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Earnshaw; DEAR FRIEND,-I said good bye to you last, off ascar;-"There's a special Providence in the fall arrow," else I should not now be able to greet you with a "How d'ye do?" Halifax-N. Whitley; Macclesfield-P. Hall;. TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1828. and our progress was, for some time, marked with I might have been an hour "lulled into forgetfulness" My fancy had been revelling in far different scenes. Prescot-A. Ducker; Wakefield-Mrs. Hurst; PRICE 3 d. you, let go." I knew enough of a sailor's duty to find the halyards, even in the dark, and enough of the danger we were in to execute the order promptly. I had the satisfaction of saving the maintopmast, or the sail, or both. The mate said he should not have sworn, had he known it was me. I told him he would have had reason if the mast had gone overboard whilst I was standing by. To a person unaccumstomed to these things, however, there is no little hazard in the undertaking, for it requires a little adroitness to get clear of the rope, after you have taken the last turn of the belaying pin. I had seen a poor fellow get every bone in his hand crushed with these same halyards: but it is extraordinary what things a man will do under a mere impulse, which gets the name of courage or intrepidity; for my part, I never could give a mere impulse any such distinction, and, when the captain elevated what I had done into a topic of praise, laughed in my sleeve at the oddity of men's notions. But to bring up the leeway of my story. The topsails were down upon the cap, and the ship righted a little : the storm-staysail was run up, and this was all the canvas we had set, for the courses had been blown to shreds when the squall came on. The rain came down in a deluge. II was in my shirt, so you may conceive I had a showerbath to perfection. I had coiled a rope round my arm, to hold on by, and, lifting my head over the hammock netting, a tremendous surge was gathering its giant strength, and, as the vessel lay in the trough of the sea, it frowned high over my head, and our destruction seemed inevitable. I clung tighter to the rope-crouched my head under the gunwale, and cried out, with a desperate voice, for every body to stand fast. The first break of it, happily, lifted her: she heeled over, burying three feet of the deck under water, whilst the top of the wave boiled up her weather side, and rolled over her, 'being a winding sheet for three of our best fellows, whose death-cry was feebly heard in the moment of comparative calm which followed. were on the Malabar coast, about three days' sail Bombay, the south-west monsoon blowing a fresh and sending us right onward to our destined harbour, rate of nine knots an hour. I was standing against stan with my fellow passenger, admiring the sun's t passage to the occident," which, in these climates, Fad any thing that you, in your island of "envious ever beheld, or can conceive; which baffles every that poet or painter can make to describe it: we oking, I say, upon the most splendid sunset which, Indian seas, I ever witnessed, and wondering ran Atheist could gaze a moment upon such a and remain an Atheist, when our attention was d to a sudden sense of extraordinary heat in the phere. "Don't you feel it very hot ?" was the Catary exclamation from one to another, and hment, somewhat blended with alarm, was deon every countenance. It was nothing like the A flash of lightning came in at the cabin windows; but and scorching power of the mid-day sun, but a such a flash I never saw before, and never wish to see and oppressive heat which came as it were on the again. It was one of those awful messengers which proof the wind, deadening all nature with its baleful claim, in the same voice, the omnipotence of Heaven, and Only a moment before, the ship was cleaving the imbecility of man. Then my faculties were fully ters with outstretched canvas, and bearing forward aroused, and then the idea of danger first crossed my mind. course like an eagle to its eyry. Now she lay There were the elements above, beneath, and around me the sea like some living thing under the influence of in awful contention. The thunder, the wind, the sea, The rapidity of her progress had been such, that, were roaring and howling alternately, as though in defiance mparison, it now appeared as though she had sud- of each other. Amidst the tumult, I could just hear the grounded. The gale was lulled into a light air, mate shouting "Let go the topsail halyards;" but his voice, Wollen sails were only now and then filled, so as to stentorian at other times, now appeared shrill and small, and the vessel steerage way; the foaming of the sea had scarcely audible. One moment the lightning spread its terded to a sullen swell; the sky, all around, was of a rific flame around me, and the next every thing was enveTed, and this continued perhaps half an hour. The loped in thick darkness. I groped my way, on all fours, to in had never been in these seas before, but was too the bottom of the companion-ladder; the instant before I sailor to look upon these portentous signs with in- had heard something fall heavily-lo! it was the black "Let them take the two reefs in the topsails, steward, the very best manufacturer of rolls and plum-pudstrike the topgallantmast-yards, Mr.," said he;ding that ever came into a ship's cabin, who had lost his foot-gers excepted) not actually employed in the nautical part e shall have a Port Royal breeze to-night." The mate ing as he stood ensconced behind the companion hatch, and been in the Jamaica trade, and understood him well. had gravitated, with the precision of a piece of his own 1 short time after he had issued these orders, the breeze dough, to the bottom of the ladder, where he lay showing e up again, the canvas filled, and every thing resumed his white teeth through the gloom, and roaring lustily for former aspect. Not so with us; the sudden change, help and mercy. At any other time I should have laughed nsient as it had been, was not to be forgotten. It at such a catastrophe; but now there were other matters in med, indeed, to have borne away with it all the hilarity hand. I set my foot upon his muscular carcase, which d cheerfulness which a fair breeze never fails to impart was as good as a spring-board, and vaulted upon deck, the inmates of a ship. The breeze was fair again, but The lightning glared again, but I could see neither the e tokens of lurking danger we had just witnessed, captain nor my fellow passenger; all hands were either tated a indistinct, but still unconquerable dread,' forward, or aloft, the mate still shouting "Let go, damn rence. We had now seen the worst: the hurricane had passed us: the thunder and lightning rolled away with it, and were only heard and seen in the distance. An allowance was given out to the men, and I hardly need say we did not forget ours. But sleep was out of the question: there was no superabundance of hands at first, and the melancholy loss we had just sustained rendered a little assistance from me and my companion in the cabin very acceptable. You must know that every body on board ship (passen of the duty, is honoured with the name of Idler. The idlers in a large ship generally form a body of auxiliaries, or corps de reserve. The captain's servant, the officers' servants, the steward, the cook and his mate, and all that class of gentry, come under the denomination of "the Idlers," and, generally speaking, richly deserve it. They are disciplined into the performance of their own duty, as a matter of course; but although they have abundance of time and opportunity, are too supine and indolent to gain themselves any information relative to the management of the ship, which may be useful even to themselves in a time of need; and it is much the same with the generality of passengers; they look upon a ship as they would upon a stage-coach, and care not how it goes, so that it does go. For my own part, I found amusement in the study of every branch of the beautiful science which conducts a ship over the mighty waste of waters, 'the track which leaves no trace behind," to its destined port; and, on many occasions, have found that the time I have devoted to it has been profitably spent On the fourth day after the incident I have been relating to you, I was at the foretopmast head, endeavouring to catch one of a flight of beautiful birds, which had taken rest on our masts and rigging, and had the pleasure to be the first to give the cheerful cry of "land." At six o'clock that evening we anchored in Bombay harbour. Miscellanies. (FROM THE LONDON WEEKLY REVIEW) LIVING INHUMATION. L. From the unpublished Diary of Christopher Hodgson, Esq. tely deceased, formerly of Bristol. I had been subject to epileptic fits from my youth upwards, which, though they did not deprive me of animation in the sight of those about me, completely annihilated my own consciousness. I used to be attacked at all times and seasons, but most commonly about the full of the moon. I generally had a warning of a peculiar nature when these attacks were coming ou, that it would be dificult to describe: it was a sensation that, to be known, must be experienced. My excellent wife Martha (I mean my first wife, who has been dead now for the best part of forty years,) used to say, that she always observed an unusual paleness over my complexion, otherwise ruddy, for a day or two before the fit came upon me. Bless her soul! she never let me be one moment out of her sight, from the instant she had a suspicion of my approaching Inalady. This benevolent caution on her part was a great means of enabling her to subdue the violence of the fit when it came, for which purpose her experience had pointed out to her several useful applications. I married again after her decease, because I was oppressed beyond bearing by my loneliness, which none but persons in such a situation,-I mean a widower's,-can tell. My second wife, whom I have also buried, was not so penetrating in the faculty of observation. She was a woman of an admirable thrift; and to her economy it was, that, under God, I owe my preservation, in the terrible event I am about to detail. Had I been interred in lead, it would have been all over | found, while I struggled to loosen a sheet, or some such ertions. I was conscious how weak my efforts had mas me, yet I resolved to repeat them. While thus at red inactive torture could be denominated rest, I wept child when I thought of the sunshine, and blue skies fresh air, which I should never more enjoy-how beings thronged the streets, and thousands aread were joyous or busy, while I was doomed to perish tures! Why was my fate so differently marked out yet hundreds of criminal men were in the full retely that of others? I had no monstrous crimes to repeta life. I fancied I heard the toll of a bell; breathles listened-it was a clock striking the hour! The was new life to me. "I am not inhumed at least, perhaps am unwatched:" such were my thoughts; terment will take place: my coffin will be moved: I easily make myself heard then."-This was balm tag I shouted anew-struck my prison boards with power left me, and ceased only when exertion was no possible. Men may fancy how they would find themselves similar circumstances, and on the like trying oca but it is seldom a correct judgment can be pre formed on such matters. It was only at intervals was so fearfully maddened by my dreadful situaten lose the power of rational reflection, or so overcons be debarred the faculty of memory. Stretched in a sition where my changes consisted only of a turn side upon hard boards, the soreness of my limbs wa cruciatingly painful. When I drew up my feet) inches, my knees pressed the cover of the coffin, this slight shift of position brought no relief. My tience of the restraint in which I was kept, teg length, to drive me well nigh into real madness fevered; my temples burned and throbbed; my became dry; light flashed across my eyes, and whirled round. I am certain that my existence served solely by the diminished strength and sub feebleness which I experienced, and which, from dering me insensible to the increasing exacerbate brain's heat, allowed nature to resume her ward perature. But, alas! this was only that I mi to encounter once more irremediable horror. Way depict the phrenzy-the unspeakable anguish tuation! I thought my eyes would start from burning tears flowed down my cheeks; a b P swollen almost to bursting. I became restless without finding space for a fancied relief in a of position. In my mental anguish, at times, be forgot my motionless bodily suffering, my rack 4 moveable agony. When the real truth flashed upon me in all its fearful energy, I never can forget the thrill of horror that struck through me! It was as if a bullet had perforated my heart, and all the blood in my body had gushed through the wound! Never, never can hell be more terrible than the sensations of that moment! I lay motionless for a time, petrified with terror. Then a clammy dampness burst forth from every pore of my body. My horrible doom seemed inevitable; and so strong at length became this impression-so bereft of hope appeared my situation -that I ultimately recovered from it only to plunge into the depths of a calm, resolute despair. As not the faintest ray of hope could penetrate the darkness around my soul, resignation to my fate followed. I began to think of death coolly, and to calculate how long I might survive before famine closed the hour of my existence. I prayed to God that I might have fortitude to die without repining, calmly as I then felt. I tried if I could remember how long man could exist without food. Thus the tranquillity of my despair made me comparatively easy, if contrasted with the situation in which I felt myself afterwards, when hope began to glimmer upon me. My days must in the end be numbered-I must die at last-I was only perishing a little sooner than I otherwise must have done. Even from this thought I derived consolation; and I now think life might have closed calmly upon me, if the pangs of hunger had been at all bearable; and I have been told that they are much more so than is commonly believed. If my memory serves me correctly, this calm state of mind did not last long. Reason soon began to whisper me, that if I had been buried, and the earth were closed around my coffin, I should not be able to respire, which I could now do with ease. I did not, of course, dream of the vault in which I was placed, but considered, at first, I had been buried in earth. The freedom of respiration gave me the idea that, after all, I was not yet carried forth for interment, but that I was about to be borne to the grave, and that there I should be suffocated inevitably. Such is the inconsistency of the human mind, that I who had just now resigned myself to die by famine, imagined How many hours I lay in this my state of t this momentary mode of death a hundred times more for- passive torture, I cannot tell. My thirst, midable. The idea that I was not yet interred increased soon became intolerable. My mouth seemed fo my anxiety to make myself heard from without. I called ashes. I heard again the hollow sound of a click aloud, and struck the sides and lid of the coffin to no pur- no small magnitude, judging from its deep in pose, till I was hoarse and fatigued, but all in vain." A No cranny, which I had hitherto observed in my Our family burying-place in Bristol is in Church, deathly silence reigned around me and my unbroken let in light, though I well knew there must be see where there is a general vault, in which all persons who darkness. I was now steeped in fearful agony: I shrieked or fresh air, for the continuance of life, could can fee the officials high enough may be interred, until with horror: I plunged my nails into my thighs and been admitted-how else had I existed? It was their friends forget them; which, for that matter, in trad-wounded them: the coffin was soaked in my blood; and perhaps, when I first came to myself in my prista ing towns, is not usually a very long time; but this is by tearing the wooden sides of my prison with the same dark boards?" I groped in vain over every part only granted provided they are buried in lead. I suppose maniacal feeling, I lacerated my fingers, and wore the wooden surface which I could reach; I could find they are turned out of their metal coffins in the end, as nails to the quick, soon becoming motionless from exhaus--could see no ray. Again I heard the hollow they are in London and other places, that the old lead tion. When I was myself once more, I called aloud my again-still in my state of agony. O God! whit may buy a carousal for the church wardens and sexton, wite's name; I prayed; and, I fear, I blasphemed, for I feelings! and make room for new tenants to be served in the same knew not what I said; and I thus continued until my For a long time after this I lay steeped in mi manner. But to my story-to my excellent wife's thrift strength again left me, and nature once more sought re- or, at least, for a long time as it seemed to me I owe my preservation. Willing to save as much money plenishment from temporary insensibility. At this time was bruised all over; my limbs were excessive as possible at my funeral, she had my body, with all the I had a vision of a most indefinable character, if it was skin rubbed off, in many places, with my strut usual and proper grief attendant on the ceremony, put one, and not a glance (as I am induced sometimes to think eyes aching with pain. sought relief by turn into a stout fir coffin, the weight of which was increased it was,) between the portals of death into the world of right side, (I had never before turned but by a couple of old hundred weights placed one at my head, spirits. It was all shapeless and formiless. Images of men when I felt under me a hard substance which the other at my feet. Thus the thing passed off very well, and women, often numberless, in a sort of shadowy out- before perceived. I grasped it with some d and money was saved to my heirs. I hereby cast no re-line, came before and around me. They seemed as if soon found it was a knot from the coffin plank, flections upon my dear departed wife's regard for me. I limbless from decay. Their featureless heads moved upon been forced inwards, in all probability, after I w was convinced, as I told her, that her motive was good; trunks hideously vital; in figure like bodies, which I have there. I saw also a dim light through a hole and well did it turn out for me that she was so thrifty and seen drawn forth from burned dwellings, each being rather large as a half-crown piece, just below where my cha considerate. She was a true Bristol woman, and, as the a hideous misshapen mass than a human resemblance. I put my hand to it, and found it covered wit good citizens generally are there, pretty keen and close-Thick darkness and silence succeeded-the darkness and cloth, which I easily imagined was the lining of fingered; but it is error on the right side. She was called silence of a too horrible reality. If, as I suspected, I slept I soon contrived to force my finger through th Susannah, the daughter of an opulent and ancient com- about this time from weakness, it was but to awake again though not without considerable difficulty. Faint mon councilman, and I got my freedom of the city by to a more fearful consciousness of my dreadful situation. was the light it revealed, but it was a noonday sun marrying her she was plain in her person, as all Bristol- Fresh but vain efforts to make myself heard were reite- to me. By an uneasy strain of my neck I could born women formerly were, but I wander again from rated as far as my strength would allow. I found with no liquely through the opening, but every thing was great difficulty I could turn on my side, and then over on in my brain. My sight was clouded, heavy, and I had made a most excellent dinner-of this I have a my belly. I tried, by lifting my back and by a violent I, at first, could only perceive there was light, but perfect recollection. Of more than this I can recollect strain, to burst open the coffin lid; but the screws resisted distinguish no object. My senses, however, se nothing, until on coming out of my fit, as I suppose-(for my utmost strength. I could not, besides, draw up my sharpen as new hopes arose. I closed my eyes fra I quickly imagined, feeling the usual sensations, that I knees sufficiently high to afford a tenth part of the pur-nute together, and then opened them, to res was recovering from one of them,)-I say, that on coming chase I should otherwise have made bear upon it. I had almost worn-out power of vision. At length I cou to myself, I was surprised to feel myself pinioned, and in no help but to return again to the position of the dead, tinguish that, immediately opposite to me, there w utter darkness. I had no space to stir, if I would, as I soon and reluctantly gain a little agonizing repose from my ex window, crossed by massy iron bars, through with me! my story. fight I saw streamed in upon me like joy into the soul of isery. I now cried with delight. I thought I was among Bera again; for the pitchy darkness around me was disersed. I forgot, for a moment, my sufferings: even the arful question how I should get free from my durance efore famine destroyed me, was, for a long time, absent tom my mind, and did not recur until I could look through he fissure no longer, from the giddiness caused by a too arnest fixedness of gaze. CARNIVAL. Florence, Feb. 20. It must suffice to mention, that besides the native nobility, A CORSICAN DESPERADO. accompanied by other ladies of the family, and followed by female slaves and eunuchs; and, until far advanced in life, does not go to the mosque, the law dispensing with her attendance upon public worship. In fact, women of rank do not often appear in public, because it is unfashionable. None but poor women, therefore, are generally to be met with in the streets, and they are always veiled, and careful to preserve the utmost decency of appearance, never speaking to any one. To stare at a woman in pubMoon concluded, from the massy stones on each side of lic is considered a mark of vulgarity; and to insult her opening, and the strength of the bars, that I was in a with an indecent word, would subject a man to be seized arch-vault, and this was confirmed when I came to disby the police, and have his brains knocked out in case of guish the ends of two or three coffins which partly inresistance. No Turkish woman keeps a shop or wareposed between me and the light. I watched the window Ajaccio, February 1.-J. Matteo, one of the most deter-house, or sells any thing about the streets; though certhe light began to grow dim, with feelings no lan- mined robbers and atrocious murderers since the time of tain old women, who serve the ladies of the harems with Bge can describe-no tongue tell! As the gloom of night Teodore, has, at length, terminated his existence. This trinkets, &c. may be regarded as exceptions. Every roached, my heart began to beat fainter, and my former man had, during several years, set at defiance the local family lives apart. The husband, supposed by many to ties returned with tenfold weight, notwithstanding police, the gendarmes, and Corsican chasseurs, who were be an absolute tyrant, cannot even enter his own harem, h I imagine I must have slept some time. I was sen- continually in pursuit of him. But the terror he had when a strange lady happens to be on a visit to his wife, of a noise, like the grating of a heavy door upon its struck into the inhabitants of the island prevented them without giving his guest time to veil, and prepare to rees, when I revived or awoke, I cannot say which, from giving any information respecting the residence of this ceive him. The Sultan himself would not dare to infringe I saw the light of a candle stream across the fissure in furious wretch; nay, some of the peasantry ascribed super- this law. Neither men nor women habitually eat together. offin. I called out "For the love of your own soul natural powers to Matteo, by whom he was thought to be The chief amusement of the ladies consists in visiting the se me; I am buried alive!" The light vanished in a demon that had assumed the human form. It appears public baths, or their near relations; and as their visits tment-fear seemed to have palsied the hand that held pretty certain that he had been guilty of several murders; are not frequent, they usually stay fifteen or twenty days, I heard a rough voice desire the holder of it to re- but the circumstances of the following one are so well and take all their young children and a few slaves with "If there be any one here, he's soldered up, Tom authenticated, that no doubt can be raised as to his guilt. them. As every family is anxious to have these visits read me the light-the dead never speak-Jim the A young female, aged eighteen, the daughter of a moun- turned, the greater part of the year is often spent in this her is not to be scared by rotten flesh!" Again I taineer, possessing considerable beauty, was seen and pleasant way, among those individuals whom they most I as loud as I could I am buried alive-save me!" loved by Matteo, who, in a short time, made proposals to love. Foreign ladies find it difficult to gain admittance m! the axe," cried the undaunted body-snatcher; marry her. The father consented, but the young person, into the harems, unless they go disguised as milliners. voice comes from this box. The damned under- without showing any aversion to the suitor, declined giving No one ever entered the seraglio. Though Mohamed 3 made too great haste, I suppose." In a few mi-a positive answer. The jealousy of Matteo was now himself was a frequent companion of Jews and Pagans, I was sitting upright in my coffin ! roused, and he determined to watch, suspecting that some and in the Koran permits marriage with Christians and favoured rival placed obstacles in the way of his success Jews, prejudice is too powerful for the law, and fosters an ere, after detailing his reception at home, and the with the object of his affections. His suspicions proved aversion for infidels; so that when, by chance, a Turk se of his friends, which we may also extract at a to be true. A youth about the age of the female, was contracts friendship with a foreigner, he is careful to contime from his diary, Mr. Hodgson says he had loved by her. She had, however, a motive for concealing ceal it from his countrymen. The principal happiness of thanks for his deliverance returned in his parish her attachment-the family of her lover was, in conse- the Turkish women consists in superintending their do, and that ever afterwards he cherished a strong re-quence of some pecuniary transactions, on ill terms with mestic economy, in labour, or in educating their children. or resurrection men, who never craved a guinea from her father, and, until these quarrels were terminated, she Those of every rank spend a portion of the day in spin1 vain.] knew that her parent would refuse his consent to a union ning, sewing, or embroidery; they all nurse their own taking place. Although, until this period, Matteo had children, even the Sultanas, and would account it the been leading an irregular life, he had not rendered him- greatest affliction to be obliged to transfer the performance self guilty of any act that might forfeit his liberty; but of this duty to another. When sickness compels them to : Carnival has been very gay. During the whole the worst of passions, jealousy, took full sway over the submit to this, the nurse never quits the house, and her the theatres were filled with numerous audiences, wretched man: he determined to murder his rival. The situation is the happiest that can be imagined. She is towards its close, they quite overflowed. The masks latter was in the custom of calling twice a week upon his generally some young slave, who receives her freedom the arriages constantly occupied the rides; and the pro- mistress; but the fact was unknown to every body, except very day she undertakes the office, and is called Sudana, ides under the official galleries were equally well fre- to Matteo. He watched an opportunity, when his detested the mother of milk," or "milk-mother." Considered al. In the latter, our august Sovereign and the Im-rival was kneeling at the feet of his beloved, and, rushing thenceforward as one of the family, she is treated with sand Royal Family were pleased to appear, and from behind a large tree, he stabbed the youth through the greatest attention. Children are commonly weaned about among the crowd with the greatest affability. his heart, and, drawing the stiletto from his body, he about the age of twelve or fourteen months. The child's festal balls and conversaziones of the higher classes instantly plunged it into the bosom of his mistress. After cradle is generally very beautifully constructed, of walnut ety have, perhaps, been more numerous in the pre- committing these dreadful crimes, he became reckless of or hazel wood, and ornamented with mother-of-pearl. an in preceding years. Besides those given weekly what might happen to him, and seemed to take a delight The cradles of the princes of the blood are adorned with Imperial and Royal Court, many others took place in witnessing, and adding to, the miseries of mankind. gold and jewels. palaces of different persons of distinction, the de- Two murders had recently been committed in the neighen of which would lead us too much into detail. bourhood of Calvi, and it was strongly suspected that he A Frenchman, who had learned English, wished to le 1st masked ball, which served, as it were, to open was the perpetrator. Orders were, therefore, given by the particularly polite, and never neglected an opportunity of ies of brilliant entertainments, was that which was Governor to send a number of gendarmes and Corsican saying something pretty. One evening he observed to on the 23d of last month by his excellency Lord chasseurs in quest of him. It had previously been ascer- Lady R., whose dress was fawn-coloured, and that of her ersh, Minister Plenipotentiary from his Britannic tained that he frequently took up his residence in an un-daughter pink,-" Milady, your daughter is the pink of y to this Court. The beauty of the apartments, the inhabited chateau, nearly in a state of ruins. As soon as beauty." "Ah, Monsieur, you Frenchmen always flatur of the ornaments, the exquisite refreshments, Matteo perceived the gendarmes approach, he fired his ter."" No, Madam, I only do speak the truth, and were distributed in profusion, and still more the musket, loaded with slugs, and killed two of them on what all the world will allow, that your daughter is the us assemblage of persons of high rank of both the spot. The chasseurs now arrived, and several volleys pink, and your Ladyship the drab of fashion!"-It was sative and foreign-about 800 of whom appeared were fired; one of these men was killed, and two others with great difficulty the Frenchman could be made to masquerade dresses, representing eminent charac-severely wounded; but, whilst Matteo was in the act of comprehend his sottise. history and romance-presented a scene in which levelling his musket, for the third time, at his assailants, competed with magnificence, and pleasure with a bullet entered his breast, and he fell dead. ament. The company did not break up until eight morning, and then departed highly delighted with e, and still more with the noble and courteous manLord and Lady Burghersh, with which all who resent went away deeply impressed. ther entertainment, remarkable in its kind, was in the following week, by Lady Burghersh, the conthe ambassador. Her ladyship, who is the mother sung and beautiful family, was pleased to give a le ball. It was truly a new and highly interesting cle to see collected together, in the grand saloon of lace, about 200 of the children of our own nobility, the foreigners of distinction in this place, all in elecharacteristic dresses-all mingling in the mazy , and indulging in innocent frolics. For the rest, it mpossible not to admire the union of splendour and taste which distinguished this, like every other féte by the noble ambassador. We cannot venture to of the numerous fétes, however magnificent, which afterwards given by other illustrious personages, and a rendered this Carnival so delightful and so animated. TURKISH WOMEN. Laing and Clapperton.-At a sitting of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, on the 25th ult. a letter was read which gives some faint hopes that Major Laing and Captain A lady cannot, even in the presence of her husband or Clapperton may still be in existence. The letter is from another female, appear unveiled before a physician, or one of the small states of Africa, and mentions that the have her pulse felt, except through a muslin sleeve; Government of Morocco had publicly announced that the though, in cases of great danger, the law relaxes its seve- £200 which Belzoni deposited with it, in order that he rity, and allows a lady to unveil, to show her eyes, her might be enabled to draw for them on his arrival at Tomtongue, or any part whatever of her body. Physic is gene- buctoo, had been paid, about the beginning of 1826, at rally practised by women, who have little science, but Tombuctoo, to a white man, (who is supposed to be Laing) great experience. Throughout the empire there are no but that it was not known what had since become of him. accoucheurs; women only officiate, who are styled Eben- The writer farther adds, that a report was current, in 1827, Cadinn. The presence of a man at an accouchement of a white man having left Tombuctoo in a caravan which would disgrace the family for ever. From these and other was returning to Morocco, and that he was assassinated on circumstances, Turkish ladies generally preserve their his route by some of the travellers-those who took no chastity inviolable, notwithstanding what M. Palaiologus part in the crime revealing the affair upon their arrival at and other bigoted Europeans have asserted to the contrary. Morocco. The very circumstance of such a report preSo refined are their notions of delicacy, that ladies, who vailing, proves that the Banbarrah story is not credited. pique themselves upon the purity of their manners, will M. Warrington has also written word that the Pacha has not venture to walk unveiled in their own gardens at all sent persons to Tombuctoo and Bornou to take charge of hours, unless it be well ascertained that no one can intrude any Europeans who may be there, and to convey them in upon them. When a lady goes to the bath, she is always safety to Tripoli. Poetry. DAYS, MONTHS, YEARS! Ye come not as ye're wont to come, Sad, sad, and mournfully; Through banks o'erhung with flowers; Ye sparkle not as heaven bright, On fairy-haunted ground; Clad but in sables, drear ye come, To whisper of departed bloom. Ye come not, Years, revolving years, As erst when life was new, Your birth now welcomed but with tears, With tears, your exit, too; That birth, that exit, once so gay, Days, Months, and Years! and shall no more And is the reign of pleasure o'er, O'ercast the azure sky, Never again with halcyon ray, To smile the gathering storm away? "Tis even so, and Days, Months, Years, Henceforward must ye hie, Through valleys watered but with tears, And where the rose must die: But ah! your destined bidding done, The flower shall live, and joy return. Liverpool. G. BEHAVE YOURSEL' BEFORE FOLK. (From Peter Cornclip's with other Poems and Songs.) BY ALEXANDER RODGER. Behave yoursel' before folk, It wadna gi'e me meikle pain, Gin we were seen and heard by nane, To tak' a kiss, or grant you ane; Whate'er you do, when out o' view, Behave yoursel' before folk, Occasion to come o'er folk. Behave yoursel' before folk, Behave yoursel' before folk; I'm sure wi' you I've been as free Sic freedom used before folk. So mind you that, before folk. Behave yoursel' before folk; Nor heat my cheeks wi' your mad freaks, But aye be douce before folk. Ye tell me that my lips are sweet, Sic tales, I doubt, are a' deceit ; At ony rate, its hardly meet To prie their sweets before folk. Behave yoursel' before folk, Gin that's the case, there's time and place, But, gin you really do insist And when we're ane, baith flesh and bane, Biograpical Fžotices. CONWAY, THE ACTOR. The melancholy termination of this gentleman's already known. The following letter from Mr. Ba the British Consul at New York, contains some intere particulars: British Consulate, New York, Feb 12, SIR, My official duty having placed before papers of the late Mr. Conway, whose melanchi you so feelingly noticed in your last number, the nation of which brought to my view some truly incidents, to which it is decply to be deplored s talented and cultivated a mind should have bec I feel so depressed with the fate of this truly 06 unfortunate man, that nothing but an inpen duty could lead me to enter upon the task of his death; for, although it is alone my pecul to watch over British commercial interests, ana protection to the living subjects of our gracious I feel, upon this occasion, an irresistible des re protection to the memory of a British subject n -even if that memory, by reason of the un unreflecting disposition of the world, may be bra intamy. Far be it from me to advocate sukces it from me to say, that, under the most distressing stances, any other refuge should be sought af resignation to the Divine will, and to that mos the Saviour of men so freely holds forth to all unto him, and especially to the weary and heary In the performance of what I feel my duty. remove the aspersions which so awful a term life calls forth, I deem it proper to add, that s Conway I was wholly unacquainted, not even k him personally, which I regret, from the discovery f made of his character, to exhibit which, I beg to few extracts from his papers, as they are ecinemas & culated to produce sympathy and regret in th knew him not, and they may afford some consolation his friends. That Mr. Conway had been a prey to melanchols. vious to his leaving England, I gather from his lecture 0 C elancholy, the fruit of persecution and disappointment, deeply seated in his soul to be removed by coming to e United States, and which ultimately broke down his d. and drove him from his profession, wherein he was youring to secure a provision for an unprovided mother; profession, too, in which it was proved he would have en successful, as it appears by his Banker's account: he saved a handsome sum at the close of his theatrical wer, in this city. I cannot, I am persuaded, render a re acceptable service to his memory, than by transcribing at he says on the subject to his mother, which I have acted from a duplicate of a letter, dated 7th December , and forwarded to England but a few weeks before Catastrophe: You mention, dearest mother, your having heard that seldom, and am preparing myself for holy orders; onfirmation partly of which, I will inform you, that its beyond my control having entirely separated me my profession, I am applying myself with assiduity oks of divinity, in order to ascertain how far I may mably calculate upon success, should I seriously emin the undertaking. The study is profound, extenand in a great degree new to me; but I bring an mited devotion to the task, and that is a main step rds achievement in every pursuit. But, should all ndeavours prove ineffectual, the paths of commerce pen to me, and perhaps employment in a particular ath of academical instruction. Of business I cannot pposed to know much, but it is not very difficult of irement; and observation has shown me, that good combined with principle and industry, rarely fails me share of success, in a land of commercial enter The agreeable prospect to which I so long and ly directed my attention, of being able, by my la and economy, to secure a comfortable retirement in country, to which I might one day invite you, is, by ange, utterly annihilated; for, succeed as I may in ew pursuit, I cannot hope to be able to accomthis, at least for a great length of time. Abandon, fore, dear mother, I beseech you, the intention aunicated in your letter, of crossing the Atlantic. twise or beneficial purpose could it possibly anWe might see each other it is true, but under cir tances so disadvantageous, that it were better we met again. I am provided with no means for your tion; I am without a home to invite you to, friends ake you acquainted with, or a single resource of comor amusement to present for your acceptance. Reflect upon the length, fatigue, and, at your time of life, hazard, of the voyage, to be repaid at last by no enent. Oh, dear mother, I am as anxious to behold Is you can possibly be to see me: but be not offended ay, that I look farther than you do into consequences. ld it be the will of Providence that my life is prod. and I am enabled, by my future efforts, to succeed ch a manner as may give me the means of inviting partake of my hearth and board, it will be the most al moment fate can have in store for me, and gladly, Bly, will I say, 'Come,' but till then, continue to among your neighbours and friends; and may the ghty grant my fervent petition, and give you health, millity, and long life!"-After naming a number of , be concludes, "I have more to say, but my paper els me to reserve it to a future opportunity. Alas! ak of the future as we are only authorized to do of resent. I have feelings and forebodings, but I conhem to my own bosom. Let us, in our separation, heat and resigned. I do not, at this season, bid you td hope, for it is the advent of our blessed Saviour, coming brought hope and joy to all. But let us, tevery event, console ourselves with the certain con, that while we live, we live for each other, and that ing but the last mortal stroke, which separates soul body, can sunder the tie that has, through life, so ly united us to each other. My dearest mother's affectionate child, Charleston by twelve o'clock, upon which Mr. Conway duelling, in consequence of a recent event in this city; It is material to observe, that Mr. Conway had his valu. able gold watch, his pocket-book, and all his cash on his person, when he rushed overboard-fortunately he had not his prayer book, as he usually had, in his hand, in which was found a bill of his banker's, in New York, which he had endorsed payable to his mother; it appears, also, from his accounts, he not long since remitted her £100 sterling. Being anxious to ascertain what he had been writing during the passage, I examined his books and papers very carefully, but could only discover several loose sheets of paper, which I found in a volume of Clarke's Commentary on the Bible-these sheets are folded into three columns, on one is written the text in Greek, on the second in Latin, the third in the authorized English version, all done with great care, indeed I should add, beautiful precision. As no general observation can convey correct a view of the man, or do more justice to his memory, than to give his very actions, a friend of mine advised me to furnish a few extracts from these sheets. In one of these is set forth in Greek, Latin, and English, the 5th chap. of Matthew; another, written in like manner, is from the 13th to the 20th verse of the 16th chap. and from the 41st to the 46th verse of the 22d chap. of Matthew, inclusive-in a note at the bottom of the last sheet are the following words, "For the consideration of those who maintain that our blessed Saviour did not call himself the Son of God." He has also left various extracted passages from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, on the same subject, which examination," he adds, "was suggested by a recent conversation upon that subject." I found, also, a commentary of his own, on the 19th, 20th, 21st and 22d verses of the 21st chapter of John, in which he, with great clearness, refutes the opinions of several able commentators, and manifests a mind of no ordinary cast and intensity of thought. These extracts I deem sufficient to show the bent of his mind. I should add, that he has uniformly and regularly attended the Episcopal Church, while in New York; that, at the hotel where he resided, he excited the deepest interest, by his unassuming, retiring disposition, never drinking even a glass of wine, after dinner taking a solitary walk, and invariably returning to his studies. How deplorable it is to know that so amiable, I would add, so valuable, a man, should be the subject of scandalous insinuations as to his course of life in this city! How truly is that man an object of pity, if not of detestation, who can lightly speak evil of the bowed down and afflicted! I feel that I have stated sufficient to rescue the character of Mr. Conway from the aspersions unfeelingly cast upon him: and, ifI have stated more, though interesting to some, I should become his biographer rather than the protector of his memory. Scientific Notices. ANATOMICAL DISSECTIONS. An Appeal to the Public and to the Legislature, on the necessity of affording Dead Bodies to the Sclorits of Anatomy, by Legislative Enactment. By William Mackenzie. (Continued from page 323.) Much of this opposition on the part of the people arises from the present mode of procuring subjects. Fortunately, there is in Great Britain no custom, no superstition, no law, and we may add, no prejudice against anatomy itself. There is even a general conviction of its necessity; there may be a feeling that it is a repulsive employment, but it is commonly acknowledged that must not be neglected. The opposition which is made, is made not against anatomy, but against the practice of exhumation: and this is a practice which ought to be opposed. It is in the highest degree revolting; it would be disgraceful to a horde of savages; every feeling of the human heart rises up against it: so long as no other means of procuring bodies for dissection are provided, it must be tolerated; but, in itself, it is alike odious to the ignorant and the enlightened, to the most uncultivated and the most refined. But the capital objection to this practice is, that it necessarily creates a crime, and educates a race of criminals. Exhumation is forbidden by the law. It is, indeed, prohibited by no statute, either in England or in Scotland: in both it is an offence punishable at common law. There is a statute of James the First, which makes it felony to steal a dead body for the purpose of witchcraft; there is none against taking a dead body for the purpose of dissection. In the case of the King against Lynn (1788) the court decided that the body being taken for the latter purpose, did not make it less an indictable offence; and that it is without doubt cognizable in a criminal court, because it is an act highly indecent, at the bare idea of which nature revolts." It is punishable, therefore, by fine or imprisonment, or beth: in Scotland it is also punishable by whipping, and even by transportation. We expected better things of America. We cannot express our astonishment and indignation, when we found that the state of New York has actually made it felony to remove a dead body from the place of sepulture for the purpose of dissection, without providing in any other mode for the schools of anatomy. This is worse than aby thing that exists in any other part of the world. If these pages should meet the eye of any of cc American From what has been stated, with a variety of facts I brethren, we intreat them to read with attention, the facts have glanced at, it is evident that his mind occasionally which have been stated in the former part of this article, gave way under a deep seated melancholy, which he brought and to consider with seriousness the mischief they are with him from England: this state of mind stood in the doing. It will not be believed in England, that such way of his popularity; and, I have heard, that a few in scenes can have been witnessed in America, as were actu this city have made it a point to sneer at his performances. ally exhibited there scarcely a month ago. To satisfy our W. A. CONWAY." A mind so weakened by previous suffering as his, could readers, however, that we do not misrepresent the state of felt it my duty to see the Captain of the Charleston not brook it, and to that, I think it probable, he referred things in that country, we transcribe the following accounts et in which he took shipping from this port, who in his letter to his mother, where he adverts to circum- from The New York Evening Post, of May 20th :-** At Trianifested a very honourable and humane interest in stances beyond his control," which had entirely separated the late Court of Sessions, Solomon Parmeli was indicted hich relates to the sad event, who stated that when him from the stage. for a misdeme nur, in entering Po ter's Field, and reConway came on board, he observed his singular er and dress-the lower buttons all off his vest, wearOnly a pair of old thin slippers, and altogether unbly clothed for the season or for a voyage; that ing the passage he was extremely retired, sat generally corner of the cabin, seldom saying more than merely rning a short answer to questions asked, or for some ilities proffered; very usually reading in his prayerok, and at other times much engaged in writing. Upon e morning of the 24th January, the Captain mentioned the passengers, that if the wind held, they would see के Mr. In his religious exercises he met with little encourage-moving the covers of two cofins deposited in a p't, and Schureman, the present keeper of Potter's Field, suspected that some person had entered it for the purpose of removing the dead; and, after sending for two watchmen, and calling his faithful dog, he went to ascertain the fact. On arriving at the grave, he found his suspicion confirmed; and requested the person concealed in the pit to come out, |