"Sir,—You may copy my catalogue, but on Montag ber sur I must hav back. Thebotelis not good in such a manner. Thefigureis of no great value; it is not antic, and not fair; so is thebustin stone not antic, and not nice; and every thing that is neither antic nor fair I cannot give any worth. Your obedient servant,"A——."Pray you must not tell to any one my estimation of any thing."
"Sir,—You may copy my catalogue, but on Montag ber sur I must hav back. Thebotelis not good in such a manner. Thefigureis of no great value; it is not antic, and not fair; so is thebustin stone not antic, and not nice; and every thing that is neither antic nor fair I cannot give any worth. Your obedient servant,
"A——.
"Pray you must not tell to any one my estimation of any thing."
Neither did we, excepting toMaga, to whom we tell every thing.
Adams, Mr, on the Oregon Question, 443.Æschylus, tragedies of, 61, 65.Æsthetics of Dress—Military Costume, 114.Agriculture, decline of, in Italy, 339.Alamo, siege of the, 39.Alexander of Russia, accession, &c. of, 224.Alexander, Prince of Servia, 133, 146.Alfieri, tragedies of, 71.Aliwal, battle of, 639.Almanza, battle of, 200.America, specimens of the debates, &c. in, 439.Americans and the Aborigines, the, a tale of the short war, Part I., 554—Part II.,677.Amusements at Vichy, 309.Anacreon's grave, from Goethe, 121.Andreossi, the French ambassador, 466.Antigone of Sophocles, the, 64.Antonio Perez, sketch of the career of, 450.Apology for a review, an, 249.Arethusa, fountain of, 103.Assur, battle of, 491.Atheism, first public avowal of, in France, 393.Austin, Stephen F., 37.Baker, Mr, on the Oregon Question, 444.Banks, Sir Joseph,648.Barclay of Ury, first feat of, 225.Barré, Colonel, death of, 463.Bedford, Duke of, death of, 227.Belgrade, town of, 133.Bells of Venice, the, 256.Bentinck, Lord George, on Ireland, 601.Berwick, Marshal, 211, 213.Birboniana, or Italian Antiquities and Antichitá—scene the first—the introduction, 543—Birboniana, 548—Birbone I., Signor Rusca,765—II. Coco,768—III. Basseggio,772—IV. Herr Ascherson,775.Borneo, the expedition to, 356.Bosniaks, character of the, 138.Boufflers, Marshal, 211, 213, 214.Breece, Captain, 38, 39.Bridge of Sighs at Venice, the, 254.Broadfoot, Major, on the state of the Punjaub, 628.Brooke, Mr, of Borneo, Sketch of the life, &c. of, 356.Brougham's lives of men of letters and science, &c., review of,645.Bunkerhoff, M., on Oregon, 447.Burden of Zion, the, by Delta, 493.Camelford, Lord, anecdotes of, 217.Campagna of Rome, description of the, 252—causes, &c., of its present condition, 337.Campaign in Texas, a, 37.Campaign of the Sutlej, the, 625.Capucin convent at Syracuse, the, 106.Cass, Mr, on the Oregon question, 442.Cathedral service in England the, 181.Catholic emancipation, on, 387.Charles XII., character of, 195.Chipman, Mr, on Oregon, 447.Christie the auctioneer, anecdote of, 229.Christmas carol, 1845, 122.Clarke, Mr, murder of, 593.Clerks of counsel, duties of, 5.Coercion bill, the Irish, 572.Colonel O'Kelly's parrot, death of, 466.Colosseum, the, 252.Consultation, a; a Sicilian sketch, 109.Contrast, the, 307.Cook, General, 39—Captain,649.Corn-law repeal, the proposed, 373.Corneille, tragedies of, 69.Cos, General, 37, 40.Crisis, the, 124.Crusades, the, and their effects on Europe, 475.Czabacz, town of, 135.D'Alembert, career of,654.Darragh, Mr, on the Oregon question, 444.Darwin, Dr, death of, 228.Delta, burden of Zion by, 493.Despard, Colonel, conspiracy and trial of, 467.Devon, Lord, on the state of Ireland, 567.Dionysius, the ear of, 105.Distribution of grain in Rome, effects of, 340.Dorislaus, battle of, 484.Douglas, Mr, on the Oregon question, 443.Drama, remarks on the Greek and romantic, 54—Causes of the decline of, 58.Dramatic poet, qualifications necessary for the, 54.Dress, æsthetics of—Military costume, 114.Dyaks of Borneo, the, 359.Ear of Dionysius, the, 105.East and west, 248.Eboli, princess of, 454.Education in Servia, state of, 135.Ehrenberg's campaign in Texas, 37.Ejections in Ireland, 578.Elinor Travis; Chap. I.,713.Ellis, Wellbore, death of, 229.English hexameter, remarks on the, 259.Enriquez, narrative of the murder of Escovedo, by, 455.Epigrams from Goethe, 121.Epipolæ, excursion to, 110.Escovedo, the secretary, murder of, 452, 455.Eugene, Prince, 201, 206, 212.Eusebius, letter to, 408.Excursion to Epipolæ, an, 110.Fall of Rome, causes of the, 339—its causes at work in the British Empire,692.Famine in Ireland, the, 599.Fanning, Colonel, 42, 43, 44.Faucit, Miss, 55.Ferozeshah, battle of, 635.Follett, Sir William, sketch of the career and character of, 1.Fountain of Arethusa, the, 103.Fox, conduct of, on the regency question, 389.Fragments of Italy and the Rhineland, review of, 249.French drama, characteristics of the, 68.French revolution, Wellesley on the, 394.Geddings, Mr, on the Oregon question, 443.Goethe, translation from—Goethe to his Roman love, 120—Epigrams—Anacreon's grave, 121—the warning, ib.—the Swiss alp, ib.—north and south, ib.Goliad, fort, massacre at, 43.Gordon, Mr, on the Oregon question, 447.Grain, importation of, into Rome, 340.Grant, Colonel, 41, 42.Greek and romantic drama, the, 54.Greek Fire and Gunpowder,749.Griffiths, Mr, on Ireland, 586.Gunpowder, on the origin of,749.Hamlin, Mr, on the Oregon question, 446.Heberden, Dr, 224.Herbert, Mr Sidney, on the state of Ireland, 572, 573.Hexameter, the English, remarks on, 259.His epitaph, by Ennius, 496.Holman, the blind traveller, 134.Homer's Iliad, twenty-fourth book of, translated into English hexameters, 259—book the first, 610.Horace, translations from, 411.Houston, General, notices of, 51.How they manage matters in the Model Republic, 439.How to build a house and live in it, 758.Hyder Ali, the war with, 398.Iliad, the twenty-fourth book of, in English hexameters, 251—the first, 610.India, Wellesley's administration in, 396.India bill, Pitt's, 391.Ingersoll, Mr, on the Oregon question, 444.Iphigenia in Aulis, the, 65.Ireland, state of, in 1780, 387.Ireland, present state of, and measures with reference to, 572.Italian antiquities and antichitá, 543,765.It's all for the best, Chap. I, 230—Chap. II., 234—Chap. III., 238—Chap. IV., 242—Chap. V., 245—Chap. VI., 319—Chap. VII., 320—Chap. VIII., the squire's tale, 323—Chap. IX., 329—Chap. X., 334.Jack Robertson and the professor of eloquence, 104.Jenner, discovery of vaccination by, 230.Jerusalem, storming of, by the Crusaders, 486.John, Don, of Austria, 452.Kara George, the Servian leader, 143.Kemble, Stephen, 225.Kennedy, Mr, on Oregon, 446.Kopaunik mountain, the, 139.Krushevatz, town of, 139.Last hours of a reign; a tale in two parts—Part II., Chap. III., 17—Chap. IV., 24—Chap. V., 29—conclusion, 36.Lauriston, General, 223.Lavater the physiognomist, 221.Lavoisier, career of,658.Leases, effects of, in Ireland, 584.Le Peuple, review of,733.Let never cruelty dishonour beauty, 16.*Letter to Eusebius, 410.Lille, siege of, by Marlborough, 211.Literature of the eighteenth century, the,645.Lodge, A., the Old Player by, 473—the Rose of Warning, by,747.Lover of society, recollections of a, 215—Part II., 463.Mackintosh, Sir James, defence of Peltier by, 468.Maher, Mr, on the state of Ireland, 589.Malta, seizure of, by France, 467.Marlborough, No. III., 195—his interview with Charles XII., 197—difficulties with which he had to contend, 199—invades France, 201—returns to England, 202—resumes the command, 203—movements previous to Oudenarde, 204—defeats the French there, 207—besieges Lille, 211.Marquis Wellesley, sketch of the career of, 385.Martha Brown, by an ancient contributor, 184—Chap. II., 187.Martial, epigrams from, 496.Martin, General Claud, 226.Masham, Mrs, 202.Mendip, Lord, 229.Metastasio, dramas of, 70.Mexico, war between, and Texas, 37.Michaud's History of the Crusades, review of, 475.Michelet's Le Peuple, review of,733.Mignet's Antonio Perez and Philip II., 450.Military costume, remarks on, 114, 219—Music, 175.Milosh, the Servian leader, 145.Ministerial measures, the, 373.Model Republic, how they manage matters in the, 439.Modern Pilgrim's Progress—the fragment of a dream—Chap. I., How Scapegrace first made acquaintance with Scrip, 604—Chap. II., How Scapegrace, losing sight of Premium, was mocked at Vanity Fair, 606.Moodkee, battle of, 633.Mornington, Earl of, 386.Moses and Son, a didactic tale—Chap. I., 294—Chap. II., 297—Chap. III., 299.Mother and her dead child, the, 53.Muda Hassim, rajah of Borneo, 358, 359.Music, something more about, 169.My College Friends, No. III.—Mr W. Wellington Hurst, 73.Mysore war, the, 397.Napoleon, epigram on, 220.Natural history of Vichy, the, 306.Naylor's Reynard the Fox, review of,665.Naval costume, remarks on, 119.Nobility, re-establishment of, in France, 230.North and South, from Goethe, 121.Novibazar, town of, 138.O'Connell, Mr, condition of the tenantry of, 589.Old player, the, by A. Lodge, 473.On a bee, from Martial, 496.On Gellia, from Martial, 496.Oregon question, American speeches on the, 441.Orford, Lord, 470.Oudenarde, battle of, 207.Overkirk, General, death of, 214.Palmerston, Lord, on the Servian question, 147.Paton's Servia, review of, 129.Paul, the emperor, 216, 218, 219.Peace of Amiens, the, 223, 228.Pearce's life of Wellesley, review of, 385.Peel ministry, resignation of the, 124—their return to office, 128.Peel, Sir Robert, and his corn-law measure, 373.Peep into the Whig penny-post bag, a, 247.Peltier, trial of, 468.Peninsular war, opening of the, 402.People, the,733.Perceval, Mr, death of, 403.Perez, Antonio, sketch of the career of, 450.Petronevich, M. 131, 134, 142.Petty, Sir William, 219.Philip II. sketches of, 450.Piper, Count, minister of Charles XII. 197.Pitt, retirement of, 227—Regency question, 389.Poetry:—Let never cruelty dishonour beauty, 16*—the mother and her dead child, 53—translations from Goethe, 120—Christmas carol, 1845, 122—the twenty-fourth book of Homer's Iliad, in English hexameters, 259—the Old Player, by A. Lodge, 473—the burden of Sion, by Delta, 493—rhymed hexameters, 496—the first book of Homer's Iliad, 610—Truth and Beauty, 624—the Rose of Warning,747.Posharevatz, town of, 140.Potatoe failure, the, 382.Powell, Mr, murder of, 591.Prometheus Vinctus, the, 65.Prospectus, a, 621.Racine, remarks on, 69.Rassavatz, M. 140.Recollections of a Lover of Society—the Irish Union, 215—Challenge to George III. 216—anecdotes of Lord Camelford, &c. 217—death of Paul of Russia, 218—anecdotes of him, 219—epitaphs, 221—death of Lavater, Heberden, &c.ib.—peace of Amiens, 223—coronation of Alexander of Russia, 224—first feat of Barclay of Ury, 225—appearance of Stephen Kemble,ib.—on the peace, &c. 226—death of the Duke of Bedford, 227—retirement of Pitt,ib.—conclusion of the peace, 228—death of Darwin,ib.—and of Lord Mendip, 229—re-establishment of nobility in France, 230—Jenner and vaccination,ib.—No. II.—ball in honour of the peace, 463—accident to George Rose,ib.—death of Colonel Barré,ib.—curious law action, &c. 464—measures of Napoleon,ib.—Schinderhannes the robber, 465—Colonel O'Kelly's parrot, 466—Andreossi and the seizure of Malta,ib.—image of our Lady of Loretto, 467—trial of Colonel Despard,ib.—trial of Peltier, 468—Lord Orford, 470—frauds on the Stock Exchange, 471—declaration of war against France, 472.Reform, first agitation of, 390.Regency question, the, 389.Reign, last hours of, a tale in two parts, Part II., Chap. III., 17—Chap IV., 24—Chap. V., 29—Conclusion, 36.Reinaud on Greek Fire,749.Rent, rates of, in Ireland, 586.Reynard the Fox,665.Rhodes, description of, 130.Rhymed Hexameters and Pentameters, 496.Rogues in Outline, seeBirboniana.Roman Campagna, the, 337.Romantic drama compared with the Greek, 54.Rome, sketches of, 250—causes of the decline and fall of, 340—the fall of—its causes at work in the British Empire,692.Rose, George, accident to, 463.Rose of Warning, the, by A. Lodge,747.Roustchouk, fortress of, 131.Sacred music, on, 181.St Antonio, siege of, 38.St Germans, Lord, coercion bill of, 572.Santa Anna, notices of, 37.Santa Lucia and the Capucin convent, 106.Schiller, dramas of, 72.Schinderhannes, the robber of the Rhine, 465.Scott's novels and poems, remarks on, 414.Serier, Mr, on the Oregon question, 442.Servia, and the Servian question, 129.Shabatz, town of, 135.Shakspeare and Æschylus, comparison of, 61—and the drama, 534.Sharks and fireflies, 108.Sheridan on the French Revolution, 395.Sicilian sketches—Syracusiana—the fountain of Arethusa, 103—Jack Robertson and the professor of eloquence, 104—Ear of Dionysius, 105—Santa Lucia and the Capucin convent, 106—sharks and fireflies, 108—a consultation, 109—excursion to Epipolæ, 110—addio, Sicilia, 111.Siddons, Mrs, 55.Sikhs, subjugation of the, 625.Simitch Stogan, 142.Sims, Mr, on the Oregon question, 415.Sir William Follett, sketch of the life and character of, 1.Small canals of Venice, the, 254.Smith, Adam,661.Smith, Sir Harry, despatch of, 639.Smuggler's leap, the, a passage in the Pyrenees, 366.Sobraon, battle of, 642.Sokol or Szoko, fortress of, 136, 137.Soltau's Reynard the Fox, review of,665.Something more about music, 169.Stanton, Mr, on the Oregon question, 447.State of Ireland, the, 572.Story of Periander, the, 417.Studenitza, convent of, 138.Student of Salamanca, the, Part III., 85—Part IV., 149—Part V., 273—Part VI., 419—Part the last, 513.Surveyor's tale, the, 497.Sutlej, campaign of the, 625.Suvaroff,anecdoteof, 219.Svilainitza, town of, 140.Swindler, a female, 218.Swiss Alp, the, from Goethe, 121.Syracusiana,seeSicilian sketches.Tariff, the new, 373.Texas, a campaign in, 37.Tickell, Mr, on the state of Ireland, 379.Tippoo Saib, the war with, 397.To Cecilianus, from Martial, 496.Toulon, siege of, by Eugene, 201.Tronosha, convent of, 136.Truth and beauty, 624.Twenty-fourth book of Homer's Iliad, attempted in English hexameters, 259.Union of Great Britain and Ireland, the, 215.Ushitza, town of, 137.Vaccination, discovery of, 230.Vendôme, Marshal, 205, 206, 212.Venice, sketches of, 254.Vichyana, natural history, &c., 406—the contrast, 307—miscellanea, 308—our amusements, 309—first table-d'hôte dinner, 315.Villa Borghese, the, 251.Voltaire, the tragedies of, 70.Wakefield, Gilbert, 222.Walls of Rome, the, 250.War in Texas, anecdotes of the, 37.Warning, the, from Goethe, 121.Wellesley, the Marquis, sketch of the career of, 385.Whyte's pilgrim's reliquary, review of, 249.Widdin, town of, 132.Wuczicz, M. 134, 142.
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Footnotes:
[1]Lives of Men of Letters and Science who Flourished in the Time of George III.ByHenry Lord Brougham, with Portraits. London: Colburn.
[2]Reynard the Fox—a renowned Apologue of the Middle Ages reproduced in Rhyme.ByS. Naylor. Longman & Co. London: 1845.
[3]Finlay'sGreece under the Romans, p. 250.
[4]"Mihi multum legenti multum audienti quæ populus Romanus domi militiæque præclara facinora fecissent, forte lubuit attendere quæ res maxime tanta negotia sustinuit. At mihi multa agitanti constabat, paucorum civium egregiam virtutem cuncta patravisse: eoque factum ut divitias paupertas, multitudinem paucitas, superaret."—Sallust,Bell. Cat., 32.
[5]They were as high as L.9 sterling in the time of Constantine, a sum probably equal to L.20 of our money. But the freemen were the higher classes alone, and it is probable a similar class, both in France and England, pay at least as much at this time.—See Gibbon, iii. 88.
[6]Gibbon, c. i. and c. xxxii. Agathias states the military establishment in its best days at 675,000, which is much more likely its real amount. Agathias, v. p. 157, Paris edition.
[7]Gibbon, vol. vi. c. xxxvi. p. 235.
[8]Ibid. vol. iii. c. xviii. p. 87. Edition in twelve volumes.
[9]"Arantur Gallicana rurabarbaris bobus, et juga Germanica captiva præbent colla nostris cultoribus."—Probi Epist. ad Senatum, in Vopesio.
[10]Michelet,Histoire de France, vol. i. p. 104-108.
[11]Finlay'sGreece under the Romans.
[12]Tacitus,Annal., xii. 43.
[13]De Bello Gild., v. 64, 65.
[14]Gibbon, c. xxix.
[15]
"Advenio supplex, non ut proculcet AraxenConsul ovans, nostræve premant pharetrata securesSusa, nec ut Rubris aquilas figamus arenis.Hæc nobis, hæc ante dabas.—Nunc pabula tantumRoma precor. Miserere tuæ, Pater Optime, gentis—Extremam defende famem.******Tot mihi pro meritis Lybiam Nilumque dedêreUtdominam plebembellatoremque senatumClassibus astivis alerent.******Nunc inhonorus, egens, perfert miserabile pacisSupplicium, nulloque palam circumdatus hosteObessi discrimen habet. Per singula letumImpendet momenta mihi, dubitandaque pauciPræscribunt alimenta dies."—Claud.De Bello Gild.
[16]Finlay'sGreece under the Romans, 435, 436.
[17]Ibid. 517.
[18]Gibbon, c. xxxi. p. 351.
[19]Ibid. c. xxxiii. vol. vi. p. 20.
[20]Greece under the Romans, 456, 467.
[21]Josephus, ii. 16.
[22]Finlay, 515.
[23]Ibid. 406.
[24]Sismondi,Chute de l'Empire Romaine, i. 36.
[25]Novell, 81.
[26]Finlay, 246, 247.
[27]Finlay, 117.
[28]Ammianus Marcellinus, c. xiv.
[29]Finlay, 544. Ammianus Marcellinus, c. xix.
[30]Sismondi,Chute de l'Empire Romaine, i. 50.
[31]Gibbon, i. 261, c. vi.
[32]Gibbon, c. vi. vol. i. p. 262.
[33]Ibid. c. vi. vol. i. p. 268.
[34]Ibid. p. 268.
[35]Ibid. c. xvii. vol. ii. p. 86.
[36]Gibbon, c. xvii. vol. iii. p. 92.
[37]Finlay, pp. 49-50.
[38]Novell Majorian, tit. iv. p. 34. Gibbon, c. xxxvi. vol. vi. p. 173.
[39]Gibbon, c. i. vol. i. p. 30.
[40]Ibid. c. i. vol. i. p. 37.
[41]Ibid. c. xvii. vol. iii. p. 93.
[42]Ibid. c. ii. vol. i. p. 91.
[43]Plin.Hist. Nat.iii. 5.
[44]Περι του μηδειν Δανειξεισθαι"De Ære Alieno vitando."—Plutarch.
[45]Finlay, 90.
[46]"Verumque confitentibus latifundia perdidêre Italiam, immo ac provincias."—Plin.Hist. Nat.
[47]Sismondi,Chute de l'Empire Romaine, i. 51.
[48]Ammianus Marcellinus, c. xiv.
[49]Sismondi,Chute de l'Empire Romaine, i. 44.
[50]Finlay, 219, 220.
[51]It is curious to find Tacitus praising the establishmentof bounties onthe importation of foreign grain by Tiberius, without a word on the evil effects of the system.—Annal.vi. 13. "Quibuse provinciis et quanto majorum, quam Augustusrei frumentariæ copiam advectaret."
[52]Finlay, 53.
[53]Finlay, 105.
[54]Ibid. 137.
[55]Tacitus,Annal.xii. 43.
[56]Michelet,Histoire de France, i. 277.
[57]Edinburgh Review.April 1846. No. 168. Page 370-371.
[58]Sismondi,Chute de l'Empire Romaine, i. 233.
[59]Finlay, 389.
[60]Ibid. 392.
[61]Gibbon, chap. ii. vol. i. p. 90.
[62]Jacob'sHistorical Inquiry into the Production and Consumption of the Precious Metals, i. 35, 42.
[63]Finlay, 88.
[64]Ibid.90.
[65]Finlay, 89.
[66]Gibbon, v. 329.
[67]Arbuthnott on Ancient Coins, c. 5. Gibbon, i. 90, c. ii.
[68]Greaves on Ancient Coins, i. 229, 331.
[69]Gibbon, c. 36, vol. vi. 173.
[70]SeeEdinburgh Review. No. 168. April 1846.
[71]There are now 20,000,000 inhabitants in Italy, and it was certainly as populous in the time of Augustus, when Rome alone, which now has 180,000, contained 2,386,000 souls.
[72]Le Peuple.Par J.Michelet.
[73]Du Feu Greçois, des Feux de Guerre, et des Origines de la Poudre-à-Canon.Par MM.ReinaudetFavé.
[74]————"Conductâ Paulus agebat Sardonyche."—Juv.Sat.vii.
[75]Poor Seneca, for amoralphilosopher, seems to have been somewhat harshly handled: here patronised by cheats and gamblers, and here censured by philosophy and dissent! Now invoked by Rusca to assist him in his ingannations; now lugged on the stage to be commented on by the valet of a gambler,[*]as hedebitshim, for his master's consolation, under his losses; here glanced at by Coleridge for his splendid "inconsistencies;" and here by the sourDissenter, who accuses our Church's ministers of borrowing their sermons from his precepts.
"Preaching the trash they purchase at the stalls,And more likeSeneca's, thanHIS!! orPaul's!"
And, as he could make no higher appeal for human virtue than the authority of human wisdom for the plea of expediency, it was not to be wondered at if he should have met with no better fate than to be praised of fools, and neglected of the wise, who wisely deemed him an insufficient, and therefore a dangerous guide.
[*]Le Joueur.
[76]The name of "half honest" exactly suits this class of men, who, adopting onehalfof what our admirable Taylor lays down in his golden "rules and measures of justice in bargaining," neglect the other half. "In prices of bargaining concerninguncertainmerchandises, you may buy as cheap, ordinarily, as you can, and sell as dear as you can;" so far they and Taylor are of a mind. "Provided," continues he, "that you contract onequal termswith persons inall senses(as to the matter and skill of bargaining)equal to yourself; that is, merchants with merchants,wise men with wise men, rich with rich"—andherethemezzo galant'uomogives up Taylor, to keep true to his name and calling.
[77]Mionnet,De la Rareté et du Prix des Medailles Romaines, a very useful work, which no amateur collector should fail to possess, and to carry constantly about with him,non obstantall the abuse heaped upon it by all the dealers.
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