shells, and other marine bodies, found dispersed therein. All those characters scarce leave any room to doubt but that those mines had been formed by a deposit of matter suspended in a fluid, and afterwards deposited on a primitive earth, which they covered with a great number of new strata. As to the beds of plaster and alabaster, and the shards of calcareous stones sometimes found mingled in those different strata, they can afford no objection against M. Guettard's opinion, as their formation may be much posterior to that of the mines, and they may have had their origin in clefts or cavities which the deposited matters had left between them, according as they received consolidation, and dried up. It follows, from this opinion of Mr. Guettard, that the subter raneous heaps of salt, which, according to common notions, give saltness to salt springs, ought to be always at the foot of high mountains; but this objection, if made would not be one in effect, but rather a proof of M. Guettard's opinion; for, indeed, almost all salt springs are placed in this manner, and are so found all along Mount Karpack in the space of a hundred leagues and upwards. The salt mines of Saltzburg, and those of Calabria, the salt springs throughout Germany, that of Salies in Bearn, the salt wells of Salins, in Franche-comté, of Dieuze, Chateau Salins, and Rozieres in Lorrain, are all placed in the same man. ner at the foot of high mountains: and, what is more remarkable, all those springs are surrounded with beds of earth and clay without any rock, and those beds form undulations, and are somewhat inclined to the horizon: all which characters seem to indicate earths formed by sediments. This kind of proof has even appeared so strong to M. Guettard, that he thinks, if careful researches were made in the environs of salt springs, mines of sal-gem or rock-salt, might, perhaps, be found, like those of Wiclicska. And, indeed, naturalists seem to be agreed, that the salt water of wells and springs is indebted only for its saltness to the banks of salt it meets with and dissolves in its route. The whole business would be then to find this repository. Hitherto, the discovery of saline banks has been by a sort of mere chance: why, then, should we not profit of the insight given us by M. Guettard's observations, to make the same research by principles and the help of theory they seem to point out. Digging into mountains above those springs might, if ju diciously conducted, lead the more surely to this discovery, be cause it seems, from all the observations M. Guettard has been able to make on this subject, that, in all the places were mines of salt are found, they are constantly covered with beds of the same matter. It would, therefore, be easy to know if one was on the right road long before being come to the real banks of CHARACTERS OF JUDGES OF KING CHARLES THE FIRST. 273 salt. And this important discovery would, if it took place, be a fruit of M. Guettard's journey. M. N. G. CHARACTERS OF THE JUDGES OF KING CHARLES THE FIRST. [From Heath's Chronicle of the Civil Wars.] COLONEL THOMAS HARRISON, the son of a butcher, at Newcastle under-line, in Staffordshire, once servant to Mr. Hulker, an attorney. He betook himself to the army in the beginning of the wars, and, by preaching, and such like sanctity, came to be a major, where his pragmatical spirit, cherished by Cromwell, preferred him to a colonel, and the custody of the king's person when taken from the Isle of Wight; which he most irreverently abused, by no less saucy behaviour than treasonable speeches. He was afterwards the great captain of all the schismatiques, especially fifth-monarchy-men, in whose love, and no others, he died, and was expectedly executed at CharingCross, in that expiatory month of October, 1660. John Carew, brother of Sir Alexander Carew, beheaded in 1644. This person was no doubt deluded by the mistaken impulses of Satan for those of the spirit, being a rank fifth-monarchist, and so predisposed against all government and authori ty, which he helped to strike at in the death of the king. John Cook, the solicitor of the high court, whose plea (charitably taken) is his best character-that his crime was not out of malice, but avarice; being a poor man, and in a wanting condition, before he undertook this most scelerate piece of service. Better be out of practice than in such as this. Henry Ireton, commissary-general of horse, Cromwell's second, espoused his daughter as well as his designs-so, like father-in-law, like son-out-law, and venterised in the same man. ner, and at the same time-1660. Hugh Peters, the shame of the clergy, a pulpit-buffoon, a seditious, abominable fellow, trumpet to his pageantry of a high court of justice, the most unparalleled ecclesiastic in all story or times. Thomas Scott, a brewer's clerk, then turned country attor ney, and, by countenance of the grandees, was chosen a recruit for the borough of Wickham, in the county of Buckingham; so violent an enemy of the king, that he wished for no other epitaph or inscription on his grave, than "Here lies Thomas Scott, one of the king's judges;" but he should first have wished for a grave. VOL. II. 2D ED. 35 Gregory Clement, a merchant, who procured and purchased a place in parliament, by the same means as he did his lustful debaucheries, for the notoriety of which his fellow villains discarded him their company. He contributed to the destruction of his sovereign that he might reign in his own wickedness. Colonel Thomas Pride, a brewer, to which he ascended from a drayman, by the same steps as from thence he became a lord; he was a resolute, ignorant fellow, but of very good success, and therefore fit to partake with Cromwell, and to venture on that prime and hardy work of garbling the parliament for him. That done, he deserved any employment from his master, and was put upon this, which he discharged with as much brutishness. Francis Allen, once a goldsmith, in Fleet-street, where he leaped into a pretty estate by marrying his mistress; was chose recruit of the long parliament, and adhered to the jesuits for their admission of him; was made one of the treasurers at war, a customer, and had Crow-house given him, and held it in capite regis; after that murther, was made one of the committee for sale of his majesty's lands, &c. Anthony Stapely, a Sussex gentleman, and colonel, and governor of Chichester, strangely wrought into this wicked conspiracie. Nicholas Love, Doctor Love's son, of Winchester, chamberfellow with the Speaker Lenthall, made one of the six clerks of chancery; a violent enemy against the king and his friends, from the very beginning of our troubles, and an army-partaker in this horrible act. Cornelius Holland, a servant to Sir Henry Vane, and preferred by him to the Green Cloth, in the king's household. His father was a poor man, and died a prisoner in the Fleet; but this fellow got a vast estate by his disloyalty against a good master, whom he not only robbed but murdered. John Hewson, a broken shoemaker, who by degrees rose to be a colonel, a fellow fit for any mischief, and capable of nothing else, as his story will declare, and, therefore, no wonder that he was a partaker in this impiety. He is since dead, in exile, and buried, by report, at Amsterdam. Thomas Wait, a Rutlandshireman, a recruit to the parlia ment, chosen by the army's influence, and, from a mean person, made by them governor of Burleigh, by which means he became engaged to their interests and designs. John Allured, a soldier of fortune, promoted (for his hand in this villainy) to be a colonel; died just before his majesty's res titution. POETRY. [We have been favoured with the following song in manuscript. It is from the pen of ROBERT BURNS, and has never before been published.] WHEN first I saw my Jeany's face I cou'd na' think what ail'd me, She 's ay ay sae blythe and gay, Had I Dundas's whole estate, But sair I doubt some happier swain gang she east, or gang she west, She's ay ay, THE YEARS TO COME. MY transient hour, my little day, The flush of youth will all be o'er, Days of the future cease to roll, THE WHEELBARROW. BY HENRY BUNBURY, ESQ. WITH a big bottle-nose, and an acre of chin, His whole physiognomy frightful as sin, With a huge frizzled wig, and a triangular hat, And a snuff-besmear'd handkerchief tied over that; Doctor Bos, riding out on his fierce Rosinante, (In hair very rich, but of flesh very scanty), Was a little alarm'd, through a zeal for his bones, Seeing Hodge cross the road with a barrow of stones. "Hip! friend," roar'd the doctor, with no little force, "Prithee set down your barrow, 'twill frighten my horse." Hodge as quickly replied, as an Erskine or Garrow, "You 're a d-d deal more likely to frighten my barrow." |