The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-01 00:00:00

MAGAZINE DAY,

THE LONDON MAGAZINE FOR AUGUST.
We have cast a hasty glance over thisim— using pub-
.
lication, and find many articles of varied interest, but
we have not room or leisure to particularize. Towards
the end of the Number, our attention was involuntarily
arrested by a Three Days' Walk in the Highlands,
which appears to be written with much taste and ori-
ginality. The author seems to have caught the
" mountain inspiration" from the Spirit of the hills,
and describes the natural scenes of Caledonia, m all
their wildness and witching beauty.
" The morn was up again—the dewy morn,--with breath all
incense, and with cheek all bloom,' &c. ;—the very desert smiled
under the influence of a bright sun; and the showers of the night
had refreshed the parched heather, -and called forth its fragrance,
Which was to me a most delicious parttime. The scene, I believe,
was. nothing more than a continuation of that which had inspired
me with. so much ennui on the preceding- night; but it now
seemed that even the wilderness had charms, and that a man might
live in this country and yet hope to be .reasonably happy. I
walletl for some time under the quickening influence of those
feelings which pedestrians alone- enjoy ; till my raptures were
Somewhat abated by the recurrence of the pain in my left knee,
anci,Vhegrat to feer that one cannot he even walker without
practice. The aociie however visibly improved: •Dirarf birches
and alders begari.again to feather the sides of the hillP, and edge
the borders of the water. The hills receded and the valley ex-
panded; the river grow „broader and poured a more copious
torrent of water, whilst a more refreshing green occasionally
adorned its banks, and patches of corn of all shapes and sizes unde-
fended by any thing like hedge or ditch, more frequently che-
quered the moss and heather. I was in the midst of Strathspey,
,on the banks of the Spey, with the high 'hills of Badenooh around
the and in the distance the lofty peak of Cairngontm, whence
come the beautiful stones of that name. I was now to look out
fora white house, where a friend of mine had appointed to meet
me, and where he had assured me•l should find a hospitable wel-
.come. I saw one, at a considerable distance on the other side of
;the river prettily seated near the bottom of the hill, with that
abundance of green patches around it, which marks the favourite
seat of the sheep farmer, and such was the ci-Bevan! Captain M.
As I drew nearer, I discerned two persons standing on the green
before the house, one of them looking attentively through what
seemed a perspective glass ; and by the advantage of an interven-
ing ascent, I surprised them in the act of reconnoitering the road,
at the distance of about four miles, there being no hedge-row trees
in these parts to impede the prospect, in quest of me. Mr.
an officer of foot in the Duke of York's memorable expe-
dition to Holland and now a sheep-fanner, came forward to
welcome roe, with nothing of the air of a military man, but with
the cordiality and native politeness of a Highlander.—His house
was a neat white-washed cottage of pretty considerable dimensions ;
in accommodations scarcely equal to a respectable villager's house
in an ordinary village. •
" The dinner which was soon announced, concluded with a
novel dainty,
.o/
which I had never Been the like-=-a preparation
of milk of the consistence of jelly, which is eaten with cream if
such be the taste of the party. In the articles of milk, cream and
butter, they 'surpass the choicest productions of English dairies ;
the reason of which was once given me by a 'Highlander, c 0, it
a' the heather flowers, and the nat'ral grass.' 'ln'the Highlands
they sow no clover, and the spontaneous grass of the hill and vale
is far sweeter than the comparatively rank crops that are obtained
from English pastures. Added to this, they are not articles of
ink among them, being made only for home consumption. Some-
thing also may be ascribed to the little black Highland cow, a
much incise delicate creature than the milky mothers of ,ourAnin
herds.—What with their delicate mutton, their swot potato*
their *staid supplies of milk and cream, which are introduced
in every shape, and are the invariable accompaniinente of every
kind of fruit and pastry, a Highland repast is to be preferred to a
city feast. Dr. Johnson, I think, complains on one occasion of
being able to procure nothing but whisky-6 She sold nothing
but whisky.'--I have never been in a hovel so poor that did not
afford a bowl of milk, which I should have pronounced to be
cream, either for money or for love."
.
The following circumstance is highly interesting,
exhibiting at once the fidelity and devotion of the
Highland character, as well as the weakness of human
nature :

" After the final dispersion of the clans at Culloden, old Cluny is
said to hays remained in hiding Among his own hills for ten long
years ; whether that he was unable to find means to leave the
country, or tluit he was loath to abatidon it, or, as my informer
seemed to think, he still continued like Mr. Redgeentlet to foster
hopes • that the right side' would yet turn uppermost. His
favourite retreat, fiw he hid many, was on the little wooded knoll
I have mentioned, where two of his clansmen under the cover of
night built him a hut half sunk in the ground, and thatched aboVe
with rushes; the whole being so completely shrouded by the
alders
ce. and birch-trees around, as to set the moot inquisitive eye at
defian It had the advantage too of being but IF short distance
from hie own caitle, whither he could "occisionally venture down,
and warm hiMself by his sin ingle nook. He continued to make
this his principal abode, till it was accidentally discovered by one
of his own elan, a prying, prating fellow, with Whowno secret
was safe: This Macpherson, if I recollect right, had scrambled
down to the thicket to gather nuts, when happening unwittingly
to tread on the roof of Climy's hut, his foot went through it and
disturbed the; chief in his lonely meditatione. The latter not
knowing what to expect, instantly made his appearance before the
eyes of his astonished clansman :—" God bless me, Cluny, is that
you ?" exclaimed he, "I am glad to see you." " But lam not
glad to see you, Donald," returned the chief. " Why so, Cluny ;
do you think I would betray your " No, Ido not think yon
would betray me; but I know that Wore morning this story will
be in every old wife' mouth in the 'wrath." " I will be as Silent
as if I were in my grave." " And in your grave yon would he,
were to deal with you ea I ought, and as self-defence bids me."
The chief understood his clansman's weaknms too well to trust
him. He took a start over the hill, and before day-break was 20
miles (hltant from the spot; and well for him he wax so, for be-
fore morning dawned a party of red-coats had visited it, and laid
bare the inclosure.

a another proof of the unconquerable fide-
lilyer' era to their chiefs. That he was somewhere
CloufnYthsseet Highlanders affaimd
concealed in-the country, ,,,,,,„ a fact known to all the people of
the district ;
alert
and yet forl 0 years he contrived to chide the vigi-
ht'ine.one°orceasion
persona
to apprehend him. In particular,
On the
e they laid a trap for the old fox into which he had
nearly fallen. Cluny latterly.grew less cautious, and was oftener
found seated by his own fire-side. They were aware of this, anti
directed to march with all
four parties of soldiers were one night
haste 10 four different
to Cluny Castle, and seise the
directions
chief, who was known to he at that moment within doors. Their
r fur not only was Cluny in his
information was perfectly correct bimeift being actually
own castle, but in no condition to help latterly to have
seen
demi drunk; for his troubles and privationskind creature and its
induced in him too great an
prevented by the merest
affection for the
..happened to hear a sound
*evident. A elallalllell Vag to bed 6 plainly distinguished the
like the clash ()farms, and listening, he P"'"-„,.'i nut of the win-
fire-!Dens,suppressed tread of a party of men. He peeped • upon three or four
due, and to his dismay the moon-beame glanced
out
of a back
Instsuitly, naked as he was, he sprung ° de Cluny,
window, and ran with the speed of A Highlander towar.
in his
Castle. His alarm and Precipitation brought onaalui
this
side, which disabled him front prosecuting his flight. edn bad
emergency he called up anothr of the clansmen who lir in
by; and this man, hastening one in the sante manner, arrived
in
ti to give t arm. Cluny, quite insensible, w" swathed
thouplaids of his compsnions, and so transportrti out of the cantle.
The party arrived at the ford,' vrhich was but a bow-shot from
the cattle,
.lust as the soldiers were preparing, to moss it ; and
having concealed themselves among the alticts till the owl had
effected their passage, they made all haste in true direction, while
the soldiers secure of their prey, pressed fer,,ard in the other.-,
Cluny, aft:r many vicissitudes and hair-breadth ocapet, at length
effected hie retreat into Franre, where he died. His son, who,
aim* with many other Highland gentlemen, recovered bit pater-
nol estate, war born whilst his father Wit 4 43 hidings Wilt said 10

have borne among his clansmen & mune, which, being interpreted
literally, means " Duncan of the Kilos." I saw on my return the
ladies of Cluny-house walking by the banks of the river. They
were dressed in DS antique fashion, but were precisely such figures
as you see in the streets of Beth' or Cheltenham; and yet it is not
much more than ‘, sixty pars ego" since old Cluny, their grand-
father, led his clan tato the haul of England ! Such, and so
rapid, has been the change of mamas in the Highlands !

THE MONThly
.AND EUROPEAN MAGAZINE
Have formed a junction cc for better for worse," and
this first proof of: their union promises to produce a
good impression. " The man and the; tiger," though
partaking of the obsolete character of the fable, is
written with great force'and"vivacity, arid is remarkable
for its strict union of rhyme with reason. The letters
from the United States of North America, a series of
papers by the author of .4 The account of American
Literaturq," in Bleickwoorr4, Magazine, are also dis-
tinguished by the breadth and freedom of thought, so
indicative of Transatlantic Literature.

CASABIA.NCA 4°.
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but him had fled ;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck,
Shone round him o'er the dead.
Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;
A creature of heroic blood,
A proud, though ahibi-like form.
The flames rolled on--be would not go,
Without his Father's word ;
That Father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard.
Ile called aloud :—" say, Father, say
If yet my task is done ?"
He knew not that the chieftain lay.
Unconscious ,of his son.
" Speak, Father !" once again he cried,
" If I may yet begone !
And "—hut the booming shots replied,
And fait the flames rolled on.
Upon his brow he felt their breath,
And in his waving hair,
And looked from that lone post of death,
In still, yet brave despair.
And shouted but once more aloud,
" hey Father! must I stay?"
While o'er him fast, tlyo ugb sail and shroud,
The wreathing Actis'micis way
• •
They wrapt the ship in apiendotir ,w4d,
They caught the flag on high,
And streamed above the gallant child,
Like banners in the sky.
There came a burst of thunder sound—.
The boy—oh ! where was he?
Ask of -the winds that far around '
With fragmenta strewed the see !
With mast, and helm, and pennon fair,
That well had borne their part—.
But the noblest thing which perished there
Was that young faithful heart !

H

Young Casahianea, a boy about thirteen years ohi, son to the
NAdmiral of the Orient, remaineti at his post (in the Battle of the
ile) after the ship had taken firttiut.' I ill OR, gins hail been abets-
doned, and *wished ink& itsplehtenn wittie veaami, When the name i
tail reached the powder.