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lArtilkorie it a Detcriptioe Patio. By ealkattruton,
Author of the " Both of Tamar." With tr Yreka
quid Notts, eight Vignettes, asset four elem. Royal
Sao. Londnit, 1826.
Every age.—almost evrty year, furnishes a proof of
the well-known lines of Gray, that
' Fail many a menu of rarest ray serene
• The dark unfatheiail eaves of wean bar 1
Toll many a Sewer is born to blush United,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
Hundreds of volumes of mediocre poetry have, within
the last few years, been published, and some of the wri-
ters raised to a rank in the republic of letters, to which
they were by no means entitled; while Mr. Carrinton, a
schnolmaster of Devenport, hi's sung the beauties of his
native county unheeded and unknown; for even his
poem el the 44 Banks of Tamar,* though -praised
by she aitics; failed in procuring him a patron to bring
hini into notice. Chilling neglect and even poverty,
in whose drear cave" Mrs. Cowley, we believe, says,
" No muse e'er struck the lyre,
" Or bard e'er maddened with poetic lire,"
has n.,t restra.ned Mr. Carrington, from courting his
willing but unrewarded muse.
The poem of Ilartswor is written in very excellent
blank verse, and cab nods -in very striking cllkciiptions.
It displays much skilful e'egance mu: feeling,; and
correct sentiment, and some of the passages possess
great beauty. The following extract, descriptive of the
scene, y of his "loved Devonia," is a fiat picture of the
beauties of na:urel,,. „.,
Fair is thy leveiSsiebeape, Ragland, fair
As ever Nature based I Away it sweeps....
A wide, a sailing prospect, issy with Sowers
And waving grass, and tees of amplest growth,
And sparkling rills, and rivers winding slow
Through all the smooth intISICOSC. Upon the eye
Arise the village and the village spire.—
The clustering hamlet and the peaceful cot
Gasped by the woodbine ; and the lordly dome,
Proud peering 'mid the stately oak and elm,
Leaf-loving. Sweet the frequent lapse of brook,
The poetry of groves, the voice of bells
From aged towers, and labour's manly song
From imbued fields upswelling. Sweet the hues
Of all the fertile laud ; and when the sun
And shower Ate: nate empire hold, bow fresh,—
;low gay, how all-enchanting to the view,
. Rebel 4 at first, the broad champaign appears.
Fair is thy level landscape, England, fair
As ever Nature binned ! yet, if the foot
be doomed to wander o'er the eicircling-plain
From boor to hour, the eye, dissikased, rejects
The gay monotony. In vain,
Though boundless verdure edge Isis far.seen path,
The traveller looks for interposing bills
To break the unverying-view. Behind—before—
The dull road drags Its weary tedious line
Through all the cheerless map. But swift the boar,
And smooth the path, where every step awakes
Associations new s—of mounts that lift
Their beads to the passing cloud, and sweetly dip
Theft' feet in grassy billows,—vallies deep,
Down Which the eager eye delighted darts,
And, et one glance, their trees, and cots, and streams
Sorveyse—addshadiwy glens, aid cliff, and rock,
• And waterfall, and ocean's whitening surge
Fat off, a rich diversity that charms
The traveller's cares away, and wings the hour
`l'fleis Uighur* speed; swanlike thy own, and these
ire near me, tisr7d Devonia!
' ' Troni_yon

plain
Brent Tor uprusbes. Eve. now,: when all
- •Is light, and fife, and joy, un Tatuat's
Yen nuw that solitary mass it dart,—
Dark in the &now wlnshlnss liar when night
With raven wing broods e'er It, and the storm
Of wintestoweeps the moor, sack sounds arc heard
Around that lonely met, as seers
• Almost itosastitly doom Its tretis, it wean
Aleyloas mina I yet the very brow
Uplifts a chapel;
and Devotion breathes
Oft, in the region of the cloud. her hyena
(X touching nseiody. Inspressive spot
For fair Religion's dome! and sure dam*
Cao prompt to holiest feeling, and give whit
To disembodied thought, k is is bend
The knee where crst Use dating eagle peaked ;
And while, with all its grossness and its are,
]Earth waits, far, far below, to worship there,—
Thereon the wild van at the wildest rock
That Dannwor tarts on bight
The above quotation is made almost at random, and
many pros Ages of equal beauty and spirit might be
found in the Poem of Dartmoor. which we hope will
bring its amiable author into notice. Wr ought to add,
that the preface and notes contain much interests 4g in-
formation, historical and topographical, and that the
eilyiravings represent some of the most striking obj:cts
in Dzvonshire.

Bronsoletr.Hosese j or Cavaliers and
A Novel. By One of the Authors of the Rejected
Addresses. 3 vols. post Bvo. London 1826.
The great merit of the Related Addrases conferred
a crlabrity on the authors which they have continued is
retain unimpaired. To an anxiety to sustain their high
sepotation is perhaps to be attributed the circumstance
of their appearing less frequently before the public than
their admirers would wish. A few clever atticles by
one or both of them. which appeared at intervals in the
New Monthly Neptune, let the world know that they
were in the Land of the living ; and the appearance of
Brantbktye-House has proved that Mr. Horace Smith
possesses other talents than those of writing smart and
satirkil poetry.
The novel of Brantbletye Mows relates to the sante
period in history as the forthcoming work by the author
of Wesoerky—the time of the Commonwealth and the
Reitatatioo, It contains a very animated picture of
thMe.kiistail times, in which Irstofcal facts are en-
grafted-on stain of much interest. The characters of
King Charles 11. Cromwell, Rochester, Col. Lilbuo,
an tad Cavelier' Sr John Compton, and the principal
Men who figured in the Courts of the " merry Mo.
nasal" and the grave Protector, are admirably drawn.
Mesh of the scenes are of a bishly amusing character,
anathe whole story is very spiritedly told. We have only
thous for a short extract, which relates to an interview
Jocelyn Compton, the hero of the tale, had with Crom-
well, at Hampton Court.
0 As a proof a the held which beraldric vanities may obtain,
even ever such • mind as Cromwell's, it is not unworthy of remark
that his badly sssa. bandsemety *unheated epos ea" and
sat giltinese, ate set only hung tip in the saloon, bat ez-
chi•ed is able rheas apartmest. Nor did it neaps Menne*
4.:lservstion, that since be bemuse Protector, be had selsimedis
yanieular beefing Is his crest, which bad been granted to his ewes.
tor* by Henry the glektis, as if Maims to disprove the current
amens against his low sad °barn birth. While Lilburee was
examineg too acetabetie, the Protean soddenly entered, stta
'cuing Itis hat, sensed himself beside the span bible, and teal*
to Lathers*, who antlered stand*, exclaimed, with a stern km
and beeried voice, • net is the bey-Compton, and his father Us
..taped. I know k HI, ay, ard non than yes yourself are se-
tivannd with. Yeti ate Is the chair of the scorner, wise yin
marked say conferences with the vary papist woman, Mary Law-
rent, and yet from bee did livelier the lost tidings of the tresses-
able proceedings at Brarablesar. Fee seem cause, what it is I
knots aot, she bat sworn deadly aunty to the whole race; and I
avail myself of Seery aid that the Leas nods ma. I have a spy in
every balsa. She has giver me good swore why this uripkw
shosid be detained as a hostage fee his father. Away with him to
the Gate-house at Westminster. These perpetual revelation GI the
plots against Zion are an many special rravldeacea Caneg le sue CO

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-•011-4sel'• nboll swori er4i* tliharli Week
-41 the rebelling against his Omit- shall 'Wish. for the iAosok
weary a Natalia& Farina'? Eltet in Mabee. which ilgailbeth
peohogiog ; in Kedar, which 'blackness ; bet nsy soul is
now with the congregation et the hist-born. I know them
the enemies of the New Jerusalem; my spies beset them en every
sMe; the toils of the hunter are around them; I will pouf out the
seventh vial upon them; what Goa bath given me. Mtn shin "I
Übe away. They shall perish; I will dash out their teeth, and
Meek their jaw-bones, and utterly esterminate 'the army of the
gust. I swear it by this holy beak.'
" &riling his hand angrily upon the bible, u be @occluded this
melba incuktrliat rhapsody, he remained foe some time lost in deep
themght, when, u if analoss to justify his meditated severities by
a etempitulation of the benefits be had conferred upon the country,
he kentinued, in a more composed tone Have 1 not made the
name of an Englishman fobs as muck feared and respected through-
out the world, as ever was that of au ancient Roman? My Stets
and armies are everywhere victorious ; England, Ireland, Scotland,
France, Holland, Spain—have I not triumphed over them all; the
grand Turk has owned my sorlsurity ; the oppressed Protestants
throughout Europe have cried out to me, and I have compelled
their rulers to give them Instant redress; none but men of integrity
sit upon my seats of judgment ; corruption is unknown in my court;
and, above all, I have so counselled and guided them, that my
people have become the amen ones of the Loan, and have built
up the New Jerusalem to be the praise of the whuk earth, the
&on of the Holy (Inc of Israel."

The Soldier's Album, 12mo. p. 12g. London, 1826.
We extract the follow ing amusing story from an en-
test:lining little work with the above tide, which i. re-
plete with anecdotes- and recollections, ludicrous and
pathetic, detailed by an Officer.
Seated at the window of a country Inn, in a village sot far from
York, through which a deraarment I commanded was marching.
I was startled by the report of are arms; a moment's resection
convinced me that the noise Must have been occasioned by some
sportsman's fowling piece, but the next, the loud screaming of two
young females alarmed me for their safety. Soatching up my chew,
I Sew to the street. when a lovely girl no sooner saw, than she
clung to me for protection for herself and sister, exclaiming, " Sir,
sit, your soldiers have been sheeting at us!" " Horrible," I ejacu-
lated—" Can you swear to the persons of the ruillans?" Yes,",
cried the prettiest, " those are the men." With all the consequence
of a Field Marshal I ordered tl.ent to be instantly hand-cuffed and_
confined, malgri their protestations of innocence; and entreating
the trembling fair ones to eater the parlour which I occupied, I
sat down to indite a crime, to forward forthwith to the district
General. After destroying at least six sheets of foolscap are I
could compose a charge sufliciently high-sounding to suit my ideas
of
the soldiers'enormity, I requested the Ladies to hear my letter,to
skew them how eminently, with the justice of a sold.er, 1 combined
the eloquence of a lawyer. Clearing my voice, and pausing suf•
ciently to assure myself of the attetttion of my auditors, I thus
commenced Patrick O'Grady and Denote O'Leary, a bin
Majesty's e e Regiment, while on their march and under my com-
mand, having flagitiously shot with a gun at two Ladies, nathed
The damsels started—" Indeed," they exclaimed, "did
they really do so?" " Heavens!" I answered, "did yen nor tell
me se r", No." " Did you not say they snot at your “ No;
we said they snow= at us!" 0 Well, my good girl," I answered,
"do not correct my Raglish"--(nsy vanity not a little wounded
by my expressions being subjected to menretion before my acting
Sergeant Major), " Did you not say t►ey 'sheeted; (as you call it)
with a eye ?' •' No." " Damn it, Madam, thee wait DID the
rascals do o" " They anted mitt their essoak I" I was now' lost
in astonishment, and really felt my choler mount, when I caught a
sly smile on the mouth of the aforesaid Sergeant Major. Another
question explained the mystery I had mistaken the Yorkshire
method of pronouncing the verb to shout, and stood confessed a
" bledilscad! •