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very coolly, on the day when he had promised to give
session, that he had let the house to anothea, "(pnt P
promised to let me have it, and offered to sid. I
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day;' to which the other replies, with that peculuir e,
which a Frenchman alone can give with full effect, ' True,
but then the agreement was not in writing.' In short, a
verbal promise is not considered binding, and, therefore, a
disregard for one's word may be fairly inferred. I fear that,
in the transactions of business, this want of principle will be
found very common.
"The Normans are proverbial for cunning and extreme
exaction in their dealings; but I have not found them so,
and lam glad to compare the lights with the shadows of
their character. The meanest servants will not steal, and,
with rare exceptions, are most scrupulously honest; they
seldom pilfer in your house, the doors and windows of which
are left open—no rogue enters them ; house-breaking or
house-robbing, in town, and may be country, are scarcely
known : you feel secure of life and property in the most
lonely retreat. Can we say as much for our own people ?
Again, there is a confidence in your integrity, on the part of
tradesmen and shopkeepers, which impresses one with a high
opinion of the correctness and regularity with which debts
are paid, at least in the part of France under my immediate
observation; and though a few losses have been sustained by
the shopkeepers of Avranches, from the defalcation of
English customers, they are, on the whole, as civil and
obliging as any people in their situation can possibly be.
Those who may report the contrary, and complain of rude-
ness or great exactness of dealing from the bankers or
shopkeepers, will be found on inquiry, in nine cases out of
ten, to have formed erroneous views, or to have given
cause for doubts as to their own solvency, or reasonable
grounds of complaint, from want of punctuality, or an im-
propriety of some sort.
" The operatives are idle and slovenly, and, in many in-
, stances, of intemperate habits. If a gentleman wants to
have a house repaired, he is tortured by workmen, who will
undertake half a dozen jobs at the same time, and not finish
any of them, neither at the period promised, nor in a work-
manlike manner. A good English carpenter, mason, or plas-
terer, would be ashamed to turn out such defective work, and
' would execute as much in a day as one of these will do in
two or three : every trifle takes off their attention and causes
them, like children, to loiter and look abut them; and, what
is worse, while some of them frequent the cider-houses and
take holidays as often as they can, their wives are per-
pat tially labouring, and experience the greatest want of sym-
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labourers hand us b s :ant hdismies.,
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pertinent answers on the sit htest contradiction of their
wishes, and exhibit the moat gchildish
this great fault, and others of a m* otrhcharacterpetulance
, b;
treme want of method and tidinesisn, besides ex-
and universally abstemious in eating add drrienk7ngg°°dlfctlhaseys,
do not execute as much work as an English servai.it, nor in
the same satisfactory style, they are, on the other hand, much
less expensive in every particular. The best
pro
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speak of females, for the men are usually idle,
troublesome) are in the service of French families, in which
they are treated with a degree of kindness and familiarity un-
known to our more reserved and formal habits : yet, though
they are allowed so much freedom of conversation and man-
ner, this privilege does not engender in them a presumptu-
ous deportment.
" The lady mistress of a French family often sits in her
kitchen and talks to her maids, and such is the reciprocal
attachment between the heads of the family and their do-
mestics, that lengthened servitude is very common ; small
annuities to faithful dependents, and if a servant marries in
service, a dinner is generally provided by the master or mis-
tress, who entertain the bridal party with the ntmost hos-
pitality."
These rambles are profusely illustrated by beautiful
wood-cuts. The doctor, in his preface, half promises
that he will next year conduct us over Brittany and La
Vendee. We shall be glad to ramble over those chi-
valrous provinces accompanied by such an intelligent and
amusing guide.

—geC
thia
shrug

PRICE SD.

lIEMOIRS OF THE JACOBITES. Vol. 111.
By Hrs. Thomson.
On the appearance of the two preceding volumes of this
history, we took occasion to comment upon their impar-
tiality and completeness ; the third and concluding
volume, stow lying before us, has similar claims upon our
attention, and a similar title to our applause. Mrs.
Thomson has filled up a gap in our national literature,
and, conscious of the responsibility which devolved upon
herself in the undertaking, she has laboured cautiously
and resolutely to unfold what was hitherto enigmatical,
and to explain what was hitherto incongruous. Her task
has now reached its completion—her perseverance has
conducted her to the goal towards which she has been
striving—her scattered materials have resolved them-
selves into a certain symetrical form—her " Memoirs of
the Jacobites," as far as could reasonably have been
anticipated, are dispassionate and succinct. In the por-
tion just published, five of the principal personages who
engaged the observation of their contemporaries, in that
stormy and romatic age when the representatives of the
Stuart dynasty were stigmatised as Pretenders, and the
hopes of their adherents crushed on Drummossie-moor,
:ire pourtrayed in their actions and analysed in their cha-
racters. The handsome and prudent Lord George
Murray, the chivalrous and noble-hearted Duke of
Perth, the luckless and generous Earl of Kilmarnock,
.he haughty and courageous Charles Radcliffe, and that
renowned heroine whom Walter Scott has so inimitably
delineated in all her pensive elevation of heart and un-
istentatious amenity of temperament; are here grouped
together with an earnestness of purpose very creditable
to the authoress. Her bosom seems animated with a
,iucere desire to commemorate in adequate language the
,elf-forgetful and disinterested chivalry of those cele-
brated men who, undaunted by perfidy, unquelled by
misfortune, and unbaffelled by chicaneries, strove to up.
hold the family towards whom they conceived their
allegiance to be sacred and obligatory. However som*
,9„ hay„, 141.130, casaat laUn eVer much the
atrGeittes committed by their contemporaries may cause
us to blush for our species, these historical personages
loom upon us from the darkness of the past with a lam-
beet integrity of soul and a fervid purity of
heroism most consolatory to all who are anxious to be-
hold the balance, at least of good and evil, in the human
race. No matter what may be the political bias of the
reader, no matter what may be his prepossessions, it
would be as impossibe to lay down these volumes with-
out a deep reverence for the moral, and a full admiration
for the bodily intrepidity of the majority of the Jaco-
bites, as it would be to resign the Memoirs of Marat
and his revolutionary accomplices, without a shudder of
abhorrence. It will afford no little satisfaction to all
who have listened to Mr. Wilson's songs in reference to
Prince Charlie and his followers, and to all who can
sympathize in the sufferings of good men, to find, ac-
cording to the Preface of Mrs. Thomson, that an inter-
esting collection of Jacobite songs is being accumulated
by Miss Charlotte Maxwell, whose enthusiasm for the
memory of that " party" is only surpassed by her in-
dustry, in preserving their relics from oblivion. This
volume is embellished with three portraits, those of
Flora Macdonald, Prince Charles, and Lord Balmerino,
the latter of which, however, we are inclined to regard
as somewhat unflattering : it affords us some inkling of
the resolution of his character, but has no indication
whatever of the sustained and elevated valour of his life.
These " Memoirs of the Jacobites" require HO recom-
mendation, in the same manner that Izaak Walton's
" Lives" render any panegyric superfluous.

THE NE W TIMON. Third Edition.
Our opinion of this very original poem has been con-
firmed by public approbation; its popularity has already
conducted it to a third edition, and by this means en-
couragement has been extended to the author. Still
anonymousahe has no reason to shrink from the an-
nouncement of his name in connexion with the present
production; though we would fain imagine he is reserv-
ing that disclosure until he can couple it with the pub-
lication of a work more entitled to the applause of pos-
terity. We have regarded the "Romance of London"
with satisfaction, rather as a promise than an achieve-
ment—rather; as a harbinger than as an ultimatum,
rather for its inferential than its positive excellence
as a whole. We do not retract one iota of our
applause; on the contrary, a second perusal has unfolded
to us fresh beauties which were overlooked in our first
sense of gratification; the delineations of character ap.
ganuedetnhloulagbh4
pear more congruous; the plot is more transparent and
more appreciable; the vein of thought throughout is, if
possible, deeper, richer, and more suffused with the
bloom of poesy. As a first effort—if it be so ! —the
New Timon" is undoubtedly remarkable
in no single particular comparable with
—that marvellous first effort of Selley —the
need not fear the efftct of its juxtaposition (as authorfi
effort) with Byron's " Hours of Idleness," Chatterton's
"Letter to Felix Farley's Bristol Journal," or even with
the chaste but unidicative "Pastorals" of Alexander
Pope. Compared with these three, we have no hesita-
tion in hazarding the opiion that the " New Timon"
contains infinitely more promise. In saying this, how-
ever, we do not for a moment imply that the author is a
Pope, or a Chatterton, or a Byron in embryo; we merely
infer from the comparison that the writer of this recent
poem gives good augury of his powers. The realisation
however of this augury rests entirely with himself, with
his self-tuition, with his industry, with the real vigour
of his intellect. Experience has too often shown the
fallacy and impossibility of drawing any just conclusions
of a poet from his first production—so many have leaped
forth, like Pallas, fully armed, only to wither into their
original obscurity—so many have, as it were, emitted
corruscations of poetry as evanescent and solitary as
they were brilliant. If the capacities which are indi-
cated in " The New Timon" be eventually realised, the
present poem will live as the first of a series; if, on the
other hand, its author fails, like so many others, in the
justification of his own promise, it will die 1 Of itself
it cannot survive the lapse of generations—as associated
with more matured successors it may taste of immor-
tality. We have written this much, because of the in-
dications here given of a real
.genius for a divine
art, and because of our anxiety that a genius
so propitiously announced may not be rendered
null and unprofitable either by the precipitation
or indolence of its possessor. Whoever has written
this " Romance of London " has a means of carving out
for accomplish-
ing niche for himself in the poetical galliccooruloahfgeeEaniingadslanttihdlee;
as to binding and typography,
a literary pro-
he
facultyas
inclination ! In the third edition, lying before us, the
(orpav cd
we aretile sliarngynuytloa
e, publicmh iasltaaekt ttechnne;
ntesrofthtinhges;book,
auction. It is suitable for the library and the boudoir,
the drawing-room and the study; its exterior is
direigcorgarteioa
delicate,
are commensurate with its beauty as
with apple-green and in blazonry•, its • t
erior is adorned.
with elevating sentiments and genuine poesy.

rßeps e n:Nt al tI sOoNf. the
LORD
MiltonE LEaCs rolnOcNo f IFi e
oleroeulectiormaiotfonLtooordk
place on Wednesday last. Lord Milton was proposed by James
Dunlop Esq., in a very effective speech, and the nomination was
ably seconded by John Hopkins Esq. On a show of hands his Lord-
ship was declared duly elected, and returned thanks in a speech
which (owing, to the inclemency of the weather) was Judicaously
oref. At flee o'clock, a party (numbering about 50) of the princi-
pit lidiabitants met his Lordship at dinner at the Talbot Inn,
The Dvough-bailill took the chair, supported on his right by Lor,.
Morpt th, and on his lett by Lord Milton, and other distinguished;
gaests. William Allen, Esq., acted as vice-president. Various toasts
were proposed, and much excellent speaking ensued from Lords
orpctli and Milton, Mr. Thomson (brother-in-law to Lord Milton),
G. Farmyde, Esq. (a barrister on the northern circuit), W. C.
Copperthwaite, Esq., William Allen, Esq., James Dunlop, Esq., John
I I opkins, Esq., John Dunlop, Eq., ikc,—youw.ancsn.