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may be said entirely to have ceased, and his biography to become almost identified with the political history of his times. He was employed by the prince in the battles of Coutras and Arques, at the sieges of Paris, Rouen, Laon, and in all engagements of any importance. In 1598, he undertook the finance of France; and though up to that time his public pursuits had been entirely of a military character, yet he completely re-established the prosperity of this new and difficult department of the state, paying two hundred millions of debt in ten years, and at the same time replenishing the treasury. In 1601, he became master of artillery, and in the following year Governor of the Bastile. He was afterwards sent into England as an ambassador extraordinary, and in 1606 raised to the peerage. In 1610, his illustrious master, Henry IV., died; and Sully immediately, on this event, retired to one of his houses, where Sully, now in his twelfth year, accom- he led a private life, in study, until 1634, panied his father in his attendance on the when he was presented with the baton of Queen of Navarre, and was by him pre- Marshall of France. He died seven years sented to the young prince, whom he ac- after this event, at the age of eighty-two companied to the court at Paris, while years, and left behind him the character his father went to Rosin to make some of a great statesman, and a man of noted preparations. The first suspicious cir- temperance and inviolable veracity. cumstance indicating the sinister inten-rad vant indi tion of the government was the sudden oditioned aden GARRICK. bahnild gnol o death of the Queen of Navarre; there so y seems every reason to believe that sheGARRICK, one day dining with a large comwas poisoned; nevertheless the court pany, soon after dinner left the room, and it was supposed had left the house; but one of appeared much affected, and went into the party, on going into the area to seek him, deep mourning. Still many of the Pro- found Mr. Garrick, who had been there some testants, among whom was Sully's father, time, fully occupied in amusing a negro boy, suspected the designs of the court, and who was a servant in the family, by mimickretired into the suburbs of Paris. the ing the manner and noise of a turkey-cock, which diverted the boy to such a degree that he was convulsed with laughter, and only able now and then to utter, Oh, Massa Garrick! you will kill me, Massa Garrick."roods-ils

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MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE
OF THE CLASSICS.

No. VI.

BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.

I SHALL not dwell long on their biography and history, since it will be allowed that their influence is very nearly coincident with that of the epic poetry. The work of Plutarch, the chief of the biographers (a work so necessary, it would seem, to the consolations of a Christian, that I have read of some learned man declaring, and without any avowed rejection of the Bible, that if he were to be cast on a desert island, and could have one book, and but one, it should be this), the work of Plutarch delineates a greatness partly of the same character as that celebrated by Homer, and partly of the more dignified and intellectual kind which is so commanding in the great men of Lucan, several of whom, indeed, are the subjects also of the biographer. Various distinctions might, no doubt, be remarked in the impression made by great characters as illustrated in poetry, and as exposed in the plainness of historical record; but I am persuaded that the habits of feeling which will grow from admiring the one or the other will be substantially the same, as affecting the temper of the mind in regard to Christianity.

A number of the men exhibited by the biographers and historians, rose so eminently above the general character of the human race that their names have become inseparably associated with our ideas of moral greatness. A thoughtful student of antiquity enters this majestic company with an impression of mystical awfulness, resembling that of Ezekiel in his vision. In this select and revered as

these two systems of principles, are so different that they will hardly be more convertible or compatible in the same mind than even excellence and turpitude. Now, it appears to me that the enthusiasm, with which a mind of deep and thoughtful sensibility dwells on the history of sages, virtuous legislators, and the worthiest class of heroes, of heathen antiquity, will be found to beguile that mind into an order of sentiments congenial with theirs; and, therefore, thus seriously different from the spirit and principles of Christianity.

FRESH PERSECUTIONS.

PROCEEDINGS AT BUFF BAY COURT-
HOUSE, JAMAICA,

On Wednesday, February 27, 1833.
John Bell, Esq., Custos Rotulorum, and James
Shenton, Esq., Magistrate (one of the Com-
mittee of the Honourable House of Assembly
to inquire into the moral and religious im-
provement of the slaves, &c.), presided.

WALTER DENDY, Baptist missionary, after having been brought, by a bench warrant, a distance of fifteen miles, was placed at the bar, when the following took place.

Sanguine spirits, without number, have probably been influenced, in modern times, by the ancient history of mere heroes; but persous of a reflective disposition have been incomparably more affected by the contemplation of those men whose combination of mental power with illustrious virtue constitutes the supreme glory of heathen antiquity. And why do I deem the admiration of this noble display of moral excellence pernicious to these reflective minds, in relation to the religion of Christ? For the simplest possible reasonbecause the principles of that excellence are not identical with the principles of this religion, as I believe every serious and self-observant man, who has been attentive to them THE colonists, as appears from the both, will have verified in his own experience. latest accounts from Jamaica, are keeping He has felt the animation which pervaded his their atrocious character with singular soul, in musing on the virtues, the sentiments, consistency. The greater part of the and the great actions, of these dignified men, recent events which have transpired there suddenly expiring, when he has attempted to prolong or transfer it to the virtues, sentiments, have probably become already known to our readers through the daily papers. The and actions, of the apostles of Jesus Christ. Sometimes he has, with mixed wonder and following statement, contained in a priindignation, remonstrated with his own feel-vate letter addressed to a warm friend to ings, and has said, I know there is the highest our cause, is of unquestionable authority, excellence in the religion of the Messiah, and and well deserves the notice of our in the characters of his most magnanimous followers; and surely it is excellence, also, that readers :attracts me to those other illustrious men; why, then, cannot I take a full delightful interest in them both? But it is in vain; he finds this amphibious devotion impossible. And he will always find it so; for, antecedently to experience, it would be obvious that the order of sentiments which animated the one form of excellence is extremely diverse from that which is the vitality of the other If the whole system of a Christian's sentiments is required to be exactly adjusted to the sembly we include only those who were distin- economy of redemption, they must be widely guished by elevated virtue, as well as powerful different from those of the men, however wise talents and memorable actions. Undoubtedly or virtuous, who never thought or heard of the the magnificent powers and energy without Saviour of the world; else where is the pecumoral excellence, so often displayed on the liarity or importance of this new dispensation, field of ancient history, compel a kind of pros- which does, however, both avow and manifest tration of the soul in the presence of men a most signal peculiarity, and with which whose surpassing achievements seem to silence heaven has connected the signs and declarafor a while, and but for a while, the sense of tions of infinite importance? If, again, a justice which must execrate their ambition Christian's grand object and solicitude is to and their crimes; but where greatness of please God, this must constitute his moral mind seems but secondary to greatness of excellence (even though the facts, the mere virtue, as in the examples of Phocion, Epa- actions, were the same) of a very different minondas, Aristides, Timoleon, Dion, Cimon, nature from that of the men who had not, in and several more, the heart applauds itself for firm faith, any god that they cared to please, feeling an irresistible captivation. This num- and whose highest glory it might possibly beber, indeed, is small, compared with the whole come, that they boldly differed from their galaxy of renowned names; but it is large deities; as Lucan undoubtedly intended it as enough to fill the mind, and to give as venethe most emphatical applause, of Cato, that rable an impression of pagan greatness as if he was the inflexible patron and hero of the none of its examples had been the heroes cause which was the aversion of the gods.* whose fierce brilliance lightens through the If humility is required as a chief characterisblackness of their depravity, or the legisla- tic of a Christian's mind, he is here again tors, orators, and philosophers, whose wisdom placed in a state of contrariety to that selfwas degraded by imposture, venality, or vanity. idolatry, the love of glory, which accompanied, A most impressive part of the influence of and was applauded as a virtue while it accomancient character, on modern feelings, is de-panied, almost all the moral greatness of the rived from the accounts of two or three of the heathens. If a Christian lives for eternity, greatest philosophers, whose virtue, protesting and advances towards death with the certain and solitary in the times in which they lived, expectation of judgment, and of a new and whose intense devotedness in the pursuit of wis- awful world, how different must be the essendom, and whose occasional sublime glimpses tial quality of his serious sentiments, as partly of apprehension, received from beyond the created, and wholly pervaded, by this mighty sphere of error in which they were enclosed anticipation, from the order of feeling of the and benighted, present them to the mind with virtuous heathens, who had no positive or something like the venerableness of the pro- sublime expectations beyond death! The inphets of God. Among the exhibitions of this terior essences, if I may so speak, of the two kind, it is unnecessary to say that Xenophon's kinds of excellence, sustained or produced by Memoir of Socrates stands unrivalled and above comparison.

* Victrix causa Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni.

Magistrate. Mr. Dendy, you are charged with preaching at Ammatto Bay, without a license. [To the clerk of the peace] Read the affidavit. [It was then read.] Is it true that this was the case? Missionary. I am not bound to criminate myself. I presume, gentlemen, you have sufficient evidence to establish it. [Here the witness, the constable, was put upon his oath.]

Witness cross-examined by the Missionary. You say you heard me preach: were you outside or inside the chapel ?-Outside.

How long did you remain ?--No time. No time! Not any time! Not one mimute? [Here the magistrate told the witness he must specify some time.]-A few minutes.

Where was I when you saw me?-In the pulpit, preaching.

You say you saw me in the pulpit. Did you hear me read any text? No.

Any chapter?-No.

Do you remember any thing I said?—No. How do you know I preached?—There is a difference between reading and preaching. I know the difference.

Are you positive I preached ?--I think you were preaching.

You think I was preaching, and nothing more than think. I might be only reading. I frequently read without keeping my eyes fixed upon the book before me. Did you hear me read the ninth chapter of Job ?—No.

Did you hear me make any remarks upon the fourth verse, "Who hath hardened himself against God, and hath prospered?" Did you hear me mention the cases of Pharaoh and

Herod, and others who hardened themselves against God?

Magistrate. We do not want to be lectured. -I consider, Sir, that I have a right to question witness. That I preached is not established; it is not proved.

But we believe you did: we take the word of the witness; but, if you will say you did not, we will dismiss the case.-I am not called upon to criminate myself, neither do I deny the charge you must act as you please. We wish the case to be tried at the Assize court.-I should be obliged, gentlemen, if you would inform me upon what law or statute you

act.

We are acting upon the Attorney General's opinion, the highest law-officer in the land; if we do wrong we are amenable to the laws. [The missionary again pressed the question.] We are not obliged to tell a prisoner under what law or statute we act.-Gentlemen, I do not ask it as a right, but I should esteem it a favour, if you would be so kind as to tell me upon what law or statute you act. [To this there was no reply.]

We do not wish to put you to any inconvenience, but require you to enter into bail to appear at the next Assize court, and not to preach again till the expiration of that time. -I am willing to find bail for the former; but as it respects finding bail not to preach again, that I never will.

What difference will it make to you or your congregations, if you find bail not to preach? You cannot preach if you are in prison.-It will make this difference, it will not be my choice; and I consider it my duty to obey God rather than man. I am ready to find bail to any amount to appear at the Assize Court, but not to refrain from preaching.

That will not answer our purpose. You have seen the case of Nicholls and Abbot? -Yes, I have heard of it.

There is no alternative; we must commit you. Well, the Psalmist has said, "the wrath of man shall praise him, and the remainder of that wrath he will restrain."

We do not want personalities; we have no wrath towards you: I feel sorry that you should have chosen such a course. Yesterday, in court, when we were speaking of the matter, I said, sooner than you should be inconvenienced, I myself would be your bail.-I feel extremely obliged to you, Šir, for your very great kindness.

[To the clerk of the peace.] commitment.

Make out the

It was made out, and then handed to the magistrates for signature. Previously to signing it, they very politely asked Mr. D. which jail he would prefer, Buff Bay, or Kingston ?-Jail, at any time, or under any circumstances, I should not suppose to be a very pleasant place. I am obliged to you, gentlemen, for the choice; and, if I must go to the one or the other, I certainly should prefer, Kingston.

I think Kingston will be much better for your health.

BOOK-KEEPERS' SITUATIONS ON
JAMAICA SUGAR ESTATES.

"Facts, not fictions."

THE term "Book-keeper," as used in Jamaica parlance, has, I feel confident, deceived many a young aspirant for the honours of a plantation. He may have been in the habit of " keeping books" at home, and naturally enough concludes, from the title of his new office, that such is still to be his employment. A short acquaintance with it, however, will soon convince him to the contrary, there being only two book-keepers, on large sugar estates, who are bona fide " keepers of books." In order to explain this seeming inconsistency, it will be necessary to instance an estate, having an overseer and five book-keepers, who take precedence of each other, in regard to length | of residence on the property,-the oldest being styled head book-keeper, the next second, and so on, down to the fifth, or youngest. This paper, however, will be principally devoted to the hardships and ill-treatment of the young tyro in sugar-planting.

A young man, who has held a reputable situation in a banking-house, or merchant's office, in Britain, must find, in the degrading and disagreeable duties of a book-keeper, a never-failing source of repining and disgust. The scenes of cruelty he sees daily, nay, hourly, transacted,-the revolting offices he has himself to perform,-the consciousness of his being looked down upon by his overseer, and hated by those wretched beings over whom he is placed as a spy,-render his life a burden, frequently too heavy to bear. He is shut out from, and a stranger to, the movements of the world. On some estates he will find no white he can unburden his mind to for months together; or should his lot he cast where there are others besides himself, he will generally find (that is, if he possesses the feelings of a man and a Christian) extremely little in their deportment and habits to reconcile him to his novel situation; and there will be no peace in store for him, unless he either "do as they do in Rome," or at once walk off with utter disgust. Half-measures now, more than ever, won't satisfy the tarring and feathering gentlemen. If he gets discontented, and complains, the only return made by the overseer will be, "Well, Sir, if you wish to go, there's the Pass. There will be numbers of young men out in the ships soon, and we can EASILY get them."

All book-keepers are considered by their overseer as his inferiors in every point of view. At the social board, a book-keeper must listen to the coarse, unmeaning, and indecent conversation of his overseer and his guests; he is expected to appear quite happy-to join in the loud laugh created by some loose joke; but he must not open his mouth, unless when spoken to; he must not ask for the principal dishes; seriously, he must not even swallow a cooling draught till the knight of the cart-whip first sets him an example! Nor is the haughtiness of his overseer confined to the dinnertable; it is universal in its practice. The white slave must not even ash his overseer, the previous night, where his gang are to work next morning; this sine qua non information he must learn from the drivers or other slaves. He may, some ill-fated morning, have indulged in lengthened slumbers, congratulating himself that he is sure his gang are to work near the To the Keeper of the Gaol of the County of sugar-works; when lo! he finds, on inquiry, Surry, Kingston.

The following is a copy of the Commitment. Jamaica, SS. St. George.--Receive into your custody the body of Walter Dendy, charged with having preached at the Baptist chapel on Annatto Bay (without license); and him you are to keep in safe custody, until discharged by due course of law.

(Signed)

Given under our hands and seals,
this 27th Feb. 1833.
JOHN BELL,
JAMES SHENTON, LS.

LS.

that the overseer had changed his intentions,

and the gang are hard at work some miles off. The poor book-keeper is of course at fault, and must run the risk of the consequences. I will not be in the least astonished at individuals startling at this statement; I scarcely think I could have believed it myself unless I had experienced it, and am perhaps expecting too much from my readers that they should do so. It is, however, the plain matter of fact, that the book-keeper is thus scornfully used. It is a principle of sugar-estate discipline. I cannot apologise for it on any plea of expediency, in any view whatever, either as regards an anti or pro-slavery estimate of its utility. But this I know, that on many large sugar estates on the south side of Jamaica it is scrupulously adhered to; so much so, that a book-keeper would as soon think of ascending the steps of his overseer's domicile, and in a friendly way hand him his snuff-box, as he would of asking him over-night where his services in the field lay next morning.

It will now be necessary, however, for a proper understanding of the subject, to descend into the minutiae of a book-keeper's situation. We will suppose the young candidate for sugar-planting fame landed, his letter of introduction, to some influential attorney delivered,-his services accepted, and he himself, commission in hand, mounted on his way to the estate he has been appointed to. His hopes are now wound up to the highest pitch of excitement; he goes "on his way rejoicing;" admires the lovely scenery around him; and inwardly thanks his stars that he is arrived and has a prospect of being, for a long time, an inhabitant of so beautiful a country. He sees novelties on every side: cocoa-nut trees, at one moment, meet his wondering gaze; at another, flocks of humming-birds, parrots of every variety of colour, and hundreds of other winged inmates of the Savannah fill his imagination with the realities of a fairy land. Nor is his vision alone delighted with the feathered tribe: at various openings of the landscape he has distant views of herds of browsing cattle, sheep, and other indispensable hangers-on of a farm-yard; and he, without any hesitation, concludes that surely man must have here every requisite for comfort and worldly happiness. Now he is in ecstacies. The glowing fervour of the noon-day sun only ministers to his excited feelings; while ever and anon a puff of the cooling breeze, bearing on its pinions the most exquisite perfumes, fans his cheek, regales his senses, and lulls his whole frame into a pleasing languor. The delicious fruit on every side may, indeed, tempt him to rein in his steed, for a second or two, till he has assuaged his thirst; but he is now most anxious to reach the termination of his journey, feeling feverish and fatigued from his long ride. He has had but a partial view of canefields, as they are frequently screened by underwood from the road-side; but he has seen the works of one sugar estate, which conveyed to him an agreeable foretaste of his situation. The handsome square of white stone buildings, with the towering chimney, funnel-like, emitting volumes of smoke and flame-all this, with the picturesque trees overhanging and shading the houses, had the utmost charms for him. But he has had only a distant view of matters; he was not near enough to see the things as they were he saw them only as he fancied them or wished them to be. (To be Continued.)

THE ANT-EATER.

THIS animal is an inhabitant both of Africa and America, and obviously derives this name, as well as its French name, fourmiliar, from its curious mode of subsistence. It is this latter habit alone to which, as it gives a general interest to this animal, we designed to confine our remarks; and, as this particular has been admirably treated of in the Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, we make no scruple of adopting their remarks.

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For seven years I was afflicted with fits of the inost alarming description, and in the last twelve months previous to my taking the Pills, they came on from twice to four times a week, and lasted from one to three hours at a time, requiring several persons to hold me. It was in this state of suffering I called on your sub-agent, Mr. Backett, of this place, who recommended me to try the "Universal Medicine," and I commenced with six of No. 1 and 2 alternately, night and morning, increasing gradually up to twenty-four in a day, then reducing them down to three or four, until I left off. When I had taken the Pills three days, I had a slight attack for about half an hour; but from that time till the present, which is six months, I have not had the least symptom of a relapse. I took the pills six weeks.

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this purpose; and travellers inform us that it
is quite impracticable to dig him out, as he
can in a few minutes bury himself at a depth
far beyond the reach of his pursuers; and, fur-
Stradbroke, Oct. 1, 1832.
ther, that his strength is so great as to require is George Fisher, at Laxfield, aged about four years, who
Sir, I saw a little patient of mine yesterday; his name
the united efforts of two or three men to drag had been blind of both eyes for nearly two years, and had
him from his hole. When fairly caught, how-three large ulcers in his neck; he is now restored to his
sight; his eyes, otherwise, nearly well, and the ulcers are
ever, he is by no means retentive of life, but perfectly cured. All this was effected by the " Universal
is easily dispatched by a slight blow over the Medicines." Your obedient servant,
snout. The aard-vark is an extremely timid,
harmless animal, seldom removes to any great
and a bad runner, and is never, by any chance,
distance from his burrow, being slow of foot,
found abroad during the day-time. On the
approach of night he sallies forth in search
of food, and, repairing to the nearest inhabited
ant-hill, scratches a hole in the side of it, just
sufficient to admit his long snout. Here, after
having previously ascertained that there is no
danger of interruption, he lies down, and,
inserting his long slender tongue into the
breach, entraps the ants, which, like those of
our own country, fly to defend their dwellings
upon the first alarm, and, mounting upon the
tongue of the aard-vark, get entangled in the
glutinous saliva, and are swallowed by whole
scores at a time. If uninterrupted, he con-
tinues this process till he has satisfied his
appetite; but on the slightest alarm he makes
a precipitate retreat, and seeks security at the
bottom of his subterranean dwelling.

LOT SMITH, Agent for Stradbroke. having superseded the use of almost all the Patent MeCAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. MORISON'S UNIVERSAL MEDICINES dicines which the wholesale venders have foisted upon the credulity of the searchers after health, for so many years, the town druggists and chemists, not able to establish competition, have plunged into the mean expedient of puffa fair fame on the invention of any plausible means of ing up a "Dr. Morrison" (observe the subterfuge of the double r), a being who never existed, as prescribing a "Vegetable Universal Pill, No. 1 and 2," for the express purpose (by means of this forged imposition upon the public); of deteriorating the estimation of the "UNIVERSAL HEALTH."

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The aard-vark is in all respects admirably fitted for the station which nature has assigned to it in the grand economy of the animal kingdom. It feeds entirely upon ants, and in this respect fulfils the same purpose in Southern Africa, which is executed by the pangolins in Asia, the myrmecophaga in America, and the echidna in New Holland. To those who are only acquainted with the size and nature of these insects in the cold northern climates of Europe and America, it may seem surprising how an animal so large as the aard-vark can support itself exclusively upon ants, and yet be invariably found fat, and in good condition. But the ants and ter mites of tropical countries are infinitely more numerous than those which inhabit more northern latitudes, and so large as sometimes to measure an inch, or an inchi and a half, in length. The bodies of these ants are, besides, of a soft, unctuous nature; and travellers inform us that the Hottentots themselves fre- THE PSALMS, Metrically and Historically Chapple's, Royal Library, Pall-mall; Mrs. Pippen's, 19,

quently collect them for food, and even prefer them to most other descriptions, of meat. Patterson affirms that prejudice alone prevents the Europeans from making a similar use of them; and says that, in his different journeys, he was often under the necessity of eating them, and found them far from disagreeable. However this may be, their importance in fattening poultry is well understood at the Cape, and the farmers collect them by bushels for this purpose.

Wherever ant-hills abound, the aard-vark is sure to be found at no great distance. He constructs a deep burrow in the immediate vicinity of his food, and changes his residence only after he has exhausted his resources. The facility with which he burrows beneath the surface of the earth is said to be almost inconceivable. We have already seen how adinirably his feet and claws are adapted to

The name by which an animal of the same species is distinguished by the Dutch inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope.

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The "Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to be had at Surrey Branch, 96, Great Surrey-street; Mr. Field's, 16, Airthe College, New Road, King's Cross, London; at the street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's, Royal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's-conduit-passage, Red-lion-square; Mr. J. Loft's, Mile-end-road; Mr. Bennett's, Covent-gardenmarket; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur-de-lis-court, Norton-falgate; Mr. Haslet's, 147, Ratcliffe-highway; Messrs. Norbury's, Brentford; Mrs, Stepping, Clare-market; Messrs. Salmon, Little Bell-alley; Miss Varai's, 24, Lucas-street, Commercial-road; Mrs. Beech's, 7, Sloane-square, Chelsea; Mrs. Wingrove-place, Clerkenwell; Miss C. Atkinson, 19, New Trinity-grounds, Deptford; Mr. Taylor, Hanwell; Mr. Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke-row, Walworth; Mr. Payne, 64, Jermyn-street; Mr. Howard, at Mr. Wood's, hair-dresser, Richmond; Mr. Meyar, 3, May's-buildings, Blackheath; Mr. Griffiths, Wood-wharf, Greenwich; Mr. Pitt, 1, Cornwall-road, Lambeth; Mr. J. Dobson, 35, Craven-street, Strand; Mr. Oliver, Bridge-street, Vauxhall; Mr. J. Monck, Bexley Heath; Mr. T. Stokes, 12, St. Ronan's, Deptford; Mr. Cowell, 22, Terrace, Pimlico; Mr. Partitt, 96, Edgware-road; Mr. Hart, Portsmouth-place, Kennington-lane; Mr. Charlesworth, grocer, 124, Shoreditch; Mr. R. G. Bower, grocer, 22, Brick-lane, St. Luke's; Mr. S. J. Avila, pawnbroker, opposite the church, Hackney; Mr J. S. Briggs, 1, Brunswick-place, Stoke Newington; Mr.. T. Gardner, 95, Wood-street, Cheapside, and 9, Nortonfalgate; Mr. J. Williamson, 15, Seabright-place, Hackneyroad; Mr. J. Osborn, Wells-street, Hackney road, and Homerton; Mr. H. Cox, grocer, 16, Union-street, Bishops gate-street: Mr. T. Walter, cheesemonger, 67, Hoxton Old Town; and at one agent's in every principal town in Great Britain, the Islands of Guernsey and Malta; and throughout the whole of the United States of America.

N. B. The College will not be answerable for the consequences of any medicines sold by any chymist or druggist, as none such are allowed to sell the "Universal Medicines."

Printed by J. HADDON and Co.; and Published by J. CRISP, at No. 27, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, where all Advertisements and Communications for the Editor are to be addressed.

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THIS structure owes its origin to Henry III., commonly called Henry the Great, who laid its first stone on the 31st of May, 1578, with extraordinary pomp. It differs from all bridges of modern construction in the curve of its arches, is exceedingly heavy and irregular, and possesses no other merit than its solidity. The building of it was committed to Androuet du Cerveau. The work, however, had not proceeded far, when it was suspended by the civil war which disturbed France at that period, and was not undertaken again in that reign. In 1602, Henry IV. determined to finish it, and his design was executed with so much dispatch, that in June, 1603, the king himself passed over it, though not without some danger, and in 1604 it was opened to the public.

It was finished under the direction of Marchand, and is divided into two unequal parts, which meet at the Ile de la Cité. The part towards the north has seven semicircular arches, the southern part five. Its whole length is 767 feet, and its breadth 77. Above the arches, on both sides, a deep projecting cornice runs the whole length of the bridge.

To form a communication between it and the Ile de la Cité, the western point of the island was prolonged. This point, situated opposite the Place Dauphine, forms a kind of square pier, which, before the revolution, was called the Place d'Henri IV., and in the centre of which an equestrian statue of that monarch was erected in 1614, the history of which is as follows:

A horse of bronze was cast by order of

Frederic, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who intended to place on it his own statue. He died, however, before he could accomplish it, and the horse remained without a rider. His successor presented it to Mary of Medicis, then regent of France. For this purpose it was shipped for France, and unfortunately wrecked on the coast of Normandy. By great exertion, however, it was dragged up from the bottom of the sea, and taken to Paris, where it was placed in the situation already described. Here it remained for a considerable time alone, and was commonly known by the name of the Cheval de Bronze. Shortly before the revolution, it was surmounted by a statue of Henry IV., but it did not long remain in honour; for, during the revolution in 1792, it was destroyed by the frantic populace, and

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