1822.] 
Mr. B. observed, “there are several 
of the young men in my office who 
possess equal and even greater talents 
than Scott, but none who have equal 
patience, or plod so much,—I there- 
fore have great hopes of him.” 
Mr. Scott, however, had no great 
hopes of himself; for he despaired of 
rising in W estminster Hall, andactually 
conceived the idea of retiring into the 
country, and practising as a provincial 
lawyer. Accordingly, when the Re- 
cordership of Neweastle became va- 
cant, he applied to Mr. Bray for his 
interest on this occasion. The latter 
assured him of his utmost efforts on 
his behalf, but recommended a longer 
trial. On a longer trial he succeeded. 
At that period he resided in Powis- 
place, near Great Ormond-street, in 
the immediate vicinity of his old mas- 
ter; dined every day at half past 
three, and at five regularly trudged 
down to chambers. As he constantly 
passed the door of Mr. Bray, the lat- 
ter was accustomed to say to his wife 
(now Mrs. M‘Evoy), “‘ Remark what 
I say, my dear; you will live to see 
this young man Lord Chancellor of 
Great Britain!” a prophecy that was 
actually fulfilled in the course of avery 
few years. 
The pride of wealth of the Surtees 
was wounded at the alliance; the 
country banker and his family dis- 
dained connexion with the son of a 
coal-fitter, and the grandson of a coal- 
skipper ; but the young lawyer replied 
officially, by affixing his seal as Lord 
Chancellor to the docket that sanc- 
tioned the bankruptcy of the family. 
AN ODE, | 
(Written in 1775,) 
On the Crimes perpetrated by British Agents 
in India. 
”Twas beneath an hallow’d palm, 
On Ganges’ banks, a Bramin lay, 
What time, in atmospheres of balm, 
Eve’s golden lids inclos’d the eye of day. 
Then Vision, holy prophetess, pass’d by ; 
She mark’d the sage, and in his slumber- 
ing eye 
Marshal’d many a mystic shade, 
Many a drama she display’d, 
That from his heart the blood of pity 
wrung : 
India’s wilderness of woes, 
Bondage, rapine, murder rose, 
The patriot-seer beheld, and upin phrenzy 
sprung. 
“Hark! that sound—'tis torture’s cry ! 
The Christian vultures rage amain; 
Yonder in caves our Rajah’s die, 
sei dominion—birthright was their 
ane, 
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Afar I see their famish’d orphans roam, 
And none dare bid the princely wand’rers 
home. 
Ha! what hireling sabres there 
Round yon shivering victim glare! 
Till, goaded on, his treasure he displays. 
Now the slaves dislodge the hoard, 
Bury now its slaughter’d lord ; 
While savagely serene their chief aloof 
surveys. 
“ India, rise! thy sword unhouse, 
And red let retribution flow ; 
Round to thy monster-dens, and rouse 
Their yelling tenants forth upon thy foe. 
Convoke thy snakes, thy crocodiles from 
far. 
Such dragon-hosts beseem a Christian war. 
Ruffians! if they ’scape from these, 
*Scape thy demons of disease, 
1f Ocean hence their guilt and plunder bear, 
Rise, monsoons, nor yield retreat, 
Rise and smite their miscreant fleet, 
The oaken ruins whelm, nor aught they 
harbour spare. 
“ See sublimer vengeance rise! 
Avaunt ye tempests, tigers, snakes! 
On Heaven such mighty mischief cries, 
And Heaven in dread hostility awakes. 
Lo! home that wretch attains, but how 
unblest ! " 
Guilt peoples there the dungeon of his 
breast. 
Horrors tend his wakeful lamp 5 
All his splendor horrors damp ; 
Misdeeds, like ghosts, before him threat- 
*ning rise. 
Livingly upstarts his hair, 
Ha! his dagger clench’d and bare! 
Mercy! that reeking plunge: his soul off 
screaming flies. 
“India, triumph! and behold 
The wolves their prey to Europe bear ; 
Their doom lurks brooding in thy gold, 
Which here inert, sublimes to poison 
there. 
It there dissolves the charities of life, 
And mangles states by luxury and strife. 
To thy tyrants ’tis decreed, 
Gold and ruin be their meed! 
This truth the fool of glory felt of yore, 
Britain’s freedom—(Britain’s all!) 
By the spoils of thine shall fall! 
Her iron-gripe shall cease, and thou shalt 
groan no more. 
MIDWIVES. 
In Gray’s Supplement to the Phar- 
macopoeia, it is stated, that “from 1728 
to 1758, during which time women 
were almost exclusively employed as 
midwives, out of 759,122 deaths, 6,481 
took place in child-bed ; while in eight 
years, from 1807 to 1814, when the 
apothecary men-midwives were as ex- 
clusively employed, out of 147,304 
deaths, 1,404 were in child-bed.” 
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