me about the short waist and petticoats of| my frock. He took great pleasure in teasing me apout my trousers, as he knew I disliked being called a little boy, and which he always made a point of doing when he espied the trousers. He thought the fashion of wearing short waists very frightful, and said, if he were governor, he should issue an order that no ladies were to appear dressed in that style. Before leaving Madame Bertrand's cottage, he joined the children in a game of puss in the corner, to which I acted as Maitress de Ballet. Napoleon used to evince great curiosity tabout the subject of our conversations when we called on Lady Lowe, at Plan tation House, and asked whether they discussed our visits to Longwood. AN EPITAPH. STAY, stranger, stay, and rest awhile, Which true Religion cannot heal; The Son of God in human frame Has borne our sins, and felt our care, For all that come to Him in prayer. Then mourn not on thy journey home, THE GRAND DUKE MICHEL. - An important name has been added, during the past week, to the I told him that the same sort of interrogation went on there, and that I was sure to be sharply (though goodnaturedly)cross-list of illustrious personages who, during the curquestioned, about what we did, and what we heard, when in his presence. One evening, whilst on a visit to Madame Bertrand, we strolled up to see Dr. O'Meara, who happened to be engaged with the emperor. Cipriani, however, sent in to say that some ladies were waiting to see him, and on Napoleon hearing our names, he requested us to come in. We found him in the billiard-room employed looking over some very large maps, and moving about a number of pins, some with red heads, others with black. I asked him what he was doing. He replied that he was fighting over again some of his battles, and that the red-headed pins were meant to represent the English, and the black the French. One of his chief amusements was, going through the evolutions of a lost battle, to see if it were possible by any better maneuvering to have won it. rent year, have visited our metropolis.. The Grand Duke Michel, brother to the Emperor Nicholas and husband of the Grand Duchess Helena, one of the most attractive and accomplished Princesses in Europe, arrived on Sunday last at Mivart's Hotel; and has since been a guest of her Majesty and Prince Albert at Windsor Castle. that time a youth travelling with his governor) visFive-and-twenty years ago, the Grand Duke (at ited this country; and after spending some time in London, became the guest of several of our most distinguished noblemen at their country seats. Some her youthful daughters, also visited London, and ten years since, the Grand Duchess his consort, with won golden opinions by the grace of her manners, and the intelligence of her mind. The Grand Duke, whose tastes are of a military eral of our public institutions, exhibiting the strongtendency, has visited, since his arrival in town, sevest interest in those connected with the profession in which he delights. Yesterday his Imperial Highness was present at a grand military review of the troops stationed at Windsor, consisting of the third ment of the Life Guards, and the 13th regiment of battalion of the Grenadier Guards, the first regiLight Dragoons; after which he took leave of her Majesty, and, in company with Prince Albert, proceeded to visit the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, returning thence to Mivart's Hotel.-Court Journal. ARREST OF J. C. CLINTON, AN AMERICAN-J. C. Clinton, an American, arrested at the Guildhall, under a warrant from the Home Secretary, was examined at Bow street yesterday, on the charge of forA NEW PAVEMENT -A newly invented wood gery of American Treasury bills. The "original pavement has been laid down opposite the resi- depositions" from America were produced by the dence of the mayor, in the Rue de l'Ecu. It is a solicitor for the prosecution, but the magistrate recombination of wood and asphalte, possessing seem-fused to receive them, as the new Act for giving up ingly the advantages of both, without the inconveniences of either, being impervious to water, free from danger to horses, and costing 25 per cent. less for carriage roads, and as much as 50 less for foot pavements Should it answer, we hear it is talked of laying it down hence to Amiens, and running locomotive carriages upon it. It is the invention of Colonel Sir J. Lilly: the cost is said to be about 5s a yard-Boulogne Gazette. offenders only mentions "certified copies" of such depositions as receivable. The Act is in other respects so clumsily and obscurely worded, as to be difficult, and in some places impossible, to understand. The prisoner was therefore discharged, by the flaw in the Act of Parliament under which he was arrested. This is another specimen of our legal absurdities, and in the far-famed Washington treaty too. Examiner. MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF FRANCIS HORNER. Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis acter has been more correctly portrayed. or transferred with more truth to the heart as well as to the understanding. The noble affection of his friends raised to Horner in statue by Sir Francis Chantrey, which the Westminster Abbey, is not a more perfect image of his person, than are his journals and confidential letters of his mind and feelings. But how superior in interest are the works of the pen to those of the chisel or the pencil! Therefore it is that we have to thank the Editor, not merely for the pleasure he has communicated to us, but for the good which his publication is so strongly calculated to produce. It may perhaps appear somewhat ungenerous and ungrateful, after acknowledg. ments so well deserved, if we venture to express some doubt whether this publication might not have been advantageously delayed for some years to come. Had such a postponement taken place, it is true that we and our immediate contemporaries would have lost much delight and instruction; but we cannot help thinking, that a more full and unreserved publication might then have taken place. Though Francis Horner was one of the gentlest and most tolerant of human beings, though the modesty of his nature seems to preclude the possibility of harsh censures, yet there are evidences in these journals and letters that his discriminating judgment had been free THE world owes much to Mr. Leonard Horner for the publication of this work. We have read it more than once, and on each successive occasion we have found new reasons to be grateful to him for having had the resolution to undertake a task so useful, and which he has so judiciously performed. That task was not without its difficulties. It was impossible to do justice to the character of Francis Horner without describing those intellectual acquirements, that high moral principle, and, above all, those warm, generous, and gentle feelings by which he was so greatly distinguished. And yet, in doing justice to these characteristics, it was difficult for one whose childhood and youth had been guided and instructed by his brother's advice and example, who had watched over that brother in his last illness, and had attended his deathbed, to avoid those effects of partiality and emotion which a connexion so near and associations so tender could not fail to produce. This danger the Editor has care-ly exercised. His power of detecting what fully avoided. Though these volumes was selfish, insincere, and unworthy in would lose much of their charm if they did character, could not have been given him not contain evidence of the affection felt in vain. We feel convinced that portions for the subject of them, we do not think of correspondence important to the history that we could, in a single instance, point and to the biography of his times must have out any exaggerated appreciation of his been kept back, in consideration of feelings brother's merits or public services. On which a contemporary biographer is bound the contrary, justice, and no more than to respect. There are many fragments of justice, is done to his memory: we are in- observation in these volumes which we clined to think that the language of pane- should have wished to see completed; gyric might have been carried further, with many outlines which it would have been the approval not only of friends, but of most desirable to have seen filled up. In rivals and competitors-enemies he had some cases a sketch of character is given, none. It is true that the Editor has con- and the acts to which that character or fined his functions within very moderate temperament has led are scarcely alluded limits. In this he has imposed on himself to; in other instances, the acts are slightly a severe, though perhaps a fitting restraint. described, but there is no analysis of the The narrative is as short and simple as was feelings or motives from which they have possible. To use his own words, his whole originated. If our surmises be correct, we endeavor was, by a careful selection of trust that at some future day, when repapers and correspondence, by the addition straints of delicacy no longer exists of a few pages at the commencement, and full publication may take place. The hisby filling up occasional blauks in the narratory of our times cannot but profit by the tive, to make his brother himself narrate unreserved disclosure of all judgments, the history of his life.' This task has been whether negative or affirmative, passed by executed with equal modesty and judgment. Francis Horner upon men and things. We doubt whether the image of any char more We have said that we thank the Editor, brilliant triumphs of society, and the occasional success of oratorical display, might more justly have been claimed by Dudley. But for the perfect character of a British member of parliament, for the fulfilment of not only for the pleasure he has given us by this publication, but for the good which it must produce. It is more especially in reference to this latter consideration that we esteem this work. It is in its practical usefulness that we are inclined to consider its innumerable functions; where the most it as eminently recommendable. Within minute of those duties are elevated by an a few years, some delightful works of the ever-present sense of right-all are insame character have been published: the fluenced by patriotic motive, and restrained Memoirs of Mackintosh and of Romilly, for and limited in their application by calm and instance, and the Letters of the late Earl of practical wisdom-we doubt whether the Dudley-three very distinguished friends history of the House of Commons has ever of Francis Horner. But, interesting as exhibited a rarer combination of qualities these works are, they do not lead to the than those which were displayed by Horner, same practical consequences as the work and recorded in these volumes. Idoneus before us. They are also far from leaving patrie was a motto which might well have on the mind of the reader the same genial been conferred upon him. The light of his and happy impression. Shades of melan- mind was not the flash of a meteor, to dazcholy, of disappointment, of a sensibility zle rather than to irradiate; it was the almost morbid, and an aimless and indeter- clear, calm day, beneath whose influence minate activity, are to be found in different man goeth forth to his work and to his ladegrees in the works we have named. But bor. Simple, truthful, and unostentatious, in the picture of Horner there is a distinct- he sought and found no short cut, or royal ness, a sunshine, and warmth, which we road to eminence and distinction. He recan trace to his steady convictions, and to cognized the condition assigned to man by the happiness derived from his energetic his Creator. That decree which fixes labor fulfilment of practical duties. He was es- as the price of all success, so far from dissentially as happy as he was a distinguish-couraging only excited his indefatigable ed man. The profound, enlarged, and fer- industry; and though fame and success tile mind of Mackintosh, expanded itself might justly be contemplated by him as into wide philosophical systems, metaphy- probable and legitimate rewards, they were sical abstractions, and variegated literary never allowed to become primary objects, inquiries. Though stored with general and but were mainly viewed as collateral incielegant knowledge, and elevated by feel- dents. We doubt whether a much more ings of a devoted, but uncompromising and useful gift could be made to a young man somewhat austere patriotism, in Romilly destined for civil duties than these volumes; professional duty still asserted a just pre- nor can we conceive any example which eminence, not overpowering, however, his an affectionate parent could hold out, with too acute sensibilities. Literary and specu- more advantage to his child, than the uselative endowments, a rare wit, eloquence, ful and honorable life which they record. highly but painfully elaborated, distinguished Lord Dudley; but these qualities were singularly neutralized by a pitiful fear of the world, which shrank from the risk of failure, by a want of vigor and self-reliance, and by the absence of that steady and methodical industry, which gives strength as well as acuteness to the understanding. There was also a lamentable deficiency in the principles of political duty. Lord Dudley seems to have considered public life rather as a pageant or tournament where crowns are to be won, than as a field which is to be cultivated by hard toil, and where the harvest reaped is not exclusively for our own consumption, but for the sustentation of our fellow-men. The Chair of the professor of moral and political philosophy would have been better filled by Mackintosh; the ermine of a great magistrate would better have become Romilly; the To us they possess a deep and a peculiar interest. We are disposed to trace Horner's character to the peculiar institutions of our native land. The High School and the University of Edinburgh were the seats of his education. Dugald Stewart, Playfair, Black, Robertson-names dear to us as household gods-were the teachers under whom his intellect was formed and matured. His education was essentially Scotch; and its entire success is one, out of many refutations, of those attacks which depreciate our national system of instruction. That in the case of Horner its success was complete will hardly be denied; for it should be remembered that it was not only with contemporaries and professional rivals in North Britain that he had to contend; nor were his trials confined to the dry pursuits of the bar. He had to struggle for equality, and at length he gain She 'Edinburgh, 19th October, 1796. 'MY DEAR FRANK, ed pre-eminence, among those whose liter- promise, his mother's excellent qualities ary success was recorded in the Muse had an influence no less beneficial in the Etonenses; he had to win his way among formation of her son's character. the most exclusive and jealous of the aris- united to a gentle nature, great good sense, tocratic circles of the metropolis; he had activity of mind, and an earnest unobtruto contend for the mastery in that most sive piety, which shone forth in her whole fastidious of all assemblies, the House of conduct and in all her sentiments, and Commons; and unaided but by his own which she carefully impressed on the minds powers, standing on no height but that of of all her children.' This influence conhis exalted principles, the Edinburgh stu- tinued unchanged, or rather it seems to dent, almost without a consciousness of the have increased in strength, and to have obstacles which stood in his way, surmount- deepened into greater tenderness, up to the ed them all, and acquired an earlier and a very period of her son's death. During better established reputation as a public his first visit to England, he writes as folman than any one of his contemporaries.lows with reference to his mother's letters But our attention has been too long with--Besides the influence of my mother's drawn from the work immediately before us. injunctions in guiding me to what is proper Mr. Horner was born at Edinburgh in and becoming, I shall derive from her let1778. His parents were highly respect- ters the pleasure of considering myself unable, but not of an elevated class in so- der her immediate direction, and of someciety. His father was a merchant, who ap- times forgetting that I am at distance from pears from his correspondence to have her.'-p. 24. eminently deserved the dutiful affection One of these letters is so very characterand confidence so strongly evinced in istic in its maternal simplicity, that we canevery page of his son's correspondence. not resist the pleasure of extracting it. This happy result may to a considerable degree, be traced to the mode of his education. As a child, he was not sent away from his home; neither was he at once thrown amidst the temptations of a great public school, among new associates, to whom his home thoughts, his home duties, and his home affections were strange and foreign. He was not thus brought into a circle whose influences, though often ex-in future be more punctual. erted for good, frequently detach the child from his filial obligations. In his child-most indulgent father, who, instead of having hood and youth, the school and the university were bound up with the domestic circle. The pursuits of the son, his intimacies, and his habits, were all kept within the reach of his father's observation. That most endearing and useful of all ties that to which may be traced all the purest, the earliest, and the strongest impulses-the tie of a mother's love-was not severed. We believe that more of knowledge, as well as of happiness and virtue, may be traced to the early influence of a well-informed and a wellprincipled mother, than the pride and vanity of Oxford or Cambridge would be quite ready to confess. Of the happy effects of this domestic training, the life of Francis Horner presents a striking example. It is evi .dently no exaggerated praise when the biographer informs us, that whilst his father's cultivated and naturally strong understanding, general information, refined taste, and liberal sentiments, were well qualified to give a right direction to the talents of which his son gave an early · 'I had once and again proposed writing at the very time your father proposed to do it, and as I thought you would consider him and me the same person, it made me yield, as I knew he had something to say to you about your future plans, which he understands better than I do. After all, you rogue, I have a notion that you are in my debt, but I do not dispute it with you. I shall 'You, and all of you, are most fortunate in a occasion to be prompted, is willing to deny himself, in many instances that his wife and chilthat all of you will amply repay his goodness by dren may enjoy the more; and I hope and trust being grateful, should it please God to spare you and him together. I bless God we have no reason to complain. May the example of our eldest descend on our youngest branches! I shall ever use my endeavor to promote their imitation. 'And don't consider it, my dear, as the cant of an old woman, when I admonish you, above all things, not to neglect your religious duties. I would much rather see you a good than a great man, and it is no uncommon thing for learned men to neglect what is the most important part of their duty; but be sure, if you do not remember your Creator in the days of your youth, you need never look for comfort in your old age. 'Farewell, my dear! May health and happiness attend you wherever you are.' There may be found some, though we hope not amongst our readers, who are disposed to treat this short and simple' letter as trite and commonplace. We doubt whether such observers have a just appreciation of the elements which form | widely diffused. We see in them the founour national character, or of the influences dation on which the moral superiority of which produce in that national character Horner's character rested, and on which much that is greatest, and all that is best. his moral ascendency over the minds of Though it interferes with the strict others was founded. To us these charchronology of our narrative, we deem this acteristics are as touching as the descrippart of Horner's character to be so import- tions in the 'Cotter's Saturday Night.' ant, and its development so beautiful and The 'big ha' Bible-the old man's blessing so instructive, that we must be permitted the 'ingle nook'-are not more strictly to carry our illustrations further. Indeed, the obligations of home duty and the ties of affection were with him the foundation of every thing else that was good and useful. His character did not resemble one of those substances formed by mechanical accretion from without; but rather one of those formed by chemical fusion and by expansion from within. This, in fact, is the key to his whole nature and merits, moral and intellectual. With him the heart was the great moving power, and its impulses seem never to have misled him. At the age of twenty, after the completion of his studies under Mr. Hewlett, he writes to his father: The hope on which I am most accustomed to dwell is, that we may all grow up round you and my mother with sentiments of active probity and a spirit of industry, so as never to give you cause to regret your care and your indulgence. I feel most sensibly how much our success will depend on having your example long before us, and long enjoying the benefits of your counsel and direction. I feel most sensibly how much my immediate comfort and enjoyment depend on these, in the impatience with which I look forward to my return home, and to the prospect of coming again to domestic society and its duties after having been absent so long, and having felt by experience what a blank those duties leave in life.'-(Vol i. p. 39.) At an after period, and when considering the expediency of going to the English bar, his filial respect and tenderness are unabated. Before I obtain your concurrence,'-he writes to his father I cannot give the name of resolution to the inclination I entertain.'--Ibid. p. 189. These feeli..gs were uninterrupted to the last; and we shall have occasion hereafter to remark, that his latest effort at correspondence was addressed to his father four days only before his lamented death. identified with Scottish feeling, than this duty and affection on the part of a child;continued in his maturer years, forming his principles, and influencing his conduct when he has entered into the active contentions of the world. It surely cannot be thought a national prejudice to connect these sentiments with a system of education which cherishes and maintains family affections and associations. We know full well that distinguished and numerous examples may be shown, proving that all these advantages are perfectly compatible with the system of public education in England. The chain of family affection may be continued unbroken between Castle Howard or Hagley and Eton; and, under the late estimable Dr. Arnold, we believe that the surest foundation for filial duty was laid, in the cultivation of the strongest religious convictions. So far from weakening the domestic ties, Dr. Arnold's instructions could not fail to strengthen them, combining with the love felt by his boys for their parents, the affectionate reverence which he so well merited from them himself. But we deal not with exceptions, but with tendencies and general results. The Indian juggler swallows the naked sword, though he does not grow fat on the produce of this iron harvest.' M. Chabert was also accustomed to take his pastime in a heated oven, and to come out unsinged, though the beefsteak which was placed beside him was broiled to a turn. As we prefer more nourishing food than steel, and a milder temperature than that of the furnace, we are inclined to think that the risks of an education, wholly separating the child from the parental roof, under the ordinary and very imperfect system of our public schools, are greater than can be compensated by the most miraculous master over longs and shorts. We shall We trust there are none of our readers not speak of the cases in which public eduwho are scoffers on a subject like this; and cation fails in its own more peculiar course who will think that we have dwelt too of study. We refer to instances of classimuch on what may appear so simple and cal success, and ask whether this success commonplace as filial duty and affection. is not too often dearly purchased. Let us We could wish that these feelings were suppose the following to be the summing even more commonplace, if by such ex-up by a father of the school life of his pression is meant more general and more child:-'My son is wholly estranged from |