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Monthly Review of LiLemtme, 



[Dec; 



the activity and effect with which he wielded 

 a cudgel, and deterred tlic opponent's voters, 

 attracted the notice of the successful candi- 

 date. A commission in the militia was ob- 

 tained for him, and in a few months, by a 

 tiurn-out, he got himself a lieutenancy in the 

 line, and was ordered to join the army in 

 Portugal. A few days spent on his way, at 

 his uncle's in Dublin, were sufficient for him- 

 self and a charming cousin to fall in love 

 with each other, and swear eternal attach- 

 ment. She was indeed a very charming 

 girl, thoroughly Irish, with little romance, 

 and plenty of plain speaking and plain act- 

 ing — full of life and vivacity, but withal 



possessing some prudence and soberness 



and, as it proved, true as the needle to the 

 pole. Returning, after a few years service, 

 Frank foimd his imcle dead, and his charm, 

 ing cousin gone, nobody knew whither. 



The regiment reaches Brussels, in due 

 course, a few weeks before the battle of 

 Waterloo, and in the meanwliile the author 

 sketches the return of Napoleon from Elba, 

 and the imposing scene of the Cliamp de 

 Mai. In the park of Brussels, the day of 

 the Duchess of Richmond's ball, among the 

 groups, wliich were the last to retire, was 

 one consisting of Kennedy and two of his 

 brother officers, wlien, suddenly, a lady, 

 closely wraj)ped up, presented herself, singletl 

 out Kennedy, and took him aside. To 

 Kennedy's great perplexity, the lady put 

 several searching questions touching the 

 state of his heart, and his disposition to 

 mairy, and finally left him, half convinced 

 she must be his own cliarming cousin. At 

 the ball he detects this very cousin in pro- 

 pria persona, splendidly dressed, but, such 

 was the thickening crowd, before he could 

 force his way to the spot, she had vanished, 

 and he pursued her in vain. The same 

 night he discovers firom a comrade, that a 

 gentleman, or rather according to his ac- 

 count, judging from the ancles and the 

 embarrassinent, a lady had been at his 

 apartments inquiring about him ; and tliis 

 same comrade, for the humour of the thing, 

 thinking the visit was prompted by feelings 

 of jealousy, had exaggerated to her poor 

 Kennedy's peccadilloes and terrible profli- 

 gacies. Two notes from Ids cousin, for it 

 was .she herself, fell into Kennedy hands 

 together — one freely offering herself and her 

 fortune, some 5.000/. a year — the other re- 

 nouncing him and returning his keepsake. 

 Distracted by these communications, as he 

 was, he had not one moment to pursue the 



adventure or seek an ecclaircissement the 



hour for the march was arrived. Descrip- 

 tions follow of a very animated kind, of the 

 scenes at Quatre-bras and Ligny, and the 

 bivouac on the field of ^Vaterloo on the eve 

 of the battle. Kennedy and a Major 

 Macarthy, an old comrade, command the 

 cavalry picket, and the night is whiled away 

 by the major's story, which has more of the 

 romantic and the tragie than any other of 

 the set, and is exceedingly well told. In 

 the battle Kennedy is wounded and left on 



the field, wlierc, the next day, his cousin, 

 fearlessly and eagerly seeking him among 

 tiic dead and dying, finds liim, takes him in 

 her carriage to Brussels, and nurses him, 

 and finally places herself and her .5,000/. ;v 

 year under the command of tlic gallant cap- 

 tain — now major, of course. 



Sir Andrew HaUlday''s Letter to Lord 

 Robert Seymour, and Report on the JVum- 

 bcr of Lunatics in Entjland and Wales; 

 1820 — For the last tv/enty years Sir An- 

 drew Ilalliday has distinguislied himself by 

 liis zeal for discovering the actual state of 

 lunacy in tliis country, and has now pub- 

 lislied a valuable pamphlet on " Lunacy- 

 statistics." The parliamentary committee 

 of 1«0C could find only 2,248, while Sir 

 Andrew, by a personal perambulation 

 through the counties of Norfolk and Suf- 

 folk alone, discovered 230 not returned. 

 Tlie committee of 1815 doubled tlie num- 

 ber, and Sir Andrew has now, by liis own 

 efforts, procured returns which bring up the 

 number actually to 1.3,000 and upwards, 

 and with almost a certainty to 15,000. 



From his tables, the author makes some 

 general remarks, which may deserve atten- 

 tion. The agricultural counties, he finds, 

 have the largest proportion of lunatics, or, 

 at least, of idiots. This is contrary to the 

 common notion, and may originate in some- 

 thing quite distinct from agricidtural labour. 

 Very little, we believe, is kiwwn at present, 

 of the effects of different soils on the corporal, 

 and, of course, on the intellectual qualities. 

 In England scarcely one-third of the popu- 

 lation are employed agriculturally ; in M^ales 

 something more than one-half; and in Scot- 

 land, in Sir Andrew's opinion, two-thirds, 

 though the returns of 1821, by some mis- 

 take, gave only orae-third. Supposing his 

 opinion correct witli respect to Scotland, the 

 returns of lunatics support his general con- 

 clusion, for England fiirnishes one lunatic 

 for every thousand of the population — Wales 

 one for every 800, and Scotland one for 

 every 574. But leaving Scotland out of the 

 question-^though nobody doubts the greater 

 prevalence of lunacy there — twelve English 

 counties, where the majority are agricultu- 

 ral, give one in 820, and idiots to lunatics 

 as seven to five ; — twelve counties where the 

 majority are not agricidtural, one in 1,200, 

 and more lunatics than idiots. Moreover, 

 in tlie maritime • counties, the limatics ex- 

 ceed those of the interior : — six maritime 

 give one in 1,000, with idiots to lunatics aS 

 two to one; and six inland one in 1,165, 

 and idiots as five to three. But anomalies 

 occur in comities adjoining, and similarly 

 circumstanced, for which he can at present 

 furnish no solution. Northampton has most 

 lunatics, and Nottingham the fewest, of all 

 the counties. Looking to the Hereford re- 

 turns, he concludes cider is not very favour- 

 able to intellectual soundness. 



The author also finds fewer lunatics 

 among the cotton works than the woollen,^ 



