what they themselves censure, they, for the most part, avoid notice and seek the shade. Thus mankind is little benefited. An attentive observer seldom opens his lips, and still seldomer is seen in print. I, Sir, would gladly form an exception to this too general rule of conduct; and since, like others of my fraternity, I cannot be accused of loquacity, beg I may now and then occupy a corner of your Kaleidoscope. My fears are great, that even there I may be unnoticed by your readers, and that the ladies, especially, will little care for one whom they do not know. It is to satisfy their curiosity, if they condescend to be curious about me, that I devote, though with some reluctance, the remainder of this paper to a description of myself. Though I have confessed my youth, permit me to say that I have always dreaded to be thought older than wise, and if wisdom is to be gained by looking about one, I must possess a little; as I have, from my birth, had an extraordinary inclination to make the most of my eyes. In person I am tall, of a pale and bad complexion, long legged, and somewhat awkward. The grass never grows under my feet. You, and most of your acquaintance, Mr. Editor, must have seen me. Sometimes I am discovered viewing a fire, at others a fight. The perusal of placards, great and small, red and black, forms a part of my daily amusement. In short, little escapes my observation; and if you want to know any one's equipage or shop, or office,-nay, how many steps he has to his doors, or how many windows to his house, from me you can obtain correct information. Thus prying about I have not unfrequently been deemed no better than I should be: some have taken me for an assessor, others for a custom-house officer, to which conjectures my neglect of dress may have contributed. He who bestows his time on the inspection of others, finds little leisure for the inspection of himself. It has been already observed that my passion for observation (circumspection I am too modest to call it, as that term is now synonymous with wisdom) is as old as myself. When first admitted to the dinner-table, they were obliged to place my chair with its back towards the window, lest I should feast only on the prospect before me. Then came school: there I was happy. My companions being too few to enjoy the usual games of boys, were always ready for the inspection and discussion of the daily occurrences, casualties and changes of the village. A bear-bait or a funeral, a sack race, or a wild beast show was equally delightful; and when we read the Greek Testament, we compared ourselves to the Athenians, who "spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Since my abode in town I have not found this propensity decrease; on the contrary, it has seemed to expand in proportion as its sphere of action has been ealarged, so that an occasional evaporation cannot fail to be of service if you permit me to make use of your paper as a safety-valve. Having expatiated so much on this subject as expose myself to the charge of egotism, I thall conclude with the hope, that as my plan is capable of variety, and no topic foreign to the province of an Observer, I may be fortunate enough to please some of your friends; the old, perhaps one week, and the young the next; now the trifling, and now the serious reader. In which hope, I remain, Mr. Editor, Your obedient servant, PYRUS. To Correspondents. The following notice, which appeared in the last Mercury, is transferred to the Kaleidoscope, for reasons which will be obvious after a perusal of the latter paragraph: "PLAGIARISTS, OR LITERARY HOAXERS.-The lines transcribed by M. F. are not original, as our correspondent would have us believe; and if he dreams that they are actually his own composition, we will name the work in which they have previously appeared. There is something so mean, disingenuous, and dishonest in this species of hoax to which editors are peculiarly liable, that no terms ought to be kept with any correspondent who shall attempt to palm off the compositions of another as his own, whenever an editor may chance to detect the fraud, which cannot always be the case, as he has no claim to infallibility; nor can he be expected to see every composition in prose or verse which teems from the prolific press of the day; a previous perusal of which could alone put him effectually on his guard against such quackery and literary imposition. We shall resume this subject in the next Kaleidoscope, when we shall have occasion to expose a plagiarist in another department." In pursuance of our intention, we now proceed to lay before our readers a letter from a correspondent, containing charges of gross plagiarism, against one of our correspondents; which charges are but too well substantiated on a comparison of the Essay alluded to, with its literary prototype. CORNELIUS is not very nice in selection of the epithets with which he has loaded our quondam correspondent; and we are sorry to be obliged to add, that the occasion affords but too much justification for a deviation from that courtesy so desirable in a literary controversy: candour, however, compels us to say, that a careful comparison of the Essay in the Kaleidoscope, with the original work fully justifies the assertion of CORNELIUS, that the paper of Y. Z. does not contain a dozen original lines. It would be trifling with the time and patience of our readers, to give all the corresponding passages alluded to by CORNELIUS, we have accordingly taken at ranabout a score of lines, by which our readers may form a very correct estimate of the alledged originality of Y. Z. The coincidences observable throughout the remainder are to the full as striking as those in the passages we have quoted. "SIR,-I believe you will agree with me, in thinking that plagiarism is mean and despicable, and must ever betray the person guilty of it to be a man destitute of genius, and devoid of original ideas. This remark will apply indiscriminately to all those in the habit of appropriating the produce of another writer's brain. But there are different degrees of infamy; and surely nothing can equal the paltry imposition which has been pleyed upon yourself by a person of this class. Enclosed I send you Kaleidoscope, No. 24, in which the first article is entitled, Original Paper on the Harmony of Action in the Organs of Man; written expressly for the Kaleidoscope.' In this very original paper, written expressly for your Kaleidoscope, I beg to assure you that there are not a dozen lines really belonging to the author. A few days ago, I happened to meet with 'Physiological Researches on Life and Death, by Xavier Bichet; translated from the French, by F. Gold;' and being rather attracted with the work, read it carefully through. An idea struck me that I had somewhere met with similar thoughts, and that very recently; and on referring to the article alluded to, I found that five-sixths of it were pillaged from this work. The worthy plagiarist, however, has given himself some trouble; for instead of transcribing exactly from Mr. Gold's translation, he has rendered it in his own English. This, I suppose, was done in order to make the deception pass more easily: the ideas are precisely the same, and the language very little different from that in Gold's. The passages are marked, for your accommodation, in pencil; and if you wish it, I will send you the work from whence they have been stolen. Quotations from Shakspeare, Cicero, and Somerville fill up nearly the whole of the remaining sixth part of the essay; and the meagreness of the rest perhaps is the best assurance of its having been the genuine production of the ostensible author. I do not descend to sonalities: they are beneath me; and moreover, I do not know this sweet stealer of other men's fancies;' but from the subject he has chosen, and the initials per your impartiality, I must request an early insertion o this note.-I remain, Sir, yours obediently, "March 2nd. CORNELIUS." Y. Z. Bichet. "The perfection of the "The perfection of toda touch as well as that of the is likewise essentially c other senses, is essentially nected with the uniforming connected with uniformity of action of the two sym of action in the two symme- metric halves of the body, trical halves of the body, and particularly of the tw and particularly in the hands. Let us suppose, hands. Let us suppose, for instance, a blind pers instance, a man, born blind, born with one hand to have one hand well or- pletely organized, and ganized, the other defective other deprived of the pr in the power of moving the er of flexion and extensa thumb & fingers, and form- of the fingers, so a ing only a stiff and im- form a round and mmovable surface; such per- movable surface: this per son would find it a very dif- son would acquire, with ficult thing to acquire a just great difficulty, the ide notion of the size and figure of size, shape, and direcof bodies, because the same tion, because a unique sensation would not arise sensation will not arise from the successive appli- from the successive appli cation of each hand to the cation of the two hands to same substance." the same object." If we had not enlarged upon this subject already The DISCONSOLATE BACHELOR may be assured that Letter VI. on the Study of Coins will be given how many letters his series will contain; as it is de sirable to comprehend them in our present vo which will terminate with the expiration of June METEOROLOGICAL TABLES.-No. I. of the elaborate Meteorological Table is received from our Manchester correspondent, and shall be published the very fin The YOUNG OBSERVER's second and third Esssy she? opportunity. be attended to. We expect to be enabled to find a place next week ix the letter of W. S. H. The account of RALPH HEATON (not EATON); have an early place. We shall say a word or two, next week, to Tox TURTON, of Gooseberry-hall. ORTHOGRAPHICAL INNOVATIONS.-We are serted the note of GEORGE MEANWELL, and sha probably notice the subject further in our next The acceptable communications of M. and of A. on leaving England. shall have a place in our next, together with those of L. COLLUMELLUS-A SUBSCRIBER AND WELLWISHER-BETSEY, and the verses to a young La of his signature, (Y. Z.) I fancy. You Zany might Printed, published, and sold by E. SMITH and i not be inappropriately addressed to him. From 54, Lord-street, Liverpool OR, Literary and Scientific Mirror. "UTILE DULCI." familiar Miscellany, from which religious and political matters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles; comprehending Literature, Criticism, Men and Manners, Amusement, Elegant Extracts, Poetry, Anecdotes, Biography, Meteorology, the Drama, Arts and Sciences, Wit and Satire, Natural History, Monthly Diary, Fashions, &c. &c.; forming a handsome Annual Volume, with an Index and Title-page.-Regular supplies are forwarded to the following The Gleaner. “ I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.” WOTTON. ANECDOTES OF SWIMMING. Continued from the early Numbers of our present SWIMMING ACROSS THE [From Baldwin's London Magazine.] TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1821. LETTER FROM THE RIGHT HONOURABLE thrown into the stream of this part of the LORD BYRON TO MR. MURRAY. European bank must arrive at the Asiatic frigate, from Captain (now Admiral) Ba- the difference of the current, I perceived thurst, downwards, had any notion of a dif- none; it is favourable to the swimmer on ference of the current on the Asiatic side, neither side, but may be stemmed by plungof which Mr. Turner speaks. I never heard ing into the sea a considerable way above of it till this moment, or I would have taken the opposite point of the coast which the the other course. Lieutenant Ebenhead's swimmer wishes to make, but still bearing sole motive, and mine also, for setting out up against it: it is strong; but if you calfrom the European side, was, that the little culate well, you may reach land. My own Cape above Sestos was a more prominent experience, and that of others, bids me prostarting-place, and the frigate which lay be-nounce the passage of Leander perfectly low, close under the Asiatic castle, formed practicable; any young man in good health, a better point of view for us to move to- and with tolerable skill in swimming, might wards; and, in fact, we landed immediately succeed in it from either side. I was three below it. Mr. Turner says, "whatever is hours in swimming across the Tagus, which is much more hazardous, being two hours longer than the passage of the Hellespont. Of what may be done in swimming, I shall "Ravenna, Feb. 11, 1821. mention one more instance. In 1818, the "DEAR SIR,-In the 44th page, vol. 1st, Chevalier Mingaldo, (a gentleman of Basof Turner's Travels (which you lately sent sano) a good swimmer, wished to swim with me) it is stated that " Lord Byron, when my friend, Mr. Alexander Scott, and mye expressed such confidence of its practi"Mr. Turner attempted the passage from self: as he seemed particularly anxious on cability, seems to have forgotten that Le- the Asiatic side, and failed; "after five-and- the subject, we indulged him. We all three ander swam both ways, with and against the twenty minutes, in which he did not advance started from the island of the Lido, and ide; whereas he (Lord Byron) only per- a hundred yards, he gave it up from com- swam to Venice. At the entrance of the Formed the easiest part of the task by swim-plete exhaustion." This is very possible, Grand Canal, Scott and I were a good way mming with it from Europe to Asia." I cer- and might have occurred to him just as a-head, and we saw no more of our foreign ainly could not have forgotten what is readily on the European side. I particu- friend; which, however was of no consenown to every schoolboy, that Leander larly stated, and Mr. Hobhouse has done quence, as there was a gondola to hold his Crossed in the night, and returned towards so also, that we were obliged to make the clothes, and pick him up. Scott swam on till the morning. My object was to ascertain real passage of one mile, extend to between past the Rialto, where he got out; less from chat the Hellespont could be crossed, at all, three and four, owing to the force of the fatigue than chill, having been four hours in by swimming: and in this Mr. Ebenhead stream. I can assure Mr. Turner that his the water, without rest, or stay, except what and myself both succeeded; the one in an success would have given me great pleasure, is to be obtained by floating on one's back: hour and ten minutes; the other in one hour as it would have added one more instance this being the condition of our performance, and five minutes: the tide was not in our fa- to the proofs of its practicability. It is I continued my course on to Santa Chiara, Your; on the contrary, the great difficulty not quite fair in him to infer, that because he comprising the whole of the Grand Canal, was to bear up against the current; which, failed, Leander could not succeed. There (beside the distance from the Lido) and got so far from helping us to the Asiatic side, are still four instances on record; a Neapoli- out where the Laguna once opens to Fusina. set us down right towards the Archipelago. tan, a young Jew, Mr. Ebenhead, and myself: I had been in the water, by my watch, withNeither Mr. Ebenhead, myself, nor, I will the two last were in the presence of hun-out help or rest, and never touching ground venture to add, any person on board the dreds of English witnesses. With regard to or boat, four hours and twenty minutes. To brig -, belonging principally to my father, Troops of friends accompanied me as far as the sened at best a poor stock of that vulgar beverage, Rock, and, drinking to my success, materially ks. Barclay's Entire. Full of delightful anticipation, I the oft-frequented Bidston Light-house, and som bade adieu to the receding shore of Lancashire and felt myself in a state better to be conceived th ries of sea sickness. Five days, I cannot call them described by those who have experienced the m tedious, because books formed a part of my cont in three more 1 found myself in the calm of fa brought us in sight of Land's End, Cornwall, sa mouth harbour, after experiencing several severe squalls, particularly near the light-house, on the during the gleams of a watery sun, surrounded and rocks called Longships, the appearance of whic, uical language are called breakers, was anfally at times almost covered with foam, or what in tech this match, and during the greater part of of crossing at the narrowest point, instead in Messina; and more at home with the books of its performance, Mr. Hoppner, the Consul- of going up to the Cape above it, we should barked on Sunday, the 16th July 1813, on board the Virgil than the books of the counting-house, I e general, was witness, and it is well known have been swept down to Tenedos. The to many others. Mr. Turner can easily Strait is however not extraordinarily wide, verify the fact, if he thinks it worth while, even where it broadens above and below the by referring to Mr. Hoppner. The distance forts: as the frigate was stationed some time we could not accurately ascertain; it was of in the Dardanelles, waiting for the Firman, course considerable. I bathed often in the Strait subsequently to "I crossed the Hellespont in one hour our traject, and generally on the Asiatic and ten minutes only, I am now ten years side, without perceiving the greater strength older in time, and twenty in constitution of the opposing stream, by which Mr. Turner than I was when I passed the Dardanelles, palliates his own failure. Our amusement and yet two years ago I was capable of in the small bay which opens immediately swimming four hours and twenty minutes; below the Asiatic fort, was to dive for the and I am sure that I could have continued land tortoises, which we flung in on purpose, two hours longer, though I had on a pair of as they amphibiously crawled along the bot-grand. trowsers an accountrement which by no tom: this does not argue any greater vioI was at night much interested by the luminous means assists the performance. My two lence of current than on the European shore. or immediately a-stern of the vessel. I found the appearance of the water in what is termed the wake, companions were also four hours in the wa-With regard to the modest insinuation, that light sufficiently strong to distinguish all prat ter. Mingaldo might be about thirty years we chose the European side as "easier," I however, I attempted to secure the particles, vách of age, Scott about six and twenty. With appeal to Mr. Hobhouse and Admiral Ba-played like globules of mercury in the water, a it a this experience in swimming at different thurst, if it be true or no (poor Ebenhead beoccasionally washed upon the deck. periods of age, not only on the spot, but else-ing since dead.) Had we been aware of any where, of various persons, what is there to such difference of current as is asserted, we make me doubt that Leander's exploit was would at least have proved it, and were not perfectly practicable? If three individuals | likely to have given it up in the twenty-five did more than passing the Hellespont, why minutes of Mr. Turner's own experiment." should he have done less? But Mr. Turner failed; and, naturally seeking a plausible excuse for his failure, lays the blame on the Asiatic side of the Strait: to me the cause is evident. He tried to swim directly across, instead of going higher up to take the vantage. He might as well have tried to fly over Mount Athos. “That a young Greek of the heroic times, in love, and with his limbs in full vigour, might have succeeded in such an attempt, is neither wonderful nor doubtful. Whether he attempted it or not is another question, because he might have had a small boat to save him the trouble. "I am yours, very truly, "BYRON. "P. S. Mr. Turner says that the swimming from Europe to Asia was "the easiest part of the task." I doubt whether Leander found it so, as it was the return; however, he had several hours between the intervals. The argument of Mr. T." that higher up or lower down the Strait widens so considerably, that he would have little labour by his starting," is only good for indifferent swimmers. A man of any practice or skill will always consider the distance, less than the strength of the stream. If Lieutenant Ebenhead and myself had thought The Traveler. TO THE EDITOR. I SIR,-After an interval of more than two years, I To amuse is my humble aim, although to be the I have only to add, that important avocations so absorb Your most obedient servant, Liverpool, April 4, 1821. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice." LETTER I. SIR,-Quarreling with my bread and butter for an apparently eligible offer of a commercial nature reasons which it is unnecessary to state, I embraced from the windows of the cabin. It was in van, to examine minutely a glass of the sea water, which Satisfied without inquiry, it did not occur to me was afterwards done by the scientific Dr. Trail, his voyage to Gibraltar, and who proved that the light in question proceeded from a species of mediad or insect. only from its being, as it now is, the principal paciet station, but from the constant rendezvous of vesse Pendennis and St. Maw's castles protect the were illuminations and other demonstrated Whilst I remained at Falmouth, there the battle of Vittoria. Many officers and mea for the Hero of Waterloo, who had just before embarking to recruit his ranks, full of enthusias and contributed no little to enliven the secre month of August so frequently affords, when t It was one of those enchanting evenings which the vishod-for signal bade us prepare, and the feet t moored. The sun was setting in the western, and cast a warin glow upon every object; the ar was bright and serene; the breeze, although t scarcely sufficing to fill the sails. All was trans save the cheering cry of sailors heaving the an from the deep, and at intervals the wafted stres the bands at Pendennis and on board the men playing the national anthem of Rule Brit Our convoy consisted of the Venerable, 74, Heral frigate, and Echo sloop, having under their profe tion about ninety sail, amongst which was the tr by the notorious Delano, brig Francis Ernest, of this port, then command A few days of rough weather brought us into tr famed 'Bay of Biscay O!' aud in a week more t misty mountains near Corunna were in sight. I could not look upon the grave of the brave bui unfortunate Moore without a sigh. the west of Portugal, but although we steri si We were highly favoured with fine weather down times pretty near the land, and left many vessels at Oporto and Lisbon, the atmosphere was too hazy to allow more than a faint glimmer of the rock near the latter port. we have sometimes very sharp frosts in this month | feeds on insects, in search of which it is continually as well as in its successor, MÂY: The traveler deplores running up and down small branches of trees. The house-wren destroys many pernicious insects. That most elegant little bird, the yellow-wren, is only noticed by the frequenters and lovers of the country; it is a more early harbinger of spring than any other of the migratory tribes: it animates the woods by its constant motion; and the frequent repetition of its simple note has a cheerful and varied modulation, that renders it very pleasing. Its arrival is commonly regulated by the season; but early in April, if the weather be at all mild, the little groves resound with its harmony. The stone-curlew or great plover arrives about this time. One evening, just before sunset, the commodore made a signal for the ships to close, an enemy being in sight. It proved a false alarm, the supposed hostile vessels turning out to be Portuguese men of The arrival of the swallow, about the middle of war. When the largest of them was descried, we the month foretels the approach of summer. The had no doubt of her being an American frigate, and swallow was a favourite bird among the Greeks: his probably one of a squadron on a cruize, and I must first appearance made a holiday for the Greek boys, confess I felt all anxiety to be eyewitness of an ac- and a song has been preserved in Athenæus, by tion. I observed the shark and the dolphin in these which the little mendicants used to levy contriseas; the latter is a most beautiful fish, in shape butions on the good nature of their fellow-citizens. like the salmon, but the brilliancy of its colours It is the general opinion of naturalists that the same exceeds description. I did not succeed in harpoon-pair of swallows annually return to the village where Most birds awake early, but yet are abroad at ing any, but the sailors informed me, that whilst the they built the preceding year, and attach themselves different times. The rook is the first that awakes fish is in the agonies of death, it changes its colours to the same nest, if it remain: should it be destroy- to salute the rising morn: roosting higher than repeatedly. The dolphin of the ancients, which weed, they erect another in the same station, and this most other birds, the rays of light first reach his so often see introduced in candelabra and tripods, as long as they escape the various contingencies of abode. The restless inquisitive robin immediately is a fabulous creature. Nature seems to have given their migratory life. That rooks feel an attachment follows: he is the last that retires to his dormitory, great facilities to the escape of small fish from the to their old nests is obvious, from their commencing and is often about when the night birds appear; Is of that insatiable monster, the shark; as he is the repair of them so long before they finally inhabit and, moving very early in the morning, he has less aliged, from the peculiar construction of his mouth, them, and the noisy warfare that resounds through rest than any other bird. The cheerful melody of turn upon his back before he can seize his prey. the rookery in contending for their ancient posses- the wren comes next, and we hear him caroling often amused myself with throwing cabbage leaves sions. There is perhaps no bird more attached to when the songster is hardly visible in the twilight. d other matters to entice them under the stern, particular sites thau the common flycatcher; one The sparrow roosts in holes, and under caves, where id although they swallowed every thing so given, pair, or their descendants, building for many years the light of the morning does not so soon enter, could not get them within harpoon length. In one successively in the same hole in the wall, or on the and hence he is rather a tardy mover; we see him tempt of this kind, I had well nigh gone overboard, same branch of a fruit-tree: being perfectly harm-peeping from his shed, to note what is going forhich made me desist. less, and hence never molested, instinct may teach ward: should any food be about, the sparrow in an them, that where they found safety for their young instant descends and makes himself welcome; and, at one time, they may find it at another. A pair with a boldness that no other bird possesses, filches of these birds has been known in one season to his grain from the trough of the pig, or shares with bring off two broods from the same nest without the gigantic turkey: scared away, he returns, and its undergoing any repair. pilfers a portion, undismayed. The constant attendant on man, he follows him to the desert, associates with him in a distant isle, and partakes the profit of his industry; he is not known in a solitary and independent state. The blackbird leaves his ivy mantled shed. The martin welcomes the first solar ray, and from this time it is difficult to mark the priority of our wakers: if in summer, an universal tuning and piping confounds the first notes of awakening pleasure; if in winter, their voices rarely detect them; a twit or a short chirp, when disturbed, alone is uttered. Passing pretty close to the promontory which res title to the veteran Earl St. Vincent, Cape rafalgar presented itself, and I sailed tranquilly rer the spot rendered famous by the deeds of the froic Nelson. Several ships here left us for the Vestern Islands. We had only just arrived at the mouth of the straits of Gibraltar, when a violent gale from the astward, called by seamen a levanter, kept us tossg and tumbling two days and nights; it having, wever, spent its fury on the third morning, we stered the Straits on the African side, and coasting, force of the current more than of the wind, as far Apes Hill in Barbary, one of the Pillars of Herdes, opposite Gibraltar, a light breeze carried us, ter sixteen days' ploughing the main, into safe chorage under the guns of this justly celebrated The peculiar situation and great imbi rtance of Gibraltar will be a sufficient excuse for y entering into rather a minute description of its rious interesting points, I shall therefore reserve ch for the matter of another letter, and, in the lerim, bid you adieu. rtress. The Naturalist's Diary, For APRIL, 1821. [To be continued throughout the year.] fow laughing SPRING comes on, and birds, in pairs, 'hat, as it flows through Nature's swelling veins, At this time of general renovation among the arious tribes of plants and trees, the swelling buds spring from their coverts,' And push away the withered leaves that hung In April the weather is mild, with gentle showers, ffording to vegetables an abundant supply of water, which is so indispensibly necessary to their existence. This is the general character of April; yet, Young moles are now to be found in the nests; this is a good time, therefore, for destroying them. There are commonly four or five in a nest, and they are naked when first born. Weasels and stoats are great enemies to moles, and frequently get into their holes, kill the inhabitants, and take up their own abode there.. Thus do the several sorts of vermin help to keep up a kind of balance of power among them. The next bird which appears after the swallow, is Hail to thee, shouting Cuckoo! in my youth The tenants of the air are, in this month, busily employed in forming their temporary habitations, and in rearing and maintaining their offspring. About the middle of April, the bittern makes a hollow booming noise during the night in the breeding season, from its swampy retreats. end of the month, and affords great delight to the The song of the blackcap is heard towards the lovers of rural harmony. The time of the arrival of the male bird is often the most enchanting part of our spring; the groves resound with that gratulation and harmony which are so particularly exhilirating at this season, after the long silence and deprivation of winter. The most eminent of the choir is the blackcap, and his fine clear melody is easily distinguishable. Immediately upon his arrival he Long time my hours endeared, my kindling fancy smit. begins to make a nest which he soon abandons, and And thus I love thee still-thy monotone The self-same transport flashes through my frame; still would call thee by a lover's name, commences another; and thus often makes a third or a fourth essay before he is satisfied with his labours or his site: during the period of incubation he is timid and restless to a degree; when the summer fruits become ripe, his timidity ceases, and, repairing to our gardens with all his progeny, commences his ravages: the antwerp raspberry is his delight, and he clears away the crop in our very presence with a boldness he at no other time possesses. The garden fruit becoming scarce, he retires from the scene of his plunder, and leaves the The other summer birds of passage which arrive kingdom very early. A gentleman once tried the this month, make their appearance in the following experiment of having a considerable number of the order: the ring-ousel, the redstart, frequenting old spring flight destroyed previously to the hatch, but walls and ruinous edifices; the yellow wren; the with no success: the depredation on his fruit was swift; the whitethroat; the grasshopper lark, the not lesssened; he lost his harmony, and saved no smallest of the lark kind; and, lastly, the willow-fruit: the experiment was not repeated. A ripe wren, which frequents hedges and shrubberies, and jargonel pear is one of his prime delights. Poetry. [ORIGINAL.] Of the Bachelors' Ball (with the characters all) All the world of haut ton, all the strangers, each one, It was long buzz'd about that a mighty great rout But when it was known, and the thing fairly blown, The cards of invite flew by day and by night, But who would not wish to partake of a dish O believe us 'tis true, what we say entre nous, But a card once secured and admission ensured, Now ransack'd old prints, of all countries, for hints, Not a part of the globe but they eagerly probe, Quick vers'd in these topics, from the Line to the Tropics, Portfeuilles of designs flew about and gave signs, All the tailors of note who had e'er cut a coat, Many compliments paid to each man or each maid, It is here we may mention what care and attention, John Turner alone to collect these had shown, As the guests now on glided, a pavilion provided In the grand Turkish style, which, on viewing awhile, Here sofas all round, almost low as the ground, Pure Grecian, no question, young Foster's suggestion, Quitting now this retreat and its soft easy seat, In passing the anti-rooms through, He held in his hand, not a magical wand, We are happy to hear, there's no longer a fear Arnold Harrison now, with the antiquate bow, In friendship united, Frank and Arnold, delighted, James Aspinall next, was a little perplexed, He had come from the wars covered over with scars, Sweet concord of sounds through the ball-room re- With a lance of great length and Herculean strength, sounds, E'er they enter'd its dazzling view. Tho' bewildered the sight, yet with fondest delight Many females so fair had assum'd a new air, Had come to the Rooms in some ancient costumes, But in spite of old gowns, and broad hats with low crowns, Or with rouge, which no cheek e'er enriches, Their beauty shone through, so clear to the view, We could swear they were Lancashire witches. A knight as complete, brave and bold. Sir Dugald, of course, lacked nought but his horse, Once Menzies' Sir Ulic, far-famed; But Sir Dugald insists, since he entered the lists, What a glorious sight to see such a knight Now looking around, Sir Dugald soon found As Hudibras queer he now did appear, Many others, dear creatures, preserved their sweet fea- But particular offers still waiving, he proffers tures, And came with their right honest looks, Enchanted, enchanting, whatever was wanting, 'Twas clear they'd not studied from books. No Janus was there to make the folk stare Show'd youth and age strangely combined. 'Mongst the men there were seen both the air and the mien, Of many that might be styl'd gentle, Were employ'd, as they say, both by night and by day, Who in foreign costume for once could assume To suit all their customers' pleasures. All the top mantua-makers both Christians and Quakers, So busy were kept that for nights they ne'er slept, The manners of men with a rental. Many others with cloaks, which excited the jokes The Finneys, Macleans, Woodvilles, Hodgsons, and Some men of condition and honest ambition The Dansons, the Tetleys, the Rennies, All names dear to fashion, led by Graystock and Cash on, But Burroughs most shone, as yet little known, For those who have tried him have always employed him, At length, about ten, all the maids and the men As the Rooms they drew near there was somewhat of fear, (Had such been their fortune or fate) Some fine Turkish habits with ermine of rabbits; Many Scotchmen with green or red tartans were seen, With his kilt, fillibeg, and hose half up the leg, But the dresses alone which conspicuously shone, First, Jordan so Frank, who aspired to the rank (Most correctly express'd and most splendidly dress'd) Bore a proud and pre-eminent sway. His protection to all the fair ladies. Mr. Headlam, disguis'd, many friends much surprised, Messrs. Lawrence, 'tis true, now came in our view, But we who can speak to these dresses antique, It must be confessed they were not over dress'd; We now must give place to a curious Case, wonde' At first, on our word, we had thought him a Lord As we think it but right to throw every light Yet his timbers are found so good and so sound, |