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Adlard, Printers,] REVIEW OF NEW.BOOKS. father had been a soldier, who, after the Memoires du Marechal Ney, Duc d'Elchin-seven years' war, had returned to his native gen, Prince de la Moskowa. Publies par stories of the battles at which he had been town, and then became a cooper. Here his sa Famille. 2 tom. Londres: 1833. Bull. present, particularly that of Rosbach, where [Bartholomew Close. father, the tears of his mother, grieved, but did not check him. Another attempt to which he was so decidedly attached, was made to keep him from the vocation by turning his ideas in another direction. The superintendance of the forges of Saleck was offered to him, and he accepted it. Here were other toils, other cares; there was at all events a diversion of the mind; and, besides, he had a prospect of arriving, sometime or another, at a competency; he therefore resigned himself to his duties, and applied with ardour to his new occupation. It would be a useless observation to make, that Marshal Ney, "le brave des braves," was one of the most remarkable men of the French empire. His great military services, his wonderful personal courage, and his unhappy end, point him out as a person whose life is well worthy of being carefully written and read with attention. The work before "Two years thus passed over; but his us is compiled from the papers of the Martaste for arms becoming every day more arshal by his brother-in-law, M. Gamot-at "His trade, though a respectable one on the dent, rendered his toils every day more unsupleast, in part, for he died before the task Rhine, was not productive, and he wished to portable. The place where he lived contriwas completed. Gamot was a Havre man, see his son otherwise employed. M. Valette, buted to develope a passion already strong and originally settled in the West Indies, a notary, whom the exercises of the boy had enough. Almost all the towns of the Rhine wheu the revolution of St. Domingo ruined sometimes amused, offered to take him into are fortified and garrisoned. If the superhis prospects, as it did those of every other his office; it was accepted, and he was ac- intendant of Saleck went to Treves, or BerFrench planter. He escaped with difficulty cordingly set to the study of the laws. Do-gen, or Deuxports, he met everywhere solto the United States; and, after some time, cile as boys of that age are, he consented diers, uniforms, exercises, movements, in got back to France, where he embarked in without resistance; nevertheless, copying which he felt a burning desire to join, and commercial transactions. He married Ma-deeds, &c. was not agrecable to a mind full which he felt by instinct he could command. demoiselle Auguré, whose sister shortly of military ideas. He was disgusted, and He resigned his humble functions, and set afterwards was married to Ney, then a left the office for the courts. From being a out for Metz, where the colonel-general of general. By means principally of Ney's in-notary's clerk, he became commissioner of hussars was quartered. The grief which fluence he was raised to the prefecture of the procureur du Roi; but this was going this abrupt decision must of necessity cause St. Lozere, and afterwards of l'Yonne, which from bad to worse; for, after all, contracts of his mother, and the chagrin which his father he filled at the return of the Bourbons, in sale, articles of dowry, &c. were better than was sure to feel, had occasioned him much 1814. He was made also a prefect by Na- sad requisitoires and severe processes. Time, trouble of mind, and he hesitated a long poleon in the hundred days; and, after nevertheless, slipped forward. Ney, at fif-time whether he should present himself or Waterloo, felt it convenient to absent himself teen, had a presentiment of his future lot, not. Filial affection prevailed over fear; for awhile from France. In 1818 he pub- and was ambitious to adopt it. His father, and, turning off his road, he went to Sarre lished a pamphlet in defence of Ney; and who could neither measure his powers, nor Louis to embrace his parents and bid them at all times assisted the widow of the mar-share his hopes, endeavoured to keep him adieu. shal in the most essential manner. His last down: his elder brother, Peter Ney, was "The interview was painful, the reception service to the memory of his brother-in-law already in the army. The deference of the stormy; he had to bear up against rewas the compilation of this book, in which younger Ney for his father was extreme, and proaches, tears, prayers, nienaces. The he was assisted by the Prince of Eckmuhl it succeeded, not in taming his insurmountable scene was agitating. At last he ran away in and General Foy, when he was stopped in penchaut, but in giving a different field to all haste, without linen or money, and on his labours by death. the activity of his mind. The mines of Apen-foot regained the road which he had left. We shall hereafter refer to the more im-werler were then in full work, and the son was His shoes were broken, his feet torn. Sad, portant scenes in which Ney was engaged; sent there. These works, and the movement harassed with fatigue, he nevertheless profor the present, we shall content ourselves connected with them, captivated him at ceeded onward courageously; and in this with translating the account of his carly life. once; he was delighted in following the debut showed clearly that form of character "Born at Sarre Louis on the 10th of transformations which the mineral under-which in after life never yielded to any obJanuary, 1767, Michael Ney soon shewed a went, and examining all the manipulations to stacle. When fortune had crowned his coudecided taste for arms. Like other boys of which it was subjected. But they are few rage, he afterwards returned to Sarre Louis. his age, he was sent to the college of the in complication or in number. Ney very The artillery thundered for his reception, Augustins, where he was diligent while the soon was acquainted with all that could be the troops were under arms, the inhabitants courses lasted, and singularly turbulent when known. His imagination speedily returned were all assembled to see their countryman, they were over. He quarrelled with his to its original course: he began to dream of of whom they were so proud; and then recomrades, disciplined them, commanded what he always had dreamt about-combats, cognizing the road which he had travelled them, as if he had been in a camp. His fields of battle, glory. The counsels of his thirteen years before on foot, the marshal 110 (query? general,) related with emotion his first fatigues to the officers who surrounded him. albeit the Knight of Montalban met with a warm reception from all the warriors assembled under Prince John's banner, and "When he arrived at Metz, on the 1st of albeit the cause and the achievements of that February, 1737, Ney, then eighteen years of gallant little band were alike worthy of adage, entered the regiment called the Colonel-miration, yet thence sprung all the evils that general, which afterwards became the 4th now seem about to fall upon him. For a Hussars. He entered it under the auspices space of nearly two months the Christian of one of his countrymen, a mere lieutenant knights were suffered to pine in idleness, and himself, who could do nothing for him.to lament the inglorious state to which a After all, what could he do? Advancement temporary peace had consigned the whole was confined to the privileged classes, patro- camp. To my master, the Knight of Monnage was useless, and he had to wait for talban, was this mode of life especially irkhappier times. He did not enter the service some and tedious. His fame was only of without some advantages; he understood the English, or at most, of European mention; management of business, the processes of and, as you may imagine, madam, he burned to signalize himself in Heathenesse, by some art, and the resources of industry. He was soon remarked by his officers, whose good- deeds worthy of being rehearsed there, and, will he had earned by his conduct, his appli-peradventure, re-echoed by the shores of cation, and his promptitude in comprehending and executing all manœuvres and moveHis subordination had conciliated everybody, and, as his handwriting was fine, and as capacity and education make their way everywhere, he was soon employed in the office of the quartermaster." sight or speech of him, it was but for a few moments; and methought there was more on his mind than he chose to communicate even to his brother in arms. He seemed ever moody and sullen; oft enwrapt in private contemplation. His words were few, and those shortly spoken and fiercely, as though he deemed himself formed but to spurn those beneath him. In short, he had not appeared for a long time among the crusaders; and, consequently, the Knight of Montalban was proclaimed by all men worthy to stand forth the champion of the whole Christian host. To this intent a formal answer was returned to the unknown Saracen, through his envoy. At length the day appointed for the combat arrived; the lists having been duly pitched without the walls of Ptolemais, the young King of Jerusalem was selected as the arbiter of the field, and a temporary throne was "Our good knights were at length raised erected for him and his fair bride. The from their despondency by the sudden arrival morning had arisen bright and cloudless; in or a Saracen warrior, who entered the all the splendour I have been wont to behold Christian camp after the fashion of a herald. in Eastern climes; and ere yet the sun had He caused it to be known, that he had come attained his noonday height, the covered bearing a cartel of defiance from a certain galleries were filled with spectators of the Saracen (who was desirous of concealing his approaching combat. When the Saracen Here we leave our hero. His military career is about to commence. The attorney's name) addressed to the whole Christian camp, champion arrived within the lists, (which the clerk, the sheriff's officer (for a commis de defying any single knight of the three hun-courtesy of the Christians allowed him to do dred, to meet him with horse, lance, and first), we were no less astounded at his lofty procureur du Roi is little better,) the super-battle-axe, after the Christian fashion of bearing than at his powerful and athletic ments. intendant of a mine, the son of an old cooper, ran rapidly through the various ranks of the army, after the revolution had declared the equality of rights; and in 1794 Citizen Ney was "adjudant-general, chef de bataillon aupres du General Kleber, commandant de l'aile gauche de l'armée," being so appointed on the 14th of Thermidor, which signifies the 1st of August, precisely seven years and a half after he had presented himself shoeless and shirtless as a candidate to become a private hussar. His military career shall Occupy our next paper on the subject. 1833. Bull. [Third Notice.] Kent. jousting. Above all things, however, the "How say you,' interrupted the Lady FROM the time that we first noticed this Bertha, that your master was the only English knight then under Prince John's elegant and attractive book, we have had a banner? Was he not accompanied by his longing to transfer "Morice's tale" into our pages. The pressure of other matter during companion in arms, Sir Tristan de Vertain?' 666 Not at that time. Sir Tristan had the height of the publishing season pre-been recalled to England ere these things vented this; but we now joyfully avail ourselves of an opportunity to gratify ourselves, aud, we trust, our readers. "Morice's Tale. "It was on an evil day, as you will shortly find reason to admit, that my master was persuaded by his companion in arms to vow with him a pilgrimage to Holy Land, at a time when scarcely a single English knight was to be found among the followers of the cross; and in a still more evil hour that he entered the camp of John of Brienne, that brave knight whom Philip of France, as you have doubtless heard, has chosen to share the throne of Jerusalem with the Princess Mary: (God mend his meaus and widen his dominions, poor gentleman!) Evil I say, for came to pass, as he declared before me, upon "To England!' exclaimed Bertha, in a "Nay then,' said Morice, as I live, here will be more villany lurking under this double-faced tale! In sooth, I know not how it was, but we scarcely saw or heard of Sir Tristan after we joined the banner of Prince John; and if ever I did chance to gain form. He was in faith a proper man to look their helms and corslets glittering in the sun's The should go down before my master's lance less nerve, and an arm somewhat enfeebled. I downwards, till it descended into a sort of like a frail bark before the tide of a moun-I willingly grant thee time for recruiting thy dingle. And now, I pray you, mark me well, tain-torrent. But, mark you, lady, the strength, friend Saracen,' exclaimed my for I come in a sort to the very precipice crafty Saracen-God wot how-backed a master, an thou beest so hardy as to try the of my story. Slowly Sir Roland's good steed gallant destrier of true Norman breed, and fate of another course; for though, by the paced down the declivity. Contrary to his he had exchanged his light steel javelin for terms on which we meet, he is accounted wont, my master had retained his destrier a weighty and tough asheen lance; and well vanquished who suffers most severely in three after the encounter, and the animal (you rehe did so; for your small springy war horses courses, yet, seeing thee to have performed member the gallaut horse he called Red Norof desert blood are as little fitted to cope a feat this day, which half the chivalry in man) was somewhat wearied with his toils. with the ponperous steeds of our chivalry as Christendom would forfeit the greater moiety The reins hung loose on his neck, and the are the eastern spears able to reach the of their possessions to have done, and withal knight, for very want of thought I ween, length of our good lances. I said the Sara-that thou hast shown thyself right knightly brandished aloft his battle-axe, and twirled cen stood the shock manfully; and, though in all that might beseem a Christian warrior, it to and fro without intent or purpose, as I each weapon was shivered into fragments up I leave it with thee to demand another course, have seen a child flourish its bauble. On a to the very vamplet, the combatants rode and to affix thereto thine own terms.' Hav- sudden we heard a rush of some heavy body steadily on, and returned to their ground un-ing thus spoken, my master lowered his visor, through the long grass of the wood, and, moved as statues of steel. To each of them and was turning to his own party, when he with the velocity of an arrow sped from a was straightway delivered a fresh lance; and, was recalled by Prince John, who rose from stout archer's bow, a man sprang from among after a brief pause, the signal was given, and his throne and addressed him, if I remember the trees, and stood directly in Sir Roland's. they dashed onward to the second course. aright, somewhat to this intent: Nobly path. From his garb, I presently knew him Again these stout and valiant champions en- hast thou spoken, Sir Knight of the Rising for one of the sable attendants who had folcountered with the same fierceness, (for I Falcon; and, though I know the loftiness of lowed the Saracen to the lists, and I was trow each had by this learned to dread the soul which ever accompanies true valour, I about to reprove his unmannerly interruption prowess of his opponent), and with the same marvel much at a piece of courtesy so un- of our progress, when, prostrating himself issue as in the first course; save that the looked for, towards one whom we might well after the fashion of his country, he said, in Saracen brake not his lance with like force, pronounce vanquished; and yet, over whom good Norman, 'Let him whose emblem is inasmuch as his stroke was not aimed full had I been declared victor, I swear by my the Silver Falcou beware of the crouching and fair in the centre of my master's shield: father's crest I should esteem myself indeed and hidden tiger: slow is his course, but though, by St. George, I account it no hard worthy of this crown and sceptre. Nathe-sure his spring, and deadly his gripe.' My task to strike true upon Sir Roland's brave less, such is the esteem in which we hold the master was now, as I thought, about to quesSilver Falcon, rising as she is with wings ex-welfare of so renowned a knight, and such tion the slave further, when I called his attended upon a field as black as night. For a the need in which we at this time stand of tention to the sound of footsteps approaching third time the trumpets rung across the plain, every strong arm that may be extended in from another quarter of the grove. and breathlessly we looked for the termina- our holy cause, that it seems not good to us slave too heard it, and he exclaimed rapidly, tion of this well-contested fight. I marked who have been called to so high an estate in Alas, gentle Christians, my warning comes that the aim with which each knight directed this realm, to allow the further continuance too late. Thy foes are indeed near at hand, his weapon was this time doubly sure and of this combat. Wherefore, in our capacity yet it may afterwards advantage thee to be steady, and I would have wagered a flask of of arbiter of the field, thus do we forbid it now advised in this one thing. Prefer an Gascony against a cup of muddy ale, upon to go forth, and command that no lance be honourable ransom to a dishonourable death. an equal splintering of lances. But fate had placed in rest for the furtherance thereof.' He who dieth the death of a dog, not only otherwise ordained. Just in the centre of So saying, he cast his truncheon to the loseth all hope of revenge, but he ceaseth to the ground, the Saracen's horse swerved ground, a signal that evinced his unalterable live in the memory of the brave.' With slightly from his course, and, though his well determination. Applause was loudly uttered these words he darted among the trees, and, skilled rider strove manfully to bring him up by all the spectators, and Sir Roland bowed as he was lost to our view, the sounds we with bit and spur, the trifling sweep brought somewhat coldly to the decision. In the next had before remarked seemed to come at once the Saracen to the charge so much out of instant a herald stepped forth, and announced close upon our hearing; but as yet nothing the line he had intended, that he received that the Saracen, having been more severely appeared in the path. I forced my dear the stroke of his opponent's lance on the wounded than it appeared at first, prayed the master, albeit much against his will, to take very edge of his shield. It glanced off, as noble Knight of Montalban to excuse his re-his lance and shield, and entreated him to might be expected, and, (while his own, turning thanks in person for so much gene-lower his visor, and be in readiness for some mark you, was fairly splintered,) it smote rosity; and that as there was, in those lists, unknown danger. Scarce had he complied him severely in the side. To this hour I no appeal from the judgment of the arbiter, with my entreaty, when two men, habited believe Sir Roland forbore to use the advan- he acknowledged himself vanquished accord-like the first slave, rushed from the wood tage thus given to him; for the lance's point ing to all the laws of arms. Hereupon the into the path before us. I could not but entered the armour just where the corslet whole company retired from the lists, doubt-smile to look on them, for they spoke not, joined on to the garde-de-reines, and, had less marvelling greatly at the prowess shown neither offered to advance, but with menamy master lent it but the mere jerk of his by the unbaptized champion of the Saracens. cing features, and their scimitars upraised, arm, a deep, haply a fatal wound, must have My master bade farewell to his noble com- they stared on us like two spell-stricken debeen inflicted. As it was, however, no blood rades; and, having given me his shield and mons. After a few moments, my master was drawn, but the infidel reeled in his sad-lance, we withdrew from the lists, our pur-demanded, 'What seek the insolent knaves?' dle, and lost his balance. Well nigh indeed pose being to reach our dwelling in the sub-To the which plain question they making no had he pulled his horse backwards, for the urbs of the city by a circuitous but pleasant answer, he called out in high anger, 'Then good steed touched the earth with his road that lay through some woods skirting give place, degraded scum of the heathen haunches; but he was of a prodigious weight the northern walls." land. By the true cross, 'tis not our wont to and strength, so that he yielded not to the "Our road, (thus continued Morice,) lay brook jests from such as ye are!' Upon this, rude hand of his rider, and, plunging for-through a thick grove of palms, and other one of them, smiling scornfully, answered in ward, recovered himself and the discomfited trees of eastern growth, the straight trunks a stifled voice, Verily we jest not, good Saracen. The Falcon Knight passed on, of which were buried in grass so tall and knight, we play our parts in all good reason. amid loud cries of joy from the galleries, and thick, that it seemed like one vast plump of Pause awhile, and thou mayest hear of our waved his lance on high in token of defiance. spears. The path was of ample width, purpose from those best able to speak it." So likewise did his foe; albeit I could see though, by reason of the lofty trees, some-Our eyes were at this moment fixed upon the that when he raised his weapon it was with what dark; moreover it inclined gently slaves, and all was quiet in the wood behiud us; but suddenly the same rushing sound called out to me, Ho! Morice, lend me we were both released, the base wretch again arose, added to which there was the thine axe, 'tis a goodlier weapon than mine; mounted his steed, and sent to us the same tread of a heavy war-horse, while the slave and, by the confession of Sir Reginald de horseman who had before aped the part of a said aloud, Even now, Christian, turn, and Beauvoir, it bears twice the metal.' Haply, herald. This fellow made known to us that behold your destruction? We looked round, madam, you may remember that tournament the rausom of Sir Roland was fixed at five and you may judge of our surprise, when we in which Sir Roland bore away the palm-thousand crowns, which sum was to be paid beheld the Saracen champion armed at all but I may not wander-I sprang forward at down within twelve months in the city of points, charging down the hill, and followed his call; and, oh fatal act! by that was his Ptolemais, and that, in default thereof, he by a long train of slaves, resembling in ap-fate accomplished. My eye was of course should proclaim the Christian knight manpearance those before us. drawn from one side, and while he raised sworn and recreant among Christians and himself in the saddle and shook the axe, to Mahometans throughout Palestine. Thus, try its weight, and give full force to his lady, have I told the tale of my master's sweep, a slave crept serpent-like from out the defeat, through a stratagem never equalled grass, and stealing under the horse's belly, for baseness, and the cause of his arrival seized the knight's foot, and in one instant here, a wanderer, and in disguise."" threw him out of the saddle. Perchance he even then had not fallen, but that at the same moment the axe of the Saracen descended with full weight upon his helmet. He rolled on the earth; and, as the Saracen sprung from his horse, the whole line of slaves rushed upon the prostrate knight, seized him, and already their daggers hung glittering in his eyes—' "And thou, traitorous coward,' exclaimed the Lady Bertha, bursting iu upon the narrative at this point of agonizing interest, 'didst thou stand by, looking calmly at the death preparing for thy master? Speakwhat didst thou?' Men and Manners in America. By the [Third Notice.] We have already quoted pretty copiously from this work; but there are one or two more passages which we cannot resist the temptation to extract. The feelings of a Scotch emigrant located at Mobile are well depicted in the following. “Arrived within an hundred paces of our ground, the Saracen drew up, and his only mounted attendant rode forward, and said aloud, Be it known to you, Sir Roland of Montalban, whom men call also Knight of the Silver Falcon, that I am here in the name of the unknown Saracen,-your foe of this morning, declaring his acceptance of your offer to run another course; the which he was in the open lists withheld from doing by the interference of the royal arbiter. Moreover, Sir Falcon Knight, lest his eagerness to renew the fight should escape your memory, by reason of delay, he selects for the course this same spot on which you now stand, and for the time, this present moment, and he holds you a pitiful coward and a braggart, if you refuse to maintain your own "I was strongly recommended to lay in challenge upon such terms. Now therea store of cogniac and biscuits at Mobile, fore fly, or stand forth and maintain your being assured that in the country I was boasted prowess, Sir Falcon Knight. If you "By the soul of my father!' replied about to traverse there would be found choose the latter, pray God and your Lady, Morice, vehemently, they had beforehand neither bread nor brandy. Though not paras your fantastic customs dictate to you, that taken thought for my safety, and at that ticularly apprehensive of suffering by priyour arm may be strengthened; for, though time I lay well nigh stifled under the weight vation of either, 1 adopted the advice of my not slightly hurt in his former encounter, by of a round dozen of these black hounds; friends, and visited a Scotch baker, whom I all you believe in your four Evangelists, you though I could behold the crowd of them directed to pack for me a small box of bishave a foe worth contending with!' Much around my master. And thus hung the cuits. My countrymen are accused of chewas I astonished both at the matter of daggers over his breast, like thirsty reptiles rishing a certain indestructible sentiment of this self-styled herald's discourse, and at the awaiting the signal that should give them to affinity. Whether this moved the baker good terms in which it ran. But it were drink deeply of his heart's blood. But the and myself I know not, but we had a good hard indeed an these infidel hounds learned fiend whose power they owned hesitated to deal of conversation on the subject of eminot some good from our swords and lauces. give the signal. There was a pause—a short gration. My compatriot was a native of My master vouchsafed not any answer, save but terrible pause. The Saracen gazed upon Hamilton, and had courted fortune there by waving his lance in token of his willing- my master's countenance, and his fierce eyes without success. Regardless of Malthus ness, and then speedily fixing it in rest. By glared frightfully through the bars of his and his precepts, he had married, and unmine halidom, 'twas well I had persuaded visor: I was lower, and I could see them luckily, his family increased quite as rapidly him to arm himself, since short time was now roll like fire-balls about to dart into the very as his hope of supporting it diminished. seemed given for preparation. The Saracen vitals of his prostrate foe. My poor master Under these circumstances, he turned his anxious to gain every advantage afforded looked upwards, albeit unable to articulate little moveables into money, and, trusting him by his sudden appearance; for, shouting a word for the tight grasp of the Saracen's his progeny for a season to God and their at the top of his lungs, Look then to thy-mailed hand upon his throat. I cannot tell own industry, set off for America. On self, Christiau!' he spurred furiously down the train of thought that in those few mo-arriving at New York, he worked for some the hill without further parley. And now ments rushed through the infidel's mind; right gallantly did Red Norman maintain his but he seemed to hesitate awhile, and then, repute. His master had indeed given him relaxing his hold on Sir Roland's throat, he all the advantage that could be gained in so said in a low hoarse voice, Though the bad a position, for he had reined him back, simple motion of mine arm would doom thee and placed him on the level. My heart beat to death, Christian, without any act of my high when I beheld the Saracen in full own, yet, for that thou hast borne thyself career, ere yet Red Norman had fairly seen valiantly according to the estimation of thy his foe: but the noble beast wheeled round people, I grant thee thy choice between a a tree, obedient to the bit as your Limousin dog's death or a noble's ransom: speak! a jennet, and bounding forward, encountered moient decides thy fate!' Heaven be thanked the Saracen in the direct line of his charge. that I was just able to call out 'Remember Both lances flew to shivers; Sir Roland the slave's warning! My master heard me, keeping his seat manfully, while his antago- and replied to his victor, that he must perforce nist bent backwards under his stroke. My render himself a prisoner, rescue or no rescue; master shouted as he passed on, Saracen, albeit his capture was at once contrary to our strife is mortal: thou hast sought thy all the laws of chivalry, basely compassed, fate!' He reined in, and drew forth his and ungenerous before God and man. The battle-axe, but, perceiving that the other Saracen spoke not, but made the signal for hesitated to arm himself with the like, he his slaves to retire. They obeyed; and, when months as a journeyman; but, learning from a friend that kneaders of dough were in greater request at Mobile, he there pitched his tabernacle, and heated his oven. His family had since joined him, and he was now, he assured me, in the enjoyment of every comfort which the most prosperous baker could desire. "In conversation the man's mind seemed to be alternately influenced by attachment to his native land, and satisfaction in the enjoyment of those advantages which had resulted from his quitting it. At first he would talk of nothing but the beauties of the Clyde. Oh, sir,' said he, are not the banks of the Clyde beautiful? Did you ever see a river like it? Does not the road from Hamilton to Lanark pass through a perfect paradise? I am sure the whole world has nothing equal to it.' |