The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 577, July 7, 1827

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 577, July 7, 1827

DOMESTIC ANTIQUITIES

LINES ADDRESSED TO A PARTY OF YOUNG LADIES VISITING THE CATACOMBS AT PARIS

HOLLAND

THE HAWTHORN WELL

LINES

LAWS RELATING TO BACHELORS

THE NATURALIST

DEER OF NORTH-AMERICA, AND THE MODE OF HUNTING THEM

WOLVES OF NORTH AMERICA

CEDAR TREES

GIGANTIC WHALE

FALLS OF THE GENESEE

ANECDOTE GALLERY

SATIN STONE NECKLACES

DUELLING IN FRANCE

A DISTINCTION

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

PETER PENCE

POPISH RELICS

ANCIENT CHAIR

ANTIQUE KNIFE-HANDLE

ANCIENT BELL

FALCONRY TENURE

THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

FUNERAL OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.—BY AN EYE-WITNESS

EFFECTS OF FASHIONABLE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS UPON SERVANTS AND TRADESMEN

NEW BOOKS

LEGENDS OF THE LIBRARY AT LILIES. BY THE LORD AND LADY THERE

THE GATHERER

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The first of these archæological rarities is a pair of Snuffers, found in Dorsetshire sixty-four years since, and engraved in Hutchins's history of that county. They were discovered, says the historian, "in the year 1768, in digging the foundation of a granary, at the foot of a hill adjoining to Corton mansion house (formerly the seat of the respectable family of the Mohuns), in the parish of St. Peter, Portisham. They are of brass, and weigh six ounces: the great difference between these and the modern utensils of the same nature and use is, that these are in shape like a heart fluted, and consequently terminate in a point. They consist of two equal lateral cavities, by the edges of which the snuff is cut off, and received into the cavities, from which it is not got out without particular application and trouble."

"There are two circumstances attending this little utensil which seem to bespeak it of considerable age: the roughness of the workmanship, which is in all respects as crude and course as can be well imagined, and the awkwardness of the form."

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This country originally formed part of the territory of the Belgæ, conquered by the Romans, 47 years before Christ. A sovereignty, founded by Thierry, first Count of Holland, A.D. 868, continued till the year 1417, when it passed, by surrender, to the Duke of Burgundy. In 1534, being oppressed by the Bishop of Utrecht, the people ceded the country to Spain. The Spanish tyranny being insupportable, they revolted, and formed the republic called the United Provinces, by the Union of Utrecht, 1579. When they were expelled the Low Countries by the Duke of Alva, they retired to England; and having equipped a small fleet of forty sail, under the command of Count Lumay, they sailed towards this coast—being called, in derision, "gueux," or beggars of the sea. Upon the duke's complaining to Queen Elizabeth, that they were pirates, she compelled them to leave England; and accordingly they set sail for Enckhuysen; but the wind being unfavourable, they accidentally steered towards the isle of Voorn, attacked the town of Briel, took possession of it, and made it the first asylum of their liberty.

In 1585, a treaty was concluded between the States of Holland and Queen Elizabeth; and Briel was one of the cautionary towns delivered into her hands for securing the fulfilment of their engagements. It was garrisoned by the English during her reign, and part of the next, but restored to the States in 1616.

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