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and that, as it contained no prayer, it should not be received. What was the necessity of a prayer? If that word were to be used in its proper sense, their Lordships could not expect that any man should pray to others. He had only to say, that the petition, though in some parts expressed strongly perhaps, did not contain any improper mode of address, but was couched in respectful language towards their Lordships; he should therefore trust their Lordships would allow the petition to be received.

INNOCENCE AND FRIVOLITY.

(A French Sketch.)

We do not so strongly recommend this for imitation, as we do the challenge under the preceding head. Of course, "They manage these things better in England."

Julie. Au assignation! What! an assignation with a man, madam?

Hortense. And why not?

J. How! a man I have never seen? H. So much the better; it is then something new.

J. But my reputation, madam! H. When it is once lost, one is no longer troubled about it.

J. Fie, madam! reputation is a jewel--H. That costs us very dear. J. Would you dare to sacrifice your honour to your pleasures?

H. I am a philosopher.

J. Good God! how you talk! What? if honour were even a burden, ought we not to bear it?

H. Every one according to their own way of thinking. When any thing annoys me, I get rid of it speedily.

J. Go, naughty woman! I shall be obliged to fly you if you speak thus.

H. You wish to leave me? Well, go then. But stop, here is your shawl, your hat, your every thing! Come, madam, make haste! I will go in your place.

J. How pressing you are!.... Well, be it so; I will for this time follow your advice, and know what this man, who is so enamoured of me, would have; but I shall never see him more than once; I have too much delicacy.

H. Delicacy is a fine thing truly! when the question is to amuse one's self. Well, now we are dressed....Let us go! What keeps you still ?

....

J. I am afraid.

H. I have no fears, myself.

J. 1 dare not go.

H. Stay, then.

J. I am a coward.

H. So much the worse for you.

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J. But when Reason finds fault with Nature?

H. She is then very preverse. J. Wicked woman that you are!.... Go; I follow you.

ALSO, BUT NOT LIKEWISE. From the News of Lit. and Fash.

EVERY body must know the story of the two Barristers and the Quaker. The Quaker had been examined in chief as to his being present when a disturbance took place; and his auswer was, "The men who were engaged in the riot were in the street, and I was in the street also." The opposite counsel, who was famed for his bullying and blustering, began his cross-examination with, "And you say that the rioters were there?" "Yes, friend," replied the Quaker. “And you admit that you were there likewise!" -"Nay, friend; I do admit that I was there also, but I deny that I was there likewise." "A nd do you mean to tell me, that also' and 'likewise,' have not presisely the same meaning?" "Yea, friend," replied the Quaker; "I will make it plain, if not to thy understanding, at least to the understanding of every other man who heareth me. The learned person who did examine me at the first, and with fairness, is a counsel-thou art a counsel also, but every man perceiveth that thou art not a counsel likewise."

Several years have elapsed since this distinction was made in the case of the two lawyers; but it has not yet been taken full advantage of in other cases, and, therefore, it may not be amiss to point out a few instances in which there is an "also," but not a "likewise;" or, as it may be more briefly expressed, " likeness, and a want of likeness."

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If for instance, one were asked in what Ferdinand of Spain and Prince Hohenlohe are like, and in what they are not like, one might answer: They are alike, in as far as they are both humbugs; but they are unlike, because Hohenlohe is the prince of humbugs, and Ferdinand the humbug of princes!"

POETRY, &c.

TO MERCY,

If again it were asked why the same

Hair.

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actress is like and unlike, before and On her giving the Author a Lock of after she becomes the lady of a pensioned lord, the answer would be: "That she is like, being in both cases an actress, and supported by the public; but unlike, because before she sometimes plays comedy, and sometimes tragedy, while after she plays nothing but farce."

It may not be amiss to enumerate a few cases of "also, but not likewise," and leave our readers to find out the ways and wherefores, to which, if they are profound in the philosophy, and happy in the expression, we shall be very willing and very ready to give publicity. Squire Hayne is a faithless swain: Parson Fletcher is "also, but not likewise," a faithless swain.

Joseph Hume was a politician in India: Joseph Hume is "also, but not likewise," a politician in England.

Buonaparte was a conqueror the Duc D'Angouleme was "also, but not likewise," a conqueror.

While the present king was a Whig, the Earl of Lauderdale was a Whig : since, he has “also, but not likewise," been a Whig.

The great unknown is a novelist: Lady Morgan is "also, but not likewise," a novelist.

Sir Christopher Wren was an architect: Mr. Soane is also, but not likewise," an architect.

The Medici Venus is a fine figure: the Countess of G- is "also, but not likewise," a fine figure.

The 42nd Regiment of Foot are soldiers: the Manchester Yeomanry are "also, but not likewise," soldiers.

Mrs. Fry has been in many prisons: Bill Soames has "also, but not likewise," been in many prisons.

A man who gets his ribs broken, or his house burned, gets damages: a man who succeeds as prosecutor in an action of Crim. Con." also, but not likewise," gets damages.

Oliver Cromwell made the continental despots tremble: Rothschild, the Jew, makes the continental despots tremble, " also, but not likewise."

The English bishops are members of the Lords' House: the ministers of the Scotch Kirk are members of the Lord's House also, but not likewise."

Flight and Robson, of St. Martin's-Lane, are great organ builders: Dr. Spurzheim is " also, but not likewise," a great organ builder.

The Protestant league was a Holy Alliance: the combined sovereigns are a Holy Alliance" also, but not likewise."

Original.

HERE is the ringlet, of colour so bright,
That hung o'er a brow of brighter hue;
Here is the hair, so soft and light,

That lingered around thy eyes of blue.
Here is a lock, that shed a grace
On cheeks of Love, on lips of Roses;
And here is a tress, that embellished a face,
Where young love will venture,-and virtue
reposes.

Here is a lock of the brightest hue,

That ere o'er the brow of a beauty flourish'd;
Here is a ringlet, whose light tints threw
A charm on the brow on which it was
cherish'd : 2

That clustered and shone so soft and light,
'Midst the beautiful group from which it
was gathered;

As chaste to the eye as the star of night,
The tress from the brow of MERCY sever'd,
G. I. M.

A SCOTCH SONG.

Original.

SWEET lassie wi' the sun-bright hair,
Sweet lassie wi' the sky-blue e'e!
Ilo'e thee, lassie, meikle mair,

Than word or write cud tell to thee.
What I wad daur-what I wad dree
To mak' thee mine, by heart an' han'!
O! heaven ae I appy pair soud see
Were ye gude wife ware I'm gudeman.
Wi' monie maids am I acquaint-

Ye ane an' a' ding out an' out
Thy charms cud sin turn to a saint-

Cud mak' the vera de'il devout!
Then dinua dreade-O! dinna doubt

But what thy Willie's love is leal,

An' leal thro' life 'twill burn to boot
In eild as youth-in wae as weai.
Down rowe thy ringlets-wildly weaven,
They gild thy braid an' bonie brow,
Thy blue e'e's blinks a glimpse o' heaven,

That thrills my heart richt thro' an' thro' !
Sweet lassie, will ye niffer now
Thy feyther's for thy lover's roof?
Then plight me love, thy virgin vow;
And plight wi' thy lily loof!

DONALD DHU.

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The Spirit of the Magazines.

LUTHER'S RING.

AN HISTORICAL TALE FROM
THE GERMAN.

(From the European Magazine.) (Continued from page 219.) JUSTUS cast a burning look at the impertinent coxcomb, then let his eye fall upon his plate, and hastily thrust a piece of bread into his mouth. But Nicholas preserved his temper, and answered with great gravity as follows: "With permission, Sir! it is not always that one can call noble families good and honourable; and many a private family, without a coat of arms, is yet truly noble. Thus hath the grandfather of my young friend, Herman Hergot, done more, probably, for the Faith, and therefore for his country and his prince, than any nobleman in Saxony; for, in the year of our Lord 1524, he was condemned to death by the cruel Duke George, for printing and selling the excellent books of Doctor Luther, and which bloody judgment was executed with the sword at Leipzic."

"Oh, Gracious God! what a cruel fate!" exclaimed the hostess; and all Jooked with compassion on the handsome descendant of the brave martyr, who passed his hand cross his eyes insilence, to brush away the tears that had started into them.

"If he be of so good a stock, the youth will make a gallant soldier," rejoined one of the cuirassiers. "Stay with us!" he added; "you are going, doubtless, to the school yonder in the valley, but, believe me, a helmet and a cuirass would become you far better than their odd-looking bonnet, with its coloured ribbon, and the short black jacket. There is nothing but drudgery in that old owl's nest. I was born there. Be persuaded to make a better choice! By my soul, you seem to have been intended for something better than a book-worm." The honest enthusiast spoke this so heartily, and shook Justus by the hand in so friendly a manner while he said it, that a cold sweat moistened the dry brow of the faithful Nicholas. "For God's sake, follow them not!" said he, half aloud; and, then continued with emphasis, addressing the soldiers: "Our Justus does carry his helmet and his cuirass, a fast hold against the machinations of the evil one." At the same time he pointed with his finger to the bag, where lay a quarto.bible, bound in

black, and strengthened and fastened with clamps and clasps of brass.

"That there?" asked the corporal.

"It is the Holy Gospel, according to Luther's translation," continued Nicholas," and moreover a rare and invaluable copy; a token of remembrance out of the doctor's own library. See, here stand his arms in brass a cross, a heart, and a rose; and on the reverse side are those of Professor Eobanus Hessius, my illustrious master—a swan, pouring forth his song to heaven."

"Ridiculous stuff!" cried the cornet; "Such arms as those are not recognized at any court, or regarded in any lists. And what are the four Evangelists to me? unless, indeed, they were so many With this he turned his fat manors." back upon them, in a style of courtly politeness, and sprang after Kate, who was just going down into the cellar.

"But pray tell me, most learned doctor," said one of the two huntsmen before mentioned, who had now ap proached the table, "since you know so much, how you reconcile these inconsistencies. You boast that the new faith hath purified and exalted all things; and yet the same faith permits that holy book, which was wont to be preserved with the utmost reverence in the most sacred places, to be carried about the public highways, and sold in the common market place."

Pharetratus looked up with astonishment at the man, whose discourse seemed so much above his station, and so little consistent with the roughness of his exterior, and answered, in a drawling tone-" Do men place the candle in a candlestick, or under a bushel?"

"You have not been at church for many a day," added the corporal, “or the minister would have explained to you the chief point of dissension betwixt the emperor and the country, and you might have let alone such Popish questions."

"It needs no person, with his idle prating, to decide which of us be most faithfully attached to the right church," retorted the staunch forester; "and boast as you will of your Lutheranism, I doubt if it be yet quite as you pretend, here under your sash. Your Prince Moritz, however, supported the emperor against the followers of that runaway Augustan friar, and against his own brave cousin ; and deprived the gallant John Frederic of his land and freedom at the forest of Lochace. Truly, an example of faith and friendship that would have shivered the conscience of one of us to atoms."

LUTHER'S RING.

"Respect our gracious Elector !" thundered the corporal, rising and striking the table with his clenched fist. "What business has a poacher with the affairs of princes and of soldiers?"

"Poacher!" bawled the fellow, choaking with rage; "I am assistant to the Royal Ranger at Pforta; but you belong to those who themselves abuse and vilify the founder of their false creed-who subsist by plunder and extortion-who gamble away their wages of sin, and slaughter, then ransack and pillage the houses of the gentry and the peasants, maltreating men, women and children, and finish their infamous career by going to hell for lustful and abominable heretics as they are!"

With dreadful imprecations the whole troop now rushed upon the abusive huntsman, and seized him by the collar and the arms, but not without a stout resistance on his part. His drunken comrade in the grass was awakened by the tumult, and seeing his fellow in danger, discharged his piece at the crowd, but, luckily, with an unsteady hand. The soldiers rushed to their arms. At the same instant the colonel came riding up, and his authoritative voice dispersed the mob as quickly as if a bomb-shell had fallen in the midst. The cuirassiers remained transfixed, like statues, with their hands to their helmets; the country people and the women scampered away to their houses; the two Jagers skulked back to the thicket, and the colonel, having thus restored tranquillity, turned his horse and gallopped away.

Our travellers had deemed it prudent to make their escape at the commencement of the fray, and they were now striding manfully down the hill together, when Justus, reminding his companion that the day was fast wearing away, insisted upon his turning back. "Greet my uncle and all my friends," said he, "and God be with you, Nicholas."

"And with thee," sighed the latter, while a painful emotion gave a darker shade to his sallow, gloomy countenance. "Forget not humility and piety; forget not thy brave ancestor, and, like him, follow no counsel but the voice of God in your breast, and his word in your Bible." The lucid tear started into the youth's eye as he listened to the affectionate exhortation of his faithful adherent. He threw his knapsack across his shoulder, in painful haste pressed once more Pharetratus's large and bony hand, and parted from him with hurried steps.

The projection of the verdant hill soon concealed him from the view of Nicholas, who had remained transfixed

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to the spot where they separated, with arms crossed, and with eyes eagerly following the youth's progress. Justus also now stood still, and heaving a deep sigh from the bottom of his heart, seated himself on a mossy bank, amidst wild roses and sloe bushes. He looked down into the valley that was now to become his home, and sought consolation from the beauty and freshness of nature under the painful emotions and apprehensions that filled his breast; and nature did not deny him her soothing balsam: a paradise opened before him, and as impressions are most easily effaced from the mind of youth, so he forgot more and more with every look at the delightful scene the pangs of the last moments. Corn fields and light tracts of meadow lands alternated their varied greens, delighting the eye. Like a band of silver encircling a robe of green velvet, the glittering Saal intersected the lovely plain, enclosed by gently rising moun tains. Yonder lay Pforta before him at the foot of the green hill, adorned with old oaks and friendly copsewood. The old Gothic church, with its lofty spire, stood proudly pre-eminent; and fruit trees in full blossom, together with a row of dusky limes, partly concealed the ancient grey walls of what was formerly a monastery.

White villages glittered deeper in the valley; single huts and fragments of buildings bespangled the distant heights; and farthest of all was seen the gilded cupola of the cathedral church of Nuremburg, sparkling in the descending sun-beams.

The youth could not sufficiently admire the grandeur of the prospect; while the melodious songs of the linnets and goldfinches in the bushes, the plaintive notes of a nightingale, and the faint echo of distant horns in the woods behind him, all combined to sink his soul into one of those poetical day-dreams that are amongst the most pleasurable sensations of which the mind of youth, in all the ardour of its feelings, is susceptible. He had been long sitting thus, lost in a world of his own creation, and had scarcely remarked the sun's decline towards the horizon, and the gigantic shadows cast by the trees, when he was suddenly roused by a violent rustling among the hazel-bushes, and immediately a noble stag rushed past him, and flew with the rapidity of lightning down the glen, while, at the same instant of time, a shot fell so near him, that he uttered a cry of terror, and crouched down, covering his face with both his hands, to keep off the smoke of the powder. "Holy Mother of God!" exclaimed a fine

silver-toned voice near him, and a soft hand gently touched his curly head, left bare by the falling off of his little cap. He raised his eyes, and his second surprise tied his tongue more powerfully than the first. A lady stood before him, just blooming like the Centifole of the season. Her reeking fowling-piece was in her hand. Her auburn tresses, escaping from under her green hat, fell carelessly upon her ivory neck; a green hunting boddice, or spencer, tastefully trimmed with fine fitch fur, covered without concealing the perfect contour of her bust; a short black petticoat shrouded the rest of her figure, and her little foot pressed a green boot, fastened with a lace of gold.

"Good heavens! are you wounded?" inquired the perplexed and terrified Diana, taking his hand as he stared at her without moving a limb.

The anxiety depicted in the countenance of the lovely unknown awakened his feelings. "No; I know not! I feel nothing!" answered the youth as he raised himself from the ground, retaining possession of the hand, which the lady did not offer to withdraw. Thus they stood facing each other for the space of a minute, in which the youth's admiring gaze pressed her looks to the earth, and covered her blooming cheeks with a deeper crimson. A loud holloa in the thicket disturbed this singular tête-àtête: "Hurra! he's hit "exclaimed a sonorous bass voice; "a good shot by Jupiter! yet it has only brushed him, so hand me the knife to give him the finishing touch, or he'll be up and away again. Celestina! where the devil is the girl hiding herself?" With these words a middle-aged gentlemanly looking man, in a hunting-dress, advanced from behind the hawthorn bushes, and stopt, struck with amazement a he beheld the extraordinary group. He made in truth a peculiar grimace, that does not exactly testify either joy or satisfaction; however, Colestina turned briskly round and said, "You see, cousin, how dangerous this cruel pastime is, to which you are for ever inviting me, and which I learnt and participate in merely to please you. My ball passed close to the stranger's head, and his face is scorched by the powder."

"Well, that's no great matter; and what does he do skulking among the bushes when he hears the horns and the hounds?" returned the huntsman, with perfect composure.

"But we have both been terrified, I tell you, and I hold the beast too dearly bought with such a fright," retorted the

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lady pertly, and in a half-comical halfangry tone; "besides, I might have killed a fellow-creatore, and, if I had, the sin would have been upon you, for it's all your fault."

"Nonsense," replied he carelessly, 66 you loaded with no infernal free bullet, and I have taught you to hit the right mark."

"Take up the game, Hildebrand," said he to the servant, who now came up, and then, turning to Justus, be added, "you are going to Pforta, young man, your dress tells me so; you can go So saying, with us; I am ranger there.” he threw his gun across his shoulder, and, after giving some orders about the dogs, that came crouching at his feet, walked on briskly across the field towards the road. The young people followed, and the lady, by her friendly and familiar restored manner, soon Justus to his wonted composure; he readily answered her confiding and artless enquiries relative to his name and destination, and they separated on friendly terms at the place where a bye path striking off from the high road, leads up the mountain side to the ranger's house, while the latter conducts the traveller to the noble gates of the College, within which the new alumnus was received and welcomed by a goodly copper-nosed porter.

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founded.

(To be continued.

THE MISTAKEN MEDICINES.

AMONG the many good things of which England has to boast, is the salubrious, or perhaps better said, restorative properties of her mineral springs. Among those springs none is so famons as the spring at Bath. Thither the sick and the lame resort from all parts of the kingdom, not only to drink the water, but to wash therein. Previous, however, to the draught or the dip, it is customary to consult some of the medical men of the place, who are supposed to have more knowledge of the due proportion of its use in the variety of cases which seek relief from its application, than the medical senders from distant counties can, for want of experience, acquire: and the Bath sons of Esculapius gene

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