but he was afterwards mastered by the others, | permission to see the king as soon as he was | African deserts would find some difficulty in so that I was enabled to give him a couple of awake. Upon which, Schönberg reported that annihilating at a single blow.” thrusts through the body with my hanger, the bear, who at the Tierp hunt had escaped The following are more modern anecdotes which, together with his life, put an end to all into the cavern under the hill, had been taken of bear-hunting, even of the present day. In his fury and ferocity.' The dogs, in the time by Hillerström, and at present lay alive, bound 1790, a skall (that is, the surrounding of a of King Frederick, were, to judge by the repre- in the court-yard. The king, both astonished tract by a cordon of persons, and driving all sentation of those animals at Drottningholm, and pleased, desired Hillerström to be called the animals, by closing in, to a centre), con. of a very superior kind to what one generally in, that he might hear his account, how he had ducted in the usual way, led to this incident: sees in Sweden at the present day. They ap- captured the bear. After which the king said "One man, an old soldier, who was attached pear to have been large and powerful brutes, to Schönberg, Here, I present you with my to the hallet, or stationary division of the skall, and are represented with spiked collars about watch, on condition that you give Hillerström thought proper to place himself in advance of their necks, in actual conflict with the bear. your silver one;'-and to Hilerström, You shall the rest in a narrow defile, through which, These dogs, however, were said, if I remember be furnished with a new huntsman's uniform, from his knowledge of the country, he thought right, to have come from Germany or Russia. and receive from my stud at Strömsholm a it probable the bear would pass. He was right Among other anecdotes relating to Frederick good horse.' After breakfast, when the king in his conjecture, for the animal soon after. the First that came to my knowledge, the fol- was desirous to shoot the bear, which lay in wards made his appearance, and faced directly lowing, which was obligingly furnished to me the middle of the yard, opposite the steps towards him. On this he levelled and atby Captain Ehrenlund, of the Swedish army, leading into the house, (the German and Swe- tempted to discharge his piece; but, owing to may not be altogether uninteresting: I give it dish huntsmen being formed on opposite sides,) the morning being wet, the priming had got in that gentleman's own words. In the year he gave orders that the bear should be un- damp, and the gun missed fire. The bear was 1737, a skall was organised near the village of bound, as he wished to shoot him as he ran now close upon him, though it is probable, that Hallsta, in the parish of Tierp, in the province off; but as the order was not given to any if he had stepped to the one side, he might of Upland, at which a large bear was found and particular huntsman, all stood still, until the still have escaped; but, instead of adopting driven out of his retreat, but did not advance king, after some moments of general silence, this prudent course, he attempted to drive the to the king; neither had it escaped through the said to Hillerström, You took the bear: you muzzle of his gun, to which, however, no bayline of huntsmen. The king, displeased at not will, no doubt, venture to unbind him.' As onet was attached, down the throat of the getting a shot, reprimanded his ranger, or royal the harmony between the Swedish and Ger- enraged brute. This attack the bear parried huntsman, Schönberg, who conducted the hunt, man huntsmen was never particularly good, with the skill of a fencing-master; when, after and insisted that no bear had been roused. In Hillerström replied, as he went up to the bear, wresting the gun out of the hands of the man, vain did Schönberg allege that several persons The Germans might surely be able to loosen he quickly laid him prostrate. All might still had seen the bear; and that he supposed the him, when the Swedes could take him.' Hil- have ended well; for the bear, after smelling same was concealed in a hole, under a hill, lerström leisurely cut, with his hunting-knife, at his antagonist, who was lying motionless which lay within the skall-plats; and he re- the cords with which the bear was bound-all and holding his breath, as if he had been dead, quested permission to make another attempt except one, which remained round the neck; left him almost unhurt. The animal then with his men to find him. The king, who did but as he still lay quiet, Hillerström gave him went to the gun, which was only at two or not accede to this proposal, set off, evidently dis- a smart lash with his hunting-whip, on the three feet distance, and began to overhaul it pleased, to the residence of the clergyman in the hind quarters; upon which the bear sprang with his paws. The poor soldier, however, parish of Heidunge, situated in Westmanland. up, with a terrible growl, and was shot by the who had brought his musket to the skall conabout thirty miles from Tierp, in order that he king ten or twelve paces from the sledge on trary to the orders of his officers, and knowing might, on the following day, shoot a female bear which he had lain. The king then presented that if it was injured he should be severely with two young ones, which were in the neigh-Schönberg with the rifle he had used. At the punished, on seeing the apparent jeopardy in bourhood. Schönberg, much mortified at this which it was placed, quietly stretched out his event, asked one of his assistants, a determined hand, and laid hold of one end of it, the bear man of the name of Hillerström, how the king having it fast by the other. On observing could be convinced that the bear was still remainthis movement, and that the man in conseing in the skall-plats? To which the latter anquence was alive, the bear again attacked him; swered, If I can get made to-night, at Ullfors when, seizing him with his teeth by the back forge, some iron shears (Jern-Saxar), and am of the head, as he was lying with his face to furnished with money to pay some strong felthe ground, he tore off the whole of his scalp, lows whom I know, I shall endeavour to take from the nape of the neck upwards, so that it the bear (which is certainly to be found under merely hung to the forehead by a strip of skin. the hill) alive, and convey him afterwards to The poor fellow, who knew that his safety deHuddunge. Schönberg, fully convinced of pended upon his remaining motionless, kept Hillerström's courage, consented to his wishes; as quiet as he was able; and the bear, without and upon that, drove on to Huddunge, where doing him much farther injury, laid himself he had also to conduct a hunt. Hillerström, "The king, of whom I have just narrated along his body. Whilst this was going forprovided with the iron shears and strong ropes so many anecdotes, had a very large lion pre-ward, many of the people, and Captain Eurefrom the aforesaid forge, proceeded to the hill, sented to him by one of the Barbary powers.nius among the rest, suspecting what had kept watch on the bear during the night; There were at this time several bears kept by happened, hastened towards the spot, and adand, after several vain attempts to get him the butchers about the shambles in Stockholm, vanced within twelve or fifteen paces of the out, he daringly crept into the hole, and poked and his majesty, being anxious to witness a scene of action: here they found the bear still him with a long stick: upon which the bear rencontre between one of these animals and lying upon the body of the unfortunate man : rushed past him; but in so doing, from the the lion, ordered them to be brought into sometimes the animal was occupying himself in narrowness of the opening, he gave him a contact with each other. In the lion's den licking the blood from his bare skull, and at violent squeeze. The people, however, who there were two apartments, into one of which others in eyeing the people:-all, however, were placed on the outside, on his bolting from the bear was introduced. On the lion, how- were afraid to fire, thinking either that they his lair, instantly pressed him down with four ever, getting access to that animal, he found might hit the man, or that, even if they killed iron shears, which they judiciously applied to him posted in a corner; when, going up to the bear, he might in his last agonies still farhis neck and loins; and they at the same time him, he gave him a slight rap with his paw, as ther mutilate the poor sufferer. In this pogave him a severe blow on the forehead, with if to see of what materials his visiter was sition, Captain Eurenius asserted that the the flat or back-side of an axe, which had the composed. The bear, not liking this kind of soldier and the bear remained for a considereffect of stunning and disabling him. The salutation, growled, and endeavoured to parry able time, until at last the latter quitted his bear was now bound on a sledge, and conveyed it. This made the lion angry; when with victim and slowly began to retreat, when, a to Huddunge parsonage, where the king passed one fell swoop,' with his paw, as the story tremendous fire being opened upon him, he the second night, after he had shot the before-goes, he laid the bear dead at his feet. It is of instantly fell dead. On hearing the shots, the mentioned three bears, and was consequently course idle to make a comparison between the poor soldier jumped up, his scalp hanging over in good humour. Hillerström, before day- powers of the lion and the bear from the his face so as completely to blind him; when, break, arrived with the bear, and immediately anecdote I have just related. I think, how-throwing it back with his hands, he ran toinformed Schönberg of the fortunate result of ever, that there are bears to be found in the wards his comrades like a madman, franticly the undertaking, who requested and obtained Scandinavian forests, that even the lord of the exclaiming, The bear, the bear!' The mis moment the bear sprang out of the sledge, ་ chief, however, was done, and was irreparable. "Love is a disinterested passion, for the true lover would not fail to sacrifice his gratification, and in extreme cases his life, rather than be the cause or the witness of serious calamity inflicted on the object of his affections. Yet the parties themselves are ordinarily pursuing their own interests, and seeking their own enjoyments; and they cannot but know it. At another skall, when the bear was driven to her last resources, she, being sorely beset, "kept wheeling about from side to side to defend herself against her numerous foes, several of whom she laid prostrate; and would otherwise have injured them, had not her jaw been previously fractured with a ball. Among the party was the wife of a soldier, a very powerful woman of about forty years of age, who greatly distinguished herself on this occasion. Wishing to have a share in the honours of the day, she armed herself with a stout cudgel, with which she hesitated not to give the poor bear a tremendous blow upon the head. The animal, however, did not think this treat- And here we close, trusting that our quotament quite fair; and not exactly understand-tions will render the author as agreeable to ing the deference due to the sex, sent her heels into the place where her head ought to have been, to the no small amusement of the bystanders. Nothing daunted by what had happened, the woman caught up another stick, the former having been broken owing to the force of the blow, and again began to belabour the bear; this the beast resented, as at first, by again tumbling her over. Still, our Amazon was not satisfied, for, laying hold of a third cudgel (the second, like the first, having snapt in two), she renewed her attacks upon Bruin, and, in return, had to perform a third somerset in the air. The bear, being at last fairly exhausted from wounds and loss of blood, fell dead amid the shouts of her enemies." The ferocity of the bear is shewn by many tales: --- “These owls, (says Mr. Lloyd,) Doctor Mel- are wrought out with a degree of skill which The only assistance he could receive was ren- lerborg assured me, will sometimes destroy shews the hand of a first-rate master in moral dered to him by a surgeon, who happened to dogs. Indeed, he himself once knew an in-portraiture. As it would be impossible to be present, and who severed the little skin stance of the kind. He stated another circum-give any just idea of the actors by the single which connected the scalp with the forehead, stance shewing the ferocity of these birds, scene or two we could extract, we shall prefer and then dressed the wound in the best manner which came under his immediate notice. Two making our quotations a cento from the many he was able. The scalp, when separated from men were in the forest for the purpose of acute and excellent observations with which the head, Captain Eurenius described as ex-gathering berries, when one of them happening the work before us abounds. actly resembling a peruke. In one sense, the to approach near to the nest of the owl, she catastrophe was fortunate for the poor soldier. pounced upon him, whilst he was in the act of At this time every one in the army was obliged stooping, and, fixing her talons in his back, to wear his hair of a certain form, and he in wounded him very severely. His companion, consequence, being now without any, imme- however, was fortunately near at hand, when, diately got his discharge." catching up a stick, he lost no time in destroy ing the furious bird. Mr. Nilsson states, that these owls not unfrequently engage in combat with the eagle himself, and that they often "It is a very old remark, that prosperity is come off victorious. These powerful and vo- emphatically the furnace that tries men's souls. racious birds, that gentleman remarks, occa- Ordinary mortals at least are curbed and made sionally kill the fawns of the stag, roebuck, tame by the laws, and a fear of the conseand reindeer. The largest of the birds com- quences that may follow on their ill actions. mon to the Scandinavian forests, such as the Why does this man not seize on the splendid capercali, often become their prey. The hoot-prize that lies in his path, on a property adapted ing of these owls may often be heard during to his desires, and that with all his heart he the night-time in the northern forests; the covets? Why does another not waylay and sound, which is a most melancholy one, and stab the enemy, against whom his malicious which has given rise to many superstitions, is passions and his furious resentments rise up in audible at a long distance." arms? The poet has said, All men would be cowards, if they durst.' It would be more true to say, that the majority of men, men of vulgar souls and undisciplined passions, would be free. booters and sanguinary bravoes, if they durst. It is the first step that costs the most. When a man has surrounded himself with a certain number of bleeding carcasses, the victims of his rage, he finds himself so deep in blood, so fleshed with slaughter, that his very remorse can only be stilled by fresher murders. An ill man in prosperity, is like the adder restored to life by the bright and cheering beams of the sun. Till that sun came, he lay in a torpid state; it was difficult to say that he lived. By and by he opens his eyes, and his scales are by degrees set in motion. Anon he rears his head, and shoots out his forked tongue, and sends forth terrific hisses, and shines in his tremendous brilliancy of colours, and flies this way and that, and seems to be every where in a moment. No one is any longer safe from his venom. "On a Sunday afternoon, whilst two or three children were herding cattle on a Svedgefall in the forest, in the vicinity of Gras, a hamlet situated at sixteen or eighteen miles to the southward of my quarters, a large bear suddenly dashed in among them. The brute first despatched a sheep, which happened to come in his way, and then a well-grown heifer: this last, in spite of the cries of the children, he then carried over a strong fence of four or five feet in height, which surrounded the Svedge-fall, when, together with his prey, he was soon lost sight of in the thicket. The children now collected together the remainder of their charge, and made the best of their way to Gras, where they resided. others as he has been to us. Of the sport, Cloudesley: a Tale. By the Author of " Caleb Williams." 3 vols. 12mo. London, 1830. Colburn and Bentley. INVENTOR of a style as original as it is striking, we believe there are few writers whose works have left deeper traces both in their first impression and after-results than those of Mr. Godwin: the reality of their fiction, the individuality of their characters, the research into the innermost recesses of the heart, the boldness of their theories, at once "There are no two passions that are more fixed attention; and the very discussions they insensible in the gradation by which they melt produced were so many life-springs to their the one into the other, than pity and love. fame. A tale by the author of Caleb Wil-'Twas but a kindred sound to move.' Beauty liams is an announcement to excite the ut. never appears so beautiful as when it is under most curiosity; and Cloudesley, though certainly the dominion of sorrow. Beauty, in its hour but a younger brother, has ample matériel to of exultation and pride, has a tendency to arm call for and retain the reader's attention. As the spectator against its inroad and usurpation. a mere novel, its pretensions cannot rank very We feel the impulse to resist aroused within high; the story is meagre, and told too us, and resolve to shew, while it comes on fifty, lengthily, and half of the first volume has no thousand strong, that we will not be made the sort of connexion with the actual narrative dust under its feet. But beauty in sorrow is itself. The whole plot is as follows: A younger the adversary that has thrown down its arms, brother, tempted by opportunity, has the child and no longer defies us to conquer its prowess. of the elder brought up in obscurity; and the It is the weak and tender flower, illustrious in Now that I am speaking of the bear's author's skill is employed to develop the work-its lowliness, that asks for a friendly hand to attacks upon cattle, I am reminded of an anec-ings of remorse as they are evinced by Lord raise its drooping head. dote related to me by Jan Finne. The circum- Danvers and his agent Cloudesley: the latter, "Cloudesley was specially alive to the quesstance, he stated, occurred some years before, bringing up the boy as his own, becomes pas- tion of the persons with whom his youthful at only about twenty miles from Stjern: A sionately attached to him, and desirous of his favourite should associate. But he knew that bull was attacked in the forest by a rather restoration to his defrauded honours; while he could not be without a companion; and he smail bear, when, striking his horns into his the history of Julian himself is only the em-did not wish him to be without. Many of the assailant, he pinned him against a tree. In bodying of the author's idea of a perfect educa- most valuable lessons and practices that a this situation they were both found dead; the tion. It is in the characters of Lord Danvers young person can acquire, are only to be bull from starvation, the bear from wounds.' and Cloudesley that the great merit of these learned in society with those of his own age. But we must now conclude; and that our It is not good for man to be alone.' And that review, from being all directed to one topic, man is substantially alone, though living in the may not be thought unbearable, we shall give midst of crowds and tumults, who has not a a few lines touching another animal-the great companion circumstanced in various particulars horned owl, which abounds in the Scandilike himself. These are the points in which navian forests. human creatures touch one another, at which 6 pages consists; they are drawn to the very per. # the virtues and the sympathies of mortals be- to entangle them in a thousand webs, to be- third as much in breadth, its length forming come inter-infused. The existence of a man come the heart of their hearts. But at eleven a right angle to the direction of the main shore. may be continued for seventy years, and he years of age the case is totally different. We The town is divided into two parts, the castle may pass through an incalculable variety of have watched their stature, the unfolding of on the summit of the hill, and the town, which fortunes, while yet there may be many a nerve their limbs, the growing feeling and thought is built on the southern face of the island, and vein of character that shall have lain dor- that speaks in their eye, their accumulating occupying one-third of it towards the eastern mant in him from the cradle to the grave, if he proficiency. I began to regard my boy almost end. The town is enclosed between two walls have never encountered an equal, one to whom as a companion; asked his thoughts upon a descending directly from the castle to the sea; he has stood forth as open and undisguised as variety of questions; I drew hints for deliber- the houses are piled upon one another, and to his own soul, between whom and himself ation from his innocent and guileless sugges- intersected by narrow, intricate streets. Many every thought has been shaped into words,- tions. I began to connect the thought of him of the buildings are of Venetian construction; and they have mutually poured their sensa- with the idea of the world, to consider what there are about 300 houses in the town, and tions into each other's bosom, even as a mighty would be the destination and fortune of his fifty in the castle: all, except about six, are river carries along with it all the spars and manhood, in what occupation or pursuit he Turkish. Before the Russian invasion of the corks, and feathers and straws, that float upon would be likely to prove most happy or most Moréa there were 150 Greek families; but its stream. They must have been together in honoured. Every year he loved his parents they, as well as the Greek inhabitants of the sadness and festivity, alike when the mind better; every year we loved him more. All villages of this district, fled after that event to subsides into despair, and when it is made this was suddenly extinguished. In less than Asia, or to Petza, Ydhra, and the other islands. frantic with unlooked-for joy, in difficulties two months we saw him decline from the most Some of them returned, after Hassán, the and in plenty, in sickness and in health. It is enviable health; he became a corpse; and the Capitán Pashá, had expelled the Albanians, thus that man is made that frank creature, earth hid him for ever from our sight. The who had marched into the Moréa against the above all disguises, bold, confident, unfearing, loss of my son had introduced a new inmate Russo-Greeks; but the Vilayeti has never reand unsuspicious, that beneficent nature in- under our roof. This was the grim spectre, covered its Christian population, and does not tended him to be. Death. Hitherto our residence had been now contain more than 500 Greeks; its cultisacred; it seemed as if he dared not invade vation has of course diminished, and now proit. duces little more of the necessaries of life than are sufficient for its own consumption. * "He was more at his ease with his mother, and poured out his youthful heart to her with greater unreserve. If she had lived longer, "Sympathy is one of the principles most she would perhaps have been less to him. But, widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see "Hassán Bey is not only governor of the in the years through which he had hitherto ourselves reflected in another, and, perversely fortress and voivoda of the district, but captain passed, a woman was to him more than a man. enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure also of the sultan's galley, stationed here to If to the softer sex belong more fickleness and in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves, clear the coast of pirates, and more particularly inconsistency, if they have less firmness of pur-existing under a deformed and monstrous as- intended to preserve Mani in its present orderly pose and depth of combination, than are to be pect in another. Thus the miser will love to state. He is not a little proud of his exploits found in us, this was to the present moment associate with another miser, who, if we judge totally, or almost totally, unadverted to by Julian. Add to these considerations, that we never know the value of a thing but by its loss, and that the benefit which has escaped from our grasp is that to which our recollection is linked; so that, while our misfortune is recent, we can scarcely think of, and scarcely esteem, any thing else. by the stature of his vice, we may call his elder We need add no eulogy upon a work which against the Maniátes. He has not left them, he says, a single tratta to carry on their depredations by sea. Two of their captured galleys, similar in construction to his own, but much smaller, are now lying here, drawn up on the beach just within the bridge. He affirms, that since he has been intrusted with this command he has blown up eighteen Maniate castles, and destroyed almost as many villages. "The period of life from three years old to Only a few months since, he took Marathonísi, ten, if we are kindly treated, if we are not after firing a prodigious number of shot into it, galled with the iron yoke of despotism, if we when he also captured 90 kantárs of powder, in are made to feel that we have a will of our barrels of 400 okes, and 40 kantárs of shot, own, if we are not thwarted and thrust aside which had been landed from a French brig of from our innocent desires by the caprice of war. The same brig sailed from Mani to persons older than ourselves, is in many reCrete, where another cargo was landed for the spects the happiest epoch of human existence. Travels in the Morea. With Maps and Plans. use of the Sfakhiotes, but which was also seized Then is the sunshine of the bosom, the first By W. Martin Leake, F.R.S., &c. 3 vols. by the governor of Khánia. Hassán receives vintage and harvest of our newly-acquired 8vo. London, 1830. J. Murray. from the sultan, for the maintenance of his senses, of perception and imagination, before FROM the well-known abilities of Colonel Leake galley, 12,000 piastres a year, 100 kantárs of dear-bought experience has convinced us of we had a right to expect a production of great biscuit, and 10 kantárs of powder: the vessel their futility and hollowness. It is the epoch classical, antiquarian, and universal intelligence; mounts twelve guns, and has fifteen pair of in which, by the omnipotent charter of na-nor, if we may deliver an opinion from only a oars. His services in this quarter are of anture, we have no cares what we shall eat, or few hours given to his interesting volumes, cient date. When the Capitán Pashá Hassán wherewithal we shall be clothed; but all is are these expectations likely to be disappointed. was sent to settle the affairs of the Moréa, after provided for us by a superintendence that asks On the contrary, Greece, becoming at this hour the Russian invasion, Hassán Bey marched no aid from ourselves, and in which we have an object of modern, as it must ever be of from Marathonísi, which had been taken by no participation of consciousness. ancient interest, is presented to us in such the pashá, across the Taygetum to Kitriés, "But, beside the direct sorrow with which luminous aspects by the author, that we know this event afflicted us, it altered all our views not whether most to prize his research into the and feelings on the point of domestic comfort. old, or his exposition of the existing state of Life and death are conceptions of a peculiar the country. Having received these volumes sort; we habitually combine the idea of death at a late hour, we frankly confess, that we can with that of an age in a certain degree ad- do no more than bear testimony to their obvanced; this is what we call the course of na-vious merits, and speak of the parts we have ture; we know that every man's time must been able to examine, with unqualified praise. come, and that all must die. But, when we Strabo, and still more particularly Pausanias, look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the are delightfully illustrated by Colonel Leake's mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien labours; but our scanty limits now oblige us to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a to be satisfied with a miscellany instead of an speculation and a tale; but nothing but ex-analysis. where he shut up several of the Kapitanéi in a tower, and forced them to a capitulation. The Greeks, who rose in consequence of Orlov's proceedings, are stated by Hassan to have committed the greatest cruelties against the Turks; and it is well known that the expedition of Dolgorouki against Mothóni failed in consequence of their disorderly or cowardly conduct. The Albanians who entered the Moréa on this occasion amounted, according to Hassán, to 15,000, who themselves, alarmed at the great number of their countrymen that were following to share in the plunder, and supported by perience can bring it home to us. Infancy is "The name of Moviußaría is derived from the government in their determination to admit indeed subject to peculiar perils, but my son its singular situation, which admits only of one no more, stationed parties at the isthmus, with had outlived the hazards of infancy. Parents approach and entrance on the land side, over orders to prevent any more Albanians from who lose their children in infancy, for the most the bridge which connects the western extre-entering the peninsula. When the insurrecpart endure their loss with philosophy. The mity of the hill with the main land. The tion had been quelled, and peace made with children in so short a period had not had time island is about half a mile in length, and one-Russia, the Albanians, who had committed and were continuing to commit the greatest ex-people were carried off by tigers during the natural degree in the large vessels of the thorax. cesses, were ordered to return home, but last year. When a tiger enters a village, the The circulation appears to be extracted from repeated firmahns having failed in producing foolish people frequently prepare rice and the extremities and thrown upon the viscera obedience to this order, Hassán Bey accom- fruits, and placing them at the entrance as an near its source. The lungs, in particular, are panied the Capitán Pashá in his expedition offering to the animal, conceive that, by giving stimulated to excessive exertions. The vital against them, when they were totally defeated, him this hospitable reception, he will be pleased viscera are oppressed by an intolerable load, and a pyramid of their heads was made near with their attention, and pass on without doing which produces the symptoms above described, Tripolitzá; of the survivors, some joined the them harm. They do the same on the ap- while in the extremities a proportionate degree old colonies of their countrymen at Lalla and proach of the small-pox, and thus endeavour to of torpor takes place, accompanied by tremors, Bardhúnia, others entered into the service of lay the evil spirit by kind and hospitable treat- shiverings, and convulsions. The natives of the pashá; only a few returned to Albania. ment. I am doing all I can to resume the Macasar, Borneo, and the Eastern Islands, Hassán speaks highly of the services of the empire of man, and, having made open war when they employ this poison, make use of an interpreter of the fleet, Mavroyéni, upon this against the whole race of wild and ferocious arrow of bamboo, (to the end of which they occasion, particularly in the pacification of animals, I hope we shall be able to reside on attach a shark's tooth) which they throw from Mani; he was afterwards vóivoda of Moldavia, the Hill of Mists without danger from their a blow-pipe or sompit. The Upas appears to and was beheaded by a Grand Vezír Hassán; attacks." affect different quadrupeds with nearly equal for which the vezír himself lost his head. force, proportionate in some degree to their size Hassan Bey's account of his wars in Máni and disposition." is very amusing. It seldom happened, he says, that when he wished to destroy a village, he could not find some neighbouring village to assist him in the work, and generally under the guidance of a priest, upon condition of his having the stones of the ruins for a perquisite. Their own civil wars, Hassan says, are seldom very bloody, and months may pass without a single man being killed on either side. The women carry ammunition for their husbands or brothers; and it is a point of honour not to fire at them. To shew the respect in which Hassan's name is held in Mani, he shews me a poetical effusion which he has just received from thence, and in which he is described as gifted with every possible virtue. Poetry and piracy seem to be indigenous plants that will never be eradicated from Greece." This must be taken as a mere introduction to the public of Colonel Leake's work, which will gratify, in an ample measure, that thirst for an acquaintance with Greece, so naturally prevalent at this particular period, when a prince so intimately connected with England is about to wear the crown of that country. Memoir of Sir Stamford Raffies. (Second Notice: Conclusion.) The horrors of oriental wars, even where Europeans are engaged, are disgustingly depicted in our concluding extract from a letter in April 1822. "They are very temperate, of a bold and daring disposition, but passionate and hasty, with a strong attachment to their ancient customs; they look upon all innovation as a departure from truth and justice; they are extremely independent, and jealous of any infringement of their ancient liberties. They "In the way of news, or interesting infor are industrious, and less infected with the vice mation, you cannot expect much. The only of gambling than the Company's subjects. political event in our neighbourhood of recent Opium smoking is unknown among them; occurrence is the defeat of the Dutch in the they look upon that drug as poison. On the interior of Pedang, where they have become other hand, they have little regard for truth, engaged in a war with the Padries, a sect of and think but lightly of the violation of an Mahomedans, which is rapidly gaining ground oath. They have no regard to honesty or throughout the northern parts of Sumatra. It fairness of dealing in their transactions, but is the practice of these people, when they are make a merit of cheating. They are more attacked, to place the women and children in warlike than the inhabitants of the coast, and front; and in the last onset by the Dutch, it is are extremely dexterous in the use of their reported that not less than one hundred and weapons. They cannot bear to hear the term twenty women, each with a child in her arms, Coolie applied to them, and absolutely refused were sacrificed, the women standing firm. The to assist us in carrying our baggage under that discomfiture of the Dutch on the last occasion name. They are very temperate in their is stated to have been occasioned by the treadiet, and seldom eat flesh of any kind. The chery of a Padri chief, who apparently came buffalo, not being a native of their plains, is over to their side, and led them into a snare; slain only on occasions of importance. Goat's and the Dutch took their revenge of his perfidy flesh, although more plentiful, and fowls, which by assembling all the troops and chiefs of the are abundant, are seldom eaten, except in their country, shaving off the poor man's beard, &c. offerings to the gods. Swine's flesh is not and then chopping off his head, enbalming it, eaten; but, besides this, they have few pre- and sending it down to the seat of government, judices with regard to food. They are by to the resident's, where it is exhibited." no means delicate this way; and the entrails Sir Stamford Raffles's zeal in support of misTHE great variety of topic which this volume of the fowls killed for our dinner were eagerly sionary societies and other popular institutions, embraces, amounts, with us, to the prohibition picked up, and, after undergoing some pre- has been so often before the public as to abof an adequate review: we must, therefore, con-parations, greedily devoured. For this pur- solve us from the need of entering upon the tent ourselves with the general report already pose they attended the cook daily in his cu- details in this volume. The same remark apgiven of it, and a very few farther extracts. linary operations, to carry off every thing he plies to its zoological and botanical portions; At Bencoolen, Sir Stamford writes: "My threw away. They do not even scruple to eat since most of the striking facts have appeared first incursion into the interior was imme-the carcass of an animal found dead, although in the transactions of the Zoological and Lindiately east of Bencoolen; here I found the they know not how it came by its death: thus næan Societies, of the first of which the author country in a wretched state, and very thinly the carcass of the unfortunate horse that died was a founder. Neither does it fall within our peopled. I ascended the first range of hills, in one of the villages, was almost wholly de- sphere to discuss his political views, from which and having taken up a position on the Hill of voured by them, and some declared they had the directors of the East India Company so freMists (Bukit Kabut), which commands a most made a hearty meal from it. The only in- quently dissented: on such questions we can extensive view of the surrounding country, ebriating drink made use of by them, is a merely say, that we think it improper to divulge and on which no European had before set fermented liquor, prepared from rice, and individual opinions when officially employed, as foot, I determined to make it our country termed brum: this is drunk only at festivals. the result must be to warn foreign powers residence, and accordingly gave orders for They have the same aversion to milk, and against British objects, whether good or bad, clearing the forest, &c. In this I have already every preparation from it, as the Javanese and and reveal ideas which ought to be buried in made considerable progress, a comfortable cot-other Eastern people. A chief being asked the honourable intercourse of both public and tage is erected, and, as far as we can yet judge, whether he would take milk with his tea, re- private life. the thermometer is at least six degrees lower plied, that he was not an infant." than at Bencoolen. The only inconvenience will arise from the tigers and elephants, which abound in the vicinity; one of the villagers "The common train of symptoms is, a trembtold me that his father and grandfather were ling of the extremities, restlessness, erection of carried off by tigers, and there is scarcely a the hair, affection of the bowels, drooping and family that has not lost some of its members faintness, slight spasms and convulsions, hasty by them. In many parts the people would breathing, an increased flow of saliva, spas- THE second volume of this work has not imseem to have resigned the empire to these modic contractions of the pectoral and abdo- proved our opinion of its general character: animals, taking but few precautions against minal muscles, retching, vomiting, great agony, there is such a superabundance of what is them, and regarding them as sacred; they laborious breathing, violent and repeated con- called twaddle, and the efforts at humour are believe in transmigration, and call them their vulsions, death. The action of the Upas poison so sadly overstrained, that we must confess our nene or grandfather. On the banks of one of is directed chiefly to the vascular system. The patience has been sorely tried, where we looked the rivers of this coast upwards of a hundred volume of the blood is accumulated in a preter- for merriment and laughter. With regard to The action of the Upas poison is thus described : With too much of personal and minute matter, this volume nevertheless contains a mass of interesting and valuable information. Colman's Random Records. Vol. II. [Conclusion of our notice.] order, either chronological or any other kind, there is none observed; so that all we have now to do is to give a few of the best extracts we can select from the mass of uninteresting matter, to conclude the random illustration of these Random Records. "The Supper of the Ghosts. much too broad to have escaped the erasing | so any more. They hatch it by holding it fast hand of the examiner of plays in the present under one foot, and seldom leave it till it be day. On perusing the manuscript after a long hatched. (Prodigious!!) The fish caught by lapse of time, I threw the Female Dramatist the old ones often serve the inhabitants for into the flames, as a fit companion for the Man food, and the sticks they bring to make their of the People; and if this consumed couple nests supply them with fuel. They make great had belonged to any author but myself, he profit of the flesh and feathers of their young The crown'd heads since the conquest who ruled Eng- would not, perhaps, have had the folly, or can- ones, which are taken from their nests." dour (or whatever else it may be called), to We gather from this quotation, that the old rake up their ashes. Undismayed by these Solan geese sit by wood fires, and carry on failures such is the cacoëthes scribendi ! a profitable trade (the odious cannibals) in the I proceeded, not long afterwards, from a two-flesh and feathers of their young!! Apropos Cynthia shone out above them to scatter the dark, act farce to a three-act comedy. This last was We believe the price of a Solan goose is the And they sat on the sands above high-water mark; For they knew when Canute said the tide should be entitled Two to One-the first of my publicly only example extant of the relative value of stopp'd, How finely his majesty's shoes had been sopp'd! The defunct kings and queens had a worm-eaten train land's nation Met ou one of our coasts for a jollification; Tolderol, &c. Of the statesmen, wits, heroes, and toasts, of their reign: Queen Elizabeth Burleigh and Lei'ster brought in- Gwynn. The chair Norman Billy the Conqueror claim'd, Cried John to his barons, We'll have now, my lords, Our best magnum bonum, my liege,' they all said, For the roses,' said Henry the Seventh, I entwined them; them.' And like port mix'd with sherry, in marriage I join'd That I never beheaded but two of my wives.' King Edward the Sixth with the rest couldn't sup, him, avowed dramas ;-it was sent to town early currency and commodity not having varied for three hundred years; during all which period it has been one pound Scots, or twenty pennies, in Edinburgh market. We wish our political economists would consider this fact: they might construct an unchangeable standard out of the principle. But we must now conclude, and we do so with only one other quotation, which is literally the best piece of wit we can pick out of the volume; and it will therefore shew that we were not unjust when we spoke of the labour with which the humour was hammered up. This odd division of time is something like a riddle. We should guess that the twentieth year, and before one entered their twenty-first, were "It is odd that I should have known two pretty much the same period, but for the Li- Harveys, whose callings, though so very differcenser's nice distinction! Readers would not ex-ent, caused both one and the other to be the pect to find natural history in George Colman's daily and hourly witnesses of scenes which biography: but so it is; sympathy,† or some- smelt of mortality:-the first being the learned thing else, has introduced accounts of a bird Leech above mentioned;-the second, the landnot so celebrated for sagacity as it deserves lord of the Black Dog, at Bedfont, (commonly to be; viz. a goose. "The Solan geese are the principal inhabitants of the Bass (an island in the Frith of Forth): a fowl rare as to its kind; for they are not found any where in Britain that I can learn, except here, in some of the lesser islands in the Orcades, and in the isle of Ailzye, in the mouth of the Clyde. They come as certainly at their season as the swallows or woodcocks, with this difference (if what the people there tell us may be depended on), that they generally come exactly to the very same day of the month. They feed mostly on herrings; and therefore it is observed they come just before or with them, and go away with them likewise, though it is evident they do not follow them, for they go all away to the north, but whither is not known. As they live on fish, so their flesh has the taste of fish; which, together with their being so exceedingly fat, makes them, in my opinion, a very coarse dish, rank, But ill-relished, and soon cloys the stomach. here they are looked upon as a dainty. It is a large fowl, rather bigger than an ordinary goose; it is web-footed, but its bill is pointed like a crane or heron, only much thicker, and not above five inches long. When they are “The Marvellous Physicians," another fill-coming, they send some before to fix their man gap poem, is a poor affair. Mr. Colman's first dramatic attempt was a musical farce, in two acts, called "the Female Dramatist," of which he says:— Till a bumper (like General Monk) had restored him. The third William stood up, and, sans circumlocution, As the spirits broke up ere the sun shot his rays, "It puzzled the managerial papa;-he thought it had some promise; but that it was too crude to risk, as regularly accepted by the theatre; so it was brought out anonymously, on the benefit-night of Jewell, the treasurer. Little is expected from novelties produced at a benefit; and considering the apathy with which they are usually received, I may without vanity state, that this farce was noticed in a very conspicuous manner, for it was uncommonly hissed in the course of its performance. The audience, I was told, laughed a good deal in various parts of the piece; but there were passages in it to excite disapprobation, and called by corruption Belfound,) famed for his Lines written at the Inn at Bedfont, in the Year 1802. Meditations on the Tombs:' Long may he hinder Death from beckoning His guests to settle their last reckoning! If my attempts at pleasantry were unacceptable, or incomprehensible, to the doctor, they were better understood, but much worse received, by the apothecary;. I beg pardon, — I should have put surgeon before apothecary, and accoucheur after it, for so did this personage designate himself. He was a constant resident at Margate, and kept one of those show-shops for chymicals and galenicals which you pass at night, in peril of being blinded by the glare of cochineal, and other dies, from huge globular glass-bottles, stuck up in the windows; while those in the dark, who espy you at a distance, take you for a red man, or a sion, which for that reason are called scouts. |