the whales with their harpoon in the highest | always without success. The danger is would have been struck only with the granlatitudes of the Northern Seas. Many pre- great; the examples are well known; every deur of the objects presented to his view. sumptions, not to say the strongest proofs, mother relates to her daughter the anecdote This half-circus, of which the sea appears to authorise the idea, that the Basques were which I am going to recite; they listen, they be the stage; this amphitheatre, whence the first Europeans who saw and reached weep, and they return to the Baths of Love. Neptune seems to have designed to give to Newfoundland; the Basque name of Ma- Towards the end of the 17th century there man the spectacle of the vast ocean which caillaona, which the fishermen of all coun-lived at the sandy village of Anglet, the bathes the two hemispheres, would have tries give to the dry and salted cod, confirms young Saubade, the only child of a rich alone arrested his attention. Our young this opinion. There is another more honor-shepherd of the Labour, and Laorens, a lovers embellish this frightful solitude with able to this little nation, and less generally young fisherman, who was an orphan; the all the illusions in which their souls are adopted, which would deserve a strict exam-former, when hardly more than a child, was drowned; these gloomy rocks are enlight ination, in which I have neither time nor already quoted as a model of that native ened by the fires with which they burn: this means to engage. Robertson, in the notes beauty, the charm of which especially de formidable ocean which roars at a distance to his history of America, examines whether pends on the elegance of the form, the viva- is a barrier which love has raised between it be true, that Christopher Columbus, (when city of the features, and the expression of them and the rest of the world; these layers navigating with Basque mariners the Nor- the eyes; the latter at the age of twenty, in of fine sand, these heaps of broken shells thern Seas, long before his great idea, and a country where strength united with grace which extend in beds, which rise in seats, his great discovery of a new world) if it be is a characteristic of the male sex, had no invite Saubade and Laorens to the charms of true I say, that he heard the recital of a rival among the Basque youth, of whom he a repose, which is soon intoxicated with all Biscayan, whom a tempest had driven on that was the boast and the model. When he ap- the dreams of love. same continent, to which Columbus after-peared at the farandole or at Tennis, dressed wards directed his course, by the aid of his in a little red waistcoat, with espadrilles on genius and of the compass. "After reading his feet, wearing on his head the delicious this dissertation (added M. Destère) one may, berret, all eyes were turned on him, and left without being a Basque as I am, be con- him but to seek Saubade. The love with vinced if not of the truth, of the probability which they were inflamed for each other was of the fact; and independently of historical a secret to nobody. People had not learned, tradition, is not this conjecture much more but divined it; they were sure that they natural than that which is solely founded on loved, because it seemed necessary that they the genius of Columbus, enlightened by the should love. One person alone did not see ories of the heavens and of the earth, which this necessity; it was the father of the young were so ill understood in that age?" woman; he was rich in flocks; Laorens was without fortune, and this circumstance raised an insurmountable barrier between the two lovers. In this oblivion of the universe, in this agitation of a sentiment, which reveals to them an existence beyond nature, they have not seen the clouds gathering together, they have not heard the winds howl over the waves, and drive them upon the beach be yond the limits where they daily stop. The voice of the thunder in vain warns them of the impending danger. Laorens has trembled for his beloved, but Saubade entirely given up to this life of love, which she is to enjoy but a moment, suffers no other sentiment to approach her heart; she has pressed her lover to her bosom and fear will henceforth be a stranger to her. "A conjecture of my own," continued he, "is that the archives of Ciboure, of SaintJean-de-Lutz, and of many Communes of the Spanish Basques, on the same coasts, They had passed a year in the torments Mean time, the waves rise and roll fuprobably contain many unknown narratives of a passion, the violence of which was only riously even to the entrance of the grotto of that grand epoch, which changed the increased by the obstacles it met with; un-which serves them as an asylum.“Ŏ myface of the globe, and which a careful ex- able to indulge in the hope of happiness, beloved!" cries Laorens, (carrying her to an amination of these same archives would they vowed to be true to each other till interior angle of the rock where the water inake known to us; this labour would re-death; a single day acquitted their promise. could not yet reach her,) "death surrounds quire men profoundly versed in geography, The father of Šaubade was gone from thee; the tempest redoubles; all hope is astronomy, and particularly in history, and home one morning, for the annual enume- lost." "I never have formed but one wish," could not be performed by any but literati ration of his flocks, on the other side of the replied the tender maid, with an angelic of the country; for (whether the annals to mountains, where he was accustomed to as- smile, "that is, to live and die with Laorens; be consulted were written in French or Spa- semble his shepherds. He had scarcely dis-to-morrow this hope would have been nish) it is in the nature of the Basques to appeared behind the hill, at the foot of which snatched from me; to-day I am thine, and carry the spirit of their own language into his house was situated, when the charming thine for ever." Laorens had swum to all those which they speak or write." couple met together, at the rising of the the entrance of the grotto, to see if it were must deceitful dawn, under a kind of arbour still possible to pass through the waves. covered with vines, at the extremity of the All is overflowed; every where the sea, the habitation. terrible sea, yawns in abysses, or rises in mountains; the waves pursue him and violently throw him back into the hollow of the rock, which they fill up to the height of the point where his fair mistress still braves them; she presents her hand to Laorens to sea-shore. How smiling and lovely in their draw him up to her, presses him in her arms, eyes are the arid downs on which they wan- and embraces him with all her courage. der, retiring from some scattered habitations" Seest thou," said she," that enormous whence they may still be discovered! Some wave which advances roaring?-it is death." tufts of ash dispersed here and there, again She speaks; their arms entwine, their conceal them as they walk, and soon a mouths unite, and the sea has devoured his rapid descent leads them to the beach. On double prey. the right, the downs extending to a great distance, offer neither shelter nor refuge: on the left, a peaked rock formed an arch, the extremity of which bent over the waves, and in whose centre there was a vast and deep grotto. *. Saint-Jean-de-Lutz was, three centurics ago, a rich commercial and populous town, the environs of which were covered with pretty country houses. For these hundred years, the prosperity of England and Holland has been fatal to its trade, excluding it from every sea. This asylum could conceal them but for a moment from the eyes that watched them; this moment escaped them; the sun already illumined the fields; they retire from the Biarritz, as I mentioned when I was speak-village, and direct their steps towards the ing of the environs of Bayoune, is famous for its sea bathing; it is a charming sight on certain days, to see caravans of Cacolits arrive from all quarters, in which the fair travellers are covered with long gauze veils, which protect them and their horses from the gnats, which are continually buzzing about them. The pleasure of sea bathing at Biarritz, is taken in cavities in the rocks, which are called Baths of Love. No where is the terrible gulph of Gascony agitated by more frequent tempests: the retrograde movement of the waves broken by the ebb has often carried away the young women while bathing; immediately young and vigorous swimmers have hastened to their aid; but almost Had chance conducted to this savage place a cool observer, or even an enthusiastic, he 1 Shoes made of cord of raw hemp, fastened with coloured ribbons, Long beaten by the waves, which could not part them; Saubade and Laorens were thrown lifeless near this rock, which had been to them at once a temple and a tomb. From that time this grotto, consecrated by the memory of this fatal event, received the name which it still bears of THE CHAMBER OF LOVE. THE DRAMA. ous and thoughtless part of the popula- these, of course, have been outvoted. The DRURY LANE. On Saturday last, June the tion of the metropolis, still have the Commons have also been engaged in the 14th, the New Way to Pay Old Debts, was steady friends of real British liberty been very important affair of the Licensing performed at this Theatre; and the part of alarmed by the attempts, amounting al- Bill founded upon the several reports. On Sir Giles Over reach by Mr. Kean with great most to intimidation, made to influence this subject, we are of opinion that jusenergy A Miss Cubit made her first ap-both court and jury. Independent of tice will never be done to the Public, pearance in the After-piece as Margaretta; party, we look but to the general wel-nor even to the revenue; until it shall be she sung with taste and feeling, and was fare; yet, whilst we consider the event made highly penal for any Brewer, either favourably received.-On Monday the 16th, of the State Trials, as putting a com- directly or indirectly, to hold any species Macbeth, and the new farce of Incog. were represented. We have never seen Kean play plete negative upon all the charges of property in a licensed house. The Macbeth with more spirit and judgment than brought against the constitution in its riots in the interior, though alarming in on this night. His fiery energy in the last present principles and practice, we still the first instance, have been repressed, if scene, was only to be equalled by the martial find some cause for regret at the late pro- not put down completely, by the activity grace and beauty of his action, in the fight ceedings, inasmuch as ministers, by aim- of the magistrates, and, in fact, by the with Macduff. Talma, Mademoiselle Georges, Madame Fodor, and some other fo-ing at more than they had a moral cer- general good disposition of the country. commerce, and consequent reign ladies, were in one of the private tainty of obtaining, have lost that which Happily male attire to watch the motions of their boxes; and paid a marked attention to Mr. they might have got, and at the same time manufacture are reviving. Industry is Kean. Mrs. Bartley performed the Queen have, though unintentionally, given fresh the best safeguard of interior tranquilwith much applause. The After-piece is spirits to the riotous and disaffected. lity, and we hail the flattering prospect light and lively. It exhibits Mrs. Davison, To prove Treason, especially when that with pleasure. The financial state of and her maid, Mrs. Alsop, who have put on Treason has been stopped in its incipient the country, indeed, is serious, though lovers, Kent, and his footman Harley, in stage of action, however its intentions not alarming. The parliamentary report some very laughable situations. Orberry and may have been matured, must always be states the probable income for the preKnight had their share in the humour of the difficult; because, though unbiassed and sent and ensuing years at 52 millions piece; and the actors and author have reason honest witnesses can always be brought each, whilst the probable expenditure of to be well satisfied with its reception.-On to prove decided and open acts of trea- 1817 is put down at 15, and of 1818, at Tuesday the 17th, the Wheel of Fortune, son if such have absolutely been com- 13 millions. This excess must of course Penruddock by Mr. Dowton, the new mitted, yet when the first steps only have be met by loans; but it must still be reSpanish Divertisement, and Woodman's Hut, were performed for the benefit of Mr. been taken and the intention must be membered that the usual operation of Spring.-On Wednesday the 18th, Hamlet; proved in addition, in order fully to con- the Sinking Fund will exceed the loan of the part of Hamlet by Kean, and Ophelia by stitute the crime, then such intention can each year by about 2 millions. Mrs. Alsop. Miss Cubit made her second only be proved by an accomplice, a chaappearance in the Farce of No Song No racter whose evidence will seldom weigh Supper; and with more self-possession, met with a humane jury, especially where the with much approbation.-On Thursday the criminal acts are in some measure incom19th, Othello, and the Farce of Incog.; the part of Othello by Mr. Kean, with great be followed by loss of life. Had the priplete, and where a verdict of guilty must force of passion and variety of expression. COVENT GARDEN.-On Saturday last, King soners in the late instance been tried for John, and No Song No Supper, were per- riot or even sedition, no doubt can exist formed at this theatre; King John, by Mr. of conviction; nay, had the State proseKemble, with admirable discrimination. His cutor trusted to the evidence, with the scene with Hubert, and dying scene, were very fine, and met with much applause. exception of that of Castles, it is more On Monday, the 16th, Hamlet, and the Mil- than possible that a different verdict ler and his Men, were played; Hamlet by might have been given-but, we shall France is still unquiet from want of Mr. Kemble, with great excellence.-On exceed our limits, by further disquisi- food; but Portugal is apparently tran Tuesday, the 17th, Mr. Farley had for his tion, and therefore dismiss the subject, quil. From South America, nothing imbenefit, King Henry the Eighth; Cardinal recommending a careful perusal of the portant has transpired. Wolsey, a noble piece of nature, by Kemble; candid, liberal, yet strictly official charge Mrs. Weston played Queen Catharine, and from the court to the jury, as the best gave some parts with effect. Timour, the Tartar, was the after-piece.-On Wednesday, criterion on which to form an impartial the 18th, the Apostate, and the Libertine, judgment of the whole transaction. were performed.-On Thursday, Julius Cæ- Parliamentary business has not been sar, Brutus, by Mr. Kemble, with the repub-very active during the week, with the exlican grandeur of an old Roman: Cassius by ception of the Habeas Corpus SuspenThe new divertisement and Cymon followed. Lords by a large majority, supported by Mr. Young, with much bold classical spirit. sion which has passed the House of POLITICS. the eloquence of Lord Grenville, who, on this occasion, acts in direct opposition The acquittal of WATSON, and the to that party with which he has been consubsequent discharge of the other State sidered politically connected. In the Prisoners connected with the Spa Fields Commons there have been many motions riots, have engaged much of the public made for the production of the names of attention during the past week; and the various State Prisoners, and for an though these have been hailed with the unlimited admission of the magistracy to most unequivocal pleasure by a clamor- those under close continement; but all In Ireland, disturbances, by no means political, but arising solely from dearth, agitate many districts, and it is found necessary by parliament still to continue sent little of importance, with the excepthe Insurrection Act. Our colonies pretion of predatory incursions still continuing in the Carnatic, but which have recently been checked by military activity. The Ionian republic, under the protection of England, is at length acknowledged by the Porte. VARIETIES. GENERAL BYRON. FROM THE CHRONIQUE DE PARIS. What woman did not love General Byron, so well known at the Court of Louis XVI. by the title of Duc de Lauzun? He was the tive to his affairs, that rogues of agents frehandsomest and most engaging of men: liberal even to prodigality, and so inattenquently made him pay bills to which his counterfeit signatures were affixed. He has often been known to smile at that very easiness of temper which occasioned his ruin. A friend once advised him to engage a new steward, when he replied: "Tis a good think the rascal will give me for it?" His place I can assure you, Sir-how much do valour and love of glory even exceeded his amiable manners, Adored by the fair sex) The literary works relative to the fine arts are extremely numerous, they are therefore placed in another part of the gallery, near the Prince's library. and enjoying the friendship of Louis XVI., give it up-How much did it cost you?" extensive collection of prints and drawings. he renounced all the charms of the Court of Twenty thousand francs, my Lord"-(it They are arranged in chronological order, France, for the sake of fighting in the De- cost him, by-the-bye, only six thousand.) according to the schools and painters. Arserts of America under Washington and Well, Monsieur Buisson, I will give you tists and amateurs will no doubt regard this Lafayette. It is well known that General forty thousand for it."-" Allow me to ob- method as highly instructive, for on viewing Byron opened the first campaign of the serve to your Excellency, that..... that is a celebrated engraving they have the advanFrench in the North; but his name could scarcely sufficient."-" How! are you not tage of being able immediately to compare not triumph with the indiscipline of the satisfied with a profit of one hundred per it with most of the other works of the same army. His reverses occasioned the tyrant of cent. upon your books? What a Jew you master. the Republic to accuse him of treason. He are!"-"I am a bookseller, your Excellency, trifled with death even in his latest mo and know very well that with regard to the ments, and reposed on the straw-bed of his success of a work, scandal has more influprison on the eve of his execution; the two ence than all the merit in the world." Gens d'armes who guarded him, even observed The Minister smiled, and gave him sixty him sleeping soundly the whole of the night. thousand francs, which indeed he looked On the following morning he was occupied upon as a very trifling sacrifice. The work for two hours in reading the Satires of Boi- did not appear, to the disappointment of the leau, and eat a whole chicken for his break-whole population of Paris, to whom Buisson fast. Feeling his appetite rather keener had announced it. than usual, he ordered six dozen oysters. The executioner entered" My friend," said Byron, "just allow me time to finish my last dozen of oysters." The executioner was petrified with amazement. The manuscript of Byron remained in the possession either of Napoleon or Rovigo: it was either sent to England by them, or some one must have stolen it. We are not prepared to state any thing positive on this Byron ascended the cart with a smiling particular. We read the work at Paris six countenance, and saluted with exquisite years ago, and we retain in our recollection politeness those individuals whom he recog-a few amusing facts, together with the names nized in the court-yard of the Palace- of the ladies concerned, which are all written "Adieu, gentlemen," he said, "I am set-at full length in the manuscript.-We should ting out on a long journey." probably suggest the substitution of blanks, Byron bequeathed to General Comte de were we to be consulted respecting its pubValence, Peer of France, his Memoires on the|lication," American war. They are written in that easy and tasteful style which was common THE ESTERHAZY GALLERY. to every person of talent who had resided at It is somewhat remarkable that the literthe Court of France. But Byron left behind ary Journals of Germany have never yet him other Memoires concerning his amours. contained any description of Prince EsterHe was well aware that they could not be hazy's valuable collection of works of arts at published because they disclosed the indis-Vienna. The following brief account of this cretions of a multitude of persons, many of interesting gallery will no doubt prove acwhom are still living. It has been hinted, ceptable to artists and amateurs. that this book was to make its appearance in London; and we immediately suspected that the manuscript had been sent by the Duc de Rovigo. We will relate all that we learnt in 1812, concerning these Memoires, which are far more interesting to contempo raries than the Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules, by Rabutin. Buisson, the book seller, purchased at Paris, from a woman of quality, who had fallen into indigent circumstances, the manuscript of the Duc de Lauzan, for which he gave the sum of twenty thousand francs. General Pominereul, Grand-Vizir de la Pensée, under Napoleon, happened to mention these Memoires to the Duke de Rovigo, who had the curiosity to read them: the Duke was surprised to find that they contained an account of the secret indiscretions of various ladies, the greater number of whom had become his cousins, in consequence of his marriage with Mad. de Fodouas, who had made him the ally of most of the noble families in France. He forbade the bookseller to print the work; and that nothing might induce M. Buisson to act in defiance of the order, he kept the manuscript in his own hands. A few days afterwards, Buisson called upon him and demanded it. The Minister replied: "The Emperor has ordered me not to The Duc de Lauzan assumed the name of Byron, a certain law forbidding him to hear a territorial title of nobility. It is worthy of observation, that most of the paintings, drawings, and engravings composing this valuable collection, were purchased about twelve years ago by the present Prince Nicolas Esterhazy, in Italy, France, England and Germany. The gallery is open twice a week to the public, and every day to students and foreigners. The library in the Kaunitz-Palace is under the superintendance of Mr. Von Gall, the celebrated poet. Prince Esterhazy besides possesses a large collection of minerals, among which are a vast number of precious stones and pieces of gold ore. The Statues from the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios at Ægina, in the possession of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Bavaria. It is well known that the same company of learned travellers (see our second number) to whom we are indebted for the discovery of the Phigalian Marbles now in the British Museum, found likewise in the Island of Agina, a series of statues, which were buried under the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios, to which they had once beprints, &c. formerly distributed at the castles known, and the statues brought safe to All the paintings, drawings, copper-plate longed. Soon after this discovery was made of Luxenburgh, Bodendorf, and other places, Zante, the British Government began a newere about two years ago collected together gociation to obtain them, but before it was by Prince Nicolas Esterhazy, and deposited of Mariahulf, which he had purchased for in the Kaunitz Summer-Palace, in the suburb that purpose. The paintings are here arranged in eleven large apartments, and a particular space is assigned to the works of each master: by to observe the peculiarities of each, but this means the student is not only enabled likewise to compare the variety of style which has in some instances been adopted by the same individual. This collection is since it contains pictures by many masters, the more interesting to all admirers of art, whose works are not to be found in any other gallery in Germany. Five hundred port-folios are filled with the ticklish about the honour of his relations, ever "Vous me la donnez bonne. J'ai six Cousines, moi, que je vous abandonne; Prendre, avec soin sur nous l'honneur de nos Cousines. Nous aurions trop à faire à la Cour," &c. &c. concluded, His Royal Highness the Crown Hitherto, we have had but very general, and Prince of Bavaria purchased the collection. partly false, notions of the nature and value of these statues, as works of art. The curiosity of the lovers of antiquity may now be satisfied (as far as can be done by a mere phlet just published (in German) under the description without engravings) by a pamtitle of, "Account of the Statues from Ægina, in possession of H. R. H. the Crown Prince of Bavaria: by J. M. Wagner, professor of M. Schelling, secretary to the Academy of historic painting at Roine; with remarks by the Fine Arts at Munich, 246 pages small 8vo." We learn from this work that the statues are seventeen in number, of which one, a Minerva, is rather larger, the others less all of that species of Parian marble, called at than life, but some smaller than the others, Rome, Grecchetto. The mere amateur will perhaps miss in them that ideal beauty which he is most accustomed to admire, that which breathes in the works of antiquity poetical sublimity which extends over the whole form, and every individual member; for that ray of genius which animates the works of Phidias and his followers, certainly seems to be wanting in these works. The artist, on the contrary, will find them highly remarkable and interesting. In the single seen the surprising result of this happy dis-tained in the walls. Their restoration has parts (except the heads) there is an imitation covery. The plants are so arranged that on been entrusted to M. Camuccini, a Roman of beautiful nature which seems to surpass the sight of their corolla one knows in what painter, and M. Mazois, a French architect, every thing hitherto known; at the same rank one is sure to find them, and on the under the direction of M. de Blacas; the time, this imitation cannot be called slavish sight of their stamina the place which they processes employed have perfectly succeedor unscientific. But to the enquirer into the hold in that rank. To this short examina-ed, and these admirable paintings are again history of the arts, they must be of inestima- tion is reduced all the labour necessary for restored for the improvement of artists, and ble value, as they are the first whole that learning to distinguish the genera of plants. the admiration of the curious. comes to us from an epoch which was hi-I will add, that in order immediately to put ROMAN DISCOVERIES.-We may now extherto known only by fragments, in single in practice a method so simple, it is enough pect the most interesting antiquarian disworks. What has been hitherto rather to know how to distinguish in plants the coveries from the researches pursuing at the conjectured than known, respecting the stalk, the leaf, and the flower; and in the ancient capital of the world. We have times preceding Phidias, may be now illus- flower to know the corolla from the calix, several times recorded, in the columns of this trated or corrected by this discovery. It is and the stamen from the pistil. Every body Journal, the progress of those researches in particularly interesting to be able to show will certainly agree that it is impossible more their early stage; but we now understand positively the connecting link between the to abridge the preliminary studies of so cu- that upwards of 4000 workmen are employed most ancient unnatural style, and the later, rious a science. in restoring the ancient monuments of archior what may be called the supernatural style "In the Key to the Garden of the Uni-tecture to such a state as will unfold all of Grecian art. verse will be seen, 1st, what was the state their beauties; and in excavating in all of Botany in 1548, about the time when directions where objects of interest may be Mattiole published his Commentaries on expected. This laudable spirit is much enDioscorides; 2dly, its progress till 1784, by couraged by the great influx of strangers, the influence of the systems of Tournefort particularly British, now resident there. and Linnæus; 3dly, its state in 1817. This work will make only one volume of about Mr. Wagner's description of the figures, &c. is clear, simple, intelligible, and, as it appears, very exact. BOTANY. It is said that the copious rains upon the Continent have developed an inmense number of Fungi hitherto unknown to Botanists: and it has further been ascertained by a French botanist that, unfortunately, many of these are highly destructive of the produce of the kitchen garden. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC To give our readers an idea of the extent of The admiration of the inhabitants of Florence has recently been divided between Mad. Catalani and M. Duport. The singer takes his turn at the new Theatre of Goldoni. attracts crowds to the Theatre of La Pergola, and the dancer on the succeeding evening The inhabitants of the Banks of the Arno know not which to prefer. Their eyes and ears are alternately intoxicated with delight; the Book Trade in Germany, we have made the the Italian poets are excessively embarras- following abstract of the last half yearly Catased; Mad. Catalani has already exhausted logue for the Leipsic fair. all the treasures of their imagination.-As The number of publishing houses is.... for Duport, they can devise no means of Of new publications in German and Latin.... praising him except by comparing his Pus Of new romances and noand Pirouettes to the accents of the Syren vels, not included in the above ...... 105 of Parthenope. -Of dramatic works also not included The report contains farther, various enquiries, among which, that concerning the probable age of these figures is perhaps the most important for the history of art. Com-300 pages." paring the arguments of the author and editor they may probably belong to the sixth century before the Christian era. These figures, like those of the Parthenon, stood in the front remarkable account is given of the painting, and back frontispiece of the Temple. A very not only of single parts, of the helmets, crests, the inside of the shields, the quivers; a part of the draperies, and of the eyes and lips, but even of the Temple and its architectural parts; for all the members of the cornice, all the ornaments, foliage, and similar things, which are usually carved, were here marked in colors. The remarks of the editor contain a treasure of learned and ingenious researches, from which there may be drawn almost a complete history of the arts in this remarkable island, the rival of Athens, not only in trade and navigation, but also in the fine arts, till the time of Phidias. These statues will one day form a part of the collection of antiques which the Crown Prince of Bavaria has brought together with equal good fortune and zeal in a few years. It will, however, be some time before they will be seen in Germany, as they will be first repaired at Rome, by the masterly hand of Thorwaldsen; and the magnificent building in which they are to be placed, cannot be finished in less than four or five y e years. 321 2249 48 213 An unfortunate accident lately occurred at Cremieux, in Dauphiné. A furious wolf bit Of new musical publications 474 several persons, ten of whom are so danger-Of grammars, dictionaries, ously ill that it was found necessary to reand works in foreign languages The scientific world anxiously look forward move them to the hospital at Lyons. The courage and dexterity of a young man at to the publication of La Grange's Théorie sur length put a stop to the ravages of this la formation des Comèles; the manuscript of this ferocious animal; at the moment when the valuable work is entrusted to Count Lacepède. wolf was about to spring upon him; he thrust his hand into his mouth, and seizing tion, during the year 1816, was 20 degrees, him by the tongue, thus afforded an oppor-14 minutes and 30 seconds. The variation tunity for some persons who were near to during the first quarter of 1817, was 20 degrees, come up and kill him. The remains of the lamented M. Henri de Laroche-Jaquelin, were on the 7th of last month removed from the place in which they BOTANY-FRANCE.-M. Lefebure, for- had been interred, and conveyed to the tomb nierly sub-prefect at Verdun, professor of of his family. The following lines were inBotany in the Athenæum of Paris, has pub-scribed over the door of the parochial church lished the prospectus of a work, under the in which the cenotaph had been erected: title of "Key to the Garden of the Universe, Les honneurs qu'on rend aux heros according to the principles of Tournefort and Linnæus." He announces that "by uniting the two principles of classification, of these two authors, the intimate connection of which had never been suspected before, a speedy, easy, and certain method is found, to recognise plants according to the new arrangement produced by the concurrence of these two principles which are incontestably classical and natural. "In the work now announced, will be Sont en hommage à tous les braves. From observations made at Geneva, on the magnetic needle, it appears, that its least varia 30 minutes. The Gazette de Madrid, announces the death of the celebrated Spanish Jesuit Andres, who was born at Planes, in the kingdom of Valencia, on the 15th of February, 1740. This monk is well known on account of his numerous lite rary productions, the most remarkable of which is An account of the origin, progress, and present state of all literature, which has been translated into almost every language. This learned man died at Rome on the 12th of January last; he was chief librarian to the king of Naples. ceived literary news from the fair of Leipsic, PARIS. Within this day or two we have rethe great market for German books. The The beautiful frescoes by Domenichino, derable profits this year. Scientific and Litebooksellers of Germany expect to reap consiwhich adorned the Chiesa dei Francesi, now rary works are but little sought after; but pocalled San Ludovico, at Rome, had almost litical, historical, statistical pamphlets, &c. are disappeared under a whitish layer, produced in the highest demand. C'est tout comme chez in the course of time by the salt-petre con-nous. when the father had looked at it with insignificant trifles when he had to do | Schachtner, on condition that you play so many difficulties, that the most skilful Hitherto, Wolfgang had only played FRENCH MANNERS. Ustaritz, April 2. FATHER CLEMENT. virtutes ita pietas inesse non potest." reply that the interest I think it likely that my readers may wonder why after having passed so short a time at Bordeaux, after having so rapidly traversed the space between that great city and tained his sixth year, the Mozart family, On his return from Vienna to Salz- the spot where I now am, I stop whole consisting of the father, the mother, the burg with his parents, he brought with weeks in a mountainous district of a few daughter, and Wolfgang, took a journey him a small violin, which had been leagues in extent. to Munich. The two children per- given him during his residence at the I take in the countries which I traverse and the stay I make in them are not meaformed before the Elector, and received capital, and amused himself with it. Asured by their size, their importance, or infinite commendations. This first ex- short time afterwards, Wenzl, a skilful pedition succeeded in every respect. violin-player, who had then just begun The young artists, delighted with the re-to compose, came to Mozart, the father, ception they had met with, redoubled to request his observations on six trios, their application on their return to Salz- which he had written during the journey burg, and acquired a degree of execution of the former to Vienna. Schatchtner, on the piano, which no longer required the consideration of their youth, to render it highly remarkable. During the autumn of the year 1762, the whole family repaired to Vienna, and the children performed before the court. their celebrity. I do not mean to say again what has been said a thousand times before, what may be found in every book, I observe France in a new point of view; I employ myself not exclusively, but essentially, with the manners, the habits, of the people of the different provinces which I visit. No other the Archbishop's trumpeter, to whom part of France could offer itself to my eyes Mozart was particularly attached, hap-with the same advantages as I find here. pened to be at the house, and we give The little nation of the Basques resembles the following anecdote in his words: no other: there every thing lias an original "The father," said Schachtner, character: every thing is marked with that played the bass, Wenzl the first vio-old stamp, which is rendered still more ve The Emperor Francis I. said, in jest, lin, and I was to play the second. Mo-nerable by the rust of time. We cast a curon that occasion, to little Wolfgang: zart requested permission to take this sory glance, as we pass, on the finest modern monuments, and amuse ourselves in de"It is not very difficult to play with all last part; but his father reproved him scribing in the minutest manner an ancient one's fingers, but to play with only one, for this childish demand, observing, that bas-relief which we meet with on the road. without seeing the keys, would indeed as he had never received any regular les- From the heights of Agnoa, where M. be extraordinary." Without manifesting sons on the violin, he could not possibly Destère and I continued our topographical the least surprise at this strange proposal, play it properly. The son replied, that survey, one perceives at a short distance Sare, Saint-Pe, and Espelette, three large the child immediately began to play with it did not appear to him necessary to re-market towns, such as one does not see in a single finger, and with the greatest ceive lessons in order to play the second France except on the right bank of the Gapossible precision and clearness. He af violin. His father, half angry at this ronne from Toulouse to Bordeaux. terwards desired them to cover the keys reply, told him to go away, and not in- * *. Sare and Saint-Pé are believed, with of the pianoforte, and continued to play terrupt us. Wolfgang was so hurt at in the same manner, as if he had long this, that he began to cry bitterly. As practised it. he was going away with his little violin, From his most tender age, Mozart, I begged that he might be permitted to animated with the true feeling of his art, play with me, and the father, with a good was never vain of the compliments paid deal of difficulty, consented. Well, said by the great. He only performed he to Wolfgang, you may play with M. some reason, to have been the first Cominunes of the Labour, which were inhabited by the Phenicians, or at least by their descendants the Cantabrians; they are nearest to the mountains formerly excavated to look for mines, and it is there that the Basque language is spoken with the greatest purity and elegance. It is at Saint-Pé that Madame |