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His description Is our last week's paper, attracted by the triarchal the king conversed in the Kissoor of Timbuctoo, derived from an intelligent na interest of the narrative relating to our un- and Arabic languages— the slaves are kindly tive, called Shabeeny, who went thither in fortunate countryman, Major Laing, we de- treated the city a sort of triangle, about three 1787, is very different from the preceding, and Foted what space we had to that afflicting miles in circuit- has seven mosques, two of as follows:story; and reserved the consideration of Cail- which are large, and each surmounted by a "On the east side of the city of Timbuctoo lie's description of Timbuctoo for a separate brick tower is situated on an immense plain there is a large forest, in which are a great review. To enable ourselves to do justice to of white sand, having no vegetation but many elephants. The timber here is very this point, we have consulted the details of all stunted trees and shrubs, such as the mimosa large. The trees on the outside of the forest preceding travellers; and are bound to confess ferruginea, which grows no higher than three are remarkable for having two different cothat our conclusions are by no means certain or four feet is not closed by any barrier, but lours; that side which is exposed to the morn. or satisfactory. On the contrary, we find so is open on all sides, and contains at most about ing sun is black, and the opposite side is yel many differences and contradictions, that we ten or twelve thousand inhabitants. Such are low. The body of the tree has neither are bewildered with doubts; and, indeed, are the leading features of Timbuctoo, agreeably to branches nor leaves; but the leaves, which not prepared to assert that M. Caillié ever M. Caillié, who also represents the water used are remarkably large, grow upon the top only; visited this African capital. But while saying there as being brought from deep reservoirs so that one of these trees appears, at a disthus much, we are far from wishing to imply dug in the sands; firewood as very scarce; tance, like the mast and round-top of a ship. that his details are apocryphal :-only we do and the opinion as to the course of the river, Shabeeny has seen trees in England much not know where, to use an odd phraseology, called by them Bahar-il-Nil, to the E. and taller than these: within the forest the trees the truth lies. It is worthy of remark, that E.S.E. that it runs to Haoussa, and empties are smaller than on its skirts. There are no circumstances seem to have conspired to throw itself into the Nile-a generic term. trees resembling these in the Emperor of Maa prolonged shade of mystery over Timbuctoo, By referring back to the narrativet of rocco's dominions. They are of such a size, as well as over the also much-sought course of Adams, the American sailor, who was wrecked that the largest cannot be girded by two men. the Niger. It has been approached from the in 1810 on the western coast of Africa, and They bear a kind of berry about the size of a west, the north, and the south, within a few carried (as he said) to Tombuctoo as a slave, walnut, in clusters consisting of from ten to days' journey on each side; and yet no per- it will be seen that he mentions a large river twenty berries. Shabeeny cannot say what is fectly authentic and indubitable account of it of brackish water, about three-quarters of a the extent of this forest-but it is very large. has gratified the curiosity of Europe respecting mile wide, called La Mar Zarrah, as flowing Close to the town of Timbuctoo, on the south, its actual state. close to that city from the north-eastward, and is a small rivulet, in which the inhabitants heard no mention whatever of the Joliba: he de- wash their clothes, and which is about two clares that it was navigated in canoes of the hol- feet deep. It runs in the great forest on the lowed trunks of fig-trees, and that fish like red east, and does not communicate with the Nile, mullet and salmon were caught in it; he says but is lost in the sands west of the town. Its the whole population were negroes, and he water is brackish-that of the Nile is good and never saw but one small party of Moors, who pleasant. The town of Timbuctoo is surcame to ransom their countrymen, his fellow-rounded by a mud wall: the walls are built captives. He agrees with Caillié, however, in tabia-wise, as in Barbary, viz. they make there being no walls, though he flatly con- large wooden cases, which they fill with mudtradicts him on the score of cultivation; for and when that dries, they remove the cases Caillié asserts that nothing was grown but higher up, till they have finished the wall. dwarf tobacco; whereas Adams speaks of carrots, turnips, beans, rice, Guinea corn, pine apples, fruit-trees, and of herds of cows, goats, asses, &c. as well as the human race, living on these productions. According to M. Caillié, after passing the lake Debo (the Debbie of former writers), he arrived at Cabra, on the Dhioliba, and disbarked. His journey thence to Timbuctoo, by land, is not very definite; for he tells us, he tout at half-past three o'clock on the 20th of April, and reached the city "just as the En was touching the horizon"-a day's march ver a sandy and wearisome road, which we should have estimated at about twenty or five twenty miles, had it not been reduced to irteen by an after statement of the author. They never use stone or brick-they do not Of the place itself, he says it presents at first know how to make bricks. The wall is about ight nothing but a mass of ill-looking houses twelve feet high, and sufficiently strong to debuilt of earth; that it is surrounded on all fend the town against the wild Arabs, who sides by immense plains of quicksand, of a come frequently to demand money from them. yellowish-white colour, where not even the We will not go so far back as Leo Africanus, It has three gates; one called Bab Sahara, or warbling of a bird could be heard; and that he Edrissi, and Abulfeda, for farther dissentient the gate of the desert, on the north: opposite thinks the river (quære, what river?) for- accounts; but only mention that the first of to this, on the other side of the town, a merly flowed close to Timbuctoo, though at these geographers, who was himself at that second, called Bab Neel, or the gate of the present it is eight miles to the north of that place, states the branch river of Timbuctoo to Nile. The third gate leads to the forest on aty, and five miles from Cabra, in the same flow to the west, and join the Niger at the the east, and is called Beb el Kibla. The drection." This last paragraph, it must be port of Kabra, twelve miles distant. Sidi gates are hung on very large hinges, and red, is excessively confused, for it makes Hamet, quoted by the Quarterly Review, when shut at night are locked, as in Barthe possible distance between Timbuctoo and vol. 16, (January 1817), says that the river bary; and are farther secured by a large Cabra far less than a day's journey, inde- which runs by Timbuctoo is a small one, which prop of wood placed in the inside slopingly pendent of its being at issue with every pre-occasionally dries up; so that the natives are against them. There is a dry ditch, or excavavious account, which concur in placing Tim- then obliged to go to the southward, two hours tion, which circumscribes the town (except at buctoo to the north of the river, instead of having distant, where there is a large river called those places which are opposite the gates), the river on its northern side. Zolibib (very like Joliba). This Sidi Hamet describes a much larger city, called Wassanah, on the Niger, sixty days to the south of Timbuctoo; another puzzle, which nothing has The inhabitants are said by Caillié to be Segroes of the Kissoor nation, but zealous He says elsewhere: the negroes of Diriman, Ma, and Kiseoor, situated on the banks of the river, te to Timbuctoo in their canoes," which is apparently A contradiction. ⚫ Yet he says he had an "aquiline nose and thin lips;" quite the reverse of negro features. In quarto, published by Mr. Murray in 1816, about twelve feet deep, and too wide for any man to leap it. The three gates of the town are shut every evening soon after sun-set: they are made of folding-doors, of which there is only one pair. The doors are lined on the outside with untanned hides of camels, and are so full of uails, that no hatchet can pene and are very expert at those games: they have no cards; but they have tumblers, jugglers, and ventriloquists, whose voice appears to come from under the armpits. trate them; the front appears like one piece | king takes a great many tents with him. of iron. There are no lions, tigers, or wild boars, near "Population. The town is once-and-a-half | Timbuctoo. They play at chess and draughts, the size of Tetuan, and contains, besides natives, about 10,000 of the people of Fas and Marocco. The native inhabitants of the town of Timbuctoo may be computed at 40,000, exclusive of slaves and foreigners. Many of the merchants who visit Timbuctoo are so much attached to the place that they cannot leave it, but continue there for life. The natives are all blacks almost every stranger marries a female of the town, who are so beautiful, that travellers often fall in love with them at first sight. "Animals. Goats are very large, as big as the calves in England, and very plentiful; sheep are also very large. Cattle are small; many are oxen. Milk of camels and goats is preferred to that of cows. Horses are small, and are principally fed upon camels' milk; they are of the greyhound shape, and will travel three days without rest. They have dromedaries, which travel from Timbuctoo to Tafilelt in the short period of five or six days. "Birds. They have common fowls, ostriches, and a bird larger than our blackbird; also storks, which latter are birds of passage, and arrive in the spring and disappear at the approach of winter; swallows, &c. "They have no temples, churches, or mosques, no regular worship or sabbath; but once in three months they have a great festival, which lasts two or three days, sometimes a week, and is spent in eating and drinking." Who shall decide, when doctors disagree? Why he will send and save us.' We cannot help giving the following for its originality. "The Frogs. Brekeke, Brekeke, brekeke! Brekeke, koax-brekeke, too-oo! Brekeke, brekeke! 'Tis the dawn of delight to the sons of the pond Brekeke, brekeke, Koax, koax-too-oo, too-oo! The Thunderer made us the favourites of heaven Neath the green-vaulted wave how we thrive and have thriven! All honour and praise to his wisdom be given, A very pretty piece of dreaming to fancy that a Magyar lad, then, when full of joy, Before his pearl-browed; Maygar maiden, O then behold Poetry of the Magyars; preceded by a Sketch From its green bed they look to the bright moon beyond. of the Language and Literature of Hungary and Transylvania. By John Bowring, LL.D., &c. Printed for the Author, R. Heward, and Rowland Hunter, London; and Otto Wigand, Pesth. 1830. WE know no one to whom our foreign literaBelieving, as we do, that intercourse with ture is so much indebted as to Dr. Bowring. foreign countries is as beneficial to our literashare of gratitude is due to a man whose unture as to our commerce, we do think no small wearied industry has given a whole life's most valuable labours to increase we might say tion we now possess. Hungary--a country to create the great stock of continental informawhich much popular attention has lately been and Miss Webb's Tales of a Bride, works full attracted by Mrs. C. Gore's Hungarian Tales, of both interest and amusement-Hungary is the soil from which Mr. Bowring has been We scarcely think them so poetical as many of his former discoveries, as we must call them. This objec. and we are quite ready to admit that the protion is very ingeniously met in the preface; ductions of the Magyars well merited translaWe select the following from an infinite Fish. They have many extremely good in the Nile; one of the shape and size of our salmon; the largest of these are about four feet long. They use lines and hooks brought from Barbary; and nets, like our casting nets, made by themseives. They strike large fish with spears and fish-gigs. "Prices of different Articles. Sheep from transplanting fruit and flowers. ten to sixteen cowries. Cowries are much valued, and form an ornament of head-dress even for the richest women; they are highly valued as ornaments. Goats are cheaper than sheep; the best from eight to twelve cowries. Fowls from four to six cowries each. Antelopes are very scarce and dear. Camels from thirty to sixty cowries, according to their size and condition. Ostriches, of which vast numbers are brought to market, are very cheap: the fore-feathers are often carried to Tafilelt and Marocco; the inferiors are thrown away." "The king has 500 or 600 horses; his stables are in the enclosure; the saddles have a peak before, but none behind. He frequently hunts the antelope, wild ass, ostrich, and an animal, which, from Shabeeny's description, appears to be the wild cow of Africa. The wild ass is very fleet, and when closely pursued kicks back the earth and sand in the eyes of his pursuers. They have the finest greyhounds in the world, with which they hunt only the antelope; for the dogs are not able to overtake the ostrich. Shabeeny has often hunted with the king; any person may accompany him. Sometimes he does not return for three or four days: he sets out always after sunrise. Whatever is killed in the chase is divided among the strangers and other company present; but those animals which are taken alive are sent to the king's palace. He goes to hunt towards the desert, and does not begin till distant ten miles from the town. The antelopes are found in herds of from thirty to sixty. He never saw an antelope, wild ass, or ostrich alone, but generally in large droves. The ostriches, like the storks, place sentinels upon the watch thirty yards are reckoned a distance for a secure shot with the bow. The king always shoots on horseback, as do many of his courtiers-sometimes with muskets, but oftener with bows. The For she who loves bears doom of woe; O, forest trees! so tall that are: I lean'd upon a treacherous rush; Me-hapless maid!" "The Three Idlers of King Matthew Corvinus. There is an ancient saying-Idleness Is the world's curse; and I have heard a story King Matthew once, half tipsy, put three fellows- the Maygar boy. Our Maygar dance they say is lonely, a melancholy dance they say; [glad, and gay? But see a Magyar foot when twinkling is it not sportive, Dwelt on a scene so brightly joyous, or followed a more Go to the Shimian fields and tell me, if ever fancy's busy glance [rapturous dance. The dance of Gaul is affectation; and light though German [tony: They are but an eternal sameness—a wearisome monoAnd gloomy are the English dances—a heavy and a tire [King David's reign." were consecrated, aye! down from old But ours, but ou "The Bride. dances be, some chain I know not what fiend with the witch has combin'd; I asked her for wine, and I asked her for bread, I was bound to a neighbour's-the hideous one came, Thou scoundrel! thou vagabond! wench-hunting knave!" This, this was the welcome the evil one gave; "The Magyars hold the short breeches and shoes of their German neighbours in very great contempt, and deem spurs so essential to a dancer, that they have an expression betokening that a dancer without his spurs is a Soup without salt, a kiss without a beard.' The kalpag, or Hungarian national cap. It is made of fur, and decorated with rows of feathers. Feathers are used in Hungary on many occasions similar to those in which ribands are employed by us, as, for example, by recruiting parties. "The pasta is the ornamented head-dress of the unmarried women of Hungary, Slovakia, and Servia. Formerly none but virgins were allowed to wear it, and it was taken from the bride, with many ceremonies, on the day of marriage, when conducted to the abode of the bridegroom. On the following morning, married women replaced it, or rather surmounted it by the Fokoto. The pasta is composed of a number of bandages turned round the head, and often ornamented with pearls. A hair pin. generally of silver, and in the form of a dagger, was stuck through it. This is true of the German waltzes, to which it refers. The Magyar dance is exceedingly varied in its figures. Dr. Rumy tells me, that on one occasion an English traveller noted down the many changes of figure in a Magyar dance, and they amounted to more than a hundred. My friend, who thinks that there is a stron resemblance between the national character of the English and the Magyars, will have it that even in their dance this is the case. The general tone of the Magyar feeling is melancholy and pathetic." How long, O thou work of the devil! how long? These are as fair specimens as we can find of a volume more interesting from its characteristic information than its poetry. It is preceded by an admirable sketch of Hungarian literature; and is, indeed, full of novelty to the English reader. The celebrity, and to look out for opportunities | tained, and to be dismissed with no other reof accomplishing a more extended fame. The ward than the pecuniary remuneration which public mind was at that time much intent upon he had received for his actual services. His politics, several interesting questions in which first impulse was to put his threats into execu had been set afloat. Broughton, who was well tion, and to betray such of the state secrets as prepared for intellectual service of any kind, he possessed. But that instinctive caution and seized hold of one of these, and wrote a book prudence which a Scotchman imbibes with his upon it. When he had finished this pamphlet, mother's milk did not fail our adventurer at he put it in his pocket, and came down to Lon- this crisis, which was one of those trials of don. Pwas then in office; and our friend practical wisdom which every man comes to had prudently taken the Tory side of the more or less frequently in the course of life. Sydenham; or, Memoirs of a Man of the question,-so he wrapped up the pamphlet and He considered earnestly the state of parties, World. 3 vols. 12mo. London, 1830. Col-forwarded it to the minister. His sagacity, no with the view to ascertain which was likely to burn and Bentley. doubt, enabled him to perceive at a glance that be permanently uppermost, and the determinaEACH of these three volumes is, in fact, a se- the author was a clever man, (I will send you tion of attaching himself to that. We were parate work each in a different style and the pamphlet,-it is at least a curiosity,) and as then very much in the situation that we are at spirit each aspiring to a different fame in P always liked to have as many as possible present with respect to the probability of comcomposition each evidently written by a clever of these at command, he relieved the young ad- ing in, and were sanguine of success. man-but each of very different degrees of venturer from his suspense, by desiring his Tory minister had had a long and uninter.. merit. The first volume, which is most of the attendance in Downing-street at a certain day rupted spell of office; and, though not supernovel, in match-making, love affairs, &c., we and hour.' I beg pardon for interrupting annuated, was worn out with care, and sadly shall pass by. The history of Auriol, with you,' said I; but how old was Broughton at afflicted by the recent failure and consequent which the second volume is much encumbered, this time?' 'Let me see between three and unpopularity of measures, to which he had draws, in its composition, rather too much on four and twenty. He had been seven years at committed himself too far to recede at his the imagination. We doubt the existence of Edinburgh when he quitted it. Well, the re-time of day. It was well known that he could talents that have not energy enough for their sult of his interview with P was an employ- not last much longer; and he was supposed to own exertion; and contempt rather than sym- ment to write for government, with the hope be the great centre-stone which held together pathy is excited by the exaggerating vanity held out, though ambiguously, as ministers are the Tory stronghold, mouldered by age, and which erects its temple on the sandy desert of wont to intimate their promises, of future pro- the batteries of Whig wit and eloquence. On self-love, and then is indignant because the motion. I am told that Broughton's impatient us the capricious sun of popular favour, which world turns not out of its busy path to pay ambition and high opinion of himself had led had long shone upon the other side of the house, homage at an unknown altar. There is not in him to nourish expectations that his patron now began to smile, and the sun of Toryism the character of Auriol matériel for more than would have immediately brought him into the was said to have set for ever. Broughton was a few pages. But towards the end of the House: but be this as it may, he of course found one of the many who were persuaded that second, and during the whole of the third arguments to reconcile him to the postponement Whiggism was the order of the day; and he volume, the author enters into his real sub- of this grand step, and, satisfied that he was therefore determined to lose no time in deject; and on touching his native earth, poli- getting on as well as he could reasonably have claring his adhesion to our party. An elaties, he springs up with unexpected and re- hoped, he undertook with alacrity the service borate pamphlet on the state of the nation newed vigour. These pages are in reality me- to which he had been appointed. He wrote was the mode which he selected of announ moirs of the political intrigues of the time; full more pamphlets, indited articles for the minis-cing his new opinions. We knew the value of keen observation, graphic sketches of cha- terial journals and other government period- of the man, and had long wished to possess racter, biting sarcasm one page of which icals, and wielded his pen with much credit. him. His past errors were immediately forwould make the fortune of a pamphlet. All After having continued in this routine for gotten, and Chepstow brought him into parthe personages are of course real, though under nearly two years, he began to lack advance-liament.' manner. fictitious names; and their portraits are touched ment, and hinted as much to the head of af- "No man is, I am sure, so thoroughly acwith high powers of satire. The following fairs. But it did not suit the chief to under- quainted with Broughton's character as myself; hostile description of a scarcely disguised lawyer stand this suggestion, finding, I suppose, our for it has been under my eye ever since he joined and politician will serve to shew the author's youth more useful in his present situation than our party. His talents, though very high, are he could be in the higher department of his not first rate, and I may state them as beI will tell you,' returned Lessingham. service, which happened to be very satisfac- longing to that order which approaches the Broughton is of an ancient family (as every torily filled. Broughton said no more, but wrote nearest to genius, and just falls short of it. He Sochman is), but he was a younger brother, on a little longer, finding, as he thought, a himself is aware of the extent of his abilities, . I need hardly add, as poor as a gentleman security against the ingratitude of the minister and he is galled bitterly by the conviction that and well be. He was sent at the age of in the private communications which that per- there exist many men equally gifted with and weteen to Edinburgh to be educated, having sonage had, from time to time, afforded him as some more largely than himself; for examples been easily billeted on an aunt who resided in the materials of his labour. Accordingly, after of the former, Beaumaris, Wriothesley, and the city. Our youth soon came to the know- an interval, he signified his wishes to P- in Palmer; of the latter, Anstruther and Sinledge of the valuable talents with which he was plainer terms; and to his surprise, indigna-gleton. Accordingly, he endeavours to make ped, and, being of an ambitious spirit, he tion, and disappointment, he found the pre- up for his deficiency in genius by the repnset himself diligently to work them. In a few mier's manner grown proportionably more tation of universal knowledge, both in arts and years his industry, no less than his merits, frigid. This indication was the more alarm-sciences. He lately gave a young painter 2007. placed him at the head of the students. No ing, inasmuch as strong and well-authenticated for one of his works, and made all his friends a: has embraced a wider range of science rumours had lately gone abroad respecting the subscribe for a statuary, of whose genius he Broughton: he is conversant with every insecurity of the administration. Broughton spoke in high terms, although he is himself ect, from the politics of Europe to the hastened (as I am credibly informed) to Down-perfectly ignorant of both painting and sculp seal insect; and, to give him his due, no ing-street, saw his patron, and discarding peri- ture. His object was to gain the credit of with such various knowledge has acquired phrasis, asked him point-blank whether and being a connoisseur and patron of the arts. so deep a smattering in each as Broughton. when he intended bringing him into parlia-In short, George Broughton is the most comThe talk of his learning he acquired during ment? P haughtily and contemptuously pletely ambitious person I ever knew. He is s residence at the northern university. In replied that he had had no such measure in equally possessed with the two kinds of amthe course of a few years, his industry, no less contemplation. Broughton remonstrated, but bitions, that of power and that of praise. To than his merits, placed him at the head of the to no purpose, then complained bitterly of the one is to be referred the frequent and inKadents there. He took the lead in the philo- his ill-usage; but made no impression. As a discriminating use which he makes of his sarwhical, political, and metaphysical debating last resource, he reminded P. that he was castic powers; for the dread in which they are He set up periodicals, and of course in his power; but the minister laughed him held, and the manifest effects which they freTrate the best articles in them. In short, the and his menaces to scorn, and our adventurer quently produce in the subjects upon whom fun of the Caledonian Alma Mater prophesied quitted the house, as a novelist would say, in a they are exercised, are most gratifying to his that George Broughton would become a great rage of conflicting emotions. Seriously, it was vanity. His ridicule and satire have fixed a. But our hero, as might be supposed, vexatious to be deprived of his recompense after several speakers in eternal silence: these are we began to feel dissatisfied with this obscure the long period of probation which he had sus- the triumphs to which he reverts with the Making one or two more general extracts, we may notice with praise the scenes at the Beaf-steak Club, the supper at Lutwyche's, the proceedings in the House of Commons, and particularly all conversations in which Lessingham (obviously Mr. Tierney) bears a part. We cannot but think the following marked indeed with the discrimination of a man of the world. As Parliament has met, we shall end with a neat parliamentary hit. greatest satisfaction. On the other hand, his the most violent orator in it. Now Jones being | their sex, I am willing to admit; but they are ardent desire for power causes him to bear a fiery and ambitious spirit, was enraged almost early rooted out to make room for exotics, and very impatiently his exclusion from office. to madness at finding himself and his speech are choked by the growth of those noxious Broughton is not naturally a malevolent or gibbeted to the public derision, and determined plants. Pride is substituted for love, dissimuselfish man; he never wantonly shews those in his indignation to find out his satirist. Ac-lation for sincerity, and vanity, the only weed qualities, and it is only toward his rivals that cordingly he wrote to the editor, who would which is indigenous to the soil, is trained and they ever seem to be displayed. His desire of give him no information; he then came up watered until it arrives at maturity, and befame is that of a passionate lover who cannot to town (so infuriated was he), and being upon comes the prolific parent of many vices. The see his mistress barely civil to others without inquiry told, I suppose, that Sir Nathaniel Cal- prevailing system of education violently turns being transported with jealousy and hatred laghan was the author of every witty and nature from its course, and has separated by toward those who are favoured by her smiles. severe thing that came out, he hastened to an impassable barrier the original from the He will not even suffer her, if he can prevent the residence of our friend, and asked him, artificial character of the sex." it, to be approached by those whose accom-point-blank, if he was the author of such a plishments are likely to find favour in her pasquinade in such a newspaper? Nat, who eyes." had read and admired the lampoon, could not "After all, then, there is nothing like one's resist this tempting opportunity, and replied, own rotten borough! How enviable is the that he must beg to be excused answering the situation of him who is elected in the servants' question; which Jones understanding, of course, hall, by his own domestics! He has no long to be an admission, immediately poured forth preliminary toil and trouble to undergo, in perupon him a tremendous volley of abuse, which sonally soliciting hundreds of vulgar persons he accompanied by a short, but vigorous appli- for their patronage, and haggling with them cation of his material, in retaliation of Cal-about the price, or endeavouring to overcome laghan's supposed moral scourge. Having done their surliness, and adapt himself to their which, he flung out of the house, leaving its opinions. He has not to encounter, perhaps Finish of a Fashionable Friendship." The owner, as you may suppose, astounded. When for a fortnight together, and that too with unformer was one of my fashionable acquaint- he recovered his self-possession, he of course ruffled placidity of temper, the insults of the ances, or friend as he termed himself, of last began to consider what was to be done. He rank-scented many,' and the no less vexatious year. He came into the room, felicitating me had been abused and thrashed, under very pe- badgering of other candidates. When he gets upon my return to my native element-town, culiar and perplexing circumstances. His as- to town, he is not annoyed by the jealous surand anticipating in the approaching a continu- sailant was, unfortunately, not a gentleman, veillance of his constituency, nor bored by the ation of the splendid career which I had led and therefore could not be pistoled. To bring visits of his county friends, their importunities, last season. He asked me what I had been an action of battery would not be a satisfac- requests, and discontents. He is not obliged to doing with myself during the summer, and tory proceeding. How, then, was the insult spend whole mornings on stupid committees, without pausing for a reply, ran into a history to be avenged? Irishmen are the special nor to forego his dinner by attending the of his own transactions since we had parted. pleaders of the law of honour, and our friend House to present petitions or superintend He did not disapprove of my having gone into was involving himself in all the subtleties of county bills. Neither must he of necessity quit parliament, but warned me against becoming that code, in order to come at a form of pro- a pleasant party, or break in upon his rest, in a politician, which would spoil me for a man of cedure, and to collect all the precedents with order to be present at the division, lest he should fashion. He found great fault with my resi- which he was acquainted, which should meet be called over the coals, when he gets home, dence, which was in much too political an the circumstances of the case. But after think- for neglecting his duty. Lastly, he is not in atmosphere; and recommended me to lose no ing all day upon the subject, he found his continual dread lest ministers should dissolve, time in removing to the more genial climate of brain completely bothered, without being ever and send him back again, to go over the same St. James's. I suffered the chatterbox to run the nearer the object of his inquiry; so that labour, misery, and expense. Very different, dry, and then made a few indifferent observa- there was a strong probability that he would indeed, is the situation of him who is the repretions. The dandy then invited me to take a be obliged to pocket his licking, from being sentative of half-a-dozen of his own dependents. stroll, which I declined. He offered to give unable to find any decision upon the singular On the day of election, after breakfast, he sends me a dinner at the Clarendon, and afterwards point which he wished to elucidate. Next day, for his steward, who is the returning-officer, to carry me to sup with a charming friend of however, he was revisited by Mr. Jones, who and gives him his instructions; by dinner-time his in the Edgeware-road; but I pleaded an came to make a thousand apologies for the out- he is a member of parliament. He enters the engagement which must prevent me those rage which he had offered him, and which was House as free as air, and is the most independent pleasures. The conversation flagged. My last not intended for him, inasmuch as he had since gentleman in it; for he is neither hampered by year's friend regarded me with a look partaking discovered the real claimant in the author of pledges, nor haunted by visions of county slightly of surprise, pity, and contempt, and in the lampoon. Sir,' answered Nat, you have meetings, and hustings retribution." a few minutes wished me good-morning, in a relieved me from much embarrassment: ever We do not in the least doubt but that Sydentone of disappointment. I do not recollect since I received the favour which you allude to, ham will have very brilliant success; it has that we ever after exchanged a word, but we I have been studying how to acquit myself of broken up new ground, and used the produce always nodded to each other when we met." the obligation; but as I find the thing was a with great ability: its being the first exclusiveDulness of Genius." Why, as to G―," mistake, and not intended for me, my course ly political novel, would lead to its popularity, she replied, naming the poet, "his genius, is clear, namely, to return it to you.' And and the talents it displays will secure it. But you know, is his livelihood; so of course he accordingly he gave the fellow a sound drub- while we pay this tribute to the talents of the aucannot afford to squander it in conversation; bing." and Singleton [Sheridan], though very rich, prefers an occasional extravagance to a regular and uniform expenditure of wit; generally, I think he is very frugal, and sometimes almost niggardly-which I have observed him to be just before or after one of his displays of prodigality. Now, to-morrow there are to be great doings, or rather sayings, at the House, and the day following is the Beef-steak Club; so that I suppose he cannot afford to waste a single good thing to-day." 6 The following is also a pithy remark: "During my stay at Hastings, I had seen much of the other sex, nor did the experience which I had acquired induce me to pursue my inquiries into female character. To say the truth, I do not think that this branch of human nature is by any means a complicated one. As ambition may be considered the chief passion of man, though in a much larger and more general proportion, is its contemptible corruption, vanity, the governing principle of A Nice Point of Honour." There hap- woman. Its operations are so palpable in them, pened a few weeks ago to be an election meet- as to render unnecessary those fine and diffiing in the country (I forget exactly where) at cult analyses which are frequently necessary to which the rustic politicians speechified with trace the actions of men, through various progreat violence, so much so as to attract the at- cesses and modifications, up to the simple tention of the London newspapers, one of which motive. That the constitutions of many girls published a lampoon upon the meeting, ridi- contain originally the germs of those gentle culing especially a Mr. Jones, who appeared and virtuous affections which are proper to thor, and anticipate his being the rage, we must beg to qualify both positions by a few remarks. In the first place, that which will ensure his book an extensive circulation, is a qualification which we must reprobate, namely, bitter and dangerous personality. There is, as we have been induced to shew, no mistaking some of the characters aimed at; and we hardly know if the garb of the novel-writer be a sufficient excuse or protection for such invasions of society. Mr. Brougham, Mr. Haynes Bayly, and others who are made to figure in these pages, may perhaps think it worth while to procure a solution of the question. In the second place, the author has obscured his talents in several instances by violations of good taste, which, though very brief, bespeak a poverty of substance, as they could hardly have occurred but for the want of better materials. The introduction of such a topic as is called in flash language |