466 MOTES OF THE MONTH. 



Inglis's and the Sir Charles Wetherall's of the present day, who are 

 hourly opening their oracular jaws, and prophesying with equal 

 vigour.-shaking their senatorial heads, like a mandarin in a grocer's 

 window, with equal significance and effect. Now we find that Lud- 

 gate is " demolished," and the city walls no longer " visible," yet 

 England is something still : " speculative theorists" have actually 

 succeeded in their diabolical attempts to join the city with West- 

 minster and still the constitution is not destroyed. Although this 

 note is rather long, yet these sages of ancient days are so completely in 

 tune with the would-be aristocracy, the soi-disant conservatives of our 

 own time that we must quote another brilliant specimen on the same 

 debate in the person of Sir Henry Herbert. " If a man, Sir, were to 

 come to the bar of their house," quoth the right honourable noodle, 

 " and tell us that he proposed to convey us regularly to Edinburgh 

 in coaches, in seven days, and bring us back in seven days more, 

 should we not vote him to Bedlam ? Surely we should, if we did 

 him justice ; or if another told us he would sail to the Indies in six 

 months, should we not punish him for practising on our credulity ? 

 assuredly, if we served him right!" 



In our Houses of Lords and Commons, we see still the Sir Wil- 

 liam Thompsons, the Boscawens, the Sir Henry Herberts check- 

 ing all advancement, renouncing all improvement, like blind 

 puppies snuggling in their kennel, little dreaming of the faculty and 

 sight in others, their own eyes being closed to the light ; or like tad- 

 poles rendering their little circle of existence filthy by their own 

 floundering. 



PANORAMA OP THE SIEGE OP ANTWERP. The point of time chosen 

 to represent this scene is the morning, a few hours previously to the 

 surrender of the Citadel. The spectator is supposed to stand close in 

 the rear of the breaching batteries of the French j before him appears 

 the bastion de Toledo, in which a breach has just been effected : on 

 his right are the fortifications of the City. Over them, in the ex- 

 treme distance, rise the tower of the Cathedral, and various churches 

 of Antwerp. Behind him is laid the flat country towards Boon and 

 Berchem, varied from its usual appearance by the entrenchments 

 formed by the besiegers, in their gradual approach to the last point of 

 attack. On the left are seen the fort St. Laurent, the house of Gene- 

 ral Chasse, demi lune, &c. Of the Citadel itself very little is visible ; 

 the brick wall of the bastion Toledo surmounting the fosse, and a few 

 dismantled buildings, are all that can be discerned amidst the clouds 

 of smoke. The groups of French artillerymen and musqueteers are 

 introduced with great judgment, and present an extremely natural 

 appearance in the mass. The wintry appearance of the atmosphere, 

 the colouring of individual objects, and general tone of the whole, are 

 painted in strict accordance with nature. Indeed, the whole effect of 

 the Panorama warrants the truth of Mr. Burford's assertion, that he 

 was himself an eye witness of the reality, and was employed for some 

 days in making drawings on the spot. 



