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ly been unhorsed, but no explanation 
was either asked or given. 
During this canto, the length of which 
is nearly equal to the foregoing, it can 
searcely be affirmed, although the poem 
is increasing so rapidly in size, to an al- 
most hydropic bulk, that the story is 
making any progress whatever. We are 
merely led towards the close of the canto, 
to expect that progress may in time be 
reported. The petty adventures of a 
wretched village hostel, where it is not 
imagined that an ambassador from Eng- 
land, with his train, should be compelled 
to seek a lodging, form the basis of this 
part of the narrative. 
The passages in this canto, distinguish- 
ed for poetic beauty, are of rare occur- 
rence. The description of the song of 
Fitz-Eustace is among the most pleasing. 
¢° A mellow voice Fitz Eustace had, 
The air he chose was wild and sad 3 
Such have I heard in Scottish land f 
Rise from the busy harvest band, 
When falls below the mountaineer 
On lowland plains the ripened ear. 
Now one shrill voice the notes prolong, 
Now a wildchorus swells thesong 5 
Oft have I listened, and-stood still 
As it came softened up thehill, 
And deemed it the lament of men 
Who languish’d for their native glen; 
And thought how sad would be such sound 
On Susquehana’s swampy ground ; 
Kentucky’s wood-encumber’d brake, 
Or wild Ontario’s boundless Igke, 
Where heart-sick exiles in the strain 
Recalled fair Scotland’s hills again.” 
The vision of King Alexander exhibits 
some nervous lines. 
¢ Of Largs he saw the glorious plain, 
Where still gigantic bones remain, 
_Memorial of the Danish war ; 
Himself he saw amidst the field, 
On high his brandish’d war-axe wield, 
And strike proud Haco from his car ; 
While all around the shadowy kings 
Denmark’s grim ravens cowered their wings.” 
( To be continued. ) 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
WOMAN was lately seen begging 
at Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, 
with a little boy about five years old. 
From circumstances it appeared evident 
that the child was not her son; in conse- 
quence of which he was taken from her, 
and she sent to prison. The child has 
light brown hair and light eyes ; he ap- 
pears, from ill treatment, to have had his 
faculties impaired; he cannot speak 
quite plainly ; he seems to have had a 
fair complexion, but his face has by some 
A Child suppos:d to have been stolen. 
[Sept. 1; 
art been discoloured, and his features are 
much distorted by his head having been 
bound up to excite pity ; he already looks 
much better than. he did, proper care 
having been taken of him. He calls him- 
self Charles Smith, also Charles Davis, 
which is thought to be his real name, as 
the woman says her name is Catherine 
Smith. The child says that the woman, 
whom he calls the old woman, told him 
not to tell his name; that she rubbed his 
face with something black ; that she sold 
his fine cloaths, and put him on rags ; 
that he had yellow shoes, which she sold. 
The woman, he says, is not his mother 
that is in London; that he ‘has a ‘sister 
Peggy, who is awoman; that his mother 
washes clothes and keeps chickens; and 
that his father isin the West Indies. He. 
mentioned also his having a little wheel- 
barrow at home. 
Aug. 3, 1808. | 
[The name and ‘residence of the person 
from whom .we received this account, are 
Jeft at our publisher’s. ] 
EE ‘ 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magaeine. 
SIR, 
FYNLUL following authentic narrative of 
the shipwreck at Memel, in which 
so many valuable lives were lost, I am 
induced to send for insertion in your in- 
teresting publication. It was written by. 
one of the unfortunate sufferers, who was 
acommon sailor. The facts are detailed 
with so much truth and simplicity, and 
the account is drawn up with such 
feeling and judgment, that the perusal 
cannot fail of affecting, in the liveliest 
manner, every reader, and especially 
those, who, by the melancholy event, 
have to deplore the loss of a friend, a re~ 
lative, or acquaintance. 
London, Your's, &c. 
July, 1808. JHARs 
: 
‘Ow the 2d of April, at 2p. m. sailed 
from Liebau, the wind at E. N, E. and 
very fine weather, the loose ice lying 
about 1 imiles from the shore; but we got 
through it without doing the least damage 
tu the vessel, at the rate of 2 miles an’ 
hour; then we got into clear water about 
3p. m. with the wind at east-south- 
east. Little wind and fine weather on the . 
4tle; at 2p. m. got sight of Oeland, bear- 
ing, by the compass, 10 north-west, and 
distance eight or nine miles; at 4p. m. 
got close in, and perceived the ice lying 
about amile from the shore. The wind 
was then about west-south-west, and the 
colonel came to me, and asked me if it’ 
Was 
“ 
