The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

We lately made an catgut Fran this interesting
Novel. That which we now submit to oar readers
wan entitled to priority, it being the first chapter
of the work; hut a good article should not be re-
jected under any eireomstancee of place or lime:—
Seldom Me the earth held a ample of hem* beiette m
Item ie each Wanes were Mr. Adam Blair and his wife.—
They bad it.. smite/ very early is love, zed early le wed-
leek. Ti. mare had mend over their. heeds Mtn their
heeds were }Weed together; and duriag all that time their
beenstrings had sever *ems vibrated is disemed. Their
plea ene bed ben Um senr, and these ineeseet; their ear.
rows had beam all is erimmes; an their beers of allictloa
bed, evee more them sham their been of mijoymeet leaded
M belt them together. Of few chiMree.-whern 6od hod
gime Minn, three bad hese takes wank, away; one girl
may, the lest Finn of their WO, bad bete spared le
Nee. Ibis eves now a beeetifell ,feir-beired eiteemet, of
11.....• remind. la Mr tmiefibt leedillitiax ell 4 tilaeiell
if W Whi.P., Ai% as ter ag ins limed its bend wet beigl7l4l3. -W t
shed $. tears. Mi her moreeneee, ewe the smell gnaw
mem& is the adjoining village cemetery, beneath which
the lea 1401•01.111 of their affection had here barbel.
Adam Blair had had his share of basalt seining; bet hi.
Merle the bitter cop bed always entaimed sweets** at the
cisme the dratight. The oil nod the belie bed towed Mead-
folly for every wetted, emd his spirit was use wily sabre-
hes, bet composed, happy, ehenfel, ~ wish mbar cheer."
The allsetiesse that bad Mee meet to him had kept him tales;
mad ea see mid that he was se humble, bet ante that he
we a dejected Mistiest. Meat the secret errors of hie
spirit might have bees, it Is met fur we to geese. But he
was Monied to eadiege sewer ehassraings; mod who shall
deeM Met there was same mime' tar the vpliftleg of the
red of Ion?
After the death of the last of these three labials, Mrs.
Blair dried kr teem sad racketeered to *wed as meal to
all the duties of her beesehold. Bet the serenity of her
temper bedtimes tinged with a shade of grief Mild she meld
set dispel; and although she smiled epee Me beekeed, it
was with pale lips sad melancholy eyes that she did se. lf
thee were moments I. which all her sorrows were bowiettee,
these were few sad traesitory. Her besbaed subdued him-
raft hat he might eyestrain her; be talked with her in a
tees that was mealy as well as leader; be talked like •
Chrietiee as well as a father; he caressed his reasalairtg
child, sad !wind the Gegen of the seether's hand maw
her flowing neglets ; be hoped the best; be hoped even is
the last. Bet if it be tree that love often lens keening to
the eye. it is not less tree that the sight of &fettles le mew-
times the slowest en the dimmest of all; and be had kept
striving to mean his hems, and striving succeeds Ily too, for
many esnithe eAer it had hers nee a common remark
meet the kiaAlearied people of Crombleikle, doh i• the
Mlaister's wife, poor body, would sever hold up lee Wall
agaia:'
An, la truth, it was as they said. It may be, the witted
disease of the rain, by slow but sure degrees, romenei-
e.t.a Its poises to the body; at all events, the frame, I.ke
the ieltabitiag spirit, soon etbibited all the features of de-
cay. The loom 'melancholy semeser passed away, and the
mop of the harvest reapers weie heard * the immunise
trio; while all, from day to day, was becoming darker and
darker white the Masse of Cross-Meikle. Woes to a slut.
d10w..-Min as ashes—feeble as a child—the dying miner
bad, may weeks, bees *table to quit her chamber;
an Meg:hoping hatband at last felt his spirit- false
:ilia
within ; bee eves be perceived that the hem of wears-
tioe'conlii net mach farther be deferred. He watched—
,* prayed by her bed.side--he strove eves yet to smile and
to meek it( hope, bet his lips trembled as be spoke • and
neither be me his wife were deceived, for their thoughts were
the seem sod years of love bed taught them too well all
the secrets of each other's looks es well as heart..
Nobody witaeued their last parting; the room we dark.
end, an so one was within it het themselves' an their
ebihkwhe sat by the bed-aide, weeping is sante she knew
met Mmeefero—for of death she knew little, except the terri-
ble ,time; en her father had as yet been, if not have
emelt\ to shed me Wen, at least strong eatingh to cereal
them.-o-ffiketly sad patty was the pare spirit released from
its clay; het wisely growls, were, fee the Ant time, beard
above the sobs an wailiegs of the lamas ; sod lb* Ilateahsz
hsesebold 'break back frees the door, for they knew that the
blew had bees stricken; and the voice of beanie sympathy
feared to sake itself be beard is the saectuary of sects al-
elegem. The village doctor arrived jest at that 1110416e11t I
he hemmed for • few snood% mad being wise* that air was
mar, he eke toned away. His horse had hen rostrata la
the hook by the Masse door; be drew oat she bridle, mod lei
the seismal softly over the turf, bet did net went agais es-
ti' he had far passed the *kakis of the green.
Perhaps ea beer might have passed before Mr. Blair
emoted the window of the room In which his wife had died.
His feetereps bad hen heard foe sense time hurriedly travel.-
shag sad re-Irsvirrsieg the boor ; bet at lost he mopped
whore the meetly fastened abutters of the einem admitted
but one broken liar of light into the clash/se. He threw
every Meg epee with • hold ban, sad the uplifting of the
wWwe predated a &vie of seise, to the like of which the

dense; eseltad all his spirit fee • weistest, Aid dna made
room aphis fee the mese respite's of berm. Donis hoes
row Ma lila sine kesplaid spectre rhea eras free a rise.
keg mss, to Aisne and se tortanh-Paith. Vise • woopis.
hiew the 'Wow aside, hot she sahthelastiul vapour,
pet" legelbse &pia law feria, sad shod with,' sight a
phrase. No wooed set he disonewed. All des pose things
of life hissed befits hits, Oaken is their thesainease.
yet twiaed together. the Autos sad Me oleo, too a
sort of eteiss, ihne made Owes ell appear alike deekro-
Tbe Ember that had nosed hip years of isfaney--die
father, whose hairs ha had hag before laid is the game—.
sakes, brelhere,frieadsoill desAineibealed-.thaategel Aurae
of bit sag anywaviebatellbeeligralli wooded roesii sod ,
mood his; sod thinessfsieg away, seemed is hese frost hies, r
se 'Mae sad a enroll. ihs ,pe.to WNW eVekit•lll•
abashes ivairessat with beineweelll
etielihttelP• seglitillistrbet the smog nasal .
AM% vislkag sk Nil laineln •
lenitelPWrbee byte% sad siad Oda. sea km
divans, awl soybean like a bride ; sad them api all
would he Meek as sight. He smell start up aid gase sawed,
sod see wine/ but the sepulchral gloom d the weed, and
hese &obis/ but the cold bleats neer/ the hove& la a eon
nest, It seemed as If years sad years had ielerwtosil skeet
he had beanie a widower. Every thing Waal dlagast,
ebill, resole, wedeln, eat aft= bin as if for aim by she
impassable wide pilof death. Dews he lay agate, sad
earwig/ hie he* with his heeds, struggled to *venom des
Meng* of *liaises, with shish all his Peel was unreineadad.
New halo/ with weenie, sow nabs as the deed, ham/,
byplay doslitiag, belles's% lanieutiog, ragbag and mar
lag—yes, ausisg all is eanomoiss. Oh! who ass Main ass
brief beer what ages sf el pay nosy evil ever ea, Imaisad
hamar spirit !
The stem. of deselatisu was hewed by a lower* Male
of repeat. Ha lay issesable sae Sr Ml things, welched
set at all his leery with his epee lined is a naiad Mid.
foamy apes see great any bray* than \sag over hi.—
hls lips faseesed together, as if obey bed bees
glued—his limbs like Wage naively dietitian of life sod
asiles--every thug abase him mid, affil, and esseelses..-
Mush &flee ohmic passed heavily sway as is a dreser.
beer after hoar rolled ualiaedad Imo the .byes--the elan
twiskk.l through the piss-hoe, mad disappeared—ehe asses '
arose is her glory, rode throogh the clear auteisea homey
sad vanished—sail all alike assaied by the prestress wi-
dower. Heel,, is dose bed we all times, and ail sea.
seas, sad all His weekiags of the spirit of say eau how
*hat was sad was net &en with's, daring Ibis epees ef ap.
west hieskaein Nat is dreams aline, it may be, does
the soul work seneseelossly, sad eyed all se may of its
*shiest powers. But thesethlage ate of Ow myeaseiss
which be eyes easing peoestaea, sad isto whieb we
shield met be preemption", to peer with ail sue
bliadiag hiebeeihty shout
Ada. Blair nee rank fees maw the ilr.treee is the
grey light ef the atonals&walked leilmenely sea easily sew.
nil ties resod the garden/ rosy white ley isanedistey is
frost of his homily Ikea Weed the latch fee himself, sad
glided with light sod haft fasiaaapm ap maw is the gam,
where for wan walks pis% ha lint bees seassisseal es w-
eepy a **Mary W.' The wall** Musses beard Mot dm'
his deer bellied hien 'lletaftiloistehg gone out pasioesly,
bed ItStit to 1111 'OWN • of lbws had 'en-
tered to 111sli deetselfig Van las bill caw bock,
oat oat otillion Aims.* of Ctile hid. Now, however,
they did ea, awl the Mao vas all wee Lint.

ME.

atom's. arm 4.
a hi Odle whole sp;hlefilso
rzaadyst Ile aneeserbeeset es
tote Cued WWl,' og
*steepled 1. .in usler,so 66 enable ems Weems to
dispsteh it ski serisselp.6o diroesPolus shoat a mad 19
she esetward of this phew; but is spite of all their mortises
with ropes, Ibe iloositide nos* sheaf, it swept away
about time melee hrther, abets it this laid feet, and ohs
hes were ambled to est of easelderable poet of ties out.
side, or whet is generally called the blubber, which pro.
does, the oil. They esuld sot, however, Gals\ heir work,
as by the beery gale us Ilsterday sight the remiss of it
were forted away cessiderably farther be the eastward, semi
it is feared it will term out bat se aseprolleable capture so
the poor hes, especially es it seemed to be a leas sad sickly
Ash, producleg but Iltue oil, sod the whashose 4 smell
value. he diminishes were as follow :—lstreses hark
67 feet; breadth of the fait 13 het; pectorel Is • feet;
from the eye so the ead of the jaw 13 het; kerb adjs..
bores 14 feet; heeidh of sense 9 feet, breadth 4 het. It
new eel to be of this species which is malty takes is
Greesissd sod Davie's Pirelli, Neither is it whet is called
the lie Ask or laser, bat it sweep to the description fa
amoral blelery dab called the saderjawed whale, a
epeeusest of 'shish was &tea es the west Sr talked is
1691. So large a Ask is set rerunbed env to have bees cast
es this cued Wen.