Gher. He saw them both, sir, with a favouring eye. What have I done that you can use me thus?
The lady Isidora then in tears-

Guido. Sad Isidora! Did thine eyes indeed Shower diamond drops for me? My gentle love! But Guido, thine is come at last to kiss

The tears away for ever. Happiness

Looks out to find thee; shall it look in vain ?

Gher. May I proceed, my Lord ?
Guido. I had forgot.

Where were we?

Guido. Thou pander to my father's wish,

He is no father: I disown him.) Thou,

Thou busy meddling monk

Gher. My Lord, my Lord,

This is not well!

Thou

Guido. Away! My mother? Oh! my mother was

As pure as purity. I will not talk

Of her who is yet, oh! what pity 'tis,

That one so fair should now be full of blots!

And that a face, which love had breathed upon,
hould now be scarred all over. Once, I thought
hat in her eyes (how beautiful they were!)
ler soul shone out→→→→→

Gher. If you will let me speak

Gaido. But she is grown a harlot in my sight.
What! married to my father, to my father!
What! smile upon the son, and wed the father,
Jecause there's some strange cause. What blind-
ing spell

8 there now hung between us and the moon,
hat dins the sight of woman? There's a cause:
dare not guess, I will not.

The scene between Isidora and Guido is in our
thor's best manner; part of which will remind
* reader of Byron, of a beautiful passage in the
orsair.

Guido. [after a pause] Madam, I come to pay ly duty to you.

Irid. Welcome, you are welcome.

Guido. I come to see how well her bridal dress comes the Duchess of Mirandola.

Isid. You have been well, I hope?

Gaido. Since when?

[sid. Since you

u and I parted.

Guido. That's a long time, now.

ave forgot: how is't that you remember?

frid. I-I-oh! pity me!

Guido. Weep, lady, weep..

ars (yet they're better) purify the soul,

it your's is fair. I know they ease the heart. other!

Esid. Oh! Guido-cruel, cruel, cruel!

Guido. [aside] By heaven, my courage begins to fail : and I

ow womanish. Now let me wring her heart, she wrung mine. Oh! there she walks away, most to dissolution. How she bends,

ke one who sickens with remorse or love!

ad she, perhaps, has been betrayed. Alas!

or Isidora!

Isid. Ah! you spoke; you spoke.

Guido. 'Twas nothing.

was

id. Nothing! it was all to me.

s happiness; no, that is gone: 'twas hope,

was pardon. Oh! my lord (Guido no more).

I would not for the world, for all the world,
Put you to such great sorrow.

Guido. Shall I tell you?

Isid. Yes.

Guido. Listen to me, then. When you were young;
You are young still, and fair (the more's the pity :)
But, in the time I speak of, you were just
Bursting from childhood, with a face as fair
As tho' you had look'd in paradise, and caught
Its early beauty: then your smile was soft
As innocence before it learns to love;
And yet, a woman's passion dwelt within
Your heart, as warm as love. But I am wrong?
Isid. Oh! no. I loved.

Guido. Indeed!

Isid. Indeed, indeed!

Guido. Well! there was one who loved you, too. He
said,

That every hope he had rested on you.
He worshipped you as idols are adored
In countries near the sun. He gave his heart
So absolutely up, that, had he thought

Then that you would desert him, he'd have slain

Himself before you. You were his home, his heaven,

His wealth, his light, his mind, and life substantial.
But then, he went away to the fierce wars,
(His honour was pledged for it) and he left
You, with an oath upon your soul, behind.
"Twas said he died

Isid. One said he saw you fall.

of Vertue, as given to us by his friend and admirer Horace Walpole, to whatever foreign connoisseurs and authors may have written on the subject of English art: for, it will be seen, that, however learned and deep their observations on general art may be, for the whole of their information on the subject, as appertaining to this country, they are indebted to Evelyn, to Strutt, and to Walpole.

I have only, therefore, to advise the admirer of English engraving to refer to Walpole's Catalogue of Engravers, which will afford him an arrangement and ample information respecting the engravers of Great Britain to the time of the death of Mr. George Vertue, in 1756. Subsequent to that period, let his own taste decide for him, as to the collection he will make of the

Guido. 'Twas said he died, and that she grieved matchless works of Strange, of Woollet, of

awhile,

Au explanation now takes place; and, after being reconciled to each other, they part, under the full conviction that their letters had been intercepted, for the purpose of making Isidora believe the report that her lover was killed in battle. But, as have already, I fear, dragged out my quotations to a greater length than is consistent with the plan of this journal, 1 shall, perhaps, resume the subject

next week.

Fine Arts.

ON COLLECTING PRINTS.

LETTER VI.

(Written for the Kaleidoscope.)

ON THE ENGLISH SCHOOL.

TO THE EDITOR.

Y. Z.

"In taste alone is public spirit poor?
Arts mild complaint still sleeps in power's ear,
And lavish ministers are misers here."

Shee.

SIR,-On this, the concluding part of my subject, I forsake "M. Huber" and his "Manuel," yet not without gratitude for the extended and valuable information he has afforded me on the subject of the art of engraving in Italy, Germany, Holland, Flanders, and France: but, in this, " my native land," I prefer the solid and perspicuous labours!

Hogarth, of Ryland, and of others, who

""Press in silent state a plumeless bier ;"

but whose talents and whose labours have upheld the character of the English school.

It has been justly said by Mr. Shee, that a pure taste is the first order of national benefits; that there is nothing too high for its influence, or too low for its attention; and while it mounts on wings of fire with the poet and the painter, to the highest heaven of invention, it descends with humble diligence to the aid of the mechanic at the anvil and the loom." From the recent and unexampled display of this "pure taste," made by our sovereign and by the nobility, as well as by wealthy individuals of this kingdom, let us hope that a fostering public as well as private encouragement and regard will be afforded to the admirable productions of Heath, of Sharp, of Titler, of Smith, and of the host of British engravers, whose talents delight and instruct us, whenever they are called into action; and thus we shall show to the surrounding nations of Europe, that we are not more pre-eminent in arms than in arts; that a cultivated taste and liberality towards the latter go hand in hand with the best feelings of patriotism: and now, Sir, having concluded my observations on the arrangement of the various schools of art, in the hope of having simplified that task and shown the means of giving a greater value to a collection of engravings, I subscribe myself Your obliged humble servant,

AN AMATEUR,

Cease, warring night-winds, cease! rest, rest, thou Ladyship's presence, and by dividing myself, add greatly stormy sea!

to my consequence. So exalted am I in the character of my first, that I have trampled on the pride of kings, and the greatest potentates have bowed down to embrace me; yet the dirtiest kennel in the dirtiest street

'Twas the last shriek: she sinks!-Oh! mercy, Heaven! is not too foul to have me for its inmate.

HORE OTIOSÆ.

No. IV.

Hard is the scholar's lot, condemn'd to sail,
Unpatroniz'd, o'er life's tempestuous wave;
Clouds blind his sight; nor blows a friendly gale
To waft him to one port-except the grave.

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To blush unseen,

And waste their sweetness in the desert air!" Liverpool, January, 1821.

with him: neglected and unknown, and yet possess-permitted to rise to that station in life which they
ing a soul of the highest order that will not even are capacitated to enjoy. How many, even now,
condescend should it possess a friend to make are permitted
known to him its wants lest it should experience a
mortifying instance of the friendship of the world,
and yet sensible of the most acute suffering in in-
stances from which another whose mind was not of
so delicate a mould would experience little or no
anxiety or trouble; under such circumstances (for
this is no ideal picture) many of the sous of Genius
have left that world which neglected or abused them,
in a fit of despondency, of absolute despair.

It is indeed a melancholy reflection, that, not withstanding the taste for reading now so universal, the men who furnish the world with pleasure and It is a miserable consolation to the man who is instruction, whose lives are spent, frequently short-conscious of his own talents, that others, like him have ened, in the search after the "hidden treasures" of knowledge, should so often, even whilst their works procure them unsubstantial applause, be suffered

"To bloom unseen;"

to live neglected and ridiculed; distinguished only

lived neglected and desolate, and have died poor; and
whose worth, when gone, is universally acknowledged.
It is but a mockery to him, to know that others
have suffered, like himself, whose star of glory has
risen, as it were, from their death beds, never per-
haps to set. The marble monument, the adulatory
panegyric serving to preclaim not so much departed
worth as living pride, can confer no honour upon
him : the works of a man of genius are to him,

Monumentum ære perennius.

from the rest of their friends, or families, by the re tirement of their lives, or their melancholy deport ment; often a burthen, even to their relations. The man of genius frequently passes for a being I discontented with his lot, and yet making no exertion to amend it; he has not the bustling anxiety of the man of business to recommend him to notice; he seeks not the friendship of his equals in rank, or, rather, in poverty; because his mind is not formed for them: from their society he could reap no instruction, no amusement: nor will he take much pains to ingratiate himself with those who are dis-ing of it, becomes the keenest satire. tinguished only by their wealth;

Who haunt the crowd and tempt the main,
For splendid care and guilty gain.

The modesty which geuerally, if not always, accompanies real worth, will not permit him to cringe and fawn, to bow and smile at the fooleries or buf. fooneries of a patron; and thus,

"Too proud to creep, too humble to aspire," he passes through life, frequently sunk into the most abject want; and yet too modest to beg, almost to receive, that bounty, which, if received, comes with a dagger's point; and is often given without any great respect or commisseration for the unfortunate man, who, possessing faculties of the highest order, is yet neglected and forgotten, Frequently is he eclipsed by a rival, whose only talents are a bold address, self confidence, and impudence, coupled with ignorance, servility, and pride. If he does not seek for respect by the arts made use of by many around him; if he does not condescend a how down, the very emblem of

SERVILITY, with supple kneest Whose trade it is to bend, to crouch, to please;" f he does not pay so much attention to those minu, upon which others lay such great importance; is motive is said to be indolence or pride: never onsidering that he neither looks for, nor experiences ny pleasure, any reward, in the pursuit of those, to im trifling concerns, upon which the multitude epend for happiness; that his mind is occupied nd his faculties engrossed by other and far more oble parsuits; or that he is able to make a just stimate of the worth, or, rather, worthlessness of hose trifles, to obtain and enjoy which, no manœuvre, However base; no pains, however great; no time, However valuable; are thought too great a sacrifice by those around him.

The Naturalist's Diary,

For JANUARY, 1821.

[To be continued throughout the year.]

B.

In January, the numerous tribes of birds quit their retreats in search of food. The red breast begins to sing; larks congregate, and fly to the warm stubble for shelter; and the uut hatch is heard. The shelless snail or slug makes its appearance, and com. mences its depredations on garden plants and green wheat. The missel-thrush begins its song. This bird sings between the flying showers, and continues its note till the beginning of August.

The hedge-sparrow and the thrush now begin to sing. The wren, also, "pipes her perennial lay," even among the flakes of snow. The titmouse pulls straw out of the thatch, in search of insects; linnets congregate; and rooks resort to their nest trees. Pullets begin to lay; young lambs are dropped

now.

The "storied urn, the animated bust," may flatter and proclaim the vanity of the living; but the dead want them not: if the panygeric be true, it is useless; if false, it is absurd. "Lo! here he lies, his works proclaim the rest," is enough for the man of genius; and, when bestowed upon one undeservWhilst the man, whose vanity is only equaled by The house sparrow chirps; the bat appears, spihis ignorance; whose cheeks the blush of modesty, ders shoot out their webs; and the blackbird whisor of shame, never tinged; who possesses confidence tles. The fieldfares, red-wings, skylarks, and titin himself, even though it be accompanied by the larks resort to watered meadows for food, and are, greatest emptiness of mind which may be, even a in part, supported by the gnats which are on the perfect vacuum; whilst such a one, with an impos- snow, near the water. The tops of tender turnips ing address, is sure of support, of patronage, of en- and ivy-berries afford food for the graminivorous couragement (for the world are pleased with appear-birds, as the ring-dove, &c. Earth-worms lie out ances, and, where they find eloquentiæ satis, do not on the ground, and the shell-snail appears. always remember that there may, at the same time, The utility of worms in manuring the soil is so be sapientiæ parum;) is carried triumphantly on obvious, that perhaps we might venture to say that the stream of popularity, the man of real talents island frequented by them in any number could hardly too often "neglected and forlorn." And why? Re- be barren; they not only draw into their holes from cause he cannot degrade himself by flattering the the surface decayed vegetable matter, which thus vices, and will not humble himself by joining in the rots and nourishes the roots of plants, but the subfollies of mankind; because he dares (and which is stance which they eat is returned from their bodies no small crime in the eyes of many) not only to (forming what is called "worm-casts") in a state pethink, but to act, for himself; because, if caressed, culiarly fitted for vegetable aliment; being thus pulhe disdains to repay it by flattery; if neglected, to verized by frosts, and washed in by rains, is readily seek for profit or applause, by palliating or admi-received into circulation; and as worms cast almost uistering to the vices of the rich. Would he accommodate himself to the standard of the world, he might pass through it, flattered and despised; and leave it, having acquired a wreath, not of renown, but of riches, odium, and contempt.

If such are the prospects and such the fate of too many who are possessed of extraordinary talents; if many of the sons of genius have passed through the world neglected and despised; yet some, though perhaps comparatively few, have risen by the strength of their own talents to renown and to honour, have lived respected and died lamented; after having struggled through many and great privatious and difficulties, have risen far above their own expectations. If Milton was suffered to live and die in poverty, yet Shakspeare was rewarded with patronage and support. If Chatterton died in want and despair, Henry Kirk White, of equal genius, met with that encouragement, which, had Thus it is often the lot of the man of true genius he lived, he would doubtless have abundantly repaid o pass through life; if, and which frequently hap by the lustre of his talents. The melancholy picture ens (for, as the author of the Sketch Book observes, is fortunately not without a reverse; if many have = Genius delights to hatch her offspring in bye-cor- suffered undeserved neglect, yet a few have met ers") one of the poorer classes of society, he is with countenance and rewards. The world appears rrounded by those from whom he can derive but occasionally ashamed of its supineness, and suddenittle pleasure, and who look upon him with coldly arising from its lethargy, seeks out those who are ess, which he repays with contempt: when weighed Hown under the accumulated pressure of a melan-boly perhaps morbid disposition, of want, and of Disfortune, no friendly arm is stretched out to assist im; no heart, overflowing with kindness, condoles

worthy of, and favours them with its patronage. The
present age is honourably distinguished by its gene-
rosity in this cause; but, alas! how few of those whose
talents are coupled with their poverty, who have
nothing else to distinguish or encourage them, are

every night in the year, except during hard frosts, they produce a never-failing supply of this manure. Worms are furnished with small inverted spines upon the under surface of their bodies, enabling them to draw various light substances into their boles. It is admirable to observe the economy of Nature in keeping creation in due limits, and the provision she makes for the removal of encumbrances; trees, which from their magnitude appear indestructible by less than human violence, we yet find are by the agency of a seemingly feeble race speedily consumed: the several species of lucanus. cerambyx, vespa, ptinus, &c. clear away these forest wrecks, reducing them to dust, which serve as oil for the production and support of other vegetation. If we lift up the bark of an old tree, what a colony of labourers we disturb!

In this month the flowers of the rosemary begin to open; the winter aconite and the bear's foot are in flower about the middle of the month; the mezereon "breathes mild its early sweets;" and the red dead-nettle flowers under the shelter of southern hedges. The snowdrop seems on the point of blowing.

The common creeping crowfoot is now in flower; and the crocus, if the weather be mild, appears above ground. Ivy easts its leaves; the catkin, or male blossom of the hazel, unfolds; the flowers of the holly begin to open, and the leaves of the honeysuckle are quite out. Towards the end of January, the daisy is in full bloom.

The China rose, till lately unknown to us, and at | first considered only as a greenhouse plant, is now seen blown in the open air, even in the month of December, often with its red buds mossed with frost. The wallflower, periwinkle, and heart's ease are still in blow. Many names have been given to that universal favourite the heart's ease, among which is "Love Idleness." Hunting and shooting are among the favourite amusements of this season. Skating, also, is much practised by young persons. In this month, the farmer carries out manure to bis fields, and repairs quickset hedges; taking advantage of the dry and hard ground, during frost. The barn resounds with the flail, barley being now threshed for malting. He tops forest trees, and cuts timber for winter use. About the end of the month, in dry weather, peas and beans are sown, and vetches for seed or fodder. Hogs are killed for bacon, and beef and hams are smoked.

A WINTER View of the sea.

Above, one cloud,
Black and unbroken all the skies o'ershroud;
The unwieldy porpoise through the day before
Had rolled in view of boding men on shore;
Ard sometimes hid, and sometimes showed his form,
Dark as the cloud, and furious as the storm.
All where the eye delights, yet dreads to roam,
The breaking billows cast the flying foam
Upon the billows rising-all the deep

Is restless change; the waves so swelled and steep,
Breaking and shining, and the sunken swells,
Nor one, one moment in its station dwells;
But nearer land you may the billows trace,
As if contending in their watery chase;
May watch the mightiest till the shoal they reach,
Then break and hurry to their utmost stretch;
Curled as they come, they strike with furious force,
And then reflowing, take their grating course,
Raking the rounded flints, which ages past
Rolled by their rage, and shall to ages last.-Crabbe

The Gleaner.

"I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff." WOTTON.

tom, the bearer of it bringing it into the hall, singing | Dame Julien Bernera teaches us (who wrote a trea
to an old tune an old Latin rhyme, 'Apri caput de- tise on Field Sports in Henry the Sixth's time) It
fero,' &c. The first dish that was brought up to was a diversion for young gentlemen to man spar
table on Easter-day, was a red herring riding away row-hawks and morlines.
on horseback; i.e. a herring ordered by the cook
something after the likeness of a man on horseback
set in a corn sallad.

The custom of eating a gammon at Easter (which
is still kept up in many parts of England) was
founded on this; viz. to show their abhorrence of
Judaism at that solemn commemoration of our Lord's
resurrection.

The use of your humble servant' came first into England on the marriage of Queen Mary, daughter of Henry the Fourth of France, which is derived from votre très humble serviteur; the usual salutation before that time was, God keep you, God be with you and among the vulgar, How dost do? with a thump on the shoulder.

Till this time the Court itself was unpolished and unmannered. King James's Court was so far from heing civil to women, that the ladies, nay the Queen herself, could hardly pass by the King's apartments without receiving some affront.

Before the Reformation there were no poor's rates, The charitable doles given at the religious hours and the church ale In every parish did the business. In every parish there was a church house, to which belonged spits, polls, &c. for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met, and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people came there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at buts, &c. Mr. A. Wood assures me, that there were few or no alms houses before the time of Henry the Eighth that at Oxon, opposite Christchurch, was one of the most ancient in England.

In every church was a poor's box, and the like at great inns. Before the wake or feast of the dedication of the church, they sat all night, fasting and praying; viz. on the eve of the wake.

In the Easter holiday's was the clerk's ale, for his benefit, and the solace of the neighbourhood. In these times, besides the jollitys above-mentice ed, they had their pilgrimages to several shrines; At the parish priests' houses in France, especially as to Walsingham, Canterbury, Glastonbury, Bromin Languedoc, the table cloths were on the board all holm, &c. Then the crasades to the holy wars were the day long, and ready for what was in the house magnificent and splendid, and gave rise to the adto put thereon, for strangers, travellers, fryers, pil-ventures of errant-knights and romances. grims; so it was I have heard my grandfather say in his grandfather's time.

Heretofore noblemen and gentlemen of fine estates had their heralds, who wore their coats of arms at Christmas, and at other solemn times, and cried 'Largesse' thrice.

A ueat built chapel, and a spacious hall, were all the rooms of note, the rest were small.

At Tomarton, in Gloucestershire, anciently the seat of the Rivers, is a dungeon, 13 or 14 feet deep; about four feet high are iron rings fastened in the wall, which were probably to tye offending villains to, as all lords of manors had this power over their villains (or socage tenants) and had all of them no doubt such places for punishment.

It is well known all castles bad dungeons, and so I believe had monasteries, for they had often within themselves power of life and death. Mr. Dugdale told me, that about Henry the Third's time, the Pope gave a bull or patent to a company of Italian architects, to travel up and down Europe to build churches. In the days of yore, ladies and gentlemen

The solemnity attending processions in and about churches and the perambulations in the fields, were great diversions also of those times.

Glass windows in churches and gentlemen's houses were rare before the time of Henry the Eighth. la my own remembrance, before the civil wars, copy. holders and poor people had none. In Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, and Salop, it is so still. About 90 years ago, noblemen and gentlemen's coats were of the fashion of the beadles and yeomen of the guard (i. e) gathered at the middle. The benchers in the ions at court yet retain that fashion in the make of their gowns. Captain Silas Taylor says, that in the days of yore, when a church was to be built, they watched and prayed ou the vigil of the dedication, and took that part of the horizon when the sun arose from the east, which makes that variation, so that few stand true except those built between the equi noxes.

In Scotland, especially among the Highlanders, the women make a courtesy to the new moon; and our English womeu in this country have a touch of

MANNERS AND SUPERSTITIONS OF OUR lived in the country like petty kings, had jura re-this; some of them, sitting astride on a gate of

ANCESTORS.

[From an old MS. of Aubrey's, preserved in the Ashmole Museum.]

stile, the first evening the new moon appears, r a fine moon, God bless her.' The like I observed in Hertfordshire.

The Britains received their knowledge of ba bandry from the Romans: the foot and the which we yet use, is the nearest to them. Inst west country, and I believe in the north, they give no wages to the shepherd, but he has the keeping so many sheep with his master's flock. Plautus bints at this in his Asinaria, Act. 3. s. 1. Elism Opilio, &c.

galia belonging to seignories; had castles and bo-
roughs; had gallows within their liberties, where
they could try, condemn, and execute; never went
to London bnt in Parliament time, or once a year, to
do homage to their King. They always sate in their
Gothic halls, at the high tables, or orsille, which is a
little room at the upper end of the hall, where stands
a table, with the forks at a side table. The meat
was served up by watch words. Jacks are but of
late invention; the poor boys did turn the spits,
and licked the dripping for their paius. The beds
of men servants and retainers were in the hall, as The Normans brought with them into England
now in the guard or privy chamber here. In the civility and building, which, though it was Gothry
ball, mumming and loaf stealing, and other Christ- was yet magnificent.
Upon any occasiou of bust-
mas sports, were performed. The hearth was com-ling in those days, great lords sounded their tru
monly in the middle, whence the saying, "round pets and summoned those that held under them.
about a coal fire.'
Old Sir Walter Long, of Draycot, kept a trumpeter,
rode with thirty servants and retainers; hence the
sheriffs' trumpets at this day. No younger brothers
then were to betake themselves to trade, but were
churchmen, or retainers to great men.

There were very few free schools in England be-
fore the Reformation. Youth were taught Latin in
the monasteries; and young women had their edu-
cation in the nunneries, where they learnt needle-
work, confectionary, surgery, physic (apothecaries
and surgeous being then rare) writing, drawing, &c.
Old Jacques, now living, has often seen from his
house the nuns of St. Mary Kingston, in Wilts,
coming forth into the nymph bay, with their rocks
and wheels to spin, sometimes to the number of
seventy; all of whom were not nuns, but young Every Baron and gentleman of estate kept great
girls sent there for education. Anciently, before horses for men at arms; some had their armories,
the Reformation, ordinary men's houses, and copy-sufficient to furnish out some hundreds of men. The
holders, and the like, had no chimneys, but flues like halls of the justice of peace were dreadful to behold.
tower-holes; some of 'em were in being when I was The skreen was garnished with croslets and hel-
a boy.
mets gaping with open mouths, with coats of mail,
launces, pikes, halberts, brown bills, and bucklers.
Public inns' were rare-travellers were entertained
at religious houses for three days together, if occa-
sion served. The meetings of the gentry were not
at taverns, but in the fields or forests, with their
hawks and hounds, and their bugle horn, in silken
bawdries.

In the halls and parlours of great houses were wrote texts of scripture on the painted cloths.

The lawyers say, that before the time of Henry the Eighth, one shall hardly find an action on the

case, as for slander, &c. once a year, quod nota.

Before the last civil wars, in gentlemen's houses at Christmas, the first dish that was brought to table was a boar's head, with a lemon in his mouth.

In the last age, every gentleman-like man kept At Queen's Coll. Oxon, they still retain this cus- a sparrow-hawk, and a priest kept a hubby, as

From the time of Erasmus, to about twenty years last past, the learning was downright peda try. The conversation and habits of those times were as starch as their hands and square beards; and gravity was tiren taken for wisdom. The do tors in those days were but old boys, when quibbles passed for wit even in their sermons.

The gentry and citizens had little learning any kind; and their way of breeding up their chi dren was suitable to the rest; they were as severe to their children as the schoolmasters; as severe

masters of the House of Correction. The child perfectly loathed the sight of the parent, as the slave his torture. Gentlemen of thirty or forty years old were to stand like mutes and fools, bareheaded, before their parents; and the daughters, well grown women, were to stand at the cupboard-side during the whole time of the proud mother's visits, unless, as the fashion was, leave was desired, forsooth, that a cushion should be given them to kneel upon, brought them by the serving man, after they had done sufficient penance i standing.

secresy they left him. The writer being again in that tions from a work written by Mr. Logier in favour part of the country, wished to learn in what situation of his own system; and may be relied upon as the unfortunate man might be at this season. He left much as extracts taken from "Solomon's Guide to his horse at a cottage on the mountain, and proceeded Health," vouching for the efficacy of Solomon's spectacle! his remains lay on the floor, his shoes on, the to the spot. "But, good heavens! what a hideous Bala, of Gilead." As to the men of "high eminence," tattered fragments of his garments lying about, which, their approval was confined to that of the chiroplast, with the flesh, had been torn almost from the bones, as being useful, for a short time, to form the band. evidently by birds of prey. I precipitately retreated, As I said before, I want no theoretical discussion: glad to escape from a scene so awful, and rendered in the purport of this is, to ask one or two questions. describably terrific from the ghastly silence and horror Before doing so, I must premise, that Mr. Logier of the surrounding scenery." The writer has been in-asserted publicly in our Music-hall, that instruction The boys (i mean young fellows) had their fore-disposed ever since; (about eight days) but promises for two years and a half, by his system, would make heads turned up and stiffened with spittle. They bringing the coroner and assistance to inter the remains, "fine players, able theorists, and correct composers;" were to stand, mannerly forsooth, thus:the fore- and make diligent search to find some clue by which this players of Corelli, Handel, Haydn, &c. aud consetop ordered as before, with one hand at the band mysterious affair may be developed. The unfortunate man was about five feet seven inches, well proportioned, quently of music in general, not more difficult than string, the other behind the breech, extremely emaciated and pale, and appeared about 50; his hair had been light brown, his eyes light grey; the time when he left his residence was not ascertained. Belfast News Letter.

The gentlenen had prodigious fans, as is to be seen in old pictures, like that instrument which is ased to drive feathers, and it had a handle at least one balf as long, with which their daughters were corrected. Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice, told me he was an eye-witness of it.

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four or five years in the teaching of music," as the old system required, was a "sad waste of time, and a robbery of the public."

Now, Sir, as the Logierian System has been estabIshed about five years in this town, I wish to ask your readers, whether they know of any person, The Earl of Manchester also used such a fan, but A. A. Azais has just published at Paris a work called taught entirely by this system, having been sent fathers and mothers slasht their daughters in the "On the lot of man in all ranks of life; on the lot of home" a fine player, able theorist, and correct comtime of their besom discipline, when they were per nations in all ages; and more especially, on the present fect women. At Oxford (and I believe also at Caming singular invitation:" I live in the heart of Paris, all this nearly implies perfection, and is, I think, as lot of the French people." In the preface is the follow-poser?" I say sent home, for the being able to do bridge, the rods were frequently used by the tutors in a solitary house, surrounded by a fine garden. Every much as the Logierian teachers of this town themad deans; and Dr Potter of Trinity College, 1 day for two hours I shall be at the disposal of any person selves can do. new right well, whipt his pupil with his sword by who may wish to procure one of my books, and to disbis side when he came to take his leave of him to go cuss the principles of it with me. From two to four in winter, and in summer from six until dusk; it will be The last summer, on the day of St. John Baptist, very agreeable to me to form by this means an acquaint! was accidentally walking in the pasture behind ance with the lovers of science and philosophy; to stroll Montague.house; it was twelve o'clock. I saw with them in my little domain, to reply to their questions here about two or three and twenty young woand observations; and to profit by the information nen, most of them were habited on their knees, very which they may give me, or which they may excite me to seek for myself. If I could venture to invent a word sy, as if they had been weeding. I could not pre- which should describe the nature of our confidential sently learn what the matter was. At last a young intercourse, I would say that we will platonize' togeman told me, that they were looking for a coal un-ther, under the constant guidance of nature and philoder the root of a plantain, to put under their heads sophy." hat night, and they should dream who would be beir husbands; it was to be found that day and

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The following proceedings occurred in the legislature of North Carolina :-" Mr. Adams introduced the following resolution :-Whereas Thomas Person, a member in this house, who denies the being of a God, and the truth of the Protestant religion, and the Divine authority of the Old and New Testament, and holds principles incompatible with the safety of the state; Resolved, that the seat of the said Thomas Person, senawilling to go as far as any person to protect the freedom from Granville, be vacated. Referred." We are of conscience; but a man who denies the existence of God is not a safe depository of power; and, not believing in a future state of rewards and punishments, he cannot have a regard for his oath; and, therefore should be cautiously trusted.-National Advocate.

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Law and Physic.-It is stated, as a singular circumstance, that in the city of Cork there has not been a single apothecary's shop opened in addition to those established 40 years ago, but there has been an increase of 49 attorneys in the short space of six years.

Logierian System.

In the next place, I wish to ask the Logierian teachers, if they have any pupils, taught by this system only, who are capable of playing, with ease to themselves and gratification to their hearers, any music that may be placed before them, from a simple sonata to that which is as difficult as the works of Handel, Haydo, &c.? and if they have, whether they will permit an impartial person to call at their academies, to put their ablest pupils to the proof? If, after five years' instruction, it is still found necessary to continue the pupil at the " "academy," where is the difference between the old system and the new?

I know you think differently from me on this subject, and therefore acknowledge your impartiality, continue your indulgence, and secure an admirer as Editor, in giving publicity to my former letters: and well-wisher, in 10th January, 1821.

SIMON GULLED.

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TO THE EDITOR.

friend, and devotee of the muses, Mr. Ryley, had SIR,-It gave me pleasure to learn, that onr opened a Literary Society, for the discussion of topics unconnected with politics or theology. Never was such a society more wanted, nor its good effects more obvious, than in Liverpool; where, after the bustle and fatigue of a day devoted to commercial pursuits, even the votaries of taste and literature are too often induced, in default of mental incitement, to pass the short period between the hours of business and repose in the profitless indulgences of the tavern. One night in the week may now be usefully retrieved from this sink of regret, and other ights may be employed in the domestic circle, by the emulous essayist, in the arrangement of his ideas on the question proposed to be discussed.

INTERESTING AND MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. A late Dublin paper contains a long letter, signed wen, dated Coulbeg, Gorey, Dec. 1820, from which e extract the following:-The writer, in the latter end August last, in company with a friend, was shooting ouse on the mountains of the county of Down; when the vicinity of a savage and desolate spot named Sleu Joule, or the Devil's Mountain, they determined to ew it. After a scramble of three hours they found vaselves in a small glen, encompassed on all sides by fty rocks. They discovered smoke rising from one rer of the glen; and, advancing, arrived at the outh of a small cave, in which they perceived a human gure. The man turning suddenly round uttered an clamation of terror, and sank down deprived of sense. coming, to himself he evinced extreme agitation; d said he would place confidence in us if we would omise not to mention any circumstance relating to him lafter his death. He said he had lived in a remote art of Ireland; a certain circumstance which must feet his life if he was discovered, compelled him to Dandon his house; he conceived, by prolonging his extence, he might expiate his crime by seclusion and enitence; he had wandered through the most seques- this letter; but I do assure you, that it is not mytening senates to command," to be one of the proudest SIR,-You will perhaps be displeased at receiving I consider public speaking, or" the power of lis-" red mountains in Ireland for many months, and at st met with his present abode; he had not shaved his intention to enter into any dispute as to the merits ornaments of which a human being is susceptible, ard from the time he left his home; and, in the cha- or demerits of the Logierian System; especially with The warrior, in the midst of his daring exploits. cter of a beggar, passed undetected. In his habita- interested and abusive opponents. A regard for my may call down the applause of the free, and the hoon he had water at hand, and a little portion of ground own dignity, and a consideration for your valuable mage of the fair; but the attribute of courage, alader culture; he took the advantage of moon-light in time, and not the flimsy and evasive arguments though dignified and ennobling, maninherits only in ing and returning from the inhabited part of the urged by your professional correspondent Q. in the common with the ferocious tiger; with the artless antry, where he procured such things as were neces- Kaleidoscope of the 1st of February last, induced me but fearless savage: that of cloquence, the power Ty for his existence; his provision of meal he had in a mber of small bags. From his manner and language that it would lead to no satisfactory result. I indignation at the record of oppression, to pity at to abandon the discussion of this question. I saw of arousing the feelings of assembled multitudes to must have ranked as a gentleman; and was, unquesably, an Irishman. Ile had collected a quantity of wanted proof, and they gave me assertion: I sought the tale of woe, to exultation at the voice of triall silver preparatory to his pilgrimage, which he had for fact, and found theory. Of the last letter of Qumphant worth, argues an attribute which he only among the rocks. After renewing their promise of 'I shall merely observe, that it is made up of quota. inherits in common with the angels.

TO THE EDITOR.

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