This familiar Miscellany, from which all religious and political matters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles; comprehending LITERATURE, Criticism, MEN and MANNERS, AMUSEMENT, elegant EXTRACTS, POETRY, ANECDOTES, BIOGRAPHY, METEOROLOGY, the DRAMA, ARTS and SCIENCES, WIT and SATIRE, FASHIONS, NATURAL HISTORY, &c. forming a handsome ANNUAL VOLUME, with an INDEX and TITLE-PAGE. Persons in any part of the Kingdom may obtain this Work from London through their respective Booksellers. No. 389.-Vol. VIII. Men and Manners. HERBERT MILTON. We have selected, for the amusement of our readers, pretty long extract from a novel called Herbert Milton, or Almack's, just published in London. The work is ascribed to the pen of one who moves in the 5- highest circles, and who is, therefore, likely to be inFimately acquainted with the manners of the haut ton. We hope, however, that he is a caricaturist, as we are ost loth to believe that the morals of our aristocracy * so nearly assimilated to those of foreign nations ad foreign courts, which English writers and tourists are so long been accustomed to deprecate.-See a te to correspondents. It was now getting late, and Emily was preparing to der her carriage, anxious to arrive at home, where she ight indulge in all the delight she felt at the certainty of ping beloved by Herbert. She had, it is true, felt anyed at the boldness with which Alfred had entered upon subject; but his words had left a deep impression on TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1827. PRICE 32d. she wanted to catch me for her daughter, Lady Clara; | virtue which are so dear to women in a less elevated, less friend, Mrs. Thornby, that she only intended marrying had rendered the intrigues and adventures of her younger "Why, what in the world," rejoined Sir Harry, "do wards.' "Oh !" exclaimed the Tic, "I wish I had been fortunate enough to have worn a domino for a few months theart, and she felt fully inclined to forgive the liberty prior to the time fixed for my marriage! But do see, had taken, in favour of the intelligence he had com-added he, "what a fool that insufferable Mrs. Thornby is aunicated. The hope of Sir Herbert Milton's opposi-making of young Lord Tiverton !" ion being speedily overcome, relieved her heart from a "There is nothing extraordinary in that," rejoined Sir bad not less oppressive than the uncertainty she had been Henry: "she would find it a much more difficult task to respecting Herbert's sentiments towards herself. As was about to leave the rooms, to which the whole of party had retired from the gardens, they were joined Mr. Ouncedale, who, with his glass at his eye, and his more than usually long, appeared as if he also had diven from his possessions. The Tic-douloureux, Sir Harry had christened him, now exclaimed, How d'ye do? have you seen Mrs. Ouncedale? I have niting two hours to go; my horses will catch cold eels slight twinge of the gout; conceive Lady Graspall fing past nine times at ecarté !" law Mrs. Ouncedale waltzing with Colonel Grainge," replied Sidney, who had returned from ordering mily's carriage, “and I can only say, that she desired ettell you, if I met you, that you might go home, if liked, as Lady Graspall would give her a place in her rige to town." That odious Lady Graspall!" rejoined Mr. Ouncede;" she is enough to corrupt all the young women in D; she ought not to be admitted in society." Why," said Sir Harry, "it is true, though I never my thing wrong; indeed I like her very much, but world does say very ill-natured things of her: at ecarté instance, they are cruel enough to say that she always aima double the sum she stakes when she wins; and hen she loses, she contrives to change sides when she is etting , and generally seizes the stake of some young man, ho she thinks will be either too well bred or too timid to strate with her." emon he make a man of sense of him." Born to occupy a leading position in society, she was not, however, content with the advantages which she derived from her rank and connexions, but she determined to form a supreme junta, of which she was to be the chief, and her conduct the precedent for that of all the members. Her great object was to induce all the women enrolled in this band of "Free Doers," to brave the opinion of the world; to set at defiance the advice of their husbands; to look with contempt on the reputation of their own names, or the credit of their families; in short, to arrive at that complete disregard for every principle of decency and virtue, which had marked her own conduct through life. Her Ladyship's daughters, educated in this school of deceit and immorality, were as selfish, hollow-hearted, and mercenary as their mamma could desire; indeed, so well did they play their parts, so admirably did they act up to the lessons of the Countess, that the ladies, Clara and "Helen Mount Lewis, were looked upon by all those who had not penetration to discover the dessous des cartes, as two of the most single-hearted, ingenuous young women in London. In the course of two or three seasons, the young ladies succeeded, the one marrying a rich young nobleman, and the other a half-furled Baronet of immense lady Helen, the youngest, showed greater symptoms of property, who had just returned from his travels; though feeling on this occasion than was either to be expected from her, or than at all suited her mother's ideas of filial obedience. "As for that," added Sidney" she is merely playing the same game with that boy which she has done with half the young men in London. No sooner does a young man make his debut in the world, or a young peer or a baronet leave his paternal nest, or escape from his Alma Mater, than she forthwith seizes upon him, and plays with him like a cat, until the boy's ideas become more expanded, and he finds he has been throwing away his time and his attentions upon a cold-hearted, practised coquette, and that he is the laughing-stock of London." Emily's carriage being now announced, she left the party, which did not completely break up before the morning was far advanced; and I shall take the liberty of giving my readers some account of the ladies I have alluded to, before I proceed to the next chapter. They were all of that mischievous, that pernicious set, whose example bas such a baneful effect on the morals of the young men and women of fashion, especially the latter. When the young and inexperienced girl perceives that vice is in a great measure countenanced, levity of conduct encouraged, and delicacy disregarded, in the highest society, to which the absence of virtue, and the total disregard of public opinion, are in most instances a necessary passport; when she discovers that she cannot obtain footing in the most select society, without establishing an intrigue, or what is called a flirtation; in fact, that the sacrifice of a certain portion of her reputation is almost a sine qua non to insure her being ranked among the most Not a word, Sir Harry!" now exclaimed Sidney, fashionable;-it is natural that she should quickly learn to is a great friend of mine, and so fond of me that look with contempt upon those principles of morality and a daughter on this occasion was a curious specimen of Lady Graspall's principles, as well as those of her daughter. The conversation between the mother and "Helen," said her Ladyship, one night, as they returned from Almack's, "so you chose to play the fool, and speak your opinions openly of that horrid bore, Mr. Sidney ?" "I only said it in a whisper to Mrs. Thornby," replied the daughter;" and I did not think the man would have been listening at my elbow." "Well, he has just told me that he's off, that's all; and you've lost—" "An ass!" exclaimed Lady Helen, "and the stock is not exhausted." "You've lost twenty thousand pounds a year by your stupid bavardage. I thought you would have had the sense to have deferred speaking out until the fortune was your own." "La, Mamma! I am sure it is all the saine to me, whether I marry one fool or another; for you know I never liked any body much, except Captain Acton, Mr. Corbin, Charles Norval, and Lord Henry.” "None of them will have a sous until their father's death," retorted Lady Graspall; " and I have no idea of people having-what does your brother call that sort of thing?" "Going to heaven by the devil's bridge, Mamma," answered Lady Helen. Briefly-in less than three weeks, Lady Helen was the wife of the unfortunate Baronet, who, before many months, "It's going to the devil at once," rejoined her Lady-became sufficiently mad to warrant his being placed in ship."No, it does not suit my views to have to chaperone custody, and her Ladyship was appointed guardian and you about, after your marriage. I will not be pestered manager of their only child, and of her husband's vast with petitions for the carriage, and your saddling yourself and a tribe of squalling children on me both in town and country. I will not have you marry, to remain a burden on me; and your waiting until some disgusting old man dies, before you can have an Opera box, or, in fact, any of the most common necessaries." "Common indeed, Mamma, they are now! Why, the great double box next to ours belongs to papa's attorney, and the box on the left to a man who cleans the streets, or the sewers, or something." estates. to an amount which was often far beyond the immediate means of the husbands to pay, and which, in every case, was at least quadruple the lady's pin-money. The bills, however, of the tradesmen might be pardoned and dis charged; but the play debts were of a different nature, vicious and inexcusable: beginning with the trifling loss of a few pounds, and a few tears; but ending, in mest cases, in the abandonment of honour, the ruin of domestic peace, the destruction of every moral tie, and the verdict of a jury. Poor Mr. Ouncedale was among those who had reason to lament his wife's enrolment in this corps of female croats. Mrs. Ouncedale was a pretty, cold-hearted little woman, who had married Tic for his fortune, and they had continued for some years to vegetate in a very nega. Mrs. Thornby was another of this set, who possessed tive state of composure, until Mrs. Ouncedale took it into almost all the bad qualities of Lady Graspall, except her her head to become a woman of fashion. Mrs. Ounce-passion for money; but she yielded nothing to her in want dale soon perceived that all the most fashionable women of heart, and utter disregard of feeling or principle. The rendered themselves more or less notorious, for some little Misses Thornby were yet too young either to profa Never mind those low people," replied the Mamma, scandal, aud she determined, therefore, immediately to suffer by their mother's example; and it was, perhaps. 1 "but thank Heaven that you have one of the most affec-establish for herself a trifling flirtation, of course, with fortunate circumstance for them, that, during the Lond tionate, indulgent mothers in the world, who is slaving some marked man of fashion. By dint of carrying off season, they often remained many days, nay, weeks, with night and day to repair your errors and establish your Colonel Graindorge from a competitor, and by attaching out seeing their mother, who, to say the truth, would four or five particular men to her train, she contrived, in willingly see any body else's husband, or any one ele due time, to qualify herself for Lady Graspall's set. Whenever her busband attempted to remonstrate with her she either treated his advice with contempt, or accused him of being a jealous tyrant, who wished to deprive her of the most innocent amusements. fortune." Lady Helen, during this speech, hung down her head, and her conscience told her that her mamma's exertions were never more necessary than at present. "Any body else would have been outrageous," con tinued the Countess, "at her daughter's making such a fool of herself as to throw away twenty thousand a year!" "It is very good of you, my dear Ma'," replied Lady Helen, "and to show you my sense of your kindness, I am ready to marry any body you please, directly." "Well then," rejoined the Countess," whilst you have been bavardéing, I have been acting; and I have got another to supply Sidney's place." "Who is it, Mamma?" demanded the young lady. "Oh, Sir Maurice D'Orville, who has an immense fortune." "La, Mamma! the young man whom you were speaking to in the corner, and who looked at me so strangely; why, he's quite mad they say. Lord! he had his keeper waiting on the staircase." So much the better, my dear; marry him, and then nothing will be more easy than to take out a statute of lunacy against him, and have him put into confinement for life." children rather than her own. The one bored her t death with his society, and his prosing about the levity of her conduct, and the difficulty he made about paying her expensive bills, which were often purposely augmenta by twenty or thirty pounds, on an understanding with | tradesman, in order that she might obtain money to her losses at ecarté, which she was afraid to confess #l husband. Her children were also fast growing t and nearly at an age to remind the world that Thornby was too old to be perpetually flirting with the young boys who had just left school, or entered That which is done cannot be undone," quietly replied Guards. So far did Mrs. Thornby carry her utter the lady. Once, indeed, Tic had the courage to adopt decisive measures, which were met with not less decision by the lady. "You shall not have the carriage, Madam, to go with Graindorge and the Thornby party: I will not be made a fool of any longer." of feeling for her children, that she made it a point ne "By G-! I will not be undone," rejoined the husband, to see her infants until three or four years after their birth by you or any one else!" "I think you are a very absurd old man," rejoined the wife: " perhaps you have sense enough, however, to ring the bell." "What for, Madam ?" retorted the husband." I will not be trifled with, and beared to my face." Ring the bell, Mr. Ouncedale, I say, that I may order ་་ I can "But, Mamma," rejoined Lady Helen, with real sensations of terror and disgust, “ you would not have me marry an absolute maniac? How horrid to be left alone with "Oh! exclaimed the wife, getting up quietly, and ringsuch a creature! I should die of fright; and then only think of entailing the horrid (and here Lady Helen shud-ing the bell herself: "oh, it is all the same to me. dered) malady on one's children; for it is of no use to go in a hackney coach as far as Lady Graspall's, and then mince the matter, Mamma: indeed I can't-any one but all the world will hear of your absurd jealousy." "Madam! you shall not quit this house without my permission!" him!" "Helen!" returned Lady Graspall, sternly, "marry him you must! Remember, I know all that has passed between you and Colonel Acton." Lady Helen now hung back in the corner of the car riage, and became pale and faint as death. Any other parent but myself, Helen," continued the Countess, "upon such a discovery, would have turned you out of doors; but I refrained from communicating the circumstance to your brothers, with the hopes that we could marry you without the disclosure of your conduct being made necessary, and in order to save us all from disgrace." Lady Ellen still continued silent. "I shall say no more on the subject, Helen," added her mother; "you are aware that I know there remains little time now, unless you mairy Sir Maurice, ere the world, as well as your brothers, must be informed of the circumstances. You may do what you please, when once you are married; but I will not have you bring disgrace upon me whilst you are under my roof. You will decide, therefore, to-night, whether you will receive Sir Maurice as a lover, or whether you choose to be sent out of the country with one of your brothers. As to your qualms of conscience, they are too absurd, for you have taken care to render them entirely superfluous." if she met them accidentally on the stairs, she work the Governess their names, pat them on the head, say, "There, there; you are very nice childrenare you, a boy or a girl?" and as the little ita would press around her, with the instinctive f nature, to obtain some mark of maternal tenderness, the would exclaim, "There now, you nasty little pigs, në të slobber one; come, do not tread on my flounces." Andie would then direct the Governess always to take the chil dren in future up and down the back stairs. With a heart too callous and cold to feel attachment for any one bat herself, and with too much calculation to permit her to fall into that abyss into which others, too many thes had been hurried by the effect of some unhappy and f passion, by the seductions of the other sex, or the brea conduct of their own husbands, Mrs. Thornby contrived steer clear of absolute shipwreck, though she was utterly different to the loss of reputation, or the scandals to w "You are an insignificant tyrant," rejoined the Lady, she gave rise. Virtue had no share in her salvat rapping the ground with the most provoking nonchalance calculation was her great safeguard. Her greatest dens with her foot-" you are falling into your dotage;" and as Sidney observed, was to throw herself on the pa then, as the servant answered the summons of the bell, men. Year after year the greenest, the newest com she said, "Thomas, order me a hackney.coach-your were to be seen in her train; and if she saw ant master says I cannot have the carriage ;" and then seating young man of rank or fashion engaged in a pursuit herself at the piano, she endeavoured, by playing as loud was likely to terminate in marriage, she would pa as possible, to drown the voice of poor Mr. Ouncedale, all her powers of intrigue and seduction to carry his d who, to save himself from being laughed at, was at last and to prevent it. Had she done this for the sake of obliged to yield the point; and as his wife aounted her rying her daughters, there might have been some excit brichtska, to proceed to Richmond, he took up his hat to but her sole object was mischief, vanity, and wa walk with one of his boys in the retired part of Regent's pleasure in destroying the happiness of others. Park. Ouncedale was not, however, the only person who had to lament his wife's connexion with this set; others there were, who, like himself, felt all the misery, the disgrace, which must fall on themselves and their families, by their wives pursuing a course of life so dangerous to their repu. tation, so inconsistent with their characters as mothers, and women of birth and education. Night after night they heard, as well as the world, of the heavy losses of these ladies, at play. Day after day they were witnesses to the demands made upon them by tradesmen for the payment of immense bills for dresses, hats, and bijouterie, Days. Tide Table. Morn. Even. Height. h. m. h. m. ft. in. Festivals, &c. 7 Moon's Last Quarter. 5 Lucy. 3 0 Tuesday ..113 52 4 15 12 [Cam. Term ends 9 3d Sun. in Advent. U Miscellanies. THE TURKS. At the present moment the following sketch of the history of this people may not be uninteresting to our readers: The appellation Turk is of very ancient origin, and of very comprehensive extent. According to their own tradition, which is supported by other authorities, the name is derived from Turk, one of the sons of Japhet or Japhis, as they term him, the son of Noah, and who is generally alloved to be the progenitor also of the Moguls and Tartars. Both the present Turks and Tartars are supposed to be escended from a branch of the Scythians. Their first gure in history is about 630 years before Christ, at which me they drove the Cimmerians from their territories. Trk, Volney says, is a name not originally peculiar to emation it is now applied to; but denoted in general, in rmer times, all the hordes dispersed to the east, and even thnorth of the Caspian Sea, as far as beyond Lake ; the same vast countries which have taken from the denomination of Turkestan. These are the same eople who were known to the ancient Greeks by the name Parthians, Massagete, and even of Scythians, for which elave substituted that of Tartar. They formed a nation shepherds, continually wandering like the Bedouin as, and in every age exhibiting themselves as brave d formidable warriors. The Arabs, about 80 years after homet, by order of the Caliph Walid I., invaded the try of the Turks, subdued them, and imposed upon en their religion. These tribes, allied or at variance, cording to their several interests, were perpetually enged in war. Hence we see, in their history, several naans all equally called Turks, alternately attacking, deroying, and expelling each other. Volney, in order to void this confusion, has confined the name of Turk to hose of Constantinople, and given that of Turkestans to heir predecessors. T THE KALEIDOSCOPE. Old Stories over again.-Bubb Doddington was very to Pilkington, extends about 870 miles in length from the f northern boundary of Moldavia to Cape Metapan in the lethargic. Falling asleep one day after dinner, with Sir Doddington denied Morea; and in breadth from the river Unna to Constan- Richard Temple and Lord Cobham, the latter reproached tinople about 680 British miles. It is computed to contain Doddington with his drowsiness. 182,560 square miles, and takes in its extent many ancient having been asleep; and to prove he had not, offered to kingdoms and republics, which, since the subjugation of repeat all Lord Cobham had been saying. Cobham chal"Well," its greater part in the 15th century, after the fall of Con-lenged him to do so. Doddington repeated a story; and stantinople, and of the Byzantine empire, afford only the Lord Cobham owned he had been telling it. records of classical names and events; we need not name said Doddington, and yet I did not hear a word of it; as the most interesting of these, that region above all but I went to sleep, because I knew that about this time others dear to the recollection of the scholar, Greece, the of day you would tell that story." great subject of the present contest between Turkey and the Allied Powers, and which has now, at its commencement, been attended with such brilliant results. Curtain Lecture.-The churchwardens of a certain parish in the west end of the town, having called more than once on a tradesman for his subscription towards the evening lectures at the church, asked him why he declined paying? Because (said he) my wife reads me a lecture every evening gratuitously." John Taylor, the water poet, (who died in 1584,) once offered a premium of £50, to any person who could make "Lewd I did live, evil did I dwcl." a sense verse of the same quality as the following:The property of this verse is, that it reads the same backwards as forwards. Considering the period when Taylor wrote, we must make allowance for the orthography of the word "dwell."-London Paper.-A sentence thus constructed to read the same backwards and forwards is called a palendrome, as, for instance, Sabi dura a rudibus. Single words thus constructed might be quoted, as eye, madam, &c.-Edit. Kal. Matrimonial Elixir.-A certain medical gentleman, all words beginning with vowels are embellished in the residing in a part of the West-Riding of Yorkshire, where local pronunciation with a well-aspirated h, and who has given great scandal to the neighbourhood by licking his wife, is now called by his friends-Elixir,-pronounced He-licks her. LIST OF NEW PATENTS. The first migration of Turks was in the sixth century; soon after which they subdued the people vulgarly called the White Huns, and founded their earliest western government, the capital city of it being for some time called Turkestan. From the centre of this province issued those Turkish armies which have changed the destinies of many nations. The Turks and Huns may be considered as one and the same Tartaric race, totally unknown to Europe, until the appearance of the latter, who first passed the steppes, deserts, and mountains, which had concealed them from observation till the fourth century. The Huns, who appeared about A.D. 375, passed, in a course of uniform depredation, rapidly from Asia to Europe; but the Turks, though originally the same people, separating from the Huns, made a slow and gradual progress, and appear to have blended, by marriages and conquests, with the Sclavonic and Gothic tribes, on the north and east of the Caspian. Such was the origin of the name Turkestan, and from hence the Turks spread desolation over the most beautiful countries of the East, and even threatened the liberties of Europe. The following is given by Pilkington as the principal historical epochs of their conquests in the latter. "The first dawn of Turkish history preceding the reign of Othman occurs A.D. 1299. In the reign of his successor. Orkan, the Turks took Gallipoli, and penetrated Modern Turkey is divided into Turkey in Asia and into Thrace, so that Adrianople was taken, A.D. 1360; arkey in Europe. Turkey in Asia extends from the two years after that Amurath established the military ores of the Archipelago to the confines of Persia, through bands termed Janissaries. The Turkish power was for space of about 1050 British miles. The boundaries some time restrained after the famous battle near Ascyra, Wards Persia are, the mountains of Ararat und Elwend. A.D. 1402, between Bajazet and Timour; nevertheless, wards the north the Turkish territories are divided from the dominion of the Turks increased in Europe, though Russian by the River Cuban and the chain of Cau- they received several checks from the Hungarians, under sus. In the south they extend to the junction of the Haniades, and from the Albanians, under the famous gris and Euphrates, which last river separates for a con- Scanderberg. On the 29th of May, 1453, Constantinople derable interval the Turkish possesssons from those of was taken by the Turks, Crimea and the Morea were e Arabs. The distance of the Cuban to the junction of subjugated A. D 1458, and, in 1480, Otranto, in Italy, was e Tigris and Euphrates may be estimated at about 1100 captured by the Turks. The conquest of Egypt, in 1517, ritish iniles. This extensive empire is divided into nine made a considerable addition to the Turkish power; ten provinces; namely, Natolia west, Karaman south, Rhodes submitted in 1522; and, soon after the battle of d Roum north-east; north of Armenia are Guria or Mohaty, in 1526, the Sultan Solyman took Buda. In ariel, Mingralia, and the Abkhas of Caucasus, the 1532, the Turks seized the Bannat of Temeswar, and they cient Circassia. To the south of Armenia, also deno- took Cyprus from the Venetians in 1571. Although, after nated Turcomania, are Curdistan, and Irak Arabi, parts the famous naval engagement of Lepanto, in the year ancient Persia round the celebrated capital of Bagdad. 1584, their power ceased to be formidable, they invaded Che ancient Mesopotamia partly corresponds with the pro- Hungary with various success, yet Europe obtained an ince of Algeria, and Syria or Šeria comprehends the ce- interval of security by their wars with Persia. However, ebrated countries along the eastern extremities of the in 1642, the Sultan, Ibrahim, took Azof from the CosMediterranean. These, with the rest of their empire here, sacks; and about the middle of this century, the Turks The last epoch mprehend all the countries which are the scene of Scrip- took possession of some Grecian isles after which their tre history and man's redemption: in fact, nearly all the wars were attended with various success cient world; and were successively conquered by them of Turkish history would lead to a detail of the Russian the following order :-Armenia and Georgia were sub-wars against the Turks, and the decline of the Ottoman Gloucestershire, clothier, for his improvements applicable ded in the 11th century: and the whole of Asia Minor empire in Europe. It may be observed, in general, that to raising the pile, and dressing woollen and other cloths. on followed. Their kingdom of Roum extended from the Turkish dominion, wherever it has prevailed, has been-20th of November.-6 months, he Euphrates to Constantinople, and from the Black Sea detrimental, in a very high degree, to the best interests of humanity, and to every improvement, mental or moral, the confines of Syria. ecclesiastical or civil." To James Smethurst, of New Bond-street, for an improvement upon lamps.-Dated the 6th of November, 1827.-2 months allowed to enrol specification. To Frederick Foveaux Weiss, of the Strand, surgeon's instrument-maker, for improvements in the construction of spurs.-6th of November.-2 months. To James White, of Paradise-street, Lambeth, engineer, for a machine or apparatus, for filtering, which he denominates an artificial spring.-8th of November.-2 months. To John Platt, of Salford, near Manchester, fustiandresser, for certain improvements in machinery for combing wool, and other fibrous materials: communicated from abroad.-10th of November.-6 months. To William Collier, of Salford, fustian-shearer, for cerTo John Walker, of Weymouth-street, Mary-le-bone, tain improvements in the power-loom for weaving: communicated from abroad.-10th of November.-6 months. November.-2 months. To Henry Pinkus, of Philadelphia, for an improved Esquire, for an improved caster for furniture.-17th of pose of illumination.-17th of November.-6 months. To Samuel Sevill, of Brownshill, in the parish of Bisley, method of purifying carburetted hydrogen gas for the pur Barometer Successive warlike princes acquired additional territory The appellation Ottoman, or Othman, given to the em from the Mamelukes of Egypt and the Persians. Syria, Formerly an appendage of Egypt, was conquered by Selim pire of the Turks, or rather to their Emperors, is from - in 1526. Tauria and Diabekir, the last of which had Othomannus, or Osman, the first Prince of the family, ormerly belonged to Persia, were subjugated by the same who, to distinguish them from others, gave his people the monarch, and in 1589, Abbas, the great sovereign of name of Osmandis-from which, by the changing of the Nov. Persia, was obliged to yield three provinces to the Otto-s into t, we have made Ottoman; which new name soon mans, though he extended his conquests to the East; and became formidable to the Greeks of Constantinople, from Bagdad, with the surrounding province of Araki-Arabi, whom Osman conquered a sufficient extent of territory to became subject to the Turks in 1638. The present limits found a powerful kingdom. He soon bestowed on it that appear to have been fixed between the Porte and Persia title, by assuming, in 1300, the dignity of Sultan, which in 1736, since which the Turks have been chiefly employed signified absolute sovereign. The true era of the Ottoman in defending their own territorities against the Russians. empire may be dated from the conquest of Persia. The All the Turkish provinces are now divided into govern- establishment of the Ottomans in Europe took place in ents, arbitrarily administered by Pachas, and the extent 1353. of their empire here may be altogether estimated at 10,000,000 of subjects. Turkey in Europe is, in its largest sense, understood to include all the countries between Russia to the north, and Bucharia to the south, and between the Caspian Sea to the west, and Chinese Tartary to the east; and, according Novel Bazaar.-A dealer in provender for the feline and canine race has lately opened a shop in the Hampsteadroad, and placed over his door, in large characters. The Cat's Meat Bazaar!" METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. [From the Liverpool Courier.] 000 Kemarks at MOOD. 28 29 60 $29 29 27 30 0 44 O 52 0 S.S.E. Fair. 41 48 45 0 52 0 $.S.W. Fair. 48 45 O 29 36 51 0 S.S.E. Rain. Poetry. IRISH CORPORAL. Vide" HEROISM," Percy Collection, p. 94. With high despatch through hostile country sent, The struggling sigh in vain would each repress, And, charg'd with death, the whistling bullet flew ! And, ah! to prove how worse than death to feel, Nor long conceal'd; for now, as dawn'd the day, Noble O'Lavery! not the fatal course Soldier, adieu! and though, with matchless grace, For thee posterity shall grateful twine, VERSES WRITTEN ON SEEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ought not, by any means, to have censured the whole of BATTLE OF NAVARINO. Rise, Greece! the blow is struck, and thou art free; The Moslem tyrant's bonds no more thou'lt wear, Nor humbly bow before his dread decree, For Britain's standard waves triumphant there. Yes, Greece, thy fertile plains are passing fair, And once thy sons were proud, and brave, and free, And would have scorn'd a foreign yoke to bear, Rather than stoop, to distant lands they'd flee, Or gladly would have died to guard their liberty. But they are gone,-another race is here, And they have bowed before a Turkish foe; Have crouched before his throne in slavish fear, And trampled Grecia's ancient standard low; But they may yet arise, and strike a blow Like Athens struck at Marathon before, And strike the surer in a progress slow, Than rushing as a torrent to the shore; THE DEATH OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. And golden helm, were there; The sound of mailed tread Broke heavily and slow, And the ensigns dark, of death and dread, The bravest of the land Around in order stood, For there had come a warrior band, To see a woman's blood. With placid cheek and brow, The fire of youth from her eye was gone, And boldness in her tread, She raised her holy glance on high, Her heart beat deep and slow, And the heaving throb of that glowing breast She gazed upon the sun, Then shining brightly down, It was the last she must gaze upon, She had been at festival, With plumed and gallant knight, She bowed her beauteous head, For the headman's deadly blow, And the flashing stroke like lightning sped, And her heart was darkly riven; METRICAL ESSAYS, W. R-N. ON SUBJECTS OF HISTORY AND IMAGINATION. BY CHARLES SWAIN. Illiberal and sarcastical as was an article on Manchester poetry, which appeared some years since in Blackwood's Magazine, I am convinced that the writer of that article the community of Manchester, because he quarrelled with the poetry of a single individual. Before I come immediately to the subject of this paper, I will merely refer the writer, or readers of the article in question, to the spirited translations from the German of the accomplished Samuel Robinson; but particularly to his translation of William Tell, which is allowed by all persons competent to judge, to be elegant and spirited. I next refer him to the Maid's Revenge, &c. by a talented young gentleman of Manchester; and, lastly, to an unostentatious little poem, entitled the Schoolmaster. In the poems just enumerated will be found more real merit than in half the poetical productions which emanate from the metropolitan press. If this would-be-witty gentleman still remain sceptial, and doubt the existence of poetical talent in Mancheste, I will lend him Swain's Metrical Essays; and after bar ing perused them diligently, if he does not recant, he must be entirely divested of that judgment which I am informed he so eminently possesses. This small volume is evidently the production of s young man, the fruit of whose genius has not yet become matured; there are the seeds of excellence sown, and I have no doubt, judging from the specimen before me, that the ultimate harvest will be rich and abundant Laying aside metaphor, I can perceive the germ of futur excellence in these poems. The language is lofty commanding, the images are bold and striking, and the rhythm is sonorous and musical. Dr. Johnson says" Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purposes of a poet." Into this error Swain hu fallen; and I merely mention this circumstance, that he may in future avoid using terms that, although they may be proper, are not poetical. Time will remedy this, and I trust to see the hope realized, held out in this volume, by the publication of another, I will now proceed with the specimens, taken at rando from the volume, and I feel convinced that my enginn will be coincided with by all who read them. THE DEATH OF THE WARRIOR KING. There are noble heads bow'd down and pale, And tears flow fast around the couch And the arm of might and valour falls I saw him, mid the battling hosts, When, in his plenitude of power, He trod the Holy Land, I saw the routed Saracens Flee from his blood-dark brand. I saw him, in the banquet hour, To seek his favourite minstrel's haunt, He loved that spell-wrought strain, Then seem'd the bard to cope with time, Again the hardy Britons rushed Like lions to the fight; While horse and foot, helm, shield, and lance, Swept by his vision'd sight. But battle shout and waving plume, Are sights and sounds the dying king It was the hour of deep midnight, When, with sable cloak and broidered pall, A funeral train swept by. Dull and sad fell the torches' glare, On many a stately crest; KING RICHARD III. AND HIS SON. Night veil'd the battle plain! O'er heaven and earth watch'd night; Falchions were sheath'd-the martial strain Died with the proud sunlight: Silent and calm the pale tents lay, While voiceless war slept night away. Richard, in frowning thought, Sat 'neath his purple tent; His brow with some dark doom seem'd fraughtTerror and sadness blent: One knelt before his feet in awe, He gazed-yet recked not what he saw. Dimly the silver lamp Lighted his waving hair, And faded cheek, the iron stamp Of death had settled there; His breastplate shook beneath its sway, He knew that injured one He clasped him in his arms and cried, He groan'd in thought-he saw-and wept. "Pride," cried he, "was my bane; For that I barter'd all Peace, love, content-all to obtain A crown; and now I fall Prone from my tow'ring height to earth, "Boy! I would yet be lov'd,— Though stern has been my will; Though haply I have cruel prov'd, I am thy father still; Thou wilt not? no, 'twere sin for thee To curse a parent's memory. "I weep!-they are not fears, Which shake my warrior frame; No hopes o'erthrown have caus'd these tears, Like a warrior king appears His glancing beams, like golden spears, To which the ravens wing; Nor sculpture shines, nor pennons wave— TO THE EDITOR. SIR, You will recollect Johnson's remark, in his "Lives of the Poets," on Pope's celebrated simile of a traveller on the Alps. Whether Pope deserved the high encomiums bestowed by our great critic, the following quo tation will, perhaps, show. The lines are taken from the miscellaneous works of the Rev. John Norris, M. A., of Cambridge. The edition of 1699. If you deem them worthy of a corner in your valuable miscellany, their insertion will oblige, Yours, &c. Bolton, November 30th, 1827. JOHN RIGBY. NORRIS. So, to the unthinking boy, the distant sky But when, with an unwearied pace, So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last s TIM TURPIN-A PATHETIC BALLAD. (From Whims and Oddities:—a Second Series.) BY THOMAS HOOD. Tim Turpin he was gravel blind, For nature, when his head was made, So, like a Christmas pedagogue, There's some have specs to help their sight Now Tim he woo'd a servant maid, A happy wife, although she led But just when he had lived a month A surgeon ope'd his Milton eyes, But when his eyes were opened thus, Her face was bad, her figure worse, So with a cudgel in his hand- He knocked at his wife's head until And when the corpse was stiff and cold, But like a wicked murderer, The neighbours fetch'd a doctor in : Ah! when he hid his bloody work How little he supposed the truth But when the parish dustman came, A dozen men, to try the fact, The author of her death. A great judge and a little judge- The great judge took his judgment cap, And sentenced Tim by law to hang Till he was three times dead. So he was tried, and he was hung, (Fit punishment for such,) On Horsham-drop, and none can say |