The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-01 00:00:00

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usually is, except perhaps in the latter part, which
contains an amusing parody, or rather travesty, or
Cicero's first oration against Cataline, adapting
all the abuse to Don Trueba and his " Spanish
Barber," which the editor has at length found
out is " rather dull." We should be sorry to
see carried into rigorous execution the sentence,
Egredere ex magazine, Don Trueba,—libera
Metropolitan ;" but we do trust that he will
take the warning in good part, and rub up his wits
somewhat. The continuation of " Imprison-
ment for Debt" comes next, and, with " Jacob
Faithful," forms the great attraction of the num-
ber. We had marked one or two of the stories
in it for extract, but although they are good, we
do confess we have, without compunction, made
them give way to the following 'inorceau from
" Jacob Faithful." It is a story told by Tom
Beazely, a new character, wftive venture to say,
will become as great a favoulite with the reader
as he evidently is of the author. Here it is :
" Gmne, spin us a good yarn, father, we've nothing to
do, and licob will like to hear you.'
" Well, then, so I answered he, ' what shall it
be about?'

" ' Fire and water, of course,' replied Tom.
" Well, then, I'll tell you something about both, since
you wish it ; how I came into his Majesty's sarvice through
fire, and how the officer who pressed me went out of it
through water. I was still 'premier., and wanted about
three months to sarve my time, when of course I should
no longer be protected from serving the King, when the
ship I was in sailed up the Baltic with a cargo of bullocks.
We had at least two hundred on board, tied up on plat-
forms on every deck, with their beads close to the sides,
and all their sterns looking in board. They were fat enough
when they came on board, but soon dwindled away : the
weather was very bad, and the poor creatures rolled against
each other, and slipped about in a way that it pitied you
ta see them. lloarever, they were stowed so thick, that
they held one another up, which proved of service to them
in the heavy gales which tossed the ship about like a pea
in a rattle. We had joined a large convoy, and were en-
tering the Sound, when as usual it fell calm, and out came
the Danish gun boats to attack us. The man-of-war who
bad charge of the convoy behaved nobly : but still they
were becalmed, and many of us were a long way astern.
Our ship was pretty well up, hut she was too far in shore ;
and the Danes made a dash at us with the hope of making
a capture. The men-of-war, seeing what the enemy were
about, sent boats to beat theni off; but it was too late to
prevent their boarding, which they did. Not wishing to
peep through the bars of the gaol at Copenhagen, we left
the ship in our hosts on one side, just as the Danes boarded
' on the other, and pulled towards the men-of_wat s' armed
beats coming to our assistance. The men-of-wars' boats
pulled right for the ship to retake her, which they did cer-
tainly, but not before the enemy had set fire to the vessel,
and had then pulled off towards another. Seeing this, the
inen.of-wars' boats again gave chase to the Danes, leaving
us to extinguish the flames, which were now bursting out
fore and aft, and climbing like fiery serpents up to the
main catharpings. We soon found that it was impossible :
we remained as long as the heat and smoke would permit
us, and then we were obliged to be off; but I shall never
forget the roaring and moaning of the poor animals who
were then roasting alive. It was a cruel thing of the
Dines to fire a vessel full of those poor creatures. Some
had broken loose, and were darting up and down the decks
goring the others, and tumbling down the hatchways ;
others remained trembling, or trying to snuff up a mouth•
ful of fresh air amongst the smoke; but the struggling
and bellowing, as the fire caught the vessel fore and art,
and was grilling two hundred poor creatures at once, was
at last shocking, and might have been heard for a mile.
We did all we could. I cut the throats of a dozen, but
they kicked and struggled so much, falling down upon,
and treading you under their feet; and once one laid upon
me, and I expected to be burnt with them, for it was not
until I was helped that I could get clear of the poor
animal. So we stayed as long as we could, and then left
them to their fate ; and the smell of burnt meat as we
shove ; off, was as horrible as the cries and wailings of the
poor beasts themselves. The men-of-war boats returned,
having chased away the Danes, and very kindly offered us
all a ship, as we had lost our own, so that you see that by
fire I was forced into his Itlaj-sty's sarvice. Now, the
boat which took us, belonged to one of the frigates who
hail charge of the convoy, and the Lieutenant who com-
manded the boat was a swearing, tearing sort of chap, who
lived as if his life was to last for ever. After I was taken
on board, the Captain asked me if I would enter, and I
thought that I might as well sarve the King handsomely,
so I volunteered. It's always the best thing to do, when
you're taken, and can't help yourself, for you are more
trusted than a pressed man who is obstinate. I liked the
service from the first—the Captain was not a particular
man; according to some people's idea of the service, she
wasn't in quite mao-of-war fa•hion, but she was a happy
ship, and the turn would have followed and fought for the
Captain to the last drop of their blood. That's the sort
of ship for me. I've seen cleaner decks, but I never saw
merrier hearts. The only one of the officers disliked ky
the men was the Lieutenant who pressed me ; he had a
foul mouth, and no discretion; and as for swearing, it
was really terrible to hear the %voids which came out of
his mouth. I don't mind an oath rapped out in the heat
of the moment, but he invented his oaths when be was
cool, and let them out in his rage. We were returning
home, after having seen the convoy safe, when we met
with a gale of wind in our teeth, one of the very worst I ever
fell in with. It had been blowing hard from the S.W.,
and then shifted to the N. W., and made a cross sea, whits,'
was tremendous. Now the frigate was a very teed vessel,
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three bells in the middle watch, when the wind was howl-
ing through the rigging, for we had no canvass on her
'cept a staysail and trysail, when the staysail sheet went,
and she broac,ied-to afore they could prevent her. The
Liewenant I spoke of had the watch, and his voice was
heard through the roaring of the wind, swearing at the
men to haul down the st ;pail, diet we might bend on the
sheet, and set it right again ; when, she having, as I said,
broached-to, a wave—aye, a wave as high as the maintop
almost, took the frigate right on her breadside, and the
bulwarks of the quarter-Fleck being, as I said, quite rotten,
cut them off clean level with the main chains, sweeping
them, and guns, and men, all overbo ird together. The
mizenruast went, but the mainmast held on, and I was
under its lee at the time, and was saved by clinging on like
a nigger, while for a minute I was under the water, which
carried almost all away with it to leeward. As soon as
the water passed over me, I looked up, and around me—it
was quite awful; the quarter-deck was cut off as with a
knife—not a soul left there, that I could see ; no man at
the wheel—mizen masts gone—skylights washed away—
waves making a clear breach, and no defence; boats washed
awiy from the quarters—all silent on deck, but plenty of
noise below and on the main deck, for the ship was near.),
full of water, and all below were flurrying up in their
shirt:, thinking that we were going down. At last the
Captain crawled up, and clung by the stancheons, followed
by the First Lieutenant and the officers, and by degrees all
was quiet, the ship was cleared, and the hand, were turned
up to muster, under the half deck. There were forty-seven
men who did not answer to their names—they had been
summoned to answer for their lives, poor fellows ! and
there was also the swearing Lieutenant not to be found.
Well, at last we got the hands on deck, and put her before
the wind, scudding under bare poles. As we went aft, to
the taffrail, the bulwark of which still remained, with
a,iout six feet of the quarter deck bulwark on each side,
we observed something clinging to the stern ladder, dipping
every now and then into the sea, as it rose under her
counter, and assisted the wind in driving her before the
gale. We soon made it out to be a man, and I went down,
slipped a bowling knot over the poor fellow, and with
some difficulty we were both hauled up again. It proved
to be the Lieutenant, who had been wash, d under the
counter, and clung to the stern ladder, and had thus mira-
culously been preserved. It was a long while before he
came to, and be never did any duty the whole week we
were out, till we got into Yarmouth Roads ; indeed, he
hardly ever spoke a word to any one, but seemed to ha
always in serious thought. When we arrived, he gave
his commission to the Captain, and went on shore ; went
to school again, they say, and bore up for a parson, and,
for all I know, he'll preach somewhere next Sunday. So
ou see, water drOve him out of the service, and fire ferced
me in. There's a s arn for you, Jacob."'

" Jul) flumanitus" has one or two rather fair
points in it, but bears too plainly upon its face
the marks of having been done by a hack
magazine writer. " Masquerading," " A Visit
to Ibrahim Paella," and " The Nuptials of
Rizzari," are articles of good average quality,
not calling for particular remark one way or