156 Foetry. [VOL. 2. POETRY. From the Literary Gazette. THE VISION OF SPECKBACHR.* BY MRS. MARY ROLLS. D Dash'd the torrent's foaming tide; OWN lofty Iser's rugged side, Whilst each huge o'erhanging rock On bed of fern and dark heath laid, Latest fought th' oppressor's train,--- With quick short breath, why starts the What cold, pale arm is seen to wave ?--- Shows its proud head, and mocks the hand, *Speckbachr and Hofer, the celebrated Tyrolese Chiefs, having long defended their beloved country against the attacks of the French, at length sustained a defeat attended with dreadful slaughter. Hofer was shot by the order of Buonaparte, and Speckbachr remained concealed in a cavern on Mount Iser, until the retreat of the enemy. It must be gratifying to every true patriot to know, that on the restoration of the Tyrol to the Austrian Government, the Emperor Francis settled an estate on the gallant Speckbachr and the children of his deceased compatriot, which the former now cultivates for their joint benefit. Whilst, for the eagle banner's pride, Bright silvery flame is spreading wide ;-A brighter banner,---sent by heaven,--Than e'er by mortal hand was given ! High o'er the tower it proudly waves, And mortal force, and vengeance braves! O'er the dark mountain's rugged side, Pours a scene of martial pride ;--Trumpets' sound, and warriors' cry, Float along the midnight sky; Pass the steeds in swift career--Nods the helm, and gleams the spear--Swells the loud triumphant strain :-----"Ye, who fell on battle's plain ! Freedom's sons !---awake !---arise! Your fathers' spirits, from the skies, Descend once more to hail the day, That sweeps your country's scourge away! His hour is past !---his day is o'er !--Low he falls,---to rise no more! Thou,---who mourn'st thy country low, Thou shalt share the glorious blow !--Tyrol, once again, shalt see, Happy-glorious---prosperous---free! Patriot !---calm thy anxious heart! Nobly, thou hast borne thy part! Brighter days shall gild thy fame, Future ages---bless thy name! -----Spirits of the good and brave! Ye who fill a glorious grave--Rise and join the awful lay! Ruin's storm shall pass away--Earth shall bloom---to peace restor❜d--Love and joy shall break the sword !" Lit. Gaz. Sept. 1817. From the Gentleman's Magazine. Mr. URBAN, The Times Newspaper has very deservedly introduced to public notice the Poems of KORVER, published at Berlin in May 1814. The Author was a Lieutenant in the Cavalry corps, which, under the command of Major Lutzow, distinguished itself so highly among the German partisans, and died of his wounds, shortly after one of the desperate engagements of the last year. These poems are not numerous; the stirring time allowed none of the leisure of composition; they are chiefly occasional---a bold summons to the country,---a lament over some fellowwarrior,--an outcry on the death of the King, who was for a while supposed to have perished at Bautzen. Such works compensate the grace of poetry by the higher and more impetuous influences almost inseparable from their day. No labour of imagination can give the impress, struck out at once by the might and sharpness of the actual scene. Study is cold to the whirl of thought that must have passed through the mind in that fiery and vehement trial,---every mo, ment full of lofty earnestness, the whole spirit of the man wound up to its sternest tension, the realities of hope and glory, and life and death, perpetually sweeping before the eye,---the poet not left to the feebleness of dreams and visions, but himself the soldier, himself exulting and swelli among the trumpets and the swords,---“the garments roll'd in blood, the thunder of the Captains, and the shouting." One of Korner's poems is a "Farewell to Life," composed on the night of June 17, 1813, while he lay desperately wounded, in a wood, without help, and "thought to die." The Preface simply mentions that the Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, as a testimony of respect for this distinguished youth, desired that he should be buried in the Ducal vault; but Korner's companions in arms had already chosen a grave for him under an oak, near which, we believe, he fell. The Duke then did all that remained to princely regret, set apart the surrounding space of forty yards for his perpetual memorial, encircled it with masonry, and raised over the body a monument bearing a sword and lyre, wreathed with an oaken garland. .... Translated from the German of Theodore Korner. THE DEATH OF HOFER, THE TYROLESE CHIEF. "Treu hingst du deinem alten Fursten an." TOFER! in thy bold bosom glowed A stream as pure as ever flowed Beneath a prince's plume; Nor ever warrior's nobler toil, In battle for his native soil, Shed glory round his tomb. Rous'd by thy horn from cot and fold, From forest glen, and rocky hold, With heart and eye of flame,--Like rushings of the mountain flood, Like lightning from the rifted cloud, Thy band of brothers came. And now that heart's rich tide is chill, That horn is silent on the hill, The gallant chase is done; But God is all.---Vain warrior-skill, 1 ON RAUCH'S BUST OF QUEEN LOUISA OF PRUSSIA. Translated from Korner's Poems. H Thy locks in auburn beauty pour; OW lovely still, though now no more, No more thine eye, of humid blue, 157 Yet, matchless as in life, the spell From the New Monthly Magazine. JOY AND GRIEF. WHO has not mark'd on infant's check, When tears obscure his wonted smiles But should the Minstrel chance to fling The bosom still returns the sigh. Thus there are wounds which haughty pride, As April sun, as April shower, Alternate empire hold on high--- 158 But tell me ye who e'er have known A garland form'd of every flower, Each wish denied that Love can feel. For know, whate'er hath been the past, From the European Magazine. ODE* By Mr. T. CAMPBELL, R. D. Author of the "Pleasures of Hope," &c. RIDE of the British Stage, PRI A long and last Adieu! Whose image brought th' heroic age Like fields refresh'd with dewy light, Thy parting presence makes more bright As high we lift the festal cup, To" Kemble, Fare thee well.” Full many a toue of thought sublime; But ne'er efface the charm; To the deep sorrows of the Moor? His transport's most impetuous tone, High were the task---too high, In words to paint your memory, Poetry. But who forgets that white discrowned head, Those bursts of Reason's half-extinguish'd glare, Those tears upon Cordelia's bosom shed, Recited after the Dinner on occasion of Mr. KEMBLE'S Retirement from the Stage. [VOL. 2. If 't was reality he felt--- And triumph'd to have seen! And there was many an hour Her Tragic Paragons had grown--- And undivided favour ran From heart to heart in their applause--Save for the gallantry of Man, In lovelier Woman's cause. Fair as some classic dome Your Kemble's spirit was the home Taste, like the silent dial's power, His mind survey'd the Tragic page; And must we lose them now? And shall the scene no more shew forth Alas! the moral brings a tear--- Yet shall our latest age This parting scene review--. From the Monthly Magazine. BY HENRY NEELE. But its beauty fades at last. Then, all that grief can utter Is wept o'er the remains, Yet what avails the flow'r, when once VOL. 2.] London Literary and Philosophical Intelligence, From the London Literary Gazette. INFANT LOVE; OR, THE KISS. And he was taller of the two, My infant heart began to doat goat, It seem'd of more than mortal birth; To nought could be compar'd on earth. She thinks not of her loving boy--- 159 A. T. P. From the Monthly Magazine. TO A LADY AT THE PIANO; HOSE chords are the reins of my soul, Like a courser that bends to control, My spirits are glad, But, when the sound lingers, They droop and are sad; For the gloom of my spirit, or summer shine, From the spindle of phantasy bright, Or mead and flower; Each has arisen to Fancy's eye, INTELLIGENCE: turesque Tour through France, Switzerland, and part of the Netherlands, just published, will serve either to convey just notions to the fireside traveller, or the tourist who chooses to pursue the route of the author. For this last purpose, it is provided with maps of the route, on a scale of utility. A Supplement to Junius Identified, is published consisting of fac-similes of Hand-writing and other illustrations. Madame de Stael's posthumous work, entitled "The French Revolution," in three octavo volumes, is about to be published. The two first volumes embrace the era from the administration of her father to the battle of Waterloo: the third is devoted to England. boiler, and should certify his opinion of its sufficient strength, and of the security with which it might be employed to the extent proposed. with two sufficient safety valves, one of which That every such boiler, should be provided should be inaccessible to the engine man, and the other accessible both to him and to the persons on board the packet. That the inspector shall examine such safety valves, and shall certify what is the pressure at which such safety valves shall open, which pressure shall not exceed one-third of that by which the boiler has been proved, nor onesixth of that which, by calculation, it shall be reckoned able to sustain. We have great pleasure in announcing the That a penalty should be inflicted on any commencement of another of those useful col-person placing additional weight on either of lections which are honourable testimonies of the safety valves. the present general thirst of knowledge, by the title of the Oxford Encyclopædia, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. It will be published in 25 parts, forming, when complete, five 4to volumes. The regulations recommended by the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider of the means of preventing the mischief arising from explosion on board Steamboats are as follows: That all steam-packets carrying passengers for hire should be registered at the port nearest the place from or to which they proceed. That all boilers belonging to the engines by which such vessels shall be worked should be composed of wrought iron or copper. That every boiler on board such steam-packet, should, previous to the packet being used for the conveyance of passengers, be submitted to the inspection of a skilful engineer, or other person conversant with the subject, who Swallow Tribe, with collateral statements of Observations of the Natural History of the facts relative to their Migration, and to their brumal torpidity; and a copious table of reference to authors; illustrated by figures of which is added, a general Catalogue of Britfive species, engraved on wood by Willis: to ish Birds, with the Provincial Names for each, &c. by T. FORSTER, is just published. The Rev. DAVID WILLIAMS will have ready for publication in the middle of September, in one volume 12mo, The Preceptor's Assistant, or School Examiner in Universal History, Science, and Literature, containing a compre hensive and interesting view of the liberal and polite Arts; 2dly, the Useful and Mechanic Arts; 3dly, the Fine Arts; 4toly, Universal History; and 5thly, Science and Literature in general, works carrying on 160 London Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. ANIMAL MAGNETISM.---This quackery has gone to such a pitch upon the Continent, that "Society of Magnetism" has been formed, and a prospectus issued at Paris, of a quarterly publication of their "Memoires," at the price of eight francs a Number!! [VOL. 2. were descending in the diving bell, some Bridge, that Mr. Stevenson was induced, in accident occurred, and the signal to be drawn 1815 and 1816, to extend his observations to up not being understood by the men above, that river by a train of experiments from about two out of the three were unfortunately opposite to Billingsgate all the way to Gravesdrowned; the one who was saved made his end. Opposite to the gates of the London escape from under the bell, which the others Docks the waters of the Thames were found were unable to effect: as soon as recovered to be perfectly fresh throughout; at Blackthe bodies were taken to the surgery, and wall, even im spring tides, the water was means used to restore animation, but unhap- found to be only slightly saline at Woolwich pily without effect. the proportion of salt water increases, and so on to Gravesend. But the strata of salt and fresh water is less distinctly marked in the Thames than in any of those rivers in which Mr. Stevenson has hitherto had an opportunity of making observations. These inquiries he means to extend to most of the principal rivers in the kingdom. From the series of observations made at and below London Bridge, compared with the river as far up as Kew and Oxford, Mr. Stevenson is of opinion that the waters of the Thames seldom change, but are probably carried up and down with the turn of the alternate tides for an indefinite period, which, in his opinion, may be one, if not the principal cause of the extreme softness of the waters of the Thames. The Tavistock Canal, forming a communication between the town of Tavistock and the river Tamar was opened on the 24th of June. It was commenced in 1802, and has cost about 70,000. The Duke of Bedford who is the proprietor of one eighth of the concern, has very liberally contributed to its support, by giving to the Company the whole of the land through which the canal is cut. Though its level is about 280 feet above that of the Tamar, it runs for a mile and three quarters in a tunnel cut under Morwell Down at the depth of 450 feet from the summit of the hill. The late Mr. RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH is said to have left some memoirs of his life, which will soon be given to the public. A translation of ORFILA'S Elementary Treatise of Chemistry will shortly appear. A gentleman of Bristol is about to publish, from authentic sources, a Narrative of the Life of Caraboo, the extraordinary female impostor, who recently appeared in the neighbourhood of that city. The eighth Edition of Dr. Chalmers's Discourses, is now in the Press. Since February last, between 10 and 17,000 Copies of this popular work has been printed; a satisfactory indication, that in these favoured realms the spirit of piety and religion maintains a blessed ascendancy even in times of laxity, innovation, and scepticism. At a late meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a paper by Mr. STEVENSON, Civil engineer, on the operation of the waters of the ocean and of the river Dee in the basin or harbour of Aberdeen was read. It appears that the author in the month of April 1812, with the aid of an instrument of which he exhibited a drawing, raised salt water from the bottom while the surface was quite fresh, and that he has satisfactorily ascertained that the tidal or salt waters keep in a distinct stratum or layer under the fresh water of the river Dee. This anomaly in regard to the salt and fresh waters appears in a very striking manner at Aberdeen, where the fall of the Dee is such as to cause the river waters to run down with a velocity which seems to increase as the tide rises in the harbour, and smoothes the bed of the river. These observations show that the salt water insinuates itself under the fresh, and that the river is lifted bodily upward; thus producing the regular effect of flood and ebb tide in the basin, while the river continnes to flow downward with a current which for a time seems to increase as the tide rises. These facts with regard to the continual course of the Dee downward, present such a contrast to the operation of the waters of the Thames, as seen by a spectator from London Mr. Stevenson has made similar experiments on the rivers Forth and Tay, and at Loch Eil, where the Caledonian Canal joins the Western Ocean. The aperture of Curran Ferry, for the tidal waters of that loch, being small compared with the surface of Loch Eil, which forms the drainage to a great extent of country, it occurred to Mr. Stevenson that the water of the surface must have less of the saline particles than that of the bottom. He accordly raised water from the surface at the anchorage off Fort William, and found it to be 1008,2; at the depth of nine fathoms, 1025,5 at the depth of 30 fathoms in the central parts of the loch, 1027,2; indicating the greater specific gravity, consequently more of the saline parts as the depth of the water is increased. Shortly will appear a new edition of the Abridgement of Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, revised by J. CAREY, LL. D. Madame Genlis, of revolutionary and literary celebrity, lately retired to a Convent of Carmelites, but growing weary of solitude, she left the Convent after a few days, and returned to her family. The favourite project of Napoleon, for improving the harbour of Dieppe, upon which undertaking more than 2,000 men were employed, until his banishment to Elba, is now renewed with spirited activity. Last Saturday 300 men were engaged, and 700 more will be employed. The Authorities at Dieppe have contracted to finish the excavations in five weeks. The picture of DAVID, representing Capid and Psyche, has been purchased by the Count of Sommaravi, for 30,000 francs. The Dey of Tripoli has presented the Prince Regent with such remains of antiquity as are moveable at Lebyda, which is famous for be ing the site of Carthage. The Weymouth storeship, Mr. Turner commanding, is now on her voyage thither, for the purpose of receiv ing and carrying to England those ancient monuments which are represented as highly curious, and illustrative of that once splendid capital. It is stated that the Dey has offered protection, as far as his authority extends, to any European who is willing to attempt the journey from Tripoli to Tombactoo. |