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loninaeDenflence of principle consists in havingno an ase "T Cna , and free-thinking , not in tmukin ; " j &Afa ° ? f' t ?« e from thinking :-ia an age when men kcdy . lmt rolhjiOS ^ L ^ iheir tonsues , keep anything except U hoW " 5 * ^* Patiently , except their character ; -. neir wrJ , and » se tbedifficu - lti toinstructit dangerous ; M ^/^ ra « no chlnce of amenab « who cannot at the same an d us = > " ¦¦ " - time amuse it . . rr vrvrnsG * of DofGLASS Jeeuold . Collected flltE ™ L ffl- LondoD : ?»*« J «» aB « u * vm few haw had a more paintuland heartbreak II llrill stragg le than Douglass Jerrold H 9 has
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* Snk of the waters of bitterness to we oregs . ae Sttn W sublime a thing it i . to suffer and be ™ - and it is a brave conquering heart on which £ lns w « ted his lever to move the world . He has Sted the savour and the sorrow of existence to their ^ l core . He has lived his own life , a « d not passed Sfv liear-say or proxy . He has gone down to the Mof his own human nat ^ e w l « cn is the secret ofhfe mastery over those chords which he in the Idden depth ! of universal natnre . lie is no sham , Sbravl earnest , -nfol man It- ^ poss , out of the tyranny of he
Si Wd * have come ^ t oward chvomstaaces in which has su ffered , a sleek and wealy thing ; he has not . His life has been Wen o at bv blows , and welded stronger than iron , aS fce comes forth as the stern , uncompromising Warrior , in the cause of Humanity . ^ ThisiwD « - plain his bitter , biting sarcasm , the teiQp , tiger like , Jby of his wit , which prostrates with a playful blow , and the bull-dog kind of ferocity with which he flies at the throat of an error , a sham , or wrong , and never lets go till the last drop of life is drawn out
Bavin * felt and escaped from the ills and wrongs and evil circumstances incident to poverty a hell of torture , he turns round and proclaims war for evermore , vindictive and terrible war , with a societary system , so prolific in crime and miBery . He has finely illustrated the force of surrounding circumstances in the creation of character in his * St . Giles and St . James ; ' a work calculated to advance thedpetrineof Owen perhaps more than all that venerable philosop her has himself written . We prefer Jerrold to Dickens . He may not have the latter ' s geniality nor his philosophy of Plenty ; but he is more democratic , more terribly in earnest , more unsparing and he
passionate in his war with wrong and oppression ; gives no quarter ; his truth is not a peace-mongenng philanthropistthat will make certain terms with Error , and Humbug , and Crime , and let them live on sufferance , but , like Aaron ' s rod , it mil swallow them up ! He never blesses the enemy with one hand -whom he has jast knocked down with the other . He does not generalise and universalise , but with a most vengeful personality realises , as it were , the wish of Nero , by compressing all the objects of his hatred under one Lead , and executes vengeance thereon . He has not au equal in dissecting the follies and hypocrises of the time , and in probing the rottenness of society . Of Jerrold , in attacking an abuse , it may be said truly ,
if his pistol misses fire he knocks it down with the butt end of his weapon . This volume of his writings contains the inimitable * Curtain Lectures of exquisite Mrs . Caudle , the beautiful 'Story of a Feather , ' and the ' Sick Giant and the Doctor Dwarf . ' The two latter are full of Ms peculiarly penetrating wisdom—happy touches of fancy and deep lessons of life ; and as for Mrs . Caudle ( superlative specimen of that not anti-diluvian class , who cannot be happy unless they are miserable , and everybody besides ) what shall we say of her ? Miraculous personification of the torments of Job Happy household oracle ! Felicitous delineator of married miseries ! Wonderful museum of the
minutiiB of wretchedness ! "Who that has read can have ever forgotten the following rich morsel on the lost umbrella : — "Ah ! that's the third umbrella gone since Christmas . "What were yon to do ! "Why let him go home in the rain , to be snre . I ' m very certain there was nothing about him that could spoil . Take cold , indeed ! He doesn't look like one of the sort to take cold . Besides , he'd have better taken cold than take our only umbrella . Do you hear the rain , Mr . Caudle ? I say , do you hear the rain ? And as
I ' m alive , if it isn't Saint Swithin ' s day ! Do you hear it against the windows ? Konesense ; you don't impose upon me . Ton cannot be asleep with such a shower as that I Do yon hear it , I say ? Oh , you do hear it ! Well , that ' a pretty flood , I think , to last for six weeks ; and no stirring all the time out of the bouse . Pooh ! don ' t tbink me a fool , Mr . Candle . Don ' t insult me . He return the umbrella ! Anybody wonld think you were born yesterday . As if anybodv ever did return an umbrella ! There—do you hear it ! " "Worse and worie ! Cats and dogs , and for six weeks —! always six weeks . And no umbrella !
"But I know why you lent the umbrella . Oh , yes ; I know very well , I was going out to tea at dear mother ' s to-morrow , —von knew that , and you did it on purpose . Don't tell me " ; yon hate ma to go there , and take every mean advantage to hinder me . But don ' t you think it , Mr . Caudle . So , sir : if it come 3 down in buckets ' -fnll , I'll go all the more . So ' : and I won ' t have a cab ! Where do you think the money ' s to come from ? You ' ve got nice high notions at that club of yours ! A cab , indeed ! Cost me sixteen pence at least—sixteen pence ! two-and-eightpence , for there ' s back again ! Cabs , indeed ! I should like to fcnow who ' s to piy for ' em ! I can ' t pay for ' em ; and I ' m sue you can't , if you go on as you do ; throwing away your property , and beggaring your " children—buying um brellan !
" Her , " says Caudle in his MS ., "I fell asleep ; and dreamt that the sky was turned into green calico , with whalebone ribs ; that , in fact , the whole world revolved under a tremendous umbrella !" How richly unctuous , and what a startling Rabelais-like conclusion . And is not this a fine exposition of voman ' s curiosity , wheedling , defiance and cunning , to gain her end and accomplish her purpose?—" Sow , Mr . Caudle—Mr . Candle , I say : oh ! you can't ns asleep already , I know . Sow , what I mean to say is this ; there ' s no use , none at all , in onr having any disturbance abont the matter ; but , at last my mind ' s made up , fir . Caudle ; I shall leave you . Either I know all ' ve - ~—w —¦— %%
you ^ 9 ^^ — — — ^ »^^^^ ^ v ^^*^~^ & * w «¦ av j ^ f j ^ f wen doing to-night , or to-morrow morning I quit the house . So , no ; there ' s an end of the marriage state , I think—an end of all confidence between man and wife—if a husband ' s to have secret 3 and keep ' em all to himself . Pretty secrets they must be , when his own wife can't know ' em . Ifot fit for any decent person to know , I ' m sure if that ' s the case . Jfow , Candle , don ' t let U 3 quarrel ; there ' s a good soul , tell me what ' s it all about ? A pack of nonsense , I dare say ; Etill—not tbat I care much , about it—still , 1 should like to know . There ' s a dear . Eh ? Oh ,, don ' t tell me , there ' s nothing in it ; I know better , I ' m riot a fool , Mr . Caudle ; 1 know there ' s a good deal in it . Now , Caudle ; just tell raa a little bit of it . I ' m aura Id tell you anything . You know I would . Well ?
"And you ' re not gcing to let me know the secret , eh ? You mean to say , —you ' re not ? Sow , Caudle , you know it ' s a hard matter to put me in a passion ^ -not t hat I care about the secret itself : no , I wouldn't eive a button to know it , for it ' s all nonsense , I ' m sure . It isn't the secret I care about ; it ' s the slight , Mr . Caudle ; it ' s the studied insult that a man pays to Ms wife , when he thinks of going through the world keeping something to himself which he * on ' t let her know . Man and wife one , indeed ! 1 should lie to know how that can be when a man ' s a mason—when he keeps a secret tbat sets bun and his wife apart ? Ha , Joa men make the laws , and so you take good care to have l
al the best of ' em to yourselves : otherwise a woman ought to be allowed a divorce when a man becomes a mason . W hen he ' s got a sort of a corner cupboard in his heart—a ^ cret place in his mind—that hU poor wife isn't allowed to rummage ! " there ever such a man ! A man , indeed ! A % ' ~~? ta * Mr Caudle , an unfeeling , brutal creature , wren you might oblige me , and you won't . I ' m snre I <« nt object to your being a mason , not at all . Caudle ; I ^ say it ' s a very good thing ; I dare say it is—it ' s only Jonr making a secret of it that vexes me . But you'll tell f ^ you'll tell your own Margaret ? Tou won ' t ! You ' re a wetch , Mr . Caudle "
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ftffi Atjiobiogkapht of William Jebdan , With His Litebabt , Politicai , akd Social Kemin-1 SCEXCES ASD CORRESPONDENCE , DUKIXG THELAST * h ? iy . Yeaks . London : Hall , Virtue , and Co ., * 852 . J-HERE are some men in the literary , as in the politijfci and social , world , whose talents and . position are ™ ^ commensurate that , on seeing them perched in f pride of lacelike those shell-fish in the
^ p , J « ts of the rock and ledges of the cliff , you cannot ^ u wonder 'how the devil they got there . ' Mr . ^ an appears to us to he such an one . We see no go ! - . ent ol greatness inhim , nor any evidence of s ^ ins in hi s book , save a genius for gosEi p . This s also our impression of the man on seeing him as acfr did . A small-brained , bullet headed , but 6 oK « 4 ^ ' ^ a & B 0 EE - Perhaps that word « - 3 V Prohlem--beha 9 r . oREDh 5 s wav tlirnt . ^ 1 .
, ou 22 S ? utVn J he should be the acknowledged * E ^ ffWw ofthe age , thefamifiar eftranfl a r , PMoso I'ner 3 , and a name among the > ^ d noble , remains to us one of the 'Mysteries
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of Literature . ' Some of his contemporaries enthrone him on the mount of Immortality ; but we are quite sure that though he may have partially climbed it by clinging to the glittering skirts of Genius , he has not the pith and muscle to get beyond the half-way-house . Audit is most amusing to hear him , from this elevation , decry the way by which he ascended . He has done remarkabl y well by literature—it has prospered with him marvellously . He is what he is through literature ; ho owes far more to literature than it owes to him , and yet he condemns and reviles it . He knocks down the ladder by which he mounted , and prostrates young and fiery-hearted Aspiration as coolly add methodically as the Quaker who , on boaid the American man-of war during a battle , pushed the enemy ' s scaling-ladder from the side of the vessel , and plunged the victim into the sea , with a ' Friend , thou hast uo business here ! ' fli 1 ilrOFfltnrn ' . XAmn *\ f \\ Zn AnminmnAnai'loa otlfl 1 T * nn *»
This is the first volume of Mr . Jerdan ' s work , and we learn by it that he was born on the 16 th of April , 1782 , in the town of Keko , Roxburgh county , Scotlaud . He made his first appearance in print in the Poets' Corner of a Portsmouth paper . But Mr . Jer « dan was somewhat akin to Bums' Poet Willie / in regard to his relationship with Pegasus . He came to London , and was engaged as parliamentary reporter for the 'Aurora , ' a morning paper , of whose editor
he gives the following amusing sketch : — Our editor was originally intended for the Kirk , and was a . well-informed person ; but to see him at or after midnight in his official chair , a-vrriting his " leader , " was a treat for a philosopher . With the slips of paper before him , a pot of porter close at hand , and a pipe of tobacco in hi 3 mouth , or casually laid down , he proceeded teeundem artem . The head hung with the chin on his collar bone , as in deep thought—a whiff—another—a try at the beer—and a line and a-half or two lines committed to the blotted paper .
The original of a well known joke was also a reporter for this paper . This was—Mark Supple , an Irish eccentric ot the first-water , he it was who , waking out of an intoxicated doze , and seeing Mr . Abbot on the Treasury bench ( the house being in committee ) , called out , Master Speaker , as you seem to have nothing to do , I call upon you for a song , if you plnze . " The fierce indignation of the chair rose hotly again 9 t this breach of privilege , and the sergeant-at arms was sent up to Uke the offender into custody ; but Supple adroitly escaped by pointing out a peaceful quaker , silting two or three seats below him , as the culprit , and the affair assumed so ludicrous an aspect , tbat it ended in the worthy broadbrim being turned out , in spite of his protestations of innocenoo , and withodt having fees to pay .
Many of the anecdotes recorded in this book have long been current in Hteratnre , but Mr . Jerdan will have given them a 'local habitation and a name . ' Mr . Jerdan visited Paris in 1814 , and gives tho following characteristic of the Prussian General Blucher : — Having mentioned tho gaming tables , I may observe that the veteran Blucher vsa 3 one of their most assiduous nightly attendants . Attired in a rusty black coat , and blue trousers , with no order but the common iron cross of the soldiery on his breast , and sometimes without that , ho would sit down and lose rouleau after rouleau of gold , giving his moustaoho a twist , and trying another venture . He appeared to be invariably a viotim ; and so far France was revenged of his mortal hostility .
Mr . Jerdan wa 3 editor of the * Sun ' newspaper from 1812 to 1817 , in . its palmy days of Toryism , and editor of the' Literary Gazette' from 1817 to 1850 . He has thus been in a position to mark the changes and development of our literature , to present the world with a kaleidescope of men and inannei' 3 , and indeed have given us one of the finest glimpses of the firsthalf of our century . With such glorious memories of the departed great—such thrilling associations—such rich remains—such a store of gossip , anecdote , and scandal , what a book might have been written if the subject had been treated with the sparkling grace , charming piquancy , and amazing mastery of detail , which characterise Houssaye , and other French writers . Air . Jerdan lacks this gift—judging from this first volume , which is dry and dreary .
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BOOKS RECEIVED . Wbiiisgs of Douglass Jbbroid . Vol . III . London : Bradbury and Evans . The Abiobioobapht of "Wiujam : Jkhdan . "Vol . I , London Hall , Virtue , and Co . A Residence in Algeria ; London : Pickering . The Couari Counr Gdide . London : C . Mitchell . Rridablb Books . No . III . Letiebs op Pbikr PinitEr , &c . London : Vizetell y .
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Admiral Blake . Robert Blake was undoubtedly one of the noblest and greatest of all the noble and groat men of the Commonwealth . In hi 3 character we find no hypocrisy or mean ambition . He was all disinterestedness ; his only ambition waB that of making his country respected by all the world , and of upholding his honour , as the home of a free nation , by dealma prompt and decided vengeance upon it 3 insulters . A short time ago Felix Pyat , in 'La Nation / taunted England with her opium and sulphur wars ' —her « wara of the shop . ' We blush to confess that the taunt is deserved . Tho material power of the British nation is no longer applied to the maintenance of our national honour , and to ensure safety and respect to our countrymen wherever they may go but is become the vile instrument of tho vile monoyl grabbers , for the protection of the profits of their knavish trade ; while European freedom and English honour may alike perish . Yet we cannot believe those who are croaking of the coming / oK of England ( unless by * England' they mean that immense mass of corruption and tyranny which crashes and conceals the real life of the British people ) when we look back
to other days , and see what Englishmen can be , and been been . When we see that when the people have have called into action , they have been fearless and unbending combatants for freedom and patriotism , we cannot doubt that the Commonwealth will yet be born anew , and that the nation will again display its free spirit and courage , disowning all the tyrannical traditions and honourless ' chivalry' of the Tories the imbecility and expediency of tho Whigs , and the cowardice and selfishneas of 'liberals » and peacehumbugs . *
The subject of our memoir was bora at the sea-port townof Bndgewater in Somersetshire , in August Io 98 . He was the eldest son of Humphrey Blake a merchant at Bndgewater , vrho , having accumulated a considerable fortune in the Spanish trade , purchased an estate in the neighbourhood . From the free school of Bndgewater , - where he was educated , he went to Uxtord , and became a member of St . Alban ' s Hall in 1615 , and afterwards removed to Wadham College J ° W he took the degree of B . A . ; and in 1619 was a candidate for a fellowshi p in Merton College , hut was unsuccessful , as he had previously been in standing for a scholarshi p in Chr ist Church His education ' was of the right aort-the development of all his powers , physical and mental . He studied hard ; but he was careful that this study should not
oe prejudicial to Ins health . Accordingly he rose early , and habituated himself to field sports and other violent exercises ; by which means he preserved his bodily health intact , while he acquired a very fair amount of scholastic learning . When about twenty , five years old , he returned to Bridgwater , where he lived quietly on his paternal estate till 1610 , known to all as a b unt bold man , of ready humour , and a free and fade * expressor of his unfettered opinions , which , both m politics and religion , were decidedly opposed tothe bigotted and tyrannical spirit of the court . In fact , he was a republican ; and , believing in the sovereignty of the people , he could not feel other than indignation and hatred towards the impudent advocates of that monstrous absurdity the 'by-the-grace-of-God ' kingcraft , placing a who V „
tion unaer tne yoKe ot hereditary foolishness ; and feeling thus , he was too honest a man , and too brave a man , to have any desire for the concealment of his thoughts , or to have any fear of the consequences of their avowal , convinced as he was of their justice , and the necessity of implanting them in the minds of the less enlightened . His Democratic opinions gained for him the confidence of the Presbyterian party in Bridgwater , by whose exertions he was returned to the parliament of 1640 . In consequence of that body being so speedil y dissolved , he had no opportunity for displaying his talents fi . r apWo
and he lost his election to the Long Parliament When the civil war broke out , he displayed his antimonarchical princi ples by entering the parliamentary army , where he was soon made a captain of Dragoons . Nothing of importance is recorded of him until 1643 , when we find him commanding under Fiennee , a fort at Bristol , while that city wasjbesieged by the
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Royalists . Here his impetuous courage had almost cost him his life . Enraged at Fiennes' cowardly surrender he continued for some time to maintain his fort , and killed a number of the Royalist soldiers who attacked it . It was with difficulty that Prince Rupert was induced to spare his life , which he held to have been forfeited by this breach of-the laws of war . ^ The Royalists could speak of the laws of war , notwithstanding the violence and enormities they had committed after obtaining possession of the city . He afterwards served as lieutenant-colonel in Somersetshire , under Popham , who was governor of Lyme . By an attack unexpected , he captured Taunton , andgained H / lTroliCTfe TTnwfl Itio £ m * iaf tiAnn nn .. Mn « A 1 __ J . 1 .
possession of ten pieces of cannon and a-large quantity of ammunition . The following year the parliament a ppointed him governor of this place , which was one of great consequence , being the only parliamentary fortress in that quarter . In that capacity he distinguished himself by the skill , courage , and constancy with which , during two successive sieges , he maintained the town against the Royalists in 16 i 5 ; and so important was this service considered , that the parliament voted £ 2 , 000 to the garrison , and £ 500 to the governor . In 1 G 4 G , Colonel Blake reduced Doncaster Castle , which was nearly one of the last events of the war .
As a military officer , there was no man in tbe parliamentary army , Cromwell excepted , who acquired and deserved a greater degree of fame for soldier-like abilities and success than Robert Blake . In February , 1 G 49 , Blake , in conjunction with two other military officers , Deane and Popham , was appointed to command the fleet . It may betaken as a proof that , notwithstanding the fame of our early navigators , the naval service had never had much attention bestowed upon it ; that , down to later times than those of whioh we now write , the chief command of a fleet Beams never to have been entrusted to a man of naval education and experience . It may be that there was more danger and hardships than profit or honour attached to this branch of the national service in these days ; and that this consideration effectually . prevented any scion of the aristocracyor place-hunting
, courtier adopting and following the sea faring profession ; while the command of a fleet was esteemed too great a post to be conferred on a plebeian . Blake showed singular capacity for the post of naval com « mander . When the embers of the war were stirred up after Charles Stuart ' s death , he was ordered to tbe Irish Seas m pursuit of Prince Rupert , whom he blooaded in the harbour of Kmsale for several months . Despair of relief IS 2 Rupert , at last to make a daring effort to break through the parliamentary sauadron , in which he succeeded ; but with the loss of three ships . Blake pursued him to the Tagus , where , being denied liberty to attack his enemy by the King of Portugal , in revenge , he captured and sent home a number of richly laden ships , oS their way from Brazil . Towards the latter end ot 1650 Prince
, Rupert escaped out of the Tagus , and Blake followed him up the straits to Carthagina , thence to Malaga , whiou was a neutral port . In January , 1 G 51 , he attacked , and , with the exception of two ships , in ono of which Prince Rupert ana his brother Prince Maurice escaped , destroyed tho royal fieet in the harbour , a proceeding which ^ as no breaoh ot utjrnational law , aa Rupert was a well-known E 2 , * a ( l -rV ' **« V » 1 Br " 31 shbj in tbe same harbour . The parliament recompensed these services by creating Blake warden of tho Cinque Ports ; and in Marca an act was passed constituting him , and his colleagues , Deane and Popham , admirals and generals at sea for the ensuing year . After this ha took Jersey , Gaevnaey , and the Bully Islands from the Royalists , a service for winch he was again thanked bv the iiar-lmmmit-.. In t . hi < .
year he was elected a member of tbe Council of State . On the 2 oth of March , 1652 , Blake was appointed sole admiraifornme months , in expectation of a war with Hoiland Ihis war between the two great Republics has been ascribedI toi St . John , who , it is reported , used every endeavour with Cromwell and tbe British people to foment it , as a means of revenging on the Dutch the slights and insults ho bad received from the retainers of the Orange family , K ? A ul emba 98 y . to Holland . Be lhaUs it my , there did undoubtedl y exist a vast deal of rivalry and insensate jealousy on the part of both nations , who were then the two most powerful maratime countries in the world . The war was at length begun in the spring of 1 D 52 , on a point of etiquette , and very muoh against the desire of the Dutch government . On the 18 th of May , a fleet of forty-two Dutch ships , commanded by the celebrated Van Tromp , appeared fAlSl S andB ? ? cl" » enged by Major Bourne
^ ^ T - , who commanded a squadron in the Downs , they professed to have been driven from their anchorage off Dunkirk by stress of weather ; but , instead of kooping farther oS from » nH ? h ' as *? * ere required to do , they sailed to Dover , ^; n * P % - chor ; thu 9 displaying a deliberate design Sm S- \ th 0 B f ltl 8 u h fla £ * When Blake « wh 0 ffaB lyinglt some distance to the westward in Rye Bay , received intelligence of this insolence , he at . once sailed thither , and on KfWV ? ^ S hed a " oUor > and seemed about Ll }^ Ut ut "wMenly changing their course , they Bailed direct for the English fleet . When within musket-shot , Blake ordered a gun to be fired at the Dutch admiral ' s flag which was done thrice . Instead of lowering his flag , how ' t T ? Trom P returned a broadside , and a hot and well-! zfL ! ^ onensuedwhich was maintained until night
S , came On , when the Dutch , under cover of the darkness , beat a retreat , after having lost two of their ships , and a great number of killed and wounded . Tho States entirely disapproved of this conduct on tho part of their admiral ; and when m vain they had tried every means to satisfy the government of the English Republic , they dismissed Vaa nXWS ? PJ ? omte < l R ° y ter and De Wi « to tbe command of their fleet . Meanwhile Blake actively followed up his victory . Ho gained a rich harvest among the Dutch homeward-bound merchantmen , which were pursuing their way without the slightest suspicion of danger , and which r ^ f' ^ ? . V tly ' somewh » t surprised to find themselves so suddenly in the power of on enemy . When he had sent . &Xrft of th ! ' and effectually oleared the ohannel , he sauea to the northward . disnersedthfiflfiBk nmmood in th *
herring fishery , and captured a hundred of the vessels com-KT&'V ^ etner with a squadron of twelve men-of-war , KSf ^^ T 11161 " had aent to protect them . On » nLi ™ * p u temb ? ! ° PP ° S fleetB agftin oan » e to an engagement , when that of Holland was thoroughly boaten , fi ^^ i ? ° i ^? P tttch * H taken , andtfareeor I * J nl lhlps dlSabled - The battle ended with tho day , Si K ^ r ° \ $ tod ; L ' altbough * Sngliah pur ' sued them for two days , they were unable to coral up with the flying enemy , who escaped into Gorce . Jealous of the growing fame of Blake the executive government set itself to the task of weakening his power . Accordingly after this engagement , numeroua oetaenments were drafted off on various services , until the English fleet ? iVife dfo r «? 8 aUhi !« ^ on these wre not
A ° > * sup . plied with the requisite men and ammunition . Van Tromp again stood over to the English coast , while Blake , in this state of impotence , lay in the Downs . Tho Dutch fleet consisted of eighty ahips of war , but , notwithstanding these tearful odds , Blake , with hia acoustomed daring , did not hesitate to attaok bun . But in the state he was in , with but few ships , and these ill-supplied with important requisites , it was impossible for aDy amount of bravery to render him successful . The battle began at two o ' olock on the morning of the 29 th of November , and lasted till six m the evening . Only about half the ships on either side were engaged , two of tbe English were taken , and four destroyed , while the remainder were so shattered that they were obliged to run for shelter into the Thamea . After this victory . Van Tromp sailed through the Channel with a l
2 r 7 r .. ? W aboaetthat heaadaweptit clear of Engh gh ships . However , Blake did not go to Bleep , and was soon in a position to sweep away the sweeper , and his fleet , and broom . Monk and Deane were joined in the commission with Blake . und the fleet was re-Sn'fS * , th 8 n « h . diligence , that sailing from Queenborough , on the 8 th of February , 1633 , with sixty shipa of war , he wasjoined bj [ twentymoro from Portsmouth . On tbe 18 th hefelhnwithVan Tromp , with nearly equal force , conducting a large convoy of merchantmen up the Channel . A running battle ensued , wbioh . continued during three conseoutive dayB , until , on the 20 th , the Dutch ships found shelter in the shallow waters of Calais . As many as 1 , 500 on either side were killed in this long and obstinate fight Towards the end of April Deane and Monk watched the Dutch fleet , whioh had taken refuge in the Terel , while Blake sailed to the north . The Dutoh rettin * nut . ' t » Z !
and Monk brought them to an engagement off the North Foreland , on the 3 rd of Jone , when the English had rather the worst of it ; but Blake arriving next day the enemy was entirely defeated . Ill-health then obliged him to quit tbe sea , so that he was not present at the last great viotory of July 29 th , in which Van Trorap was killed . In November , 165 i , Blake was appointed to command a strong fleet sent into the Mediterranean , to demand reparation for the insults the nation had receive d during the time of civil war . Every power hastened to do honour to his flag , and grant compensation for injuries done . The Dey of Tunis alone beld out , confident In the strength of hia fortifications . " Here , " said he , « are out castles of Goletta and Porto Fermo : do your worst ; we do not fear your fleet . " Blake bore right into the bay of Porto Ferino destroyed the fortifications , and sentin adetaohment of boats into the harbour , and burnt the shipping which lav there . 6 ' '
War breaking out between Spain and England , in 1650 Blake blockaded the bay of Cadiz . Fearing that his death was approaching , he sent home a request that a succcessor might be joined in commission with him . General Montague was accordingly sent out with a strong squadron . Being obliged to quit the Spanish coast in September , to obtain water for hia fleet , he left Captain Staynerwith seven ships to watch the enemy . At this time the Spanish Plate fleet made its appearance , of which Stayner capturod four ships richly laden , which Montague took home : thus leaving Blake again alone in the Mediterranean . In the ensuing spring , Laving heard that another Plate fleet had L ^ . 1 ?} 0 .- ?! " ^ £ Teneriffe , he sailed thither , and armed in the road of Santa of
Cruz , onThe ^ Oth April . The bay was strongly fortified , with a formidable oastfe at •? e e r o rf »! , an i aC 0 n ^ ? » hain 0 f ^ nor forts all round it . There was , also , collected there a naval force , powerful and strongly posted , the smaller vessels being placed under SnnSf t \ t ' ' c the galleommooredwiththeir JwfiJ ^ ? % ' So P ° fferful and complete was ?\!? £ *? gainstthee ?! emy . that the Spanish governor , fc-rf W >? £ ' ,- . ? 2 in neither courage nor ability , had not the slightest fear of danger . The captain of a Dutch ship , which was ljing in the harbour , knowing better than the Spaniard the character of the English ftdmf ral , went to the governor and asked leave to depart , 'For I am sure , said he , ' that Blake-will be among youpre
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sently . ' 'Begone , if you will , replied the overnor confidently ; 'and let Blake come if he dares . ' " K he should have known that dating waB a quality which nfoii others , Blake bad never been known to stand k Sn ! $ The sequel showed that he did not want it on this occa ion The wind blowing into the bay , he sent in Captain Stavaw with . i squadron to attack the shipping , placed others in such a position as to take off , and as far as possible to silenco the fire of the castle and the forts , and himself Vol lowing , assisted Stayner in capturing the galleons which though inferior in number , were superior in size and force to the English ships . Thi 3 was completed by two o ' clock in the afternoon ; the engagement haying been commenced at eight in the morning . Hopeless of being able to carrr ^ > i i t * -k . . . ... . _ * "
the prizes out of the bay against an adverse wind and a still active enemy , Blake ordered them to bo burnt . Fortunately the wind , which had been blowing strongly into the bay , suddenly veered round , and favoured his retreat as it had favoured his daring approach . For this defeat the Spaniards comforted themselves with the belief that their destroyers could only be devils , not men . As a recompense for this gallant ' action , the thanks of parliament were voted to the officers and seaman engaged , alone with a diamond ring to tho admiral worth £ 500 . ° Blake returned to his old station off Cadiz , but tho increase of those diseases—dropsy and scurvy—to which he was subject , determined him to return to England ¦ but he was destined norer again to set foot on that land he had so much loved and so well defended .
When he reached the Bay of Biscay , on his way home those around him saw with dismay that his end was drawing near . ' Some gleams of the old spirit broke forth aa they approached the latitude of England . He inquired often and anxiously if the white cliffs were yet in sii » ht . He longed to behold once more thg swelling downs , the ' free cities , the goodly churches of his native land . ... At last , the Lizard was announced . Shortly afterwards , the bold cliffs and bare hills of Cornwall loomed out grandly in tbe distance . But it was too late for the dying hero . He had sent for the captain and other great officers of bis fleet to bid them farewell ; and while they were yet in hia cabin
the undulating hills of Devonshire , giowing with tho tints of early autumn , came full in view . . . . But tho eyes which had so yearned to behold this scene once more were at that very instant closing in death . Foremost of the victorious squadron , the St . George , rode with its precious burden into the Sound ; and just as it came into full viow of the eaeer thousands crowding the beach , the pier-heads , the walls of the citidal , « fcc , ready to catch the first glimpse of the hero of Santa Cruz , and salute him with a true EDg . ish welcome—be , in his silent cabin , in the midst of hia lion-hearted comrades , now sobbing like little children , yielded up his soul to God . ' *
His body was transported to London , and buried with ereat pomp , at the national expense , in a vault in Henry Vll . ' s chapel . When Kingcraft waB restored , his bones , like those of Cromwell and Ireton , were treated with brutal indignity by the cowardly Royalists , and at last found a resting place in St . Margaret ' s Churchyard . The character of this great man , and true Englishman is thus sketched by the Tory Historian , Clarendon : —« He was of private extraction , yet had enough left him by his father to give him a good education , which hi 9 own inclination disposed him to receive in the University of Oxford , whero he took the degree of a Master of Arts , and was enough versed in books for a man who intended not to be of any profession having enough , of hisown 10 mainfcVm him in tbe plenty he afteoted , and having then no appearance of ambition to be a greater man than he was . ne was of a melancholic and sullen
nature , and spent his time most with good fellows , who liked his moroseness , and a freedom he used in inveighin " against the licence of the time , and the power of tho court They who knew him inwardly , discovered that he had an anti . monarchical 8 pirit , when few men thought the government in any danger . • * * He then betook himself wholly to the Bea , and quickly made himself signal there He was the . first man that declined the old traok , and made \ t manifest that tbe science might be attained in less time than was imagined , and despised those rules that had long been io . practice , to keep his ship and his men out of danger , which had been held in former times a point of great ability and circumspection , as if the principal art
requisite in the captain of a ship had been to be sure to come safe home again . He was the first man who brought tho ships to contemn castles on shore , which had been thought ever very formidable , and were discovered by him to make a noise only , and to frighten those who could be rarely hurt by them . He was the first who infused that proportion of courage into the seamen , by making thorn see by experience what mighty things they could do , if they were resolved , and taught them to fight in fire as well as upon water ; and , though he has been very well imitated and followed , he was tbe first that gave the example of that kind of naval courage , and bold and resolute achievements .
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THE COUNTESS OF RUDOLSTADT . [ Sequel to » Consmlo . " ] By George Sand . 0 the rklio 1 on op tne invbihles . All the seven were there , as at the first time , masked , XVoffi * }} ° ^ antoms . The eighth personage who had then addressed Consuelo , and who seemed to be the interpreter of the Council , and the initiator of the idepta , apoke to her in these terms :-' | Consuelo , you have already undergone some trials from which you have come forth to your glory and to our satisfaction . Wo grant you our confidence-we are about to prove it to you .
"Listen to me attentively . I speak to you in the name of those whom you see hero assembled . It is their spirit and , so to speak , their breath , which inspires me It ia their doctrine which I am about" to lay before you . The distinctive characteristic of the religions of antiquityia to have two faces-one external and public one internal and aeoret ; one ia the spirit , the other is tho form or letter . Behind the material and gross symbol , the profound Bense , the sublime idea . Egypt and India , great types of the- ancient religions-mothers of pure doctrineapme&tinthe highest state this duality of aspeot-a neoessary and fatal form of the infanoy of society and the misery attached to tho development of the Arfmln
xou have recenUy learned in what consisted the great rays , ones of Memphis and Eleusis ; and you now fnow whv he divine political and social science , concentrated with the npo religious military , and industrial power in the hand » of the Whante , did not descend so far aa the lowest classes of those ancient societies . The Christian idea , enveloped in . the word of the revealer in more transparent and pure symbols , came into the world in order to bring down to the houIs of the people the knowledge of truth and the light of faith . But the theooracy , an inevitable abuse of religions , formed in trouble and / n danger soon endeavoured once mora to veil the doctrine , and in veiling , altered it . Idolatry re-appeared with the mysteries ; and in the painful development of Christianity we saw the hierophants of apostolio Rome lose , by divine
pumsnment t&e orrao light , and fall again into the errora into which they wished to plunge mankind . The development SmbT ^ '"^ 'genoe then proceeded in a sense entirely different to that of the past . The temple vf as no longer aa in ancient times , the sanctuary of truth . Superstition and ignoranco , gross symbols , the dead letter sat upon the altars and the thrones The spirit at last descended into SKtli 0010 " !^ ; Poor tt 0 Dk 3 ' obacuredoo . tors , humble penitents-virtuous apostles of primitive Chrwtiamty-madeof the seorefc and persecuted religion an asylum for unknown truth . They endeavoured to inf tiate the people into the religion of equality ; aSd n the name of St . John , they preaohed a new gospel-that is to aay , a new interpretation-more free , more hardy ; anJ more pure , of the Christian revelation . You know the history of their laboura . of their trials , of their mai-trr !
com . iou Know the sufferings of the people , their ardent inspirations the r terrible outburats , theirTplorabS weakness , their stormy awakening ; and through so many efforts , by turns frightful and sublime , their hefoio perseyerance to escape from darkness , and to find the way of wlnWnL * " 1 ° " f ? ! n the veil of the temple shall S « ZImLVI , ' f ? v , 1 ? croffd 8 haH t ^ e by storm tlr l ^ la ° / , h 0 J ark - Then ^ boh will disaphv th « HrSL f r ^ truth wil 1 no Ion «<* be guarded F v 6 rvmaS \ o f w ¥ , ai ?( 1 nonaMlfoil despotism . ?« Z n ? r tn V ? - ^ l * in tho P of light , and to asw A'ass tit IS sarairr , ; s tssr ^ £ i rei
Bw religions Bun exists—the work of mvctoi-v i « nnt yet accomplished . We are still i ^ wloMftatfftiSe assissssl SsSSSEig li ^ fifsfei ^ Hl l l PSaS s ^ l ^ sss cution ' them ' ™ P'r aps march
toexetheir nl ™ wS ,. C ^ D 8 ed its g 1 ™^ ™* « 'e a ™ s ™ 'l We brave still the overshadowing rigour of mfserv to c ' LeXp ° f ourselve 8 * ° prosorlptton , to 5 Xnnv * £ I ty' an (! even t 0 death-for the methods \ LSfuSL ^ \ " * ° ? ° ; bufc our etforta are no Kf JM £ to Physical revoit , to the bloody preach-Xoh , J na ? andt - swor ( I - ° « r war is entirely inm Si -t f . 0 UP mwsion . We address ourselves to the wa , 7 n nv ^» , y the raind < " " "ft by armed force that nnrfS « n ffr S ™™™ nts now organised and sup-Phi ™ , t . the meanB of brutal force . We wageagainst « f ? T . ? 8 low ' moro silent . more profound ; we attack them at tho heart . Wo shake their bases b ?
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destroying the blind faith and the idolatrous respect which they seek to inspire . Wo causo to penetrate everywhere , ana even into courts-even into the troubled and fascinated tninds of piuDces and kings , what no one dares any longer to call the poison of philosophy ; we destroy all their the imi * \ f ' scllsr S ° fro" the height of our fortress all the ! h , 5 J ^ , ? iug truth and in » P »« Kible reason upon lS the tlirones - ff e sbM « " > q * or , do not doubt know ¦ h « r mny ye : m in hovr niany day 8 ' we do not 32 ' te entor P rise di ^ s from such remote antiwith io ium « . boen ! oondlloted with BOmuch Wtta , stifl . d wSSthM ^ T ' . re 3 Umed with 80 muoh Rrdour - P " beoom immoTi - en - } w ™ that it cannot foil . It has hB » re ! o vi 7 tol . | n n ature ' ° the immortal S ' * generation L i , I ^ | t ° ur . ancestors began it , and each 6 ,::, V U " " Hoped to fink i u k ™ , t ,, i „«» . „!„» i . «_« . mi aiau _
» e oursGlrps nn ^ , ¦ " c UIU uu " uv r * and leu ^ eSiL - £ ? - f ? , ?' . wouId be Jess f ™* wtoon now SovwnVthe wnn ? T , of doubt and of *«»* to us , by it ! cold caiculSn ^ n \ ° ^ UCceed in P rovi t * sErrrsHS ?? ^^ less labour for the men of the future ThSTi W tb < J ^^' T ^ & ^ SB prebend ; and yet there is in the pride of the nobffiy aXS thing which resembles our hereditary religiousi enthiaSS " Among tho great , many sacrifices are made forSy Tn order to bo worthy of their ancestors , and to bequea h SSiSfZi posterity < ¦« Among us < arohkects o { ft * temple ot truth , many sacrifices are made to viriua . in to
oroer continue the edifice of our masters , and to form ht ° rMn th PPref C - % k / lire hy the mi " and by £ heart in the past , m the future , and in the present , all at once . Our predecessors and our successors aro as much wi m we ourselves are . We believe in the transmission o £ ate , of sentiments , of generous instincts in souls , as tha patricians believe in an excellence of raco in their veins , we go still further ; we believe in the transmission of tba 2 l »» th * , y i ( iuality of the soul , and of the human peison . Wo feel ourselves fatally and providentially called M « n ! l j th 2 * we have alrea « J dreamed , always pursued , and advanced from age to age among us . There J ? n f " someam ( > ng ns who have carriel their contemplaaU no " t £ Vft and ° J ^ Uture ' S 0 far as almost t 0 f ° all notion of the present ; that is the sublime fevor , that ourte Myof ourb = ' »^ our saints ; for we hava our saints , our prophets , perhaps also our exaltls and monunes ; but , whatever be the wandering or sublimity
, « """ spora , we respect their insp ration ; and K ^' fW * the e f atic and the « " • ba 3 found oSy Snf ^ h ° . / mpathy f £ ' hi 8 ^ rows , and of admi-3 £ , « f th o ntlm flfm o ¦ We bavo failh al 8 ° the con-2 nr I Z * ° Ount / - i Germain ' considered an inu postor , or deranged in . tho world .- Though his reminiscences of a past inaccessible to human niemorv bavo a t&Ku Calm f > "Jore Pr ? c ise , and inconceivable still > Zi Mt ! 5 m - # Albart > rtwy have also a ehanoteroC S w , l T ' wbioh ifc is imposaiblo for us to JSSrVJL fc among <> ursolves many other exalte * , mys-M ? i % uf en < ? , t ° f tb ° pSopl . ' P hil 09 <> phers , artiats , ardenfc BohStVT lCd 'T 1 ths banBera of various chiefs ; Boaemists , Theosophists . Moravians . HBvnhiit . t «« a . * l
, SeTSSff > F ytha S ? rioian 8 XorophTgisVs , ffiumints , Joanmtes , Templars , Millenarians , Jacobites , io . AM these anc ent mots , in spite of their having no longonbede-Inl * ZTJ H , tliey p ? - eBSOd at thetil " their unfold-Tifo IhS , m f esutmP » a " d even but little modified . fnrLSM 9 tl - cof oure PO ° kis to reproduce all those hv S ° tl l ° lnno 7 ati » g o > ' reforming ^ genius has giveu by turns in past ages to tho religious and philosophical idea . We therefore recruit our adepts in these various groups wuhout requiring an absolute identity of precepts , which ij impossib e m the time in which we live . It is enough for us to hnd in . them an ardour for destruction in order to call them into our ranks ; all our organising scienoo consists in choosing our builders only among spirits superior to the disputes of schools , in whom the passion of truth , the thirst of justice , and the instinct of a pure morality prevail over
ine naoiw ot tainily and the rivalries of sect . Besides , ifc is not so difficult as is thought to cause to work together very dissimilar elements ; those dissimilarities are more apparent than real . At bottom , all theso heretics ( it is with respect I use that name ) ngree upon the principal point , that of destroying intellectual and physical tyranny , or at least of protesting against it . Tho antagonism which have hitherto retarded the fusion of all these generous and useful resistances oome from Belf-love and from jealousy , vices inherent to the human condition , fatal and inevitable counterpoises to all progress in humanity . By sparing these susceptibilities , by permitting each communion to keep its masters , its institutions , and its rights , we can constitute , if not a society , at least an armv and I
nave toio you we are still only an army marching to the conquest of a promised land , of an ideal society . At tho atago m which human nature still is , there are so many shades of character in individuals , so many different degrees m tho conception of truth , so many varied aspects , ingenious manifestations of tbe rich nature which created the human race , that it is absolutely necessary to leave to each the conditions of his life and the elements of his power of action . " Our work ia grand , our task is immense . We wish not only to found an universal empire upon a new order , and upon equitable basis ; it is a religion tbat we wish to reconstruct . We feel , moreover , tbat the one is impoasibla without the other . Thus we havo two modes of action . One
all material , to undermine and cause to crumble the old world by criticism , by examination , even by sneerinc . by Voltairianism and all connected with it . The formidable concourse of all wills and of all strong passions hurries our march m that direction . Our other mode of action is all spiritual : it is to build up tho religion of the future . Tho elect in intelligence and virtue assist uu in this incessant labour of our thought . The work of the Invisibles is a council which the persecution of the official world prevents assembling publicly , but whioh deliberates without rolaxation , and which labours under the same inspiration in all points of the civilised world . Mysterious communications
oarry the seed in the air as fast as it ripenB—sow it ia tha field of humanity as fast as we clear it from tho husk . It is in this last subterranean labour that you can bo associated ; we can tell you when you havo accepted it . " "I accept it , " replied Consuelo , in a firm voice , and . raising her arms to heaven in tho form of an oath . 11 Be not in haste to promise , woman of generous instincts , of enterprising soul . Perhaps you have not all tha virtues such a misBion would require . You have traversed the world ; you have already gathered therein the notions of prudence , of what is called savoir vivre , discretion , tha spirit of conduct . "
" I do not so flatter myself , " replied Consuelo , smiling with a modest pride . " Well , you have there learnt at least to doubt , to discuss , to sneer , toaaspeot . " " To doubt , perhaps . Take from me tbe doubt which was not in my nature , and which has made me suffer , and I will bless yon . Take from me especially the doubt of . myself which would strike me with impotence . " " We cannot relieve you of doubt except by developing our principles to you . As to giving to you material guarantees of our sincority and our power , we shall not do
so otherwise than we have already done . Lot the services wo have rendered be sufficient for you : we will always assist you on occasions , but wo will not associate iu the mysterie 8 ofour thought and of our action , except according to that part of aotion whioh we give to yourself . You will not know us . You will never see our features . You will never know our names , unlesB a great interest of the oause compels us to infringe tho law which renders ub unknown and invisible to our disciples . Can you submit and trust blindly to men who will never be to you other than abstract beings , living ideas , mysterious aids and counsels ?"
" A vain curiosity alone oould impel me to know you otherwise . I tbink that childish feeling will never eater n » y bosom . " " We have no referenoe to curiosity , but to mistrust . Yours would be well founded acoording to the logic and the prudence of the world . A man ia answerable for big actions ; his name is a pledge or a warning ; his reputation supports or belies his arts or his projects . Do you refleot that you can never compare the conduct of any onej of us in particular with the precepts of the order ? You must believe in us as saints without knowing that we are not hypocrites . Have you faith enough to believe with dosed eyes ?" " As a Catholic I did so in youth , " replied Consuelo 1 ' Raise your hand now , if you persist . " ( To be Continued . )
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THEEarlofMalmesbury is pushing a bill through the Lords , that , i to . the shame of England , it shall become a law , will hugely delight the French President ; for it will , at little trouble , place in his grasp the men who have escaped to England , bolieving m the vulgar error that England & a free country . This bill is nominally for" the mutual surrender of criminals in France and England to the respective governments of those countries ; " but the bill is so crossed and interlacedjwith Bubtletiea that a case of felony may with little difficulty be trumped up aeainst a oolitioal offender :
Louts Blanc , for instance , might be claimed for robbing the President of his reputation , valued at something more than a silver fork . Lord Campbell turned the bill over very ausp iciously—so did Lord Brougham ; and if it pass the Lords in its present shape , which is doubtful , it must be made bavmlesB by the Commons . Neither is tho bill to be less suspooted because introduced by the Earl of Malmesbury ; his lordBhip ' B instincts are a little too much towards the Elysee . " It is a purely oriminal treaty , " says the Eatl for all that we would rather havo nought to do with it . We * want nothing in common with Louis Napoleon ; and least ofall . handouffs ! '
Sympathetic SnovTEits . —The rain on the Ascot Cup day seems to have exercised a curiously sympathetic influenca upon the Betting-bouse proprietors . It was astonishing what a number of them were found next morning to hava ?' mizzled . " Tub English Press in Pms .-At the time of our eoin » to press , we received intelligence that the correspondents of tho " Chromole" and « Daily News" had been sent for and informed that Louia Napoleon had not alert a wink during tbe previous night ; and that they , as contributors to English journals , would be held accountable if the Prc sident did not enjoy tho soundest repose the night follow-H \
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 19, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1683/page/3/
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