women ploughing.' What might be the motive of this singular attempt to give a new direction to the industry of one half for, notwithstanding the consumption of the species, it is not easy to determine; human lives by our fleets and armies, and still men sufficient left for the purpose of our devouring manufactures, there are agriculture.

-Up he gat on a know-head,

Enchiridion; or, a Hand for the OneHanded. After the wife has gone to the plough, the By George Webb de husband drives out the geese, seven in Renzey, Captain, H. P. 82d Reginumber, to feed; the fox comes past and ment. 8vo. pp. 60. London, 1821. cries, be runs out, when taking advantage carries off five of them; on hearing their WITH the most sincere respect and of his absence, the calves break loose, and good wishes for Captain de Renzey, we devoutly wish that we may not have a On his return, he sits down to spin; but save him the trouble of milking the cows. single reader that may require the assistance of his ingenious work. Should, It was esteemed one of the most une- takes flame, and sets fire to the chimney, stooping down too near the grate, the lint however, any of them have suffered a quivocal signs of the exhausted and mise-which he has no small difficulty in quenchsimilar misfortune with the author, that rable state to which France was reduced ing. He then tries the churn; but after of losing a right hand, we recommend in the latter days of Louis XIV. that in toiling at it for an hour, the sorrow a them, without delay, to avail them-left for the offices of husbandry; and in the butter-making in despair, the sow many provinces they had only women crap of butter he gat;' on his abandoning. selves of the valuable helps which he has all ages and countries, to have only wocontributed for their assistance. Captain de Renzey, losing his arm fruits of the earth, has been thought to staff to drive it away, he kills, by mistake, men to till the ground, or gather in the unchurned milk, when seizing the chumcomes in, and is beginning to lap up the at the battle of Vittoria, has since been present a striking picture of desolation. the two goslings which the fox had left. induced to devote a considerable por- The country is poor, whatever else is It is now time to go and take up the tion of his time and thoughts to the plentiful, where men are scarce. contriving and perfecting of a set of scarcity does not exist in England; and that— This bairns;' but here such a scene awaits him, instruments, such as shall enable the the evil is, that the men have usurped the possessor of them to dispense with the where are the robust frames that ought to departments of the women. If we ask attendance of a servant, or that atten- be toiling in the winter's frost and sumtion from a friend, which would other-mer's sun, we shall find that some of them wise be absolutely necessary to supply are stationed in warm carpeted rooms, to him those minute arrangements of handing tea to a circle of idle listless laneatness and economy, which the modes dies and gentlemen; others are lifting up and refinements of social life render in- and down their long legs, and painfully dispensable to personal comfort and ap- short trip of a delicate young lady, who trying to accommodate their pace to the pearance. The captain's attention has walks before them, or the slow pace of been devoted to constructing a variety an infirm old one: of articles for a complete apparatus, out lap dogs to air; some with white some are carrying sufficient to enable a one-handed per- sleeves and aprons making cheese-cakes; son to go through the whole business of and hundreds are stationed the live-long the toilet, dispatch eggs at his breakfast day behind counters, sorting thread, and with the greatest ease, mend his own measuring lace and ribbons. Let, then, pens, brush his hat, sit down in any in them, and the pastry-cooks' and haberthe servants' halls give up the idle that are company with as much ease and inde- dashers' shops the idle that are in them, pendence as the rest of the guests,— and there will be a sufficiency of stout rewomen from their appropriate employcruits for the plough, without taking the

Indeed they cannot attend to both; and if the wives are to be in the the linen, rock the cradle, and dress the field, their husbands must, in return, wash dinner.

"No fear lest dinner cool" while he waits for the assistance of his neighbours,crack his nuts himself atments. the desert, like his jokes, and play a rubber at whist, provided he knows the game, wherever he may go.' Such are a few of the advantages to be gained by Captain de Renzey's Enchiridion, which will recommend itself to all who. may require its assistance.

MALE AND FEMALE EMPLOYMENTS.

Of the consequences of such an ex-
change of employment, we have an ad-
mirable picture in an old Scotch ballad,
called The Wife of Auchtermuchty :'
"In Auchtermuchty dwelt a man,

An husband, as I heard it tawld,
Wha weel could tipple out a can,
And neither luvit hunger nor cauld;
And ance it fell upon a day,

He yokit his pleuch upon the plain,
But short the storm would let him stay,

It has ever been the praise of England, that as the weaker sex are excluded, more strictly perhaps than in most other Euro. pean countries, from all the walks of profit or honour, an amends is made to them Sair blew the day with wind and rain.' by their being excused from those more laborious offices, which are neither fitted he returns home; and envying the snug Loosening his oxen from the plough, to the weakness of their frame, nor the warmth which his wife enjoys by the fire delicacy of their habits and manners. side, he insists that she shall to-morrow go This state of society has been, in some degree, attempted to be disturbed; and, domestic duties. The good dame at once out to the field, and he will attend to the among the premiums of the Bath Agricul- consents, on condition that it shall be a tural Society, in 1805, there is one for binding bargain to go to the labours of the From the Percy Anecdotes, No. XX. Anec-field day about. The account of the first dotes of industry cha day's trial is told with great humour.

She heard him, and she heard him not,
She drove the day unto the nicht;
But stoutly steered the stots about.
She fand all wrang that suld heen right,
She loos'd the pleuch, and syne cam hame;

On her to cry, on her to shout;

I trew the mon thocht meikle shame.

Quoth he, my office I forsake,
For all the haile days of my life;

For I wuld put a house to wreck,
Quoth she, weel might ye bruik your place,

Had I been twenty days, gude wife.

Quoth he, feyn'd fa' the lyar's face,
For truly sall ne'er accept it;

The up she gat a meikle mug,
But yet ye may be blyth to get it.

Quoth he, dame I sall hald my tung, a
And the gude mon made to the door
Quoth he, when I forsook the pleuch,
For an we fecht I'll get the war.

I trow I but forsook my skill;
Then I will to my pleuch again, as dang
For I and this house will never do weel.'
The poet of nature, Thomson, has de-
scribed, in glowing colours, the hay-mak-
ing lass, placed by the side of her lover,
with all-

'Her kindled graces burning o'er her cheek. equally pleased with the idea of a sturdy" But it is a question if he would have been lass bending over a plough, and whistling to the horse. But, indeed, before the effect can well be ascertained, it should be known with more accuracy what is intended; for it does not appear, whether the Bath agriculturalists intended the fe male to guide the plough, or to bẹ yoked. to it. The latter, though somewhat novel, would not be altogether unprece dented, since we are informed by a late even to Bath, it is not uncommon to see a try which does not yield in politeness writer, Mr. Barrow, that in China, a coun husbandman plough with a woman and an ass yoked together. This is an age of im provements; and if the Chinese custom great saving in the labour of that poble quadruped the horse; and would correswere adopted, it would, no doubt, be pond to the scale of excellence of some philosophers, who hold that man is of i

Original Communications. has traced scolding to the gods; I can

PUNISHMENT OF SCOLDS. To the Editor of the Literary Chronicle. SIR, In turning over one of the early Borlase, in his Natural History of numbers of your interesting journal, Cornwall, p. 303, tells us, Among I met with an ingenious article in de- the punishments inflicted in Cornwall, fence of scolding, on account of its of old time, was that of the cocking great antiquity; but, as neither time stool, a seat of infamy, where strumnor precedent can make that right pets and scolds were condemued to which is morally wrong, I shall not at- abide the derision of those that passed tempt to combat the arguments of your by, for such time as the bailiffs of correspondent, but shall, as an appen- manors, which had the privilege of such dix to his paper, or as an antidote to its jurisdiction, did appoint.' effects, make a few observations on this Mr. Lysons, in his Environs of Lonsubject, and on the means formerly re-don, vol. ii. p. 244, mentions, that at a sorted to for the punishment of scolds; court of the manor of Edgeware, held * Sec Literary Chronicles No. 3 in the year 1552, the inhabitants were

These stools seem to have been in common use when Gay wrote his Pastorals; and they are thus described in the Dumps, 1, 105. :--

&c.

I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool the dread of ev'ry scolding quean,' The stool is represented in a cut annexed to the Dumps, designed and engraved by Lud. de Guernier.

There is also a wooden cut of one in the frontispiece of the popular penny history of The Old Woman of Ratcliff Highway,'

In Miscellaneous Poems,' &c. by Benjamin West, of Weedon Beck, Northamptonshire. 8vo. 1780, p. 84, is preserved a copy of verses, said to have been written near sixty years ago, entitled the Ducking-Stool.' The description runs thus:

There stands, my friend, in yonder pool,
An engine call'd a ducking-stool:
By légal pow'r commanded down,
The joy and terror of the town.
If jarring females kindle strife,
Give language foul, or lug the coif;
If noisy dames should once begin
To drive the house with horrid din,
Away you cry, you'll grace the stool,-
We'll teach you how your tongue to rule.
The fair offender fills the seat,
In sullen pomp,-profoundly great,
Down in the deep the stool descends,
But here, at first, we miss our ends;
She mounts again, and rages more
Than ever vixen did before.
So, throwing water on the fire,
Wir but make it burn the higher.
If so, my friend, pray let her take
A second turn into the lake;'
And, rather than your patience lose,
Thrice and again repeat the dose,
No brawling wives, no furious wenches,-
No fire so hot but water quenches.
In Prior's skilful lines, we see"

For these another recipe:

A certain lady, we are told,

(A lady, too, and yet a scold,)
Was very much relieved, you'll say,
By water, yet a different way;
A mouthful of the same she'd take,
Sure not to scold, if not to speak?

have you not heard that it is the cradle
your good mother hath often layn in ?"

custom be deemed admissible, its insertion will much oblige

Your's, &c. ttt.

REMARKABLE DEATHS.
PLURIMA MORTIS IMAGO.

How long this wholesome corrective, the ducking-stool, has been in disuse in this country, I know not; but that it was not always effectual, appears from the records of the King's Bench, where we find, that in the year THE recent death of the most extraTM 1681, Mrs. Finch, a most notorious ordinary, if not the greatest man, of the scold, who had been thrice ducked pre-present age, of a disease, considered by viously, for scolding, was a fourth time the learned in these matters as an convicted for the offence, when the unique in nosology, has induced us to court sentenced her to pay a fine of recal to mind some of the most uncomthree marks, and to be imprisoned un-mon deaths which are to be found on til it was paid. the pages of history. We have accordingly thrown together the few following, which relate, for the most part, to some of the most celebrated names of subject, would far exceed the bounds. antiquity. To do full justice to the of our publication:

From an American newspaper of 1818, I find that a public ducking is still the punishment inflicted on a comtimore; and that one Mary Davis, who mon scold, according to the law of Balhad been indicted for the offence, was found guilty by the jury, after a consultation of an hour and a half.

adeò sunt multa loquacem Delassare valent Fabium.'

While on the subject, it may not be We shall begin with Valerian, a irrelevant to notice another punishment Roman of distinction, who, being taken for scolding women, called the branks. prisoner by Sapor, King of Persia, was They have an artifice at Newcastle-un- by him stuffed, and afterwards preder-Line and Walsall, says Dr. Plott*, served as a curiosity. A similar end is for correcting of scolds, which it does also ascribed to one Manes, at the too, so effectually and so very safely, hands of the same facetions monarch, that I look upon it as much to be pre- who seems to have had a singular taste ferred to the cucking-stool, which not in matters of virta. Gibbon is our auonly endangers the health of the party, thority for the first instance, but wẽ but also gives the tongue liberty 'twixt forget by whom the latter is related. every dip, to neither of which this is The exit of Chrysippus, the stoic of at all liable; it being such a bridle for Tarsus, who, among sundry eccentric the tongue, as not only quite deprives opinions, was wont to maintain the prothem of speech, but brings shame for priety of eating dead bodies rather than the transgression, and humility there- burying them, was not less strange upon before it is taken off; which be- than the tenets he espoused. For he is ing put upon the offender by order of recorded to have died in his 80th year, the magistrate, and fastened with a in a violent fit of laughter, in consepadlock behind, she is led round the quence of seeing an ass eat figs off a town by an officer, to her shame, nor is silver platter. The same sort of fate is it taken off till after the party begins appropriated, by Valerius Maximus, to to shew all external signs imaginable, Philemon, the Greek poet. By the of humiliation and amendment. way, with reference to the singular Dr. Plott, in a copper-plate annex-doctrine entertained by Chrysippus, it may not be mal apropos to notice what is related by Juvenal, of an unfortunate Egyptian, who, being killed in the heat of a verbal controversy, was actually devoured by his antagonist on the spot. This, a punster would say, was getting the worst of the argument with a vengeance, Of a kin with the story above told of Sapor, is that as cribed to Cambyses, who, upon the malversation of one of his judges, caused him to be flead alive, and his skin stuffed as a seat for his son, whos was condemned to fill the post of bis unfortunate father. Cumbyses defended this piece of cruelty by bluserving, that he had resorted to it is orders that

A note informs us, To the honoured, gives a representation of a pair of of the fair sex in the neighbourhood of branks. They still preserve a pair in R***y, this machine has been taken the town court at Newcastle-upondown (as useless) several years." Tyne, where the same custom once prevailed.

In the New Help to Discourse,' 3d edit. 1684, p. 216, we have the following retorts on the subject of the ducking-stool Some gentlemen travelling, and coming near to a town, saw an old woman spinning, near the ducking-stool, one, to make the company merry, asked the good woman what that chair was for? Said she, • you know what it is. Indeed,' said he, not I, unless it, be the chair you use to spin in.'→→ No, no,' said she, you know it to be otherwise;

It appears from Gardiner's Eng-
land's Grievance, in relation to the coal
trade,' that in the time of the common
wealth, the magistrates of Newcastle
upon Tyne punished scolds with the
branks, and drunkards by making
them carry a tub, with holes in the
sides for the arms to pass through,
called the drunkard's cloak, through
the street of the town.

Should this hasty notice of an ancient
History of Staffordshire, p. 389,

and meritorious services; while Fanny
is not a little gratified to receive a dip
from some innocent child, who mis-
takes her for a young lady. I remem-
ber a gentleman, who, desiring to be
taken for a clergymau, attired himself

the very place, from which the new judge administered the laws, should keep him constantly in mind of his duty. And certainly, under the reign of such an individual, the remedy must have proved most effectual. The death of father Le Vacher, a French-in black, wore a bush wig and hat, si-ings are deserving of the free and libe

·

man, who was, in the year 1682, fired
from a mortar by the Algerines, is, per-
haps, a match for either of the forego-
ing. To these we may add the extra-
ordinary exits of several of the most
eminent Greek poets, as they are re-
lated by Valerius Maximus, who, in
his chapter De Mortibus non Vul-
garibus,' has also collected several
other remarkable instances. To begin
with the prince of poets, he tells us,
that Homer died of grief because he
could not solve a question proposed to
him by a fisherman. Eschylus, he
says, was killed by the fall of a tortoise
upon his head, which, being bald and
exposed to the rays of the sun, an eagle
had mistaken for a stone, and accord
ingly dropped the tortoise upon it, in
order that, by thus breaking the shell,
he might the more readily devour his
prey. Euripides was torn to pieces by
dogs; and Sophocles died of joy after
being declared victor in a poetical con-
test, after a long and doubtful dis-
pute. The death of Philemon has
already been mentioned; and Pindar
died in a school-room, reclining his
head on the breast of a boy, who bad
been affectionately attached to him; and
so tranquil was his departure, that it
was not discovered until the school was
about to be dismissed. And, to close
the list, Anacreon, as every one knows,
was choked by a grape-stone. We
will merely remark, in conclusion,
that, according to history, scarcely one
of the Roman Emperors died a natural
death,
0.

PICTURES, PERSONS, AND THINGS. While some we ridicule, we some commend, And use the mean connected with the end. THE COXComb stands in effeminate gestures, admiring the caricature of a pea sant; and, in return, the peasant delights himself to think how cleverly the coxcomb's folly is represented. The footman boasts that his master imitates him in the cut of his clothes, and imagines an epaulet honourable since it is worn by officers of the army and navy. Miss Pique is quite horri fied, that Fanny, the cottager's daughter, should presume to go to church in a white frock with tucks, even admitting it to have been given her by the squire's lady for diligent behaviour

milar to that which we have seen in the
old prints of Frederic of Prussia; he
once rode in a chaise upwards of ten
niles, into a part of the country to
which the bishop was hourly expected,
and exulted in the idea, from the no-
tice he attracted, of being identified
for the worthy prelate. If young la-
dies smile with our venerable grandfa-
thers and speak kindly to them, they
throw the golden-tipped cane aside,
and, like cold weather, return again
into mild.

strove to be at peace with each other;
and while we respect the laws of our
country, we should maintain dignity,
which is not exposed to servile deport-
ment, and keep content, which is not
innovated by anarchy. Rational be-
ral privileges of nature, and we should
be protected but when we expose our-
selves to error and shame. Like the
light we see and the air we breathe,
when our thoughts are pure, we should
have the generous use of our faculties.,
We are told, to be good is to be hap-
py; hypocrisy is an obstacle to the
attainment of it. Slandering our neigh-
bours, on one view of the question, and
without just evidence deciding on the
other, is another obstacle.
It is the,
foible of the mind, impregnated with
pride, which deserves satire, and not
A de-
the imperfections of nature.
formed person may be good and happy,
though unfit to represent the fair pro-
portions and fine specimens of the no-
blest workmanship of the human race.

Biography.

IO SONO.

Characters re-live, though few are found who figured in the days of Steele, Bickerstaff, and Addison; and many who are notoriously eccentric in the present day, will, like bulbous roots, be transplanted into the soil of a century hence, with new varieties of folly and vanity. The garden of literature is full of weeds; the most industrious critics cannot extirpate them ;exotics are cultivated in scientific HENRY EDRIDGE, Esq. R. A. F. S. A. ground, but too many, like tulips, are THIS amiable man and excellent artist› gay without perfume. Men are blind was born at Paddington, in the year: to their own failings, and apply them 1768; his father, who was in trade in to others which should improve them the parish of St. James's, Westminster, selves. Laughter and mirth are born died at the age of 44, leaving his wiand fostered by those who want reflec- dow, with five children, rather inadetion, and a vain love of personal advan- quately provided for. His mothen was tages prevents them from becoming a woman of superior mind, and as, in sterling in value and useful in society. the early education of children, materI would not be understood to discou-nal influence most frequently forms the rage sprightlinesss, by which health is character, to her may be attributed the promoted, and, perhaps, secured. The sense of propriety and correctness of medium of joy, by the assistance of conduct, which so conspicuously marked wisdom, will counterbalance the weight her son's progress through life. of sorrow. The yoke of care might be. Mr. Edridge was the youngest child easily borne, if it were the one which but one; and having very early shewn our Creator has designed us; but we, an attachment to the Fine Arts, hist by our instability and mutable actions, mother was induced, by the advice of make it heavy; and, alas! how many her friends, to place him, at the age sink into an untimely grave by its dis-of 14, with Mr. Pether, an artist, well tressing pressure! So fields of flowers known as a mezzotinto engraver (ando are destroyed by the irresistible blast. painter of landscape. Two years after The lament which affection inspires, his apprenticeship, he was admitted a softens our feeling and endears us while student in the Royal Academy, where we follow the departed from earth to he soon distinguished himself, and in heaven; but then this carries its conso- 1786 obtained a medal for the best lations and sympathies, its instructions drawing of an academy figure. While and improvements, its submissions, studying at the academy, his talents preparations, and, finally, consumma attracted the attention, and procured tions. Would we were more disposed him the regard of the them president, to fix the throne of happiness within Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose pictures our reach, whereon we might set the he was in the habit of copying in mis spirit of harmony to sway lier sceptre niature for hisown improvements Upon continually over us! Would that we one occasion, Sir Joshua was so much"

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pleased with his performance, that he In 1801, Mr. Edridge removed from there is any admiration for fidelity, desired to have the copy, which of Dufour's Place to Margaret Street, united to the best qualities of the art. course was readily offered for his ac- where he continued to practise his pro- There was a timidity, however, in Mr. ceptance; that, however, was declined, fession till his death. He had two Hearne's manner, which seemed to` reand the young artist having been pre- children: the eldest, a daughter, who strain him from venturing on those bold vailed on to name a price, Sir Joshua died May 1, 1807, in the 17th year of effects and strong transitions of chiaro not only paid him nearly double the her age; the other, a son, who died scuro, that have since his time been amount, but meeting him a few days July 20, 1820, at almost the precise the admiration of the public. In this afterwards, insisted upon making him age of his sister. He was a youth of respect, Mr. Edridge stepped far bea still further payment, observing that great promise, and his premature death yond his master. Though he did not he had since sold the drawing to a no- was an affliction from which Mr. Ed-practise it, Mr. Edridge, about two bleman for a considerable profit, and ridge never wholly recovered. He had years ago, painted three pictures in oil was therefore debtor for the difference. watched over his son with an unwearied colours; two of them were small landMezzotinto engraving being in no solicitude, which none can appreciate scapes, and the third was a copy from way suited to Mr. Edridge's taste, an but those who feel the strength of pa- Teniers. arrangement was made with his mas- rental anxiety, and have mourned the He was elected an associate of the ter to permit him to study and prac-loss of an only child. It would be dif- Royal Academy of Arts, in November, tise miniature painting, to which branch ficult to describe the feelings and suf- 1820, and no better or more grateful of art he afterwards exclusively applied ferings he experienced at his loss, and tribute could be paid, either to his tahimself. During his apprenticeship though he bowed with submission to lents as an artist or his worth as a man, he suffered a severe affliction in the the will of heaven, his constitution sunk than the feeling and appropriate eulogy loss of his mother, who had ever been under the blow. For many years pre-pronounced to his memory by the preto him a most tender and affectionate vious to his last illness, Mr. Edridge sident, at the annual academy dinner, parent, and whose memory he con- had occasionally laboured under consi- which took place immediately after his stantly, to his latest breath, fondly and derable difficulty of respiration, which death. gratefully cherished. in January last greatly increased, and As a man, Mr. Edridge possessed In the year 1789, Mr. Edridge mar-while suffering under a most distressing those amiable and endearing qualities ried a lady from Taunton of the name oppression of breath, he was attacked which gained him the affection of all of Smith, and established himself as a by spasms in the chest, from which he who knew him. His moral character portrait painter, in Dufour's Place, endured extreme torture. For above was pure and unblemished; to the Golden Square, in which almost se- three months he had few intervals of strictest integrity and benevolence of cluded situation he raised himself to ease, but during all that time his mind heart, he united the most polished and the greatest celebrity, proving that me- retained its accustomed vigour, and his gentlemanly manners. He had an elorit, such as his, did not require the ad- fortitude in sustaining his afflicting ill-quence and suavity of speech, joined ventitious aid of outward circumstances ness, together with his christian resig. to a sportiveness of wit, that rendered to ensure its success. nation to the will of God, was the ad- his society extremely delightful; his miration of those who witnessed it. thoughts were conceived with vigour, and expressed with the happiest propriety; and there never, perhaps, was a man more entitled, from his accomplishments, high judgment, and justness of sentiment, to move in the polished circles of life. In this society he was courted and caressed, and was distinguished by the friendship and affection of many in the highest rank, which continued with unabated kindness to the hour of his death.

Mr. Edridge's earliest works were miniatures on ivory; afterwards he made his portraits on paper, with black lead and Indian ink; to these he added back grounds, which were beautifully diversified, and drawn with great taste; after continuing this practice several years, he discontinued Indian ink, and adopted water colours, still finishing his drawings slightly, except the heads, which were always remarkable for their force, brilliancy, and truth. It was of late years only that he made those elaborately high-finished pictures on paper, uniting the depth and richness of oil paintings with the freedom and freshness of water colours, and of which there is perhaps scarcely a nobleman's family in England without some specimen. His acquisition of this latter stile is to be attributed to the study of Sir Joshua Reynolds's best works, which he omitted no opportunity of copying, and thereby not only obtained a collection of the most beautiful and faithful copies of that great master that have ever perhaps been made, but rendered the improvements of his own original works remarkably conspicuous.

Mr. Edridge had always an exquisite taste for the picturesque beauties of landscape, but the extent of his practice in drawing portraits, prevented the devotion of much time to this his favourite pursuit, until after the death of his son, when having no longer a motive for adhering to the lucrative part of his profession, he indulged his inclination, and the drawings which he afterwards made from various scenes of nature, are most admirable. In 1817, and again in 1819, he visited France, where he found ample materials for the exercise of his taste, in the picturesque buildings of Paris, and still more interesting scenery of Normandy; the drawings made from these sketches, which were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1820, as well as those of the present year, leave us to regret that this branch of art had not, at least, shared a greater portion of his earlier time.

The late Mr. Hearne was the master from whom Mr. Edridge first acquired his taste and skill for sketching landscape scenery; a master, whose best works will ever be esteemed so long as

Mr. Edridge died at his house, in Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, on Monday, the 23d of April, 1821, in the 53d year of his age.

Original Poetry.

TO THE THISTLE.
BADGE of a people high in arms-

(In love, in song, renowned ay';
Whose very NAME my bosom warms?
Dear theme of many a raptur'd lay!"
Heaven bade thy rugged form advance
And bloom beneath a northern sky,
Proud as the fleur-de-lis of France,

Or England's rose of flaunting dyeWhen on thy hills the foeman pour d In Roman or Selavome rage,