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’ respectable approach to the power and handling of Miss
“to two Catholic Clergymen of. most opposing manners and
acenery and incident, would be found au improvement. ;
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‘Zye eaenugy HoNcr,
VOL. T.
Bitevary Notice.
——. .
TALES, BY THE O'HARA FAMILY, st
_ Although late in our notice of these interesting tales, they are
in many respects so characteristic and original, we could notre-
solve to neglect them altogether. As portraitures of Irish inci-
‘dent, character. and manners, they appear to us to make avery
Edgeworth, with more of romantic incident and of openness of
sentiment, in regard to the political causes of the disorders by
which Ireland has been solong afflicted. With this resemblance
to Miss Edgeworth, the author joins a small dash of the love of
mystery and the mode of managing it, so prevalent in the no-
vels of the American novelist Brown, author of “ Arthur Mer-
yyn,” “ Ormond,” “Wieland,” &e., of whose style of invention,
the first tale in these volumes, called Crohoore; or the Bell-
hook, forms a prominent example; and the second, entitled
The Fetches, a still greater. This profusion of the mysterious
ina series of scenery and incident, bearing evident marks of a
perfect acquaintance with the people and country described,
gives a peculiarity to these tales which is in no small degree ori-
ginal and attractive. There are but three stories in the whole
three volumes, and two of them afford highly-spirited sketches
_ of the state of the peasantry in Ireland, and of the disorder and
oppression produced by the very unnatural construction of the
Trish social system. - Character is also individualized with con-
° siderable humour and vivacily : we are introduced, for instance,
vharacter, yet each exhibiting obvious proofs of verisimilitude.
‘The invisible Chieftain acting under the rommes de guerre of
General Rock, John Doe, &c., and their mode of warfare, are
“ also hit off with something of the graphic freedom and felicity of
Sir Walter Scott, and with an evident attempt, like that author
in respect to the Scotch, to do something to increase our famili-
arity with native Irish character in its own soil. The story cal-
Jed The Fetches is of another kind, and forcibly displays the
prevalence of that train of association in the mind of our au-
thor, which has induced us to partially compare him with the
ingenious Brown. The hero of this tale is a delicately construct-
* ed aud romantic young student, who, in consequenee of falling
into a particular line of reading, forms a theory in respect to
body and spirit which leads him to infer their occasiunal sepa-
ration even in this life; and hence the existence of the saper-
natural spectres denominated Felches. He brings over to his
own way of thinking a beautiful lady, to whom he is attached—
and the excitement produced by their heated imaginations is
yery skilfully portrayed. Some people may think the non-
‘clearing up of a part of the mystery a defect, others a beauty ;
but however this may be, both the idea and mode of managing it
i3 interesting and forcible. In short, we are of opinion, that the
author of these tales will not stop here; and in that conviction
venture to hint, that in the tales of Crohvore and John Doe, we
_ think that he suspends the catastrophe too long, and that in fa-
ture efforts, somewhat more compression, in regard to similas
Evelans.
‘The following beautiful stanzas, which we republish from the
. London ‘Truthteller, are supposed to huve been written by
Lord Fitzgerald on the nee his being arrested :
Qh! IRELAND, my country! the hou
Of thy pride and thy ale nudoue fs
And the chai ‘dim thy eteut of power,
Hangs heavy around thee va last,
of the chances of time
ever restore thee again.
, Thow art chain’ to the wheel of the foe
which the world shall not sever;
Ww ith oy tyronts thro’ storm and theo ‘alm frou chal go, ’
thy sentence is bondage for ever .
‘hou art doomed for the thankless to
‘Thon art lef for the proud to
of thy sons, and the weal of thy soif
Shall be wasted, aud wasted ia vain
Thy riches with taunts shall be tans
valour with col lus repai
ant ‘it millions who seo theo thus sk and forsaken,
Not ole shld stand forth in thy ai
ta tho mations thy place is left void ;
‘Thou art lost in the list of the free;
Fe en reulmshy the plague aud the earthquake destrey’t
fay retvieye~but no hope is for
-¢
‘Bailar.
(From the Troubadour.)
ue raised the golden cup from the boar¢,
It sparkled with purple wealth 5
jie kist the brim her lip had prest,
And drank ta his ladye’s health
Ladye, to-night J pledge thy name,
To-morrow thou shalt pledge mine;
Ever the smile of beauty should light
The victor's blood-red win
‘There are some flowers of brightest bigom
Amid thy beantifil hair
Give me those roses, they shall be
The farour I wil! *
For ere their cciour is wholly gon
Or the breath of their sweetness “ited,
They shall be placed in thy curls aggin,
Bat dy'd ofa # deeper te red. *
The warrior rode forth in the morning light,.
And beside his snow-white plum
We ere the roses wet with the sparkling dew, '
Like pearls on their crimson blo
“The maiden stood on her. highest tower, > A
And watch’d her knight dep: art;
She ash the tear aside, that her hand.
X -Might not still her beating heart. .
All day she watch’d the distant clouds
. - Float on the distant air,
A erucifix upon her neck,
Andon her lip a prayer. |
‘The sun went down,’ and twilight came |
- With her banner of pearl in grey,
And then, afar, she saw a band alg
Wind down the vale theirway. ‘
They came like victors, for high o’er their ranks ~
Were criinson colours borne ;
‘And a stranger pennon droop’ beneath,
ut that was bow’d and to:
But she saw no white steed fist i in the ranks,
No rider that spurr'd before ;
_ But the evening shadows were closing fast,
_ And she could see no more,
She turn’d from her watch on the lonely tower,
In haste to reach the hall,
And as she sprang down the winding stair,
She heard the draw-bridge fall.
A ere harps their welcome Tung,
Then paused as if in fear;
The Tadye entered the hall, and saw
Her true knight stretch’ don his bier! ”,
iscellancous,
Tue nivat’ TurRTLEe-peaLers.—A few days since, a gentle-
man, (formerly captain of an East Indiaman) residing at t Lime-
house, anda “knight of the shears,” one of the “saints’ of the
neighbouring parish of Poplar, had a “‘set-to” in the real John
Bull style, arising from the following cause :—The captain hav-
ing had, from his inf fancy, a Brent partiality for any thing plea-
sant in taste, sweet, rich, and valuable, was particularly “en-
amoured” wit! th that curious and “delicious dish, known by the
appellation of “ turtle soup :” and, unfortunately had a large
family taking after their papa in respect to that extraordinary
dainty. Every vessel on its arrival at Blackwall was unsuccess-
fully boarded., At length fortune favoured him in meeting with
an “old shipmate who took him on board, and there present-
ed to his view ‘ t his heart most grieved for,” and agreed
with him “ Gstanter? for the purchase of the same. The thing
was immediately sent home, and from thence to a butchers to be
weighed, while the captain and bis friend jogged a one
“to pay,” and the other to “ receive the metal.” It happened
that the poor “kaight". was unmercifully in love with the same
kind of stuff, his dear spouse, (being as ladies wish to be who
love their lords) sickened at the thoughts of disappointment, and
he himself near mad. “ News, oh glorious news!”’ exclaimed
the dame, leaping with joy, one Saturday, into the presence of
her august lord and husband, whom she found seated “like unto
a Sultan of the East,” a fine turtle at the butcher’s ; away went
sleeve-board, ard, and goose, and away went snip himself,
where he learnt the parties were opposit ‘Thither he went in
full possession of every grateful pleat, appeared before the
lemen, and in the presence of the captain offered his friend
a considerable deal more than he had. given for it. The captain,
fearful his expectation would be alla“ bottle of smoke,” ordered
the tailor out of the house 5 3 pat upon_ his knees, he begged a
farewell gaze; it could ranted, and the gallant captain
taking him (nearly faintiog) 4 in fis arms, placed hin outside the
door. e disappointed man’s feelings being irritated by this
piece of indignity, and raising his hand unobserved, gave his op-
ponent a very unwelcome “remembrance” between the peepers,
broke his te ad cut his nose. A real battle then ensu-
ed, at the finish of which the poor tailor was carried home com-
pletely beaten, acknowledging himself only the ninth part of a
man, and declaring in future to disclaim all. _ friendship witha
sea-tor
The above parties were taken before the Magistrates, atLam-
beth-street, and the tailor bound over to the quarter sessions for
striking the cagtain in hisown house.—Lond. paper.
MM. Denon.
There is no class from which foreign, and especially English
visitors at Paris, have received more courtesy and kindness than
from thvse who cultivate the arts and sciences, One of the
most, Bera ps the most distinguished in this respect, .was the
Baron Denon, whose death we “lately. announced. Hlis behavi-
our was most obliging, as his acquaintance was most interest-
ing, to strangers. in his power, as Director of the Museuin,
as owner of the first cabinet of art in Paris, and as the centre of
an extensive, and even illustrious circle, was freely done by
him. iis manners and character did honour to his country.
had the politeness of the ancient Court, with the ease, man-
liners and freedom of the new race. The ‘commanding res)
tability of his character imposed silence even upon part}
At the most critical moments of 1815 and 1816, he spoke of Na
polcon with liberal justice, and without the feast reserve. Hav-
ing been selected by him to share the expedition to Egypt, as a
leading member of the commission of arts and sciences, he ob-
tained his friendship, and preserved it. . Strangers were not a
little surprised to see, in the Cabinet of M. Denon, openly ex-
posed, busts of Napoleon, by Chaudet and Canova, ch
memorials could be gcen elsewhere only in confidence, and by
stealth. His behaviour, when the Louvre was dismantled, did
him the highest credit. | Blucher demanded of him his, key, as
Director of the Museum. He refused giving it to any authority
but that from which he had received it, and was forthwith
placed in arrest under a Prussian guard. ‘In the mean time the
door was broken open in form, if not in fact, the conquerors
not deigning to await the circuitous coming of the kt through
Louis xvut, or his authority. Denon was then informed that
he was no longer Director of the Museum, aud releasgil,
| Buther,
A Correspondent of the Hereford Indeprndent, remarking:
upon the panegyric passed, upon this sturdy ;theolo;
Morning Chronicle, says,— a ian by the
not aware that Luther ever
actively promoted any other war than the fierce war of religious
controversy.‘ The Gospel (said he) has always caused distur-
banees, and blood is necessary for its establishment. Jesus
Chrsit came to send a-sicord into the midst of the world.’ Mat. x.
Without making quotations from the more scandalous portions of”
his written works, to show how far his writings prove him to have
been a *t ‘ gentleman,” the usual flowers of his speech when ad-
de essing’ ‘the Po ‘ope and other Catholic Prelates are—villain,
thief, traitor, apostle of the devil, bishop of Sodomites ! and the
extent of his charity to them is, to wish that their bowels were
torn out, that they were cast into the Mediterranean sea, or in-
tothe flames. and that they were hunted away to th fe devil !—
This is * gentlemanlike.” 1 may add, that whereas Luther
with all his hatred of the Catholics, aaa that “in their reli-
gion is to be found all things requisite for salvation,” he repeat-
edly devotes to everlasting perdition all those nnmerous mem-
bers of the reformed religion who refuse to belicve in the reat
presence of the body of Christ in the sacrament of the altar—of
Urs inctuding i in the general sweep his friend Macullo
sell. This is “charitable,” and.“ kind-hearted!” He even
gronnds his own hope of finding mercy at the tribunal of the
Great Judge, upon his unrelenting Opposition to those who re-
ject this article of belief. Independently of the above statements,
if we reflect that Luther has assured the world, not ouly that he
held frequent conferences with the Devil, ut that he Jearnt the
the mass—from him; if we moreover remember, that he openly
mission of perju ary and bigamy; crimes, whict
ized countries are generally visited with the
severest punishments of the law—surely we shall feel neither in-
dignant nor surprised, that a writer so accustomed as Mr, Cob-
betty to make use of strong language, should have unceremoni-
ously Pronounced that L uther was deserving of a halter him-
self,” For my own part, as “often as I reflect on the life and
and writings of the great Patriarch of the Reformation, I look
invain—I do not say, for the heroic virtues ofa divinely in.
spired apostle—but for the ordinary integrity of an bonést
ma
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