at the certainty of enjoying glory and re- enslaved. the learned research displayed by M. | astonishment is at an end, and we rejoice | contrary, they will be more than ever Ciampi, his reviewer, M. Raynouard, seems to have demonstrated that he has totally failed in proving what he intended; and hews clearly, among other things, that a passage of Priscian (lib. v.) which M. C. partially quotes, to prove "that the vulgar Latin had articles which were the same as those of the Italian language," decidedly proves against his system. (To be continued.) ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. SECRET LETTERS. (Supposed to be written by Madame Bertrand.) [Translation.] LETTER V. St. Helena,―November 1816. Rejoice with us, my dear Caroline!-All your letters have come safely to hand; thanks to your ingenious stratagem. Our principal correspondent in America has been less fortunate. His second letter fell into the Governor's hands. Luckily it was written in ciphers, and it might as well have been Greek, for any information our learned Governor could derive from it. -'Tis not improbable His Excellency may send the letter to London; but even though he do, we have nothing to fear, for the cipher is the same as that which I communicated to you, and you know it is quite inexplicable without the key. The worthy Governor took the liberty of asking the Emperor why he corresponded by ciphers? At this question Napoleon could not refrain from laughing, and instead of returning an answer, asked His Excellency whether he had been intercepting any letters to or from him?-He observed, that he could not prevent people from writing in ciphers to him, if they chose. Perhaps," added he, in an ironical tone, "I write my dispatches in ciphers; an old Diplomatist cannot easily break himself of that custom; but if I do, rely on it, Governor, you will never be the wiser for any thing that may fall into your hands." He then coolly turned his back on His Excellency, and His Excellency shook his head. All this I collected from a conversation In the late treaty of Peace so many between my husband and one of the Gerseeds of dissatisfaction have been sown, man Commissioners. The latter is of opithat, perhaps, ere this letter reach you, anion, that the Frankfort Diet will so arrange new war will have broken out in Europe. matters that nothing arbitrary need be apTo us such an event would be most unfor- prehended. "That is a great point," said tunate, for, above all things, we hope that my husband; yet I doubt whether it will the Diet at Frankfort will excite the impa- be possible to frame a law that will not be tience and dissatisfaction of the people.- perverted by some one or other of the conImpatient they certainly must be, from the federate States, unless indeed every Gertardy proceedings of the Diet; and dissa- man, let him reside wherever he may, tisfied they will have good reason to be, if must, in case of necessity, take up arms the condition should be adopted, that no under the flag of that Power under whose individual can quit the spot where he was protection he may happen to live-If this born until he has previously fulfilled his regulation be not adopted, old men may military services. This is entirely new to say, We have done nothing to serve our the people of Germany. Whoever could country, and yet we may go and reside not find bread at home, and had strength wherever we please; our children, on the and spirit to seek it abroad, was freely per- contrary, have all bled in their country's mitted to do so. The nobleman, the artist, cause, and yet they are bondmen!-This the philosopher, and even the mechanic, can never be productive of good. We pawere suffered to go and come when and tiently bear misfortunes, when we know it where they thought fit. That, during a war, only depends on ourselves to change our the grand object of which was to shake off condition." the yoke of foreigners, every man, able to But you must recollect,' said the Gercarry a musket, should be compelled to man Commissioner, that the armies of stay at home, and be in readiness to join every country are about four times greater the ranks, was by no means surprising: than they were fifty years ago, and thereBut what grounds can there be for adopt-fore stricter measures are requisite in order ing such a regulation now?— to keep up their numbers.' : And, again-Why should each Confederate State have the right of rendering its subjects a kind of bondmen?-Bertrand says, they will again be reduced to the state of gleba adscripti (you must ask your husband to explain this.) If every German were a subject of the whole of Germany, this would indeed be reasonable enough. There would be no injustice in compelling any individual who wished to proceed to France or Russia first to fulfil his military services to Germany: but not to Prussia or Saxony, Bavaria or Wurtemberg. Even allowing that the new constitutions should be formed on the most liberal plan that can be wished, they will nevertheless enable every confederate Prince to compel his subjects to remain on his territories until they have fulfilled their military services. Thus a wide door is thrown open to despotism, and no former system of recruiting, not even Napoleon's conscription, was half so unjust; for the German then becomes a mere glebæ adscriptus. CondiAfter all, losing that communication tions may indeed be imposed on the Diet, from America was a most vexatious acci- which, if fulfilled, will remove this privident; for it very likely contained some-lege of the Prince, and enable the Subject thing of importance. But we console ourto emigrate at his own pleasure; but it will selves by reading over and over again your always be easy for the Sovereign either to dear letter, every syllable of which I am render the fulfilment of these conditions sure I can repeat by rote. difficult, or to find some pretence for evading them altogether. Where then shall the subject appeal?-And even though there were a tribunal to which he could prefer his complaints, is it to be expected that the poor can contend with the rich, or the weak with the powerful?-In short, such unjust and oppressive measures are not likely to conciliate the people. They hoped, through the blood that has been shed, to enjoy greater freedom than before, but, on the Napoleon is overjoyed at the restoration of Peace. Indeed we learnt that event some time ago from the public papers. We could not conceive how France managed to conclude such advantageous bargains, with a King not remarkably shrewd at her head. But now, since you have explained the ingenious combinations, and discovered to us the whole machinery which has been set in motion by wisdom, subtlety, and beauty, our "Ah!" replied my husband, "that is like a man who says he must have more fuel, because, owing to the progress of luxury, he has more apartments to heat than a man in his circumstances had fifty years ago. Let armies be reduced! That will be advantageous in a thousand respects." Louis But,' said the Commissioner, XIV. was the first Sovereign who raised his army to such a boundless amount.' 66 No matter who was the first," replied Bertrand, "the blessings of mankind will attend him who shall be the first to abolish this terrible evil. I am aware of all that can be said respecting the fear of powerful enemies, &c. ; but so long as that revolting inequality prevails between the merely consuming ariny and the producing citizen, no civil happiness can be looked for." I must confess,' observed the Commis sioner, I am a little astonished to hear one of Napoleon's Generals argue in this way.' My husband smiled. "I am not now speaking as a general," said he, "but as a citizen of the world, looking down from this solitary rock on the mass of his fellowcreatures. Should I again become a general, I should wish to see the people of all nations in a state of slavery, for then we have no reason to fear their resistance." You forget,' returned the Commissioner, 'that the people of Russia are in a state of servitude, and you nevertheless experienced powerful resistance from them.' selected out of a hundred ; the rest, though they should be the lowest Boors, are at liberty to travel through the country, and carry on their trades wherever they please. For this purpose they have merely to procure a ticket, which is never withheld on application, and is annually renewed. This ticket, which is perhaps procured in Kasan or Permia, may be produced at Riga or Mittau, or two or three hundred miles from the place where it was granted, and no one will hinder the bearer from carrying on his little trade or profession in any way he pleases I have inquired particularly, into this fact. Thousands of Russians come every Winter with dried fish, caviar, &c. from the interior of the Empire to the frontier-provinces, where they dispose of their goods and their horses; in the Summer they maintain themselves by gardening, and after saving some portion of their earnings, return home in the harvest, and in the following Winter pursue the same course over again. In Germany, on the contrary, no Pedlar can sell his matches two miles from the place of his abode without incurring the risk of being imprisoned by the Police, the Toll-keepers, the Exciseofficers, &c. True freedom prevails where every individual may, without difficulty, turn his strength and industry to account; and this is the case in Russia, notwithstanding all the outcry that is raised against her despotic Government. The name of slavery exists in Russia; but other countries have the reality." Bertrand was now growing warm, and the conversation dropped. Indeed we are much more interested in the decisions of the gentlemen at Frankfort, than the warlike preparations in which the Turks are supposed to be engaged. | but we could soon manage to get out of its This letter will be delivered to you by a LEARNED SOCIETIES. FRENCH INSTITUTE. Public Sitting of the Royal Academy of In- The Sitting of the 17th ultimo was opened The subject proposed for 1818, was, the The prize was adjudged to the Memoire enregistered under No. I. the motto of which was, Et ament indulgere periti. (The author is M. J. J. Champollion Figleac.) We read with delight the information contained in your letter, and Napoleon has promised to write you an answer himself. Though (as I before informed you) one of The Academy deemed worthy of honourour letters from America fell into the Go-able mention, a Memoire, having for its vernor's hands, yet we have received others of the most satisfactory tenor from the same quarter. Next year we expect to see your gallant Cousin; and in 1818, at the very latest, we shall bid adieu to this heap of rocks. Already the vigilance of our prisonkeepers begins to slumber. We have now been a whole year at St. Helena without making any attempt to escape, and, I dare say, John Bull begins to look upon the thing as impossible-Sometimes whole days elapse without our guards giving themselves any concern about us. On our arrival here we paid great attention to the landing-place. The strong tide which the trade-wind brings from the southern side of the Atlantic, renders it difficult even in calm weather to bring a boat up to the shore-difficult but not impossible. A vessel cannot indeed cast anchor to the leeward, and yet this is the only point which is at all favourable to our escape. It is fortified by several old and new batteries, one of which is mounted by 48 pounders, and lies close to the water; motto the following words of Tacitus: The general observations on the Egyptian Medals, by M. Tochon d'Annecy, are probably good; but though read by M. QuatreMere de Quincy, but little attention was paid to them; and the President finding it would be difficult to enter on another subject, without incurring the risk of a total desertion, prudently closed the Sitting a quarter of an hour before the usual time. All these Memoirs were replete with sound erudition, though the subjects precluded the possibility of sacrificing to the Graces. Perhaps the most interesting, though we have omitted mentioning it in its proper place, was a notice by M. Dacier, on the life and writings of the celebrated geographical engineer, David Niebuhr, who died in Saxony on the 25th of April 1814. It abounds in facts hitherto but little known; it was listened to with an unusual degree of attention, and the interest was increased by the manner in which M. Raoul Rochette read the Essay. ARTS AND SCIENCES. THE SOUND OF FLAME IN TUBES. Mr. Faraday, the very ingenious Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution, has, at the request of Mr. J. Stodart, made a number of curious and interesting experiments on the sounds produced by Flame. This property of flame, as evinced by hydrogen gas in combustion, was first discovered by Dr. Higgins 1777; and subsequent chemists attributed it to the alternate expansion and contraction of aqueous vapour. Mr. F. proves that this is not the case, by heating the tube into which the flaire is passed above 212o, and still more decidedly, by producing the sounds from a flame of carbonic oxide. Neither do the sounds proceed from vibrations of the tube, since a cracked one answers for the experiment; nor from the rapid current of air through the tube, for with one closed at the end, or a bell glass, it succeeds. The production of these sounds is not confined to burning hydrogen, but possessed by all flame: and Mr. Faraday, with, as we presume, the able sanction of Mr. Stodart, concludes that the sounds are simply "the report of a continued explosion." We shall not detail the experiments, which are to be found in No. X. of the Journal of Science and the Arts, but referring to that publication, merely express our coincidence with the opinion therein maintained. Even without an apparatus, the constant and successive explosions of gaseous mixtures may be observed in the flame of a common gas-light, and there can be no doubt but that these explosions proWe shall not notice a learned Memoire duce sounds, from the roar of a furnace to on the discoveries made in several islands the modulated musical tones of a glass of Asia, from ancient times up to the pe-tube.A musical instrument of flame (like riod of the voyages of Magellan. It is one the Eolian Harp) might now be constructed. of those productions, the merits of which cannot be decided on without mature consideration; it is impossible to analyse it from a single reading. The author is M. Walckenaer, a man distinguished for learning. særum. After this proclamation, which was loudly applauded, M. Raoul Rochette read, for M. Dacier, a biographical notice on the late Ginguené, or rather on the works of that estimable man, whose political opinions seem not always to have enjoyed the advantage of being approved by the Secretary General. The author of the notice pronounced the sincerest eulogy on all that is good in the works of the deceased, and all that was still better in his private character. MEASURE AND FORM OF THE EARTH. (Simplified Popular Theory.) The recent travels and experiments of M. Biot, the experiments making by Capt. ing with the utmost precision the length of the Second's Pendulum in different lati tudes. tablish any decided difference.* From this equality also it has been concluded, that all the terrestrial meridians have exactly, or very nearly, the same form, and are nothing mere than the repetition of the same ellipse turning round a straight line, drawn from one pole of the earth to the other; that is to say, that the earth is an ellipsoid of revoing at the equator; therefore the length of the degrees measured upon this ellipsoid, determine its absolute measure in parts of the same scale, consequently in miles, if a mile be the standard are we made use of for the progressive measure of the degrees. Mudge, Capt. Kater, and various move-ing with care their meridian altitude above ments among scientific men in distant parts the horizon of each place, we ascertain the of the globe, evince the zeal and ability number of degrees this altitude has changed with which, at this moment, the philoso- for the distance we have travelled on the phers of England and France are endea- same meridian; and as from the immense vouring to solve the grand problem of the distance of the stars all the visual rays Earth's figure and measurement, as both which procced from them to every point of may be ascertained by measuring distant de- the earth at the same instant form no apgrees on the same meridian, and determin-preciable angle, it follows, that the angle solution, flattened at the poles and protrudobserved is really nothing but the mutual inclination of the horizons of the two places to which the observer has transported himself upon the same meridian; or, in other words, it is the angle comprised between the vertical drawn in these two places perpendicularly to the surface of the earth. If then we measure also the distance of the two stations upon this same substance by means of a determined standard of length (the mile for example,) we shall know that in the part of the earth where the observation is made such an angle between the two verticals answers to such a number of miles; so, by simple proportion, we deduce the number of miles which correspond to an angle of one degree. This is to measure a degree of the meridian. Now, although our learned readers can gather nothing from the following simple and popular explanation of the mode and object of these operations, we give it place under the idea that it may be useful to a great majority of intelligent persons, though probably not so conversant with the subject as to be able fully to comprehend the statements now so frequently inade public upon parts of the system. We may premise, that the irregularities on the earth's surface are not nearly so great as the asperities upon the peel of an orange. The curvature may therefore be measured with mathematical rigour. The knowledge of the figure of the Earth, the determination of its measure, and the variation of its gravity upon different parts of its surface, are indispensable elements in the theory of universal gravitation; and can alone discover to us if the density of the earth is equal throughout its mass, or whether it is different at different depths; and, lastly, enable us to form a fixed and universal standard of mensuration, founded on our knowledge of the precise dimensions of our globe, and applicable alike to the measure of its parts and of celestial space. The astronomical phrase to " measure a degree of the Meridian," is often used, and yet perhaps it is not every one who can form a correct idea of what is meant thereby, though most of the reasoning on the important subject of this paper must be unintelligible without that knowledge. Now, suppose the same operation repeated upon different parts of the same me-. ridian; for instance, in England, France, and the Guinea coast:--if the earth be exactly spherical, each meridian will be a circle, of which the terrestial verticals will be so many radii. This simple illustration of the theory of the measurement of the Earth and ascertainment of its exact form, will be found, we trust, not only plain and intelligible, but useful as a key to the numerous philosophical communications, in almost every pcriodical work, which result from the operations now carrying on to determine the great questions connected with the subject of this notice. The variation of the Second's Pendulum in different latitudes, according to the greater or less degree of the Earth's gravitation at these points, serves to verify the measurement of the meridional degrees. Cape of Good Hope, would alone seem to offer *The degree measured by Lacaille, at the flattening in the Northern and Southern hemis some probability of difference in the degree of pheres; but this difference being confirmed neither by the experiments upon the pendulum, nor by the amount of mean compression deduced from the theory of the moon, ought to be considered as very doubtful. For this reason, it is much to be desired that the experiment should dian at the Cape. This would perhaps be the be again made of measuring an arc of the merimost useful operation to astronomy that it would be possible to undertake at the present day. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANIES. Rubbing the skin with camphorated oil is the best protection against the attack of musquitoes in hot countries.-Abel's China. In this case, to find an angle of one degree between two successive verticals, it will be necessary to traverse an equal length of are; that is to say, to advance upon the same meridian, from North to South, or from South to North, an equal number of miles. But if certain parts of the meridian be flatter, and others more convex, this equality will no longer exist; in that part where the curvature is more flat, it will be necessary to proceed further before we compass an angle of one degree between the verticals of the extreme stations, and where the curvature is more convex, not so far. Thus we can judge of the flatness or conWhen a vessel sails from the shore, at vexity of each part of the meridian by such first the whole is visible to an eye upon the comparisons. Now, in making the expericoast; but as the ship proceeds, it seems to ment, we find that the terrestrial degrees sink into the horizon: the hull first disap- are the shortest possible at the equator, pears, then the lower sails, then the tops of and the longest near the poles, and that the masts, and finally it vanishes altogether. they go on gradually expanding from one This arises from the convexity of the earth, of these limits to the other, as upon an which intervenes between the eye of the elliptic curve; at least when the comparispectator and the vessel. To those on son is made between places sufficiently disboard the phenomenon is similar: they first tant to prevent the law of the variation of lose sight of the shore, then of the houses, the degrees, which is very gradual, from then of the towers, then of the mountains, being confounded with unavoidable errors till at last they perceive nothing around of the observation. From hence the con- The principal Artists of the city of Worthem but a horizon of sea. This progressive clusion has been drawn, and with reason, cester have at length determined upon a sinking is also visible in the celestial con- that the terrestrial meridians are ellipses public exhibition of their works, in which stellations in travelling from North to slightly flattened at the poles, and protrud- they will be materially assisted by the consent South, or vice versa. The North Pole and ing at the equator; and, further, L repeat- of the Corporation for the use of a room in its surrounding stars sink towards the hori-ing the experiment upon different meri- the Guildhall. They hope, from the enzon, as we advance to the South; on the dians, it has been ascertained that the ab-couragement held out, that they may be contrary, they rise as we return. Every star solute lengths of the degrees at equal dis- able, under all the disadvantages of a first partakes of these changes of elevation, tances from the equator, differ insensibly, exhibition, to produce a few pictures which are caused by our change of place or at least so little, that the observations which may at once add credit to individual on the surface of the Globe. By measur- hitherto made have been insufficient to es- talent, and to the city that produced it. The Mangostan, a fine fruit of Java, about the size of a small orange, exudes a yellow gum from its succulent rind in wet weather, which is a variety of Gamboge: the Gamboge of commerce is derived from a plant of the same genus as the Mangostan, viz. the Garcinia Cambogia. THE FINE ARTS. ORIGINAL POETRY. BY LORD BYRON. And wilt thou weep when I am low? I would not give thy bosom pain. My heart is sad-my hopes are gone My blood runs coldly through my breast; And when I perish, thou alone Wilt sigh above my place of rest. And yet, methinks, a beam of peace Doth through my cloud of anguish shine; And, for a while my sorrows cease To know that heart hath felt for mine! O Lady! blessed be that tear, It falls for one who cannot weep; To those whose eyes no tears may steep. Then wilt thou weep when I am low? New Monthly Magazine. AN INVOCATION. Hear! hear! thou blessed Power!- And rule the boundless Heavens;—and with such sway, (Though mortal eye might never penetrate) As Eastern monarchs in their proudest day Could but faintly imitate Thou, who didst form the peopled earth-the main And all their works and wonders-deign Which hath the good and graceful ever shamed, To cheat the judgment or deprave the heart- fire His minstrelsy inspire, While he shall sing of those who stood their ground Bravely, and battled in the unequal fight, And flash'd in armed thousands on their sight Ye vaunt not-Tis in perilous times alone ON VIEWING THE DEAD BODY OF A BEAUTIFUL INFANT. Nascentes morimur finisque Ab origine pendet.-Horuce. There is a smile upon that cheek- And now the kiss of agony, Then 'tis a wayward grief to weep, That they have slept the quiet sleep. And when our friends are far away, Oh, this should make us wish, not weep, But not for them the tear is rife- Is worthless when they go: Thou diedst, De C-lie: Ah, they who boast few friends below, tho' I say that thou wast mine: No lukewarm, no lip-fervent one, As many might confess, Whose welfare blossom'd in the sun Of thy kind-heartedness: And they, and I, have cause to weep That thou hast slept the quiet sleep! Ὁ ἥλιος. Written in an Arbour. EUSTACE. My soul was sad-bright thro' the breaking clouds And shed a silvery purple-breathing light soon I gladden'd to excess, and, drunk with joy LINES ON HEARING THE CHURCH BELLS. A gloom will o'er my senses steal Recals events long pass'd-Dear friends depart. When youth's gay dream my bosom warm'd, On hearing it said that a young Man was going into the Gentleman. Our Friend's TWO WARDS are fix'd at last, One takes the law's intricate course- He'll make no soldier, Sir, I'm sure, LINES VALIANT. Writter th: fellowing morning after viewing the Westerly Sky, on Friday August 7, 1818, between the hours of seven and eight o'clock; of which I may safely say, scene that neither pen nor pencil will ever do justice to the ceited tone,) but let me have the last made by Weston; and I must have my musical snuff-box for dinner; you'll put Prince's mixture in it, and high-dried in the other; and you'll bring my light morocco boots for dinner, with soles as thin as a wafer;—and, I say, I shall begin to dress at five or half after, for it is too warm to hurry one-self; and I must have my hair brushes, and my razors (for which he had very little use,) and damask napkins, and rose water for my eyes, and all my soaps, and some white wax for my nails, and all my paraphernalia set in gold, with my crest on each article in my best dressing case ;'Meinheer?' and, I say-" (Servant) Thus ended the colloquy betwixt a young Cousin of mine and his servant; and although he called being on Guard a bore," yet he was delighted with this debut, and quite captivated with "all the pomp and circumstance of war." Thus mounted he his first Guard, and gave me the following account of the manner in which he spent his time. Army, who, with his brother, were both Wards of one R-'s receipt, which comes to so much money, that which has Marasquina in it, and oil of lavender, and about twenty other things, and has such a superior polish ;-and, I say, fetch home my regimental jacket from Scott's;-and, I say, see that it is well padded on the breast, which gives a martial air, and well stuffed on the shoulders, so as to give me my natural look of strength;-and, I" Nothing; you may go away now; say, lay out the pantaloons which were but be sure to awaken me at six. What made by the German soldier under the a bore Gard is!" patronage of the Prince Vanstinkerstein, not those made by the leather breeches maker, nor any whatever made by my three English tailors;—and, I say, put two handkerchiefs in my regimental jacket, one of cambric and one of my Barcelonas;—and, I say, perfume them well; and let me have my gold snuffbox with the sleeping beauty on it, for which the Italian took me so d—ly innot the gold embossed one, nor the gold engine-turned, nor the gold antique box, nor the silver gilt, nor the one which I bought at the Palais Royale ;and, I say, order my tilbury to take me down to the Gard, for I shall otherwise get my boots dusty, and might be run against by some coal-porter or sweep, and have my French scarlet cloth soiled; besides, one looks heated and flustered after a long walk from Harley Street to the Parade, instead of coming cool into the field; and, I say, I'll wear the twenty guinea gold chain round my neck, with my quizzing glass; and you must bring down my silk night-gown, and Turkish embroidered slippers, in order to astonish the weak minds of mes Camarades; and I must have my backgammon-board pour passer le tems, and my poodle-dog to play with; and you may take a coach and bring my violoncello with you, and my writing-desk, that I may write billet-doux, in order to soften the hardships of war;-and, I say, I must have the cedar-box of cigars, my gold cigar tube, my German bag, some scented tobacco, and my ecume de mer pipe; 'twill pass an hour, and it looks so soldier-like to smoke on Gard;-and, I say, I must have a cambric chemise, with the collar highly starched for dressing time-one of those which look like winkers; and you may bring another regimental jacket—either the one made by Scott so nicely pigeon-tailed, or that SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. Y-NOT. THE HERMIT IN LONDON, OR SKETCHES OF ENGLISHI MANNERS. No. VII. ON GUARD FOR THE FIRST TIME. "The Soldier little quiet finds, "Hopfman,* wake me at six o'clock to-morrow morning, or I shall never be in time for Guard (pronounced affectedly, Gard;)—and, I say (in a slow con * Hopfman, a German Valet de Chambre. I walked up and down St. James's Street and Pall Mall forty-four times; sent my servant home for my stopwatch, and made a calculation of the time which it took to go from Hoby's corner to the St. James'; looked in at Parslow's, and lost some money at billiards; my hand shook like h-1; but I drank some Curaçoa, and took three ices afterwards to cool myself; spoke to two and twenty pretty women, and bowed to fifty carriages, by which I got a stiff neck; hung on to Lady Mary's carriage facing White's for just twenty minutes, and was envied by the whole street; played a tune on my violoncello, and amused myself a whole hour, by my repeater, in teaching my poodle to do his exercise with a cane, and to smoke a pipe, thus fitting him for a military life; read the Racing Calendar, and a table of odds at betting; looked into the Horse Guards, and found a rascal dunning my friend Bellamour; kicked the fellow down stairs; and took a hit at backgammon; treated my brother officers on Guard with some liqueurs; dined, got half and half, looked in at some gambling shops, came off minus ten guineas-devilish lucky! for at one time I was out a hundred met Lord Sommerfield and Dick Dandy in the hands of the watchmen; drew my sword like a man, and put the raggamuffins to flight; saw the sun rise in St. by Jove! James's Park, - beautiful, wrote a dozen billet-doux, and made as many appointments, not half of which ; |