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Colburn and Bentley. Or this varied and remarkable poem it is not our purpose, in our present No. to give an analysis; or even to pronounce a detailed critical opinion upon its yet unpublished lineaments. The high and richly deserved, celebrity of its author renders it an object of so much interest, that we are sure we shall better consult the taste of the public by devoting a few columns to its illustration, than by occupying even half a column by oracular commonplaces upon poetry in general, and the Siamese Twins in particular. Our extracts will speak for us, and for the book; and we will only say, that if any one does not feel their force or beauty, the person so unhappily situated will never enjoy the pleasure and delight which its perusal has afforded to us. [N.B. Thursday, past midnight, and our sheet must be at press to-morrow afternoon; so that by printing all night, sufficient Nos. may be ready for our few customers on Saturday morning.*] Suffice it now to state, that, with much of playful, as well as of deeper satire; little touches of personal pleasantry, and more grave, political, and moral allusions; fine poetical passages, imitations which remind us of the Rejected Addresses of almost all our principal authors, Scott, Byron, Moore, &c.; and pathos embodied in the language of true feeling, Mr. Bulwer has produced a volume very unlike what might have been, and such as we actually expected, from its temporary title. He starts with an inscription to Captain Basil Hall, who seems to have provoked his irony by his recent work on America; still there is no sill nature in the attack. then introduced to the Twins. "Ia Bançok,-all the world must know *There lived, not quite an age ago, A gentleman whose name was Fiam. We are He ne'er had need his friends to' importune: He asked them not to clothe or board him, For Bancok is a place where you, If rich, have love enough to sate you; But only ask them for a sous, And, Gad! how bitterly they hate you!" So unlike England!!! No wonder the author is tempted into the field of comparison, and not only lauds the superior liberality of this country, but our immense superiority over the Siamese in every other respect. Hodges (the person who brings the Twins over), is a trader and a missionary at Bancok, and he is represented as labouring in his vocation. "But Hodges, though so much he prized Our peers-all foreign rank despised, This paff is a hint to late correspondents and others. With a large impression to print, in a different form, and on different principles from a newspaper, besides the are of correcting, &c., which literary character demands, we require ten or twelve hours of mere mechanical labour, to be ready for the early supply of Saturday Declared, with generous warmth, he thought Brethren! (for every one's my fellow, Such nonsense really seems to shame laws! There, by a slight expense of tipple, low, These are the things that best distinguish men- But I have said enough to please, sure; A British King, Church, Commons, Peers I'll be your guide! dismiss your fears. With Hampden's name and memory warm you! ! The Twins are imported by this clever fel- desire PRICE 8d. Of the faculty, invited gratis, Each gentleman we beg to state is; And sworn the sight was quite a treat. This-notice towards them to divert is meant, "The public then were disengaged→→ For poetry there was no passion, "No kings were going to Guildhall, No dukes were trembling to their fall;" There thronged to see them such a bevy, To cut up when the spring was o'er; .. "Old Crock much wanting then some new Glass case on Saturdays exposed for them, They 'scaped unhurt-for thus the state Heaven saves us from the menaced fate; The fashion of the brother pair; I think on earth that Jöve did drop her, a In life, content with that to win her! And chuckles at the green-horn's folly." We are charmed with this playfully philosophical exposé of fashion, and shall add to it a trifle more on Almack's, to which Lady Jersey invites the Siamese. "And Jersey, after whose own heart is His vulgar brother, Mr. Ching! "Conversing once with a Blue of some celebrity, I had the mortification of perceiving that she was all the while peculiarly restless and fidgety. At length she said, with considerable naïveté, Excuse me, I must go and feel that gentleman.' Accordingly with great gravity she walked up to a handsome foreigner, and, avowing herself a disciple of Spurzheim, requested leave to feel his head I remember that the handsome foreigner was not a little disconcerted, for he was a great beau, and he wore a wig." And Damons dance extremely badly- At least the low commercial route "We've said in some one of our pages, With compliments in thousands prest him- From the poor world of artifice let us turn to the world of beauty, real or ideal; and we cannot find it sooner than by reverting to Mr. Bulwer's description of the Twins leaving their home, where a great dread of sea voyages prevails. "Alas! in vain in every shore, For something never won, we yearn! Life's last yet simplest truth we learn? As birds that seek, athwart the main, And man, half careless to destroy, May grant ev'n weakness to enjoy. So shews the land and spreads the chart; And colours, while we seek, the goal! And thus, oh, thus! no more deceived, The glory from the dull wing vanished; Bowed by the distance and the gale, " And after all our wanderings past, Is not the following also enchanting poetry? Its rose with life's first dews is wet- And each blue wandering of its beam, Had yet the sun's last smile to win; "O Woman! day-star of our doom- And those-Fate's sternest warners-tears- To clasp the bright cloud it portrays;- It marks the shining waters stray- The rage of London for notoriety is cleverly Whose talk I hear is worth the listening; All ask, press, pray, for Chang and Ching; Sole instance here, this my muse hints, is Of folks much sought for, though not princes; Nothing goes down that sounds not royal. Some fortid king from Hottentot Would be all day at the balconies; May dine in quiet with his cronies. And complimented Lady Frightful, And so became the reigning wit, Whom all such ladies called delightful. Siamese ballads he could sing; And, oh! they were so sweet, so naughty, And really Chang, who, sulking by, Of Siam, with its manners, laws, The History of the World since Adam! "Fix'd on the wan Earth's mystic breast "Among the thousand virtues which In that-the best of all-discretion. I know the golden mean to keep, Curious example. "Chang found for reading ample leisure; Indeed, the day's a sort of beast, Of which the body is the least; The head, and tail, let study seize And with the rest, do what you please!" A man, whose father, after a dissipated career, had "Retired from life on prussic acid," is mentioned with "Two maiden aunts, who thought him pretty, "As if-but the reflection's stale! We ever could, with all our trying Prevent that bird-a wish-from flying." "When once a man's mind is resolved, 'Tis useless to his heart appealing, It is difficult to separate these little morsels, however neat or pithy, from the matrix in which they are imbedded, and we shall only add one other of them. "Alas! how in the world we're made for, We must now hasten to a conclusion: in a part of his poem Mr. Bulwer alludes to Burns, and we transcribe the following observations, with a keen sense of their justice : "All mankind, to whom, even mediately, and through unseen channels, the glorious verse of Robert Burns can reach, have incurred a debt of gratitude, and that no slight one, to Mr, Lockhart, who has honoured literature (in his biography of that illustrious poet) with a work full of just, and manly, and noble sentiment. It is difficult, indeed, to command one's indignation, when one hears fine gentlemen critics, who sin delicately, and grow elevate on Chambertin and to whom we owe no earthly gratitude, and no earthly indulgence — talk, If they were sure they had no sisters ?" between snuff-takings, of the immoralities of The touches of well-known character in this and puny dandyling, may enjoy in quiet his Burns. Every country 'squire, and city clerk, quotation need no pointing out for metropolitan loves and his intoxications; they are but the circles; and of some of them it is as well that proofs of his spirit, or obediences to the manour country and foreign readers should remain ners of his time. But if Burns, the benefactor ignorant. We quit them willingly, to select al of the world (for whom reverence should in Two faces than his own more yellow. passage: "Oh! wise-wise fools, whose tender art So coldly probed each fault that dyed Of right, unto the humblest clay. Upon this subject, though we do not think the institution of Temperance Societies (i. e. associations by belonging to which persons refuse to drink wine, spirits, or malt, and stick to pure Adam's ale)-though we do not think such Societies have yet made much progress in Britain, it may not be foreign to our illustration to quote what is said in a foreign journal respecting them in America. duce indulgence), does what they do who are gladden man's heart," but now it only turns Aristocratical gout, and republican punch-blosits drones; then come pages of sermons, and acid on his stomach. Our sailors once drank soms, "epilepsy or the falling sickness," query mawkish lecturings, and judgments righteously grog, and swept the seas; now, rum is poison," falling sick", not to mention cat-alepsysevere. Every sword of the Pharisees leaps and tobacco an abomination in the smell of the are the most trivial consequences enumerated. out of its scabbard. One would think, to hear saints; and Jack is taught, instead of a "quid," This is a more sensible attack upon the weak them, that it is a great pity a man of genius to chew the end of a long-winded tract. It points of vice; and provided the friends of temshould not be born without flesh and blood." cannot escape the eye of speculation, that if perance advocate their cause temperately, conThe above is a note appended to the annexed the efforts of these numberless humane Socie-fining themselves to such topics as will not ties were all simultaneously crowned with suc-challenge the contradiction of experience, we cess, nothing human would be left on the face dare say people for the future will relinquish of the earth-all the characteristics of humanity the juice of the grape, and content themselves would sleep with our fathers our five unfor- with that of the pump. In the meantime, tunate senses would be nullified-or, in plain should such exceptions to their general rules phrase, the whole world would be a mass of occur, we recommend all members of these nonsense. With this as the foundation for societies to imitate the beadle of the Adelphi, their plans, and the object of their endeavours, and fine themselves five shillings for getting with human error for a text, and the gulls of drunk; thereby setting a good example, and humanity for a congregation (a crowded one)- considerably augmenting their funds. societies spring up, froth for a time, bubble, and burst. Somewhat after this leaven, a hue and cry is now being raised against all "the stirring spirits of the age," from gin to curaçoa; and we have ourselves somewhere read, that beer ought to be looked upon as a most ungodly liquor, because it will sometimes work upon a Sunday. We forego becoming members of these Temperance Societies, from our unwillingness to increase the chagrin of those who have al- "The Temperance Societies continue to exready received our refusal of such distinctions. cite a lively interest in the United States. Above We have been solicited to take an active part 100,000 persons have pledged themselves to in an Anti-damn Club, whose primary object an entire abstinence from spirituous liquors. was to undermine the prosperity of swearing, Young people are especially earnest in this by enforcing all the unrepealed fines to which good cause. Corporations, agricultural bodies, these popular ebullitions are still liable; but, farmers, heads of establishments, and thouwith the fear of "d.......n" before our eyes, sands of respectable individuals, refuse to furwe feel inclined, with Bob Acres, to trust that nish those liquors to their labourers and work"damns have had their day." We have been men. Students, lawyers, ecclesiastics, legisurged to put up for the dignity of President to lators, magistrates, have inscribed their names But an Anti-pun Club: this, also, we declined, as among the promoters of this reform. being no joke. We feared, too, lest a flash of four years ago, the extent of the evil was so our own, by dissipating the conventional dul- great, that a remedy for it was considered to ness of the society, might hazard the authority be hopeless. Now a confident expectation is of the chair, set the learned body at logger- cherished that it will be eradicated. From the heads, and occupy that time in personal squab- North to the South, from the East to the bles and petty animosities, which honourable West, there is but one feeling on the subject. members professed to dedicate to the further-"We have discovered," said a citizen of ance of very different objects. But he, who serves all earth,-whose mind For him, no grateful memory lives, No justice weighs, no love forgives; Each heart he cheered, hath grown his spy. TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES. A Letter on the Effects of Wine and Spirits. In reverting to temperance from intemperate Address to the Temperate. By the Rev. John Temperance. (Extracted from the Same. North Carolina, "the club of Hercules, with which, by the blessing of God, to vanquish the hydra of intemperance." The fundamental principle of the reform, that which is acknowledged to be the only efficacious one, is an entire abstinence from spirituous liquors. Numerous instances prove that the determination to use sional exhilaration of the spirits, by intoxicating them moderately produces no durable effect;— liquors, as produces levity, and foolish jesting, they must be completely relinquished. A great and unnatural excitement, though all such ex- many distilleries are no longer at work, in hilaration is intemperance. Temperate men consequence either of the principles of their countenance and practise a resort to intoxi- owners, or of necessity; for the diminution of cating liquors, as a means of invigorating the the sale of spirituous liquors is felt, in almost intellect or producing pleasant sensation, though all the states of the Union, in the proportion are never intemperate at any time, more all such resort is intemperance. Temperate of from a fourth to nine-tenths; and in some especially when Temperance Societies are the men countenance and practise the prudent use places, even to its extinction. A merchant in objects of our attention. Anxious to slake our of ardent spirits, though such use is necessarily one of the principal towns lately wrote to his thirst for information on this subject, we have the first step in drunkenness, and, in multi- correspondent, that the sale of liquors of all mtbed all within our reach: we have suffered tudes of instances, the parent of disease, and kinds had fallen three-fourths. The agents of urselves to be voluntarily afflicted with five crime, and misery." a French house, which for several years had Violent “attacks,” and all the "evils, political We would ask this warm and worthy man, sent 5,000 pipes of brandy annually into the and nosological, of intemperance." Tracts in- in his more sober moments, whether the viru- country, on recently applying to those whom Lumerable, and "addresses" unutterable, have lent desecration of temperate men is altogether it had been accustomed to supply, could not we endured, and cannot but acknowledge that calculated to aid the cause of temperance? find a single purchaser. The public opinion we have seldom met with so dry a subject. whether vituperating "the prudent use of spi- which stamps the selling of spirituous liquors The thunder of these Societies is enough to rits" is the wisest way of commencing a cam- with a moral brand, is every day becoming tar sour all the wine in the country; and as paign against their abuse? This gentleman, more powerful. A committee of one of the doubtlessly it will be renounced. "Red however, will have it, that moderation is ex-societies declares that it knows 400 persons rits and white, blue spirits and gray," will cess; and so we leave him to pursue his cru- who have, from conscientious motives, disconnger" mingle" with water, lemon, or sade against what custom and the climate have tinued to vend distilled liquors. Above forty -“blue ruin" will henceforth be nought induced some evil-disposed persons well nigh to vessels had sailed within a short period, withaziz, and the blue devils will class among the necessaries of life. Others out taking any on board for their crews. and sigh in the undisturbed broodings of bring to the charge the nova cohors febrium, great many militia regiments had resolved to melancholic philanthropy. Wine was wont to and all the many ills that tush is heir to." disuse them. Before the establishment of these A Temperance Societies, the annual consumption Yet, however much we dislike the system of have added, that such might be the case with of spirituous liquors in America amounted to title-pages and lists of contents devised most her defenders also; for Napoleon's interference from fifty-six to sixty millions; or from four skilfully ad captandum, and leading most cer- with her concerns has in no small degree conto five gallons to every individual, man, woman, tainly to disappointment, we shall do our fair tributed to the loss of his crown. I hope a and child. This was an annual loss to the duty to the writer, by picking out a few speci- better fate will be reserved for the Emperor consumers, of a hundred millions of dollars. mens of his work, which may perhaps enter- Alexander; but all must depend upon the Pauperism and crimes were quadrupled by tain our friends. Without questioning the adoption of suitable measures, and their sedrunkenness. A fourth of all the insanity, veracity of a Nobleman, we give a remarkable curity on a firm basis. A people who are and a third of all the disease in the country, description of the dexterity of the Ukranian proud of themselves may suffer themselves to were the results of intemperance. From the peasants with the axe:-it will be seen the be conquered, but will not bear to be humisame cause, above 30,000 persons descended style is not very English. liated. The force of arms may achieve their every year into a premature grave. Of the "Not only they employ it in the construction conquest; but it is only through a generous 5,000 crimes annually brought before the of their houses, their boats, their carriages, and just policy that they may be thoroughly courts of justice at New York, three-fourths and their household furniture, but also in subjugated.' You need not apprehend any proceeded from intemperance; and of the carving a variety of small things, such as little system of policy, my dear prince, of which the 30,000 persons who were summoned as wit boxes, spoons, and other kitchen utensils. I Poles will ever have reason to complain at our nesses, half were under the influence of strong purchased a very handsome snuff-box from one hands. If you read this manuscript, the margin liquors when the crimes respecting which they of them, which had been cut with a hatchet of which is full of notes, written in the Emgave their evidence were committed. All these commonly used for felling timber. In the peror Alexander's own hand, you will find how details, and a thousand others of the same province of Masovia they are still better exer- great is our desire to meet the wishes of the kind, prove the incalculable benefit which cised in the art of rendering the axe univer- Polish nation. This is the constitution inthese Temperance Societies are producing. sally available. I have been assured by several tended for them. It will enable you to judge The most vigorous measures are adopted in aid persons whose testimony I could not doubt, whether the lofty sentiments which spring of them. Associations of the people, of all that they have themselves seen peasants, who from the heart should not be taken as the ranks, are formed for that great object; and it wore their hair long, go and place themselves guarantee of that monarch's good intention. is even said, that in one of the towns of the against the trunks of trees, raising their hair The institutions of that country, hereby fixed United States, a great number of girls have as much above their heads as it would reach, upon a solid foundation, will become the means entered into an engagement not to accept as a while others would take aim at a certain dis- by which the peace of Europe may be ever husband any person who does not completely tance, and fling their hatchets with so much maintained.' If the bases of the edifice are abstain from spirituous liquors. We detest dexterity as to cut the hair in two parts, and proportioned to its weight, and of comparative cant, and its language; but it is impossible be driven deep into the trunk of the tree! solidity, they will, no doubt, prove durable; not to admire the grand moral spectacle af- Similar feats beat William Tell's hollow. They but if not, you may have to fear the vengeance forded by this determination of a whole people are not, however, the only kind by which dex- of men who are driven to desperate means.' to purify themselves from what has long been terity was practised in Poland at the risk of a The Prince de Ligne, who at this period their distinguishing national vice." tragic end. In former times it was customary was, as appears from his relative's account, a in the châteaur of the nobility, after banquets superannuated gallant, draws a glowing picgiven on great occasions, for the host to shew ture of the Poles, as he saw them in 1788. his guests his skill in firing a pistol, by making "Who (he says) would not feel an affection the heel of the shoe on his wife's foot his for Poland, the Poles, and above all, the Polish target! I could hardly convince myself that women? Who would not admire the wit and the higher classes among the Poles, who have courage of the men, and the grace and beauty always considered devotedness to the fair sex of the women? The manners of the Polish the glory of ours, should have suffered a prac- ladies are more exquisitely fascinating than tice so directly at variance with every feeling those of all others. To prefer another city of common humanity, to prevail among them to Warsaw is impossible. There you find the those men, whose notions of gallantry in the present day are apt to carry them to so extravagant enthusiasm, that I have seen them at table take the shoe off the foot of the mistress of the house, drink wine out of it, and pass it round!" This is very well for America. In England, perhaps, where people don't drink too much, an anti-over-eating, or anti-gluttony, or anti-eating society might prosper, and be particularly efficacious about Christmas. Journal of a Nobleman; comprising an Account of his Travels, and a Narrative of his Residence at Vienna during the Congress. 2 vols. 12mo. London, 1831. Colburn and Bentley. most refined ton of Paris allied with oriental OUR author, one of the French noblesse, as it manners, the good taste of Europe, and the seems, and distantly related to the old Prince magnificence of Asia united, the politeness of de Ligne, has a considerable resemblance to the most civilised society, with the plain, unone Gratiano in the Merchant of Venice, who affected hospitality of barbarous nations. Who is accused of saying an infinite deal of nothing, would not admire a people whose external apand whose reasons are compared to a few In Transylvania the peasantry are, we learn, pearance is universally noble and prepossesgrains of wheat in a bushel of chaff. This being as clever with sticks, for they often go out sing; and whose manners, though plain and the case, we can hardly think it worth while hunting with them; and by throwing at hares, unassuming, are polite and cordial? In the to have got up and published these two vo- knock down twenty in a day's sport! But we cities you meet with good breeding and urbalumes; the best matter of which might do must change from the travels to the Congress.nity every where, and in the country a goodtolerably well for the slip-slop of a Court Jour- The present state of Poland gives some interest natured roughness prevails. The comprehennal or a Lady's Magazine; but which is, at the to the following: the remarks are put into the sion of the Poles is quick, their conversation same time, desperately trifling and tedious in mouth of a M. Novossilsoff, a Russian states- light and agreeable, and their education has the shape of a book to be read continuously. man in repute with the Emperor Alexander. made them possessors of every talent. They The first volume contains the "Nobleman's' "The Poles (he is reported to have said) have the gift of languages, are deeply read in travels from Moscow, through parts of Poland, are ever carrying back their thoughts to the general literature, eloquent, and accomplished. Turkey, Wallachia, Transylvania, and Hun- brilliant times of their history, and they want Their taste in every thing is highly cultivated; gary, to Vienna, where he arrives in time to their country to re-assume that proud attitude they are admirers of the fine arts, passionately take a share in the amusements of that capital of independence it enjoyed under the Batoris, fond of fêtes and private theatricals, and of during the celebrated Congress. His account the Sigismonds, the Sobieskis, without one their national dancing. Their dress is oriof the Winski's, and Rinski's, and Dolderoff's, moment thinking of the immense changes the ginal; some of their customs extraordinary; and Pushkin's, whom he happened to see on political condition of Europe has since then their style of living magnificent. They are his route, or to meet at balls and festivals-few undergone, and their peculiar geographical good and open-hearted, and very gratefully of them possessing the slightest interest for the position, which makes it impossible that they inclined. My own admiration of them is unEnglish reader forms the mass of his book; should stand again on the same footing as limited." Indeed, the acknowledged character episodes relating to past events, such as the formerly. Poland is now linked to us, and of the Polish ladies seems to have been of the siege of Copenhagen, help to make out the must be content with the fate which is un- very right sort for the gay, flattered, and flatrest; and a few anecdotes, which, we believe, avoidably reserved for her political existence. tering Frenchman, of whom we are told the folhave already done their duty in the periodical If ever we allowed her to become completely lowing anecdote in 1814, when he was only press, complete the rifacciamento. Now this independent, she would make an Asiatic na- eighty years old! The writer had been dining is book-making, and shews that your "Noble-tion of us, and we are not disposed to recede out, and left his party late; and he tells us— man" of the present day is exactly like your Burke has said,' observed the prince (de "The night being very fine, I returned home "Person of Quality" of some fifty or seventy Ligne), that the partition of Poland would by the ramparts. I was far from expecting to years ago. be paid dearly for by its authors; he might meet any one I knew; for, in spite of the |