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kingston chronicle nec rege nec populo sed utkoqle vol 13 iaturday september 18 1830 literature now uqj original for the chronicle to ak1na- sofi as the shades that usher in the day pure as the pendant dewdrop on the spray lovely as light when slowly pass away the clouds that veild the moonbeams silver ray grateful as kindness when dull griefs annoy and sweet as hope when fearb each thought employ welcome as love combind with constancy such is arinas rosy smile to me beauty can claim the tribute of a song and admiration pleasd its notes prolong beauty from eloquence commands applause and sighs of hope from aching bosoms draws beauty the poets pen can touch with lice and songs of love and lays of bliss inspire when brightly she appears at break of day and streaks the fields of light with colours pay so she appears when cynthia crowns the nignt and sheds u from azure skiis her silver light- but these must yield in beauty and in grac tbe palm to young arinas heavnly face for the chronicle on a violet its fragrance flinging oer the gale lo where yon flowret blooms unseen the pnde and boast of all the v though hidden in its bowr of green that scented ftwr though bright its bloom and ahelterd be its sylvan bed the rebellion iw scotlah 1745 continued these characters these changes and these turasof elevated sentiment are very astonish ing it is impossible to remark without respect and admiration the noble daring sjsd enthusiastic generosity of those devot ed followers of tbe youthful prince who came to wrest the sceptre from tbe grasp of the house of brunswick those brave warriors paused not to cast one look upon the gigantic force opposed to them without hesitating to contrast the high land kitt and spear with the formidable lance and bayonet of england with ber artillery at her feet and her fleet in toe distance these men rushed on tbeircause when at every step they incurred treason and death they put no question to their chief but was it bis will none to the prince but did be lead the history of the world can hardly afford such an in stance of magnanimity and elevation of sentiment from this fact we may learn an important lesson videlicet the neces sity of spreading political knowledge a- mong the people for want of this were those brave men doomed to perish and the benefits of the revolution to be endan- glrsll and tij w hem waft thu twd fold injury to be inflicted by the noblest race of men subject to the british crown had they been joined by the northern counties of england the danger might have been fatal to the constitution hail the northern counties been as generous and brave as they were mistaken in prin ciple the rebellion would have been suc cessful the brunowick family would have been chased from the throne and the general cause of human liberty defeated and all this arising from a mistake from a misstatement of hereditary right this and this alone led scotland to stand by the pretender we should not as some have done in- enlt these brave men these heroes of tbe highlands tbey were not led on by the hope of plunder and ambition no it was affection to the chief in tbe follower it was loyalty to tho prince in the chief this it was which made them boast of it as the good and the true cause it was from their notions of the indefeasible no tions of heriditary right as it was sung in the ballad of the day his right are the hills his right are the valleys where the wild bird finds shelter but he can find none this was- the cause which they resolv ed to support however it might be deserted by the timeserviug sycophants of the low lands and tbe south it is impossible to consider such feelings and seotimeots without admiration it is right that we should meditate upon them that we may catch the divine flame but heroic senti ments and generous feeliogs are not enough they are lights from heaven but they are lights that will deceive us if they m urterintendinir dow- ratioo is to be found in tbe facts der consideration what was the attempt of these generous noble and brave men to destroy in liberty of a free people for whom did they contend for tb very representative oftyranqy what was their ultimate object t overthrowthe happy constitution of eng land it pleased the beneficent and allruling providence that their cause should n succeed they lay slaughtered upon the plains of cutfoovn they were hunted down by their conquerors io their nativ glens they perished and tbe cause pe rished with them so perish the re membrance of their faults i at this point it is painful to note lb want of perspective wisdom in the en glisb cabinet the only step taken was an order to disarm the highlanders t seize their arms and to leave their heart to be seized by others and hence what was to be expected did happen the weft disposed gave up their arms and the evil part concealed them sir robert walpole a man by the bye who deserves abetter reputation than he has obtained but to whom posterity may and should pay a just though tardy com- p5jajdrued that a highland army it in the north before concludingthis paper we roust take once more a general view of this enterprise and contrast tbe highlanders with tbe people of england what is the simple fact mentioned by gibbon that charles and his followers marched into the heart of the kiogdom without being either joined by their friends or opposed by their enemies from what could this arise from national apathy we cannot think it pusillanimity it will be aid that they were not prepared that they were not accustomed to the use of arms but what need was there of arms why did not the nation rise aa one man and beat back the insolent invader it is by comparing the highland character with tbe english at that time that we can re solve the difficulty the fact is that by commerce manufactures peace and pros perity tbe generous and cbivalric feelings of a former age had been obliterated they had no visions of imagination do giants on the mountains no spirits in the air no fairies in tbe forest go na tional music nn bonds of generosity much was heard of the balance of trade and more of profit and loss the useless ness of sentiment without the sober guid ance of the judgment and of the under- mahilibg hashecu already pulmed out it now remains to be shewn that along with tbe judgment and understanding there must be elevated sentiment to complete the cha racter in a commercial country abilities and science cannot defend the inhabitants without such a spirit the romantic sen timents of nature although they may be despised on the stock exchange or evea in the royal society must not bftbanish- ed from the land or if they he we shall become like holland surrounded by the images of its commercial greatness bat ao longer that same holland which had defied philip and had defeated tbe armies of louis in saying thus much it is not iutended to detract from the blessings of commerce and opulence but to assert that without personal virtue and personal spirit they have a tendency to draw on ruin this spirit therefore should be che rished and this cannot be done by press ing hard on the democratical part of the nation thiscaunotbe done by withhold ing education from the poor it can only be done by means contrary to these by accustoming each man to consider himself as of importance and to take an interest in the affairs of his native country such are the reasonings which force themselves upon our attention when con sidering this important and romantic fea ture in the history of great britain the young student is cautioned against a hasty decision his enthusiastic admira tion for the nnhle highlanders must not hliod him to their errors nor must he h too eager to condemn the apathy of tb english an attentive perusal of horn smollett lacretelle and gibbon will givff ample scope to his reasoning faculties ane by the aid of walter scott the chevalier johnstone mr audcharabers he will com aann h selected my chilphood8 home bt mrs norton i have tasted each varied pleasure and drunk of the cup of delight i have danced to the gayest measure in the halls of dazzling light i have dwell in a blaze of splendour and stood in the courts of kings i have snatched at each toy thnt could render more rapid the flight oftimes wings but vainly ive sought for joy or peace in that life of light and shade and i turn with a sigh to my own dear home the home where my childhood played when jewels are sparkling round me and dazzling with their rays i weep for the ties that bound me in lifes first early days i sigh for one of the sunny hours ere day was fumed to night for one of my nosegays of fresh wild flowers instead of my jewels bright i weep when i gaze on the scentless buds which never can bloom or fade and nurn with a sigh to those gay green fields the home where my childhood played jto 12 teach yu manners mv fine give way men and i fired my infarmtinff all from blackwoods magazine heat at thirst- a scene in jamaica the torch was lying at anchor in blue- fields bay it was between eight and nine in the morning the laud wind had died away and the sea breeze bad not set in there was not a breath stirring the peo- at tne ssskiht rablfevluwn 4bamh not distinguish the waterline nor tell where the substance ended and shadow began until the casual dashing of a buck et overboard for a few moments broke up the phantom ship but the wavering frag ments soon reunited and she again floated double like the swan of the poet the heat was so intense that the iron stan- cheoos of the awning could not be grasp ed with the hand and where the decks were not screened hy it the pitch boiled out from the seams the swell rolled in from lheoffing in long shining undulations tike a sea of quicksilver whilst every now and then a lying fish would spark out from the unruffled bosom of the heaviog water and shoot away like a silver arrow until it dropped with a flash into the sea again there was not a cloud in the heavens but a quivering blue haze hung over the laud through which the white sugarworks aod overseers houses on the distant estates ap peared to twinkle like objects seen through a thin smoke whilst each ofthe tall stems of the cocoatrees on the beach when looked at steadfastly seemed to be turning round with a small spiral motion like so many endless screws there was a dreamy indistinctness about the outlines of the hills even in the immediate vicinity which increased as they receded until the blue mountains in the horizon melted into sky the crew were listlessly spinning oakum and mending sails under the shade ofthe awning the only exceptions to the gene ral languor were johncrow the black aod jrckoo the monkey the former who was an improvisatore of a rough stamp sat out on the bowsprit through choice be yond the shade of the canvass without hat or shirt like a bronze bust busy with his task whatever that might be singing at the top of his pipe and between whiles confabulating with bis hairy ally as if he bad been a messmate the monkey was hanging by the tail fronfhe dolphin strik er admiring what johncrow called his own dam ogly face in the water tail like yours would be a good ting for a sail or jackoo it would leave his two hands free aloftmore use more hornament too im sure den de piece of greasy junk dal hangs from the captains taffrail now i shall sing to you how dat corromantee rascal my fader was sell me on de gold coast two red nightcap one long knife all him get for quackoo for gun next day him sell him wife you tink dat good song jackoo chocko chocko chattered the mon key as if in answer ah you tink so- sensible honimal what is dat shark jackoo come up sir dont you seedat big shoveloosed flsh looking at you pull your hand out of water gararoighty the negro threw himself on the gammon ing ofthe bowsprit to take hold ofthe poor ape who mistakiog his kind intention and ignorant of his danger shrunk from him lost his hold and fell into the sea the shark instantly sank to have a run then dashed at his prey raising his snout over him aod snooting his head and shoul ders three or four feet out of the water with poor jackoo shriekiog in his jaws whilst his small bones crackled aod crunch ed under the monsters triple row of teeth whilst this small tragedy was acting and painful enough it was to the kind- hearted negro was looking out towards the eastern horizon watching the first dark blue ripple of the sea breeze when a rushing noise passed over my head i looked up aod saw a galtinaso the large carrion crow of the tropics sailing contrary to the habits of its kind seaward over the brig i followed it with my eye attention was attracted bv a dark speck far 0 a litlle oy white sail with my glass i made it out to be a ships boat but i saw no one on board and the sail was idly flapping about tbe mast on making my re part i was desired to pull towards it in thegig and as we ap proached one of the erew said he thought he saw some one peeving over the how we drew nearer and i saw him distinctly why dont you haul the sheet aft aod come down to us sir he neither moved or answered but as the boat rose and fell on the short sea rais ed by the first ofthe breeze the face kept mopping aod mowing at us over the gun wale i will soon fellow musket when the crowtnat i had seen rose from the boat into the air but immediately alighted again to onr astonishment vul turelike with outstretched wings upon the head under the shadow off this horrible plume the face seemed oo the instant to alter like a hideous change in adream it appeared to become of a deathtke paleness and a- non streaked with blmd auother stroke ofthe oar the chio bid fallen down and the tongue was hanging out another pull the eyes were gene and from their sockets brains and bland were fermenting and flowing down thecheeks tt was the face of a putrifying corpse in this float ing coffin we found the body of another sailor doubled across one ofthe thwarts with along spanish knife sticking between i rflet ww u iah i hi rf wfc rtmfl small water cask in the bow was slaved and empty we had no sooner cast our grappling over the bow and begun to tow the boat to the ship than the abominable bird that we had scared setled down into it again notwithstanding our proximity aod began to peck at the face of the dead boy at this moment we heard a gibbering noise and saw something like a bundle of old rags roll out from beneath the sternsheet and apparently make a fruitless attempt to drive the gallinaso from its prey hea ven and earth what an object met our eyes it was a full grown man but so wasted that one of thie boys lifted him up by his belt with ones hand his knees were drawn up in hi chin his hands were like the talons of a bind while the falling in of his chocolatecoloured and withered fea tures gave an unearthly relief to his fore head over which the horny and transpa rent skin was braced so tightly that it seem ed ready to crack but in the midst of this desolation his deep set coal black eyes sparkled like diamonds with the fever of his sufferings there was a fearful fasci nation io their flashing brightness contrast ed with the deathlike aspect of the face and rigidity ofthe frame when sensible of our presence he tried to speak hut could only utter a low moaning sound at length aqua nqua we had not a drop of water in the boat el muchaco esta mo- riendo de sed aqua we got on board and the surgeon gave the follow some weuk tepid grof it a- ed like magic he gradually uncoiled himself his voice from being weak aud husky became comparatively strong and clear el hijo aqua para mi pednllo no le hace para mi oh la noche pas- ado la noche pasado he was told to j compose himself aod that his boy would betaken care of dexa me verlo en- tonces oh dios dexa me verlo and he crawled grovelling on his chest like a crushed worm across tho deck until he got his head over the portsill and looked down into the boat he there beheld the pale face of his dead son it was the last object he ever saw ay de mi he groaned heavily aod dropped his face a- gainst the ships side he was dead from the mirror boardinghouses amd hotels few persons there are who after a long days peregrination and especially if the weather has been tempestuous or cold have seasonably found a comfortable room good fire a pair of wax candle tallow ditto at present not the thing aod a very well fur nished larder to back all other pretensions but have felt a sort of pleasant sensation which is not unaptly expressed by the old household word comor on the other hand if a man perchance has heen shak ing and knocking at a door alternately for some couple of hours in the winter solstice and about the time of midnight feeding his imagination with the speedy enjoyment of all the good things which that aforesad door together with four walls of brick or wood as the case may be enclose aod should instead of hearing the words op en sesame see presented to h astonished visiou aud towards bis person a long shining barrel the very ffiouth of which seems ready to vomit forh incontinently the dire conents of a welhcharged gun such a person must we truok understand the meaning of the phrase tomfortubtt quar ters there are very few travellers and in such comprehensive terro may be inclu ded most males from the age of fourteen and upwards but must have noted an ira- of things during the first weeks occupancv of a new domicil and the same set of ob jects after a longer period has transpired and especially if you are what is called an easy man that is can put up with almost any kind ofjtreatment without complain ing at the first your basin aod tumbler in thesleepingroom are regularly filled eve ry day and a cleao towel placed and you are assigned if it is winter a place near the fireiothesittingroom if you should happen to possess a decent person are be tween twenty and thirty and there should he unmarried and marriageables females in the family you are the lion of the week but make the mostof your time for your days are numbered- during that time all the albums in the house will he open to you and what you write in them will be lauded whether you can only tag two rhymes on ly abstract verses from some obsolete book and palm them for your own or write like mrs hemaus aod like what mrs norton is said to do on the eighth day the hand kerchief passes and you may inscribe hie transit etc generally speaking the inns hotels hoardinghouses and places of pub lic entertainment characterize the manners of a people in england there are scarce ly such things to be found in the fashiona- 1 hie world as tables dhote or the hoarding- house sittingroom ofthe united states in the coffeerooms and saloons of firstrate and fashionahle hotels in england you may mingle with respectable male society to female circles there requires par usage a more particular introduction in the united states the inmate ofthe house has fossspjja lo mingle with j sant circumstances doubtless regulate ihe practice ofeach that too much reserve and retirement is unfavorable to popularity the french monarchs were fully sensible of who at least during the old regime dined io public the kindlier and better feelings arc called forth by the public dis play of pleasing manners on the part of the class who possess emphaticnjjiiwres- pect of mankind on the other hand the circumstance of general privacy lies per haps at the very foundation of that respect in england it may with some truth be stat ed that the nobility serve not only as a po litical but a moral check to the haughty pre tensions ofthe uneducated and unaroiahle wealthy aod the middling and lower class es of society contemplate the fact with great satisfaction that those who more immedi ately cause their greatest mortifications are not at the top but we are like a ship at sea lyingto we begin to drift a little the candidate for a good dinner and well dressed for the chance of hearing some good things occasionally and who does not make seycbs aq indispensable quality in his socmy may do remarkably well at the best ordinaries in london and in the coffee and travellers rooms in the country tbe gentlemen of tho whip sometimes crack a pleasant joke most of them are adepts at small talk and no people in the country are better judges of bees wings and the age of sherry it was at one of these houses we heard the following little tale related a second mate of ao eoglish mierehau1 vessel run in me tamwtft wr y west iudies succeeded in inducing the captain of ihe vessel and that with ihe greatest difficulty to fight a french priva teer which the result showed carried a lar ger force than it would have heen pruden to have withstood hut the brave feliow acted like a second nelson he was at the helm at the bows loading the guns in the immediate part ofthedeek called the slaughterhouse manning the sternchasers and all nearly in as many minutes the privateer depended on boarding and the two vessels were at one time locked but kingsleyforthattwas his name took the helm at tbe important moment aod eased off the demerara from the privateer twothirds ofthe crew of the demerara fell io the action and towards the latter part of the fight kingsley had both his legs carried away by a cannon shot the privateer af ter this would have captured the brig but for the circumstance of a very brisk gale coming on and the foretopmast of the former beiog wounded kingsleys suffer ings having no regular surgeon on board on the vessels passage home to london cannot be described when arrived there the surgeons pronounced that his active life was closed as the power of locomation could not with all the aid of art be restored the owners of the vessel were applied to for a pension for poor kingsley iu cnusi- deration of his good conduct butit came out in the course of this application that it would have been for the interest ofthe firm had the vessel been captured and be ing private property nothing further was to be done kingsleys father and mother resided in a cottage in kent which the humble couple hy constant labor although advanced in life contrived to keep over their heads tbey had heard as the action was related al full length in all the newspa pers of the bravery of their son aod wel comed him home to share their last morsel to return to his birth place and become a burden to his aged parents was not the on ly difficulty which kingsley had to solve in his resolute mind there was one within the limits of that parish who bad figured to her eager imagination tbe return of ber ue first act m a drama of happiness she flew to her brave sailors parents hung upon their necks and demanded him in any state showed her rosy arms and protested that she could labor for both in the mean while the refusal ofthe pittance on the part ofthe owners ofthe demerara had sunk deep into the manly spirit of kingsley who could not endure the thought that his de pendence for life should rest upou the labor of his wife or in default of hat upon his parents day after day he refused bis food his pistols faithful in tbe fight had been keptevery night uuder his pillow oue morning he wasfbund stretched on the bed lifeless with a shot tbrongh his heart the poor lost mary may be now seen every day with tresses floating in the wind and arms extended demanding him of the coaches which pass through the village the pas sengers are differeully affecteaveome on heariug the melancholy fate which is hour ly related execrate the avarice which could cause such heartrenderiog woes some give money for her support and a few be sides the donation drop a sileottear t from the new montily magazine coquetry concluded but in the more honest epoch of youth and amongst women not wholly perverted by society there is nothing more likely tocure a coquet than a good strong durable pas sion and if this cure be as la kochefou- cauld has elewhere observed the greatest miracle which love cau work it is nnly because coquetry is so rarely developed in and grimacing and acting without btiot or pause tbey are for ever laying traps to catch attention and every movement is calculated to remind the company of their presence and pretensions no matter what may be the subject of conversation or what the characteraju condition ofthe interlo- cuters they contrive to give the discourse a turn to themselves aod to inveigle the com pany into a compliment to their person i remember a lady of this description dail- leurs a woman of some talent who turned her coquetry to a good account by the pow er she obtained through it over persons of weigh and influence in society she would however not the less stoop to throw away a lure on a peasant or a tradesman of on any thing male that crossed her path and after having pinned a general officer or a judge to her apronstring for an entire morning would triumph in putting a com mon fellow to confusion or making him own by some quaint and extraordinary re mark the influence of her chayms in her instance indeed a perfect bontoru and some wit redeemed the failuro and sometimes rendered it oven agreeable but generally speaking there is nothing more obtrusive aod troublesome ib conversation than a coquet of this inordinate calibre if oo the contrary it be asked in what the difference consists between tbe conversa tion of a roan of a lively fancy aod well- stored mind aod that of a woman of sense and spirit or why the latter possesses a de cided superiority over the former i bhuuiit not hesitate to place lue ttummwa charm in that dash of coquetry which is inseparable from female nature tbe woman constantly agocee by tbe desire ts please like an highspirited horse that feels the spur is kept on the alert and throws out all her fire in a thousand graceful aod lively movents which are not strictly ne cessary to the progression of discourse but which infinitely adorn it the conversa tional powers of a man of wit can only be excited by the desire to shine but between that desire and the wish to please there is a vast difference the desire to shine is apt at every turn to betray the speaker into presumption and to stimulate him to usurp too large and overpowering a share of the conversation it leads also to an unhappy forgetfulness of the genius of tbe time and phee to a disregard of us cen- venances the wish to please on the other hand showsjtsejo much io for bearance aa injwnrind itdevelopes a de licacy of tact that leaves every one pre sent satisfied with himself the charm of female society ofthe highest polhm is no where so well known or so powerfully felt as io france and it is in france if asy where that coquetry is reduced toao art i had almost said a science for in a french woman of any talent the instinct is con trolled and subdued with a nicety that par takes almost of philosophy with such a woman no matter what her age or perso nal appearance may be the sex of tha speaker is never absent from your thoughts though she never directly reminds you of it herself and she makes it impossible to lis ten to her with that languid indifference hich will sometimes steal over the sen- s in male society however brilliant or however profound in this particular madame de stael was an exception among her countrywomen in her the vanity of the author prevailed over the coquetry of the woman constantly possessed by the idea of herself she disserted when she should have discoursed and talked only for display byron measured her very just ly when he preferred her conversation foran hour by reducing herself to the le vel of a man she lost a large part of thag is ses