brow, [VOL. 4 The body madden'd by the spirit's pain? The wild, wild working of the breast and brain? The haggard eye, that, horror-wideu'd, sees Death take the start of sorrow and disease? For such were heard and seen---so close at hand, A cable's length had reach'd them from the land; Yet, farther off than ocean ever børe-- Eternity between them and the shore! Some sought the beach with many a sob and strain, But felt each sinew fetter'd by a chain Which dragg'd them writhing down: a secret hand Buoy'd others up and cast them on the land-- Alas, too few! the many still would cling But there were some, in hopelessness of soul, Who pined at heart to reach the destined goal; Yes,long had spurn'd the load of life u awed, But dared not rush uncall'd before their God:-- Or, haply pride, which trembled at a stain, Or, haply love for those they would not pain, Had moved to give the fatal purpose up--Unedged the steel, and spill'd the poison-cup: These, bitter days, soul-racking nights had tried-- And scaped, perchance, the curse of suicide. From the same. LINES An age-worn man that freezing eye surveys, WRITTEN BY SMART, WHILE CONFINED IN A The heart's last burst of anguish ere it break) MADHOUSE, AND INDENTED WITH A KEY IN THE WAINSCOAT. THE REST OF THБМ HAVE BEEN LOST. "How have I sigh'd to hail thy wanderings sung of God, the mighty source done-- Of all things, the stupendous force On which all things depend: From whose right arm, beneath whose eyes, All period, power and enterprise, Commence, and reign, and end. The world, the clustering spheres, He made, Dale, champaign, grove and hill; Happy are those who need not e'er regret The long-past days of careless infancy; Whom friends have ne'er betray'd, nor knaves beset, Who never have been caught in woman's subtle net. Of this enough,--the storm has ceas'd to rage; I live---but how, it matters not,---I live--All, all is vanity---thus spoke the sage ; Yet there remains one pleasure---'tis to give; With some, 'tis pouring water thro' a sieve; An endles folly, an excessive waste; To feed their drones, these lordlings rob the hive; They waste their wealth on fools, or dames unchaste, Or gems, or jewels rare :--these children have a taste! DIVES had feasts at home, and many came To see the strange inventions of the night; Minstrels were in his halls, resembling flame, The colour of their robes was very bright. Ladies were clad in silk, all lily white, While burgundy from golden goblets pour'd, Freshen'd the heart of man with new delight, And boon companions gather'd round his board, Pledging the frequent health of their all-lib eral lord. LINES 287 Spoken with perfect correctness and good articulation, by two of the Pupils of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb Children in Edinburgh, at the Annual General Meeting, in May 1918. UR voice is but falling and low, Our accents uncouth to the ear, : Yes lately in silence we find, May the patrons who gave us to know From the Gentleman's Magazine. JUVENAL'S Tenth and Thirteenth Satires, translated by EDMUND L. SWIFT, Esq. IVE me, kind Heaven; oh, give me Gr length of days!-- So health petitions; and so sickness prays. Yet ills, how great! how ceaseless! vex the old: A visage worn, and hateful to behold; Such as some antient ape might sit and claw And gums, that fail against their mumbled Wife, children, his own self abhor him; he See now the failure of another sense !--- age, Clad in their cloth of gold, adorn the stage; What matter where sit he, far off or year, Who scarce the trumpets or the horns can bear? Whose serving-boy must raise a deafening din, How many patients Themison dispatch'd THE INTELLIGENCE: From the London Monthly Magazines, November, 1818. THE Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, from a variety of interesting documents, and original communications, by Thomas Moore, esq. author of Lalla Rookh, 4to. is nearly ready for publication: as are also the following works.-- Mrs. Peck will soon publish, in 3 vols. the Bard of the West, an historic romance, founded on certain public events of the 7th century. Nearly ready for publication, the Selected Beauties of British Poetry, with Lives of the Poets, and Critical dissertations. To which is prefixed, an Essay on English Poetry, by Thomas Campbell, esq. author of the Pleasures of Hope, in 6 vols, post octavo. The Tragedy of Guilt, by Adolph Mulner, which has made so much noise in Germany, is about to make its appearance in an EngJish Translation. Mr. Warden will publish in the course of the ensuing season, a Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of America, in 3 vols. 8vo. A satirical novel, entitled, The Englishman in Paris, with sketches of remarkable characters, is nearly ready for publication. The Rev. Dr. Chalmers, of Glasgow, will shortly publish a volume of Sermons preached by him at the Tron Church. Poems and Tales in Verse. By Lamont. Foolscap 8vo. Revenge Defeated and Self-punished, a dramatic Poem. 8vo. A few Leaves from my Folio Book, by William Woolcot, containing poems on the lamented death of the Princess Charlotte, on the Eolian Harp, and on the Robin, with notes, &c. &c. 8vo. Lord Byron still continued at Venice late in September last, pursuing his poetical labours with indefatigable ardour. He devotes his mornings entirely to study, and his evenings chiefly at the Theatre, receiving the visits of his friends in his private box. THE SOUND OF FLAME IN TUBES. Mr. Faraday, the very ingenious Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution, bas, at the request of Mr. J. Stodart, made a number of curious and interesting experiments on the sounds produced by Flame. This property of flame, as evinced by hydrogen gas in combustion, was first discovered by Dr. Higgins 1777; and subsecvent chemists attributed it to the alternate expansion and contraction of aqueous vapour. Mr. F. proves that this is not the case, by heating the tube into which the flame is passed above 212, and still more decidedly, by producing the sounds from a Walter Scott, esq. is preparing for publi- flame of carbonic oxide. Neither do the sounds cation, "The Provincial Antiquities, and proceed from vibrations of the tube, since a Picturesque Scenery of Scotland." To be cracked one answers for the experiment; nor embellished with plates by Turner, Calicott, from the rapid current of air through the tube, Thompson, Nasmyth, Blore, Williams, and for with one closed at the end, or å bell glass, other artists of eminence. it succeeds. The production of these sounds is not confined to burning hydrogen, but possessed by all flame: and Mr. Faraday, with, as we presume, the able sanction of Mr. Stodart, concludes that the sounds are simply the report of a continued explosion." • We shall not detail the experiments, which are to be found in No. X. of the Journal of Science and the Arts, but referring to that publication, merely express our coincidence with the opinion therein maintained. Even without an apparatus, the constant and successive expiosions of gaseous mixtures may be observed in the flame of a cominon gas-light, and there can be no doubt but that these explosions produce sounds, from the roar of a furuace to the modulated musical tones of a glass tube. ---A musical instrument of flame (1-ke the Eolian Harp) might now be constructed. Mr. M. E. Elliott, jun. has in the press, Night, a descriptive poem, being an attempt to paint the scenery of night as connected with great and interesting events. Mr. Accum has in the press, Elements of Chemistry, for Self-instruction, after the system of Sir H. Davy, illustrated by experiments, in an 8vo, volume, with plates. NOVELS, TALES, &c. JUST PUBLISHED. Recluse of Albyn Hall. By Zara Wentworth. 3 vols. 12mo. Margaret Melville, and the Soldier's Daughter, or Juvenile Memoirs; interspersed with remarks on the propriety of encouraging British Manufactures. By A. C. Mant. 12mo. The Veiled Protectress, or the Mysterious Mother. By Mrs. Meeke. 5 vols. Tales and Poems. By Mrs. Stanley. I THANK 66 [BY THE AUTHor of legends OF LAMPIDOSA.] To the Editor of the European Magazine. you for the attention be- with stony fragments and trunks of stowed on my Portfolio, and am trees. The aspect of the bleached coast happy to administer food to the reign- where I and my two companions landed, ing curiosity of the public, by com- was such as superstitious mariners municating some intelligence from ascribe to the dead-man's Isle of DesoSpitzbergen, which the fortunate ren- lation; but we had wallets well-filled, contre of an American vessel with one strong spears, fire-arms, and good fur of our ships on the northern voyage cloaks. The shore presented a range of of discovery enabled me to receive. columns with a sort of pediment hangMy friend, who has the honour of be- ing over them, resembling in a gigantic longing to one of those philosophical proportion those of Staffa. While one crews, writes thus: of my companions endeavoured to take Knowing that your profession gives notes of their bulk and height, the you taste for the civil institutions rather youngest and most active spied an openthan the natural history of other king- ing of such extent and depth as to doms, I shall trouble you with very few justify a Scotch speculation that there seamen-like references to our soundings are habitable regions in the centre of and surveys before we touched this the earth. And if we had doubted frightful coast. Between 22 deg. 40 that this interior recess was inhabited, min. E. longitude, and 77 deg. 51 sec. we should have been convinced by the N. latitude, we saw an enormous ice- sight of an eagle carrying a dead child to berg, or floating field of ice, approach- its eyrie. We took courage, or I might ing, which induced our ship to take say hope, to find some hospitable crearefuge in a cove so spaciously and se- tures of our own species; and provided curely sheltered with broad rocks as to with a few torches of bituminous matpromise us a kind of rest. Two or three ter, entered this natural archway. It of us were permitted to go on shore; led us, according to our best calculaand if the intense chill and the thick tion, nearly two hundred yards and white fog which usually precede an ice- both our courage and curiosity would island had not deadened our feelings have failed, had not a creature like and our sight, we might have observed the squirrel-ape of Asia suddenly ap with philosophical precision the pro- peated, and frisked before us. We were gress of this monstrous mass, bristled surprised to see an animal whose deli IN ATHEREUM. Vol. 4. 290 Extracts from an Arctic Navigator's Journal. [VOL. 4 cate form and elegant colours have been translation of the sacred Book. This pronounced by naturalists peculiar to and various testimonies of their hos torria climates, in a region so gloomy pitality induced us to send back one of and desolate. But while we were deli- our party to the cove where the ship berating on the prudence of returning, remained, there to notify our adventure. its tamiliar pranks seemed to promise Our deputy returned with information the vicinity of man, and the scarlet that our stay must not exceed fortystreaks on its silvery back guided us eight bours, as the circular recess we onward when our torches began to fail. had thus discovered in the bosom of the A few flickerings of the Aurora Borealis, ice, promised no farther inlet into this seen beautifully at the end of this very desolate country, and our voyage could long and dark avenue, encouraged us not be longer delayed. Believe me, still more to go on wards, as our retreat my dear friend, for you know my seemed straight and secure. We reached physiological zeal, I employed these the outlet at last, and saw, with such hours most assiduously; and as cirdelight as you may well conceive, a cumstances must be reserved till I write plain about a mile in diameter, fenced in a warmer climate, you must content on all sides by a kind of natural wall, yourself with such extracts from my formed by perpendicular steeps, whose journal as relate to important facts. summits, white and shining with indis- The amusements of this singular peosoluble snow, served to reflect and mul- ple bear a very remarkable affinity to tiply the glorious lights of the north ours: an affinity which proves, notpole. Their bases were green, with withstanding the opinions of Messrs. shrubs and fruit-trees, which grew in Buffon, De Luc, and Cuvier, that lanthis warm recess, sheltered from the guage is by no means a necessary conkeenness of arctic winds, and beauti- veyance and accompaniment of social fied by a throng of the silver butter- feeling. Forduring our short stay there, flies peculiar to these regions. In the we witnessed what was considered a fescentre we found a hamlet, or cluster tive meeting, to which all the members of houses, built of the whale's ribs, of this colony (called by our learned with sufficient strength and symmetry; friend the Neonousites) were summoned and our arrival was welcomed by a by our conductor, the ape beforegroupe of persons, whose fair com- mentioned, who seemed instructed to plexions and English features were most act the part of master of the cereinteresting to our national feelings. We monies. And here it is proper to obmight have expected blue eyes and serve, for the information of naturalists, silken hair in this polar circle; but that his surface or skin, which had unless we had remembered the Welsh first attracted us by its dazzling cotradition of Prince Madoc's emigration lours, was embellished by paint, as into North America, we could not have hoped to meet kindred countenances. We expressed our pacific intentions by those gestures which are understood in all nations, and these people graciously answered us by tying down the topmost branches of a fir-tree towards the ground; but you will hardly conceive my surprise and regret when we found them dumb; however, they shewed us tablets of stone, bequeathed to them, as far as we could understand their pantomime shew, by the first founder of their colony. Dr. Caconous, my learned companion, assured me that the characters resembled the most ancient Greek, and were a part of our own Septuagint deed were the faces of all our new acquaintance. The male inhabitants, for we saw no difference in attire or manner in any, wore broad and rigid belts made of the whale's integuments, and cassocks of bear's-skin; but we, being aware of the intended festivity, obtained from our ship a supply of bonnets with abundant feathers for the gentlemen, and sundry long skirts richly brocaded for the ladies; I grieve for the honour of our sex to add, the former chose the largest half. The assembly met in three apartments constructed round one of the hot-wells, or boiling springs as naturalists call them; and we learned from these people's written in- » |