1 क recommends as suitable for keeping some important le. BATTLE OF NAVARIN. [From the Glasgow Courier.] 66 cut up; our mizen-mast was shot away, and our main-son for supposing Homer was ever upon the spot. It has RICHARD CEUR-DE-LION. was detained in Austria: the author narrates facts relating The Austrian chronicler relates, in a way entirely to the Correspondence. FEMALE SERVANTS. TO THE EDITOR. xtract of a letter received in Glasgow last week, by y, from her son, dated his Majesty's ship Genoa, e harbour of Navarin, 24th Oct. 1827.] The Abbé Dobrowsky has discovered, at Prague, a chroTwo or three days after I wrote last from Malta we nicle containing an account of the crusade of the year to join the squadron off Navarin, where we cruised 1190, by Ansbert, an Austrian monk, who had served on the morning of the 20th; cleared for action all the that occasion. It contains, among other things, an expla but with very little expectation that we should be re-nation of the manner in which Richard Coeur-de-Lion SIR,-In the feeling of abhorrence which seems to exist to fight. The English Admiral, who had the chief towards vice, in the present day, there is one great fault, mand of the combined fleets, having waited long past that, while the crimes of the poor are severely canvassed ime that the Turks were to have given him a decisive er with regard to their intentions, determined, after and commented upon, those of the rich are passed over, alting with the French and Russian Admirals, to or, compatively, but little noticed. From what principle the harbour of Navarin and demand an explanation, this conduct may proceed I will not say; but the fact is wind being favourable on the 20th, the combined most certainly true. While laws have been enacted, and entered; the Asia (our Admiral's ship) first, the 34 (Commodore's ship) next; the Asia and we took societies formed, to suppress the disorders of the lower Principal stations abreast of the Turkish line-of-battle classes, the higher and more wealthy criminals bave been s; the stations of the other ships, as well as our own, suffered to proceed in their debaucheries without reprenot properly describe without a drawing hension. At the same period when the legislature sets They allowed us to pass their batteries without firing down the vulgar boxer as a vagabond, the dispensers of ot, from which we thought they were likely to come rms; but we have learned since the action that they the law combine to designate the equally criminal duelist ided to have sent their fire-ships adrift amongst us in as a GENTLEMAN, fit for the most refined society, and fight, and to board us in the confusion with boats bearing no stain upon his character. This, you will allow, they had on shore, well manned and armed for the Leopold delivered up, or rather sold, his prisoner, to is not as it should be. If blame must be attached to crime, se; but most providentially their plans were frus- Henry, Emperor of Germany, by a treaty which the AusWhile we were coming into harbour, one of the trian monk has given at full length, and which resembles let the blame, as well as the punishment, be equally disaws came on board to our Admiral to inquire is a convention between the Chiefs of two savage hordes, who tributed. If the low drunkard be looked upon as a desfor entering their port. The Admiral stated his have stopped travellers on the highway, for the purpose of picable character, let the wealthy and titled one bear an ons, and said that if they fired a single shot at him he selling them as slaves. The articles of this treaty bear, equal share of the odium; and, in the case on which I take d destroy their whole fleet. The Bashaw pledged that the Duke of Austria should receive one-half of the up my pen, if candour require that the faults of a servant honour that no insult would be offered to the flag; one hundred thousand mares, which Richard was to pay should be publicly exposed, let the same candour evince which he was allowed to return ashore; and it was for his ransom to the Emperor; as security for this paywed that, as soon as he reached the first battery, a ment, the Emperor should deliver to the Duke 200 host- itself, by condemning the often more criminal neglect of gun was fired from it, which we at first thought ages, as, on the other hand, Richard was to give 200 host- the master. signal to the Turkish Commander-in-Chief that a ages to the Emperor. The 50,000 marcs destined for the Your reverend correspondent has severely, and (in some understanding had taken place between all parties, Duke of Austria, were to serve as a marriage portion to negligent and unshich, in reality, was a signal to prepare to destroy us Eleonora, Richard's niece, whom the Duke of Austria cases) perhaps justly stigmatized the " night; and it is my opinion that one of the Turkish proposed to bestow in marriage on one of his sons. Rich ruly behaviour of female servants." Such conduct will, is mistaking the signal was the cause of saving us,ard was to furnish 50 gallies, manned and equipped, and and does, exist both in England and elsewhere; nor would had scarcely dropped our anchor when one of the to lead this fleet himself to assist the Emperor in subduing I, for a moment, endeavour to excuse it: at the same time fire-ships, which was within pistol-shot of us, Sicily; he agreed to release the King of Cyprus and his I cannot avoid believing that much of the "uneasiness" set fire to and cut adrift; and her captain and people daughter: and when these conditions were fulfilled, he felt by families, on account of their servants, is mainly atin the act of making their escape ashore in their was also to obtain pardon from the Pope for the Duke of when the Dartmouth frigate commenced a fire of Austria-for what crime is not stated; but it was, no doubt, tributable to themselves, through the want of that care ketry upon them, which they returned:-most of to take off the interdict incurred by Duke Leopold, for his which it is their bounden duty to extend even to the lowest were killed, but their captain escaped on shore, and treacherous conduct towards a Prince engaged in the Holy class of their dependants. I ask, without fear of meeting his head immediately cut off for setting fire to the ship Wars. a denial, whether there is not, in many families," a total The fire-ship was now drifting towards us, and ial explosion took place in her about midships, when neglect of that moral instruction which can alone fit a serFrench Admiral immediately fired his whole broadvant for her station? Whether, in nine families out of into her, and sunk her. I was at this time on the ten, there is the slightest endeavour made to influence the P, standing beside our much-respected captain, Commind of a servant by a conviction of her duty? And where dore Bathurst, who was mortally wounded in the action such endeavour is made, whether the instruction commu. vards, and died in about an hour after in the most Scio is one of the most beautiful and celebrated islands nicated is not often given in that harsh and authoritative 2posed manner; and I believe if ever there was a man b a pure and unspotted character, and a true Christian, of the Archipelago. It is near the coast of Natolia; in manner, which tends rather to harden than to soften the was he. length about thirteen leagues, and six in breadth. The *The action now became general; our men and officers productions are oranges, citrons, vines, niastic, game, and heart? I go further, and inquire whether, in many of @ght with the greatest bravery, and the Turks fought all the necessarics of life. The principal trade is in silk. those families, where this neglect exists within, the servant ce devils; they would not strike to us; we sunk many The population is about 10,000 Turks, 30,000 Latians, who is not precluded from obtaining any means of instruction their ships with their figs flying, and many were blown have a bishop, and 10,000 Greeks, who also have a bishop from without? Now, it is not to be expected that an unin the heat of the action. Our ship was placed in a The plague in 1788 destroyed 14.000 persons. The foreign educated female, destitute of a sense of her duty, receiving ry critical situation all the time, and we suffered more commerce is very considerable. They export manufactured any other ship in the squadron: we had a Turkish cottons, silk, velvet, geld and silver wove damasks, &c. to no information respecting it, and deprived of the means of 1e of battle ship on our beam, another and a frigate on Asia, Egypt, and the states of Barbary. The Genoese acquiring such information, should either be able or willing quarter, and two frigates on our stern, firing into us were many years in possession of the island, but the Turks to attend to it. Your correspondent professes to be a Christian, and to direction; but we had the satisfaction of blowing drove them out in 1595. The Venetians took it in 1694, ery of them up, and completely disabling the remainder. but the Turks retook it in 1696. Scio is the capital. It have a supreme reverence for the word of God: on this The action commenced about half past three in the is a large beautiful city, with a fort and harbour. The Another curiosity contained in this chronicle is a letter from Philip le Bel, King of France, to his dear friend the Duke of Austria, begging him to keep Richard securely, and not to allow him any liberty. ISLAND OF SCIO. afternoon, and continued more than four hours and a Greek bishop is rich. The inhabitants believe that Homer ground, therefore, I join issue with him, and again usk 年 ter with the utmost fury; their batteries were likewise was born in this island. They have a place near the city whether it is not true that the Sabbath day is, in numerous ing upon us in fine style, and we were terribly which they call the Schools of Homer, but there is no rea- families, a day of toil and increased labour to the servant, instead of what it ought to be,—a day of rest? Whether that day, on which she ought to listen to the instructions of Christianity, is not unnecessarily devoted to bustle and confusion? I do not allude to the regular duties of the house, (which ought, certainly, to be attended to,) but to parties, and companies, and routs, which, in many families, form the Sabbath day's employment. And when a servant has no Christian instruction in the week, and is prevented from receiving it on the Lord's day, can she ever either learn her duty, or, from a right motive, practise it? Laws may tie down a person to a certain line of conduct, but they can never effect a moral change in the mind; and, without such a change, a man may be a hypocrite, but not a consistent servant of either God or man. Instruction, communicated in a proper manner, and at proper times, must come in as an auxiliary to law, and without it, penal statutes are comparatively use less. I, therefore, entirely differ from the Reverend Gentleman in the discovery he has made, that the "badness of the law" is the cause of negligent behaviour. If the law were made more severe than at present, it might have the effect of throwing the servant into a more abject dependance upon the master, and thus prevent any thing like remonstrance (or, if Mr. M. will call it so, insult) to the employer: but it could not, and would not, shield the latter from those secret and unseen faults which every servant has it in her power to commit. His reference to Scotland may be answered by another question. Are those servants who come from that part of the kingdom either better or more industrious than others? I can assure him, from experience, that they are not; and that they stand in no higher estimation in Liverpool than those from other parts of Great Britain. I conclude, Sir, by expressing my opinion, that the want of proper care in the master is, in general, the cause of negligence in the servant; and that, where mild and Christian-like instruction is given, love and attention will generally follow. For the consideration of Mr. Macgowan, I will offer the following quotation, as a counterpart to the extracts he has given :-" Masters do the same things unto them, giving them what is just and equal, forbearing threatening, knowing that your master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.” Edge-hill, 15th Dec. 1827. Yours, &c. The Fireside. J. S. D. "In order to employ one part of this life in serious and important occupations, it is necessary to spend another in mere amusements."-JOHN LOCKE. "There is a time to laugh and a time to weep."-SOLOMON. No. VIII. VIVENT LES BAGATELles. SOLUTIONS TO THE PUZZLES, &c. IN OUR LAST. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,-Being a small family of grown children, we have amused ourselves, during the last few weeks, with trying to guess the charades, conundrums, &c. contained in your entertaining miscellany. Finding, by your answers, that we were generally correct in our guesses, we are emboldened by success, and this week venture to send you our answers to the amusing trifles in your last Kaleidoscope; my two companions are rather dubious as to So, nevertheless I am persuaded that my doggerel-rhymed answer will prove correct, I therefore send it you with the rest; also two charades, which have at least the merit of being original. If you should think them worthy of insation in your Kaleidoscope, you will give pleasure to as follows: CHARADE. BY THE CELEBRATED PORSON. 41. The charade No. 40, in the last Kaleidoscope, reminded us that the learned Professor Porson once made a charade on the same word. It was, to the best of our recollection, My first, though your house, nay, your life, he defends, You ungratefully use, like the wretch you despise ; My second. I speak it with grief, comprehends All the great and the good, and the learn'd and the wise: Of my whole I have little or nothing to say, Except that it marks the decline of the day. 42. My first is something that we do every day, My second is a part of the body, And my whole is a villain. (Bencoolen.) 2. Why is a person who dislikes blank verse or po like a philosophical instrument? Answer. Because he is a foe to metre, (Photometer 3. Why is a cobbler like a person who vends stal goods? Answer. Because shoes and boots are sold by him whi are not his own property. 4. Why is a person who counts six at whist, a fellow? Answer. Because he is half dozing, (half dozen.) A very fair Pun.-On Christmas Day last, when gentlemen were engaged on a game of backganım member of a certain fashionable place of worsta Great George-street, happening to pop in, appeare somewhat scandalized," What!" says he, " men, we are not gambling; and if we were, it is on a Christmas Day ?"-" No," replied one of the bad to gamble on Christmas Day as to go to RAFFLE as you do, every Sunday." It may be as well to inform our country read that Dr. Raffles is the preacher at the chapel allude 3d,-Nine, a.m. hail and rain. 43. Mon premier est un animal domestique, Mon second est un pronom indefinite, Mon tout garnit les premiers pas du printemps. 44. If you to gents. "Yes Ma'am," should say, CONUNDRUMS. JANE. 45. Why is a thing remarkable like a thing unpowerful?-J. 46. Why does virtue resemble an ignorant person ?—J. 47. Why is a male swindler like a penny loaf?-J. 48. By what compound word would you ask your mo. ther's husband to dance ?-J. 49. Why is an exact man like one having a church living?-J. 50. Why is the acclamation of a man, when diverted, like a heinous offence ?-J. Having been told that there were some very whimsical conundrums in the last John Bull, we were induced to take a peep at it, not, however, without the fear of meeting with some very objectionable double entendre. To our surprise, however, we found about a couple of dozen conundrums, good, bad, and indifferent, without any admixture of that indecency for which the John Bull is pre-eminently distinguished. We were pleased at this sign of improvement, as it so happens that amongst these conundrums there are some, for the manufacture of which we have to answer, and which are to be found in that collection of bagatelles which have appeared, from time to time, in the Kaleidoscope. We shall here select one or two from the John Bull's list, which we never before met with. What three letters spell Archipelago?—(what this is I don't know; but this is the answer) E. G. and C. What sea would one wish to be in on a rainy night?A dry attic. caught a rheumatism at a bad inn? Because he suffers Why is a libeller in Newgate like a traveller who has for lying in damp sheets! Why are glass coaches so plentiful in London ?-Because they are without number. Because he is always a thin king! Why is a boy doing his first sums like a serpent erect? -Because he is an adder-up! After these sublimities of the John Bull it may appear presumptuous in us to put forth a specimen of home ma. nufacture; but, as we never aspire to any merit but that of excelling in the bathos, we shall venture to add two of three conundrums never before published. 5th, Very stormy during night, with ball and Monthly mean of atmospherical pressure, 29.54 temperature, extreme during night, 41; eight, -noon, 48; extreme during day, 49.19; gene 46; prevailing winds, westerly; highest ta during month, 57; lowest 26. To Correspondents. ERRATA. In the Latin complimentary verses to Mr. C published in the Mercury of the 4th, and in the K of the 8th instant, the following errors escaped our to which we wish to draw the attention of our La renders: In the first line, for cupiat, read capiet tenth line, for totam hanc, read totum hunc; in the line, for erraverit, read lustraverit ;-and in the tw line, for doceat, read referat. VARIETY-We shall be glad to hear further from our L correspondent, whose clever verses appear in a d page; and who need not hereafter tax himself with SPECIMENS OF THE ELDER POETS.-No. IX. of this s pense of postage, which we will cheerfully defray. is reserved for the next Kaleidoscope. SUPPLEMENTAL NUMBER. Our next number will be panied with a gratuitous supplement, and will ex great portion of interesting matter, both original and H Solutions to the two arithmetical questions, which appea lected. in the last Kaleidoscope, have been received from C and J. of Warrington. LAWS OF WHIST.-In the next Kaleidoscope, which will certa a supplemental sheet, we intend to introduce the laws the game of Whist, in verse. HUNT'S LIFE OF BYRON.-Our next number will contain v copious selections from this work. Music. We shall take an early opportunity of publishin Mr. Cohan's piece, called the New Year. The tribute to the Memory of the late Rev. J. Dunn, of Pre ton, shall be inserted in our next. 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Natural History. INSECT FOUND IN THE CENTRE OF A LID BLOCK OF ZEBRA-WOOD, LATELY WN UP IN LIVERPOOL. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1828. PRICE 3d. subjoined entomological description, is of opinion that, | insertion until next week; in the meantime confining with proper care, it will undergo all the usual changes, ourselves to the intimation, that the facts we have to until it becomes a splendid winged animal. We shall relate came within our immediate experience, and not fail to make inquiries after its condition from time to are recorded in our manuscript journal, from which time, and shall issue an occasional bulletin on the subject. we shall faithfully transcribe them. DESCRIPTION OF THE INSECT, IN A LETTER TO THE SIR,-The insect sent for inspection is the larva of some ere is perhaps no subject less understood by ologists and naturalists, than the means by some animals are enabled to live for months, and even centuries, excluded from all acto air or food.-That animals, especially such furnished with lungs, should retain life when The general colour of the body is yellowish white, with ded from the atmosphere, is one of those secrets a few light-coloured hairs thinly scattered over it. There iture with which philosophy will, in all proba-taining the jaws, which is considerably the largest: the are ten divisions, or rings, in the body, besides that con, never become acquainted. The phenome- caudal division is elongated, and, in form, a half oval: however, although it baffles limited human the ring next the head is subdivided on the sides into two prehension, is too notorious, and too well esta-folds, or wrinkles. There are eighteen spiracula or stiged, to admit of a doubt. Toads, lizards, and mata, nine on each side, which have the form of oval percold-blooded animals, have been very often met pendicular fissures, of a rust-brown colour. in the very centre of trees, and of solid blocks of (and marble, under circumstances which baffle tional conjectures to explain how they got or how long they may have remained in their y prisons. quent as such discoveries have been in this and countries, we had never seen any living creawhich had been found either in timber or stone, rewe were favoured with a sight of the insect we bout to describe, and which is accurately deli The head is partly concealed within the largest division of the animal, but, when porrected, shows dark brown jaws of great strength, dusky lips and palpi: the upper lip small, nearly orbicular. The Traveller. LETTERS OF A TRAVELLER. The following is one of a promised series of original papers, written by a gentleman who has seen much of the world, and its manners, which he for the Kaleidoscope. intends to make the subject of occasional sketches MY DEAR FRIEND,-The language of lovers is intelligible only to those who love, or have loved; and in like manner, it is impossible for you, whose emi-, grations extend little farther than from the parlour to the drawing-room, to understand the intensity of feeling which engrosses the mind of a homewardbound voyager. The sight of land, yes, land, even The dorsal ridge is flattened, and marked on each ring of a sailor, which none but those who are, or have though it be foreign, touches a chord in the bosom by a transverse, long-oval impression. The dorsal vessel been at sea, can comprehend. But when the welThe larvæ of P. Damicornis, as well as those of the come sound comes down from the mast-head, and we Palm Weevil, (Curculio Palmarun) are considered as know it to be our own, our native land, then your great delicacies in some parts of the western world, and philosopher should come upon deck, and look upon are, therefore, diligently sought for, and scooped out of their retreats in trees, as an epicurean morceau. Madame Merian states that "these worms, when roasted on the coals, are esteemed a highly delicious article of food." is conspicuous from the head to the caudal vessel. If kept in a warm room, and supplied with the same sort of wood in which it was found, it will, in all probability, undergo its various transformations, from larva into pupa, and afterwards into the perfect insect. If sawdust be put into the box, it should be occasionally changed, to remove excrementitious matter from the food of the larva. T. human nature. The officer in charge of the ship may, indeed, ask questions with reference to his duty, but the next moment, I warrant me, you'll see him like the rest, rubbing his hands as the thought of home gathers about his heart, and then he will look about to see if the vessel will bear another yard or two of canvas. But it is after a long and tedious Voyage, when this anticipation (causing, at all times, an extraordinary excitement) has been prolonged and thwarted by accidents, that I would describe my sensations to you. This insect, which was first noticed in the Liver- I had resided some time in India. My constitupool Mercury of the 14th of last month, was found by tion began to suffer from the climate-my mind be the workmen of Mr. Atkinson, cabinet-maker, about came home sick-I loathed my own lassitude-I four months ago, in sawing up a log of zebra-wood, loathed the contrast there was around me of arrowhich has been in Liverpool about two years. The gance and servility, and I sighed in secret for the log was about fourteen feet long, and four and a half hill and the dale, and the beautiful green sward of square, and the insect was found near the centre, my native country. I could not effect that sort of having eaten its way about seven or eight inches, naturalization of my affections which I find common forming an oblong cavity, which was little broader amongst my acquaintances in India, merely because than the body of the insect. It was perfectly alive, and remains so still, although it appears somewhat more languid than at first, owing, probably, to occasional exposure to our cold winter atmosphere. their interest seemed indigenous to the country; neither could I, like them, find enjoyment in the ease and the luxury which the servile humility of the natives, on the one hand, and the redundancy of 1 is an exact delineation of this insect, precisely the of life; and fig. 2 a front view of the head, with the S, &c. twice the diameter of the original. The insect has been kept, and is still kept, in a small The discovery of this insect in a solid block of nature, on the other, amply provide for emigrants to Of hard wood, embedded in the shavings of the zebra-wood brings to our recollection some circumstances this part of the world. Delighted was I, therefore, ; and such is the force of its jaws, or mandibles, that connected with the phenomena of animal life, which, to see the's anchor at her bows, the foretopgnawed away a portion of the lid of the box. although they may not be altogether so extraordinary, sail sheeted home, and the trees on Sauger Island professional gentleman, who has favoured us with the are still worth recording. We shall reserve their fast dipping behind the wave. I took my last look 238 of them, and turned my voyage. "Ah! how unlike what yestermorn enjoyed; "hide their diminished heads" under a double reef. 66 The Bouquet. I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and saers.' EXTRACTS From Sir Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather. ROBERT BRUCE. led John of Lorn straight to the place where the l foot like that which remains on turf. So John of th The The little curly-headed waves, that wantoned playfully at the vessel's side the day before, were swollen yet they dared not sit down to take any rest; for, whe rible-they sat crouching for a moment, then gave a through which ran a small river. Then Bruce said "But by this time Bruce was very much fatigued, into size and strength; and their approach was ter- hound behind them. terrific spring, and rolled onward, like some beast foster-brother, Let us wade down this stream for a they stopped for an instant, they heard the cry of the b of the forest disappointed of its prey, whilst, like hound shall lose the scent; for, it we were once At length they came to a I was a passenger in a small ship bound to Liverthat same prey, the trembling vessel seemed to in- him, I should not be afraid of getting away from way, instead of going straight across, and so this pool. The first part of the voyage was propitious, outward-bound ship was seen far down to leeward, had stopped. Then they came ashore on the further crease her speed at every escape from her pursuers. that is, it passed without any accident to alarm, or dismasted, and with a signal of distress flying." Yon from the enemy, and went deep into the wood before At daylight on the third morning of the gale, an in the water, which could not retain any scent where I Accordingly, the King and his attendant v any accident to enliven us. Day after day rolled fellow is in want of a biscuit, Mr. Roberts," said old stopped to rest themselves. In the meanwhile, the a great way down the stream, taking care to keep the over like the waves themselves, in a round of dull James, the captain, to his chief mate; "you may as went into the water-but there the dog began to be pat monotony, relieved only by the reflection that every well keep her away a little, and let's see if we cannot knowing where to go next; for you are well passing day shortened our pilgrimage; that every chuck him one aboard." receding billow took off something from the wide ready reply; and to the satisfaction of every one on seeing the dog was at a fault, as it is called, that is space we had to travel over. to measure distance with the eye of a circumnavi-humane purpose which the captain had conveyed in and returned to join with Ayoner de Valence. I had been accustomed board, the vessel was put before the wind for the lost the track of that which he pursued, gave up the Ay, ay, Sir," was the that the running water could not retain the scent of a gator, and to make the "sea girt citadel" my home, his own way;-but the purest of our pleasures have His foster-brother and he had rested themselves but never was my patience so tired as it was on this often the shortest life. The gale had moderated a woods, but they had no food, and were become extra We were somewhere about the latitude of the persed by its violence, accumulated and gathered they met with three men who looked like thieves and "But King Robert's adventures were not yet end Western Islands; a relentless north-easter had been strength, in proportion as its superior power had fians: they were well armed, and one of them hore little; but the sea, no longer beaten down and dis- hungry. They walked on, however, in hopes of ce in our teeth for ten days; the captain had spoken, relaxed. The man at the wheel was perhaps paying on his back, which it seemed as if they had just or rather growled, on an average, three words a day, more attention to the vessel in distress than to his They saluted the King civilly; and he, replying to some habitation. At length, in the midst of the and unlucky was the wight who asked him a question charge-perhaps the heavy cross sea took him by answered, they were secking for Robert Bruce, about the wind, the progress of the ship, how far we surprise-I know not which it was; but the vessel tended to join with him. The King answered, had to go, (in the landsman's words) or any such broached to, and was laid on her beam-ends, the fore would go with him, he would conduct them st like matter: "How the devil should I know" would and mizen topmasts being carried away at the same spoken changed countenance, and Bruce, who salutation, asked them where they were going. be the answer, in a voice like that of a Greenland moment. If the man had neglected his duty, he sharply at him, began to suspect that the ruffian bear. A comfortable state of things this, you may was, at any rate, prompt enough in returning to it, who he was, and that he and his companions had som imagine. For myself, I took to my books, and read for the helm was hard-a-weather before the order had been off red for his life. would find the Scottish King. Then the man for very desperation; or to gambling with my fellow-could be given, and that saved us. passengers, in wagers on the event of our rounding, the Rock before or after Christmas Day; or to making stern his fortitude must have been, that could turn sign against his person, in order to gain the reward w out a bill of fare for our first day's dinner at the unchanged to a prospect so desolate, after a disapThe stranger was reluctantly left to his fate; and Star and Garter; or (and that was my forlorn hope) pointment so bitter. He saw our intention, and the to that most delightful of a sailor's occupations, accident which shut him out from, perhaps, the last overhauling my chest. Any thing was better than of his hopes. When the wreck of our own vessel looking over the ship's side, or in the captain's face. was cleared away, and matters made as snug as posAt length it came-whether the sooner for the indus-sible to lay to for the night, I could not refrain from trious whistle of Dick Neville, the foretopman, I an ascent to the maintop. He had drifted to leeward, know not-but it came, as sweet a breeze at south- and I could only now and then catch a glimpse of west as ever blew. Never words fell so delightfully his signal as he rose on the edge of a wave. Towards on mortal cars as the captain's on mine, "Square night the language of distress became audible by the main yard; aft here to the starboard main brace." minute guns. The men flew as thongh one heart and one impulse sion; no other was heard; the world had, perhaps, animated them all, and, in a few minutes, every sail closed on them for ever. I counted ten, fired in rapid succesthat could catch but a "cup full of wind" was pencil, convey to you the marked contrast there was desiting to sleep. But, first, he desired his foster-brother hoisted, and set. The ship herself seemed to bound in the manners and feelings of our cabin group on watch while he slept, for he had great suspicion of their I wish I could, by pen or notwithstanding the danger he was in, he could not over the waters like a greyhound from the slip, as this night and on that I have before spoken of acquaintances. His foster-brother promised to keep a "Then so heavy a drowsiness fell on King Robert, though she felt her release from thraldom; her mo- Every heart then jocund and happy, every counte-been long asleep ere his foster-brother fell into a tion was little more than the gentle rocking of a nance then blithe and cheerful, was now under the slumber also, for he had undergene as much fatig cradle, and the hissing of the waters in her wake was influence of unconquerable depression. The joke to me a sweeter lullaby than ever I heard from my was tried, but it met with no assimilating spirit, and and did his best to keep his word; but the King had t nurse. I slept with a fancy full fed of the "visions died heedlessly away; the gloominess of our prosof to-morrow," and awoke, painfully sensible of the pects, but more especially the incident just passed, realities of to day. A heavy sea climbing the side overshadowed the delightful anticipations we had of the vessel where I lay, with a growl like that of a been indulging, and created an unwillingness for hungry lion, aroused me. For a moment my heart the interchange of thought, each appearing afraid sank, and involuntarily I murmured in sympathy that his own should be more tinged with melancholy than his neighbours. with the ill-fated Falconer L. and we will follow near to you. You have no occasi tage, where the men proposed to dress some part the King. When the three villains saw the King and up at once, drew their swords with the purpose to kid both. But the King slept very lightly, and hule ne the taitors made in rising, he was awakened by it, the saine moment he pushed his fester-brother with attendant asleep, they made signs to each other, and foot, to awake him, and he started up; but ere he got eyes cleared to see what was about to happen, one of with the stroke of his sword. starting up, drew his sword, and went to meet them ruffians, that were advancing to slay the King, klled t one man against three, and in the greatest danger of h The King was now akce or small ship, in which he escaped to England, having en ife but his amazing strength, and the good armour which All travellers,' answered the good-woman, ' are welbe here for the sake of one." And who is that one,' said the King, for whose you make all travellers welcome?' It is our lawful King, Robert the Bruce,' answered mistress, who is the lawful lord of this country; although he is now pursued and hunted after with ds and horns, I hope to live to see him King over all and." BANNOCKBURN. There was a Knight among the English, called Sir try de Bohun, who thought this would be a good op. ty to gain great fame to himself, and put an end to r, by killing Robert Bruce. The King being poorly med, and having no lance, Bohun galloped on him nly and furiously, thinking, with his long spear and strong horse, easily to bear him down to the ground. Robert saw him, and permitted him to come very then suddenly turned inis pony a little to one side, at Sir Henry missed him with the lance-point, and a the act of being carried past him by the career of orse: but as he passed, King Robert rose up in his ps, and struck Sir Henry on the head with his battleterrible a blow, that it broke to pieces his iron t as if it had been a nut shell, and hurled him from He was dead before he reached the ground. gallant action was blamed by the Scottish leaders, bought Bruce ought not to have exposed himself to ch danger, when the safety of the whole army deupon him. The King only kept looking at his F. which was injured by the blow, and said, I have my good battle-axe.' dule. he next morning, being the 24th of June, at break of the battle began in terrible earnest. The English, hey advanced, saw the Scots getting into line. The ot of Inchaffray walked through their ranks bareed, and exhorted them to fight for their freedom. y kneeled down as he passed, and prayed to Heaven Victory. King Edward, who saw this, called out, y kneel down-they are asking forgiveness. Yes,' a celebrated English Baron, called Ingelram de hraville, but they ask it from God, not from us men will conquer or die upon the field.' The English King ordered his men to begin the batThe archers then bent their bows, and began to shoot sely together, that the arrows fell like flakes of snow Christmas day. They killed many of the Scots, and as at Falkirk and other places, have decided the but Bruce, as I told you before, was prepared He had in readiness a body of men-at-arms mounted, who rode at full gallop among the archers; they had no weapons, save their bows and arrows, they could not use when they were attacked hand id, they were cut down in great numbers by the sh horsemen, and thrown into total confusion. The fine English cavalry then advanced to support achers, and to attack the Scottish line. But coming the ground, which was dug full of pits, the horses fell these holes, and the riders lay tumbling about without Deans of defence, and unable to rise from the weight eir armour. The Englishmen began to fall into gedisorder; and the Scottish King, bringing up more forces, attacked and pressed them still more closely. Da a sudden, an event happened which decided the ty. The servants and attendants on the Scottish camp as I told you, been sent behind the army to a place the Gillies'-hiil. But now, when they saw that their were likely to gain the day, they rushed from their of concealment with such weapons as they could get, ey might have their share in the victory and in the The English, seeing them come suddenly over the mistook the disorderly rabble for a new army coming o sustain the Scots, and losing all heart, began to shift y man for himself. Edward himself left the field as as he could ride, and was closely pursued by Douglas a a party of horse, who followed him as far as Dunbar, are the English had still a friend in the Governor, Pa , Earl of March. The Earl received Edward in his Lorn condition, and furnished him with a fishing-skiff, 59 MR. HAZLITT'S NAPOLEON. (From Mr. Buckingham's new Journal, entitled The Athenæum.) oppressor? Who is there that admires Nero at the distance of two thousand years? Did not the Tartuffe in a manner hoot religious hypocricy out of France? and was it not on this account constantly denounced by the clergy? What do those, who read the annals of the Inquisition, think of that dread tribunal? And what has softened its horrors but those annals being read? What figure does the massacre of St. Bartholomew make in the eyes of posterity? But books anticipate and confirm the decision of the public, of individuals, and even of the actors in such scenes, to that lofty and irrevocable standard; mould and fashion the heart and inmost thoughts upon it, so that something manly, liberal, and generous, grows out of the fever or passion and the palsy of base fear; and this is what is meant by the progress of modern civilization, and modern philosophy. An individual, in displeased him, (without other warrant than his will) into a barbarous age and country, throws another, who has a dungeon, where he pines for years, and then dies; and, perhaps, only the mouldering bones of the victim, discovered long after, discloses his fate; or, if known at the time, the confessor gives absolution, and the few who are let into the secret are intimidated from giving vent to their "From the moment that the press opens the eyes of the act of violence be repeated afterwards in story, and there feelings, and hardly dare disapprove in silence. Let this community beyond the actual sphere in which each moves, is not an individual in the whole nation, whose bosoni there is from that time inevitably formed the germ of a body of opinion directly at variance with the selfish and within him, at the recital of this foul wrong. Why, then, does not swell with pity, or whose blood does not curdle servile code that before reigned paramount, and approxi; should there be an individual in a nation privileged to mating more and more to the manly and disinterested do what no other individual in the nation can be found to standard of truth and justice. Hitherto force, fraud, and fear, decided every question of individual right or general it in spite of public opinion. Then that public opinion approve? But he has the power, and will not part with reasoning; the possessor of rank and influence, in answer to any censure on, or objection to, his conduct, appealed in which his right, derived from his ancestors, is cast, and must become active, and break the moulds of prescription to God and to his sword;-now a new principle is brought this will be a revolution. Is that a state of things to reinto play, which had never been so much as dreamt of, gret or bring back, the bare mention of which makes one and before which he must make good his pretensions, or shudder? But the form, the shadow of it only was left; it will shatter his strong holds of pride and prejudice to then why keep up that form, or cling to a shadow of inatoms, as the pent-up air shatters whatever resists its ex-justice which is no less odious than contemptible, except pansive force. This power is public opinion, exercised it were to mock, or to betray? Let all the wrongs, public upon men, things, and general principles, and to which and private, produced in France by arbitrary power and mere physical power must conform, or it will crumble it exclusive privileges, for a thousand years, be collected in a to powder. Books only teach us to judge of truth and volume, and let this volume be read by all who have good in the abstract; without a knowledge of things at a hearts to feel, or capacity to understand, and the strong, distance from us, we judge, like savages or animals, from stifling sense of oppression and kindling burst of indigna our senses and appetites only; but by the aid of books, tion that would follow, will be that impulse of public and of an intercourse with the world of ideas, we are opinion which led to the French revolution. Let all the purified, raised, ennobled from savages into intellectual and victims that have perished under the mild, paternal sway rational beings. Our impressions of what is near to us are of the ancient regime, in dungeons and in agony, without false, of what is distant, feeble; but the last gaining strength from being united in public opinion, and ex- sembled together, and their chains struck off, and the a trial, without an accusation, without witnesses, be aspressed by the public voice, are like the congregated roar shout of jubilee and exultation they would make, or that of many waters, and quail the hearts of princes. Who nature would make at the sight, will be the shout that but the tyrant does not hate the tyrant? Who but the was heard when the Bastile fell! The dead pause that slave does not despise the slave ? The first of these ensued among the gods of the earth, the rankling malice, looks upon himself as a god, upon his vassal as a clod of the panic-fear, when they saw law and justice raised to the earth, and forces him to be of the same opinion: the an equality with their sovereign will, and mankind no philosopher looks upon them both as men, and instructs longer doomed to be their sport, was that of fiends robbed the world to do so. While they had to settle their pre of their prey: their struggles, their arts, their unyielding tensions by themselves, and in the night of ignorance, it is no wonder no good was done; while pride intoxicated perseverance, and their final triumph, was that of fiends the one, and fear stupified the other. But let them be when it is restored to them!”—Vol. 1, p. 88. brought out of that dark cave of despotism and superstition, and let a thousand other persons, who have no interest but that of truth and justice, be called on to deter nine between them, and the plea of the lordly oppressor to make a beast of burden of his fellow-man becomes as ridiculous as it is odious. All that the light of philosophy, the glow of patriotism; all that the brain wasted in mid. night study; the blood poured out upon the scaffold or in the field of battle, can do, or have done, is to take this question, in all cases, from before the first gross, blind, and iniquitous tribunal, where power insults over weakness, and place it before the last more just, disinterested, and, in the end, more formidable one, where each individual is tried by his peers, and according to rules and principles which have received the common examination, and the common consent. A public sense is thus formed, free from slavish awe, and the traditional assumption of insolent superiority, which, the more it is exercised, becomes the more enlightened and enlarged, and more and more requires equal rights and equal laws. This new sense acquired by the people, this new organ of opinion and feeling, is like bringing a battering-train to bear upon some old Gothic castle, long the den of rapine and crime; and it must finally prevail against all absurd and antiquated institutions, unless it is violently suppressed, and this engine of political reform turned, by bribery and terror, against itself. Who, in reading history, where the characters are laid open, and the circumstances fairly stated, and where he himself has no false bias to mislead him, does not take part with the oppressed against the Barometer at noon. Jan. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. [From the Liverpool Courier.] Extreme Thermo-Extreme State of during meter 8 heat du- the Wine Night. ntorning rog Day, at noon. 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