Sir John seized the opportunity of inquiring after their admiral, as these delegates belonged to the London. "Do you know him, your honour?" "Yes; I have a great respect for him, and I hope you will not do him any harm." "No, by G-d, your honour, he shall not be hurt." It was at that time imagined admiral Colpoys would be hung at the yard-arm, and he had prepared for this event by arranging his affairs and making his will. In this will he had left to the widows of the three men who were so unfortunately killed an annuity of 201. each. The next morning, however, the admiral was privately, unexpectedly, and safely brought on shore, though pursued by a boat from the Mars, as soon as they suspected what was transacting. The delegates brought him to sir John Carter, and delivered him to his care: they then desired to have a receipt for him, as a proof to their comrades that they had safely delivered him into the hands of the civil power; and this receipt he gave. The admiral himself, in his first appearance at court afterwards, acknowledged to the king that he owed his life to sir John Carter, and assured his majesty that his principles were misinterpreted and his conduct misrepresented, and that he had not a more faithful and worthy subject in his dominions. Notwithstanding this, the duke of Portland, then secretary of state for the home department, received a very strong letter against him, which letter his grace sent to sir John, assuring him at the same time that the government placed the utmost confidence in his honour, integrity, and patriotism, and concluded by proposing to offer a large reward for the discovery of the writer: this, with a dignified consciousness of the purity of his conduct, sir John declined; though, from some well-founded conjectures, the discovery might possibly have been easily made. This inestimable consciousness enabled him to meet with the greatest composure every effort of party rage to sully his reputation and destroy his influence. So pure were his principles, that when in the year 1806 he was offered a baronetage by Mr. Fox, he declined it on the ground that he believed the offer to have been made for his undeviating attachment to Mr. Fox's politics; and that, to accept it, would be a manifest departure from his principles. In every public and domestic relationship he was uniformly mild, impartial, and upright; nor was he ever deterred by personal difficulties or inconveniences from a faithful, and even minute attendance on his widely extended duties. The poor in him ever found a friend, and the unfortunate a protector. The peace, comfort, and happiness of others, and not his own interest, were the unwearied objects of his pursuit. Never was there a character in which there was less of self than in his. MANURES. Rambling in cultivated spots renders one almost forgetful of cultivating friends. On the subject of "manure," the editor of the Every-Day Book has no competent knowledge; he has not settled in his own mind whether he should decide for “long straw or short straw," and as regards himself would willingly dispose of the important question by "drawing cuts;" all he can at present do for his country readers, is to tell them what lord Bacon affirms; his lordship says that "muck should be spread." This would make a capital text or vignette for a dissertation; but there is no space here to dissertate, and if Messrs. Taylor and Hessey's "London Magazine," for May, had not suggested the subject, it would scarcely have occurred. The reviewer there of "Gaieties and Gravities" has extracted some points from that work, which are almost equal to the quantity of useful information derivable from more solid books-here they are: Gaieties. "Residing upon the eastern coast, and farming a considerable extent of country, I have made repeated and careful experiments with this manure; and as the mode of burial in many parts of the Continent divides the different classes into appropriated portions of the churchyard, I have been enabled, by a little bribery to sextons and charnel-house men, to obtain specimens of every rank and character, and to ascertain with precision their separate qualities and results for the purposes of the farmer, botanist, or common nurseryman. These it is my pur pose to communicate to the reader, who may depend upon the caution with which the different tests were applied, as well as upon the fidelity with which they are reported. "A few cartloads of citizens' bones gave me a luxuriant growth of London pride, plums, Sibthorpia or base moneywort, mud-wort, bladder-wort, and mushrooms; but for laburnum or golden chain, I was obliged to select a lord tunately too scanty to try their effect upon mayor. Hospital bones supplied me with a large scale, but I contrived to procure cyclamen in any quantity, which I inter- from them two or three ladies' slippers. mixed with a few seeds from the Cyclades As school-boys are raised by birch, it Islands, and the scurvy-grass came up may be hardly necessary to mention, that spontaneously; while manure from dif- when reduced to manure, they return the ferent fields of battle proved extremely compliment; but it may be useful to favourable to the hemanthus or blood- make known as widely as possible, that flower, the trumpet-flower and laurel, as dancing-masters supply the best hops well as to widow-wail and cypress. A and capers, besides quickening the growth few sample skulls from the poet's corner of the citharexylum or fiddle-wood. For of a German abbey furnished poet's your mimosas or sensitive plants there is cassia, grass of Parnassus, and bays, in nothing better than a layer of novel-readabout equal quantities, with wormwood, ers, and you may use up the first bad crab, thistle, stinging-nettle, prickly holly, author that you can disinter for all the teasel, and loose-strife. Courtiers and poppies you may require. Coffee-house ministers, when converted into manure, waiters will keep you supplied in secured an ample return of jack-in-a-box, cummin; chronologists furnish the best service-apples, climbers, supple-jacks, pa- dates, post-office men serve well for rasite plants, and that species of sun-flower rearing scarlet-runners, poulterers for which invariably turns to the rising lumi- hen-bane, tailors for cabbage, and phy nary. Nabobs form a capital compost sicians for truffles, or any thing that reI could for hepatica, liver-wort, spleen-wort, hips, quires to be quickly buried. and pine; and from those who had three have raised a few bachelors' buttons from or four stars at the India-house, I raised the bones of that class; but as nobody A cares a button for bachelors, I did not some particularly fine China asters. good show of adonis, narcissus, jessamine, think it worth while. As a general recockscomb, dandelion, money-flower, and mark it may be noticed, that young peobuckthorn, may be obtained from dan- ple produce the passion-flower in abunddies, although they are apt to encumber ance, while those of a more advanced the ground with tickweed; while a good age may be beneficially used for the elderdrilling with dandisettes is essential to tree, the sloe, and snapdragon; and with those beds in which you wish to raise respect to different nations, my experiVenus's looking-glass, Venus's catchfly, ments are only sufficiently advanced to columbines, and love-apples. A single enable me to state that Frenchmen are dressing of jockies will ensure you a favourable to garlic, and that Poles are quick return of horse-mint, veronica or very good for hops. . Of mint I have speedwell, and colt's-foot; and a very never been able to raise much; but as to slight layer of critics suffices for a good thyme, I have so large a supply, as the thick spread of scorpion senna, viper's reader will easily perceive, that I am bugloss, serpent's tongue, poison-nut, enabled to throw it away; and as he nightshade, and hellebore. If you are may not possibly be in a similar predicafond of raising stocks, manure your bed ment, I shall refer him for the rest of my with jobbers; wine-merchants form the experiments to the records of the Hortimost congenial stimulant for sloes, for- cultural Society. tune-hunters for the marygold and goldenrod, and drunkards for Canary wines, mad-wort and horehound. Failing in repeated attempts to raise the chaste tree from the bones of nuns, which gave me nothing but liquorice-root, I applied those of a dairy-maid, and not only succeeded perfectly in my object, but obtained a good crop of butter-wort, milk-wort, and heart's-ease. I was equally unsuccessful in raising any sage, honesty, or everlasting from monks; but they yielded a plentiful bed of monk's hood, or jesuit's bark, medlars, and cardinal flowers. My importation of shoemakers was unforNo. 22. It is noticed by Dr. Forster, that about this time the purple goatsbeard trago pogon porrifolius and the yellow goatsbeard tragopogon pratensis begin to blow; and that of all the indices in the HOROLOGIUM FLORE the above plants are the most regular: they open their flowers at sunrise, and shut them so regularly at mid-day, that they have been called by the whimsical name of go to bed at noon. They are as regular as a clock, and are mentioned as such in the following verses: RETIRED LEISURE'S DELIGHT. To sit and smoke between two rows of Limes, Smell sweetly, and the meads in bloomy prime, To give an idea of the general face of nature at this period, Dr. Forster composed the subjoined Catalogue of Plants which compose the VERNAL FLORA in the Garden. COMMON PEONY Paeonia officinalis in full blow. SLENDERLEAVED PEONY P. tenuifolia going off. CRIMSON PEONY P. peregrina. varieties. MONKEY POPPY Papaver Orientale. EUROPEAN GLOBEFLOWER Trollius Europaeus. GREAT LEOPARD'S BANE Doronicum pardalianches. LESSER LEOPARD'S BANE Doronicum plantagineum. RAMSHORNS or MALE ORCHIS O. mascula still blows. FEMALE ORCHIS Orchis morio still flowers. In the Fields. THE HAREBELL Scylla nutans makes the ground blue in some places. BULBOUS CROWFOOT Ranunculus bulbosus. CREEPING CROWFOOT R. repens now common. UPRIGHT MEADow Crowfoot R. acris the latest of all. ROUGH CROWroor R. hirsutus not so common as the above. The fields are ASIATIC GLOBEFLOWER Trollius Asia- quite yellow with the above genus. ticus. MEADOW LYCHNIS Lychnis Flos Cu BACHELOR'S BUTTONS Ranunculus aeris culi. plenus. BIFLOWERED NARCISSUS N. biflorus. POETIC NARCISSUS N. poeticus. GERMAN FLEUR DE LIS Iris Germanica, two varieties. LURID IRIS Iris lurida. WALLFLOWER Chieranthus cheiri, numerously, both single and double sorts. STOCK GILLIFLOWER Chiranthus fruticulosus beginning. Of this plant there are red, white, and purple varieties; also double Stocks. YELLOW ASPHODEL Asphodelus luteus. COLUMBINE Aquilegia vulgaris begins to flower, and has several varieties in gardens. GREAT STAR OF BETHLEHEM Ornithogalum umbellatum. PERUVIAN SQUILL Scilla Peruviana. YELLOW AZALEA Azalea Pontica. SCARLET AZALEA Azalea nudiflora. PURPLE GOATSBEARD Tragopogon porrifolius. YELLOW GOATSBEARD Tragopogon pratensis. MOTHERWORT begins to blow. Hesperis matronalis CAMPION LYCHNIS Lychnis dioica under hedges in our chalky soils. GERMANDER SPEEDWELL Veronica chamaedris on banks, covering them with its lively blue, comparable only to the Borage, or the Cynoglossum Omphalodes, still blowing and luxuriant in gardens. MOUSEAR SCORPION GRASS Myosotus Scorpioides. OUR LADY'S SMOCK Cardamine pratensis. BITTER LADY'S SMOCK Cardamine amara. HEDGE GERANIUM Geranium Robertianum; also several other wild Geraniums. 2 KIDLOCK Sinapis arvensis. WHITE WATER LILY Nymphea alba in the same. We might add numerous others, which will be found noticed on the days when they usually first flower. Besides these, many of the plants of the Primaveral Flora still remain in blow, as violets, hearteases, hepaticas, narcissi, some hyacinths, marsh marigolds, wood anemonies, garden anemonies, &c. &c. The cuckoo pint, or lord and lady Arum, is now in prime. The nations among whom a taste for flowers was first discovered to prevail in modern times, were China, Persia, and Turkey. The vegetable treasures of the eastern world were assembled at Constantinople, whence they passed into Italy, Germany, and Holland, and from the latter into England; and since botany has assumed the character of a science, we have laid the whole world under con tribution for trees, and shrubs, and flowers, which we have not only made our own, but generally improved in vigour and beauty. The passion for flowers preceded that of ornamental gardening? The Dutch system of straight walks, enclosed by high clipped hedges of yew or holly, at length prevailed; and tulips and hyacinths bloomed under the sheltered windings of the "Walls of Troy," most ingeniously traced in box and yew. A taste for gar dening, which, however formal, is found at length to be preferable to the absurd winding paths, and the close imitation of wild nature by art, which modern gardenmakers have pretended to of late years. The learned baron Maseres used to say, "Such a garden was to be had every where wild in summer, and in a garden formality was preferable." Proverbs relating to May. A cold May and a windy Proverbs relating to the Weather and Collected by Dr. Forster. When the sand doth feed the clay, After a famine in the stall, When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn, But if the hen moult before the cock, But if there be a rainbow in the morrow, it But a rainbow at night When the wind's in the south, When the sloe-tree is as white as a sheet, A snow year, a rich year. Winter's thunder 's summer's wonder. FLORAL DIRECTORY. Mouse Ear. Hieracium Pilosella. Dedicated to St. Eric. May 19. St. Peter Celestine, Pope, A. D. 1296. St. Pudentiana. St. Dunstan, Abp. of Canterbury, A. D. 988. St. Dunstan. He was born at Glastonbury, of which monastery he became abbot, and died archbishop of Canterbury in 988." The legend of St. Dunstan relates many miracles of him, the most popular of which is to this effect; that St. Dunstan, as the fact really was, became expert in goldsmith's work; it then gives as a story, that while he was busied in making a chalice, the devil annoyed him by his personal appearance, and tempted him; whereupon St. Dunstan suddenly seized the fiend by the nose with a pair of iron tongs, burning hot, and so held him while he roared and cried till the night was far spent. • Butler. St. Dunstan There is an engraved portrait of St. Dunstan thus detaining the devil in bondage, with these lines, or lines to that effect beneath; they are quoted from memory: St. Dunstan, as the story goes, On lord mayor's day, in 1687, the pageants of sir John Shorter, knt. as lord mayor, were very splendid. He was of the company of goldsmiths, who, at their own expense, provided one of the pageants representing this miracle of St. Dunstan. It must have been of amazing size, for it was a "Hieroglyphic of the Company," consisting of a spacious laboratory or workhouse, containing several conveniences and distinct apartments, for the different operators and artificers, with forges, anvils, hammers, and all instruments proper for the mystery of the goldsmiths. In the middle of the frontispiece, on a rich golden chair of state, sat ST. DUNSTAN, the ancient patron and tutelar guardian of the company. He was attired, to express his prelatical dignity and canonization, in a robe of fine lawn, with a cope over it of shining cloth of gold reaching to the ground. He wore a golden mitre beset with precious and the Bevil. stones, and bore in his left hand a golden crosier, and in his right a pair of goldsmith's tongs. pheus and Amphion playing on melodiBehind him were Orous instruments; standing more forward were the cham of Tartary, and the grand sultan, who, being "conquered by the christian harmony, seemed to sue for latical throne were a goldsmith's forge reconcilement." At the steps of the pregold, and a workman blowing the beland furnace, with fire, crucibles, and lows. On each side was a large press of gold and silver plate. Towards the front were shops of artificers and jewellers all at work, with anvils, hammers, and instruments for enamelling, beating out gold and silver plate; on a step below St. Dunstan, sat an assay-master, with his trial-balance and implements. There were two apartments for the processes of disgrossing, flatting, and drawing gold and silver wire, and the fining, melting, smelting, refining, and separating of gold and silver, both by fire and water. Another apartment contained a forge, with miners in canvass breeches, red waistcoats and red caps, bearing spades, pickaxes, twibbles, and crows for sinking shafts and making adits. The lord mayor, having approached and viewed the curiosity of the pageant, was addressed in |