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cated by permission to Her Royal Highness the Princess The Home of Love, a Poem, by Mrs. Henry Rolls, dediCharlotte of Wales.

A Satirical Novel, by an Officer of the Guards, entitled "Six Weeks' Residence at Long's," which promises to excite much attention in the fashionable world.

in which the progress towards amelioration must be gra- The Fifth Part of Sir William Dugdale's History of St. Paul's dual. Some extraordinary incongruities, however, might Cathedral, with important additions, by H. Ellis, Esq. keeper even now have been avoided. One room in the palace of the MSS. in the British Museum, has been delayed beyond of Ulysses was of Moorish architecture, in which the Mus- the promised time of publication, for the purpose of admitting sulman crescent was not forgotten, while another apart-finished. a number of additional copper plates, which are now nearly ment appeared decorated in the most florid style of the Russell Institution.-A Course of Lectures on the PhiCorinthian order, aud the fine scene which represented losophy of Chemistry, by Dr. Meyler, will commence on Friday, the exterior of the royal abode, exhibited an accumulation the 7th of February, at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon. of splendid magnificence little accordant with that age, and The Town and Country Magazine, for Economic Circulation, the ways and means of the Chief of one of the least of our appears on the 1st of February. Ionian Islands.-In all these matters we hope to see proIN THE PRESS. gressive improvement. An establishment like this ought, above all others, to be free from any objections on the score of scenery, costume, decorations, and properties. In the Ballet, the novelties, both as to performers and performances, are as yet inconsiderable. A new little divertissement, light and neat enough, called L'Amour Melincourt; by the Author of Headlong Hall, 3 vols. vengé, and brought out by Monsieur Léon, introduced to Tales, as reading lessons for youth, followed by skeletons of Esop modernised and moralised, in a series of instructive the audience two new dancers, Mademoiselle Volet and the several Tales, with leading questions and hints, &c. Monsieur Simon, in subordinate characters, in which they Foreign Libraries, &c. Our literary countrymen, now at acquitted themselves creditably. This and Gardel's Bal-Paris, are expected to be great purchasers at the sale of Count let, La Dansomanie, acted last season, have hitherto Maccarthy's Library. Four Guineas are demanded for a Caformed the only exhibitions of the Corps de Ballet, which talogue! The lovers of virtu are also in eager expectation of as yet is by no means in a state of effective strength. Sethe sale of the Marquis De Dree's Museum, which commences veral new dancers are announced, and report speaks on Monday next. highly of their acquisition. The Minuet de la Cour, as danced by Mademoiselle Milanie and Vestris in La Dansomanie, appears to us the most finished display of orchestic science and taste.

We understand that Mozart's sublime Opera of Don Juan is at present under active rehearsal at the King's Theatre. For this the manager, Mr. Ayrton, is entitled to the thanks of the musical public, and the concern, no doubt, will reap the reward due to such praiseworthy exertions. The company appears to us quite adequate to this great effort. We hope the representative of Leporello, in this Opera, will infuse the proper life and spirit into his performance, and not take his Tempi too coolly!!

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dreams of Alchymy and of Astrology, that we have arrived at the sciences of Chemistry and of Astronomy. The rccollection of these aberrations is not without utility, inasmuch as it indicates the rocks upon which our predecessors have split; but, on the other hand, the history of the sciences affords new materials for burthening the memory, already overladen by other causes.

before us, by enlarging the horizon of the human intellect, Hitherto, however, the discoveries of those who have gone have only opened a wider career to their successors; a career, indeed, whose extent knows no limits. Years, nay ages may pass away, before the reproductive germs of the cryptogamia are satisfactorily ascertained, and that class blotted from the system of Linnæus.

Extract of a Letter from Dresden. "NOTWITHSTANDING the deep wounds inflicted on our country by the pressure of the times, this capital of Saxony still maintains its ancient glory of being the Temple of the fine Arts, and the seat of hospitality. By the judicious exertions of Count Nitzhum, Superintendant of the Royal Theatres, both the Italian Opera and the German Theatre have been placed on a footing that merits the highest praise. Vandyke's Life in the Country,' by Frederick This multiplication of facts either developed or indicated Vint, opens a new clas of Dramas, and by the beauty of the poetry, the illusion of the scenery, and the admirable merely for enquiry; this complication of objects and of relations, leads naturally to a search after some clue for traversing the performance of the actors, combines with uncommon labyrinth it creates, and gives birth to improvements in effect all the theatrical arts. It has been repeatedly per- analysis, which by generalizations, and by the classifying of formed with continually increasing applause. Our prin- objects, originates sounder methods of philosophy, and thus cipal painters, Matthæi, Hartmann, Von Kugelgen, Klen- staking out the routes of science, renders them at once gel, &c. produce admirable works of every class; and shorter and more certain.

if Grassi leaves us to go to Rome, where he is appointed The earliest writer who presented the different parts of human : Director of the Saxon school in that city, we have, how-knowledge to our contemplation, as springing, like the branches of a tree, from one common stock, and as forming together ever, many valuable additions to the number of our one connected and continuous whole, was BACON. The sciences Artists. Among these is the ingenious sculptor Matthæi, have all indeed an air of family resemblance, and their who is come from Italy to us, with his Roman wife. In mutual relation cannot be mistaken, when the intermediate the drawing and model room of our academy, students are links are seized by which they are united. Thus it may be daily at work, and a very useful Sunday school is established for the apprentices of mechanics, in whose professions a knowledge of drawing is necessary. The King's wardrobe, (called the Grüne Gewölbe,) which has been closed for many years on account of the unfavorable times, has been opened to the curious since the end of the summer; and being arranged in nine saloons, in a much better manner than before, offers a most instructive and entertaining exhibition of the treasures of nature and art."

Plan of a general Association of learned and scientific men, and of Artists of all Nations, for accelerating the progress of Civilization, of Morals, and of Illumination. By the Abbé Gregoire, Ex-Bishop of Blois. Translated and arranged by Sir T. Charles Morgan, M. D. (Continued.)

remarked, that RAMEAU successfully applied geometry to music, and LEORET to midwifery; and it was by the efforts of persons, at once skilled in sculpture and in chemistry, that means were discovered for removing that vegetable growth which corrodes the surface of marbles, destroys the lustre of their polish, and threatens the permanence of their forms. How many edifices are there, on the other hand, destined for public assemblies, which, instead of reverberating the eloquence of the orator, reduce all sounds to an inarticulate murmur, and which would have been more happily constructed, if the phenomena of acoustics were not unknown to the generality of architects!

The sciences of medals and of botany, may in like manner be successfully applied to elucidate each other; nor is there any branch of erudition less perfectly cultivated than that which seeks illustrations of the history of the arts in works which have no immediate connexion with the subject. BECKTo ask whether an association of the literary and scientific distinguished himself in this career: the memoirs of AMEILHON, MAN, following in the steps of SANCIROLE, has most particularly men of all nations would forward the interests of civili- on the Spartium, on the tinctorial plants, and on the colouring zation, is in other words, to demand whether the removal materials of the ancients; those of MONGEZ on their tissues, of an enormous mass is best accomplished by applying our and on their methods of working the metals, are convincing forces separately and individually, or by employing them evidences of the importance of this mode of research. The simultaneously and in combination. We have but to recal the writings of PAUL ZACEEHIOS, 2 of CANGIAMILA, 3 &c. consulted fable of the Bundle of Sticks, adopted in the heraldry of so alike by lawyers, physicians, and divines, attest the connexion many corporations, with its appropriate device of "our union between the learned professions; but the literary and scientific is our force." In proportion as we advance in the succession are by no means sufficiently acquainted with the miscellaneous of ages, discoveries multiply, and less remains to be ascertained. information scattered through the works of authors purely Machinery and processes, which genius alone could have in- ascetic. Few are aware, that three lines of ST. AUGUSTIN, vented, are reconstructed and repeated with little intellectual effort; and aphorisms, which required the most abstruse re- 'See Rapport fait a l'Institut par VAUQUELIN, &c. &c. sur flection to elicit, are retained and applied by a mere act of le nettoiement des Statues, &c. 18 Thermidor, An. 8. This memory. But before such results become the property of effect is produced by covering the surfaces with a preparation mankind, how much time is lost in balancing conjectures, of wax. T. and in examining opinions! what efforts have been necessary to separate facts from systems! It was only throughthe

2 Questione medico legale.
Homily on Lazarus.

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nexion with the ends and object of the project under consideration; with the facilitating scientific communication, the circulation of discoveries, the propagation of good writings and sound ideas, and the dissemination in all countries of every species of industry which their climate and circumstances will permit them respectively to adopt.

against the torture, contain an abridgment of all that modern spring naturally from the subject, and have an obvious conjurisconsults have said on this subject; that in the homilies of ST. ASTERE D'AMASEE' there are some curious details respecting embroidery; that ST. BASIL has indicated the method employed by sailors for obtaining fresh water at sea, by collecting the vapour of the boiling fluid in sponges; that in the writings of Bishop SYNESIUS there is a description of the Astrolabe; or that the works of ST. ISIDORE, Bishop of Seville, and those of the Dominican Monk, VINCENT DE BEAUVAIS, abound in curious details of agriculture, &c.

It is seldom that discoveries are hit off at once: if by a lucky hazard such an event does occasionally take place, as in the case of the telescope, and of the composition of Prussian blue, it much more usually happens, that inventions are perfected by a continued series of efforts. The first notions of the Newtonian system may perhaps be traced in the writings of the venerable BEDE; 3 nor would it in the least detract from the elevation at which the English philosopher is offered to the admiration of posterity, should we even suppose him to have borrowed from that source.

It is an obvious argument, for cavilling and criticism, that the happiest efforts of human intellect have been made, independently of academic assistance; that HoMER and HESIOD produced their Chef-d'oeuvres in solitude; that THEOCRITUS received no aids in composing his poetry, but such as the mere aspect of nature afforded, and that TACITUS was not a member of any learned society: but it is too much to conclude, from such instances, that academics are altogether useless. In certain branches of study, it is true, these institutions are of less avail than in others, and too often they have become injurious, by their attempts at monopoly; but are we to suppose that HERODOTUS, PLATO, or PLINY, would not gladly have embraced the advantages which academic establishments hold Universal genius, Encyclopedic acquirement, is a chimæra forth for increasing the stock of human information? more than ever appreciated at its legitimate value. The pre- Travelling, it is true, tends to rectify old notions and to tension of a PICUS MIRANDOLA Would meet in our own days suggest new; but the power of rambling has its limits, and it with inevitable ridicule. Some authors, indeed, of peculiar is far from being within the reach of every member of the genius, have written with success upon subjects extremely learned corps: and to this deficiency scientific communication different. LEIBNITZ was at once a great geometrician and an is the natural supplement. In works of pure reflection, assoerudite scholar. But if, with a few exceptions, great extent of ciations are unquestionably less useful-the "Essay on the surface betrays a proportionate shallowness, it is still true, that Human Understanding," the "Research after Truth," or the the different branches of science vivify each other, and that poem "On the Imagination," might have been completed by none can be successfully cultivated in perfect insulation. It is Locke, Malbranche, or Delille in a desert; but to infer that to this conviction that we owe the project of a society, des- academies capable of purifying the taste, of clearing up difficul tined to embrace at once the Sciences and the Belles Lettres, ties, and opening new subjects to meditation, are positively and to facilitate the means of their progress and extension. useless, is a most forced and unwarrantable conclusion. Shall nothing also be allowed for that enthusiasm and emulation which must ever spring from the intercourse between persons united in the common career of noble and of useful enquiries?

It may perhaps be objected, that for the legitimate purposes of scientific union, the intercourse by the post and by commerce, and above all, by the interchange of books, is sufficient: that voyagers are constantly employed in disseminating the discoveries of distant nations, and that in some instances even the diplomatic agents co-operate to the same end. But if men of letters exert themselves to approximate and connect the people of different nations, the rivality of governments, by fomenting national hatred and exciting religious feuds, but too effectually interferes to break the chain of communication. Five and twenty years of dearly earned experience sufficiently prove the truth of this proposition.

If the utility of any such literary communication between different nations be undeniable, a project which tends to ensure and extend it, needs no justification. LALANDE, the astronomer, felt the importance of this intercourse, and GOTHO, under the auspices of an enlightened government, was even enabled to procure an assembly of astronomers. As this congress could not be annually brought together, Goтno endeavoured to supply its place, by publishing yearly a conspectus of astronomical labours and discoveries; an useful undertaking, that might be beneficially extended to such other branches of science as are cultivated by a few well-known persons; such particularly is that of the education of the deaf and dumb.

That the existing means of communication are not sufficient, is abundantly evident; for notwithstanding the more active intercourse which subsists between men of science, than among the mere literati, the most useful inventions are propagated

with extreme tardiness.

In a well regulated city the poorest streets are lighted, from motives of police, equally with the gayest quarters; and is moral illumination of less importance to the community? Considerations like these cannot be deemed digressive. They

1 De civitate Dei.

2 Tom. I. p. 31. Homily on the Hexhemeron.

3 See antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, Edit. 2. Lon. pp. 338, 339. Bede de ratione tempor. cap. 27. p. 116.

4 The French Institute, now dissolved into separate Academies.

Antiquity was acquainted with but two learned languages; for the Hebrew was of too restricted an use to be taken into the account. Besides these, and the numerous Asiatic dialects which occupy the moderns, there are at least ten or twelve European languages employed by the literati of the present day, and the number is yet daily increasing. The Russians, the Poles, the Hungarians, and the Illyrians begin to possess. a literature of their own; and this multiplication of languages raises new barriers to separate the learned. The ancients had in this respect great advantage over the moderns, who are condemned to spend a very considerable portion of their lives.in the study of words, that they may not remain ignorant of very many things. The memory thus loaded becomes less capable of useful application: what numbers are there, among the learned, so encumbered with this baggage as to be unable to compose or even to analyse a work of moderate ratiocination and sequence of idea! Thus the importance of a scientific congress is daily increasing; if it be only considered as a means of promoting the translations of foreign works, and of creating a more frequent correspondence, both verbal and epistolary, between the learned, now so widely diffused over the surface of the earth.

The utility then of the project seems incontrovertibly proved; let us next examine if its establishment be possible. (To be continued.)

LETTERS FROM LONDON.
LETTER II.

TABITHA, my good sister, this head of mine is distracted. The cracking of whips, the bawling of newsmen, the grinding of organs, and a hundred carriages rattling through my brain-these are the tunes my pen is dancing to.

I have now travelled over a great part of the city, and

such a city! Actually the people here make no difference | ment, but you will never it upon a pair of stays! Yet between a mile and a step. They told me it was only a so it is, our beaus, our patriarchs, our very heroes wear step from Bond-street to Temple-bar. Fancy then a step ladies' stays. There was a most promising young fellow where you are jostled by two thousand passengers, and shot through the stays at Waterloo, who unhappily died of where, before you have struggled half way, you feel the an hæmorrhage before he could be unlaced. greatest mind in the world to turn into a shop and make But how shall I describe to you the costume of the your will. Here a fellow forces a slip of paper upon you, women? Though it is now the middle of winter, they which directs you either to a property or to a pill. Next clap whole baskets of flowers on their heads: they are comes a creature four feet high, and attempts, as he passes, walking gardens; Eves in the street by their roses, and to raise bis umbrella over your own. Then you must Eves in the drawing-room by their nakedness. stand five minutes at a corner, while a black coalheaver and his black horses go by in slow procession. I say nothing of mud. My washer-women and I must settle that

account.

Others however prefer black bonnets of a most awful height; so that if they have not tongues of Babel, at least they have its Tower. This bonnet is surmounted with a drooping plume of black feathers, while the rest of the But a still greater hindrance arises from a set of ungainly dress is gaudy to a very rainbow. The whole seems a comwalkers who infest all the fashionable streets. They con- position between a Lord Mayor's coach and a hearse. Nay, sist, for the most part, of certain prim ladies and gentle- 'tis said, that under this hearse they sometimes wear men, who have acquired a knack of walking too fast and tresses cut from the head of a murderess, or a hanged shetoo slow at the same time;-too fast for the lazy loungers, poisoner of good-natured families. There may be some and too slow for the smart men of business; besides going moral in this intimacy between beauty and the grave, but so zigzag, that just when you think you have got room to really there appears to be very little taste.

pass them, they tack right ahead, and let you drop back. As for their putting on trowsers, I confess I am not into their wake. And yet, strange to tell, the pathways surprised at the phænomenon. If men will stoop to wear are crowded with girls, who, I am imformed, are walkers stays, it follows naturally enough, that women will wear of streets by profession. I wish with all my heart the breeches.

these prim ladies and gentlemen would take lessons from But there is one natural charm which I had thought them. fashion itself would never attempt to change-a straight But nothing astonished me more, as I went along, than back. Yet, now-a-days, the spine must seem broken before the unseemly contiguity of hovels and palaces, of shops a lady can be well made; and to make the fracture easier, that perfume and shops that stink. A butcher's trough the waist must take its rise under her armpits. A little and a nobleman's portico are no uncommon neighbours: stuffing completes the piece of humpy gentility; but I shall an undertaker sticks himself by the side of a toyman; never think the picture perfect, till she arives at the deeven a Prince's house, they tell me, stands in a stable-crepid appendage of a long cane. yard; and I have myself seen jewels glittering next door Only last year women walked with their pockets in their to fat bacon; and thus, without a metaphor, throwing hands, and men with their hands in their pockets. Since pearls before swine. then, times are grown bad; so men do not care to feel much where nothing can be found. But where should you suppose women have their pockets now? I will tell youbetween their blade-bones!!! By the shades of the Ap Fluellens, 'tis true. The fillies strap portmanteaus upon their backs and canter into the streets!

But no wonder these incongruities of architecture should occur, where we see just as great an anomaly of manners. The only difference here between menials and gentlemen is this, that the footman endeavours to be as genteel as his master, and the master tries hard to be as vulgar as his footman. Would you suppose there are coachmen in town Any morning that I go out, and find the fashions altered, worth thirty thousand a-year? Truly there are, Sister; I shall let you know. In the meanwhile, there are other but the jest is, that so far from making their money by topics. I need not describe the public buildings, which driving, they often contrive to lose every farthing of it! the family I am amongst (of whom, by the way, you shall At first I missed seeing a number of our greatest charac-hear,) have taken me to see. They have already shown ters, because I foolishly looked into their coaches for me the Tower, St. Paul's, and the Bazaar,—a place where them. But, in this way, I saw all their coachmen and you buy bad things with bad money. We had fixed on grooms. These, you must know, have the inside places, yesterday for Westminster-Hall; but the place being too and commonly amuse themselves with grinning at the mul- crowded, we went away. However, we found no bad titude; who, however, are too busy grinning at their mas-substitute in a visit to Bedlam. Farewell. ters, to perceive them.

As for the dresses of the people, were I not certain you repose unlimited confidence in my veracity, you should not have a single line on the subject. What will you say when I tell you, that half our fine gentlemen are shod with horse shoes? the fact is notorious; nay, often have I jumped aside from couples of them clattering at my heels, lest I should be run over.

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS.

Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Right Hon. R. B. SHERIDAN: with a particular Account of his family and connexions. By John Watkins, LL. D. THE death of the distinguished character who forms But if they affect the dray-horse about the heel, they the subject of the present volume, although he had for pique themselves upon having a waist like a wasp. You some years withdrawn from public life, and although it might think Garagantua had caught them by the middle, was attended with no political consequences whatsoever, and squeezed it miserably: you might fancy a thousand excited perhaps a stronger general sensation throughout horrid causes: some new disorder, some Ovidian punish- the whole of society, than that of any of those contempo

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