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estate-u. .d in thstebsrsetevheldahsyiohis right

asses-I srsdisbiszfi'Imi"

his opening and rulins

the”. Mayhem-manor. cosh-ed, sod .hfiwmmoflbdsys. At othertimeghewss

withherhsl‘lsnldplsesdiu

d“. whh chased three windows in each side, assrublsms or the ‘- s-swlewd the twelve months over whirrth

movwmm of

he. I‘m. U). the lass-called this moot

welt“, beesussthd wolves e! our so

a temple of liter equal

presided.

Deceyed Intelligence, r. - Wdlfmoush," or eient forests, impelled

MWIMmee-ttopvowlaodsttuck-anbino

as"; the rattler animals. on who. they usually pnysd,Iheeiug

Wetlands“ from the tot-leniency of the weather." I

The Saxons also called this month “Ansr—yuh," & Jar “dab- In illuminated calendars, prefixed toMfilflsb.

a service books. January was fiequeutbdepicted I a with *0 er a wood-en's”. shivering and his fingers, sees this month in his Faerie Q‘s»—

esms old January, wrs weeds, to keep the co

burr

away;

Y. be quake and quiver like to quell, ’ And blow hts nayles to warms them if he may;

' for they were south'd with holdi An hatchet beans, with which he

n all the day slled wood,

And to. tbe gees did lop the needlesse spray",

, fl . SONG 0|" I saw him st the revel, '3 Where the ' a cup ran high, And lb v ,' ringing To by. I With a v ‘ gazing was him, _ 7, ’ ride,— r . Andl the use by hissidd!

I aw hire in the battle, When his raven plume arose Dark lieu its mountain eyrie, A death-like token to his foes And the thottssnds followin Where his trumpet rent I e ar

after,

I"

The watch-word of the slaughter— , And the Woman too was there !

I saw alonst valley, Wk.- And a. the dark recesses lest for the stern Gunilla, His last rest to share—- Bot o'er him titers was only

as was the and deep,

Where Cambrian shadows sleep;

Womamwesplng there !

TERRIBLE BATTLE 01’ (February, 1806.) Never in the history of war, did two uddr more awful and impressive c the rivdhosts who now lsy', without t the snow expanse of the field of

9.,

EYLAU.

armies pass a night ircumstartces than cut or covering, or: Eylau. The close

vicinity o the two armies, the vast multitude assembled in so narrow a grace, intent only on mutual destruction, therital interest to the lives and fortunes of all which

mat stake ; the wintr wilderness ed only by the Iwatch- res, whicht glow on the snow-clad heights are

of the scene, cheer- hrcw only a partial und; the shivering

roups, who in either army lay around the blazing fires, chilled by the girdles of the impenetrable ice; the stern

resolution of the soldiers in one ar

siastio ardour of those in the other; the liberty of

Euro new brou ht to the issue of the of the mightiest armament that either

all contributed to impress a feeling

my, and the enthu-

one dread combat;

cry of Russia and France dependent on the efforts

had yet sertt forth, of solemnity which

reached the most inconsiderate breast, oppressed the mind with a feeling of anxious thought, and kept un- clossd many a wearied eyelid in both camps, notwith-

standl

ng the extraordinary fatigues da s. ‘ '

of the preceding

he battle began at daylight on the 8th of February,

in the midst of a snow-storm. At an early hour of the;

day, Augereau's column of 16,000 Inc the Russian masses, and, with the

n \v as enveloped

b. exception of 1508

men, was entirely destroyed. Napoleon himself was in

the most imminent hazard of being taken prisoner.

had slept at Eylau on ‘the night befo

He

re, and was now in

the churchyard, when the crash of the enemy’s balls on

thest

e, showed how nearly danger was approaching.

Pressn y one of the Russian divisions following rapidly

aflcr the fa i

and charged with loud hurras, to the where the E imperial guard and a personal escort a regiment of horse been at hand to

tives entered Eylau by the Western street.

foot of the mound

mperor was posted with a battery of the

of 100 men. Had support the attack,

Napoleon must have been made prisoner; for though the last reserve, consisting of six battalions of the old

guard, were at a short distance, h

c might have been

enveloped before they could get to his rescue. The He‘s! Duppe then hung upon a thread, but in that terrible moment, the Emperor’s presence of mind did

n0! Iforsikc him; be instantly ordered the little body ‘gasrd. hardly more than a company, to form a line, in

to check. the enemy’s advance, orders toIthc old guard to attack the while a brigade of Murat’s horse charged it on

an: the r.

The Russia’s, disordered by success,

and despatched column an one

and ignorant

of the inestimable prize which was almost within their grasp, were arrested by the firm countenance of the

little band of heroes who form

regular conflict, the count flank, sad almost the whole

Illumians and the French aflru‘atc

ed Napoleon’s last re- could re-form their ranks for a y was upon them on either drvtston was

This'tlt'dadful slaughter com. fit

cut to pieces. rough the day, the '! I'Gplllailg each

charge M'infi

' most desperate intre- “h a” the ground coveaed wards erenin the RrusaraIns, nn er vanoed0 against the dizvision of Fratnt. The before them; Marshal DavoustI. o withstand the torrent. ‘ Here, where the brave 'should find a . death, the cowards wrll perish in the deserts Siberia." Still the French were driven on Iwrtb t e, loss of 3,000 men, and the whole IRussran lrne Were: pressing on to victory, when the raprd nrght of the_:tort fell, and-the battle was at an end. I , h This was the first heavy blow whrch Napoleon a received in European war. He had once before been on the point of ruin, but it was in Syria, and a BrttraI oficerfll the honour of making the conqueror of Its recoil. It is now unquestionable that at Eylnu heI we! defeated. At l0 at night he gave orders for hrs artrller and baggage to defile to the rear, and the advanced to retreat. He was on the point of betng drsgra 7,.

the eyes of Europe. 'llfll be "9 “"d m:

the indecision of the ' n General. I

war was held by the RE an leaders on *horsebagkt deeideon their future coorse.—Couat Osterman MI toy, the second in command, with Generals Knortng a. Lestocq, urged strongly that retreat was not to

Other, both I'd” Dairy, and on with‘earn trestocq. , French were driven in rain attempted ! cried he, ' is the place

battl hat whichever army gained ground would repumictor, and that the trite policy was to throw their whole force upon him without delay. But Ben- niugscfl unluckily. satisfied with hrs trrumph, past the vigor of youth, unacqw'ainted with the enormous losses of the French army, and exhaustetlIby36 hours on back, directed the march on Koanngsberg. Such was thw‘terrible battle of Eylau, fought in the depth of winter amidst ice and snow,‘nder circumstances of

raw horror; the most bloody and obstinater

at had yet occurred during the war—and in 4

h, if Napobn not sustain a positive defeat, he find: a ' *rhich had well nigh proved his reimml on both sides was immense, and never. in times, has a field of battle been strewed with sucll" multitude 0min.

On the side oft ussians twenty-five thousand had fallen, of whom abotrt seven thousand were already no more; on that of the French upwards of thirty thousand were killed or wounded, and nearly ten thousand had left their colors. under pretence of attending to the wounded. and did not make their Iappearance for several days. The other trophres of victory were nearly equally balanced—the Russians had to boast of the unusual spectacle oftwelve eagles taken from their antagonists—- while they had made spoil of sixteen of the RIusstan guns and fourteen standards. Hardly any prisoners were made on either side during the .cétion; but six thousand of the wounded. most of them in a hopeless state, were left on the field of battle and fell into the hands of the French. Never was a spectacle so dread- ful as the field of battle presented on the following morning. About fifty thousand men lay in the space of two leagues weltering in blood. The wounds were for the most part, of the severest kind, from the extraor- dinary quantity of cannon balls that had been discharged during the action, and the close proximity of the con- tending masses, to the deadly batteries, which spread grape at half musket shot, through their ranks.

Though stretched on the cold snow, and exposed to the severity of an artic winter, they were burning with thirst, and piteons cries were heard on all sides for water, or assistance to extricate the wounded men from beneath the heaps of slain or load of horses by which they were crushed. Six thousand of these noble ani- mals encumbered the field, or, maddened with pain, were shrieking aloud amidst the stifled groans bf the wounded. Subducd by'the loss of blond, tamed by cold, exhausted by hunger, the foemen lay side by side amidst the general wreck. The Cossack was to be seen beside the Italian: the gay vine-dresser, from the anti- ling hanks ofthe Garonne, lay athwart the stern peasant front the plains of theUkraine. The extremity of suf- fering had extinguished alike the fiercest and most generous passions. After his usual crrstom, Napoleon in the afternoon rode through this dreadful field, accom- panied by his generals and stafi', while the still burning piles of Surpallen and Saussgarten sent volumes of black smoke Over the scene of death—but the men exhibited none of their wanted enthusiasm—no cries of Vive l’Empereur were heard.

THE FAIR QUAKERESS. an errant»: m The mm or GEORGE In.

The only authentic portrait known of this admired fair one, the early favourite of George the Third when Prince of Wales, is at Knowle Park, the seat of Lady Plv- mouth. It is decribed as the Portrait of Hannah Light- foot, that being her married name. How it came into the possession of that noble family, none ofthe present race are able to explain. It is however suspected to have

George the Third, before his marriage with Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelitz, as a deposit M safe preservation, until it could disposed of elsewhere. has beeri attributed to Gainsborough; but ifsb, it must have been an early production ofthrit clever artiste—The late Duke Frederick of York had a bean- tiful enamel from this portrait, mounted in the lid of a snuff-box, which after his death, was in the possession ofGeorge the Fourth, and might now perhaps be found at Bifrons, the seat of the Down Coyningham. . The father of Hannah Lightfoot was a linen draper, resrdrng in St. James’s market, London, then a place of greatItrafiic, and the leading thoroughfare from Leices- ter Fields to St.‘James’s Palace. Ho afterwards failed Ibusrness, then went uponI the Stock-Exchange, and being supported by members of the Society of Friends eventually amassed a large fortune as a broker. Miss, Wheeler was a very beautiful girl—and with the natural vanrty of fine women universally admired, was very fond of drsplayrng herself at the window, where she first attracted the notice of George the Third, when Prince of Wales, as he took his daily rides in his \vav from Savrlle-l-Iouse, Leicester Square, to St. James’s Palace.

Iiingstonh was the Prince’s confi a e was t en one ofthe ladies in waitin on the '

of Wales, the mother of George the TlIird, andPi|riwlI§I the spurt of intrigue was predominant, from an early age; added to which she is known to have entertained a great drslrke to the Earl of Bute, who then exercised a tyrannical controul over both the Prince and his mother To frustrate that wily Minister's views, or, perhaps to create a breach Ibetvveeu him and his royal pupil rind thus to rerengeIherself upon the Earl, is supposed i0 be the chief incentive for her interferéfce in this mysteri- ous hfi'arr. However, certain it is, ' at she under‘ook the drfiicult task of introducing the enamoured Prince

dam on the occasion;

~

thought of—that Napoleon was beaten' in a pitchaym

been sent by Edward Duke of York, the brother of

ger Marchioness of

Thocelebrated Miss Chudleigb, afterwards Duchess of

to the object of his afi'ectionL—and when rt rs

un lady w iii;deng dgenominate Qu-krs,

couceiyed,l ta:a I

v t‘ e’fiibf 'the ‘Prin " Ia'nd ‘ continued to enjoy each otn rs so- iews, for some time prcvrous toI the e Second. That a private marriage Bath bilatween the Prince and Miss Wheeler, I“.1172; in the name of GeorgeGuelph, it has been iserted'iy’capable ofproof, Chudleigh and Edward I 'uke of York being the wrtnesses thereto. Therwrs mson to suppose that Lord te was the first to Idrsco- 3r this affair, which created great _uneasrrress rn the abinet at Seville-House, where the motherI of George to Third then resided. on the matter being commu- icated to her, she interfered, and not then suspecting - at it was anything more than an amour, she pressed nd obtained a promise from her son, that he would Emmott. the connexion. ,Lord BIute was not however “this promise, , and; discovering by some ,. ' ' et' 'stetl in,'he sought I .. ‘ Q’fr’f‘fth'e lady, when impor- ' 'fiull’ Wad a deter-

a

are" ,. ’annah W I ety in stolen rnterv

heéll'r

tion 0 t e ' I. . obviate as far as possrble the co prudent amour, by accelerating the

' lfor this urpose a negoc I I I iiziiirlelifriniifheeler, thl; father ofthe larly,/vl'ho*foreseerng

' a but disgrace to hrs daughter and his farm y, frbiriilrt‘he threatened exposure of such a connexron. ram dily lent himself to the Minister’s views. the {Dore or: perhaps, as it was proposed to contribute a mal’nétgtettiwr tion for the lady, on the day of her being afiiance o I . Liahtfoot, a person of her own persuasron, and a spIrtor wlfom her parents had been anxrous she should ave

arried. I m The Prince, then young and unsuspecting, although dcvotcdlv attached to the fair' Quakeress. was naturally timid and irresolnte—and, being completely under the dominion of his mother and the Earl of Rum, wasIeasily beguiled into acquiescence, under the belref that if t I: ladv had any legal claim, her subsequent marrrIage an the-power ofthe Crown might unnul rt. Of this, how- ever, the Prince quickly repented, and determined that} happen wlnt might,.he would not resrgn the. society : the lady. Accordingly, while the MrnrsterIs thong t themselves quite secure in the success of therr scheme, and the parents of Hannah Wheeler were contemplating an equally satisfactory result to the approaching nuptials of their daughter, the lovers proved themselves by far the cleverest diplomatists. I

It was agreed between them, the better to disguise their intentions. that the lady should consent to Ithrs marriage with Mr. Lightfoot—and, on the same evening, elqpe with her royal lover, who provided a safe retreat for her. Of this fact there is no deubt. .The lady was so married to Mr. Lightfoot, at the Quaker Meeting House, then in St. Martin's Lane, and on the same evening, before consummation, she stofl away privately from her father’s house—and surrendering herself to a trusty friend of her royal lover, was conveyed ofi'with such secrecy and security, that no traces of it could after- wards be discovered. Among the papers of the Earl of Bute, there was found a very severe letter from George the III. remonstrating with that Nobleman for his in- terference in this matter, and particularly censuring his conduct in making it known to his mother, the Princess of Wales. The lovers continued to meet occasionally, until very shortly before the King’s marriage with Queen Charlotte, when the lady was, with her children, for a time, removed to Devonshire; but, eventually, she re- turned to Kew, where the assumed the name of Oxford, and afterwards, it is said, died in childbirth. .So cart- tiously was this intimacy managed, that the lady’s father, her husband and family, could never discover her retreat. Mr. Lightfoot, it is said, only once caught a glimpse of his wife in a carriage, driving along Pall-Mall; but as it was some years afterwards, he might have been mistaken; however, before he could approach the ve- hicle, it had started off with encreased speed, and was soon outof sight. It is due to the memory of George the Third Ito state, that he provided handsomely for his two sons, by this connexion. One afterwards obtained high rank in the British service, and is, I believe, still living—the other a singularly clever but perverse person, obtained a lucrative situation in a Government office,

nsequences of t rs r marriage of both iation was formed

Pitt, as an attaché in foreign affairs-—and in that capa- city was very useful at the commencement of the French Revolution—-he died a few years since at Foley-place, leaving an only sori, wholly unprovided for, to whom his late Majesty William the Fourth behaved kindly.

The circumstances here narrated are said to have

George III. who could never forget his first l0ve, or forgive himself for abandoning his contract with her. This I do not believe—and for this reason—if tltere was any marriage ceremony between him and the fair Quakeress, which'is doubtful, there was at that time nothing else but political motives to prevent the Prince

avorying it.—I(From the MS. of the Duchess of Kings- ton. ’ ' ‘

ISINGULAR AND PROVIDENTIAL DELIVERANCE.—On Friday last, two Scilly pilot-boats discovered a vessel bottom up, off St. Mary’s, and took her in tow; but night coming on, and the weather becoming unfavour- able, they for the time abandoned her. rng they again went in search of her, when they found that she had been driven ashore on the rocks, still with her bottom up. They went near her, and fancying they heard some noise in the hold, out a hole in her bottom, when four men came out ! It appears that the vessel was orl laden; and that, from the buoyant nature of her cargo, she not only kept afloat after she had capsized,

cabrn when the accident happened, and finding that the vessel did not fill, they crept into the lazarette, and proceeded from thence into the lower part of the held next the kelson, that part heij course left vacant b ’ the falling of the cargo agah’sf the deck. Here the

slender hopes of deliverance ; and when at len were so providentially liberated,

gth they died almost immediately.

Scots' pugnacity, with its motto. ings, coins, and coats of armour,

difiiculty in sayin The origin of th

‘. selves of th

. "y,

r alculation, that the deb

. ounds sterling per hour, throng

which he resigned; he was afterwards employed by Mr?

been the primary cause of the mental affliction of

The next morn-

but rode lightly on the' water. The men were in the

y$cgrew, the ‘white feather’ remarried sixty hours without nourishment, and with

I I they were in a state of great exhaustron—so great, indeed, that one of them

THE Sco'r'rrsu THISTLE.—Thl5 ancient emblem of I II I I “ Nemo me impune lacessu, rs represented of various-species on royal bear- II I so that there is some‘

g which is the genuine original thistle. e national badge itself is thus handed