the execution of any individual part, which we admire. | sists wholly of the prosperity of the country I serve? and that The impression left upon our minds is favorable to every my country is that which best knows the value of my servirtuous principle, every honorable impulse but the vices?" Vol. iv. p. 118. memory will seldom retain any detached passages of supereminent force and beauty; although all is excellent, all is in its place, and conducive to the best interests of humanity. DIALOGUES et VIE du DUC DE BOURGOGNE, Père de Louis XV. Ouvrages composés par L'ABEE MILLOT pour l'Education de S. A. S. LE DUC D'ENGHEIN, Son ELEVE, 1 tome. 8vo. Paris. quainted with the circumstances attending his assassinacontains an interesting extract of the journal of education tion, were consulted in the compilation of this account. It which the tutor seems to have kept in regard to his pupil. The period of time at which Miss Porter has chosen to begin her tale, is towards the close of the reign of George calculated to add to the fame of the distinguished writer, This posthumous publication of the Abbé Millot is the First, and the charming domestic scenes which give and will be found particularly worthy the attention of those the title to the work, are laid within the Parsonage of Lindisfarne, in the family of the venerable minister, resi- who are engaged in the difficult task of instructing youth. dent near the ruined monastery of St. Cuthbert and the The interest, arising from the high reputation of the aulofty towers of Bamborough Castle. From this peaceful thor, is still further increased by the circumstance of its abode of happiness and truth, we are hurried away to having been composed for the instruction of the unfortufollow the fortunes of the hero in his mysterious mission ate Duke d'Enghein, to whom the author was appointed to the Court of Vienna, and soon find ourselves entangled preceptor, in 1778. Prefixed to the work is a biographical in a maze of political intrigue, enriched, however, by cha-account of the Abbé Millot and of the Duke d'Enghein, racters singularly well developed and sustained, and by accompanied the Prince, and who shared his confinement and we understand that not only M. Jacques who always many scenes of passion and of pathos very powerfully when the Duke was treacherously surprised in the village written. A principal agent in the story and the fortunes of Ettenheim, but likewise several other persons well acof the hero, of which he seems almost the master-spring, to cause and control all the events, is no other than the celebrated (a severe annalist might say, the notorious, Duke of Wharton! To this dangerous child of folly and of whim, the benevolent authoress has attributed not only the most bewitching graces of person and of manner, but virtues of the highest order, sullied indeed with levities, but unpolluted by crimes. It is a singular coincidence of name and nature, that the style of language which Miss Porter has given to her eccentric favorite, bears almost the resemblance of identity with the phraseology of Mr. Wharton, in Miss Edgeworth's admirable story of Vivian. The Duke de Ripperda displays a sad example of the demoralizing quality of ambition, or rather the lust of power. Born with a capacity for every virtue, the best feelings of his heart are smothered by policy and deception; and, after years of anxiety and toil, he leaves the frightful warning of a life darkened by guilt and closed in infamy. The reader will be gratified in the opportunity of obof his early education, and to second nature in aiding the serving the means employed by him to correct the errors developement of those amiable qualities which have rendered his loss so much an object of general regret. In one place the Abbé speaks of him as follows:indocile, headstrong, full of whims, spoiled by his female "I soon perceived that the young Prince was extremely lively, attendants, and therefore very difficult to govern. For this purpose, equal firmness, kindness, prudence, and ability were required. Too much severity was likely to create aversion; and he would have abused too much indulgence. He possesses himself too much penetration not to discover the advantage of it. Add to this, the natural antipathy of childweak side of his instructors, and is too mischievous not to take There is a little too much of wounds and sickness, and saltpetre to lessons for two successive hours morning and evenhood to restraint and study. To keep a head impregnated with miraculous recoveries of persons supposed to be dead; ing, was a task sufficient to alarm me. The first days gave me but, altogether, we shall meet even with very few histories some uneasiness. I observed tears, a strong repugnance and affording any scope to fancy, where probability has been indocility; but I perceived also that the transition from crying so seldom violated. The narrative is sometimes rather to laughing was the affair of a moment; that by varying things tedious and complicated, but never dull, and the conclu-a good deal I could gain some attention for each, and that, with sion is satisfactory. Some trifling inaccuracies we charge some sallies, I might contrive to fill up the time for study: this management, if I did not cross him too much and overlooked on the printer, or ascribe to the hurry of composition in was a great point. At the beginning nothing was more useful to me than fables, selected from Lafontaine's, and well exVol. 1. p. 196. reverses what we have always under-plained. When we had thoroughly comprehended one, the stood to be the property of the Cave of Trophonius. the author. A more pleasing task is to instance passages of peculiar beauty our limits only afford space for the following. "Talents and good dispositions are the implements of Wisdom, not Wisdom's self; she is born of time and experience, and shows her proof in hard probaticn." Vol. i. p. 288. "He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend, burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. Such proof of love is conspiracy, not friendship." Vol. iii. p. 49. "Joy-the joy of the heart is not gay; it is soul-centred; and calls for meditation on its own perfection!" V. ii. p. 279. The accomplished statesman speaks thus of himself: "Louis, have you known me so long by the best proofs of man-his actions! and are yet to be told, that my religion con next thing was to learn it by heart. We proceeded step by In the second instance, Mr. Drummond, having ascertained the resuscitating powers of the electric fluid upon a fowl, offered his assistance towards the recovery of a child apparently drowned; but was refused with horror, under the idea that nothing but diabolical agency could recover a life which God had permitted to cease! Amongst all the various projects to relieve the distresses of the poor, the most remarkable is that by Mr. Gray, in a recent publication on the Happiness of States. He laments that the people of England cannot be persuaded to eat horse-flesh; and asserts, (but, as it appears, only on hearsay,) that it is a pleasing nutriment, and would annually afford food for half a million, without needlessly destroying the number of useful horses. We have but one step further to go-and "the Horse and his Rider" will be considered as supply for our tables! known more of geography than I did at twenty. He forgets it The first is of a young man bathing at Ellingham, in so easily that I merely now and then place the principal nations Norfolk, and who was drowned; when a worthy woman, before his eyes. On the other hand he will recollect, after an possessed of more information than her neighbours, eminterval of several months, an anecdote related en passant, or a remark of the importance of which he is not aware. In short, ployed the means recommended by the Humane Society. ideas accumulate in his head, and though he often confuses She persevered, and had succeeded in restoring incipient them in a ludicrous manner, yet it is evident that he combines signs of animation; but at length sunk under her feelthem very sensibly. This kind of memory must be excellent ings, caused by the ridicule of the ignorant, and the terror when it comes to be seconded by reason. An extraordinary of the superstitious, at what they called her " presumptuperspicacity also renders him as susceptible of instruction as ous" attempt to animate the dead! the warmth of his temper tends to make him averse to it. I soen perceived and profited by this advantage. By appearing rather to converse than teach; by contriving to afford him the pleasure of finding out things himself; by explaining every thing, and requiring reasons for every thing in a word, and this is my fundamental principle-by placing reason invariably at the threshold of his understanding-I found means, without effort, in spite of his excessive giddiness, to make him acquire more knowledge, and in particular more judgment than I ever had in my life at a much more advanced age. As it is in his disposition to kick when the bridle is held tight, and to run away when it is relaxed, I have great obstacles to overcome; sometimes the caprices of temper, at others the sallies of indocility; almost always an agitation of body and a dissipation of mind that nothing can equal. It requires address and indulgence both to prevent faults and to obviate disgust. Sometimes, however, it is necessary to punish: weakness would be still worse than severity. In the beginning, after an unpardonable disobedience, I shut the books, and declared that I would not continue the lesson : ASTRO-ATMOSPHERICAL SCIENCE.-A worthy Norhe wept much, and begged permission to do what he had before folk Clergyman conceives, that his observations upon the refused. I continued firm for some time, and at length yielded weather and the configurations of the planets, justify a only to his most earnest intreaties. This method has often belief in their influence upon our seasons. Some of his been attended with success. I still employ it, though the tears proofs are certainly very ingenious; but until it is proved no longer come. I have sometimes aggravated ennui by forcing that the same weather exists at the same time, in all places, him to pursue a passage which he disliked. He would accustom himself to any thing if one were to be inflexible. One day under the same configurations, we suspect that such a when he had wilfully transgressed a formal prohibition, I gave theory will be more curious than useful. him his choice either to be deprived of the dessert, or to beg A new invention has lately been patented, for making pardon of God upon his knees. He chose the former. It was blocks with bricks and cement, in imitation of Ashler not long before he relapsed into the same fault. I immedi-stone for building. This is likely to introduce more of ately ordered him to fall upon his knees and beg pardon of the ornamental style in our common buildings than at preGod, which he did after some hesitation, and I remitted the other part of the punishment. He never was guilty of the sent exists; and may tend to revive the system greatly in same fault afterwards. Notwithstanding the indifference vogue about two centuries back, when so much ornamental which he frequently affects towards reproof and even humili- brick work was employed in windows and doorways. ation, he is not without pride. I told him the other day, being Should these articles be furnished at a cheap rate, the satisfied with him, that I wished to reward him, not with plan will certainly produce an improvement upon our mosweetmeats or amusements, but with honour. The best re-dern plain style of architecture. ward, he answered, is the approbation of one's conscience. Very true, but it is just that those who deserve it should be sure. INACCURACY OF VISION.-Some most extraordinary farther rewarded. I will mention your good behaviour at table, facts, with respect to vision, are related in a very recent and afford you an opportunity of doing yourself honour by re-work upon Physiology. Speaking of people who could peating something of your lesson. This gave him great plea- see, but were rather inaccurate in distinguishing colour, I have already contrived several occasions for him to we are told of a man, who bought a pair of red pantadisplay his little acquirements, and he has turned them to good loons to match a blue coat, and of another who mistook a account. When age and reason shall have tempered the petu- cucumber for a lobster, and a green leek for a stick of red lance of the young prince, instruction will produce in him the fairest fruit. The wish to please, combined with a store of sealing wax! knowledge, will excite him to distinguish himself by glorious qualities. Such was in his childhood the prince who ought to have been the pride and the prop of his house, and who is unfortunately the subject of its everlasting regret. All the world knows that the treachery which enabled Buonaparte to secure the person of this prince, and his subsequent murder, are among the blackest of the crimes by which he stained his reign, unhappily of too long continuance. VARIETIES. Two extraordinary Instances, of ignorant superstition are recorded very recently by the Rev. Mr. Drummond. The lovers of Natural History will be much gratified by the recently imported African collections of Mr. Burchell, who has also brought from the Cape an extensive herbarium, together with a most valuable selection of specimens in mineralogy and geology. phrey Davy of his well deserved fame respecting the disEnvy, it is well known, has attempted to rob Sir Humcovery of the Safety Lamp for coal mines; by asserting that some ideas of another person upon that subject, had been clandestinely conveyed to him by a Mr. Buddle. This misrepresentation has, however, been contradicted in the last number of the Philosophical Magazine by Mr. Buddle himself, and in a manner the most peremptory. 101 the execution of any individual part, which we admire. Jists wholly of the prosperity of the country I serve? and that The impression left upon our minds is favorable to every my country is that which best knows the value of my setvirtuous principle, every honorable impulse but the vices? Vol. iv. p. 118. memory will seldom retain any detached passages of super emment force and beauty; although all is excellent, all is in its place, and conducive to the best interests of humanity. DIALOGUES et VIE du DUC DE BOURGOGNE, Père de Louis XV. Outrages composés par LABEE MILLOT pour Education de S. A. S. LE DUC D'ENGHEIN, Jen ELEVE, 1 tome. 8ro. Paris, This posthumous publication of the Abbe Millot is The period of time at which Miss Porter has chosen to begin her tale, is towards the close of the reign of George calculated to add to the fame of the distinguished writer, the First, and the charming domestic scenes which give and will be found particularly worthy the attention of those the title to the work, are laid within the Parsonage of who are engaged in the dithcult task of instructing youth. The interest, arising from the high reputation of the auLindistarue, in the family of the venerable minister, resi dent near the ruined monastery of St. Cuthbert and the thor, is still further increased by the circumstance of its having been composed for the instruction of the unfortulofty towers of Bamborough Castle. From this peaceful nate Duke d'Enghein, to whom the author was appointed abode of happiness and truth, we are hurried away to follow the fortunes of the hero in his mysterious mission to the Court of Vienna, and soon find ourselves entangled receptor, in 1778. Prefixed to the work is a biographical in a maze of political intrigue, enriched, however, by cha-account of the Abbé Millot and of the Duke d Enghen, racters singularly well developed and sustained, and by and we understand that not only M. Jacques who always when the Duke was treacherously surprised in the village many scenes of passion and of pathos very powerfully accompanied the Prince, and who shared his confinement written A principal agent in the story and the fortunes of Ettenheim, but likewise several other persons well acof the hero, of which he seems almost the master-spring, quainted with the circumstances attending his assassina to canse and control all the events, is no other than the tion, were consulted in the compilation of this account. It celebrated a severe annalist might say, the notorious, contains an interesting extract of the journal of education Duke of Wharton! To this dangerous child of folly and which the tutor seems to have kept in regard to his pupil. of whim, the benevolent authoress has attributed not only the most bewitching graces of person and of manner, but virtues of the highest order, sullied indeed with levities, but unpolluted by crimes. It is a singular coincidence of name and nature, that the style of language which Miss Porter has given to her eccentric favorite, bears almost the resemblance of identity with the phraseology of Mr. Wharton, in Miss Edgeworth's admirable story of Vivian The Duke de Ripperda displays a sad example of the demoralizing quality of ambition, or rather the lust of power. Born with a capacity for every virtue, the best feelings of his heart are smothered by policy and decep hon; and, after years of anxiety and toil, he leaves the frightful warning of a life darkened by guilt and closed in The reader will be gratified in the opportunity of observing the means employed by him to correct the error of his early education, and to second nature maiding the developement of those amiable qualities which have rendered his loss so much an object of general regret. tu create In one place the Abbe speaks of him as follows: “I soon perceived that they ung Prince was extremely lively, in lorile, headstrong, full of wr ms, spoiled by his female attendants, and therefore very difcalt to govern purpose, equal firmness, kindness, pruder e, and abuty "ver the were required. Too much severity was likey aversion; and he would have abused (2) moch indu gence. He wrak side of his instructors, and is too masolevous ia, t'u take possesses himself too much penetration not to di advantage of it. A 11 to this, the natursa antipatty of chi de good to restraint and study. To keep a head in pregiated with There is a little too much of wounds and sickness, and sarpetre to lessons for two successive hours more in g sud evenmiraculous recoveries of persons supposed to be dead;ng, was a task sutbrent to alarm me. 1..e first days gave it e best, altogether, we shall meet even with very few historiese uncasiness. I observed tears, a strong repugnaute and affording any scope to fancy, where probability has been docity; but I perceived also that the transition from crying A good deal I could gut, some attention for each), and that, wha so seldom violated. The narrative is sometimes rather to laughing was the ab'ait of a moment; that by vary 12 to 25 tedious and complicated, but never dull, and the concluanagement, it I dos à tcross hem toc mich and cvecseked At the beginning roti ing was moze ubeti sor is satisfactory. Some trithing maccuracies we charge tue sales, I might contrive to n i up the tune for sudthe printer, or ascribe to the hurry of composition in was a great pe int to me than fatues, selected from Lantaisie's, ard we.. vaWe proceeded stop tv the author. next thing was to learn it by be it at when I sl., d never Vol. 1. p. 196. reverses what we have always under-;lused. When we had toor mighty comprehended one, the step, diwājs iraring to „eiler, wit. stod to be the property of the Cave of Trophonius, A more pleasing task is to instance passages of peculiar have been able to fix his attest to Intars manner i mash, a beauty: our limits only afford space for the following. earn all the bust pieces in Lafontaine The tur muty, ut dep thus the upe. I alerts and good depo of us are the implements of Wistan ling, and taste, were all exercised at one I take great care, when he is repeating any thing and makes a mistake, to matt vå¿mai eta's self, at e as burn of time and experience, and prevent the alea iustes i crte. ng him the word • het prond in hard probation." _Vol_1_p_2ad. ale that does a base thing in aral for his friend, burns the fath at te aset 19 aŭsed to that of te memory. Kiss it, and Aber plukosophers may we assert that these labies so eft,rable ir chu tren They amuse will they etm lovei are a.. mt..read that ties their Learts together. Such proof of me cat.apuracy, not friendship," Voi ut. p. 49 2.2 then they develope or create seas they last, satire the fipt with the graces of expression, and even impart a fer ing of beauties of style will by ruat ife age abse thight be no 1 ja se Ha me nona.. trady, but not very reHe has apable of re...... g tentive. the joy of the heart is not gay, it is sul-centred, emand fat situ.'ation on its own perfection!" V. a. p. 279 The accomplished statesman speaks thus of himself: Lous, have you known me so long by the best proofs of -lus actions, and are yet to be tavi, that my trig♫ Co it pelailas ideas nur better than words known more of geography than I did at twenty. He forgets it The first is of a young man bathing at Ellingham, in so easily that I merely now and then place the principal nations Norfolk, and who was drowned; when a worthy woman, before his eyes. On the other hand he will recollect, after an possessed of more information than her neighbours, eminterval of several months, an anecdote related en passant, or a remark of the importance of which he is not aware. In short, ployed the means recommended by the Humane Society. ideas accumulate in his head, and though he often confuses She persevered, and had succeeded in restoring incipient them in a ludicrous manner, yet it is evident that he combines signs of animation; but at length sunk under her feelthem very sensibly. This kind of memory must be excellent ings, caused by the ridicule of the ignorant, and the terror when it comes to be seconded by reason. An extraordinary of the superstitious, at what they called her " presumptuperspicacity also renders him as susceptible of instruction as ous" attempt to animate the dead! the warmth of his temper tends to make him averse to it. I In the second instance, Mr. Drummond, having ascersoon perceived and profited by this advantage. By appearing tained the resuscitating powers of the electric fluid upon rather to converse than teach; by contriving to afford him the pleasure of finding out things himself; by explaining every a fowl, offered his assistance towards the recovery of a thing, and requiring reasons for every thing: in a word, child apparently drowned; but was refused with horror, and this is my fundamental principle by placing reason under the idea that nothing but diabolical agency could invariably at the threshold of his understanding-I found recover a life which God had permitted to cease! means, without effort, in spite of his excessive giddiness, Amongst all the various projects to relieve the distresses to make him acquire more knowledge, and in particu- of the poor, the most remarkable is that by Mr. Gray, in lar more judgment than I ever had in my life at a much He more advanced age. As it is in his disposition to kick when a recent publication on the Happiness of States. the bridle is held tight, and to run away when it is relaxed, Ilaments that the people of England cannot be persuaded have great obstacles to overcome; sometimes the caprices of to eat horse-flesh; and asserts, (but, as it appears, only temper, at others the sallies of indocility; almost always an on hearsay,) that it is a pleasing nutriment, and would agitation of body and a dissipation of mind that nothing can annually afford food for half a million, without needlessly equal. It requires address and indulgence both to prevent destroying the number of useful horses. We have but faults and to obviate disgust. Sometimes, however, it is necessary to punish: weakness would be still worse than severity. one step further to go-and "the Horse and his Rider" In the beginning, after an unpardonable disobedience, I shut will be considered as supply for our tables! the books, and declared that I would not continue the lesson : ASTRO-ATMOSPHERICAL SCIENCE.-A worthy Norhe wept much, and begged permission to do what he had before folk Clergyman conceives, that his observations upon the refused. I continued firm for some time, and at length yielded weather and the configurations of the planets, justify a only to his most earnest intreaties. This method has often belief in their influence upon our seasons. Some of his been attended with success. I still employ it, though the tears proofs are certainly very ingenious; but until it is proved no longer come. I have sometimes aggravated ennui by forcing that the same weather exists at the same time, in all places, him to pursue a passage which he disliked. He would accustom himself to any thing if one were to be inflexible. One day under the same configurations, we suspect that such a when he had wilfully transgressed a formal prohibition, I gave theory will be more curious than useful. him his choice either to be deprived of the dessert, or to beg A new invention has lately been patented, for making pardon of God upon his knees. He chose the former. It was blocks with bricks and cement, in imitation of Ashler not long before he relapsed into the same fault. I immedi-stone for building. This is likely to introduce more of ately ordered him to fall upon his knees and beg pardon of the ornamental style in our common buildings than at preGod, which he did after some hesitation, and I remitted the other part of the punishment. He never was guilty of the sent exists; and may tend to revive the system greatly in same fault afterwards. Notwithstanding the indifference vogue about two centuries back, when so much ornamental which he frequently affects towards reproof and even humili- brick work was employed in windows and doorways. ation, he is not without pride. I told him the other day, being Should these articles be furnished at a cheap rate, the satisfied with him, that I wished to reward him, not with plan will certainly produce an improvement upon our mosweetmeats or amusements, but with honour. The best re-dern plain style of architecture. ward, he answered, is the approbation of one's conscience.—— Very true, but it is just that those who deserve it should be INACCURACY OF VISION.-Some most extraordinary farther rewarded. I will mention your good behaviour at table, facts, with respect to vision, are related in a very recent and afford you an opportunity of doing yourself honour by re-work upon Physiology. Speaking of people who could peating something of your lesson. This gave him great plea-see, but were rather inaccurate in distinguishing colour, sure. I have already contrived several occasions for him to we are told of a man, who bought a pair of red pantadisplay his little acquirements, and he has turned them to good loons to match a blue coat, and of another who mistook a account. When age and reason shall have tempered the petu-cucumber for a lobster, and a green leek for a stick of red lance of the young prince, instruction will produce in him the fairest fruit. The wish to please, combined with a store of sealing wax! knowledge, will excite him to distinguish himself by glorious qualities. Such was in his childhood the prince who ought to have been the pride and the prop of his house, and who is unfortunately the subject of its everlasting regret. All the world knows that the treachery which enabled Buonaparte to secure the person of this prince, and his subsequent murder, are among the blackest of the crimes by which he stained his reign, un VARIETIES. The lovers of Natural History will be much gratified by the recently imported African collections of Mr. Burchell, who has also brought from the Cape an extensive herbarium, together with a most valuable selection of specimens in mineralogy and geology. phrey Davy of his well deserved fame respecting the disEnvy, it is well known, has attempted to rob Sir Humcovery of the Safety Lamp for coal mines; by asserting that some ideas of another person upon that subject, had been clandestinely conveyed to him by a Mr. Buddle. This misrepresentation has, however, been contradicted in the last number of the Philosophical Magazine by Mr. Buddle himself, and in a manner the most peremptory. The ingenious Mr. Murray has discovered a mode of mature deliberation. Being surrounded on every side by fitting Sir H. Davy's safety-lamp, by which it will relight an extensive heath, the situation of the place made the suitself spontaneously after having been extinguished. The perintendence of the patients very easy, and two or three discovery is of high importance to the miner, and is de-professional persons were sufficient to take care of this astailed in the current number of the Philosophical Maga-semblage of idiots and maniacs who were permitted freezine, p. 139. dom of exercise, and were called back by a bell to their Much interest is excited at Edinburgh by an attempt lodgings every noon and evening. Wholesome diet, pure to instruct a youth of the name of Mitchell, who is both blind and deaf! Dr. Dewar, who is most humanely engaged in this experiment, is attempting the difficult task by means of letters raised in relief. It is said, that casts are to be taken from the Elgin Marbles, for the purpose of presentation to the Pope, in return for his recent valuable gift to the Prince Regent. It is pleasing to find Princes and Popes thus becoming active members of the Republic of Science and Art. fresh air, constant exercise, and the apparent liberty of The French Royal School of Painting, judged at its last sitting, the annual competition of the Head of Expression, founded by the celebrated painter Latour. The subject A piano-forte, on a new construction, is likely soon to given by the Professor this year was Admiration. Å feappear, called the "Sostinente Pianoforte." It is the male sat as the model. The prize was adjudged to M. invention of a Mr. Mott, of Brighton, and its properties Lancrenon, painter, a native of Lod, in the department of depend on a new mode of producing tone from vibrating Doubs, aged twenty-three, a pupil of M. Girodet. The substances. students in sculpture have likewise a right to compete for this prize. In the latter class, M. Dimier, of Paris, aged nineteen, honorably distinguished himself. The high winds that have of late prevailed have caused so much evaporation, that the adage of a "Peck of March dust is worth a King's ransom," was almost verified before March, according to the old style, had commenced; for on Saturday the 1st, and on Sunday the 2nd, the dust was troublesome to travellers: but the unpleasantness was principally caused by the wind. The following is the state of the thermometer, &c. for the last week : Monday, Srd Tuesday, 4th 50 50 W and SW 1. Clear; 33 S 3. Many showers; 42 ...... 36 .... 50 ...... ...... ...... W 1. Generally cloudy Thursday, 6th 1.425 inch. MENTAL WEAKNESS. The candidates presented by the Institute to fill the place of the late Monsigny, are Messrs. Boyeldieu, Kreutzer, Nicolo and Catel. The two first are very well known in England: Boyeldieu as the composer of most of the music in the fine opera of John of Paris, and Kreutzer as having produced the popular overture to Lodviska, The Baroness de Stael has been seriously indisposed at Paris. The Duke of Wellington, it is said, sent his physician to prescribe for her. No apprehensions are, however, entertained for the consequences of her illness. Madame de Stael is attended by M. Moreau, of Sarthe. RUSSIAN LITERATURE. Some idea of the present confined state of Russian Literature may be drawn from the communications of a Resident at St. Petersburgh, who observes, that "The reading of Foreign Journals is here a very expensive pleasure, and at the same time unsatisfactory, as it is very seldom that one gets back a number complete from the Censure Office. The anxiety of the Censors is truly inconceivable in an age ander, who most certainly well understands the spirit of like ours, and under the government of a Prince like Alexthis age. One of my acquaintance lately got back from the Censure Office the Dictionary of Conversation printed by Brockhaus, a book which contains only facts, and no opinions: yet almost all the articles relative to Russia or If implicit credit can be given to the following state-Russian subjects, were cut out. Jean Paul's Museum is ment, it is highly deserving of attention at the present among the books prohibited here, on account of the armoment, when so many plans are in agitation respecting ticle upon magnetism contained in it. This is however that melancholy affliction of the human mind. In the Ne- connected with various other circumstances. I will rather therlands there is a village called Gheel, four-fifths of the relate to you a new proof of the efficacy of magnetism inhabitants of which are out of their mind, but who how-which has been lately a general subject of conversaever enjoy their liberty. This singular fact requires an tion here. Madame de R. in Livonia, had suffered explanation. About half a century ago the magistrates of for many years most dreadfully from the cramp; and Antwerp, moved by the wretched situation of the many the Reverend Mr. Boy, of Riga, undertook to cure her by insane persons, all shut up together in one and the same magnetism. He succeeded in this; but Madame de R. building, obtained from the government permission to have them conveyed to the village of Gheel, where they were distributed among the inhabitants, who received an ample recompence for their trouble. This village was chosen upon foretold during the magnetic sleep, that in the space of a year she should become consumptive, and that on a certain day which she named, she should be seized with a violent spitting of blood, which would kill her, unless they fol |