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Old Johnson said that learning the Latin capability for a kind of exertion which the grammar forms a principal epoch in the earlier English are either incapable of, or are unTHEY say there are thirty thousand of us in stages of man's existence. To be sure it does. willing to submit to. "Not only all the porLondon, and our own estimate does not abate Though eaten-bread (Qy. Eton-bred?) is soon ters in London," said some smart person, "but an unit of the number-certes we swarm forgotten, the knowledge of meum and tuum all the re-porters also, are Irish." This is every where, and wheresoever we are planted, sticks to a philologist through life. much more true of the latter class, than the like our own potato, we do exceedingly increase These little mistakes, and taking ways of former. When a man is wanted to deliver and multiply. 'Twas but the other day that our countrymen, frequently occupy the atten- valuable parcels, exactness and "good secuwe ventured to peep up a long narrow passage, tion of certain sessional tribunals in Comi- rity," are requisites more important than with small houses on either side, a cul de sac, tatu Middlesexiæ, and sometimes the oddest despatch, and then an Englishman is emleading out of the street which connects the instances of national character, of simplicity, ployed, and you recognise him by his apron, end of Oxford-street with the church of St. and absurdity and humour and pathos, that and his thick-soled boots, his pace of two miles Giles. It seemed to us that we saw about a can possibly be supposed, are brought out an hour, and a piece of bread and cheese in his thousand children of all ages, from three years at these trials. The strangest thing of all, to hand, and thus to thirteen, tumbling about in various directions an Irishman, is, that the London Judges and He munches as he goes, for want of thought. and diversions, and vociferating to one another Juries, and Barristers, seem to have no notion But if you see a man with a burthen getting in the true Monomian dialect. We thought of of, no sympathy with, these curious peculiari- quickly along, and getting out of peoples' way, Malthus, and shut our eyes. We defy an Irish- ties: they see nothing in them but absurdity, and sometimes stepping off the foot-way, and someman in London to forget his country, even if dis- view with mingled contempt and compassion, times on it again, with his stockings rather posed thereto, which indeed they seldom are, as that which would convulse us with laughter, or loose, and a coat which once was a gentlethose who do not remember it for praise, keep make the tears flow to our eyes. Among the man's coat, hanging, as I have heard a fellow it in mind as a fertile subject of abuse; but in whimsical notions of the poor exiles from Mun- say, in geometry upon him-that man you any case he could not forget it, since from the ster and Connaught who swarm in London, is may be quite sure is Irish. Whenever a makers of speeches of living eloquence in the the one, that the punishment which the law house has been burned, and is required to House of Parliament, to the readers of awards for offences, is the payment or compen- be replaced in a hurry--when a sewer is speeches of dying penitence, falsely purport-sation which they are required to make, when to be built, the building of which blocks up ing to have been uttered at the front of New-unluckily an offence is detected; and this the street, and therefore is wrought at night gate, the loudest and most conspicuous are all notion gives them frequently very strong im- and day, by sun-light and torch-light, till it is Irish. It is a matter of marvel, and of national pressions of the disproportion between the finished-every labourer of them is talking congratulation, that so few Irish are hanged crime committed, and the penalty inflicted. Irish. . For this the rogues are often well in London-of all manner of whimsical and A man was tried, not very long ago, at the paid; but they never get rich, and hardly even riotous offences on their part, there is, indeed, old Bailey, for stealing a piece of meat from a comfortable, in the sense in which the English no end, insomuch that some of the police butcher's shop; he was convicted, and the Judge properly understand this word. Our Irish labouroffices on a Monday morning, would, as we sentenced him to be imprisoned for six months. er hardly ever increases his store of any-thing are told, almost cheat one into the belief, that" Arrah how long, my lord?" said the culprit, but children and perplexities--a non-accumulawe were in some magistrates' office of the looking up at the Judge, with an air of incre- tive curse seems to cling to him with respect peaceful realm of Tipperary, on the day after dulous surprise-"For six months, prisoner." to all other things; he works, drinks, loves, a fair or "pattern;" but these are all trifling "By J thin, it was a dear bit of mate," laughs, fights, and dies--and there's an end-no: matters of broken heads or the like, arising out said the poor prisoner casting down his eyes, in not an end altogether; for his lineage is sure to of liquor, or of love, which comes to the same utter astonishment and dismay, that eighteen survive, in seventeen sons and daughters. Of thing, as it is all intoxication: but the horri- pence worth of beef, should have been thought the three duties of a man in this world, as laid ble deliberate offences the premeditated plun- worth so long an imprisonment. He measured down by master Larry Sterne, of Clonmel, in dering in the night-the cutting of old his offence precisely by the value of what he the county of Tipperary, an Irish labourer womens' throats from ear to ear, and the had taken, and felt his sentence to be an unjust in London generally has a share in the first, cautious scrutiny, with the still reeking fingers, one. and is quite sure to fulfil the last. of the old woman's pouches, until each sove- It is in a place such as London, where the The women seem as much inclined to the reign and sixpence is carefully extracted-all mass is enormous, and the variety of pursuits sedentary occupations by which a small livethis part of this strange world's business, is in almost infinite, that we can best trace the na- lihood may be obtained, as the men are to the London generally left to the cooler habits of tional peculiarities of the several nations which more active. We have held very interesting the natives. It sometimes happens, indeed, send their inhabitants to the mighty congrega- colloquies with about fifty-five thousand of the doubtless from the national confusion of cha- tion, by comparing the relative positions which female apple and orange venders, who occupy racter, such as Mr. Moore prettily speaks of, they take up. Looking at the occupations of the corners of the streets in London, and we with reference to a letter of his to Lord Byron, the Irish in London, we shall be led at once to never met with a single exception to the rule of wherein he appears partly desirous of his lord- conclude, that a mental and bodily activity-their being all from Munster. We love to ask ship's friendship, and partly desirous of putting an aptitude for quick exertion of the faculties them, as the first question, "What part of him to death-that our countrymen forget the of mind or body, marked them for the pecu- Munster do you come from?" "County Cark, minute distinctions of property which prevail liar services in which they are engaged. We Sir," or County Lim'rick, your honner," is in England, and, in a sudden unreflecting mo- do not mean this exactly in the flattering sense almost sure to be the answer; and not seldom, ment, appropriate to themselves certain small to our countrymen, that might at first sight be when we have beguiled them into talk about matters which they suppose they stand in need supposed--we do not mean that they possess the Shannon, or Kilworth Mountain, or the of, without the ordinary preliminary arrange- this vigorous quickness, in addition to an equal like, we have observed that something very ment of an exchange of coin for the same. quantity of other good qualities with the peo-like tears began to flow, and our sixpence Such trifling peccadilloes, merely evince a ple among whom they are placed--but instead would hardly be taken, without an effort to want of sufficient acquaintance with the gram- of these qualities instead of regularity, pre- make us have more than the worth of it in matical construction of the possessive pronouns. cision, steadiness, and calmness, they have this fruit. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. vated by the irritations of his spirit. From his couch of anguish he addressed one more appeal to the justice of the king; he no longer peti. tioned for himself, but for his son, Diego.He entreated that his child might be appointed to the government of which he himself had been so wrongfully deprived. As to the re-porters, whom, for such impor-habits of the Irish generally, make them the physical strength and the glorious anticipations, tant gentlemen, we have rather unceremoniously poorest class, and poverty is open to all manner which had once sustained him through his long forgotten, and therefore intreat the condescen-of temptations. This, however, is rather an un-application at this court. He was again consion of their pardon, they are almost as uni-comfortable part of our subject, and therefore fined to his bed by a return of the gout, aggraformly Irish as the applewomen; and a clever, here we shall pause for the present. dashing, rattling set of fellows they are, and indeed must be, in order to get through their arduous duties. But, why are they almost exclusively Irish? Because there is a bustle, a hurry, an energetic dispatch, necessary about this business-a dashing off-hand way, without being too particular as to exactness, and with a ready fancy for guessing, for all of which the national character is peculiarly fitted. Again, there is a something literary, as it is thought, about it, and we, Irish, are so desperately literary every where but at home. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. ries. This petition was treated by Ferdinand, with his usual evasions; he even endeavoured to prevail on Columbus, to waive his claims to the THE discovery of America is an event which dignities to which he was entitled in the New appears ever new-the relation of it never wea-World, and to accept in lieu thereof, titles and Whether it be perused in the antiquated estates in Spain. Columbus rejected the proEvery one knows that those who write for style of the first narrator, or in the many ver-posal with indignation, and from the bed on daily newspapers must have a rapid method of sions through which its romantic incidents have which he was confined, addressed a letter to his arranging and expressing their thoughts upon been transferred from generation to generation constant friend, the Archbishop of Seville, exthe revolving occurrences of every day life. to the present day, it still rivets attention. The pressive of his despair. This was his last effort. Well-this work is in London almost monopo- narrative now before us has peculiar charms; His illness, the effect of combined sufferings of lized by the Irish. The Standard, Globe, it combines the elegancies of the imagination mind and body, increased with irresistible vioCourier, Star, Morning Herald, Saint James's with the sterling solidity of truth. Seldom has lence; he settled his worldly affairs, resigned Chronicle, Atlas, and a score of others for a writer, long accustomed to wander uncon- himself to his God, and expired. Such was aught we know, are edited by Irishmen. They trolled through the fairy enchantments of the end of the discoverer of half the world !— "knock off a paragraph," while a sober English-fiction, entered upon the beaten path of rigid Thanks be to Solomon, or to him who inspired man would be thinking of the best "references," facts with so good a grace. The reader is led Solomon rather, who has prepared us to bear and it does very well. The Times, to be sure, along through the series of wonderful events, up during the recital of such a heart-sickening seems often as if it had the aid of the heavy with a rapidity and ease not often enjoyed by detail of courtly ingratitude and perfidy, when machinery of the steam-engine, in writing its those who prefer the study of historical realities he warns us, in the book of Proverbs, not to articles as well as in printing them, but we are to the fascinating delusions of romance. put our trust in kings. told there are none but English and Scotch With the great leading facts of the life of To dwell upon the style of Washington about the writing department of that concern. Columbus, every reader is acquainted. These, Irving, would be little better than loss of time. We wish we could add the praise of inde- of course, we pass over, though far from being His writings are now in every body's hands.-pendence to our notice of the Irish character in devoid of interest. We would rather dwell a Next to Walter Scott, he is, perhaps, the best London, but we cannot. The Irish labourer little on two great moral pictures this work known, and the most generally sought after, submits to what the English labourer would affords; one exhibiting the corruptions, the sel- among the writers of works of imagination, and not, and thereby entails a degree of contempt fishness, the meanness, the tortuous deviations we have already said, that he has here given his upon his class. We heard a shopkeeper in from rectitude, the destitution of moral feeling fancy free play, as far as language is concerned, Cheapside, asked once, why he employed an in the higher orders of society, during that without prejudicing the cause of historical veIrishman for his shop-porter, rather than a period, as displayed in the treatment of Colum- racity. Yet the manner in which he contrasts Londoner. "Why," said he, I can do what bus, by kings and courtiers ;—we hope we now the commencement of Columbus's first expediI please with Pat, there, and I couldn't do so live in better days:-the other, the undeviating tion, when all was doubt and apprehension, and with one of our fellows. When he shuts up the magnanimity with which this great man bore alarm, with his subsequent departure from shop, I tell him to make his bed under the up against the incessant storms of persecution, Spain, after he had realized the object of his counter there, and so he does, and there he with which he was assailed from the first mo- golden anticipations, is too striking to be passed lays, and takes care of the shop, and he's quite ment of the announcement of his gigantic pro- over. The former of these events is thus desat hand to open it in the morning. I couldn't ject, till the close of his life. Surely it requires cribed : get an Englishman to do that." We felt rather to be told over and over again, in order to be "When Columbus arrived at Palos, and preuncomfortable to hear a man talk this way. credited, that the individual who laid the wealth sented himself once more before the gates of "Is thy servant a dog," that thou shouldst use of half the world at the foot of the throne of the convent of La Rabida, he was received him thus? Spain, lived in trouble, and died in sorrow and with open arms by the worthy Juan Perez, and The great difference between the Irish and distress. We wish we could extract at length again entertained as his guest. The zealous English, and the great superiority of the latter the affecting picture of this great and ill-treated friar accompanied him to the parochial church in all mere matters of business, seems to con- man's last struggle against his persevering ene- of St. George, in Palos, where Columbus sist in this, that they possess a methodical mies. Disappointed in his hope of being re-caused the royal order for the caravals to be steadiness of procedure, arising out of a com- stored, by means of repeated written applica- read by a notary public, in presence of the plete concentration of the mind upon the one tions, to the honors and wealth to which he authorities of the place. Nothing could equal idea that occupies it for the time, which is was entitled by services and compact, he deter-the astonishment and horror of the people of utterly unknown to our countrymen. Send mined on a journey to the Spanish court, then this maritime community, when they heard of an English servant of a message, and were it held at Segovia. "He, who a few years before the nature of the expedition, in which they only for a shilling's worth of cheese, he looks had entered the city of Barcelona in triumph, were ordered to engage. They considered the neither to the right hand nor to the left, but attended by the chivalry of Spain, and hailed ships and crews demanded of them in the light plods steadily on, with cheese in all his thoughts, with rapture by the multitude, now arrived at of sacrifices devoted to destruction. All the till he has secured and deposited in your cup- the gates of Segovia, a wayworn, melancholy, frightful tales and fables with which ignorance board, the wished-for Parmesan. The Irish- and neglected man; oppressed even more by and superstition are prone to people obscure man, on the contrary, would stare into every sorrow, than by his years and infirmities."- and distant regions were conjured up concernshop window, and listen to every fiddler and Ferdinand, (for his great protectress, Isabella, ing the unknown parts of the deep, and the piper on the way, and possibly come back tipsy, was now no more,) received him with many boldest seamen shrunk from such a wild and with Stilton or Glo'ster instead. professions of kindness, “but with those cold, chimerical cruise into the wilderness of the As for the higher occupations, they say in ineffectual smiles, which pase like wintry sun-ocean. London, that we Irish are too much a kind of shine over the countenance, and convey no "Repeated mandates were issued by the literary Swiss, and will write on any side for warmth to the heart." Many months were sovereigns, ordering the magistrates of Palos, payment. Perhaps there is something too passed by Columbus in painful and humiliating and the neighbouring town of Moguer, to press much of this, but it is not confined to the Irish solicitation. He endeavoured to bear those into the service any Spanish vessels and crews -except that it must be admitted the careless delays with patience, but he had no longer the they might think proper, and threatening severe : places were thrown into complete confusion: to have done it is a contrast between civilized Narrative of the War in Germany and France, (Concluded from our last.) The description of a review of the Rushis brother Vicente Yanez Pinzon, who was "Three houses had been given to the ship- sian troops after the abdication of Buonaparte, likewise a navigator of great courage and abi-wrecked crew for their residence. Here, living may be considered as a kind of corollary lity, possessed vessels, and had seamen in their on shore, and mingling freely with the natives, to the observations just made, on the alarmemploy. They were related to many of the they became fascinated by their easy and idle ing developement of the latent powers of seafaring inhabitants of Palos and Moguer, mode of life. They were governed by their Russia. The exhibition of the spectacle of and had great influence throughout the neigh- caciques with an absolute but patriarchial and Russian greatness, thus exhibited to the rest of bourhood. It is supposed that they furnished easy rule, and existed in that state of primitive Europe, may be compared to the brilliant and Columbus with funds to pay the eighth share of and savage simplicity which some philosophers gigantic splendors of a torpid Boa Constrictor— the expense, which he had engaged to advance. have fondly pictured as the most enviable on terribly magnificent. They furnished two of the vessels required, and earth. "It is certain," says old Peter Martyr, "It was either on the 9th or 10th of Sepdetermined to sail in the expedition. Their" that the land among these people is as com- tember, 1815, that I left Paris, to witness the example and persuasions had a wonderful effect; mon as the sun and water; and that mine great review of the Russian army, for which a great many of their relations and friends and thine,' the seeds of all mischief, have no preparations had been making for nearly a agreed to embark, and the vessels were ready place with them. They are content with so month before. The number of the forces colfor sea within a month after they had engaged little, that, in so large a country, they have lected was so considerable, that it was not in their enterprise." rather superfluity than scarceness; so that they easy to bring them into a space sufficiently seem to live in a golden world, without toil, in small for the parade movements of review; "The squadron being ready to put to sea, open gardens, neither entrenched, nor shut up but it was at length effected; and they musColumbus confessed himself to the Friar Juan by walls or hedges. They deal truly with one tered, when we saw them, 28,000 cavalry, Perez, and partook of the communion, and his another, without laws, or books, or judges." 132,000 infantry, and 540 pieces of cannor. example was followed by the officers and crews, Columbus himself, in another place, gives This was made known from field returns, which committing themselves, with the most devout them the same character. "These people," were given to the sovereigns who were present. and affecting ceremonials, to the especial guid- said he, in his journal, "love their neighbours "The day was exceedingly sultry, but toleance and protection of heaven, in this perilous as themselves; their discourse is ever sweet and rably clear; and the spot where the headenterprise. A deep gloom was spread over the gentle, and accompanied with a smile. I swear quarters first assembled to have a sort of bird's whole community of Palos, for almost every to your majesties, there is not in the world a eye view of the whole, was a small hill in the one had some relation or friend on board of the better nation, or a better land." These were centre of a large plain, near the village of squadron. The spirits of the seamen, already the people whom the Christians of those days Vertu, a short distance from Chalons. Several depressed by their own fears, were still more exterminated, and planted African negroes in English ladies, together with all the princast down, at beholding the affliction of those their stead. Now for European civilization :- cesses, duchesses, and first persons of Paris, they left behind, who took leave of them with "At length they came to anchor, at the were assembled (having been invited,) and tears and lamentations and dismal forebodings, island of St. Mary's, the most southern of the made parties to proceed from the capital to as of men they were never to behold again." Azores, and a possession of the crown of Por- witness this magnificent spectacle. Amongst Now for the second expedition; the Eldorado tugal. An ungenerous reception, however, our own countrywomen were Ladies Castleside of the medal: awaited the poor tempest-tossed mariners, on reagh, Combermere, Grantham, Mrs. Arbuth"The departure of Columbus on his second their return to the abode of civilized man, far not, Miss Fitzclarence, and others, whose voyage of discovery presented a brilliant con- different from the kindness and hospitality they names it would be tedious to enumerate, who trast to his gloomy embarkation at Palos. On had experienced among the savages of the new graced this most brilliant and unparalleled sight. the 25th of September, at the dawn of day, world. Columbus had sent one half of the crew on "In going through the field, several of the the bay of Cadiz was whitened by his fleet. shore, to fulfil the vow of a barefooted proces- ladies rode in company with the gallant chiefs; There were three large ships of heavy burden, sion to a hermitage or chapel of the Virgin, and English beauty was signalised by the and fourteen caravals. The number of persons which stood on a solitary part of the coast, and Emperor of Russia's presenting a beautiful permitted to embark had originally been limited awaited their return to perform the same cere-black charger to one of our fair countrywomen, to one thousand; but many volunteers were mony with the remainder of his crew. Scarcely to carry her through the ceremonies of the allowed to inlist without pay, others got on had they begun their prayers and thanksgiving, day; but I never rightly understood the feeling board of the ships by stealth, so that eventually when a party of horse and foot, headed by the that recalled this war-horse back to the imabout 1500 set sail in the fleet. All were governor of the island, surrounded the hermi-perial stables on the following morning. A flagfull of animation, and took a gay leave of their tage, and took them all prisoners. The real staff had been placed on the top of the hill, friends, anticipating a prosperous voyage and object of this outrage was to get possession of having an ensign ready to be hoisted on the artriumphant return. Instead of being regarded the person of Columbus, for the King of Por-rival of the sovereigns at the spot. We were by the populace as devoted men, bound upon a tugal, jealous lest his enterprise might inter- on horseback about seven o'clock; and at dark and desperate enterprise, they were con- fere with his own discoveries, had sent orders eight the King of Prussia, attended by the templated with envy, as favoured mortals de- to his commanders of islands and distant ports commanders-in-chief of the allied armies, the stined to golden regions and delightful climes, to seize and detain him wherever he should be ambassadors of nearly all the powers of Europe, where nothing but wealth, and wonder, and met with." and many of their Prime ministers, with several enjoyment awaited them. Columbus moved To conclude this rapid sketch of a delightful of the French marshals, and an immense staff among the throng accompanied by his sons, book, which we fain would have lengthened, of aides-de-camp, &c. began to ascend the height. Diego and Fernando, the eldest but a stripling, Mr. Murray merits the cordial thanks of the "On the arrival of the sovereigns at the who had come to witness his departure. very numerous class of readers, for whom he spot fixed upon for them the ensign was unWherever he passed, every eye followed him has brought out his Family Library, in giving furled, and a salvo of guns announced their with admiration, and every tongue extolled and them this volume, which may fairly stand by the presence; and the whole Russian army then blessed him. Before sunrise the whole fleet side of the admirable Life, of Napoleon Bona- assembled was seen drawn up in three lines, was under weigh; the weather was serene and parte, that formed the commencement of his de-extending as far as the eye could reach. The propitious, and as the populace watched their servedly popular publication. It is a spirited sun glittered on their arms, and on the drawn parting sails, brightening in the morning beams, succession of animated pictures; combining, in sabres of the cavalry, to a distance that apthey looked forward to their joyful return, laden a great degree, what every volume of a Family peared almost imaginary. The eye had scarcely Library ought to unite, solid information with time to comprehend so vast a spectacle, when a One extract more, and our limits oblige us pleasing entertainment. single gun tired from the height where we with the treasures of the new world." stood was the signal for three hurrahs from the which scarcely merits the name of a description." the commencement of the conflict, he is detroops. Even at this distant day these hurrahs We can hardly accept of this apology; because, scribed as " fluctuating and irresolute," comsound freshly in my ears: a second gun gave from reading the volume, we perceive, and from mitting errors, both political and military, to the time for a general salute. The cannon the few extracts we have had space for, the reader which his ultimate catastrophe seems to be and musketry began at once, and the fire ran will also join us in perceiving, that the writer chiefly attributable. But as his difficulties along the three extended lines, showing more can "sketch" with an able hand, and surely encreased, his energies expanded, and in his distinctly than any thing else could have done the subject was worthy of his exertions. last wonderful struggle between the Seine and thousands. 66 the vast space they occupied, by the distant As a further proof of his talents for descrip- the Marne," he appeared once more to have flashes and retiring sound of the musketry. Ition, and also as an illustration, which cannot burst forth with all his talent, and all his energies forget exactly how long a time was necessary be too frequently or too prominently set before and mental resources." The concluding act of for three rounds from these saluting tens of the great majority of stay-at-home readers, of his imperial drama is thus told :the horrid realities of war, we shall present "But to return to more serious and important "We rode down the hill, and the Russians them with one, and but one more extract. matters, and to wind up the concluding days broke from their lines into grand columns of "I witnessed here a very interesting, but I of Napoleon's history at this period:-it apregiments; and no one but a soldier can con- fear unfortunately too usual an occurrence, that pears that after haranguing his army on the ceive the beauty of this great simultaneous took place in the capture of the convoy and 5th of April, and promising them (as before change. A spot was then fixed upon for these enemy's baggage, &c. at La Feré Champenoise. mentioned) the pillage of Paris for forty-eight masses to march by the sovereigns; and the Being forward in the mêlée, I perceived that hours, amidst the cries of Vive l'Empereur, Emperor of Russia putting himself at the head some of the Cossacks, most probably from Marshal Ney and all the chief officers assemof the leading regiments, thus formed in column, Bashkir, had not only secured a French co- bled round him; when the former stepping marched past, and saluted the Emperor of lonel's caléche and baggage, but one of them forward, at once announced to him that he was Austria and King of Prussia; then placing had seized his wife, whose cries rent the air, no longer Emperor, and presented him the act himself by their side to see the rest of the and with the aid of two other gallant Tartars of his dethronement by the senate. army go by. The whole of the day was only suf-was placing her behind him. I will not detail "Buonaparte appeared thunderstruck, and ficient to give time for a re-formation into line, the frequent histories of lawless troops, nor with violent impetuosity at first seemed to resist and an opening of ranks, along which the caval- add to these pages instances of barbarity which the order of the senate, But no longer findcade of monarchs and their immense suite rode. I fear have been too justly given of the con- ing fealty among his troops, nor devotion in "The Emperor of Russia appeared greatly duct of the Russian predatory hordes in their his officers, he was soon convinced of the aboccupied with the Duke of Wellington (who march through France; but I reflect with surdity and folly of resistance. was at this period our ambassador at Paris,) as satisfaction that it was my good fortune to Referring himself therefore to the direction if anxious for his opinion of what was passing rescue, even for a moment, a lovely and most of Marshals Oudinot, Victor, and Caulincourt, before them; and his whole attention was interesting Frenchwoman from the hands of he sent them to Paris, to make the best terms given to him when not taken up with his fair these wild soldiers. Being, however, unable for himself and his family, and to obtain what companions, who rode on both his flanks. to listen to her afflicting details, and not know- other objects they could for his advantage." Thus closed the first day, never to be forgotten ing in what manner better to place her in The reader may already have formed some by those who witnessed the grand military security, I ordered my orderly hussar, of the idea of our general opinion of the book, with display it presented. Great dinners at different King's German legion, to place her for the the contents of which, we have endeavoured bivouacs were given on the ground; and my moment en croupe, and carry her to my billet to make him acquainted. As a military relaparty of ladies and friends will make me long at the head-quarters. I was unwilling, and tion, we conceive it deficient; as a political exposé remember the day. The Duke of Wellington indeed could not at that moment leave the unsatisfactory. Indeed, in this point of view, and Sir Lowry Cole, and various military field; but consoled myself with the thought the author speaks more of what might be said, friends, met together in the evening at my that when I returned at night to my quarters and of what perhaps he will hereafter say, than quarters, full of admiration of the movements I should receive the gratitude of a beautiful of what is actually developed; displaying in they had seen; and I well remember the Duke creature, and pictured to myself romance con- this portion of the work, a sufficient portion of of Wellington saying to me, Well, Charles, nected with this occurrence. But, alas! how the mysticism of minor diplomacy. But, by you and I never saw such a sight before, and little can we reckon on any future event, and the general reader, the work will be perused never shall again: the precision of the move- how idly do we all build des chateaux en Es- with much satisfaction, and, as a library ments of those troops was more like the ar- pagne ! volume, to which position of literary pre-emirangements of a theatre than those of such an "I fear that my precautions were not so great nence it is entitled, as well by its size, as by army. I never saw any thing like it.' as I flattered myself they were: the distance the nature of its contents, it will be found "Much, however, as the Duke was struck between the champ de bataille and Fere Cham- useful, as an object of reference, to the future with the extraordinary perfection of the Russian penoise was inconsiderable: the town was in historian of the destinies of civilized Europe. formations, he was by no means satisfied with sight; and from the number of officers and As to its literary execution, particularly their slowness; and I remember a remark from troops moving about, I could not imagine my when viewed as the first unassisted production him, that his little army would move round beautiful prisoner would be recaptured; but, of the writer, for his previous work, as is well them in any direction whilst they were effecting sad to relate, either the same Cossacks returned, known, was chiefly edited by Mr. Gleig, we think a single change; an opinion which all who or others more savage and determined, and it entitled to no small share of approbation. heard it re-echoed." perceiving my faithful orderly hussar and prize, The noble writer proposes to follow up this The details of the military operations in this fell upon him, and nearly annihilating him, re-work by one on the subsequent, and still more volume are less particular than might have been seized their victim; and although the strictest extraordinary period of Bonaparte's life, "The expected, from a writer who appears to be not a investigation was made throughout his whole Empire of the Hundred Days," provided his little of the martinet. The accounts of the army, by the Emperor of Russia, to whom I favourite readers, "his companions in arms, great battles are passed over very cursorily. immediately repaired, and related the melan- kindly approve his present labours." Under That of Leipsic, which may be styled the de- choly tale, (and who heard it with all that this condition, we think we may look forward scending node of Bonaparte's orbit of empire, compassion and interest it could not fail to to its publication, which, we have reason to affords a singular illustration of this remark. inspire,) the beautiful and interesting French-anticipate, will be an acceptable present to the The author has been at the pains to elucidate woman never re-appeared again. I drop a veil literary as well as to the military world. this event, by an engraved plan, the only over the horrible sequel which imagination graphic illustration in the work, except the fine might conjure up, and I took much blame for The Cabinet Cyclopædia.-History of Scotmap of the seat of war, which serves as a my neglect of a sufficient escort. My hussar land. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. in 2 vols. frontispiece. The positions of all the various crawled to me next morning, half dead from Vol. 2d. London, Longman and Co. and corps are set down in the plan; but, from the ill usage; and his pathetic tale placed me in a John Taylor. conciseness of the narrative, it is nearly useless state of mind scarcely less deplorable." to any readers, except those well informed on Little is said in the volume about Bonaparte; WE have already expatiated so much at length military affairs. The author himself seems but it is creditable to the writer to find, that on the excellence of the first volume of this adto have been conscious of this defect, and en- in this little, he does ample justice to that mirable epitome of Scottish history, in our deavours to "plead an excuse for a sketch, wonderful man's extraordinary abilities. At first review of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, |