alia_, which, after
being apparently deprived of life by its influence, was revived by the
inflation of the lungs with a blowpipe, and lived twenty-four years in
clover at Walton, are familiar to the readers of the _Wanderings_--but its
presumed efficacy in cases of hydrophobia was not destined to be tested in
the present instance, as the patient had expired before Mr W.'s arrival.
Its powers were, however, exhibited in the presence of a scientific
assemblage:--one of two asses operated upon, though restored at the time,
died on the third day, the other was perfectly recovered by the process of
artificial respiration, and "every person present seemed convinced that
the virulence of the Wourali poison was completely under the command of
the operator ... and that it can be safely applied to a human being
labouring under hydrophobia!" Now this inference, with all due deference
to Mr Waterton, appears to partake not a little of the _non sequitur_; and
unless the _modus operandi_ by which relief is to be obtained during the
suspension of vitality thus produced is more clearly explained, we doubt
whether many applications will be made for "the scientific assistance of
Mr Gibson of the General Hospital at Nottingham, to give the sufferer a
chance of saving his life by the supposed, though yet untried, efficacy of
the Wourali poison, which, worst come to the worst, would, by its sedative
qualities, render death calm and composed, and free from pain." Satisfied,
however, with the somewhat equivocal result of this experiment, Mr
Waterton resumed his preparations for departure, and having "called up the
gamekeeper, and made him promise, as he valued his place, that he would
protect all hawks, crows, herons, jays, and magpies," sailed from Hull for
Rotterdam with his two sisters-in-law and his only son, a boy eleven years
of age.

Mr Waterton's Catholic sympathies for the Belgian revolt, "for real
liberty in religious matters," and his lamentations over the magnificent
churches in Holland, stripped of their pictures and ornaments on the
change of religion, do not prevent his feeling very favourably disposed
towards the Dutch and their country, "the uniformity of which, and the
even tenor of their tempers, appear as if one had been made for the
other." The protection extended to the stork, which builds without fear in
the heart of their towns, gives them an additional claim on his good-will;
and "would but our country gentlemen put a