“In Cromwell’s time CHEPSTOW CASTLE served as a place of imprisonment for Jeremy Taylor; and, after the Restoration, it received a less illustrious occupant in the person of HARRY MARTEN, the Regicide, whose imprisonment here has attracted more than its share of notice in consequence of the foolish lines written by SOUTHEY in his days of republicanism and pantisocracy, but which are as untrue in _fact_ as they are mischievous in _sentiment_. As to the _fact_, it is notorious that MARTEN—at all events after the first few years of his imprisonment—was little more than a prisoner on parole; allowed to visit the neighbouring gentry, and occupying at Chepstow Castle, with his family and servants, spacious and comfortable apartments in the tower which still bears his name. As to the _sentiment_, the lines received their best antidote in the clever parody of Canning and Frere in _The Anti-Jacobin_.”—_Annals of Chepstow Castle_, by J. F. Marsh, 1883; 4to.] [Mrs. Elizabeth Brownrigg was executed at Tyburn on Monday, 14th Sept., 1767, for murdering one of her apprentices, Mary Clifford.—ED.] [Illustration] No. II. Nov. 27, 1797. In the specimen of JACOBIN POETRY which we gave in our last number was developed a principle, perhaps one of the most universally recognised in the Jacobin creed; namely, “that the animadversion of _human law_ upon _human actions_ is for the most part nothing but _gross oppression_; and that, in all cases of the administration of _criminal justice_, the truly benevolent mind will consider only the _severity of the punishment_, without any reference to the _malignity of the crime_”. This principle has of late years been laboured with extraordinary industry, and brought forward in a variety of shapes, for the edification of the public. It has been inculcated in bulky quartos, and illustrated in popular novels. It remained only to fit it with a poetical dress, which had been attempted in the INSCRIPTION for CHEPSTOW CASTLE, and which (we flatter ourselves) was accomplished in that for MRS. BROWNRIGG’S CELL. Another principle, no less devoutly entertained, and no less sedulously disseminated, is the _natural and eternal warfare of the_ POOR _and the_ RICH. In those orders and gradations of society, which are the natural result of the original difference of talents and of industry among mankind, the Jacobin sees nothing but a graduated scale of violence and cruelty. He considers every rich man as an oppressor, and every person in a lower situation as the victim of avarice, and the slave of aristocratical insolence and contempt. These truths he declares loudly, not to excite compassion, or to soften the consciousness of superiority in the higher, but for the purpose of aggravating discontent in the inferior orders.