London Reviewer (Newspaper) - June 2, 1833, London, Middlesex THE JUNE THE WEEKLY THE MAGAZINES FOR f brevity be the soul of then ifl Fraser this month we are sorry for but for bis strong savour of he would be a man after our own heart 5 for he writes with ink and it not he is sel dom BO cruel as to use a tomahawk in the field of but he is equally loath to wield a ladys Whitechapel We wish we could get the man to abate a little of liis love for the Tories he Jias flung and had a tilt with the but why not cast them all off together Their principles Nol must know it are bad there is no vi in they belong not to the living but to the unliving they are and the too constant contact with them will occasion a pes disease and Ail men who think and are not interested in keeping up the know that Toryism re an error do we take too much upon ourselves when vre say that Oliver truthloving No would find it in his heart to enlist under the banner of pure and tight the good if he thought his magazine readers would stand by him We dont like his number it is too heavy Oliver must have in the proofs seen thai his chief articles were ponderous and sa have hired some one to dish up an and smart but the cook has done his Work badly the sharpness is that of a hacked smartness mere dead small beer We allude to the article called The Poets qf the in which the waiter has been pleased to shew up one Very great an anonymous Natural a Master with a remarkably Llong tale one Nicholas one Thomas and divers other ones whose names and rhymes have this been the altar of the deity of butter and are It is sorry break a butterfly upon and if the very great deserves to be sent to the and if Nicholas Michel be really an ass of the very it would have been quite well had the writer fche one to go quietly to his and the other to shake his without recording If every ass had ibis what a history we should have Had we we say a word or two about a attack upon a religionists as they do not seem to meet approval of the by a would into the lowest deep of i We do hot know much of the sect alluded to r hut the little we have seen justified our reproof tit spirit of bigotry whose voice is this passage In this magazine is an ar ticle of much the story of Gaits Lawrie a clever sketch of and a terribly long about and Thebest article is a sketch entitled The Early of which we will ex tract a few original and very interesting We hearing the former manager of 1 the occasion first and as the circumstances cannot be more impressively related than In own shall content ourselves with from our I was passing down Great one as to the place when Ihc riding House the corner aa they I seed Master up his had for gome three jw j and on the the as the painters I seed the marks iof pain trand for all the world the the jaw of a still on his and up of the GROT vass trot the and of that ere exhibition was painted And when I shook handa Master and all that he to the voung chap wot had just a be hind backhand nay you bloody if mind twoj you Ve up that fere wan pretty tight aad rwe shant bei off so we That Master ders j how your great Mister AMD The of was the ithe members ojf which in penny and Kehnl and the in who nis mite absolute Money they bad none as a melancholy food had ior two food their drink water from Joe running A day upon them in Their hunger almost At as Kean and lry whether food could hot be Lad for it was clear they could not haye At some froin their lodging there waa butchers in wluch the blooming daughter tbe butcher whose was ever susceptible of the tender passion admired the buxom thither ard he now bent his He reached the shop his charmer sentimentally leaning her cheek Poo her whilst her elbow was by a rump of beef I The the and the seemed alike auspicious to suit but just aa he he no had once or twice before had Ma paternal aad suspicions by the too marked attention which Kenn seemed to pay to his fair stalked to the looking as black as Kenn affected to and passed the apparently of the or his The father went his ways and in due returned to the In five words he told his asked for provender and and obtained signing and sealing his 70 U upon her pouting A pound of prime steaks was cut from the very of beef on which her arm had The fair one fas tened the beefsteaks on a nnd Our thrusting them under his returned plodding slowly as if in deep with his hands behind his but with an scious air of He reached the and was on the at the very instant when he thought his prize the butchers favourite that had slunk unseen and unheeded behind step by snatched skewer and from his and ran off as fast as legs could carry such n Pur suit could only end in exposure and Kean was about to resign himself to all the horrors of thus aggravated by his when the means of as welcome as they were unex presented themselves in the arrival of a parcel from his For better my parcel was consigned to the charge of my were Keans ALEXANDER THB In this same town of Croydon it some twelve months Kean was announced for and the triumphal car in which the hero was drawn in mimic procession had just reached the centre of the as it passed in slow and solemn state by the foot some supercilious coxcomb in the exclaimed with Alexander theGreat Alexander the Little with admirable presence of turned head deliberately altering his and fixing his eytes with a look of ineffable scorn upon the self sufficient Yes but with a great AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN Kean Determined to present himself to John whom some friend of his in Scotland had given him a letter not merely of intro duction but of such recommendation as his talents He had no difficulty in obtaining access to the stage the at there did he upwards of half an waiting till the great maa should be at leisure him an audience was about to that evening and though it was early as that the usual pre parations for the admission of tie audience had not in the centre of the stagey sat Black absorbed in do one ventured to At roused himself from seeming and having given some orders to the was announced to him that a letter was to Kean was ushered into the and presented credentials in due But his reception was so chilling go little he expected that though he had previously resolved upon abandon Haymarket accepting whatever terms Mii might proffer he retired from interview determined to endure any mortification be exposed than subject himself to the mana gerial authority of the great John THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY Of the several capital papers constitute the contents of June number of the in upon one on of the in the Thirteenth of May from which to present our with the following The articles of the Poor Laws and Proposal of a National College of Autobiography of Local and an interesting notice of one Silvio a Italian victim of Ana trian all of that superior of thought and style which is the invariable charac cf its The sensible political chapter of which what is a is from defatigable pen of our old Junius THB The the partisans of the use in their Defence the meeting was But this is the true question at Illegal meetings of Orie kind or another take place every and many other are doubt less illegal under the operation of the Six The question issue whether the meeting was of sufficient importance to render it necessary to put it down by such me was re to arid whether it was put down in a mode AS little to irritate ignorant people Now it has been proved in that the meeting both in its composition and objects that it was rather ter for serious notice is most had Colonel Rowan or Mayne gone calmly to expostulate with the the whole crowd would quietly have This they failed to doj but in lieu thereof des patched their brutal with delegated authority and the longstanding which has existed between the police and the populace has now been possibly to a state mortal antipathy on both This is a grievous The police from their first establish been regarded by the people as a spe cies of Government though incomparably the most and least body of men ever yet employee in the capacity in which they have been far more odious to the people than even the old police a utterly Under them Mr it would have been the part of a wise Government to by every means in their the angry feelings of the more ignorant the and even to pass unheeded u got up by he pompous ignorance of vain who were anxious to make rather than to excite a between the people and the But the with their usual blundering imbecility and scared out of their small wits at the sound of National have caused their agents tp set and humanity at They have converted the ser ants of the law into licensed and they thus infused into the bosoms of the a ferocious spirit which will seek the opportunity of uture The Whigs have themselves alone to that ever a National Convention was honght or talked They have paltered with he they have shewn themselves forth as they have mocked at the of the and done all ia their power to irri tate Jt is no that under such cir designing or inflated men should take advantage of their more ignorant to them to a breach of the Had the Whigs been men of even moderate intelligence they would have that under the circum even their temporary interest was con cerned in preserving quietude by Bnt they have only understood the argument of the force and as it is another evidence of their incapacity for so will it be another argument for removing them as quickly as possible from situations for which they are The time is passed for them to hope for the love and affection the people they have no power wherewith operate upon the fears of the people 5 and all can expect to is They exist as a only till mens minds shall be made up as to what will be the best change to In the mean the best thing they could do to regain any credit even for good would be to dismiss Colonel Rowan from the situation he unworthily and replace him by some popular possessing a character for benevolence and might impress upon the people necessity of submission to the as much by friendly re monstrance as by the display of Such a j man would make it his business to watch the cha racters of all the individuals belonging to the police and to weed it of the ruffians whose ferocious habits tend to bring it It is not to be that of exactly philosophical are to be procured for twenty shillings but out of our abundant population suf ficient men may be uniting humanity with and none other ought to be The fact cannot be that a of unarmed and men has been dispersed with brutal unnecessary that a scene of Irish police ruffianism has been and the probability that ig men attend future it with weapons in their the sake of the let the beware how they countenance further that consumed was originally but a The Whigs have earned let them not fan it into The hearts of good men shudder vf hen they think of the vast of mischievous consequences which may result the display of the want of all sympathy on the part of the rulers towards those over The British people are not they are a generous in many cases more gene rous thatt intelligent they will lead and sometimes when they have an indistinct idea that the own but rouse them once to the lion and they will effect in a short space of time a more lasting change in the method of English history can yet boast Whigs I Whigs I ye have by your imbecile councils caused the death of one and the bru of Be and take council of Do not force the nation into overt resistance of tyranny Remember that the same power which swept away the can ye away in and that if it is not it is from the tion which every good man feels to risk the of A few more such acts as the and the penalty of forbearance will be greater than the penalty of i t THE NEW We have time nor the to he very critical upon the New Monthly Magazine for June We have before that he means to to give up his parliamentary and we have no reason to alter our after having looked over the current The only good thing in is a translation of a wild German by one of wildest of the Jean Paul drunk with brandy one half of the and with ambrosial dreams the other was one of those strange mixtures of coarseness and refine purity and illusion and clear perturbed hopes and soothing senti which the world only witnesses in its moments of Let not the moralist turn from the perusal of the following piece of until he got fairly to the end of it it he be indignant or indignation and dis gust will then give place to feelings of and Vision Ottomar lay in the furthermost house of a from which he looked out on the battle field of the Unburied he was in the last stage of a In that night his loose blood filled his agitated heart with a of distorted ter rible On a a form stretched itself forth with a white motionless white white and Form reached the X sick man with long crooked which played out of the sockets of its It and the dark spots on its feelers closed together against his like points of ice it drove him back wards with its chilly backwards through walls and and the and the feelers were like daggers in his heart and when he sank the world broke down before ruins of demolished and the rubbish of fell there poured down a hail of clouds and worlds descended in bowshots over the and suns hung round with globes sunk in a long heavy and at last there came a dusty stream of White form who art thou asked at last the If I name my thou art no said the white Form without moving its and neither nor nor nor was there in that countenance Eternity passed and changed it The Form brought him on a narrow path formed of earth which were laid under the chins of dead men the causeway went across a sea of out of which there rose white hairs and childrens fin like the blossoms of a water and it was covered with and with of and nightingales and mens The Form crushed them all as it skimmed over He slid but a whirlwind turned him and be saw before him the extent of an im mense plain of black on which all the nations which had died upon the frozen armies of and below in an was ringing in all a cracked was the of Is that the second World asked the comfortless The Form The second World is in the grave between the teeth of the He looked upwards to seek a consoling but above him was spread a thick black the immense pall which is drawn between the of the and this dark chilly gap in Nature j and the ruined mansions of the part smoked and made the pall blacker and broader and then there passed the apparition of a falling burning with its red shadow on the dark and an eternal blast bore in it he wail of sinking We have we have but we Almighty create no thing Ottomar M Who lates them then said the and it drove him among the into the masked world of and as the Form passed before a mask with a spurted bloody drop dull such aa a corpse sheds when murderer approaches And h was led on the mute funeral procession ofthe he saw the strong of life die suf till they and the others were lace rated arid there he of those who died of and deathly bar of was their and there he saw all of the eath standing in which BO dwelt any saw a world and its wail Oh 1 how ia groaning and the Truth and the Virtue of the and there at last appeared his father with the iron ball globe which sinks the corpses of that as he tear of blood out of white which ran cold with Form of speedily an nihilation is eternal there live none but mortals and Am I Form Form ted him gently the field of ice in the abyss he saw the fragments of the stifled souls of and on were numberless tracts with the annihilated of higher and the bodies of the dead the most Sun or of long or of motionless But there over tha near to realm of the dead of the stood la veiled being on a clod of Ice and as the white Form the Being raised its veil it was the dead without his cru which all flowed on the approach of the white Ottomar bent bis tottering and looked up to the black and Oh 1 good bring me back again to my good that I may dream of And he shadows of crushed worlds flew across pall of white stretched out its like arms towards and down the and then name jny And whilst the feelers witk their block rose higher and little cleft in the cloud became and it at and our reeling earth sank it were into the greedy jaws of a rattlesnake and whilst the it blood and battles and martyrdoms upon The narrow waved about with its young nations by the side of its stark dead arc was of with the The and in tie hollow of the earth there glowed a round Which melted the keys of the long coffin the lily of the earth became its fields were as the green on a pool of mud its woods were the peaks of its Alpine girdle were as a its cloaks all struck at once and the hours hastily became so that uo life lasted the time out men were to be tlie earth and then waxing rudely and and and till they beat themselves and lay But the men upon the Earth were very The lightning of Death flashed in deed ruthless among the careless one while on the warm heart of a while on the smooch round brow of a on bald and on the warm rosy But men bad their consolation v dying those who and those softly whose eye wai waxing the friend over the
