those who have none work the same time in the garden and fields; in all there are about 150 persons; all passes in silence, and by signs.

It is a branch from the establishment of the same order near Alençon, established some time since in Shropshire, and now removed here, the house and lands having been pur chased, for that purpose, by an English catholic, about nine years since.

Is Scott's new work yet out? his Quentin Durward has been translated these two years, and is called, in French, La Cour de Louis Onze, but I have not yet found one French person that has read it.

We all remain well in health, as it is almost impossible not to be in this climate.

I have had the exquisite treat of borrowing, from a Scotch family here, the novels down to Quentin Durward, and the one since published is already arrived here, and in a few days 1 hope to obtain it. Readers here, judges or not, say the characters are tamer than ordinary; but what say you? who have, doubtless, also read it. 'Scott's observations appear to me to encrease in strength as he writes on, and, consequently, are not appreciable by those who have made but little way in life, or who have found it of an even tenor:' nay, be says himself, that he had not learned to look on two sides of a question till ten years after he left college. He evidently gives his opinions with more freedom on the main points of human existence, these opinions assuming, in his latter works, the form of dissertations; such as his opinions on marriage, and a future state. His argument with Dr. Dryasdust is a pretty fair one; and his observations and facts in the Introduction to QUENTIN DURWARD are true to the letter, with regard to this country, (France) with one exception; he makes the Marquis observe, that they are afraid to ask to see the English at their houses, because we expect so much; on the contrary it is they who will not come to us, unless we hang chandeliers in the centre of our rooms, and surround our walls with looking glasses; and even then we must have the prefix to our names of DE, the mark of nobility. Two English families, of the most undoubted respectability, have adopted the required desiderata, that they may go amongst them, and have actually printed cards of Mr. De P—, and Mr. De C——. Such is the ignorance of a nation we have raised to the diguity of supposing themselves our rivals.

The Marquis's Spinach is no caricature, a near relative of Eugene Beauharnois, living here, makes all his own cakes, and talks of the menage as a matter of course. I have no room pour politique, and can only add, that I am, &c., &c.

ACTS AND TRACTS.

Ar a party given to the Act and Tract families there were

Catar-ACT

The man of business,

The roaring blade.

(The following could not come 'till (T) tea-time, when the party was considerably encreased, including)

TRACTA

Abs-TRACT

At-TRACT

Con-TRACT

DE TRACT

Dis—TRACT

The Pamphleteer,
The Philosopher,
The Gay Deceiver,
The Army Tailor,

The Back-biter,

The absent man,

The reviewing Dentist,
The Lawyer,

The Word-eater,

Squire of the Night's Body-Thief of the Day's Beauty Waywarden→ Highwayman Gentleman of the shade Diana's Forester Minion of the Moon, &c., &c., &c.

The last of the family, to serve his own purposes, kept it up

ive himeuil silt eemal moodT

to a late hour, dod yn

MOONSHEE AND PUNDITT. OT

A man with words who played his tricks,
Called Moon-shees female lunatics,
That he the title thus might claim
Of learned Punned-it by the same.

LEE-BAY.

A SKETCH EN PASSANT.

I.

Too soon will distance dim the gazer's eye,
And brief the hour my sketch of LEE to fill :
Behold, a vale enclosed by uplands high,

With wood-knolls turretting each azure hill;
Sea-ward a rocky beach, where scattered lie
Some cottages, a lime-kiln, and a mill,
And, for the middle distance, add the charm
Of corn-field, coppice, meadow, orchard, farm.

> II.

There is of shelter plenty for the rude.
And wild of scenery, go stroll the strand,
Or climb the cliff, until thy foot intrude
Upon the smuggler's cavern contraband:
Spirits, they say, will people solitude;

And here, amid the beautiful and grand,
His watch the smuggling wizard used to keep,
Calling his spirits from the vasty deep.'

III.

Through silvery mist of morn, or purple glow
Of evening in the calm, or in the breeze
When woods are waved, or groves are whispering low-
When scarce a ripple falls, or surging seas
Upon the rock-reef break-hath LEE to shew
A charm in every change: and torn from these,
Due to their beauty printed on his mind,
The Poet leaves this lingering lay behind.

TO MY SHORTSIGHTED FRIEND.

How different the ways, yet we play the same part,
To avoid the allurements of Beauty's slave shrine,
You think the more distant the safer your heart,
But, friend, I look closer and so rescue mine,

SHE-GOATS AND HE-GOATS.

Barbam capellæ cum impetrâssent ab Jove,
Hirci mærentes indignari cœperant,
Quod dignitatem fœminæ æquâssent suam
"Sinite," inquit, "illas gloriâ vanâ frui,
Et usurpare vestri ornatum muneris ;
Pares dum non sint vestræ fortitudini."
Hoc argumentum monet, ut sustineas tibi
Habitu esse similes, qui sunt virtute impares.

PHEDRI. FAB. IV. 15.

When the she goats from Jove obtained
Of beards their right of wearing,
The males of the decree complained,
And up their hills ran swearing;
But Jove, who saw them edge their clippers,
Thus addressed the mountain-skippers :-
"Unmanly vanity suppress,

Endure your ladies' rage for dress,
You have the power, resign the show,
Let jealous anger over-blow,

And leave your looking-glass regrets
To Dandies and to Dandizettes.

Behold the moral of The Goats;
Be good, and envy no men's coats;
At Fashion's freaks no more be railers,
For men are not cut out by tailors.

PHILOSOPHY.

"What pretty philosophy yours! With Plato now soaring aloft, Then grovelling in Beauty's false lures," "Well I own the impeachment so soft; I was never my own honest maxims above,— Philo-Sophy for ever!-fair Sophy I love!"

The Sibyl's Portfolio.

About eleven, plates were handed round to all the ladies, and a spoon and fork to each; then came large trays with preserves, sweetmeats, and cakes; after that, punch, lemonade, and white wine. It sometimes happens that a splendid sit-down supper is given, but, in these days of economy, it is very rare,

VOL 2nd. JOURNAL OF RESIDENCE IN COLOMBIA, BY CAPT. C. STUART COCHRANE, R.N.

The last Revel at the Cave: being the substance of a letter from Tracey Prospect, esq. to his friend Robert Ewen Archer, esq., of London.

DEAR ARCHER,

BARNSTAPLE, NORTH DEVON,
April 6th, 1825.

I AM still, as per date, in the land of romance; and am likely to remain so till you give me notice of the Exhibition's opening when I shall positively return to town again, and worship the charms of my dear Iris, the goddess of painters—and peacocks.

*

Το your enquiries about the North Devon Magazine I take leave to inform you, that it is going to be given up, if that consummation be not already effected. Should the Supplement be out by to-morrow I will enclose your two copies in this packet, but I scarcely think it will. I have just seen and supped with that mysterious person the Editor. My introduction to him was founded upon the strength of the Morte-hoe Article you had the impudence to send him. I do not, however, now blame your epistolary treason, as it has made me free of the Cavern Club here; with a much pleasanter initiation than Gil Blas enjoyed on his route to Salamanca.

I have, I say, actually seen the mysterious Editor, and supped with the Cavern Club. But it is not granted me by honor to reveal, or by ability to depict, except in general terms, the particulars of my Cavern entertainment. It will suffice to tell you that the company was select though numerous; comprehending the CAVERN CLUB, the Contributors and many of the Subscribers to The Cave, LUNDY REVIEW, and NORTH DEVON MAGAZINE, besides a few straggling members of the Goose Club.

* See N. D. Magazine, Vol I, page 198.