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Royal Naval Biography; or, Memoirs of the
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The following is a striking anecdote. The fact occurred on board H. M. sloop, Pilot, captain J. T. Nicolas, when in contest with La Legère.

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doubt, congratulate himself upon so honourable | from the xebec, and saw no more of her. This a distinction, and say, "See what I've got by circumstance put me on devising some means the dhrink! Sure, if I had been a sober man, of curing the people affected with night blindthe divil more I'd a had but a sergeant's hal-ness, and I could think of none better than bert! Now, don't I dangle a fine medal to my excluding the rays of the sun from one eye button ?" during the day, by placing a handkerchief over it; and I was pleased to find, on the succeeding night, that it completely answered the desired purpose, and that the patient could see perfectly Or the former portions of this well-arranged well with the eye which had been covered dur. naval record, we have more than once had An instance of heroism occurred during ing the day; so that in future, each person so occasion to speak in terms of praise; and we that action, which has seldom been surpassed, affected had one eye for day, and the other for believe that the work in general is too well and which is scarcely rivalled by even Greek or night; and it was amusing enough to see Jack known to require that we should now go into Roman valour. The Pilot having had her guarding, with tender care, his night eye from any detail as to its plan, mode of execution, &c. main-top-sail yard shot away, the people were any the slightest communication with the sun's The most remarkable particulars in the present employed aloft in preparing to send up another, rays, and occasionally changing the bandage, volume seem to be the memoirs of Captains and were in the act of reeving a hawser for the that each eye in turn might take a spell of Basil Hall, Parry, and O'Brien; the last of purpose, when a voice was heard from the cap. night duty; it being found that guarding the whom, our readers will recollect, underwent tain's cabin (to which, as is usual in brigs, the eye for one day was sufficient to restore the some severe trials and sufferings in his repeated wounded were sent, and through the skylight tone of the optic nerve, a torpor of which, and endeavours to escape from French captivity, in of which the mainmast is visible), exclaiming, of the retina, is supposed to be the proximate the years 1808-9. The biographies of these You are reeving the hawser the wrong way!' cause of the disease. I much question whether distinguished officers cannot fail to be enter- This proved to be the case; and on looking any purely medical treatment would have had taining. We were also much amused by the down to see who had detected the mistake at so complete, and, above all, so immediate, an number of lively and characteristic anecdotes the mast-head, it was found to be John Powers, effect. Persons affected with nyctalopia become scattered here and there throughout the volume. quarter master's mate, who was at the moment perfectly blind as night approaches, and conThe following is one of these, which occurs in lying on his back on the table under the sky- tinue so till the return of day-light. The medithe memoir of Captain Badcock, while serving light, undergoing the amputation of his thigh, cal treatment recommended is, bleeding and in the late American war:--his leg having just before been carried away by purging, blisters applied repeatedly to the tem"On one of these occasions, a marine, named a round shot. The man who under such cir- ples, close to the external canthus of the eye, Patrick Gallaghan, behaved with great coolness cumstances can think only of his duty, is a cinchona bark, joined with chalybeates, &c,; and presence of mind, while posted at some hero, and, whether a common sailor or an admi- all of which was impracticable by us, having distance from the working party. Observing ral, deserves to have his name placed on record. no medicine on board our little vessel. I am five American horsemen ride down to the cor- John Powers was an Irishman, about 25 years aware that this disease frequently attends ner of a wood, from whence three of them gal- of age. It was not likely that his conduct scurvy in tropical climates, and is sometimes loped towards him, he immediately got behind should pass unnoticed; and on his captain's occasioned by derangement of the digestive a hay-stack, cocked his musket, and waited representing it, he obtained for him the object organs and hepatic system, in which cases our their approach they passed without seeing of his ambition, a cook's warrant. He was in simple treatment would be useless; but in the him, and dismounted; when he instantly called the Drake sloop of war when that vessel was above instance it was evidently caused only by out, Surrender, you rascals! I have you all wrecked on the coast of Newfoundland; and the sun." in a line, and by Js,' I will shoot you alto- though with but one leg, was amongst the elegether, if you do not throw down your arms!' ven men who were saved." They immediately complied, and he marched them before him, horses and all, to the beach. Unfortunately, this brave fellow was unfit for promotion, being too fond of strong drink, and therefore could not be rewarded. This circumstance serves to shew how much an Order of Merit is wanted in the naval service; for how many hundreds of sailors and marines have, like Patrick Gallaghan, richly deserved medals, or some other honorary distinctions, who, for the same reason, could not be made petty or

non-commissioned officers ?"

In the memoir of Captain John Smith (b), we find a simple and ingenious remedy for an evil too often occurring in tropical climates, and known by the name of night-blindness.

Lieutenant Marshall's work is, no doubt, highly estimated by his profession. We, as civilians, recommend it to the general reader, as a chronicle of interesting facts necessary to be known by every one who feels a laudable curiosity as to the history of his country.

Album Verses, with a few others. By Charles
Lamb. 12mo. pp. 150. London, 1830.
Moxon.

"In Sept. 1801, the Merlin, cruising on the north side of Jamaica, captured a small Spanish privateer, mounting one gun on a circular sweep; and Mr. Smith, then rated master's mate, was sent in her, with twenty men, to Ir any thing could prevent our laughing at the cruise as a tender. In a few days,' says he, present collection of absurdities, it would be a at least half the crew were affected with nyc- lamentable conviction of the blinding and entalopia. We were chased one calm morning by grossing nature of vanity. We could forgive This "order of merit," proposed by the lieu-a large xebec, carrying from eighty to a hun- the folly of the original composition, but cannot tenant, would, we think, be productive of ra- dred men, and towards evening she was fast but marvel at the egotism which has preserved, ther disorderly effects, as it would appear, that pulling up to us, our people having been fag- and the conceit which has published. What no man who is not a confirmed drunkard would ging at their oars many hours, without any exaggerated notion must that man entertain of be eligible. We should like to see a chapter relief. Knowing that night would deprive half his talents, who believes their slightest efforts held by "the order." The medals, too, would our crew of sight, it was proposed to try our worthy of remembrance; one who keeps a copy be without parallel in any mode of decoration strength with the enemy while it was yet day-of the verses he writes in young ladies' albums, yet extant; for, to be explanatory, the services light: this was answered by three cheers. The the proverbial receptacles for trash! Here and of the elect should be represented on one side, oars were run across, and, the enemy by this there a sweet and natural thought intervenes; while the reverse should present an effigy of time being within gun-shot, the action com- but the chief part is best characterised by that the jolly god astride on a barrel, to signify, menced. After a time, to our great relief, he expressive though ungracious word "rubbish." emblematically, why the wearer's gallantry was sheered off and pulled away from us: we, in And what could induce our author to trench not rewarded, as usual, by promotion. This is our turn, became the pursuers; but when night on the masculine and vigorous Crabbe? did he the "bane and antidote." Pat would, no came on, we took especial care to lay our head think his powerful and dark outlines might

album of Mrs. Jane Towers.

"Conjecturing, I wander in the dark,

I know thee only sister to Charles Clarke!"

Directions for a picture

"You wished a picture, cheap, but good;

The colouring? decent; clear, not muddy;
To suit a poet's quiet study."

with advantage be turned to " prettiness and | Now, the pages before us apply admirably to punch only we paid—that is, we owe him for favour?" But let our readers judge from the this want; they are full of useful instruction it.-Bench. By virtue of your oath, did you following specimens. The first is from the and practical example. No one, whether land- understand that the punch there was to be lord or tenant, could peruse these few leaves paid for? Cassidy. Every sup, your honor, without benefit, and, we must also add, amuse- barring what Nick drank himself, and why ment. We extract an entertaining scene in not? sure we're on honor to pay, now that the court, the consequence of a housewarming, score stick is broke.-Bench. (To the gauger.) where spirits were illegally sold. This will prove your case. Clerk, make out a "Bench. Call the first case. Clerk. Mr. conviction for Nick Moran.-Cassidy. Bad Gilbert Finem against Nicholas Moran, of luck to this tongue, 'twasn't to bring Nick Drumadeclough, farmer, for selling spirits Moran (my own wife's half sister's son) into without a license, on Monday night, Decem- trouble, I was intending-quite the contrary, ber 2d.-Bench. State your complaint, Mr. your worships: I have no more to say (retiring). -Bench. Stay; you have not told one word that Nicholas Moran sold some gallons of whis- of your own affair yet. What's your comky in his house, last Monday night, without a plaint against Foley? Cassidy. Sure enough. license. Bench. Moran, what have you to say Why then, plaze your honour, I'd rather not to this? Nick. Plaze your worship, I defy be axed about Foley's business; it's enough to man, woman, or child, to say that I handled be an informer, in spite of one's self too, wanst a penny that same night for sperits.in a day. Foley riz the skrimmage, that's all.

The subject is a child

"Thrusting his fingers in his cars,

Like Obstinate, that perverse funny one,

In honest parable of Bunyan."

We were not aware of "Obstinate's" fun be- Finem. Gauger. I have received information

fore.

An epitaph:

"On her bones the turf lie lightly,

And her rise again be brightly!

No dark stain be found upon her-
No, there will not, on mine honour-
Answer that at least I can."

Or what is the merit of the ensuing epicedium? Gauger. Will your worship ask him what his Bench. Oh, since you have nothing more to

"There's rich Kitty Wheatley,

With footing it featly

That took me completely,

She sleeps in the kirk-house;

And poor Polly Perkin,

Whose dad was still firking
The jolly ale firkin,

She's gone to the work-house.
Fine Gard'ner, Ben Carter
(In ten counties no smarter)
Has ta'en his departure

For Proserpine's orchards;
And Lily, postilion,
With cheeks of vermilion,
Is one of a million

That fill up the churchyards.

And, lusty as Dido,

Fat Clemitson's widow
Flits now a small shadow
By Stygian hid ford;
And good master Clapton
Has thirty years nap't on
The ground he last hap't on,
Entomb'd by fair Widford.
And gallant Tom Dockwra,
Of Nature's finest crockery,
Now but thin air and mockery,
Lurks by Avernus,

Whose honest grasp of hand
Still, while his life did stand,
At friend's or foe's command,
Almost did burn us.

But this day Fanny Hutton
Her last dress has put on;
Her fine lessons forgotten,

She died as the dunce died:
And prim Betsey Chambers,
Decay'd in her members,
No longer remembers

wife was selling that night, and scoring with say, we dismiss the case, with costs against chalk on the leg of the table? Bench. Answer you; sixpence the summons-a shilling the that question, Moran. Nick. I'll make your Cassidy. Will I have to pay for the worships sensible, and I'll tell the truth; and summons, your honor? Bench. Certainly, Mr. Bruce, God bless him! knows that I if you have nothing to prove against the person wouldn't tell a lie for the whole world. Molly you have summoned.-Cassidy. Why, then, was noting down, just for her satisfaction, on your worship, if that's the case, I'll tell all you the leg of the table, the number of dishes of about it, from first to last, and I'll be on my tay that Judy Flynn and the rest of the woman- oath Bench. You're on your oath alkind were after sweetening, bekase, you see, ready.-Cassidy. Well then, I'll be on my oath they were sitting up with us that night, on again, and leave it to my dying hour, that account of the children being bad with the Brien Foley used a slanderous and terrible measles; and, by the same token, one of them word against my character, that is not fit to be is mighty bad entirely to-day. I'll give my repeated before your honors and the people.oath that I sould nothing (and 'twasn't I, but Bench. Come, sir, don't keep us here all day. my wife, all the time,) but tay. Not a drop of What did he say? Cassidy. Why then, saving sperits crossed the threshold of my door that your presence, he called me before one hundred day; and why should it when the law is again people Bench. You said just now there it? I'll swear to that.-Bench. You are not were only between forty-nine and fifty (whatrequired to criminate yourself by any ad- ever number that may be) present; take care. mission, nor can you defend yourself in this Cassidy. You're right; I stand corrected, your way; if the court were to allow you to take worship. Well then, before fifty of the neighwhat you call a clearing oath, you would be bours he called me but would'nt it be dacent, unquestionably perjured in this case. How plaze your worships, to send the women out of could you, unprincipled man that you are, coort the young girls any way; the ould swear that no whisky crossed your door that one's an't so delicate.-To this suggestion, so day, when you know that it did, or perhaps the very creditable to Jemmy Cassidy's delicacy, day before? Nick. No, plaze your worship, nor the worthy magistrates readily assented. The any other day this month past, I'll take my court was accordingly cleared of all females. bodily oath of that.-Gauger. The whisky And after the confusion which this occasioned was seen going into his house for sale.-Bench. had subsided, the complainant stated that Where's your witness, Mr. Finem ? Gauger. Foley, after having called him nearly twenty I can't persuade him to appear.-Bench. Then times a gimlet-eyed rascal (Cassidy squinted a he shall be fined 107. (To the clerk:) Let the little) and a rogue and a liar, which he didn't fine be entered. You are an incorrigible much mind, as Foley had the cross sup in him, fellow, Nick; but perhaps we may have you by at last called him a GOLUMPUS. Here and by. Call the next case. Clerk. James there was an indication of merriment in the Cassidy against Brien Foley, for using a ma- court, in which, to say the truth, the bench Mr. Lamb, in his dedication, says his motive licious and slanderous expression against him, were constrained to participate; and this did for publishing is to benefit his publisher, by in Nick Moran's house on Monday night, the not diminish when Mr. Bruce drily informed affording him an opportunity of shewing how 2d of December, and also for an assault.-poor Cassidy that Golumpus was not an actionhe means to bring out works. We could have Bench. Cassidy, take the book; now state able word-humorously asserting that it was dispensed with the specimen; though it is what you have to complain of. Cassidy. Plaze compounded of Goliah the giant, and Olympus but justice to remark on the neat manner in your worships, there was a small party of be- the mountain, and therefore must mean a which the work is produced: the title-page is tewkst 50 or 49, (I wont prove to more than Man-Mountain; so, added his worship, inespecially pretty. 49, barring the childer are to be counted.) stead of making little of you, as you had -Bench. Don't mind unnecessary particulars; imagined, the defendant has really been making come to the point. Cassidy. There was, as I was obsarving, betewkst 49 or 50 of us in the two rooms, very pleasant and neighbourlike together, taking a tumbler of punch to sarve We again warmly recommend the present Nick Moran's new house, I mean the new ould work, as useful to its Irish readers, both as a house, bekase he had to buy windys and to put warning and example; and to its English up a chimley.-Bench. What do you mean ones, as giving just views of a country which by serving Nick Moran's house? Cassidy. falsehood and exaggeration have so much and Giving him the benefit, plaze your honor, of so injuriously marked for their own. the whisky.-Bench. Do you mean that you paid him for the whisky? Cassidy. No, plaze your honor, by no means; it was for the

Things as she once did.
And prudent Miss Wither
Not in jest now doth wither,
And soon must go-whither

Nor I well nor you know;
And flaunting Miss Waller,
That soon must befall her,
Whence none can recall her,

Though proud once as Juno!"

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the most of you. We are, however, to consider the assault.-Cassidy. I don't care about that, since my character is cleared."

JOURNAL OF THE BELLES LETTRES.

if Fawdonside's pistol had had shot? What a metrical prayer, which, according to her own
God and which enabled her to determine whether
would have become of him and me both! And confession, she had learned from her father,
what estate would you have been in?
only knows. But we may suspect.'Madam,' the patient would be cured or not-as, if she
life- but if otherwise, death. This prayer
answered Darnley, these things are all past.' said it with one breath, the result was to be
Then,' said the queen, let them go.'
And next in order, as naturally, comes his was as follows:-
christening.

Constable's Miscellany, Vols. 55 and 56. Life of King James I. By Robert Chalmers, Author of the "History of the Rebellions in Scotland." Edinburgh, 1830, Constable and Co.: London, Hurst, Chance, and Co. INDEFATIGABLE in research, familiar with all old records, till he almost identifies his own "Before the appointed day, the Earl of Bedford feelings with their events, few writers have given more time, trouble, or interest, to their arrived, with a retinue of eighty gentlemen on subject than Mr. Chalmers: he is the most horseback, as ambassador from Elizabeth, bringenthusiastic of antiquaries-a pursuit, by the ing with him a font of gold to be employed in by, whose very uncertainty and dryness seems to the ceremony, as a present from his mistress to excite the most opposite feelings in its followers; Queen Mary. The accurate Stowe informs for your antiquary is generally a warm and us, that this grand piece of plate cost the sum ingenuous partisan, of whatever party, for whose of one thousand and forty-three pounds ninesake he draws conclusions. This is Mr. Chal- teen shillings; while a more homely Scottish His history of King James is full chronicler of the day has recorded, that it was of curious details, amusing anecdotes, forming twa stane wecht.' Large as it was, however, two most entertaining and readable volumes; Elizabeth entertained apprehensions that it but rather materials for history, than history would be too small to contain the person of the to say itself: he is more accurate in his facts than in infant prince; and as she had given Bedford his deductions from them. Our limits are ill instructions, among graver matters, calculated for historical discussion; but we must pleasantly, that it was made as soon as say his favourable opinion of James is indiffer- heard of the prince's birth, and then 'twas big ently borne out even by his own statements; and enough for him; but now he, being grown, is we protest against his very unfair and unjust too big for it; therefore it may be better used view of Raleigh's case: a little of the liberality for the next child, provided it be christened so profusely bestowed on the sovereign's defects before it outgrows the font.'" would not have been ill extended to those of the subject's. We shall now proceed to extract a few of the many amusing anecdotes with which these pages abound; and naturally begin with the birth of James.

mers' case.

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Our next extract is from a more advanced period, circa 1589.

I trow [trust] in Almighty God, that wrought
Baith heaven and earth, and all of nought;
In his dear son, Christ Jesu,
In that comely lord I trow,
Was gotten by the Haly Ghaist
Born of the Virgin Mary,

Stapped to heaven, that all weil than,
And sits at his father's richt hand.
He bade us come and their to dome
Baith quik and deid to him convene.
I trow also in the Haly Ghaist;
In haly kirk my hope is maist,
That haly ship where hallowers wins
To ask forgiveness of their sins,
And syne to rise in flesh and bane,
The lip that never mair has gane.
Thou says, Lord, loved may he be
That formed and made mankind of me.
Thou coft [bought] me on the haly cross,
Thou lent me body, saul, and voce,
And ordanit me to heavenly bliss;
Wherefore I thank ye, lord, of this.
That all your hallowers loved be,
To pray to them that pray to me.
And keep me fra that fellon fae,
And from the sin that saul would slay.
Thou, lord, for thy bitter passion in,
To keep me from sin and warldly shame,
And endless damnation. Grant me the joy never.
will be gane,

Sweet Christ Jesus. Amen.'

She an

Having stopped in the course of this long "About this time, James procured a mar- prayer, she despaired of the lady's life. Howriage to take place betwixt his faithful school- ever, she called upon the devil, by the name of fellow and counsellor, the Earl of Mar and Elpha, to come to speak to her. He presently "The room where this event took place is Lady Mary Stuart, daughter of the late, and appeared climbing over the garden wall in the so extremely small, that it is yet the wonder of sister to the present Duke of Lennox. It is a shape of a large dog; and he came so near every one who sees it, how it could have tradition in the family of Mar, that the earl, her, that, getting afraid, she charged him, by afforded the proper accommodation. Indeed, before this period, when in widowhood, had the law that he lived on, to keep at a certain there never perhaps was a king, even among consulted an Italian conjuror, as to the external distance. She then asked if the lady would those who have risen to their thrones from a appearance of the lady whom it should be his live; to which he only answered, that her plebeian rank, who was born in an apartment fate to marry for the second time, and that, the days were gane.' He, in his turn, asked so limited in dimension, and so humble in conjuror shewing him a figure in a glass some- where the young gentlewomen, daughters to appearance, as that in which the first monarch what like Lady Mary, he at once fell dis- Lady Edmonstone, were at present. 'Ane of them,' said he, will be of Great Britain was ushered into the world. tractedly in love with her. Unfortunately for swered, that she expected soon to see them in It measures no more than the length of two his passion, the young lady had a great aver- the garden. ordinary walking-canes in any direction; and sion to becoming the second wife of a man who in perill; I wish to have her.' On her anit is somewhat irregular in shape. That Mary had already an earlier family to inherit his title swering that it should not be so with her conshould have selected so narrow a room for her and estates; and, moreover, the king was sup- sent, he departit frae her,' says the indictretirement under such circumstances, certainly posed to have destined her for another. Mar, ment, yowling;' and from that time till after gives a curious view either of her character, or therefore, fell grievously ill, and seemed about supper he remained into the draw-well. After But the king, garden to learn the result of Mrs. Simpson's of the manners of the age and country in to enact that strange absurdity, a man, with a supper, the young ladies walked out into the which she lived. About two o'clock that after- large family, dying for love. noon, Lord Darnley came to visit the queen, being informed of his illness by a letter, visited inquiries; on which the devil came out of the My him in his affliction, and cheered him up by well, and seizing the skirts of one of them and expressed a desire to see the child. lord,' said Mary, as her attendants presented exclaiming, in his usual boisterous way, By (probably a married one, as she is called Lady His majesty afterwards exerted from which he had emerged; and it is added, their precious charge to his arms, God has G-, ye shanna dee, Jock, for ony lass in a Torsonce), drew her violently towards the pit given you and me a son.' Darnley stooped the land!' and kissed the child, a blush mantling on his those powers of small domestic intrigue for that if Simpson and the other ladies had not cheek, as the novel idea of paternity rushed to which he was remarkable, in bringing about a exerted themselves to hold her back, he would disappointed of his prey, he passit away thairThe object of his his mind. Mary then took her son into her match between his lordship and Lady Mary-have succeeded in his wishes. Finding himself arms, and withdrawing a cloth which partially a match which proved exceedingly happy.' There is a curious account of the trials for efter with ane yowle.' covered his face, said to her husband, My lord, here I protest to God, and as I shall witchcraft; we can only extract part: we must ravenous passions fainted, and was carried answer to him at the great day of judgment, observe that the Christian tone of the prayer home; she lay in a frenzy for three or four He is strangely at variance with the supposed days, and continued sick and cripple for as many months. And it was remarked, that this is your son, and no other man's son. is indeed so much your son, that I only fear it league with the devil. "Among fifty distinct instances of necro- whenever the wise wife of Keith was with her will be the worse for him hereafter.' Then turning to Sir William Stanley, Darnley's mancy which are displayed against Simpson in she was well; but on her going away, all the principal English servant, Mary added, This her indictment, perhaps the reader may toleis the son who, I hope, shall first unite the rate one for a specimen. Being sent for to two kingdoms of Scotland and England.' Sir Edmonstone, to decide by her supernatural William answered, Why, madam! shall he skill whether the lady of the house should resucceed before your majesty and his father?' cover from an illness or not--for women of her Alas! Mary only answered, and the answer order appear in that age to have been as reguwas expressive enough, his father has bro-larly called to the bedsides of the sick as phyken to me.' Darnley, who still stood near, sicians-she told the attendants that she could 'Sweet madam!' said give them the required information that evenheard this with pain. he, is this your promise that you made, to ing after supper, appointing them to meet her forget and forgive all?' I have forgiven all,' in the garden. She then passed to the garden, said the queen; but will never forget. What and, as was her custom in such cases, uttered

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"Her prayer, or conjuration, for the healing of sickness, was as follows:

All kynds of ill that ever may be,
In Christ's name I conjure ye:

I conjure ye, baith mair and less,
By all the vertues of the messe,
And rycht sa with the naillis sa
That nailed Jesus and not ma,
And rycht sa by the samen blude
That reekit ower the ruthful rude,
Furth of the flesh and of the bane,
And in the eard and in the stane,
I conjure ye in God's name.'
Records of Justiciary."