siderably inclined, for thirty feet from its mouth, and Part of the interior intersected by any other cave or re: whence the introduction of pebbles, and the action water within the cave, must have been considerably imeled; and the author, indulging his imagination, adds, lat" from its low position, it is also probable, that this ult formed the deepest recess of an extensive range of habited caves, to which successive generations of anteavian bears withdrew themselves from the turbulent ompany of their fellows, as they felt sickness and death preching. The habit of domesticated beasts and birds retire and hide themselves, on the approach of death, ders probable, that wild and savage beasts also do same." p. 141. Allowing two cubic feet for the dust of each individual, hall have, in this single vault, the remains of at least - bears; a number which may have been supplied in a and years by a mortality of two and a half per anChevreuil, from whom we believe the standard is as to bears, states, that a horse totally decayed, affords ene cubic foot of solid matter.

[To be continued in our next.]

Horizontal Plate Electrical Machine.-Dr. Hare, of
Pennsylvania, has suggested and practised a new mode of
mounting the plate of an electrical machine, by which it is
made to afford negative electricity as readily as positive,
without losing any of the advantages which the plate-
machine has over the cylinder. The plate is made to re-
volve horizontally, and is supported on an upright iron
bar, about an inch in diameter, which rises through a
table on which the machine stands. The bar rests be-
neath the table on a brass step, and is furnished with a
wheel and band, by which, motion is given to the machine.
Its upper end is fastened by a block of wood and cement,
into a glass cylinder 44 inches in diameter, and 16 inches
long, which, being open only at the lower end, forms a
perfect insulation. A brass cap surmounted by a screw
and shoulder, is cemented on to the cylinder, and the plate
is fastened on by means of the screw, a nut, and discs of
cork. Thus the plate, which is 34 inches diameter, is
mounted; and two cushions, of which there are two pair,
placed opposite to each other, as in the common machine,
and the conductors are mounted in a similar way, except
that wood is used in place of iron. The two rubbers con-
nect together by an arched brass rod, and the two con-
ductors by another arch of the same kind; these, there-
fore, act as the positive and negative conductors. There
is no undue strain upon any part of this machine, and it
is found, on practice, to excite well and insulate perfectly.
-Phil. Mag. Ixii. 8.

- trenery of a Roman Town. We last week noticed the
ordinary discovery of a Roman town (Urbs Urea) in
**hire, Scotland, and that several coins, &c. had been dug
We now supply the following additional particulars:
the centre ground, around which all these discoveries
been made, a very bloody and obstinately-contested
- has been fought, on the banks of the Eden, where Musical Phenomenon.-Paris, at this moment, possesses
aims are erected, near each of which the Romans a real phenomenon, in a young Hungarian, aged eleven
burned their dead. The many Roman urns found years, named Leist. This child already displays talents of
ther, the burning of the dead in four different places, the first order as a pianist; but the execution of young
ing out where the battle had raged, and where the Leist is not only distinguished for rapidity of fingering,
onians that fell in battle had been burned, all co- which is what is admired in a number of performers, but
te to prove, in the strongest manner, that it had been he unites to a perfection of lightness and firmness of hand,
estionably a battle fought by the Romans. When an expression, which has been wanting in other performers
again, is compared with the account given by Tacitus, whose reputation is, nevertheless, very high. This, how-
actly corresponds, in all leading-features, with his de- ever, is what is least astonishing in the talents of this ex-
tion of the great battle fought betwixt Galgacus and traordinary child. He composes in the style of the greatest
ola, hitherto supposed to have been at the foot of the masters, and he improves on lessons given him with a faci-
ans. It is obvious, however, that he had mistaken lity so much the more marvellous as the force and grace of
est Lomond Hill for Mount Grampius, and this may ideas never fail him. Since Mozart, who astonished seve
dered the source of all the ambiguity that bas hither-ral courts of Europe, at the age of eight years, the musical
ailed about it. Tacitus says, that, when Agricola world nas certainly witnessed nothing so surprising as
ne near to the Grampian mountains, he saw the young Leist. We must not forget to notice a character-
drawn up, to the number of 30,000, besides vo- istic feature, which completes his fame as a real prodigy,
&c. The spot where these aforesaid military which is, that, having only recently begun to learn the
were found exactly suits the place where he would French language, he already expresses himself in it with a
first view of the Caledonian army, drawn up on distinctness, and sometimes with an elegance, which would
er side of the vale of Eden. He carefully, how do credit to many youths of sixteen or eighteen years of
nceals the cunning artifice the Romans had be- age.-Paris paper..
themselves to, in order to entice the Caledonians
heir advantageous position across the Eden down to
called Merals, or Marvellous Ford, from the cir-
nce of the slaughter being so great on the banks of
brook running into it, that, according to the tra-
the country, still kept up, the Eden ran red with
for two days. We have here also the small hill and
mentioned by Tacitus, on which a body of the Cale-
were stationed, who, when attempting to surround
g of the victorious Romans, were attacked by four
of horse. This had necessarily brought on a
and sanguinary conflict, a little south from the
he field of battle, where all that had fallen there
have been burnt on one grand funeral pile, the
rising four-feet above the brook. The horse
#passed north, through a small gap, or opening of
and attacked the Caledonians in flight on the
the burning of the dead in two different places
s to confirm this) which is said by Tacitus to
led the fate of the battle. The very camp occu-
Sricola, after the battle, remains exactly according
a's description of it, half entire, and the rest
ced."

A singular occurrence took place in Lynn harbour, last week, during the gale of Wednesday night and Thursday morning. The spring-tides were at the height, and, by the table, should have risen seventeen feet, whereas the full rise was only seven feet. In the evening of the same day the tide rose to seventeen and a half. Such a phenomenon has not occurred in the memory of the oldest pilot or seafaring man in the port.-Cambridge Chronicle.

Direction of Lightning.—It is said to have been observed, from a series of observations, in Germany, that the general direction of lightning is from east to west, comparatively seldom from north to south. From ahother series of observations, also made in Germany, it is stated to appear, that most of the lightning rises in the west and extends towards the cast. We suppose it is meant that the direction of the lightning is parallel, or nearly so, to a line running east and west, for whether it goes in the one or the other direction, would, considering its velocity, be a difficult thing to determine. Perhaps, however, it is meant that the place from whence the lightning arises. in a storm, is successively removed from east to west, or west to east.

Extinction of Fires in Chimneys.-M. Cadet Vaux, reflecting on the circumstances of a fire, when it occurs in a chimney, was led to endeavour at its extinction, by rendering the air which passes up the flue unable to support combustion. This object he obtained by the simple means of throwing flour sulphur on the fire in the grate, and so effectual was it, that a fagot suspended in the chimney, very near the top, and consequently near the external air, when set on fire, and burning with great fury, was instantly extinguished on the application of the sulphur below. This process is the more applicable, inasmuch as it does not require that all the oxygen in the air should be converted into sulphurous acid gas, before it passes up the chimney: on the contrary, a comparatively small proportion of the latter gas, mixed with common air, is sufficient to prevent its supporting the combustion of common combustible bodies.

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Correspondence.

[SEE NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS.]

TO THE EDITOR.

SIR,-I wish some able person would, through the medium of your entertaining and instructive publication, favour us with a few remarks on mineralogy, a subject well worthy of study, but too seldom attended to, when we consider the wide field that it opens for the exercise of the intellectual faculties, and the endless fund of amusement it affords. On examining into it, what wonderful varieties of form and colour present themselves to our view! and what numberless proofs of the beneficence of providence, in the multifarious uses to which it is applied by man, directing our thoughts from "Nature up to Nature's

God!"

It is a branch of natural philosophy that deserves, above all others, our admiration, as being the grand source of our wealth, our power, as well as our domestic comfort, and the basis of many of the arts and sciences; and, by being made known, it will rise in the estimation of the world, and lead man more fully to appreciate the bounties of his Creator.

Hoping that these lines will call forth the desired communication, I subscribe myself your constant reader, and AN ADMIRER OF NATURE.

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of his scholars with respect to the etymology of the A learned schoolmaster being lately interrogated by syntax, replied, after some sage consideration, received its meaning from the circumstance of the having laid a tax on sin.

At the close of a tavern dinner, two of the company

down stairs; the one tumbling to the first landing the other rolling to the bottom. Some one re that the first seemed dead drunk,—"Yes," obsa wag, "but he is not so far gone as the gentleman

A jury in one of the Cinque Ports, some years being charged with an old woman, accused of steak pair of boots, moved probably by the infirmities serable appearance of the prisoner, returned the f verdict: We find her Not Guilty, and hope i never do so any more."

"So Regnault de St. Angely is gone: of what "Of a fever on the brain," was the answer. "I there was no foundation for the report," rejoined

SIR,-If you think the following incident worthy of in- die?" said, meeting one of Chamber of sertion it is at your service.

P.

An acquaintance of mine called, some time ago, at a house, situate at the north end of the town, whose inmates A Pithy Charge.-A deceased upright and a are notorious for their indolence. During his stay, a Justice of one of our courts was once obliged circumstance arose which displayed this quality in its dress a southern jury: Gentlemen of the highest perfection. By some accident or other the sofa-witnesses on both sides are incredible, and the pla this case the Counsel on both sides are unintellig between the mother and one of her sons. cover caught fire, which occasioned the following dialogue defendant are both such bad characters that to indifferent which way you give your verdict."

St. Ronan's Well.-The place wnich gives the name to
the forthcoming novel, from the author of Waverlery is
supposed to be situated in one of the islands of the Hebri-
des. In a statistical account of Scotland it is mentioned,
distant from the north-east point of Ness, there is a chapel
that on the island of Ronan, situate about twenty leagues
dedicated to St. Ronan, fenced round with a stone wall.
This chapel the natives take good care to keep very neat
and clean, and sweep it every day. It contains an altar,
on which there lies a large plank of wood, about ten feet
long. Every foot has a hole in it, and in every hole there
is a stone, to which the inhabitants ascribe several virtues ;
one of them, they say, is eminent for promoting speedy
delivery, and each stone has its peculiar properties. Near
this church, it is imagined, is situated St. Ronan's well,
though no mention is made of it in the statistical accounts;
is connected with the superstition of the Western Isles.
it may therefore be presumed, that the story of the novel

Extempore of Lord Erskine.-About the time of the
trial of Lord Melville, Mr. S. the Clerk of the Rules, hav-
ing occasion for a frank, to be addressed to "Mr. William
Linkhorn, at Dawlish, Devonshire," applied to Mr.
Erskine, then in the Court, who immediately wrote the
frank and handed it back to Mr. S. with the following
lines:

When the Clerk of the Rules draws a Frank up in Court,
Though the distance be great, the direction is Short;
If a Member he spies, whose pen is but scrawlish,
He trusts 'twill be legible somehow at Dawlish;
So he works the poor Member, his pen, and his inkhorn,
To Melvilize postage for one Billy Linkhorn.

Anecdote.-The late Rev. Dr. Nisbet, celebrated for his

profound erudition and ready wit, being asked how he
believing every thing but the truth, and that in exact pro-
would define modern philosophy ? replied, "It consists in

portion to the want of evidence; or, to use the words of a
poet, in making windows that shut out the light, and
passages that lead to nothing."

A comet is now visible in the mornings-two hours a half before sun-rise. It is situated in the southabout 15 degrees from the horizon. The nucleus sppe small, and ill defined, but the tail is brilliant.

To Correspondents.

POETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS-At length we have set
strict examination of the various literary captive
in our portfolio of reserve. They are many sort
ber: and their "commitment to quod," in many
has been occasioned simply by the very puzzling
cal characters in which they presented them
editor often, unable to break the spell, has contine
to safe custody, for some future effort; and the ta
examination having at length arrived, he a
the adjourned assizes are about to be opened in d
JUVENILE PUNS. Perhaps Sambo, whose doggres

ceding column, may imagine that we do not k
der his mask, but he is mistaken, We rec
certain wayward Westminster scholar, wher
more sail than ballast, a fault of which, bower,
ample time to mend, as our stripling auther, t
knowledge, has not yet attained his fourteenth
withstanding what we have elsewhere said on the
of pun and conundrum, we recommend to our yout
for the present, to prefer his Greek and Latin, in
know he is likely to excel. What would Dr.
say were we to forward to him his pupil's jeu d'esp
fear it would not "be jolly for Sambo."
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property, he forgets this pledge, and it is to counteract him that Francis is introduced as we have seen, armed with evidence which he has collected abroad, to prove his legitimacy, and establish his claim to the earldom and estates.

laud, where a medicinal spring and a picturesque neighbourhood have led to the erection of a modern ST. RONAN'S WELL. town near an ancient site, once adorned with the residence of a powerful family of the Mowbray's of St. teeming brain of the "Great Unknown," as he is Ronan, now a little frequented inn, kept by one Mismesstyled, has just produced another work, of which tress Meg Dods. Of this "old-world landlady," the At the New Inn, the Fox, which has so successfully are not yet been able to procure a copy. We shall, first chapter draws a striking picture, and she after rivalled the hostelry of Mrs. Dods, are assembled a bre, avail ourselves of the following article, from a wards figures prominently on the canvas as a loud-watering-place coterie, who severally make up the edporary, under the persuasion that the public curiosity tongued shrew, of a most uninviting person, and coun- other leading characters of the piece. Among these atense as ever to be introduced to the Waverleyenance. The hero, Francis Tyrrel, arrives at her door we find St. Ronan and his sister, upon whom Valenon horseback, and becomes her guest. He was, we tine and his agents plot, in order to defeat the rights as they successively make their debut into the are told, a well-made man, rather above than under the of the real Earl, and anticipate him by a clandestine middle size, and apparently betwixt five and twenty union with Clara. The conspiracy fails; for though and thirty years of age-for, although he might, at first St. Ronan, utterly ruined by them at play, endeavours glance, have passed for one who had attained the latter to force his sister into the connexion, she escapes from period, yet, on a nearer examination, it seemed as if the tyranny, and in a bitter November night finds rethe burning sun of a warmer climate than Scotland, fuge at the Mause or minister's house, the only abode and, perhaps some fatigue, both of body and mind, had above the rank of a hut, except Mrs. Dods', in the imprinted the marks of care and of manhood upon decayed village of St. Ronan. Here she meets a female his countenance, without abiding the course of years. instrument and victim of Valentine's, and also soon His eyes and teeth were excellent, and his other fea- after, a pathetic scene having ensued, her own lover expressed sense and acuteness; he bore, in his aspect, death, is at hand. He was at the moment deeply entures, though they could be scarce termed handsome, Francis at the Inn, but too late-the catastrophe, her that ease and composure of manner, equally void of gaged in writing, when something suddenly gleamed awkwardness and affectation, which is said emphati. on a large, old-fashioned mirror, which hung on the rally to mark the gentleman; and, although neither wall opposite. He looked up, and saw the figure of the plainness of his dress, nor the total want of the Clara, holding a light (which she had taken from the usual attendants, allowed Meg to suppose him a wealthy passage) in her extended hand. He stood for an inman, she had little doubt that he was above the rank stant with his eyes fixed on this fearful shadow, ere of her lodgers in general. he dared turn round on the substance which was thus The history of this personage, at which we get in reflected. When he did so, the fixed and pallid counthe last volume, fully justifies his hostess's supposition. tenance almost impressed him with the belief that he He is the eldest son of an Earl of Etherington, by a saw a vision, and he shuddered, when, stooping beside beautiful foreign lady, whom he married during his him, she took his hand. "Come away!" she said, in a travels on the continent, and afterwards abandoned for hurried voice, "come away, my brother follows to large fortuue. A son, Valentine, by this second mar escape him. Hannah Irwin is on before-but, if we a union of interest with Miss Bulmer, the heiress to a kill us both. Come, Tyrrel, let us fly-we shall easily riage, succeeds at the father's death, to the titles and are overtaken, I will have no more fighting-you shall estates, on the ground of the illegitimacy of bis half promise me we shall not-we have had but too much brother, Francis, with whom, however, he had been of that-but you will be wise in future." "Clara reared and educated. During this period, in order to Mowbray !" exclaimed Tyrrel. " Alas! is it thus?prejudice and ruin his senior, to whom the Earl ap- Stay-do not go," for she turned to make her escape: peared anxious to do justice, the intriguing Valentine" stay, stay; sit down." "I must go," she replied, earnestly promoted a love affair between him and Clara "I must go; I am called-Hannah Irwin is gone beAuthor of Waverley, &c. 3 vols. Edinb. Con. Mowbray, the heroine and sister to the last Mowbray fore to tell all, and I must follow. Will you not let sad Co.; London, Hurst, and Co. me go? Nay, if you will hold me by force, I know I must sit down-but you will not be able to keep me, for all that," A convulsive fit followed, and seemed, by its violence, to explain that she was indeed bound for the last and darksome journey. The old landlady was compelled to exchange one scene of sorrow for another, wondering within herself what fatality could have marked this single night with so much misery.When she arrived at home, what was her astonishment to find there the daughter of the house, which, even in their alienation, she had never ceased to love, in state little short of distraction, and tended by Tyrrel, whose state of mind seemed scarce more composed than that of the unhappy patient. The oddities of Mrs. Dods were merely the rust which had accumulated upon her character, but without impairing its nasee Clara again, or visit the neighbourhood where she tive strength and energy; and her sympathies were not of a kind acute enough to disable her from think

not carp at those occasional slips to which wrishject; but we do contend that it is no exriding with the public and vitiating the national tell that the author of Waverley writes post, and able are so eager for his works, that they cannot are their palpable inaccuracies corrected, mined more than a score pages of Quentin Durward; We have from this perusal, confirmed by the opinion of comes, who have read the whole, that we venture to the writer would do well to submit his next work on of some clever school-boy; as there is a cerendent class of readers who cannot be reconciled to writing and grammatical inaccuracies merely be inent but a slovenly writer is in a mighty hurry the public with four meagre volumes, at the enorof one guinea and a half.”

ST. RONAN'S WELL.

of St. Ronan. And here the story is rather common[From the Literary Gazette] place and improbable, for we farther learn, that while busied in pressing forward a secret match, which he il of the Peak-"thrice to thine;" Quentin hopes will incense his father beyond forgiveness with "thrice to thine;" and St. Ronan's Well Francis, Valentine discovers that a grand-uncle had a to make up nine" volumes, from the same bequeathed an immense fortune to the son of the Earl ich we bave had to notice within the year! of Ethrington, on the condition of his marrying into present is a sad tale, carried on in evil, aud the house of St. Ronan; and, he accordingly conspires in distress and death. The main plot and in- to supplant bis brother, and secure the property to are as little novel as in any of the author's himself. To accomplish this, he personates him at the imilar matters having served more than one old kirk, where the ceremony was arranged to take fiction, dramatic and narrative, for the frame place near nightfall; and hurrying the deceived bride to weave their tissues in times by-gone. It into a carriage, took the road to England. But he is fre more to the spirit with which the charac-intercepted by Franeis, thrown under the horses' feet, drawn, than to the story, that the popularity and almost killed; being only spared by his wronged Ronan's Well (whatever quantum it may attain) and indignant brother, on a pledge that he will never be wish. ene is laid on the Southern borders of Scot-lived. When he succeeds to his father's honours and

ment.

Biographical Notices.

CAPTAIN PARRY.

ing and acting as decisively as circumstances required. he said, laying hold of Tyrrel, and stopping him by "Mr. Tyrrel," she said, "this is nae sight for men force. "For revenge-for revenge!" said Tyrrel; folk-ye maun rise and gang to another room-" "I"Give way, I charge you on your peril!" "Vengeance will not stir from her," said Tyrrel" I will not re- belongs to God," replied the old man," and his bolt move from her either now, or as long as she or I may has already fallen. This way-this way," he conti We extract the following brief particulars of the life live." "That will be nae lang space, Master Tyrrel, nued. dragging Tyrrel into the house. "Know," he this enterprising navigator, from the volume of Tim if ye winna be ruled by common sense.' Tyrrel started said, so soon as he had led or forced him into a cham-Telescope for 1824, just published. up, as if half comprehending what she said, but re-ber," that Mowbray, of St. Ronan's, has met Bulmer William Edward Parry, the fourth son of Dr. Parry mined motionless. "Come, come," said the com- within this half hour, and has killed him on the spot." was born at Bath on the 19th of December, 1790, and passionate landlady, "do not stand looking on a sight" Killed whom?" answered the bewildered Tyrrel.ceived the rudiments of his education at the Gramer sair enough to break a harder heart than yours, hinny" Valentine Bulmer, the titular Earl of Ethrington." School of that city, under the care of the Rev. Natha -your ane sense tells ye, ye canna stay here-Miss" You bring tidings of death to the house of death," Morgan. Here he continued till he was about twe Clara shall be well cared for, and I'll bring word to answered Tyrrel;" and there is nothing in this world pursuing his studies with diligence, and uniformly your room-door frae, half-hour to half-hour how she left that I should live for." taining that deportment which gained him the read the masters and the esteem of his school-fellows. Ad is.". The necessity of the case was undeniable, and The Touchwood mentioned in this extract is an ac-time Admiral Cornwallis commanded the Channel Fi Tyrrel suffered himself to be led to another apart-tive instrument in the preceding parts of this novel, to whom young Parry was recommended by a neat ment, leaving Miss Mowbray to the care of the hostess and rather an outré character. He is painted as an lative of the Admiral, and was permitted to make and her female assistants. He counted the hours in eccentric old gentleman on the look-out for an heir; of the naval service, under the immediate auspices of an agony, less by the watch than the visits which Mrs. and it is chiefly through his means that the base ma- gallant officer. He therefore, joined the Ville de Pan Dods, faithful to her promise, made from intervalˇto | chinatians of Valentine are made to recoil upon his 1803; and, during his probationary year in this interval, to tell him that Clara was not better-that own head, and terminate in his destruction. He has scene, his conduct was such as secured the high opt she was worse-and, at last, that she did not think she fixed on Francis Tyrrel to inherit his vast fortune, of both officers and crew. His intrepidity of char could live over morning. It required all the depreca- but the latter leaves the country after the fatal loss of and his amiable attention to his cquals, were cre was often displayed, and his deference to his superie tory influence of the good landlady to restrain Tyrrel, his Clara, and is thought to have secluded himself manifested. His classical and other attainments, who, calm and cold on common occasions, was propor. from the world altogether in some religious establish-had been so assiduously acquired while at school, were tionably fierce and impetuous when his passions were no means neglected in his new situation. Admi afoat, from bursting into the room, and ascertaining, But the chief variety in this novel is its sketches of wallis had provided for the improvement of the y with his own eyes, the state of the beloved patieut.— modern manners. Most of the characters are those of members of the profession, and especially for the At length there was a long interval-an interval of the present day; and the loungers at the Fox might board of his own ship. The Rev. William Mor hours so long, indeed, that Tyrrel caught from it the pass for those of Buxton, Leamington, or Matlock. (afterwards Chaplain of the Royal Naval Asylum, & agreeable hope that Clara slept, and that sleep might We have an old maiden lady, Lady Penelope Pen-wich) was, at that time, Chaplain of the Ville & bring refreshment both to mind and body. Mrs. Dods, feather, a Blue of the pretending order, and a wonder- and was particularly attentive to the younger ter be concluded, was prevented from moving, for fear of ful patroness of talent. Sir Bingo Banks is a votary year of Parry's professional career not only y his charge; so that, under these circumstances, disturbing her patient's slumber; and, as if actuated of the turf, borse-racing, hunting, driving, and all the several valuable qualities of his character, but by the same feeling which he imputed to her, he ceased other refined accomplishments of his genus. Pity 'tis his store of knowledge, and seemed to have ne to traverse his apartment, as his agitation had hitherto that he is as great a brute as the cattle he rides. The more firmly those principles of virtue and religion, w dictated, and, throwing himself into a chair, forbore to Laird of St. Ronan is also addicted to these pursuits had been deeply impressed on his mind by the care a move even a finger, and withheld his respiration as and pleasures, which render him the dupe of Valentine, attention of his parents. It showed, too, that his sta much as possible, just as if he had been seated by the and the tyrant over his own sister. The other mem- disposition were suited to the service to which he had be pillow of the patient. Morning was far advanced, bers of the Ronan Fox-club are the wife of a mercan introduced. In reference to this period, the testing o Admiral Cornwallis is decisive. On the 4th of Agr when his landlady appeared in his room, with a grave tile sea-captain, a lawyer, a doctor, a pugnacious 1804, he writes, I never knew any one so geners by and anxious countenance. "Mr. Tyrrel," she said, Highlaud officer, a sentimental clergyman, and a cog proved of. He will experience civility and kindness r "ye are a Christian man." "Hush, hush, for Heaven's noscente of the appropriate name of Winterblossom. all whilst he continues to conduct himself as be ba sake!' hereplied; 66 you will disturb Miss Mowbray." The last appears the most original, and drawn (likeall which, I dare believe, will be as long as he ha "Naething will disturb her, puir thing," answered the others) from the life. He lived upon a moderate first three years he spent on board the Admiraly Mrs. Dods; "they have mickle to answer for that annuity, and had discovered a way of reconciling his the tedious and unprofitable task of blockading the brought her to this." "They have-they have indeed," economy with much company and made dishes, by fleet in the harbour of Brest; a service in wh says Tyrrel, striking his forehead; "and I will see her acting as perpetual president of the table d'hôte at the great opportunities of acquiring a knowledge of avenged on every one of them!-Can I see her?" Well. Here he used to amuse the society by telling cipline and practical seamanship. He still "Better not better not," said the good woman; but stories about Garrick, Foote, Bonnel Thornton, and equally attentive to his duty, and assiduous it he burst from her, and rushed into the apartment. "Is Lord Kellie, and delivering his opinions in matters of intendence of the Rev. Mr. Morgan, for wh his mind, and extending his knowledge, under life goue? Is every spark extinct?" he exclaimed taste and vertu. An excellent carver, he knew how always manifested a strong sense of obligation. eagerly to a country surgeon, a sensible man, who had to help each guest to what was precisely bis due: and been summoned from Marchthorn in the course of the never failed to reserve a proper slice as the reward of night. The medical man shook his head-He rushed his own labours. To conclude, he was possessed of to the bedside, and was convinced by his own eyes that some taste in the fine arts, at least in painting and the being, whose sorrows he had both caused and shared, music, although it was rather of the technical kind, was now insensible to all earthly calamity. He raised than that which warms the heart and elevates the almost a shriek of despair, as he threw himself on the feelings. There was, indeed, about Mr. Winterblospale hand of the corpse, wet it with tears, devoured it sora, nothing that was either warm or elevated. He with kisses, and played for a short time the part of a was shrewd, selfish, and sensual; the last of which distracted person. At length, on the repeated expos-qualities he screened from observation, under a specious tulation of all present, he suffered himself to be again varnish of exterior complaisance. Therefore, in his conducted to another apartment, the surgeon follow. professed and apparent anxiety to do the honours of ing, anxious to give such sad consolatian as the case the table, to the most punctilious point of good breedadmitted of. "As you are so deeply concerued for the ing, he never permitted the attendants upon the pub. untimely fate of this young lady," he said, "it may be lie taste to supply the wants of others, until all bis some satisfaction to you, though a melancholy oue, to own private comforts had been fully arranged and proknow, that it has been occasioned by a pressure on the vided for." brain, probably accompanied by a suffusion; and I feel authorized in stating, from the symptoms, that if life had been spared, reason would, in all probability, never have returned. In such a case, Sir, the most affectionate relation must own, that death, in compa. rison to life, is a mercy." "Mercy?" answered Tyrrel; "but why, then, is it denied to me?"—I know -I know!-My life is spared till I revenge her." He started from his seat, aud rushed eagerly down stairs, But, as he was about to rush from the door of the inn, ho was stopped by Touchwood, who had just alighted from bis carriage, with an air of stern anxiety imprinted on his features, very different from their usual expresRAUL Whither would ye? Whither would ye 2"

But we must conclude. The publication of this novel has been so strangely misconducted, that while it is being read at Edinburgh, and even Dublin (whence a copy might have got to town by yesterday morning) it has not yet found its way to London from Scotland. The only literary notice of it has appeared in the Leeds Intelligencer, whose observant editor has arrested a good ladle-full of the Well as it hubbled up wards, towards 179. As if anticipating the weather which has prevented the arrival of the copies destined for the metropolis, we are indebted to this gentleman for our ability to say even the little we have said; andthus thank him by proclaiming his zeal both as a public caterer and a private friend.

46

In May, 1806, Parry joined the Tribune, th guns, then commanded by Captain Baker, and co off L'Orient. In the following year, and a par this vessel cruised off the west coast of Fratt Peninsula, from Rochefort to Lisbon. The t vice which presented themselves at this p connoitering, and others, which belonged t party, into all of which young Parry enacted usual spirit and promptitude. In April, 15 Baker was appointed to the Vanguard, of guns, then in the Baltic, and which Parry si the following month. Early in the next year, parations were made for an active summer in against the Danes, in which service Party W. ployed. On the 6th of January, 1810, he was to he rank of Lieutenant, and, on the 9th Soon after this, the subject of this memoir begs joined the Alexandria, commanded by Captain the situation of the principal fixed stars 1 phere, with a view of applying them to the finding the lattitude and longitude at night; at the same period, employed in preparing northern navigation. During the two followe the Alexandria remained on the Leith station, the northern whale-fishery, and Lieutenant continued to observe the stars. He also empi self in making a survey of the Balta Sound, in Shetland, a harbour which was very though the only one capable of sheltering the north-eastern part of these islands. This transmitted to the Lords of the Admiralty in ** were pleased to signify their approbation of h consider it as highly acceptable. “Mr. P. al, same time, présented other charts, of the cost

chars

Denmark and Sweden, to the hydrographer of the Adamiralty. While engaged in this service, in 1812, the Alexandria was ordered to proceed as far as seventy-six of north latitude, and return with the last of the whalers; but she was prevented from reaching that parallel by large of floating ice, and made the North Cape. The lowing January, Parry was discharged from the Alexdru, and ordered to proceed to Halifax, in which sta on the years 1813 and 1814 were spent; and where he red, among the junior officers, several copies of practical rules for observing the fixed stars, a coreted opy of which was afterwards printed. In May, 816, Pany was at the top of the Admiralty's list for ; and, in June, was appointed first Lieutenant his Majesty's ship Niger, on the Halifax station, comaded by Capt. Jackson, where he still secured the same fem and confidence he had obtained on board other vesIn consequence of a severe affliction experienced by his Lieut. Parry obtained leave to return to England, he arrived in May, 1817. He spent the summer in icinity of Bath, where his parent then resided; and beautumn of that year, when the first of the late exons, in search of the north-west passage to the Pacific an, was contemplated, Lieut. Parry was strongly remended to the Lords of the Admiralty; in conseace of which, he was appointed to the command of the sander, the second ship destined to explore that pasunder the orders of Captain Ross. The particulars as voyage are too well known to require repetition; the result of the discussions which followed was the intraent of a uce expedition to the same quarter, to m the following spring. Such was the high opinion h the Lords of the Admiralty entertained of Parry's lact on the former occasion, that the second attempt entrusted to his sole care and direction; as he not received the command, but was consulted in the e of the ships and officers of the expedition. The

temporaries had wished a longer existence. The blood-standing with a good report, and whatever
thirsty heroes, who stalk over the sad victims of their vices he has besides, yet having no enemies,
phrenzy, should be for ever confined to their graves; and
they should be laid much lower than others, lest their he is sure to be an honest fellow.
baneful emanations continue the work of destruction in
which they were engaged during life-time.

A French, critic adds, if historians were to write on this plan, they could certainly do much good; but who will do it? (no Frenchman, I suppose.) Men will always give preference to deeds which bespeak vigour; and, ascribing grandeur to destruction, they will ever applaud robbery and conquest; whilst they hardly speak of peaceable nations and princes, who seek for happiness without glitter. If people could choose their ancestors, the great majority would prefer Attila to Aristides, and be more pleased by descending from a successful robber, than from one who is merely known by his virtues. As far as appearances go, the temple of glory is erected by cowards, and only those men dare enter who inspire others with fear.

REVIVIANA.

MICRO COSMOGRAPHIE; or, a Piece of the
WORLD DISCOVERED; in ESSAYES, and
CHARACTERS. By DR. JNO, EARLE. The
Eighth Edition. London: printed by R. D. for
P. C. 1664.

[CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.]

46. A PLAUSIBLE MAN is one that would Ships (Lieut. Parry in the Hecla, and Lieut. Liddon fain run an even path in the world, and The Griper) left England in May, 1819, under an ex-jut against no man. His endeavour is not e degree of public interest and anxiety In Novemof the following year, both vessels almost unexpectedly to offend, and his aime the generall opimed; and, though the object of the expedition had nion. His conversation is a kind of cone fully realized, the most sanguine anticipations as

[To be continued.]

The Housewife.

EMPLOYMENTS OF YOUNG GENTLEWOMEN.

[The following is from Sir M. Hale's Letter of Advice to his Grandchildren-written, as most of our readers know, in the reign of Charles II.]

In former times, the education and employment of young gentlewomen were religious, sober, and serious, dress. When they were young, they learned to read and their carriage modest, and creditable was their habit and sew; as they grew up, they learned to spin, to knit, to make up their own garments; they learned what belonged to housewifery, the prices of provisions, and how they were to be ordered, and thought it no disparagement to put their hands to the business of the dairy, or sorting of wool, to look to the stores and provisions of their parent's house, and to order them to the best advantage; to know what belongs to brewing, and baking, and winnowing, and to see corn well ordered in the barn, in the moulting, and in the cistern.

verses.

safety of the crews had been surpassed; as not a tinued Complement, and his life a prac-business to paint or patch their faces, to curl their locks, man was lost, except one who was unwell when the tice of manners. tion left England.

The relation he bears to others is a kind of fashionable respect, not friendship, but friendliness, which is equall to all, and generall, and his kindnesses seldome He loves not deeper

exceed courtesies.

And by this means, when they came to be disposed of in marriage, they were in themselves a portion, whether they had little or much, and could provide for and govern a family with prudence and discretion, and were great helps to their husbands, and knew how to build up a fapull it down: such was the woman described and commily, and accordingly were instruments in it, and not to mended by a queen, Prov. xxxi. 10, and the following And now the world is altered: young gentlewomen learn to be bold, talk loud, and more than comes to their longs to good housewifery, or to practise it, make it their share, think it disparagement for them to know what beand to find out the newest and costliest fashions. If they rise in the morning before ten of the clock, the morning is spent between the comb and the glass, and the box of patches; though they know not how to make provision for it themselves, they must have choice diet provided for them, and when they are ready the next business is to come down, and sit in a rubbed parlour till dinner come in; and after dinner, either to cards, or to the exchange, and after supper, either to a ball or to cards: and at this or to the play, or to Hyde Park, or to an impertinent visit; rate they spend their time, from one year's end to the principally avoids. At your first acquain-husband's money or estates in costly clothes, new fashions, other; and at the same rate they spend their parents' or tance with him, he is exceeding kind and chargeable entertainments. Their home is their prison, and they are never at rest in it, unless they have gallants friendly, and at your twentieth meeting after, and splendid company to entertain. They know the but friendly still. He hath an excellent ready way to consume an estate, and to ruin a family command over his patience and tongue, es- practise the ways and methods to save or increase it: and quickly; but neither know nor can endure to learn or pecially the last, which he accommodates it is no wonder that great portions are expected with them, for their portions are commonly all their value; and comalwayes to the times and persons, and speaks monly within a few years, nay, possibly within a few months, they run their husbands in debt, or spend as seldome what is sincere, but what is civil. much money as their portions come to; and then they are He is one that uses all companies, drinks all a sort of chargeable, unprofitable people; they neither French history of Lorrain, Abbé Bexon complains healths, and is reasonable cool in all Religions. know how to housewife, nor manage what is left unspent, nor to live within the compass of it. If a fit of reading and with justice, that history does more frequently He considers who are friends to the com- come upon them, it is some romance, or play-book, or love alize crimes than virtues. Forgetting private instory; and if they have at any time a fit of using their needle, it is some such unprofitable or costly work, that spends their friends or husbands more than it is worth

uch was the satisfaction which the conduct of the
ander, under these new and trying circumstances,
led to all concerned, that he was immediately pro.
and a third expedition planned, under the vigilance
are of the same experienced and intrepid navigator;
uch was the confidence inspired by his former de
ent, that the officers and men, who volunteered to mutualities, because he would not take sides,
many him, were treble the number that could be ac-
Captain Parry, therefore, once more left his na-nor hazard himself on displeasures, which he
atry for these hyperborean regions, as already
in May, 1821."

The Bouquet.

here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have ight nothing of my own but the thread that ties them." MONTAIGNE.

ON HISTORY.

Translation by Homo, from the German of Kotzebue.]

als, and despising the people at large, she only paints pany, and speaks well where he is sure to men of the age; not the best, but the most cele-hear of it again. He can listen to a foolish History passes the mild and modest glimpse of discourse with an applausive attention, and without notice, to exhibit the dazzling glare of and conceale his Laughter at Non-sense. and ambition. Neglecting to bestow attention upon

crifices, which are not often imitated, she repreplendid misdeeds, and she suffers narrow-minded apid admiration to supply her with colours. With hands she squanders upon her unworthy favourites ise of which she deprives real merit; and she perthe memory of refulgent villains at the expense ring humanity.

when it is finished.

But, my grand-daughters, I must neither have you idle, nor employed in this manner; for though I intend to provide competent portions for you, if God bless me and you, Silly men much honour and esteem him, be-yet I intend not thereby to purchase for you a life of idlecause by his fair reasoning with them, as with hess or profuseness. men of understanding, he puts them into an erroneous opinion of themselves, and makes them forwarder hereafter to their own discovery. He is one rather well thought on treasures which history ought to save from oblivion then belov'd, and that love he has, is more transmit to posterity are instances of rectitude and of whole companies together, then any one gs to their fellow-creatures, and to whom their con- in particular. Men gratifie him notwith

ence. Such men only should be named as have been

flour (a quarter pound left to sift in last) and a half pound Mrs. G.'s famous Buns.-One pound and a half of of butter cut up fine together; then add four eggs, beat to a high froth, four tea-cups full of milk, half a wine-glass of brandy, wine, and rose-water each, and one wine-glass pound of sugar, then sift in the quarter of a pound of of yeast; stir it all together with a knife, and add half a flour, and when the lumps are all beat fine, set then to rise in the pans they are to be baked in. This quantity will make four square pans full.-American paper.