our," and the two Talbots, touched with sincere pity for Even these recollections seemed well-nigh obliterated, a poor creature about their own age, and naturally coura-less, perhaps, by time than hardship, for many a moving geous, stood by him so closely that the brutal master could incident had he to relate of his later days; but good food, not seize his victim to inflict the punishment threatened cleanliness, and kindness apparently removed in turn for delay. Whilst the parties were thus situated, Mr. his sorrows also; he became the gayest and most grateTalbot himself appeared, and the confusion of many voices ful of earthly beings, and exhibited a thousand tricks and subsided. accomplishments to please his "young masters," so that his The extremes of human existence might be said to name of Flibbertigibbet was confirmed to him. He could meet, as the miserable little sweep, tremblingly yet confid- climb trees like a squirrel, play tunes on nick-nackers, ingly, stepped forward and looked up to the tall, hand- make whistles and willow bird-cages, crow like a cock, some and all-powerful gentleman whose situation and ap- whistle like a linet; and, when sent to the school Mr. pearance so strongly contrasted with his own, and who Talbot provided for his own dependants in the neighbourencouraged him to speak by the look of compassion his very employment excited. The boy soon ventured to say, *Please sir, master beats me and starves me cruelly." The question "how came you by this boy ?" drew forth the same account already given: "he had been bought from on board a collier, and he was an idle young dog, who was growing saucy on his hands."

"Not saucy, but I can't help growing," said the child; "little master here can't help it, I dare say."

ing village, he learnt to read with such rapidity that the master was convinced he had formerly been instructed, and he said himself," he thought that must be the case, for the letters seemed somehow like old acquaintance to his eyes."

Nor was this the only proof of early instruction he gave, for, when taught to say his prayers and taken to church, he behaved with the propriety of one accustomed to go thither. He continued to speak truth upon all occasions, The young Talbots were very tall for their respective and, notwithstanding the hilarity of his spirits and his love ages, and the words were spoken in a tone of such sorrow. of laughing and making others laugh, he never failed to ful deprecation as to touch the hearts of all. Proofs of perform most punctually those light labours committed to ill usage were, indeed, soon displayed on his poor lean his care. Indeed, he loved the animals around him both person, of a nature to justify Mr. Talbot in immediately for their own sakes and those to whom they belonged; depriving his master of a slave so illegally obtained: but and was so desirous of proving his thankfulness that, if when the man complained of his great loss, and that he permitted, he would have swept the chimney of his honhad a large family to maintain, there was hesitation in our, much as he detested and even dreaded the employ Mr. Talbot's manner.

"Ask Jem, sir, if I a'nt a wife and five childers-he always speaks truth."

"Yes, he has five," said the boy; "that's why I be kept so thin, that I may get up the flues, for they be all bigger

than me."

Mr. Talbot put money into the man's hand, but reproved his cruelty sternly, and commanded him to return im. mediately, thankful that he had escaped punishment.He hastily withdrew; whilst Mr. Talbot shocked by the view of want and suffering presented, endeavoured to contral his sense of suffering by saying, in a gay voice to his boys, Well! now you have got your wish, what will you do with this Flibbertigibbet I wonder?"

ment.

When little Flitter (as Sally called him) had been thus happily situated soinething more than a year, his young patrons were removed to Eton: a circumstance very af flicting to him at the time, and even after his sorrow was past, as young sorrows do pass, it was observed that he ceased to find pleasure in play, or to practise his former tricks and drollery, but that, at every moment he could spare, he was poring over a book and a map of England lent to him by his kind schoolmaster, who said, "it would show him where he now lived and the places he must have travelled through when he came."

The Simpsons thought it "mighty proper young gentlemen should learn every thing, but as to poor people "My clothes will fit him, I am sure," said Frank. troubling their heads with maps as well as books, that "And my cap will do for him, and mamma will give would never do;" so in order to divert him from this purkim shirts the same as the school-boys," said his brother. suit and also to reward him for his attention to the poultry "And I," said Sally, "will give him a good washing and the calves, they took him as a great treat to the sum. and something to eat." mer fair at York, first shewing him the minister and You must do more, Sally; keep him with you, and other places most remarkable in that ancient and interestmake him a steady, good little boy, till we see what he is ing city. On going to the busy part of the town, Sally and for," said his kind benefactor, whose sons had already her young charge were attracted by an exhibition like Mr. fan off to secure the means of clothing the destitute boy. Gyngell's, where a theatrical performance was about to Dame Simpson's share in this labour of love not only take place, and in the meantime a young lad, very gaudily wake her sincere compassion and good will, but imagi- dressed, was jumping and tumbling on the platform. sation also. The man from whom he had been liberated Here William Simpson left them, having some business, admitted that he had been stolen, and she concluded that but promised to return: and here for a time, they were It must have been from some very superior home: in order very glad to stay, like the crowd around them, all of whom to try if he could quicken his recollection by the sight of seemed delighted with the young performer, into whose 4 spacious house and costly furniture, he was taken into cap abundance of half-pence and not a few sixpences were fat of his patron, and shown various articles found only thrown.

in the houses of the great; but, with equal truth and sim- As the tumbling went on, Sally had repeatedly heard plinity he declared, "that he had never seen any thing like Flitter say to himself, "I can do that ;" and when she saw & before, except when he swept chimneys at Castle How-him step forward and address the master of the show, and ard" No! all he could remember was, that he had a afterwards step behind the curtain, she was afraid he was very good mother, who was dressed in black and had a himseif going to play over his tricks: so far from that he baby in her arms, that there was a maid Nelly and a returned soon, and said he "would go home directly, as he gardens with currants in it; also ho had a soft bed and had many things to do;" and although she told him a was called little Jemmy. neighbor "would see to every thing," he persisted in re

turning-for which she was sorry, as she saw that his and he could not hear of any second good justice to deeyes were full of tears, and he twice returned to shake her liver him from thraldom; so he went on as well as he hand and say "goodbye." could, tumbling and hoping, sometimes rewarded by food What was her surprise, her sorrow-nor less that of or pence, sometimes neglected and derided. When, at her husband, when they found that the poor fellow had not length, he found that part of his bundle had been stolen, only performed all his duties, and left every thing in the and that the other boy was in many respects a bad associate, nicest order, but was gone, no one knew whither! On the determined to part from them so soon as he could obtain a looking into his little garret they found his slate, on which mere trifle, and, postponing his scheme of seeking home, to was written, "Dear friends, I am going to seek my mother."

This assertion they did not exactly believe, for they had found that the acting man at the fair was leaving York that very night, and were convinced that Flitter's movements were some-way connected with his-not conceiving it possible that his love for his mother, whom he could not remember, was strong enough to tempt him away from so comfortable a home as they had provided him.

throw himself again on the pity of his late friends. "But never, never," said he, sobbing, "will I do one thing that shall make me afraid to look his honour in the face."

With this good resolution the poor boy continued uninjured in mind, though often sorely tempted, alike by his wants and his companions, who reproached him and ridiculed him. Unluckily they continued to go from one inland town to another, so that he remained as far as ever from the object of his pursuit: and, until they reached She field, no benefit was given to him; and, although it was the best he had ever witnessed, after the deductions of the master were made, only eighteen shillings and ninepence

These honest people were not aware of the fact that, in proportion as the boy's health and strength had returned, his memory had been, to a certain degree, restored, though still very insufficiently for any positive purpose. He had were given to him. been long brooding on the possibility of retracing his This was, however, a large sum, and several of the comformer home, when the power of obtaining money for the pany sought to ease him of it by laying wagers, or playing purpose suddenly burst upon him at York, from the suc- at various games, but James was much too wise to be thus cess of a boy like himself as to age, and inferior in skill. drawn in. Having sauntered round the town early, he All his conclusions, as arising from his recollections and had seen upon the canal a vessel bound to Howden, and his knowledge of the country, rushed upon his mind and he knew that from thence he could easily get into Linclonquickened his resolutions. He felt sure that his mother shire: therefore he silently took his now reduced bundle, must live in some town or village near the Humber, from repaired to the quay, and, mingling with a body of grawhence he had been inveigled on board a vessel to be ziers on board, happily escaped all observation, as he was made a cabin-boy, and that he had been treated with ex- at present supposed to be so happy in his acquisition that traordinary severity, from after a time being unable to do he would not think of leaving the troop what was required. It ran in his head that his last mas- To Hull the anxious wanderer dared not go, least his ter said, "at the time he bought him that he was told by old master should spy him and reclaim him nor did he the former, little Jem had had a fever on board which like to meet the observation of any person engaged with would keep down his growth for years." shipping, as he knew no hold could be so strong as that Naturally a most affectionate child, and every day per- of a vessel, nor any tyranny so hopeless as that practised ceiving, either from the children he mixed with at school by its master: he therefore prepared to walk through the or from his young masters, the happiness of having parents country as soon as he landed, and thought himself very and relations, his heart yearned towards the distant mother happy in having an opportunity of purchasing a stock of and baby child still fondly recalled, and from the time oranges at Howden, because by the sale of them he would when he lost sight of those who were more especially be- not only be able to maintain himself, but have a plausible loved, his thoughts had been employed on the possibility reason for going into the back part of houses and gardens, of seeking for them, especially when he was induced to con--for he fancied he should recognise his mother's garden, clude his mother was a widow and could not fail to be as he used to have a part of it for his own. rendered wretched by losing him. His first effort to free Having got with his oranges a wallet, his clothes at one himself from tyranny had been successful-who knew lend and at the other his oranges, he sat out, but not withbut another to procure him natural relations might be out casting a look of sorrow towards the Selby rond, for equally so? It was true the journeyman had been his that led towards the park where his benefactor lived. Hav first promptér by talking about justices, and now he had ing, however, accomplished so much, he hoped that more no prompter but his own heart, and that said very frequent- would be in his power; he rallied his spirits and tried to ly his conduct was foolish and perhaps ungrateful. be manly.

Alas! poor Flibbertigibbet soon found that he had exWhen the poor boy reached Barton, remembering it changed a life of ease for one of labour, for which ap- only too well as the place where he had stopped with the plause by no means repaid him, and the money for which sweep some time, he hastened to get thence into the vil alone he had forfeited his happiness was denied; the con- lages which lie on the banks of the river, which he filt tents of his cap, though exceeding that of the other boy, to be the acquaintance of his whole life. Having done so, was seized by the owner of the show, and a scanty sup- he found his spirits sink from the loneliness of his situnper and straw bed was the reward of his exertion-which tion, and the sense of fear, and indeed shame, which at times was not allowed to be made till he had travelled to the would steal upon him. He had, however, much pleasure town of Leeds and was of course far from his late happy at times in the kindness of the people, for they are singu home. larly hospitable in Lincolnshire to strangers in every rank

It is true he was told "that by and by he was to have a of life; and many a slice of breed and basin of milk wer benefit" and that the "grown gentlemen lived on their freely given, and often was he permitt

benefits;" he had therefore nothing left for it but to be patient. of a lad like himself as he

Besides he was so profitable that a sharp look-out was Indeed, his appe

kept upon him, both by the manager and the other boy, hands bei

o that he was for some time little more than a prisoner, cept:

other idea to the honest people who thus received him, but

"Stolen!" cried the lady; "stolen! when? where?that of pity from one so young who was cast on his own Speak, child! do you know your name?" resources; and so well did he dispose of his merchandise,[ "Oh, no! I wish I did. I only know I was called 'lit

that he was frequently obliged to apply for the renewal tle Jemmy!" of his stock to the larger towns; from which circumstance The lady could not speak-she was on the point of fainthe made slow progress, and saw with dismay the days ing; and the maid coming to her assistance, said, “Tell shortening, and felt the cold blast of autumn blow cheerless-missis all you know, my boy, but be sure you tell truth." ly over the long flat country. "I have nothing to tell besides, except that we had a After wandering thus for many weeks, and reaching|maid Nelly, and there was a little baby, and a garden very as high as Spalding, he determined to retrace his steps, as like this of yours."

the impression was still more strong than ever upon his The girl shouted aloud, “O, it's all right! it was my mind that he was in the right direction, the dialect appeared sister Nelly that is married; little miss was at her house so familiar to his ears. On entering the town of Grimsby, last night when you seed her,—but misses will faint away, weary and foot-sore, he determined as evening was drawing on, to seek his former lodging, and not attempt selling his fruit till the following morning.

what shall I do? what shall I do?"

Her mistress did not faint; she burst into tears-she sank upon her knees-she tried to utter thanks to God He was just about to place an orange in his wallet-she held out her arms to her son—she called him "her when a sweet voice called out to him, and the face of a darling, her comfort, her long-lost James." beautiful little girl was seen to peep over the half-door of very poor cottage, who said, "Please to give little Sally that pretty thing!"

Had he then indeed found his mother? were his wishes fulfilled, his hopes realised? alas! the poor boy could not believe it; far different and inferior as her situation was The boy looked wistfully at the fair round face and to the only lady he had ever known, yet she was surely too early head and thought he had never seen any thing so grand to be his mother; the mother of a sweep, of a boy pretty in all his travels: and weary as he had felt just be- that tumbled at fairs-that hawked oranges through the fore, he thought he could have gazed for an hour upon it. country."

No person came near the door; but the child earnestly But Nelly now entered-gazed at him, and declared, reiterated her request, and James, stepping up to her, gave" she should know him among a thousand--besides, was her the orange: in doing so he perceived she was better he not the picture of his sister, and the very model of his dressed than might have been expected, but it was her own father's picture?" As she spoke, the honest woman's beauty and confidence that had won him, together with voice, manner, nay, her prominent teeth, were all familiar her name of Sally" for surely that was one he ought to to him, and, rushing to his mother's arms, he cried, "Oh, love." yes! I see it all; I am your son!-I have not wandered so long for nothing."

"Yes!" said he to himself, "Sally is a sweet name to me; and now my face is set towards that Sally who was always good to me, I will return to her, for I am undoubt edly wandering here in vain."

But who can tell how much explanation was givenwhat caresses were lavished? Who describe the emotions of a fond mother's heart, who for four long years had numFall of this resolution, in the morning he counted his bered her son with the dead. oranges, considered the possibility of paying for a passage

We need not say that when Flibbertigibbet again made to Snaith or Selby, and made himself as respectable as he his appearance at E. Park, which was the day of Mr. Tal could in appearance, before he sallied forth to sell, as he bot's return thither, he was accompanied by his grateful now hoped, his last cargo. Scarcely had he set forward, mother, who felt as if she could have been eloquent it. when a voice behind him cri.d out, "That's the good boy! thanks, though she only proved so in tears. It was a ques that's him mother!" tion whether old Sally Simpson or young Sally Harriso

Our orange boy naturally turned his head, for it was the his sister, was the happier person; or whether little Jam voice of his little friend of last night; she had hold of the or his young patrons was the merrier. Enoug“ 1. 9. Land of a lady who quickened her steps to get up to him. that our wanderer has still a kind and approving "I believe, my good boy, you gave (not sold) my little in the gentleman who rescued han from w... girl an orange last night; I must buy her a few more, and an early grave.

pay for that also."

Not that," said the boy, blushing, as he offered her

of the finest.

The lady was not difficult to please: whilst choosing A Steam Voyage down the Daunt

Meranges, it struck her that giving the boy a breakfast would be her best way of rewarding his civility, and, having paid him, she asked him to return to her house," It but a step from thence," she observed.

Jamen carried, the oranges after her, and enterins forward with him into her kitchen,

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tour that has been made in those parts since this important could aspire to a seat there would in Hungary be other change took place; and although the rapidity with which than noble; for the nobility there would comprehend a he performed his voyage-a rapidity necessarily incident vast number more, and go a great way lower, than all perto the mode of conveyance-prevented him from col- sons with us who are in respectable circumstances. Inlecting all, or nearly all, the information which it would deed, in another respect, our constitution is far more arisbe desirable to possess regarding the coumtries he tocratic than theirs; if by aristocracy be meant the prepassed through, we can yet venture to assure our readers ponderance of a limited number of the higher orders in that his book contains a variety of particulars hoth inter- any country. Aristocratic power with us is confined to esting and amusing; that it presents the picture of an four or five hundred families, who really do form an oligarable, well-instructed, and amiable mind; and that even chy, while in Hungary it belongs perhaps to forty or those who may be the most sensible of its deficiencies fifty thousand. We are now, moreover, speaking of our go(none, we believe, are more likely to feel them than the vernment as it is since the change in 1831 and 1832, which modest author,) will bestow their time not unprofitable or put an end to the absolute supremacy before enjoyed by our unpleasingly in the perusal of it. Mr. Quin is already ad- nobles. The remarks which we have now made are invantageously known as the author of an able work respect- tended to supply what our author has omitted respecting ing his visit to Spain in 1823. Of this we spoke favoura- the Hungarian government. He gives little or no inforbly at the time of its publication; and although he seemed mation about it, which is the more to bo regretted, as his then to labour under some bias of prejudice as to the con- intimacy with the most distinguished leader of the patristitutional cause, we did justice to the fairness which he otic party, Count Szechenyi, placed every thing of this showed in treating controverted matters, and marked the description easily within his reach. love of liberty which seemed natural to him. It is very Our author has a variable success in his descriptions-for satisfactory to find that ten year's longer acquaintance with sometimes nothing can be more picturesque, because mankind has not deadened but animated the same noble lively and natural, but occasionally this is far from being sentiments: and we find throughout the present work an their character-as when he recounts how the 'Stars were ardent sympathy with his fellow-creatures, and zeal for shining in the blue ocean of the sky like so many islands the best interests of mankind, accompanied by the correla- of fire, the moon had just risen above the margin of the tive of such dispositions,―a steady hatred of oppression, horizon, between two of those beauteous worlds, and though and a determination fearlessly to speak the truth of the divested of half her light, flung a long pathway of silver highest that practice it. on the surface of the Danube.'-I. 34.

Finding my companions at supper, I was very glad

Mr. Quin embarked at Posth, the chief city of Hungary, In the steam-boat he found as his fellow-passengers though not its seat of government, on the 24th September, about a hundred Tyrolese emigrants, under the care of an 1834. A plan is mentioned by him as now in agitation, intelligent physician, proceeding to settle in one of the for erecting a stone bridge over the Danube, to connect this city with the opposite one of Buda; and it is part of the pro-tleman of figure and talents returning from the Diet, and mining districts of Lower Hungary. He also met a genposal that the toll or pontage shall be levied indiscrimi- of him we have the following particulars:— nately on all. This is justly represented as an important step towards improving the Hungarian constitution-for the nobles there, as in most countries where the feudal to join them. They were in the midst of Hungarian aristocracy continues unreformed, are exempt from all direct politics, two of them being deputies on their way home taxation, and even from customs and passage dues in the from the Diet. I have seldom met a more engaging military districts. The government is indeed, in one re-person than the Count P, who appeared to have spect, eminently a free one. The power of the crown is taken an active part in the business of the legislature. in theory limited more than in any country in Europe, we He was inexhaustible in anecdotes about his fellowcannot except England itself; for the victory is chosen by deputies, and the mode in which the national affairs were the Diet or parliament, jointly with the king; the right of carried on. Eloquent, cheerful, off hand, and thoroughly taking arms against him used to be, till the middle of the conversant with human nature, he often placed the most serious things in a ridiculous point of view, which last century, solemnly acknowledged by the sovereign in kept the table in roars of laughter. His features beamhis corronation oath, and he is not by law counted as king ed with benevolence, and I was not surprised afterwards until he is crowned;-although Joseph II. contrived to to learn that, in his own country of Presburg, where he evade this crowning, as he also illegally removed the regalia has ample possessions, he is universally beloved. He to Vienna, and thereby threw the Hungarians into rebel- had frequently the goodness to explain to me in Latin lion. But all the restrictions are in favour of the nobility; the political parts of his conversation. He said that the the inferior classes having little more consideration than Diet was the mere image of what it ought to be accordthey had in our own Magna Charta. It is indeed a singu- ing to the ancient constitution of the country. Many of the deputies were determined on eventually effecting lar circumstance that the two subjects forbidden to be dis- a reform, but from motives of personal respect for the cussed at the Diet, are the hereditary right of the house then reigning emperor, they would take no steps during of Austria, and the exemption of the nobility from all his lifetime. Under a new sovereign, however, they taxation. Against which aristocratic form of government, would certainly insist upon the restoration of the Hunwe must, in fairness, set one important fact, the vast garian constitution. I had more than once occasion to number of the nobles. In fact, every person above the remark, that politics were by no means forbidden topics rank of a day-labourer in the country, is noble—and many in this country: they are in fact as freely spoken of as are of this class who labour for their daily bread. The in France or England. No notice is ever taken by the inhabitants of the towns are those whom the distinctions authorities of this liberty of speech; I have heard even most oppress, and against whom they cannot but exist.-the authorities themselves discuss public questions without the slightest reserve. The freedom thus geneThe government, therefore, though in one sense aristo- rally enjoyed must be founded only on custom, which cratic, seems practically to be so only in the sense in which cannot be changed, but upon a sense of inherent our own comes under this description. No man who ever strength with which it might be dangerous to tamper ̧* sits in our House of Commons-in fact no man who-Pp. 35, 36, 37,

The account of the Hungarian nobles, which he gives intelligence was on his swarthy weather-beaten cheek, on the authority of an English groom, settled as servant his voice was melody itself, and his diction eloquence.' to one of them, we shall not extract, because we are quite-Pp. 17, 18, 19.

confident our author has been grossly deceived by his in

formant. It is enough to state that this description an- Some days elapsed of the voyage, and the party had arewers to a country wholly without police, and in which rived at Dwinich, where the Moldavian routed a priest in rapine and violence, to property as to person, prevails uni- the following fashion :

versally, with as little check from the laws as in the heart

of the American woods, or the African deserts. Now, his bottle of wine, made himself as much at home The poet now joined the circle, and having ordered whatever may be said of the Austrian yoke in so many amongst his new acquaintances as if he had known other respects, this, at least, has always been confessed, them a hundred years. He treated the company to a that in return for its oppressions, and indeed its extinction history of his travels, which he extended on this occaof all political rights, it does confer upon its subjects the inestimable blessings of a strict though mild, quiet and regular police. Not to mention that we in vain search se narratives of other travellers, for any thing like the account here given by Mr. Quin. The most singular, and indeed mysterious personage whom he fell in with in his

whole tour is thus described :

sion to Grand Cairo. His audience seemed at a loss to know where Grand Cairo was, until the priest enlightend them by declaring that it was in Asia. "In Asia!' no such thing; Grand Cairo is in Africa." The goexclaimed the Moldavian, with indescribable disdain,--vernor was in raptures at this decided triumph over the clergyman, who, in order to restore his character, inveigled the poet into a theological controversy. But He was from Moldavia. He had been in the Rus- and boundles joy of the governor, the Moldavian proved to my surprise, and to the great chagrin of the priest, sian service during the late war with Turkey, but in himself quite as well read in theology as he was in gewhat capacity I could never satisfactorily discover. I aspect he was a spy. He spoke German, French, andgraphy: he repeatedly convicted the priest of entire Italian, fluently. He wore a blue frock-coat, which to be most fimiliar, and so merciless was he in following ignorance of the works with which he had pretended probably had served him during the said war, as it could boast of only a part of one button, and two very un-abstruce points of doctrine, that the latter literally up his conquest, by challenging the divine on the more equal skirts, remaining in any thing like decent condi- felt obliged to decamp from the field. The goverbon. The rest of the garment was covered with grease. nor shouted with excessive mirth, and ordered another A pair of old black stuff trowsers patched at the knees, bottle, which he compelled the poet to drink in addition in a most unworkman-like manner, rent and not patch-to his own.'-P. 98, 99.

ed in other parts indescribable, and vilely tattered at the extremities, together with a ghost of a black waist

But his performances did not end here—for a guitar had east, a cast-off military cap, and wretched boots, offered been produced, on which a lady was going to play-the an apology for a better suit, which he said he had at

here. His shirt was also in the list of absentees! He mysterious stranger asked permission to look at it, and had lost the half of one of his thumbs, the other was swept his inutilated fingers over the strings with the skill wrapped in a bandage. He had not shaved for three of a professor.' weeks he certainly could not have washed either his hands or his face for three months, and a comb had The priest looked amazed. After preluding in a probably not passed through his hair for three years cheans, the tatterdemalion, clearing his voice with a singularly graceful manner which captivated the SwiniTo crown his personal peculiarities, he had a very red fresh bottle of wine, which was voted to him by common se, on the top of which was perched a pair of specta- accord, treated us to "Di tanti palpiti," not only with Nevertheless, with all these strong objections against great taste, but in one of the best tenor voices I ever -so strong, that I wonder my friend Captain Cozier heard. The priest exclaimed that he knew not what to had not thrown him overboard-there was something think of this fellow, unless he was the devil, for that out this man which seemed to have actually fascinated not only were his talents and knowledge universal, but rather genteel youth, who was constantly at his side, of a degree of excellence in every thing that left him d to have already secured him the devotion of a mis- without a rival. laneous group of Austrian soldiers and their wives, the poet; nevertheless she was induced to favour the The lady was quite ashamed to touch the guitar after plars, and artisans, who occupied mats and sheepskins deck. With the sailors he was quite a favourite. He company with two or three Wallachian songs, which, whaled well, he sung well, and passed off every thing all the effect they might otherwise have produced. One after the splendid performances we had just heard, lost devil-may-care" kind of a way, which gained of the young men, jealous of the musical character of mase reader at the mole of Naples-could not possess chords with a long series of humdrum tinklings, which Swinich, next took up the guitar, but after vexing the more power over his audience than was exercised over templetons by this Moldavian adventurer. He he would fain persuade us were Servian melodies, he had a commonplace-book in his bosom-for his pockets the company, to resign the instrument to our Mephiswas reluctantly compelled, by the unanimious voice of had all vanished-from which he occasionally read to as followers scraps of poetry of his own composition, topheles, who showed himself, still more even than bealerted from the works of celebrated German wri- fore, a perfect master of the art, and that too of the These readings he interspersed with comments very best school. Italian, German, Hungarian, and esso droll, that he set the whole deck in a roar.- Moldavian airs followed each other in rapid succession, Then he would relate some of his accidents by flood and in the most admirable style. The fair owner of the and field, or describe his travels, in the course of which guitar remarked, with a charming simplicity, that she mentioned the most extraordinary scenes in the really did not know her own instrument in the hands of rid, which had occurred to him at Constantinople, this enchanter.

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Bacharest, Prague, Vienna, Petersburg, Paris, Berlin, By this time our apartment was crowded. The door Madrid, Gibraltar, Venice, every where but London, had been thrown open, and was besieged by a numerous here he had the modesty to confess he had never yet group of savage-looking figures, wrapped in their cloaks His eye, when lighted up by the excitement of ad large hats, who stood staring in upon our musician, the moment, was singularly brilliant, the flush of fine as if they fully participated in the priests opinion of