The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-01 00:00:00

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

There is nothing very striking or transcendent
in the present Number. " Some good remarks on
Ephesus .and its neighbourhood-one or two
pleasant anecdotes about Sir Lthnley Sk4ng-
ton, and a singular " Tale for Twilight"—sbort,
luckily7--make up the majority of its contents.
From the "prafo on La Fitte " we give
the following lively piece of gossip-touching
Colonel Hanger, a gentleman Whose enormous
apoplectical and polypetalous protuberance
(which he called. a nose), we have often beheld
with feelings of admiration, not unalloyed with
envy. As the Colonel, towards the close of life, was
fond of quacking himself, it has , frequently
struck us that be might have penned an admir
able treatise on nosology. . .

"Dining on one occasion at Carlton-house, it is said;
that after the bottle had for some time circulated, his good-
humoured volubility suddenly ceased, and he seemed for a
time to be wholly lost in thought. While he chewed the
cud' in this ruminating state, his illustrioas host remarked
his very unusual quiescency, and interrupted it by inquir-
ing the subject of his meditations. I have been reflect-
ing, Sir; replied the Colonel, 'on the lofty independence
Of my .present .situation. I hai'e compromised with my
creditors, paid my.washerwoman, and have three shillings
and sixpence left for the pleasures and necessities of life,'
exhibiting at the same time current coin 'of the realm, in
silver and copper, to that amount, upon the splendid board
at which he sate.

" Having occasion to express his -gratitude to his friend
and patron for his nomination to a situationunder Govern
ment (which, had he been prudent, might have sufficed for,
genteel support); it is said that the Royal PerSonage conde-
scended to observe, on the Colonel's expatiating on the ad-
vantages of his office, that ' now he was rich, he would so
far impose upon his hospitality as to dine with him ;' at
the same time insisting on.the repast 'being, any thing but
extravagant. ' I shall give your Royal Highness a leg
of mutton,: and 'nothing more, by warmly replied
the gratified .COlonel, in his,plain'and'honiely phrase. The
day was nominated, and the Colonel had sufficient time to
recur to his budget, and bring his ways and means into
action. Where is the sangnineless being whose hopes have
never led him wrong? •If such there be, the Colonel was
not one of those. Long destitute of Credit and resources,
he looked upon his appointment as the incontestable source
of instant wealth, and,he hesitated not to determine upon
the forestalment of its profiti to entertain the first Gentl-
eman in England !' ' But, alas ! agents and brokers have
flinty hearts. There Were doubts (not of his word, for,
with' creditors, that he' had never kept), but of the acci-
dents of life, either natc..A"o,or by one of those casualties
he hail depicted in the front of his book. • In short, the
day appfoielted—`-nay,- actually arrived. and his pockets
could boast• little snore than the once vaunted half-erown
and ashilling. Here was a state sufficient to drive one of
less strength of mind to despair.‘ As a friend, a subject, a
man of honour, and one who prided himself upon a tena-
cious adherence to his word /when the aforesaid creditors
.were not concerned), he felt fieenly all the horrors of his
situation. It was VA bad as a leg of pork and a bottle of
ale to Bramwell ; as the John Bull to the Duke of Glou-
cester ; as • Harriet Wilson to 'the 'Duke of Beaufort and
Justice Best; as the want of a segar to Lord St. Asaph ;
as Are want'of'a bottle of wine to the 'gallant Duke of Gor-
don ;
.or Ihe Bible to Alderman Key ; or' a Key' to the
Bible to pe Irish Distribution: Society.. In short, it was
worse than many other things J might relate. " But Col.
Hanger was not a man to be easily sunken in the slough of
despond'; and he resolved to 'adhere to his purpose with
the same unflinching firmness that Brougham used to at-
tack Lord Eldon (that is over now, mirabile dicta !) the
Morning Herald Nr. Canning, or the Misses Long Mr.
Wellesley. The day, as I said, arrived,, and etiquette de-
manded that the proper officer should examine and report
upon the nature of the expected entertainment, a duty that
had been,deferred until a late hour of the day. Well was
it that the confiding Prince had not wholly dispensed with
that form ; for verily. the said officer found the Colonel,
with' a dirty scullion' for his aid-du-camp, in active and
zealous preparatio4r:for his royal visitor; his shirt eleevea
tucked up, while he ardently basted the identical and soli-
tary ',leg of
.m4tOn,' as it revolved upon the spit ; potatoes
were to be sFelfrdelicately insinuated into the pan beneath,
to catch'thc rrith' exudation of the joint; while several
tankards of feinting ale, and what the French term bread
at discretion,' announced that in quantity, if not in quality;
he had not been careless in providing for the entertainment
of his illustrious guest. Although the.Coloners culinary
skill leaves no doubt that the leg of mutton would have
sustained ' (according to Mr. Hunt's elegant phraseology)
critical diScuision on its intrinsic tnerits; or on its' concoc-
tion'(for it wasnot with the Colonel as with the Wits of
Louis the Fourteenth---

Et Malherbe et Balzae si savans en beaux mute
En cuisine pent-eue auroient ete des sots;',').

and although the dinner might have been endured by
Royalty' (of whose homely appetite the ample gridiron at
Alder►nah Combe's brewery thea gave ample proof), yet his
Royal Highness's poodles would assuredly have perspired'
through.every pore at the, very mention of what a certain
Nobleman used to term a jig-hot;' so the feast was dia.:
pensed with, and due acknowledgment made for the evident
proofs of hospitality had been displayed."
• Malheibe'and Balzac, so prolific of wit,•
In•the.kitehen might scarce know the use of a spit. .

ROBINS'S, • THE LADY'S, AND' GENTLEMAN'S

POCKET MAGAZINES.

There is really much interest in these Lillipu-
tian Periodicals :they are " Multuin in Parvo
like Tom Moore the Poet, who for consisteney's
sake should be their Editor. Conceive, a sixpetiny
Magazine containing. beides two' or three sheets
of beautiful print, not less than five engravings—
aye, and 'realty good ones" foo; 'such as might
even grace the Album
,of a Blue. We rccom-
mend.' them strongly to all but a short-sighted
reader, who;
we arc fearful, would find some dif-
ficulty in discovering them
without the aid of a
microscope

cannot possibly Magazine we
it is-filled from first to
possibly divine, for
•
last f
----Tom' the very title-page down to the word
this LsohNoDulodNi,:lAcGaliteZdlNaE.
" Finis,". with Reviews. We suppose it is so
principle by which a named upon the mart who
kills his wife is guilt-39f " manslaughter." The
analysis . of " Madd's Medical Memoirs," is
learned,, but dull, and contains one good point,
n4'nelY, proposals for a hook which should de
scribe
remember
ditffbeere,ititbncehanlgvielsenthabtililiaov:lsta.
in , diseases at different periods. We ourselves
thingraer wereen 1 em
alldiscarded the
fashionto unfortunatelyrnooowm'follrnrves. Every
is nervous, from is now=--a nervous affection ; every body
they
taken
neeltiloaicies
to a trit..c.
make;
a Peeress at St. James's, down
porter at the East India House. If
the crowd at the pit door of Drury-lane to-
night, oonsist of a thousand individuals, we will
' lay odds that 999 of them shall be nervous, and
the thousandth rather so. The " Diary for
September" is short, like the month, but enter-
taining. The preliminary remarks on Lunacy,
" though eleverly concealed plagiarisms from SwTale
ift's
two chapters on the same subject in his
of a Tub,..
"—(on whom the writer Amps tc? have

formed his style) are dry, quaint, and humorous.
We are much pleased with the caustic severity
Of the following reinarks:" It is abstlrd to say
that a man is insane because' he is ambitious of a
seat in Parliament,. and incapable of taking 'care
of himself. 'Why, half the men in the House of
Commons are incapable of taking care of them-
selves, but they are nevertheless quite wise
enough to take care.' of us. It requires much
more wisdom for a man to mind his own affairs,

than to mar his neighbours." The " Washing-
ton Papers" are temperate, and worth reading,
a praise which we may extend to the Magazine
generally.