upon; with what confidence, therefore, could sending me off like a criminal to visit her once | least solid excuse. In the morning, having we put ourselves in his power? In truth, in a month or forty days." made the troops array themselves in their

these reflections had reason on their side. I We regret to add that some horribly disgust- armour, and caparison and cover their horses therefore halted a little, and held a consulta-ing Mahommedan vices are afterwards detailed; with cloth of mail, we marched out and moved tion, when it was finally agreed, that, though but we hasten to the retaking of Samarkand towards the enemy, having drawn out the army our reflections were not without foundation, from the Usbeks who had captured that city in order of battle, with right and left wing, we had been too late of making them. We under Shebaini Khan. centre and advance." had now passed three days and three nights "One day I happened to be in the castle of He was routed, and tells, "The enemy now bewithout rest; and we had come a distance of Asfendek with some of my inferior nobles and gan to charge us both in front and rear, pouring twenty-five farsangs without stopping; that officers, such as Dost Nâsir, Neviân Gokultâsh, in showers of arrows. The Moghul troops which neither man nor horse had any strength left; Kâsim Gokultâsh, Khan Kuli Kerîmdâd, Sheikh had come to my assistance did not attempt to that there was no possibility of retreating, and, Dervish, Khosrou Gokultâsh, and Miram Nasir, fight, but, instead of fighting, betook themeven if we could retreat, no place of safety to who were sitting and conversing around me. The selves to dismounting and plundering my own retire to; that, since we had come so far, we conversation turned at random on a variety of people. Nor is this a solitary instance, such is must proceed. Nothing happens but by the subjects. I happened to say, Come! let us the uniform practice of these wretches the will of God. Reposing ourselves on His pro- hit on a lucky guess, and may God accomplish Moghuls; if they defeat the enemy they intection, we went forward. About the time of it! When shall we take Samarkand?' Some stantly seize the booty; if they are defeated, the sûnnet (or morning prayer), we reached said, ' We shall take it in the spring, (it was they plunder and dismount their own allies, the gate of the castle of Marghinân. Ali Dost then the harvest); some said in a month, and, betide what may, carry off the spoil. The Taghai stood over the gateway, without throw- some in forty days, some in twenty days. enemy who were in front made several furious ing the gate open, and desired conditions. Neviân Gokultâsh said, We shall take it attacks on me, but were worsted and driven After I had assented to terms, and given him within a fortnight;' and Almighty God veri- back; they, however, rallied again and charged; my promise, he caused the gates to be opened, fied his words, for we did take it within the division of the enemy that had gained our and paid his respects to me, conducting me to the fortnight. About this time I had a re- rear coming up at the same time, and discharging a suitable house within the fort. The men markable dream. I thought that the reverend showers of arrows on our troops. Being thus who had accompanied me amounted, great and Khwajeh Abid-ûlla had come to visit me. I surrounded and attacked both before and besmall, to two hundred and forty." went out to receive him, and the Khwâjeh hind, my men were driven from their ground. Here was a new turn of fortune: Baber came in and sat down. It appeared to me In battle, the great reliance of the Uzbeks is immediately recovered his paternal kingdom of that a table was spread for him, but per- on the Tulghmeh (or turning the enemy's Andejan; but in consequence of issuing an haps not with sufficient attention to neat- flank). They never engage without using the ill-advised order against his enemies after he ness, on which account the holy man seemed Tulghmeh. Another of their practices is to had granted them terms, the struggle recom- to be somewhat displeased. Mulla Bába ob- advance and charge in front and rear, dismenced, and he was again driven from his serving this, made me a sign. I answered him charging their arrows at full gallop, pell-mell, throne. In one of the battles, he records- likewise by signs, that the fault was not mine, chiefs and common soldiers; and, if repulsed, "Two cavaliers had a gallant combat. On but the person's who had spread the table- they in like manner retire full gallop. Only my side was Samad, one of Ibrahim Sâru's cloth. The Khwâjeh perceived what passed, ten or fifteen persons were now left with me. younger brothers, and on the other side was and was satisfied with my excuse. When he The river Kohik was near at hand, the extreShah-sawâr, one of the Moghuls of Hissar. rose to depart I attended him out. In the hall mity of my right wing having rested upon it. They met hand to hand, and Shah-sawâr urged of the house, however, he seemed to seize me We made the best of our way to it, and no his blow with such force, that he drove his by the right or left arm, and lifted me up so sooner gained its banks than we plunged in, sabre right through Samad's helmet, and fixed high that one of my feet was raised from the armed at all points both horse and man. it pretty deep in his skull. In spite of this ground, while he said to me in Turki, Sheikh more than half of the ford we had a firm footwound, Samad returned the blow with such Maslehet Berdi, Your religious instructor ing, but after that we sank beyond our depths, fury, that his sword shore clean off a piece of has counselled you.' A few days after this I and were forced, for upward of a bowshot, to Shah-sawar's skull as big as the palm of the took Samarkand.” swim our horses, loaded as they were with their hand. As Shah-sawâr had no helmet on, the riders in armour, and their own trappings. Yet wound in his head was properly bound up and they plunged through it. On getting out of he recovered; but there being nobody to attend the water on the other side, we cut off our to Samad's wound, he died of it in three or horses' heavy furniture and threw it away. four days." When we had reached the north side of the river, we were separated from the enemy. Of all others, the wretches of Moghuls were the most active in unhorsing and stripping the stragglers. Ibrahim Terkhân, and a great number of excellent soldiers, were unhorsed, stripped, and put to death by them.

"For nearly a hundred and forty years, Samarkand had been the capital of my family. A foreign robber, one knew not whence he came, had seized the kingdom, which dropped from our hands. Almighty God now restored it to me, and gave me back my plundered and pillaged country."

For

If the Moghul race were a race of angels, it is a bad race;
And were the name Moghul written in gold, it would be
Take care not to pluck one ear of corn from a Moghul's

odious.

harvest;

is execrable.

Be

Other war anecdotes are curious enough. On besieging a place called Mâdu, it is stated: "Such a number of huge stones as were Baber was at this time nineteen years old; launched from the fort of Madu, in all the and his next battle with Shebaini Khan shews storms that I have witnessed, I never saw that the impetuosity of youth was not withthrown from any other castle. Abdal Kadûs held from him. Kohbur, the elder brother of Kitteh Beg, "I now (he says) turned my whole attenhaving climbed up to the foot of the castle- tion and solicitude to the approaching battle. wall, was hit by a large stone discharged from Kamber Ali assisted me. Baki Terkhân, with above, which sent him spinning down, heels a thousand or two thousand men, had arrived over head, from that prodigious height, right in Kesh, and would have joined me in two The Moghul seed is such, that whatever is sowed with it forward, without touching anywhere till he days. Syed Muhammed Doghlet, the Mir's Advancing up the north side of the river Kohik, lighted, tumbling and rolling, at the bottom of son, too, was advancing with a thousand or I re-crossed it in the vicinity of Kulbeh. the glacis. Yet he received no injury, and fifteen hundred men, who had been sent to my tween the time of afternoon and evening immediately mounted his horse and returned assistance by the Khan my maternal uncle; back to the camp." they had reached Dabùl, only four farsangs prayers, I reached the Sheikh-zadeh's gate, and But perhaps Baber's account of his marriage from my camp, and would have joined me next is yet more characteristic. morning. Such was our situation, when I pre"Aisha Sultan Begum, the daughter of Sul- cipitated matters, and hurried on the battle: tan Ahmed Mirza, to whom I had been be-" He who with impatient haste lays his hand on his trothed in the lifetime of my father and uncle, having arrived in Khojend, I now married her, Will afterwards gnaw that hand with his teeth from in the month of Shaban. In the first period The cause of my eagerness to engage, was, IT is with sincere pleasure that we notice this of my being a married man, though I had no that the stars called the Sahzyulduz (or eight second edition of a poem the great beauties of small affection for her, yet, from modesty and stars) were on that day exactly between the which were allowed to remain far too long in ob bashfulness, I went to her only once in ten, two armies; and if I had suffered that day to livion. At length the public has been awakened fifteen, or twenty days. My affection after- elapse, they would have continued favourable to what is due to so high a talent and to its wards declined, and my shyness increased; in- to the enemy for the space of thirteen or four-own character; and we doubt not but that somuch, that my mother the Khanem, used to teen days. These observances were all non- this and all succeeding works by Mr. Carringfall upon me and scold me with great fury, sense, and my precipitation was without the ton will speedily meet with the popularity they

sword,

regret.

entered the citadel."

SIGHTS OF BOOKS.

Dartmoor: a Descriptive Poem. By N. T.
Carrington. 8vo. Second Edition.
don, 1826.

Lon

It must, I think, be withdrawn.

that this is desirable; but we are not sure that publish a letter on any subject whatever, and
great publishers and booksellers will not soon prints 1000 copies, must, besides paper and
find cause to repent the practice. There must print, begin by paying 401. stamp duty, whe-
be an immense sale of such volumes to barely ther he sells all, or not a single copy. M. de
repay their expenses; and it seems to us likely Chateaubriand says, "that the project has
to affect the demand for new works, and con- been forged in complete ignorance of the sub-
sequently the remuneration of authors most ject, and worthy of a clerk of the eleventh
materially; since many buyers will wait for century."
editions at some half-crown or three shillings'
price, instead of paying perhaps a guinea or two
for the first impressions. We will not however
stop now to discuss this question: it is more
Suffice it to
the business of others than ours.
notice, that Mr. Constable's announced list is
richly improved, and promises a multitude of
works which cannot fail to be popular, and to
spread much valuable information among the
people. Of Captain Hall's interesting Voyages,
with which he has begun, we need say nothing
--for often have they already extorted our
warmest praises. A Life of Burns, by Mr. Lock-
hart; a Life of the Duke of Wellington, by
Mr. Gleig, and other novelties, are advertised,
and must be looked for with impatience.

Paris, 6th Jan.

The papers, of course, do not lose sight of the subject for punning. Timbre means a stamp; and the participle timbré, stamped, and also crackbrained. One of the puns runs : an engraved head of M. de P. has been published-il est timbré." Hundreds of puns are published on the same subject.

"My law," says timbre sec," will make impression." "Destroy impressions, you mean," was the reply.

The printers of Brussels rub their hands: those of Paris wipe their eyes.

The principal cause of the great American revolution was the duty on stamps.

The Constitutionnel says the project of the law on the press is Spanish: we know it is not

French.

ARTS AND SCIENCES.
THE NEW COMET.

The Tradesman's Law Assistant and Adviser. By James Nicholls, Gent. Attorney at Law. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. 8vo. pp. 201. London, 1826. Butterworth. IGNORANCE of the law excuseth no man," PARIS was never so dull on a new year's day said Selden long before the law was so volumi- as this year. M. de Peyronnet's new year's nots that no man on earth can fail to be igno- gift, in the shape of a project of law on the rant of it; but still the precept holdeth good press, threw all ranks into confusion: it is a IN the Literary Gazette of the 16th ulto. we to this day; so that woe be to him who, igno- bolder attempt at the total destruction of the first announced, from the Kelso Mail Newsrantly, goeth to law. Should there be persons press than was ever made in any age or coun- paper, that a Mr. Veitch, residing near Kelso, of this litigious nature, they will find Mr. try. Yet its author pretends it to be a law of and an acute astronomical observer, had disNicholls's a very serviceable book. It is well justice and love." A court of love must then covered on the 3d a new comet in the constelarranged, and seems to apply to all ordinary lation Hercules. This is now corroborated by cases; and there is an alphabetical index for the continental Journals, which announce that reference, so that any man of understanding Mr. Gambard, of the Royal Observatory at may soon enable himself to know what course Marseilles, had seen the same comet on the be should take when emergencies occur. 27th, at four o'clock in the morning, when its right ascension was 16 hours 34 minutes, and its northern declination 218° 27′. Mr. Veitch could perceive this comet with the eye; Mr. Gambard says it could not be seen without a glass.

The History of Scotland from the Earliest Period to the Middle of the Ninth Century. By the Rev. Alexander Low, A.M. 8vo. pp. 498. Edinburgh, Bell and Bradfute; London, Longman and Co.; Aberdeen,Brown and Co.

LONDON INSTITUTION.

ON the 2d instant, Mr. Partington commenced a course of lectures (his fifth annual one) on general science and the useful arts, at this institution; the meeting was well attended; Sir W. Blizard, Colonel Colby, and other gentlemen attached to scientific pursuits, being also present.

be instituted to give it effect; it will of course vary a little from the cours d'amour of the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. M. de Chateaubriand has entered the lists against his quondam colleague, and has published a letter in all the journals, of which the printers are reprinting an edition of 300,000, to be distributed gratis. The noble author takes precisely the same grounds that I took in my last letter, written at the moment the project appeared. I had indeed omitted several parts of it through haste; as, for instance, that by THIS is a very excellent volume, produced with the project a widow cannot continue the busionsiderable labour, often taking original ness of a printer after her husband's death, views, and always consulting the best authori- nor even be a sleeping partner in any printing tes in a skilful manner. The style is plain concern. What will Madame Agasse, the and unaffected, and the author in other respects printer of the Moniteur, say to this? Her has spared no pains to give the public what father, M. Panckouke, left her the property V much wanted, a well-digested and well- of the Moniteur- her whole fortune consists arranged history of the ancient days of Scot-in it. Is she to be compelled to sell it at any In setting out, the lecturer professed his and. We observe from the preface, that the price that may be offered for it? or, if she purpose to be to strip science as much as posLeay on which his work is founded was dis- does not, is the Moniteur, the official journal sible of its technicalities. He then adverted guished by the Highland Society; a foretaste of the government, to be suppressed? to the importance of chemistry to a commercial f what he may safely anticipate from the A bookseller publishes a new edition of Vol-nation like Great Britain; and passing from meral reader, as the reward of his enlarged taire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, or even Mas- the general view, noticed that a primary object performance. sillon: is it to be permitted by law, that any of his experimental inquiry would be the detecvolume of such reprint shall be seizable? The tion of adulterations; namely, those poisonous edition would be reduced to the value of waste paper; for no one would have an incomplete copy; or the suppressed volumes would still be printed, and sold at a price proportioned to the Tars Miscellany, projected some time ago by risk and the importance of completing sets. Mr. Constable, has been delayed by circum-As to the suppression of books, every attempt Its object is to furnish at it is idle; there is not one work that has bitter aloes, &c., and for these he would explain dard works at a cheap rate, for readers be- been suppressed, within these ten years, which the most accessible tests and antidotes. The ugg to the agricultural, mechanical, and may not easily be had, on paying twice or thrice last part of the address referred to caloric, or anufacturing classes; and we observe similar its value. As to pamphlets, plays, &c. the heat; and after alluding to its prodigious Projects are announced in other quarters; so project strikes their death-blow: if it be only that, by and by, it may be expected that books a single sheet, the stamp duty of ten pence is every kind, whether republications or ori- levied on every copy, the same as a newspaper, mal treatises, &c., will be as plenty and as and one penny on every subsequent sheet of sible as blackberries. For the general every copy. So that an author who wishes to on of intelligence there cannot be a doubt * This, however, rather shews that some new law was Three weekly numbers form a volume.

and IV.

Constable's Miscellany. Nos. I., II., III.,
Hall's Voyages. Edinburgh,
A. Constable and Co.; London, Hurst, Ro-

binson, and Co. 1826.

stances till now.

necessary.-Ed.

admixtures of chemical bodies with necessary articles of life, alike disgraceful to the chemist and the trader. Another class of cases, of a similar character, would occupy his attention; such as the substitution of oxalic acid for sulphate of magnesia (Epsom salts), of opium for

effects in nature, Mr. P. ably concluded, “but if we descend to a microscopic consideration of its agency, we shall find results no less important, though certainly less obvious. Does a blade of grass vegetate, or a plant put forth its flower? Then is the solar beam in operation for the benefit of mankind."

THE LITERARY GAZETTE, AND

His Royal Highness the Duke of York, &c.
Painted by A. Geddes; engraved by T.
Hodgetts. Colnaghi, Son, and Co.
possession of the Duke of Rutland, and dedi-
THIS print, from the original picture in the
the late Commander-in-Chief. It is engraved
with accordant spirit from (we believe) the
cated to his Grace, is a fine martial likeness of
last likeness for which his Royal Highness had
the condescension to sit, and does justice at
once to those features which Art only now can
reputation as a painter of striking portraits.
impress on the public eye, and to Mr. Geddes's
from saying more; and we have only to add,
The lateness of its publication precludes us
with Doo's admirable engraving from Sir T.
that it comes fairly into the field to compete
Lawrence.

the same artist of this distinguished officer,
Sir Charles Doyle, a private engraving by
from Mrs. Carpenter's fine and able portrait,
has also just appeared; and the collector is for-
tunate who obtains a copy of it.

His Royal Highness the Duke of York, from
Mr. Jackson's Portrait. Engraved by Tur-
ner. Sams.

THIS is another, a different, and yet a fine
and characteristic head of his Royal Highness.
It is a timely and beautiful tribute to departed
divide public attention with the other most
successful efforts.
greatness and worth, and eminently deserves to

On every thing that here doth spring, on all

But live with Man--his dark heart scan-its paltry selfishness

Will shew to thee why men like me love the lone wilderness.

BIOGRAPHY.

MEMOIR OF THE DUKE OF YORK.

By the Author of Waverley.

which they were obliged to perform. An in- | of the mere gaieties and follies of youth, a com-
telligent sergeant whispered from time to time plaint of any kind, implying a departure from
the word of command, which his captain would the character of a gentleman and a man of
have been ashamed to have known without honour, was instantly inquired into by the Com-
prompting; and thus the duty of the field-day mander-in-Chief, and the delinquent censured
was huddled over rather than performed. It or punished, as the case seemed to require.
was natural, under such circumstances, that The army was thus like a family under pro-
the pleasures of the mess, or of the card or bil-tection of an indulgent father, who, willing to
liard table, should occupy too much of the lei- promote merit, checks with a timely frown the
sure of those who had so few duties to per- temptations to license and extravagance.
form, and that extravagance, with all its dis-
reputable consequences, should be the charac-
teristic of many; while others, despairing of
promotion, which could only be acquired by
money or influence, sunk into mere machines,
performing without hope or heart a task which
they had learned by rote.

In the person of his Royal Highness the
Duke of York, we may justly say, in the lan-
guage of Scripture, "there has fallen this day
in our Israel a Prince and a Great Man." He
has, from an early period of his manhood, per-
formed a most important part in public life.
In the early wars of the French Revolution,
The private soldiers equally engaged the at-
he commanded the British forces on the Conti-
tention of his Royal Highness. In the course
nent; and although we claim not for his me-
of his superintendence of the army, a military
mory the admiration due to the rare and high
dress, the most absurd in Europe, was altered
gifts which in our latter times must combine
for one easy and comfortable for the men, and
to form a military genius of the first order, yet
suitable to the hardships they are exposed to in
it has never been disputed, that in the field his
actual service. The severe and vexatious rules
Royal Highness displayed intelligence, military To this state of things, by a succession of exacted about the tying of hair, and other trifling
skill, and his family attribute, the most unal- well-considered and effectual regulations, the punctilios (which had been found sometimes to
terable courage. He had also the universal Duke of York put a stop with a firm yet goad troops into mutiny), were abolished, and
testimony of the army for his efforts to lessen gentle hand. Terms of service were fixed strict cleanliness was substituted for a Hottentot
the distresses of the privates, during the horrors for every rank, and neither influence nor head-dress of tallow and flour. The pay of the
of an unsuccessful campaign, in which he ac- money were permitted to force any indivi- soldier was augmented, while care was at the
quired, and kept to his death, the epithet of the dual forward, until he had served the ne- same time taken that it should, as far as pos-
Soldier's Friend.
cessary time in the present grade which he sible, be expended in bettering his food and ex-
But it is not on account of these early ser-held. No rank short of that of the Duke of tending his comforts. The slightest complaint
vices that we now, as boldly as our poor voice York-no courage and determination inferior to on the part of a private sentinel was as regularly
may, venture to bring forward the late Duke that of his Royal Highness, could have accom- inquired into, as if it had been preferred by a ge-
of York's claims to the perpetual gratitude of plished a change so important to the service, neral officer. Lastly, the use of the cane (a brutal
his country. It is as the reformer and regene- but which yet was so unfavourable to the practice, which our officers borrowed from the
rator of the British army, which he brought wealthy and to the powerful, whose children Germans) was entirely prohibited; and regular
from a state nearly allied to general contempt, and protegés had formerly found a brief way corporal punishments by the sentence of a court-
to such a pitch of excellence, that we may, to promotion. Thus a protection was afforded martial have been gradually diminished.
without much hesitation, claim for them an to those officers who could only hope to rise
equality with, if not a superiority over, any by merit and length of service, while at the
troops in Europe. The Duke of York had the same time the young aspirant was compelled to
firmness to look into and examine the causes, discharge the duties of a subaltern before at-
which, ever since the American war, though taining the higher commissions.
arising out of circumstances existing long before,
had gone as far to destroy the character of the
British army, as the natural good materials
of which it is composed would permit. The
heart must have been bold that did not despair
at the sight of such an Augean stable.

If, therefore, we find in the modern British officer more information, a more regular course of study, a deeper acquaintance with the principles of his profession, and a greater love for its exertions if we find the private sentinel In other respects, the influence of the Com- discharge his duty with a mind unembittered mander-in-Chief was found to have the same by petty vexations and regimental exactions, gradual and meliorating influence. The vicissi-conscious of immunity from capricious violence, tudes of real service, and the emergencies to which and knowing where to appeal if he sustains inindividuals are exposed, began to render igno- | jury—if we find in all ranks of the army a love rance unfashionable, as it was speedily found, of their profession, and a capacity of matching In the first place, our system of purchasing that mere valour, however fiery, was unable, themselves with the finest troops which Europe Commissions, itself an evil in a military point on such occasions, for the extrication of those ever produced,-to the memory of his Royal of view, and yet indispensable to the freedom engaged in them; and that they who knew their Highness the Duke of York we owe this change of the country,—had been stretched so far as duty and discharged it, were not only most from the state of the forces thirty years since. to open the way to every sort of abuse. No secure of victory and safety in action, but The means of improving the tactics of the science was required, no service, no previous most distinguished at head-quarters, and most British army did not escape his Royal Highexperience whatsoever; the boy, let loose from certain of promotion. Thus a taste for study-ness's sedulous care and attention. Formerly school the last week, might in the course of a ing mathematics, and calculations applicable every commanding officer manoeuvered his month be a field-officer, if his friends were dis- to war, was gradually introduced into the regiment after his own fashion; and if a posed to be liberal of money and influence. army, and carried by some officers to a great brigade of troops were brought together, it Others there were, against whom there could length; while a perfect acquaintance with the was very doubtful whether they could exebe no complaint for want of length of service, routine of the field-day was positively demanded cute any one combined movement, and almost although it might be difficult to see how their from every officer in the service as an indis- certain that they could not execute the various experience was improved by it. It was no un-pensable qualification. parts of it on the same principle. This common thing for a commission to be obtained His Royal Highness also introduced a species was remedied by the system of regulations for a child in the cradle; and when he came compiled by the late Sir David Dundas, and from college, the fortunate youth was at least a which obtained the sanction and countenance bentenant of some standing, by dint of fair of his Royal Highness. This one circumstance, promotion. To sum up this catalogue of abuses, of giving a uniform principle and mode of Commissions were in some instances bestowed working to the different bodies, which are upon young ladies, when pensions could not be after all but parts of the same great machine, had. We know ourselves one fair dame who was in itself one of the most distinguished serdrew the pay of Captain in the dragoons, vices which could be rendered to a national and was probably not much less fit for the serarmy; and it is only surprising that, before ve than some who at that period actually did it was introduced, the British army was able daty; for, as we have said, no knowledge of to execute any combined movements at all. any kind was demanded from the young officers. We can but notice the Duke of York's esta If they desired to improve themselves in the to the accompt, and failing his rendering a blishment near Chelsea for the orphans of solelemental parts of their profession, there was satisfactory answer, he was put on stoppages diers, the cleanliness and discipline of which is no means open either of direction or of in-until the creditor's demand was satisfied. Re- a model for such institutions; and the Royal action. But as a zeal for knowledge rarely peated applications of this kind might endanger Military School, or College, at Sandhurst, enists where its attainment brings no credit or the officer's commission, which was then sold for where every species of scientific instruction is advantage, the gay young men who adopted the payment of his creditors. Other moral delin-afforded to those officers whom it is desirable te military profession were easily led into the quencies were at the same time adverted to; and to qualify for the service of the staff. The fashion of thinking that it was pedantry to be without maintaining an inquisitorial strictness excellent officers who have been formed at this master even of the routine of the exercise over the officers, or taking too close inspection | institution, are the best pledge of what is due

of moral discipline among the officers of our
army, which has had the highest consequences
on their character. Persons of the old school
of Captain Plume and Captain Brazen, men
who swore hard, drank deep, bilked tradesmen,
and plucked pigeons, were no longer allowed
to arrogate a character which they could only
support by deep oaths and ready swords. If a
tradesman, whose bill was unpaid by an officer,
thought proper to apply to the Horse-Guards,
the debtor received a letter from head-quarters,
requiring to know if there existed any objections

been sincerely entertained, since they were ex-
pressed at the hazard of drawing down upon
his Royal Highness an odium equally strong and
resentful.

was a striking illustration of the sentiment of
Shakspeare :—

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make whips to scourge us.-———

to its founder. Again we repeat, that if the British soldier meets his foreign adversary, not only with equal courage, but with equal readiness and facility of manoeuvre-if the British officer brings against his scientific antagonist, In his person and countenance, the Duke of The Duke of York married to Frederica, not only his own good heart and hand, but an York was large, stout, and manly; he spoke Princess Royal of Prussia, Sept. 29, 1791, lived improved and enlightened knowledge of his rather with some of the indistinctness of utter- with her on terms of decency, but not of affecprofession, to the memory of the Duke of ance peculiar to his late father, than with tion; and the Duke had formed, with a female York, the army and the country owe them. the precision of enunciation which distin- called Clarke, a connexion justifiable certainly The character of his Royal Highness was guishes the King, his royal brother. Indeed, neither by the laws of religion nor morality. admirably adapted to the task of this extended his Royal Highness resembled his late Ma- Imprudently, he suffered this woman to express reformation in a branch of the public service jesty perhaps the most of any of George III.'s her wishes to him for the promotion of two or on which the safety of England absolutely descendants. His family affections were strong; three officers, to whose preferment there could depended for the time. Without possessing and the public cannot have forgotten the be no other objection than that they were any brilliancy, his judgment, in itself clear and pious tenderness with which he discharged recommended by such a person. It might steady, was inflexibly guided by honour and the duty of watching the last days of his doubtless have occurred to the Duke, that the principle. No solicitations could make him royal father, darkened as they were by cor- solicitations of a woman like this were not promise what it would have been inconsistent poreal blindness and mental incapacity. No likely to be disinterested; and, in fact, she with these principles to grant ; nor could any pleasure, no business, was ever known to inter- seems to have favoured one or two persons as circumstances induce him to break or elude the rupt his regular visits to Windsor, where his un- being her paramours several for mere pro.. promise which he had once given. At the same happy parent could neither be grateful for, nor spect of gain, which she had subordinate agents time, his feelings, humane and kindly, were, even sensible of, his unremitted attention. The to hunt out for, and one or two from a real on all possible occasions, accessible to the claims same ties of affection united his Royal High- sense of good-nature and benevolence. The of compassion; and there occurred but rare ness to other members of his family, and par- examination of this woman and her various instances of a wife widowed, or a family ren- ticularly to its present Royal Head. Those profligate intimates before the House of Comdered orphans, by the death of a meritorious who witnessed the coronation of his present mons, occupied that assembly for nearly three officer, without something being done to render Majesty will long remember, as the most months, and that with an intenseness of their calamities more tolerable. interesting part of that august ceremony, the anxiety seldom equalled. The Duke of York As a statesman, the Duke of York, from his cordiality with which his Royal Highness the was acquitted from the motion brought against earliest appearance in public life, was guided by Duke of York performed his act of homage, him, by a majority of eighty; but so strong the opinions of Mr. Pitt. But two circum- and the tears of affection which were mutually was the outcry against him without doors, stances are worthy of remark. First, that his shed between the royal brethren. We are so much was the nation convinced that all Mrs. Royal Highness never permitted the considera- aware, that under this heavy dispensation his Clarke said was true, and so little could they be tion of politics to influence him in his depart- Majesty will be chief mourner not in name brought to doubt that the Duke of York was a ment of Commander-in-Chief, but gave alike only, but in all the sincerity of severed affec- conscious and participant actor in all that perto Whig as to Tory the preferment their tion. The King's nearest brother in blood son's schemes, that his Royal Highness, seeing service or their talents deserved. Secondly, was also his nearest in affection; and the his utility obstructed by popular prejudice, in attaching himself to the party whose ob- subject who stood next to the throne was the tendered to his Majesty the resignation of his ject it is supposed to be to strengthen the individual who would most willingly have laid office, which was accepted accordingly, March Crown, his Royal Highness would have been down his life for its support. 20, 1809. And thus as according to Solomon, the last man to invade, in the slightest degree, In social intercourse the Duke of York was a dead fly can pollute the most precious unthe rights of the people. The following anec- kind, courteous, and condescending, general at- guent-was the honourable fame, acquired dote may be relied upon. At the table of the tributes, we believe, of the blood royal of Eng- by the services of a lifetime, obscured by the Commander-in-Chief, not many years since, land, and well befitting the princes of a free consequences of what the gay world would a young officer entered into a dispute with country. It may be remembered, that when, have termed a venial levity. The warning Lieutenant-Colonel upon the point to in "days of youthful pride," his Royal High- to those of birth and eminence, is of the which military obedience ought to be carried. ness had wounded the feelings of a young noble- most serious nature. This step had not been "If the Commander-in-Chief," said the young man, he never thought of sheltering himself long taken, when the mist in which the question officer, like a second Seid, "should command behind his rank, but manfully gave reparation was involved began to disperse. The public me to do a thing which I knew to be civilly by receiving the (well-nigh fatal) fire of the accuser, in the House of Commons, Colonel illegal, I should not scruple to obey him, and offended party, though he declined to re- Wardle, was detected in some suspicious dealings consider myself as relieved from all respon- turn it. with the principal witness, Mrs. Clarke; and sibility by the commands of my military su- We would here gladly conclude the subject; it was evidently expectation of gain that had perior.""So would not I," returned the but to complete a portrait, the shades as well as brought this lady to the bar as an evidence. gallant and intelligent officer who maintained the lights must be inserted; and in their foibles as Next occurred, in the calm moments of retrothe opposite side of the question." I should well as their good qualities, princes are the pro- spect, the great improbability that his Royal rather prefer the risk of being shot for dis-perty of history. Occupied perpetually with offi- Highness ever could know on what terms she obedience, by my commanding officer, than cial duty, which to the last period of his life he negociated with those in whose favour she hanged for transgressing the laws and vio-discharged with the utmost punctuality, the solicited. It may be well supposed she conlating the liberties of the country."- "You Duke of York was peculiarly negligent of his cealed the motive for interesting herself in such have answered like yourself," said his Royal own affairs, and the embarrassments which as were his own favoured rivals, and what Highness, whose attention had been attracted arose in consequence, were considerably in- greater probability was there, that she should by the vivacity of the debate; "and the of-creased by an imprudent passion for the turf explain to him her mercenary speculations, or ficer would deserve both to be shot and hanged and for deep play. Those unhappy propensities distinguish them from the intercessions which that should act otherwise. I trust all British exhausted the funds with which the nation she made upon more honourable motives? When officers would be as unwilling to execute an supplied him liberally, and sometimes produced the matter of accusation was thus reduced to illegal command, as I trust the commander-in-extremities which must have been painful to his Royal Highness's having been, in two or chief would be incapable of issuing one." a man of temper so honourable. The exalted three instances, the dupe of an artful woman, The religion of the Duke of York was sin-height of his rank, which renders it doubtless men began to see, that when once the guilt cere, and he was particularly attached to the more difficult to look into and regulate domestic of entertaining a mistress was acknowledged, doctrines and constitution of the Church of expenditure, together with the engrossing the disposition to gratify such a person, England. In this his Royal Highness strongly duties of his Royal Highness's office, may be who must always exercise a natural influence resembled his father; and, like his father, he admitted as alleviations, but not apologies for over her paramour, follows as a matter of entertained a conscientious sense of the obli- their imprudence. course. It was then that the public compared gations of the coronation oath, which pre- A criminal passion of a different nature the extensive and lengthened train of public vented him from acquiescing in the further proved, at one part of the Duke's life, fraught services, by which the Duke had distinguished relaxation of the laws against Catholics. We with consequences likely to affect his character, himself, in the management of the army, with pronounce no opinion on the justice of his destroy the confidence of the country in his the trifling foible of his having granted one or Royal Highness's sentiments on this important efforts, and blight the fair harvest of national two favours, not in themselves improper, at point; but we must presume them to have gratitude, for which he had toiled so hard. It the request of a woman who had such opportu