We must now leave Captain Crowe and his nephew Mr. Clarke, arguing with great vehemence3 about the fatal intelligence obtained from the conjurer, and penetrate4 at once the veil that concealed5 our hero. Know then, reader, that Sir Launcelot Greaves, repairing to the place described in the billet which he had received, was accosted7 by a person muffled8 in a cloak, who began to amuse him with a feigned9 story of Aurelia, to which, while he listened with great attention, he found himself suddenly surrounded by armed men, who seized and pinioned10 down his arms, took away his sword, and conveyed him by force into a hackney-coach provided for the purpose. In vain he expostulated on this violence with three persons who accompanied him in the vehicle. He could not extort11 one word by way of reply; and, from their gloomy aspects, he began to be apprehensive12 of assassination13. Had the carriage passed through any frequented place, he would have endeavoured to alarm the inhabitants, but it was already clear of the town, and his conductors took care to avoid all villages and inhabited houses.
After having travelled about two miles, the coach stopped at a large iron gate, which being opened, our adventurer was led in silence through a spacious15 house into a tolerably decent apartment, which he understood was intended for his bed-chamber. In a few minutes after his arrival, he was visited by a man of no very prepossessing appearance, who endeavouring to smooth his countenance16, which was naturally stern, welcomed our adventurer to his house; exhorted17 him to be of good cheer, assuring him he should want for nothing, and desired to know what he would choose for supper.
Sir Launcelot, in answer to this civil address, begged he would explain the nature of his confinement18, and the reasons for which his arms were tied like those of the worst malefactor19. The other postponed20 till to-morrow the explanation he demanded, but in the meantime unbound his fetters21, and, as he declined eating, left him alone to his repose22. He took care, however, in retiring, to double lock the door of the room, whose windows were grated on the outside with iron.
The knight23, being thus abandoned to his own meditations24, began to ruminate25 on the present adventure with equal surprise and concern; but the more he revolved26 circumstances, the more was he perplexed27 in his conjectures29. According to the state of the mind, a very subtle philosopher is often puzzled by a very plain proposition; and this was the case of our adventurer.—What made the strongest impression upon his mind was a notion that he was apprehended30 on suspicion of treasonable practices, by a warrant from the Secretary of State, in consequence of some false malicious31 information; and that his prison was no other than the house of a messenger, set apart for the accommodation of suspected persons. In this opinion he comforted himself by recollecting32 his own conscious innocence33, and reflecting that he should be entitled to the privilege of habeas corpus, as the act including that inestimable jewel was happily not suspended at this time.
Consoled by this self-assurance, he quietly resigned himself to slumber34; but before he fell asleep, he was very disagreeably undeceived in his conjecture28. His ears were all at once saluted35 with a noise from the next room, conveyed in distinct bounces against the wainscot; then a hoarse36 voice exclaimed, “Bring up the artillery—let Brutandorf’s brigade advance—detach my black hussars to ravage37 the country—let them be new booted—take particular care of the spur-leathers—make a desert of Lusatia—bombard the suburbs of Pera—go, tell my brother Henry to pass the Elbe at Meissen with forty battalions39 and fifty squadrons—so ho, you Major-General Donder, why don’t you finish your second parallel?—send hither the engineer Shittenback—I’ll lay all the shoes in my shop, the breach40 will be practicable in four-and-twenty hours—don’t tell me of your works; you and your works be d—n’d.”
“Assuredly,” cried another voice from a different quarter, “he that thinks to be saved by works is in a state of utter reprobation—I myself was a profane41 weaver42, and trusted to the rottenness of works—I kept my journeymen and ‘prentices at constant work, and my heart was set upon the riches of this world, which was a wicked work—but now I have got a glimpse of the new light—I feel the operations of grace—I am of the new birth—I abhor43 good works—I detest44 all working but the working of the Spirit—avaunt, Satan—O! how I thirst for communication with our sister Jolly.”
“The communication is already open with the Marche,” said the first, “but as for thee, thou caitiff, who hast presumed to disparage45 my works, I’ll have thee rammed46 into a mortar47 with a double charge of powder, and thrown into the enemy’s quarters.”
This dialogue operated like a train upon many other inhabitants of the place; one swore he was within three vibrations48 of finding the longitude49, when this noise confounded his calculation; a second, in broken English, complained he vas distorped in the moment of de proshection; a third, in the character of His Holiness, denounced interdiction50, excommunication, and anathemas51; and swore by St. Peter’s keys, they should howl ten thousand years in purgatory52, without the benefit of a single mass. A fourth began to halloo in all the vociferation of a fox-hunter in the chase; and in an instant the whole house was in an uproar53.
The clamour, however, was of a short duration. The different chambers54 being opened successively, every individual was effectually silenced by the sound of one cabalistical word, which was no other than Waistcoat. A charm which at once cowed the King of P——, dispossessed the fanatic55, dumbfounded the mathematician56, dismayed the alchemist, deposed57 the Pope, and deprived the squire58 of all utterance59.
Our adventurer was no longer in doubt concerning the place to which he had been conveyed; and the more he reflected on his situation, the more he was overwhelmed with the most perplexing chagrin60. He could not conceive by whose means he had been immured61 in a madhouse; but he heartily62 repented63 of his knight-errantry, as a frolic which might have very serious consequences, with respect to his future life and fortune. After mature deliberation, he resolved to demean himself with the utmost circumspection64, well knowing that every violent transport would be interpreted into an undeniable symptom of insanity65. He was not without hope of being able to move his jailor by a due administration of that which is generally more efficacious than all the flowers of elocution; but when he rose in the morning, he found his pockets had been carefully examined, and emptied of all his papers and cash.
The keeper entering, he inquired about these particulars, and was given to understand, that they were all safe deposited for his use, to be forthcoming at a proper season. But, at present, as he should want nothing, he had no occasion for money. The knight acquiesced66 in this declaration, and eat his breakfast in quiet.
About eleven, he received a visit from the physician, who contemplated67 his looks with great solemnity; and having examined his pulse, shook his head, saying, “Well, sir, how d’ye do?—come, don’t be dejected— everything is for the best—you are in very good hands, sir, I assure you; and I dare say will refuse nothing that may be thought conducive68 to the recovery of your health.”
“Doctor,” said our hero, “if it is not an improper69 question to ask, I should be glad to know your opinion of my disorder70.”—“Oh! sir, as to that,” replied the physician, “your disorder is a—kind of a—sir, ‘tis very common in this country—a sort of a”——“Do you think my distemper is madness, doctor?”—“O Lord, sir,—not absolute madness—no—not madness—you have heard, no doubt, of what is called a weakness of the nerves, sir,—though that is a very inaccurate71 expression; for this phrase, denoting a morbid72 excess of sensation, seems to imply that sensation itself is owing to the loose cohesion73 of those material particles which constitute the nervous substance, inasmuch as the quantity of every effect must be proportionable to its cause; now you’ll please to take notice, sir, if the case were really what these words seem to import, all bodies, whose particles do not cohere74 with too great a degree of proximity75, would be nervous; that is, endued76 with sensation. Sir, I shall order some cooling things to keep you in due temperature; and you’ll do very well—sir, your humble77 servant.”
So saying, he retired78, and our adventurer could not but think it was very hard that one man should not dare to ask the most ordinary question without being reputed mad, while another should talk nonsense by the hour, and yet be esteemed79 as an oracle80.
The master of the house finding Sir Launcelot so tame and tractable81, indulged him after dinner with a walk in a little private garden, under the eye of a servant who followed him at a distance. Here he was saluted by a brother-prisoner, a man seemingly turned of thirty, tall and thin, with staring eyes, a hook-nose, and a face covered with pimples82.
The usual compliments having passed, the stranger, without further ceremony, asked him if he would oblige him with a chew of tobacco, or could spare him a mouthful of any sort of cordial, declaring he had not tasted brandy since he came to the house. The knight assured him it was not in his power to comply with his request; and began to ask some questions relating to the character of their landlord, which the stranger represented in very unfavourable colours. He described him as a ruffian, capable of undertaking83 the darkest scenes of villany. He said his house was a repository of the most flagrant iniquities84. That it contained fathers kidnapped by their children, wives confined by their husbands, gentlemen of fortune sequestered85 by their relations, and innocent persons immured by the malice86 of their adversaries87. He affirmed this was his own case; and asked if our hero had never heard of Dick Distich, the poet and satirist88. “Ben Bullock and I,” said he, “were confident against the world in arms—did you never see his ode to me beginning with ‘Fair blooming youth’? We were sworn brothers, admired and praised, and quoted each other, sir. We denounced war against all the world, actors, authors, and critics; and having drawn89 the sword, threw away the scabbard—we pushed through thick and thin, hacked90 and hewed91 helter skelter, and became as formidable to the writers of the age as the Boeotian band of Thebes. My friend Bullock, indeed, was once rolled in the kennel93; but soon
He vig’rous rose, and from th’ effluvia strong
“Here is a satire95, which I wrote in an alehouse when I was drunk—I can prove it by the evidence of the landlord and his wife; I fancy you’ll own I have some right to say with my friend Horace,
Qui me commorit, (melius non tangere clamo,)
Flebit, et insignis tota cantabitur urbe.”
The knight, having perused96 the papers, declared his opinion that the verses were tolerably good; but at the same time observed that the author had reviled97 as ignorant dunces several persons who had writ92 with reputation, and were generally allowed to have genius; a circumstance that would detract more from his candour than could be allowed to his capacity.
“D—n their genius!” cried the satirist, “a pack of impertinent rascals98! I tell you, sir, Ben Bullock and I had determined99 to crush all that were not of our own party. Besides, I said before, this piece was written in drink.”—“Was you drunk too when it was printed and published?”—“Yes, the printer shall make affidavit100 that I was never otherwise than drunk or maudlin101, till my enemies, on pretence102 that my brain was turned, conveyed me to this infernal mansion”—
“They seem to have been your best friends,” said the knight, “and have put the most tender interpretation103 on your conduct; for, waiving104 the plea of insanity, your character must stand as that of a man who hath some small share of genius, without an atom of integrity. Of all those whom Pope lashed105 in his Dunciad, there was not one who did not richly deserve the imputation106 of dulness, and every one of them had provoked the satirist by a personal attack. In this respect the English poet was much more honest than his French pattern Boileau, who stigmatised several men of acknowledged genius; such as Quinault, Perrault, and the celebrated107 Lulli; for which reason every man of a liberal turn must, in spite of all his poetical108 merit, despise him as a rancorous knave109. If this disingenuous110 conduct cannot be forgiven in a writer of his superior genius, who will pardon it in you whose name is not half emerged from obscurity?”
“Hark ye, friend,” replied the bard38, “keep your pardon and your counsel for those who ask it; or, if you will force them upon people, take one piece of advice in return. If you don’t like your present situation, apply for a committee without delay. They’ll find you too much of a fool to have the least tincture of madness; and you’ll be released without further scruple111. In that case I shall rejoice in your deliverance; you will be freed from confinement, and I shall be happily deprived of your conversation.”
So saying, he flew off at a tangent, and our knight could not help smiling at the peculiar112 virulence113 of his disposition114. Sir Launcelot then endeavoured to enter into conversation with his attendant, by asking how long Mr. Distich had resided in the house; but he might as well have addressed himself to a Turkish mute. The fellow either pretended ignorance, or refused an answer to every question that was proposed. He would not even disclose the name of his landlord, nor inform him whereabouts the house was situated115.
Finding himself agitated116 with impatience117 and indignation, he returned to his apartment, and the door being locked upon him, began to review, not without horror, the particulars of his fate. “How little reason,” said he to himself, “have we to boast of the blessings118 enjoyed by the British subject, if he holds them on such a precarious119 tenure120; if a man of rank and property may be thus kidnapped even in the midst of the capital; if he may be seized by ruffians, insulted, robbed, and conveyed to such a prison as this, from which there seems to be no possibility of escape! Should I be indulged with pen, ink, and paper, and appeal to my relations, or to the magistrates121 of my country, my letters would be intercepted122 by those who superintend my confinement. Should I try to alarm the neighbourhood, my cries would be neglected as those of some unhappy lunatic under necessary correction. Should I employ the force which Heaven has lent me, I might imbrue my hands in blood, and after all find it impossible to escape through a number of successive doors, locks, bolts, and sentinels. Should I endeavour to tamper123 with the servant, he might discover my design, and then I should be abridged124 of the little comfort I enjoy. People may inveigh125 against the Bastile in France, and the Inquisition in Portugal; but I would ask, if either of these be in reality so dangerous or dreadful as a private madhouse in England, under the direction of a ruffian? The Bastile is a state prison, the Inquisition is a spiritual tribunal; but both are under the direction of government. It seldom, if ever, happens that a man entirely126 innocent is confined in either; or, if he should, he lays his account with a legal trial before established judges. But, in England, the most innocent person upon earth is liable to be immured for life under the pretext127 of lunacy, sequestered from his wife, children, and friends, robbed of his fortune, deprived even of necessaries, and subjected to the most brutal128 treatment from a low-bred barbarian129, who raises an ample fortune on the misery130 of his fellow-creatures, and may, during his whole life, practise this horrid131 oppression, without question or control.”
This uncomfortable reverie was interrupted by a very unexpected sound that seemed to issue from the other side of a thick party-wall. It was a strain of vocal132 music, more plaintive133 than the widowed turtle’s moan, more sweet and ravishing than Philomel’s love-warbled song. Through his ear it instantly pierced into his heart; for at once he recognised it to be the voice of his adored Aurelia. Heavens! what was the agitation134 of his soul, when he made this discovery! how did every nerve quiver! how did his heart throb135 with the most violent emotion! he ran round the room in distraction136, foaming137 like a lion in the toil—then he placed his ear close to the partition, and listened as if his whole soul was exerted in his sense of hearing. When the sound ceased to vibrate on his ear, he threw himself on the bed; he groaned138 with anguish139, he exclaimed in broken accents; and in all probability his heart would have burst, had not the violence of his sorrow found vent14 in a flood of tears.
These first transports were succeeded by a fit of impatience, which had well-nigh deprived him of his senses in good earnest. His surprise at finding his lost Aurelia in such a place, the seeming impossibility of relieving her, and his unspeakable eagerness to contrive140 some scheme for profiting by the interesting discovery he had made, concurred141 in brewing142 up a second ecstasy143, during which he acted a thousand extravagances, which it was well for him the attendants did not observe. Perhaps it was well for the servant that he did not enter while the paroxysm prevailed. Had this been the case, he might have met with the fate of Lichas, whom Hercules in his frenzy144 destroyed.
Before the cloth was laid for supper, he was calm enough to conceal6 the disorder of his mind. But he complained of the headache, and desired he might be next day visited by the physician, to whom he resolved to explain himself in such a manner, as should make an impression upon him, provided he was not altogether destitute145 of conscience and humanity.
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