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The Tere- ing to forty-three. The translator in a note says:

novices are received, not scholars.
sians three. The Benedictine nuns one.
"Convents of monks are not so numerous;
and indeed in the present state of things, se-
cular clergy were better labourers in the vine-
yard. The Carthusians, however, have an
establishment in the full vigour of their rule.
Who could have hoped to live and see these
things in England?"

In a future edition we hope all the places where these convents, monasteries, and nunneries are established, will be specified, with an account of the numbers of the monks and nuns; the particular revenue of each foundation; by whom founded and maintained, together with such anecdotes of the friars and nuns in their new residences as may have been obtained. Especially of the Carthusians: the friars of this species have been described by Mercier, as 5 famous monks, who from a

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termination ianos, ten ending in istas, two There are twenty-three with the Spanish in antes, one in otos, and seven in eros.

In English ians, ists, ants, ots, and ers.
a precious

The comical Don calls this "
nomenclature."

"Arminianos, Socinianos, Baxterianos, Presbiterianos, Nuevos (new) Americanos, Sabellianos, Luteranos, Moravianos, Swedenborgianos, Athenasianos, Episcopalianos, Arianos, Sabspirit of penitence, rendered the seas tri-batarianos, Trinitarianos, Unitarianos, Milbutary to their tables, never conversed but with their bottles, carved toothpicks, taught their birds to sing by means of a small bariel-organ, cast little waxen virgins in moulds, and died at fourscore; their cells full of ratifias and sweetmeats."

The Carthusians (Chartreux), are an order of monks, instituted by Saint Bruno, above seven hundred years ago, on a rocky mountain, situated in a horrid desert, five leagues from Grenoble, in the province of France, formerly called Dauphine, and known by the name of La grande Chartreuse. It was remarkable for the austerity of its rules, which obliged the monks to perpetual solitude, and perpetual silence; together with total abstinence from fleshmeat, or fowls, even in case of dangerous maladies, and being at death's door.

Bruno was created a saint, or canonized, four hundred years after his death.

lenarianos, Necessarianos, Sublapsarianos, Antimonianos, Hutchinsonia nos, Sandemonianos, Muggletonianos, Baptistas, Anabaptistas, Pædobaptistas, Methodistas, Papistas, Universalistas, Calvinistas, Materialistas, Destruccionistas, Brownistas, Independantes, Protestantes, Huguenotos, Nonjureros, Secederos, Hernhutteros, Dunkeros, Jumperos,

Shakeros, and Quakeros."

Don Alvarez might have translated the names of the three last sects, which are Jumpers, Shakers, and Quakers, and called them Saltadoros, Sacudidoros, and Tembladoros.

The thirtieth letter on watering-places, begins thus:

"The English migrate as regularly as rooks. Home-sickness is a disease which has no existence in a certain state of civilization or of luxury, and instead of it, these islanders are subject to periodical fits, of what I shall

These monks are best known in Eng-beg leave to call oikophobia, a disorder with

land from their Album, or book in which travellers inserted their names, the dates, and some sentence. Many of these have been published.

which physicians are perfectly well acquainted, though it may not yet have been catalogued

The

in the nomenclature of nosology. tribes of wealth and fashion, swarm down to We know not of any nunnery, or females in the West Indies march the same way. In the sea-coast as punctually as the land-crabs belonging to this order.

these heretical countries parents have but one way of disposing of their daughters, and in that way it becomes less and less easy to dispose of them every year, because the mode of living becomes continually more expensive, the numbers of adventures in every profes This list is first given in English, amount- sion, yearly increases, and of course every

In the twenty-ninth letter we find

"The heretical sects (in England) are so numerous, that an explanatory dictionary of their names has been published. They form a curious

list."

adventurer's chance of success is proportionately diminished. Those who have daughters, take them to these public places to look for husbands; and there no indelicacy in this, because others, who have no such motive for frequenting them, go likewise, in consequence of the fashion."

"That they get their bread almost as soon as they can run about; and that girls are employed there, without ceasing, till they marry, and then they know nothing about domestic work, not even how to mend a stocking, or boil a potatoe."

The Spaniard says, he returned with a feeling at heart which made him thank God he was not an Englishman. We must refer to the book for a further account of the manufacturing system.

The seventeen letters following, contain an account of the author's journey to the Lakes, by way of Oxford, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, Chester, and Liverpool; and of his return through Carlisle, York, Lincolu, Cambridge, and Newmarket. Our limits will not allow us to make large extracts, but we invite our readers to notice particularly the observations the Don makes on our two universi-hill, but for this he paid four shillings. ties, and shall only insert a few of the remarks which he made in various places which he visited during his tour.

He mentions a cannon, which was discharged for him near a particular part of the Lake of Keswick, to display the echo, he heard the sound rolling from hill to

He mentions seeing several small boats on the Isis, which

"Had only a single person in each; and in some of these he sat face-forward, leaning back as in a chair, and plying with both hands a double-bladed oar, in alternate strokes, so that his motion was like the path of a serpent. One of these canoes is so light that a mau can carry it; but few persons are skilful or venturous enough to use it.".

There is a row of trees behind the new college, at Oxford, of which "the lower branches of every one is grafted into its next neighbour, so that the whole are, in this way united."

On seeing the number of persons, and even children, employed in the manufac tures, at Manchester, our traveller remarks, that,

"It is true, there was an inferior one, which would have cost only two shillings and sixpence; but when one bnys an echo, who would be content to put up with the second best, instead of ordering at once the super-extradouble-superfine?

"At Bowes (in Yorkshire) begins the great grazing country for children-It is the cheapest part of England, and schools for boys have long been established here. We took up two of these lads on the roof of the stage-coach, who were returning to their parents in London, after a complete Yorkshire education.— One of these was a fine thriving, thick-headed fellow, with a bottle belly, and a bulbous nose; of that happy and swinish temperament that it might be sworn he would feed and fatten wherever he went. One of these schools consists of Irish boys, and the master goes over every summer to catch a drove of them."

The forty-eighth letter, written from London, gives an account of elections, boroughs, bribery, Bristol-marriages, &c.

The next is on fashions.-After having enumerated the extravagant and ridiculous dresses of women twenty or thirty years ago, such as tight lacing, high heels, hair powdered, pinned, and matted with pomahustlers; another behind, called rump; a tum; protuberances on the hips, called merry-thought, of wire, on the breast, to puff out the handkerchief; and "pads in front, to imitate what it must originally have been invented to conceal," he concludes,

"They are deprived in childhood of all instruction and all enjoyinent, of the sports in which childhood instinctively indulges, of fresh air by day, and of natural sleep by nightTheir health, physical and moral, is alike destroyed; they die of diseases induced by unremitting task-work, by confinement in the impure atmosphere of crowded rooms, by the particles of metallic or vegetable dust which they are continually inhaling; or they live to grow up without decency, without comfort, and without hope; without morals, without religion, and without shame; and bring forth; slaves, like themselves, to tread in the same "All these fashions went, like the French path of misery." monarchy, and about the same time; but when Observing very young children at work, the ladies began to strip themselves, they did

he was told

not know where to stop."

The last three letters are on quacks, ani- || though it is procured with more difficulty and mal magnetism, metallic tractors, &c.

The third volume consists of twenty-four letters. The first treats of methodists, of William Huntingdon, S. S. (sinner saved); of another "faith-preacher, A. J. C." these capitals are explained in the book, The

next letter is on the Bible.

The fifty-fourth is on the curiosity and credulity of the English. From this we shall quote a couple of instances.

Our traveller was attracted by a showboard, on which was inscribed, "To be seen here, the surprising large child."

greater expense, and must be broken to the consistency of compressed snow before it can

be used."

"Our (Spanish) peasantry have a neverfailing source of amusement in the dance, and the guitar. Here (in England) the poor never dance. Music is as little the amusement of the people as dancing. Never was a nation so unmusical."

After enlarging upon this topic, the author mentions bull-baiting, and boxing; of this last diversion, he says,

"Its frequency is an irrefragable proof of national barbarity.-Not unfrequently the "This was a boy, who seemed to be about whole is a concerted scheme, that a few rogues four years old; and because he was stupid, and may cheat a great many fools. Yet, notwithcould only articulate a few words very imper-standing all the attention which these people fectly, his parents swore he was only eighteen bestow upon this savage art, for which they months-and were showing him for a prohave public schools, they are outdone by sadigy." vages. When one of the English squadrons of discovery was at Tongataboo, several of the natives boxed with the sailors for love, as the phrase is, and in every instance the savage was

"A few years ago, there was a fellow with a long beard in London, who professed himself to be the wandering Jew. He declared he had

been with Noah in the ark.

Some person

asked him which country he liked best of all that he had visited in his long peregrinations; he answered, Spain, as perhaps a man would have done who had really seen all the world. But it was remarked, as rather extraordinary, that a Jew should prefer the country of the inquisition. 'God bless you, Sir,' replied the ready rogue, shaking his head, and smiling at the same time, as if at the error of the obser vation, "it was long before Christianity that I was last in Spain; and I shall not go there again till it is all over."

The next letter treats of newspapers, puffs, advertisements, reviews, and their mischievous effects; magazines and novels. The fifty-seventh, contains an account of the Quakers; another, one of Swedenborgianism; another, on the Jews. Three letters on "pseudo-prophets," whose names are not worth our mentioning. We have neither room nor inclination to make any extracts from these, because the whole merits perusal, and we wish briefly to give some idea of the contents of the remaining letters, by inserting a few select passages from them.

Speaking about pastry-cooks and confectioners, iced creams and iced waters, our Spaniard very justly says,

"These northern people do not understand the management of southern luxuries; they fill their cellars with ice instead of snow,

victorious."

The natural history of coxcombs, fops, and fashionables, is the subject of one of the letters, which also treats of walkers.

"Some of the English gentlemen would make the best running footmen in the world." Of the fat ox,

"The great ambition is to make the animal as fat as possible, by which means it is diseased and miserable while it lives, and when dead, of no use to any body but the tallowchandler."

Of the Egyptian letters,

"Which, as the Egyptians had no letters, you will doubtless conceive must be cu

rious."

On the Royal Institution.-On the fashionable topics of conversation, about mind and matter, free-will and necessity, ideas, volition, space, duration, &c. the easiest way of obtaining distinction, and

"Getting that kind of notoriety, is, by professing to be a metaphysician, because of such metaphysics a man may get as much in half an hour as in his whole life."

Among the remarks on the English language, Don Manuele quotes the following technical terms in cookery, which instruct the reader

"To cut up a turkey, to rear a goose, to wing a partridge, to thigh a woodcock, to un

brace a duck, to unlace a rabbit, to allay a pheasant, to display a crane, to dismember a heron, and to lift a swan.

"In printing poetry, they always begin the line with a capital letter, (which is the custom with all nations except our own,) whether the sentence requires it or not: this, though at the expence of all propriety, certainly gives a sort of architectural uniformity to the page.

i Another remarkable peculiarity is, that they always write the personal pronoun, I, with a capital letter! May we not consider this great I as an unintended proof how much an Englishman thinks of his own consequence?" We think the only reason is, because it is a single letter. We have never seen this pronoun with a capital, in any European language, except at the beginning of a paragraph, or after a full stop: but then those pronouns are all of two or three letters,-ego, yo, io, eu, je, ich, ik, &c.

"No mark of interrogation, or admiration, is ever prefixed: this they might advantage. ously borrow from us."

All the modern Spanish books are printed with a reversed mark of interrogation, or admiration, before the paragraph which requires it; and another similar mark, in the usual way, at the end. We have given an example of each of these, in a preceding paragraph.

In Lord Holland's interesting account of Lope De Vega, the Spanish sonnets are printed with these marks, of which the utility is evident.

tune in trade, built a theatre just of that size in which the voice could be heard in all parts of the house without being strained, and the movements of the countenance seen without being distorted. While the town was thus improved by the enterprising liberality of its inhabitants, it derived no less advantage from the humour of one of those men who are con tented to exhibit strong sense, in playing the fool well all the days of their lives. By this time more persons visited Bath in search of pleasure than of health, and these persons, among other amusements, had their public dances. Now, though Englishmen have proved that they can go on peaceably, orderly, and well under a free government, it was found order by any thing short of an absolute moutterly impossible to keep English women in narchy. Precedency, in these public meetings, was furiously contested,—because, in most instances, there was no criterion of rank whereby it could be decided; and points which were most doubtful, and, it may be added, most insignificant, are oftentimes the most warmly disputed; a perpetual dictator for the realin. the second who held the office. Nash was his of fashion was necessary, and this person was name, and his fitness for the office is attested

by the title of Beau, which is always prefixed to it ;-Charlemagne, the Venerable Bede, and Beau Nash, being the only three persons whose names are always accompanied with the epithets which characterize them.

Two

"Once, after his death, his loss was exemplified in a very remarkable manner. ladies of quality quarrelled in the ball-room. The rest of the company took part, some on one side, some on the other; Beau Nash was gone, and they stood in no awe of his successor: they became outrageous, a real battle

The three last letters describe the author's journey to Falmouth, on his return home, as he says, through Bath, Bristol, royal took place, and the floor was strewn with and Plymouth, after a stay of sixteen months in England.

Of Bath, he says:

“According to the fabulous history of England, the virtues of the hot springs here were discovered long before the Christian era, by Bladud, a British prince, who having been driven from his father's house, because he was leprous, was reduced, like the prodigal son, to keep swine. His pigs, says the story, had the same disease as himself: in their wanderings they came to this valley, and rolled in the warm mud where these waters stagnated ;— they were healed by them. Bladud, perceiving their cure, tried the same remedy with the same success; and when he became king, he built a city upon the spot.

"A townsman, who had amassed some for

caps, lappets, curls and cushions, diamond pins and pearls.

"The enormous joints of meat which come to an English table are always roasted upon a spit as long as the old two-handed sword; these spits are now turned by a wheel in the chimney which the smoke sets in motion, but formerly by the labour of a dog who was trained to run in a wheel. There was a peculiar breed for the purpose, called turnspits from their occupation, long-backed and shortlegged; they are now nearly extinct. mode of teaching them their business was more summary than humane: the dog was put in the wheel, and a burning coal with him; he could not stop without burning his legs, and so was kept upon the full gallop. These dogs were by no means fond of their profession; it

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was indeed hard work to run in a wheel for two or three hours, turning a piece of meat which was twice their own weight. Some years ago a party of young men at Bath hired the chairmen on a Saturday night to steal all the turnspits in town, and lock them up till the following evening. Accordingly on Sunday, when every body has roast meat for dinner, all the cooks were to be seen in the streets, Pray have you seen our Chloe? says one. Why,' replies the other, I was coming to ask you if you had seen our Pompey:" up came a third, while they were talking, to inquire for her Toby,--aud there was no roast meat in Bath that day.

"It is told of these dogs in this city, that one Sunday, when they had as usual followed their mistresses to church, the lesson for the Jay happened to be that chapter in Ezekiel, wherein the self-moving chariots are described. When first the word wheel was pronounced, all the curs pricked up their ears in alarm; at the second wheel they set up a doleful howl; and who the dreadful word was uttered a third time, every one of them stampered out of church, as fast as he could, with his tail beten his legs."

These letters are also replete with anecdores and observations. We shall insert

the last paragraph and anecdote, in the book, and have great pleasure in concluding this review with such a proper tribute to the bravery of our sailors, paid by a Spaniard, real or pretended.

"Voltics has the merit of having discovered the physical canse of the superiority of the English at sea. The natives of the south of Europe navigate smooth seas; those of the morth are frozen we during winter; but the English gets are open all the year, and are navigoted in long, dark, stormy nights, when nothing but great skill, and incessant exer

tion, can preserve the vessel. Hence arises a degree of confidence in their sailors, which is almost incredible; the greater the danger, the greater is their activity; instead of shrinking from toil, every man is at his post-Having no faith in miracles for their deliverance, they almost work miracles to deliver themselves; and, instead of preparing for death, strain every sinew to avoid it. Added to this confidence, they have also, in war, that which arises from constant success. The English sailor feels that he is master of the sea.-Whatever he sees is to do him homage. He is always on the look-out, not with the fear of an enemy before his eyes, but like a strong pirate, with the hope of gain; and when going into action, with an equal or even a superior force, he calculates his profits as certainly as if the enemy were already taken. There,' said the master of a frigate, when the captain did not choose to engage a superior French force, be cause he had a convoy in charge-' there,' said he, with a groan, 'there's seven hundred pounds lost to me for ever.'-As for fear, it is not in their nature. One of these men went to see a juggler exhibit his tricks; there happened to be a quantity of gunpowder in the apartment underneath, which took fire and blew up the house. The sailor was thrown into a garden behind, where he fell without being hurt-He stretched his arms and legs, got up, shook himself, rubbed his eyes, and then cried out,-conceiving what had happened to be only a part of the performance, and perfectly willing to go through the whole, 'D-n the fellow, I wonder what the devil he will do next."

A pleasant vein of sarcasm pervades the whole work, without the least tincture of ill-nature; and we dismiss it without any doubt of the approbation it will meet with from a discerning public.

END OF VOLUME THE THIRD.

London: Printed by and for JOHN BELL, Southampton-street, Strand.

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