"I declare, it never occurred to me to in- to keep your gravity at one of the Policinello quire."

the very natives do not know their own customs, and where all is permitted, and nothing is tolerated? It is too late to ask you to come and see me through this troublesome affair; and indeed my present vacillation is whether to marry the young lady or run away bodily; for I own to you I am afraidheartily afraid-to fight a man that might be iny grandfather; and I can't bear to give the mettlesome old fellow the fun of shooting at me for nothing. And worse-a thousand times worse than all this-Alice will have such a laugh at me! Ay, Carlo, here is the sum of my affliction.

"I must close this, as I shall have to look out for some one, long of stride and

quick

of

eye, to handle me on the ground. Mean-
while order dinner for two on Saturday week,
for I mean to be with you; and therefore say
pothing of those affairs which interest us, ul-
tra montani.' I write by this post to M'C.
to meet me as I pass through Dublin; and, of
course, the fellow will want money. I shall
therefore draw on Cipriani for whatever is
necessary, and you must be prepared to tell
him the outlay was indispensable. I have
done nothing, absolutely nothing, bere-nei-
ther seduced man nor woman, and am bring-
ing back to the cause nothing greater or more
telling than
"NORMAN MAITLAND.”

1

WE are indebted to a friend for the following | F. and you. Can you throw B. C. in?-Why Unpublished Letter, written many years ago by tarry the wheels of my Hogarth?"-Athenæum. Charles Lamb to a bookseller, on receipt of two books of verse,-one being "The Maid of Elvar," by Allan Cunningham, the other Barry Cornwall's "Songs and Dramatic Fragments:""Thank you for the books. I am ashamed to take tythe thus of your press. I am worse to a publisher than the two Universities and the Brit. Mus.-A. C. I will forthwith read. B. C. (I can't get out of the A. B. C.) I have more than read. Taken alltogether 'tis too Lovey-but what delicacies! I like most King Death'Glorious 'bove all The Lady with the Hundred Rings The Owl'- Epistle to what's his (Here maybe I'm partial)- Sit down, sad soul-The Pauper's Jubilee '-(but that's old, and yet 'tis never old)-The Falcon Felon's Wife'-Damn Madme Pasty but

name '

that is borrowed

'Apple pie is very good
And so is applo pasty,
But

O Lard! 'tis very nasty.'

-but chiefly the Dramatic Fragments scarce three of which should have escaped my Specimens, had an antique name been prefixed. They exceed his first. So much for the nonsense of poetry:; now to the serious business of life. Up a court (Blandford Court) in Pall Mall (exactly at the back of Marlbro' House, with iron gate in front, and containing 2 houses, at No. 2, did lately live Leishman, my taylor. He is moved somewhere in the neighborhood-devil knows where. Pray find him out and give him the opposite.-I am 80 much better-tho' my hand shakes in writing it, that after next Sunday, I can well see

THE Round Table of New York, in an article entitled "American Comic Journalism," makes the following remarks: "It seems strange that a country which has produced a Holmes, a Lowell, and a Derby should be without a fit journalistic exponent of its sense and humor. No people in the world have a larger perception of the ludicrous than the Americans; yet nowhere else is it so difficult to obtain permanent support for a strictly humorous illustrated paper. The cause Doubtless, the scarcity of genuinely-humorous of this apparent paradox is somewhat obscure. artists is one strong reason. Our writers are ahead of our draughtsmen in the way of fun." The article then gives an account of different attempts to establish an American analogue to our Punch. There was first the Lantern, edited by Mr. John Brougham, and contributed to by Captain Fitzjames O'Brien; next there was the New York Picayune, written in by Mr. Robert H. Levison, and illustrated by Frank Bellew; then there was Young America, which lived for a year; and the last and best venture of the kind was Vanity Fair, begun in January, 1860, but defunct since July, 1863. On the staff of Vanity Fair, as writers or artists, were Frank Ward, Henry L. Stephens, Ed. F. Mullen, Frank Bellew, John McLenan, Sol Eytinge, and Messrs. O'Brien, House, Winter, Congdon, Clapp, Stoddard, Arnold, Shanly, Gardette, "Artemus Ward," Aldrich, Nicholson, and Leland. Of how many of these wits and humorists of America have our readers heard before? Such is fame.-Reader.

From The New Monthly Magazine. eyes-we quote from Mr. Chambers's physiBONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE. ognomical catalogue raisonné—were “large, THE Young Chevalier, Bonnie Prince Char- and rolling, and of a light blue. The fair, lie was distinctively called in his heyday of but not ill-marked eyebrows which surenterprise and youthful bloom and adven-mounted these features were beautifully turous romance, in contradistinction to the arched. His nose was round and high, and Old Pretender, his less energetic and far less his mouth small in proportion to the rest of fascinating sire. But the days came for his features. He was about five feet ten in Charles Edward himself to be known as an stature, and his body was of that straight and old Pretender. And they who had known round description which is said to indicate, and hailed him as the Young Chevalier, could not only perfect symmetry, but also the valhardly believe their eyes, or trust their mem- uable requisites of agility and health." He ory, as to the seemingly mistaken identity. excelled, says Lord Mahon (for, in literature Look on this picture, and on that. Not at least, we stickle for giving Earl Stanhope the counterfeit presentment of two brothers, his pre-peerage title of honor), in all manly but of one and the same man, at no very exercises, and was inured to every kind of great interval of years. Look on a portrait toil, especially long marches on foot, having of Prince Charles, in the flush of earliest applied himself to field-sports in Italy, and manhood, fighting his way to the throne of become a firstrate walker. His " goodly his fathers; and then of His Royal Highness, person was enhanced by his graceful mana refugee on Italian soil, a middle-aged tip- ners: frequently condescending to the most pler, bloated and blustering,- -or an elderly familiar kindness, yet always shielded by a driveller, unregarded, unrespected, and, even regal dignity, he had a peculiar talent to by them of his own household, unbeloved. please and to persuade, and never failed to adapt his conversation to the taste or to the station of those whom he addressed." demeanor might seem to warrant the application to him of what Bacha (in Beaumont and Fletcher) testifies of Leucippus: :"That in his youth and noble forwardness

This picture first,-of Charles as he looked when he made his joyous entry into Edinburgh-a day on which

"You would have thought the very windows
spake,

So many greedy looks of young and old
Through casements darted their desiring eyes
Upon his visage."*

And on that day, and inspirited by such a wel-
come, oh, but the prince was fair to see!
John Home, the clerical author of "Doug-
las," saw him on this occasion, and has left
the world a copy of his lineaments and
mien. From that, and other contemporane-
ous" copy," we can feed the press. Tall and
handsome was Prince Charlie, we are told,
"as straight as a lance, and as round as an
egg;
" of a fair complexion, delicate but
ruddy, and slightly freckled. He wore a
light-colored peruke, "the ringlets of which
descended back in graceful masses, and over
the front of which his own pale hair was
neatly combed." His visage is described as
a perfect oval-his brow as marked with
"all the intellectual but melancholy lofti-
ness so remarkable in the portraits of his an-
cestors." His neck which was long, but not
ungracefully so, had, according to the fashion
of the time, no other covering or incumbrance
than a slender stock buckled behind. His
* King Richard II., Act V. Sc. 2.

His

.

All things are bound together that are kingly,
A fitness to bear rule-and sovereignty
Not made to know command." §
In that agile, lissom form were fascinated
damsels fain to see one like the herald Mer-
cury, new-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill-
and altogether a combination, and a form,
indeed, where every god did seem to set his
seal, to give the world assurance of a man.
Or, to resume that Mercurial similitude, and
eke it out from another classical source:-
"Omnia Mercurio similis, vocemque, coloremque,
Et crines flavos, et membra decora juventæ."T
Cautious Dr. John Byrom witnessed H-
R- H-'s entry into Manchester, in March,
1746, and reports that, "to do justice to his
person, whatever his pretensions may be,**

* R. Chambers, Hist. Reb., ch. ix.
+ Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides.
Mahon, Hist. Engl., ch. xxvi.
§ Cupid's Revenge, Act III. Sc. 1.
Hamlet, Act III. So. 4.
T Virgil, Eneid, IV. 559.

tensions of a pretender than Dr. Byrom himself, the **And who better qualified to appraise the preauthor of an immortal epigram on that very subject?

he makes a very graceful and amiable ap- Miller,* does justice to his "noble presence pearance; he is fair complexioned, well and graceful manner," as well as to the relshaped, has a sensible and comely aspect. To iquary tokens imprinted on his face of foraccount for the beauty of the man beyond mer beauty; and depicts the poor exile as that of his father, his enemies said here that presenting, upon the whole, "a melancholic, he was the son of a very handsome pastry-mortified appearance.' The Italian correcook, some say bread-baker, at Paris; but spondents of the English newspapers, at the the ladies, smitten with the charms of the time of his ill-assorted marriage,-he being young gentleman, say that he takes after his then a morose sot of fifty-two, and his bride mother."* (Louisa Princess of Stolberg) a radiant girl Not, however, to turn too abruptly to a con- of twenty,-describe him † as extremely cortrasted portraiture of the prince, in his deg-pulent, owing to a total disuse of exercise, radation and decay, let us glance at him in a and much pimpled in the face,‡ in consesort of "middle passage," as sketched by Sir quence of drinking. So looked in his latter Walter, at the age of about forty or upward. days he that had once enthralled the hearts "But either care, or fatigue, or indulgence, of gentle and simple, by his looks and bearhad brought on the appearance of premature ing,-the hearts alike of whole galaxies of old age, and given to his fine features a cast high-born beauties in the halls of Holyrood, of seriousness or even sadness. A noble and of whole clans of wild Highlandmen on countenance, however, still remained; and their own bleak mountains and moors. though his complexion was altered, and There is a noteworthy little sort of obiter wrinkles stamped upon his brow in many a dictum, trivially introduced in the Mémoires melancholy fold, still the lofty forehead, the of Saint-Simon, Duke and Peer: “I had alfull and well-opened eye, and the well-formed most forgotten to say, that on the last day nose, showed how handsome in better days he of this year, 1720, a Prince of Wales was must have been. He was tall, but lost the ad- born at Rome." One might almost suppose vantage of his height by stooping; and the cane from the casual style of the "illustration," which he wore always in his hand, and occa- that St. Simon, like Mr. Toots, accounted it sionally used, as well as his slow though majes- "not of the least consequence." The duke tic gait, seemed to intimate that his form and does, however, go on to report progress, as limbs felt already some touch of infirmity."† regards the public reception and welcome ac Bishop Forbes tries to refute gainsayers corded to the little stranger whose birth he and depreciators, by stoutly averring of the "almost forgot" to put on record. He reprince's looks in 1769, that "not a blot, nor lates how the prince was immediately bapso much as a pimple, was in his face, though tized by the Bishop of Montefiascone, and maliciously given out by some as if it were all named Charles-and what a great stir the over blotted; but he is jolly and plump, though event caused in the Holy City-and how the not to excess, being still agile, and fit for un- pope sent his compliments to their Britannic dergoing toil." One is apt to suspect that Majesties (not meaning the Hanover makethe animus of the phrase "jolly and plump, believe), and forwarded to the King of Engthough not to excess " is akin to that which land (not meaning George Guelph) ten thouanimated Wilkes's apologist, when contend-sand Roman crowns,-and how, as soon as ing that, although Mr. Wilkes did squint, it the Queen of England (not meaning any of was not more than a gentleman ought to that German squad) was able to see comsquint. A year later, the prince's person is pany, Cardinal Tanora came in state, as repthus portrayed by a more impartial eye-wit-resentative of the Sacred College, to conness, though of the more partial sex. "He gratulate her. St. Simon also declares the is naturally above the middle size, but stoops | birth of Bonnie Prince Charlie to have made excessively he appears bloated and red in much stir at the Court of England, and among the face, his countenance heavy and sleepy, the priests and Jacobites of that country; which is attributed to his having given in adding that, for very different reasons, not to excess of drinking.' This observer, Mrs. *Remains of John Byrom, II. 412. (Chetham Society, 1857.)

"Redgauntlet," vol. ii. ch. x. Forbes's Manuscript collections, etc.

"Letters from Italy," by a Lady, 1776. † See Chambers, Hist., Reb., ch. xxxii.

See, too, an anecdote in the Second Series of Dean Ramsay's Reminiscences, p. 194. § Memoires de Saint-Simon.

only the Catholics and Protestants among | Charles has a kind heart and a high courage ;* His (pseudo) Majesty's Opposition were in that he feels warmly for his family misforraptures at it, but that nearly all the three tunes; and that if some day he does not rerealms showed as much joy as they dared; trieve them, it will not be for want of intrenot from any attachment to the dethroned pidity. "They tell me that, having been house, or from actual preference of Stuarts taken, when quite a stripling, to the siege of to Guelphs, but for the satisfaction of seeing Gaeta by the Spaniards, one day during the the continuance of a royal lineage, with voyage his hat blew off into the sea. The which, as a constant quantity to fall back people round him wished to recover it. No,' upon and appeal to, they could always cried he, do not take that trouble: I will menace and oppose their de facto constitu- some day go the same way my hat has gone, tional kings. if things remain as they are.""† One short iustre added to his age would see the prince making his entry in triumph into Edinburgh, when and where

As for the exiled Court of Saint-Germain, it, too, had within itself its Opposition party. It had its exaltés and its modérés.* There were those who would concede nothing to constitutionalism, who would not hate a tittle of divine right, and would rather continue to see the royal family in exile than purchase the crown by concession and compromise. And there were those, on the other hand, who desired to see James yield to the spirit of the times, and make terms with the party of toleration, freedom, and progress. Into such a divided court was Charles Edward

and romance.

Commit
the war of white and damask, in
Their nicely-gawded cheeks, to the wanton
spoil

born, and amid such jarring strifes was he bred. The narrative of his youth is curieux, remarks M. St. Marc Girardin, "et prépare Of Phoebus' burning kisses: such a pother, babilement. l'entrée en scène du héros." As if that whatsoever god, who leads him, One is interested in the ardor and vivacity of Were slyly crept into his human powers, And gave him graceful posture.‡ ce jeune homme, whose conscious destiny makes the blood boil in his veins, as his excited im- One historian of the Rebellion, who notes agination, panting and tumultuous, urges that Charles approached Holyrood House by and spurs him on to a future of adventure the same path over which George IV., sev"Dans cette effervescence de enty-seven years later, was drawn, in his jeune homme, le héros de roman semble per- daily progresses from Dalkeith, remarks that cer déjà. Les héros de l'histoire ont quelque the "modern sovereign, as he went over the chose de plus calme et de plus sûr." In same ground in his splendid chariot, was beCharles Edward, M. Girardin sees a man bet- held with respect, as the chief magistrate of ter fitted for adventure than for business, the nation; but the boot of Charles was rash, brilliant, sure of a brief lease of showy dimmed, as he passed along, with kisses and splendor, but not made for lasting success.† tears." For an excited crowd saw in him The President des Brosses, Voltaire's lively the commander and object of an extraordinary but dignified and not unequally-matched cor- enterprise-a young prince unfortunate in respondent, writing in 1740, describes Charles his birth and (hitherto) in his prospects, but as of" far higher worth, and much more be- making apparently one manly effort to reloved by his friends," than his trieve what was lost,-the descendant of those brother, the Duke of York, whose hand-time-honored persons by whose sides the ansome face and pretty manners made him 80 His courage was called in question after Cullopopular with the many; and M. le Président den, mainly on the evidence of Chevalier Johnstone; which ovidence was well sifted, if not shaken to can testify, on the best authority, that Prince pieces, by Sir Walter Scott, both in his review of "Home's Life," and in his Annotations appended to Waverley.

younger

*Histoire de Charles-Edouard, dernier prince de la maison de Stuart, par M. Amedee Pichot. Essais de Litterature et de Morals, par St. Marc Girardin, t. ii.

† Des Brosses, L'Italio il y a Cent Ans.
Coriolanus, Act. II. Sc. 1.

§ R. Chambers, Hist. Reb., ch. ix.