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LINES BEFORE INTERMENT. lowing lines into my possession, and left me, at the same time, totally unable to form a conjecture as to who the fair ON VIEWING THE CORPSE OF A VALUED FRIEND IMMEDIATE) Thyrza may be, under the inspiration of whose charms they were composed, I have hastened to adopt what appears to me the best method of making the amende honorable for my involuntary Marplotism. Hoping that, by insertion in your widely-circulated miscellany, they may reach their destination, and attract the notice of the peerless lady for whose perusal they were intended, and making ten thousand humble apologies to her most poetical worshipper for my unlucky interference, I am your and his well-wisher, LINES ACCOMPANYING A ROSE. Sur la feuille d'une rose Flora's treasures, here be they, Some the balmy air perfuming, Go, ma mignonne! love revealing, Through pure orbs of beauty shining. Ye fading traces of mortality! Have oft the pledge of love imprest, No more these eyes, whose fountains now are dry, All now is chill, and motionless, and dark, Some weeks since, Mr. Cross, of the menagerie, Exeter ject of the giraffe lately imported into France. The writer "The giraffe, in its native country, browses on the tops "This change in the diet of our giraffe took place in the earliest period of its domestic life. Having fallen into the hands of poor Arabs, who could give it only the corn prepared for their camels, and camel's milk, it throve very well on that diet, and care has, therefore, been taken to make no alteration in it. a It seems, as we have remarked, to differ in several respects from the camelopards described by Vaillant. This specimen has two short protuberances, or tufts,+ between the ears, which are covered with rather long hair, falling "Nevertheless, it willingly accepts fruit and branches Ve are induced to lay before our readers not only an over on the top, towards the back of the neck; whereas, of the acacia when offered to it. It seizes the foliage in punt, but an engraving, of this remarkable quadruped; Vaillant speaks of these excrescences as terminating in very singular manner, thrusting forth, for that purpose, a long, reddish, and very narrow tongue, which it rolls because it is the first of the species which has ever round nobs. Neither does our giraffe display any irregu-round whatever it would secure. That which shows, n brought to England, and because, in its differences larity or rise on its back, over the shoulders, nor along the moreover, that the giraffe was intended to browse on the m those described by preceding naturalists, it deserves whole line of the vertebra, as is seen in those previously high branches of trees, is the difficulty which it manifests e attention of men of science as a curious variety in the delineated. It assumes almost a straight line, with a whenever it is obliged to take any thing from the ground. imal kingdom. We are also inclined to do so, from a slight appearance of curve. In height it is between ten It puts out first one foot, then the other; repeats the same process several times; and it is only after these reiterated ire to correct the oft-reiterated statements which have and eleven feet, measured from the fore-hoofs to the tip experiments that it at length bends its neck, and applies eared in the French journals, giving the world to un-of the ears. The general tone of colour is a light fawn, its lips and its tongue to the object in question. stand that the "Anglo-Camelopard" had died, and the spots being a few shades deeper. As the animal is, Paris, in consequence, possessed the only living spe- however, only two years old, it is understood that these en of the creature in Europe. On the contrary, it spots will become darker as he increases in age. The ears that the present from the Pacha of Egypt to our eyes are large, dark, and expressive: they, as well strious Sovereign has not only reached its destination as the ears, move very quickly. Among its natural perfect safety, but has (as we are assured) obtained the habits the giraffe appears to be timid, and readily our of a kindly royal reception, and already become a alarmed by any noise; but it is singular to notice how much more confidence he displays when his keepers Durite with its princely owner. are near him than when they are absent. Few persons having been allowed admission to the warehouse, in London, where the group was kept, the crowd on the outside were (as usual) very noisy; which the animal evidently felt, directing his attention to the windows, and looking anxiously around. But he no sooner bent his elegant neck down to his keeper, and ascertained that he had a friend close by his side, than he became quite composed and easy. Both animals were taken by the troops belonging to the a of Egypt, their mother having been shot in the rt of Sennaar. The young camelopards travelled a the caravan to Grand Cairo. They were afterwards 4, under a guard of soldiers, with some Arabs and s belonging to his Highness's stables, to Alexandria, ended as presents to the Kings of England and France. er being some difference in their size and appearance, consuls of the two nations drew lots for a choice for respective sovereigns. The first chance fell to the ach consul, who, of course, selected the largest (being ve French feet in height) which he caused to be shipto Marseilles, where it remained during the winter. The glish consul sent the one recently arrived in London Malta, where it was kept six months, and shipped the Penelope, Captain Bond, last May. The animal, e first taken, was about the size of one of ourasses, had to travel forty-five days before it reached Grand He does not seen to possess much strength, which may with regard to the original, (which is now at Cumberland- it will be kept with the rest of the curious animals belonging In 1810 a white camel was imported, with an elephant, to this country. This white camel being a novelty, the prietor (then living in Piccadilly) turned his attention to ake it still more novel, caused it to be artificially spotted, produced it to the public as a camelopard, just arrived.-Ed. L. G. was taken and exhibited at Windsor, and the deception was ere detected by our scientific naturalists. This, no doubt, to the mistake in the Times some days since that a calopard had been in this country about ten years ago. L.G. we should notice, that a sketch, purporting to be of this traffe, has appeared in the print-shops; but no drawing from †The horns of this singular animal are not, as some naturalists have supposed, simple excrescences of the frontal bone, but superadded bones, which it is very practicable to separate, until a certain period of the animal's life. This circumstance in the organization of the giraffe, justifies its being classed with the stag, the organization of the horns of which is the same. "The giraffe can only amble; but the length of its limbs renders its progress very rapid, notwithstanding their too great approach to one another, and the slight inequality of the fore and hind members. When pursued, flies with great speed; but the narrowness of its lungs will not allow it to support a long race. it "It is vulgarly said that the giraffe inhabits only the deserts, and astonishment has naturally enough been felt churlish soil, burnt up with the sun, and on which not a that an animal of so large a size can find subsistence on a single vegetable grows. But the fact is, that the giraffe, no more than the antelope, lives in the desert. It is true that both animals are seen there in large flocks; but it is only a place of refuge for them, as the forest is for our wild boars. They retire thither to be enabled to watch afar off, and to guard against surprises. As to their food, the giraffes find it in watered and fertile tracts, which form great part of Africa, within reach of which they take care to remain, and in which, every time that they enter, they commit great havoc. a former, however, never attacks the latter in the desert, The lion is the giraffe's most formidable enemy; the but lies in ambuscade in the thickets of mimosa, in which the giraffes come to browse, or on the banks of the rivulets at which they slake their thirst. For this reason, giraffes and antelopes use great caution when the visit places which may conceal their enemy. If they perceive him at a certain distance, they fly, and thus escape the danger; but if the foe be too near, they defend themquently proves fatal to the most powerful of animals. It selves; and find in the love of life a courage which freis generally the one of the two which surprises the other that obtains the victory. The giraffe uses his fore-legs against the lion, and strikes him with them so violently, if, however, he can bear them, he then attacks the giraffe that it is with great difficulty he can resist the first blows; manner of a horse; but he prefers using his fore-feet. at an advantage; for the latter has no other means of defence. Sometimes the giraffe, in flying, kicks in the This mode of attack is so natural to the animal, that even in ours, mild and tame as it is, there is sometimes an apparent tendency to it. If any body irritates it, incited by a feeling, which, however, it soon represses, it lifts and puts out each of its fore-feet. "The giraffe serves for food to the inhabitants of the central parts of Africa, and its flesh is said to be very succulent. It is found only in the centre of Africa, and at some hundreds of leagues either from Egypt or from the Cape." THE OLD SOLDIER'S DOG. Translated for the Kaleidoscope from the French of Dr. Albert.) Among the number of old warriors who composed the Ivourite phalanx of Napoleon, was a soldier of the name Seguin, known better by the name of Bastilleur, an nourable title which the people had given to the French farts who had assisted at the overturning of the Bastille. The destruction of the Bastille, which fell after a siege of ir hours, was the first military achievement which decoed the life of young Seguin. He was then twenty-four ars of age. Gemappe, the Italian campaign, and the les in Egypt, added successively new laurels of glory to crown which already encircled the forehead of this arrior. He was one of three who first received the fusée uncur, a recompense which preceded a short time the ation of the Legion of Honour; and this last decoration awarded to him at the first review that Napoleon ade before the castle of the eastern emperors. Seguin, whom we shall name Bastilleur, was son of a bor labourer of the Ardennes, who had not been able to ve the least instruction to his son. On this account he a long while deprived of the privilege of advancing mself. His officers, however, tired of the obstacle which posed his advancement, decided, at last, to appoint him geant, as a slight recompense for his distinguished Bour. But Bastilleur, endowed with the rare virtue of wing himself, refused the lace that was offered to him, ishing (he said) by his incapacity to compromise a post ach required information of which he was deficient, but to remain the lowest of the non-commissioned officers, , like La Tour d'Auvergne, he should become the grenadier of the army. Unostentatious, and without ter ambition save that of marching at the head of a mn, his passion for glory was satisfied with having judged worthy of a superior rank: esteemed by his , and beloved by his comrades, his happiness was tered in the hero whom he idolized, beyond which thing tempted him; he feared, on the contrary, all that ald destroy the illusion of a position which satisfied his de. The fields of Austerlitz, of Jena, and of Wagram, are tinged with his blood: three times the old guard was maced with the loss of its first grenadier, and three mes it saw him, scarcely convalescent, take the first place the first rank. Each return was a day of rejoicing for the regiment, and the Colonel took the lead in the monstrations of respect which was shown to this veteran By the brave. Seventeen wounds, all in the front, furrowed the body Bastilleur, when Napoleon appeared at the last parades Poland, before the opening of the Russian campaign. hebero appointed Bastilleur lieutenant in his young , a rank which was equal to that of captain in the The grenadier astonished, and deprived of the use sech, at seeing before him the extraordinary man who 3. And such dark glossy tresses as thine, Which so gracefully fall o'er thy brow, Where the Loves in the light dance join, No other fair maid ever knew. sudden awe, himself announced to him the recompense that he awarded him, remained as one petrified, and could not express his gratitude. So powerful was the aspect of Napoleon upon all who approached him, that the oldest warriors, those even who had constantly followed his victorious march, could not withstand his look without being struck with a which paralyzed their tongues, and chained them to the spot upon which they stood like so many statues. When Napoleon had quitted the first line, Bastilleur, whose blood appeared to have stopped in its circulation, felt his heart beat violently under the star of honour which shone upon his uniform, and dispensing, as soon as possible, with the congratulations of his comrades, went to solicit of his Colonel, as an act of favour upon which depended his future happiness, that he might not quit his rank nor his company. The Colonel, although with repugnance, informed the Emperor, who replied, with some irritation, "Let him then remain a grenadier, but let him have a captain's pay." Bastilleur had a faithful and tried friend, watching day and night to give him marks of his attachment, and to defend his life. This friend, one may easily guess, was not a man, but a dog, which the grenadier had rescued when young from a cabin fired by the cannon of Wagram. It was a water spaniel, which, in a short time, became a fine animal, covered with a long white fleece, which lay in silken tresses on his back and sides. The animal was active and alert, and possessed an instinctive intelligence which held the place of reason. Finally, Mouton (that was his name) had become an object of general affection, and was called the dog of the old guard. During their marches, or at the reviews, Mouton always preceded his master, and followed the music. When they reposed, halted, or bivouacked, Mouton always came to caress his master, and partake of his fare, whether good or bad. At the battle of Moscow, this devoted dog, always attentive to the evolutions and the least movement of the regiment, lost sight of his master in the thickest of the engagement; immediately he escaped from the centre of the musicians, who endeavoured to detain him, and darted into the middle of the battle, to seek his benefactor: he fell, struck with an enemy's ball, at the feet of Bastilleur. The ball pierced one of his beautiful cars, and marked its way, tearing the skin of his neck: but being dressed, and taken care of, he returned the next day to his post, (his wounds bound with a bandage,) and made, in that manner, his entrance into the Kremlin, holding his head erect, and his tail like an Austrian feather. 4. The Goddess of Love ne'er display'd Such symmetry, beauty, and grace, Thou lovely, affectionate maid, As in thy chaste form I can trace. No sooner, however, had inexhaustible France learned the disasters at Moscow, than she inundated with a new army the vast plains of Germany, and Napoleon fought successively the battles of Lutzen, Bautzen, Leipsig, and Hanau; memorable battles, in which Bastilleur fought with a success equal to his courage. Mouton, accustomed to breathe the perfume of battles, had not for a moment quitted his master during all these sanguinary scenes; and, if it had not been for the grief occasioned by having seen Gamine, one of his companions, run through by the iron lance of a Calmuck, he would have remained contented amidst the greatest misfortunes. Fortunate, indeed, would he have been, had he met death on the field of honour, like his worthy brother Moustache;" but fate had decided otherwise. In France, Bastilleur very soon partook of the glory of Laon, of Soissons, of Château-Thierry, &c.; and Mouton, holding always erect the only ear he had, run, with his intrepid master, the last chances of the immortal drama of Napoleon. The sad winding up at Fontainbleau astonished the wreck of the old guard, and Mouton, with his ear down, set out with Bastilleur for the island of Elba. Here our water spaniel acquired a new celebrity. Until now Napoleon had only occasionally seen Mouton. The crowd of kings, which continually surrounded that great man, did not permit the vulgar to approach him; but upon these peaceful banks, whilst Napoleon was meditating the impromptu of the Hundred Days, Mouton had every opportunity of approaching him without ceremony, and charmed his leisure hours with a hundred frolics. From this moment also the fortunate dog was admitted to taste the delights of the imperial table, and to lick the hand of the hero in captivity. It is thus, by the whims of inconstant fortune, crowned heads sometimes touch the dust, and poor dog becomes a partaker of the banquets of kings. a But the violet pierced the hoar frosts of winter; its vigorated at beholding the colour of the flower of spring; appearance nipped the buds of the lily; France was inthe lily faded; the twentieth of March dawned smilingly on Napoleon; and Cannes saluted the old colour. If prosperity changes the heart of man, it does not change the heart of the dog; and Mouton, always equally faithful to Bastilleur, testified, by a thousand extravagancies, his satisfaction at seeing the features of the grenadier brighten up on retouching the shores of France. Gaily taking the lead of the three hundred soldiers who accompanied Napoleon from Elba, Mouton entered the little courtesy, an old greyhound, which was forgotten in first into the Thuileries, whence he expelled, with very the royal breaking up ;-a culpable ill-will, without doubt, but an inevitable effect of the reactions of a conquering However, angry Boreas did not long delay to revenge the invasion of his frozen empire, and fortune betrayed the audacious flight of the eagle of Napoleon. Mouton, less sensible to the terrible effects of the cold which ravaged the army, reanimated, by his presence, the drooping party. courage of Bastilleur-consoled and amused him during the fatigues and privations of the day, and warmed and watched him during the horrors of the night. It was in this manner that this faithful dog preserved the life of the man who had snatched him from the burning cabin at Wagram. cries of "Vive l'Empereur;" France fled to arms; The Champ de Mai resounded with acclamations and the battle of Waterloo took place; the national cockade grew pale; and Montou, bending his head over the body of his master, endeavoured, with his tongue, to stanch the * See Kaleidoscope, No. 291, January 24, 1826. wounded, poor, and broken down,-whose heart is much more pierced with the cruel separation from an adored chief, whom he shall never see again, than with the miserable destiny that he himself expects. most approved manufactories in London and Paris, a cessful career in Liverpool. Days. Tide Table. (Morn. Even. Height. Tuesday..11 2 24 2 4314 11 h. m.h. m. ft. in. Festivals, &c. blood which flowed from the deep wounds of Bastilleur. him from a height of twelve feet into the river. The LIVERPOOL MUSICAL FESTIVAL. Destiny, however, was not satisfied, and Bastilleur had Seine, in this place, was only two feet deep, but the unfor- THE fashionable Public are respectfully informed not reached the term of his glorious career; one ball had tunate man, having fallen upon his face, lost all recol- the Shop, No. 69, CHURCH-STREET, will be opened on broken his right arm, and another had wounded him in lection. His dog jumped after him, and not being able 27th instant, with a very select Assortment of JEWELL the head. Although his situation was very desperate, he to rescue him, he ran howling to the Hôtel des Invalides. and FANCY GOODS, purchased with great care, from was brought round; and after four months of bitter suffer-At the lamentable cries of this animal, the invalids, in a of them (Pearl Suits, Combs, Tiaras, and other head a ngs he returned to Paris with his faithful dog. crowd, followed the steps of Mouton. They arrived atments, &c.) selected expressly for the present ces There are circumstances in life which the imagination can the river, and raised their unfortunate comrade, of when the Proprietors hope to exhibit a Stock that wi conceive and measure, but which it never will have the whose condemnation they had been completely igno- favourably inspected, and be an introduction to their power to describe: feeling hearts alone conceive them by a rant, until this moment; every assistance was procured, knowledge of the situation of the unfortunate. I leave them but all was unavailing; death had seized upon his prey. then to conceive the bitterness of the state of an old warrior, According to the wish of the invalids, the remains of Bastilleur were carried to the Hôtel. All the old wounded soldiers stood in sad groups around the dead body of their companion; and the afflicting sight of so melancholy an end drew bitter tears from all that religious assembly. Under the reign of Napoleon the devotion of Bastilleur Mouton, during all this time, howled piteously: he was a great virtue; in the eyes of the government imposed licked, caressed, and tried to raise his inanimate master, by strangers, all his military career was a continued crime.-protected his body against those who attempted to touch The pay of captain, which he received, was withdrawn, it, and jumped with rage at those who wished to remove and it was only by special favour that he was sent to the himself to make him take some food. However, after the Hôtel des Invalides. Mouton, who accompanied him in expiration of three days, he was removed by force, in this retreat, found there a large number of old friends, who order to bury Bastilleur; but this removal increased his made much of him, and feasted him like an old hero, as fury so much that he frequently dashed himself against the walls of his prison; and whether through exhaustion, whether the effect of rage, or, in fine, whether through excessive grief, of which the dog offers us many examples, VIEW OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE.—In answer to the query Mouton was found dead the day after the funeral service of Bastilleur; and, with one common consent, the invalids buried him in the same grave with his master. he was. The Housewife. commends this medicine as being particularly useful Like all the warriors of Napoleon, Bastilleur hoped to see again the man of the people replaced upon the bright throne, whence he had a long while dispensed many of the sceptres of the European continent. Under this impression the old grenadier had preserved the eagle and the tricoloured cockade of his hairy cap, sacred objects which he carried near his heart, like precious amulets that would preserve him against the contagion of a large white ribbon, with a fleur de lis, which he was obliged to wear at his botton-hole. It may perhaps be considered strange that the soldiers of the old army cherished the hope of Napoleon's return, when it was well known that the ex-Emperor was held a close prisoner upon the rock of St. Helena; but what is still more strange is, that after the death of this bugbear of kings, most of the old soldiers, as well as a great part of the inhabitants of France, refused to credit that news; and there are still to be found, in The great importance of washing and rinsing Bottles.France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, people Lately, a young lady, of the name of Bradley, sister of who maintain that Napoleon is alive, and that he will yet Mrs. Foden, of Wortley, near Leeds, after an early dinreturn with an army to re-establish his dynasty in all its ner, took a draught of porter out of a bottle which had just splendour. Buoyed up with these false notions, Bastil-drinking the porter, she complained to her sister of sickness, been brought up from the cellar. Immediately after leur gnawed in silence the curb of a subordination which and had scarcely got into the kitchen before she fell down imputed evil to him, if he but expressed the most trivial and almost instantly expired! On analyzing the remainfeeling of regret; and, as a climax to his misfortune, an der of the porter in the bottle, it was found to contain a inspector, commanded to examine minutely the person of mixture of that most deadly poison, called prussic acid; and one of the servants in the house, who afterwards took each invalid, found the abovementioned imperial ensigns, a small quantity of the same beverage, became extremely which the grenadier wore under his coat. This discovery ill, but she has since recovered. It is remarkable, that caused him to be carried before a council of war, which other bottles of porter taken out of the same bin are perhad the barbarity to inflict upon him, as a punishment, fectly free from all deleterious admixture. An inquest the deprivation of that support which his country owed to jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict "That was held upon the body of the unfortunate lady, when the him for his long services. Bastilleur quitted with indif- the deceased came by her death in consequence of taking ference both the Hôtel and the uniform of the house; and a quantity of porter mixed with prussic acid, and believed taking up his old guard-cloak, he attached to it the red by her to be wholesome porter; but how, or by what ribbon, pulled over his white hairs the hat of his cam-means, the prussic acid got into the bottle, no satisfactory evidence appears. paigns, and directed his steps, with poor Mouton, towards the Seine. Arrived on the banks of the river, he sat down upon the parapet which bounds the quay, and there, melancholy, pale, and disfigured by the privations of the prison that he had just quitted, loaded with poignant sorrows, both moral and physical, having neither relations nor friends to whom he could relate his misfortunes, too proud to ask alms from the passengers, he remained all the day, pressed by hunger, and exposed to the rigours of an intemperate winter's day. Bastilleur passed the night in this situation, and the morning discovered him in the same place, gazing wildly around him. His strength was exhausted through want of food; he endeavoured to rise; but weak, and borne down with grief, he could not summon enough of strength to second his will, and the last attempt that he made, in place of fixing him upon his limbs, precipitated Barometer METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. [From the Liverpool Courier.] Extreme Thermo- Extreme State of during meter 8 heat du- the Wind Night. morning ring Day. at noon. noon. Aug. 30 31 30 30 54 0 Sept. Remarks at noon. 30 26 57 0 30 28 52 0 57 Monthly mean of atmospherical pressure, 29:88; mean friend we have to state, that the perspective view d RICHARD ROBERT JONES-A Cambrian wishes to have PLEASING RECREATIONS.-P.'s communication has bee Dr. Albert. ANTIQUITIES OF LONDON, &C.-We have seldom met more amusing article than that we have this day selec from the recent history of Thomas Allen. Some portio the information may be familiar to those who have p over the works of Stowe; but they will, nevertheless, all the charms of novelty to ninety-nine out of a hundre CHESS. 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