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it could not (strictly speaking) be inferred that he meant to say Bonaparte discovered that island at that particular time. The passage in the text stands thus: "1583. Sir Humphrey Gilbert, brother-in-law to Sir Walter Raleigh, with five ships, set sail for America. He landed at Newfoundland, and claimed it for the British crown. On his return voyage, Sir Humphrey was deplorably lost in a storm at sea."

that Uttamussack was at Orapakes, however ingenious in itself, is accompanied by several difficulties; for a temple at Pamaunkee could hardly with propriety be said to be near the head of Chickahominy, which by Smith's map is some ten miles distant. Nor is the critic's conjecture that 'this temple was Orapakes,' with out difficulties of a truly embarrassing nature, for Captain Smith calls it a town, and a town can hardly be That Sir Humphrey Gilbert landed there in 1583, see properly termed a temple. “And in a triumphant manner, Stith's History of Virginia, book 1, p. 6 and 7, and led him [Smith] to Orapakes, where he was after their Burk's History of Virginia, vol. 1, p. 39. In regard to manner kindly feasted and well used. the discovery of Newfoundland, by John Cabot, in May, But arriving at the Town [i. e. Orapakes,] (which was 1496, Marshall in his life of Washington, vol. 1, p. 4, but onely thirtie or fortie houses made of mats, which dates this discovery by John Cabot and his son Sebas- they remove as they please as we our tents,) all the tian, in May, 1498; which is mentioned merely to women and children staring to behold him," &c. Smith's show that there exists a certain perplexity among the History of Virginia, p. 143, and Stith, book 2, p. 51. best writers, as to the dates of these early and obscure It is rather a matter of surprise, that this critic, who events. Indeed, to say the truth, some historians seem is imbued with so refined a spirit of accuracy, (homo to doubt whether Cabot discovered Newfoundland at all usque ad unguem) and who is apparently so very fami or not. (See Bancroft's History of United States, vol. 1, liar with Smith's map, should not have perceived that and Burk, vol. 1, p. 38, in note.) However that may be, Uttamussack is set down on that map, at Pamaunkee, it is certain (although no such statement was made or which would have at once relieved him from all further intimated in the Tuckahoe Colony') that Sir Hum- solicitude about the matter, and from the necessity of phrey Gilbert on landing there, claimed Newfoundland locating it at Orapakes, which is apparently some thirty in the name of Queen Elizabeth, and this with consi- miles distant, and which the itinerant antiquary might derable parade and ceremony, for which see Stith, book be somewhat puzzled to find from the topographical 1, p. 6, and Marshall's Life of Washington, vol. 1, p. 11. data of the critic, inasmuch as the direction of Cold "UTTAMUSSACK.-The author locates this place Harbor, (unless it differs from all other harbors in twelve miles above Richmond, near the James River. the world, whether cold or hot, or like the Laodiceans Now, Smith, (page 138,) locates it at Pamaunkee; and at page 117, says that fourteen miles northward from neither,) will vary considerably, according to the point the river Powhatan is the river Pamaunkee. Smith of departure, from which you start for it. But 'de says, that near Uttamussack is a temple or place of minimis non curat lex.' Powhatan's. I think that this temple was Orapakes. On his map you will find it near the head of Chickahomony, not far from Pamaunkee, in the direction of Cold Harbour, in Hanover."

Answer:-This fact was gathered from the following passages in Beverley's History of Virginia, pp. 108, 109. "The golden mine, of which there was once so much noise, may, perhaps, be found hereafter, to be some gold metal," &c. ****** This I take to be the place in Purchase's fourth book of his Pilgrim, called Uttamussack, where was formerly the principal temple of the country, and the metropolitan seat of the priests in Powhatan's time, &c. **There also was their great Pawcorance or Altar-Stone, which the Indians tell us was a solid crystal of between three and four foot cube, upon which in their greater solemnities they used to sacrifice. This they would make us believe was so clear, that the grain of a man's skin might be seen through it, and was so heavy too, that when they removed their gods and kings, not being able to carry it away, they buried it thereabouts. But the place has never yet been discovered.

"Mr. Alexander Whitaker, Minister of Henrico, on James River, in the company's time, writing to them, says thus: Twelve miles from the Falls, there is a Crystal Rock, wherewith the Indians do head many of their arrows."

From the location of this 'Crystal Rock,' twelve miles from the Falls, and the circumstance that there was a 'Crystal' of that description at Uttamussack, (it being reckoned there were hardly two of that sort,) it was probably inferred that Uttamussack was twelve miles from the Falls. The hypothesis of the critic

'I leave topography to classic Gell.'

It may, however, not be amiss here to suggest, that by the phrase 'at Pamaunkee,' Smith, perhaps, did not mean at a river of that name (for at a river is rather an odd expression) but at a place so called, which idea is confirmed by the word Pamaunkee on Smith's map, being printed not parallel to the line of the river, but perpendicular thereto, as is the case with other places along the river. This river was then called the Youghtanund, and the name Pamaunkee was applied to the York. See Smith, p. 117, and 142. Stith, book 2, page 53.

"COLONIES.-Under this head the author states, that James Town sent out two colonies.' One he locates six miles below Richmond. Now according to Smith, (page 236,) West's colony was seated by the Falles,'

in a place not only subject to the river's inundation, but round environed with many intolerable inconveniences."

Answer: "Anno 1609. This year Jamestown sent out people and made two other settlements, one at Nansemond on James River, and the other at Powhatan six miles below the Falls of James River, (which last was bought of Powhatan for a certain quantity of copper,) each settlement consisting of about a hundred and twenty men. Some small time after another was made at Kiquotan, by the mouth of James River." Beverley, page 19.

"The author locates Kiquotan, near Norfolk; whereas, reference to Smith's map will show that Kiquotan includes Hampton and Old Point."

With due deference, it is submitted whether it be not consistent with common usage, in this case, to say

Kiquotan [Hampton] is near Norfolk, the object of the
writer being simply to give the distant reader some
general idea of the position of that place, by referring
it to the nearest town of consequence in that part of
the country; as we say in common parlance, Cambridge
near Boston, or Germantown near Philadelphia; Qui
hæret in litera, hæret in cortice. It was unnecessary to
descend into these hypercritical minutiæ since there are
some errors (at least two) of much more importance,
which the critic has allowed to pass with impunity.

'Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.'
Juvenal, Sat. 2, v. 63.

"The author says that Williamsburg was laid off in the form of a W. It was not. Governor Nicholson proposed it; but it was not done."

Answer:-"Here [at Middle Plantation] Governor Nicholson projected a large town, and laid out the street in the form of a W, calling the same Williamsburgh, in honor of the reigning king." Keith's History of Virginia, page 171. It is proper to mention that this part of 'The Tuckahoe Colony' consists merely of some notes of a three or four days excursion in the lower country. Such fugitive productions, as they do not pretend to the accuracy of history, ought to be received with such indulgence as is expressed in the verse, Be to their virtues very kind.

Be to their faults a little blind.'

"Secretary Nelson's house in York Town was demolished by the artillery of the combined armies; and not Governor Nelson's, as the author states. The latter is still in good preservation."

Answer:-"The Virginia Militia, at the siege of York Town, were commanded by General Nelson, at that time governor of the State. The following anecdotes were related to me by General Lafayette.

which writers have ever been accustomed to use a con-
siderable latitude of remark. Thus Juvenal has

"Nam de tot pulchris, et latis orbibus, et tam
Antiquis, una comedunt patrimonia mensâ,”

Goldsmith in his 'Deserted Village,' has inveighed with
a good deal of warmth and severity against the depo-
pulating evils of luxury; and in his preface, alluding
to this feature of his poem, he somewhat oddly re-
marks, "merely for the sake of novelty and variety,
one would wish to be sometimes in the right."

The homely proverb, which "coming between the wind and his nobility," seems to have offended the perhaps too sensitive nostrils of the critic, it must be admitted, is somewhat coarse and vulgar; but it may be, that like some other coarse and vulgar maxims, under an uncouth garb, it contains a salutary and important truth. Perhaps "the shoe pinches," and "hinc illæ lachrymæ." Whether there was ground for the remark, (in reference to a former age,) in that portion of the state, may be safely left with the country gentlemen of the present day to determine. They have continually before them, the melancholy forms of decayed churches, dismantled seats, impoverished fields, the disinherited with tears bidding a final farewell to the play-ground of childhood, the ancestral hearth, and patrimonial oak, endeared to them by every tender consideration, and ancient families scattered, like autumnal leaves, before the winds of Heaven.

What were the particular habits, manners and customs of the ancestors, of an anonymous writer, (and so erroneous and rude a one,) or whether such a person ever had any ancestors, are matters rather of curious conjecture (something like the critic's, that the temple was Orapakes,) than of any practical importance.

If there ever were such people, and if they were now living, it is likely they would not care "three skips of a flea," either for the supposed aspersion of their descendant, or for the superfluous generosity of this uncalled for vindication.

"When the cannon were prepared for bombarding the town, Governor Nelson was requested to direct the pointing of them to those parts where they would do the greatest execution. He showed to officers a large "He'd undertake to prove by force house, which was a conspicuous object, and which he Of argument, a man's no horse." said was probably the head-quarters. He advised During the trial of Aaron Burr, Luther Martin said them to aim at that house. It proved to be his own. of one of the prosecuting counsel, that " he was contiThis evidence of patriotism was regarded with high nually hopping up like a parched pea;" on quitting the admiration by the French officers." Spark's writings of capitol, the gentleman of whom Mr. Martin had thus Washington, vol. 8, page 201, in note. This passage spoken, was complaining of the remark to Mr. Jack Bais quoted not so much to deny the justice of the correc-ker, (who was also engaged in the cause,) in a manner tion of the critic, as to show that the error has pre- rather lugubrious and prolonged for the occasion, when vailed somewhat extensively. Mr. B., who had not much taste for the pathetic, inter"The author, in his rude remarks on the country rupted him, exclaiming-"Have done my dear sir, I gentlemen who have eaten up their estates; their pro-am perfectly convinced." "Convinced! convinced of perty has gone down their gullets;' was unmindful of what?" cried the other. "Convinced (said Baker,) that the old adage, 'nil nisi,' &c., and must have forgotten you are not a parched pea." that his maternal ancestors were included in his philippic. Chelsea, in the olden time, was a very hospitable mansion; and may have been more generous than just.' But I cannot agree with the author, that they were among those of whom he says, 'fools make feasts, and wise men come to eat them.""

Answer:-The writer of the article in question had (probably owing to his ignorance on that head,) always conceived that the maxim, De mortuis nil nisi bonum, was intended to exclude animadversions on deceased individuals, and not those which are of a general nature, applicable to an age or class of mankind, in respect to

If a writer passing through the lower country where his ancestors lived, should remark that “mill-ponds had destroyed many lives," it could hardly be fairly inferred from that that he meant to say that there was a millpond on every plantation in the country, or that there was a mill-pond at the seat of his great grandfather. While the critic reproaches the writer of the obnoxious article with "rudeness" and "false statements," that writer so far from recriminating any thing of the sort, is only at a loss to know, how the critic could preserve Sæpe sub attritâ latitat sapientia veste.

so much equanimity in the midst of so much that was calculated to try the patience of a person so profoundly learned in the history of Virginia, and who studies accuracy with such fastidious scrupulosity. Although his sole object was (as he mentions) to correct the errors of another, he has undoubtedly effected something more, for he has succeeded in committing several himself. In regard to the matter of "rudeness," the critic's precept was wholly unnecessary, as his example alone could not fail to prove amply satisfactory in that particular. CHARLES CAMPBELL.

Petersburg, Va., Aug. 20, 1839.

SKETCH OF FERDINAND,

THE LATE KING OF SPAIN.

Ferdinand VII, king of Spain, and the sixth prince of the Bourbon dynasty in that kingdom, was born at the Escurial, in October 1784. He was recognised as prince of Asturias, or heir to the crown, in 1789, by the Cortes which had been assembled in that year for the purpose. He was married in the first instance to Marie Antoinette de Bourbon, daughter of Ferdinand IV, king of Naples; and this marriage took place at Barcelona, in October 1802. It appears that the youth and personal merit of this princess inspired him with a sincere attachment, and that he was deeply affected by her death, which happened in May 1806.

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The throne of Ferdinand was still without a direct heir, and the king was induced to enter the conjugal state for the fourth time. The fatality which seemed to attend a union with Ferdinand, and the example of three princesses who had sunk into the grave soon after ascending the Spanish throne, did not deter Maria Christina de Bourbon, daughter of Francesco Genazo, king of Naples, from accepting that honor, and before the expiration of 1829, she became the wife of Ferdinand and queen of Spain.

The reputation of this princess had spread through the kingdom long before her arrival, and on her appearance in the capital, her youth, beauty and affability, realized the most sanguine expectations, and filled all with rapture and enthusiasm. She studied from the first to make herself popular, and succeeded; she flattered the prejudices of the people, conformed to their usages, and adopted their dress. All this, aided by an expressive countenance, and an indescribable smile always playing about her lips, soon caught the hearts of the people, to whom she was fond of showing herself, and who admired her the more from the contrast of her manner compared with that of her predecessor.

With the exception that Providence refused him a son, Ferdinand, who in the great political drama lately represented in Europe, acted no inconsiderable part, succeeded in attaining nearly all the objects of his wishes. During a long and turbulent reign, chequered by a variety of events, the fortune of this prince constantly prevailed, and bore him in safety over the rocks and quicksands which threatened his political career, if His second wife was Isabel Maria de Braganza, not his personal existence. Other men with more firmdaughter of John VI of Portugal, to whom he was uni-ness of character, or with talents superior to those ted in September 1816. This princess shared the which Ferdinand was believed to possess, would, if throne of Ferdinand for a still shorter period than the placed in the same circumstances, have fallen perhaps preceding one she died in child-birth, in 1818. Her the victims of their opinions, or sunk under the weight personal appearance was good; her features regular, of their misfortunes. But Ferdinand, yielding always and might even have been styled handsome. But there to the blast, or suffering himself to be carried away by was a vacant look, and a want of expression in her the stream, saw many a storm pass harmless over his countenance, that deprived her of all pretensions to head, and avoided, by a patient resignation, all the evils beauty. She had a taste for the fine arts, and patronised of resistance when unsuccessful. Without attempting the professors of them, especially the celebrated painter to control the course of events, he seems invariably to Lopez, under whose directions she herself attained no have placed his destiny in the hands of Providence. inconsiderable skill in painting and design. Called to the throne in 1803, by the abdication of his father and the voice of the people, he assumed the supreme authority, and found himself at the head of a loyal and devoted people. A few months only elapsed, when being summoned to Bayonne, and apprised of his father's protest against the abdication, he relinquished his rights, yielded up the crown, and surrendered himself a prisoner at Valencey. On his restoration in 1813, the unfortunate constitution of 1812 was alternately sanctioned and abolished, supported and abandoned by him, according to the circumstances and spirit of the times, and in proportion to the prevalence of the parties in favor of or against it, and still he remained the sovereign of the country. When in 1830 the succes

The torch of Hymen was lit once more in 1819, and Ferdinand was espoused to Maria Josepha Amelia, daughter of the duke Maximilian, brother of the king of Saxony. In respect of education and acquirements, she was perhaps the most accomplished queen that ever sat on the throne of Spain. She spoke several languages, was acquainted with the latin, and had a taste for poetry. Of the latter, she gave the public one or two specimens in Spanish, which, considering that she wrote in a foreign language, did no little credit to her talents. With such accomplishments, this princess might have been the admiration of her subjects; but, unhappily, there was in her disposition a melancholy and morose, which, added to a severe and forbidding counte- sion to the crown became a matter of serious conside

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e, imposed an undue restraint on all who approach-ration, he yielded to the solicitations of the queen, and er, and cast a gloom on every thing around. JoseAmelia was an ascetic, austere in her morals, and ed to religion and religious practices. She was by e better fitted for a convent than a court; but she haritable and humane, and died regretted by the at Aranjuez, in May 1829.

declared his eldest daughter, the young princess Maria Isabel, lawful heiress to the crown, and this same declaration was in the space of a few weeks cancelled and renewed without difficulty, and without any of the consequences which such an act was calculated to produce. Neither the designs of a corrupt court, threatening his

SONNETS;

very existence, while yet a youth, nor the daggers which surrounded him in Seville, nor the bomb-shells that fell around him while in Cadiz, were able to reach a life To "J. D." author of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter which seemed to be guarded by a charm.

Ferdinand, at the time of his death, was about fortynine years of age. He was rather above the middle stature, and corpulent. His complexion sallow, his hair of a dark brown and scanty, and his features strongly marked and not the most becoming; the projecting underjaw of the Bourbons being in him more remarkable than in any of the family. There was, however, one agreeable feature in his countenance-a mild expressive eye, indicating a benevolence of character, which, by many, will scarcely be accorded to him. He is believed to have been a man of good natural talents, but credulous and irresolute, and too susceptible of impressions.

Don Carlos, the late king's brother, is now about fifty years of age. His resemblance to the deceased Ferdinand is but slight, except that he too is distinguished by the characteristic feature of the Bourbons. In regard to his character and disposition, such is the variety of opinions, that it would be difficult to fix upon a criterion. By those who were attached to his household, and knew him best, he has been represented as a good father, a good husband, and a kind master. In his manner he is grave and dignified; he is particular on points of etiquette, jealous of his rank, and tenacious of his privileges. He was ever remarkable for the deference he paid to the clergy, and for his adherence to old practices and old opinions; and it was the dread, so fully verified in the sequel, of his entering too fully into the views of the priests and ultra-royalists, on coming into power, that deterred many a powerful friend from joining him when he asserted his claim to the crown and gave the signal for the revolution that is now consuming the vitals of the nation.

Sonnels.

I.

Bard of the pleasant lyre! where'er thy strain
Breaks on the stillness of the listening air-
Whether in Spring-time, o'er the grassy plain,

With careless step you rove, 'mid flowrets fair--
Whether through Summer's fervid walks you stray,
And mark the waters and the winds at play--
Whether 'mid Autumn's stores of ripening gold,
Thou rovest, pensive, 'mid the dying flowers-
Or Winter calls thee, with his voices cold,
To muse, instructed, 'mong the leafless bowers--
My heart is with thee: Through the joyous hours

I roam, with thee, through scenes so proudly told!
By brook, by glen, on mountain-top I stand,
Turns my fond soul to thee, and my loved Father-land!
II.

Dixon! our own New-England land is fair,
And happy faces glad its pleasant vales:
And voices whisper on its haunted air;

Where olden memories breathe their hallowed tales!
But come, my friend, and rove awhile with me,
And Southern scenes shall spread a feast for thee:
The bard is Nature's priest: where'er she reigns,
There may he find an altar: and his soul

May offer up its incense! Seek the plains,
Where the bright South doth woo with sweet control :
Here noble hearts will cheer us: while the strains
Of warbling birds, more sweet than notes which stole
From Orpheus' lyre, shall win us, for a time,
To linger from our own, to bless the Southern clime !
North Carolina, Aug. 22, 1839.

C. W. EVEREST.

THE REVEL.

"Fill, brothers, fill! heed not the storm,
Tho' Heav'n to Earth were sinking!
Drink, brothers, drink! the thirsty earth

The streaming show'r is drinking."
"No! we heed not the storm, at the lightning we laugh,
While the life-giving liquid we merrily quaff."
The glasses are fill'd, and are sparkling on high;
But the wine is untasted :-A bolt from the sky,
As if borne on the wings of a warning from Heaven,
With a shivering crash, ev'ry goblet has riven.
Hush'd then were the guests, but their silence was brief,
When the hall rang again with the voice of the chief.

The right of Don Carlos and of the young Maria Isabel respectively to the crown of Spain, has been too often and too ably discussed to require any notice here. The former, doubtless, was excluded by an ex post facto law in favor of the latter. This sacrifice of justice (if it was one,) may perhaps be defended on the principle of permitting a little evil for the sake of a great good; since it cannot be denied, that the welfare and improvement of the country, and the success of the liberal in. stitutions lately introduced there, can only be hoped for under the more enlightened sway of the youthful Isabel. What the result may be of the struggle going on in Spain, which is, in fact, a war of succession, it would be difficult to conjecture. The strength of the two parties is almost equally divided; the one possessing the physical, the other the moral power of the kingdom; the queen having the resources and revenues of the country, the prince maintaining a decided ascendant over the hearts and minds of the great mass of the peo-"Then a fig for the storm; at the lightning we laugh, ple; Isabel reigning in the capital and in the cities, Carlos lording it in the villages and in the mountains.

AFFLICTION.

G. W. M.

"Bring cups, fresh cups! we'll fill again:
No coward banquets here;

Tho' Death's bright arrows round us gleam,
Wine, wine shall drown our fear."

While a health to the tempest we merrily quaff."

The glasses again sparkle foaming and bright;
They are raised to the lips! Mark that quick, flashing
light!

Why drops ev'ry goblet? Why quivers each form? Is their mirth aw'd at last by the rage of the storm? Affliction is, to the good, as a storm to the atmos-Ay--the peal that re-echoed, burst over the head phere-they both purify that which before was almost Of a ghastly and motionless Feast of the Dead! purity.

TYRO.

VOL. V.-88

HOPE.

I've never known an hour of joy,
Since manhood dawn'd upon my brow:
My life is love, and yet alloy

Has blasted every hope till now.

And what is hope?-a bubble bright,
That floats upon the treacherous stream;
A flash, a wild illusive light,

That lumines some gay mid-day dream.

It is a phantom of the mind,

That but beguiles us to betray; Then spreads upon the wanton wind, Its glittering wings, and flits away.

It is a butterfly-that flies,

Ere we its beauties have surveyedA summer cloud, that gilds the skies, Yet dies as soon as it was made.

N. P. WILLIS.

MILFORD BARD.

white cravat into fashion-that the latter's "beauty is in high preservation-his life altogether reformed-his diet milk, and his hour of retiring to bed ten o'clock, P. M." That "Lady Blessington's different carriages, are each, in their style, the most beautiful turn-outs in England"-that the "Crack-men ride without martingals, and the best turn-outs are driven without a check rein"-that the queen's riding hat is not becoming, owing to the shape of her nose; and that her majesty, when in full gallop, is apt to hold her mouth open. These are but a few of the very important similar items of information with which the republicans of New York are amused and enlightened. It is possible that the exquisites and "crack-men" of old Gotham may relish such diet, but for ourselves we confess that our appetites would incline us to prefer more simple and solid food.

The sin of egotism is too glaring, throughout these London jottings, to escape the most careless observer. Without a superabundance of charity, a person might well suppose that the end and aim of the author was to celebrate his own achievements and illustrate his own importance in the circles of high life. Indeed Mr. Willis's personal vanity so constantly throws him into the foreground of his own pictures, that it is often unpleasant, if not painful, to contemplate them. In representing the great difficulty of procuring admission Literary readers are, for the most part, apprised, that to "Almack's,"-the sanctum sanctorum of London the gentleman whose name heads this article, (who, fashion,-he fails not to inform us that the Lady Paas a writer of both prose and poetry, has acquired no tronesses (who we shrewdly suspect are a very silly inconsiderable distinction,) has recently united with Dr. set of beldams,) had favored him with a ticket; nor Porter in the establishment of a new periodical in the does he conceal the boast, that in that mysterious inner city of New York, with the title of the "Corsair." temple of exclusiveism, he, Mr. N. P. Willis, felt quite As was to be expected in that great emporium of fashion at home in familiar tête-a-tête with dowagers of rank and novelty as well as of commerce, this paper, aided and maids of honor, conversing about the busts of by the reputation of its editors, has suddenly sprung English and French Venus's-and the pretty ankles of into the full maturity of patronage, and promises to American women. He is quite familiar with the hold a high rank in the well contested field of compe- highest political dignitaries,-with the most renowned tition. In order, we presume, to render its pages more in art, science and literature,—with the most splendid attractive, Mr. Willis embarked early in the summer in title and wealth, and the most beautiful in the empire for England, on a voyage of literary picarooning; and of fashion. He sits in the opera box and chats famisince his arrival there, has regularly supplied the liarly with Lord Brougham—rides out with the “beau"Corsair" with contributions under the somewhat un-tiful" count D'Orsay, (very bad company we should tasteful title of "Jottings down in London." These think,)-perambulates with Bulwer-is invited to Lady consist, for the most part, of scraps and gleanings, Stepney's and Lady Morgan's, along with the Persian picked up by the writer from his old familiar haunts in ambassador and his royal highness the duke of Camthe English metropolis, and are, many of them, strik-bridge,-sits by "Boz," at the dinner to Macready, ingly descriptive of the manners, fashions, and follies which is presided over by another royal duke-dines of that "Great Babel." We have read them as far as one day with a whig baronet, and the next with three No. IV; and whilst it is admitted they contain much tory lords-and, in fine, neither eats nor drinks, rides of the force, piquancy, and originality which distin-nor walks, without coming in close contact with some guish the author's prose compositions, they are by no means free from the affectation, puerility, and egotism, that have likewise marred especially his later writings. That we do not point out these faults and blemishes without reasonable cause, we instance in proof of the author's affectation, the everlasting straining after epigrammatic smartness and point, the profuse sprinkling of French and Italian quotations, and the constant introduction of phrases peculiar to particular classes and professions, which are any thing but pure English; and we certainly do not regard it as otherwise than puerile in Mr. Willis gravely to inform his readers through the pages of the “Corsair,” that Bulwer and Count D'Orsay had formed an alliance to introduce the

of the "Corinthian pillars of polished society." But one of the best of good jokes remains to be told. Our countryman, Webster, it is known, is now on a visit to London, and his great reputation has won for him, there, independently of the usual attentions paid to distinguished strangers, the particular courtesy and kindness of such men as Brougham, Hallam, Milman, &c.-and yet he, we are told, is indebted to Mr. Willis for the great favor of satisfying the higher circles that the American statesman, orator, lawyer Webster, is not Mr. Noah Webster, who wrote the dictionary. This most interesting fact is communicated by Mr. Willis himself in No. II of the "Jottings down in London,” and the natural inference will be, let who will imagine

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