On the opening of the first scene, there combination of all the frivolous talents! From "The music of Wallace is by M. Catel, one the author who fancies himself a Quinault, of the most skilful professors of the Conservato the lowest performer of perouettes who fan tory. This production affords additional proofs cies himself a Vestris, each has pretensions of his talent for composition. In a scientific which he constantly refuses to yield by capitu- point of view his scores are perfectly faultless. the hatreds of the Virtuosi of the orchestra, the ments cannot fail to excite particular admiralation. The rivalries of dancing and singing, The richness and variety of the accompani petty intrigues of poets, the delicate manœuvres tion. It would perhaps have been better had of composers, and above all colds, sprains and he not treated the orchestra with so much proprotections, form only an abridged list of the digality, and had he shown less parsimony in obstacles which a skilful manager has to sur- the subjects of his songs, since it has been obmount. served that the melodies of the Scottish Minstrel partake somewhat of monotony. The choruses of this Opera will, we think, add to the repu tation of the composer of Semiramis and L'Au was some indication of lassitude or indisposition in his voice and manner, which he soon threw off. His known excellence, in this character, renders detail unnecessary. In the defiance to France; the scene with Hubert and his death, he was very successful and greatly applauded. Miss O'Neill was loudly welcomed on her entrance. She appears thinner than formerly; but her performance of Constance, displayed her usual fine feeling. In the sweet and tender touches of maternal affection, she possesses an unrivalled power over the heart. Her indignant reproaches to Austria, and her frenzied grief after the loss of her son made a forcible impression upon the audience, and were vehemently applauded. On Thursday night Mr. Kemble performed the Stranger, and Miss O'Neill, Mrs. Haller, to as crowded a house. Their known merits in these characters render a particular notice unnecessary. They were much applauded. Mrs. Siddons was in one of the boxes, on both of these nights, and was honored by a general testimony of respect. OPERA ITALIEN. The changes which lately took place in the Royal Academy of Music at Paris, were quickly followed by a revolution in the government of the Opera Italien. Madame Catalani received an official notification that the privilege of being Directoress of the SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. The Royal power with which, according to La : THEATRE DE L'OPERA COMIQUE. NEW WAYS TO PAY OLD DEBTS. I so frequently met Charles betwixt Blackfriars Road, and the New Church in the Borough, that I began to marvel, not a little, at the cause of his frequenting that unfashionable quarter of the town. One day, as I was going to each other? Even allowing that the credit of a dancer does not carry her above the authority At DRURY LANE, Mr. KEAN performed of a manager, the latter has notwithstanding to enquire about the character of a servant, King Richard on Monday night, on Wed-resist all the seductions of pleasure. Polyhym- at the Echo Office, I again fell in with nesday, Sir Edward Mortimer, with distin-nia offers him the delicious gardens of Armida, him, walking very leisurely, and reading a guished applause. The house was well filled and Terpsichore the enchanted groves of Caon both nights. lypso he may, if he please, be Telemachus or letter." My dear Charles," said I, “what Renaud, but has neither wisdom to guide nor here again? are you watching some pretty glory to allure him. Hercules was far more actress of the Surrey Theatre? or, what fortunate; for he was placed between vice and is it that attaches you to this dull part of head of a Richelieu, the disinterestedness of a virtue. An Opera manager should have the our metropolis?" "A legal attachment, therefore surprising that the Kings of these too proud to dine with me in a shabby Sully, and the virtue of a Scipio. It is not Jack," replied he;" and, if you are not stormy countries should succeed each other as rapidly as the sovereigns of the lower empire." shop which I have got in these precincts, Opera, which she solicited with so much your soup and a bit of fish will be ready importunity, but which she has since apat six, with a hearty welcome." I endeapeared to regard as an object of indifference, WALLACE, OU LE MENESTREL ECOSSAIS, voured to elongate my face and elevate was to cease on the first of April. Various founded on Miss Porter's popular Romance of my shoulders, as if taking an interest ia reports are in circulation respecting the the Scottish Chiefs, has lately been brought out his reverse of fortune; and as I make it individual who will next be appointed to at this Theatre. A French paper contains the a rule never to turn my back on a friend restore this Theatre to its former eclat, and following criticism upon it. to deal out to the Parisian public the trea-lace, and we never expected to have heard this another engagement, and made my ap"Few histories are less gay than that of Wal-in distress, I accepted his offer, put off sures of Italian melody. The wishes of a brave hero of Scotland warbling romances on great number of enlightened amateurs are our second lyric theatre. The author of the pearance at the appointed hour. in favor of M. Ferdinand Paër. The talent new Opera, as may be supposed, has not conInstead of a shabby shop, as Charles of this master, whose works are admired fined himself to a scrupulous observance of his called it, I found a very fair ready furthroughout Europe, would prove no mean torical truth. The licence which he has as-nished house, for which he paid enorsumed is the more allowable when it is consi-mously dear, and all things in very good dered that the English Chronicles contain but few details concerning the life of the young order. Colonel A —, young E, hero whom Edward I. treated with so much my friend W-- and a very venecruelty. rable looking old man, apparently a cler gyman, with a head fit for a Bramin, silver locks, a gentlemanlike address and peculiarly neat style of dress, formed the party. In a few minutes after, a splendid equipage drove up to the door; out of which, got a vulgar peasant-like looking man, in mourning. Every one seemed delighted; and cried out: "here's the doctor; here's the doctor, by Jove!" The Colonel, my friend, and young Eran to the doctor, and shook hina by the hand, until the powder flew out of his hair in all directions. "What news, ornanient to the Theatre. FRENCH THEATRICAL DISPUTES. The recent disputes which have taken place among the performers of the Opera Italien at Paris, and which were chiefly occasioned by the departure of Madame Catalani, have given rise to the following article, which we extract from a French journal. "Miss Porter's Romance has supplied the anonymous author of Wallace with the subject of his Opera, which certainly is not comic, but which contains several interesting situations "A history of the revolutions of the Opera brought about with considerable judgment. would indeed be a work of much curiosity. "Wallace, under the disguise of a Minstrel, No empire ever experienced so many great introduces himself into Bothwell Castle, where vicissitudes, no republic was ever a prey to the legitimate heir to the throne of Scotland, such prolonged dissensions: at the Opera every who is in the power of Edward, is lulled to form of government has been introduced, from inactivity by the languishing strains of the the supreme authority of the gentlemen of the bards. The lute of Wallace vibrates only chamber down to the popular administration of with songs of glory, and his noble harmony the commune of Paris. The Marshal of Sax-rouses the courage of the Prince to whom Walony used to say, that the command of an army lace had been described as a Chief of Rebels. was an affair which embarrassed him much less Thus by serving his Prince at the peril of his than the management of a company of strolling life, Wallace refutes the accusations of which players. What a dreadful task is then the ma- his enemies sought to make him the victim; and nagement of the Opera! What an immense sum the young King on becoming master of his of self-love and conceit is to be met with in this states renders justice to the Scottish Minstrel. my dear doctor; what news?" was the general cry." Bad enough," answered our W gave the doctor to Col. A. "The wood and so thinks the member for-." "Name branches, to usury and all sorts of wickmerchant says you ought to be hanged no names," interrupted the modest clergy-edness. The measure passed nem. con. for giving him an assignment of Eglantine man, who spake for the first time. Maria left the room; W Cottage, which you had previously mort- On our way down stairs, W took us some excellent songs; and I cannot gaged to your jeweller, and annuitized to me by the arm; and, whispering, said: exactly state how I got home; but I old Van the Strasburgh Jew." "I'll tell you what, my gay fellow: your found myself safe in bed, in my own Hanged! indeed,” cried W—— "why, four years residence abroad has made you house, at noon the ensuing day, and had Colonel, that would be keeping you too know nothing about what is going on in a visit from W- , who now belong in suspense.” (a laugh) “ I hinted to our hemisphere; you are quite in the came my Cicerone, and explained to me him, his usurious transaction with Lord basket about what's doing in the world. all the arcana of the preceding day, B-," said the doctor," which seemed to How unfortunate, your bringing up the which had so puzzled me. change the face of affairs, or at least his two fellows wives!" I acknowledged it; First, he informed me that Charles face; for he told me that he had a great and resolved to be more on my guard, S was in the King's Bench, with the regard for you, and, that if you would pay for the rest of the day. Our dinner was view of taking the benefit of the act ;him, he would see what he could do with served up entirely on plate. "Is this all that he had nothing left but his plate and the rest of the people." Capital! was right?" enquired E- of the Doctor. an estate;-that the former was made the general roar; added to, what a fa-"To be sure," said the Doctor: "it is over to the Doctor, as our bloods called mous hand you are, doctor! all mine, and I lend it him.” "And the him, but who in reality was a lawyer, so "Are you still in Portland Place?" estate in Kent?" "Is mine," said Maria. nick-named, because he patched up their said I to the Colonel. "No my dear" All right, my boy," said Charles: affairs, and brought them through, and the fellow," replied he, "I am in the same carry on Governor!" Aye, aye," latter was settled upon beautiful Maria, scrape, and the same end of the town as said the Doctor: "all will be right in who was only Charles's game-keeper's 66 friend Charles." Aye," added time; the gentlemen are only over the daughter, but who had claims on him ;"this is what the beau monde water." "At sick quarters, as we say in that as soon as he gets out, he is to start call the finish." "I'm very sorry for it," the army," remarked the Colonel: "who again fresher than ever;-that his earsaid I. "I'm devilish glad of it," answered the devil, when he meets me in my Til-riage is just built in the Acre, and all the Colonel," it being the only possible bury in the Street, or at the Union, is to ready; and, that he has set his stud way of bringing me round. Bless your know that I have a day-rule in my pocket, groom up as horse dealer, in order, soul, man, I'm working myself out, as fast for the purpose of seeing my solicitor should he be opposed by his creditors, to as possible." Running out, I perfectly and attending to my affairs?-which are break, he being a partner in the concern. understood; but this working out was a driving up and down the Streets-meet- The Colonel, who has just lost his mystery to me. "How's Lady Catherine?" ing my groom at Rotten-row with my wife, by her eloping with a noble Peer, said I. "Indeed I can't tell you," answer- Arabian-or spending my time at the has solaced himself with carrying off a ed he: " you must ask Lord with club." Exemplum probat regulam," clergyman's rib, only six months married, whom she has eloped." "A thousand exclaimed W Syntax for and one year out of a boarding school. pardons," resumed I. "None at all, my ever!" "As bad a latin pun as ever I He has been a long while in the rules, good fellow," said the Colonel: "the heard," said E--: “a glass of wine, if working himself by degrees out, i. e. poll"a dearest friends must part," (a loud laugh). you please, for I cannot swallow that." ing off his creditors who will compro"Do we see Mrs. S ?" said I, "What was done at the Craven?" said mise at five shillings in the pound, and turning to Charles. "Does she con- the Colonel to the Clergyman. "Your to whom ten shillings was offered unsucdescend to adorn your retreat?" Charles friend's horse was drawn; the favorite cessfully a twelvemonth ago, when the made no answer: W――― looked ill- broke down; and the knowing ones were Colonel was abroad. The Doctor's cure naturedly pleased: taken in," replied the grave gentleman. for him, in case of failure, is to bail "This is odd, thinks I to myself; but I all the actions, and to let the Colonel presume that he is some nobleman's migrate a second time. With this view, At this moment, a lovely young creature private tutor." "A glass of Madeira," he has procured an ironmonger, and entered the room, who, from her size and said Charles: we can only give you printseller, who are on the eve of a bankappearance, seemed as if she were in the humble Claret and Madeira: taking Hock ruptcy; and they will begin the world rules for the purpose of bringing matters and Champaigne are forbid by the Doctor. again with the Colonel's bribe, and the round. She was introduced by the name Besides the Claret is a present from my creditors will probably take half a crown of Maria. "As interesting as Sterne's wine merchant; the turtle soup and venison in the pound on the third application. Maria," exclaimed W"but, I are sent by Long; and Schultz has called Young E-, he told me, was just hope, not as unfortunate." "I hope upon me for my commands this morning, whitewashed; and, although he lives in not," said the sprightly fair one, giving hoping that I will continue my custom. a very elegant style, has not a shilling a good-humoured slap on Thus am I courted, all in the hopes that which he can call bis own. At present the shoulder. Here a French servant I may not throw them over.” "And he is supported by a Duchess Dowager; announced dinner. "What have you when your time comes," smartly observed and will take an early opportunity of done with your German butler, Charles?" E---, you will tell the gentlemen, that making a match with some heiress at a said the Colonel. "He has got a situation you will bear them in mind; that you watering place. O tempora, O mores! in the War Office." "Wonderful!" cried hope never to be out of their books; but one to another: "how could that that you cannot shew any undue prebe?"" "By no merit or exertion of his," ference." (Bursts of applause from all observed Charles S--, " unless robbing sides of the house.) me be one; but his wife, who keeps an artificial flower shop, is a beautiful woman, "Each looked on other, none the silence broke" I blushed up to the eyes. W 66 A bumper was here proposed to horse racing, cock fighting, gaming in all its FRENCH MANNERS. (Maurs Françaises.) We reached Bordeaux just at Change time. The exchange is a square building, surrounded by arcades, which you enter through six large gates. At two o'clock, this majestic effect; the entrance, the vestibule, The Adour traverses this immense terrivast space, which was empty a moment be- and the staircase, are remarkably beautiful. tory at two-thirds of its breadth, and falls fore, is filled with an immense crowd of mer-This building contains, besides the Theatre into the sea at Bayonne, after having receivchants of all nations. Each description of itself, which wants repair, a concert-room, ed into it several small rivers, among which commerce has its particular place assigned and many vast apartments. The opening of I will mention only the Gave, the Douze, the to it; the brokers mingle continually with the finest Theatre in Europe, was made with Midouze, and the Ňive. these various groups, going from the sellers the most beautiful Tragedy known. The The whole country to the right of the to the buyers, from the ship-owners to the first piece acted in this Theatre was Athalia. Adour is the country of the Lannes or Landes. captains, from the underwriters to the in- The Theatre is the only Literary pleasure, This river seems to be a barrier opposed by sured, and conclude in less than an hour, for which they have a decided taste in this nature itself to the encroachments of stebargains to the amount of millions, which city; even this taste is confined to the rility; its course preserves from the invasion are daily made in this place. A centime, Comic Opera and Ballets. It is only from of the sands, the beautiful country situated which is called "God's Penny," put by habit or fashion that they go to the great on its left bank, and which may be called the broker into the hands of the seller, and Theatre, where serious Operas and Comedies the Piémont of the Pyrenées (pes montium.) accepted by him, secures irrevocably the are performed. The boxes, &c. are but so On the one side, heaths stretching farther bargain of the highest as well as of the most many subsidiaries to the Exchange, where than the eye can reach, forests of pines (pigtrifling importance. We found Mr. Despa- they finish in the evening the bargain begun nadas) whose wiry foliage falling and drying rabès at the India house, where he had ap- in the morning. The Bordelais will the on the ground, hinders all vegetation beneath pointed to meet us, and we went together on more readily pardon me this observation, as their shade; vast meres, formed by the rainboard a boat which was to convey us to the it has already been made by one of their water, which would naturally drain off toTwo Brothers, In order to reach this ship, most ingenious fellow-citizens, in an occa-wards the sea, were it not stopped by the which was flagged from top to bottom as in sional piece, one of the couplets of which downs, which collect, and advance incessanta holiday, we passed by another, some parts terminated with these two verses, y from the West towards the North-east, till of which being covered with crape, announced On regarde la Comédie the labors of man arrest their progress. This that the owner of this vessel, which was in El l'on écoute le ballet. vast and gloomy landscape, scarcely anilading for America, had departed for the other At both Theatres, the spectators stand in the mated by a grave and taciturn population, world before his ship. I had not time to in-pit; and in the highest circles, it is not yet is relieved but at long intervals, by the dulge in the reflections which such a coinci- customary to hire boxes; the richest ladies clusters of oaks which surround the scatterdence might have produced in my mind; we content themselves on extraordinary occa-ed habitations, where the peasant and his arrived on board. sions with sending servants to keep places. family live, pell-mell, with a part of the doMadame Desparabès was doing with Mont-de-Marsan, Feb. 1. 1817. mestic animals, which are fattened on the enchanting grace the honours of her After a stay of three weeks at fruit of the trees planted round their dwelhusband's vessel, to several ladies whom Bordeaux, I left it last Tuesday for Bayonne. ling; flocks of sheep, wandering among the she had brought with her. In the course of As I do not travel merely for the purpose of furze, under the care of shepherds covered my tour, I shall probably have an opportunity moving from one place to another, but to with their fleece, mounted on high stilts, and of speaking more particularly of these din- exainine, to collect what is said, what is who might be taken at a distance for the ners on board; but I will not pass over a cir-done on my route; to search into every Lestrigons, whom some learned men place in cumstance which afforded me much amuse- corner, to make all these talk, whom I meet this singular country: such, at the first view, ment on this occasion. Among the guests of with, I seldom make choice of the shortest is the aspect of the upper Laudes. Mr. Desparabès was one of those Parisians, method of conveyance. Besides, to visit at Cross the Adour, the seene changes as by whose credulity is the greatest, as it has no my ease the desert which I was going to enchantment; valleys, plains uncommonly standard except their ignorance and self-love. cross, I desired to deviate from the high road, fertile, hills covered with vines, trees loaded Madame Desparabès had no difficulty in which no longer passes through what are with fruit; smiling habitations; a gay and making him believe, that he was secretly the called the Grundes-Landes; I therefore made lively people, generally dressed in light cohero of the fête, and every body did his best a bargain with a Voiturin, who agreed, for loured stuffs, and remarkable for their cleanto confirm him in an idea which seemed to 15 francs per day, to take me to Bayonne by liness; the soil every where displaying its flatter him: however resolved he might be as many circuits, and round about ways, as riches, and justifying the observation of to admire nothing out of the barriers of I should think fit. Arthur Young, who mentions this country, Paris, the thousand vessels which surrounded I have nothing to say of Castres, which 1 as one of the best cultivated, of all that he him, the magnificent river, covered with merely passed through; but I marked Lan-visited on his agronomical travels. But this innumerable boats, which traversed it in gon, in my Itinerary, on account of its ex-luxury of nature does not seduce the frugal every direction; this fine sight which he cellent white wines and its lampreys. My inhabitant of the Landes, who is the friend beheld for the first time in his life, drew his host, who had a good store of local erudition, of independence and repose. The poverty of attention in spite of himself, and he at last assured me that the Chapter of Bordeaux the country can even excite and satisfy a said to the captain, that he should like to see ceded, in 1770, to one Armand Garnier, a kind of ambition; there, every land owner this fleet manœuvre. "It is a pleasure I have right on the town of Langon, on condition above want, is lord of his district and chief thought of giving you," replied the other, that he should furnish the Chapter with of his hamlet: he extends or contracts his (to whom Madame Desparabès had made a twelve lampreys annually. The gluttony of limits at his pleasure, without war and sign, and who saw that the time was coming the Monks is of ancient date, we see. Iwithout lawsuits: does he grow weary of when the tide would turn) I have given or- stopped two days at Bazas, (which is remark-power, he abdicates; is he dissatisfied with ders to all these vessels, in less than a quarter able only for its situation on the top of a his neighbours, he removes, and goes to of an hour, you will see them all in motion. rock,) to form an idea of the aspect and of enjoy elsewhere, the precious advantages of In fact the ebb (le jusunt) set in, the vessels the topography of the Landes, on which you liberty, and of that roving life, of which it is swung round on their anchors, and our Pari-enter, on leaving this town. happy for civilisation that the charms are so sian thanked the captain for his extreme little known. complaisance. There being a performance this evening at the great Theatre, I did not fail to go thither with Mr. Abrias. THE DOUKABORS. The department of the Landes is next to that of the Aveyron, the most considerable in point of territory; its population is about 230,000 inhabitants; the whole territory, This sect, to whom the Emperor of Russia which extends from the banks of the Gulph has recently renewed a guarantee of religious The great Theatre at Bordeaux is one of of Gascony and the Pond, or Mere, (étang) liberty, are in some respects the Quakers of the the finest monuments of modern architec-of Casaux, to the mouth of the Adour, as Greek Church. This sect, which first establishture. It was erected under the auspices of far as the frontiers of the department of the the Duke of Richelieu, and was opened in Lower Pyrenees, and of the Gers, composes 1781. The principal front has the most the department of the Landes. ed itself in Ukrane, professes a system of unition of the gospel. The Doukabors, though versal equality, founded on a false interpretaextremely devout, obetinately refuse to make from the Paulician sect. NOTE. We should have introduced the following under the head of "Polite Literature," had we not had some suspicion that, artfully constructed as they are, they have more reference to modern than to ancient manners. Thus much at least seems evident to us, that for the ancient names of Messalina, Lepidus, &c. attached to these letters, modern ones might well be substituted. ED. disorder XYZ. NOTE. Want of room obliges us to defer the PORTRAITS IN HIGH LIFE. PORTRAIT II. LADY ******** **** the sign of the cross; they likewise condemn of his order, we soon contracted an entire | sioned by the weather and time, I next im the use of oaths. When only simple peasantry, friendship, which induced me, on the depar-posed upon myself the task of translating they appeared dangerous to the Emperor Paul I. ture of my Russian companion for Moldavia, them into English. One of these I now send who, by persecuting them, angmented their to accept of the invitation of the Kaloir to for insertion in your valuable journal, being numbers; because they regarded themselves as accompany him on a mission to mount induced so to do by the hope that a general martyrs, and sought to make proselytes. The Athos, or as he called it, Ayov ops," the holy interest may be excited among the learned, Emperor Alexander resolved to isolate them; he assigned to them a fertile but deserted terri mountain." After staying some time at both here and on the continent, to pursue tory, on the bank of the river Molochné, to the Constantinople, we passed along the coast of farther inquiries in the libraries of the north-west of the Sea of Azof, in the govern- Romania, and embarking in a Greek vessel eastern monasteries, where there is reason ment of the Tauride. This spot they still inha- at Gallipoli, made a short voyage to the place to believe many relics of literature more bit. Their number of male persons is 1150. of our destination, where the high reputa-valuable than these epistles, are deposited, To their principal village, they have given the tion of my friend ensured me a hearty wel- buried in dust, and a prey to insects. Should name of Bagdanowka, that is to say, the Gift of come in the monastery of St. Laura. Not you, Sir, be of the same opinion, and which God. long after our arrival, I was attacked by a will be expressed by giving the article now Through some error they are occasionally severe fever, from which by the skill of my sent an early place in your pages, together called Duchaborski, and are said to have sprung reverend physician, and the benevolent atten- with this necessary explanation by way of tions of his brethren, I recovered, though introduction, the rest shall follow in due slowly; and such was the violence of the order and with as little delay as possible. upon a frame naturally very delicate, that several weeks elapsed before I could venture beyond the precincts of the first of these interesting letters till our next No. monastery. To beguile the tedious hours as much as possible, I employed myself in reading, and by the kindness of the Evoqu Laxa, who is both the steward and librarian of the house, I had full liberty to spend as much time as I pleased in the tower appro- Daughter to the amiable Lady Bh, priated for the preservation of the books and it is not to be wondered that she posmanuscripts belonging to the monastery. Here, however, I should have enjoyed little sesses superior qualities du Cœur et de The importance and originality of your gratification, as with the exception of the Esprit, nor that, at an early age, she journal must give it a claim to public patro- works of Chrysostom, Basil and Nazianzen, felt what the French so beautifully terin nage, and its impartiality will no doubt re- there was scarcely any thing to be found le besoin d'aimer. commend it in a particular manner to the worth the trouble of clearing from the heaps Never was the texture of a mind more commonwealth of letters. As a friend to all of dust under which they lay buried. Still finely wrought than that of Lady useful undertakings and an admirer of lite- as the labour of searching among these pro- | **** Warmth of imagination, delicacy rary antiquities, I am desirous of aiding, as miscuous piles was a relief and amusement of sentiment, exquisite sensibility, quick far as lies in my power, your laudable object. to one who had nothing else to do, I went What I now send, though in the form of a on from day to day turning over the cum-comprehension, a love of study, and a translation, may perhaps be deserving of at- brous and worm-eaten volumes with renewed heart full of tenderness and humanity, tention not only as an article of curiosity, avidity, though generally without meeting were all combined in her. An assembut as throwing some light upon the private any object of higher interest than the pro- blage of these rare qualities fitted her history of the Romans at a very interesting ceedings of a Council, or the pastoral injunc- both to love and to be loved, whilst the period. It is proper, however, that your tions of a Metropolitan. At length, when superiority of her talent ensured for her readers should be made acquainted with this succession of expectation and disap some particulars of a discovery, which duly pointment had become irksome, I chanced improved by the diligence of persons emi-one fine afternoon to perceive in an obscure It is not always the lot of man or wonently qualified for the research, may serve corner a loose heap of mouldering papers, man to meet with a complete return in as a clue to the recovery of many classical which seemed almost to be dropping to either love or friendship in this nether fragments, and perhaps of the lost Decades of pieces. On examining them with great ten-world. We have never seen, though Livy. derness, the writing was so faint as to be often heard, of kindred souls, disposiTwo years ago I was advised by my phy-almost illegible. Here, however, was a new tions entirely congenial, hearts paired, sicians to seek for the re-establishment of a stimulus to exertion, in the promise of and minds indissolubly united: this kind broken constitution in a change of scene and something to repay the waste of time and ROMAN LETTERS. DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT ROMAN LETTERS. SIR, esteem. climate. With this view, after passing labour already endured. With great care, of bliss dwells not in our sphere; and it through Germany, I accompanied an intelli- therefore, I removed the roll to my apart exists only in a truly refined imagination, gent Russian nobleman into the Crimea, ment, where, after taking some pains, I disco- such as her Ladyship's. We allow that where we indulged ourselves in botanical vered the first paper to be in Latin, which of it is breathed from the lover's lips, and excursions, which constituted the favourite course sufficiently accounted for the neg-flows from the poet's pen; but the study of both. Here it was my lot to meet lected state of the whole, as compositions in former either dies upon the breeze or vawith a Greek named Theophilus Batopedi, that tongue are held in contempt by the who united the two professions of a Kaloir Christians of the Greek Church. Many days nishes in the voice of echo; and the latand a physician. In the former character, passed away before I could make out any ter lasts only in a retentive memory. as an ecclesiastic of the order of St. Basil, part of the contents of these remains, but as More commonly it exists but a moment, his reception was always attended with the they were evidently of very high antiquity, like a fine form reflected in the fickle greatest affection and reverence among those and in a language which indicated somewhat mirror of fashion, succeeded by perhaps of his communion, while in his medical ca- more curious than the ecclesiastical produc-a plainer one, which dwells there just as pacity he was no less certain of respect from tions with which I had been lately familiar, long. Such are the powerful effects of the Turks. The good man, however, was I redoubled my diligence, and at length sucwell entitled to esteem wherever he came, ceeded very much to my satisfaction. Havby the mildness of his manners, his unaf- ing made such transcripts as I well could, fected piety, and his extensive knowledge. considering the number of abbreviations, As he had an ardent thirst for science, and the obliterated state of many parts, the rawas much more learned than the generality vages of the worins, and the injuries occa novelty. Happily in this respect, the lot of Lady ****** **** has been the reverse: the flitting image she once saw in fashion's mirror has fled-it was unworthy of her; Sweden. and she now possesses a real object for Right Hon. Gentleman addressed the House, this inattentionto general principles, it is, her love, one who is indeed worthy of thanking them for the indulgence they had that the daily papers are seen so perpe shown him; regretting the delay thereby ocher and whom she deems a model of casioned to the course of public business; and tually to err in their conclusions respectevery excellence. proposing an arrangement for the future, by ing individual points of foreign policy.Lady ******** **** has not been with- which all committees should be revived, orders With these views, the news of the past out enemies, though no one ever deserved and notices fixed anew, and the period for re-week naturally direct our attention to then less. All we can say on the sub-ceiving private Bills extended from the 12th to the 19th of May. These suggestions were ject of extensive calumny is, that if any immediately complied with by the House. The United Kingdom of Sweden and one ever did sport with feelings such as An important intimation was given by the Norway composes, as all our readers hers-shame and reproach light on him. Chancellor of the Exchequer, of his intention to know, the Scandinavian Peninsula, bounpropose, on Monday next, by way of alleviation We now come to her faults-we mean of the pressure of the Poor-Rates, an issue of ded by the Arctic Ocean, the North Exchequer Bills, not exceeding two millions; Sea, the Baltic and the mountains of to be advanced, as might be eligible, to corpo- Lapland. The extent of Sweden is rate or other associated bodies, engaging to give 207,472 square miles; and that of Norwork to the unemployed poor. The ultimate the Poor-Rates themselves. security for the repayment of these sums, to be way about 116,000: the population of the former consists of about 3,000,000; Mr. BENNETT presented a petition from 5,000 and that of the latter of nearly 1,000,000. individuals, inhabitants of the town of Wolver- The army of Sweden amounts perhaps to hampton, praying, that if no other remedy could be found, they might be furnished with means 50,000 men, and of late has been newly to leave the country. The Hon. Gentleman and well organized. Her navy consists of stated it as a known fact, that several indivi- about fifteen ships of the line and of duals in that neighbourhood had perished by many gallies: to these the attention of the government is at present particularly paid. The revenue of Sweden amounts to about 1,500,000; and her debt to 10,000,000. her writings. Here she has too incautiously entered the regions of fancy, and culled every wild flower which came in her way; she has very tastefully made up the wreath; but it has too much of the unsubstantial colouring of a dream. Had she been less romantic, she had stood still higher as an authoress. Her flights of fancy have wafted her to the clouds, where we always regret to lose sight of her. famine. Unlike many modern writers, whose Mr. E. J. LYTTLETON would not allow that poetry is prosaic, Lady C******* ****'s it generally was the petition or spoke the sentiprose is poetic. No one rounds a period, ments, of the people of Wolverhampton. It was or arranges a sentence more prettily than manufactured at a distance from that town; it herself; but then the rich line should was brought there by strangers; and methods Such are the very limited means of were taken to procure signatures. He allowed contain something substantial and earthly that it might speak the sentiments of those who political power which Scandinavia enjoys. to ensure it from censure and disappro- signed it, but he denied that these were any Those of Sweden alone were perhaps bation: a billet doux would come much considerable portion of the inhabitants of that greater when she possessed Finland, so more naturally by a well dressed trusty lie on the table. district. The petition was read and ordered to recently snatched from her by Russia. servant, or perchance even by the two- Petitions were presented from Thomas That fine and important province was, penny post, than embalmed with deli- Brightfield, of Derby Street, Parliament Street, in a financial and economical point of cious odours, wet with the dew of a against the Coal Meters Bill; from the Wool-view, of great consequence to Sweden, melting kiss, and suspended by a golden growers of Cork, praying for relief; from Mac- which is so deficient in internal resources. clesfield, from various parts of Essex and Wilts, chain round the snowy neck of a turtle and from Old Swinford, in Worcestershire, Its loss, however, is compensated by the dove. We quite agree with Boileau, who against the Poor Laws; from certain free acquisition of the poor and barren countells us that holders and others, in Cornwall, complaining try of Norway; for Sweden has thus that a petition which had been transmitted to "Est de prendre toujours la verité pour guide." His Royal Highness the Prince Regent had economical advantages for that absolute the proper office in order to be forwarded to exchanged a very moderate revenue and le seul honneur solide; and we recommend these lines to Lady ******** ****'s attention; hoping that she will pardon censure and advice, where good wishes and esteem are so closely blended with them. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. never been presented; from the freemen and security without which her very existence POLITICS. Monday, April 21, 1817. The Irish Arms Bill was read a third time and passed; and after some routine business the House adjourned till Thursday next. HOUSE OF LORDS. Thursday, 24th April, 1817. Of temporary circumstances, we shall EARL GREY presented a petition from Salt sometimes avail ourselves to sketch the coats, Ardrossan and other places in that neigh-external relations of the various European bourhood, stating the distresses of the country, Sweden was, before the French revolution, the ally chiefly of France; and, before the elevation of Prussia, the Swedes actually aided France in opposing the power of Austria which was then the and praying for Parliamentary Reform, by the States. This subject, though little studied more formidable as it was balanced neisuppression of the representation for decayed in England, is of high importance to every ther by Russia nor Prussia. Abbé de boroughs, and by shortening the duration of political reasoner. If ignorant of general Pradt seems to suppose that the same parliament. Also another petition, respectably signed, from Langdale to the same effect principles, he cannot manifest knowledge relations still subsist between Sweden and as the former. Both of these were laid on the in their particular application. If unac-France. "Henceforth," says he, "Sweden table. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Thursday, 24th April, 1817. In this House, the SPEAKER was warmly congratulated, by members of all parties, on his recovery from his late indisposition. The quainted with the physical and moral can have but two enemies, England and circumstances which constitute the motives Russia: she will be against Russia the of cabinets and generate all their rela- England of the north; and against Entions, he cannot safely predict their pro- gland, the guardian of the Baltic, and bable conduct in any emergeney. From the auxiliary of those powers which in |