I had that crown!"-"It would be a great dish," rejoined the buffoon. "How can that be," replied the prince, since you value it but a crown?"When James I. asked him whether he loved Englishmen or Frenchmen better, he replied, "Englishmen, because he was of kindred to more noble persons of England than of France;" and when the king inquired whether he loved the English or Germans better? he replied, the English; on which the king observing that his mother was a German, the prince replied, "Sir, you have the wit thereof." A southern speech, adds the writer, which is as much as to say-you are the cause thereof. "Born in Scotland, and heir to the crown of England, at a time when the mutual jealousies of the two nations were running so high, the boy often had occasion to express the unity of affection, which was really in his heart. Being questioned by a nobleman, whether, after his father, he had rather be king of England or Scotland? he asked, "which of them was best?" being answered, that it was England, Then," said the Scottishborn prince, "would I have both!" And once in reading this verse in Virgil, Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur, the boy said he would make use of Anglus Scotusne mihi nullo discrimine "He was careful to keep alive the same feeling for another part of the British dominions, and the young prince appears to have been regarded with great affection by the Welsh; for when once the prince - asked a gentleman at what mark le should shoot? the courtier pointed with levity at a Welshman who was present. "Will you see then," said the princely boy, "how I will shoot at Welshmen?" Turning his back from him, the prince shot his arrow in the air. When a Welshman, who had taken a large carouse, in the fulness of his heart and his head, in the presence of the king, said that the prince should have 40,000 Welshmen to wait upon him, against any king in Christendom; the king, not a little jealous, hastily inquired, "To do what?" the little prince turned away the momentary alarm by his facetiousness,-"To cut off the heads of 40,000 leeks." "His bold and martial character was discovered in minute circumstances like these. Eating in the king's presence a dish of milk, the king asked him why he ate so much child's meat?"Sir, it is also man's meat," Henry replied;-and immediately after having fed heartily on a partridge, the king observed, that that meat would make him a coward, according to the prevalent notions of the age respecting diet; to which the young prince replied, "Though it be but a cowardly fowl, it shall not make me a coward."-Ouce taking up strawberries with two spoons, when one might have suf ficed, our infant Mars gaily exclaimed, "The one I use as a rapier, and the other as a dagger." "Adam Newton appears to have filled his office as preceptor, with no servility to the capricious fancies of the princely boy. Desirous, however, of cherishing the generous spirit and playful humour of Henry, his tutor encouraged a freedom of jesting with him, which appears to have been carried at times to a le gree of momentary irritability on the side of the tutor, by the keen humour of the boy. While the royal pupil held his master in equal reverence and affection, the gaiety of his temper sometimes twitched the equability or the gravity of the preceptor. When Newton, wishing to set an example to the prince in heroic exercises, one day practised the pike, and tossing it with such little skill as to have failed in the attempt, the young prince telling him of his failure, Newton obviously lost his temper, observing, that "to find fault was an evil humour." "Master, I take the humour of you." "It becomes not a prince," observed Newton. “Then,” retorted the young prince, doth it worse become a prince's master !" -Some of these harmless bickerings are amusing. When his tutor, playing at shuffle-board with the prince, blamed him for changing so often, and taking up a piece, threw it on the board, and missed his aim, the prince smiling, exclaimed, "Well thrown, master;" on which the tutor, a little vexed, said "he would not strive with a prince at shuffle-board." Henry observed, "Yet you gownsmen should be best at such exercises, which are not meet for men who are more stirring." The tutor, a little irritated, said, "I am meet for whipping of boys." "You vaunt then," retorted the prince, "that which a ploughman or cart-driver can do better than you." "I can do more," said the tutor, "for I can govern foolish children." On which the prince, who, in his respect for his tutor, did not care to carry the jest farther, rose from table, and in a low voice to those near him said, "He had need be a wise man that could do that."-Newton was sometimes severe in his chastisements; for when the prince was playing at goff, and having warned his tutor who was standing by in conversation, that he was going to strike the ball, and having lifted up the goffclub, some one observing, "Beware, Sir, that you hit not Mr. Newton;" the prince drew back the club, but smilingly observed, "Had I done so, I had but paid my debts."-At another time, when the princely boy was amusing himself with the sports of a child, his tutor wishing to draw him to more manly exercises, amongst other things, said to him in good humour, "God send you a wise wife!" "That she may govern you and me!" said the prince. The tutor observed, that he had one of his own;" the prince replied, "But mine, if I have one, would govern your wife, and by that means would govern both you and me."-Henry, at this early age, excelled in a quickness of reply, combined with_reflection, which marks the precocity of his intellect. His tutor having laid a wager with the prince that he could not refrain from standing with his back to the fire, and seeing him forget himself once or twice, standing in that posture, the tutor said, "" Sir, the wager is won, you have failed twice;" "Master," replied Henry, "C Saint Peter's cock crew thrice."-A Musician having played a voluntary in his presence, was requested to play the same again. "I could not for the kingdom of Spain," said the musician, "for this were harder than for a preacher to repeat word by word a sermon that he had not learned by rote." A clergyman standing by, observed that he thought a preacher might do that: "Perhaps," re- joined, "The natural facetiousness of his temper appears frequently in the good humour with which the little prince was accustomed to treat his domestics. The prince had two of opposite characters, who were frequently set by the ears for the sake of the sport; the one, Murray, nicknamed " the taylor," loved his liquor; and the other was a stout "trencherman." The king desired the prince to put an end to these brawls, and to make the men agree; and that the agreement should be written and subscribed by both. "Then," said the prince, "must the drunken taylor subscribe it with chalk, for he cannot write his name, and then I will make them agree upon this condition that the trencherman shall go into the cellar and drink with Will Murray, and Will Murray shall make a great wallet for the trencherman to carry his victuals in." One of his servants having cut the prince's finger, and sucking out the blood with his mouth, that it might heal the more easily, the young prince, who expressed no displeasure at the accident, said to him pleasantly, "If, which God forbi:!! my father, myself, and the rest of his kindred should fail, you might claim the crown, for you have now in you the blood royal."—Our little prince once resolved on a hearty game of play, and for this purpose only admitted his young gentlemen, and excluded the men: it happened that an old servant, not aware of the injunction, entered the apartment, on which the prince told him he might play too; and when the prince was asked why he admitted this old man rather than the other men, he re joined, "Because he had a right to be of their number, for Senix bis puer." "Nor was our little prince susceptible of gross flattery, for when once he wore white shoes, and one said that he longed to kiss his foot, the prince said to the fawning courtier, 'Sir, I am not the Pope;" the other replied that he would not kiss the Pope's foot, except it were to bite off his great toe. The prince gravely rejoined; "At Rome you would be glad to kiss his foot, and forget the rest." "It was then the mode, when the king or the prince travelled, to sleep with their suite at the houses of the nobility; and the loyalty and zeal of the host were usually displayed in the reception given to the royal guest. It happened that in one of these excursions the prince's servants complained that they had been obliged to go to bed supperless, through the pinching parsimony of the house, which the little prince at the time of hearing seemed to take no great notice of. The next morning the lady of the house, coming to pay her respects to him, she found him turning a volume that had many pictures in it; one of which was a painting of a company sitting at a banquet: this he shewed her. "I invite you, Madam, to a feast." "To what feast?" she asked. "To this feast," said the boy. "What, would your highness give me but a painted feast?" Fixing his eye on her, he said, "No better, Madam, is found in this house." There was a delicacy and greatness of spirit in this ingenious reprimand, far excelling the wit of a child. According to this anecdotewriter, it appears that James I. probably did not delight in the mar tial tial dispositions of his son, and whose habits and opinions were, in all respects, forming themselves opposite to his own tranquil and literary character. The writer says that, "his Majesty, with the tokens of love to him, would sometimes interlace sharp speeches, and other demonstrations of fatherly severity." Henry, who however lived, though he died early, to become a patron of ingenious men, and a lover of genius, was himself at least as much enamoured of the pike, as of the pen. The king, to rouse him to study, told him, that if he did not apply more diligently to his book, his brother, Duke Charles, who seemed already attached to study, would prove more able for government and for the cabinet, and that himself would be only fit for field-exercises and military affairs. To his father, the little prince made no reply but, when his tutor one day reminded him of what his father had said, to stimulate our young prince to literary diligence, Henry asked, whether he thought his brother would prove so good a scholar? His tutor replied, that he was so likely to prove. "Then," rejoined our little prince, "will I make Charles archbishop of Canterbury." : "Our Henry was devoutly pious, and rigid, in never permitting before him any licentious language or manners. It is well known that Rex erat Æneas nobis quo justior alter "Such are a few of the puerile anecdotes of a prince who died in early youth, gleaned from a contemporary manuscript, by an eye and ear witness. They are trifles, but trifles consecrated by his name. They are genuine, and the philosopher knows how to value the indications of a great and heroic character. There are among them some, which may occasion an inattentive reader to forget, that they are all the speeches and the actions of a child!" VOYAGES Hoyages and Travels. CUSTOMS AND MANNERS OF PEOPLE. ARTICLE I.-Loss of the American Brig Commerce, wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the month of August 1815; with an Account of Tombuctoo, and of the hitherto undiscovered Great City of Wassanah. By JAMES RILEY, Late Master and Supercargo. TH HE first inquiry respecting every work that relates extraordinary adventures, and gives information on the subject of places hitherto unknown or unexplored, is very naturally directed to its authenticity. The claims of this book on that score are undoubted; and as exhibiting a picture of almost unparalleled hardships, and extending our knowledge of the interior of Africa, it may be safely recommended, as possessing a high degree of interest. MR. RILEY'S SUFFERINGS IN THE DESERT OF SAHAHRAH. "The Arabs had been much amused in observing our difficulty in ascending the height, and kept up a laugh while they were whiping us forward. Their women and children were on foot as well as themselves, and went up without the smallest difficulty or inconve. nience, though it was extremely hard for the camels to mount; and before they got to the top they were covered with sweat and froth. Having now selected five cainels for the purpose, one for each of us, they put us on behind the humps, to which we were obliged to cling by grasping its long hair with both hands. The back bone of the one I was set on was only covered with skin, and as sharp skin, and as sharp as the edge of an oar's blade; his belly distended with water, made him perfectly smooth, leaving no projection of the hips to keep me from sliding off behind, and his back or rump being. as steep as the roof of a house, and so broad across as to keep my legs extended to their utmost stretch. I was in this manner slipping down to his tail every moment. I was forced however to keep on, while the camel, rendered extremely restive at the sight of bis strange rider, was all the time running about among the drove, and making a most woeful bellow ing, |