[From "Forget me Not," reviewed p. 449.] [From "Forget me Not," reviewed p. 449.] NIGHT is the time for rest; How sweet when labours close, To gather round an aching breast Night is the time for dreams; The gay romance of life, When truth that is and truth that seems Blend in fantastic strife; Night is the time for toil; To plough the classic field, Night is the time to weep; The joys of other years; Night is the time to watch; The full moon's earliest glance, Then from the eye the soul Night is the time to pray; Steal from the throng to haunts untrod, Night is the time for death; From sin and suffering cease ; OH! not in ceiled rooms of state, A nook in some lone church-yard green, A crystal brook should babble by, Should lightly flutter round. Where waves the cypress o'er some lonely tomb, To tread in sorrow, and to pause in pain, Since at each step doth mourn some trampled bloom, At every sigh some nightingale complain; To grieve, when grief can ne'er restore ? [Nov. Like bright Aurora's beams Religion rose, And sheds its heav'nly ray of mercy mild O'er the dark mind of infatuated man! It taught him from the sacred Book of God To spurn the dogmas of the Popish Priest, Whose God was this world's Mammon, -he whose threat [sion, Could awe the ignorant peasant to submisWhose Anti-Christian cant the rich could spoil, Then with thy lips perfume earth's aching And captive lead the world in ignorance! flowers, [can give And warm with tears, since fond regret But useless sobs and unavailing show'rs, Which, all surviving, nothing e'er revive. "Till once, once more, S. P. Lines occasioned by visiting the LEASOWES, and seeing the most favourite Spots of Shenstone but too much neglected. HERE in cool grot and mossy cell The rural fays did whilom dwell; But now the mazy dance is o'er, Else Shenstone's shade with due return, Τ. Η. Lines suggested on the spot where All Saints' old HERE as I tread the site where stood of To worship God aright; -here pious HILLS* * John Hills, D.D. Rector of All Saints, Fulbourn, was Archdeacon of Lincoln, Prebendary of Ely, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in the year 1617. THE EVERGREEN. Τ. Ν. WHEN bleak November's wintry blast And Autumn's golden leaves at last And Summer guests no more remain, grew, And with unlook'd-for smiles the prospect checrs anew. G. C. 1823.] [457] HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. SPAIN. FOREIGN NEWS. Ferdinand has again entered his capital, amidst shouts of "Long live the Absolute King." In our last we mentioned his departure from Cadiz, and the arbitrary decrees subsequently issued. At Seville, on the 9th of October, he put forth a decree, ordaining thus: "A funeral service shall be celebrated in all the churches of the monarchy for the repose of the souls of those, who, since the 7th of March 1820, died in support of God's cause and mine." He published another document, stating, among other things, that "all those who exercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction, shall prepare missions, which shall exert themselves to destroy erroneous, pernicious, and heretical doctrines, and shut up in the monasteries, of which the rules are the most rigid, those ecclesiastics who have been the agents of an impious faction." The Madrid Gazette of 28th Oct. contains a proclamation, issued by Ferdinand at Seville on the 22d, having all the semblance of a preparatory step towards revoking or modifying the decrees of Port St. Mary, Xeres, and Seville. His Majesty postpones, " till his arrival in Madrid, and till he is surrounded by the gravest and most enlightened of his counsellors, his final resolve touching the acts and the actors in the late revolution;" but he " has decided, that the principal delinquents who had placed themselves beyond the reach of pardon, should suffer the punishment to which their transgressions had rendered them liable." The activity of the Prussians in availing themselves of peace, by placing their towns in the most complete state of defence, has been most unremitting, particularly at this moment. The important fortress of Ehreinbriesten, at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle, blown up by the French, will be in a most formidable state. The fortifications are on a prodigious scale. The town of Coblentz is fortifying. Three vast fortresses have also been built at a mile distant from the town, to command the roads from France and Mayence. Similar operations are also going on with vigour at Cologne, and in three years all these will be completely finished. The King of the Netherlands is also not inactive. He has built a fortress on one of the heights above Liege, which will contain several thousand men. A second has been founded on an elevation commanding the road to the French frontiers; and ground is marked out for a third on one of the hills overhanging the town. A Letter from Madrid, of Oct. 17, says, "Riego has been tried and condemned to death. Cavia was his Judge, the nephew of the Bishop of Osma, one of the Regents; and the crime in the Act of Accusation is the having voted, as a Deputy of the Cortes, the deposition of the King during his trans-ty-five with medicine, and one hundred and Foreign News.-Domestic Occurrences. lation to Cadiz, and the nomination of a Regency." Riego was executed at Madrid on the 7th. The unfortunate man was carried to the place of execution in an ass's pannier, doubtless as a mark of ignominy. All the Spanish Generals have capitulated. Mina, and several of those most implicated have left their Country for England or France. Many of the Cortes are in London. A letter from Gibraltar, dated Oct. 16, says, "We are crowded with unfortunate Spaniards, who have taken refuge here to escape the miseries of a dungeon, or the tortures of the Inquisition. Among them are upwards of sixty Deputies of the Cortes of the most distinguished, as Valdez, Alava, GENT. MAG. November, 1822. The number of Students at the University of Gottingen is one thousand four hundred and twenty, amongst whom are four princes; two hundred and seventy of them are occupied with theology, seven hundred and thirty with law, two hundred and twenninety-five with philosophy and philology. TURKEY. A French Journal relates a fresh instance of the fury of the Turks against the Greek Christians. A priest called Christ has just been crucified in mockery of his name. After being thus tortured several hours, and paraded through the streets in the dress of a buffoon, he was daubed with pitch, and then burnt alive. SOUTH AMERICA. A Treaty of Alliance, offensive and defensive, between the States of Colombia and Buenos Ayres has been agreed to, in which they bind themselves to assist and support each other in maintaining " their indepen dence 458 dence of Spain and of all foreign dominion [Nov. her, may seek to establish, as a compensation for the loss of her sovereignty over her late colonies. WEST INDIES. A vessel arrived at Liverpool on Monday, bringing advices from Demerara to the 17th September, at which time all was quiet. Twenty-three of the black insurgents had been executed, and the trials of others were proceeding. Smith, the missionary, was still in custody, and there was every appearance of proof being produced that he was the principal promoter of the insurrection. He preached to a large assembly of blacks on the evening previous to the intended massacre of the whites. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. IRELAND. The Report on the Condition of the Poor in Ireland, has been laid before the publick, and clearly establishes the reality and extent of the distress in that unhappy country. The Committee have proved to demonstration, that " the employment of the people of Ireland and the improvement of their moral condition, is essentially necessary to the peace and tranquillity of that Island, as well as to the general interests of the United Kingdom." It would appear from the Report, that the distressed districts constitute half the country, and that one half of the entire population are supported by charity. A pretty clear estimate of the miserable poverty of these unfortunate beings may be formed from the fact, that in the County of Clare 26,846 persons, most of them unfitted, from age or disease, to procure by labour the means of existence, have been supported at an expense of not quite one penny per diem. The Countess of Glengall, a lady of great and active benevolence, in her examination before the Committee, described the labourers under the better sort of farmers in Ireland, as worse off than the slaves in the West Indies. The Irish papers describe many recent outrages; such as wanton burning of farm produce, and barbarous mutilations of cattle, &c. INTELLIGENCE FROM VARIOUS Within the last ten years the progress of the Cotton Manufacture in this Country has been so rapid, that the annual consumption of cotton has increased, we believe, from 250,000 to 1,000,000 of bags! At the present moment the seats of the cotton manufacture are in a state of the greatest activity, and the manufacturers, and other capitalists concerned in this important branch of the national industry, are progressively advancing in prosperity. The population of Lancashire, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, &c. has also increased, and is increasing with surprizing rapidity, whilst the gigantic progress of machinery and science is daily enlarging the prodigious productive power already wielded by the Country. So long as markets can be found for the vast product of this scientific and mechanical power, the competition which it maintains with manual labour will not be felt by the working classes in all its severity. It is impossible, however, not to be sensible that, depending as she does upon Foreign markets for taking off the product of her manufactures, and continually enlarging, as she is, her manufacturing population, England is collecting within her bosom the materials for an explosion, which may one day be attended with the most alarming results. Even now, any derangement of our commerce, which should occasion a stagnation for six months in the cotton manufacture, would produce a state of unbounded distress and of frightful danger. It is to the rising markets of South America, and to the growing demand for British cottons in the East Indies, that England can alone look for any increased demand that shall be at all commensurate with the progress of her productive power, and with the increasing number and energies of her great manufacturing population; and for that, and other reasons, it is absolutely necessary she should exert all her strength, if need be, for frustrating projects, the execution of which would have the effect of excluding her commerce from the ports of South America. The commerce between Great Britain and the South American States has rapidly increased since 1817. In the year ending Jan. 5, 1817, the value of British goods exported to Buenos Ayres was 388,4171.; in the year ending Jan. 5, 1823, their value was 1,161,765l. The value of exports to Valparaiso in the year ending Jan. 5, 1818, was 32,7971.; while in the year ending Jan. 5, 1823, their amount was 462,8481. Liverpool, Liverpool, Oct. 22. This morning, at five o'clock, a fire was discovered in the warehouses of Messrs. Booth, in Wapping. The engines arrived on the spot as soon as possible; but all exertions to extinguish the flames were unavailing, and in two hours three warehouses were a heap of ruins. These buildings were the loftiest in Liverpool, being not less than 13 stories high. They contained nearly 240,000 bushels of corn, principally foreign, under the King's lock, and valued at about 60,000l.; besides a great quantity of cotton and other goods. The total loss, in buildings and commodities, is estimated at 150,000l. The premises, and the bulk of the goods, were, it is believed, insured in different Fire-offices. Oct. 24. A murder of a most atrocious and appalling description, committed in Gill's Hill Lane, near Batler's Green, in the parish of Aldenham, Herts, has occupied the public attention during the last month. The investigation of this affair commenced at Watford, on Tuesday the 28th of October. Mr. Nicholls, a farmer, at Batler's Green, gave information, that Philip Smith, farmer, of Kemp's Green, had, on Friday evening, Oct. 24, about 8, heard the noise of a chaise coming down Gill's Hill Lane, and shortly after, the report of a pistol, followed by deep groans. He was much alarmed and went home. On Saturday Nicholls had given him by two labourers a pistol which they had just found lying under the lane hedge, and the labourers told him, they had that morning seen two persons come at break of day down the lane, and go to the spot, where they continued grabbling for about five minutes, as if looking for something they had lost. Information of this was immediately sent to Bow-street. Meanwhile the Watford Magistrates, Robert Clutterbuck and J. Finch Mason, esqrs. displayed a most laudable activity. They proceeded to Nichols's house at Batler's Green, and after some inquiries went to Probert's cottage, and took Probert into custody; and in the night arrested Thomas Thurtell at Probert's cottage. They also sent warrants to town by Ruthven, the of ficer, to arrest John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt, on suspicion of having committed the murder. On Wednesday, Ruthven brought J. Thurteil and Hunt to Watford. Mr. Noel attended the Magistrates, and informed them he suspected the person murdered was Mr. Weare, of Lyon's Inn. The Magistrates then commenced a serious examination of several witnesses. Thurtell, Hunt, and Probart were also examined; after which Hunt made a confession; in consequence of which the murdered body (that of Mr. William Weare, of Lyon's Inn) was searched for, and found in a pond within seven miles of Watford; the legs, which were quite naked, were tied together with some new cord, and the upper part of the body was concealed in a sack tied on. Affixed to the sack was a hand 459 kerchief containing stones. The body was conveyed, precisely i in this state, to a publichouse in the parish of Elstree, where the Coroner's Inquest was held. The following embraces the material parts of Hunt's confession. He commenced by describing a meeting some time since between himself and the prisoner John Thurtell, when the latter stated that the deceased, Mr. Weare, had won 300l. of him at play, by means of false cards, and that on being being challenged with it, the deceased's reply was, "You dare not say a word about it, for you know you have defrauded your creditors of that amount." Thurtell then professed to Hunt a determination to be revenged. On the morning of the day when the murder took place, Hunt and J. Thurtell were together, when the latter purchased a pair of pistols (with one of which the bloody deed was perpetrated): they afterwards dined together; and in the evening Thurtell left town in a gig, saying he was to meet a gentleman at Paddington Gate, who was going with him on a shooting excursion into Hertfordshire. The same evening, about an hour after, Hunt accompanied Mr. Probert to his cottage at Gill'shill. When they arrived there they met J. Thurtell, who told them he had blown out the deceased's brains, and that the body lay behind a hedge in the lane. They then supped together at Probert's; after which Thurtell produced the deceased's gold watch, and wanted them to go to look at the body, which he said was in a sack, but they would not go. They sat up all night'; and about four o'clock in the morning Thurtell went out, brought the body across his horse's back, and threw it into Probert's fish-pond: on the same morning Hunt and Thurtell returned to town. On the Monday after they went down again to Probert's, and on that night Thurtell removed the body in his gig from Probert's premises, and threw it into a muddy marsh about four feet deep, where it was afterwards found. Probert expressed a decided wish to see the Magistrates; they went to him, and were with him for a considerable time, and he confessed all he knew of the matter; that his hand did not commit the murder, and after it was perpetrated Thurtell threatened to murder him if he opened his lips upon the subject, and told him that he had picked out seventeen persons of substance that he intended to rob and murder, and that the deceased was one of them. At the Coroner's Inquest, which was held on Friday and Saturday, after the collateral evidence had been gone through, the prisoner Hunt was called in. His whiskers had been shaved off, and he came forward apparently not much affected by his situation. The Coroner said, "We are willing to receive any statement you may give us, but we do not ask you to commit yourself in any |