[SEE A NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS.] SIR WALTER SCOTT. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,-I had the pleasure of seeing myself in print in your last number, which, I assure you, gratified me very much, though it made me laugh heartily to read myself, which I scarcely did before. Believe me, you would not suspect me of being such a preacher, if you knew me, for I am a very merry old woman. But in your note you call me your "fair correspondent;" that is enough to put me in good humour, for though "old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face," yet have I enough of the fair sex about me to be no way displeased at a bit of flattery. Now, what subject shall I write upon that will please you? you are averse to politics, and therein you show your sense; 'tis only when the blood of a wild Irishwoman boils over with a sense of oppresson that I would touch on such a theme. Will Dublin theatricals yield you any amusement ? if so, I could drop you an odd line now and then on that subject. Apropos to the theatre-the great Sir Walter Scott honoured it with his presence on Saturday night last; the house was crowded, as our manager, Mr. Abbot, who has won "golden opinions" here, took care that the great man's intention of being present should not be kept a very profound secret through the town. The audience paid no attention to the performance, though Shakspeare's beautiful comedy of Much ado about Nothing" was right well supported. We have a matchless Dogberry here, who, I am sure, must have studied some of our Dublin magistrates, or he never could have himself "written down an ass" so naturally. Mr. Abbot, who is a gentleman and an actor in every thing he undertakes, played Benedict, and your Miss Foote was the Beatrice; yet, spite of all this attraction, the audience turned its back on the stage, and every eye beamed with gratitude and delight on the box where Sir Walter Scott, author of Waverley, &c. sat. Unfortunately he was placed in a box under the galleries, which, I assure you, would not answer Paddy, who feels genius allied to him, no matter what country may produce it. The noise became tremendous, the pit and boxes cheering Sir Walter, and the galleries shouting to have him out in the stage-box, that they might gratify their eyes by looking at him. The play went on without one. syllable being heard. At length Mr. Abbot appeared, and "begged to know the cause of the disturbance." The answer was unanimously-"Sir Walter Scott," "Sir Walter Scott." This whimsical reply set all a laughing. Sir Walter made a short speech expressive of his feelings at so kind and undeserved a reception; and peace being with much difficulty restored, the performers were allowed to proceed. I have a most inexpressible dislike to see this kind of homage paid from man to man, when there is no claim to it but high birth, or murdering by wholesale, or some such distinction; but, when that homage is due by man to a superior man, made superior by God, then, indeed, as in the present case, would I be the first to join in it with enthusiasm. I fear there must be something little in the mind of Walter Scott, or he never would have suffered himself to have been degraded by knighthood. He could command titles that no human power could bestow on him. Could the author of Waverley, &c. derive any thing like honour from the addition of "Sir," to his name? Would Byron have accepted of such a favour? I trust that if our own Moore was threatened with knighthood he would know how to refuse it; not that I think he is in much danger of such a thing. If your London knights resemble, in any way, our Dublin knights, you will not be surprised at these opinions; and, from what I see of your Sir W. Curtis, the same acquirements seem to make a Knight there as here We have them sprouting up behind every counter here: apothecaries' boys, ribbon-weavers, and Heaven knows what; and no human being can guess what they were knighted for, except it were for their stupidity, which is the only quality they possess a larger share of than their fellows; Knights, "dubb'd with unhack'd rapier, and on carpet consideration!" And to hear Walter Scott Sir'd in such company! But I have spent many a delightful hour reading him, and could forgive him any thing but the "Sir."-Your Miss Foote is doing wonders here: one of those birds of passage who feather their nests well here and carry all away. I only know of one instance of a public performer living among us, and spending not only what he makes here, but every where, with us, and that is Charles, the Ventriloquist, who spends his money like an Irishman among us, and we will not forget him for it. When any thing worth while happens, or the humour comes on me, you shall hear from me again. Yours, &c. Relaxation. During one of the late sultry days, a gentleman asked his friend if he would accompany him to the Floating Bath for a dip? To which the other replied, "You'll excuse me, but I have just read in the papers that that Bath contributes much to the relaxation of the public: ; and, egad, I'm relaxed enough already in all conscience. As the Parisians elegantly say,Je suis tout eau. Antidote.-A provincial journalist recommends commor ink as a remedy always at hand for the extirpation a poison taken into the human body, or the bite of a dog physician at Versailles, discovered that ink, mixed wit Some time since, Monsieur Toussant Navier, the King soap water, taken inwardly, or rubbed on the outwar wound of the bite, did not, in any instance where tried fail to effect a cure. For our own parts, we should prefe our chance of the hydrophobia, with all its imputed hot tors, to a dose of soap suds and ink, or Day and Martin blacking. from Runcorn, for inspection, a kitten, with two face A Cat with two Faces.-A correspondent has sent t mouths, tongues, &c. The head is not exactly doubl but, as it were, about two-thirds of two heads joined gether, leaving a cleft or hollow down the common for head and face. The mouths are distinct, and apart, an appear to have possessed the usual functions of that orgar This curiosity of nature was kittened at West Neston, o Thursday se'nnight, and lived, upon milk, till the Sunda following, when it died.-Mercury. A difficult Job.-The London steam-washing company in their advertisement for a confidential servant, amon other qualifications, state that he must be enabled manage a number of women!" We hope the ladies wi not deem us rude, if we affirm that the man must have bold heart who undertakes the situation. Amongst the many gigantic projects on which the Am ricans are employed, is the Grand State Road, which, whe executed, will form a continuous uninterrupted highw of 8300 miles in extent, through the territories of th United States and the Mexican Republic, to the city Mexico. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE. To Correspondents. SIR WALTER SCOTT.-Our fair correspondent from Dublin ap pears to think the extraordinary reception of Sir Walter Scott in Dublin a matter of course, the necessary result of his popularity, arising from the universal diffusion and ad miration of his works; the lady might have said the work imputed to him; for if Sir Walter Scott, after all, shoul not be the actual writer of Waverley and its successors, h may hereafter be very fairly charged with strutting in bo rowed plumes; as, we fancy, that few of the worthy bare net's warmest admirers will be bold enough to pretend, that independent of what are called the Scotch Novels, Sir Wal ter ever produced any work which would entitle him t the honour of a public ovation, even from the warm-hearte natives of Ireland. Independent, we repeat It, of th Scotch Novels, there is not one of his works, either in pro or verse, which is not decidedly inferior to others whit could be named, the authors of which never received at public honours. THE SPANIARDS IN DENMARK.In order to get on as fast possible with this favourite modern comedy, we have th week suspended our musical department. "The Spaniar in Denmark" is of considerable length, and we shall not able to conclude it before this day fortnight, beyond whi period, however, it shall not be prolonged, as we a anxious to commence our reprint of Gibbon's Essay on Study of Literature, promised in our announcement of t probable contents of our sixth volume. The Story of Yamma shall have a place in the next Kaleidosco MUSIC. We shall take the earliest opportunity to look ov the songs with which we have been favoured, viz-" peaceful," "It was a form," &c. and "Auld Rob Morris." Nathan's favour shall be inserted next week. The Atheist shall appear in our next; in the meantime, will thank the transcriber to revise the first line of second verse, which is incorrect as he has copied it. It foot deficient in the measure. The line is "Oh! he might say, void his mind." Printed, published, and sold, EVERY TUESDAY, E. SMITH & CO. 75, Lord-street, Liverpool. OR, Literary and Scientific Mirror. "UTILE DULCI." This familiar Miscellany, from whichreligiousand politicalmatters are excluded, contains a variety of originalandselected Articles; comprehending Literature, Criticism, Men and Manners, Amusement, Elegant Extracts, Poetry, Anecdotes, Biography, Meteorology, the Drama, Arts and Sciences, Wit and Satire, Fashions, Natural History, &c. &c. forming a handsome Annual Volume, with an Index and Title-page.—Its circulationrenders it a most eligible medium for Advertisements. No. 267.-Vol. VI. The Traveller. A TRIP PARTS OF NORTH WALES, INCLUDING Llanwrst, Llangollen, &c. &c. FROM THE 26TH TO THE 29TH JULY, 1825. [Written expressly for the Kaleidoscope.] TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1825. PRICE 30 the Castle, which is a beautiful ruin, and the adjoining park, are well worth the stranger's attention. Being anxious to proceed further that night, and having transacted some business in the town, and taken tea at the King's Arms, I was ready at seven o'clock to join a party, if I could meet with one, in hiring a boat for Bangor, three further, or to Carnarvon, seven miles beyond it. The miles across the water, or to the Chain-bridge, two miles boatmen spoke of a party going to Bangor, but not further, that night. I met the party coming to the beach. It was Mr. M. and the four ladies. They seemed pleased, and I am sure I was, to find that we were all going the same way, and they politely received me as one of their party. I pointed out to them a glimpse of the Chain-bridge in the distance, and proposed that, if the boatmen would take us, we should proceed through the straits all the way to Carnarvon that night, the wind and tide being completely favourable. This was instantly and gladly agreed to, as suiting, and, indeed, advancing their purposes as well as mine; fifteen silvery reasons satisfied the boatmen; and our merrily-disposed little party of six were seated in the boat, the sails set, and the oars at work, at a quarter-past seven o'clock. pleasure in his agreeable society. About the middle of the deck was stationed a small but good band of musicians, who, from time to time, performed almost all the favourite airs of the present day; and among the passengers standTO THE CHAIN-BRIDGE, NEAR BANGOR, AND OTHER ing about the bowsprit was a small knot of friends, apparently choristers in some country church, who, in the Beaumaris, Carnarvon, the Lakes of Llanberris, Conway, in very good style, several chaunts, psalms, and anthems. intervals between the other musical performances, sang, Ranged under the fore gunwale of the vessel, and sitting on the deck, were several Welsh market-women; who, as there were no novel sights for them to gaze upon, seemed disposed to "while away the sunny day" in slumber, or I had never been in Wales beyond the border counties in quiet conversation with each other; while the busier of Flint, Denbigh, and Montgomery, and was, of course, throng about them, many of whom had never before been a stranger to the best scenery of the Principality. Busi- on the salt sea ocean,' were eagerly watching for obness, however, required that I should visit some parts jects worthy of notice and inquiry. The scenery on both of the north-west, and as curiosity prompted me to see sides of the river, the Rock Perch, the rocks and caverns the new Chain-bridge over the straits of Menai, I deter- called the Red Noses, the several lighthouses, the vessels mined upon commencing my trip from Liverpool by the approaching or departing, or gliding on the horizon, the Llewellyn steam-packet; and, accordingly, on Tuesday, Floating-light, the Welsh mountains, and the clear deep the 26th July, about ten o'clock in the forenoon, I em- green colour of the sea, became successively the topics of barked on board that fine vessel, which was just on the observation, and the sources of pleasure; nor, amongst a point of weighing anchor. The river Mersey was a scene select few, were Helbre Island and “King Robert" forof general bustle, the liveliness of which was heightened gotten. The singers attended to their singing, the mu- It was a lovely evening. The ladies' parasols were at by the brightness of the sun, and the beauty of a fleecy sicians to their music, and the cook to his cooking. Ap- first in requisition, but in a short time the higher ground sky. A light breeze from the northward gave freshness petite was the principal ailment on board, although, of the Anglesea coast afforded us a more general shade, to the air; every appearance was favourable to such an gently be it spoken, some few of the passengers, smooth and then the beauty of the scene around us was indescriexcursion as I had projected; and a goodly company, as the sea was, were seen creeping into corners, and "cast-bable. On our left Port Penrhyn, with its immense inn, assembling on all parts of the vessel's deck, indicated that ing up their accounts." In general, the ready snack, and and the city of Bangor in the hollow, were broadly lighted ** all the world and his wife" were in a rambling humour the bottle of porter, were in great requisition, while a con- by the declining sun. The tints on the neighbouring this summer. Amongst other objects on the river an siderable number of persons sat down in the cabin to a mountains were finer than I ever beheld; and they were arrival from Dublin suddenly attracted universal atten- regular half-crown dinner, and a glass of good port. All so rich, that a faithful picture of them would have appeartion. A steam-ship came close past us with such a cargo this time we made great progress on the water, a couple of ed too highly coloured. Every moment brought us nearer as I never before beheld, although in the summer season sails having been recently hoisted in aid of our steam-power; to the stupendous work I have before alluded to,-the there may be many such. There were probably between and we soon passed that grand object, the Great Ormes-Chain-bridge, which I shall hereafter more particularly even and eight hundred persons, chiefly Irish harvest-head, which must be terrific indeed to the crew of any describe. Near its western extremity lay, at anchor, in abourers, standing on the deck of the vessel, as closely vessel placed near its rugged and threatening front, in a Packed as the crowd at a town-meeting; and so much did strong north-west wind. Penmaen-mawr soon appeared on his upper weight preponderate in the balance against the our left, bold and rugged as the Ormeshead, but much cargo, if any, below, that the vessel continually heeled, loftier. Like an ornamental band passing along his front, or swayed, from one side to the other to such a degree, a little above his base, we saw what was pointed out to that her gangway ladder at one moment touched a boat us as the great mail-road between Conway and Bangor. alongside, and at another arose out of the boatmen's Neither this road, nor the hill itself, appeared so elevated reach. The crowd on board were alternately visible, as as I expected; but this I afterwards found was owing to on an inclined plane, towards each shore, as if the vessel were proud of its miserable carge, and was determined hat the farmers, both in Lancashire and Cheshire, should be apprized of the arrival of the poor reapers. It was an advertisement for them, free of duty. In a few minutes our engine commenced its herculean labours, and, amidst the exchange of kind wavings of the hand between us and our friends on shore, we began, not to sail, for we had no anvas extended, but, to use a sailor's phrase, to "plough he deep." our great distance from the shore, which, although several several other persons landed, including Sir R. W., whose calm repose, the steam-packet, which had recently been how wave, a single moment. The column, erected in honour of the Marquis of Anglesea, here formed a prominent object or a hill towards the west; and not far from us the splendid seat of the Marquis was the grace and ornament of the lower and richly-wooded ground. The appearance of the glassy water was now particularly fine. The red clouds above us flung down the rays which they caught from the setting sun, and their reflection represented rocks of bright coral beneath us, while the rising moon cast her pale light into the wave, forming the semblance of a pyramidal rock of polished silver. A number of young cranes stood on the shore, at respectful distances from each other, earnestly gazing at us as we glided smoothly by. Observations on all we witnessed, together with anecdote and poetry, prevailed amongst us throughout the scene; and never, certainly, were better timed the vocal efforts of some of the party, in duets, such as "Flow on thou shining river," "The Canadian Boat Song," and "O come to me when day-light sets." Foreign scenery was described; poets and travellers were quoted; and our stores of conversation were increased by the circumstance that the brother of one of the ladies present had been with the lamented Belzoni, in the latter days, and at the death of that enterprising traveller. We appeared to be upon a lake in fairy land; and after two hours of the most delightful sailing I ever enjoyed, we stepped upon shore under the picturesque walls of Carnarvon. At Parry's handsome and well situated hotel we were most comfortably accommodated; our sitting-room overlooked the moonlight sea," and commanded a view of Anglesea. The ladies, after partaking with us of a slight refreshment, retired to rest, while Mr. M. and myself proceeded to view the celebrated ruins of Carnarvon Castle, which were then beautifully illuminated by the sweet heavenly lamp of night. These ruins have been so often described, that it is unnecessary for me to say more of them than that they very far exceed in extent and majesty of appearance any idea I had formed of them from paintings or description. They are truly interesting, and almost awful to contemplate. Returning to our inn, we passed through the north gate, near which some vessels are being built and repaired; and here both of us were struck with a most extraordinary appearance in the sky. The last red tinges were fading from the western clouds; but an arch, apparently of sun-light, seemed to hang over the scene of the recent departure of day. The arch was about fifty degrees broad, and twenty in height, from the horizon. It was very bright, and strongly defined; its ends appeared to rest upon two bright, but ill defined and short, pillars, while the centre was supported by a magnificent column of vivid light. Between the pillars, all was total darkness for several moments, but in a 66 short time streaks of light in parallel lines to the pillars began to descend from the arch, from south to north; the whole then vanished gradually but rapidly, and the still and silvery moonlight now extended, unopposed, to where a scene had just occurred more strange, varied, beautiful, and flitting, than even the powers of magic could adequately describe. It was now near eleven o'clock, and we adjourned to our respective apartments, wondering at how much we had done, and how much we had seen to admire, in the twelve short hours which had elapsed since we left the Mersey. Liverpool. (To be continued.) The Bouquet. J. S. "I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them." MONTAIGNE. YAMMA AND CAPTAIN S. The truth of the following story is avouched by the author of the volume in which we find it. It is from "Sketches and Tales of a Soldier's Life," by the Author of "Fifteen Years in India." "I led my friend towards the Parsee cemetery on the sea-shore. The Parsee neither burn nor bury the bodies males and the other for females, made of solid masonry, of their dead, but expose them in two receptacles, one for and open only at the top for the admission of birds of prey. Having deposited the corpse in one of these sepulchres, through a door at the bottom, it is left, slightly covered with a muslin cloth, to be devoured. The bones certain ceremonies. This mode of sepulture was common are then carefully collected, and buried in an urn, with in ancient times, in some parts of Persia. It excites surprise now, by its seeming barbarism; and that it should be practised by such an enlightened and humane tribe as the Parsees of Bombay, who are very justly called the Quakers of the East, is strange. Precept and example will, however, school the human mind to any thing, and, therefore, we need not wonder at strange customs, when we reflect, that our own are considered surprising and ridiculous in their turn. about forty men and women, whom we recognised as "As we were nearing this curious golgotha, we beheld forming a Parsee funeral procession. Amidst them was a corpse, which we afterwards found to be the body of a young female, on a cot, or low bed, that served for her bier They all seemed to be her near relations: and, instead of the solemn decency which I had before observed at such ceremonies, this exhibited hurry and secrecy: the hour was unusually early; the lamentations were not loud; there was no beating of the breast by the women; but, in long dresses smeared with ashes and paint, and with dishevelled hair streaming to the morning breeze, they were uttering low groans and imprecations. Tears and we could hear them lament that ever they had been were flowing copiously down two of the women's cheeks, born, and utter wildly-suppressed rejoicings, that she whom they bore along was dead. When they arrived at the receptacle, instead of unlocking the door, and placing the body on the platform with tenderness, it was thrown, with apparent detestation, from the parapet, and we heard the echo of its fall with a chill of horror. "All this naturally roused my curiosity, and through the instrumentality of Hormongee and Monagee, to the latter of whom I promised my interest respecting the canteen, by way of bribe for divulging the secrets of his sect, I received the following particulars, which I have every reason to believe perfectly true, and in strict accordance with Parsee usage: 66 stance scarcely ever occurs of a reference to British justice. A Parsee can have but one wife. If she die, her second mate, for he is not allowed to marry a young girl, family are bound to find a widow for the forlorn one's as with us, in his old age, nor is he obliged to wed again, should he be desirous of preserving fidelity to his de parted half. The same rule holds, if the husband die: his family are bound to find a widower, in compliance By this judicious arrangement, the frailties of human na with a wish on the subject, indicated by the lady's friends. ture are restrained, and even converted into a public bene. fit. The Parsee women receive the advantages of educa tion; many of them can read, write, play on the Indian guitar, make up accounts accurately, and in some transactions I have had with them, they appeared very sensible and intelligent. All public business, however, is transacted by the men. The women do not appear in mixed com. pany; but in infiuencing affairs, and in private negotia tions, they are powerful instruments. 66 She mises of hope, when it was her fate to be rescued from Such was the lovely Yamma, and such were the proimminent peril by the intrepidity of Capt. S had accompanied her mother, in a covered and gorgeously. decorated hackery, to a garden-house which belonged to her father, on Colabah. They staid in the garden rather longer than their attendants wished, pleased with its cooling fruits, neat walks, silver streams, and shady trees. The golden banana, glittering mango, and imperial jack, attracted their gaze and touch. At length their bullocks, in splendid housings, proud of the music of the silver bells which played in suspension from their necks, approached the bed of the tide, which I have before described raft was beginning to ply in the lower part of the channel, as separating the island of Colabah from Bombay. The but the carriage road, along the crest of the high rock, was practicable, though the rising tide might be seen glit. tering in streams across its black ravines. The drivers and runners calculated that the bullocks would cross before the tide covered the rocks, and they urged them at full speed. A strong breeze, however, came into Bombay harbour, with the flow from the ocean, and before the hackery reached the shore, the ladies saw with terror that the devouring element was floating them, that their footkeep the bullocks' heads towards the land. Alarm soon men were swimming, and in great agitation, striving to finds utterance. The mother and daughter mingled their cries, and wept in pity more for each other than for them. selves; but their agony was drowned by the roar of the flood, and the crowd at the ferry were too much absorbed in their own views, and too distant, had it been otherwise, to afford them aid. Limgee Dorabjee, a respectable trader in jewels, had a daughter called Yamma, whose beauty equalled the lustre of the finest diamond. She appeared, among the virgins of her tribe, as a gem of Golconda amidst beads of glass. Her parents saw in her, as in a flattering mirror, their fondest wishes. They pearled her jet black hair from the fort; and hoping that he should be in time to "At this awful moment Captain S was galloping with many a costly transparent row; their rubies in burncross the rocks, he made directly for the course of the ing glow were pendant from her delicate ears; their sap-hackery, saw the life struggle of the men, heard the mine glittered on her bosom, sparkled on her fingers and their assistance. His horse was a strong docile Arab, and phires from her graceful nose; while many a far-famed piercing cry for help by the women, and plunged in to arms, and shed its light on her toes and ankles. Gold Capt. S, being exceedingly fond of field sports, had and silver gave splendour to her dress; in short, in the accustomed him to swim rivers, and even the lower part of impassioned phrase of Lord Byron, and perhaps with less this ferry, though a quarter of a mile wide. The horse, of poetical hyperbole― therefore, swam as directed to the hackery, and Capt. S, having perfect confidence in his strength and steadiness, placed the daughter, who was as light as a fairy, before him; and, with the mother clinging behind, gained the shore in safety, while the hackery and bullocks were swept away by the force of the tide. The terror of the animals, preventing their effectual struggle, destroyed them; for, a moment after the perilous escape of the la dies, the hackery was upset, and the bullocks were drowned. 'She was a form of life and light, That seen, became a part of sight.' This charming young Parsee, or Peri, was about fourteen years old, an age at which the female figure attains the sound perfection of beautiful ripeness in India. Indeed marriage takes place generally at a much earlier period of life; but, in Yamma's case, the young man to whom she by important commercial affairs, in which he was deeply was affianced had been detained at Surat nearly two years concerned, and the expensive ceremony, on solemnization of wedlock, had been postponed from time to time, in anxious expectation of his return. In her tribe, women are treated with great consideration: "Yamma's prospects were bright as the star of Venus. they act an important part in the public and private concerns of their husbands, go unveiled, and, in point of personal freedom, they are under no restraint beyond that which delicacy and the custom of their mothers impose. The Parsee usages, with respect to marriage, are founded upon the happiness of domestic life, and they provide for the preservation of purity in the fair sex so effectually, that it is the boast of this admirable class of the Indian community, that their wives never prove unfaithful; nor is there an instance of prostitution among their daughters. Indeed, their eharacter in this respect is so well established at Bombay, that it is believed every aberration from virtue in their tribe is punished with immediate death, and the notoriety of the family disgrace carefully suppressed. The Parsee laws and usages are so well framed for the prevention of crime and the adjustment of disputes, that an in "Many battles and dangers require a longer time in description than in action. It was just so in this case. Short, however, as the time had been, a crowd was gathering; and not only the ladies, but all tongues, were loud while, he gazed on Yamma with wonder, and she on him in thanking Captain S for his gallant conduct. Meanwith grateful surprise. Many of the Parsees have fair complexions, and Yamma's was transparently so. Indeed, she looked, though pale with fright, and dripping with brine, so much like Venus, rising from Ocean's bed, that S pronounced her, in his own mind, the loveliest of the creation. He galloped to the fort, procured pelankeens, and saw the fair Parsees conveyed home in safety. "I wish, for Captain S's sake,-I wish, for the sake of a happy termination to my story, that his acquaintance with Yamma had here terminated; but I am impelled, by the laws of history and the nature of my information, to proceed, not with the wing of fancy, but with the plume of plain matter-of-fact. In short, then, Captain S. used every means in his power to win the love of Yamma. He corresponded with her through the medium of fakiers, or religious mendicants and fortune tellers. He loved her to distraction; he offered to marry her: for S had a soul too noble to ruin the object of his adoration. She listened to the magic of his addresses; she forgot all the customs of her tribe; she afforded her lover opportunities of seeing her; he visited her in the disguise of a Hindoo astrologer, and she agreed to leave father and mother and follow him for life. Unfortunately they were discovered, and so promptly followed by three stout and well-armed Parsees, that S was nearly killed in an unequalled contest to preserve his prize; and poor Yamma was returned to her enraged and disgraced family. colours. the receptacle of the dead, as I have described. THE BON VIVANT. [From Lady O. S's Album.] left rises in proportion. The upper joints of the arms the heart may be felt rather below the left papilla, which present nothing but bones covered with the skin, their is much lower than usual; the seat of life is, therefore, circumference measuring just four inches; while the fore placed in a most unnatural position. Its pulsation may arms, on the contrary, are five inches and a half. The be heard by placing the ear under the left shoulder; but hands are particularly long, and the nails beautifully the pulsation in every part of the body is extremely lanformed; but the fingers are contracted upwards. The guid and indistinct. The ribs are of course very plainly muscles of the arms are, however, wasted away or con- distinguished, and the abdomen seems to be greatly wasted. tracted, so that our subject does not possess the power of The upper extremities are amazingly extenuated, not elevating the hands higher than in a semi-horizontal posi- having the trace of any muscle whatever; the thigh bones tion, and when in that attitude nothing can possible ex- appear merely to be covered by the common integuments, ceed the sepulchral appearance of this living anatomy. and possess neither fat nor muscle. The feet and hands "Perhaps one of the most wonderful circumstances at- are not more than simply reduced. He possesses scarcely The reader may conceive her terror and confusion- tending the living skeleton is, that if measured externally more muscular power than enables him slightly to elevate how she protested her purity and innocence-how she from the chest to the back bone, the distance is under the extremities; this, however, he cannot do with ease, was disbelieved and upbraided-how S stormed and three inches. and we should suppose he could scarcely raise a pound raved-how he offered her family every reparation that an "Taken round the waist at the bottom of the ribs, the weight in his hand. On level ground he can walk, we honourable man could make, and how they spurned his body measures barely one foot eleven inches, and when understand, to some extent, but his stepmother is always terms with contempt and indignation. He cannot, how-the object throws its arms backwards, the shoulder-blade obliged to carry him up stairs. It will be perhaps imever, so easily picture what followed; for he may not bones are scarcely one inch asunder. From the vertebræ possible for the learned to divine the cause of this unnahave believed or known that such scenes occur in the of the back, taken between the shoulders to the centre of tural affliction. Sir Astley Cooper has, it is said, enworld. Well, I must briefly describe it-no, I cannot the loins, the falling in is not less than five inches. deavoured to account for it on the principle of want of dwell upon it-I will hurry over it, merely sketching the "The thighs are much smaller than the legs, and, like room for the action of the heart; but this observation outline, and turning with horror even from my own faint the upper joints of the arms, merely covered with skin; applies equally to all the other vital organs. To the the knees, of a reddish colour, protrude in the front and casual observer he has the dreadful appearance of being "The heads of the tribe were assembled, and an oath sides, forming as it were a bowl at the bottom of the thigh wasted by long-continued famine, or, more dreadful, of of secrecy having been taken, the fair Yamma was intro- bones. The legs, of which the right is the largest, merely some reanimated corpse that had lain for months in the duced, arrayed as a bride, and decorated as the daughter show signs of calves, particularly the latter; and the main charnel-house. If our information be correct, his daily of the rich jeweller, Limjee Dorabjee. After certain cere- arteries of the exterior of the thighs and legs are large food does not exceed three ounces, and his drink is cider." monies, her mother and grandmother approached her, and full, which were no doubt augmented by the exceswhere she sat like a beautiful statue, and presenting a sive heat of the weather. poisoned bowl and a dagger, said, in a firm tone:- Take "When in France, he ate very little, if any, animal your choice. Farewell, mother! farewell, father! fare-food; a penny French roll was enough for a day's suswell, world!' replied the heroic Parsee daughter, taking tenance; but as he now partakes of animal diet in very the deadly cup; Fate ordained that this should be small quantities, his portion of bread is reduced accordYamma's marriage' and she drained its contents! Her ingly. leaden eyes were watched till they closed in death: she His sleep is uninterrupted, except at certain periods, that is a matter of indifference to me: I am in good I am neither handsome nor ugly; tall nor short; but was then stripped, arrayed as a corpse, and conveyed to when he has violent attacks of the night-mare; to dispel health; that is the essential point. I do not attach much which his father, who always sleeps with him, and care-value to beauty or regularity of feature; whether my eyes "When Sheard that Yamma was gone, and sus- fully watches his motions, on perceiving their approach, be blue or brown, gray or black, narrow or goggling, I pected that she had been murdered, according to the cus- merely touches him with the hand, when the whole subtoms of the Parsees, the noble fabric of his brain gave sides.His voice is by no means strong, but far from dis- see very well through them; and that is quite sufficient for me. What signifies it to me, whether my nose be way, and reason fell from her throne. My horse, my agreeable; he has a particular passion for music, and even barse!' cried he; and as he patted his war-neck, the scise can sing in a faint tone: but conversation must not be trumpet-shaped, instead of being Greek or Roman, prosaw the fire of his tear-starred eye, and trembled. Away kept up for any length of time, as complete exhaustion is the more convenient to talk or eat with. If my hair vided it can smell a bouquet? If my mouth be large, it went horse and rider-far behind ran the groom. He would be the consequence. When speaking, the rotatory heard the hoof of thunder on the ground, and his master's motion through the skin of the neck is perceptible, and be furzy, there is no occasion to put it into papillotes. I have neither establishment nor employment; but I do voice urging his spirited steed towards the foaming surf-the pulsation of the heart conspicuous to the eye. then a loud explosion, as of breaking billows; and, on I never trouble myself about any occurrence, because I whatever comes uppermost, just as it suits my humour. gaining the sea-shore, he saw a black point on the stormy surface of the ocean, but he never saw the brave S count on nothing; but I laugh much, because I turn and his Arab more." every thing to account. I drink when I am thirsty; take three, sometimes four meals per diem. I never go eat when I am hungry; and feed nobly: I sometimes near such persons as bore me; and I never refuse an invitation from those with whom I am amused. When I all more proud; when I find myself in the midst of the find myself surrounded by "beaux esprits," I am not at great world, I am not at all more grave. I shut my ears "In regard to the texture of the skin of this living won-I hear a merry song. I never ask for any thing, in order when I hear my neighbours traduced; I open them when der, it is of a dry, moistless, parchment-like appearance, never to be refused; but I always accept what is offered which, covering any other human form, would not answer the purposes of its functions, but seems calculated alone to dulge in projects, for fear they should not succeed; but me, in order that no one may be offended. I never incover the slender juiceless body of the being whom nature intended it to array. On the shins, nodes appear in the turn circumstances to my profit, when I find the opporform of buttons, though not obtrusively to the eye, and fidious, jealous; I do not believe a syllable of it: to my Women are called deceitful, pertunity advantageous. the toes of the feet are bent over one another. view, they are all sincere, sweet-tempered, tender, and faithful. I never trouble my head about what my mistress does when I am absent; if she treats me well when I am present, that is all I ask. I never examine if she has ink on the tips of her fingers; if her eyes have a tendency towards the clock or window; if her answers are embarrassed; if she grows confused in telling a story; or if her gaiety appears assumed for the occasion. She tells me that she adores me; I believe it. A few days after, perhaps, I find her with another; I leave her, and carry my love and my devotion elsewhere. I possess a fund of sentiment and philosophy, which raises me far above the operation of these trifling events. By some I am thought stupid; by others witty. Some blame my apathy; while others regard it with envy. Some ladies accuse me of insensibility and self-love; the world at large sets me down for an original. For my part, I am on good terms with myself, which is the main thing. I am told that age will make me wise; to me it seems that I am so already. To conclude, I do not know my age; for some time past I have kept no account of the lapse of my years: all that I care about is employing them well. What signifies it to a man whether he lives till sixty or fifty, provided he has lived the whole of his days. There are centenaries who cannot count a single year of happiness during their whole life. I shall be richer than them if I die at thirty. Miscellanies. THE LIVING SKELETON. [The following account of this strange lusus naturæ, who has just been imported for the gratification of the ravenous curiosity of the London public, is from the Medical Adviser. The name of the living skeleton is Claude Ambroise Seurat; he is a native of Troyes, in Champagne, was born on the 10th of April, 1798, and is, consequently, 7 years of age. On inquiry as to whether any object had presented itself during his mother's pregnancy to create a fright, we were assured to the contrary, which was the more unlikely, in consequence of the mother having been very bort-sighted. "The child, on coming into the world, presented the customary baby form, its features being handsome; but in proportion as the infant grew, the frame gradually wasted away, and so continued to decrease until the attain ment of its full stature, which occurred at the usual term of life, at which period Claude Ambroise Seurat had attained his present height of five feet seven inches and a half, when his frame had dwindled to the living skeleton form it now personifies. Having been shaved for the purpose of displaying the formation of the skull, in order to prevent the effect of cold, he wears a wig, the colour of his eyebrows, which are a dark chesnut brown. The pupils of his eyes are large, full, and penetrating; the whites very clear, and his sight strong; but the upper lids appear Father to weigh downwards, from a laxity of the muscles, added to which, there is a glassiness in the sight that conreys a something of ghastliness to the general appearance. His teeth are perfect; his power of mastication very good, as there is no defect in the strength of the jaws. His right shoulder inclines very much downwards, while the In raising either of his feet from the floor, the limb appears to be distended uselessly from the knee, and we cannot better illustrate this idea than by that sensation we commonly experience upon allowing a limb to remain too long in one position, thereby causing a temporary strangulation of the vessels, known by the common term of the foot being asleep. "Since his arrival, Sir Astley Cooper, by whom he has been visited, finds that his heart is placed so much out of the common region allotted to it, that it is precisely its own length lower than if properly placed. "The ribs are not only capable of being distinguished, but may be clearly separated, and counted one by one, and handled like so many pieces of cane, and, together with the skin which covers them, resemble more the hoops and outer covering of a balloon of a small size, than any thing in the ordinary course of nature. We come now to the action produced by the effort of the lungs, and which, strange as it may appear, does not proceed from the chest as in ordinary cases, but from the lower extremity of the abdomen, as though the organs of respiration, from excessive laxity, had absolutely descended from their proper sphere, and that, by a tenacious effort of nature, unwilling to yield possession of her functions, they had accommodated themselves by time to such an unnatural and incredible position." The following are some particulars, from another account:-"His voice, however, is not particularly weak, and is rather pleasing than otherwise. He converses in very good French, and reads and writes tolerably well. It is not until he is disrobed that the spectator perceives any thing out of the common order. But, then, the wretched and unnatural form of the young man is at once seen. Across the shoulders he is very broad, and there is a remarkable elevation of the superior spine of the scapula. The neck is unusually short and thick. The action of Poetry. THE LAST TIME. WRITTEN ON QUITTING A FAVOURITE SCENE AT How like an ice-bolt on the heart And quit its tott'ring wall, A bird, a flower, a favourite tree, Or thing regarded not; How trifling soe'er't may be, Or with importance fraught, Beheld to bid a last adieu, How the heart sickens at the view! And valueless the form before, Quickly an influence own, Strange, undefined; yet from the heart How vain to bid that influence part! Last night, as wandering on the sands What time pale Luna shone, O'er wood, and wave, and distant lands, And have I ta'en a last farewell What may thy bodings mean? Silent, and lone, this quiet shore, Ah! he might say, void is his mind, Yes! though he boasts, and brave he seem, No brightened hope, no future joy, And closed his day. TO Oh! thou art as fair as the bright beam of morn With emotions of rapture his heart wildly thrills; As Petrarch lov'd Laura, as Tasso ador'd With their desolate feelings my heart can accord, Each look bears enchantment, each smile has its spell, [UNPUBLISHED POEMS OF CHATTERTON.] THE COMPLAINT. Still silence reigned, beside a brook He bore his sorrows in his look, AMATOR. When with a falt'ring tongue, which told Immensity of pain; Languid his icy eyes he roll'd They help'd him to complain. Is Delia, heavenly Delia, dead? My joy existed in her smile; Her look would every care beguile; Since Heaven has taken all I priz'd, Mad'ning with anguish, from the ground Fashions for August. MORNING DRESS.-Dress of plain jaconet muslin; the corsage full at the back, and ornamented in front with insertion-work, which proceeds outwardly from the shoulder to nearly the centre of the waist, inclosing four rows of very delicate work, placed transversely between the muslin, and meeting in points in the front. The sleeves long and full, with three rows of insertion-work near the wrist. The skirt has three broad rows of insertion-lacework, of an elegant and novel pattern. Ceinture of garter-blue ribbon, with a silver buckle in front. White crèpe lisse cap, of a circular or dome shape; the crown irradiating from the top in large flutes, which are edged with small blue satin piping, and contain each a halfblown rose, or a rose-colour gauze bow; beneath is a draw head-piece and border of folded crèpe lisse, interspersed with blue and rose-coloured gauze ribbon, corresponding to the bow at the top: lappet strings of the same material as the cap. Broad gold bracelets and plain gold ear-rings. Silk barège shawl; yellow gloves and shoes. EVENING COSTUME.-Dress of blue crepe lisse over a satin slip of the same colour: balloon puffings surround the border, and are carried up gracefully, in bias across the skirt, but not quite so high as the waist. A bouquet of primroses is placed in front, in the centre of the trimming round the border, and another finishes the ornament that is carried across, more than half way up the skirt: each puff is confined by fluted rings of blue satin. The corsage is of blue satin, made plain, except having a crepe lisse bouffont drapery across the bust, which is fastened in the middle with a fluted ring of satin. The sleeves are short, and are formed of gauze, beautifully entwined, representing treillage-work. A narrow tucker of Vandyke blond is adopted with this dress. The hair elegantly arranged in curls and bows, among fichu-points of blue gauze interspersed; two points depend, with pearl tassels, over the right side, and a very small esprit feather is placed at the back of the summit of the head. The necklace and ear-rings are of large pearls; the bracelets of broad chased gold, fastened with sapphires. Scientific Records. LIST OF NEW PATENTS. To J. J. Saintmare, of Belmont Distillery, Wandsworth Road, Surrey, distiller, for improvements in distilling.Dated 28th June, 1825.-6 months to enrol specification. To David Redmund, of Old-street Road, Middlesex, engineer, for improvements in building ships, houses, &c. -28th June.-6 months. To George Thompson, of Wolverhampton, for improve. ments in the construction of saddles.-28th June.-6 mo. To John Heathcoat, of Tiverton, lace-manufacturer, for improvements in manufacturing thrown silk.-6th July. -6 months. To William Heycock, cloth-manufacturer, of Leeds, for improvements in machinery for dressing cloth.-8th July.-6 months. To John Biddle, of Dormington, Salop, glass-manufac turer, for his machinery for making, repairing, and cleansing roads, paths, &c.-8th July.-6 months. To Lieut. Molyneaux Shieldham, of Brampton Hall, Wrangford, Suffolk, for improvements in setting, working, reefing, and furling the sails of vessels.-8th July. -2 months. To William Furnival and John Craig, both of Ander ton, Cheshire, salt manufacturers, for improvements in the manufacturing of salt.-8th July.-6 months. To John Day and Samuel Hall, of Nottingham, lace. manufacturers, for their improvement on a pusher twist or bobbin-net machine.-8th July.-2 months. To Walter Hancock, of King-street, Northamptonsquare, Middlesex, for improvements in the making pipes for the passage of fluids.-16th July.-6 months. To William and Henry Hurst, of Leeds, for improve ments in scribbling and carding sheep's wool.-16th July. -6 months. To Henry Hurst, manufacturer, and George Bradley, machine-maker, both of Leeds, for improvements in looms for woollen cloths.-16th July.-6 months. To Thomas Wolrich Stansfeld, merchant, William Pritchard, civil engineer, and Samuel Wilkinson, mer chant, of Leeds, for improvements in looms and in the implements connected therewith.-16th July.-6 months. To Thomas, of Devizes, saddler, for improvements in collars for horses and other animals.-16th July.months. To Marc Isambard Brunel, of Bridge-street, Black. friars, London, for mechanical arrangements for obtaining powers from fluids, and for applying the same to various useful purposes.-16th July.-6 months. To Thomas Sitlinton, of Stanley Mills, Gloucestershire, engineer, for improvements in machinery for shearing or cropping woollen or other cloths.-16th July.-6 months. To Joseph Farey, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, Middlesex, civil engineer, for improvements in lamps.-16th July.6 months. |