merce shall be treated throughout his consists of about 1,700 men, escorted by What is called cassia is the receptacle and unthere are four cinnamon plantations containing dominions on the same footing as the two sloops. Another small expedition ripe seeds of the laurus cinnomomum. In Ceylon most favored nations, and that a reduc- was preparing to double Cape Horn, and from 1000 to 5000 acres each: three of them tion of ten per Cent. shall be made on land either in Chili or Arica; carrying are represented as being well cultivated, and the amount of the duties, payable ac-out 800 or 1,000 men.-General Bolivar the fourth in a rather decayed and unproductive April 24. A paper by Mr. Uppington, decording to the Tariff in force the 1st of had, on the 10th of February last, with state. January 1816, on British imports. The less than 1,000 men, completely defeated scribing the nature and advantages of an instruinhabitants of the Ionian Islands are, in the army of the Royalists, consisting of ment which he calls an "Electrical Increaser," consequence of their being under British 3,000, of whom 1,000 were killed, wound- was communicated by Dr. Pearson, and read. protection, to enjoy the same privileges ed, and taken prisoners. Bolivar, in a It consists of a series of brass plates which letter to Admiral Brown, is said to have carry and retain the electric fluid. as British subjects. assured him that he should, by the 20th of April, be in possession of Cumana. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Our foreign intelligence is not very important. In France that portion of the French ministry who were disquieted by the presence of M. de Blacas at Paris, have been relieved from their alarms by that person setting off for Italy. It is An Essay on Capacity and Genius speedily will thought rather curious that the Gardes be published. The object of this work is to prove de la Prevoté, of which M. de Monte- that no such principle exists in nature as innate reau (father in law to M. de Blacas) was genius, but that all apparent superiority of inColonel, are suppressed.-A committee, tellect in one individual above another, depends it appears, is to be formed in Prussia, of entirely on adventitious circumstances. The which one half consists of members of craniological theory of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim are examined in this Essay, and the anthe Council of State, and the other of thor endeavours to shew that they have no deputies from the Provinces, to consider basis in philosophy, and should only be consiof and prepare the new constitution.dered as a speculative delusion. Extract of a letter from Paris." The St. HeThe differences between the King and lena manuscript continues to be read with great the States of Wirtemberg, so far from avidity by all parties. After having attributed being adjusted, as former accounts led it to Benjamin Constant, who disowns it; to us to expect, are become more serious General Lamarque who never thought of it; and to Maret, totally incapable of writing it, than ever, and a rupture of the negocia the public still remains in doubt as to the real What is most probable is, that Las tions altogether can be prevented only by author. an immediate concession of the latter to Cases has written it from a recollection of his the unequivocally expressed will of the different conversations with Bonaparte, and former. Not less than 20,000 stand of perhaps he might have inserted in it some frag. ments composed by the ex-Emperor himself." From the Maine, April 9.-The Princess of arms have been already shipped off for Portugal. A general alarm still prevails Wales, before she left Munich, caused a par throughout Portugal that that kingdom phlet to be distributed, under the title of "Journal d'un Voyageur Anglois," containing is to be left defenceless at the mercy of a a description of her travels, and several of the The armaoccurrences of her life. neighbouring government. ments preparing in the Ottoman Empire are again confidently spoken of. These preparations are ascribed to the apprehensions entertained by the Turkish government of designs against the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, being in contemplation of certain christian OXFORD. No graduations during the past Powers. The provisions of a most important law, which may be denominated the week. CAMBRIDGE.-Degrees of M. A. have been Navigation Act of the United States of conferred on the Rev. J. Herdman, Trinity; America,are published in the Bostou Com-Messrs. M. Boswell, Fellow of Clare Hall; and mercial Gazette. The object of this mea-C. Babbage, of St. Peters.-Degrees of B. A. sure is to protect the shipping interest of upon Revd. C. Lee, Clare; Messrs. J. T. Allen, H. R. S. Smith, J. P. Mather, Trinity; the States; its means is the exclusion of all R. Crone, P. W. Pegus, T. S. Wale, St. John's; other nations from a competition in their T. Mack, Caius; R. Myddelton, Clare; and As British commerce J. B. Berney, Corpus Christi. carrying trade. has, since the peace, carried only native ROYAL SOCIETY, April 17.-The Society manufactures or commodities, this law having assembled after the holidays, the concluseems calculated to do it little injury, of sion of Mr. Marshal's Natural History of the a direct kind at least. The expedition Cinnamon Tree was read. The truc cinnamon which lately left Cadiz is bound to the tree rises to the height of thirty feet; its roots yield camphor; its leaves are seven or eight Spanish main, in all haste, in consequence inches long and two or three broad; its flower of the bad news to the Royalist cause, is white, and of a most disagreeable odour; but which had arrived from that quarter. It its berries are greedily devoured by the birds. ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.-A paper by Mr. Thomas Lauder Dick, on the appear. ances called the "Parallel Roads" in Glenroy, in the shire of Inverness. This glen extends about eight or nine miles from N.E. to S. W. and consists of six or seven distinct vistas or reaches, produced by the projections and bendings of the hills. It is very narrow, and the river Roy runs along its bottom. On the sloping sides of the hills on each side are seen what have been called the Parallel Roads,-a series of shelves receding one above another, through the whole extent of the glen. Each shelf preserves a horizontal position throughout the length of the glen. In number, height, and position, they are similar on the opposite sides of the glen. These shelves, which some have supposed to be artificial, Mr. Dick shows, very satisfactorily, must have been produced by the action of the surface of a vast lake, which must have filled the valley, but undergone a series of successive subsidences, by the bursting out of its now visible. He has, he thinks, ascertained waters, corresponding to the number of "roads" the point in the glen through which the waters rushed when the lake subsided to the second level. Mr. Dick supports his theory by observations surrounds a valley above the town of Subiaco, made on the margins of deep lakes in the Highlands, and by an analogous road or shelf, which forty-six miles east from Rome, and which is known to have been once on a level with the waters of the lake, by the ruins of the baths of Nero, and of the aqueduct by which Appius Claudius conveyed water from this lake to Rome, though the lake is now much lower. Dr. Brewster communicated experiments on stances of Nations. PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED to the received opinion, the aqueous and vitreous humour were found to have refractive powers greater than that of water, that of the vitreons humour being the highest. The tint polarized by the crystalline of the human eye is a faint blue of the first order. A letter from T. Allan, Esq. gave a sketch of the mineral structure of the country round Nice. It is chiefly composed of limestone, disposed in irregular strata, containing shells of the same description with those of the sea be neath. Sir George Mackenzie read an essay On the is of considerable length, and occupied the Theory of Association in Matters of Taste. It whole time of three meetings of the Society. TO CORRESPONDENTS. H's statement respecting Junius is not sufficiently authenticated. P. M's proposal, as he himself observes, is not new. OR Journal of Belles Lettres, Politics and Fashion. NO. XVII. PROGRESS OF THE ARTS. Mr. MENKE, of Berlin, who has been employed in making models for the porcelain manufactory, has discovered, it is said, the process of converting mahogany saw-dust into a soft paste, which becomes hard and solid by than that of an anonymous correspond-Had been supplanted, could I hope to stand? exposure to the atmosphere, and is susceptible of receiving and preserving the forms given to marble, to wood, or to bronze. This substance takes the most beautiful gilding as well as the colour of bronze. The product of this manufactory are candelabras, lustres, lamps, vases, statues, and ornaments for all kinds of furni ture. These objects rival in elegance the most beautiful works in bronze, and cost only the eighth part of the price. POLITE LITERATURE. "The war-horse masterless lies on the earth; LARA. reverse of Wordsworth's true poetical of his two children, and, lastly, by occa- ent. Coleridge, in the 2d edition of his "An orphic tale; pell'd The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way! Some trace am I enabled to retain SIR,-In the 14th Number of your LITERARY GAZETTE, I could not help noticing the contemptuous treatment which your Correspondent, in the article on Modern Poets, bestows upon Messrs. Coleridge and Wordsworth, assigning it as their portion of the national epic To their own music chaunted." A tale indeed of high and passionate thoughts, which he proposes should be undertaken by the poetical brotherhood, to describe Neither does Coleridge think the prosing Of time, else lost;-existing unto me the unsophisticated death of an aid-de- of his friend such inane stuff as H. T. Only by records in myself not found." camp's horse. He might have spared apprehends it to be; for, speaking of his It is a trite observation, that this kind himself the trouble of this recommenda- pamphlet concerning the convention of tion, Lord Byron having already under- Cintra, he tells us, that in reading it he of grief can only be healed by lapse of taken the task, and performed it with seemed to hear thunder and not words, so time; and Wordsworth, in another of his usual ability. powerfully did the writer affect him. I his poems, has occasion to express this may here take leave of your correspond-sentiment; but with what gracefulness And that last gasp hath burst his bloody girth." ent H. T., recommending him in the of poetic drapery he clothes it, the folnext edition of his strictures, to substi-lowing apostrophe will show: Your Correspondent H. T., who, in tute nourishing beef-soup in place of his Thou Spirit, whose angelic hand your succeeding Number, has come for-gruel without salt; and in like manner let Called the submissive strings to wake Was to the harp a strong command, ward in behalf of Coleridge, endeavours him exchange the other disparaging terms In glory for this Maiden's sake, to show, that he who has strung his lyre he has used for their converse, which will Say, Spirit! whither hath she fled at the obsequies of an Empress, ought be much nearer the truth: but, for the To hide her poor afflicted head? not to have a contemptible station among sake of others, who may not so much Enfolds her?-is a rifted tomb What mighty forest in its gloom the bards of Waterloo. As a contrast to wonder at the junction of the names of Within the wilderness her seat? the quotation this Correspondent has Wordsworth and Coleridge, and who may Some island which the wild waves beat, given, another, on the death of an infant, imagine that intimate friends are not the Is that the sufferer's last retreat? might be added from the same author, best qualified to sit in judgment on each Its perilous front in mists and clouds? Or some aspiring rock that shrouds that is well worthy of a place in our other's works, I wish you, Mr. Editor, to High-climbing rock-deep sunless dale— suffer me to let Wordsworth answer for Sea-desart-what do these avail? himself as to his poetical qualifications, Oh, take her anguish and her fears Into a calm recess of years! by a few quotations from his works. Amidst the profusion of beautiful pasWe need not enter further into the sages that rush upon my mind, it is defence of Coleridge; and if your Cor- difficult to choose; and I shall therefore respondent had done equal justice to the bring forward the following lines, not as other poet of the Lakes, I should not the best, but because I judge them most have trespassed on your pages with any likely to put to shame, him who has observations of mine. But I am truly deemed Wordsworth unqualified to symastonished at the degrading estimate he pathise with any thing better than a The Bard, whose soul is meek as dawning day, has formed of the genius of Wordsworth; horse. The lines here quoted represent Fervid, yet conversant with holy fear, Yet trained to judgments righteously severe: particularly, as the aspersions he uses the situation and feelings of a person, As recognizing one Almighty sway: seem to me to be antithetically the very who, at short intervals, has been bereaved He whose experienced eye can pierce the array memories: Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Let me now apply more immediately to the subject suggested by your critical correspondent in the 14th Number, to whose attentive consideration I would recommend the following Sonnet of Wordsworth's, occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo. away: Of Jove." Of past events,-to whom, in vision clear, con, relating to the mixture of tragedy and your dramatic readers may probably recolThe aspiring heads of future things appear, comedy. That the mixture is not at vari- lect, by the entrance of Raynulph the Monk Like mountain-tops, whence mists have rolled ance with nature, every day's experience of Chester, who compiled the Polychronicon. shews; that it is, to a certain extent, conge- After the delivery of sixteen or eighteen “Assoiled from all incumbrance of our time," nial with the theatrical taste of the English, lines, which serve the office of a prologue, He only, if such breathe, in strains devout is abundantly evinced by its success. Shake- he retires; shouts are heard; and Vortiger Shall comprehend this victory sublime ; speare, and others, amongst our old writers, enters. From what follows, we learn that And worthily rehearse the hideous rout, Which the blest Angels, from their peaceful and the younger Colman, of the moderns, his aspirations to royalty, have, for the preclime were never more warmly patronised, than sent, been frustrated by the determination Beholding, welcomed with a choral shout. when they rested their claims on the com-of the people to have Constantius, the The sublime simile borrowed from a bined exertions of the sock and buskin. Legi- eldest son of Constantine, for their King. mountainous region, must strike every based with the petty intrigues and common-tery, is with difficulty compelled to accept timate tragedy, indeed, ought not to be de-Constantius, who had retired to a monasimagination that is capable of soaring place occurrences of every-day life; nor the crown. Persisting in his ambitious above an ant-hillock, and the spirit in should comedy, that "mirror of nature," views, Vortiger, under the mask of loyalty, which the Sonnet concludes, is finely ever be suffered to degenerate into the broad attaches himself to the King. Thus far has in unison with the ideal character which caricature of farce. Very slight pretensions the serious part of the action proceeded, the poet has sought to embody. I may to taste, or judgment, would be allowed to when we are presented with a scene, dehere remark, that the voice of a multi-the painter, who, in exhibiting the fall of a scribed as follows:-"Dumb show. Fortune tude must always vibrate with a powerful hishment of a traitor, or a sacrifice to the lots; then enter Hengist and Horsus, with tyrant, or the apotheosis of a hero-the pu- discovered; in her hand a round ball full of effect upon the soul of him that hears it; gods-should allow the back ground of his others: they draw lots; and having opened but to produce something of this effect picture to be occupied by a display of low them, all depart save Ilengist and Horsus, upon him that does not hear it, lies only buffoonery, or incongruous passion. Yet the who kneel and embrace: then enter Roxena, in the reach of the genuine poet. Homer artist, without violating the fastidiousness of seeming to take leave of Hengist in great is truly sublime in his description of the taste, may, under different circumstances, passion, but more especially and warily of shout of the Greek and Trojan armies : blend the serious with the comic; may, by Horsus, her lover; she departs one way, "Up went the double roar judiciously blending them, produce the hap- Hengist and Horsus another." Into the heights etherial, and among the beams piest effect. In contemplating such compo Our old friend Raynulph again appears, Cowper's Translation. sitions, our feelings, instead of being and thus elucidates the story:shocked, are soothed, and tranquillized, and "When Germany was overgrown delighted. We feel ourselves irresistibly With sons of peace, too thickly sown, drawn from the cares and anxieties of the Several guides were chosen then riant bosom of nature. world, to repose in peace upon the luxu- By destin'd lots, to lead out men; And they whom fortune here withstands, clusion. The verses that have been Between the dramatic and the pictorial On these two captains fell the lot; Must prove their fates in other lands. given are sufficient vouchers for the arts, the closest analogy subsists. It is the But that which must not be forgot, poetical dignity of Wordsworth. I cannot duty of the dramatist, as of the painter, so Was Roxena's cunning grief; further indulge myself by quoting his ex- to select, to groupe, and to contrast his ob- Who from her father [Hengist] like a thief, quisitely fine personification of the French duced.-Under considerations such as these, Which her lustful lover [Horsus] wears, jects, that a harmonious whole may be pro- Hid her best and truest tears, revolutionary Government; I cannot I have long experienced a predilection for In many a stol'n and wary kiss dwell on the masterly style in which he those minor pieces of the English stage, by Unseen of father: maids do this, exhibits Winter throwing his net over the which the mind, never too violently agitated, Yet highly scorn to be call'd strumpets too; army of Napoleon; nor can I enter upon is permitted alternately to pass But what they lack of 't I'll be judg’d by you.” a bare enumeration of the numberless "From grave to gay, from lively to severe." Castiza, betrothed to Vortiger, is induced beauties of thought and diction displayed titled to, the credit of having first trans- virginity, and to retire to the cloister. Holcroft, I believe, claimed, and was en- by the pious Constantius to prefer a life of by this truly original poet; having already planted that variety of dramatic literature, Vortiger pursues his machinations; and, by trespassed upon your columns beyond entitled "Melo-drame," from France to the following scene, in "Dumb shew," soon the due limit. But suffer me as I retire England. As "wits jump," however, a li- after the commencement of the second act, from this discussion, to conclude with a terary friend of mine, several years before the story makes a rapid progress:— few lines extracted from his Invocation Holcroft's first Melo-drame appeared, mi- "Enter two villains, to them Vortiger, to Earth, when, alluding to the havoc of nutely described to me the nature of the en- who seems to solicit them with gold, then he tertainments declaring that, were he the ma- swears them, and exit. Enter Constantius trial of its success. The event fully justified book, draw their swords, he kneels and nager of a theatre,he would immediately make meditating, they rudely strike down his his and Holcroft's expectations; for, since spreads his arms, they kill him, hurry him its first appearance amongst us, it has been off. Enter Vortiger, Devonshire, Stafford, cherished as a favorite of no mean preten In the translation of this passage by Pope, it is spoiled by his imitation of a still finer description that occurs in the Paradise Lost. I must hasten to a con war, says, "The heavens are thronged with martyrs that have risen From out thy noisome prison; Not Ossian, with his thousand ghosts shrieking on the hollow wind, is more awfully sublime. I am, Sir, &c. Derby, May 10, 1817. J. E. SUCGESTED IMPROVEMENT IN MELO-DRAME. Sir,-I am induced to trouble you with a few remarks, which, if they meet the eye of those more immediately concerned in catering for the public taste, may possibly be matured into utility. Much has been said, and written, pro and sions. [British lords] in conference; to them the villains presenting the head, he seems sorInferior as were the scenic decorations rowful, and in rage stabs them both. Then and general mode of management, of the they crown Vortiger, and fetch in Castiza, English stage, two or three centuries ago, who comes unwillingly; he hales her, and much of improvement, in various respects, they crown her; Aurelius and Uther, brohas been, and yet may be, derived from our thers of Constantius, seeing him crowned, dramatic writers of those periods. By the draw and fly." perusal of "The Mayor of Quinborough," Raynulph again enters, explains, and exit." founded on the monkish history of the Bri-Vortiger appears, crowned; Hengist, Hørtish king Vortiger, by Middleton, one of sus, and Roxena, with their Saxons, arrive; the contemporaries of Massinger, &c. I was and Vortiger falls in love with Roxena. In recently much struck with what I conceive the third act, Vortiger, in conjunction with may be adopted, under certain modifica- his supposed friend, Ilorsus, with the view tions, as a material improvement in Melo- of obtaining Roxena, plans and commits a drame. The piece commences, as some of rape upon his own wife, Castiza, whom he shew," as follows: Raynulph once more enters; the massacre of the Britons on Salisbury plain succeeds; and, in the fifth act, poetical justice is executed on the respective parties. afterwards publicly disgraces, and marries in the Sunday Journal, called "THE Ex-from the knowledge which they have acRoxena. In the fourth act, the Saxons hay-AMINER." quired in their own circle and country. The ing gained an ascendancy in the kingdom, world must, therefore, suppose that these the Britons raise Vortimer, the son of VorTo the Editor of the Literary Gazette. Round Table teachers, being natives of Engtiger by Castiza, to the throne. This is reSir, I deem it necessary, for the sake of land and resident in this country, have depresented by another scene, in "Dumb connection, to commence this letter with one rived their profound knowledge of the sex of the extracts from the Round Table, in- from English women, and that they are only "Enter Lupus, Germanus, [Monks] De-serted in my last. It is that in which the giving a just picture of what they conceive vonshire, and Stafford, leading Vortimer, writer, after having misrepresented and to be "our gross Island Manners." (p. 215. and crown him: Vortiger comes to them in blackened the whole mass of the English vol. ii.) It is the ladies of this part of the passion: they neglect him. Enter Roxena country people, as a brutal, envious multi- kingdom, formerly called South Britain, in fury, expressing discontent; then they tude, living in hatred of each other, pro- whose fame is involved in this abominable lead out Vortimer. Roxena gives two vil-ceeds to defame the men and women of Eng-slander. These infamous imputations are lains gold to murder him: they swear per- land altogether, in the following sentence.more unmanly and cruel, because woman is formance, and go with her. Vortiger offers "He" (that is, John Bull, under which name defenceless, and well may she exclaim, with to run on his sword; Horsus prevents him, the moralist designates his countrymen) Shakespeare, "boasts of the excellence of his laws and the and persuades him. The Lords bring in He who robs me of my good name, Vortimer dead: Vortiger mourns, and sub-goodness of his own disposition; and yet there Robs me of that, which nought enriches him; mits to them: they swear him, and crown are more people hanged in England than in And leaves me poor indeed!" him. Then enters Hengist with Saxons: all Europe besides; he boasts of the modesty If to take away the reputation of one innoVortiger draws, threatens expulsion, and of his countrywomen-and yet there are more cent woman, be deemed an irreparable ofthen sends a parley; which Hengist seems prostitutes in the streets of London than in all fence, what must we think of a man, who, to grant by laying down his weapons; so all the capitals of Europe." This execrable ca- not with his tongue, in a moment of wine or depart severally.' lumny, which indirectly vilifies the men of passion; but sitting down coldly and delibeEngland as the most dishonest, base, and rately in his closet, as a moral instructor of bloody-minded people in Europe; and, by youth, dip his pen in the inkstand, and writes palpable inference, would brand the women a slander upon the whole of his countryof England as the most immodest and depraved women? The above extracts, with these in I have thus slightly sketched the serious women in Christendom, is not confined, alto- my preceding letter, form a striking contrast part of the plot, and transcribed the scenes gether, to the above passage. So far as it to the following declaration which these of dumb shew; not for the purpose of re- relates to the defenceless sex, it is again in- professed imitators of the Spectators and Tatcommending the piece itself, but to enable sinuated in a varied form. I shall give this lers set forth in the nineteenth page of their the reader to judge of the effect which, in moralist's own words, in which he uses the introduction to the Round Table,"In short, judicious hands, might be produced by the plural for himself and his fellow preachers to recommend an independent simplicity in introduction of such agency in Melo-drame. of the Round Table, in the following me- manners, a love of nature in taste, and truth, I should by no means advise the retention morable passage." In like manner, if any generosity, and self-knowledge in morals, will of such a character as Raynulph; for, by a one complains of not succeeding in AFFAIRS of be the object, dining or fasting, with blade happy choice of story and of incident, and GALLANTRY, we will venture to say it is be- in hand, or with pen, of the Knights of the by greater explicitness in the dumb shew, cause he is not gallant. He has mistaken his Round Table."-This, however, is one of verbal explanation would be quite unneces- talent, that's all." (p. 116. vol. i.) This is those offences against society, which draws sary. A pageant, for instance, might receive pithy and to the point, indeed!-So then down a slow but sure punishment on the all due elucidation from the respective inter- when we were impressed with a sense of offender, Every modest woman well knows locutors of the drama. Generally, the dumb female purity, innocence and innate mo- that she must give currency to the worst shew might tell its own story with sufficient desty, we were as mistaken as the com- opinion of her discretion or intention, by clearness. A dream, a vision, a scene of en-plaining gallant, in this Round Table sup- continuing to visit or receive the visits of any chantment, might be very successfully maposition. We may, however, quote their man, who has, publicly, insinuated or exnaged by the machinist and the scene- illustrious predecessors," Addison and Steele, pressed through the medium of the press, a painter. The Castle Spectre, in Lewis's as having fallen into a similar mistake with us. loose opinion of female virtue. The de speaking pantomime of that title; the Ge- These Sunday Lecturers, in effect, ridicule praved fop, himself, would be encouraged nius, in Aladdin; and the Ghosts, as they the notion of innate modesty or female pu- to harbour the most injurious notions; and are now represented in Richard the Third, rity; and stimulate their pupils to enter- her charitable neighbours know not what to all beautiful specimens of the scenic art prize. They tell them, indirectly, but most think. The folly of uttering or publishing are so many interesting proofs of the effect intelligibly, in substance, though in other such heinous imputations, is only to be of which such exhibitions are capable. words-Gentlemen, do not fall into a mis- equalled by their falsehood; for the author By thus availing himself of the aid of take: lay aside your mauvaise honte, "in af must be egregiously duped by his own vadumb shew, the dramatist would frequently fairs of gallantry." Your good or bad suc-nity, if he does not know that he is, thereby, be enabled to overcome the difficulty of cess, and female virtue itself, are altogether gradually excluding himself from respectable preserving the unities; he would no longer mere contingencies, dependent upon your society, be under the necessity of resorting to the own impudence or forbearance. There is no In what unfortunate circle of English woclumsy expedient of a chorus, or a dull story, obstacle unless your own awkwardness or men these experienced instructors in "affairs told by old time: without offering violence irresolution create one-"that's all." The of gallantry," have picked up this vile opito our feelings, or impairing the fiction of scholar must be dull, indeed, who would not nion of their country women, they best the scene, it would be his envied province improve under such experienced instructors. know; but the depraved coxcomb, who to transport us.from place to place; and, in If we were to credit these veterans in Round-penned that passage, tells us that " our the period of two short hours, he might, if Table gallantry, the chastity of women, and strength lies in our weakness, our virtues are requisite, pourtray in an unbroken series, of English women in particular, is not a vir- built on our vices." (p. 110. vol. ii.) So that the stupendous events of many a long and tue of their own free choice; nor is their we must lay in a plentiful foundation of vice lingering year. I am, &c. H.T. modesty a constancy of mind, founded in before we can aspire to be the architects of moral and religious principles; but an irk-our own virtue! A profligate, by the time. some temporary result, occasioned by the that he has robbed and ruined his benefac stupid backwardness of their suitors. Let tars; spent his fortune at the gaming table: their demeanour be ever so rescrved and pure, seduced his friend's wife; and beggared and we are to presume that their inclinations are otherwise. It is generally supposed that men form their opinions of human nature REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. THE ROUND TABLE and A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners, in 2 Vols, originally published deserted his own; must have laid a famous foundation for building a superstructure of sanctity; and may then, indeed, have some |