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i VOL. XVI.
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: . FALL AND WINTER.
' Beliold the trees of yonder valley, ° 7
Change their lovely robes orgreen “.
Behold the birds sit melancholy, be
Drooping o'er the parting scene...
, Suspended hangs the leaflets trembling,
Now ‘tis walied by the breezes. 0). j *
Now ihe stabbora branch is bend ding,
ao . Now the streamlet’s margin freeza.: , gt
. ‘Faded leaves aloft‘ are floating, »
~ ‘Through the darkling atmosphere,
“ Hov' ring murkly stead nae i
The fell giant o of des air.
: ” New the ‘pride of boasted nature,
” “~ Prostrate lies beneath the gale;
tb Not a glimpse of beauties’ feature,
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Decks the wide exteded val lee
/ Tae LOVES OF TITE weowniis Coe
4 Methought as I lay in a silent glen at
‘(Par of trom the rousing abodes
f That a dream of delight oer my: senses stole, $
And a raptuous vision entranced my souls.) oe) 11 pe
i Fora theusand flowers in beauty arose ! 5
-4 om their doway beds of light reposey
9] And the silent glen with their melodies rang,
As thus of their loves they sweetly sang? vue n
sit rh ates
We love the, warm | smiles of the Midsummer shy I
uit hers oe oor
ove the fight ‘wiads ‘and their toneful cng
ei And the kiss they give.as they pass along
¢ No music that comes from the noisy earth;
4. Hath so sweet a sound or so pure a births ita
| No Greely | kiss hath so sweet a rest .
¢ As that w they printon each flow'ret’s breasts
"We love and we love their song,
; And we ‘wish lent joy as they pass along.’
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pe eaieot
{We love the ‘soft dews in the twilight shed,
rl So gently they fall on each drodping head 5
Like the blessings that angels around them Sing, .
When amessage of mercy to men they Bin .
' ‘Oh! there is acharm in the twilight hour,
; That binds us all with its secret powers | chad
“i Like the charm which holds the aiden sight
, Whea a spirit prepares | fori bs enward flight.
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shy git Rel
“We love the bright starg=—the’ b beautiful stars)” ee
"That shine as the lar mps of the seraphim-cars,,
Or watchfires kindled on heavenly coasts,
1% light ‘uy the track of empyreal host
‘ | Our balmiest breath to the stars is sent, °
‘To those clustering 6rbs in the firmament; *
: Out aweetest love to the stars fy given, "2°88 * mh eed
Por, what are the sars—but the! fowers of heayen?,"
JS. Es.
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{e SKETCH OF SIR‘ FRANCIS BURDETT.’
The following “clever. pen-aad-ink ‘Arkeness of the renepade
Vasonet i is from a‘ work lately published, entitled + Pencilling
of Politicians :"—.
Yamtet—o Hark you Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, that
Strat baby vou see there is not yet out of his swaddling clothes.”
eneraniz—+ Haply he is the second time come to them,
“P ao old man is twice a child."---Shakspeare. © '
gor Old Daddy Burdert !" « This was tbe greeting of Wil-
ma bert.» Poor Old Daildy Burdett! Come, old gentle-
"late forward once again upon the stage you are 0 fond
ke up thy crutch, doa thy one, top- -boot, add thy top ban-
abe Yelaminous wrappings -of thy gouty Thanb. forget
any forming chalk-stones, and step forward with
fight thy battles ‘over again. ° Pelt us all you
-{ could not, transform it into gold, . Still ns money was ft
and bustled, and stormed, and how the crowds followed and hnz-
zaed, and cried, ‘* God bless him!” while they threw brickbats
id paving-stones at the rascall.
diers who would drag their dear’ bod
in all the simplicity and garrulity of a tottering old man, how
the enthusiastic sisters and daughters, and erst sometimes the
buxom wives of thy admiring Radicals, waved their rich gaudy
handkerchiefs, bearing not seldom thy peated head imprinted
thereupon, | shook thy ribbons from retty fingers, and
vowed in ecstacy that their Joftiest raeiy would be to kiss
thy feet. Yes; such is the well-remembered wish of many a |
staid and sober matron, who now, is her douce old age, recals
the extravegances of her youth and acknowledges them with a
hearty laugh ; and, if fame does not belie thee, though naugh-
ty---naughty ‘old man, many were the dear creatures to whom
you accorded’ full opportunity of indulging their enthusiasm.---
‘Those feet, enclosed withia the smartest and most brilliant tops
that James’s-street could send forth, were not then, dear daddy,
the chosen rendezvous for imprisoned chatk-stones and une
mapeinared humours. ° Tell us, old gentleman, how you raged
a the House of Commons ;, how you frightened poor Adding-
ton into fits; how’ Percival *smelt’a smelt o} mstone when
he’ saw you,’ and ‘looked suspiciously at those contiouations
which the maidens so loved ; how the Whigs voted you dan-
gerous ;'und how it was objected i in the House of Commons to
sending you to the Tower, that, you would blow op, the powder
magozine.
: (Burdett, by a succession of fortunate deaths, succeeded to his
family | baronetcy and estates when a child; and he fell also
under the totelage of the author of the Diversions of Purley
gave him a thoroughly Radicial knowledge of k, La-
tn rand polities. I believe he figured also at one of ‘the ‘Uni-
versivies ¢ for. T have W heard a story that when Bordett was new-
ly turned. out from Horne Took’s hands, he went down to the
convocation house of his, “University, and astonished the “Lory
heads ‘of ‘houses,’ who: liad come there swith their prepared
speeches in their caps, by a burst of extemporaneous Latin, in
which he-abused thent all in superlatives as long, and nearly as
gomplimentary, as those. which Cicero employs as synoymes
for Cataline. “It is said that when he sat dowa the house was
in amazement. i i
Jorne Tooke saw the immense nse which the large property
of his pupil’ (£45,000 a year) would be to the popular cause.---
He laboured with all his might to instil into hiny these qualities
which might. render him an ‘honest and powerful leader of a
teally national. party---ta enable him to, run his instructor's
own career under better auspices, and with a happier fortune.---
Butthe materials were wanting; Burdett had neither the talent
nor the ptinciple; and Took, although he could, gild the tos Jt
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ject to aj; party of, poor. patriots, and. his rank , would be of no.
small advantage to give them ‘importance ia pubtic estimation.
Ue had neither talent nor steadivess,. nor.had he irue ambition;
but vanity---O, he had, stores of thet vanity---enough fora
pump room full ar puppies---a stock. that might have set up’
half-a-dozen, Brummels. » Tooke, bad he been as stupid as he
was shrewd, could not have overlooked, this, , Le saw it, laugh-
atit, and ruled him by it... [He tempted the -rich and titled
stripling with the leaderslip of the Radicals. , Flaw eagerly he
swallowed. the bait. . Of course, the first, process was a: gentle
tug at, his purse-strings.., Phe Duke of Neweastle would have
gold his wares to his Satauic Majesty, bad he. bid bigh. enough.
He received the Baronet’s gold with the blandest of smiles, and
duly dubbed him M. .P. for Boroughbridge. ‘This was:some-
ibing for the Radicals... Tuey had aman inthe Louse of Com-
mons now to repeat their. speeches.'and to present their-remon-
strances; to nify whatever they should do, and to take care
that they should, not lie in Dundas's goals bi ithout the country
nowing something about, it. Mighty was the name of
Burdett; and all who saw the puppet only ¢ ata distance thought
bim a hero.. ‘The, men who pulie
pious fraud, and laughed .at their, divin
Burdett at this time... Upon great oceasions---upon show days
--when he made motions for annual parliaments and pniversal,
sudtage, his speech was writtea for bim ; and although he-sél
doin learned it very perfecily,-there. was an ease, a polish, a
classical, cantour, and, above all, .aJucidus-ordo about it, that.
distinctly marked its origin. No disGgurement could make it
ass for one of Burdett’s brats. «It was, however, upon ordinas
vy ‘occasions that you heard ihe, Barone, himself; when he
‘ag answering some fools contenipiuous notice. vouchsaled tu
him by Dan ndas, or metimes, in a moment of moagnanimity,
y Pitt, there he anol, his usual pleasing and modulated voice
raised into shrilloess.aad dissonance, : lik witch vomiting
crouked pins, povring forth sentences having neither form nor
comeliness---broken, , disrupted, and + meaningless; . breaking
poor Priscian’s head with every breath, and treating with most
uniriendly contempt his dear friend Cobbeti’s syntax---a jumble
of words and sounils, in which epithets of rabid abuge were the
most prominent elements; the Jitle that could be understood
the by. Y-gone limes; how you. save Parangueds
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vigexd yy re:
elect tually | reconciling his audience to the } loss of, the remainder
aitolverne 80s My
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---windy violence, vapid noise, the bellow of the cannon with->
joutits ball, Such was Burdett by hinself.
lorne ‘Tooke, and afier him, Cobbett, nanaged, nevertheless,
to cram this figure-head of their party at proper seasons, seated
him for Middlesex, and puffed the shallow-pated young man to
such an inordinate magnitude of folly, tbat the puppy began to
sneer at the memory of Charles Fox. » ‘This realization of the
fable of the ass kicking the dead lion was too much for the risi~
ble nerves of the. Middlesex folk ; they sent. him to
vanity-fair tumbles before some other audience, and his politi-
cal guardians, internally cursing his folly, seated him for West-
minste
Then came the epiende for the Tower—the good joke ofbeing
found teaching his son to translate: Magna Charta; and th
slaughter among the people ‘who dared the danger out of whiel
he slinked. It was Borda’ 's own vanity that caused the death
ofthese men. It was vanity, vanity, vanity, that was ever the
motive of Bu rae. “Vanit it was that at ove lime covere
im with laurel, at anotber time with blood, and now with
laughter.
Gobvert nearly crushed bim by revealing his i impotence, anil
he would have settled Him bad not Cobbett’s fame been as great
for intrepidity of assertion as for talent..; As it was, Cobbett's
voice, even merica, nearly unseated him, and he cried
aloud for peace. « Cobbert then told him the real truth; that the
only use he could ever be to any party would be for his money ;
but that if be would put him (Cobbett) and his friend, Mr. Henry
Hunt, into parliament at his own expense, he would shake
hands and ery peace. Burdett offered a handsome subserip-
tion, bat that would not do; and having declined to invest abeut
£20,000 in the manner proposed by “Cobbett, the one went
me abusing, and the other ealling for the money he had already
He was now £0 thoroughly established asa demagogue, that
his age made his violence res pectable 5 3 and although he heard
certain rank if the Honse of Commons.
rageous as ever. , Perhaps one of the best i eee speeches
he ever made was in 1834, in answer 10 's) declaration:
of flection for the Trish Protestant church. “How valiantly dict
Sir Francis, abuse she. Irish parsons und all their doings:—
“ With regard tothe church of Ireland,” said be, “tbe single
question is, does that chureh do géod or evil? | Is Protestant
aeeendaney. | for that is Whatis meant by preservingthe choreby
of so muel
Or is it not a curse to the penple of Ireland 2”
- Listen ta his reverence of. ihe sacredness of church proper~
— The property of the church, Sir, is pay given for a pub-
Rei service, and it requires that that serviee should be perform-
I As 0 the honors, I will ask to what chureh, od
they give this proper!
©. Unhappily for Burdett, the time was now coming when the
canse be bad used as a stalking-horse wos to become. successful
—when men of some talents as well as of some wealth and rank,
stepped forward to urge it on... Poor Burdett! what a different
life he now had !-instead of being the great Apollo of the paps
ing crowd, nobody paid the slightest aneption to bint. ~Oiher
more Jegitimate. Jions had got oscession of the hustings; and
poor old Glory, who, bad now! found his level, was jostled and
ved without ceremony among the potle below. Amid the
howling of the Reforin siorm, bis voice was searcely heard: a
few, querulous notes, however, escaped, to let the naticn’ know
the aisfaction of the poor man, whose trade bad been taken
out of bis hands. Burdett had no Cobbett to write speeches for
him now—bis light was waning, and every effort to revive it
only served to betray bis secret. | Then came O'Connell, whe
not only eclipsed him, bot treated him very ungenteelly, and
with very marked contempt. I once saw him, ata meeting of
Radical members and others, rise in the middle of Burdet's
specch, put him aside with a wave of his hand, and begin as
*hough he had only stopped the mouth of a troublesome child.
[cannot blame Burdett for hating O'Connell.: O'Connel] treat-
ed him cruelly—I think shamefully. | Burdett now did the only
wise thing he ever did—he retired from active service, to curse
the generation that woul no longer shout afterhim as the ablest
and best of patriots, and (o bewail his hard lot that he could not;
vote against the Radicals, who had chosen other leaders.” Well,!
thus was Sir ‘Francis located io his snug library and eaay chair’
—one foot reposed vpon a well-stuffed footstool, while the other,
enclosed in a top-boot, seeined. bighly impatient of its brother’ 3
inficasitiee—the baronet himselfoi 1»
ae Nursing his wrath, 10 keep it warm,” .
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half rasing. himself in his chair, and reading one of bis own
speeches in an old volume of Cobbett's Register, when: open >
flew the door, and in came—never mind ia what form—the news
that Peel was prime minister. » Burdett was glad, no douht:—
bat I firmly believe that at rhistime he had never entertained a
thought of apostatizing, _ I believe that. he had sufficient sense
to see that he had obtained—be chuckled as he thought kow—his-
Boner! ty
loric reputation, He @ proclaimed at once that he bad no sonfi-
benefit that it must, at all. hazards, be preserved? .
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