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SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1830. PRICE 8d. anity; Byron heard of it, and wished to be present. I had seven or eight meetings at which he was not present; and I had seven or eight meetings with Byron alone." society, to be afterwards punished for the REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. very faults its indulgence had first sanctioned. Conversations on Religion with Lord Byron. Of all sins, vanity is the one which we owe By the late James Kennedy, M.D. 8vo. most to others, and which they least forgive: pp. 461. London, 1830. Murray. an author is soon flattered into the personi- Indecision, rather than unbelief, is representEVERY work that tends to throw light on fication of his own heroes; and it was a mere ed as the pervading feature of his mind: witLord Byron's character is of great value; first, common love of exciting wonder, that made ness a passage in one of Count Gamba's letters. for the extreme interest of such a moral study; Lord Byron rather like that the mystery "In my opinion, the sentiments of his lordand secondly, (if it be possible to force on which hung round his creations should identify ship on religion were not fixed, that is, he was people the conviction drawn from the writer's them with himself. But follies are always not held more to one religious and Christian experience), for placing in the strongest point more severely visited than faults; and every sect than another; but his profound sentiments of view, the folly, not to say cruelty, of harsh crime he depicted, every expression of re-were religious, and he professed a deep respect judgment, founded half on your own imaginary morse, were soon considered to be his own: he for the doctrines of Jesus Christ, as the source premises, and half on the mere gossip of the had excited the imagination, and set it in array of virtue and felicity. With respect to the day, which is generally false, and always against himself. Among his many and dark recondite mysteries of faith, his mind was inspiteful-false from its love of the marvellous, offences, infidelity was most especially set forth volved in doubts, which, however, he had a and spiteful from that consolation our own for reprobation; and a species of warfare com-desire to dissipate as troublesome, and on this faults seem to derive from those of others. menced between him and public opinion; and account he never shunned conversations on this Literary fame has always been purchased at a its various methods of expression were all subject, as you well know. I have had occadear price; genius has either had to complain directed to his mortification and annoyance.sion to observe him often in those situations in of poverty and neglect, or of envy and mis-Much was, doubtless, said and written in the which the most involuntary and most sincere representation the leaves of the laurel may be aggravation of the moment, which cooler judg-sentiments of the mind are unfolded,—in serigiven, “but the trail of the serpent is over ment and less excited feeling would have ous danger of the stormy sea, or otherwise-in them all." And in the present day especially, avoided; and we cannot but think that Don the contemplation of a fine and tranquil night the successful writer has to suffer under the Juan (the least defensible of his works) of summer and in the midst of a solitudefalse verdict of incompetent judges, or the still would, if written under less irritating cir- and I have observed his emotions and his falser of interested ones; the feelings he avows cumstances, have rather avoided than sought thoughts to be deeply tinctured with religion. are denied or misconstrued, those he conceals occasions of unnecessary offence: if, as he The first time that I had a conversation with brought forward for reproach or ridicule; himself asserts, he had a moral end in view, it him on this subject was at Ravenna, my native and while we grudge, hesitate, and refute, was at least injudicious to begin by sneers at country, about four years ago, while we were aught that is mentioned as praiseworthy, there what was respectable to all, and, still more, riding on horseback in an extensive, solitary is nothing too improbable for belief when it sacred to so many of his readers. But let us wood of pines. The scene invited to religious requires blame. Lord Byron's life is perhaps first observe what the spirit of opposition effects meditation. It was a fine day in spring. as discouraging a specimen of literary fame as in only the daily relations of quiet and do-How,' he said, ‘raising our eyes to heaven, or ever gave a warning, and in vain; it began, mestic life, and thence allow for its effects in directing them to the earth, can we doubt of and it ended, in bitterness. It is curious to the exciting field of literature. And we do the existence of God?—or how, turning them observe how little the Edinburgh Review has not think it taking too favourable a side, when to what is within us, can we doubt that there led public opinion in respect to works of ima- we say that Lord Byron was originally a fine is something within us more noble and more gination: our principal poets have made their and noble nature: loving excellence more from durable than the clay of which we are formed? way in opposition to the critical judgment impulse than judgment, variable in his opi- Those who do not hear, or are unwilling to which pronounced sentence of death on their nions, from their being founded on impressions listen to those feelings, must necessarily be of efforts; Wordsworth, Montgomery, Coleridge, too keen and too impetuous to be lasting, hea vile nature.' &c., were alike jeered and run down; but seems to have been generous, though hasty, Again, he observes: "Prayer does not conno one now denies their poetical pre-eminence. and kind in feeling, though bad in temper. sist in the act of kneeling, nor in repeating Keen, lively, logical, French in his philosophy His temper was certainly bad. a key, we certain words in a solemn manner. Devotion and its brilliancy of expression, Jeffrey had think, to much of his character, though too is the affection of the heart, and this I feel; neither feeling nor imagination strongly de-simple for general use; for who is not proveloped in himself, and was therefore, by nature, incapable of doing justice to these qualities in others; and when his praise was given, it was in These Conversations shew Lord Byron in a a spirit of nationality or private friendship. The very favourable point of view, giving his time, effects of sarcasm, bitter, personal, and crush-his thoughts, his fortune, in the hope of The following dialogue is interesting, though ing, beyond what could ever be called for by a benefiting a cause he held to be both ho- it has only reference to his private feelings: slight volume of youthful poems, for we hold, nourable and useful-beloved by his depend- "I have had letters from England,' said that the critic will not err too much on the ants, and facilitating, as much as lay in Lord B., which mention that Ada has been side of mercy, who takes a general tone of his power, the moral and religious instruc-unwell, she is now better. Her complaint kindliness and encouragement towards the ef- tion of those within his influence. Dr. Ken-was a determination of blood to the head: what forts of the young,-censure so contemptuous, nedy seems to have been a most well-mean-is the cause of it at her age?? This depends must have cut deep, and left its scar in a ing man-zealous, we must say, with little on various causes, and I could not pretend to mind conscious of its own high powers, such encouragement; for out of the five he begins judge what the cause is in her case, unless I as Byron's certainly was. To his first suc- with attempting to convert, not one of his saw her.' 'Do you,' asked he, think that cessful defiance of public opinion, for such it efforts proved successful. We shall endeavour such a complaint is habitual?' No, it is not was to him, in the English Bards and Scotch to extract those passages which throw the most necessarily so,' I replied. It is curious,' he Reviewers, may, we think, be traced much of light on Lord Byron's own opinions: they answered, that it is a complaint to which I his recklessness of it in after life; that to defy were elicited in the following manner :- myself am subject.' I could easily suppose was to subdue, became with him a principle. Dr. Kennedy says: "Before Byron came to so,' I said, from your mode of life, and habits Our limits forbid us from entering into the de-Cephalonia, four officers had agreed to enter on of study, irregular, but intense; and I think tails of his career; he was the spoilt child of the investigation of the doctrines of Christi-I could have inferred so from the state of your voked to find that the meaning of a riddle is a for when I view the wonders of creation, I bow to the Majesty of heaven; and when I feel the enjoyments of life, health, and happiness, I feel grateful to God for having bestowed these upon me.'" 6 :--- 6 6 He We leave these pages, observing that there is matter for the most serious meditation in their contents; and only pronounce judgment on the opinions they controvert, and the extraor dinary individual they bring forward, in the beautiful lines of Southey: "Oh, what are we, eyes. Your right eye appears inflamed.' That tion.' Speaking of his intention to go to Con- We have not entered into the detail of the is from having read a good deal of late; but it stantinople to redeem some Greek captives purely religious conversations: Lord Byron's will easily be removed, when I remove the which he promised to their families when he objections seem to have been much founded on cause. Ada,' he continued, is, I understand, came from Genoa, Colonel D. dissuaded him matters of feeling; as, for example, where he very fond of reading. She lies on the sofa from it on account of the danger. Oh, the says" one of the greatest difficulties which great part of the day reading, and displays, worst would be,' he said, they will put me in he had met with, and which he could not overperhaps, a premature strength of mind, and the Seven Towers, from which I do not think come, was the existence of so much pure and quickness of understanding.' I hope,' I re- Strangford would release me: besides he is a unmixed evil in the world as he had witnessed; joined, that her inclination for acquiring poet, and two of a trade, you know- Speak- and which he could not reconcile to the idea of knowledge will not be pushed too far, to the ing of Moore, he said: He is, like all the fra- a benevolent Creator. He added, that wherinjury of her health, or even to the exhaustion ternity, at present employed in writing heroic ever he had been, he had found vice and misery of her intellectual powers, as is too often done and patriotic songs in favour of the Spaniards predominant; and that real happiness and by foolish and fond parents.' I hope not,' or Greeks; the last work he has dedicated to virtue were rarely, if ever, to be seen. said Lord B.; and I am sure that I can rely himself.' He said he would give his travels in had made it, he said, his business to converse on Lady B.'s judgment and discretion.' Do the Morea to the world; but laughing, added, with, and inquire into, the history of many you know, my lord,' I said, that I hope ere it would depend on the reception he met with, wretched and deformed creatures with whom long to see the day when your lordship will whether they should be written in the Childe he had met; and he generally found their hisagain be united to Lady B., and enjoy all the Harold or the Don Juan style. When any one tory a record of unvarying misery from their happiness of domestic life, instead of following spoke finely, he used to say,That will do very birth. How had these offended their your present wandering and unsettled state, so very well for rhyme.' Whether Homer lived Creator, to be thus subjected to misery? and unsuitable to one of your rank and station. or not, he said he did not know; but we poets why do they live and die in this wretched 'What makes you think so? Have you had must swear by him.' One night he was out at state, most of them without the Gospel being any private information?' asked Lord B. 'No,' a gentleman's house; the weather was very preached to them, and apart from the happiI replied; I judge from circumstances, which hot, and he said when he went on board, that ness which it is said to produce? And of I will mention, if they are not likely to offend he would bathe. Some one expressed surprise what use are they in this world? Many are your lordship. By all means, tell me what that he should bathe at so late an hour. Oh,' constantly suffering under bodily evils and they are.' I judge from the style in which said T. (a gentleman who from too great viva-pains; many are suffering from the constant you spoke of Lady B., when we were talking city of imagination and thoughtlessness, ex-pressure of poverty; many are doomed to inof whom we would save, at a former conversa-aggerated a little), we were two hours in the cessant toil and labour, immersed in ignorance tion, that your affection for her is not extin-water late last night.'Yes,' said Lord B. and superstition, and neither having time nor guished by absence, nor by all that has hap-emphatically, by Shrewsbury clock.' Dr. -, capacity to read the Bible, even if it were prepened; that, in fact, she is not indifferent to when on board one evening, was narrating to sented to them." " you.' If I said any thing disrespectful of his lordship some wonderful act of legerdemain Lady B., I am very much to blame. Lady B. which he witnessed at Paris: Lord B. smiled. deserves every respect from me, and certainly You look incredulous, my lord,' said the docnothing could give me greater pleasure than a tor. No, not all,' replied Lord B.; where reconciliation.' With such sentiments, how is T.? I dare say he saw the same thing.'” is it possible that a separation has taken place, "When they were disputing about the or how is it that a reunion cannot be effected? motto for the Greek telegraph (the first having Under such circumstances, neither you nor she given offence to many), Lord B. insisted that can be happy; and the cause must be singular the old one should not be retained. Count G. which two persons of such rank and under-entered one day, and said, 'Pray, my lord, standing cannot find out and remove.' 'I do what motto shall we have?' Lord B. pettishly not, indeed, know the cause of separation,' replied, Foolishness to the Greeks.'" said Lord B. 'I know that many falsehoods "Colonel D. took up a book, which was the have been spread abroad-such as my bringing English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. You Songs of the Affections; with other Poems. By Felicia Hemans. 12mo. pp. 259. Edinactresses to my house but they were all false. need not look at this,' said D.; it is your Lady B. left me without explaining the cause. own.' This book did me a great deal of burgh, 1830, Blackwood: London, Cadell. I sent Hobhouse to her, who almost went on harm,' replied his lordship; I lost a great ALREADY familiar to many a lip, and treahis knees, but in vain: and at length I wished number of friends who have never forgiven sured in many a memory, these poems do not to institute an action against her, that it might me.' It is the best you ever wrote.' Why,' require the critical notice looked for on a first be seen what were her motives."" said Lord B., I published a few silly songs, introduction: long the favourite pages of anAn anecdote here shews how painful were his written when I was young; and when the nuals, magazines, &c., we have only to rejoice feelings on the subject of his daughter. "One reviewers treated me so severely, I wished to that a more durable and compact form is given day Colonel D. rode out with Lord Byron, when shew them that I would not put up with their to them. Language the most polished, versifian infant, from fright, fell: Lord B. got off his insolence so tamely as they expected. But one cation only another word for harmony, associa horse with great anxiety, and, raising it, took thing I regret very much in this book, is what tions with the beautiful, affection tender rather it to his arms: it was a soldier's child. He I wrote of Lord Carlisle. I am sorry for it.' than passionate, a fondness for linking the said, in a hurried manner, I cannot bear to Colonel D. mentioned the Quarterly Review lovely in nature with some moral or sad fealook at an English child; I am so reminded of my on his Cain. Oh, you should read the Edin- ture in nature, historic associations, records of own, whom I have not seen for a long time.'" burgh Quarterly this gives it much sharper; human feeling scattered through the pages of Our next quotation depicts strongly the for though on my own side, it is always the traveller set in exquisite verse, these are change from twenty to forty; but it is a hardest against me. One day, when talking the characteristics of this little volume can we change for the worse, when we learn to ridi-of one of his aunts whom the colonel knew, he give it higher praise? cule our own enthusiasm. said, We have been an unfortunate family; We dare say the following poems are known "You must have been highly gratified by none of us have come to any good.' The to many of our readers, yet we cannot deny ourthe classical remains, and the classical recollec-colonel said, ' He hoped to see him a Methodist selves the pleasure of quoting them. tions of Ithaca during your visit there,' said yet, though he regretted that in the interval Colonel D. You quite mistake me,' said much time was lost, as his lordship should now "When I Lord B.: 'I have no poetical humbug about be writing some beautiful hymns.' me; I am too old for that. Ideas of that sort do become one,' he replied, I shall not be a are confined to rhyme. The people at home lukewarm Christian.'" have very absurd notions of the Greeks, as if Speaking of Shelley, he mentioned that And where the lauwine's peal is heard-Hunter! thy they were the Greeks of Homer's time. I have" he was cool in his manner; yet impassioned, know thou lovest me well, dear friend! but better, bettravelled through the country, and know the animated, and eloquent, in his conversation. contrary. I have tried to remove these no- I was much amused with him and another Thou lovest that high and haughty life, with rocks and tions.' He said he would do every thing for gentleman' (he mentioned the name, but I In the green sunny vales with me thy spirit would but pinethem, but would take no command. He added, forget it); one was a Platonist, the other And yet I will be thine, my love! and yet I will be thine! a Turk's word could always be depended on, was not; and, after long arguments, they conbut not a Greek's, if his interest were in ques-verted each other." That we should sit in judgment man on man? bounds, "The Chamois Hunter's Love. Thy heart is in the upper world, where fleet the chamois I stillness of the air, heart is there! And I will not seek to woo thee down from those thy With all the voices meeting there in tenderness and mirth, To sit forsaken in thy hut-yet know that thou art mine! art! well! A mournful thing is love which grows to one so wild as To watch through long long nights of storm, to sleep and com'st at last, "The Lyre's Lament. A deep-toned lyre hung murmuring Wind of the dark sea waters! Thou dost but sweep my strings I have power, high power, for freedom There was no music but his voice to hear, pany washed their fingers and mouths, and Light was but where he look'd-life where he moved-rose from the table, by no neans pleased with heart, and home, these pages are the echo of PRYSE LOCKHART GORDON'S MEMOIRS, &c. The sketches of men and manners, which such French fashions!" In 1778 our author got a commission in the marines, and, being properly fitted out, was at Aberdeen with my two brothers, one of transported to London; and he tells us :"I had the pleasure of passing a few days whom was studying law, and the other divinity. I embarked in a smack, supercargo to a kit of Enfield, as I have already mentioned. The salmon, for my uncle, who kept an academy at crowded population of the environs of London, and the approach to it by Westminster, struck there were but few houses in St. George's me with astonishment; though fifty years ago fields, and the number of stage coaches and private carriages was not a tenth of what it is now. Piccadilly from a relation at Aberdeen, and I I had a letter to a Scotch grocer in thought it would be a prudent measure to deliver my credentials to the vender of figs. On my presenting my letter, he gave me a great many bows, and when he had perused it, he begged me to walk into a small dark room behind his shop, which stunk of bacon, Hamburgh sausages, and rotten cheese, uniting an effluvia as insufferable as the bilge-water of the smack. 'Weel,' said my new friend, in a most perfect Buchan accent, what can I do for ye, captain?-(this was speedy promotion.) My cousin tells me he kens your family-I have several of your name my customers.' 'I want,' I replied, 'a lodging for a day or two, before I go to visit a relation at Enfield.' may his name be, if you please?—I serve twa 'An what families there.' When I satisfied him, and added that he was master of an academy, and had three score of boarders, his eye glistened, and he rejoined, I ha' a relation by the mither's side o' the name of Morison, may be ye are of the same kin; at ony rate, I would be greatly obleeged if you wud mention to your uncle that I sell tea and sugar, and a' kind o' groceries as cheap as ony man within the city The dishes were disguised and quite French, of London or Wastminster, and wud be obleeged excepting a joint (morceau de resistance,) on to you to tak a caird o' my shop-he'll find it the side table, which strangers were afraid to to his advantage to deal wi' me. I'm sorry I ask for, not knowing whether or not it was to canna ge ye a bed mysell, for I ha' unluckily make its appearance on the board! Shoulders let my first stage, and am raither hampered for of lamb and hams looked like fiddles, and every room, for I ha' a sick mither; but I will introthing was served up in masquerade. Potatoes duce you to an honest man, and a countryman, and other vegetables kept company with the and vary ceevil; he lives in Suffolk-street, near joint on the side-board; there was no hob- Charing Cross-but as ye dinna ken Lunnun nobbing; the cloth was not removed when the I'll send my shop-boy to shew you the road The first poem we do not remember to have dessert was served; nor did the bottle circulate it's No. 6. The man's name is Mitchel, and he before seen; we doubt, however, its hold on afterwards. All these were innovations and keeps a tailor's shop-you'll be wanting new human sympathy: it is beautiful, but coldly new fashions but ill-suited to the meridian of claiths, and you canna do better than get them so; the tale wins not on our belief, carries us the north; yet a little habit accustomed the frae him-he's an honest man.' I had tact not along with its mystery. Yet some of its good folks who ventured to attend on the enough to perceive that Mr. Mackey, from his lines are most exquisite; and the ensuing pas-visit the necessity to call for beer when they friend's interest at heart more than mine; nepublic days; and many discovered on a second discourse, seemed to have his own and his sage has all the author's own peculiar sweetvertheless I thanked him for his kindness, and would accept of his offer by giving me a few lines to the tailor, and I would get into a hackney-coach, and save him the trouble of sending his lad with me. 'Na, na,' replied ness. I have sounds that through the ancient hills I have pealing notes of victory That might welcome kings from war; I have rich deep tones to send the wail For a hero's death afar. I have chords to lift the pean Full as the forest-unisons When sweeping winds are high. And love-for love's lone sorrow I have accents that might swell Through the summer air with the rose's breath, cherché ; but few knew what they were eating! Or the violet's faint farewell: Soft, spiritual, mournful Sighs in each note enshrined: But who shall call that sweetness forth? I pass without my glory- Where is the touch to give me life?- So sigh'd the broken music That in gladness had no part: How like art thou, neglected lyre, To many a human heart!" "I woke from those high fantasies, to know were thirsty, and to whisper to the butler (who 6 to carry but what was on my back. Mr. | brogue interlarded with my natural accent! [ought to be contented, however, with a few Ogilvie, a gentleman whose acquaintance I had On my joining my corps at Plymouth in 1780, friends. I am too fond of company; and if I formed on the passage, and had brought me to I went into quarters, and joined the mess. I was not poor and a priest, I should never sit town, at this moment passed in his carriage, had still fifty pounds in my pocket. I was down to a meal alone: the presence of a friend and spoke to me. 'He seems a ceevil-like gen-appointed to the grenadier company, wore a is the best sauce to a dinner, however highly it tleman,' rejoined the grocer; ‘fat's his trade?' white feather a foot in length, and in the ab- may be seasoned by cookery. If I had the 'I believe,' said I, he is a West India mer-sence of the captain I commanded the com-means, I would be an epicure; I am a disciple chant. In ye had ony interest with him,' pany. These were no small honours to a youth of Apicius, as it is; and you will see by an continued Mr. Mackey, I wish ye would speak on joining his corps for the first time." omelette soufflée, which Katheline prepares ada guid word for me. I wu'd serve him wi' his But one of the most graphic reminiscences of mirably from a receipt of my grandmother's, ain commodities, and may be buy from him.' Ireland is connected with a visit to the cele- that I understand something of the noble art But on my saying that I had never seen or brated Father O'Leary, with whom, it seems, of cookery. Dr. Johnson, who I understand is heard of him till yesterday, he gave up the case the young captain formed an intimacy. a gourmand, says, that a man thinks more of as hopeless. The introductory note being "Father O'Leary resided at Sundays Well, his dinner than of any thing else.' I do not written, my worthy friend presented me with a hamlet on the river, a mile from the town. go so far as this; but eating is a serious opera. a dozen of figs in a paper, saying, 'I dare say He invited Joe and myself one day to share his Do not, however, from this harangue, look for ye have a sweet tooth in your had-prie thae dinner, which we joyfully accepted. It was delicacies here-non omnia possumus omnes, as figs, they are vary frash, and lat your uncle on a lovely summer's day, when we entered the doctor would say; but if I was a bishop, taste ane or twa o' them-they are particularly through a wicket into the holy father's pre- instead of a poor priest, you should fare better.' guid for the bairns; and when you come back mises, concealed from the public eye by a high During this conversation we had returned to frae Enfield, call in and tak your breakfast I quickset hedge. In the centre of an area of the summer drawing-room, for the weather ha' guid honey, and noo and then a yellow half an acre of shrubbery and flower-ground, was sultry. At the bottom of the miniature haddock that the skippers wha' deal wi' me stood a thatched cottage of one story, covered shrubbery was a kind of grotto, where stood a bring up.' On promising that I would see him completely with Irish ivy, intermixed with round table and three chairs. We will drink again, we shook hands and parted, his last honey-suckle and roses. Passing through a our punch here,' said our host, if agreeable, words being, see fat ye can do wi' your uncle small vestibule, we were ushered into an apart- al fresco, and be saluted with the song of the for me. I have often since thought this grocer ment of twelve feet square, in which was seated thrush and the blackbird, my tenants. The an admirable specimen of a Scotch tradesinan; our reverend host at his desk. After the usual nectar is already prepared, and is cooling in his selfishness and attention to his own interest, salutations, we walked into the shrubbery, im- Katheline's well, for she has the merit of disall his cunning could not conceal; and it so pervious to the sun. 'This,' said the father, covering this spring. I am a bit of a botanist; disgusted me, that I never repeated my visit." is my drawing-room: the cabin you have and though I cannot afford to raise exotics, I To fancy this man "an admirable specimen of quitted I call my library.' I observed that can boast of as fine indigenous evergreens as a Scotch tradesman," is no great compliment; it was a little paradise.'' To me,' he replied, the bishop. Look at those arbutus trees; I and coming from a Scotsman, too, is the un-it is so; for contentment is better than wealth, brought them from Killarney ten years ago. kindest cut of all. and a man may be as happy in a cottage as in In a few weeks I will shew you my carnations From London our marine hero went to Cork, a palace. The bit of ground on which my nest and pinks, and my moss-roses; they are worthy to recruit; and he gives a warm account of the stands was given to me by a dear and departed of adorning the parterres of a queen!' While hospitalities which he received both there and friend, a lover of nature and of flowers, like he was thus descanting on the beauties of Flora, at Limerick. "It is astonishing (he declares, myself. There was a sheeling on it; but tem- Katheline announced that dinner was served. being then seventeen) how soon I got initiated pus edax rerum, as the doctor would say. It Salmon was removed by a corned shoulder of into fashionable life and expensive habits. was found unserviceable, and my friend pulled mutton, smothered in onions; to which sucI had been for some time in the training of two it down, and built this; which consists of four ceeded a jugged hare, and the promised omeold school-fellows in the 81st regiment, and rooms, or rather closets en suite; but you shall lette: the two latter dishes were truly admirfrequently dined at their mess: being well ac- see it, for I am very proud of it. We must able. These luxuries were washed down, first quainted with all the officers, they kindly ad- first, however, consult Katheline, in case my by a glass of poteen (sauce to salmon as well as mitted me as an honorary member. Nature dormitory should not be in proper order.' The to goose!), then came Katheline's home-brewed, had given me a strong head and a vigorous con- dame was summoned from the rear, where was and with the dessert a bottle of Frontignan. stitution. In this corps there were many hard the kitchen; and finding that every thing On our praising these beverages, the father obdrinkers, and my metal was put to the test, was clane and dacent, though not grand,' ac-served: They are all,' said he, from the and found to be thorough good; but, like all cording to her report, we visited the salle-à-vintage of my farm. The soi-disant French noviciates, I shortly discovered that the horrors manger, a well-proportioned room, with a bow wine is manufactured from gooseberries; the of getting sober greatly overbalanced the plea-window, from whence was a peep of the river, beer is home-brewed; and the whisky is dissures of getting drunk. I had formed a great and a view of the city. It was furnished with tilled in a black iron pot, and is hence called intimacy with the worthy magistrate who at-great simplicity, the chairs and table, and side- poteen.' No beverage could be more grateful tested my recruits; he was an alderman, a board, being of black Irish oak. Over the in a hot day, especially when seasoned by the trading justice, and a bon vivant. He taught mantel-piece was a fine portrait, which on my conversation of two such men, and drank in a me to drink whisky punch, and no man ever admiring, he said: That is the portrait of a cool grot, accompanied by the evening song of saw the bottom of his jug. Billy Butler was celebrated person, who probably you may have birds. I have a most perfect recollection of so good-natured, and so desirous of getting the heard of: it is Ignatius Loyola, the founder of this delightful day, though nearly half a censhillings, that he would start from his bed in the Jesuits, and esteemed a fine picture. It is tury has elapsed." the middle of the night to attest a recruit who by a Spanish artist, and was an heir-loom in Before farther process, we shall extract two might be suspected of repentance in the morn- my family: on this account I highly prize it; or three short insulated anecdotes from the ing, and paying smart when he got sober; for but I am not an admirer of the character of first half of the first volume. Billy never inquired, when about to administer the original; for though I am a priest, I am "Every man (says Mr. G.) is proud of havthe oath, whether the volunteer was drunk or not a bigot.' There were two other portraits ing good blood in his veins. My maternal in the room, which he told us were those of his grandmother was descended from Andrew Ker sober. 6 "My Irish education, on the whole, was not benefactor and his wife. The library, into (a near relation of the family of Roxburghe) unprofitable. I had picked up a little know-which we had first entered, was filled with and Bessy Burnet, daughter of Sir Robert ledge of the world from society, and something books, and the cases were ornamented with of Leys, a family of Saxon descent, and one of of history from books; I had also got a slight busts of eminent persons. Two Gothic win- the most ancient in Scotland. Portraits of insight into the French language; could play dows of ancient stained glass gave an air of these my ancestors were discovered in a farma duet on the flute (at second sight, like a seclusion to this apartment extremely pleasing. house on the estate of Knock, in Banffshire, Highlander); and I could sketch landscape My library,' said our host, is small, but about the middle of the last century, and were decently after nature. I had an early taste for select; many of the books are the gifts of in the possession of our family; and also a the arts, and had begun to collect prints; my friends, which add to their value; but the chief very curious collection of manuscript sermons, library had swelled into nearly 200 volumes, part belonged to my father, who was a scholar. neatly written, and in fine preservation. They which afterwards made a respectable figure in In this little room I am never at a loss for had been preached by the celebrated Cant in my barrack-room. Among other qualifications, company; yet books are but dull companions, the hall at Leys, about the year 1645, during I had been taught to drink three bottles of if not relieved occasionally by men. There is "The word canting is said to be derived from this claret, and to speak English with an Irish no enjoyment in life without some society; we preacher." |