on that surface; and if the interior fluid does can hardly be expected themselves to distin- from an author, the honour of his own counnow produce the several unstratified rocks, the guish the effects of the Archbishop of Granada's try, and an example to the authors of other first that were formed must have resembled apoplexy, and are not unwilling to pass over kingdoms, to whom all must be proud to own some of these, if not all. We may not unsafely in their composition, as instances of mere care- an obligation. Family tradition supplied me infer that they were granitic, perceiving that lessness or bad luck, what others may consider with two circumstances, which are somewhat substances of this character have been pro- as symptoms of mortal decay. I had no choice analogous to that in question. The first is an duced wherever the cooling was most gradual. save that of absolutely laying aside the pen, account of a lawsuit, taken from a Scottish The first apparently solid globe was therefore the use of which at my time of life was become report of adjudged cases, quoted in note to a globe of granite." Now, although the above a habit, or to continue its vagaries, until the chap. vi. p. 129. The other of which the is perfectly intelligible, we have some doubts public should let me plainly understand they editor has no reason to doubt, having often whether our readers will consider the following would no more of me; a hint which I was not heard it from those who were witnesses of the section of the sentence in the same light: unlikely to meet with, and which I was deter-fact-relates to the power of a female in keep“And though we have not as yet even con- mined to take without waiting for a repetition. ing a secret (sarcastically said to be impossible), jectured the causes of what is, nevertheless, a This hint, that the reader may plainly under-even when that secret refers to the exercise of fact in evidence, we ought to admit it on stand me, I was determined to take, when the her tongue. In the middle of the eighteenth the doctrine of final causes, or of a directing publication of a new Waverley novel should century, a female wanderer came to the door Power; seeing that it is necessary for that dis- not be the subject of some attention in the of Mr. Robert Scott, grandfather of the present position, or management of the earth, the con- literary world. An accidental circumstance author, an opulent farmer in Roxburghshire, sequences of which are essential to its ends." decided my choice of a subject for the present and made signs that she desired shelter for the Again: "If such is this view of the first, or work. It was now several years since my im-night, which, according to the custom of the truly primitive solid globe, I need not dwell mediate younger brother, Thomas Scott, al-times, was readily granted. The next day the on the quality of the evidence; since, be it ready mentioned in these notes, had resided country was covered with snow, and the dewhat it may, it is apparent. But under the for two or three seasons in the Isle of Man, parture of the wanderer was rendered impossame evidence, there is now a second condi- and, having access to the registers of that sin-sible. She remained for many days, her maintion; or, from the presumed original one, agular territory, had copied many of them, which tenance adding little to the expense of a confourth, and that a terraqueous one, or an earth he subjected to my perusal. These papers were siderable household; and by the time that the analogous to the present, however differing input into my hands while my brother had weather grew milder, she had learned to hold many essential particulars; some obvious, and thoughts of making some literary use of them, intercourse by signs with the household around others only to be conjectured!" Need we I do not well remember what; but he never her, and could intimate to them that she was adduce any farther instances to justify our came to any decision on that head, and grew desirous of staying where she was, and workremarks as to the obscurity with which our tired of the task of transcription. The papers, ing at the wheel and other employment, to author has overlaid his subject in order to I suppose, were lost in the course of a military compensate for her food. This was a compact make out a system? Dr. Macculloch is un-man's life. The tenor of them, that is, of the not unfrequent at that time, and the dumb questionably a man of profound science; but most remarkable, remained engraved on the woman entered upon her thrift, and proved a honesty obliges us to say, that he is also a memory of the author. The interesting and useful member of the patriarchal household. skilful book-maker. romantic story of William Christian especially She was a good spinner, knitter, carder, and so struck my fancy. I found the same individual, forth, but her excellence lay in attending to as well as his father, particularly noticed in the feeding and bringing up the domestic poulsome memorials of the island, preserved by the try. Her mode of whistling to call them togeEarl of Derby, and published in Dr. Peck's ther was so peculiarly elfish and shrill, that it Desiderata Curiosa. This gentleman was the was thought by those who heard it [to be] more son of Edward, formerly governor of the island; like that of a fairy than a human being. In this and William himself was afterwards one of its manner she lived three or four years, nor was two dempsters, or supreme judges. Both father there the slightest idea entertained in the family and son embraced the party of the islanders, that she was other than the mute and deprived "If I had valued my own reputation, as it and contested some feudal rights claimed by person she had always appeared. But in a mois said I ought in prudence to have done, I the Earl of Derby as king of the island. When ment of surprise, she dropped the mask which might have now drawn a line, and remained the earl had suffered death at Bolton-le-Moors, she had worn so long. It chanced upon a Sunfor life, or (who knows?) perhaps for some Captain Christian placed himself at the head of day that the whole inhabitants of the household years after death, the ingenious author of the roundheads, if they might be so called, and were at church excepting Dumb Lizzie, whose Waverley.' I was not, however, more desirous found the means of holding communication infirmity was supposed to render her incapable of this sort of immortality, which might have with a fleet sent by the parliament. The island of profiting by divine service, and who therelasted some twenty or thirty years, than Fal- was surrendered to the parliament by the in-fore stayed at home to take charge of the staff of the embowelling which was promised surgent Manxmen. The high-spirited coun- house. It happened that, as she was sitting him after the field of Shrewsbury, by his patron tess and her son were arrested, and cast into in the kitchen, a mischievous shepherd boy, the Prince of Wales. Embowelled? If you prison, where they were long detained, and instead of looking after his flock on the lea, as embowel me to-day, you may powder and eat very indifferently treated. When the restora- was his duty, slunk into the house to see what me to-morrow!' If my occupation as a ro- tion took place, the countess, or by title the he could pick up, or perhaps out of mere curimancer were taken from me, I felt I should queen-dowager of the island, seized upon Wil- osity. Being tempted by something which was have at a late hour in life to find me out an- liam Dhône, or Fair-haired William, as Wil-in his eyes a nicety, he put forth his hand, other; when I could hardly expect to acquire liam Christian was termed, and caused him to unseen as he conceived, to appropriate it. The those new tricks which are proverbially said be tried and executed, according to the laws of dumb woman came suddenly upon him, and in not to be learned by those dogs who are getting the island, for having dethroned his liege mis- the surprise, forgot her part, and exclaimed, in old. Besides, I had yet to learn from the pub-tress, and imprisoned her and her family. Ro- loud Scotch, and with distinct articulation, lic, that my intrusions were disagreeable; and mancers and readers of romance will generally Ah, you little deevil's limb!' The boy, terwhile I was endured with some patience, I felt allow, that the fate of Christian, and the con-rified more by the character of the person who I had all the reputation which I greatly covet-trast of his character with that of the high-rebuked him, than by the mere circumstance ed. My memory was well stored, both with minded but vindictive Countess of Derby, of having been taken in the insignificant ofhistorical, local, and traditional notices; and I famous during the civil wars for her valiant fence, fled in great dismay to the church, to had become almost as licensed a plague to the defence of Latham House, contained the es- carry the miraculous news that the dumb public as the well-remembered beggar of the sence of an interesting tale. woman had found her tongue. The family ward, whom men distinguish by their favour, "The character of Fenella, which, from its returned home in great surprise, but found perhaps for no better reason than that they peculiarity, made a favourable impression on that their inmate had relapsed into her usual had been in the habit of giving him alms as a the public, was far from being original. The mute condition, would communicate with them part of the business of their daily promenade. fine sketch of Mignon, in Wilhelm Meister's only by signs, and in that manner denied posiThe general fact is undeniable all men grow Lehrjahre, a celebrated work from the pen of tively what the boy affirmed. From this time old, all men must wear out; but men of ordi- Goethe, gave the idea of such a being. But confidence was broken betwixt the other innary wisdom, however aware of the general the copy will be found greatly different from mates of the family and their dumb, or rather fact, are unwilling to admit in their own case my great prototype; nor can I be accused of silent, guest. Traps were laid for the supposed any special instances of failure. Indeed, they borrowing any thing, save the general idea, impostor, all of which she skilfully eluded; The Waverley Novels, Vol. XXVIII. Peve- 6 fire-arms were often suddenly discharged near at one table with her maids, the captain with as a medicine, by reducing the pure part of the her, but never on such occasions was she seen his troop at another. There are seldom less cocoon into a powder. His volume contains to start. It seems probable, however, that than fifty or sixty persons at each board, but many copious directions for preparing this Lizzie grew tired of all this mistrust, for she not more than three or four knives. Christmas powder, and for duly and carefully separating one morning disappeared as she came, without is ushered in with a form much less meaning, the chrysalis from the part which he considered any ceremony of leave-taking. She was seen, and infinitely more fatiguing. On the 24th medicinal. Silk thus prepared has, as he afit is said, upon the other side of the English of December, towards evening, all the servants firmed, the virtues of cleansing the blood, border, in perfect possession of her speech. in general have a holyday; they go not to bed making the spirits brisk, and the heart plea. Whether this was exactly the case or not, my all night, but ramble about till the bells ring sant. Lemery, the editor and commentator of informers were no way anxious in inquiring, in all the churches, which is at twelve o'clock; Pomet, adds, that the silkworm itself likewise nor am I able to authenticate the fact. The prayers being over, they go to hunt the wren, possesses medicinal properties. According to his shepherd boy lived to be a man, and always and after having found one of these poor birds, information, silkworms that had been dried into averred that she had spoken distinctly to him. they kill her and lay her on a bier with the a powder and applied upon the head, which What could be the woman's reason for perse- utmost solemnity, bringing her to the parish should be previously shaved for the reception vering so long in a disguise as unnecessary as church, and burying her with a whimsical kind of this plaster, were esteemed extremely effica it was severe, could never be guessed, and was of solemnity, singing dirges over her in the cious in curing vertigo." perhaps the consequence of a certain aberration Manx language, which they call her knell ; of the mind. I can only add, that I have after which Christmas begins. There is not a every reason to believe the tale to be perfectly barn unoccupied the whole twelve days, every authentic, so far as it is here given, and it may parish hiring fiddlers at the public charge: serve to parallel the supposed case of Fenella." and all the youth, nay, sometimes people well We will not trouble our readers with the advanced in years, making no scruple to be justificatory papers to rescue the memory of the among these nocturnal dancers.'-Waldron's real Christian family from the imputations cast Description of the Isle of Man, folio, 1731.” upon the demi-ideal Christians in the romance; but conclude with a note on the eleventh chapter, which affords an interesting account of popular pastimes in the Isle of Man, &c. Among the properties of silk, the following are stated: The work is both embellished and elucidated by about forty wood-engravings. Examples of Gothic Architecture, selected from various Ancient Edifices in England, &c. &c. By A. Pugin, Architect; the Literary part by E. J. Willson, F.S.A. First Series. 4to. with plates. London, 1831. To those who are acquainted with Mr. Pugin's Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia. (Useful former work, entitled Gothic Specimens, it will Arts.) No. XXII. A Treatise on the Origin, be ample recommendation of the present one &c. and present State of the Silk Manufacture. to say that it forms a continuation of the same "Waldron mentions the two popular festivi- London, 1831. Longman and Co. plan, and is executed with equal fidelity and ties in the Isle of Man which are alluded to in INDEPENDENTLY of the mechanical processes taste;-or rather, exhibits a superior degree of the text; and vestiges of them are, I believe, here minutely described, there is a great deal research, and that fuller intelligence of the still to be traced in this singular island. The of curious information in this little volume; so subject arising from continued study and exContest of Winter and Summer seems directly that while the former must recommend it to perience. Like that publication, these "Ex. derived from the Scandinavians, long the mas- every manufacturer and workman, the latter amples" consist of plans, elevations, sections, ters in Man, as Olaus Magnus mentions a will secure it the approbation of the more and parts at large, so judiciously selected, as to similar festival among the northern nations. general reader. furnish a series of highly instructive lessons; On the first of May, he says, the country is and, in fact, supplying, as far as can be so divided into two bands, the captain of one of supplied, all the instruction to be derived from which hath the name and appearance of Winter, "Neumann found that but few materials the edifices themselves,-nay, in some cases is clothed in skins of beasts, and he and his afforded an equal quantity of volatile alkali. even more, since the drawings exhibit every band armed with fire-forks. They fling about Tournefort observes that it contains more than particular, most carefully made out from the ashes, by way of prolonging the reign of Win-hartshorn, as he obtained from fifteen ounces of data supplied by the remaining parts, wherever ter; while another band, whose captain is called silk two drachms of volatile salt: this, which the dilapidated state of the original structure Florro, represent Spring, with green boughs, was called the spirit of raw silk, when rectified has rendered such a process necessary. such as the season offers. These parties skir- with some essential oil, was the medicine for- In this and his former publication Mr. Pugin mish in sport, and the mimic contest concludes merly celebrated under the name of "Gutta has effected more for the practitioner in this with a general feast. History of the Northern Anglicana," or English drops. The volatile style of architecture than all his predecessors Nations, by Olaus, book xv. chap. 2.-Waldron alkali obtained from silk was then supposed together, having given us its anatomy, and gives an account of a festival in Wales exactly to be of a different nature from that con- completely exhibited its osteology; in saying similar: In almost all the great parishes, tained in any other substance, and it conse- which, it should be observed, we are far from they choose from among the daughters of the quently was held to possess different virtues wishing to disparage the very tasteful and most wealthy farmers, a young maid for the peculiar to itself. So, salt of tartar, and sub- masterly graphic works produced by others. Yet Queen of May. She is drest in the gayest and carbonate of potass, were for a long time consi- these latter being merely pictorial, give only the best manner they can, and is attended by about dered to be, and were used as two separate sub-general effect, and that from particular points twenty others, who are called maids of honour. stances. The chemical philosopher had not then of view; while Mr. Pugin's delineations are She has also a young man, who is her captain, learned to generalise, and could not understand so complete, exact, and intelligible, even as to and has under his command a good number of that the same substance, differing in no one the minutest circumstances, that they are inferior officers. In opposition to her, is the particular as to its nature and properties, could tantamount to so many models of the respective Queen of Winter, who is a man drest in be obtained from many apparently wholly dis- structures. His new volume, moreover, differs woman's clothes, with woollen hoods, fur tip- similar bodies. from the "Specimens," inasmuch as the subpets, and loaded with the warmest and heaviest "A silk covering of the texture of a common jects of which it treats consist, for the most habits, one upon another; in the same manner handkerchief is said to possess the peculiar pro- part, of domestic architecture, and consequently are those who represent her attendants drest; perty of resisting the noxious influence and of offer the most suitable forms for adaptation nor is she without a captain and troop for her neutralising the effects of malaria. If, as is to modern residences. defence. Both being equipt as proper emblems supposed, the poisonous matter is received into Independently of their positive merit, these of the beauty of the spring, and the deformity the system through the lungs, it may not be studies are the more valuable, because the inof the winter, they set forth from their re- difficult to account for the action of this very formation they supply is not only highly useful spective quarters; the one preceded by violins simple preventive. It is well known that such and interesting in itself, but such, also, as we and flutes, the other with the rough music of is the nature of malaria poison, that it is can obtain from no other sources. Some few the tongs and cleavers. Both companies march easily decomposed by even feeble chemical of them, indeed, have been represented before till they meet on a common, and then their agents. Now, it is probable that the heated-unsatisfactorily, it must be added, and imtrains engage in a mock battle. If the Queen air proceeding from the lungs may form an perfectly; yet others are now edited for the of Winter's forces get the better so far as to atmosphere within the veil of silk, of power first time; and these latter may be said to open take the Queen of May prisoner, she is ran- sufficient to decompose the miasma in its pas- fresh and almost inexhaustible sources of arsomed for as much as pays the expenses of the sage to the mouth; although it may be equally chitectural composition in this truly beautiful day. After this ceremony, Winter and her true that the texture of the silk covering may style; and that, too, of every degree of chacompany retire and divert themselves in a act mechanically as a non-conductor, and prove racter, from the simplest to the most ornate. barn, and the others remain on the green, an impediment to the transmission of the dele- Wide as is the difference between this class of where having danced a considerable time, they terious substance. We learn from Pomet's buildings and the ecclesiastical structures of conclude the evening with a feast; the queen history of drugs, that silk was in his time used the same periods, there is the same national ever. The Life physiognomy, the same taste, the same feeling, out, he will pursue and carry forward, still of which have been delineated by Mr. Pugin only varied and modified according to actual keeping in the same direction. This is, of himself in his Antiquities of Normandy. Alcircumstances; for this difference, it should be course, not to be attempted unadvisedly and though of a very distinct character from either observed, is only such as arises from an exten- rashly; nor ought it to be attempted by any our Tudor or Elizabethan styles, they offer a sion of, not a departure from, the genius of one one who does not both perceive the obstacles variety of details capable of being adapted to, and the same style of art. This versatility of he has to encounter, and feel conscious that he and blended with, the one or the other. power is to architecture what copiousness of possesses energies which will enable him to Before terminating this notice, we may obwords and flexibility of expression are to a lan- surmount them. serve, that Mr. Pugin has published a series of guage; and in plasticity and ductility, Gothic The species of imitation we here recommend, Views illustrative of the principal buildings architecture is inferior to no other style what-is countenanced by what Mr. Willson says in given in his Examples, accompanied with inthe introductory remarks to this volume; and terestingly written descriptions from the pen Hitherto our modern soi-disant Gothic houses he will hardly be suspected of advocating any of Mr. Leeds. He has also more recently have been, almost without exception, either the practice that would be likely to lead to ca- produced another work, entitled Ornamental most paltry and ridiculous erections that can pricious innovation, and thereby tend to de- Wooden Gables, which has been commended well be conceived; or, if tolerably correct in grade and barbarise a species of architecture as it deserves, and spoken of at considerable some of the individual features, those features whose charms few persons can better appreciate length in the 5th No. of the Library of the have been borrowed from churches and chapels, than himself. To those purists who demand Fine Arts, a periodical which we take this and, what is still worse, put together without that we should strictly conform to precedent, second opportunity of mentioning with appro the least attention to character. Such abomina- we would submit this simple question-" Do bation, especially on architectural subjects, tions as sash-windowed castles, with the win-you suppose that had no causes intervened to though we sometimes differ from it on these, dows themselves crammed as closely together occasion a marked change in the style of the and still oftener on general art. Nevertheless as those in a Cheapside house, or designs of earlier part of the sixteenth century, it would it is a publication well worthy of the patronage such gingerbread-maker's Gothic as we behold not have gone on gradually receiving new ac- of an intelligent public; for which patronage in the front of Guildhall, are truly deplorable, cessions of homogeneous forms, and have kept it will yield light and information in return, and now almost incredible. Of such flagrantly pace with increasing refinement and opulence?" upon topics of common interest to all refined vile taste, little danger (one might hope, if we If this be answered in the affirmative, as we society. did not witness the contrary in a multitude of think it must, we are surely at liberty to do instances) is to be apprehended at the pre- that now, which, but for accidental circum- Harper's Family Library, No. X. sent day; there is, however, a fault of an stances of the times, would have been done of Mohammed, Founder of the Religion of opposite description to be guarded against, before; to set out afresh from the point Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens. and the more so, as it assumes the appearance where our ancestors broke off. That we should By the Rev. George Bush, A.M. 18mo. of a merit, we mean that of exclusively first of all qualify ourselves for so doing, by pp. 261. New York, 1830. Harpers. copying even the best examples of a former understanding the whole of the previous pro- THIS very neat American edition has hitherto period; for even the very best are not without gress, is, of course, an indispensable condition; consisted of reprints from Mr. Murray's pubsome defects, nor utterly incapable of all but that precaution being taken, little appre-lication; but the present volume is an original further improvement. Admirable as East hension need be entertained as to the result; work, and one that does much credit to the Basham is, and of its exquisite beauty no and that we have artists among us who tho- author, the Rev. Mr. Bush. The plan is so verbal description can convey an idea,-some roughly conceive the spirit of their models, clearly and well detailed in his own words, of the windows are far from being elegant in and can enter into the feelings of the architects that we cannot do better than insert themthemselves, or in unison with the other fea- of former ages, we have a tolerably convincing though they will strike the English reader as tures. The same remark applies to those of proof in several magnificent structures lately full of Americanisms. Thorpland Hall, which, however suitable they erected at Cambridge. may be for a grange or parsonage-house, where What Mr. Pugin has already performed will unpretending simplicity is all that we expect, prove of material assistance towards the attainare of too homely a character for a mansion, ment of the object at which we have hinted; unless so introduced as to relieve and set-off for while his publications furnish the most other parts. The windows of the parsonage valuable practical instructions, they also supply house at Great Snoring are, on the contrary, standards of taste, to which we can constantly of particularly handsome, yet chaste design, refer. We will not say that either himself or although not altogether applicable upon a large the public ought to be satisfied with what he scale without undergoing some modification, has now accomplished; for much as has been and the addition of transoms. done, still more remains to be effected in so wide Collegiate architecture, of which there are a field; and we sincerely hope he will pro. many admirable examples in this work, all secute his interesting labours with unabated taken from buildings at Oxford, presents nu-zeal. "The present work lays claim to no higher character than that of a compilation. This, indeed, must necessarily be the character of any work attempted at this day upon the same subject. All the accessible facts in the life and fortunes of the Arabian prophet have long since been given to the world. New theories and speculations, moral and philosophical, founded upon these facts, and many of them richly deserving attention, are frequently propounded to the reflecting; but they add little or nothing to the amount of our positive information. All therefore that can now be expected is such a selection, and arrangement, and investment, of merous features, such as entrance gateways, oriel Among other examples that we are anxious the leading particulars of the impostor's hiswindows, towers, turrets, pinnacles, cloisters, to see thus delightfully elucidated, would be tory, as shall convey to the English reader, in &c.—all of which may be brought into play in an some specimens of interior domestic architec- a correct and concentrated form, those details extensive residence; and it is from these and ture of the same period; also one or two of which are otherwise diffused through a great similar sources the architect will be able to the best models of the Elizabethan style: for number of rare books, and couched in several derive abundant materials for almost every although we do not maintain so high an opi- different languages. Such a work, discreetly purpose of a modern habitation. While, how-nion of this latter as the writer of an article in prepared, would supply, if we mistake not, a ever, he forms his taste upon these and similar the last No. of the Quarterly Review, entitled very considerable desideratum in our language, models, let him beware of falling into the error" Old English Domestic Architecture," deem- one which is beginning to be more sensibly of supposing that mere copying will suffice. ing it in many respects inferior to, and less felt than ever, and which the spirit of the age He who thoroughly comprehends the spirit of extensively applicable than, the genuine Tudor; loudly requires to have supplied. How far the the originals, who feels all their beauties, who yet it is highly curious both in itself, and as a present sketch may go towards meeting the has analysed both causes and results, and who connecting link between the latest Gothic and demand, it becomes others than the writer to has stored his mind with the ideas they furnish, the Italianised English of the seventeenth cen- judge. He has aimed to make the most judiwill be in little danger of deviating from the tury. cious use of the materials before him, and from path pointed out by his guides, because he Even here, again, fresh modifications might the whole mass to elicit a candid moral estimate does not happen to place every step in the im- easily be obtained: much that is merely quaint of the character of the founder of Islam. In pressions they have left. Such a one will en- or impure might be expunged, without detri- one respect he may venture to assure the deavour to imitate—not be satisfied with copy-ment to the rest, its place being supplied by reader he will find the plan of the ensuing ing; and between the two processes the dif-details equally picturesque, and equally in pages an improvement upon preceding memoirs; ference is immense; for the plodding copyist character with its leading traits. We are of and that is, in the careful collation of the chapwill, at the best, produce but a tame fac-simile opinion, also, that our architects would do well ters of the Koran with the events of the nar as to form; the imitator will extend and de- to look at some of those singular and highly rative." velop the ideas of his predecessors; the im-enriched specimens of domestic buildings to be perfect hints they may occasionally have thrown met with in the north-west of France, several We extract the account of Mohammed's illness and death, as a specimen of the style, which, as we have hinted, is certainly not free upon the spot from the same cause, stood by liberty, added to the grief of seeing his career from the peculiarities of Transatlantic English. his side, he exclaimed 'O, mother of Bashar! stopped when so many officers of younger “And now, having arrived at the sixty- the cords of my heart are now breaking of the standing than himself rose to the highest rank third year of his age, and the tenth of the food which I ate with your son at Chaibar.' and acquired great reputation, made him take Hejira, A.D. 632, the fatal effects of the poison, In his conversation with those around him, he a part in an ill-conceived conspiracy, consisting which had been so long rankling in his veins, mentioned it as a special prerogative granted of those old remains of brawling Jacobins, who began to discover themselves more and more to him, that the angel of death was not allowed take no counsel but their rage, and have no sensibly, and to operate with alarming viru- to take his soul till he had respectfully asked means of realising their wretched projects. lence. Day by day he visibly declined, and it of him his permission, and this permission he Mallet was discovered; and the particulars of was evident that his life was hastening to a condescendingly granted. Recovering from a the plot having been laid before the eyes of the close. For some time previous to the event, swoon into which the violence of his pains had emperor, he shrugged up his shoulders through he was conscious of its approach, and is said to thrown him, he raised his eyes towards the roof contempt. After some years' imprisonment, have viewed and awaited it with characteristic of the house, and with faltering accents ex- Mallet obtained leave to remove to one of those firmness. The third day before his dissolu- claimed,O, God! pardon my sins. Yes, I private hospitals (maisons de santé), which surtion, he ordered himself to be carried to the come among my fellow-labourers on high! round Paris, and which were for the police a mosque, that he might, for the last time, ad- His face was then sprinkled with water, and sort of seminaries, where they kept, subject to dress his followers, and bestow upon them his that by his own feeble hand, when he shortly a severe supervision, all such persons who parting prayers and benedictions. Being as- after expired. The city, and more especially could not be convicted, but whom, however, it sisted to mount the pulpit, he edified his the house of the prophet, became at once a would have been dangerous to set entirely free. brethren by the pious tenor of his dying coun- scene of sorrowful, but confused, lamentation. We had remained during twenty-six days with sels, and in his own example taught a lesson Some of his followers could not believe that he out any accounts from the army. Sinister of humility and penitence, such as we shall was dead. How can he be dead, our witness, reports were beginning to circulate, when Mal. scarcely find inculcated in the precepts of the our intercessor, our mediator with God? He let, after having combined his plan with the Koran. If there be any man,' said the is not dead. Like Moses and Jesus, he is Abbé Constant, a companion of his captivity, apostle, whom I have unjustly scourged, I wrapped in a holy trance, and speedily will he found means to get out of prison, dressed in a submit my own back to the lash of retaliation. return to his faithful people.' The evidence field-marshal's uniform, and went at four Have I aspersed the reputation of any Mussul- of sense was disregarded; and Omar, brandish-o'clock in the morning to the barracks of the man? let him proclaim my faults in the face ing his cimeter, threatened to strike off the Municipal Legion. Having called up the colonel, of the congregation. Has any one been de- heads of the infidels who should affirm that the who was still asleep, he told him with an air of spoiled of his goods? the little that I possess prophet was no more. The tumult was at dismay that the emperor was dead; that the shall compensate the principal and the interest length appeased by the moderation of Abu- senate was assembled to restore the republican of the debt.'Yes,' replied a voice from the beker. Is it Mohammed,' said he, or the government in France; and that he, Mallet, crowd, thou owest me three drachms of silver.' God of Mohammed, whom ye worship? The who had been appointed commander of Paris, Mohammed heard the complaint, satisfied the God of Mohammed liveth for ever but the wanted six hundred men of the regiment, to go demand, and thanked his creditor, that he had apostle was a mortal like ourselves; and, ac- to the Hôtel de Ville and protect the senate, accused him in this world rather than at the cording to his own prediction, he hath expe- that was assembling there. At this fatal news day of judgment. He then set his slaves at rienced the common fate of mortality. The the colonel was at first seized with alarm, and liberty-seventeen men and eleven women; prophet's remains were deposited at Medina, his grief for the death of the emperor made him directed the order of his funeral; strove to al- in the very room in which he breathed his last, shed tears. The disorder of his mind did not lay the lamentations of his weeping friends, the floor being removed to make way for his permit him to reflect on the news he had heard, and waited the approach of death. He did not sepulchre, and a simple and unadorned monu- nor cast his eyes on the suspicious person that expressly nominate a successor, a step which ment [was] some time after erected over them." stood before him. He ordered the guard to would have prevented the altercations that af- In the Appendix all the Scripture prophecies assemble, and, overwhelmed with consternaterward came so near to crushing in its infancy supposed to have reference to Mohammed and tion, left Mallet master of his forces. The the religion and the empire of the Saracens; the progress of his religion are carefully pointed name of a republic, which recalled to mind but his appointment of Abubeker to supply his out and collected; but their examination would licentiousness, was a counterpoise to the death place in the function of public prayer and the be ill fitted for our pages. A list, explaining of the emperor. The most brilliant promises other services of the mosque, seemed to intimate oriental names and offices, will be useful to the and temptations were held out; the officers all indirectly the choice of the prophet. This an- more juvenile reader: there is also (principally believed what Mallet chose to tell them. Lach cient and faithful friend, accordingly, after compiled from Prideaux) a list of the authors, soldier was to be rewarded by advancement and much contention, became the first caliph of the with a brief account of each, who have written double pay; the officers were to get drafts on Saracens, though his reign was closed by his on the subject of Mohammedism. Yet a fair the treasury, of twenty and even fifty thousand death at the end of two years. The death of proportion both of industry and of judgment francs, -for Mallet had provided against every Mohammed was hastened by the force of a has been bestowed on this little volume. difficulty. He soon got together four hundred burning fever, which deprived him at times of men, at whose head he went to seek his accom. the use of reason. In one of these paroxysms plices, and the future ministers of France, in of delirium he demanded pen and paper, that the prison of La Force. In that prison there he might compose or dictate a divine book. had been in confinement, for some time, an Omar, who was watching at his side, refused WE shall forthwith proceed to our task of adjutant-general, named Guidal, and General his request, lest the expiring prophet might extract, reserving our own remarks till the Lahorie, of whom I have already spoken. Both dictate something which should supersede the had served with Mallet, but had heard nothing Koran. Others, however, expressed a great more of him, and were totally ignorant of his desire that the book might be written; and so plans. Mallet entered the prison, claimed his warm a dispute arose in the chamber of the "The disasters of that campaign are known. two old comrades, and told the great news. apostle, that he was forced to reprove their While they were going on, the city of Paris The jailer refusing to deliver his prisoners, he unbecoming vehemence. The writing was not witnessed a prodigy such as is often seen on signed their liberation, introduced two hundred performed, and many of his followers have the eve of the great convulsions of nature. men, and went to Lahorie's chamber. The mourned the loss of the sublime revelations What all Europe in arms had not dared to first words Mallet said to him were, You are which his dying visions might have bequeathed plan for the last twenty years, namely, the the minister of police. Rise, dress yourself, to them. His favourite wife, Ayesha, hung conquest of Paris, a single man, in prison, and follow me.' Poor Lahorie, who now saw, over her husband in his last moments, sustain- without friends, money, or reputation, was for the first time during a lapse of twelve years, ing his drooping head upon her knee, as he lay bold enough to attempt, and almost succeeded. a man whom he had never looked upon as stretched upon the carpet, watching with trem-I had served with Mallet as staff officer in quite compos mentis, imagined all he heard was bling anxiety his changing countenance, and 1793. He was a man of an extraordinary turn but a dream, and rubbed his eyes while looking listening to the last broken sounds of his voice. of mind; his manners were eccentric, and he at him. At last the assurance of the death of His disease, as it drew towards its termination, was tormented with a deep melancholy, that the emperor, of the assembling of the senate, was attended at intervals with most excruciat-made him morose and disagreeable to his com- of the re-establishment of the republic, coning pains, which he constantly ascribed to the rades. The accession of Buonaparte to the vinced him that he once more witnessed anfatal morsel taken at Chaibar; and as the throne had displeased him, and he had not other of those revolutions so common in modern mother of Bashar, the companion who had died attempted to hide his feelings. The loss of his history. He rose, dressed himself, and found Memoirs of Count Lavallette. Vol. II. conclusion. Lavallette enters into full detail Well, six hundred men at the gate. With Guidalit in its last holds. He made use of his privi- events that might threaten Paris. by his side, he immediately went to the minis-lege with all the despotism which subalterns then,' he said, hide it at your country seat.' ter of police, who was still in bed. The sol- of that class love to exercise upon the rabble. It was in vain that I remonstrated, observing, diers entered quietly, and without any obsta- Rank, titles, glory, virtue, crime itself, is sacred that the castle of La Verrière, situated on the cle; when, finding the door of the minister's to them as long as it remains prosperous; road leading from Versailles to Rambouillet, chamber locked, they broke it open with the but as soon as the day of misfortune arrives, might be plundered by stragglers of the enemy; but-ends of their muskets. The minister, they trample upon every thing, and neither that my occupation in Paris never permitted waking at the noise, jumped out of bed, and, respect nor pity must be expected from them. me to remain long in the country, and that without waiting to dress himself, rushed upon Laborde had seen Mallet in prison. At the chance and the slightest imprudence might the murderers. He was seized, and treated in first report of the minister of police being ar- make me lose the money. He would listen to the most brutal manner; but at last, at sight rested, he set himself at the head of a platoon nothing, and I was forced to obey. My stewof the prisoner Lahorie, and the intelligence of of infantry, went to the office and found La-ard was an honest and intelligent man. He the death of the emperor, he began to compre- horie calmly seated at his desk, writing orders, made, in my presence, during several nights, a hend that he was the victim and the dupe of a after those he had given at the Hôtel de Ville. hole under the floor of a closet on the ground revolution. He obtained, not without some He had him immediately seized and tied to floor. There we deposited the fifty-four volumes trouble, leave to dress; and Guidal led him, his arm-chair, while he addressed to him re- of Ancient and Modern History. Never would escorted by a detachment, to the prison of La proaches that opened the unfortunate Lahorie's any work have been read with more eagerness, Force. On the Pont Neuf he jumped from the eyes to the madness of Mallet. He then went nor appreciated nearer to its real value. The cabriolet, but was retaken. When he arrived to the staff, where he arrested the latter, and inlaid floor was carefully replaced, and nothing at the prison, the jailer burst into tears. Savary flying to the prison, he delivered the minister was suspected. The taking of Paris threw whispered to him, Place me in your darkest and prefect of police. The prefect went home; the emperor into Fontainebleau. I most ardungeon, and hide the key of it. God knows but his hotel being still full of the soldiers who dently wished to share his fate, or at least to what is the meaning of this; but it will all had arrested him, they pursued him, and he was receive probably his last orders. But he sent clear up. A few moments later, the prefect of glad to find a refuge in a neighbouring house. me word by the Duke de Vicenza, that it police was also brought to the prison: a de- All these scenes, well deserving of a place in would be dangerous if I were to come to see tachment had gone to fetch him, and had the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, happened him; that he wished me to remain in Paris, dragged him along. Whilst the heads of the between five and eight o'clock in the morning. where I might act as I pleased; and that he police were thus treated, Mallet went to Gene- By nine all was over; and the happy inhabit- would let me know at some later period how I ral Hullin, commander of the military division ants of Paris, when they awoke, learned the was to dispose of his money. That circumand of the city of Paris. The general was just singular event, and made some tolerably good stance was one of the motives that made me getting up to receive an order from the minis-jokes upon it." keep so carefully at a distance from governter of the war department, which could be de- Certainly never did princes, to whom con-ment. My attachment to the person of the livered into no hands but his own. Mallet ciliation was of such paramount necessity, so emperor, the oaths of allegiance I had made to was accompanied by some officers of his troop. neglect it as did the Bourbons. him, my gratitude for his kindness and geneOn seeing the general, he said to him, with the "The following circumstance has been re-rosity, made me shudder at the idea of not greatest coolness, and with an air of gravity, lated to me by Count d'Erlon. The Duke de devoting to him the remainder of my life I am very mortified, general, to have so pain- Berri was one day reviewing some regiments but, on the other hand, honour forbade me to ful a commission to execute; but my orders garrisoned in the province of which Marshal embrace the party of the Bourbons, when I are to arrest you.' Hullin remonstrated; and Duke de Treviso was governor, and Count was placed in the necessity of maintaining a looking at Mallet, whose face he knew, he d'Erlon commander. An officer came out of correspondence with him. What punishment said,How! Mallet, is it you? You arrest the ranks and asked the prince for the cross of would I not have suffered and deserved, if the me-a prisoner? How did you come here? St. Louis. What have you done to deserve king's government, after having received my What is your business doing here?' The it?' 'I have served thirty years in the French oath, had discovered that I had in my posemperor is dead.' These words struck Hul-army.' Thirty years' robbery!' replied the session a part of Napoleon's fortune, and that lin dumb, and Mallet repeated the fable he prince, turning his back on him. It is true, I disposed of it according to his orders? At had invented. However, the arrest and the that the marshal having remonstrated, the the time I was making those painful reflections, order to go to prison appeared wondrous officer obtained the next day what he had soli- three hundred Prussians occupied the castle of strange to the general. He continually spoke Verrière. Fifteen slept in the very room of the death of the emperor and his own imwhere the treasure was hid. These soldiers prisonment at length asked Mallet to shew were far from suspecting that they would have him his order. Very willingly,' replied the Valuable Library." The day before the em- had only to raise with the points of their other: will you step with me into your closet?' peror left Paris for the fatal campaign of Russia, swords two boards of the floor, to fall upon Hullin turned round, and as he was entering he kept me with him at the close of the evening; heaps of gold. They remained there nearly the closet, he fell, struck by a bullet that and after giving me all the necessary orders for two months. During all that time, I was in touched his head. While lying on the ground, his journey, he said to me: Go to the grand continued agony. I expected every day to he saw his murderer looking coolly at him, and marshal; he will give you drafts on the trea- learn that all had been discovered. Fortupreparing to fire once more; but thinking him sury for 1,600,000fr; you will convert them nately the Prussians went away at last, and I dead he left the place. He crossed the Place secretly into gold, which the minister of the was easy, at least in that respect." Vendôme, and went to the staff, whither he treasury will procure you the means of doing; The details of Napoleon's return from Elba had sent before him a letter, acquainting the and you will wait my orders to send it me.' abound in curious matter, but they should be adjutant-general, N***, that he was advanced So much gold was difficult to hide. I ad-read as a whole; we select, however, one anecto the rank of major-general. The latter, when dressed myself to the keeper of the ordnance dote very characteristic of the manner in which he saw Mallet, could not disguise his doubts. depôt, (M. Regnier), who was a very inge- Louis was served by his officers. Struggling between his duty and his ambition, nious mechanic, and who made for me, in a "The conduct of the ministry in those last he was perhaps at the point of yielding, and very clever manner, several boxes which looked days, and especially that of M. Ferrand, was entering into arrangements, when one of the exactly like as many quarto volumes. Each of inexplicable. The king, before he went away, heads of the military police, the old Colonel La- them contained 30,000 fr., and I placed them had issued a proclamation, wherein he exhorted borde, came into the apartment. The appear in my library. When the emperor came back the Parisians, and consequently all France, to ance of that man shewed sufficiently that he from the Russian campaign, he seemed en- submission. This proclamation was inserted could be neither deceived nor seduced. Mallet tirely to have forgotten the money, and he in the Moniteur of the 20th. Its aim was to was therefore going to blow out his brains, returned to Germany for the campaign of make all the royalists lay down their arms, and when Laborde seized him abruptly by his arm, Leipsic without giving me any particular still one of my crimes was stopping the decalled for assistance, and had him arrested. orders on the subject. The only reply he parture of the Moniteur and other journals. This Laborde was an old soldier, who, having made to my question respecting it was, We But if such great importance was attached to long retired from active service, had chosen shall speak of that when I come home. At the publication of that last will of the king's, Paris for his camp and the scene of his observa- last, when, a few months afterwards, he was tions. Attached to the police under all pos- going to leave Paris for the campaign of France, sible governments, no one could impose upon I insisted on his relieving me from the charge him by illusions. His youth had been passed of a treasure, for which I might perhaps not in vice, and he now felt pleasure in pursuing be able to answer in the midst of the important 6 cited; but the words were reported about, and why did not M. Ferrand despatch it the day before by expresses? It might have travelled sixty leagues in twenty-four hours, in all directions, except on the road to Lyons, and the prefects would, at least, have known how to |