accompanied him, and where he found only under his command; for his physician, Dr. those who accompanied me in my misone of the little Society which he had form- Stokoe, who, in his private letters, called fortune: If the Bourbons will govern as ed there; the rest having been called to their him Napoleon, has, in consequence, been the fifth Dynasty, they will succeed; but if several stations in the world. During these condemned and punished by a Court Mar- they think to continue the third, they are days he conversed much with the Moravian, tial. I have spoken to him, and he has an- ruined; and I was not mistaken.' When I but says, that he understood him not; and swered with frankness, at least as I believe, received the Moniteur containing the speech least of all when he said, Mi frater, mi fra- questions to which, as it seemed, he himself in which Ferrand made the strange compater, excoquenda est ista tua Philosophia. led the conversation. On these occasions, I rison between the strait and crooked lines, Ere long, being with his mother at Salisbury, probably felt sensations similar to those ex-I went in to Bertrand's room, exclaiming : and preparing for a journey to his brother perienced by the philosopher Eucrates, when" Bertrand! the King's ministers call us Samuel, at Tiverton, he was recalled to Ox-Sylla laid open to him the innost recesses of back to France, and my resolution to reford by a message that Charles was dying his heart. The health of General Bnona- turn was immediately taken. Before my there of a pleurisy: setting off immediately parte has been rather impaired; but his departure I was advised to begin with upon this mournful summons, he found him activity of mind is still always the same, assuring myself of the sentiments of serecovering, and Peter Boehler with him.nay, it seems to have been increased, by the veral important persons of the government Boehler possessed one kind of philosophy difficulty of exercising it. The transactions and in the army. No, I replied; if the in a higher degree than his friend: the sin- ou the theatre of the world, in which he has hearts of the people and the soldiers, are gularity of their appearance and manner ex-acted so great a part, cannot be regarded by still disposed towards me as they were, cited some mockery from the under gradu-him with indifference. He observes from a the inclinations of individuals must yield ates, and the German, who perceived that distance, sometimes blaming, sometimes ap- to this general will; but if I have lost Wesley was annoyed by it chiefly on his ac- proving, those who now perform their part the former, nothing is to be hoped from count, said, with a smile, Mi frater non Nothing can give him greater pleasure than the influence of individuals. The mass adhæret vestibus,'-'it does not even stick to receive periodical publications, the cou-hurries individuals along with it, but indivito our clothes. This man, a person of no tents of which he as it were devours. He duals do not draw the mass after them. I ordinary powers of mind, became Wesley's is indeed suffered to see only ministerial never deceived myself about France; but, teacher: it is no slight proof of his com- papers; but his penetrating mind quickly added he, "I had been mistaken respecting manding intellect, that he was listened to as comprehends the real facts, stripped of all the sentiments of foreign countries. such; and by him, in the hands of the great the fallacious accessories which are added Princes forgot what I had left them, and God,' says Wesley, I was clearly convinced by the journalists in the interests of those recollected only that which I had taken from of unbelief,-of the want of that faith who pay them. Hope gains access every them. I ought to have forseen this. Even whereby alone we are saved.' A scruple where, and has even found its way to Long- after the events of 1814, I was not entirely immediately occurred to him, whether he wood, to lessen the affliction of the inhabitants freed from the delusion. When I saw ought not to leave off preaching,-for how of this dreary abode. General Buonaparte's Russia take the grand Duchy of Warsaw, could he preach to others who had not faith hope is principally placed on the state of and Prussia half of Saxony, I said, Austria himself? Boehler was consulted whether England. It is but a short time ago that he slumbers; it will awake as soon as I return he should leave it off, and answered, By said to me: "Your government has received to France. This conviction, added to the no means. But what can I preach? said a mortal wound; the heart is struck; I count reasons I have mentioned above, decided Wesley. The Moravian replied, Preach its pulse and know when it must stop. The my departure from Elba." faith till you have it; and then, because you expiring struggle will be terrible. You Ophave it, you will preach faith.' Accord- position men in vain flatter yourselves with ingly he began to preach this doctrine, preventing these convulsions; you will although, he says, his soul started back from ways remain impotent; the result of the the work. elections will always be unfavourable to you. The system of your elections resembles those instruments which produce only one note.

The

Buonaparte's conversation, when he speaks of passing events, is still more interesting. When he sees the name of De Cazes continually repeated in the newspapers, he cannot suppress his ill humour. The thought that his influence in France has in some measure succeeded to his own, is humiliating to him.

"He had a little before resolved, and written down the resolution as a covenant with himself, that he would use absolute open-The English nation is well aware of this,De Cazes," said he to me one day, was

ness and unreserve towards all whom he should converse with; that he would labour after continual seriousness, not willingly indulging in any the least levity of behaviour, nor in laughter, no, not for a moment; and that he would speak no word, and take no pleasure, which did not tend to the glory of God. In this spirit he began to exhort the hostess or the servants at an inn, the chance company with whom he was set at meat, and the traveller with whom he fell in on the road; if a passing salutation were exchanged, a word of religious exhortation was added." [We are sorry we cannot conclude this paper, as we intended, in our present Number.]

and therefore when you preach patience and
bid them look to the future, they answer
We are starving and cannot wait any longer,
And the ministers?they indeed would prefer
putting all those out of the world who are
without bread, and demand it......But then
the chains of the English people will be
broken and perhaps also mine."

formerly secretary to my mother, or one of my sisters, I really do not know which. In the year 1813, I saw him at Mentz, whither he came to request me to decide in the affair of his father-in-law Müraire; he is insignificant. And besides," continued he, how can you believe that he and the other ministers will ever succeed in establishing any thing Though General Buonaparte has nothing permanent? Their only occupation is to more to hope for from France, yet his conver- build up and pull down again. As they sation most frequently turns upon it. "I have attack both parties by turns, they are conalways loved France," said he to me, and tinually under the fear with which one or I was well acquainted with it. Had it really other of the parties inspires them. After the obtained liberty before the 18th Brumaire, 1 hundred days they judged quite right that the should have regarded its destruction as a democratic party must be favoured, to dispel crime. But no liberty existed; it could not the fear which had seized the nation, and a exist where the country was covered with royal ordinance modified the charter in the scaffolds, where the elective assemblies mas-interest of this party. But they were soon sacred each other, where the directory sent alarmed at their own work; and making use the representatives of the people to Sinamari of the influence which circumstances, and to devote them to death, either there, or on all Europe under arms gave them, they board the vessels appointed to convey them supported the other party by means of that thither. Thus, as Fontane said to me, I extempore legislation in favour of the aristodestroyed not liberty but anarchy. When I cratical party. The Chamber, though comleft Fontainbleau in the year 1814, to re-posed of the elements formed by themselves, pair to the rock to which the decision terrified them soon after its origin. Immeof my enemies banished me, I said to diately an ordinance appears, dissolving the

Chamber, and a law which calls a greater neral are grand and appropriate. A little
number of citizens to the electoral assemblies. too much of individuality appears in the ob-
This law procures them a momentary popu-jects of the foreground, both in colour and
larity; however, if I am not very much form; a thistle looks too much like a separate
mistaken, new fears will check the effect of study of a plant, the bright green colour of
the law before it is entirely put in practice." which, as well as the trees on the right, are
At no time does he feel his imprisonment out of harmony.
more painful than when he has thus in No. 125. View of Portsmouth from Port-
dulged in contemplations on the present
down Hill.-G. Arnald, A. R. A.
state of France. He then cannot think Mr. Arnald has given great interest to a
without shuddering on the barriers with which scene not otherwise very picturesque; but
Longwood is surrounded, and on Sir Hadson such are the qualities of art, in justly repre-
Lowe, who guards his door; he then resem-senting a single effect of atmosphere, light,
bles a prisoner who violently shakes his chains, or colour, that a value is given to the most
and falls into a rage at being unable to break monotonous forms in nature. We have sel-
them. [Translated from the Bibliotheque dom seen the silvery tone of a cool and misty
distance better expressed. The foreground

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the other day, looking at No. 136, a subject
Qui pro quo.-A lady at the Exhibition
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logue and tell her what it was. He replied,
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cessant appeals to the Saviour of the in his power ; who, out of sheer malignity, The Cenci. A Tragedy, in five Acts. By universe. The foul mixture of religion forcibly destroys the innocency of his only Percy B. Shelley. Italy : Printed for and blasphemy, and the dreadful asso- atrocity, 'as ouly this author, we think,

daughter; and is, in short, such a miracle of Olliers. London, 1819. pp. 104. ciation of virtuous principles with incest, could have conceived. Lucretia, the secon i

Of all the abominations which intel- parricide, and every deadly sin, form a wife of the Count, a most virtuous and amnilectual perversion, and poetical atheism, picture which, “ To look upon we dare able lady, who joins in a plot to murder her have produced in our times, this trage- not.”

husband ; Giacomo, his son, who because dy appears to us to be the most abomi- Having said, and unwillingly said, this his parent has cheated him of his wife's nable. We have much doubted whe- much on a composition which we cannot dowry, plots bis assassination ; Beatrice the ther we ought to notice it; but, as not be expected trom us to go into particulars grace, and sensibility, who takes the lead ir

view without inexpressible dislike, it will daughter, a pattern of beauty, integrity, watchmen place a light over the com- farther than is merely sufficient to enforce all the schemes to murder her father ;. Orsimon sewer which has been opened in a

our warning: If we quote a passage of po- no, a prelate, sworn of course to celibacy, way dangerous to passengers, so have etic power, it must be to bring tenfold con- and in love with Beatrice, who enters wiili we concluded it to be our duty to set up demnation on the head of the author-for gusto into the conspiracy, for the sound a beacon on this noisome and noxious awful is the responsibility where the head reason, that the fair-one will not dare to republication. We have heard of Mr. condemns the heart, and the gift of talent is fuse to marry an accomplice in such a transShelley's genius ; and were it exercised so great, as to remind us of Satannic know- action ; Cardinal Camillo, a vacillating de

ledge and lusts, and of “ arch-angel fallen." mi-profligate ; two bravos, who strangle the upon any subject not utterly revolting to

The story, we are told, in a preface where Count in his sleep ; executioners, torturers, human nature, we might acknowledge the writer classes himself with Shakespeare and other delectable under-parts. The ac. it. But there are topics so disgusting... and Sophocles, although two centuries old, tion consists simply of the rout in honour and this is one of them; there are cannot be “mentioned in Italian society of the loss of two children, of the incest, of themes so vile. .as this is ; there are de- without awakening a deep and breathless in the murderous plot, of its cominission, and scriptions so abhorrent to mankind... terest.” We have no high opinion of the of its punishment by the torture and execuand this drama is full of them ; there are that even in that country, such a story inust, the dish of carrion, seasoned with sulphur

morality of Italy; but we can well believe, tion of the wife, son, and daughter. This is crimes so beastly and demoniac...in if hinted at, be repressed by general indig- as spice, which Mr. Shelley serves up to his which The Cenci riots and luxuriates, nation, which Mr. Shelley may, if he pleases, friend Mr. Leigh Hunt with a dedication, that no feelings can be excited by their call breathless interest. It is indeed, as he by way of grace, in which he eulogizes his obtrusion but those of detestation at himself confesses,“ eminently fearful and gentle, tolerant, brave, honourabic, innothe choice, and horror at the elaboration. monstrous ; any thing like a dry exhibition cent, simple, pure,” &c. &c. &c. disposition. We protest most solemnly, that when we of it upon the stage would be insupporta. What food for a humane, syınpathizing creareached the last page of this play, our to think that that of which even a dry exhi- heartedness be not of a peculiar kind, prone

ble” (preface ix). And yet he presumes ture, like Mr. Hunt! if, iideed, his tenderininds were so impressed with its odious Lition upon the stage could not be endured, to feast on gruel thick and slah," which and infernal character, that we could may be relished when arrayed in all the most

“ like a hell-broth boils and bubbles." not believe it to be written by a mortal forcible colouring which his pencil can sup- We will now transcribe a portion of the being for the gratification of his fellow-ply, in all the minute details of his graphic entertainment scene, to show how far the creatures on this earth : it seemed to be art, in all the congenial embellishments of writer out herods Herod, and outrages pos. the production of a fiend, and calculated his inflamed imagination. Wretched delu-sibility in his personation of villany, by inakfor the entertainment of devils in hell.

sion! and worthy of the person who ven- ing Count Cenci a character which' transThat monsters of wickedness have

tures to tell us that, “ Religion in Italy is forms a Richard III. an Jago, a Sir Giles been seen in the world, is too true ; but worn on particular days; or a passport Scene III.- A magnificent IIall in the Cenci Pa.

not, as in protestont countries, a cloak to be Overreach, comparatively into angels of light. not to speak of the diseased appetite which those who do not wish to be railed at

lace.- A Banquet. Enter Ceuci, Lucretia, Be. which would delight to revel in their carry with them to exhibit ; or a gloomy atrice, Orsino, Camillo, Nobles. deeds, we will affirm that depravity so passion for penetrating the impenetrable

Cen. Welcome, my friends and kinsmen; damnable as that of Count Cenci, in the mysteries of our being, which terrifies its

welcome ye, minute portraiture of which Mr. S. takes possessor at the darkness of the abyss to Princes and Cardinals, pillars of the church,

which it has conducted him :" worthy of the Whose presence honours our festivity. so much pains, and guilt so atrocious

as person who, treating of dramatic iinagery, I have too long lived like an anchorite, that which he paints in every one of his blasphemously and senselessly says, that dramatic personages, never had either" imagination is as the immortal God, which

• We are led to this remark by having aeciindividual or aggregate existence. No ; should assume flesh for the redemption of dentally read in one of Mr. Hunt's late political

essays, an ardent prayer that Buonaparte might the whole design, and every part of it, mortal passion."

be released from St. Helena, were it only to tight is a libel upon humanity; the concep

The characters are Count Cenci, an old another Waterloo against Wellington, on more tion of a brain not only distempered, grey haired man, a horrible fiendish incar

equal terms. A strange wish for a Briton, and but familiar with infamous images, and nation, who invites an illustrious company stranger still for a pseudo philanthrophist, whe.

to a jubilee entertainment on the occasion of ther arising from a desire to have his countryaccursed contemplations. What adds the violent death of two of his sons; who de- men defeated, or a slaughter productive of so to the shocking effect is the perpetual lights in nothing but the wretchedness of all much woc and desolation repeated.

VOL. IY.

And in my absence from your merry meetings
An evil word is gone abroad of me ;
But I do hope that yon, my noble friends,
When you have shared the entertainment here,
And heard the pious cause for which 'tis given,
And we have pledged a health or two together,
Will think me flesh and blood as well as you;
Sinful indeed, for Adam made all so,
But tender-hearted, meek, and pitiful.

1 Guest. In truth, my lord, you seem too
light of heart,

Too sprightly and companionable a man,
To act the deeds that rumour pins on you.
(To his Companion.)
I never saw such blythe and open cheer
In any eye!

2 Guest. Some most desired event,
In which we all demand a common joy,
Has brought us hither; let us hear it, count.
Cen. It is indeed a most desired event,
If when a parent from a parent's heart
Lifts from this earth to the great father of all
A prayer, both when he lays him down to sleep,
And when he rises up from dreaming it;
One supplication, one desire, one hope,
That he would grant a wish for his two sons
Even all that he demands in their regard-
And suddenly beyond his dearest hope,
It is accomplished, he should then rejoice,
And call his friends and kinsmen to a feast,
And task their love to grace his merriment,
Then honour me thus far-for I am he.

The assembly appears confused; several of the Two miles on this side of the fort, the road

I do believe it is some jest; tho' faith !
'Tis mocking us somewhat too solemnly.
I think his son has married the infanta,
Or found a mine of gold in El dorado ;
"Tis but to season some such news: stay, stay!
I see 'tis only raillery by his smile.

Cen, filling a bowl of wine, and lifting it up.
Oh thou bright wine whose purple splendour
leaps

And bubbles gaily in this golden bowl
Under the lamp light as my spirits do,
To hear the death of my accursed sons!
Could I believe thou wert their mingled blood,
Then would I taste thee like a sacrament,
And pledge with thee the mighty Devil in hell,
Who, if a father's curses, as men say,
Climb with swift wings after their childrens
souls,

And drag them from the very throne of Heaven,
Now triumphs in my triumph!-But thou art
Superfluous; I have drunken deep of joy
And I will taste no other wine to-night,
Here, Andrea! Bear the bowl around.
A Guest (rising). Thou wretch !
Will none among this noble company
Check the abandoned villain?
Cam. For God's sake

Beatr. (to Lucretia.) Great God! how horri-Let me dismiss the guests! You are insane ;

ble! Some dreadful ill

Must have befallen my brothers.

Lucr. Fear not, child,

He speaks too frankly.

Beatr. Ah! My blood runs cold.

I fear that wicked laughter round his eye
Which wrinkles up the skin even to the hair.
Cen. Here are the letters brought from Sala-

manca;

Beatrice, read them to your mother. God!
I thank thee! In one night didst thou perform,
By ways inscrutable, the thing I sought.
My disobedient and rebellious sons
Are dead!-Why dead!-What means this
change of cheer?

You hear me not, I tell you they are dead;
And they will need no food nor raiment more;
The tapers that did light them the dark way
Are their last cost. The Pope, I think, will not
Expect I should maintain them in their coffins.
Rejoice with me--my heart is wondrous glad.
Beatr. (Lucretia sinks, half fainting; Beatrice
supports her.)

It is not true-Dear lady, pray look up.
Had it been true, there is a God in Heaven,
He would not live to boast of such a boon.
Unnatural man, thou knowest that it is false.
Cen. Aye, as the word of God; whom here

I call

Some ill will come of this.

2 Guest. Seize, silence him!

1 Guest. I will!

3 Guest. And I!

Crosses a deep ravine; 'tis rough and narrow,
And winds with short turns down the precipice;
And in its depth there is a mighty rock,
Which has, from unimaginable years,
Sustained itself with terror and with toil
Over a gulph, and with the agony
With which it clings seems slowly coming down;
Even as a wretched soul, hour, after hour,
Clings to the mass of life; yet clinging, leans ;
And leaning, makes more dark the dread abyss
In which it fears to fall: beneath this crag,
Huge as despair, as if in weariness,
The melancholy mountain yawns--below,
You hear but see not an impetuous torrent
Raging among the caverns, and a bridge
Crosses the chasm; and high above there grow,
With intersecting trunks, from crag to crag,
Cedars, and yews, and pines; whose tangled
hair

Is matted in one solid roof of shade
By the dark ivy's twine. At noon day here
"Tis twilight, and at sunset blackest night.

Ors. Before you reach that bridge make some

excuse

For spurring on your mules, or loitering
Until

Beatr. What sound is that?

Lucr. Hark! No, it cannot be a servant's
step;

It must be Cenci, unexpectedly
Returned-Make some excuse for being here.
Beatr. (to ORSINO, as she goes out.)
That step we hear approach must never pass
The bridge of which we spoke.

It will readily be felt by our readers why

Cen. (Addressing those who rise with a threaten-We do not multiply our extracts. In truth

ing gesture.)

Who moves? Who speaks?

(Turning to the Company.)
'tis nothing,

Enjoy yourselves.-Beware! For my revenge
Is as the sealed commission of a king
That kills, and none dare name the murderer.
(The Banquet is broken up.)

there are very few passages which will bear transplanting to a page emulous of being read in decent and social life. The lamentable obliquity of the writer's mind pervades every sentiment, and " corruption mining all within," renders his florid tints and imitations of beauty only the more loathsome. Are loveliness and wisdom incompatible? Mr. Shelley makes one say of Beatrice, that Men wondered how such loveliness and wisdom Did not destroy each other!

Cenci's imprecation on his daughter, though an imitation of Lear, and one of a multitude of direct plagiarismns, is absolutely too shocking for perusal; and the dying infidelity of that paragon of parricides, is all we dare to venture to lay before the

This single example, which is far from being the most obnoxious, unnatural, and infernal in the play, would fully justify the reprobation we have pronounced. Mr. Shelley, nor no man, can pretend that any good effect can be produced by the delinea tion of such diabolism; the bare suggestions are a heinous offence; and whoever may be the author of such a piece, we will assert, that Belzebub alone is fit to be the prompter.public. The obscenity too becomes more refinedly Whatever comes, my heart shall sink no more. vicious when Beatrice, whose “crimes and And yet, I know not why, your words strike miseries," forsooth, are as the mask and the chill: mantle in which circumstances clothed her for her impersonation on the scenes of the world" is brought prominently forward. But we cannot dwell on this. We pass to a quotation which will prove that Mr. Shelley is capable of powerful writing; the description of sylvan scenery would be grand, and Salvator-like, were it not put into the mouth You do well telling me to trust in God, of a child pointing out the scite for the mur-I hope I do trust in him. In whom else live, but more unfit to die.” der of the author of her being, "unfit to Can any trust? And yet my heart is cold.

I

How tedious, false and cold seem all things. I
Have met with much injustice in this world;
No difference has been made by God or man,
Twixt good or evil as regarded me.
Or any power moulding my wretched lot,
am cut off from the only world I know,
From light, and life, and love, in youth's sweet
prime.