Where erst so many hours were idly spent,
Asks of its wonted due the tythe alone;—
Braid then your tresses of luxuriant now,
And wrap your forms angelic in the dress
Simple, yet rich and elegant, that gives
Your matchless beauties half revealed to view;
Still heaving strong, and suing to be prest;—
Grace then the vehicle.—We, observers
Of Real Life, the while, in London go
To “catch the living manners as they rise,
“And give the age its very form and pressure.”
[137] CONTINUING their route down Holborn, the adventure in the Linen-draper's shop became the theme of conversation.—“It is not alone,” said Dashall, “to the lower orders and necessitous that this system of Shop-lifting is confined; many recent instances have occurred of similar depredation3, by women above the mediocrity of rank, who, however, frequently contrive4 to compromise prosecution5, while the delinquent6 of poverty is visited by the utmost rigor7 of the law!—Of the two, certainly the thief from habit is more culpable8 than the thief from necessity.”
Sir Felix and the Squire9 entirely10 agreed with their friend in opinion.—“Shop-lifters,” continued Dashall, “are as pernicious to the trading part of the community as any of the cheats of London; there is not, on a moderate calculation, less than 5000 of these artful thieves in the metropolis11, and the prejudice they do to the industrious12 tradesman is incalculable.”
“By the powers of safety, then,” exclaimed the baronet “the honest dealer13 should consider every stranger a thief until further acquaintance.”
“Not exactly so; however, it is necessary that the London tradesman should be upon his guard, and keep [138] a sharp look out upon his customers, not knowing, by their appearance, whether they are honest or otherwise."{1}
Turning from Holborn into Chancery Lane, our pedestrians14 were encountered by a very handsome chariot, in which were two elegantly dressed and beautiful women, who, ordering the carriage to stop, saluted15 Dashall and the Squire in the most fascinating terms of friendly recognition.
“Your Ladyships render me,” said Dashall, “infinite happiness; this is a most unexpected pleasure!”
“You are a gallant16 cavalier,” observed one of the lovely inmates17, “another gentleman would probably have used the word honor instead of happiness, but you are fertile in felicitous19 expression.”
“Not more felicitous than appropriate; but whither away, my fair captivators?”
“We are on a shopping expedition,” replied one of the ladies, “you and your friend of Belville-hall, are observers of Life in London generally;—ours is a mere20 circumscribed21 sphere of action; we go to view Life in a Mercer's shop.—When the Squire and you are not more pleasantly engaged, give us a call, and perhaps we may grant you the honor of an interview.—We would ask the Unknown,” said she, in a whisper, “who is he?”
1 A thief from habit.—Not long since, there existed in
the fashionable world, a female of rank and property, who
over their goods, without mak-ing a purchase, and embrace
the opportunity of purloining26 any portable article that lay
in her way. Those tradesmen to whom her thieving
propensities27 were known, used to watch, carefully, her
manoeuvres, let her walk off with the spoil, and then send a
bill of depredation, which she uniformly, and without
hesitation28, dis-charged. This unfortunate woman was one
morning detected in the shop of a Mercer to whom she was a
was about to detain her, when she burst into an agony of
infatuation under which she acted, disclosed her rank and
family, and the compassionate32 mercer suffered her to depart.
At another time, being one of a card-party, a gold snuff-box
vanished from the table. Every person present denied any
knowledge of it;—“Madam, you are mistaken,” said one of the
company, “you have got the snuff-box in your pocket.”—“How
very absent I am!”exclaimed our heroine, producing the
box.—“And I beg that you will continue absent!” said the
[139] “Sir Felix O'Grady, Madam,” answered Dashall, “an Irish baronet, of recent acquaintance; like every other gentleman of the Emerald Isle34, combining, with characteristic eccentricity35, a sound head and a warm heart.”
“Then, of all things, bring him with you.” “So,” waving gracefully36 her hand, “adieu!” the trio responded, by respectfully raising their hats, “Allons donc,” she exclaimed, and the carriage drove off.
“There go,” exclaimed Dashall, “two of the most lovely and accomplished37 women in London, and perhaps the least tinctured with fashionable folly38.”
“With the exception,” observed the Squire, “of shopping, that is, I presume, making the morning tour of tradesmen's shops, tumbling over their goods, giving them every possible trouble, and ultimately making no purchase."{1}
Dashall admitted the correctness of the Squire's observation, as generally applicable, but claimed an exemption39 for the ladies in question.
On the left, proceeding40 down Chancery Lane, Dashall pointed41 to a respectable house as the occasional residence of a lady in the first class of literature, whose writings have given universal satisfaction, and will continue to be read with increased avidity, as conveying the most admirable lessons of morality, told in a manner alike impressive and pathetic;—Mrs. Op*e; the widow of the late celebrated42 artist. This excellent woman is endeared to the circle of her numerous acquaintance by a pre-eminent
1 Tallyho had improved in his knowledge of Real Life in
One of those fashionable female idlers, who delight in
occupying the time, and exercising the patience of the
industrious, alighted, a short time since, at the shop of a
tradesman in Ludgate-street, and after a couple of hours
spent in examining and re-examining a variety of rich silks,
made her election at last, and desired the mercer to cut her
off a shilling's worth, throwing, at the same time, the
money on the counter. The tradesman, with perfect coolness,
took up the piece of coin, laid it on a corner of the silk,
circum-scribed it with his scissors, and presented the part
so cut out to the lady, as the shilling's worth required. We
manner of illustrating47 it, and in atonement for trouble
given and patience exemplified, became, and still continues,
one of his most valued customers.
[140] suavity48 of disposition49, blended with superior mental endowments; to the unfortunate by her benevolent50 heart, to which the appeal of distress51 is never made in vain; and to the public generally, by her invaluable52 works, the uniform tendency of which is the advancement53 of virtue54 and the inculcation of the benign55 feelings of humanity.{1}
1 To the admirers of Mrs. Op*e, the following lines, never
before published, will not prove unacceptable.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
O Thou of matchless power to raise
And bend the Passions to thy sway I—
Whose spell the shadowy forms obey.
Of Joy and Grief, of Hope and Fear,
Enchantress! take the duteous lays
To Worth that Admiration59 pays.
To thee, as to thy Op*e, given
On Immortality60 a claim;
Yet still exist in deathless fame;—
His pencil to thy pen assign'd
To charm, instruct, and grace mankind!—
But ah! bereft of every stay,
My vigils, each sad sorrowing day,
And snatch a victim from the grave,—
Around me Desolation lours,
And glaring, midst the deep'ning gloom,
Despair and Famine urge me to the tomb!
If, all unmeet, my humble strain
Is destin'd still to flow in vain;—
Shouldst thou the tribute now refuse
Reject not yet the lay with scorn,
To thee by kindred feelings borne;—
Breathe pain and sufferings, like mine own.
[141] Facing the entrance to the Royal Wax Works, Sir Felix made a full stop;—“That fellow,” said he, alluding74 to the whole length figure of the Centinel, “stands as motionless as a statue; by the powers, but half-a-dozen peep-o-day boys in his rear would be after putting life and mettle75 in his heels!—Shoulder and carry your arms, you spalpeen; and is this the way that you show the position of a soldier?” at same time enforcing his admonition with a smart stroke of his cane76 over the arm of the inanimated military representative. The attendant, a young man in the costume of the Yeomen of the Guards, remonstrated77; Dashall and Tallyho laughed most immoderately; and the baronet, equally enjoying the joke, persisted in affecting to believe, that he was addressing himself to a living object, greatly to the amusement of the now congregating78 street passengers.
“Begging your pardon, ray jewel,” continued Sir Felix, “long life and good luck to you, in your stationary79 quarters, and may His Majesty80 never find a more active enemy than yourself!—By the soul of my grandmother, it would be well for poor Ireland, who has taken leave of her senses, if her bog-trotting marauders were as peaceably inclined as you are.—Fait and troth, but you're a fine looking lad after all, and with the assistance of your master, and a touch of Prometheus, we might raise a regiment81 of braver fellows than the King's Guards, without bounty82 or beat of drum, in the twinkling of an eye, honey; but with your leave, and saving yourself unnecessary trouble, we'll be after paying a visit to the company above stairs; “and the party proceeded to the exhibition room.—
Here were representatives of the living and mementos83 of the dead! Kings and Queens, Princes and Princesses,
Ah! cease the sad resemblance here!—
Thee, then, to every feeling dear
Of tender sympathy,—thy way
Illumin'd to life's remotest day.
Though pain, and want unsuccour'd, mine!
Be long an Op*e's talents given;
And Virtue consecrate86 the tear
When call'd to join her native Heaven!
A. K.
[142] warriors87, statesmen, poets, and philosophers, in social communion: not forgetting the lady who had three hundred and sixty-five children at a birth!!{1}
The baronet made many congees88 to the great and inferior personages by whom he was surrounded, admired the heterogeneity89 of the group, and regretted that their imperfect creation precluded90 the possibility of converse91.
One of the figures, by an unobserved excitement of the attendant, now inclined its head to Sir Felix, who, nothing daunted92, immediately assumed the attitude of Macbeth in the banquet scene, and exclaimed,
“Nay, if thou canst nod, speak too! if our graves And charnel houses give those we bury back, Our monuments shall be the maws of kites.”
The company present pronounced the baronet a player, and a lady, to whom the manly93 and athletic94 form of the supposed tragedian had given apparent pleasure, assured him she had never heard the passage more impressively delivered, and that certainly, in the character of the Scottish Usurper95, there was no doubt of his becoming to Mr. Kran a very formidable rival!
Sir Felix sustained his part admirably, expressing his high acknowledgment of the lady's favorable opinion; but the enquiry when and in which theatre, he meant to make his first appearance, had so nearly deranged96 his gravity and that of his two friends, as to induce them to hasten their retreat.
Dashall and Tallyho congratulated the baronet on his promising97 dramatic talent, and advised him still further to court the favors of the tragic98 Muse.
“May the devil burn the tragic Muse!” he exclaimed;
1 Thus runs the legend.—
A lady in former times, who, it seems, like some of our
modern visionaries, was an enemy to superabundant
population, and would have restricted the procreation of
to for alms by a poor woman, with no less than five little
put herself in the way of having children whom she could not
support.—The woman dropped on her knees, and prayed “that
the lady might have as many children at one birth as there
were days in the year!” and so, (as the legend runs,) it
actually happened!
[143] “Arrah, give me the favors of that sweet pretty crature, the comical Muse at the Wax-works, who took me for a player,—Och! the fascination105 of her smile and the witchery of her eye before all the Muses106 that ever fuddled the brain of a garreteer!”
“Why baronet,” said the Squire, “you are love-struck,—deeply lurched,—taken in by the knowing one!”
“Taken in, that is as it may hereafter happen, but an Irishman, my jewel, is never so desperately107 in love with one girl but he can spare a bit of affection for another.
“Sure love is the soul of a nate Irishman,
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can
With his sprig of shilleleagh and shamrock so green.”—
The three friends had now rounded the corner at the bottom of Fleet-street, in the direction of Blackfriars, when Dashall claimed the attention of his associates.—
“This is the domicil,” said he, “of the patriotic108 Alderman, who, during so many years has uniformly and ably opposed the civic109 hirelings of Corruption110, advocated the cause of Freedom, and acquired the well-earned meed of high estimation by all the respectable and independent portion of his fellow-citizens.
“Firm in principle, and resolute111 in difficulty, the conscientious112 discharge of his duty has ever been his prominent object. But perhaps in no instance has he so greatly endeared himself to humanity, than in that of the long protracted113 inquest on the bodies of the two unfortunate men, Honey and Francis, the victims of military outrage114; his constant attendance and indefatigable115 exertions116 on that occasion, were the means of eliciting117 many particulars which otherways might not have been known, and which ultimately led the Jury to record the atrociousness of the crime by the several verdicts of murder and manslaughter.
“Again, on the memorable118 day of the funeral of these two immolated119 men, Mr. W. in his capacity of Sheriff, supported with becoming dignity, his high station, and undaunted amidst imminent120 danger, enforced obedience121 even from the military, and saved the effusion of human blood.”
London exhibits, daily, a series of depravity perhaps unparalleled in any other part of the British Empire.—
[144] Dashall had just finished his eulogium on the worthy122 Alderman, in which his friends heartily coincided, when the attention of the triumvirate was attracted by the appalling123 appearance of five men rivetted together, and conducted along the street by officers of justice. Tallyho enquired124 into the nature of their crimes, and was informed that they were in custody125 under suspicion of house-breaking in the night-time, and that two of them, particularly, had been taken in the house which they had plundered126, regaling themselves, in perfect ease, with cold meat, wine, and liquors, and the stolen property tied up in a bag, with which, on the moment of alarm, they attempted an escape, but were intercepted127 in their retreat, and taken in charge by the officers after a desperate resistance, in which shots and hurts were received both by the victors and the vanquished128. It is almost beyond belief, that men engaged in an enterprise wherein ignominious129 death awaits discovery, would sit down to regale130 themselves after having secured their booty, with as much composure, as if in their own homes; yet so it is; such is the daring callousness131 of mind attached to long confirmed and successful habits of guilt132.{1}
1 Police. Mansion House.—William Johnson was charged by Mr.
mitted a robbery on Thursday night, under circumstances of
rather an extraordinary kind.. Mr. Miller's evidence was to
the following effect. He has a cut glass and earthenware134
visiting his warehouse yesterday morning, he found that
thieves had been very busy upon the concern the night
before. They did not get much, but while they were in the
house they enjoyed themselves. They lighted a fire, and paid
a visit to the wine-cellar, from which they took two bottles
of wine and three bottles of perry, which it seemed they
drank warm with sugar, and Mr. Miller received a very polite
letter from one of them, acknowledging the obligations they
Miller found that his iron chest had been forced open. The
performed was lying on the premises, and a dark lanthorn,
which the thieves had forgotten, was also picked up in the
course of the search. The petty cash drawers of the iron
chest lay open empty, but Mr. Miller believed there had been
in them when he left the Warehouse, a sum perhaps not
exceeding a couple of pounds. The bills and papers were not
taken away, neither had any thing been removed that was
likely to be recovered. Some silver cruet-tops were taken,
but the cruets were left behind. The chissel, which,
though very strong, had been broken in the effort to open
the chest, was of the largest size. All the rooms of the
building, except those in front, had been visited by the
depredators, and there were various circumstances concurring139
to fix a very strong suspicion on the prisoner, besides the
probability that he was the writer of the letter “of thanks”
to Mr. Miller for the entertainment afforded. The letter,
which was written in a good hand, began with the word
“Gemmen,” and stated that they (the writer and his friends)
had called, regretted that there was no “wassel in the
lob,” (money in the chest) but expressed the highest
opinion of the wine, begged pardon for disturbing the
papers, and expressed how happy those who drank the wine
would be to visit the premises upon a future occasion! The
prisoner was remanded.
[145] It sometimes happens that even juvenile140 depredators who have imbibed141 a propensity142 for liquor, have been caught in the snare143 thus laid by themselves. Of this fact Dashall gave the following very curious illustration.—“A few evenings ago,” said he, “the family of my next door neighbour retired144 to rest, leaving every thing, as they imagined, in a state of perfect security. On the servant however, coming down stairs in the morning, he was surprised to find a new and unexpected inmate18, fast asleep in the kitchen, a quantity of plate packed up lay by his side, and before him were a bottle of brandy and another of wine. He was a lad not more than sixteen years of age, who had ingeniously contrived145, in the nighttime, to get access to the house, and having secured his spoil, had resorted to the pantry and wine-cellar for refreshment146. Of the stores from the latter receptacle, he had partaken so liberally that he was thrown into a deep slumber147, from which he was roused by the unwelcome voice of the Officer who had been sent for to take him into custody.”
Our perambulators had now passed along the bridge, and advanced a short distance on Blackfriar's road, when they observed a spacious148 travelling caravan149, stationary by the side of the high way, intimating that there was to be seen within, the great northern bear, known by the name of “Autocrat of All the Russias,” while a fellow with a speaking tube invited in the most alluring150 terms of itinerant151 oratory152, the gaping153 multitude to walk in,—“Walk in, ladies and gentlemen, and behold154 this most wonderous of all wonders that ever was wondered at in this wonderful world,—the Ursa major,—that gives its name to one of the constellations155, and was taken by a ruse156 de guerre in one of the hitherto undiscovered deserts of the remotest Siberia! This stupendous animal was sent from these unknown regions as a present to a certain great personage in this country, who having a superabundancy of native bears already prowling about him, was pleased to order the dismission of this northern stranger, without a pension; and thus it came into the possession of its present exhibiter!”
[146] This irresistible invitation was accepted by several of the auditory, including the baronet, Dashall, and the Squire, who were gratified beyond their anticipations157, with a sight of the great polar bear, the desolate158 inhabitant of a frigid159 and dismal160 clime, where Nature has forbid the vegetative, and stinted161 the growth of the animal creation, with the exception of the shaggy wanderer of the desert and the floundering leviathan of the ocean. The animal was perfectly tractable162; and its exhibition well compensated163 both for time and gratuity164.
The proprietor165, however, in answer to an enquiry apart by Dashall, acknowledged that his Ursine166 companion had never been attached to the household of any great personage; although a northern quadruped of lesser167 interest was under the protection of one of the Royal Dukes and frequently played its mischievous168 gambols169 in the environs of Kensington Palace.{1}
1 The Bear at Kensington Palace. Early on Sunday morn-ing it
was discovered, that a large black bear, sent as a present
to His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, had contrived to
break out of his cage, which was placed in a coach-house,
and Bruin, having an inclination170 to explore these premises,
containing a hand-some new chariot, mounted the foot-board,
claws; after enjoying himself as an outside passenger, as
long as he thought proper, he proceeded to examine the
interior of the vehicle, and turning from the box, made his
entre through the front windows into the carriage, which
approach this northern visitor, and in order to prevent
a Menagerie, who secured him, after great difficulty, in one
of their strong cages.
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majesty
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heterogeneity
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