as to one of them, that to this individual the words had passed without the accompanying experience.

Ch. vii. Ver. 4. For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly.'

men.'

This seems to convey the sense, that no person having a treasonable or mischievous project in hand, will be much in public while it is preparing. 'If there be no harm in all this, shew thyself to thy countryThus would calumny have fixed that upon him, which the imprudent zeal of a multitude, desiring to be freed from religious and civil thraldom, had offered before, the assumption of the temporal kingdom of Israel at that season. Ed.

ART. III.-POETRY:-Recollections in Westmorland.

Introduction. The verses here introduced to the notice of my Readers have already been printed: but it was many years ago, and in a Provincial Magazine. They were composed, (not in a garret in town but) bona fide in the Mail Coach, in my return from the beautiful scenery they describe. In the summers of my youth it was my practice, when both mind and body had been worn by toil, to break away, and forget the house of bondage' of my many engagements, in some distant part of the island: or to retire with my family to the sea-side. On the present occasion, I took the York coach at Stamford hill near London, the 23rd of the Seventh Month, at eight in the morning, and arrived in that city the 24th, about half past five in the evening. What this journey of 200 miles will come to, in point of expedition, bye and bye, is hard to say-but it is already shortened (since 1807) by about ten hours! The only new thing to me on the road was the view of the little town of Stevenage, Herts, recently in great part burnt down. The ruins made but a very inconsiderable figure, compared with those of a London conflagration. The wood frame and thatch with all the interior being consumed, the gable and chimney of each cottage alone indicated where it had stood; while the picture of desolation was completed by the ruins of orchards and gardens, which could not so suddenly be restored. Many trees were reduced to stumps of charcoal, and a vast number scorched and withered, by the flame. The preceding dry season of about eight weeks, which doubtless facilitated this accident, I found had extended all over our Eastern side of the island. I traced the marks of large rain-drops in the dust through the day, a shower having gone our road - but it was not till we arrived at Newark that we encountered rain. Here, after distant lightning in the night, and a sunrise among the most beautiful for colours that I have seen, we fell among thunder-showers; and on our arrival at York found that the streets had been flooded.

At York, beside other engagements, I visited the 'Retreat:' and spent two hours with that excellent man and eminent scholar Lindley Murray. My next object was, the General Meeting for Ackworth School, which I attended on the 29th and 30th. On these two days about an hun

dred and fifty friends dined, at their own expence, at the long tables used by the children: beside the ordinary hospitality of the house, partaken of by a suitable number, and never stinted to the worthy. The principal feature of the business was, the raising the age for the admission of scholars, from eight to nine. This was done on account of the great number of children of late years on the list; in order that the preference might rest with those most fit, in point of age, for the intended benefit. Now, that we have enlarged our school in the South, and founded others, we have room for rather more than apply.

Having engaged with my Friend William Allen to join his family in a party to the Lakes, I went, after some further time passed with my relations hereabouts, to Settle; where, on the 3rd of the Eighth Month, we commenced a tour, which kept us pretty constantly in motion till after the 20th. In this time we ascended in succession Pennigant, Ingleboro', Whernside, Helvellyn, Saddleback, and Skiddaw*-taking on the summits of these, and on other stations, the Barometrical measures (not then so common) which, compared with others at the foot, and joined with the known levels of Canals &c, serve to determine the height of such summits above the nearest Sea. We proved also for ourselves, on some of them, the lower temperature of water, boiled under the diminished atmospherical pressure: not forgetting of course, to use our eyes on the surrounding prospects: nor passing wholly by the natural curiosities, and other objects of attention to travellers, in this part of the Island. In viewing the operation for smelting lead at Alston Moor, we found the description of that rambling bard Goldsmith so well verified here, that we were persuaded he must have seen it himself:

Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead

By heaping coals of fire upon its head!

Taught by the heat the metal learns to glow,

And, pure from dross, like silver runs below.

It may be questioned, after all that has been done, in different parts of Europe, to effect reforms by violence, whether we have any better method than this of mending the evil manners of the age!

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But it was not things alone that engaged our notice: we had also much of pleasant intercourse with persons. Not to name (as they would not desire it) all who extended towards us the genuine hospitality of the country, I may mention, first, our Friend Thomas Clarkson, whom I boarded' in his boat on Ullswater, and who rendered us all the helps of a guide, thereabouts: then, Thomas Wilkinson, one of our poets (now alas! in the decrepitude and mental decay of old age) with whom I went to see May-brough and Arthur's round table-two ancient remains, the degradation of which to the level of dirty acres,' by the enclosure of Yanwath Moor, he has since feeling lamented in a pamphlet, intended to save to the cottager (if it may be) some part

* Pen y Ghent, British? Ingle-brough (Ingle-ton is at the foot): Quern-side? : Hel-vellyn, the hill of vallies: Saddle-back, from the form of the top: Skydaw? from its aerial tints: Catchedicam (joining Helvellyn) seems to be the Cats' head in Cam!

of his remaining right of Common. Lastly, John Gough, our blind mathematician and natural philsopher, (now deceased) with whom I had afterwards correspondence, and as it proved also friendly controversy, on a point of science attended to by us both.

The short tribute to the Emont arose out of our visit to the bard at Yanwath; but it would have been due to the stream itself, independently of his little domain by which it flows. I find in my notes

of one evening the following allusion to it, Had a charming walk up the Emont from Patterdale, as far as Hartop Hall, passing the small lake of Brother-water with a fine wooded hill on our right. This winding valley, among bold conical mountains, is one of the most pleasing solitudes I ever entered.'

But it is time to let the piece speak for itself. I shall therefore omit the mention, not so fitting in this publication, of heights and temperatures, of the misty skreen on the summits intercepting and then opening our prospect, of showers seen afar off and then encountered in their passage, of the clouds surmounted and left with the rainbow and the thunder in the vale below, of laborious ascents, and somewhat perilous descents to good quarters, a hearty meal and good night's rest; and shall conclude with the acknowledgment that this season of bodily exertion and mental recreation ended, by favour of Divine providence, in my return home in safety and with renewed health. Ed.

Region of cloud-capt hills! whose ample forms.
Rise, like some ocean vex'd by surly storms,
While deep in each recess sweet vallies lie,

And midst thy billows every blast defy;

Pleas'd have I view'd thee, from the mountain brow,

And seen the varied landscape stretch, below,

To where the vast horizon melts away,

Half lost, beneath the fervid glow of day,

And thence, with downward step, have sought the shade,
Tracing the torrent to the wild cascade.

Some jutting rock here yields a giddy stand,
While twisted branches fill the grasping hand.
Majestic sight! and scarce from terror free;
The very waves pause here, as they would be
Excused the shock, yet ever, from above
Press'd onward, o'er the mound embodied move,
Then plunge, and rise in many a circling wreath,
And boil and fluctuate in the gulf beneath :
White flies the foam; a dewy mist hangs round;
Air labours, tremulous, with the deaf'ning sound;
Fails the tired eye, and shakes, beneath, the ground!
But sooth'd anon, the waters cease to roar,
Steal to the smooth lake and reflect the shore,
While nature's image, faithfully portray'd,
Shews all her features, but in deeper shade:

Downward the trees, on rocks inverted, grow,
Blue distant summits pierce the skies, below.

I gaze, 'till whispering down the steep defile,
Light airs forbid the lovely tints to smile;
Then turning, tread the woody shelter'd glen,
Explore some cot, the cheerful haunt of men,
It's inmates greeting, pass the open door,
Share their blithe chat, and freely offer'd store.
Nor mean, O Westmorland! thy shepherd's fare,
Nor cold his welcome, Luff* shall witness bear;
Content gives plenty and he's proud to spare.

Sweet scenes! be peaceful still; for now my mind
Quits you, to dwell on treasures left behind;
The home I left, by London's murky towers,
To breathe, amid these wilds, a moon of hours.
'Tis past, and thought is there! At once I see
My life's dear partner haste to welcome me,
My children press to share the wonted knee.

Turn then, far-wand'ring feet; your aid supply, Ye sprightly steeds! while on swift wheels I fly Thro' the long distance, till the moment come To greet the inmates of my peaceful home. Freely, for these alone, th' exchange I meet Of balmy landscapes for the noisome street. These absent, Eden's self not long could please; No desert but would hold a charm, with these. Nature, abroad, delights the gazing eye, But for the heart at home reserves the tie: There flow her tranquil joys, and please the more For absence past and toil and travels o'er.

ART. I.-Some further account of James Nayler, with a specimen of his Writings:

(See Volume First, p. 308, 354.)

On referring to what is inserted in the Chronological Summary respecting James Nayler, the subject appears to have been left somewhat short of the desirable information; and the two parts, of which the short notice consists, to have been by an oversight transposed in point of time. I shall here therefore make some use of the Life of Nayler, annexed by Jos. Gurney Bevan to his 'Refutation of some of the more modern misrepresentations of the Society of Friends, 'commonly called Quakers' published in 1800. It seems but due to such of my readers as have not seen this work, to remove, out of the way of their acceptance of my own, the apparent stumbling-block of a 'blasphemous leader of the original society; in whose communion Nayler preached, disputed and, having fallen, was restored and died. James Nayler, born 1618, was first a private soldier in the army of Fairfax, then a quarter-master under Lambert; and thus passed about eight years of his early life from 1641, being by profession an Independent. I have a prortrait of him, presented to me by the late William Dillwyn, in which, though much of the upper part is concealed under a slouched hat, the nose, mouth, and lower parts of the countenance evince much boldness and determination of character. must have been about thirty three years of age (having quitted the army on account of illness) when, upon some conference with Geo. Fox at Wakefield, he joined the quakers. He was soon after induced, by what he believed to be a voice from heaven, to leave his home and

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