The wonder of the Caudine Forks: Who were invulnerable at Lisonjas and Amenazas, Those national troops who saved Castile: On the side which looks towards the Town Hall, there is also a crown, with the following inscription: "To the valour and patriotism fields of Pavia exist, the memory of Spani ards will be preserved. The whole oppio brium will fall upon Napoleon, who has made known to Europe our triumphs, and manifested his own weakness. This sword, which was before a monument of our superiority in arms to France, will now be also a record of the iniquity of her government. Frenchmen, beware of shewing to the curious stranger the sword of your king Francis, least he should say, Napoleon regained Of those warriors who have overthrown the by perfidy what Spain acquired with streams cagle of France, By the grateful people of Madrid." Beneath is a garland of laurel and a crown of olive on the right appears an eagle soaring into the air bearing a lamb in his talons Spain with Pleuty, on one side, and surrounded by French troops, led on by their commander Murat, who holds a dagger in his hand the treacherous eagle, the destructive ensign of his army, is attacked on all sides; and below are the following words : "To commemorate the crimes Of a monster whom we cherished in our bosom; To commemorate the perfidy of Napoleon, To commemorate the profanation of the temples, And the ravages sustained by our towns, On the left is represented Spain encompassed by her sons, who crowd around her for protection, being terrified at the approach of the devouring eagle. Close to one of them is the following inscription: "To the victims of French cowardice, To the innocent blood which cries aloud for vengeance; To the souls of Velarde and Daoiz ; By the grateful city of Madrid." The Sword of Francis I.-[For the history of the surrender of this sword to the Corsican, see Panorama, Vol. IV. p. 587.] The Tyrant of France, who has omitted no expedient to degrade our generous nation, demanded and obtained of our ill-advised government the sword of Francis I. Perfidious man! It was not thus our ancestors acquired it. Do you fancy that you can by this proceeding erase from the records of history, our heroic deeds? As long as the of the blood of your ancestors." France might be proud had she gained this as she acquired the sword of the Great Frederick. The battle of Jena threw down the column of Rostock; but what triumphs have you gained over us? Declare it, deceived Ferdinand! who was delivered up to the most perfidious of men! Tell it, Madrid, bathed in the blood of your unarmed inhabitants! Raise your voices, Cordova, Jaen, Andujar, and the towns, whose temples the generous French troops have profaned, whose inhabitants they have plundered, whose women they have violated! These are the glories, these are the deeds of arms by which Napoleon has conquered the sword of Francis I. -Brave Spaniards! Ye have already taken. vengeance; yours is not the shame; it is all his his is the ignominy with which he purposed to load you. The plains of Baylen, the walls of Valencia, the fields of Saragossa -names which will reach the most distant posterity! see here your true glory, and the confusion of those armies of assassins who foolishly fancied they could elude your vengeance. Let us prepare for new triumphs. There are other swords for you of greater value. Fly and snatch them from the traitor who deceived us. But he will not come to meet us. The man of blood and slaughter is a coward; he will fly from before our battalions; be it then your task to pursue him to the confines of the earth, to deliver it from the tyrant who destroyed it.-[From a Spanish Paper.] · Execution of the Undertaking for continuing the Meridian Line through Spain, to the Balearic Islands.-The following is the report of a commission appointed by the Board of Longitude, for the purpose of examining and calculating with the greatest accuracy, the observations made on the subject of the meridian line, now continued through Spain, to the Balearic islands.The new measurement extends from Fort Montjoui at Barcelona, to the small island of Tormentera in the Mediterranean. The extent of the arc in the direction of the Meridian, from the obelisk at Matas to Tormentera, is 315, 552 mêtres. As the arc passes over an extent of sea, it has been measured by connecting a chain of triangles along the coast of Spain, from Barcelona to the kingdom of Valencia, and uniting the coast of Valencia to the islands by means of a very large triangle, one side of which measured more than 160,000 mêtres (82,555 fathoms), and as the great distance between the different points respectively rendered, made a communication by signals during the day impossible, the commissioners used night signals, made by means of tubular lamps [Argand?] with reflecting mirrors which we re placed at the different points of observation, and kept lighted from sunset to sunris. The angles were measured by means of a large repeating circle of Lenoir, and the accuracy of the measurement was proved, by a variety of observations. The formation of the triangle was begun in the winter of 1805; winter being the only season of the year, during which the weather is at times suficiently clear for observing triangles of extensive dimensions. Towards the latter end of summer of 1807, the geometrical part of the observations was concluded.From the above statement it appears, that this new measurement of the Meridian, executed in Spain, not only confirms the utility of the metre, but gives it an additional degree of accuracy, by making it almost independent of the flattening of the globe; and the junction of this Meridian to that of France, formerly measured, gives an are of nearly 14 degrees, situated equally distant from the aquator and the poles; whence, latitudes, azimuths, and differences in the power of gravitation have been observed at several distinct points. For its extent, its situation, and the accuracy of the means employed in the measurement, this operation forms the most admirable of the kind-The first part of the measurement was executed by Messrs, Mechain and Delambre; that which relates to Spain was entrusted to Messrs. Biot and Arago assistants to the Board of Longitude, aided by the Spanish commissaries Chaix and Rodriguez. NEW SOUTH WALES. Tumults. We regret to find that some serious disturbances have taken place in this settlement; but it appears by the following proclamation, that they have happily subsided. This proclamation is by the lieutenant governor; governor Bligh, being, it is said, on his way home in a state of arrest :Proclamation.-George Johuston.-The pubpeace being happily, and, I trust in Almighty God, permanently established, I hereby proclain the cessation of martial law. -I have this day appointed magistrates and other public functionaries, from amongst the st respectable officers and inhabitants, which will, I hope, secure the impartial lic administration of justice, according to the laws of England, as secured to us by the patent of our most gracious sovereign.— Words cannot too strongly convey my approbation of the behaviour of the whole body of people, on the late memorable event. By their manly, firm, and orderly conduct, they have shewn themselves deserving of that protection which I have felt it my duty to give them, and which, I doubt not, they will continue to merit.-In future no man shall hare just cause to complain of violence, injustice, or oppression:-no free man shall be taken, inprisoned, or deprived of his house, land, or liberty, but by the law. Justice shall be impartially administered, without regard to, or respect of persons; and every man shall enjoy the fruits of his industry in security.-Soldiers!-Your conduct has endeared you to every well disposed inhabitant in this settlement ! Persevere in the same honourable path, and you will establish the credit of the New South Wales corps on a basis not to be shaken.-God save the King. By Command of his Honour, the Lieutenant-Governor,- NICHOLAS BAYLY, Secre ·Head-quarters, Sydney, Jun. 27, tary. -1808. phagi.-We are informed that the Venus, a Destruction of Convicts by the Anthropovessel seized and carried off by some convicts at Port Dalrymple to New Zealand, was there taken by the natives, who killed and ate all the people. The vessel itself they drew on shore, and burnt it for the sake of the iron. This information was communicated to the Mercury, a vessel that touched at New Zealand, and was in danger of being taken by Lady Nelson about two years ago, and who one Druse, a man who deserted from the is now become a chief, tattooed from head to foot; and has a number of natives under his command. TURKEY, The revolution in Turkey, which the reader will find under the head of Austria, p. of the schemes of France against this empire. 159, appears to have originated in a detection Very little is correctly known concerning it: but from the displeasure expressed by Buona parte in mentioning it to his Senate, in a public address, we infer that he thinks it contrary to his interest. In fact, the French interest has lately been declining at the Porte: in consequence as it is understood of a discovery of the secret articles of the treaty of Tilsit. Query. Whence did the Turks procure them?-Does the communication of them form one of the crimes to be imputed to Austria in Buonaparte's manifesto indicating his attempts against that empire! LINES TO A YOUNG LADY, ON HER RECOVERY FROM INDISPOSITION. Sprung from the bed of pale disease, Safe from the Fiend's embrace, The glow of health we trace. Thro' the vicissitude of life Has kindly guided thee. May that same Power, as years revolve, Yet should affliction's woe return The antidote impart. May friendship wipe with pitying hand, THE LANDSCAPE. How pleas'd within my native bowers, Was ever scene so decked with flowers, How sweetly smil'd the hill, the vale, The hill with bushes crown'd. That hill and stream my zeal oppose, And check my fond career. No more, since Daphne was my theme, TO VAINE HOPE. J. W. Thou dreame of madmen, ever changing gale, 'Swell with thy wanton breath the gaudie saile, Of glorious fooles! Thou guid'st them who thee court To rocks, to quick-sands, or some faithlesse port. In my Castara. Were't not fondnesse then THE GATHERER. No. V. Of the Clock at Basle in Switzerland. Every traveller knows, that the computation of time, in this city, is one hour in advance. I am but a Gatherer and disposer of other men's Various reasons are assigned for this usage, A stuff.-WOTTON. Hyberbolical Inscription to Napoleon. The following modest inscription deserves a place in the Gatherer, The monument or column ejected at Kalisch, in honour of his Majesty the Emperor and King Napoleon the great, has the following inscription engraven on its pedestal. The author is the late Vice Chancellor Kallonlay. story however prevails, that when the cathedral was built, the architect by mistake, turned the side whereon was placed the sundial, too much to the east, and caused this erroneous reckoning. There have been several attempts made to reform the singularity, Some years ago an Englishman went to reside at Basle, and being desirous of setting the Baslois right in this particular, he used his utmost endeavours, by writing and persuasion, to convince them of the absurdity of continuing so erroneous a method for com putation. He gained many proselytes to his opinion, but the bulk of the people thought. no way cou'd be right but the old, and his efforts ended in his being ridiculed. A cari making a run at the hands of the clock, to drive them an hour later, while the people were pulling him back by the tail. Napoleoni, magno, justo, pio, beneficio, Gallorum Imperatori invicto; Italorum Regi; Germanorum Protectori; Italico, Germanico, Austriaco, Hungarico, Bohemico, Helvetico, Batavico, Hispanico, Lusitanico, Sarmatico, Prussico, Sureico, Russico, Egyp-cature represented this reformer as a goat tiaco, Syriaco, Arabico, &c. Dominatori, Triumphatori, Pacificatori; Populorum per Europam Legislatori; Nominis Poloni Restauratori et Vindici-Cohortes Legionis II. Duce Josepho Zajonczek, ejusdem Legionis Præfecto, Generali ac Ludovico Davoust, Imperii Gallorum Mareschallo, tunc temporis copiarum armataru mper Polonium Supremo Duce Frutori magnanimus ob restitutiam Polonis patriam ævicternæ gratitudinis, ergo posuerunt anno æra vulgaris- restituta pa triæ anno.” Three unfortunate epochs are mentioned in the annals of Basle; a plague in 1314, which carried off 1100 persons; an earthquake in 1356 which destroyed almost the whole city; and another plague in 1564, when 7000 souls' perished. They may since add a fourth : that in which the French republicans overrun their country, and forced them to accept the fraternal hug. Exquisite Dancing no Attraction. The following anecdote occurred long before the days of Vestris, Deshayes, or Parisot. As we have in reviewing a work on dancing admitted the highest eulogies on the art, it is but fair that we should admit something by way of counterpoise on the otherside, "To Napoleon the great, the just, the pious, the beneficent, the invincible Emperor of France, the King of Italy, the protec tor of Germany, the triumphant conqueror and pacificator of Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Switzerland, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Egypt, Syria, Arabia, &c. the Legislator of the nations of Europe, the restorer and avenger of the Polish In a work entitled. "A Comparison be name, the Cohorts of the second legion, their tween the two Stages," p. 48. et seq. we general Joseph Zajonczek, commander of read: "The late duke of Monmouth was a that legion, and Louis Davoust, marshal of good judge of dancing, and a good dancer the French empire, and commander in chief himself, when he returned from France, he of the forces in Poland, have erected this me- brought with him St. Andre, then the best nument as a testimony of eternal gratitude for master in Franee. The duke presented him the restoration of the country of Poland, in the to the stage, the stage to gratify the dake adyear of the common æra, and of the res-mitted him, and the duke himself thought toration of the country A much shorter but equally senseless inscription for a Christian country, and in the nineteenth century, has been put up at Paris -The Class of the National Institute appropriated to history and ancient literature, haying the charge of composing inscriptions for the different moments of the metropolis, determined on the following for the Fountain near the Medical School at Paris. Napoleonis. Augusti. Providentia. he might prove a mighty advantage to them, though he had nobody else of his opinion, A day was published in the bills for him to dance, but not one more besides the duke and his friends came to see him; the reason was, the plays were then so good, and Hart and Mohun acted them so well, that the audience would not be interrupted for so short a time, though it was to see the best master in Europe." an The expences of a benefit night at the old house, i. e. Drury-Lane Theatre, to author in 1702, i. e. “ the ordinary charge, was about four and thirty pounds a day." In Mr. Garrick's time they were 64 pounds. POLITICAL PERISCOPE. PROTEST OF HIS HOLINESS THE POPE AGAINST BUONAPARTE. Catholic Sovereign, and of binding himself to make war upon bit. But all the representations, and all the reasons so frequently submitted to his Majesty with paternal taildness, have not produced the least impression. It has been sought to justify the spoliation upon To Signor Cavaliero Aldini, Chargé d'Affaires of another pretext, by assigning, as the second motive the Kingdom of Italy. From the Quirinal Palace, May 19, 1808.His Holiness having received the painful notification of the union which is about to take place, of his four duchies of Urbino, Macerato, Ancona, and Camerino, with the kingdom of Italy, amid the cruel uneasiness which this rigorous treatment causes him, has charged the Cardinal Gabrielli, Pro-Secretary of State, to make the following frank declaration to your Most Illustrious Highness. The Holy Father has seen, with infinite pain, that the force of the reasons contained in the note of the 19th of April, addressed to M. Lefebvre, the Chargé D'Affaires, has not prevented his Imperial and Royal Majesty from putting his threats in execution. He has seen, with the same feelings, that this powerful Monarch, in whose hands he placed, at the altar, the sceptre, and the rod of justice, has proceeded, contrary to every species of right, to inflict upon him a new spoliation of the best part of the states which remained to him. But what has been the astonishment of his Holiness in observing a decree, dated one day anterior to the note of M. Champagny; so that even before that minister had renewed his propositions and received an answer, the fate of the three usurped provinces was already decided! which produced it, that the incests of the two kingdoms, and of the two annues of Italy and Naples, demanded that their communications should not be interrupted by a hostile power. If by this power is meant to be understood England, the history of almost two centuries will shew the falsity of this specious pretence. The Catholic Princes of Spain, and of the House of Austria, from the Emperor Charles V. to Charles II. of Spain, possessed the kingdom of Naples and the ducky of Milan, which forms at present the principal part of the kingdom of Italy, and they never perceived that their interests were compromised; they never experienced this pretended obstacle to the communication of their armies. They were frequently at war with Great Britain, and still oftener with France, but they were never apprehensive of an intermediate debarkation upon the territory of the Holy Sce; still less did they pretend to force the Pontifis of that period to unite and confederate with them, or to despoil them of their possessions, should they have refused. But putting history aside, what risks could the interests of these separated kingdoms even run? The neutrality of the Holy Father, recognised and respected by all other Powers, and the measures taken to prevent its violation, are more than sufficient to place these interests in security. To render this security still greater, and to take away every sort of pretext, his Holiness carried his compliance as far as he consistently could; he decided himself disposed to shut his ports against the English during the present war, and to employ his troops to guard the coasts of his states from every hostility whatever. But what attack could be dreaded upon these two kingdoms, which border upon the states of the Holy See, while French troops, for so long a period, without regard to the interests of the public or of individuals, have violated his neutrality, occupied all his ports, and covered all his coasts? The astonishment of the Holy Father was still farther augmented, when he saw it assigned as a legitimate cause of this spoliation, that he had constantly refused to make war upon England, and to confederate with the Kings of Naples and of Italy. However, his Holiness had never ceased to represent, that his sacred character of Minister of Peace-the God, whose representative he is upon earth, being the God of Peace-that his quality of universal Pastor, and of the common Father of all the Faithful-that the holy Laws of justice, of which, as the representative of the God who is their source, he ought to be the guardian and the avenger-could rever perrat him to enter into a permanent system of war, and If, however, by a hostile power, it was wished much less still to declare war, without any mo- to designate the person of the Holy Father, his tive, against the British government, from which character itself, mild and pacific, puts an end to he had never received the slightest offence. Howthis jurious imputation; but the better to reever, the Holy Father conjured his Majesty to refute it, his Holiness calls to witness the French flect, that not having, and not being in the capa-empire and the kingdom of Italy, in favour of city of having enemies, because he is the Vicar of Jesus Christ, who came into the world not to foment, but to destroy animosities, he could not bind himself and his successors, in perpetuity, as the Emperor wished, to make war for the quarrels of another. which he signed two Concordats, whose violation has been the source of perpetual grief to his heart, in having constantly, but in vain, pressed their faithful execution. He calls Europe itself to witness, which has seen him, in his old age, in the most rigorous season of the year, traverse the Alps, and proceed to Paris, not without exciting the jealousy and disgust of other great "owers, in order to consecrate and crown his Imperial and Royal Majesty. He calls to witness the whole French troops, from the commander to the meanest soldier, cither those who have traversed the states of the Holy See, or those who have resided there, whether they have not ex |