pened, he grew impatient for the commanded by 'Hugh, accompanied recovery of his birth-right, and the by the old man, went in search of punishment of the perpetrators of him. As soon as they were perthe massacre. It is scarce credible ceived by Cuming to be enemies, what pleasure the old man felt at he fled towards his castle, when he finding the dear object of his care was met by the other division, who, now ready to accompany him to his after killing several about the castle own country. They both solicited walls, pursued them up a narrow valhis relations for a select band of ley called Glen Tilt, killing and warriours to march against his ene- wounding many in the pursuit, the my, who were soon prevailed upon nose being shot off one at a rivulet to grant their request. According- bearing his name, another was shot ly, twenty-four able men, well through the belly at Alt na Marag, armed, were raised, who immedi- i. e. "the pudding rill," because his ately set out and arrived at his entrails came out. While they were grandfather's, who joined them with thus hotly pursued up the Glen by other eight. From thence they be- Macglashan, the other division comtook themselves to the wood of Little manded by Hugh, took a near cut Uvrard, where they remained very round a mountain, and was a consiquiet until they received intelligence derable way beyond them, and waitfrom Hugh's nurse. Calling at her ed for their coming up. It is said, door, she asked who it was at such a that the old man was always the late hour. He replied that he was foremost of his company, and when Hugh McIntosh. It is like your he saw them approach, he prepared voice, says she, but if you'll breathe himself, and in a fierce warlike in through the key-hole, I'll know tone, said to the young gentleman, for certain whether you are my "Here comes the great Cuming riHugh, which he instantly did, and ding foremost; if you let him esshe knowing his breath immediately cape, you deserve a coward's death." let him in, and congratulated him On which Hugh instantly drew an on his safe arrival. His nurse was arrow and shot Cuming through the sent to learn something of Cuming, heart from the other side of a small and returned with news of his go- lake called Loch-loch. He fell upon ing to the bridge of Tilt, about a a broad stone at the road side, mile off, to divert himself with his where, according to custom, a heap troop. Upon this information they of stones was raised in remembrance set out in two divisions, one of thereof, still to be seen, called which being commanded by Mac- Cuming's Cairn. Such monuments glashan, went to keep him from re- are called by the Highlanders Cairne turning to his castle; and the other, folachd, i. e. Cairns of hatred. POETRY. From the Edinburgh Magazine, for June, 1818. THE LEGEND OF THE ROSE. Το ροδον το των ερωτων. I bring with me thy lover's sigh, Sweeter than the Myrtle wreath, 'Twas from him I borrow'd, too, I was the Summer's fairest pride, The Nightingale's betrothed bride; In Shiraz' bowers I sprung to birth When Love first lighted on the earth, And then my pure inodorous blossom, Blooming on its thornless tree, Was snowy as his mother's bosom, Rising from the emerald sea. Young Love, rambling through the wood, Found me in my solitude, Bright with dew and freshly blɔwn, The living gem with raptured eyes, The loves of the Rose and Nightingale are a frequent theme among the Oriental poets.-" You may place a hundred handfuls of fragrant herbs and flowers before the Nightingale, yet he wishes not, in his constant heart, for more than the sweet breath of his beloved Rose."--Jami. tCamdeo, or Ca'ma'de'va, the Hindoo Cupid, is represented as a beautiful youth sometimes convers ing with his mother and consort in the midst of his gardens and temples; sometimes riding by moonfight on a parrot or lory, &c. His bow of sugarcane or flowers, with a string of Bees, and his five arrows, each pointed with an Indian blossom of a heating quality are allegories equally new and beautiful.-Sir W. Jones. Mr. Southey has very finely availed himself of Camdeo's bowstring of living bees, in his poem of Kehama. But placed upon my slender stem, them; And none, since that eventful morn, Yet, even the sorrows Love doth send, But more divine enchantments lend: Still in Beauty's sweetest bowers Blooms the Rose, the Queen of Flowers, Brightening with the sanguine stains, Borrow'd from celestial veins,From Love's own lips with rapture And breathing of the kiss she caught fraught! SONNET. Of love, and love's delight no more I sing, Nor praise Eliza's soft bewitching eye, And sunny locks descending gracefully O'er that fair bosom, like an angel's wing Floating in light. Alas! the joyous string, That breath'd responsive to love's blissful sigh, Ill suits the heart, where hope and fancy die Like flowers untimely blighted in their spring. Yet doth the memory of those gentle days In its fix'd sadness soothe my darken'd mind, And tempt oft-times to meditate the lays In hours of happiness for Her designedWhose lovely image, neither fates un kind, Nor time, nor absence, from my breast can raze. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE. Collected from the English Magazines, for July, 1818. Sir R. C. Hoare has in press, a supplemental quarto volume to Eustace's Classical Tour in Italy, enlarged by a Tour round Sicily, &c. The first vol. of the transactions of the Royal Geological society of Cornwall will shortly appear. The learned and amiable Bishop of St. Davids has in the press, the Grand Schism, or the Roman Catholicks of G. Britain and Ireland, shown to be separatists from the Church of England. The Rev. R. Morrison, is printing at Macao, an extensive Chinese and English Dictionary, containing 40,000 characters. Mr. W. T. Franklin has just completed the 3rd, and last volume of the memoirs of the life and writings of his grandfather, Dr. B. Franklin. Translations of memoirs of Lucien Bonaparte, and of Anecdotes of the Court and family of Napoleon, are just ready for publication. Capt. Golownin, is preparing for publication, his recollections of Japan, comprising a particular account of the religion, language, government, laws, and manners of the people. The British and Foreign Bible Society, distributed, from March 31, 1817, to March 31, 1818, 89,795 Bibles, and 104,306 Testaments; the subscriptions for the same period were 68,359, 10s. 9d. and sales by Bibles 13,620 Os. 2d.----Total receipts 81,979/ 10s. 11dTotal payments 71,0997 1s. 6d. It appears that there are no less than 415 christian missionaries now employed in various parts of the world, in endeavouring to substitute their peculiar faith for the religion of the several countries:-They consist of Churchmen, Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Calvinists, Lutherans, Swedenborgians, &c. and it is said they make great progress among the barbarous tribes of Asia, Africa, and America. Austria. By the last geographical details published in Austria, the population of that third time. In my first journey to Thebes in 1816, I had succeeded in embarking on the Nile the upper part of the famous statue of Memnon. The grand wreck, which has lain for so many centuries amidst the ruins of the palace destroyed by Cambyses, is now on its way to the British Museum. It is a colossal bust, of a single block of granite, ten feet in height from the breast to the top of the head, and twelve tons in weight. Other travellers before me had conceived the design of transporting it to Europe, and renounced it only from not conceiving the means of effecting it. The great difficulty was in moving such a mass for the space of two miles, until it arrived at the Nile, whereby alone it could be conveyed to Alex andria. I succeeded in effecting it, without the aid of any machine, by the sole power of the arms of some Arabs; however ill qualified this people, now sunk into the indolence of savage life, may be for such rude labours. As such, it has been the work of six months. From Thebes I went up towards Nubia, to examine the great temple of Ybsambal, which is buried more than double its height in the sands, near the second cataract. There I found the inhabitants very ill-disposed towards my projects, and from whom I prepared to encounter some difficulties. However, the the season being too advanced, was my sole motive in deferring this enterprise to another time. In the mean time I returned to Thebes, where I occupied myself in new searches at the Temple of Karnack. There I found, several feet under ground, a range of sphinxes surrounded by a wall. These sphinxes, with heads of lions on the busts of women, are of black granite, of the usual size; and, for the most part, of beautiful execution. There was, in the same place, a statue of Jupiter Ammon, in white marble. It was not until my second journey, in 1817, that I discovered the head of a colossus much greater than that of Memnon. This head of granite, and of a single block, is by itself ten feet from the neck to the top of the mitre, with which it is crowned. Nothing can be in better preservation. The polish is still as beautiful as if it had but just come from the hands of the statuary. After this I again took the road to Nubia, where some severe trials awaited me. The people of this country are quite savages, without any idea of hospitality. They refused us things the most necessary; entreaties and promises had no effect on them. We were reduced to live upon Turkish corn soaked in water. At length, by dint of patience and courage, after twenty-two days persevering labour, I had the joy of finding myself in the Temple of Ybsambul, where no Europeon has ever before entered, and which presents the greatest excavation in Nubia or in Egypt, if we except the tombs which I have since discovered at l'hebes. The Temple of Ybsambul is 152 feet long, and contains fourteen apartments, and an immense court, where we discovered eight co lossal figures thirty feet high. The columns and the walls are covered with hieroglyphics and figures very well preserved. This temple has then been spared by Cambyses, and the other ravagers who came after him. I brought some antiquities from thence---two lions with the heads of vultures, and a small statue of Jupiter Ammon. On returning again to Thebes, I applied myself once more to discover what has been, from time immemorial, the object of discovery for all travellers of every nation-I mean the tombs of the kings of Egypt. It is known that, independent of those tombs which are open, there existed several under ground, but no person has yet discovered in what place. By means of observations on the situation of Thebes, I at length found the index that should lead me on the way. After various excavations, I succeeded in discovering six of these tombs, one of which is that of Apis, as it seems to be pointed out by the mummy of an ox, found there. This mummy is filled with asphaltes. For the rest, nothing that I can say would enable you to conceive the grandeur and magnificence of this tomb. But This is undoubtedly the most curious and the most astonishing thing in Egypt, and which gives the highest idea of the labours of its ancient inhabitants. The interiour, from one extremity to the other, is 309 feet, and contains a great number of chambers and corridors. The walls are entirely covered with hieroglyphicks and bas-reliefs, painted in fresco. The colours are of a brightness tó which nothing, within our knowledge, is to be compared; and are so well preserved, that they appear to have been just laid on. the most beautiful antiquity of this place, in the principal chamber, is a sarcophagus of a single piece of alabaster, nine feet seven inches long, by three feet nine inches wide, within and without equally covered with hieroglyphicks and carved figures. This large vessel has the sound of a silver bell, and the transparency of glass. There can be no doubt that, when I shall have transported it to England, as I hope to do, it will be esteem." * ed one of the most precious articles in our European Museums. A MAGAZINE: A REPOSITORY OF ORIGINAL PAPERS, & SELECTIONS FROM ENGLISH MAGAZINES. Published every Saturday Morning, at Robinson's Circulating Library, No. 94, Baltimore-street. VOL. 1.] BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1818. [No. 8. EXTRACTS FROM A LAWYER'S PORTFOLIO. [We have copied from the European distance a man in black sat on one Magazine, several well written tales, given there as "Extracts from a Law yer's Portfolio"- not having in our possession the number that commenced these tales, we were unable to account for their origin or title. This difficulty is past, and we now find that they are abstracts of cases tried at different courts in Great Britain, and recorded as memorable instances of the "aptness of human judgment to err in deciding on occurrences involved in mystery." The first of them begins as follows.] From the European Magazine, for December, 1818. I 66 of the stones in the middle of the brook in a composed and meditative attitude. A position so extraordinary attracted the sportsman's attention, and he inquired, in a courteous accent, if the place afforded good sport for an angler. The solitary student raised his hat, and replied, in a peculiar tone of gravity, Sir, I am discriminating."-His observer hazarded a remark on the inconvenience of his seat, for the water was now flowing rather above the stones, but the man in black answered, "You are mistaken, sir!— any place is fit for discrimination. If you were a lawyer, sir, you would know, that on all occasions it is fitting and necessary to discriminate-If you are a trustee, and the estate is charged with debts-let the creditors wait--if you have an During one of the long vacations executorship, and the legatees are in the last century, a young man in clamorous, keep the funds while you an ordinary hunting-dress, with a discriminate--for a few years. single dog by his side, was stopped Now the business in question is in his stroll through an obscure glen an assignment-Certain heritors in by a very singular object. The this country have assigned, grantsides of this glen were so steep and ed, deponed, and made over sunlofty, that they hardly admitted dry lands, teinds, tenements, and light enough to discover the course annual rents, to a certain person of a stream, more noisy than deep, for the benefit of certain aforesaids : which ran among broken rocks un- and now, sir, auld Mahoun is in it der natural arches. A narrow un- if this person cannot keep this estate frequented road led into the depths himself all his life, provided he of the valley, where a grey horse takes a man of business into keepwas quietly grazing, and at a little ing too, and discriminates properMAG. VOL. I. "AN ASSIGNMENT." 8 ly."" Pardon me," said the young seat into the water, and remained sportsman, laughing, "if I think motionless. the most interesting point just now is how to discriminate properly between a wet coat and a dry oneand I bave not the honour of know. ing the person you call Auld Mahoun.""If that bag which you carry was a bag of briefs," replied the gentleman in the brook," I flatter myself you would be very well acquainted with him. In South Britain, sir, his usual cognomine is Nicholas or Harry senior, and, as old Bishop Latimer truly said, he is the best lawyer of us all, for he never misses his business." The stranger stood aghast at this tragical conclusion of the farce, and made fruitless attempts to raise the body which cramp or spasms had distorted. He succeeded, however, in drawing it out of the stream whose chillness had probably occasioned the disaster: and perceiving the grey horse saddled and bridled as if it had belonged to this unfortunate man, he mounted him, and leaving his dog to guard the body, rode to the town of K about two miles distant, to seek assistance. It was still a very early hour in the Though the young stranger could morning, and the master of an obnot determine whether his new ac- scure inn, with two or three labourers, quaintance was influenced by wine rose to accompany him back. Much or insanity, there was something so time was lost by their hesitation, ridiculously contrasted in the gravi- and when they reached Glencraig, ty of his discourse and the seat he the stranger's body was gone, and had chosen, that he thought the the dog lay dead beside the brook. sport of shooting well exchanged Grief and astonishment were the for this scene. Perceiving his at- young man's only feelings, but his tentive air, the black gentleman companions viewed and questioned resumed his oration: In the him with evident suspicion. The church of St. Benignas, at Dijon, brook ran rapidly through the glen, there is the statue of a queen with deepening and growing broader till one foot resembling a goose's; and it reached the bay near K. where one of my merry clients, sir, wrote the small river Dee joins the western under it- this is the law'-but as sea. One of the spectators followthree such statues may be found in ed its course, and discovered a France, the jest might be extended pocket-book floating, and not yet to other professions."-"Sir," an entirely moistened. Its contents swered the youth, bowing, "when had probably been rifled, as it now a client jests, his lawyer must be an contained only the rough draft of an honourable one."-" Very true, assignment, in which blanks were young gentleman, a merry client is a left for dates and the names of perrarity: but heirs and executors never sons and places. There was much joke so well with lawyers as with agitation in the youth's features physicians, because our mistakes when he saw this document, and his are above ground, and a physician's seeming anxiety to keep it in his are under it--Sir, you look as if own possession increased the wary you thought mine were likely to be Scotch innkeeper's suspicions. He under water, but this brook is a conveyed him instantly to the Procopy of my bill in chancery-always vost of K., whose questions were running-running-running on; answered with obvious confusion and I am where I chuse to be, among and incoherence. His name, he troubled "-Before he could said, was Evan M'Querie, and his articulate the word, he fell from his place of abode a small farm on the |