picious part of the forest-or if he be found with a
dog pursuing a stricken deer-or if he be found carry-
ing a dead deer on his back-or lastly, if he be found
bloody in the forest-he is, in all these cases, seizable,
though the fact of killing a deer cannot be proved
upon him.
With regard to the woods of the forest, which were
originally considered only as they respected game, the
first officer under the lord-warden is the woodward.
It is his business, as his title denotes, to inspect the
woods. He prevents waste, he sees that young trees
are properly fenced, and he assigns timber for the
payment of forest officers. This timber is sold by
auction at the court at Lyndhurst, and annually
amounts to about seven hundred pounds, which is the
sum required. Besides the woodward, there is an
officer with the title of purveyor, whose duty it is to
assign timber from the forest for the use of the navy.
One of the most noted officers of the forest in by.
gone times was Henry Hastings, second son of the
Earl of Huntingdon, and who exercised the vocation of
keeper in the reigns of James and Charles I. Hastings
was not less celebrated as a sportsman than noted for
his eccentricity of manners, which partook largely of
the humours of the old English squire. He was a man
of low stature, but very strong and very active, of a
ruddy complexion, with flaxen hair; and his clothes
were always of green cloth-a colour dedicated from
time immemorial to the dress of English foresters and
hunters. His house was of the old fashion, in the
midst of a large park, well stocked with deer, rabbits,
and fish-ponds. He had a long narrow bowling green
in it, and used to play with round sand-bowls. Here,
too, he had a banqueting room built like a stand in a
large tree. He kept all sorts of hounds, that ran buck,
fox, hare, otter, and badger; and had hawks of all
kinds, both long and short winged. His great hall
was commonly strewed with marrow-bones, and full
of hawk-perches, hounds, spaniels, and terriers. The
upper end of it was hung with fox-skins of this and
the last year's killing. Here and there a polecat was
intermixed, and hunter's poles in great abundance.
The parlour was a large room, completely furnished
in the same style. On a broad hearth, paved with
brick, lay some of the choicest terriers, hounds, and
spaniels. One or two of the great chairs had litters
of cats in them, which were not to be disturbed. Of
these three or four always attended him at dinner;
and a little white wand lay by his trencher to defend
it if they were too troublesome. In the windows,
which were very large, lay his arrows, cross-bows,
and other accoutrements. The corners of the room
were filled with his best hunting and hawking poles.
His oyster-table stood at the lower end of the room,
which was in constant use twice a-day all the year
round; for he never failed to eat oysters both at din.
ner and supper, with which the neighbouring town of
Pool supplied him. At the upper end of the room
stood a small table with a double desk; one side of
which held a church Bible, the other, the Book of
Martyrs. On different tables in the room lay hawks'
hoods, bells, old hats with their crowns thrust in, full
of pheasant eggs, tables, dice, cards, and store of to.
bacco pipes.
At one end of this room was a door,
which opened into a closet, where stood bottles of
strong beer and wine, which never came out but in
single glasses, which was the rule of the house, for he
never exceeded himself, nor permitted others to ex-
ceed. Answering to this closet, was a door into an
old chapel, which had been long disused for devotion;
but in the pulpit, as the safest place, was always to be
found a cold chine of beef, a venison pasty, a gammon
of bacon, or a great apple pie, with thick crust, well
baked. His table cost him not much, though it was
good to eat at. His sports supplied all but beef and
mutton; except on Fridays, when he had the best of
fish. He never wanted a London pudding; and he
always sang it in with, "My part lies therein-a."
He drank a glass or two of wine at meals, put syrup
of gilly-flowers into his sack, and had always a tun-
glass of small beer standing by him, which he often
stirred about with rosemary. This remarkable indi-
vidual lived to be a hundred years of age, and never
lost his eyesight, nor used spectacles. He got on
horseback without help, and rode to the death of the
stag till he was past fourscore.

It is well known, from the history of England, that the death of William Rufus (the son and successor of the Conqueror, and who had been instrumental in planting and extending the forest) took place within the bounds of the New Forest, being shot by an ar row from the bow of Sir Walter Tyrrel, who had aimed at a stag as it passed along through the glade. The spot on which this transaction occurred was, it seems, marked by an oak, which survived until some time during last century. Before the stump was removed, a stone was erected at the place by the late Lord Delaware, on which there is an appropriate inscription commemorative of the event, and of the tree which had formerly stood on the spot.

After having been a royal hunting ground for centuries, the New Forest declined into the character of a district of crown lands, from which a small revenue is still derived. Notwithstanding the once rigorous forest laws, and the continuance of an establishment of rangers and keepers, the New Forest has been prodigiously impaired in respect of its wood, and encroached upon by settlers. It would appear to have been a sort of No-man's-land, where every audacious intruder might take his prey, not only of venison and

timber, but squat himself down with his hut, and upreared themselves around us, and on the many and
there make good his territorial right. In the present the mighty events which had followed one another in
day, the forest exhibits long open walks and spacious succession since they had first developed themselves
glades; here a beautiful secluded park surrounded by from the tiny acorns whence they had sprung; and
tufted gnarled oaks, there a heathy spot, enjoying the whilst thus indolently disposed, some of the leather-
beams of the sun, and showing the ground covered coated citizens of these wilds, full of the pasture, would
with wild and delicious strawberries, and other small sweep past us, scarcely deigning to throw a look of in-
lowly fruits, most refreshing to the traveller. In some quiry towards us. Again we would arise to wander
places there have been inclosures for cultivation, and whither fancy led us, striving to penetrate amid the
throughout the domain there are now several excel- mysteries of the forest, and becoming more and more
lent highways, leading to and from the different towns perplexed at every step by the depth of its shades;
and villages in the vicinity. The forest still possesses and anon, an increase of light before us would gradu-
many noble deer, notwithstanding the excess of poach-ally disclose an embayed portion of the sea, surrounded
ing which has prevailed. The account given by Gil- by magnificent oaks in all their splendour of head, and
pin and his illustrator, of the system of encroaching animated by the cheering operations of shipbuild.
and poaching, presents a curious view of the state of ing. In short, the variety and beauty of these forest
affairs in the forest. "There are multitudes of tres- scenes were so fascinating, that we forgot time, space,
passers on every side, who build their little huts, and and position, and were nearly paying the forfeit of
enclose their little gardens and patches of ground, our pleasure by spending the night beneath the shel-
without leave or ceremony of any kind. The under. ter of some of the tangled thickets of these sylvan
keepers, who have constant orders to destroy all these wildernesses."
enclosures, now and then assert the rights of the forest
by throwing down a fence; but it requires a legal
process to throw down a house of which possession
has been taken. The trespasser therefore here, as on
other wastes, is careful to rear his cottage, and get [Being Extract Second from the Work of Dr Brigham.]
into it as quickly as possible. I have known all the SINCE at first no organ is fully developed and pre-
materials of one of these habitations brought togetherpared for the powerful execution of its appropriate
the house built-covered in the goods removed-function, let us inquire at what time of life nature has
a fire kindled and the family in possession, during prepared the brain for the performance of the impor-
the course of a moonlight night. Sometimes, indeed, tant office of manifesting the mind.
where the trespass is inconsiderable, the possessor has
been allowed to pay a fine for his land in the court of
Lyndhurst. But these trespasses are generally in the
outskirts of the forest, or in the neighbourhood of
some little hamlet. They are never suffered in the
interior parts, where no lands are alienated from the
crown, except in regular grants.

We have been informed that ins ances have occurred of small wooden houses having been secretly constructed in Southampton, and then actually transported upon wheels during the night to some spot in the New Forest, where they were set down, occupied, and afterwards added to by degrees, the ground around them being taken in from time to time as opportunity offered; nay, we have even been assured that some of the most splendid residences in the forest have had no other origin.

The many advantages which the borderers on forests enjoy, such as rearing cattle and hogs, obtaining fuel at an easy rate, and procuring little patches of land for the trouble of enclosing it, would add much, one should imagine, to the comfort of their lives. But in fact it is otherwise. These advantages procure them not half the enjoyments of common day-labourers. In general, they are an indolent race, poor and wretched in the extreme. Instead of having the regular returns of a week's labour to subsist on, too many of them depend on the precarious supply of forest pilfer. Their ostensible business is commonly to cut furze, and carry it to the neighbouring brick kilns; for which purpose they keep a team of two or three forest horses; while their collateral support is deer-stealing, poaching, or purloining timber. In this last occupation they are said to have been so expert, that in a night's time they would have cut down, carried off, and lodged safely in the hands of some receiver, one of the largest oaks of the forest. But the depredations which have been made in timber, along all the skirts of the forest, have rendered this species of theft at present but an unprofitable employment. In poaching and deer-stealing they often find their best account; in all the arts of which many of them are well practised. From their earliest youth they learn to set the trap and the gin for hares and pheasants; to ensnare deer by hanging hooks, baited with apples, from the boughs of trees; and (as they become bolder proficients) to watch the herd with fire-arms, and single out a fat buck as he passes the place of their concealment."

The whole of the roads through the New Forest are
delightful, and the rides and drives they yield are
all sufficiently charming in themselves. But if one
would

Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.

THE BRAIN-ITS CONDITION IN EARLY
LIFE.

Let us begin with the infant, and ascertain what is the condition of its brain in early life.

The brain of a new-born infant weighs about ten ounces; that of an adult, generally, three pounds and a half, apothecaries' weight, frequently a little less. But if the mind of an adult has been long devoted to thought, if he has been engaged in constant study, his brain is usually increased beyond this weight. The brain of Byron, for instance, is said to have weighed four pounds and a half; and that of the illustrious Cuvier, four pounds thirteen ounces and a half. The size of this organ increases from the time of birta till manhood, remains stationary from this period until old age, and then diminishes in bulk and weight. The relative size of its different portions constantly varies during several of the first years of life, and it is not until about the seventh year that all its parts are formed. During childhood it is very soft, and even almost liquid under the finger, and its different parts cannot be clearly distinguished. Still at this time it is supplied with more blood, in proportion to its size, than at any subsequent period. It then grows most rapidly, and more rapidly than any other organ: its weight is nearly doubled at the end of the first siz months; and hence the nervous system, being con. nected with the brain, is early developed, and becomes the predominating system in youth. At this period of life, however, which is devoted to the increase of the body, it is necessary that the nervous system should predominate; for this system is the source of all vital movement, and presides over, and gives energy to those actions which tend to the growth of the organisation. Besides, 'Infancy,' says Bichat, is the age of sensation. As every thing is new to the infant, every thing attracts its eyes, ears, nostrils, &c. That which to us is an object of indifference, is to it a source of pleasure. It was then necessary that the nervous cerebral system should be adapted by its early developement to the degree of action which it is then to have.'

But this great and early developement, though ne. cessary for the above purposes, very much increases the liability to disease: it gives a tendency to convul. sions, and to inflammation and dropsy of the brain, and to other diseases of the nervous system, which are most common and fatal in childhood.

It is therefore deeply important that the natural action of the nervous system should not be much in. creased, either by too much exercise of the mind, or by too strong excitement of the feelings, lest at the same time the liability of children to nervous diseases be increased, and such a predominance given to this system as to make it always easily excited, and dis posed to sympathise with disorder in any part of the body; thus generating a predisposition to hypochondriasis and numerous afflicting nervous affections.

he must abjure the common every-day path, and drive
into the depths of the forest. The lover of beautiful Mental excitement increases the flow of blood to the
woodland scenery will be delighted with that division head, and augments the size and power of the brain,
of the forest which is confined by the Beaulieu river just as exercise of the limbs enlarges and strengthens
and the bay of Southampton. "It is now many years the muscles of the limbs exercised. The wonderful
since we first visited it (says Sir Thomas); but we powers of mind which an infant or child sometimes
have still a fresh recollection of the delights of that manifests, and by which he surpasses ordinary chil-
day, when, having left Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight dren, do not arise from better capacity in the mind
early in the morning, we were landed somewhere near itself of the child, but, in fact, from a greater en-
the mouth of the Lymington river, whence, without a largement than usual of some portion or the whole of
guide or companion of any kind, we set out to find the brain, by which the mind is sooner enabled to
our way instinctively, as it were, through the laby-manifest its powers. This enlargement takes place
rinths of the forest towards Beaulieu and the South- whether the mental precocity arises from too early and
ampton river. Limbs which had been trained upon frequent exercise of the mind, or from disease, and it
the Scottish mountains gave but little consideration must arise in one of these two ways. But, in my opi
to the fatigue occasioned by those continued deviations nion, mental precocity is generally a symptom of dis-
from the direct line which fancy prompted, or igno- ease; and hence those who exhibit it very frequently
rance of the localities betrayed us into; our route, die young. This fact ought to be specially remem-
therefore, was of the most careless description, and we bered by parents, some of whom regard precocity,
gave ourselves entirely up to the luxurious enjoyment unless accompanied by visible disease, as a most grati
of these solitudes amongst which we wandered. Some-fying indication; and, on account of it, task the
times we seated ourselves under the shade of a wide memory and intellect of the child. Sometimes, how-
spreading oak to listen in vain for sounds indicating life, ever, it is accompanied by visible deformity of the
and pondering on the huge stems which every where head, and then the fears of parents are greatly awak

grown person, measuring twenty-eight inches in cir-
cumference. The lateral ventricles contained a great
quantity of transparent serum, which had distended
the brain to a very great degree, and produced much
of the enlargement of the head. The appearance of
all the parts of the brain it is not necessary to parti-
cularise. Many parts, especially those at the base of
the brain, were healthy, and the small blood-vessels
were generally congested with blood.

ened. Take, for instance, the disease known by the
name of rickets. Every person understands that this
is a disease of childhood, and, according to the best
medical authorities, it arises from the irritation or in-
flammation of some organ, and frequently of the brain.
Its most characteristic symptoms when it affects the
brain, are an enlargement of the head, and premature
developement of the intellectual faculties. On examin-
ing the heads of those who have died of this disease,
the brain is found very voluminous, but ordinarily The following interesting account of this child's
healthy. Meckel observes, that its mass is increased in mental and moral faculties was furnished by Dr J. K.
rickets; an effect gradually produced, without disor. Mitchell, the family physician :- When 15 months
ganisation of the brain by increased action in its blood-old, the child spoke well, and at 18 months was able
vessels, and the consequent transmission to it of more to sing a variety of musical airs with tolerable correct-
blood than usual. Being thus augmented in size, ness, and always exhibited a strong predilection for
increased mental power is the consequence of this music. His intellectual faculties generally were very
augmentation.
One of the most remarkable pheno- respectable, and his powers of observation rather re-
mena in the second stage of rickets,' says M. Monfal-markable. But his memory, both of language and
con, is the precocious developement, and the energy sentiments, was such as to excite surprise in those
of the intellectual faculties. Rickety children have who took pains to converse with him.
minds active and penetrating; their wit is astonish-
ing; they are susceptible of lively passions, and have
perspicacity which does not belong to their age. Their
brains enlarge in the same manner as the cranium
does.' He adds, this wonderful imagination, this
judgment, this premature mental power which rickets
occasion, has but a short duration. The intellectual
faculties are soon exhausted by the precocity and
energy of this developement.'

I do not say or believe that cautious tasking of the minds of young children will frequently cause this disease, but I believe there is great danger that it will produce the same unnatural growth of the brain, and this will give rise to an exhibition of superior mental power, and be followed, as in the case of rickets, by permanent weakness, or loss of mental energy. That an increase of mental power results from other diseases besides rickets, which stimulate the brain, is evident in many instances; as in fevers that affect the head, in inflammation of the brain, and insanity.

The memory sometimes receives a wonderful addiion of power from an increased flow of blood to the head, caused by some slight irritation, or stimulation of the brain. Dr Abercrombie relates the case of a boy who was trepanned for a fracture of the skull at the age of four. He was at the time in complete stupor, and after his recovery retained no recollection of the operation. At the age of fifteen, during the delirium of a fever, he gave a correct description of the operation, and the persons that were present at it, with their dress and other minute particulars. It is added, that he had never been heard to allude to it before, and no means are known by which he could have acquired a knowledge of the circumstances he mentioned. I have myself seen repeated instances of the increase of the power of memory during delirium, paroxysms of fever, and other affections which determined more blood than usual to the head.

Intoxication sometimes increases the energy of the Intellectual faculties, and revives the memory. Mr Combe mentions the case of a porter, who, in a state of intoxication, left a parcel at a wrong house, and, when sober, could not recollect what he had done with it. But the next time he became stimulated with liquor, he recollected where he had left it. From such facts we learn that the varying states of the organisation have a powerful influence upon the intellectual and moral faculties; and that to affect the mind beneficially, and to increase and perpetuate its energy, it is necessary to give constant attention to the agents that act upon the body, and watch that they do not injure the mind by too much excitement of the physical system, nor prevent the proper developement of its powers, by too little; for wine, and all other unnatural stimuli, though they may for a short time quicken and give energy to the intellect, ultimately depress and enfeeble it; and on the other hand, longcontinued low diet, and a want of sufficient nutriment for the body, debilitates the mind.

I proceed to mention additional cases, to prove that mental power is increased by the action of the brain. During an attack of delirium, many people have learned to read and write with great rapidity, but have been unable to do either after their reason returned, and increased determination of blood to the brain had ceased. Another attack of insanity, however, revived their memory, and their ability to read and write. But the most remarkable and instructive case within my knowledge, one that serves to show the influence of the organisation and action of the brain on the mental and moral character, and which appears to me very deserving of the consideration of the metaphysician, is related in the American Journal of Medical Sciences, for 1829, by Professor Horner, of the University of Pennsylvania.

Master William M., the fourth child of his parents, was born in Philadelphia on the 4th of June 1820. At birth his head was of ordinary size, but very soon after an attack of dropsy of the brain, it began to grow inordinately. After he began to walk, its size was so great that he attracted much attention; and he was apt to fall, especially forwards, from readily losing his equilibrium. His health was generally good.

Dec. 12, 1828, he fell against a door, and bruised his forehead; in an hour afterwards he vomited, became very sick, and died the next evening. During his short sickness he had no headache, and complained only of his stomach.

On examining his head the day after his death, it was found to be considerably larger than that of a full

Of a grave and quiet temperament, he preferred the
society of his seniors, and took little interest in the
common pastimes of childhood. Only sedate chil-
dren were agreeable to him. Often advising others,
he presented in his own conduct a fine exemplifica-
tion of his principles, being distinguished among the
children of the family and the school for love of truth
and general sincerity of character. At length, even
while in full health and vigour, he spoke of death as
a thing to be desired; and when dying, expressed
pleasure at the approaching crisis.

The following, in my opinion, is the true explana.
tion of the surprising mental powers exhibited by
this boy :-Disease, or some other cause, irritated his
brain; this irritation attracted more than an ordinary
quantity of blood to the head, and thus excited, and
unnaturally or prematurely developed, certain por-
tions of the brain; and just in proportion as these
were developed, his mental powers were increased.
I have repeatedly seen cases very similar to the
above as to the symptoms, in connection with scrofulous
diseases, and premature developement of the mind. I
have seen several affecting and melancholy instances
of children, five or six years of age, lingering awhile
with diseases from which those less gifted readily re-
cover; and at last dying, notwithstanding the utmost
efforts to restore them. During their sickness, they
constantly manifested a passion for books and mental
excitement, and were admired for the maturity of
their minds. The chance for the recovery of such
precocious children, is in my opinion small, when at-
tacked by disease. Their mental precocity results from
an unnatural developement of one organ of the body,
at the expense of the constitution, as is thus explained
by two of the most celebrated men of the medical pro-
fession. It is a fundamental law of the distribution
of vital powers,' says Bichat, 'that when they are
increased in one part, they are diminished in all the
rest of the living economy; that the sum is never
augme. ted, but that they are necessarily transported
from one organ to another; and therefore to increase
the powers of one organ, it is absolutely necessary
they should be diminished in the others.'

It is thus that a child is made an intellectual pro-
digy. The premature developement of mind is owing
to the premature developement of the brain, occasioned
by undue excitement, and the robbing of other organs
of their natural share of vital energy. But, as Dr
Johnson says, this is a truth little attended to by the
world in general.' Most parents are ignorant of it,
and are generally anxious for the early cultivation of
the minds of their children. To effect this object,
they are assisted by teachers, who undertake, with
the aid of books, maps, machinery, and pictures, to
make children of only a few years of age understand
a vast many truths in chronology, history, geometry,
and many other sciences; to mature very rapidly their
understandings, and surprisingly quicken their rea-
soning powers. And when a child from much instruc-
tion, or from disease, has reached this superior mental
condition, memoirs and anecdotes of his life are pub-
lished (for such children seldom live many years) for
the sake of instruction and example. Such publica-
tions have been extensively circulated; they have
been greatly approved, and probably have had much
influence with parents in the education of infants.

be very greatly increased; they can be made to perform their functions for a while with unusual facility and power. Every employment in which men engage brings into relatively greater action particular parts of the system; some organs are constantly and actively exercised, while others are condemned to inactivity. To make, therefore, one organ superior to another in power, it is necessary not only to exercise it frequently, but to render other organs inactive, so as not to draw away from it that vital energy which it requires in order to be made perfect.

The important truth resulting from these facts, that the more any part of the human system is exercised, the more it is enlarged, and its powers increased, applies equally to all organs of the body; it applies to the brain as well as the muscles. I would have the parent, therefore, understand that his child may be made to excel in almost any thing; that by increasing the power of certain organs through exercise, he can be made a prodigy of early mental or muscular acti vity. But I would have him at the same time understand the conditions upon which this can be effected, and its consequences. I would have him fully aware that in each case, unusual activity and power is produced by extraordinary developement of an organ; and especially that in early life no one organ of the body can be disproportionately exercised, without the risk of most injurious consequences. Either the overexcited and over-tasked organ itself will be injured for life, or the developement of other and essential parts of the system will be arrested for ever.

A TALE OF THE SIEGE OF NAMUR. ON the morning of the 30th August 1695, just as the sun began to tinge the dark and blood-stained battle ments of Namur, a detachment of Mackay's Scottish regiment made their rounds, relieving the last night. sentinels, and placing those of the morning. As soon as the party returned to their quarters, and relaxed from the formalities of military discipline, their leader, a tall muscular man, of about middle age, with a keen eye and manly features, though swarthy and embrowned with toil, and wearing an expression but little akin to the gentle or the amiable, moved to an angle of the bastion, and, leaning on his spontoon, fixed an anxious gaze on the rising sun.

While he remained in this position, he was ap proached by another officer, who, slapping him roughly on the shoulder, accosted him in these words "What, Monteith! are you in a musing mood? Pray, let me have the benefit of your morn ing meditations." "Sir!" said Monteith, turning hastily round; "Oh! 'tis yon, Keppel. What think you of this morning ?” "Why, that it will be a glorious day for some; and for you and me, I hope, among others. Do you know that the Elector of Bavaria purposes a general assault to-day?" "I might guess as much, from the preparations going on. Well, would it were to-morrow!" "Sure you are not afraid, Monteith ?" Afraid! It is not worth while to quarrel at present; but methinks you, Kep. pel, might have spared that word. There are not many men who might utter it and live." "Nay, I meant no offence: yet permit me to say, that your words and manner are strangely at variance with your usual bearing on a battle-morn."

"Perhaps so," replied Monteith; "and, but that your English prejudices will refuse assent, it might be accounted for. That sun will rise to-morrow with equal power and splendour, gilding this earth's murky vapours, but I shall not behold his glory." "Now, do tell me some soothful narrative of a second-sighted seer," said Keppel; "I promise to do my best to believe it. At any rate, I will not laugh outright, I assure you." "I fear not that. It is no matter to excite mirth; and, in truth, I feel at present strangely inclined to be communicative. Besides, I have a request to make; and I may as well do something to induce you to grant it." "That I readily will, if in my power," replied Keppel. "So, proceed with your story, if you please." "Listen attentively, then, and be at once my first and my last confidant.

"Shortly after the battle of Bothwell Bridge, I joined the troop commanded by Irvine of Bonshaw; and gloriously did we scour the country, hunting the Much of the thoughtlessness of parents regarding rebel Covenanters, and acting our pleasure upon man, the injury they may do their children by too early woman, and child, person and property. I was then cultivating their minds, has arisen from the mystery but young, and, for a time, rather witnessed than in which the science of mind has been involved, and acted in the wild and exciting commission which we ignorance of the connection between the mind and so amply discharged. But use is all in all. Ere half body; for we find them exceedingly anxious and care- a dozen years had sped their round, I was one of the ful about the health of their children in other respects. prettiest men in the troop at every thing. It was in Entirely forgetful of the brain, they know there is the autumn of 1684, as I too well remember, that we danger in exercising many other parts of the body too were engaged in beating up the haunts of the Covemuch, when they are but partially developed. They nanters on the skirts of Galloway and Ayrshire. A know that caution is necessary with children in re-deep mist, which covered the moors thick as a shroud spect to their food, lest their delicate digestive organs-friendly at times to the Whigs, but in the present should be injured by a too exciting and stimulating regimen. A parent would be greatly alarmed if his little child, by continued encouragement and training, had learned to eat as much food as a healthy adult. Such a prodigy of gluttony might undoubtedly be formed. The method of effecting it would be somewhat like that of enabling a child to remember, and reason, and study, with the ability and constancy of an adult. Each method is dangerous, but probably the latter is the more so, because the brain is a more delicate organ than the stomach.

The activity of most of the organs of the body can

instance their foc-concealed our approach, till we were close upon a numerous conventicle. We hailed, and bade them stand; but, trusting to their mosses and glens, they scattered and fled. We pursued in various directions, pressing hard upon the fugitives. In spite of several morasses which I had to skirt, and difficult glens to thread, being well mounted, I gained rapidly on a young mountaineer, who, finding escape by flight impossible, bent his course to a house at a short distance, as hoping for shelter there, like a hare to her form. I shouted to him to stand; he ran on. | Again I hailed him, but he heeded not; when,

rower.

Its

inflicted upon him. That the court of France had a few years before executed a lettre-de-cachet in London, is a fact which has never been disputed. If we are to believe the allegations of the Chevalier D'Eon, there was now a considerable number of emissaries of the French government in London, who had concerted means for seizing his person, hurrying it on board a boat above London Bridge, and then carrying him to a vessel at Gravesend, by which he would speedily be conveyed to France. In this emergency, he addressed four letters to as many eminent English statesmen, in which he expatiated on the injuries which he had suffered, and with which he was threatened, asking Lord Mansfield very cunningly, if, in the event of his being attacked by any party pretend. ing to be English legal officers, which, considering his present relation to English law, was not unlikely, he might not justifiably oppose force with force. Of the reality of his danger there seems little reason to doubt, as, in March 1765, he obtained, upon evidence presented on his behalf, an indictment against the Count de Guerchy for a conspiracy against his person; thus greatly perplexing the British government, as, by international law, no ambassador is amenable to the ordinary laws of the country in which he is acting in that capacity. The prosecution was eventually stopped.

to the vale which it so nearly resembles in name. two courts; for this purpose a mysterious agent was
sides are covered with rude fragments of rock; and a wanted-one hitherto undistinguished, and without
little stream runs wildly along the bottom, as if anxious title or pretension, and yet capable of insinuation,
to escape from its terrible solitudes. The traveller as. and of fulfilling a delicate commission. The prince,
cends to the head of the vale, by a steep and painful who understood M. D'Eon to be a lady in disguise,
path, at the top of which there is a stone seat, with could imagine no better device than to send him in
An inscription indicating that this road was constructed what he supposed his real character to St Petersburg,
by the soldiers of the twenty-second regiment, and with instructions to resume the male dress imme-
also inscribed with the appropriate words, "Rest and diately afterwards. This project having met the ap-
be thankful." From this point, the distance to Cairn-proval of Louis XV., who was fond of such mysteries,
dow on the bank of Loch Fyne is seven miles; the D'Eon appeared temporarily at St Petersburg as a
whole distance from Tarbet being thirteen. At Cairn. woman, and succeeded so well in the business, that he
dow, a boat is to be procured, to convey the traveller was soon after sent on a second mission in male attire;
down the loch to Inverary, a distance of five miles. on which occasion he acted his part with so much
Inverary is a small and irregularly built town, but plausibility, that no one discovered him to be the same
distinguished for the beauty of its surrounding sce. person. The aim of his negociations was to determine
Russia to form an alliance with the courts of Ver-
nery. Inverary castle, a splendid modern square edi-
fice, the seat of the Duke of Argyle, is the principal sailles and Vienna against Prussia, in behalf of which
object of attraction in the neighbourhood. All tra power the empress Elizabeth had already raised eighty
vellers speak with rapture of the beauty of the scenery thousand men. By the address, in a great measure, of
around this princely mansion, as well as of the splen- D'Eon, the Russian government was induced to join
dours of its interior decorations. The dukes of Ar. France and Germany with all this vast force, and thus
gyle are said to have spent no less than L.300,000 in a most important turn was given to the fortunes of
building, planting, improving, making roads and other the great Frederick, and to the political affairs of
works of utility and decoration, in and about the Europe. While D'Eon was in Vienna, communicat-
castle. The collections of old Highland armour, to ing the plan of the Russian operations, intelligence
be found within the saloon, are worthy of the parti- was received of the famous battle of Prague, the first
cular attention of the visitor.
great fruit of the new alliance, and no one was judged
so proper as he to convey the intelligence to Paris.
From Inverary you are carried down Loch Fyne
to that part of the firth of Clyde behind the isles of He accordingly set out in a stage waggon, and pro-
ceeded with such dispatch, that, notwithstanding an
Arran and Bute. Loch Fyne is an arm of the sea
projected into the country for a space of about thirty-overturn of his carriage, by which one of the bones of
two miles, and for fourteen miles from its mouth it is his ankle was broken, he reached that city thirty-six
hours earlier than a courier who had left Vienna at
about four miles across, after which it becomes nar-
Without getting out of the vehicle,
Loch Fyne has enjoyed the reputation of the same time.
he delivered his dispatches into the hands of the fo-
producing the best herrings of any found on the coasts
of Scotland. Leaving Loch Fyne, the steam-vessel reign secretary, by whom they were immediately taken
to the king. Louis ordered the greatest care to be
proceeds towards the Clyde, making its devious way
between the mainland of Argyleshire and the shore of taken of him, and his broken limb to be dressed by
Bute. This channel is extremely narrow, and re-
one of his own surgeons. Three months after, on be-
ceives the appellation of the "Kyles of Bute." The ing completely restored to health, he obtained, at his a
own request, a lieutenantcy of dragoons, and was sent
scenery is in many places striking on both shores, and
is continually developing new features and engaging a third time to St Petersburg, as secretary of a new
the attention of the tourist, till the vessel reaches and formal embassy. He returned from that court in
Rothesay, the capital of the island of Bute. Rothe- 1759, and, being desirous to distinguish himself in his
say being a good starting point for the scenery on the military character, he was permitted to join his regi-
west coast and islands, we may here pause, leaving ment in Germany, with a commission as captain, and
the tourist either to proceed onward by the steamer
as aid-de-camp to Marshal de Broglio. D'Eon ac-
to Glasgow, or remain to take an excursion to some quitted himself of his military character in so bold a
of the more interesting of the Hebridean isles, for manner, as might have been deemed sufficient to fix
his masculine character for ever. At the engagement
which there is no want of conveyances.
of Ultrop, he was twice wounded; and at that of Os-
terwich, at the head of four-score dragoons and forty
hussars, he charged the Prussian battalion of Rhés
with the loss of their commander, who was taken pri-
with so much vigour, as to drive them off the field,
soner. In 1762, the French monarch intended to
have sent our hero as ambassador to Russia, but was
prevented by the death of Peter III. In September
of the same year, he was sent to London, as secretary
of embassy to the Duke de Nivernois, who had been
commissioned to conclude a treaty of peace between
France and Britain. Here his ingenuity enabled him
to be of essential service in bringing about the desired
reconciliation between the two countries. Nivernois,
too jealous in behalf of his own court, had taken the
which gave such umbrage to the court of St James's,
liberty of altering several articles in the ultimatum,
that the negociation seemed on the point of being
broken off. The ambassador, at once sensible of the
necessity of peace to France, and afraid to compromise
the national honour by withdrawing the articles, was
in the greatest perplexity, when Monsieur D'Eon of-
fered, at whatever hazard, to take the blame of hav-
ing altered the ultimatum, and at once put an end to
the difficulty. Nivernois embraced D'Eon with trans-
port, and was candid enough to make his self-devoted-
with the cross of St Louis. Nor does he seem to have
ness known to his sovereign, who acknowledged it
lost the good opinion of the English court, for, con-
trary to the usual etiquette, George III. entrusted
him with the duty of carrying the ratification of the
ceived two pensions from Louis XV., one of three
treaty to Paris. Previously to this period, he had re-
thousand, and another of two thousand livres.

CHARLES D'EON DE BEAUMONT.

In the vast range of biographical history, there could scarcely be found a combination of events so singu lar-an assumption of character so various, and, in many cases, directly opposite, as in the life of this most extraordinary personage. After having sus tained for the first fifty years, and in the most distinguished manner, the characters of a scholar, a soldier, and a statesman, we find M. D'Eon apparently detected in the practice of a disguise with respect to his sex, and compelled, with great reluctance, to resume his proper character of a lady, which he bears for upwards of thirty years more, till, at the close of a long life, his first character is found to have been the real one. Apart from all consideration of the eccentricity which dictated these strange metamorphoses, M. D'Eon is worthy of notice, on account of his intellectual talents, and the figure which he made in European history.

He was born, October 27, 1727, or 1728 (more probably in the former year), at Tonnere in Burgundy, of a family described as ancient and respectable, but not opulent. In the biographies written during the time of bis assumption of the female character, two reasons were assigned for his being reared as a boy. One represents his father as having longed much for a son, and, on being disappointed by the birth of a daughter, as hav- The summit of his fortunes seemed to be attained, ing resolved to educate the child in the former charac- when, on the absence of Nivernois in Paris, he was ter. Another states that a rich uncle, who had been appointed minister-plenipotentiary for the court of mortified in an unsuccessful attachment, conceiving proached his decline. On the arrival of a new amFrance at that of England; but here he had only apan antipathy to the fair sex, left his fortune to the son bassador in the Count de Guerchy, when D'Eon was of his brother, if a son there should ever be, but with requested to resume his duties as secretary, he was so a reserve in the event of female issue only: in order much mortified at the degradation as to become petu. to obtain this legacy, it is said that the father relant and restive, disputing the genuineness of the letter for his recall, and refusing to deliver it, as was solved to make his infant pass for a son. Whatever required, to his Britannic majesty. The consequence might be the source of the ambiguity, D'Eon seems of this weak conduct was a peremptory dismissal from from his earliest years to have experienced no diffi- employment. Conceiving himself deeply injured, he culty in supporting the male character. He was sent published a large volume, entitled Lettres, Memoires, at a proper age to Paris, and placed at the College which he showed no mercy for the new ambassador, et Negotiations particulières du Chevalier D'Eon, in Mazarin, where he was received first as a doctor in and exposed some important state secrets. civil and then in canon law, and finally admitted an to his being tried by the Court of King's Bench, July advocate in the parliament of Paris. Having dis-9, 1764, for a libel upon the count, of which he was played talent in some literary performances, he befound guilty in absence. He then seems to have concame known to the Prince of Conti, who was the cealed himself from the pursuit of justice, as, in the ensuing year, he was outlawed for not appearing to means of introducing him to a political career. Rus. hear the sentence of the court. But in the meantime ia bad for an age been on unfriendly terms with he seems to have had reason to dread greater troubles France: it was an important object to reconcile the than any which the Court of King's Bench could have

This led

Whatever might be the sentiments of the French ministry respecting D'Eon, he never lost the friendship and correspondence of the king, by whom, in 1766, his pension was increased to twelve thousand livres, with a promise that it should not be withdrawn till he should obtain a post of which the salary should be greater. For some years he lived obscurely in England, only coming forward publicly in 1769 to deny a party allegation which had attracted much notice at that inflammable time, to the effect that he had offered to several members of the British Parlia ment the means of impeaching the ministers who had brought about the peace of Paris. About this time suspicion began to be entertained by those acquainted with D'Eon, that he was a gentlewoman in disguise, and, with the national passion for betting, several persons staked large sums upon the fact; one broker, in particular, taking fifteen guineas from all who pleased, to return a hundred when it should be ascertained that the Chevalier D'Eon was not what he It may well be supposed that a suspicion of this kind regarding a person who had acted so con spicuous a part in grave political affairs, could not be come known without exciting an universal feeling of surprise and curiosity in all the countries where the subject of it was known. For several years it was a prominent subject of discussion in the periodical works the Chevalier, in, which he was ingeniously repreof our own country, one of which gave a portrait of sented in both characters at once, the one half of the person lengthwise being dressed as a gentleman, with a sword at the side, while the other hemisphere bore the attire of a lady. One of the persons who had staked money with the broker brought an action, in 1777, into the Court of King's Bench, for recovery of

seemed.

L.700 from that individual, such being the sum which he was to obtain in the event of the Chevalier proving to be of the weaker sex. Two witnesses appeared on this occasion, to swear to the fact; and so satisfied were the jury, that they awarded the pursuer the full amount of his claim. Policies of insur

ance to the amount of seventy-five thousand pounds had also been opened with a reference to this mysterious matter; and that sum would have now changed hands, if a recent act had not invalidated all insurances where the person insuring could not prove an antecedent interest in the person or thing insured.

The question was now considered as set at rest, and, apparently in compliance with the necessity of the case, the Chevalier D'Eon, who had acted as a lawyer, conducted the most nice and difficult diplomatic negociations, and charged oftener than once at the head of a troop of dragoons, assumed the dress of a lady. For a step which ultimately proved to be the beginning rather than the end of deception, and sant a character, easily avoidable by sincerity, it is which was attended with circumstances of so unpleaimpossible to discover any satisfactory reason. Louis XVI. is said to have made the assumption of the fe male dress by the Chevalier, a condition of the continuance of his pension; but this could only be in the assurance that he was what he could easily have denied himself to be. A love of singularity, and the notice which it attracts, affords, perhaps, the only reasonable explanation of conduct so extraordinary.

He left England in August 1777, declaring, in refutation of a charge brought against him in the public prints, that he had had no interest of any kind in the gambling transactions to which he had given rise. At Paris, where he was received into the highest society, he appeared in female attire, retaining no portion of his former habiliments save the cross of St Louis. He was at first very awkward in the management of his clothes, and, though only five feet four in height, with a feminine face, bore for some time a rather grotesque appearance. In retiring one day from a dining-room with a number of ladies, he tripped several times in ascending the stairs, when, pettishly turning to a companion, he wished there had been no such thing as petticoats in the world. His curtsey is said to have exceeded in rusticity that of the homeliest country girl, being performed by a stiff projection of the knees. He was full of jokes, however, about the strange

change he had been subjected to. "It is very hard,"
be would say,
"after having been a captain, to be
degraded to a cornet"-the latter word signifying in
French a female head-dress, as well as a subaltern of
horse. Some one asked if, in the event of being in.
sulted, he should not regret his former situation and
arms; to which he replied, "I have already consi-
dered that matter, and when I quitted my hat and
sword, I own it gave me some concern; but I said to
myself, What signifies it? I may do as much, per-
haps, with my slipper!" On another occasion, when
a lady gave him some advice respecting his behaviour,
he said, "Madam, I shall always be sage, hope;
but I can never be modest." Whenever any knight
of St Louis was addressed in his presence, by the
usual title of Chevalier, he could not for a long time
resist turning round, on the supposition that he was
the person meant. Neither could he forget the habits
of courtesy which he had contracted towards the
ladies. At table, when he sat near any of that sex,
he was always ready to fill their glasses; and when
any one had emptied her cup of coffee, D'Eon sprung
When the proposal of an alliance was made to

from his chair to hand it to the table.

France by the American colonists, Mademoiselle D'Eon, as he may now be termed, made several fruitless endeavours to prevent it from taking place. She had previously, by her influence with Louis XV., been instrumental in preventing a war with England on account of the Falkland Islands; but that monarch being now dead, her influence with the French court was at an end. M. de Maurepas would not allow her an interview either with the king or with himself, but, on the contrary, offended by her interference, ordered her to retire to her native town of Tonnere.

Pancras; the following words being inscribed on the
coffin:-"Charles Genevieve Lonis Auguste Andre
Timothe D'Eon de Beaumont, né 17 Octobre 1727,
mort 21 Mai 1810." The materials of his life were
taken in charge by a literary friend, but we are not
aware that they ever saw the light.*

CONTINENTAL SKETCHES.
THE following sketch of the modes of travelling and
description of places on the Continent, which occur in
a work recently published, under the title of "Remi-
niscences of an Old Traveller," may prove serviceable
to that class of persons who intend visiting the Low
Countries and banks of the Rhine.

"Before I proceed to mention some particulars re-
tinent, I would recommend all travellers to compress
lative to the different modes of travelling on the Con-
their baggage into as small a compass as possible, and
to take nothing with them but what they absolutely
require for wearing apparel. They ought to be equally
careful to avoid speaking to their valet-de-place, or at
the public tables, on any subjects connected with po-
litics, or articles of faith, as there are spies at every
inn, who never lose sight of the traveller till he leaves
the place.

I beg to observe, that the following information is taken from the notes of my own disbursements when last on the Continent. Any one, therefore, by tak. ing the map of Europe, and measuring the distances probable expenses of travelling, and regulate matters from one place to another, may easily calculate the accordingly.

The approach to Rotterdam by water is calculated to excite the most pleasing emotions in the breast of the English traveller; for while, on the left bank of the river, he sees the Brill, where the Dutch people, goaded on by repeated acts of cruelty, first unfurled the standard of independence against the sanguinary Philip of Spain, the whole scene around him, singu larly attractive from the novelty and originality of its general features, draws forth his attention till the steam-boat reaches its destination. When we are landed among the Dutch, our effects are immediately carried to the custom-house, where they are detained but a few minutes; nor did I meet any thing during my whole stay in Holland but the most assiduous attentions.

The old hackneyed remark of the cleanliness of the people must strike the most common observer; and gardens, or towns in general, is singularly conspicu. their care to preserve unimpaired every thing that tends either to improve the appearance of their canals, ous: the latter are generally intersected with navi. gable canals, the sides of which are ornamented with trees kept in the most perfect order. These canals extend over the whole country in endless ramifications,

serving for the double purpose of irrigation and of beautifying it; and when we view the enlivening scene

of vessels sailing to and fro, and the gardens on the banks of the canals laid out with so much taste and

She attempted to pack up her papers in order to obey travel by the diligences, which are to be found on al. Croached, till they changed its unproductive sands

this command, but took so ill as to be for three weeks

confined to her chamber at Versailles. Maurepas then lost patience, and caused her to be conveyed away by force to the Castle of Dijon. He even added insult to the wrong thus inflicted, proposing to marry ner to M. de Beaumarchais, as a means of enriching ner without expense to the king; in which case, said the minister, there would soon be grounds for her

When a person has not his own carriage, he can comfortable and cheap; and when the traveller pays most every great frequented road. They are most for his place, a receipt is given him for the money, that no smoking is allowed, or any sick person or dogs where it is distinctly stated among other particulars, admitted into the carriage. There is always a guard or conductor, whose duty it is to see these regulations

neatness, we naturally conclude that the Dutch have a large share of the comforts and enjoyments of life. their country was neither fertile nor beautiful by nature, but they have made it so by assiduity and art. For ages past they have been a kind of amphibious beings, living considerably under the level of the sea, upon whose proud domain they gradually eninto fields teeming with fertility, and now repose times, their barks were shattered to pieces by the quietly under the shade of trees, where, in former raging tempest. The changes and revolutions in other in the smallest degree: their dress continues as it countries have passed on without affecting them was, peculiar and original; the construction of their ships is totally different from those of other nations;

publishing a memorial against her husband, who, enforced; and I never knew one instance where they their modes of thinking, uninfluenced and unaffected

being sure to answer it both in prose and verse, would afford some capital sport for the laughers of Paris. Finding a residence in France no longer agreeable, D'Eon returned to London, where, in 1783, she made a public appearance at Ranelagh in a fencing match with the Chevalier St George, reputed to be the best swordsman in Europe. On this occasion she wore her now customary female attire, which added greatly to the interest of the scene. About the time when

the Revolution commenced in her native country, she had formed the resolution of returning thither; but, having contracted considerable debts, she found it necessary to expose the whole of her effects to auction, in order that she might be able to leave England with honour. Louis XVI., hearing of her intention, entrusted a considerable sum to an English nobleman, to aid in clearing off her encumbrances; but this was unfortunately lost to her, in consequence of the noble. man dying by the way. Being at the same time deprived of her pension, she began to tremble for the means of future subsistence, but nevertheless resolved to make her effects go as far towards relieving the

pressure of her debts as possible. In May 1791, Mr

Christie of Pall Mall commenced the sale, which not only included books, prints, medals, and statues, but an infinite variety of dresses, both male and female, jewels, arms, and accoutrements; in short, every thing she possessed. She was resolved, she said, to pay every one his due as far as lay in her power, and take nothing away but her honour and the regret of leaving England.

were deviated from.

In Italy, the drivers (called vetturini) have generally their own carriage and horses, and engage for a fixed sum to convey the traveller from one place to another within a given time, including bed and board. Independent of these two modes of travelling, there are vehicles all over Germany called postwagen, where two persons, with their baggage, can travel very conveniently, and which can be procured at the rate of from 12s. to 15s. a-day for any length of time, and to any distance, drawn by two horses, the driver paying all expenses for himself and them.

I will now point out, as far as my experience goes, the different places on the Continent where a person may derive the most instruction, combined with what young people naturally wish to enjoy-pleasure and amusement. I would recommend the English traveller, in every instance, to get good letters of intro. duction to the native residents wherever he goes, and to avoid the society of his countrymen, who, in a general sense, are far from deriving those advantages from travelling, which a more discriminate and attentive analysis of the character of the continental nations would infallibly procure them.

by the theoretical fancies of modern times; the plainness, simplicity, and gravity of their manners remain unaltered, and their morals, in a considerable degree, uncontaminated by the prevailing vices in other coun tries. They have formed a just and a proper estimate of what constitutes human enjoyment in a rational way; and this is evident in their general demeanour, and in the expression of their countenances. See the

plain citizen, seated on a bench in his garden, with of self-contentedness, looking with complacency and his pipe and his book ;-he is a living monument composure on the comforts with which he is sur rounded; and he enjoys them because they are of his own creation, the fruits and the reward of tempe rance, industry, and good management, which at all times will flourish of themselves, without the inter vention of legislative enactments. Let the people of England, and, above all, those of the Sister Isle, look to this. They will perhaps tell me they are ruined by there are more inhabitants to a square mile in Holland an over-population: I can say in answer to this, that than in Great Britain. Then, they may come over the old ground of oppressive taxation as an effectual check value as the first, as the taxes in Holland are very to national prosperity: this argument is of as little nearly double to what they are in Great Britain, if

of the respective countries. What, then, is the cause of all the misery among so great a proportion of the people in the British empire? I will tell them in few words. It arises from intemperance, idleness, and At bad management.

we take into consideration the means and the resources

Paris is decidedly the best winter residence in Europe, both for instruction and amusement, and of two or three days. The next towns in order, whence a person can return to England in the course I would say Vienna, Berlin, and St Petersburg, where the manners and habits of the people are more strictly national, and afford an endless source of useful knowledge to the inquisitive traveller. Ultimately she was prevented, by the growing trou. Rome nobody would ever live from choice; it is a bles of France, from quitting the country in which she had hitherto found an asylum. Necessity, however, paradise for artists alone, and affords a melancholy great natural advantages: it abounds in wood and left for this able and ingenious diplomatist no other spectacle of a people, reduced by their own indolence coal, and all the articles of consumption for man and means of prolonging life than an itinerant exhibition and indifference to the lowest state of moral and poli- beast in the utmost plenty. At Antwerp they have

of her skill in fencing throughout the country. In the course of a few years, advancing age disabled her for even this miserable expedient, and she rapidly sank into poverty. Her friends-of whom she had

secured some whose esteem does honour to her me

mory then recommended to her to write the memoirs

ical degradation; and no person should reside there beyond a couple of months, unless they choose to run the risk of being for ever lost in that gulf of vice and pollution. At Naples, as well as at Rome, the same period of time will suffice to gratify every rational degree of curiosity; beyond that, we are exposed to the

same contamination.

Belgium has infinite attractions for a traveller, and

one of the finest harbours in the world, and every

possible convenience for the extension and encourage. ment of trade; and there, as well as at Brussels, the amateur of paintings will find the choicest specimens of the Dutch and Flemish school. The country, to wards Spa and the Duchy of Luxemburg, is inexpressibly picturesque and beautiful; and in those districts the geologist and mineralogist will find a wide feld for their enterprise and research. From these points, it is desirable to find our way to the Rhine by the way of Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne, two towns of the most interesting description in that part of the

Continent.

Dusseldorff, on the right bank. From Dusseldorff I
I descended the Rhine from Cologne, and landed at

of her life, and try to obtain, from some bookseller, As for a summer residence on the Continent, I know a small annuity upon the condition of his enjoying the none so delightful as Baden. Carlsbad has great atcopyright at her death. With much difficulty an artractions as a watering-place, and is frequented by the rangement of this kind was effected in the year 1804, and she applied with much zeal to the task of autofirst society in Europe during the summer. Spa is rather out of date, although the surrounding scenery biography, which she was not destined, however, to is most beautiful, and a person cannot fail passing the complete. Her remaining years were cheered by the attentions of an aged French lady, named Madame fine season very pleasantly, by sailing up the Rhine in a steamer, and landing either at Ems or Wisbaden, Cole, and by a pension of fifty pounds bestowed upon and from thence taking occasionally little trips to her by the Duke of Queensberry. In 1808, she became so weakly as to be chiefly confined to bed, though Frankfort, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Carlsruhe, Stut-proceeded, by the way of Elberfeld and Arensburg, to Cassel, a road infinitely interesting, as much from its she still continued to write. But at length she sank gart, &c. This latter plan is the more to be recom. natural beauties, as from the active and useful pur. into a state of extreme debility, and, on the 21st of mended, as the traveller, in case of need, can easily suits in which the people are engaged, particularly in accelerate his return to England, by proceeding down and about Elberfeld, which may be called the Shefthe Rhine to Rotterdam, from whence a steamer field of Germany. brings him home in little more than twenty-four hours.

May 1810, expired at her lodgings, in Millman Street, near the Foundling Hospital.

The Chevalier D'Eon-for he may now once more be spoken of as a man-had reached the advanced age of eighty-three years, of which the last thirty-three had been spent in the practice of a deception almost without precedent, and which was so dexterously managed, that even the person with whom he lived never entertained the least suspicion of it. His body was interred privately within the parish church of St

* This article has been composed with care, though perhaps not with perfect correctness in point of fact, from materials scattered throughout Dodsley's Annual Register, and the Gentleman's Ma

gazine (see indexes of those works)-the Edinburgh Annual Re

gister 1810, and the Eccentric Mirror, London, 1807.

Let us now proceed to the University of Göttingen. All lovers of phrenology would do well, when they visit that once far-famed place of learning, 10 take a letter of introduction to Professor Blumenbach, who has the choicest collection of skulls in Europe all arranged in the best order; and where they may draw their deductions, and feast on their favourits science, at their leisure. Göttingen has lost much a