The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-03 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 3, 1853.

General of the Spanish army in 1t409, he
absolutely declined to take the pad• :

In respect to the pay attached to the rank of Captain-
( ieneral, I hope the tioveniment will excuse me if 1 de-
dine to become a burden upon the finances of Spain during
this contest tOr her independence.
Yet all this time he was a poor man, uneer-
tain, as he wrote, how he " stood with the
•• world." his pad• inadequate to his expenses,
and unable to make the smallest provision for
his family in England. He was at last, when
fu• advanced in his plans for the deliverance
of Europe, compelled to make a request to
his Government for an additional allowance,
to escape ruin :
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It will be neeessary that Onventment should now either
give me an additional pay under the head of table-money,
or any other they please, or that they should allow me to
charge some of the expenses, sin+ as charities. Sr., whieh
I ant obliged to incur In the existing state of this country,
or I shall be ruined.
Putting these few facts together, is there in
the annals of old Roman magnanimity, when
Cincinnatus was found at the plough, a finer
example of perfect disinterestedness?
It is singular that he never uttered a threat
till provoked by souse peasant outrages on his
entering the soil of France. Most careful to
keli his troops within the strictest bounds of
discipline, inclined to leniency in his judg-
ments, and to make large allowances for human
infirmity, he yet could wield a sword of flaming
destruction. When he did menace, his accent
was terrible. Writing to Beresford, who had
captured some of the insurgent peasants, he
directs him to send one off to the people of
Bidarry and Baygorry :
Von may also give the person you send to understand
that if I have further reason to complain of these or any
other villages, I will lit boyar& them as the French did
towards the towns and villages in Spain and haingal :
that is. I will Wally dealray them, and hang SIP all lime peo-
ple belonging to them that I shall find.

We must breek ()Where. We should gladly re-
turn to this able and most instructive book,
but each week brings with it its books and
occupation ; and we dismiss it, heartily thank
ing Lord De (hey for its production, and
recommending it to the public as a skilful
study of the greatest name yet blazoned on
the awful s?roll of military glory.

The Glory of England, tte. Fragments in Rhyme.
By Charles Chapman. London : Hatchard.
IT is a curious but disagreeable illustration of the
truth that e:.tremes meet, that exaggerated piety
often merges into irreverence, or something worse.
When the notorious "S.S." of the last century received
a pair of breeches (his own, we think he says, were
much in the condition of the needy knifegrinders)
from an unknown admirer, he ascribed the gift to the
Lord. and referred the excellence of the tit to the
matchless skill of the Shaper's hand. Mr. (!haptaan
at tits the Deity with a bayonet in place of shears:—
treat wittingtos Salvation's armies tot.
Before the isrlytonet of awl all MI or tl.i."

Seriously, the freedom of the press is alt-rd when
employed to givoieirculation to such fantastic crudity.
The smaller that circulation may he in the present
case will he the author's best comfort in maturer
years.

wafred de Lisle. London : llope and Co.
THIS is probably the first effort of an inexperienced
writer. It has fluent language, lint no imagination,
and a crowded dramatis person' without elnu•aeter.
The author's idea of "life" is taken from hooks;
while nothing is more sore than that snecess in fic-
tion can be attained only by stns}• of nature.

Guthrunt, the Dane. A Tale of the Heptarehy. By
Robert Story. Second Edition. London: Long-
man. _ _ .

Mu. Sronr has some reason to be proud of "the
" demand for two editions of a long poem in little
" more than a year." He has the faculty of relating
a tale stirring with incidents of love and war in
agreeable verse ; and readers interested in his nar-
ration will be likely to overlook or to pardon the
discrepancy between the sentiments of his person-
ages and the character of the age in which they
play their part—a discrepancy, by the way, too often
unpleasantly palpable in the author's great model,
Scott. He has considerable power of description,
and, as he is happiest in passages of a pathetic and
homely nature, we are inclined to think that his true
genius is rather of a domestic than heroic turn. In
a second edition more care might advantageously
have been taken in revision. ►► Ilut" is an awk-
ward termination of a line rhyming to " shut ;"