been properly cultivated, to be much greater than they of Dr. Dodd, which must always have had about it that are; and they look back with regret upon the time they pretension, and ostentation, and disgusting clerical quackhave squandered, and with disgust upon the levities and ery, which is not unfrequently to be met with in the vices into which they have been betrayed. Their defi- world, should have escaped or deceived the glance of one ciencies and errors, which probably are the result of their who gave himself out almost as a professor of the knowown idleness and petulance, they attribute to the place at ledge of human nature. But the fact is, that his errors and which they were educated, and to the persons by whom mistakes in this respect, were not so much the result of their education was conducted. These faults they deter- his own want of judgment, as of an injudicious abandonmine shall be avoided in the case of their own offspring. ment of the systems which he found established in his own With that view, they pursue a method precisely contrary country, and of an equally injudicious attempt to unite to that which was pursued with themselves; and the con- things which are, in their own nature, to a great degree sequence often is, that their children, probably not having incompatible. Thus he withdraws his son early from the talents, and certainly being deprived of the advantages Westminster School, where if one instructor had failed, of their fathers, turn out greater coxcombs or blockheads another would have made up for the deficiency; he never than they would have done, if the ancient course had not sent him to the university, where he might have conversed been departed from. and consorted with men of various ages, various habits, Feelings of this nature evidently operated upon the mind tastes and opinions, eminent in every department of literaof Lord Chesterfield. He is always complaining of the ture; and he thus deprived him of the advantages, comtime he lost, and the habits he indulged, at school and the mon to both, of the society of his equals and contempouniversity; while his wit, his learning, his eloquence, his raries, and of the knowledge imparted, and the emulation judgment, sufficiently prove that his understanding, if it excited, by that society. He chose for his tutor, Mr. Harte, had made no improvement, had certainly received no in-a man whose History of Gustavus Adolphus, by the way, jury at those places: and his failures in life are manifestly, is valuable for its industry and the information it contains, and by his own admission, to be attributed to quite other of whose pedantry he was well aware; but his task was causes. Hence also arise his extravagant expectations of to give him learning. Other accomplishments he was to making his son "Omnis Homo." The very means he acquire from other masters; and his father himself undertook to realize them ensured their more complete failure. took, by his own advice and superintending care, to add He was so anxious that he should learn every thing, that the last polish and finish to his character. He forgot in he gave him time to learn nothing. At one place he was to this scheme the many certain advantages he relinquished acquire just as much Greek and Latin as is sufficient for for the doubtful ones which he proposed to himself. a gentleman; at another, he was to stay a year for the These opinions of the superiority of private over public sake of German, and the Jus publicum Imperii; at another, education, or rather of the positive evils of the latter, have six months for something else; and so on. Thus, that been warmly maintained by Mrs. Hamilton, Miss Edgesteady regularity of application so necessary for the form-worth, and other modern writers of some ability, but we ation of the intellect and habits of youth was carefully must say, not of experience or authority sufficient to opbroken in upon, and levity and dissipation of mind, the pose an established system sanctioned by practice and enemies the most to be feared by an instructor, ensured, recommended by great success, a system under which has as far as they could be, by precaution and regulation. been formed a gentry, more learned, more moral, and at Through all these disadvantages, however, nature would, least as competent to the affairs, whether of peace or as she often will, have her own way, and Mr. Stanhope be- war, as any other in Europe. We are far from saying that came a man of reading and knowledge, as we have heard, our Schools and Universities, particularly the latter, are while he was remarkably deficient in all those lighter liable to no objections, nor capable of any improvement. graces and more polite accomplishments, upon which his We are bigotted to no abuse, when it is clearly and satisfather had so intently set his mind. factorily proved to be such. We oppose ourselves to no The evil, therefore, which was done by Lord Chester-innovation, which upon sound consideration promises to field's system of education, in the case to which it was ac-be an amendment. But we do object to rash censure, to tually applied, was, perhaps, not very material; but the flippant condemnation, and above all to the hasty abanexample which he gave, and the precepts by which he donment of practice and the hasty adoption of theory. supported it, have very much aided an erroneous cause, The letters before us are full of complaints of the levity and have proved pernicious in their remoter consequences. and inattention of the Pupil, which all the pains that are His authority has contributed much to spread that con- taken and every scheme that is devised, fail in getting the tempt of classical study, which has, since his time, as in- better of. We are old-fashioned enough to suspect, that deed before, by Locke, been carried to a much greater it would very likely have been at once dispelled by a single length than he himself carried it; and he is naturally re-whipping. We apprehend a great deterioration of the lied upon by those who undervalue all the advantages of most valuable and important classes of the community, if our schools and universities, while they condemn both opinions of the nature above alluded to should gain ground the course of reading and the principles of discipline, upon and become general. We earnestly caution Parents and which both are conducted. The judicious editor has well Guardians to be upon their guard against delusive and and usefully observed in his preface, that Lord Chesterfield plausible arguments. Above all we entreat them not to was singularly unfortunate in his selection of preceptors, be easily led to despise or undervalue the great Authors both for his son and his great nephew; and it is certainly of antiquity. They may rest assured, that their works not very creditable to that discernment and penetration have neitlier been surpassed nor superseded; but that which he had so much labored after, that the character in them, without meaning any injury to the moderns, there

are to be found lessons at least equally useful in many well known honor to the Peerage. Petitoe, the last of branches of human knowledge, and a higher toue of feeling, and a more lofty and generous morality, than has been since presented and recommended to the world.

SIX WEEKS AT LONG'S, a Satirical Novel, by a late Resident. 3 vols. 12mo.

the four, is a vain, harmless, younger brother of a good family, modestly aspiring to the hand of any heiress, with 3000L a year, upon the strength of his diminutive person, a small foot, a fortnight at Paris, two hours on the plain of Waterloo, and an empty pocket. These enjoyers of iced claret are interrupted by a fat, ruddy, grey-headed In the preface to this severe and entertaining work, the gentleman, in the true costume of the north, who introauthor gravely informs his readers, that "the novels of duces himself as "Barnaby Coulter, Esq. of NorthumberFielding have a heavy sort of wit, and that those of Smol- land, worth 30001. a year, and a magistrate;" just come up let, also, are laboured." We hope, however, that the taste to town, with his wife, who is his true counter-part, in rustic of Englishmen is not so corrupted as to reject the sterling simplicity; and a fair niece, an orphan, recently arrived wit and humour of these writers-" for that easy strain of from the East Indies with a fortune of 80,000l. This irony, which charms the reader so much in the French young Lady, to escape the mercenary pursuit of fortunewriters." The late Resident at Long's, forgot that the hunters, counterfeits idiotism, in the hope of meeting a modes of living, manners, morals, and whole train of Gentleman, with sensibility enough to love her, for her thinking in France, are different from those of England; beauty, and disinterestedness enough to slight her haud and that the languages of the two countries must, for and 80,000l. for the trifling circumstance of her being a fool! ever, partake of that essential difference. We congratulate The lovely Hypolita is immediately marked out as a mahim upon the failure of his professed attempt to engraft trimonial prize by Petitoe; and by the Marquis of VeFrench levity on English style. The most pleasant and neric, as a toy to sport with, in the eye of fashion, for caustic parts of his work are after his own country model. perhaps a whole week, or even a fortnight, if no new obSome of his sketches are merely dead coloured; but he ject should arise to captivate his fancy. These designs displays a large share of wit and reading, a knowledge of lead the unfortunate Barnaby Coulter, Esq., his wife, and human nature, an intimacy with the high circles, and charming ward, into some scenes of fashionable dissipation something very like a personal acquaintance with the noble and hair-breadth escapes, which enable the writer to inprofligates and honorable dupes, whose vices and follies troduce a quick succession of striking portraits from high he has so unmercifully held up to scorn and derision. How life to the reader; and in the marriage of Hypolita to Mr. far this may redound to his credit, we leave him to judge Morland, a noble-minded young fellow, without fortune for himself; but certainly his moving in the same round by whose spirit she had been rescued from the clutches of with the originals, has enabled him to draw his portraits the Marquis and Lord Catson. We give the following as with more force of resemblance. We have rarely met specimens of the author's serious and satirical powers of a more striking exhibition in the pillory of the press; and description: the well contrasted groupes, which he has so publicly exposed, include a number of persons who have long aspired to notoriety in the fashionable world. If notoriety can gratify them, he has afforded them their fill of gratification. He has a happy perception of the ridiculous, and a strong sense of baseness; and has thrown the unfortunate and guilty objects of his satire and condemnation, either into the most grotesque light, or shewed them off in the most odious and contemptible colours. The uproar excited in more than one quarter-the search made after the author, and the threats held out, are some proofs that his portraits are generally known. His plan is well adapted for his object. His first scene opens at Long's Coffee-room, (in Bond Street,)" where four youths"--are enjoying their iced claret, and their characters are given with much spirit and humour. In this edifying groupe he

"Petitoe thought he had never beheld so beautiful a creaand ran down, in natural curls, at either side; while her hazle ture. Her raven black hair was divided on a high forehead, eyes, shaded by long fringes, expressed a softness approaching to languor, and at the same time, a degree of animation and intelligence, which seemed utterly inconsistent with idiotism. Her lips were pouting, ruddy, and delicious; and now, half open, disclosed two brilliant rows of teeth. Her complexion was clear and delicate, and the turn of her features perfectly form; and Petitoe, as he concluded his survey of it with her Grecian. But nothing could surpass the light symmetry of her foot, confessed without envy, that it was infinitely smaller and more slender than his own."

We shall here pass the striking portraits of Miss Chariot, Lord Catson, the Duke of Anacreon, Sir Franco Rashly, Lord Yardlip, and fifty other provoking copies from well-known originals; and shall conclude with that of

LORD OCTAVE.

has drawn a noble Poet, whose works have proved a All hail, Macduff!-This mixed character is fuller of kindmine of wealth to his Bookseller, without any very great ness and unfeelingness, benevolence and folly, than almost any loss to himself. He is described as one who " had travelled one we ever knew. Contradictions are sown so thick in his a little; read a little; and written a little, and had he composition, that it would take more than our limits affd to detect or to follow them. Brave, yet effeminate; weak, yet not travelled, read and written either less or more, ignorance devoid of talent; an excellent soldier, yet delighting in rioting might have made him more modest; or knowledge might and chambering, in vegetating with vicious foreigners, and in have taught him that he had much more to learn." In enervating his whole system by the loose course of his life; Bellair he has introduced the dethroned King of the John Bull in appearance, yet a foreigner in adopted manners; Dandies, who immortalized himself for full half a month in a patriot at heart, yet slave to all the signoras, the dancers, the the neighbourhood of Pall Mall, by the magnanimous tumblers, the quacks, the Squallinis and whiskered Dons; Sigdelivery of the four words, "Wales, ring the Bell." The nor muy paderoso echoing from Spanish servants, barbers, panders, and parasites in every corner of his habitation, with a Marquis of Veneric, in his sixtieth year, multiplying his hoop ring of some Querida on his finger; harnessed with the grey hairs and his gallantries, and paying the price fixed chains and pictures of frail strangers, yet with the pipe of the upon his delicacies by a number of his countrymen, is a German in his mouth, and as stout a son of Bacchus as any

fox-hunter or publican in the three kingdoms; the automaton | the amiable lady in question, only receives regular penof his Prince, ever at his beck; unfeeling to his host of suffering sionnaires or boarders of the highest respectability. tradesmen languishing on account of their heavy demands, yet generous beyond all bounds to demireps and broken gentry; his beardless countenance announcing something more than chastity and continence, yet the most decided ultra votary of Venus in the world.

Every circumstance connected with this, yet unsettled Two Sketches of France, Belgium, and Spa; in two subject, becomes more interesting, from the failure of the Tours during the Summers of 1771, and 1816. pp. 174. recent expedition to the Congo; it is therefore with reThe barriers raised by war, before every entrance to gret, that the pressure of other matter prevents us from European States, are now broken by the hand of peace. giving the whole of an explanatory detail respecting the A bold, but maritime nation confined within its bounda- supposed junction of the NILE OF SOUDAN with the ries, and thrown back during so long a period upon its NILE OF EGYPT, sent to us by Mr. J. G. Jackson; inown resources, yet burning with eagerness after universal tended also as a defence of himself from some annotaknowledge and improvement, avails itself instantaneously tions in the account of Mungo Park's second journey, which seem calculated to excite doubts respecting the authenticity of Mr. Jackson's description of the interior of Africa.

Such a period is this-in which numbers crowd to hear, to see, to enquire, and to judge of that which is only Our correspondent, whilst asserting, on the concurrent known by report, or attested by few. The end of know-testimony of the best informed and most intelligent naledge acquired, is to be imparted and thrown into the tives of Soudan, that there exists a water communication common stock in a new form-under pleasing and attrac- between Timbuctoo and Cairo, denies the charge of tive colours-glowing in originality of conception, or richly maintaining, that the Nile of Soudan actually falls into embodied with the individual experience of a scientific that of Egypt; his theory being merely that it has a commind. By these means alone shall that which was guessed munication with it, or with some other river that falls into at be ascertained; that which was asserted be proved, the Egyptian Nile. and that which was doubted be pronounced truth or falsehood: curiosity thus leads to examination; examina- Africa, and even the identity of various divisions of runIn our present uncertainty respecting the interior of tion to comparison, and comparison to truth,-the goal ning water, the whole of Mr. Jackson's chain of reasonto every intellectual effort, and the end of all human re-ing seems in favor of his assertions founded on local en

been more so than the prejudice that the human species the substances in general use for artificial light; but as he alone was capable of being naturalized in every region of has proved that the intensity of the light of burning sulthe earth's surface. But that prejudice is done away by phur, hydrogen, carbonic oxyd, &c. is wonderfully inthe well-ascertained facts of several species of vegetables creased by throwing into them, oxyd of zinc, or by placing being already naturalized, with every reason to hope for further success in future experiments.

in them very fine amianthus or metallic gauze, it may easily be conceived that artificial wicks may thus be applied The grand principle on which these experiments rest, with success to lights, whether of wax, tallow, or coal gas. is not by the usual mode of bringing home plants or seeds ARTIFICIAL HEAT.-It is pleasing to observe Science from foreign climes, and then consigning them to artificial go hand in hand with Domestic Economy, in respect to temperature; but by means of a practical application of which we may note a recent improvement, both in the the sexual system, bringing the flowers of the plant, whose economy and facility of adding fuel to fires, either culinary habitat is to be changed, into contact with flowers of the or social, and also in the appearance of Sea Coal fires, so same class and genus, the seed produced by which must much complained of by foreigners on their first entrance then be sown in the soil where the plants are to be natura- into an English drawing-room. The new mode of feeding lized. This practical part of the science is, indeed, yet in the fire is by the application of the fuel at the bottom of its infancy; but the beneficial results, that may ensue the grate, by means of a patent apparatus. On this from it, bid fair to be permanent, though, perhaps, not plan the cheerful appearance of the fire is never desvery speedy. But it is not the plants of warm climates troyed by the addition of Coals, as in the usual mode; alone that require extraordinary culture on their introduc- and it is not improbable that a further improvement of tion into this country. The hardier children of the Frozen the patent might render it a complete cure for smokey Zone have long bid defiance to the gardener's care; whilst chimneys, by consuming the smoke in its upward passage. our indigenous plants and roots degenerate if transplanted into the equatorial regions. It is true, indeed, that there

DOMESTIC ILLUMINATION.

LUMINOUS LANDSCAPES.

are few, if any, of the productions of Greenland, Labrador, been rivalled by those of the needle, in the delineation of The powers of the pencil and of the graver have already or Nova Zembla, which are likely to be useful if natural-Landscape and History; but we understand that it is ized in a British soil; but, even as objects of curiosity, proposed to introduce a new mode of Painting, if it may they can all be cultivated here, by the recent adoption be so called, the effect of which must undoubtedly be of ice-houses in the kitchen and ornamental garden, upon most exquisitely brilliant, as well as true to nature. The a similar principle to the green-house and hot-bed. principle on which it is founded, is the extreme facility With respect to the application of gas for domestic pur-discoveries, can be given to flame. with which colour, in consequence of very recent chemical For instance-when poses, Mr. Brande has very fairly stated a pro and con view of the subject, in a recent number of the Journal of Cuprane, or Protochlorid of copper, is introduced into Science and Art. He observes in its favor, that the light the flame of a candle or lamp, it affords a peculiar dense is more equable, beautiful, and agreeable to the eye, than and brilliant red light, tinged with green and blue tothat obtained from any other source; that superior clean-wards the edges-and thus with other chemical subliness is obtained, whilst the troublesome operations of stances. On this principle, then, the landscape or picture filling and trimming oil lamps are superseded; that there is to be engraved on a sheet or sheets of thin copper, each is no danger from sparks and snuffs, as where candles are stroke being cut through so as to admit the passage of employed; and that, by closing the main pipe of supply throws different coloured streams of light on the various light. At the back of this an apparatus is fixed which a certain extinction of all the lights is ensured. With respect to the objections against its adoption in parts of the engraved picture, and which, being seen by the spectator in a darkened room, will families, the principal one has been, that the smell of any of colouring that may perhaps be superior to any possess a vividness gas, which escapes unburned, is extremely disagreeable; a circumstance which may arise either from some fault in hitherto known effort of the pencil or the needle. It is the pipes or burners, or from a stop-cock connected with proposed that the colours employed shall be from the a burner being accidentally or carciessly left open. The combustion of chemical substances, aided, perhaps, by latter cause may always be easily remedied; and the first the voltaic flame.

is to be avoided, either by the use of double pipes, or by

sible.

PROGRESS OF POPULATION.

other mechanical improvements of common facility. In Much light is likely to be thrown on the question of regard to the fear of explosion from escaped gas, Mr. the progressive population of the universe, particularly Brande thinks it totally unfounded; at least in any apart-of the Oriental regions, by the labours of Philologists; ment properly ventilated: besides, that the smell of the especially through the medium of the Society of Arts and gas will always betray its presence before explosion is pos- Sciences, existing at Batavia previous to the capture of Java by our forces, but much encouraged by the exerConsiderable improvements in the application of that tions and patronage of Mr. Raffles. Under the guidance great necessary of life, artificial light, may also be expected of this Society, vocabularies have already been collected from a recent discovery of Sir Humphry Davy, during a of the different dialects and of the principal languages of course of experiments upon the properties of flame. He the Eastern Seas; and, from the unremitting and indehas clearly ascertained that the light of certain burning fatigable exertions of Colonel Mackenzie, whose fame has substances may be considerably increased by placing been long established by researches into the history and other substances in their flame, even substances that are antiquities of Continental India, there is every reason to ex incombustible. He has not yet applied this principle to pect that many of the doubtful points respecting the

Oriental and Polynesian Islands may be satisfactorily the unfortunate Major Andre with a passion which she elucidated. was not permitted to reward. The fact of this lady's ANIMAL MAGNETISM.-As the fashionable world has being the mother of Miss Edgeworth, the reader will find for some time been without any thing very attractive, a authenticated in an appendix note in her admirable treaknowing female has thought proper to revive the exploded tise ou female education, where she corrects an illegal missubject of Magnetism. She boasts also of an extraordi- representation in Miss Seward's monody on the death of nary skill in alchymy, in addition to her Messmerian Major Andre.-Mr. E. founded a town in N. C. at the powers. She will, no doubt, be able to attract some gold, head of the navigation of the Pedeer, which in honor of as she dashes off in a handsome house in a fashionable Maria's mother, is named Sueydsborough. street, and has already converted one lady well known in high life. It seems that her finger is the magic wand, to enforce obedience on all nervous and hypochondriac subjects who try her influence; and who are literally shocked by her incantations! So are we!

SPONTANEOUS FIRE.-A curious species of Pyrophorus, or spontaneous ignition, has been discovered by the solution of a portion of grey cast-iron in strong acid, when a porous, spongy substance was left untouched. This was easily cut off with a knife, and was of a dark grey colour, having a slight resemblance to plumbago. Some of it was put on blotting paper and, in the course of a minute, it spontaneously heated and smoked. In one instance, when a considerable quantity had been heaped together, it ignited and scorched the paper; nor were its properties destroyed by being left for days and weeks in

water.

GALVANISM.-Repeated experiments in this branch of science may be productive of extraordinary discoveries with respect to the action of mind upon matter, if the position of Bichat be correct, that Galvanism will operate upon the voluntary muscles of an animal recently killed, but not upon those whose motion is unconnected with the will!

METEOROLOGY.-The present mildness of the season. naturally calls forth our attention; and we are inclined too frequently to declare, there has not been a similar season. The buds of the whitethorn are in many places burst, and some leaves on young shoots are expanded. The following is the state of the Thermometer from Thursday, the 13th, to this morning. Highest 54 Lowest 41

Friday, 14th
Saturday, 15th
Sunday, 16th

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Monday, 17th

45 ...... 51 48

Tuesday, 18th

Wednesday, 19th

Thursday, 20th

48
54

The range of the Barometer, from 30, 40. to 29, 65. about midnight, when it hailed, rained, and snowed vioWe fear the effect of the storm of Saturday, the 15th, lently from W. by N. has been severely felt.

PARISIAN CRITICISMS.

"Ever since Messrs. Fievée and Chateaubriand have been condemned to politics, the dominion of Romance has been decidedly abandoned to the fair sex. It is a fief held by the distaff, an estate descended to heirs female. Its new possessors cultivate it with ardour and success. Great Britain is distinguished for this class of literature. A new mode of giving additional strength to iron and In London there is no girl of good family who cannot steel, is proposed by Mr. Daniell, in a paper in the Journal arrange an intrigue or dress up a romance. The fecundity of Science and Art. His plan is to twist the metal in of their imagination has only been surpassed by that of the same manner as strength and compactness are given to Madame de Genlis, who, supported by her ninety volumes, hemp and flax. The idea originated in a course of ex-raises a haughty head above her rivals, caressing with one periments upon the solution of metals in acids.

The Prayer Book of Queen Mary of Scotland, which, with other valuable effects, was removed at the beginning of the French Revolution from the Scotch College at Douay, is now in the possession of Count Strogonoff, at St. Petersburgh. It is in good preservation, and has in it the name of the unfortunate Queen and several notes in her own hand-writing.

hand her charming Battuecas, and with the other her interesting Alphonso, or the Natural Son.

The family of the heroes and heroines of romance is innumerable among our neighbours. These children of Old England are not all successful in the world; they are, as well as the vulgar, subject to the caprices of fortune. Those are most lucky which fall into the hands of some good translator who dresses them elegantly, and places From an American paper.—Maria Edgeworth is one of them in a state to make an honorable figure in the drawa constellation of female geniuses which now adorn En-ing-room or boudoir. This service, a French Lady, well gland, and illumine the literary world. She probably known for her amiable disposition and talents, has renderholds an equal rank with Jane Taylor, and is second only ed to a romance by Miss Jane Porter, entitled: The to Hannah More. We are informed that a brother of Pastor's Fire-side. Miss Jane Porter, whose Romance of her's, named Richard Lovel Edgworth, (the name also of the Scottish Chiefs is so justly esteemed in England, will their father) resided a few years since in Lancaster or doubtless rejoice that the Pastor's Fire-side, has tempted Chesterfield district, in this State (South Carolina); and the elegant pen of Madame Elizabeth de Bon. that his widow now lives in Anson county, N. C. He This Lady has herself recently published a collection appears to have been an imprudent and dissipated man, of French novels, in two volumes, entitled: les Douze whom parental authority could not govern, nor sisterly Siècles. These novels justly merit the success they have affection restrain. Several of Maria's letters to him are experienced. The manners of the different ages are faithnow in possession of his widow, who is said to be a worthy fully and agreeably delineated. Each of the novels is a and amiable woman, in straitened circumstances. This little Romance conceived and executed with talent. There family is rendered more interesting to us from the circum-is variety in the characters, and even in the style, which stance, that Maria Edgeworth is the daughter of the cele-is modified by the different periods, and which is neither brated Honora Sneyd (afterwards Mrs. E.) who inspired wanting in facility nor correctness."