with a look of indecision, "you are not going to leave this place? ah! no." 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