With many a fold round the staple 'twas rolled,

With venom its jaws ran o'er; And that juice of Hell, wherever it fell, To a cinder burned the floor.

When the monster beheld Sir Guy he swelled

With fury, and threw out his sting; Sparks flashed from each eye, and he reared him on high, And prepared on the warrior to spring. (Resumed at page 235.)

GARRICK ON MACBETH. THE following copy of a letter written by Garrick to a friend who had offered some remarks upon his manner of performing the character of Macbeth, is printed for the first time in the "New Monthly Magazine" for May, from the original in Mr. Mathews's possession. It is interesting on various accounts. In the first place it proves the careful manner in which Garrick studied and investigated the different bearings of every portion of the character he was depicting; and the conclusion offers a pleasing specimen, most pleasingly expressed, of his candour in admitting the influence which praise exercised upon him. The particular person to whom it was addressed does not appear, nor the exact period when it was written, but from internal evidence we may pronounce that it was somewhat towards

the end of his career.

Monday Morning. "DEAR SIR,-The next best thing to saying your prayers was certainly reading Macbeth, so you have not much to answer on my account.

I am always happy to agree with you, and which I do most sincerely in your opinion of the scene with Banquo. I was, indeed, not quite master of my feelings, till I got to clutch the air-drawn dagger.' I like your description of the state of Macbeth's mind and body, at the time he affects cheerfulness to Banquo; it is a well-painted picture, but I won't flatter myself that I ever played up to your colouring.

"You are certainly right in your account of my speaking, Doctor,

the Thanes fly from me,' but I differ a little with you in opinion that I formerly spoke it in a burst of melancholy.' Macbeth is greatly heated and agitated with the news of the English force coming upon him; his mind runs from one thing to another; all is hurry and confusion. Would not his speaking in a melancholy manner in the midst of his distraction be too calm?-Come, put my armour on-Give me my staffSeyton, send out-Doctor, the Thanes fly from me!-Come, sir, dispatchPluck it off-Bring it after me- -&c.* You have flattered me much by your by your criticism this evening, if I very obliging letter, and I shall profit should happen to be in order. an old hunter, touched a little in wind, and somewhat foundered, but stroke me, and clap me on the back, as you have kindly done, and I can make a shift to gallop over the course. Once more I thank you for your letter, and am, most truly, “Your obliged humble servant, "D. GARRICK." "P. S.-I returned too late last night from Hampton to answer your letter."

I am

India having committed some crime, for which he was sentenced to be hanged, received the awful fiat with so much coldness, that the Judge was disposed to believe that the man had not understood him, and accordingly caused it to be repeated by one of the native Counsellors. The man replied, that he understood the Judge very well. "You are to be hanged to-morrow," repeated the barrister. "Sahep ko koosi" ("as the gentleman pleases,") returned the culprit, and followed his conductor out of Court, apparently unconcerned. A few days elapsed before the sentence could be put in execution; and, when brought forth, as they supposed, to suffer the punishment of his crime, there appeared quite a different person. This being reported to the Judge, he was ordered to be brought before him, and it was discovered that the other had given this man three rupees to be hanged in his place. The former one of course made his escape; and, strange as it may appear, the substitute was afraid of being discharged, lest he might insist upon his refunding the three rupees, which he had spent, he said, on metais, cakes of which they are particularly fond, made of sugar and four-(A Tour through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan.)

CHARTER OF LONDON-In the second year of the reign of William the Conqueror, at the intercession of the Norman Bishop of London, he granted a charter to the citizens in their own language-a mighty favour at that time, when the French tongue began to prevail. The charter consists of four lines and a quarter, beautifully written in the Saxon character, on a slip of parchment, of the length of six inches and breadth of one, which is preserved in the city archives as a great jewel. The seal of the charter is of white wax, and being broken into divers pieces, they are sewed up and carefully preserved in an orange-coloured silken bag: on one side is the Conqueror on horseback; and, on the reverse, he is sitting in a chair of state: the rim of the scal being almost gone, the only letters

remaining are M. WILL. But the writing of the charter being very fair, the following is an exact translation :-"William the King greets William the Bishop, and Godfrey the Portreve, and all the Burgesses within London, both French and English. And I declare that I grant you to be all law-worthy, as you were in the days of King Edward; and I grant that every child shall be his father's heir, after his father's days; and I will not suffer any person to do you wrong. God keep you."

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE only atonement we can make the writer of the following letter, for the injustice we have unintentionally been guilty of towards him, is to let him state his own case, and we therefore print it entire. If he will refer to the "Correspondence" in No. 72, he will perceive that his poem has been ome time in our hands, but we little suspected when we complimented B. that we were eulogising an impostor :

"Edmonton, May 24th. 1824.

observed a poem, entitled The Aged "Dear Sir,-In your last number I Minstrel's Lament,' with the initial B.'

at the end of it. If B.' means to insinuate that the Poem was written by him, I most firmly deny it, as I AM THE AUTHOR,and that will be apparent to you if you refer to the number of the Literary Chronicle, which was published on the 10th of last July, where my name is attached in full to the Poem. I remain,

Most respectfully yours, I. L. LEATHWICK, Your little work is a very excellent one!"

George informs us that the Marylebone people (see p. 222) have at length resolved to render their parish less WICKed, and more ENLIGHTENED, by adopting the use of gas.-The narrative respecting Lord and Lady Byron, given in the "Dublin Star" (p. 219) has, we see, been formally contradicted: this. was scarcely necessary.-Some delay has occurred in replying to one or two cosrespondents of late, but this shall not happen again.-Solutions should always accompany Enigmas, &c.

LONDON--Printed and Published by I. Walls, Camden Town; and also Published by C. Harris, Bew Street, Covent Garden, by whom Communication for the Editor are received.

No. 82.

VOL. II,

CHERBOURG, a city and seaport of France, situated in a plain on the North side of Lower Normandy, pretends to very high antiquity, having, it is said, been originally called Cæsarbourg, Richard the 24. Duke of Normandy, and uncle to William the Conqueror, built strong castle here, and having come in person to view it, was so pleased with the situation of the place, and its importance for the defence of his dominions, that he exclaimed in a rapture, Ly castel est un CHER BOURG per mi,' to which trifling circumstance the city is believed to owe its present name.

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In 1687, Lewis 14th, at the suggestion of Marshal Vauban, the celebrated engineer, projected the fortification of the town in the modern style, and the addition of a large basin to the harbour, in consequence of which, works were actually begun, and the walls carried to a considerable

height; but in 1689, "for reasons of State (says an old French writer), the old and new fortifications were entirely demolished." What Lewis 14th projected was at length performed, at an immense expense, during the last century, by the ministry of Lewis 15th. About 1750 they built two jetties of amazing workmanship, and dug a sluice 40 feet broad and twenty-seven toises in length, which led to the basin. All these works were, soon after, destroyed by an English expedition, under Lt. General Bligh and Commodore Howe, in 1758, and the place rendered completely defenceless.

Cherbourg, however, appears to have been considered too important a point to be left unrestored, and great efforts were made by the French government to renew the demolished harbour, which at length succeeded. In the Journal of Las Cases, vol iii, part 5, there occurs a very interesting