reading Jean Paul, (being utterly fatigued by several hours' | heard in the direction of the fire-place what sounded to me hard study,) and inhaling a fragrant cloud from the meer- like a faint sigh. I threw back the blind, and as the full schaum you were kind enough to present me with on the rays of the moon streamed into the apartment, I distinctly day when we parted at the gates of Gottingen; when saw a white figure seated upon the very chair which I had coming to a certain passage descriptive of a shady garden just left-it was a female figure; the face I could not see, at evening tide, where the moon was sleeping as a dead for it was hidden between both the hands, but what struck one, and beyond the orchard the sun's red evening clouds me forcibly was, that on the forefinger of the right hand had fallen like summer rose leaves, and the evening star, was a green ring, precisely similar to that which you, my the brideman of the sun, hovered like a glancing butterfly dear professor, allowed me to place upon your daughter's above the rosy red, depriving no single starlet of its light,' finger on the day when I left your kindly roof.

"Grettchen!" said I again; and then she rose, and, dropping her hands, came towards me. She had the features of your daughter, but pale and attenuated. I was rooted to the spot. She came close to me, and laid her finger upon my arm. My father will send you back this ring,' she said, pointing to it, when I am gone. Give it not to any other, but keep it for my sake.'

I was not unnaturally carried away by my imagination, "I may confess to you, although I would do so to no and transported in fancy to our little summer-house just one else, that a thrill of fear shook me to the very heart's beyond the walls of Georgia Augusta;* when letting the core. I tried to speak, and I called Grettchen! I know book drop upon my knee, I fell into a deep and unprofit- not why, but that name was the first which came to my able, though not unpleasing revery, in which many morn- lips: the figure moved-it did not take away the hands, ings and evenings of pleasure were traced back in glowing which prevented my sceing the features, but it rocked colours upon my heart, and the memory of words, which itself to and fro, as though in grief, and by the convulsive will not be forgotten until my dying day, passed with a motion of the shoulders and bosom I saw that she was soothing influence over me, and I felt once more as I was weeping bitterly. wont to feel when, after wishing you and your daughter | good night, I used to seck my quiet lodging over the good gardener Müller's, there to slumber with scarce a dream. "I sat for a considerable time, having allowed my pipe to go out, whilst gradually the impressions I have described to you faded away from my mind, and a kind of vague and undefined sadness stole over my bosom, and usurped their place. The fire had burned rather low, and "I tried to take the hand which was held out to me, but as 1 gazed listlessly upon it, the embers-(for you know. it eluded my grasp, the sound of the clock striking an hour my esteemed friend, that my early residence in France made me start and turn my head; when I looked again, has inspired me with a hatred for stoves of every descrip- nothing met my eyes save the still smoking candle on the tion) the embers, I say, took all sorts of fantastic shapes, table, the empty tea-cup from which I had been sipping some of which were curious to a great degree, and struck my evening beverage, and my book which had fallen on me so forcibly that I cannot refrain from mentioning them the floor. I shook myself, and tried to believe it was all a to you. dream, a delusion of the heated imagination, and I parIn the first place, I saw a form resembling that of a tially succeeded. I went out and walked for a time, and the woman dressed in flowing garments, who, as the flame cool air was pleasant to my forehead; I felt, however, flitted and flickered about her, seemed to wave her hand a strange dread of returning to my chamber, and I ac. as though beckoning to me, and while I looked with a tually had the weakness to spend the remainder of the feeling of curiosity and wonder at the accuracy of the night at an inn in the adjacent street. representation, it suddenly fell away, and nothing re- The next morning I returned home, and smiled at the mained but the dark mouldering logs of wood which hissed folly of the night before; but I will confess to you that I upon the hearth. I took the tongs and built the fabric up have sometimes since felt uneasy when, the studies of the again, and presently a sprightly flame sprang up in the day over, I have sat alone by my fireside, and memory, chimney; but while I sat with my eyes fixed on this, the (despite of my efforts) has retraced the scene of that cunning hand of fancy carved out for me other forms yet evening. more singular and perfect than those I had seen before. "I must now apologize to you for having detained you This time I perceived a great many figures, all dressed in by so long and so dull an epistle, but, knowing the kindli. the same loose garments as the one I had previously seen; ness of your disposition, I do not despair of being for. these appeared to be walking two and two, and holding given. Place me, I beseech you, at the fect of your all-fair each other by the hand, and to be following a number of daughter Margaret, whom I hope soon to see in more real men, four of whom carried something which I could not form than I did a few nights since. I am, my dear friend make out, between them, while first of all marched a priest and professor, ever your devoted disciple, who bore a cross. I will not conceal to you, my dear friend, that a species of nervous feeling came across me as this vision flitted, or I should rather say swept, slowly be. fore my sight; I, however, attributed it to having remained too much at home all day, and so, rising from my chair, I determined, although it was late, to go forth and breathe the fresh air of the Market Platz, for half an hour or so, before I retired to my bed.

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"HERMANN VON G."

REPLY OF PROFESSOR CRUMP TO HIS FRIEND AND PUPIL.

Göttingen, March 2, 1838. Weep with me, Hermann-I am bereaved of all that remained to cheer ine in my old age. My daughter was taken ill last week, and, after much suffering, she departed "With this intention I reached down my cap and cloak, this life on Friday night, the 27th ultimo. She died as the and was about to open the door, when suddenly I felt a clock struck ten; with her last breath she spoke of you, kind of waff upon my cheek, as if something had rapidly and willed that I should return you the betrothed ring passed me. I paused and turned round, but could see which you gave her at parting, and trusted that you would nothing, and at that moment the only candle which was keep it in memory of her.

burning on my table went out, and I was left in total "Come to me, that we may weep together over the fair, darkness: for, although it was a moonlight night, my the innocent, the beautiful-over her who is gone before, window curtains were closely drawn around. and who, in the empty dusk, remains a pure angelic "I slowly walked across the room to the window, and figure, godlike, and mounting to the godlike, where she put my hand upon the curtain to draw it back, when I will hover, beckoning us to mount to her. Thy friend in sorrow,

* Georgia Augusta; i. e. the University of Gottingen.

"CRUMP."

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REFLECTIONS OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA.-A ROYAL DEATHBED.

From the Dublin University Magazine.

As a fitting sequel to this article, we extract from Carleton's "Father Butler" the following Rhanh or pious hymn, in use among the peasantry. We believe it to be perfectly genuine; a fact, indeed, for which Mr. Carleton's authority is sufficient to vouch. The chronological mistakes are scarcely more ridiculous than we have quoted above.

"THE BLESSED SCAPULAR.

A holy Rhanh composed by St. Patrick, St. Colm-Kilh, an' St. Bridged, and havin' been lost to the faithful for centhries, aftherwards revealed to a blessed friar in a dhrame.

"Och! St. Jozeph was a carpenther iv credit and renown,
St. Pether was a fisher-man an' lived in Jeroozlem town:
St. Paul to be a tint-maker he willin'ly did choose,
And in passin' thro' the Wildherness he made them for
the Jews.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, an' Jahn,
Purtect the bed that we lie an.
Whack! vanithee astore wuil boiroh orht!

"When first the holy Scapular St. Abraham had got,
He gave it to his daughter Madge, an' she gave id to Lot,
An' Lot bein' now a Carmelite, he gav'd id to his wife,
Who for the mere refusin' id had like to lose her life.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, an' Jahn,
Purtect the bed that we lie an.

Whack! vanithee astore wuil boiroh orht!

MR. EDITOR,-As we are still without intelligence of hostilities having actually commenced in China, and are kept so completely in the dark as to the instructions that have accompanied the expedition thither, perhaps a few

“St. Augustus meetin' Lot wan day, afore he was con-words of advice from one who has served on that coast, and varted,

Begun to scoff the Scapular an' all that Lot assarted,

has had some opportunity of judging of the Chinese cha

Bud, says Lot, says he, id's plain that you're an Anti-racter, may yet be timely offered.
thrinitaarian,

Bud afore you die, it'll come to pass that you'll die a
Scaperlaarian.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, an' Jahn,
Purtect the bed that we lie an.

Whack! vanithee astore wuil boiroh orht!

"Then came the flood for forty years, an' swept away the arth,

In which the chronicles does tell there was a mighty
darth,

Bud all this time the Scapular was never in the dark,
Bekase that St. Mathoosalem he wore it in the Ark.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, an' Jahn,
Purtect the bed that we lie an.

Whack! vanithee astore wuil boiroh orht!

Among naval men who have ever been in those seas, as well as all merchants who have ever traded to Canton, there can be but one opinion as to the plain course to be followed up at this moment, that is a vigorous war all along the coast. Seizing on all islands, forts, and good stations, from the Tigris to the Yellow Sea; not allowing ourselves to lose time by taking Formosa, till the more astounding im pression is made on this singular people on their very shores, and as far up their rivers and inland as we can safely come at, with our comparative handful of troops. There is nothing whatever to fear or provide for but the feeding our troops, and the supply of our transports and men-of-war on the coast, which may be well done, and surely, by proper arrangements, on passing Malacca and Singapore; from whence supplies might be sent in fresh and fresh. Formosa might serve as a store-house, properly frightened into submission. Nay, the Chinese towns, here and there on the coast, might be managed in the

"Then next upon this blessed Rhanh does come St. Simon same way-" Supply us (with water and some things) or Stock,

we land and burn you."

This may appear monstrous, but all war is so, and the sooner it is begun and ended, when imperative, the better. and the forts at the Bocca Tigris as we proceeded up, and Our first grand attack should be Canton, taking Macao which need not detain the ships a tide. As to delicacy about the Portuguese at Macao, they should not for one instant be considered more than a dependent colony, or what they are really, part and parcel of the Chinese themselves; in fact, the town is Chinese, the Portuguese Governor being a mere cipher-but always a very inimical cipher to us. The whole of the Islands, those of the Typa, Lintin, &c., are quite at our service, as they are barren spots, and thinly

inhabited, but might be useful and of importance as de- have nothing to do with us, and call us dirt, and the "poor pôts, or stands from which we could not be driven-not that we need keep at all at so great a distance from the dense population (much inclined to favour us) and the cultivated shores.

I repeat, we must make some great and dire impression at starting; the Admiral and General must not fritter away time by small annoyances of villages or the fisheries; they, on the contrary, should be treated as much as possible as friends; for, in fact, all the aquatic population (millions) are almost strangers to the internal esprit and interests of the empire. The voyage of the Amherst some years ago proved that the whole coast and coast towns were in favour of intercourse with us.

begging red-haired devils (fanqui) of the west," but as we cannot be in a worse "fix" with them, we may, by serving them out a bit, try and better ourselves; worse we cannot make it as to anger and contempt: and it is certain, could we burn a dozen or two of their large cities and kill 200,000 of their nominal army, we should be very much nearer an amicable treaty of peace, commerce and good will.

They are naughty children, rather sick; we must force a little wholesoine medicine down their throats to cure them for the time being. In this affair, (and the sooner our ships and troops are up at Chuenpee, the Bocca Tigris, or Whampoa, the better,) we cannot be too prompt in the action-never mind the village-bound coast, be kind to them Any quantity of tea might be smuggled on board. The and their swarms of fishing-boats; not forgetting to culti mandarins themselves asking only for an ever so small a vate an alliance with the rebel Ladrones of the islands outshow of force, by way of excuse for their most willing con- side-we must push for Canton. Forms will be wholly nivance and good will, and to save their heads. This is useless beyond the threat of instantly burning it and every the universal sea-coast feeling from Macao to Pekin; all is city in the empire, if within an incredibly short time we held by an iron despotism, which our armed appearance have not a proper submission, and grand treaty of peace would crumble to nothing. The Amherst, a small mer-and commerce, with free access to all cities on the whole chantman, had not even a show of any force (besides that, coast-a treaty offensive and defensive-as we must be they did not dare attempt even to arm a boat), and yet, in very terrible and very loving at the same time: nor can their unarmed boat and half-dozen men, they pulled up we talk too big; backed by ten ships of war and ten thourivers, landed at cities, ran about the streets, found out the sand men we may do any thing; always taking care not to hiding, frightened mandarins, and with importunity and engage in long marches, or being drawn into distant maforced audience got provisions—were even done a trembling nœuvres of any sort, or frittering our force by many dehonour to; and besides, got smuggled on board lots of tea tachments. under these high officers' noses, who could only beg for If they hesitate or bully, burn Canton without one inGod sake they would " go away," that they dared not fa- stant's hesitation; it would burn like a pile of straw! It vour them, or they would be too happy; all this while the would be conclusive as a lesson, and, without the loss of a people, the population, undertook all sorts of tricks and hundred lives, a terrible one! The news would upset all contrivances to get tea, or any thing they had, on board, and edicts of "respect this and tremble," and shake the Emreceived them every where with open arms. Now, in the peror so that he would find himself forced to do whatever face of these facts, what can our contrary opinions signify? we pleased. If not, so much the worse for them. Attack We have in London ten thousand opinions about every us they would not-could not. The Chinese are not indithing we talk and talk, and nothing assumes the name of vidually at all cowards; but as an immense army, they action without some strong counter-check of opinion. It would be inert masses, without head or conduct. If they is really amusing to read all the ignorant nonsense set forth advanced at all, it would be but to get into some scrape. by our daily press on the Chinese question, as if the expe- They could not even move their masses across the vast rience of a century, the plainest facts, and the invariable spaces of country. The troops would disband, or produce workings of human nature, whether in China or England, violent disorganization of some sort among themselves, or were all to go for nothing. While the whole world is among the thick population, who have but just enough governed by passion, folly, madness, some innocents are rice for a quiet and exact consumption. Any thing disfor debating the justice or the crime of whether a musquito turbing this exact balance will produce confusion beyond which settles on your nose is to be killed suddenly or not all calculation. We have nothing to do but shift our by a good hearty slap; and so it is just now with one set troops round the coast, here and there occupying their who are shocked and alarmed at the bare report of having strong places, laying their towns under contribution, or hastily declared war with China. It ought, in common burning them, as they pleased. Their population scattered sense, to have been declared years and years ago. We about the country would help to increase the confusion have been insulted and provoked enough a thousand times and distress to such a degree, that no force of the Empeover, which still would not be enough for so great an evil, ror's had he ten millions of men in arms could withstand so great a crime, had we any choice left short of being cut it. They could not stir, simply because they could have off altogether from them, and laughed at by all other na- nothing to eat! Nor indeed could we, nor should we tions, who would enjoy the trade, and dole it spitefully to reckon on any supplies. It would be more cruel to seize us at 100 per cent. profit-notably, the Americans and their rice than burn their towns. Our grand aim must be Portuguese; while the Chinese would kick us, despise us, a war positively against the authorities; the people have abuse us, and would not be one grain thankful for our for- nothing to lose or fight for except their rice, and sweet bearance; which they would of course call our fear and potatoes and pigs, which we above all things must respect. our impotence. It is so at Pekin-it is so at Washington! A good beginning (as in all wars) will be half the battle. -vide one Mr. Forsyth's replies to Lord Palmerston and Burning a town and great stores of goods, including tea, Mr. Fox vide the insolence of the State of Maine, which will have a great moral effect, without really doing much the whole Republic are patting on the back and cheering harm. The very poor will lose nothing, and they make on to provoke us-to dare us to the scratch. All this up the great mass of the population, and they are the wordy war, as yet, is gravely wound up on both sides by very part which will best assist us (by their clamour) in the expression of the undersigned's "high consideration." bringing the Emperor and his yellow silk, long-nailed No man in England but must see where the insolent ag- Court to their senses. gression lies, and talking should be scouted-we must act.. So, if we are not quite done for as a nation, we must up and be stirring. Our course is plain as a b c in China; and with a good head and common results the war cannot be a long or expensive one. The Chinese may be very right to

Practically, with the aid of three or four steamers up the rivers, we may have it all our own way, and do what we like with their cities and towns, even within ten or fifteen miles of the water. Keeping within that range, we can produce effect enough for our purpose,—and that most