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London, England, 1823-08-12 00:00:00

DON MAN.-CANTOS IX. X. XI.

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In the Tenth Canto, the Noble Poet thus pleasantly
alludes to his old quarrel with the Edinburgh Review :
And all our little feuds, at least all 'nine,
Dear Jeffery, once my most redouhted foe,
(As far as rhyme and criticism combine
To make such puppets of us tbinp below)
Are over. Here's a health to " Auld Lang Syne!"
I do not know you, and may never know
Your face,—but you have acted on the whole
Most nobly, and I own it from my soul !
And when I use the phrase of" Auld Lang Syne !"
'Tie not addressed to you—the more's the pity
For me, for I would rather take my wine
With you, than aught (save Scott) in your proud city.
But somehow,--it may seem a schoolboy's whine,
And yet I seek not to be grand or witty,
But I am half a Scot by birth, and bred
A whole one, and my heart flies to my head,—
As " Auld Lang Syne !" brings Scotland, one and all,
Scotch plaids, Scotch moods, the blue hills, and clear
• streams;
The Dee, the an, Balgounie's Brig's black wall,*
All my boy feelings, all my gentler dreams
Of what I then dreamt, clothed in their own pall,
Like 13anquo's offspringt—floating past me seems
My childhood in this childlessness of mines
I care not—'tis a glimpse of " Auld Lang Syne."
And though, as you remember, in a fit
Of wrath and rhyme, when juvenile and curly,
I railed at Scots to shew my wrath and wit,
Which must be owned was sensitive and surly,
Yet 'tis in vain such sallies to permit,
They cannot quench young feelings fresh and early :
I “ awaited, not killed," the Scotchman in my blood,
And love the land of "mountain and of flood."

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• The brig of Don, near the " auld toun" of Aberdeen, with
its one arch and its black deep salmon stream below, is in my
memory as yesterday. I still remember, though perhaps .1
may misquote the awful proverb, which made me pause to
cross it, and yet lean over it with a childish delight, being an
only son, at least by the mother's side. The saying, as recol-
lected by me, was this; but I have never heard or seen it since
I was nine years of age:
" Brig of Balgeunie, black's your we',
Wi' a wife's aeons, and a meat's aefool,
DOllll ye shall fa !"--.

Nire are happy to learn, from our Preston Corte-
spondent, that Mr. HORROCKS is recovering from the
effects of the murderous attack made upon bin in
the streets of that town on Sunday week. Our Corre-
spondent informs us, that on Wednesday last Mr. Hoe-
ROCKS received a long incoherent letter from the
wretch who assailed him, expressing a hope that he
had recovered, and stating that he has engaged a
great Counsellor to defend ham at the ensuing Assizes,
and has not the least doubt that he will be acquitted ;
but, at the same time appealing to Mr. HORROCIIM'S
benevolence not so appear against him, which he will
take as a particular favour. This letter tends to con-
firm our original impression, that the unfortunate man
is labouring under mental disease.—Leeds Mercury.

AN INTREPID. FiMA ta.—ln the course of last week,
three or four, apparently' liishthen, id coming along
the road front Coke to Lancaster, remained all night
at a public-house, kept by a person named Coats, at
Marsham, about nine miles from the latter place. In
the course of the evening, and not. till after the men
had retired under the
conceive any suspicion of the honesty
of the guests in her house. In the morning they rose
rather early, and left thehouse: she, with the greatest
alacrity, minutely examined if anything was missing
in the rooms where they had slept, when, to her asto-
nishment, she found that they had broken into the
drawers, and stole a five pound note and two shillings.
Mad with rage, and galled at her loss, she instantly
pursued her foes, whom she overtook at some dis-
tance. She pounced upon one of them with a large
stone in her hand, and belaboureclhim most unmerci-

fully, who happened to be the identical man with her
money in his possession. Finding resistance to be in
vain to her Amazonian courage, he threw his ill
gotten spoil of five pounds at heft and in his hurry Ss.
along with it, being Ss. more than was stolen. All
the villains then fled. The woman returned home
well satisfied with her encounter.

COMPOUND Miszay.—A poor woman, of the name
of Scully, living in Green-court, Tooley-street, on
Thursday lost a little.girl, about four years old, of
,whom, after making inquiry in the neighbourhood,
she could learn no udings ; and was at length advised
to get some bills printed, describing its person for
which purpose she went out on Saturday, leaving her'
younger child in the care of a neighbour ; and on her
return had the additional misery to find it fallen into
a tub of hot water which had been left on the floor,
by which it was so dreadfully scalded, that it died
yesterday morning.

UNHAPPY Occvanawcz.—During the display of
fireworks on the 4th of July, at Salem, Massachu-
setts, an explosion took place, by which 29 per-
sons were injured, three of whom (lads) have since died.
It appears that a chest, containing upwards of SOD
prepared rockets, was placed under the stage white
the fireworks were set off; covered by several rugs
and a piece of canvass; but one of the rockets whiilt
had been fired turned, glanced from the ground, and
entered one end of the chest, when the whole ex-
ploded, blew up the stage, and laid prostrate all
around it. The scene was truly awful. A large area
round the stage appeared to lse entirely enveloped in
dames—a pan of the rockets taking a more elevated
direction, passed near the heads of the crowd, the
fiery fragments of the rockets- falling profusely
among them ; and besides the persons seriously in-
jured, a peat number had their clothes burnt, or lost
their hats, shoes, &c. and several were thrown down
in the confusion. and trampled upon. Yet the dark*.
ness was such that a great proportion of the more
distant spectators were unconscious that any accident
had happened, supposing it to have been a part 'of
the intended display.
Saturday night, an Inquest was held at the Duke
of Pordand'shouse, in St. James's-square, before Mr.
limas, on the body of JOseph Atkinson, valet to
Lord G. Bentinck, who on Friday morning was
found dead in his bed by the servant of Lord 'Fitch-
field, who went to call him up. The deceased had
been previously in a good state of health, and had
borne a most excellent character. He Max about 22
years of age, a single man, and much respected in.
the family. There were no marks of violence onthe
body. The Jury returned a verdict, Milattral deaths
A man called Callaghan, a Dublin patrol, died ca Tuesday
evening, is consequence of having received the stab of A needle
in the Ball of Isis thumb, width festered. He 'weld not submit,
to an operation in time, although advisedisy many ,MedicafGen-
and died of a lock-jaw.

MR. GREEN'S ASCENT.

• FURTHER 'ARTICULAR". •
Mr. Simonds (the Gentleman who ascended with
Mr. Green) has published the following notice. t The
ascent produced a sensation not unlike that caused by
the action of a swing. Mr..Simonds kept his eyes
fixed upon Reading anti its immediate neighbourhood
as long as they were visible. Losing those objects,
he endeavoured to distinguish the places over which
they passed ; but the distance rendered them too di-
minutive to be recognized with certainty. The Lon-
don road appeared about two or three feet wide, and
the Thames six or seven. They thus gradually and
almost imperceptibly attained a greater elevation,
until, enveloped in clouds, they totally lost sight of
objects on the. ground. At the time they were clear
of clouds, the view below was grand and pleasing
beyond expression—fields of varying hue, and
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wooas extended for miles, studded with towns : it
was their lot to realize in a Meer degree the beauti•
ful picture of Gray : •
" —• the expanse below
Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey ;
Whose turf, whose shade, whose Sowers among •

IVanders the hoary Thanies along
His silver-winding way:"
Masses of clouds like snow were on one side ; blue,
green,. and red on the other; all being visible at once,
though at great distances from each other. The
green clouds Mr. Simonds judged to contain rain, and
the red colour to be produced by sunshine. They
remained at nearly the same altitude for fifteen dr
twenty minutes, during which time Mr. Green in-
formed-his companion of their height by consulting
the barometer, and of their bearing by the compass.
At this period several clouds appeared nearly to
touch the earth, and worna great resemblance to
**smoke of weeds burning in the fields. - In ascend-
ling or descending, Mr. Simonds had no sensation of
giddiness, but a slight tendency to it was produced
when not going forward, by the rotary motion of
the balloon. After being some time in this situation,
the surrounding objects assumed an appearance rather
dazzling; similar to the effect of an unsunny day upon
the views in Mr. Barker's Panorama. When Mr.
Green announced that he should shortly descend, Mr.
Simonds supposed himself about 20 miles from Read-
ing ; he put in his pocket his writing apparatus, die.
Soon after Mr. Green opened the valve by pulling the
rope affixed to it, and jumped upon the edge of the
car; this movement Mr. Simonds followed, accord-
ing to instructions previously given, and found him-
self close to the earth much 'sooner than he had an-
ticipated. The latter part of the descent appeared
by far the-most rapid, affording not a minute for pre-
paration. The balloon first touched the earth in the
middle of a field, and rebounded about 45 feet, then
took the ground again close to an oak tree, in which
it was a little entangled ; it then fell on one side,
dragging them over a hedge, and through a field,
with their sides to the ground, and their faces towards
each other. They were then drawn over another
hedge into a cart road about five feet deep ; the car
was here driven against the opposite hedge on the
road side, and the balloon against an oak tree, by
which their progress was stopped until persons- ar-
rived to their assistance.

In descending, the resistance of the atmosphere
produced a feeling similar to that of a strong current
of air pressing upwards.- In their progress different
currents were felt ; some genially warm, others cold ;
and at one time Mr. Simonds.for a short petiod,feend
himself quite chilled. St. Alban's is 45 miles from,
Reading, andliorth.Mims, where the descent.was,
effected, six or seven miles beyond it.