kingston chronicle nec rbge nec populo sed vtroque v ol x saturday november 1 1828 poetry from thfi atlantic souvenir night night solitary night sleep on the weary pleasant dreams for wo on the worn heart a freshness and delight dost thou bestow birds on the sheltering nest young flowers unfolded to the dewy air and thought ascending to the worlds of rest thy sway declare with thee a shadowy band rise like remembered music on our ears and vanished hope whose arch of promise spannd the coming years night i solitary uight bards of uudyiqg power and fame are thine shedding rich gleams of intellectual light around thy shrine oh how wert thou adored when the chaldean read thy bright array and science through the starry maze ex- plored awakoner of high thought and passion struggling with the sordid earth by thee mankind are eloquently taught their primal worth night solitary night immortal page glowing with deep song aod minds inspired outwinging human flight to thee belong in cqelo qu1es should sorrow oer thy brow its darkened shadows fling and hopes that cheer thee now die in theirearly spring should pleasure at its birth fade like the hues of even turn thou away from earth theres rest for thee tu heaven if ever life shall stem to thee a toilsome way aod gladness cease to beam upon itd cloudy day if like the weary dore oer shoreless ocean driven raise thou thine eye above theres rest for thee in heaven but o if thoughtless flowers throughout tby pathway bloom and gaily fleet the hours unstaind by earthly gloom still let not every thought to this poor world be given not always be forgot thy better rest in heaven when sickness pales thy cheek and dims thy lustrous eye and pulses low and weak to tell of a time to die sweet hope shall wisper then though thou from earth he riven v theres bliss beyond thy ken theres rest for thee in heaven chaje lefebvre wife of the marshal whose education as every one knows was more than neglected one evening that there was a circle at the court she came covered with diamonds pearls feathers flowers gold and silver ornaments c for as she used to say herself she wished to have a little of every thing upon her m de beau mont the chamberlain in waiting an nounced madame la marechale lefehvre the emperor came forward to meet her and said good day madame la mares- chale duchess of dantzic which last title m de beaumont had omitted she suddenly turned towards the chamberlain and laughing exclaimed loud enough for every one present to hear ah my young one theres a pretty brush up foryou ah ca te la coupe cadet you may easily ima gine the general laughter that followed and the mortal confusiou of m de beaumont a man of the most punctilious good breed ing aod who piqued himself upon a so lemnity of manner that he thought indis pensable to the dignity of his functions he was the object of every eye and of the most immoderate laughter for five minutes it became impossible to restore the gravity necessary to the place and scene and the emperor was the first to iodulge in a burst of laughter at this singular sally one day the mareschale was going through the rooms of a hotel which she was about purchasing when she came to one the walls of which were covered with glass cases lined with green silk what is all this for v she ask ed the porter madamela mareschale this is a library and what is the use of it v to keep books madame ahbahete hetise ray husband is not a liteur and i am not a luarde so that ill make it a fruit room and that will be much better and in fact on occupyiug the hotel she had the bookcase filled with fruit which commu nicated a not very agreeable smell to that and the adjoining apartments one day she came to the tuileries to breakfast with the empress whom she found surrounded by the ladies in waitiog her majest ob serving some traces of agitation in her countenance asked with her usual grace and kindness what had happened to alarm or agitate her oh madame it is a long story that i wish to tell your majesty but you must first send away these pipueses the ladies in waiting who staud there sneer ing at me ladies have the kindness to pass into the waiting room said jose phine convinced that she was going to hear a family secret well madame la duchessc tell me the cause of vour sor row v i have none at present madame but io you see i am still all in a flurry caused by a misfortune that threatened me this morning good god your son has been fighting a duel v pas si bete 1 the marshal then v it has nothing to do with him the fact is i was near losing my large diamond i was sure that i left it in my bedchamber and on returning there i could not find it i asked who had been there and was told no one had been there but the ivotteur the man who polishes the floor he was still employed in the saloon so i made him come into ray bed chamber and said to him rascal you have tractly what they were a good mother and a devoted wife this excellent woman is beloved by her dependents and servants to whom she has always shown herself sim plehearted kind and generous from the irish shield turkish women and the mode of pur chasing them translated from a new french periodical at the present moment when the eyes of all the world are fixed on the struggle between russia and turkey the following observation of a french traveller on the wretched condition of the female sex in those eastern countries subject to the bar barous sway of mahometauism may have some interest for the readers of the shield the european says the french wri ler familiarized with the idea of the na tural quality of the sexes beholds with pity the miserable situation of the fairest eortion of creation throughout the turkish impire and almost the whole continent of asia he sees them degraded from being the associates of man the charmers of his dull hours and the ornaments of the social cir cle to the rank of mere creature nf his i will and tbe slaves of his passion con trolled in ll their inclinations restrained in all their actions watched over with in delicate observance and forcibly compelled to regulate their lives and conduct so as to obtain the partial and slightly determined favour of a boorish imperious aod per haps devested master exposed to insult and caprice to the rage and torment of jealousy or the hopelessness of ungratified desire in some instances torn from the arms ov their weeping parents from the care of their guardians and solicitudes of the frienis of their youth cutoff from hopes innocently but imprudently indulged exposed w sale like the inferior classes of animals find fluctuating according to the lawless wll of their lord between the si tuation of his servant or his mistress the condition of women even in the married state exhibited iu the most favorable point of view cannot approach connubial happi ness they are the slaves of despots who are strangers to all the noble affections of the heart the wife cannot he seen a- broad with her husband nor he remain con stantly at home with her shut up in the harem disgusted with its unvaried scene without knowledge of literature or the arts she has no relief but in the duties of hei household and family she can have no pleasure even in adorning her person with diamonds or shining silks siuce however embellished by the grace of dress it caunot excite no other passion than en vy in female bosoms the turkish women are beautiful though their beauty is of a different cha racter from that of european females their eyes arc blue and bland their hair luxuriant their faces fresh and rosy and their persons though too corpuleut a per fection in the opiuion of a turk possesses great symmetry of proportion i accompanied a german merchant at raffa in the crimea to the mart of slaves where an arroeniao bad exposed for sale stanzas oh tis sad to see the splendor of the summer pass away when the night is always stealing precious moments from the day but in spring each lengthened evening temps us farther off froux horuft and if summer has more beauty all that beauty is to come it is thus in manhoods summer that th heart too often grievos oer friends lost prematurely like the fall of blighted leaves but lifes spring time is far sweeter when each green bud that appears may expand into a blossom to enliven future years the ocean and thou vast ocean on whose awful face times iron feet can print no ruintrace by breezes lulld or by the storm blasts drivn thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven tremendous art thou in thy tempestire when the mad surges to the clouds aspire and like new appenines from out the sea ttry waves march out in mountain majesty i oh never did the dark sould atheist stand and watch the breakers boiling on the strand and while creation staggerd at his nod mock the dread presence of the mighty god we hear him in the windheavd ocean roar hurling her billowy crags upod the shore we hear him in the riot of the blast and shake while rush the raving whirl winds past r montgomery literature got my big diamond i wish to have it two circassian girls of the most exquisite back for 1 value it dearly as it was the it was first that lefebvre gave me return it to me and i shall do nothing to you my wag replied that he had it uot he was a blackamoor and i could not see if he blushed or not but i continued to say to won tatft fmwo xd nave my ovg 3va- raoud and ordered him to search himself i sented was in her fourteenth year she he showed me his hands his pockets in was elegantly dressed her face was cover- which there was nothing well 6acfrguartf ei with a veil through which her blue eyes to whisper a syllable about them just or unjust he will not submit to correction from without any more than he will accept a benefit from such a quarter if he can help it he wonders at the stupidity of other nations and cannot understand what right they have to exclude his manufactures from their ports but he looks upon his own re fusal of their handywork as a paramount act of his own authority at which he thinks they have uo right to cavil he has not the faculty of putting himself in the place of a stranger or a rival in judging upon a quest ion and therefore is hardly ever impartial in his decisions it is curious too that he has at times a consciousness of being on the wrong side of the argument and his shifts to escape conclusions terminating iqevita- hly to his disadvantage ofteu place him in the most unlucky predicaments logic of a pure species we can hardly expect from one so imbued with prejudices notwith standing his good nature he frequently first begs the questiou next makes a posi tive affirmation of what is untrueand lastly draws a conclusion most monstrous i was lameuting the other day to a city acquaintance the very representative of john bull rubicund shortbreathed gross ly fat and excellently well tempered that we should have no summer that the clouds ovor london seemed inose deose than ever i had observed them oh for a day or two of the cloudless south of france i observed a groan followed frow my friend and aguttural intonation of voice as from the recess of a cavern heaving forth hum devilish good things 1 differ from you clouds are blessings sir your foreigners are melted to skin and bone for want of them clouds are a godseod sir in the summer how else should we walk to change in june at noonday not at all too cloudy for me sir we have enough of them in winter mr scrip i observed ay but now they are useful they are a glorious umbrella sir under your blue skies you are melted burnt up this is a happy country sir to have clouds in sommer none of your flaring blue skies they are all one colour except now and then a white rag or two seeming to be stuck upon them to dry mr varnish the artist ob served the other day that such as are now above us are pittoresque fine noble dark masses rolling round the cross of st pauls and that your foreign skies are all sameness and the airtoo light england forever sir but they are giving us adelugeofrain somuch the better replied my friend scrip the dust is kept down and there is less need of watering the streets but the harvest mr scrip we shall have the ports open my dear fellow and business will follow 1 the worsthappen a cloudy english ty for me come what may farther remark was useless and i chang ed the subject to the price current perfect ly aware at the same time that my friend and myself were of one opinion upon the point at issue but that his john bullism would not allow him to acknowledge the truth the bench has coastantly exhibited specimens of this kind of patriotic di ulation we have heard from the seat of justice boxing justified provide the nils are fair upon the ground that it prevents the adoption of the knife and dagger which ens were introduced to us one after ano- 1 are constantly used in all foreign slates other their deportment was graceful modest to diffidence the first girl pre- uul lu in loveliness we feigned an intention of purchasing them in order to gratify our curiosity and ascertain the mode of con ducting such inhuman sales the niaid- i then said strip yourself he made some objections but i was not to be come over in that way strip yourself scoundrel or i shall have you killed by my servants in as well as neck and shoulders that rivalled the parian marble in whiteness shone like stars piercing a black cloud she advanc ed towards the german bowed down and fine he stripped himself naked as a worm kissed his hand then at the command of and i found my large diamond there it is if it had been one of your finehanded de- hermaster she walked backwards and for wards in the tent to shew her fine shape done wonders in removing the prejudices of the travelling part of our population a dinner at verys may be surpassingly good french wine exquisite and the peo ple agreeable to a partiular class of persons but your downright john bull who has no notion of eating beyond a beafsteak at dollys and porter or port wine for drink looks with contempt upon other viands except it be a michaelmas goose or a turk ey at christmas no one will say he has not a right to do this but the worst is that his john bullism leads him to anathematize all who do not think in his particular way and still more to do it to their faces it you commend an edificethe climate in short any thing belonging to a foreign country he tells you to go and live there in short it is considered a species of insult in john bullism to speak the truth if it be any thing commendatory of a foreigner his manners or country irishmen too must not be put upon au equality of auy sort with himself in his view pat is a foreigner and ought to feci honoured by british protection the national debt war attacked the other day by a gentleman well versed in finance at a dinner where t was present as leadine to bankruptcy in caso of a new war ana he mentioned the flourishingstateof ame rica and france in this respect ho was stopped short by a little fiery gentleman on the opposite side of thetable with the excla mation pooh uonsence sir the nation al debt is ono of the best things in eng land where should we place our idle cash if there were no funds the debt increases tho industry of the country to pay the taxes necessary for meeting the interest it makes people work sir and keeps bu siness alive the debt is a glorious thing sir which foreigners have not the braius to comprehend- on the following day to that when this conversation occurred the person who had bceu so rudely interrupted put the follow ing axioms of bullism into my head as no one disputes the many good qua lities of honest john said he it becomes a duty to lessen bis bad ones if possible and to get him to substitute truth for pre judice in his decisions his worst quality is his inveterate obstinacy and the next his pride clodhopper as he is he refuses in licate nincompoops of ladies she would i and the easiness of her carriage she then never have found it the following raised her robe so as to shew the beautiful anecdote exhibits in an amiable light the delicacy of a leg and foot that would have character of this woman who was so much charmed a praxiteles when she took off her veil our eyes were dazzled with a dim- i paris sept 1 a volume emitted meuqoires sur ilmperatrice josephine has appeared here from which the follow ing are extracts the empress often spoke to us of the ennui with which she was devoured at the tuileries and of the pleasure she felt when something happened to interrupt the fa tiguing ceremonies that it was necessary to observe there when on this subject she related to us some anecdotes of la mare- an object of ridicule for many persons far iuferior to her in the stealing qualities of the heart on oue occasion mad de walsh serrent whilst in waiting on the empress received a smart slap on the shoulder and at the same time heard a ra ther hoarse voice thus addressing her goodmorrow gossip astonished at so unusual a salutatiou mad de serrent turn ed round and recognised la marechale lefebvre madame i am bah bah interrupted the marechale no fine speeches is it possible you do not know me let us see before 1 was a big lady grose dame i was a sick nurse garde rnalade and teuded your poor good man of a husband you were kind to me and stood godmother to one of my chil dren is it not so you see i recollect it come kiss me it must be allowed there is not a little merit in thus anticipating a recognition which would have wounded so deeply the pride of most others and that a similar frankuess and naivete are much to be pre ferred to the insolent morgue and haunteur of those upstarts who by their imperii nence force people to recollect more dis- pled face in which the lily and the rose were blended on the checks of blooming youtbfulness her air was at once noble aud modest her gestures animating and dignified her tresses as black as ebony fell carelessly over her lovely breast and when she smiled she discovered teeth of a dazzling whienes aud enamel she rubbed her cheeks with a wet nap kin to prove that she had not used art to improve or heighten the bloom of her complexion we were permitted to feel her pulse that we might be convinced of the good state of her health and constitu tion she then retired with all the agility and grace of oue of dianas nympths com ing out of the fouutain her attractive charms won the heart of my german friend who purchased this lovely girl for four thousand piasters h miscellany this big diamond that site so dearly prized she since sold together with several others in order to erect a monument to the duke of dantzic who much to his ho nour had but a very middling fortuofl to leave her this tomb is everyday visited from the london new monthly magazine for september john bullism there is nothing in the manners of the age more couspicuous than the overweening complacency of john bull upon all topics in which a comparison is made by a foreign er to his disadvantage honest john will grumble heartily enough at bis own domes tic errors aud irregularities but he will n this praiseworthy mode of combat alone that makes our uavy and army so distin guished and qualifies one englishman for uniformly beating five frenchmen at one time and ofteu more some of the learned in the law have been known to extol the courage of british highwaymen and urge the manner in which they went boldly up to their prey as a proof of the surpassing game of the lower class of englishmen and an illustration of the spirit that conquered at blenheim and malplaquet waterloo however was fought since this distinguish ed race of gentlemen became extinct i suppose the boxers have supplied their places although it must be granted they are adegree below turpin and abershaw in the heroism of their calliug bullbaiting dogfighting cockmatch es arc justified by honest john from being ancient sports of the country preferable to foroign innovations and tending to accus tom the high and low vulgar to hardihood besides whod have the peasantry dance round the trees with the country lasses un til sunset and thus imitate frenchraeu in stead of taking a cheerfulglass of hodgkins for the benefit of the revenue and betting upon whiteheaded bob aud blackmuzz led bill of st giles at their approaching scratch my dear fellow said one of the boulogne exiles which place is now a colony of euglish renegades for all sorts of reasons my dear fellow do you know we have introduced some of our manly sports among the people at boulogne we have got some tolerable dogfights a bull- bait now and then and we shall try and get tip a french boxingmatch it will do them good to stop their cursed chattering no xviii fiddling and dancing with the women we shall make men of them before we have done it is as easy to remove a mountain as to convince john bu that any thing good except cogniac and port wine can come from the continent of europe french women are all light characters german mere fish o ah foreign customs are bad in the lump and their is no city in the world tha has a single good hv the duchess who appears to bo incon- tic errors aud irregularities but he will not no city in me worm mat has a single good solable for the loss of her husband and son i suffer the granger withia his borders thing in it but london the peace has to be taught but in the reverse mode which teaching in general is practised i therefore reckon upon his good sense for detectlnghis fallacies and place before hirn his own maxims and my life for it he will soon begin to see their absurdity maxim i every thing in england no matter how it gets there is better than any thing out of it a british sloe is bet ter than a portugal grape ii every iuuovation change or novel ty no matter whether it be useful or nut which is a departure from old english cus tom should he put down iii religion is a thing of state concern and there is but one true faith for the time being which all are bound by act of par liament to believe those who will not believe have no right to share in the insti tutions or priviliges which they contribute by purse and person to support uo matter whether they constitute ninetenths or on ly onetenth of the population iv if a man advocate a cause it is im material whether he believe it or not still less whether he act up totheprecctpt he in culcates a drunkard may teach sobriety fcvu43m kw4 mhb twiu hi isutu ww not in what is done for what is said may be efficacious separate from example v there is no solitary virtue anywhere out of england scotland approximates nearest to it in purity and honesty ire land save and except a few protestant priests and orangemen is destitute of all the humanities a dreg of nations vi all frenchmen are knaves vii all frenchwomen are loose cha racters viii london porter is better than bur gundy ix english law practice is the best and purest iu the world surpassing law itself which is the perfection of human wisdom x- money is the great thiug needful therefore he that has the largest purse is the most respectable member of society xi englaud is the model of mortality for other nations not so much marked in london saloons and theatres in its alleys and bagnios it is true but as vice must ex ist somewhere it is better it should congre gate in kuowu places and keep to them thus little or no immorality exists else where in the british dominions xii he who steals a purse is a thief and must be hanged he who fills a public of fice and thieves does but peculate and is merely a debtor he who is a trustee and squanders the all of the widow and orphan is only unfortunate in business he who holds back the property of the dead father from his family and suffers the members of it to starve in tbe streets is a most dis criminating judge in chancery aud such a suit remaining undecided for fifty years is a public benefit xiii our aristocracy is the most disin terested body of men upon earth seeing they legislate for themselves alone and have decreed that corn shall be under ten pounds sterling a quarter xiv no stranger shall be suffered with impuuity to find fault with the rulers ofthis kiugdom john bull himself retains the right of growling at them in his own per son xv coarse measures are allowable to all in moneygettiug even to his grace of st albans xvi a full purse should place all cha racters upon an equality xvii gin whisky and ale are purer better aud more nutritive beverages than any country can boast besides england yet with such temping luxuries in vice we arc still the mostsober moral religi- ousducroet people on the face of the earth xviii crockfords private subscripti onhouse is a den of thieves the stock ex change public subscriptionhouse is the haunt of honest men xix the fashion of the day is the truest taste in all thiugs aud mr nash therefore is the model for all architects and his new palace the british louvre xx the royal exchange forms the noblest symposion the world ever saw tothschild is its solomon and sir william curtis its socrates xxi heavy loans are proofs of nati onal prosperity or how could they be raised xxii sir harcourt lee and lord farnham arc the jachin and boaz the two great brazen pillars that support religion and liberty in ireland pull them away and down must fall chnrch and state i20fffl waltzing is across germnn dance quadnlhng n finical french hop the only true step becoming an english female is the merry hornpipe and boisterous hop skip and jump of our rood mothers they will soon be corrupted by these foreign usa ges as they are in dress from the same sources aud as they will soon be in princi ples unless they return to the defences of wholesome stomachers and hooppetti coats xxiv our law is the most glorious in the world for it flings a thousand protecti ons around the guilty hut never permits the innocent man to go unscathed from its clutches either in person or purse the law isright knowing its best friends and con sulting their welfare xxv it is a great virtue to be in the possession of a plum he that has two is doubly great but he that hath ten deserves canonization xxvi piety aud prelacy are notueccs- sarjly conjuuctthe most pious are not to expect elevation on that account they are to console themselves that virtue is its own reward state religion it is meet should be regulated by state reasons thus blomficlds greek may silence kayes pie ty polemical pens are more useful to statesmen than those of piety and virtue they may intimidate if they cannot rttract bulley if they cannot convince sophisticate if they canuot reason and to the politici an what matters it as long as his ends are gained xxvii brother jonathan is ungrateful to one who has dealt him out such manifold favours as brother bull he has no right to tax british goods though jehu taxes his tobacco a thousand fold for he is a youn ger son in the family xxviii silver forks are a french in novation the good old steel fork with two prongs should not be given up he who says it should discourages our old cus toms is an enemy to his countrys prospe rity what matters convenience when so much is at stake xxix always take off your hat to a lord bow low to a baronet aud draw back your left foot nod respectfully to a squire if of your acquaintance aud slap a friend where your interest is coucerned pride cant coin money when no interest inter feres be humble to a superior because chance may produce a remote benefit from an unexpected quarter when you are certain no benefit can ever accrue to your interest ride the high horse and be lord yourself especially with a poor te nant having a large family or with a hum ble dependent xxxi never affront the parson of the parish for unless he be one of those excel lent men in the church of whom we henr little because they do much good be will forgive you xxxii go regularly to church it is a good example you need uot think about what is going on there you may calcu late your corps or number your debtors in a pew as well as by our own fireside and the good name you obtain will amply re pay the constraint of silting an hour under the minister this is the substance of nine- tenths of modern religion xxxiii- if you want game always buy it of a poacher to save money eve ry way is the first law of existence in eng land ifhe be tried and you nreon the ju ry be sure to bring him in guilty for poach- iug is the parent of a thousand crimes thanks to the house of lords notwith standing you will uever he without a stock of poachers and bares and partridges may always be obtained xxxiv always lend your money to your friends who ask if they can produce security never give alms in secret but only public like her grace of st albans it will not repay iuterest a douation to a hospital may come back iu articles of trade ordered of you therefore always give when the uames of the donors are to be published in the newspapers not else xxxv it is ouly the good or bad namo the world gives to any thing that makes it virtuous or vicious xxxvi alter you set out on foreign travel and reach calais muster your best stock of execrations and curse all you sco till dover pier be iu sight again xxxvii if you can speak a few sen tences of french tell every man you meet