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THE MIRROR
OF
LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
VOL. XVII, NO. 482.] SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1831. [PRICE 2d.

BRAY CHURCH.
BRAY CHURCH.
Who has not heard of the Vicar of Bray, and his turning, turning, and turning again? Here is his church, and a
goodly tower withal, which we, in our turn, have endeavoured to turn to the illustration of our pages. There is
no sinister motive in the selection; but if we have hit the white, or rather the black, of such variableness, "let
the galled jade wince," and pay the Mirror the stale compliment of veluti in speculum.

Bray is a small village about one mile from Maidenhead, and its name would have remained "unsaid, unsung,"
had it not been for its never-enough-to-be-ridiculed Vicar. Camden supposes Bray to have been occupied by
the Bibroci, who submitted to Caesar, and obtained his protection, and with it a secure possession of one of
the most beautiful spots in this county; so that submissiveness seems to have been the very air of the place in
all times. Philippa, the queen of Edward III., had rents assigned to her from this and the adjoining manor of
Cookham. It is now considered as part of the royal domain, being attached to the liberties of Windsor Castle,
and retaining some peculiar privileges, among which is an exemption from tolls in the adjacent market-towns.

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In default of male heirs, lands are not divided here among females of the same degree of kindred, but descend
solely to the eldest. The church is "a spacious structure," says the Windsor Guide, and "composed of various
materials, and exhibiting a mixture of almost every style of architecture," says the "Beauties of England and
Wales;" but we leave the reader to his own conclusion from our Engraving, sketched in the summer of last
year. We take for granted the church does not change in appearance every year, if its Vicar once did in creed.

The story of the Vicar of Bray is told with some variations, but the fact is not questioned. In the Beauties of
England and Wales we read that his name was Simon Symonds, that he possessed the benefice in the reign of
Henry VIII. and the three succeeding monarchs, and that he died in the forty-first year of Elizabeth. "This man
was twice a Protestant and twice a Papist; and when reproached for the unsteadiness of his principles, which
could thus suffer him to veer with every change of [pg 210] administration, replied, 'that he had always
governed himself by what he thought a very laudable principle, which was, never on any terms, if he could
avoid it, to part with his vicarage." This creed has been amplified into a song, which we shall quote presently,
more for its being a good conceite than for its scarceness.

The author just quoted from the Beauties observes, in a note—"Several late writers, particularly Ireland and
Ferrar, who have mentioned the above circumstances, describe them as happening in the reign of Charles the
Second, James the Second, &c. This mistake throws the imputation of apostacy on the worthy person who
held the vicarage towards the conclusion of the 17th century. It should be remarked, that the story was first
published by Fuller, in his Church History; and as the author died in the year 1661, it is evident that it must
have been circulated previous to that event."

We have not the Church History at hand, but Fuller, in his Worthies, says, "Bray is a village well known in
Barkshire, the vivacious Vicar whereof, living under King Henry the Eighth, King Edward the Sixth, Queen
Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, was first a Papist, then a Protestant, then a Papist, then a Protestant again. This
Vicar being tax't by one for being a turncoat, not so (said he) for I always kept my principles, which is this, to
live and die Vicar of Bray."

Lastly, here is the song:—

THE VICAR OF BRAY.

In good King Charles's golden days,

When loyalty had no harm in't,

A zealous high-churchman I was,

And so I got preferment.

To teach my flock I never miss'd:

Kings are by God appointed;

And those are damn'd that do resist,

And touch the Lord's anointed:

And this is law, I will maintain

Until my dying day, sir,

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That whatsoever king shall reign,

I will be Vicar of Bray, sir.

When royal James obtain'd the throne,

And Popery came in fashion,

The penal laws I booted down,

And read the declaration:

The Church of Rome I found would fit

Full well my constitution;

And had become a Jesuit,

But for the Revolution,

And this is law, &c.

When William was our king declared,

To ease the nation's grievance,

With his new wind about I steer'd,

And swore to him allegiance:

Old principles I did revoke,

Set conscience at a distance;

Passive obedience was a joke,

And pish for non-resistance.

And this is law, &.c.

When gracious Anne ascends the throne.

The Church of England's glory,

Another face of things was seen,

And I became a Tory:

Occasional conformists base,

I damn'd their moderation,

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And thought the church in danger was

By such prevarication,

And this is law, &c.

When George in pudding-time came o'er,

And moderate men look'd big, sir,

I turn'd a cat-in-pan once more,

And then became a Whig, sir:

And so preferment I procured

By our new faith's defender,

And always every day abjured

The Pope and the pretender.

And this is law, &c.

The illustrious house of Hanover,

And Protestant succession,

To these I do allegiance swear

While they can keep possession:

For by my faith and loyalty

I never more will falter,

And George my lawful king shall be

Until the time shall alter.

And this is law, &c.

ANOTHER OLD SONG.

ORIGIN OF THE SONG "FOUR AND TWENTY FIDDLERS ALL ON A ROW."

The fiddle was not allowed to be a concert instrument till the reign of Charles the Second, who, in imitation of
Louis the Fourteenth, established a band of twenty-four violins, alias fiddles, which gave birth to Tom
Durfey's song of "Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row," &c.: a humorous production, in which there is a
mockery of every instrument, and almost every trade, and which used to be performed between the acts, or

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between the play and farce, by some man of humour at benefits.

The author of the Guardian, in No. 67, gives an account of Tom Durfey, with a view to recommend him to the
public notice for a benefit play, and says, that he remembered King Charles the Second leaning on Tom
Durfey's shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with him.

Roi des Violons, or King of the Fiddlers, was anciently a title in France. It became defunct, in 1685, owing to
anarchy—thus harmony and discord cannot agree.

P.T.W.

ROSEDALE ABBEY.
(For the Mirror.)

"A churchyard!—'tis a homely word, yet full

Of feeling; and a sound that o'er the heart

Might shed religion."

R. MONTGOMERY.

Ruins! so dark and lone,

The pride of other years,

On which the stars have shone,

To light the mourners' tears;

The ivy clings to ye,

And softly hums the bee

Where violets blue are blooming,

The liquid dews perfuming,

Beneath each withered tree.

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Tombs! o'er your nameless stone

What gentle hearts have wept,

And there, at midnight lone,

Their silent vigils kept;

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There Beauty laid her wreath,

And Love seem'd "strong as death,"

Around the pale shrines sighing,

While plaintive winds were dying

With music in their breath.

But childhood loves to stray

Whene'er the sward is green,

Round your mementos grey,

And haunts the mouldering scene;

And lovely in repose,

At sunset's gorgeous close,

Your holy walls seem blending

With purple light descending

Upon the beauteous rose.

Tombs of the past unknown!

Ye are fringed with violets blue,

And clouds have laved your stone

With sweetest tears of dew;

But when, by angels given,

The last dread peal of heaven

Shall rend ye all asunder

With its immortal thunder,

Your dead shall claim their heaven.

Deal.

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G.R.C.

PORTRAIT OF STERNE.
(To the Editor.)

As many of the pages of your extensively-circulated little work have preserved memorials of Laurence Sterne,
I hope you can spare room for the underwritten extract, from a letter of his to Mr. Garrick, dated Paris, March,
1762, and which may be seen in Vol I. of Mrs. Medalle's "Letters of the late L. Sterne."

My object in thus troubling you is, in the hope (perhaps you will say an almost forlorn, or distant one) that
possibly some one of your readers, either here or abroad, maybe able to suggest where it is likely the
under-mentioned whole-length portrait may now be of that once very distinguished man.

A CONSTANT READER.

"I shandy it away fifty times more than I was ever wont, talk more nonsense than ever you heard me talk in
your days—and to all sorts of people. Qui le diable est cet homme là ... said Choiseul, t'other day. You'll think
me as vain as a devil, was I to tell you the rest of the dialogue.... The Duke of Orleans has suffered my portrait
to be added to the number of some odd men in his collection; and a gentleman who lives with him has taken it
most expressively, at full length. I purpose to obtain an etching of it, and to send it to you."

EPITOME OF THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF POLAND.

(For the Mirror.)

Poland was once the country of the Vandals, who left it to invade the Roman Empire. The kingdom began, by
favour of Otho III., Emperor of Germany, under Boleslaus, 999; Red Russia was added to it in 1059;
Pomerania, that had been separated 180 years, again united with it, 1465; embraced Christianity, 965; the
order of the White Eagle instituted in 1705. The peasants in Poland were serfs or slaves, and the value of an
estate was not estimated from its extent, but from the number of the peasants who were transferred, like cattle,
from one master to another. The first person who granted freedom to his peasants was Zamoiski, formerly
grand chancellor, who in 1760 enfranchised six villages. The Jews were first introduced into Poland about the
time of Casimir the Great; they were indulged with great privileges, and became so numerous that Poland was
styled the Paradise of the Jews. So late as the thirteenth century, the Poles retained the custom of killing old
men when past their labour, and such children as were born imperfect. "The natural strength of Poland, if
properly exerted, (says a modern writer) would have formed a more certain bulwark against the ambition of
her neighbours than the faith of treaties;" and it is worthy of remark, that of the three partitioning powers,
Prussia was formerly in a state of vassalage to the republic; Russia once saw her capital and throne possessed
by the Poles, under Sigismund III. whose troops got possession of Moscow, and whose son, Ladislaus, was
chosen Great Duke of Muscovy, by a party of the Russian nobles; and Austria was indebted to John Sobieski,
King of Poland, who, in 1683, compelled the Turks to raise the siege of Vienna, and delivered the house of
Austria from the greatest dangers it ever experienced.

"The partition of Poland (says Mr. Coxe,) was first projected by the King of Prussia."

In 1794, Suwarof laid siege to Praga, a fortified suburb of Warsaw, and carried it by assault, with a
tremendous carnage. The king was compelled to abdicate, and the whole country was incorporated in the
dominion of Russia, Prussia, and Austria.

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Early in 1797 Stanislaus arrived at Petersburg, and, according to the appointment of the sovereign, fixed his
residence in the Marble Palace, on the banks of the Neva; but his death, which [pg 212] happened on the 12th
of February, 1798, terminated the series of Polish sovereigns:

"Hope for a season bade the world farewell,

And Freedom shriek'd as Kosciusko fell."

Queen Elizabeth so highly prized the merit and abilities of Sir Philip Sydney, that she sent him ambassador to
Vienna, and to several courts in Germany; and when the fame of his valour became so extensive that he was
put in election for the crown of Poland, she refused to further his advancement, lest (says Baker) she should
lose the brightest jewel of her crown. This Marcellus of the English nation was killed at the battle of Zutphen,
in 1585, while he was mounting the third horse, having before had two killed under him.

P.T.W.

THE HOUR OF PHANTASY.

"The atmosphere that circleth gifted minds

Is from a deep intensity derived,

An element of thought, where feelings shape

Themselves to fancies,—an electric world

Too exquisitely toned for common life,

Which they of coarser metal cannot dream."

R. MONTGOMERY.

There is an hour when Memory lends

To Thought her intellectual part,

When visions of departed friends

Restore their beauty to the heart;

And like the sunset's crimson light

To fading scenes of Nature given,

They make our meditations bright

With hopes inspired by heaven.

The vivid glance of those blue eyes

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Which haunted us with early love,

Like stars that seem'd in cloudless skies

Transferr'd from earth to shine above,—

And voices whispering from the dead,

Or where the violets' lips enclose,

Around our languid spirits shed

Their halo of repose.

It is the hour of thought profound,

When Memory's heart, depress'd with gloom,

Laments upon the sculptured mound,

And dreams beside the visioned tomb;

When voices from the dead arise,

Like music o'er the starlit sea,

And holiest commune sanctifies

The Hour of Phantasy.

Deal.

G.R.C.

MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS.

APPLICANTS FOR THE FLITCH OF DUNMOW.

(For the Mirror.)

Aubry de Falstaff, son of Sir John Falstaff, Knight, with Dame Maude, his wife, were the first that demanded
the bacon, he having bribed twain of his father's companions to swear falsely in his behoof, whereby he
gained the flitch; but he and his said wife falling immediately into a dispute how the bacon should be dressed,
it was, by order of the judges, taken from him, and hung up again in the Hall.

Alison, the wife of Stephen Freckle, brought her said husband along with her, and set forth the good
conditions and behaviour of her consort, adding withal that she doubted not but he was ready to attest the like
of her, his wife; whereupon he, the said Stephen, shaking his head, she turned short upon him, and gave him a
box on the ear. Philip de Waverland having laid his hand up the book, when the clause, "were I sole and she

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sole" was rehearsed, found a secret compunction rising in his mind, and stole it off again.

Richard de Loveless, who was a courtier, and a very well bred man, being observed to hesitate at the words
"after our marriage," was thereupon desired to explain himself. He replied by talking very largely of his exact
complaisance while he was a lover, and alleged that he had not in the least disobliged his wife for a year and a
day before marriage, which he hoped was the same thing. (Rejected.)

Joceline Jolly, Esq. making it appear, by unquestionable testimony, that he and his wife had preserved full and
entire affection for the space of the first month, commonly called the Honey Moon, he had, in consideration
thereof, one rasher bestowed upon him.

After this (says the record) many years passed over before any demandant appeared at Wichenovre
Hall,—insomuch, that one would have thought that the whole country had turned Jews, so little was their
affection to the flitch of bacon.

The next couple enrolled had like to have carried it, if one of the witnesses had not deposed, that dining on a
Sunday with the demandant, whose wife had sat below the squire's lady at church, she, the said wife, dropped
some expressions, as if she thought her husband deserved to be knighted, to which he returned a passionate
"pish!" The judges taking the premises into consideration, declared the aforesaid behaviour to imply an
unwarrantable ambition in the wife, and anger in the husband.

It is recorded as a sufficient disqualification of a certain wife, that, speaking of her husband, she said, "God
forgive him."

It is likewise remarkable, that a couple were rejected upon the deposition of one of their neighbours, that the
lady had once told her husband that it was her duty to obey; to which he replied, [pg 213] "Oh, my dear, you
are never in the wrong."

The violent passion of one lady for her lap-dog, the turning away of her old housemaid by another; a tavern
bill torn by the wife, and a tailor's by the husband; a quarrel about the kissing crust, spoiling of dinners, and
coming home late of nights, are so many several articles which occasioned the reprobation of some scores of
demandants, whose names are recorded in the aforesaid register.

Without enumerating other particular persons, I shall content myself with observing that the sentence
pronounced against one Gervase Poacher is, that he might have had bacon to his eggs, if he had not heretofore
scolded his wife when they were over-boiled. And the deposition against Dorothy Doolittle runs in these
words—That if she had so far usurped the dominion of the coal fire (the stirring whereof her husband claimed
to himself) that by her good will she never would suffer the poker out of her hand.

I find but two couples in the first century that were successful. The first was a sea captain and his wife, who,
since the day of their marriage, had not seen one another till the day of the claim; the second was an honest
pair in the neighbourhood—the husband was a man of plain good sense and a peaceable temper, and the
woman was dumb.

THOS. HY. PRS.

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THE BORROWING DAYS.

(For the Mirror.)

Proverbs relating to the weather are of uncertain origin. The Glossary explains the Borrowing Days the three
last of March, and adds concerning the origin of this term, the following popular rhyme is often repeated:—

"March borrow it fra Averill

Three days and they were ill,

Also March said to Aprill

I see three hogs upon a hill,

But lend your three first days to me

And I'll be bound to gar them die.

The first it sall be wind and weet,

The next it sall be snaw and sleet,

The third it sall be sic a freeze,

Sall gar the birds stick to the trees,

But when the Borrowed Days were gone,

The three silly hogs came hedglin home."

Complaint of Scotland.

The Country Almanack for 1676, says of April—

"No blushing blasts from March needs April borrow,

His own oft proves enow to breed us sorrow,

Yet if he weyr with us to sympathize,

His trickling tears will make us wipe our eyes."

In the British Apollo, the meaning of the old poetical saying is asked—

"March borrows of April

Three days and they are ill,

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Three days, and they are rain."

In Devonshire the three first days of March are called "blind days," unlucky days, and upon them no farmer
will sow his seed.

Dr. Jamison in his Dictionary of the Scottish Language, says "These days being generally stormy, our
forefathers have endeavoured to account for this circumstance by pretending that March borrowed them from
April, that he might extend his power so much longer. Those (he adds) who are much addicted to superstition,
will neither borrow nor lend on any of these days. If one should propose to borrow of them they would
consider it as an evidence that the person wished to employ the article borrowed, for the purposes of
witchcraft against the lenders. Some of the vulgar imagine that these days received their designation from the
conduct of the Israelites, in borrowing the property of the Egyptians. This extravagant idea must have
originated partly from the name, and partly from the circumstance of these days nearly corresponding to the
time when the Israelites left Egypt, which was on the fourteenth day of the month Mib or Nisan, including
part of our March and April. I know not whether our Western Magi suppose that the inclemency of the
borrowing days had any reference to the storm which proved so fatal to the Egyptians."

J.R.

THE SELECTOR;
AND
LITERARY NOTICES OF
NEW WORKS.

MARINO FALIERO.
(Continued from page 206.)

Such is Sanuto's brief narrative of the origin of this conspiracy; and we have nothing more certain to offer. It
is not easy to say whence he obtained his intelligence. If such a conversation as that which he relates really
did occur, it must have taken place without the presence of witnesses, and therefore could be disclosed only
by one of the parties. It is far more likely that the chronicler is relating that which he supposed, than that
which he knew; and, as it must be admitted that the interview with the admiral of the Arsenal occurred, and
that, immediately after it, the doge was found linked with the daring band of which that officer was chief,
there is [pg 214] no violation of probability in granting that some such conversation took place, and that the
train was ignited by this collision of two angry spirits. Whether the plot was in any degree organized
beforehand, or arose at the moment, it is manifestly impossible for us to decide, without information which
cannot now be obtained.

Bertucci Faliero, a nephew of the doge, and Filippo Calendaro, a seaman of great repute, were summoned to
conference immediately. It was agreed to communicate the design to six other associates; and, during many
nights successively, these plebeian assassins arranged with the doge, under the roof of his own palace, the
massacre of the entire aristocracy, and the dissolution of the existing government. "It was concerted that
sixteen or seventeen leaders should be stationed in various parts of the city, each being at the head of forty
men, armed and prepared; but the followers were not to know their destination. On the appointed day, they
were to make affrays amongst themselves here and there, in order that the duke might have a pretence for
tolling the bells of San Marco, which are never rung but by the order of the duke; and at the sound of the bells,
these sixteen or seventeen, with their followers, were to come to San Marco, through the streets which open
upon the Piazza; and when the nobles and leading citizens should come to the Piazza to know the cause of the

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riot, then the conspirators were to cut them in pieces; and this work being finished, my Lord Marino Faliero
the Duke was to be proclaimed Lord of Venice. Things having been thus settled, they agreed to fulfil their
attempt on Wednesday, the 15th day of April, in the year 1355. So covertly did they plot that no one ever
dreamed of their machinations."

As a previous step, in order to arouse popular feeling against the Great Council, it was determined to practise
a singular stratagem. Parties of the conspirators paraded different quarters of the capital in the dead of night,
and having stopped at the windows of some citizens of the middle and lower classes, and there insulted the
women of the family by scandalous and unseemly propositions, they retired with rude bursts of laughter,
calling each other loudly by the names of the principal noblemen. Perhaps the rapidity with which their design
was framed, tended much to its concealment. Scarcely a little month had elapsed since its first projection, and
now the following day was to destroy the constitution of Venice, to deluge her streets with patrician blood,
and to pluck up all her ancient stocks from their very roots, without a suspicion of the approaching calamity
having glanced across the intended victims.—Either the Council of X could not yet have obtained its
subsequent fearful and extraordinary ubiquity, or the conspirators must have exhibited a prudence and
self-control rarely, if ever, paralleled by an equally large body of men, engaged in a similar attempt. To their
minor agents, their ultimate design had not been revealed; and even in the end, the discovery arose not from
treachery, nor from incaution, but from "a compunctious visiting" of one framed of stuff less stern than his
associates, and who shrank from the murder of a benefactor. The part played by Tresham in that yet more
bloody conspiracy, which the Papists, in after days, framed against the three estates of England, was but a
repetition of that now enacted in Venice by Beltramo of Bergamo. Beltramo had been brought up in a noble
family, to which he was closely attached, that of Nicolo Lioni, of San Stefano; and, anxious to preserve his
patron's life, he went to him on the evening before the rising, and entreated him to remain at home on the
morrow. The singular nature of the request excited surprise, which was increased to suspicion by the
ambiguous answers returned to farther inquiries which it suggested. By degrees, every particular of the
treason was revealed; and Lioni heard of the impending danger with terror, and of the hands by which it was
threatened, with astonishment and slowly-accorded belief. Not a moment was to be lost; he secured Beltramo,
therefore, and, having communicated with a few friends, they resolved upon assembling the heads of the
different magistracies, and immediately seizing such ringleaders as had been denounced. These were taken, at
their own houses, without resistance. Precautions were adopted against any tumultuous gathering of the
mechanics of the Arsenal, and strict orders were issued to the keeper of the Campanile not on any account to
toll the bells.

In the course to be pursued with the lesser malefactors, no difficulty was likely to arise: the rack and the
gibbet were their legal portion. But for the doge, the law afforded no precedent; and, upon a crime which it
had not entered into the mind of man to conceive (as with that nation which, having never contemplated
parricide, had neglected [pg 215] to provide any punishment for it), no tribunal known to the constitution was
competent to pass judgment. The Council of X. demanded the assistance of a giunta of twenty nobles, who
were to give advice, but not to ballot; and this body having been constituted, "they sent for my Lord Marino
Faliero the Duke, and my Lord was then consorting in the palace with people of great estate, gentlemen, and
other good men, none of whom knew yet how the fact stood."

The ringleaders were immediately hanged between the Red Columns on the Piazzetta—some singly, some in
couples; and the two chiefs of them, Bertuccio Israello and Calendaro, with a cruel precaution not uncommon
in Venice, were previously gagged. Nor was the process of the highest delinquent long protracted. He appears
neither to have denied nor to have extenuated his guilt; and, "on Friday the 16th day of April, judgment was
given in the Council of X. that my Lord Marino Faliero the Duke should have his head cut off, and that the
execution should be done on the landing-place of the stone staircase, the Giant's Stairs, where the doges take
their oath when they first enter the palace. On the following day, the doors of the palace being shut, the duke
had his head cut off, about the hour of noon; and the cap of estate was taken from the duke's head before he
came down the staircase. When the execution was over, it is said, that one of the chiefs of the Council of X.

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went to the columns of the palace against the Piazza, and, displaying the bloody sword, exclaimed, "Justice
has fallen on the traitor!" and, the gates being then opened, the populace eagerly rushed in to see the doge who
had been executed."

The body of Faliero was conveyed, by torchlight, in a gondola, and unattended by the customary ceremonies,
to the church of San Giovanni and San Paolo; in the outer wall of which a stone coffin is still imbedded, with
an illegible inscription, which once presented the words, Hic jacet Marinus Feletro Dux. His lands and goods
were confiscated to the state, with the exception of 2,000 ducats, of which he was permitted to dispose; and,
yet further to transmit to posterity the memory of his enormous crime, his portrait was not admitted to range
with those of his brother doges in the Hall of the Great Council. In the frame which it ought to occupy is
suspended a black veil, inscribed with the words, Hic est locus Marini Feletro decapitati pro criminibus.

The fate of Beltramo deserves a few words. He was amply rewarded for his opportune discovery, by a pension
of a thousand ducats in perpetuity, the grant of a private residence which had belonged to Faliero, and
inscription in the Golden Book. Dissatisfied, however, with this lavish payment for a very ambiguous virtue,
he lost no occasion of taxing the nobles with neglect of his services, and of uttering loud calumnies against
them, both secretly and in public. The government, wearied by his importunities and ingratitude, at length
deprived him of his appointments, and sentenced him to ten years exile at Ragusa; but his restless and
turbulent spirit soon prompted him to seek a spot less under the control of the signory, in which he might vent
his railings afresh, and with impunity. It is probable that the long arm of the Council of X. arrested his design,
for we are significantly informed that he perished on his way to Pannonia.

The volume is embellished with seven Plates, by Finden, from Drawings by Prout; and nine characteristic
Wood-cuts, chiefly from Titian. Considering the excellence of the originals, more pains might have been
bestowed upon the latter; and Mr. Prout might surely have found different points of view from those he has so
recently given in the Landscape Annual. The book altogether is a marvel of cheapness.

THE SKETCH-BOOK.

FAIRY FAVOURS.
THE CITY OF THE FAIRIES.

(For the Mirror.)

Again, yet once again, during the days of my weary mortal pilgrimage, did the blessed vision of the veritable
Fairy Land open upon my enchanted sight! Once more I found myself in that world of inexpressible beauty!
The radiance and sweetness of delicious morning were around me;—balmy were the stealthy, odorous
winds;—and the fluttering verdure of that pleasant land glittered like countless emeralds, and swelled itself in
the breeze, as if conscious of, and glorying in, its immortality! Beside me flowed a river—or rather, a broad,
bright, lovely lake—slumbering as stilly in the morning light as those who are at peace with the world, and
with Heaven. Romantic woods skirted the shores of this waveless water;—here trees, for which the language
of man hath no name, drooped gracefully over the liquid [pg 216] crystal—as if, in enamoured admiration,
gazing upon their richly-coloured, luxuriant, and feathery foliage, reflected in vivid freshness upon the bosom
of that transcendently natural mirror;—there, copse-wood, equally foreign and lovely, closed all
interstices—whilst fruits of tempting form and colour, and flowers of inimitable hues, flashed like gems in the
unclouded sunlight. I bowed down my head for a draught of the cool, clear waters, and immediately upon
tasting them, felt through my frame a pleasant, vivifying thrill;—I felt also as if I had at once thrown off the
heavy trammels of mortality, with its wearying cares, its feverish hopes, and its over-burdening sorrows. Light
as air, fresh as morning, and joyful as the martyr at the gates of death, I gazed on the enchanting loveliness

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around me.

"Come!" sighed a voice, low and mellifluous as that of the wind-harp, parleying with "the breath of the sweet
south,"—"ravishing and radiant as is this spot, its bowery beauty must thou quit, for the splendour of the
Golden City, the City of the Fairies! Thrice happy mortal! thither, even to our city, am I commissioned to
conduct thee!—Come!"

So saying, the tiny essence, whose substance resembled a portion of lucent morning mist, wrought into the
draperied and miniature image of humanity, and whose slight figure skimmed the pure, thin air, extended its
delicate hand, and smiling encouragement, beckoned me onwards. I followed—rather instinctively, than by
any act of the understanding, for the faculties of my ravished spirit were absorbed, as in a dream of heaven, by
the ethereal loveliness of this transcendent land, by the soft, crystalline light, the glorious, romantic landscape,
the vivid verdure, the celestial odours, and by the snatches of unearthly melody, which ever and anon, borne
on the undulating wings of the breeze, came from afar upon my wildered senses, breathing ineffable felicity.
Above all, my bosom was immersed in a flood of delicious feeling, by the holy repose, the unutterable peace
of the Fairy Paradise; and my heart, surcharged with rapture, could find no vent for the overwhelming
influences of gladness and devotion, because I remembered that to me was speech in this hallowed land
forbidden!

"Behold!" cried the friendly Fay, after we had traversed for some time the flowery wilds, "yonder is the City
of the Fairies!"

Long indeed had my eyes been fixed upon a great, clear light, gleaming through a considerable cluster of
luxuriantly foliaged trees, beneath whose spreading branches flitted and reposed numerous aerial beings,
resembling my beautiful guide. Love, joy, innocence, and everlasting peace were sensibly expressed in their
angelic countenances; and sweet were the words, precious the benisons, wherewith they welcomed a mortal
into the Grove of the Golden City! The glorious light of that city proceeded from the sun shining full upon the
palaces of sapphire-coloured crystal, erected in all styles of the richest architecture, each symmetrical in itself,
and perfect in design and execution.—Fairy fancy, in sooth, seem to have been exhausted in supplying models
of temples, palaces, castles, porticoes, colonnades, triumphal arches, &c. &c; for here was displayed every
species of building of which Earth boasts for ornament and defence, in every order of every civilized nation
on its bosom;—whilst orders and edifices, for which exist no denominations among men, arose and spread
themselves—highly adorned, and richly magnificent—in this singularly superb and beautiful city. Not upon
the model of Thebes, of Babylon, of Macedon, of Rome, or of Salem, did I, in the excess of astonishment,
gaze—not upon any one of the proud triumphs of Art, ancient or modern; but rather upon a wild, yet
exceedingly lovely, combination of, and improvement on, the Beautiful of all! Gates were there none to this
city, neither closing portals to the habitations thereof; for rapine and violence were in that delicious land
unknown. Highly-ornamented apertures, in the fashion of porticoes and arcades, &c., stood ever open for the
ingress and egress of the social denizens of this Elfin Eden; and the windows of the shining structures seemed,
when the orb of day poured down his glorious beams upon them, each a sun, being formed of entire white
crystals, brilliant and spotlessly pure as adamant! But the dazzling and overwhelming effulgence of the
Golden City as far surpasses the power of mortal speech to declare, as did it that of mortal eyes to endure. The
ever-living wreathlets of odorous leaves and rainbow-coloured flowers, thickly clustering and climbing
around column and pinnacle, and the shadowing trees, bending and waving with guardian air over and amidst
temple and palace, were no defence against this supernatural radiance; but as my dazzled eyes unwittingly
closed upon the brilliant vision of the Golden City, [pg 217] my auricular organs became more exquisitely
sensible to the tide of heavenly melodies, now rolling in awful and inexpressible beauty around me; my spirit,
lapped in ecstacy, quaffed with avidity the majestic stream, and upon me seemed opening the light and
loveliness of worlds more enrapturing even, and ineffable, than this! But there was a pause in the music, and
anon the magic bells of the Golden City were heard chiming in harp-like notes, which dropped upon the ear,
small, distinct, and purely brilliant as the melodious tears of the Renealmia into the near bosom of the waters.

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A rush of fervent feeling and exhaustless poetry bore upon my yet subdued spirit;—resistless, but
pleasant sadness enwrapt my soul;—yes! an unearthly and delicious mournfulness it was, more
precious far than the transient sparklings and flashes of unalloyed mirth. But, alas! inadequate are words to
convey an idea of the heavenly sensations—love, awe, sweet melancholy, divine joy, and unspeakable
devotion—which then struggled for ascendancy in my softened, purified soul! An odorous, strong wind
swept past me—in it was the sound of a rushing multitude who trod not upon earth, but cut the air
alone; and in it, too, with the murmur of voices, was that of many instruments, touched only by the breeze.

"Hark!" cried my exquisite companion, "they pass to meet, and to welcome, to honour, to felicitate, and to
crown, a Fairy emancipated from mortal toil; and those bells, all tones of which speak so eloquently of
immortal peace and life—those liquid bells, at once so mysteriously sad and so blessed, send forth, in
token of gratulation, their charmed songs. But hearken! for thou, O mortal! art permitted to hear the lay of
welcome and victory chanted by heavenly essences, upon the arrival in this glorious region of our dear
companion, who shall depart from it no more!"

Thereupon ensued a delicious burst of young, glad voices, and rich, sweet instruments; but, as a shadow to
reality, as man to those immortal and spotless beings, so to their glorious Paean is the subsequent faint
memory of

THE ELFIN TRIUMPHAL SONG.

Beautiful! beautiful!—On they float

Those lyre-like bells—a soul in each note,

A tongue in each tone of the elfin chime,

To carol the bliss of our fadeless clime.

Beautiful! beautiful!—halcyon rest

Breathe they to the weary, woe-worn breast;

Lost in their song is the dream of Earth's dree,

Companion dear! and they're singing for thee.

Beautiful! beautiful!—thou shalt feel

Their eloquent music from thee steal

Those darkling thoughts, that should mournfully twine

With the light, the life, and the joy—now thine.

Beautiful! beautiful!—each glad bell

Sings to thy soul—'Thou hast borne thee well:

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And thy rest is won—on the Deathless Shore.'

M.L.B.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

MR. HUNT, M.P. FOR PRESTON.

(From Speakers and Speeches in Parliament, in the New Monthly Magazine.)

Feb. 3. Mr. Hunt.—I was particularly curious to witness the debut of the Hon. Member for Preston, in
an assembly so little accustomed, as that so long misnamed the House of Commons, to such an out-and-outer
of the Demos coming between the wind and their nobility—to see whether any gaucherie of manner
would betray an uneasy consciousness of his not being quite at ease among those scions of aristocracy, who
occupy benches originally intended for the virtual representatives of the people. Mr. Hunt, on the whole, bore
himself well; and, by a total absence of affectation, of either tone or manner—that surest test of the
gentleman, at least of Nature's forming—disappointed his audience of their ready smiles at demagogue
vulgarity. But once, and that for a moment, did his self-possession seem to fail him while going through the
ceremonies preceding a new member's taking his seat. After the member has signed his name and taken the
oaths, he is formally introduced by the Clerk of the House to the Speaker, who usually greets the new
trespasser on his patience by a shake of the hands. This ceremony is in general performed by the present
Speaker with a gloved hand towards those not particularly distinguished by wealth or pedigree. When the new
member for Preston was introduced to him, he was in the act of taking snuff, with his glove off. Mr. Hunt
made a bow, not remarkable for its graceful repose, at a distance—apprehensive, as it struck me, that
the acknowledgment would be that of a noli me tangere, exclusive. He was agreeably disappointed: the
Speaker gave him his ungloved hand at once, in a manner almost cordial; and Mr. Hunt took his seat,
evidently pleased by the flattering courteousness of his reception.

I take it that the personal appearance [pg 218] of Mr. Hunt is too well known to require description. He is,
take him altogether, perhaps the finest looking man in the House of Commons—tall, muscular, with a
healthful, sun-tinged, florid complexion, and a manly Hawthorn deportment—half yeoman, half
gentleman sportsman. To a close observer of the human face divine, however, his features are wanting in
energy of will and fixedness of purpose. The brow is weak, and the eyes flittering and restless; and the mouth
is usually garnished with a cold simper, not very compatible with that heart-born enthusiasm which precludes
all doubt of truth and sincerity.

TRUTH.
Friend, Truth is best of all. It is the bed

Where Virtue e'er must spring, till blast of doom;

Where every bright and budding thought is bred,

Where Hope doth gain its strength, and Love its bloom.

As white as Chastity is single Truth,

Like Wisdom calm, like Honour without end;

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And Love doth lean on it, in age and youth,

And Courage is twice arm'd with Truth its friend.

Oh! who would face the blame of just men's eyes,

And bear the fame of falsehood all his days,

And wear out scorned life with useless lies,

Which still the shifting, quivering look betrays?

For what is Hope, if Truth be not its stay?

And what were Love, if Truth forsook it quite?

And what were all the Sky,—if Falsehood gray

Behind it like a Dream of Darkness lay,

Ready to quench its stars in endless, endless night?

New Monthly Magazine.

SCENE FROM "THE FROGS OF ARISTOPHANES"

Translated in the Quarterly Review.

We are not at present breathing the air either of Christ Church meadow or Trinity gardens; and if our version
of a piece of mere pleasantry, which involves nothing in it beyond a moment's laugh, should be so happy as to
satisfy the 'general reader,' we shall affect 'for the nonce,' to know nothing of the objections which more
scientific persons, the students of the brilliant Hermann, and acute Reisigius, might be supposed to make to
our arrangement of this little extravaganza.

Scene, the Acherusian Lake. BACCHUS at the oar in Charon's Boat; CHARON;—CHORUS OF
FROGS; in the background a view of Bacchus's Temple or Theatre, from which are heard the sound of a
scenical entertainment.

Semi-chorus. Croak, croak, croak.

Semi-chorus. Croak, croak, croak.

(In answer, and with the music an octave lower.)

Full Chorus. Croak, croak, croak.

LEADER of the Chorus. When1 flagons were foaming,

And roisterers were roaming,

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And bards flung about them their gibe and their joke;

The holiest song

Still was found to belong

To the sons of the marsh, with their

Full Chorus Croak, croak.

LEADER. Shall we pause in our strain,

Now the months bring again

The pipe and the minstrel to gladden the folk?

Rather strike on the ear

With a note strong and clear,

A chant corresponding of—

Chorus. Croak, croak.

BACCHUS (mimicking.) Croak, croak, by the gods I shall choke,

If you pester and bore my ears any more

With your croak, croak, croak.

LEADER. Rude companion and vain,

Thus to carp at my strain;

(To Chor) But keep in the vein,

And attack him again

With a croak, croak, croak.

Chorus (crescendo.) Croak, croak, croak.

BACCHUS (mimicking.) Croak, croak, vapour and smoke,

Never think it, old Huff,

That I care for such stuff,

As your croak, croak, croak.

Chorus (fortissimo.) Croak, croak, croak.

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BACCHUS. Now fires light on thee,

And waters soak;

And March winds catch thee

Without any cloak.

For within and without,

From the tail to the snout,

Thou'rt nothing but croak, croak, croak.

LEADER. And what else, captious Newcomer, say, should I be?

But you know not to whom you are talking, I see:

(With dignity) I'm the friend of the Muses, and Pan with his pipe,

Holds me dearer by far than a cherry that's ripe:

For the reed and the cane which his music supply,

Who gives them their tone and their moisture but I?

And therefore for ever I'll utter my cry

Of—

Chorus. Croak, croak, croak.

BACCHUS. I'm blister'd, I'm fluster'd, I'm sick, I'm ill—

Chorus. Croak, croak.

BACCHUS. My dear little bull-frog, do prithee be still.

'Tis a sorry vocation—that reiteration,

(I speak on, my honour, most musical nation,)

Of croak, croak.

LEADER (maestoso.) When the sun rides in glory and makes a bright day,

Mid lilies and plants of the water I stray;

Or when the sky darkens with tempest and rain,

I sink like a pearl in my watery domain:

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Yet, sinking or swimming. I lift up a song,

Or I drive a gay dance with my eloquent throng,

Then hey bubble, bubble—

For a knave's petty trouble,

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Shall I my high charter and birth-right revoke?

Nay, my efforts I'll double,

And drive him like stubbie

Before me, with—

Chorus. Croak, croak, croak.

BACCHUS. I'm ribs of steel, I'm heart of oak,

Let us see if a note

May be found in this throat

To answer their croak, croak, croak.

(Croaks loudly.)

LEADER. Poor vanity's son—

And dost think me outdone,

With a clamour no bigger

Than a maiden's first snigger?

(To Chorus) But strike up a tune,

He shall not forget soon

(Chorus.) Of our croak, croak, croak,

(Croak, with a discordant crash of music.)

BACCHUS. I'm cinder, I'm coke,

I have had my death-stroke;

O, that ever I woke

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To be gall'd by the yoke

Of this croak, croak, croak, croak.

LEADER. Friend, friend, I may not be still:

My destinies high I must needs fulfil,

And the march of creation—despite reprobation

Must proceed with—(To Chor.) my lads, must I make application

For a—

Chorus. Croak, croak, croak.

BACCHUS (in a minor key.) Nay, nay—take your own way,

I've said out my say,

And care naught, by my fai',

For your croak, croak, croak.

LEADER. Care or care not, 'tis the same thing to me,

My voice is my own and my actions are free;

I have but one note, and I'll chant it with glee,

And from morning to night that note it shall be—

Chorus. Croak, croak, croak.

BACCHUS. Nay then, old rebel, but I'll stop your treble,

With a poke, poke, poke:

Take this from my rudder—(dashing at the frogs)—and that from my oar,

And now let us see if you'll trouble us more

With your croak, croak, croak.

LEADER. You may batter and bore,

You may thunder and roar,

Yet I'll never give o'er

Till I'm hard at death's door,

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—(This rib's plaguy sore)—

Semi-chorus With my croak, croak, croak.

Semi-chorus (diminuendo.) With my croak, croak, croak.

Full Chorus (in a dying cadence.) With my

croak—croak—croak.

(The Frogs disappear)

BACCHUS (looking over the boat's edge.)

Spoke, spoke, spoke.

(To Charon.) Pull away, my old friend,

For at last there's an end

To their croak, croak, croak.

(Bacchus pays his two obols, and is landed)

NOTES OF A READER.

LAYING A GHOST.
In the Memoirs of J.F. Oberlin, Pastor of a poor Protestant flock, in one of the wildest parts of France, we find
the following pleasant recipe for laying a ghost:—

An honest tradesman, relying on the power of his faith, came to him one day, and after a long introduction,
informed him, that a ghost, habited in the dress of an ancient knight, frequently presented itself before him,
and awakened hopes of a treasure buried in his cellar; he had often, he said, followed it, but had always been
so much alarmed by a fearful noise, and a dog which he fancied he saw, that the effort had proved fruitless,
and he had returned as he went. This alarm on the one hand, and the hope of acquiring riches on the other, so
entirely absorbed his mind, that he could no longer apply to his trade with his former industry, and had, in
consequence, lost nearly all his custom. He therefore urgently begged Oberlin would go to his house, and
conjure the ghost, for the purpose of either putting him in possession of the treasure, or of discontinuing its
visits. Oberlin replied, that he did not trouble himself with the conjuration of ghosts, and endeavoured to
weaken the notion of an apparition in the man's mind, exhorting him at the same time to seek for worldly
wealth by application to his business, prayer, and industry. Observing, however, that his efforts were
unavailing, he promised to comply with the man's request. On arriving at midnight at the tradesman's house,
he found him in company with his wife and several female relations, who still affirmed that they had seen the
apparition. They were seated in a circle in the middle of the apartment. Suddenly the whole company turned
pale, and the man exclaimed, "Do you see, sir, the count is standing opposite to you?"

"I see nothing."

"Now, sir," exclaimed another terrified voice, "he is advancing towards you?"

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"I still do not see him."

"Now he is standing just behind your chair."

"And yet I cannot see him; but, as you say he is so near me, I will speak to him." And then rising from his
seat, and turning towards the corner where they said that he stood, he continued, "Sir Count, they tell me you
are standing before me, although I cannot see you; but this shall not prevent me from informing you that it is
scandalous conduct on your part, by the fruitless promise of a hidden treasure, to lead an honest man, who has
hitherto faithfully followed his calling, into ruin—to induce him to neglect his business—and to
bring misery upon his wife and children, by rendering him improvident and idle. Begone! and delude them no
longer with such vain hopes."

Upon this the people assured him that the ghost vanished at once. Oberlin went home, and the poor man,
taking the hint which in his address to the count he had intended to convey, applied [pg 220] to business with
his former alacrity, and never again complained of his nocturnal visiter.

No ghost was ever more easily laid; but supposing the story to be accurately related, Oberlin's presence of
mind is not more remarkable, than that the whole company should have concurred in affirming that they saw
an apparition which was invisible to him.

A SCHOOLMASTER "ABROAD."
Bishop Percy has observed, that it might be discerned whether or not there was a clergyman resident in a
parish, by the civil or brutal manners of the people; he might have thought that there never had resided one in
the Ban de la Roche, if he had seen the state of the inhabitants when M. Stouber went thither to take
possession of the cure in the year 1750. He, who entered upon it with a determination of doing his duty like a
conscientious and energetic man, began first by inquiring into the manner of education there; and asking for
the principal school, he was conducted to a miserable hovel, where there were a number of children "crowded
together without any occupation, and in so wild and noisy a state, that it was with some difficulty he could
gain a reply to his inquiries for the master."

"There he is," said one of them, as soon as silence could be obtained, pointing to a withered old man, who lay
on a little bed in one corner of the apartment.

"Are you the schoolmaster, my good friend?" inquired Stouber.

"Yes, sir."

"And what do you teach the children?"

"Nothing, sir."

"Nothing!—how is that?"

"Because," replied the old man, with characteristic simplicity, "I know nothing myself."

"Why, then, were you instituted schoolmaster?"

"Why, sir, I had been taking care of the Waldbach pigs for a great number of years, and when I got too old
and infirm for that employment, they sent me here to take care of the children."

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PLANTING.
A custom prevailed in the neighbouring parts of Germany, where no farmer was allowed to marry till he had
planted and was "father of a stated number of walnut trees, that law being inviolably observed," says Evelyn,
"for the extraordinary benefit which the trees afford the inhabitants." What the Germans thus provided for by
a wise law, Oberlin, a pious pastor of Waldbach, required as an act of religious duty, bringing that great
principle into action on all occasions. Late in autumn he addressed his parishioners thus:—

"Dear Friends—Satan, the enemy of mankind, rejoices when we demolish and destroy; our Lord Jesus
Christ, on the contrary, rejoices when we labour for the public good.

"You all desire to be saved by Him, and hope to become partakers of His glory. Please him, then, by every
possible means, during the remainder of the time you may have to live in this world.

"He is pleased when, from the principle of love, you plant trees for the public benefit. Be willing, then to plant
them. Plant them in the best possible manner. Remember, you do it to please Him.

"Put all your roads into good condition; ornament them; employ some of your trees for this purpose, and
attend to their growth."

EPITAPH.
In the churchyard at Waldbach was formerly a monument, which bore this epitaph:—

During three years of marriage

Margaret Salomé, wife of G. Stouber,
Minister of this parish,
Found at the Ban de la Roche, in the simplicity
of a peaceable
And useful life,
The delight of her benevolent heart;
and in her first confinement.
The grave of her youth and beauty,
She died, August 9, 1764, aged 20 years.
Near this spot
Her husband has sown for immortality all that was mortal;
Uncertain whether he is more sensible of the
grief of having lost,
Or the glory of having possessed her.

MURDER OF THE LAIRD OF WARRISTON, BY HIS OWN WIFE.

This is the subject of a Scottish ballad, well known to collectors in that department; and the history of the
conversion of the murderess, and of her carriage at her execution, compiled apparently by one of the
clergymen of Edinburgh, has been lately printed by Mr. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, whose merits as an
author, antiquary, and draughtsman, stand in no need of our testimony.

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courtier, and a favourite of James VI.; an ill-assorted marriage united her at an early age with [pg 221] the
Laird of Warriston, a gentleman whom she did not love, and who apparently used her with brutal harshness.
The Lady Warriston accused her husband of having struck her several blows, besides biting her in the arm;
and conspired with her nurse, Janet Murdo, to murder him. The confidante, inspired by that half-savage
attachment which in those days animated the connexion between the foster-child and the nurse, entered into
all the injuries of which her dalt (i.e. foster daughter) complained, encouraged her in her fatal purpose, and
promised to procure the assistance of a person fitted to act the part of actual murderer, or else to do the deed
with her own hands. In Scotland, such a character as the two wicked women desired for their associate was
soon found in a groom, called Robert Weir, who appears, for a very small hire, to have undertaken the task of
murdering the gentleman. He was ushered privately into Warriston's sleeping apartment, where he struck him
severely upon the flank-vein, and completed his crime by strangling him. The lady in the meantime fled from
the nuptial apartment into the hall, where she remained during the perpetration of the murder. The assassin
took flight when the deed was done; but he was afterwards seized, and executed. The lady was tried, and
condemned to death, on the 16th of June, 1600. The nurse was at the same time condemned to be burnt alive,
and suffered her sentence accordingly; but Lady Warriston, in respect of her gentle descent, was appointed to
die by the Maiden, a sort of rude guillotine, imported, it is said, from Halifax, by the Earl of Morton, while
regent, who was himself the first that suffered by it.

The printed account of this beautiful murderess contains a pathetic narrative of the exertions of the worthy
clergyman (its author) to bring her to repentance. At first, his ghostly comfort was very ill received, and she
returned with taunts and derision his exhortations to penitence. But this humour only lasted while she had
hopes of obtaining pardon through the interest of her family. When these vanished, it was no longer difficult
to bring her, in all human appearance, to a just sense of her condition; her thoughts were easily directed
towards heaven, so soon as she saw there was no comfort upon earth.

The pride of Lady Warriston's parents suggested a petition that she might be executed betwixt five and six in
the morning; but both the clergyman and magistrates seem to have consented unwillingly to this arrangement.
The clergyman was particularly offended that the display of her penitence should not be as public as that of
her guilt had been, and we may forgive the good man if there was any slight regret for a diminished display of
his own success, as a religious assistant, mixed with this avowed dissatisfaction.—Quarterly Rev.

SOUND.
The difficulty of transmitting sounds to a great distance arises from the sound spreading and losing itself in
the surrounding air; so that if we could confine it on one side, as along a well—on two sides, as in a
narrow street—or on all sides, as in a tube or pipe—we should be able to convey it to great
distances. In the cast-iron water-pipe of Paris, which formed a continuous tube with only two bendings near
its middle, the lowest whisper at one end was distinctly heard at the other, through a distance of 3,120 feet. A
pistol fired at one end actually blew out a candle at the other end, and drove out light substances with great
violence. Hence we see the operation of speaking tubes which pass from one part of a building to another, and
of the new kind of bell which is formed of a wooden or tin tube, with a small piston at each end. By pushing
in one piston, the air in the tube conveys the effect to the piston at the other end, which strikes against the
bell—this piston being, as it were, the clapper on the outside of the bell. The intensity of confined
sounds is finely exhibited at Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight. There is here a well 210 feet deep, of
twelve feet in diameter, and lined with smooth masonry; and when a pin is dropped into it, the sound of its
striking the surface of the water is distinctly heard.—Ibid.

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ECHOES.
Various remarkable echoes, and some not very credible, have been described by different authors. Dr. Plott
mentions an echo in Woodstock Park, which repeats seventeen syllables by day and twenty by night. The
famous echo at the Marquess Simonetta's villa, near Milan, has been described both by Addison and Keysler.
According to the last of these travellers, it is occasioned by the reflection of the voice between the opposite
parallel wings of the building, which are fifty-eight paces from each other, without any windows or doors, and
perpendicularly to the main body of the building. The repetition of the [pg 222] sound dwells chiefly on the
last syllable. A man's voice is repeated about forty times, and the report of a pistol about sixty times; but the
repetitions are so rapid, that it is difficult to number them, unless it be early in the morning, or in a calm, still
evening.

A curious example of an oblique echo, not heard by the person who emits the sound, is described in the
"Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences" as existing at Genefay, near Rouen. A person singing hears only his
own direct voice, while those who listen hear only the echo, which sometimes seems to approach, and at other
times to recede from, the ear; one person hears a single voice, another several voices; one hears the echo on
the right, and another on the left—the effect constantly changing with the position of the observer.

One of the most remarkable echoes of which we have read is that which Dr. Birch describes as existing at
Roseneath, in Argyllshire. When a person at a proper distance played eight or ten notes on a trumpet, they
were correctly repeated, but a third lower; after a short silence, another repetition was heard in a yet lower
tone, and alter another short interval, they were repeated a third time in a tone lower still.

We extract the following account of two very interesting echoes from Mr. Herschell's work:—

"In the cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slightest whisper is borne with perfect distinctness from the great
western door to the cornice behind the high altar, a distance of 250 feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the
precise focus of divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional. Secrets never
intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay of the confessors and the scandal of the people,
by the resort of the curious to the opposite point (which seems to have been discovered accidentally), till at
length one listener, having had his curiosity somewhat overgratified by hearing his wife's avowal of her own
infidelity, this tell-tale peculiarity became generally known, and the confessional was removed.2

"Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main piers, is a
remarkably fine echo. The sound of a blow on the pier with a hammer is returned in succession from each of
the cross-beams which support the road-way, and from the opposite pier at a distance of 576 feet; and in
addition to this, the sound is many times repeated between the water and the road-way. The effect is a series
of sounds which may be thus described:—The first return is sharp and strong from the road-way
overhead; the rattling which succeeds dies away rapidly, but the single repercussion from the opposite pier is
very strong, and is succeeded by a faint palpitation, repeating the sound at the rate of twenty-eight times in
five seconds, and which therefore corresponds to a distance of 184 feet, or very nearly the double interval
from the road-way to the water. Thus it appears, that in the repercussion between the water and road-way, that
from the latter only affects the ear, the line drawn from the auditor to the water being too oblique for the
sound to diverge sufficiently in that direction.—Another peculiarity deserves especial notice, namely,
that the echo from the opposite pier is best heard when the auditor stands precisely opposite to the middle of
the breadth of the pier, and strikes just on that point. As it deviates to one or the other side, the return is
proportionably fainter, and is scarcely heard by him when his station is a little beyond the extreme edge of the
pier, though another person, stationed (on the same side of the water) at an equal distance from the central
point, so as to have the pier between them, hears it well."

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In treating the important subject of echoes in churches and public buildings, Mr. Herschell has exposed
several prevailing errors, and laid down several useful principles, which merit the particular attention of the
architect. In small buildings the echo is not distinguishable from the principal sound, and therefore serves only
to strengthen it; but in very large buildings, where the original sound and its echo are distinctly separated, the
effect is highly disagreeable. In cathedrals, this bad effect is diminished by reading the service in a
monotonous chant, in consequence of which the voice is blended in the same sound with its echo. In musical
performances, however, this resource is not available. When ten notes are executed in a single second, as in
many pieces of modern music, the echo, in the direction of the length of a room fifty-five feet long, will
exactly throw the second reverberation of each note on the principal sound of the following note, wherever the
auditor is placed. Under such circumstances, therefore, the performers should be stationed in the middle of the
apartment.—Ibid.

[pg 223]

THE GATHERER.
A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.

SHAKSPEARE.

PATHETIC EPITAPH.
(To the Editor.)

Among the many monumental inscriptions and epitaphs which have fallen under my notice (and I have been a
"Gatherer" ever since the days of my childhood) I have seldom met with one more calculated to start the
tender tear than the following, which I copied from an old and long since defunct periodical, which describes
it as "placed by a Mr. Thickness on the grave of his daughter, who lies buried in his garden, at St. Catherine's
Hermitage, near Bath."

At the Lady's Head is a beautiful Monument, with the following Inscription:

What tho' no sacred earth afford thee room,

Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb,

Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest,

And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast.

Here shall the morn her earliest tears bestow—

Here the first roses of the year shall blow;

While angels with their silver wings o'ershade

The ground now sacred by thy reliques made.

At her Feet:

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Reader, if YOUTH should sparkle in thine eye—

If on thy cheek the flow'r of beauty blows,

Here shed a tear, and heave the pensive sigh

Where BEAUTY, YOUTH, and INNOCENCE repose.

Doth wit adorn thy mind?—doth science pour

It's ripen'd bounties on thy vernal year?

Behold! where Death has cropp'd the plenteous store—

And heave the sigh, and shed the pensive tear.

Does Music's dulcet notes dwell on thy tongue?

And do thy fingers sweep the sounding lyre?

Behold! where low she lies, who sweetly sung

The melting strains a cherub might inspire.

Of YOUTH, of BEAUTY, then be vain no more—

Of music's pow'r—of WIT and LEARNING'S prize;

For while you read, those charms may all be o'er,

And ask to share the grave where ANNA lies.

COLBOURNE.

GAMBLING OF HENRY THE EIGHTH.

(For the Mirror.)

Stowe, in his Survey of London, says, "Neere unto Paul's Schoole, on the north side thereof, was of old time a
great and high Clochier, or Bell-house, four square, builded of stone; and in the same, a most strong frame of
timber, with foure bels, the greatest that I have heard: these were called Jesus Bels, and belonged to Jesus
Chappell, but I know not by whose gift. The same had a great spire of timber, covered with lead, with the
image of St. Paul on the top; but was pulled downe by Sir Miles Partridge, knight, in the reign of Henry the
Eighth. The common speech then was, that hee did set one hundred pounds upon a caste at dice against it, and
so won the said clochier and bels of the king; and then causing the bels to be broken as they hung, the rest was
pulled downe. This man was afterwards executed on the Tower Hill, for matters concerning the Duke of
Somerset, the fifth of Edward the Sixth. In place of this clochier, of old time, the common bel of the citie was
used to be rung, for the assembly of the citizens to their Folke-motes."

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ALDERMAN KENNETT.
Passing by Blackfriars Bridge, I missed the magnificent gates (iron) erected by Brackly Kennett, Esq. the
inactive Lord Mayor of London, A.D. 1780, during the time of the riots, and who used to pass his time at the
"Jacob's Well," Barbican. I could not help remembering these lines, which were related to me long
ago—

"When Rome was burning, poets all agree,

Nero sat playing on his tweedle-dee;

So Kennett,3 when he saw sedition ripe,

And London burning, calmly smoked his pipe."

VALENTINE'S DAY
Had its origin with the Romans, and was fathered upon St. Valentine in the early ages of the Church to
christianize it. Brand, in his Popular Antiquities, [pg 224] supposes that the observance originated in an
ancient Roman superstition of choosing patrons on this day for the ensuing year—a custom which
gallantry took up when superstition, at the reformation, had been compelled to let it fall.

H.H.

PITT'S DIAMOND.
(To the Editor.)

Allusion being made the other evening by Sir R. Inglis, in the debate on Lord John Russell's reform motion,
relative to a gentleman of the name of Pitt sitting in that House in right of possessing a very large diamond,
the following particulars may not prove uninteresting to the numerous readers of the Mirror:—

Thos. Pitt, Esq., anciently of Blandford, in the county of Dorset, afterwards Earl of Londonderry, was, in the
reign of Queen Anne, made Governor of Fort St. George, in the East Indies, where he resided many years, and
became possessed, by trifling purchase, or by barter, of a diamond, which he sold to the King of France for
135,000l. sterling, weighing 127 carats, and commonly known at that day by the name of Pitt's Diamond.

JAC-CO.

ANCESTRY.
It may not be generally known that there is a small town in France which no one can enter without interest,
from the consideration that Demetrius Commene once lived there, a man boasting a pedigree that traced him
from the line of the Roman emperor Trajan. He was living in the time of Voltaire, and was a captain in the
French army. His pedigree was the noblest of any man then living, or that has since lived, for he had
twenty-six kings for his ancestors, and eighteen emperors. Of these, six were emperors of Constantinople, ten
of Trebizond, and two of Heracleus Pontus; eighteen kings of Colchi, and eight of Lazi.

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RAMBLER.

A LITERARY KISS.
Alian Chartier was esteemed the father of French eloquence; he spoke as well as he wrote. He flourished
about the year 1430. Margaret of Scotland, first wife to the dauphin, afterwards Louis XI, as she passed
through the Louvre, observed Alian asleep, and went and kissed him. When her attendants expressed their
surprise that she should thus distinguish a man remarkable for his ugliness, she replied—"I do not kiss
the man, but the mouth that has uttered so many charming things."

P.T.W.

EPITAPH ON A WATCHMAKER,
Copied from a Tombstone in Lidford Churchyard, Devon.

Here lies, in Horizontal position,

The outside case of
George Routleigh, Watchmaker,
Whose abilities in that line were an honour
To his profession;
Integrity was the main-Spring,
And Prudence the Regulator
Of all the actions of his life;
Humane, generous, and liberal,
His Hand never stopped
Till he had relieved distress;
Sincerely regulated were all his movements,
That he never went wrong,
Except when Set a-going
By people
Who did did not know
His Key;
Even then, he was easily
Set right again:
He had the art of disposing his Time
So well,
That his Hours glided away
In one continual round
Of Pleasure and Delight,
Till an unlucky Moment put a period to
His existence;
He departed this Life
November 14, 1802,
Aged 57,
Wound up,
In hopes of being taken in Hand
By his Maker,
And of being

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Thoroughly cleaned, repaired, and set a-going

In the world to come.

—TIM.

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Footnote 1: (return)

The comic performances of the Athenians were usually brought out at a festival of Bacchus,
which lasted for three days. The first of these was devoted to the tapping of their wine-casks;
the second to boundless jollity (Plato specifies a town, but not Athens, every single inhabitant
of which was found in a state of intoxication on one of these festivals,) and the third to
theatrical exhibitions in the temple of the patron of the feast. In this state of excitement it will
be easily imagined that some coarser ingredients were required by the clever but licentious
rabble of Athens, to whom these representations were more particularly addressed, besides
the better commodities of rich poetry and wit; and hence the deformities which have been so
much complained of in the writings of Aristophanes.

Footnote 2: (return)

Travels through Sicily and the Lipari Islands in the month of December, 1824. By a Naval
Officer. 1 vol. 8vo. London, 1827.

Footnote 3: (return)

For which he was committed to the Tower, where he died.

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FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; G.G. BENNIS, 55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, Paris, and by all
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