tus, at a time when the Roman people were ing in our own political world are brought in, in By yellow rays the midnight moon was seen To fill the shadow with a vernal green: assuming the array of elegant refinement: the the most natural and consistent manner, so as The distant floods a plaintive murmuring gave, arts and sciences were advancing under the not to interrupt the unity of the poem. Such And all the flow'rets of the forests wave!" protection of the imperial Cæsars, and the matters, we are gravely informed, will, "before Let Sir Walter hide his diminished head before emperor Augustus, amidst all his martial ex- thirty centuries have elapsed, have become his- this, in any edition of spectral sights he may ploits, was not regardless of the votaries of torical fragments of the general narrative:" attempt to improve: an ethereal blue ghost literature. Beneath his protection flourished we suppose, of course, that in three thousand filled by the yellow rays of the moon with the immortal Maro; but, the patronage of years it will be all the same to our higgledy- vernal green, must beat him from his colours princes, however desirable it may be, is by no piggledy world. with disgrace. There follows, p. 13, some means essentially necessary to poetical pro- Four books of this immortal design are con- bombast, which, if it conveyed any meaning, sperity: yet the author of the Achillead does tained in the thin volume before us-Heaven would be profane; but Achilles and his late not regret the time he has so unwisely spent forfend that any accident should prevent the companion go on with their chat. The former in endeavouring to secure the patronage of author from completing his publication in princes of the British nation, and more espe- twelve books! Unlike the sibylline tomes, cially that of an illustrious individual: he did the more he adds, the greater will be our ennot desire their support for the honour alone joyment; and we pray that no envious or which might accrue to him from such imperial furtive hand may ever deprive us of a syllable, patronage: no! He was desirous of affording a tone, of the Thomasian lyre. such princes an opportunity of displaying to the present and to succeeding generations, the paternal affection with which the British people cherish the votaries of literature. He presumed to consider the sovereign authority as the visible representative of the invisible commonwealth; and labouring under this sup Book One opens with the novelty of an in- position, he offered to lay before the repre- which we take to be an entirely new illustra- stroll;" "darkened soul says "Ah! art thou then my friend's resistless shade, "The phantom frown'd-strong blew the gusty wind- The shade rejoin'd-Ah! why, Achilles, why, he forbears to expatiate upon this most painful [is doomed] Through error's maze ingloriously to introduced "weeping." Other sea gods, such topic." How forbearing! But the author has and declares his intention, higher consolations within his own mighty breast-and his recompense is at hand. "by satires turn'd aright, "For some years he has been amending, a most commendable resolve, and one which is correcting, improving, or revising, the young no sooner said than done. In a most poetical ideas of the Achillead; he has taught them allegory of sunset, we think we discover (p. 9) how to shoot, and now they are about to march an allusion typical of the fall of the Wellington forward into the world to exercise accordingly. administration: Mr. Thomas says— Amidst every discouragement, the author has "Now tipt with purple (Scarlet long had fled), steadily proceeded forwards, adding verse after verse, and page after page, to the poem; and perseverance has accomplished this most arduous undertaking, notwithstanding the apathetic coolness of the patricians, and the frowns of princes. . "He is not aware that any other individual has attempted to bend this bow of Ulysses, aud he has no doubt that the literati will appreciate those exertions, which the frowns of the most exalted individuals have been unable to And Crimson' hasted from his western bed."f "Indefinite, the verging lines were spread, The purple east in massy clouds was seen, In sadness pondering o'er the stormy scene." The stars, the very clouds, were visible through "The shade approach'd; as if to give command, suppress. In calling this a national poem, the Three times it shook on high its cloudy hand; acknowledged by all parties: the great empire, He could not take a wiser or a better step; and we have much pride in being his couriers, or rather in Gazetting his triumphs. Nor are they unfit for an English Gazette; for though Achilles is the nominal hero, events now pass. "Behold! he wav'd his hand: in grand reflection soon Evidently Brougham f.e. Westmoreland, as Nereus, Neptune, whales, hippopotami, "The watery band delightful carols play'd, To awake at night! 'Tis quite a mystery.” By this time, however, the lovely creature has talked herself wide awake: the account pro- "The fair one wept; and as her tears did flow, I own with candour it was not polite "Aquario thus: to whom the nymph rejoins, That virgin who Apollo's light purloinsThe showery maid (as maids are wont) first sighs, Then the bright beauty of the bow replies:-Ah! how can I comply with their demand, And do what Nereus and the queen command? For well you know, Aquario, that I pay The exactest deference to the star of day: When he did down the steep ecliptic sail, I lost my plumage and my showery tail.” The bargain is struck-she mounts his cab, and away they drive. They are interrupted by Boreas, just as an Exquisite with his fair might be assailed by a hackney-coachman without a fare, whose stand they were passing in an elegant canter. "What people here presume their cars to lower Above the ocean at the midnight hour? Before the Pleiads have as usual driven Their seven-starr'd chariot through the vaults of heaven; Before Orion draws his flaming sword, Before Arctu--but on a monarch's word, I think ye really are extremely rude, To shake the seas with such a multitude: To cross the main without one spark of light, I will o'erthrow these rebels in the waves." Iris is confoundedly frightened, and screams out "We shall be o'erthrown: Oh! that I ne'er had left the frigid zone! number of tents, and the size of one or two in The Persian Adventurer; being the Sequel to the centre, that some chief of importance must the "Kuzzilbash." By J. B. Frazer, Esq., be in the aoul; and at first I had made up my Author of a "Tour to the Himàlà Moun-mind to seek the supply of my wants from tains." 3 vols. 12mo. London, 1830. Colsome inferior member of the tribe, and thus to burn and Bentley. avoid inquiries or delays, which might have THE pleasures of memory give birth to those proved embarrassing from a higher quarter. of hope; and remembering how much we were But just as I had made up my mind to this ar pleased with the first part of the Kuzzilbash's ad-rangement, an object which caught my eye ventures, we began the second portion with an changed the intention, and induced me to throw expectation of amusement, which has not been myself at once, and in the most impressive disappointed. The story of the first volume is very manner, upon the hospitality of the chief him. interesting; in the next, the brilliant pageant of self. The object which wrought this change Nadir's conquest of India is brought upon the of purpose was a troop of some dozen or so of stage: the events of the last are thrown among armed horsemen, who were riding in great tribes little known, and it embraces the eventful haste over the plain, in a direction not very period of the Shah's death. These pages are different from that by which I had come; and in reality a dramatic and picturesque chro- from their appearance as they approached, I nicle; all of whose leading facts are true, and could have little doubt that they were, in fact, whose inventions illustrate the manners and a party sent in pursuit of me. To retreat was living peculiarities of the scenes where they impossible, for I was close in view of all the are laid. They are a mass of research and in- tents; and the precarious generosity of an He then confides to Boreas, that his companion formation, invested with a most popular form. Eeliaut chief was preferable to the tender mer. is "Iris travelling incognito;" and the matter We have not space for "the barbaric pomp,' ,"cies of such as I believed that party to consist is hushed, without the interference either of showering pearl and gold over the captured of. Passing, therefore, hastily in front of the constables or the New Police. The travellers Dehlee; and shall only select one anecdote from flanking tents, although their inmates called then proceed on their journey, by way of the the splendid feast given by the conquered em- aloud upon me to stop, to turn in and tell them Emerald Isle, Snowdon, Mount Etna, the cra-peror to Nadir. the news, to accept of their bread and roof, tered peaks of Stromboli, the Dardanelles, and "When the proper time came for handing halted not until I reached the dwelling of the other contiguous places: but there is an episode, coffee to the royal guests, it was brought by chief, before whose tents were picketed several comparing the whole earth itself to a gigantic Ameer Khan, umdut-ul-moolk, to whom this handsome horses under the hands of their keepanimal, which we prefer to the itinerary. duty had been appointed, and who was about ers. 'Refuge!-refuge and protection !—the "The earth's materials, we are all appris'd, to present it in the usual form, when a sudden sacred asylum of the stable !' exclaimed I, seiz. Are form'd of matter, and are organised; scruple seized him,-to which of the two mon- ing one of these horses by the headstall, while Her organs, on a somewhat larger scale, archs should he first present the cup? Custom the groom, respecting the well-known priviand etiquette required that his own master, lege, fell back and gave me way. The khan the emperor of Hindostan, should first receive himself, for such he proved to be, was walking it; but in that case the khan would run the risk of affronting and exasperating a conqueror whom he dreaded, and whose resentment might be fatal both to his master and himself. On be. And soothe the fury of his callous heart. Are like an animal's-suppose a whale; Like the aorta, see the oceans boil, From side to side the tumbling torrents toil; To feed her forests, mountains, flowers, and trees. Take it in toto: see the mighty soul, I about superintending the management of his stud; but, upon hearing my words, and seeing my action, he turned and inquired who I might ' I am a man,' said I, and an unfortu What passes between Thetis and Iris would be the other hand, to neglect his duty so far as to nate one, although guilty of no crime; as such, too long for us. Suffice it to say, that the in- present it to any other than his imperial mas- khan, I claim from you present protection, and terview is not unworthy of our preceding ex- ter and liege lord, might be jealously interpret- concealment from my pursuers. As you love tracts and panegyrics. But where every thing ed into a lack of zeal and regard, which might, and practise hospitality, and value a high and is so superb, so matchless, even our most at an after-period, be turned to his disadvan- honourable name among the tribes, pledge it to earnest endeavours must fail to afford an ade- tage. In this dilemma, a thought struck the me, and let there be no delay.' It is granted, quate idea of an author like Mr. Thomas. We khan. Pouring forth the coffee, and advancing friend,' said the khan, coming forward and must therefore leave "the watery queen" and as if he would have presented the cup to Nadir, taking me with his own hand from the place "the showery goddess;" we must say nothing he stopped short, like one that checks himself my asylum. I swear it to you by my ow of Apollo, with his new epithets of "sun-lit and in a mistake, then tendering it upon his knee head and the tomb of my father!and no carminated curls ;" and prefer the picture of a to the padshah- Let an emperor,' said he, what is to be done?" Behold!' said I, pointmortal lover to all the finer celestial portraits. perform the honours of his house to a king ing to the party which now rose above the brow Who would endure the pangs of love, or be a of kings. Your servant is too mean for so of a swelling ground, only a short space distant lover? exalted an office.' The elegance of his address, behold my pursuers! conceal me instand and the neatness of his expedient, delighted from their eyes-the rest you shall quickl? both monarchs. 'Barekillah! friend khan!' know; and if you deem me criminal, you have exclaimed Nadir, thou art a choice genius; but to yield me to them at last.' Yield you! thou hast truly hit the mark in the centre, and after my oath! No; by the holy Kaaba I done thy duty well.' And his master, the em- have said it, and you are safe, if the blood of peror, not less pleased, united with the shah in my son were on your hands!' And the wor his encomiums on a conduct which gratified of the khan were echoed by his kindred whe both Persians and Indians." had gathered about us; and who now, closing The ensuing sketch of frank hospitality is a around, shut me out from view of all approachgood contrast to this scene of courtly etiquette. ing eyes. The khan then made me a signal to The hero, by one of those turns of fortune so follow, which I did, into a smaller tent conBut will it be believed, we have only passed common in the East, is flying for his life, and nected with the public one in front. This is through the first book of this immortal epic; sees before him an Eeliaut encampment. my khelwut; here you are safe-but stay, yo and our dazzled mind, wandering in its efful- "It proved to be an extensive one. A mul- are thirsty and fatigued. Ho, there! my shergence, refuses to grasp at further glories? It titude of cattle and sheep, horses and camels, bet and bread-let us eat:' and in a few mo may be, that we may regain composure to re- mules and asses, were gathered round in tem- ments, buttermilk and water, with some mor new the task, not of criticism, but of applause; porary enclosures of reeds; or were still stray- sels of bread and cheese, were brought us, and it may be, that our scattered senses, now under ing about the tents, with dogs barking at them, the khan gave me to eat; and drinking a fer the influence of the Circe of transcendent poesy, and shepherds running about in all directions mouthsful himself, handed me the bowl. may rally and bear us to the end: if so, readers, to secure them for the night. The men were "Refreshments of every kind were now preyou shall hear again of the amazing production lounging before the tents, and the women were vided for me; a bath was administered, afte by William John Thomas, M.R.C.s. engaged in their household duties, spinning, the rude fashion of the tribes, by pouring ma weaving, making butter and cheese, feeding skinsful of tepid water over me, while a rough the young animals, or carrying water for the sort of dullauk kneaded and scrubbed me mes use of their families. I saw at once, from the lustily. A change of raiment was provided; "In thought he views the nymph, whose placid gaze "At length, arous'd, the watery queen descried The showery goddess and her noble guide." The next morning, Ismael is forced to proceed. ( The cloaths was short, scarce coverit his knee, 6 and after all was over, I sat down with the | gave themselves little trouble about other matchief and his family to a substantial meal, the ters. Pictavia was incorporated with Albany chief dish of which was a lamb stuffed with before Iceland was discovered; consequently, plumbs and raisins, stewed in a whole moun- it is not surprising if the Picts are never mentain of rice." tioned by the Scandinavian writers. I find I should be glad to hear that this is not in the nothing concerning Galloway in them previous old English music-books-it would do honour to the time of Earl Allan, who made a distin- to Scotland. You can easily learn. Good airs guished figure in those ages." are also Like as the lark within the MarIn these pages we have too abundant proofs leon's foot,' Joy to the person of my love,' of the irreligious principles of Pinkerton, which When May is in her prime,' White as lilies provoked the most severe, yet friendly, remon- was her face,' There is a thing that much is strances from Lord Hailes, the Bishop of used.' The Italian are all by Castoldi; the Dromore,+ and others of his best and most new English by Henry Lewis, Simon Ives, powerful well-wishers; who tried to separate William Webb, John Savile, and Dr. Wilson. the able writer from the offensive man: but he Not a word of Scotish music in his long, fulwas above advice, and the outbreakings of his some dedication to the Magistrates of Bon Actemper, and his bitter resentments, are painful cord, as he styles Aberdeen, from its motto." subjects for reflection. We will not be accessory to spreading them farther than these pages; but rather try to furnish their apology in the unhappy person's own words. "Hampstead, July 8th, 1800. "So, after a comfortable meal to keep up our strength, I found a party of six stout fellows, headed by one of the khan's sons, all ready mounted before the door of the tent, and a horse of his own for myself, in the trappings of which the meerachor had consulted his master's credit more than the appearance of its intended rider. The khan himself seemed sensible of this incongruity, for he could not help smiling as he looked, first at the toorquoise and silver-mounted irâk (furniture), and then on Between Sir John Sinclair and Mr. Pinkermy homely and tattered figure; and taking his ton there is some curious correspondence about handsome cloak, which I had worn the evening the Highland garb we copy a few passages:-before, he threw it over my shoulders, remark"Sir John thinks that the word haut-deing that there should be some degree of unichausses means trousers, and not the philibeg; formity between the saddle and its burden; "A serious illness of some days has pre- indeed, it is well known (he says, but we are not nor would he hear of any refusal. Thus ac- vented my answering sooner your favour of the converts to the opinion) that the philibeg was coutred, then, I pressed and kissed the old 1st of July; for which I thank you, as an invented by an Englishman in Lochaber, about man's hands with an assurance that, if I lived obliging testimony of your candour and libe- sixty years ago, who naturally thought his and prospered, he should hear of me. But the rality. I scarcely remember what I said of workmen could be more active in that light chief, seizing me in his arms, saluted me with Ramsay, but have not forgotten my vexation petticoat than in the belted plaid: and that it a frank and hearty bughulgeeree,* saying, such at seeing him so extravagantly praised, to the was more decent to wear it than to have no was the fashion of the tribes with their friends; total exclusion and eclipse of all our ancient clothing at all, which was the case with some that he was sure I was an honest fellow, a gal-classics. Nor could I easily pardon the intro- of those employed by him in cutting down the lant man, who was well worth all the little duction of his Phoebus, instead of the genuine woods in Lochaber." kindness I had put it in his power to shew me. ancient words of our old times. Let him only Mr. P. says: (1795) "When I first saw in < But I know,' added he, you must be impa- occupy his proper place in our poetical firma- the papers that you had appeared at court in a tient; so, Bero, be off; and may God protect ment, and I am satisfied; but he must not new Highland dress, substituting trousers, or May your house always flourish!- usurp the whole zodiac, and represent all the pantaloons, for the philibeg, I was highly may your favour never diminish!' said I; and twelve signs. As, from a constitutional irrita- pleased with the improvement. The Highland mounting, I rode away, accompanied by my bility of nerve, I have in my earlier produc-dress is, in fact, quite modern; and any imgallant escort, who, with their long spears, tions shewn much controversial asperity, it provement may be made without violating anwould be ridiculous in me to complain when tiquity. Nay, the trousers are far more anI am paid in my own coin. Were I revising cient than the philibeg. The philibeg cannot my books, I should dash out all such passages, be traced among any of the Celtic nations, Irewhich I never see without disgust. I can only say they are the products of infirmity, and not of malice." thee!' 6 6 caracoled and curvetted around." We cannot imagine a more agreeable rencontre in any precarious situation. We now leave these animated chronicles of Persian history to the favour they justly merit; and shall only say that we think Shah Nadir very fortunate in having Mr. Frazer for his Philip de Comines. Pinkerton's Correspondence. Ar the close of our remarks on these volumes land, Wales, or Bretagne, either as an article of dress, or as a word in their languages. Giraldus Cambrensis, A.D. 1180, informs us that From Mr. James Sibbald, bookseller of Edin- the Irish wore bracca, or brecchi (that is, the burgh, we find some entertaining information long, ancient breeches, now called pantaloons, respecting a small quarto, printed by Forbes or trousers). On old monuments, the Irish of Aberdeen; which, says Mr. S., "'contains kings are dressed in a close tunic, or vest, long fifty-five cantos, songs, and fancies, and thir- trousers down to the ancle, and a long loose teen Italian and new English ayres.' The robe, fastened at the waist by a large brooch. fifty-five seem almost entirely English, at least Perhaps the brooch might be substituted in I never saw any of them in a Scottish song. your regiment for the breast-plate with much book of this century, save three or four. The costume. In the book of dress, printed at Paris, gowans are gay, "You minor beauties of the 1562 (from which I have published fac-similes), "With respect to your queries, I have met night,'She is the fairest of her days,' Over the Highland chief is in the Irish dress; and with no complete chronicle of Scotland in this the mountains and under the caves,' and 'Now I can discover no philibeg. No part of the country: nothing but disjecta membra. To is the month of Maying;' and none of these dress is tartan: nor is there a plaid, but a suppose that the Caledonian records were pre- can properly be said to belong to the Scottish mantle. The woman is dressed in sheep-skins; served at Iona, is a common error: for a long muse. The last is the same air as the chorus- and, as that sex is always more ornamented period it had no dependence upon the crown of Come now for mirth and playing.' Re-than the other, there is reason to believe that Albany; and, besides, it underwent so many member, O! thou man,' is unquestionably the the common Highland dress was then composed catastrophes, (being twice burnt, and the root of God save the king.' The finest air of sheep or deer skins. monks and patriarch massacred three other in the collection is, different times,) that it is impossible to conceive how any thing of value should be suf terest: When father Adam first did flee, tween Jehovah and the demons of barbarous nations; or tots." 'Lesley and Buchanan, 1570-1580, are there. fore the first who mention the modern High land dress. The former represents tartan as then confined to the use of people of rank. fered to remain there. It is much more likely "I have only (says his lordship, in concluding one The latter says the plaids of his time were that Kenneth II., after obtaining the Pictish of his letters) to beg, that, in your future publications, crown, intrusted his archives to Tuathal M'Fer. my name may not be mentioned as a correspondent of brown. Advocates for the antiquity of the phi gus, primate of the united kingdoms; but who yours at least, while you can perceive no difference be- libeg say it is borrowed from the Roman mili resided in a part of the nation very remote between the religion of the Jews, and that of the Hotten-tary dress; but it is quite different; for the Roman skirts were mostly those of the tunic, from Icolmkill, and much less explored. Nei- "I shall never (the bishop writes) scruple postage which was worn under their armour; whereas ther the Danes nor Norwegians have preserved for any packet you may wish to transmit through me to the philibeg is a detached article of dress."* any written monuments of their history, pre-others, &c., though I cannot but lament our difference in There is also much correspondence touching vious to the tenth century: any thing we know opinion in what I think some very essential points; and, as many others as well as myself think them of great of prior times is from the Icelanders. I am importance to the welfare of society, the least to be persuaded, if those gentlemen-rovers could wished is, that this departure from the received opinions should not officiously or unnecessarily be obtruded on the only lay their hands upon a few fat cows, they world. Excuse this general reflection, which till I have seen your book, I cannot judge whether it be well applied Embracing and kissing each cheek three times. or not." Mr. James Logan has just produced a work of great research, called the Scottish Gael, or Celtic Manners of the Highlanders, which treats of these questions in a very able manner. In the course of our review of it we shall have occasion to go more deeply into the subject, and shew that these are very unsupported doctrines.-Ed. L. G. the authenticity of Ossian; but as Mr. Mal-reader to what we stated respecting Manilla in trious mechanics; the rest are merchants, and colm Laing's and Mr. Pinkerton's views on our last. some of them very rich: they are the Jews of that question have been embodied more at large "The whole world," says Capt. Kotzebue, Luçon, but even more given to cheating and in their works, we are not called upon to trace" does not offer a more advantageous station all kinds of meanness than are the Israelites, their progress. Indeed we may say of nearly for commerce than the town of Manilla, si- and with fewer, or rather with no exceptions. all the second volume, that the numerous let-tuated as it is in the neighbourhood of the They enjoy no privileges above the lowest of ters on the subject of portraits for Pinkerton's richest countries of Asia, and almost midway the people, but are despised, oppressed, and work on Scottish Portraits, and on other in-between Europe and America. Spanish jea- often unjustly treated. Their covetousness inquiries, both literary and antiquarian, (not to lousy had formerly closed her port; but since duces them to submit to all this; and as they mention disputes with publishers,) are too indi- the revolt of the American colonies, it has been are entirely divested of any feeling of honour, gested to convey much real information, and opened to all nations, and the Philippines are a small profit will console them for a great intoo desultory to admit of compression into a consequently rising rapidly to importance. As sult. The yearly tax paid by every Chinese general design. We cannot attempt the latter, yet, their export trade has been chiefly confined for liberty to breathe the air in Manilla, is six and shall therefore conclude with two extracts; to sugar and indigo for Europe, and the costly piastres; and if he wishes to carry on any sort the first a notice of Mr. Campbell's début in Indian bird's-nest and trepangs for China. of trade, five more; while the native Indian the poetical world; and the other a very cha- The latter is a kind of sea-snail without a shell, pays no more than five reals. The Philippines racteristic letter from old Coutts the banker. which, not only here, but on the Ladrones, Ca- also did not follow the example of the American Of Campbell, Mr. J. C. Walker writes, May rolinas, and Pelew Islands, even as far as New colonies; for some disturbances among the In1800: "Have you seen the Pleasures of Hope? Holland, is as eagerly sought after as the sea- dians here were not directed against the govern When the age of the author is considered, it otter on the north-west coast of America. The ment, and an insurrection soon after attempted must be allowed to be a most extraordinary luxurious Chinese consider them a powerful proved unsuccessful. The former were occaproduction." restorative of strength, and purchase them as sioned by a few innocent botanists wandering And thus writes the wary man of money: such at an exorbitant price. But what an in- through the island in search of plants; and an "I have received the favour of your let- exhaustible store of commercial articles might epidemic disease breaking out among the Inter, asking me to withdraw the claim for not these islands export! Coffee of the best dians about the same time, of which many died. interest on the sum I lent on the security quality, cocoa, and two sorts of cotton, the one a report suddenly spread among them that the of a house; but the footing upon which you remarkably fine, the produce of a shrub, the foreign collectors of plants had poisoned the have put the request is one I have uniformly other of a tree, all grow wild here, and with springs in order to exterminate them. Enraged at all times thought to be such as I ought very little cultivation might be made to yield a at this idea, they assembled in great numbers, to reject, and have rejected accordingly. The prodigious increase of wealth. These produc- murdered several strangers, and even plundered bankers in Scotland, and the country banks tions of nature are, however, so much neglected, and destroyed the houses of some of the old in England, are on a different plan from that at present no regular trade is carried on in settlers in the town of Manilla. It has been those of London. They circulate their own them. A great abundance of the finest sago supposed that the Spaniards themselves really notes, and make payments in them: we give trees, and whole woods of cinnamon, grow wild excited these riots, that they might fish in the out no notes of our own, and, if we were to give and unnoticed in Luçon. Nutmegs, cloves, troubled waters. The late governor, Fulgeros, interest at even one per cent per annum, we and all the produce of the Moluccas, are also is accused of not having adopted measures suff should be losers by our business. We do not indigenous on these islands, and industry only ciently active for repressing the insurrection. consider ourselves as being obliged to any one (a commodity which, unfortunately, does not This judicious and amiable man, who was perperson who places money in our hands, how-flourish here) is wanting to make them a copi-haps too mild a governor for so rude a people, ever considerable: it is to the aggregate and ous source of revenue. Pearls, amber, and was murdered in his bed a year after by a general mass of society that we owe our situa- cochineal, abound in the Philippines; and the native, of Spanish blood, an officer in one of tion, and to the credit our prudence and atten- bosom of the earth contains gold, silver, and the regiments here, who followed up this crime tion has obtained for us: and people deposit other metals. For centuries past, have the by heading a mutiny of the troops. The insurtheir money in our hands for their own ad- Spaniards suffered all these treasures to lie gents assembled in the market-place, but were vantage and conveniency, not from favour to neglected, and are even now sending out gold soon dispersed by a regiment which remained us; nor do we desire to have it on any other to maintain their establishments. The regular faithful, and in a few hours peace was re-esta terms. Probably you may not understand the troops here, as well as the militia, are natives. blished, and has not since been disturbed. The explanation I have spent time in making, which The officers are Spaniards, though many of present governor, Ricofort, was sent out to I can very ill spare, and it may therefore them are born here, and all, at least with few succeed the unfortunate Fulgeros. The king, answer no purpose; but it satisfies myself; exceptions, are extremely ignorant. It is said affected by the loyalty displayed by the town of and I wish to shew equal attention to all my that the soldiers are brave, especially when Manilla, at a time when the other colonies had employers, whether they have large or small blessed and encouraged by the priests. As far, thrown off their allegiance, presented it with a sums in my hands, which indeed hardly ever however, as I have had an opportunity of ob-portrait of himself, in token of his especial occupies my attention. My attention is fully serving the military force, I cannot think it favour. The picture was brought out by the engrossed in doing business with honour and would ever make a stand against a European new governor, and received with a degree regularity, leaving the rest to the common army. Not only are the troops badly armed, veneration which satisfactorily evinced the hig chance and course of things. It surprises me but even the officers, who are in fact distin- value set by the faithful colony on the roya that, though it every day appears that there is guished from the privates only by their uni- present. It was first deposited in a house in very little truth published in the newspapers, forms, have no idea of discipline; any sort of the suburb belonging to the crown, and then yet people will still believe what they read, precision in their manœuvres is out of the ques- made its entry into the town in grand proces especially abuse, or what they think is against tion; and to find a sentinel comfortably asleep sion, and was carried to the station of honour the character or prudence of the person treated with his musket on his shoulder, is by no appointed for it in the castle. This important of. I saw some paragraphs, and heard of more, means an uncommon occurrence. I was told ceremony took place during our residence here, of what I had done for Mr. Kean, in all which that Luçon contained eight thousand regular on the 6th of December; and three days prethere was not a word of truth; though I see troops, and that by summoning the militia, viously the king in effigy had held a court in no reason why I might not, without offence to twenty thousand could be assembled. The the suburb. The house was splendidly illumi any one, have given Mr. Kean any thing I field of honour, where the heroes of Luçon dis-nated in front of it stood a picket of wellpleased. In doing any little matter in my tinguish themselves, is on the southern Philip- dressed soldiers; sentinels were placed at all the power for any individual, I must add, I never pine Islands, which are not yet subdued; they doors; the apartments were filled with attendhad any view to celebrity with the present age are inhabited by Mahommedan Indians, who ants, pages, and officers of every rank, in ga's or with posterity. If I should know of any are constantly at war with the Spaniards, and uniforms; and the etiquette of the Spanish gentleman wanting a travelling companion who, ranging as pirates over all the coasts in-court was as much as possible adhered abroad, I shall mention you to him; but it habited by Christians, spread terror and deso- throughout the proceedings. Persons whose seldom happens that I am applied to in such lation wherever they appear. From time to rank entitled them to the honour of a presentamatters." time some well-manned gun-boats are sent in tion to the king, were conducted into the audipursuit of these robbers, which expend plenty ence-chamber, which was splendidly adorned of ammunition with very little effect. It is with hangings of Chinese silk: here the picsaid that six thousand Chinese inhabit the sub- ture, concealed by a silk curtain, was placed on urbs of Manilla, to which they are restricted. a platform raised a few steps from the floor. The greater part of them are clever and indus-under a canopy of silk overhanging two gilced Kotzebue's Voyage round the World. [Second Notice.] WE have only to preface our continuation of this review, by recalling the memory of the Asiatic taste. To this interesting extract we shall add nothing: it is our intention to devote a few remarks hereafter to the scientific portion of this Russian expedition. pillars. The colonel on duty, acting as lord riding, but carrying pasteboard horses: each of | gons which ornamented them spat fire; flames of chamberlain, conducted the person to be pre- these had a hole cut in its saddle, through various colours played around them; and large sented before the picture, and raised the cur- which the hussar thrust his feet, relieving the fire-balls discharged from them emulated the tain. The king then appeared in a mantle charger from any actual necessity of making moon in the heavens, till, from their increasing lined with ermine, and with a crown upon his use of his own; though, to shew its high height, they seemed to disappear among the head; the honoured individual made a low blood and mettlesome quality, each emulated stars. Each of these edifices was of three bow; the king looked in gracious silence upon his fellow in prancing, rearing, and kicking stories, surrounded by galleries, on which, him; the curtain was again lowered, and the with front and hind legs, to the no small during the day, the Chinese performed various audience closed. On the 6th of December, the danger of discomfiting the parade order of feats for the amusement of the people: there immense multitudes that had assembled from the squadron. To this redoubtable army suc- were conjurors, rope-dancers, magic lanterns, the different provinces, to celebrate the solemn ceeded a party of giants two fathoms high, and even dramatic representations, the multientry of the portrait into the capital of the dressed in the very extremity of fashion, the tude eagerly flocking to the sight, and expressing islands, were in motion at daybreak. The upper part of their bodies being represented in their satisfaction in loud huzzas! I saw a lower classes were seen in all kinds of singular pasteboard, accompanied by ladies elegantly at- tragedy performed on one of these galleries, in costumes, some of them most laughable carica- tired, and of nearly equal dimensions, and by which a fat mandarin, exhibiting a comic va tures, and some even wearing masks. Rockets some very small dwarfs: the business of this riety of grimaces and strange capers, which and Chinese fireworks saluted the rising sun, whole group was to entertain the populace with would have done credit to Punchinello, subproducing of course, by daylight, no other pantomimic gestures and comic dances. Next mitted to strangulation at the command of his effects than noise, smoke, and confusion; while came all sorts of animals, lions, bears, oxen, &c. sovereign. At night, the people went about elegant equipages rolled along the streets, of a size sufficiently gigantic to conceal a man the streets masked, and letting off sky-rockets scarcely able to make their way through the in each leg. Then, with grave and dignified and Chinese fireworks. In several parts of the crowd. At nine o'clock, a royal salute thun-deportment, marched Don Quixote and his town, various kinds of spectacles were exdered from the cannon of the fortress, and at faithful Sancho. To the question, what the hibited for the popular amusement: the air twelve the procession began to move, display-honourable knight of the rueful countenance resounded with music, and public balls were ing a rather ludicrous mixture of Spanish and was doing there, somebody replied that he re-gratuitously given. This unexampled rejoicing I saw it from the windows of a presented the inhabitants of Manilla, who were for the reception of a testimonial of royal appro house on its route, which commanded a very just then mistaking a windmill for a giant.bation, seems sufficiently to prove the loyalty extensive view of the line of march. The cor- The hero of Cervantes was followed by a body of the Philippines, and the little probability of tège was led by the Chinese. First came a of military, seemingly marching under his com-their revolting, especially if the mother counbody of twenty-four musicians, some striking mand; and after them came two hundred young try does not shew herself wholly a stepmother with sticks upon large round plates of copper, girls from the different provinces of the Philip- to her dutiful children." producing an effect not unlike the jingling of pine Islands, richly and tastefully attired in bells, and others performing most execrably their various local costumes. Fifty of these upon instruments resembling clarionets. The young graces drew the triumphal car, richly sound of the copper plates was too confused to gilt, and hung with scarlet velvet, which conallow us to distinguish either time or tune — tained the picture of Ferdinand. Not content points of no great consequence, perhaps; the with the mantle the painter had given him, The Scottish Gael; or, Celtic Manners, as prechoir, at least, did not trouble themselves much they had hung round him a real mantle of served among the Highlanders; being an about them. The musicians were followed by purple velvet embroidered with gold. By his Historical and Descriptive Account of the a troop of Chinese bearing silken banners, upon side, and seated on a globe, was a tall female Inhabitants, Antiquities, and National Pewhich were represented their idols, and dragons form dressed in white, with an open book in culiarities, of Scotland. By James Logan, of all sorts and sizes, surrounded by hierogly-one hand, and in the other a wand, pointing F.S.A. of Scotland. 2 vols. 8vo. London, phical devices. Next followed, in a kind of towards the portrait. This figure was to repre- 1830. Smith, Elder, and Co. litter richly ornamented, a young Chinese girl sent the Muse of History;-may she one day WE have alluded to this work in a note upon with a pair of scales in her hand, and intended, cast a glance of friendly retrospection on the Pinkerton; and can only now mention it more as I was told, to represent Justice; a virtue for prototype of her pictured companion! A body specifically as a production of much research which her country-people, in these parts, have of cavalry followed the car, and the carriages of and ability, and replete with interesting innot much cause to applaud themselves. An- the most distinguished inhabitants of the place vestigations into our northern antiquities. other set of musicians surrounded the goddess, closed the procession. Several Chinese tri- Embracing the whole range of subjects which making din enough with their copper plates to umphal arches crossed the streets through have so long engaged literary and antiquarian drown every complaint that might endeavour which the retinue passed; they were tempo-attention, it is out of our power to bestow that to reach her ear. Then came the rest of the rary erections of wood, occupying the whole pains upon it, within a few days, which its Chinese, in different bands, with the symbols breadth of the street, and were decorated in importance demands; but even a desultory of their respective trades represented upon ban- the gayest and most showy manner by the Chi- examination enables us to say that it deserves ners. Four bacchantes, somewhat advanced in nese, who, on this occasion, seemed to have the warmest patronage of the public, as a most age, and in an attire more loose than was con- spared no expense in order to flatter the vanity meritorious, curious, and sterling performance. sistent with modesty, followed next: from their of the Spaniards. When the royal effigy entered long, black, dishevelled hair, they might have the town, it was received by the governor and been taken for furies; and it was only their the whole clergy of Manilla, and the young crowns of vine-leaves, and the goblets in their girls were superseded by the towns-people, who hands, that enabled us to guess what they were had now the honour to draw the car, amidst the intended to represent. Bacchus, very much incessant cry of Viva el Rey Fernando!' resembling a harlequin, followed with his tam- The cannon thundered from the ramparts; the bourine, and after him a body of very immodest military bands played airs of triumph; and the dancers: these, as the procession moved but troops, which were ranged in two files from the slowly, halting frequently, had abundant op-gate of the town to the church, presented arms, portunities of displaying their shameless talent, and joined their Vivas' to those of the popu. for the benefit of the shouting rabble. Why lace. The procession halted at the church; the procession should be disgraced by such an and the picture being carried in, the bishop exhibition, it was not easy to conceive; but performed the service; after which, the king there were many other inconceivable matters was replaced on his car, and conducted to the connected with it. A troop of Indians followed, residence of the governor, where, at length, he in motley and grotesque attire, intended to re- was installed in peace. Three days longer the present savages: they were armed with spears rejoicings continued; bells were rung, guns and shields, and kept up a continual skirmish were fired, and each evening the town and as they marched. Next in procession was a suburbs were magnificently illuminated: many battalion of infantry, composed of boys armed houses exhibiting allegorical transparencies with wooden muskets and pasteboard cartridge- which occupied their whole front. But the boxes, and followed by a squadron of hussars, illumination of the Chinese triumphal arches also boys, with drawn sabres of wood, not in the suburbs surpassed all the show: the dra. The History of Modern Greece, from its Conquest by the Romans, B.C. 146, to the present Time. By James Emerson, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1830. Colburn and Bentley. THIS week has been rather too prolific of works on Greece; and unless we filled our sheet with one subject, we must defer the duction we have therefore only to say, at detailed review of these volumes. Of this propresent, that it runs cursorily, but clearly, over the early history; and that the author employs his talent more diligently upon later events, and the character of the Greek people. Stories of American Life, by American Writers. Edited by Mary Russell Mitford. 3 vols. 12mo. London, 1830. Colburn and Bentley. WE must own we expected more from a work edited by Miss Mitford;- we expected something both of taste and research-remarks on American literature, and an acquaintance with American writers; we expected judicious cri |