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encountered the gray ghost of the royal Dane;" and killed Polonius in the queen's closet;" besides "drowning poor Ophelia in the willowed stream." Upon landing, how ever, he gets angry at Elsineur for falling so far short of his imaginations; and abuses that respectable town, at great length, and with considerable variety and force of invective. Notwithstanding the existing hostilities, we scarcely think it would be fair to extract the whole of this highly wrought passage. We may just, by way of specimen, mention, that it seems "Wapping possesses the splendour of ancient Rome, when compared with the modern aspect of Elsineur;" and if Hercules, or, as our author calls him, "the immortal scavenger of Elis, had began [begun] there, he would be at his labour now.' Disgusted with Elsineur, and, as it should seem, with life itself, he rushes out of the town about a mile, and finds a place called "Hamlet's garden." He straightway expects "venerable and magnificent ruins ;" and, being disappointed, severely reprimands this villa. During his rebuke, he happens to see Elsineur again, at some distance, whereupon a little more abuse is bestowed upon it; nor can he, by any means. be appeased, until he perceives the castle of Cronberg, that "fine and bold feature," and four hundred sail of merchant ships lying at anchor. Thus disappointed in all his hopes of finding royal cities and ruins, and seeing, indeed, no remains of Hamlet whatever, he is forced to console himself with Saxo-Grammaticus, from whom he translates some passages, to which Shakspeare seems to have been indebted. They are curious, though not very delicate. But one does not quite see why that author, as well as Shakspeare, could not have been perused in England Mr. Ker Porter saw also some Danish soldiers, of whom he expresses an unfavourable opinion; being moved thereto, it rather seems, by "their coarse and ill made cloth

ing;" and somewhat prejudiced, no doubt, by his general indignation at Elsineur. As soon as he leaves that ill fated spot, his good humour re turns; and during the rest of his tour, we find him a perfectly civil and well natured companion.

He only saw Copenhagen through a glass from the sea; but he could plainly distinguish its ramparts and batteries; which leads him to relate an anecdote of lord Nelson. This, we have reason to believe, is well founded, and therefore we shall extract it, although not very well told; for it is exceedingly delightful to dwell on any memorial of so illustrious a man, now that we have unhappily lost him.

"The circumstance took place during the battle of the Sound. It at least proves that no situation, however dangerous, can disconcert the truly brave man, or render him inattentive to those minutia, which being watched by the enemy, betray our weakness, or proclaim our power. You must well remember, from the gazettes of that period, and private accounts, how tremendous was the engagement, and how dreadful the slaughter. In the midst of these horrours, surrounded by the dying and the dead, the British admiral ordered an officer, bearing a flag of truce, to go on shore with a note to the crown prince. It contained a proposal to his royal highness to acquiesce, without further delay, in the propositions of the British government; not only to put a stop to the present effusion of blood on both sides, but to save from total destruction Copenhagen and its arsenals, which he would otherwise level with the water. the calmness of a man in his study, he Whilst his lordship was writing with all desired colonel Stewart to send some one below for a light, that he might seal his despatch. Colonel Stewart obeyed; but none appearing with a candle; when lord Nelson had nearly completed his letter, he inquired the reason of such neglect, and found that the boy who had been sent for it was killed in his way by a cannon shot. The order was repeated: upon which colonel Stewart observed: Why should your lordship be so particular to use wax! why not a wafer? The hurry of battle tion of etiquette. It is to prove, my will be a sufficient apology for the violafriend,' replied lord Nelson, that we are in no hurry; that this request is not

dictated by fear, or a wish on our part to stop the carnage, from the least appreBension of the fate of this day to us, that I am thus particular. Were I to seal my Jetter with a wafer, it would still be wet when it reached the shore; it would speak of haste. Wax is not the act of an instant; and it impresses the receiver accordingly. The reasoning of the admiral was duly honoured by the result. The Danes acceded to his proposal, and a essation of hostilities was the consequence." I. 13, 14.

From Zealand our author proceeded in his voyage to Cronstadt. On landing there he " was amazingly struck by the extraordinary appear ance of almost every individual he met." The beards, brown skins, caps, uniforms, pelisses, all bursting upon his sight at the moment that he heard a language quite new to him, "made so strange an impression on his mind as is not to be described." Indeed, he says: "Every sense was called forth to wonder and exercise." The town and arsenal of Cronstadt are described as very beautiful and magnificent at first glance; but a nearer view, it seems, discovers "many a wart and wrinkle on this fair face." With St. Petersburgh he is more delighted. There," every house seems a palace, and every palace a city." The description of the new metropolitan church is interesting, both on account of the work itself, and the example which it affords of the waste of labour in a country where the lower classes are in a state of slavery or villanage.

"This edifice, as I before said, is dedicated to the Mother of God, of Kazan. Though far from being completed, suffidient is elevated of its plan to give a tolerably accurate idea of the sublime feature it will make in the face of this city. The architect, who is a Russian, seems to have had the image of St. Peter in his mind when he laid the foundations of this building; and if it be finished as it is begun, I have no doubt of its being a very powerful rival to the two great cathedrals of Rome and London. The pillars intended for the inside of the church are to be each of one entire stone; the shaft, in length fifty-two feet, polished to the utmost perfection, and surmounted with a capital of the Corinthian order

richly gilt and burnished. Every other ornament will be in corresponding taste. Niches are formed on the exteriour, for the reception of bronze statues of saints, fifteen feet high: and at some distance, in front of the building, is to be erected a single column of granite of two hundred feet in length; a piece of that size, sufficient to form it, having lately been discovered. Its magnitude will be so immense as to exceed the height of Pompey's pillar by many feet. It is expected that in the course of four or five years the whole work will be completed. At that period the old church is to be pulled down; and thus an area will be left that of the new. must considerably improve the situation

"The architect of this great design was formerly a slave of count Strogonoff. But that nobleman, out of respect to his talents, gave him his liberty.

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these buildings come Many of the labourers employed on some thousand versts from the interiour: and when the

frost sets in, they retire thither again, to await the more genial season which will allow them to recommence their toil. The multitudes now engaged in forming the various parts of these large works, are interesting and curious. All difficulties

connected with their business, are overcome by human exertions alone. What in England would easily be performed by one horse, with a little mechanical aid, is here achieved by the united strength of numbers of men. Hence there is much useless labour to regret. Frequently we see a hundred men, with ropes and handspikes, busied in accomplishing no more than one quarter of that number, with a few of our assisting inventions, would easily finish in half the time." I. 20, 21.

left out a little rant about sacrilege In giving this extract, we have and genius, which occurs about the middle of it. We cannot, however, omit an exquisite passage touching avarice, which catches the eye a few pages further on; and forms, we conceive, as pure a specimen of the nonsensical in composition, as has even of late years been produced. After inveighing against the Russian shopkeepers for demanding from strangers more than the value of their goods, although willing to take a fair price from those who know their ways, Mr. Porter breaks out as follows.