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this country, who are connected with our Eastern possesThy brother Marcus acts a Roman's part." sions, seem to question its ultimate success, and hesitate, The noble disdain, too, with which he spurns the advice on that account, to come forward as subscribers, I have of Lucius to submit to Caesar," and preserve a life he deemed it expedient to exhibit its merits in a more dehad now began to lament the existence of, contrasted for-tailed form, by laying before the British public the opinions cibly with the deep feeling of his pathetic address to Juba: which some of the most experienced and intelligent individuals, in India, entertain on the subject.

"Alas! good youth,

Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil,

The product of all climes;-Rome has its Cæsars."

But even that was trifling compared with his impetuous
warmth of parental misgiving, when, on the return of
Porcius, he demands to be informed of Marcus-

"Ha! what has he done?

To tolerate Cato in the theatre, an intellectual audience and a very great actor are alike necessary; and even then, it is much but the intense thrill of admiration excited by his cool uncompromising stoicism and patriotic virtue, will be somewhat marred by the sentimental love-foolery with which the play is so prejudicially embellished. The tender dove-notes of Porcius, Marcus, Juba, Marcia, and Lucia are lost in our vexation for their untimely obtruThese opinions I have collected from the public press of giveness, and evaporate in resentment, for that they that country, and they all tend to prove, not only the break in upon our communion with Cato's self. The other practicability of the plan, but the comparative facility of dramatis personæ, too, pall upon the sense, and with their carrying it into execution. It is, at the same time, very long speeches, are regarded as so many tantalizing obnatural, that difficulties of a serious nature should suggest stades that bar our way to the great object of undivided themselves to minds which cannot comprehend how steam attention; and though requisite to preserve the illusion of could be practically applied to so vast a design; but, upon the scene, and carry on the business of the drama, we are the same principle that steam-packets now cross the At nigh being tempted to dispense with their services, could During the recital of his son's most noble daring, and not lantic, so also can they pass, in perfect safety, through the we but have Cato perpetually before us without their less glorious death, Mr. Vandenhoff's fearful anxiety gra- Indian Ocean, the distance creating no sort of impediment aid. There are the inconsistences, also, consequent on dually subsided into an obvious struggle between philoso-to the voyage, provided all the arrangements, with respect Addison's rigorous adherence to the doctrine of unity in phy and nature, each dictating to him a painful lesson.to fuel, machinery, &c. are made with due precaution. his construction of this play, that militate much against this, that he had lost a brave son; that, that he had fallen In one of the more recent numbers of the Calcutta the popular representation of it: the time occupied is only as became the son of Cato: and, therefore, says he, in a Journal, I find some judicious observations in recommenone day, and the scene never varies from within and kind of suppressed whisper, his utterance broken with dation of the plan, which are the more deserving attention, about Cato's residence at Utica. In his own hall are çon-emotion as though his heart were at his tongue's end, as they enter into a minute exposition of geographical despiracies formed and practised, without himself or any of tails. his knowing or suspecting any thing of the kind; although Syphax exclaims to his compeer Sempronius,

-"Gods! thou must be cautious,

Cato has piercing eyes."

On which Dennis remarks, "there is a great deal of caution
shown indeed, in meeting in a governor's own hall, to
carry on their plot against him. Whatever opinion they
have of his eyes, I suppose they had none of his ears, or
they would never have talked at this foolish rate so near."
Besides this there are other instances, all admirably illus
trated by the famous Dennis of critical celebrity. Pope
says, "all the mighty mad in Dennis rage ;" but his able
commentary on the design, plot, and conduct of Cato,
prove that "his madness had method in't," and remain to
this day unanswered; they are, in fact, unanswerable.
We witnessed with delight, and, we must confess, with
surprise also, Mr. Vandenhoff's first performance of Cato,
and felt confident that an intellectual treat of a very high
order awaited us on the occasion of its repetition. Whether
this gentleman approached the character with less diffi-
dence than formerly; whether it was that he permitted
himself to be too much elated by his popularity in the
part, which, from what we have seen of the vigour and
independence of his mind, we think impossible; or from
whatever cause, certain it is that we were in some measure
disappointed. Throughout the whole of the second and
third acts, Mr. Vandenhoff seemed more divested of the
weight and awfulness of the character than previously, and
played them in a style not only less dignified and com-
manding, but entirely different; almost the reverse, in
fine, of what the very high and unqualified eulogiums be-
stowed on his preceding efforts warranted the public in ex-
pecting. In lieu of that full harmonious swell of chaste
declamation, and the calm ennobling look and mien which
so peculiarly marked his earlier progress through these
same two acts, Mr. Vandenhoff substituted (very injudi-
usly, we think) in his latter appearance in them, more
of noise than of feeling, accompanied by an energy of stu-
died gesture, scarcely consonant with the frigidity of Cato's
unruffled philosophy. Still, however, he stalked before
us, a being something greater than frail mortality,"
towering high above other sons of earth, highly favoured
of the gods, and next to them in our veneration; one
who engrossed all our cares, in whom were concentrated
our every thought; whose lowering fate, and with it that
ef declining Rome, rendered us insensible to all things else
save Caesar's approach and the coming catastrophe.
The fourth act introduced Mr. Vandenhoff quite another
person: a man “surpris'd at nothing, and sick of this bad
world;" and yet, on the instant, Cato again, in all his
greatness, with the anxious interrogatory to his well nigh

breathless son

"Has Cæsar shed more Roman blood?"

Has he forsook his post? Has he given way?

Did he look tamely on and let them pass?"

"I'm satisfied."

On learning further, that Marcus "had pierced the false
heart of Syphax," all of the Roman in him returned
again in its pristine vigour, and with a majestic air of
grateful composure he ejaculates,

"Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty."

"We have, already," says the writer, "expressed our conviction, that the plan proposed is practicable; but the more we think and read on the subject, the more fully we are in

clined to believe that it must be the work of time. Vessels expressly adapted for this purpose must be built in England, and a depôt for coals established at Suez, where a very large

Then in a tremulous tone of subdued feeling he patheti- quantity may be soon accumulated, and the vessels to go from cally adds,

"Porcius, when I am dead, be sure you place

His urn near mine."

The funeral procession of Marcus now approaches, and
with it all our sympathies, though Cato scarcely seems to
need them. He alone stands the unmoved spectator of
this sad sight; and, though all else weep, save him, he-
roically advances to the bier in ecstasy.

"Welcome, my son!-Here set him down, my friends,
Full in my sight; that I may view at leisure
The bloody corse, and count those glorious wounds.
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be THAT youth? What pity is it

That we can die but ONCE, to serve our country."

Having gently chid his friends for their despondency,
Cato next thus addresses his surviving son-

"Porcius, behold thy brother; and remember,

Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it."
Mr. Vandenhoff's delivery of this passage was charac-
terized alike by true fatherly affection and the sacred love
of his country; but never shall we forget the genuine
pathos with which, after asking of himself “when Rome
demands ?" he rejoined,

"Rome is now no more."

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hence might be so constructed (as the ocean steam-boats are at home) as to use their sails in fair winds, or even on a wind, aided by a small proportion only of their full speed power, or in fresh fair winds, without the aid of steam at all. By this means, a vessel stowing eighteen or twenty days' coals, might perform the voyage to Suez, though it would be advisable, if possible, to have a vessel that would stow coals for the whole voyage, which would render the period of performing it nearly certain; and she would take in a fresh supply at Suez and return immediately, or as soon as the English passengers or mails should reach her from Cairo. All these arrangements might be effected in a short time, if a meeting were held, and funds raised, for the purpose of carrying them into effect. There is hardly a doubt that every individual, who feels an interest in establishing a rapid communication with

the mother country, would subscribe according to his means, to promote the accomplishment of any plan to effect it. If such a meeting were held, every obstacle would, of course, be

considered, and have due weight attached to it; but, if the result should be the conviction to which we have arrived, funds would not, we think, be wanting.

"Since writing the foregoing, we have conversed with a gentleman to whom this journal is indebted for a very valuable paper on the steam-engine, as to the practicability of mak Had we room, we have inclination enough to enlarge on ing the attempt to navigate to Suez with the steam-boat here; Mr. Vandenhoff's "farewell to his friends," which, with and he suggests the following means of obviating the objecthe imposing placidity of death, closes the fourth act. tions as to the want of capacity in her to stow coals for the We are desirous, likewise, of enumerating at some length supply of the engine. Instead of a depôt for coals at Suez instances of his beautiful and emphatically correct deli- only, he proposes that there be one at Point-de-Galle; another very of the famous soliloquy commencing, It must at Bombay; another at the island of Secotra; another at be so;" but we have barely space to mention the Mocha; and the last, for the return voyage, at Suez. The grand climax of his acting in this part-the death of stages here proposed, are about 1200 miles each, which the Cato; and, having mentioned it, we can scarcely do vessel would run in five days, as it is calculated that in the more, for it baffles all description. Awfully true to nature, N.E. monsoon she would, with ease, average ten miles per he advances tremulously from his couch, assisted by hour. If this plan were adopted, the attempt might certainly two freed men, his intestines commingled with clotted be made with the vessel we have; but in that case, coals gore, suspended from the fatal wound he had so recently should be immediately sent away to the places mentioned: a inflicted on himself. The last sad offices assigned him supply for five days' going, and five days' returning, or ten being performed, the ghastly smile of approaching disso-days, would be thirty tons, but a double supply, or sixty tons, lution sits quivering on his lip; his half-closed eyes roll might be despatched to each station, as the vessel might make wildly, but imploringly upwards; his countenance assumes two trips in the N.E, monsoon, provided she left Calcutta on the cadaverous hue of a dying man; his cold limbs shake, the 1st of October, which would be necessary, in order to distorted; and, ere he can articulate a last faint prayer to secure her second trip before the commencement of the plague the gods, he returns placidly again to his "mother earth." in Egypt. It may, perhaps, be supposed, that the touching at 12th July. THE COUNCIL OF TEN.

Scientific Records.

An Address to the Public, on the Advantages of a
STEAM NAVIGATION TO INDIA.

Company's Service.

Not so, magnanimous man: ever solicitous for thy fallen
country's welfare, thou art reckless of what concerns thy-
self, other than as that country may be benefited or in.
Jard. Something worse than Cæsar now assails thee,
Cat: the deadly work of treason hath commenced, and
thy renowned sun of glory rapidly approximates his ever- By Captain J. E. Johnson, of the Honourable East India
ing setting. With unshrinking fortitude, however,
Mr. Vandenhoff listens to Porcius's narration of the muti
ous fight of false old Syphax with his base Numidians;
the shock moves him not, but as becomes a Roman
Put The exclamation, "Perfidious men !" bespeaks
internally grieved, indeed, for human nature, but he
y himself again; the patriot and the father burst
forth in the imperative injunction to Porcius:

The Prospectus which I have already published, briefly
enumerates the ADVANTAGES which must result from a
speedy communication with India, by means of STEAM;
while, at the same time, it shows, in the clearest manner,
the practicability of the proposed undertaking. However,
as I have learned that some persons of leading influence in

the various places named, would occasion a very material delay; but the coals and water might be taken in 24 hours, and the vessel would still make the voyage to Suez in 28 days, if she could make ten knots per hour, which she would certainly average, when it is considered, that in the N. E. monsoon she would have the assistance of her sails propelling her altogether at the rate of more than 12 knots per hour. Instead of Bombay,

however, we would suggest Cochin as nearer, and affording equal facility of communication in the N.E. monsoon. The ex pense of sending coals to these depôts would, of course, be heavy; but, if the importance of the object to be gained is. considered, this circumstance should not be suffered to discourage us from making the attempt to accomplish it. meeting be called to consider the subject, and a committee once express its conviction of the practicability of the plan, and we are certain that a subscription list, to raise funds to carry it into effect, will not be opened in vain."

Let &

In another number of the same journal, the advantages of the projected design are urged in terms equally forcible and eloquent. Nor is there any reason to apprehend that the favourable anticipations of the writer will be disappointed. He thus expresses himself on the subject: "While many of our readers are perhaps cherishing the idea of being able, at no very distant period, to proceed with great despatch to England, assisted by the powerful agent which is now so generally employed in European and American navigation, it may not be improper for us to offer some farther desultory observations on the subject. Without particularly weighing the obstacles that are to be overcome, before the projected route can be fully and favourably opened, we shall suppose that the scheme has been entirely accomplished, and advert to the secondary advantages which may be expected to result from it. A very speedy and safe passage to England is certainly the most important object, which would be acquired, and might continue to be the principal one, which would be taken advantage of. The facilities, however, which would be afforded for visiting interesting regions, which the generality of persons in this quarter cannot at present visit, would no doubt occasion numbers to start in the steam vessels from Calcutta, who had not the intention of proceeding all the way to England. This will appear evident from attending to the changes which would be produced by the opening of such a channel of communication, and the character of the countries through which it would pass.

"The Red Sea would soon become completely known, from its being constantly traversed. Its shores would attract the attention of many, who could so easily visit them. The holy city of the Mahometans would no doubt become a regular place of call for the vessels, to land or take up the multitudes of devout Indian pilgrims, who would visit the tomb of their Prophet. Hadjees would become much more numerous in India, as the pilgrimage in the steam vessels would be far more safe and expeditious than it has been hitherto. The Abyssinian coast, which has been as yet so seldom visited, would present many attractions to those who are fond of traveling in unfrequented countries, and have time and money enough to enable them to follow their inclinations. Its resources would soon be completely explored by mercantile speculations, and, if these resources were found to be improvable, the establishment of trading stations, where none have been hitherto dreamt of, would take place as a matter of course. We do not indeed suppose that the steam vessels would call at any places on that coast, unless by accident or for particular reasons, but from their constantly paasing it, they would carry adventurers sufficiently near to render ingress into, or egress from, that quarter of Africa, a matter of easy accomplishment. A new field would also be opened for missionary exertions, which would be no doubt speedily improved, as greater success might be then expected to attend such labours, than is met with in this country.

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irresistible allurements, when they could be visited and partly
explored, perhaps with equal benefit to the health, and with-
out greater loss of time than is now experienced in a trip to
the Cape, the Isle of France, or New South Wales. The spl
and manners that would successfully attract observation, and
rits would be enlivened by the interesting variety of scenery
intellectual gratification would be superadded to constitu-
tional improvement. We take it for granted, of course, that
the present efforts of the Greeks, which have been so unex-
pectedly prosperous, will lead to their entire emancipation at
no remote period, so as to leave no chance of danger or appre-
hension in visiting their shores.

The Fireside.

the impelling of carriages on the public roads has hitherto been considered as a refinement in mechanics, rather to Steam-carriages.-The application of steam-engines t be wished for, than a matter of reasonable expectation Trevethick and Vivian, in 1802, and, by the application The locomotive engine was first employed by Messrs of their patent apparatus to an engine having an eight inch cylinder, they were enabled to draw ten tons of co similar principle, was some time ago constructed in Ire at the rate of five miles per hour. An engine, on a nearly land, for the purpose of impelling a new stage-coach; "It is obvious that there are many other places in the Medl-engineers, stating they had tried the vehicle in the neigh and the proprietor published a certificate, signed by two terranean to which invalids and others would be glad to resort, bourhood of Glasgow, and that it impelled a coach loaded when no greater length of time would be consumed in the trip with a weight of nearly four tons, at the rate of twenty than is now found necessary to visit places in India, beyond the English miles per hour. It was steered with ease by one limits of the Bay of Bengal. Some might prefer to make Sicily man, and was not so liable to accident as a carriage drawn the scene of their perigrinations; others might choose Italy; by horses. others might be satisfied wirh residing a month or two in Malta; and others, again, might desire to enjoy the salubrious climate of the south of France. gation have become available throughout the Mediterranean. to be the case, of course, after the advantages of steam naviWe suppose this whose health was injured, and who had several months to The trip to Montpelier would no doubt be preferred by those, spare in order to attempt its renovation by change of scene and climate. It would also be chosen by many who might be anxious, in the decline of life, to revisit the scenes of their infancy, yet afraid to undertake the direct passage to England lest the fatigues of the passage, and the great change of climate, should prove too much for them to support. People of this description are common enough in India, and the consequence is, that numbers determine on never quitting the country, although they would gladly go home, if they had confidence in the remaining capability of their bodily powers to withstand the rigours of the northern winter. Such people could proceed with more sanguine expectations as far as Montpelier, and remain there, until they found themselves sufficiently invigorated to remove to their native cilmate, or until the failure of their hopes, with regard to corporal renovation, should render it more prudent for them to return to (To be continued.)

India."

SAFETY LAMP.

able lamp, by Mr.T. Coxe, of Gateshead. In the original, An important improvement has been made in this valuthe wire, called the pricker, is introduced into the gauze tube from the bottom, for the purpose of regulating the wick, to increase or diminish the quantity of light, or to extinguish the wick on the approach of danger. Mr. "Passing, however, to the extremity of the Red Sea, we tube, perforated with a number of small holes, closed at Coxe's improvement consists in the addition of a short may remark, that the very measures which it would be ne- the top, and introduced into the tube of the Davy, at the cessary to adopt for securing a perfectly open, safe, and expe- upper part of the lamp, so as to prevent the elongation of ditious passage across the Isthmus of Suez, would no doubt the flame. To this tube a wire is also fastened from the have a great moral and political effect on the present state of bottom, by which it is regulated. It differs, however, Egypt, and the adjacent country to the eastward. For secu- essentially from the pricker; as, by being drawn down, it ring such a passage, the friendship and cordial co-operation not only extinguished the flame of the wick, but also comof the Pasha of Egypt would be requisite, and might be ob-pletely puts out the blue flame of the inflammable gas, tained at the present time without difficulty. It would be for which always fills the lamp just before an explosion takes the interest of that potentate, for such we must style him, to place. It answers in a moment of great danger; prescribes establish facilities of communication sufficient to remove all the same purpose as the extinguisher of a common candle. chance of danger. The security afforded to the direct route stick. of passage would be more or less participated by the population in its neighbourhood. Establishments would soon arise, either under native or European management, for the purpose of providing comforts as well as necessaries, to those who are constantly passing along. The attractions of a settled and industrious life would operate benefically on the adjacent tribes of desert wanderers, and employment would be found for numbers, in carrying on a profitable interchange of commodities between the nearest regions of the east, and the would thus obtain an advantageous footing in those hitherto unsettled regions, and be enabled to diffuse its benign influence around, eventually improving the general condition of the country. Some time might elapse before such change were produced; but when the impulse was once fairly given, the progress of improvement would advance rapidly, and, from the character of the present ruler of Egypt, it may perhaps be expected, that the prospect of benefit from immediate and constant communication, both with the East and West, would be gladly welcomed.

southern shores of the Mediterranean. Regular commerce

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An American paper says, "A small steam-vessel, the
feet in length and two and a half in width, and without
driving a common ferry-boat, with twelve passengers, at
a boiler, was witnessed on the 10th ult. at Philadelphia,
the rate of eight miles an hour. It is the invention of
Mr. Hawkins; and if the cylinder, which is only seven
inches in height, had been a foot high, it is said that the
Power would have been doubled. It is proposed to call
this mode of navigation, the Steam-boat Safety,' not
being liable to bursting or scalding."

agreeably to the plan of Mr. J. Wyatt, is commencing.
Windsor Castle.-The improvement at Windsor Castle,
An opening has been already made through the castle
wall, in a straight direction with the new road, forming
through the garden of the upper lodge, that has been
lately pulled down, and directly opposite the long walk,
which will be the grand entrance to the castle.
entrance, which is both dangerous and unpleasant, will be
The old
closed.

By the opening of direct and ready access to the shores of the Mediterranean, a new route would be given to many inhahitants of India, who are obliged to go to sea for the benefit of their health. The classic regions of Greece, rendered so particularly interesting at the present crisis, from the noble struggle there maintained against the most galling despotism, erected in South Wales, by subscription, to the memory Sir Thomas Picton.-An immense cairn is about to be by those who emulate their patriotie ancestors, would present' of this heroic chief. Upwards of £1300 are subscribed to it.

ments."

'In order to employ one part of this life in serious and important
occupations, it is necessary to spend another in mere amue
JOHN LOCKE
"There is a time to laugh and a time to weep."-SOLOMON.
VIVE LA BAGATELLE.

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Chit Chat.

A gentleman paying a visit one morning last week to a family in Hanover-square, was shown into a room, where to 3 writing-desk was a paper, on which a lady had began to mascribe a song from the opera of Love in a Village; marking that she had left off at the end of the two following lides

In love should there meet a fond pair,
Untator'd by fashion or art-

he took up a pen and completed the verse, by adding-
If on earth such a couple there are,
I'll be whipt to the tail of a cart!
This reminds us of a certain would-be poet, who being
partially inspired by the muses, set down in the dog-days
to try his hand. He contrived to hammer out one line,
after which he fell asleep. A friend called upon him in
this situation, and found on the paper before him the fol-
bowing line,

“The sun's perpendicular rays illumine the depths of the sea,"
Upon which he took up the pen, and added,

Sea Gulls. Few people are aware of the voracious ap-higher talent in the very best schools. His long and most petite of the common sea-guil. A few days since, two of intimate friendship with Mr. Samuel Webbe, whilst he these birds, which run in the grounds of General Ramsay, lived in Liverpool, had been turned to the best account, in Canterbury, devoured in one day fourteen mice and and he acquired the greatest proficiency in an accomplishtwo rats. And on Sunday last, one of these birds swal.ment very rare indeed amongst amateurs, and we might lowed an immensely large rat-whole. The bird made even add, professional men; we mean singing with ease several efforts to gorge the animal, and at length succeeded, and correctness from the score, at sight. Mr. Webbe had to the astonishment of the by-standers. The tail, how- formed round him a choice group of glee singers, to whom we have often times listened with delight, and whose performance, embellished by his own masterly and delicate accompaniment, produced an effect for which we often listen in vain in the performance of our most popular glee singers. These gentlemen will long recollect with pleasure and regret the happy and innocent hours they have passed in good fellowship with the late Mr. Hancox, and to them no apology will be required for the preceding remarks of the EDITORS of the KALEIDOSCOPE.

ever, was visible for several minutes.

Mother of Vices.-The Duke of Orleans, the Regent, had four daughters, distinguished by the names of the four cardinal sins. A wag wrote on their mother's tomb, Cy gist l'Oisivite, Here lies Idleness," which is termed the mother of all the vices.

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Large Mushroom.-A plant of this species, of the extraordinary dimensions of twenty-eight inches circumference, and nine inches diameter, was on Tuesday se'n night, pulled by the gardener, in a field adjoining Rickerbyhouse, and on the day following served up at table by Birmingham, and grandson of the Rev. James Hancox, forMrs. Irving, of the Blue Bell Inn, Carlisle."

"Mr. Joseph Hancox, second son of Mr. James Hancox, of

merly a respectable Dissenting Minister of Dudley, in Worces
tershire. James Hancox, father of the subject of the present
notice, was an extensive iron master in the neighbourhood of
Birmingham, during a period peculiarly disastrous to persons
engaged in such undertakings. He was a man of strict ho-
nour and undeviating principle, qualities which, in the im-
perfection of this world's institutions, do not always contri-
At his death he was pos
bute to pecuniary advancement.
sessed of little property to bequeath to his children; but he
had taken care to endow them with a liberal education, and
his last legacy was an unsullied name.

"And the fishes, beginning to sweat, cry, curse on't how hot A Company for washing by steam has been set up, and we shall be." an extensive establishment formed at Phippsbridge, near Having done this, he retired; and it is needless to say, Merten, Surrey. The clothes are placed in copper vessels, that when his lethargic friend opened his eyes, he was not where the action of the steam is brought to bear on them a little surprised to find his task so singularly completed. with great force, and by the revolving of the vessel the steam can act upon every part equally. After being perSingular Gambols of the present King of Naples.-fectly cleansed for a short time, the clothes are taken up On the day before Christmas-eve it is the King's custom to a large loft and there dried by steam. The works at to go a fishing, and on the following morning his delight Phippsbridge are not yet finished, and of course the Comis to exhibit himself, dressed in a white night-cap, and an pany have not fully established the practicability of the "At an early age, Joseph Hancox selected Liverpool as his apron round his waist, in the fish-market, selling his fish process. If it should prove fully efficient, what is to be-place of residence, and there entered into commercial engageto the best bidder. There the Royal fishmonger may be come of the poor washerwomen? ments, in the course of which he had occasion to visit America seen, surrounded, "in all his glory," by the Lazzaroni, more than once, as well as different parts of the Mediterranean, giggling, and eating bread and onions out of their filthy A fine Ear.-A gentleman anxious to secure to his son But it is not our intention to trace his progress in these pur hands, and carrying on with them a conversation in their a thorough knowledge of the science of music, applied to suits, but rather, at the termination of his career, to offer a vulgar jarjon, of which he is a perfect master. His Maa professor for that purpose. Being informed by the brief sketch of his character, as a farewell tribute to his mejesty used occasionally to walk on the beautiful beach at teacher that all the instruction the young man might re- mory. the Chinja, when he would suddenly sieze one of the Laz-ceive would be of little benefit to him unless he possessed zaroni, and throw him with great violence into the water, a fine ear for music; the father replied, that, although, ant, on the instant, jump in after him, and bring him as the parent of the youth, he ought not, perhaps, to boast, safe on shore. It was this freak of his Neapolitan Majesty yet he had never seen a person possessing a finer ear. which gave birth to Canova's two figures of Hercules is almost, I assure you (said he) as clear as crystal." Ainging Lichon into the sea. On the last night of the Carnival, the King usually goes to the theatre of Saint Carlo, and having ordered a dish of maccaroni to be brought him, scalding hot, mixed up with oil, cheese, and becf-gravy, being in one of the upper boxes, when the pit is crowded with spectators, all attentive to the opera or ballet, his Majesty will throw the greasy mess, by handfulls, on his loving subjects; and those who wish particularly to be noticed by the Monarch, will tumble head-over heels, and scramble to pick up some of it to eat. The King, on this occasien, always appears to laugh most immoderately at those who are evidently vexed at beholding the unctuous marks of Royal favour on their holiday suits. -Venice under the Yoke of France and of Austria.

"Mr. Hancox possessed most of the qualities requisite to give him consideration and influence in the circle in which he moved: he had travelled and seen the world, and consequently "It had the information and manners of a gentleman. He had a sound understanding, and a clear conception of the subjects in which society is wont to take an interest: and he possessed

At a squirrel-hunt in Craftsbury and the neighbouring
towns (in Vermont) in which the parties were engaged for
several days preceding the 20th of April, there were killed
4370 squirrels, 1135 woodpeckers, 124 blue jays, 99
pigeons, 53 blackbirds, 18 woodchucks, 15 crows, 10 owls,
10 skunks, 2 minks, 1 weazle, and 1 hawk, making a total
of 5838.-American paper.

Literal copy of a notice at Bootle.-Bootle cum Linacar.
June 26 Notice is heer By given that thare will Bee A
Lee Laid at 6d in the powend on the 2d daye of July
Survayor
For the Yous of the Roads

a talent for conversation which enabled him to impart his own impressions to others.

"As a man of strict probity and integrity of principle, his

reputation was permanently high. In his more general and social character, he was the advocate of free discussion; jealous of every encroachment upon the independence of the subject, and a friend to all liberal institutions.

"In religion, Mr. Hancox was an Unitarian; free from the

bigotry of sects and synods, and allowing to every one the same freedom of sentiment which he claimed for himself.

In the year 1815, the society of Paradise-street Chapel, in Liverpool, published a volume of Hymns, intended principally Several human bodies, entombed in very ancient coffins, for their own use, in the arrangement and compilation of scooped out of solid oak, were a few days ago discovered which Mr. Hancox took an active part; revising nearly the in a peat-moss, in good preservation, near Featherstone whole, besides contributing several original compositions Castle, on the Northumberland border, and are now, we from his own pen. He was, indeed, from his talents as a understand, in the possession of Lieutenant-Colonel Coul-er tic, peculiarly well qualified for the task of revision: and

Bathos.-The following fine piece of bathos is from the New England Galaxy: The following specimen of a new translation of the Enied into English, by a Dutch-son, of Blenkinsop Castle.-Carlisle paper. man, is worth preserving, as it is possible the whole work may never appear. The classic reader need not be told that it is a translation of the passage which describes the storm, and the incidents between Dido and Eneas, who were driven into the cave by its violence:

⚫ Schtorm drive dem under

De cliff of de grove;
Dey mind not de tunder

But de schweet love!"

Mr. Jekyl, hearing that Mr. Raine, the barrister, was retained as council for a Mr. Hay, jocosely asked a country friend, whether he ever heard of rain being of any service to hay.

Tailors' Accuracy-A tailor (says a late publication, intitled "Mornings in Bow-street") when asked what he is, never replies simply, "I am a tailor," but " I am a tailor by trade," thereby seeming to signify that he is not a tailor by nature.

Frozen Fish-It was observed by Captain Franklin, that during the severe winter they experienced near the Copper Mine River, the fish froze as they were taken out of the nets. In a short time they became a solid mass of ire, and by a blow or two with the hatchet were easily split open. If in this completely frozen state they were thawed before the fire, they recovered their animation, This is a very remarkable instance of how completely animation can be suspended in cold-blooded animals.

Biographical Notice.

THE LATE MR. JOSEPH HANCOX,

When the lamented death of this gentleman was announced in a recent number of the Mercury, it was unaccompanied with any commentary, because we had then reason to expect that some other friend of the deceased would prepare something appropriate on the occasion, and we therefore remained silent when our sense of duty prompted us to pay a passing tribute to the memory of an individual for whom we entertained much esteem. It now affords us satisfaction to find that Mr. Hancox's memory has not been slighted, as we apprehended. One of his friends has communicated an article to the Monthly Repository, which we shall here appropriate, as it is the production of one who is fully competent to the task of performing a delicate office without officiousness or common-place and worthless panegyric.

We hope that the able writer of the brief sketch we are about to transcribe will not deem it an office of intrusive supererogation on our parts, if we venture to preface his memoir with a remark of our own, as it relates to a point to which he, in all probability, attaches less value than we do. We allude to the highly-cultivated talent for vocal music for which Mr. Hancox was distinguished. His voice was manly and delicate; nor was he one of those who merely sing what they have committed to memory by dint of study or frequent repetition. He had cultivated a

the late Rev. Pendlebury Houghton, the elegance of whose compositions is so well known, did not scruple to solicit the benefit of Mr. Hancox's opinion and suggestions, before he committed to the press some of his latest publications.

"Occasionally, Mr. Hancox did not scruple to mingle with the noisy and bustling politics of the times; being a steady and consistent Reformer. His notions of the right and ex tent of suffrage he might carry somewhat further than some of his Whig friends, with whom he was in the habit of associating; but as he thought proper to judge for himself, so he cheerfully conceded to others the same privilege. He was, how ever, rather a private than a public character, and it was in domestic retirement or in social intercourse that he was most known and best appreciated. During his last illness he discoursed with animation upon the signs of a more enlightened and liberal spirit which were observable, not only in the national legislature, but in the local politics of the town in which he lived: contemplating, with evident satisfaction, that gradual but substantial improvement which has been forced into the administration of all persons holding autho

rity, by the powerful influence of public opinion.

"Mr. Hancox was in the 44th year of his age, and had been

married about ten years. He has left behind him a widow and three children. To them his loss will be irreparable; but they may yet experience that calm and solemn satisfaction, which cannot fail to allay the bitterness of grief, and which is to be derived from the reflection that his memory will continue to be cherished with esteem and affection, not only by his nearest and dearest connexions, but by all who had the happiness to enjoy his friendship, or the opportunity to estis mate his worth."

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than of novelty in what is called the Hamiltonian system; and we wish to see its merits fairly canvassed. Our pages are open to animadversions upon it, however severe, provided they be just. But the communications we have hitherto received from its opponents, are such, as are ill calculated to elucidate the subject. The writer of that signed M. B. has occupied a great portion of his letter with an account of an interview he had with Mr. Hamilton, in which, he states, that an overture was made him by Mr. H. to be come concerned with him as a conductor of Hamiltonian Establishments, an offer, which M. B. informs us he thought fit to decline; what the public has to do with this circumstance, whether true or false, we are at a loss to dis cover; and as the letter contains nothing much more to the real purpose, we decline it altogether.

After having prepared Mr. Hamilton's letter, in the type, we have been compelled to postpone it until next week.

CORRESPONDENT'S SIGNATURES.-We have lately received cer tain communications from new correspondents, to which are appended the signatures of some of our oldest and most respected contributors. If any pieces, which are offered to us under these circumstances should be inserted, we must take the liberty to change the signature, especially if it be G. or Sperans, two correspondents, who by their talents and perseverance, have acquired a prescriptive right to the exclusive appropriation of the signatures, under which they have acquired a well merited reputation amongst readers of the Kaleidoscope.

THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER'S CENTURY OF INVENTIONSWe had prepared in type the first portion of this singular book, and were writing some prefatory remarks which were necessary to elucidate the work, when we were obliged to pause for want of information on a particular point, which we cannot obtain in time for this week's publication. In our next we shall be in readiness.

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THE CHAPEL ON THE SHORE OF THE ADRIATIC, an original translation by L. Man, of Liverpool, is most acceptable. UNAPPROPRIATED COMMUNICATIONS.-The letter of Philo, on Balloons, and that of Duryng of Bury, shall certainly appear in our next.

Don C. Bruguera's Concert.-This Gentleman's Concert, last Tuesday evening, was very genteely attended, although, we fear, it has not proved very productive to him. His delicate and finished performance on the Spanish guitar surpassed and delighted the audience, and he STEAM NAVIGATION TO INDIA. We this week publish a large was repeatedly encored. Mrs. Curran's songs gave great satisfaction, and she received the warmest plaudits of the audience. Mr. Cohan, who presided at the piano-forte, was called upon by some of the company for a volunteer performance on his instrument. He very readily obeyed this unusual summons, and played a most difficult piece, composed by his master, Ries; in which he displayed exThe little Lyra, whom we particularly noticed last week, traordinary powers of execution, and was much applauded. fully realized the most sanguine anticipations of the auimpossible to convey any adequate idea of the impression dience, who cheered her with the loudest applause. It is made by this most extraordinary infant upon all who heard her on this occasion; and we are much gratified to learn, that the public have another opportunity of judging of being presented to his Majesty. The following adverfor themselves, before she visits London, for the purpose tisement has been sent for insertion:

THE EARLS OF CHESTER. We shall shortly avail ourselves of Sir J. Doderidge's work, with which we were lately favoured by a Friend.

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No. 212.-VOL. V.

Men and Manners.

NO. XXI.

JOURNEY TO VERONA, AND RETURN TO PISA. FROM L'HERMITE EN ITALIE, THE LATEST WORK OF MR. JOUY. [Translated expressly for the Kaleidoscope.]

As I was returning early one morning from the bath, I met an old college companion whom I had not seen for some years, and who was then on the point of setting out for Verona. He proposed to me to accompany him thither, promising to bring me back to Pisa the next day, and I the more willingly consented to his offer, as Verona did not happen to be on the itinerary which I had traced out for my journey in Italy. I like impromptu resolutions; people, who do not regulate their conduct by any fixed plan, are spared many inconveniences and disappointments. We set out as soon as I had had my passport examined, a ceremony indispensible to those who are entering the kingdom of Italy.

We alighted at Verona, not far from the grand street of the Corso, in a small square called, I think, piazzetta Mondarone. The back windows of the inn commanded a view of a rich tract of country, watered by the Adige, which is very wide and rapid in that part of Italy. It first flows along the ramparts of Verona, and then crosses part of the town. As soon as we arrived, my companion left me to despatch his business, and I made it my first care to inquire where the arena were situated. Fortunately, I was not far from them. Following the street of the theatre Morando, nearly opposite the little square of Montarone, I came to the square of Bra, which is the largest in Verona, and contains one of the finest monuments of antiquity. The small number of 'ancient monuments which I had yet seen, were, in fact, compared with the amphitheatre of Verona, like the inhabitants of Lilliput by the side of Gulliver.

This amphitheatre is of oval form, and is surrounded by forty-five rows of seats, placed in gradation, one above another, which easily afforded accommodation to twenty. five thousand spectators. Its architecture did not appear to me very fine; it is exceedingly heavy, and the profiles of the capitals are in very bad taste. It is particularly remarkable for its excellent state of preservation; the steps and corridors are as perfect, as if they had been constructed only two or three centuries ago. Vitruvius says that this amphitheatre was constructed by order of the council of Verona, during the time of the republic.

I continued my way along the wide Via Pallone, as far as the bridge dei Figli rei, by which I crossed the lesser Adige. I then entered the street of the Capuchins, and at length paused before a tomb: it was that of Romeo and Juliet. The love of the children was more powerful than the batred of the fathers. Montague and Capulet! the dust of your last descendants, reposes in peace in the same grave: you wished to disunite them; death has been less barbarous than you.

Meantime the day began to decline, and I feared that my travelling companion would expect my return with impatience. At six o'clock in the evening I rejoined him at the inn, where a dinner awaited us. His business was

TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1824.

concluded, and he proposed to me to set out that evening, telling me that it was not his intention to return directly to Pisa, as it was absolutely necessary for him to pass a few hours in Pavia. I willingly consented to accompany him thither, and we arrived during the night. I awoke at day-break the next day, and set out on my rambles through the town, having engaged, as a guide, the cameriere of the inn where we had slept.

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pillage to which General Lautre abandoned it, to avenge the affront received there by Francis the First.

The museum of natural history, (of which the celebrated Scarpa is the superintendant) the library, and the botanical garden, merit the attention of the curious. Nothing can be more astonishing than the specimens of anatomical dissection at the museum.

The population of Pavia is considerable, but I thought Pavia may be considered rather as two towns united I discovered in the manners of the people a tincture of than as one: between them flows the Tesino, which bears provincial simplicity. The young girls are brought up large boats, and affords to the numerous commercial in-with the greatest care, and kept in a restraint almost borhabitants an easy means of transport for their merchandize. dering on rigour. The people are serious and taciturn; A superb bridge, covered with marble, three hundred and they do not answer above half of what is said to them; forty feet long, unites the two towns; or, to speak more not that they despise conversation, but that they dislike properly, joins the town to its faux bourgs, which are ex- entering into useless discussions: upon those who insult tensive, well built, and surrounded by walls. Pavia is them, they turn their backs, without being moved to situated on a fertile and pleasant plain; it was formerly anger. They have in general fine complexions; the the residence of the Lombard kings. The inhabitants call women are fair and ruddy; they are neat, and even ele. their territory the garden of the Milanese. gant in their dress.

The principal square is in the centre of the town, and is surrounded by an ancient piazza. An equestrian statue, placed in the middle, is said to represent Marcus Aurelius Antony: the horse only is remarkable.

The cathedral is an ancient gothic edifice, renewed by modern architects, and is little deserving of attention. The sexton shows to strangers a sort of large boat-mast, pointed with iron, which, he pretends, is the lance of the celebrated Paladine Rolando.

This town suffered in the wars of the fifth, eighth, tenth, eleventh, and sixteenth centuries. Charlemagne took possession of it in 773. Charles the Bold held there a general assembly in 876, and Francis the First was made prisoner there after a battle fought with Charles the Fifth, on a piece of ground twenty miles in circumference, which has since been inclosed with walls, and is pointed out to travellers. The walls are now in ruins.

Pavia was founded some time after Milan, by the Gauls: the ancients called it Ticinum, Papia, and Pepia Flavia. The Romans first took possession of it; it was sacked by Attila, and ruined by Odoacre.

Its university is still celebrated: it was founded in 791 by Charlemagne. Among its professors, the famous surgeon and great anatomist, Scarpa, is particularly distinguished.

The churches are tolerably handsome. The body of Saint Augustin is preserved in the church of the monks of that name, as we were assured by those good fathers.

The Augustins show also the body of the Consul Boëtius, a Latin writer of the fifth and sixth centuries. He wrote five books on Philosophical Consolation during the time that he was confined in prison for a political crime. He was afterwards beheaded by the Goths: his consolations availed him but little.

Among the great men of Pavia, the poet Quidi ought to be mentioned, who died in 712.

The inhabitants carry on a commerce in silks, and their country abounds in wine, cheese, corn, hemp, and fruit.

Among the churches, that of the Dominicans is remarkable for the excellent preservation of the fine paintings with which it is adorned. The citadel is in the upper part of the town. The decay of Pavia, which has been the seat of more than twenty kings, is dated from the

The palaces, gardens, public walks, and villas, are not deficient in beauty or architectural elegance. The modern theatre was opened in 1779; it is well adapted to the taste of the people, and the extent of their town, which contains about 12,000 inhabitants.

The grand charter-house, situated at about three miles from Pavia, has been described to me as one of the finest in Europe. In this magnificent monastery, the wonders of painting, sculpture, and architecture alternately divide the attention. The humble deportment of the monks, and the perpetual silence imposed on them by the rules of Saint Bruno, form a strange contrast with the luxury and splendour of their vast habitation. They are lodged like kings, and they need only be clothed in purple to render complete their apparent departure from all observance of the self-denial they profess.

I felt less regret in leaving Pavia without having seen the charter-house, than I did for not having had an opportunity of being introduced to Scarpa. I should have spoken to him of Doctor Rossi, of Turin, his friend and rival. The literati of Italy have one singularity: they are satisfied with being pre-eminent among men of science, without aspiring to the ridiculous honour of being the last among statesmen.

At two o'clock in the afternoon we again set out on our journey. We passed through Florence; but as we stopped there only a few minutes, this will not be the place to speak of that beautiful city. The reader must be content to travel with me over fine roads without seeing any thing, and to arrive once more at Pisa.

The aspect of the town is much more striking, as it appears to travellers arriving by the Tuscan road. It is discovered at some distance, situated in an admirably fertile plain, which has all the appearance of an immense garden. It is watered by the Arno and its tributary rivers, and the meadows and fields are enclosed by rows of mulberries and other trees, whose summits wave above the garlands of vines that entwine themselves round their lower branches.

This plain was formerly covered by stagnant waters, whose vapours infected the town and neighbouring country. These marshes were in great part drained by order of Leopold, the Grand Duke, whose name is so dear to the Tuscans, and the air of Pisa is now sweet and salu.

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