are only a few reasons drawn up in haste, as they appear to me to enforce what I have said above; but I trust you will have no occasion for it: it is not every part of officeduty you object to-you will, of course, refuse particular parts. It may pass on so till times come round-but if not, I shall not be at all uneasy at the resignation, if what is now said shall be agreeable to yourself.

towards our neighbours by the second branch two pens, as far as his right arm could ex
of the same royal law, which enabled Mr.tend, and at the same time leaning his head
Omai (when it was fairly stated to him upon upon his left hand, supported by his elbow
the case in question) to condemn, with full on the table, in a pensive posture, he said,
conviction of the truth, the injustice of his and there lie Lady S-
and cry!!
former opinions against the rights of women. "Thus it is plain that he thoroughly un-
derstood the force of the argument from the
law of liberty, respecting the gross injury
done to the married lady by her husband in
taking another woman to his bed.

When sitting with him at table one day after dinner, I thought it a good opportunity to explain to him the Ten Commandments. "Your sincerely affectionate Brother, I proceeded with tolerable success in recit"JAMES SHARP.' ing the first six Commandments. He had "Dear Granville, I most heartily ap-nothing to object against any of them, though prove of what my brother has written above; many explications were required before he and I hope you will think of the matter as understood all the terms; and he freely nodas we do. ded his assent. But when I recited the seventh Commandment, Thou shalt not commit adultery,' he said,Adultery! what that? what that?'

"Much love, as due, from your affec"tionate Brother,

"WILLIAM SHARP.* "This offer Granville accepted, and continued to share the table and the purse of those excellent brothers for several years, until an accidental acquaintance with General Oglethorpe (as will be afterward mentioned) restored him to independence."

tract

There was no need to explain the rights of women any farther to Mr. Omai on that occasion." "

of the two sexes at the theatres. He soon afterwards informed me that the Bishop would speak with ine about it. I waited on his Lordship, and obtained his permission to acquaint the Archbishop of Canterbury that he wished to confer with his Grace on that subject, in order to apply to the Lord Cham

His exertions relative to the impressment of seamen ; his attempt to reconcile the differences between Britain and America; his labours for the establishment of Episcopacy in the latter country; his advocacy of par"Not to commit adultery,' I said, 'is, liamentary reform (with annual parliaments, that, if a man has got one wife, he must not and more frequent if need be); the foundatake another wife, or any other woman.'- tion of the colony at Sierra Leone in 1786, Ohh!' says he, two wives-very good; besides his connection with a multitule of three wives-very, very good.'- No, Mr. benevolent and patriotic institutions, are all Omai,' I said, not so that would be con- subjects treated by Mr. Hoare in detail, and But there was no work of philanthropy in trary to the first principle of the law of in a most interesting manner. The early which he did not embark with equal zeal. nature.'- First principle of the law of na-history of Sierra Leone is particularly 30. His attention to the religious instruction of ture,' said he; what that? The first Mr. Sharp was also a strenuous friend to the Omai when he visited this country, is an ex-principle of the law of nature,' I said, 'is British and Foreign Bible Society, and as ample of this, and one to which we allude in that no man must do to another person any sturdy an opponent to the Catholic claims, order to enliven our page with a curious ex-thing that he would not like to be done to as a member of the Protestant Union.. himself. And for example, Mr. Omai,' Among many miscellaneous anecdotes, we "Of one of his conversations with Omai said I, 'suppose you have got a wife that may cite the following extract from Mr. he has left the following singular relation, of you love very much; you would not like that Sharp's diary. which it may be doubted whether the sense, another man should come to love your wife.' Aug. 20, 1781.-Called on Mr. Eaton, simplicity, or virtue be most to be admired. This raised his indignation: he put on a fu- chaplain to the Bishop of London, to comIt is extracted from an Address to the Marious countenance, and a threatening pos-plain of the shameful change of the habits roons in the new English settlement at Si-ture, signifying that he would kill any inan erra Leone, delivered to Mr. Dawes, the go- that should meddle with his wife. Well, vernor, at the Court of Directors, Novem- Mr. Omai,' said I, 'suppose, then, that your ber 13, 1800,on the subjectof their polygamy.wife loves you very much; she would not like With respect to the particular that you should love another woman; for the point upon which I now address you, it was women have the same passions, and feelings, this, perfect law of liberty, which enabled and love toward the men, that we have toward me, inany years ago (in March 1776), to con- the women; and we ought, therefore, to re-berlain. vince a pagan native of the very distant island gulate our behaviour toward them by our 'Sept. 6.-Acquainted the Archbishop of Ulaietea, Mr. Omai, a Black man, who own feelings of what we should like and ex-of Canterbury with the Bishop of London's by custom and education entertained as inve- pect of faithful love and duty from them to-message. "I read to him the remarks that terate prejudices in favour of keeping seve-ward ourselves.' I had drawn up on the text of Deut. xxii. 5. ral wives, as any Maroon or African whatso- "This new state of the case produced a His Grace promised to consult with the Biever. But though he was entirely ignorant deep consideration and silence, for some shop of London, and to inform me of the of our religion, yet he had a good share of time, on the part of Mr. Omai. But he result. that natural knowledge of good and evil soon afterwards gave me ample proof that which is inherited by all mankind since the he thoroughly comprehended the due infall of our first common parents; a know-fluence of the law of liberty, when it is ap"ledge which they wilfully took upon them- plied to regulate, by our own feelings, the selves, contrary to God's command, and which, proper conduct and behaviour which we owe of course, has rendered every man guilty before to other persons. There was an inkstand on God, because we do not always act consistently the table, with several pens in it. He took with that assumed knowledge; which, how- one pen, and laid it on the table, saying, ever, may direct us to regain what we have lost, There lies Lord S- (a Nobleman with if we persevere in making a right use of it, by whom he was well acquainted, and in whose choosing the good and rejecting the evil; family he had spent some time); and then but more especially by choosing and prefer- he took another pen and laid it close by the ring, before all other consideratious, the su- side of the former pen, saying, and there preme good, which includes a perfect love of lies Miss W- (who was an accomplishGod, and a grateful acceptance of the means ed young woman in many respects, but, un-remonstrance, on an indecorum partly of the he has freely given us to partake of the Di- happily for herself, she lived in a state of vine nature (2 Pet. i. 4), and become sons adultery with that nobleman); and he then of God, and joint heirs with Christ (Rom. took a third pen, and placing it on the table viii. 14—19; Í John iii. 2). at a considerable distance from the other * "The royal law, according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."" James ii. 8.

"This is the first branch of the perfect lam of liberty; and we cannot possibly attain it, if we neglect to measure our conduct

"Dec. 22.-The Archbishop desired to see me. His Grace promised to speak to the Lord Chamberlain on the first opportunity.""

On the subject of morals, to which the three last notes allude, it will be sufficient to recall to the reader's recolletion the representation, then in vogue, of the 'Beggar's Opera,' in which the women's parts were performed by male, and the men's by female actors!-Granville, in common with many other sensible men, was scandalized at the public indecency of such a performance.

"Nearly at the same time he presented a same nature, to the Archbishop of York, whose son had acted the part of Thais, in Terence's comedy of the Eunuch,' at Westminster school. He read his remonstrance also to Dr. Smith, the master of the school, who promised to represent it to the Bishop of Rochester, and said, that the plays might

be prevented next year; but the custom of
acting them had continued two hundred
years, and (he believed) was enjoined by the
Statutes."
Mr. Sharp's papers on this
"I find among
subject, the following stanzas, in his own
hand writing, "On the Prospect of planting
Arts and Learning in America, By Dr. Berk-
ley, Bishop of Cloyne."

There shall be sung another golden age:
The rise of Empire and of Arts,
The good and great inspiring epic rage,
The wisest heads and noblest hearts-
Not such as Europe breeds in her decay;

Such as she bred when fresh and young,

Chaldean, and Assyrian, and Egyptian, only all the effects of the deceased were dehave passed away; but still more im-livered up to him, and all his claims, for the portant to a work like Dr. Brown's to behoof of the child who should be accounted consider them attentively as connected till three months after her husband's death, his heir; yet she was allowed to marry none with the first diffusion of man after the that it might appear to all that there was deluge; and not unlikely, the only unno child. Such was the practice in ancient changed descendants of the patriarchs times, but it is not now insisted on; that is of that age. The omission of this to say, they go through the form, but they branch of elucidation is the only marked do not oblige the surviving brother to marry defect which occurs to us on reviewing the widow. The practice of the Jews, in Buxtorf's time, was as follows: On the the "Antiquities of the Jews: " the learned author shows perhaps a rather the synagogue, one of the Rabbins was chopreceding evening, after evening prayers at partial leaning even to the errors of the sen to preside, and two others to assist him When heavenly flame did animate her clay-Israelites; but due allowance being as judges. Next morning, after prayers, By future poets shall be sung. made for this, he seems no where wil- these with the levir, the widow, and two Westward the course of Empire takes its way fully in error, but on the contrary, pains-witnesses, met at a certain place, and the The four first acts already past, taking, candid, and just. His book is presiding Rabbi asked whether the husband A fifth shall close the drama with the day had been dead three months? Whether she certainly one well calculated for Time's noblest offspring is the last." general was the wife of the levir's brother? Whether perusal; and we know few publications the deceased and he were of the same father? (A few further extracts will appear next week.) that we could more conscientiously re- And whether the widow had reached her commend for that species of reading, twelfth year? On all which being satisfied, Antiquities of the Jews, carefully compil-which the good and the grave would he proceeded to ask whether the levir was ed from authentic sources, and their allow as the most profitable and in-willing to marry her, or wished to be sepacustoms illustrated from modern Travels.structive for the sabbath evening, or constraint? And being also satisfied as to rated? Whether he acted willingly or by By William Brown, D. D. Minister for any serious hour which courted at these, especially as to the brother's refusal once amusement and instruction. to comply with the law-he commanded the The first volume being chiefly occupied widow to keep the spittle in her mouth till A popular history of the Jews, com-with a minute description of the tabernacle, farther orders. A shoe was then brought; piled from works of great price, or in the temple, and its service; the three great it was put upon the right foot of the levir; languages not generally understood, is festivals of the passover, pentecost and ta- the woman stepped forward and repeated unquestionably a work of much interest, bernacles, and the inferior feasts and fasts; the following words: "My levir refuses to and it is but justice to the present authe synagogue, and other topics familiar to raise up the name of his brother in Israel. thor to saythat he has bestowed adequate few passages which we think necessary to the law of the levir;" and the levir assented the readers of scripture; we shall copy the He does not choose to wed me according to pains and labour upon his subject. Not exemplify the author's manner, from the to her accusation, which being done, she only have the Pentateuch, the Talmu-second volume, in which he treats of the ido- loosed with her own right hand the thong of dical writings, Josephus, and such au- latry, learning, laws, customs, commerce, the shoe; pulled it from his foot, and cast thorities as Lamy, Lightfoot, Calmet, agriculture, and sciences of the Jews. After it to the ground, at the same time (not spitParkhurst, Godwin, Owen, Buxtorff, a very copious discussion respecting the mar-ting in his face), but spitting on the ground Basnage, Spencer, Harmer, Jennings, riages of this extraordinary people, the fol- before his face, she distinctly repeated three &c. &c. been carefully consulted, but a lowing is the account of one of their peculiar times the following words: "So shall it be done to the man who does not wish to buildTM new and important feature has been su"The only other circumstance connected up the house of his brother, and his name peradded from references to recent Tra- with the Jewish forms of marriage, is that shall be called in Israel-the house of him vels in Syria, Arabia, Persia, and the which regards the brother's widow, and is that hath his shoe loosed;" after which the East. Probably something more might known by the name of Jus Leviratus, the judges and spectators all repeated, have been done in this way; but where law concerning which is given in Deut. shoe is loosed." The judge then asked the the reverend Doctor has employed the xxv. 5-10, and enjoins the brother of the shoe to be kept as an evidence of the transproductions of modern travellers, he has deceased to take his widow, and rear up seed action; the widow received a writing from done so judiciously and aptly. What heir his effects; an instance of which we is given by Maimonides, and the parties unto his brother, to perpetuate his name and the judge to the same effect, a copy of which we most miss among his researches, is have in Matth. xxii. 25. It is evident, how-were dismissed. It is somewhat remarkable that species of illustration which could ever, from the case of Ruth iii. 12, 13, iv. that the Athenians appear to have adopted have been drawn from a knowledge of 5, 10, that the law extended farther than the spirit of this law of the levir; for "no Chinese literature, especially in respect the husband's brother, namely, to such kins- heiress could marry out of her kindred, but to the very earliest periods of the man as had the right of redemption. And resigned up herself and her fortune to her world's history. Much valuable inforit is also plain, from Genesis xxxviii. 8, nearest relation, who was obliged to marry mation has been published within the brother's wife was far more ancient than the tions we still meet with the law or custom of that the custom of marrying the deceased her;" and among the modern eastern nalast twenty years relative to this anci- Mosaic law. It was under that law, how- marrying the brother's widow. Thus Oleaent race, whose records extend to an ever, that it became doubly binding, for it rius informs us, concerning the Circassians, era coeval with those of the Hebrews; connected the love of preserving a brother's that, "when a man dies without issue, his and it is in itself extremely curious to name with the preservation of property in the brother is obliged to marry the widow, to contemplate a people still existing, with several families and several tribes. The raise up seed to him." The Hon. Mr. Elcustoms transmitted through probably no name given to it by the Jews was Ibum, phinstone says, that "among the Afghauns, or "the husband's brother;" and it required as among the Jews, it is thought incumbent fewer than 70 generations, almost in the no betrothing, for he acquired his sister-in- on the brother of the deceased to marry his same freshness as at their origin, while law by a divine right; neither were there widow; and it is a mortal affront to the bro their quondam contemporary empires, any ceremonies as at ordinary marriages, ther for any other person to marry her with

From the chapter entitled "Marks of honour and disgrace, the following.

we extract

66

out his consent. The widow, however, is | middle of which was a horn, or conical than any I had seen. I was surrounded by not compelled to take a husband against her piece of silver, gilt, about four inches long, them, and a present, a present,' echoed will." M. Volney, in his travels into Syria, inuch in the shape of our common candle ex- from all quarters, before they would allow tom. ii. p. 74, observes, that "the Druzes tinguishers. This is called kirn, and is only me to look at their temple. One more vioretain, to a certain degree, the custom of the worn at reviews, or parades after a victory." lent than the rest threw dust in the air, the Hebrews, which directed a man to marry his In the quarto edition of Bruce, a plate is signal both of rage and defiance, ran for his brother's widow; but this is not peculiar to given of this ensign of office, and I may add, shield, and came towards me dancing, howlthem, for they have this, as well as many that the Abyssinian word kirn, is the same ing, and striking the shield with the head of other customs of that ancient people, in as keren, which is the Hebrew word for his javelin, to intimidate me. A promise of common with the inhabitants of Syria, and horn, and is often alluded to in Scripture. a present, however, pacified him." with the Arabians in general." But Nei- Thus in Ps. lxxv. 4, 5, "I said unto the "But, perhaps, the greatest insult that could buhr says, "It does, indeed, happen among fools, Deal not foolishly; and to the wick-be given, apart of bodily injury, was the the Mahometans, that a man marries his ed, Lift not up the horn: lift not up your contempt that was cast on their mother. brother's widow, but she has no right to horn on high; speak not with a stiff neck." Hence the cutting reproach of Saul to his compel him so to do." So far, then, res- Ps. xcii. 10," But my horn shalt thou ex-son Jonathan, for the friendship he had pecting the levirate.” alt, like the horn of the unicorn." And in shown to David, "Thou son of the perverse, Ps. cxii. 9, "His horn shall be exalted with rebellious woman, do not I know that thou honour." Perhaps a remnant of this ancient hast chosen the son of Jesse to thy own conpractice is to be found still in the fusion, and unto the confusion of thy moneighbourhood of Lebanon, for Captain ther's nakedness? David, likewise, when "The princes of the East, even at the pre- Light, anno 1814, saw the females of the reproving Joab, his nephew, uses similar sent day, have many changes of raiment rea- Maronites and Druzes, "wearing on their language." These men, the sons of Zeruidy, both as an article of wealth, which large heads a tin or silver conical tube, about ah, be too hard for me." And when Abiwardrobes have always been in that country, twelve inches long, and twice the size shai, the brother of Joab, wished to kill Shiand to suit the occasion; and in Persia they of a common post horn, over which was mei for cursing David, the king replied, are of different degrees of fineness and thrown a white piece of linen that completely What have I to do with you, ye sons of richness, according to the rank or merit of enveloped the body. The horn of the emir's Zeruiah?" which Zeruiah was David's full the persons to whom they are given; but in wife was of gold, enriched with precious sister; but it is not difficult to explain the Turkey they are all nearly of an equal fine- stones, and in the vignette prefixed to part origin of this tenderness for a mother's chaness, and the honour lies in the number gi-ii. ch. 3, he gives us a drawing of a Druze racter, and desire to resent any affront that ven. Party-coloured garments are also, in female, in the costume of the country." is cast upon her. It is owing to polygamy, these countries, counted a mark of honour, "But after having spoken of their marks of where the children of the same family became and were worn even by kings' daughters. Per- honour, we may also notice their marks of naturally more attached to her, and to each haps Joseph's coat of many colours resem- disgrace. These were many, but the chief other; and it is to the same source that we bled the stuffs in Barbary, which are formed of them were the following: sometimes they have the names of the mothers of the kings of pieces of cloth, of different colours, sewed condemned men to the employments of wo-of Israel so frequently mentioned. It distogether; or it may have been richly em- men, like the Jewish youth to grind corn in tinguished them from the other children of broidered like that which Telemachus. when Babylon; cutting off the beard was account- the kings by their other wives, and served to leaving the court of Sparta in quest of his ed a great insult, and plucking off the hair ascertain their descent and propinquity father, received from Helen, whom Mene-was adding cruelty to insult. To spit in the But marks of disgrace were not confined to laus had received again into favour after the the living; they often extended even to the destruction of Troy. For a superior to give dead, by refusing them the rights of sepulhis own garment to an inferior was reckoned ture, or raising them after they had been ina great mark of regard. Hence Jonathan terred; or forbidding them to be publicly gave his to David; and the following extract lamented; or allowing them to become the from Sir John Malcolm may serve to throw prey of ravenous animals; or casting them, some light on Elishah's request to have the like Urijah's, into the graves of the common mantle of Elijah. "When the Khalifa," says people; or burning their bones into lime, as he, "or teacher of the Sooffees, dies, he Moab did the king of Edom's. bequeaths his patched garment, which is all his worldly wealth, to the disciple whom he esteems the most worthy to become his successor; and the moment the latter puts on the holy mantle, he is vested with the power of his predecessor."

The following is from the charming pen of the Duke de Nivernois.

haps, to be met with of a grace, or short Moses had thrice said, "Thou shalt not the style of Bernard, (usually called le genprayer before meat, is at a feast which Pto-seethe a kid in his mother's milk." Some- til Bernard) perhaps it would have been as fomy Philadelphus gave to the seventy-two times, however, they write the words, He- well to have inserted his famous "Elegy on interpreters; and it is thus mentioned by leb, milk, and Besher, flesh, to show the the Rose," which is certainly superior to the Josephus: "When they were thus sat down, distinction. They have also two knives to specimens here afforded. The short biograhe (viz. Nicanor, who had been appointed each, the one for flesh, and the other for phical notices of the poets, prefixed to the by Ptolomy) bade Dorotheus attend to all cheese and fish: if they use the one instead quotations from their respective works, are those that were come to him from Judea, of the other by mistake, it undergoes a strict in no respect unworthy of those in the forafter the manner they used to be ministered purification. Preparations of flesh, and pre-mer volume,exhibiting great clearness of style unto in their own country. For which cause parations of milk, are not cooked together and compression of matter: and we cannot he sent away their sacred heralds, and those on the same fire, nor brought to table at the close the book without expressing our hearty that slew the sacrifices, and the rest that same time, and they have distinct table cloths approbation of the correctness and beauty used to say grace; but called to one of those for each. He who eats of flesh, or of broth of the edition, in the minor but still importhat were come to him, whose name was made of flesh, ought not to eat cheese for tant department, of printing. Among the Eleazar, who was a priest, and desired him an hour after, and those who affect piety ab-poets whose works afford the flowers from to say grace, who then stood in the midst of stain for six hours; but if he cat cheese first, which the honey is here collected, will be them, and prayed, That all prosperity he may eat flesh immediately after. If fat found the names of Scarron, Corneille, might attend the king, and those that were fall into a dish of milk, it becomes unclean; Racine, (with a beautiful extract from his his subjects. Hereupon an acclamation was but flesh may be never so fat and yet eaten. Athalie) Boileau, La Fontaine, J. B. Rousmade by the whole company, and when that The eggs of clean birds only are eaten. Flesh seau, Bernard, Piron, Bernis, Voltaire, Flowas over they began to sup.' The next ex- and fish are not brought to table at the same rian, La Harpe, De Lille, &c. &c. We copy ample we have is the practice of the Essenes time-they even wash the mouth between one or two of the lighter pieces, for the both before and after meat in Josephus' Jew- them, or eat fruit, or a crust of bread. No amusement of our readers. ish War. The next is that of our Saviour, milk that has been drawn by a Christian, or in Mark viii. 6. John vi. 11, 23, and St. cheese or butter that has been made by one, Paul, Acts xxvii. 35; and the next is the is permitted; and they refrain from drinking form of a grace or prayer for Christians at from a covered well, for fear of poisonous the end of the fifth book of the Apostolical animals. As to their preparation of bread, Constitutions, which seems to have been in- we may remark, that as it is said in Num. tended both for before and after meat. xv. 20, "Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for a heave offering." therefore at every baking they separate a portion called Hele, which, as they cannot now offer to the Lord, they throw into the fire. The size of a grain of barley is sufficient; but the wise men had fixed upon the 40th part for private families, and the 48th for bakers. These last, however, are considered only to have been binding while the temple stood, and the priesthood required maintenance, for a small portion now is reckoned sufficient, and they even find no difficulty in some countries of eating bread that hath been baked by Christians. Indeed, when we inquire into the customs of modern Jews, we find them much affected by local circumstances; for the Jews in Germany have usages different from those in Britain, and the same may be said of other places.

(To be concluded in our next.)

"Having said this much as to the probable manner in which the ancient Jews might have lived, I shall add from Buxtorff that of the modern Jews, in those countries especially where they are most populous. They are very particular, he informs us, not only in the selection of the articles of food, but in the manner of preparing them. As to the selection of food, those peasts only are eaten which have the hoof divided, and chew the cud, as oxen and sheep; fishes that have fins and scales, &c. They do not eat the fat of the inwards and kidneys; have a book with directions for killing; and the butcher who can fulfil them gets a certificate from a Rabbi as to his qualification for the business, which commonly procures him much employment. The certificate is as follows: "To day (in such a month and year) I saw and examined the excellent and remarkable N, the son of N, and found him skilled in the art of killing, both by word and hand, therefore I permit him to kill and examine cattle; and whatsoever he hath killed and examined, may be freely, eaten, on this condition, that for a year to come he shall once every week peruse diligently the directions for killing and examining; the second year once a month and during the rest of his life once every three months only. Attested by Rabbi M." In examining the faults of cattle, par-nuary last, p. 56, we noticed the first volume ticular attention is paid to the lungs; and if of this interesting publication, which conthe butcher is found negligent, he is admo- sisted of extracts from the French prose nished the first time, and his certificate taken writers; the second part has now appeared, from him the second: With respect to their including the most celebrated French poets. manner of preparing their victuals, their culi- The terms of commendation which we nary utensils are either bought new, or if thought it our duty to bestow on the former of metal or stone, at second hand, they un- volume, are in a high degree applicable to dergo the purification of fire and water. the present: the selections have been made They have two kinds of vessels for the kit- with the greatest attention, as well to beauty chen and table, the one for flesh, and the as to delicacy; and the extracts display in other for preparations of milk. The vessels many instances great felicity of thought and for milk have three distinct marks, because elegance of expression. In the examples of

Chefs d'œuvre of French Literature, con-
sisting of interesting Extracts from the
Classic French Writers in Prose and
Verse, with Biographical and Critical
Remarks on the Authors and their
Works. Vol. 2. Verse. London, 1820.
8vo. pp. 400.

Le Chien mal secouru, ou le Combat de Nuit.

Par une nuit tout-à-fait noire,

Un voyageur à pied traversoit de grands bois,
Il n'y voyoit pas clair jusqu'au bout de ses doigts;
Mais il vouloit arriver à la foire,

Qui dans un village prochain
S'ouvroit, à ce que dit l'histoire,
Dès l'aurore du lendemain.
Un gros bâton armoit sa main;
Un gros chien lui servoit de page:
C'étoit-là tout son équipage.
Il marchoit sans songer à rien,
Quand, pour le malheur de son chien,
Un loup se trouve en leur passage.
Aussitôt grand combat: le dogue étoit puissant,
Le loup passé maître en carnage.
L'homme au bâton, dans ce péril pressant
Voulut secourir l'innocent,

Et le gourdin dans les airs se déploie ;
Mais, attendu l'obscurité,
Trop aisément il se fourvoic,
Et maintes fois tombe à côté.
A la fin il frappe une tête,
Mais ce n'est pas celle du loup;
Le bon mâtin reçoit le coup,
Et c'est fait de la pauvre bête.
Or, j'en appelle à la sincérité

De messieurs de la faculté:
N'est-il pas vrai que dans cette aventure
On reconnoît un accident

Qui leur arrive assez souvent!
La maladie et la nature

Sont les deux agens du combat:
L'homme au bâton survient pour finir le débat ;
Mais pas malheur, la nuit est bien obscure.
Scarron, whose life was a series of vicis-

In our Literary Gazette for the 22d of Ja-situdes, writes the following epitaph on

himself.

Celui qui cy maintenant dort
Fait plus de pitié que d'envie,
Et souffrit mille fois la mort,
Avant que de perdre la vie.
Passant, ne fais ici de bruit;
Garde bien, que tu ne l'éveilles ;
Car voici la première nuit
Que le pauvre Scarron sommeille.
A madrigal, by Alexandre Lainez, thus
concludes.

Quoi toujours, raison trop sévère,
Tu t'opposes à mes désirs,

Et viens trouller tous mes plaisirs! Vois-tu cette bouge! imite sa lumière: Elle anime nos jeux et ce charmant repas; Eclaire mes plaisirs, et ne les trouble pas.

Mazeppa Travestied: a Poem. With
an Address to the Goddess of Milling.'
London, 1820. pp. 54.

LITERARY BIOGRAPHY.-Memoires de M. duction "dd low"; for it relates the The fastidious will doubtless call this prode Coulanges, suivis de Lettres inédites adventures of a higgler, who for an intrigue de Madame de Sevigne, de son fils Ar- with a Tothill-field companion's lady, is tied nauld d'Andilly, D'Arnauld de Pom-neck and heels upon a jackass, and set scamponne, de Jean de Lafontaine, &c.

In the atmosphere of glory which sur- upon a wild horse, for his amour with the pering, just as his prototype Mazeppa was rounded the reign of Louis XIV-among Polish countess. It is full of slang, or fancy the Corneilles, Racines, Molieres, &c. &c. terms, but not deficient in humour. Withit certainly would have required a penetrat- out venturing to follow the long race, the ing eye to discern the literary merit of Cou- circumstances of which it records, as told to langes, had not his witty cousin, Madame Scroggins while resting under a tree after his de Sevigné, taken his fame under her pro- beating at Moulsey Hurst, and still less the tection. She so frequently mentions Cou-affair that gave rise to it, we do not see any langes in her charming letters, that she has impediment to laying one example before even succeeded in making him known to the lite- our gentlest readers. We pitch upon a bit rary world; and his name will descend to of the run. posterity, when other authors of greater ta- all the earlier troubles of the nobler mountThe unhappy culprit undergoes lent will probably be forgotten. ed Mazeppa; and at length, having forded a pond, the narrative proceeds

The present volume contains an entertaining account given by Coulanges, of a visit which he paid to Germany in his youth. The contrast which then existed (in 1657) between the two courts of Bavaria and Wurtemberg, is extremely curious. The former, he tells us, resembled a monastery: it was customary to rise at six in the morning, to hear mass at nine, to dine at half past ten, and to attend vespers every day. At six in the evening no one was to be seen in the palace; all supped and retired to rest at nine o'clock. The court of the Duke of Wurtemberg was not quite so edifying. Cou-1 langes and his travelling companions were invited to dine with the Duke, who began by drinking the health of the King of France, and successively of all the powers in the world. Our author, who before he got out of Europe, felt the necessity of mixing water with his wine, called for the former in vain. He was told that "water was never allowed to enter the hall of a great prince like the Duke of Wurtemberg." His Highness paid the utmost attention to his guests; four scrvants were in attendance to carry out those who were unable to move; and the court carriages were in readiness to convey them home. This wicked philosophy has occasioned such a perversion of manners, that it is probable the good people of Munich neither attend prayers so regularly, nor retire to rest quite so early, as they formerly did; but, though a little more water be drunk at Stutgard, it must be confessed there is at least some compensation.

A real literary treasure, contained in this collection, is a poetic epistle from La Fontaine to the Duke de Bouillon, and some letters to his wife, in which he gives an account of a journey to Limoges, and a description of the Chateau de Richlieu, which at that time was a kind of Museum, filled with works of art. The style of the bonne homme is apparent throughout the poem and the letters: in the letter he relates to his wife even the amorous aberrations of his journey, which certainly proves he knew how plainly he could deal with her. We content ourselves with this slight notice of the volume.

Like a drown'd rat, with skin all dripping,
Shiv'ring with cold and hunger, still
Neddy went onwards, without whipping,
Straight up a neighbouring hill:
We topp'd it, and I look'd around-
Before me what a space of ground!
That stretch'd as far as I could see,
(For a thick fog much bother'd me,)
With here a tree, or stump of one,
And there a bush to look upon,

A ditch, a puddle here,

As through the mist the moon look'd down,
(Just as she look'd when we left town,)

With visage rather queer.
Small use the light she did bestow;
No house of call that light did shew;
No candle bright in window flaring,
Could I see there, though I sat staring.
Not a glim could I behold;

But all was dark, and drear, and cold.
Then had some straggling prig pass'd by,
Although he'd laugh'd to see my plight,
I had been glad to view the wight,
As sign to me that aid was nigh.
We toddled on-but not so fast

As we had gone along before;
His sullen heart gave in at last;

His back was raw and sore:
A tailor might have rode him then,
Or e'en your neighbour's boy, young Ben;
But that to me was nought.

His sudden weakness was no use;
Though tir'd, I could not get me loose:

I knew that if I sought,

My strength would fail; but hard I strove
To break the rope-too well 'twas wore,
Alas! 'twas fast as ever.
Though cunning I as many men.

I tried, and tried, and tried again-
The knots they would not sever.
The donkey's strength seem'd nearly done :
Just then I saw the rising sun;

I thought it very lazy.

I thought the day would never break,
And with that thought began to quake;
I knew not what of it to make,

The weather was so hazy.
At length he came the stars fell back;
The dusky moon he gave the sack,↑

"The word that is now all the go,
Go wherever you will, sir, is toddling."
Song" Chapter of Teddling."
+ Sent her off.

And fill'd the earth, the shining elf.
With light inade only by himself.
Up jump'd the sun; off went the fog,
As fast away as it could go,
From heath, and hill, and fell, and bog-
But what avail'd it Joe?
Heath, hill, or fell, bog, valley, plain,
They did not give me ease from pain;
No soul was there whom it might suit
To set me free, nor man nor brute,
Not e'en the cawing of a rook;
It seem'd as all the spot forsook
At sight of me. Along we went-
How his poor knees beneath him bent!
And his rough sides so lean had grown,
It would have touch'd a heart of stone!
At length, as we along did pass,
I heard the braying of an ass,
Behind a heap that look'd like clover-
Is it a bray? and is it over?
No; from behind that heap a score
Of asses come, with voices loud;
Perhaps their number might be more-
There was indeed a motley crowd.
My donkey join'd them in their roar;
They come along with shuffling trot
The devil a rider have they got:
Aye, full a score-nay, doubt me not
With whisking tails, and lifted lugs,
Tossing about their ngly mugs,
Without or either bit or bridle,
On they come, with legs not idle.
The sight of such a frisky set
Made my poor bearer lively get:
He ran to them; but ere they met,
He tumbled o'er a stone.
'Twas over with him-one low bray
He gave, as on the ground he lay-
His wind from him had flown.
The brood came up, and on his crup
They saw Pill-Garlic tied;

I thought that all with me was up,
So sly my phiz they ey'd.
They look at me, as up they pass,
Male and female, every ass;
But when they saw the flannel jacket,
And apron blue, that I had on,
All in a moment ceas'd their racket;
They turn'd, and soon were gone.
They left me there, nor came again,

Tied to their dead and brother beast,
In whose cold carcase life had ceas'd,
The most ill-us'd of men.
Outworn with pain I'd borne so long,
A shadow of what once was strong;
He dead, I nearly-there we were,
Stretch'd out upon the plain,
A pretty melancholy pair!
I never thought again

To find myself alive, so much
That jolting did my cats-meat touch.
The whole twelve hours did I lay there,
Expos'd alike to sun and air;
With patience great as Job possess'd,

I saw the sun go down to rest,
Not knowing, when he sunk, if I
Again should see him in the sky,
In all that sulkiness of mood
We feel when by ourselves we brood
On things, and fear that we shall croak,
Till Death at last appears a joke;
Albeit, when our pleasures falter,
We seek the fellow with a halter,
Or in some paltry brook:
And yet Death is a thing unpleasant,
Though lightly on't we talk at present,
However fair it look.

+ Lungs, &c.