"ON THE TOMB OF NELSON. "Away! nor one vain sorrow breatheNor shed unwonted tribute here Nor twine around the cypress wreath As though 'twere common dust beneath, As though it ask'd the common tear: Hence! this is Valour's, Virtue's dust! Immortal Nelson's hallow'd grave!— Hence! this is Glory's sacred trust!

And Glory's meed these asbes crave! Go! nerve thy heart to seek such doom, With patriot fervour beating highThen heap upon, around, this tomb, The laurel,-whose eternal bloom

Is Valour's wreath and canopy: This meed to win-that zeal to give'Twas his 'twas Nelson's godlike pride

For these-He liv'd as Heroes live!

For these as Heroes die-He died!" "ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN RIOU, Who fell in the Battle of Copenhagen. "And shall we not that warrior's fate lament, [grac❜d? Whose parting hour a victor's laurel

Nor shed due tribute o'er that monumentt, [doom, are traced? Where Valour's deeds, and Valour's Yes! when a Hero falls-a Riou bleeds, Untimely bleeds ere Glory's course [speak his deedsThough Triumph crown-though Nelson Our tears must mourn a battle dearly

is run

won!

Reft of the charm to victory allied! Where all thy greatness might have bf beam'd unknown,

And thy undaunted heart blaz'd forth and died!

66. The Naiad, aTale; with other Poems.

8vo, pp. 63. Taylor and Hessey. "THE Naiad," we are told, "is founded on a beautiful Scotch ballad, which was procured from a young girl of Galloway, who delighted in preserving the romantic songs of her Country."

"Nothing can be finer than the fancy and pathos of the original; from the necessity, however, of changing the scene, little, if any, of the imagery of the old Ballad could be retained. The story is in itself powerfully-in

+ In St. Paul's Cathedral.

teresting, and forms one of the richest subjects for fanciful and feeling poetry that can possibly be imagined. One of the ballads of Goëthe, called "The Fisherman,' is very similar in its incidents to it: Madame de Stael, in her elegant work on Germany, thus describes it: A poor man, on a summer evening, seats himself on the bank of a river, and as he throws in his line, contemplates the clear and liquid tide which gently flows and bathes his naked feet. The nymph of the stream invites him to plunge himself into it; she describes to him the delightful freshness of the water during the heat of summer, the pleasure which the sun takes in cooling itself at night in the sea, the calmness of the moon when its rays repose and sleep on the bosom of the stream: at length the fisherman, attracted, seduced, drawn on, advances near the nymph, and for ever disappears."

With an evident imitation of the varied measures of Lord Byron, this pretty little story is told in elegant language; and the versification, with the exception of a few awkward rhymes, is harmonious.

Lord Hubert, returning late in the evening to a young Bride, accompanied by his little page, enjoys the calmness of an Autumnal evening.

"They kept their course by the water's edge, [sedge;

And listen'd at times to the creeking Or started from some rich fanciful dream, At the sullen plunge of the fish in the

stream;

Then would they watch the circle bright, (The circle, silver'd by the moonlight,) Go widening, and shining, and trembling on,

[gone. Till a wave leap'd up, and the ring was Or the otter would cross before their eyes, [nook lies;

And hide in the bank where the deep Or the owl would call out through the silent air, [lous cry; With a mournful, and shrill, and tremuOr the hare from its form would start up and pass by; [and there. And the watch-dog bay them here The leaves might be rustled-the waves

he curl'd

But no human foot appear'd out in the

world."

Ah! who would go dreaming away the
night,
[so light?"
When its bue is so fair, and its airs are
Like the Fisherman of Goëthe, Lord
Hubert is seduced by a bewitching
Spirit in the lovely form of a Naiad.
"It rises from the bank of the brook,
And it comes along with an angel look;
Its vest is like snow, and its hand is as
fair,
[and air,
Its brow seems a mingling of sunbeam
And its eyes so meek, which the glad
tear laves,
[waves;
Are like stars bebeld soften'd in summer
The lily hath left a light on its feet,
And the smile on its lip is passingly
sweet;
[earth;-

It moves serene, but it treads not the
Is it a lady of mortal birth ?
Down o'er her shoulders her yellow hair
flows,
[glows;
And her neck through its tresses divinely
Calm in her hand a mirror she brings,
And she sleeks her loose locks, and gazes,

and sings."

Lord Hubert, forgetting his Bride, listened to the Enchantress, and was irrecoverably lost.

his dream;

"She stept into the silver wave, And sank, like the morning mist, from the eye; [sigh, Lord Hubert paus'd with a misgiving And look'd on the water as on his grave. [the stream, But a soften'd voice came sweet from Such sound doth a young lover hear in [derly hollow: It was lovely, and mellow'd, and tenStep on the wave, where sleeps the moon-beam, [cate gleam; Thou wilt sink secure through its deliFollow, Lord Hubert, follow!' He started pass'd on with a graceful mirth, [earth. And vanish'd at once from the placid -The waters prattled sweetly, wildly, Still the moonlight kiss'd them mildly; All sounds were mute, save the screech of the owl, [dog's howl; And the otter's plunge, and the watch But from that cold moon's setting, never Was seen Lord Hubert-he vanish'd for [young day, And ne'er from the breaking of that Was seen the light form that had pass'd away."

ever:

Five small Poems, not devoid of merit, accompany "The Naiad.”

67. Emigration; or, England and Paris; a Poem. 8vo, pp. 52. Baldwin & Co. WE readily give credit to the Author of this Poem, as to the "patriotie motives' in which it originated.

"He had witnessed, with a grief which he is sure he participates in common with his countrymen at large, the present system of travelling or emigrating to various parts of the Continent, and particularly to Paris; and he felt that every individual ought to add his effort, feeble as it may be, to counteract so injurious a practice. -With regard to the political effects of the system at the present serious juncture, no language can possibly be too strong. At a moment when labour is so scarce, that charitable institutions are actually engaged in discovering new modes of employing thousands of persons, who are both able and willing to work, but who cannot procure occupation, it is no trifting offence to subtract from the demand for national industry, by residing in Countries where none but foreign provisions and foreign manufactures are, of course, required. It is surely not just or patriotic to pamper foreign artizans and labourers at the expence of our own. The periodical prints inform us that there are not less than 60,000 absentees, and reckoning that each of these, taking the average, derives from home an income of 2001. per annum, the loss to the Nation will be more than thirty thousand pounds sterling per day, or twelve millions a year!

"The enormous sums which have been expended in mere travelling, or, in other words, in enriching innfrom the keepers and postilions, three-guinea fare to the most splendid equipage, would have formed no mean item in assisting the labouring and manufacturing poor, many of whom are suffering all the calamities of war in the midst of plenty and of peace. Even if expended on luxuries, these immense sums would have greatly assisted the numerous tradesmen who are ruined by the absence of their late customers, without a possibility, as things_now stand, of obtaining new ones. closely compacted a society as that of England, every link which is taken away weakens and disjoins the rest.

In so

"Nothing is intended to apply to those who really travel on business, and who are therefore benefiting their Country as well as themselves. Yet even to these it might not be inappropriate to suggest the necessity of guarding against that moral contagion which they are destined to encounter; nor is it too precise to remind them specifically, of the religious veneration due to the Sunday, and to that Sacred Volume which is the best, and only effectual antidote to the poisonous atmosphere in which they are likely to be placed."

We

took holy orders in obedience to a desire expressed in his father's will. He is known as the author of some papers in the Philosophical Transactions, and was Rector of Leak in Nottinghamshire, and Prebendary of Southwell; he rebuilt his father's Chapel in Spitalfields, and rebuilt and endowed the Parish Church of Otterden. In 1727, Mr. Wheler purchased the Manor of Otterden, which still continues the seat of his descendant."

An excellent Memoir of the Rev. John Rotheram *, A. M. next follows, for which we refer to the Work itself.

Having an opportunity of presenting our Readers with a correct representation of Houghton Hall (see Plate II.), we shall select Mr. Surtees's description of this curious specimen of early domestic architecture:

"Robert Hutton, S. T. B. Prebendary of the Third Stall in Durham Cathedral, and Rector of Houghton from 1589 to 1623, acquired a considerable property by purchase from different individuals within the Manor of Houghton. His grandson, Robert Hutton, Esq. bore a captain's commission of a troop of horse-guards in Cromwell's army. He served through the whole of the Scottish campaign; and was with Monk at the storming and plunder of Dundee. After the Restoration he remained zealously attached to the Puritans; which may probably account for his being buried in his own orchard, where an altarTomb still bears the following inscription: HIC IACET ROBERTVS HVTTON ARMIGER QVI OBIIT AVG. DIE NONO 1680.

ET MORIENDO VIVIT.

-To this gentleman, who is the theme of much village tradition, the building of the family mansion-house is generally attributed and, if the same tradition be credited, with the plunder obtained at the sacking of Dundee; but the building itself affords strong evidence of an earlier date, and may more probably be ascribed to the Rector of Houghton, the founder of the family, betwixt the years 1589 and 1623. Its external structure is an oblong square, the corresponding sides exactly uniform, and the chief front to the West equally plain with the rest, without façade, or ornamented doorway. The windows are regular, divided into five, or into three lights, by stone mullions; and the leads

are surrounded by a plain pediment. The mansion has undergone little either of repair or alteration; and, as it has been built with a massy solidity, calculated to resist the injuries of time and neglect, it presents, perhaps, at this day one of the most perfect specimens extant of the plain durable style of architecture which distinguished the Old Hall House, the residence of the middling gentry in the age of James or Elizabeth. From Captain Hutton the estate bas descended lineally to the present owner, the Rev. John Hutton, M. A.”

Under the Parish of Pittington is given a very ample account of Sherburn Hospital, taken from the printed, but not generally published, Collections of George Allan, esq.

An uncommonly fine View of the Iron Bridge at Sunderland, engraved by Mr. George Cooke, in his best style, from a drawing by Mr. Blore, has induced us to extract Mr. Surtees's account of it; more particularly as the Bridge has lately been brought into notice by a public Lottery:

"The antient passage of the river was by two ferry-boats: the Pann-boat, a little below the situation of the present Bridge, and the Low-boat, which still continues nearer to the Harbour. In 1790, Rowland Burdon, esq. conceived the idea of throwing an arch of cast iron over the Wear, and after some opposition, an Act of Parliament was obtained for the purpose in 1792. The use of iron had been already introduced in the construction of the arch at CoalbrookDale, and in the bridges built by Payne; but the novelty and advantage of the plan adopted at Wearmouth, on Mr. Burdon's suggestion, consisted in retaining, together with the use of a metallic material, the usual form and principle of the stone arch, by the subdivision of the iron into blocks, answering to the keystones of a common arch, and which, with a much greater degree of lightness, possess, when brought to bear on each other, all the firmness of the solid stone arch. The blocks are of cast iron, five feet in depth and four in thickness, having three arms, and making part of a circle or ellipsis; the middle arm is two feet in length, and the other two in proportion; on each side of the arms are flat grooves three-fourths of an inch deep and three inches broad, in which are inserted bars of malleable or wrought iron, which connect the blocks with

each

each other, and are secured by square bolts driven through the shoulders and arms of the blocks and bar-iron, fastened by cotterells or forelocks. The whole structure consists of six ribs, each containing 105 of these blocks, which butt on each other like the voussoirs of a stone arch. The ribs are six feet distant from each other, braced together by hollow tubes or bridles of cast iron; and thus the blocks being united with each other in ribs, and the ribs connected and supported laterally by the bridles, the whole becomes one mass, having the property of key-stones cramped together. The whole weight of the iron is 260 tons; 46 malleable, and 214 cast. The piers or abutments are piles of nearly solid masonry, 24 feet in thick ness, 42 in breadth at bottom, and 37 at the top the South pier is founded on the solid rock; on the North, from the less favourable nature of the ground, the foundation is carried ten feet below

the bed of the river. The arch is the segment of a large circle, of which the chord or span is 236 feet; the height from low water to the spring of the arch 60 feet; and its versed sine 34 feet; producing so flat an arch, that ships of 300 tons pass the arch within 50 feet of its centre with great facility, having 94 feet clear at low water, and abundance of depth in the mid-stream. The spandrils of the arch are filled with iron circles, diminishing from the abutment to the centre; the superstructure is of timber, planked over, and supporting the carriage-road, formed of marle, gravel, and limestone. The whole breadth is 32 feet, with footpaths on each side, laid with flags, and bounded by an iron balustrade.- The whole of this magnificent structure was completed within three years, under the able and zealous direction and inspection of Mr. Thomas Wilson, of Bishop-Wearmouth, architect. The arch was turned on a light scaffolding, which gave no interruption whatever to the navigation of the river, and the mode of bracing the ribs was so expeditious, that the whole structure was put together and thrown over the river in ten days, and the frame immediately removed. The foundation-stone was laid the 24th September, 1793, and the Bridge was thrown open to the Publick amidst a vast concourse of spectators on the 9th of August, 1796. The whole expence of the undertaking was 26,000l. of which 22,000l. was subscribed by Mr. Burdon; the sums thus advanced are secured on the tolls with 5 per cent interest, and all further accumulation goes in discharge of the capital."

All the Plates given with this Volume are deserving of the highest commendation. The subjects of the more principal ones, besides those already noticed, are, Two Views of Durham Cathedral (1. Interior of the Choir, which forms the Frontisfrom the Cloisters ;) and Hartlepoole piece to the Volume, and 2. Entrance Church.

These are from drawings by Mr. Blore, who has been ably seconded by the burins of Mr. Henry Le Keux, Mr. Byrne, and Mr. John Le Keux. A Landscape of Lambton Hall, from a painting by Glover, is most delightfully engraved by J. Pye. The five Plates of Seals, also, from drawings by Mr. Blore, are executed with a truth and feeling that cannot be exceeded. Indeed all the Plates in the Volume are so truly excellent, that we besitate not to say, they are equal, if not superior, to any ever before published in a County History.

Work will be eagerly coveted by all We doubt not that this valuable Topographical Collectors; and from the avidity with which it has been received by the Gentlemen in and near the County of Durham, we venture to predict, that it will soon be ranked among the Libri rariores.

59. Amusements in Retirement; conti

nued from our last, p. 340.

THIS Volume is divided into the general heads of Happiness, Musick, Literature, and Science; each of which branches off into numerous subdivisions, set forth in a copious Table of Contents.

The articles in general are as entertaining as those in the "Philosophy marks of that sombre turn of thought of Nature;" but they bear evident alluded to in our last.

We take as an example:

"The miseries of those who have no ties of friendship or affection. "Whatever be his rank, his wealth, or his ability, no one can be esteemed fortunate, who has no ties of friendship, of blood, or of humanity, to chain him to existence. He creeps upon the earth as a worm! The sun sets, the evening star rises, flowers expand, and the autumnal moon lulls all nature; but to him every joy is in perspective, his bosom is void, and his heart is cheerlessfor no one hails him as a friend, and no one regards him as a brother, or benefactor. Well and often has it been said,

that