Volume V.)
l-tTHD AN'D rUBLISUEtX WEEKLY", BY
Vastcur St Watson.
I .j;,rr.AV!CCM HALF rATABLE I!f ADTASH.
Miscellany.
LOCH KATRINE. ;
L3Ujr VII (lie uac una iiuiuu; -
i the L ike in Scotland of this name.
jb.'icatin, Vill De inwiesuns i yu ut-
L',arjr readers. , J
1 "MAHtLlX's LETTERS TO niS KI.f'rOLK.
Stewart's, 31ay iy, ieiJ.
Ta-nes Stewart is the Cicerone of the
hwieh's. he keeps boats on L,ocn rai-
Lp and rowers to accompany travellers
lr'J ' . ? 11! i.z
their aauatlC excursions, ma uyusc
... M
imi iilu iiiuuu.iiwii' - i
Sejant style, which is very disagreeable ;
patter the mental feast which the scene-
r,- affords, the fatigued peJestrian will have
j b.iing for refreshments of a substantial .
inJ enlivening nature. , i .
We sallied out at early dawn, to, enjoy a ;
res of the Tossachs. Already there was ;
lltint? Of uaIIUg luetic uu me uiwv vi
tie liiHs, and Aurora smiled on tn lana
:ipe in all the freshness of a summer mor
d;t. As yet, not a single Wreath of smoke
pi from the buildings, and the delicious
ajrning air give me an accurate iuea of
that sweetly expressive line.
rnf innocent brightness of the new-born di.v."
After a short walk, we came to Loch
Veechar, near which Roderick Derusunk
under the prowess of.ritz James. I lie
hke is a beautiful expanre of about 5 miles
in Ienith. The landscape about it is very
fine, and is described by Scott with the
must charming imagery.
At Milntown, near this spot, there is a
ppfV picturesque cascade, in which the pris-
mtic cobrs may be viewed as distinctly
as in the optical lustrument which divides ,
tie sunny ray into the primitive hues. j
W afterwards arrived at the Irosachs,
shich consist of a series of unconnected
rcks, through which the road winds. It
kems, as if a whole mountain had been
torn in pieces, and frittered down by a
convulsion of the earth, and the immense
fragments and hills were feathered over by
ubsequent foHage. The hillocks were
nvprort with h roughs that ouake at everv
breith.' The ash and the fir tree display- 1
" .
eJ meir fringed tops in a series of natural
aunhitheatres, and the oak (says Ossian)
Efted its broad head to the storm, and re
joiced in the course of the wind.
After having passed through the Tros
achs, and our minds not yet sated with its
varied beauties, Loch Katrine opened sud-
der. v and unexnectediv to view. . Here a
rV,-t u,-nitnrl Inr IK Hnvirvr
taken our
seats, we sailed a
ilong with high hopes of j
its far-famed scenery
Hm; gratified by
The first appearance of Loch Katrine does
Rjt give one the idea of that magnificeuce
which soon afterwards unfolds itself. It
commences by a contracted body of water,
hich stretches out as you proceed. Scott
has well described it as j
narrow" inlet, still and deep,
A3bnlhi scarce such breadth of brim
As served the wild duck's brood to sim."
Benan ' heaves high his lorehead bare
above the mountains of the Trosachs. For
several hundred yards from the top, it is
perfectly . pyramidal, but it soon reclines on
iii shapeless basis, from which are detached
huge masses of rock. These descend into
the lake, and their black sides can be view
ed lor a certain distance in the transparent
stream. 1
When the lake made a bend, ! EIlen:s
Isle' suddenly showed 'itself. It is clothed
with the richest verdure, and with trees
which present a beautifully fringed appear-
ance. We sailed round the Islej jand sur-
veyed all its scenery, rendered so classical
b' Scott's well known nocm. X rriirtirn-
11 1 '
any noticed the aged oak projecting from
a rock, from which the Lady of the Lake
was seen proceeding in herkiffby thechiv-
. . ... i
a.rous knight of Snowdoun. I; admired
the isle's bold shore, thickly sprinkled with
aspens, firs, and bushes, whose roots and
tops entwine in the most luxuriant manner. I
rr. r T
To th north, gray Benvenue
enue stretches in !
tSrupt masses, and presents a slope ele
gantly sprinkled with birches. It appears
that, by some convulsion of nature, huge
basses of rock had been torn from its sum-
't, and hurled confusedly alonj its slo-
I'il ridge, with a luxuriance and beauty !
hich may be in some degree represented j
a canvass, but which no verbal description
exhibit. The lake lay expanded like
mirror of crystal before" these (immense '
Masses of rock, sprinkled over with a jrace '
na beauty unattainable by the hand of
During this delightful excursion", we
fr favored
with the most charming
eaOjer:
i ;
w
Aod all kboat a Wely sky of bia
thro " - laugna
the viw w a , .
same sIT, ! We '5 ff4
l KEWBEKv
' V - -- ' "ibi T '
breath if air stirring the 'azure.brow'pf
the lake Was not wrinkled by a smgle fur
row so (fiat it became like a vast mirror,
anrif represented the mountains, the , sky,
and the revolving clouds? so vividly, that
the illusion was perfect. As I gazed on
the. water, Hie delicious blue f the' firma
ment: and tie gorgeous luminary which
blazed iii the meridian, seemed lying under
me' I looked down on a sky as heavenly
and at splendid as that over head and the
range of mountains, having one line of sum
mit above ns, and another under our feet,
seemed suspended between two etherial
firmanjcrits ! 1
At one moment we wet e hemmed in by
towering; rocksl whojie covert of luxuriant
trees, perfectly exclude the rays of the sun ;
soon afterwards "we sailed on the brond ex
panse oftthe lake, glittering in the sun
beams, while its bosom slept in bright
tranqui!ijy. The Alpine scenery of Den-
vvnue appears the primary. object of. curi-
iiniiv iiiiiii rrn v dusiihih. nmi lis uasr
is seell jne fa
mous Coir-naz-Uriskin or
Goblin's; Cave, which overhang's the lake
jn 0iermi grandeur. Mr. Scojt gives a
m0gt beautiful and striking description of
this subterraneous recess, (Ijady uf the
fafo Qamo II. st. 26.) Of its reputed
OCrUMants, the Irisks I will -ive you some
j account in m. letter on -the Highland Su
? perstitiofis. The scenery af Sen venue, in
! all; its features, seems to afford the most'
characteristic idea of those magnificent
views wjiich Ossi.on so often describes", and
which he'appears so fond of describing. '
I The northern shouhler of this mountain
recedes from the main body, leaving a hor-
riu cnasin, wuitu
seems to nave neen
formed
some primeval earthquake
shock.' The whole composes the most ro-
i u y
mdntic and sublime prospect that can be
conceived The immagination lost in as
toiiishmfnt, (says Dr. Graham,) is apt to
picture the twin pre cipices,sfupendous but
elegant,;by which it is bounded, as the aven
. ue which leads from the ' work-day world
to 'the a(jode of another and higher sphere.
most THE L05D0.V tITERAET GAZETTE.
t
THE TWO COATS.
! - . '
Farewiell ! farewell ! long hast thou worn
Though clouted, threadbare now and torn.
A trusty servant, e'en ad morn,
j j To me thon'st been ;
And, jratefustill, I winna scorn
. guid eld frien'!
j j . Allan Ramsey.
ti r : ...
naxspeare says, mat many a man s
coat is his lather, and like most things lie
nas saut, i' is true. People s iy that old
inencis are oeiier man new ones : 1 pre-
a I - - . m
- sume that this does not hold good as it re
lates to habits for the person I mean
for all. the world prefer new coats to eld
ones, and all the world must be right. 1
I It is now five years, when the sun shall
have set on the 12th of June, 1822, that
my Iat? coat :was brought home,
what delight did I survey it.' How
With
easerlv
I listened to ihe exhortations of the maker
how to fold it op ! How cautiously I put it
on, and how carefully I felt in my pocket
for my key when I locked it up Its color
was suitable to the tint of my mind ; it was
a;bright green, with Waterloo buttons.-
: Green coats were the siii" jua no i of a
' beau. Black and blue ' hid their diminished
heads jor ratiier tails; and although now
and then a brown appeared, it passed
along amidst the; scoffs of the multitude.
; The ifirst year every thing went well. I
stalked down Bond street at the full glare
of half past four. I was not afraid to meet
the purse proud stare of the glittering ori
ental in Hyde Park, on Sunday; nor did I
shrink before the glance of a St. James's
Blood. I The second year, in spite of all
rny anxiety, art incipient whiteness began
to appejar on the elbows. The Waterloo
buttons looked somewhat shorn of their
beams, and the collar had been slightly an-
noyed by the too rude pressure of the hat ;
however, it had not yet had a j-egular wet-
ting, if I omit the baptizing it gotrom my
gallantry to oliss i rotocai, in giving ner
niore than her shai e of roy cotton umbrel
la. But the third year now fast approach
: .. - T - I
ed; years rolled on; et nos mittamur m
i7 and so did my coat. The thread of
the lives of two of its buttons had been
snapped ; one was wrenched ott by amend,
tll : tM
notwithstanding my agonizea ioox, wnusi
he was telling me the fate of his farce; the
other fell into a gradual decline, and died
a1 natural death. The bright green had
riow laded, & had imbibed a tint of brown;
the collar was dilapidated ; the cuUA were
in ruins.
!. I straggled on, however, another year,
but I left my former scenes. I would go
half a j mile out of the way to avoid St.
amevs street I would go a mile out of
mv way, rather than pass Hyde Park on a
i?unday. i bree more buttons bad ieii un-
der the sevthe of Time: something must
.be done I sent it to be repaired, and 1
.' i4 rrL tir . 1 I .
Itanliv Knew 11 again. i ne w aienoo uui
tons once more dazzled by their brightness ;
new cons ana collar sprung up, use pnee-
nixes, from the ashes of their fathers ; and
though !the fashion of coats had somewhat
C. SAtUliDAV, OCTOBER 19, 1S22.
' ' ' ill -v '.I'fm i"i ''t''" 1
this was a cccitfal fpteior : a glimpie-if LThbbarkJohheinr, the corred. WVb; wlUV
sun-shme on a I amy day 5-the consUtaUorif co, which jtbey stretched oyer the ribs-
of the coat was ruined, and it soon suffered
a relapse. . . r v.,
At last my resolution was taken a new
coat must be orderedV-It ira's-a'preceptof
my late respected uncINididlasj that one
good.oear garment is worth two bad cheap
ones ; and 1 always acUip to it I walked
up b')ldlv
tO Wt. O'"-- m OOnd Street I
ami although-1 met with sbme broad stares
at my entrance,' yet whenjmy purpose was
known every thing wastes pectful attention.
With what elevation did 1 survey mvself in
ujk uouoie mirror rtiosu w tue wmaow
With what hauteur did I bid the tiadesman
be punctualjas to the hour! How fiercely
ia I orusu ny tne oeaur in ray return, with
the delightful thought- that 1 should soon struck with astonishment at the idea of men
have 4t iri my. power to cut them all out I ' trusting their lives to such an article; and
How many are the advantages of a new asked thent if it was passible they could
coat ! "A new pair of trowsers rather serves have intended to have gone to sea in that,
to contract the oldness of the upper garment They replied, .that, to convince me of it,
with, its own novelty; but a coat diffuses they were ready that moment, to at tempt it
its splendor through the whole.-. It bright- again in the same vessel. Admiring the
ens a withered p;r of paptaloons, and re- boldness of the attempt, and the bluntness
vivifies a faded wrtutcoatj jt illuminates a of the reply, 1 ordered that they should be
wornout beaver, and even gives a respecta- set at liberty, some ISapnleons given to
ble appearance to an antiquated pair of them, and a conveyance to the English
gaiters. . ! -"t. squadron provided for them. Previous to
A man in a new coat holds his head t his, they Were going to be tried as spies, as
erect, his chest forward; he shakes theseveral persons hadseen them lurking about
pavement with his clattering heels ; he looks the Camp for some days.?
detiance to overy man, and Jove to every
.woman ; he overturns littl boys, and abu
ses hackney coachmen if be enter a tavern
he calls lustily for his drink, and knocks
the waiter do.vn if he does not bring it soon
enough, but a man in an old .coat han?s
his head, fumbles in his moneyless pockets,
and stumbles at everv third steo. He is
scorned by the men, and unnoticed by the
women ; he is jeered at by children, and
hustled by Jarveys ; at a tavern he enters
the parlour with a sheepish face, knowing
his right to be there, but fearing it may be
disputed the waiter sniggers, and jhe land
lord bullies him Such then is the diffe
rence which the outward man man makes.
Et l'habit, fait sans plus, le maitre et le valet.
W. B.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
From O'Meara's " Voice from St. Helena."
j The follow ing anecdotes are interesting :
, u Inquired of the Lmperor m what engage-
meniorengagemenisneconsiaereammseii
to be m; the most danger? He replied,:
" I the commencement ot my campaigns, j
At loulon, and particularly at Areola. At
Areola my horse was shot under me : ren
dered furious by the wound, the animal
seized the bit between his teeth, and gal
loped on towards the enemy. In the. ago
nies of death he plunged into a morass and
expired, leaving me up to my neck in the
swamp, and in a situation from which I
could not extricate myself. I thought at
one moment that the Austria ns would have
come up and cut off my head, which was
just above the surface of the morass, and
which ihey could have done without my
having been able to offer the least resistance.
However the difficulty of getting at me,
and the approach of my soldiers, wlfo res
cued me, prevented them."
1 asked if he had not often been slightly
wounded:? He replied, 44 several times;
but scarcely more than once had 1 occasion
for surgical assistance, or any fever in con
sequence; of a wound. At Marengo a can
non shot j took away a piece of the boot of
my left leg, and a little of the skin," said
he, showing the mark to me, " but I used
no other iappJication to it than a piece of
ikinen dipped in salt and water. I asked
about a wound, of which there was a deep
mark in the inside of the left thigh, a little
above the knee. He said that it was from
a bayonet. I 'asked if he had not had
boi'ses frequently killed under him ? to
which he answered, eighteen or nineteen,
in the course of my life.
' The regiment de la Fere,' said Napo
leon, 'in; which I had commenced my ca
reer, behaved so badly to the inhabitants of
Turin, that I was obliged to reduce them
I accordingly had ibem marched to Paris,
assembled on the parade, ordered the colors
to be taken from them by some colonels,
and lodged in the Church of the Invalids,
(I think he said,) covered with mourning.
I divided the officers who bad not behaved
so badly as the principal actors, amongst
other regiments Some months afterwards
I formed the regiment again under different
officers, aad the colors were taken from the
church with great pomp, by a number of
colonels each tearing a piece ofi which
they burnt, and new ones were given in
their stead.'.
"4- Napioleon told me that, when he was
at Boulogne two English sailors arrived
there, tvho made their escape from Verdun,
and had passed through the country undis
covered. They, had remained there for
a considerable- time; and, having norao
nev. trrev:were at a loss bow to effect their
escape, "there was "such a vigilant watch
e pt upon the boats) thatthey despaired of
beine able to9 seize trpori one. ineymaae
Zlltf' ais w va w v wmv- j
. 'i ; l. j wk:.k I
a ort oi vessel oi linie nosui irvwj wuivn
. r jit
oi utile rius oi wuuu wuw i
iilftbeir kofvevlivihg ai
they formed wn
Wheu finished, it was not more than about
three feet and a half in length, and of a pro.,
portionate breadth, and so light that one of
them carried it on hb shoulder .In this
machine they determined to effect-their
passage to England. Seeing an English
fruaf annrnackvprff mar th thnn. ihpv
lannrhpH th p'tr tnit ' onil nttpmntorl In inin
ner; but before they had: proceeded very
far, they were discovered by the dauaniert
seized and brought back. The story got
wind, in consequence of the astonishment
excited at seeing two men venture out to
sea in such a fragile conveyance. I heard
of it, and ordered them with their little ship
to be broueht before me. I was mvself
BONAPARTE AND THE BOURBONS.
. To give; you an instance of the general
feeling in i France towards the Bourbons
(said Napoleon) I would jrelate to you an
anecdote, j On my return jrora Italy, while
mv carriage was ascending the steep hill
of-Tarare, I got out, and Walked up, with
out my attendants, as was often my custom.
I saw an'old woman, lame, and hobbling
about with the help off a crutch, endea
vouring to ascend the mountain.; I had a
great coat on, and was riot recognized I
went up to her and said,l" Well, ma bemne,
where are you going with a haste which so
little belongs to your years ? What is the
matter r" '" Ma jx',"reiliedthe old dame,
" they tell me the Emperor is here, and I'
i want to see him before I die." " Bahbah,"
said I ; " What do you want to see him for?
What have you gained by him?; He-is a
tyrant as well as the others. You have
only changed onetyrarit for another Louis
for Napoeon.' i Mais, Monsieur, that
may be; but after all, he is the King of
the PeQpi and the Bourbons were the
Kings of the iVo6e. We iiave chosen him;
and if we are to have a tyrant, let him be
one chosen by oursel ves,'' There, said he,
you have the sentimentsfof the French na
tion, expressed by j an old woman.
, Bonaparter& Opinion respecting the Con
quest of Turkey. In thje course o' a few
years Russia will havie Constantinople,
part of Turkey, and all J Greece. This I
hold to be certain, as if it had already ta
ken place. Almost ail; the cajoling and
flattering which Alexander practised to
wards me, i was to gain my consent to effect
this object.1 I would not consent, foresee
ing that the equilibrium of Europe would
be destroyed. In the natural course of
things, in a few years Turkey must fall to
Russja. The powers it would injure, and
who' would oppose it, are Englartd, France,
Prussia and Austria. Now as to Austria,
it will be very easy for Russia to engage
her assistance, '7 by giving her Servia, and
other provinces bordering upon the Austri
an dominions, reaching near to Constanti
nople. The, only hypothesis that; France
and England may ever be allied with sin
cerity, :wilile in order to prevent this.
But even this alliance would, not avail ;
France, England and Prussia, united, can
not prevent it. Russsia and Austria can
at any time effect it. J
From the Baltimore; Federal Gazette.
i literary -A new work is just publish- I
ed, wntten by a gentleman of this city,
whose literary labors have more than once
agreeably occupied the public attention.-'
Our readers , who have j not yet read the
work, will be gratified by perusing the fol-
lowing extract, v -
From i Franklin's Letters to his Kinsfolk
BY J P. D. ik. --
SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE.
We iarrtved very late at Stony Stratford,
the birth place of the immortal Shakes peai e.
After a night, in whiclithe visions of anti
cipated pleasure excluded those of Mor
pheus, I sallied out as the shadows whh-
drew from the landscape, and the height- i
, r.L., .,i-4 I
enin7 gtow oi mc wsicni y pi"ucu i
the speedy appearance of the sun
1 WalK- I
ed alon? the'shores of i the Avon, whicn :
9 -T
babbled along quite in! a poetic manner,! lant dropped at bis feet. It
i,u.t th aHinejnt arove) was rising with!! stantaneously picked up and
the newly awakened song of the. feathered !! surgeon s, wno, oil examining it, declaied
warblers,! whose anri vailed chorus seemed ii Ae11 and urpnze of the mother;
their delist ih the tJacid andNbatthe infant was not materially hVrt : her
j -i T a ; .
.lieiook scene to wbicb they added their
melody. Jt was one of those lovely morn-;
ings;
wbeil
the arm rises in 7 nnciooaea
band darti in atvery window, xo'
j , ' t .
tKa .Inmhorov tn wallr fnrth and
wvk v v . ,
uui uc wumuvi v w wUU, ivm - - - .
ttroplkte Ui glorira ofiiitufe. ! The calm
COn-'
7 u
. 1
ineof the Avon, the riarestream of liquid
fi aririony: and the recollections which the
birth place of " Nature's darling" gateriio
to," stole oyer my sensrsi and bore4 my
imagination far away in a strain ofdelid
pus musings. :,. ;j
1 visited 'the houses in, which Shakes
' fAarb was born. It is a very coarse build
incr nnvor) 'tvSik kr!L k anI 'ralfrt tvttVi
tllA amu miitiirial. rmmtiln nlftaVrl nr
It is now kept by a butcher 1 My guide
i was an old woman, with a face which bora"
j evidence to the frequency and depth pf her
potations. Her ell locks dangled from her
well-worn cap in wild disorder J evei) rug
of her clothes was bidding good day to the .
rest J and her cloak, like the virtbeofchaii
ty, served to cover many ioiierlectipnsJ--She
showed me all the iShaksnerian relics.
with as much assiduity, as an old NenpolU
fan priest exhibits the pieces of the tiue
cross, or St. Jannary's blood ; and whiUtf
was examining them, she sate musing uith
a face of drunken wisdom ia the very chair
of the immortal bard ! ' '
Y The body of the great poet of Nature.
lies in the chancel of a very old 'and mouN
dering church on the banks of the Avon.
Leading to it is an avenue made of the inter
lacing cf boughs, forming a luxuriant airli
way; an almost impenetrable thicket of haw
thorn and honey surkle, embosoms on all
sides the abode of meditation asd mystery. ,
; The landscape was streaked with sun
shine, and the distant hills tinted with rosy
and purple hues. A presiding spirit of
pastoral loneliness seems to hover over the
scene, and no sound is heard, hut the whis
pering of the leaves, and the plashing J of
an adjacent fountain, whose current bub
bles forth today-light in ga) and sparkling
profusion. .
t SciENTtPtcOn the evenings of the
21st, 22d, 23d, and 24th of IMay, the in
habitants of Vienna witnessed ome newy .
interesting, and scientifically impoitant ex
periments with sky rockets, made at the .
oVwrvatory of the university tbfy rose
to the extr'avdinary height of200O Vienna
fathoms, twenty-stn times the height of
of the steeple of St. Stepht church,: at
which elevation they spread a dltizzliug
light, which was verj visible to the iiakid
e'e, at twenty German miles distance, and
even more. This important invention hag
been immediately applied to determine the
longitude geometrically,, for which pur
pose it is peculiarly calculated. ISot Kith
standing unfavorable weather, this firM es
say perfectly succeeded, and the proposed t
object, viz. to 'determine with accuracy the
difference of the meridians of Vienna and
Ofen, was fully attained '
r Melancholy Occident We are much
concerned to. announce, a &eiious acefdent"
which occurred to two gentlemen who as
cended in a balloon from Cheltenham, JVIfJ
Green, the eronant, accompanied by Mr. '
Griffith, publisher of the Cheltenham Chro
hide, ascended in a magnificent balloon,
before their ascent, it was discovered that
some atrocious wretch had cut the net work
and one of the cords, 1 which sustained tha '
bar but the remainder of the cords ap
peared uninjured, and a former disappoint-'
ment having taken place when Mr. Green '
had appointed to ascend, that gentleman -rasJily
resolved to mount without waiting
to have thecords repaired. WhiIe in the
air, part of the net work! and some other
jof the cords gave way, but the ret hld till 1
the balloon reached the ground, when, ow-
irig to the car hanging on one sidr, V;e '
ceronants wer unable to secure the balloon,
which dragged them a considerable distance
and at length threw them with violence to
the ground. Every possible assistance was
rendered to them by the neighboring gentle-
men. It appeared, on. examination, that
Mr. Green had received a severe contusion,
on the left side, though unacco mpfcnied
with the fracture of the ribs, and ' that Mr.
Griffith had received a severe injury of the
spine, but not attended with paralysis of
the limbs. -The balloon being destroyed, ,
a subscription has been opened in Chelten
ham, to remunerate Mr. Green lor his loss!
We sincerely hope the atrocious villain, .
who could wantonly de vote his fellow crea
tures to destruction, will be detected and
punished according to his deserts.
NARROW ESCAPE. .
The .following singular accident recently
occur ted in London. A youne girl was
sitting on the second floor of a house In the
court, at a window, with an infant of twelve
mumus oiu in er uwuriny
snranrf frnm lipr nrmS ir.tO the COlirt. niul
-r'b . r , ,
C " Mall WH WUBlUIIMg VJSICItj w mtu
fortunately broke its fall,' and the little in
was almost in
conveyed to a
ine ma b conceived thandes
cribed.
isnginoj ie.-ue moivre catcrjiates the
Jr'UioMui wi.iii hum, uuwnu nir hc:
.
ot the person from 8B-ha Ohe.iBaio(j-
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well as theycottl
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