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ducible as a stirrup-glass? Would it make "Athole Brose?" Is it "sma' still?" Would Dr M. or Lord Norbury dignify it with the name of "Potheen?" Say boldly at once, in hot-toddy, how many waters will it bear, " porco judice Jacobo Hogg?"

All classes of men upon the earth are to be brought to Mr Irving, (he has rung the bell for them to be shewn up,) he is to have the "sorting and placing of them," for the express purpose of "making hells for each of them without more ado." A pretty pastime, no doubt, for an idle man on a cold day in winter, when the fire is low in the grate. Mr Irving, however, warns us against forming too high expectations of his hells. For he says, before lighting them, or indeed sending coals to Newcastle, that he sees "a thousand powers resident in God, by the smallest expense of means, to make a hell such as no earthly science or earthly language is able to represent." Although, therefore, Mr Irving be as well acquainted with the modern chemistry as Professor Thomson himself, and skilled in all "earthly languages," we must not expect from him a hell that can stand on eternity's comparison, with that which, "at the smallest expense of means," can be created by Omnipotence. All this is very modest in Mr Irving-very decorous-very pious-very reverential. Well, then, he gives us his "ideal of hell"-and if that be all, we do not see why, for a reasonable sum of money, any man in tolerable health, and with such nerves as generally accompany an underanged stomach-apparatus, might not undertake to pass a year or two there by no means uncomfortably, and afterwards return to live with his wife and family as snugly as an annuitant. For suppose the gentleman who took the wager, and offered to perform the exploit, were a poet. In that case, according to the "judicious," and also "imaginative" Irving, he is to "bear burdens." That is all - he is only to be a porter. Now, suppose Burns to have been the poet to perform. The burden he bore in life was a pretty heavy one-and fully more than his poor shoulders could bear. Take Allan CunninghameMany a ponderous weight has he uplifted, when a stone-mason in Nithsdale and not a few must he uplift now without a murmur-freestone being changed to marble. Allan, too, would carry broad and strong shoul

ders to his year's probation. In short, take good poets in general, and you find them able-bodied men enough: and as accustomed to bear burdens as men of other professions. Mr Irving, therefore, shews a wonderful meagre-. ness of imagination in his punishment of poets in hell. But, quoth he, "I would send the porters to indite tuneful songs." Why, my good sir, this is what many of them are doing every day in their lives on earth. A warehouse porter is the Apollo of one of our most celebrated Magazines. Our own John Leslie writes a fair song; and Dugald M'Glashan of the TronKirk, a peerless porter, is also a very pretty poet. If this were all they had to dread, not a caddy in Edinburgh who would not go to Mr Irving's "soirée," for sixpence and a bumper of Farintosh. "The musicians," says Mr Irving, "I would appoint over the kennels.' Does he mean " kennels" of fox-hounds or harriers? If so, nothing they would like better; the voices of Towler and Jowler being at times most harmonious. "The roving libertines, I would station over the watch and ward of streets." A pretty system of civic economy it would be, and wholly inconsistent with the principles of Dr Chalmers ; -but still" roving libertines" would find amusement in such occupation, and if allowed the same occasional indulgence as other watchmen and warders, (which is necessary to his argument,) such as a glass of blue ruin now and then of a frosty night, and an hour's nap in the box, when the Toms and Jerrys of the rueful city had gone to roost, to say nothing of sleeping all day, they would not be so much to be pitied. "I would banish the sentimentalists to the Fens, and send the rustic labourers to seek their food among the mountains." Why, surely, you cannot call this sending a man to hell" without farther ado?" There is positively not a more sentimental spot in all England than the Fens of Lincolnshire, unless it be the Isle of Ely; and as to the difficulty of finding food among mountains, that surely would not be a hopeless case to any rustic labourer, who could either beg, borrow, or steal. Suppose the scene laid in the Highlands of Scotland, the rustic labourer would have crowdy and sheep's-head and trotters at the worst, fish in their season, black game, grouse, and ptarmigan, (for we presume he is to be allowed to

shoot all and sundry without a licence; and in any part of the Thane's estates, roe and red-deer. "Each wily politician, I would transplant into a colony of honest men, and your stupid clown I would set at the helm of state." Now, did not Mr Francis Jeffrey, a wily politician, visit America, which was originally colonized by honest men from this country, and who more facetious and happy than he? A stupid clown at the helm of state, would sit there quite contented, however unpopular he might be as a minister; even although constantly outvoted, he could keep his place; and if, contrary to the principles of the constitution of

the kingdom, he were, after a few eenturies, allowed to resign, the great chuckle-headed ex-premier would put his tongue in his cheek, and laugh at the "judicious Irving," as he retired with a pension in perpetuity of 50001. a-year, a sentimentalist to the Fens.

None of our readers can possibly mistake our object in this article-nor We fail to see that it is a good one. leave Mr Irving (for a little while) to the judgment of all mankind, to whom his Orations and Arguments are addressed;-and as our ivory-pillared time-piece has struck one, we are off to Arthur's Seat.

VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.

Love had he found in huts where poor men lie,
His daily teachers had been woods and rills,
The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

SWEET, Simple Poet, thou art gone!
And shall no parting tear be shed
By those to whom thy name was known,
Above thy low and lonely bed?
Shall not a pilgrim, lingering by,
Gaze on thy turf, and heave a sigh?
Yes! many, many! for thy heart

Was humble as the violet low,
That, shelter'd in some shady part,

We only by its perfume know; Yet genius pure, which God had given, Shone o'er thy path-a light from heaven! 'Mid poverty it cheer'd thy lot,

'Mid darkness it illumed thine eyes, And shed on earth's most dreary spot

A glory borrow'd from the skies: Thine were the shows of earth and air, Of Winter dark, and Summer fair. Before thee spread was Nature's book, And, with a bard's enraptured glance, By thee were seen, in glen and brook,

A limitless inheritance :
Thy ripening boyhood look'd abroad,
And saw how grand was man's abode.
Expanding with thine added days,

Thy feelings ripen'd and refined,
Though none were near thy views to raise,
Or train to fruit the budding mind;
As grows the flower amid the wild,
Such was thy fortune-Nature's child!
No pompous learning-no parade

Of pedantry, and cumbrous lore, On thy elastic bosom weigh'd;

Instead, were thine a mazy store Of feelings delicately wrought, And treasures gleam'd by silent thought.

VOL. XIV.

WORDSWORTH.

Obscurity, and low-born Care,

Labour, and Want-all adverse things Combined to bow thee to despair;

And of her young untutor'd wings
To rob thy genius 'Twas in vain;
With one proud soar she burst her chain.
The beauties of the budding Spring;

The glories of the Summer's reign;
The russet Autumn triumphing

In ripen'd fruits and golden grain; Winter with storms around his shrine; Each in their turns, were themes of thine. And lowly life, the peasant's lot,

Its humble hopes, and simple joys; By mountain-stream the shepherd's cot; And what the rustic hour employs; White flocks on Nature's carpet spread; Birds blythely carolling over-head. These were thy themes, and thou wert blest; Yea! blest beyond the wealth of kings; Calm joy is seated in the breast

Of the rapt poet as he sings; And all that Truth or Hope can bring Of beauty gilds the Muse's wing. And, Bloomfield, thine were blissful days, (If flowers of bliss may thrive on earth;) Thine was the glory and the praise

Of genius link'd with modest worth; To Wisdom wed, remote from strife, Calmly pass'd o'er thy stormless life. And thou art dead-no more, no more

To charm the land with sylvan strain ; Thy harp is hush'd, thy song is o'er,

But what is sung shall long remain, When cold this hand, and lost this verse, Now hung in reverence on thy hearse!

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SONG OCCASIONED BY SEEING, IN THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, AND BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, SOME GLOOMY ANTICIPATIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF THE CHANGE IN THE NAVIGATION CODE.

"Woe to us when we lose the watery wall!"-TIMOTHY TICKLER.

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there be warning of that woe, I may be whelm'd in night.
If ever other prince than ours wield sceptre o'er that main,
Where Howard, Blake, and Frobisher, the Armada smote of Spain;
Where Blake, in Cromwell's iron sway, swept tempest-like the seas,
From North to South, from East to West, resistless as the breeze;
Where Russell bent great Louis' power, which bent before to none,
And crush'd his arm of naval strength, and dimm'd his Rising Sun-
One prayer, one only prayer is mine-that, ere is seen that sight,
Ere there be warning of that woe, I may be whelm'd in night!

If ever other keel than ours triumphant plough that brine,
Where Rodney met the Count De Grasse, and broke the Frenchman's line,
Where Howe, upon the first of June, met the Jacobins in fight,
And with Old England's loud huzzas broke down their godless might;
Where Jervis at St Vincent's fell'd the Spaniards' lofty tiers,
Where Duncan won at Camperdown, and Exmouth at Algiers-
One prayer, one only prayer, is mine-that, ere is seen that sight,
Ere there be warning of that woe, I may be whelm'd in night!

But oh! what agony it were, when we should think on thee,
The flower of all the Admirals that ever trod the sea!

I shall not name thy honoured name-but if the white-cliff'd Isle
Which rear'd the Lion of the deep, the Hero of the Nile,
Him who, 'neath Copenhagen's self, o'erthrew the faithless Dane,
Who died at glorious Trafalgar, o'er-vanquished France and Spain,
Should yield her power, one prayer is mine-that, ere is seen that sight,
Ere there be warning of that woe, I may be whelm'd in night!

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