6 6 so constantly in his hand. During his long was listening, said to him laughingly, Andment of his affection for the English king.' confinement at Carisbrooke Castle, his life you, sir! do you know what it is to want five This interesting anecdote seems authenticated offers a beautiful picture of the imprisonment of or six thousand pounds?" Yes, sir,' Van-by the circumstance that such a picture appears a literary character. The king had his con- dyke replied: an artist who keeps open house in the mortuary catalogue of the collection of stant hours for writing, and he read much. We for his friends, and whose purse is always Rubens." have an interesting catalogue of the books he at the command of his mistresses, feels too With this delightful extract our limits force called for during this period. Yet there exist often the emptiness of his strong-box. In us to be content, as an illustration of these vono autographs of Charles except some letters. this unreserved manner Charles indulged him- lumes. A very judicious chapter goes to prove This seems to indicate some purposed destruc- self with the artists. Beck, whose facility that the queen did not exercise that control tion. We know that the king revised the in composition was extraordinary, was aptly over her husband which has been attributed to folio Memoirs of Sir Edward Walker, and that complimented, by Charles familiarly observ- her by preceding writers: the instances are he supplied Clarendon, from his own memo-ing to him, 'Faith, Beck! I believe that curious-but still the balance wavers. A simirials and journals, with two manuscripts, fairly you could paint riding post!' It is not won-lar remark applies to the author's interesting written, on the transactions of the years 1645 derful that a monarch, who so well knew how view of the proceedings of the famous Countess and 1646. What became of these originals, to maintain his personal dignity, and was even of Carlisle; and his critical history of the Puwith others, which were seized in the royal coldly formal in the court circle, should have ritans is an episode of the most attractive decabinet taken at Naseby? If it be true, as it been tenderly remembered by every man of scription. That there is nothing new under appears, that Charles instigated Clarendon to genius, who had enjoyed the flattering equality the sun ("except roasting grapes") is rather compose his History, posterity may admire the of this language of the heart, and this sympa- amusingly exhibited in the notice of the conking's exquisite discernment. There was not thy of companionship. A celebrated performer troversy between the "godly” and the “court” another man of genius in the royal circle who on the flute, who afterwards became so emi- of that time, respecting the observance of the could have been more happily selected. Charles nent during the Protectorate, as to be appointed Sabbath, and comparing it with the discussion appears to have designed that his court should music professor at the University of Oxford, which has just arisen between the Bishop of resemble the literary court of the Medici. He Dr. Thomas Wilson, with equal pride and London and the press in our own day. In assembled about him the great masters of their affection, remembered, that he was often in this part the author's research into sabbatical various arts; and while they acquired the good attendance on Charles, who, in the intensity institutions, and the revival of the Book of fortune of the royal patronage, and were dig- of his delight, used to lean over his shoulder Sports by Charles for the purpose of dissipatnified by his honours, they more largely par- while he played. Old Nicholas Laniere, who ing the gloom, has furnished us a chapter of ticipated in that sort of affection which the subscribed one of his plates as being done in uncommon curiosity. Among others, "A poreal lovers of art experience for the persons of my youthful age of 74,' was one of those pular preacher at the Temple, who was disgreat artists. We may rate Charles's taste at artists, as Lord Orford designates them, posed to foster a cheerful spirit among the the supreme degree, by observing, that this whose various talents were so happy as to common people, yet desirous that the Lord's monarch never patronised mediocrity: the ar- suit the taste of Charles the First, musician, day should not pass undistinguished, declared tist who was honoured by his regard was ever painter, and engraver!' Laniere was one of that those whose hands are ever working a master-spirit. Father of art in our country, the king's active agents for the selection of whilst their eyes are waking, through the Charles seemed ambitious of making English works of art, while he himself could add to whole week, need their recreations on the denizens of every man of genius in Europe; them. He outlived the persecution of that Lord's day;' but that Sundays should be oband of no monarch have been recorded such political period, and shed tears many years served with strictness and an abstinence from frequent instances of the deep personal interest after in the funereal hymn on his royal master, all recreations, only by persons of quality' entertained for individuals. Charles, with his set by himself. But if it be delightful to view who had the whole week for their amuseown hand, wrote to Albano, to invite that Charles the First indulging the most kindly ments." This jest was, at any rate, better joyous painter of childhood to reside at the feelings to artists, it is more so to find that he than the prohibition that "No one shall run court of England. When another artist, Tor- knew and entered into their wounded feelings, on the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden, rentius, was condemned to perpetual imprison- and could even forgive their caprices. The cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut ment, Charles, in the excess of his admiration king's earliest picturer,' as he is styled in the hair or shave. No woman shall kiss her for his works, interceded for the wretched royal warrant, was Daniel Mytens, a Flemish child"!! man; pleading only for the artist, the rarity artist, who has left us one of the finest heads and excellence of his works were alone dwelt of Charles the First in his happier days, ere on by the king. Rubens and Vandyke, with care and thought had stamped their traces on other illustrious names, Charles had made his his majestic countenance. On the arrival of own; and we cannot read a history of foreign Vandyke, great as was Mytens' reputation and art without meeting with the name of Charles the favour he enjoyed, the artist fancied that the First, so closely had his patronage or his his sun had set his occupation had gone!' kindness connected this monarch with his con- In a sullen humour, Mytens requested his ma- Notes on Haiti, made during a Residence in temporary artists in every country. No royal jesty's permission to retire to his native home. history opens domestic scenes of equal fasci- Charles having learned the cause of this sudden that Republic. By Charles Mackenzie, Esq., nation with those which occurred in the con-attack of spleen, used the wayward genius late his Majesty's Consul-General in Haiti. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1830. Colburn and stant intercourse of the grave and stately with all a brother's tenderness. The king Charles with his favourite companions, the healed the infirmity of genius, assuring the SLAVERY is that state of being, in which one Bentley. artists themselves. His conversations with jealous artist, that he could find sufficient portion of the community, trampling upon the them were familiar and unreserved. In the employment both for him and Vandyke.' It natural rights of the other, denies to it an breakfast-room of Charles the First were hung, was no doubt after this, that Charles hung the equal participation in the enjoyment of civil by his special order, the portraits of his three portrait of his old artist between the two institutions, abuses its mental and physical enfavourites, Rubens, Mytens, and Vandyke. greatest masters of art; and it is pleasing to dowments to sensual or selfish purposes, and Vandyke, by the desire of Charles, married an record, that the brothers in art, with the mo- regards it as a property, possessing scarcely English lady, and resided in England. The narch as their common friend, became brothers higher claims to consideration than an inaniking would frequently go by water to the in their affections; for Vandyke painted the mate machine or a brute creature. Whatever painter's house in Blackfriars to his studio, portrait of Mytens. The king's constant atand often sitting to Vandyke himself, would tendance on Rubens, when that great painter commission the queen, his family, and his was in England, the honours he bestowed on courtiers, to allow no rest to his facile and him, and the noble offers he made him, are not unwearied pencil; they delighted to view sufficiently known. This great painter found, "Having prohibited Sundays as days of recreation, themselves in the unshadowy splendour of his and felt in Charles the First, a congenial spirit. and abolished all saints' days, or festivals, the common portraits. A traditional story was floating in Having painted the history of St. George, re- periodical holydays. The feelings of the people were people evidently murmured at the deprivation of their the last century, the probability of which presenting Charles, wherein, if it be possible, more natural than their parliament, even in the gloomy seems to authenticate the fact. Vandyke was he hath exceeded himself,' as a contemporary of a remarkable ordinance issued in 1647 concerning land of Puritanism. This must have been the occasion painting the portrait of Charles the First, writes, Rubens would not part with the ori- days of recreation allowed unto scholars, apprentices, while the monarch was complaining in a low ginal till he had finished a copy for himself, &c. The second Tuesday in every month was set apart voice to the Duke of Norfolk of the state of that, as he said, the picture might remain in that all windows of shops and warehouses shall be kept for the holyday of these persons, when it was ordered, his finances. The king perceiving that Vandyke his house at Antwerp, as a perpetual monu- shut on the said day of recreation." " But we must conclude. Vol. IV. ends with the flight of Charles from London to Hampton and Windsor, January 1642-3; and an Appendix contains some very interesting and original correspondence between Sir J. Eliot, Hampden, and other celebrated persons. with the Athenian, our benevolence assuage may be the gradations of treatment-whether, their condition by lenity, or with the Spartan 6 and Roman, our obduracy aggravate their suf-tection of the president, who strictly vindicates | vote, are those under judicial sentence, idiots ferings and destitution still the lash that his claim to his official designation by inter-or menial servants. Trusting to this law, the drives the slave to a market or to the scene of fering with every thing. The effective service American emigrants, who are adopted citizens, his labours must ever remain an instrument of under him is carried on by different depart-proposed to elect, as one member, a methodist mental and corporeal debasement to his injured ments. The secretary-general, Inginac, unites preacher, one of their number, and for that race. In this state of being, where he has no in his own person the offices of secretary-at-purpose proceeded in a body to the church possession but what another claims the right to war, of foreign and home minister. Among (where the elections take place); and it was wrest from him, the edge of his reasoning his other duties he promulgates the orders of reported to me that they were entered in at faculties becomes blunted, sensual instinct ob- the president, and such laws as have received one door and civilly handed out of the opposite tains the mastery over his animal impulses, his sanction; and he also countersigns certain one, without having been allowed a solitary and the gratification of his passions becomes documents. I believe a secretary-general ex-vote. The first candidate was elected without the only stimulant which can warm him into isted under the colonial system. The minister any opposition; the second was proposed by energy, or blunt the sense of his degradation. of finance, designated Secrétaire d'état des the government, and he of course was chosen : Those who have meditated on the consequences finances,' M. Imbert, and the treasurer-gene- but some doubts were raised as to the validity of a system which denies that "all men are ral, M. Nau, arrange all fiscal matters; while of the election; for although there were more brethren," and levels one human being to the the grand juge,' who, strange to relate, is a than one opposing candidate, the singular phescale of the brute that perishes, will not stand military man, presides in the supreme court of nomenon had occurred of there being five more in need of any argument to shew the natural justice, and exercises jurisdiction over all the votes in his favour than there were voters pretendency of such a cause to produce such a inferior courts and law officers. There are sent. This apparent inconsistency did not consequence as we have shortly traced; neither at Port-au-Prince, besides the court already affect the proceedings; and only one individual will they find any difficulty in referring to their named, one of cassation, another for civil and ventured to make some observations on the obvious source the miserable state of morals in criminal cases in the first instance, and a 'juge miraculous excess of votes. He had scarcely every land where slavery has established its de paix' court for minor matters of all kinds. begun to speak, when so loud a clamour was relentless dominion; whether it be under a A tribunal of commerce was talked of, but I raised that he was glad to run off, which he Grecian, a Turkish, an African, or an Ameri- know not whether it has been yet constituted. literally did, au grand pas;' and it is added, can sky. The city, as well as Fort Bizotton, is garri- by the historian of his glories, that he actually With such feelings as these we took up the soned by regular troops, and there are various did not stop until he found himself safe among volumes before us; and their record has not military posts both within and without. At his household gods, at a distance of half a mile belied our expectations. They present a me- most of them the strange exhibition is made of from the scene of tumult. The party which morable picture of humanity just emerged from chairs or seats for the sentries on duty, and had so successfully discomfited our hero, emthe bondage of body and mind; and display hammocks for the remainder of the guard. boldened by success, determined to pursue still in shaded outlines the features of a community The first place at which I remarked this sin- further their ingenious and simple expedient, which has not yet shaken off the vices insepa-gular arrangement was in the front of the pre- and when the votes were collected for the next rable from a condition of servitude. We were sident's palace. At the outlet to Leogane, I candidate, also on the government interest, he prepared for this state of things. Knowing, have repeatedly seen the sentinel squatting on was declared the sitting member, in consefrom personal experience, that as high an order the ground, holding his musket between his quence of having twenty votes more than there of intellect may be concealed under a dingy or knees. From this singularly elegant attitude were voters present. I was not present at this a swarthy, as under a fair tint of the skin, we he is scarcely ever roused, except by the clat- strange exhibition; but I have faithfully rewere as little surprised to find the self-emanci- tering of horses' hoofs, moving faster than is corded the statements made to me by various pated Africans of Haiti adapting their ways to meet in the presence of a Haitian post. He persons at various periods. Ballot is the mode the example of civilised nations, as we should then starts up, growling the awful words, au of election employed, which of course facilitates have been to have found that, after a struggle, pas !' so familiar to all trotting delinquents. the proofs of double voting. A representation in which they had afforded so many proofs of a There is also an adequate stimulus to move was said to be made to the president of these manly intellect, they had relapsed into a state him, in the prospective confiscation of the plan- irregularities; but he is reported to have deof barbarism. We were also prepared to learn, tains, yams, or fruit, of any unhappy wight, clared his utter disbelief of the statement made: that lust and indolence characterised this infant who, in contravention of the code rural,' and as I never heard of a reference in such a people; they are but the handmaids to that strays to the market on forbidden days. The case in Haiti to an election committee, I believe state of mental degradation in which their late police is military, forming a particular regi. that the two honourable members were assured masters had retained them; but these vices ment; and, from having lived above two months of their seats until the dissolution of the parliawill, we cannot doubt, be ere long disarmed nearly opposite to the juge de paix, I can aver ment. of their sinister dominion; for education will that they have abundant employment, which teach the Haytian that to be happy he must be they perform with the usual delicacy of their industrious, and that to taste the real enjoy-profession. The delinquents were chiefly ofments of life, it is necessary he should curb fenders of both sexes against the code rural the passions. It was not a little gratifying to persons, in fact, who preferred dancing all us, therefore, to find that the government had night, and drinking tafia, to the labour pre"given evidence of its conviction of the advan-scribed by that law." - Well may the writer add: "Such an occurrence naturally leads to reflections on the expediency of the semblance of a popular representation in an unformed community, and from what I have seen among these people, as well as on the continent of America (I mean among the new republics), I confess that I entertain very serious doubts of its compatibility with the permanent advancement of the community tages that must result from education," and Delinquency, however, is not confined to During a residence of fifteen months, there appears to have been scarcely one single point, civil, political, physical, or commercial, which was left unsifted by the unwearied and welldirected diligence of our observant fellow-coun"In consequence of some misconception of tryman. He assumes nothing for fact which the president's proclamation for the election of does not come within his personal experience, In its actual state this island affords but members of the Chamber of Commons, the or cannot be adequately supported by collateral scanty elements out of which to construct the elections took place generally in December and indisputable evidence: what he sees, he revarious springs and safeguards of a free consti- 1826, instead of the following month. The lates with simplicity; and what he gathers from tution. Military despotism accordingly usurps, capital, however, was correct, and did not ex- others, he candidly refers to its proper source. to a certain extent, that station which will, we ercise its right of election until the prescribed Even had we no voucher in that jealous regard trust, one day be filled by the strong arm of a day. This city returns three regular members for character, which must belong to a gentlewisely-directed civil power. Mr. Mackenzie and three supernumeraries, as in Spain during man who has again been called upon to fill a reached the capital at the close of May 1826; the constitution, and is now the case in Mex- highly responsible office, it would be impossible and in his lively picture of its characteristics ico. Universal suffrage is the law of the land, for any candid reader to suspect his report on naturally comprises the "powers that be." founded on the Haitian Magna Charta, if I Haiti of partiality or misrepresentation. It is "Port-au-Prince is the seat of the republi- may so designate the constitution of 1806, re- on this account that we the more lament the can government, and is the principal post of vised in 1816, and now the apparent rule of imperfect idea our remaining extracts must an arrondissement,' under the peculiar pro-proceeding. The only individuals who cannot convey of the nature, novelty, and value of Mr. Mackenzie's investigations. Among the I was curious to learn the causes of the failure | baths, or therma, of the city. Some of the more amusing of his sketches, that of the "Ude of the Mining Association. Two phials that apartments of this edifice yet remained coof Aux Cayes" stands prominent. contained at least three ounces each, filled with vered by stone arches, which, having resisted "The great body of the town's-people appear gold dust, in the form called by the Spaniards the pressure of the cinders and accumulated to be in easy circumstances, and do not, I pepitas, gathered by hand from the sands of earth, retained, in all their original freshness think, lounge quite so much as their brethren the Yaqui, were exhibited to me. One of the of colour, those beautiful ornaments and fretted of Port-au-Prince. A circumstance occurred, grains was as large as the end of my little fin- ceilings, of which so few have resisted the which I noted as illustrative of the state of so-ger. There can thus be no doubt that gold lapse of eighteen centuries. The discovery of ciety. The town-adjutant (who holds the rank does exist, though it does not appear that it is the baths is perhaps of greater consequence of captain, if I recollect aright) is, moreover, a in the form of ore." than may at first appear; for, notwithstanding professional cook, and generously contributes Again: Cotuy was never a place of much the enormous ruins of the Roman Therm, to the epicurean delights of all and any who importance, though it was founded very early their component parts seem to have been call upon him, for a doubloon. In his former (in 1505); but in its neighbourhood there are little understood, and even variously named, capacity he had called upon me in a gorgeous said to be mines which were worked so lately by the authors who have undertaken their uniform of green and gold; in the latter, he as 1747, having been previously abandoned elucidation. At Pompeii, on the contrary, the was employed by my host, preparatory to his from a dearth of labourers. The latter work-absence of xystus, theatre, palæstra, and an entertaining the magnates of the city; and, to ings were directed by the father of Valverde, infinite number of other intricate divisions my utter surprise, after he had completed his the historian of Santo Domingo. The princi- which render the Therma of the great capital labours, I saw him marched off between a file pal mine, in the mountain called Maymon, is so complicated and unintelligible, leaves a saof soldiers. I was afraid that my friend had of copper, which contains eight per cent of tisfactory and defined idea of the use and meanincurred the displeasure of the general, for de- gold. Lapis lazuli has been found in the same ing of every other portion of the fabric. Pregrading his military profession by reverting to mine; and not far distant, it is reported that viously to the discovery of the baths, the whole his original calling, and made anxious inqui- emeralds have occurred. Iron, in a very pure of a narrow alley behind the Chalcidicum had ries as to the cause of the phenomenon that state, also abounds in the neighbourhood. been cleared, and a passage opened to the had astonished me; but great was my amaze- Cotuy is also near to the gold mines of Cibao, street running between the Forum and the ment on being informed that the aforesaid the highest mountain range in Haiti; in which Thermæ. From that alley a still smaller adjutant was very prone to get drunk after Spanish cupidity is said to have entombed avenue ran between the Chalcidicum and the such hot work as that in which he had been thousands of Indians. Although now wholly building which is known on the spot by the engaged; that the general had fixed a day or unproductive, their reputation of richness is name of the Pantheon; thus adding to the two after for entertaining his friends; and to almost unbounded. Not only are the mines secure the assistance of the Ude of Cayes, he reported to abound in this precious metal, but had marched him in safe keeping to his house the sand washed down by the mountain streams in the country, before he had any opportunity is reported to be charged with it; and out of of making himself o'er all the ills of life vic- their produce as much as two hundred and torious! The young men of Cayes are the forty thousand crowns of gold have been struck dandies of the republic, and better mannered off in one year in the mint of Concepcion de la than the majority of their countrymen. Many Vega. A great quantity, besides what was of the young women are very pretty, and grace- brought to the mint, was supposed to have ful in their forms." been secreted to avoid payment of the king's dues." As a pendant, we present the portrait of Christophe's executioner; which is followed by an interesting sketch of the emperor's rise and fall, his residences, citadel, family, &c. a former map of Pompeii an entire square or island of public edifices and habitations, and forming, in itself, no mean acquisition to the antiquary. This excavation was also remarkable for the discovery of an ancient well of considerable depth, and still retaining fifteen feet of water, which, from its situation, might possibly have been there before the destruction of the city. These various objects, with the house, named that of the Tragic Poet, situated opposite to the northern side of the Thermæ, We shall now leave the reader to determine, cover a plot of ground advancing nearer to the by a perusal of the volumes themselves, how centre of Pompeii than any which had formerly far they merit the claim which we have put in been cleared, and, in consequence of a greater Among the other things to which a stran. for them on the score of their intrinsic value, depth of superincumbent soil, they have geneger's attention is called, is a savage, ruffian- no less than of their spirited portraiture of rally been found in a better state of preservalike black man (named Gattie), who labours as community whose appearance forms so striking tion. They form, altogether, the connexion of a porter. He walks about bare-footed, dressed a novelty in the records of civilised life. two portions of the plan of the city, which in a linen shirt and trousers, with a large | were scarcely united by the unfinished excavabeard, and his eyes fixed on the ground. This Pompeiana; or, Observations on the Topogra- tion of the Forum at the period of the former fellow was Christophe's chief executioner, of publication. The house of the Tragic Poet whom it is told that, when directed to perform has exhibited superior specimens of painting, the duties of his office, he invariably waited on while the subject of ancient art itself is exthe relatives of his victim and demanded a fee, citing more of the public attention, and meetin proportion to which he inflicted more or less THE merits of Sir William Gell's former pub-ing with merited though tardy admiration, torture on the unhappy sufferer. He had at- lication on this interesting subject are well through the zeal and industry of M. Ternite, tained from practice such an unenviable dex-known to the artist and the antiquary. The who is engraving at Berlin a superb collection terity in decapitation, that for a proper remu. present "is intended, not only to supply the neration he could with his sabre remove the omissions of the former work, but to describe head at one stroke, and by the instant prostra- those more recent discoveries which are by no tion of the trunk, avoid staining the collar with means inferior in interest or singularity." blood. At least such is the tale told, when, "Among these," observes the author, in shuddering at his ill-omened countenance, he his preface" the excavation of the Chalcidiis pointed out by those who remember him in cum, which took place soon after the publicaall his glory and iniquity. I repeatedly saw him, but always alone. Yet I was told that he earned a decent livelihood as a porter among the foreigners. It is a matter of surprise that he should still live in the scene of his atrocities, in the midst of numberless individuals who have been by his hand bereft of some of their nearest and most valued ties. It speaks well for the people." We have seen it publicly stated, that the island was altogether destitute of the precious metals; but the subsequent statements, which concern the Spanish portion of Haiti, afford a very different view of its mineral riches. "The two days that I spent at this place (St. Jago) were devoted to complete my stock of local knowledge; and, among other points, phy, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii. tion of the former work, laid open the only of the pictures of Herculaneum and Pompeii, under the auspices of the King of Prussia." Sir William complains of the great and increasing difficulty of obtaining permission to draw and measure the newly discovered antiquities; and states, that an astonishing number of interesting objects are destroyed by the action of the weather, before an opportunity is afforded of making drawings of them. To the researches of foreigners especially, great obstacles appear to have been hitherto thrown in the way by the acting superintendent of the excavations; but that office having lately been conferred on a more worthy person, antiquaries may hope for the abolition of exclusion. The writer remarks, that "excepting the outlines of a few of the paintings which have been published in the Museo Borbonico, nearly the whole of the objects detailed in this work might have passed away without representation or record, had not the author been on the spot, and thus been enabled to avail him self of every favourable moment for acquiring the necessary materials." "It may not be quite uninteresting," says | Heart of Mid-Lothian.' Her history, how- | this fact, I am inclined to regard it as someSir William, to notice the progress of the ever humble, was, in some respects, eventful, what apocryphal. Helen, though a woman of excavations, which, notwithstanding all that and when stripped of all adventitious ornament, small stature, had been rather well-favoured has been said on the subject to the contrary, may be given very briefly, though few readers in her youth. On one occasion she told Eliseem to have been as well conducted, and as require to be informed that it has been expanded zabeth Grierson that she should not do as she steadily pursued, as times and circumstances into an interesting and somewhat bulky novel, had done, but winnow the corn when the have permitted. Since the return of the le- by the fertile genius of Sir Walter Scott. From wind blew in the barn-door.' By this she gitimate sovereign, more than half of the whence her parents came is not known, but meant, that she should not hold her head too Forum has been cleared; the Senaculam or it is generally believed that they were what are high, by rejecting the offer of a husband when Temple of Jupiter, the Chalcidicum, the Tem-called incomers' into the parish of Irongray, it came in her way; and when joked on the ple of Mercury, the Pantheon, the Temple of and were in no way connected with the Walkers subject of matrimony herself, she confessed, Venus, that of Fortune, the Thermæ, and in-of Clouden, a race alike distinguished for re- though reluctantly, that she once had a sweetnumerable private houses have been disin-spectability and longevity, and who have flou- heart a youth she esteemed, and by whom terred; and though it be true that more la- rished time out of mind upon the fertile and she imagined she was respected in turn; that bourers might have been employed, it is not pleasant banks of the Cairn. Her father ap- her lover, at a fair time, overtook her on less so that the work ought not to proceed till pears to have been a labouring man ; and at his horseback, and that when she asked if he the objects already explored are roofed and death, his widow, who was then well stricken in would take her up, answered gaily, That I fortified against the weather. At present, con. years, became dependent for support on the in-will, Helen, if ye can ride an inch behind the siderable expense attends the excavation, on dustry of her daughters, Nelly and TibbyWalker. tail.' The levity of this answer offended her account of the greater depth of soil which oc- But this the former was far from viewing in greatly, and from that moment she cast the curs toward the centre of the city. The pre- the light of a hardship-she who was so rich in recreant from her heart, and never, as she servation of the vaults of the Therma has sisterly, could not be deficient in filial affection confessed, loved again. I regret that I am been a work of no trifling importance; and and I have been informed by Elizabeth Grier- unable to fix the exact date of the principal both time and skill are necessary in the appli- son, housekeeper to Mr. Stott, optician, Dum-incident in Helen Walker's life. I believe, cation of the means best calculated to hand fries, who, when a lassie,' knew Helen well, however, that it occurred a few years previous down to posterity whatever can be saved of that though sometimes constrained to dine on to the more lenient law anent child murder, these crumbling relics of antiquity." dry bread and water, rather than pinch her poor which was passed in 1736. At this time her It appears that "not a day passes without old mother, she consoled herself with the idea sister Tibby, who was considerably younger, the discovery of something of greater or less that a blessing flowed from her virtuous absti- and a comely girl, resided in the same cottage; importance; while the previous acquisition of nence, and that she was as clear in the com- and it is not improbable that their father, a at least twenty great statues of marble and plexion, and looked as like her meat and work, worthy man, was also alive. Isabella was four of bronze, not to mention a countless as the best of them.' The respectable female courted by a youth of the name of Waugh, multitude of smaller figures and precious ob- just named, who has herself passed the bound- who had the character of being rather wild, jects, promises an ample harvest in future. ary line of three-score-and-ten, resided in her fell a victim to his snares, and became enceinte, It is certainly surprising that so few skeletons youth at a place called Dalwhairn, in Irongray, though she obstinately denied the fact to the have yet been found in Pompeii; but by esti-where her father cultivated a small farm. Helen last. The neighbours, however, suspected that mating the number, 160, already discovered at Walker at this time, that is, at least sixty a child had been born, and repeatedly urged about an eighth of the whole, according to the years since,'-was much, as the phrase goes, her to confess her fault. But she was deaf to proportion which the city already laid open about her father's house; nursed her mother their entreaties, and denied all knowledge of a bears to the area enclosed by the walls and during her confinement, and even acted as the dead infant, which was found shortly after in supposed suburbs, we shall find that nearly leading gossip at all the christenings; was re- the Cairn, or Clouden. The circumstance was 1,300 of the unfortunate inhabitants were de- spected as a conscientious auxiliary in harvest, soon bruited abroad, and by the directions of stroyed by the fatal eruption; a computation and uniformly invited to share the good things of the Rev. Mr. Guthrie, of Irongray, the susby no means insignificant to the population of rural life, when the mart happened to be killed, pected person, and corpus delicti, were carried a city scarcely two miles in circuit, and of or a melder of corn was brought from the mill. before the authorities for examination. The which so considerable a portion was occupied Her conversational powers were of a high order, unnatural mother was committed to prison, by public buildings.' considering her humble situation in life; her and confined in what was called the thief's The work is exceedingly well got up, and language most correct, ornate, and pointed; hole,' in the old jail of Dumfries-a grated room some of the plates are very beautiful. Besides her deportment sedate and dignified in the ex- on the ground floor, whither her seducer somean elegant title-page and several vignettes, treme. Many of the neighbours regarded her times repaired and conversed with her through there are the Wall of the Pantheon," as a little pensy body'—that is, conceited or the grating. When the day of trial arrived, splendidly coloured; "Poets reading," a fine proud; but at the same time they bore willing Helen was told that a single word of her and classical outline; " Frigidarium ;" and testimony to her exemplary conduct and un- mouth would save her sister, and that she "Part of the Street of the Mercuries and the wearied attendance on the duties of religion. would have time to repent afterwards;' but, adjacent Houses." Wet or dry, she appeared regularly at the parish trying as was the ordeal, harassing the alternachurch, and even when at home delighted in tive, nothing could shake her noble fortitude, Sketches from Nature. By John M'Diarmid. searching the Scriptures daily. On a small her enduring and virtuous resolution. Sleep 12mo. pp. 388. Edinburgh, 1830, Oliver and round table the big ha' Bible' usually lay for nights fled from her pillow; most fervently Boyd: London, Simpkin and Marshall. open, and though household affairs would she prayed for help and succour in the time of A NUMBER, the majority, of these pleasant visitors that when she lacked leisure to read to flow, and her heart seemed too large for her often call her hence,' it was observed by her need; often she wept till the tears refused sketches, if our memory does not mislead us, have already run the gauntlet of the press, and continuously, she sometimes glanced at a single body; but still, no arguments, however subtle rendered the talent of their writer familiar to verse, and then appeared to ponder the subject no entreaties, however agonising-could inthe public. He is indeed one of the best story. deeply. A thunder-storm, which appals most duce her to offend her Maker by swerving from tellers we know; his embellishments always females, had on her quite an opposite effect. the truth. Her sister was tried, condemned, clever, and his general manner extremely tak- While the elemental war continued, it was her and sentenced to be executed at the termination ing. In the volume before us, between thirty custom to repair to the door of her cottage, the of the usual period of six weeks. The result is and forty papers are devoted chiefly to curious knitting-gear in hand, and well-coned Bible well known, and is truly as well as powerfully illustrations of natural history; but there are open before her; and when questioned on the set forth in the novel. Immediately after the some of a different class, and we select one of subject by her wondering neighbours, she repli- conviction, Helen Walker borrowed a sum of the latter, as likely to interest our readers, ed, That she was not afraid of thunder; and money, procured one or more letters of recomwhile it very well illustrates Mr. M'Diarmid's that the Almighty, if such were his divine mendation, and without any other guide than excellent miscellany. pleasure, could smite in the city, as well as in the public road, began to wend her way to the the field. When out-door labour could not be city of London-a journey which was then conThe real History of Jeanie Deans. procured, she supported herself by footing sidered more formidable than a voyage to "It is no longer doubted or denied, that stockings-an operation which bears the same America is in our day. Over her best attire Helen Walker, of the parish of Irongray, in the relation to the hosier's craft that the cobbler's she threw a plaid and hood, walked barefooted neighbourhood of Dumfries, was the prototype does to the shoemaker's. It has been reported, the whole way, and completed the distance of the heroine who, under the fictitious name of too, that she sometimes taught children to in fourteen days. Though her feet were sorely Jeanie Deans, figures so conspicuously in the read; but as no one about Clouden remembers blistered,' her whole frame exhausted, and her 6 6 The best works spirits sadly jaded, she found it impossible to meet with any public encouragement; but and elaborate in execution." The fraternity rest until she had inquired her way to the resi- the day has been, of which many deplorable was dissolved by statute during the reign dence of John, Duke of Argyle. As she arrived proofs remain on record. A new light has, of King Edward VI., and the oak-work at the door, his grace was just about to step however, now dawned upon us; and the subsequently transferred to its present situainto his carriage; and as the moment was too architect of the present time, to obtain any tion by Sir Robert Napier. A copy of the critical to be lost, the heroic pilgrim presented notice from his contemporaries, must prove original deed or instrument of consecration of her petition, fell upon her knees, and urged its that he has studied—ay, and diligently stu- the chapel is subjoined, by the kind permission prayer with a degree of earnestness and natural died—those interesting remains which, in of the Marquess of Bute, to whom the work is eloquence that more than realised the well- spite of the revolutions of time and fashion, very appropriately dedicated. known saying of snatching a grace beyond are still remaining to us. the reach of art.' Here, again, the result is that have lately issued from the press generally The Family Classical Library; or, English Translations of the most valuable Greek and well known; a pardon was procured and des- contain practical forms and accurate details of Latin Classics, with highly finished Engravpatched to Scotland; and the pilgrim, after her early buildings-not mere picturesque views, as ings of the Authors. No. IV. Xenophon. purse had been replenished, returned home, heretofore; and correctness of design and exeVol. II. The Cyropædia. Translated by gladdened and supported by the consoling cution, in our recent structures, have followed the Hon. M. C. A. Cooper. London, 1830. thought that she had done her duty without in a proportionate ratio. Mr. Shaw, in the work now before us, has Colburn and Bentley. violating her conscience. Touching this great chapter in her history, she was always remark-selected one of the most curious and florid THIS work, of which we predicted well from ably shy and reserved; but there is one person specimens of the date of Henry VIII.; and the beginning, has already advanced far enough still alive who has heard her say, that it was his delightful plates are evidence of the great to justify our very favourable prediction. The through 'the Almighty's strength' that she care he has taken to give all its varying volumes now before the public contain the Its Orations of Demosthenes, by Leland; Salwas enabled to meet the duke at the most criti-richness with the most perfect fidelity. cal moment a moment which, if lost, never leading characteristics are fully explained in lust's Conspiracy of Catiline, and the Jumight have been recalled in time to save her Dr. Ingram's account of the chapel, which we gurthine War, by Rose; and Xenophon's sister's life. Tibby Walker, from the stain annex: "The whole of the interior presents a Anabasis, or March of the Ten Thousand, cast on her good name, retired to England, and rich display of panel-work, beautifully carved by Spelman; besides the author mentioned afterwards became united to the man that had in oak, and ornamented by an assemblage of above, the whole furnished with all the newronged her, and with whom, as is believed, elegant cornices, embattlements, niches, cano- cessary apparatus for clearing the difficulties she lived happily for the greater part of half pies, crockets, and finials; having the usual of the text, biographies, introductions to the a century. Her sister resumed her quiet rural accompaniments of stalls, seats, and misereres, several parts of the volumes, and notes of manemployments, and, after a life of unsullied in- as in the choirs of our cathedrals, with a splen- ners, antiquities, and history. There can be tegrity, died in November or December 1791, did pulpit and desk of tabernacle-work, sur- no conceivable doubt of the value of such a at the age of nearly fourscore. My respectable mounted by a gorgeous canopy, which is car- publication: unless our forefathers have been friend, Mr. Walker, found her residing as a ried, by several gradually diminishing stages, in error for the last five hundred years, a cottier on the farm of Clouden, when he en- to the height of more than eighteen feet from knowledge of what has been contained in the tered to it, upwards of forty years ago, was ex- the floor. At the upper end is an altar-screen, great writers of antiquity is essential to the ceedingly kind to her when she became frail, consisting of two tiers of solid arch-work, formation of an intelligent mind. That men and even laid her head in the grave. Up to divided by a bold fascia, charged with oak may live without the knowledge of Homer or the period of her last illness, she corresponded leaves, vine leaves, roses, lilies, and thistles; Virgil, Thucydides or Cicero, is not the matter regularly with her sister, and received every each containing ten niches, with perks for the in dispute; but that, in every civilised land year from her a cheese and pepper-cake,' reception of statues, and having their recesses of Europe, itself the great centre of civilisaportions of which she took great pleasure in finished with the most florid and fanciful tion, the tone of manners, the refinement of presenting to her friends and neighbours. The tracery, of which a similar example will not taste, and the vigour of public inquiry, nay, exact spot in which she was interred was lately easily be found in this country." Mr. Shaw's more, the manly energy of public freedom, pointed out in Irongray churchyard, a roman- illustrations consist of twenty plates, and a have been born with the birth, and grown with tic cemetery on the banks of the Cairn; and vignette executed on copper, with a delicacy the growth of classical literature, is among though, as a country-woman said, there was and aerial effect that is perfectly beautiful, and those opinions that have long since amounted nothing to distinguish it but a stane ta'en aff place his name in a very elevated rank as an to maxims with all the more elevated and geThe universal the dyke,' the public will be well pleased to architectural draughtsman and engraver. nerous portion of mankind. hear that Sir Walter Scott intends to erect Some difficulty appears to exist in ascertain- opinion could not be more strongly proved, a suitable monument to her memory. Though ing with certainty the history of this extra- than by the fact of giving up to the acquisition subscriptions were tendered, he politely declined ordinary wood-work; but Dr. Ingram, who of the languages of those works, almost the all aid, and has already, I believe, employed seems to have examined all the varying testi- whole period of those invaluable years, when Mr. Burn, architect, to design a monument, monies with his usual acumen, suggests and the mind is most plastic-the sensibility most vivid; and when must be laid the foundation which, in connexion with the novel, will trans-there appears great probability of the fact. mit her fame to a distant posterity, and in that it had originally belonged to the chapel of every quality that makes the difference beall probability render the spot so classical that of the gild or fraternity of the Holy and tween man as an encumbrance of the earth, it will be visited by thousands on thousands in Undivided Trinity and the most Blessed Vir- or as the light and honour of his species. It after generations. The above narrative, though gin Mary, within the parish church of Luton. is palpable, that this extraordinary study was exceedingly hurried, is perfectly accurate in The register of this gild or fraternity has not for any object of direct necessity. The point of fact; and I have only farther to add, lately been discovered, from the contents of languages had passed away from human use; that the story of Helen Walker, alias Jeanie which it appears to have been one of the most the knowledge was, in none of the usual senses Deans, first became known to Sir Walter Scott wealthy and splendid in the kingdom. It ex- of the word, convertible to human advantage. through the attention of the late Mrs. Commis-hibits an annual catalogue of the masters, What Demosthenes uttered when he sary Goldie, as will be seen when he issues the wardens, brethren and sisters, bachelors and new edition of the Heart of Mid-Lothian." As a concluding remark, we may say, that our worthy contemporary has now, as before, produced a work of a very delightful character, and one which must fix the attention of old and young, while it improves and amuses either age. "Wielded at will the fierce democracy, Shook th' arsenal, and fulmined over Greece:" maidens, in richly illuminated calligraphy, with the names of the kings and queens of or what Plato poured forth, bright, pure, and England, bishops, abbots, priors, and other lofty, as a stream from the summit of one of persons of consequence, who were enrolled his native hills, was neither food, nor raiment, amongst its members, or noticed as founders, nor fire, to any man of the millions, who in patrons, and benefactors. The period which every age of revived Europe, have stood, like it embraces, from the fifteenth of Edward IV. aspirants, worshipping and awaiting the im (1475) to the last year of Henry VIII. (1546), pulse of those splendid oracles of truth and The History and Antiquities of the Chapel at as well as the general character of the orna- virtue. The homage was paid from the convicLuton Park, a Seat of the most Honourable ments, exactly harmonises with the style of tion, that to the illustrious minds of the dead, the Marquess of Bute. By H. Shaw. Folio. embellishment observable in the Luton Cha- the living must come for the gift of power like Carpenter and Son. London, 1830. pel; and from the opulence of the society, as their own; that as the human understanding THE day is past in which collections of ill-well as the patronage which it enjoyed, there is a blank, it was only by inscribing it with sorted designs for Gothic Villas, &c. &c., illus-is every reason to infer that it was capable of the character of ancient genius, that it was to trated by tawdry prints in aquatint, would producing whatever was magnificent in design be made capable in its turn of transmitting |