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THE TWO BROTHERS. An Anecdote from the German of Schiller Two brothers, barons of W—, were in love with a young and excellent lady, and neither was acquainted with the passion of the other. The affection of both was tender and vehement-it was their first: the maiden was beautiful, and formed of sensibility. They suffered their inclinations to increase to the utmost bounds, for the danger the most dreadful to their hearts was unknown to them, to have a brother for their rival. Each forbore an early explanation with the lady, and thus were both deceived; until an unexpected occurrence discovered the whole secret of their sentiments.

Their love had already risen to its utmost height: that most unhappy pas sion, which has caused almost as cruel ravages as its dreadful counterpart, had taken such complete possession of their hearts, as to render a sacrifice on either side impossible. Their fair one, full of commiseration for the unhappy situation of these two unfortunates, would not decide upon the exclusion of either, but submitted her own feelings to the decision of their brotherly love.

Conqueror in this doubtful strife betwixt duty and sentiment, which our philosophers are always so readyto decide, but which the practical mau undertakes so slowly, the elder brother said to the younger, I know thou lovest the maiden as vehement as myself. I will not ask, for which of us a priority of right should determine. Do thou remain here, whilst I seek the wide world. I am willing to die that I may forget her. If such be my fate, brother, then is she thine, and may Heaven bless thy love! Should I not meet with death, do thou set out, and follow my example.'

He left Germany, and hastened to Holland; but the form of his beloved still followed him. Far from the climate which she inhabited, banished from the spot which contained the whole felicity of his heart, in which alone he was able to exist, the unhappy youth sickened, as the plant withers which is ravished from its maternal bed in Asia by the powerful European, and forced from its more clement sun into a remote and rougher soil. He reached Amsterdam in a desponding condition, where he fell ill of a violent and dangerous fever. The form of her he loved predominated in his frantic dreams; his health depended on her possession. The physicians were in doubt of his life, and nothing but the assurance of being

restored again to her, rescued him from the arm of death. He arrived in his native city changed to a skeleton, the most dreadful image of consuming grief, and with tottering steps reached the door of his beloved-of his brother.

Brother, behold me once again. Heaven knows how I have striven to subdue the emotions of my heart. I can do no more.'

He sunk senseless into the lady's arms. The younger brother was no less determined. In a few weeks he was ready to set out.

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Brother, thou carriedst thy grief with thee to Holland. I will endeavour to bear mine farther. Lead not the maiden to the altar till I write to thee. Fraternal love alone permits such a stipulation. Should I be more fortunate than thou wert, in the name of God let her be thine, and may Heaven prosper thy union. Should I not, may the Almighty in that case judge further between us! Farewell. Take this sealed packet, do not open it till I am far from hence. I am going to Batavia.'

He then sprang into the coach. The other remained motionless, and absorbed in grief, for his brother had surpassed him in generosity. Love, and at the same time the sorrow at losing such a man, rushed forcibly upon his mind. The noise of the flying vehicle pierced him to the heart-his life was feared. The lady-but no! of her I must not yet speak.

The packet was opened. It contained a complete assignment of all his German possessions to his brother, in the event of fortune being favourable to the fugitive in Batavia. The latter, subduer of himself, sailed with some Dutch merchants, and arrived safely at that place. A few weeks after he sent his brother the following lines:

'Here, where I return thanks to the Almighty, here, in another world, do I think of thee, and of our loves, with all the joy of a martyr. New scenes and events have expanded my soul, and God has given me strength to offer the greatest sacrifice to friendship --- the maiden. God! here a tear doth fall--the last---I have conquered---the maiden is thine. Brother, it was not ordained that I should possess her; that is, she would not have been happy with me. If the thought should ever come to her, that she would have been---Brother! brother! with difficulty do I tear her from my soul. Do not forget how hard the attainment of her has been to thee. Treat her always as thy youthful passion at present teaches thee. Treat her

always as the dear legacy of a brother, whom thy arms will never more enfold. Farewell! Do not write to me, when thou celebratest thy marriage --- my wounds still bleed. Write to me, that thou art happy. My deed is a surety to me that God will not forsake me in a foreign world.'

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The nuptials were celebrated. The most felicitous of marriages lasted a year. At the end of that period the lady died. lu her expiring moments, she acknowledged to her most intimate friend the unhappy secret of her bosom ;---the exiled brother she had loved the strongest.

Both brothers still live. The elder upon his estates in Germany, where he has married again: the younger remains in Batavia, and has become a fortunate and shining character. He made a vow never to marry, and has kept it.

RULES FOR YOUNG MAIDS, By the observance of which they may retain their powerful ascendancy from the age of Fifteen to Twenty-four. At Fifteen-Affect vivacity, and line your bonnets with pink. If in company with the man you would like, for a husband, hold your breath long enough to blush when he speaks to you, and incline your eyes downwards in giving an answer. Be cautious at this age to wear your gowns made high in the neck, that your charms may be conceived to. be greater than nature usually allots to you at this time of life.

At Sixteen.-Seem to have a high spirit, with the most unbounded submission to the opinions of the favoured one. You may now look, when in conversation, in the gentleman's face, but be cautious that the eye-brows are kept well arched. Affect a great liking for little babies, and get the credit of being a good nurse.

At Seventeen. Read the news of Literature and Fashion, and form your opinion of the follies of the day upon its model. Condemn play-going women, and talk of the happiness of retirement and domestic life. Simper "nimmity pimminy," to put your lips in pretty shape, and kiss children voluptuously before gentlemen, to set them longing, Wear low frocks, but do not show too much,

At Eighteen-Look out for a husband for yourself, and practise making baby-linen for a married friend. Read Little's Poems" in secret.

At Nineteen.-Go to routs and parties, but avoid general flirting.- Dress fashionably, but with the greatest decency.,

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Raleigh, to his son, though too selfish for THE following advice of Sir Walter the liberals of the present day, was the result of long experience, in situations best calculated to view the main-spring of human actions. It is a fine specimen of the best style of the sixteenth century :

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Amongst all other things of the world take care of thy estate, which thou shalt ever preserve if thou observe three things: First-That thou know what thou hast: what every thing is worth that thou hast and see that thou art not wasted by thy servants and officers. The second is, that thou never spend any thing before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate. The third is, That thou suffer not thyself to be wounded for other men's faults, and scourged for other men's offences; which is the surety for another: for thereby millions of men have been beggared and destroyed paying the reckoning of other men's rioting, and the charge of other men's folly and prodigality. If thou smart, smart for thine own sins; and, above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men. If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare: if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all-for friendship rather chooseth to harm itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim; if for a churchman, he hath no inheritance; if for a lawyer, he will find evasion by a word or syllable to abuse thee; if for a poor man, thou must pay it thyself; if for a rich man, it need not;

therefore from suretyship-as from a man-slayer, or an enchanter—bless thyself; for the best profit-return will be this-that, if you force him for whom thou art bound, to pay for himself, he will become thy cnemy, If thou use to, pay it thyself, thou wilt be a beggar ;—

and, believe thy father in this, and, print it in thy thought, that, what virtue soever thou bast-be it ever so manifold if thou be poor withal, thou and thy qualities shall be despised. Lend not to him that is mightier than thyself, for if thou lendest him, count it but lost; be not surety above thy power, for if thou be surety-think to pay it.

KING OF PRUSSIA.

I ASKED Buonaparte, says Mr O'Meara, if the King of Prussia was a man of talent, "Who!" said he, “the King of Prussia?" He burst into a fit of laughter. He a man of talent? The greatest blockhead on earth. Un ignorantaccio che non ha ne talente, ne informazione. A Don Quixote in appearance. I know him well. He cannot hold a conversation for five minutes. When," continued Napo leon, "I was at Tilsit, with the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia, I was the most ignorant of the three in military affairs. These two sovereigns, especially the King of Prussia, were completely au fait as to the number of buttons there ought to be in the front of a jacket, how many behind, and in what manner the skirts ought to be cut. Not a tailor in the army knew better than King Frederick how many measures of cloth it took to make a jacket. In fact, continued he, laughing, “I was nobody in comparison with them. They continually tormented me with questions about matters belonging to tailors, of which I was entirely ignorant, though, in order not to affront them, I answered just as gravely as if the fate of an army depended upon the cut of a jacket. When I went to see the King of Prussia, instead of a library 1 found he had a large room, like an arsenal, furnished with shelves and pegs, in which were placed fifty or sixty jackets of various. modes. Every day he changed his fashion, and put on a different one. He was a tall dry looking fellow, and would give a good idea of Don Quixote. He attached more importance to the cut of a dragoon or a hussar uniform, than was necessary for the salvation of a kingdom. At Jena, his army performed the finest and most shewy manœuvres possible; but I soon put a stop to their coglionerie, and taught them, that to fight, and execute dazzling manœuvres, and wear splendid uniforms, were very different affairs. "If, added he, “the French army had been commanded by a tailor, the King of Prussia would certainly have gained the day, from his superior knowledge of the art; but as victories depended more

upon the skill of the general commanding the troops, than that of the tailor who makes their jackets, he consequently failed."

THE POST WAGEN,

AND ITS OCCUPANTS.

“What the Germans call a Diligence, or Post-wagen, dragging its slow length through this delicious scene, is a bad feature in the picture, given by the author of a Tour in Germany. Much as we laugh at the meagre cattle, the knottedrope harness, and lumbering pace of the machines, which bear the same name in France, the French have outstripped their less alert neighbours in every thing that regards neatness, and comfort, and expedition. The German carriage resembles the French one, but is still more clumsy and unwieldy. The luggage, which generally constitutes by far the greater part of the burden, (for your Diligence is a servant of all work, and takes a trunk just as cheerfully as a passenger,) is placed, not above, but in the rear. Behind the carriage a flooring projects from above the axle of the hind wheels, equal, in length and breadth, to all the rest of the vehicle. On this is built up a castle of boxes and packages, that generally shoots out beyond the wheels, and towers far above the roof of the carriage. The whole weight is increased as much as possible by the strong chains intended to secure the fortification from all attack in the rear ; for the guard, like his French brother, will expose himself to neither wind nor weather, but forthwith retires to doze in his cabriolet, leaving to its fate the edifice which has been reared with much labour and marvellous skill. Six passengers, if so many bold men can be found, are packed up inside; two, more happy or less daring, take their place in the cabriolet with the guard. The breath of life is insipid to a German without the breath of his pipe: the insides puff most genially right into each other's faces. With such an addition to the ordinary mail-coach miseries of a low roof, a perpendicular back, legs suffering like a martyr's in the boots, and scandalously scanty air-holes, the Diligence becomes a very Black-hole. True, the police has directed its denunciations against smoking, and Meinherr the conducteur (he has no native appellation) is specially charged with their execution; but Meinherr, the conducteur, from the cravings of his own appetite, has a direct interest in allowing them to sleep, and is often the very first man to propose

putting them to rest. To this huge mass, this combination of stage coach and carrier's cart, are yoked four meagre ragged cattle, and the whole dashes along on the finest roads, at the rate of rather more than three English miles an hour, stoppages included, The matter of refreshments is conducted with a very philanthropical degrec of leisure, and at every considerable town, a breach must be made in the luggage castle, and be built up again. Half a day's travelling in one of these vehicles is enough to make a man loathe them all his life-time."

Biographical Sketches.

BLANCHE, LADY ARUNDEL. THE courage and spirit with which this lady defended Wardour Castle against the Parliamentary army, during the civil war in the reign of Charles 1st, are deserving of commendation.

On Tuesday, May 2nd, 1643, Sir Edward Hungerford, commander in-chief of the Parliamentary forces in Wiltshire, appeared before Wardour Castle, a mansion belonging to the Earl of Arundel, in the same county. He began his operations by summoning the castle to surrender, but the Countess of Arundel, daughter to the Earl of Worcester, commanded the castle in the absence of her husband, and refused to deliver it up, saying, that she had the orders of her lord to keep it, and those orders she was determined to obey. On this reply the cannon were drawn up, and the battery commenced, which continued from Wednesday till the following Monday. The besiegers amounted to about 1,300 men, while the Countess had but 25 fighting men in the castle. During the siege, a mine was sprung, by which every room was shaken and endangered. The besiegers offered more than once to give quarter to the women and children, on condition that the besieged should give up their arms; but the ladies of the family disdained to sacrifice to their own safety their brave friends and faithful domestics, and rejected the proposals. Oppressed with numbers, wearied with exertion, and exhausted by watching, the strength of the besieged began to fail: in this emergency, the ladies, and female servants, assisted in loading the muskets, and in administering refreshments to their intrepid defenders.

The enemy having brought petards, applied them to the garden doors, which they endeavoured to force, and thus open a passage to the castle: balls of fire were at the same time thrown in at the dismantled windows. In this distress, when

every hope was cut off, the Countess demanded a parley, which was granted. Articles of surrender were drawn up, by which it was stipulated, that the inbabitants of the castle should be allowed quarter, that the females should have their wearing apparel, and that six of the serving men should be allowed to attend them wherever they chose to retire, and that the furniture should be saved from plunder.

The besiegers were, on these terms, allowed to enter the castle, and take possession of it: but the first article of the stipulation, by which the lives of the inhabitants were spared, was the only one observed; while the remainder were violated without scruple. They destroyed the pictures, carvings, and works of art,-nothing was left to the defeated, but the clothes they then wore. The ladies and children were led prisoners to Shaftesbury, where five cart-loads of their richest furniture were carried in triumph. The work of devastation, was extended to the whole of the property, the deer were killed or let loose, the timber was cut down, the out-houses burnt, the fish-ponds destroyed, and the horses and cattle carried away. The loss of the Earl of Arundel, on this occasion, was computed at one hundred thousand pounds.

The victors conceiving their prisoners insecure at Shaftesbury, proposed removing them to Bath, the air of which was at that time infected by the plague and small-pox. Lady Arundel, dreading to expose her children to infection, remonstrated against this barbarous purpose, and declared that force only should compel her to comply with it. Her enemies were induced to relinquish their design, but not without inflicting a severe pang on the heart of a mother, by sepa rating her from her children, two sons, of eleven and nine years of age, who were torn from her, and sent prisoners to Dorchester.

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But the afflictions of the Countess were not yet at an end. In one week she found herself deprived of her children by imprisonment, and of her husband by death. The Earl of Arundel died at Oxford, May 19th, of the wounds he had received in the defence of the Royal cause at the battle of Lansdown, near Bath. The Countess survived these misfortunes six years, and died 28th Oct. 1649. She was buried with her husband, near the altar of the chapel in Wardour Castle, and an inscription on the monument relates the bravery with which she defended her castle in her husband's cause.

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Mechanics Dracle.

Fresh and Salt Water Baths.

There has been a great deal of discussion for some time past, throughout the town, upon the subject of the establishment of the much-wanted convenience of public baths. "There are two schemes in agitation-one, upon a minor scale, for fresh-water baths, under the manage ment of Mr. Bantock, of Cornhill, surveyor; and the other upon a much bolder and more extensive one, for bringing a powerful stream of salt-water from the coast, and supplying all parts of the metropolis with real salt-water baths, upon terms of very moderate expense. The latter measure is reported to be much patronized at the west end of the town, by some characters of the first consideration and science in the kingdom: the parties undertaking it are associated under the title of "The Metropolitan Marine Bath Company.”+

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To banish Rats.

Take the expressed juice of the stalks or leaves, (or both) of the deadly nightshade, and make it into a paste, with oatmeal or wheat flour; place it in the holes or tracks which the rats frequent, and though they will not eat it, it proves so disagreeable to them, that they will speedily quit the premises.

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