recollection, also take up arms to conquer independence and honour-this cause, so just and so glorious, has been sufficient to animate generous hearts and vivid imaginations. All men, whose elevated minds pay to the Muses a homage worthy of them, have united their hopes and applauses in favour of a feeble, but courageous people, who are braving the danger of destruction, and paying with their blood the price of the liberty they adore. Poets, historians, authors, orators, all the children of genius, whose names enlightened nations pronounce with pride, have consecrated portion of their talents in honour of modern Greece. Their eulogies have saved these noble efforts from the opprobrium which is attached to impious or factious rebellions. But amongst all those illustrious characters, who has distinguished himself like Lord Byron? Who has equalled him-I will not say in his poetry, in his prose, or in his oratory; but in his sacrifices! Who, like him, in the full sway of his passions, in the flower of his age, in the bosom of luxury, of pleasure, and of a dignified retirement, could at once tear himself from the delights of life, from a voluptuous country, and proceed to a soil impoverished by despotism, and desolated by intestine war? He lands in Greece, to encourage the timid-to animate the brave-to consecrate his fortune to noble purposes and his genius to painful efforts; above all, to appease already rising dissensions, and to double, by union, the power of a people whose very existence is in danger. This is what has been done by Lord Byron. Such greatness of mind had no example; and hitherto it has had no imi

tators.

"Doubtless, at some future day, when victory shall have restored peace to Greece, and leisure to her hereditary genius at some future day, the Peloponnesus will again be the theatre of the panegyrics, the festivals, and the games of Delphi, of Nemea, and of Olympia, and the descendants of Pindar will re-awaken the lyre which celebrated the glory of the conquerors of Marathon, of Platæa, and of Salamis. Then the most harmonious of languages will consecrate the memory of the immortal poet who terminated his career by an act of illustrious devotion, as imperishable as the most beautiful of its own strains. Then, the posterity of Eschylus, and of Tyrtæus, of Themisto. cles, and of Aristides, will repeat chants which will ascend to Heaven, accompanied by the unanimous praises of a whole nation, grateful, as a free people

know how to be.

"Already have the inhabitants of Greece

worthily paid the first sepulchral honours to the generous man who thus espoused their cause. The entire nation is clad in mourning, and the people and the army, in the train of the senate and magistrates, have solemnized his obsequies; as in modern times, and in another hemisphere, the countrymen of an Adams and a Franklin, celebrated those of the heroes of their independence. Poetry will seize upon so noble a theme. In all enlightened states, they, who dedicate their muse to magnanimous actions, will consecrate their most noble strains to the last deeds and to the memorable end of Lord Byron.

"For ourselves, we know how subject we all are to error and to weakness, in our actions as well as in our thoughts; let us leave to another age, and to other men, the painful task of exposing some faults, and of scrutinizing some deviations in the career of him who has never committed a crime-of him who sinned rather in abstaining from respecting some duties, but who at least never wished to tarnish that liberty, and degrade that social dignity, which all elevated minds entertain for all human-kind. This is what the writers of every age and of every nation are bound to honour with unanimous homage.

"Certain it is that France will not delay to reap this noble harvest. The muse which recorded the misfortunes of Parga,* and the poet of Messeniennes,† will here find a worthy subject for excellence-for the inspiration of new ideas, calculated to elevate the heart of man, and to excite him to great and generous deeds.

"I resided amongst the Greeks at the period when our triumphant eagles took, along the Hellenic coasts, a flight which was the signal for the awakening of a whole people. Then my feeble voice was heard among those which proclaimed to the descendants of Harmodius and Aristogiton, the first cry of deliverance and regeneration. I now offer my homage of respect and gratitude to the memory of one of their benefactors. Far from being unworthily jealous of a glory which illustrates a country emulous of my own, I deposit my humble palm at the foot of the monument which a great genius has raised for posterity by the noble termination of his career."

6

Monthly Magazine," in a brief memoir of Byron, says, "Lord Byron resembled an ancient Greek in many points: as has been observed, he reminds us of those better days of Grecian story when valour bowed at the shrine of wisdom, and never appeared more engaging than when scattering incense over the tomb of genius. Enslaved and degraded as the Greeks have become, they are still the descendants of that wonderful race that first gave elevation to the human mind; and if there be one pageant more sublime than another, it is undoubtedly the funeral of an illustrious foreigner consigned to the tomb amidst scenes and associations such as exist in no other country-who merits the regrets he so spontaneously calls forth -whose pall is supported by warriors who hoped to have fought or fallen by his side whose bier is strewed with flowers, and his requiem chanted by the vestals of liberty, and his funeral knell answered by echoes that may have smote the ear of Socrates and Plato. That such a distinction awaits all that remains of the noble author of Childe Harold' we can as little doubt as that he richly deserved it. Even when a mere boy his Lordship was a perfect enthusiast in the cause of Greece. Again and again he braved all the perils of Turkish jealousy to linger amidst scenes which his youthful studies had taught him to revere he climbed Parnassus-swam the Hellespont-bathed his burning brow in the waters of Helicon-penned sublime verses on the plains of Marathon; and, in a word, resigned himself so completely to classic association, that he seemed a Greek in spirit, though a Briton in

name.

GREECE---LORD BYRON,
THE waves that fall upon the strand
Of exiled Glory's native land,
Receding, bear to distant climes
The tales of deeds of former times;
When they, the noble and the free,
Bled in the cause of liberty;
And to their offspring left a name
Encircled by the wreath of fame.

Again upon that lovely shore
Was lately heard the battle's roar,
When, emulating deeds of yore,

Each Grecian bondsman firmly stood,
And sought his freedom with his blood ;---
Then Turkish chains away were cast,
And then, like echoes of the past,
Arose the shouts of victory,
Arousing dull Thermopyla,
That flung them on to Marathon:
Thus freedom's battle was begun,
And shall it not by Greece be won?
Land of the lovely and the brave,
Upon thy heroes' verdant grave,
Flowers, as of Eden, drop their dew,
And conscerate the air around

With fragrance sweet as is their hue;
Upon thy shores the guitar's sound
Has joined the murmuring waves at even,
And in a low, unearthly strain,
Has told of some far distant heaven
Where comes not slavery or pain.
But, now thy armed sons disclaim
The tyrant's yoke, the Craven s name;
Now shun the guitar's peaceful tone
To hear the music of a groan,
And seek once more to render thee
The dwelling-place of Liberty.

There is a name that will survive
Royalty's monumental stone,
And, long as history can give
Deserved renown, must deathless live;
BYRON, it is thine own.

Greece was the subject of thy muse,
The object which by thee was loved
The land that thou thyself didst choose
To be thine ages resting-place:

To finish there thy mortal race
Was thy young wish, and Death approved.
There, on that loved and classic ground,
A monument to thee is reared,
On which a Poet's name is found,
By friends beloved, by despots feared;
And in it is the noblest heart

That ever warmed the breast of man:
Alas! that genius must depart,
That life is but a span!

Yet not in vain did BYRON die

From home and scenes of youth afar: For, as a standard floating high,

Amid the clashing ranks of war, Whene'er it meets the soldier's sight,

Gives him fresh courage for the fight; His name, if once in battle spoken, Shall nerve each heart with firmer zeal ; Whilst to each Greek it does betoken The friend that perished for his weal.

TIMO.

FROM A POEM ENTITLED " RETROSPECTION."

Bur, hark!---a dreadful knell has met mine ear;
It sounds of death---it tolls the death of one,
Who had mark'd out as glorious a career

As ever, ev'n in Greece, by man was run.
Ev'n he, alike to Game and Freedom dear--.
The noblest spirit of the World, is gone,
BYRON, ev'n he, lies passionless, and cold---
As lifeless as Leonidas of old.
When I took up my too presumptuous pen,

To trace those Stanzas, ah! I little thought That ere I'd lay it down, that first of men,

Should be reduced unto a thing of naught. "We ne'er shall look upon his like again ;"

His intellectual part its home has sought; His soul unto its maker has arisen, "This world to his great spirit was a Prison." Greece, keep his heart---whilst living it was

thine;

"O1.what a noble mind is here o'erthrown.”
SHAKSPEARE.

BEST friend to sacred Freedom and the free,
Who shall, in terms deserving speak thy praise
What to thy manes can an offering be,
Worthy at such a shrine its head to raise?
Thy soul-inspiring muse alone could frame
A verse, to honour such a deathless name.

Yet would'st thou not despise my humble lay;
The heart's warm incense of a virgin muse;
A glow-worm's taper, to refulgent day---
A speck thy sun-like glory'd not refuse;
Here at thy altar, then, I'd bow my head,
And, what adored while living, praise when
dead.

Thine's not the fame, by battles earn'd,

The blood-stained glory of a victor's name;
No! round the fire where Byron is inurn'd,
No murderous record's seem to dim its flame;
Bright as the cause in which thy life was plighted
Clear as the pyre where freedom's torch is
lighted.

Thou sought'st for knowledge in the ways of death,

And early found it---ere the usual span
Of mortal life---relinquishing thy breath,
Eager to gain the secret, none will know,
'Till death's resistless hand has laid them low.
Thy philanthropic spirit glanc'd upon
The mighty mass of suff'ring man, and shame
Lighted thine eyes, as they indign look'd on
The "fantastic tricks" of those who dared to
claim

A "right divine," despotic rule to gain,
And round a struggling world throw slav'ry's
chain.

Against Oppression thou wast ever arm'd
Wielding the thunder of thy giant mind;
Labouring t' improve a nation yet unform'd,
And from tyrannic thraldom free mankind
Thy name shall shine with Greece and Liberty,
Best friend to sacred freedom and the free.
Southampton Chronicle.

R. B.

ON THE DEATH OF LORD BYRON. (For the Mirror.

WEEP, weep ye nations of the earth,
In sack-cloth now be drest,
Throw ashes on your heads and mourn,
For England's Bard's at rest.

Cease, cease ye birds of joyful notes,
Your morn and evening song,
And deepest notes of sorrow sing,
For England's Bard is gone.
Sun, Moon, and Stars, in heaven high,
Your lustre fail to shed,
Surround the globe in night's dark cloud,
For England's Bard has fled.

Ye trees that tower aloft in pride,
Bow down your heads and weep,
As willows bending o'er the brook,
For England's Bard's asleep.

Ye flowers and herbs of various kinds,
Your weeping now begin,

For his whose eye flash'd heavenly fire, Alas! too soon's grown dim.

E. L.

ABBADONA, a Tale, 227.

Abeona, Transport, burnt, 198, 230.
Adventure, Romantic, 204.
Advertisement, Singular, 47.
Aerial Travelling, Remarks on, 402.
African Tree, utility of, 253.
Alban's, St., Church of, 145, 197.
Alfred the Great, Tomb of, 292, 325.
Algiers, Bombardment of, 264.
Almack's on Friday, 156, 166.
Aloe, in Flower, Lines on, 68.
Amazon, Brazilian, 271.
Amelia, Princess, bon-mot of, 158.
Anagrammatism, on, 82.

Analects, by the Opium Eater, 104.
Animalculæ, Phenomena of, 260.
Animals, revivification of, 212, 260.
Annus Mirabilis, 29.
Antipathy, 253.

Antwerp Cathedral, Account of, 81.
Apophthegms, 150.

April, on the Month of, 246.
Arabian Girl, Song of a, 70.
Arithmetic, History of, 323, 388.
Arithmetical Instruments, 186.
Arundelian Marbles, on the, 179.
Ashantees, Account of the, 311.
Aspull, the Musical Prodigy, 294.
Athens, Description of, 17.
Atmosphere, Phenomena of the, 372.
Audience and the Visit, a Tale, 380.
Aunt Martha, 367.

Aurora Borealis, Artificial, 362.
Babylon, Hanging Gardens at, 261.
Bachelor, Misgivings of an old, 23.
Miseries of, 238.

Balloons, History of, 391.
Baptismal Customs, 203.
Barrett, Shipwreck of the, 295.
Barry, the Actor, Anecdotes of, 221
Bath, Town-Hall of, 185.

Battle of Wakefield Green, 226.

of the Shannon and Chesapeake,
247.

Bats, Winter Sleep of, 213.
Beacon, the, 404.

Beards and Barbers, History of, 36, 59.
Beauty and Dress, Remarks on, 366.
Beggar of Algiers, the, 399.

's Dog, the, a Poem, 154.

Bell-ringing, on, 201.

Bells, Anecdotes of Church, 199.
Belshazzar's Feast, 35.

Benefit of Clergy explained, 178.
Beverage, Cheap and Wholesome, 63.

BIOGRAPHY, SELECT, 14, 92, 123, 154,

207, 281, 294, 317, 382, 393, 406.
Blackboy-Alley Gang, 55.
Blackheath Assembly, the, 8.
Blasted Tree, the, a Tale, 249.
Blindness, Fashionable, 391.

Bowles, Rev. W. L., Lines by, 155.
Britton, the Musical Coal-man, 211.
Brock, Description of the Village of, 300.
Broke, Captain, Anecdotes of, 247.
Bubbles of 1719-20, 268.
Budgell, Eustace, Anecdote of, 85.
Bunns, Hot Cross, 286.
Burke, Anecdote of, 379.
Burleigh Castle, Sonnet on, 111.
Burns's Birth place, 247.

Mausoleum, Account of, 129.
But o'the Ben, Song, 52.

Butter, Methods of Making, 127, 223.
Byron, Lord, Life and Poems of, 337, 358.
Recollections of, 417.
Scott's Character of, 377.
-, Tributes to the Memory of,

350, 357, 417.

Cade, Jack, Insurrection of 1.
Cairns, Welsh, 51.

Cards, Origin of, 211.
Carnival at Paris, the, 277.
Castle of Orcani, a Tale, 71, 94.
Builders, 26, 45.

Catalani, Memoirs of, 155.
Cataract of Lodore, the, 140.
Catches from the German, 238, 410.
Caucasus, Habit of the, 203.

Cavern in North America, Great, 381.
Caxton, William, 194.

Chain-Bridge over the Thames, 303.
Charlotte, Princess, 22, 188.
Cheapside, Cross in, 193.
Chess, Origin of, 211.
Child Saved, the, 360.

Chili, Entertainments in, 282.
Christmas Games of Negroes, 10.
Carol, 25.

Coals, Discovery and Use of, 277.
Comet, Lines on the, 153.
Commerce, History of, 130.

COMMON-PLACE BOOK, MY, 331, 375, 408.
Concert, Amateur, 86, 105.

, in Town, the First, 211.

Constitution, American, 253.
Cookey's Love-Letter, 228.
Corpulence, on, 103.

Coughs, Receipt for a, 127, 288.

Cowper, the Poet, Letter and Poems of, 108.

Cromwell Lying in State, 273.

's House in Whitehall, 305.

Crossing the Desert, 316.

of Proverbs, 70.

Crucifixion, the, 229.
Crumbs of Comfort, 74.
Custom, Singular, 31.
Customs, Ancient, 203, 213.

Dancing, Defence of, 373.
Dandies, Satire on the, 143.

Dartford Nunnery, Account of, 9.

David's Day, St., 153.

Davy, Sir Humphrey, 216.

Day after Pay-Day at Sea, 109.

Grierson, Constantia, Life of, 231.
Grimaldi, Joe, 30, 303.

Grotto of St. Odille, 319.

Gwyn, Nell, Memoirs of, 207.
Hampstead Heath, a Sketch, 299.

Hands, on the Custom of Kissing, 67.
Hawkins, Sir John, Account of, 389.
Headly, Henry, Life of, 133, 156.
Heilan Heather, 403.

Hindoo Architect, a, 123. Festival, 258.
Hoax in Lisbon, 246.

Hot Rolls or St. Monday, 132.
Howling at Funerals, 35.

Human Life, Pulsations of, 304.

195.

Deafness, Remedy of, 176, 224.
Death, Observations on, 108.

--, on the Punishment of, 205.
Dervishes, Account of the, 182.
Dodd, Dr., Letter to, 163.
Dog, the Old, 292.

Anecdotes of the, 183, 304.
Douglas, Marchioness of, Lines on, 62.
Dream of Borberay, the, 358.
Drouet, Life of, 382.
Duelling, History of, 323.
Dusty Bob's Love-Letter, 136.

Ears and Ear-rings, on, 151.

Easter Monday Customs, 253,
Eating, the Praise of, 238.

Embalming, 36.

Engravers, British, 110.

Entertainment, Places of, in India, 409.

Epee, the Abbe de l', 147, 161.

EPIGRAMS in every Number.

EPITAPHS in every Number.

Eponina and Sabinius, 101.

Esquimaux, the, 217, 280, 379.
Etiquette, Spanish, 286.

Ettrick Shepherd, Anecdotes by, 183.
Exchange, the Royal, 248.
Facetiæ, 128.

Farmer's Wife, the, 91.

February, on the Month of, 89, 99.

Fifteenth Century, Customs of the, 213.
Fishes, Revivification of, 213.
Flor Silin, a Russian Tale, 284.
Fontenelle, Anecdote of, 30.
Forest Vale, the, 215.

Franklin, Dr., Anecdote of, 158.
Fruits in England, 78.
Funerals, Irish, 138.
Gaming, Strictures on, 99.

Gay, the Poet, Anecdote of, 269.
Geneva, Description of, 78.
Gentlewoman, the, a Fragment, 307.
Geographical Garden, 229.
George III., Anecdotes of, 79, 139.
Ghost, the, 398.

Gibraltar, Journal of Siege of, 244.
Glenara, a Poem, 164.

Good Woman, Sign of, Explained, 131.
Gordon, of Brackley, a Ballad, 267.
Gouty Merchant and Stranger, 174
Grandmother, My, 272.
Gratitude, a Persian Tale, 205.
Greenwich Fair, 404.

Grey Ass, the better Sign, 210.
Grey Friars Monastery, the, 121.

Huntingdon, Countess, Letter of, 163.
Husband, the, from the Greek, 180.
Imagination, Effects of, 68
Indian Lover's Song, 69.
Ingenuity, Minute, 383.

Ink, Indelible, Recipes for, 159.
Inquisition, Spanish, Secrets of the, 396.
Ireland, Ancient Police of, 104.

Stanzas on King's Voyage to, 199.
Irving, Rev. Edward, Character of, 12.
Washington, 269.

Jack of Newberry, Account of, 314.
James's Powder, Recipe for, 15.
Janet's Letter to the Editor, 75.

January, on the Month of, 53, 68.
Jenkins, Epitaph on Old, 245.

Jockie is grown a Gentleman, 326, 387.
Jones, Paul, Life of, 317, 335.
Juggernaut, the Car of, 257.

Kemble, Stephen, and the Jew, 287.
Kremlin at Moscow described, 113.

Lambeth, a Poem, 308. Church, 143.
Lament of Boxoma, the, 371.

Latour, Manbourg, Anecdote of, 160.
Leap-year, explanation of, 135.
Lear, Story of King, 34.

Lee, Nathaniel, Anecdote of, 240.
Lent, or a Visit to Catholic Friends, 21.
Legislator, Humane, on a, 242, 274.
Leisure Hours, 19, 35, 82.

Letter from the Country to a Friend in
Town, 332.

Life, Probabilities of, 111. In London, 178.
Lightning, Artificial, 362.
Lily, the, 202.

Lines to an Infant, 101.

presented with a rose, 405.
by a Lady to her Lord, 391
to a Young Lady, 158.
Lima, Theatre at, 283.
Lisbon, description of, 222, 364.
Lithography, Description of, 163.
London Bridge, account of, 411.
Stone described, 1.
Lyrics, 168.

Love, Miss, Lines on, 240.
at First Sight, 416.