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And now since you and I are such,

Tell me what's yours, and what is mine? Our eyes, our ears, our taste, smell, touch, Do (like our souls) in one combine;

So by this, I as well may be

Too old for you, as you for me.

TO LYDIA.

I told you, Lydia, how 'twould be,
Though Love be blind, his priests can see :
Your wisdom, that doth rule the wise,
And conquers more than your black eyes ;
That like a planet doth dispense,
And govern by its influence,
(Though to all else discreet you be,)
Is blemish'd 'cause y'are fond of me.
You say, you ought, howe'er, to do
The same thing still; I say so too;

Let tongues be free, speak what they will,
Say our love's loud, but let's love still.
I hate a secret, stifled flame,

Let yours and mine have voice and name;
Who censure what 'twixt us they see,
Condemn not you, but envy me.

Go bid the eager flame congeal

To sober ice; bid the sun steal

The temper of the frozen zone,

Till chrystal say that cold's its own;
Bid Jove himself, whiles the grave state
Of Heaven doth our lots debate,

But think of Leda, and be wise,
And bid Love have equal eyes.
View others, Lydia, as you would
View pictures; I'll be flesh and blood;
Fondness, like Beauty that's admir'd,
At once is censur'd and desir'd;
And they that do it will confess,
Your soul in this doth but digress
Bat when you thus in passions rise,
Y' are fond of them, to me y' are wise.

LOVE INCONCEALABLE.

Who can hide fire? If't be uncover'd, light, If cover'd, smoake, betraies it to the sight: Love is that fire, which still some sign affords, If bid, they are sighs; if open, they are words

TO CUPID.

Thou, who didst never see the light,
No know'st the pleasure of the sight,

* But alwais blinded, canst not say,
Now it is night, or now 'tis day;

1 So captivate her sense, so blind her eye,
That still she love me, yet she ne'er know why.
Thou who dost wound us with such art,
We see no blood drop from the heart,

And, subt❜ly cruell, leav'st no sign

To tell the blow or hand was thine,
O gently, gently wound my fair, that shee
May thence beleeve the wound did come from thee.

THE DREAME.

I dream'd I saw myself lye dead,
And that my bed my coffin grew;
Silence and sleep this strange sight bred,
But wak'd, I found I liv'd anew.
Looking next morn on your bright face,
Mine eyes bequeath'd mine heart fresh pain;
A dart rush'd in with every grace,
And so I kill'd myself again ›

O eyes, what shall distressed lovers do,
If open you can kill, if shut you view !

COMPLETE HISTORY

OF THE

Liverpool Musical Festival,

1827,

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FIELD SPORTS FOR OCTOBER.

Pheasant-shooting, our readers need not be told, commences on the first of this month; a month too soon, indeed, as many of these birds do not attain their proper growth before November. Despite of this, however, many fall victims to the unfair and unprincipled sportsman, even during the month of September. Pheasants, by dint of uncommon preservation, have now become not only common, but numerous, throughout the kingdom; and though they will, for the most part, cling to the preserves, yet, capricious in their movements, they will still frequently be found at some distance from them. The best time for pheasant-shooting on the borders of preserves is about the middle of October, inasmuch as these beautiful birds will then choose such haunts, and in them continue, if not much molested, about ten days, when they again seek the friendly shelter of the wood. As these are young birds, that thus temporarily stay away, it would seem as if the mother bird drove them from her, in the same manner as the domestic hen is seen to get rid of her chickens, "warring against nature still." Pheasant-shooting, considered as a diversion, is not, in the opinion of the writer, equal to partridge-shooting. While the ground is thickly Covered with vegetation, pheasants may be flushed in all situations; and as long as potatoes and turnips afford good shelter they will frequently be amongst them; but as the winter advances, the thicker hedge-rows will be sought, and coverts and protecting woods be courted, in which they are readily found, and, by good performers, easily killed. The pheasant flies with difficulty: if one be sprung and not killed, but marked down, followed and sprung again; and if this be more than twice repeated, the bird will be scarcely able to rise with any effect the third time, but may be caught by the dogs. At the same time it should be admitted, that the first rushing rise of a pheasant is not a little calculated to try the nerve of inexperienced or commencing sportsmen. The breed we have reason to believe abundant, though there be ugly reports extant of a disease in the species. Time will show-we remain sceptical.

Hunting with the harriers is somewhat dangerous, till the frosts have so far nipped vegetation, that the leaves begin to fall. Prior to this period, the leaps, or jumps, (as they are more fashionably, but less philosophically, termed) are blind, and, consequently, the horse is very liable to come down. However, some ardent hare-hunting turns out in September: in October hare-hunting becomes general.

The Turf.-The racing season is drawing to a close. One of the most splendid meetings in the world, even if we concede to Ascot the priority in some respects, has just come off; and with the Newmarket meetings the report will be closed for the year. Of various gratifying sports October claims its share, and it will be our "acceptable service" to chronicle them.

Angling. The month is good for trolling and bottomfishing, and, consequently, the angler may still pursue his sport, merely changing his tender fly-tackle for some of stouter material; such as the pike-fisher, who knows any thing of his calling, should undoubtedly use.—Annals of Sporting.

BALLOON ASCENT.

TO THE EDITORS.

SIR,-The delightful spectacle of the balloon ascent yesterday afternoon brought to my recollection the elegant poetical, and, I may say, prophetical description of the flight of Perseus, given by Ovid in the fourth book of his Metamorphoses. It may perhaps gratify some of your readers to lay it before them.

Inde per immensum ventis discordibus actus,
Nunc huc, nunc illuc, exemplo nubis aquosæ,
Fertur; et ex alto seductas æthere longe
Despectat terras, totumque supervolat orbem.
Ter gelidum Arcton, ter Cancri brachia vidit ;
Sæpe sub occasum, sæpe est ablatus in ortus,
Jamque cadente die, Sigela littora cernit.

TRANSLATION.

Thence Perseus, like a cloud by storms, was driven
Through all the expanse beneath the cope of heaven,
The Jarring winds unable to control.

He saw the southern and the northern pole;
And eastward thrice, and westward thrice was whirl'd,
And from the skies surveyed the nether world;
But when gray ev'ning show'd the verge of night,
He fear'd in darkness to pursue his flight;
He pois'd his pinions, and forgot to soar,
And sinking, closed them on th' Hesperian shore.

The translation is that of Sir Samuel Garth, Bart. and M. D.; and, truly it smacks of a phisicky flavour; but for want of a better, it must serve this turn: for the rattling of coach-wheels, the noise of hammers at the Town-hall, in busy preparation for to-morrow night's uproar, with the clamour of the roarers at St. Peter's,-assisted, as they are, by the braying of so many trumpets, drums, kettledrums, and fiddles, may well serve as an apology for want of rhymes in any Liverpool translator at this time.

October 4, 1827.

Days.

Tide Table.

|Morn. Even. Height.

h. m. h. m. ft. in.

Tuesday ..16 8 3 8 3211 Wednesday17 8 57 9 20 13 Thursday..18 9 40 10 114 Woodcocks will present themselves towards the latter Friday 19 10 19 10 38 16 end of this month, when they sometimes appear in consi-Sunday....21 11 35 11 55 18 Saturday..20 10 57 11 1617 derable numbers; though it is not till the beginning of Monday..22- 0 1419 November that they are met with in abundance. Tuesday..23 0 33 0 4519

Snipes are to be seen during the whole year, but generally may be said to be numerous towards the latter end of this month.

Coursing will soon become general; though bares, at this early period of the season, may be considered, if the greyhounds are good for any thing, as very much overmatched. Much, however, depends, in this respect, upon the season, and a good deal upon the country. After a dry, bracing, breeding time, we have known hares run remarkably well from the middle of October; and upon open, down, and heath countries, where a chivy may be had three miles from covert into it, we have seen young hares puzzle, and sometimes beat, very good brace of greyhounds. Something must now, also, be conceded to the courser, on account of his young dogs.

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AERTEMNON.

Festivals, &c.

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[ORIGINAL TRANSLATION.]

AN HISTORICAL FRAGMENT, SERVING TO
PLETE IMPORTANT ILLUSTRATIONS.

BY DR. ALBERT.

COM

the beard to grow. It was again taken into favour un-
der Henry the Third, and shone, in all its lustre, under
the good Henry the Fourth. The loss of this excellent
Prince was a mortal blow to the beard, which merely

luxury, and bon ton, it was firmly established; and the example of a king whose will was sovereign, and who cal not tolerate in France any caprices but his own, irreve bly fixed the destiny of the wig,

THE RISE, GREATNESS, AND DECLINE OF vegetated under Louis the Thirteenth, to give place entirely under Louis the Fourteenth, to the "perruques of the perruquiers, of their political opinions, and of the We shall see hereafter in speaking of the esprit dry ARTISTS IN HAIR; à marteaux," and the "toupets étagés." From this epoch only is dated the political existence of remained to the principles of the monarch who served the influence on administration, how faithful their order ha barbers. The hairdressers, willing to remain sole masters cause so well. France, from the time of Henry the Second, of every thing which concerned the capitol of man, wished already aimed at the privilege of furnishing foreign nations to fulfil the duties of this new profession; and, under the with hair-dressers for the ladies. This wonderful art, 16patronymic name of Perruquiers, to take the beard like-vived from antiquity, even then gave a presage of the high wise under their protection: but the barbers, whose science destinies which were reserved for it, and seemed nix of w had long remained stationary, owing to the successive re- point out France as the cradle of its regeneration. volutions with which royal caprices had impeded its progress, gave new eclat to their condition, by practising sur- the four general circumstances which contributed to t Before we proceed further, it is necessary to derei gery as well as their former profession; and France, Eng-blish in France the honourable nursery of artists in bat land, Germany, and Spain, soon boasted of possessing a The first then is, that ancient urbanity of mannen which surgeon in every barber.

The origin of every thing famous ought, from its nature, to conceal its stately head in the clouds; the destinies have decreed it thus, in order to veil from the eyes of indiscreet posterity the obscure sources whence it has pleased capricious fortune to draw illustrious names,

and glorious lineages.

If the arts took their birth according as man removed himself from his primitive condition, the art of regulating or embellishing the attire with which nature has ornamented his body, must have arisen first, since vanity had corrupted even celestial minds long before man existed. Thus, without entangling ourselves in the labyrinth of authorities, which establish the origin of artists in hair, we

of women.

trembling hands jeopardised the high reputation of this est circles among foreigners; the second arises fr We will not speak of those obscure bunglers, whose gave to all classes of the French admittance into the high noble mystery. The French academy justly condemned predilection foreign courts evinced for the French them to be denominated shavers; and, as such, to be guage, which finally became the language of diplomat limited to shaving and bleeding the vulgar. throughout Europe; the third proceeds from the ta shall confine ourselves to stating that traces of them are which of the two professions, that of the perruquier, or that pire of the fashions; and, finally, the fourth may be tra It is, perhaps, a matter of historical importance to know taste of the French for every thing which concerns the scattered every where through the pages of antiquity. of the barber, has had the greatest influence upon the des- to that singular chance which caused the sceptres of The friseur of former times seems to have applied his tinies of European states. The barber, if we are to be- most powerful empires to fall successively into the band genius solely to giving graceful and varied forms to the lieve modern writers on the subject, enjoyed but a secondhair of the ladies. The most ancient medals we possess ary grade on the theatre of political events, inasmuch as However masculine the government of Elizabeth migh prove the degree of perfection which the coiffeurs of an- he seemed condemned always to exercise his talents on the be, that queen did not cease to be a woman, in tiquity had attained, and nothing, even of the present same plan, thus rendering his profession too easy, and, points; and as it had been decided that French hair-dress days, can surpass the delicacy and lightness of the plaits consequently, too accessible to intruders. Hence his mys-were the fashion, she obtained them from the perfil which adorn the Egyptian mummies. Man, however jealous of an ornament which seemed country, was nothing but a barber, a greater or less degree Christina, and Catherine, all employed Parisian arist tery was finally undervalued: a barber, no matter of what court of the Medici, whence Mary had likewise brought hers. When we have added, moreover, that Maria Theras, invented only for woman, found a way to counterbalance of dexterity in flourishing the razor, or handling the lanof the hair-dresser; and it was thus that the exquisites, It was in vain he sought to regain his former impor-wards crowned the excellence that distinguished de this advantage by submitting his bushy beard to the laws cet, constituting the only difference between individuals. We have explained, in toto, the secret which set the Frank hair-dressers in vogue amongst the great, and which aft among our fathers, loaded their chins with multiplied tance, by applying the cupping glasses and extracting tresses, or suffered the waving ringlets of the natural teeth: medicine insensibly mingled with surgery in every beard, as yet untouched by the hand of art, to float upon country, and finally destroyed this productive species of their bosoms. But, if nature sheds with a liberal hand ingenuity. her treasures upon the head of woman, she often shows herself a niggard towards the chin of man; witness Midas, king of Phrygia, whose beard merely traced a feeble line round his chin, and who, to conceal this infirmity, invented, as it is said, the custom of shaving. Louis the Great, in like manner, introduced into his court, and consequently into his kingdom, the fashion of the immense peruke, which he had adopted to conceal a certain wen that somewhat disfigured his Royal physiogonomy. The courtiers of Midas, not less prudent than those of Princes of the present time, applied destructive steel to the masculine ornament which shaded their faces, and thenceforth the downy chin of his Majesty had no longer occasion to blush for its sterility. Happy had it been for this great King if the barbers of his time had been as discreet as those of certain modern potentates! Posterity would not have known that Midas bore the ears of an ass!

Such was the disposition of the age, with read French coiffeurs, when the Great King completed the S tune of these happy artists, by inoculating all the gl In France the weapons of ridicule greatly diminished of Europe with the mania for wigs. The ascendant which the ancient fame of the craft. assailed by the proverb, "Common as a barber's pole." In England they were this Prince then had over the affairs of the Continent tended the limits of the artist in hair, and stretched la From this time, and towards the end of the reign of dominion from the boudoir, where he reigned an abso Louis the Fifteenth, it was only in Germany and Spain master, down to the lowest links of the three great orden that the barbers were still held in high estimation. In every country. It was no longer a matter of taste, or of me the former of these countries there are still to be seen two caprice, but an absolute passion, a rage of burying scarlet fillets, the insignia of surgery, suspended from the head in a vast edifice of hair, dressed out in immet barber's bowl which serves as a sign; and in Spain the rolls of curls, rising in stages one above the other. barber still lives in all his pristine splendour. Like all other artists who tread upon classical ground, vernment, less tractable on this subject than any We will, however, state cursorily, that the English where the genius of their science seems to be born, and flou-arrested the progress of this august phrenzy, by a rish the most kindly, the artist in hair (vulgarly termed tuary law upon hair-powder; but the lawyers of Eng perruquier) seems in France alone to be inspired by those made up for the injury inflicted by this blow, by swelling felicitous ideas which, in modern times, have borne his art out their wigs to a size that exceeded all the dimensi to the pinnacle of glory. It is there that he produces those hitherto imagined. wonderful, those supernatural illustrations of the beau This new fashion, however, did not corrupt the neigh- ideal. It is there only that his mind is fruitful, that his lation in the breasts of the barbers, whose affairs had be So much glory and success soon excited a noble em bouring nations; the flowing beard remained, for a long imagination labours with success, and that his inventions declining, while those of the hair-dressers were rising: tine, an object of veneration upon the earth. The people are novel, rich, and piquant. In vain would the rash per- very natural jealousy drew them from the long fit of the east, thanks to the influence of their climate, being ruquier of any other country bestow watching, fortune, apathy into which custom had plunged them, and bu more amply furnished with beard than those of the north, and health, in attempting to produce a head-dress worthy ing suddenly with the fire of enthusiasm, they conceived are, to this day, proud of the precious gift, and continue of ranking with the treasures of Paris. On the banks of the bold idea of effecting a revolution in the head-dress of to make a parade of it. The northern nations, on the the Seine every thing has contributed to favour the lofty man, and, if they could not snatch the crown from their contrary, not taking any pride in exhibiting a pitiful col- flight of this celebrated branch of art: even the despotism rivals, at least to share their laurels. To this sudden lection of fair, or red hairs, have long since willingly sacri- of the gallant Louis tended, in some degree, to secure to determination we owe the introduction of pigtails, ficed it. The people living between these two points have France the exclusive privilege of forming Masters of Art" cadogans," of bag-wigs, and wigs à la pigeon. The followed the arbitrary changes of fashion. The French, in Hair.

perruquiers, disconcerted by the apparition of so many

for instance, wore the beard down to the time of Louis We have before noticed the motive which induced Louis innovations subversive of the rules of their art, judged that the Young, who was unquestionably beardless: they again the Fourteenth to load his head with an immense wig. they could not better avoid falling into disrepute than by took up the custom under Francis the First, who had a Previous to his time the wig had been merely an unde- practising the new mode themselves, and by bending the beautiful black beard. The existence of this fashion was termined matter of fashion-sometimes in favour, some-art to the novel inventions which then seized upon wavering under Francis the Second, and the horrible times banished, and sometimes merely tolerated; whilst head; a resolution full of wisdom, and offering a lesson Charles the Ninth, neither of whom had time to suffer under this reign, famous for the refinements of etiquette, worthy of imitation to those princes who still refuse to

the

The German barbers, piqued at being excelled by their Fraternity beyond the Rhine, wished to improve upon them, by adding a foot or two to the length of the pigtail; but this stiff, graceless fashion, had little success; and, although the great Frederick adopted it, from a sentiment of national pride, it has only dragged on a languishing

existence from the time of its birth.

(To be continued.)

follow the laws which the spirit of the age causes to flou- | ever wantonly inflicted by him upon others. As a family | termed,) the Michigan; which service she performed. I rish in their despite. man his conduct was exemplary in all its relations. He took my passage on board this boat, and we got under has indeed been charged with ambition, as if it were a way before the others, passed through the basin at Black crime. If ambition be a crime, honourable ambition, he Rock, and about a mile below the Rock took in tow the must be deemed guilty in common with all the loftier vessel destined to make the dreadful plunge. As soon as spirits that have appeared among mankind. To such, we got under way the scene became interesting. The sun every improvement of man's condition, and every refine- shone in full splendour-the waters of Erie were placid, ment man enjoys, is owing-every thing exalted above there being scarcely a ruffle upon its surface-and a few vulgar sense, and the unimaginative, plodding, animal in- miles astern of us, four steamers crowded with passengers, stinct of the species. That he has committed political er- and with bands of music on board, were ploughing their rors must be admitted, but he is entitled to those palliations way down the rapids of Niagara. Our little boat towed which would be due to others in such a situation as that the Michigan as far as Yale's landing on the British shore, in which he was placed, and to circumstances which he within three miles of the Falls, where she anchored; and often could not himself govern. A proof of this is, that at this place the Chippewa landed her passengers, as well when he possessed the power, he did not conceal the will. as the William Penn, and they were conveyed from thence It is pleasing to reflect that he then deferred it to the right to the Falls in vehicles of all descriptions. The three side, and consulted public opinion-not indeed to the other steam-boats landed their passengers on the American opinion of the mob, any more than that of the would-be dictators both of the throne and subject, but to the aggregate in general of the country-not to the froth" or the dregs," but to the pure and healthy portion of the goblet's contents.

Biographical Notices.

MR. CANNING IN PRIVATE LIFE.

(From the New Monthly Magazine.)

Miscellanies.

PASSAGE OF THE NIAGARA, BY THE SCHOONER
MICHIGAN.

[FROM THE NEW YORK STATESMAN OF SEPTEMBER 14.]
[Extract of a letter, dated Buffalo, September 9, 1827.]

I was in hopes that I should have got back to this town
from the Niagara Falls last evening, in time to have
dropped you a line respecting the fate of the schooner
Michigan; but owing to the delay in getting away,
waiting for our passengers, and some derangement of the
machinery of the steam-boat, and a head wind, we did
not arrive until one o'clock this morning.

As the exhibition yesterday was of a novel character, and has excited much more interest than any person could have anticipated when it was first mentioned, you will doubtless be anxious to learn particulars; and to gratify your curiosity, I will endeavour to give you the story as much in detail as possible.

side.

Three o'clock was the hour appointed to weigh anchor on board the Michigan. The task of towing her from Yale's landing to the rapids (and a most hazardous one it was) was entrusted to Captain Rough, the oldest Captain on the Lake. With a yawl boat and five oarsmen, of stout hearts and strong arms, the old Captain got the schooner under way, and towed her to within one quarter of a mile from the first rapids, and within half a mile of the tremendous precipice, as near as they dared approach, and cutting her adrift, she passed majestically on, while the oarsmen of the yawl had to pull for their lives to effect their own safety. Indeed, such were the fears of the hands, as I have understood, that on approaching near the rapids they cut the tow line before they had received orders from their commander.

Some time ago, when Mr. Canning was in the prime of He, between forty and fifty years of age, the writer of this and the good fortune to meet him in private society. He was on a visit at the house of a nobleman, one of his stanchest friends and supporters. It was the first and t time he ever had so close an opportunity of observing Mr. Canning, and of knowing that in private society he My sustained, as he did in public, his general superiority er those around him. In his person there were no exes His dress was plain, but in thorough good taste. most things he seemed to partake of the character of eloquence-open and manly, conscious of power, and sequently simple and unassuming. He was at that time Cat may be called a "very handsome man;" tall, well de, his form moulded between strength and activity. terly, he exhibited marks of what years, care, and bition, had done upon him; but at the period spoken he had not gone so deeply into the anxieties of political or the vigour of earlier years enabled him to combat ir effects better. His head was even then as bald as the first Caesar's;" his forehead lofty and capacious; his eye lective, but at times lively; and his whole countenance pressive of the kindlier affections of genius, and of intelctual vigour. The elaborateness of his eloquence, indeed, not visible in his carriage in the drawing-room, nor s somewhat theatrical manner of delivering his parmentary speeches. His gait, as he paced the carpet, spatural and wholly free of constraint. He seemed rered rather than communicative; he spoke quick; his The schooner Michigan, as I believe you have already de full in tone, harmonious, and clear. He was on the learnt from me, was the largest on Lake Erie, and too it of setting out for Liverpool, to become a candidate large in fact to enter the various harbours on the Lake, it representation, and it is probable that his mind was and being somewhat decayed in her upper works, the fully occupied with the businessof the moment. Men thought struck her owner, Major Frazer, formerly of New ▲ particular class in society in this country resemble York, that she would answer the purpose of testing the other so much in external manners, owing to the level-fate of a vessel that by accident might approach too near reffect of a similarity of education, and the same air god breeding, that in an assembly of a dozen or two Fiduals, it is difficult to discover any one mentally suor to another, from a few minutes' observation of the The proprietors of the large public houses at the Falls, . No one who had seen Mr. Canning in such a sion both sides of the river, and of stages and steam-boats, bio, would have hesitated to designate him as a re-made up a purse to purchase the schooner, aware that table man, even if he had never before heard of him; 3 yet without being able to define why he did so. The Imanly beauty of his head and countenance, the absence Bectation in his general demeanour, and the gracefulFor several days previous to the 8th, the stages came of his manner, were unequalled among his contempo- crowded as well as the canal boat, so much so, that it was But when he spoke, his superiority became de- difficult to find a conveyance to the Falls; and such was edly evident, the happiness of his expression, and easy the interest, that the descent was the only topic of convera of his language, irresistibly fixing the stranger's at-sation among all classes. On Friday night, the 7th, waggons filled with country people rattled through this town I believe I have already informed you of the animals on la private life he was unostentatious, and accessible to all night; and on Saturday morning, Buffalo itself seemed board. They consisted of a buffalo from the Rocky Mounbumblest individual. No man was ever farther re- to be moving in a mass towards the grand point of attrac-tains, two bears from Green Bay and Grand River, two ved from assumption or vanity. He loved simplicity, tion. To accommodate those who could not find a pas- foxes, a raccoon, a dog, a cat, and four geese-the fate of i was gentle and affable to those about him, and of a sage in carriages, five steam-boats had advertised to leave these you will probably wish to learn. When the vessel erous but sober disposition. At times, it is true, upon here on Saturday morning, and great numbers chose this was left to her fate, they were let loose on deck, except the sions of officious interruption, or on a sudden wound- conveyance: they were the Henry Clay, William Penn, buffalo, which was enclosed in a temporary pen. The two of his feelings, he exhibited that irritability so con- Pioneer, Niagara, and Chippewa, being all the steam- bears left the vessel shortly after she began to descend the y the attendant on genius, for he was exquisitely boats in Lake Erie, except the Superior. The Chippewa rapids, and swam ashore, notwithstanding the rapidity of nitive; but on no occasion was the smallest unkindness was appointed to tow down the pirate schooner (as she was the current. On reaching the British shore they were

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the stupendous cataract of Niagara, and also of the fate of
animals that might be caught in the rapids of those swift
rolling waters, and carried over the Falls.

they would be repaid by the company which the exhi-
bition would attract; and in this calculation they were

not deceived.

And now we approach the interesting moments of the exhibition. The high grounds on both sides of the American and British shores were lined with people, having a full view of the rapids and of the approach of the vessel; and now it was that a thousand fears and expectations were indulged, as the Michigan (unguided by human agency) approached, head on, the first rapid or descent, and apparently keeping the very course that the most skilful navigator would have pursued, having an American ensign flying from her bowsprit and the British jack displayed at her stern. She passed the first rapid unhurt, still head on, making a plunge, shipping a sea, and rising from it in beautiful style; and, in her descent over the second, her masts went by the board, at the same moment affording those who have never witnessed a shipwreck, a specimen of the sudden destruction of the spars of a ship at sea, in case of a wreck. Expectation for her fate was now at the highest; she swung round, and presented her broadside to the dashing and foaming waters; and, after remaining stationary a moment or two, was, by its force, swung round, stern foremost; and, having passed to the third rapid, she bilged, but carried her hull apparently whole, between Grass Island and the British shore to the Horse Shoe, over which she was carried, stern foremost, and launched into the abyss below. In her fall she was dashed into ten thousand pieces. I went below the Falls, immediately after the descent, and the river exhibited a singular appearance, from the thousands of floating fragments, there being scarcely to be seen any two boards nailed together, and many of her timbers were broken into twenty pieces. Such was the eagerness of the multitude present to procure piece of her, that before sunset a great part of her was

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taken. The buffalo was seen to pass over the Falls, but was not visible afterwards. What became of the other animals is not known. Those who had glasses could see one of the bears climbing the mast as the vessel approached the rapids. The foxes, &c. were also all running about; but nothing was seen of them after the schooner passed over. The only live animals of the crew that passed over the Falls were two geese; they were taken up unhurt. Major Fraser obtained one, and an English gentleman purchased the other for two dollars.

FESTIVAL IN OCTOBER, 1827.

TICKETS Sold.

Reserved,

Monday-Ball at the Wellington Rooms.....
Tuesday.-Concert at the Amphitheatre.
Wednesday.-Oratorio at St. Peter's Church.
886; Unreserved, 298; Upper Boxes, 484.. 1,668

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which we have seldom heard equalled. Her style is un exceptionable, her tastefis highly cultivated, and her acting Nos truly classical. Her step on the stage is dignified and firm 600 her deportment graceful and majestic, and she appears t us to enter more entirely and devotedly into the spirit o the part than any actress we have ever seen, with the exception of Mrs. Siddons. In short, she is a most accom plished ARTIST, and conveys so forcible an impression of the meaning of the author, that without understanding the Italian, it is easy for a mere Englishman to enter int the spirit of the character she is performing, if he ha 1,462 the slightest hint of the story dramatised: 2,748 Madame Pasta, unlike many of our English performe:

1,460

1,483
Miscellaneous Concert at St. Peter's Church.
949; Unreserved, 604; Upper Boxes, 700 2,163

Reserved, 968; Unreserved, 494.
Fancy Ball.

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MEDICAL MISERIES.

The gross receipts in 1823 amounted to about £6,000; never exchanges glances with the audience; she seem those of the late festival will probably reach £9,000; absorbed to the mimic scene, that she imparts to it all th utterly unconscious of their presence, and is so completel The calculations are various as to the number of persons and it will be perceived, on a comparison between effect of reality. Our avocations prevented our visiting th assembled on both shores. Some estimate them as low as the two statements, that the company, at the late Theatre on Wednesday evening, the last night of fifteen thousand, and others at thirty thousand. The greater body of people was on the American side. Goat fancy ball, was nearly double that of the ball in 1823. engagement; but we have been told the house was crowde Island, for a considerable distance, exhibited a dense co- The expenses, it is expected, will rather exceed £4,000; to an overflow. The Earl and Countess of Wilton, attended lumn of persons, and the bridge erected from Goat Island, and, consequently, there will be a surplus of about by a large party, graced one of the private boxes, and ap which is built upwards of a hundred feet over the rapids, £5,000 to be divided amongst our public charities. peared enthusiastic in their admiration of Madame Pasta was also crowded, and temporary booths, made with the In order to obtain as full and accurate a report of talents. boughs of trees, skirted both shores. As we passed down the fancy ball as possible, early in the week, by means the Niagara, we had a full view, the whole distance from of an advertisement in the Kaleidoscope, placards, and Buffalo, of the hundreds of vehicles of all descriptions handbills, we requested the ladies and gentlemen, who passing towards the Falls; and, as the weather has been un-attended the gala, to communicate to us any altercommonly hot and dry for a long time, the roads presented ations or improvements which they might have to apprentice engraving his name with your best lancet Entering unexpectedly into your surgery, finding y uninterrupted columns of dust, as far as the eye could extend. In fact, so much larger was the assemblage of per-upon us in such rapid succession that they soon who lives two or three miles off, and has been taken suggest in the report. Note upon note poured in Being called up on a snowy night to visit a gentle sons than was anticipated, that notwithstanding the proprietors of the public houses had laid in an unusual supply formed so formidable an aggregate that it would denly ill. On your arrival, you are told that he is sorry of refreshments, they had not provided sufficient for one have been impossible to publish the whole in the have been troubled, but that it was a mistake of the s half the people, and thousands were unable to obtain a Mercury, without excluding from its columns almost vant, as Mr. mouthful of any thing. You may judge of the situation every thing else; an experiment upon which we dared Seeing at a consultation the opinion of another pa of matters, when I assure you that I stopped at Forsyth's, not venture, when all the newspapers in the town and it is diametrically opposite to your own. You titioner adopted, though you are confident you are righ about four o'clock p. m., after climbing up his everlasting had, in a great measure, anticipated the intelligence. steps from the bottom of the Falls, and was unable to obcourse are set down as an ignoramus. After having invited the ladies and gentlemen most tain even a cracker, or a glass of water; and this was the interested in the details of the fancy ball, to correct case at Brown's also. On the American side, I learn, every all inaccuracies and supply all deficiencies in the rething eatable and drinkable was consumed before one half ports of our cotemporaries; and having left our cothe visitors had obtained any thing. not be our fault if our little work is still incomplete ; water," observed a gentleman of the name of Martin lumns open for the purpose until last night, it will Drinkwater, Mayor." I don't like the name of Drin nor can we in fairness be blamed by any of the dra-"Why not?" said an inveterate punster; matis persone who flourished at our grand fancy ball. Drinkwater yourself; for Martin is a swallow and A general invitation was given to the ladies and water: you must, therefore, be of the Drink-water fami gentlemen to put the finishing touch to their portraits; and if any fair dames or gallant knights have failed to profit by that invitation, they must not be angry with us if full justice has not been done to the charms of their persons or to the elegance of their costumes.

So well pleased are the people with this grand and novel aquatic exhibition, that already they are talking about getting up something more splendid next year. In this the tavern keepers and stage proprietors will heartily join, as the present frolic has afforded them a fine harvest for some time.

The emigration west through this town is constant. This morning I observed a body of Swiss emigrants encamped near the Canal, cooking their victuals, and making their meals in the open air; others busy in fixing up their waggons, and arranging their affairs for travelling on further west.

The Kaleidoscope.

[From the Mercury of Friday last.]
THE FESTIVAL And the Fancy BALL-Our late
splendid carnival was much more brilliant and nu-
merously attended than any former festival in this
town. Of course it is impossible to form any very
accurate conjecture respecting the number of persons
assembled on the occasion; a comparison, however,
between the late festival and that of October, 1823,
will furnish a tolerable criterion.

FESTIVAL IN OCTOBER, 1823.
TICKETS SOLD.

Monday. Ball at the Wellington-rooms

Tuesday.-Concert at the Music-hall..

Wednesday.-Mesalah at St. Peter's Church
Thursday.Mount of Olives at St. Peter's Church

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Concert at the Music-hall

Friday. Creation at St. Peter's Church ................
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How many of those whose names grace our cata logue have favoured us with their own notes and corrections, we shall not say; the matter ought to remain for ever amongst those editorial secrets which cannot be revealed without a compromise of decommitted to the flames, and, "like the baseless fabric licacy or propriety. The autographs shall all be of a vision, leave not a wreck behind.”

MADAME PASTA

nesday evenings at our Theatre to crowded and fashionable This lady appeared on Monday, Tuesday, and Wedaudiences. We were much more delighted with her performance than many of those around us appeared to be; nor is that a matter of surprise, as the mere quality of the voice in a singer is, in the estimation of the multitude, 638 the great passport to fame and popularity. There are, 928 however, persons who attach great value to other requisites 1,566 besides mere tone; and to such Madame Pasta may 1,406 appeal with confidence for applause. Although her voice 1,968 is not of the very finest quality, and although its lower 1,475 tones are decidedly bad, she gives an effect to her songs

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LIVERPOOL MUSICAL FESTIVAL AND GRAND FANCY BALL
Our readers in the country will learn from the advert
ment in a preceding column, that they may be supplied
the History of the late Liverpool Musical Festival and Gr
Fancy Ball, on application to the agents by whom they
supplied with the Kaleidoscope. This History exten
twenty pages, and includes a capital engraving of the La
pool Town-hall; a plan of the ball rooms, with descripti
a review of the musical performances of the week;
poetry on the subject of the festival; and a list of the la
and gentlemen who attended the fancy ball, with a dese
tion of their costumes, extending to no fewer than twi
pages. It is printed to correspond with the Kaleidos
and will form an interesting addition to the volume
view of the Town-hall is worth more money than is chat
for the whole work of twenty pages. See adu
We have been in such an unusual bustle for the last week,
we must crave the indulgence of our friends and corres
dents for any inaccuracy or apparent neglect which
be perceptible in our present publication. We have wit
the week, from Monday until Monday, had to print
numbers of the Kaleidoscope, one publication of the Mert
and our pamphlet on the fancy ball and festival week, ©
sisting of twenty pages.

We have to acknowledge the communications of A Clas
H. H.-W. W. M.-J. M.
We have not overlooked P. nor A Quaker's Hat,
Hora Hibernica, No. 1, shall appear in our next.

Printed, published, and sold, every Tuesday, by E. SMI
and Co., Clarendon-buildings, Marshall-street.

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The Philanthropist.

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FRAGMENT

OF A STORY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

(Continued from our last.)

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dispute with Mr. Grenville, who was a zealous | in a firm conviction of his innocence. He then Protestant, on the subject of religion; that both had seemed to breathe a moment from intolerable agony, become warm, particularly Selwyn, and that they and it was a consolation to him to find that his friend parted with ruffled spirits; that from this period had not fallen by that hand to whose keeping he Selwyn was observed to be unusually gloomy, aban- could have trusted his own life. He exerted himself doning his ordinary pursuits, meditating in lonely with incredible earnestness to discover and to bring places on subjects that seemed strangely to disturb together every circumstance favourable to this unforhim: in a word, that he exhibited every indication tunate man: he proclaimed his own conviction of of a man contemplating the perpetration of a hideous his innocence wherever he went: he endeavoured to alleviate, by every possible means, the horrors of his situation while in prison: he gave every day fresh proofs that he was the most benevolent and exalted of men.

crime.

These circumstances, incapable as many of them were, from their very nature, of proof, had all a share, and united an overwhelming influence in rendering the unfortunate Selwyn an object of horror even to those who thought with caution.

Of events so mysterious many conjectures were of purse indulged. Every person had his own opinion, ad the opinion of every person was opposed to that The day of trial came. How striking, how comThis neighbour. But, at length, by reflecting, by manding was Selwyn's appearance! His calm colmparing circumstances, by discussing the matter The constancy of Selwyn was amazing. When, lected countenance; his searching eye; his looks, conversation, and by some discoveries, or fancied indeed, the rumour first reached him, and when he that defied the foul imputation fastened on him, and scoveries, those discordant suspicions began to was seized, (for these events were simultaneous,) he demanded a scrutiny of his life and heart, seemed w near each other and unite. At last they settled betrayed powerful, nay awful perturbation, which, already to triumph in the sentence which must be to one point: they fixed upon one object; at one though it might as well arise from conscious virtue passed. There was not an individual among the moment, and with a general, if not a universal, as from conscious guilt, was sure to be attributed, by thousands whose eyes were fixed on him that day, pice, Selwyn was declared to be the murderer! most persons, to the latter. After that hour, how-who was not deeply impressed with the majesty of The chief circumstance which attached suspicion ever, he was calm, collected, firm, and fearless. He his appearance, and doubtful of suspicions unchecked Selwyn was the discovery of a pistol, near the treated with ineffable contempt the opinions and before. place of the murder, which was known to belong feelings which were almost universally entertained Lord Vernon was excessively agitated. He had to him. It had been seen in his possession by many respecting him, and contemplated his approaching taken up the cause of this man with such generous persons, and the man of whom it was purchased trial as an occasion of complete triumph over the earnestness that he felt more interested in his acquitwas traced, who proved, that, about three months folly and injustice of mankind. When, especially, tal than the accused himself, and even the loss of teriously to this period, he sold two pistols to Sel- he heard that the chief circumstance alleged against his friend seemed not so much to concern him as the yn, of which he believed this to be one. It was him was the discovery of a pistol, said to belong to establishment of the innocence of his imputed murained with blood, and much blood was also found him, his countenance glowed with haughty exulta derer. Selwyn's clothes; which, however, could be no tion, and desiring the officer to follow him up toof of his guilt, because, while Lord Vernon was eeding, and after he had fainted from the loss of lood, Selwyn bore him in his arms nearly the dis ace of half a mile.

stairs, led him into his chamber, and pointing to a
trunk said, "In that trunk I have been accustomed
to keep a brace of pistols, which, about three months
ago, I purchased of a person in Bristol, who will
appear, when necessary, to substantiate the fact.
It is now locked. I surrender the key to you. I
require you to seal the lock, and give me the seal;
and remember, I deliver the trunk to your care. On
my trial, you will produce it in court, and I shall
call upon you to declare on your oath, before God
and man, that it has not been opened."

When suspicion once fastens on its devoted obet, it is astonishing how it converts every circum. ance to its purpose, and makes of the lightest files proofs of damuing weight. A thousand cirmstances were now recollected of this unhappy , which would never have been noticed but for or his fatal pistol. It was remembered, that he was man of a dark and gloomy mind, burying himself The officer complied in all respects with his solitude, brooding over disappointments which demand, and this extraordinary man then went to pride magnified, and indulging a rooted hatred prison evidently struggling with indignation against mankind, who, he believed, had leagued together emotions which seemed ready to burst his heart. injure and oppress him. It was remembered, He endured his confinement with a firmness which that his principles were extremely suspicious; that he owed principally to scorn, and which seemed to he had long been accused of indulging opinions set itself in haughty array against the oppression hostile to society; that his spirit was proud and which it felt, and which it anticipated. laring; and that, to complete the catalogue of his Every heart was big with expectation of the side fences, he was a Roman Catholic; a man whose Lord Vernon would take in this affair. He seemed, religions tenets in their very nature encouraged him for some time, to remain in doubt. He acted with to exterminate a vile heretic, who, being abhorred uncommon prudence. In endeavouring to sift out by God, could not but be the enemy of every good the truth, he subdued, in a wonderful manner, the . It was remembered, that only a fortnight emotions which preyed upon his heart. He had before the perpetration of this deed, he had had a several interviews with Selwyn. At length he settled

The counsel for the prosecution dwelt with laboured, plausible, cruel ingenuity on every suspicious circumstance; the general habit of Selwyn's mind, gloomy, impetuous, and daring; the horrid deeds of which religious fanaticism is capable; the singular fact, that Selwyn and his servant should be found at such an unusual hour on a spot which Selwyn acknowledged he seldom frequented, and which was scarcely ever visited by an individual out of the Vernon family; the still more astonishing disappearance of Selwyn's servant, who, it was universally agreed, was the first on the fatal spot after the perpetration of the deed; the discovery of a pistol near that spot, which was proved to have been but a few days before in Selwyn's possession, and could be shown to belong to no one else.

It was when in reply to these serious indications of guilt, Selwyn demanded the trunk beforementioned to be produced in court, that curiosity and suspense were increased to the utmost intensity. With a voice and manner which pierced every heart, he demanded of the officer whether it had been opened since it was delivered to his charge. The officer, on oath, affirmed that it had not.

In that trunk, then, said he, addressing the jury, you will find a complete refutation of the only rational suspicion of my guilt which has been produced.

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