Star. — London, England, 1822-12-27 00:00:00

1 1 6-ERIIIAN POPULAR STORIES. A very seasonable wort, wit this title, has lust been published. it is not only amusing to the y , ung, for whose benefit it pro fesses to he principally designed, but is interesting to the philo sophical and antiquarian inquirer, as chewing the intimate con nexion bet byLca the popular stories, in all thtir leadirg topics, amongst almost all nations. A very striking resemblance is per•• ctsptible between the old English and old German tales : even T,iontb, who has generally been considered a native Britain, turns out to be as familiar to the inhabitants of Ger many and Scandinavia its in England and Wales. The tal:s are of three sorts—some dialogues of birds and btasts, in the manner of .E.op and ; some moral extrava ga nzas in the style of the bi:igiapkers of Tom Thumb, and other worthies of that stamp ; dome (0:111:1CeN in the manner to.. the l'eoventol Tales" anti the Contes des Fees." The translation is uncommonly bappy : it has all the freedom and freshness of en original. The work is embellished with twelve humorous sketches, by Cruickshank, who is a worthy successor to (Wray. Be has an a stonishing va riety of fancy, with great pow er of ex p ression. Ile' draw ings are far too good to be classed with the ordinary run of carica tures. We select one tale as a specimen : HANS IN LUCK. • Hans had served his master seven years, and at last said to him, " Master, my time is up, I should like to go home and see my mother ; so give me my wares. And the master said, " You have been a faithful and good servant, so your pay surdll be hand some." Then he gave him a piece of silver that was as big as his head. Hans took out his pocket-handkerchief, put the piece of silver into it, threw it over his shoulder, and jogged off homewards. As he went lazily on, drag. <sing one foot after another, a man came in sight, trottint; along gaily on a c apital horse. " Ali ! (said Hans aloud), what a fine thing it is to tide on horse back ! there lie tits as if he was at home in his chair ; Ire trips against no stones, spares his shoes, and yet gees on he hardly knows haw." The horseman 'heard this, and said, " Well, Hans, why do you go cn foot then?" "Ah ! (said lie) I have this load to carry ; to be sure it is silver, but it is so heavy that I can't hold np my head, and it hurts my shoulder sadly." What do you say to changing ? (said the horseman), I will give you my horse, and you shall give me the silver." " With all my heart (said Hans), but I tell you one thing—you'll have a weary task to drag it along." The horseman got off, took the silver, helped Hans up, gave the bridle into his hand, and said, " When you want to go very fast, you must smack your lips loud, and cry Jip." Hans was delighted as he sat on the horse, and rode merrily on. After a time he thought he should like to go a little faster, so he smacked his lips, and cried Jip. Away went the horse full gallop ; and before I Lane knew what he was about, he was thrown off, arsd lay in a ditch by the road side; and his horse would have run off, if a shepherd who was coming by, driving a cow, had not stopt it. Hans soon came to himself, and got upon his legs agaiM He was sadly vexed, and said to the shepherd, "This riding is no joke when a man gets on a beast like this, that stumbles and flings him off as if he would break his neck. However, I'm off now once for t I like your cow a great deal better ; one can sealk along at one's leisure behind her, and have milk, butter, and cheese, every day into the bargain.— What would I give to have such a cow 1 " 66 Well," said the shepherd, " if you are fond of her, I will change my cow for your horse." " Done:" said Hans, merrily. The shepherd jumped upon the horse, and away he rode. Hans drove off his cow quietly, and thought his bargain a very lucky one. "If I have only a piece of bread (and I certainly shall be able to get that), I can, whenever I like, eat my butter and cheese with it ; and when I am thirsty, I can milk my cow and drink We milk: what caa I wish for more?" When he came to an inn, he halted, ate up all his bread, and gave away his last penny for a glass of beer: . then he drove his cow towards his mother's village; and the heat grew greater as noon came on, till at last he found himself on a wide heath, that would take him more than an hour to cross, and he began to be so hat and parched that his tongue slave to the roof of his mouth. " I can find a cure for this," thonght he ; " now will I milk my cow and quench my thirst ;" so he tied her to the stump of a tree, and held his leathern cap to milk into; but not a drop was to be had. While he was trying his luck and managing the matter very clumsily, the uneasy beast gave him a kick on the head that knocked burn down, and there he lay a long while senseless. Luckily a butcher soon came by, driving a pig in a wheelbai row. " What is the matter with you ?" said the butcher, as he helped him up. Hans told him what had happened, and the butcher gave him a flask, saying, "There, drink and refresh yourself; your cow will give you no milk, she is an old beast, good for nothing but the slaughter-house." "Alas, alas!" said Hans, " who would have thought it? If I kill her what will she be good for? I hate cow beef, it is not tender enough for me. If it were a pig now, one could do something with it, it would at any rate make sausages." " Well," said the butcher, " to please you, 1 , 11 change, and give you the pig for the cow." " Heaven reward you for your kindness!" said Hans, as he gave the butcher the cow, and took the pig off the wheelbarrow, and drove it off, holding kby the string that was tied to its leg. So on he jogged, and all seemed now to go right with him : he had met with some misfortunes, to be sure ; but he was now well repaid for all. The next person he met was a countryman carrying a fine white goose under his arm. The countryman stopped to ask what was o'clock ; and Hans told him all his luck, and how lie had made so many good bargains. The country man said he was going to take the goose to a christen ing : " Feel," said he, 66 how heavy it is, and yet it is only eight weeks old. Whoever roasts and eats it may cut plenty of fat off it, it has lived so well 1" "You're right," said Hans, as he weighed it in his hand ; " but my pig is no trifle." Meantime the countryman began to look grave, an/ shook his head. "Hark ye," said he, " my good friend ; your pig may get you into a scrape ; in the village I just come from, the 'Squire has had a pig stolen out of his stye. I was dreadfully afraid, when I saw you, that you had got the 'Squire's pig; it will be a bad job if they catch you; the least they'll do will be to throw you into the horse-pond." Poor Hans was sadly fi ightened. " Good man," cried ht, " pray get me out of this scrape; you know this country better than I, take my pig and give me the ice." " I ought to have something into the har t," said the countryman ; " however, I will not hard upon you, as you are in trouble." Then took the string in his hand, and drove off the pig side path; while Hans went on the way home wards free from care. " tSfwsr all," thought he " • bare the best of the bargain: Fret there will be am. pital roast; then the fat wil find me in goosegrease t i ve for sir months ; and, then . are "allthe beautiful white feathers ; I will put em int , * my pillow; and then I am sure I shall sleep-soubriltwithout rocking. How happy my mother will bet ~. ' Ac he came to th e last villager lie ' inky a scissors ' pitier, with his wheel, working away, anti singing O'er hill and o'er dale so happy I roam, Work light and live well, all the world is my 'mime i Who so blythe, so merry as I? - - Hans stood looking for a while, and at last said, " Yon must be well off, master grinder, you seem so happy at your work ?" 66 Yes," said the other, " mine is a golden trade ; a good grinder never puts his hand in his pocket without finding stoney in it : but where did you get that beautiful goose?" " I did not buy it, but changed a pig for it." " And where did you get the pig?" " I gave a cow for it." " And the cow?" " I gave a horse for it." "And the horse ?" 66 I gave a piece of silver as big as my head for that." " And the silver?" "Oh ! I woiked hard for that seven long years." " You have thriven well in the world hitkerto,' said the grinder; " now if you could find money in your pocket whenever you put your hand into it, your fortune would be made." " Very true: but how is that to be managed ?" " You must turn grinder like me," said the other ; 66 you only want a grindstone ; the rest will come of itself. Here is one that is a little the worse for wear : I would not ask more than the value of your goose for it : will you buy ?" " How can you ask such a question?" replied Han; : " I should be the happiest man in the world, if I could have money whenever I put my hand in my pocket; what could I want more? "There's the goose!" " Now," said the grinder, as he gave him a common rough stone that lay by his side, " this is a most capital stone"; do but manage it cleverly, and you can make an old nail cut with it." Hans took the stone and went off with a light heart : his eyes sparkled for joy, and he said to him self, "I must have been born in a lucky hour; every thing that I want or wish for comes to me of itself." Meantime he began to be tired, for he had been travelling ever since day-break ; he was hungry too, for be had given away his last penny in his joy at getting the cow. At last he could go no further, and the stone tired him terribly ; he dragged himself to . the side of a pond, that he might drink some water, and rest a while ; so he laid the stone carefully by his side on the bank : but as he stooped down to drink, he forgot it, pushed it a little, and down it went 1 plump into the pond. For a while he watched it sinking in the deep clear water, then sprang up for joy, and again fell upon his knees, and thanked HEAVEN with tears in his eyes for its kindness in taking away his only plague, the ugly heavy stone. " How happy am I !" cried he : " no mortal was ever so lucky as I am." Then up he got with a light and merry heart, and walked on free from all his trou bles, till he reached his mother's house. HISTORICAL NOTICE of LADIES' DRESSES. The love of novelty, it has been truly observed, is the parent of fashion. As the fancy sickens, says a writer on this subject, with one image, it longs for another. This is the cause of the continual revolu tions of habit and behaviour, and why we rose so in uustrious in pursuing the change ; this makes fashion universally followed, and is the true reason why the aukwardest people are as fond of this folly as the genteelest. About the year 1700 the Ladies wore Holland petticoats embroidered in figures, with different co loured silks and gold, with broad orrices at the hot torn. Muffs were at this period in use, but very dif ferent in shape and materials from those of the pre sent day, being in general very small, and frequently made of leopard skin. Diamond stomachers adorned the Ladies' bosoms, which were composed of that valuable stone set in silver, in a variety of figures, upon black silk, and which must be admitted to have been a brilliant, it not elegant ornament. Satin! gowns were lined with Persian silk ; and handker chiefs, and Spanish leather shoes, lined with gold, 1 were common with persons of respectability. To' these different articles the Ladies added bare necks, with gold and other crosses suspended from them. Those odd little circular pieces of black. silk called patches, prevailed also at this period to a most ex travagant degree. These were stuck on different parts of the female face, and varied in size. Fre quent allusions are made to these fancied " beauty spots," by eat ly comic writers. In 1709 a Lady's dress is thus described in an ad vertisement to recover one that was lost black silk petticoat, with a red and white calico border ; a cherry-coloured stays, trimmed with blue and sli ver ; a red and dove-coloured damask gown, flowered with large trees; a yellow satin apron, trimmed with white Persian; muslin head cloths, with crows-foot edging; double ruffles, with fine edging; a black silk furbelowed scarf, and a spotted hood.' In 1711 a Lady's riding-dress is advertised for sale in the Spectator, of blue camblet, well laced with silver, being a coat, waistcoat, petticoat, hat, and feathers. And another advertisement, in 1712, mentions an Isabella coloured Kincob gown, flowered with green and gold ; and a dark coloured cloth gown and pet ticoat, with two silver orrices ; a purple and gold atlas gown, a scarlet and gold atlas petticoat,'edged with silver ; a wrought under petticoat, edged with gold ; a black velvet petticoat ; allegah petticoat, striped with green, gold, and white ; a blue and sil ver silk gown and petticoat ; a blue and gold atlas gown and petticoat, and clogs, laced with silver.— A NI: s. Beale, at the same period, advertised her loss' of a green silk knit waistcoat, with gold and silver flowers all over it, and about fourteen yards of gold and silver thick lace on it ; with a petticoat of rich strong flowered satin, red and white, all in great flowers or leaves, and scarlet flowers with black specks brocaded in, raised high, like velvet or shag. The Ladies wore hooped petticoats, scarlet cloaks, and masks, when walking. The hoops were fair game for the wits, and they spared them not : •• An elderly Lady, whose bulky squat figure, By hoop, and white damask, was rendered much bigger, Without hood, aud bare neck'd, to the Park did repair, Tu ,hew her new c:oaths, and to take the fresh air i • Her shape, her attire, raised a shout and loud laughter ; Away waddles Madam, the mob hurries after: (tioth a wag, thus observing the noisy crowd follow, As she came with a hoop, she's gone off with a hollow !" In 1760, the Ladies are stated to have worn the following species of caps :—Toe French night-cap; count goose bear he to by a ward . .. t . . the ilandagh mob; the Mary Claim 'of Scots'eeP, ; bstrodkerehief to the other, by way of compensation> and the fly cap. The latter we may suppose was the , for the trouble they had taken on his Account. most esteemed, as the late Queerveliarlottiv whet' ; The Jury found the prisoners Guilty—Deem, s he landed in England in 1761, was, in compliance 1 Moses Chandler and Jams Crosiingkont *via in., with English costume, .habited in I , a gold broceide.. dicted for stealing, on the 26th of November, a mare • w ith a white ground ; had a stomacher otnamented smd gelding, the poverty of William Barnes and w ith diamonds, and wore a fig ca p , with richly Charles Snoad, at Frani. laced lappets," . . Mr. Snoad, a grazier, at Brookland, had, on the ' Taking the fashions generally within the last forty evening of the 15th of November, turned the two or fifty yea , s , we find th e Ladies head covered with animals into a close near the house. Abutseven • a cushion, as it was ter med, g enerall y formed of horse. o'clock the next morning, having occasion for the ' hair, and something like a porter's knot set upon the mare, he went to the close, and found to his surptils that the gate had been opened, and both the horses e si n d d e s s ;c curled, , t 1 a ri n s d t th e e hair bac k was tu r n c e o d m u b p e , d a n s straigh t , a t i i I g e h t, wholethe stolen. inquiries were immediately tirade as to the powdered ; diminutive caps Of gause, adorned with probable road the robber had taken. By tins men* ribbands, and miniature hats, genera lly o f bl a ck silk it was discovered that the two prisoners had gone to .• the Gun public : house, at fridge-green, is 30 tpriiinisr.m.eid‘h,eu‘‘..earie.tsutulctskccovietrieledtboywaerioonfg. h .h a o ir d A i s c •i d tlr long gown, miles from Brookland, on the morning of the 26th„ da‘; about seven o'clock, with a mare and gelding. When , thelaced sti l l op ;t i l l i l cl o ser; about r h y i n in exceedingly tnetitues close su ppo7teedr a stays i s they bad put the horses into the stable , th e y we erc -. dens, alternately small cloak s and cardinals ; the bell into the house, and asked for some refreshment. Mr. • former of muslin and silk, and the latter almost al- Brawn, the keeper of the Gun, having beard that ways of black silk, richly laced. those two men had come on horseback to the house; This description of dress altered b y de g rees to the was rather sus p icious that they had obtained the' present fashion. The head insensibly lowered; the animals in an improper manner. He, therefcte,' horse-hair first gave place to large natural curls, asked them what brought them out on the mad at spread over the face and ears; the cap enlarged to an that early hour of the morning, as they certainly enormous size, and the bonnet swelled in proportion. could not be riding for pleasure? Chandler answered, Silks became unfashionable, and printed calicoes, and, that they were taking them to a person named White, : the fraest white muslins, were substituted. 119 Ops near Lewes. Mr. Brown affected to be satisfied with : were entirely discontinued, except at Court. These this account; but when they went to take the horses were all improvements; but it is only of late years from the stable, he accompanied them. He. Lbw that the Ladies, much to their honour, have thrown observed, that the horses were very ditty, in a c t r ong , aside most of the hateful attempts to supply nature's perspiration, and apparently very much fatigued. deficiencies, and now appear in that native grace and `'Phis conlirms,d his suspicions, and he told the pri proportion which distinguishes an Englishwoman. The 'soners be was very much afraid they had not given hair, cleansed from -ail extraneous matter, shines in a true account of themselves. Chandler answered, beautiful lustre carelessly turned round the head, in ~ That he did not care for his suspicions." This the manner adopted by the most eminent Grecian conduct induced Mr. Brown to detain both the pri sculptors ; and the form appears through their snow- soners, and accordingly a constable was sent for, Imo white draperies in that fascinating manner, which ex- they were take.. into custody. Shortly afterwards, eludes the least thought of impropriety. Their hats Mr. Snoad, hearing of this occurrence at Eridge. and bonnets of straw, chip, and beaver, if somewhat green, immediately proceeded to that place, and dis less, would be extremely becoming; and their velvet covered the gelding and the mare found in the pri pelisses, shawls, and silk spencers, are contrived to soners possession to be those he had lost from his improve, rather than injure the form. own close. Further inquiries were made at Fi ant, and it appeared that the two prisoners had been seen together, near the prosecutor's house, on the evening of the 15th, the day before the robbery. The prisoner Chandler, in his defence, said, that a gentleman had desired him to take the horses to Lewes for him, and he was proceeding to fulfil that command, when he was detained at Eridge-green. The other prisoner said, that he had met Chandler' on the road, and that the latter had given him a ride on one of the horses. The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty—Death- Edward Davies was indicted for having, on the 26th of September, grossly assaulted Charlotte Mason, a very interesting little girl, and not more than ten years of age, with the intention of committing a rape upon her person. An indictment had been preferred against the pri soner for the capital offence, but it was thrown out by the Grand Jury,who, however, found a bill against him for the misdemeanour. Mr. COURTHOPE addressed the Jury for the pro secution, and stated that, on the' day above named, as the little girl was scowering one of the landing places on the stairs in her mother's house, the i.ri•oner-, who lodged in one of the garrets, carte to her, and, before she could anticipate his intention, threw him self upon her, and covering her mouth with his !land, ctherwise ill used her, so that she fainted, and when she came to her senses the pi isoner was gone ; font!. muc', in one respect, lie had failed in his pti.cne, but he had materially injured the herlth of the child, who had been ever since miller the hand of a skilful physician at Brighton ; the Learned Counsel ex pressed himself with just indignation at the conduct of the prisoner, more especially deserviag of rertn !Nation from the circumstance of his having upon him at the time the most loathsome dis_ase. tie then called Charlotte Mason, who clearly and mo.lestly established the charge against the prisoner, and her evidence was confirmed by her mother, and the me dical gentleman, Mr. Tilt. The prisoner, by way of defence, as he called it— but which would have been more correctly denomi nated as an aggravation—stated circumstances with a view to excuse, or at least palliate, his conduct; but it was impossible for him to persuade the Judge, the Jury, or the meanest understanding in the Court, that an infant should unblushingly resort to conduct at which the veriest prostitute would hesitate ; and the behaviour of the prisoner, at this period of his trial, failed to operate favourably with the Jury, who found him Guilty. lie was sentenced to two years bard labour in the House of Correction for the county. Monday evening, Mr. Justice BAYLEY passed sen tence of death on the six following prisoners: William Wed, James Johnson, William Pike, and Wiliians Payne, for burglary ; John Dearing, for cheep-stealing ; ::::d William Leury, for horse-stealing. On Tuesday evening, he passed a similar sentence on nine others, viz. James Brown, Thomas Sears, John Marks, Edward Hedger, William Watson, and John Piggott, for burglary ; Thoin....i Purser, for horse-stealing ; George Cord, and George Sunta, for highway robbery. WINTER HO3IE CIRCUIT. LEWES, DECEMBER 24. George Cord and George Smith were indicted for feloniously assaulting John Hawkins, on the 17th of October, and taking from his person two sovereigns and other money, at Itotherfield. The prosecutor, a labouring man, was at a public house, in Lewes, on the evening of the 17th of Octo ber. There he met the two prisoners, and after drink ing together for some time, they asked him which way he was going ? He answered to Tunbridge Wells. They said they were going to the same place, and they might as well go in company together. — The prosecutor accepted their offer, and they accord ingly set out. When they had arrived near Uckfield, they met a man named Bunker with a returned post chaise. One of the prisoners proposed that they should ride. This was agreed to, and they got into the chaise. They had ridden three or four miles, when the two prisoners desired the postillion to stop, as they wanted to go out for a short time. Their desire wac complied with. When they had been ab sent about two minutes they returned to the chaise door, and insisted upon having the prosecutor's money. He replied, he had got none. Smith said, " If we do not have your money, we will have your life;" and immediately presented a pistol to his bi east. Hawkins finding it was useless to resist, delivered all the money he had to them. Just as the prisoner was shutting the door, the prosecutor finding himself thus left pennyless, asked the prisoners for some money to carry him home? Smith then gave him two shil lings, and the chaise proceeded. The prosecutor gave information of his loss to some police-officers in the next town, and a pursuit was commenced. By infor mation which they received on the road, they were enabled to trace them to the town of Hatfield. There they found them drinking together in a public-house. —They were immediately taken into custody and searched. In the pocket of Smith they found. a pistol' loaded with powder only, without any priming, and, two farthings, which were amongst the money taken from the prosecutor. On Cord they only found two pistol flints. The prisoners, in their defence, merely stated that they were innocent of the crime, and that the prose cutor had wished them to go and steal fowls, and he would sell them, and allow them a certain sum for themselves. The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty—Death. William Watson and John Piggott were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwel ling-house of Lydia Geer, on the 6th November, and stealing different articles of linen-drapery, at Fink. On the night of the .sth of November, the prose cutrix,who keeps a linen-draper's shop at Fide, went to bed about half-past twelve o'clock, leaving the house perfectly safe. In the morning it was disco vered that a hole had been made through the wall of the shop, and a great quantity of different articles removed. Inquiries were immediately made in every direction, and, after a considerable time had elapsed, she was informed that the two prisoners had gone to a public-house called the Royal Oak, in Kent-street, Newington, on the 13th November, with two large bags. Two Police-officers, suspecting from their ap pearance that the property in the bags was stolen, determined to watch them. They soon after took them into custody, and on examining the bag% dis covered several pieces of cotton, and other articles of that description in them. When they searched the prisoners,. they found a pair of gaiters in the hat of one, and a handkerchief in the pocket of the other. Mrs. Geer was then informed of the discovery, and when the property was she wn to her, she immediately recognized it all to be her own. When the prisoners were called upon for their de-' fence, they said they had set out in company for Portsmouth some days before they were apprehended, and met a man on the road with a very large bundle on his back. He proposed to them that, as the night was approaching, they should retire to a lane which be knew for the purpose of' skeping. The next morn ing the two .ptisovers divided the bundle between them to assist the stranger. When they had pro , ceeded some distance further, the latter made a pre , sent of the gaiters to one of the prisoners, and the A singular charge of assault was lately brought before the nrgistrate, at Newcastle. It was a charge of one man biting another's nose off. It appeals, however, that the sufferer was willing to set a price upon his nose, and so the offence was compromised. BIRTH. Tuesday, at Brussels, the night lion. 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