Acharia, translated from the original Sans- When the dishes and bottles were empty,[ Sir, If Pulci should not this week favor you with any of his highly poetical strains, perhaps you would have room to insert, in your interesting paper, the first and feeble chirpings of J. C. T. 1 The sparks that shoot from Beauty's eyes A flame, as bright as that which dyes The clouds, that swim along the West. 2 "Tis not the flame the lightning flings 'Tis not the sun's meridian blaze, I have the satisfaction to tell you, that the Project, which I had formed for our Friend's Service, has succeeded. You remember the conversation between him and me at Calais, of which I gave you an account. I found means to have that conversation related to and ordered the waiter to have a watchful the King, by a Friend of mine, who possesses eye on the last, that he might not slip away. much of his confidence. He was pleased But now the sixth also went, and disappear- with it; promised our Philosopher a Pension ed in the saloon. The seventh remained, without naming the sum; and there now but seemed to be asleep. This is the pay- wants only Lord Mareschal's Consent to his master! said the waiter, and kept his eye accepting it. We have wrote to Berlin for constantly upon him. The man still seem- that purpose; and I entertain no doubt of ed to sleep. After many hours had elapsed, our obtaining it. You know that our Soveand the rooms and saloon began to become reign is extremely prudent and decent, and deserted and empty, the waiter went to the careful not to give offence: For which reaguest to awake him; but who can describe son it is wished, that this act of Generosity son a man of straw! his affright, when he found the sitting per- may be entire Secret. As I am sensible it would give you great Pleasure, and as I am well acquainted with your Secrecy and Discretion, I woud not conceal it from you; allowing you to inform the Prince of Conti alone, who, I know, will take part in this Success. I pretend also, that you are to like me a little better, on account of the share I have had in it. The next day, however, the amount of the bill was sent, the whole having been meant only as a joke upon the landlord. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. DAVID HUME. Mr. Hume's account of Rousseau in I suppose, that by this time you have learned it was Horace Walpole who wrote the England continues to possess so much Prussian Letter mentioned to me. It is you interest, that we trust we shall not tire a strange inclination we have to be wits, our readers with a few further extracts preferably to every thing else. He is a very on that subject. Even the partiality of worthy man; He esteems and even admires a friend paints the wayward Jean Jacques Rousseau; Yet he coud not forbear, for the as insincere, petulant, and troublesome. sake of a very indifferent Joke, the turning The last letter is remarkable for its style him into Ridicule, and saying harsh things and matter, so unlike any thing we ever and I hear you are a great deal, But the matagainst him. I am a little angry with him; saw before from the pen of Hume. ter ought to be treated only as a piece of Levity. I have as yet scarce seen any body except Mr. Conway and Lady Alesbury: Both of That dries the mournful night's pearl tears; them told me they would visit Jean Jacques Scorch'd by whose hot and glaring rays, Fair nature's face a languor wears. 4 O no! this flame is clear and bright, The spark was struck by Beauty's eyes, SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. London 12 January 1766. The Method of living is not near so agreeable in London as in Paris. The best Comif I thought their Company would not be pany are usually, and more so at present, in disagreeable. I encouraged them to shew a Flame of Politics; the men of Letters are him that mark of Distinction. Here I must few, and not very sociable: The women are also tell you of a good action, which I did, not in general very conversible; Many a not but that it is better to conceal our good sigh escapes me for your sweet and amiable actions; But I consider not my seeking your conversation; I paint you to myself all seapprobation as an effect of vanity; Your renity; and cannot believe, that ever I had suffrage is to me something like the satis- the misfortune to displease you. I often faction of my own Conscience. While we steal an Hours Chat with you. Sic mihi conwere at Calais, I asked him whether, in case|tingat vivere, sicque mori. As often as I see the King of England thought proper to gra- Lady Hervey or Lady Tavistock or the Holtify him with a pension, he would accept of it. derness Family, I have the satisfaction of I told him that the case was widely differ-hearing your name mentioned which is some ent from that of the King of Prussia; and I consolation in this Land of Banishment; A RUSSIAN ANECDOTE. endeavoured to point out to him the Differ- adieu my amiable Friend. At St. Petersburgh, there are every winter ence, particularly in this circumstance, that during Lent several masquerades, there call-a Gratuity from the King of England could ed Ridottos, which are always numerously never in the least endanger his independence. attended; but differ so far from ours, that He reply'd; But would it not be using ill the there is no dancing. The company stroll in King of Prussia, to whom I have since been their disguise through the crowd in the sa- much obliged. However on this head, added a loon, see, hear, and talk. They then go to he, in case the offer be made me I shall the adjoining apartments, and call for what consult my Father, meaning Lord Mareschal. A Letter has also come to me open from refreshments they please. Each party takes I told this story to General Conway, who Guy the Bookseller, by which I learn, the a table for itself, and generally one of the seemed to embrace with Zeal the notion of Mademoiselle sets out post, in company with company treats the others, and pays for giving him a pension, as Honourable both to a friend of mine; a young Gentleman very those who accompany him. the King and Nation. I shall suggest the good humoured, very agreeable and very same idea to other men in despair of suc-mad. He visited Rousseau in his Mountains, who gave him a Recommendation to Paoli, the King of Corsica; where this Gentleman, whose name is Boswell, went last summer in search of adventures. He has such a rage for Literature, that I dread some event fatal to our Friend's Honour. You re It once happened, that there was a party of seven persons, in one of these rooms, who ceeding. ordered a supper and wine at ten silver rou- P.S. Since I wrote the above, I have bles per head. One of the company, as received your obliging letter directed to Causual, gave the orders to the waiter. The lais. Mr. Rousseau says, the Letter of the party were very merry, and seemned to enjoy King of Prussia is a forgery, and he suspects it to come from M. de Voltaire. the supper. P. S. Since I wrote the above, I have seen General Conway, who tells me that the King has spoke to him on the same subject, and that the sum intended is a hundred pounds year; a Mighty Accession to our Friends slender Revenue member the story of Terentia, who was first that he woud take 30 pounds a year of board | dour, and bedewed all my face with his tears. posmarryed to Cicero, then to Sallust, and at for M. Rousseau and Madle. le Vasseur. He Ah, my dear friend, exclaimed he, is it last in her old age marryed a young noble- laughed very heartily, but had the good na-sible you can ever forgive my fully? This ill man, who imagined, that she must possess ture to agree to my proposal. It is a fort-humour is the return I make you for all the some secret, which would convey to him night since poor Rousseau left me, and here instances of your kindness towards me. eloquence and Genius. is a paragraph of a Letter he writes to me. But notwithstanding all my Faults and It is impossible for me dear Madam, to "Vous voyez deja, mon cher patron, par la Follies, I have a heart worthy of your Friendexpress the difficulty, which I have to bear date de ma lettre, que je suis arrivé au lieu ship, because it knows both to love and your absence, and the continual want which de ma destination. Mais vous ne pouvez esteem you. I hope, dear Madam, that you I feel of your society. I had accustomed tous les charmes que J'y trouve il faudroit have not so bad an opinion of me as not to myself of a long time to think of you as connoitre le lieu et lire dans mon coeur. Vous think I was extremely affected with this a friend from whom I was never to be sepa-y devez lire au moins les sentimens qui vous scene. I confess that my Tears flowed as rated, during any considerable time, and I regardez et que vous avez si bien merité. Si plentifully as his: and that I embraced him had flattered myself that we were particular- Je vis dans cet agreable azil aussi heureux with no less cordiality. Please to tell this Story to Mde la Maresly fitted to pass our Lives in intimacy and que Je l'espere, une des douceurs de ma vie Cordiality, with each other. Age and a na- sera de penser que Je vous les dois. Faire c'est chale de Luxembourg, to whom I desire that tural equability of Temper, were in danger of meriter de l'etre. Puissiez vous trouver en my sincere respects be presented. I also reducing my Heart to too great indifference vous meme, le prix De tout ce que vous faites allow you to tell it to Mde de Barbantane, and to such of her Female Friends as you about every thing: It was enlivened by the pour moi." charms of your conversation and the viva- I must confess however, that I have not the think worthy of it. I scarce know a male city of your character. Your mind more Consolation to think he will long be happy who woud not think it Childish. Ask Mde agitated both by unhappy circumstances in there. Never was man, who so well de- L'Espinasse whether she can venture to tell your situation and by your natural disposi- serves Happiness, so little calculated by Na-it to D'Alembert. I own that I am ashamed tion coud repose itself in the more calm sym-ture to attain it. The extreme sensibility of to mention that Ladys name as I have not pathy which you found with me: But behold his Character is one great Cause, but still yet answered the letter, with which she three months are elapsed since I left you; more, the frequent and violent fits of Spleen honoured me. What do you think also of and it is impossible for me to assign a time and Discontent and Impatience, to which, my Ingratitude when I tell you that I have when I can hope to join you. Lord Hertford either from the constitution of his mind or not yet wrote to Mde Geofrin. I thank God, has wrote me, that he expects to quit Ireland Body, he is so subject. These disqualify however, that I have not the Impudence to in a few weeks, and that he hopes to find him for society, and are the chief Reason desire you to make my Apology, when I me in London. I know that he proposed to why he so much affects solitude. When his know that no apology can possibly be made. be in France this Summer, and he may pro- health and good humour returns, his lively I am at a loss in what terms to express my bably desire me to delay my Journey, that Imagination gives him so much entertain- acknowlegements to the Prince of Conti. we may go together. I still return to my ment, that Company by disturbing his mu-Nothing can be more honourable as well as wish, that I had never left Paris, and sing and Meditation, is rather troublesome to agreeable to me than the offer which he is I leave you to judge that I had kept out of the reach of all other him; so that in either case, he is not framed pleased to make me. Duties, except that which was so sweet for Society. He is commonly however the what addition the pleasure of living in your and agreeable to fulfil, the cultivating your best company in the world, when he will Company must make to all other inviting Friendship, and enjoying your Society. Your submit to live with men. Every one who Circumstances that attend it. But there is obliging expressions revive this Regret in saw him here, admires the simplicity of his only one Particular which we must weigh the strongest degree; especially when you manners, his natural unaffected Politeness, together, when we meet. mention the wounds, which tho skinned over the Gaity and Finesse of his Conversation. still fester at the bottom. Oh! my dear Friend, how I dread that it may still be long ere you reach a state of tranquility, in a Distress which so little admits of any remedy and which the natural Elevation of your character instead of putting you above it; makes you feel with greater sensibility. I coud only wish to administer the temporary Consolation, which the Presence of a Friend never fails to afford. The chief Circumstance which hinders me from repenting of my journey is the use have been to Poor Rousseau, the most singular and often the most amiable man in the world. I For my part, I never saw a man, and very When I return to Paris, it will be necessary for me to lay a plan of life more conformable to my Character and usual Habits: must also resolve to pass a great part of my time among my Books and in retreat. How far will such a plan be consistent with I rant for the Pension; though there is no doubt to be entertained of it. I must add that Davenport told me he intended to leave our friend by will the life rent of the House in which he lives if he finds that his attachment to it continues. You see then that in for I have also discovered that he has some point of circumstances, he is not to be pitied, little resources beyond what he mentioned Mr. Davenport had thought of a Contriv- the situation projected. I forget to tell you ance to save him part of the expenses of his that Lord Mareschal has given an answer such journey. He hired a chaise, which woud as I expected, but General Conway has been only cost a Trifle. He succeeded at first;ill so that we have not yet obtained the warbut Mr. Rousseau, the evening before his departure began to entertain suspicions from some Circumstances which had escaped Mr. He complained to Davenport's attention. me grievously of the Trick, and said, that, tho' he was poor, he chose rather to conform I have now settled him in a manner himself to his Circumstances, than live like a Beggar upon Alms; and such pretended entirely to my satisfaction and to his own. There is one Mr. Davenport, a worthy man, favours were real injuries. I replyed, that It is one of his weaknesses, that he likes a man of Letters & Sense and Humanity, and I was ignorant of the matter, but should in- to the president Malesherbes and to me, of an ample Fortune, about 6 or 7000 Pounds form myself of Mr. Davenport. No, cryd to complain, the truth is, he is unhappy, a Year, an elderly man and a Widower. he, No if this be a contrivance you are not and he is better pleased to throw the reason Among several Country Seats which belong ignorant of it; It has not been executed to him, he has one in the County of Derby, without your connivance and Consent; but on his health and circumstances and misforsituated amid rocks and mountains and nothing coud possibly be more disagreeable tunes, than on his melancholy humour and disposition. Rivulets and Forests, and surrounded with to me. Upon which he sate down in a very Please to make my Compliments to Miss sullen humour; and all attempts, which I execute her commission. the most beautiful savage country in Eng could make, to revive the Conversation and Becket; Lord Tavistock was so good as to land. As he seldom lives there, he pro- I kiss your hands, with all the devotion possible. Lisle St. Leicester Fields. ON THE RAGE FOR NOVELTY. "O Happiness! our being's end and aim!" POPE. the impressions their seeming importance all consequence and dignity would be lost Egotism supplies the place of all defects, "Change a flounce, or add a furbelow," There is no passion more strongly implanted in human nature, none that more Any thing extraordinary overcomes in the would be ungracious, and visits disconimpels the actions of men, than that felt for first moment of surprise and astonishment; tinued. They would become the victims of the pleasures of novelty-especially in those there the most trivial incidents and unim-chagrin and despair; ridicule and sneers who resign themselves without restraint to portant occurrences are greedily enjoyed. would be their certain and insufferable fate. their blandishment, when they contribute to They hurry with ecstasy to any casual diver- Times are changed since the days of Adthe gratification of other propensities. How sion or spectacle; their curiosity is instantly dison; the intercourse with the metropolis far a man is delicate and refined in the excited and drives them to the window when is more direct; they no longer degrade themchoice of these pleasures must depend on any noise disturbs the tranquillity of their selves by adopting the fashions of the prethe imagination and sensibility. Those pos- street. They gaze, envy and regret at any ceding year; they immediately change the sessing that faculty naturally refined, and pleasure they do not participate, and divest form if they do not change the dress. whose understanding has been trained to en-themselves in a great measure of the burthen It is, however, pleasing to perceive that joy its illusions without suffering from their on the spirits which the passions create, by education and more enlightened habits are sudden disappearance, will choose those pointing out improprieties and indulging gradually introduced, and advancing, in spite scenes most congenial to their delicate feel-in sarcasm and rebuke. To support a heavy of prejudices, into every corner. General exings; whilst others with callous sensibility uniformity, they are patient and indefati- pression of contempt will be the means of have no inclination for changes or pleasures gably vigilant in acting the spy on the unin-restraining extravagant whims; meanness that are not gross or criminal. As repetition teresting inanity of each other's lives, and will be condemned in spite of power; obeisance serves but to produce satiety and stupor, chronicle the most indifferent circumstance and respect will not be borne by mere effect; there must be something extravagant or ter- that affords the least food for conversation. reflection will examine before it declares asrible, or which agitates by horror and violence to rouse their senses to enjoy. "Unhappily, in all," says a celebrated writer, "the human mind is most partial to what is least worthy of it." All the ambition of the men is to copy the sent. manners and foibles of the first man in the By cultivating the mind in habituating village; common qualities and common virit to contemplate and exercise its talent, tues in him are admirable, and shelter him it will be found to receive agreeable ideas from the odium of his meaner vices; these from new and foreign impressions; while If we examine the degree of eagerness with are called weaknesses easily excused. Every the imagination is charmed the mind is conwhich the passion for novelty manifests it-feature, every extreme in his character, are vinced. It will not be deceived by the self in different individuals, we find it bears held up as so many perfections: volubility phantasms of fiction; when the scene vathe strongest feature in those possessing is considered as arising from the fertility and mishes the mind examines and improves, lively animal spirits, whose disposition has promptitude of genius, prudence as the re- the imagination gently roves in delightful not been soured by deep or carly disappoint-sult of foresight and penetration, timidity is excursions, brightens its views, is preserved ments. There are, however, some spirits so caution, and if he has courage it covers all from listlessness, and by dispelling morbid gay and volatile, and having so much innate deficiencies, and gives additional lustre to obstructions circulates the animal spirits in hate towards every disagreeable object, that other qualifications. His influence is greater pleasing and agreeable motions. In the they look upon misfortune with placid indif- because he is acquainted with every one's pursuits of mental acquirements the mind is ference, and forego with passive fortitude every privation under the flattering hopes of Private affairs, is aware of every person's not only dilated and made sensibly alive to weak side, and knows all situations, all par- every thing that is new and entertaining, future happiness. ties, so as to direct his revenge or to injure but it will be a resource against the languor any object of displeasure. He is strong of seclusion, to which every one, however because his interest is confined within a situated, is in some measure liable; elevate small focus, is feared because he seldom and expand the force of genius, implant in it strikes any but those that have it not in their a relish for abstracted self-enjoyment, power to resist or retaliate, and is on the strengthen under the pressure of affliction, most perfect understanding, and careful to and if it cannot draw the barb will in time court the influence of the affluent; and is heal the wounds of sudden calamities, withbeloved for his favors and partiality. Parade out diminishing the remains of sensibility. and ostentation, vanity and folly, yield him This exercise will also improve the taste, so ineffable felicity, his whole life is planned as to acquire accurate and refined percepto produce an effect upon ignorant ad- tions, to distinguish beauties, and to detect mirers. Like Casar he would rather be the incongruities. The free indulgence of a pas-. first in a village than the second in Rome. To calculate merely upon the joy of the present or on the hopes of distant pleasures, is a striking trait in those whose taste has not been disciplined to the higher enjoy ments of the mind; a fleeting agitation is all they experience from every pleasure; to be dazzled and surprised is all they want; they neither contemplate from what they feel nor reflect from what they suffer. The victims of continual and excessive self-enjoyment, they are alternately absorbed in apathy, in absence of variety; dejected after gratification, and elated with distant prospects. sion for a succession of pursuits, will by being deprived of its accustomed gratifica"His ruling passion is the lust of praise." tion, accumulate desire, and overcome with All he wishes is to reap the incense of regret and despair. flattery, and to sustain his ideal superiority; We are the more inclined to pursue frivohis head is wholly occupied with the chilcus enjoyments because they require no mera; he never dreams but that in degrad-effort of the mind, and the imagination ing and exacting the servility of others, he ranges without being checked or interrupted exalts himself. In short, a man with great by the tedium of reflection; they are the property, superficial qualities, vain and sus-more alluring by the curiosity raised and the ceptible of flattery, in a small village is an surprise impressed upon the passions, unacabsolute sovereign. Every thing, with policy, seems to obey his sway, especially when he is careful to hide his inabilities from the vulgar eye. In petty and remote country-towns and solitary villages, with but one dull round of society, and the same unvaried manners, where the disposition for novelty and amusements is seldom gratified from want of opportunities, disadvantages increase desire, and they pant with avidity for every vicissitude. They are transported at the thoughts of a ball or a card table. Though torn by low intrigue and scandal, the bare hopes of such amusements check for the moment ali rivalry; the most gracious smiles are assumed, and jealousy stifled, until it can be digested in the gossip of dependent confidants. Here is the dryness of forced His lady is the admiration of the females; naïveté and studied conversation; formality her looks and gestures are minutely obis substituted for ease and politeness; they served, her carriage is aped, the dresses she are nice without delicacy, more attentive receives from town are the object of close than engaging, more annoying than agree- but respectful scrutiny, the theme of praise able. The greatest pleasure they feel and the model of prevailing fashions; imprings from their vanity, in the thought of provements or alterations are rapidly made, companied by that satiety we feel in the contemplation of familiar and ordinary objects. Familiarity makes every object appear dull and uninviting, weakens the force of attraction, palls the appetite, and cloys every sense. "At her bidding, beauty fades in the eye of love; and the son of pity smiles at sorrow's bleeding wounds." The sympathetic chord so finely expressed by Sterne no longer vibrates to the heart. Were it not for this unconcern, a rage for novelty would not perhaps exist. But as there are supposed, unprovoked attack. He had Since that period, indeed, such has been no pleasures too sanguinely followed with-learned to speak the language of the coun- the progress of horticulture in Scotland, that out their alloy, strong and new excitements try with tolerable fluency, and some words we can now produce from gardens in the enproduce a depression of the spirits, relax the which he pronounced appeared to be at least virons of Edinburgh, a dessert of fruits, capability of enjoyment, exhaust the energy as soft in their tone, as those of most of the which, for variety of kind and delicacy of and contract the elasticity of the soul, sink European languages. flavour, cannot be excelled, and, perhaps, it under gloom and dejection; till at length, hardly equalled, on the face of the globe. habituated to a round of pleasures, the emoThis, your annual festival of Pomona has tions they create become weak and languid, and a certain share of insipidity is felt in the midst of every amusement. To prevent this dejection, Dr. Armstrong in his Art of Preserving Health, recommends to, "Let nature rest Rather than teaze her sated appetite. and when the taste of joy Grows keen, indulge; but shun satiety." (The Conclusion in our next.) HE REAL CAUSE OF THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK. Professor Pictet of Geneva, editor of the Bibliotheque Universelle, paid a visit in the month of July, 1817, on board an American corvette, lying in the harbour of Genoa; the owner of which, Mr. Crowninshield, is on a voyage of pleasure, and had already visited several ports of the Mediterranean. His vessel appeared on the outside to be a master-piece of naval architecture, and the interior arrangement and furniture was so convenient and elegant, that during its stay in the harbour it was constantly full of curious and admiring visitors. He was questioned respecting the cooking Great, however, as cur progress has been, much yet remains to be discovered, for in arts and sciences human invention has no bounds; and by the intelligent and discerning philosopher, useful discoveries have often been derived from observing the procedure even of the most ignorant labourer. HORTICULTURE. To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. I am your most obedient servant, Your council need not therefore state to you the expectations which they entertain from the present horticultural survey of the Netherlands. The abilities of the men, whom they have induced to undertake this survey, are not unequal to the task; and the kingdom of Scotland does not, perhaps, at present, contain three men better qualified for such an undertaking. We confidently trust, that no horticultural knowledge worth importing, from improved varieties of the of orchards, gardens, and conservatories, on most common culinary vegetables, to plans the most extended scale, will escape their discernment. We are not, therefore, without hopes, that this survey will do honour to our society, and be materially beneficial to Scotland. Nay, we even flatter ourselves with the expectation, that by the publication of future volumes of the memoirs of our society, the benefits resulting from it may in some degree be extended to every corner of the civilized world. JAMES GRANT (RAYMOND). All the world's a stage, Sen. Physician, Edinburgh, Secretary P. A. A sensible negro acts on board the vessel to the Caledonian Horticultural Society. in the double capacity of cook and of calculator of all the nautical observations, necessary Extracts from the Report to the Caledonian for determining the latitudes and longitudes. Horticultural Society, respecting the intended This negro has lived two years in one of the Survey of the present state of Horticulture in Respecting the progress made by our surSandwich Islands, where Captain Cook was in Holland, Flanders, and the north of France. veyors, we can only at present inform the killed. The tradition of that event is pre- Your council have the satisfaction of society, that they were safely landed at Osserved in this island (Owhyhee); and accord-being able to inform you, that the horticultu-tend soon after leaving Edinburgh; and, ing to him the following is the account given.ral survey of the Netherlands, which was re- we trust, that at our next quarterly meeting, Captain Cook, who was in want of wood, commended to the society two years ago, they will be present in this room, to give as well as water, had perceived near the by Sir John Sinclair, is now carrying into you a report of the success with which their shore an old hut, which appeared to him to execution. The three gentlemen who have survey has been attended. be neglected and gone to decay; and the undertaken this duty, viz. Mr. Patrick Neil, BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAITS. wood of which he thought to be drier than secretary to the society; Mr. James M'Dothat of newly felled trees: he therefore gave nald, who has been for many years gardener orders to pull down the hut, without having to his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh; and first consulted the natives. Neither he nor Mr. John Haye, are particularly described And all the men and women merely players; his people, doubtless, knew (and after the with due eulogies upon their horticultural ac- yet among all the classes of which this turn the affair took none of them could quirements. The report proceeds-From mighty scene is composed, there is not learn) that the place was tabooed.'-The three such intelligent and discerning surislanders did not hesitate a moment to pre-veyors, your council cannot help entertaining that class whose occupation it is to imione which obtains greater notice than vent, by a desperate attack, an act which they very sanguine expectations. It is indeed considered as an impropriety; they killed true, that of late horticulture, as well as tate, on a limited scale, the passions, the some of the workmen, and put the others Agriculture, has made a more rapid progress actions, and the events of the real drama. to flight. Probably those who escaped did in Scotland than perhaps in any other nation They are ever before the public, and may not know the real cause of the attack which in Europe. But, for the commencement of be said to live in a house of glass. They was so fatal to a part of the crew. our knowledge in gardening, we were much are lifted out of the sphere of their forThe Negro cook appeared much affected indebted to our continental neighbours, and by the recollection of his abode in Owhyhee, particularly to the Dutch. Not many cen-tunes, and placed in a rank of dangerous and ardently desires to return thither. He turies have elapsed, since from them we de- celebrity. Every thing about them tends described this island as the happiest country rived not only our best seeds, roots, and to shake their best resolves, to seduce in the world; and his account of the moral, fruits, but even some of our most common them into dangerous pleasures, to give mild, and hospitable character of the inha- esculent vegetables. History informs us, them appetites beyond their means of bitants, forms a striking contrast to the that in the days of Malcolm Canmore, who enjoyment, to excite the strongest feelopinion that has been formed of them, on reigned in Scotland about the end of the account of that unexpected, and as it was See our recent review of the Voyage to New Zealand, for an account of tabooing in that country, which affords great countenance to this story. eleventh century, even the common garden with those of their actual intercourse ings, mingling those of the imagination with mankind; their pursuits and studies are calculated to unsettle the strongest minds, and all the blandishments of society court them into that vortex where man whirls round and round with the current, far removed from any bank of rest or shelter, should that moment ever arrive, when the shattered frame demands repose, or the sinking wreck a protecting haven. to either. Shortly after this, he went to sea (ed with the most flattering marks of approin the capacity of a midshipman; but the bation. His career since that period is too versatile character of his mind soon led him well remembered to require minuting, but to relinquish the profession of a seaman. in the characters of the Stranger, PenrudHe had, however, resolution to perform a dock, Rolla, Octavian, Gloucester, Macduff, voyage to the East Indies, but was then too which call forth the stronger passions to young to estimate justly the value of such their full extent, he has displayed talents a prospect as presented itself to him for sufficiently prominent to place him in a disWhen a player resists these tempta- the acquisition of independence. In his tinguished rank in his profession. His figure tions, and steadily perseveres in a course passage home he contracted an intimate was manly, and his features, though of a distinguished by soundness of principle friendship with a gentleman who had re- small cast, flexible and not ill calculated to alized a handsome fortune during a resi- delineate the tragic muse. Notwithstanding and rectitude of conduct, he is pre-emi-dence of twenty-five years in the East; by the arduous application to, and the constant nently entitled to respect. It requires whose invitation he visited Ireland, where calls of, his profession, Mr. R. cultivated a greater firmness in him than in another he enjoyed the attention and friendship of taste for literature and has written some man, to overcome the evils which more his new acquaintance during the remainder dramatic pieces, to which however he has numerously and constantly beset his path of that gentleman's life. Among the per- not affixed his name; but in 1806-7, he through life, and the greater is the ho- sons of learning and worth to whom Mr. appeared before the public as the author of nour due to his victorious struggle. Such Raymond was introduced in that country, the life of Dermody the Poet, to whose talents was the late Edward Tighe, Esq. the school- he has done ample justice, and whose feelings, without being analysed by the fellow of Garrick, a gentleman of confess-memory, notwithstanding his many failings, majority of those who entertained them, edly correct judgment as a critic, particu- has suffered no injury in the hands of his no doubt induced the unanimous esteem larly in the line of the Drama, and who was biographer. in which the subject of this memoir was admitted to be the best reader of plays of How far he was qualified to appreciate held by all who knew him. The dead his time. To this introduction are the the merits of a poet may be determined by have few flatterers; and in the whole of public principally indebted for whatever a perusal of his elegant and classical account theatrical merit he afterwards evinced, for of the rise and progress of English poetry our intercourse with persons of every had Mr. Raymond not heard the tragedy given in the preface to that work. Of the rank in the metropolis, we have heard of Oroonoko read by this gentleman, it Harp of Erin (Dermody's poetical works) he but one opinion on this point, added to is probable that he would never have was also the editor. There was more of the expression of regret for his loss, thought of the stage as a profession; but partial friendship than of severe discriminanamely, that a more worthy and deserving the distresses of the sable prince were so tion in these publications; and they at least individual did not grace the histrionic pathetically delivered by Mr. Tighe, that did credit to the heart, where they brought they took immediate possession of Ray-into question the head of their author. profession. JAMES GRANT RAYMOND, or rather JAMES ment he abandoned the idea of any other booksellers as an author, or from what other mond's youthful mind, and from that mo- Whether from his connections with the GRANT, as Raymond appears to be a stage pursuit. In the course of a few weeks he cause is uncertain, but about this time he name, was born on the 29th March, 1771. appeared on the Dublin stage, under the felt a great inclination to interest himself in in Strathspey, in the Highlands of Scotland, auspices and instruction of his accomplished the commerce of books, and had made conwithin a short distance from Culloden Moor, friend. During his performance, an un-siderable advances towards an agreement well known as the scene of the decisive bat-lucky incident occurred in the most inter- with a respectable person of that profession tle between the partisans of the House of Stuart and the English forces under the esting part of the last act; the misery in (in the neighbourhood of the theatres,) for which he saw his adored Imoinda fixed his stock and trade, and this negociation Duke of Cumberland. His father claiming itself with such strength in his tortured mind, was probably broken off by his being made to be a descendant of Ludovick Grant, an that, in a frenzy of love and despair, he acting manager of the English Opera, estabancient Highland Chieftain (and the head of one of the oldest and most powerful clans in applied his burnished cheek so closely to lished at the Lyceum in 1809. The Drury that of his unhappy princess, as to leave Lane company, when burnt out, having taken that part of Scotland), was an officer in the half of his sooty complexion on her fair refuge there, Mr. Raymond (we believe army, and lost his life near Charlestown, in face. This awkward circumstance convulsed through the interest of Mr. Arnold) succeedSouth Carolina, during the latter part of the the house with laughter, and it was some ed Mr. Wroughton as acting manager of that American war. The widow being left with minutes before they could be restored to company, which appointment was not of five children, the eldest of whom, Jamies, their proper tone of feeling, notwithstand- long continuance. He however succeeded to had not attained his ninth year, removed ing the solicitude which the embarrassment that office a second time, only a few months with her young family from their small pa- of the late Mrs. Pope (the heroine) excited ago, which he continued to hold till his ternal residence in the Highlands, to the vil-in her favour. The play finished so much death, which happened on the afternoon of lage of Inverkeithen, in the County, of to the satisfaction of young Raymond, that Monday, the 20th of October, at his house Banff, where James was placed at a clas- he repeated the character several times. in Chester Place, Pimlico. sical seminary, and intended for the clerical profession, not as a minister of the Kirk of Scotland, but of what in that country is called the Chapel, an episcopal establishment, differing very little in doctrine and ceremonies from the Church of England. At a proper age he was sent to King's College, in the University of Aberdeen; but it was probably from possessing a levity of disposition, which did not well accord with a system of theological study and discipline, and not having the authority of a father to controul him, that his stay there was short; for, after passing a single winter of study, and in that period gaining a burse, (as the college prizes are called) he took leave of both college and school with this solitary mark of triumph, and would never afterwards return After this successful essay of his theatrical There is little doubt but that the fatigue powers, he assumed several of the first and anxiety which Mr. Raymond underwent characters in tragedy, and became a great for the last few months in preparing Drury favourite with the public, and in process of Lane theatre for opening, and in planning time was deputed the acting manager. its operation for the season, contributed to inAbout the year 1799, Mr. Raymond visit-duce the apoplectic attack,which so suddenly ed Manchester, where he was engaged for a and fatally terminated his career. His last short period, and during the summer vaca- appearance on the stage was after the opera tion of the Manchester company, he per- on the preceding Tuesday, to announce Miss formed a few nights at Lancaster, where Byrne's repetition of the part of Adela in Mr. Grubb, one of the then proprietors of the haunted tower. He then looked rather Druly Lane Theatre happened to stop on an pale and unwell; but the pleasure of the excursion to the Lakes, saw him, and engag-occasion took from his countenance every ed him for that Theatre, on the boards of symptom of disease which could be consiwhich he made his first appearance early in the following season, in the part of Osmond in the Castle Spectre, and was receiv dered alarming. A severe cold and cough were his only complaints, until the morning of Monday, when in writing a letter, he was |