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uncle, was proved to be false, as he had never had one. The brooch, too, which was proved to have belonged to Madame Audran, he could not say where he had obtained; besides other minor circumstances, which left so little doubt in the minds of the majority of his jury, that he was found guilty. Murder, in all countries, is punished alike-by death and such was his sentence. That he did not die by the hands of the executioner, was not the fault of the law. He had procured some strong poison, which he took the morning previous to his intended death on a scaffold, and left in disgrace a world wherein, by his talents, he might have shone one of its brightest ornaments.

A short time previous to his death, he confessed the crime, and how it had taken place. He had been for some long time striving to amass a sufficient sum of money to meet the views of Emile's friends; he had got together more than half the requisite amount, when he thought he might by one coup obtain the whole; in an evil hour, he tried for the first time in his life the gaming-table, and found himself in a few minutes, a beggar, and the hopes of possessing Emile farther than ever removed from him. Returning home, he chanced to pass by Madame Audran's, and the force of habit led him to enquire after his patient's health. sat down in her room, musing on the waywardness of his fate for a few minutes, and on rising to go, perceived that Madame Audran had fallen into a slumber; his eye at that moment fell upon her chest of valuables, and the devil instigated him to that murder as the fulfilment of all his hopes, which a few moments consideration would have shown the fallacy of.

He

With all the pains which were taken the truth could not be concealed from Emile, it cast a fixed gloom upon her mind that could not be removed, she sickened at the sight, and thought of all her former pleasures and pursuits, and lived in the world as one who bore no part in the events of life- -a stranger to all around. It was not of long duration, for a few months saw her a prey to those morbid feelings of the mind which nought on earth could allay.-J. M. B.

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Oh! the plunder of Pekin! what silks and what shawls

The Chinese, in spite of themselves, shall be free:

For we'll bombard the city with hot forcemeat balls,

And blow up their warriors with gunpowder tea!

Then tie on your bonnet, your shawl, and your boa,

And with war-cry of Hyson-dust!' onward with me;

Come, brandish your tea-spoons, ye maids, who adore

The flavour of Twankay, Souchong, or Bo hea! Mon Mag.

THE CAMBRIDGE "FRESHMAN."

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SEE a stripling alighting from the Cambridge Fly" at Crisford's Hotel, Trumpington-street. It is a day or two before the commencement of the Octo

We are aware that this rhyme is rather unusual,; but we may parody the maxim of Sir Lucius-When patriotism guides the pen, he must be a brute that would find fault with the rhyme.'

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her term, and a small cluster of gownsmen are gathered round to make their several recognitions of returning friends, in spite of shawls, cloaks, petershams, patent gambroons, and wrap-rascals, in which they are enveloped; while our fresh-comer's attention is divided between their sable "curtains" and solicitude for his bags and portmanteau. If his pale cheek and lack-lustre eye could speak but for a moment, like Balaam's ass, what painful truths would they describe! what weary watchings over the midnight taper would they describe! If those fingers which are now as white as Windsor-soap can make them, could complain of their wrongs, what contaminations with dusty Ainsworths and Scapulas would they enumerate! If his brain were to reveal its labours, what labyrinths of prose and verse, in which it has been bewildered when it had no clue of a friendly translation, or Clavis, to conduct it through the wanderings, would it disclose! what pera.utations and combinations of commas, what elisions and additions of letters, what copious annotations on a word, an accent, or a stop, parallelizing a passage of Plato with one of Anacreon, one of Xenophon with one of Lycophron, or referring the juvenile reader to a manuscript in the Vatican,-what inexplicable explanations would it anathematize !

The youth calls on a friend, and if "gay" is inveigled into a "wet night" and rolls back to the hotel at two in the morning Bacchi plenus, whereas the "steady man" regales himself with sober Bohea, talks of Newton and Simeon, resolves to read mathematics with Burkitt, go to chapel fourteen times a week, and never miss Trinity Church on Thursday evenings. The next day he asks the porter of his college where the tutor lives; the keybearing Peter laughs in his face, and tells him where he keeps; he reaches the tutor's rooms, finds the door sported, and knocks till his knuckles bleed. He talks of Newton to his tutor, and his tutor thinks him a fool. He sallies forth from Law's (the tailor's) for the first time in the academical toga and trencher, marches most majestically across the grass-plat in the quadrangle of his college, is summoned before the Master, who had caught sight of him from the lodge-windows, and reprimanded. His gown is a spick-and-span new one, of orthodox length, and without a single rent; he caps every Master

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of Arts he meets; besides a few Bachelors, and gets into the gutter to give them the wall. He comes into chapel in his surplice, and sees it is not surplice-morning, runs back to his rooms for his gown, and on his return finds the second lesson over. He has a tremendous 'larum at his bed's-head, and turns out every day at five o'clock in imitation of Paley. He is in the lecture-room the very moment the clock has struck eight, and takes down every word the tutor says. He buys "Hints to Freshmen," reads it right through, and resolves to eject his sofa from his rooms. He talks of the roof of King's chapel, walks through the market-place to look at Hobson's conduit, and quotes Milton's sonnet on that famous carrier. He proceeds to Peter House to see Gray's fire-escape, and to Christ's to steal a bit of Milton's Mulberry-tree. He borrows all the Mathematical MSS. he can procure, and stocks himself with scribbling paper enough for the whole college. He goes to a wineparty, toasts the university officers, sings sentiments, asks for tongs to sugar his coffee, finds his cap and gown stolen and old ones left in their place. He never misses St. Mary's (the University Church) on Sundays, is on his legs directly the psalmody begins, and is laughed at by the other gownsmen. He reads twelve or thirteen hours a-day, and talks of being a wrangler. He is never on the wrong side of the gates after ten, and his buttery bills are not wound up with a single penny of fines. He leaves the rooms of a friend in college rather late perhaps, and after ascending an Atlas-height of stairs, and hugging himself with the anticipation of crawling instanter luxuriously to bed, finds his door broken down, his books in the coal-scuttle and grate, his papers covered with more curves than Newton or Descartes could determine, his bed in the middle of the room, and his surplice, on whose original purity he had so prided himself, drenched with ink. If he is matriculated he he laughs at the beasts (those who are not matriculated), and mangles slang: wranglers, fops, and medalists become quite "household words" to him. He walks to Trumpington every day before hull to get an appetite for dinner, and never misses grace. He speaks reverently of masters and tutors, and does not curse even the proctors; he is merciful to his wine-bin, which is chiefly saw-dust, pays his bills, and owes nobody a guinea-he is a Freshman!

Mon. Mag.

SOLITUDE.

For the Olio.

"The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life,

Will elevate the mind to independence."

Zimmermann. "Look here, upon this picture, and on this." Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4.

In no case does the cultivated mind, -the tree that bears good fruit, show so vast a superiority over the ungrafted stem, as in the hour of solitude.

Let us follow the superior mind in his solitary ramble. We find him in the church, when service is completed, employing that opportunity for inspection. Alone, and leaning against one of the many clustered columns, his eye surveys the sacred fane with awe-struck admiration, with that pleasing and refined feeling which is peculiar to the cultivated mind-a feeling which is utterly denied to the uncultivated.

Among the numerous monuments is one-the recumbent effigy of a knight, the servant of the Holy Temple, a crusader. His active mind presents to his imagination, the enthusiastic multitude, who, governed by a pious, yet mistaken zeal, devoted their fortunes and their lives to the recovery of the sacred city from the hands of the Paynim. From the venerable hermit, and Walter, the moneyless, he passes in succession 10 the Counts Fermandois, Toulouse and Blois, Godfrey of Bouillon, reminding him of Tasso's immortal song, is before him, with the careless and gallant Robert of Normandy-he_beholds the sieges of Nice and Jerusalem, he sees the re-capture and re-taking of that last city. He runs through the crusade of the Emperor Conrade and Lewis VII. He shudders at the assassination of the brave Marquis of Montserrat. He despises the weak Austria and the envious Philip, whilst his heart swells at the noble daring and great exploits of Cœur de Lion and of the Soldan, Salidan.

That kneeling figure, representing the soldier and the saint, whose blood has purpled the dark field of Marston, brings before him all the horrors of that unhappy war, which terminated so fatally to Charles. He fights over the battles of Edgehill, Stratton, Lansdown and Roundway Down-he drops a tear for the patriot Hampden. He besieges

Bristol and Gloucester-laments the undecided field of Newbury, fatal to the virtuous Falkland, and finally beholds his hero fall by the side of Cromwell, at Long Marston Moor.

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Let us from the church-passing the→→ He treads the sunny fields-the sheep are grazing. He thinks of Ajax, Telemon, when maddened at the unjust discussion of the arms of Achilles, he bared his angry blade, and having slaughtered the harmless flock, devoted his own body to its point. He thinks of the valiant Quixote, surrounded hy the hostile forces of the Emperor Alifanfaron and King Pentapolin-and of Jason and the golden fleece. The shepherd tunes his rustic pipe. He beholds Melibus and Tityrus reposing beneath a spreading beech tree, he hears Menalaus and Damætus contending before Palamon for the heifer and "beachen cups."

"The labour'd work of fam'd Alcimedon," Mopsus, Corydon, Melibous and Thyrsis are before you, with other piping keepers of the "fleecy sheep," and their place in Virgil's pastoral verse. weanling kids," equally deserving of He ascends the throne, with the shepherd Maximinus, extends his hand to Endymion and Faustulus, nor does he forget the shepherd prince, the beauteous boy, who flying

"Soft Enone's charms"

deprived the royal Spartan of a wife, and devoted his country and his family to destruction.

what a train for meditation does this The milk-maid crosses his pathcarry with it-"The fair and happie milk maide" of the unfortunate Overbury, and the milk-maid in Walton's Angler, occurs immediately to his recollection. The murderers of Sir Thofligate Countess, present themselves, mas, the infamous "Carr, and his prothe amiable piscator, Kit Marlowe, and Sir Walter Raleigh.*

The proud and extensive wood, bounding the high road, reminds him of the satyrs and fauns-the sylvan deity, on the wings of speed and love, hard pressing the hapless Syrinx of Apollo flaying the conceited Phrygian

Marsyas-of Feronia and the Dryads, who he finds are only surpassed in beauty by his mistress-"The empress of his heart"-if such he has. And

now,

away-his thoughts are no longer ours. having reached this point, let us

How different has been the tedious

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journey of the opposite of our late com-
panion. For him the church has no
beauties-he cannot distinguish between
a Gothic and a Corinthian column. He
knows nothing of the history of his
country. The sheep are frightened at
his shouting-the shepherds expostu-
late with him. The milk-maid only,
pleases his eye-he is hardly conscious
of the neighbouring wood. Whistling
and walking at an uneven pace, he re-
fers frequently to his watch. He hurls
his stick into the air, and with some
little dexterity regains possession of it
before falling-and he has always a
stone for the unlucky sparrow.
"It is not that my lot is low

That bids the silent tear to flow;
It is not grief that bids me mourn :
It is that I am all alone."

So sings the melancholy dreaming
White,-

"The unhappy youth who perished in his pride."

—at a time, too, when the vulture of consumption was burying its talons in his youthful form, and feasting on his vitals, with all the greediness of that bird which gorges eternally at the liver of the undying Prometheus. This may be considered a solitary instance of a poet (for we scarcely know Dr. Johnson as such) who could find no beauties in solitude.

Zimmermann, 'all hail' with thee; I wander from Dan to Bethsheba-with thee I seek the unfurrowed fields-the woods and shady groves. Well is it with that man, who can exclaim with the Roman nunquam minus solus, quam cum solus. To him we say, 'all hail' to the indulgent, Vale.

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G. S. S.

ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDI

NARY.

BY JOSEPH JEkyll.†

Mr. J. having frequently witnessed with regret country gentlemen, in their country houses, reduced to the dnlness of a domestic circle, and thereby led to attempt suicide, in the month of November, or, what is more melancholy, to invite the ancient and neighbouring families, of the Tags, the Rags, and the Bobtails-haring also observed the facility with which job-horses, and the books of a circulating library, are supplied from London to any distancehas opened an office in Spring Gardens

+ Keepsake.

for the purpose of furnishing countrygentlemen in their country houses with company and guests on the most moderate terms. An annual subscriber of thirty guineas will be entitled to receive four guests, changeable weekly, at the will of the country gentleman. An annual subscriber of fifteen guineas will be entitled to receive two guests, changeable once a fortnight. It will appear from the catalogue that Mr. J. has a choice and elegant assortment of six hundred and seventeen guests, ready to set off at a moment's warning to any country gentleman at any country house; among whom will be found, three Scotch peers, several ditto Irish, fifteen decayed baronets, eight yellow admirals, forty-seven major-generals on half-pay (who narrate the whole of the peninsular war) twenty-seven dowagers, one hundred and eightyseven old maids on small annuities, and several unbeneficed clergymen, who play a little on the fiddle. Deaf and dumb people, sportsmen, and gentlemen who describe tours to Paris and Fonthill, at half price. All the above play at cards, and usually with success if partners; no objection to cards on Sunday evenings or rainy mornings. The country gentleman to allow the guests four feeds a day, as in the case of jobs, and to produce claret if a Scotch or Irish peer be present.

Should any guest be disapproved of the country gentleman is desired to write the word "Bore" against his name in the catalogue, or chalk it on his back as he leaves the countryhouse, and his place shall be immediately filled up, by the return of the stage-coach.

Society Office, Spring Garden,
Uctober 26, 1822.

Illustrations of History.

DISCOVERIES and Experiments of

-This

PALISSY TO ENAMEL CHINA.branch of the potter's art is greatly indebted to the extraordinary perseverance of a singular man, Bernard de Palissy, a native of France, who was born in Agen at the close of the fifteenth century. His parents occupying a humble station in life, he was entirely indebted to his own unquenchable energy and perseverance for the success which crowned his industry.

The original occupation of Palissy was that of a draughtsman, to which pursuit he added land surveying.—Accident having thrown into his hands

an enamelled cup, he was immediately seized with the desire of improving the art, and thenceforward relinquish ing all other occupations, gave up his whole time, mind, and substance, during several years, to the prosecution of experiments on the composition of enamel. He has himself given a narrative of his labours, sacrifices, and sufferings, during the progress of his pursuit, which is intensely interesting. In this account, Palissy represents himself as alternately planning and building, demolishing and rebuilding his furnace, at every step buoyed up by hope, and as often met, but not subdued, by disappointment; the object of remonstrance and derision to his associates, subject to the expostulations of his wife, and witness to the silent but more eloquent reproaches of his children. In other respects Palissy proved himself an amiable as well as a highly gifted man; for, notwithstanding that his efforts were ultimately crowned by success, that standard whereby the judgment of mankind is most easily and therefore most usually formed-one might hesitate to applaud a degree of perseverance which, for so long a time, materially interfered with the welfare of his family. Amidst all this scene of deprivation and disappointment, Palissy bore outwardly a cheerful countenance, and, throughout the lengthened trial, confined within the dungeon of his own breast, those feelings of bitterness which he has so forcibly described as being his portion.

The extremities to which he was at one time reduced were such, that to provide fuel for feeding the furnace, his furniture and afterwards even some of the woodwork of his dwelling were destroyed; and, in order to silence the clamour of his assistant workman for the payment of wages, he stripped himself of a portion of his apparel. At length, however, these efforts were rewarded with complete success; and fame, honours and independence were thenceforward his attendants through a long career of useful occupation.

Palissy's after pursuits were of a more general character, embracing the sciences of agriculture, chemistry, and natural history, upon which subjects he wrote and lectured with ability and

success.

Nor did the firmness of his character forsake him for a moment to the end of his life. Being a protestant, and having ventured, in some of his lectures, to promulgate facts which made against

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the dogmas of the priests, he was, when in his ninetieth year, dragged by the infuriate zeal of these fanatics to the Bastile, and died, with consistent firmness, within its walls. His heroic reply, while thus imprisoned, to Henry III. is above all praise. My good man, said the king, if you cannot conform yourself on the matter of religion, I shall be compelled to leave you in the hands of my enemies.'-'Sire,' replied the intrepid old man, 'I was already willing to surrender my life, and could any regret have accompanied the action, it must assuredly have vanished upon hearing the great king of France say 'I am compelled.' This, sire, is a condition to which those who force you to act contrary to your own good disposition can never reduce me; because I am prepared for death, and because your whole people have not the power to compel a simple potter to bend his knee before images which he has made.' Cab. Cyc.

Notices of New Books.

Gradations in Reading and Spelling, upon an entirely new and original plan, by which Dissyllables are rendered as easy as Monosyllables. By Henry Butler.

The Etymological Spelling Book and Expositor: being an Introduction to the Spelling, Pronunciation, and Derivation of the English Language; containing, besides several other important Improvements,above 3500 Words, deduced from their Greek and Latin Roots. By the same.

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Butler's "Gradations are worthy of the attention of all who are engaged in the "delightful task" of teaching young children. The book, it is true, like others of its kind, consists of words; but the author has contrived to arrange them so that children can hardly fail of quickly learning to read with pleasure to themselves and to their teachers. The author's industry and good taste are equally conspicuous.

In the larger work, the Etymological Spelling Book and Expositor, Mr. Butler has introduced an abundance of useful novelty. He intends it not only for the use of schools, but also of adults and foreigners; and sure we are that very many fadults, particularly those who have not had a classical education, would derive benefit from carefully studying his work.

Of the three parts into which the

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