Star.
London, England, 1830-10-05 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 5, IS3O.

LITERARY INTELLIGRNCE.

We always require the first three or four days of a month to pews
the monthlyveriodicals, before we commence to give our readers our no-
tions of their merits. We shall now commence our critique. The
New !dead* contains several good papers :—" The Journal of a Pa-
dolma," will be found to contain much interesting inktmation on the
state of French Parties. The political article on the " Elections," and
on" Moderation and Ratting," add, in our opinion, very little to the
interest of the Magazine; but it appears the newly-adopted practice of
Magazines to encroach upon our province, and to give • certain quan-
tum of politics in every number ; and the politics of the New Meesthly
has the recommendation of being temperate—which we consider the
characteristic of what Is right. The " Tale of Bordeaux," and the
" Prison Breaker," are both very entertaining narratives, and the
" Lunatic lays," we think, are even more happy than the former
stanza under that title. Decidedly, however, the meet amusing and
welLsupg= piece of humour in the number, is " The Little Ped-
", which we shall endeavour to abridge for the gratiti-
=of our leaders:

THE LITTLE PEDLINGTON GUIDE
" How peva* ! I have lost the Guide.book."
" Then we mast find our way about Little Pedllngton without it."
"Bat the origin, the history, the antiquities of the piece- 41s oak&
ties, its ennimments, it please of public root, and so faith —VW bk.
we to become aoquaintol with these ?"
" That's vary sensibly put, my love; we must base a Guidebook e
me I dare say that, if you will just look into some one of the trunks, you
will find a Cheltenham Guide, or a Margate Guide, or a Hazrowgatb
Guide, Or a Sclght:in Guide: either of them will save our purpose."
" Preposterous !
"Not so aboard as, at Best sight, it may 'appear. Compare any one
of these works with any other of die same description, and you will be
astonished at the amiable understanding that seems to exist between
them. It is but altering the came of the place in the title-page, as oc-
casion may require, and the same book will carry you very creditably
through every watering place in England. You have in each a High.
I street, and a north.street, and a crescent; a parish church,
house, and a charity school ; the bat-supplied market in the ;
the mat-highly talented apothecary in Europe; the moot per-
son in Christendom; the most obliging circulating-1i in the
known world ; the most acconuno&dng mistress of a
in the universe ; and the most salubrious of climates, to the
cure of every imaginable disorder, and to the impeovemens of every
possible constitution. It is true that the tradeemeu isomunsoded to
you by one Guide-book are severally named, Sansonell. Larkins,
and Simcoe (the townspeople usually consisting of toollkatlous of
about three families) ; whilst by another you are refound to :oddly
but Tupfards, Ruffs, and 'Whifts. This certainly is a remark-
able dWerence, but it is the only one I could ever tibial* Is dim po-
lite Cicerones : all other points, or, oldest, sinews poitio ea of way
twee , being notices of precisely the same things In melody the
a metlanguage, and the twentieth hardly ever worth the Mumble of a
distinction."
" I'm so delighted I I have found its I have it here hi lay reticule."
"Then sit down; and that we may be prepared for the wonders
we are to see, I'll cad it to you. And though you won't admit that
any of the Guides' I bare mentioned would have assisted us la
our walks about Little Pedlingtoo, I think you will presently be con-
vinced that the • Pedlington triU answer quits as well as •
Guide to any other place of feshiosable resort in Great Britain.
Ahem ahem I

?HZ 1112111•Xe1Llell TMIOIIOIIII LITTLi PiDLIXOTOIG
Comprising its Maim boot the torlitet period to the proem dine
together with sias meow of its Antiquities, Curiosities, 7Lountounte,
Premssedss, se. Am Abe a ass**. si its Environs.
By hum Hourr, Xs+ Jlnler Cf the Couramia.
Zmbellisited with bar depot of the Pariah Pump, the Res.
Jonathan Adis the Vale ad the extensive Nur
" HAL PerneslnnialirbOilitaafaeour'd apse I
Whet% sulk dna in due; what's not, is net.
Pla
Pees emty GIS her tby emit& Susyltitiar wets thy Aside,
And
PIDLISGTONIAt IT= Pose, by Ai Rau Jubb.

Univessel Deluge which tenne‘med the vaelepted
and smiling hoe of our terrestrial globe into one wrested end mentor.
DOW MN Of the aqueous element, and which, in its ruthless and un-
pitying course, overwhelmed and swallowed up chin, empires, and
nations, sparing neither the monarch's palace nor the pameat's but;
sad which bowed down alike the gentle hill and the gloat mettutain,
rooting up not only the tender plant of the pass, but also the mighty
oak of the forest ; and which, unlike the p Mel and hatellcial showers
of spring, which beneficently foster the *she of the meth for the use
of man ; but which, mare like the raging cornet, oenveresil our rolling
planet into one wide, vast, waste of waters, &dined also the fair spot
on which now stands the town of Limb
But to deemed to a later WasZedowNdePaillEhaton (whoa it has
at various times been written, in.town, Piddle.
town, Paddlatown, and PeoMmewn, (11 is now invariably called by
its mere euphonies appellation of Leastratred in the county
of at the distance of miles
extreme antiquity of this place them an be no doubt, for oar ingenious
townsman, Simeox RUlDOlins, Fmk. Fa& has clearly proved, la his
leaned and elaborate Essay on dist subject, (alert copies of which may
still be obtained by en early mopienden to Mr. Baorgate, Bookseller,
BWh.oo:eet,) thee the idesstieel- prom! on which the present town is
buUto Wald Isag mitt to the invades of Britain by Julies Casa
" The "tramlines" (se Bammies) "If any did ever exist, must
long sine hove lain deftwashed, her not the slightest traces of aby
are to be fannd. I soft, however, =apt the ditch which travesties the
north end of Bigh.fteest, and which, although it now be dry, and so
narrow es to allow of one's stepping across it, must, if ever it had been
a military work, have been so wide and deep as to be capable of con.
tamping a considerable quantity of water. Nor must T conceal the fact
that, not many yews ego, two sword.blades and a cannon.ball were
therein discovered; these are now in my possession." The testimony
of eo impede' a writer to the prowess of the Pallingtonlens cannel be
too higMy valued, nee must their modesty recoil if we spin quote the
unrivalled poem from whence we bare extracted our motto :
" Fair are thy daughters, and thy eons how brave !
N. Paltisightsisa wail e'er in a slave.
Friend to his country, and his King's well wisher,
At glory's call he'll serve in the tie."

Tag Tows.—The entrance to Little Paling.= from the London
toad is by Highotreet, and p aints to the mumbhed eye of the visitor
an aspect truly imposing; nor will the fret L L- thus armed be
easily obliterated from tie "mind's eye." On ohs side, after passing
between two rows of well-grown elms, stands pi* House, a bearding.
school for young gentlemen, under the able seporbtendance of die Bev.
J. Jubb, the tains of which may be had at Yawkin'a Library ; and on
the other, the view is met by the George and Dragon Inn, kept by Mr.
Powerrell, whose pontoons and attention are proverbial. and where tin-
yellers may be ..e rinsed% with every aceommodatien so very ream-
able terms. Passing along, we come to Kau-street, West-street, North-
street, and South-street, se named from the several directions they take
(see lituninins), all converging into a focus designated Market-square,
the market having formerly been held on that identical spot now occu-
pied by the New Pump ; of which more in ha pope place. But if we
am at a km to which of these noble streets to give the prednenn.wbether
for regularity or ekonliams, in what terms steal we describe the
emecent f
The Crescent, then, is at the end of Needuatrest, and is so called from
the pecalisdty of Its dome (we are spin ladebted to Banindas)k being
somewhat laths shape of a belt-moon. It consists of twenty-four
lioness, mansions we amt say, uniformly built, of bet red bricks,
which, whoa the sun* is WI upon *soh an of Maim. Thee
ass bow-windows to all the aMses, sad bib having • light pm doer
oda a hlghly-pikdisd hoses haeolter; those wow-whion steps knidag
the mem, an ellbet in piedmont whisk to be admired need only so be
Mm, rind which, though seal Mhei mimes my primp osiesl, nom,
cerudnly an snows. We cannot quit ihe Closeouts without ealli=
attention of the Hungto &almond hale from the
yaw, No. U. Them pilmiaa* t -. . •
" A something inward tells millet my maw,
May ebbe ocempiamse in the roils of ibene;
The tisvelloOspribis phew OM/ Ash,
And ma, sip, .211 dm umerni IOW"
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lonamummousze.—The Mei* DeemlinglinMee.li'llSit by
MSdPI9II4; illisl In sitneseillisil libetsztasent. This • .
• • = ~1. .. • APO whims IPA
pain
nadir bet fesisekse aniersif ' " • '
bees is always &woof with ow • wirolf•whitihy. ~,,,
's Boarding-assissorldth yields wpm IfsAinidOttiond iv
*pace few am meek is meet benstitally sitented, No. 11; South.

PRIN.: 7u.

street. The attention and assiduity of Mrs. Stumm are proverbial.
As none but the hair No are received here, we need not add that visi-
tors will not find a deficiency in any of those comforts and conveniences
theyhave bum accustomed to in their own houses.
niumess.—Yawkins' Library, in Market-square, has lung been
knows Is the biquenters of Little edlington ; and, if an excellent col-
loid= at boobs, urbanity, all the new publications, attention, all sorts
Odium perfumery, tooth-brushes, dispatch in the execution of orders,
TeMbridge.ware, &a. Re. all at the moo moderate prices, can claim the
',Sages of the public, we have no haltation in requesting their pa.
tromp of Mr. Yawkins.
Net should we be just In failing to recommend Snargates long-esta.
bibbed Library in Market-street. Here will subscribers be furnished
with both el& aid esete publications with the utmost readiness, and with
a *bassi big...creditable to the proprietor. And If moderate
charges to Tun wan, perfumery of the best quality, &e. Az. ice.
are a desideratum, r. Soargete will be certain of an ample share of
suppot. Hine also is the Post-office. There is also a miner este.
blahtnent Market.etrea, kept by a person of the name of Minos-
ton, the publisher of a wad i& Pedlington Guide. It would ill,
become us to speak of the week Irdf, which abounds is errors of the
grossest kind, aml will be fowl altogether useless to the tramper t but
of the establblisait, we 010 bentell, fithoem„ to my Ilea coding can
kel mewl in we ant beta that it is resorted to by mew of
• of she Pent. and the reputable farmers and
countryelfollis on Dela.
Tug Tizentx.—From time immemorial the drama has been a
chief source of amusement to the intellectual and the enlightened. Noy.
the Greeks and Romans patronised this innocent refuge ham the busy
was of life, and it is beyond dispute that theatres were to be found
in both Rome and Athens. No wonder is it, therefore, that Little Ped.
lingten should languish for a fitting temple for the reception of Thalia
and Melpomene t and that Yawkins' timberyard should be contem-
plated as a convenient site for its erection. Mr. Margate, the archi-
tect, has already executed a plan for a theatre which will, in every
respect, be worthy of our town : we need say no more ; and Messrs.
Yawkins, Margate, sod Co. our obliging bankers, have liberally con-
sented to receive subscriptions for that purpose. At present, Mr.
Strut's inimitable company, from Dunstable, perform in a commodious
out-house belonging to Mr. SniFton, the brewer, which is tastefuUy
fitted up for the occasion. Ere , however, we hope to receive the
facetious Tippleton, the heart-rend ng Snoxell, and the versatile and
incomparable Mrs. Biggleurade, in an edifice more becoming their high
deserts.
CtraroserrEs, &c.—A few years ago, the Stocks, which had stood,
time immemorial, at the Church.door, were removed, and the present
, Cage was substituted in their place. • Mr. Rummins, however, with
praiseworthy zeal, anxious to preserve a relic of the venerable machine
which had confined the legs of so many generations of offenders, peti-
tioned the competent authorities of the town for leave to place one of the
sliding.boards in his collection of curiosities. This was greeted; and
Mr. R. is always happy to exhibit this interesting fragment to respect-
' able parsons, between the hours of twelve and two, on any Friday out.
ing_the season.
The New Pump, which stands in the centre of Market-square, is an
elegant and conspicuous object, as seen from the farther end of any of
the four leading streets ; but it will amply repay the curious far a close
and amain inspection. It is composed entirely of cast-iron; its pre.
cleanser having been merely of wood; such is the progress of Inmery
and civilisation It is in the form of an obelisk, oe newly so, as the
top of which is a small figure of Neptune brandishing his trident, the
attitude of which is much admired. The spout reposnenec a
lion's mouth; and the effect, as the water flows from it, less as
It is appropriate. The handle is in the form of a dolphin's
emblem I On the front, towards South-street, *the fall log
in-
siriptioi fat which we are indebted to the 'bridal pus at Mr.
Rummies

THIS PUMP,
TIRO OLD OD 11110 WORN OUT,
ON TIM lor or Aram, 18111.
WAS PLACID WHIMS IT NOW STANDS,
At TNT DICIPICNIN OP TIRE PARISE OP LITTLE PODLINOTOIL

TIMMY CRVIIICKWAMD*II.
filly lINAIROATZ, 0VZ21012111.

To the disgrace of human nature, we a et to add, that shortly after
its erection, the ladle which was uspwded to it, that " the thirsty
might think," was stolen by sane =eter in human teem l I This
circumstance gave rise to dissensions which disturbed the town far loony
months, one party supporting the motion for a new ladle, the other 'as
warmly opposing it. We rejoice to say, however. (for we =lto no as.
cut of our opinions on that subject) that a new ladle, with a strong
1 doable chain, will be am* and that all rancorous parry-heling is fest
subsiding, notwithstanding the efforts of a airman publisher of a as-
tan Guide to prolong it. The robbery is finely and indignantly al-
luded to by Mr. Jubb, in his galling satire on a amnia Magistrate who
opposed the teetered=

" I'd rather be, than such a thing as Crump,
The wretch that stole the ladle from the pump."

Tax Exviams.—Having conducted the manger through the tows,
we will now led him to the environs, and point out those spots most
worthy of a morning's drive or walk. And first to the Vale of Health.
Them is,ior piece in Europe which eon boast of so salubrious
an air as Such, indeed, is the declared opinion of those
eminent sons Esculapius, Dr. Drench, and Dr. Drainum, of this
town. But the Vale of Health is paramount; and for invalids suffer.
ing from asthma, fits, indigestion, corns, weakness if sight,_ put, sod
other disorders of the same eau, no other spot con be so MOM.
mended. It is most delightfully and conveniently situated near the
new and extensive Burying-ground (the old church yard having long
been full,) which was planned by Doctors D. and D. who had the ho-
nour of laying the first stone of the entrance gate, and is at little more
than a quarter of a mile distance from the town.
No lover of the picturesque should leave us without visiting Soap.
•
shank Hill. There is no carriage-rand to it; and'the path being broken
and uneven, full of holes and ruts, and not altogether net. for bona,
we would recommend a pedestrian excursion, as by for the most agree-
able. It is exactly nine miles distant from the peep 1n Market.equare,
and is for the whole of the way a tolerably deep most. On liTriting
at the summit of the hill, a scene presents itself which the world camel
equal. But since pines is too tame to do justice to it, we must borrow
the exquisite deecription by our poet t—
" Lo ! Saapshank Hill ! thy steep most I climb,
And fondly gals upon the scene sublime.
Plaids beyond fields, as for as eye can spy—
Above—that splendid canopy, the sky
Mound—fair Nature in her green at ;
Them—Pedlingtonia and Its antique spire;
I game and gam till pleasure turns to polo;
0, Snapshank Hill ! I'll now go down again."